By Messenger Elijah
Muhammad
Transcribed from the audio-cassette tape titled "The Doom of America Now Approaches"
Greetings to you. I am Elijah Muhammad, the preacher of Freedom Justice and Equality to you, my people, who has been lost from your own kind for the last 400 years.
And who has been following the teachings of the slave-master, who enslaved our fathers and ourselves. And for the whole entire duration of the time that we have been here, in this part of the world, we have suffered from the lack of the knowledge of self, and from the knowledge of God, and the knowledge of the devil.
We have not known our people even as much. We have not been able to visit them nor they to visit us.
They have been prevented to come in among us and try and get acquainted with us, and to try and teach us what they know of themselves.
This has been prohibited by the white man of America; to prevent our joining on to our own kind, and to keep us out of the knowledge of our own self and our kind. And has kept us separated from our own kind, up until just a few years ago.
Now, today, being so long from your own kind, and from the knowledge of that which you should have, it has made you, now, very very hard to understand and even to love yourself and your kind.
This straying away from your own kind, and from the knowledge of your self and kind has caused you to hate yourself and hate your own kind.
And you are so divided against self, that actually it seems impossible for you to be united to self.
But it’s not impossible. You can be united! And will be united! And are being united!
The trouble with you is, you have always looked toward your slave-masters as guides and dependence.
You have not, never, been able to get together and decide on doing something for your self. Not even to this day.
Here, at the present time, with the doom of America, now, in her doors (and in her windows, and in their eyes, and in the worlds, and in the hearts of her people, who understand) you are, yet, knocking on her door and begging her for support and for a place among her.
Instead of asking leave of her, you are asking her to keep you, and sustain you, and to even, now, take you as her brother and her sister. And to let you intermarry with her. And to let you become one of them. This is your foolish desire today.
The leaders are far from being right, when they are trying to lead you to unite with others than your own.
Trying to get you to unite with white people and force white people to accept you as their own kind or as they accept their own kind.
Such leadership is far from being right for you.
Though I’m not trying to force you to do that which you do not desire to do.
I’m only trying to show you the right way. And even your leaders. I’m trying to show them the right way. But they are drunk off of leadership or being called leaders.
Without the knowledge of themselves, even as much, or the knowledge of their own kind, they have more love for other than their kind, than they do for their own kind.
And therefore wishes not to call you, as I’m calling you, to go back to your own kind.
What do I mean, "go back to your own kind"? I mean your Nation. Go back to the love of your own self.
Not places! But actually I’m referring to your self . Go back to self and stop trying to divide self against self. And spare half of yourself to someone, other than yourself.
This is making yourself very ignorant and hastening your own doom.
I want to talk on this thing, today, with you, that America is facing her doom.
And the world of science knows that America is now facing her doom. And you are ignorant to want to share the doom of America.
I’m not trying to hasten against your own belief. I’m only telling you the truth, which is incumbent upon me. I can not do other than to tell you the truth.
Allah has risen me, from among you, to teach you the truth and show you the way to success.
But you are rejecting me. You are showing that you despise me. You are showing that you do not want one from among yourself to be your leader, towards the goal of peace and happiness.
You don’t want that one. You want a white person to lead. You want a white person to counsel for you. You want to be in the white family. You want to live side by side and in their house, with the white man.
This is getting you no where, but to more trouble and to the doom in which this nation is headed.
The country of America has become a very very corrupted country. An internationally corrupted country.
America has become the most troubled and the most, we should say, the most confused of them all.
America is now fulfilling that which is written in the book of prophecy, concerning her, that would come upon her in the last days.
These are the last days of the white race. Believe it or not!
I’m only warning you that you have no right to suffer the things that you suffer.
It is because, as the Bible teaches you, you’re without the knowledge of self, and without the knowledge of others.
Therefore, you are suffering from that which you actually don’t have knowledge of, and refuses to come to knowledge.
You are a great disputer of that which you have no knowledge of.
You are a great disbeliever in that which you have no knowledge of. And a great believer in that which you actually THINK that you have knowledge of and, yet, don’t have knowledge of .
