Im not even done yet but had to pause to say this… thank you this is yet another masterpiece man. I really appreciate your work. Its a crying shame that these videos dont get millions of views. The amount of work you put into this should be rewarded.. what you have is special you remind me of a history teacher i had years ago when i was a kid in schools he made history fun to learn and thats what you do. Again Thanks so much
Afghans have made many enemies, just because they wanted to stay neutral and sovereign country between the powers, in this process half the world don't like us, this is why his videos don't get likes.
@@Mu5tyLaghmaniI think half the world are probably just ignorant. I don’t think it’s they don’t like you. They just have no interest in learning anything outside of themselves. Each to their own but it’s how they live in peace. Remaining ignorant
@@HikmaHistory Try to make a video on Hotak Empire. They were the first state builders in Afghan history. Ruled Iran and defeated Ottoman army. Mirwais Hotak did it
As a sikh i think u should've talked about zamzama canon or zamzam touf which durrani made it played a big role in afgan and sikh history but great video indeed.
I’m Qizilbash from 🇦🇫 from my mothers side and she is a direct decendant of dervish ali beqq he wasn’t a hazara but he was from Gilan originally and a Qizilbash wiki is incorrect about it
Thank you, sir, for posting little known history ie. rarely known in the world in general. As a lifelong student of history, this channel is much appreciated.
The good news is that they are no longer India's contagious neighbours. The British, in their great Wisdom created a filter, and now they are enjoying the pleasure of being direct neighbours of the afghans, and vice versa. The results are visible to the whole world. And we are enjoying the circus.
This earned you a subscriber. I love history and, being your average person growing up in North America, my history education was extremely white and Christian-centered. Hearing these stories of people I'd never heard of is both fascinating and rewarding. Can't wait to see what you do next :)
I would like to add that Afghan (Pashtun) comes from the word Aspaghan or Apighan which means the noble horse rider We always existed but we are considered Iranic ( not Persian but related)
No it’s not in history, in our oral and Ahmad’s shah baba gave the historically accurate accounts of the word Afghan coming from the grandson of the Prophet Suleiman AS Malik Afghana that’s common knowledge in Pashtun history
I really enjoy these historical videos not told from the perspective of europe. While its easy to see europeans viewing the world as revolving around their politics, in the times and places of history things were very much local affairs to the inhabitants
Strange they claim to be there since pre Alexandrian times but had only two short-lived empires. Their area had been the playground of Persians, Greeks, Huns, Turks . only their difficult terrain saved them from their overlords.
Iran Tajikistan and Afghanistan don't have separate history and any ruler has changed or who took the power was an internal affair not from an external force.
The poem he wrote to Afghanistan is so beautiful I’d never heard that before, the fact that half of Pashtuns now sell out and call themselves Pakistanis is an insult to this great heritage
There pakistani pashtuns that hate the Pakistani army and government more than the afghans, so depends on what education they've recieved, plenty of pathans in pakistan who are sell outs due to propaganda.
Just a question; if you guys call Nadir Shah a great man after he looted and caused so much grief to India, are we Indians allowed to call Hitler a great man for what he did? After all, both are historical figures, aren’t they? Or is it devastating only when the victims are white?
Hitler wanted the afghans to support him kept calling us the ancient aryans and so the afghans of the time rejected him, afghans got more choice than 99% of the world, we don't care for a weak ethnics opinion.
@@c0detearz320yes Afghans whose womens got sandwiched from all sides and give birth to mixed babies is what is known as Aryans... Today's Afghans are semetic people not Aryans. Nor there's any Aryan culture left in Afghanistan. Afghanistan is a land of semetic belief.
Alot of peoples says in comment that Sikhs won some battle because of Britishers support. Bro Sikhs has a long history and resaon to fight with afgans. When britisher are even not close to Sikhs from that time sikhs gave tought fights to afgans. Even abdali himself failed to establish rule on Punjab. And at his death Sikh raided peshwar and Deras alot and destroy afgan camps. So that point is baseless. 2. Same Peshwar was won by Ranjeet Singh in 1820 and loosely gave to Yaar Mohammad khan who provide tribute to sikh empire and Later He was Dost Mohammad khan who bring britishers to reclaim peshwar from sikhs. He put Conditions to help if they bring back peshwar from sikh king.
@@giga9941 no he didnt. Thats just map of two empires not geographical locations. Youre too heedless to see whats right under your nose. Secondly it isnt just this video, Hikmas pro-afghan bias is evident in sevral ogher video too
Pak is Muslim version of India , Afghanistan was not part of Persian empire ever. Persian themselves were defeated by Turks mongols even Afghans and ruled by all of them. Moreover Persians and Pashtuns are related
Some.very ni e and true facts as a seek tho one minor event u forgot during timur s esrly years the death of jahan khan and his explusi. Explusion during that period much respect to all brave hearts may they use there bravery for the good of humanity . Keep up the honest and true brave heart way you present things even when they compliment an opposite force a true sign of mard My brother in that sense most definently💙🙏☝️💙 Mundeep SINGH MOHAHBHAT FATHE Zulm Maar AHkaaL Sahaiyee
As I live in Pakistan near the Afghanistan border in kpk I totally disagree with this map which where I live is showing of indian territory that is totally wrong
And also brother south asian turk iran afg punjab we have so many similirtoes lang culture word etc. I have most definently understood there is a defiente old relationship like cousin tribes thatnhave been waring with each other. Oh you also forgot zaman shah sforces being repeled by young shere punjab runJeet (battle field winner) singh
One of the major achievement of Ahmed Shah Durrani was to eliminate the power of Marathas. He could have done the same to the Sikhs but they chickened out or were rather not ready to face such an ambitious people with an ambitious ruler. Sikhs did get organised several years later when they were headed by an ambitious leader who rose up to the occasion to face the sons of Ahmed Shah however they were busy fighting each other.
