Adnan Rashid – The History of African Muslim Slaves in America

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			Okay, on the lower status symbol. So today, we are going to be speaking about Muslim slaves in
America, that there were Muslims who were kidnapped who were enslaved from Africa. And places like
West Africa in particular, and taken across to America. And their struggles, their life is something
which is sadly pretty much lost in history. So this is something that inshallah we want to
highlight. And this will be a source of inspiration for many, many people. So I'd known
		

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			brother and sisters. Thank you so much for being patient with us. We had some technical glitches.
Now we are back on course. And I thank you, brother Seville for inviting me to address this
important topic, often neglected and understudied.
		

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			So often, very much under appreciated topic, and understudied. And the topic is, Muslims in America,
in general, Muslims in America, and African Muslims in particular, in America, we are dealing with
African Muslims today, in particular, Muslims who came from Africa, right? If you look at Muslims in
America, that's a very wide history that deals with a lot of people from different places, coming to
America in different times. And it starts with the very discovery of America. As far as the
Europeans are concerned. We know Christopher Columbus landed on America or at America, right? In
1492. And thenceforth, a lot of Muslims from Islamic Spain, who were later on called moriscos, also
		

			came to the to the Americas. And there are histories written about them. So the Muslim existence in
America is as early as America itself, okay, or the discovery of America itself. But today, we are
going to talk about the Atlantic slave trade, which caused hundreds of 1000s of Muslims to be
kidnapped from from Africa, and we're taken across the Atlantic Ocean to the Americas. When I say
the Americas, I mean, North America, Central America and South America. So all of these regions were
basically filled with Muslims, who came from predominantly West Africa. Now the question is, what
were these African Muslims doing in America? How did they end up there? They were actually kidnapped
		

			as I as I stated earlier, Atlantic slave trade was basically one of the most barbaric episodes in
human history. Okay, it started somewhere around in the mid
		

			15th century, let's say 1450s. And it continued for another 400 years until 1850s, until it was
completely abolished and outlawed, and made illegal by Western nations that were indulging in it for
over 100 years. So there were Dutch merchants, there were Portuguese merchants or merchant ships,
there was a lot of mercantile activity throughout the Atlantic Ocean. And after the discovery of
Americas,
		

			there was labor needed to basically take advantage of the land that was newly discovered. The Native
Americans proved to be poor labor, according to the settlers at the time. So they needed stocky, big
men who are willing to work and they will be made to work. So Africans came to mind to some of these
European adventures, so they found a solution to it. So what they did was they would come from
Europe to West Africa, they would buy slave in large numbers, they would, they would park ships with
the slaves, right? slaves were very often victims of wars. They had become capitals of wars, or
sometimes they were simply kidnapped from their homes. So because slave slave trade started, the
		

			Europeans became very interested in slave trade in buying slaves. Some of the Africans, they started
to feed this demand of slaves by kidnapping the African brothers and sisters. So this is a reality
that cannot be denied. Although
		

			Some people do try to deny this. But at the end of the day, it was the Europeans who were feeding
the slave trade. So a lot of these people were kidnapped. Throughout these four centuries, I
mentioned from 1415 to 1850s, right?
		

			And hundreds of 1000s of people, there are estimates, that minimum, at least 12 million people were
taken from Africa, within these four centuries, and at least a million of them, at least a million
of those 12 million people were Muslims. Okay. So the numbers, of course, our conservative numbers
may be as high as 100 million people 100 million humans, kidnapped, bought as slaves by the
Europeans, predominantly and shipped across the Atlantic Ocean to the Americas and put into slavery
in North America, in Central America, and in South America. Right. So this is a summary. This is a
this is an introduction to the problem we are going to be talking about today. The question that how
		

			did the Muslim African Muslims end up in the Americas in the first place? So this is the answer.
Atlantic slave trade, there was a * triangle. * triangle is very well known to those who
study the history of Atlantic slave trade.
		

