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115 what they thought, I knew how they talked, I knew what they did, I knew everything about them. There was no way you could tell me that they were superior. I lived with them for twenty years. Now, how can this group of people come out of nowhere all of a sudden and call one group of people superior to another? So I couldn’t buy that story and so I never went back there again. I went there one time and when they started saying, These people are superior. These people I’d gone to school with, these people I played music with, these people I’d known for twenty years, they were superior? I couldn’t buy that either. So therefore I went to the other Isl ā m. W: How was your introduction to A ḥ madiyyat arranged by God? What happened that you came to A ḥ madiyyat and joined it so quickly after you had entered into an acceptance fundamentally of Isl ā m and its principles? R: There were two friends of mine, who had been exposed to people who knew about Isl ā m. Well, I hadn’t. So they became Muslim. So, they were finding converts. They said, “This is the thing to do. You got to become one. You got to Among the audience during a west coast convention held in the early eighties.