بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم
*THE MUSLIM PROGRAM*
*OURSTORY 24/7/365.25 EVERY YEAR*
*THE PARABLE OF THE SOWER*
FROM THE MESSENGER:
THE MUSLIM PROGRAM
WHAT THE MUSLIMS WANT AND BELIEVE
WHAT THE MUSLIMS WANT
This is the Question Asked Most Frequently By Both the whites and the Blacks. The Answers to This Question I Shall State as Simply as Possible.
1. We want freedom. We want a full and complete freedom.
2. We want justice. Equal justice under the law. We want justice applied equally to all, regardless of creed or class or color.
3. We want equality of opportunity. We want equal membership in society with the best in civilized society.
4. We want our people in America whose parents or grandparents were descendants from slaves, to be allowed to establish a separate state or territory of their own–either on this continent or elsewhere. We believe that our former slave masters are obligated to provide such land and that the area must be fertile and minerally rich. We believe that our former slave masters are obligated to maintain and supply our needs in this separate territory for the next 20 to 25 years–until we are able to produce and supply our own needs.
Since we cannot get along with them in peace and equality, after giving them 400 years of our sweat and blood and receiving in return some of the worst treatment human beings have ever experienced, we believe our contributions to this land and the suffering forced upon us by white America, justifies our demand for complete separation in a state or territory of our own.
5. We want freedom for all Believers of Islam now held in federal prisons. We want freedom for all Black men and women now under death sentence in innumerable prisons in the North as well as the South.
We want every Black man and woman to have the freedom to accept or reject being separated from the slave master’s children and establish a land of their own.
We know that the above plan for the solution of the Black and white conflict is the best and only answer to the problem between the two people.
6. We want an immediate end to the police brutality and mob attacks against the so-called Negro throughout the United States.
We believe that the Federal government should intercede to see that Black men and women tried in white courts receive justice in accordance with the laws of the land–or allow us to build a new nation for ourselves, dedicated to justice, freedom and liberty.
7. As long as we are not allowed to establish a state or territory of our own, we demand not only equal justice under the laws of the United States, but equal employment opportunities–now!
We do not believe that after 400 years of free or nearly free labor, sweat and blood, which has helped America become rich and powerful, so many thousands of Black people should have to subsist on relief or charity or live in poor houses.
8. We want the government of the United States to exempt our people from ALL taxation as long as we are deprived of equal justice under the laws of the land.
9. We want equal education–but separate schools up to 16 for boys and 18 for girls on the condition that the girls be sent to women’s colleges and universities. We want all Black children educated, taught and trained by their own teachers.
Under such schooling system we believe we will make a better nation of people. The United States government should provide, free, all necessary text books and equipment, schools and college buildings. The Muslim teachers shall be left free to teach and train their people in the way of righteousness, decency and self respect.
10. We believe that intermarriage or race mixing should be prohibited. We want the religion of Islam taught without hindrance or suppression.
These are some of the things that we, the Muslims, want for our people in North America.
WHAT THE MUSLIMS BELIEVE
1. WE BELIEVE in the One God whose proper Name is Allah.
2. WE BELIEVE in the Holy Qur’an and in the Scriptures of all the Prophets of God.
3. WE BELIEVE in the truth of the Bible, but we believe that it has been tampered with and must be reinterpreted so that mankind will not be snared by the falsehoods that have been added to it.
4. WE BELIEVE in Allah’s Prophets and the Scriptures they brought to the people.
5. WE BELIEVE in the the resurrection of the dead–not in physical resurrection–but in mental resurrection. We believe that the so-called Negroes are most in need of mental resurrection: therefore they will be resurrected first.
Furthermore, we believe we are the people of God’s choice, as it has been written, that God would choose the rejected and the despised. We can find no other persons fitting this description in these last days more than the so-called Negroes in America. We believe in the resurrection of the righteous.
6. WE BELIEVE in the judgment; we believe this first judgment will take place as God revealed, in America…
7. WE BELIEVE this is the time in history for the separation of the so-called Negroes and the so-called white Americans. We believe the Black man should be freed in name as well as in fact. By this we mean that he should be freed from the names imposed upon him by his former slave masters. Names which identified him as being the slave master’s slave. We believe that if we are free indeed, we should go in our own people’s names–the Black peoples of the Earth.
