Racism in America and the Role of American Muslims In Combatting It
By Yasir Qadhi | 2026-01-07T22:52:02.32351+00:00 | Topic: Justice
Racism in America and the Role of American Muslims In Combatting It
Opening
Alhamdulillah, all praise is due to Allah, who created us from one pair and made us into nations and diverse tribes. Not a word that we utter except that it is written down by observant angels and watchful scribes. Of his signs is that he has created us from turab, from dust, and made us into many different skin colors.
And of his mercy is that he has united all of the believers, regardless of race, as brothers. May salat and salam be upon the one who taught us that between white and black, there is no superiority. For he said that ranks are raised and nobility conferred, not by skin, but by piety.
Realize, dear Muslims, that Allah has reminded us to be conscious of him when he says in the Quran:
O you who believe! Fear Allah as He should be feared, and die not except in a state of Islam.
The American Reality
As we are all painfully aware, we are all witnessing in horror the events that have unfolded over the last week and a half after the brutal killing in broad daylight of yet another person of color at the hands of police. This came only shortly after a jogger was literally hunted down once again in broad daylight and shot at the hands of people who videotaped that deed and gloated over his death even as they used racial slurs. But these incidents are not random, they are not atypical.
And the reality that most of us live is very, very disconnected from the reality of these stories. The sad fact of the matter is that this country has a long history, a well-documented history of racism and injustice. And while many of us, and in particular those of us who came or whose parents came from other lands, while many of us attempted to live out the American dream, and frankly many of us succeeded in living out that dream, even as we have lived out that American dream, we have failed to acknowledge the American nightmare that the African Americans have had to undergo for the last 400 years.
Historical Context of American Slavery
Beginning with the forced kidnapping and brutal extraction of what would eventually become over 4 million slaves in this land. The manifestation of American slavery was one of the largest and one of the most brutal manifestations of the institutions of slavery in human history. And it was class slavery. It was a
slavery of an entire nation in bondage simply because of the color of their skin and their origin. One class against another class.
And dear Muslims, this is exactly what Allah accuses Firaun of when Firaun separated between his people and between the Bani Israel:
Indeed, Pharaoh exalted himself in the land and made its people into factions, oppressing a sector among them, slaughtering their sons and keeping their females alive.
This is the pharaonic evil of separating people based upon race and skin color, and then subjugating one of them in bondage because one is the superior race.
The Civil War and Its Aftermath
The issue of slavery was the one issue that this country has gone to war over, the civil war. And by the way, even in the civil war, we should not idealize the northern states that fought to free the African American slaves. Because their goal was never to make the slaves equal to the other citizens. Their goal was to create a subjugated class, a second class of citizens that could give them cheap labor and could be taken advantage of. And that is how things continued for yet another century.
The Civil Rights Era
It was only in our generation or the generation before ours that the civil rights, which took place barely a generation ago, many of us fail to realize that the civil rights is still in living memory. There are millions of people, millions of people who participated in the civil rights. They saw themselves the America pre-civil rights and post-civil rights.
This is living real history, it's not something eons ago, it's not something centuries ago. The civil rights is something that took place from the elders of our own generation, they were alive at that time. And what the civil rights did was not to eliminate racism, no.
What it did was to lift the laws that explicitly legalized and legislated bigotry. The civil rights and the success of the civil rights could not erase the actual bigotry. They could not wipe out the actual hatred and feeling of superiority that runs deep in the DNA of this country.
Ongoing Systemic Issues
And therefore, even after the civil rights, the system of this land was set up from birth to act as impediments and barriers to those particular backgrounds. And there is a saying that anthropologists and historians say in America, that zip codes decide your destiny. And what they mean by this is where you are born in this country, it dictates much of your future.
If you're born in the ghetto-wise neighborhoods, if you're born in predominantly African-American neighborhoods, then your entire life has a different trajectory than somebody who is living 2-3 streets away in another zip code. Most of us living in suburbia, most of us living in the upper class of this land do not understand the intentional laws that have been passed to segregate zonally through a legal mechanism to this day, to segregate blacks from whites.
Statistical Realities
And if you look at just any statistic, whether it is education and the education gap, whether it is job prospects, whether it is exposure to crime and violence, whether it is unemployment rate, whether it is the wealth gap, a statistic that I looked up today, and subhanallah, day in and day out, we are continuing to educate ourselves.
I think I know a little bit about this history and land, but the more you study, the more you are shocked. Today, I looked up this statistic, that the median wealth that the black family owns in this land is a shocking 2% of the median amount of wealth that a white family owns. Let that statistic sink in.
