“They wait for naught, but that Allah should come to them in the shadows of the clouds with angels, and the matter has (already) been decided. And to Allah are (all) matters returned.”
—Holy Qur’an 2:210
The raising of the Nation of Islam National Flag on the grounds of The National Center in Chicago in 2023.
It is narrated on the authority of ‘Abdullah b. Umar that the Messenger of Allah (may peace be upon him) said: I found myself one night near the Ka’ba, and I saw a man with wheat complexion amongst the fair−complexioned men that you ever saw.
He had a lock of hair the most beautiful of the locks that you ever saw. He had combed it. Water was trickling out of them. He was leaning on two men, or on the shoulders of two men, and he was circumscribing the Ka’ba. I asked, What is he? It was said: He is al−Masih son of Mary.
—Sahih Muslim 169a
It is in Point No. 12 of “What the Muslims Believe” that the Most Honorable Elijah Muhammad boldly declares the following:
“12. WE BELIEVE that Allah (God) appeared in the Person of Master W. Fard Muhammad, July 1930; the long-awaited ‘Messiah’ of the Christians and the ‘Mahdi’ of the Muslims. We believe further and lastly that Allah is God and besides HIM there is no god, and He will bring about a universal government of peace wherein we all can live in peace together.”
In addition, He notes within his very important book titled, “The Fall of America,” in chapter 16, Independence Day: “So, it was with the coming of Allah (God) in the Person of Master Fard Muhammad, to Whom praises are due forever, on His coming to us, on the 4th of July 1930.
His presence meant the destruction of the independence of the white race and especially, America over the Black man. Allah (God) visited the Black slave, for he is more in need of help to enjoy freedom of self.”
Prophecy fulfilled
As documented from the above excerpts you have the reason behind the Nation of Islam’s observance of the day, July 4th. We, the Nation of Islam, are not celebrating America’s independence from the British crown, for at that time in 1776, Black men and women were enslaved in America.
No, we are celebrating the founding of the Nation of Islam in America by Allah (God) in Person and the Great Mahdi, Master W. Fard Muhammad. He came to declare the Black people of America independent from White rule and subjugation. This aspect of His coming corresponds to the scriptures concerning the Day of the Lord coming as a thief in the night:
“But understand this: If the homeowner had known in which watch of the night the thief was coming, he would have kept watch and would not have let his house be broken into.”
—Matthew 24:23
Master W. Fard Muhammad seized upon a time when the rulers of America were preoccupied with celebrations of their own independence. He caught them off guard due to their celebratory focus; like the thief who comes in the night while the homeowner is asleep and unaware.
When we, the Nation of Islam, celebrate July 4th, 1930, we are not just celebrating the founding of the Nation of Islam in America. We are celebrating the fulfillment of the greatest of all prophecies; the prophecies concerning the Coming of God!
A critical scripture that should be appreciated is Ezekiel 1:1. It states: “Now it came to pass in the thirtieth year, in the fourth month, on the fifth day of the month, as I was among the captives by the River Chebar, that the heavens were opened, and I saw visions of God.”—NKJV
Consider how this passage of scripture corresponds to July 4th, 1930.
We gain great spiritual insight into this verse by considering that Ezekiel is a very special and controversial book of the Bible. The Rabbinical leadership of the Jewish community once sought to have this book removed from the Biblical canon.
The 30th year: This verse Ezekiel 1:1 makes a reference to there being a “vision of God” among a people described as captives (i.e. slaves); and that this took place in the 30th year. This corresponds to the 30th year of the 20th Century CE, which is 1930.
The 4th month: This verse makes a reference to the 4th month being the month wherein Ezekiel was among an enslaved people while he has a vision of God’s appearance. I am reminded of how once upon a time when the measurement of years in the Western world was governed by the Julian calendar, the month of July was the 4th month of the year.
This was during the time when the month of April was the first month of the year. Today the passing of years is governed in the Western Hemisphere according to the Gregorian calendar, where July is the 7th month.
This history is the source of the now famous “April Fool’s Day.” For all who resisted the change from the Julian Calendar to the Gregorian Calendar were called “April’s Fools.”
