Chapter 5
I think we have said enough
about the poisonous animal
called, in Arabic, Khanzier.
Beyond a shadow of a doubt the
swine is the filthiest and
foulest animal human beings
could have resorted to for food.
The flesh of the swine, while
cooking, has a very different
smell from that of other
animal's flesh while cooking.
And even when it is not being
cooked, it has a bad smell.
Worms and insects take to its
flesh while in the farmer's
curing stage faster than to any
other animal's flesh. And in a
few days, it is full of worms.
In many cases, the eater of
the flesh becomes nauseated when
the flesh is being cooked in the
early morning. It is a divinely
prohibited flesh, and God
(Allah) has prohibited you and
me, my brothers and sisters of
the Black Nation, from eating it
or even touching its dead
carcass.
Please, for our health's
sake, stop eating it, for our
beauty's sake, stop eating it;
for our obedience to God and His
laws against this flesh, stop
eating it; for a longer life,
stop eating it and for the sake
of modesty, stop eating it.
Do you know that if we, the
22 million lost-found members of
our nation here in America,
would stop eating this pig (his
poison swine flesh), it would
mean a great economic saving to
us? And I do not think the
government would be so eager to
eat it themselves if we would
obey this Divine law against
this divinely prohibited flesh.
There is an old, foolish answer
our people have given to such
advice. "The white folks eat it,
and my grandparents ate it, and
they lived to be 75 and 80 years
old."
If Noah and Methuselah had
heard you boasting that your
parents lived only 75 or 80
years eating poison, they would
have considered your parents as
never having grown up to become
adults, according to their good
way of eating the best food,
about twice a week, and living
nearly 1,000 of our present
calendar years which consists of
365 days.
God does not punish us for
the crime of disobedience to His
laws when we are ignorant of His
laws. But after knowledge of His
laws, He is justified in
punishing us by setting the full
penalty according to the
disobedience.
As I have previously said in
this book, most vegetables that
are sold on the public market
are good to eat with the
exception of those Allah
prohibits; such as collard
greens and the rough turnip
salads. You have plenty of other
vegetables to eat. And you have
good beans other than lima
beans, field butter beans
(called baby lima beans), and
black-eyed peas (field peas we
call them.)
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