Sunday, January 26, 2020

“Imam W. Deen Muhammad (raa) speaks on W. F. Muhammad (raa)”








Imam W. D. Muhammad in a March 19, 1976 article in the Bilalian News (Muslim Journal) entitled “Self-Government in The New World” said the following concerning W. D. Fard Muhammad Ali or Fard Muhammad: “The Honorable Master Fard Muhammad has been called by names. He was called Professor Fard Muhammad, Prophet Fard Muhammad, W.F. (Wali Fard) Muhammad, Wallace D. Fard Muhammad, and many other names. This should tell us something about this great personality. Obviously, he was not known by the people to whom he was introducing himself. We have said here in the Lost-Found Nation of Islam[1] that the only one who knew him was the one that he taught and prepared to do the job of resurrecting the black community the Honorable Master Elijah Muhammad (peace be upon him).

The Honorable Master Elijah Muhammad taught very vaguely about the Honorable Master Fard Muhammad as a person. He said that he was a "savior," he said that he was "God," and he said that he was “God in the person of Master Fard Muhammad”. He also said that Master Fard told him that he would have to go away and that he (the Honorable Elijah Muhammad) would have to do the job. This did not please the Honorable Master Elijah Muhammad because he had become very much attached to Master Fard Muhammad, as were the other followers in the early days of the mission of the founding of the Nation of Islam. He said that he told Master Fard that he wanted to be with him. Master Fard told him that he would be with him, but that he should do the job because he did not need him anymore. Almighty God would never tell any creature that it did not need Him anymore. We always need Almighty God. But, Master Fard told the Honorable Elijah Muhammad, "You don't need me anymore." He also told the believers, 'Accept Elijah, follow Elijah, you don't need me anymore."

Master Fard Muhammad was a "shrewd" planner. He had observed the situation here in America and he knew the conditions that kept us down as a people. He, himself, was a Muslim who believed in the scripture called the Holy Quran. Master Fard let us know that by having his picture taken with the Holy Quran in his hands. In fact, the only picture that we have of him is a picture of him holding the Holy Quran in his hand, in a very pious, sincere and reverent manner.

If "God" cherished the Holy Quran, that should also suggest something to our mind. He was saying something very important to us, but he had to say it in such a way as to get us to come where he wanted us to come, without us discovering his shrewd plan. If we had discovered his plan, we would have walked away before we arrived at the goal that he wanted to bring us to.

Master Fard saw that the church was a failure in the Bilalian (black) community. In the early 1930's, the Bilalian church community was mostly a community of dead, so-called Negroes. Most of the church people were hating their own identity, and they didn't even know it. They hated their black skin, and they hated any connection or association with so -called Africa. They hated their so -called "Negroid" features. This is the condition in which Master Fard Muhammad found us in the early 1930's when he came to America. He observed that the so-called Orthodox Muslims had come here and tried to reach us, but they had failed. They invited us to Islam, to Allah, and to the Holy Quran. They told us that Islam was a better religion, but only a very few of us listened to them.

Master Fard discovered the real problem, and then he designed a skillful plan to bring home the prize. Master Fard Muhammad is not dead, brothers and sisters, he is physically alive, and I talk to him whenever I get ready. I don't talk to him in any spooky way, I go to the telephone and dial his number.

When he saw that our problem was that we were already too spiritual (too wrapped up in the Bible), he devised a plan. He knew he could not get us if he came at us with the Holy scripture. Whatever anyone had come at us with, it would not have been any stronger than what we already had in the way of spiritual force. Who was more spiritual in America or in the world than the Bilalian community in America? Our churches were filled with more spirit than anybody else's churches. No one could come to us telling us that we needed spirit. Anyone who would have come to us would have had less spirit than we had, and we would not have paid any attention to them.

Master Fard Muhammad discovered that what was absent in the dead Bilalian community was material - we were totally ignorant to material worth. So, he began to study scripture, and he designed his plan step by step after the plan of Almighty God. People had come to us with God and religion and they have approached us with the spirit, talking to us about holiness, righteousness, divinity, God and the saints. Master Fard discovered that that is not the way Almighty God develops the community of His people. When you study the Holy Quran and the Bible, you will see that that is not the way that God does it. The Bible says that God made His man out of the physical earth.

The first thing that He made was a physical man and the next thing that He did was to give that physical man a physical world and a physical mate. After He gave the man a physical body and a physical world, then God told him that there were two kinds of knowledge in the world. One knowledge is pure divine knowledge that is from God, and the other kind of knowledge is mixed up with falsehood. God warned the man not to eat of the tree of corrupt knowledge. But God did not give him that kind of instruction until he had already made him physically and given him an opportunity to live with other people. In Genesis, if you follow that story in the later chapters, you will see that God did not make just one Adam.

The Bible says that God made the man and made for him a mate, but He made a society when He did that. It says that God made male and female and that He named them "Adam." God made a society of physical people. He introduced them to a physical world, and He let their minds grow to become aware of the physical environment and to grow in the physical environment first. The physical world is not in existence for no reason.

