The land of our ancestors is not sold for gold and dirhams, and we got every inch of it by giving the blood of our ancestors, and we will not waste an inch of it before we spend all our blood in defense of it, why leave Jerusalem? It is our land at all times and at all times, it is one of our holy cities and it is located in an Islamic land, and Jerusalem must remain for us.

Salah al-Din al-Ayyubi