Unending Struggle: The African American Shias | Ahlulbayt TV

During the past few years, social media has further exposed the struggles that African Americans face as a result of the discrimination and racism in the United States. This conversation became more important in the public eye especially after the killing of George Floyd earlier this year. Amidst this conversation, the African American Shia community is generally overlooked and underrepresented in both American, Muslims, and even Shia society. Ahlulbayt TV sheds light on several members of this community to discuss the struggles that they have faced throughout their lives.
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[@herefirst3687]

MashAllah I'm proud of all our African American Shia ulama May Allah swt bless them all.

[@Fatimamaryam110]

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[@ZzLiGHTNiNGzZ]

Subhanallah. Our African American brothers and sisters have gone through a lot. I wish brother Malcolm was still alive

[@fawadnedian]

Great documentary. All shia centers specially in the US should premiere this.

[@Fatimamaryam110]

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[@ZzLiGHTNiNGzZ]

27:34 welcoming Americans , and other reverts is extremely important. Being cold to them is opposite of values of Islam , prophets , & Ahlul Bayt. That breaks my heart they were not dealt with warmly

[@WhereThatLongGrassGrows]

Shias are generally much warmer to converts than Sunnis as a general rule, in my experience. More converts are Sunni due to the overwhelming amount of accessible material being Sunni; but when we do reach out to Shi'a communities, we're welcomed with open arms. The best way I can summarize it is: among Sunnis, there's an intense skepticism of us unless we're hyper Salafis. But when I'm among Shi'as, it's as if a lost family members were just reunited.

[@kevins4936]

What a nice documentary, very interesting indeed.

[@Fatimamaryam110]

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[@50secs]

The online viewership of the documentaries of Ahl-e-Bayt Documentaries perhaps demands that videos should also be split in to sections and topcs published separately. The content will have better market penetration and content segregation will allow particular content to be shared as a reference instead of the entire 50 min documentary. Great work and keep it up, number of views just shows that how the content is not reaching the right audience. People should know about these documentaries.

[@A416G]

Our ethnic and racial struggles are so much easier to tolerate and persevere through with the foundation of the Ahlulbayt (.a.s.). One of the sweetest joys in my life is seeing people of different backgrounds embrace Shia Islam. Although the dynamics of our racial oppression are unique to ourselves, it's so much easier to find direction within the greater framework of Islam. If anybody is interested in revolutionary religious philosophy, I would recommend the works of Ali Shariati.

[@A416G]

This documentary is so interesting, I had no idea of the pipeline of brothers that would eventually become Shia by embracing the Nation of Islam first.

[@takers8214]

MashaAllah Great Documentary, Ahlulbayt TV.

[@Fatimamaryam110]

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[@ZzLiGHTNiNGzZ]

I wish I was near some Shia mosques and could be part of the community and participate actively

[@ZzLiGHTNiNGzZ]

Bukhari has like 1-2 Hadith from Imam Ali. But hundred and hundred of other people who barely knew the prophet

[@nitetrain313]

Excellent documentary people aren’t born racist they are taught to be like that

[@Fatimamaryam110]

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[@al-hassan9200]

More power to all of you brothers ❤💪

[@DavidPittsChess]

Where can I learn about Shia Islam?

[@TravelersTalesGaming]

You can look up syed ammar nakshawani on youtube you'll find some good content there

[@hamzamahdi104]

Ehlubayat tv network or Wikipedia etc bro🙏

[@kanangurbanli1565]

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[@kanangurbanli1565]

From this channel. Ahlulbayt TV. In this channel have good content.

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[@Obscura0511]

I need more information on Shia islam!! Where is the best place to look?

[@yyyytttt7]

As salaam alakium I'm in valdosta and from here

[@johnDoe-vl1hv]

As-salaamu alaykum how can i get this dvd 📀 for a prison shiite class

[@ayatollahnasirmakaremshira2666]

A nice documentary we should respect everyone regardless of their colour or race say no to raceism

[@Fatimamaryam110]

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[@C--Ray]

Al Hemdulillah

[@ZzLiGHTNiNGzZ]

He speaking truth. It’s unfortunate minorities have to be extra docile to fit in and get approval from ruling class

[@Moses_VII]

39:00 Unfortunately, my Iraqi friends who think they know more than the scholars refuse to believe that we had black Imams, and they say the Imams weren't the sons of black Africans but rather of Spanish princesses.

[@jaleel42]

Lol 😂 I bet they are dark skinned iraqi too 😢

[@ahmedakhi308]

Shahid Malcolm Latif Shabazz

[@brittainpurcelle5611]

I read very troubling statements and traditions in hayatul qalub vol.2. I am a African American shiite. But I know our holy imams and holy prophet ( peace be upon them all) could never have said these things but maybe some early shia were. Thus these false traditions.

