Arabic Culture

on Friday, March 1, 2013

The Holy book “Qur’an” is the main root of the Arabic culture owing to the Arab’s religious, social, and moral teaching. And to the reality that Qur’an is valid for every place and age, and can keep pace with the essentials and the new evolution of all centuries.

Sunnah is the second primal root of the Arab-Islamic culture. Just as, Muslims depend on Qur’an as it recalls their scientific, intellectual and civilization renascence, they also trust the Sunnah of their Prophet Muhammad. After they had recorded, compiled, and divided it into chapters, and later they had committed it in their technological efforts & their path of life.

The Arab-Islamic culture, which came originally from Qur’an and Sunnah, is a large-minded culture which prophesies coexistence, understanding and dialogue. Arabs are loyal, polite, and generous. Arabs have a full cultural heritage.  Only take a view at their contributions to literature, religion, philosophy, medicine, art, sciences and mathematics, and a few of which were created by non-Arabs inhabiting within the Islamic Kingdom.

Arabians are a clearly specified cultural group, and Arabians are extremities of the Arabic Nation “Al-Umma Al-Arabia”.  Often Arabs will not state which country they are from, and if inquired, reply with “I am an Arab inhabitant”. The Arab inhabitants have been defrauded by the westerns; an extremely obvious example is the Israeli aggression on Palestine.

Foreigners feel that sometimes Arabians are difficult to realize, and the way they act is confusing; however, their actions are quite apprehensive – even predictable. It is crucial, though, to differentiate between individual traits and cultural patterns. Trying to simulate the Western culture will demoralize the Arabs society. Arabians are misconceived by the Westerners. Basically, most of people in the western countries are anti-Muslim and anti-Arab.

Social commitment is of great importance in the Arab culture. Family is among the most fundamental pillars of the Arab society.  While individuality, self reliance, and responsibility are tutored by American guardians to their children, family commitment is the greatest moral taught in Arab families. Unlike the intense individualism,  we find in North America where many individuals live for themselves, their single rights, and families going their own distant from relatives, Arab society stresses the greatness of the group. Arabic culture teaches that the benefits of the group are more significant than the benefits of one man.

Westerners tend to trust in the ability of the individual, the equivalence in personal  abilities, and the right of maintaining certain forms of privacy and control over what goes around in the world.  This belief has a solid reflection on what the Westerners believe about the Earth and how they act towards one another.

The Arabic culture is hugely different from the Western culture. Though Judaism and Christianity are religions based upon disclosures handed down by Almighty, the despotism in adhesion to the messages which were sent to the West for more than 1000 years ago has step by step evolved due to cultural pressures and a higher knowledge of the universe. However, the truth carried in those religious textbooks is right because they correspond with our perspective of reality without any contradiction.



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