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Iraq Part 3: The beginning of the conquests of Iraq
بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم
In the Name of Allah most Gracious most Merciful
Very Short Summary:
- The wars of Ar-Riddah end
- Al Muthna bin Haritha carries out Raids on the Persia, later on sending requests to the Khalifah
- Al Muthna bin Haritha sends a letter to the Khalifah seeking aid
- The Khalifah sends a letter to Khalid Ibnu Walid, the Sword of Allah
- Khalid Ibnu Walid sends letters out to the leaders to gather Muslims
- Abu Bakr sends two armies
- Khalid Ibnu Walid enters Iraq with his army from the south, the number of men around 18,000
- Ayyadh Bin Ghanam enters Iraq with his army from the north-east
- Khalid was victorious in all four battles before reaching Al Hayrah, which was the goal of both armies, for whoever got there first would lead
- After the fall of Al Hayrah, Khalid Ibnu Walid gave the army a break to rest
The Plan of Abu Bakr
Simply put, the plan of Abu Bakr was to send two armies into Iraq from two different locations. One from below (South), the other from above (North), each army’s goal is to reach Al Hayrah, conquering the places on the way to it. If one of the armies reaches the goal before the other, that army takes lead, but if both armies reach the goal at the same time, one would go on while the others stays behind to protect their backs
Abu Bakr said:
إذا اجتمعتما بالحيرة وقد فضضتما مسالح فارس وأمنتما أن يؤتى المسلمون من خلفهم فليكن أحدكما ردءا للمسلمين ولصاحبه بالحيرة وليقتحم الآخر على عدو الله وعدوكم من أهل فارس دارهم ومستقر عزهم المدائن
If you two reached (at the same time) Al Hyrah, and have made sure you cannot be attacked from behind, then let one of you be a shield for the Muslims, and the other forward and storm the house of the enemies of Allah and your enemies, and the residence of their glory Al Mada’in.
The Advice of Abu Bakr:
Among the Advice which Abu Bakr (May Allah be pleased with him) gave to the two armies:
واستعينوا بالله واتقوه وآثروا أمر الآخرة على الدنيا يجتمعا لكم ولا تؤثروا الدنيا فتسلبوهما واحذروا ما حذركم الله بترك المعاصي ومعاجلة التوبة وإياكم والإصرار وتأخير التوبة
And Rely on Allah and choose the hereafter over this Dunya and both will be for you. And Do not choose this Dunya and go after it, and beware of what Allah has warned you by leaving off sins and hurrying with repentance, and do not insist on sins and do not delay repentance.
He also advised to allow all those who wished to return and not fight to do so, and to get all those who fought the Murtaddeen to come with the armies and fight, and also not to allow anyone who was a Murtad (and repented) to fight until he (Abu Bakr) looks into it and allows so, Source, Secondary Source.
And so, the two armies became ready, and the conquests of Iraq began. If you have any questions that came to mind during your reading, I recommend you come and ask it here.
My main sources that I am using for this blog-post are:
سبحان رب العزة عما يصفون، و سلام على المرسلين و الحمد لله رب العالمين
A Place for the Arabic Language on the StackExchange Network
This is a Special and not part of the ongoing Series, the next post of the series will be out on July 20th
بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم
In the Name of Allah most Gracious most Merciful
The Arabic Language is extremely important, Allah has chosen it to reveal the Quran because of it’s extreme clarity and encompassing of meanings (and more) of which no other language has. Allah says:
بِلِسَانٍ عَرَبِيٍّ مُبِينٍ
In a clear Arabic language.
Ahmad Bin Faris said in his book(PDF Page 19)
فلما خَصَّ جل ثناؤه اللسانَ العربيَّ بالبيانِ، عُلِمَ أن سائر اللغات قاصرةٌ عنه، وواقعة دونه
And so When Allah specialized the Arabic Language with Bayan, then it is known that every other language is limited from it and inferior
The Arabic Language is the Language and key to the Quran and Sunnah, it is part of the Deen and Aqeedah, and through speaking it it positively affects the brain, manners, and ones Deen. The learning of Arabic is a Fard, but the Fard changes for the different parts of the Language. As some parts are Fard for every single person to learn, while other parts are Fard on the Kifayah.
Ummar Ibnul Khattab said:
تعلَّموا العربيةَ؛ فإنها من دينِكم، وتعلَّموا الفرائضَ؛ فإنها من دينكم
Learn the Arabic Language; for it is of your Deen, and learn the obligations; for it is of your Deen
With that, I will like to briefly speak about StackExchange. StackExchange is a network of high quality expert Q&A sites on various subjects. Each site is built and managed by the community, and the goal is to create a repository of high quality questions and answers. Now every site starts from a proposal, and currently there is one that exists in attempt to build a StackExchange Q&A site for the Arabic Language.
Some Details About the Proposal
Link: http://area51.stackexchange.com/proposals/62022/arabic-language
Description:
اقتراح إنشاء موقع أسئلة وأجوبة يضم المتعلمين، اللغويين، والخبراء بمجالات اللغة العربية ليناقشوا ما يتعلق بهذه اللغة.
Proposed Q&A site for non-native & native Arabic Language learners, linguists & experts to discuss finer points of the language.
Currently the proposal needs more followers who post their example questions and vote accordingly on the others, so that we can build a good high quality Q&A site for Arabic on this network, that can benefit those that come across it.
If you have any questions about the Arabic Language from the Islamic perspective, then please come ask it here. If you have any question or want a discussion about the proposal then click the “Start Discussion” button here. If you have a question about the Arabic Language itself or one of it’s sciences, please do not ask it on the Islam site but reserve it for when the Arabic proposal goes to beta, thank you.
سبحان رب العزة عما يصفون، و سلام على المرسلين و الحمد لله رب العالمين