We Must Continue Following Imam W. D. Mohammed

OCTOBER 8, 2008

WE MUST CONTINUE FOLLOWING IMAM W. D. MOHAMMED

I am writing this release to respond to the many calls and emails inquiring as to why I have not as of yet released part 2 of my two part informational narrative as promised.  As many of the believers know by talking to me about our serious dilemma since the death of our great leader, Imam W. D. Mohammed and or those of you that I have had the honor of sharing my concerns with, I said then and repeat now, we (our present leaders) have put the cart before the horse when we should have put the horse in front of the cart.

I have repeatedly said to those who I have talked with that the first thing that we must do if we are to be successful as a community is to TRUST, HONOR AND FOLLOW THE VISION OF OUR LATE LEADER IMAM W. D. MOHAMMED Now many sincere Imams, brothers and sisters have tried to and think that they have done that when in fact in most situations, they only demonstrated that they did not have the vision or strength to fulfill this challenge though they had the desire and will to do so.  Honoring the vision of our late great leader does not mean a whole lot of complimentary language or holding a bunch of feel good meetings.  Honoring the vision of Imam Mohammed entails first of all loving and respecting Imam Mohammed enough to seriously take into consideration what permitted him to be so successful and gain the great love and admiration of so many people around the world.

The answer is very simple brothers and sisters.  The answer is because he was the personification of TRUTH AND HONESTY IN OUR MIDST.  As it is reported in the Haadith that Prophet Muhammad (pbuh) was the Qur’an walking, Imam Mohammed was the mission of the Prophet walking in our day and time.  Now, I know that this is going to rub some people the wrong way and upset them because of their dim understanding and limited insight but these are the facts.  Imam Mohammed put an example of truth and honesty in front of us and never once, ever departed from it.  THIS GAVE US CONFIDENCE AND TRUST IN IMAM MOHAMMED and we were willing to sacrifice and give our time, our talents, our money and our life if necessary to support and help him.  

THIS, brothers and sisters is why I must ignore the appeals of those weak so called Muslims in this community that keep trying to get me to heed the attacks of those who may have liked Imam Mohammed but did not really believe that he was an honest and righteous man.  They say to me, “brother Siddeeq, what you are doing is good but don’t put this information out in the public, go to the family and talk to them and do this privately”.  These are people who are blind and frightened and who deep down in side believe that Imam Mohammed had a dark side and we must be careful or it might come out.  Well I do not believe like that and their fear and concerns fall on deaf ears when it comes to me.  These luke warm people do not realize that all of the lies that have been published are going to cause professional writers and researchers to begin to look at the life of Imam W. D. Mohammed and what Laila and Shirley Mohammed have reported to the media about Shirley being his wife.  They are going to begin trying to understand how could a man that we say was such a moral and honest man would marry a young wife, have children by other women who are now grown and still be married to a woman that he married over 30 years ago?  When these people begin researching this subject they are not going to go to Laila or Shirley and sit down behind some closed doors and discuss it, they are going to put what they find on the front page of the New York Times or in every public periodical that they can find.  Therefore, my spirit and love for as well as my knowledge of Imam Mohammed will not allow me to sit down and hide as though there is no logical and rational answer to these apparently challenging and damaging questions.  Imam Mohammed pointed me to the answers while he was alive and I did not understand what he was saying.  I would say to my wife, “why is the Imam telling me these personal and sensitive things about his personal life and former relationships”?  And when he told me that he was expecting me to write and tell the followers about what he did and how he lived in his personal life, I never once considered that he was talking about this that I am writing about.  But obviously he was, because he gave me some keys that make this situation that most of you are running from and cringing about as clear as the morning sun.  So what I am saying is, that vicious lie that Shirley Mohammed is still the wife of Imam Mohammed, and that many of you want to call a private matter, was put out in the public by Laila and Shirley Mohammed and has caused, is causing and will cause the total destruction of the true legacy of Imam Mohammed if not tackled head on in the public arena and put to rest, NOW, once and for all.  Despite all of the fears this lie has a logical and clear answer to it and those of you who keep wanting me to go underground, evidently, actually believe that Imam Mohammed is guilty of what these ungrateful greedy women have put into the public.  

