Muslim men can’t get married outside their nationality. Parents forcing their children to marry from within the same nationality, and even the same cast. This is causing many problems for people who want to get married to each other but have been told they can’t because of the colour of their skin or nationality.
How did Muhammed (pbuh) treat other people?
Bilal, a black companion of Muhammed (pbuh) complained to him that an Arab made a racist remark towards him. One hearing this, Muhammed (pbuh) got angry and went to the Arab companion and said to him, “you still have traits of ignorance within you”. He reprimanded him for being racist towards another person. And the companion went to Bilal and apologised sincerely and begged for his forgiveness.
On Muhammed’s (pbuh) last ever sermon, he said:
One day, in Mecca, the Prophet Muhammad dropped a bombshell on his followers: He told them that all people are created equal.
“All humans are descended from Adam and Eve,” said Muhammad in his last known public speech.
“There is no superiority of an Arab over a non-Arab, or of a non-Arab over an Arab, and no superiority of a white person over a black person or of a black person over a white person, except on the basis of personal piety and righteousness.”
At the time when interracial marriages were frowned upon and prohibited in some households, Muhammed abolished this mindset and allowed people to marry who they wished regardless of race.
Race is never seen as a criteria for Muslims. Whether that’s in business, in marriage, in religion, or politics. Muhammed (pbuh) acknowledged that we are from different tribes and countries but doesn’t allow this to influence any decision-making. As we are all one and equal to one another. Bilal, for example, was chosen as the first person to give the call to prayer.
We are advised to respect everyone’s background and culture. Muhammed never once in any statement made a racist remark nor implied that any race is better than another. On the contrary, he told us that all people are equal to each other regardless of skin colour.
Black Lives Matter
For many modern Muslims, Bilal is the symbol of Islam’s egalitarian message, which in its ideal application recognizes no difference among humans on the basis of ethnicity or race but rather is more concerned with personal integrity. One of the United States’ leading Black Muslim newspaper, published between 1975 and 1981, was called The Bilalian News. In 622, the Prophet appointed him the first person to give the public call to prayer in recognition of his powerful, pleasing voice and personal piety. Bilal would later marry an Arab woman from a respectable tribe – unthinkable for an enslaved African in the pre-Islamic period.
Read more on: https://theconversation.com/islams-anti-racist-message-from-the-7th-century-still-resonates-today-141575