The birth of the human being into the world is not a spiritual birth first. No baby comes from the womb as a spirit. The first body that comes out of the womb of the mother is a flesh body, and the first thing that the baby wants is some physical milk. Master Fard discovered this secret of the high knowledge that is in the scripture that people had overlooked. When you find a people completely dead, you do not come to them with the spirit. You can come to a society that is alive socially and economically by teaching them the spirit (the "heaven"), but you cannot teach the "heavens" to a society that has not yet been formed in the earth. You have to teach them the earth, first. That was the wisdom (the key) that Master Fard Muhammad discovered.

He said, "The way to get these people, Elijah, is to hold out to them the bait that represents to them the things that they need and want right now. Tell them, Elijah, that if they follow you to me, they will get good homes, money, and friendship in all walks of life. Tell them that the streets of the holy land where their ancestors came from are paved with solid gold."[i] That kind of description made us want to go there. He did not say that the streets were filled with spirits playing on invisible harps, walking around with golden slippers that did not really exist. He said to tell us that there was real gold over there. This bait of a well-to-do society was the right bait to attract our people. He said that we would get money, good homes, and friendship. He included friendship because the Bilalian people in America were friendless. We knew that we did not have any friends. We could not even trust each other as friends.

Master Fard offered friendship because he knew that the only friend, we identified with was the friend "Jesus." We identified with that friend because our suffering resembled his suffering. Master Fard began to take our minds off that Jesus because he realized that until we could see our own suffering, we would never be able to be serious about doing something to remove that suffering - so he began to tell us about our own suffering. The church had made the mistake of telling us about the suffering of the Hebrew boys in the fiery furnace and the suffering of the Jews under Pharaoh. They made the mistake of telling us about what was happening "over yonder across Jordan" instead of bringing our minds home to see what was happening to us right here in America.

Master Fard Muhammad sneaked into America and used a name that made it hard for them to identify him. Because he did not wear a turban, he looked like an American. He called himself "Wallace Fard." He was wise because he knew how to hide his identity, to do his job, and sneak out. Master Fard Muhammad worked for almost three years in Detroit and Chicago to bring the dead Bilalian community to life so that they could grow into the religion of Islam. What was his objective? What did he want for us?

He wanted us to be free when the new world came. He was wise and he had vision and foresight. He knew that the America of the 1930's was a dying America and that the hand of God was against it. It would only be so long before it would be killed or die outright. He did not want to see the Bilalian people of America come to life in that new world under somebody else's leadership. If it was not for him, we would have come to life under somebody else's leadership. We would have come to life because everything was moving us in this direction.

The reality of the many African nations that had come into independence would have affected our minds over here and forced us to get together and come into some kind of idea of self-government or leadership in the society. If Master Fard had never brought Islam to us, the natural development would have eventually brought us together as a family. I do not mean that it would have "integrated" us. Integration with the society is something that you do after you have integrated with yourself. How can you integrate before you put yourself together?

We would have as a family if we had not received Islam and we would have had a voice as a family, but that voice would have been under somebody else's voice. We would have come under the socialist voice, the capitalist voice, or some other established voice. Anything other than what Master Fard Muhammad brought was not designed to bring about the total birth of the total person. It was designed to only take care of part of your human needs.

The Bilalian[2] people of America were a different people in the world. You can go to poor people on any continent and you can teach them civilization if they do not have it; you can teach them science and industry if they do not have it; you can teach them religion if they do not have it; but you do not have to teach them everything because they have not lost everything. You can deal with the people, teach them, build them up, and bring them into a self-government, pride and dignity without going about a thorough restoration of the human form. But, over here it was different with us. We had nothing at all but the false picture of ourselves that was given to us by a people who were intent upon keeping us empty-headed slaves for all of our lives.
How do you bring that kind of man back to existence? Can you teach him economics and bring him back to existence? No, the man is not even alive as a human being. You have to teach him what it means to be human. You have to teach him that a human being is a natural creation. You have to first put the life that belongs to the empty vessel back into the vessel. This world was putting foreign life into the empty vessel, and the foreign life could not grow in a vessel that was foreign to it. They wanted to make us anything but ourselves. So, the Honorable Master Elijah Muhammad said that we should know ourselves. For the first time, thanks to Master W.F. Muhammad, Bilalian people in America began to act naturally. The Muslims who followed the teachings of Master W.F. Muhammad and the Honorable Master Elijah Muhammad, were singled out in the community as "foreign people" or "crazy people." Those people who were pointing at us were unnatural people themselves, so they saw us as being unnatural.

Master Fard Muhammad's masterful plan was to do first things, first, and keep last things out of sight until we could first get the people established in first things. His first aim was to get us firmly grounded in reality, as we were capable of knowing reality. The community of poor, robbed, deprived, dejected, so-called Negroes was not capable of knowing a spiritual reality since they were not yet alive in a social reality or a physical reality. He first had to establish us in a physical reality, doing it as Almighty God did it according to the Holy Quran and the Bible Genesis. He formed us physically and then put desire in us. When he brought our attention to our physical needs and showed us that we were obligated to do something about fulfilling those physical needs, the desire in us for physical pleasures and physical wealth increased.

