The Mahdi Times May 2014 Issue | Page 58

By the way these are the same people who Muawiyya ibn Abu Sufiyan (a black skinned Arab, relative and companion of The Prophet) was suspicious of, not because of racism towards them either, but because of the mass immigration that he witnessed taking place in front of him. ‫إني رأيت ھذه الحمراء قد كثرت وأراھا قد قطعت على السلف‬ Surely I see that these white people have increased in number and I have seen them they have insulted the predecessors. ‫وكأنھم أنظر إلى وثبة منھم على العرب والسلطان‬ It is as if they are trying to seize upon the Arabs and the authority. I wonder if Muawia envisioned them taking Arabism from the original Arabs and giving it to themselves and then degrading the true Arabs. I wonder if he envisioned them making themselves appear to be true Arabs and degrading the original Arabs by persistently referring to them as slaves. Speaking about this early mixture of the black skinned kinky haired Arabs with fair skinned people that took place on a large scale after the revelation of The Quran, Ahmed Amin says, ‘Practically every Arab soldier had slaves and slave girls that he used to assist him with his needs. If he wanted to he had children by the slave girls. This all resulted in other fairer skinned races like the Persians, Romans, Syrians, Turkish and Armenians entering into the Arab household. The once Arab household became no longer an Arab household but a mixed household….’ There were a significant number of mixed race births due to the large conversion rate to Islam from the fairer skinned peoples particularly during the time of the Caliphate of Umar ibn al Khattab and thereafter. The Arabic word used for pale/fair skinned people is HUMR ( Red ) which would include Europeans AND ANY Caucasoid straight haired people with a slight Tan like present day Iranians, North Africans, Syrians, Saudis, Egyptians, Afghanis, Pakistanis, Yemenis and Iraqis who have also been mixed with Aryan elements.