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Fe radnaiiiied par merry J, danghtore Quibiah = ont Sr eet fe rede Muhammad said, “J do not fear them, Thave ali that T need, the truth.” ve Aad sa, ty 1961, our Nation of Islam thal you need to know. You “hated when you be own. Because usually) pco- xalous of public igure.” fone attack on “the ‘ in newspapers. _ Increasingly, a focal targel was something “Thad said, or “Malone X° es an indi ~ “wpread aboot dim. He had me to fy so Agi, 66. 2 didn’t expect fhe kind which came. No onc needs tp be ppmninded teat om | deadiqua radent SAF. pstbc the freedom that ht had granted me to wha _ take liberties and do fhings oo my owns it was 2 * and still have remained as faithful and as sclfiess a servant as | was. Yet I was very hypersensitive to internal critics. Also, J could not help but hear some of the hints and rumor and viciout gossip that was going around, about the moral behavior of our leader. Just to hear these Mories, why, ho made me gpooky with & bes fear! But the stories got wore and evan People owtside the Nation began w hear than. i will only pote, to bo a: brief as reactions, that Mr. Muhammad is the try is in mourning. That was very ill would u defendant m two patemity sucts in giined, A statement lke that cen make it: (Seat in tt Angeles. T don't know how thoee yard on Muslims in geocral. TH have to * hem, I t from two girls who once were his sade silence you for the next ninety days—so sight int: faries, are going to come out, but Pdo thal the Muslims everywhere can be dis” Before know that at the time I first heard those = assocunted from the Hunde.” « . aundienice wicked speculations sbout his ‘ovat lie, I wad numb“Butliold Mr. Muhammed, “aged me By late 1962, a number of Muslims were kaving Mosque No. 2 in Chicago. I karned thai rcliabiy—and the ugly Tumor was spreading swiftly there among aon-Muslims, as well. So same months deter J sat down and I wrote to Mr. Muhammad whal powon was being te pared to tell my Mosque No. y assistants resi of 4 that I had been suspended, or, a mycese, where 1 “silenced,” I fearned that already they * America had been informed. Next, am aonounce- datas. In bis new bome in Phorais, to,se himnin “We ombraced, it tos ae imencdiately be took the outside, where to walk by hin ewimming poo. ef, aon,” ‘be sail, “what @ on your 7 passeges about the sins of David, M " few the < confidence in me. He left me in charge of «= mad Noah and discowed with hin about first @) 1962 a1 a Detrott nally fer Figsh | ors and . _ @e Nation of Islam's affain: when be how good deeds outweighed bad, and §9=Muhammad. Today be doce not sharemy = queriesc ‘2 eagte a pilgrimage to the Holy City, about the fulfillment of prophery. “. feelings about Mr. Muhammad. Bat I tion ofr x Meo | wows have buried mel “Gon, I'm not surprised,” "/ mawst always be grateful to Iyen fiat jet _peacticn: Mr. Mubsainad anctan uses, ~Barond anid, “You always beve ‘at this tire, whe be wen tasting fn “teen dr: "Mow ms far back as 1961, 1 had heard ach a good understanding of propheg, Miami to fight Soany Liston, tee invited © ~¢ience ar "chance negative remarks concerning me, god of spiritual things. You recognize — mer, Betty and the children to come theme, 2 Over x veiled negative imphcations, or I po- | Hat's what all of this b—propbecy. You as his gucets, as a sixth-wedding abel were wai gand Haloury which Mix Nv weeks al ‘prophesied. ! was trying to “take over™ ~ think ab the Muslims J was [taking crodit for - we vnmieeton in Amer " Mr. Mubamoad’s teaching.” I was jewnce, a ‘Maying const 4o-cpest 7: David took another tiaa’s not speaking vul the fell truth’ when I going tc But 1 don't believe that any man im the wife, I'm that David. You read abagt owas first “wonpended "i some of Wasion of Iblam could have gained the ‘Noah, who got dronk, that’s me. “You © ‘What was | going io do? After the They Negro i Shea cy ras international prominence that Mir. Mu- read about Lot, who went and inid up = fight I returned to New York City, where