Tariq bin Ziyad: the Great Muslim Commander

[salahuldin786]

Tariq ibn-Ziyad - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

 

[yarmook]

No doubt in that!!!

the first muislim warrior to step in europe with torch of islam!!!

Tarik and Musa were the two great army stratigists who planned out to envelop europe eastern europe and and then central asia in to khilafah but unfortunately they were not given enough chance to go beyond Spain , Albania, Macedonia and Bulgaria!!!

 

[niaz]

No doubt in that!!!

the first muislim warrior to step in europe with torch of islam!!!

Tarik and Musa were the two great army stratigists who planned out to envelop europe eastern europe and and then central asia in to khilafah but unfortunately they were not given enough chance to go beyond Spain , Albania, Macedonia and Bulgaria!!!

Kindly look at the MAP. There are a host of countrires in between Spain and the Balkans. Any penetration by muslims into countries across the Balck Sea had wait until the Saljuks pacified Anatolia some 300 years later. It took another 200 years before Muslim Ottomon Trurks were able to make inroads into Balkans.

Spain was invaded from Morocco and muslim advance checked at the battle of Poitiers by Charlse Martel in 732 AD where he defeated Amir Abdur Rahman, the Commander of the Muslim Army fighting for Omayyad Caliph Hisham bin Abdul Malik.

 

[alamgir]

if walid bin abad-ul-malik remain 10 years more in life,then europe of today have an other shape

 

[salahuldin786]

The Islamic Adventurer: Musa Ibn Nusayr and Tariq Ibn Ziyad

 

[EagleEyes]

"Oh my people, whither would you flee? Behind you is the sea, before you, the enemy. You have left now only the hope of your courage and your constancy. Remember that in this country you are more unfortunate than the orphan seated at the table of the avaricious master. Your enemy is before you, protected by an innumerable army; he has men in abundance, but you, as your only aid, have your own swords, and, as your only chance for life, such chance as you can snatch from the hands of your enemy. If the absolute want to which you are reduced is prolonged ever so little, if you delay to seize immediate success, your good fortune will vanish, and your enemies, whom your very presence has filled with fear, will take courage. Put far from you the disgrace from which you flee in dreams, and attack this monarch who has left his strongly fortified city to meet you. Here is a splendid opportunity to defeat him, if you will consent to expose yourselves freely to death. Do not believe that I desire to incite you to face dangers which I shall refuse to share with you. In the attack I myself will be in the fore, where the chance of life is always least.

"Remember that if you suffer a few moments in patience, you will afterward enjoy supreme delight. Do not imagine that your fate can be separated from mine, and rest assured that if you fall, I shall perish with you, or avenge you. You have heard that in this country there are a large number of ravishingly beautiful Greek maidens, their graceful forms are draped in sumptuous gowns on which gleam pearls, coral, and purest gold, and they live in the palaces of royal kings. The Commander of True Believers, Alwalid, son of Abdalmelik, has chosen you for this attack from among all his Arab warriors; and he promises that you shall become his comrades and shall hold the rank of kings in this country. Such is his confidence in your intrepidity. The one fruit which he desires to obtain from your bravery is that the word of God shall be exalted in this country, and that the true religion shall be established here. The spoils will belong to yourselves.

"Remember that I place myself in the front of this glorious charge which I exhort you to make. At the moment when the two armies meet hand to hand, you will see me, never doubt it, seeking out this Roderick, tyrant of his people, challenging him to combat, if God is willing. If I perish after this, I will have had at least the satisfaction of delivering you, and you will easily find among you an experienced hero, to whom you can confidently give the task of directing you. But should I fall before I reach to Roderick, redouble your ardor, force yourselves to the attack and achieve the conquest of this country, in depriving him of life. With him dead, his soldiers will no longer defy you."

(Tarik's Address to His Soldiers, 711 CE, from The Breath of Perfumes')

 

[haviZsultan]

Well he was definately a hero for us all... but sadly he was jailed by Sulaiman the caliph at the time as soon as he came back after his victory in Spain. He was'nt allowed to pacify the Northern regions of Spain or march against the Franks. Musa bin Nusayr suffered the same fate too and his son (Abdalaziz) who Musa left as governor of Spain was killed by Sulaiman although he was a great leader! Musa and Tariq both died in obscurity after they were released from the prison by the next Caliph (still not honoured) This is how our greatest generals were treated by the Ummayads.

If I were to choose a caliphate (after the 4 pious caliphs) I would go for the Abbasid caliphs lot. However whatever caliphate it be (after the 4 pious caliphs) there were good rulers and bad rulers...

 

[Jaesh-e-Muhammed]

It was the Abbasid not Ummayads who imprison both Tariq and Musa please read history before posting here