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ISLAM AGAINST RACISM AND PREJUDICE BY El Hajj Malik El Shabazz (malcolmX's letter) Many Muslims who have been blessed to make Hajj often speak of how the journey is a life-changing experience. This is more the case for some than others. Malcolm X is one Muslim who saw the light of true Islam through his Hajj in April 1964. As a former member and speaker for the Nation of Islam, a black spiritual and nationalist movement, he believed that the white man was the devil and the black man superior. After leaving the Nation of Islam in March 1964, he made Hajj, which helped change his perspective on whites and racism completely. Here is an excerpt of a letter El Hajj Malik El Shabazz wrote about his Hajj experience. In it, he explains what it was during this blessed journey that made him so profoundly shift his perspective on race and racism:
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Tuesday, November 11th 2014 at 7:33PM
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"There were tens of thousands of pilgrims, from all over the world. They were of all colors, from blue-eyed blondes to black-skinned Africans. But we were all participating in the same ritual, displaying a spirit of unity and brotherhood that my experiences in America had led me to believe never could exist between the white and the non-white.
You may be shocked by these words coming from me. But on this pilgrimage, what I have seen, and experienced, has forced me to rearrange much of my thought patterns previously held, and to toss aside some of my previous conclusions. This was not too difficult for me. Despite my firm convictions, I have been always a man who tries to face facts, and to accept the reality of life as new experience and new knowledge unfolds it. I have always kept an open mind, which is necessary to the flexibility that must go hand in hand with every form of intelligent search for truth.
During the past eleven days here in the Muslim world, I have eaten from the same plate, drunk from the same glass and slept in the same bed (or on the same rug)-while praying to the same God with fellow Muslims, whose eyes were the bluest of the blue, whose hair was the blondest of blond, and whose skin was the whitest of white. And in the words and in the actions and in the deeds of the ‘white' Muslims, I felt the same sincerity that I felt among the black African Muslims of Nigeria, Sudan and Ghana.
We are truly all the same-brothers.
AlHamdullillahiRabilallaameen(All praise is due to Allaah, the Lord of the worlds.)"
From 644-714--1964--2014 ------
The Believers of AlQur'aan and Sunnah of Mohamed(saw) ARE CONSISTANT with the Creator of Adaam(as)
Wednesday, November 26th 2014 at 11:44AM
robert powell
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This is part of the Book that El Hajj Malik El Shabazz was memorizing at his violent passing......
Sűrat AlMu’minűn
(The Believers) XXIII
In the Name of Allâah, the Most Gracious, the Most Merciful
1. Successful indeed are AlMu’minűn.
2. Those who offer their Salât (prayers) with all sincerity and full submissiveness.
3. Those who turn away from AlLaghw (dirty,evil, falsehood, fraud and all that Allâah has forbidden).
4. Those who pay AzZakât.
5. And those who guard their chastity (private parts, from illegal s*xual thoughts and acts)
6. Except from their wives that their right hands possess, - for then, they are free from blame;
7. But whoever seeks beyond that, then those are the transgressors;
8. Those who are faithfully true to their Amanât (all the duties which Allâah has ordained, honesty, moral responsibility and trusts) and to their covenants;
9. And those who strictly guard their Salawât (prayers) at their fixed stated hours.
10. These are indeed the inheritors
11. Who shall inherit AlFirdaus (Paradise).
They shall dwell there forever.
12. And indeed We created Adaam out of an extract of clay (water and earth).
13. We made from Adaam as a Nutfah , mixed drops of the male and female s*xual discharge and lodged it in a safe lodging, the womb of the woman.
14. Then We made AnNutfah into a clot (a piece of thick coagulated blood), then We made the clot into a little lump of flesh, then We made out of that little lump of flesh bones, then We clothed the bones with flesh, and then We brought it forth as another creation.
So Blessed is Allâah, the Creator.
Wednesday, March 18th 2015 at 8:03AM
robert powell
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A student of the Companions of El Hajj Malik El Shabazz that Taught at AlAzhar in Misr; Abdal Hakim Murad –
Has an Educational English Presentation given at an American Islaamic University in New Mexico
----This presentation may help a number of BIA commentators that have an interest in Islaamic Education
Understanding Islam Series: The Five Pillars of Islam
https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=play...
Sunday, July 5th 2015 at 8:15PM
robert powell
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“Labbayka Allaahumma labbayk "
We Honor and thank all the Hajjis, those that struggle to submit to ArRahmaan Dhul Jalaali wal Ikraam
Friday, September 1st 2017 at 7:55AM
robert powell
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