Historical Human Altercations

From religious perspectives, shedding blood by the most intelligent of all creatures started for the first time with the two sons of Adam, when Prophet Adam's son Abel (Haabiil) killed his brother Cain (Qaabiil). From there on killing among humans became a common occurrence. What started as a confrontation between two brothers of the same father and same mother over a resolvable, arranged marriage with their two twin sisters, followed by the order to perform sacrifices to determine who would marry who, led to bloodshed that finally turned into a global manifestation.

Apart from destroying the Temple of Jerusalem (Bayt-al-Maqdis Masjid), burning the Torah, and mercilessly killing the Children of Israel, Bukhtanassar, the Arabized name for Nebuchadnezzar II who was the son of Nabopolassar, was a horrible and deplorable person who lived during the time of Prophet Daniel (Danyal). According to Muslim historians and commentators of the Qur'an, the prideful and argumentative polytheistic king who had an argument with Prophet Ibrahim (AS) was a man by the name Nimrod or Nimrud.

The confrontation between the disbelieving Nimrod and Prophet Ibrahim is mentioned in the second chapter of the Qur'an known as Al-baqarah.

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Have you not considered the one who argued with Abraham about his Lord [merely] because Allah had given him kingship? When Abraham said, "My Lord is the one who gives life and causes death," he said, "I give life and cause death." Abraham said, "Indeed, Allah brings up the sun from the east, so bring it up from the west." So the disbeliever was overwhelmed [by astonishment], and Allah does not guide the wrongdoing peoples (2: 258).

Divinely revealed and human recorded historical narrations succinctly define the devastations caused by the most dangerous wars in various parts of the world with the longest being that of the mongols that dragged on for four hundred years. The vastest transcontinental empire in the world, the Mongol Empire created an enforced Pax Mongolica connection that stretched from the East to the West across Eurasia.

Even though the British Empire remained the largest empire with 35.5 million km2, the discontinuous disconnect caused by the separated oceans made the Mongols' 24.0 km2 empire, the largest continuous empire in the world the world had seen. Regardless of their monstrosity, the wars that were spearheaded by the Mongols, collapsed after the emergence of four khans who embraced Islam.

During the reign of Genghis Khan, the world population reduced by 11% according to legend and the death of 40 million people. Despite his murderous onslaught, Genghis killed his own brother over food argument while both were young boys. Having lost his father at age 9, he had to fend for his mother and her six other children.

Tamerlane or Timurlan whose name translates to Timur "the lame" because he used to limp when walking due to arrow shots that inflicted bodily injuries to one hand and leg while attempting to steal a sheep while a young man, was the first to create the Timurid Dynasty. Of Turko-Persian blood and a Muslim, the man who intermingled with great philosophers and prestigious men like Ibn Khaldun and others, killed 17 million disbelieving, Shamanistic Mongols.

The art of military strategy applied by the Mongols, the shape of their bows and arrows, military discipline, promotion through the application of skills and experience, and allegiance to the leader were some of the defining factors that elevated the Ilkhanate supremacy.

Any attempts to reject Mongol domination resulted in the total slaughter of the objectionists. The largest and most affected was the Muslim Khwarezmid Empire that was an amalgamation of Persian and Turkic peoples whose landmass was estimated at 3.6 million square kilometers. With it's capital at Samarkand in present day Uzbekistan, the great succession of Khwarezmid dynasties suffered at the hands of the barbaric Mongols.

The city of Samarkand was a Shangri La for if one traveled outside of the city for five consecutive days towards any direction, the sight of the beauty of the handmade reforestation resembled a total paradise. The assortment of exotic plants and trees brought from all over the world, created sceneries that were non-existent elsewhere in the world.