The Tribe of Shabazz

Greetings to you. I am Elijah Muhammad, the preacher of Freedom, Justice and Equality to the American so-called Negroes, the Lost and Found members of the Asiatic Black Nation and from The Tribe of Shabazz.

The God of this people and of the Earth and of the heavens said that this man went into Africa, as it is known today in what they called at that time, the jungles of East Asia and began a tribe from himself because of the other scientists rejecting his idea. And the idea, I will not make it known on the air. But it is known, what his idea really was. And we are the people that he produced and that was 50,000 years ago, according to the Word of Almighty God, Allah, to me.

There is also, according to the Holy Qur-an, and even according to His own sayings, a cycle of 50,000 years-- that once every 50,000 years, there comes a major change in our civilization. I say OUR civilization because that we had no other civilization on the Planet Earth, according to the Word of Almighty God, Allah, Who came in the Person of Master Fard Muhammad in the year 1930, here. I did not get acquainted with Him until 1931.

And since 1931 after His Mission of me, I have been busy on this particular work of trying to resurrect my people into the knowledge of the presence of Almighty God, Whom the world has been looking for to come for the past 2,000 years.

He is referred to in the 22nd Surah of the Qur-an as the Great Mahdi. Mahdi means one...according to the Qur-an... A Self-Independent Person--Guide that comes to guide others, while He, Himself, is self-guided. This is God In Person.

So it was In the Person of Master Fard Muhammad. He referred to Himself as being Self-Independent. And that He came for our salvation. To put us on the right path, that we may be successful, referring to my people and myself -- the so-called American Negro.

This particular tribe, of Shabazz, a great people they were 50,000 years ago in their father. And other tribes or families has been produced since that time and has spread out over the Earth. Don't get me wrong now. Don't make a mistake in thinking that I'm telling you this was the beginning of the man on the Earth.

Fifty thousand (50,000) years ago is like telling you thirty days ago or ten days ago or five days ago, to the age of the universe. We have no exact record of it but it runs way into the trillions. He'd taken me back to around 76,000,000,000,000 years of the universe, but I'm not saying that we are talking in that particular history this hour.

We are talking in the history of the past 6,000 years and 50,000 years ago. We don't care to take up any further back. It is not absolutely necessary to do so, as you are in the number six. And number 6 we will deal with and not with 66 and 76 trillions of years, nor will we go further into 50,000 years, only just to tell you that this is the beginning of our particular father that carried us in that particular area or continent they call Africa, where we began about 50,000 years ago, was called the jungles of East Asia.

Never knew of history beyond 400 years

We are very lightly taught concerning the Black man, beyond the six thousand year period. The Black man here in America has not known anything about his history beyond 400 years ago. And 400 years ago he was brought here by the white man and the white man deprived him of, any knowledge beyond that particular time.

He did not teach our people anything about their previous history, even about what we were in the 7th, 8th, 9th, and 10th and 11th century. He didn't teach us that because that those slave masters were absolutely, a hundred per cent , together on depriving the slave of any greatness of his history.

So, therefore he left off all of his history, up until his entering into slavery and that history we have that today, from the beginning of our fathers being put into slavery and there they suffered 300 long years under the hard task-masters, murderers, lynchers, and burners of our peoples lives and flesh. This happened just 400 years ago, as I say, according to the history of our God, that they were brought in here around 1555.

And if we subtract 1555 from 1962, we have about 407 years, now. And if we were brought here (and we were) according to The Word of God, Who is the Best Knower, Who keeps a record of all men and all the actions of man, then, today, we have been in the Western Hemisphere years to be exact and with not a true knowledge of what went on in those years, because we take for our knowledge of that time what the white slave-masters wrote.

If they were good at trying to hide truth, as they are today, we can't tell if we have a true history of ourselves or not, but we have to take what they say.

But anyway, we were put into servitude slavery and we served something like around 310 years into servitude slavery. I don't know where these fellows get this stuff about 246 years over here. I don't know where they get that from.

