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==Noble Drew Ali's beginnings==

[[image:Nobledrew.jpg|right|thumb|Noble Drew Ali, the Prophet]]Timothy Drew was born in [[January 68]], [[1886]], in [[North Carolina]], [[USA]]. The accounts of Timothy Drew's childhood are varied, from him being the son of two former [[slaves]] who was adopted by a tribe of [[Cherokee]] [[Native Americans in the United States|Native Americans]], to him being the son of a [[Morocco|Moroccan]] Muslim father and a Cherokee mother. He is recorded, perhaps apocryphally, as saying, “When I was born, it turned black dark in the daytime. The people put their hoes down and came out of the fields.” Allegedly, at the age of 16, he joined a [[circus]] and became a [[Magic (illusion)|stage magician]], befriending a band of [[Roma (people)|Roma]], with whom he traveled the world. Supposedly during these travels, he met the high [[priest]] of an [[Egypt]]ian [[cult]] of [[Magic (paranormal)|magic]]. In one version of Drew's biography, the cult leader saw him as a reincarnation of the founder of the cult, while in others he considered him a reincarnation of [[Jesus Christ]].

They trained him in [[mysticism]], and bestowed upon him a lost version of the Life of Jesus. This text came to be known as the [[Circle Seven Koran|Holy Koran of the Moorish Science Temple of America]] (which, in this case, is ''never'' spelled ''Qur'an''), and is referred to as the uniting of the Holy Koran of Mecca. Sometimes the title is shorthanded as the Circle Seven Koran, because of the design on its cover, namely a red numeral seven surrounded by a blue circle broken into four segments. Drew changed his name to Noble Drew Ali, the Prophet and returned to the [[United States]] where he founded the organization in 1913 in [[Newark, New Jersey|Newark]], [[New Jersey]]. This idea that he is a Prophet is considered by Muslims to be an incorrect belief, because they believe that their Prophet Mohammed is the last prophet. Also, the idea that any other book except what Allah sent down to Mohammed may be called the Koran is abhorrent to Muslims.