Persecution follows the Bible and Quran

He (MR. FARD MUHAMMAD, God in person) chose to suffer three and one-half years to show his love for his people, who have suffered over three hundred years at the hands of a people who by nature are evil, wicked, and have no good in them.

He was persecuted, sent to jail in 1932, and ordered out of Detroit, Mich., May 26, 1933. He came to Chicago in the same year, arrested almost immediately on his arrival and placed behind prison bars.

He submitted himself with all humbleness to his persecutors. Each time he was arrested, He sent for me that I may see and learn the price of TRUTH for us, the so-called American Negroes (members of the Asiatic nation).

He was well able to save himself from such suffering, but how else was the scripture to be fulfilled? We followed in His footsteps suffering the same (persecution).

My people are yet sound asleep to the knowledge of the good that is being carried on for their deliverance. The whole world of our kind awaits the awakening, and our awakening is the last step in the Resurrection and Judgment of the world.

It is a SIN that we were put so soundly to sleep. The end of the world has arrived and most of us know it not, and our enemy's greatest desire is, that we remain asleep. My people fight and oppose the God of our own salvation.

(Allah) chose for us Islam as a religion. He desires to sit us in Heaven at once, on condition that we submit to Him and accept the religion of Islam, the religion of God and His prophets. In this religion (Islam) He offers us Universal Friendship, and we, who have submitted to Him know this to be true.

We know white people have and will continue to persecute anyone who offers help to us, the so-called American Negroes (Asiatics).

Should persecution or even death stop the worthy help that will save the lives of the so-called Negroes? NO, it shall not.

The so-called Negroes are absolutely friendless and have sought in vain friendship from their enemies, due to the ignorance of self and their enemies. NOW they are offered universal friendship if they will only accept their own (Allah and Islam).

Seek FIRST the friendship of your own people and then the friendship of others (If there is any friendship in the others.)

We have made the grave mistake of Lazarus and the Prodigal Son, St. Luke: Chapter 15, the one who was so charmed over the wealth and food of the rich man that he couldn't leave his gate to seek the same for himself. Regardless to the disgraceful condition in which the rich man put him, even to sending his dogs to attack him. The angels had to come and take him away.

The other (Prodigal Son) being tempted by the loose life of strange women, drinking, gambling and adultery, caused him to love the stranger's way of life so much so that it cost him all that he originally possessed (self -independence and Divine guidance). His father (God in Person) had to come and be his representative to again meet his brothers, family and friends.

Nothing fits the description of us better, the so-called Negroes (Asiatics). Many of us today are so lazy that we are willing to suffer anything rather than go for self. It is true that our God has come to sit us in Heaven, but not a Heaven where-in we won't have to work.

FEAR is the worst enemy that we have, but entire SUBMISSION to Allah (God) and His MESSENGER will remove this FEAR. The white race put fear in our foreparents when they were babies, so says the Word of Allah.

We must have for our peace and happiness (the seventeen million so-called Negroes) that which other nations have.

This forementioned peace and happiness can't come under any other flag, but our own. If God desires for us such joy, why shouldn't we give up begging and be real men, and sit with the rulers of the earth ruling our own?

Our first step is to give back the white man his religion, Christianity, church and his names. These three are chains of slavery that hold us in bondage to them. We are free when we give up the above three.

The so-called Negroes must know that they have been deceived and be brought face to face with God and the devil. They must get away from the old slavery teaching that Jesus who was killed two thousand years ago is still alive somewhere waiting and listening to their prayers.

He was only a prophet like Moses and the other prophets and had the same religion (Islam). He did his work and is dead like others of his time, and has no knowledge of their prayers to him.

Since Islam over-ran mankind in the seventh century after Jesus and is still a power over man, why didn't the translators of the Bible mention it? Why didn't they give us the name of the religions of the prophets since they claim a religion for Jesus?

WHICH ONE IS RIGHT? I don't know of any scriptural book or religion that doesn't contain some good. What Allah (God) demands today is a book or religion that is all good, not a mixture of truth and false, not a book or religion that is or has been tampered with by His enemies.

The bible is called a Holy Book, and is often referred to as the Word of God. The present English Bible is said to be translated out of the original tongues, into the present English language by the authority of one King James in 1611.