We had been satisfied with a little of nothing, but the more Master Fard's teachings went into our ears, the more our appetite for physical things expanded. Pretty soon we were not satisfied to have a little apartment and a few shabby pieces of furniture in the house. We wanted our own house and our own automobile. Before, we had no incentive or desire in us for these things. Our only desire was to be accepted by Caucasian people because that is the way this world had fashioned our minds. We were an artificial society; it took this real teaching to make us real.

Master Fard told the Honorable Elijah Muhammad to get the people to come into the temple at any cost. Once they were gotten into the temple, they would gradually come into the knowledge of themselves and their own. When they woke up, they were then able to value and to appreciate Islam. He did not worry about teaching them Islam then, he wanted to teach them to know self, to do for self, and to separate from the destructive relationship that they had with the Caucasian people. That is what Master Fard did, and he was successful.

He told the Honorable Elijah Muhammad that he could not attract the "fish" to come into this ideal society (the Lost-Found Nation of Islam) with knowledge alone because the fish had been mentally, spiritually and morally killed. He was not able to see the value that was in this heavenly order. He had to hold out to him the things that he knew in his life and attract him with the bait of meat that satisfied only the stomach -money, food, good homes, and good clothes. He said, "Put that bait on the hook, Elijah, and bring him into yourself. One day you will be able to put that fish into the waters of the new world, but it will take time." When we examine the works of the Honorable Master Fard Muhammad and the works of the Honorable Master Elijah Muhammad, we can see the terminology in the real substance, the real sense. We now see that what was said also had another meaning.

Later, in this March 19, 1976 lecture he said the following concerning W. D. Fard Muhammad: “The work of Master Fard Muhammad was the work of change or revolution. Revolution is not the final object or the final aim of his great work, revolution is a means for reaching the final object. If you design a revolution to bring people out of their condition into another condition, you cannot continue to always put emphasis on revolution.

The emphasis has to be taken off of revolution and put on objectives or aims one day. Master Fard Muhammad had a design to bring about changes that would bring us into a new world, a new life, and a new mind. The steps of the change cannot be looked at today as part of our world structure, but they are steps towards the structure. Now, we are at the structure. The emphasis should be taken off of change and revolution and be put on building and construction.

We want to save our people who are in the hands of strong people. We know that we cannot just go and ask for them - we have to take them. So, the first thing that we had to do was to design a plan to get our people. Once we get our people, we cannot continue to preach to them the philosophy of attack and capture. We have to teach to them the philosophy of construction because, if we take them out of one world, we are going to have to build another world for them to live in.

Master Fard Muhammad taught us the plan (the philosophy) of reaching our goal and the Honorable Master Elijah Muhammad began to gradually take the emphasis off of battle strategy and put it on building. Today we have arrived at our goal and the trip was successful. The great plan achieved what it was designed to achieve. If we get busy right now and build the new world, I assure you that we will not be ruled by any other government in the new world but our own self -government.”

Imam W. Deen Muhammad (raa) in a December 9, 1977 Bilalian News article entitled “Educational Conference Address: Part 2” states the following concerning Fard Muhammad: “Master Fard Muhammad we call him Master because that was the term he used. He was professor of a school in what we call the "Old Country." Over there they still call professors "Master," Headmaster, etc. He played on the mystical name, "Master" that is the Bible name for Christ Jesus: It means a master teacher. His students were a whole community then called the Lost-Found Nation of Islam.

We have lessons[3] right today where he referred to all the believers as students. "Ask your teacher, learn all about yourself." The Honorable Elijah Muhammad was a Minister, but he called himself "teacher." When Fard first came, he preferred to call himself "Professor Fard." This man had an interest in the re-development of education. He established the University of Islam. University. You know, "university" is a big word: it means a group of schools—of colleges, right? He called the elementary school that he established, the University of Al-Islam. The man was very wise.

When you separate people from identifying with one value system or system of values, you have to be careful to make them feel sure they are not stepping down. He knew that! Professor Fard (Doctor Fard) called the elementary schools—university. Knowing that some of his students were going to run into students from the "enemy" learning environment and they were going to challenge some of the things that he was teaching his new "world," Fard gave his students a mystical and real sense of superiority

He knew some of his students wouldn't be able to match challengers from the enemy environment, but the feeling of superiority makes you feel victorious even when you are defeated. So, if some students should challenge one of his students from the other world and should defeat Fard students, his students would never admit defeat. They would not see the defeat; they are too superior. "This is a university. What school do you go to?" He was a very wise man; he knew the problem. He knew how to correct problems; he knew how to save the people from problems by putting them in a completely new learning environment.

