A bloody word Article

A bloody word Article - By Altaf Hussain Qureshi

My dear friend Javed Nawaz lives in Muscat who has come to Lahore these days. When they came to visit five days after Eid, they looked very sad. They said that I had brought the thought-provoking column that you had written last year which was drowning in pain. For God's sake! Hide it again that we are currently going through a double whammy. Israel has painted the mountains of Palestine with blood. Our Prime Minister, Leader of the Opposition in the National Assembly, newspapers and TV channels are inadvertently calling it "Israeli barbarism." He cited the fact that the word "barbarian" was coined by the Christians of Europe to discredit the great Mujahideen who had conquered Spain under the leadership of Tariq bin Ziyad and gave him knowledge and grace. Made the cradle of, while the whole of Europe was plunged into darkness. We are using the same word over and over again to condemn Israel's brutality and barbaric atrocities, which highlights the humiliation of the architects of the Islamic Empire in Europe. He wrote, drawing the attention of his intellectuals and politicians to this fact:

 

Sometimes, with great care, some of these words are subconsciously made a part of the language and literature of a nation that has been formed against it. The clearest example of this is the word 'barbarism' which is used here in the sense of savagery and cruelty. Every time I hear or read the word 'barbarism', I feel a tingle of pain in my chest and my mind is focused on the barbaric tribes who are the great asset of the Muslim Ummah, so I asked Prof. Dr. Muhammad Akram Contacted Chaudhry, who is well versed in Arabic literature and various European languages. There was also a detailed discussion with Mr. Sajjad Mir who is well versed in Urdu and English literature. A bunch of amazing information opened up. In fact, the Greek word for "barbarian" has been used to refer to all foreigners who were non-Christians. Later, German tribes that repeatedly plundered Rome and Greece were added to the category. Later, the Berber tribes also became targets. The Christians tried their best not to allow the Muslims to enter Europe, but around 91 AH Muhammad bin Qasim was sent to India to suppress the pirates and on the other hand Tariq bin Ziad turned to the Red Sea. About fifty years before this campaign, the "West" - Tunisia, Algeria and Morocco - had joined the Muslim Empire, which was no less than a historical miracle. In the time of the second caliph Hazrat Umar, Hazrat Amr bin Aas conquered Egypt and appointed governors there. He sent his cousin Aqbi bin Nasir with 10,000 troops to the "West" in Africa, which conquered all the lands up to the Atlantic where the Berber tribes lived. In addition, he settled the city of Qairwan in Tunisia, where for some time now, Al-Azhar University, the standard of Al-Azhar University, has been the reference creation.

 

Tariq bin Ziyad with his army reached a place in the north of Morocco where Spain was only nine miles away. His army included a large number of Berbers. Luckily I got a chance to see that historic site. While I was in London, it was announced that a major Arab League summit would be held in Morocco two days later. With the help of Mr. Altaf Gohar, I went to Rabat and traveled through the night and joined the Arab League meeting as an observer. The organizers said that this is the place from where Tariq bin Ziyad had crossed the Red Sea and landed on land and set fire to the boats. The Berber Mujahideen fought with great reluctance and thus Spain joined the Islamic realm.

 

After the conversion to Islam, there was a great revolution in the lives of the Berber tribes. Imam al-Ghazali belonged to the Berber tribe. Ghazali is the Arabic word for weaver. To the Arabs, it is a high-ranking profession that the European nations have made a profession of scarcity. Western scholars have been compelled to acknowledge that Imam al-Ghazali has made many changes in the course of human civilization. Ibn Khaldun was also a Berber who is considered the Imam of modern philosophy of history. The best general in the world, Yusuf bin Tashfin, also belonged to the Berber tribe. The rulers of Andalusia, who were attacked by the Christians of Europe, kept calling on Yusuf bin Tashfin for help, who would come with armies and take good news of the savage Christians. Fearing for their bravery and masculinity, Christian writers applied the word Barbarian to the Berber tribe. The word was transferred from Greek to Italian and English, after which the word 'barbarism' began to be used in Urdu.

 

I keep thinking that the Berber tribes whose sacrifices, hard work and endless genius made the sun of Islam's glory rise in Europe and in which the great thinkers, philosophers, scientists and generals of Islam were born However, we continue to use the word 'barbarism' to insult them. Our masters of knowledge and grace should consider whether we can completely eliminate the use of this word, because words in languages ​​become obsolete due to lack of usage. The first requirement of our Islamic sympathy is that any word which utters even the slightest aspect of humiliation should be excluded from speech and vocabulary, because the element of barbarism is predominant in 'barbarism'. Its indiscriminate use will not only tarnish our religious consciousness, but will remain in the bosom of Islamic history like a sword.

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