Another Question From Your New Muslim Brother

[Yasmin]

Asalamu alaikum Anya


Narrated Anas:



The Prophet said, "Listen and obey (your chief) even if an Ethiopian whose head is like a raisin were made your chief.


I read the hadith my self I can see what u mean, I think is how we interpreted the word rather then its meaning. And am not trying to translate the word of the Prophet (bpuh) but what I think it means is that the Muslims should obey their rulers no matter what race the are.


Brother alhamdulilah I am black and I didn’t find offensive about the word Raisin Head and as u said some of us will find it offensive and some will not. and maybe am one of them, [img]style_emoticons/default/biggrin.gif[/img]


I personally don’t take much notice of racism in Islamic or non-Islamic way, because the verses of the Quran and the hadiths tells us that Allah (SWT) does not look at your appearances or wealth but looks at your actions"


Here are some verse of the Quran and some hadithes.


"O Mankind, we created you from a single pair of a male and a female, and made you in to tribes and nations so that you may know each other (not that you despise each other). Verily, the most honoured of you in the sight of Allah is he who is most righteous of you." (Al-Quran, Chapter 49, Verse 13)



O people, Remember that your Lord is one. An Arab has no superiority over a non-Arab nor a non-Arab has any superiority over an Arab; also a black has no superiority over white, nor a white has any superiority over black, except by piety and good action (Taqwa). Indeed the best among you is the one with the best character (Taqwa). Listen to me. Did I convey this to you properly? People responded, Yes. O messenger of Allah, The Prophet then said, then each one of you who is there must convey this to everyone not present.



This means righteousness, sincerity, modesty is what all that is needed to gain honour and become loved in the sight of Allah (S.T), no matter if you are black, white, red or brown, everyone is equal. One is not superior to another.


i did searched for the "Ishaq hadeeth book"but cannot come up with anything, but i find it where u got Ishaq & Jabari, and it is Isreal forum which is Anti islamic forum. her is the website


astaqfiruka wantuubi illahi.

[NaSra]

Asalamalaikum


I wanted to say the exact thing that My dear Sister Yasmin said. The prophet (SAW) is saying follow your leader even if he is sooo different from you that he has a raisin head. Our beloved Prophet mohamed (PBUH) was in no way trying to redicule black people the point he was trying to make is basically (and this is ofcourse how I see it) That we should obey and follow our leaders no matter what race they are. Outer appearances are nothing they have no value what matters to Allah is our heart and Faith, what levels us from each other is our rightousness. Everything else was completely meaningless to rasululah (SAW). Thats why he loved Bilal so much because of the great man that was inside the black skin of BiLaL. Bilal is one of the few people during the lifetime of the prophet that was destined to go to paradise while he was still alive.


Yasmin you have to keep your hair away from me then because I LOVE raisins [img]style_emoticons/default/wink.gif[/img][img]style_emoticons/default/ph34r.gif[/img] I luv Sabeeeeeeeeb. [img]style_emoticons/default/wub.gif[/img]


My parents are originally from the great Horn of Africa AKA Somalia, Alhamdulilah I am a Somalian. I am Black (even if one doesnt identify that immediately). My country is 99% sunni Muslim. Remember the whites who went to africa and stripped the africans off their land and threw them all across the world who treated blacks worser then animals? They were christians! I'm not saying that Arabs back during the Prophets time didn't used mistreat black people. They were experts in walking over anybody who looked darker then they were. Thats why the prophet took extra measures to teach them equality and that being light skinned wasn't going to get anyone to paradise.


I have experiences with black people (non-muslims) who have discriminated against me because I looked too indian or my features were just not cutting it to be fully authorised as an african or a black person.


My own personal opinion is that prejudice or hatred of any kind, whether that's racial, religious or any other is totally reprehensible and anyone who thinks like that needs their head examined.


The Hadith about Abu bakr exchanging Bilal for another black man, is very misterious to me, and I have never come across that hadith. Insha'Allah we'll refute it as false and fabricated. (With Allahs Help).


<i>"The Last Day will not come until Islam has entered every house on earth, whether it is made of animal skins or from the earth."</i>


Sorry if I am rambling, I'm tired it's been a long day [img]style_emoticons/default/smile.gif[/img]


Brother Anya, everytime you think Islam degrades Black people just look at the number of black muslims in islam.


And also ask yourself, are they really so stupid to accept a religion that works against? Are we all that stupid?


You know Malcolm X better than me I heard you speak about him many times. Who was malcolm X? He was a racist fanatic (AstafuruAllah) why did someone like him accept islam?