Imam W. Deen Muhammad in a Feb. 19, 1987 lecture delivered at Berea College in Berea, Kentucky entitled “The Nation of Islam As A Controlled Environment for Treating the Social Ills Of African-Americans”[4] said the following concerning W. F. Muhammad: “In keeping with the college's commemoration of Carter G. Woodson — I believe it’s a two week commemoration — this presentation addresses the black Muslim Nation of Islam as a controlled learning environment for treating the social ills of America's discarded Negro population. At this particular time, I will attempt to give some background, because it is important to know and understand what transpired in the early 30's. It is also important to know something about the little-known professor, W. Fard in the encyclopedia it's spelled F-a-r-d who conceived this correctional environment and skillfully named it though erroneously the Lost Found Nation of Islam.

It is important to know him for his boldness, which is seen in his formation of a language, that would serve to create his new black man. He used what some call a reverse psychology. His aim was to reverse the psychology of white supremacy with his own psychology of black supremacy. Like Carter G. Woodson, Fard considered the reeducation of the African American to be the greatest need. To accomplish that, he conceived what is called the "University of Islam."

At that time  I am now speaking of 1934  the University of Islam was a black I hate to use the language that has been made popular, but I have to, it's easier and clearer he formed a black Muslim school that served the need for teaching writing, arithmetic or the basics to not only the children, but also to adults.

The school at that time included all members of the Nation of Islam who wanted to take advantage of that school. Men and women, some of them past 65, I'm sure some of them were 80 or more, attended the school, and they were eager to learn how to read, write and do simple arithmetic. Fard's boldness is seen also in his naming that school the University of Islam.

However, the work of this man is shrouded in mystery, which he created to shroud himself in. It was complicated by his own necessary role in it. Fard was by America's description, a white man. He tactfully identified with the black man in his teachings and secret lessons to the members of the Lost Found Nation of Islam that he created. Soon, he had to trust his learning or laboratory environment to the late Elijah Muhammad, the builder of the Nation of Islam, and a man who is well-known.

Once I was in a meeting with the Honorable Elijah Muhammad, and some of his staff members, in his home in Chicago, when he mentioned some of the difficulties that this teacher had. He said that in one of their temple meetings the houses of worship were called "temples" while he was teaching on the superiority of the black man and the black man being god, and descending from God, and should come back into the godship, one of the members stood up and said, "Well, if that's the case, why don't you leave and let us take it from here, because you are a white man, you are a devil."

I'm sure that after that member stood up and challenged him, by identifying him with the whites, that he had condemned as a race of devils, Fard saw a need to quickly disappear. And it wasn't long before he did just that. The history says that as mysteriously as he appeared, he disappeared, leaving the leadership with my father, Elijah Muhammad, our late and honorable benefactor in many ways.

It appears that in the language of black supremacy and the defiance of the black man, a provision for the transformation of that created Nation of Islam was skillfully worked in. I won't take the time to mention all the elements or the language and terminology that was used to aid or help us work out a transformation for ourselves, but I will mention a few things. Fard's obvious contradictions served to arouse our curiosity.

 In fact, he worked hard to get the members to question everything. Although in the meetings, orientation and teaching classes, no one was allowed to challenge the ideas that were being given. Still, that invitation to question everything was in the lessons. You might have been afraid to question the minister, captain, lieutenant or an officer, or your teacher, but when you were alone, you accepted that invitation to question everything.

Please understand that Fard, in spite of his myths and racist or fictional language, was a social reformer. He was trying to reform the social habits and thinking of the discarded Negro or black man, if we prefer to use that term. And in understanding Fard as a reformer, it appears that he intentionally did some things to complicate his masterpiece so that it would be seen as having flaws. There were obvious mathematical and grammatical errors. There was also the obvious neglect of important information about black people that should have been included if he was really bringing knowledge of black people to black people.

Also, the terminology itself was full of holes; if anyone had tried to make it stand a test of reason, he or she would have had to give up. So, it is believed that he intended it for people desperately enough to grab hold to something that would give them a sense of belonging, separate identity, independence and an origin, even if it was a myth. Most of those people were uneducated and worldly naive. Many of them were brilliant, but never had the opportunity to receive formal education.

Imam W. Deen Muhammad in an April 2, 1993 Muslim Journal article entitled “The Popularity of Malcolm” said the following concerning Fard: “I'm sure Fard, who is also called W. Fard and Fard Muhammad and even Wallace D. Fard, borrowed from everything he thought would work. He borrowed from black nationalism. He borrowed from Drew Ali's Islam. He borrowed form his own experiences in India. We were told he was Turkish or an Arab, but I am convinced he was Indian. And he put together a powerful myth.

Fard really put together a satire on White arrogance, on White racism. We call that satire Yakub’s History in the teachings of the Nation of Islam. Fard did a satire on the evils of white supremacy, and that man was successful in influencing the Honorable Elijah Muhammad to become his mouthpiece.