8. WE BELIEVE in justice for all, whether in God or not; we believe as others, that we are due equal justice as human beings. We believe in equality–as a nation–of equals. We do not believe that we are equal with our slave masters in the status of “freed slaves.”
We recognize and respect American citizens as independent peoples and we respect their laws which govern this nation.
9. WE BELIEVE that the offer of integration is hypocritical and is made by those who are trying to deceive the Black peoples into believing that their 400-year-old enemies of freedom, justice and equality are, all of a sudden, their “friends.” Furthermore, we believe that such deception is intended to prevent Black people from realizing that the time in history has arrived for the separation from the whites of this nation.
If the white people are truthful about their professed friendship toward the so-called Negro, they can prove it by dividing up America with their slaves.
We do not believe that America will ever be able to furnish enough jobs for her own millions of unemployed, in addition to jobs for the 20,000,000 Black people as well.
10. WE BELIEVE that we who declare ourselves to be righteous Muslims, should not participate in wars which take the lives of humans. We do not believe this nation should force us to take part in such wars, for we have nothing to gain from it unless America agrees to give us the necessary territory wherein we may have something to fight for.
11. WE BELIEVE our women should be respected and protected as the women of other nationalities are respected and protected.
12. WE BELIEVE that Allah (God) appeared in the Person of Master W. Fard Muhammad, July 4, 1930; the long-awaited “Messiah” of the Christians and the “Mahdi” of the Muslims.
We believe further and lastly that Allah is God and besides HIM there is no God and He will bring about a universal government of peace wherein we all can live in peace together.
FROM THE EDITOR:
As-Salaamu ‘Alaikum!
Volume Two!!! Allahu Akbar! Allahu Akbar! Allahu Akbar!!!
I am so pleased with the successful publication of Volume One of Homemaking For the Blackwoman Journal that I could Backflip, Kickworm, Uprock and Windmill for twenty minutes, Spin on my back, my head, then
Into my B-GIRL STANCE, like “BUS’ THAT!” LOL! 🙂 🙂 🙂 🙂
I could not WAIT! to get started on this!!!!
SELF-PUBLISHING IS THIS WRITER’S DREAM!!!
You can go on and PRINT THIS
(Double-sided and in COLOUR)
Also, please make the FLAG the COVER
And THE MUSLIM PROGRAM on the Back Cover
THANK-YOU!!! 🙂
In this issue…
“BLACK OURSTORY MONTH” is upon us again, and although OUR BELOVED MESSENGER (May the Peace and the Blessings of Allah Forever Be Upon Him) Taught us that ONE MONTH (? 
) is not nearly sufficient for the study of our INFINITE story, including the Past, the Present and The FUTURE.
I try to be like Our Beloved Brother, Ar Rasul Allah Isa Ibn Maryam (saws) and always find something positive. 🙂
Perhaps, Brother Carter G. Woodson decided on February because Saviour’s Day is this month.
OUR ONLY HOLY DAY!!! (HOLIDAY)
FAST AND CELEBRATE!
DO NOT WORK!!! FEBRUARY 26, 1877 A SAVIOUR WAS BORN!!!
REST.
My favorite store, is amazing when it comes to “Afrocentric” merch.
They have had, for awhile now, a brand by a Blackwoman displayed prominently.
I spent FIVE HOURS in “Target Heaven” LOL
The OURSTORY Section had me wishing I knew a pregnant couple.
I started to purchase this onesie with a timeline from JUNETEENTH to the Civil Rights Movement on G.P. 🙂
Of course, it could have been better.
Whereas the timeline could have stopped at the BLACK POWER MOVEMENT instead. Ungawa! LOL!!!
But that’s where YOUR Creativity Kicks In!!!
I spent about two hours in the school supplies/arts and crafts section alone!
Make your own OURSTORY stuff.
