Is THEM Guilty of Shirk? - Dr. Wesley Muhammad

The so-called ‗Iranian (Persian) Intermezzo‘ which followed the decline of Arab power in the 9 th century
was itself followed by the rise of Dawla Turkiyya or the Turkish Empire in the 11th. As Robert Goldston
observes in his work, The Sword of the Prophet: A History of the Arab World From the Time of
Mohammed to the Present Day (New York: Dial Press, 1979) 87:
―although both Abbasid and Fatimid caliphs continued to maintain their titles, between the
Mamelukes in Egypt and the Seljuks in the East real power in the Arab world (except North
Africa and Spain, where the Seljuks never penetrated) had passed into Turkish hands. There it
was to remain until our own day. And what of the original Arabs, those lords of the desert who
had formed the vanguard of Islam and presided over its golden age? Almost all had long since
become so submerged into the cosmopolitan empire that they were indistinguishable from their
neighbors.‖
This is the exact fulfillment of the Prophet‘s dream. This demographic shift is part of what I have called
the Aryanization of Islam: the transformation of Islam‘s culture, ideology, spirit, and face from Semitic
(black Arab) to Indo-Aryan.
The bottom line is this: while you are free to speculate about what theological meaning this hadith and its
metaphors might possess, the ethnographic and historical data is perfectly consistent with the historical
interpretation that I offered.
2.1 ALL AL-GHAZZALI‘S FAULT?
No. Nor did I claim that. It is, however, largely (though not exclusively) the fault of non-Arabs, especially
his people the Persians/Iranians.
Bro Mubaashir says:
―The blame for this non-black, non-Semitic view of Allah (i.e. G-d is not a man) is placed on the
non-black, non-Arab converts to Islam, whose chief proponent, according to Dr. Wesley, was
Al-Ghazzali. He particularly accuses the Persians and Byzantines with replacing the Semitic
ideas of G-d of the black Arabs with the Hellenistic ideas of G-d of the Greeks.‖
This is only partly correct. I do indeed document in my book (not just ‗place the blame‘) that non-Arab
converts introduced into Islam the invisible, incorporeal deity of Hellenism which the Honorable Elijah
Muhammad called a ‗Spook God.‘ I did not, however, describe al-Ghazzali as the ‗chief proponent‘ of the
non-Arab corrupters. In my post I said ―the White sheep and their re-interpretation of Islam are best
represented by the Persian Hujjat al-Islam al-Ghazzali.‖ Al-Ghazzali best represents this revision of Islam,
not because he originated it (he did not) but because he provided the lasting arguments for it and is
recognized by much of the Islamic world today as orthodox (though this was not the case in his day).
These circumstances do not prevail with the actual originators of this doctrine, his Persian predecessors,
particularly Jahm b. Safwan.
Bro Mubaashir here replies to what he assumes to be my claim:
―The first point is that Imam Al-Ghazzli performed his Islamic work several hundred years after
the prophet's passing and he came after the establishment of the four major madhabs. While on
one hand Dr. Wesley blames Imam Ghazzali and non black Arabs for Muslims not believing in
Allah as a man, on the other hand he tells us in chapter 6 of his dissertation that there were
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