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The Hijra: Movement of God's People
Omid Safi
The Islamic calendar does not begin with the year of Muhammad's birth (as the Christian calendar begins with the birth of Christ), nor does it begin with the commencement of revelation to Muhammad. Rather, it begins with this purposeful move of the Prophet Muhammad from Mecca to what became known as Medina. This migration, the Muslim Exodus, established the model community under Muhammad's rule and care. This was the emigration to Yathrib, the city that would be renamed Madina al-nabi ("the City of the Prophet") and forever after known simply as Medina ("the City"). Like much of the Prophet's actions, this movement has been remembered both for itself, and also for the larger symbolism of the need to spiritually and politically move to a state of emancipation. There are other similar moves in other traditions, whether it is the Exodus of the Hebrews, or the Rastafarian tradition remembering, as Bob Marley put it, the Movement of Jah People. Muhammad's migration to Medina would be known as the Hijra, and it is the quintessential marking point of Islamic history.
The context was urgent, and timely: The pagans of Mecca were stepping up their persecution of Muhammad and his followers. Whereas in the beginning of Muhammad's prophetic career the persecution was directed at the marginalized members of the Prophet's community, now there were clear indications that Muhammad's own life was in grave danger. In fact, the Meccans were planning the imminent assassination of the Prophet. It was at this time that providential grace provided an opening: a community of people from Yathrib, a city two hundred miles away from Mecca came to Muhammad, offering their allegiance to him and asking him to come to their city to help them settle their tribal disputes. They had been long impressed by Muhammad's qualities as the Amin ("the Trustworthy") and saw him as having the Solomonic wisdom to arbitrate among them.
After Muhammad's dear wife, Khadija, passed away, his two closest friends were Ali and Abu Bakr, a respected elder of the community. Both would play crucial roles in this migration. Muhammad had Ali assume the dangerous task of sleeping in his stead in his bed while the band of assassins waited outside the Prophet's house. Muhammad covered Ali in his green shawl and had him repeat a verse of Surah Ya-Sin as protection. Meanwhile, Muhammad and Abu Bakr took to the road, heading toward Yathrib. Standing outside the city, Muhammad looked back lovingly on Mecca and said: "Of all God's earth, you are the dearest place unto me, and the dearest unto God. Had not my people driven me out from you, I would not have left you."
The Hijra was neither an abandonment of Mecca nor the forgetting of where one had come from. It was the determination to rise up from oppression, with the intention of returning eventually to redeem even the oppressor. This Muhammad would accomplish at the end of his life through his triumphant return home. But before he could liberate Mecca, he had to move to the city where the Muslim community would become established.
Muhammad and Abu Bakr eventually arrived in Yathrib and were received with joy and beautiful poetry composed in honor of the Prophet. Ali too would join them in a few days. It had taken him three full days to disperse all the goods that Muhammad's enemies and others had entrusted him with, a further indication of the level of trust all had had in the very soul they were persecuting.
When Muhammad arrived in Medina, his address there was simple, and a reminder of the need to connect acts of worship with care for the poor:
O people, give unto one another greetings of Peace; feed food unto the hungry; honor the ties of kinship; pray in the hours when men sleep. Thus shall you enter Paradise in peace.
The first communal action in Medina was establishing the Mosque, truly the first Muslim mosque. Muhammad himself joined in the building task, and he was fond of reciting a line of poetry as he worked:
No life there is but the life of the Hereafter,
O God, have mercy on the Helpers and the Migrants.
One of the ways in which God's mercy rained down on the Helpers (the Ansar, those from Medina who received the Prophet) and the Migrants (the Muhajirs, those who accompanied Muhammad from Mecca) was through a bond of brotherhood. Muhammad's first declaration was to alter the social fabric of the Yathrib (now Medina) community. He had each member of the Helpers pair up with a member of the Migrants, establishing a bond of faith that bypassed, transcended and inverted tribal connections and socioeconomic class status. Muhammad's own faith-brother would be none other than Ali.
