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  "ar": "وارث الدين محمد",
  "en": "Warith Deen Mohammed",
  "ur": "وریتھ دین محمد"
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  "ar": "قائد ديني أمريكي (1933–2008)، ابن إلايجا محمد زعيم «أمة الإسلام»، خلف والده سنة 1975 فحوّل الحركة نحو الإسلام بصورته السائدة، فرفض تأليه مؤسسها وقَدَّم أركان الإسلام الخمسة وقَبِل البيض في جماعته، وأعاد تسمية جماعته مرات حتى استقرت على «الجمعية الأمريكية للمسلمين».",
  "en": "American religious leader (1933–2008), son of Elijah Muhammad, leader of the Nation of Islam. He succeeded his father in 1975 and moved the movement toward mainstream Islam: he rejected the deification of its founder, introduced the Five Pillars, and admitted whites as fellow worshippers, renaming his community several times before it settled as the American Society of Muslims.",
  "ur": "امریکی مذہبی رہنما (1933–2008)، نیشن آف اسلام کے رہنما ایلیاہ محمد کے بیٹے۔ وہ 1975 میں اپنے والد کے جانشین بنے اور تحریک کو مرکزی دھارے کے اسلام کی طرف لے گئے: انہوں نے اس کے بانی کی دیوتایت کو مسترد کیا، اسلام کے پانچ ستون متعارف کرائے اور گوروں کو ساتھی عبادت گزاروں کے طور پر قبول کیا، اور اپنی جماعت کا نام کئی بار بدل کر آخر میں امریکن سوسائٹی آف مسلمز رکھا۔"
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  "start": {
   "edtf": "1933-10-30",
   "hijri": "1352",
   "calendar": "gregorian",
   "precision": "day",
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   "note": "The English article and Wikidata give 30 October 1933, born in Hamtramck, Michigan. There is no place entity for Hamtramck, so no born_in edge is written. Hijri year 1352 derived from the Gregorian date; the Arabic article's categories likewise file him under births of 1352 AH.",
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   "edtf": "2008-09-09",
   "hijri": "1429",
   "calendar": "gregorian",
   "precision": "day",
   "status": "historical",
   "derived": true,
   "note": "The English article and Wikidata give 9 September 2008, in Chicago, Illinois; he was buried at Mount Glenwood Memory Gardens South in Glenwood, Illinois. There is no place entity for Chicago or Glenwood, so no died_in edge is written. Hijri year 1429 derived from the Gregorian date; the Arabic article's categories likewise file him under deaths of 1429 AH.",
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    "value": "Warith Deen Mohammed",
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    "value": "وارث الدين محمد",
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    "value": "Wallace D. Muhammad",
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   "note": "The English article and Wikidata give 30 October 1933, born in Hamtramck, Michigan. There is no place entity for Hamtramck, so no born_in edge is written. Hijri year 1352 derived from the Gregorian date; the Arabic article's categories likewise file him under births of 1352 AH.",
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   "note": "The English article and Wikidata give 9 September 2008, in Chicago, Illinois; he was buried at Mount Glenwood Memory Gardens South in Glenwood, Illinois. There is no place entity for Chicago or Glenwood, so no died_in edge is written. Hijri year 1429 derived from the Gregorian date; the Arabic article's categories likewise file him under deaths of 1429 AH.",
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    "value": "sunni",
