WCP: Imam W. Deen Mohammed Inaugural Address February 26, 1975

"I would like to open my Savior's Day address with a reading from our Bible, which is properly called Quran, a word meaning, 'that which is to be recited.' I read from the Quran, Chapter 75, Section 2. The dead rise. “Does man think he will be left aimless? Was he not a small life germ? In sperm emitted, then he was a clot, so, He created him then made him complete. Then, He made of him two kinds, the male, and the female, is not He?" And I stop, interrupt this quotation from the Quran to make it very clear to you that He, here, is the one, the Almighty, the True and Living G-d. “Is He not powerful to give life to the dead?”

All praises be to Allah, the Lord, Keeper, the Sustainer of all the world, who manifests His presence and His divine will to my father, the Hon. Elijah Muhammad, in the person of Master Wali Fard Muhammad. I have been so honored here today until I cannot go into my address before, first, let you know that I am too small for all this honor. The Hon. Elijah Muhammad, he has formed this house, the Hon. Elijah Muhammad built it from the ground. All he received from the job was, I believe they called it a bill in the language of industry, an order, a written order telling him what had to be done.

What he received was an order to do a job, he had to begin that work from scratch and build a nation." The Chief Minister Wallace D. Mohammed(ra) February 26, 1975