Imam Abdol Alim Musa is a black man who has been directing an Islamic movement, A'Sabiqun, in America for 30 years.
We were happy to meet him at the faculty of world studies, last week. He had a very interesting story about his life when he told us that he had been one of the biggest and richest drug dealers in his youth. Hopeless of getting what he has been after, he gets interested in Islam, leaves all the treasures behind and starts an Islamic movement.
Imam Musa spoke to us of many different issues about American society, blacks, Islam and etc. he talked about the black ancestors who were captured from Africa and transported to U.S. Then, their everything, meaning their culture, language, religion and whole being was taken from them. They even were not given true information about their African history. What blacks knew was that Africa was an undeveloped land with uncivilized people whom whites have been savored.
"Human being acts according to self image" he said, "until recently we never reached our full potential as we didn't have a full image". As a result there were no true answer to the question of WHO AM I?" for the blacks. They were brought up by the mentality of colonization. By the away, he believes that their Fitrat still exists and helps them to find the true answer. "if you want to rest your people, it's not to improve their physical conditions but to make a good image of them", Imam Musa recommended, referring to God saying, "I’m TO THE BELIEVER WHAT HE EXPECTS FROM ME". As a result, "Islam is accepted as a transformation in black community" he declared. By accepting Islam, the answer to the big question "who am I?", changes, so the image changes."Minorities develop a minority mentality" he expressed referring to the minority Shia and Iran who have been able to stand firm against the enemies by the help of Allah. Sabiqun is a minority group as well which has been wonderfully successful to survive despite being the target of American government for past 30 years.
We were happy to meet him at the faculty of world studies, last week. He had a very interesting story about his life when he told us that he had been one of the biggest and richest drug dealers in his youth. Hopeless of getting what he has been after, he gets interested in Islam, leaves all the treasures behind and starts an Islamic movement.
Imam Musa spoke to us of many different issues about American society, blacks, Islam and etc. he talked about the black ancestors who were captured from Africa and transported to U.S. Then, their everything, meaning their culture, language, religion and whole being was taken from them. They even were not given true information about their African history. What blacks knew was that Africa was an undeveloped land with uncivilized people whom whites have been savored.
"Human being acts according to self image" he said, "until recently we never reached our full potential as we didn't have a full image". As a result there were no true answer to the question of WHO AM I?" for the blacks. They were brought up by the mentality of colonization. By the away, he believes that their Fitrat still exists and helps them to find the true answer. "if you want to rest your people, it's not to improve their physical conditions but to make a good image of them", Imam Musa recommended, referring to God saying, "I’m TO THE BELIEVER WHAT HE EXPECTS FROM ME". As a result, "Islam is accepted as a transformation in black community" he declared. By accepting Islam, the answer to the big question "who am I?", changes, so the image changes."Minorities develop a minority mentality" he expressed referring to the minority Shia and Iran who have been able to stand firm against the enemies by the help of Allah. Sabiqun is a minority group as well which has been wonderfully successful to survive despite being the target of American government for past 30 years.
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