Much of this information comes from the NAMB of the SBC. In order to see the wild teachings of Elijah Mohammed first hand you can go to a special site where his original teachings are stored by:

“Elijah Speaks Newspaper”

The teachings of NOI are dangerous and divisive. There can be no reconciliation with whites according to the NOI, only final destruction of the white devils. Don’t be fooled, the NOI is a large racist movement to heighten black pride and awareness by assaulting the white race as the reason for all black suffering. There is no love, only hate and the expectation of the destruction of the entire white and Jewish race. 

The NOI was created by Wallace D. Fard, also known as Wallace Fard Muhammad. Fard claimed to come from the Islamic city of Mecca. He began a mosque in Detroit in 1930. He taught that Christianity should be rejected since it was the “slave-master’s religion.” In 1934 Fard disappeared and was neither seen nor heard from again. Fard was succeeded by Elijah Muhammad (Elijah Poole).Elijah Poole was born in Sandersville, Ga. on October 7, 1898. He changed his name to Elijah Muhammad after joining the NOI. After Fard disappeared, Elijah took over the leadership of NOI.

Malcolm Little was born in 1925. He joined the NOI and changed his name to Malcolm X. He achieved famein the early 1960s as the spokesperson for Elijah Muhammad. Malcolm was removed as spokesperson because of an inappropriate remark about the assassination of President Kennedy and was severed from the NOI because of his accusations of sexual misconduct between Elijah and female staff members (C. Eric Lincoln, The Black Muslim in America, 3d. ed. [Grand Rapids: Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing Co., 1994], p. 258). \

Farrakhan was born Louis Eugene Walcott in New York City on May 11, 1933. He attended college for two years in North Carolina, but left to begin a career as an entertainer. He sang in nightclubs until he joined the NOI.

Louis Farrakhan separated from Warith Deen Muhammad in 1978 because of doctrinal disagreements. Farrakhan formed a splinter group using the original name––the Nation of Islam. He re-established the teachings of Elijah Muhammad and also reinstated the movement’s security force known as the Fruit of Islam (FOI).

God

The NOI teaches that Fard was Allah in physical form (Elijah Muhammad, The Fall of America, p. 236, as reprinted in “The Mother Plane,” The Final Call 15, no.25 [July 16, 1996]: 19).

The NOIcontinues to teach that Fard is Allah. The current NOI statement is published in every issue of their weekly newspaper, The Final Call, in an article titled “What the Muslims Believe.” It states, “12. WE BELIEVE 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.”

The NOI denies that God is spirit. The NOI claims that Christians worship an “invisible spook somewhere in space”(Elijah Muhammad, Message to the Blackman, p. 5). According to Elijah Muhammad, “God is in person, and stop looking for a dead Jesus for help, but pray to Him whom Jesus prophesied would come after Him. He who is alive and not a spook” (Ibid., p. 3).

 Christian Response: The Bible teaches that God is spirit (see John 4:24) and denies that He is a man (see Num. 23:19). The NOI worships a false god. Jesus is the only begotten Son of God (see John 3:16). Jesus is unique; there are no other incarnations of God. Jesus, not Fard, is the true Savior of the world (see Acts 4:12; John1:1-14).

The NOI teaches that blacks are gods and whites are devils. The NOI claims that blacks are of the same race as God. According to Elijah Muhammad, “To accept your own means yourself and your kind, your God Who is of you and you are of Him. It was your fathers who created the heavens and the earth, while there is nothing that the white man has created independently. He did not even create himself. The Black Nation is self-created, while the white race is made by one of the gods and scientists of the Black Nation” (Elijah Muhammad, Message to the Blackman, p. 42). The NOI claims that one of these black scientists created the moon. They teach that 66 trillion years ago, he decided to destroy the earth. He drilled a shaft into the earth, filled it with high explosives, and then set it off. He failed to totally destroy the earth but he did blow it into two parts. The smaller part became what we now call the moon (Tape of Louis Farrakhan, Dec. 9,1990, Compton, Calif.).

