As a muslim Fulani from west Africa I’m so proud of my ancestors who maintained their faith and culture. May his soul rest in peace in jannatoul firdaws 🤲🏾
I'm not Muslim nor so far as I know, I'm not acquainted with any Muslims. Also, I am not black nor did my ancestors own any enslaved persons, even being from the South. They were Quakers and actually assisted escapees. I'm proud of that heritage. Until watching this, I was unaware of enslaved nor "free" Muslims nor any of the hisory of Islam in the US or "before we were the US." I thoroughly enjoyed this program and will be reading and watching articles on Islam. THANK YOU for such an interesting program!
I appreciate people who open their hearts to or seek knowledge so dear if you ever have time google a book called BEYOND BILAL about early black or African muslims.
@@bouchraelh82 Let's not forget also, that Arabs played a huge and a most proactive role in the capture and enslavement of Black Africans that were sold in the transatlantic trade! As a matter of fact, unlike the Europeans who were wholly concerned with West Africa, the Arabs were predominant all over East, West and North Africa and even Europe! And it didn't make a difference to them what faith the hapless Africans were !! Just saying!! 👊🏾🇳🇬👊🏾🇳🇬!!
The portrait of Yarrow is so beautiful, you can see the light in his face! I can’t imagine the kind of light he emanated in person. May Allah have mercy on him and allow us to meet our brothers and sisters in Jannah.
This is a history every black American, if not all Americans need to know. Our African siblings went through alot, may Allah deliver them his justice, ameen.
@@leila1965100 what is there to forget about North African? The atrocities y’all ancestors cause to subsaharian such as the hidden genocide castrating, killing them, the Almoravid or is it the current situation on how y’all treat them? We are in a globalization era every single thing is known and accessible to everyone. 🤦🏾♀️
You are wrong. As an African I can tell you that we had our own type of beliefs. Christianity comes from the western colonialism and Islam comes from the Middle East invasion to North Africa. Each tribe used to practice their own customs which was different to those two and still to this day in most of African countries.
I was absolutely waiting for this post! I was not disappointed. Yarrow was just one of the few who were widely documented. My family on Sapelo Island in Georgia descend from the Muslim community lead by the enslaved man Bilali Ali Muhammad who was Fula from the Fouta-Djallon in present day Guinea. Bilali (Bailey) practiced Islam and was the Imam in his community. He hand wrote a 13 page text in Arabic that is at the University of Georgia.
@bklyn112 thank you for sharing that piece of your family history. There are many other Muslim people who were forced into enslavement back then, Omar Ibn Said being one of them. Sylviane Diouf, one of the women interviewed in the video writes of one known Muslim woman who was forced onto the Clotilda and brought to Alabama, Mz. Diouf writes about them in her book Dreams of Africa in Alabama
@@Sean-n7b I studied with Dr Diouf! I also worked with her when she was at the Schomburg in NYC. Her book Servants of Allah is an excellent resource on this subject. Omar Ibn Said was another whose story is well documented. Yarrow, Ibn Said and Bilali are three whose narratives survived but there are so many others. As you stated there were Africans trafficked from Angola to the Americas who were already Christians when they arrived. Their stories haven't been as widely documented.
@@Bklyn112 that's amazing that you got to study with Dr. Diouf! You're right, that unfortunately there is much of African history in America that was not documented. Thank you for sharing the name of her other book, I'm going to check it out
If you don’t know your own story; someone else will write it for you. Thank you so much for this amazing documentary Sr. Asma. I have been long waiting for this. Our children in the U.S. need to know our history, our roots, our story. I would love to collaborate in the future for the preservation of our history as Muslims in America. Jazakallah khair ❤️
@@sirajnur2482 haha wow I said the same thing to myself I am Fulani from Senegal and the same for me this person looks so much like my Dad and my grandfather too 😀😀
SubhanAllah, his story made me cry. Beautiful to see them doing a janazah prayer for him 200 years after🥹 May Allah SWT have mercy upon him and grant him ease in his grave and Jannahtul firdous❤️🤲🏽
Very interesting! A few years ago, I learned about the Malê Rebellion in Brazil, an uprising of enslaved, African Muslims in the 1830s, so I've been wondering for a while about the Muslim presence in the early United States. Thanks for this video!
