Jumu'ah Live: "The Holy Qur'an-The Opportunity Of A Lifetime"

"Thus we believe that the natural state of the human being is Muslim. And to make it very clear as to what I am saying, there is the "natural man" that Allah made, and this natural man has to be brought into an awareness of where Allah wants him to go with his nature. Revelation comes to bring that about, but there is always the urge in him and the striving in him internally to find that,even before a condition develops requiring Allah's revelation.

Man has lived on the earth before revelation and has lived honorable and upright lives and has been a fine Muslim in the eyes of the Lord and Creator before revelation came. The proof of it is what Prophet Muhammad said, himself, of every baby and every child being born Muslim. However, there is another proof of that in Muhammad, himself, in his own life. Allah says of Muhammad, that he was already established on the best plane of excellence before the revelation came.

It also says to the people through revelation regarding Prophet Muhammad that, "I have lived a lifetime among you." It means that before the revelation came, he had lived a lifetime of human moral excellence among the people. Revelation had not come to him. So was he a Muslim before revelation or not? He was a Muslim in the excellence of nature before revelation, and he was a Muslim after revelation in the proper sense as we understand it now. Then he became the leader of proper Muslims throughout the world. They became his followers, and he is the leader of all of them. But understand that he was a Muslim before then." Imam W. D. Mohammed(ra