Just in case there is a solitary can-of-cahsews out there that thinks that Islam, as well as being ideologically supremacist and profoundly violently so, isn’t also a vehicle for Arab or racial supremacy, I thought I would post this fatwa. Below is part of it. You can click through for the rest if you want but you will get the idea. This of course makes it even more odd that a black, white or East Asian and perhaps even a South Asian of non-arab decent would ever convert to Islam. But then, Islam was never a way of life for thinking individuals.
Sunnipath.com:
Question:
I saw in the chapter of suitability of marriage that Allah has chosen Arabs over others. The outer purport of this hadith contradicts the sunna, can you explain?
Answer:
The fact that Allah Most High has chosen the Arabs over other nations is affirmed in rigorously authenticated hadiths of the Prophet, may Allah bless him and give him peace; related by Bukhari and Muslim in their “Sahih” in the beginning of the chapter of merits, # 5897, on the authority of Wathilah ibn al-Asqa` who said, “I heard the Messenger of Allah, may Allah bless him and grant him peace, say, ‘Verily Allah has chosen Kinanah from the son of Isma`il, and He has chosen Quraysh from among Kinanah and He has chosen Hashim from among Quraysh and He has chosen me from the Bani Hashim.'” Continue Reading →



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