I’m telling you that IMAM MOHAMMED’S LIFE IS THE HONORABLE AND HONEST LIFE THAT HE TOLD US ABOUT without any lies or deceit in it and once these liars finish casting their lies we will cast the truth to show you that the language from Allah in the Qur’an will come alive in defense of ALLAH’S FAITHFUL SERVANT IMAM W. D. MOHAMMED where it says “cast truth at falsehood until it knocks out its brains..”

So dear brothers and sisters when you hear these scared to death Imams and so called Muslims slide up to you and tell you, “Siddeeq, should take that stuff he is talking about and talk about it privately, etc.,..” know that you are listening to someone who has accepted the lie to be the truth and believes in his heart, despite what he may say out of his mouth, that Imam Mohammed did something wrong and there is no defense for it and let’s just hide this and go on accepting that Imam Mohammed was a good man but he was only half stepping like daddy grace, father divine and some of those other guys…do this Siddeeq so that we don’t cause embarrassment to the community….now this is what some of your most educated Imams are telling me, the rest have just climbed under a rock and are hiding waiting for the storm to blow over.  They want me to see our honorable leader from the frightened, weak, blind, faithless position that they see him from and when I don’t they want to tell me …”you’re tearing this community down….” “OH YOU OF LITTLE FAITH…”

What these weak, shaky leg so called doctors and imams are saying is “I’m a doctor, and I am intelligent and you are not a doctor so it’s impossible that you could see or know what I can’t see or know so come let me help you, just follow my vision and you will be alright.  And if you don’t follow my educated vision you are then hurting our community”.  

These so-called leaders don’t believe that G-d will guide you because of your faith…yes I said G-d will guide you because of your faith and it is not for me to say that G-d has guided me but for some strange reason I have the answer to a problem that they have completely given up all hope of ever explaining.  Where did I get the answer?  Why don’t you have the answer?  The same information that I found was available for you to find, then why didn’t you find it.  And why didn’t you hear the keys that Imam Mohammed told all of us in the public to use when these attacks begin to be launched on us so that you would be able to see and recognize the truth?  BUT YOU DIDN’T HEAR HIM, do you want to know why?  BECAUSE YOU DIDN’T BELIEVE HIM! You want me to take this PUBLIC ATTACK LAUNCHED BY HIS FORM
ER WIFE AND HER CHILDREN out of the public arena AFTER THEY CALLED A PRESS CONFERENCE AND PUBLISHED IT ALL OVER THE ENTIRE WORLD because you think that the Imam has something to hide and that when he told you that he was an honorable man that he didn’t tell the whole truth…THIS IS WHAT THOSE OF YOU BELIEVE WHO ARE INTENT ON DISCUSSING THIS ATTACK BY LAILA AND SHIRLEY IN PRIVATE.  Well, I’m here to tell you doc that your vision is too weak to offer any advice to a believer, offer your advice to those who have one foot in and one foot out like you and fear the light of the truth please don’t bring your weak faith and kindergarten understanding to me.  

Almighty G-d Allah said “speak a word directed to the truth, he did not say first check and see who likes it or who might get hurt by it he said speak a word directed to the truth and that is what I am going to do regardless of how scared or frightened some of you may be.  