			Basically, what was this right triangle
		

			ships would start their journey from Liverpool, they would come to West Africa. And they would sell
commodities to Africans and in return, they would buy slaves in large numbers in 1000s. And they
would pack the ships with the slaves, sometimes putting them in spaces as large as six by two, if
not, six by three, six feet by two feet, basically as as much space as needed for a human being to
fit in. So they would be lying in this position in chains, often being injured by shackles put on
them often being, you know, Fred, in that position of often even relieving themselves in that
position. So the stench would be completely unbearable, because these humans would be kept in this
		

			position for weeks before they would be let out to go on the deck and relax their muscles for a
while. And they will be washed with seawater, and they would be put back into the dungeon into the
basement of ships. So the picture is absolutely horrendous. When you actually read histories. You
don't you don't understand how humans can do this to other humans, right. And this was happening for
400 years, people talk about the Holocaust. We will talk about the massacres and the genocides that
took place in the 20th century and the 21st century. But people often forget one of the greatest
genocides in human history. I repeat, one of the greatest genocides one of the most cruel and
		

			barbaric genocides in human history, was called the Atlantic slave trade,
		

			completely funded, facilitated, and run by European powers. In particular, European colonial powers
Portuguese, the British, the Dutch, the French, were all at it. They were buying slaves from West
Africa, human called they call they called the slave human cargo, they call them cargo, they were
cargo, they would be insured. And they would be dumped into the sea very often.
		

			Basically, for for claiming insurance, right, that would be insured. And when some of these slaves
got sick, when they got injured, the bones got broken because of the shackles they were in, they
would be thrown into the sea. And then these merchants would claim insurance on the part of the
slaves.
		

			So * triangle was basically ships would start from Liverpool, they would come to West African
countries like Sierra Leone, Ghana, or, you know, Guinea, for example, Senegal, these are the
countries that were buying slaves from predominantly. So they would buy slaves, and they would sell
commodities brought from Britain, and then these slaves would be shipped across the Atlantic. The
slaves, then would they would be then sold to American buyers, who would be willing to pay handsome
money for these Taki big men coming or women of course, coming from West Africa, healthy people, and
they would be put to plantations and other work, basically into agriculture. And a lot of these
		

			slaves were killed within four years, okay, the average was average life of men would be four years,
they will die within four years worked to death in sugar plantations, because the work load was
very, very, very hot. So this is a summary of what was happening in the 400 years.
		

			From 1415 to 1850s. Now throughout this period, many Muslim Africans, some of them scholars, learned
men, people who had studied classical texts of Islam, in proper institutions, some of them even
royalty, princes were kidnapped, as they were captured in wars between African states and African
		

			principalities, they would be captured, and then they would be sold. In spite of the status within
Africa, they would be sold to these European slavers. And there are few exam examples, we will we
will be discussing a new course. So at least a million of these if the number is probably a million,
if it's not 100, maybe custom scholars, they claim the number is anywhere between 12 million human
beings to 100 million human human beings it can be the numbers can be anywhere between 12 million to
100 million human beings, okay. And at least 10% of these slaves, at least, if not more, some say
even 30%. Right? At least 10% of these slaves are or people who were captured from Africa kidnapped
		

			from Africa, they were Muslims, practicing Muslims, and we find the evidence and whatever remains in
the form of their clothing, the form of their writings, the manuscripts they have left behind, and
it can be found in American museums, and private collections, and some of the museums even in
southern Africa, suffering in South America, and Central America. So one book we strongly recommend
for everyone before we begin, this is a book we only recommend for everyone to read. Those of you
watching this live feed, please go and buy this book or get your hands on this book. This is the
book that documents the history. I am narrating in a very, very short video. What is the book
		

			brother Samuel, can you can you show it to our viewers?
		

