Alamut

The veracity of this legend has not been, but what made Alamut a place that manages to shake many leaders and personalities of the time was the degree of manipulation used by Hassan ibn al-Sabbah to its fanatical murderers.

First Hassan (or rather his slaves) nursed a secret garden, a place forbidden to all occupants, insiders of the citadel. It was a lush garden, magnificent. There was also in the garden, beautiful women, mostly blank.

Insiders were taking courses in the day. They learned to fight with several types of weapons but also learned the languages, sciences and mathematics. In addition, they were studying religious to adhere strongly to their religion.

In addition, Hassan ibn al-Sabbah was posing as a prophet and therefore the sole holder of the keys to earthly paradise.

As holder of the preferred pathway to eternal bliss, so he could send whoever it wanted in paradise, a place described by the legend as stunning, beautiful and full of Houris , the famous Muslim virgins of Paradise. The top two from each class of young initiates were then chosen and summoned by the master (Hassan). The latter, after talking to them, telling them that, as a reward for their good results, he would send them to heaven and then back in this world.

Hassan promises to give them a taste of what eternal life for believers. He therefore took drugs hashish, perhaps in the form of dragees (hence their nickname hashischins, the killers ), which altered their feelings and made them take a powerful sedative. Once unconscious, they were transported to the secret garden of the fortress and awoke in the middle of meals, lush plants, and numerous houris. They then spent a great time, believing in heaven legitimately, then they were again drugged and taken back to their room.

They rose so unbelievers in the morning and returned only to their drab daily. Hassan told them that if they died for a good cause, he would return immediately to heaven. Both fedais strongly believed they had already gone to heaven and all that helped to eliminate them from the fear of death, knowing it was expected by the promise of new life in an idyllic place, behind world promised .

The followers of Hassan were no longer afraid of anything in their lifetime and were subjected to body and soul master. They were so perfect killers acting like suicide bomber.

Indeed, they went (alone or in small groups) armed with a knife and when the target was leaving her home and walked calmly down the street, the assassin sprang from the crowd and hit the target. They were killing usually in broad daylight and before witnesses, to shake people's minds.

The effectiveness of this method was that, having no fear of death, then struck the killer blows and accepted waiting to die because he believed and join the houris of paradise. These killers also knew perfectly handle weapons and were more physically trained. Defend themselves against such opponents as commitments required of tough they were tough.

It is said that an embassy was sent to cross Alamut, the haunt of Nizari of the time. When the ambassador arrived, he wanted to know what made these killers such terrible characters they terrorized politicians and local elites. The master called thus two fedais. He asked one run to one of the fortified walls overlooking a ravine and jump into the void. While it ran, he asked the second out his dagger and stabbed himself. The first came at the top and jumped without a cry. The second plunged the knife into the belly with a beatific smile on his face. The ambassador was very impressed by the degree of manipulation exercised by the master on his henchmen, beside which the most horrible threats of the Christian clergy would have remained without effect.

Hassan would have benefited from so much influence in the region, hence the likely spread of this legend.

So in the valley of Alamut was born a large sect, and Hassan accomplishes its goal: to shake the very foundations of power secular surroundings.

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