Tuesday 7 March 2017

THE "NATION OF ISLAM (NOI)": MY OPINION

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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