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Reprinted from Fall Of America (Introduction:by Brother
John Ali, servant of Allah) We give all of the old soliders credit for the work that they did to lay a foundation for us to
stand on today. Thank you.
The time is now for a full and clear statement of what The
Honorable Elijah Muhammad is teaching, what he is about, why he is doing it and why nothing will stop his forward action".
He Will Be the Winner Living
or Dead !
" First, let it be said that he is not a racist. Unlike the white race, he does
not preach the inferiority of any race or group. He does not advocate denial of any group's rights and categorically
asserts that every citizen has the right , (should he wish to use it), to exert the rights of citizenship offer him.
Either through ignorance or evil intent, some have confused racism with religious dogma.
Mr. Elijah Muhammad teaches that the so-called American Negroes are the chosen of Allah.He teaches that all others
are among non-chosen and nothing they can do will alter that fact. This the grounds of which so many accuse him
of racism. If this be racism, then every religion since man has preached racism.
The Jews teach
that they are Jehovah's elect. The entire sequence of events that culminated in the death of the man called Jesus
was set in action because he Jesus, sought to destroy the concept of the elect.
The Catholic
church teaches that it is the only church. It forbids its members to intermarry with non-catholics, save under special
dispensations and even then the children of such marriages must be pledged to the Church before the marriage takes place.
Catholics are taught not to consort with non-Catholics in religious terms of reference.
The
Baptist church teaches that it alone is right, that Christians who have not been submerged under the water have not received
true salvation.
Admittedly, each of these groups teaches a doctrine that tells its followers
that they are the elect, that they are set apart and the their spiritual insight is the only one worth holding. So does
Mr. Elijah Muhammad. (Messenger of Allah)
Mr. Muhammad says we are the elect of Allah in
the same sense that a Jew says he is the elect of Jehovah or that the denominations pursue their theological ends.
If Mr. Muhammad in teaching Islam is accused of racism, then so must every other religious denomination or sect.
Much is made of the fact that Mr. Muhammad predicts the early end of the non-Muslims. This is what he believes.
This is what he knows. This is what he teaches. If he is wrong, then it is a matter between him and His Teacher.
But again, the truth of history is on his side.
The New Testament is laced with promises
that the non-Christians will be destroyed in a fiery death, soon to come.
Were one to take the
time to trace through an elementary course in comparative religion, it would be abundantly clear that every religion
has felt its enemies would meet with destruction, and very son at that. Why the uproar when Mr. Muhammad teaches
Black men that they are the elect and that their opponents will soon be destroyed?
Attacks on
Mr. Muhammad have centered around the charge that he and his followers are a cult, a non-religious group. Proponents
of this lie say we are actually a racist outfit set on the destruction of the white man.
This
of course is not true.
Empires in scripture and political history have risen up over the
time of man and have fallen. These empires, the Romans and their Caesars, the Prussians and their Kaisers, the Russians and
their Czars, the Egyptians and their Pharoahs, the Europeans and their Kings, the Turks and their Sultans and now the States
of America and their Presidents. Whatever the name of the empire or the title of the ruler, it was only a grand, clever,
psychological trick to dupe the naive masses then and now especially the Black man of America, from recognizing America as
Babylon. The wolf in sheep's clothing, Babylon, is in fact America today. The time has now come for the
revealing of the greatest empire of Babylonian type ever to exist. No nation, no empire before fits the description of Babylon
as the United States or of the Babylon ruler as the rulers of America.
Mr. Elijah Muhammad is bringing
a final truth to the people. He is revealing the secret of the symbols, parables, signs and prophecies of the scriptures.
The Old Testament is a book of prophecy in parables, symbols and signs. The New testament is a fulfillment of a
prophecy whose time is now. All religions have talked of a doomsday, judgment day or a type of hell filled with fire
and brimstone. ( Not just the Teachings of the Most Honorable Elijah Muhammad, but all religions).
Despite America's skill, abundance, technology, materialism, psychology, tricknology and ability to synthesize-- that
great ability of making false appear true or real is well known. America can make man made fibers appear to be wool,
butter that never saw a cow or fruit jam that does not come from fruit trees. Mr. Elijah Muhammad in The Fall of America
brings us to the truth, the fateful destiny of America.
America has been a country whose leaders'
pride has been to refer to it as the greatest country on earth. Babylon, the most powerful country who has as its greatest
ambition to be the most armed. More than thirty-five percent of its national budget is set aside for military preparation.
