Culture Devils by Prince A. Farad

There are those who have reinterpreted texts from actual facts to mythological symbols. They have taken real devils and made them character defects. They teach that devils are hatred, lust, envy and greed. When the question is asked, why does Muhammad and any Muslim murder the devil four devils, in particular, this is not a reference to hatred, lust, envy, and greed. Those are not devils; those are character defects. W.D. Farad was the sole author of those texts, and Elijah Muhammad was his best known initiate and chief expositor. Examine their histories and what they taught in reference to the subject at hand. Elijah Muhammad said to Hatim Sahib, “W.D. Farad did teach us that everyone [that] kills four devils at the proper time he will have free transportation to Mecca. This teaching had stirred the police department in Detroit against him. Ever since [then] they began to persecute and charge us with various charges.” (Hatim A. Sahib, The Nation of Islam,” unpublished dissertation for M.A., Department of Sociology, University of Chicago (December 1951), pp. 95) When Farad was arrested in Detroit in November, 1932, the local newspaper reported: “Records and ritual books found in the place were taken to [police] headquarters for examination. Several sections were found which were interpreted as an indication of the sanguinary purposes of the religious ‘teachings.’ One reads: ‘Every son of Islam must gain victory from a devil. Four victories, and the son will attain his award.’ ” (“Raided Temple Bares Grip of Voodoo in City,” Detroit Free Press, November 23, 1932, pps. 1, 3). Rather than accept recent fabrications and misinterpretations on face value, students would do well to read the histories of the Kenyan “Mau Mau,” the Indian “Thuggee,” the Chinese “Boxers,” and our own “B.L.A.” Elijah Muhammad had said much later: “Satan, the devil, is not going to take you and set you down in his seat, and then get up and walk away from it. You have to take him out of the seat.” (Elijah Muhammad, Theology of Time (Rassoull version-1992), pp. 482). Who is the devil he’s talking about? Isn’t it strange that devils know this is a reference to themselves, not “hatred, lust, envy, or greed,” and individuals claiming to be 5% and “having knowledge of self,” know less than a devil? Didn’t Allah used to say: “Study your lessons”? So why do these people love and fear the devils now that they are grown men? You know the answer. Time will come when Allah will take the devil off the planet Earth and like Elijah said, “You have to take him out” yourself. Marcus Garvey asked: “Where is the Black man’s government? Where is his king and kingdom? Where is his President, his country, and his ambassador, his army, his navy, his men of big affairs?” (Marcus Garvey, Philosophy and Opinions (1986), pp. 126) Get with the Program, the Universal Liberation Movement Program.