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Resolved Question: sunni: did u see how many battle omar(ra) and abu baker(ra) fought?
http://www.islamreligion.com/articles/318/
Abu Bakr’s caliphate was short, but important. An exemplary leader, he lived simply, assiduously fulfilled his religious obligations, and was accessible and sympathetic to his people. But he also stood firm when some tribes, who had only nominally accepted Islam, renounced it in the wake of the Prophet’s death. In what was a major accomplishment, Abu Bakr swiftly disciplined them. Later, he consolidated the support of the tribes within the Arabian Peninsula and subsequently funneled their energies against the powerful empires of the East: the Sassanians in Persia and the Byzantines in Syria, Palestine, and Egypt. In short, he demonstrated the viability of the Muslim state.
The second caliph, Umar – appointed by Abu Bakr – continued to demonstrate that viability. Adopting the title Ameer al-Mumineen, or Commander of the Believers, Umar extended Islam’s temporal rule over Syria, Egypt, Iraq, and Persia in what, from a purely military standpoint, were astonishing victories. Within four years after the death of the Prophet, the Muslim state had extended its sway over all of Syria and had, at a famous battle fought during a sandstorm near the River Yarmuk, blunted the power of the Byzantines – whose ruler, Heraclius, had shortly before refused the call to accept Islam.
Even more astonishingly, the Muslim state administered the conquered territories with a tolerance almost unheard of in that age. At Damascus, for example, the Muslim leader, Khalid ibn al-Walid, signed a treaty which read as follows:
This is what Khalid ibn al-Walid would grant to the inhabitants of Damascus if he enters therein: he promises to give them security for their lives, property and churches. Their city wall shall not be demolished; neither shall any Muslim be quartered in their houses. Thereunto we give them the pact of God and the protection of His Prophet, the caliphs and the believers. So long as they pay the poll tax, nothing but good shall befall them.
This tolerance was typical of Islam. A year after Yarmook, Umar, in the military camp of al-Jabiyah on the Golan Heights, received word that the Byzantines were ready to surrender Jerusalem. Consequently, he rode there to accept the surrender in person. According to one account, he entered the city alone and clad in a simple cloak, astounding a populace accustomed to the sumptuous garb and court ceremonials of the Byzantines and Persians. He astounded them still further when he set their fears at rest by negotiating a generous treaty in which he told them: “In the name of God … you have complete security for your churches, which shall not be occupied by the Muslims or destroyed.”
This policy was to prove successful everywhere. In Syria, for example, many Christians who had been involved in bitter theological disputes with Byzantine authorities – and persecuted for it – welcomed the coming of Islam as an end to tyranny. And in Egypt, which Amr ibn al-As took from the Byzantines after a daring march across the Sinai Peninsula, the Coptic Christians not only welcomed the Arabs, but enthusiastically assisted them.
This pattern was repeated throughout the Byzantine Empire. Conflict among Greek Orthodox, Syrian Monophysites, Copts, and Nestorian Christians contributed to the failure of the Byzantines – always regarded as intruders – to develop popular support, while the tolerance which Muslims showed toward Christians and Jews removed the primary cause for opposing them.
Umar adopted this attitude in administrative matters as well. Although he assigned Muslim governors to the new provinces, existing Byzantine and Persian administrations were retained wherever possible. For fifty years, in fact, Greek remained the chancery language of Syria, Egypt, and Palestine, while Pahlavi, the chancery language of the Sassanians, continued to be used in Mesopotamia and Persia.
Umar, who served as caliph for ten years, ended his rule with a significant victory over the Persian Empire. The struggle with the Sassanid realm had opened in 636 at al-Qadisiyah, near Ctesiphon in Iraq, where Muslim cavalry had successfully coped with elephants used by the Persians as a kind of primitive tank. Now with the Battle of Nihavand, called the “Conquest of Conquests,” Umar sealed the fate of Persia; henceforth it was to be one of the most important provinces in the Muslim Empire.
His caliphate was a high point in early Islamic history. He was noted for his justice, social ideals, administration, and statesmanship. His innovations left an all enduring imprint on social welfare, taxation, and the financial and administrative fabric of the growing empire.
i hate usually reading about battles, but i liked this article =)
what do u think?
