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(FinalCall.com) – As Muslims across the world are experiencing growth and change amid a climate of trouble and anxiety, an encouraging light of unity, mutual love and respect is emerging among Islam’s diverse communities in the United States.

Sister Yasmeen Bint Haneef and Sister Nefertari, Imam Sultan Rahman. (bottom) Chicago Unity Jumu’ah.

At the vanguard of the inroad towards harmony is Sultan Rahman Muhammad, a Chicago-based imam, Arabic and Islamic Civilizations Instructor, and organizer. Muhammad is the resident Imam at Mosque Maryam, the international headquarters and National Center of the Nation of Islam (N.O.I.), and was assigned to the position by the Honorable Minister Louis Farrakhan in September 2012. He is the first person to hold such a post in the movement’s history that began in Detroit, Michigan 83 years ago.

Barriers are breaking and a bridge is building among Muslim communities with the N.O.I. since Minister Farrakhan established the post of imam—the Arabic term for one who functions as an Islamic prayer leader, said Imam Rahman Muhammad.

Born into a renowned family legacy of U.S. Muslims, the imam is a great-grandson of the Most Honorable Elijah Muhammad, the Patriarch and Eternal Leader of the Nation, and the oldest son of the late Imam Sultan Muhammad, who served as personal aide and pilot for his grandfather, Elijah Muhammad. Later he became the imam to Masjid Muhammad in Washington, D.C.

When Minister Farrakhan announced the post of Imam for the Nation of Islam, there were questions and curiosity in… continue reading @ finalcall.com