This, the Bible, prophesied by Moses, says, "a foolish people", and warned the Israelite people, meaning the Caucasian race, that God, in the last days, would absolutely take a foolish people and they would disturb and upset you.
You would absolutely be threatened. You would be worried. You would be disgraced by a foolish people.
But the people, you made them yourself, as they are. The Negro are not his teacher. The so-called Negro, the lost and found members of the Black Asiatic Nation of the Earth, did not teach himself. I repeat.
He was taught by his slave-master. By his enemies. And his enemies, being so profoundly, hatred of them - hated them so much - that he taught them, in such way, that now he’s ashamed of the way that he has taught his own slave.
And now you are vexed with your slaves, as Moses prophesied you would.
"I will vex you with a people that is no people." And now this people is running mad.... Your own slaves... Trying to get Equality with you and be recognized as your equal and seeks your love for them, as you love your own white members of your family.
And a certain percentage of your people is trying to show them, under hypocrisy, that they’re in love with the so-called Negro and desires to see him enjoy justice, equality with them, and to marry into their family.
Knowing that your are not sincere in doing such thing. But you hear the call of Allah to this people and you want to bring this people to their doom with you, to absolutely try and stop the plan of Allah to save them.
But as it is written, again, Allah will work and who shall hinder.
And in another place, in your own Bible, He has opposed, and who shall annul it.
I say to you, this day, that America faces her eternal doom. She sees these things on the horizon, lurking and raising their heads. The doom of America. This scene on the horizon.
Not in one direction, but in every direction, we see the doom of America, raising her head over her from the horizon of the Earth.
We see America, today, most confused of all the Nations of the Earth, because of her desire to keep her slave dumb to the knowledge of self, and desires to keep them from returning to their God, Allah, and to His religion, Islam.
They desire to keep them from Allah. They desire to make Allah and His religion appear as something false, and something that they should ignore.
But Allah says in the 60th verse (surah) of the Holy Qur’an, "Allah will perfect His light, though the disbeliever’s maybe adverse."
The Christian people have ever went against the true religion of Almighty God.
And today they’re showing themselves, manifestly, that they do not like that you submit to the will of Almighty God. Allah is His proper Name.
This is what is meant when a man tells you that you should believe in Islam. It means that you should submit to the will of Almighty God. That’s just what it means.
Islam is an Arab word for submission. And that’s all it means. Just submit to the will of God.
You are saying that under false sayings. In many of your mouths, you say that "I am willing to submit to the will of God." Not knowing that this is Islam, what you’re saying then.
But you are not willing to submit to the will of Allah. You are not willing to do it. You are not doing it!
You are willing to submit to the will of other-than Allah, the devil himself.
You want to make love with the adversary of Almighty God, Allah.
The doom is approaching. It is warping on your windows and on your doors. It is in the streets. It is in the air. It’s everywhere.
The doom approaches. And you’re doing everything that the Prophets said that you would do, just prior to your destruction.
Trying to deceive the people and make the people believe right is wrong and wrong is right.
Make the people to believe that Allah is not God, and that Allah has not appeared among you, and that Islam is the wrong religion...
I say to you that you are on the road to total destruction . You are hating the call to the truth today, as the people of old hated the call to the truth.
You are despises of the truth, today, as the people of old was despises of the truth
You are complaining on how best that you can kill or prosecute the Messenger of the truth, and put him to shame and cast him into prison or destroy him out-right.
This is what they thought of all the other Messenger’s and when that time or when their doom approaches, they plan the same thing. To kill the Messenger and even those that was believing, that was following him.
These things you has agreed upon, here in America. "Get rid of Elijah!" "Get rid of Muhammad!" "Kill Muhammad!" "Kill his followers!"
I warn you that you are speaking the same language that the disbelieves spoke of Noah, and the same that spoke this same language of Lot and his followers. And they all met with the same doom. When they rose up to destroy Allah’s Messengers, that was the end of them. So shall it be with you. You seek to destroy me. You say every evil and filthy thing imaginable against me, today.
I will not return no such talk to you. I will not take part in slandering. I know you has been slandered yourself, already, for four hundred years. I would not be the Messenger of Allah, nor would I be the Brother of you, who have suffered from the same enemy as I have, to go and, now, slander you for the sins and the evil things that you’re doing, that I know where it came from and the teachers of it. It was not. You you are guilty of it. It is those who reared you those who brought you into subjection to themselves they are the ones to blame not you. I will not slander you I will not seek to kill you.
