The Honorable Elijah Muhammad (raa)

   The Honorable Elijah Muhammad (raa)

(AL Hajj Abdul Karim Ilyas Muhammad)

The Honorable Elijah Muhammad (HWON), born Elijah Poole was the messenger sent to forewarn the people of the coming of the REFORMER. One thing must be stressed; Elijah Muhammad (HWON) was not a Prophet as many thought him to be. He was a person who announced and proclaimed significant and important news. He was a Herald (a person or thing that comes before to announce or give teachings of what is to follow). Before we could understand this and accept the teachings of what was to come, we had to first be aware and awaken from the spell that we were placed under by the Jahcubite (un-godly Jew).

His intention was to awaken the Nubian/Bilalian (Black People) as to who he is, what his true name is, where he came from, why he is here and most important, what his destiny is. He taught us how to develop business enterprises, and was successful in organizing fifteen different business ventures. The list included a farm, bank, bakeries, dress shops and grocery stores. These businesses supplied groceries, meats, baked goods, clothing and well-cooked meals, not only to Muslims, but to all African Americans in the United States at very reasonable prices.

The Lost and Found Nation of Islaam in the West also provided a wide range of jobs for Muslims and non Muslims. These included writers, artists, clerks, lawyers, bankers, doctors, accountants, etc. He taught us of the devil's (grafted mentality) religion, and spoke of the special mark that will distinguish the righteous from the ones who are Coverers of the Truth (Kaafir). The Honorable Elijah Muhammad (raa) taught of the dangers of eating pork and the harm it does to your body. He made us aware of who forced us to eat the swine, and he taught us of the 144,000 and the hereafter.

Who exactly was the Honorable Elijah Muhammad (raa)? The Honorable Elijah Muhammad (Elijah Poole) was born on October 7, 1897 in Bold Springs near Sandersville, Georgia, a very small town in the middle of Macon and Atlanta. He was born to Wali (Willie) and Marie Poole who lived in a sharecroppers shack. Elijah was 6th of the 13 Poole children. He was name after the Prophet Ilyas, Elijah (PBUH) whose spirit returned to earth to dwell in the personage of John the Baptist, Yahya (PBUH).

One day in the 1900s Elijah decided to take a shortcut through the woods to get home. When he was walking he heard some people coming so he jumped behind a bush. He saw 3 white men have a black man in chains, then the white men beat-up the black man. They took a rope out, hanged him, and left him there to rot. Elijah thought that was a very sick game to torture people?

Because things weren't going so well in Bold Springs in 1903 his father decided to move the family to Weona, Georgia near Cordele, Georgia when Elijah was 6 years old. In 1911 Elijah left school after completing the 5th grade and went to work as a field hand and a sawmill worker. He exhibited leadership qualities at a very early age. At age fourteen, he was supervisor over a crew of men who were much older than he.

Marriage and Family Life

As time went by Elijah grew into a handsome young man. Elijah met Clara Evans at the church his father preached at on Sundays. He went to see Clara and her family from 6 to 9:00 on Sunday evenings to see how they were doing. Finally Elijah asked Clara to marry him and was married on May 2, 1917. Soon the newlywed's family began to grow. On February 3, 1921 Elijah and Clara's first son, Emmanuel Poole was born. The family was growing even more now. During the 1920s 3 more children joined the Poole family.

 When Elijah was working for his employers he got on quite fine with his employers. Until one day in 1923 Poole's nightmare came to pass, one of his employers accosted him. After that incident with his employer that same year he and his family moved to Detroit. He worked in several factories until the Great Depression left him jobless. In 1929 Poole was among those who lost their jobs and stood on relief lines.

The Supreme Wisdom

In 1930, the Mystic Fard Muhammad Ali (W. Fard Muhammad) was teaching his brand of Islaamic Mysticism designed especially to attract the African American to Islaam. In 1931 Elijah was introduced to Wallace Fard Muhammad, the founder of the Black Muslim Movement through his wife Clara. It was in the early fall of 1931, when the Honorable Elijah Muhammad first heard that there was a man teaching "Islaam" who was going by the name of Mr. W.D. Fard. He heard this from his wife, Clara. They were then living in Detroit, Michigan. Clara’s excitement stimulated his interest.

