you are not a muslim then. you believe in the secular definition of meccah and medina. while Im personally not invested in it. its always nice to point out Saudi hypocracy.
You don't own mecca. "Saudi arabia" is an artificial entity, a bastard child of ww1 fling between british spies and a filthy wahabi family whos purpose was to undermine the Islamic caliph and help the british win the war.
this unholy arrangement still stands today, except the American replaced the british as the Saudi protectorates.
Gaddaffi was truly right. "the british created you, and the americans kept you alive"
a disgraceful blot in Islamic history not only occupying the holiest sites, but collaborating with Zionists to give them al aqsa mosque as well.
you have 40-50 years of oil (and American protection left). enjoy it.
More Arabized Iranian Mullah regime fanboy retardation in overdrive.
My definition is the historical and factual definition.
Makkah and Madinah are ancient Hijazi cities that are several millennia old and predate Islam. It's inhabitants are natives and for 99% of its history those cities have been ruled directly by fellow Hijazi empires, Caliphates, kingdoms and dynasties. Continues to this day with the exception of it being another Arabian dynasty from another ancient historical region of Arabia (Najd).
Every country is "artificial" genius
. Arabia is the oldest historical region in the MENA region with the oldest human presence outside of Africa. Arabia was already a well-defined region and word millennia before Iran even existed.
KSA was never a British nor Western colony and was united by a local dynasty (House of Saud) and is composed of ancient historical regions of Arabia. Hijaz, Najd, South, Eastern Arabia and Northern Arabia and everything in between.
KSA is the richest country in the Muslim world in terms of natural riches, minerals etc. Trillions of USD worth of treasure. Largest sovereign wealth fund in the region as well. A booming non-oil economy that recorded 100 billion last year and is poised to grow almost 5% next year. You will be dreaming a long time. Before that happens your entity will be divided once again or disappear from the map like was the case for well over 1 millennia after the Arab conquest until the Safavids.
I would worry about trying to have an economy the size of 10 million UAE before daydreaming.
The Safavids (wannabe Arabs) are irrelevant. They massacred Iranians, not Arabs. Controlled parts of Iraq for a while but that was all there was to it. Most Iraqi Shia Arabs are recent converts (18th century) long after the Safavids were gone. Ironically most of them are fairly recent arrivals from Najd as DNA confirms and clan/tribal ties.
Speaking about the Safavids, without the Arabs they would be a footnote in history so once again you must thank the Arabs just like during the Iraq-Iran war:
Arab Shia Ulama
After the conquest, Ismail began transforming the religious landscape of Iran by imposing Twelver Shiism on the populace. Since most of the population embraced Sunni Islam and since an educated version of Shiism was scarce in Iran at the time, Ismail imported a new Shia Ulama corps from traditional Shiite centers of the Arabic speaking lands, largely from
Jabal Amil (of Southern
Lebanon),
Mount Lebanon,
Syria,
Eastern Arabia and
Southern Iraq in order to create a state clergy.
[38][39][40][41]Ismail offered them land and money in return for loyalty. These scholars taught the doctrine of Twelver Shiism and made it accessible to the population and energetically encouraged conversion to Shiism.
[35][42][43][44] To emphasize how scarce Twelver Shiism was then to be found in Iran, a chronicler tells us that only one Shia text could be found in Ismail's capital Tabriz.
[45] Thus it is questionable whether Ismail and his followers could have succeeded in forcing a whole people to adopt a new faith without the support of the Arab Shiite scholars.
[37] The rulers of Safavid Persia also invited these foreign Shiite religious scholars to their court in order to provide legitimacy for their own rule over Persia.
[46]
Abbas I of Persia, during his reign, also imported more Arab Shia Ulama to Iran, built religious institutions for them, including many
Madrasahs (religious schools) and successfully persuaded them to participate in the government, which they had shunned in the past (following the
Hidden imam doctrine).
[47]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Safavid_conversion_of_Iran_to_Shia_Islam#Arab_Shia_Ulama
Oh, the irony.
