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Sami Yusuf (born 21 July 1980) is a British singer, songwriter, multi-instrumentalist and composer of Azerbaijani descent. [6] He gained international attention with the release of his debut album, Al-Muʽallim, in 2003. [7] As of 2020, he has released eight studio albums, five live albums and one compilation album.
My Ummah is the second studio album by British singer Sami Yusuf.It was released in two versions, a "music version" and a "percussion version". It is claimed to have sold between five [1] and eight [2] million copies worldwide.
[2] [3] The album includes a number of songs celebrating Yusuf's Islamic faith. [4] The international release went platinum in South-East Asia and was on best-selling lists in the Middle East and North Africa. [5] The album was released in a special edition for Turkey, including five songs re-recorded by Yusuf in Turkish. [6]
The song is a standard of Arabic and Middle Eastern musical repertoires. Versions of the song have been recorded by artists including Fairuz, [5] Sabah Fakhri, [5] Souad Massi, Lena Chamamyan [6], Nabyla Maan, Hamza El Din, Sami Yusuf and Abeer Nehme [7].
For example, the "Allah Hoo" that appears on the Sabri Brothers 1978 album Qawwali: Sufi Music from Pakistan is totally different from the song that became one of Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan's signature qawwalis, and this in turn is totally different from Qawwal Bahauddin's version on the 1991 Shalimar compilation video titled "Tajdar-e-Haram, vol. 2 ...
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Ye are the best of peoples, evolved for mankind, enjoining what is right, forbidding what is wrong, and believing in Allah. If only the People of the Book had faith, it were best for them: among them are some who have faith, but most of them are transgressors.-- Quran 3:110 translated by Abdullah Yusuf Ali [Note 2]
Al-Muzzammil (Arabic: المزمل, “The Enshrouded One”, “Bundled Up”, “Enfolded”) is the seventy-third chapter of the Qur'an, containing 20 verses , which are recognized by Muslims as the word of God . The last Ruku of this surah contains only one ayāt making it possibly the smallest Ruku according to the number of verses or ayāt.