A sign of Arab purity was the blackness of the skin.
Make note that this is not ‘Islamic’ teaching nor is it represented or
endorsed by the message of The Quran but it was the prevalent mentality of
the ancient dark skinned, kinky haired Kushite Arab people of that time.
Ironically those fair skinned people today who speak Arabic and now claim
an Arab heritage think the exact same about dark skinned people.
Sumrah (asmar )اسمرDOES NOT MEAN ‘Tan’ or ‘olive’ as many socalled modern scholars would have you believe.
The classical Arabic lexicographers clearly and unanimously defined
sumrah as wurqah ...) ( ؤرقهand wurqah is blackness in earth colour, or
from earth colour to blackness (both definitions are given in the
earliest classical Arabic dictionaries Lisanul-Arab and fiqh al lugha)
Wurqah is a Colour in camels that increases until the camel becomes
very dark (ad-ham).