Why Islam is my choice — Page 117
117 was so impressed with his knowledge and his understanding—how he explained Isl ā m as opposed to Christianity, and the human dignity that Isl ā m recognized in people that Christianity failed to recognize in people because Christianity (as I found out later) could never have all these things because Christianity wasn’t sent to do this job. But Isl ā m was sent to do this particular job—to teach people how to live, to teach people from different nations, different colors, different parts of the world to develop a system and how people can live in that [system], and he was explaining that to me. You’re never going to find that in Christianity, that’s what the problem was. W: If I can summarize, you’re saying that, essentially, all of the information on Isl ā m began to increase openly and widely subsequent to the arrival in the United States of Ḥ a ḍ rat Muft ī Mu ḥ ammad Ṣā diq Ṣāḥ ib. R: Yes, I would say that, that’s correct, that’s correct, yes. W: You came here in 1921, why is it that although Muslims were here, really nothing was talked about, preached about openly? R: No, no. W: … I now want to turn to what happened after you Pioneer American A ḥ madi Muslim, Br Ra ḥ mat Jam ā l, at home.