I hear you weak so called followers of Imam Mohammed every day ” well brother you know Imam was still married to Shirley Mohammed…” and you believe this lie?  You listened to this man teach us for over 33 years and tell you that “I’M BEING GUIDED BY G-D AND THAT I AM AN HONORABLE MAN…and you think that he was only talking, HE HAS ONLY BEEN DEAD FOR 30 DAYS AND YOU ARE READY TO ACCEPT THE SCANDAL OF THE LIARS WHO WOULD RISE UP AGAINST THIS HONORABLE AND RIGHTEOUS MAN OF G-D WHILE REJECTING 33 YEARS OF EXEMPLARY LEADERSHIP THAT TESTIFY TO HIS PURITY, SINCERITY AND HONESTY…

You believe we have something to hide and that the word of Shirley and Laila Mohammed is the truth and that Imam Mohammed’s life and word is not or did not speak the truth, tell them, Tell Shirley Mohammed to put on the table all that she claims as a justification for THE LIE SHE HAS TOLD AND IS TELLING THE WORLD and I will show you that both she and everyone of those children who attempt to convince you that you have the total story as it relates to the marital life of Imam Mohammed and Shirley Mohammed is no more than a wicked trick and a deceitful lying scheme concocted by persons that Imam Mohammed trusted and expected more from.  I INVITED LAILA AND SHIRLEY MOHAMMED TO AN OPEN AND PUBLIC DISCUSSION ON THIS SUBJECT AND I WILL SHOW YOU THEIR WEAK SCHEME SO CLEAR THAT THEY WILL HAVE TO RUN FOR COVER AFTER YOU SEE WHY I CALLED MY FIRST INSTALLMENT ON THIS SUBJECT A BETRAYAL, I could go further but for now I will let that suffice on this subject, just let me know when they tell you that they are ready to be exposed.

I know, I can hear you, “Brother Siddeeq you are suppose to be telling us why you have not published part 2 of your two part narrative report”.  Yes, and that is just what I am doing.  If you will recall in part one of my report I gave you, as best as I could give, a report on our leader and our community and what had transpired since the death of our leader.  For those of you who talked to me I shared with you that this should be the very first step that we as a community should take if we are to have success “FOLLOWING IMAM W. D. MOHAMMED”.  So the first thing that has to be done and should have been done by the “responsible leaders” of our community was to follow Imam W. D. Mohammed.  I don’t say this because I am so smart, I say this because as Imam Mohammed expressed to us over and over and I’m sure that I am not the only one who heard him….”…follow the logic to it’s proper conclusion” So I ask you, WHAT IS THE MOST IMPORTANT CONCERN WHENEVER A SERIOUS CRISIS LIKE THIS COMES TO BE?  The first and most intelligent thing for those close to the Imam or sharing serious responsibilities with him should QUICKLY AND EFFICIENTLY INVESTIGATE EXACTLY WHAT HAPPENED TO IMAM MOHAMMED AND INFORM HIS FOLLOWERS so that we all would be on the same page in understanding and information.  Just plain love and respect for the Imam should dictate this to our conscience.

Once the Janazza was RESPECTFULLY conducted and concluded, then the leaders should have kept a moratorium on all spending, cancel all credit cards, freeze all accounts (his wife Khadijah initially did this) and CALL ALL of the leaders together to interact with each other and collectively analyze the information gathered and see if in what we have gathered is a direction for us to begin our recovery and long march forward.  Once we are clear as to exactly what transpired in the investigation of his death THEN AND ONLY THEN DO WE MOVE TO STEP NUMBER TWO.

This is not rocket science dear believers it is merely commonsense.  Instead of holding a series of “feel good meetings” for the same believers over and over who had already attended the Janazza and an earlier memorial service, post pone the memorials until a future date where others in various parts of the country can take part since they were not present for his Janazza.  We should have used that time after Jumuah prayer to call to mind some sober responsible futuristic thinking and begin preparing a “STATE OF THE COMMUNITY REPORT, consisting of a clear FINANCIAL AND STATUS accounting of each of the programs that Imam Mohammed had initiated.  Then at the Ramadan session, all of the leaders, heads of programs, Imams, family members, trustees over bank accounts etc., should have sat down and choose a designated temporary spokesperson to represent and report on the state of the community.  This would have settle the immediate fears and anxieties that had begun swirling around the community due to the lack of factual and honest information.  Next there needed to be a clear united statement on the injustice put upon the wife of Imam Mohammed and from that point we could have marched forward as a united creditable Muslim community letting the membership know that in the near future we would return to all of these subjects and go into further details and explanations on them.

