Fard taught that blacks, as original Asiatics, had a rich cultural history which was stolen from them in their enslavement. Afterward, Poole said he approached Fard and asked if he was the 'Mahdi' (redeemer), Fard responded that he was, but that his time had not yet come. In August 1931, at the urging of his wife, Elijah Poole attended a speech on Islam and black empowerment by Wallace Fard Muhammad (Wallace D. While he was in Detroit, Poole began taking part in various black nationalist movements within the city. During their years in Detroit, Elijah and Clara had eight children, six boys and two girls. Through the 1920s and 1930s, he struggled to find and keep work as the economy suffered during the post World War I and Great Depression eras. Moving his own family, parents and siblings, Elijah and the Pooles settled in the industrial north of Hamtramck, Michigan.

He said, 'I seen enough of the white man's brutality to last me 26,000 years'. Elijah later recounted that before the age of 20, he had witnessed the lynchings of three black men by white people. In 1923, the Poole family was among hundreds of thousands of black families forming the First Great Migration leaving the oppressive and economically troubled South in search of safety and employment. When he was sixteen years old, he left home and began working in factories and at other businesses.Įlijah married Clara Evans (1899–1972) on March 7, 1917. To support the family, he worked with his parents as a sharecropper. (1868–1942), a Baptist lay preacher and sharecropper, and Mariah Hall (1873–1958), a homemaker and sharecropper.Įlijah's education ended at the fourth grade, after which he went to work in sawmills and brickyards. If you cannot accept other people's beliefs, kindly move on.Elijah Muhammad was born Elijah Robert Poole in Sandersville, Georgia, the seventh of thirteen children of William Poole Sr. Unwanted proselytization will be removed. Theological arguments are only welcome when relevant to the topic at hand, and for the most part will be confined to certain threads where you can debate such topics to your heart's content. It is always better to ask a scholar directly. Users should remember that requesting upvotes (self-promotion in this sense) also breaks reddit rules.ĭo not give your own rulings, but reference rulings from certified scholars. NSFW/NSFL content will be judged on a case by case basis, and the moderators reserve the right to remove such content.

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