*Notice how “Black History” is tacitly inherent in the one word – OURSTORY…*
I came “home” (smile) with a muchneeded legal pad for this;
Artwork by Cameron/Cameroon/Al Qamarun (MOON in Arabic)
A student at an HBCU, whose photograph and info sticker are just as much a work of art as his cover design. 🙂
*Click on the picture of our Brother, to purchase the legal sketchbook 🙂
I had to make some adjustments as uzhall… 🙂 I hope you don’t get mad, camo 🙂 But I’m a Blackgirl AND an Artist and these are more representative of us, imo
- Accentuate and Cherish Our Illustrious and Infinite Past
- Anticipate and Plan The Greatness of Our Future of Progress Unlimited
- Celebrate and Narrate OURSTORY Twenty-Four/Seven/Three-Hundred Sixty Five and One-Quarter EVERY YEAR!!!
بسمالله الرحمان الرحيم
السلام علايكم و رحماة الله و بركة
امّي
AKA
the bag lady 🙂
CHECKLIST
from previous issue…
√ PRINT OUT A COUPLE THOUSAND (2000) COPIES
√ FIND A PENPAL (I know it can take some time. Try this )
√ START WEANING YOURSELF OFF YOUR PHONE/DEVICES
√ CUT UP YOUR CREDIT CARDS
√ SAY GOODBYE TO THE RESTAURANT (Eat at Home ONLY!)
√ UPDATE YOUR WARDROBES TO MESH WITH THE SEASON/ENVIRONMENT
GREAT!!! 🙂 LET’S PROCEED.
In The News…
- TOP STORY – Baby Duck Reappears! A baby duck that appeared this Summer and joined two resident ducks, disappeared for a couple months, has returned – fully grown and with an attentive but unassuming DRAKE in tow! In Sha Allah, DUCKLINGS come Spring!!! Al Hamdulillah
- Sweden’s application to join the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO), after YEARS of military neutrality, has been rejected by Turkey following a terrorist’s act of burning the Holiest Book in The World RIGHT IN FRONT OF THE TURKISH EMBASSY in Stockholm. Why he chose that sight? Probably because Turkey is an Islamic Nation kinda close to the Ukraine.
- Following Ukraine’s, as yet unsuccessful, attempt to join NATO, which encouraged Russia to come to the defense of the Ukranian history and culture from Western corruption. Erdogan flatly told the Swedish people, you “expect our support for getting into NATO. That’s not happening.” Russia is now in a greater position to triumph now that the world’s largest military alliance is no longer in danger of expansion. Al Hamdulillah! الحمد الله
- PRAY FOR PEACE
- CLICK ON THE BOOK COVER TO READ THE BOOK ONLINE FOR FREE!!!
- A Republican candidate, who lost his bid for Congress in New Mexico, is behind bars after putting hits out on Democratic opponents, following several drive-by shootings of their homes. Thirty-nine year old Solomon Pena is facing numerable charges connected to the shootings which occurred between early December 2022 and January 2023.
- NETFLIX offered to buy The World Surf League, however a price could not be agreed upon and the offer was ultimately turned down. IOW “Cough up more dough or chill…” 🙂
- This month marks the return or maiden voyage for millions of Muslims to make the yearly Pilgrimage to The Holiest Place in the Universe – The Center of Peace, Makkah Arabia.
This is the location where Ar Rasul Allah, Ibrahim (Abraham Abu Ishmael) neglected his son Ar Rasul Allah, Ismail (salah allahu alaihum wa salaam) and his mother, with no food, water nor help from an established community.
He abandoned them, with no chance of survival in the middle of a desert.
Ismail’s mother, who had been a slave gifted after the King of Egypt found out Ibrahim had lied about his wife being his sister and kicked them out of their country, proceeded desperately, praying to Allah and running back and forth from hill to valley to hill, looking for any sign of water or life.
Allah (subhana wa ta ala) answered her prayer by sending an Angel, who dug a well for her and her newborn baby boy.
This well is the physical manifestation of The Divine Supreme Wisdom Teachings of The Most Honourable and Humble Elijah Muhammad (May the Peace and the Blessings of Allah forever be upon him).
