I had told my
readers the plight of Hajj pilgrims in Saudi Arabia and the reason
behind that. On working of this problem of Indian Muslims, I
discovered more facts about this weird behavior of Arabs with only
Muslims from our subcontinents. Among Hadith stories, one story
explains why Arabs behave like this with all non-Arab Muslims. This
is a story after Prophet Mohammad had conquered all Arab nations
within Arabian Peninsula. His immediate companion Abu-Bakr, who was
also his father-in-law, as Mohammad had married his daughter, Aisha
asked him. Why not conquer other nations where Persians were ruling.
However, Mohammad refused to do it and told him that he has not been
told by the Angel Gabriel to do so. Angel Gabriel has told him only
to relieve that portion which belongs to Arabs. On that, Abu-Bkr was
not satisfied and told him that it will be foolish to miss this
opportunity of acquiring the whole of Mediterranean. Mohammad
declined that suggestion, as he was the supreme and Abu-Bkr could do
nothing to convince the Prophet. This clearly shows that conversion
of people other than Arabs to Islam was not allowed by Prophet
Mohammad. It is Shirk to convert non-Arabs to Islam according to Arab
Ulema. Islam is designed to benefit only Arabs exclusively and not
anybody else converted will benefit by the prayers to Allah.
Even so, merely for
the ambition of the following Rashiduns that the conversion continued
after Mohammad had died due to Arsenic poisoning. On the death of
Mohammad, he declared that no body should weep over his death when
Umar the second in command began to cry, as he could not control over
the sorrow for the death of his prophet. Abu-Bkr told Umar that
Mohammad was an ordinary man and not worth crying on! This shows how
much this first Rashidun actually hated Mohammad. These three hadith
explain how wrong it is to convert a non-Arab to Islam, which is a
religion exclusively, designed for the benefit of only Arabs.
Initially there was much resistance for such conversion but as they
acquired power over a larger region and affluence, thereof the
resistance stopped and more conversion they began to do even though
they knew that it is Shirk to convert non-Arabs to Islam.
None
of the first three Rashidun had any special feelings for the Prophet
any more, as they had realized that conquering non-Arab nations is
materially beneficial to the Arabs. Arabs through out the period look
down upon all converted non-Arabs ever since. When the non-Arabs from
the land of Syria, Iraq who were the first ones to be evangelized to
Islam, who were also important in the governments of Caliph began to
challenge this attitude of Arabs; it became very difficult for the
government of then Caliph to control them and they also realized that
it will be suicidal face their resistance. As a result, Arab
superiority over the region was at stake. On that the concept of
Arabization was introduced by one caliph Muawiyah,
to show to these converted Assyrians, Aramaens, and other minorities
that by accepting Arabic as their mother tongue and also by accepting
other Arab habits that they will be considered as ArabsII and will be
accorded necessary respect as Arabs. Since, the Arabic was an
offshoot of Syriac and Aramaen languages they did not find any
difficulty is accepting that second level conversion to Arab
identity. Today those who fight in the name of islma are not true
Arabs but these converted Arabs from Assyrian and Aramaen tribes.
Since Indian
converted to Islam are not accepting Arab identity in this way Arabs
are sore with them. In Pakistan, also, they are trying to introduce
arbization but so far, they have failed, as Pakistanis are not ready
to forget their beautiful identity. Indian Muslims are too not
accepting their condition of arbization, as they know that their
Indian identity is far superior to that backward Arab identity, their
dresses, awkward customs and language. One other explanation says
that in India people were not converted by Arabs directly but by Sufi
influence by Turks who brought Islam in India as a segment of Sufi
identity. Most of the conversion was due to excommunication punishment given to Hindus by then ruling high commands of Hindu religion. If this bad practice did not exist Hindus would never have been converted to Islam at all; as per historians.
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