Fakhr al-Din al-Razi: Mafatih al-Ghayb (Keys to the Unknown) (1209) (Persia)

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Taken from: islamicbook.ws   مفاتيح الغيب

……………. so God Almighty indicated that He found the sun rising (1) on a people we did not make for them any covering and it has two sayings. The first is that there are no trees, mountains, or buildings that prevent the sun’s rays from falling on them. For this reason, if the sun rises, they enter into the ground or dive into the water, so when the sun rises, it is impossible for them to get out and when it sets, they work to collect the food. Other conditions the ethics and the second saying is that it means that they have no clothes and they are like all animals naked. It is said in the authority’s books that the condition of most Zinj is the same, and that of everyone who lives in countries close to the equator …………………

 

………….. and the darkness of the smoke and the blackness of the smoke does not see anything more than the gathering of dust and the blackness in the face as you see the faces of the Zunuy (=pl of zanj) as if God Almighty gathered in their faces blackness and dust. They also combined disbelief and immorality, and God knows best.

Fakhr al-Din al-Razi: Al-Mahsul fi Ilm al Usul;

(The harvest in the science of origins) (d1210)

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Taken from: islamicbook.ws   المحصول في علم الأصول

 

If it is permissible that he does not intend to make us understand the speech, then it is permissible to address in Arabic to the Zinj…………….is permissible, because the Zinj does not give a meaning to the Arab, ……. If it is permissible to address in Arabic to the Zinj and to explain to him after a period of time…………….. If you say the speech of the Zinj, the Arab cannot understand anything of it, so it is not permissible for them to address it ……………. and in that it is equated with the speech of the Zinj because we do not understand anything of it at all……………

 

………….. And between the discourse of the Arab to the Zinj, because there cannot be the purpose of informing the preponderant belief, since nothing of it is understood ………….

 

……… you had better addressed the common name without explaining at once, it would have been better to address the Arabic to the Zinj with ability ……………..  If I tell the difference that the Arab does not understand anything from the Zinj, and here he understands that what is meant is one of the meanings of the name ……………..

 

…………… It is necessary to address the Arabic with the Zinj, because if the Arab knows the language of the Zinj to whom he is addressed, he knows that he has wanted in his speech something, either the matter or the prohibition or something else……………. What matters in a good speech is that the listener is able to know by him what the speech has indicated, ………….., unlike the Arab, he is not able to know what the rhetoric of Zinj is made for him, so the difference is clear and God knows best.

 

Fakhr al-Din al-Razi: (1209) al-Matalib al-Ealiat min al-Eilam al'Iilahii

(High Demands of Divine Knowledge)

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Taken from: المطالب العالية من العلم الإلهي ketabonline.com

 

The third category: of the people of the world: Zunuy (Negroes), they are group of people the furthest away in the world [away from reason]. However, they acknowledge the existence of the God of the world, and they say: Malakira Jalawa means: The Greatest Lord. (2)

(1) Sun rising: He repeats like many others this story found in:  Umayr Ibn Qatadah 'Ubayd b. 'Umayr (d694).

(2) Among the Zanj God is called: Al Masudi (916): Maklandjalu; Nuwairi (1333) Maklandjalu; Ibn al-Fakih al Hamadhani (903): Lamaklujlu; Abou'l Maali (1092): Falkouy Halouy; Abu Nasr Mutahhar al-Maqdisi (966): Malalori and Djahr; Fakhr al-Din al-Razi (1209): Malakira Jalawa;