You can drink and drink and drink and drink and drink some more yet never fill. الله اكبر
It is called THE WELL OF ZAMZAM and its water is Blessed. ااحمد الله
Ibrahim returned years later, and tried to kill Ismail, but was prevented by the appearance of an animal, which he sacrificed in Ismail’s stead.
Later, he and his firstborn son, ISMAIL, built the first masjid, the HOME FOR ALLAH AND ISLAM, in Makkah, Arabia – THE KA’ABA.
“Free the Captives, Feed the Hungry and Pay a Visit to the Sick.”
– Ar Rasul Allah, Abdullah Muhammad (saws)
IN THAT ORDER!!!
SURATUL SAJDAH AYATUL THALATHAA
أَمۡ يَقُولُونَ ٱفۡتَرَىٰهُۚ بَلۡ هُوَ ٱلۡحَقُّ مِن رَّبِّكَ لِتُنذِرَ قَوۡمٗا مَّآ أَتَىٰهُم مِّن نَّذِيرٖ مِّن قَبۡلِكَ لَعَلَّهُمۡ يَهۡتَدُونَ
“or do they say, “He has forged it?” Nay, it is the truth from the Lord, that you may warn a people to
whom no warner has come before, that they may follow the right direction (Holy Qur’an 32:3)
This scripture cannot be referring to the Arabs and Arabia, where all Muslims are required to return in homage to a house built by a well-known warner, Prophet IBRAHIM (saws).
They had Ibrahim.
So then what people is this verse referring to?
Well, we know, we, Black People in America had no prophet or warner before Our Beloved Messenger, The Most Honourable and Humble Elijah Muhammad (May the Peace and the Blessings of Allah Forever Be Upon Him).
We know that of a surety.
So, I’m going to say and offer for your consideration that this scripture is referring to him and us.
Can you think of anyone else?
If so, please comment below. Thank-you.
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Chapter 11
ALLAH, THE BEST KNOWER
1 There are many other chapters of the Holy Quran Sharrieff that open with the above verses, “Allah is the
best knower.” The beautiful teachings of the Holy Quran have no equal in other scriptures.
2 All so-called Negro preachers should have one, but be sure it is the one translated by Yusuf Ali or
Maulana Muhammad Ali. Any other translation of the Holy Quran, by Christian authors, is as poisonous to
the reader as a rattlesnake.
3 What I am trying to make clear is that white people do not believe in Allah and Islam or the prophets of
Allah. Why then, should you seek the truth of it from them? You will soon come to know that you should
not seek any truth from them. They have you following in the wrong direction and hope to keep you like
that; but by my Allah’s power and wisdom, and my life’s blood, you shall know the Truth even against your
own will.
4 They (white people) have nearly all of the poor black preachers on their side to oppose Allah, myself and
Islam, the religion of righteous. They will fail and be brought to disgrace as Pharaoh’s magicians and he
himself were by Allah (God), for you have not known Him, or His religion, as Israel had not known God by
His name Jehovah (Exod. 6:3)
5 They felt that they should not believe Moses’ representation of God by any other name than God
Almighty, regardless of Moses’ stress upon Jehovah as being the God of their Fathers. Pharaoh had not used
that name (Jehovah); so Israel would not accept it until a showdown between Jehovah and Pharaoh. I would
not like to have you wait until a showdown between Allah and the modern Pharaoh’s people; therefore I
come to you with the truth, verifying that which is before it, and giving good news to the believers that they
most certainly shall have Heaven in this life. I also come to you with the warning to those who disbelieve
that you most certainly shall have hell in this life, and in the hereafter you most certainly will be among the
losers, or do they say, “He has forged it?” Nay, it is the truth from the Lord, that you may warn a people to
whom no warning has come before, that they may follow the right direction (Holy Qur’an 32-3).
6 You say, “Who is this Allah, and this religion Islam?” Know my people, the Divine Supreme Being, has
99 attributes that make up His name, and Allah is the 100th. Surely His are the most beautiful names. He
will make Himself known to the world that He is God and besides Him there is no God and that I am His
Messenger, that Islam is a religion backed by the power of Allah (God ) to free you form the hands of your
merciless enemies (the slave masters) once and forever.
