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ores home al the age of 16 years, In 1923, be took his wife and ehilaren to Detroit 4 ttt vie Michigan, ‘where he was employed in several manufacturing plants. During - these lean years, Elijah Poole met W. D. Fard, who acquainted him with the tenets of the cult, and who, according to Poole, personally took him ‘out of the gutter in the streets of Detroit and taught him in three and one-half years the knowledge of Islam,” Gamay After Fard left Detroit, Poole referred to himself as Elijah Muhammad. He explained to his followers the disappearance of Fard and the change in cult leadership as follows: Fard was in reality Allah himseif, who left Detroit to travel to Mecca, leaving the cult in the capable hands of his apostle, Elijah Muhammad, the "Messenger of Allah." — Elijah Muhammad thereafter taught in Detroit until September, 1934, when, because of local pressure, he moved to Chicago. In Chicago, he established another temple of the cult, which remains the national headquarters of the NOI and is designated as Temple Number 2. From Chicaco. the NOT hes fenned tts cdioue doctrines rcranse the United hates,