Gureilla warfare isn’t chickening out its an art of war thats how modern afghans fight the sikhs back then were tiny in number compared to all these others it was the best strategy for the time
I don't get it. Why Naser al-Din Shah Qajar did not offer to buy Herat from Emir Dost Muhammad Khan? After all, everyone likes money. And more money means the stronger capability to buy more resources and hire more peoples. And yes, I know that he just lost a war in the Caucasus against Russia. But if he made a deal with the British and the Afghans to purchase Herat instead of an outright annexing it by conquest, his country's relations with Britain might be better and the Emirate of Kabul might even entered into an alliance with Iran to oppose Russia together in the Great Game between Britain and Russia.
@@Historyteller346 This is why I added the British into the context as well. If the Afghans are unwilling to sell Herat, the British might be willing to accept such a deal. And the Shah can do this without actually talking with the Afghans' government at the time.
@yteller346 Okay, at this point. I don't get it. They controlled so many cities in their realm already. Giving up Herat to Iran does not mean the end of the world at all and the relations between Iran and the Afghans may even improved. Plus, they can used the money gained from this purchase to buy more weapons and hiring more peoples into the government and the military. What can they gained by keeping it? If it's because it happened to be the capital at the time, then have the capital relocated to cities like Kabul instead.
Afghanistan has no memory prior to Islam. The reality is, Afghan was Zoroastrian before which Buddhist and before that Hindu...very little knowledge of its history remains...😢
Brother if you could broth look into the fact that i have uncovered which i m sure have been hidden by evil sources brit . That we all had a conection to Assyria and there empire was much further when we are showne by western sources all the way to Punjab including afg iran etc.
Alhamdulillah, Punjab was the Graveyard of Durrani Pashtuns, and Inshallah, the great Nation of Punjab will be United one day under the Banner of Panjabiat
@@EquatorMarsupial won't happen without go ahead of British, British aided ranjit Singh in the past so you really need that white wash to call you martial... you neeeeeeed it
😂😂😂😂😂who is Our Bugistan father now just tell me American before British used to be which was defeated by our forefathers ...your still got command from London till this day I am from Pakistan you can't say I am wrong
@@mrjaja7303 Balochistan is built on stolen Sindhi lands. There was no Balochistan before 1877. British created the artificial buffer state of Afghanistan.
Combative isn’t an adjective to describe fighting ability. It means quarrelsome. “Pashtuns are combative”, doesn’t mean they’re good at fighting, it means they argue a lot. Problematic doesn’t mean the same as difficult, it means causing problems as in generating them, but not hard as such - for instance “Russian interest in Afghanistan was problematic for Britain” but not “Control was problematic.” Lots of minor errors like this in the video where words are used inappropriately. You don’t lay ‘a siege succesfully’. ‘Laid siege successfully’ without the indefinite article. Or better ‘besieged succesfully’. You can’t say Sikhs were emboldened by a massacre of their civilians. Emboldenment comes from a success, not a setback. Some proof reading needed. Great video except for the quirky almost fluent English. PS a rotting nose suggests syphilis strongly or less likely leprosy.
Brave warrior people, without a doubt. But what Afghans consider a virtue is only the visible face of the true hidden tragedy. Nothing good and lasting comes from permanent war. Military conflicts devour human, material and economic resources. Soldiers do not produce what they consume and almost always oppress the common people, making requisitions for goods, food and money that are not paid. Successful military leaders are not always great statesmen. Everything they build is fragile and destroyed by endemic violence. Peaceful people are generally more powerful, happier and developed. It's funny to see Israelis imitating the 18th century Afghans in the 21st century. This is the beginning of the end of Tel Aviv's power.
Afghanistan is a very strategic place and Pashtuns in general have a pretty good heart and welcoming but a lot of people take advantage of that which is why we get wars over and over plus Afghanistan is just beautiful everything about Afghanistan is just beautiful that’s why almost every tribe and nationality be settling there 😂
@@samiullahdawoodzai3417 Not really. Pushtuns have black heart. They hate almost everyone be it Punjabi, Tajik, Hazara, Uzbek, Sindhi etc. Its this limitless grandiosity, arrogance and that never let them built anything long lasting. No other nation has produce a higher number of suicide bombers and child killers than Pushtuns aka khuwarij.
@@samiullahdawoodzai3417And, Afghanistan is not that strategic place. If that was a case, it would get conquered by everyone. In fact, the reason that empires had hard time conquering it is because that place is so useless that noone except purely ignorant pushtun can live there. No British, Russian or American consider it worthy to die for that useless piece of rock. In fact, pushtuns too try to escape even if they have to climb on aeroplane wings and take the risk of certain death to do that. Armies need fertile land and water to sustain themselves. Something that is not possible in place like qabristan.
@@ghazanhussain2070In polite, simple and practical language, Afghanistan is a crossroads. It has nothing of value by itself, but is located at the junction of 3 civilization's. The Persian. Indian and Chinese. Afghanistan could have been the Switzerland of Asia. Except for ONE big problem. Guess what that is?
@@ghazanhussain2070If the USSR really thought Afghanistan was useless, they wouldn't have spent 10 years fighting there. The same for the USA, except it was double the time (20 years)...
@@HikmaHistory One can certainly argue that it's not an often practiced virtue of thr afghan society, but they do value it. They resisted foreign ideologies like communism or democracy & the domination that other countries tried to force on them fiercely, that's why I think they don't value democracy. But they do have a strong national pride even in times of disunity. And when asked about the greates achiements of the afghans they almost always point to periods of history, when they conquered their neighbors united under some king or emir. But that's just my experience with afghans & I could be wrong.