7 Allah, your God, will grant you power to overcome your enemies though their power may look as
endurable as the mountains. Fear not! Allah is the Best Knower. Armageddon has started, and after it
there will be no Christian religion or churches. Jesus was a Muslim, not a Christian.
ENVIRONMENTAL NEWS
*** STOP DRINKING BOTTLED WATER!!! ***
When I was little, we used to put TAP WATER in a pitcher with ice in the fridge.
Then the white commercializers on everything tangible and untangible started selling BOTTLED WATER. I knew, at five-years-old that something was terribly wrong with that.
My five year old brain could not conceive that profit could be the culprit.
Now, with Monsanto trying to kill off plants, I’m hoping that’s all it is.
Bottled water has led to a water crisis and environmental collapse due to the increase in plastic.
DRINK YOUR OWN WATER.
I’ve seen other packaging like the horrible tasting cardboard. But that does not stop the water problem.
Just drink your own water.
Don’t believe the hype. You should see bottled water sources, fa real. Not photographs.
PLANETS ARE BIG PLANTS.
WATER. DON’T BUY IT.
JUST DRINK YOUR OWN WATER!
Even if it’s brown. It’s full of minerals.
*** PLANT SEEDS ***
This year we commenced a new family tradition. On the First of Muharram and January, we will be planting fruit tree seeds. NOT SHADE TREES. Fruit bearing trees. Bushes will work also. Jasmine produces edible fruit on bushes. I beseech you to adopt the same tradition and continue with the planting throughout the year. There is a reason we all them PLANETS. They are a big PLANT.
Stop cutting trees! We need every leaf to survive through photosynthesis, wherewith it (the tree) derives energy from our beautiful SUN as does all life in the Universe – from the tiniest blade of grass to the monumous SEQUOIA.
Live in harmony with your neighboring foliage that so generously and charitably provides us with oxygen, without which…
*Consider an alternative to your gas-powered stove!!!*
I once lived in an apt. with an electric stove and it worked fine. Aside from the stigma; it felt cheap, albeit there was never any real difference.
Verily, it was actually better!
I never had to succumb my baby to the occasional danger of toxic fumes from gas buildup in our home.
You can impress your friends with your timely, seasonal 🙂 and decorative addition to your home’s center of gravity with a modern technologically advanced cooking phenomena.
AND HELP SAVE THE AIR.
Don’t worry if your stove feels cheap. Just shine ’em on… And say
AND CONTINUE TO BREATHE YOUR FRESH AIR! 🙂 🙂 🙂
SOCIETY PAGE / CALENDAR
***This year marks fifty years since D.J. Kool Herc debuted his groundbreaking style of playing records that Revolutionized the Music Industry and created an exciting new genre we now call HIP-HOP!
ان شاء الله, I will write a feature article as the actual date – AUGUST 11, draws nearer. STAY TUNED!!!
BTW MAKAVELI CHANGED HIS NAME.
KEEP UP.
Lost-Found Muslim Lesson Number One
Question #14
What is the meaning of M.G.T. & G.C.C.?
Answer:
The meaning of M.G.T. & G.C.C. is MUSLIM GIRLS’ TRAINING AND GENERAL CIVILIZATION CLASS…
***HOW TO KEEP HOUSE***
EXODUS CHAPTER 11
1 And the LORD said unto Moses, Yet will I bring one plague more upon Pharaoh, and upon Egypt; afterwards he will let you go hence: when he shall let you go, he shall surely thrust you out hence altogether.
EXODUS CHAPTER 12 (BIBLE)
1 And the LORD spake unto Moses and Aaron in the land of Egypt, saying,
2This month shall be unto you the beginning of months: it shall be the first month of the year to you.
3Speak ye unto all the congregation of Israel, saying, In the tenth day of this month they shall take to them every man a lamb, according to the house of their fathers, a lamb for an house:
4And if the household be too little for the lamb, let him and his neighbour next unto his house take it according to the number of the souls; every man according to his eating shall make your count for the lamb.
5Your lamb shall be without blemish, a male of the first year: ye shall take it out from the sheep, or from the goats:
6And ye shall keep it up until the fourteenth day of the same month: and the whole assembly of the congregation of Israel shall kill it in the evening.
