Malcolm X : Ikon Perjuangan Merentasi Bangsa

Penulisan kali ini mengenai tokoh antarabangsa yang cukup dikenali. Dari seorang yang bermasalah kepada seorang insan yang telah menjadi ikon perjuangan buat semua umat manusia. Insan terkenal itu adalah Malcolm X.



Latarbelakang

Malcolm Little (sebelum beliau masuk Islam) telah dilahirkan di Omaha, Nebraska pada 19 May 1925. Ketika beliau berumur 13 tahun, ayah beliau telah mati dan ibunya telah dihantarkan ke hospital mental. Setelah melalui pelbagai cabaran dalam hidupnya, Malcolm Little telah terlibat dengan jenayah di Boston dan New York dan telah dihantar ke penjara untuk menjalani hukuman selama 10 tahun.

Ketika beliau di dalam penjara, beliau telah diperkenalkan kepada Elijah Muhammad (pemimpin tertinggi dalam Nation Of Islam). Pada tahun 1952, Malcolm X telah pun menjadi salah seorang pemimpin kanan dalam Nation Of Islam.

Nation Of Islam

Ketika beliau berjuang didalam Nation Of Islam, beliau percaya kepada pendapat Elijah Muhammad bahawa Islam hanya diturunkan untuk orang kulit hitam sahaja. Perjuangan mereka hanyalah semata - mata untuk membela orang kulit hitam saja (atau bahasa kasarnya Ketuanan Negro).

Namun pada tahun 1964, Malcolm X telah mula mempunyai hubungan tegang dengan Elijah Muhammad atas dasar moral dan ini telah menyebabkan Malcolm X mengambil keputusan untuk keluar dari Nation Of Islam.

Makkah Pembuka Pintu Kesedaran

Ketika Malcolm X mengerjakan haji, beliau cukup terkejut melihat suasana persaudaraan yang cukup tinggi. Kejutan ini telah diterjemahkan dalam surat beliau kepada isteri beliau iaitu Betty Shabaaz :

"April, 1964

The Ka'ba, in Mecca -- the ancient House of Worship built by Abraham and Ishmael.

Never have I witnessed such sincere hospitality and overwhelming spirit of true brotherhood as is practiced by people of all colors and races here in this Ancient Holy Land, the home of Abraham, Muhammad and all the other Prophets of the Holy Scriptures. For the past week, I have been utterly speechless and spellbound by the graciousness I see displayed all around me by people of all colors.

I have been blessed to visit the Holy City of Mecca. I have made my seven circuits around the Ka'ba, led by a young Mutawaf named Muhammad. I drank water from the well of the Zam Zam. I ran seven times back and forth between the hills of Mt. Al-Safa and Al-Marwah. I have prayed in the ancient city of Mina, and I have prayed on Mt. Arafat.

There were tens of thousands of pilgrims, from all over the world. They were of all colors, from blue-eyed blonds to black-skinned Africans. But we were all participating in the same ritual, displaying a spirit of unity and brotherhood that my experiences in America had led me to believe never could exist between the white and non-white.

America needs to understand Islam, because this is the one religion that erases from its society the race problem. Throughout my travels in the Muslim world, I have met, talked to, and even eaten with people who in America would have been considered 'white'--but the 'white' attitude was removed from their minds by the religion of Islam. I have never before seen sincere and true brotherhood practiced by all colors together, irrespective of their color.

You may be shocked by these words coming from me. But on this pilgrimage, what I have seen, and experienced, has forced me to re-arrange much of my thought-patterns previously held, and to toss aside some of my previous conclusions. This was not too difficult for me. Despite my firm convictions, I have always been a man who tries to face facts, and to accept the reality of life as new experience and new knowledge unfolds it. I have always kept an open mind, which is necessary to the flexibility that must go hand in hand with every form of intelligent search for truth.

During the past eleven days here in the Muslim world, I have eaten from the same plate, drunk from the same glass, and slept in the same bed (or on the same rug)--while praying to the same God--with fellow Muslims, whose eyes were the bluest of blue, whose hair was the blondest of blond, and whose skin was the whitest of white. And in the words and in the actions in the deeds of the 'white' Muslims, I felt the same sincerity that I felt among the black African Muslims of Nigeria, Sudan, and Ghana.

We were truly all the same (brothers)--because their belief in one God had removed the white from their minds, the white from their behavior, and the white from their attitude.

I could see from this, that perhaps if white Americans could accept the Oneness of God, then perhaps, too, they could accept in reality the Oneness of Man--and cease to measure, and hinder, and harm others in terms of their 'differences' in color.

