خلاصه ماشینی:
The prophecy came very near to being completely fulfilled, and, as a matter of fact, it seemed as if the whole world would come under the rule of the Mussulmans, In a few years after the death of the Prophet, Mesopotamia, Syria, Persia, Egypt and Africa as far as the great Western Ocean, were 'subjugated by the Muslims, and while on the one hand the Arab warriors invaded Spain, and advancing across France, threatened to conquer the whole European continent, on the other, they crossed the barriers of the Oxus and the Indus, and it was seriously felt that they would not be stopped by any boundaries save those which nature had given to the earth on which man lived.
The greater part · of this people spoke the Berber language, which lives on right up to the present day, while others conversed in a language resembling Arabic, Hebrew and Phrenician2• They were really either the remnant of the people of Canaan and Phoenicia who had left the country of their origin at the time of Joshua or perhaps a little later and made the shores of the African continent their home3; or according to the opinion of certain Arab savants, were (1) Maqqari: Geographical and historical description of Spain, in Arabic, Eg. Edition, 1802 A.
Ever since the conquest of Spain eleven years before, many poor families of Arabia and Syria, Egypt and Africa, had been· migrating to that country, and their leaders looked forward to conquering new lands in order to satisfy the numberless needs of these people2• Following in the footsteps· of his predecessors, in title, Es-Samh advanced right into the Languedoc and laid siege to Narbonne which had no doubt been fortified in the (1) Ibn ul-Qiitiah ; Maqqari Vol. II.