these slaves were bought from slave markets and they were trained into basically military Arts they would be educated they would become very loyal subjects to the sultan the reason why Sultan would buy slaves from slave marcet is because he could not trust his own Clan his cousins his uncles his own Sons they would rebel against the sultan so he needed di hard supporters you cannot sleep in that Palace you cannot sleep in that Palace if you don't feel safe and you can only feel safe when you know someone is protecting you from your enemies so The Sultans would have their own dieh hard Elite guards okay tell me how many Roman emperors were killed by the gods so many so many the first people the Roman emperors were scared of were their own guards because if they if they sell out they can easily execute so many Roman Emperor are executed by the gods right um so likewise The Sultans would not trust anyone so when they bought these slaves they were conditioned from a very young age to be loyal to the sultan okay there is conditioning taking place everywhere in every culture in every part of the world okay people get conditioned into loving things that are not really important right nationalism is a type of conditioning when people are taught to love a particular particular country right because of the borders drawn by a colonial uh administrator right okay so we can get condition just like that conditioning can work for many different ends so Sultans use this this method very effectively so these young men were conditioned to be loyal to the sultan so this is why they became the elite guard and guess what this Elite group was one of the reasons why the Ottoman Empire fell as well eventually no the jeries eventually they rebelled against the sulan and they had to be crushed they had to be this order had to be dismantled okay and maybe Muhammad you can talk more about the the what happened to Genies and why they were crushed yeah yeah uh you know so they were pretty strong and whenever they got a chance they like the first one of the first and important examples about the Muhammad Al faat when he was a young you know like 14 years old so his father Morad II wanted to say you know okay I just wanted to relax more and focus on you know like uh be a little bit more isolated and leave in a peace so you can sit on the throne you can be the new Sultan and I just want to rest so this is what happened he's the only sulan and Muhammad Alat was the only one he was 14 but you know he couldn't get the what you say uh the respect of the people around him that was pretty hard especially the chandha never wanted him to be in the in a throne you know like what happened then actually uh he just wanted to prepare for that war and he actually decreased the silver level of the coins that he was striking and then you know like any normal jary getting the three a and going to the store to buy something but the guy say say uh no you have to pay 3.5 he says why he says cuz the silver level is reduced and they got crazy and then they uised they say which means like the 3.5 Hill uh what you say uh yeah 3.5 Hill Uprising why they called it CU in ad there was a one Hill and that was the location that Muhammad said okay I'm rising your salary to 3.5 a it's like 20% of a rise of the salary and they sto so this is not the first time and so many thing happened before by the jice series even on the war they got pretty exhausted in the army of the B that's 3.5 a day right no month 3.5 a was very small a was a very small silver coin so but probably it must be a day I think it must be a day because it was a very small silver coin I have them a is a very little tiny maybe it's another money or maybe gold maybe it's it wouldn't be gold Sil it wouldn't be gold yeah it wouldn't be gold okay we'll check it out we'll check we confirm that maybe that was enough for them for that time possibly yeah possibly and yeah they weren't living in London yeah because the prices are very high yeah right for sure so and then another Uprising happened I I I don't have number of the Janice series uh what you say Uprising and then the mm second was the one who actually cancelled the geneses and he killed them by the way like he he supported the public people that was really hard task he supported the public people they said those guys are the reason why we are in this position when they have when they have power when they are powerful they actually can change anybody I mean they just Dethrone any sutan and put the suan that they want to use you got it and that's why they just killed by mmud thei down there uh I can say like it's nearby kuk sopia it's like 25 M away from here and gen are done and then he newly buil a new what you say team as called asak muhamed so asak means soldiers of aak man Victorious yeah victorious victorious muhammadia so like the soldiers of the Muhammad s wasam yeah this what happened because they just so so the to summarize the summarize uh jeries were one of the most fierce military uh element within the ottoman Army this was the Elite Force the Commandos if you if you know today's terminology SS Special Services Group or SSG in Pakistani army we have SSG the Commandos and SSA in the British army SSA is that what they call SAS SAS right the Elite Force jeries were the Elite Force of the automans they would be Unleashed at the end they would be the last and the final weapon in the battlefield when The Sultans were fighting armies but then once they turned on The Sultans they became the biggest threat that's why Mahmud II decided they have to go they have to be dismantled they have to be completely uh you know removed from power they were killed in large numbers okay so uh this happened many times throughout the history of many similar dynasties this happened in moual India when the mul Emperors became puppets into the hands of uh similar military factions they started to put the king and when the king is not Towing the line they would remove him and put someone else in his place so this game when this starts to happen the decline is very very close the decline is very very close so when military factions or military groups become so strong that they are now challenging the king and his authority then the king becomes powerless because the Kings Sultans rely on the strength of the military that's why generals have to be working with the king the sultan if they work against the sultan then you have Civil Wars and destruction okay so jeries were a very important part of the Ottoman Army but unfortunately they had to be dismantled because the Sultans uh were being threatened by them they were using their power and influence to threaten The Sultans okay let's keep moving toward now I want you all to see the roof here this is where the Sultans would actually come in okay where the people are coming in from and then go to the Palace we will see the audience Hall where The Sultans