Imam W. Deen Mohammed spoke on Fard Muhammad in a June 16, 2001 address in Detroit, Mich., at Orchestra Hall entitled “Justice in Islam: How Close Are We Muslims To Western Democracy?”[5] in this address he said: “The first understanding that I had of the word "Islam" was "freedom, justice and equality." That meaning lives today in the hearts and minds of many of us, whose first acquaintance with Muslims and Islam began right here in this city of Detroit, the Motor City, with the Hon. Elijah Muhammad and his teacher, W. Fard Muhammad.

I recall words being painted on the blackboard. I was a boy, younger than my 11-year-old son. I would be sitting in my seat in the Temple with the men and other children, and there was a blackboard there with paint on it. It said: "Islam - Freedom -Justice - Equality." We could see it as soon as we entered the seating area where the lecture or preaching would be given. The first thing to hit your eyes was that blackboard. Islam was the staff with Freedom, Justice and Equality going out from Islam. The teacher of my father had a master plan for helping our people with their cause. He was a Muslim; his religion was Islam. But he did not come to us to give us Islam right away. He came to help us with our cause -right away! He hoped that we would have Islam by-and-by.

Imam W. Deen Muhammad in a "Savior Day” Feb. 26, 2002, address[6] in Charleston, SC  said the following concerning Mr. Fard: “Mr. Fard said of himself, that 24 scientists met in Mecca concerning the Lost Found Nation of Islam, stating that they must return to their own. And they sent a messenger to teach them their own. Here Mr. Fard was identified as a messenger sent by 24 scientists. We have him, too, identified as the "son of man" in the Lessons. He said: "There was no help coming to them (the African Americans), until the coming of the son of man”."

Imam W. Deen Mohammed in an article entitled “Focus on Reform” which appeared in the Muslim Journal from Jan. 27, 2006 to Mar. 31, 2006 said: “W. D. Fard was a satirist, more than any other thing. He even used us and created a living, live theater to criticize the ideas that this society built itself upon and positioned in the mind of the whole world - that it is the Boss, the G-d, the Son of G-d over the whole world. That is what White Supremacy thought.”

Imam Mohammad in an interview conducted by Imam Abdul Ghani which appeared in the Muslim Journal from July 28, 2006 to September 22, 2006 entitled “The Interests of All People At Heart” made the following comments concerning Fard Muhammad: “I will begin by saying that the Nation of Islam was built by the Hon. Elijah Muhammad, with its blueprint given to the Hon. Elijah Muhammad by an Arab or a Muslim from overseas, whose name was W. Fard Muhammad and also called W. D. Fard.

It is important for us to know that Mr. Fard was interested in all African Americans. Mr. Fard came from a people in India, who were also under British rule. And many of the Indians under the British rule, their skin color was black. It was not black people like we know black people, but their skin color was definitely black. They ranged from white to black, the whitest of white and blackest of black.

Northern Indians are of white color. They have mixed all together now. But the Indians who live in the hotter zones are black in skin color. When Mr. Fard came to America, he experienced, as he had dark color - not white skinned; he was brown skinned - some discrimination.

I think what he experienced in his own country of India under the British with his people there and what he experienced when he came to America had something to do with him accepting to assist African American people in the ghettos with their lives. He came to Detroit, Mich., to the black bottom or poor area of African American poor people.

He began teaching "separation from White people and having your own." He told the Hon. Elijah Muhammad and other African Americans whom he would teach to or speak with, that the African Americans or Blacks in America had a great past, that they came from an Islamic past. He told them they should return to their religion.

That gives you an idea of how it all started. It is important also to know that Mr. Fard had all African Americans' interests at heart. There were approximately 17 million of us exiting then, when he came in around 1930. In his exoteric language or teaching, a kind of cult or secret language, he said that he had 17 million keys to unlock or free Black people.

Further on in this interview he says: “Mr. Fard planned to introduce the Qur'an and real Islam in America. But he knew Blacks were militant and angry with Whites, so he sought the angry ones, the dissatisfied ones. And they were accepted and accepted his teachings, but he planted among them the Qur'an. He didn't say for them to teach the Qur'an, but he planted it among them and told them that that was the Pure Book, The Holy Book without defect or error. He pointed to that Book only in that way. He never gave his esoteric teachings that kind of sacred respect that he gave the Qur'an.

             Mr. Fard prayed and hoped that I would become the one to assist my father and help my father to do the work. At that time, I was just in my mother, and he left right after I was born. In the early part of 1933, I was still in my mother. And Oct. 30, 1933, I was delivered. Mr. Fard was still in touch with my mother and father and the small community that he had started. And he sent my mother the message, saying, 'Take good care of the new arrival." He was meaning me, the new arrival. Then he was gone.[ii]

Imam W. Deen Mohammed in a Muslim Journal article[7] entitled “The Temples of Islam” said: “For the general audience or for the White world, the role Fard chose was the role of a satirist. What is a satirist? I did some research and not just in the dictionary. In myth, a satirist is a creature of the wild. In reference to literature, a satirist is one who ridicules the world he is living in. Or he designs language to really attack and hurt the world he lives in, but he always hides himself and hides also his work. So, when you read it, you will take it just for fun or as an exciting novel or something.