7And they shall take of the blood, and strike it on the two side posts and on the upper door post of the houses, wherein they shall eat it.
THIS WAS FOUR THOUSAND YEARS AGO!
PLEASE BE VEGETARIAN!!!
!!!NO MEAT SHALT THOU EAT!!!
NOTHING THAT HAD PARENTS!!!
INCLUDING EGGS!!!
ONLY EAT VEGETABLES; FRUIT; GRAINS; DAIRY; AND CHOCOLATE 🙂
I have always been attracted to homes with a BOLD RED FRONT DOOR.
It made me wonder about the occupants.
I mean, what kind of people would paint their FRONT DOOR, such a bright and unmistakable, impossible-to-ignore colour? The front door?
You know?
Red has always been my favorite colour, despite my parents trying to force other softer less conspicuous colours, I adamantly insisted on RED. The redder the better.
Around the corner, right on the corner, was the BEST HOUSE IN THE NEIGHBORHOOD imho. 🙂
On our bike rides to the neighborhood playground, I was always drawn to this home. So incognegro it had a pool (the only one I knew of) only visible by peeking through the slotted concrete fence, AND A STRIKING RED FRONT DOOR.
In searching for photos for this, I decided to look up that house to see if I could screenshot a photo of that unforgettable image cemented in my memories from childhood.
This is what I found.
LOL! They went EVEN MORE COVERT!
WHAT DOOR? 🙂 :):)
LOVE IT!!! ❤
I thought maybe there is some type of secret symbolism behind such a bold statement.
Reading the scriptures, I was always struck by the requirement of JE-HO-VAH / YAH-WEH to put blood on the perimeter of the door.
In my artist’s mind, it seemed to be a sort of compromise, because it would have been too much to cover the entire door. Just do the outsides and it will be as if the entire door is painted in blood.
HOW TO REAR OUR CHILDREN
Many parents erroneously think that after their child hits eighteen or graduates from High School, their work is over.
On the contrary! This is when YOU graduate as well!
On to the Safety Net / Support Parenting Phase II.
Your sons will move out to attend college, maybe find employment in their chosen Industry, ان شاء الله, in the same vein as the business you and/or your parents have already established. Perhaps these new adventures will occur a distance from your home.
This separation can be more difficult for the parents who are now in a position wherein they must find new outlets for all of that attention they had previously focused on the newly independent child and still maintain their parental stature based on their ultimate authority.
With the new and exciting development of the element of surprise, that they must remain ever-ready and positioned to rescue the child in the unlikely event that he will need to defer to you for guidance, advice or merely your komraderie.
The parent now has to step into the new position as Supervisor over the child’s successful transition and entry into the world of responsibilities of finance, property ownership, marriage and the continuation and growth of your own familial lineage.
You have to make sure YOUR SUCCESSFUL LEVEL UP corresponds with your child’s so that whenever he calls you are ready for it!
This exponential growth continues until you are dead.
Even if your child goes before you, then you take up the fight against whatever he succumbed to that caused the untimely demise for the rest of your life.
When he graduates college, you will be ready to sagaciously guide him into Phase III.
That means you have been staying abreast of his progress and acuity in his field. As well as the new developments and current trends in the field altogether. This will also ensure you maintain your relationship, unity and assets for your entire family.
Once he is financially secure, he will naturally, begin his search for a wife.
Your assistance here is crucial!
Brothers, confer with your fathers as to what was his criteria in selecting your mother. And then…
Surely, your family belongs to some type of society, whether it be spiritual, educational, recreational, athletic, locational (HOA), etc…
Announce you are looking for a wife for your son, The Prince, and you are all cordially invited to a “BACKYARD BARBECUE BALL!” ❤
ان شاء الله, Ella will show up and you Level Up to “In-Laws!” 🙂
2 inch heels
You can even have a “SHOW ME YOUR SHOES!” portion, and your son can choose X amount of girls and invite them, individually, to dinner with the royal fam.
Choose one who meets all your criteria, announce courtship.
If she continues to meet all expectations, propose within six months.