The British gave the name Afghanistan to Afghanistan. The Durranis considered themselves as the leaders of the Durrani tribe and the kings of Kabulistan/Khorasan. Afghanistan was later coined by the British when abdur rahman was put in place who wanted to centralize the decentralised tribes and ethnicities of Afghanistan massacring against Uzbeks, Hazaras and other Turks & Tajiks as well as force moving of Pashtuns into non Pashtun lands essentially colonising the lands with the assistants of the British. This policy continues after Rahmans children and other awghan dynasties. Till to this day Afghanistan has these ethnic and linguistic issues.
cezayer musket means the musket from algeria that's because the firing mechanism was of algerian origin and was spread through the islamic world by ottomans arms makers
@@demonmenace4657 not even then. They only got Peshawar for 5 yrs while we GALLOPED over them on our way to Delhi 100 times. Also this entire Pashtun land actually belonged to Western Punjabis in history. So Sikhs only got 10% of their own land back and got happy forever. That too for just a few years
Not any more, as Sikhs now are Rappers, Drug Pushers, Christian converts, Canadian Converts, Gangsters and Kalistanis...the list goes on...time for reflection 😔
We Hazaras did a strategical mistake to not take control over our lands, consequence of this is today’s situation of us Hazaras, genocide, occupation of our lands and living with “Afghans “ terrorists.
And the sad thing is no one talks about hazara. You would think how much turkey likes to show turkic brotherhood they would at least talk about hazaras
@@ShubhamMishrabro well we lost our power after pashtoon occupation of Hazaristan. If you don’t have power then people don’t care, even our own blood like Uzbek, Turkmen or Turkey… A sad but true statement
@@mahdihassani3196 true no one cares for hazaras and the way Taliban is operating i don't think anything good is coming out. Just like yazidi of iraq the hazaras are irrelevant to world
Kalakani had control of Kabul and parts of northern Afghanistan he never controlled all of Afghanistan and he was considered a rebel so that’s why he’s not mentioned as a king.
LOLOL I never heard of Somalian warriors , total opposite. Your country has been ruled and vassalized for centuries. Im not African, yet compared to Ethiopia you guys are just a mere shadow
With my 60 years of life I have practiced trying to learn something new each day. Today Hikma history has assisted in that adventure. This has been very informative and entertaining and you have helped me on my journey of knowledge toward an era of History I have known nothing about... For this I thank you
@@HikmaHistory The Lodi sultanate was more like a regional kingdom than an empire. The Hotaks did proclaim themselves emperors (Shahanshahs) of Iran, but they only ever effectively controlled a fraction of their claimed territories. So, the Hotak monarchs were only emperors in name, and their "empire" a very short-lived one that was killed in its cradle.
Lodhi, Sur , Karrani, hotaki, azad khan empires . Detable Khilji aswell/ also bahmani sultanate. Although throughout historic text they were referred to as Turko Afghan. These are the mostly Pashtun related empires . There were numerous other empires formed by Turks / Persians / Tajiks from present day Afghanistan. You need to do more research
@@Alexander-lb1on You seem not to know the definition of empire. As I wrote in my previous reply here to HakimaHistory (which I'm guessing he deleted), among all those that you mentioned only the extremely short-lived Suri state can perhaps be considered a legitimate Pashtun empire (which I admit I didn't know about before reading your comment). All the others were relatively small regional sultanates/kingdoms. I think it's an stretch to consider the short-lived Hotak state an actual empire, since at their height they only ever controlled a small fraction of the lands they claimed. And if you had paid attention, you would notice that I'm only talking about empires run by PASHTUNS. Even though the Khilji dynasty had risen out of Afghan lands, they were no less Turkic than the Qajars, Safavids, or Afshars (who we don't ever call "Perso-Turkic").
Something interesting to note is that after shah shoja the Sikh / British vassal was killed dost mohamad khan and maharaja sher Singh of the Sikh empire became allies
@@HikmaHistory I guess the afghans and Sikhs saw more in common with one another at that point. Even dost mohamad if he wanted to could’ve sided with the British in the second Anglo Sikh war to retake old land but he decided to help the Khalsa, same people who destroyed his own empire instead. Even a lot of tribal chiefs sided with the Khalsa against the English. Truly shows how interesting history can be.
What dreams are you living kid 😂😂😂 dost muhammad khan was a unknown man who rose to prominence through his abilities and he was not harmed by sicks he died naturally and also tha sudhans of kashmir was tha reason tha sicks lost both anglo wars against british Likewise tha tanolis though being a small group become tha very major player in tha downfall of sick confederacy in less then 48 years These bengali troops sudhan soilders and tha tanolis along side britishs put an end to tha sick confederacy once and for all.
Nothing shameful about it. The citizens of Dehli should not have attacked the Afsharid army who occupied Dehli because the Mughals refused to hand over Hottali chiefs.
@@K55365 and no one was harbouring anyone in delhi too. If you think killing all people for actions of few justifies it then it tells me a lot about you and your ideology
20:36 is not entirely true. There were many pitched battles abdali fought with the Sikhs such as Chenab, and Lahore in which huge armies of the afghans were destroyed or routed by the Khalsa, such as the aforementioned battle of Chenab as recorded in the book “Sikh history in Persian sources” by irfan habib mentions how a huge army of abdalis was beaten by charat Singh (grandfather of maharaja Ranjit Singh) in a pitched battle along the river Chenab.
