Saturday, June 22, 2013

Wander tradition

It is interesting to ponder is why the last Prophet and Messenger sent to mankind by God from among the Quraysh tribe in the Arabian Peninsula? What's up with the Quraysh tribe? 

The answer to this question is given by God Himself in the Qur'an Surat Quraish first and second verse, which reads, "Due to the tradition of Quraish. Tradition they wandered in winter and in summer." 


The holy city of Mecca at the beginning named Baka or Bakkah, as stated in Ali Imran 96. In Arabic, the word has two meanings baka, "tears streamed down" and "balsam tree". The first meaning relates to the havoc that area so if they did not give up hope, and the second meaning related to the number of balsam trees (genus commiphora) that grow there. Therefore meme letters and letters ba equally bilabial (lips), Bakkah name eventually changed to Makkah. 


Due to extremely arid city of Mecca, the Quraysh that city dwellers could not live on the agrarian sector (agriculture), but must develop the business sector (trade). Compared to other tribes in the Arabian Peninsula, the tribe of Quraish has a special character, hold any weather! They have a tradition (ilaf) likes to wander both in winter and in summer for trade. 


In the beginning most of the Quraysh tribe hostile to Islam so that the Prophet Muhammad.


and his followers have left their homeland emigrated to Madinah. But eventually the whole people of Quraysh embraced Islam, especially after mastering the Prophet of Mecca. Tradition liked to wander out of the Quraish tribe is one of the factors which accelerated the spread of Islam. Only a century after the prophet's death, in the middle of the 8th century Muslim rule stretched from Spain to Xinjiang. 

Seems to have become sunnatullah (divine law) that an idea or doctrine will rapidly evolve if disseminated widely by people who like to wander. In the history of our country, a similar experience must also occur. No doubt that the spread of Islam in the archipelago by the students and traders who like to wander.
 
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