Reprinted from the December 25, 1970 edition of Muhammad Speaks Newspaper

CHRISTMAS!

By Messenger Elijah Muhammad

The Great False worship is but a few days away (December 25, 1970). The worship of Jesus' birthday, which they claim is on the 25th of December.is one of the most open other than the truth. And, the authors of their religion, Christianity, know that they are wrong in trying to tell the whole world that that is the day Jesus was born on. Not a man on earth knows that day, because it was not mentioned according to Allah, in the Person of Master Fard Muhammad, to whom Praises are due forever, the God of the Righteous and Truth. The way that He has taught us of Jesus' history makes sense. His birth could not have been made known since the authority of his time was intended to kill him. They knew that he was not coming to help them. They got a little mixed up in his appearance; or looking for the birth of a Mighty One to come and change the Jew's government and people for hell-fire. Though Jesus, as God taught me, was actually believing that he could convert the Jews until he learned the history of the Jews.Then he changed his mind and denounced them as being a race of devils and his word of truth had no place in them. Because there was no truth in them by nature. They were not made of truth, therefore, the Christmas, the 25th day of December that you worship every year, is not the birthday of Jesus.

SOME OF YOU do not care whose birthday it is just as long as you are off from work and acting like a fool, wasting up all your money that you have made that year to buy whiskey, a few fine clothes, new automobiles or something to help enrich the world that has taught you such things.

Here is what Allah taught me of the 25th day of December: He said that this is not the day that Jesus was born on. Jesus was born in September between the first and second week. No one actually knows what day it was, but it was in the first part of the month of September, because, as I have foresaid, the Jews were watching for his birth to kill him, but they were mistaken. The one that he was actually taken for to be Jesus was not that one They though that Jesus 2,000 years ago, was the Mahdi, the Great Messiah that they called the Christ or the Messiah Coming at the end of their time to destroy them and set up another kingdom of the God's like Him.

God taught me that the 25th day of December is the day of the birth of Nimrod, and that the scientists know that that is Nimrod's birthday. Nimrod was a leader, born as an opponent of Moses' teaching. Allah taught me in the person of Master Fard Muhammad to whom Praises are due forever, that this man was born in the last 300 years of Moses, 2,000 years. The whole of the scope of independent teaching of Moses is 1700 years and not 2,000 years, because of this Nimrod breaks the 2,000 years by 300. But. nevertheless, Moses gets the credit for the 2,000 years,because this little fellow was not able to do what he was doing and his work was to reach not only 2,000 years, but the complete 6,000 years of the white race's civilization. Nimrod was an evil, devil man, and according to sketches of his history, here and there that you may run across as I did nothing good is said about him. He was an opposer of Moses' Law and Order given to him from Allah (God) to guide Israel into independency of the original Nation of the earth.

SANTA CLAUS

The teaching that parents give to their children of the Santa Claus coming on the night of the 24th prior to the 25th of December, to bring presents to the children, are false. And, some say that his transportation is some kind of sled so he can get over the snow and ice pulled by reindeer this is also something the children look for in the South,where there is hardly any snow for a cat to walk on let alone a deer. But, yet, they are taught the same thing. Then,they go so far as to say that Santa Claus comes down the chimney with all those deer and with all that load of toys. Now you know that there has to be a mighty large chimney to accommodate those deer and carts of presents for the children in the community. Then, the child grows up believing this is the truth as the parents affirm their lie by scratching on the back of the chimney making marks in the soot to make the child think that the Santa Claus came down the chimney . I know , as I saw and believed the same thing when I was a little boy. They had lied to me, and I thought that they were telling the truth,until I saw mommy and daddy putting things in the cloths one night while I was keenly watching to see the Santa Claus. But, to my surprise, it was my father and mother, and I told my sister what I had seen that night. So, I was no longer a believer in the strange Santa Claus after catching them "red-handed" (slang). I could hardly enjoy the Christmas gifts that day after thinking over what I had so strongly believed what they had taught me was Santa Claus, and had learned that he was my parents. And, then you learn the truth about Santa Claus after a certain age, then they stop giving you anything. They tell you that they will give you your presents in person.

THEN, for the first time, the child learns the truth that he was only deceived by what they had taught him. This teaches the child in an early stage to lie, because the parents bring them up with lying.

SO, I ask all the children who read this article on Santa Claus to tell your parents to give you the presents that they want to give you, and do not tell you that some Santa Claus is going to give them to you, because they are the ones who buy the presents for you. Oh yes, they take other than the truth for a lot of fun, while we cannot take other than the truth for fun, when it is not fun. That is a sin before God. There is no lie in Him at all, and if we believe and follow Him, we must be the same and not liars. But, this is due to the nature of the white race who was made like that. They were a false people, leading the people wrong, falsely. And the time will come when they will wake up like the child who wakes up to the knowledge that the real Santa Claus is his father and mother, so will you wake up to the Real God for his (white race) time is up and you will find out that the God is Yourself. And, your parents, the Black Man, was the first God who created the heavens and the earth.

SO, my little Brother and Sister, go home and tell your parents to buy you such and such things if you want something for the 25th of December, and tell them they could give it to you; as they are the ones who are the real Santa Claus for you.

AND, there is no such thing as your worshipping Jesus on the 25th of December. He was a righteous prophet of God, 2,000 years ago, and they disgrace this righteous prophet and his name by worshipping a false day that he was not even born on. And, the material they use to worship the Jesus is drinking, whiskey, beer, wine and fighting, gambling, doing all acts of evil on that day. When I was a little boy coming up, the men folk would think that they were not taking Christmas unless they had plenty of liquor, and whiskey to drink and they would get half drunk, and vomit all over the streets and highways. It is a sin and disgrace to be calling yourself worshipping a righteous person and celebrating his birthday with all kinds of drinking and gambling. This shows you that this was not the Jesus' birthday, because if you acted like this on the real birthday of the righteous, the God would punish you. You do not get away with mistreating the righteous and not be punished. The evil people have a time to flourish in evil doings to do all kinds of evil until the end of their time, which is now. That evil will be punished in the day of the God of Justice and Righteousness. You will read that righteous people, even to prophets, were killed by the white race. Jews and some of those who killed the prophets were not destroyed because it was the time that evil was to triumph over the righteous. Now, today is the day of Allah (God) and His World Will Be a World of Righteousness, Freedom, Justice, and Equality. And, we cannot get away with falsehood in His Day and Time and in the building up of His Kingdom without being punished, immediately.

SO, I say little Brother and Sister, go home and remember that mommy and daddy is your Santa Claus, and they ride in cars and not in ice-sleds with six to eight reindeer pulling it. That number six represents the time that falsehood would triumph. That is the number of the white race, mean they would triumph for 6,000 years.

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