[Thread 🧵] The Story of Sultān Muhammad IV
Sultān Muhammad IV ascended to leadership of the Ottoman Khilāfah at the age of six and became the second-longest reigning Ottoman Sultān in history from 1648 to 1687. He was known as a religiously devout ruler who oversaw great… (1)
Sultān Muhammad IV ascended to leadership of the Ottoman Khilāfah at the age of six and became the second-longest reigning Ottoman Sultān in history from 1648 to 1687. He was known as a religiously devout ruler who oversaw great… (1)
![[Thread 🧵] The Story of Sultān Muhammad IV
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conquests and revived his empire’s fortune.
During his reign, the Ottoman Khilāfah came under the influence of the Qādīzādali Da’wah through his Grand Vezier Köprülü Fazil Ahmad Pasha, which were a revivalist movement that aimed to eliminate Shirk and Bid’ah in Muslim lands, (2)
During his reign, the Ottoman Khilāfah came under the influence of the Qādīzādali Da’wah through his Grand Vezier Köprülü Fazil Ahmad Pasha, which were a revivalist movement that aimed to eliminate Shirk and Bid’ah in Muslim lands, (2)
fight against Sūfī orders that fell into grave innovations and re-enforce enjoining good and forbidding evil which had become loose in the Ottoman Empire.
The Sultān also waged successful campaigns against Russia, Austria, Venice, Crete, Transylvania and Poland, (3)
The Sultān also waged successful campaigns against Russia, Austria, Venice, Crete, Transylvania and Poland, (3)
expanding the empire in land and wealth.
1680 witnessed the only known application of the Hadd for adultery in Ottoman Constantinople, and the government became strict in application of Sharī’ah, unlike many previous rulers.
His Grand Vezier, who was a student of… (4)
1680 witnessed the only known application of the Hadd for adultery in Ottoman Constantinople, and the government became strict in application of Sharī’ah, unlike many previous rulers.
His Grand Vezier, who was a student of… (4)
Shaykh Sayyid Muhammad Effendi, who was the Imām of Constantinople’s Masjid Sultān Salīm and an adherent to the Qādīzādali Da’wah, introduced his Shaykh to the Sultān, who in turn influenced the government to crackdown on popular Sūfī practices of Shirk and innovation, (5)
including a ban on musical chants in Sūfī gatherings and pilgrimages to the graves of saints. The government also created conflict with the Janissaries by attempting to fight the influence of the Baktāshī Order in their ranks.
Unfortunately, elements of the Ottoman Army… (6)
Unfortunately, elements of the Ottoman Army… (6)
who opposed these religious reforms from amongst the innovative Sūfī and Baktāshī orders managed to remove Muhammad IV from power and enthrone his brother Sulaymān II in 1687, execute Vezier Kara Mustafā Pasha and exile of Sayyid Muhammad Effendi. (7)
This coincided with the start of the end of Islāmic revival and Qādīzādali influence over the state, and eventual deviation of the Ottoman State to what it became at the time of Najdī Da’wah.
However, the influence of the Qādīzādali Da’wah, which was inspired by the works… (8)
However, the influence of the Qādīzādali Da’wah, which was inspired by the works… (8)
of Shaykhu’l-Islām Ibn Taymiyyah, didn’t completely disappear, and a student of this Da’wah, Shaykh Muhammad Hayyāt as-Sindī an-Naqshabandī, became one of the most influential teachers of Imām Muhammad ibn ‘Abdil-Wahhāb.
May Allāh ﷻ have mercy upon Sultān Muhammad IV and… (9)
May Allāh ﷻ have mercy upon Sultān Muhammad IV and… (9)
those who worked, fought and even died for the sake of reviving the purity of our Dīn in a time of great deviation from it. (10)
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