๐๐๐ฉ๐๐ Sultan Mehmet II is given the title ๐๐๐ฉ๐๐ (The Victorious) – the one who conquered the capital of the Byzantine Empire, ๐๐ผ๐ป๐๐๐ฎ๐ป๐๐ถ๐ป๐ผ๐ฝ๐น๐ฒ, ๐ถ๐ป ๐ญ๐ฐ๐ฑ๐ฏ, and marked the end of the mighty Byzantine Empire.
The Ottomans had long eyed โ๐๐ต๐ฒ ๐ฝ๐ฟ๐ถ๐๐ฒโ which would provide them a safe passage into Christian Europe and would also crown them as ๐ฟ๐๐น๐ฒ๐ฟ๐ ๐ผ๐ณ ๐๐ต๐ฒ ๐๐ผ๐ฟ๐น๐ฑ. Mehmetโs conviction found firm grounds in the Prophet Muhammadโs (SAW) prophecy about the city;ย โโ๐๐๐ซ๐ข๐ฅ๐ฒ ๐ฒ๐จ๐ฎ ๐ฌ๐ก๐๐ฅ๐ฅ ๐๐จ๐ง๐ช๐ฎ๐๐ซ ๐๐จ๐ง๐ฌ๐ญ๐๐ง๐ญ๐ข๐ง๐จ๐ฉ๐ฅ๐. ๐๐ก๐๐ญ ๐ ๐ฐ๐จ๐ง๐๐๐ซ๐๐ฎ๐ฅ ๐ฅ๐๐๐๐๐ซ ๐ฐ๐ข๐ฅ๐ฅ ๐ก๐๐ซ ๐ฅ๐๐๐๐๐ซ ๐๐, ๐๐ง๐ ๐ฐ๐ก๐๐ญ ๐ ๐ฐ๐จ๐ง๐๐๐ซ๐๐ฎ๐ฅ ๐๐ซ๐ฆ๐ฒ ๐ฐ๐ข๐ฅ๐ฅ ๐ญ๐ก๐๐ญ ๐๐ซ๐ฆ๐ฒ ๐๐!โ
[Musnad Ahmad]
A true heir to the Ottoman legacy, Mehmet was a ๐๐ธ๐ถ๐น๐น๐ฒ๐ฑ ๐ฑ๐ถ๐ฝ๐น๐ผ๐บ๐ฎ๐, ๐ฎ ๐ณ๐ถ๐ฒ๐ฟ๐ฐ๐ฒ ๐ฎ๐ป๐ฑ ๐ณ๐ฒ๐ฎ๐ฟ๐น๐ฒ๐๐ ๐๐ฎ๐ฟ๐ฟ๐ถ๐ผ๐ฟ ๐ฎ๐ป๐ฑ ๐ฎ ๐ฑ๐ฟ๐ฒ๐ฎ๐บ๐ฒ๐ฟ above all. He wished to fulfill this prophecy and engaged all his resources towards the planning and strategy of what will eventually be one of the most historic events in the course of history. In a thousand years the city had been besieged around twenty three times, including the famous siege by Muslims in the 7th century, during which the Prophetโs (SAW) companion Hazrat Abu Ayub Ansari (RA) breathed his last.
Sultan Mehmet eventually did, fulfill the prophecy, immortalizing himself as the ๐๐๐ฉ๐๐ (the Victorious) of the Muslim world, for centuries to come.