What is the original tongue or.language that the Bible was written in? What language did Moses speak? Originally, the Torah (Old Testament) was given to Musa (Moses) 2000 years ago (who spoke both Arabic and Hebrew).

The Holy Quran was revealed to Muhammad in the seventh century A.D. over 1300 years ago who spoke Arabic. The believers and followers of these three Scriptures are referred to as follows;

(1) Hebrews or Jews, believers in Musa (Moses) and the Torah; (2) Christians, followers of Isa (Jesus) and the injil or gospel revealed to Isa (Jesus); (3) Muslims, believers in all of the Prophets of God and the Scriptures revealed to His Prophets. The Torah, Injil, Quran, the Muslims make no difference in any of them, as long as it is from Allah (God).

The Jews or Hebrews believe that Musa (Moses) was a Jew, who brought them the Torah. The Christians believe that both Musa (Moses) and Isa (Jesus) were Jews. Muhammad, an Arab, was a member of the black nation. The Jews and Christians are of the white race, and they don't believe in Muhammad as a Prophet of God;

Naturally they don't believe in the Scriptures (Holy Quran) that Allah (God) revealed to Muhammad. Muhammad and his followers believe in Moses and Jesus also the true Scriptures that these two prophets brought to their people.

The Arabs or Muslims have tried and are still trying to get the white race to believe and recognize Muhammad as a Divine Prophet of Allah (God) and the Quran, a Divine revelation, as they recognize Musa (Moses) and Isa (Jesus) and the bible as coming from Allah (God). This is sufficient proof to the worship of Allah (God) Himself; if Allah desires to make the black nation the equal or superior of the white race. Again their objection proves beyond a shadow of a doubt that there is no such thing as a divine relation of brotherhood between the black nation and white race. God forbid.

The history of the two people is a proof, for six thousand years the two (black and white) have been and still are unable to get along together in peace. This is due to the fact that the God of the two people is not the same.

The Bible is now being called the POISON BOOK by God Himself, and who can deny that it is not poison? It has poisoned the very hearts and minds of the so-called Negroes so much so that they can't agree with each other. From the first day that the white race received the Divine Scripture they started tampering with its truth to make it to suite themselves, and blind the black man. it is their nature to do evil, and the book can't be recognized as the pure and Holy Word of God. It opens with the words of someone other than God trying to represent God and His Creation to us. This is called the Book of Moses and reads as follows: "In the beginning God created the Heaven and earth" (Gen. 1:1). When was this beginning? There in the Genesis the writer tells us, that it was 4,004 B.C. This we know, now, that it refers to the making of the white race, and not the Heaven and earth. The second verse of the first chapter of Genesis reads: "And the earth was without form and void; darkness was upon the deep and the spirit of God moved upon the face of the waters." What was the water on, since there was no form of earth? As I see it, the Bible is very questionable. After God had created everything without asking for any help from anyone then, comes His weakness the 26th of the same chapter (Gen. 1:26). He invites us to help Him make a man. Allah has revealed THE US that was invited to make a man (white race). A man is far more easy to make than the Heavens and earth. We can't charge these questionable readings of the Bible to Musa because he was a Prophet of God, and they don't lie.

If the present Bible is the direct Word of God, why isn't God speaking rather than His Prophet Musa (Moses)? Neither does Moses tell us in the first chapter of Genesis that it is from God. No, we don't find the name Moses mentioned in the chapter. The Bible is the graveyard of my poor people (the so-called Negroes) and I would like to dwell upon this book until I am sure that they understand that it is not quite as holy as they first thought it was. I don't mean to say that there is no truth in it, certainly, plenty of truth, if understood. Will you accept the understanding of it? The Bible charges of Its Great Prophets with evil, it makes God guilty of an act of adultery by charging Him with being the father of Mary's baby (Jesus), again it charges Noah and Lot with drunkenness, and Lot getting children by his daughter. What a POISON BOOK.

The HOLY Quran, it is holy because it is the Word of Allah (God) speaking Himself directly to His Servant. HOLY means something that is PERFECTLY PURE and we just can't say that of the Poison Bible. Al-Quran the Quran means to the Arabic scholars of the Language in which it is written that which should be read, which was revealed to Muhammad the month of Ramadan 2:185.

Reprinted from the Pittsburgh Courier. June 16, 1956

The Honorable Elijah Muhammad