03-30-2005, 04:48 PM
Bismillah,
Assalamu aleikum brother,
It is so nice to see you again, but so sad to read your lines.
I know sister Muslimah will surely come to help, but I just wonder one thing, if you don't mind me asking.
The ahadith that you refer to, I read in first hand what is available on the net, and what I can see there are ahadith that contains this word raisin. My question is, how is this word 'conneted' to black people? I do not understand the connection. When I read the hadith, the same as sister Muslimah refers to, I cannot understand what is discriminating in it. I understand it as a person refered to that may no be so beautiful, since his head, not his body, but his head looks like a raisin.
A raisin is not equaly round and smooth, it is dent (if that is the right word). And furthermore, where I live, I have only seen raisins in a very light yellow or golden color. But of course I know there are darker ones too. But I do not see the connection to black people. This is confusing to me.
Wasalam