Islam improves and enhances the culture within a nation and improves the lives of citizens, especially the women. Islam brings balance and order to societies. In the history of humankind, there is a tendency toward unfairness and subjugation of women. In Islam, we know this is wrong.
In Islam kindness, empathy, compassion, and obedience to Allah are related to respect. The seventh month on the Islamic calendar, which is called Rajab in Arabic, comes from a word that literally means “to respect”.
“And let there be among you a people inviting to the good and enjoining the right and forbidding from the wrong. And those, they are the successful ones”
The service component of the MLK Jr. Day federal holiday is often overlooked. For far too many Americans, it is simply a day off work or out of school. But the significance of the “service” that Americans are encouraged to do on that day should be understood and valued.