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    "note": "Two independent sources name Sunni Islam for Mohammed himself. The English article, drawing on the New York Times obituary, states that it was his goal to align American Muslims with Sunni Islam and that in 1976 he transformed the Nation of Islam into an orthodox, mainstream Islamic movement, introducing the Five Pillars and rejecting the deification of Wallace Fard Muhammad. The Arabic article independently says he replaced the Nation's teachings with ideas close to the Sunni Islam widespread in the East, and files him under the category 'American Sunni Muslims'. Wikidata's religion values are Islam (Q432) and Sunni Islam (Q483654). No source names a specific madhhab for him: the English article records that he questioned importing the geographically formed classical schools and in a 2008 interview spoke of a distinct American sense of madhhab developing, so the value recorded is sunni only. His birth into the Nation of Islam and his father's leadership of it are family background and are not the basis of this value.",
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    {
     "heading": "موجز",
     "markdown": "وُلد وارث الدين محمد في هامترامك بولاية ميشيغان في 30 أكتوبر 1933 باسم والاس دي. محمد، وهو ابن إلايجا محمد زعيم «أمة الإسلام» وزوجته كلارا محمد.{cite:wikipedia-warith-deen-mohammed-en}{cite:wikidata-warith-deen-mohammed}\nخلف محمد والده في قيادة الحركة عند وفاته سنة 1975 بلقب «الوزير الأعلى».{cite:wikipedia-warith-deen-mohammed-en}{cite:wikipedia-warith-deen-mohammed-ur}\nفي سنة 1976 حلّ محمد «أمة الإسلام» الأصلية وحوّل جماعته نحو الإسلام بصورته السائدة، وكان هدفه المعلن مواءمة المسلمين الأمريكيين مع الإسلام السني.{cite:wikipedia-warith-deen-mohammed-en}{cite:wikipedia-warith-deen-mohammed-ar}\nتوفي محمد في شيكاغو في 9 سبتمبر 2008 ودُفن في مقبرة ماونت غلينوود التذكارية الجنوبية بولاية إلينوي.{cite:wikipedia-warith-deen-mohammed-en}"
    },
    {
     "heading": "المسيرة",
     "markdown": "نشأ محمد داخل حركة والده، وتدرّب في مدارسها ومساجدها، وشغل في شبابه وظائف دينية في الحركة.{cite:wikipedia-warith-deen-mohammed-en}\nأعاد محمد تسمية حركته مرات متتالية: «جماعة الإسلام العالمية في الغرب» ثم «بعثة المسلمين الأمريكيين» ثم استقرت على «الجمعية الأمريكية للمسلمين».{cite:wikipedia-warith-deen-mohammed-en}{cite:wikipedia-warith-deen-mohammed-ur}\nرفض محمد تأليه مؤسس الحركة دبليو. دي. فارد، وقَبِل البيض أعضاءً وعبّادًا في جماعته، وأدخل أركان الإسلام الخمسة في عقيدة جماعته ومنهجها.{cite:wikipedia-warith-deen-mohammed-en}{cite:wikipedia-warith-deen-mohammed-ur}\nانشقّ لويس فرقان عن جماعة محمد في أواخر السبعينيات وأعاد إحياء اسم «أمة الإسلام» وتعاليمها الأولى.{cite:wikipedia-warith-deen-mohammed-en}\nقاد محمد جماعته أكثر من ثلاثة عقود حتى وفاته، وبقيت «الجمعية الأمريكية للمسلمين» تحمل إرثه من بعده.{cite:wikipedia-warith-deen-mohammed-en}"
    },
    {
     "heading": "الأعمال",
     "markdown": "يُعدّ أبرز أعمال محمد تحويله مئات الآلاف من أتباع «أمة الإسلام» إلى ممارسة قريبة من الإسلام السائد في العالم، في واحدة من أكبر التحولات الدينية في التاريخ الأمريكي.{cite:wikipedia-warith-deen-mohammed-en}\nأصدر محمد وجماعته صحفًا ومنشورات دينية، وأقام علاقات مع المؤسسات الإسلامية في العالم الإسلامي، وانفتح على الجاليات المسلمة المهاجرة في أمريكا.{cite:wikipedia-warith-deen-mohammed-en}{cite:wikipedia-warith-deen-mohammed-ar}\nترك محمد تراثًا مكتوبًا من الخطب والمحاضرات والدروس في تفسير القرآن وسيرة مجتمعه.{cite:wikipedia-warith-deen-mohammed-en}"
    },
    {
     "heading": "المواقف والنقد",
     "markdown": "يعرض هذا القسم المواقف المختلفة كما وردت في المصادر، وهو ليس حكمًا من المتحف.\nتنقل المقالة الإنجليزية أن هدف محمد كان مواءمة المسلمين الأمريكيين مع الإسلام السني، وتصف تحويله الحركة بأنها أصبحت حركة إسلامية أصولية التوجه وقريبة من التيار السائد.{cite:wikipedia-warith-deen-mohammed-en}\nتصف المقالة العربية تحوّله بأنه استبدل بتعاليم «أمة الإسلام» أفكارًا قريبة من الإسلام السني الشائع في المشرق، وتصنّفه ضمن «مسلمون سنة أمريكيون»، وبناءً على هذين المصدرين المستقلين سُجّل مذهبه في بيانات المتحف «سني» موثّقًا.{cite:wikipedia-warith-deen-mohammed-ar}\nتحمل المقالة العربية أيضًا حكمًا تحريريًا مذهبيًا على مدى وصول تحوّله إلى «الإسلام الصحيح»، وهو حكم منقول عن تحرير المقالة ولا يتبنّاه المتحف.{cite:wikipedia-warith-deen-mohammed-ar}\nسجّلت المصادر أن محمد شكّك في استيراد المذاهب الفقهية الكلاسيكية كما تشكّلت جغرافيًا، وتحدّث في مقابلة سنة 2008 عن نشوء حسّ أمريكي مميز بالمذهب، ولذلك لم يُنسب إليه مذهب فقهي بعينه في بيانات المتحف.{cite:wikipedia-warith-deen-mohammed-en}\nيرى مؤيدو لويس فرقان أن إحياء «أمة الإسلام» الأصلية هو الامتداد الصحيح لإرث إلايجا محمد، بينما يرى أتباع وارث الدين محمد أن تحوّله هو الامتداد الصحيح، ويعرض المتحف الموقفين منسوبين دون ترجيح.{cite:wikipedia-warith-deen-mohammed-en}"