			Okay, this is the book. The book is titled, servants of Allah, servants of Allah. And we will talk
about the man who is depicted on the cover there. Okay, his name is job, Ben Solomon, and the author
of this book is sylviane ed off. So if you bring the book closer with the support, so that people
can actually read the name of the author. Okay, Sylvia sylviane. Okay. He saw an ad off Sylvian ad
off is an author from America from the US. She has written this excellent, amazing book, titled
servants of Alliance he documents the history of Muslim slaves who were kidnapped from Africa and
taken across the Atlantic. Let's start with the person who is depicted on the cover. They're the
		

			most
		

			famous or the most recognized face of Islam in America are one of the most recognizes faces of Islam
in America. This man was a YouTube min Suleiman Diallo. Okay, are you Ben's film on the auto or also
known as job Ben Solomon, job, Ben Solomon, in
		

			the American history, okay. He was from Senegal, current day Senegal. And he was a scholar of Islam.
He was a young man kidnapped in 1730s, early 1730s and taken across the Atlantic and sold into
slavery when he was caught and sold into slavery. His buyer was a certain Captain Pike. And this
Captain Pike was told by Solomon Are you been Solomon that his father can pay
		

			handsome money for this?
		

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			basically, a huge Solomon. They all made the most of his,
		

			you know, made the most of his literacy. He was illiterate man. He was a very, very literate man. He
was a learned man. He was a prince. He was given a high quality of education by his father who
happened to be a king of his principality. And,
		

			uh, you Bill Solomon was caught by some of his adversaries, and he was sold to this Captain called
Steven pike. Okay, who was the captain of a ship called Arabella Okay, for Diablo offered pike money
in return for his freedom. The other two told pike Captain Pike that my father can pay handsomely
for my freedom. So,
		

			pike agreed and Solomon a messenger to his father to pay the money but by the time they came back to
free him, Arabella had already left the port. Right. So as a consequence a you been Soloman was sold
to an American
		

			Master. And then later on, he wrote a letter in Arabic to his father, from America from Maryland, he
was sold in to a plantation in current day Maryland. In America. He wrote this letter to his father,
asking him to release him or free him from this slavery. And the letter was given to another slave
trader, so that the letter can come to Captain Pike, who can take the letter back to Senegal and
somehow get the letter to the father of Solomon, when you have the letter, never made it to,
unfortunately, Africa, but it made to London made it to London. So in London, when the letter was
discovered, it was read. And people who read the letter became very intrigued and cut the long story
		

			short,
		

			are you mean, Solomon was freed from slavery from these scholars in London who had come to read his
letter, and they were impressed by his Arabic skills? And they knew this is not just a common slave
is a learned man, he's a scholar, and a you been Solomon was bought from his owner or his master in
America, and he was brought to London, or you lived in London, for nearly, you know, a two to three
years. And he was frequenting the streets of London. He was a celebrity or known celebrity in
London, he met the royal family, he spent time with them, and he even helped
		

			sir Hans Sloane, sir Hans Sloane, whose private collection was the foundation of the British Museum,
the British Library and the Natural History Museum. Solomon helped him translate some of the Arabic
documents in his possession. Solomon been a you became a celebrity, overnight in London, and he
wrote three copies of the Quran from memory while he was in London. So if you look at, if you look
at, if you look at his picture, again, on the cover of the book, Solomon been a you you see a copy
of the Quran in his neck, if you raise Yeah, you can see a copy hanging from his neck, he was
wearing this copy of the Quran he had written in his own hand from memory. So from his memory to the
		

			man, when are you having being sold into slavery, then freed by some scholars in London and brought
to London, and then was put to translating some Arabic manuscripts in the British Library collection
and later on, freed, of course, and he was free to go back to his home. In 1734, he did return and
found nothing much left behind. Unfortunately, his father was killed in war, he was told and his
wife was missing, his entire family was displaced. And these were chaotic times in Africa at the
time, because of primarily because of this evil slave trade. It was causing a lot of disturbance
within West African territory. Because a lot of these raids were taking place a lot of people were
		

			fighting was to acquire slaves to accumulate a huge number of slaves so that they can sell it and
become rich.
		

			So this is a brief story of Solomon been a YouTube I haven't done justice to his.
		

