Wallace Fard Muhammad Where’s Wallace?

Founder of Nation of Islam Succeeded by Elijah Muhammad Elijah began preaching that Wallace Fard Muhammad was the Mahdi and thought that it was God directly intervening in the world through Fard. He taught his followers that, Allah(God)appeared in the person of Master Fard.

In June 1934, Wallace left Detroit for Chicago and disappeared without a trace. Rumored to have been killed by the Police and other believe Elijah Muhammed murdered Wallace. Evidence shows that he was alive until the 1960’s, however. An alleged lover claimed he returned to New Zealand FBI held files for Wallace open until the late 1960’s.

In 1981, Pakistani scholar Zafar Ishaq Ansari researched Fard's life and claimed that Wallace was identical with Muhammad Abdullah, a Pakistani Ahmadiyya Muslim. Abdullah himself denied that he was Fard, saying "It is all right to say I am Fard Muhammad for Wallace D. Muhammad. I taught him some lessons. But I am not the same person who taught Elijah Muhammad and I am not God."