By: Brother Khalid

Brother Khalid — Tue, 05 May 2009 18:27:42 +0000

#1 What Imam Pasha of Newyork and Ansari did (if it is true) is a shining example for all masajid. A paper that refuses to print or issue a statement of support for the truth concerning Imam Mohammads marriage to Khadijah should be BOYCOTTED PERIOD!
#2 Let not the call for justice or the disclosure of injustice be mis-understood as disrespect or a deliberate attempt to ruin anyone’s honor. The truth cannot be blamed if someone’s actions are dishonorable or dishonest. I do not, and neither should any muslim, care who they are or what their history or status is. If you speak a lie or committ injustice we stand out against it even if it be against our ownselves. Plain and simply, the issue here is the mis-treatment of sister KHADIJAH! Let’s step away from the slave-thinking that compels us to blame all parties involved or generalize. KHADIJAH was treated UNJUSTLY, UNFAIRLY and UN_ISLAMICALY The “everybody is wrong or nobody is wrong syndrome” is a cowardly, cold, misrepresentation of truth and justice. It is an attempt to avoid the situation. SHIRLEY, N’GINA, LAILA and WALLACE are WRONG!!! Drink it hot or cold, but lukewarm is not pleasant. No one is ever a little bit pregnant.
Give the Imams CURRENT WIFE her JUSTICE! The rest are not his wives, they are his FORMER wives. I’m disgusted that we would pretend that the present and former are all the same they ARE NOT!!!!!

By: pleasure

pleasure — Wed, 25 Feb 2009 16:34:37 +0000

As Salaamu Alaikum: May Allah bless and reward all that you are doing for the sake of your daughter and Islam.
However, it is very hard to deal islamically with those who openly display greed and dishonesty and do not “truly” follow and believe in Islam.
I will continue to make dua for you and your family.

By: Munajj Abd Rahmaan Madyun

Munajj Abd Rahmaan Madyun — Thu, 19 Feb 2009 21:53:08 +0000

I have read all of your blogs! I have awaited to hear from the family of Iman W.D. Mohammed, and the editor of the Muslim Journal. I deserve an explanation. I deserve to hear from them,in the public media, an intelligent statement regarding the accusations that you have made. Consequently, I have not renewed my subscription to the Journal and I will not renew it until the editor apologizes to us for underestimating our intelligence. It is obvious to me that her resignation is in order. It is obvious to me that you must continue your quest for justice in this matter even if you must take the matter to the U.S. Supreme Court.

By: Sonya

Sonya — Tue, 17 Feb 2009 02:58:42 +0000

As Salaamu Alaikum, Bro. Siddeeq
I appreciate you sharing with us the sincere effort to communicate with Wallace,Jr.,Laila,Shirley, and NGina and suggesting both families meet with an agreed upon shuraa of Islamic scholars with the intent of resolving the issues and problems between the families.
“A man convinced against his will,remain unconvinced still” -it seems like the ones you are trying to bring about a resolution with are not willing to accept there are problems that need resolving.With Imam Saahir trying to support an effort to help in bringing the families together to resolve issues,it allows him to experience firsthand the resistance [you've shared in previous postings].
I pray that Allah continue to guide and strengthen you,Khadijah, and the rest of your family;that you continue to pursue resolving the problems that still exist(due to lack of cooperation from the Mohammed family)- alternative means of resolution; because this wound (Dishonor and disrespect of Imam W.D. Mohammed,Khadijah Siddeeq, and Imam Mohammeds’ legacy)has not been healed.

