On a right course: Divine Servants yesterday and today
As we pause to celebrate the 129th birth anniversary of the Most Honorable Elijah Muhammad, it helps to appreciate how time, circumstances and current events are converging to vindicate Him, His Divine program, and His position.
As the Honorable Minister Louis Farrakhan has taught us, the Most Honorable Elijah Muhammad wanted the best for us as a people. He taught to the Black man and woman of America what Allah, in the Person of Master W. Fard Muhammad, revealed to Him. He has been faithful to that divinely revealed message and has never wavered from it, even in the face of critics both large and small.
The criticism of the Most Honorable Elijah Muhammad’s Divine message, contrary to popular belief, is an important component part of the mountain of evidence that not only vindicates His Divine message but also vindicates Him in His bold declaration of being the divine Messenger of Allah.
For the scriptures record that Allah (God) made every Prophet and Messenger endure and face criticism, slander and the rebuke of the “chiefs and leaders of the people.”
In a very important and relevant passage of scripture from the Holy Qur’an, we find a scene that harmonizes with the life and work of the Nation of Islam.
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According to the Holy Qur’an, Surah (Chapter) 36:12-21, we read the following:
“Surely, We give life to the dead, and We write down that which they send before and their footprints, and We record everything in a clear writing. And set out to them a parable of the people of the town, when apostles came to it. When We sent to them two, they rejected them both; then We strengthened (them) with a third, so they said:
Surely we are sent to you. They said: You are only mortals like ourselves, nor has the Beneficent revealed anything—you only lie. They said: Our Lord knows that we are surely sent to you. And our duty is only a clear deliverance (of the message).
They said: Surely we augur evil from you. If you desist not, we will surely stone you, and a painful chastisement from us will certainly afflict you. They said: Your evil fortune is with you. What! If you are reminded! Nay, you are an extravagant people.
And from the remote part of the city there came a man running. He said: O my people, follow the apostles. Follow him who asks of you no reward, and they are on the right course.”
Reading this passage makes me think about the Work and Divine message of Master W. Fard Muhammad, the Most Honorable Elijah Muhammad, and the Honorable Minister Louis Farrakhan.
For the past 96 years of the Nation of Islam’s history in America, these Three Men have been “on the right course,” from their Lord and have worked hard to lead the Black community to that right course.
Time vindicates the Nation of Islam
Proving that the Nation of Islam has been on “the right course” is easy, for we only need look at and consider how the divine guidance offered to Black America from the Nation of Islam is being daily confirmed as the best guidance, a guidance we should have long since been following.
For even after the passage of the Civil Rights bill—a hard-fought achievement of the Civil Rights Movement’s leaders—it was the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. who became melancholy as he lamented that he feared that he had integrated his people into a “burning house.”
An overview of key elements of the Most Honorable Elijah Muhammad’s Teachings helps make the point that Black America should have chosen en masse to follow the program and position of the Most Honorable Elijah Muhammad and the Nation of Islam.
Long before America earned the dubious distinction of having the most violent weather in the world, and the phenomenon of “survival preppers,” the Most Honorable Elijah Muhammad taught His followers to store up food, water, and supplies in preparation for hard times that He foretold were coming to America.
Long before modern-day scientists and health professionals were advocating what they call the “OMAD (One Meal A Day) Diet,” the Most Honorable Elijah Muhammad was teaching His beloved Black people that Allah (God) had revealed to Him that eating one meal a day was the best way for us to preserve our health and prolong our life.
Long before the economic crisis and rising inflation that is gripping the country, He taught us to pool our resources and develop our own economy.
Long before the rise of genetically modified foods and poisonous artificial additives in foods, He taught us to buy farmland and to grow our own foods.
Long before the popularity of sexual perversity within the entertainment industry became a norm, He insisted that the Black man and woman adopt a moral lifestyle and that we not participate in the decadent “social equality” of our former slave masters and their children.
Long before the various state governments began banning Black History in the public school system, He taught us to take our children out of those schools and to establish an independent school system to educate our beautiful and brilliant Black sons and daughters.
Long before there was a human trafficking craze that has included some 64,000 missing Black and Indigenous women and girls, He taught us to respect and protect our women even if it costs us our life.
Long before the political divisiveness of partisan politics began to threaten the unity of the American government as we know it, He warned the Black community against putting our trust in the outcome of the National Elections.
Portraits of regret: Woe to the rejectors
The Holy Qur’an helps us in adopting the perspective of Allah (God) in all affairs of life. It makes us know that time and circumstances frequently converge by Allah’s command to “establish for the believers their religion.”
