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Nation of Islam
With H. C. Felder
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Road Map
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History
Beliefs
Evaluation of the Nation of Islam
Summary
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Road Map
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History
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History
W. D. Fard
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• Fard is the founder of the
NOI
• Fard suddenly and
mysteriously appeared
among the blacks in Detroit
in the summer of 1930
• Fard was a traveling
salesman of raincoats and
silks
• Fard claimed to be from
Mecca as a messenger of
Allah to blacks
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• W. D. Fard
- According to the NOI, Fard was half black and
half white which allowed him to easily blend
in with whites
- According to criminal records, he was
classified as white, born in Portland OR in
1891 to Hawaiian immigrants
- Fard disappeared as suddenly as he appeared
and no one knows what happened to him
- He is considered by NOI to be Allah in person,
God in the flesh
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History
Elijah Muhammad
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• Elijah Muhammad was
handpicked by W. D. Fard
to lead the NOI
• He was born Elijah Poole
October 7, 1897 in
Sandersville GA
• His parents were
sharecroppers who where
oppressed by whites
• As a youth, he witnesses a
number of atrocities on
blacks at the hands of
whites
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• Elijah Muhammad
- Violating the tenants of NOI, Muhammad had
sexual relations with a number of women.
Some became pregnant and filed paternity
suits
- By 1975 there were 76 mosques
- The Honorable Elijah Muhammad died
February 25th 1975 from congestive heart
failure
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History
Malcolm X
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• Malcolm X was handpicked
by Elijah Muhammad to
lead the NOI
• Malcolm X was born
Malcolm Little on May 19th
in Omaha NE
• Malcolm's father was a
traveling Baptist preacher
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History
• Malcolm X
- Malcolm also witnesses violence on blacks by
whites
» His father was killed in a street car accident that
Malcolm believes was a murder by whites
» 4 of his 6 brothers died violent deaths, 3 at the
hands of white men
- Malcolm also saw the hypocrisy of those
professing to be Christian
- While in jail for burglary, Malcolm had a vision
of who he would later realize was W. D. Fard
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History
• Malcolm X
- Once released from prison, Malcolm joined
the NOI and became the chief spokesperson
and apologist
- Malcolm became aware that the teaching of
NOI conflicted with those of orthodox Islam
- Malcolm also became aware of the sexual
misconduct of Elijah Muhammad
- In 1964, Malcolm left the NOI and converted
to Sunni Islam
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History
• Malcolm X
- Malcolm started speaking out against Elijah
Muhammad
- His house was bombed and his life was
threaten for speaking against Muhammad
- Malcolm was murdered on February 21, 1965
- The murders where members of the NOI and
were convicted of the murder
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History
Louis Farrakhan
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• Louis Farrakhan was born
Louis Eugene Walcott in
1933
• As a youth, he was active
in the Christian church
but had questions. But
because he didn't get any
answers ,he became
disillusioned with the
church
• Farrakhan was discipled
by Malcolm
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History
• Louis Farrakhan
- In 1967 Muhammad made Farrakhan the
national spokesman for the NOI
- When Elijah Muhammad died, Elijah's son
Wallace Deen Muhammad was named the
leader of the NOI
- Wallace renamed NOI to the “World
Community of Islam”
- Wallace started moving the organization
toward orthodox Islam
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History
• Louis Farrakhan
- In 1977, Farrakhan broke with Wallace and
re-established the NOI
- Louis Farrakhan continues to lead the NOI
- Louis Farrakhan has never separated himself
from any of the teachings of Elijah
Muhammad
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Beliefs
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Beliefs
The Bible is Corrupt
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• The Bible is used by white
people to dominate blacks
• However, the Bible still has
plenty of truth if properly
understood
• The Bible can only be properly
understood as properly
interpreted through Elijah
Muhammad since his
interpretation was given to him
by "the Lord of the World
[Fard]" (Tsoukalas 2001, 104)
• Muhammad's interpretation of
Scripture pays no attention to
word studies, historical
background, or context
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Beliefs
• God
- God is a finite being. He is a black man
» Since we are made in the image of God, He must
be a man
- He created himself out of nothing
» He created himself out of a total darkness and out
of a single atom
» Since he came from darkness, he himself is dark
(Muhammad, Our Saviour has Arrived 1974, 52)
- There are many gods
» There is a string of succession of gods, each living
for around 100-200 years
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Beliefs
W. D. Fard
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• The current God is W. D.
Fard
• "WE BELIEVE that Allah
(God) appeared in the
Person of Master W. Fard
Muhammad, July, 1930;
the long-awaited "Messiah"
of the Christians and the
"Mahdi" of the Muslims."
