Caliph Suleiman between reality and (Harem Sultan)
Greetings
Peace be upon you.
Who is Sultan Suleiman the Lawgiver?
Who is Sultan Suleiman the Lawgiver? And what is the purpose of portraying him as a sultan immersed in desires?
Firstly, my brothers, is it acceptable for us to take our history from our enemies? If the so-called Holy Scriptures, which Jews and Christians adhere to, fabricate lies about the Prophet Solomon, peace be upon him, saying in the First Book of Kings: "And it came to pass, when Solomon was old, that his wives turned away his heart after other gods: and his heart was not perfect with the Lord his God, as was the heart of David his father. For Solomon went after Ashtoreth the goddess of the Sidonians, and after Milcom the abomination of the Ammonites." Far be it from the Prophet Solomon, peace be upon him.
If they say this about the Prophet Solomon, peace be upon him, even though they acknowledge his prophethood and boast about him, what do you expect them to say about the Caliph Suleiman, who humiliated them? Even the German historian Halmer said about him: "This sultan was more dangerous to us than Saladin himself."
The enemies of Islam burned and drowned the libraries of Baghdad, Cordoba, Granada, Seville, Tripoli, Lebanon, Jerusalem, Ascalon, and others. They burn our books and then write our history themselves. Is it then befitting for us to expose what remains of the works of our scholars and historians?
Should we not, my brothers, instead of getting to know the Caliph Suleiman from the books of our enemies who are biased against him, and from the films of the secular orphans of Ataturk, should we not get to know him from the books of scholars and historians who were contemporaries of the Caliph and were close to him?
Testimonies of Muslim Historians about the Caliph Suleiman
The Caliph Suleiman was praised by the historian jurist who was his contemporary, Tashkopruzade, as in his book "Al-Kawakib al-durriyya fi ma'rifat al-hulafa'." And Ahmad bin Yusuf al-Qaramanli, who was also a contemporary of the Caliph, as in his book "Akhbar al-dawla al-'Uthmaniyya," said: "He was of high ambition, a scholar, and encouraging to the utmost, tall in stature, handsome in appearance, and he was known in the horizons for justice and goodness."
Similarly, the jurist historian Ibn Hajar al-Haytami, who was born only 32 years after the Caliph's death, said about him in his book "Al-Durar al-kaminah": "He remained in the sultanate for 49 years, and he was a sultan who fought in the way of Allah, a mujahid for the support of the religion of Allah." He also said about him: "He was a renewer of the religion of this Muhammadan community in the tenth century."
Stops with the Biography of the Caliph Suleiman
Let us stop and reflect on the biography of the Caliph Suleiman, may Allah have mercy on him, drawing much of the information from a study prepared by the writer Mahmoud Hafez entitled "Sultan Suleiman the Lawgiver, the Greatest King of Islam." These stops will make you realize why the media affiliated with the Crusaders and their lackeys among the rulers of the Muslims strive to tarnish the image of Suleiman the Lawgiver.
The Conquest of Belgrade
In the year 926 AH, Sultan Suleiman was enraged and said: "Is the envoy of the Islamic state to be killed?" It is not in the interest of the regimes for us to know the true history of Suleiman, for the Muslims are the least of people in our days, they are killed in the brotherly and friendly countries and humiliated, their countries do not demand their rights, the sultans do not get angry for them, and they do not win. "The wolf is not blamed for its aggression if the shepherd is the enemy of the sheep."
But Suleiman, as soon as the morning came, he had prepared a great army supported by warships, and he went out himself at the head of this army heading towards the city of Belgrade, the capital of Serbia today, besieged it, then entered it as a conqueror on the 26th of Ramadan, and ordered the call to prayer to be raised from its fortress. This was the beginning of his march towards Hungary, which had a strong empire that he spent the rest of his life eliminating.
After the conquest of Belgrade, the awe of the Caliph entered the hearts of the kings of Europe and Russia, and they knew that they were facing a man, so they sent him congratulating him on the conquests and giving him tribute from their hands while they were submissive.
His Justice and Mercy towards Muslims
Suleiman, with his pride over the infidels, was merciful and compassionate towards the Muslims, as described by Ibn Hajar al-Haytami: "Humiliating to the believers, honoring to the infidels." So he released seven hundred prisoners in Egypt when he took over the caliphate.
It is not in the interest of the regimes in the Islamic world to realize this about the Caliph and then compare it to them. Compare him to the country whose princes have stations of corruption spreading the "harem of the sultan," while it has thirty thousand political prisoners, most of whom are preachers and scholars. Or compare him to the country where prisoners are melted by the acid, and then representatives of it dub the voice of the sultan and his leaders. Or the country where four thousand five hundred Sunni women are subjected to rape and torture, and Suleiman had stopped the evil of the ancestors of these torturers from the Safavids.
His Administrative and Legal Reforms
The Caliph Suleiman made the position of issuing fatwas the highest position after the caliphate, and made his entourage from scholars, with the great scholar Abu al-Su'ud at the head, the author of the famous interpretation "Tafsir Abu al-Su'ud," which is still preserved, we have read from it and benefited. He cooperated with Abu al-Su'ud in formulating laws derived from the Quran and the Sunnah, and from here came his title "Suleiman the Lawgiver." Al-Jabarti described him in his book "Ajaiib al-athar" as "the establishment of Islamic rituals and Muhammadan traditions, the glorification of scholars and people of religion."
