what is the difference between the nation of islam and orthodox muslims? and do orthodox muslims recognize the nation of islam? please provide references for your answers.
2006-09-21 05:16:15 · 1 answers · asked by tythegemini 2 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
The Nation of Islam differs in two main ways:
1. Recognising the divinity of W. Muhammad Fard (orthodox Muslims will say that God has never walked the earth as a human)
2. Believing in a race-based theology wherein white people are seen as the result of a bad experiment and (at least in part) fundamentally evil.
It is in fact radically different from orthodox Islam and is considered heretical by almost all Muslim organisations.
When Malcolm X went on Hajj, he was humbled by the existence of millions of people of different skin colours getting on as brothers. He returned to the USA disowning the NOI and became an orthodox Sunni.
2006-09-21 05:28:40 · answer #1 · answered by XYZ 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