I think we have said enough
about the poison animal called,
in Arabic, khanzier (khan
meaning, "I see," and zier
meaning "very foul"). 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 is full of
worms.
In many cases, the eater of
the flesh becomes nauseated when
the flesh is being fried 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 savings 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 the
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
law if we are ignorant of His
laws. But after knowledge of His
laws, He is justified in
punishing us be 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 peas other than lima beans;
field butter beans, called baby
lima beans, and black eyed peas
(field peas as we called them).
Eat the good fruit and the
good vegetables according to
your condition. Some of us
cannot eat even the best of
these because of the condition
of our health.
You are your judge there.