03-31-2005, 06:55 AM
Asalamalaikum
I wanted to say the exact thing that My dear Sister Yasmin said. The prophet (SAW) is saying follow your leader even if he is sooo different from you that he has a raisin head. Our beloved Prophet mohamed (PBUH) was in no way trying to redicule black people the point he was trying to make is basically (and this is ofcourse how I see it) That we should obey and follow our leaders no matter what race they are. Outer appearances are nothing they have no value what matters to Allah is our heart and Faith, what levels us from each other is our rightousness. Everything else was completely meaningless to rasululah (SAW). Thats why he loved Bilal so much because of the great man that was inside the black skin of BiLaL. Bilal is one of the few people during the lifetime of the prophet that was destined to go to paradise while he was still alive.
Yasmin you have to keep your hair away from me then because I LOVE raisins [img]style_emoticons/default/wink.gif[/img][img]style_emoticons/default/ph34r.gif[/img] I luv Sabeeeeeeeeb. [img]style_emoticons/default/wub.gif[/img]
My parents are originally from the great Horn of Africa AKA Somalia, Alhamdulilah I am a Somalian. I am Black (even if one doesnt identify that immediately). My country is 99% sunni Muslim. Remember the whites who went to africa and stripped the africans off their land and threw them all across the world who treated blacks worser then animals? They were christians! I'm not saying that Arabs back during the Prophets time didn't used mistreat black people. They were experts in walking over anybody who looked darker then they were. Thats why the prophet took extra measures to teach them equality and that being light skinned wasn't going to get anyone to paradise.
I have experiences with black people (non-muslims) who have discriminated against me because I looked too indian or my features were just not cutting it to be fully authorised as an african or a black person.
My own personal opinion is that prejudice or hatred of any kind, whether that's racial, religious or any other is totally reprehensible and anyone who thinks like that needs their head examined.
The Hadith about Abu bakr exchanging Bilal for another black man, is very misterious to me, and I have never come across that hadith. Insha'Allah we'll refute it as false and fabricated. (With Allahs Help).
<i>"The Last Day will not come until Islam has entered every house on earth, whether it is made of animal skins or from the earth."</i>
Sorry if I am rambling, I'm tired it's been a long day [img]style_emoticons/default/smile.gif[/img]
Brother Anya, everytime you think Islam degrades Black people just look at the number of black muslims in islam.
And also ask yourself, are they really so stupid to accept a religion that works against? Are we all that stupid?
You know Malcolm X better than me I heard you speak about him many times. Who was malcolm X? He was a racist fanatic (AstafuruAllah) why did someone like him accept islam?
Malcolm X's Letter from Hajj
THE PILGRIMAGE TO MAKKAH
When he was in Makkah, Al-Hajj Malik El-Shabazz wrote a letter to his loyal assistants in Harlem... from his heart:
"Never have I witnessed such sincere hospitality and overwhelming spirit of true brotherhood as is practiced by people of all colors and races here in this ancient Holy Land, the home of Abraham, Muhammad and all the other Prophets of the Holy Scriptures. For the past week, I have been utterly speechless and spellbound by the graciousness I see displayed all around me by people of all colors.
"I have been blessed to visit the Holy City of Mecca, I have made my seven circuits around the Ka'ba, led by a young Mutawaf named Muhammad, I drank water from the well of the Zam Zam. I ran seven times back and forth between the hills of Mt. Al-Safa and Al Marwah. I have prayed in the ancient city of Mina, and I have prayed on Mt. Arafat."
"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 non-white."
"America needs to understand Islam, because this is the one religion that erases from its society the race problem. Throughout my travels in the Muslim world, I have met, talked to, and even eaten with people who in America would have been considered white - but the white attitude was removed from their minds by the religion of Islam. I have never before seen sincere and true brotherhood practiced by all colors together, irrespective of their color."
"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 always been 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 on the same rug - while praying to the same God - with fellow Muslims, whose eyes were the bluest of blue, whose hair was the blondest of blond, and whose skin was the whitest of white. And in the words 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 were truly all the same (brothers) - because their belief in one God had removed the white from their minds, the white from their behavior, and the white from their attitude."
"I could see from this, that perhaps if white Americans could accept the Oneness of God, then perhaps, too, they could accept in reality the Oneness of Man - and cease to measure, and hinder, and harm others in terms of their 'differences' in color."
"With racism plaguing America like an incurable cancer, the so-called 'Christian' white American heart should be more receptive to a proven solution to such a destructive problem. Perhaps it could be in time to save America from imminent disaster - the same destruction brought upon Germany by racism that eventually destroyed the Germans themselves."
"Each hour here in the Holy Land enables me to have greater spiritual insights into what is happening in America between black and white. The American Negro never can be blamed for his racial animosities - he is only reacting to four hundred years of the conscious racism of the American whites. But as racism leads America up the suicide path, I do believe, from the experiences that I have had with them, that the whites of the younger generation, in the colleges and universities, will see the handwriting on the walls and many of them will turn to the spiritual path of truth - the only way left to America to ward off the disaster that racism inevitably must lead to."
"Never have I been so highly honored. Never have I been made to feel more humble and unworthy. Who would believe the blessings that have been heaped upon an American Negro? A few nights ago, a man who would be called in America a white man, a United Nations diplomat, an ambassador, a companion of kings, gave me his hotel suite, his bed. Never would I have even thought of dreaming that I would ever be a recipient of such honors - honors that in America would be bestowed upon a King - not a Negro."
"All praise is due to Allah, the Lord of all the Worlds.
Sincerely,
Al-Hajj Malik El-Shabazz (Malcolm X)
(From the AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF MALCOLM X with assistance from Alex Haley, the author of ROOTS)
<i>Malcolm X saw and experienced many positive things. Generosity and openheartedness were qualities which were impressed on him by the welcome which he received in many places. He saw brotherhood and the brotherhood of different races and this led him to disclaim racism and to say: "I am not a racist... In the past I permitted myself to be used... to make sweeping indictments of all white people, the entire white race, and these generalizations have caused injuries to some whites who perhaps did not deserve to be hurt. Because of the spiritual enlightenment which I was blessed to receive as the result of my recent pilgrimage to the Holy City of Mecca, I no longer subscribe to sweeping indictments of any one race. I am now striving to live the life of a true Sunni Muslim. I must repeat that I am not a racist nor do I subscribe to the tenets of racism. I can state in all sincerity that I wish nothing but freedom, justice and equality, life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness for all people." </i>
<i>(The preceding material was excerpted from The Autobiography of Malcolm X quoted in an article written by the Institute for Islamic Education.</i>
Insha'Allah you'll learn to deal with those nonbelievers with knowledge Brother, because knowledge is power. Learn your islam.
I am also learning, Yasmin thanks for researching about Ishaq. I had a feeling that he was a jew.
Asaalamalaykum