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These Turks—the very people against whom the Muslims fought ever since their greatest sovereign, Genghis Khan, arose, followed by his sons and grandsons such as Hulagu and the rest of the unbelieving Turkish kings—could not have been depicted more aptly than by this description.
He foretold all of this more than six hundred years before it came to pass.
He also said, peace and blessings be upon him:
“The Hour will not be established until a fire bursts forth from the land of the Hijaz whose glow will illumine the necks of the camels in Busra.”
That fire indeed appeared in the year
هَؤُلَاءِ التُّرْكَ الَّذِينَ قَاتَلَهُمُ الْمُسْلِمُونَ مِنْ حِينِ خَرَجَ جِنْكِزْ خَانْ مَلِكُهُمُ الْأَكْبَرُ وَأَوْلَادُهُ وَأَوْلَادُ أَوْلَادِهِ، مِثْلُ هُولَاكُو وَغَيْرِهِ مِنْ مُلُوكِ التُّرْكِ الْكُفَّارِ الَّذِينَ قَاتَلَهُمُ الْمُسْلِمُونَ، لَمْ يَحْسُنْ أَنْ يَصِفَهُمْ بِأَحْسَنَ مِنْ هَذِهِ الصِّفَةِ» .
وَقَدْ أَخْبَرَ بِهَذَا قَبْلَ ظُهُورِهِ بِأَكْثَرَ مِنْ سِتِّمِائَةِ سَنَةٍ،
وَقَوْلِهِ:
صَلَّى اللَّهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ
«لَا تَقُومُ السَّاعَةُ حَتَّى تَخْرُجَ نَارٌ مِنْ أَرْضِ الْحِجَازِ تُضِيءُ لَهَا أَعْنَاقُ الْإِبِلِ بِبُصْرَى،»
وَهَذِهِ النَّارُ ظَهَرَتْ سَنَةَ