Although he had the wrong idea of Islaam, at that time, as he thought it was a "heathen religion,” he was told enough that he wanted to meet the Teacher and hear His teachings. There was something deeper in him that caused him to want to see and hear this man. Ever since he was a little boy—after he learned to read and write—he was a reader of the Bible. He only went to the fourth grade of school, as his father needed him to work in the fields. His father was a sharecropper.

He was not at all lazy, but when he was a little boy, he said, he would crawl under a house or a barn, and read the Bible, as often as he could. He was drawn to its contents.

Now it’s September 1931. He was told that Mr. W.D. Fard was teaching a few people in a basement. He went there but did not see Him. He was told the man was there earlier.

His determination to see Him intensified. He went to other meetings held there and elsewhere, but continued to miss Him until the night of September 22nd. He was eager to see and hear Mr. Fard because he had a strong feeling about this man’s identity. He had quietly grown to expect the man whom his understanding of the Bible told him he should expect, "right about that time." He felt this was the One he was expecting, prophesied in the Bible.

 

As soon as he saw and heard Mr. Wallace D. Fard, he knew Him to be the One the world had been expecting for the last 2,000 years. It came to him that the man he beheld was the very man expected by the prophets and others, who would come in, or under, many good names: Jesus included.

That which Mr. W.D. Fard said and did, at that meeting, convinced the Honorable Elijah Muhammad of the truth of His identity. Mr. Muhammad would later say to his followers and to the world that the first thing that struck him about Mr. Fard was that His words and actions tallied with the Bible’s prophecy about what the coming One would say and do on His arrival.

Mr. Fard began speaking on the origin of things. He went on to teach of the measurements of the Earth, its weight, the distances between the Earth, the sun and other planets. He spoke of their rotation, measurements and so on. He could not but compare what he was listening to, with the prophecy of the coming of God in the book of Habakkuk and elsewhere in the Bible.

Mr. W.D. Fard said much about the nature and history of Black and White people. He spoke about the future, including the coming judgment of this world and of the new world to be established after this world’s power was broken.

He said that Mr. Fard Muhammad went on to say that we were not in our own names, that we were in the names of White people, that He had come to give us our own names (names of God and our people). As he listened, Elijah said to himself: "This has got to be the man."

When the meeting was over, he got in line with others to shake the Speaker’s hand. When his turn came, Elijah told Him that He was the One Whom the Bible’s prophets foresaw coming along about that time, about 2,000 years after Jesus, or the Son of Man.

Almost simultaneously, Mr. Fard Muhammad looked around to see who else heard that, and then looked at Elijah a little sternly. His smile followed the look. He bent His head close to him; put one hand on his shoulder and the other on his forehead. Pressing His mouth against Elijah’s ear, He whispered:

"Yes, I am that One. But who else knows that but yourself?" He told him (Elijah) that he should keep quiet about this. He would let him know when to make that known. Then, gently, He nudged Elijah away and began talking with the others nearby. Excitedly, he left the meeting, telling his wife (Clara) and his brother (Charlie) that: "This was the man!" However, his wife and brother did not see what he saw. Nor did the others.

A short time later, he wrote Mr. W. D. Fard a letter. He told Him what he couldn’t say in the public. His Teacher said openly to his wife (Clara), during a meeting, that her husband could start teaching. So, he started teaching where he lived, in Hamtramck, which is a section of Detroit.

He began teaching that this man, Mr. W. D. Fard, was the answer to the Bible’s prophecy of the coming of Jesus. He boldly declared that the Son of Man was present. But he did this within limits. There were limits to his understanding at that time. And, in a very short time, His Teacher would set limits on how far he could go into the truth of His (Master Fard Muhammad’s) identity. In fact, he was told by his Teacher not to talk too much about Him while He was present. He could do that after He was gone.

That He (Master Fard Muhammad) was God, Himself, the Honorable Elijah Muhammad believed to a great degree, even before He departed. Meanwhile, others took Him to be a prophet or, at the least, a very wise man. (The Honorable Imam W. Deen Mohammed has explained that W. F. Muhammad was only an instrument of God not God himself.)

