Imam Siraj Wahhaj | ICNA-MAS Southeast Annual Convention 2019

Imaam Siraj Wahhaj is one of the most admired Muslim leaders and speakers in America.
Once a minister for the Nation of Islam (NOI) in the early 70s, the Imam left upon discovering NOI’s differences from mainstream Islam.
He is an accomplished Muslim activist MashaAllah, once leading a community-based anti-drug campaign in the Bedford-Stuyvesant area of Brooklyn, in which he staked out drug houses in the cold of winter for 40 days and nights, forcing the closure of 15 drug houses.
In 1991 Imam Siraj Wahhaj offered an invocation (opening prayer) to the United States House of Representatives. He was the first Muslims to do so.
He is the founder and Imaam of Masjid At Taqwa in Brooklyn, New York, and is currently serving as the elected leader of the Muslim Alliance in North America (MANA).
He was the vice president of the Majlis as-Shura of New York. He has also served on the executive board of the Islamic Society of North America.