"O you who believe, if you obey those who disbelieve, they will make you turn back upon your heels, so you will turn back losers. Nay Allah is your Patron, and He is the Best of helpers."�Holy Qur�an Surah 3, verses 148-149

Within a year prior to the departure of the Honorable Elijah Muhammad in 1975, he informed me about a plot that was being hatched in Chicago to take his life as well as certain ones close around him. Allah, the Beneficent, the Merciful, revealed to him the names of the plotters. Reviewing certain events that took place in the life of the Holy Prophet more than 1,400 years ago, we can draw striking parallels between those events in Muhammad�s History and its present day fulfillment in the life of the Honorable Elijah Muhammad and that of his Great Helper, the Honorable Minister Louis Farrakhan.

The Muslims were a new and inexperienced young community coming to birth in Arabia where their presence was not liked by the Ruling Authorities of the Quraish Leaders or by the many idolatrous tribes and religious community Leaders among the Jews and Christians who were dispersed throughout the Arabian Peninsula. Thus, internecine warring and vying for power, recognition and prestige were traits manifested among the populous which led to their expressions of obscenities, slander, lies, bickering, fault-finding, conspiracies, and mud-slinging tactics and maneuvers practiced by the enemies, who worked their way up into the House of Islam while pretending to be Believers but were agents and provocateurs of the devil.

This same condition exists and is present in the House of Islam today. Such treacherous ones are not satisfied to accept the process of redemption and reconciliation of differences, but prefer to reach out and contaminate others with their own poisonous views, feigning that they are the true Believers, yet judging others with false claims manifesting themselves as being true hypocrites. They are those who slander the Prophet, the Apostle and Servant of Allah (God) and others who are of his household, as it is written of them. By so doing, they are heaping upon themselves, condemnation and blame.

They are not content with their own misery and dissatisfaction but desire to implicate others in their madness. Now Allah is Revealing the names of the hypocrites for their cowardly actions pretending to be Believers, but yet going to war with themselves and others oblivious of the consequences.

During the Battle of Uhud, it was rumored that the Prophet had been killed, while a group, who were assigned to their positions on a certain hillock called Uhud, vacated their posts before the victory was won with the exception of 9 out of fifty, leaving an open wide space through which the enemy swept down on their rear.

This situation and other extenuating circumstances also left the prophet in "The most awkward hour in the Messenger�s life." These exact words are published in a Biography of the Prophet entitled: Ar-Raheeq�Al�Makhtum (The Sealed Nectar).

"The Messenger of Allah was there among a small group of fighters�nine in number at the rear of the army watching the engagement and braving the Muslim fighters; Khalid and his men took him by utter surprise, and obliged him to follow either of the two options:

a.To flee for his life and abandon his army to its doomed end, or b.To take action at the risk of his life, rally the ranks of the Muslims again and work their way through the hills of Uhud towards the encompassed army."

Thus he called out to them at the risk of his life, as it is written in the Holy Qur�an in the following words:

"When you went away far, and paid no heed to anyone, and the Messenger was calling you in your rear. So he gave you (another) grief for (your) first grief that you might not grieve at what escaped you, nor (at) what befell you. And Allah is Aware of what you do."�Holy Qur�an, Surah 3, verse 152

O foolish ones among our people, the Real open Enemy is laughing at you in your ignorant attack on your only Benefactor. When you desert your posts of obedience to the Divine Guidance coming from the Honorable Minister Louis Farrakhan, the open enemy is advancing on your heels and is cutting you off from the Promised Day of Allah bringing you to a naught.

Even in the face of these difficulties, facing death, the Honorable Minister Farrakhan pleads for his people�s forgiveness for their sins as did Jesus beg forgiveness of His Lord for their ignorance in these words: "Forgive them Father for they know not what they do." Muhammad said similarly: "O Allah forgive my people, for they have no knowledge."

But Almighty God Reveals in the Holy Qur�an, "We will cast terror into the hearts of those who disbelieve because they set up with Allah that for which He has sent down no authority, and their abode is the Fire. And evil is the abode of the wrongdoers."�Holy Qur�an Surah 3, verse 150