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Today inshaAllah wa ta'ala will do another mini episode in history.

As you know I personally love history, I love to read books of history

and I find that history is one of the most neglected fields when we talk about Islam

and when we study history there's so many benefits

and one of the main benefits is that it saves you from a naive idealism.

You learn from the lessons of history and you form a sense of wisdom

about how the world works. Today inshaAllah we're going to discuss

a historical figure whose name has become well known to almost all Muslims

who even know the basics of early Islamic history

and the personality is not one who is admired rather he is one who is looked down upon

Yeti is also legendary and that is the governor and the military leader

by the name of a Hajaj ibn Yusuf, a Hajaj ibn Yusuf at Thakafi.

This is a name whose very mention used to bring fear amongst so many people

throughout the last 14 centuries of our Islamic history

hardly any governor or leader has been despised more than him.

In fact he was never the Khalifa he was a governor

and he was a military commander and yet still to this day

when his name is mentioned people frown people scowl

and they have negative feelings that's his impact

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