But I am with God and the scientists, who gives us around 400 years, here, in slavery or more, because of the actions or events that are now taking place, which corresponds with the prophecy of Abraham, that we will join into a strange land that is not ours and will serve a strange people for 400 years and after that time The Lord, God, will judge that nation and bring again the seed, as it is called in the Bible, but just say the people of Abraham, again into their own land and will give to them that land and put them over the whole entire Earth, according to the Bible in the words that look East, West, North and South, as far as you can see, this will be theirs, or look at the canopy and if you can number the stars there, then you can number the Lost and Found people of God's own people that will return to this land. And that they will be multiplied without numbers.

And that if you go to the seashore and count the grains of sand on the seashore, you will get something like near knowledge of what the population of that Lost and Found people of yours that I shall go after and bring again, after they have served 400 years, serving a stranger and they will not have any justice in that land. The people will make a slave out of them. They will be ill-treated for the whole 400 years and I will go and judge that people or I, in words to say, I will avenge them of that people. And I will bring again and plant them here in this land.

This is very good to understand and to know, especially my people here in America. We are saying today that we are talking on the history of the Black man in America, as given by Almighty God, Allah, in the Person of Master Fard Muhammad.

It is up to you that is listening, to judge whether or not that this corresponds with the knowledge of the history that you have. And with the prophecy of the Scripture. You must forget about Israel being the people that the Bible is referring to.

The white race's history

By no means could this be the people of Abraham. Israel is not the people of Abraham. Israel was not a Jew. Israel was not a Christian. Abraham was not a Jew nor a Christian. And the Holy Qur-an teaches us that . And if you study Abraham's history, you can easily see and understand that he was not a Jew nor was he Christian because Christianity had not been organized in Abraham's time.

Christianity was just organized after the death of Jesus. Therefore, Abraham living even before Moses, then it could not be his religion (Christianity), nor could he be a Jew, when there were no Jews in Abraham's time.

There were white people but there were no Jews. The whole entire Farce of white people were confined to what is known, today, as EuROPE (Europe). They were there in the hills and cave sides of Europe, not making any history for themselves until the birth of Moses.

The white race's history begins with Moses. They count, or they record, their history from this time. They have very scant knowledge of anything like a history of their own before the birth of Moses and that is through what Moses taught them and what other scientists, who knew the history of the white man, has taught them.

We, today, in America, should be happy to know that God has visited us to reveal to us, the knowledge of the history of the people of Earth today. We have it and it is as clear as a crystal, if you understand. But you don't understand, therefore He has chosen me and have given to me the understanding to give it to you, my beloved people. And you really need it. And it's your salvation. And I hope that you will benefit from it and will gladly lift up your hand and voice in praise to Allah for giving to us the Truth today and get away from that slavery worshipping of devils that you are now doing.

Ashamed of your religion (Islam)

Without knowledge, you are absolutely worshipping devils and don't know it. But this knowledge has come to you that you may direct your face, as the Holy Qur-an teaches us, in the 30th Chapter, set your face upright for a religion in the right state. A religion that, by nature, you were created in.

It is not a religion in which that you cannot obey or cannot believe and practice. It's a religion according to the very nature in which you were born in. And it is not hard way of trying to obey and carry into practice the principles this religion. It's easy!

You don't go through a lot of rituals to get into Islam. In fact about it, the original people of America, The Black man, it is so easy to tell him the five principles of this religion and do them, or practice them, that he almost will think that you have not taught him enough and he will be asking you for more understanding of Islam. But it's very easy.

Just believe in Almighty God Allah, and believe in His Prophets, believe in the Scriptures that they brought and believe in the Resurrection and the Judgment of the world. It's easy to Believe. It's easy to understand.

You want to know what is is for the Believer to practice. There is much that he should practice, but here is two that is always mentioned: that is the keeping up of prayer, and the paying the poor rate, which means, giving charity to the truth of this religion and to your fellow man. This is very easy to understand.

 

True history is our guide

Now, we go back again to our history. Let us talk on the history because it is the thing that we should know. History makes man. Without the knowledge of history, how can we prepare a future for ourselves. Without the knowledge of history how can we tell where we stand at the present.

History makes us. True history is our guide. We must know what was before we can know what is and what is yet to come. This, Almighty God, Whose proper name is Allah, Came in the Person of Master Fard Muhammad.

We can gladly give praise forever and teach that praise of his Glorious One to our children that they may teach it to their children and their children's children throughout the unending years to come, for this great truth--for this glory that He has shed upon you and I. For this salvation that He has brought to you and I, who were under the shackles of slavery and living in the house of bondage and serving a people that had no love for our fathers, that actually killed them for the fun of it and worked them to death for the fun of it. Actually mocked them. Taught them in a way so that they would be a mockery for their civilization and for all civilized people of the earth.