That is not my mission to slander or to kill. It is my mission to teach you the right way and put you on the path to success.
This I have been, faithfully, doing for 33 long years. And to get you out of the name and out of the religion, out of the power of the enemy. This is my mission.
I tell you openly and I declare that I have God, Allah, on my side, Who have missioned me to do this work of salvation for you.
But you have rejected me and now you seek to destory me. With your tongue and with your hands.
I take refuge, now, in Allah. I seek refuge in Him from what you have plan against me. And if it pleases Him, He will forgive you. And if it doesn’t please Him, He will chastise you. I have nothing to do with it.
But I do know that I have been a faithful witness to you and have tried hard for 33 long years, under the most hardest suffering that a man can think of, except being tortured and destroyed by death.
I suffered seven years, in hiding from your knife and from your gun and from prosecution. And I, after that, went to prison for this truth and stayed there over four years.
I suffered in filthy jail houses for months. Thirteen long months did I sit in one prison house to the other. Jails. But you don’t care anything about anyone suffering for you. You are a people with a hard and arrogant heart. Cares nothing about that.
You want to be leaders yourself and you cares nothing about the sacrifice that has been made to lead you right.
This, I say, causing confusion and pulling you off the right road into the path of the enemy to be taken into his doom.
You will come to know that I have taught you the truth. You will come to know that there is know more Messengers coming behind Elijah Muhammad, to you.
The next Messengers will be the Messenger’s of death that would come to execute Judgment upon those, of you, who are so wicked and so proud and so hateful of the Messenger. And who have no respect for him at all. Nor do you have any respect for the God, Who has sent me. Nor the truth in which I bear to you from Him.
You are a very evil and a proud people, who have no respect for your own. But have respect for other than your own, which you worship.
In the days of the approaching doom of Noah’s people, the people called him liars. And they sought to try to make the people, whom he was warning, to think that he was crazy.
In the days of Lot the same thing went on with him, among the disbelievers. They were mad with anger just to hear Lot say to believe in Allah. They were angry.
They were angry with the angels who visited Lot. They wanted to kill them and kill Lot for entertaining them. When they got to this point, then Allah rose up and destroyed them all. This is what I read you my people, here in America. This is what you’re hasting on.
I see, daily, how you seek to destroy the truth. I see you, like mad, running around through the city hoping that you can find Elijah to destroy Elijah. Elijah is the man that you hate. Elijah is the man of your salvation and you don’t know it. Elijah is the man whom God has sent here to try to put you on the right way, that you may be successful. And to unite you with your own people.
This Elijah has been successful. In linking the two people together.
Elijah has, for the first time since you have been in the Western Hemisphere, have now joined your hands with your people’s hand across the Atlantic Ocean, and to the far islands of the Pacific, by the help and the guidance of Allah.
You are now so that you can communicate with your people and return to them if you like to. This you have seen for the first time.
There is no leader in America that has been able to unite you in respect to your own people in Africa and Asia before me. None!
This is the thing that God has given to you, though the mouth of His Prophets. That Elijah must come and he must unite you. Referring to you as children and your own people. Impendent people back in your native land, as the Father who produced you. That they must be united before there can be a Judgment.
This I can say, with the spirit of truth and with the joy of gladness, that you have now been linked together.
Today you see your native people from Africa visiting you and you visit them for the first time. Your people all over the world are now coming into America visiting you.
The main thing they would like to know, "Where is he, that has taught you of Allah and His true religion, Islam. Where is that man that leads you in this path."
They finally finds me, and they give me great credit for the work that I’m doing for you, in this respect.
With all of your hatred and with all of the hypocrisy that has sprung up among you, who used to follow me, and with your ever howling bitter tongue against me. You now approach your doom.
The doom approaches. America is doomed. She shall be destroyed, says the Almighty God, Allah, to me. That He will destroy America and make America an example for the other members of her nation.
Hear it and weep and not laugh! It is not something that you should laugh. It is a time that you should weep. The doom approaches. It shall come. As the Holy Qur’an teaches you. "It shall come from afar."
