To secure the greatness blacks were meant to exhibit, it was necessary to reject the teachings, or “tricknology,” of whites, and embrace Islam-the black community’s true religion. His teachings perplexed and intrigued listeners and, while his theories seemed fantastic, his audience grew as blacks in Detroit gained from his teachings a new sense of self-worth and a way to critique oppression encountered during the course of daily existence. The way to know the difference is by spending time with God and knowing what He says in the Bible. His inspiration for the first two stanzas comes from the Apocryphal Book of Ecclesiasticus, chapter 50:22-24, which reads in part, “Now bless the God of all, who in every way does great things.” The third stanza is a paraphrase of the Gloria Patri, originally composed in Greek in the fourth century, though some of it was written as early as 95 A.D.

The report had predicted that by 2050, there will be near parity between Muslims (2.8 billion, or 30 percent of the population) and Christians (2.9 billion, or 31 percent), possibly for the first time in history. “In May 1991, in a joint message to their fellow Christians, the Catholic bishops of Senegal called attention to the ‘real efforts at understanding and dialogue between Christians and Muslims, the meeting between religious leaders’ which have been undertaken in your country. The report also said that Muslims form the fastest-growing religious group in the world. A new report by Pew Research Centre has said that Islam will become the largest religion in the world by 2050 if the current demographic trends continue. Where in the world is this location? Muslims are projected to grow faster than the world’s overall population and that Hindus and Christians are projected to roughly keep pace with worldwide population growth, the report had said. There were 1.6 billion Muslims in 2010, compared to 2.17 billion Christians. All Muslims pray facing east toward Mecca, and a small niche (mihrab) is always set into the mosque wall nearest Mecca. The Hajj is a pilgrimage to Mecca made once in every Muslim’s lifetime, if it is possible.

WHY DO MUSLIMS PRAY TOWARD MECCA? In 610 CE, Muhammad received the first of his revelations from God on a mountain outside Mecca. Some estimates suggest that Master Fard’s temple grew to roughly eight thousand members, one of the most important being Elijah Muhammad (born Elijah Poole; 1897-1975). As part of the Great Migration, Poole came to Detroit from the South. First, the obligatory disclaimer: This is not the exact timeline every relationship will take, but it is one that covers many of the etiquette bases. Other Quranic verses strongly deny the divinity of Jesus Christ, the son of Mary, and reproach the people who treat Jesus as equal with God as disbelievers, who will be doomed to eternal punishment in Hell. By 2050, Hindus will be third, making up 14.9 percent of the world’s total population, followed by people who do not affiliate with any religion, accounting for 13.2 percent, the report said.

In North America, the Hindu share of the population is expected to nearly double in the decades ahead, from 0.7 percent in 2010 to 1.3 percent in 2050, when migration is included in the projection models. Without migration, the Hindu share of the region’s population would remain the same. Around 62 percent of the Muslim population lives in Indonesia, India, Pakistan and Bangladesh. Less than half of White (42 percent), Hispanic (41 percent), and Asian Americans (31 percent) report praying or saying grace with their families during mealtimes at least weekly. Substituting Adonai for YHWH apparently dates back at least to the third century B.C.E. The first several decades of the twentieth century marked a continuing challenge for African Americans. The Arabic name Qur’an means “the recital.” Muhammad’s first revelation began with the angel Gabriel’s instruction, “Recite! The Qur’an unites all Muslims in a single language-they must learn Arabic to read Allah’s original words. HOW DOES THE QUR’AN SPEAK?