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In the year 636, a battle was brewing.

Under the rule of Omar bin Khatab,

the up-and-coming Muslim Empire was eyeing Persia

and finding success against the ruling sassanids.

But the sassanids would not cede their 400-year control over Persia without a fight.

So Omar, sent the companion Ribbi ibn Amir as an ambassador to the Persian imperial court.

The assassinate elite stood in disdain of the Arab ambassador.

After all, this man came from a weak, impoverished people.

But Ribai moved confidently through the court, soared by his side.

Suddenly, he started to pop expensive cushion after expensive cushion with his blade until

he thrust it into the lavish floor covering near the throne.

We have come to restore the worship of the Creator instead of the created.

Both parties, the Sassanids and the Muslims soon understood a great battle would take place,

the Battle of Qadissiyya.

Ribbi's words would mark the start of a new era in history.

No matter the odds, the Muslims would take on the world.

Let us set up that battle.

And we begin by understanding that from the very end of the Prophet Sallu Aislam's lifetime,

until the time of Umbra Makhatara, A.m.

The Muslims displayed a willingness to simultaneously take on the two great empires on the borders of Arabia

in the fertile crescent from Egypt and Palestine and Syria over to Iraq and Iran, namely the empires of the Roman Byzantium and the Sassanid Persians.

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