King Fahd Of Saudi Arabia, King Hussein Of Jordan, And King Hassan II Of Morocco Are All Descendants Of The Prophet – Australian Broadcasting Corporation
By Ahmed Khan
3 November
2020
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His Majesty King Fahd bin Abdulaziz Al Saud of
Saudi Arabia and Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques hosts Palestinian President
Sayed Mohammed Yasser Abdel Rahman Abdel Raouf Arafat al-Qudwa al-Husseini
commonly known as Yasser Arafat on 26 NOVEMBER 2001 at the Royal Palace in
Riyadh, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. Arafat was a member of the House of Al-Qudwa
which has produced prominent Arab figures since the seventeenth century. The
family traces its origins to two brothers, Sayed Mohammad bin Yusef al-Qudwa
and Sayed Arafat bin Yusef al-Qudwa (the first), who settled in Gaza in 1658
AD. The Qudwas were always known as notables by belonging to the Ashraf class,
the highest hereditary title of nobility to the highest social/political class
in the Muslim World; also known in pre-modern society as the Hashemites-
belonging to the Quraysh tribe, which descended from Canaan. The Canaanites
(Banu Kinanah) were divided in four branches: An-Nadr, Abdumanat, Malakan, and
Malak. Tabari wrote, “… the descendants of al-Nadr ibn Kinana were called
Quraysh.” The Canaanites were known for their red and purple cloth (a purple
dye was extracted from murex snails found near the shores of Palestine, a method
now lost). It was the Greeks who first called the Canaanites “Phoenicians”, and
their land “Phoenicia”, which meant “purple.
In 2003 the
world media reacted to the capture of former Iraqi President Saddam Hussein.
According to Al Jazeera News, which cited Agence France-Presse (AFP), which
reported “Saddam’s name struck off Prophet’s lineage“.
Al Jazeera
reported, “The name of Saddam Hussein has been removed from the list of
descendants of the Prophet Muhammad. Decision to strike his name off was taken
after US capture.”
The head of
the union of Ashrafs, Al-Sherif Najeh Muhammad Hassan al-Faham al-Aaraji
admitted that the ousted president had been able to cheat despite the great
value and honour attached to the line which is guarded in Baghdad.
Fahd bin Abdulaziz Al Saud, a Sayyid?
The Ashrafs
guard the Prophet’s genealogical tree. “Saddam had forced the origin experts to
falsify his genealogical tree so that it went back to the Prophet,” Al Jazeera
reported.
“Saddam had
forced the origin experts to falsify his genealogical tree so that it went back
to the Prophet,” Al Jazeera reported.
It was
during this chaotic time for Iraqi Arabs, Willacy was sent to report live from
Baghdad, Iraq for Australia Broadcasting Corporation on Saddam’s capture, and
what ensued.
Willacy’s
report, titled “Tracing Saddam Hussein’s roots” which can still be read online
here, talked about how Iraq’s former President Saddam Hussein allegedly used
“force from power”, and the threat of “facing a possible death sentence”, to
establish his “status as a Sayyid”, and how after his capture, his name was
“revoked.”
According
to the transcript of Willacy’s report, broadcast by AM Radio on December 24th,
2003, at 08:11:40 Willacy cites a Iraqi cleric, and member of Iraq’s renowned
Al Sadah Al Ashraf (Association of the Honourable Lords), the Arab world’s most
exclusive club, Sayed Ali el Waeth saying, “King Fahd of Saudi Arabia, King
Hussein of Jordan, and King Hassan II of Morocco are all descendants of the
Prophet. But Saddam, no. He’s not a Sayyid.”
Perhaps not
focused upon at the time, Willacy’s report contained a major revelation about
the then monarch of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, the Custodian of the Two Holy
Mosques His Majesty King Fahd bin Abdulaziz Al Saud – that according to
Willacy’s source inside the exclusive club Al Sadah Al Ashraf – he descends
from the Prophet Muhammad.
If accurate,
Willacy’s report brings to light a new level of legitimacy for the Saudi Royals
which invalidates all potential rival claims by both Turkey’s Erdogan and
Iran’s Supreme Leader over leadership of the Muslim world, and potentially
paves the way for unprecedented public support for them then ever publicly
known in modern history.
The current
Saudi monarch, His Majesty King Salman bin Abdulaziz Al Saud is the biological
brother of the late King Fahd, both of whom were son’s of Hussa bint Ahmed Al
Sudairi daughter of Sharifa bint Ali bin Mohammed Al Suwaidi, wife of King
Abdulaziz of Saudi Arabia.
This also
means Saudi Arabia’s Crown Prince His Highness Mohammed bin Salman, known as
MBS, could also be a relation to the Prophet Muhammad.
As Arab
Kings, the House of Saud was publicly known to be related to the Prophet
Muhammad and the Imams of Aal al-Bayt when their lineages were traced back to
Abraham, and Ishmael, builders of the Holy Kaaba at Makkah.
This claim
by a member of Al Sadah Al Ashraf, Sayed Ali el Waeth, published by ABC News
(Australia), if established or even confirmed, will change attitudes in the
Islamic world and severely delegitimatize rivals of the House of Saud,
including in specific Erdogan of Turkey, and some in Iran.
The Kingdom
of Saudi Arabia is the only country in the world to have the name of the
Prophet Muhammad on its flag, partially because the Prophet was an Arabian, an
honour no other country in the Muslim world can claim.
