Al Bhatti
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Just answer my questions:
1) Are you not culturally punjabis since thousands of years as your forefathers were?
In prophet's time there were non Arab Muslims also living with him. Being a Muslim is first and foremost then being an Arab or Punjabi or Sindhi or Gujarati or any other race.
I once read that Salman Al Farsi (a Persian companion of the prophet) was in a majlis of Arabs. All the Arabs were talking about their ancestry and saying my mother is from so and so tribe my father is from so and so tribe. Then one of them turned to Salman Al Farsi and asked him whose son are you? He was meaning that he is not from one of the Arab tribes. And Salman al-farsi could have answered saying I am the son of Persia, son of city of faris, or the son of kisra, caesura, instead he said "I am Salman, the son of Islam from the children of Adam."
2) Is it not that Bismilla and other such things are Arbi tradition that has not been in Pakjab (pakistani punjab) 2-3 hundred years ago?
We Pakistanis whether Punjabis or Sindhis or any other race know these things long before "2-3 hundred years ago" actually we know it for more than a thousand years now.
We Muslims a very big majority of us whether Punjabis or Sindhis or Indonesian or Filipinos or Malaysians or Australians or Americans or Europeans or any any other race know how to read the Qur'an in Arabic and how to say the religious supplications in Arabic even if we do no know the meaning but we can pronounce it correctly and orderly by 90%
3) Would you expect that 2-3 hundred years down the line your grand children should imitate and carry forward todays western culture that most of you people live? Completely embracing something totaly new and foreign?
If they imitate the "real Islamic values" whether it be part of western culture or eastern culture then of course we have no problem with it.
Sorry for answering the questions which were not asked to me but as a Muslim i felt that i should answer it also.