Sheikh Rashid bin Saeed Al Maktoum was responsible for the transformation of Dubai from a small cluster of settlements near the Dubai Creek to a modern port city and commercial hub.[4] His famous line, "My grandfather rode a camel, my father rode a camel, I drive a Mercedes, my son drives a Land Rover, his son will drive a Land Rover, but his son will ride a camel",[5] reflected his concern that Dubai's oil, which was discovered in 1966 and which began production in 1969, would run out within a few generations. He therefore worked to develop the economy of Dubai so that it could survive after the end of oil production, and was a driving force behind a number of major infrastructure projects to promote Dubai as a regional hub for trade: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rashid_bin_Saeed_Al_Maktoum Ruler of Dubai Reign 10 September 1958 – 7 October 1990
Dubai (/duːˈbaɪ/ doo-BY; Arabic: دبي Dubay, Gulf Arabic: [dʊˈbɑj]) is the largest and most populous city in the United Arab Emirates (UAE).[5] On the southeast coast of the Persian Gulf, it is the capital of the Emirate of Dubai, one of the seven emirates that make up the country. Below are the names of the Seven(7) Emirates of UAE: Abu Dhabi–AUH -Capital of UAE.(Al Ain is a part of Abu Dhabi) Ajman – AJM. Sharjah – SHJ. Dubai – DXB. Fujairah – FUJ. Ras Al Khaimah – RAK. Umm Al Quwain – UAQ. Dubai remained in a stand-off with Abu Dhabi at the time Sheikh Rashid became Ruler of Dubai following the armed border dispute between the two emirates in 1946, and he established a close relationship with Qatar. Sheikh Rashid's daughter married the Emir of Qatar in 1961. In 1966, India devalued the rupee, and Qatar and Dubai adopted the Gulf rupee as a common currency, whilst Abu Dhabi adopted the Bahraini dinar. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rashid_bin_Saeed_Al_Maktoum What is an Emirate? An emir, sometimes transliterated amir, amier, or ameer, is an aristocratic or noble and military title of high office used in a variety of places in the Arab countries, West Africa, and Afghanistan. It means "commander", "general", or "King". The feminine form is emira (أميرة ʾamīrah). When translated as "prince", the word "emirate" is analogous to a sovereign principality. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emir The U.S calls them 'Chiefs or rulers' ... So an Emirate would be the territory or Kingdom or land(s) which each Emir rules/presides/governs over.
The nearest analogy for the UAE to U.S knowledge might be how the 8 Islands of Hawaii became unified and became to be known as The Unified Kingdom of Hawai'i. The state of Hawaii consists of eight main islands: Niihau, Kauai, Oahu, Maui, Molokai, Lanai, Kahoolawe and the Big Island of Hawaii.
Islam is the official religion of the United Arab Emirates. More than 80% of the population of the United Arab Emirates are non-citizens. Virtually all Emirati citizens are Muslims; approximately 85% are Sunni and 15% are Shi'a. There are smaller number of Ismaili Shias and Ahmadi Muslims. The UAE's judicial system is derived from the civil law system and Sharia law. The court system consists of civil courts and Sharia courts. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Politics_of_the_United_Arab_Emirates The role of sharia has become a contested topic around the world. Attempts to impose it on non-Muslims have caused intercommunal violence in Nigeria[13][14] and may have contributed to the breakup of Sudan.[3] Some Muslim-minority countries in Asia (such as Israel[15]), Africa, and Europe recognize the use of sharia-based family laws for their Muslim populations.[16][17] Some jurisdictions in North America have passed bans on use of sharia, framed as restrictions on religious or foreign laws.[18] There are ongoing debates as to whether sharia is compatible with secular forms of government, human rights, freedom of thought, and women's rights. The word sharīʿah is used by Arabic-speaking peoples of the Middle East to designate a prophetic religion in its totality.[22] For example, sharīʿat Mūsā means law or religion of Moses and sharīʿatu-nā can mean "our religion" in reference to any monotheistic faith.[22] Within Islamic discourse, šarīʿah refers to religious regulations governing the lives of Muslims.[22] For many Muslims, the word merely means "justice," and they will consider any law that promotes justice and social welfare to conform to sharia. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sharia 'Our' own sharia...
sha rīʿah : refers to a prophetic religion in its totality. ša rīʿah: refers to religious regulations governing the lives of Muslims, including Judicial regulations. The Heavenly LORD God Almighty is first Peace then second, Just. What good is Love if it has not Peace?
Why so many law breakers from there are/were terrorizing U.S neighborhoods such as Hollywood with their expensive sports vehicles, is unknown. And not only that, but they are privileged with Political Immunity.