The 5th day: Ezekiel 1:1 also makes a reference to the “5th day.” In the Eastern Hemisphere the new day begins before it does in the Western Hemisphere. This fact is reflected in time zone differences and is measured in hours.
The Prophet Ezekiel’s vision of God, which provided him with foresight into the future, details God appearing on the 5th day. However, there is a 7-hour time difference between Detroit and Jerusalem, where the Prophet Ezekiel is believed to have had his vision. This means that when it is 12:00 a.m. on July 5th in Jerusalem, Palestine, it is just 5:00 p.m. on July 4th in Detroit, Michigan.
These considerations help us to see that the Coming of Master W. Fard Muhammad on July 4th, 1930, is the fulfillment of what Ezekiel had a vision of according to the Bible in Ezekiel 1:1!
The Best Knower
In the Holy Qur’an, Allah identifies Himself as “The Best Knower.” It is sometimes an expression of Muslims to say “Allahu-Alam” or “Allah Knows Best.” When I think about Master W. Fard Muhammad, my heart is filled with love for Him.
For even though His work in person among us was only three-and-a-half years, He left a wisdom with us that has endured. We see the daily evidence that He brought to us a truth that is in fact a verifiable body of supreme wisdom. Below are just a few examples:
Dietary teachings proven true: The Supreme Wisdom and comprehensive Knowledge of Master W. Fard Muhammad are increasingly being borne witness to as true by an abundance of scientific research.
His dietary Teachings of “How to Eat to Live” that centers as its primary component the eating of only one meal every 24-hours has become quite popular in recent years.
According to an article published by John Hopkins scientist Dr. Mark Mattson, titled: “Intermittent Fasting: What Is It, And How Does It Work?” the one meal a day eating prescription of Master W. Fard Muhammad has many science-backed benefits. Referring to one meal a day as a form of intermittent fasting, Dr. Mattson points out the following:
Research shows fasting for a certain number of hours each day or eating just one meal a couple days a week may have health benefits. Here are some intermittent fasting benefits research has revealed so far:
Thinking and memory: Studies discovered that intermittent fasting boosts working memory in animals and verbal memory in adult humans.
Heart health: Intermittent fasting improved blood pressure and resting heart rates as well as other heart-related measurements
Physical performance: Young men who fasted for 16 hours showed fat loss while maintaining muscle mass. Mice who were fed on alternate days showed better endurance in running.
Type 2 diabetes and obesity: In animal studies, intermittent fasting prevented obesity. And, in six brief studies, obese adult humans lost weight through intermittent fasting.
People with type 2 diabetes may benefit: Most of the available research shows that intermittent fasting can help people lose body weight and lower their levels of fasting glucose, fasting insulin and leptin while reducing insulin resistance, decreasing levels of leptin and increasing levels of adiponectin.
Mother Plane teachings proven true: Master W. Fard Muhammad taught the Most Honorable Elijah Muhammad and His early followers in Detroit about the existence of the “mother of all planes.”
He is the first to publicly teach, with detail and accuracy, the reality of what was once called UFOs (unidentified flying objects) and has now been re-branded as UAPs (unidentified aerial phenomena).
Once dismissed as swamp gas and weather balloons, the U.S. Government has now finally acknowledged the existence of what Master W. Fard Muhammad first introduced to the minds of the Black residents of the neighborhood known as Black Bottom in Detroit in the 1930s!
His knowledge of this reality proves that He is the Best Knower among us and the wisest of all scientists! His revealing to Black people in America what the most powerful men in America were ignorant of corresponds to the Bible’s verse in Matthew 11:25 where it reads:
“At that time Jesus answered and said, I thank thee, O Father, Lord of heaven and earth, because thou hast hid these things from the wise and prudent, and hast revealed them unto babes.”
Original Man teachings proven true: Master W. Fard Muhammad taught the Most Honorable Elijah Muhammad that the Black Man and Woman are the Original people of the planet Earth; the first human beings. Now books like Stephen Oppenheimer’s “The Real Eve” that traces the mitochondria; Inheritance of Mitochondrial DNA
Mitochondrial DNA is inherited maternally, meaning it is passed down from mothers to their offspring
This unique inheritance pattern is used in genetic studies and ancestry tracing DNA of global humanity back to the remains of an ancient Black woman in Africa to prove what Master Fard Muhammad taught was true.
