In the year 1913,
Dr Alama Muhammad Iqbal, the famous poet, philosopher, and spiritual father of Pakistan, known in Turkey as simply "Ikbal" or "The disciple of Rumi" had composed his famous poem entitled "Jawab e Shikwa" (The answer to the complaint). The poem was recited and revealed by Iqbal for the first time amongst a large audience in Lahore specifically for the purpose of raising funds to support the Ottoman Empire who were engaged in the Balkan wars.
Dr. Iqbal remained a staunch supporter of the Ottoman Caliphate and had once written a short couplet urging the Muslim leaders of India to stop begging the British to safeguard the Caliphate, but to pledge their own allegiance, sacrifice, and blood for the protection of the Caliphate. Below are the following verses of the poem:
You've tried others alot,
This is the time to put your own on trial.
Don't you know history?
That you are begging for the cause of Khilafah?
What we won't buy paying with our own blood
That regal power is anathema to a Muslim
Unfortunately the abolishment of the Caliphate had broken the hearts of Muslims in India, and Iqbal in response wrote the following couplet:
"The imprudent Turk has torn off the cloak of the Caliphate
How a Muslim simpleton was foxed by such cunning powers"
Further an honoury grave of Dr Muhammad Iqbal was built at Mevlana Rumi's mausoleum. The epitaph translates as ‘This honoury resting place has been granted to Muhammad Iqbal, Pakistan's national poet, by his spiritual master, Mevlana Rumi.’
TR : 1913 yılında, ünlü şair, filozof ve Pakistan'ın mânevi babası, Türkiye'de kısaca "İkbal" yada "Rumî mürîdi" olarak bilinen Dr. Alama Muhammed İkbal, en meşhur şiirlerini "Jawab e Shikwa" (Şikayet ve cevabı) başlığı altında toplamıştır. Şiirin, Balkan savaşları sıralarında özellikle Osmanlı İmparatorluğu'nu destekleme fonu kastıyla, Lahor'da büyük bir kitle arasında ilk kez İkbal tarafından okunduğu bilinmektedir.
Dr. İkbal, Osmanlı Halifeliği'nin sadık bir destekçisi olmayı sürdürmüştür ve bir keresinde Hindistan'ın Müslüman liderlerini İngilizler'e korunmak için yalvarmalarını bırakıp onların sadakatini, fedakarlıklarını ve kanlarını temin almalarına çağıran bir beyit yazmıştır. Şiirin mısraları aşağıdaki gibi devam eder:
"Sen, başkalarıyla çok uğraştın.
Şimdi kendini ortaya koyma zamanı.
Geçmişi bilmiyor musun?
Şu hilafet yolunda yalvardığın geçmiş...
Satın almadığımız şeyi şimdi kendi kanlarımızla ödüyoruz.
Krallık gücü Müslümana lanetlidir. "
Ne yazık ki Halifeliğin kaldırılması Hindistan'daki Müslümanları ciddi anlamda üzmüştü. İkbal buna yanıt olarak aşağıdaki dörtlüğü yazmıştır.
"İhtiyatsız Türk, Halifeliğin pelerinini yırttı.
Saf Müslüman kurnaz güçler tarafından işte böyle sarartıldı"
Dahası; Dr. Muhammed İkbal'in onursal mezarı Mevlana Rumi'nin türbesinde inşa edilmiştir. Kitabesi; 'Bu onursal dinlenme yeri, onun manevi ustası Mevlâna tarafından, Pakistan'ın milli şairi, Muhammed İkbal'a bahşedilmiştir," olarak çevirir
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Ottoman conquest of the Empire of Trebizond:
When Fatih Sultan Mehmed Han campaigned to conquer the Empire of Trebizond, his army faced difficulty passing through the scraped mountains of Gumushane, from time to time he dismounted from his horse and lead his soldiers to pass the dangerous mountain passes. During their march, the mother of Uzun Hassan, Sara Hatun, approached the Sultan and asked "O my son, this place called Trabzon, is it worth all these difficulties?"
The answer Fatih Sultan gave indicates his level of faith and purpose, Fatih Sultan replied "Oh my mother, this hardship is for the sake of Islam, if we did not take this hardship, then calling me a Sultan and a Gazi would be a lie."
An Ottoman boy.
An extremely rare picture. Afghanistan's King Amanullah Khan (left) standing with the Defender of Medina and Tiger of the Desert, Fahreddin Pasha (right) wrapped in the flags of the Ottoman state as well as the flag of the Caliphate, early 1900's.
The British Empire and its British Raj are forced to sign a treaty after being defeated by the Ottoman empire during the siege of Kut, 1916. After this battle many Indian Muslim soldiers within the British Raj defected to join the Ottoman Empire. James Morris, a British historian, described the loss of Kut as "the most abject capitulation in Britain’s military history."
Jerusalem, Ottoman Palestine, 1890s.
A street scene in Cairo, by Bavarian painter Carl Haag.
The Kaaba in Ottoman Makkah, early 1900s
