Khosrow I
Former King of Kings of IranWikipedia
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Sep 20, 2026
MatthewHOST
Ganzach, holy Ganzach, is burning behind them.
MatthewHOST
And Khosrow, Shahanshah King of Kings, is running.
MatthewHOST
And today, Khosrow mounts his response with overwhelming lethal force directed against the last Roman army to end this thing once and for all.
MatteoHOST
I kind of forgot, but who is the Persian Shah that fought against Alexander the Great?
MatthewHOST
You do these things to me.
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MatthewHOST
But Kosovo couldn't take that first step quite yet.
MatthewHOST
because interestingly enough, Heraclius had already begun to make him pay for his ambition.
MatthewHOST
As James Howard Johnston explains Khosrow's challenge to us,
Nicholas James BridgewaterNARRATOR
Such were the results left behind them by these kings and their huge conquests.
Nicholas James BridgewaterNARRATOR
Now consider carefully in contrast the graces and the praiseworthy virtues, the high-mindedness and great dignity of the just and righteous sovereign, Anushirvan the Just.
Nicholas James BridgewaterNARRATOR
Note the Sasanian king who reigned AD 531 to 578.
Nicholas James BridgewaterNARRATOR
He is proverbial in the East, and more especially in Persia, as the ideal administrator of justice.
Aidan PughCORRESPONDENT
The Feast of the Exaltation of the Holy Cross has been observed in Rome before the end of the seventh century.
Aidan PughCORRESPONDENT
It commemorates the recovery of the Holy Cross by St. Helena, which had been placed on Mount Calvary and preserved in Jerusalem, but then had fallen into the hands of Khosrow, king of the Persians.
Aidan PughCORRESPONDENT
The precious relic was recovered and returned by Emperor Heraclius in 629.
Aidan PughCORRESPONDENT
The Liturgy of the Cross is a triumphant liturgy.
Mirza Masroor AhmadHOST
All around him were disbelievers who were constantly engaged in causing him pain and distress, and would employ every means possible to inflict suffering upon him.
Mirza Masroor AhmadHOST
Caesar and Khosrow were also sending command after command to their respective governors to oppose him.
Mirza Masroor AhmadHOST
The Banu Ghassan were making preparations to fight, while the Persians were observing this rising power with jealousy and astonishment, and every government was viewing this new movement with suspicion and doubt.
Mirza Masroor AhmadHOST
At such a time, until a formidable army had gathered around the Holy Prophet, peace and blessings of Allah be upon him, it apparently seemed difficult, indeed almost impossible for him to remain safe from the attacks of his enemies.
S.S. KimNARRATOR
The hordes of the barbarians bore down upon the wide-reaching provinces of the Caesars, and still the Arabs remained undisturbed, unexplored, and unsubdued.
S.S. KimNARRATOR
Their frontier cities might pay homage to Khosrow's or Caesar; the legions of Rome might once and again flash across their highland waste, but such impress was faint and transitory, and left the Arabs unmoved.
S.S. KimNARRATOR
Hemmed in as they were by lands ruled by historic dynasties, their desert and their valour ever kept out the invader, and from the days of remote antiquity to the seventh century of the Christian era hardly anything was known of these secluded peoples save that they exist and that no one attacked them with impunity.
S.S. KimNARRATOR
Then suddenly a change came over the character of the Arabs.
S.S. KimNARRATOR
The hordes of the barbarians bore down upon the wide-reaching provinces of the Caesars, and still the Arabs remained undisturbed, unexplored, and unsubdued.
S.S. KimNARRATOR
Their frontier cities might pay homage to Khosrow or Caesar, the legions of Rome might once and again flash across their highland waste, but such impress was faint and transitory, and left the Arabs unmoved.
S.S. KimNARRATOR
Hemmed in as they were by land ruled by historic dynasties, their desert and their valor ever kept out the invader, and from the days of remote antiquity to the seventh century of the Christian era, hardly anything was known of these secluded people, save that they exist, and that no one attacked them with impunity.
S.S. KimNARRATOR
Then suddenly a change came over the character of the Arabs.
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S.S. KimNARRATOR
There was, of course, a strong fanatical element in the enthusiasm of conquest.
S.S. KimNARRATOR
They fought partly because they were contending with the enemies of God and his prophet, because a martyr's Benjamin's cup of happiness awaited those who fell in the path of God as they termed the religious war.
S.S. KimNARRATOR
But there is no denying that the riches of Caesars and Khosrows, the fertile lands and prosperous cities of neighboring kingdoms formed a very large element in the Muslims' zeal for the spread of the faith.
S.S. KimNARRATOR
As soon as the career of conquest was exchanged for the quiet of settled possession, the various jealousies and dissensions which the tumult and profits of invasion had kept to some degree in abeyance broke forth into dangerous activity.
Raymond IbrahimHOST
Dan Dave, assassinate Byzantine war, really exhausted the two empires.
Raymond IbrahimHOST
Assassination of Khosrow also crumbled Iran.
Raymond IbrahimHOST
Iranians beat Arabs at the battle, paid the price.
Raymond IbrahimHOST
Yeah.