would receive uh delegations and we will see the decoration there is all this is so lavish this is unbelievable 18th century this is from the 18th century okay let's go okay by the way uh you know I have to give pretty quick information about where we are right now this is the D Square all right so adal made Justice Square as well and you can see the kitchen on your right side all right so it's big kitchen it's called means kitchen the kitchen is on the right side there right on my right there over there okay this kitchen would be for the palace Palace complex yeah yeah so they were cooking for 3,000 to 5,000 people every day even the har people like ladies even get the food from this kitchen but not the Salted so this was a grand operation in itself it's like running a five star or sevenstar hotel because the food had to be top of the range uh the the food for Sultans and his family obviously would be cooked differently uh to the guards and the Servants of the palace so 5,000 5,000 people they were cooking almost 5,000 people so that that gives you an idea how many people were actually working in the palace so the palace complex housed nearly 5,000 people that includes the Sultan's family his extended families and the servants and all the guards and every everyone 5,000 people within this compound imagine how busy this place would have been at that time Subhan Allah yeah exactly and also you can see the stone right here and there's another Stone behind us which there's a table as you know the ceremonies are too important for theam and you know the soldiers were standing in here but that stones for the Wier right okay like any Soldier mistakenly you know like stand there he can be bitten by by the wow so like the leader okay so and this is the Justice Tower yeah all right as the very first day you saw it from hotel so yeah the they call the Justice Tower but in tury we call it KAS same thing all right so they are trying to give the message for us the justice is the most important thing and top of everything all right and this is the Imperial Council that the Ottomans H the meeting okay so we're going to go inside the collections now yes we're going to go inside the collection after after this we will go to exterior treasure to see the swords and then we back to the okay so that's the next one that's where the swords are right next door that's one this is a clo things right okay so we are now entering this is the the Hall of Justice Imperial Council where they would do uh yes the one it's like a it's like a court yeah Asia General so would the sultan be sitting there in the middle sometimes you know it you know way more better you said so uh he look see was also for the sulan and also you know like usually 99% of the meetings was held without Sultan sitting right there so Sultan would be watching from Top H yeah he's listening so so so this is where the council is taking place the viers and the ministers and Generals they are discussing state affairs in this diwan in this court and sometimes Sultan would be present personally physically on that couch there but most of the time the sultan would be watching listening from that uh Gallery there okay uh and uh the the council this is this is one of the ways of The Sultans ensuring that they are all on their toes they are they're doing their work diligently because they don't know if the sultan is sitting there and listening think they don't know okay so it's a it's a sort of fear of the sultan that that they would be very careful while discussing matters here in this court in this Dean right so the sultan would be sitting there behind the screen sometimes listening and when he has to intervene he would intervene right but he may not be there and there are councils taking place the whole day and they don't know if the sultan is there right so him from behind no no he would come from the palace from from the Haram from Haram is behind he would come from the Haram and if he wants to show the exact gate that he was entering so he would sit there for half an hour 1 hour 5 hours 3 hours up to his is is if his son something important being discussed he would be here but the point is very small though it's actually talking about it's not the king it's the who will receive ambassadors and this and that there outside here no yes this is this is the Hall of audience like they they would and and uh they would do mashar they would discuss state affairs there so so the sultan would be sitting up there okay but the point is as far as the as far as the the people come closer as far as the people discussing state affairs and matters are concerned the sultan is present all the time because they don't know if he's there right so they have to be very diligent they have to be very careful so so as they say you know when you manage a company or when you manage um um a project your staff or your subordinates they must think they must think that you are watching you are always there and you can turn up anytime to check on them right this is when you get performance this is when you get real performance okay so this is our I want to give a quick information about the architect as you can see on the left side this is the classic Boton architecture on the right side you can see the ne bar tur Coco style architecture lately period like after uh the 18th century I mean 19th century can see so huh which one this one this one this one is off yeah why okay so and also I can say that you can see like one ball is hanging yeah right the other side as well so that ball is actually called as which means the decorated ball and it symbolize the universe like they are giving the message we are ruling the universe from right here way what is this clock clocks just there is there is a collection of clocks in there but we have something better to look at yeah yeah now we are on the way again again guys in this Palace you can spend an entire day you still haven't seen everything okay but we're going to take you to the most what we think is the most important for you to look at inshallah let's go this location is called treasury it's called it's called the treasury it's called the treasury okay this is one of the best arms collections in the world as you will see there are some amazing pieces absolutely amazing pieces in there okay so the the this is the private collection of The Sultans of weapons and amazing magnificent things in there are mostly the ceremonial swords these are ceremonial swords mostly and some of them are personal personal weapons of The Sultans okay you can see they are gold plated there is a lot of gold decoration on them they are carved there is calligraphy okay so they are absolutely magnificent Sultan Saleem the third Sultan Abdul Hamed the first these are some of them as ceremonial swords keep moving with us inshallah keep moving with us this keep looking around you see these are these are actually not