A Singular Voice

Why Blackamerican Muslims Don’t Stand For Justice Series

A series of posts based upon my upcoming book “Why Blackamerican Muslims Don’t Stand for Justice: From the Back of the Bus to the Back of the Camel”

Part 1,   Part 2,   Part 3,   Part 4,  Part 5

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  1. Sh. Mahmoud Ibrahim al-Amreeki said, on January 27, 2008 at 4:58 pm

    Movement Thoughts from an Old Head
    Sh. Mahmoud Ibrahim al-Amreeki
    Jan.2008 Dar ul Islam / Iqaamatiddeen

    We are a people whose forefathers were brought to these shores as a captive people. Stolen away from everything familiar. From family, friends, land, sun, rivers, mountains. Brought here to labor for others. To nurture others. Forced to be at the beckoned call of others, never being concerned about ourselves. Our well being.
    We watched as our children were sold to others, our women raped and ravaged by others, our manhood usurped by others. All the while, our presence here, benefitting others never our selves.
    Dawud (as) experienced the same. Being carried away in captivity and required to sing to those others a song, he petitions Allah, asking ‘how do we sing our sacred song in a strange land?’. I wonder how he reacted when he saw his children mimicking the attitudes, the dress , the ambitions of his captors. I wonder how he felt when those very same children participated in all of the self destructive behaviors designed to keep them pacified and sold themselves on the idea that being subjugated was the only path to survival.
    I wonder what he thought when the youth began to berate the elders with insolence and ignorance. I truly wonder if he seriously considered motivational speeches, study circles, rehab / re-educational programs, interventions, marches, rallies, encouraging think-tanks, financial planning, community investments, inter-faith dialog or coalition building.
    Because the ‘sacred song’ Dawud (as) spoke about is the Law of Allah. And it is Obedience to Allah.

    I went to a halal restaurant the other day in Brooklyn and noticed that while being served food that is obviously good and pure, the PA system pumped in a once popular R&B tune, Secret Lover, promoting one of the most heinous actions a person can commit. An act hated by Allah and the consequence of which is punishable by stoning to death. An obvious internal contradiction.

    We ,like Dawud (as), have to ask Allah the same question: ‘How do we sing our holy song in a strange land” (Psalms) .

    Muhammad (pboh) was not sent to establish an economic order. He was not sent to bring parity to the Arab tribes. He was not sent to abolish slavery or racism . He wasn’t sent to stop alcohol abuse or drug abuse , or spousal abuse, or child abuse or infant murder. He wasn’t sent to improve the living conditions of poor.
    Muhammad (pboh) was sent for the sole purpose of reminding all humanity that Allah is the only Creator and demands from us ( humanity) that we be Obedient to Him and Him alone and that if we do, we are truly successful and if we don’t, Allah has prepared a fire whose fuel is men and stones.
    And it is because of the acceptance of the above, by the first Community of Muslims, that Allah’s justice prevailed and all of the social ills described were eradicated .
    Our Mission as Muslims is to carry that Message of Muhammad ( pboh) to the world. Period.

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  2. The “I’m Just a Muslim” Muslim, Pt 1 « A Singular Voice said, on February 4, 2008 at 5:18 am

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  3. » another muslim in congress? online rihla said, on February 19, 2008 at 3:29 pm

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  4. Salafi Imam: We Must BELIEVE Arabs are “Master Race” « A Singular Voice said, on February 19, 2008 at 3:46 pm

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  5. Arab Racial Supremacism « Ali Eteraz said, on February 19, 2008 at 4:44 pm

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  6. abdirahman said, on February 26, 2008 at 3:19 am

    Racism forbidden in islamic religion as it is illigal in US law. Abdur Rahman should know this already. No body can believe what is illigal.

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  7. Salafis Teach Black Followers That They are INFERIOR « Salafi Burnout said, on March 10, 2008 at 12:51 am

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  8. Melvin W. Smith said, on April 3, 2008 at 11:31 pm

    I wish to read Part 1 of your timely and provocative series, but I cannot find it: Part 2 is presented (again) when the Part 1 link is clicked. Your web master (or you) should fix this editorial/technical problem. I’m sure that many other folk also will appreciate such.
    –MWS

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  9. Melvin W. Smith said, on April 3, 2008 at 11:44 pm

    Found Part 1 from another link in another Part. Pleased. Thank you.
    –MWS

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