This is the training of the so-called Negro under slavery or in the house of bondage. So this is a salvation to you and I. You and I should be happy and not be ashamed, as so many of you have such little knowledge of actually the presence of God among you and the wisdom that He's given to you, that you feel ashamed to even confess His Name.

As it is written, you feel ashamed to say that you belong to the Islamic world, which means a Nation of entire submission to the Will of God.

You're ashamed to even say that you are a Muslim, which means a righteous person. Muslim is something that you should be glad to represent yourself as being -- A Muslim. But you are ashamed because the devil had made you like that.

You are not to confess that you are a follower of The God of Truth and Justice. You are not to say that you are a Muslim. You are not to say that you believe in Islam to get their friendship. And for 300 years, 400 years, up until this very hour regardless to what you accept and believe in, you accepted whatever they offered you for 400 years and you believe in it and you love them and you tell them you love them. and you hate yourself because of this deprived knowledge of self, by them, to you. You even hate yourself and love them. Therefore, you feel ashamed to say that you like anything other than what they teach you. You feel ashamed to say that you are with your own people.

I was talking with a minister one day and he said to me that, "I love everybody." He said, "I love white folks". I said, "Yes." I said, "There is no people on the earth that actually loves their enemies but the foolish so-called American Negro." And that's due to the lack of knowledge. He has no knowledge of himself nor anyone else; therefore, he says a lots of things that sometimes he actually lies.

He actually lies sometimes in claiming that he love's everybody. He don't love himself so therefore he figures nobody. And if he says he loves his slave master, sometimes he lies there. He doesn't love his slave master, but he's afraid of his slavemaster, because he doesn't have the knowledge of the slavemaster nor does he have the knowledge of himself and his God and the people of God.

He knows nothing about Him. He knows nothing about the power of God. He knows nothing about anyone but his slavemaster and his children. And he knows that they do not treat him as an equal human being. He knows that he doesn't expect justice when he goes into their courts. He knows that they are not going to treat him right if they even stop him on the highway to pretend that he's speeding and if he is speeding, he doesn't expect justice.

He knows that. And especially in the South where that if he turns his back, he's likely to be shot, even after being falsely accused of speeding. And if he was speeding, he is subject to be shot in the back, when that he turns his back on the highway patrol officer.

This is the land wherein we just don't have no justice and no friend. But this is the land that Abraham said that God revealed the history or the revelation to him concerning his people being lost for 400 years.

This particular spot where we are in was not known to the scientist where this place would be. All they had was that they would be lost somewhere on the Earth, but just where it was, they didn't know.

At that time, of the revelation to Abraham, you must remember, that the red Indians were in this part of our earth, who had been brought over here, according to the revelation of Allah to me, in the Person of W.D. Fard Muhammad, To Whom Praises Be Forever, that they had been in the Western Hemisphere for 16,000 years, driven out of what is known today -- The East Indians, who are now -- country borders Pakistan and who once were the masters of their entire country.

They are called the East Indians to distinguish them from the West Indians. But the red Indian, here, is the brother of those in India today and if you look at them today you will soon see that they are brothers by their features. All of this is to give to you a knowledge of self.

But our fathers were brought here just 400 years ago. But has withstood more evil treatment than any human on the face of the earth.

You say, "No, no, you're wrong", I say, Yes, Yes I'm right. And I will make you prove that I am wrong. If you have any history wherein that any other people ever suffered at the hand of a human being or human beings as much and as ruthless, merciless, as we have suffered at the hands of white Americans, I will submit, bow to you, and I will pay for the lie and be willing to suffer anything, that you may satisfy your desire as being the price I should pay, even if it is death.

We don't have any history back in the last 4,000 years, you mentioned, that equals the cruel history that the so-called America Negro has suffered in America. We don't have anything like that. You say, "Well, the Jews...". I even hear the white people say sometimes (when this evil treatment they have given to us under slavery for the last 400 years) say to the brother or sister who is talking to them that there was slavery among all people. we all have suffered slavery. And some of our own scholars, today, our own color, is now using the same terms. As that is very common to see them take up anything that the white man uses to throw at us to see whether or not that he can get away with deceiving us in some false statement.