Now we have some very charismatic and talented Imams in this community who are quite knowledgeable and interesting, however, at this critical time their talents would have been best spent staying in their own cities and bracing their local communities in preparation for going forward as oppose to attending a Ramadan session that had no clear agenda or direction that would or could constructively address the serious void that we had just encountered and how we would respond as a result of that.  

Imam Mohammed has told us and the Qur’an supports him that, when in doubt, we should just stand still until the light flashes and once the light flashes we can begin to move.  But to travel in the dark, to Detroit Michigan at that time because, I already paid for a hotel room or I had already registered to come or I already ordered my plane ticket, these reasons, though economically prudent and expediently understandable, do not resonate as being wise or intelligent justifications for thinking people to make a decision on.  The basis for deciding to go to Detroit for the Ramadan session should have independently and specifically taken into consideration the unexpected tragic crisis that was put upon our community at that time and what we could or would add or take away to our understanding of this situation by traveling there.  

Over and over our Islamic teaching tells us that “matters are judged by intentions and that if our migration was for some material gain or physical benefit or just to satisfy our curiosity then we could only get from that effort what we were traveling in search of or for.  It was clear that we were facing the same situation that the man in the haadith experienced when he ask the Prophet to tell him about the future and the Prophet (pbuh) responded “the one asking knows as much about it as the one being asked” Isn’t this what we were looking at brothers and sisters?  Many traveled to Detroit literally days after the death of our beloved leader seeking to ask some uninformed Imam about a situation that no research or study had been appli
ed to, so what could you really gain in that situation?  So basically those who went to Detroit, though being good and sincere Muslims really had no reason to expect anything substantive to come out of that gathering Why?  Because the leaders did not do their job of properly preparing the facts for the followers to absorb, so that they, the leaders could lead.  As we use to say in the “first” will you sit at home and wait for that mystery g-d to bring you food clothing and shelter?  The answer back then was “EMPHATICALLY NO! Then will some one tell me how we can expect a different answer to the same type of question and problem today?

So dear Muslims, here we are FACING THE BIGGEST TRAGEDY AND TRIAL THAT WE HAVE EVER FACED AND EVER WILL FACE AS A COMMUNITY and we begin approaching it as if it was some little social snafu or some every day occurrence.  THIS IS INSANE.
 I SEARCHED and presented every thing that I could find from the words and guidance of Imam Mohammed trying to get the Imam’s and leaders of this community to put their heads together and quickly as Imam Mohammed instructed us to, and justly deal with the major breach of Islamic principle instituted when they totally disenfranchised Imam Mohammed’s wife Khadijah, who happens to be my daughter, hoping that they would see that this blatant injustice would be like the “proverbial hole in the dike” that as it spreads, would cause the whole town to be flooded and all of the people in it’s path to be destroyed.  Despite my many appeals admonishing the leaders to FOLLOW IMAM MOHAMMED, the leaders could not see this as any thing but a “personal family problem” when I kept telling them what the facts supported and that anyone with an ounce of sense could see that this was a FIRST PRIORITY SERIOUS COMMUNITY PROBLEM.  I kept telling them, to ignore this problem and let it hang out in the community unresolved would be like leaving a smoldering nuclear device ready to explode in the core and heart of our community.  Needless to say my appeal fell on deaf ears among the leaders.  They would come to me and tell me about my daughter and I kept telling them, to put it that way is to not see the total seriousness and gravity of this blatant injustice, this matter is about the wife of Imam Mohammed who happened to be my daughter.  

