Re: Are Malik/Awans related to Hazrat Ali?
I’m a Malik and a couple days back, I and my cousin were having a discussion about the spread of Islam in the Subcontinent and I mentioned that Pakistanis have a strange way of somehow claiming Arab descent. I was like:
“Ye baat maan lo ke hamaray baap dada Hindu thay, koi Arab nai thay. Hmara koi taluk nai hai arbon se”
And he got angry and said that we Maliks are descended from Hazrat Ali R.A. Is he right? Personally, I think it’s just an example of the obsession of the Muslims of the subcontinent with Arab descent. And please, if you say that he is right and Maliks are indeed related to Hazrat Ali, give some evidence. And some hard evidence. Not something like Baba so-so and Baba so-so said this and that lol
Why are you asking that. In Islam there is no concept of superiority based on ethnicity, tribe, cast, etc. The only criteria that makes you superior in Allah’s eyes is ‘Taqwa’.