ABU TARIQ HIJAZI ARABNEWS
Friday 14 September 2012
Hawaii is the dreamland for holidaymakers. Annually thousands of tourists spend their winter in the comfortable climate of Hawaii which is like an earthen pot lying in the heart of Pacific Ocean. It is 2,300 miles from the US coast and 3,400 miles from the Asian coast of Japan.
In 1820 the first American missionaries came to preach Christianity and teach the Hawaiians Western ways. They succeeded converting many natives to Christianity. Now, there are thousands of Muslims living in Hawaii.
Muslims in Hawaii are like a rainbow presenting various colors in one arch. Muslims from the Uighurs of China to the Touareq of Mauritania, to the Aloha people of Hawaii, all merged into one community. Islam transcends the superficial boundaries of nationality. This is demonstrated in Haj every year where an Indonesian Muslim prays next to the British, American, Spanish, Iranian, and South African Muslims. Muslim men and women of different backgrounds, races and cultures pray next to each other in peace throughout the year facing the Holy Kaaba in Makkah.
A group of non-Muslim visitors recorded their observation during a Friday visit to the Hawaii mosque, they said: “The mood was light as men and women gathered outside, lining the edges of a rug to hear a Moroccan immigrant and his Oahu-born wife, Janine, repeat vows of Nikah. ‘Islamic marriage is to be a comfort for the couple. … You should be the source of mercy for each other,’ the imam told them.”
The small crowd that day represented the multinational Muslim community in Hawaii – from Pakistani and Arab professionals to American-born converts and recent immigrants from Palestine and Iraq. The mosque serves as a social center for all of them. About 200 men attend the Friday prayers. There were nearly 700 people at the Eid prayers.
Muslims of Hawaii form a vibrant society. The mosque arranges various program for Muslims and awareness programs for non-Muslims.
Categories: Americas, United States
Really an interesting, informative and inspiring posting about Hawaii along with the photo of the mosque filled with worshiping followers of Islam, bowing their heads before God Almighty, in the direction of the Holy Khana-e-Kaaba of Makka Mukarrama, AlhadolillaheyRabbilAlameen.It is a very fascinating aspect of this faith-inspiring beautiful Mosque scene of Hawaii, when said about it that the Muslims of Hawaii, constitute one Community, composed of people of different colors, cloths, cultures and languages all look,like the Rainbow of so many attractive colors in the sky-high, Arch.Here as one belonging to the Jamaat-e-Masih-e-Muhammadi,Peace and blessings of God be upon him,I entertain a wish and pray for it that the most impressive color of such an attractive ‘Arch’ of Muslim Community of Hawaii, should have been contributed by the active, practical members of the Ahmadiyya Muslim Community, who are divinely designed and shaped to serve whole mankind as a role model Muslims, under the direct guidance of the ‘Qudrat-e-Sania’ of Khilafat-e-Haqqae Islam-e-Ahmadiyyat, presently in the person of Hadhrat Mirza Masroor Ahmad Sahib, titled as Khalifatul Masih, Al-khamis (aba), and hereby we all hope and pray for the health and long life for his Holiness so that he continues to serve the whole mankind on the right path, called ‘SirateMustaqeem, for a long time to come, InshaAllah. Ameen.