X pt. 3

Elijah Muhammad is considered to be a descendent of Allah, the Muslim God. In the Jewish religion, we don't necessarily have a descendent like that to look up to. We do however, have rabbis,  just as Malcolm has Muhammad. It's really great to have a religious figure like Muhammad, rabbis, priests, or ministers to look up to. It makes you feel like you're that much closer to god, and he's really not that far away. Instead of praying and believing that god is really there, we have these tangible human beings to go to for help. The only difference between the rabbis in my religion and Muhammad in the Muslim religion is that I don't fear my rabbi. Although I don't go to him for personal problems, or issues with guys, or conflicts in my household, I feel like if I really really needed to, I could. Malcolm X fears Elijah Muhammad. It's like he doesn't look to him a descendent of god, but as god himself. "My adoration of Mr. Muhammad grew, in the sense of the Latin root word adorare. It meant much more than our 'adoration' or 'adore.' It means that my worship of him was so awesome that he was the.  first man whom I had ever feared-not fear such as of a man with a gun, but the fear such as one has the power of the sun" (Haley 216).