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Imam Jamil Abdullah Al-Amin: Address
to the world Muslim Ummah: on the
occasion of the 2nd Annual
Strengthening the Muslim Family
Conference,
8 Nov. 03
Source: Jihad Unspun
The Muslim Ummah is urging brothers and
sisters to contribute funds to his legal
defense, or to write to him and strengthen
the bonds of the Ummah through the prison
walls.--Majdur
Imam Jamil Abdullah Al-Amin:
To The Muslim Family
Nov 08, 2003
By Imam Jamil Abdullah Al-Amin
As-salaamu'alaikum wa Rahmatullah:
Imam Jamil at his West End Grocery Store
Imam Jamil Abdullah Al-Amin was a leader
of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating
Committee [SNCC] in the 1960’s under the
name H. Rapp Brown. He was convicted of
killing a Sheriff’s Deputy and wounding
another in Atlanta, GA, 13 March 2002 and
was sentenced to life imprisonment plus 35
years.
Imam Jamil leads one of the nation's largest
Black Muslim groups, the National Ummah.
The movement, which has formed 36
mosques around the nation, is credited with
revitalizing poverty-stricken pockets such as
Atlanta's West End, where he owned a
grocery store. Since the 1960’s he has been
a leader and an icon of the liberation
struggle in the United States.
Throughout his internment, his civil, human
and religious rights have been denied to him.
He is under continuous 23-hour lock down
status and is denied the right to observe
Friday Jumaah services. Imam Jamil’s
frame-up and wrongful imprisonment are
indicative of the brutality and desperation of
the bourgeois capitalist system. He who
struggles for Al-Amin, struggles for all.
I begin in the Name of ALLAH, Most
Gracious, Most Merciful. I bear witness that
there is only One God, worthy of all praise
and worship, and He is ALLAH. I seek
ALLAH's protection from Satan, the
rejected. I pray that ALLAH's peace and
blessings be upon the Prophet of ALLAH,
(Muhummad, son of Abdallah), his family
and those who follow him.
ALLAH (SWT) has revealed in His Book
(al-Qu'ran) ... "O Mankind! Reverence your
Guardian-Lord, who created you from a
single person. Created, of like nature, his
mate, and from them twain scattered (like
seeds) countless men and women. Fear
ALLAH, through whom you demand your
mutual (rights), and (reverence) the wombs
(that bore you): for ALLAH ever watches
over you." (Koran 4:1)
The Prophet (PBUH) said, "Paradise is at
the foot of the mother." He instructed his
followers, "the best amongst you is he who
is best to his family, and he said I am best to
my family."
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May ALLAH raise the Muslims. I ask
ALLAH to guide my heart and tongue.
Islam is a consciousness of the will and plan
of ALLAH and a joyful submission to that
will and plan. True commitment demands
consistency. This is firmness of purpose.
ALLAH says HE has "created man for toil
and struggle." Conscious struggle is an
inescapable reality. Truth and falsehood will
always be in conflict, and truth must always
win in the end (for it is as ALLAH wills).
Truth is a trust; falsehood is a treason. Every
claim must and will be tested; faith is a
claim. Our faith must be tested. The lack of
faith will crush you far more than defeat
ever could. Reality cannot be learned by the
intellect alone; it must be apprehended by
the total personality, by the imagination as
well as the mind (a human revolution). Only
ALLAH rekindles the spirits so that they
burst forth like springs, so that nations may
be built around them.
Islam is the way those who are exiles in
spirit define themselves in terms of
themselves and not someone else.
The Prophet said, "If you imitate a people,
then you are of that people." Cultural
dependence brings with it economic and
political dependence (slavery). There is no
such thing as a neutral educational process.
Being oppressed is a conscious experience.
Defeat goes deeper into the human soul than
victory. The sickness of oppression
systematically verifies itself anytime a slave
can only become "free" by imitating his
master. Miseducation is an act of social and
psychological displacement - a method and
curriculum - adverse to the needs and
interests of the oppressed. Ignorance is the
sterile prison of the human spirit. The
ignorant listen and in their deafness accuse
ALLAH of being silent ... they look and in
their blindness they think that ALLAH does
not see. Theirs is the sleep that chases the
dream.
To be healthy, our life must come from a
high moral system, which can have no basis
except that which is favored by our Creator.
"The life of this world is alluring to those
who reject faith, and they scoff at those who
believe. But the righteous will be above
them on the Day of Resurrection; for
ALLAH bestows His abundance without
measure on whom He will." (Koran 2:212)
May ALLAH give us good in this life and
may He raise us in the Hereafter in the
company of the righteous. If I have said
anything that is offensive, may ALLAH
forgive me and may you forgive me. Know
that all praise is due to ALLAH, the
mistakes are mine.
In Peace Strong. In Battle Strongest.
Imam Jamil Abdullah Al-Amin
To correspond with Imam Jamil, write to
him at the following address:
Imam Jamil Abdullah Al-Amin
GDC#: 1104651
Georgia State Prison
2164 GA Hwy 147
Reidsville, Georgia 30499-9701
To make a contribution to Imam Jamil’s
defense fund write to:
The Justice Fund
P.O. Box 93963
Atlanta, GA 30377
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