The Hon. Elijah Muhammad on Martin Luther King Jr.

From the Book Message to the Blackman in America

QUESTION: Mr. Muhammad, would you make some statements about Dr. Martin Luther King and the Civil Rights Movement?

ANSWER: Yes, I think Rev. King has been doing a good job according to his knowledge. He has been trying to do his best to get our people some justice in the way of civil rights. I believe that he means well, and I believe he would have done better if he had known more about the time and the people and the history and what must be done in such times.

He has the desire to see his people dealt with according to justice and not according to injustice. But he does not know that he is living in the time when justice is bound to come to his people. However, it is only through Divine and not through civil government. And that goes for most of the groups who are trying to do something for the betterment of our people.

He (Allah) Makes All Things New

Excerpt from the chapter He (Allah) Makes All Things New fom the book Our Saviour Has Arrived

By The Hon. Elijah Muhammad

   

He makes all things new. He teaches us that He Could Use nothing of the old world and that after the removal of the old world He Is to Bring About the New World. Allah (God) Does Not Want the old god to think that He is weak in Wisdom and Knowledge and Power to Bring something altogether new without using their old wicked material.

This is like the Creation of us. In the beginning, the God Who Created Us had no material to use to begin a creation. He Had only Himself. Therefore out of darkness and the thoughtless and invisible He Brought Out the Visible Vision and Thought and Idea. He Made a Brain which had the power to cover the sphere of our thinking and to produce from that thought what image or vision that the brain cells could conceive. These things at that time were all new; there was no plan or universe except His. This is our Father, the Black Man, the Maker.

The Wisdom, Idea, and Way of Thinking of Master Fard Muhammad, to Whom Praises are due forever, is Superior to any way of believing today. There is no one to hinder His Image or Thought for that which has not yet been conceived in our brain.

He goes after the root of all things like our Black Father did in the beginning when He Built the universe out of nothing. He Is as One Sitting out in space with no material of space to Make something altogether new. He Goes after the Root in Making this New World of people.

Jesus, 2,000 years ago and Mary were a sign of something to come

By The Hon. Elijah Muhammad from the chapter "And We Made The Son Of Mary And His Mother A Sign, And We Gave Them Refuge On A Lofty Ground Having Meadows And Springs"  From the book Our Saviour Has Arrived

"If Mary and her son are a sign, or an example, of that which is to come, then whose birth and enslavement could correspond with these prophecies and signs any more than we, the American So-Called Negroes here under the white man?"

If the Bible students would have taken this 50th verse of the 23rd Chapter of the Holy Qur’an, under study together with the birth, ministry and death of Jesus, as given in the Bible, Matt., Mark, Luke and John, they would agree that the man, Jesus, 2,000 years ago and his mother were a sign of something to come.

But the preachers of Christianity have always been overly anxious to put some fancy myth (other than the truth) around Jesus’ birth, ministry, and death, 2,000 years ago, to the extent that the Catholics make monuments of an imaginary Mary and her son, Jesus, and bow down and worship their handmade statues.

The Christians have no true pictures of Jesus and his mother, Mary, in possession, so they use imagery and the ignorant take it for truth.

Conflict Between Rulers

By the Hon. Elijah Muhammad - From the December 7, 1973 edition of Muhammad Speaks Newspaper 

  

Daniel’s prophecy of these times, in which we are now living, is equal to the prophecy of John’s Revelation (Bible).

These two Books of the Bible (Daniel and Revelation) are very similar in their prophecy of the same subject, which deals with the great trouble that shall befall the nations of the earth, at the end of the falling of One nation (America).

The conflict between rulers - America, Russia, China and the world-regardless to the power of that one nation (the nation can be small or great) it is all pointing toward the one and the same people: America.

In Daniel Ch. 11:6, the 6th verse says, "... they shall join themselves together; for the kings’ daughter of the south ..."

UP! YOU CAN ACCOMPLISH AS YOU WILL!

By The Hon. Elijah Muhammad -  from the book Message to the Blackman in America

"Their world is getting very small and if you are dependent upon this world, yours too, is getting very small. Self-preservation is the first law of nature. Everyone tries to provide a future of his own but the American so-called Negro. "

I am asking that we (the whole nation) sacrifice for the next three years and when we get enough in our bank, we will put it to work to make more money. We do not mean to let it lie idly for three years; we could invest in anything to help the Nation improve our economic condition.

Heretofore our distrust in each other has kept us down. We have to trust each other as other nations trust each other in order to do something constructive for the original Black people of this country.

Prayer in Islam

By The Hon. Elijah Muhammad - From the Book Message to the Blackman in America

"Surely prayer keeps (one) away from indecency and evil; and certainly the remembrance of Allah is the greatest (force) and Allah knows what you do" (Holy Qur-an 29:45)

Surely the best way to strive to be upright in a sinful world is to pray continuously to the One True God, whose proper name is Allah, for guidance.

A Program For Self Development

By The Honorable Elijah Muhammad - From the Book Message to the Blackman in America

"The American so-called Negroes are like the Bible story of Lazarus and the rich man, the story that Jesus must have foreseen at the time. This Bible beggar was charmed by the wealth of the rich man to whom he was a servant, and he could not make up his mind to go seek something for self." - The Hon. Elijah Muhammad

   

Click on photos above to learn about a portion of the economic program of the Nation of Islam under the Hon. Elijah Muhammad.

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