This audio is brought to you by Muslim Central.com. The discussion is meaningful solidarity. Meaningful solidarity comes through a sense of

recognition of the value of the people with whom we stand and meaningful solidarity comes of a recognition of the issue

that binds us together.

Those are two separate things.

So part of it is recognizing our pioneers that we would not be able to stand the way that we do as

Muslims in America had it not been for the great people that sister Aisha just

spoke about briefly.

And Dr Sherman Jackson mentioned something recently that I think is very important.

He said, 10 times the slaves that came to America went to Brazil.

Yet you don't see a large indigenous Muslim group in Brazil.

You see it here in the United States. Why is it that Allah chose

this place to have expressions of Islam in the 20th century lead to Islam in the 20th century and the autobiography of

Al-Hajmarikishabaz Rahimah Allah to Allah the fruit in Muhammad Ali may

Allah have mercy on him, the continuation in so many different

forms and so many different groups that continue to upholda in the indigenous sense and still the African American

community being the largest group of Muslims in America. Why is it that

Allah chose this place for that and what is the

hicma of that what's the wisdom of that first of all a recognition that they

gave us shoulders to stand on as an American Muslim community as a whole and

there's something important to be mentioned here.

Muslim and black are not mutually exclusive.

So when you talk about the Muslim community

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