Accepts? Continue with chaperoned dates, phone calls, dinners, meet rest of the family and plan ceremony. HONEYMOON FOREVER!!! 🙂
Perhaps, this type of parental/familial involvements will help create more success in our marriages.
It takes a Village to KEEP THE COUPLE TOGETHER.
Before we Raise the child, let’s checkout the parents. The Husband and Wife. How they doin’?
Where they Parents?
These are things we overlook much too often in our community resulting in fractured family ties.
I believe we left off the Parents at Level IV: “In-Laws”
In America, it is almost EXPECTED to have problems with your in-laws. Most likely because they were absent in the selection process.
Jr. has been bringing home a girl he hopes you’ll approve of.
Whereupon she becomes even more infatuated, on the strength of the fact that he took her home to meet his family. And he must be at least somewhat smitten to have made such move.
It has been my observation that most, not all, Brothers, don’t even care. Their choices are so plenteous, that whenever he’s ready, he’ll just select whomever he judges the best by whatever means he uses to make decisions. Draw straws? Cast lots? Narrow them down to The Final Four, then the Championship and Flip a coin?
Again, I cannot overemphasize the importance of consulting with an older married Brother if your father is not qualified. He will prove to be an asset later on in your marriage, whenever you may need a counselor.
At Jummuah, The Imam reiterated what I have often heard Muslim Ikhwan cite
- Imaan (Faith) / Piety
- Beauty
- Status
- Inheritance (yup)
I have never consulted a Fruit of Islam. Probably shouldn’t have to, Right?
After reaching Level IV (as you should have been readying yourselves for the next progression upon entrance in the previous one), it is imperative at this stage to begin prepping yourselves for the final Phase V, as the phases repeat once you reach GRAND PARENTS.
I would insist that you go over and beyond what is expected of so called In-Laws.
Start by removing that burdensome suffix.
Just be Mom and Dad. Your other children have a new Brother or Sister and FAMILY!!!
AL HAMDULILLAH! 🙂
That alone will help cement you together as ONE BIG HAPPY FAMILY.
Drop the “In-Law” because your GRANDCHILDREN ARE NOT!
The “Law” means nothing to a Baby and it shouldn’t to you either.
Thanks to your son, You have someone new to share recipes and photos with, go shopping with, bounce ideas off of, attend grand openings with forever.
Your son’s wife’s mother is your new Best Friend! ❤
Your daughter’s husband’s mother is your Best Friend now. ❤ ❤ ❤
She should already be there, camera in hand, when they bring the children over and when they bring their children over and when they bring their children over and when they bring their children over…… 🙂
In Sha Allah, I will discuss your daughters in the next issue. Pray For Me.
***OURSTORY ACTIVITY***
BOOKMARKS
MATERIALS:
BLACK / AFRICAN THEMED FABRIC
CARDSTOCK
SCISSORS
SUPERGLUE
(OPTIONAL: RIBBON, GLITTER, ORNAMENTS)
INSTRUCTIONS:
Cut cardstock into desired shape
Cut enough fabric to completely cover both sides of the fabric, leaving enough extra to wrap over
Place ribbon on the fabric, leaving the desired amount out: Glue to the fabric
Wrap fabric over ribbon and glue to seal closed
When I tried to punch a hole for the ribbon, the fabric frayed and I don’t know how to make it look neat like that…
I would like to hear your take… Leave me a comment! 🙂
For a poetic alternative, you can encourage your child to compose a haiku or short poem; use their best penmanship and write it on the cardstock. Take it to Kinko’s to laminate. Get it in!
OURSTORY FEATURE ARTICLE
JUNETEENTH & GALVESTON : MY STORY
As-Salaamu ‘Alaikum!
From a child, I always knew my paternal grandparents and my maternal grandmother had left Texas and moved to Los Angeles, California.
I believe there was a community from Texas which formed around a church on Slauson in South Central, where I’m told my folks met.
I no longer talk to them since I have accepted my own, Islam and Black People – The Muslims.
So, whatever I’ve been already told is it.
Nonetheless, unlike my schoolmates, I never went “Down South” during summer vacation. None of my relatives ever returned even for a visit. However, I was introduced to others as they also left.