He told His servant not to give "the little baby" (us) "meat," but "milk" instead, until time. Meanwhile, He (God) would feed the man He chose to be His Messenger "meat" and plenty of it during the next three-plus years.

In 1931 Elijah Poole changed his name to Elijah Muhammad; his wife Clara changed her name to Clara Muhammad. Elijah was Fard's friend and associate. Elijah came off of the relief lines and in 1933 He was appointed chief minister and head of Temple #1 in Detroit.

In the month following their first meeting, which was October (1931), He paid him a visit at his humble home. That began His teaching of His servant, over the next 40 months; night and day; seven days a week. At one of his visits to the home of the Honorable Elijah Muhammed and Sister Clara, he told them to write the name “Warith” (inheritor) on the back of their door for they would have a son and to give him that name..

The Honorable Elijah Muhammad told us that he and his Teacher would often sit from the early part of the night and continue to sunrise and beyond. He constantly taught him things of Islam, of that which was before, and of what was to come. There were times when Mr. Fard carried Elijah just outside of town in His Chevy Coupe. They would sit many hours while He taught His pupil many facts about the universe. It’s interesting to see that the scientists of this world more and more bear witness to many of the scientific facts that the Honorable Elijah Muhammad made known years before they knew and publicized these scientific facts for themselves.

One day, Master Fard Muhammad gave Elijah a copy of the Holy Qur’an in Arabic. He couldn’t read it. Then He gave him an Arabic English copy. He had a wise, immediate and far-seeing purpose, in first giving His servant a Holy Qur’an, which at that time, he couldn’t read. In during this he wanted to emphasize to Elijah the need to learn Qur’anic Arabic.

 

Afterwards, He lined him up with about two thirds of it (the Holy Qur’an) to study, although He taught him the understanding of the whole book. He also taught him the true understanding of the Bible. He also gave him the titles of 104 books. When the Honorable Elijah Muhammad asked Him if these books were in the library there in Detroit, He answered "No." He did not know, at that time, that those books were in Washington, D.C., in the Congressional Library. But his Teacher did. A few writers have written that Master Fard Muhammad made use of a few of the 104 books while He was in Detroit and Chicago.

The Honorable Elijah Muhammad said that what he was teaching us was in preparation for that wisdom Allah promised to reveal at a certain time. That’s the wisdom that none has ever seen, heard or even imagined, that was not to be revealed until now. The wisdom that the Honorable Elijah Muhammad was referring too is the wisdom we would be introduced to by the Mujaddid.

A part of the overall course of study the Honorable Elijah Muhammad was given by Master Fard Muhammad was that which he did not study until his Teacher had departed. He gave him a list of 104 books as stated before. He would later begin to read them, or the parts he was to read, when he began to live in Washington, D.C., while on the run from a death plot.

He said that most of them were on aspects of Muhammad’s history and Islam. When I reflected on that, I thought that the path that the Honorable Elijah Muhammad was to travel was to use the footsteps of the Prophet to guide him in establishing the faith of Islam in the United States of America. So, as Prophet Muhammad walked and worked in Arabia, so Elijah Muhammad, his companions, his followers would work for the establishment of Islam in America.

Before Prophet Muhammad PBUH) departed this life, he said to his followers, ‘If you follow this Qur’an and my Sunnah, you will never deviate from the straight path of God.’ The Sunnah represents his actions in accord with the directions that he received from Allah in the establishment of the Qur’an and Islam. So, by Master Fard Muhammad giving the Honorable Elijah Muhammad the Qur’an and giving him the footsteps of the Prophet, it seems to me that He was saying to His Messenger that the path that you will follow, if you follow this book—Qur’an—and the steps that the Prophet was guided to make in establishing the faith, plus the wisdom that I’m giving you of these books, you will never deviate and those who follow you will never deviate from the straight path of God. Of all of the men whom Jews, Christians and Muslims today refer to as prophets of God, or Allah, the lives of none of them have come down to us in greater detail than that of Muhammad ibn Abdullah, through whom the Holy Qur’an was revealed, around 1,400 years ago.

