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#1 [Permalink] Posted on 20th March 2014 12:35

How come an overhwhelming majority of Imams, Ulamah, Mashaykh in Islam have been Non-Arabs? To this day a significant portion of Ulamah (worldwide) even Salafi ones remain Non-native Arabic speakers?

What is the explaination?

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#2 [Permalink] Posted on 20th March 2014 13:07

Isn't there a Hadith regarding knowledge and the Arabs and how it will be the non Arabs who will excel i.e. the Persians etc. I cant recall the Hadith at this moment in time

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#3 [Permalink] Posted on 20th March 2014 13:32

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Number of Non-Arab Muslims is much greater than Number of Arab Muslims.

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#4 [Permalink] Posted on 20th March 2014 13:36

Maybe Arabs think the same thing about non-Arab Ulamaa?

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#5 [Permalink] Posted on 20th March 2014 13:36

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Most Arab Ulamah acknowledge it because it is factual.

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#6 [Permalink] Posted on 20th March 2014 13:37

I think Allah (SWT) wants to show the world that there is no such thing as superiority based on race in Islam.

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#7 [Permalink] Posted on 20th March 2014 14:01

Two reasons:

1. The demographic of Arabs Muslims are much less than non Arab Muslims. It's been like that throughout Islamic history.

2. Based on the system that Allah Ta'ala has made in Deen: If anyone turns away from making effort of Deen, Allah will raise another nation that will.

Tafsir from Anwarul Bayan of Surah Muhammad, page 591.

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#8 [Permalink] Posted on 20th March 2014 14:51

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Yes I agree Arab Ulamaa acknowledge it. I mentioned "Arabs" in general. It just made me wonder because they would only be familiar with their scholars not knowing about many others unless they're on TV.

I remember reading about Sheikh Sudais praising scholars of Hind (India) highly and actually stating the importance of Urdu and Farsi due to the works of these Ulamaa. I wonder how true that was as this was in the very very early 2000's and reliable sources were not available like now. Anyone know of this?

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#9 [Permalink] Posted on 21st March 2014 11:45

This is an exaggeration to say the least. I mean people use the example of the scholars of the sihah sitta ( 6 authentic books) but in general scholarship has always been linked to arabs/Arabic. In this day and age the calamity of the Arab world and it's scholars is due to the tawagheet taking over all institutes and not allowing us freedom to teach/practice religion. All those great non-arab scholars would be classified as arabs as they spoke and wrote in Arabic. I find it hard to accept people being great scholars when they don't write in Arabic. Ilm is linked to Arabic books. All our great akabireen who were great in ilm primarily relied on Arabic books and writing Arabic books. Shaykh younis jawnpuri db the greatest muhaddith only reads Arabic books. Hazrat anwar shah rh would mostly read Arabic books, same true for sayyid binori rh. With regards to the situation in the Arab world the blame lies on the tawagheet. Also ALLAH uses different people for different purposes. For some time it was the Turks, before that the central Asians and currently to some extent some indopak people.

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#10 [Permalink] Posted on 21st March 2014 12:05

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Hence the OP used the word 'Non-native Arabic speakers' .

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#11 [Permalink] Posted on 21st March 2014 12:46

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jazakallah khairan. The OP was thinking 1 step ahead of me.

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