Book Study, The Autobiograp[hy of Malcolm X, Alex Haley

One of the most compelling stories I've ever read.

The blessed—the god fearing, the humble, the charitable, those who have suffered and been persecuted for Allah’s sake or fought in religious wars for Islam—are summoned to the Garden of Paradise.
“There, according to the teaching of Mohammed, the Prophet, they live forever by flowing streams, reclining on silken cushions, and enjoying the company of dark-eyed maidens and wives of perfect purity.
“The damned—the covetous, the evildoer, the follower of gods other than Allah—are sent to Eternal Fire, where they are fed boiling water and molten brass. ‘The death from which ye flee will truly overtake you,’ the Koran says. ‘Then will ye be sent back to the knower of things secret and open, and He will tell you the truth of that ye did.”
After signing the contract for this book, Malcolm X looked at me hard. “A writer is what I want, not an interpreter.” I tried to be a dispassionate chronicler. But he was the most electric personality I have ever met, and I still can’t conceive of him dead. It still feels to me as if he has just gone into some next chapter, to be written by historians. New York, 1965

93 pages, 44,135 words, visuals