Re: Pasban Mil Gaye Kaabe Ko Sanam Khane Se?
Uz Sister your absolutely right. In the times of Changez Khan majority of the Mongol nation believed in Shamanic belief systems much simmilar to the ancient beliefs of the Native Americans. When Changez began his campaign of the West his eldest son Jochi conquered most of the North and what was then the Kingdom of the Russ (Russia).
Jochi Khan passed through the former Kingdom of Qaurezm and decided to leave the path of his Father and take up Islam. He was still a warrior like his father and he still had the luck to be taught by the best generals of the Khan but Jochi who changed his name to Yusef Khan after becoming Muslim did not return to his father when ordered to do so.
Yusef it seems had rebelled and taken his Tuman of 10,000 troops and thier fammilies and headed far away from his Father. Eventually Changez sent Yusefs old tutor general Subadai to bring him back. Some suggest Subadai was actually ordered to kill Yusef. Whatever the case Yusef either died in battle or was killed by Subadai and his Tuman was bought back to the Mongol nation but the damage had been done.
Changez it seems never recovered from the shock of losing his first son and the tuman that returned to him soon left him just as fast. The Tuman of Yusef khan would again be at the spearhead of a second and deeper Western Invasion that would take them all the way to Viena.
Yusefs Son’s Batu and Berke would also become Muslim and lead what became the “Golden Horde” the most famed of the Mongol hordes that would rule Russia and much of Eastern Europe for the next hundred years or so.
Berke in particular would become a rival of Hulagu Khan. Hulagu was grandson of Changez just like Berke but wheras Berke was son of Yusef, Hulagu was son of a Christian mother and his father was I think Ogedai Khan who was Shamanic.
Hulagu would fight Berke in a bloody civil war and this would tear up the Mongol nation.
Eventually the Mongols in the West would win and slowly take both the lands of Chagatai and the Il Khanate.