For Dr. Fahad: and the good doctor is in the house...Part one

Submitted by dhimmi no more (United States), Aug 7, 2006 at 07:29

My dear doctor. I'm very glad that you stopped using Arabic transliterations ...but we need to talk about:

1. The word _Hazrat_ There is no such word in the Arabic language but it is clear that pakistanis borrowed such word from the Arabic word: Hadrat, and in the process mangled such word.

The Arabic word Hadrat (hah, dad, reh, teh) can be used as: Hadratikum or "as a form of respectful form of address esp. in letters, hadrat al-doktoor Fr. Monsieur le docteur" (ref: The Hans Wehr Dictionary of the Arabic language). So my dear good doctor Dr. Fahad it sounds funny to anyone who knows Arabic when you say: Hazrat Mussa. Because the letter dad becomes an Arabic or shall I say pakistani/Urdu zain and to an Arabic ear it would just sound as poor and mangled Arabic.

And to add insult to injury you must add the title of the person you call hazrat following your hazrat. So your funny hazrat should be: Hadrat al-Nabi Mossa or you can say in refering to Mossa hadratuhu.

Do us all a favor and stop mangling a language that you do not know.

2. The word diin: I notice that you are not pushing your little gem that diin (as in the case of al-diin al-islami) does mean a way of life/culture.

The Arabic word diin means: Religion period. And do us a favor: get used to it.

Now you explain to me: Why do you promote a religion where the central aspect of such religion is the Arabic language which you have no command of, and Arabian imperialism that brutalized your ancestors and a racist religion that puts the Arabs ahead of you and your ancestors? Why?

It is something you need to think about my dear doctor.

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