Because they were not present in the U.S. and nothing she showed is proof. Those pictures are IDENTIFIED as BLACK AMRICAN ENSLAVED ANCESTORS not MUSLIMS FROM AFRICA. NO ONE claiming this can prove it in a COURT OF LAW. iF YOU CAME TO YOUR LAND AND TRIED THE SAME, I am sure it wouldn't go well! The continued make up of FALSE HISTORY for groups to include themselves to attempt to latch on to BLACK AMERICAN HISTORY and CULTURE will soon end up in a COURT of LAW. Resources claim by immigrant groups under the designation of BLACK AMERICANS. We don't respect that nor can we have respect for those doing it!
Check out all of Malcolm X’s work. He is still an icon for the Pro Black or Pan Africanist Muslim African Americans of 2024. I think his influence on the African American community was so great it will be around until the end days, whenever that is. A lot of black Americans converted to Islam after he became a spiritual advisor. I don’t even 100% agree with all of his opinions (90% - amazing man) but he was so educated and logical that you could easily tell he was consistent.
This was so moving. I have spent hours over the years looking at Yarrow's portrait at the Philadelphia Museum of Art, and used it as an entry to a discussion of early Islam in America. I guess it was those personal years of engagement with him that made this so poignant to me, literally misty. It was also nice to put a face to a voice I have heard on NPR so often. Asma Khalid is a fine journalist.
A Singaporean in Singapore is here to watch this video. I have always been interested in the history of African slavery since young in my 20s (1990s) and read that 30% of them were Muslim Africans. The astrocities that were done to them. Barbaric. I would like to express more but, let's not. Also, the history of natives of this land and this country being named as USA/America. How the natives fought to preserve their lands and properties. Thank you for this video. I hope to be educated in future videos. 😊
As a west African Fulani descendant I couldn’t control my emotions 😭😭😭. This was very painful and hard to watch. I pray for his soul and the rest of the departed. I hope and prays his family upholds his religious beliefs and practices
I know many will disagree but it is my sincere belief that Islam is the best religion for the Black man and woman in America. Our very nature leans towards Islam.
Yes, you're right, we definitely agree to disagree. Our Saviour Yeshua IS NOT Caucasian & definitely IS the reason for ALL gentiles to be included with Jewish born brethen in having that chance to choose Salvation via our Saviour Yeshua. Paz be with us all 🙏. "Isa"
For all humanity not just black or white islam and muslims believe we are equal and we are brothers and sisters because we are all the descendents of Adam and Eve
I'm deeply moved! I've been lied to for so long. They only tell me the history of who they want me to know. More great people are yet to be uncovered! Biiznillahi.
This was beautiful. A highlight of my day. Thank you for sharing. May Allah have mercy on Yarrow, make his grave peaceful and spacious and grant him Jannah ameen.
May Allah have mercy on him. Of the many lessons to be taken from Yarrow is that our youth can be Muslim, unique, and different instead of trying to fit in with bad environments. Thank you for shedding light on this incredible story. The Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) said: “Islam began as something strange and will go back to being strange, so glad tidings to the strangers.”
That beautiful ceremony of janazah, tho not official...was so touching....it definitely reached yarrow's soul. Praise Allah...he never leaves us even in death.
I knew about Yaro Muhammad when I was in my early thirtys, but not in this details, I am 46 now. His story really shows how important it is to hold on to your faith in all circumstances. May Allah have mercy on him and make Aljanna his abode.