I thank Allah for the true and sincere believers, you, the rank and file membership of this community, the ones who accepted Khadijah to stand with you on the day of Imam Mohammed’s Janazza after being rejected by the Mohammed family the complicit funeral director, Otto Ali.  You immediately saw the picture as clear as day.  Your phone calls, emails, text messages, faxes and personal visits and outpouring of support to me and members of my family tallied way over 5 thousands for those who chose to identify publicly as a supporter which told me that you understood that I was not fighting a personal problem but instead was addressing a serious community problem that would be the catalyst to bring this community down to its’ knees if not properly PUBLICLY addressed and PUBLICLY corrected by the leadership of this community.  This was and is the pathway to respect and credibility for the Imams and leaders and by neglecting this they will never ever gain the full trust and support of this community of believing Muslim brothers and sisters no matter what happens from this point forward.

It now has been one month since the passing of our esteemed leader Imam Mohammed and finally, at the first Sunday gathering in Chicago, it was reported to me that some effort to exert leadership over the community was tried by a faction of those who worked around and with Imam Mohammed without ever first sitting down and talking with all interested parties (friends or foes) involved in an attempt to maintain a consensus for the ideas or approach that would be put forth This was wrong.  I do not personally agree with certain things that are going on in the community but in the final analysis if progress is to be achieved the conference table must respect and invite all segments of leadership that exist within our community to come, sit and be heard and respected.  This dear brothers and sisters is following in the footsteps of Imam Mohammed.  This is the way that he conducted his affairs and led his community and this is the reason for his success.  Now why is it that we who claim to follow him think for one minute that we can reject and go against his wise and sincere Islamic manner and example and still get the kind of TRUST and outstanding success that he received by all who knew, followed and trusted him?  Maybe it’s because we quote him and put his name out there and tell the believers “Imam Mohammed told me this or Imam Mohammed told me that” But the believers, dear brothers and sisters are not just listening to your words they are watching your actions…they are evaluating your weak unprincipled stand and your refusal to address the terrible mistreatment of Imam Mohammed’s wife and saying to themselves, if they won’t give his wife justice what chance do I have to even get something approaching justice.  This dear Brothers and Sisters as well as many, many other things paramount to this communities success, must be boldly and courageously addressed by leadership if we are to continue following Imam W.  D.  Mohammed

Another pressing concern that is on the minds of the believers and perhaps the most serious business concern fundamental to our survival is: ” what is the status of YOUR money invested and donated to maintain this communities economical programs and initiatives?  Again I repeat, this concern should have been prepared for than handled in Detroit instead of a whole lot of talk and feel good meetings.  Prior to coming to Detroit the leaders should have made sure that they would have a clear financial picture to give to all of those who attended this meeting so that when those of you who attended returned home some of your most serious fears could have been comforted and put to rest.  But no, even to this moment that I am writing this report and even though we all know that this is what Imam Mohammed would have done and I called for this type of information sharing on day one of the death of Imam Mohammed, it still has not been gathered and put into report format and shared with the believers.  

Instead of presenting a report, many of those who were blessed to be able to talk one on one with the Imam have chosen to believe that that relationship was sufficient to legitimize their credibility when in fact the believers are not interested in hearing a name dropping contest they want to see the reality of Imam Mohammed walking and living in front of them via of OUR action and OUR behavior.  Everyone can talk but is everyone going to try to live an exemplary Muslim life as Imam Mohammed did before us?

So while the believers are walking around in the dark as to the security or lack of security for their financial investments it has been reported that Wallace Mohammed has presented a check to Brother Yusef Abdullah to sign, for a $3000 maintenance payment to his mother (which was denied by Yusef) to be drawn from the 501C3 treasury of the ministry which also has been reported that Wallace has claimed is the treasury that belongs to “the family or heirs”.  

