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Minor Sects of
Islam
by Grady L. Davis, M.Div., Ph.D.
Former Chairman of Directed Individualized Studies
Golden State School of Theology, Oakland, CA ©1983,2003
Sufism
The most exotic variant of Islam proposes
to reach G-d not through the Five Pillars, but by entering trance states
induced by dancing. The Sufis (their name comes from the wool [suf] of
their undergarments) are a mystical Islamic branch rooted in the ascetic
pietism of Mohammad’s followers. Al-Hasan of Basra (643-728) was an early
advocate of Sufism as was Melvana Celaleddin Rumi, a Turkish mystic who lived
in the thirteenth century.
Their emphasis is on union with G-d through
meditation and ritual rather than Koranic obedience. Combining Islamic
doctrines with Christian and Gnostic beliefs, they have developed a
pantheistic theology with a spiritual hierarchy of awliya (saints). Chief of
these is Qutb, the Pole of the World. Sufi leaders known as shaikhs are held
to be saints, and many of them have practiced celibacy, though it is not a
requirement of their office.
While the average Muslim is content in
submitting to the will of Allah, the Sufi wants an immediate, ecstatic
experience of oneness with G-d. The means to accomplish this is a once-secret
rite of twirling dance maneuvers. It was Rumi who adapted Asian shamanistic
practices and formed a ritualistic approach to Islam. His disciples became
known as “whirling dervishes.” Until recently dervishes were illegal in their
native Turkey.
Dervishes turn for an hour or more at a
time without any sign of fatigue, repeating the name of Allah in prayer to
the accompaniment of a musical beat.
Until recently this was reserved for
initiates only, but now their beliefs and practices are performed in public.
The costume is a white skirt which represents a shroud, and a high felt hat,
symbolizing a tombstone.
Among the eight Sufi precepts are: a
concentrated breathing technique, returning to G-d from the material world,
and being aware of the divine presence.
This group has about 6000 adherents in America.
Black Muslims
In 1913, a North Carolina black man named
Timothy Drew arrived in Newark, New Jersey, under the name of Noble Drew Ali.
He founded the Moorish-American Science Temples on the doctrine that Negroes
were of Moroccan (Moorish) origin, and that Jesus was a black man killed by
white Romans. Many of his teachings were taken from The Aquarian Gospel,
an occult book written by Levi Dowling.
When Ali died, Wallace Ford, a door-to-door
salesman from Detroit, suddenly appeared on the scene claiming to be Ali’s
reincarnation. He asserted that he was born in Mecca and had been sent to
America to redeem the black man from the “Caucasian devil."” One of Ford's
spokesmen, Elijah Muhammad (formerly Robert Poole) helped him to found the
Nation of Islam. [Elijah] Muhammad insisted that Ford was an incarnation of
Allah. By the time Ford mysteriously disappeared from sight in 1935, [Elijah]
Muhammad had assumed leadership of the organization.
While incarcerated as a conscientious
objector during World War II, Elijah Muhammad, the Messenger of Allah,
effectively recruited black prisoners for his cause. His message to them was
simple: Wallace Ford was G-d — the messiah predicted by Christians and the
Mahdi proclaimed by Muslims. The white beast (created by a mad black
scientist) has been allowed to reign for 6000 years, and that period ended in
1914; the time is ripe for the Nation of Islam and the divine black G-d-men
guided by Allah to arise and claim control over the world.
Malcolm X was the mouthpiece of Elijah
Muhammad and was an eloquent evangelist until he was murdered by one of
Muhammad’s rivals on February 21, 1965. Membership blossomed in the
turbulent, racially tense sixties. Dozens of temples were opened in ghetto
neighborhoods, usually by acquiring the abandoned churches of white
congregations who fled to the suburbs. A half-million circulation newspaper,
Muhammad Speaks, (now called Bilalian News) was hawked by
well-dressed militantly organized youth.
Though their racial intolerance separated
them from the world community of Islam, they did practice some Muslim
precepts. Members prayed five times a day facing Mecca. Women were admonished
to respect their husbands and were required to have their heads covered. The
Qur’an was deemed to be the holy scripture of G-d’s prophet, although they
also entertained fanciful speculation about the black man having originated
on the moon 65 trillion years ago.
Though most critics labeled their theology
as “racial hatred,” Black Muslims preferred to call their views “social
separation.” They wanted no part of integration. Why should they? The white
man’s day of destruction was coming, and blacks should avoid sharing in his
judgment. Heaven and hell were considered irrelevant concepts because the
black man in America had already gone through the hell of slavery.
Upon the death of Elijah Muhammad in 1965,
his son Wallace took over the movement. His initial most important
accomplishment has been to drop the strident racial invectives that had
aroused the fear and dread of whites. This new image has enabled the Black
Muslims to gain official recognition as an orthodox Islamic body under the
name Community of Islam in the West.
After the death of Malcolm X, militant
groups splintered off from the main group, which is now led by Wallace
Muhammad. Such is the group led by the “Reverend” Louis Farrakhan.
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