 

There were specific reasons for his Teacher (W. D. Fard) giving him that combination of materials to study. Among those reasons were that He was teaching him more of himself, others, and that which was to come, beyond what He taught him before He departed. On the leave of Master Fard Muhammad, His student said that He began to emphasize specific things he could expect to come to pass. And, He went deeper into what he should do to try and make us qualified to escape the doom of this evil world. He was taught how to reform us and make us acceptable to the Islamic people. Upon the departure of Abdul Wali Farad Muhammad Ali (W. D. Fard) in 1934 he established the Lost and Found Nation of Islaam in the West under his leadership.

0n May 8th, 1942 the Honorable Elijah Muhammad was arrested by federal agents for failing to participate in the military draft for World War II. In 1946 He won his release from prison. In the summer of 1947 He opened a combination grocery, bakery, and restaurant at 3117 South Wentworth in Chicago, Ill... Elijah Muhammad welcomed Malcolm X (Abdul Malik Shabazz) in the Nation of Islam, and he bought a winter home in Phoenix.

On August 12th, 1972 Elijah's wife Clara dies at the age of 72. After the death of his wife the Honorable Elijah Muhammad didn't make any public or media appearances, if he did they were very rare. He isolated himself from the outside world at his home. On February 26th', 1975 Elijah Muhammad died of heart failure at Mercy Hospital in Chicago, he was 77 years old

The inspirations and guiding forces behind him were none other than great persons such as; Noble Drew Ali, Marcus Garvey, and his mentor the aforementioned Mystic Satirist W. F. Muhammad. These individuals had no real exposure in their respective lifetime to make enduring or impressionable economic, social or political impacts that would aid the African American.

However, the inclusion value and insight of these individuals were necessary to launch and organization such as the "Nation of Islaam" in a time when things were so bleak in terms of the economic status of the country. The difficult job of raising you, the mentally dead of this world, was to start. This was and still is the main job that must be tackled. Many Arabic terms were introduced to the African American (Black) community by Mr. Elijah Muhammad. For most of us, Black people born in the United States, the first time we ever heard the words, "As-Salaam-Alaikum" was when in the company of followers of the Honorable Elijah Muhammad, prior to 1975. Of course, many may have first heard that expression when in the company of Imaam Mohammed, the successor to the Honorable Elijah Muhammad. There is no doubt, however, that the man who is most responsible for making this greeting first known in the African American community is the Honorable Elijah Muhammad.

 

The Honorable Elijah Muhammad (HWON) began the task of reformation.

NOW IT IS THE JOB OF THE REFORMER TO PICK UP THE BALL AND TAKE IT EVEN FURTHER. THE JOB OF THE REFORMER IS TO EXPLAIN THE TEACHINGS OF MASTER W. F. MUHAMMAD AND THE HONORABLE ELIJAH MUHAMMAD (TWON) AND GIVE THE FORMER AFRICAN (BLACK MAN IN AMERICAN) HIS SPIRITUAL HERITAGE: HIS NATURAL AN ONLY LANGUAGE, ARABIC, HIS PROPER WA Y OF LIFE, FOLLOWING THE SUNNAH (EXAMPLE) OF ALL THE PROPHETS OF ALLAHU SUBHAANAHU WA TA'ALA (THE GLORIOUS AND MOST HIGH CREATOR) PBUT, THE RELIGION OF AL ISLAAM AND THE COMPLETE UNDERSTANDING OF ALL OF THE SCRIPTURES OF ALLAHU SUBHAANAHU WA TA'ALA.

When the Honorable Elijah Muhammad (HWON) left his people, they were without proper guidance and way to function. They were in a state of confusion and void, until the appointed time when the MUJADDIDUN (Reformer) would come to them and give them the understanding they needed

"Under deceit, the weak minded—who have no understanding … are made prey in the hands of the arch deceiver. This will bring about war as a showdown between the God of righteousness and the God of unrighteousness.... It already has begun."

—The Honorable Elijah Muhammad, from “Fall of America,” page 190.

"We have the greatest opportunity of any nation of the past, but this opportunity is on condition that we accept Allah (God) and His Religion of Islam (Peace) which was the religion of His Prophets, including Jesus. Islam offers love, unity, friendship, wealth, infinite wisdom, knowledge, and understanding ....”

