many people could arguably fit this description only one may lay claim to leading the largest mass religious conversion of the twentieth century while propagating the world's fastest growing religion is the spiritual leader for the muslim american society a large community of people who practice the faith of al islam as revealed to the prophet muhammad nearly fourteen hundred years ago hammad is son of elijah muhammad former leader of the nation of islam after his father's death in one thousand nine hundred seventy five he was elected to the leadership of the nation of islam and immediately began a transformation to align his followers with the true religion of islam as it is practiced by more than one billion people around the globe others benefit but they are not the one that initiated they are not the one that represent the beginning for it has had a sizable population of muslims mostly those that magri to from other parts of the world muslim lands levanon the little pamphlets that we got as documents of the nation of islam we call it supreme wisdom says that it all started july calendar starting point but the evidence supports that late the late thirty's and definitely  was called by the members of the temple of the number one the cost temple number one was here the first temple was here and then the second temple was most of my life my mother said i was only eleven months old in her arms when she took me from here to chicago and that's where my parents set up house a home and that's where we lived till we were grown men and even till now i live in the suburbs of chicago i've lived in philadelphia for about three years i've lived in oakland california for about three years i lived in little rock arkansas for about three years so you take about nine years or more out of my life and the rest of those years except eleven months in detroit was been in chicago so to me this city has special meaning special meaning in our history question meaning for muslims are muslims in america it should have very very special meaning in your heart and in your mind in your thoughts very special meaning as god has blessed me to see it and i pray god guide me and protect me and blessed me to make my speech my presentation and i'm not presenting the life of the prophet today i'll be addressing the pro address our discussion of issues in the life of man are in the life of society  i would like to first give you some of the subject headings that i would like to do along today i have to make sure these papers and on a cross of the not there will be some problem for me real problem  all the nose references that i'll be quoting for this address on prophet muhamm is much better are than any other book of the book that's not why but it was just convenient what i wanted was very convenient so i'll be taking my calls from the book the book is prophet as a kind of support or an introduction for what i hope to present his birth and where there's a city mention in the scriptures and he himself was a native of that city to see this mentioned in the scriptures i mean the bible is departed when he was only six years old leaving him and often in his early childhood boring he used to go daily to work as a shepherd to graze goats and sheep in the outskirts of his people called him ellen mean when he was just a young man years before he be he was in his manhood he noticed that the arabs and that's what his people call arrows arrows because they speak arabic been out on the same race don't think it's to say an arab you mean a particular race it doesn't mean that never but if that's true then prophet is my must have had some black eyes because we know some black african looking people have been in rabia speaking arabic for so long some of the arabs say that they really out the day the typical arab the out that most of us look at and oh he's an  and who are those people africans actually when you look at the piece of land we call the race we call arabia and the big piece of land we call africa they are so close to each other until even the scien floor continental floor and the origin of continents they say that it appears that that all was one piece human eye people were part of that great ancient past the great ancient history who knows that one time maybe the human eyes were also commanding not only ar and the territory there but perhaps even a big portion of africa who knows and we know little japanese and took a big piece of asia yes and small germany by our land masses was on the margin about to take a big piece of europe yes so we know that small nations have had the power to expand we should understand this that people that govern society i'm not saying presidents at this people that govern society because many times is the pressure that comes from the business people are from people in other areas of interest that make that but that brings the government to have a p that heard a particular from seeing with ou most americans not african americans other hear african americans coming together and having something independent as an idea our culture they fear that they fear not because they are racist they fear because they know our history and they think that they put themselves in our plates and they say well i know what we would do if we got a situation to independent so they think that we would do the same we are very special people we're not like any other people i know we have very special even while there was slavery still in america still in the united states of north america there were african americans who had identified with america dignified with the newcomers and with doing their best to support the life and the future of the colonies of this country them raise their children help them have a nice pleasant home they did that we're very strange people and i'm not saying this care if they to same color of the person that is slave the majority of us if we found a good person we just that person one no one one on one based upon how that person treats us and how that person appeal to or appears to and they don't fear those that they believe think with me make it possible for us to not only have faith in our existence here in america politics and government so we see we don't see any position any opportunity in this country close to us we believe if we qualify it we can manag