weapons to fight in Wars these are ceremonial weapons that's why they are so lavishly decorated they would be carried for ceremonies they are studied with rubies and emeralds and potentially diamonds they are gold they are pearls and gold decorated so these are ceremonial weapons they wouldn't be used in war okay this is yes this is nen the footprint of the Prophet sallallahu alaihi wasallam it pres so they carrying it in the battle okay they are trying to give the message like we are following the footprint of our Pokemon sallah Al wasallam yes okay so you can see these are mostly ceremonial weapons but they are absolutely amazingly produced a lot of hard work has gone into them they are gold lit this is again the footprint of the Prophet sallallahu alaihi wasallam it represents the footprint of the Prophet sallallahu alhi wasallam there yeah yeah really so if you want to see nunchucks then this is what ottoman nunchucks would look like yeah they would be used to smash heads okay all these are very creative weapons of war but then again when you look at them they are so lavishly decorated they are they are studied with rubies and emeralds they wouldn't be used in war if they were used in war these they would shed rubies and diamonds Subhan Allah okay this sword is something very special this is Sultan bayazid II this is his sword and you can see now this is what Zar may have looked like possibly you see people think zfar was a two-edged sword but this is also two-edged you can see both sides are sharpened and it's very curvy wavy right it was deliberately made like that it's a very creative design it belonged to Sultan Bay yazid II the son of Sultan Muhammad Al Fat okay let's go inshallah now if we start to focus on every single piece here every single piece is is is is a is a masterpiece so we would not possibly be able to discuss uh every single piece here and we can see the swords of okay so here we have some of the swords of The Sultans okay okay in Turkish the sword is called kage kage kage kage or kage kage kage kage okay in in our Persian in India is called kage we had names people who were called kage okay kage kage Alan there is a yeah yeah yeah yeah kage AR Salan yes absolutely so kage was a very common name among Turks it still is today it means a sword okay so a sword is called kich you can see these swords Belong To The Sultans which one is Sultan sanlan Sultan all of these are Sultan San's personal swords Sultan suan swords of Sultan these are Sultan Muhammad Al Fat's sword Sultan fat which one that one over there so these are the swords of Sultan Muhammad Al Fat okay absolutely amazing and these are Sultan suan again to emphasize the point these are for ceremonial reasons they are not used in war okay they were not meant to be used in war although they are real swords they cut if they were used in war they would kill they would cut right the blade is very sharp because it's made as a real sword but then there is a lot of gold and decoration on it because the sultan would be carrying it with him because he's the sultan right his sword has to be the best and this is this is a very important sword everyone very very famous very important sword and again this is not for war this is again a symbol of victory of Constantinople so this is called Sultan fat this what on it okay so the text on the sword you can see so lovishly decorated this calligraphy is abs absolutely mind-blowing even to write it with your own hand on paper it's not a joke but to inscribe it on a sword okay made of metal and then polish it with gold real gold this is real gold by the way yeah this is something else so what does the inscription say it reads praise be to Allah Almighty who blesse religious Faith with lustrous and Lucid verses and sharp and Shining swords Salat and Salam Upon Our Noble Prophet Muhammad sallallahu alhi wasallam and his household who are attributed with the most Exquisite Lucent words bless and strengthen Muhammad II son of mad II the poignant sword that is drawn in the name of jihad the Sultan of razis and mujahedin that striveth to Glory the holy men of Allah May the necks of the enemies of sharat becometh the Scabbard of his sword shed your Grace on the ink of his pen son of Usman son of Oran son of mad son of bayazid son of Muhammad may Allah cleanse them with the Heavenly Waters that streth by the swords of gazis and place them under the shadow of swords in heaven a so this is the content on that sword absolutely amazing it's one of the greatest treasures of the Top Copy Palace among many other objects we will see inshallah in due course but this sword is actually Sultan Muhammad Al Fat sword mentions his name and the entire uh line of the Ottoman Sultans and may Allah bless them may Allah reward them may Allah give them J fan let's go keep moving inshallah oh this is the map this is the ottoman map which we discussed earlier which was very accurate that it blew the minds of the European cartographers later on okay you can see how Spain has been drawn very accurately okay this is where Spain and Morocco meet Subhan Allah this is an ottoman map from the 16th century from the 16th century okay Allah abbar let's go so you can see some of these gifts came to The Sultans these are Japanese weapons okay Katana if I'm not mistaken these are katanas okay and they were known for the sharpness okay there are some other swords sa saf swords these many of these came as gifts to The Sultans and now they are kept in the museum sultanu kanu okay European these are Europeans swords taken in okay Sultan oh okay sword of okay okay okay okay okay okay Kate Bay Sultan Kate Bay okay so allahar he's pretty important mention his name in BL is important guy mu is the SW of the MU sub okay so this is a very important sword and these are very big swords you can see and they were captured by Ottomans in battles okay these swords were taken these Takens were these swords were taken by Ottomans in battles okay by the way this if you ask like is this used yes this two handed sword yes they were holding like they would they would swing it they would swing it and anyone on the way would get cut would be split into two halves right so these were again taken in battles by ottoman Sultans now look at these helmets very lavishly decorated helmets these are saf saf yeah but they are very distinctively Islamic helmets Islamic helmets from the sjuk period onward they looked very similar to this right they went on to uh they were used as late as the early 19th century in in battles and Wars so long as there were swords and Conventional Weapons were being used traditional weapons for those times let's see how the jeries swore this pry ultimate M Turkish M right this so this is if you look at these These are weapons used by this is what their chain Mill would look like this is basically the guard the protection against swords and Spears right let's keep moving