In one of his first speeches, Muhammad preached the following sermon:
Praise belongs to God whom I praise and whose praise I implore. We take refuge in God from our own sins and from the evil of our acts. He whom God guides none can lead astray; and whom He leads astray none can guide. I testify that there is no God but He alone, and He is without comparison... Love what God loves. Love God with your hearts, and weary not of the word of God and its mention. Harden not your hearts from it... Love one another in the spirit of God. Verily God is angry when His covenant is broken. Peace be upon you.
This community was one based on faith in God and love for one another "in the spirit of God," as this speech enjoined them to do. It was in Medina that the general moral outlines of Muhammad's teachings became linked with a full set of ethical, legal and social injunctions. In Mecca, Muhammad received the Divine call that placed him in the footsteps of Abraham, and in the line of Biblical prophets. It was that purposeful movement from Mecca to Medina that established the Muslim community, one that would remain rooted in the spirit of God, carrying the fragrance of the Prophet.
As the Prophet moved from Mecca to Medina, Muslims today, and every day, hope to leave behind and beyond the state of injustice, heedlessness and tyranny, to move to the higher spiritual ground of a community rooted in the spirit of God and the love of one another, and then to come back to redeem that very state of tyranny and injustice. That is the loftiest way to remember and honor the movement of God's people.
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Jean-Francois Millet (French, 1814-1875)
The Sewing Lesson, ca. 1860
Charcoal and pastel on cream laid paper 15 in. x 12 in. (38.1 cm x 30.48 cm)
Crocker Art Museum Purchase1976.11
Born to a peasant family in Gruchy in Normandy, Millet became known for introducing peasant imagery to paintings that emphasized the humble dignity of laborers. Trained by the painters Dumouchel and Langlois, he entered the École des Beaux-Arts on scholarship in 1837 and studied with Paul Delaroche for two years. The artist moved frequently in his early career, especially after the early death of his first wife. In Paris, he met artists of the Barbizon school such as Théodore Rousseau, but he had more success at the Salon than that often-refused artist. In the late 1840s and 1850s he began to receive French government commissions and private ones from French and American patrons. By 1870, he was elected to the Salon jury, and he died a wealthy and respected artist.
Previously unpublished, this pastel is related to an unfinished painting of a similar subject in the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. Though the figures are closely related, the pastel and the painting differ in the background: the landscape is more distant in the painting, the basket of mending stands on a stool rather than the ground, and the cat has moved from one side of the windowsill to the other. Both painting and pastel evoke tender affection in a humble world.


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rap, k33p it gang$ta
Oct 2 2007, 03:51 AM
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I noticed there's a metal thread on here but no rap thread. maybe none of you listen to hip hop but I do. maybe this thread will sink into oblivion. but anyway
what rap are you 'feeling'. as the saying goes.
Beastie boys (older stuff)
Ugly duckling
People under the stairs
a lot of US stuff from the 90's
Nas 'Illmatic'
I'm not talking about 50 Cent tbh, but add on...
Oct 2 2007, 05:32 AM
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I dig the beastie boys too, mostly their eighties stuff. In that same vien I also like the early, early, RHCP rap stuff. But for the most part I like the 'rap with a message' stuff. My favorites are Sweatshop Union, Kyprios, K'naan. I also really like M.I.A., she counts as rap, right? Others that I like include Lauryn Hill and Zion I (although I have not heard alot of thier stuff, just a few tracks). I am also partial to Eminem. I know that he is homophobic and misogynistic, and i dislike this, but I think he has talent. As of late he has not quite shown this, but in the past...
Plus I really dig spoken word, which is not quite what you were getting at but still apart of the definition of rap.
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Oct 2 2007, 06:58 AM
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Another thumbs up for the Beastie Boys here, I've got pretty much all their albums and it seems they go from strength to strength. Their earliest work hasn't dated well but you can still listen to it.
I also enjoy the Wu Tang Clan, some of their stuff is pretty amazing, some is a bit poor.
Oct 2 2007, 07:31 AM
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I don't know much about rap. But as a product of my generation I was pretty into De La Soul, NWA, Public Enemy, Cypress Hill ands the Beasties at the beginning of the 90's.
