Min. Abdul speaking at The Final Call Administration Building in the early 1980s. Photo: Ruth Muhammad

“So, brothers and sisters, I thank Brother Akbar for this moment in time; and I hope you will record what I said. And if any history is written, just like you can’t write about me being who I am, and not connect me to the man that helped to make me who I am, you can’t not write about me and not write about Brother Akbar because he was my Recording Angel.”

—The Honorable Minister Louis Farrakhan, on his brother and companion, July 27, 2019