Why don't Arabs like to read? Mel with @SaintMurad

[@SaintMurad]

Arabs won't read this comment 😂

[@villainousssb533]

5 words that’s a lot considering it takes a whole year to read 6 min

[@johnlee7699]

I know! You got to love how the "Dawahghandists" (not mentioning names) always make videos with huge Libraries as their background! 😂😂😂

[@QueenQaffir]

@@johnlee7699 right. And they got a “masters w a focus in Hadiths” 😂 Willing to bet he got his degree at hegag’s daddy’s “training” “university” (that literally offers nothing but a 1 star google review) 🎉

[@sebastianyoon8051]

I think it would be more accurate to say Muslims, not Arabs.

[@EM-tx3ly]

@@sebastianyoon8051 Nice deflection !!!

[@oleo.stimes6525]

Al-Jahiliyyah: what's old is still new! Great video, Mel and Murad. Also, when Murad is done with the Aramaic version of the Qur'an, I suggest he start translating James Joyce novels into Arabic. 😉

[@ASHORSHEMAYA]

For me, as a person of Iraqi origin who lived for nearly 38 years within the Arab and Islamic culture, I can say that reading constitutes a serious threat to both Islamic and Arab culture, because governments were pushing for a culture of Arab nationalism and Islamic identity in a desperate manner, and thus any new contradictory information would cause a disturbance to the security of the regime. Over time, this became the culture of Arab society, even at the clan level and sometimes even at the family level. Because Arabs are the majority, this culture extended to other Islamic nationalities, and the culture of “leave the matter to the specialists” became the surest way to personal safety.

[@mysotiras21]

There is a strong thread of anti-intellectualism in Islam. Reading promotes thinking; Allah just doesn't like slaves who think independently. When I lived in the Middle East, the difference between Christian Arabs and Muslim Arabs was stark. The Christians loved the printed word. Like their western counterparts, they read widely. When I visited their homes, they always had loaded bookshelves. The shelves held books from many genres, including fiction. The Muslims, however, avoided books like the plague. Rare to meet one who had actually read the Qur'an, let alone novels. The Arab Muslims much preferred to get their info from television, videos, or their imams. A visit to a Muslim home might reveal a Qur'an in a place of honor, plus perhaps a few more Arabic tomes on Islamic subjects, but nothing more.

[@jodyayers4592]

Quote: " When Muslims first encountered the printing press, the first thing they did was to ban it. In 1485, the Ottoman Caliph Sultan Bayazid II declared (with the support of all the scholars) the printing press to be haram. He stated that it was forbidden to bring the printing press into Muslim lands. " Quote: " Jared Rubin writes in Rulers, Religion, and Riches: Why the West Got Rich and the Middle East Did Not, “The Ottomans’ failure to adopt the printing press is one of the great missed opportunities of economic and technological history. In Western Europe, the press provided a host of new economic and educational opportunities that were simply unthinkable prior to the press.” According to Rubin, the Ottomans' initial encounter with the printing press occurred during Sultan Bayezid II's reign (1481-1512). A somewhat controversial historical account suggests that he, in 1485, and his successor, Selim I, in 1515, issued edicts banning the use of printing presses for Ottoman Turkish and Arabic scripts, under penalty of death. This prohibition primarily targeted Muslim subjects, as religious minorities were permitted to print non-Islamic material in other scripts. (Jewish immigrants from Spain and Portugal established a Hebrew press in Istanbul in 1493, followed by Armenians in the 1560s using the Armenian alphabet, and a Greek Orthodox monk introducing a Greek press in 1627.) "

[@TrevorFrancis-k2e]

Me too! 😊

[@thejoseonone]

Would saint murad ever do a translation of the reliance of the traveler? I heard that it is sanitized for the western audience, though i don't know how much.

[@avicrane113]

My Grandfather’s native tongue was Aramaic I wish I had paid attention!!

[@asifbrettishmaelmakki9]

when you say they only read the quran because everything is in it. Are you suggesting Arabs read quran and know what it is saying? Also it's believable that Arabs have a lot of islamic books in arabic language.They have universities in Saudi.

[@yakovmatityahu]

What Murad wanted to say at 1.00.30 was actually Rheotic, Christians dont employ Rheotic properly(but in the Past they knew it very well), i am currently reading a Classical Book on Rheotic, the Style of Art to persuade people in a Debate and Discussion, its informal way of "Street Talk" if you will, Check "Art of Rheotic" book by Penguin Publishers, Many Ancient Church fathers like Augustine,Severus,Jerome and many others used it in their daily discourse, but over time, Church forogt the Art of Rheotic, we need more and more Christians to read this book.

[@IslamicOrigins]

Is that rhetoric?

[@yakovmatityahu]

@IslamicOrigins I think Murad wanted to say Rheotic yes.

[@SuperCodemeister]

I will! 😂

[@johnlee7699]

Wow, imagine if Muslims and Arabs were allowed and encouraged to read the Bible for themselves... 🫣🫣🫣 And freely choose to believe what they wished? 😮 🤯🤯🤯🤯🤯🤯🤯

[@asifbrettishmaelmakki9]

And if the arabs are reading the quran and understanding it,are they understanding it the same as St Murad understands it?

[@123dsj123]

Every human being owes a duty to intelligence - the ability to acquire knowledge and to apply it. Unfortunately for Muslims, Allah bans the use of intelligence in Islam. Quran 5:101 reads, “O you who believe (Muslims)! Ask not about things which, if made plain (simple, clear) to you may cause you trouble (grief).” In the next verse, Allah explains why no Muslims must engage in learning, creativity, and the free exchange of ideas and thoughts. Quran 5:102 reads, “Some people (Muslims) before you did ask such questions, and on that account, lost their faith.” * Sahih al-Bukhari 7289: The prophet said: The greatest sinners among the Muslims are those who ask too many questions.

[@samuelengle7873]

I have a question. Does the alphabet or having the standard Arabic different from the dialects possibly have any impact on wanting to read?

[@samuelengle7873]

Ah, I hadn’t seen the part where he said that was a thing yet.

[@porphyry17]

can Saint Murad do a video about Arabs and "Arabs" in the future? how Arabs see non-Arabs(Egyptians, Amazighs, Babylonians for example) that have lost their culture-language and adopted Arabic as their main language?(the "Arabs" that i mentioned earlier, that is)

[@IslamicOrigins]

Good topic, I will ask him.