Excellent video. Wonderful artwork on display throughout this video. Such a illustrious history that not many know about. Thank you. I think you are right in that it takes more than being warriors to maintain an empire, how long can an empire survive on raiding and looting. The video in a nutshell demonstrates the cureable sickness that muslims world wide have suffered from for at least the past 250 years - disunity, no common goal just self interest and / or tribal interest.The ending is quite poignant and indicative of the core issue in that we contemplate the quaran and Islam when we are old, when youth and vigour has departed. It should contemplated when we have the exuberance of youth and the greater ability to persuade and unify.
@@hke.4475Afghanistan has been independent for just 3 years after 42 years of continuous warfare. What do you expect to see at the moment ? Use your brain next time...🤦
@@hke.4475When did i say they were the richest ? Stop trying to make me say things i never said. Afghanistan was not poor or rich before the wars but it was doing well and developing rapidly before the wars started...
Hotaks: Do a small video on the Hotak tribe. They destroyed the mighty Persian Empire and defeated the the Ottoman army as well? They were the mightiest armies at that time? Like someone defeating America and Russia. Impossible to imagine.
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What a great documentary. Also whats the name of the music at 2:32
Please study history a bit more
Im not even done yet but had to pause to say this… thank you this is yet another masterpiece man. I really appreciate your work. Its a crying shame that these videos dont get millions of views. The amount of work you put into this should be rewarded..
what you have is special you remind me of a history teacher i had years ago when i was a kid in schools he made history fun to learn and thats what you do. Again Thanks so much
Thank you very much for the lovely message!
Afghans have made many enemies, just because they wanted to stay neutral and sovereign country between the powers, in this process half the world don't like us, this is why his videos don't get likes.
@@Mu5tyLaghmaniI think half the world are probably just ignorant.
I don’t think it’s they don’t like you. They just have no interest in learning anything outside of themselves. Each to their own but it’s how they live in peace. Remaining ignorant
@@HikmaHistory Try to make a video on Hotak Empire. They were the first state builders in Afghan history. Ruled Iran and defeated Ottoman army. Mirwais Hotak did it
As a sikh i think u should've talked about zamzama canon or zamzam touf which durrani made it played a big role in afgan and sikh history but great video indeed.
You're right, I could've mentioned it briefly. I will be making a video on Dost Mohammad Khan this year, so I can bring it up in that video.
I’m Qizilbash from 🇦🇫 from my mothers side and she is a direct decendant of dervish ali beqq he wasn’t a hazara but he was from Gilan originally and a Qizilbash wiki is incorrect about it
Greetings from Iran!
Do you or your family speak Turkish, or Persian?
No one cares.
@@tysonclark5974Well I care actually
@@tysonclark5974We all care Tyson Clark
@@tysonclark5974and I care stfu bozo
The absolute best . So excited every time you upload! I love history about Afghanistan
What a lovely comment!
@@HikmaHistory btw bro Afghans dont even LOOK like Afghans in your documentary
Thank you, sir, for posting little known history ie. rarely known in the world in general. As a lifelong student of history, this channel is much appreciated.
So nice of you
@HikmaHistory You, sir, are so welcome. It is I who thank you.
Greetings from New Zealand.
Hikma your videos are great, keep it up!
Glad you like them!
Fascinating stuff man! Thanks for the great content.
My pleasure!
Thanks for including the poetry.
Had fun with that part!
Thanks bro this was great 🇦🇫🤞🏽
I appreciate you!
Really enjoyed listening to this interesting insight into Afghan history .
Look forward to hearing more.
Better title suggestion: How the Afghans made for terrible awful simply no good neighbours to India. :)
Great video as always, tho.
I started reading your comment seriously then realised it's you, couldn't expect maturity from you.
Thanks brah.
The good news is that they are no longer India's contagious neighbours.
The British, in their great Wisdom created a filter, and now they are enjoying the pleasure of being direct neighbours of the afghans, and vice versa.
The results are visible to the whole world.
And we are enjoying the circus.
This earned you a subscriber. I love history and, being your average person growing up in North America, my history education was extremely white and Christian-centered. Hearing these stories of people I'd never heard of is both fascinating and rewarding. Can't wait to see what you do next :)
Always so excited when you post a new informative history thanks
Hi as an Afghan I appreciate your work to make this video.only one thing that Ahmad shah Durani was from Qandahar not Herat. Thanks
Please do about the Bengal Sultanate 🇧🇩
Impressive. Very well done.
Thank you very much!
Fantastic video, love Afghan history
Thanks!
Hikma history gets it innnn
I would like to add that Afghan (Pashtun) comes from the word Aspaghan or Apighan which means the noble horse rider We always existed but we are considered Iranic ( not Persian but related)
No it’s not in history, in our oral and Ahmad’s shah baba gave the historically accurate accounts of the word Afghan coming from the grandson of the Prophet Suleiman AS Malik Afghana that’s common knowledge in Pashtun history
Thanks for this documentary,Afghanistan has a great history and since one year i've been investigating about Middle East and India....
I really enjoy these historical videos not told from the perspective of europe. While its easy to see europeans viewing the world as revolving around their politics, in the times and places of history things were very much local affairs to the inhabitants
Great channel,well done from the uk 🇬🇧
Strange they claim to be there since pre Alexandrian times but had only two short-lived empires. Their area had been the playground of Persians, Greeks, Huns, Turks . only their difficult terrain saved them from their overlords.
Iran Tajikistan and Afghanistan don't have separate history and any ruler has changed or who took the power was an internal affair not from an external force.
Thanks for the great video @hakimahistory could you please share the source for wonderful images you have used in this video.
The poem he wrote to Afghanistan is so beautiful I’d never heard that before, the fact that half of Pashtuns now sell out and call themselves Pakistanis is an insult to this great heritage
There pakistani pashtuns that hate the Pakistani army and government more than the afghans, so depends on what education they've recieved, plenty of pathans in pakistan who are sell outs due to propaganda.
