African American Muslims. What’s their future?

Posted on March 16th, 2006 by Tariq Nelson

A friend of mine sent me an older article that appeared in the USA Today discussing the spending habits of African Americans during hard times. This article struck me because of the fact

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African American Muslims What’s their future? Part 2 »

5 Responses to “African American Muslims. What’s their future?”

  1. Anonymous, on March 16th, 2006 at 4:32 pm Said:

    Masha Allah, very good points and excellent

  2. Abu Maryum, on March 18th, 2006 at 2:11 am Said:

    Priase be to Allah and may His Peace be upon His Noble Prophet(s) and all those who follow him untill the last day.

    To Proceed:

    Thank you brother tariq for the introduction into this topic. It is important for the African-American to realise one important factor; organization. Black people have been through alot. Some of it we have been drug through and the rest, we jumped into thinking that the water was shallow enough to swim in. But we, who are African-American and Muslim we have no excuse. We MUST learn from these ills we have experienced. We MUST learn to (a) come together and build together (b) learn to share our wealth with one another (c) learn to police ourselfs and or societies (d) Learn to not hate people with acsents and different skin colors and customs. We must form a non-profit organization and a credit-union (i.e. halal) to impower our ideas. The problem is planning. There is not enough of it and the importance of planning is unknown.

    Jazzak Allah khayran ya Tariq.

  3. Umm Zaid, on March 18th, 2006 at 6:06 am Said:

    Salaam ‘Alaikum

    Good first post, off to a strong start.

  4. umar, on March 21st, 2006 at 12:12 am Said:

    I like is what you wrote in this first piece, and that is if we don’t have ourselves together, and we are running off to Yemen and then coming back and sellin oil on the corner, our children are going to suffer. So you see a lot of brothers who can’t maintain, and sisters who leave them and end up being Muslim “baby mammas”. I also have to address msyelf on this topic; because like a lot of young Muslims, I spent a lot of time in seach for knowledge and the Islamic Movement and neglected myself and therefore I am not in the position I need to be today, and nor are those around me. There are hadith about the merits of poverty and the ill-effects of poverty; but I can say from the American experience poverty is a bad thing for most Muslims as it relates to the deen and their children.

  5. Zakiyyah, on April 11th, 2006 at 3:10 pm Said:

    Thank You, Thank You, Thank You.

    FOI & MGT Classes in the NOI taught us about family life. These classes are still needed in each masjid, center and organization in the US, especially where AA muslims attend in large numbers.
    We do not need to reinvent the wheel, we have a successful model, let’s use it!!!!

    I have a yahoo homepage and am not able to access the rss feed. Can you advise?

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