Friends and Co-workers Remember Texas’ First Muslim TDCJ Chaplain who passed away from COVID-19

“I’m in bad shape, brother.” These were the words Eugene Farooq says he heard from his long-time friend, co-worker and mentor, Akbar Shabazz, who could barely get out a breath. Days later on April 23, despite being hospitalized, Shabazz would lose his battle against the infectious coronavirus. In September 1977,…