Embracing an African Muslim Identity, and His Journey to Islam w/ Mustafa Briggs
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- Опубликовано: 8 сен 2024
- Oftentimes in the West, Muslim identity can be conflated with Arab or South Asian versions of the faith. The truth, as we all know, is that Muslims come from all over the world, and Islam has been in some regions of the world longer than you'd think. We speak to Mustafa Briggs about what it means to be a Muslim from West Africa, and how his experiences growing up with family and friends shaped his Muslim identity today.
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shaykh MUSTAFA BRIGGS is truly an amazing Historian especially in Islamic History! Masha’Allah brotha May the Almighty bless you & thank you for all he does for the ummah Insha’Allah 🙏🏾
Great back story on how Mustafa Briggs came into Islam. It reminds me of how Allah brought me into Islam through various people over time and, later, to the proper min'haj (proper path with the proper aqeedah/belief system) over time! I love both his research and refreshing perspective about the global culture - I have read a lot of the books he has read but he has been able to take it to the next level! And he is right - Black people (not just in Africa) tend to be more sincere and focused on their deen with sincerity than a lot of others - it is rare to see them compromise their Islam, get into rib'a, sell haram in their shops and stores or join Christians in their holidays and practices. His friend was right - there is no need for him to join any Sufi order to be Muslim (despite the fact that it was one of the ways Islam spread in West Africa) - just stick to the basics! As he came to understand early in his studies, the basis of Islam is that ALLAH IS ONE without a partner, The Creator SEPERATE FROM HIS CREATION. Therefore, the belief that you can BECOME ONE WITH ALLAH is contrary to this basic tenet of Islam.
The emails to the Sheikh story and how he interacted with young Mustafa..
Amazing! Subhanallah!
SubhanAllah. This young man is way beyond his age in wisdom and ilm. May Allah continue blessing him and his work. His knowledge, his journey, his humility, his assertiveness of his black Muslimness in a rather non-belligerent manner points to Allah's noor shining on him. He is truly blessed. May brother Mustafa continue opening up and broadening the conversation around black Muslim identity from early Islam till today, and may it reach the highly insular Arab/desi communities who seem to have monopolised the deen. Am about to buy his book Beyond Bilal and going to read it together with Imam Dawud Walid's Centering Black Narrative and Dr Rudolph Ware's The Walking Qur'an to unlearn prejudices and learn the rich
As a brown man born and raised in a certain sub Saharan country where Muslims are a minority, this knowledge would go a long way in attracting even more locals to Islam, in addition to local Muslims proudy asserting their identity and pushing back in an intellectual way the dominance of a particular strain of cultural Islam, that only sadly divides communities.
May Allah unite us, and spread the light of his Kalimah throughout the continent.
Momo I'm sorry about your friend who committed suicide recently. My deepest condolences.
Wow! This guy is so knowledgeable
Great subject matter. Mashallah good episode. Gambia is a great place to see Islam in good people 👍🏾 We need to connect
Masha Allah brother, Alhamdulillah for you, may Allah continue to bless you. Love from 🇳🇬
Jazakallah khair🤲🏾
AYEEE WE LIT 🇸🇱🤧 love yall on the Baraka Boys and sad to have missed hearing you speak at the ISBC in Boston a couple weeks ago :/. But really appreciate the work yall do for the community and dialogue yall create!
I love hearing Briggs speak. It's so refreshing. Allah bless you both 💞
Masha'Allah this episode was great and I definitely learnt a lot keep up the good work brothers👏
Absolutely incredible interview! Both the host and his guest were down to earth! ALHAMDULILLAH! Fellow Muslims, PLEASE FORWARD this video to other African
Americans Muslims or Muslims in general. ALHAMDULILLAH from the United States. Keep up the exceptional work!
MashAllah I love what this brother is bringing...he couldn’t have put it into words more beautifully!!! MashAllah may Allah preserve him and make his work a success. 🤲🏼
السلام عليكم
My brother. I’m strongly in agreement with you. Brother Yousef Kromah was the first person that I heard speak highly African scholars.
I live in Georgia (USA). The concerns are the same here. Many of our own (African-American) sisters and brothers, see Muslims from Arab speaking countries as “the real Muslims”. Likewise, some of immigrant Muslims look down on converts.
In our particular masjid, separation was the solution. Alhamdulilah!
ISA, I look forward to learning more from our African Imams, and scholars.
I’m sooo very grateful for our kindred souls, though distance has separated us.
May Allah continue to bless you with wisdom and good health.
Mashallah! Your story is so inspiring. Allah has certainly blessed you with an amazing family! Allah guides whoever he wills and you certainly have an amazing family to guide. I love the inspiration you had from your grandma.
MashAllah, first of all you’ve a great upbringings and good family support, secondly you able to discovered yourself in your teenage years...bravo, may Allah ease all your affairs and bless you beyond your expectations.
This was very lovely. Man, Briggs getting all buffed up. Gym's working its magic.
Lovely content. Great job guys. Keep them coming.
Masha Allah bro. May Allah continue to bless you 🙏
May Allah be with you and all that or those you value in your life..ameen
We are blessed!!
Masha Allah☝
Wonderful Mashallah 💗💗👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👍🏽👍🏽
Top podcast 👍🏿👍🏿👍🏿👍🏿
MashaAllah
Mashallah brother asalama
Salam alaikum
Please, I want to get in touch with Mustafa Briggs
Alhamdulillah..
STAY T0UGH Broo.. 💪🏼
KeeP 0n the TRUE Track.
The FAiTH of Abraham, Jacob, Joseph, Moses, David, Solomon, Mother Mary & Jesus..
Sun problem is acute
Al tirmidhi 38 - Allah's Messenger (peace be upon him) said: Allah created Adam when He had to create him and He struck his right shoulder and there emitted from it white offspring as if they were white ants. He struck his left shoulder and there emitted from it the black offspring as if they were charcoal. He then said (to those who had been emitted) from the right (shoulder): For Paradise and I do not mind. Then He said to those (who had been emitted) from his left shoulder: They are for Hell and I do not mind.
God cannot be like a human
I can certainly say, if we are to compare you and him in knowledge about Islam eventhough he is a revert, you can't even come close to this young man's knowledge. Shut your silly mouth up.. Nothing good come out of folks like you.. #judgement police 🚨
How can God have hands ? Astagfireullah that is wahabinism
There we go again.. The division team have come. Did you bother to ask him what he meant by that?
Alhamdullillah.Beautiful
@@adammurtadha1839 metephore ? Yes .. actually? no Astagfirullah
@@adammurtadha1839 Allah almighty is free from all defects . Having hands is somethig humans have
@@noneofyourb6421 you obviously haven't read the Qur'an, have you?
Who cares
Wonderful Mashallah 💗💗👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👍🏽👍🏽