Amazon Bestselling Author and Writer Brother Dash
Part 1 With Shaykh Abdallah Adhami We have a conversation with Shaykh Abdallah Adhami, founder and director of Sakeenah, Inc. on these are other issues related to culture and identity in the West. The Chaipod was a series of podcasts I produced. We had 6 episodes. This first episode deals with culture, identity and Islam. Read More …
There is a definition of music known as the Social Construct view. This view states that music is what people call music and it is dependent on time and culture. So what constitutes song and even dance today is not necessarily what would be recognized as such during the time of the Prophet Muhammad peace be upon him. So when we talk about music being permissible we are not talking about the “music” of Britney Spears, Gangster Rap, or that which accompanies various forms of vice. Read More …
One of my most requested poems it deals with the often unspoken reality of racism and culturalism when it comes to who we allow our children to marry as Muslims. Tidbit: 1st time this poem was performed was at The British Library in London. Read More …
You see Michael was the first artist that made White people want to actually BE a Black man and not simply admire his talent. Sure you had the great Nat King Cole, Ray Charles, James Brown, Stevie Wonder and a host of other Motown greats. Yes you had Sidney Poitier, Harry Belafonte, the likes of Duke Ellington, Ella Fitzgerald, Bill Cosby and even the social behemoths Martin Luther King, Jr. and Malcolm “El Hajj Malik Al-Shabazz” X. But none of them made Non-Black people want to BE this Black man from the humble streets of Gary, Indiana. None of them had Russian Women, Pakistani Men, Japanese teenagers AND straight thugged out Brownsville, Brooklyn Project Black brothers pretending to be him in the mirror. I bet even Ronald Reagan tried to moonwalk at least once. Read More …