The Divinely Prepared Prophet Who Enlightened The Asiatic Nations

Prophet Drew Ali was born as Timothy Drew in the State of North Carolina in 1886 of the Gregorian calendar.

The Prophet traveled throughout the southern States, examining the conditions that the Moors lived in as negroes, blacks, and coloreds. They were oppressed by strictly enforced Jim Crow Laws. Jim Crow was a fictional negro character in a song and dance act of the early 1860s presented by Thomas D. Rice. Jim Crow was used to denote segregation and racial discrimination and refers mostly to the laws of that era.

The Jim Crow Laws segregated the Moors from the pale European Americans in every way of life. This forced separation of the races rendered the Moors unequal, inferior, and deprived of birthrights. They were unable to advance as a people because legal prohibitions and racism would not allow them. After being kidnapped, tortured, and made to labor here in North America, they were stripped of everything.

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Their History Was Distorted and Destroyed

They were deprived of their language, names, religious customs, families, and birthrights. Bound in chains and sold amongst the European American slaveholders, they were forced to work on cotton, sugar, tobacco, and rubber plantations. By the early 1900s, very little had changed.

The Prophet sought to change all of that. Ready to teach Islam in America, the Prophet went amongst the down‑trodden Moors and began his missionary work. The Prophet taught them that they were direct descendants of the first human family who rapidly populated the earth. Their superior intellect, skillfulness, and imagination help them survive and excel under unfavorable conditions.

The Prophet also taught them that most of the members of the pale-skinned Nations of Europe have dealt with them unjustly and have tried to crush true Moslems and divert them from the path of Allah. That is why the Moors must join the ranks of our fellow Moslem brothers and sisters and abandon the religion of our oppressors: Christianity, the religion of Rome that worships the gods of Europe!

The Prophet sought the citizenship of all Moors so that they could receive their divine rights as citizens, according to the Free National Constitutions that were prepared for all free national beings!

The Prophet

Was born in Sampson County, North Carolina. On the day of his birth, there was a great earthquake. This was a presentment of the Prophet’s spirit hitting the earth. Born amongst the Cherokee, young Timothy was put in the care of his aunt after the death of his mother. Little is known about his father, and the Prophet’s early childhood was very tragic.

Before his mother passed, she had the feeling that her son would one day inherit a great mission. Therefore, she entrusted him in the care of her sister, who was very jealous of her nephew and abused him physically and mentally. His aunt put the young baby in a burning furnace, leaving him to die, but Allah saved the child from the burning furnace. From that point on, Allah prepared him for the great work that he was to perform for his people!

The Prophet had permanent scars on his hands and face due to the abuse he endured as a child. His younger life was spent with gypsies. Later on, he accepted the mission that Allah gave him, and he left the gypsy camp, never to return.

During the 1900s

The Prophet was a victim of racial discrimination, poverty, and suffering. He was very intelligent and was always eager to listen to the wise. He was a boy of great bravery and courage. As he grew older, he was very interested in the East.

So with nothing to lose, he left the home of his aunt and began his journey towards manhood. Since he loved to travel, he first went to Egypt. While there, he learned more about his heritage, which laid the foundation for him to pioneer Islam in the West. He went to Egypt as Timothy Drew, and he returned to America with the name Ali.

In Egypt, he had the opportunity to visit the great universities, sit with the Egyptian sages, travel through the inner chambers of the pyramids, and learn the origin of the slave trade. He was able to see and know his true way of life, Islam, and that Allah is the creator of the original man and woman. By being in Egypt, he could see for himself that the Moors had laws, science, math, art, dignity, citizenship, and power over the land.

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At that time, there was little formal education of the modern Egyptians. Most of their education came by word of mouth. This is how the Prophet learned so much about the past and present life of the Egyptians.

The Prophet was inspired by his origin and returned to America to claim his people and raise them up as clean, self‑respectable, upright citizens who descended from a glorious race of people. After he returned to the USA, he began his mission leading his congregation to the history of the Moors.

In 1913, he started teaching at the age of 27. He began his teaching in the city of Newark in Essex County, New Jersey. He wanted his people to live for, of, and by each other.

His teachings were spread at street corners, vacant lots, and open discussions in the homes of his people. He taught his people of the lower self and the higher self and that they should lead moral and clean lives.

Unfortunately, the Prophet’s efforts were interfered with. As a result, the Prophet dismantled the Canaanite Temple and traveled to Chicago, Illinois to rebuild, making this location his official headquarters.

In 1925, the Prophet planned a historic trip to the archives of the district in order to reclaim the Moorish Flag and seek the divine right to call his people to their true faith, Islam. To finance this trip, he developed a line of health products, including teas, oils, tonics, and body rub compounds. He designed these products and sold them to his people. While in the district, he asked for the right to rename his people and restore their nationality.

President Calvin Coolidge, feeling that the people would not listen to the Prophet, gave him full protection to teach Islam in America. The Prophet claimed the Moor's true flag from the archives, which had been in European possession for 113 years at that time.

The Wearing of the Fez

Was one of the many customs that the Prophet saw in Egypt and adopted for his mission. By the late 1920s, the temple’s membership had grown tremendously. The Prophet was no longer able to personally supervise the inner workings of the movement, so he designated subordinate Temples with Sheiks and Sheikesses.

A Moorish American becomes a Sheik or Sheikess because he or she has earned the title and not because he or she is anyone’s friend or because of his or her age alone. These Moors were considered figures of authority and responsibility.

The Sheiks and Sheikesses

Some of the Sheiks and Sheikesses that the Prophet shared power and authority with abused their responsibilities and began exploiting the temple members. A power struggle began with the Prophet in the middle. The Sheiks and Sheikesses were becoming rich from their positions in the temple. During a violent conflict within the movement, one of the Sheiks was killed. The Prophet was charged with the crime, although he was not even in the city at the time.

He was never sent to trial or convicted. A few weeks after he was released from jail on bond, he made his transition to the plane of Soul in 1929. Afterward, the movement split into small splinter groups.

With the Founder Gone

Who was left to direct the Moorish Divine and National Movement? Sheik John Givens-El, the reincarnated Prophet who continued to walk in the Spirit of Truth.