inshallah this is the most important word that we have to know the Ottomans use as you can see it's pretty what you say short yes and it's hot inside I mean it's sharp inside but the outside is pretty thick yes they can even defend on war it's really different technology yes very very powerful very effective yes because it's shorter and it's more effective yeah to explain every single piece so again most of these weapons are not necessarily used for war most of them not all of them um because they belong to the Sultan's personal Collections and uh you can see how decorated they are how much so much gold on them this is because the Sultans they would use them for ceremonial purposes let's go we're leaving the hall so now now we're going to make our way to the Haram of The Sultans where the Sultan's private Chambers were where they lived with the ladies of the household and inshah we're going to go and see that uh on that note inshallah we'll uh continue in the Haram inshallah alikum uh I'm right now in the harm section of the Top Copy Palace where the Sultan's ladies lived his wives and concubines they would live around this Courtyard we have been through the slave section we have been through the unic Section you can see the those sections when you come on the tour with us next time you want to come and visit these places join the tours uh and you can check out the dates on Halal getaways.com Halal getaways.com uh you can check out the future days for turkey for Spain for Morocco I'll be there on those tours personally you can join the tour I am personally leading as a historian and this is Top Copy Palace the harm section where the ladies of the sultan uh were kept as it is clearly stated is dubbed the paved Courtyard of the Sultan's wives and concubines this space constitutes the Imperial Harm's smallest Courtyard built in the mid 16th century it was repaired after suffering a fire that impacted the harm in 1665 so initially this was built by the orders or by the the you know the desires or wish of hm Sultan also known as Ro salana the favorite concubine and then wife of Sultan suan the Magnificent so few centuries ago you would see the ladies of of the sultan walking around here and you know this would be the courtyard for them okay here we are in uh the Sultan's um bath okay his hamam this would be the Sultan's personal hamam in the Top Copy Palace where the sultan would come and bathe you have tubs you have a bath tub there made of marble you have uh water supply so the sultan would pour water on top of himself so this is if you think about it a sultan who rules pretty much half the world half the world he's bathing in here and if you think about it it's not too lavish we have people today who are middle class uh you know from the middle class background they washrooms their toilets are bigger than this yes or no right so imagine at that time the Kings for them this would be something amazing okay today most people in the world and I'm not exag exaggerating today in the 21st century most people in the world have more access to objects and things and luxuries than Kings had at that time today honey is easily available any shop you walk in there you buy a honey you have a you have you buy a bottle of Honey right or you can buy best and the cleanest bread You Can Eat Right In Those Days these things were not easily available honey was a very expensive ensive commodity okay and clean running water this wasn't available to the whole world until very recently people would draw water from Wells sometimes it was muddy right now there is clean flowing water from our Taps uh at home right we have sofas we have TV lounges we have cushions we have beds and we have so many luxuries a normal person middle class person living in a place like Dubai London uh maybe Toronto or New York you may have a better life when it comes to Lifestyle and living standard than some of the kings in the past so if you look think about it this place is not so lavish considering the amount of territory the sultan ruled half the world half the world even the itself this could have been us yes yes absolutely but they don't need more than this one person the sultan himself is bathing here this is enough for the sultan his army is not bathing here so he only it's only one person so this is just a perspective I want you to show that some of you when we say oh we don't have enough we don't really live a good life you don't know what you're talking about it's it's so it's so important to be grateful to Allah to be thankful to Allah for what you have the fact that you have transparent water in your glass and you drink it the fact that you can have clean bread and the fact that you have fans on top of you for forget about a AC and air conditioning this in you cannot thank Allah for still in Africa they don't have the yes I mean in some places the world still people live very uh basic lives right but even they have more access to objects and substances Than The Sultans did they still have soap that has perfume on it right you can use per perfume okay and uh smartphones you go to any African Village People will be carrying a smartphone The Sultans didn't have access to this stuff right so we have to thank Allah subhana tala for giving us lives like Sultans would have lived in the past seriously no joke because this this is all you need you need a room to sleep in you need a clean toilet right you need a like clean living room and you need a library like like I do okay alhamdulillah that's it this is the Imperial Hall having come through the Haram having come through the the Sultan's hamam or his his bath we are in the Imperial Hall this was built by Sultan mad III the grandson of Sultan suan the Magnificent it was built in 1585 is absolutely amazingly decorated as you can see gold all over it that's where the sultan would sit in the middle and this would be his uh you know sitting place and if you look at on the top is nicely decorated there are verses on the Quran or names of Allah they say [Music] alhamdulillah jab so this is absolutely amazing we're going to make our way to the remaining part of the par this is the private chamber of the sultan that's where the Imperial Hall is we just showed you the Imperial Hall the sultan would walk in here and this would be the private chamber of the sultan he would rest here he would be with his family this is the fireplace okay where in Winter fire would be burning to keep the whole Hall uh warm and look at the tile work it's unbelievable it's so beautiful the utans had this distinctive style of ceramic tile work and uh we saw some of it in BSA as well sorry in isnic tile work actually originates uh from isnic the city of isnic and you can see it has been used excellently in this particular Hall this is where the sultan would sit uh for his private time he would spend time here there's water running through in the hall it would be very