I wonder if you have ever stopped to think on this fact that America is a unique place where such a huge variety of Muslims have been gathered to gether byAllah SWT. (and there may be a higher purpose for it too)
"And among His signs is the creation of Heavens and the earth and the variations in your languages and colors: verily in that there are signs for those who know" (S.Room, Aya 22)
Reminders from our Creator of what He has accomplished in our creation and that of heavens and earth so that we can ponder over these things, know them and wonder and realize that only He could do it. About the Man two things mentioned here, languages and colors. Of course there are several other things common and different in us (and also all human beings), but let us just reflect on these two here, for now.
Rev. Jesse Jackson calls these different 'colors' as "rainbow" and I remember he was reminded of that in the ISNA annual conference he was invited to attend, long time ago. There was this variety of the Muslims from all over America but really representing all communities of the world, the Middle East, The far East, European peoples, Indian and Pakistani and Bangla Deshi peoples Indonasians and you name it, they all were there in the crowd he was facing.
Allah SWT, in this verse is referring to these 'colors' and these languages.
The structural apparatus of throat, larynx, pharynx, nose mouth teeth and tonge etc. are all the same and yet the words (that have meanings) come out so differently and make up a totally different language in each group. The face, head, neck body arms and legs being the same and yet they are clearly distinguishable from one another, each individual. In this particular situation all of them glorifying one and only Allah 'Azza wa Jalla, worshipping the one.
"We have indeed created man in the best of moulds" (S. XCV, Aya 4)
".......And has given you shapes, and made your shapes beautiful...." (S.LXIV, Aya 3)
Unity within the diversity and diversity within the unity. Marvel at the creation of the One and Only, the real Creator of all, folks
And of course the rainbow colors were also created by Him, from 'one light'. And lastly the reminder in the famous verse of S. Al-Hujurat, (49th), verse number 13
"O! mankind We created you from a single (pair) of a male and a female and made you into nations and tribes, that ye may know each other, (and not that ye despise each other). Verily the most honored of you in the sight of Allah is (he , who is) the most righteous of you...."
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I often wondered what it must have been like for Muslims who come from a Muslim majority country to a country where they are a minority. Take the example of praying in jamaat. You grow up where everyone is ethnically and linguistically the same (or similar.) Then you come to the a country like this one and all of a sudden your jamaat has people from all over the world. Growing up here I never thought twice about it but actually such unity in diversity is pretty cool.
When I went to Malaysia in 1996 I remember being struck by the diversity in another way. I had been in Kuala Lumpur for only a few hours, and was still acclimating myself to the sights and sounds...and everything seemed so different: the vegetation, the roads, the cars, the signs, etc. So we got to the hotel and it was time for Jummah. I was on the other side of the world, everything around me was so different - but Jummah was still exactly the same - there was still unity in diversity, and it was pretty cool.
I still remember, when I went to "Woking" in Surray (UK) for Eid prayer. (I was located in-'62- Southampton) and I saw a gathering in a large tent like thing outside a building that I presumed was the Woking masjid that I had heard of.
Seeing the Muslims from many Muslim countries for the first time and being a part of that Jam'at was "cool" for me and rather inspiring. I said to myself, this is mini-hajj for me, my first exposure to that diversity (of so many non-Pakistanis)
Well, things ahve come a long long way from those times now, not only in UK but all over the West.
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