In one corner of Basra, there was a fortress-like house of Basra in the middle of a green garden on the bank of the river. An elderly but strong man was walking in the spacious room of this house. He would stop walking and look at the maps on the walls. His face exuded extraordinary determination and determination. There was awe in the eyes more than intelligence and intelligence.This was al-Hajjaj ibn Yusuf.
Abu Muhammad al-Hajjaj ibn Yusuf ibn al-Hakam ibn Abi Aqil al-Thaqafi, known simply as al-Hajjaj ibn Yusuf, was probably the most notable governor who served the Umayyad Caliphate,whose iron claws enemies and friends alike sought refuge on the Moor, whose sword became an Arab and the size of a sword, and sometimes crossed its limits and reduced even the shining stars of the Islamic world to dust and blood. Lying down, whose chests shone with the light of faith.
The first period of the stormy life of al-Hajjaj ibn Yusuf was when he arose to subdue the rebels in the reign of Abd al-Mulk and swept over Iraq and Arabia as a storm and storm. But during this period his sword was a blind man's staff. Who could not distinguish between right and wrong. The second period with which our story is related was when his son Walid Musnad had sat on the caliphate in place of Abdul Malik, the civil wars of Iraq and Arabia had ended and the Muslims organized and ruled Turkestan under a new spirit. And were advancing towards Africa. Like his father, Walid also made al-Hajjaj ibn Yusuf the master of black and white in internal and external affairs. But in the eyes of a Muslim historian, the services that al-Hajjaj ibn Yusuf performed for Walid were very different from the services of Abdul Malik.
During the rule of Abdul Malik, all the struggles of al-Hajjaj ibn Yusuf were limited to Arabia and Iraq, and where his blood-sucking sword strengthened and stabilized the rule of Abdul Malik, his foot was stained with 100 blood splatters of innumerable innocents. But Walid's reign was a time of relative peace for the Muslims and Hajjaj bin Yusuf spent the remaining few years of his life clearing the way for Muslim conquests in the East and West. When we look at the last pages of the book of life of al-Hajjaj ibn Yusuf, we are surprised that nature chooses to raise the flags of Muslims in Sindh, Turkestan and Spain, who, a few years ago, came to Makkah. He was under siege.
Those eyes that did not feel pity after seeing Abdullah bin Zubair being killed in front of them, hear the plight of a Muslim fighter in Sindh and become filled with tears. History presents us with another important question and that is that the Muslims of Arabia and Iraq during the last days of the reign of al-Hajjaj ibn Yusuf were also angry with him and looked at Walid with good eyes, then what was the reason when When the advance towards Sindh and Turkistan began, the number of Arabs was much higher than the Syrian Muslims on every front. The answer is simply that despite the shortcomings of the leadership, the individualism of the Muslim Republic was equally high. Hatred of al-Hajjaj ibn Yusuf could not crush his national pride.
When they heard that their brothers were fighting the non-Islamic powers of Africa and Turkistan, they forgot their old grudges and joined them.
Therefore, the credit for the glorious victories of Waleed's era is not on the heads of al-Hajjaj ibn Yusuf and Waleed, but on the heads of the people, whose sacrifice and sincerity is the secret of the progress and rise of every nation.