Interesting Historic Converts to Islam

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Re: Interesting Historic Converts to Islam

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Astaghfirullah! MalcolmX was not the founder of the Nation of Islam, he was the man who initiated the process of changing most members of Nation of Islam to Sunni Islam!!!

A short history of recent black Islam in the USA

Nation of Islam was founded in 1930 by a guy called Wallace Muhammad. He preached a mixture of black nationalism with bits of Islam, creating a new, deviant belief. Part of it was that whites and blacks could not live in harmony.

Malcolm X became an adeherent of Nation of Islam in the late 1940s in jail. Upon his release he became the sect’s most visible champion. Around 1960 several Sunni Muslims encouraged Malcolm X to learn more about Islam, and he converted and immediately went for Hajj.

During hajj he saw the equal treatment of whites and blacks (in Makkah) for the first time in his life and he realised that his earlier views were wrong and that Islam could bring whites and blacks and all people together.

Upon his return he turned into an opponent of Nation of Islam and began preaching rejection of their political views and Sunni Islam as the correct religious view. For this, Nation of Islam sent 3 assassins who made him achieve shahadat (inshallah).

In the years following his death, Nation of Islam’s leaders officially rejected their previous teachings and recommended the entire sect to convert to Sunni Islam. Most did so; however, a minority disagreed and re-founded Nation of Islam as the organization that is is today.

As a side note, 2 of the 3 Nation of Islam assassins who killed Malcolm X converted to Sunni Islam themselves later in life. The last one did not convert, and instead joined the refounded deviant movement and became a prominent leader amongst them.

thanks for correcting me…