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The Founder(s) of the Nation of Islam are Master Wallace D. Fard Muhammad and his prophet/messenger The Honorable Elijah Muhammad.
The Nation of Islam teaches that Fard was born Feb. 26, 1877. Fard came from the holy City of Mecca in 1930 to Detroit Michigan. [1] ard, who the Nation of Islam teaches, is God in person [2], sold custom suits to make a living until he was able to teach someone else to take orders for him.[3] It was also during this period that Fard began to teach the "Black man's religion" in homes and basements of followers and prospective members throughout the city. The name of the new religion was "The Lost Found Nation of Islam". [4]
Elijah Poole A. K. A. Elijah Muhammad Was Born on October 7th, 1897 in Sandersville, Georgia, one of thirteen children, the son of a Baptist preacher. In 1919 he married Clara Evans. In the spring of 1923 Elijah and his wife had had enough of what Southern life offered a Black man, and migrated to Detroit. It was here in the spring of 1931 that Elijah Muhammad met Wallace D. Fard.
After establishing the basis for his new religion Fard promoted Elijah Muhammad to supreme minister.[5] Not long after Elijah Muhammad began teaching and spreading the gospel according to Fard, Fard suddenly disappeared in 1934.
The Secret Ritual of the Nation of Islam-Fard
Our Savior Has Arrived-Elijah Muhammad
Message to the Black Man-Elijah Muhammad
The Fall of America-Elijah Muhammad
The Supreme Wisdom-Elijah Muhammad
The Secrets of Freemasonry-Elijah Muhammad
Various articles in the Pittsburgh Courier entitled " Mr. Muhammad Speaks"
"Most certainly the White man is the devil. His own Bible teaches him that."[6]
The Nation of Islam teaches that the White man is a race of devils. The White man is the result of a series of grafting experiments taken place on the island of Patmos more than 6000 years ago. Malcolm X told the story as follows:
"Elijah Muhammad teaches his followers that, first, the moon separated from the earth. Then, the first humans, Original Man, were a Black people. They founded the Holy City Mecca.
Among this black race were 24 wise scientists. One of the scientists, at odds with the rest, created the especially strong Black tribe of Shabazz, from which America's Negroes, so-called, descend.
About 6600 years ago, when 70 percent of the people were satisfied, and 30 percent were dissatisfied, among the dissatisfied was born a "Mr.Yacub." He was born to create trouble, to break the peace, and to kill. His head was unusually large. When he was four years old, he began school. At the age 18, Yacub had finished all of his nations colleges and universities. He was known as "the big head scientist." Among many other things, he had learned how to breed races scientifically.
The big head scientist, Mr. Yacub, began preaching in the streets of Mecca, making such host of converts that the authorities, increasingly concerned, finally exiled him with 59,999 followers to the island of Patmos-described in the Bible as I were John received the message contained in Revelation in the New Testament. Though he was a Black man, Mr. Yacub, embittered toward Allah now, decided, as revenge, to create upon the earth a devil race-a bleached out, white race of people.
From his studies, the big head scientist knew that Black men contained two germs, black and brown. He knew that the brown germ stayed dormant as, being the lighter of the two germs, it was the weaker. Mr. Yacub, to upset the law of nature, conceive the idea of employing what we today know as the recessive genes structure, to separate from each other the two germs, black and brown, and then grafting the brown germ to progressively lighter, weaker stages. The humans resulting, he knew, would be, as they became lighter and weaker, progressively also more susceptible to wickedness and evil. And in this way finally he would achieve the intended bleached out white race of devils.
He knew that it would take him several total color change stages to get from black-white. Mr. Yacub began his work by setting up a eugenics law on the island of Patmos.
Among Mr. Yacub's 59, 999 all-black followers, every third or so child that was born would show some trace of brown. As these became adult, only brown and brown, or black and brown, were permitted to marry. As their children were born, Mr. Yacub's law dictated that, if a Black child, the attending nurse, or midwife, should stick a needle into its brain and give the body to cremators. The mothers were told it had been an "angel baby", which had gone to heaven, to prepare a place for her.
But the brown child's mother was told to take very good care of it.
Others, assistants, were trained by Mr. Yacub to continue his objective. Mr. Yacub, when he died on the island at the age of one hundred and fifty two, had left laws, and rules, for them to follow. According to the teachings of Mr. Elijah Muhammad, Mr. Yacub, except in his mind, never saw the bleached out what devil race that is procedures and laws and rules created.
A 200-year span was needed to eliminate on the island of Patmos all of the Black people-until only brown people remained.The next 200 years were needed to create from the brown race the red race-with no more browns left on the island.
In another 200 years, from the red race was created the yellow race.
200 years later-a white race had at last been created.
On the island of Patmos was nothing but these blond, pale skinned, cold blue-eyed devil's-savages, nude and shameless; hairy, like animals, they walked on all fours and they lived in trees.
600 more years passed before this race of people return to the mainland, among the natural Black people.
