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I think often of Malcolm X. My father (who is not Muslim) once told me that he was much more affected during the civil rights movement by the example of Malcom X than that of Martin Luther King Jr. He found that the message from Dr. King was constant and did not change, whereas the message from Malcom was constantly changing, always evolving into something better, and by this change he was bringing people with him.
It is possible Malcom was killed by the CIA, but it is certainly also entirely possible he was killed by the people who had surrounded him in the Nation of Islam. To me it is irrelevant. Ultimately, Allah is the witness and watcher of those who committed the crime, and they will not escape from Allah.
Consider the 4 scholars(madhabs), and the environment they grew up in. All of them were Islamic reformers, and they endured difficult and dangerous times as they tried to call the people back to Islam. Their lives were threatened, they were attacked and even thrown into prison by their own people, the muslims. Fortunately for us, they were all eventually successful in effecting reform and we now know them as some of the most impressive scholars in Islamic history.
[9.32] They desire to put out the light of Allah with their mouths, and Allah will not consent save to perfect His light, though the unbelievers are averse.
This always happens when a person comes along speaking the truth and extending the light of Allah into the world. The first reaction of the people is to try to put out that light! It can be a scary thing when you have to respond to people who are seeking to permanently extinguish that light. Imagine Malcom's last days, and the courage it took to see it through . . . ultimately we must Fear Allah more than we fear some person who might try to take our own lives. After all, it is to Allah we will return, it is Allah who rewards and punishes for what we have done with our lives on earth.
I am constantly reminded of the video (I am not sure if the one posted on this site has the clip) that shows Malcom X's funeral. My husband and I were both deeply moved when we witnessed the water that was gushing into his grave. What a blessing! May we all be so fortunate to have a merciful destination such as that.
[7.170] And (as for) those who hold fast by the Book and keep up prayer, surely We do not waste the reward of the right doers.
[3.195] So their Lord accepted their prayer: That I will not waste the work of a worker among you, whether male or female, the one of you being from the other; they, therefore, who fled and were turned out of their homes and persecuted in My way and who fought and were slain, I will most certainly cover their evil deeds, and I will most certainly make them enter gardens beneath which rivers flow; a reward from Allah, and with Allah is yet better reward.
