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Yakub was born a short distance outside the city, and was among the third of original black people who were discontented with life in this society. [2] A member of the Meccan branch of the Tribe of Shabazz , Yakub acquired the nickname "big head", because of his unusually large head and arrogance.
Elijah Muhammad (born Elijah Robert Poole; October 7, 1897 – February 25, 1975) was an American religious leader, black separatist, and self-proclaimed Messenger of Allah who led the Nation of Islam (NOI) from 1933 until his death in 1975.
'going about') is one of the Islamic rituals of pilgrimage and is compulsory during both the Hajj and Umrah. Pilgrims go around the Kaaba (the most sacred site in Islam) seven times in a counterclockwise direction; the first three at a hurried pace on the outer part of the Mataaf and the latter four times closer to the Kaaba at a leisurely pace ...
Fard Muhammad claimed that he was an Arab from Mecca who had come to the United States on a mission to the African-American people, whom he called the "Nation of Islam", to restore them to their original faith. [268] The Nation has since taught that Fard Muhammad was Allah himself. [269]
The NOI has been seen by some as attempting to be its own religion separate of Islam. [citation needed] The first book analyzing the Nation of Islam was The Black Muslims in America (1961) by C. Eric Lincoln. [citation needed] Lincoln describes how religious services use myths and over-generalizations to indoctrinate NOI adherents.
The Five-Percent emblem, also known as the Universal Flag of Islam (I-Self Lord and Master). [1] Clarence 13X, the founder of the Nation of Gods and Earths. The Five-Percent Nation, sometimes referred to as the Nation of Gods and Earths (NGE/NOGE) or the Five Percenters, is an Afro-American Nationalist movement influenced by the Nation of Islam founded in 1964 in the Harlem section of the ...
The teaching of the Jehovah's Witnesses has been called "the most obvious non-Islamic source for [Fard's] teachings". [80] Fard was known to teach from what a Detroit newspaper described as "The Bible of Islam"; in 2023, the book was identified as Deliverance! by Joseph Franklin Rutherford, of the Watch Tower Society or Jehovah's Witnesses. [81]
Tubal-cain or Tubalcain (Hebrew: תּוּבַל קַיִן – Tūḇal Qayīn) is a person mentioned in the Bible, in Genesis 4:22, named therein as the first blacksmith. He is stated as the "forger of all instruments of bronze and iron". A descendant of Cain, he was the son of Lamech and Zillah.