Malcolm X's Letter from Hajj


THE PILGRIMAGE TO MAKKAH


When he was in Makkah, Al-Hajj Malik El-Shabazz wrote a letter to his loyal assistants in Harlem... from his heart:


"Never have I witnessed such sincere hospitality and overwhelming spirit of true brotherhood as is practiced by people of all colors and races here in this ancient Holy Land, the home of Abraham, Muhammad and all the other Prophets of the Holy Scriptures. For the past week, I have been utterly speechless and spellbound by the graciousness I see displayed all around me by people of all colors.


"I have been blessed to visit the Holy City of Mecca, I have made my seven circuits around the Ka'ba, led by a young Mutawaf named Muhammad, I drank water from the well of the Zam Zam. I ran seven times back and forth between the hills of Mt. Al-Safa and Al Marwah. I have prayed in the ancient city of Mina, and I have prayed on Mt. Arafat."


"There were tens of thousands of pilgrims, from all over the world. They were of all colors, from blue-eyed blondes to black-skinned Africans. But we were all participating in the same ritual, displaying a spirit of unity and brotherhood that my experiences in America had led me to believe never could exist between the white and non-white."


"America needs to understand Islam, because this is the one religion that erases from its society the race problem. Throughout my travels in the Muslim world, I have met, talked to, and even eaten with people who in America would have been considered white - but the white attitude was removed from their minds by the religion of Islam. I have never before seen sincere and true brotherhood practiced by all colors together, irrespective of their color."


"You may be shocked by these words coming from me. But on this pilgrimage, what I have seen, and experienced, has forced me to rearrange much of my thought-patterns previously held, and to toss aside some of my previous conclusions. This was not too difficult for me. Despite my firm convictions, I have always been a man who tries to face facts, and to accept the reality of life as new experience and new knowledge unfolds it. I have always kept an open mind, which is necessary to the flexibility that must go hand in hand with every form of intelligent search for truth."


"During the past eleven days here in the Muslim world, I have eaten from the same plate, drunk from the same glass, and slept on the same rug - while praying to the same God - with fellow Muslims, whose eyes were the bluest of blue, whose hair was the blondest of blond, and whose skin was the whitest of white. And in the words and in the deeds of the white Muslims, I felt the same sincerity that I felt among the black African Muslims of Nigeria, Sudan and Ghana."


"We were truly all the same (brothers) - because their belief in one God had removed the white from their minds, the white from their behavior, and the white from their attitude."


"I could see from this, that perhaps if white Americans could accept the Oneness of God, then perhaps, too, they could accept in reality the Oneness of Man - and cease to measure, and hinder, and harm others in terms of their 'differences' in color."


"With racism plaguing America like an incurable cancer, the so-called 'Christian' white American heart should be more receptive to a proven solution to such a destructive problem. Perhaps it could be in time to save America from imminent disaster - the same destruction brought upon Germany by racism that eventually destroyed the Germans themselves."


"Each hour here in the Holy Land enables me to have greater spiritual insights into what is happening in America between black and white. The American Negro never can be blamed for his racial animosities - he is only reacting to four hundred years of the conscious racism of the American whites. But as racism leads America up the suicide path, I do believe, from the experiences that I have had with them, that the whites of the younger generation, in the colleges and universities, will see the handwriting on the walls and many of them will turn to the spiritual path of truth - the only way left to America to ward off the disaster that racism inevitably must lead to."


"Never have I been so highly honored. Never have I been made to feel more humble and unworthy. Who would believe the blessings that have been heaped upon an American Negro? A few nights ago, a man who would be called in America a white man, a United Nations diplomat, an ambassador, a companion of kings, gave me his hotel suite, his bed. Never would I have even thought of dreaming that I would ever be a recipient of such honors - honors that in America would be bestowed upon a King - not a Negro."


"All praise is due to Allah, the Lord of all the Worlds.


Sincerely,


Al-Hajj Malik El-Shabazz (Malcolm X)


(From the AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF MALCOLM X with assistance from Alex Haley, the author of ROOTS)


<i>Malcolm X saw and experienced many positive things. Generosity and openheartedness were qualities which were impressed on him by the welcome which he received in many places. He saw brotherhood and the brotherhood of different races and this led him to disclaim racism and to say: "I am not a racist... In the past I permitted myself to be used... to make sweeping indictments of all white people, the entire white race, and these generalizations have caused injuries to some whites who perhaps did not deserve to be hurt. Because of the spiritual enlightenment which I was blessed to receive as the result of my recent pilgrimage to the Holy City of Mecca, I no longer subscribe to sweeping indictments of any one race. I am now striving to live the life of a true Sunni Muslim. I must repeat that I am not a racist nor do I subscribe to the tenets of racism. I can state in all sincerity that I wish nothing but freedom, justice and equality, life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness for all people." </i>


<i>(The preceding material was excerpted from The Autobiography of Malcolm X quoted in an article written by the Institute for Islamic Education.</i>


Insha'Allah you'll learn to deal with those nonbelievers with knowledge Brother, because knowledge is power. Learn your islam.


