From interviews with approximately 200 families who followed Fard, Beynon concluded: "Although the prophet lived in Detroit from July 4, 1930 until June 30, 1934, virtually nothing is known about him, save that he 'came from the East' and that he 'called' the Negroes of North America to enter the Nation of Islam. However, Minister Malcolm X and other leaders of the Nation of Islam have emphatically denied any past connection whatsoever of Elijah Muhammad, Master Wallace Fard Muhammad, or their movement with Nobel Drew Ali's Moorish American Science Temple."[57]. The 2 smear campaigns that were released also have me wondering what the agency hoped to accomplish. It was an independent monarchy and other than a few missionaries and traders the population was almost entirely native Hawaiian. Fards First Temple of Islam included the Fruit of Islam, a military-like organization of black male converts, a Muslim Girls Training Corps Class and a University of Islam which, despite its name, was mainly focused on elementary and high-school level education. Updates? Fard through a vent. A few of them had come under the influence of the Moorish-American cult which succeeded it. A Fred Dodd married Pearl Allen in Portland, Oregon in 1914. Modern Nation of Islam theology is based upon the belief that Fard's teaching of Elijah Muhammad was fulfillment of scripture regarding God's teaching of an Apostle, where Fard is described as "God in Person", the "Messiah", and the "Mahdi". He arrived in Detroit in 1930 with an obscure background and several aliases, and taught an idiosyncratic form of what he considered Islam to members of the city's black population. 1, List of people who have been considered deities, "Wallace D. Fard American religious leader", "Nation of Islam at a crossroad as leader exits", "Louis Farrakhan says billionaires 'paying off' black preachers, politicians", "Nation of Islam resonates in Detroit as it returns home for convention", "The Nation of Islam could be Chicago's savior", "Coverage Of "The Voodoo Murders" Mythic Detroit", Appendices: A. He appeared in Detroit in 1930 and had an obscure background and used several aliases. He told followers he was born in the holy city of Mecca, and his light-skinned appearance, courtesy of his Russian Jewish mother, was pre-ordained so that he could more easily mix with white people. Here in America they were living other than themselves. But both Zared and Beatrice were said to have been born in Hawaii. ), Mecca-born founder of the Nation of Islam (sometimes called Black Muslim) movement in the United States. Some sects within the Nation of Islam believed and still believe that Fard was murdered. He denounced white people and incited racial hatred. https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/f/f3/Wallace_Fard_Muhammad.jpg. Islam in the African AmericanExperience. They must clean themselves up both their bodies and their houses. Fard immigrated to the United States sometime before 1930. The FBI maintained an open file on Fard Muhammad up until as late as 1960, according to documents published through the Freedom of Information Act. You have not yet seen me in my royal robes.' The NOI teaches that Wallace Fard Muhammad was an avatar of Allah, who came to America to educate on this forgotten history. I remember researching the noi's history and finding out about what you have written. https://www.encyclopedia.com/religion/legal-and-political-magazines/fard-w-d-c-1877-1934-religious-and-political-leader, African American Religions: Muslim Movements, Muhammad, Elijah Karriem (18971975), Religious and Political Leader. Fard, they say, was born in 1877, which would make him 53 in 1930. In Middlesex, Fard is revealed to be Desdemonas brother-in-law, who had been presumed dead after a rum-running incident. He began to denounce the Bible, criticizing its passages, to the shock of his followers, until eventually he phased out his Bible readings and began teaching from the Quran. [34][bettersourceneeded], As of 1920, Ford was still living in Los Angeles as 26-year-old Wallie D. Ford, with his 25-year-old wife, Hazel E. Ford. I worked with a devout follower of the noi. He lived in Los Angeles with a woman named Hazel Ford. Therefore, its best to use Encyclopedia.com citations as a starting point before checking the style against your school or publications requirements and the most-recent information available at these sites: http://www.chicagomanualofstyle.org/tools_citationguide.html. Farrakhan referred to the knowledge that Fard passed onto the NOI as actual facts. (The speech is at the Nations Web site at www.noi.org.). var rcel = document.createElement("script"); Karriem cited a quotation from a book entitled Secret Rituals of the Lost-Found Nation of Islam, authored by Wallace D. Fard Muhammad, which read, The believer must be stabbed through the heart. This quote, as well as another stating, Every son of Islam must gain a victory from a devil. [11] In 2020, it attracted an estimated 14,000 participants. Did Shakespeare actually author the work attributed to his name? Also, in many ways, the Nation of Islams depiction of him as God could only work and be credible to potential members if his origins remained obscure and his disappearance permanent.. Wallace Fard Muhammad was the founder of the Nation of Islam. His concepts attracted hundreds of followers to the Allah Temple of Islam (ATI), as he called his group. He gained a reputation as a