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 On July the Fourth, the day of America's
Independence celebration, He announced the beginning of His mission which was to
restore and to resurrect His lost and found people, who were identified as the
original members of the Tribe of Shabazz from the Lost Nation of Asia. The lost
people of the original nation of African descent, were captured, exploited, and
dehumanized to serve as servitude slaves of America for over three centuries.
His mission was to teach the downtrodden and defenseless Black people a thorough
Knowledge of God and of themselves, and to put them on the road to
Self-Independence with a superior culture and higher civilization than they had
previously experienced.
He taught us the ways of love and peace, of truth and beauty.
We are being led into the path of a new spiritual culture and civilization of
complete harmony and peace, one of refinement in the pursuit of happiness and
eternal joy in the Supreme Knowledge of God and the Science of everything in
life.
IN 1931, THE MASTER WAS preaching this Great Truth of
salvation when He met a man named Elijah Poole in Detroit, Michigan. He chose
him to be His Divine Representative in continuing this most difficult task of
bringing truth and light to His lost and found people. For 3 1/2 years He taught
and trained the Honorable Elijah Muhammad night and day into the profound Secret
Wisdom of the Reality of God, which included the hidden knowledge of the
original people who were the first founders of civilization of our Planet and
who had a full knowledge of the Universal Order of Things from the beginning of
the Divine Creation.
 Upon the Master's departure in 1934, the Honorable Elijah
Muhammad labored tirelessly to bring life to his mentally and spiritually dead
people until his return to the Master in 1975. The Honorable Elijah Muhammad
identified the Master as being the answer to the one that the world had been
expecting for the past 2,000 years under the names Messiah, the second coming of
Jesus, the Christ, Jehovah, God, and the Son of Man. When the Honorable Elijah
Muhammad asked Him to identify Himself He replied that He was the Mahdi. He
signed His name in 1933 as Master Wallace Fard Muhammad to express the meaning
of One Who had come in the Early Morning Dawn of the New Millennium to lay the
base for a New World Order of Peace and Righteousness on the foundation of Truth
and Justice; to put down tyrants and to change the world into a Heaven on Earth.
During the Honorable Elijah Muhammad's initial 44 years, he
suffered persecution & rejection from the very people whom he was appointed as a
Servant of God. He was rejected and despised by the 10 percent leaders of
America and the world because he revealed a Greater Truth and Wisdom that would
end the old world of Satan's rule and dominion. He was not self-taught or
self-made but ONE MIGHTY IN POWER had taught him what he knew not. The Honorable
Elijah Muhammad had never received any more than a fourth grade education, yet
his heart was true in what he saw and he saw the greatest of the Signs of his
Lord.
The more converts that he made in the cities, in the by-ways,
and in the highways of this land, along with receiving honor and fame abroad,
the powerful leaders and rulers of this world grew in opposition. As the baby
Nation of Islam came to birth in America, the world rulers were shaken in their
foundation to learn of this miraculous achievement, and are today frustrated in
plans to prevent our survival. The theme of the Holy Qur'an and Bible that most
clearly defines this struggle is revealed in the history of Pharaoh's opposition
to Moses and Aaron in the delivery of Israel in bondage in Egypt.
 THE NATION OF ISLAM WAS founded on the basis of peace and as
an answer to a prayer of Abraham to deliver his people who would be found in
servitude slavery in the Western Hemisphere in this day and time. The Flag of
Islam with the symbols of the Sun, Moon, and the Stars, represent the Universe
and is also a Banner of Universal peace and Harmony. Our Holy Temples of Islam
were established in America as sanctuaries of peace and higher learning into the
Knowledge of the Oneness of God. Our schools are called Universities of Islam
and teach the higher meaning of Islam which is Mathematics. We have always been
taught to respect the laws of the land. We are taught never to carry arms, to
make war or to be the aggressor, for this is against the nature of the
righteous. We are taught the Principles of Divine Unity and the Universal
Brotherhood of Islam.
We are taught cleanliness inwardly and outwardly with the
practice of good manners and respect to one and all. We are taught that the
family is the back bone of society and that our children must be reared to
reflect the highest morals and training to perfect our society. We are trained
to eat and to prepare the best of foods for the longevity of life, without the
use of alcohol, smoking and substance abuse which endangers the ethics of
healthy living. We are taught to respect and protect our women who are the
mothers of civilization.
Our women are taught a dress code of modesty that will lead to
the practice of high morality. We are trained to be an exemplary community
expressing the highest spiritual goals for the reform of ourselves and others
based on wisdom, knowledge and beauty.
 Contrary to the inflammatory rhetoric that has been utilized
by the news media and some community leaders to condemn the positive effects of
Islam's influence in today's modern society, just the opposite is being proven
true. The Nation of Islam (The Nation of Peace) represents hope to millions of
our people in America and around the globe who have been deprived of the high
standards of a righteous way of life.
This unity and love so sorely absent from our communities was
genuinely exemplified by the millions of participants on the day of the Million
Man March held in Washington, D.C., October 16, 1995. The exemplary Spiritual
Leadership of Minister Louis Farrakhan in the rebuilding of the Nation of Islam
in America is showing the way in the breaking down of barriers of communication
throughout the society regardless to one's religious, racial, or ideological
beliefs and views.
Through God's Divine Guidance, we are extending this Divine
Work of moral and spiritual reform throughout the Western Hemisphere. God's
Light and Truth will prevail against the darkness and falsehood of all
opposition. In spite of the controversy and clamor surrounding the Nation of
Islam and it's Divine Leader, Minister Louis Farrakhan, we are forging ahead in
the Spirit of Almighty God, Allah, to unite with all of humanity in the Oneness
of God, where all people of goodwill of every Race and of every Nation may
participate in the Universal Expression of the Principles of Peace and the
Brotherhood of man. This is the Beautiful Community of the Nation of Islam that
is coming to birth in America on this Farthest Western Horizon in fulfillment of
the Prophecy that God would meet with Muhammad for a second time and reveal to
His servant What He Revealed. Thus the world is witnessing the Sun of Islam
arising in the West. Praise the Holy Name of Allah, the Beneficent, the
Merciful.
Where do we go from here in the remaining four years of the
twentieth century? Will we continue to argue, to condemn, to fight and kill one
another; or will we sit down and counsel with one another in seeking a just
solution to the problems that beset us in America and in the world? Wisdom
decrees that in counsel and in dialogue is the way to peace. Foolishness decrees
that if we ignore the warning signs, we will fall into the deeper abyss of Hell.
God is the Judge today; and most surely upon Him do the Believers rely!
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