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Elijah Muhammad

Elijah Muhammad (born Elijah Robert Poole; October 7, 1897 – February 25, 1975) was an African American religious leader, who led the Nation of Islam (NOI) from 1934 until his death in 1975. He was a mentor to Malcolm X, Louis Farrakhan and Muhammad Ali, as well as his own son, Warith Deen Mohammed.

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Accept your own and be yourself!

Accept, Accepting, Being Yourself

Reviling a Muslim is disobedience to God, and fighting with him is infidelity.

Fighting, Infidelity, Islam, Muslim, Reviling

Four things support the world: the learning of the wise, the justice of the great, the prayers of the good, and the valor of the brave

Brave, Four, Memorial Day, Prayer, Valor, Wise

First, my people must be taught the knowledge of self. Then and only then will they be able to under-stand others and that which surrounds them. Anyone who does not have a knowledge of self is considered a victim of either amnesia or unconsciousness and is not very competent. The lack of knowledge of self is a prevailing condition among my people here in America. Gaining the knowledge of self makes us unite into a great unity. Knowledge of self makes you take on the great virtue of learning.

America, Among, Condition, People, Self, Surrounds

Whoever is humble to men for God's sake, may God exalt his eminence.

Eminence, Humble, May, Men, Sake

One hour's meditation on the work of the Creator is better than seventy years of prayer.

Meditation, Prayer, Seventy, Years

Accept your place in the sun as it was originally before the creation of this world. . . The black man is the first and last, maker and owner of the universe.

Accept, Black, Maker, Men, Originally, World

By God ye shall be called to account for your doings!

Account, Book, Doings, God, Holy

Acquire knowledge. It enables its possessor to distinguish right from wrong; it lights the way to Heaven; it is our friend in the desert, our society in solitude, our companion when friendless; it guides us to happiness; it sustains us in misery; it is an ornament among our friends and an armor against enemies.

Acquire, Friends, Guides, Happiness, Heaven, Light

One hour of contemplation surpasses sixty years of worship.

Contemplation, Inspiration, Meditation Practice, Sixty, Years

Love of self comes first. The one who loves everybody is the one who does not love anyone.

Doe, Everybody, Love, Loves, Self, Self Love

The search of knowledge is an obligation laid on every Muslim.

Islam, Knowledge, Muslim, Obligation

The Negro wants to be everything but himself. . . He wants to integrate with the white man, but he cannot integrate with himself or with his own kind. The Negro wants to lose his identity because he does not know his own identity.

Identity, Kind, Man, Men, White, White Man

If anyone removes (one of the) anxieties of this world from a believer, God will remove (one of the) anxieties from him on the Day of Resurrection; if one smoothes the way for one who is destitute, God will smooth the way for him in this world and the next; and if anyone conceals the faults of a Muslim, God will conceal his faults in this world and the next. God helps a man as long as he helps his brother. If anyone pursues a path in search of knowledge God will thereby make easy for him a path to paradise.

Brother, Knowledge, Men, Paradise, Remove, Smoothes

On a certain day shall every soul come to plead for itself, and every soul shall be repaid according to its deeds; and they shall not be wronged.

According, Book, Certain, Deeds, Soul, Wronged

He who believes in God and the Last Day should honour his guest; he who believes in God and the Last Day should not annoy his neighbours; and he who believes in God and the Last Day should say what is good or keep silent.

Annoy, Believe, Guests, Honour, Say, Silence

Discard your former slave-master's names and be willing and ready to accept one of Allah's Pure and Righteous Names that He Alone will give our people from His Own Mouth! A good name is, indeed, better than gold.

Accept, Alone, Giving, Name, Names, People

There are three signs of a hypocrite: when he speaks he speaks lies, when he makes a promise he breaks it, and when he is trusted he betrays his trust.

Betrayal, Betrays, Hypocrite, Lying, Signs, Trust

Your Lord is bountiful to mankind: yet most of them do not give thanks.

Giving, Gratitude, Lord, Mankind, Thanks

Whatever good works ye send on before [death]. . . ye shall find with God.

Before Death, Book, Death, God, Good, Good Work

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