Elijah Muhammad

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Noun1.Elijah Muhammad - leader of Black Muslims who campaigned for independence for Black Americans (1897-1975)Elijah Muhammad - leader of Black Muslims who campaigned for independence for Black Americans (1897-1975)
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After the death of Elijah Muhammad in 1975, there were unsuccessful attempts to shed the idiosyncratic elements of belief by Wallace Muhammad, Elijah's seventh (legitimate) child, who formed the Muslim American Society.
In 1934 he disappeared from public record, and Elijah Muhammad succeeded him as leader of the Nation of Islam.
He has led the organization since 1978, after former leader Elijah Muhammad's son made substantial changes after his father's death.
College presidents are punished for allowing me or anyone that represents me to come on the college campus because they fear what's in my mouth from my teacher the Honorable Elijah Muhammad.
He claims that according to the Qur'an, as interpreted by Elijah Muhammad, the fast is properly observed in December.
Athletes featured on the cruise include Rich Froning, Brooke Wells, Josh Bridges, Dan Bailey, Patrick Vellner, Chyna Cho, Margaux Alvarez, Conor Murphy, Jen Smith, Elijah Muhammad and more.
National Representative of the Honorable Elijah Muhammad
We who follow the Honorable Elijah Muhammad feel that when you try and pass integration laws here in America, forcing white people to pretend that they are accepting black people, what you are doing is making white people act in a hypocritical way.
Despite the large size and visibility of the original pre-1975 Nation of Islam, Black orthodox Muslims often clashed with the Nation of Islam's religious doctrine's concept of race and understanding of Tawheed (the Islamic concept of monotheism), occasionally leading up to the denunciation of Elijah Muhammad and his teachings on the behalf of major orthodox organizations.
Interestingly enough, his conversion did not come through fellow prisoners but by being introduced to the teachings of the NOI's founder, Prophet Elijah Muhammad, by his family outside jail.
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