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The descendants of this intermingling
are the so-called modern Semitic Arabs
(more precisely known as the Arabized
Arabs) who trace their roots through
Prophet Abraham (a.s).
The Central Asian barbarians did not
develop any states, high culture or
language in Arabia. They were destitute,
mostly ignorant, unread and illiterate.
The Quran takes great pain to dissociate
this group from the high cultural
attainment of ancient Arabia. It is clearly
stated that until the advent of the
Prophet Muhammad (s.a.w), these socalled Semites lived in a state of
perpetual brutality, savagery, warfare
and robbery. The Quran also takes pain
to identify the original Black Arabs who
had lived in Ad, Thamud, Imru etc, as
the originators and builders of Arab
civilization and culture.
These Arabized Arabs have sublimated
stories of their origin of Prophet
Abraham (a.s), which narrates of his
journey from somewhere proximate to
central Asia into the Black African
territory of Arabia. He was said to have
married a Black Egyptian-born wife,
Hagar (a.s), and their son was named,
Ishmael (a.s). Here one immediately
becomes aware of the central Asian
origin of its heroes and the resultant
miscegenation which g