Abdus salam education

 IMAM SAYED ABDUS-SALAM

 By: Rasul Miller and Samiha AbduRahman

Al-Hajj Imam Sayed Abdus Salam was a pioneer in New York City’s Muslim community. Born in 1942, he became involved in Harlem’s local Black Nationalist scene as a teenager. As a young man, he joined the Nation of Islam. Following Malcolm X’s departure from the Nation, Imam Sayed also left and attended the first meeting of Malcolm X’s Muslim Mosque Inc. Subsequently, he studied Sunni Islam and frequented various NYC Mosques that were active during the 1960s, such as the International Muslim Society or ‘303’ in Harlem and the State Mosque in Brooklyn.

Imam Sayed then lived in Guyana for a brief period, where he encountered Tasawwuf through members of the local Muslim community there.

He returned to New York and became a cofounder of the Mosque of Islamic Brotherhood (MIB) in Harlem in the late 1960s. There, Imam Sayed served as the Na'ib (assistant Imam) to Shaykh Ahmed K. Tawfiq, the founding Imam of the Muslim Mosque Inc. In this capacity, Im

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