By: Khalif Ramadan

Khalif Ramadan — Sun, 15 Feb 2009 09:06:19 +0000

As Salaamu ‘Alaikum
Firstly, let me state that my wife Malikah and I Imam Khalf Deen Ramadan strongly support the Sister Khadijah Saddeeq Mohammed, widowed wife of our leader Imam Warithudeen Mohammed, to be respected, protected, and supported financially. Let me also state that we also honor the historical role Sister Shirley Mohammed has had in supporting the work of Imam warithudeen Mohammed and she too should be respected, protected and supported.
On February 26, 1975 during the Annual Savior’s Day Observance Imam Warithudeen Mohammed was charged with authority among us upon the passing of the Honorable Elijah Muhammad. Among the many insights Imam Mohammed shared with us that day was that this society, it’s institutions and those responsible for maintaining the social order we breaking and busting at their vital seams.
Imam Mohammed also emphasized that this house (Nation of Islam) was a house built on and a house of knowledge and would not be affected when the winds of emotion come against it.
As we approach another Annual Savior’s Day Observance in 2009, 34 years after Imam Mohammed was charged with authority among us, it is we that are busting and breaking at our vital seams. A seam as we know is a bounded, intertwined, and congruent stitch that holds components of the fabric together.
Early in Imam Mohammed’s leadership he set up the committee structure which was a wisdom filled effort to get resourceful people to work within the Masajid and Centers on vital concerns that were in their interest and skill areas. Later the Monitoring Team was a new take on that same concern. The Collective Purchasing Conference (CPC) was a remake of the AMMCOP.
So Imam Mohammed was consistent in his appeal and programs to call us to collective work and responsibility. In Surah 42 Ayah 38 Allah calls us to a concept of Amrahum Shura Baynahum which roughly means the process of making binding decisions through a consultative process with each other.
Qualifications for entering into this process in this ayah include being responsive to our evolver (grow in skills and capacities in our fields of endeavor), to establish the Salat (humble ourselves in Sajdah where we acknowledge in that low state that only Allah deserves the glorification and HE is the only High One), and with what had been provided for us we spend out of it (only offer advice in areas that Allah has provided us some knowledge and expertise).
As I look at some of the upcoming events surrounding this years upcoming Savior’s Day Observance I see strong evidence that we are NOT effectively utilizing the process of Amrahum Shura Baynahum, nor are we honoring Imam Warithudeen Mohammed’s legacy of promoting and modeling collective work and responsibility.
In what Allah subhanna wa ta ‘ala ordered to be Imam Warithudeen Mohammed’s last Salatul Jummu’ah Khutbah among us he instructed us to not let our envy and jealousy be bigger than our unity. He also advised us that Prophet Muhammad’s (s.a.w.s.) Community of Medinah Munarwwiwah is a Model and Reference, a Model Reference for all time so we can know how close we are or how far we are from that model of community excellence.
He challenged he entire Ummah in this Khutbah that the evidence globally with all the divisions and infighting proves that we are not in that excellent community model.
In regard to those that claim association with Imam Waritudeen Mohammed’s leadership, by Allah, I assert that we too are not close to that model of excellence where the Muhajarun and Ansarun worked in harmony together, where distinct personalities like Abu Bakr Siddeq and Umar Ibn Al Khattab were able to resolve their differences through the wise council of Al Qur’aan and it’s demonstration in the words, programs and character of Nabi Muhammad (s.a.w.s.).
Now here we are approaching 34 years after Imam Mohammed was charged with authority among us fighting over which of his wife’s should inherit him (when the reality is they all should)… and from those factions having a Mosque Cares sponsored Savior’s Day on February 28th in Detroit and a Savior’s Day Jummu’ah and other activities on February 27th both at the same location COBO hall in Detroit, but not implemented through Amrahum Shura Baynahum.
Another leading Imam in this association is calling for a National Imam’s Meeting to be held in Louisville, KY on April 10-11, 2009 and we know we have recently (November 1, 2008 and January 3, 2009) had two CPC Investors meetings sponsored by competing forces within CPC in North Carolina and Detroit and on top of that the CPC meeting January 3, 2009 made in difficult and costly for many traveling nationally to afford also going to the 1st Sunday event held in Homewood, IL on January 4, 2009. In addition, a recent letter in Muslim Journal challenged the validity of the outcomes of that January 3, 2009 CPC Investors meeting due to what was reported to be a lack of due proces sin notification and the resulting lack of a required quroum.
One brother from Forth Worth, TX that is CPC investor and also assists Muslim Journal with sales at the 1st Sunday events informed me that he had to fly into Chicago…rent a car to go to Detroit for the CPC, drive back to Chicago for the 1st Sunday and then fly back to Forth Wroth.
What part of the Imam’s legacy of easing the burden on believers or Amrahum Shura Baynahum does this scenario fit into? NONE!
So if the “leaders” could have for Savior’s Day followed Imam Mohammed’s advice and example which is in direct congruence and agreement with the Medinah Munarwwiwah established and led by Nabi Muhammad (s.a.w.s.), we could have had a coordinated effort to have the Friday Program (posted on the back page of the February 13, 2009 Muslim Journal, the Saturday program. On Sunday the Imam’s Meeting that Imam Vernon Fareed is calling for could have been held and this would be a model example of a shared leadership process that is emphasized in Surah 42 Ayah 38 on Amrahum Shura Baynahum and is he legacy of Imam Warithudeen Mohammed’s leadership example.
Another disturbing occurrence is that two Imams New York State, Imam Pasha of Masjid Malcolm Shabazz in Harlem and Imam Fajri Ansari of Masjid Nu’man in Buffalo are forbidding the sale of Muslim Journal in the respected Masajid were they are Resident Imam and allowing the thinker to be sold. What in the hell(that is where they seem to be residing) are they thinking.
Imam Warithudeen Mohammed supported both papers and even when he withdrew his center fold article from the Muslim Journal for a period of time he continued to allow his DVD’s and CD’s to be promoted their and eventually he allowed the Centerfold article to return to the Muslim Journal.
So these extreme decisions that so called leaders are making are not examples of the Balanced Religion that Al-Islaam is and represent limited vision that should be enhanced or replaced.
For me, I will Insha’ Allah attend both events in Detroit during what is now a Savior’s Day Weekend and may also attend the Midwest Sections’s Imam’s meeting shceduled for the Muslim Center at 4:00 PM on Friday.
However I am disgusted, feed up and at the end of patience that we have not implimented in deed Amrahum Shura Baynahum in which we could have had a three day event with the Friday and saturday programs in tact and instead of a Midwest Section Imam’s Meeting, a National Imam’s Meeting held durign non conflictign time frames over the entire weekend (Friday – Sunday 2/27-29/09) This more effective strategic planning could have eliminated the need to for Imams to incur an additional expense to travel to Louisville, KY for the National Imam’s Meeting scheduled for April 10-11, 2009.
May Allah forgive us our sins and I advise all of us to read Surah 49 Hujurat (inner apartments) a minimum of three times prior to traveling to Savior’s Day Weekend so we can reafirm our commitment to the principles of engagement that are emphasised in that Surah.
Shukran wa Jazakum Allahu Khairan for all faith based righteous efforts to grown internally and build bridges instead of walls between us. Aameen!

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