healer when his customers, after having adhered to the pork-free diet that Fard espoused, began noticing improvements in their health. [26], On November 20, 1932, James J. Smith, a black man, was killed by Robert Harris, who was his roommate and a member of the Nation of Islam, on a makeshift altar in what was described as a human sacrifice. In 1959, the FBI issued a smear story to a Chicago newspaper, claiming Fard was a Turk and a fascist sympathizer who had acted as a Nazi spy during World War II. Attendance at the house meetings grew until the listeners were divided into groups and taught in shifts. What seems most remarkable is that Fard seems to have utterly disappeared from the governments (especially the FBIs) radar after leaving Detroit in 1933. [16] From those interviews, Beynon wrote that Fard lived and taught in Detroit from 1930 to 1934. In as much as Elijah Muhammad recognizes W.D. Others asserted that he had returned to Mecca to prepare for his eventual return. The FBI officially claims this: Fard got into hot water when in May 1933, one of his followers performed a ritual murder as a sacrifice to God. ", Fard used the name "W. F. Muhammad" on several lessons written in 1933 and 1934. [citation needed], Efforts to trace the origins and life story of Fard have been extensive but have yielded only fragmentary results and not even his date of death is known; further complicating any efforts is the fact that only 5 pictures of Fard are known to exist, 4 being mugshots taken after various arrests and one being the official portrait by the Nation of Islam; most observers agreed they all belong to the same person which was confirmed via facial recognition analysis. In addition to the MLA, Chicago, and APA styles, your school, university, publication, or institution may have its own requirements for citations. [45] According to the FBI story, Fard was a "Muslim from Turkey who had come to the United States in the early 1900s. He said that he loved us (the so-called Negroes), his lost and found, so well that he would eat rattlesnakes to free us if necessary, for he has power over all things. On the draft card, "Ford" is written in parentheses in a different hand. rcel.type = 'text/javascript'; Within three years Fard had established several organizations: the "Temple of Islam," with its own worship style and rituals; the "University of Islam," to propagate his teachings; the "Muslim Girls Training," to teach female members home economics and how to be a proper Muslim woman; and the "Fruit of Islam," consisting of selected male members to provide security for the temple and Muslim leaders and to enforce the disciplinary rules. WebWallace Fard, also known as Master Wali Farrad Muhammad, founded the Lost and Found Nation of Islam and served as its leader until his mysterious disappearance in the early 1930s. Fard, which contains 40 questions answered by Elijah Muhammad, one of the lost found in the wilderness of North America February 20th, 1934."[25]. Fard, also known as Wallace Fard Muhammad, had a murky past. He wrote two books for the movement, The Secret Ritual of the Nation of Islam, which is transmitted orally to members; and Teaching for the Lost-Found Nation of Islam in a Mathematical Way, which is written in symbolic language and requires special interpretation. The marriage did not last even a year; Ford accused his wife of being an alcoholic and a bad spender. Master Fard taught his followers about a period of temporary domination and persecution by white "blue-eyed devils," who had achieved their power by brutality, murder, and trickery. He drew on various sources, including Noble Drew Ali's Moorish Science Temple of America, black nationalist trends like Garveyism, and black-oriented forms of Freemasonry. [17] He came to the homes of black families who had recently migrated to Detroit from the rural South. Ugh, I've been going back and forth for the past ten minutes trying to decide if I think the pictures in link 1 and link 2 are of the same person. Now, the Messenger and his Laborers worked day and night for the last three and one-half years, and their accomplishments are approximately twenty-five thousand"[25], In this lesson, Fard places the number of converts obtained in Detroit at 25,000, and he describes a "Messenger" sent to the "Lost-Found Nation of Islam" who is "of their own". Pan-Islam is the ideology that calls for the unity and cooperation of Muslims worldwide on the basis of their shared Islamic identity. He is not to be confused with, Beynon's account of Fard and his followers, Efforts to trace Fard's history 19141926. Wallace Fard Muhammad was the founder of the Nation of Islam. 44 records found for Wallace Rd, Oswego, KS 67356. According to his successor, Elijah Muhammad, Fard was an incarnation of God. On the 1920 U.S. Census, Ford gave his race as White, his birthplace as New Zealand, and his age as 26. Many people avoided him because of the wild things he sometimes said." Only a few things are certain. Black Muslims In 1934 he disappeared without a trace. Muhammad, Akbar. Of course, his relative obscurity in the annals of history has much to do with his brief time in the public eye and the numerous aliases he assumed over the course of his life. Their tainted, weakened blood was to blame for the white races immorality, which they frequently used to keep the black race in a perpetual state of half-freedom. 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