The Meaning of As-Salaam-Alaikum
Shown Above: “As-Salaam-Alaikum” written in Arabic
The Meaning of As-Salaam-Alaikum
By Messenger Elijah Muhammad
Transcribed from an audio-taped radio broadcast
To the radio audience, I am Elijah Muhammad, the preacher of Freedom,
Justice and Equality, to the American so-called Negro. Not Negroes but
are really lost and found members of the great Black Asiatic Nation from
the Tribe of Shabazz as almighty God Allah has taught me in the Person of
Master Fard Muhammad to Whom Praises are due forever for coming in this
part of the world giving to us the knowledge of self, and the knowlege of
others. The knowledge of God and the knowledge of the devil and making
clear and understandable that which we had never before been able to
understand of the truth. Today we are thankful, who have heard this truth
coming from the mouth of almighty God, Allah, in the Person of Master
Fard Muhammad. Islam! The Muslims greeting…. This is always greeted
in the language of Arabic. Arabic language is that…..
The greetings, As-Salaam-Alaikum, which means peace – peace be to you- or
unto you. This is a very very good greeting words to use. The Western
world of mankind can not use the greetings of peace to one another
because they are not at peace with each other. Therefore there would be
absolutely false greeting if the world would try greeting each other with
peace. Especially the Western world. Therefore the greeting of peace is
the greeting of those whom we call the righteous, who are always at peace
with God, and at peace with man, and peace with himself. Therefore they
are justified in using this greeting of peace which is the greatest
greeting words that we know of. Long before the creation of this world,
it was the word or greeting of the righteous, peace. In whatever language
was used, it meant peace. WE, today desire most of all to have peace with
God and with ourselves. WE desire to have it but most of us are not
trying to give peace or to enjoy peace between man and man, due to the
fact that the greed of the riches and luxury of this world takes all of
our love, all of our peace, from our hearts towards one another. Because
the love of the riches of this world and its luxuries, it makes one
desire to take advantage of the other one. And in this race for wealth
we destroy the peace of the neighborhood. We destroy the peace of the
world of mankind, seeking to enjoy wealth and luxury of this life at the
expense of and … of others. I say to you my beloved people, the
so-called American Negro. You are “so-called” because you are not a
Negro. You are an Asiatic man from the Tribe of Shabazz, so God almighty
Allah has taught me To whom be praise forever. I want you to know that
it is the great desire of almighty God, Allah to give to you, my people,
who has been trodden under the feet of civilization for hundreds of
years. peace he wants to give to you. He has spread forth his hands in
your midsts and over you and has given to you this word, PEACE. He brings
to you, peace. He removes grief, sorrow and fear from the hearts of you
who believe. That I mean in His Religion. There are many of us thinks
that we believe in God, but when we are tested to that belief, we are not
believers. We are believers in fear. And fear takes away obedience to the
Divine Supreme Being. It removes fear of almighty God, Whom we should
fear because He has power over all things. And He is the Greatest of them
all. He is the Wisest. He is the Most Merciful and He has the power to
bring the living from the dead and the dead from the living. He’s
All-Powerful and is able to bring light out of darkness. And He’s able to
make darkness over this light. This is Allah! According to the Holy Quran
and Bible. I am so sorry for you, my people. I grieve over you. I am
really over-anxious to see you enjoy peace. I am over-anxious to see you
united with each other. Showing the love of a sincere brotherhood among
you, yourselves. You have been destroyed. You have been robbed. You have
grieved and moaned and suffered every kind of evil that man could think
of. There is no evil that you have not had experience of. Today I am your
brother. And I am also a sufferer of these things that you suffered with
and therefore I love you and desire for you what I desire for myself. I
desire peace. I desire love for my brother. I desire unity with my
brother. And I can not have unity with my brother unless I love my
brother. And it is all possible, and not impossible for me to love my
brother. He’s flesh of my flesh, bone of my bone; blood of my blood and
if I don’t love my brother, who is flesh of my flesh and bone of my bone,
and blood of my blood, then alright, I don’t love myself. This is the
condition that the poor so-called American Negroes are in in North
America. Because of the robbery of the slave-master of you when you were
in servitude slavery. You were robbed of the love for self. You were
robbed actually of unity, which you should be enjoying. All of this was
taken from you by the slave-master and his children. Now today, they are
in unity when it comes to you and I. They love each other when it comes
to you and I. They have proven beyond a shawdow-of-a-doubt that they do
not desire that you and I love each other as brothers and do unto each
other as we would have done unto us. And again, they not only don’t
desire that be united but they have and still are doing everything they
possibly can to keep us from being united. Unity means Strength. Unity
means power.Unity means love. Unity means peace. I say my beloved people
remember that we are a people beloved of almighty God and has been lost
for 400 years in a people that are not our people. The Blackman and the
white man are two distinct people. They are not brothers of each other.
No sir! They are not the same race No sir! These are two distinct
people- races or nations- as you would call them. And by no means could
you ever expect true brotherly love and absolute unity between the two.