I am also learning, Yasmin thanks for researching about Ishaq. I had a feeling that he was a jew.


Asaalamalaykum

[umm Zachariah]

Bismillah,


Assalamu aleikum,


Dear sisters you are so clear as can be [img]style_emoticons/default/biggrin.gif[/img]


Sister Intuition, you wrote,


''Brother Anya, everytime you think Islam degrades Black people just look at the number of black muslims in islam.


And also ask yourself, are they really so stupid to accept a religion that works against? Are we all that stupid?''


This is such good thinking, I can easily compare it with the what non-Muslims say about us women, that we enter into a religion that oppresses us [img]style_emoticons/default/blink.gif[/img]


So why would women or black people enter into a religion that oppresses or discriminates them?


Studying Islam will give the answers to 'why' mashaAllah.


Wasalam

[Yasmin]

sorry guys this is the correct website.


and by the ways Nasra i will make sure that i will tighten my HIJAB around u [img]style_emoticons/default/blink.gif[/img] .


and i agree that knowlege is important in ur deen. brother PLZ don't go to the Anti Islamic websites, they are all full of crab [img]style_emoticons/default/laugh.gif[/img] .

[Muslimah]

Bismillah


as salam alykom


Mash a Allah Intuition and Yasmeen Jazakum Allah khairan katheeran I dont think I need to add to the thorough explanation of both my sisters.


Keep it up girls, seems u ve been doing much homework [img]style_emoticons/default/smile.gif[/img]

However i do think it is best the way it is hidden, or sidestepped as it was when i originally posted the question. Because otherwise it would make a lot of black people feel very uncomfortable, possibly even turn them away from Islam. Race is very important to some of us of African descent, not all, some wouldnt care about being called a raisin head, but i'm not one of them.
Alhamdulelah it is not hidden or sidestepped, Alhamdulelah Anya we dont need to hide anything in Islam


Also...


Ishaq:243 “I heard the Apostle say: ‘Whoever wants to see Satan should look at Nabtal!’ He was a black man with long flowing hair, inflamed eyes, and dark ruddy cheeks
…. Allah sent down concerning him: ‘To those who annoy the Prophet there is a painful doom.” [9:61] “Gabriel came to Muhammad and said, ‘If a black man comes to you his heart is more gross than a donkey’s
.’”


As for this part Anya I am so surprised that u with your eagerness to search and dig u just seem to forgot to actually check the correctness of the Ayah.


The Ayahs is missing a part and Insh a Allah I will post the complete Ayah with an explanation:


"<b>And among them are men who hurt the Prophet (Muhammad ﻢﻠﺳﻭ ﻪﻴﻠﻋ ﻪﻠﻟﺍ ﻰﻠﺻ) and say: "He is (lending his) ear (to every news)." Say: "He listens to what is best for you; he believes in Allah; has faith in the believers; and is a mercy to those of you who believe." </b>But those who hurt Allah's Messenger (Muhammad ﻢﻠﺳﻭ ﻪﻴﻠﻋ ﻪﻠﻟﺍ ﻰﻠﺻ) will have a painful torment."


As u can see, the Ayah was missing an important part that explains actually why it was revealed. Alhamdulelah I already knew this Ayah and reasons of revelation, yet to confirm what am I about to type I double checked it.


Before I carry on, Yasmeen I realized what Anya meant by  Ishaq, he is a scholar Mohamed Ibn Ishaq Ibn Yassar who contributed to the Tafseer as well as stating reasons of revelation.


Now back to the point, as u can clearly see from the complete translation, the Ayah is addressing a group of hypocrites who emerged in Medina from among the Muslims themselves, who used to say things between themselves and wish Allah Does not scandalise them in Quran. But Allah Sobhanhu wa Ta`ala Did. The used to talk ill talking about the Messenger salla Allah a`lyhee wa sallam and if he blamed them, they swear they didnt.


Of them, according to Ibn Ishaq and others probably is Nabtal Bin Alhareth, who was not black, but according to the description given by Ibn Ishaq was a big man with red eyes, in his cheeks a part that is black redish (this is what the word saf`a means one who has sa`fa is exactly a black redish spot on the cheek which one may even develop due to being inflicted with the evil eye, let me not get off topic I am just trying to explain the exact meaning of the Arabic word) with flying hair and beard. Now who is this Nabtal? He is the man who used to convey what the Messenger salla Allah a`lyhee wa sallam to the group of hypocrites. He was told not to, but he said Mohamed is an ear whoever tells him anything he believes. We tell him what we like to tell and swear it is true and he believes us.


