Islam_v_NOI

True Islam v. "the Nation of Islam"
"The Nation of Islam" IS NOT TRUE ISLAM

True Muslims affirm that THERE IS NO GOD BUT GOD, eternal and uncreated, unbegotten and not begetting

BUT

The Nation Of Islam founder, Elijah Muhammad, taught that "God created Himself" 79 million years ago, and "He was a Black man" but he eventually died. The Nation Of Islam also claim that "Allah (God) appeared in the person of Master W. Fard Muhammad, July, 1930; the long-awaited 'Messiah' of the Christians and the 'Mahdi' of the Muslims"

True Muslims, both Shia and Sunni, profess no other prophet other than Muhammad (PBUH) of Saudia Arabia

BUT

The Nation Of Islam, neither Sunni or Shia, professes the Elijah Muhammad was successor to the Prophet Muhammad (PBUH) of Saudia Arabia

True Muslims believe in the resurrection of the whole human person

BUT

The Nation Of Islam teaches that the resurrection of the dead "is not a physical resurrection but only a mental one"

True Muslims believe that Allah is the One God and Creator of all human beings alike, of every race and color, and that there is no distinction before Allah

BUT

The Nation Of Islam teaches "that the so-called Negroes are most in need of mental resurrection; therefore they will be resurrected first"
The Nation Of Islam teaches that "[Negroes] are the people of God's choice, as it has been written, that God would choose the rejected and the despised. We can find no other persons fitting this description in these last days more that the so-called Negroes in America."

True Muslims accept no further revelation since the Holy Qur'an and the Sunna of the Prophet Muhammad (PBUH)

BUT

The Nation Of Islam adds to this teaching by claiming that the final "judgement will take place as God revealed, in America"

True Muslims believe that Allah desires the unity of the umma, not separation of the races

BUT

The Nation Of Islam teaches that "this is the time in history for the separation of the so-called Negroes and the so-called white Americans."

True Muslims believe that the righteous must sometimes go to war to protect the innocent and punish the wicked

BUT

The Nation Of Islam teaches "that we who declare ourselves to be righteous Muslims, should not participate in wars which take the lives of humans."

Further sites devoted to Islam and this topic:

Muslim Pretenders

Louis Farrakhan and the Nation of Islam

Abusing the Word "Islam"

Farrakhan & Black Antisemitism

Black Muslims and the Nation Of Islam

The Nation Of Islam official home page

The Nation Of Islam Settlement No. 1 -- "What the Muslims Believe"