relaxing so he would be spending time with this family here inshallah let's go let's move this is where in this Courtyard the favorite wives or the concubines of the sultan would be kept in these rooms in this Courtyard overlooking the city of istambul Constantinople so they have a view of the sea as well so this is a very very special place this is where the favorite ladies of the House of the sultan would be kept there is a dummy there you can see through the window they would be looking over the city of Constantinople Galata Tower is very visible from here you can see pool down there okay there is a small pool down there it's not for swimming it's for you know they call it K right right small pool they were just right so this is a very special place it's not a small pool it's a very big pool was they water in here once upon a time clearly there was it was filled yeah yeah it was filled with water okay so this is a very uh important place in the Haram of the sultan and uh the Sultan's ladies would be kept here there's a thing over there sorry on the board over there it's mentioning how Rel had stat right so they would be moved here yes absolutely absolutely so here the order of the Haram Wass depended on the purpose of ensuring the continuity of the Ottoman Dynasty the women who had engaged in a relationship with the sultan were named go there favorite if they gave birth to the sultan child they were granted the authorization and title of ibal or Kadin Fendi wife the mein apartment was built for The Sultans During the period of Sultan Usman III in the 18th century the paved Courtyard of mein was open to women after the apartment of favorites was constructed in the mid 18th century so this is quite late can I take a picture with you you can insh in a minute give me so so uh so this was clearly this belonged to the ladies of the Sultan's house and this is a very very important quarter maybe this is where some of the Sultans played in this Courtyard with their mothers okay egpt in Cho no no not uh muks in Egypt muks muks in Egypt oh yeah and the F in sorry saf saf in in Bagdad he started it you filming okay right so we are walking into the part where the holy relics are kept okay uh some of the belongings some of the belongings of the Prophet sallallahu alaihi wasallam attributed to him and some of the belongings attributed to the sahabah the companions ofas wasallam we will see inshah and why when we get in there we will explain more inshallah okay so stay with me and keep following please okay so we are near the end okay uh and they are getting everyone to cover their heads uh out of respect for the relics we will see some of them inshallah keep following please okay so we have one of the oldest qurans in there the Top Copy Quran very famous Quran manuscript from the late 1 or early 2nd Century in my opinion is from the early 2nd Century of Islam okay uh just around the time when the last sahaba were alive or possibly the T their time inshallah we will see it right so if we come around here we can go around inshallah if we start with the room in the back very quickly follow me please very quickly follow me follow me inshallah so if you keep following me very quickly inshah okay in this room some interesting items are kept they are attributed to the prophet of Allah okay we will see and show what they are excuse me can we uh go past please sorry they're blocking the way sorry excuse me sorry oh you are so no problem this come come through please right so here we have some relics come through inshallah come through please everyone so the these are attributed to yaham John the Baptist okay I don't believe them to be true but they are attributed to John the Baptist and they come from the Roman period from the Byzantine period the Romans had attributed these bones or these remains to John the Baptist who is yaham and you can see Greek inscription on the containers they are gold they're made of gold and precious stones so you can see that arm there uh it is claimed that the arm of Y Alam or John the Baptist is in there okay right and there is uh a footprint there as well okay this is basically attributed to the prophet sallallahu alaihi wasallam Prophet Muhammad sallah Ali wasallam okay it's a footprint attributed to the prophet sallallahu alaihi wasallam if you keep moving inshallah very quickly follow keep following me there's a lot to see there's a lot to see inshallah come okay so this is the sword allegedly of prophet David or da alisam I personally don't believe that to be true but it's it is an attribution okay um we have nothing from the prophets from that time historically speaking but these are attributions and this is again the bowl okay stone pot belonging to Prophet Ibraham Ibrahim okay again attribution is an attribution to the prophet ibraim alisam okay so keep moving out inshallah everyone with me right now this is one of the most precious gems in this Museum this is one of the most important items here in this Museum this is a Quran manuscript from the late 1 Century or early 2 Century of Islam in my opinion I believe this is from the second uh early 2 Century possibly 110 12030 H uh after the prophet sallallahu alaihi wasallam it's in kuik script and it is very very well preserved it's called The Top Copy manuscript okay we can if we try to read it we can even read it so this is called the famous Top Copy Quran manuscript and it is the majority of the the text of the Quran is there and then there are some uh manuscripts of sah Al bukari very nicely decorated the Hadith of the Prophet sallallahu alaihi wasallam here okay they are handwritten they are lavishly decorated in Gold absolutely beautiful 24 hours they are reciting Quran yes after they brought this the Quran the Quran here are reading the Quran non-stop so long as the museum is open second and magnificent okay so this is the bedroom of Sultan Muhammad Al Fat byid II and sultan the Magnificent and also Sultan salale the first so this is the private bed chamber or the bedroom of Sultan Muhammad Al Fat Sultan bayazid II Sultan suan the Magnificent and Sultan Sim the first the the father of Sultan suan so four Sultans respectively in order Muhammad Al Fat his son bazid II then his son Sultan saleim the first and then his son Sultan suan this is their bedroom okay okay so you can see now it is part of the museum and this is where the Sultans lived and stayed they will you know in the same dorm that students imagine if you know the services they have done for Islam and if you think about it Subhan Allah this is a very special room this is a very historic Place let's keep moving everyone let's keep moving everyone so we have some again this is another footprint of the Prophet sallallahu alaihi wasallam attributed again okay uh the Ottomans had brought these objects from the hijaz region and they trusted and believed the attributions uh it's very difficult to prove whether