This Deen Was Never Meant to Be Monochrome

An opening of remembrance

Islam is not a color.
It is a source.

And everything that flows from a true source
carries coherence, intelligence, and multiplicity
without ever losing its origin.

Allah ﷻ created us from the same clay
yet He chose that clay to carry many colors.

Light earth and dark earth.
Red soil and pale sand.
Different textures, one beginning.

This was not randomness.
It was vision.

“And among His signs is the creation of the heavens and the earth,
and the diversity of your languages and your colors.
Indeed in that are signs for those who know.”

Qur’an, Surah Ar-Rum (30) verse 22

Difference, in Islam, is not tolerated.
It is revealed.

Languages are not barriers.
Colors are not hierarchy.
They are āyāt, signs embedded in creation
for those who know how to read the world.

Islam Is the Most Visionary Blueprint Ever Revealed

Long before modernity spoke of diversity, systems, ethics, sustainability, or coexistence,
Islam articulated a complete blueprint:

  • unity without uniformity
  • universality without erasure
  • order without oppression
  • beauty without excess

Nothing essential has been invented since.
At best, it has been rediscovered
often without knowing its source.

Islam did not react to the world.
It prefigured it.

From day one, it carried a civilizational vision
capable of crossing continents, cultures, and centuries
without collapsing into chaos or rigidity.

This is why Islam did not break when it traveled.
It rooted.

Look at the Ummah.

From the same clay,
Allah ﷻ raised peoples of different colors,
speaking different languages,
living under different skies.

Yet they stand equal before Him.
No skin elevated.
No origin privileged.
No culture superior.

Only taqwā.

This is not a political statement.
It is a metaphysical one.

Before Allah ﷻ,
we are not measured by appearance
but by orientation.

To flatten Islam into one image
is not to preserve it.
It is to misunderstand its architecture.

Islam was never meant to be monochrome
because creation itself is not.

Unity, in Islam, is not sameness.
It is alignment toward the same truth.

Allahu Akbar.
Allahu Akbar.
Allahu Akbar.

Allah ﷻ is greater
than borders,
greater than race,
greater than the limits we try to impose on revelation.

La ilaha illallah.

There is no deity but Allah ﷻ
and everything in existence, in all its diversity,
exists to remind us of that fact.

The Ummah is not fragmented.
It is vast by design.

And remembering this
is not nostalgia.

It is power.

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