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Afghan..Abdali.. English hipthali.. this is also secand successful empire of afghan after firest hipthali empire
informative video and well explained.
Thank you for your amazing videos. Love how beautifully you pronounce all Pashto names and cities
Peace
Where you get these paintings
Graveyard of Empires
Well put together, thx
Just a question; if you guys call Nadir Shah a great man after he looted and caused so much grief to India, are we Indians allowed to call Hitler a great man for what he did? After all, both are historical figures, aren’t they? Or is it devastating only when the victims are white?
Don’t Indians call Marathas great when they killed 300 thousand people in Bengal
Jews arent white
Hitler wanted the afghans to support him kept calling us the ancient aryans and so the afghans of the time rejected him, afghans got more choice than 99% of the world, we don't care for a weak ethnics opinion.
@@hke.4475*400.000 people
@@c0detearz320yes Afghans whose womens got sandwiched from all sides and give birth to mixed babies is what is known as Aryans... Today's Afghans are semetic people not Aryans. Nor there's any Aryan culture left in Afghanistan. Afghanistan is a land of semetic belief.
That was great 👍 thanks
Can someone tell where is this man from?
Afghanistan
Great video as always 🙏🏼
Thank you my man!
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Make video on Khanate of Kalat, modern day Balochistan…
It remained either a vassal state of Afghans or Persia, there is no such thing as independent kalat or kalat empire.
The one with best bureaucracy was the Suri Empire of Sher Shah Suri or Farid Khan Lodi
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Alot of peoples says in comment that Sikhs won some battle because of Britishers support. Bro Sikhs has a long history and resaon to fight with afgans. When britisher are even not close to Sikhs from that time sikhs gave tought fights to afgans. Even abdali himself failed to establish rule on Punjab. And at his death Sikh raided peshwar and Deras alot and destroy afgan camps. So that point is baseless.
2. Same Peshwar was won by Ranjeet Singh in 1820 and loosely gave to Yaar Mohammad khan who provide tribute to sikh empire and Later He was Dost Mohammad khan who bring britishers to reclaim peshwar from sikhs. He put Conditions to help if they bring back peshwar from sikh king.
4:00 Its interesting you referred to Pakistan as part of India but not Afghanistan as part of Persia.
The pro-Afghan bias is clear in your videos.
He literally includes it as part of Persia 8 seconds later on the map you’re way too sensitive and emotion
@@giga9941 no he didnt. Thats just map of two empires not geographical locations. Youre too heedless to see whats right under your nose.
Secondly it isnt just this video, Hikmas pro-afghan bias is evident in sevral ogher video too
Pak is Muslim version of India , Afghanistan was not part of Persian empire ever. Persian themselves were defeated by Turks mongols even Afghans and ruled by all of them. Moreover Persians and Pashtuns are related
The Word Afghan is specifically used for Pashtun Tribal people of Afghanistan and Pakistan.
Some.very ni e and true facts as a seek tho one minor event u forgot during timur s esrly years the death of jahan khan and his explusi. Explusion during that period much respect to all brave hearts may they use there bravery for the good of humanity . Keep up the honest and true brave heart way you present things even when they compliment an opposite force a true sign of mard
My brother in that sense most definently💙🙏☝️💙
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As I live in Pakistan near the Afghanistan border in kpk I totally disagree with this map which where I live is showing of indian territory that is totally wrong
Abe sale,kpk indian territory hai
4:00 *says india, but includes pakistan, while excluding Bangladesh and nepal*
controversy any% speedrun
Bro do a video in early Islamic caliphate
And also brother south asian turk iran afg punjab we have so many similirtoes lang culture word etc. I have most definently understood there is a defiente old relationship like cousin tribes thatnhave been waring with each other. Oh you also forgot zaman shah sforces being repeled by young shere punjab runJeet (battle field winner) singh
Love Afghans brothers from Bharāt (India) 🇮🇳
Love from Aryavārta (Hindustan) 🇮🇳
We love great india we are now brothers
One of the major achievement of Ahmed Shah Durrani was to eliminate the power of Marathas. He could have done the same to the Sikhs but they chickened out or were rather not ready to face such an ambitious people with an ambitious ruler. Sikhs did get organised several years later when they were headed by an ambitious leader who rose up to the occasion to face the sons of Ahmed Shah however they were busy fighting each other.
It was his achievement not contribution.
Gureilla warfare isn’t chickening out its an art of war thats how modern afghans fight the sikhs back then were tiny in number compared to all these others it was the best strategy for the time
I don't get it. Why Naser al-Din Shah Qajar did not offer to buy Herat from Emir Dost Muhammad Khan? After all, everyone likes money. And more money means the stronger capability to buy more resources and hire more peoples. And yes, I know that he just lost a war in the Caucasus against Russia. But if he made a deal with the British and the Afghans to purchase Herat instead of an outright annexing it by conquest, his country's relations with Britain might be better and the Emirate of Kabul might even entered into an alliance with Iran to oppose Russia together in the Great Game between Britain and Russia.
The problem is that Afghans can't be bought. They would rather live in poverty than have their country divided or subjugated by an outside power...
@@Historyteller346 This is why I added the British into the context as well. If the Afghans are unwilling to sell Herat, the British might be willing to accept such a deal. And the Shah can do this without actually talking with the Afghans' government at the time.
@@lerneanlionThe Afghans would have refused and war would take place...
@yteller346 Okay, at this point. I don't get it. They controlled so many cities in their realm already. Giving up Herat to Iran does not mean the end of the world at all and the relations between Iran and the Afghans may even improved. Plus, they can used the money gained from this purchase to buy more weapons and hiring more peoples into the government and the military. What can they gained by keeping it? If it's because it happened to be the capital at the time, then have the capital relocated to cities like Kabul instead.