2%, if the average white family owns $100,000, 2% of that $2,000 is what the surplus the average African- American family have. Look at the disparity of that gap. Yes, it is true that there are no laws in the books that can legally discriminate now between black and white, but still the shadow of racism, but still the effects of 300 years of bigotry are clear and palpable at every single level of society to those who have to face it.
And of course, statistics we can go on and on, even though this land has around 15% African-Americans, if you look at the prison system, 1 third of the people in jail are African-American. If you look at the statistics of police stopping people on the street, 80% of the people who were stopped by the police in New York in a very exhaustive study done a few years ago, 80% were African-American. And even, by the way, the Caucasians who were stopped, less than 8% of the Caucasians were actually frisked and interrogated.
Understanding Current Unrest
They were simply asked a question and then let go. So what is going to happen when this brutality continues? What is going to happen when this blatant racism continues between people of color and the events of the last few months have shown us that? This is not a justification of the random acts of looting and hooliganism, but those Muslims who concentrate on those random acts and they forget the larger picture, it is exactly the same, and I'm sorry for being blunt here, to concentrate on the crimes of some Palestinians and to ignore the bigger problems that the Palestinians live in. Does any Muslim get irritated by one Palestinian and say, how dare he have done this, and ignore the system of what is causing that anger? Nobody does that.
Then why don't we understand the same reality? We are not justifying anything that is un-Islamic. Of course it is not right to loot and to steal and to break property that does not belong to you, and that is something that is incorrect. But let that not blind us to the reality of 400 years of oppression.
What is going to happen when so much oppression happens? And this is not a justification, it is a contextualization. Now, we can go on and on, and the reason that I wanted to summarize some actual facts is because most of us who are immigrants or children of immigrants, we truly and truly do live in a bubble that is very isolated from the realities of our African American brethren. So I wanted to bring it into the khutbah, but obviously we're giving a Friday khutbah.
Islamic Teachings on Racism
We are all Muslims over here, and I wanted to now link it directly to one of the core teachings of Islam. Now, we all know and we have heard a million khutbahs about how Islam came to abolish racism. But I still believe that most of us do not fully comprehend how integral this aspect was in our deen from its very inception.
Mecca itself, like America, had its own issues of racism and classism. And when Islam came, there is no doubt that the primary focus was the kalima and tawheed and the elimination of idol worship. There's no question about that.
But from the very beginning of this religion, from the very beginning of the revelation of the Qur'an, other aspects were also being instilled in the hearts of the followers of this religion. And one of them, one of the key teachings that dates to the very beginnings of Islam, is that all human beings are equal in the eyes of Allah, regardless of their skin color or their ethnic origin.
Early Mecca: The Al-Walid Incident
And we can give many khutbahs about incidents from the seerah, but I wanted to give you three or four from the beginning, and from the middle, and from the end, to demonstrate the consistency by which our Prophet (صلى الله عليه وسلم) and the Qur'an, it battled racism.
Racism was not revealed, the banning of racism was not revealed in late Medina. And by the way, let me again be honest here, so many of the issues that we love to pounce on and concentrate on, whether it is the hijab, whether it is other things, these were revealed late Medina, the fifth year of the hijrah. Okay, that's good, we talk about everything.
Where and why do we not encourage and talk about eliminating racism, which came with the very beginning of the revelation, which came with the very thrust of this faith, and it was a consistent reality until the end of this tradition.
I quote you, one of the most interesting aspects of the seerah, of early Mecca, that Al-Walid ibn al- Mughirah, and some of the senior members of the Quraysh, and Al-Walid is the father of Khalid, Khalid ibn al-Walid, one of the senior members of the Quraysh, one of the most powerful, one of the richest members of parliament, he was of the Daur al-Nadwa, and he was somebody who was on the fence, he was not like Abu Jahl, and he was also not a convert. Al-Walid was somebody who was interested in Islam, and he once came to Abu Talib with another group of people like him, and he said to Abu Talib that, Oh Abu Talib, your nephew has teachings that we might listen to, we might appreciate, and maybe even convert, but we have one condition that we ask you to place on him, and that is, what was the condition?
Ibn Ishaq mentions that you tell him that when we come into his gathering, he needs to cause Bilal, and Ibn Mas'ud, and Ammar ibn Yasir, by the way Ammar was also a very dark skin, you must ask them to leave the gathering, and we will have a private gathering.
