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CS Assign 2
CS Assign 2
Registration Number
SP20-BSE-049
Class
Section 3A
Intercultural Variables:
“O people, we created you all from a single man and a single woman, and made
you into races and tribes so that you should get to know one another. In God’s eyes, the
most honored of you are the ones most mindful of Him: God is All Knowing, All Aware
(49:13).”
Today we have many cross-cultures. The holy prophet (PBUH) also faced intercultural variable
when he (PBUH) wrote a letter to Persian empire Hercules. The letter was written in Arabic but
Persian emperor did not understand. Thus, he translated the letter in Persian and respond to holy
prophet (PBUH). This is called diversity in culture on language ground.
The only language that the Prophet (PBUH) knew and spoke was Arabic. There is no resource
mentioning that the Prophet spoke any other languages. It is stated in some resources that he
uttered a few words in Persian but it does not mean that he spoke Persian.
After the Prophet (PBUH) came to Madinah, delegations and letters started to come from various
nations, especially the Jews living around Madinah. The Prophet advised Zayd bin Thabit, one of
the revelation scribes, to learn Hebrew and Syriac in order to understand what the delegations
said and to respond to the letters.
"O Zayd! Learn the writing of Jews. By Allah, I cannot trust in what Jews write to me."
"I learned to read and write Hebrew in fifteen nights. After that, I started to read the letters Jews
sent to the Messenger of Allah and to write them answers in Hebrew."
Once, Prophet (peace be upon him) traveled with his companion, Zayd ibn Harithah towards
Ta’if to invite the people of Ta’if towards Islam. But all of them rejected the invitation and
responded in the most sarcastic way. They sent a crowd of young people to attack the Prophet
(peace be upon him) and pelt him with stones.
The mob forced Prophet Muhammad (peace be upon him) and Zayd out of town. Both men were
wounded by the stones thrown at them, and their feet were covered in blood. It was there that
Prophet Muhammad said his famous supplication to Allah:
As we know that Prophet (PBUH) went to Ta’if for preaching of Islam but the people of Ta’if
showed their usual behavior and through stone at Prophet (PBUH) and his companion. Prophet
Muhammad (PBUH) didn’t lose heart and continue to preach Islam.
Hazrat Suleman Parsi (R.A), one of the closed companions of Prophet (PBUH), was from Persia.
He had his own cultural values. His family used to worship of fire but didn’t. That’s why he
moved to Islam. He left his cultural values and adopt the Islamic cultural values. First, he faced
difficulty to adopt this but he adopted as he loves Islam.
Hazrat Bilal (R.A) was from Habshah he also had his own cultural values but he accept Islam
and adopted the Islamic cultural values. He faced many things due to his black skin color but he
didn’t lose heart and continue to preach Islam.
Intracultural Variables:
Once a Bedouin came to Holy Prophet (PBUH) and he used very harsh nonverbal language.
However, he didn’t misbehave actually this is all due to his ascent. He belonged to Makkah.
Therefore, this is an intracultural variable among two people belong to a same culture.
Before the Holy Prophet (PBUH) Arabs used to bury their newborn daughter alive. The most
strident in doing this was Tamim, declaring fear of being subjugated and, that unqualified others
would take advantage of them. But Prophet (PBUH) overcome this culture. He (PBUH) gave
rights to the women.