What a beautiful documentary, one minor correction Islam was 1st brought to Africa via Abyssinia when the Companions of the Prophet Muhammad (peace be upon them) were granted asylum from violence of pre Islamic Mecca by its king, Negus or Al-Najashi, (Who later became Muslim as well)
Oh please no! No! The thought of the drivel that would be written to bulk out the few scraps we have here, into a film length would just be a travesty! Why do Americans always want 'a movie'?? You had the film, right here..they gave you as much as anyone could find about him. Do you really want to see his dignified and honest story given the movie treatment?! He'd be horrified.
Beautiful! Just by looking at his portrait, one can feel the gravity and dignity of this man. Asma Khalid did a beautiful job bringing the story together.
Once a man is free in his heart, he is neither bound by time nor space. Once you find Allah in your heart nothing can put you down. Once you're noble in your heart, you will always be noble in your character. Once you're a king in your heart, no one can take your crown away. May Allah grant him paradise!
I read that Muslims may have arrived in USA and communicated with the natives. Researchers or archeologists claimed they found signs,clothes, writings that depicted the signs of Islam. Wallaahu aa'lam bisawaab if this is indeed correct.
@@ummiramli6554 Muslims explored the planet before Europeans. Look into Ibn Batuta. I forget who the first Muslims were that discovered north america, but I think the vikings also discovered it before the european mainlanders.
as a muslim person born and raised in Europe, being a muslim from "the heart" as Mr. Yarrow said is the true thing, this has touched my soul. To see that muslim people were always there, and had inspirational lives and did not came to exist with 9 eleven and such discriminations, but that they are human beings too, with loss and patience and a story
This sounds like the story of my people. Fulani and British is in my lineage. How my African ancestors survived that evil passage and stripping of dignity, they somehow made something of themselves when they got here. Yarrow was determined, they should name the street of where his land was after him.
I had read about Mamadou Yarrow and seen his portraits many times but did not know the story. It makes us proud as Muslim Americans to follow in the foot steps of Mamadou Yarrow. Thank you to Asma Khalid and PBS for adding to our heritage
Interesting. The same is found in Spain, where Spanish farmers in the mountains practice cleaning themselves like Muslims do before prayer, avoiding pork and sometimes alcohol.
I am Fulani from west Africa, and Yarrow looks just like one of my uncles back home. :) Fulanis have adopted and been practicing Islam in west Africa for over 1000 years certainly. It is important to note that the kind of Islam Fulanis most practiced in west Africa was Sufism. I myself was born in a family of multi-generational Sufi spiritual teachers healers and Sheiks.
Great story. Perhaps Yarow's Muslim faith enabled him to survive the brutality of slavery. This story shows that having a strong faith would enable one to overcome adversity .
Yarro means "Boy" in Hausa language. Hausa is spoken throughout West Africa but mainly in Nigeria. The Fulani can also be found throughout West Africa and farther in other parts of Africa. I am excited to see this video. May Yarrow rest in peace and may Allah SWT grant him Jannat Al Firdaus.
A beautiful mind Yarrow was indeed to have earned his freedom in such tough times. He must have been a person filled with hope, a mind full of aspirations and dreams
18:36 there is a reason for him to be buried in his own backyard because Muslims cannot be same cemetery with non-Muslims Muslim must be faced a certain way toward qibla Which is where Muslim face toward when they pray when buried this is a very touching story may Allah grant him jennah
As a muslim Fulani from west Africa I’m so proud of my ancestors who maintained their faith and culture. May his soul rest in peace in jannatoul firdaws 🤲🏾
Ameen
ameen nay Allah bless Africa and all muslim lands
Ameen 🤲🏿❤️🇸🇳
Ameen .fulani Muslim from Cameroon
Ameen 🤗
I'm not Muslim nor so far as I know, I'm not acquainted with any Muslims. Also, I am not black nor did my ancestors own any enslaved persons, even being from the South. They were Quakers and actually assisted escapees. I'm proud of that heritage.
Until watching this, I was unaware of enslaved nor "free" Muslims nor any of the hisory of Islam in the US or "before we were the US."
I thoroughly enjoyed this program and will be reading and watching articles on Islam.
THANK YOU for such an interesting program!
