Re: Islamically can you join a national army...
Well like I said, you can choose to believe what you will... there are always two faces to a coin. It is doubdful that Persian learning was the only thing that had it's impact and not Persian belief system: Zoroastrianism. Same goes with Christian and Jewish subjects of the Islamic Empire of the Umayyad age...
yes..brother..you are right...but see this is because...Persian Civilization from thousands ofyears be the super-power and exceeded in litreature and poetry...remeber when Haris went to persia and brought the Dastans of Rustam -o-suhrab so that people would not listen to Muhammd (pbuh) min streets of Makkah(as in sura Luqman )...so Persians were already very used to writing and learning...while in Makkah only ..i think 17 were adhere to writing thats include umar(ra) also...alll they did it listen to poetry of Amraul qais and others ...fight...tribal conflicts...wars of 100 years...khana badosh....poor also..etc etc...do not compare them with the 2500 years of greatest and beautiful civilizations of Persia....tahts why after islam...Kufa ..Basra...Naisha Pur...Khurasan...Gialan...became the centres of learning..science and philosohy...its just because of thier old historical traces....but its totally wrong to say that Arabs did nothing....one of the greatest iamm of all times...Imam Malik of Madina and his Mauta (as said by US RESident) is the early and very authoritative work of hadees)...similarly the other greatest imam ...Imam Muhammad Idrees-us -Shaafai of Makkah is the greatest imam of fiqah.....Imam Ozai who did 70,000 problems of Fiqah was also rabian....Imam Zohri was also arabian...Imam Sufyan Sori...was also arabian...etc...regarding what Ibne Ishaque was ....he was very early age ...and if someone in his relatives was jew..whats strange...that his grandson was jew ......he was the oldest seerat nigar of prophet(pbuh) ...i think died in 91 higri...i think ..not sure..