Then he set out from Jeddah via 'Asfan to Madinah, and the people abandoned the port of al- Shu'aybah at that time, and Jeddah has remained the port of Makkah until now. (Dhu'n-Noorayn Uthman Ibn Affan (May Allah be pleased with him), by
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“Aurangzeb’s contemporaries included such kings as Charles II of England, Louis XIV of France, and Sultan Suleiman II of the Ottoman Empire. No one asserts that these historical figures were ‘good rulers’ under present-day norms because it makes little sense to assess the past by contemporary criteria. The aim of historical study is something else entirely.”
― Aurangzeb: The Man and the Myth
― Aurangzeb: The Man and the Myth
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