The two sheikhs

Author's name: Taha Hussein

The major events that took place during the days of the two Sheikhs are dangerous in themselves, dazzling those who hear or read their news. They do not need to be narrated in great detail by many, nor for the narrators to surround them with the exaggeration and extravagance that surrounded them. The return of the Arabs to Islam after they had denied it, the expulsion of the Romans from the Levant, the Arabian Peninsula, Egypt and Barqa, the expulsion of the Persians from Iraq and the elimination of their authority in their country... All of these are events that there is no way to doubt them or their occurrence in this short era during the caliphate of the two Sheikhs. They are events that describe themselves and indicate their seriousness... and they do not need to exaggerate their mysticism because they are above all exaggeration.