@@lerneanlionI already told you. The Afghans would rather live in poverty and fight costly wars instead of losing even just one inch of land...
Pre-british afghan culture is extremely interesting imo.
Yes it is, Hotak video coming soon!
افغانستان... آریا. مردم شریف و متمدن.
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Afghanistan has no memory prior to Islam.
The reality is, Afghan was Zoroastrian before which Buddhist and before that Hindu...very little knowledge of its history remains...😢
Brother if you could broth look into the fact that i have uncovered which i m sure have been hidden by evil sources brit . That we all had a conection to Assyria and there empire was much further when we are showne by western sources all the way to Punjab including afg iran etc.
Durani or Abdali is title given .Actual tribe of Ahmed Shah is SADOZAI.
Popal zai tribe
who says they lost it...... they still cant and havnt been conquered..good for them
Alhamdulillah, Punjab was the Graveyard of Durrani Pashtuns, and Inshallah, the great Nation of Punjab will be United one day under the Banner of Panjabiat
Hahahahha
As a Sikh we would support a multi faith Punjab
@@EquatorMarsupial won't happen without go ahead of British, British aided ranjit Singh in the past so you really need that white wash to call you martial... you neeeeeeed it
@@c0detearz320 Sikhs have always bested you Mussalmans in battle.
Battle of Sagrahi
Look it up
Shah Shuja wept like a girl when M Ranjit Singh took the Kohinoor off him….pussy
Now Pashtuns will never loot Punnab and India ever now.
British looted you whilst we defeated them, better know who daddy is boy
😂😂😂😂😂who is Our Bugistan father now just tell me American before British used to be which was defeated by our forefathers ...your still got command from London till this day I am from Pakistan you can't say I am wrong
Now Punjab is looting Pakhtunkhwa and Balochistan in return. All Punjabi army companies own Pakhtunkhwa petroleum gas and minerals.
@@mrjaja7303 Balochistan is built on stolen Sindhi lands. There was no Balochistan before 1877. British created the artificial buffer state of Afghanistan.
Combative isn’t an adjective to describe fighting ability. It means quarrelsome. “Pashtuns are combative”, doesn’t mean they’re good at fighting, it means they argue a lot. Problematic doesn’t mean the same as difficult, it means causing problems as in generating them, but not hard as such - for instance “Russian interest in Afghanistan was problematic for Britain” but not “Control was problematic.” Lots of minor errors like this in the video where words are used inappropriately. You don’t lay ‘a siege succesfully’. ‘Laid siege successfully’ without the indefinite article. Or better ‘besieged succesfully’. You can’t say Sikhs were emboldened by a massacre of their civilians. Emboldenment comes from a success, not a setback. Some proof reading needed.
Great video except for the quirky almost fluent English.
PS a rotting nose suggests syphilis strongly or less likely leprosy.
Brave warrior people, without a doubt. But what Afghans consider a virtue is only the visible face of the true hidden tragedy. Nothing good and lasting comes from permanent war. Military conflicts devour human, material and economic resources. Soldiers do not produce what they consume and almost always oppress the common people, making requisitions for goods, food and money that are not paid. Successful military leaders are not always great statesmen. Everything they build is fragile and destroyed by endemic violence. Peaceful people are generally more powerful, happier and developed. It's funny to see Israelis imitating the 18th century Afghans in the 21st century. This is the beginning of the end of Tel Aviv's power.
Afghanistan is a very strategic place and Pashtuns in general have a pretty good heart and welcoming but a lot of people take advantage of that which is why we get wars over and over plus Afghanistan is just beautiful everything about Afghanistan is just beautiful that’s why almost every tribe and nationality be settling there 😂
@@samiullahdawoodzai3417 Not really. Pushtuns have black heart. They hate almost everyone be it Punjabi, Tajik, Hazara, Uzbek, Sindhi etc. Its this limitless grandiosity, arrogance and that never let them built anything long lasting. No other nation has produce a higher number of suicide bombers and child killers than Pushtuns aka khuwarij.
@@samiullahdawoodzai3417And, Afghanistan is not that strategic place. If that was a case, it would get conquered by everyone. In fact, the reason that empires had hard time conquering it is because that place is so useless that noone except purely ignorant pushtun can live there. No British, Russian or American consider it worthy to die for that useless piece of rock. In fact, pushtuns too try to escape even if they have to climb on aeroplane wings and take the risk of certain death to do that. Armies need fertile land and water to sustain themselves. Something that is not possible in place like qabristan.
@@ghazanhussain2070In polite, simple and practical language, Afghanistan is a crossroads.
It has nothing of value by itself, but is located at the junction of 3 civilization's. The Persian. Indian and Chinese.
Afghanistan could have been the Switzerland of Asia. Except for ONE big problem.
Guess what that is?
@@ghazanhussain2070If the USSR really thought Afghanistan was useless, they wouldn't have spent 10 years fighting there. The same for the USA, except it was double the time (20 years)...
Afghans don't value democracy. Afghans value unity. Those can be & often are very different things.
I disagree - unity is not a strong suit of the Afghans, unfortunately. It’s a common feature in tribal societies.
@@HikmaHistory One can certainly argue that it's not an often practiced virtue of thr afghan society, but they do value it. They resisted foreign ideologies like communism or democracy & the domination that other countries tried to force on them fiercely, that's why I think they don't value democracy. But they do have a strong national pride even in times of disunity. And when asked about the greates achiements of the afghans they almost always point to periods of history, when they conquered their neighbors united under some king or emir.
But that's just my experience with afghans & I could be wrong.
