Arab Supremacy & History | Mufti Abu Layth

right now Arab supremacism yeah there was a history obviously there was a history that book about your it's still here it's it's over there now but if you do want to go through that if you're interested in learning about Arab history that book I can't recommend it enough Arabs a 3,000 year history there was something look in the past the way the the history of Islam kind of unfolded you had the prophets time and then after the prophets time you see Muslims they weren't it's not like that they weren't

ready but it's that they in my understanding had no idea or even that doesn't really do it justice I think you see what it is is that if you take the people the companions and where Islam came it was a very humble origin people who lived in a desert who lived in the hay jars they weren't they weren't really on a map worldwide they weren't so you see within decades this became a

global enterprise that you know decades are not actually that long when you think about it within a natural human lifetime in natural so let's say a child was born in the time of the Prophet let's take after Lebanon so Bay as an example he was born he was the first boy to be born in Medina he passes away I believe it's 72 73 he jury around that time so within his natural life time by

the time he's passed away Islam is a global Empire the the not only Muslims but if we're gonna go and lay it deeper or closer to the roots Arabs how come an incredibly far wait I mean they'd the journey had taken them to great distances and namely grace you see more than anything else and when we say

Corre Corre schwer truly I mean even till today if you're gonna look at let's say one looks at Muslims as a case study an anthropological case study Quraish till today if we're looking at them from an evolution perspective have you know made huge I mean astronomical strides in survival even till today Quraish or given a different platter like salience all this Sayyad thing that goes on today it's

just for a schism what else is it you know it's and if one was to think that they really did come a long way you know from a a purely evolutionary perspective if you're just looking at this devoid of religion and just from an evolutionary anthropological perspective the tribe of Quraish has you know has been incredibly successful I mean in its early stages as as the bony Omega and the Abbasids then the Abbasids and and even then

coming right through II I mean I know you've had the Ottomans but still the same kind of status and then till today this whole thing of sharafa and Sadat so I feel that's an interesting interesting perspective the the thing about Arabs supremacy there was this did happen definitely happened definitely unquestionably through the time of bony Omega that there was this Arab it was a very pure Arab thing in the time of Nehemiah and not Arab

were not really I mean David they were okay that they didn't Oh I mean they wouldn't necessarily oppress you for being a non-arab but they wouldn't give you importance either that said they wouldn't even give importance to other Arabs so the interesting thing is if you if you look at the whole Mali culture so in the time of budding mayor of Abdul Malik Abner Marwan and these people when they started to create new cities cities like was it in modern-day Iraq these cities they would they would

have them inhabited by people and what they start because a lot of new Muslims and people start to move in who who are Persians or spoke of the languages they start they banned any other language in certain cities that you must only speak Arabic and then including cities like wasit another in certain other towns they actually banned that you could not live me unless you were an Arab oh you had to affiliate with a tribe hence you got a lot of this Walla these Mali later on they weren't a lot of them weren't actually slaves you know you get this

assumption that a freed slave had weller so if I was so for example I was I don't know let's say I was enslaved now by some tribe of let's say the trial as a slave to somebody who belonged to the tribe of Tamim now when I became free I would carry the name sometimes a Tamimi they call that wale in Arabic but you will see so many all the people had this wallah most of the people had this wallah in the mess up in their lineage didn't mean all of them were slaves it was that they they impose these rules of citizens

citizenship that if you wish to live here you must have a wala with one of the Arab tribes you must carry their name so a lot of the non Arabs began doing that and you see this this kind of strong Arab supremacy in early Abbasid culture as well and then it starts to wear down because the Abbasids really you see what they did was they realized that in order to move forward we need these non Arabs and they needed structures there so a lot of the

administrative structures came from the Persians and from the Turks and from all these other and by Turks I don't mean modern-day Turks but obviously they are still part of the Turkic people but the tork the original I suppose even today the Turks are originally from like the Turkic people that took man perhaps by Mongolia when that part of apt China Russia today that came down they'd sold Turkish people even today or not originally from I mean maybe they've mixed in but they're not originally from

the Middle East their language is not related to any language in the Middle East it's related to just the Turkic languages which is you know either very far Eastern Western Asia or like parts of maybe modern-day China and things like that so and I'll tell you a story actually there's a very our brief a brief summary there's a I'll go into it in more detail on another occasion but there's this this legacy and a whole narrative of the early Abbasids and

