Islam, the True Faith, the Religion of Humanity - Paperback

by Muhammed Abdullah Al-Ahari (Author), Shaykh Daoud Ahmed Faisal (Author)

Shaykh Daoud taught Islam from the Great Depression until the seventies as a religion that was the true light of the Civil Rights Movement. This father of American Islam paved the road for the Dar-ul-Islam, Jamil al-Amin, the Fuqara, Imam Isa and the Nuwabians, and Brooklyn's Masjid Farooq through his Islamic Mission to America. This work Islam, the True Faith, the Religion of Humanity is the first collected work from his pen.

Author Biography

Sheikh Daoud Ahmad Faisal was a contemporary of Sufi Abdul Hamid. Sheikh Daoud was born in 1891 to a devout Muslim family of Caribbean and Moroccan background. He came to the United States as a young man. In 1920 he married his wife Khadijah. She become a dutiful aid to his Islamic work which ranged from his founding of the Islamic Propagation Center of America in 1928 at 143 State Street in Brooklyn to his establishment of the Muslim Village Madinah al-Salaam near Fishkill, New York in 1934 (it lasted to 1942). He was always a Muslim pioneer in all his endeavors. This venerable Muslim leader was active in propagating Islam and trying to explain away misconceptions about Islam and present Islam in a form palatable to the American people till his death in Feb., 1980. He left a great legacy to our Muslim Youth in his monumental 280 pp. work Islam: the True Faith, the True Religion of Humanity (Islamic Propagation Center, Brooklyn, 1965). The work he carried out as the United States Muslim Representative to the United Nations has no equal. No one else called for equality and justice for all minorities in quite as loud and articulate voice as he had.