Book of
Arab origins
According
to Al Jazeera, Iraq’s Al Sadah Al Ashraf guard the ‘Book of Arab Origins’, a
large book which contains lineages that go back to the Imams Hassan and
Hussein, sons of the Imam Ali bin Abi Talib by his wife Fatima Al Zahra,
daughter and legal heiress of the Prophet Muhammad.
Many Iraqi
Muslims of the Al Sadah Al Ashraf believe Fatima Al Zahra inherited
custodianship of the final Book of God, Kitab Allah, from her father the
Prophet Muhammad, whose personal authenticated copy was guarded by her after
him, and from her, passed to her descendants known as the Twelve Imams of the
Children of Fatima.
After the
fall of Saddam, a new Ashrafs’ Union was set up by the men who under Saddam
were part of councils of the Sayyids, or Lords, descending from Imam Hassan and
Imam Hussein. Al Jazeera reported the union has the backing of religious
dignitaries from all Muslim traditions, including the esteemed Hawza Seminary
in Najaf.
The first
committee of Ashrafs was set up in Kufa (Iraq) in 830 in the era of the
Abbasids. It moved to Baghdad, which became a centre for similar committees
from the Arab and Muslim world.
In the
1800s, the Ottoman Turks suspended its activities and in 1917 the British
abolished the union totally.
Sayed Ali
el Waeth, the source for Mark Willacy’s report was a member of this exclusive
union, and none of his companions were reported to have refuted his claim
regarding King Fahd, biological brother of the current King Salman bin
Abdulaziz Al-Saud, and uncle of Crown Prince Muhammad bin Salman, being a Sayyid!
Zaida of
Seville ancestor of Elizabeth II, European royalty
In 2008,
John Ricardo I “Juan” Cole an American scholar, and historian of the modern
Middle East and South Asia, and Professor of History at the University of
Michigan reported that the icon of Western civilization, the British royal
family, has Arab Muslim antecedents and is in fact descended from the Prophet
Mohammed through the Arab kings of Seville, who once ruled Spain. According to
Cole, who cited the UK’s prestigious Burke’s Peerage, the genealogical guide to
royalty from 1986, said, “by marriage, their blood passed to the European kings
of Portugal and Castille, and through them to England’s 15th century King
Edward IV.”
Rodrigo
García-Velasco, a PhD Scholar at Woolf Institute & Faculty of History,
University of Cambridge, elaborated on this relation stating Zaida, a Muslim
princess living in 11th-century Seville, is one of the most extraordinary
ancestors of the British royal family.
“Her
bloodline reached the English shores through her engagement to Alfonso VI, king
of León-Castile. From their offspring descended Isabel Pérez of Castile, who in
the 14th century was sent to England to marry Edmund Duke of York, son of King
Edward III of England” said Garcia-Velasco for the University of Cambridge.
“Their
grandson, Richard, Duke of York, led a rebellion against King Henry VI which
developed into the Wars of the Roses. Richard’s second son Edward took the
throne in 1461. Thus the legacy of Islamic Spain – better known as al-Andalus –
found its way into the Plantagenet royal court.”
Until 1917,
the House of Windsor used their original name Saxe-Coburg-Gotha, indicating
their Germanic roots, but as a result of the First World War against Germany,
they decided to change their name to Windsor.
In fact,
most of Europe’s royal families – including those of Greece, Denmark, Sweden,
Russia, Austria and Spain – trace their bloodlines back to one another, through
Zaida of Seville, thereby giving them the right to also claim relation through
her, to the Prophet Muhammad.
Respected
experts and commentators from the Arab world as senior Ali Gomaa, the former
Grand Mufti of Egypt, commented Zaida of Seville was the offspring of al-Muʿtamid, ruler of Seville and a
descendant of the daughter of the Prophet, Faṭima and her husband Ali.
If
established as authentic, this additional relation to the Prophet Muhammad
would make the House of Saud not only entitled to the most prestigious title of
the Arab world – Sayyid – but also relatives of virtually every European royal,
including Elizabeth II of England, since Alfonso VI.
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Ahmed Khan is the Founder and Editor-In-Chief
& Publisher of The Rahnuma Daily (theRahnuma.com), the online English daily
edition of The Rahnuma-E-Deccan Daily (ReDD), India’s oldest Urdu daily print
newspaper established in 1921. More than 81.1 million Indians identify Urdu as
their language, and as per the annual INA (Indian Newspapers Association)
report, ReDD ranks among the top 5 most widely circulated and read Urdu daily
print newspapers throughout India. Ahmed resides in Hyderabad at his maternal
ancestral home
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Although owned and funded by the Australian Government, ABC News is a
public news service in Australia produced by the News and Current Affairs
division of the Australian Broadcasting Corporation. According to its website, the editorial
independence of the ABC is ensured through the Australian Broadcasting
Corporation Act 1983.
Mark Willacy is a reporter for ABC Investigations, based in Brisbane.
Willacy was former Middle East and North Asia correspondent for the Australian
Broadcasting Corporation, on its AM Radio. According to Willacy’s profile, he
reported for the ABC in more than 30 countries. He’s twice been named
Queensland Journalist of the Year and is a five-time winner of Australia’s
premier journalism prize the Walkley Award. In 2019 he won a Logie Award with
Four Corners for his story on the Thai cave rescue. Mark has written two books.
This establishes Willacy is a considerably reliable journalistic source.
Original Headline: “Saudi Royals are Sayyids, Descendants of the
Prophet Muhammad” – Australian Broadcasting Corporation
Source: The Rahnuma Daily
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