May your journey be fruitful. ❤
I appreciate people who open their hearts to or seek knowledge so dear if you ever have time google a book called BEYOND BILAL about early black or African muslims.
read the quran you will find it to be from Allah
dont get brainwashed by these abrahamic religions, its all nonsense
Islam is light, read the Quran and you see things way differently
This series about Muslims in America by PBS is really winning hearts. Beautifully written and portrayed.
Shout out to Asma Khalid and the team.
PBS is a great channel. Uncharacteristically objective ❤
Seeing the congregation pray the janazah prayer for Mamadou Yarrow made me emotional 🥺
It brought tears to my eyes and heart!
May his soul rest in peace!🤲🏾
الله يرحمه
Me too
@@MetaPhysical369May everyones souls rest in peace
@@bouchraelh82 Let's not forget also, that Arabs played a huge and a most proactive role in the capture and enslavement of Black Africans that were sold in the transatlantic trade!
As a matter of fact, unlike the Europeans who were wholly concerned with West Africa, the Arabs were predominant all over East, West and North Africa and even Europe!
And it didn't make a difference to them what faith the hapless Africans were !!
Just saying!!
👊🏾🇳🇬👊🏾🇳🇬!!
The portrait of Yarrow is so beautiful, you can see the light in his face! I can’t imagine the kind of light he emanated in person. May Allah have mercy on him and allow us to meet our brothers and sisters in Jannah.
Ameen 🙂↕️✌️
Ameen!!
Amen ❤
Ameen ya rabul allameen
Ameen! It is "Noor" that lights up his face because of his "Iman" or faith!
May Allah swt have mercy on his beautiful soul...ameen 🤲
aameen,aameen yarabal aalameen.
Ameen 🙏🏾
Ameeen!!!
Amiin
ALLAH U AKBAR.
This is a history every black American, if not all Americans need to know.
Our African siblings went through alot, may Allah deliver them his justice, ameen.
Don’t forget us North Africans i am not black and am an American citizen 😊❤
@@leila1965100 what is there to forget about North African? The atrocities y’all ancestors cause to subsaharian such as the hidden genocide castrating, killing them, the Almoravid or is it the current situation on how y’all treat them? We are in a globalization era every single thing is known and accessible to everyone. 🤦🏾♀️
You are wrong. As an African I can tell you that we had our own type of beliefs. Christianity comes from the western colonialism and Islam comes from the Middle East invasion to North Africa. Each tribe used to practice their own customs which was different to those two and still to this day in most of African countries.
@@luisafrance1635ur forgetting east Africa, Christianity and Islam were introduced from trade
I was absolutely waiting for this post! I was not disappointed. Yarrow was just one of the few who were widely documented. My family on Sapelo Island in Georgia descend from the Muslim community lead by the enslaved man Bilali Ali Muhammad who was Fula from the Fouta-Djallon in present day Guinea. Bilali (Bailey) practiced Islam and was the Imam in his community. He hand wrote a 13 page text in Arabic that is at the University of Georgia.
@bklyn112 thank you for sharing that piece of your family history. There are many other Muslim people who were forced into enslavement back then, Omar Ibn Said being one of them. Sylviane Diouf, one of the women interviewed in the video writes of one known Muslim woman who was forced onto the Clotilda and brought to Alabama, Mz. Diouf writes about them in her book Dreams of Africa in Alabama
@@Sean-n7b I studied with Dr Diouf! I also worked with her when she was at the Schomburg in NYC. Her book Servants of Allah is an excellent resource on this subject. Omar Ibn Said was another whose story is well documented. Yarrow, Ibn Said and Bilali are three whose narratives survived but there are so many others. As you stated there were Africans trafficked from Angola to the Americas who were already Christians when they arrived. Their stories haven't been as widely documented.
@@Bklyn112 that's amazing that you got to study with Dr. Diouf! You're right, that unfortunately there is much of African history in America that was not documented. Thank you for sharing the name of her other book, I'm going to check it out
@@Sean-n7b The book was also a PBS documentary. Check them both out.
