Letter from Sultan Salah ad-Din to the Muslim Ummah

 Letter from Sultan Salah ad-Din to the Muslim Ummah

Following is a letter written by Sultan Salah ad-Din Ayyubi when he started his Jihad against the Crusaders more than 9 centuries ago:
 

“We hope in Allah most high, to whom be praise, who leads the hearts of Muslims to calm what torments them and ruins their prosperity.

Where is the sense of honor of Muslims? The pride of Believers? The Zeal of the Faithful?

 

We shall never cease to be amazed at how the disbelievers for their part have shown trusts, and it is the Muslims who have been lacking in zeal. Not one of them has responded to the call. Not one intervenes to straighten what is distorted; but observe how far the Franks have gone what unity they have achieved. What aims they pursue. What help they have given. What sums of money they have borrowed and spent. What wealth they have collected and distributed and divided amongst them. There is not a King left in their lands or islands, not a lord or a rich man who has not competed with his neighbors to produce more support and rival his peers in strenuous military efforts. In defense of their religion they consider it a small thing to spend life and soul; and they have kept their infidel brothers supplied with arms and champions of war; and all they have done and all their generosity has been purely out of zeal for him they worship in jealous defense of their faith.

The Muslims on the other hand are weak and demoralized; they have become negligent and lazy, the victims of unproductive stupefaction and completely lacking in enthusiasm. If , Allah forbid, Islam should draw rein, obscure her splendor, blunt her sword, there would be no one, east or west, far or near who would blaze the zeal for Allah’s religion, or choose to come to the aid of truth against error.

This is the moment to cast off laziness, to summon from far and near all those men who have blood in their veins; but we are confident (he speaks about himself and the small party of believers who began with him and then became a large party); but we are confident, thanks to Allah -Alhamdulillah- in the Help that will come from him and entrust ourselves to him in sincerity of purpose and deepest devotion.

In sha Allah, the disbelievers shall perish and the faithful have a sure deliverance.”

— Salahuddin Ayyubi 12 CE

“After I die, you will see these Muslims fall apart in disunity, and you will see the Europeans grow strong. The best thing to do for now is to continue the fight until we drive them from the Coast (of Palestine) or die.”

These are the Ominous words of Sultan Salah ad-Din about our Ummah. Salahuddin Ayyubi stated this after King Richard of England proposed that Salahuddin Ayyubi’s brother, Sayf ad-Dîn (popularly known as “Safadin” in the West), should marry his sister, Joanna. So admirable was Salahuddin Ayyubi’s character that his worst enemy who had traveled over 2000 miles to eliminate him, ended up offering his own sister to his family. This is the result of Perfect Islâmic “Ikhlâq” and “’ Adab”.

Also, Salahuddin Ayyubi stated in regards to the troubles he endured uniting the entire Muslim world under one banner:

“I do not know what will happen to me, if Allâh wills that the enemy should grow strong. They have established a base from which they can retrieve other lands. you will see these Muslim leaders sitting at the tops of their grandiose towers saying, ‘I shall not come down,’ until the Muslim world will be destroyed.”

How did Salahuddin Ayyubi destroy his enemies, drive the Franks from Jerusalem and most of Palestine, and be written off so well by the European historians whose people he defeated? This is how:

“On July 3 Salâh ad-Dîn performed the Friday prayer in the Mosque of al-Aqsa, He was seen prostrating and repeating his prayers over and over again as his tears soaked the prayer mat.”

حسبي الله لا إله إلا هو عليه توكلت وهو رب العرش العظيم
“Allah suffices me; there is no worship except for Him; only Him have I trusted, and He is the Lord Of The Great Throne.”

Hadrat Salahuddin Ayyubi smiled from ear to ear and breathed his last. Since Salahuddin Ayyubi had given most of his money away for charity when they opened his treasury, they found there was not enough money to pay for his funeral. And so Salahuddin Ayyubi was buried in a magnificent mausoleum in the garden outside the Umayyad Mosque in Damascus, Syria.

 A Miracle of Shaykh Abdul Qadir al-Jilani from Baghdad:

‘’When Sultan Salahuddin Ayubi was on his deathbed, someone asked him Oh Ayubi you are a great warrior of Islam, you have been fighting in the path of Allah for such a long time but you weren’t martyred, you weren’t blessed with martyrdom, Sultan Salahuddin Said ‘’Throughout my life I was yearning to be martyred in the path of Allah, but did you know that the sword of the enemy could not touch my neck’’, he said why Oh Sultan Salahuddin, why couldn’t the sword of the enemy touch your neck? Sultan Salahuddin Ayubi said ‘’In my childhood my father took me to Shaykh Abdul Qadir al-Jilani and Shaykh Abdul Qadir al-Jilani placed his hand on my neck, how could the sword of the enemy touch my neck when my neck was touched by the blessed hands of Shaykh Abdul Qadir al-Jilani Rahimahillah.’’

Hazrat Sultan Salahuddin Ayubi Rehmat ul Allah Alaihe nay farmaya “

1. Mujhe naheen maloom k Islam Talwar say phaila ya Ikhlaq se magar main is baat ko bakhoobi jaanta hoon ke Islam ki hifazat k liay talwar ki zaroorat padti hai.
2. Hukmaran jab apni jaan ki hifazat ko tarjeeh dene lagen to who Mulk aur Qaum ki Hifazat ke Qabil nahi rahte.
3. Jahan roti mazdoor ki tankhaah se mahangi ho jaye wahan do cheez sasti ho jati hai. (1) Aurat ki Izzat (2) Mard ki Ghairat.
4. Musalman ki talwaar pr jab Aurat aur Sharaab ka saya pad jaye to yeh loohe ka bekaar tukda (Piece) ban jati hai.
5. Ager kisi Qaum ko Bagair Jang ke Shikasht deni ho to uske No jawanon me fahashi phaila do.
6. Saltanat e Islamia ki koi had nahi tum ne jis din apne aapko aur khuda ke is Azeem Mazhab e Islam ko sarhadon me paband kr liya us roz se yah samjo ke tum apne hi Qaed ho ja o ge phir tumhari sarhad sukadne lagain ge.