Skip to main content

A lost story from Al-Andalus

The poets of the Muslim spain compare the river Genil with thousand of Niles.This river refuged the symbol of Andlusian's bravity and pride.Genil was always in the search of such bold people who had only one city(The Granada) left for them yet the whole Europe had to prepare themselves for nearly 200 years to conquer it.Musa bin abi ghassan was the general in chief of these fearless and courageous people. Under the orders of Abul Hassan the second last emperor of Andlus Musa lead a number of expeditions to free his homeland from the invasive force of Reconquista.He might had defeated the christians if Abul Hassan had not died in 1491A.D . But after the succession of his son Abu Abdullah all was in a vain and Musa had no option how to spare the once magnificient empire from taking its last breath.
When in 1492 Abu abdullah sold the once most advanced and civilized land in whole europe for a piece of treaty musa decided not to surrender.When the christians had reached to the foot of alhamra the granada and Abu Abdullah had decided to surrender, musa rejected to retreat. He was looking beyond the fragile terms of the famous treaty signed between Abu Abdullah and Fernando.
One bright morning Musa left the palace alone on his arabian horse.Walking through the corridors of Alhamra the galloping sound of his horse's hoofs echoed through the walls of palace,piercing tbrough the deadly silence that prevailed on the palace once thronged with the monarches of euorpean emperors. The chilling winds from the icy tops of mountain Shaleer striked to the walls and gates of Alhamra so forcefully that the decorated curtains of royal palace begun to shake violently. But the sad scholars of mosques and incognizan aristocrats remained unaware that the Musa is alone on the way to martyrdom.
In front of Babul Sultan (the emperor's gate) a christian batallion of 18 knights was on patrol. The swords striked like lightning bolts.The death testified the bravity of General, the horse had his legs cut still the sword was cutting, Musa had his feet paralyzed still he remained high on the ground supported by his knees and still his sword did'nt lose its strength.At last waves came forward and te Genil refuged "The last sword of Andalus" in its Lap of Love.
But before this the Babul Sultan (the emperor's gate) had seen the the shine of Musa's sword and the 15 knights getting rid of the weight of their heads.
In front of Babul Baera there is a little mosque bearing a big board written"Here is the place where Abu Abdullah handed the keys of Granada to Ferdinand"...!
                            The lost Land you were the sign of Muslim's height,
                             Alas! Your remains remind us that glorious sight

Comments

  1. musa bin abi ghassan, no one knows this chief commander. the last sword of andlus

    ReplyDelete
    Replies
    1. Muslims now adays dont want to read articles that mentions the lions like badar bin mughira , musa bin abi ghassan , Azghayri , Yousuf bin tashfeain , Abdul Mana'am's , tariq bin zayad abdur rahman and many more muslim historic figure who made us proud and was successful to be a real lion of Islam..
      On the other hand we are busy in useless matters like facebook,twitter, instagram just wasting our time.. it's really sad to see the same situations in muslims country which once Al-undlas had suffered

      Delete
    2. Agreed
      We grew up reading about these heroes and our kids are stuck with video games ��

      Delete
    3. You can read the English translation of Shaheen by Naseem Hijazi here:
      https://www.wattpad.com/story/34239959-naseem-hijazi%27s-shaheen-english-translation

      Delete
  2. Where can i found about badar bin mugira??

    ReplyDelete
    Replies
    1. You can find in'' Tareek E undlas ''
      by Moulana Riasat ali Nidvi

      Delete
    2. you can read 'SHAHEEN' by Naseem Hejazi.

      Delete
    3. you can read 'SHAHEEN' by Naseem Hejazi.

      Delete
  3. This comment has been removed by the author.

    ReplyDelete
  4. writer Naseem Hijazi wrote a lot of Articles on islamic wars one of them is "Shaheen" and it's on badar Bin Mughira.

    ReplyDelete
    Replies
    1. But are all stories from Hijazi's book true? Did Badr bin Mugira really married Rabeya?