According to the NOI, a black scientist named Yakub created the white race about 6,000 years ago. They claim that whites are a race of devils (Elijah Muhammad, Message to the Blackman, p. 51). According to Elijah Muhammad, “If you understand it [the Bible] right, you will agree with me that the whole Caucasian race is a race of devils (Ibid., p. 23). The NOI claims that Christianity is the devil’s religion and was created to mislead blacks (Ibid., p. 11). 

 Christian Response: Blacks are not gods and whites are not demons. Both races are descended from Adam and made in the image of God. “And God said, Let us make man in our image, after our likeness: and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl or the air, and over the cattle and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth” (Gen. 1:26). “God created the heaven and the earth” (Gen. 1:1). The moon was created by the God of the Bible, not by a scientist 66 trillion years ago (see Gen. 1:16). The Bible warns Christians not to believe cunningly devised fables (see 2 Pet. 1:16).

While the NOI often refers to the Bible, they claim it has been corrupted. “The original scripture called ‘The Torah’––revealed to Musa (Moses)––was Holy until the Jews and the Christian scholars started tampering with it” (Elijah Muhammad, Message to the Blackman, p. 87).

Elijah Muhammad taught, “The Bible is not all holy, nor is it all the word of God” (Ibid., p. 89)! Contrary to traditional Islam, the NOI also teaches that the Qur’an has been tampered with. “The enemy has tampered with the truth of both books: for he has been permitted to handle both books” (Ibid., p. 90). 

 Christian Response: There is no evidence that the Bible has been corrupted as the NOI claims. Jesus promised,

“I tell you the truth, until heaven and earth disappear, not the smallest letter, not the least stroke of a pen, will by any means disappear from the Law until everything is accomplished” (Matt. 5:18, NIV). There are thousands of biblical manuscripts that support the Bible as being incorrupt.

The NOI denies the physical resurrection of the dead. Their doctrinal statement proclaims, “WE BELIEVE in the resurrection of the dead—not in physical resurrection— but in mental resurrection; therefore, they will be resurrected first” (Final Call [July 16, 1996]: 39).

Despite their denial of a physical resurrection, the NOI apparently believes that Elijah Muhammad is still alive. Every issue of their newspaper carries a statement of The Muslim Program. Included with this statement is Elijah Muhammad’s picture and the declaration, “He Lives.”

Christian Response: The Bible declares the physical resurrection of the dead (see Pss. 49:15; 71:20; Hos.13:14; John 5:25; 6:40; 11:25; I Cor. 15; 2 Cor. 4:14).

The dead will rise from the grave. The saved will live forever with the Lord in heaven. The lost will go to hell, a place of everlasting punishment (see Matt. 18:8-9; 25:41-46; Mark 9:43-48; 2 Thess. 1:9).

The Last Judgment

The NOI teaches that a giant spaceship––the Mother Plane––will carry out Allah’s judgment. Black scientists will use the same bombs that brought up the “mountains out of the earth” to destroy the white race (Elijah Muhammad, The Fall of America, p. 236, as reprinted in The Final Call [July 16, 1996]: 19). They claim this judgment will not only destroy the white race but also

LouisFarrakhan claims that he was taken aboard the Mother Plane in a vision. While in the giant UFO, he spoke to Elijah Muhammad who had been dead for several years (see Washington Post [September 18, 1995]: D3).Farrakhan also asserts that this giant spaceship follows him when he travels (Tape of Farrakhan, July 13, 1986, Chicago, Ill.).

Other beliefs: Elijah Mohammed taught many other things that are quite starnge and ignorant to say at the least. I will list some of them here, but if you want to see the source and read it all in context you will need to go to the web site I listed above.

White people were chased from black territories by rifles in the time of Moses.

Moses blew up a group of white people with dynamite.

 Jesus never died on the cross but was killed by a stabbing.

The following is a comparison of the NOI with the KKK