But this, the scholars of our people should be ashamed of themselves for taking up the same slang or the same question, or the same mockery, or abuse to us, since they are our brothers and have suffered the same treatment that we have suffered; if not, their fathers have suffered it.

Why should you take sides with people, who you know all your life have been an enemy of the Black man here in America, to help him to make mock of your own people -- help him to claim that he's justified in saying this or doing this to you and I. This is very shameful and a wicked thing on the part of the intellectual people of our kind here in America -- our scholars and scientists who are ashamed to confess their own.

They want to be like their slave masters children; therefore, they deny and reject any glory coming to their own kind. But pretty soon Allah will change this particular thinking. I'm assured of that.

It is written and prophesied that every one of my people will be resurrected into the knowledge of their own and all will go to their God, go to their people and go to their own country. And they all will be happy. And they all will live in peace. And they all will praise and glorify the God, who delivered them.

As one place says here in the Bible, that in that day and time they shall not, no more, say that the god Who brought them up out of the land of Egypt, but the God Who searched the Earth and found them and gathered them together and brought them back to their own country, not a God who went into Egypt and got a handful of people, but the God Who went after a Nation.

We find that He refers to us as a Nation. If we don't consider ourselves as a Nation today, I say take for an instance, there are many people that is called a Nation who gets their independence. Some of them don't have over a million-and-a-half population. And some don't have over five million, but they are called a Nation.

Here, we number 20,000,000. And if 20,000,000 people don't think that they are a Nation, I say, when will you recognize yourself as a Nation. But you cannot be respected as a Nation, at the present time, because that you are swallowed up in the government of America and there is no sign of you on the outside because of your name and your way of life that you live, trying to imitate the white man; therefore, it doesn't look like you even exist, to look at you from the outside.

Because you are little Jones (slave boy of the master, Jones) and therefore, observing from the outside, no one can tell whether or not that little Jones is white or big Jones is white or both is white, or whether there is any black anywhere in America, until they come among you.

Therefore, going in the name of the white man for 310 years, up until, I would say, the coming of Almighty God, Allah, In the Person of Master Fard Muhammad, To Whom Be Praise forever, had no knowledge of our strain and had no knowledge of the whereabouts.

It was 60 years, searching, before ever that we were discovered here in America, but we have been found now and you don't have to be frightened to death. And you don't have to wander without an aim. You have been found, and you are, no more, termed Lost or Forsaken.

You have a God on your side today, as it is written in the book of Ezekiel. "Even I will go and search for them. I will bring them again and I will plant them upon the mountains of Israel. They shall lie down in peace, none shall make them afraid, I will bless them with peace like rivers of water. I will not forsaken them. I will visit them..."

Your Bible teaches you all of this. And the Holy Qur'an refers to you, time and again that He will give you life. He will put you on top and plant you in the place where another Nation will be removed, as this has been the course of history among man ever since that we had history.

Every time that one disobeys Almighty God, that ruler is put down. And once every 25,000 years, we take a new start, according to the Word of Almighty God.

Up until this present day we use that particular number of years that brought about a change in our history. Every 25,000 years there came about a total change. Almighty God, Allah, said that once upon a time they wrote history for 35,000 years.

"We are the writers", He says. Meaning the darker people of the earth, who has been here ever since the universe was created, are the one that actually record history of everything that takes place on the planet Earth and the ones who knows what has happened and what will happen. It is our own people.

Aren't you very happy to be a member of a people like that? If you can only be made to believe, I'm satisfied that you will be happy as I am and my followers -- if you can believe that this is the truth, and it is the truth beyond a shadow of a doubt -- it's nothing but the truth.

We know about the 6,000 years, which doesn't mean any more to we, now, who has been taught 60,000 years, 60 trillion years ago. This 6,000 year old history of the Caucasian race seems like talking about here just yesterday because of the long, long, long history that we have been taken over and that God, Almighty Allah, in the Person of Master Fard Muhammad, has revealed it to us. And has given to me the understanding of this particular history and that I'm now teaching you and others, how to understand it and how to understand the histories of the prophets and their sayings, as recorded in the Bible and Qur'an.

