Why is Arabia so messy?
According to the Bible and the Qur'an, in 2166 B.C., there was a man named Abram in Sumer, who would later be Abraham. There was a famine, and Abram fled to Egypt with his wife, Sarah. Sarah grew so long that when Pharaoh of Egypt saw it, he asked Abram, who are you this woman?Abram was very afraid that Pharaoh of Egypt would kill her, so he said, "This is my sister."
When the Pharaoh of Egypt heard this, he was very happy, and took Sara to the harem to prepare for the wedding, but the god began to curse Pharaoh, and the Pharaoh was very afraid, and quickly called Abram again, and said, Let me ask you again, who are you this woman?Abram said, "Actually, it's my wife." When Pharaoh heard this, he was very angry and scolded, "If you don't say it earlier, God has cursed me, this is the money I gave you, hurry up and leave with your wife." God then blessed Abram and renamed him Abraham. Abraham took a large sum of money and his wife to Hebron, 30 kilometers from Jerusalem. There is also a mosque built in present-day Sibron called Haram el Khalil.
There is also a mysterious cave inside the Abraham Mosque called the Myrabi Cave, the entrance of this cave is sealed, and according to the Bible, the tomb of Abraham and his wife is inside. Abraham is a direct descendant of Adam, so this cave may contain human secrets, why is the tomb of Abraham, the ancestor of the Jews, in a mosque?
Abraham and his wife Sara had been infertile for many years, and when Sara saw that this was not good and had to leave one for her husband, Sara had to give her Egyptian maid Hagar to Arakham as a concubine, and Hagar gave birth to a son named Ishmael. The concubine gave birth to a son, and the status was immediately different, the palace fight began, and the contradiction between the concubine Xia Jia and the main house Sara increased day by day. Later, Sarah also gave birth to a son named Isaac. By this time, Sara and Hagar were even more incompatible. Abraham was also helpless, so he drove Hagar and her son Ishmael into the wilderness and left them to fend for themselves. Hagar wept in despair in the wilderness, and God sent angels to save them and keep them alive.
Later, Hagar's son Ishmael became the ancestor of the Arabs, and Isaac, the son of Sarah, the main house of Abraham, became the ancestor of the Jews. So according to the Bible and the Qur'an, both Arabs and Jews consider them half-brothers, and all these grievances are family feuds. So historically, it is only a matter of time before Saudi Arabia and Israel are likely to re-establish diplomatic relations in the future, or even become allies. But Iranians, Syrians, Palestinians, etc., who also believe in Islam, are not Arabs, Iran is Persian, speak Persian, and Palestine is a mixture of Kurds, Turks, Egyptians, Gypsies, and other ethnic minorities in Eurasia, and their accents, clothing, and customs are different from those of orthodox Arabs.
There are three forces in the Arab world, one is the rich Israel and the Western world that supports them. The second group is the orthodox Arab tyrant countries led by Saudi Arabia, including the UAE, Egypt, Jordan and other Islamic Sunnis. The third group is Iran, Syria, Palestine, Lebanon and other Arabized countries, mainly Shiite poor buddies. In this Palestinian-Israeli conflict, Saudi Arabia, Egypt, Jordan and other orthodox Arab countries have closed their borders and forbade Palestinian refugees to enter. The Lebanon, Pearl, and Syrian armed forces led by Iran, the third group, began to launch rocket provocations against Israel, and the US aircraft carrier strike group approached Israel, mainly to prevent Iran, Syria, and Nepal from having such a situation of the Romance of the Three KingdomsWhy do orthodox Arab countries have to sit on the hill and watch the tiger fight, knowing history in order to foresee the future?
Going back to the story of the ancestor of the Arabs, Ishmael, after Hagar and Ishmael were rescued by an angel in the wilderness, the descendants of Ishmael began to multiply in the Arabian Peninsula. In Islam we call this period of history the Age of Ignorance. At that time, the Arabs were collectively known as the Bedouins, and they were all scattered in the Arabian desert as clans, scattered into countless tribes and roamed the desert. There are no laws in the desert, and the only laws to survive are swords and force, so the Bedouin tribes practice patriarchy. Men have a higher force value than women, women cannot inherit property, there is no upper limit to the number of wives a man can marry, after a man dies, his son can inherit all his father's wives except for his biological mother, and women are often robbed in tribal wars. This kind of war between tribes and tribes can happen at any time. Therefore, there is a law of the Black Forest in the Arabian desert, an eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth, and blood for blood. Therefore, revenge is the creed of the Bedouin tribe, and whoever can succeed in revenge will have a high prestige in the tribe. This thousand-year-old rule of an eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth has created a millennium of hatred in the Arab world.
