“The Iskander Wall” of Navoi in brief
Ruler Rumah Faylakus, returning from a distant hike home, noticed on the road a newly born baby. The mother of the baby died during childbirth. Failakus ordered to bury her, he took the newborn with him, adopted him and determined his heir, calling him Iskander. Time passed, and Fylakus called upon the renowned scientist and philosopher Nikumakhis to educate the heir. Nikumaxis and his son Aristotle made friends with the young man and remained faithful to this friendship for life.
Filakus died. Iskander arranged a lavish funeral and, with great honors, led him on his last journey.
By this time, Iskander had already shown his talent in many areas. He excelled in the sciences, philosophy, gained fame as a pious. In his actions he was guided only by justice, was sensitive to the people around him. Knowing all these qualities, the people after the death of Failakus unanimously recognized him as worthy of his father’s throne. Iskander was embarrassed and at the same time
The first good initiative of Iskander was the abolition of all taxes from the population for two years. He established moderate prices for vital goods, streamlined trade, established measures and weights, introduced rules for the use of housing, in a word, brought order to the management of the country.
Failakus, having suffered defeat in the war with Iran, was forced to pay tribute to him in the amount of thousands of gold eggs a year. Becoming the ruler of the country, Iskander stopped paying tribute to Iran. Three years later, the Shah of Iran Darius sent Iskander a message demanding that he immediately send him tribute in three years. The message was left unanswered, the atmosphere was even stronger. The lords of two powerful powers collided – Darius and Iskander.
The first battle did not reveal the winner. In the meantime,
Iskander, in turn, explained that he had not been involved in the death of Darius, buried the Iranian Shah with honors honoring Vladyka and fulfilled all his orders.
In the initial period of the reign, Iskander mastered the Maghreb country. He gathered to know to consult about the candidacy of the new ruler, while making his demands: the future ruler should be just. He was pointed to the prince, who refused to reign and moved to the cemetery where he lived a miserable existence. Iskander ordered to deliver it. They brought to him an almost naked man with two bones in his hand. The ruler asked what the meaning of his behavior was, what those bones meant to him. The beggar said: “Walking among the graves, I found these two bones, but to determine which of them belonged to the king, and which to the beggar, I could not.”
After listening to him, Iskander suggested that he rule the country. In response, the beggar put forward the following conditions: to live in such a way that old age does not supplant youth, that wealth does not turn into poverty, and joy – by grief. Hearing these words, Iskander sadly admitted that this poor man morally surpasses the ruler.
During the campaign against Kashmir, Iskander waited a big surprise. Near the city a wide passage between the mountains was closed by an iron gate erected by Kashmiri sorcerers. Iskander called a council of scientists who were to uncover the secret of this miracle. After much wrangling, scientists came to a common opinion: the iron gates should be blown up. But how? One of the participants in the meeting suggested stuffing balls with explosives and bombing them with a city. Falling, the balls had to explode and lift the pillars of smoke that would scatter the spell and open the passage. And they did. The way to the city was opened.
After this, the conqueror of the world sent his troops to the west, to Adan.
The next campaign of Iskander was to China. Learning about this, the Chinese autocrat came out to meet the head of a huge army, But Iskander did not think about attacking him and bloodshed and disappeared. This act caused Hakan to be perplexed and determined to solve this mystery. The next morning, dressed in the ambassador’s clothes, Hakan arrived in Iskander’s camp and, having greeted him, presented him with expensive gifts, among which were two mirrors. One of them reflected only the face of the Chinese representative among a large number of participants in the reception. The second mirror correctly reflected people, only while they ate, drank and had fun. As soon as they were filled with drunk, distorted figures of inhuman appearance appeared in the mirror.
Iskander was delighted by what he saw and ordered his scientists not to shame the Chinese, to create something better. Scientists had to work all winter, and from the alloy of copper and steel they created two mirrors. A special property of them was that everything reflected in the world was reflected in one, and in the other – the entire nine-tiered universe. Iskander was excessively pleased with the work of scientists, duly rewarded them and entrusted them with the rule of Greece.
The next campaign Iskander made to the north. On all the way he was served by a Chinese beauty, presented to him by Hakan. When they reached the country of Kirvon, the locals appealed to Iskander with a complaint about the terrible, bestial character of Yajuja and asked him to get rid of them. Yajuji lived between the mountain and the valley of darkness. Twice a year they left their homes and destroyed everything that came across them, including the people they fattened alive.
Iskander demanded to bring noble masters from Russia, from Syria and Rum. They dug large ditches and filled them with an alloy of copper, tin, bronze, iron and lead. The next morning, Iskander sent his army to Yajudzha and destroyed a considerable number of them, but Iskander’s army also fell. After this bloody slaughter of the master, the builders, by order of Iskander, began to erect a wall with a length of ten thousand, and a height of five hundred cubits. During the construction of the wall, the same metals and stone were used. It was built for six months, and the way of Yajujam was blocked. The army rose on the wall and threw stones at them. Many of them were killed, and the remaining ones fled.
After this campaign, Iskander returned to the Rum. After spending some time there and resting, he began to prepare for the march. Weapons and products were stockpiled for eight years. The caravan of ships set out on a voyage towards the center of the ocean, where Iskander with his men dropped anchor. To study the ocean floor, he ordered a similar trunk made of glass, immersed in it, reached the bottom, and within a hundred days observed the inhabitants of the water space, correcting and refining all that was known to science. This work was completed by the fact that Iskander reached the sanctity of the prophet.
It took a year of sailing, so that the prophet, as they began to call Iskander, cast anchor in his homeland. A long journey did not pass without a trace. He is exhausted, the great world power has broken up into small kingdoms, ruled by his numerous generals.
Feeling the approach of death, Iskander wrote a letter to his mother, full of filial tenderness, grief and sorrow, repenting that he could not properly cherish it. The letter ended with the order not to give him splendid wires and crying for his death. He asked to bury him in the city he built – Alexandria and asked also not to hammer the coffin with nails, so that everyone could see his hands and understand the unselfishness of his conquests: after all, after leaving the world, he did not take anything with him.
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