He has given to me this understanding. He has revealed the secret to me, as it is written that God always reveals His aims or His secret, only to Prophets or Servants, whom He chooses.

I don't represent myself as a Prophet, because you don't need a prophet today. This is the end of prophets. The time that we are living in today is the end of the prophets. There is no need for a prophet, after the coming of God! There is no need for a prophet at the end of the present world's time. The prophets were before. And the prophets, they were sent throughout the 6,000 years of the Caucasian history on our planet. And there were three great ones; namely Yacub, the father of the Caucasian race, Moses and Jesus--Muhammad the Last. Muhammad takes up in the resurrection. Muhammad in the 7th century after Jesus, gives us a picture of what we may expect after 1400 years or in the 1400 year after his death. He gives us that, or rather, Allah revealed it to him and we have it here in the Qur'an and this Qu'ran teaches us is just what we may expect today. It leads us up to the resurrection of the so-called American Negro.

They are the ones to be resurrected. Though the whole entire darker people of Earth is in the time of a resurrection for their own future, because it's the end of a world that has ruled for the past 6,000 years.

These things that I am saying are very very important that you hear and very important that you believe and very important that you understand them and lay them to heart. Because, as I first said, without the knowledge of history we are lost. And therefore, can not calculate nothing.

As a man without the knowledge of Mathematics, he can not build. He is subject to a civilization who understands Mathematics. Because it takes Mathematics to build a civilization -- the knowledge of Mathematics. And it is found in the universe or the universal order of things being the very root in which the universe is based upon. It is Mathematics.

It is the very root of the religion of Almighty God. The religion of peace -- Islam/Mathematics. They are the true religions that we have and it is compared with the true religion of Islam. Mathematics is truth! Islam is truth! Therefore, the two goes together.

I say, you must know yourself, as God Almighty has revealed. You must give a listening ear to yourself. Here in Chicago, where so much fine wisdom of God and the religion of Islam has been poured into the Chicagoan, original dark people, for the last 25 or 30 years.

Now, you are the one that is still slow to respond. It is a shame for Detroit and Chicago to be lagging behind other cities, which is now increasing in converts throughout the Nation.

From the Atlantic coast to the West coast and from the Barrow of Canada to the Gulf, we find our people today, as Ezekiel described them, under symbols of dry bones...

Seventy-six trillion years since we had the sun alone in the Universe. It used to serve us, so said Master Fard Muhammad, To Whom All Praises is Due, for six trillion before we had star.

And it was sixty-six trillion years ago since we made moon, as we see here tonight from this Earth, dividing this planet which is called Earth in English and Umar in the Arabic tongue at that time, so Almighty Allah has taught me.

And this (moon) is a piece of this own Earth. The scientists agree that it's a part of the earth, since they have heard the truth of it. It, in every way, shows that it is some of this earth. But there is no life on it. There is no water on it.

I don't know why the white man thinks that he can go there and build a civilization on it, when God, Himself, rejects life going there. I don't know why he's ...Maybe he's just putting one over to make us laugh. But we know that life cannot exist on the moon. We know that, since the thorough knowledge of the moon and how that it is arranged there and what happened to it, makes life impossible to survive on the moon unless you are going to carry, with you, plenty of water from this earth, plenty of this atmosphere to live in. You, most certainly, will be deprived of atmosphere of this earth. You will, most certainly, be deprived of water. You will be deprived of vegetation. You can't eat your beefs, and your lambs, and your chickens. you can not go out and pick vegetables from a garden on the moon.

I don't know what you will live on, unless you have a market transportation from the earth, there on the moon. And you cannot live without living in an oxygen tank. You will have to live completely concealed, airtight, in some tank, because you can not breathe on the moon.

If your face appears on the moon, so says God to me, that your eyes would pop out of your head, the very first thing, because they have water in them and that is something that is not on the moon and the magnetic power on the moon is so strong, so terrific, that you just won't be able to even look at the surface with the naked eye. You would have to keep those naked eyes behind some material that will not allow that outside, dead, air there to enter your live skin. It would be death to you.

And I don't know, as I say, this is only fiction or only something that the white man is trying to make us laugh on. I am sure that he doesn't believe that he can go there, himself and live. He may be able to get there, but he won't be able to survive there. So don't buy a lot on the moon. Do, you might have to put it on sale again, and it's too expensive anyway. No one would want it but the man that is in a dream.