@Bklyn112 I will! Thank you for sharing that knowledge
If you don’t know your own story; someone else will write it for you.
Thank you so much for this amazing documentary Sr. Asma. I have been long waiting for this.
Our children in the U.S. need to know our history, our roots, our story.
I would love to collaborate in the future for the preservation of our history as Muslims in America.
Jazakallah khair ❤️
Enslaved Muhammad Relived
7th up Ahth Centery White Arabs ex speeded From Spain read
As young Fulani from West Africa im feeling proud watching this video. He's a typical Fulani oldman ❤❤
I am Fulani from west Africa, these are my real ancestors 😔 this is my first time hearing about him. Thank you for the series
I'm a Fulani too.. the guy resemble my dad.. like twin
I'm Fulani from Guinea too
@@sirajnur2482 haha wow I said the same thing to myself I am Fulani from Senegal and the same for me this person looks so much like my Dad and my grandfather too 😀😀
😢
He's not your ancestor _(his descendents are Black American);_ however, he may be extremely distant kin to you
Let’s go!!!! I’m so elated someone is giving attention to American Muslims. Thank you! 🤲🏽🧎🏽♀️➡️☪️
Me too, I am so Elated. ❤❤
An elegant portrait for an equally elegant man. Thank you for this tribute to him.
You described him and the portrait so well. Allah ﷻ have mercy upon his soul. A truly excellent tribute
@@redtski Thank you! He deserves every word for the life he lived.
You can tell he's fulani
SubhanAllah, his story made me cry. Beautiful to see them doing a janazah prayer for him 200 years after🥹 May Allah SWT have mercy upon him and grant him ease in his grave and Jannahtul firdous❤️🤲🏽
Tears to see his Janazah after so many years. May Allah (swt) have mercy on him and grant him and his progeny paradise. Ameen!!
@ Ameen🤲🏽🤲🏽
This is so beautiful Alhamdulillah! This makes me even more happy to be a black Muslim woman in the states. Alhamdulillah ❤
Very interesting! A few years ago, I learned about the Malê Rebellion in Brazil, an uprising of enslaved, African Muslims in the 1830s, so I've been wondering for a while about the Muslim presence in the early United States. Thanks for this video!
Because they were not present in the U.S. and nothing she showed is proof. Those pictures are IDENTIFIED as BLACK AMRICAN ENSLAVED ANCESTORS not MUSLIMS FROM AFRICA. NO ONE claiming this can prove it in a COURT OF LAW. iF YOU CAME TO YOUR LAND AND TRIED THE SAME, I am sure it wouldn't go well! The continued make up of FALSE HISTORY for groups to include themselves to attempt to latch on to BLACK AMERICAN HISTORY and CULTURE will soon end up in a COURT of LAW. Resources claim by immigrant groups under the designation of BLACK AMERICANS. We don't respect that nor can we have respect for those doing it!
Check out all of Malcolm X’s work. He is still an icon for the Pro Black or Pan Africanist Muslim African Americans of 2024. I think his influence on the African American community was so great it will be around until the end days, whenever that is. A lot of black Americans converted to Islam after he became a spiritual advisor. I don’t even 100% agree with all of his opinions (90% - amazing man) but he was so educated and logical that you could easily tell he was consistent.
I can’t wait to show this series to my children in sha Allah. May Allah have mercy on our brother and grant him the highest Jannah 🤲
Absolutely beautiful story. May Allah accept from brother Yarrow, his family and progeny
They praying for him after 200 years made me cry.
What a person.
Thank you for cutting all these onions that I can't even see the keyboard while typing this ♥
This was so moving. I have spent hours over the years looking at Yarrow's portrait at the Philadelphia Museum of Art, and used it as an entry to a discussion of early Islam in America. I guess it was those personal years of engagement with him that made this so poignant to me, literally misty.
It was also nice to put a face to a voice I have heard on NPR so often. Asma Khalid is a fine journalist.
