By TIme…
It’s around 1302 in the show now..
Around 670 years AFTER the death of our beloved prophet (pbuh)
190 years BEFORE Christopher Columbus stumbled onto the American continent.
Around three centuries BEFORE the European exploration of Australia commenced.
During this time, England was ruled by King Edward the First, same Lord Edward, who, back in 1271, had led the ill fated ninth crusade.
To get further sense of perspective, it was also:
A little over 40 years since the Sack of Baghdad, the capital of Abbasid Caliphate – a week of massacre & destruction – by the ilkhanate…..And also, the year our Osman Gazi Bey was born…
A little over 40 years since the Mamluks halted the Mongol invasion of the Levant (the historic Battle of Ain Jalut in 1260)
60 years since the Mongols achieved a decisive victory against Sultanate of Rum (Battle Of Köse Dag (1243), leading to gradual disintegration, beginng of the end, of the Seljuk state.
And 80 years since the Mongol conquest of the Khwarezmia, opening the door for subsequent conquests of other Islamic states.
Zooming out from our little lives, from the constraints of our time on earth can sometimes give a wonderful sense of perspective…a sense that everything, big or small, is in good Hands, under control by the One above, the One whose Ink is glorious & interminable 🤍🤍
