Honors
- In 1975 he led the largest mass conversion to Islam in the history of the United States of America, when he led the Lost Found Nation of Islam in the West to mainstream Islam.
- On October 30, 1977 He received the Key to the city of Detroit, Michigan from the then Mayor of Detroit Coleman Young, along with a Proclamation declaring October 30, 1977 Wallace D. Muhammad Day in Detroit.
- Selected by Ebony Magazine as one of its 100 Most Influential Black Americans in 2002.
- On February 26, 2010, Michigan Governor Jennifer Granholm, Wayne County Executive Robert Ficano, and Mayor Bing of Detroit issued proclamations marking February 26 as Imam Warith Deen Mohammed Day.
- Walter P. Reuther Humanitarian Award
- 1992, 1993 - President Hosni Mubarak of Egypt honored Warith Deen Mohammed with "The Gold Medal of Recognition" for his religious work in the United States.
- 1994 - Cup of Compassion award from Hartford Seminary in Hartford, Connecticut on December 9, 1994
- 1997 - Focolare Movement "Luminosa Award for Unity"
- 1999 - United States Department of State: Certificate of Appreciation, awarded on May 17, 1999
- 2003 - Mohammed received an Honorary Doctorate degree from the Internet Islamic University in New York City
- 2003 - Sojourner-Douglass College in Baltimore, Maryland awarded him an Honorary Doctorate in Humane Letters
- 2005 - Council of American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) Leadership Award
- In eulogizing Warith Deen Mohammed on CNN blogs, Ahmed Rehab Executive Director of CAIR-Chicago, called him "America's Imam."
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