As u follow, the description of one who wants to see Satan would look at Nabtal has nothing to do with him being black which he even wasnt, but only because he is Nabtal. Therefore this description does not fit any other person but Nabtal due to his attitude.


The Hadeeth didnt go as if one wants to see Satan would look at black men, but rather at Nabtal who again wasnt even black.


La hawla wala qowata ila billah

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[Muslimah]

Bismillah


O boy u 2 girls make me [img]style_emoticons/default/biggrin.gif[/img][img]style_emoticons/default/smile.gif[/img][img]style_emoticons/default/biggrin.gif[/img][img]style_emoticons/default/smile.gif[/img][img]style_emoticons/default/laugh.gif[/img][img]style_emoticons/default/laugh.gif[/img]


sobhan Allah tigheten your hijab. o btw me too I love Zebeeb soooo much


Alhamdulelah girls we are working fine


Yaseen sorry I edited the post and deleted the link to the forum, we dont link them here.


Plus I already found what he meant by Ishaq, seems I was sleepy last night when I first looked at the post.


Ok let us get back to wooooorrrrk girls we have much homework.....


I still have to look for the Arabic version of this dinar hadeeth which I have a feeling it is addressing a totally different topic.


As there is a hadeeth talking about one who worships the Dinar which is a currency then.


so I will just try to look for this one.

[Muslimah]

Bismillah


In the light of the above, the part:


“Gabriel came to Muhammad and said, ‘If a black man comes to you his heart is more gross than a donkey’s.’”


Is obviously an adition, we are still waiting for Anya to give us his source for this. I checked as many tafseer and reasons of revelation in Arabic.


Plus it looks so much fabricated to fit the false explanation of the hadeeth which was not as I said earlier addressing a black man.


I must make a stop here and clarify my position, if I came back to this thread and decided to address the missing points I did this for Allah, Islam and our beloved teacher, leader and Messenger Mohamed Salla Allah a`lyhee wa sallam. Not to let unattended crucial points such as those rest without explanation for any member who might visit the forum.


We all take responsibility being on the board before Allah.


I mean it is not to convince Ayah specially as only Allah Knows his heart and his destiney. Plus he knows better and he is sure now that Allah Is there and Is One.


Allahum Sallai wa sallam wa barek a`la a`badak wa habibak annabi al ummi Mohamed Ibn Abdullah


May prayers, peace and blessings of Allah be upon His Devotee, beloved and teh illiterate Prophet Mohamed Ibn Abdullah


I guess I have never been so emotional over a topic on board for the past 3 years such as this. Just thinking of the implication of accusing my beloved teacher of being rude or unkind really got to me. Alhamdulelah I always was able to take non Muslims feelings in consideration, think how my teacher would have behaved. But not on this one, really..... But why not? he even faced more than this during his life. I think it is a constant trend.


Ash hadu ann la ilaha ila Allah wa anna Mohamdan Rasul Allah


Alhamduleleh countless times for being Muslims

[Muslimah]

Bismillah


Sorry for coming back again for an important point before continuing on the other issues


Anay said it is better to keep such points hidden just as if we Muslims deceived others to call them on board.


Anya we dont need to, u know why? because Islam is the truth, that does not need any decoration or much effort like begging others to join the winning team Alhamduelah


One who joins benefits no one but him/her self


And one who is turned away hurts no one also but him/her self. That is why we explained on detail on that thread of martini about going to hell, that it is a choice. One who really wants to see the truth Allah Sobhanuh wa Ta`la Helps him/her to see it, other wise if one is reluctant to Allah Does not force no one.


Plus what is even more important we Muslims are already 1.6 billion, we dont need to beg for more, we need to improve.

[Muslimah]

Bismillah


as salam alykom


Before we move on to the other points my dear sisters teaming here to tackle this subject, may Allah reward u much and puts it in the balance of your good deeds.


We must also take note that a major factor to how we receive any instructions is the level of our satisfaction with what is related to it.


In other words, when u r pleased with how Allah Created u u will be pleased with Allah. Being pleased with Allah does not imply the actualy sense as Him being pleased with us. But rather being accepting to whatever He Gives and whatever He Does not give.


As Allah Explained:


"Allah will say: "This is a Day on which the truthful will profit from their truth: theirs are Gardens under which rivers flow (in Paradise) - they shall abide therein forever. <b>Allah is pleased with them and they with Him</b>. That is the great success (Paradise)." (Quran 5:119)


This status is when the devotee accepts any type of test and trail Allah Puts the devotee in.

[umm Zachariah]

Bismillah,


Assalamu aleikum sister,


InshaAllah that is the position to be in, to be able to face trials and tests and to accept them as part of this life and that they are given to us from Allah, Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala and why.


Wasalam