It is impossible unless that you make them all one nation. And since
almighty God, Allah, did not make us one nation or one race of people but
made us different and this difference is not in color alone. But the
difference is actually in the very nature of us. I am so sorry for you
today who are so spiritually blind, that you can not see and recognize
even your own friend. Your own friend is almighty God, Allah. And the
friend of you of your own self is those who believe in Allah and believe
in His religion of entire submission and peace, called Islam. Now I said
that almighty God is your only friend, He’s your only true friend and
you do not even know Him….This is the Muslims. Muslim, that word means
a righteous person. One who has submitted to do the will of Almighty God,
Allah. One who, the Holy Qur’an says, “walks the earth in humbleness.”
One who is not proud. One who is not aggressive. One who seeks not to
take advantage of no one. One who greets, not only, another righteous in
peace, but even he will greet the weak and foolish in that language of
peace because he’s at peace with the author of peace, Whose proper name
is Allah. He’s at peace with himself. He’s at peace with the world of
man. Therefore he can say, “As-Salaam-Alaikum (Peace be to you)”
regardless to where he may be, or to whom he may be speaking with. This
is true. We are that people. Though the Holy Qur’an teaches a Muslim that
he never be the aggressor, seek not to use physical force against no one
unless it is by the order of almighty God, Allah. Kill no one, the Holy
Quran says, unless it is by the order of almighty God, Allah. Now, today,
the whole world, every hour, every minute of the hour, are killing and
destroying each other through their hatred and dislike of each other,
through their divisions and confusion of each other. Their lack of
understanding causes them to destroy each other and finally themselves. I
say that we should have peace but we should be prepared for fight for
peace. We must lay aside that which is causing other than peace and unite
in love and your fellowman, your brother. Your own black blood and flesh.
Love that black blood and flesh. Love that brother of that same flesh and
blood. And hate not your own flesh and blood as the Bible teaches you.
But the so-called American Negro, as I repeat, he has been made to hate
himself. And this hatred of himself is from his slave-master and his
slave-master?s children. He was divided in the cradle against each other.
He was taken from his mother?s breast while he was yet unconscious to the
knowledge of a mother. Reared by an enemy. Reared by those that hate him
and had no love in their heart for that black baby and its black mother
and father. But was taken and sold between each other from one to another
of their kind for the purpose of enslaving the child robbing the child of
it?s labor. Free labor. America used these hundreds and thousands and
millions of us for three hundred long years, our labor, for nothing. They
did not give our fathers anything like money for that three hundred years
of servitude slavery. And it grieves me to see the leadership of the
so-called American Negro, today, willing to forget all about those cruel
three centuries that our parents suffered under the lash and gun-fire of
their slave-master. You are willing to forget the killing for a naught.
You don?t want anything but the love of their children. You are not
asking America to separate you and put you to yourself or in the midst of
your own people. But is asking America to allow you to be planted in the
gate white race and become one of them, members. There is not any future,
whatsoever, in your own children but total destruction, the loss of the
identity of self. This is all the ignorant, blind, deaf, and dumb
leadership of my poor people is asking for. They criticize you of asking
for a future. I don?t ask to be planted in a place of people that is not
my flesh and blood. I?m asking separation. I?m asking a place to myself
and my own kind here. It has been proven and is still proven to be
actually the truth and other-than-the-truth that the so-called Negro, the
Blackman, can not live in peace with the white man. It is proven that the
Blackman wants for himself what the white man wants for himself. So why
keep troubling each other until we arrive at the boiling point. There is
an end to these things. There is an end. And that end is now approaching.
It is at our door what that we must lay aside even the thought and desire
to try to make Blackman and white man two brothers. You can?t do that. It
is against the Creator?s own will. He didn?t create you like that. There
has been, ever since you have been on this earth, separation of nations.
When the white man came to North America, he found Red Indians here. He
didn?t find white people here, he found Red Indians here, whom he has
annilated, killed off to take their home. Their home was taken by the
price of blood. Blodd was the price paid for their home. ?Woe unto thee
that builds a city of blood and establish it upon sin?. This America has
done. She has gotten her country by the price of blood. She has
established it in sin and evil, and has acted with evil. ?.under the
worse evil murder and crime of our. This, today, you , my beloved people,
denounce the God and God into his peace. I warn you that you are
absolutely making a grave mistake by trying to force the white man to
accept you as his own brother his own sister. Even if he would do so, he
still would be the loser. He would not be able to live in peace with you
in his home, while trying to intermix. with you. in hopes that you will
separate and that you and I know and have known for a long time. We just
cannot defeat God?s own plan, His own hopes. We cannot destroy that. If
God has declared that He will separate us in the Last Days, then He will
separate us. He separated us in the beginning. You have found it so
beautifully situated off on this planet earth, the nations of this earth.
The brown man living to himself. The black man living in a country to
himself. The red man living to himself. The yellow man living to himself.
The white man living in Europe to himself. But he came out of Europe and
spread all over the earth upsetting the unity of the Black, brown red and
yellow man, dividing them, one against the other…
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