WebThe FBIs FOIA Library contains many files of public interest and historical value. The 26 November 1976 issue of the Nation of Islam journal Bilalian News reports Muhammad Abdullah's first khutbah at the mosque and shows a photo. The Nation of Islam list Muhammads birthday as February 26, 1877, celebrated as a holiday called Saviours Day. 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.. The ATI was disbanded as ordered, though in name only; as the Nation of Islam, it continued to grow. 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. All written records and documents that he or other people filled out on his behalf list him as white or caucasian. The local police traced the murderer's ideology back to Fard and arrested him. They must clean themselves up both their bodies and their houses. On a 1926 San Quentin State Prison file, a Wallie D. Ford of Los Angeles gave his birthplace as Oregon, and his age as 31. Consequently, Fard and another leader, Ugan Ali, were arrested and questioned. WebWallace D. Fard aka Wallace Fard Muhammad / f . But I don't get that instant feeling of recognition and "wow, these guys are obviously the same person! By rejecting non-essential cookies, Reddit may still use certain cookies to ensure the proper functionality of our platform. Fard encouraged his followers not to drink alcohol or eat pork, which is standard practice for Muslims. I am your brother. Therefore, that information is unavailable for most Encyclopedia.com content. The marriage did not last even a year; Ford accused his wife of being an alcoholic and a bad spender. In compliance with the National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) requirements, some of these records are no longer in the physical possession of the FBI, eliminating the FBIs capability to re-review and/or re-process this material. Alternate titles: F. Mohammed Ali, Wallace Fard Muhammad, Walli Farrad. Using both the Bible and the Qur'an, he began with meetings in houses until he had enough members to rent a storefront, which he called Temple of Islam No. A variety of other claims emerged; that he went to Hawaii, New Zealand, and even to the Middle East. ", so I don't know. He founded the religious movement in Detroit, Michigan, U.S., in 1930, and was its leader until 1934, his disappearance. This would suggest he was, in fact, diabetic. There is No God but ALLAH. The FBI is keeping close tabs on them and, realizing they have nothing on its founder, open an investigation into the man known as Wallace Fard Muhammad, considered by the Nation of Islam's followers to be an actual incarnation of God. [8][29], Karl Evanzz of The Washington Post submitted a Freedom of Information Act request to the FBI in 1978 requesting its file on Fard. 1962. 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. In 2007, the Nation of Islam had an estimated membership of 20,00050,000. Encyclopedia.com gives you the ability to cite reference entries and articles according to common styles from the Modern Language Association (MLA), The Chicago Manual of Style, and the American Psychological Association (APA). "[25], Fard wrote several lessons which are read and committed to memory by members of the Nation of Islam. Clegg, a history professor at the University of Indiana at Bloomington, responded: The version of the story that characterizes Fard as being of Pakistani descent and having a criminal background seems to have some validity, though neither allegation has been conclusively proven. Evanzz reported that Wallace D. Fard died in Chicago in 1971 at the age of 78. r d / (born February 26, 1877) was a co-founder of the Nation of Islam. Fard, 2017, by A.K. 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]. Whatever the case, Fard was a master at remaking himself and was apparently a very charismatic man. Muhammad, Akbar. Some blame the police, the FBI, or rival leaders within the NOI. Officials said he came to the United States from Asia.". . r d / (born February 26, 1877) was a co-founder of the Nation of Islam. Thats not to say that anyone so amorphous is not capable of producing very absolute effects on history. WebParking is abundant-plenty of room for an RV, toys, and multiple vehicles. The FBI were confident that Wallace Dodd Ford was, in fact, Wallace Fard Muhammad. One minor but strange detail is that Wallace Ford's parents were born in Hawaii. He advocated community members to establish and own their own businesses,[13] eat healthy, raise families, and refrain from drugs and alcohol. After Desdemona is hired and settles into a familiar routine of caring for the delicate silkworms the Nation of Islam breeds to make cloth, she discovers that she can hear the speeches of Master W.D. [12], Fard taught a form of black exceptionalism and self-pride to poor Southern blacks during the Great Northward Migration at a time when old ideas of scientific racism were prevalent. Turner, Richard Brent. One of the Conference Members by the name of Mr. Osman Sharrieff said to the Eleven Members of the Conference: 'The Lost-Found Nation of Islam will not return to their original Land unless they, first, have a thorough Knowledge of their own.' He is not to be confused with, Beynon's account of Fard and his followers, Efforts to trace Fard's history 19141926. And those who follow the Apostle would see the Light. var rcel = document.createElement("script"); He was ultimately forced to leave Detroit because of an allegation that he encouraged one of his followers to engage in a ritual of human sacrifice. "[25] He went on to state: "Why is Stress made to the Muslims to Copy, the Minister, Elijah Muhammad's Answers? [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. Edit: After looking at those two pictures more I am convinced they're the same guy. Most sources in the Nation of Islam claim that he hailed from The Holy City Mecca in Saudi Arabia, 1920 Federal U.S. Census, Los Angeles