Wahhabi history part VII The bandits captured Medina after Mecca and plundered the most valuable historical treasures of the world, which had been collected in the Khazinat an-Nabawiyya (the Prophetic Treasure) for over a millennium. They treated the Muslims in so rude a manner that it is impossible to put into words. Then, they went back to Dariyya after appointing somebody named Mubarak ibn Maghyan as the governor of the city. They stayed in Meccaand Medina and did not let the pilgrims of Ahl as-Sunnat intoMecca for seven years. They covered the Kaba with two sheets of black cloth called Qailan. They forbade smoking the hookah and badly cudgeled those who smoked it. Meccans and Medinans disliked and kept away from them. Ayyub Sabree Pasha (rahimah-Allahu taala) reported in the first volume of his book Mirat al-Haramain, which was published in 1301 A.H. (1883), the tortures inflicted upon the Meccan Muslims as follows: The tortures done to the Muslims in the blessed city of Mecca and to the pilgrims every year were so heavy that it is very difficult to describe in detail. The chief of the bandits, Saud, frequently sent letters of threat to the amir of the Meccans, Sharif Ghalib Effendi. Although Saud had laid siege to Mecca several times, he had not been able to penetrate into the city until 1218 (1802). Sharif Ghalib Effendi, with the governor of Jidda, assembled the leaders of the pilgrim caravans from Damascus and Egypt in 1217and told them that the bandits intended to attack the blessed city of Mecca, and that if they would help him they altogether could capture Saud, their chief. But his proposal was not accepted. Then, Sharif Ghalib Effendi appointed his brother Sharif Abd al-Muin Effendi as his deputy and went to Jidda. Sharif Abd al-Muin Effendi, as the amir of Mecca, sent five scholars of Ahl as-Sunnat, namely Muhammad Tahir, Sayyid Muhammad Abu Bakr, Mir Ghani, Sayyid Muhammad Akkas and Abd al-Hafiz al-AJami, as a committee of goodwill and forgiveness to Saud ibn Abd al-Aziz in1218. Saud responded and went to Mecca with his soldiers. He appointed Abd al-Muin as the head official of the district and ordered that all shrines and graves should be demolished, because, in view of the Wahhabis, the people of Mecca and Medinawere not worshiping Allahu taala, but shrines. They said that they would be worshiping Allah in its true form if shrines and graves were demolished. According to Muhammad ibn Abd al-Wahhab, all the Muslims had died as disbelievers or polytheists since 500 A.H. (1106); the true Islam was revealed to him, and it was not permissible to bury those who became Wahhabis near the graves of polytheists, by which he referred to the real Muslims. Continued
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