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Iroh: I ordered you to go make friends with Lady Ursa! Go!

Ozai: Mom! He can't do that, can he?!

Fire lady llah: I'm sorry he can... he's your senior

Ozai, leaving: Man!

Model: L'lah

Photographer: TJ flicks or THomas Johnson

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Hello! 

I should have mentioned this earlier (since the project has been going on for the last year and a half) but I wrote the script for a short film called Lose Like a Human. It started as a response to the prompt “Deep Blue” for the Word Addict magazine, which I heroically misinterpreted from despair to chess robots. Yesterday we got back from Hailsham’s Hyperdrive Festival, a small local film festival in Sussex, where we were nominated for 3 awards, won one of them (Best Original Soundtrack) and the Audience Choice Award. Kerching. 

I also realise that I haven’t been the most active here, I’m going to be posting more new stuff in the future as well as reposting old stuff, just to keep myself out there, since this Tumblr has been collecting dust a little in the last year or so. 

But please, watch the trailer for the film, check out our Facebook page and thanks for bearing with me.

The Conquest of Makkah

(8th year of the Migration, the month of Ramadan, Friday / AD 630 January)

Makkah: The city in which the Kaaba, the first symbol of the oneness on the earth, is located... “The first House (of worship) appointed for men was that at Bakka.” Its holiness and being a means of guidance originate from the fact that it is embodied evidence of divine oneness. Hazrat Adam, the first man and the first prophet, its first builder, built it for that purpose. In the course of time, the building started to disappear but its foundations were sound. Hazrat Ibrahim, who was called Abu’l-Anbiya [Father of the Prophets], rebuilt the Kaaba with his son, Hazrat Ismail, upon the order of God; thus, the Kaaba became an embodied symbol of the belief of oneness again.  

However, the most honorable and virtuous building of the earth was under the control of the Qurayshi polytheists, who lived far away from the belief of oneness and who even tried to eliminate it and the people who had that belief. The building was full of idols, which was contrary to the purpose of its construction.

The polytheists, who were the fierce enemy of the belief of oneness and Muslims, who were the representatives of this belief, committed all kinds of sins there.

It was necessary to urgently eliminate this situation, which infuriated God, offended the spirits of Hazrat Adam (pbuh) and Hazrat  Ibrahim and hurt the hearts and consciences of all Muslims. It was necessary to save this holy worshipping place and the city of Makkah, in which this worshipping place was located, from the dirty hands of the polytheists.

The Messenger of God was thinking about it and was seeking a way of realizing this aim.

The circumstances were not suitable for a long time because the number of the Muslims was few and they were weak. Besides, Madinah could have been attacked by the enemy any time.

It was necessary for Islam to develop, for the Muslims to increase and to become strong in order to realize this aim; otherwise, an attempt to this end could have failed.  

The Prophet, who knew to evaluate the time and place very well regarding an attempt, was waiting patiently for God Almighty to grant suitable circumstances for the realization of this aim.

Finally, in the 8th year of the Migration, Islam spread around with its magnificence. On the one hand, the Jews of Khaybar and around Khaybar, who were among the fiercest enemies of Islam, were made subject to Islam; on the other hand, the Treaty of Hudaybiyah, which was a great conquest and victory had been signed and one of the greatest states  of that time, the Byzantine Empire had been intimidated by the Battle of Muta.  

They all showed that Islam and Muslims had become a great force that could not be stopped.

It was time for this lofty and holy aim to be realized and God Almighty had granted all of the necessary circumstances.

However, there was a drawback to it: The Treaty of Hudaybiya, which had been signed between the Muslims and the polytheists. According to this treaty, the Muslims and the polytheists would not fight for ten years and would not violate the treaty.

The Messenger of God, who always kept his promise, was not thinking of breaking his promise and attacking Makkah even if it was for this holy aim.

The Apparent Reason

God Almighty, who penetrates into the finest points in our hearts and who knows all of the desires of our hearts and answers them, knew the desire of his beloved Messenger, too. He had informed the Prophet two years ago that his desire would be realized.  

God Almighty created a reason: One of the articles of the Hudaybiyah Peace Treaty gave the tribes other than the Qurayshi tribes the right to seek protection from either party. As a realization of this right, the tribe of Khuzaa asked protection from the Messenger of God; they were given protection and they supported the Muslims. On the other hand, the tribe of Sons of Bakr accepted the protection of the polytheists and supported them.

There was a long feud between these two tribes. Probably due to this enmity, when the people of Khuzaa, who were the allies of the grandfather of the Prophet, Abdulmuttalip, for a long time, supported the Messenger of God, they asked protection from the polytheists.

Those two tribes, which always fought each other before the light of prophethood started to shine in Makkah, fought each other less frequently thanks to the light of the prophethood. This state continued like that until the Peace Treaty of Hudaybiyah. However, after the Treaty of Hudaybiyah was signed, they started to disturb each other again. They started to seek pretexts to cause a conflict.  

Sons of Bakr Attack the Khuzaa Tribe

Once, a person from the tribe of Sons of Bakr attempted to satirize and insult the Messenger of God through a poem. A young man from the Khuzaa tribe could not tolerate it and wounded him in the head. Sons of Bakr, who found out what had happened, used it as an excuse to attack the Khuzaa tribe. Receiving some help from the Qurayshis, Sons of Bakr suddenly attacked the people of Khuzaa, who were staying near the water of Watir and who were protected from such an attack by the Peace Treaty of Hudaybiyah; they chased them into the center of Makkah. They even killed some people of the Khuzaa tribe near the Kaaba. Consequently, twenty-three people from the tribe of Khuzaa were killed.

During the clash, the polytheists did not only give horses and weapons to the tribe of Sons of Bakr, some of the polytheists also fought together with them. However, they did it secretly because of their fear from the Prophet. However, the people of Khuzaa recognized them.