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Another issue that is explicitly mentioned is the conquest of Kastlinthliniya.

Kastlinthliniya is of course Constantinople, named after the Roman Emperor Constantine.

They were so humble that they wanted to name cities after themselves.

So it was very common to name cities after themselves.

And so Constantine basically made the city his capital and he named it after himself Constantinople.

And Constantinople became the bastion of human civilization for almost a millennia.

This was the city and the land.

This was the, really there was no competition with any other civilization up until the coming of Islam for a millennia.

A thousand years almost, almost.

Constantinople was the cradle of civilization.

And amazingly our professors and predicted Constantinople be ours again.

We are coming so many centuries later.

We don't even think about this.

One of the most significant episodes in human history, or I should say recorded human history.

One of the most significant episodes is 1453 and the conquest of Constantinople.

This is something that we just take for granted in our footnotes most of our kids have no clue.

But in reality it was the most cataclysmic, the most seismic, you know, disruption that happened in medieval history.

Because it's signified essentially the end of the Roman Empire.

And the conquest of Islam over the Byzantine and Roman Empire.

And the Muslim ummah eventually conquered, obviously Constantinople.

Of course the beginnings were with Muawiyah.

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