He taught them that the astral twin of the Black man is the Sun. Īllah taught his Black male students that they were Gods, just as he was. On October 10, 1964, this young group formed the First Nine Born of what became known as the Five-Percent Nation, or later the Nation of Gods and Earths. After failing to reach elder adults whom he saw as already set in their ways, he found success with street youth. Īllah proselytized the streets of Harlem to teach others his views based on his interpretation of NOI teachings. Allah was also joined by Justice (formerly James 109X, and before that, James Howell) who would become one of Allah's closest associates until his death. Allah the Father and Shahid were nicknamed "High Scientists" due to their intense study of lessons. He was joined by Abu Shahid (formerly John 37X), who agreed with Allah's questioning of Wallace Fard Muhammad. Īfter leaving the NOI, he renamed himself "Allah the Father". One story states that he was disciplined by the NOI and excommunicated in 1963, but another version of events says that he left of his own free will. Multiple stories exist as to why Clarence and the NOI parted ways: Some state he refused to give up gambling others state he questioned the unique divinity of Wallace Fard Muhammad, whom the NOI deified as the true and living God in person or that he questioned Fard's godhood due to the fact that Fard was born of a white mother. The Nation of Gods and Earths was founded by Clarence 13X after he left the Nation of Islam's Temple Number Seven in Harlem, New York, the same temple where Malcolm X was a minister from 1960 to 1963. The Nation teaches that the black man (insofar as the Nation defines this race) is himself God, with the black race thus being a race of actual gods. The Nation teaches that Supreme Mathematics and Supreme Alphabet, a set of principles created by Allah the Father, is the key to understanding humankind's relationship to the universe. The Nation of Gods and Earths teaches the belief that Black people are the original people of the planet Earth and are therefore the fathers ("Gods") and mothers ("Earths") of civilization. Members of the group call themselves Allah's Five Percenters, which reflects the concept that ten percent of the people in the world are elites and their agents, who know the truth of existence and opt to keep eighty-five percent of the world in ignorance and under their controlling thumb the remaining five percent are those who know the truth and are determined to enlighten the eighty-five percent. The Five-Percent Nation, sometimes referred to as the Nation of Gods and Earths ( NGE/ NOGE) or the Five Percenters, is an Afro-American Nationalist movement influenced by Islam that was founded in 1964 in the Harlem section of the borough of Manhattan, New York City, by Clarence 13X, who was previously known as Clarence Edward Smith. (formerly Clarence 13X), the founder of the Nation of Gods and Earths The Five-Percent emblem, also known as the Universal Flag of Islam (I-Self Lord and Master). American black nationalist religious movement
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