Ini Sejarah Kita January 2011 @ Masjid Abu Bakr Bangsar

Our usrah group finally got a chance to participate in an awareness program titled "Ini Sejarah Kita" or ISK,in its abbreviation, held at Masjid Saidini Abu Bakr, Bangsar. My first thought upon hearing the program title was that it is indeed catchy as i thought the content would be what is usually delivered in regular usrah: the need to draw closer to Allah. However, i was wrong. Indeed the title speaks the truth for the content: the history of islamic empires, its glory and how once a big empire finally collapsed. I was excited to listen more to what was laid down in schedule.

ISK is an initiative by a few students belong to Majlis Syura Muslimin back in UK with the aim to create awareness among students (of course muslim) about the great of Islam empires we once had and how we should be proud of and strive to try to redeem back the flourishing period of Islam. Well, basically the content of Islamic empire history is no difference from what was taught in History class back then in Form 5, except with more extra stories. For those who are History savvy, or history passionate,they wouldn`t feel much excited, but for those who only remember words umaiiyah, abbasiyah, turki uthmaniyyah like me(hehe) , the content delivered was mesmerizing,enlightening,captivating and full of awe! Felt like i was learning the history of Islamic empires for the first time huhu.

Kak Shahira, the presenter did a really good job in delivering the to me, a very heavy subject. Her words came out from mouth like water, flowing smoothly, and full of confident, for 2 consecutive hours! Hat off to her! As what my friend, sher said she must have really deep interest in history for her to be able to talk so eloquently about Islamic history. I couldn`t agree more. She started off with the graph of Islamic empire`s glory.

Actually, according to Kak Akhmar, the content is excerpt from Hassan Al Banna`s book, hmm I forgot the title, but these students analyzed and summarized the contents then they came up with the graph as above. We started off with Umaiyyah kingdom, for 90 years, during which Islam spread so much to Spain, North Africa, Iraq, Afghanistan and even to little Asia. Then Bani Abbasiyah took the reign after Bani Umaiyyah collapsed. During the reign of this empire, there was abundant activity translation from Latin`s hidden knowledge of wealth into Arabic for them to study further. All kinds of ilm: Math, Science, Physics, Chemistry, etc were deeply studied and researched further by renowned Muslim scientists: Al razi, Al Farabi, Ibn Sina, u name it. Islam had flourished so much during this period. According to kak Shahira, the most famous job during the period was translator. Then after hundreds of years, Islam empire was attacked by armada from Monggol in 1258 M. Then from that on,the empire started to decline badly before Turki Uthmaniyyah created a little hike of glory of Islamic empire. During this period, we had Constantinople (Istanbul)conquered, and the lucky man who was responsible for the conquer was Sultan Muhammad Al-Fateh. Rasulullah was quoted in a hadeeth as he said: Sabda Rasulullah s.a.w. ketika menggali Parit Khandaq; “..Constantinople (kini Istanbul) akan jatuh ke tangan tentera Islam. Rajanya adalah sebaik-baik raja, tenteranya adalah sebaik-baik tentera……”.

I think that`s all i could summarize. I am posting here a video on Islamic empires below.