The Five Pillars: Hajj

• Pilgrimage.
• Obligatory only to those who can afford it.
• The pilgrims discard their street clothes and wear two sheets of white cloth symbolizing equality of mankind.
• All of the differences of class and wealth are eliminated.
• It is moving example of the brotherhood of all mankind.
• “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.” Malcolm X