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Cults · Foundational

The Nation of Islam

The Nation of Islam, founded in Detroit in 1930, teaches that God appeared in the person of Master Fard Muhammad and that the white race was made to be the enemy of the Black man; we name the real wound of slavery and racism that gave it a hearing, and we answer from Scripture that God made of one blood all nations and that Christ died and rose for every one of them.

The lesson walks through the topic one card at a time. The full study is the complete written article, with its sources.

What you'll learn
1

How Wallace Fard Muhammad, Elijah Muhammad, Malcolm X, and Louis Farrakhan shaped the Nation, and why so many found dignity in it

2

What the Nation teaches about God, the Black man, Yakub, Jesus, and the resurrection, in its own words

3

How the Nation differs from historic Islam, as Muslims themselves have said

4

Why the Gospel is not a white man's religion, from Scripture and from the early Christians of Africa

5

How to share the Gospel with someone in the Nation without waving away what he has lived

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