Arabs were not in a position to catch any sort of a knowledge from other nations. This was contrary to Persians, about whom the prophet said:ِ

      ``If knowledge is taken up to Pleiades, a group of the Persians will pull it down.'':ِ

      ``Had We sent it down to some none Arabs, and had he recited it to them they would not have believed it.''

      Therefore, the words of God reflected, and entered to the hearts and minds of the sinful Arabs by and by, and gradually in a period of 23 years.

      And besides; they were such a racially diverse community that the waves of fanaticism had made them deaf, and were far from accepting a cult or creed of a non-Arab whom they called AJME, which means the stranger.

      They were so obstinate in their paganism that would not believe in any truth until they could see a painful punishment, afflicting them out of a sudden.

      By such punishments, the calamities of this material world is most probably wanted.

      FANATICISM, which is excessive enthusiasm and unreasoning zeal on any subject such as religion, race, or tribe, has been strictly reproved by Islam. Fanaticism will lay a cover upon the eyes to prevent seeing the fact and truth.

      Hazrat Imam Ali (AS) has said:ِ ``Allah will punish six groups of people for six kinds of sinِHe punishes Arabs for their fanaticism, the headmen for their pride, the rulers for their oppression, the jurists for their jealousy, the merchants for their fraud, and the rustics for their ignorance.''