As-Salaam Alaikum:
Imam Mohammed is now the embodiment of his own community; like Prophet Adam (saw) to Prophet Muhammed (saw) is his community. We are simply members of Imam W.D. Mohammed. He was and is relentless in his duty to Allah (swt). He never gave up or slowed in his hard work to help his people. He loved his community so much so that he left himself poor like his beloved Prophet Muhammed (saw). Imam Mohammed is our Master of Sincerity.
During this Ramadan’s Night of Power a DVD was played of Imam Mohammed’s last Ju’mah. One could easily see that Imam was tired and appeared to be ill. Never the less, he presented, as usual, a very impactive and dynamic expression of Al-Islam, as well as, his powerful insight as to Al-Qur’an. He also appeared as if though he would present his last message to his beloved brothers and sisters, an intense forceful message. After the showing Imam Sharif opened for questions and statements then, from seemingly the depths of one’s soul came a statement that was so revealing that it shocked the mind; we can only make “sajudu” to Allah (swt) and no (Adam) one else.
Imam’s compulsion is, we are part of that, “they bowed down, sajudu”. As Imam Mohammed stated, Adam represents our “original nature”, not the nature that we have grown to. Mankind has become far distanced from the original nature thereby, falling into a state of mind, forcing mankind to remember Adam by, “sajudu.”
One more point, imagine the difference between salat, several positions that makes up the ritual of prayer for Muslims and sajada, one individual prayer position. In each ritual our minds are trained on remembering inspired men and Allah (swt). We remember Bilal with the one finger, Prophet Ibrahim, and Prophet Muhammad. Now, thanks to Imam Mohammed we’ll remember Prophet Adam.
Imam Mohammed’s most excellent delivery, in our lifetime, gave to us a view of Allah’s power by showing how to take the word and make it flesh. How to take that beautiful ayat 34, Sura 2 (words) then, cause our mind to act it out in our flesh, making our mind and flesh join in “sajudu”.
Members of W.D. Mohammed must guard and protect his legacy as well as keep him in the right. We must forever remember that, Imam Mohammed left to us our inheritance, an inheritance, of great value; its ownership is in possession of his community. It would be wrong for us to squander our inheritance, take it to be of no value, doing and saying things about him that, we would never think of, if his eyes were on us.
In Service to Allah (swt)
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