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Malcolm X — Part 4
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"first time to think for themselves, end are turning
daily, away from the segregated Christian church, and
rejoining the ranks of our Darker Brothers and Sisters
of the East, whose anceetral faith is the age-old
religion of ISLaM, the true religion of Dark Mankind
the true religion of our foreparents.
"The Spiritual Leader and Teacher of the
many thousands of ‘new converts! here in Black America
is MESSENGER ELIJAH MUHAMMAD, one of the most feared
and revered men in the Western Hemisphere,
"In order to form a just appreeiation of the
religion that is being taught by MESSENGER ELIJAH MUHAMMAD,
it is necessary to understand the true significance of the
ARABIC word 'ISLAM! . . . Salaam (salama) in its primary
sense, mens to be tranqwilll, at reset, to have done one's
duty, to Have paid up, to be at perfect peace: in tts
secondary senss it means, to surrender oneself to Him
{the Supreme Being, ALLAh) with whom peace is made,
The noun (salaam) which is derived fvom it means peace,
greeting, salvation, safety, submission to righteousness,
The ARABIC word Muslim (Moslem) means, one who is
subnissive, obedient and at peace with Almighty God
ALLAH . . » one who ia striving (on earth) arter
righteousness (on earth}.
"Before we heard the teachings of MESSENGER
MUHAMMAD, we American so-called Negroes were in the
grave of Ignorance. We had teen taught by cur
Christian Slavemaster, as well as by our own igrorant
religious leaders, that God had cursed us black and
sentenced us te a lifetime on earth of servitude to
the Christian white race.
"The same Slavemaster's Christian religion
taught us for pvomised us) that we so-called Negroes
would sprout wings after death and fly wp inte tie
sky where God would have a place e.pecially prepared
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