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You never had an empire
Durrani, Hotak?
Durrani hotak gilzi/khilji Ghori ghaznavid(turco-Afghan) kerlani suri Lodhis azad khan Afghan sadozai dynasty and many more😂
Ahmed Shah was invited by Shah Waliullah, a powerfulDelhi based scholar to defend the Moghals from Marathas.
@@FarabiOSina nope that's part of the history books. You can't brush it off like that.
Islamic Pakistan recently deported 1.7 million Afgans been there over 40 years
Pakistan is not islamic, its a pawn for the british and Americans
@@c0detearz320Pakistan is islamic mainly because the founders of Pakistan were pawns of British. It's islamic republic of Pakistan
@@Judah_889 I know, fake country
@@Judah_889 again another thread where my comment doesn't show on my own RUclips and you see it
Afghan Empire ⁉️‼️🤣🤣
Yes ?
The British gave the name Afghanistan to Afghanistan. The Durranis considered themselves as the leaders of the Durrani tribe and the kings of Kabulistan/Khorasan. Afghanistan was later coined by the British when abdur rahman was put in place who wanted to centralize the decentralised tribes and ethnicities of Afghanistan massacring against Uzbeks, Hazaras and other Turks & Tajiks as well as force moving of Pashtuns into non Pashtun lands essentially colonising the lands with the assistants of the British. This policy continues after Rahmans children and other awghan dynasties. Till to this day Afghanistan has these ethnic and linguistic issues.
Inaccurate informations
What's the background music at 23:53
cezayer musket means the musket from algeria that's because the firing mechanism was of algerian origin and was spread through the islamic world by ottomans arms makers
It’s Jezail, not Jezair - I don’t know the etymology but it don’t sound like it has a connection to Algiers
@@HikmaHistory yeah it doesn't change Anything it's pronunciation mistake but even jezail doesn't mean Anything
Nader shah wasn’t Iranian 😂 he was a turcoman afshar meaning Azerbaijani Turk
The series on Afghanistan is back lets goo. Love this afghan series from you tariq. Keep up the great work brother.
They trembled when faced by the Sikhs
The sikhs used guerilla warfare and when they fought face to face at the battle of amritsar your baba deep singh Ji's head went flying
During the time of Ahmed Shah Abdali the Afghans clearly dominated the Sikhs after his death, The Sikhs got the upper hand.
@@demonmenace4657 not even then. They only got Peshawar for 5 yrs while we GALLOPED over them on our way to Delhi 100 times.
Also this entire Pashtun land actually belonged to Western Punjabis in history. So Sikhs only got 10% of their own land back and got happy forever. That too for just a few years
Not any more, as Sikhs now are Rappers, Drug Pushers, Christian converts, Canadian Converts, Gangsters and Kalistanis...the list goes on...time for reflection 😔
We Hazaras did a strategical mistake to not take control over our lands, consequence of this is today’s situation of us Hazaras, genocide, occupation of our lands and living with “Afghans “ terrorists.
And the sad thing is no one talks about hazara. You would think how much turkey likes to show turkic brotherhood they would at least talk about hazaras
@@ShubhamMishrabro well we lost our power after pashtoon occupation of Hazaristan. If you don’t have power then people don’t care, even our own blood like Uzbek, Turkmen or Turkey…
A sad but true statement
@@mahdihassani3196 true no one cares for hazaras and the way Taliban is operating i don't think anything good is coming out. Just like yazidi of iraq the hazaras are irrelevant to world
@@mahdihassani3196why arent u hazara shias helping iran fight with isrhell?
@@shahmoneyshahmoney9250 why should we do that?
Is iran our country? No
Is Palestinians Hazara? No
We don’t have any ties with Iran or Palestinians!
The existence of Afghanistan is a symbol of power against colonial powers
Ironic thay Afghaniatan itself was invading other kingdoms, colonizing it along the way.
I saw "Afghanistan", and then "Hikma History", and then 18h ago.
I clicked so enthusiastically my controller cracked.
Haha thank you! Much more Afghan content coming this year.
3:43 Yes, except when Afghanistan was ruled by Habibullah Kalakani, who was the only Tajik king in Afghan history.
Kalakani had control of Kabul and parts of northern Afghanistan he never controlled all of Afghanistan and he was considered a rebel so that’s why he’s not mentioned as a king.
Because he is something like a meme for most Afghans. And im not talking about Pashto people only. Maybe you know about his nickname 😅
Long live Pashtuns from a Baloch bro
Baloch are slaves of pushtoons
Love Afghanistan 🇦🇫 from Somalia 🇸🇴 they are true warriors like us ❤
LOLOL
I never heard of Somalian warriors , total opposite. Your country has been ruled and vassalized for centuries.
Im not African, yet compared to Ethiopia you guys are just a mere shadow
Didn’t Somalia invade Ethiopia, get their teeth kicked in and then collapse into anarchy?
The biggest mistake afghans did was not focus on Ranjit Singh
With my 60 years of life I have practiced trying to learn something new each day. Today Hikma history has assisted in that adventure. This has been very informative and entertaining and you have helped me on my journey of knowledge toward an era of History I have known nothing about... For this I thank you
Wonderful!
I learned so much about the history of my birth place - thank you for the creator of this video.
My pleasure watandar!
Brother make an video on first Afghan empire of India. The Lodhi Afghan empire. Thank you for your great content.
Your thumbnail implies that the Afghans (Pashtuns) had other empires other than the Durani empire in their history, which is false.
What about the Hotak or Lodhi Empires?
@@HikmaHistory The Lodi sultanate was more like a regional kingdom than an empire. The Hotaks did proclaim themselves emperors (Shahanshahs) of Iran, but they only ever effectively controlled a fraction of their claimed territories. So, the Hotak monarchs were only emperors in name, and their "empire" a very short-lived one that was killed in its cradle.