You shall hear it’s rumbling.... You shall weep. You shall howl. You shall grieve yourself and regret your own wicked actions and your own hard sayings against Allah’s Messenger and against Him, Who came for your own safety and salvation.
You shall wish that you had never been.
The doom approaches. The doom of beautiful America. The doom of the most highly wage earners on the Earth. The doom of the most luxurious Nation on Earth.
The doom approaches like it was in the day of Babylon regardless to her greatness and her riches the doom came and destroyed Ancient Babylon. Ancient Babylon was destroyed.
And rich Sodom and Gomorrah... They were not poor. They were rich. As the Bible teaches you, "they had fullness of bread". Plenty! And the Holy Qur’an says they were very playful. Enjoying sport. They were a people that love sport and play, because of wealth.
The same goes for America. Millions and billions of dollars are spent in sport and play. Gambling! With hundred of millions of dollars over the table, day and night, in America.
While thousands of people trodding in the bread line, begging for soup and bread, thousands and thousands and millions of dollars is exchanging hands over the gamblers’ table.
The drinking and the spilling of whiskey and beer throughout the country, with another waste of millions and millions of dollars to satisfy the temporary feelings or spirit of evil for the individual.
The doom awaits you. It’s approaching. America will not be able to stand very long.
Today the poor so-called America Negro is aiding this doom, because they are ignorant and they are bringing the whole country to doom, because the country will not teach them wisdom.
The country will not take them as their equal. The country will not help them on the road to salvation for themselves. But is opposed to the so-called American Negro, the Black man of America, in going for himself.
He’s opposed to going for himself. He has become a great lover of white, instead of Black, while the Black is Original.
The Black is the father of all the races: Brown, Yellow, Red and white. The Black is the Father.
God has taught me and it is so plain and simple as your five fingers on your hand; that Black could not have been produced out of white, but it’s possible for white to be produce out of Black.
Today, the ignorant, so-called American Negro, refusing to except Almighty God, his deliver, and His Messenger, whom He has risen among them, to stave off or to (we should say) to get an extension of time on this approaching doom, ignorantly helping to bring it on because of their desire to become white, instead of remaining Black.
It’s pitiful, my friend! It’s very pitiful, for us to look on. And it even grieves us in our very hearts, to see our people so foolish.
Our people wanting to be that which they, by nature, are made not to be. The white man beating and killing them in the streets. Jumping on them; three, four, five, and half-a-dozen of them, to beat one man, who has no arms at all. But he’s a Black man and is hated by his attackers.
Beat him to death in the streets. Blood running down from the poor Black Man. And his leader, who led him into such attack (or such ignorance) to try to force the enemy to do that which the enemy does not like to do; that is to accept him as his equal or as a brother of his. Saying to that poor Black Man, "Go ahead! You bleed! Let the blood flow from you, and not from the white man."
The poor So-called American Negro’s blood has been flowing out of his veins, from the beatings and from the gun pellets, and knives, ever since he has been here. He needs to be relieved from such.
Right leadership will not lead where it will cause blood. No! The right leader wants to shun blood-letting, but hopes to bring his people into the right path of peace and independence with a minimum of blood shed, or none at all. It can be done, without a drop a blood being shed.
Unite on with the Muslims! Join up with Islamic people! Come follow me! Join with me and believe in Allah as I believe in Him! And your suffering will be over. Allah will protect you from the people’s evil intentions. Allah will guide you aright, and your heart aright, and you wont make such foolish mistakes, to go and try and force your way upon people, without even any cause whatsoever.
You say, "Where am I going?" I say the Earth is very large. I say you have millions and millions of people on this Planet Earth. And the area is very great. One hundred, ninety-six million, nine hundred forty thousand (196,940,000) square miles of this Earth, Sticking out of water.
You tell me we cannot have a home somewhere other than America under the lash and the merciless hand of the white man, who will raise a gun and blow your brains out, with the least provocation? And goes around, night and day, lurking around, seeking a chance to kill you for no cause whatsoever. Only he just hates the Negro?
