Real Story of Mera Sultan
Mera Sultan is the most famous drama serial in Pakistan. Basically it is a Turkish drama about life of Ottoman Sultan Suleman the Magnificent. Suleman the Magnificent was one of the most powerful Turkish caliph in history. He was the 10th ruler of Ottoman empire. He ruled over turkey from 1520 to 1566. He defeated European powers on several occasions. Even due to his great military success, he was given the title of Suleman the Magnificent by his opponents.
At that time there were three great empires in the world and all were Muslims i.e Mughal Empire in India headed by Akbar the great, Ottoman Empire in Turkey headed by Suleman the magnificent and Safavid Empire in Iran headed by Shah Abbas the great. Prefix of great or magnificent was added with name of all these three kings by their opponents. Suleman the Magnificent had become the greatest threat for whole Europe. But when we see the drama serial Mera Sultan, a very poor image of Suleman the Magnificent appears in our mind.
REAL HISTORY OF MERA SULTAN
In fact this drama serial was made to defame the greatest ottoman caliph of Ottoman empire Suleman the Magnificent. A movie was released in Turkey few years before in which the real face of Mustafa Kamal was presented. And the secular sect in the Turkey was very rejected on this movie. They decided to respond by making a drama serial against Suleman the Magnificent. Mera Sulatan is a conspiracy against rightest Muslim and secular rather liberal minority of Turkey tried to portrait a play boy image of Suleman the Magnificent in Mera Sultan.
In fact Suleman the Magnificent was a true fighter of Islam , respectable Muslim Caliph and custodian of holy Muslim places. Yes we admit that he might had some human weaknesses but he was far superior to all liberal rulers of Turkey. We own him and don’t forget that Muslim of Indo-pak launched the greatest movement in the history of world (Caliphate Movement) to protect the caliphate in Turkey. Turkish people still recognize the sacrifices of Muslims of Subcontinent during that movement. Geo TV should also show the movie on the life of Mustafa Kamal. That movie clearly shows that Mustafa Kamal was a play boy and drinker.This movie helped the present ruling party in Turkey in winning the election.
Mera Sultan is an attempt to take revenge from rightest Muslims by the leftest element of Turkey. It does not represent the real history of Turkey. It is a fantasy and a part of anti rightest movement. The dresses shown in Mera Sultan don’t represent the culture of Turkey at that time.Suleman the Magnificent conquered the vast area of Africa and Europe. His naval fleet was the strongest fleet of that time. Which ruled over Mediterranean Sea. He led most of his life in expeditions against European countries. He became the victim of his wife’s conspiracy otherwise he was a true fighter. If Suleman the Magnificent, was wrong then how we can say that Orangzaib Alamgir was right. Think, its a food for thought for you.
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Agreed
i just want to know if he was a good prince why he could not be able to judge the minister ibrahim, and the prince mustafa and only for his life he killed his capable son.
These two were his blunders due to conspiracy of his wife. Some times love makes a person blind. We are not saying at all that he was an ideal person but he defeated European powers many times. Liberal turks made this series in response of movie against Atta Turk. They just want to prove that Muslim rulers used to spend most of their time in the company of females. But Suleman The Magnificent title was given to him by his opponents due to hiss bravery in battle field. Alamgir committed more crimes than him but due to his services for Islam we respect him. Same is the case with Suleman.
in my view,if an average man is appointed for exective post,he automatically seems to be capable or efficient,or deserving because all the system which is already running ,he also become the part of it without using his own effort.so is the case with all the kings and emperors.they do themselves nothing but their team of ministers if capable to do something then every body praise king.if army and army chief is strong and brave then all credet for success goes to king .he himself do nothing but indulge himself only in women or party time.highly insecure for his empire,highly bewaqoof,kano ka kach jahil badsha.i would never praise his single task or adventure.
According to European History only.. Roxelana used to use such powerful black magic for King Suleman to keep him under her clutches… & forever madly in love with her! Black magic can not be fought!!!! :'(
In the first place according to old books of history. … Roxelana was selected, trained & planted at Top kapi palace by the Europeans only….as their millions of attempts to create a fall for the Ottoman Empire had failed. So they conspired & wanted to weaken the King & the coming generations since he had become an invincible threat to their rule in Europe!
Extremely sad that Suleman got killed his most trusted companion & Grand Vizier Ibrahim & his son Mustafa but that served European interests with whom Roxelana was secretly hand in hand!
I am quoting from a Western historic website:
“Hurrem sultan was widely believed to be a witch who had put a spell on the sultan with voodoo incantations and potions. In 1554, the Austrian ambassador Busbek wrote that he was informed that there were women in the capital who supplied Hurrem sultan with bones from the skulls of hyenas which were believed to be a very strong aphrodisiac. “But none of them,” he adds, “agreed to sell these bones to me saying they were meant exclusively for Hurrem sultan who, they said, made the sultan continuously attached to her by making love potions and other magic means.” It was a wide-spread popular belief that Suleyman was so obedient to his wife in everything because of the magic spell that she put on him. It was she, people said, who was behind the sultan’s decisions to have Ibrahim, his closest friend and vizier, and Mustafa, his first-born son from one of his wives and heir to the throne, put to death. It was after Mustafa’s death that Selim, Roxolana’s son, became the heir apparent. Unfortunately, Selim did not inherit much either from father or his mother. He was notorious for his excessive drinking and cruelty which, even by the then Muslim standards, was unwarranted and extreme. Later, he was called by historians Selim II the Drunk.
The Ukrainian captives who were sold into Turkish households and, all the more so, who were taken into harems, had to undergo conversion into Islam. Ottoman historians mention that Roxolana showed a great Muslim zeal; she even had a mosque built in Istanbul. Ironically, the money for the mosque were accumulated from the fees that the Christian pilgrims had to pay for visiting the holy sites in Jerusalem. These fees were not imposed either by Roxolana or Suleyman — they had been charged long before Suleyman came to power. Incidentally, Suleyman imposed certain fees on the mosques as well, whenever he needed extra money.
Death and memory
Roxolana died in 1558 and Suleyman in 1566. He had Roxolana’s remains buried in a resplendent tomb in the mosque he built, Suleymaniye, one of the great architectural landmarks of the Ottoman Empire. The later years of Suleyman were troubled by conflict between his sons, the princes Selim and Bayezid over the succession to the throne, which ended with the defeat and execution of Bayezid. Suleyman himself died while besieging the fortress of Szigetvar in Hungary.
The German historian Hammer wrote in his History of the Ottoman Empire, published in 1834: “[In this mosque] there is a tomb of a Rusynka [Slavic woman from Ukraine] who thanks to her charm and talent managed to rise from the base position of a slave to the lofty level of a legal royal wife; later, when her beauty had long faded, she became the sultan’s closest and only friend who controlled him thanks to her wit and will. The responsibility for the killing of two viziers and for the filicide when Suleyman ordered the execution of his son Mustafa is laid at her feet… This Rusynka ruled her husband, the greatest of Ottoman monarchs, in a way similar to that in which he ruled his dominions…”