Chapter 2 of This Side of Paradise: The Religious World of Elijah Muhammad
CHAPTER 2 ELIJAH MUHAMMAD'S DOCTRINE OF ALLAH/GOD Anthropomorphism, Gnosticism and a Plurality of gods Any study of Elijah Muhammad's theology must begin with his understanding and doctrine of God/Allah, for it is here that the Messenger's teachings truly become his own. Elijah's god, Allah, shares the same name as the God of Muslims and Arabic-speaking Christians, but the similarity ends there. We will begin our study of Elijah Muhammad's doctrine of God with a quotation drawn from his book, Our Saviour has Arrived: 101 "All these scriptures show that He sees, hears, feels, tastes, smells, talks our language, walks, stands, sits, eats, and drinks. Therefore, God must be a human being." 102 And, If we believe that alone, that God created man in His own image and likeness, that is sufficient for us to expect God to be nothing other than man... The Muslims worship one God-- Allah, "Say: He, Allah, is One God." (Y)et 99% of the ol