The lands rightly called the Fertile Crescent differed from the desert, as the Fertile Crescent had a settled and urban life, due to the possibility of working in agriculture and the availability of conditions for applying the triad of work, production, and living. However, the Quraysh Bedouin occupation was not satisfied with the strongholds, but included the minds, which it imprinted with the traits that came with it, It turned these peoples into Bedouins without a desert, and the state of Bedouinism still prevails to a considerable degree over the peoples of the Fertile Crescent to this day,The people do not work or produce enough, and therefore do not live by the sweat of their brows, but rather steal enough through corruption, or what is surplus to what is sufficient, as a result of enrichment for a minority, in addition to producing hunger and poverty for the vast majority of the people of these lands, who are Bedouin in nature and morals, on land that has no relation to the desert.
Working the land and cultivating it in itself includes all the necessary exercises to form and acquire skills related to movement, interaction, reaction, responsiveness, adaptation, harmony, tracking, research, investigation, deduction, formulating ideas, creativity, discrimination, innovation, programming, planning, matching, intersection, logic, argumentation, dialogue, guessing, induction, measurement, and many other mental brain abilities that constitute the elements of awareness, understanding, logic, and the system of intelligence in man, so that he may launch with these abilities in his battle and efforts for life…a better life! And in order to achieve success and civilizational development in all fields, All of this was available to the peoples of the Fertile Crescent, and was not available to the nomadic Bedouins, because they did not work in the new environment with the plow, but remained with the sword and the spear…it was said, “My sustenance is in the shadow of my spear.”
The dominance of muscular strength, necessary for victory in conquests and wars, has shaped the philosophy of life of these peoples towards “protection” rather than “care.” The strong protect their interests with their muscles, and the principle of care, based on distributing protection equally among all, was not suitable for them As long as there is a disparity in strength, there will be a disparity in protecting individual interests, that is, perpetuating inequality.
The environment, nature, and circumstances impose on man an evolution in harmony with them, The nature of nomadism is not qualified to create dense groups in their presence, and density imposes some features of civil life in terms of education, communication, and exchange of experiences, then respect for the diversity of people, their differences, the diversity of their goals, and the growth of their social capabilities,All of this was available to the Bedouin in the new environment, to which they did not adapt, They remained primitive Bedouin, each with his sword and spear, far from the tree and the plow, With the sword and the spear, they imposed Bedouin life on the people, and time turned the people in the Fertile Crescent region into Bedouin with their mentality and behavior.
The desert environment, with its inherent constraints, does not allow for the birth of thought, civilization, or progress, Therefore, the unchanging Bedouin environment was dominated by the principle that its customs were valid for all times and places, For the Bedouin, the desert was everywhere, even in his mind, and hunting was a natural behavior, It was the “profession” that led to the crystallization of the Bedouin concept of rights, Whatever the Bedouin captured was his rightful and unquestionable possession, Hunting and force were also responsible for producing concepts of terrorism based on the absoluteness of right and the absolute possession of truth, Those who feel they possess absolute truth cannot establish a civilization, because interaction is the origin and foundation of building a civilizational system, Those who possess absolute truth do not interact with others and have no need to interact with them, The conditions of Bedouin life allow only for the establishment of the clan and tribe system and the dictatorship of the tribal chief. What we see now in the fertile Hilal region are nothing but rulers tailored to the shape and form of leadership, The tribe.
The transfer of the Bedouin mentality to a land already qualified to build a civilization, and which had built the greatest civilizations of humanity before the arrival of Bedouinism, was the foundation of the current stagnation, backwardness, deadlock, rigidity, fanaticism, corruption, and violence, Bedouinism was a form of colonialism that could not be removed by decree, edict, or gunfire, but rather by confronting ignorance and practicing enlightenment, Can we now observe a modest beginning to unraveling the “complex” of Bedouinism? Yes, there is a considerable rejection of traditional Bedouin culture, which is receiving blows from various directions, meaning there is hope for a better future!
The Bedouin culture that came with the conquests, through forced Arabization and forced Bedouinization, became a religion, language, and tradition, and the main cultural inspiration for the peoples of the conquered regions, The Bedouin culture is not responsible for its ignorance, backwardness, and intellectual sterility, nor is it responsible for the weakness of communication in Bedouin life, which, if it existed, was in the form of practicing violence towards others, then robbing and plundering them, The Bedouin interaction with others was an interaction of hunting for spoils of war,How could the Bedouin live without hunting, robbing, and plundering? So, can the desert produce an agricultural environment whose features are the triad of work, production, and subsistence? Agriculture, working in agriculture, and living off the products of agricultural work was the only means capable of eliminating the nomadic nature of the Bedouin culture and turning the Bedouin into urbanites.