uksyl
Registered Member
There's no caste amongst Muslims, stop falling for this new interpretation. It's foolish and a complete lie.
Please refrain from using strong language like "foolish" and "complete lie". Islam in its original form has no caste obviously but as the centuries went innovations were added to the religion. One of these in south Asia was the emergence of the caste system amongst Muslims no doubt heavily influenced by the Hindu caste system.
The 'fatwa jalandhari' even tried to give this religious legitimacy.
Here is a wiki article on it (and I knew this stuff before wiki and even know real life examples of it): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caste_system_among_South_Asian_Muslims
It wasn't just about inter-marriage they even went as far as to say in terms of even religious duties such as being an Imam or even calling the adhan that this should be restricted to people of 'Ashraf' ("upper-caste i.e. Arab, Afghan, Persian, Turkish lineage) and not to inferior 'Pasmanda' (local converts). This is a serious issue amongst Indian Muslims and academic texts have been written on it. However it's no way as bad as the Hindu caste system, but not acceptable anyway.
Anyway this is off-topic.