In such a place full of yellow sand and Gobi and tribal warfare everywhere, how did an Arab empire emerge that straddled Asia, Europe and Africa?This begins with the story of Hagar and Ishmael. When Hagar and Ishmael were lost in the wilderness, and they were about to die of thirst, Hagar lifted his head to heaven and cried, saying, God save us. At this time, the earth was brushed, the angel Gabriel fell from the sky, Hagar's eyes lit up, and he saw a spring in front of him, and Hagar shouted not to flow away, not to flow away. This spring is now the spring of Seep in the holy city of Mecca. The holy city of Mecca is also home to the god's house of Alakaba, and in the Arabian desert, Mecca is a very large oasis with abundant water, miracles, and a transportation artery for Arab traders.
Starting from ancient Greece, the northern side of the Arabian Peninsula was warned, and in 54 BC, ancient Rome and Persia continued to fight until 648 AD, more than 700 years of war, so the merchants had to start from the Mediterranean, enter Egypt, then Mecca, and then from Mecca, cross the Arabian desert, reach the Persian Gulf, and from the Persian Gulf into East Asia, to India and the Tang Dynasty. In this way, even if all the travel expenses, customs duties, labor costs, etc. are added, these oriental spices, silks, ceramics and other goods sold to Europe will be 5-8 times more profitable. During these centuries, all the merchants and ministers of the Arab trade routes made a lot of money. When the Bedouin tribes became rich, they began to become gentlemen, peaceful and honest. They make an annual pilgrimage to Mecca to see the miracles of their ancestors and make up for it, especially to negotiate here with hostages from other tribes. They openly said that whoever cuts off our trade routes will cut off everyone's financial routes, and everyone has money to earn, so why fight and kill?A verbal peace agreement was reached between the Bedouin tribes, and Mecca became the center of religion and the world.
On May 4, 570 A.D., a boy was born in Mecca who was about to change the whole world, and his name was Muhammad. Muhammad was born into the Hashemite family, a prominent family in Mecca, and King Abdullah II of Jordan is the king of the Hashemite family to this day. Shortly before Muhammad was born, his father fell ill and died in the desert trade lanes, and Muhammad was raised by his uncle. After the death of Muhammad's grandfather, he did not leave much inheritance to his uncle, and in order to reduce the burden on the family, Muhammad began to follow his uncle as a businessman, doing business in the east, west, north and south. Muhammad's personality was very upright and honest, he got what he paid for, and he was absolutely not adulterated, so he received an honorific title in the trade routes, Alla Alami, the faithful, which means reliable person, and everyone believed what he said.
When Muhammad was 25 years old, he was recruited by a big female businessman in Mecca, Haidiga, who was probably 28 to 30 years old at the time, and wanted to find a businessman to go to Syria. Because Muhammad was very trustworthy, he said, "I will give you double the commission." Muhammad lived up to his mission and made double the profits for Haidja. Considered this young man very good, and sent her friend to test Muhammad and asked, "Seeing that you are almost 30 years old, have you considered getting married?"When Muhammad heard this, he said, "How can I afford to support my wife and children?"As soon as this person heard this, he quickly asked, would you consider marrying a woman who has the ability to support you?"It's good". From then on, Muhammad lived a life without food and clothing.
Muhammad began to think about life after he had no worries about food and clothing, and at night he suddenly began to dream about the future events, and all these things came true. These dreams had been going on for more than half a year, so he thought it might be a divine calling, so he ran to a cave in the Mount of Light in Mecca to think about life. When Muhammad was 40 years old, he was once in deep thought, and suddenly a voice came to his ears, and Gabriel, the archangel who had saved their ancestors, had come again, and Gabriel had put him on a sacred beast and ascended to the seven heavens. When he returned, Gabriel said, "The Lord has chosen you to be the last prophet of mankind, and now he will teach you the Qur'an, and you must write it down word by word, and Muhammad will begin to memorize the Qur'an."
