Yasmeen Muhammad was born June 8, 1942 in
Louisiana, of American slave descendants Codis
and Birdie Mathes; she was named Even Louise Mathes.
After reclaiming her own, Islam, she became Yasmeen
Muhammad.

Sister Yasmeen was preceded in death by her parents,
and her husband Jam Muhammad, Supreme Minister of
the Nation of Islam and daughter Ayesha (Mona Bellamy),
who gave her mother four grandchildren, Abdul, Shadid,
Ayesha, and Samad; as well as three great grandchildren.

After graduating high school Sister Yasmeen ventured to
San Francisco, California where she acquired degrees in
Library Science at UC Berkeley.  Yasmeen Muhammad
travel aboard to Egypt and Libya where she worked as a
librarian, while at the same time making friendships in
all walks of life.  Upon returning to the United States
she served in the Nation of Islam as administrator or
the Muhammad University of Islam at the John Muhammad
Temple in Detroit, Michigan.