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[[caption]]Mr. Malcolm X., Minister of the New York Temple of Islam and author of this article.[[/caption]]

would fail to see the greatness of this man and HIS WORK. We who have risen bear witness to HIS WORK, and HIS WORK bears witness of him.

In such a short time MESSENGER MUHAMMAD is accomplishing what our educators and religious leaders here failed to do for 100 years, and what our Brothers from the East NEGLECTED to do. MESSENGER MUHAMMAD has brought our minds out of the sky, and made us able to face THE REALITY OF LIVING. He has given TRUTH (Life) to our long-lost dead nation. Who else other than Almighty Allah could have given this man POWER to do what all others have failed to do? . . 

"And Allah sends down WATER from above, and there with gives life to the earth after its death. Surely there is a sign in this for a people who listen" (Holy Quran 16:65).

This little unlearned man, an ex-slave himself (a man like Moses - Deut 18:18) to whom Allah has given sufficient power to stand up boldly in the LAND OF BONDAGE, facing not only the wrath of the Slavemaster, but also the wrath of his own kind who are ignorant of Truth, plus those who are envious of His Mission. His Teachings have given us a thirst in this day for TRUTH. We who follow him Crave the Crown of LIFE, the Jewels of which are: Wisdom, Knowledge, Understanding - Freedom, Justice, Equality - Food, Clothing, Shelter - Love, Peace and Happiness. He teaches us that these must be enjoyed while we are living. These are the very essentials of life, and they adorn the Crown of Life which we shall wear in Allah's Paradise (the kingdom of God) which shall soon be set up on this earth for us to enjoy while we are living. Allah is GOD of the living and not of the dead.

Praise be to Allah; we who once followed foolishly after the Slavemaster's plurality of gods (TRINITY), and sought to have our heaven up in the sky after we die are no longer fooled by the Slavemaster's LIE . . . . . for today we bear witness that there is NO God But Allah, and that the Honorable ELIJAH MUHAMMAD is His Last and Greatest Messenger to us here in North America. We who were once dead (spiritually, intellectually, politically, socially and economically) lying at the Rich Man's Gate in the grave of ignorance, have been raised from "DEATH" today by the Teachings of this Noble and Honorable MESSENGER OF GOD. He has the [[italicized]]Message of Life[[/italicized]] for 17 Million American so-called negroes. 

Examine our previous condition,

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then judge MESSENGER MUHAMMAD according to HIS WORKS among us. We who follow him today are well on the road to Spiritual, Intellectual, and Economic Independence. Thanks to His Message we are aware today of the importance of having [[italicized]]Wisdom, Knowledge Understanding . . . Freedom, Justice, Equality . . . . Food, Clothing,[[/italicized]] Shelter . . . . in sufficient quantity and quality WHILE WE ARE LIVING. This Great Teacher has given us a desire to rest not until we have our own righteous nation, united together under ONE GOD ALLAH, wherein BROTHERHOOD is a living reality instead of a "future dream" or "promise".

MESSENGER MUHAMMAD is without question the most fearless, uncompromising representative of Allah and Islam. He does not apologize for what His Message of Islam teaches. He says to take it or leave it. You who say you believe in Allah, but hesitate to teach His Truth for fear of hurting the "tender feelings" of such a wicked race . . . instead of hardening your hearts with envy and disbelief, if you fear to assist him just step out of His Way so he can prove to the world that indeed THERE IS NO GOD BUT ALLAH.

Indeed this Christian government is very upset. Its government agents visited me and questioned me so thoroughly concerning this man, I spent sleepless nights wondering what it is about his teaching that has the agents of such a powerful country so concerned and upset. The more they visited and questioned me, the more I came to believe in this man, and know that he is a DIVINE-GOD-SENT-MAN. He has never been to college, and his formal education in their school system is very limited, wherein these government agents themselves seemed highly trained and well-schooled in all the higher sciences of life. They are well-learned, yet the teachings of this unlearned man has them upset and stymied. If what he teaches is not true, why then are they so upset? The average unlettered person cannot upset a learned person . . . . unless he really has been given something by THE LEARNED ONE (The Best-Knower). How well we are able to see that this is he of whom the Bible says: "how knoweth this man letters (such great wisdom) having never learned? (being unlettered) . . . . John 7:15 No man has ever fit such prophetic picture better than this little unlettered man who is teaching us today. He may be unlettered according to the educational standards of the Slavemaster, but he has been well-schooled by Almight Allah Himself . . . . and tells us constantly that his doctrine is not his, but is HIS that sent him., and as the Bible says elsewhere; "who is blind as my servant, or deaf as my messenger whom I sent" (Isaiah 42:19). 

This little man, born in Georgia, mentally blind, deaf and dumb, and as ignorant as all the rest of us . . . . upsetting the Slavemaster's health today just as Moses did to Pharaoh in his day, simply by speaking of GOD'S PLAN to give we poor slaves a land of our own, wherein FREEDOM, JUSTICE and EQUALITY will flow for us like milk and honey. Thanks be to Allah for directing me to this verse of the Holy Quran: 

"Those who follow the Messenger-Prophet, the Illiterate One, whom they find in the Torah and the Gospel. He enjoins them good and forbids them evil, and makes lawful to them good things and prohibits for them impure things, and removes
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