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ARAB NATIONALISM Honesty, good morals, diligence in the practice of religious rituals, frequent reciting of God’s name are the essential sunnas indicated in the Quran. Turbans, wearing robes with long sleeves and skirts, growing beards, eating with the right hand and seated on the groundi along with restrictions of women’s rights are among the numerous Arabic customs that were instilled into the brains of the public as if they were the Prophet’s own ways. One of the reasons of this brainwashing was to Arabize the Muslim people who were not Arabs by indoctrination through sanctification of the Arab customs and philosophy of life. Had these customs not been shown to be of a religious character, the Arabic customs would not have infiltrated into Muslim communities. The hadith books that found fertile domain in the minds of the sunna followers, like Bukhari and Muslim, and the establishment of sects under the Omayyads and Abbasids, namely Hanafiyah, Shafiyah, Malikiyah and Hanbaliya, have been instrumental in inculcating the Arab nationalism into the minds of Islamized communities. SANTIFICATION OF THE ARABIC LANGUAGE MARRYING NON-ARABS THE ARABIST AND TRIBALIST RELIGION CONCEPT SANTIFICATION OF THE ARABIC LANGUAGE One of the reasons of the spread of illiteracy among the greater part of the Muslim population was the prohibition of translating the Quran into foreign languages. This made religion the exclusivity of a minority. The public was taught books on Islamic catechism rather than the Quran. On the other hand, deserters from the established sects were subjected to severe punishments and in this way the distorted and Arabized Islam was protected. This was the same mentality that reigned during the Middles Ages in Europe when the translation of the Gospels into any language other than the Latin was banned. Although nowhere in the Quran is it said that prayers should be performed in Arabic, the sectarian concepts of the Sunnis made it obligatory preventing people from using their vernacular in their prayers. Their brains were washed, saying that Arabic was the language of paradise and was holy, and this was successful in imposing the Arabic civilization on other nations. The Quran states that every prophet (whether his name is mentioned in the Quran or not) addressed his nation in his vernacular. None of these languages had any sanctity among them. The fact that Arabic is the language spoken and written in paradise is nowhere mentioned in the Quran but is an invention based on fabricated hadiths. MARRYING NON-ARABS The sectarian Arabs styled non-Arabs as mawali. Rules were laid down banning marriage of Arabs with them based on fabricated hadiths. Arabs are Arabs’ equals. Mawalis are equals of Mawalis. O Arabs those among you who marry Mawalis are considered to have committed a punishable offense Muttaki O Arab, marry your equal, never marry Negroes for fear of corrupting your offspring. For Negroes are a crooked race, and their issue will be crooked and disabled. Muttaki What we are trying to convey here is the fact that all so-called sources of Islam other than the Quran are unreliable. The only dependable and reliable book is the Quran. You will find below such a derogatory hadith about Turks: Unless you are attacked by Turks, don’t meddle with them. For if they like you, they will strip you of your possessions. If they dislike you, they will kill you. Lealil Masnua Despite the fact that they have been co-religionists, the Turks and the Arabs have never ceased to be each other’s enemy because of such invented stories and irrelevant provocations. This hostility has been to the detriment of both sides; but opportunists, like the English and the French, took advantage of this. Napoleon exploited Arab nationalism; he gave the semblance of being pro-Islamist; he entered Arab lands and made Turks seem to be hostile to Islam and succeeded in staying in Egypt thanks to this policy. The English capitalized on the Turco-Arab antagonism with a view to dividing the Ottoman Empire and indulging in petroleum exploitation. On the Turkish side, absurd attributes, almost swear words, have been ascribed to the Arabs. What is still worse has been the fact that words spoken against Turks were ascribed to the Prophet’s hadiths. Many prominent Turkish scholars, who were in effect ignorant in many respects, carried things to extremes and became fervent adulators of Arabs themselves. The most renowned hadiths about the Turks have represented the Turks as Agog and Magog. Before war is fought and won against the Turks (Agog and Magog) with small eyes, red cheeks whose faces are of hardened skin like shields, the Day of Judgment will tarry. Bukhari K. Cihad, Muslim K. Fian THE ARABIST AND TRIBALIST RELIGION CONCEPT There is a controversy about the identity of Agog and Magog who are described as wild and uncivilized creatures. Bukhari, whom the traditionalists declare to be the man whose hadiths are incontestable so much so that a Muslim who refutes even one of the hadiths he has transmitted would be a heretic, along with Tabari, Baghdadi, Balhi, Bayzawi, Nasafi, Nuvayri and Ibn Kathir revered by the traditionalists as well as certain Turks like Asým Efendi and Ahteri Mustafa Efendi all claim that Agog and Magog are Turks. There are awkward and indecent legends that recount that Agog and Magog were the products of the sperm of Adam who had had an ejaculation while dreaming. All these aimed at ascribing a religious character to the customs and manners of the Arabs, sanctifying the Arabic language, and ascribing holiness to the Arab race and vilifying Turks and other races by inventing derogatory hadiths. Hadiths were invented that claimed the superiority of the Arab race over all other human beings (see Ibn Arrak, Tenzihuz Saharia Fil Marfua). They seem to ignore that the enemies of the Prophet, Abu Lahab and Abu Jahil, were Arabs. The army deserters and hypocrites often referred to in the Quran were Arabs. According to the Quran, a person is evaluated on the basis of his devotion and expression of love for his God. Hadiths invented with political interests and racist concerns have been introduced into religion and corrupted the purity of the Quran.