With racism plaguing America like an incurable cancer, the so-called 'Christian' white American heart should be more receptive to a proven solution to such a destructive problem. Perhaps it could be in time to save America from imminent disaster--the same destruction brought upon Germany by racism that eventually destroyed the Germans themselves.

Each hour here in the Holy Land enables me to have greater spiritual insights into what is happening in America between black and white. The American Negro never can be blamed for his racial animosities--he is only reacting to four hundred years of the conscious racism of the American whites. But as racism leads America up the suicide path, I do believe, from the experiences that I have had with them, that the whites of the younger generation, in the colleges and universities, will see the handwriting on the walls and many of them will turn to the spiritual path of truth--the only way left to America to ward off the disaster that racism inevitably must lead to.

Never have I been so highly honored. Never have I been made to feel more humble and unworthy. Who would believe the blessings that have been heaped upon an American Negro? A few nights ago, a man who would be called in America a 'white' man, a United Nations diplomat, an ambassador, a companion of kings, gave me his hotel suite, his bed. ... Never would I have even thought of dreaming that I would ever be a recipient of such honors--honors that in America would be bestowed upon a King--not a Negro.

All praise is due to Allah, the Lord of all the Worlds.

Sincerely,

El-Hajj Malik El-Shabazz"

Semasa beliau berada di bumi Makkah, beliau telah pun menukar nama buat kali kedua dari Malcolm X kepada Malik El-Shabazz. Beliau secara terang - terangan mengatakan beliau keluar dari Nation Of Islam dan menyertai Islam Ahlul Sunnah Wal Jamaah.


Deklarasi memeluk Islam Yang Sebenar (keluar dari Nation Of Islam)

Akibat daripada kenyataan itu, permusuhan antara beliau dan Elijah Muhammad semakin tinggi. Elijah Muhammad yang tidak menerima Malik El-Shabazz telah mengatakan untuk menyelesaikan masalah perkauman yang cukup tinggi di Amerika ketika itu hanyalah kembali kepada Islam yang sebenar dan bukannya kepada semangat perkauman yang tinggi. Kenyataan itu juga telah menyebabkan Elijah Muhammad pernah mengatakan manusia yang hipokrit seperti Malik harus dipotong kepalanya.

Akhir Hayatnya

Pada 21 February 1965 ketika Malik El-Shabazz sedang memberi ucapan di Manhattan's Audubon Ballroom untuk Organization of Afro-American Unity, satu kekecohan telah berlaku dan muncul dua orang lelaki telah menembak kearah beliau sebanyak 16 das tembakan. Malik El-Shabazz telah diisytiharkan meninggal dunia sejurus tiba di hospital.


Tempat dimana beliau ditembak

Ideologi Malik El-Shabazz (Malcolm X)

Ideologi perjuangan Malik El-Shabazz sememangnya Islam, tapi beliau juga mempunyai ideologi perjuagan yang cukup menarik. Sila klik di sini. Para pembaca sekalian dapat melihat betapa tebalnya sikap anti - imperialisma beliau dan beliau secara terang - terangan menentang penjajahan yang dilakukan oleh kerajaan Amerika sendiri waktu itu.

Perjuangan beliau keatas orang kulit hitam pada waktu itu sangat jelas. Orang kulit hitam pada waktu itu ditindas habis - habisan oleh orang kulit putih. Tapi dalam masa yang sama menegaskan untuk menyelesaikan masalah perkauman, Islam saja jalannya.

Malik El-Shabazz juga mempunyai pendirian yang jelas mengenai Zionism. Beliau secara terang - terangan mengatakan gerakan Zionis merupakan gerakan penjajahan yang dilakukan oleh mereka yang tamak dan rakuskan kuasa.

Kesimpulan

Mungkin penulisan mengenai Malik El-Shabazz atau Malcolm X tidak lengkap. Tapi tujuan saya menulis peribadi dan perjuangan beliau adalah supaya kita umat Islam yang berbangsa Melayu mempunyai perjuangan seperti beliau. Ya memperjuangkan hak Melayu tapi dalam masa yang sama hak - hak kaum lain tidak ditindas.

Malik El-Shabazz atau Malcolm X telah pun memberi contoh yang terbaik buat kita orang Melayu. Perjuangan untuk memartabatkan bangsa Melayu tidak menjadi masalah tapi membantu kaum - kaum lain juga harus sama dibantu. Malcolm X boleh berubah dari manusia yang tebal perkaumannya kepada manusia yang tidak tebal perkaumannya, kenapa kita tidak boleh.

Malaysia ini milik semua kaum. Bukan milik Melayu, Cina India Iban dan lain - lain. Kita sebagai Muslim harus ada sifat sayangkan semua kaum selagi mana mereka tidak menghina Islam.



Tontoni Video ini..dan buat anak muda..contohi semangat Malik El-Shabazz..

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