their relationship with the Persian so there was this family known as the brahmic ah okay and those of you that are familiar with with sham with modern-day Damascus so when I studied in Damascus in the late 90s early 2000s there's a place they called Veronica it's in I mean it's not central the mass place towards the army people will know where it is if they know Damascus it's where they had all the the passport offices and things like this so Branka what they call it today is named

after the barometer and the barometer were these people these Persian family in the time of Harun al-rashid and when haroon rasheed was growing up there was this they were the descendants of this Zoroastrian priest called Barack Obama now birthmark was somebody who served a kind of official position within the Sassanid Empire the Persian Empire so he was familiar with administrative structures so when the opposites took over he also whether he

converted to Islam some people you know that's discussable or debatable and his children definitely converted to Islam and they were very familiar with the administrative structures and they were brought in by burning mayor sorry by piniella bus and because of the way they knew how to organize these kind of registers and set things up and have different departments and ministries and so because they did that with the sassanids and that the sustaining Empire was an empire that spanned an incredible length of time so they had you know

wealth of experience so they also you have yeah yeah Albert Mackey and then he has children you know you've got people like Jaffa Albert Mackey and these are the kind of many there's many they they kind of offspring and cousins and cousins they become so close with the with the Calif they have access to his palaces they walk in walk out they are like family they grew up I mean they helped him against coos military coos they save his life on several occasions

they they were very very tight with Haruna rashidun especially Harlan sorry Jaffa bar McKee he was so he had such a bond with he had such a bond with haroon rasheed I mean it was borderline was it even a one questions whether it was homosexual I mean he was so such a tight bond that they would do things like they they would do crazy stuff like both we're one

long though one kind of shirt I kind of brotherly love was going on there but they would weigh like one kameez both of them as in in at the same time what is this both of them penetrating this so they would weigh this shirt and they would just walk around in in in the palace and in there in his room and and they had this strange brotherly love going on you know this one and he was so

tight with haroon rasheed was the Calif with you know Jaffa Albert Mackey and and he was like I mean he was like of a similar age growing up together but then you had the whole expand this whole family are Luber mark which was like there was so many children and their children and cousins and and the rule in administrative positions and positions of power and then just like one night haroon rasheed sets up a series of

events that came to be known as knock battle baram iike the tragedy of the veronica and in that night he wipes them out one by one seriously it's it's a a very stoic and brutal tale of love friendship Brotherhood and betrayal it's just amazing and it's it's overwhelming you

know when you go through it it's it's all done within this night he has this he has one or two of them that were the top like yeah he Albert Mackey and one to others was the fatherly kind of figure has them poor endure persistent home arrest so they kind of arrested and then they put in some held in captives till they die but most of them he has them all killed off and and nobody is quite sure why he did it and it's amazing you know the the the sudden

turn of events as the kind of how tragedy befalls suddenly what taking a yam no doubt will have what's that Tsubaki thought the machine sham kombucha him today

how many Paul Berman the phone call battle today car night miss Ibaka battle today come right so the as in this a poem that the people who were on Thrones by nightfall they were wanted criminals that within moments we saw the destinies of people change that this such as this dunya people such is this that so but yeah it's a tragic you know if you're

ever interested and you have a bit of time read up and check out this knuckle Attleboro Myka it's always a great tale and it's part and parcel of Muslim history now why how do nourish she did that some people feel it's because he felt that they were encroaching upon his power I think that that may have had some truth some people said it's because he was jaffer was destined to marry his sister as in he was it was or any was Harun al-rashid who set it up he used to marry Harun al-rashid sister I think her name was a

bar sell something and and everything seemed good but and he's the one who set it up and some people say he couldn't take it the thought of it that of this non Arab marrying his sister but I don't know if that's actually how much sense that makes because he was incredibly close with Jaffa you know it wasn't and then he had him killed this love and somebody said you Jewish thing Yurika the multi [Laughter] relationships can only be set free by

releasing blood well that's some fascinating aspects of Muslim history right so what's going on what's going on let's take a look at some questions people somebody said any stories about let's leave some stories for now that's enough the knock about soul Veronica you could make an an amazing series seriously just out of the nut bottle Veronica of law and it would be a best-seller