Our historical and spiritual tradition, preserved with clear distinctions between Tribal teaching and conventional scientific chronology.
The Official Tribe of Shabazz teaches, through the teachings of the Honorable Elijah Muhammad, that the Black man is the Original Man and that the history of the Tribe of Shabazz extends into timelines measured in trillions of years.
The Tribe presents this as a foundational historical and spiritual teaching: a history that predates modern nations, racial classifications, colonial records, and present-day borders.
In North America, the Tribe understands the public restoration of the name Shabazz as beginning with Master Fard Muhammad's teaching mission in Detroit in 1930, calling our people back to knowledge of self, dignity, responsibility, and collective purpose.