this is actually a footprint of the Prophet sallallahu alaihi wasallam then these are letters that were written to different Kings okay these are again copies I believe they are not the actual original letters there's no evidence to prove that the prophet's letters okay because Scholars have studied them and they believe that these are not original letters but again they are examples of what the letters of the Prophet would have looked like okay if we keep moving there are many other relics that are attributed to the prophet sallallahu alaihi wasallam like the hair of the prophet sallallahu alhi wasallam okay you can see them here kept in this Museum very carefully and we have some swords here again there's a sandal of the Prophet Salli wasallam attributed to him there's another one then there are others there and some of the swords as well the bow of the Prophet sallallahu alaihi wasallam they're on top again I don't think so no I I I don't personally believe that any of these items can be traced back to the prophet Sall wasallam uh without problems uh I would be the first person to celebrate these I would be the first person because I I indulge in debates with atheists and Christians all the time about these things and uh it's very difficult to prove these attributions yeah okay let's go but we have things that can be attributed with certainty okay um these are some of the swords belonging to the companions of the Prophet sallallahu alaihi wasallam okay it is claimed KH B Val his swords are there again I have my skepticism I have my skepticism we we are told in Islamic sources that KH B he broke nine swords in the Battle of mut correct nine or 11 nine nine swords when he was given the leadership of the Muslims okay it were 3,000 Muslims against a huge Army of the Romans the first three Amir were killed respectively one after another first was Abdullah Bin Raa then ja Abu Talib the first was Z bin Usama B sorry Z bin Hara Z bin Hara then Jaffer then Abdullah Bin Raha and then KH took uh the leadership into his own hands and he was still a new Muslim he had recently accepted Islam but he fought the Romans uh Allah abbar so valiantly that he broke nine swords in that one battle and managed to take the entire Army back to the to the desert in one piece otherwise it would have been a massacre there was no way the Muslims could have defeat but again this was a defeat for the Romans the Romans could not the way khid fought them because he kept kept switching rows so one row is fight left to the right and the life to the right so he kept he kept switching rows and the Romans were thinking where are these new people coming from what is happening here so they didn't have the courage to fight harder and Khal his his mission was to preserve the Army and take it back to Madina the Battle of muta famous battle of mut which took place in current day Jordan okay so these swords are attributed to Khal okay um and know obviously these Hills are late they are not from the time uh they were added later on okay we cannot fully okay these are some Quran manuscripts from the early period okay uh again a verse from the Quran written by kif ali uh this we cannot ascertain uh this is I believe a later Quran this is from the second century of hij so again this attribution uh I'm I'm sorry if I if I sound too skeptical about this collection but I'm a historian this is my field I have studied some of these things and I know the script the script this kufi script is from the 2 Century so we respect the attributions this again is attributed to uh Usman and this script wasn't even around at the time whenman he passed away Osman passed away in 36th H 36th H the earliest manuscripts that we have of the Quran were in The hijazi Script this is kuik this is quite late so there is no doubt that these are later manuscripts attributed to earlier people like Ali andman okay but alhamdulillah they are still very original they are amazing they are at least 1,300 or 1, 1250 years old okay they're from the second century of Islam Quran manuscripts again we have swords here okay the sword of Omar attributed to him again the sword of Ali double bladed okay allegedly this is Zar okay but this is a later sword clearly this is not a sword from that period isn't it WR the problem is the inscription is noal sorry n so this is this is this is centuries old so so we have to move on insh let's go but they could have embellished it yeah they could have but even the design of the sword and and you know it's the the the experts in the field the the the biggest experts in the field they don't believe these attributions okay so is kep who's kep okay let's go and then they have the the yeah the the dress of fatim attributed to her again and this is one of the best Quran manuscripts possibly in the world it's so beautiful it's so lavishly decorated that it is unbelievable if you yeah if you look at it it's decorated in gold and different colors blue and green and pink very expensive material was used to decorate Quran manuscripts of this type this nature what you see there is the thus script the style is the thus style and this Quran is from 1570 1570 produced in Persia in Iran Safi Persia in 1570 again these are there are these massive swords okay so the sword of zuir Bin awam the sword of Jaffer the sword of Amar bin Jas KH bin mu ja again these are all attributions let's go so this was The Relic section of the museum and we have walked very fast through it alhamdulillah we're going to go to the next section now which is one of the absolutely mind-blowing sections which is the next section if you keep following me everyone usually people skip it don't even want to see it yeah they don't know this one the yeah this one yeah the calligraphies okay the this is this this house is one of the greatest one of the best Quran manuscripts in the Muslim world and you will see why if you keep following me inshallah we will see some of the best Quran manuscripts in the world this top caby Museum contains far too much for us to actually go through in one day what we are looking at are the highlights are the main bits and those of you who want to come and join us on the next trips you can have your extra day or two to visit the museum and detail so now here we have some masterpieces of calligraphy the Quran and you can see they are absolute gems they absolute gems how they have been produced okay each and every single piece is a is a masterpiece so we're going to go straight to the Quran inshallah having seen all these pieces inshah so here we have some Quran manuscripts they are absolutely magnificent they some of the best Quran manuscripts in the world okay this one is Quran from 730 hij which is 1330 it is 700 years old and the author or the Scribe sorry is Arun bin Abdullah Al Kami okay if we move forward inshallah this is again a very beautiful lovishly decorated Quran manuscript okay by Ahmed