Description of the land of the Blacks
What the author, may Allah be merciful to him means by the appellation as-Sudan is the lands of Hausa as he clarified in his Rawdat al-Afkaar: “realize that these Black lands of ours are divided into three major divisions: [1] the Upper regions; [2] the Middle regions; and [3] the Lower regions. The Upper regions include the lands of Bornu, Ahir, Zaberma and Songhay. The Middle regions include the lands of Hausa, which are made up of seven distinct territories; as well as the ‘bastard’ regions, which are also made up of seven distinct territories. The Lower regions are the lands of Baaiyaaya.”. It is not the author’s objective in this poem to narrate on the events of the entire Bilad as-Sudan, but exclusively on the events which occurred in Middle Sudan which are the lands of Hausa, and only during that period in which the Uthmani Sokoto govermment was established and consolidated.
Shaykh Muhammad Shareef (Commentary)
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