Mr. Elijah Muhammad teaches his followers that within six months time, through telling lies that set the Black men fighting among each other, this devil race had turned what had been a peaceful heaven on earth into Hell torn by quarreling and fighting." [7]God\Allah is and always has been a man who came to earth as a half white half Black man by the name of Wallace D. Fard Muhammad.[8]
The Nation of Islam denies the doctrine of the Trinity calling it "contrary to mathematics and nature.[9] Elijah Muhammad taught that God could not be a "spook"[10] and uses as a proof text the book of Habakkuk 3:3 which states:
"God came from Teman, the Holy One from Mount Paran."(NIV)
The Nation of Islam believes that since we live in material world, God must be material and not spirit.[11]
The Nation of Islam teaches that the historical Jesus of the Bible was the illegitimate child of Joseph and Mary. According to the Nation of Islam Jesus is a product of an adulterous affair between Mary and Joseph. [12]
The Nation of Islam further teaches that Jesus was just a prophet and of course denies the deity of Christ.[13]
According to the Nation of Islam Jesus' death, burial and resurrection is completely different than the biblical account. And while it is no surprise that the Nation of Islam denies this doctrine their novel retelling is shocking, humorous and silly to put it k indly.[14]
The NOI completely denies the person of the Holy Spirit.[15]
The Nation of Islam teaches that it is impossible for the White man to submit to Allah[16], and the only salvation for the people of color is to denounce Christianity and accept Islam.[17]
The Nation of Islam teaches that:
1. It is impossible for the White man to submit .
2. All those who don't reject Christianity and accept Islam will go to Hell
3. Those black people that have died before all whites are removed from the earth will remain dead.[18]
The virgin birth of Jesus is flatly denied by the NOI[19] even though orthodox Islam does in fact teach the virgin birth of Jesus. The Quran teaches:
"17. So she took a veil (to screen herself) from them; then We sent to her Our spirit, and there appeared to her a well-made man.
18. She said: Surely I fly for refuge from you to the Beneficent God, if you are one guarding (against evil).
19. He said: I am only a messenger of your Lord: That I will give you a pure boy.
20. She said: When shall I have a boy and no mortal has yet touched me, nor have I been unchaste?
21. He said: Even so; your Lord says: It is easy to Me: and that We may make him a sign to men and a mercy from Us, and it is a matter which has been decreed." So she conceived him; then withdrew herself with him to a remote place."
(Holy Quran (Shakir version)-Marium chapt.19: 17-22)
The NOI does not teach the original sin of man. This is directly connected to the NOI teachings concerning the original White man. Black men were first present on this planet and were holy. No problems existed until the creation of the innately evil White man.[20]
The Nation of Islam teaches that people should practice good moral ethics and cleanliness. The Nation of Islam teaches against adultery, fornication and fathering children out of wedlock. Without a doubt one of the most outstanding features of the Nation of Islam has been a success in reforming prisoners and gainers, decreasing drug problems in certain areas and implementing positive programs in many communities.[21]
One program called the Muslim Girls Training program (MGT) teaches principles of dating, courtship and marriage, self-respect and health.
This is not to say that there have not been infractions of these rules. For example, Elijah Muhammad at least 13 children by seven different women in addition to the eight he had from his wife.[22] The Nation of Islam has been quoted as saying that these were "wives" of Elijah Muhammad.
Elijah Muhammad taught that the Bible and Koran were tampered with and thus are not completely reliable.[23] The Nation of Islam (NOI) quotes frequently from both the Bible and the Koran, however, whenever the Bible or the Koran disagree with the teachings of Fard or Elijah Muhammad then the Bible or the Koran are either being misinterpreted or are simply incorrect.
Because Elijah Muhammad claims that the authority for the things he taught came directly from God/Allah, and since both the Bible and the Koran have been tampered with, and since it is held that the teachings of Elijah Muhammad and Fard are authoritative in all matters of theology, then it is reasonable to consider the writings of Elijah Muhammad and Wallace D. Fard as the Holy Scripture of the Nation Of Islam.
Of course Elijah Muhammad also taught that only he could properly interpret the Bible.[24] This of course leads to an interpretation completely devoid of any reasonable hermeneutic. As an example consider Elijah Muhammad's interpretation of Revelation 20:7 : When the thousand years are over, Satan will be released from his prison 8and will go out to deceive the nations in the four corners of the earth--Gog and Magog--to gather them for battle. In number they are like the sand on the seashore. (Revelation 20:7 NIV)
Elijah Muhammad gives a "possible interpretation" as: The shutting up and loosing of the devil mentioned in Rev. 20:7 could refer to the time between the A.D. 570-1555 when they (John Hawkins) deceived our fathers and brought them into slavery in America, which is nearly 1,000 years that they and Christianity were bottled up in Europe by the spread of Islam and Muhammad (may the peace of Allah be upon him) and his successors.[25]
The Nation of Islam teaches that when a person dies, that is all there is to it.[26]
The NOI teaches that the earth will come to an end when a spaceship, also called the "Mother Plane", releases its 1500 flying saucer like airplanes equipped with special bombs. The prophet Ezekiel spoke of the "Mother Plane" as "a great wheel". The mother plane, which is actually a spaceship, has the ability to hover 40 miles over the earth. The mother plane itself measures 1/2 mile by 1/2-mile square and can be seen twice a week. The special bombs have the ability to burrow one mile into the earth. These bombs will cause a fire that will last for several months. In this way the white race will be destroyed.[27]
In a familiar prediction Elijah Muhammad taught that only 144,000 NOI members would be spared the tribulation above.[28]
One more interesting point is the fact that Elijah Muhammad taught that the actual end had already begun more than 40 years ago.[29]