Imam W. D. Mohammed(ra) - Wisconsin 9/11/87

"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."