Slide 2:56
Lisan al'arab
"And green(khudra) in the speech of the people is brown(sumra)
Al-lahabi thus said:" i am the green(akhdar) one who knows of me? The greenest skin in the house of the arabs"
He is saying" i am pure" because the skin of arabs is brown(sumra)
Altahdhib:in this verse are two interpretations one of which is that he means the 'the black-skinned one(aswad al-jildah)" and abu dalib an-nahwi said that he meant he was of the pure arabs and of their unmixed, because the majority of arab skintone is dark(udmah). And ibn barri said "this verse is attributed to al-lahabi and he is al-Fadl ibn 'abbas bin 'utbah bin Abi Lahab , and what he meant by greenness(al-khudra) was the browness of skin(sumrata lawnihi) and what he meant by that was the pureness of his lineage and that he was a pure arab, because the arabs describe their skin as black(sawad) and describe the skin of non-arabs as red(humra)..."
( this alfadl al-lahabi was the great grandson of abu lahab, the uncle of the propet.)
Asmar, akhdar and aswad are all terms still in use by sudanese arabs, asmar being brown, akhdar dark brown and aswad more black than brown. Heres an AJ video addressing the problem of colourism in sudan, this will prove helpful later when we arrive at bilal rac and abu dar rac.
Slide 3:53
Lisaan ul-arab
"By the green ghassan and green muharib is meant the blackness of their colour(sawaada lawnihim)"
(The ghassanid were the northern arabs who founded the great ghassanid empire in the levant, their descendants of the the four fleeting azd of yemen
Banu Muharib was an Arab tribe during the Islamic prophet Muhammad's era. During the
Invasion of Thi Amr Muhammad ordered a military raid against them. He ordered his men to raid the Banu Muharib and Banu Talabah tribes after he received intelligence that they were allegedly going to raid the outskirts of
Medina[1][2]
Ghwarath ibn al-Harith (also known as Du'thar ibn al-Harith) is from this tribe.
[2]
After the Muslim Conquest of
Iraq the tribe settled in al-Kufah
[3]
)
3:56
Lisan al 'arab
"And udma(darkness) is browness(sumrah) and a person who is dark(adam) is brown(asmar)"
4:00
Fakhr as-sudan
"And arabs pride themselves in blackskin, and if it is asked," if thats the case why do they say so and so is bright, shining, white and blazingly white?" We say to them it is not meant the whiteness of skin, but it is meant the nobility of character and its purity, the green muharrib have already boasted that they're black, and black to the the arabs is green(wa sawad 'inda al'rab alakhdar)"
" and the Banu Mughira are the green of the Banu Makhzoum, and 'umar bin Abi Rabi'ah bin Mughira alMakhzoumi said, attributing it to alFadl bin 'abbas al-Lahabi:" I am the green one who knows of me, the greenest skin in the house of the arabs....and the greens of the ghassan are the Banu Jufnah, the kings."
(The prophet's saw father's maternal lineage was Banu Makhzoumi. All though theyre all racially black the banu makhzoum were especially darkskinned, kinda like reer khalaf and omar mahmoud)
@CaliTedesse This is your tribal alias
4:37
Fakhr as-sudan
"And we say God almighty has not made us (zanj)black to make us ugly
But it is infact the land that has made us so, and the prove is that within the arabs are black tribes like the Banu Sulaym bin Mansur and every tribe that settled in the Harra besides the Banu Sulaym are all black.
Our blackness oh the people of zanj isn't different go the blackness of the banu sulaym and those arab tribes we have listed for you in this literature"
About the Bani Sulaym
Now the Banu Sulaym are no insignificant or irrelevant tribe, being the cause of the arabization of the Maghrib. They were expelled from the levant by the Fatimids and to Egypt eventually immigrating to the Maghrib, many notable Sahaba were from the Banu Sulaym.
There are currently some 1 million Sulaymis in Sudan, but rather than the Maghrebi Sulaymi explain why they are not black, it is the Sudanese Sulaymi who are subjected to a false narrative of becoming black through intermixture.
The
Banu Sulaym (بنو سليم) were an
Arab tribe that dominated part of the
Hejaz in the
pre-Islamic era. They maintained close ties with the
Quraysh of
Mecca and the inhabitants of
Medina, and fought in a number of battles against the
Islamic prophet Muhammad before ultimately converting to Islam before his demise in 632. They took part in the
Muslim conquest of the Levant, and established themselves in
Upper Mesopotamia, whilst part of the tribe remained in the Hejaz. During the early Muslim era, the tribe produced noted generals such as
Safwan ibn Mu'attal,
Abu'l-A'war and
Umayr ibn al-Hubab. Those who remained in Arabia were largely absorbed by the
Banu Harb of Yemen beginning in the 9th century, while those in Syria, Mesopotamia were expelled to
Upper Egypt by the
Fatimid Caliphs in the late 10th century for assisting the
Qarmatians. In the mid-11th century, a prolonged
famine in Egypt prompted the tribe to migrate westward with the
Banu Hilal into
Libya. The Sulaym and its sub-tribes established themselves mainly in
Cyrenaica,Libya, where until the present day, many of the Arab tribes of that region trace their descent to the Sulaym.