[@brittainpurcelle5611]

@Ali Nader Praise be to Allah swa. Salaamu alaykum my brother. I have read both books numerous times. Peshawar nights should be in every shia's library and brain. Thank you my bro, and may Allah reward you.

[@AfG_313]

@@brittainpurcelle5611 I’m afghan American Shia in America especially west coast like Oakland Frisco Richmond is where I grew up and they all almost Sunni

[@JaefarSABNW]

Some find true faith by investigating their ancestry and what went on with their society before them. A weak narration, by Islamic standards might outweigh anything in The Bibles of other faiths, but it does matter what strengths and weaknesses occur in reference to a transmission. We need to realize what terms mean in different languages. Islam only allows mention of color and nationality for accurate physical descriptions and we must not look at such descriptions as being the same as a character judgement. Yellow was those who looked like their ancestry was from the north, black from the south, and white was the brown skinned people with black woolly hair that was sometimes dyed yellow or red that resembled more pure bred Semites. The mostly white, non immigrant (Real immigrants are _continent other than the Americas_ American) Blacks face less discrimination in the Muslim majority community than the Whites who are of Ancestry north or west of Turkey. People need to look past whatever the people do and what faiths really are.

[@brittainpurcelle5611]

Part of our Arab and persian brothers' issues is the same fate that befell every other nation or people who were conquered at some point or other by Europeans: They convinced you that everything good is white and everything dark is bad and ugly. Our Holy ones are innocent of this bane,, and base level of consciousness. And Allah is Akbar!!!!

[@bringiraqback]

when you say "some of our Arab and Persian brothers are racist" and try to blame it on us alone it makes you a racist. Racism is everywhere in all colors. look at for example whites or pakistanis / indians i have never seen any people be more fixated on skin color than just in pakistan / india. so racism is everywhere.

[@izwelethutv]

White Supremacism affected the entire world so deeply, even Prophet Muhammad s.a.w in his final sermon deals with the Arab racism which still exists today. By all accounts, the original tribes who would make the group called Arabs are considered Black, early settlers of Hijaz were from Abyssinia.

[@arabicmusiclady1428]

Shut up, Real Arabs were never Black. And prophet Mohammad and Ahlul Bayt were never Black. Stop making lies about real Arabs.

[@izwelethutv]

@@arabicmusiclady1428 Read my sister, stop reading sunni and salafi books, do some inter-textual research, even from anthropological scholars such a cheikh anta diop and others. And try purify your heart of racism

[@arabicmusiclady1428]

@@izwelethutv I'm a Shia Muslim and born a Shia Muslim. You need to stop spreading lies saying Arabs were Black when Arabs come from Western Asia(Middle East) and Allah never created Arabs in Africa or with Black skin. Real Arabs had olive skin especially when hot places and white pale skin in colder places in the Middle East. Arabs also had dark eyes and light eye colors with mostly dark brown hair and black hair with some Arabs even being born with blonde hair and red hair. Arabs never looked like Black Africans. And Ahlul Bayt all married Middle Eastern women mostly Arab and some Persian and Berber. Berber are NOT even Black African.

[@arabicmusiclady1428]

@@izwelethutv I don't hate Black people or anyone from any culture. But I don't like when people spread lies about Middle Eastern Arabs and lies about Ahlul Bayt and lies about Shia Islam. You can be a Shia Muslim if you want, but don't be saying lies about our beautiful Prophet Mohammad and our beautiful Ahlul Bayt.

[@VAswang]

I guess this “ArabMusicLady” has never heard of Hagar. Nor has she studied DNA.

[@celinaismat6456]

May Allah bless each one of you, there is no racism in Shia Muslim because our imams married with black African women so how we are Racist Toward our imam and bibis ???

[@aintnoslice3422]

Just wait till you learn about the Iranian and Shia Arab slave trade

[@C--Ray]

@@aintnoslice3422 and what's your evidence

[@aintnoslice3422]

@@C--Ray What's my evidence of the Muslim slave trade? You serious? Try 1000+ years of archeological and literary evidence. Do you want some scholarly sources? This isn't some grand contested conspiracy, or something [most] muslim historians deny (although, you're evidently the type of muslim who will never admit his religion's wrongs, bet you think there's no evidence of Islamic terrorism either), it was over a Millenia of racism and cruelty and barbarity of trading in human lives.

[@aintnoslice3422]

​@@AliSalehRadhit Shias involvement in the Arab slave trade. Slavery in Persia. Its not hard to grasp.

