The Nation of Islam in
America
A Nation of Beauty & Peace
On July the Fourth, the day of America's
Independence celebration, He announced
the beginning of His mission which was
to restore and to resurrect His lost and
found people, who were identified as the
original members of the Tribe of Shabazz
from the Lost Nation of Asia. The lost
people of the original nation of African
descent, were captured, exploited, and
dehumanized to serve as servitude slaves
of America for over three centuries. His
mission was to teach the downtrodden and
defenseless Black people a thorough Knowledge
of God and of themselves, and to put them
on the road to Self-Independence with
a superior culture and higher civilization
than they had previously experienced.
He taught us the ways of love and peace,
of truth and beauty. We are being led
into the path of a new spiritual culture
and civilization of complete harmony and
peace, one of refinement in the pursuit
of happiness and eternal joy in the Supreme
Knowledge of God and the Science of everything
in life.
IN 1931, THE MASTER WAS preaching this
Great Truth of salvation when He met a
man named Elijah Poole in Detroit, Michigan.
He chose him to be His Divine Representative
in continuing this most difficult task
of bringing truth and light to His lost
and found people. For 3 1/2 years He taught
and trained the Honorable Elijah Muhammad
night and day into the profound Secret
Wisdom of the Reality of God, which included
the hidden knowledge of the original people
who were the first founders of civilization
of our Planet and who had a full knowledge
of the Universal Order of Things from
the beginning of the Divine Creation.
Upon the Master's departure in 1934,
the Honorable Elijah Muhammad labored
tirelessly to bring life to his mentally
and spiritually dead people until his
return to the Master in 1975. The Honorable
Elijah Muhammad identified the Master
as being the answer to the one that the
world had been expecting for the past
2,000 years under the names Messiah, the
second coming of Jesus, the Christ, Jehovah,
God, and the Son of Man. When the Honorable
Elijah Muhammad asked Him to identify
Himself He replied that He was the Mahdi.
He signed His name in 1933 as Master Wallace
Fard Muhammad to express the meaning of
One Who had come in the Early Morning
Dawn of the New Millennium to lay the
base for a New World Order of Peace and
Righteousness on the foundation of Truth
and Justice; to put down tyrants and to
change the world into a Heaven on Earth.
During the Honorable Elijah Muhammad's
initial 44 years, he suffered persecution
& rejection from the very people whom
he was appointed as a Servant of God.
He was rejected and despised by the 10
percent leaders of America and the world
because he revealed a Greater Truth and
Wisdom that would end the old world of
Satan's rule and dominion. He was not
self-taught or self-made but ONE MIGHTY
IN POWER had taught him what he knew not.
The Honorable Elijah Muhammad had never
received any more than a fourth grade
education, yet his heart was true in what
he saw and he saw the greatest of the
Signs of his Lord.
The more converts that he made in the
cities, in the by-ways, and in the highways
of this land, along with receiving honor
and fame abroad, the powerful leaders
and rulers of this world grew in opposition.
As the baby Nation of Islam came to birth
in America, the world rulers were shaken
in their foundation to learn of this miraculous
achievement, and are today frustrated
in plans to prevent our survival. The
theme of the Holy Qur'an and Bible that
most clearly defines this struggle is
revealed in the history of Pharaoh's opposition
to Moses and Aaron in the delivery of
Israel in bondage in Egypt.
THE NATION OF ISLAM WAS founded on the
basis of peace and as an answer to a prayer
of Abraham to deliver his people who would
be found in servitude slavery in the Western
Hemisphere in this day and time. The Flag
of Islam with the symbols of the Sun,
Moon, and the Stars, represent the Universe
and is also a Banner of Universal peace
and Harmony. Our Holy Temples of Islam
were established in America as sanctuaries
of peace and higher learning into the
Knowledge of the Oneness of God. Our schools
are called Universities of Islam and teach
the higher meaning of Islam which is Mathematics.
We have always been taught to respect
the laws of the land. We are taught never
to carry arms, to make war or to be the
aggressor, for this is against the nature
of the righteous. We are taught the Principles
of Divine Unity and the Universal Brotherhood
of Islam.
We are taught cleanliness inwardly and
outwardly with the practice of good manners
and respect to one and all. We are taught
that the family is the back bone of society
and that our children must be reared to
reflect the highest morals and training
to perfect our society. We are trained
to eat and to prepare the best of foods
for the longevity of life, without the
use of alcohol, smoking and substance
abuse which endangers the ethics of healthy
living. We are taught to respect and protect
our women who are the mothers of civilization.
Our women are taught a dress code of
modesty that will lead to the practice
of high morality. We are trained to be
an exemplary community expressing the
highest spiritual goals for the reform
of ourselves and others based on wisdom,
knowledge and beauty.
Contrary to the inflammatory rhetoric
that has been utilized by the news media
and some community leaders to condemn
the positive effects of Islam's influence
in today's modern society, just the opposite
is being proven true. The Nation of Islam
(The Nation of Peace) represents hope
to millions of our people in America and
around the globe who have been deprived
of the high standards of a righteous way
of life.
This unity and love so sorely absent
from our communities was genuinely exemplified
by the millions of participants on the
day of the Million Man March held in Washington,
D.C., October 16, 1995. The exemplary
Spiritual Leadership of Minister Louis
Farrakhan in the rebuilding of the Nation
of Islam in America is showing the way
in the breaking down of barriers of communication
throughout the society regardless to one's
religious, racial, or ideological beliefs
and views.
Through God's Divine Guidance, we are
extending this Divine Work of moral and
spiritual reform throughout the Western
Hemisphere. God's Light and Truth will
prevail against the darkness and falsehood
of all opposition. In spite of the controversy
and clamor surrounding the Nation of Islam
and it's Divine Leader, Minister Louis
Farrakhan, we are forging ahead in the
Spirit of Almighty God, Allah, to unite
with all of humanity in the Oneness of
God, where all people of goodwill of every
Race and of every Nation may participate
in the Universal Expression of the Principles
of Peace and the Brotherhood of man. This
is the Beautiful Community of the Nation
of Islam that is coming to birth in America
on this Farthest Western Horizon in fulfillment
of the Prophecy that God would meet with
Muhammad for a second time and reveal
to His servant What He Revealed. Thus
the world is witnessing the Sun of Islam
arising in the West. Praise the Holy Name
of Allah, the Beneficent, the Merciful.
Where do we go from here in the remaining
four years of the twentieth century? Will
we continue to argue, to condemn, to fight
and kill one another; or will we sit down
and counsel with one another in seeking
a just solution to the problems that beset
us in America and in the world? Wisdom
decrees that in counsel and in dialogue
is the way to peace. Foolishness decrees
that if we ignore the warning signs, we
will fall into the deeper abyss of Hell.
God is the Judge today; and most surely
upon Him do the Believers rely!
Document written by Minister, Writer,
Music Composer
and wife of the Honorable Elijah Muhammad
Mother Tynetta Muhammad
March 28, 1996 NOI.org
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