A Singaporean in Singapore is here to watch this video.
I have always been interested in the history of African slavery since young in my 20s (1990s) and read that 30% of them were Muslim Africans. The astrocities that were done to them. Barbaric. I would like to express more but, let's not.
Also, the history of natives of this land and this country being named as USA/America. How the natives fought to preserve their lands and properties.
Thank you for this video. I hope to be educated in future videos. 😊
I am Fulani from Cameroon this documentary made me cry. We are waiting for the story of Ayyoub souleyman who is also Fulani
What a fascinating documentary! Great job by Asma Khalid and PBS
As a west African Fulani descendant I couldn’t control my emotions 😭😭😭. This was very painful and hard to watch. I pray for his soul and the rest of the departed. I hope and prays his family upholds his religious beliefs and practices
Pray for the Africans who sold him & others into Chattel Slavery
@charliefreeman8825 What does that have to do with th original comment.
It's not a competition, there are enough prayers for everyone, it was a nice comment@@charliefreeman8825
Billahi. Ko poulo dimo 😭💔❤
Subhanallah, how beautiful to have a Janaza prayer for him 200 years later.
I know many will disagree but it is my sincere belief that Islam is the best religion for the Black man and woman in America. Our very nature leans towards Islam.
Yes, you're right, we definitely agree to disagree. Our Saviour Yeshua IS NOT Caucasian & definitely IS the reason for ALL gentiles to be included with Jewish born brethen in having that chance to choose Salvation via our Saviour Yeshua. Paz be with us all 🙏. "Isa"
Muslims first enslaved millions of Africans. Africans are about ask for reparations from them.
For all humanity not just black or white islam and muslims believe we are equal and we are brothers and sisters because we are all the descendents of Adam and Eve
Which derives from Hebraic/ Kemetic origins
It also empowers them, and allows them to be free from many shackles and impediments that prevent them from moving up in society.
Seeing them pray janazah 200 years after his death just made me burst into tears… inshallah he was able to hear it and the prayers reached him ❤
I beg Almighty ALLAH to grant the highest place in Paradise and forgive any sins committed by uncle Mamadou. Aameen, Aameen. From Pakistan.
Ameen
I'm deeply moved! I've been lied to for so long. They only tell me the history of who they want me to know. More great people are yet to be uncovered! Biiznillahi.
Muslim 💪🏽, I’m happy to see a Muslim man be beautifully represented many years later
Imagine how many bricks 🧱 in George Town, DC were made by him saying, “Bismillah.“
🥹 really emotional to think about
So much history most people, including myself, do not know!
A very nicely researched and narrated video. Me an my family utterly enjoyed it. Salam from Zagazig, Egypt.
What an amazing man. Thanks for sharing his story. ❤️
This is why I love history
Beautiful made video
This was beautiful. A highlight of my day. Thank you for sharing. May Allah have mercy on Yarrow, make his grave peaceful and spacious and grant him Jannah ameen.
May Allah SWT RAISE HIS STATUS WITH SHUHADA, Mujahedeen and Saliheen Ameen
May Allah have mercy on him. Of the many lessons to be taken from Yarrow is that our youth can be Muslim, unique, and different instead of trying to fit in with bad environments. Thank you for shedding light on this incredible story.
The Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) said:
“Islam began as something strange and will go back to being strange, so glad tidings to the strangers.”
What an amazing way to bring to light how connected we all have been. Don't let hate separate us
Ma ALLAH BLESS YOU ASMA & MALIKA"same name as me🥰" 🤲4 bringing to light, THE STORY of this beautiful SOUL of sheikh Mamadou Yarrow🤲💯😥🖤
I am Fulani, and my parents came from Guinea. It's surprising to see this, to be honest. He looks just like my grandfathers.
Never stop learning. He could be an ancestor of Mos Def.
I thought the same! He does look like Mos Def to me
He looks very similar to Yasiin Bey, Mo's def
I thought the same thing!
That beautiful ceremony of janazah, tho not official...was so touching....it definitely reached yarrow's soul.
