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Farrakhani: The Man . . .
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racism in this country has gained
him many followers and critics.
After the death oftheHon. Elijah
Muhammad in 1975, his son,
Iman Warith Deen Iman
Muhammad, formerly known as
Wallace Muhammad, took over
the Nation of Islam. Because of
internal changes instituted by
Muhammad, Farrakhan even
tually broke from the Muslim
sect now renamed the American
Muslim Mission to form The
Final Call Movement with the
adopted name Nation of Islam.
Muhammad remains an out
spoken critic of Farrakhan.
During the time of the Hon.
Elijah Muhammad among us,
most of us who knew Wallace
Muhammad as he’s now called
Iman Warith Deem Muhammad,
we knew that he was the
brightest, most spiritual and
astute of the sons of Elijah
Muhammad. And we all believ
ed that one day he would help
his father in a great way.
However, the Iman at that time
would come in and out of the
nation during the last year of
Elijah Muhammad's time among
us. The Iman returned to his
father and returned to the na
tion. When his father departed
from us, it was logical for us to
assume that Wallace Muham
mad would become the leader
and of course we all supported
his leadership. Then many
changes took place, some of
which we could agree with,
others of which we had — some
of us — had problems with. And
so after about 30 months of being
a member of the American
Muslim Mission, it was called
then, The World Community of
Islam, I decided that I was much
more comfortable with
teachings of Elijah Muhammad.
So I began to pursue the effort to
rebuild Elijah Muhammad’s
work.”
In addition to criticizing
Farrakhan, Muhammad has
blasted his father’s teachings and
moral pratices. Farrakhan speaks
in a solemn tone about the
conflict between the Hon. Elijah
Muhammad and his son Iman
Warith Deen Muhammad.
"Iman Warith Deem Muham
mad does not believe that his
father was a messenger of God.
He disbelieves in his father as a
messenger or that his father
actually met with God in person.
So, it would follow, if he dis
believed in his father as a
messenger, he would disbelieve
in the message brought by his
father and in his disbelief in that
message and in his father’s
messengership and in the God
who raised up his father, it is also
naturally consequential that he
would take a different course.
And this he has done. He has led
his followers into the
mainstream of Islamic orthodoxy
which is accepted, of course,
by the mainstream Islamicworld.
I choose to believe that his father
was, indeed, a messenger of God
and that God indeed raised him
up. The message of Elijah
Muhammad is paramount in my
life and is responsible for my
guidance and the transformation
of my life and the thousands of
others who believe in the
teachings of the Hon. Elijah
Muhammad.
“I believe that time will prove
whether the Iman is correct or
whether his father was correct.
And I believe, sincerely, that
time will prove the father correct
and therefore I’m correct in
following his father — and those
who follow the Iman, we will all
be one; I believe once again.
Since the years following the
Hon. Elijah Muhammad’s death,
a series of accusations have been
levied against him by his son,
Iman Deem Warith Muhammad.
Farrakhan commented on these
accusations, but stressed that he
believes none of them which
included, "...that his father was
not a true Muslim... that he used
tricks and lies to trick Black
people into Islam... that his
father was an immoral man....
“I think it is sad that we as
Muslims would facilitate the way
of the enemies of Islam and that
he (Muhammad) would
denounce me as a 'Hitler’ or one
comparable to Hitler. But I take
all of that in stride. His father
once gave me a parable about a
donkey that fell in the ditch and
anyone that came by would pick
up a stone and throw it at the
donkey. They threw so many
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