You tell me that we can’t fine a better place than this? You tell me that God is to weak to help you, when that you have a great history that He helped other people who relied upon Him for thousand’s of years in the past?
Now you say that you don’t believe that He will help you here? And that you must suffer at the mercy or merciless hands of the white people as your doing? While God is calling you, in Person?
Are you crazy? You are crazy! If He could deliver Israel, and He did do it, without arms of Pharaoh... You’re more worthy, in the sight of Allah, today, than any people ever was on the face of the Earth!
Allah wants to make Himself known. He wants to restore you back to your own. As it is written in The Book, it is incumbent that He do just such thing. Restore you back to your own. Defend you against those who have killed you all the day long.
And all night long, you are being murdered, without any mercy whatsoever. You know these things are going on, and yet you are trying to beg the same murderer to allow you, now, to marry his daughter or his son. Seeking to make sweet-hearts with the murderer of you and your parents. And yet you think that this is right and is good in the eye-sight of God, that you should love and seek to unite with people whose history teaches you that they have mistreated you and your people ever since that they set the sole of their feet on the Western Hemisphere soil. You know these things.
Who do you think you are, that you can change the nature of a people who has been the enemy of God and has mistreated the Black Man ever since that they had contact with him on the face on the Earth? Who are you, now, to change their nature?
Are you able to do more, with the people than God, Himself? God, Himself has said they cannot be reformed. They cannot be changed, unless you can change their nature. You can’t reform them! They’re aware of who they are. And you are a fool that don’t know yourself, and don’t want to come to the knowledge of yourself.
Are you greater than Allah? Are you wiser than Allah, that you knows better than He what could be done? Who are you? Blind, deaf and dumb that have went off the path of right for four hundred years or more.
In fact, about it, you have been off the right path for six thousand years. But, today, Allah calls you to come to Him and to believe in Him. That He will set you in heaven at once. He’s not afraid of the people that you’re afraid of. He’s not afraid nothing! There is no fear in God, nor is there any fear in the people who believe in God and who practice the principles of God. There is no fear for them.
Why are you fearing? Because that you don’t love God and you don’t fear Him. You love and fear the enemy of God.
This is written in your Bible. Why cannot you believe? what are you drunk off of? Drunk off of trying to get a place in the White House in Washington, as the President, as Governor, as the adviser of the Nation, without one square foot of land? Are you crazy?
Did not you know, that you cannot set in Congress and represent your people on equal terms with the white man, while the white man owns the country and you owns nothing?
You don’t own one State in this Union! So can you get equal representation in the House of Congress, along with the white man when he owns the country?
You saw that in San Francisco, the other day, in choosing a nominee for President. You was there trying to show yourself as having something to do with that. Are you crazy folks?
Do you not know that you can not elect Presidents and put them in the White House against the white man’s own will? When the country is his and the White House is his and the law that is made in the White House is made by him? Are you so foolish? Do you think that you’re a Big Boy, with nothing?
I ask you to let us unite and go after some of this earth that we can call our own, and you say, "No, this won’t settle it. Separation won’t settle this Problem. It won’t solve it, being separated."
You are absolutely kidding yourself? or do you think you’re making a fool out of me? It is true that this problem must be solved by your separation. There is no way to solve it without your separation, from the white man, or the white man from you.
You two have to be separated. And any wise scholar of the white scientist knows these things. That there will never be no peace in America as long as twenty two million so-called American Negroes live here with the white man who owns America and who will not give it up to the poor so-called American Negro.
He’s not going to do these things. And you’re not going to win equality with him in America, by your proud talk and your action.
This don’t get you nowhere, but to the mercy of the white man. You are begging for what? Begging for a job. Who makes these jobs? The white man.
Well then, how can you be his equal if you are begging him to produce employment for you? If you think that you are his equal and that you have to have equal rights with him, why don’t you produce your own employment? Why don’t you build factories?
You don’t have no where to build your factories. You can’t build factories in the air, open space. You have to have earth to build factories. You have to have earth to produce the goods or the products to go in a factory, to. be manufacture into the necessities of life, for you and your people.
You have to have some earth for that. You are asking for the wrong thing. You’re asking for the top of the tree, while you should go down and get at the root of the tree. You cannot be the white man’s equal in the way that you’re driving. You are only suffering blood pouring out in the streets. Disgracing your self and your women.
