An ancient myth describes how Allah, after making the rest of the world, saw some rubble and shattered rock scattered here and there. He swept it all up and put it in a pile, and that pile became Afghanistan. Historically Afghanistan was a focus of contention between Persian and Turkic peoples.
一則古老的神話則述說：「當真主阿拉完成這個世界其他部份後，看到有一些垃圾留在那裡，盡是些破土碎屑，他將這些垃圾聚積好，丟到地球上，那就是阿富汗。」