(Nation of Islam 2011)
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Beliefs
• Man
- Black man
» Blacks are the original race, created directly by
God himself
» The black man did not have a sin nature
» Our current sinfulness is the result of the influence
of the white race
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Beliefs
• Man
- White man
» The white race was created by a black scientist
named Yakub 6,600 years ago
• He only allowed light skinned blacks to marry light
skinned blacks
• Dark skinned babies were killed
• Lying and murdering were bred into their nature as
newborns
• After a number of generations, the white race was born
• Adam and Eve are the first parents of the white race
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Beliefs
Jesus
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• Jesus was a prophet and
only a man-a black man
• Jesus was neither Christ
nor God
• Jesus died and stayed dead
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Beliefs
After Life
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• Allah, will destroy the white
race and restore the world
back to blacks
• There is no resurrection,
once you are dead, you are
dead forever
• W. D. Fard is waiting for
the fullness of time to
unleash his wrath upon the
white race
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Beliefs
Mother Plane
• When the time comes, the
attack will be launched by
the "Mother Plane" which
orbits the earth and is what
people refer to as a UFO
- This is a 1/2 mile by 1/2 mile
space ship
- It contains 1,500 smaller
bombers
- Each bomber is capable of
carrying 3 bombs that can
plunge into the earth a mile
deep before exploding
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• Each blast will kill people
within a 50 miles radius
• include Uncle Toms
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(includes black Christians)
Beliefs
• After Life
- Mother Plane
» Blacks will be lead to safety by telepathy
» The target will be the U.S. and England
» Those targeted will also include Uncle Toms
(includes black Christians)
» When the war is over the word will be restored to
its original condition before the white race was
created
» The hereafter is a continuation of the present life
of flesh and blood
• There will be no sin or sickness and we will live in the
presence of Fard and Elijah Muhammad
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Beliefs
Evaluation of the Nation of Islam
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Evaluation
• Against orthodox Islam
- Islam considers it blasphemy to call any man
Allah in the flesh
- The Yakub myth can be found nowhere in the
Qur'an or any text of Islam
- Islam accepts all races
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Evaluation
• Against orthodox Christianity
- Racism
» The NOI confuses Christians with Christianity
• To understand Christianity look at its leader Christ, not
those who claim to be his followers yet go directly
against his teachings
» Christianity is a religion for all races
• The first convert was an Ethiopian (Acts 8:26-28)
• Whites are actually in the minority of Christians world
wide
» Slavery was ended in a large part due to white
Christian abolitionist such as William Wilberforce
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Evaluation
• Against orthodox Christianity
- The Bible
» The NOI gives no evidence to justify their view
that the Bible is corrupt
» We have an unbroken chain of manuscripts dating
to the first century
» The NOI leaders often quote from the Bible when
it suits their purpose
• In Elijah's Muhammad's book Message to Blackman in
America ,the index list more than 220 Bible verses
» The interpretations given by Elijah Muhammad
cannot be objectively verified
• Muhammad claims that his interpretations come from
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Evaluation
• Against orthodox Christianity
- God
» God has always existed
» God created everything out of nothing
» Self creation is impossible
• He would have to exist and not exist at the same time
• It cannot explain where the matter came from that he
used to create himself
• A finite God needs a creator
• Even if God created himself out of a single atom,
something beyond man must have created the atom
» God is spirit
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Evaluation
• Against orthodox Christianity
- God
» A finite God has significant limitations and is not
worthy of worship
• Cannot be omnipresent since limited to a body
• Cannot be omniscient since he can't be in all places at
the same time
• Cannot be eternal since he has a beginning and an end
» Examples from the Bible that give God human
characteristics are figures of speech
» Fard cannot possibly be God
• NOI's own documentation says that Fard had parents
indicating he had recent beginning and couldn't have
created the universe
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Evaluation
• Against orthodox Christianity
- Man
» All men come from Adam and Eve
» No where does the Bible teach the inferiority of
other ethnic groups
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Evaluation
• Against orthodox Christianity
- Jesus
» Jesus alone is the Christ
» He was the only Christ from the beginning
» Jesus claimed to be the only Christ
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Evaluation
• Against orthodox Christianity
- The afterlife
» There will be people from every ethnic group in
heaven
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History
Beliefs
Evaluation of the Nation of Islam
Summary
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Summary
• NOI is based on a racists world view born
out of a time of racial injustice
• NOI teaches a false and heretical doctrine
with regard to
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The nature of man
The divinity of Jesus
The nature of God
Salvation and the afterlife
• NOI offers a false salvation to a false God
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Bibliography
• Muhammad, Elijah. Message to the
Blackman in America. Phoenix: Secretarius
MEMPS Ministries, 1965.
• —. Our Saviour has Arrived. Chicago: Elijah
Muhammad, 1974.
• Nation of Islam. Nation of Islam. 2011.
http://noi.org/about_beliefs_and_wants.sht
ml (accessed 7 28, 2011).
• Tsoukalas, Steven. The Nation of Islam:
Understanding the 'Black Muslims'.
Phillipsburg, NJ: P & R Publishing,
2001.
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