After our Prophet’s death, all his companions and then his descendants moved out of Arabia for jihâd, that is, in order to spread Islam all over the world. They spread far into Asia, Africa, Cyprus, Istanbul and, in brief, everywhere. In order to teach Allah’s religion to His human creatures, they fought, and they sacrificed their lives. These vast lands teem with those blessed martyrs. They sent their sons to the faculties of Baghdad University, which was at that time the greatest universtiy in the world –and it can be seen in its surviving artifacts today that they had experimented and discovered many new things in physics, chemistry, astronomy, geography and mathematics–, in order that they might learn knowledge. When Hulâghu, the famous tyrant, – 233 –and a grandson of the disbeliever Dzenghiz [Whose real name is Timuchin] Khan’s, persecuted and killed more than eight hundred thousand Muslims, including women and children, and burned and destroyed Baghdâd in 656 (1258 A.C.), only those who hid in wells and those who fled to Anatolia were able to stay alive. Consequently, the descendants of our master, the Prophet, and his companions settled in every part of Anatolia, especially in the East.
Today, the intelligent, patient, and studious people, whom we call Kurds, are all descendants of those blessed people. There are two groups of Kurds. One of them is the descendants of Yâfes (Japheth), the (third) son of Hadrat Nûh (Noah). This group consists of the rude and ignorant people who in very ancient times came to Asia Minor from Central Asia and who now lead a nomadic life. The historian Xenophon, a pupil of Socrates, writes that he has seen the Kurds in eastern Anatolia. The second group of people who are called Kurds are civilized and polite people living in cities. Almost all of them are the descendants of our Prophet and of his companions.
Imâm-i Hasan’s descendants are called “Sherîf” and Imâm-i Husayn’s descendants are called “Sayyid.” Sayyids are higher than Sherîfs. During the time of the Ottomans, in Aleppo there was a great court of justice reserved for Sayyids and Sherîfs. All their descendants were registered there and liars couldn’t claim to be Sayyids. [The courts were abrogated by Mustafa Rashîd Pâsha, a freemason, during the mayhem of the political reforms called Tanzîmât.] The famous Irîsân Beghs, who lived on the land between Van and Hakkârî, were the descendants of the Abbasid Khalîfas and had multiplied out of a child who had escaped the massacre of Hulâghu. In every part of our country today, there are descendants of the Prophet’s companions and Sayyids. We should appreciate their value and spare no effort to respect them.
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