The optimistic idea of Pan-Arabism was to unite all Arabs of the Middle East, with the assumption that their common identity as Arab was enough to politically unify them. While this is a hopeful aspiration, it is not a likely one. There are many factors that come into conflict with the idea of uniting all Arabs into one country, including different dialects of Arabic, languages besides Arabic (French, Hebrew), confusion on what countries are part of the Middle East, skin color, and religion. Religion especially comes into conflict with uniting Arab people when one takes into account the fact that Arabs are Christians, Muslims, Jews, atheists, and have different beliefs. A place like Saudi Arabia further separates Muslim Arabs in particular in terms of how they interpret the Qur’an. Pan-Arabism is not possible among Muslim Arabs in Saudi Arabia due to the conflict of interpretations of the Qur’an. Muslims believe that the Qur’an is exactly the word of God. “The process where Gabriel was delivering the revelations to Mohammed and Mohammed had several scribes write down the revelations was so they could compare it so no one heard Mohammed incorrectly. Through Gabriel, God also told Mohammed that he misheard Him allowing Mohammed to have the scribes rewrite the revelations”. The idea is not only did God write the Qur’an but he also had a chance to edit it. A conflict during Ramadan about how …show more content…
If one who is pregnant, a child, elderly, or ill practices Wahhabism and must fast strictly when there is daylight, that will be challenging for those types of people who need food during the day to stay healthy. A Modernist perspective in terms of determining the meaning of fasting during the daylight, would claim “as long as one is not violating the spirit of Ramadan and is bringing full efforts to be a good Muslim, one may eat if necessary because God knows your true