Continued
from the previous post –
As
Arabs could
successfully achieve this second conversion, Arabs became bold enough
to try this on many other people who were not part of their army but
they were visitors on many counts, such as business, travel entry and
exits to reach other places. Arabs introduced rules by which it
became essential for all those who want to do trading activity in and
around the Arab territory. By that rule those people will have to
accept Islam as their religion. Otherwise, they will not get license
to do that activity within Arab territory.
To
their surprise, this second strategy also worked well. Islam was
temporarily accepted by most such business visitors from mainly
Hindustan. They were trading people from Sindh, Punjab, Baluchistan,
Pakhtunistan region. They accepted Islam as an agreement for license
to do business with Arab territory which had many prospects as most
trade inquiries were coming from Europe were treated in those
markets. Arabs took care to see that some people who were mostly men
were circumcised to prove that they are Muslims. This act of
circumcision had psychologically unnerved most of them and they began
to feel that as circumcised they would not be accepted in their
country and their society as Hindus or Buddhists. This one policy had
striking effect on these traders. At home, also they began to treat
them as Muslims. In this way, Islam was spread by tricks and games
into Hindu fold. Today these people make a country called Pakistan.
Along
with them, some communities from India of today had also got
converted to Islam due to the same agreement. Since, they were also
doing much business activity with Arab region. They were from present
day Gujarat State. Those communities are Lohana and Bhatia. Today the
converted people from these communities are called respectively Memon
and Khoja. After conversion to Islam they happened to have
intermarried with similarly trading people from Arabia who were
Persians, Turk, Parthians and many more. This is how they became a
mixed blood community. Their relations with their Hindu brothers were
cut off. They began to serve as a separate group of people different
from their original community. However, historians have kept proper
records of all these things and therefore we know the true heritages
of these communities.
These
newly converted Musulman were also not accepted by Arabs as on par
with them. Arabs had deep sense of disgust for the people who
accepted Islam discarding their original religion because according
to their prophet Mohammad, those who betray their god are heathens.
It is Shirk ((sin) to forsake your religion and your god for as petty
a thing as money was worst type of sin according to their Prophet,
Mohammad. These people had done it just for the sake of money; that
was considered as worst type of Shirk by Arabs and so they detested
them. These communities from Pakistan and India are called by them as
dogs of Arabs, much lower than term Mawali, used to mention other
non-Arab Muslims. The policy of Arabization, which Arabs tried, with
Mawalis did not work with these dogs of Arabs.
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