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Alhamdulillah, we praise Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala who created the creation.

And we ask Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala to guide us to the straight path and to cleanse our hearts.

And we seek refuge in Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala from the evil of our souls and the consequences of our actions.

Whomever Allah guides, none can misguide and whomever he chooses to misguide, none can guide him to the straight path.

A bear witness and I testify that there is no God except Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala and that Muhammad ﷺ is his final prophet and his most perfect worshiper.

As to what follows, Allah reminds us to be conscious of him in the Quran when he says,

Dear brothers and sisters, 800 years ago from this very week actually, one of the greatest disasters in our Islamic history and frankly in world history occurred.

And that is the invasion and the decimation of the Muslim lands by the Mongols.

In today's brief khutbah, I want to give myself a new, a brief lesson in history to learn about one of the most iconic episodes in our own ummah, a very dark episode that completely changed the course of not only Muslim history but world history.

So that in Shah Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala we can extract some benefits from that dark era.

The invasion of Changi's Khan, Gangi's Khan is one of the most unexpected occurrences in human history. Nobody could have predicted it.

And that is because the land of Mongolia where Changi's Khan was from was considered to be a backward land, a land full of what they would call barbarians, a land of people who were never united.

There were a bunch of people, we would call them Bedouins, their equivalents, fighting amongst each other, not having any unified religion, not having any culture, they didn't write their own language, they didn't record their own language.

And it just so happened Allah's Qadar that one person amongst them by the name of Changi's Khan with a very interesting history, managed to over the course of three decades unite his people under his flag and banner.

This was the first time that what we now call Mongolia was united. This was the first time that hundreds of thousands of people of that region were under one empire and one dynasty.

And that was none other than the Changi's Khan dynasty.

Now the greatest civilization next to Changi's Khan was a Muslim civilization, the land of Samar Khan, the land of Bukhara, the Khawarism Shah empire.

It is now today Uzbekistan and Tajikistan these lands. It was a civilization of great magnificence and the heritage that they have, we still see the buildings to this day, I was fortunate to have visited this land two, three years ago.

And it is truly its mind boggling what they have achieved. Changi's Khan sent an envoy of peace and he sent some traders to establish cordial relations with the Muslim empire.

But Subhanallah, the first village that they entered, the first small town that they entered, the mayor or the local person got greedy.

And he confiscated the entire trade and he killed one or two of the people and he acted in a very arrogant manner.

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