Dated 4-2-36 & 1-18-63

Written and Sent to All Students in the Ministery of Islam in the Wilderness of North America By Elijah Muhammad, Servant of Allah

First: History is all our studies. The most attractive, and best qualified to reward our research. As it developes the springs and motives of human actions, and displays the consequence of circumstances which operates most powerfully on the destines of the human being.

Second:  It stands true that we the Lost Found NATION, of ISLAM, in the wilderness of North America, have not applied ourselves to the study of History. But rather to folly. Having a lots of the bread of idleness, and when an effort was made to the above affect of History study, it was to our detriment by not knowing what History that was more valuable, to aid us in the knowledge of our own NATION.

THE WISE MAN, is the one who have made a careful study of the PAST events of ANCIENT and MODERN HISTORY. The KNOWLEDGE of the FUTURE is JUDGED by the KNOWLEDGE of the PAST. There are MEN born with a gift of PROPHECY. While some are trained into the KNOWLEDGE by intense studies of the PAST EVENTS OF HISTORY.

HOW DO WE ASCERTAIN THE PURITY OF A RELIGION?

First: By a thorough KNOWLEDGE of its FOUNDER'S Principle of  Belief in one God, the Originator of the Universe, and everything there in. The Creator and Recreator, not from Translators, but from the Founder of the Original Language and Dialect, the Spoke and Wrote.

Second: By the Principles of ACTION in which the FOUNDER and His followers carried into Practice.

Third: To search out any defect or falsity of Divine Being, or Plurality of Gods.

    How many of our so called God sent Preachers, have "or can read the Bible? Out of its Original Language. How many of our Preachers have applied themselves to the Study of the Arabic Language; So they could ascertain the purity of ISLAM from the HOLY QUR-AN in the Arabic Language? Or how many Preachers of  America, visited the HOLY CITY MECCA  and Arabia? How many Preachers have been to Rome Italy, the seat of the Christian Religion? There are many Preachers among our people who can not even read the Bible; and prfess to be teaching it. Some have never been out of the city or community in which he was reared in. But yet leading a group o fhis people, and disputing the words of the Wise Men of the East, who travel the world over and able to converse with practically every known dialect speaking people of the  Earth, and at the same time up holding every word of the white man his open enemy, and compelling his followers to do the same.

(SECOND PART)

To make known to our oppressed, robbed, degenerate, and rejected people the glad news of the presence of our long awaited DELIVERER who was to come, and has come. Whom we have seen and spoke Face to Face with him. THE GREAT JEHOVAH who was spoken of by all the Prophets from Moses to Jesus. Who would come in the last days, at the end of the two thousand years, and search the earth for the lost brother of Asia, who had fallen among strangers and was robbed of all we originally possessed. Praise be to Our Saviour and King, The Almighty: who has the Keys of Salvation to loose us out of the  prison of this wicked murderous devil, who kills our people all the day long, and ravishes our beautiful daughters, and make Harlots of our wives. Hang our Men and Boys on trees, or tie them to burning stakes. Praise ALLAH Our Saviour, who defends us from our enemies, and gives His Servant Power over whom he will.