    },
    {
     "heading": "المراجع",
     "markdown": "- وارث الدين محمد — ويكيبيديا الإنجليزية{cite:wikipedia-warith-deen-mohammed-en}\n- وارث الدين محمد — ويكيبيديا العربية{cite:wikipedia-warith-deen-mohammed-ar}\n- وریتھ دین محمد — ويكيبيديا الأردية{cite:wikipedia-warith-deen-mohammed-ur}\n- وارث الدين محمد — ويكيبيانات Q2030011{cite:wikidata-warith-deen-mohammed}"
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     "heading": "Summary",
     "markdown": "Warith Deen Mohammed was born in Hamtramck, Michigan on 30 October 1933 as Wallace D. Muhammad, the son of Elijah Muhammad, leader of the Nation of Islam, and his wife Clara Muhammad.{cite:wikipedia-warith-deen-mohammed-en}{cite:wikidata-warith-deen-mohammed}\nMohammed succeeded his father as the movement's leader on his death in 1975, with the title Supreme Minister.{cite:wikipedia-warith-deen-mohammed-en}{cite:wikipedia-warith-deen-mohammed-ur}\nIn 1976 he dissolved the original Nation of Islam and moved his community toward mainstream Islam; the English article states that his goal was to align American Muslims with Sunni Islam.{cite:wikipedia-warith-deen-mohammed-en}{cite:wikipedia-warith-deen-mohammed-ar}\nMohammed died in Chicago on 9 September 2008 and was buried at Mount Glenwood Memory Gardens South in Illinois.{cite:wikipedia-warith-deen-mohammed-en}"
    },
    {
     "heading": "Career",
     "markdown": "Mohammed grew up inside his father's movement, was trained in its schools and mosques, and held religious posts in the movement in his youth.{cite:wikipedia-warith-deen-mohammed-en}\nHe renamed his community several times in succession: the World Community of Islam in the West, then the American Muslim Mission, and finally the American Society of Muslims.{cite:wikipedia-warith-deen-mohammed-en}{cite:wikipedia-warith-deen-mohammed-ur}\nMohammed rejected the deification of the movement's founder W. D. Fard, accepted whites as members and fellow worshippers, and introduced the Five Pillars of Islam into his community's theology.{cite:wikipedia-warith-deen-mohammed-en}{cite:wikipedia-warith-deen-mohammed-ur}\nLouis Farrakhan broke away from Mohammed's community in the late 1970s and revived the name Nation of Islam and its original teachings.{cite:wikipedia-warith-deen-mohammed-en}\nMohammed led his community for more than three decades until his death, and the American Society of Muslims carried his legacy after him.{cite:wikipedia-warith-deen-mohammed-en}"
    },
    {
     "heading": "Works",
     "markdown": "Mohammed's best-known achievement is the transformation of hundreds of thousands of Nation of Islam followers toward a practice close to the Islam of the wider world, one of the largest religious transformations in American history.{cite:wikipedia-warith-deen-mohammed-en}\nHe and his community issued newspapers and religious publications, built relations with Islamic institutions in the Muslim world, and opened relations with immigrant Muslim communities in America.{cite:wikipedia-warith-deen-mohammed-en}{cite:wikipedia-warith-deen-mohammed-ar}\nHe left a written legacy of sermons, lectures and lessons on the Qur'an and on his community's history.{cite:wikipedia-warith-deen-mohammed-en}"
    },
    {
     "heading": "Positions and criticism",
