ATH:Imam W. D. Mohammed(ra) Newark 1984 "Independence and Responsibility"

"The most precious thing you have is your individuality that God gave you. The Prophet's Sunnah will not threaten your individuality. The Prophet's Sunnah will enhance, will improve, and will help you get into more of your individuality. His Sunnah is not his personality. And this is because his Sunnah is his discipline in the life of what God revealed. But if you look at a personality like Farrakhan and even myself or that of John Muhammad and many others that are more important than these I have named, then what you copy from them is what they are all about. All of these are not all about living the life of God. Some of them are about playing tunes that you like to hear.

So when you see me, you say, "Here comes my man. He is going to play a tune that I like to hear." And then you will go astray every time. What I am saying is this, that Prophet Muhammad (saw) was the ideal person in the service of God. The ideal person lives the Word of God so perfectly, that you never see him, for you see the Word of God. You won't see his personal choices, for you see God's choices. You don't see what he is all about, for you see what God is all about." Imam Mohammed(ra)