After reciting, Muhammad was so frightened that he ran home and whispered to his wife, "Cover me with a quilt, I will be scared to death, I will tell you a secret, and then tell him about his experience, Haidija believed Muhammad's words very much, and Muhammad's wife, Haidiga, became the first Muslim." From then on, Muhammad began to spread Islam as a prophet.
Why did Islam develop so quickly at that time?Because Muhammad's teachings, in addition to teaching people to fear the one true God, there were many ideas that seemed very advanced at the time, and they quickly attracted a large number of believers. For example, human rights are defined, and people are equal before God, and they cannot kill people at will. Women and men are also equal, for example, the wife is the husband's clothes, and the husband is also the wife's clothes, and the question of being good to his wife may have a lot to do with his rich wife Haidiga, women can also be more successful than men, human rights are equal, and the rapid improvement of women's status has attracted many oppressed people to Islam.
Another important aspect is that Islam has a lot of business ethics and tax laws. For example, Islam stipulates that businessmen need to pay 4% tax, which can be used to help the poor, and they cannot borrow money to collect interest, but they can invest, share risks, and grow their business together, which has won the support of the poor and businessmen. When Muhammad had the tax revenue, he raised an army to protect the property of the Muslims. The right to life and property were secured, and more believers began to come to Muhammad. At that time, the Arab aristocracy who believed in polytheism found that their source of tax revenue and the population had gone to Muhammad's side, and felt that Muhammad was a major threat, so they began to ** Muslims and sent people to assassinate Muhammad. Muhammad ran from Mecca to Medina, after which more and more people joined Medina, Muhammad formed an army of tens of thousands of men, and after 8 years of fighting, finally captured Mecca, where Muhammad established a Muslim regime. After the establishment of the regime, Muhammad stipulated that everyone would not be forced to follow Islam, but the infidels had to pay more taxes, and who could not live with the moneyWith Muhammad, human rights and property are secured, and life is more comfortable. As a result, the tribes around Mecca and the people of the small countries joined the Muslims. By this time, the Arabian Peninsula was close to unification.
On June 8, 632, Muhammad died suddenly. After the death of his wife Haidiga, Muhammad married 23 wives, but none of them grew up with sons**. His good friend father-in-law and retainer Abu Bakr of the Umayyad was elected as the first caliph. The caliph means the successor of the Prophet Muhammad. After Abu became caliph, he single-handedly unified the Arabian Peninsula. Two years later, he also fell ill and died, the only caliph to die of natural causes. It was too cruel later, and Muhammad's best comrade-in-arms and supporter, Umar of the Umayyads, was chosen as the second caliph. At this time, the Eastern Roman Empire and the Persian Empire had been defeated after hundreds of years of fighting, and as long as they were defeated, they could obtain the shortest and best trade route into the East. So as soon as Omar became caliph, he led the Muslim army north to repel the Eastern Roman Empire, then to the east to occupy most of Iraq and Iran, and then to the west to occupy Palestine and Egypt.
In 644, Umar was assassinated by a Persian slave. Then one of Muhammad's sons-in-law, Uthman, a member of the Umayyad family, was chosen as the third caliph, and he went on to lead his army to destroy the thousand-year-old Persian dynasty. In 656, Osman was assassinated by a group of Assassins. Why are Arab caliphs always assassinated?What kind of dark forces are behind this?Is it Assassin's Creed?This is where Sunnis and Shiites come in.
Muhammad always insisted that he was a prophet sent by God, that he was not a god himself, and that he had no son himself, and that his sudden death led to a power vacuum, because he was not a god in blood, but an ordinary man. So the question of who will succeed the caliph and lead the Arab race is a very big one. At that time, Muhammad was surrounded by two powerful families, the first of which was Muhammad's direct Hashemite family, which continues to this day as Shiites. The second is the Umayyad family, which is a Sunni to this day. The Umayyads were the strongest of the Arab families in Mecca, with the upper hand in wealth, army, and population. The Umayyads were supposed to assassinate Muhammad, but the teachings of Islam infected the chiefs of their family, and their entire family was converted to Islam and became a powerful force for Muhammad. The family of Hashemite began to decline when Muhammad was born, and Muhammad was forced to herd camels. So after Muhammad's death, the Umayyads supported the electoral system, and they had more votes and elected three caliphs at once.
