ABSTRACT
The key to understanding Elijah Muhammad's Christologies lies in his attitudes toward the scriptures that he employed. He described the Bible as a "poison book," but one that contained many hidden truths and prophecies that he alone understood. Elijah Muhammad's respect for the Qur'an was immense, and since Jesus is a fairly prominent character in the Qur'an, he must have been aware of its depiction of him. In the Qur'an, Jesus has a miraculous birth that was announced by angels; he performed miracles even as a child; he was sent with the Gospel and gathered disciples, and in the end, he ascends to God. Although no explicit biblical citations were given, the passage obviously alludes to the biblical story of Jesus, which even in its broad outlines is therefore mere prophecy about the contemporary Jesus of the end of the world.
