UDL: Imam Mohammed (ra) "Good Life For Muslims In Many Communities" Newark, 7/94

"Social responsibility. The word social refers directly to human relationships in society.  The first social obligation is to one's closest members, your family, our family.  Our families.  But the social obligation extends outside of your family community into the general community.  
 
And I would say for people who try to establish their lives in accordance with the ideas that they have in their religion, they have three circles that they have to be aware of as circles for their life and their livelihood, the first being the family, as we already said.  Then the second would be their religious community, and the third would be the general community.  And that is the situation for us.  We have to be concerned for our families, firstly, then for the Muslim community, and lastly for the general community, the town, beginning with the neighborhood that we live in because it is non-Muslim.  I don't think we have any Muslim neighborhoods yet, we hope to have some.  So you have to begin with your neighborhood, and most likely even your neighbor next door." Imam W. D. Mohammed(ra)