			His history, there is a book that has been published by Oxford University University Press. It is
titled of fortunate slave. The book is titled The fortunate slave. It is a biography of Solomon
being a YouTube, please get your hands on that book. And you can get more details about Philemon and
his whereabouts in the UK, in London. And when he was walking around the streets of London, wearing
his turban and Islamic attire, and he became a celebrity. So people will think that Muslims just
turned up in the Americas, in the 60s in the 70s. And likewise, in the in, in the British Isles,
they are mistaken. Muslims have had a very positive
		

			long term presence on the British, political, literary and intellectual landscape. I repeat, the
Muslims have had a very, very long lasting legacy in Britain, when it comes to literature,
		

			literacy, and other contributions, right. And likewise, in America, as soon as America was
discovered, the Muslims were there from the very big beginning in the very foundations of the
American civilization. And I am planning a lecture in the future where I will talk about Islam and
America just like I've talked about Islam and Britain. You can find this lecture on my YouTube
channel. I will be doing another lecture Islam and America and I'll be talking about the slaves and
how they made a difference. So there are other examples, but there's a book while I'm going on, do
you want to say something you want to do you want to clarify something? No.
		

			But I did want to just highlight that I have the same reaction as many people in the audience which
is just out of sheer astonishment at, you know, the I mean, a West African Prince in slaved, who
goes on to the UK, and actually then mingles with the higher
		

			aspects of society. And, you know, this is something unbelievable when you think about it, this is
what the 18th century, right.
		

			And he and he wrote the Quran from memory three times. So you know, this is really incredible. And
one of the things I just wanted to highlight is for many of our American brothers are many of the
people in the black community, we know that they convert to Islam in large numbers compared to other
people in America. And this is something which will be a source of inspiration for them, that their
blood is probably from places in Africa that were predominantly Muslim, or non. This is also
something which I just want to ask you that, you know, from the slavery perspective.
		

			We want to cover this topic again. But I did want to ask yourself a very basic question about they
treated slaves as pure human cargo. So it was not just about, you know, okay, we're going to keep
them in this particular way. This one, we're going to get insurance off because there's arms broken,
but West Africans are known. I mean, you've traveled all over Africa for the last decade. So maybe,
maybe you can correct me if I'm wrong. But from my understanding West Africa, which is predominantly
Muslim, are is the place with the largest body, the people with the largest frames with the with the
biggest heights. So for example, Senegal, Nigeria, we went to Nigeria together, the people were
		

			huge, right? So the women and the men are actually tall, compared to say, Malawi or other parts. So
is that why they were targeted? They were targeting that area because of the size of the people
there.
		

			Possibly, there's no doubt that the West Africans who were taken across the Atlantic were
		

			desired, very much desired because of the frames because of the physicality of physiology rather,
right? They were physically huge. You know, even if you look at West Africans today, like Fulani
people, the Mandingo people, for example, they were very, very much they were very, very much
desired. In America, because these these sugar plantations, they required strong men to work
		

			through those hard circumstances and conditions. And that's why imagine a 20 to 25 years old
Mandingo man, you know, maybe six and a half feet tall, very tough guy, a tough looking big, big
muscle person, he would be worked to death within four years. What could he possibly What could he
be possibly doing for him to die within four years is the question, right? So the average was about
the lifespan of these slaves was about four years, so they would have to be worked. And their money
would have to be worked basically out of them
		

			within these four years, so this is how these slave traders and sugar plantation owners, they
measured the value, the stronger the person, the stronger the slave, the higher the value. This is
why when they would see that some of them got injured on route to America. Some of them got injured
because of shackles, because of the space they were put in six by two. And obviously because of that
they got body sores, because they were crammed in very, very small spaces. And they were put on wood
they were they weren't put on mattresses or or some soft surface Rather, they would be lying on
wooden planks, right? And that would cause body sores and the body sores would be infected. And
		

			because of that, a lot of them got ill and they will be they will be thrown into the sea. There are
books written on this topic by the Atlantic slavery. You Thomas you Thomas is a very standard book
you can read the author called Hugh Thomas. He has written a book titled Atlantic slave trade read
it and you will see on the reality Um, there's another one I hold here, the slavery reader published
by the route, the route ledge. The route ledge press is a collection of articles excellent articles
on Atlantic slave trade. So you must study this topic to understand how cruel humans can become due
to greed and, and they aspirations you know, albeit misplaced, and very evil aspirations, but they
		

			can inflict extreme harm to other humans. If they don't follow any set moral value if they don't, if
they believe in God is not right, right. Because a lot of these people are Christians. All of these
		