@ truth seeker: wash ur mouth
@ elda: is ur job to spread ignorance?? read about the battles of omar(Ra) and abu baker(Ra) u wont die, it wont bite u..LOL u seem so scared from reading, are u affraid that u realize its true info?
read it dear, u will find how much they were brave and how many battles they fought.
of course hiding behind sarcasm shows me how much u are ignorant who have no info nor education, pathetic plz get some education, ur ignorance is dangerous. LOL and well maybe u were too busy reading about khomeini sleeping with his goat, ahaha bye loser
@ elda: what a coward.. words wont eat u.. education will benefits u instead of the crap in shiaism and no, ur time for once wont be wasted bcz it will be the first time u read a truth…
u only spread ignorance, stupidity is something i cant understand, true,thats why i leave it to donkeys like u. u are used to read and talk whats stupid bcz u are a stupid person, that explain it.
=)
Resolved Question: Brackish water artificial pond?!?
Alrighty… I’m rambly and I’ve got ideas going through my poor little brain, and going out today with my mother and aunt for this little local backyard garden pond tour thing that was going on got the gears cranking to the point that I think I’m smelling smoke… (ok, ok, that ~could~ be something else, but bear with me)
Couple questions lately have made me really start thinking about my brackish water tank that I want to set up one day, but looking at these koi ponds today was just…. WOW!!! (some people have waaaaay too much money and should give me some is all I got to say about that…) Some of these ponds if they had been set up brackish instead of fresh could easily have held legal size reds and snook rather than silly ol’ koi, and at first I was thinking “Why not bluegill and bass rather than koi?” but there was one right on the river… Just the stones used for this pond… no, waterfall, stream, terraced landscaping, little pond, another waterfall, more stream, a little bigger pond, another little waterfall and stream down to the big pond at the bottom… jeeze, not to mention the dry-stacked wall along their property line… I don’t even want to think about it and that’s JUST THE STONES!!! Anyway, koi just don’t belong within spitting distance of brackish water as far as I’m concerned. (I know, this is fishing section, not gardening or pet fish section, but bear with me, I like everyone here better)
Anyway, there’s a point here somewhere… Ah, there it is… Considering you can catch reds in insanely shallow water, would it be feasable to set up, rather than a brackish water fishtank, a brackish water backyard pond? get one of the big preformed things from the hardware store, the primo filtration system you need for things like that, just fill it with good ol’ IRL water with maybe a layer of lagoon floor on the bottom, get some seagrasses going…. These were all gorgeous ponds, and gave me so many nifty ideas, but for some reason it always goes back to brackish water for me…. start with a little barely-keeper red, maybe a little seatrout… toadfish, horseshoe crab or three, little stingray, come on people, you gotta admit, it would rock…
Don’t care if they reproduce… just want something decent enough to keep a few alive and happy without feeling bad about putting them in a little tank… Even if I avoid the gamefish and just go with “trash” fish… little school of sailor’s choice… or… oooo…. forget sailor’s choice or reds or any of the larger species! I could stock it with mangrove snapper! err… no… don’t think it would be deep enough or the right kind of structure…
I’m still thinking… I need a yard before this can even begin to happen… and a bigger house before I can think about even a tank….
*sighs* maybe I could be like that rancher dude who just won the powerball…
See, this is my problem, and it’s always been my problem, I’m great with coming up with ideas that ~need~ to be shot down.
As if I could come anywhere ~near~ affording any type of waterfront property, much less riverfront, and thanks on the salinity issues… the way my brain was seeing it was “Well, the salinity levels of my area of the river fluctuate wildly and there’s still fish and everything does fine…” not thinking that it will wash ~out~ of the pond (probably killing off most any vegetation planted around it if I’m not careful about that… see… my other idea has been a bog garden, which would actually enjoy the overflow of a good FL rain…)
Still gonna have a garden pond one day, but maybe it will be bluegill and bass (or I was also looking at my neon tetras before the snapping turtle ate all of them, thinking how neat they’d be to see swimming in some big school somewhere tropical fishpond
LOL…. don’t worry, I WILL have a pond, fish or otherwise, it’s just that we’re renting right now and I don’t really want to put time, effort and money into putting a pond in a yard that’s not mine….
We’re looking, and there’s houses in our price range, it’s just that most of them lately haven’t been in the kind of neighborhood I want to deal with… a few pop up here and there, but people are so eager to get rid of them for whatever reason that they’re just taking the first offer to come along… or they’re covering up major problems with the houses, things like that… One that we nearly got was a cute little place that I would have been happy with until our termite guy came to look at it… and my father’s buddy from back in his roofing days came to do the inspection… jeeze, if these people had done as much work actually ~fixing~ the problems as they did covering them up it would have been a great house…
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