Ok,I received this as a forwarded email, so thought to share it with all of you!
Plz Read this all b4 April 1st.its not fool..Most of us celebrate April fool day every year and fool each other. But how many of us know the bitter facts hidden behind it.It was around a thousand years ago that Spain was ruled by Muslims.And the Muslim power in was so strong that it couldn’t be destroyed.The Christians of the west wished to wipe out Islam from all parts of the world and they did succeed to quite an extent. But when they tried to eliminate Islam in Spain and conquer it, they failed. They tried several times but never succeeded. The unbelievers then sent their spy in Spain to study the Muslims there and find out what was the power they possessed andthey found that their power was TAQWA. The Muslims of Spain were not justMuslims but they were practicing Muslims. They not only read the Quran butalso acted upon it. When the Christians found the power of the Muslimsthey started thinking of strategies to break this power. So they startedsending alcohol and](Yahoo | Mail, Weather, Search, Politics, News, Finance, Sports & Videos) cigarettes to Spain free of cost.. This technique of the west worked out and it started weakening the faith of the Muslims in particular the young generation of Spain.
**The result was that the Catholics of the west wiped out Islam and conquered the entire Spain bringing an end to the EIGHT HUNDRED LONG YEARS’ RULE OF THE MUSLIMS in . The last fort of the Muslims to fall was Grenada (Gharnatah), which was on the 1st of April. From that year onwards, every year they celebrate April fools day on the 1st of April, celebrating the day, they made a fool of the Muslims.They did not make a fool of the Muslim army at Gharnatah only, but of the whole Muslim Ummah. We, the Muslims, were fooled by the unbelievers. Theyhave a reason to celebrate April fool day, to keep up the spirit. Dear brothers and sisters, when we join in thiscelebration, we do so out of ignorance. If we had known about it, we would neverhave celebrated our own downfall. So now, that we are aware of it, and nowlet us promise that we shall never celebrate this day. We should learn our lesson from the](Yahoo | Mail, Weather, Search, Politics, News, Finance, Sports & Videos) people of , and shall try to become practicing Muslims, never to let anybody weaken our faith. **
I’m sceptical about this, i’ve studied Spanish History in my spare time… and whilst i don’t deny what happened to the Muslims in Spain, i don’t think the above is historically correct. The reconquest of Spain happened in 1492, on the 2nd of January when King Abu 'abd Allah Muhammad XII (or Boabdil which is a spanish b*stardisation of his name) surrendered the keys of the Alhambra Palace in Granada to the Castilian soldiers.