Aren’t We All One?
The little boy sat on the bench in the playground all alone, surrounded by no one except his tears.. For some moment I thought that the little boy would drown from his tears because of how deeply he wept..
I went to him and all what I did was sit beside him.. giving him some time to take out the sorrow that has been locked up in his heart..
I turned toward the little boy who was at the age of 8. He was no ordinary boy but a lovely dark skinned young man.
I started talking to him trying to make him stop shedding those tears and all what I could notice that he was focusing at something the whole time. I took a glance on what he was looking at and realized that he was looking at some children playing.
The first thing that came to mind was the word “discrimination”, the word that brings so much anger to me. A word that I wish did not exist.
I took the boy from his hand and went to the children and told them.. How about you play with your little friend here, all what they children did was give me this weird look and say “we aren’t allowed to play with black children”
I know that some people would say that nowadays discrimination doesn’t exist, but all what I can say that it does. We as Muslims should look at each other as “Muslim” brothers and sisters and not focus on the race, nationality or origin. It hurts me a lot to see people’s mentality, How they say that “Arabs are only for Arabs” and so on. Our beloved Prophet – Peace Be Upon Him – has showed us that there is no difference between all Muslims. We are all the children of Adam and we are all one.
Our beloved prophet – Peace Be Upon Him – loved Bilal although he was a slave at that time, but what difference did it make to our beloved Prophet – Peace Be Upon Him – because he loved him for who he truly is.
In our society, when it comes to marriage, we’d come to realize how parents make a big deal about the origin of your future spouse, Whether they are pure Arabs, Pure Ajamee, Pure Locals and so on.
If you go back and dig in history, we would notice that there is no such thing as PURE anything, but we have what is called “Pure Muslim Families”.
Always remember that there is no difference between people, we are all Muslims no matter from which country, race or nationality we come from.
::the story at the beginning is from my imagination, just to make the picture clearer to you ::
YzaCh Allah 5air thats true..
Always remember that there is no difference between people, we are all Muslims no matter from which country, race or nationality we come from.
Great post,,
maybe inshaAllah in our generation where the muslimeen are gaining positive mentalities we will have a stronger multi-ethnic islamic ummah
jazakum Allahu khairan
Candle of Hope has spoken the truth!
I like that ” Pure Muslim Family ” (sounds cute)
Ah yes..
The “Arab/Ajam” war is one of the dilemmas of our culture…
But doesn’t this contradict your opinion on the whole marrying other than locals issue?
DXB_Muslim —> Barak ALlah feek brother, there is no contradiction at all..
If i were in your place i would think the same way..
but tell what’s the difference between an Ajamee that is following the arabs culture , beliefs and have the passport except that they are Ajams and not Arabs.. so when it comes to marriage, you arent marrying a foreigner..
when it comes to marrying a non-local, non-muslim blondy who barely speaks arabic.. then here comes the problem.. it would be better if he would marry a muslim girl from his country than marry a non=-muslim from abroad..
inshaAllah my point is clear,..
Jazakoum Allah khair..
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good topic “candle of hope”…….the subject is AGAIN about marriage!! its a quite crucial topic in our life and maybe the most interesting and COMPLICATED issue ever in one’s life..Jazakum Allah 5ayran for bringing up the issue… i believe that families MUST stop this discrimination… the no.1 victim are the poor girls… we must confess that manty families might accept the marriage of their son to an “impure arab girl”, but things dont work viceversa… the girl has to wait for a “PURE PURE arab guy” to come and knock on her door..otherwise she would have to say ” HELLO ” to the world of spinsters…and the funny thing about such families is that they get SHOCKED when their daughter goes astray and starts having “relationships” with this guy and that!! its like someone takes away your food and water and then he gets shocked that you’re looking for ANY food.. ANY food.. ANY guy… ah… our society has turned into a miserable materialistic community… Allah Kareem…
To say the truth, I shocked & surprised when I read this story,
Arab’s children learning racialism from their Muslim society!
It’s really pothered me, and keeps me worry about our nation’s future, cause those children will grow up some day to lead our culture.
What they may do then, if we offered them now free animosity & disinclination lessons
Can you imagine!!
Let’s try to grow the true Islamic ethics in our children souls, let’s follow the steps of our prophet Mohammed (Peace be upon him) who sent to us “just to complete ethics”
discrimination happens too often, even at mosques i noticed
may Allah give us the strength to unite as ONE, ameen
I hate discriminations…
but to say the truth .. our “SMart- Head” society is relly blamed for it… as when children are young they’re taught how to discriminate between an asian person for instance and a local persian.. i truely dislike it .. cuz i truely believe alot with what our Beloved Prophet,-Peace be Upon him- said: there is no difference between an arab and non-arab except with ta8wa…”The Extent how they fear God”..
Its really bad to think of how ppl may judge you before knowing you..
As always. Another master peice.
May Allah grant you paradise for such words sister.
I deeply agree. Discrimination is an illness and a snynom to the word “Takabor” (proud).
May Allah bless us with being humble and wise for there is no wisdom in being proud of blood which rots.