Re: black salafi imam: arabs are the 'master race'
Peace All
What I feared is manifesting before us in this thread ... please do not comment until this thread is locked. I stand by my initial post ... We must not take the afore said about Sh. Ibn Taymiyyah as conclusive because:
1) It is not hadith it is a translation of a commentary about what he 'allegedly' said.
2) We do not know the context or we cannot as yet fully comprehend the full meaning he intended behind it.
3) I personally cannot believe the face value accusation against him that he said this because he is the least likely person of his time to conflict with the message of Qur'an and Sunnah.
So people need to be careful before either defending that position because how can we even ratify that to be a true statement? It could be slander and lies about him?
At the same time we cannot attack that position either for that would assume that we know more than Ibn Taymiyyah which is mighty arrogant of us when he devoted his life to Islam.
This thread is doing nothing but empowering the secular Muslims to argue against the supporters of tradition, but at the same time it gives fuel to the non-Arabs (which is most Muslims) to abandon Ibn Taymiyyah as an authority, and for some non-Arab Muslims to add to a political position.
brother many contemporaries of ibn taymiyyah did not agree with him either
so he was never a authority for all muslims arab or not