Also I have to put Grandmaster Flash (who I saw on my 21st birthday) as the top guy in bringing samples to rap and Gill Scott Heron for being a great expressive poet (and Grandson of a Celtic FC player).
Peace. Out.
Oct 2 2007, 09:49 AM
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The Beasties for me, and that's about it.
The Gangster Rap stuff is vile in it's treatment of people, and especially women, and anyone who likes Snoop is a seriously misguided person. He's a pretty nasty piece of work.
Oct 2 2007, 04:28 PM
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i've long been a huge advocate of kanye west, although i was a little disappointed with graduation, the college dropout is one of my favourite albums ever. aside from him, i'm a big fan of madvilliany by madvillain, which was a collaborative album between madlib and mf doom. it's a really original album, with short tracks, great hooks and clever samples. mf doom himself is also great, as are danger doom, another collaborative effort, this time from doom and dangermouse. i've also recently been trying to get into black star, which was the album by mos def and talib kweli in the mid-90s. want to try and get some nas and mos def solo stuff. however, i'm much more intrigued by the earlier stuff like a tribe called quest, who i'm not at all familiar with, though i'd like to be.
Oct 2 2007, 04:31 PM
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Beastie boys
Ugly duckling
People under the stairs
Mos Def
MF Doom
Suger Hill Gang
Grandmaster Flash
Public Enemy
Tribe Called Quest
De La Soul
Q Tip
I could go on & on & on.... & a well it's on and a on and on on and on
the beat dont stop until the break of dawn....
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Oct 2 2007, 08:15 PM
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I'm more a fan early hip-hop, particularly Grandmaster Flash and that era, as well as the stuff that started to appear in the early 90s. 3 Feet High and Rising being one of my favourite albums ever, I am a huge fan of De La Soul, though much of their stuff after that album doesn't really impress me, then again it is a pretty perfect album, so everything after would always disappoint.
I used to like Eminem but on his last two 'proper' albums (The Eminem Show and Encore) the wit and humour seemed to be missing and the whole thing was swamped with dull beats and some really leaden production. I've not written him off completely, but his frequent guest appearances with Akon et al. just underline how poor his current work is.
As with many others, I adore the Beasties, particularly Paul's Boutique.
Of the more recent artists Kanye West and MF Doom (and his various guises) have been the ones I've been most drawn to, but aside from them Common always delivers the goods and I think that Lupe Fiasco has a bright career ahead of him if he can build on last year's Food and Liquor. Dangermouse has also delivered some great work as a producer, so anything he sticks his name on will always get5 me interested.
M.I.A.'s two albums so far (she blurs the boundaries a bit but there's enough hip-hop influence for her to qualify) have also been superb and she's a fantastic artist. Hopefully she won't pack it in too soon, as she has been saying she will in recent interviews.
The Black Star album is a great piece of work but I've been pretty disappointed with Mos Def's subsequent work. Black on Both Sides is wonderful but The New Danger was really weak. Talib has been more interesting, though.
Apart from NWA, gangster rap really doesn't appeal to me, particularly the more recent stuff. It's kind of hard to find even an ounce of credibility in a multi-million singing about ''the streets''.
And Public Enemy as well, but they go without saying.
There's many others but I'd be here for far too long writing about them.
Damn, forgot two:
Roots Manuva. Love everything the man has done and think he is one of our finest, most idiosyncratic rappers.
Dizzee Rascal. He's a divisive fellow but I personally can't help but love him.
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Oct 2 2007, 10:42 PM
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20 years ago I used to listen to old school stuff like the Beastie Boys and Public Enemy, but not any more. My tastes veered away from rap after that, until more recent years.
But generally, I listen to very few rap artists, the top of said list being Roots Manuva - intelligent and often very humourous lyrics, if a little dark at times. But exceptionally good.
Much like Ed said above, I really enjoyed Eminem's early material - his first album especially was the funniest thing I'd heard in music in years. His latest material has become so venomous now that there's very little to enjoy, frankly. I still listen to the Slim Shady LP every now and then.