City, Enumeration District 206, Sheet 10B, California State Board of Health, County of Orange, Certificate of Marriage, Local Registered No. She is first hypnotized by his voice, then by his message. After another brush with the law in April 1934, Fard left Detroit for good. It says that Wallace Fard "is awaiting an immigration hearing. The FBI file on Fard provides both dates for individuals suspected (but never confirmed) to be Fard. The FBI opened an investigation into Fard in 1957 and closed it a year later in 1958. Much of what is known about him is shrouded in mystery, and it is difficult to separate fact from mythological stories. Although I'm inclined to believe the official story that he simply fled the country after coming under heat from the police. He agreed to leave Detroit forever in order to receive immunity, and boarded a train bound for Chicago on Dec. 7. Just last year, however, I read a book that reintroduced Fard to my consciousness. Members of the movement believe Fard to be the incarnation of Allh, and his birthday, February 26, is observed as Saviours Day. WebWallace Fard Muhammad established the Nation of Islam in Detroit. WebThe FBIs FOIA Library contains many files of public interest and historical value. This is the story that stuck. Refer to each styles convention regarding the best way to format page numbers and retrieval dates. Retrieved February 22, 2023 from Encyclopedia.com: https://www.encyclopedia.com/religion/legal-and-political-magazines/fard-w-d-c-1877-1934-religious-and-political-leader. Sources: Immigration record of Khanialam Khan https://familysearch.org, FBI report on Wallace Fard Muhammad https://vault.fbi.gov, Mugshots of Wallace Fard Muhammad and Wallie Dodd Ford https://www.findagrave.com, Marriage record of Fred Dodd and Pearl Allen https://www.ancestry.com, Prison file of Wallie Dodd Ford https://www.ancestry.com, Draft registration card of Wallie Dodd Ford https://familysearch.org, Wallie D. Ford on the 1920 U.S. Census https://familysearch.org, Birth record of Fords son, Wallace Max Ford https://familysearch.org, Marriage record of Wallie Dodd Ford and Carmen Trevino https://familysearch.org, William D. Fard on the 1930 U.S. Census https://familysearch.org, Nation of Islam article refuting claims of Dodd and Muhammad being the same person https://www.noi.org. 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. This cursory bit of knowledge was enough to satisfy my curiosity for many years, during which my contact with the Nation of Islam was limited to regularly buying bean pies from neatly dressed men standing on Livernois who were also peddling the groups newspaper, The Final Call. Lincoln, C. Eric. He gave the exact birth of the white race; the name of their God who made them and how; and the end of their time, the judgment, how it will begin and end. https://68.media.tumblr.com/8baacfedb2c5ff0be7055d0550917d7e/tumblr_ne5vz9XWui1t1ova9o10_500.jpg. 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. WebWallace Muhammad - Disappearance Disappearance In June 1934, Fard left Detroit for Chicago and disappeared without a trace. 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.). Black Nationalism: A Search for Identity in America. Evanzz believes that Fard immigrated to the United States via Canada in 1913. He declared the doom of America, for her evils to us was past due. [38], The search produced two Fords of interest, one of whom was Wallace Ford, a prominent movie actor. But both Zared and Beatrice were said to have been born in Hawaii. This is my own personal theory and it is out there so this is a fair warning: I believe that Ford was a FBI plant sent in as a cointel agent to gather intelligence on the civil rights movement that would getting traction in many inner city's and southern States. Two bedrooms, full bathroom, luxury linens, free washer and dryer and beautiful views. Here in America they were living other than themselves. And that He was able to force the whole world into submission to his will. [24] He established the University of Islam, where school-age children were taught, rather than in the public schools. He stated that he was born in Mecca, Saudi Arabia, to a Black African father and a Russian Jewish mother, from the Caucasus. He returned to Chicago, was arrested on charges of disturbing the peace through his preaching, and again returned to Detroit. Finally, the community contributed money and rented a hall to serve as a temple where meetings were conducted. Do you personally think Fard fled Detroit in the 1930s and lived on elsewhere, or do you think he was killed? Muhammad, Elijah. (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({}); (function() { Four years later, in 1963, they issued another story to a Los Angeles-based newspaper that claimed Ford and Fard were, in fact, the same person. Wallace Fard, also known as Wallace Fard Muhammad or Master Fard Muhammad[3] (/frd/; reportedly born February 26, c.1877[4][7] disappeared c.1934), was the founder of the Nation of Islam. In 1930, W.D. From then onwards, he is untraceable. [30] Evanzz based his account of Fard's life on the declassified portion of the FBI file that he received about a decade after his request. Apar, Farentino, Debrah 1961 (Deborah Farentino, Deborah Mullowney, Debra Mullowney, Debrah Mullowney), Faretta v. California 422 U.S. 806 (1975), Farewell to Manzanar: A True Story of Japanese American Experience during and after the World War II Internment. Pan-Islam is the ideology that calls for the unity and cooperation of Muslims worldwide on the basis of their shared Islamic identity. "[45] After the story was published, Elijah Muhammad and Malcolm X subsequently charged black media outlets, which reprinted the accusation in large numbers, with running the story without requesting a response from the Nation of Islam. I remember researching the noi's history and finding out about what you have written. Either way, most people who have investigated his life have come to the conclusion that he was probably mixed race and may have emigrated from New Zealand or the Middle East. 