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'Abdillahi Nasir died on 11 January 2022 at 89 in Mombasa, Kenya. On 12 January 2022, he was buried in Ganjoni Cemetery in Mombasa.

Abdillahi Nasir was a [[Sunni]] scholar, but since the 1960s, he found tendencies toward [[Shiism]]. As he says, after acquaintance with the [[virtues of Imam 'Ali (a)]], he speculated that he was superior to other [[companions of the Prophet (s)]]. After studying [[Abd al-Husayn Amini|'Allama al-Amini]]'s book ''[[al-Ghadir]]'', and other books, he came to believe that Shiism was the correct denomination. In 1975, he converted to Shiism.

In the early 1980s, after the Islamic Revolution of Iran, he officially announced his conversion to Shiism, which led to a decline in his popularity among Sunni Muslims in Kenya. Reportedly, Wahhabi centers tried to return him to Sunni Islam, but to no avail.

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'Abdillahi Nasir established Imam 'Ali (a) Seminary in Kenya. He debated with Wahhabi muftis and delivered religious speeches in [[Tanzania]], [[India]], [[Pakistan]], the UK, the US, and Canada in Swahili and English. His efforts to spread Shiism in Kenya and other African areas are said to be effective.

He was also a member of the general assembly of the [[Ahl al-Bayt World Assembly]]. Moreover, he founded a public library. In April 2011, he was awarded the Abbasi trophy<ref>Abbasi Medal is a medal awarded by the World Federation of KSIMC to those who promote Shiism. The medal is named after 'Abbas (a), the son of Imam 'Ali (a).</ref> by the World Federation of KSIMC (Khoja Shia Ithna-Asheri Muslim Communities) in Africa, in the seventy-second assembly of its higher council in Mombasa, because of his religious activities.

Before officially announcing his conversion to Shiism, he served as the representative of East Africa for the Word Assembly of Muslim Youth (WAMY), based in [[Jeddah]], [[Saudi Arabia]], from 1978 to 1980.

When he was young, 'Abdillahi participated in the movement for Kenyan independence from the United Kingdom between 1957 and 1963, and between 1961 and 1963, he was a member of the legislative council before the Kenyan independence. Moreover, he was a member of the Constitutional Conference of the country in Lancaster House in London, which met for Kenyan independence from the British Empire. He also represented the people of Mombasa in the parliament.

Abdillahi Nasir wrote about 25 books and essays in Swahili about [[Shiism]]. Moreover, he translated and [[Tafsir|interpreted]] certain [[Sura]]s of the [[Qur'an]]. Some of his works are translated into English and Rwandan (an official language of parts of Africa).

Abdillahi wrote the book ''Shia na Taqiya: Majibu na Maelezo'' (Shiism and taqiyya or precautionary dissimulation) in Swahili in reply to the book ''al-Khutut al-'arida li-l-usus al-lati qam 'alayha din al-Shi'a al-Imamiyya al-ithna 'ashariyya'' (The outlines of the foundations on which the religion of Twelver Imam Shia stands) by Muhibb al-Din Khatib (d. 1389/1969), a [[Wahhabi]] mufti, which was also published in Swahili. In that book, Abdillahi Nassir Jum'a discusses the nature of [[taqiyya]] (precautionary dissimulation), the problems faced by Shi'as during the [[Umayyad]] and [[Abbasid]] reigns, and taqiyya from the Sunni and Shiite perspectives.

* ''Shia na Qur'ani: Majibu na Maelezo'' (Shi'ism and Qur'an)

* ''Shia na Sahaba: Majibu na Maelezo'' (Shi'ism and the companions)

* ''Shia na Hadith: Majibu na Maelezo'' (Shiism and hadith)

* ''Ukweli wa Hadith ya Karatasi'' (The truth of the paper hadith)

* ''Mut'a Ndoa ya Halali'' (Mut'a legal marriage)

* ''Malumbano Baina ya Sunni na Shia'' (Conflict between sunni and Shi'a)

* ''Sura al-Ahzaab: Tafsiri na Maelezo'' (Surah al-Ahzaab: translation and tafsir)

* ''Tafsiri ya Sura at-Talaaq'' (Tafsir of surah talaq)

* ''Yazid Hakuwa Amirul-Mu'minin'' (Yazid was not [[Amir al-Mu'minin]])

* ''Hadith Al-Thaqalayn: Hadith Sahihi'' (Hadith al-Thaqalayn; an authentic hadith)

* ''Ahlul Bayt: Ni Nani, Si Nani'' (Ahl al-bayt)

* ''Maulidi: Si Bida, Si Haramu'' (Prophet's birth, neither heresy nor haram)

* ''Tafsiri ya Juzuu ya 'Amma'' (Translation of 'Amma juz')