When you understand what he is addressing with his metaphors and his allegorical language, when you come to understand it, you will see that he is dissatisfied with the political order at the time or with other things happening in the world at the time of his writing. For outsiders, the Temple of Islam only makes sense as satire. It does not make sense, if you take it word for word, literally. If you take even its message to the members, if you don't see it as allegorical or not literal, as figurative, you will certainly miss what Mr. Fard brought to America.

Professor Fard, the one who came from overseas, was working hard for a certain result in our life and in our community. The Hon. Elijah Muhammad understood him to be like Christ Jesus, Allah or G-d in the person. And we were told that he was born of a White woman and a Black man. Quote: “G-d is Black." That is what we were taught.

We were taught that Blacks were the superior although deprived of the knowledge of self under the White man. The dictionary meaning for the term "black," we can give a long list. Black has many meanings. Some familiar meanings as church goers, we recall the Bible says, "sin is black." The same Bible also says that "the Holy Ghost overshadowed Mary." If I am black, tell me what color is a shadow?

If a shadow is dense enough or big enough, it puts us in the black. That is to say, it puts us in the dark. Many of us are not familiar with general science enough to know that night is only a shadow. That is all that nighttime is. In the countryside where there is no development or electric lights, unless the moon is shining, you cannot see your hand before your face. That is how dark it gets.

That night or darkness is caused by the turning away of the earth, away from the sun. It is the absence of sunlight. It is a shadow produced by the other side of the earth and the light now is shining on the other side of the ball. The ball is so big, it blocks out the sunlight so completely, you can't see your hand before your face - unless you have the help of some moon light.

When the Bible says that the Holy Ghost overshadowed Mary, it is saying that the Holy Ghost blackened Mary. What is that saying about Mary? The Holy Ghost is of a spiritual nature and Mary is of a spiritual nature, and one of the descriptions of spirituality in religion is blackness.

Allah says in the Qur'an that He made the night to precede the day, to come before the day. So, for Mary, this was an experience she was having before the birth of her son, Jesus Christ, peace be upon both of them. Once he is born there will be no more darkness, for he will be the light of the world. Isn't that what it says in the Bible?

Allah says in the Qur'an, and I repeat: "He made the night to come before the day." The beginning of creation in the Bible does not start in the day; it does not start with night. The Bible says there was darkness upon the deep, and the spirit moved along the face of the waters. The spirit begins on the surface of the waters, where an image can be seen. If the right conditions are brought about and the water is still, not in motion, it will show you your image.

In myth, there is the story of Eros the male and Psyche the female. They went to the water and looked down and saw their images and both of them jumped into the water together. Another meaning of black is faith and faithfulness. Why do you think priests and leaders in religion choose to wear black? Don't forget the major topic: Meeting of Religion and Science.

They wear black to say, "I am dead to this world and alive only to the Word of G-d. I am a man who keeps the faith. My life is firstly in my faith, not in this material flesh, not in this material world." Now in the world supported by science, black is formal dress for the most serious and most special occasion. These are good meanings for black.

Now let us look at white, and white has many meanings like pure. It is always associated with light and purity, because the sun is the biggest and most important of purifiers in our solar system or in our existence. The sunlight itself kills sickness and kills impurities. My mother would hang her clothes out in the sunlight. And the fresh smell they would have after hanging out in the sunlight and let dry was better than the smell of any clothes from the laundromat.

So, the Bible speaks of whiteness and associates it with purity and light. The same Bible also gives these words that are aimed against a people who were corrupt. It says, "Your white is the white of leprosy." And leprosy is a contagious, nasty and dangerous disease. This is the white of disease. White supremacy is the white of leprosy.

Imam W. Deen Muhammad in a Muslim Journal article entitled “Life: The Final Battlefield - Part 2” which appeared in the journal from April 18 2008 to May 9, 2008 said: “Now I want to share some more information with you on WD 40 or Mr. W. D. Ford Muhammad, who also was known by two or three other names. They arrested the Hon. Elijah Muhammad for what they called "contributing to the delinquency of minors" -just to make the charge sound real bad.

What the charge actually was for was him keeping the children out of public schools. He kept them out of public school, because his teacher told him to set up a school and teach his own children. That is what he did. He spent some time in prison and was then let out. But they got him a second time not long after that, less than two years, on draft evasion charges and convicted him.

The charge carried another charge of "subversive teachings" to under mind the United States of America. The judge dropped that charge and only sentenced him for refusing the draft. He would not accept to have a draft card, not to mention being inducted. He was sentenced to five years in the penitentiary without parole - five years straight.

When they were first arrested, they were arrested in Detroit. The leaders and everybody who went along with the leaders were put in jail men and women. About a year or so later, the same thing happened in Chicago. They were arrested, men and women, and put in jail, because they insisted on teaching their own children and having their own school.

The police confiscated the early lessons, Student Enrollments, English Lesson Cl, Actual Facts and Problem Books. The FBI took copies of all of those things. When the Hon. Elijah Muhammad was released from prison, he told us that the officer who cleared him for release told him, "Elijah, go on out and teach as you were before." The officer told him that.