The proving of the Teachings of the Most Honorable Elijah Muhammad as taught by the Honorable Minister Louis Farrakhan confirms the truth of the teachings within the hearts and minds of the believers.
The critics, however, are referred to in the Holy Qur’an as being filled with regret when Allah (God) causes the proof to be made known. Consider the following portraits of regret found within the noble narrative of the Holy Qur’an:
“On the day when their leaders are turned back into the Fire, they say: O would that we had obeyed Allah and obeyed the Messenger!”—Surah 33:66
“And on the day when the wrongdoer will bite his hands, saying: Would that I had taken a way with the Messenger!”—Surah 25:27
“And if We had destroyed them with chastisement before it, they would have said: Our Lord, why didst Thou not send to us a messenger, so that we might have followed Thy messages before we met disgrace and shame?”— Surah 20:134
The modern-Day critics of Divine Messengers are the slanderers of the Most Hon. Elijah Muhammad, Min. Farrakhan and the Nation of Islam. Their slanderous pursuit of the Nation of Islam follows the blueprints of infamous FBI chief J. Edgar Hoover.
Hoover spoke of fomenting discord and strife among strong groups and organizations within the Black community and using “bureau-friendly” media to do it. From his infamous COINTELPRO memos, he espoused developing tactics to destroy the Nation of Islam in the following:
“A final goal should be to prevent the long. range growth of militant Black nationalist organizations, especially among youth. Specific tactics to prevent these groups from converting young people must he developed.
The Primary Targets of Counter-Intelligence Program:
Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC)
Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC)
Revolutionary Action Movement (RAM)
Nation of Islam (N.O.I.)
—Memo dated: 3-4-68, J. Edgar Hoover
Noise of critics drowned out by prominent voices of appreciation
Despite the murmuring of misguided critics, a growing chorus of prominent voices lauds the Most Honorable Elijah Muhammad, the Honorable Minister Farrakhan and the Nation of Islam.
The idea of an independent Black nation espoused by the Most Honorable Elijah Muhammad is enjoying a renewed interest among many in the Black community who have become frustrated at the woeful political and economic conditions that prevail within the Black community. Some noteworthy voices of appreciation include the following:
Charlamagne Tha God: “You got to do what the Honorable Elijah Muhammad was doing, which was focusing [on doing for self and building independent institutions].”
Source: “Charlamagne tha God talks Black political strategy, Jay Electronica and JAY-Z,” —The Final Call, March 25, 2020.
Dr. Boyce Watkins: “As Minister Farrakhan has said … [he] is really pushing us to do for self and to really understand the importance of economic independence. If we do not save ourselves, nobody else is going to do it. The same people that you give the power to feed you also have the power to starve you.”
Source: “‘If we do not save ourselves, nobody else is going to do it’: The All Black National Convention pushes for economic independence.”—The Final Call, September 8, 2025
Killer Mike: “It’s amazing that we’ve lost so many things that that organization [Nation of Islam]—whether you believe religiously what they believe or not—the organization, the organized movement of Black people structurally has been amazing.
Took men who were in jail, out of jail, gave them a paper route, but that taught them entrepreneurship, and with that entrepreneurship they went on to open businesses. So, I think oftentimes when we’re searching for answers, the answers are there.”
Source: The Price of Integrity ft. Charlamagne tha God | Conversate with Killer Mike ep. 3
This all points to the great prophecy of the Holy Qur’an being fulfilled. Surah 9:32 states:
“They desire to put out the light of Allah with their mouths, and Allah will allow nothing save the perfection of His light, though the disbelievers are averse.”
We thank Allah (God) that we are alive at this very special time; this “great and dreadful day.” It is the day when we are witnessing the Most Honorable Elijah Muhammad’s greatest student, helper and National Representative, the Honorable Minister Louis Farrakhan.
It is in Minister Farrakhan’s Ministry and Mission that has given birth to this season of proof and evidence as the confirmation of Divine revelation!
The wisdom of the Most Honorable Elijah Muhammad perfectly anticipated the current conditions in America; the time is now for a serious reappraisal of his wise program for Black people in America; reappraisal and the building of consensus around the strategic implementation of Muhammad’s divine solutions.
Long Live Muhammad!
Brother Demetric Muhammad is a Memphis-based author and student minister in the Nation of Islam and a member of the Nation of Islam Research Group. Follow him on X @BrotherDemetric. Read more at www.researchminister.com.