Praise Allah...he never leaves us even in death.
What an amazing man, wonderful story. His portrait looks dignified. May he rest in peace.
Mohammed Yarrow .He was a powerful man who believed in freedom and was a great Muslim. I will remember his name and share his story with my children.
This is a great piece of history. Thank you for this truth.
Thank you for this beautiful representation of American history that we don't often hear about ,as a Mus!I'm American it really touched me to hear it
I knew about Yaro Muhammad when I was in my early thirtys, but not in this details, I am 46 now. His story really shows how important it is to hold on to your faith in all circumstances. May Allah have mercy on him and make Aljanna his abode.
Absolutely 💯
I wish to thank you for sharing this History video with me . Amen
الله اكبر☝🏾
This is beautiful history & a beautiful soul 🫶🏾💜
What a beautiful documentary, one minor correction Islam was 1st brought to Africa via Abyssinia when the Companions of the Prophet Muhammad (peace be upon them) were granted asylum from violence of pre Islamic Mecca by its king, Negus or Al-Najashi, (Who later became Muslim as well)
This was absolutely amazing, I found myself tearing up watching the Janaza.
I love learning about this type of history so so much.
Excellent documentary! Thank you! I hope someone makes a movie on Mahmoud Yarrow-his story deserves to be shared on the big screen
Oh please no! No! The thought of the drivel that would be written to bulk out the few scraps we have here, into a film length would just be a travesty! Why do Americans always want 'a movie'?? You had the film, right here..they gave you as much as anyone could find about him. Do you really want to see his dignified and honest story given the movie treatment?! He'd be horrified.
Beautiful! Just by looking at his portrait, one can feel the gravity and dignity of this man. Asma Khalid did a beautiful job bringing the story together.
Yup. Pure fulani man from the mali empire. Back then it was the mali empire. There was no Guinea, Senegal. It was all part of the Mali empire
This is one of my favorite paintings in the Philadelphia art museum ❤❤❤
I'm Fulani. Very proud of Mamadou Yero.probably one of my ancestor.❤❤❤❤❤❤ .
Once a man is free in his heart, he is neither bound by time nor space. Once you find Allah in your heart nothing can put you down. Once you're noble in your heart, you will always be noble in your character. Once you're a king in your heart, no one can take your crown away. May Allah grant him paradise!
It's so weird the relationship we have with the voices of NPR host. I immediately recognized Asmas voice
Yes! She looked as elegant as I imagined too😊
What a beautiful story. May his beautiful soul be in the company of Allah,.
Allah yarhameh 🤲🤲🤲
Salam and Prayer for this Muslim from a muslim algerian 'woman/ France
Wow, I just teared up when I saw the janiza prayer for Yarrow. What a remarkable man and a heart warming story.❤❤❤
This story has been lonnnnnnggggg overdue. Muslims also met with Native Americans. Alhambdullilah so much history isn't taught in schools.
I read that Muslims may have arrived in USA and communicated with the natives.
Researchers or archeologists claimed they found signs,clothes, writings that depicted the signs of Islam.
Wallaahu aa'lam bisawaab if this is indeed correct.
@@ummiramli6554 Muslims explored the planet before Europeans. Look into Ibn Batuta. I forget who the first Muslims were that discovered north america, but I think the vikings also discovered it before the european mainlanders.
This is an amazing story 🙌🏿🙌🏿
Bold and Beautiful, thank you PBS!
This history is amazing History 🙌🏿✨📚🔥
as a muslim person born and raised in Europe, being a muslim from "the heart" as Mr. Yarrow said is the true thing, this has touched my soul. To see that muslim people were always there, and had inspirational lives and did not came to exist with 9 eleven and such discriminations, but that they are human beings too, with loss and patience and a story
so beautiful that he has this legacy and that Yarrowsburg exists
This sounds like the story of my people. Fulani and British is in my lineage. How my African ancestors survived that evil passage and stripping of dignity, they somehow made something of themselves when they got here. Yarrow was determined, they should name the street of where his land was after him.
