NEITHER CHRISTIAN NOR HEATHEN

When many historians analyze African and African American religions. they usually concentrate on indigenous African religions and the conversion of Africans in America to Christianity. Included in the discussion is the establishment and development of the Black church in America. Themes usually not mentioned are a few Africans were already Christians before their capture, some Africans retained their indigenous religious beliefs in whole or in part, and a significant number of Africans were Muslims.
There is a historical union between Islam and Africans. According to Islamic tradition and Ibn Ishaq, a biographer of Muhammad, it was an Ethiopian named Bilal Ibn Rabah who first called the Muslims to prayer. Born in Mecca, Bilal was one of the initial converts to Islam, preached in 1610 by a local merchant of Mecca named Muhammad the Prophet. In 622 during the Hijra, the emigration of Muhammad and his followers from Mecca to Medina, Bilal accompanied the Prophet over the next decade as macebearer, steward, and as his muezzin. There is some confusion over Bilal’s history after the Prophet’s death in 632, but it seems he may have accompanied Muslim armies to Syria where he may have died between 638 and 642.
Bilars finest hour came in January. 630. on an occasion regarded as one of the most hallowed moments in Islamic history. After the Muslim forces had captured Makkah [Mecca], the Prophet’s muezzin ascended to the top of the Kaaba to call the believers to prayer-the first time the call to prayer was heard within Islam’s holiest city.

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NEITHER CHRISTIAN NOR HEATHEN

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