Was Bilal (RA) black? Afrocentricity and Islam

[Canuck]

Very interesting. I didn't know that he was Ethiopian. Reading the Wiki article it sounds like he attacked the Kaabah because he was disgusted by the rampant idolatry that was there before Islam. It seems like it was a bit of a misunderstanding.

It is Wikipedia after all, however the real reason was that nobody came to his own kaabah (made of gold ) in Yemen and people prefer the old Kaaba. You don't know how those habashi hated Islam later during middle they tried to help the Portuguese to loot prophet Mohamed 'S grave but Ajuraun/ottoman/Indian sultanate battled them. I will send you video but it is in Arabic.

 

[Canuck]

Very interesting. I didn't know that he was Ethiopian. Reading the Wiki article it sounds like he attacked the Kaabah because he was disgusted by the rampant idolatry that was there before Islam. It seems like it was a bit of a misunderstanding.

 

[Rooble]

Many arabs carry the last name al-habashi referring to their black roots, the idea that all of them had a very specific highlander ethiopian ancestry is crazy. Clearly habash just means black, it may not have had a negative connotation like I said earlier but it encompasses all subsaharan africans.

This is nonsense. I think you are confusing Habesha for the word Ethiopia. Still waiting for map that said South-Morocco was Ard-ul-Habash

 

[SOMALI GENERAL]

The name Habesha is a name used for a specific group of ethnicities in northern Abyssinia. If it just meant black then Somalis would have been grouped with Habesha peoples which is not the case.

 

[John Michael]

This is nonsense. I think you are confusing Habesha for the word Ethiopia. Still waiting for map that said South-Morocco was Ard-ul-Habash

K fair enough I can't find where I read that habash was written towards southern Moroccans but I still stand by what I said and yes I know ethiopia means burnt face.

 

[Issa waraabe]

Bilad al habash also historically referred to southern morroco (guess why) and is used as a nickname for several black historical figures.

Also bilal was a slave where did you get that his hooyo was a princess?

And yes habash and habasha are both used for negro by Somalis. Bahal isn't from the south he's from central Somalia. Stop making it a south vs north thing qaldaan yahow.

Why would Arabs have a very specific term for highlanders? Just why? Doesn't even make sense.

Some Eritreans/Ethiopians know the origins of the word and do not refer themselves as habasha.

Btw, I was pointing out that Isis categorised the black African region that they wanted to conquer as bilad al habash just like it was previously called before.

im from the north, and we dont use habasha as nergro or slave, we use it as the title of their ethnicity, like how they would call us somalis

 

[Rooble]

im from the north, and we dont use habasha as nergro or slave, we use it as the title of their ethnicity, like how they would call us somalis

No one believes you are Issa

 

[Issa waraabe]

No one believes you are Issa

you have it out for me, keep hating honestly. i dont give a f*ck , if my existence triggers you , you probably have some inferiority complex to me

 

[Rooble]

you have it out for me, keep hating honestly. i dont give a f*ck , if my existence triggers you , you probably have some inferiority complex to me

Not hating but you are not Issa

 

[Cinnamon Spice]

He (RA) was a half Horner half Yemeni mix, afaik.

 

[SultanuuFicaan]

Very interesting. I didn't know that he was Ethiopian. Reading the Wiki article it sounds like he attacked the Kaabah because he was disgusted by the rampant idolatry that was there before Islam. It seems like it was a bit of a misunderstanding.

Axum lost their Yemeni territories to the Sassanids eventually. Eventually the Muslims would conquer Yemen in a couple of decades later.