THE "NATION OF ISLAM": MY OPINION
QUESTION:
As-Salam Alaykum wa Rahmatu'Llahi wa Barakatuhu
What is your opinion on the American group called Nation of Islam?
Do answer on the basis of their official Creed, that I forward you.
ANSWER:
Wa Alaykum As-Salam wa
Rahmatu'Llahi wa Barakatuhu wa Maghfiratuhu wa Ridah,
Dearest brother in lslam,
Tariqah and Faydah,
I read in detail, the Creed of
the Nation of Islam that you forwarded to me. It is quite impressive indeed.
I did not find in it anything that clearly
goes against the Pure Law and Spirit of the Shari’ah of Islam save two
Points, which read:
5. We
believe in the resurrection of the dead, not in physical resurrection but
mental resurrection.
Mental resurrection
is extremely important. However, it is from the established beliefs of Islam
that Physical Resurrection shall take place. It is absolutely Haqq. A
denial of it is a denial of the Holy Qur’an and kufr thereof. The
NOI must reword their Creed and correct it. They can say:
“As we
believe in the physical resurrection of the dead, we also believe in the mental
resurrection of the oppressed through Islam”.
12. We believe that Allah (God) appeared in the person of Master W. Fard
Muhammad, July, 1930, the long awaited "Messiah" of the Christians,
and the "Mahdi" of the Muslims.
It is absolute unacceptable
and Kufr for a Muslim to say that Allah “appeared in the person” of
anybody. Allah (SWT) does not appear in any single person. He is the Reality of
all persons and all Existence. One cannot limit the Unlimited Being of Allah to
any one human being. It seems that whoever wrote this Creed was heavily
influenced by Christianity, therefore borrowed Christian terminology. If he had
some knowledge of Islam, he would have wrote:
“And God
sent Master Fard as a teacher and guide to the African-American man.”
Furthermore, first they call
Mr Fard “God”, then go on and call him the ”Mahdi of the Muslims”!
This
is obviously false, as Fard was not at all the awaited Mahdi of
the Muslims, as he came with no message for the Muslims of the World, but with
a revival movement for non-Muslim Black Americans!
If
he was truly the Mahdi, then our Masters of the Tariqah would have followed
him.
It is obvious that whoever
wrote that Creed was quite confused on Islam, and surely not divinely inspired.
These matters are obvious
today, in the Age of Knowledge and Proliferation of Islam.
What excuse does Farrakhan
have for continuing to promote such blasphemous statements in our times, when
the Truth has been made clear to him, and the Qur’an and Sunnah
are widely available for all to see the Truth.
There is no place for
stubbornness and arrogance in the Din. One must submit to the Qur’an
and Sunnah with no ifs and buts to be truly called the
“Nation of Islam”.
May Allah bless the marhum Imam WD Muhammad, who did not
hesitate to abandon those wrong beliefs, even though they were promoted by his
own father. Imam WD was indeed a man of COURAGE.
Farrakhan has also made
contradictory statements. He “converted” to normative Islam at the hands of
Shaykh Hassan Cisse (RA) in Senegal, but when back in the USA, he continues the
same old racist Creed f the NOI.
There is no questioning of his
political acumen in exposing the Evil Neo-Con Empire of the new Age (and the
same can be said of the Jewish writer Noam Chomsky or the Hindu writer
Arundhati Roy), but there is indeed a question mark next to his religious
beliefs.
Akhirah is more
important than Uula !
Eloquent worldly rhetoric
alone is not good enough to vindicate someone unless one totally submits to the
Haqq brought by the Mustafa, Savior of the Black and the White (SAW)...as
Shaykh Ibrahim (RA) called the Prophet Muhammad (SAW).
I was also disturbed that our
True Savior the blessed Prophet Muhammad (SAW) is not mentioned by name or
reference ANYWHERE in the entire NOI Creed. It is only mentioned that we
believe in the "all the Prophets of the past".
Believing in half the Kalimah does
not make one a Muslim as you know well.
Once again, I may still excuse them, for
including his name among “The Prophets” in the 1930’s when Islam was unknown in
this country.
But there is absolutely no excuse for not
mentioning the Prophet Muhammad (SAW) by name in our age NOW, when Islam has
spread to every corner of America, and millions of Muslims are proclaiming the Kalimah
loudly and clearly all over the USA!
I kind of get the idea that the Prophet
Muhammad (SAW) is given very little importance by the NOI (he is just ‘one of
them prophets of the past’) and all emphasis is on Fard Muhammad and Elijah
Muhammad. It is as if they replace the “Real Muhammad (SAW)” in the NOI
ideology.
However, we know fro sure that believing in
any prophet after Sayyidna Muhammad (SAW) is kufr and apostasy, for his
message was complete and universal.
I also state that a thousand Elijahs and
Fards cannot offer to the Blackman of America what Sayyidna Muhammad (SAW) can
offer him.
I
say all of this without denying the positive role the NOI has played in
mentally resurrecting the Blackman of America. Their role has been great, and
surely the work of Allah, for all Good comes from Him.They were the door for
True Islam for so many people.
I
read the Autobiography of Malcom X more than a decade ago, and it opened up to
me the understanding of the American "Negro’s" terrible situation and
also what the NOI achieved for him (at a relatively small scale though….I
believe Shaykh Hassan Cisse helped more people than them).
Malcolm
also makes it clear in the end of the book that he had submitted to normative
Islam after witnessing the beauty of Allah and His Final Prophet (SAW) in
Makkah, Madinah, as well as West Africa.
I
do not doubt that Allah had willed a revival for the Blackman in the 20th
century. The appearance of the Grand-Faydah at the hands of blackman is
sign enough. My own grandfather had seen a dream in India in the late 1950’s
that Jesus (AS) was tying a battle-belt on a blackman. He had interpreted this
to mean that the oppressed Blackman will rise for his rights in the Christians
lands. And indeed, very soon thereafter, the Civil Rights movement started in
the USA under Martin Luther King.
Brother!
I fully support this great on-going revival of the black man, and I hate to be
oblivious of the race problem, as many other Black and White Imams are.
My
ultimate role-model in the mental resurrection of the blackman in the USA and
the RSA is my master Imam Hassan Cisse (RA). We are all aware of his
outstanding services in that.
He knew that the blackman
needed Islam. And after Islam, the Tariqah Tijaniyyah with it’s Divine Faydah.
Only a true connection to God can save the black and the white!
I
wish the best for the NOI and hope that they submit to Islam fully so that they
can truly become full members of the blessed Worldwide Nation of Islam.
Their
following statement gives some hope and we hope that they stick to this and
abandon all outdated un-Islamic beliefs:
- We believe further and lastly that Allah
is God and besides HIM there is no God and He will bring about a universal
government of peace wherein we can live in peace together.
May All the oppressed of the World be
revived through Islam. And May all the oppressors of the Word be guided through
Islam. And May Allah use us for that. Amen.
P.S.: By the way, read
murdered black South African ideologue Steve Biko’s I Write What I Like.
It’s powerful. No wonder the Devil killed him. Today RSA is also ruled by
Obamas.
Was-Salam Ya Habib,
Servant of the Tijani Door
Fakhruddin al-Tijani al-Ibrahimi
Oct 21, 2013
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