Slide 4:59
The arab prince by the 19th century Rudolf Ernst
5:20
Arab chieftain and his entourage
5:30
Lisan al 'arab
"And if arabs say a guy is white(abyad)or a girl is white they mean a noble character not the colour of the skin. And if they say a guy is red(ahmar) or a girl is red(hamra') they mean they are white skinned"
"When arabs say so and so is white they mean a character free from stain and degrading things they do not mean the whiteness of the skin but rather they mean it as praise of honour and the absence of that which is degrading of character. And if they say so an so has a white face they mean a skintone free from blemishes and unattractive discolouration "
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@CaliTedesse @Suldaanka @Lolalola @Apollo @SOMALI GENERAL
So far i've listed 4 meanings of white, 3 of which are skin related.
One meaning is a golden brown colour modestly rare amongst the early arabs, another is clear skin, be it brown or even black(its to do with clarity), another meaning is to have a noble character free from improper conduct, the other meaning is the skin of the persians and romans which more often then not was just referred to as red
It is noteworthy that the sudanese call the egyptians and peninsular arabs Ahmar to this day )
But people try to claim that he was a black man or habashei
When they say he is black they mean his skin colour not bantu. He inherited from his mother his slave status and thus her ethnicity.
Slide 2:56
Lisan al'arab
"And green(khudra) in the speech of the people is brown(sumra)
Al-lahabi thus said:" i am the green(akhdar) one who knows of me? The greenest skin in the house of the arabs"
He is saying" i am pure" because the skin of arabs is brown(sumra)
Altahdhib:in this verse are two interpretations one of which is that he means the 'the black-skinned one(aswad al-jildah)" and abu dalib an-nahwi said that he meant he was of the pure arabs and of their unmixed, because the majority of arab skintone is dark(udmah). And ibn barri said "this verse is attributed to al-lahabi and he is al-Fadl ibn 'abbas bin 'utbah bin Abi Lahab , and what he meant by greenness(al-khudra) was the browness of skin(sumrata lawnihi) and what he meant by that was the pureness of his lineage and that he was a pure arab, because the arabs describe their skin as black(sawad) and describe the skin of non-arabs as red(humra)..."
( this alfadl al-lahabi was the great grandson of abu lahab, the uncle of the propet.)
@Lolalola what are your thoughts
6:27
Tarikh altabari
"And the children of shem settled in magdal, center of the earth, and this is from sidama to the ocean and yemen to syria, God gave them prophethood and the books and beauty and darkskin(udmah) and clear skin(bayad)
And the children of ham....they were given darkskin(udmah) and few were clear skinned."
"And ham fathered the egyptians, the sudanese and the berbers"
"And of them is Nimrod and he is Nimrod bin Kush bin Ham"
Description of the Sahaba and kings
Tarikh alkhulafa lil suyudi
Description ali ibn abi talib rac
" Ali was heavy-built man,bald, leaning slight towards shortness, he had a large stomach and a very large beard that filled the space between his two shoulders, white like it was cotton, and he was dark extremely dark"
Fusul almuhimah li ibn sibagh
Description ali ibn abi talib rac
"And ibn munda has related that he was extremely dark, large bearded, heavy eyed, and the largest of them stomach wise, and he was closer to short."
Tarikh alya'quubi
Description of umar ibn khattab rac
"He was tall, bald and extremely dark"
Ansab alashraaf lil baladuri
Description of 'uthman bin bin 'affaan
"..He was neither tall nor short, he had a handsome face..large beard and brown skin(asmar al-lawn)"
Fusul almuhim
Ja'far alsadiq rac
"He was brown skinned(udmi al-lawn)"
(He is one of the 12 imams shia'a venerate)
Tarikh alrusul wa almuluk
Mohamed alnafs alzaki
"I am descended from the Prophet (SAWS) from my mother's side AND my father's side. I am the purest of Bani Hashim (the branch of Quraish that the Prophet Mohamed (SAWS) is from) in genealogy and the noblest of them both paternally AND maternally. NO NON-ARAB BLOOD RUNS THROUGH MY VEINS!"
(Muhammad alnafs alzakiya(literally meaning pure soul because of his pure qurayshi genealogy)felt that he had more of a claim to the throne than abu ja'far almansur, second caliph of the 'abbasids, who was son of a berber women. How do you expect this man to look like, maybe like muhammad bin salman?)
Tarikh alrusul
"Muhammad was dark extremely dark, pitch black large and tall body. His nickname was the charcoal because of his blackness, even so much so that Abu Ja'far use to call him the burnt-face one"
imam muhammad ahmad al-mahdi
