Shareef Bin Farid

The author of this text, The Decisive Solution, is the reknowned Shaykh and historian Abu Alfa Muhammad Shareef Ibn Fareed. Shaykh Shareef was born in The United States, but has studied, practised and dedicated his life to the preservation and dissemination of Islam as it was established in the Bilad us Sudaan (The Lands of The Blacks) which consists of everything under the Sahara Desert and above the tropical rainforest on the African continent. He has continued his mission while living in the Islamic Republic of Sudan, The Peoples Republic of China, Benin and now Mali where he currently resides as an expatriated Malian citizen. Shaykh Shareef has not only dedicated his life to the study of Islam, but to the implementation of its most arduous principles, such as speaking truth to power following the example of our Prophet Muhammad s.a.w and his selfless dedication to those whom society has deemed unworthy of any particular regard. In this case the incarcerated Muslim population within The United States in general, but more specifically those that reside in the incarceration capital of the world, The Californian Department of Corrections. Shaykh Shareef is the founder and director of the Sankore Institute of Islamic African Studies International, which is an institution established to collect, digitize and translate the works of notarary Fudiawa scholars such as Shehu Uthman Ibn Fudiye, Shaykh Abdullahi Ibn Fudiye, Shaykh Muhammad Bello Ibn Uthman etc. He has personally translated a number of these works and added extensive commentaries from the depths of understanding that he has attained by Allah ta ala allowing him to drink from the wells of knowledge passed down by the Shehu Uthan Ibn Fudiye’s descendants. Many of whom now reside throughout the Bilad Us Sudaan but are primarily concentrated specifically in Maiurno, Sudan and Northern Nigeria. Shaykh Shareef’s most recent project is the establishment of a Zawiya, madressah and free clinic in the Djenne, Mali. Local scholars have committed their support to these efforts. In Shaa Allah ta ala you can see how to contribute to these efforts by visiting www.SIIASI.org