An Invitation to Peace

An Invitation to Peace
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…
“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 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….
“I could see from this, that perhaps if white America could accept
the Oneness of God, then perhaps, too, they could accept in reality the
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Oneness of Man…”
What else could be expected of a faith that taught all believers are
brothers, and “none of you can have faith until he loves for his brother
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what he loves for himself” ?
“No other society has such a record of success in uniting in an
equality of status, of opportunity, and of endeavours so many and so
various races of mankind… Islam has still the power to reconcile
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apparently irreconcilable elements of race and tradition.”
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The Autobiography of Malcolm X with the assistance of Alex Haley, pp. 454-455
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Saying of the Prophet Muhammad (PBUH), al-Bukhari, v. 1, p. 14
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H.A.R. Gibb, Whither Islam, London, 1932, p. 379
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