Does Islam Force Arabian Culture On People?

By Yousef Al Shamsi

Possibly one of the biggest misconceptions about Islam is that it forces Arabian culture on people.This is probably due to the fact that many innovations seem to make people think that the distinction in human kind was a sort of curse or something un Godly & unIslamic so these innovators started writing silly rules about every insignificent thing to make everything about newly converted Muslims (from the speech to the shoes) Arabic.

Those wrong doers who try this are in fact trying to extinguish some Wisdom God decided to give us on this earth.God mentioned in his glorious Quran that the distinction between men & women,nations & tribes is not that there is one superior than another or that one should abandon its ways(which are NOT sinful!!) in favor of another but to learn from one another:

"O mankind we have created you from a single pair of male & female, and we made you into nations & tribes,that you may know each other(49:13)

God did not favor one race over an other nor is there such thing as a "blessed race" ALL Humans are equal & all Humans are honored by God

"We have honored the sons of Adam..."(17:70)

It is shown in many verses of the Quran that God condemned the acts of Arabs before Islam such as infinticide & the treatment of women in pre Islamic Arabia. These are shown in the following verses:

"When news is brought to one of them of (the birth of) a female his face darkened & filled with inward grief!With shame does he hide himself from his people because of the bad news he has had!Shall he retain it on contempt or bury it in the dust?Ah!What an evil (choice) they decide on?(16:58-59)

"They say what is in the womb of such & such cattle is specialy reserved (for food) for our men & forbidden to our women;but if it is still born then all have share therin.For their false attribution(of superstitions to God)He will son punish them for he is full of wisdom & knowledge"(6:139)

Islam does not impose a certian type of arabic food or arabic clothing or most importantly Arabic culture. Every nation has its own food,clothing & culture which is perfectly acceptable unless it is sinful.