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Article: From Nation of Islam to Orthodox Muslim leader

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Brian Murray
Philadelphia Tribune, The
06-16-1995
From Nation of Islam to Orthodox Muslim leader.

Change is good. A caterpillar begins life as a slow, quiet, unobtrusive creature. When it's time, it cocoons itself. When it reenters the environment, it is completely different. As a butterfly it is a beautiful, free creature without limitations, able to soar to heights it could never attain in its previous state.

This analogy best describes the metamorphosis of Elijah Muhammad's prodigal son, Imam Warith Deen Mohammed, Muslim American Spokesman for Human Salvation, and the evolution of the Nation of Islam.

As a minister of Muhammed's Temple #12 in Philadelphia in 1959, Wallace D. Muhammad ...

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