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He recited some Quran, their eyes flowed with tears. Then they answered the call of Allah, believed in Him, accepted the truth of Muhammad and recognized in him what used to be described to them in their book about his coming. 4 As has been stated, all this took place in the lifetime of the Prophet Muhammad. The Message was then incomplete in detail, but not in essence and fundamentals. These had been revealed and advocated almost as soon as Islam was declared. 5 When asked about their faith, Gafar bin Abi Talib is said to have spoken on behalf of his colleagues before the Negus, in the presence of officers of the Ethiopian church and state and in the presence of their Meccan enemies, led by Amr bin al-As and others, who sought to discredit the Muslims in the eyes of their protector the Negus and thereby secure their extradition to Mecca.

The official documents of the labourers’ organizations; the clandestine circulars, reports, pamphlets and books of the secret Communist Party; the short-lived paper edited by Uthman Ahmad Umar, al-Shabab (the Young) and Abdalla Rajab’s paper al-Saraha (Candour) all reflected the rising radical mood. It is in them that one finds the intellectual milieu of the then budding poets Gaily, Jaafer Hamid al-Bashir, Salah Ahmad Ibrahim, Taj al-Sirr al-Hasan and many others. 21 Traditional Islamic culture was also changing with the times, to have its place in the cultural and political scene.

Rather, it has been open over the centuries to influences from the experiences of all the Muslim world, then expanding in Asia, Europe and Africa and later [36] 592 Apsects of Islam 04 1/8/07 1:04 PM Page 37 THE GROW TH AND IMPACT OF ISL AM IN AFRICA subjected to the expansion of Europe. While bringing in new concepts and new cultural traditions to these areas, Islam also moulded or absorbed and redirected many existing ideas within its own order of things. In the end, one sees the cultural aspects of Islam in all the spheres of man’s life where it was fully embraced – a definite identity of the society and the individual.

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