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American boxer, Three times World Heavyweight Champion, embraced
Islam in 1965. "I have had many nice moments in my life. But the
feelings I had while standing on Mount Arafat (just outside
Makka, Saudi Arabia) on the day of the Hajj (the Muslim
pilgrimage), was the most unique. I felt exalted by the
indescribable spiritual atmosphere there as over one and a half
million pilgrims invoked God to forgive them for their sins and
bestow on them His choicest blessings. It was an exhilarating
experience to see people belonging to different colours, races
and nationalities, kings, heads of state and ordinary men from
very poor countries all clad in two simple white sheets praying
to God without any sense of either pride or inferiority. It was
a practical manifestation of the concept of equality in Islam."
One of the first public figures in America to be identified with
Islam was boxer Muhammad Ali, to whom more media attention has
been given than to any other