He was going to do that, because he had been teaching in prison and made several converts in prison. One was a wonderful Minister, Minister Louis. He turned out to be a very influential Minister. Everybody liked to hear him speak. He could inspire you and arouse you. He was educated and did not talk like a preacher; he talked like a professor. His major was in physics. He had a nervous condition in his jaw from using so much drugs, but he would say, "Islam is no vain imagination or superstition. Islam is reality." We loved that brother and loved the way he taught. He was a teacher.

I bring this to your attention to say to you: What did Mr. Fard put into his esoteric, private, organizational teachings to make the FBI tell the police department to leave him alone and let him teach as he was teaching before? That should make it easy for me to tell you again, that Mr. Fard did not come into America just to help Blacks. He came into America to show America how to solve the race problem. And it was to show them that Blacks have less of a race problem than you. "You are that fallen Angel Lucifer. Lucifer is in you. You are that bright and morning star."

The Bible says, "Oh Lucifer, why have you fallen? It is because you have exalted yourself in the Heavens. And you would exalt yourself up to the very Throne of G-d and put yourself there as G-d." That is the Bible. You who know the Bible know that I am giving you the Bible.

Then Jesus comes behind that and says, "I know your Father. He abodes not in the Truth. When he speaks a lie, he speaks his own lie." That means nobody gave him the lie; he invented the lie. "You are not the children of Abraham. You are the children of your father, the Devil."

This is Jesus Christ speaking to the Gentiles. I will finish this shortly, insha Allah. And I do not say "Insha Allah" from habit. I say it from my conscience, "Insha Allah." There was a sister named Dorothy something X and I gave her the name Fardan, before I even saw her. Some brothers were asking me for names for different ones, and I said to tell her that I think her name should be Fardan.

I was told she was a Catholic before she converted to the Nation of Islam, and I was told that she was a White woman. I knew she was not stupid or naive. She was a Catholic sister in the church, and I knew she would think about the name I gave her. So, I gave her that name "Fardan," which meant a person influenced by Mr. Fard. Finally, I met her in my office.

 She came to my office and wanted to speak with me. When I saw her, she said "As-Salaam-Alaikum," and I said the same to her. Before she got started, I said, "You joined the Nation of Islam and you were a Catholic and a White person?" She said, "Yes." I said, "Actually, that was a concern for me, and I could not understand that." She said, "I know I am not a devil."

And that was enough for me. She didn't have to say another word to me. I knew she was sincere, and she was coming from the heart. She said, "I know I am not a devil." So how come a White woman will join a man who is calling all White people devils by nature? He said, "Every one that is born is a devil by nature."

But she knew how to look into language and how to make the connections. She arrived at that understanding by recognizing that Mr. Fard did not invent that language. He got it from somewhere. She saw that language coming from the Bible, where it said, "Lucifer was a bright star in the heavens." Do you know the Black Stone in the Ka'bah has a lot to do with that same idea of a bright star falling from heaven? Abraham was looking for a spot on which to build the House for G-d. The stone fell down from the heavens.

Remember it was white in the heavens and it burned from white to red to black, and it hit the earth as black. Abraham took that as an answer from G-d, telling him where he should build the House. And he made that stone the corner, the most important place in the construction, in masonry as the cornerstone of the House. It also is a sign of the movement after Christ Jesus in the leadership of his followers, that went from addressing social issues of the people to studying and dwelling on the hidden sciences in Jesus' teachings.

What occupied them more than anything was about how many "natures" there are, the three natures in one or human nature separated from divine nature. That was the issue, and they argued it for three hundred years, going into the 4th Century. They were not able to settle this issue for the Christian population.

Finally, the Western Church under the Pope settled it, and they settled it like Peter understood it from the very beginning, when Jesus Christ asked Peter: "Peter, who do you say I, the son of man, am?" That question tells us that Jesus Christ was telling Peter, "Begin your answer with this. I am the son of a man.... Peter, who do you say I, the son of man, am?"

Something will have rushed to your head real quick, "No, Jesus is not the son of man. He had no father. He is not the son of man." That is true. But by genealogy, say there was no Joseph, and he is the son of Mary. Did Mary have a father? So, he had a grandfather. And he traces his genealogy or lifeline all the way back to Adam. That is the Bible. The Bible says "Adam," tracing his genealogy back.

If he came from Adam, is he the son of man or not? Did he have a father or not? All of us call Adam our Father, and he is a man. So, we have to understand this and separate spiritual language from calendar language. Spiritual wise, he had no father. And who is he? He is a Word and a Spirit from G-d. G-d created him. Word wise, he had no father, for G-d revealed him and thereby created him. So, in Islam, we do not accept to say that Jesus Christ was born of a man. That is wrong and un-Islamic.

