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Malcolm X - Speaks on Islaam
Complied by Islamic Da'wah Academy
America needs to understand Islam, because it is the religion that erases the race problem from its society. Throughout my travels in the Muslim world, I have met, talked to, and eaten with people who would have been considered white in America, but the religion of Islam in their hearts has removed the white from their minds. They practice sincere and true brotherhood with other people irrespective of their color. Before America allows herself to be destroyed by the cancer of racism she should become better acquainted with the religious philosophy of Islam, a religion that has already molded people of all colors in one vast family, nation, or brotherhood that leaps over all obstacles and stretches itself into almost all of the Eastern countries of this Earth.
Letter from Saudi Arabia, April 1964
The Quran compels the Muslim world to take a stand on the side of those whose human rights are being violated, no matter what the religious persuasion of the victim is. Islam is a religion which concerns itself with the human rights of all mankind, despite race, color, or creed. It recognizes all (everyone) as part of one human family.
Letter from Nigeria, April 1964
The whites as well as the non-whites who accept true Islam become a changed people. I have eaten from the same plate with people whose eyes were the bluest of the blue, whose hair was the blondest of blond, and whose skin was the whitest of white . . . and I felt the same sincerity in the words and deeds of these white Muslims as I felt among the African Muslims of Nigeria, Sudan, and Ghana. True Islam removes racism, because people of all colors and races who accept its religious principles and bow to the One God, Allah, also automatically accept each other as brothers and sisters, regardless of differences in complexion.
Letter from Saudi Arabia, April 1964
The Muslim world is forced to concern itself, from the moral point of view of its own religious concepts, with the fact that our plight clearly involves the violation of our human rights. The Quran compels the Muslim world to take a stand on the side of those whose human rights are being violated, no matter what the religious persuasion of the victim is. Islam is a religion which concerns itself with the human rights of all mankind, despite race, color, or creed. It recognizes all (everyone) as part of one human family.
Letter from Nigeria, May 1964
The religion of Islam actually restores ones human feelings, human rights, human incentives, his talent. It brings out of the individual all his dormant potential. It gives him the incentive to develop, to be identified collectively in the brotherhood of Islam with the brothers in Islam; at the same time this has the psychological effect of giving him incentive as an individual.
Interview, June 1964
At Makkah I saw the spirit of unity and true brotherhood displayed by tens of thousands of people from all over the world, from blue-eyed blondes to black skinned Africans. My religious pilgrimage (Hajj) to Makkah has given me a true insight into the brotherhood of Islam, which encompasses all the races of mankind.
Article written by Malcolm X for an Egyptian Newspaper, August 1964
I have so much faith in Allah, and in right, and in my people, that I believe I can come back and start from scratch if it is necessary and so long as I mean right, Allah will bless me with success and our people will help me in this fight. I love all of you, and pray Allah will bless all of you.
Letter from Cairo, August 1964
I believe in a religion that believes in freedom. Anytime I have to accept a religion that wont let me fight a battle for my people, I say to hell with that religion. Thats why I am a Muslim, because it is a religion that teaches you an eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth. It teaches you to respect everybody, and treat everybody right.
Harlem Rally Speech, November 1964
Im a Muslim, which means that my religion is Islam. I believe in all of the Prophets, whoever represented God on this earth. I believe what Muslims believe: prayer, fasting, charity, and the pilgrimage to the Holy land Makkah, which Ive been fortunate to have made four or five times. I dont believe in brotherhood with anybody with anybody who doesnt want brotherhood with me.
Speech to Domestic Peace Corps, December 1964
Im A Muslim. Now if something is wrong with being a Muslim, we can argue, we can get with it. I believe in Allah, the same God that many of you would probably believe in if you knew more about Him. I believe in ALL, of the Prophets: Abraham, Moses, Jesus, Muhammad. Most of you are Jewish and you believe in Moses; you might not pick Jesus. If youre Christians, you believe in Moses and Jesus. Well, Im Muslim, and I believe in all of them. So I think Im way up on you.
Speech at Harvard Law School, December 1964
Its true I am a Muslim and I believe in brotherhood. And I believe in the brotherhood of all men. But my religion doesnt make me a fool. My religion makes me against all forms of racism. It keeps me from judging any man by the color of his skin. It teaches me to judge him by his deeds and his conscious behaviour. And it teaches to me to be for the rights of all human beings, but especially the Afro-American human being, because my religion is a natural religion and the first law of nature is self-preservation.
Speech in New York, January 1965
. . . it is so important for Centers to be established immediately where True Islam can be taught. And the centers should be located at this time primarily in Black Communities because at this particular time the American Blacks are the ones showing the most interest in True religion . . . this in no way implies discrimination or racism but rather shows intelligence in planting the Good seed of Islam where it will grow best . . . later on we doctor up or fertilize the less fertile areas; but only after our Crop is already well planted in the heart and mind of these Black Americans who already show great signs of receptiveness . . . American born persons who have been converted to Islam are 98% black.
Written statement one week before the assassination, February 1965
. . . how deeply the religion of Islam had reached down into the mud to life me up, to save me from being what I inevitably would have been . . . Standing there by that Harvard window, I silently vowed to Allah that I never would forget that any wings I wore had been on by the religion of Islam. That fact I never have forgotten. . . not for one second.
The Autobiography p.287
I couldnt have asked Allah to bless my efforts any more than He had. Islam in New York City was growing faster than anywhere in America. From the one tiny mosque to which Mr. Muhammad had originally sent me, I had now built three of the nations most powerful and aggressive mosques.
Harlems Seven-A in Manhattan, Coronas Seven-B in Queens, and Mosque Seven-C in Brooklyn. And on a national basis, I had either directly established, or I had helped establish, most of the one hundred or more mosques in the fifty states. I was crisscrossing North America sometimes as often as four times a week. Often, what sleep I got was caught in jet planes.
The Autobiography p.290
The color-blindness of the Muslim worlds religious society and the color-blindness of the Muslim worlds human society: these two influences had each day been making a greater impact, and an increasing persuasion against my previous way of thinking . . . I knew that after what I had experienced in the Holy Land, the second most indelible memory I would carry back to America would be Africa . . .
The Autobiography p.338 and p.360
In my thirty-nine years on this earth, the Holy City of Makkah was the first time I had ever stood before the Creator and felt like a complete human being.
The Autobiography p.365
Al Hajj Malik Shabazz was assassinated on 21st February 1965.
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