Intro
Amatus Sami-Karim seems to be born as an Ahmadi. Per this article, she grew up in the Southside Chicago area and her father (Abdul Karim) was interested in the Nation of Islam (NOI) in the early 1950’s, he seems to have converted to Ahmadiyya and became the president of the Chicago-East Jamaat 30 years later, his name is Abdul Karim, she posted a photo of him in 2022 on instagram. It’s unclear where and how Amatus Sami-Karim‘s mother converted to Ahmadiyya. Her dad worked as a jazz musician and also worked as an imam at a Southside of Chicago temple (on Wabash) where Amatus Sami-Karim spent a better part of her formative years. However, when her parent’s marriage hit the rocks, she went to live with her mum who earned a living as a social worker.
In 2001, she met her future husband Mahershala Ali in roughly 2001 and they fell in love. She began taking him to the local Ahmadiyya temple. This is how and why Mahershala Ali (at the time he was Mahershala Gilmore) became a Qadiani-Ahmadi. IMHO, his conversion story is a total lie, he only joined Ahmadiyya so that he could marry Amatus Sami-Karim. It should also be noted that Mahershala has 2 younger brothers and they are not Ahmadi. His father was also a soul train dancer. I remember seeing Mahershala at the Chino mosque in the mid-2000’s, he even played in a sports tournament through the jamaat, he is an amazing basketball player. He attended the Oakland Jamaat center for many years in the early 2010’s.
Amatus Sami-Karim is also an artist and very liberal. They have 1 child together, a daughter named Bari Najma Ali. Mahershalla laughed about getting alcohol spilled on him in this interview and has posed with many female actresses wherein he is embracing them and played a gay-man in a film and got a huge award for it. So why hasn’t this family been kicked out of Ahmadiyya? They normally kick out Ahmadi’s for attending weddings wherein there is dancing. The reason is that they pay lots of chanda and it would be a public relations nightmare if they ever kicked them out of Ahmadiyya. Thus, you will see the instagram account of Amatus Sami-Karim posting photo’s of vagina and other lewd things regularly with no fear of being kicked out of Ahmadiyya. Moreover, Mahershala Ali has chaired many jamaat events as they used him for marketing and etc.