			People were taking all these. I'm not saying Christianity causes as well, somehow Christianity did
not prevent this catastrophe of 400 years. This went on for 400 years. And most of the people
involved were Christians, right? Of course, even abolition. The abolition of slave trade was also,
you know, promoted by Christians later on people like William Wilberforce and john Newton, who
himself was
		

			a slaver once upon a time and he made repent, repentance, repented and even wrote a poem, titled
Amazing Grace, Amazing Grace at this point, john Newton, who basically repented and he became an
abolitionist. So there are both sides. But yeah, unfortunately, the 400 years It is unbelievable how
these, these catastrophes and cruelties went on. Moving on to some other characters we want to talk
about very quickly Muslims, African Muslims in America, there was another very interesting character
called Omar mainsite. Rice born in born in second Senegal, if you if you put his name in Google, you
will see his pictures the actual photograph, right? He was born in Senegal in 1770. And he was a
		

			well known character. In the summer of 1863 newspapers in North Carolina announced the death of
former mental Mr. He was called, he was called or he was known as uncle Mario, Uncle Mario, right.
And he was a practicing Muslim. He was struggling to practice his faith, even though he was thought
to have converted to Christianity, but he didn't convert great. He was given a Bible and some of
these Muslim slaves to navigate through the difficult circumstances they were facing. They they
pretended to become Christians, they pretended, right? They, they, they basically gave an impression
to the masters and the owners that okay, they are inclined to Christianity to make the lives easy.
		

			So Omar bin sola, sorry, Omar bin side is known for something similar. He was given a Bible, his
personal Bible is still preserved. It is in a collection in America. And on the very first page of
the Bible, there are Salawat upon the Prophet sallallahu sallam, no, can you imagine a Christian
reading a Bible? Right and writing Salawat upon the Prophet Muhammad Salallahu Salam. So what he was
trying to say is that, because those people couldn't read Arabic, he was writing in Arabic inside
his Bible Salawat upon the Prophet sallallahu sallam, so he was hiding his Muslim faith, okay, from
these Christian counterparts, so that he's not persecuted or brutalized by his master, and his
		

			neighbor. So there are many more examples like that. I mean, generally speaking, there are so many
testimonies.
		

			And so many accounts of African Muslims trying to survive as Muslims in these extremely hostile
circumstances, extremely hostile circumstances, and how they managed to do that.
		

			Sylveon ad off gives absolutely fascinating details and evidence in her book. In this regard. She
documents a lot of examples where Muslims are basically trying to pray. There are testimonies there
was there was basically
		

			a Muslim called bill Ali from Guinea. His name was Bill Ali, right. And he was from Guinea. And you
know, in America, he wrote a document
		

			that came from the one of the classical works from the 11th century. And that document was
originally authored by a tea museum scholar of Islam, Ibn Abu Zeid, Altai Ronnie. So Bill Ali, in
the US wrote a 13 page document, part of our work by the 10th century the museum aban, Abu Zubaydah,
Cara Juana, okay. It was written on paper produced in Italy, for the North African market, which
raises intriguing questions as to how he acquired it. It is possible that below he kept it with him,
he brought it with him or he might have written it himself. But this was a Muslim from Guinea, who
was copying classical works his classical Islamic works that are only known by scholars. This is not
		

			a lay man. This is a scholar in America, writing a classical text in Islam on 13 pages, right. And
the text comes from the 10th century from a scholar from Tunisia, Ibn Abu Zeid, altaira one, this is
an example, right? Also there are other examples of Muslims fasting, and these testimonies were
basically put down by other slaves, Christian slaves, were observing. The Muslims do all of this
right. There was another very famous slave who was walking the streets of Washington, DC. His name
was
		

