Editing Elijah Muhammad (section)

==Legacy==
During his time as leader of the Nation of Islam, Muhammad had developed the Nation of Islam from a small movement in Detroit to an empire consisting of banks, schools, restaurants, and stores across 46 cities in America. The Nation also owned over 15,000 acres of farmland, their own truck- and air- transport systems, as well as a publishing company that printed the country's largest black newspaper.<ref name="ReferenceA"/>
As a leader, Muhammad served as a mentor to many notable members, including [[Malcolm X]], [[Muhammad Ali]], [[Louis Farrakhan]] and his son [[Warith Deen Mohammed]]. The Nation of Islam is estimated to have between 20,000 and 50,000 members,<ref name=MacF2007>{{cite web |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2007/02/26/us/26farrakhan.html |title=Nation of Islam at a Crossroad as Leader Exits |first=Neil |last=MacFarquhar |date=February 26, 2007 |work=The New York Times |access-date=February 8, 2013 }}</ref> and 130 mosques offering numerous social programs.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.splcenter.org/get-informed/intelligence-files/groups/nation-of-islam|title=Nation of Islam|work=Southern Poverty Law Center}}</ref>

Upon his death, his son Warith Deen Mohammed succeeded him. Warith disbanded the Nation of Islam in 1976 and founded an [[Orthodoxy|orthodox]] mainstream Islamic organization, that came to be known as the [[American Society of Muslims]]. The organization would dissolve, change names and reorganize many times.

In 1977, Louis Farrakhan resigned from Warith Deen's reformed organization and reinstituted the original Nation of Islam upon the foundation established by Wallace Fard Muhammad and Elijah Muhammad. Farrakhan regained many of the Nation of Islam's original properties including the National Headquarters Mosque #2 ([[Mosque Maryam]]) and [[Muhammad University of Islam]] in Chicago.