Earl Abdulmalik Mohammed Speaks

QUESTION: Do Muslim-Americans have different schools of thought? If so, which one do you follow? And who are you?

IMAM EARL ABDULMALIK MOHAMMED: This is a question better answered in a classroom setting. Find me where I am teaching, secure a place for yourself, and ask me again.

Yes, there are many. I would say at least twelve, and some are derived from the twelve. They are not all alike. Your question has spiritual insight, and so I am asking that you read my answer with the same spiritual reasoning and insight that you have asked the question. These schools of thought all have Islamic labeling but they do not all have true Islamic content or intent.

Allah says in the Holy Qur'an that the good and the evil are not the same, that truth and falsehood is not the same, that all of those identified as the People of the Book are not the same, and that there is a distinction between those who submit to the authority of logic and those who have faith. He also says that He announced to the absolutely obedient ones who possess no nature and no will to disobey Him, that He was creating a sensitive creature, a human. And that when He had formed this human and defined for him his purpose according to His will, that the obedient ones should bow down to him.

Existing among the obedient ones was another entity, another logic, which refused to bow down. The one refusing gave the basis of his Muslim-American logic. He said that his Muslim-American logic was of greater importance and a more exact constitution -a higher grade of authenticity. That his importance and constitution was of an ever-burning, uncheckable, superior and ancient flame of logic that precedes the base reasoning of the natural, sensitive, muck-mud man. His school of thought pokes fun at, laughs at, wants to make a fool of this original man. It dismisses the faith, the dignity, the purity, and the knowledge base of the form and purpose of the natural man.

The Muslim-American logic that wants to establish the 'Muslim Town' in America is not the same as the emphasis in faith and knowledge, nature and intellect, moral sentiments and ethical reasoning that evolves in and toward what is necessary to construct and sustain New Africa, the Model Community. For me, there is only one completed, and perfected, school of thought.

It is flawless in its design, its form, and in its aim. It is blessed by Allah, protected by His Angels, and authorized by the Seal of the Prophets. It is the madhhab of the Messenger of Allah, his companions, the faithful and learned Islamic scholars of all ages, and the dawah of all the true Imams of al-Islam. It came to us in America in a strange way, which accords with the Prophet's prediction, the prayers and the peace be on him. The cold, hard logic and rigidity of 'schools of thought' and their adherents or 'madhabiyyun' do not apply here except as it exists with the Muslim-American logicians. You may not know exactly what I am referring to but those who it hits will yell-out in time.

This is not a question that can be answered fully in these few lines. I am identifying some common characteristics of many of these 'schools' or influences. Some of these 'schools' are personality-based, and their falsehood will die with the death of the personality. However, in time, every false idea, influence, and scheme against the People of Imam W. Deen Mohammed will be openly challenged, exposed, and discredited by those who are his true students. What permits this is the clarity of the school of thought which forms our People and explains our aims. It is the language of Adam and Abraham reaching to be Muhammed in his fullness as the human type, and the language of Muhammed in his completed, perfected human excellence. It is the Dawah of the Imam of al-Islam, W. Deen Mohammed, the Guided Tradition, preserved for the Muslims in America.

Who am I? I am the first of those to succeed Imam W. Deen Mohammed's Dawah as leader of his People. I am the Representative of Imam W. Deen Mohammed, and all leaders of his People who come after me will be known in the same way, not only by name, but by the combination of the Islamic purity of faith and its disciplines of morality, emphasis of understanding, use of language, application of knowledge, and strategies to serve a just order and progress for Muslims in a multi-cultural and humane society.