-“The Opportunity”

-Mr. Muhammad on the word Salaam-

"The first thing that I would like to acquaint you with is that greeting that you heard coming from us, ‘As-Salaam-Alaikum.’ You heard that word. You want to know what it means. That’s an Arab word, or the Arabic/Arabians word or greetings in their own language. It’s an Arabian—it’s an Arab word; means peace. That’s what it actually means. It means ‘peace to you, brother.’ And I think that that is a very good greeting to use. To say ‘Peace’ to a people who have not been able to enjoy peace for at least, to their knowledge, and their history, four hundred (400) years. It is the very greeting of God, Almighty.

"You find in your Bible, even the prophets of old, Jesus himself, it was their greeting. It was the disciples of Jesus greeting word, ‘peace.’ Right? So why should not we use the word, in its original language, or the greetings. We should say it in the original language, which is ‘As-Salaam-Alaikum.’

Let us again remember that we have not had a greeting between us that means peace of what the slave masters have taught us. The slave masters have taught our fathers, [and it] came down through their children to say, ‘Good Morning,’ ‘Good Evening,’ ‘Good Afternoon,’ ‘Good Night,’ and ‘Hello,’ ‘How are you?’ or ‘Hi so and so,’ or ‘Hey so and so and so.’ That is not a good and intelligent greeting.

"It sometimes proves untrue. Even ‘Good Morning’ sometimes is not a good morning. It’s sometime too hot for us; too cold for us, or sometimes the weather is too bad for us. In fact about it, we have to be careful to remember when we have actually enjoyed a good morning. But yet, the greeting of the Christian world is ‘Good Morning.’"

There are Christians who also use ‘As-Salaam-Alaikum,’ but they are using the word as a pass word, or greetings, in a secret society, known as the Moslem Shriners. Moslem Shriners use the same greetings because they represent themselves as being Moslems, as we are. And they study the Holy Qur’an. And they profess to believe in the religion that we call Islam—the religion of peace. But they commercialize on that religion. I’m sorry, brother Shriner, but my subject is ‘Truth.’

"We must remember that we should teach our children in such way that they too may be able to teach their children the truth. And truth banishes everything that hinders the unity and peace of the Brotherhood. As the sun rose this morning, it banished all the confusion that we had last night in the dark trying to find our way around. Right?

"My beloved brothers and sisters, ‘As-Salaam-Alaikum’—every one of you should greet each other with that same greeting, As-Salaam-Alaikum. And I will say to you, ‘Wa-Alaikum-Salaam’, meaning the same thing, ‘Peace to you, Brother.’

"It also has a greater significance to it. Saying ‘As-Salaam-Alaikum,’ also signifies freedom, justice, equality to you, Brother. You are my equal. You are justified as being my equal. You’re justified as being my Brother. You and I are equal. You and I are free. I’m free and you are free. I extend to you freedom. I extend to you justice because you are free, justified to be my equal. My beloved brothers and sisters, it means a whole lot."

The Honorable Elijah Muhammad wrote in “Our Savior has arrived”:

"The Black Man in America is not an example of the Original Black Man; for he has been used by his slave masters for four centuries in what we call experimentation. Through the experimentation by the wicked slave masters who were made without love or mercy for Black people, they have the Black Man in America before the world as a wrecked, robbed, and spoiled human being without knowledge of himself or anyone else. And he is used by the white man as a tool for whatever purpose the white man sees fit.

"He is called a ‘Negro’ by them. The name means something dead, lifeless, neutral (not that nor this). "They call the slave after their own names because he is the property of the slave master until he is redeemed—although he is a member of the Original Black Nation. "To restore him back to his people, he must be re-educated to give him the knowledge of self and the knowledge of those who deprived him of the knowledge of self. "This knowledge of self will unite him onto his own kind with love of self and kind."

We must begin at the cradle and teach our babies that they must do something for self.  They must not be like we, their fathers, who look to the slave-master's and slave-master's children for all.   We must teach our children now with an enthusiasm exceeding that which our slave-masters used in having our forefathers imbed the seed of dependency within us.   We must stop the process of giving our brain power, labor and wealth to our slave-master's children.  We must eliminate the master-slave relationship.