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. 1997. 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. Create an account to follow your favorite communities and start taking part in conversations. He taught a unique form of religion which was based on Islam to members of the city's African-American population. Attendances to his sermons rapidly grow over the next three years and then suddenly, without announcing his departure, he disappears, never to be seen or heard from again. "The society cannot be blamed for anything he did," Ali was quoted in the Detroit News, November 23, 1932. Master Fard's identity, origins, appearance, and disappearance remain mysterious and controversial. Fard: Unveiling the Identity of the Founder of the Nation of Islam by Dr. John Andrew Morrow investigates theories of Fard's origin. The Nation of Islam list Muhammads birthday as February 26, 1877, celebrated as a holiday called Saviours Day. Others asserted that he had returned to Mecca to prepare for his eventual return. You have not yet seen me in my royal robes.' 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. The 2 smear campaigns that were released also have me wondering what the agency hoped to accomplish. The Noble Drew Ali, the prophet of the Moorish-Americans, proclaimed that these people were 'descendants of Morrocans [Moroccans]'. It's strange that he never attempted further contact with his followers, however. They also have a similar receding hairline that poofs out along the side. rcel.id = 'rc_' + Math.floor(Math.random() * 1000); Others asserted that he had returned to Mecca to prepare for his eventual return. [14] He influenced his successor Elijah Muhammad, Malcolm X and many other Black Nationalist thinkers. Via e-mail, I asked Claude Andrew Clegg III, author of another Elijah Muhammad biography, An Original Man, to give me his take on the controversy. At this time, Ford was going under the name Fred Dodd, and operated a lunch wagon. He declared that he would heal us and set us in heaven at once, if we would submit to Him. After Wallace had renamed the group the World Community of Al-Islam (one of many name changes to follow), Farrakhan was able to reconstitute the NOI under his own auspices in 1979. How we had been made blind, deaf and dumb by this white race of people and how we must return to our people, our God and His religion of peace (Islam), the religion of the prophets. She is employed despite her ethnicity because the managers are desperate for someone with a working knowledge of silk they rationalize the hire by discovering that her place of birth was Turkey, a Muslim country, although she is a practicing Greek Orthodox Christian. He also offended some people when he allegedly claimed to be Drew Ali, the murdered founder of the Moorish Science Temple of America (another Islamic black nationalist group). His main goal, he often stated, was to bring salvation to African-Americans, whom he often referred to as his lost uncle in the wilderness of North America.. Fard, W. D. (c. 1877-1934), Religious and Political Leader Ford reported that he was a cook, age 26, born in Oregon and living in Los Angeles. 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. His ears, mouth, eye brows etc his face looks like a younger Ford imo. Hazel claimed he briefly returned to LA and lived with her before returning to New Zealand, from where she says he came. The whole thing smells like an intelligence agency operation to me. One faction, the Moors, remains faithful to Noble Drew Ali, and the other, which is now led by Elijah Muhammad, remains faithful to Prophet Fard (Master Wallace Fard Muhammad). Submissions should outline a mystery and provide a link to a more detailed review of the case such as a Wiki article or news report. ), Mecca-born founder of the Nation of Islam (sometimes called Black Muslim) movement in the United States. In addition to the MLA, Chicago, and APA styles, your school, university, publication, or institution may have its own requirements for citations. By 1930 a permanent split developed in the movement. "Black Muslims," a name coined by C. Eric Lincoln in 1960, refers to the members of one of the most militant and separati, Muhammad, Elijah 18971975 They would have been born back in the 1860's, long before Hawaii was a part of the United States. Fard offered blacks a credo of moral and cultural superiority to their white oppressors. But over time his ideology began to shift. Please refer to the appropriate style manual or other sources if you have any questions. For some time, one W. D. Fard assumed leadership of the Moorish movement. Fard, facing possible charges, confessed that his teachings were dangerous and that he would use his influence to disband the ATI. Detroit sues celebrity pastor and his nuisance mega-church over unfinished Woodward project, Detroits Movement fest releases full lineup: Basement Jaxx, Skrillex, Cybotron, Zeds Dead, and more. Contemporary American Religion. ", Read more about this topic: Wallace Muhammad. The Nation of Islam refutes all statements that Muhammad and Dodd were the same person. Elijah Muhammad, who took the position of leader of the Nation of Islam after Fard's disappearance, railed agaist the media claims that Ford was Fard. A variety of other claims emerged; that he went to Hawaii, New Zealand, and even to the Middle East. He told his followers that they were not Americans and therefore owed no allegiance to the American flag and could refuse to serve in its military. In as much as Elijah Muhammad recognizes W.D. [23] Following the rapid increase in membership, he instituted a formal organizational structure. 22 Feb. 2023
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