God's Invocation In Christian Sources

God’s invocation throughout Muslim and Christian sources demonstrates that he has no opinion on their wars. For instance, when the Hispano-Arabic poetry explicates, “In this way God’s favor toward Islam was accomplished while the joy of that year embraced us all, Although the greatest joy that occurred in its course was the death in it of Ibn Hafsun, the pig! Thus one conquest was added to a second and one victory to another granted by the aid of God” and suggests that the Caliph had the favor of God with him when he set out to remove the rebels, but lacks a direct intervention of God’s personal thoughts on the matter (The Year 918-919, 92). Because God is invoked by name in the poem, his presence is clearly on the minds of the Muslims, but …show more content…
For example, when the Christians attack the Almoravides in the following: “They would go to the territory of the Almoravides and Spanish Moslems and massacre them and, take a great many prisoners. Large amounts of botty would be carried off, and the land would be left in flames. They also killed several Moorish leaders and destroyed many of their castles and towns. The end result was that the Christian forces did greater damage to the infidels than the infidels had ever done to them” it’s demonstrated that the Christian militias are using the religious pretenses to raid neighboring Islamic towns (The Reasons why Alfonso VII Neglected the Frontier). This shows that God did not influence these men to fight wars against one another, but rather observed as his followers killed each other for prisoners, booty, and glory against the infidels. In comparison, the Muslims “Rushing blindly through mountain passes and into places of concealment, surrendering fortresses and towns, So that no church or monastery belonging to any Christian monk remained in any of the provincial districts But that he made it go up in smoke like a fire that has come into contact with [dry] stubble,” display a similar attitude of raiding Christian areas and destroying their lands (The Year 920-921, 98). They are deliberately taking territory and their religious buildings, and burning provincial districts like the Christians that siege them afterwards. Clearly, personal goals of the Caliph’s campaigns are behind these attacks rather than the justification that God told him it was a good idea, as the Islamic Caliph does not speak with God’s voice and therefore God has no involvement in the matter. Furthermore, when El Cid is in good graces with the King, he states “Travel freely through Castile and return to the Cid