			Yaro Mahmud, Yarrow Mahmud, or possibly Yarrow, Mohamoud, another highly visible Muslim, was taken
from Guinea in 1752, when he was about 16 years old after 44 years of slavery was freed and bought a
house in Washington, DC Mahmoud was a kind of celebrity who was often seen and heard in the streets,
singing praise of God and conversing with them. Right talking to God, maybe making the art to Allah.
Okay, often heard loud in the streets of Washington, DC. This is Yara Mahmoud, who was basically
taken from Guinea in 1752. Right as a 16 years old, and Islam never left him. This is a 16 years old
who was kidnapped when he was 16. He did not abandon Islam, despite despite all the preaching of
		

			Christianity, all the Christian preachers, masters and missionaries and clergy and going to
churches, and all of that did not convert him to Christianity, kidnapped as a 16 years old child,
still remain Muslim until his death. In fact, there are reports about him that he used to say, Do
not drink and do not eat Pog basically will tell
		

			people in Washington where he was living that don't drink alcohol is bad. And do not eat hog hog is
pig, swine meat. So in other words, he was even doing power in his little capacity. So your mood, or
your Mahmoud was doing Dawa in his little capacity in those extreme circumstances. This is the
legacy of Afro Americans. This is what Afro Americans need to look up to. This is what they need to
dig deeper. This is what they need to realize. This is why they need to realize why they are coming
to Islam in such large numbers, it is part of the DNA. Islam was the original religion, many of
them, not all, of course, hundreds of 1000s of your ancestors were African Muslims. So this Vicar
		

			you are making today having converted to Islam or having reverted to Islam rather, is not just from
a vacuum. It is possibly the eyes of your ancestors, the ones you descend from, they were making God
or Allah protect our faith, our Iman in these extreme hostile conditions and make our children
Muslims make our children Muslim. I am pretty sure some of these people made these doors. And that's
why so many Afro Americans are coming to Islam and drove in droves. You walk through the streets of
New York, you walk through the streets of other American cities, you will see black Africans, Afro
Americans, accepting Islam in large numbers. This is not just accidental, my brothers. This is the
		

			legacy of your predecessors, your ancestors, who were kidnapped in large numbers from Africa and
brought to America against the wishes against the desires. And despite all that, they were still
holding on to Islam. There is another example of a 14 years old, who was picked up from Africa, a 14
year old child. Okay, who was this? This is solly Malala. Okay.
		

			For example, abducted in Mali, when he was about 1460 years later, he was still a strict Muslim,
abstaining from liquors and keeping various fats, particularly that of Ramadan, wrote his owner,
James Hamilton Cooper, so he's owner, solid Pilates owner. Okay. There was a man called African man
taken from Mali. His name was solly ballari. taken as a 14 year old child, this is what I want you
to understand the veracity of these people. They they love for Islam, despite all the extraordinary
odds they were facing against them, right? Look at his love for Islam. This man was taken as a 14
years old. 60 years later, his master is writing, the one who owns him in America he's writing his
		

			name is James Hamilton Cooper, he writes that he is still a strict Muslim, abstaining from liquor
and fasting the month of Ramadan, taken as a 14 years old. This is the legacy of Afro Americans.
This is the history of America, Africa. And by the way, Muslim slaves were singled out or separated
from the rest of the African slaves. You know why? Because of the education Muslims had received in
West Africa. This was a very vibrant period in West Africa, as far as the spread of Islam is
concerned. A lot of these people because of being Muslims, they were taught how to read and write
and they went to seminaries they went to Medina is they went to universities in some cases. In the
		

			case of Bill Ali from Guinea, who wrote 10th century text from memory. Amazingly, what is the
		

			tell you is writing a memory not Quran, because Quran was written by many, many slaves, the Quran,
or you Bill Solomon was one example. But the Quran was written by many, many slaves from memory.
Okay. And later scholars are still surprised as to how many neurons I mean how many Koreans ended up
in America, because they were not allowed to carry books, they were naked, most of the slaves was
completely naked when they were taken. So they had written these currents from their memories in
America while they were slaves. Hello, my brother. This is what we have discussed with you today.
They're popping, they abstaining from pig meat, they abstain abstaining from liquor, their
		