Lodhi, Sur , Karrani, hotaki, azad khan empires . Detable Khilji aswell/ also bahmani sultanate. Although throughout historic text they were referred to as Turko Afghan. These are the mostly Pashtun related empires . There were numerous other empires formed by Turks / Persians / Tajiks from present day Afghanistan. You need to do more research
@@Alexander-lb1on You seem not to know the definition of empire. As I wrote in my previous reply here to HakimaHistory (which I'm guessing he deleted), among all those that you mentioned only the extremely short-lived Suri state can perhaps be considered a legitimate Pashtun empire (which I admit I didn't know about before reading your comment). All the others were relatively small regional sultanates/kingdoms. I think it's an stretch to consider the short-lived Hotak state an actual empire, since at their height they only ever controlled a small fraction of the lands they claimed. And if you had paid attention, you would notice that I'm only talking about empires run by PASHTUNS. Even though the Khilji dynasty had risen out of Afghan lands, they were no less Turkic than the Qajars, Safavids, or Afshars (who we don't ever call "Perso-Turkic").
Great video as always brother.
Much appreciated
Something interesting to note is that after shah shoja the Sikh / British vassal was killed dost mohamad khan and maharaja sher Singh of the Sikh empire became allies
Yes that always fascinated me!
@@HikmaHistory I guess the afghans and Sikhs saw more in common with one another at that point. Even dost mohamad if he wanted to could’ve sided with the British in the second Anglo Sikh war to retake old land but he decided to help the Khalsa, same people who destroyed his own empire instead. Even a lot of tribal chiefs sided with the Khalsa against the English. Truly shows how interesting history can be.
What dreams are you living kid 😂😂😂 dost muhammad khan was a unknown man who rose to prominence through his abilities and he was not harmed by sicks he died naturally and also tha sudhans of kashmir was tha reason tha sicks lost both anglo wars against british
Likewise tha tanolis though being a small group become tha very major player in tha downfall of sick confederacy in less then 48 years
These bengali troops sudhan soilders and tha tanolis along side britishs put an end to tha sick confederacy once and for all.
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Next time get tha correct information.
@@umaraziz8274 bruh? Where are you reading this from. You legit didn’t cite one source. Smartest tribal mf
Always big fan of your work...Amazing job 👏 🙌 ☝🏼
Thank you
Nader Shah carried out a shameful massacre in Delhi.
Nothing shameful about it. The citizens of Dehli should not have attacked the Afsharid army who occupied Dehli because the Mughals refused to hand over Hottali chiefs.
@@K55365the Palestinians shouldn't revolt israel occupation otherwise their massacre is justified? Sounds good to you by your logic?
@@ShubhamMishrabro Are Palestinians harbouring people that commited crimes? No.
@@K55365 and no one was harbouring anyone in delhi too. If you think killing all people for actions of few justifies it then it tells me a lot about you and your ideology
@@ShubhamMishrabro read the history, the Mughals were harbouring Hottakis and refused to hand them over to Nader Shah.
What a fantastic work done. Great job.
Thank you very much!
20:36 is not entirely true. There were many pitched battles abdali fought with the Sikhs such as Chenab, and Lahore in which huge armies of the afghans were destroyed or routed by the Khalsa, such as the aforementioned battle of Chenab as recorded in the book “Sikh history in Persian sources” by irfan habib mentions how a huge army of abdalis was beaten by charat Singh (grandfather of maharaja Ranjit Singh) in a pitched battle along the river Chenab.
Nice joke lol
@@HekmatRokhshani literally read the source I mentioned. Don’t be stupid buddy.
Ye we its true but in the end both sikhs and afagns kept fighting while the white man won in the end
state ur home city and tribe pakizzztanhi boy@@HekmatRokhshani
Indian sources on Indian history are largely inaccurate and can not be taken seriously as they lie compulsively in favour of Indians.
I always come for excellent research with amazing presentation. I am never disappointed.
No AI/video-game clips and no text-to-speech voice-over.
Thank you for your kind words!
Excellent video. Wonderful artwork on display throughout this video. Such a illustrious history that not many know about. Thank you. I think you are right in that it takes more than being warriors to maintain an empire, how long can an empire survive on raiding and looting. The video in a nutshell demonstrates the cureable sickness that muslims world wide have suffered from for at least the past 250 years - disunity, no common goal just self interest and / or tribal interest.The ending is quite poignant and indicative of the core issue in that we contemplate the quaran and Islam when we are old, when youth and vigour has departed. It should contemplated when we have the exuberance of youth and the greater ability to persuade and unify.
Thanks Majid!
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I wonder how the camels coped with the recoil from the small cannons mounted on their backs.
You mean how they LOOTED and were eventually caught and got rid off....leaving behind some unwanted garbage ?
*How they conquered
@@Historyteller346look at their condition today 😂
@@hke.4475Afghanistan has been independent for just 3 years after 42 years of continuous warfare. What do you expect to see at the moment ? Use your brain next time...🤦
@@Historyteller346ah yes Afghanistan was the richest country before the war eh
@@hke.4475When did i say they were the richest ? Stop trying to make me say things i never said. Afghanistan was not poor or rich before the wars but it was doing well and developing rapidly before the wars started...
Hotaks:
Do a small video on the Hotak tribe.
They destroyed the mighty Persian Empire and defeated the the Ottoman army as well?
They were the mightiest armies at that time?
Like someone defeating America and Russia.
Impossible to imagine.
Coming up in the next few months!
And then they got utterly destroyed by Nader Shah
@K55365 Losing to the greatest general of the era is no shame...