Jesus Christ in reality is not flesh and blood. Jesus Christ in reality is the Revealed Word of G-d. And the Revealed Word gives you a Spirit. Once that Word goes into you, you get a Spirit. And where is that Spirit from? It is from the Word. And where is the Word from? It is from G-d. G-d has given me all the help I need and more to make it clear, plain to you that Mr. Fard had a scheme, a strategy, to attract us to build up ourselves in a way that we would be happy and proud of our achievements in the Nation of Islam or as the Temples of Islam.

But when the circumstances would favor us coming out as citizens with full rights of citizenship, the intelligent ones and educated ones who could see light in scripture separated from the ink print, that eventually one from among us would lead us to the international Ummah of Muhammed (SAW).

That was the plan, but it could have missed before I came out of my mother. It was known that she was pregnant with me. Mr. Fard said, "If it be a boy, give him my name." After writing my name on the wall behind the door, and the door was close to the wall — if you closed the door, it would cover my name and you wouldn't see it. But if you opened the door, my name was in that space that the door would cover written there in chalk: Wallace D.

That is all it said, and that was one of his names. He told them to promise him that they would give me his name. And he told my father - now this was before I was born, so I had to get this from them - speaking to my father, he said: "Promise me that you will raise him to help us in this work." He said "us." So, he had sensitized my parents and sensitized me to grow up one day and accept the responsibility to help Mr. Fard and help my father.

He conditioned me to not fear prying into his language. This is the language of the man who asked me to help him. And because G-d blessed me with a sincere heart and with a pure heart, that is what has saved me. And I was able to look into his language and come out on the path from the Temple to the Mosque.”

Imam W. D. Muhammad in a Muslim Journal article entitled “Remembering Those Who Sacrifice” which ran from June 27, 2008 to July 18, 2008 said the following concerning W. F. Muhammad:  No wonder Detroit is where we met Mr. Fard Muhammad or Mr. W. F. Muhammad, who introduced himself to the poor African American community of Detroit - called the Black Bottom. He invited them to come to "their religion." He called them "the lost people, who had been lost from their religion." He established the idea of the "Lost Found Nation of Islam in North America" and called it "in the Wilderness of North America" or the "Wilds of North America."

He established that and named their places not mosques or Masaajid; he named them "Temples" after the order or design of the Shriners or Masons. They called their places Temples and until now call them Temples. Mr. Fard also designed a plan for us in North America and called them Temples.

He started here in Detroit and called this Temple No. 1. From here, Mr. Fard went to Chicago, and the Hon. Elijah Muhammad already had been selected from among the people here to be his assistant. So, my father went with him to Chicago. And there together, they established Temple No. 2. Before Mr. Fard left America, they went to Milwaukee and they established Temple No. 3. Those three Temples were established with the Master Teacher.

 He was a Headmaster in the Fiji Islands and in what is now called Pakistan, although it was not called Pakistan then. The Muslims had not yet achieved political independence and established the state called Pakistan. This was done in the early 1940s, and I am talking about in the early 1930s.

Mr. Fard left and went to Mexico, and after Mexico we don't know if he went back to England he also came here out of England, or he could have gone back to Pakistan, then called India, his birthplace. Or he could have gone to the Fiji Islands, a place where he gained a big following and was called Master G. He is still called Master G by his followers in the Fiji Island.




[1] Community of Imam W. Deen Mohammed
[2] African American
[3] W. F. Muhammad’s Lesson Codes called the Supreme Wisdom contained 154 questions and answers, including Actual Facts.
[4] March 13, 1987 Muslim Journal: Part 1
[5] August 3, 2001, The Muslim Journal News paper

[6] The Muslim Journal May 3, 2002 to May 17, 2002
[7] Muslim Journal 5-16-08 to 6-27-08



[i] After learning Mathematics, which is Islam, and Islam is Mathematics, it stands true. You can
always prove it at no limit of time. Then you must learn to use it and secure some benefit while
you are living, that is - luxury, money, good homes, friendship in all walks of life.
Sit yourself in Heaven at once! That is the greatest Desire of your Brother and Teachers.
(W. F. Muhammad the teacher of the Honorable Elijah Muhammad)

[ii] On January 19, 1934, in a letter to the Honorable Elijah Muhammad Master Fard Muhammad writes, "Tell Sister [referring to Sister Clara Muhammad - Mother and Wife of the Honorable Elijah Muhammad] I received her letter and will write soon. Take good care of the family and Wallace D. Mohammed. ~ Best wishes to the family & all The labors from W.D. Fard" -  On another occasion, Master Farad Muhammad expressed strong care even over the details of Imam W.D. Mohammed's feedings, "You MUST TAKE care of W.D. Mohammed Do not feed him too rich of MILK - Have a close watch so that the children would not feed him anything AGAIN when you are not looking, that's just what happens and must not happen again. Write and tell me all about him and the whole family. Best wishes from, W.D. Fard" (https://www.facebook.com/notes/table-talks-project/imam-wd-mohammed-and-hon-minister-farrakhan-to-mop-up-the-wilderness-the-honorab/519455908089321/)


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