He ‘sall-Allâhu ’alaihi wa sallam’ was an Arab. ‘Arab’ means ‘beautiful’ in the dictionary. For instance, ‘lisân-i arab’ means ‘beautiful language.’ In the geographical sense, ‘Arab’ means person who was born on the Arabian Peninsula and who grew up in its climate with its water and food and who is of the blood of its people. As people of Anatolian blood are called Turks, people who are born and raised in Bulgaria are called Bulgarians and people in Germany German; likewise, Rasûlullah is an Arab because he was born in Arabia.
Arabs, during the time of Rasûlullah were white, light-complexioned. Especially the family of our Prophet (Muhammad) was white and very beautiful. As a matter of fact, his ancestor Hadrat Ibrâhîm had a white complexion and was the son of a Muslîm named Târuh, who was one of the inhabitants of the city of Basra. Âzer, who was a disbeliever, was not Hadrat Ibrâhim’s ‘’alaihis-salâm’ father. He was his uncle and stepfather.
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