Qatar–United Arab Emirates relations are the relations between Qatar and the United Arab Emirates (UAE). The relationship between the two countries has been severed following the 2017–18 Qatar diplomatic crisis. Both countries share a naval border and are part of the Arabic-speaking Persian Gulf region. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Qatar–United_Arab_Emirates_relations
The United Arab Emirates, sometimes simply called the Emirates (Arabic: الإمارات al-Imārāt), is a federal sovereign absolute monarchy in Western Asia at the southeast end of the Arabian Peninsula on the Persian Gulf, bordering Oman to the east and Saudi Arabia to the south, as well as sharing maritime borders with Qatar to the west and Iran to the north. The country is a federation of seven emirates consisting of Abu Dhabi (which serves as the capital), Ajman, Dubai, Fujairah, Ras al-Khaimah, Sharjah and Umm al-Quwain. Each emirate is governed by a Ruler; together, they jointly form the Federal Supreme Council. One of the rulers serves as the President of the United Arab Emirates.[8] In 2013, the UAE's population was 9.2 million, of which 1.4 million are Emirati citizens and 7.8 million are expatriates. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_Arab_Emirates Arabic is the national language of the United Arab Emirates. The Gulf dialect of Arabic is spoken natively by the Emirati people. Gulf Arabic is a variety of the Arabic language spoken in Eastern Arabia[3] around the coasts of the Persian Gulf in Kuwait, Bahrain, the United Arab Emirates, Qatar, as well as parts of eastern Saudi Arabia (Eastern Province), southern Iraq (Basra Governorate and Muthanna Governorate),[4] and south Iran (Bushehr Province and Hormozgan Province)[5] and northern Oman. Gulf Arabic can be defined as a set of closely related and more or less mutually intelligible varieties that form a dialect continuum, with the level of mutual intelligibility between any two varieties largely depending on the distance between them. Similarly to other Arabic varieties, Gulf Arabic varieties are not completely mutually intelligible with other Arabic varieties spoken outside the Gulf.[6] The specific dialects differ in vocabulary, grammar and accent.[7] There are considerable differences between, for instance, Kuwaiti Arabic and the dialects of Qatar and the UAE—especially in accent, that may hinder mutual intelligibility.[7] Gulf varieties' closest related relatives are other dialects native to the Arabian Peninsula, i.e. Najdi Arabic and Bahrani Arabic.[8][9]Although spoken over much of Saudi Arabia's area, Gulf Arabic is not the native tongue of most Saudis, as the majority of them do not live in Eastern Arabia.[7] There are some 200,000 Gulf Arabic speakers in the country, out of a population of over 30 million, mostly in the aforementioned Eastern Province. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gulf_Arabic
Arabic is a Central Semitic language that first emerged in Iron Age northwestern Arabia and is now the lingua franca of the Arab world.[5] It is named after the Arabs, a term initially used to describe peoples living from Mesopotamia in the east to the Anti-Lebanon mountains in the west, in northwestern Arabia, and in the Sinai peninsula. Arabic is classified as a macrolanguage comprising 30 modern varieties, including its standard form, Modern Standard Arabic,[6] which is derived from Classical Arabic. Dialects Western (Maghrebi) Central (incl. Egyptian, Sudanese) Northern (incl. Levantine, Mesopotamian) Peninsular (Gulf, Hejazi, Najdi, Yemeni) Classical Arabic is the liturgical language of 1.8 billion Muslims and Modern Standard Arabic is one of six official languages of the United Nations. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arabic
Arabian Peninsula group Bahrani Arabic Bareqi Arabic Gulf Arabic (خليجي - ḵalījī) Najdi Arabic (نجدي - najdi) Omani Arabic (عماني - ʿumāni) Hejazi Arabic (حجازي - ḥijāzi) Hadhrami Arabic (حضرمي - ḥaḍrami) Shihhi Arabic Dhofari Arabic Yemeni Arabic (يمني - yamani) Tihamiyya Arabic Mesopotamian group Mesopotamian Arabic North Mesopotamian Arabic (Moslawi/Qeltu) Levantine group Levantine Arabic (شامي - šāmi) Syrian Arabic Cypriot Maronite Arabic Lebanese Arabic (لبناني - libnēni) Jordanian Arabic (أردني - urduni) Palestinian Arabic (فلسطيني - falasṭīni) Bedawi Arabic (بدوي - badawi/bdiwi) Arabic usually designates one of three main variants: Classical Arabic, Modern Standard Arabic and colloquial or dialectal Arabic. Classical Arabic is the language found in the Quran, used from the period of Pre-Islamic Arabia to that of the Abbasid Caliphate. Theoretically, Classical Arabic is considered normative, according to the syntactic and grammatical norms laid down by classical grammarians (such as Sibawayh) and the vocabulary defined in classical dictionaries (such as the Lisān al-ʻArab). In practice, however, modern authors almost never write in pure Classical Arabic, instead using a literary language with its own grammatical norms and vocabulary, commonly known as Modern Standard Arabic (MSA). MSA is the variety used in most current, printed Arabic publications, spoken by some of the Arabic media across North Africa, and the Middle East, and understood by most educated Arabic speakers. "Literary Arabic" and "Standard Arabic" (فُصْحَى fuṣḥá) are less strictly defined terms that may refer to Modern Standard Arabic or Classical Arabic. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arabic
