Comments(0) Br. Abdur Rahman Muhammad has posted part 3 of his thought provoking series “Why Blackamerican Muslims Don’t Stand for Justice”
Please take a moment and read it here.
Comments(0) We wanted to express our deepest condolences and offer our du’a to Shaykh Abdalla Idris Ali and his family on the death of his mother. Inna lillahi wa inna illahi rajioon (To Allah we Belong and to Him we Return).
Please keep Shaykh Abdalla and his family in your du’a. We ask Allah to Shower His Mercy upon the Shaykh’s mother and Enter her into the highest levels of Paradise and to grant solace and patience to the Shaykh and his family in this time of hardship.
The email below was sent out over many lists by our Dear Brother Altaf Husain.
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In the quest to indigenize, integrate, and formulate our unique culture, it remains vital to learn the history of Muslims in America in all its forms. Toward that end, the makers of “Prince among Slaves”, the story of an African Muslim prince sold into American slavery, set out to do just that - to help us understand a remarkable story in our history.
This film also won the award for the Best Documentary at the 2007 Black Film Festival. The first screening will be shown in the Washington D.C. area on December 1, 2007. For more information, please visit Tariq Nelson’s site.
MuslimThought strongly encourages everyone to support this historic premier and we look forward to the continuing success of such efforts.
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FINDING REAL SOLUTIONS
Surmounting the challenge we’ve discussed will not come with empty slogans and clamor. As any dietitian or fitness expert will tell you, when it comes to losing weight, it’s not just about diet and exercise, it’s about changing your attitude, your behavior, and your lifestyle. In the case of Muslims and the struggle to indigenize and integrate, we have to identify why we’ve been unsuccessful on a larger scale thus far (excluding Blackamerican Muslims). At the crux of that problem we will find much of it can be linked to the lack of this unique culture. The lack of it leads to an inability to connect our priorities to our reality - to put America first. Just being able to read and process the last phrase of that previous sentence without feeling alienated will require a complete change of mindset and character.
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MOVING IN THE RIGHT DIRECTION
Islamic jurists (fuquha) often include culture as a determining factor when issuing religious rulings and edicts. In religious terminology the term “‘urf” is often used to denote a similar concept. The word urf is commonly defined as “custom” but its didactics in Islamic law equates to what is referred to as “culture” in the West. For example, when Islamic scholars ask about the urf they mean in plain language, “What is the cultural norm [of a region, country, or society]?”
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This article will be released as a series over the coming days. Please continue to check back with us and remember to help spread the word!
INTRODUCTION
Many who will read material from this site will wonder “What’s the big deal about an American Muslim identity?” or “What’s wrong with our parent’s cultures?” Some immigrant Muslims will feel slighted and others even insulted. There will be many second generation (and beyond) young people who will be further confused as their try to “fit in” in America.
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I failed to mention in the post below that the reason I initially didn’t feel compelled to provide a more detailed analysis of the conference is because there are already several excellent ones out there.
Please check these out:
1) Tariq Nelson
4) Marc Manley (www.manrilla.net)
5) Umar Lee
Please feel free to leave more links for reflections and commentary on the conference in the comments section.
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We apologize for the delay in posting this but pray it will still be of benefit.
As we get ready to release some of our much anticipated content, we thought it was critical that we not let the opportunity pass to post some thoughts on this historic and momentous conference that took place this past weekend in Philadelphia, PA. The theme of the conference was “The State of the Blackamerican Muslim Community” and it was nothing short of amazing.
