If The Civilized Man Fails To Perform His Duty What Must Be Done?

THE CIVILIZED MAN - his duty is to teach civilization to the uncivilized, the arts and sciences of civilized people and countries of advanced civilization.

A Divine Messenger of God (Allah) raised among his people with the Divine Message is held responsible for its delivery. His message teaches spiritual civilization which is important to the success of a nation and society. According to history, the people who refuse to accept Divine Guidance or His Message sent by His Messengers are classified as uncivilized or savages.

A well educated, cultured and courteous people make a beautiful society when it is spiritual. Good manners come from the civilized man who doesn't fail to perform his duty.

There are several civilizations, we have a wicked and a righteous.

It is a righteous civilization that is in the workings now. We all have been well trained into the wicked civilization, now we must be trained into the knowledge of the righteous one. We MUST have a righteous, trained civilized man, who will not fail to perform his duty to us in guiding and teaching us.

My people in America (the so-called Negroes) are under the search light of the righteous, who are offering to them the right guidance to a supreme civilization of righteousness, never witnessed before on earth. The white race has failed to perform its duty of civilizing the American so-called Negroes. Of course, they have been their slaves for many centuries, and the slavemasters have rights over them, as long as they are his slaves; however, if the slavemasters free their slaves - not in words, but in deeds - the slavemasters should provide the once-slaves with the right civilization and with everything necessary for them to start an INDEPENDENT life as their slavemasters have.

Certainly, the so-called Negroes are being schooled, but is it the equal of their slavemasters? No, the so-called Negroes are still begging for equal education. After being blinded to the knowledge of self and their own kind for 400 years, the slavemasters REFUSE to CIVILIZE the so-called Negroes into the knowledge of themselves of which they were robbed. The slavemasters also persecute and hinder anyone who tries to perform this most RIGHTFUL DUTY.

I will continue to say: That as long as the so-called Negroes don't know who they really are and do not have the knowledge to free themselves from their slavemasters' names and religion, they can't be considered free or civilized. To this, their slavemasters will agree. Some of the so-called Negroes are ignorant to this important advantage of having their own nation's names, they think there is nothing to a name (It isn't to the ones they are using) , but the Bible says a good name is better than gold. To continue to bear the slavemasters' names makes them the property of their slavemasters and they can never hope to receive equal recognition in the civilized world.

Will a free people accept slaves as their equal? The so-called Negroes must be truly civilized and the right civilized man has not performed his duty until this is ACCOMPLISHED. However, the so-called Negro is free to receive his or her own, if they just don't allow FEAR and IGNORANCE to stand in their way.

It has been seen from the little chance they have had to get a little education, they have shown and proven that they are the original people, who are only asleep and in need of the right civilized man who will perform his duty of awakening them. The so-called Negroes' fear of being deprived of food, clothing and shelter, also the usual smile of the white slavemasters' children, prevents them from seeking the true knowledge of their own nation's civilization. They MUST drop the slave masters' names and religion, of which both (names and religion) they have and don't understand, which means nothing but slavery. Of course, some (not all) preachers and politicians, who live off the ignorance of their people, are opposed to the right civilization of our people (the so-called Negroes). Our people are taught to eat the wrong food and drinks, games of chance (gambling), going half-dressed, looking for salvation after and not giving a hoot for salvation in this life as right civilization teaches us.

COME and FOLLOW the right guide and be rightly civilized.

Reprinted from the Pittsburgh Courier. August 4, 1956

The Honorable Elijah Muhammad