THE MUSLIM JESUS Peace Be Upon Him

Dawah Monthly www.DawahMonthly.com • August 2013 FREE Take One FREE THE MUSLIM JESUS Peace Be Upon Him Also Inside: Islam in America: During the Slavery Years, During the Civil Rights Era And Today Also Inside: TheThe FemaleSahabiyat Companions Great Women of Islam Visit Us Online: www.DawahMonthly.com Who is...? Islam in America During the Slavery Years DR. ABU AMEENAH Muslims have been part of American history --Sali-Bul Ali was a slave on a plantation. BILAL PHILIPS since pre-Columbus times. Indeed, early His owner James Cooper wrote: “He is a strict -- was born in Kingston, Jamaica, and explorers used maps that were derived from Mahometan (sic); abstains from spirituous grew up in Toronto, where he converted the work of Muslims, with their advanced liquors, and keeps various fasts, particularly to Islam in 1972. His whole life has been geographical and navigational that of the Ramadan...” exemplified by his goal of seeking and information of the time. -- Lamen Kebe conveying Islamic knowledge in order to Some scholars estimate that was a slave who used to be “Change Nation through Education.” 10-20 percent of the slaves a school teacher in Africa. In 1994 he founded the first Islamic He shared information Information Center in Dubai. He has brought over from Africa were about the texts and teaching served as the head of the Department of Muslims. The film “Amistad” Arabic and Islamic Studies at Preston alluded to this fact, portraying methods used in the Islamic University-Ajman, UAE; lecturer and Muslims aboard this slave schools of his country. director of the Da’wah and Education vessel trying to perform their -- Abdul Rahman at Qatar Guest Center, Doha, Qatar; prayers, while chained together Ibrahim Sori spent 40 founder and head of the English on deck as they crossed the years in slavery before he medium Islamic studies department of Atlantic. Personal narratives returned to Africa to die. He www.ShareIslam.com Knowledge International University, and histories are harder to wrote two autobiographies, Riyadh; founder and head of the find, but some stories have and signed a charcoal sketch Muslims, too, await the second coming College of Da’wah and Islamic Culture of Jesus. They consider him one of the been passed on from reliable of himself by Henry Inman, (English Section) at Omdurman Islamic Omar Ibn Said which was featured on greatest of God’s prophets to mankind. University, Sudan; founder and head of sources: the cover of “Freedman’s Journal” and is on Preston International University College -- Omar Ibn Said (ca. 1770-1864) was born in Chennai, India; and founder and Dean in the Muslim state of Futa Toro in Western display in the Library of Congress. Many of the Muslim slaves were encouraged “Where is God?” of the Islamic Studies Academy in Doha, Africa, in present-day Senegal. He was a Qatar. or forced to convert to Christianity. Many of Some religions teach that “God is Muslim scholar and trader who was captured But perhaps his greatest achievement, the first-generation slaves retained much everywhere.” This is actually called and the one for which he was listed in and enslaved. He arrived in South Carolina in of their Muslim identity, but under the “pantheism” and it is the opposite of the Jordanian publication, “The 500 1807, and was sold to James Owen of North harsh slavery conditions this identity was our belief system in Islam. God tells us Most Influential Muslims,” is the Carolina. largely lost to later generations. (cont’d pg.4) historic founding of the Islamic Online clearly that there is nothing, anywhere “If God created everything - in the universe that resembles Him, nor University which in only 5 years has over 80,000 students registered from is He ever in His creation. He tells us in every country on the face of this earth! Then who created God?” the Quran that He created the universe Unlike the other educational programs According to the Quran, God tells us in six days (the length of these days is he has founded and overseen over the that He is the only creator and sustainer unknown) and then He rose up, above years, IOU makes it possible for any of all that exists and that nothing and no His Throne. He is there (above His person from any location in the world to one exists alongside Him, nor does He receive an Islamic education absolutely have any partners. He tells us that He is Throne) and will remain there until the free. not created, nor is He like His creation in End Times. IOU was launched in 2007 with a anyway. He calls Himself by a number of free diploma program in Islamic Studies names and three of them are: and introduced its fully