Now I do not like to report things until or unless they have been confirmed but despite my reaching out for Wallace to call me so that we can attempt to sit down and pull this community back together again and allow me to ask him about these reports, I find myself reporting on a situation that I will not be able to reconcile due to his refusal to return my call (though I respectfully took his call when he called my home).  It has also been reported that Wallace has violated the Imam’s clear model and procedure to avoid nepotism, improprieties and conflicts of interest by having the community’s financial i
nterest protected by having two persons sign any check that is to be written.  Wallace, according to information given to me, has short stopped that process by having his wife put on The Mosque Cares checking account as a signer and began disbursing monies to his mother under the guise of maintenance WHICH SHE HAS NO CLAIM TO OR A RIGHT TO RECEIVE FROM — FOR THE PURPOSE OF HER PERSONAL SPENDING AND MAINTENANCE.  This is a stairway to hell.  Certainly every son has the right to love and want to protect his mother but by what rule or example of Imam Mohammed can Wallace point to that justifies giving his mother maintenance money from a 501c3 — not for profit treasury — with clear and strict governmental guidelines as to how it must be used if you desire for the government to allow you to keep that status.  

If Wallace wants his mother to receive maintenance, why can’t he see that his father has given to him the most potentially lucrative business in the entire community, W. D. Mohammed Publications Books & Tapes, why not include his mother, Shirley Mohammed as well as other family members as a part of that great effort?  Why does he now need to raid some other treasury when he is sitting on a gold mine CAPABLE OF SUPPORTING ALL OF THE MOHAMMED FAMILY AND OTHERS IF THEY HAVE ANY VISION FAITH OR INSIGHT INTO WHAT THEY HAVE?  

So taking into consideration I had promised you part two of my narrative report which involves the LEGAL MANIPULATIONS OF LAILA AND SHIRLEY MOHAMMED, I FELT THAT IT WOULD BE BETTER TO GET THIS INFORMATION OUT FIRST BECAUSE THE LEGAL REPORT ITSELF IS GOING TO BE QUITE INVOLVED AND EXTENSIVE AND IT WILL ADDRESS AND SUPPORT WHAT I AM SAYING WITH FACTS AND DOCUMENTATION.  

LET ME CLOSE THIS REPORT BY SAYING TO ALL OF THE BELIEVERS THAT THIS COMMUNITY HAS NO LEGAL OR MORAL FINANCIAL. OBLIGATION TO SHIRLEY MOHAMMED OR LAILA MOHAMMED IN ANY WAY WHATSOEVER OTHER THAN TO TREAT THEM WITH RESPECT AND DIGNITY AS ALL MUSLIMS SHOULD BE TREATED .  ANY MONIES GIVEN TO EITHER OF THEM AT THIS TIME FROM ANY TREASURIES OF THIS COMMUNITY ARE IN DIRECT VIOLATION OF THE RIGHTS OF THE BELIEVERS AND DONORS WHOSE MONIES SHE IS DEMANDING AND MAKING CLAIM TO.  
ANY PERSON WHO IS A SIGNER ON ANY OF THE ACCOUNTS THAT HAS BEEN ESTABLISHED BY IMAM MOHAMMED IS ON NOTICE THAT YOU WHO HAVE OR ARE WILLING TO USE YOUR SIGNATURE TO AUTHORIZE ANY DISBURSEMENT OF MONEY FOR ANY PURPOSE NOT SET FORTH BY THOSE INVESTORS OR DONORS WHO MADE THOSE MONIES AVAILABLE HAS PUT THEMSELVES IN A POSITION TO BE FACING LEGAL ACTION FROM THOSE BELIEVERS HOLDING CERTIFICATES OF SHARES OR RECEIPTS SHOWING DONATIONS TO THIS COMMUNITY FOR A COMMUNITY EFFORT AND NOT A SELFISH FAMILY EFFORT.  IF SHIRLEY MOHAMMED, WALLACE MOHAMMED OR LAILA MOHAMMED BELIEVE THAT THEY ARE STANDING ON SOUND GROUND AND FOLLOWING THE LEADERSHIP OF IMAM W. D. MOHAMMED BY DISBURSING THE TREASURIES OF THIS COMMUNITY TO THEIR MOTHER OR MEMBERS OF THEIR FAMILY THEN THEY SHOULD PUBLISH THOSE LEGAL PAPERS THAT JUSTIFY SUCH CLAIM OR CEASE AND DESIST.

BROTHER MUHAMMAD SIDDEEQ

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