Soldiers of Allah

Soldiers of Allah was a Muslim rap group from Los Angeles, California. USA
Background
The last Soldiers of Allah album 1924 was their most successful album. The name of the album refers to the year 1924 when "Islamic state was destroyed" (see Abolition of the Caliphate). The album was recorded before 9/11, but it is supposed that after 9/11 the group became controversial as Islam came further into public awareness in America.
Soldiers of Allahs views in their raps include unifying the ummah and setting one strong khilafah (Islamic state). In their songs they often refer to glorious men of Islamic history, like Abdülhamid II, Saladin, Khalid bin Walid and Harun al-Rashid. They stand against corrupted Islamic regimes, Muslims weak in their beliefs and kuffar. They claim that Islam is complete, unlike Christianity and Judaism ("we have system, they have only religion").
SOA have been quite popular in the Muslim community in the West, and then gained massive popularity in other parts of the world such as the Middle East and Malaysia. They have gained an extremely wide international audience, past just the Middle East and Southeast Asia, and are believed by many to be the most well-known modern-music Islamic group around, a claim which certainly carries weight.
Disbandment
Due to family reasons, the Soldiers of Allah website has been shut down and the group disbanded, as the members all became married and decided to focus on families. A MuslimHipHop article published in 2007 quoted a former member, "I know you are all wondering when Soldiers of Allah will come back, well it’s probably not going to happen: It has been brought up a few times but no action has ever really been taken to think that it would. Brothers have moved into different cities, got married, etc. When you’re young and single, you have much more time."
The statement suggest that SoA will not reform.

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