Muhammad's Hashemite family looked at it, this will not work, we support the inheritance system, the caliph should be the direct blood of Muhammad, the Hashemite family, but they searched and searched, and they could only find a slightly famous Muhammad's son-in-law Ali. The news came suddenly, the third Arab caliph, the Umayyad family Uthman was assassinated, and the overlord of the Hashemite family made a bow without an election, so that Ali directly became the fourth caliph. The mighty Umayyads were gone, and in 657, Mu'awiyah, the governor of Syria, led his army south to bloodied the Hashemites. Mu'awiyah succeeded him as the fifth caliph in 661 AD, by which time the Hashemite family had been wiped out and Arabia had moved from an electoral system to a hereditary system. Later, the Muslims of the Hashemite who supported the elections formed the Shiite sect, led by Iran, and the hereditary Umayyad family became Sunni, led by the Saudi Saudis. The two Muslim Arab countries are still guarding against each other, each with its own evil intentions.
Later, the Arab Empire became a huge dynasty across Europe, Asia and Africa, and the Arab Empire that made a fortune from merchants could rise, and another important reason was that the people of the Tang Empire, which began to rise in 6 18 AD, made the merchants of the Arabian Peninsula earn a lot of money with their spending power, so they especially supported Islam that could liberate humanity and promote commercial development. But in 755, there was an incident in the Tang Empire, called the Anshi Rebellion. During the reign of Xuanzong of the Tang Dynasty, there were 200 million people in the world, and the Tang Dynasty accounted for 80 million, and during the 8-year Anshi Rebellion, the population of the Tang Dynasty directly felt that it had dropped by 40 million, which made many Arab businessmen unemployed. In addition, the development of navigation technology turned the era of land ** to the age of discovery, which directly led to the decline of the Silk Road. Without business, the Arab empire had no money, it was difficult to maintain a strong rule in Eurasia and Africa, and they began to decline. When the Western ** religion country saw that the caliph seemed to be no longer good, they hurriedly called me. So the Crusades were launched. The Crusades led to the rise of the Ottoman Empire in Turkey.
The Ottoman Empire later encroached on a large part of the territory of the Arab Empire, including the lands of what is now Palestine and the State of Israel. During World War I, the British sent their military adviser, T Lawrence, to Arabia to rebel against the Arab sheikhs, asking them to attack the Ottoman Empire, promising to give them a large area of land, including the holy city of Jerusalem. When the Arab sheikhs heard this, they could accomplish the great cause of unifying Arabia that our ancestors had given us. But when the British and the Arab sheikhs defeated the Ottomans, and the British suddenly issued a statement saying that they wanted to help Israel establish a state in this land, the Arab sheikhs were furious when they heard this, and these British betrayed us. So when Israel was founded, the United Arab Army wanted to destroy Israel together and get back the land that Britain had promised them. This was the first Middle East war, in which 960,000 Palestinian refugees were forced to flee their homes and enter Jordan, Egypt, Lebanon, and Syria.
When the Palestinians enter other countries, they just need to live a good life and live in peace. But it didn't. In Jordan, for example, the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) was established after Palestinian refugees entered Jordan, which twice assassinated the Hashemite king, and led to the Jordanian civil war in 1970, known as the Black September. After that, Jordan defeated the Palestine Liberation Organization with the help of Israel. Then they ran to Lebanon, which before 1975 was called the little Paris of the East, very open, economically developed, the people were rich, and the beauties did not wear veils. However, after the Palestine Liberation Organization entered Lebanon, it started a war with the local ** religion, which lasted for more than ten years, resulting in the death of 120,000 people in Lebanon.
Therefore, since suffering these losses, in the current Palestinian-Israeli conflict, none of the orthodox Arab countries Jordan, Egypt, Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates, etc., dare to open their borders to accept these Palestinian refugees, and they are all quietly watching. So from Abraham to Muhammad, to now the Jews, Arabs, British, Palestinians, Persians, Sunnis, Shiites, **Religions, Islam, every human ancestor who has lived on the Arabian Peninsula has more or less the blood of another group of people on their hands, so it is very difficult to achieve peace here, there is only one way, which is to forget hatred, but, it is so difficult.