Are Muslims only arabs or do they come from other countries as well? If so which, examples?

Question

Do Muslims share the same heritage and cultural customs, and cultural practices? Do muslims pray the same way, or do they pray in their own language? How does it work? Do they call God in their own language or what?

Answer 1

by definition anyone who submits to the willl of Allah and says the words is a muslim. Theyre all over the place, all races and types. The goal is to be able to read and recite the Q'ran in its orig arabic.

Answer 2

I am a Muslim and I'm not an Arab.

I live in Muslim country and none of them are Arabs. They are all South-East-Asians.

Muslims share the same religious beliefs but have their own customs, their unique heritage and cultural practices.

Muslims all over the world pray in the same way and in the same direction, towards the Ka'abah 'the black box' in Makkah.

They offer prayers five times a day in Arabic as was the practice of the Prophet but they talk to Allah personally in their own language, seeking Him in languages that He Himself created.

Hope this helps sister.

Answer 3

Muslimah...........as a revert you have not studied very well have you? No Muslims dont share the same heritage there are Muslims all over the world and seeing as the worlds poulation didnt start in any Arab country....they wont all be Arabs. depending on the type of Islam you follow you will have different customs and different variations in the way you pray. Prayers are in Arabic as the Quran is in Arabic. There are big differences in Sunni Muslims and Shia Muslims.............maybe you need to do more research. and what do you mean 'call God??' we pray to God but we dont call God!!!

Answer 4

The Muslim faith is similar to Christianity and Buddhism in that all three religions have spread rapidly across the world to all inhabited continents. What differs about Islam from the other religions is the generally accepted cultural practice of knowing how to read Qu'ranic Arabic in order to know the faith. Reading Classical Arabic is considered essential to understanding one's own faith. You will find that in many parts of the world, the Qu'ran is printed in both Classical Arabic and the native language side-by-side.

Because Islam exists in so many places, the cultural practices of each country, ethnicity differs greatly from place to place. Consider, for example, Muslims from East Africa, Indonesia, Persia (Iran), Saudi Arabia, China. These areas have vastly different daily life, languages, cuisine, music, climates, and history. It is the goal to strive to pray and read in Arabic, but this can only be done to such a degree. Many people in the world are illiterate, and therefore learning to read Classical Arabic is far too great a task to take on.

From my personal understanding from friends, Muslims will often pray in their own language as they strive to know more about Arabic - but speaking to God is not based on language. Anyone may speak to God in any language.

An important thing to consider about reading and understanding Classical Arabic is this - it is a means by which the holy book cannot be tainted by excessive translation. By retaining the book in it's true form, there is no doubt about the words and their meaning.

Answer 5

Mainly lslam spread from Saudi Arabia. But once a person like u embraces Islam and spreads it then ofcourse ppl become Muslims form any race :)

Muslims dont have to share the same culture. But Islam as u will note has a culture of its own..like the stuff we wear is different depending upon the country we live in but then again...we all cover prperly no? Whether it be an abaya...or a shalwar kameez (Pakistani)..the perpose is to cover.

All Muslims pray SALAT in Arabic. And the method has to be exactly according to what Mohammad Sallallaho Alaihi Wassalam prayed.

Allah has 99 beautiful names he revealed on us. Every name has a meaning and we can call Allah by whatever name we like from these 99. I even call him God but Dr Zakir Nayak (a very famous and my favourite scholar) said that we should use the names out of the 99 sice God is also used by ppl who beleive in more than one Gods. Whereas Allah is an arabic word that can only be used for a single GOD. No one before him and no one after him...

Answer 6

Basically Islam is of Arab origin!
At a certain time, Arabs were following Buddhism, Zorastrianism, Christianity etc as per the wish of the leaders of the tribes. But now one can notice Arabs follow islam and Christainity.

A true copy of the Old Testament and translated to Arabic by the Arabs before some 1500 years for the sake of sermons and prayers that was followed by some independant tribal settlements - There was no Islam in those days!

So, one can notice a lot of resemblance in their characters and their rolls in the history due to retold story of the old testament!

Certain points were not explained about the birth place of this religion!
Eg: Makha, was a religious site that belonged to Buddhists. By force the army of General Mohammad vacated them and took over it and boasted their conquest. That shows Buddhism was ruling middle east in those days.

While Arab merchants used the sea routes for trade, Islam was slowly penetrated & planted by them mostly in the coastal areas of most of the countries. It started with a poor show and grow very fast.

"Allah" is the name given to the supernatural supreme power who is great, kind, mercful, pure and invisible to the eyes of the human being but his acts are explained in Holy Qoran.

Islam is followed by nearly a billion people around the world.
Irrespective of their language, colour and continents attracted by Islam. During the prayers and sermons the main part is done in Arabic only. Sub parts are exactly translatted to the local languages for users attention and understanding and delivered.
Customs are not alike and culture is not the same. Culture belongs to tradition and heritage of a particular land and no religion can claim it as its property!

Dress code for ladies are strictly followed. Men are the same every where.

Answer 7

Sister it seems very strange that you are asking such a question. Because you posted another question saying you went to a mosque in Manhattan and there was Italians, Indians, English etc,etc speaking people. So have you not already answered your own question. You must know that Muslim come in all colours creeds and cultures. As a Muslim we are all supposed to pray in Arabic, isn't that common knowledge?? I'm Scottish all my family is Scottish I'm the only Muslim in my family. I know whatever mosque i visit everyone prays in Arabic we a lead by the Imam who says it in Arabic. My cultural heritage is a million miles away from anything Islamic but being being Scottish and proud of it, being very patriotic too in no way hinders me from fulfilling my Islamic obligations. And any Muslim i have ever met no matter where they have been from all call God, Allah. As of course it is Gods choosen language for his followers. Inshallah sister i hope your knowledge of your own people continues to grow, asalam allikum....

Answer 8

As a Muslim, I say Muslims do pray the same way, they recite Al-Fatihah in ARabic and do all the postures, but cultural customs and heritage, I think no.. Arab Muslims have this weird culture of wearing all blacks, but in Malaysia, Muslim women are dressed in a colourful way.. and Muslims are not only Arab.. If I pray, I use english and malay, since I am not used to Arabic, but when I do Solat, I recite the recitations in Arabic.. I wonder why you asked.. You should have known..

Answer 9

Most muslims in this world is non arabs. Largest muslim population country is indonesia, second and third is pakistan and India. All of them are non arab countries. There are cultural differences among muslims in their dress, food etc You can really witness this diversity during Hajj where muslims from diffrent place come together. Prayer, that is salaat, the five times prayer is performed every where in Arabic only. But supplications are done both in arabic and also in native languages. Most non arab countries Friday sermon is carried out in native language so that people can understand the message of sermon. Mostly, they call God, Allah itself, but certain local words that denote Allah is also used , like for instance in my native language, God is also called using the word meaning creator.

Answer 10

Muslims come from all walks of life and speak all kinds of languages.

example: eastern Europe.
they speak their language but pray in Arabic. they pray the same way all Muslims do.

Answer 11

I don't know.But I'm sure that we Iranians are Persian not Arab.And our culture is very different from the others.Since Iran is a westernized country we have a mixture of Iranian and American cultures.Nowadays, 70% American culture.Believe ME.Don't trust any mass media.Even ours! we should say our prayers in Arabic except one part.We don't say Allah, we say Khoda or in literature you may hear :Parvadrgaar,Yazdaan,Eezad,Khodaavand,Daadaar.All mean Khoda.