Why Islam is my choice — Page 116
116 come and find out about Isl ā m. You got to get out of this system that you’ve been in for so long. ” But they didn’t know much. So I got interested and went to a couple of meetings in meeting halls that were built by a Dr. Kh ā n, and he was a Pakistani. And he established three mosques, centers. One in Cincinnati, [one in] Dayton and [one] someplace in Philadelphia or Pittsburgh. And this sounded more logical. This was more reasonable, what Isl ā m was like. They had this holy fan up there, that you put money in there and your prayers get answered. I never met Dr. Kh ā n, but I met some of his people. That was more reasonable. But what really made me convinced about the teachings of Isl ā m were two friends of mine that said that there’s somebody coming from New York and he’s going to be in Cincinnati over the weekend. He’s a person you have to meet. Now I don’t know whether he met Muft ī Ṣāḥ ib or not, he probably didn’t because I don’t think he was that old but he had probably met some of his people that followed Muft ī Ṣāḥ ib, he’d probably contacted some of those people. He converted a lot of Afro-Americans to Isl ā m. Kauser Ṣāḥ ib knows him well. He converted a lot of Afro-Americans to Isl ā m. W: Kauser Ṣāḥ ib being [ Maul ā n ā ] Inamul-Haq Kauser Ṣāḥ ib? R: Yes, yes. The Im ā m here at the Baitul- Ḥ ameed Mosque, Im ā m Kauser Ṣāḥ ib. He knows Ṭā lib Daw ū d. His name has changed now but his name was at the time, Ṭā lib Daw ū d. W: So Ṭā lib Daw ū d was the man who answered your question. R: Yes, he answered my question and got me in touch with the A ḥ madiyyah Movement. He said, ‘You have to get to the real source of the religious information, because the other people, they have information from here, too; so you may as well get the information from the source. ’ He gave me the address to the Washington, D. C. or the Chicago center. But I