Ahmed Sor worthy M this is muak script okay and it's from The 14th Century again 1300s it's beautifully decorated if you look at it it's absolutely magnificent so the Muslims they spent a lot of time and effort into decorating Quran manuscripts and producing them for royalty and important people because this would cost a lot of money this would cost absolutely a lot of money okay so again this there's another one here this is by Yak Ali okay from 1299 this is when the ottoman Dynasty actually started and Yak Alami was a very famous calligrapher from bdad okay this is the sword of Sultan Muhammad Al Fat Muhammad II and this is not a ceremonial sword rather this is for war this was used in battles okay so this is his personal sword Sultan Muhammad Al Fat very impressive okay we are in the Treasure section now you just saw the sword of Sultan Muhammad Al Fat these are some of the coins some of the lavish coins of the Ottoman Empire and some of the stones precious stones there so these are the treasures that are kept at the Top Copy Palace you see gold and emerald studded pots you pencils absolutely mindblowing if you keep coming look at having uh if you look at these utensils no you're missing out on the good stuff the good stuff is on the bottom right there okay these are to decorate the turbin of The Sultans you decorate your these are actually these are for the turbin of The Sultans right yeah so these are for the decoration of the the turbin you can see jewelry for ladies earrings Rings they are diamond studied emeralds and rubies absolutely mind-blowing stuff this is otoman treasury now that's a binding possibly of a Quran it is all made of gold Allah abbar that's a binding of a book the Quran binding so guys we have to move very quickly because we have uh this is one of the reasons we look at this one Allah abbar that's absolutely mind-blowing and I'm sure it's a Quran binding okay let's go keep going keep moving inshallah uh and that's a huge diamond there you can see that's a huge diamond this is part of the Ottoman treasury the Ottoman Empire was rich and very powerful this is the biggest diamond this is one of the biggest diamonds in the world this is one of the biggest diamonds in the world okay that belongs to the treasury of the Ottomans let's keep moving you can these are again some of the Treasures of the Ottomans look at that decorated dagger with with the Emirate hilt sorry Emerald the armor the Mustafa the thir this is the armor of the sultan Mustafa the thiri wow wow amazing the sultan would have worn this once upon a time Mustafa III is Diamond studied decorated with gold and this is this is the second favorite most important thing in the top this is one of the most visited things in the Top Copy Palace this was a dagger made for the Persian sultan and it was sent uh as a gift from Sultan Mahmud this was sent for NAD sha NAD sha the one who invaded India okay and then there were disturbances in Persia so the dagger was brought back and now it's part of the Top Copy treasury it was initially produced and for and sent to naad Sha afshar of Persia this is one of the most lavishly decorated daggers possibly in the world it's a beautiful gift it's a cradle these are some coins wow of The Sultans I think these coins were for them to throw on people yeah these are commemorative coins these are commemorative Co swords the Persian king gave to the adaman king as gift wow wow and that dagger you saw there was sent by the ottoman Sultan for the yeah yeah so these are some of the gifts that were sent to the ottoman sulan you can see how lavishly decorated they are diamond studded rubies emeralds you name it so Ottomans were very Advanced when it came to these things um you can see all these absolutely amazing gems that were kept in the treasury of The Sultans thank you very much for stopping yes absolutely I think this was very important yeah so this is one of the thrones where the sultan would sit and is so lavishly decorated NAD sha NAD Sha's Throne yeah wow wow absolutely amazing it's studied with rubies and Pearls you can see visibly rubies and pearls on it Sultan nadir Sha of Persia the one who invaded India in 1739 amazing so everyone I know this is getting a bit too much in the Vlog to see and to behold but we want you to have an idea of what it looks like like on the ground when you are here it's it's a different reality altogether look at these lavishly decorated daggers this is Jade studed with rubies and emeralds and gold all of this belongs to The Sultans the Once Upon a Time utum and Sultans this treasury I'm very happy it survived it wasn't destroyed by Wars and disturbances here alhamdulillah there are people who can come and see this and have an idea how powerful the Ottomans were so this is the end of the treasury and inshallah we're going to make our way to ha Sophia and we're going to video parts of a Sophia for you to understand what these tours are like and if you want to join one of our future tours brothers and sisters um go on Halal getaways.com and check out the future dates for turkey for Morocco and for alandus for Spain we are inshallah visiting Spain and Morocco in October first Morocco then Spain back to back okay you can book either one of those tours or both of them if you if you want to again we are back into the treasury we we were going to stop but we will continue okay some of these items are absolutely mind-blowing I want to show you very quickly the bindings the Quran Bindings that were created by the Ottomans and how l L decorated they are these are Quran Bindings that are studied with gold and emerald and rubies precious stones and inside them are qurans these are Quran bindings now look at that one unbelievable it's filled with gold and diamonds and emeralds and these qurans would obviously belong to the Sultans themselves they belong to the Sultans look at this one I'm absolutely unbelievably unbelievably beautiful it's all gold and this one also this is unbelievable artwork and dedication again these are bindings books or the Quran manuscripts that belong to the Sultans the bindings alone are a treasure and if we look at some of the tasb some of the Tas The Sultans would have used for making AAR yeah they are Jade and emeralds and other things Allah abbar let's keep moving everyone this is dun and it has the tendency to pull you in so we want to avoid the Temptations inshallah okay but I must say that despite the fact that or in spite of the fact that Ottomans had this treasure and this is how rich they were they kept their religion very close to them until very late until very very last moment of the Ottomans they kept their religion very close to them they were very staunch Muslims okay so inah we're going to make our way to Top Copy Palace and we'll continue from there here we are outside haa Sophia look at the imposing structure it's now a Masjid it was a Masjid after Sultan Muhammad