1930 - 2030

Counting Up To A Century of Excellence in Muslim-American Leadership

Professor W.D. Fard

1930-1933

“Islam is freedom, justice and equality.”

The Honorable Elijah Muhammad

1933 - 1975

“No nation will ever respect us as long as we beg for that which we can do for ourselves.”

Imam W. Deen Mohammed

1975 - 2008

“Freedom is to move in our intellect to a greater vision, a greater purpose, a greater responsibility until we are comfortable with ourselves, in our life, and in our purpose on earth.”

Imam Earl Abdulmalik Mohammed

PRESENT

“There is no possible way that our souls will be relieved until we have in America our full humanity in every decent and intelligent social expression and material establishment.”

PRESERVATIONS OF THE SOUL

“Our Save Yours Day commemorates our first awakening in our People-hood, or People-ness under the true G'd, the Lord of all the Systems of Knowledge, and in the identity of life He reserves for His perfected servants and obedient worshippers. More importantly, it commemorates that particular awakening in a recurring fashion. It is the observance in the sanctity of the soul, where we as a People have earnestly "saved ourselves" and saved for ourselves those plans which are most central to establishing who we are and what we are destined to be.

We have preserved in our souls, in the inviolable space of our essential, collective selves as a People, that which Mr. W.D. Fard, the Honorable Elijah Mohammed, Imam W. Deen Mohammed and all of the souls who committed themselves over 100 years in America to their vision of our human life, the determination to acquire and bring into expression all that is a soul-society of freedom, justice, and equality. What we have preserved for ourselves beyond the reach and above the impurity of enemies, which is fundamental to our existence as a People and our destiny as a People, we celebrate on our Save Yours Day.

Each and every individual People experience for themselves a 'Day of Religion.' It is a universal experience and reality for all humanity. It is an individual experience and reality as well. It is an activity in the soul that is both private to an individual People and public and universal for all people. We celebrate it for us and for all. This world and this society took this awareness from us 400 years ago when it made us slaves, and the beginning of its restoration to us began in 1930, 100 years ago.

In spite of the enemy that thinks he is better than what Allah designated for us, we are confidently planning to plant that seed upon our late leader's designs and plans. In spite of the inflated illusions told against our true reality by the enemies among us to trick our senses and prevent us from having a true, Muslim community presence, we embrace what our souls have preserved. We are awakened to it, we embrace it, we bring it into the world in every community expression, and we celebrate all of that annually within a true, not hyped or distorted, reality of our African-American Muslim values.”

— Imam Earl Abdulmalik Mohammed