Dr. Wesley Muhammad, Origins of the Religion of Islam: Mecca and the Ancient Cult of the Black God Paperback – January 20, 2025

The common rhetoric holds that Islam is a foreign and imposed religion originating from the so-called “white Arabs”. Unfortunately, there is no such thing as "white Arabs". Arabs themselves never identified as "white". Dr. Wesley Muhammad brings us forth a tremendous amount of scholarship to restore history where it accurately belongs far from ideological distortion. Islam has always been the Religion of the Black Man. Ancient Yemen and Arabia were inhabited by Black population long before a great migration from east to west took place. Historical knowledge about the original Arabs of ancient times being Black has been deliberately concealed and suppressed. Most people still ignore that the original Arabs of ancient times were Black. Also, the truth of the matter is that, the Hebrews, the cousins of the Arabs, were Black or a dark-skinned people as well. Many of the people and tribes in what is called Africa are of the same origin as the people on the Arabian Peninsula. The Arabian Peninsula and the so-called African continent were once connected. Allah created Adam from black mud. Adam’s color is the simple rendition of the black mud fabric. The expression black and adam were used interchangeably. The term “shadeed el-udma” used by the Arabs make reference to the Arabs. Shadeed-el-umda means “very adam” or jet black, dark brown like the mud from earth. Khafat ibn Nadba, one of the “Arab Crows” is described as “shadeed al-udma”, meaning very adam. The expression “Arab Crows” refers to the famous Arab poets of the past who were jet black in color, like a crow. Antar Ibn Shaddaad was one of the Arab Crows. The Arab writers of the 8th century A.D. recalled that “the Arabs took pride in their black complexion”. It is reported that the Prophet Muhammed said, “I was sent to the Blacks and the Red”. The term “Blacks” means the Arabs, and the expression “Reds” means the Romans, the Persians and their neighbors. Thus, ancient Black Arabia, the matrix of Islam, is an integral component of the Black Man Civilizational paradigm. De facto, Islam as the veneration of Allah as the supreme God predated the prophet Muhammad by millennia. The Blacks in Arabia were the originators of this veneration. The early Islam of ancient Arabia ritualistically recognized the Black Man as "god" through religious ceremonies with the Ka’ba in Mecca. One must turn to the secret meaning of the Ka’ba to fully understand what this ancient religion was all about. Architecturally, the Kaʿba personifies and symbolizes the First Adam, the first Khalifa or vicegerent of God on earth. The Ka’ba is the symbol of Adam as Allah’s god or representative here on earth. In Arabic, Adam is called insān, which means “Man” but it also means “pupil” of the eye. Adam is the pupil of Allah’s eye as the actual instrument of his divine vision. Aḷḷāh sees and experiences his creation through Adam, His Khalīfa, His Image (Ṣūra), and His Right Hand on Earth (Yamīn Aḷḷāh fī l-ard). The Qur’ān describes Aḷḷāh forming Adam from black mud (ḥamaʾ) and then blowing His Divine Breath – rūh – into Adam, and then calling the angels to prostrate on the ground to Adam. The breath of Aḷḷāh, rūh, is a manifestation of Aḷḷāh’s Light, nūr. Aḷḷāh and His Divine Light, are maḥjūb “veiled,”. Adam is the veil, or the ḥijāb of God. That is what stands behind the practice of wearing the hijab. Because Aḷḷāh’s Divine Light and Breath inhabited Adam and was veiled by Adam, Adam was the first and the true Bayt Aḷḷāh or House of God. Adam was the Living Kaʿba or living temple of Allah. Adam is the reality (ḥaqīqa) behind the stone cubical house in Mecca, which is only the symbol (mithāl) pointing to Adam as the symbolized reality (mamthūl). The reason that the most prominent feature of the Kaʿba is the black veil or kiswa (“garment”) is because Adam’s black body veiled Aḷḷāh’s Divine Light on earth. The carbon-made, melanin-accessorized bodily garment of God (the Black Man) is symbolized by the clothing of the Kaʿba, the kiswa. This is the secret of the Islam’s holiest house.

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