Al Fat took the city of Constantinople in 1453 and then it was made into a Masjid and for almost 400 years it remained a Masjid until Mustafa Kamal made made it into a museum and recently uh the current government turned it into a Masjid again it was returned to being a Masjid and you can hear the aan but we can see clearly signs from the Roman Byzantine period you can see these inscriptions these walls inscribed by Roman Architects and workers look at those remains underneath so there were three constructions of high sopia the first one the second one and the third one this is what you see is was completed in 537 CE by Emperor Justinian okay and when he entered the building he said Solomon I have surpassed Thee I have beaten you and he was referring to the Temple of Solomon in Jerusalem so what you see there are the remains of the second phase of high Sophia and we're going to go inside inshallah let's go the is being called as you can hear but you can still see crosses on the top on marble Windows just underneath the windows just under the windows you can see the crosses from the Christian Roman period Byzantine period so this was the greatest the the largest indoor standing structure in the world for 1,000 years until the Ottomans uh surpassed it so we're going to go inside inshallah and show you more those of you who want to join these tours these trips check out Halal getaways.com we are doing these tours every uh couple of months every 3 months I am personally leading these tours as a historian you can join one of the tours with me inshallah oh sorry this is ladies entrance we nearly went into the wrong entrance right so so you can join one of the future tours you can check out the dates and destinations on Halal getaways so now we are entering the famous ha Sophia you can you can still see remains from the Roman period That's sarcophagus you can see like a tomb like a grave it's called sarcophagus okay we're going to enter from here these gates are still very much old and ancient they are still standing to this day they're made of bronze okay you can see the Mosaic work on Top This is the entrance of high sopia you can see very visible Mosaic work we're going to go inside inshallah we're going to take our shoes off and put our shoes in one of these sections so what you see there up there what you see up there are depictions of imagined depictions of Isa Alam okay in Mosaic artwork you can come step back back here and take it from there inshah and the gates are very much from the time they're very old Gates okay and this is an absolutely magnificent mind-blowing structure that has stood for the last 1,500 years it's very imposing when we walk in there it's another world Al together so in we're going to walk in there and have a look at ha Sophia there's a lot to see that cannot be seen in one day so we're going to put our shoes we are going into the building and it is absolutely mindblowing it is now a Masjid that I stated this is ha sopia Allah abbar this was the largest standing in indoor structure in the world and the pillars are from the very time of Emperor Justinian from the 6th Century CE before the prophet sallallahu alaihi wasallam was born these pillars have been standing and they stand to this day Subhan Allah look at those pillars The Columns and the capitals the decoration The Carving and the floral designs are before are from before the prophet sallallahu alaihi wasallam was born and the gates are very old as well so the building is still very much in its original structure the Dome had been repaired many times of so that it lasts and then in the 16th century mimar sinan he put supports outside of the building to support the Dome so he put huge block walls to protect the Dome and the building from falling because this is uh a place turkey is a country where a lot of earthquakes happen and many buildings fell amazingly ottoman buildings that were built later on uh fell during many different earthquakes but this building is still standing to this say for the last 1,4 500 years Allah abbar and it is absolutely magnificent it is prayer time we're going to stop now and we're going to start again inshallah in few minutes the prayer time is over Salah has been done the Sheikh is doing a talk okay but we're going to do a quick tour inshallah I hope you can hear me clearly these pillars and the capitals are from the time of Justinian the very original you can see still crosses in there you see there's a cross there behind the pillar right and there is still a lot of Christian uh symbolism present but these columns have been standing for the last 1,500 years they are still very much in the original condition and those so-called Angels were painted by the Christians they're still around the pictures are there okay a lot of the Mosaic Works still survive lives now it's a Masid you can see there are muslims praying here the Imam is doing a talk it was a Masid for nearly 400 years and we have some young Ottomans sitting here listening to the Dum okay so look at these pillars and even these marble slabs these slabs are from the Byzantine from the Roman period 1,500 years they've been standing here Allah this marble as well yes all of this is from the time of Justinian so the building the structure pretty much in it in original condition if you keep walking with me come inshallah much of the decoration was done by the Muslims later on this colorful decoration by was done later on by the Ottomans right come come so what we are looking at is a building that was completed about 40 years before the prophet sallallahu alaihi wasallam Prophet Muhammad was born and these pillars and these colons have been standing since then this was one of the most imposing structures in the world world at the time as I said earlier this was the largest indoor standing structure in the world for 1,400 years so some of the crosses have been covered as you can see there's a circle that has been made around a cross but underneath was a cross underneath was a cross so a lot of the crosses are still there but they have been covered by later artwork yes can we show the most important one yes let's go so we're going to see the most important symbol here in high Sophia on the door yes you know why because you can see the stairs that is the uh you know uh the location in Jerusalem that they believe will turn back but in Christian way so they just show me the that cross showing the end you can see the KU right the cross on the gate there that cross okay is there and it signifies the return of Jesus return of isaam according to the Christian narrative there on top of the gate just just below the yeah and the and we will see it close inshallah so a lot of the decoration was done by the Ottomans but still the building possesses original decoration original carvings from the Roman period And there's a lot we will see outside later on inshallah when we leave inshallah