"We must educate ourselves and our children into the rich power of knowledge which has elevated every people who have sought and used it.  We must give the benefit of our knowledge to the elevation of our people. 

-The Honorable Elijah Muhammad...Message to the Blackman

-Elijah the teacher-

            Elijah Muhammad was a man few understood, not even the people who were nearest to him. "I'm down here in the mud," he lamented, "and nobody can see me." For 40 years the poor man taught the same thing over and over and the only two of his followers began to get the real message, they were Minister Louis Farrakhan, and Imam W. Deen Mohammed. Just as Prophet Muhammad of Arabia used to enjoy his followers recite the Holy Qur’an to him, Mr. Elijah Muhammad used to encourage his ministers to give him their take on the things he'd taught. Mr. Muhammad would get disappointed when, invariably, they'd recite what he'd taught them verbatim. Only Minister Farrakhan and his son Wallace would expand the basic doctrine to its extended implications. At such times the Messenger would clap his hands in appreciation. "When a man gives his seed to a woman," he once said to Minister Farrakhan, "he doesn't want her to give him back a seed nine months later. He wants a fully developed baby."

          Mr. Muhammad's teachings were seeds that, when developed, could produce the New Islam he prophesied would come. Once Minister Akbar Muhammad co-ordinate a project for Minister Farrakhan, he had seven jets full of scientists fly from Chicago to New York, so the scientists could meet Mr. Muhammad.

           During the lecture phase, someone asked Mr. Muhammad a simple medical question, one that almost anyone could have answered. He declined to answer the question. Instead he brought Dr. Abdul Salaam to the podium to give an answer. In the process, Mr. Muhammad said "I'm not one of those physical scientists. I'm one of those spiritual scientists."

There is no doubt that Mr. Muhammad could have answered the question. But he chose to demonstrate that his followers were to take leadership roles in using his principles to perfect the fields in which they had expertise. Dr. Salaam (and others) could, ideally, revolutionize medicine with the dietary and health principles Mr. Muhammad had seeded their minds with.

People like Joe Tex, Kool and the Gang, The Delphonics and Etta James (a one-time follower) could transform music. Some people could spiritualize dance. "But them Muslims didn't dance!" Someone might object. It might surprise people that not long before his death, the Messenger told the sisters to dance for him. Most of what I know about events inside Mr. Muhammad’s  home I learned from Imam Mohammed and Minister Farrakhan, either in public speech or, from their writings.

And Miriam the prophetess, the sister of Aaron,
took a timbrel in her hand; and all the women
went out after her with timbrels and with dances.

-- Exodus 15:20--

Business people would one day apply Mr. Muhammad's economic and financial ideas to create a new economic system, replacing both capitalism and communism. Astronomers could draw upon the cosmological concepts to revolutionize physics. I believe all this, and more, was implied by bringing Dr. Salaam to the podium to answer a simple medical question. As "one of those spiritual scientists," Mr. Muhammad was ready to leave the mundane issues to his followers while he focused on guiding the world to the New Islam. But Fate had other plans.

Mr. Muhammad never completed his Theology of Time lecture series. He gave 18 lectures and was unable to speak on the 19th occasion. His mission was to give the seeds for the New Islam, not to dot every I and cross every t. "I'm a preacher," he used to say. "My ministers after me will be the teachers."  His son Wallace represents the completion of Mr. Muhammad’s mission as predicted by his teacher W. F. Muhammad. He would be the one to give the symbolic 19^th lecture.

--Elijah's Vision of the new Qur’an—

A few years before he died, the Honorable Elijah Muhammad discussed a vision he'd had. In the vision, Mr. Muhammad was walking in a valley, "humming a little tune." He came upon a book that was written in a "new Arabic." The letters were indented, "they had depth." And light shined up from the letters. He could only make out the letter Laam (L). ﻞ But he first had to learn to read Arabic.

The Honorable Elijah Muhammad never wavered in his conviction that a new Qur’an would be revealed and that his followers would one day practice a "New Islam." The present Bible and Qur’an, he taught, "take us up to the Day of Judgment. We need a New Quran to take us into the Hereafter." So, according to the Honorable Elijah Muhammad, there would be "a third and fourth book," one for the Christian world, one for the Arab Muslim world and "a little book God already gave me," possibly the Nation of Islam's Problem Book. That's a lot of books. And since that statement was made in 1972, not one new scriptural book has reached the public. What gives? If he was talking about a physical book, we'd have it by now. Since the book appeared in a vision and visions are largely symbolic an analysis of the vision's symbols would appear to be in order.

