The Effect of Hajj on a Muslim
Hajj as a whole will inspire a Muslim to do better for themselves, God
and the community. Each event symbolises a key way on how a Muslim can
change for the better and keep on the straight path for life. Though
some Muslims will not change after coming back on Hajj, some may feel
that it was not inspiring or helpful, others may feel that they are
already the 'perfect' Muslim. Hajj has made great improvements in life
for lots of Muslims.
A good example of how Hajj might affect the life of a Muslim is
Malcolm X. He was born Malcolm Little in 1925. His father was
constantly harassed by the Ku Klux Klan and in 1931 his father was
purposely hit by a tram. When Malcolm was a teenager he began to get
involved with dangerous people, he started to sell drugs and steal. It
was 1946 when Malcolm was arrested and sentenced to eight years in
prison.
While in prison he had joined a group called the Black Muslims. They
believed that white people were the Devil and that God was black.
Malcolm left prison and went on Hajj, he realised that all kinds of
different people took part. Not only were Arabs or black people there,
white people also took part.
This shows in a letter he wrote to his wife. It said that he had been
with all types of people 'They were of all colours, from blue eyed
blondes to black skinned Africans.' He told his wife that the oneness
of the community made no separations and that all pilgrims were seen
as the same. In his letter he explained '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 blonde and whose skin
was the whitest of white.' He also said 'we are truly the same because
their (white people) belief in one God had removed the white from
head by a horse when he was younger. This was a lie, but explained why
when describing his father. At the beginning of the story he spoke as a child
his story from his childhood. He tells us that when he was ten, he had
... had already long since cleared out. Perhaps that is why he became an alcoholic; no one believed him when he repeatedly told them the house was on fire, only to watch it burn down.
...ptly stricken by an illness which landed him in the hospital. He died on April 9, only two months before his 92nd birthday.
of his father and his father before him. He came to a certain point in his life where one
that he did not die. He now had taken on “perfect” or eternal flesh and with his wife, Empress
in his life and that the epitaphs were both an expression of that crisis and a means
he had with a fantastical one. The speaker reveals, seemingly on a slip of the tongue, that he was
were that if you did not support him, then you should not live. So it ended up
without her. "He was his wife's man and not his own." When he became aware of
This is implied when it is said that he had only seen "some service with the
I am studying. He also refers to the men before him and how they have
and when he married into the Upper class he and his wife had to move