He is from the original Fulani Tribes from Guinea as of the name MAMADOU YERRO.
At that time they were no guinee or Gambia or Bissau Guinea or Ivory Coast all that part was just mali empire
It was the mali empire back then. There was no guinee, Senegal, Gambia or guinee bissau
@@hamadoudiallo7676all those countries including Senegal, guinee, guinee bissau were all part of the Mali empire.
Beautiful story, Mos Def the actor / musician should play the lead role in Mr yarrows movie or biopic.
That is probably his ancestor.
Mos Def is chunky looking these days.
I had read about Mamadou Yarrow and seen his portraits many times but did not know the story. It makes us proud as Muslim Americans to follow in the foot steps of Mamadou Yarrow. Thank you to Asma Khalid and PBS for adding to our heritage
Thanks for this awesome story!
So beautiful just beautiful. May Allah reward everyone part of this project.
We Muslims of the world are one though we have different colors, cultures, languages or living status for our deceased Muslim ancestors. ❤❤❤❤
Correct ❤
Love it !! Very emotional story another American story ❤
This is why many of our much older family members who have never had contact with Muslims in their lives did not eat pork, many remnants.
Interesting. The same is found in Spain, where Spanish farmers in the mountains practice cleaning themselves like Muslims do before prayer, avoiding pork and sometimes alcohol.
I am Fulani from west Africa, and Yarrow looks just like one of my uncles back home. :)
Fulanis have adopted and been practicing Islam in west Africa for over 1000 years certainly. It is important to note that the kind of Islam Fulanis most practiced in west Africa was Sufism. I myself was born in a family of multi-generational Sufi spiritual teachers healers and Sheiks.
I appreciate this story so much thank you !
Well done. Bravo!! Really enjoyed this
A real saint smiling from above 🕊 Elite documentary 👏👏👏
سلام ان عظیم الشان انسانوں کو سلام
Makes sense since Islam was a prominent religion in West Africa during that time frame
Still is
There’s a increase of Christian presence because of colonialism but Muslims are still the majority
Still is. He came from what is today Senegal and guinea. Back then it was the mali empire.
Muslims have been contributing significantly to development of America since their first arrival!
A great tribute to the core freedom concept.freedom is not free from worries,but free to choose
Great story. Perhaps Yarow's Muslim faith enabled him to survive the brutality of slavery. This story shows that having a strong faith would enable one to overcome adversity .
Absolutely. Without a shadow of doubt
Touching and profound
SubhanAllah MashAllah
May his soul continue to Rest in paradise forever and Ever Ameen ya Allah 🤲🏼! (All Love from oakland California )
Lol he's just moldering in the dirt. And there's no afterlife 😂😂😂.
@ak9989 peace and blessings to you and yours!
Inna lillahi wa inna ilayhi rajioune
What an amazing story🥰
Yarro means "Boy" in Hausa language. Hausa is spoken throughout West Africa but mainly in Nigeria. The Fulani can also be found throughout West Africa and farther in other parts of Africa.
I am excited to see this video. May Yarrow rest in peace and may Allah SWT grant him Jannat Al Firdaus.
Yes .we fulanis in guinee and Senegal pronounce it "Yero"
To him we belong to him we will return. May Allah subhantallah elevate brother yarrow to highest heaven.
Fantastic reason do the true story movie about this gentleman ❤
May Allah bless his soul and grant him Jannah
History of Slaves anywhere is painful. Thanks for bringing us this video.
A beautiful mind Yarrow was indeed to have earned his freedom in such tough times. He must have been a person filled with hope, a mind full of aspirations and dreams
Muslims were here before Columbus.
18:36 there is a reason for him to be buried in his own backyard because Muslims cannot be same cemetery with non-Muslims Muslim must be faced a certain way toward qibla Which is where Muslim face toward when they pray when buried this is a very touching story may Allah grant him jennah
I am so touched!
What A Beautiful Story thank you PBS!