      Delete
  5. According to my view every Muslim young man must be read the life style of shaheen (Badar Bin Mughira ) written by Naseem Hijazi (The Great Muslim Writer)!

    ReplyDelete
  6. Why is there no content availble on the internet, about badar bin mughira?

    ReplyDelete
  7. Badr Bin Mughira is not a real character in history.

    ReplyDelete
    Replies
    1. What...?!! Are you sure?

      Delete
    2. Yes he is fiction character of Nasim Hijazi

      Delete
    3. how can u say he is fictious character. i dont believe it. he was main character of historical novel and main character couldnot be fictious. although the circumstances described were fictious and that doesnt matter.plz reply how you know he is fictional ,you are talking about my greatest hero , if he is fictional i am dead.i will stop reading Naseem Hijazi. if such a main character is fake then all novels are fake .reply anyone plz

      Delete
  8. This comment has been removed by the author.

    ReplyDelete
    Replies
    1. Badar Bin Mughira was not fictious. He was a real person- some of the story scenarios in Nasim Hijazi novel are fictious like the Rabia thing but the commander of a small group who tried to defend his land existed.

      Delete
  9. You can read the English translation of Shaheen by Naseem Hijazi here:
    https://www.wattpad.com/story/34239959-naseem-hijazi%27s-shaheen-english-translation

    ReplyDelete
  10. some people says Badr bin Mughira is fictional character .how u know plz? if the only reason is that there is no stuff about him on internet then its not enough

    ReplyDelete
    Replies
    1. Well you do have a point. But I had done a lot of research when I was translating a Urdu novel to English and couldn’t find anything on BBM. If you find something then do let me know

      Delete
    2. he was main character of historical novel and main character couldnot be fictious. although the circumstances described were fictious and that doesnt matter. I m still.searching and I believe I will find something about him in history somewhere

      Delete
  11. he was main character of historical novel and main character couldnot be fictious. although the circumstances described were fictious and that doesnt matter. I m still.searching and I believe I will find something about him in history somewhere

    ReplyDelete
  12. Badar bin mughaira is a fictional character created by Naseem Hijazi but its true that some of the remaining soliders of Granada army hid in the tracherous mountains of Sierra Nevada and continued their resistance for upcoming 50 years.

    ReplyDelete

Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

A Guide to Granada

 Granada is an ancient city on the foot of famous Mount Sierra Nevada (Jabl e Shleer) Spain that was Ruled by Muslims till 1492 before being taken over by the reconquista forces. Now a days it is difficult to find the remains of Muslims rule but here is a guide to find some spots where you can find the remains of that magnificent time.   Granada is now a days a developed city with population of 2.5 lacs. On the Eastern side of the central bus station around 5km away there is the old town of Grenada where you can find the remains of Muslim Rule. Most of the monuments are within the mountain complex of Albaićin (Albacin) including Alhamra palace and generalife (Jannat ul kahreef). In addition the old town is divided into three parts the Muslim quarter on the northern end, Christians Quarter and the Jewish Quarter on the southern end depicting the site of residence of these religious groups during Moorish reign.   The Alhamra palace is divided into Alqazba(Alqasba)...

Al-Mansur

Scene one; The last rays of sun were filtering through the narrow fronds of palm trees in the courtyard of Cordoba Mosque. Four students with their white turbans were sitting quietly on the floor of grand mosque.” What are you worried about friend?” asked one student from the other who seemed to be in deep thoughts.’’ I am thinking about the day when I will have to manage the matters of state’’ responded the tall thin fellow. The laughter broke out among the friends who started looking at him with astonishment. Yes! I am saying it right, so you have the time to ask what u want for that day. I love orchids and gardens so I would like to be the chief of Codoba’s gardens, demanded one. The other friend asked for governorship of Moldova while the third friend suddenly rose up and slapped on the face of poor fellow. You can’t be the minister of Andalus even in the upcoming thousands of years and, if for God’s sake, this thing happens, you will have the permission to paint my face bla...