Why Islam is my choice — Page 104
104 Ra ḥ mat Jam ā l The Seekers of the Truth Transcript of an Interview with Waseem Sayed. W: As-Sal ā mu ‘Alaikum. Peace be with you. My name is Waseem A ḥ mad Sayed, and it is my great honor and privilege to welcome you all to this beautiful Baitul- Ḥ ameed mosque, where we are recording the first historic program of Muslim Television A ḥ madiyyah Los Angeles. Baitul- Ḥ ameed Mosque is situated in Chino, California, about 40 miles east of Los Angeles in the county of San Bernardino, about 1,000 yards north of Highway 60 on Ramona Avenue. It is quite appropriate for this first program that we have with us Br. Ra ḥ mat Jam ā l, the man who has the honor of being the first member of the A ḥ madiyyah Muslim community of Los Angeles. Br. Jam ā l was born into a Baptist Christian family, he was baptized at the age of 11 in the Ohio River in Cincinnati. He embraced Isl ā m a few years later at a very young age and moved to Los Angeles in 1951 and has been at the forefront of our [local A ḥ madiyyah Muslim] Jam ā ‘at activities ever since. Welcome Br. Jam ā l. It is a pleasure and a great honor for us to have this opportunity to sit and talk to you about Isl ā m in the US. R: Thank you very much, and I would like to say that it is a great pleasure for me to be here in the beautiful Baitul-