One other rapper I quite like is Mos Def, whom I first discovered via his guesting on Scritti Politti's album Anomie & Bonhomie in 1999. His album Black On Both Sides is worth checking out.
Oct 3 2007, 05:19 PM
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I'd also just like to mention Missy Elliott, who has managed to craft a particular niche for herself and give support for a number of other acts. She's also made a couple of albums that stand up amongst the best the genre has to offer, in my opinion.
Oct 3 2007, 05:26 PM
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prince paul.
Oct 6 2007, 11:18 PM
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I'm not much into rap... I can deal with legitimate acts rapping like Prince, George Clinton, James Brown etc because at least they have a real band behind them.
What I dislike about rap is the music behind them, which is lazy, computerised wank. That or they just sample somebody else's music.
For instance, Kanye West - his method seems to be taking a good song by somebody else and then talking all over it - he is a systematic ruiner of other people's art.
I also don't really like the ideologies perpetuated by a lot of rap acts. I interviewed James Brown just under a year ago and he said;
"I don't wanna rag on rap because I was there at the start of that... but nowadays I won't rap, I only sing. We have children out there with guns because this music is giving them negative identity. We need to give kids positive identity. On the album we got a song... Gutbucket... to address the rappers. We gotta help these kids and music is the only way."
I didn't even ask him about rap But he told me anyway.
Later he told Rev Sharpton;
"When did we start celebrating being down? How did we get from 'Say It Loud, I'm Black and Proud' to calling each other niggers, hos and bitches? I sang people up and now they're singing them way back down again."
Oct 7 2007, 10:31 AM
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No love for UK rapping?
You should watch some Channel U once in a while. Some of it's good, NOX, a group from Sheffield are very good indeed, but most is hilariously bad. Try and catch one featuring the god-awful 'Ozmosys' of John Lennon's Imagine ruining infamy and The Firm, together with the tiny troll opera singer who appeared on the X Factor.
Although N-Dubz have become a real guilty pleasure for me as a consequence.
Oct 7 2007, 01:50 PM
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i've seen channel u before, some of it is horrific slash awesome.
QUOTE (Ghost_862 @ Oct 6 2007, 11:18 PM)
I'm not much into rap... I can deal with legitimate acts rapping like Prince, George Clinton, James Brown etc because at least they have a real band behind them.
i don't think that's fair at all. you can't say that rap artists aren't legitimate musicians; in some cases, yes, you can criticise their originality and misogyny in many cases, but there are a host of brilliant rap artists, many of whom are mentioned above. for instance, many of the original rap groups sounded nothing like the 'bitches and ho's' of modern times. groups like de la soul, the beastie boys, grandmaster flash or a tribe called quest wouldn't be accused of not being legitimate groups. kanye west, jay-z, mf doom and madvillain are just a handful of recent artists and groups who shake off the stereotypes of rap.
i think you should listen to a lot more rap before making brash statements about the genre as a whole.
Oct 7 2007, 01:55 PM
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It's also worth pointing out that some rap artists do perform with live bands, rather than just using electronics, though there's nothing wrong with electronic music at all. Kanye West, in particular, has toured numerous times with a full live band to accompany him and has used them on his last two albums.
On the question of sampling, it's all really down to a difference of opinion. I personally think that sampling is a wholly valid artform as long as the sample chosen is not the whole focus of the song and the use of it creates something which is wholly new, despite the fact that it is made up of a mix of new and old material. For example, De La Soul used dozens of samples from a wide range of artists and sources for their debut album 3 Feet High and Rising and the combination of these made for one of the thrillingly original and fresh sounding albums ever made. As with any form of music, the laziness of artists in choosing how they assemble their songs shows in their quality; when a rap artist uses a sample just for the sake of it, it's usually terrible, as can be heard on Kanye West's last single where he just stuck a Daft Punk sample in and did little else to it. When done well, sampling can transcend the technical limitations of the practice, as with any musician or musical style.
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