sandeep Posted May 24, 2019 Posted May 24, 2019 A Pakistani who actually talks about shared cultural sub-continental heritage, and recognizes the folly of running away from facts. https://www.thefridaytimes.com/our-lost-heritage-ii/ Quote In the first of this two-part series, I argued that Pakistani people are becoming rootless social orphans. Our hiraeth for a non-existent Islamic utopia has compelled us to abdicate our organic connection to our land and to abandon our links to our past. In this part I shall carry the argument forward to various facets of our social existence. ... And yet we, the Muslims of the Subcontinent, are unique in the Islamic world in that when we converted to Islam, we changed our names from Indian names to Persian, Turkish and Arabic names. There are, in reality, no Islamic names. When the Arabs converted to Islam, they retained their pre-Islamic names. There was a time in those early days when some persons with popular names as Amr, Hisham, Zainab and Abdullah were Muslims while others were non-Muslims. The Prophet (PBUH), too, did not specify any particular names to be used for Muslims. Similarly, pre-Islamic Turkish and Persian names became “Islamic” when people converted in these lands. ... Gollum and Turning_track 2
panther Posted May 24, 2019 Posted May 24, 2019 Great success has been achieved in wiping away the filthy pagan past. sandeep 1
coffee_rules Posted May 24, 2019 Posted May 24, 2019 10 minutes ago, panther said: Great success has been achieved in wiping away the filthy pagan past. Aur bahaon khoon ki nadiyaan
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