accredited A) The First - (Al-Awal) www.TheDeenShow.com tuition-free Bachelor’s program (BAIS) B) The Last - (Al Akhir) in 2010. Plans are currently being made C) The Eternal, who is sought after Please Support Future Issues for a Master’s program (MAIS) for 2013. by His creation, while He has no need of Dawah Monthly Dr. Bilal has served as IOU’s chancellor from them at all. (As-Samad) NOTE: The English word “god” did not exist until by Visiting: from the beginning. He always has existed and He never was 1066 AD after the Norman invasion of the Saxxons. created, as He is not like His creation, nor Therefore, the most appropriate word for “Almighty, www.DawahMonthly.com similar to it, in any way. The Most High God” should be “Allah.” Dawah Monthly Magazine 2 August 2013 Dawah Monthly Magazine 3 August 2013 Islam in America During the Civil Rights Era n the Qur’an, God commands the Crucifixion of Jesus Christ believers to accept, as part of their The Biblical stories reproduced in Most people, when they think of Among the reasons why African-Americans have been and continue to be drawn to Islam faith, the divine word revealed to Qur’an (e.g., Job, Moses, Joseph etc.) and African-American Muslims, think of the are 1) the Islamic heritage of West Africa from IProphet Moses, known as the Torah; to the episodes relating to the history of the “Nation of Islam.” Certainly, there is an where many of their ancestors had come; and Prophet David in the original Psalms; beginning of Muhammad’s Prophethood historical importance to how Islam took 2) the absence of racism in Islam in contrast and to Jesus in the original Gospel. All demonstrate that it is “God’s practice” to hold among African-Americans, but to the brutal and racist enslavement they had Muslims are obliged to believe in all make faith triumph over the forces of evil we will see how this initial introduction endured. In the early 1900s, a few black leaders of the revealed scriptures. However, and adversity. transformed in modern times. strived to help the recently-freed African as stated in the Qur’an, all scriptures “So truly with hardship comes ease.” slaves regain a sense of self-esteem and revealed before the Qur’an have not For Jesus to die on the cross would have reclaim their heritage. Noble Drew Ali started remained as they were revealed. People a black nationalist community, the Moorish meant the triumph of his executioners; but Science Temple, in New Jersey in 1913. After changed parts of them to suit their own the Quran asserts that they undoubtedly his death, some of his followers turned to desires. failed: “Assuredly God will defend those Wallace Fard, who founded the Lost-Found “Woe to those who write the who believe”; He confounds the plots of Nation of Islam in Detroit in 1930. Fard was scripture with their own hands and the enemies of Christ. a mysterious figure who declared that Islam is then say; “This is from Allah,” to “Indeed, we have killed the Messiah, the natural religion for Africans, but did not emphasize the orthodox teachings of the faith. purchase with it (worldly gain) at a Jesus, the son of Mary, the messenger Instead, he preached black nationalism, with a cheap price. Woe to them for what of Allah .” And they did not kill him, revisionist mythology explaining the historical their hands have written and woe to nor did they crucify him; but [another] oppression of the black people. Many of his them for what they earned by doing was made to resemble him to them. teachings directly contradicted the true faith of it.” Quran 2:79 And indeed, those who differ over it Islam. are in doubt about it. They have no In 1934, Fard disappeared and Elijah Furthermore, in the Old Testament, knowledge of it except the following of Muhammed took over the leadership of the God is quoted in Jeremiah 8:8 as saying, assumption. And they did not kill him, Nation of Islam. Fard became a “Savior” figure, “How can you say, ‘We are wise, and the for certain. Rather, Allah raised him to and followers believed that he was Allah in law is with us;? But, behold, the false pen Himself. And ever is Allah Exalted in the flesh on earth. The poverty and racism of the scribes has made it into a lie.” Might and Wise.” rampant in the urban northern states made his message about black superiority and -- Qur’aan 4:157-158 “white devils” more widely accepted. His “If there is only one God, then why are there so many religions? follower Malcolm X became a public figure during the 1960s, although he God does not force anyone to submit to to believe at all, for them there is an eternal separated himself from the Nation of Him.

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