Who is Dr. Wesley Muhammad? A well-known thought leader and teacher in the Nation of Islam, Muhammad is very outspoken about his beliefs and has studied Islam and religion extensively. Here are five things to know about scholar Dr. Wesley Muhammad.
A self-described “aide” of Nation of Islam leader Louis Farrakhan, Muhammad is well known for his schlarly works, particularly on Islam. He has written several books including: “Black Arabia & the African Origin of Islam,” “The Religion of the Black God,” “Take Another Look: The Quran, the Sunnah and the Islam of the Honorable Elijah Muhammad,” and “God’s Black prophets: Deconstructing the Myth of the White Muhammad of Arabia and Jesus of Jerusalem.”
In addition to his books, his work has been published in several international journals and he has also been a college instructor.
On a 2017 interview with The Breakfast Club, Muhammad called himself “a worker in the cause of the rise and resurrection of the Black man and woman in America.”
Before joining the Nation of Islam, Muhammad was a member of the Five-Percent Nation, which believes the Black man is God. Muhammad said he still believes the teachings of the group, which was founded in 1964 in New York. The group is also known as the Nation of Gods and Earths.
“Be clear I’m still five-percent,” Muhammad said on The Breakfast Club. “Five percent means you know who the true and living God is and once you know you either conceal that, which will make you the 10 percent or you teach it. I continue to teach the Black man is God, so Allah willing I’ll be five-percent until my casket drops.”
Muhammad graduated from the prestigious Atlanta-based HBCU Morehouse College with honors in 1994. He received a Bachelor of Arts in Religious Studies.
It is at Morehouse he was introduced to Five-Percenter ideology.
“I heard a five percenter and Muslim debating at Morehouse College,” Muhammad said. So he purchased a psychology book and “I just wanted to know everything so I just read everything and my determination was I was gonna study everything, every religion and wherever that led me. That’s where I would be and that’s where I am.”
He recommends Black people attend HBCUs for their undergraduate education because its benefits them culturally.
“My path was, and I still think it’s a viable path, HBCU for the undergraduate experience. I would still recommend HBCUs today,” Muhammad said. “You left with the cultural experience which is necessary for the development of a Black person you can parlay that into a successful matriculation at the white higher level universities or colleges so that was necessary.”
Muhammad was once an atheist after becoming bitter about historical things he learned about Christianity. He said he went to members of his church with questions, which led him to a scholar that gave him insight that made him become bitter with religion.
“I got so angry and bitter, I rejected religion, but I threw the baby out with the bathwater as well so I rejected God. I was in that state for two years then I heard the Black man is God,” Muhammad said.
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A native of Detroit, Michigan, Muhammad is reading proficient in Arabic, Hebrew, German and French. After years of study he said there has been a decline of the Black intellectual movement, and it has been replaces with a “hip-hopification” of learning institutions, etc.
Sharing Atlanta was once the mecca for Black intellectuals who dominated the city. Muhammad said that is no longer the case there – or anywhere for that matter.
“Today, it is hard to find a spectrum of popping Black intellectuality,” Muhammad said.
He explained the N-word was “American white supremacy’s creation” and “white America’s Frankenstein,” He said it was “an artificial creation that is causing havoc in the Black community” that needed to be dismantled.
“President Donald Trump isn’t the most immediate threat to Black life; nigga culture is the most immediate threat to Black life. So the nigga is real – nigga as an existing entity, niggas as a scientific term – not nigga as a term of endearment or an insult,” Muhammad said.