The Sacred Valley Tuwa

O Moses, surely I am your Lord, so

take off your shoes. Surely you are

in the sacred valley Tuwa.

--Holy Qur’an, Ta Ha, 20:11-12--

إِذْ نَادَاهُ رَبُّهُ بِالْوَادِ الْمُقَدَّسِ طُوًى

 When His Lord called out to him in the sacred Valley of Tuwa':

--Holy Qur’an 79:16—

  

The Qur'anic word Tuwa is the same as the Egyptian Tuat (Underworld). It represents the deeper subconscious regions. In The Honorable Elijah Muhammad's vision he was humming a tune in a valley. I believe that that represents chanting the mantra Hum -- mantra of the gunu chakra which bestows wisdom - accesses the knowledge stored in the subconscious depths. In the Qur’an that Hum mantra appears as the mystic letters Ha Meem. They form the mantra Haammm. Seven surahs (representing seven chakras or elivations) begin with Ha Meem.

Ha Meem

By the Book that makes manifest!

Surely We have made it an

Arabic Quran that you may understand.

And it is surely in the Mother of

the Book with US, truly elevated,

full of wisdom.

-- Quran 43: 1 -- 4

  

The mother of the Book is the Akashi Record. It is elevated because it is above the physical plane. The vision book Mr. Muhammad saw had indented letters with light shining from their depth. The "new" book is the same Qur’an, but with a deeper understanding, an understanding so deep that it makes the existing scripture wholly new. The "dead letter" understanding of Scripture is the source of all the ailments afflicting the world. Dead letter scripture creates and reinforces racism, sexism, imperialism, environmental pollution, spousal abuse, wars, tyranny, oppression, economic exploitation and ... bad fashion.

In the vision, light shines from the indented letters to indicate that the light of the New Age would come from a deep reading and interpretation of scripture. The "new Arabic" means that the understanding of the words in the "old" Arabic will be wholly transformed. The language of the Mujaddid/Mahdi is returning the Arabic to its original, highly technical meanings that were lost when spiritual study was usurped by bureaucrats. An example is the word ummi. Because of a gross misunderstanding of the word Muslims think Prophet Muhammad (PBUH) was illiterate. That misunderstanding has resulted in a perverse kind of pride-in-ignorance and suspicion of intelligence in much of the Muslim world.

Those who follow the Messenger-Prophet,

the Ummi, whom they find mentioned in

the Torah and Gospel.

-- Quran 7:157

 

Ummi is close to umm, "mother." Because Arabs considered women to be unintelligent, ummi had to mean illiterate. The word actually comes from the Sumerian word umiya, a word that means "learned in all the arts and sciences including astronomy, math, medicine, geography," and much more. “An ummi is anything but illiterate.”

Unless a person can read Arabic he or she is at the mercy of whoever translated the Quran they think they're reading. They are limited to the level of the translator's understanding and vulnerable to his biases. So in order to get to the new Arabic and new Quran, somebody would have to learn Arabic. The problem, in the past, was that whenever someone learned Arabic they got hooked on the language and became wannabe pseudo-Arabs. By so doing, they disqualified themselves from being in a position to fix the problems in the Muslim world.

Through the blessings of Allah, Imam W. Deen Mohammed was blessed to master the Qur’anic Arabic without falling prey too Arabism or Arab worship. The new Qur’an seen by the Imam’s father is a new translation and commentary of the Holy Qur’an by his son the Mujaddid/Mahdi.

The New Islaam is emerging from a new understanding of the Bible and Holy Qur’an. The new Islaam is not a religion as such. The new Islaam is a state of consciousness, a way of living that the ancient Egyptians called Hotep -- an unshakeable inner place that cannot be upset by externals. The Egyptian word Hotep (ḥtp) translates to roughly "to be satisfied, at peace". The world can never know outer peace until the leaders, at least, can experience, inner peace.