     "markdown": "This section sets out different positions as reported in the sources. It is not a verdict by the museum.\nThe English article reports that Mohammed's goal was to align American Muslims with Sunni Islam, and describes his transformation of the movement as making it an orthodox, mainstream Islamic movement.{cite:wikipedia-warith-deen-mohammed-en}\nThe Arabic article describes his transformation as replacing the Nation of Islam's teachings with ideas close to the Sunni Islam widespread in the East, and files him among American Sunni Muslims; on the basis of these two independent sources his school is recorded in the museum's data as sunni, documented.{cite:wikipedia-warith-deen-mohammed-ar}\nThe Arabic article also carries a sectarian editorial verdict on whether his transformation reached \"correct Islam\"; that verdict belongs to the article's editors and is not adopted by the museum.{cite:wikipedia-warith-deen-mohammed-ar}\nThe sources record that Mohammed questioned importing the geographically formed classical schools and spoke in a 2008 interview of a distinct American sense of madhhab developing, so no specific legal school is attributed to him in the museum's data.{cite:wikipedia-warith-deen-mohammed-en}\nFarrakhan's supporters regard the revived Nation of Islam as the true continuation of Elijah Muhammad's legacy, while Warith Deen Mohammed's followers regard his transformation as its true continuation; the museum presents both positions attributed, without a verdict.{cite:wikipedia-warith-deen-mohammed-en}"
    },
    {
     "heading": "References",
     "markdown": "- Warith Deen Mohammed — English Wikipedia{cite:wikipedia-warith-deen-mohammed-en}\n- Warith Deen Mohammed — Arabic Wikipedia{cite:wikipedia-warith-deen-mohammed-ar}\n- Warith Deen Mohammed — Urdu Wikipedia{cite:wikipedia-warith-deen-mohammed-ur}\n- Warith Deen Mohammed — Wikidata Q2030011{cite:wikidata-warith-deen-mohammed}"
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    {
     "heading": "خلاصہ",
     "markdown": "وریتھ دین محمد 30 اکتوبر 1933 کو ہیمٹرامک، مشی گن میں والس ڈی محمد کے نام سے پیدا ہوئے؛ وہ نیشن آف اسلام کے رہنما ایلیاہ محمد اور ان کی اہلیہ کلارا محمد کے بیٹے تھے۔{cite:wikipedia-warith-deen-mohammed-en}{cite:wikidata-warith-deen-mohammed}\nوہ 1975 میں اپنے والد کے جانشین بنے اور 1976 میں اصل نیشن آف اسلام کو تحلیل کر کے اپنی جماعت کو مرکزی دھارے کے اسلام کی طرف لے گئے۔{cite:wikipedia-warith-deen-mohammed-en}{cite:wikipedia-warith-deen-mohammed-ur}\nانہوں نے بانی والیس فارڈ محمد کی دیوتایت کو مسترد کیا، گوروں کو ساتھی عبادت گزاروں کے طور پر قبول کیا اور اسلام کے پانچ ستون متعارف کرائے۔{cite:wikipedia-warith-deen-mohammed-ur}\nوہ 9 ستمبر 2008 کو شکاگو میں وفات پا گئے۔{cite:wikipedia-warith-deen-mohammed-en}"
    },
    {
     "heading": "زندگی و کیریئر",
     "markdown": "محمد نے اپنی جماعت کا نام کئی بار بدلا: ورلڈ کمیونٹی آف اسلام ان دی ویسٹ، پھر امریکن مسلم مشن، اور آخر میں امریکن سوسائٹی آف مسلمز۔{cite:wikipedia-warith-deen-mohammed-en}{cite:wikipedia-warith-deen-mohammed-ur}\nلوئس فاراخان 1970 کی دہائی کے آخر میں ان سے الگ ہو گئے اور اصل نام اور تعلیمات کے ساتھ نیشن آف اسلام کو دوبارہ قائم کیا۔{cite:wikipedia-warith-deen-mohammed-en}\nانگریزی مقالے کے مطابق ان کا ہدف امریکی مسلمانوں کو سنی اسلام سے ہم آہنگ کرنا تھا، اور عربی مقالہ بھی انہیں امریکی سنی مسلمانوں میں شمار کرتا ہے؛ اسی لیے عجائب گھر کے ڈیٹا میں ان کا مسلک «سنی» درج ہے۔{cite:wikipedia-warith-deen-mohammed-en}{cite:wikipedia-warith-deen-mohammed-ar}"
    },
    {
     "heading": "کام",
     "markdown": "محمد کی سب سے بڑی کامیابی لاکھوں پیروکاروں کی دینی تبدیلی ہے، جسے امریکی تاریخ کی بڑی مذہبی تبدیلیوں میں شمار کیا جاتا ہے۔{cite:wikipedia-warith-deen-mohammed-en}\nانہوں نے اپنی جماعت کے اخبارات و مطبوعات جاری کیں اور عالم اسلام کی اسلامی اداروں سے روابط قائم کیے۔{cite:wikipedia-warith-deen-mohammed-en}"
    },
    {
     "heading": "مآخذ",
     "markdown": "- وریتھ دین محمد — انگریزی وکیپیڈیا{cite:wikipedia-warith-deen-mohammed-en}\n- وارث الدين محمد — عربی وکیپیڈیا{cite:wikipedia-warith-deen-mohammed-ar}\n- وریتھ دین محمد — اردو وکیپیڈیا{cite:wikipedia-warith-deen-mohammed-ur}\n- وریتھ دین محمد — وکی ڈیٹا Q2030011{cite:wikidata-warith-deen-mohammed}"
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