In the streets, the Black woman and her girl is out there kicked around and stamped under their feet, of the merciless officers of this people. And you cannot do anything but look around at them and say that you should not do this.
I say, you should say, "Let me get out of here. I’m tried of being trampled under your feet and I just only want a way out."
Where is the way out? Elijah Muhammad to Allah and Islam. This is the way. This is the way out. Come and submit to Allah and accept His religion and accept His Name, and you will find away out. And fact about it, He has the way already planned. You don’t have to seek the way out. He has the way out, Himself.
He only wants you to come and submit to Him, so that so He can take you out of it. This is the thing that you must remember. The doom is approaching this people.
In the days when that Allah went to take Israel out of the land of Egypt, out of the power of Pharaoh, the same thing was going on there, that is going on here, in a way. The poor Hebrew wanted to show himself as he was the equal and the friend of Pharaoh and his people. But Pharaoh knew that they were only slaves, and he gave them the treatment of a slave. Like the white man of America, today, is treating you as a slave. A subjected people. Not as an independent people, on equal terms with himself.
What have you? He knows. Nothing! He knows that he’s your supporter. What are you arguing and trying to fight about, over his property and over his goods.
Why don’t you say to this people, "Help me to go for my self"?
But no! You leaders are too weak for that. You leaders are absolutely leading your people into more blood shed and disgrace at the hand of the white man.
Your people are suffering at their hands, because at your own ignorant leadership. Trying to force them to attack and force the white man to treat them as they treat each other.
This, I say, the leadership is responsible for the disgrace and blood shed of our people. And you are ignorant for following such. You see you are not winning. You say, "Aw, we’re going to make them to know that we are not going to stand for such".
This don’t make sense. Make them to know that you want to go for self. It’s the intelligent thing to do. Make them to know that if you don’t want me, I don’t want you. That’s the intelligent thing to do.
You are the foolish people.....who always sticking out your chest as though you own fifty states here in the Union, or equally sharers in these fifty states as the white man.
This is not your flag flying over this country. It is the white man’s flag. The stars and stripes don’t belong to you. You say, "I’m under it". It doesn’t make any difference if you are. You don’t own it! And you are treated as an non-owner. Why don’t you wake up and know the truth? Why don’t you practice the truth? Follow the truth of self and go back to your own people.
This earth belongs to the Black Man. This earth belongs to the God of the Black Man. As the Bible teaches you, "The earth belongs to the Lord." The Lord, here, means Allah, in the Last Day. And the righteous is the owner of this earth. It means the Nation of Islam.
We are the owner of this earth. We will be right. Wherever we are, we will try and obey you. We are trying to do that in America, today. My followers and myself are trying our best to live in peace in America, under the Government of America. But we are charged with trying to bring about disturbment here and there, throughout the country.
Every time something that arises, like insurrection, they charge us with being the cause of it. Why? Because they do not like the truth that is being taught. They don’t want to hear the truth and they will say, "If it was not for the truth..." which they should say..."these things wouldn’t come about."
But it’s due to their own wickedness and their hatred of the truth, that they comes about. And not us. We’re not the promoters of evil. We’re not seeking to bring about no blood shed. We’re seeking to stop blood shed. We hope that there will be no blood shed. We’re not seeking to try to make ourselves the equal of the white man in America.
This is his Government. This is his country, that he claimed. Let him have whatever belongs to him. I say, let him have that. But let us have something too. We can get together and go after something for our self, as he did.
He came here from Europe somewhat near five hundred years ago annulated the Aboriginal people here all, but a few. And he’d take it over. And to this day he has ruled the Western Hemisphere and even the world.
We must go after some of this earth, somewhere, with the help and guidance of Allah, for own children, that is here and those that is to come.
We’ve got to become earth owners. We’ve got to become independent people, like all other people, and not forever a dependent people.
You seems to feel proud to say that you would like that America give you so much and so much for your work. You seem as though you talking in the way of a great future.
Did not you know that jobs can come to a naught over night? Did not you know that you don’t house nothing to eat, nor to wear, for your people? Did not you know?
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