2018-12-02T12:44:00-08:00
If you ask any simple citizen who Saladin al-Ayyubi is, he will tell you that he is the one who liberated Jerusalem. People do not know anything about Saladin except the expulsion of the Franks from Jerusalem. They only carry in their awareness of that character a good and beautiful deed, and they are not interested in any other topic about that character.
But when the topic of Saladin turns from time to time into a very important subject and a matter of life and death for a group with a certain intellectual orientation, in the media, newspapers, and the Internet, this turns the history books and brings out accurate details from the history books about Saladin and publishes them. Long articles, and you find that people’s comments have become prejudiced and full of hatred towards that character. This is completely unnatural and unhealthy.
Because the whole story today targets the topic of liberating Palestine, because people only know this character in the liberation of Jerusalem, and spreading hatred for this character will be reflected indirectly among simple people into hatred also in the liberation of Palestine. The subconscious will program the idea like this. The idea of liberating Jerusalem and Palestine will transform. It will turn into a bad idea and a dirty deed. A beautiful deed will turn into an ugly deed. The only image people have of it will turn into an undesirable image. Their beautiful image will turn into a bad image. The hope of liberating Palestine will turn into despair, and the matter will become a deception and a lie.
This is the topic that occurs every now and then with the topic of Salah al-Din al-Ayyubi… only.
History is not read that way… because all history is falsified.
People do not want anything from history except the good side, and when many try to carry out organized action in order to destroy a good historical image by linking it to a bad historical image, it is natural that many will claim that that bad image is forged and false in order to distort the good image in their imagination towards it. Because they only want the image of good history. They want one good image in their imagination, and they do not want bad images.
We can never be sure of history, it is past and over.
But some people will fall into the game, and the issue will turn into a serious matter for them, when they begin to believe in those bad historical images, because they will conflict in their imagination with that good historical image, and after that, they will become resentful of it, and they will feel that they were deceived, and the matter will turn into a great resentment, and History then turns into a living and realistic personal struggle within them and a matter of life and death.
The topic has turned into a clash of imaginations and not just reading history.
A simple look at the comments of many of the neo-secularist group on the subject of Saladin confirms this to you. They are all very sharp and disapproving comments, and you feel as if they are talking about personal matters that happened to them today. The issue turned into a personal and legal issue, due to the conflict of historical images within their imaginations.
They are now living in conflict within themselves.
{This is a nation that has passed away; for it is what it has earned, and for you is what you have earned, and you will not be asked about what they used to do.}
Great truth of Allah