Yes, Suleiman did not take up arms to anoint himself with legitimacy and employ religion for his ambitions and desires.
His Conquests and Jihad
On all fronts, to the east, he faced the Russian tsars and annexed half of Russia to his caliphate, and repelled the Portuguese attacks on Muslim India at the time. To the west, he faced the Spaniards in North Africa and liberated several countries from them, and saved tens of thousands of Muslims fleeing persecution after the fall of Andalusia. To the north, he advanced into Europe, so his caliphate included most of Yugoslavia, Hungary, Poland, Bulgaria, Macedonia, Romania, and Greece. To the south, he repelled Portuguese attacks on the Arabian Peninsula and East Africa.
The poisoned dagger, the Safavid Rafidah state, had committed massacres against the Sunnis in Iraq and Persia and allied with the Crusaders, so the Caliph directed campaigns that purified Iraq, Iran, Azerbaijan, and the Caucasus from them.
Mahmoud bin Said of Mombasa, who was born 150 years after the Caliph's death, said in his book "Nuzhat al-azhar": "And there was no one more jihadist and supporter of the religion, and more complete in equipment and tools to cut off the wicked, and more oppressive to the people of sedition and innovation and infidelity and atheists, and more supportive and victorious for the people of the Sunnah and religion than him, may Allah have mercy on him." Do you know why they hate him?
His Concern for Civilization and Science
The Caliph was concerned with the civilized construction of the areas he conquered, at a time when Europe was drowning in its ignorance, and the Church was burning and excommunicating those who disagreed with its scientific fallacies. Copernicus, who was persecuted by the Church for saying that the earth is not the center of the universe and that it revolves around itself, was a contemporary of the Caliph Suleiman.
The Caliph felt his responsibility towards all Muslims. The Greek island of Rhodes was inhabited by Crusaders called the Knights of St. John, who used to raid Muslim ships heading to the Hijaz, killing the men and violating the honor of the women, so the Caliph conquered it after a siege that lasted six months, and gave the Christians of the castle, other than these, safety for their churches and religion.
At the same time that the Vatican was confronting Martin Luther's call and his Protestant sect with killing, burning, and torture, the Caliph had issued a law preventing Jews from settling in Palestine. He does not want you to know this about him from the one who sold Palestine.
The End of His Life and His Struggle
After a glorious history of jihad, conquests, and the honor of Muslims, the caliph wanted to complete the conquest of Hungary, which was supported by other European countries like Germany with soldiers out of fear of the Ottoman advance. The caliph had reached the age of seventy-four, and his doctor had advised him not to go out due to his illness. His response was, "I prefer to die as a martyr in the cause of Allah." Finally, the city of Szigetvár was conquered, and the fall of the empire was complete.
Refuting Slanders and Distorting History
This was one aspect of the life of Caliph Suleiman, may Allah have mercy on him. Should we believe the description of Ibn al-Imad al-Hanbali, who came shortly after him and said about him, "He does not know deceit and cunning, avoids bad temper, does not know treachery and hypocrisy, nor does he associate with bad morals, but he is pure of heart and sincere in belief"? Or should we believe Miral Oke, who came to us five hundred years later with the trash of the enemies of the caliph to present us with "The Sultan's Harem" and portray the caliph as a corrupt man who indulges in wine, fluctuating between the arms of women, laughing at him and tempting him? At a time when secularism in Turkey is waging its dirty war against the Islamic spirit that has spread among many of the Turkish people, Ataturk's orphans come to consecrate the stereotypical image that Europeans have drawn of the Muslim personality, especially the Ottoman one, and there is no wonder, for their tyranny and corruption were suppressed.
As for what is said that he, may Allah have mercy on him, killed his son Mustafa by the temptation of his wife Roxelana or Khurrem Sultan, who cooperated with Rustem Pasha and was cunning and deceived him, I have searched long to find any document from the early books that testifies to this, but I did not find. So do we believe the good biography of the caliph that is evident and his widespread justice for forty-nine years? Or what the European writers claim they learned from the whisper of the sultan's wife to him in the bedroom?
The American historian Harold Lamb, who elaborated on portraying Roxana as cunning in his book "Suleiman The Magnificent Sultan of the East," is the same one who said about the caliph: "The day of his death was one of the days of the Christians' holidays." And let us remember that what the People of the Book fabricated about Caliph Suleiman is the same as what they fabricated about the Prophet Suleiman, saying: "Women tempted him."
The Systematic War on the Caliphate
The issue is not about a series or the person of Caliph Suleiman; it is the systematic war on the caliphate, the systematic war on the principle of the caliphate itself. It is a history that is being revised and minds that are being obscured, so that Muslims feel like intruders on humanity, with no roots or history to be proud of. And I advise my brothers to return to the phrase "This is how they assassinate us" on the same topic.
Our enemies achieve three goals with their series: corrupting the morals of the youth with obscene scenes, distorting their history in their minds, and making them hate Islamic rulings that they sever from their appropriate context and present in the worst possible image. Would a Muslim be pleased to open his heart, eyes, and ears to the rantings of those who want to settle their accounts with the Ottoman state and take their revenge on Islam and Muslims through these series?
Peace be upon you and the mercy of Allah.