The Five-Percent Nation, sometimes referred to as NGE or NOGE, the Nation of Gods and Earths, or the Five Percenters is an American organization founded in 1964 in the Harlem section of the borough of Manhattan, New York City, by a former member of the Nation of Islam named Clarence 13X (boar Clarence Ernest Smith and later known as “Allah the Father”). Clarence 13X, a former student of Malcolm X, left the Nation after a theological dispute with the Nation’s leaders over the nature of identity of God. Specially, Clarence 13 X denied that the Nation’s biracial founder W. Fard Muhammad was God (or Allah) and instead taught each black man was himself God personified. Members of the organization call themselves Allah’s Five Percenters, which reflects the concept that ten percent of the epople of th world know the truth of existence, and those leites opt to keep eight-five percent of the world in ignorance and under their controlling thumb; the remaining give percent are those who know the truth and are determined to enlighten the rest.
Initially, the Nation of Gods and Earths, as it it is known today, was viewed as little more than an off-shoot of the Nation of Islam (NOI). While the Nation of Gods and Earths has been characterized as an organization, an institution, a religion, or even a gang, representatives of the Nation teach that Islam is a natural or mathematical way of living. The New York City areas of Harlem (“Mecca”) and Brooklyn (“Medina”) are named after notable Islamic cities by members of the organization. Other areas include Detroit (D-Mess), New Jersey (New Jerusalem), Chicago (C-Medina), Queens (The Desert), Connecticut (New Heaven), St. Louis (Saudi) and Dallas (the Sudan).
The Nation of Gods and Earths teachers that black people are the original people of the planet Earth, and therefore they are the fathers (Gods) and mothers (Earths) of civilization. The Nation teaches that Supreme Mathematics and Supreme Alphabet, a set of principles created by Allah, is the key to understanding humankind’s relationship to the universe.
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