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unusual facts about Bilal



Bilal Ibn Rabah

Bilal was give a prominent position within the Islamic State, as in he became the first treasurer of Islam who was in charge of the Bayt al-Mal (Treasury).

Bilal Maqsood

Bilal Maqsood (Urdu: بلال مقصود) is the son of popular writer, actor, artist, and comedian Anwar Maqsood, and is a member of the very popular Pakistani pop band Strings.

Charles Bilal

Charles Bilal was mayor of Kountze, Texas, USA.

Dave Okumu

He has performed and recorded with many artists such as Amy Winehouse, St. Vincent, Jane Birkin, Sara Creative Partners, Brigitte Fontaine, Theo Parrish, Tony Allen, King Sunny Adé, Omar, Matthew Herbert, Dani Siciliano, Toddla T, Bilal, Jack De Johnette, and Anna Calvi.

Enki Bilal

Published in North America by Got Game Entertainment in August 2008, the game is a "point and click" adventure for the PC; however, the Lead Designer was Benoit Sokal and not Bilal himself, who was the art designer, along with Yoshitaka Amano for the upcoming video game Beyond Good & Evil 2.

Fat City Reprise

In February 2008, the Roots invited Fat City Reprise to perform at their Pre-Grammy party at the Key Club in Los Angeles where they performed with Patrick Stump, Seal, Travis Barker, MC Lyte, Doug E. Fresh, Bilal, Corinne Bailey Rae, and Travis McCoy of Gym Class Heroes.

Guru's Jazzmatazz, Vol. 3: Streetsoul

First-time appearances in the series were made by several contemporary acts, including Amel Larrieux, Angie Stone, Bilal, Craig David, Donell Jones, Erykah Badu, and The Roots.

Islam in Haiti

Islamic organizations in Haiti include the Bilal Mosque and Islamic Center in Cap-Haïtien, which offers programs in Islamic studies and daily prayers, Byllal Miragoâne Mosque in Miragoâne and the Centre Spirituel Allah ou Akbar in Port-au-Prince.

Islamic Research Foundation

IRF features internationally famous scholars and orators including Dr. Zakir Naik, Ahmed Deedat, Yusuf Estes, Maulana Parekh, Dr. Bilal Philips, Yasir Fazaga, Abdur Raheem Green, Yasir Qadhi, Hussein Ye, James Yee, Siraj Wahhaj and many others.

Koko'o

Pierre Bilal Koko'o Lotti Abalintsina (born January 18, 1986 in Ebolowa), known as Koko'o, is a Cameroonian football player currently playing for Al-Ittihad.

Mecca2Medina

They have worked with many new artists including with The Blind Alphabets and Mohammed Yahya, Missundastood of the USA, Poetic Pilgrimage, Pearls of Islam, Masika Feesibillah and Muslim Bilal.

Mike Moreno

He has also recorded and played with maintream artists such as Bilal and Q-Tip, as well as peers John Ellis, Jeremy Pelt, and Marcus Strickland.

Mir Hazar Khan Khoso

Among the ministers sworn in included Arif Nizami, Sohail Wajahat H Siddique, Shahzada Ahsan Ashraf Sheikh, Malik Habib, Ahmer Bilal Soofi, Dr Musaddiq Malik, Maqbool HH Rahmatoola, Abdul Malik Kasi, Asadullah Mandokhel, Mir Hassan Domki, Dr Sania Nishtar, Feroze Jamal Shah Kakakhel, Dr Younis Soomro and Shahzada Jamal.

Muhammad Ibrahim Bilal

In October 2002, Bilal was indicted and shortly thereafter arrested in Detroit.

Muhammad Ibrahim Bilal was a member of a terrorist group dubbed the Portland Seven, some members of which attempted to travel to Afghanistan shortly after 9/11 in order to aid the Taliban.

Muhsen Bilal

After graduation, Bilal became the head of surgery at the Al Assad University Hospital.

Sheikh Muhammad Rashid Bilal

Sheikh Muhammad Rashid was a son of Sheikh Bilal Kabir Muhammad, a prominent Sheikh from the Qallu clan of the Ittu Oromo.

After the birth of Khalisa, Sheikh Bilal had changed his seat to a distant village called Chorre in today’s Guba Qoricha district of West Harerghe Zone where he became one of the early Muslim scholars who campaigned to Islamize the Ittu Oromo in Guba Qoricha.

Wafaa Bilal

Wafaa Bilal created a computer based art piece titled Night of Bush Capturing: Virtual Jihadi which is a modified version of the game Quest for Bush, itself a "hacked" version of the popular commercial video game Quest for Saddam.

Wordpower, Vol. 2: Directrix

This album features Divine Styler's Original Scheme Team member(s) Cokni O'Dire (only on the re-released version) and Bilal Bashir.


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