The Destruction and Fall

by The Honorable Elijah Muhammad

The destruction and fall of the world that we have known is now without a doubt, in process. When we refer to the world, we are referring to the world of the white man, for the world of the black man has yet to come in.

The world of the black man, by divine guidance, is now merging in on the old world of the white race. This makes the destruction and fall of the world of the white man imminent.

Here in America we can see nothing but the fall of America. It is no secret. It is obvious to the eyes that are open. If we want to close our eyes and minds and claim that we do not see and understand, then we will be falling ourselves.

This refusal to see is fool-hardy for regardless to how we may desire to see the old world stand, we do not have the power to stave off the destruction that causes the world of the white man to fall.

The destruction and power that is bringing about the fall of the world of the white man is coming from Allah (God). In the past history of the world of the white man, there never was a time of destruction of his world like the present time.

It is useless for you to try to prevent the fall of the white man�s world. There is no checking it. The white race has not tried to do the right thing...justice. The doing of justice would have checked her fall (Bible, Jeremiah). But America was never willing; and even at this hour she is not willing to do justice by those whom she has mistreated. She has dealt injustice to her black once-slave for the nearly five hundred years that she has been in the Western Hemisphere.

America has constantly burdened the poor black slave with every evil that she could imagine. Her evil scientists who have invented more and more evil practices have not been able to invent anymore evil than that which they have already put out.

Day and night without a let-up the white man mistreats the poor black slave. Now since heaven and the God of Peace, Justice, Freedom and Equality has come to the black slave, the white man is trying to make everyone that recognizes the truth deviate from it.

The white man says," Do not accept it." He makes the black man a hypocrite against his own salvation. The white man trails the ones who have not as yet accepted the truth of their salvation, and he promises them that which he will never be able to fulfill.

America is falling. She is now losing the power and authority that she was enjoying in foreign lands. Her fall is very visible. Wherever her authority has been exercised the people are now crying out in one voice, "Leave us, leave us; American�s go home to America." The citizens of other countries are telling the American citizens, "Leave us." America no longer has friends.

America and England deposited their little brother, Israel, on foreign soil, Palestine, which is Arab land. They deprived the Arabs of their own land and sent them into exile. This injustice against the Arabs is now costing America the power and authority that she once exercised in the East. She is on her way out of the Near East. This means bloodshed and plenty of it.

In the Near East, there stand navies which are neither American nor British...they are there to drive America out. The skies over there are beginning to thicken with foreign planes, carrying deadly weapons, guns and bombs. They will not be satisfied as long as Israel is in Palestine. The boil has come to a bursting point. We are in a troubled world. We are in a world that is now erupting.

Black man, who was once a slave in America, you have a way of escape. The way out is not on your own terms. It is on the condition that you submit to Allah (God) and come, follow me. This is the only way out. I am the door and I have the key to your salvation. Reject it and die.

We are in a world that is falling. It will soon be going up in flames. In Berlin, Germany, the cold war between the East and West will soon erupt into a hot war. It will never be settled in peace. East and West Germany must and will fight it out with all the deadly weapons that the war-scientists have planned and perfected for the final showdown.

You do not have to worry too much about whether or not America is coming out of Asia. Certainly America is coming out of Asia. The odds are against her staying there. But I warn you, my black people, my black brother here in America, that while she is on the way home, we the black people are standing in the cross-fire. The only hope that we have is to fly to our refuge in Allah (God).

Look at what is going on to the south of us. Look at the many hijackings, sticking up of planes. America is afraid to put a stop to the hi-jacking for she knows that she is going to run into more than she expects.

Who would have thought that the big power (America) would suffer such disgrace in this day and time? This is to teach you and me, black brother, that the great power (America) is becoming weak and she is falling. I say, black brother, join onto your own kind. Come follow me, for the world that you and I have known, will soon be known no more.

(Reprinted from Fall of America, 1973.)