[@aintnoslice3422]

​@@AliSalehRadhit How much? the evidence of the Arab slave trade is overwhelming in contemporary, and modern documentation. Do you want just the evidence of Shia involvement? Here are historical photos of slavery in Iran www.theguardian.com/world/iran-blog/2016/jan/14/african-slavery-in-qajar-iran-in-photos Here is just one book (among many) documenting the African slave trade in Iran _Enslaved African Women in Nineteenth-Century Iran: The Life of Fezzeh Khanom of Shiraz_ by Iranian Studies lecturer Anthony A. Lee, Phd. Have you heard of the Zanj? Iraqis of black ancestors (descendants of some of the few slaves who weren't brutally castrated) and who still face racism in Shia Iraq today?www.al-monitor.com/pulse/originals/2013/06/black-iraqis-face-discrimination-racism.html Here's the literal declaration of the abolition of slavery from Iran's 1929 Parliament (You needed the presence of slavery to abolish it) rc.majlis.ir/fa/law/show/91872 You can employ all the excuses and apologetics you want: the history of Shia Islam (surprise, just like the history of virtually every religious and ethnic group in the world) is one of violence, prejudice, war, and cruelty, among many other [positive] attributes. Refusing to admit to the crimes of the past is evidence of an extreme insecurity in your identity and faith. The Europeans can admit to the atrocities of their past, why can't muslims? You really going to go and pretend it was 1400 years of sunshine, lollipops, and rainbows?

[@arabicmusiclady1428]

Ok, this documentary is NOT 100% true about the 12 Imams. No one from the 12 Imams married Black African women or Indian women. They married Middle Eastern women such as Arab women, Iranian women, and Berber women. North African Berber women are NOT black. They are from ancient Middle East but moved to North Africa and their DNA is Middle Eastern NOT African. All of the skin colors of the 12 Imams were White skin and olive skin NOT Black skin.

[@brittainpurcelle5611]

Your history is tore up sister. You learned this where?

[@arabicmusiclady1428]

@@brittainpurcelle5611 My history is 100% correct. Many sources have mentioned the wives and mothers of the holy 12 Imams of prophet Mohammad's family. And No one married Indian women or Black women ONLY Middle Eastern women(Arab and Persian) and one married a North African Berber and as I said Berbers in North Africa came from the Middle East NOT Africa.

[@AfG_313]

@@arabicmusiclady1428 who cares

[@bringiraqback]

Yes there were imams married black women

[@rj42074]

So go from one religious racist sect to another 😂😂

[@arabicmusiclady1428]

Imam Jawad was never Black and his mother was never black. All the 12 Imams had wives that were Middle Eastern and Berber. Berbers are from the Middle East but lived in North Africa for hundreds of years. And Imam Jawad had olive skin NOT black skin. No one from the 12 Imams had black skin. All of the 12 Imams had white skin and olive skin like Prophet Mohammad and the rest of Prophet Mohammad's family.

[@iamaffirmations2113]

Firstly get your facts straight, None of the Imams had white skin. As for being Black im not sure so im not going to say anything, but I will say that I do know that the Imams did marry Black women. Secondly Your msg has a racist vibe to it. What's the point behind your msg, You lot are just as bad as the white guys our African American brothers have had to deal with all these years. But the most annoying thing is someone like you "ArabicMusicLady" having an opinion on these Muslim brothers. The marks on their heads tell us a bit about their character and your music filled channel tells me a lot about yours. Sometimes I'm ashamed to be Arab. Especially when Muslim brothers like these guys talk of their experiences. May Allah SWT guide us all.

[@arabicmusiclady1428]

@@iamaffirmations2113 No, You get your facts straight. I'm a 100% Arab born with white skin. Even my family did a DNA test and our DNA showed we are 100% Middle Eastern Arabs and never mixed with anyone and my family has Arab green eyes, Arab blue eyes, brown eyes, and many hair colors with mostly brown hair and black hair. Some of my family are even born with blonde hair on my mother's side. And in ancient times Arabs did have white skin NOT black skin or brown skin. Arabs had two skin colors and they were white pale skin and olive skin.

[@arabicmusiclady1428]

@@iamaffirmations2113 Most of the Shia Muslim Imams had white skin and olive skin with brown eyes and black hair and dark brown hair NOT black skin. And NO the Imams did NOT marry Black women. Some of them married Berber women from North Africa. Berber people are NOT black. Berbers also have white skin and olive skin. They came from ancient Middle East and moved to North Africa. My comment does NOT have any racist vibe. I'm just telling people the truth. This video has some false information about our beautiful Shia Muslim Imams.

[@iamaffirmations2113]

@@arabicmusiclady1428 When you say white peoples are going to assume you mean white as in Anglo white None of the Arabs where every white, Brown, Olive etc But not white That’s a disgusting colour if you ask me. But good luck to you and your white friends.

[@arabicmusiclady1428]

@@iamaffirmations2113 No! NOT White as in Anglo. I'm not even talking about "White people". And there is NO such thing as "White people". I'm talking about skin colors. Arabs in ancient times had White skin and olive skin. This is proven in history as well. And Arabs are Semitic Caucasians from Western Asia(Middle East). They have NO DNA or connection to Black people. Good luck to your brainwashed self. You don't know anything about real Arabs.