America boasts of its stockpile of weapons with its great kill capacity.
The Honorable Elijah
Muhammad is a man whose words will hold a high place in history. His words are clear. His is a vivid example of
the voice crying in the wilderness for justice. His is the ability to read the handwriting on the wall as only Danial could
do despite Belchazzar and his scholars' highest institutional learning.
Mr. Muhammad's
brilliance of style and accuracy of statement are perfectly compatible in an historian.The Fall of America offers a new interpretation
of the American world which is open to attack by critics, theologians, scientist, historians and anthropologists. Mr.
Muhammad challenges the comtemporaries of today as Moses threw down his rod as a challenge to Pharaoh of Egypt.
He contends that the interpretations of the scriptures, the Bible and the Holy Qur'an, are important interrelates pertaining
to sequences of events leading to the resurrection of the American so-called Negro.
Mr. Muhammad shows how events of yesterday and today are the life styles depicted in symobols, signs parables, and prophecies
of history and scriptures.
The ancient Orient, classical Greece,India, Islam and Europe
previously had their terms. The rise of America to global pre-eminence in modern times therefore appears as the last
of a long series of drastic cultural explosions leading to that long awaited final judgment called by the corrupt as "doomsday"
as it is their complete end engulfed in a holocaust, Called by the abused, "judgment day," as they are now given
a long deprived justice.
An important feature of The Fall of America is the
use of non-literary sources, unchallenged, not disproved, being chosen to symbolize, depict and express trends, movements
and growth of the falling American civilization.
The Fall of America is the accurate picture of history
and scripture's greatest empire and its community. Such synthesis offers a new and remarkably persuasive pattern for understanding
America today. There is no other Babylon. America's rapid decline of morals an spiritualism has led it to the abyss and
spiralling decline whose time has come.
If the justice and spiritual aspects of scriptures
are true, and they are, then America too must pay! If there is natural law of justice or compensation, justice must be given
and America must pay. The Fall of America by Mr. Muhammad clears up all doubts.
Let this suffice
as a reply to the detractors who say Mr. Elijah Muhammad and his followers are not of a true religion.
These
matters being laid on the record, let us now turn to the essence today. The Black man in America is no longer willing to listen
to misguided teachings of his modern-day elders called Uncle Toms. This is why the Uncle Toms are disturbed. This
is why their white masters are concerned.
And well they might be, for the day when the
Black man of America will scratch where they don't itch and laugh, when they are being kicked, is over.
This is why The Honorable Elijah Muhammad in teaching Islam to the Black man of America is under attack. This
is why his theological teachings are being distorted into racism.(and nowaday hate teaching) This is why he and his followers
who have converted to Islam are being denied the right to worship in their own manner, a right given persons of other faiths.
The crux of the matter is: the Black man of America is hungry for the leadership Mr. Muhammad so
ably offers. The Black man of America is looking for more than legalisms. The Black man of America wants more than a
gradual restoration of his rights.
What the Black man of America seeks
is a restoration of his identity as an elect people; what the Black man of America seeks is a return to his own which includes
his people, his God, his religion, his language, his part of the earth, and a physical and spiritual reunion with his own
nation.
But it must be admitted that even more deplorable than
the attack from the white race are the deeds and utterances of other Black men who claim love for the unity of Black men actually
through ignorance, or love of the enemy of the Black man they are helping the cause of disunity.
In his visit to some of the governments of Islam Mr. Muhammad received the greatest respect and honor of any so-called
American Negro ever to visit that world from America. He was shown through their mills, government facilities,
farms, canals, irrigation systems, new projects and Mosques. He was welcomed by all and praised for his work of freedom, justice,
equality and Islam for his American Black people.
While the sound and fury explode among
the so-called leaders of Black people in America, the real problem goes unattended. It is to that problem that Mr. Muhammad
is dedicated and sets forth the solution in The Fall of America.
Problem: The Black
man must be awakened from his North American slumber and be made to realize his true nature, his true God, his true name,
his true religion and his inescapable destiny.
America's world is floating in corruption;
its complete disintegration is both imminent and inescapable. Any man who integrates with that world must share in its disintegration
and its destruction.
If the Black man of America would but listen, he need not be a
part of this certain doom.
If the Black man will listen, Mr. Muhammad will do his
best to teach him.
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