Maghrebi group: Moroccan Arabic (الدارجة - darija) Tunisian Arabic (تونسي - tūnsī) Algerian Arabic (دارجة - darja) Libyan Arabic ( ليبي - lībi) Hassaniya Arabic Saharan Arabic Sudanese group: Sudanese Arabic (سوداني - sūdānī) Chadian Arabic Juba Arabic Egyptian group: Egyptian Arabic (مصرى - maṣri) Sa'idi Arabic (صعيدى - ṣaʿīdi) Andalusian group: This group includes various dialects throughout the Iberian peninsula (extinct in Iberia, surviving among Andalusi communities in North Africa)
Arabian Peninsula group Shihhi Arabic Shihhi Arabic (also known as Shehhi, Shihu, Shihuh, or Al-Shihuh) is a variety of Arabic spoken in the Musandam Governorate of Oman Native speakers 15,000 (2001-2003)
Gulf Arabic Native to: Kuwait, Iraq, Saudi Arabia, Bahrain, Qatar, Iran, UAE, Oman Native speakers 6.8 million (2016) Massachusetts: 6,811,779 population. United Arab Emirates/Population 9.27 million (2016) Egypt/Population 95.69 million (2016) Iraq/Population 37.2 million (2016) Bahrain/Population 1.425 million (2016) Kuwait/Population 4.053 million (2016) Saudi Arabia/Population 32.28 million (2016)
Chicago/Population 2.705 million (2016) San Francisco/Population 870,887 (2016) Los Angeles/Population 3.976 million (2016)
Royalty works in small numbers also. Thanks be to God in Jesus Christ. Amen. King: The English word is of Germanic origin, and historically refers to Germanic kingship, in the pre-Christian period a type of tribal kingship. The monarchies of Europe in the Christian Middle Ages derived their claim from Christianisation and the divine right of kings, partly influenced by the notion of sacral kingship inherited from Germanic antiquity. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/King Divine right of kings: It asserts that a monarch is subject to no earthly authority, deriving the right to rule directly from the will of God. The king is thus not subject to the will of his people, the aristocracy, or any other estate of the realm. It implies that only God can judge an unjust king and that any attempt to depose, dethrone or restrict his powers runs contrary to the will of God and may constitute a sacrilegious act. It is often expressed in the phrase "by the Grace of God", attached to the titles of a reigning monarch. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Divine_right_of_kings
1 Samuel 8:4-5 "Then all the elders of Israel gathered themselves together, and came to Samuel unto Ramah, 5And said unto him, Behold, thou art old, and thy sons walk not in thy ways: now make us a king to judge us like all the nations." 1 Samuel 8:7 "And the LORD said unto Samuel, Hearken unto the voice of the people in all that they say unto thee: for they have not rejected thee, but they have rejected me, that I should not reign over them."
High above all is Allah, the King, the Truth! Be not in haste with the Qur'an before its revelation to thee is completed, but say, "O my Lord! advance me in knowledge." (Surah Ta Ha, 114) Therefore exalted be Allah, the King, the Reality: there is no god but He, the Lord of the Throne of Honour! (Surah Al-Muminun, 116) She said: "Kings, when they enter a country, despoil it, and make the noblest of its people its meanest thus do they behave. (Surah An-Naml, 34)
Hast thou not Turned thy vision to the Chiefs of the Children of Israel after (the time of) Moses? they said to a prophet (That was) among them: "Appoint for us a king, that we May fight in the cause of Allah." He said: "Is it not possible, if ye were commanded to fight, that that ye will not fight?" They said: "How could we refuse to fight in the cause of Allah, seeing that we were turned out of our homes and our families?" but when they were commanded to fight, they turned back, except a small band among them.But Allah Has full knowledge of those who do wrong. (Surah Al-Baqara, 246) 1 Samuel 8:19-20 "Nevertheless the people refused to obey the voice of Samuel; and they said, Nay; but we will have a king over us; 20That we also may be like all the nations; and that our king may judge us, and go out before us, and fight our battles."
But the Divine right of kings is to not fight for any such citizens/'kingdom' subjects: It asserts that a monarch is subject to no earthly authority, deriving the right to rule directly from the will of God. The king is thus not subject to the will of his people, the aristocracy, or any other estate of the realm. It implies that only God can judge an unjust king and that any attempt to depose, dethrone or restrict his powers runs contrary to the will of God and may constitute a sacrilegious act. It is often expressed in the phrase "by the Grace of God", attached to the titles of a reigning monarch.
