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~~ J; en ae ( C} Naeem published additional favorable articles on the NOI in exchange for considerable monetary assistance and a guaranteed increase in sales of his publication. Orthodox Muslims then stopped buying his publication and he devoted nis attention to Elijah Muhammad and the NOI. Since then, Naeem, pretertiously claiming to be a “leading Pakistan Muslim and ; world lecturer, " has written profusely for the cult paper extolling i. Elijah Muhammad and the NOI. An editorial in the Janvary 29, 1965, issue of ‘Muhammad Speaks" reveals the main theme and purpose of Elijah Muhammad's whole publicity program through the years: "we cannot get our freedom, justice and dignity from the American government without Divine help. It has been Div inely predicted that God alone would send a Messenger and that messenger is among us." "The slave is never able to free himself from the master without a guide. And that guide is the Honorable Elijah Muhammad, born to do just that." But the "so-called Negro” needs prodding. Elijah's articles conclude with the urgent appeal: “HURRY AND JOIN ONTO YOUR OWN KIND. THE TIME OF THIS WORLD IS NOW AT HAND." Elijah occasionally has had to change this time" thai he foretells, ‘ and once again he is warning in the above-mentioned issue of the paper: ww fe ee