'I want to be like Caliph Umar said Saladin to his men
when his armies won all of Palestine in the early days of Islam. took Jerusalem peacefully and entered the town like a poor man. on mount foot. The Patriarch Sophronius gave him the keys of the town after they made a peace agreement. It said that the Franks, their houses and churches were sale. and that could pray in the way they wanted. and that no Muslim was going to hurt them or take their money. Then Umar visited tile town with the Ritrianh. When he saw that people used the Holy Mount in the middle of the town as a place for rubbish he started to clean it with his own hands. Then he asked men to build what is now the Al-Aqsa Mosque there. After that. when went with the Patriarch to see the church where the buried les us, il wis time pniu. Umar the dumh to pray outside. He said. I inside the church. then one other Muslims will pray want to make it into a masque" He wits jenerotis to all religions.
'We don't want to hurt people in the town. But the Franks fight to the last man!" Saladin's generals said
When Saladin the ranks, he said. "I think like you met that the City of God. I don't want to attack God's Jerusalem is home. So. if you surrender, then you will all be free to leave it with things. Your churches will be sale. and when people your want to make pilgrimage to the holy places. they can travel a freely into the town at any time