Ayisha Jeffries Cisse
Hajja Ayisha Jeffries Cisse serves as Vice President of Global Affairs and Senior Policy Advisor to the President of the African American Islamic Institute, Senegal, West Africa (AAII), currently, the Hon. Shaykh Imam Tidjane Aliou Cisse, on Muslim World Outreach in the US and Europe. AAII’s mission is to lead sustainable development that promotes education, health care, the empowerment of women and children, the alleviation of poverty, and the promotion of peace.
In her role as VP of Global Affairs, AAII, beginning with its Founder, the Honorable Shaykh Imam Hassan Aliou Cissè, Hajja manages a portfolio of thirty five global partnerships to facilitate the AAII mission, including its ongoing collaborations with AmeriCares resulting in over $1B dollars in medicine and supplies distributed throughout Africa via the Institute’s Shifa Al Asqam Social Medical Center, the funding of the Fayda radio station located in Medina Baye to the tune of $600,000 USD, a collaboration with the US Embassy, Senegal and its $250,000 Mobile Clinic Public Health initiative with US Doctors for Africa: “Building Bridges: Making the possible from the impossible along with many other initiatives throughout Africa and the U.S. She is the organization’s main representative to the United Nations Economic and Social Council.
Hajja Jeffries-Cisse is a Jersey City native and relocated to Atlanta, Georgia to serve in the administration of the late Mayor Maynard Holbrook Jackson as Budget Policy Analyst and Legislative Review/Governmental Affairs liaison. A graduate of North Carolina A&T State University in Economics, she has an M.A. from Milano School of International Affairs, Management, and Urban Policy, the New School.
Hajja Ayisha has recently been named the Chief Strategy Officer for the Darultul Kitabi wal Hikmati, an international non-governmental organization Chaired by Imam Shaykh Ahmad Tijani, the Chief Imam of the Grand Mosque of Medina Baye Kaolack, Senegal West Africa. She will assume this new role in 2023.
In her many Civic roles in her home base of Atlanta Georgia, Ayisha serves as Co-Chair of the Congressman John Lewis Commemorative Plaza and the John Lewis Task Force, Atlanta, is a consult to Nasrul Ilm America and Camp Butterfly Girls, Charter member of the ASMA Society, Global Muslim Women’s Fund, The Shura Counsel, and the Sufi Society. She is an avid supporter of the High Museum, the Dance Theater of Harlem, and AID Atlanta.
Hajja is a recipient of many awards and is a mentor to emerging leaders in political activism.
I cast the Garment of Love over thee from Me. And this in order that thou mayest be reared under Mine Eyes
(The Holy Quran 20:39)
Bismillah-ir Rahman-nir Rahim
I crave the Deep Bosom hug enshrouded in Ya Latif
The rhythmic chant of Ya Latifu
Ya Latif
Ya Latifu
Ya Latif
Ya Latifu
Hearts beat in unison… ❤️ ❤️
The Gentle Reassurance of a Merciful Redeemer
My Inner Companion who never leaves me
…breathe
It is my Humanity that is rife with forgetfulness
As it pursues its desires and stumbles over the many broken promises littering my Path
“Remember Me and I will Remember you…”
A God Promise
Yet I forget…and You Forgive and I forget and
You Forgive and I forget…
And then there are the Reminders dotting the landscape
of a shattered heart...
I have fashioned you and breathed into you my Spirit (38:72)
To be loved so completely by that which cannot be described but is Allah.
This is no less than a Reminder to all the worlds
And after a while you will know it's meaning! 38:87
Ya Latif
Ya Latifu
Ya Latif
Ya Latifu
Ya Hasibu
Ya Allahu
Ya Hu
"La ilaha ila ana"
“Indeed, I am Allah. There is no deity except Me, so worship Me and establish prayer for My remembrance” (Qur’an 20:14).
A subtle scent of rose and Jasmin hung in the air as these words left my mouth...this is a note from the Lover to the Beloved