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Fatih Sultan Mehmet HanConstantinople would fall into the hands of Islam. Leaders who conquer it, is the best of leaders and the troops under his command is the best of troops |
Muhammad Al-Fatih memorized all the Quran, learnt
the Prophetic narrations, mathematics, astronomy and the skills required for
war. He also learnt
Arabic, Persian, Latin and Greek languages He was devoted to Jihaad, highly ambitious, widely cultured, and had deep knowledge of the skills of war and combat.
After the death of his father, Sultan Murad I.Muhammad Al-Faatih, may Allah have mercy on him,
took over and became the Sultan of the Ottoman Empire.
He was a strong young man, only twenty years old, very enthusiastic and
ambitious. He was thinking of the conquest of Constantinople, the capital of
the Byzantine Empire. 
From time to time, the Sultan surprised the
enemy with a new war plan until the city defenders lost control and their
forces gave up. The Ottoman forces managed to penetrate the walls
and drive away the defenders who fled. The people of Constantinople were taken
by surprise when they saw the Ottoman flags waving on their walls and the
soldiers flooding into the city.
After the Ottoman forces conquered the city, Sultan
Muhammad, may Allah have mercy on him, arrived on his horse in a great
procession that included his ministers and army commanders. Ever since that
time, the Sultan was known as Muhammad Al-Faatih (the Conqueror). The soldiers
were shouting:
"Mash-Allah! Mash-Allah! Long live our Sultan! Long
live our Sultan!"The Sultan's procession marched until it reached Hagia Sophia church where the people of the city had gathered. When they knew that the Sultan had arrived, they bowed and prostrated and they were all weeping and crying because they did not know their fate
Then the Sultan addressed the people of the city who
were still bowing and prostrating in tears:
"Stand up! I am Sultan Muhammad and I would like to
tell you, your brothers, and all the people present that your lives and
freedoms are protected"
The Sultan ordered that the church be turned into a
mosque and for the first time, the call for prayer was heard from this place.
Until now, this mosque is still known as the Mosque of Hagia Sophia. He also
decided to take Constantinople as a capital of his country. It was called
Islambul, meaning the House of Islam. Later on the word was viciously twisted to
become Istanbul.
The Sultan was very tolerant and merciful with the
people of the city, and acted according to the teachings of Islam. He commanded
his soldiers to treat their prisoners of war in a good manner. The Sultan
himself paid the ransoms for a large number of prisoners of war from his own
money. He also allowed those who left the city when it was under siege to
return home.
Muhammad Al-Faatih, may Allah have mercy on him,
managed to realize his dreams through hard, continuous work, and well-organized
planning.Through high ambition, determination, and the effort
to achieve his goals, he managed to materialize his dream, make his hope an
existing reality which made him one of the great Muslim heroes and conquerors
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