We should take note of the Honorable Minister Louis Farrakhan’s 2013 webcast series, “The Time and What Must Be Done” where he publicized the previously downplayed research of scientists who have researched the origin of the White man.
Minister Farrakhan made known how their research is a scientific vindication of Master W. Fard Muhammad’s Divine Revelation to the Most Honorable Elijah Muhammad. In part 39, Minister Farrakhan said in part, “Guess what?
The scientists are now agreeing with the Honorable Elijah Muhammad about the time of the White race’s appearance on our planet, and their nature! Oh, so many have mocked and ridiculed Mr. Muhammad’s Teachings about ‘Yakub’; that he said,
‘Allah taught him’ that the White man first appeared 6,000 years ago on an island in the Aegean Sea called Pelan, or ‘Patmos’—but White scientists are now confirming the reality of this event in their history, and this revelation from Allah to the Honorable Elijah Muhammad!
Incredibly, Dr. Jonathon Pritchard estimates that the point in time when the genes of the Asian and European populations were altered was ‘6,600 years ago’—the exact date that the Honorable Elijah Muhammad taught that Mr. Yakub began his Patmos Island grafting process!”
The Love and Salvation of Master Fard Muhammad
A most important fact about Master W. Fard Muhammad that we should embrace as a people is His great demonstrated love for us. In fact, an argument can be made that the Black man and woman of America received no substantive outpouring of love and concern from neither Africa, Asia, nor the Muslim World before the appearance of Master W. Fard Muhammad.
The purpose for His divine visitation of Black people in America is now being vindicated. His prioritization of our restoration and renewal is also now being vindicated.
For just a few months ago on March 25, 2026, the United Nations General Assembly documented the affirmative vote of 123 nations attesting to the following resolution: “Declaration of the Trafficking of Enslaved Africans and Racialized Chattel Enslavement of Africans as the Gravest Crime against Humanity”
The world has now born witness that what happened to Black people in America via the Trans-atlantic Slave Trade is the gravest crime in human existence! This vote means that our suffering is beyond the suffering produced in the Jewish Holocaust.
It means that our suffering is beyond the carnage of World War I and World War II. If what happened to us is the gravest crime in human history; then our suffering represents the problem for which the nations of the Earth have had no response and been powerless to answer.
It is our suffering therefore, that calls forth the divine and holy intervention of Allah (God) on our behalf. As the Bible states in Exodus 3:8-9: “And I am come down to deliver them out of the hand of the Egyptians.
And to bring them up out of that land unto a good land, unto a land flowing with milk and honey; … Now therefore, behold, the cry of the children of Israel is come unto me: and I have also seen the oppression wherewith the Egyptians oppress them.”
We thank Allah for His divine and merciful intervention in our affairs in the person of Master W. Fard Muhammad! He said to the Most Honorable Elijah Muhammad on September 7, 1933: “I have treasured all my life love for the lost-found nation of Islam … .”
The evidence of His great love for us abounds in many examples. But to me, I find the greatest demonstration of His love for us in the two divine servants that He has prepared to serve as guides and examples for us.
Prophet Muhammad (peace be upon him) in his hadith described a messianic man that he saw in a vision that had a wheat-colored complexion; and that this messianic man would be leaning upon the shoulders of two other men as they circumambulate the Kabah that houses the “Black Stone.”
This hadith, in my humble judgment, symbolized the love of Allah (God) in the Person of Master W. Fard Muhammad, and His placing on the shoulders of the Most Honorable Elijah Muhammad and the Honorable Minister Louis Farrakhan the weight of a divine mission.
That mission is to resurrect the Black people of America from a place of degradation to a place of divine significance on the world stage; that one day our people would be like the symbolic “Black Stone” attracting the admiration and reverential attention of the nations of the Earth!
All Praise Belongs to Allah! Happy July 4th!
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.