When I sat down to read about Malcom X’s experience inside
Mecca I was extremely excited. I had been dying to learn more about the Hajj as
a spiritual journey and the thought of such a radical yet brilliant thinker
like Malcom X taking a swing at the experience was bound to be an informative
blast. When I began to read, I did not
find myself disappointed. His classic civil rights edge was present, the
material was well written, and I was learning about the Hajj from a very
fascinating thinker. He came into Mecca by plane instead of walking, which worried
me when I first started to read, but he still had a strong spiritual journey so
I did not end up disappointed.
Malcom X entered Mecca with the goals of preforming
his Muslim duty and completing the Hajj. He was worried about being accepted,
and had no idea about what was about to happen. Once inside the mass of
pilgrims and performing the rituals of the Hajj, significant portions of Malcom
X’s beliefs regarding discrimination and race relations were shattered and revamped.
The fact that all the pilgrims on the Hajj came from all different areas with
all different skin colors, were surrounding him peacefully and in a friendly
manner, and all were doing the exact same thing he was created an experience
that could not be recreated in the United States.
The Hajj’s power as a spiritual journey changed one
of the most radical members of the civil rights movement. This was more that I
could have asked for as insight into how the Hajj worked and the power it had
to transform a person’s life. This reading made me want to learn even more
about how other people were affected by the Hajj as a spiritual journey.
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