نور الدين الشهيد .. كتاب مائة أوائل من تراثنا ، الكاتب عبد الهادي حرصوني

Nur al-Din al-Shahid [died: 1174 AD]

He assumed the leadership of the nation after Imad al-Din Zangi was assassinated in the year 1146, after him his son Nur al-Din Mahmud, and Nur al-Din made the city of Aleppo his headquarters. He believed that God Almighty entrusted him with the task of uprooting the Franks from the lands of the Arabs, and uniting these lands and their people, under one banner, and for one goal, as it was the beginning of Nur al-Din’s actions, the recovery of the city of Edessa from the Crusaders who took advantage of the assassination of Zangi, and expected his family to be busy With the struggle over his usual inheritance at the time, they occupied it again, and after this Nur al-Din exerted all his strength and energies in order to stir up the nation, revitalize the jihad in it, and cultivate feelings of sacrifice among all its members in all regions of the Arab and Islamic lands, and Nur al-Din is rightly considered one of the greatest leaders Those who contributed to creating a new Muslim generation with a new spirit that sacrifices for the sake of jihad and liberation, invents weapons, creates plans, and manufactures everything needed for jihad and liberation. Fah
Division is hated and abhorred, and this new spirit was embodied in most of the nation's members, and in the person of Nur al-Din, who was a lofty example and a model to be followed. This spirit enabled Nur al-Din in the year 1154 AD to go to Damascus

Based on the invitation of its people to him, he united for the first time in centuries the north of the Levant with its south, and this unity included parts of the island and it also caused the building of many ribat, schools, universities and hospitals, and it is the one that nurtured culture and encouraged the intellectuals, so it was Nur al-Din who encouraged Ibn Asaker To write a history of the city of Damascus, which came in eighty major volumes, and this is something unprecedented in the course of nations and their histories, and all the battles took place between the Arabs and the Crusaders until this date is incomparable. Most of the cities and countries have walls for defense, so whenever a battle occurred between a Muslim force and another Crusader, this battle often took place near the walls of one of the castles or forts, and therefore it took a long time, and consumed great effort without great results, and if it occurred, it would have occurred. A clash at one of his sites

And if the event of the death of Imad al-Din Zangi ended the first stage of the Crusader presence in the Levant, then Nur al-Din’s surrender to the city of Damascus ended the Aleppo stage, and began the third stage, which is the Damascus stage. Undoubtedly, this stage was the most important and dangerous stage of liberation. Religion is between the north and south of the Levant, it took a center in numbers from Damascus and led campaigns against the Crusaders from Damascus, and for its actions it fought many battles with them
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And after he praised Nur al-Din al-Sham and the Jazira, he looked in front of him and saw Egypt with its enormous resources, its mighty energies, and its excellent location. He wanted to use the energies and resources of Egypt to plunge into the battle instead of being scattered, wasted and lost, and as soon as Nur al-Din confronted the Franks, he threw in their fear that the Levant had become a steel barrier in front of them, and that nothing was left in front of them except the sea or Egypt, so the Crusaders wanted to occupy Egypt and wanted to benefit from it And they wanted to prevent the Arabs from encircling them, and working towards eliminating and uprooting them, for this they launched several campaigns against Egypt, but “Nur al-Din was able to thwart their plans, and he succeeded in the year 1167 in unifying Egypt with the Levant and the Jazira, and in the year 1171 AD the Fatimid caliphate was abolished, just as Libya and Yemen were captured, and Egypt witnessed a new life and an open awakening, and it was preparing to take its turn in the liberation works.