Who is the Original Man?

THE above question is now answered from the mouth of Allah (God), to us, the so-called Negroes, for the first time since our straying away from our own nation.

This secret of God and the devil has been a mystery to the average one of mankind, to be revealed in all of its clearness to one who was so ignorant that he knew not even himself, born blind, deaf, and dumb in the wilderness of North America.

All praise is due to the Great Mahdi (Allah in Person), Who was to come and has come the Sole Master of the Worlds. I ask myself at time, "What can I do to repay Allah (the Great Mahdi, Fard Muhammad) for His coming, wisdom, knowledge and understanding?

Born in the southern part of this Wilderness (Wilderness of Sin), where the Man of Sin has always manifested himself to us, the so-called Negroes, that he was really the evil one by the way he treated us. Yet, we were made so dumb that we still couldn't recognize him.

The truth of him is now being told and taught throughout the world to his anger and sorrow. He is losing no time trying to hinder this truth of the above question, who is the Original man?

He is setting watchers and listeners around me and my followers to see if he can find some other charge to put against us to satisfy his anger of the truth that we preach from the mouth of Allah, Who is with us in Person.

THE ORIGINAL Man, Allah has declared is none other than the Black Man. The first and last, maker and owner of the Universe, from him came all brown, yellow, red and white. By using a special method of birth control law he was able to produce the white race.

The true knowledge of the black and white mankind should be enough to awaken the so-called Negroes, put them on their feet and on the road to self-independence. Yet, they are so afraid of the slavemasters that they even love them to their destruction and wishes that the bearer of truth would not tell the truth even if he knows it.

The time has arrived when it must be told the world over for there are millions who don't know who the Original Man is. Why should this question be put before the world today? Because it is the TIME of judgment between the two (black and white) and without that knowledge of the Original Man, it means to be without knowledge of the rightful owner of the earth.

ALLAH (to Whom praise is due) is now pointing out to the nations of earth their rightful places and his judgment will bring an end to war over it.

Now it is so easy to recognize the Original man, the real owner of the earth by the history of the two (black and white) . We have an unending past history of the black nation, and a limited one of the white race.

We find that history teaches that the earth was populated by the black nation ever since it was created, but the history of the white race doesn't take us beyond 6,000 years.

Everywhere the white race has gone on our planet, he either found the Original Man or a sign that he had been there previously.

Allah is proving to the world of black man that the white race actually doesn't own any part of our planet.

THE BIBLE and Holy Quran bears witness to the above said, if you are able to understand it. The Holy Our-an, the beauty of Scriptures repeatedly challenges them to point out or show the part of the heavens an earth that they created?

It further teaches that they are not even their own creators. We created man (white race) from a small life germ, the soft pronoun "we" used nearly throughout the Holy Quran makes the knowledge of the Original Man much clearer and of more intelligent knowledge of how the white race's creation took place.

In the Bible referring to their creation we have US (Gen. 3:26) creating or rather making the race, the US and WE used show beyond a shadow of a doubt that they came from another people.

A KNOWLEDGE of the white race removes once and for all times the mistakes that would be made in dealing with them. My followers and I can and are getting along with them in a more understandable way than ever, because we know them.

You can't blame one for the way he or she was born, for they had nothing to do with that. Can we say to them why don't you do righteousness when Nature did not give righteousness to them? Or say to them why are you such a wicked devil? Who is responsible; the made or his maker?

Yet this doesn't excuse us for following and practicing his evil, or accepting him for a righteous guide just because he is not his maker.

Reprinted from the Pittsburgh Courier. July 28, 1956

The Honorable Elijah Muhammad