So I say, it is all useless to talk on these things. And it's useless to talk about going to Venus and living there. Useless to talk about going on Mars, living there. It's just foolishness. You can't survive on no planet, but the one that you are part of.

This atmosphere, this Earth, the vegetation the water, here, you are from and you returns to it and you can't survive without it. No other planet is the same as this planet and no other planet is the same as the other planet. They, all, are different. And all are located in different positions from the sun. And they, all, rotate around the sun, is right, but all of their distances are different. Therefore, you can' t survive, NOR I, on any other planet other than the earth.

But let me get back, before our time is up, to the so-called America Negro, and drop a few more good words into your good ears that have been stopped up my falsehood and blindness for yourself, that you might not understand even on the coming of God, Himself, at the Last Day, That God, Himself, would find Himself, impossible to open your eyes or unstop your deaf ears, according to the sealing of them by the slavemaster and his children.

You are living in the time that you must be separated, not integrated. But the time of separation. Foolish brother, don't get the idea that you are not living in no such time. This is the time! This is the Presence of God. It is not to come, He has already come. This is the time and end of the prophets. You read and you search for the knowledge of Scripture and you, yourself, understand by what you read, that this is the end of the prophets. And this, I would say, is true if you would avail yourself of it.

We are living in this time -- a great time of trouble of the departure of the two worlds. One is departing from the other. And the other one is emerging into the departure place of the other. We will have a new, entire, government and a new civilization from what you see of the old. We will not take any pattern from the old world. That, The God feels, Himself, too independent to use a pattern from an old world.

We have the civilization of ancient people in the history, but we don't have no knowledge of their civilization of how it worked. We don't have any books. No text books from their libraries. All was destroyed with that people. Once every 25,000 years, so says Almighty God Allah to me. They destroyed a whole history of what went on from the past 25,000 years and they make a new one and takes a note of that history and puts it away and preserves it from the masses of the people and the knowledge of the common people and no man is allowed to look in it or read that history, except he is going to be a wonder man, or to change, probably, a civilization or a universal change is about to take place and he will be the one to bring about the change. And that book is given to him to read or study to know what happened with us on this planet for the past 25,000 years, 50,000 years, or a million, or a billion, or a trillion years.

But the coming of the Just One that we, now, are getting acquainted with, He has knowledge of the very beginning and knows all of the history of the Universe, from their creation. And there is no end of His knowledge, wisdom and understanding. Therefore, you and I are lucky to be here in this time to get some of this knowledge that He is now parting to you and I.

Though we don't have the book that will take us into that great knowledge into the hereafter, because of the presence of this world. But soon after this world, then we will have a new book that will take us beyond. But at the present time we are finishing up what is written in the present Book or Scriptures; namely, The Bible and Holy Qur'an. And with this knowledge, up to the door of the hereafter, you and I should understand it so that we will know our place today and where to stand in the departure of the old and the merging in of the new world.

You are a great Nation. You are members of a mighty Nation. You are the members, according to the Teachings of Almighty God, of a people that have no beginning nor ending. You are a Great people and a strong...but you went to sleep and slept 6,000 years. Now the whole Nation of our kind is rousing themselves to take a hold, the reigns of civilization and rule, once more and again, forever.

There will never be a departure or the deception of the government of the people or the people by the the Black man, no more in the future, as I say to you...at this time, our time is now drawing to a close, for this hour.

But you, of Chicago, REMEMBER that you should join on to your own kind of the members of the Black Nation that live in Chicago. Don't be proud because that you have a degree from college and university of this world. Don't be too proud to accept your own. All of this passes away, as it did in Sodom and Gomorrah and the time of Noah before that. They all passed away.

Lay hold to your God. Lay hold to your own kind. Separate yourself from other than your own kind and accept you own and be happy to fly to your God, Who is seeking you to accept you in power forever on this planet Earth.

I thank you for your listening and I pray, Allah, that I will be back at this same hour on this same station, next Sunday week. And I pray that you will think over all that I have said in this hour and act accordingly.

As I say unto you, my beloved people, and those who are listening, in the Arab language which is peace, As-Salaam-Alaikum.

"The Tribe of Shabazz" transcribed from 1962 radio broadcast

The Honorable Elijah Muhammad