Why Islam is my choice — Page 95
95 Black Rabbi who had interested me in the history of the Black Jews and how Black people were the lost tribe of the Jews, the Black Israelites. As I could relate to this story knowing that my ancestors were slaves, his story appealed to me and gave me a historical identity. I therefore, joined the Judaic faith and thought I had found my ancestral spiritual roots. This attachment, however, would be short lived as about the same time, I came in contact with A ḥ madiyyah literature and started to learn about the teachings of Isl ā m. I compared what the Black Israelites were teaching to that of ‘Umar Bil ā l Ebrah ī m