in compliance with innu- understandable, especially to | merable requests throughout the black man (so - called Vthe world for the reissuance Negro) for whom the purj of outstanding articles from poses of Islam are intended. ^ • . v Messenger of Allah, we America is not a representaB t>rint the following ar- tive people of Islam, thereWk'les, particularly because of fore, the so - called Negro ^meir significance for the c o u l d never understand ^m-ces we live in. — Editor's By E l i j a h M u h a m m a d Messenger of Allah AS THE word Islam is now | being repeated in the lank^guage of the people of North America, it should be made
WHAT IS ISLAM from a people who do not believe or teach it. I will not take up in detail how Islam is applied to every action of a believer — such as rules, regulations, laws and the protection of these rules, regulations and laws. I t is only the name which I would like for my
people to know and under- of Allah (God), then this submission to the Will of Allah stand. (God) is a law of Allah, ISLAM IS now being of- which we all must obey in fered to the black man for order to receive His favor. the first time — the o n c e EVERYONE must submit slave in America — and it is the last time that i t will be to Him. This Law works throughout the universe. I t offered to him. was with the Creator in the ISLAM means entire sub- beginning — entire submismission to the Will of Allah sion to the Will of Almighty (God), in the English lan- Allah (God). The reason it is guage and in its original lan- offered to the so - called guage, the Arabic, it means American Negro is to bring the same, only with signifi- the so-called American Necance applied which takes us gro into the favor of Allah further into the knowledge of —since they have been dethe word ISLAM. I f it means entire submission to the Will (Continued on page 14)
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