Now, notice here, they did not say to eliminate anti-racism from Islam, they only said when we come, we don't want those people over there, that was the only condition. When we enter the room, those people have to leave, we will not sit down with the likes of them, that is what they said to Abu Talib. Let not the Arabs say that we will sit with the likes of Bilal, and with Ammar, and with others, and they were of course from a different ethnicity, and of course from a different skin color.
Abu Talib rejoiced, he thought this was the breakthrough, and he rushed to the Prophet (صلى الله عليه وسلم),and he said to his nephew that, Oh my nephew, be reasonable, your people have come to you with a very reasonable condition, please don't be hasty, listen to it, and we will solve all of this problem. And the Prophet (صلى الله عليه وسلم) himself, it appears, he was thinking of this, he went to the senior Sahaba, a number of senior Sahaba, they said, Ya Rasulullah, Bilal will understand, you make him up later, tell him, we'll get Waleed, Bilal will understand, he's one of us, we'll make it up to him later on. And perhaps many people were sympathetic to this notion, after all, you are getting al-Waleed, and if you understand who Waleed is, if you understand the power of al-Waleed, the status of al-Waleed, the fame of al-Waleed, if you understand the PR benefit, to have somebody like al-Waleed ibn al-Mughirah on your side, you will perhaps understand why so many of the senior Sahaba, and maybe even more than that, were flirting with this idea.
Allah's Response: Three Quranic Verses
But then Allah revealed, not one, not two, three verses in the Qur'an. Think about that. Somebody as powerful as Waleed, and his only condition, he didn't say, let Islam become a privileged status, only the whites and the Arabs here, no, he didn't say that.
He said, when I come, and my entourage comes, there should be segregation. That's all that he said. He did not care if it was in other gatherings. He just himself did not want to be a part of an equal class
Islam and Racism
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HEADING
How about getting an active role within our own communities? There is so much latent racism. Muslims, remember, when the Quraysh were in front of the Kaaba mumbling bad things about Bilal, Allah sent Jibreel down to inform the Prophet (صلى الله عليه وسلم) of that racist language. Let me be very honest here.
How can we allow snide remarks of micro-racism amongst our own? Oh, people of an Arabic background, stop using slurs like Abid and Zunuj. Oh, people of a desi background, stop using slurs like Kallu and other things. These are disgusting derogatory terms.
Anytime somebody uses these terms, remember Allah sent Jibreel down because the Quraysh were saying bad things. Are you wanting to be on the side of the Quraysh against the side of the Muslims? Do you not understand that just simply being in that gathering and listening to other people crack jokes and make stereotypes, that's a part of the problem.
So I encourage all of you from now on to make it a role for you that you will never be in a gathering where other people, inshaAllah you will not do that, where other people will say something of a negative nature and you will let it pass. Stop that racism and eliminate it, and take an active role like our Prophet (صلى الله عليه وسلم) did to battle against this disease of racism.
Closing Du'a
We lift our hands to Allah. Oh Allah, we ask you on this blessed day that you leave no sin of ours, except that you have erased them. And no sick of ours, except that you have cured them. And no one who has passed away, except that you have forgiven them. And no one in debt, except that you have enriched them.
And no one hungry, except that you have provided for them. And no one who is oppressed, except that you have aided them. With your mercy, ya Allah.
Ya Rahman, we ask you to bless Islam and its people, and the ummah, ya Allah, make it safe and peaceful, and protect it from those who desire for it evil. You are the most majestic, the most powerful. Ya Rahim, raise from us this plague and disease, and bless us instead with comfort and ease, and acceptance of our good deeds.
You are the Hakeem and the Majeed. Oh Allah, we ask you for the good of this world, and the good of the next world, and that you protect us from your anger and your punishment. Oh Allah, accept our good deeds, forgive our mistakes, and make us and our families from the righteous.
Final Salawat
Ibadallah, servants of Allah, Allah has commanded you with a command that he began with himself, and then he seconded with the angels themselves, and then he asked you all and all of us to follow ourselves, for he said:
Indeed, Allah confers blessing upon the Prophet, and His angels ask Him to do so. O you who have believed, ask Allah to confer blessing upon him and ask Allah to grant him peace.
Oh Allah, pray for him, and submit yourselves to him, and bless and bless your servant and messenger Muhammad, and his family, and all his companions.
Ibadallah, servants of Allah, Allah has commanded you to do justice, to do good, and to be kind to your relatives, and to forbid immorality, to be unrighteous, and to be rebellious. He warns you, so that you may remember. Remember Allah, the Great, and He will remember you, and be grateful to Him, and He will increase for you.
And remember Allah, the Great.