			resistance to Christianity, and other evil influences they came across in America. Okay. And all
those things, basically, you know, this is fascinating. This is amazing, this story needs to be
told, louder and louder Muslim need to know about this, right? So we leave it here, because we don't
want to exhaust you with details. But what we want you to do is, we will basically put a link to the
book so that you don't struggle finding it. And we will put an article written by the same author,
Sylvia an ad of in Al Jazeera or for for the Al Jazeera website, she has written an article and she
has given these brief details, those of you who don't have the time to read the entire book, I
		

			highly recommend that you read this article, it gives you a good summary of some of the experiences
but I very, very strongly recommend the book to servants of Allah by Sylvia ad off, okay. And we
will give you the link to the article as well and you can read both each other. I think we will stop
there brother support. Definitely. So jsoc locker at nonparty for that very touching. In fact, there
was one point where, you know, I got very emotional you said, you know, he wrote Salaam upon the
Prophet,
		

			you know, in the Bible. So, you know, for everybody watching, wherever you are in the world and
hamdulillah I'm very happy to see, one of the sisters was actually saying that she's a Fulani
herself, and she's from West Africa. And there's
		

			people from all over speaking about this. So I just wanted to give one quick message.
		

			If I'm not mistaken, a you been Solomon was Fulani. A you been Solomon was Fulani. So a lot of
Fulani and mundane NGOs and other tribes and other West Africa, generally West Africans, they were
taken right. And before I go very quickly, I want to remind everyone, Google slide bin, sorry, Omar
bin site and read his Doc, his biography, possibly on Wikipedia, you'll find plenty of information.
They also also Google Yarrow, Mahmoud Yara Mahmoud is why a r r o w. Mahmoud is ma m o UT, Google
his name you will find his biography and then
		

			also Google job Ben Solomon, job, Ben Solomon, are you been swell a man the yellow, the yellow di l
Oh, you will see these three biographies and they will fascinate you and more are bound in the book
insha Allah. And here you have a picture of Omar
		

			and this is his writing. This is a surah of the Quran he wrote by memory, Allah Walker, lower
		

			jaw closer for your precious time. We're going to be live again next week with a different topic
related to this, we want to revisit this from a different angle. But the message to everybody that's
watching this right now in sha Allah is that all of us as Muslims, we need to give Dawa especially
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			the black communities within the Western world. And also many of the Muslims which are in Africa,
they should be inspired by this to actually give our because if you look north is Muslim Central is
mixed. And then South is Christian and even some of the Muslims in the middle have converted sadly
so until next time, please keep in mind it is our duty to convey the message of Islam and we
		

			before we and brothers a bow you know these African Muslim slaves, they were still doing our in
America even though they were creating extraordinary odds. Well, why did our that the details the
evidence you will find in the book written by Silvia and he do and there was actually a scholar
among them, who basically there was a rebellion is called by a rebellion by your rebellion is b h.
Ai, sorry, BIBHI ai bya rebellion, something like that. It's called okay. And one of the scholars he
wrote a long text 50 pages text to encourage people to remain Muslim and don't abandon Islam for
whatever they are offered in return and remain Muslim.
		

			Continuous muscles that this kind of dour, allow awkward in these extreme circumstances when the
when they're being killed, brutalized, lashed, cut into pieces thrown into the sea and being worked
to death in plantations. They are facing extraordinary reward in the form of the cruelest masters
and they're still doing our still holding, holding on to Islam praying, reading the Quran writing
Quran and keeping up with the vicar enascar Allahu Akbar, these people were just, you know, well, I
can't emphasize this enough that we need to read about them. We need to read about them inshallah.
Absolutely, absolutely. So until next time, you know, this is something that we all need to action
		

			and insha Allah in the future, we're going to be covering some of the things we described in more
detail as salaam alaikum warahmatullahi wabarakatuh product