Voices of the Witness Bearers · No. 5
Knowing Ourselves.
“The independent voice can carve out a lane for itself.” Sister Nurah Z. Muhammad on Brother Munir Muhammad, the founding of Nurah Speaks, and knowledge of self.
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Testimony from guest contributors.
A witness bearer is one who has experienced something and shares it truthfully. This column publishes that account — carried into print by the one who lived it.
Voices of the Witness Bearers is a standing column on The C.R.O.E. Report. Its readers do not need every contributor to share their faith; they need every contributor to bear honest witness. The phrase carries weight in the Holy Qur'an, translated by Maulana Muhammad Ali. “Thus We have made you an exalted nation that you may be the bearers of witness to the people” (Qur'an 2:143). “O you who believe, be upright for Allah, bearers of witness with justice” (Qur'an 5:8).
The column publishes testimony, not opinion. Contributors are believers, sympathizers, observers, scholars, family, and neighbors — anyone who has been affected and inspired by the Most Honorable Elijah Muhammad and the work of C.R.O.E.
Each entry is a witness placed on the record: how the Messenger's teachings, and the preservation of His work at C.R.O.E., have touched a life, corrected a course, or opened a clearer view of the time and what must be done.
You do not need to be a writer to be a witness bearer. If you would rather speak than write, tell us. We will record your account and transcribe it for your review, and nothing goes out under your name until you have read it.
“The independent voice can carve out a lane for itself.” Sister Nurah Z. Muhammad on Brother Munir Muhammad, the founding of Nurah Speaks, and knowledge of self.
Read the Witness ›Lively and prosperous, precious, and worthy of praise. That is the meaning of the name. The Most Honorable Elijah Muhammad taught that one of the first and most important truths that must be established is our identity — and this is the account of a C.R.O.E. member coming to hers.
Read the Witness ›Reprinted from Muhammad Speaks. A witness account by Ruby X Thompson of how the teachings of the Most Honorable Elijah Muhammad restored her home and her family in a time when a broken family was accepted as ordinary.
Read the Witness ›July marks the anniversary of Master Fard Muhammad's coming on July 4, 1930. To honor that occasion, we shared Brother Munir Muhammad's introduction to the book Birth of a Saviour, a writing that explains the significance of His coming and why this truth must be known.
Brother Munir Muhammad, Co-Founder of C.R.O.E. and a fierce advocate and defender of the teachings of the Most Honorable Elijah Muhammad.
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This introduction was published in his honor.
An account of a recent visit to a community affected by war, and how the teachings of His Most Honorable Elijah Muhammad clarified the writer's duty and role as a man.
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National Secretary of the Nation of Islam, 1960—1970. The man who ran the Messenger’s national office.
Brother John W. Ali, National Secretary of the Nation of Islam under the Most Honorable Elijah Muhammad.
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May Allah be pleased with him.
He held the national office through the decade in which the Nation of Islam grew fastest. The Special Edition tribute published in the August 2026 issue is presented here with Brother Munir Muhammad’s Muhammad and Friends interview of August 8, 2018 — recorded eleven months before Brother Munir’s own transition.
Two men who carried the record, in one conversation. The tribute and the full interview are on one page.
The Messenger's Captain. The Protecting Friend.
The Most Honorable Elijah Muhammad named him. Every Temple had a Captain. Above them stood the Supreme Captain. Captain Wali Bahar holds none of those titles. He is the Messenger's personal Captain, and no one else holds that title.
This is the record of a man who has stood at his post for half a century while the Nation around it has rearranged itself three different ways. Presented with two archival artifacts — the 1975 Saviour's Day photograph above, and the 1977 Bilalian News clipping that recorded the renaming of the editor's family — the piece documents a living witness before the record he carries can be lost.
The work of the Most Honorable Elijah Muhammad lives in those it has affected and inspired. If you carry such an account and are willing to share it truthfully with our readers, we invite you to bear witness. You do not need to be a writer — if you would rather speak than write, tell us, and we will record and transcribe your account for your review.
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