In it [543 ูู], the Franks who numbered seventy thousand fighters along with the King of Germany with an army beyond count besieged Damascus, whose ruler was Mujir al-Din Abaq
and his deputy Mu'in al-Din, who administered the kingdom.
This was on Saturday the sixth of Rabi al-Awwal.
Its people came out against them, one hundred thirty thousand in number, and they engaged in a tremendous battle.
On the first day, around two hundred Muslims were killed, along with countless Franks beyond measure.
The battle raged on for some time, and the people gathered around the copy of Uthman's Quran in the courtyard of the mosque,
calling upon Allah while the women and children were bare-headed, crying and pleading, and ashes were spread throughout the city.
Abaq sought aid from the King Nur al-Din Mahmud [Zangi], the ruler of Aleppo, and from his brother Saif al-Din Ghazi, the ruler of Mosul.
They set out hastily with around seventy thousand soldiers joined by other kings and men.
When the accursed Franks heard of the coming of the army, they retreated from the city.
The army pursued them, killing great numbers of them and capturing many prisoners.
Among those they killed was a priest named Elijah [Ilyas] who had deceived them into attacking Damascus by falsely claiming he had a vision from the Messiah [โIsa ุนููู ุงูุณูุงู ] promising him the conquest of Damascus โ may Allah curse him!
They had nearly captured the city, but Allah helped and protected it by His might and power.
Allah Says: ๏ดพAnd if it were not for Allah checking [some] people by means of others, the earth would have been corrupted, but Allah is the possessor of bounty for the worlds.๏ดฟ [02:251]
And He says:
๏ดพThose who have been expelled from their homes unjustly only because they said: "Our Lord is Allah."
For had it not been that Allah checks one set of people by means of another, monasteries, churches, synagogues, and mosques, wherein the Name of Allah is
wherein the Name of Allรขh is mentioned much would surely have been pulled down.
Verily, Allah will help those who help His (Cause).
Truly, Allรขh is All-Powerful, All-Mighty.๏ดฟ [22:40]
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โIn this year [595 ูโู] a great turmoil occurred in the lands of Khurasan.
Its cause was that Fakhr al-Din Muhammad ibn Umar al-Razi, the foremost ๐๐ถ๐ต๐ข๐ฌ๐ข๐ญ๐ญ๐ช๐ฎ of his time, visited King Ghiyath al-Din Ghuri,
the ruler of Ghazna, who honored him and built a school for him in Herat.
Most of the Ghurids were Karramiyya; they hated al-Razi and wanted him estranged from the king.
So they gathered a group of Hanafi and Karrami jurists against him, as well some Shafi'is,
and Ibn al-Qudwa attended.
He was a greatly respected scholar among the people and followed the doctrines of Ibn Karram and Ibn al-Haytham.
He and al-Razi debated, but they diverged from discussion into insults and abuse.
โAnd likewise from after him until our time, especially during the days of Hulagu, son of Tolui, son of Genghis Khan the Turk, who destroyed its [Baghdads] landmarks,
killed its caliph and scholars, demolished its houses, razed its palaces, and exterminated the elite and the commoners of its inhabitants in that year [656ูู].
He seized the wealth and possessions, looted the children and women, and caused grievous sorrow recited at daybreak,
and made it an exemplary ruin in the regions, a lesson for every learned person of insight, and a reminder for every reasonable and straightforward person.
After recitation of the Quran, it was replaced with melodies and tunes, and reciting poetry.
โBaghdad had no equal in the world in terms of the grandeur of its status, the magnificence of its affairs, the multitude of its scholars and famous personalities,
the distinction of its elite and commoners, the vastness of its regions, the extent of its outskirts, the large number of its houses, roads, dwellings, streets, its mosques, public baths, caravanserais, the pleasantness of its air, the sweetness of its water,
the coolness of its shade, the moderation of its summer and winter, the healthiness of its spring and autumn.
It was most populous and inhabited during the days of [Harun] al-Rashid.
Then he mentioned its conditions deteriorating after that,