As-Sabiqun
| Founder | |
|---|---|
| Abdul Alim Musa | |
| Religions | |
| Islam |
The As-Sabiqun (Arabic: السَّابِقُونَ) is an American Muslim organization under the leadership of founder Imam Abdul Alim Musa, based in Washington, D.C. and with branches in Oakland (led by speaker and activist Amir Abdul Malik Ali), Philadelphia, Los Angeles, San Diego, and Sacramento. As-Sabiqun is identified as a hate group by the Southern Poverty Law Center.
The organization was created by African-American Muslim convert Imam Abdul Alim Musa in the early 1990s at the Masjid Al-Islam mosque in Oakland, California. The name As-Sabiqun, is approximately translated from Arabic as "the vanguard". The inspiration for the name comes from the verse in the Quran (9:100):
The vanguard (of Islam) – the first of those who forsook (their homes) and of Those who gave them aid and (also) Those who follow them in good deeds. – Well pleased is Allah with them. As they are with Him. For them hath He prepared Gardens under which rivers flow. To dwell therein for ever. That is the Supreme Felicity.
The organizational leadership has delivered numerous speeches in the United States and abroad, offering its analysis and contributing its efforts to solving contemporary problems in the Muslim world and in urban America. The group's paramount goal is the establishment of a modern Islamic state, or Caliphate, governed by shariah (Islamic law).
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