Why Islam is my choice — Page 121
121 identity is concerned, prior to accepting Isl ā m, you had an identity imposed on you—something that you could not necessarily understand the root of, or even if you tried to trace it back, you would go as far amongst inclusion in a list of items belonging to the slaves’ owner, and that would be the best you could do. But accepting Isl ā m gave you an identity, or at least brought you closer to something that was attached to something. R: Yes, but let me explain Isl ā mic identity: the way it works. When Isl ā m gives you an identity, the first thing it does is, it attaches you to the other Muslims, because usually, Muslims pick names, or they choose names for themselves, or parents choose names for their children that are attributes of God. And when you receive one of those names, you have an attribute already attached to yourself. That attribute not only gives you an identity, it also gives you an objective in life. And these things are unheard of in Christianity. So, I feel that the ultimate, or the basic reason for Isl ā m coming to the United States, was the basic reason for it to solve this African Br. Ra ḥ mat Jam ā l (left) delivering a speech at a West Coast annual convention in San Francisco and (right) taking notes.