"IN 1975, FEBRUARY 25TH, TEN PAST NINE NEW YORK TIME, TEN PAST EIGHT CHICAGO TIME, I GET A CALL FROM MY SON JOSHUA, WHO WAS AT THE HOSPITAL (MERCY HOSPITAL) WHERE THE MESSENGER WAS, SAYING TO ME THAT THE HONORABLE ELIJAH MUHAMMAD HAD EXPIRED. COMING TO CHICAGO, SEEING A CASKET WITH ONE THAT LOOKED LIKE MY FATHER AND TEACHER, ONLY ABOUT TWENTY TO TWENTY-FIVE YEARS YOUNGER; PARTICIPATING IN A FUNERAL; CARRYING THE CASKET TO THE CEMETERY; FOR ME, AT THAT TIME, THE HONORABLE ELIJAH MUHAMMAD HAD EXPIRED. NONE OF THE THINGS THEN THAT HE (BROTHER JABRIL MUHAMMAD) HAD SAID TO ME MADE SENSE. AS YOU KNOW I TRIED TO FOLLOW W. D. MUHAMMAD AS HE TOLD ME HE KNEW THE DIRECTION THAT THE 'NATION' SHOULD TAKE AFTER THE ALLEGED DEMISE OF THE HONORABLE ELIJAH MUHAMMAD. AND SO I TOLD HIM THAT I WOULD SERVE HIM, AS I SERVED HIS FATHER, AS LONG AS I COULD SEE THAT HE REMAINED FAITHFUL TO HIS FATHER. AS YOU KNOW THERE HAD BEEN DIFFICULTY BETWEEN HIM AND HIS DAD. I DID NOT WISH TO DIVIDE THE NATION, NOR DID I FEEL CONFIDENT THAT I COULD LEAD IN THE ABSENCE OF THE HONORABLE ELIJAH MUHAMMAD, PARTICULARLY IF HE WERE DEAD. I COULD HOLD THE TEACHINGS IF HE WERE GONE AND I KNEW HE WAS COMING BACK. BUT HE ALREADY TAUGHT US THAT YOU DON'T COME BACK FROM DEATH. IN THAT CASE I DIDN'T BELIEVE THAT I COULD LEAD THE NATION, THOUGH HE SAT ME IN HIS SEAT; THOUGH HE SAID MANY THINGS THAT WOULD LEAD ME TO BELIEVE THAT HE WANTED ME TO TAKE HIS PLACE IN HIS ABSENCE, I DIDN'T FEEL CONFIDENT. SO IF THE IMAM OR W. D. MUHAMMAD FELT THAT HE COULD, AND KNEW THE DIRECTION, THEN I WOULD HELP HIM AS I HELPED HIS FATHER. THIRTY MONTHS LATER, I CAME TO THE CONCLUSION THAT, THAT WAS NOT BEST FOR ME---MAYBE EVEN LESS TIME THAN THAT. I SAW THINGS THAT OF WHICH I DISAGREED AND I DID NOT WISH TO UPSET THE HOUSE. SO I DECIDED TO LEAVE (QUIETLY) AND TRY TO RESUME MY MUSIC CAREER, WHICH WAS A COMPLETE FAILURE. THE GOD TOOK AWAY EVERYTHING FROM ME MUSICALLY. I ALMOST HAD NOTHING LEFT." NOW, THESE ARE THE WORDS OF MY TEACHER. DO THEY SOUND LIKE THE WORDS OF A MAN THAT "TURNED HYPOCRITE", REGARDLESS OF WHAT HE SAID OF HIMSELF? SO, TO ANY OF YOU WOULD BE DETRACTORS AND NAYSAYERS...I SAY, SHUT YOUR DAMNED MOUTH! 🤨