I
am putting a post subject seldom discussed about how and why
Pakistani people are Muslims. Today even though we call this region
as Pakistan, that name is prevalent only after 1947, as this country
was carved out of British India or Hindustan in that year. Before
that, this region was referred to by four different names of what the
place is comprised. They are Baluchistan, Sindh, Pakhtunistan and
Punjab.
When
Islam was created by Mohammad in Arabia and with forces of Arabs, he
collected all Arab tribes as one people; they conquered that Arabian
Peninsula and first ever, free country was created of Arabs, for
Arabs and by Arabs. However, after suspicious death of the Prophet
Mohammad his companions under leadership Abu-Bkr, the first Rashidun,
began to conquer other places in the Mediterranean and established
the first ever, Arab empire of that region. Most business was passing
through that region to reach European market. Arabs brought about a
law that all those who want to do business through this belt will
have to be embracing Islam!
Most
people from the region what we call today Pakistan were doing
flourishing business in that Arab empire and so most in business
preferred to embrace Islam than lose the business. Thus, people of
Baluchistan, Sindh, Pakhtunistan and Punjab embraced Islam without
any coercion or trouble. That was a business deal and at home, these
people preferred to practice their original religion, mostly Buddhism
and Brahmanism. Along with business people of Pakistan, some groups
from Gujarat in India were also doing business in that Arabian empire
and so they got into Islam. They were from Bhatia and Lohana
communities. Unfortunately after that, soon after Mogul came from the
North bringing Islam anew and due to that development, these
converted people continued to remain as Muslims. Bhatia converted are
called today as Khoja and Lohana are called Memon.
These
newly and willingly converted people, Arabs did not accept as on par
with themselves as equal Muslims. They gave these converted Muslims a
new name, Mawali, meaning slaves or servants or inferior. However, in
actuality they were considering these converted people as their dogs.
Because, for anybody to accept a religion for the sake of business;
was considered by Arabs as a very shameful act. They considered them
as self-respectless people and so dogs. Even today, this attitude of
Arabs continues while dealing with these converted self-respectless
people.
Why
Arabs think that way we should know and for that when I studied that
subject more, I came to know some interesting facts about Islam.
According to the dictates of Prophet Mohammad, only Arabs can be
Muslims and only they will benefit by praying to Allah. He had
repeatedly, throughout his sermons and talks (this talk is known as
Hadith), told his followers that God has created different religions
for different people of this world and Islam is for Arabs only. As
such when many friends of Arabs approached Him to be converted to
Islam, he repeatedly refused to do that and told them that they
should honor their religion honestly and never change over to any
other religion. Therefore, during his lifetime nobody other than Arab
was converted to Islam. There are many Hadith showing that Mohammad
was told by his companions like Abu-Bkr and others that he should
convert all other also to increase the strength of Arabs but Mohammad
(PBUH) did not accept that as he repeatedly told them that it is the
dictate from Gabriel the Angel of Allah. After his death however,
these ambitious companions of Mohammad did not honor the dictate and
began to convert people to Islam for the benefit of their empire.
Even though Arabs are aware that, what they did was against the order
and so they do not want to accept these converted as on par with them
because these converted and their progeny are not and will never be
true Muslims. Actually to convert people to Islam is sin according to
Mohammad's original Koran, which was destroyed by Uthman ibn Affan,
the third Rashidun.
In
part two, I shall tell more about this topic.
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