At a glance
- Era
- The Modern Era
- Region
- East Africa & Swahili coast
In time
In the Modern Islam Browser
Summary
Safiirka Islaamka — Somali for "the Ambassador of Islam" — is a Kenya-based Somali-language YouTube channel created on 4 December 2018. In its own description, quoted by the vling channel profile, it is "a channel to serve the community", where followers can find "social issues, stories, marriage stories" and spread the good. It counted about 299,000 subscribers and some 1,683 videos, with about 34.96 million total views, by vidIQ's count as of 4 November 2026 — dated platform figures. 1 2
Content
The channel's catalogue mixes lectures and talks by Somali scholars with stories and practical advice. Its most-viewed videos in vidIQ's listing are a talk on the death of Imam Muhammad Swalihu of Jamia Mosque, Nairobi (about 621,000 views), a story, "Qisdul Hindi" (about 578,000), and question-and-answer and remedy talks — among them Sheikh Yusuf Xogweyn answering questions on fenugreek (about 505,000). No single speaker dominates the catalogue; the speakers are many, and the channel presents their material under its own brand. 2 1
A channel brand, not a person
Neither the channel's own description nor the tracker profiles opened for this record name an individual author, owner or presenter: the description speaks in a community-service voice, and the content is the work of many different speakers. The museum therefore records Safiirka Islaamka as a channel brand — an organised media presence — and not as a person record, and it records no founder and no parent organisation, because none is documented in the sources read. 1 2
References
Sources
- Safiirka Islaamka — vling channel profile
- Safiirka Islaamka — vidIQ channel statistics
Cite this page
islam.museum contributors. “Safiirka Islaamka”. islam.museum, https://islam.museum/en/group/safiirka-islaamka/. CC BY-SA 4.0. Last updated 2026-11-05.
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