My grandfather sent for his wife and five children (ages 14-4) and once an uncle told me of a story of when he and his older brother went to the city back in Texas and were confronted with water faucets that were labeled “COLOURED” and “WHITES ONLY!”
When I entered public juniour high, one of the students told me my birthday was holiday in Texas!
Yet no one had ever even mentioned it to me.
At the first opportunity, I inquired of my grandmother. She told me, that JUNETEENTH had once been celebrated at large gathering with barbecue, watermelon and red soda.
But then people became embarrassed (over something which was not our fault in the first place) and stopped.
Verily, I liked the novelty of being from Texas. I once wore a necklace with the state. And still, though I lived in California until I was 44, retained through genetics, environment or whatever, an old-fashioned mentality and SOUTHERN HOSPITALITY.
One night, a couple of new moons ago, I was taken on a mirage to Galveston. I don’t remember much.
I would say it didn’t really happen. But Allah took me more than once, so I couldn’t.
It was the most beautiful place full of beautiful people and beautiful landscape.
It’s not even in America! It’s an island! White People don’t do nothing but tell lies.
THEY BROUGHT US HERE AND PITTED US AGAINST THE INDIANS THEN CONQUERED US BOTH.
It’s not Texas. Notice I didn’t write it once. It’s part of JAMAICA!!!!
My people are JAMAICAN!!!
I wrote a song that night.
It was raining and my ukelele is called “The Waterman by Akala”
Our masjid is in an area surrounded by plumbing businesses and other home contractors.
“Mr. Waterman, can he fix it? Yes he can! He’s got a pipe in his hand like Jack Johnson had a wrench and if you’ve got a problem, he’ll solve it in a pinch. He’s Mr. Waterman! He’s Mr. Waterman!” Ding-Dong
Then it goes into a show about societal problems formatted in a plumbing context, which Mr. Waterman proceeds to solve.
In sha Allah, I’ll scan and upload the storyboard.
***HOW TO TAKE CARE OF OUR HUSBANDS***
***HOW TO SEW***
- You don’t need special chalk. You can use a pen or a pencil or a crayon or whatever
- You can also handstitch
- He is rather entertaining though
- Brothers, if you can cook; you can sew
He should have put them on so we can see how they turned out.
***HOW TO COOK***
HOT AMARETTO CHOCOLATE MILK & HONEY
INGREDIENTS:
WHOLE MILK, CREAM OR HALF AND HALF
HONEY
HERSHEY’S UNSWEETENED COCOA
ALMOND EXTRACT
DIRECTIONS:
Heat your milk to the desired temperature
Mix the Hershey’s with the Honey in your mug and stir until it is well blended
Pour warm milk over the Hershey/Honey mix
Add 2-3 drops of the Almond Extract
Enjoy!
You can top with homemade whip cream, a little Hersheys and spices also 🙂
It’s Good Cold Too!!! 🙂 ❤
TIP* Peppercorns are PAPAYA SEEDS. Just sundry them!
Also, if you ever have the opportunity to enjoy a REAL BANANA, OMG!
I picked/harvested some off the tree. Half the size. It’s like banana concentrate. All the flavor of those GMOs condensed!
Crazy Good!
AND they don’t mess up your digestion like if you eat to many big ones.
Sidenote – I believe they are the very first fruit. PLANT-ains.
HOW TO ACT
AT HOME: Be there before Maghrib
ABROAD: Never Raise Your Voice (at home neither)
When you see a Sister when you are out, text/call her or better yet, go greet your sister with Salaams and a Hug! 🙂
Otherwise, she might have cause to sing you one of my new songs. Like to hear it? Hear it goes!
You Trippin’!
You Trippin’!
You done lost yo mind! You Trippin’!
How could you even imagine such a thing?
Moi? I couldn’t even fathom such a thing?
So, go on!
Get gon’!
Go on back to where’ere you came from (2,3,4…)
WITH THAT
CAUSE YOU KNOW WE DON’T DO THAT ROUN’ HERE
I MEAN FOR REAL!
YOU LIKE STANKIN’ UP MY ERR!
LOL! I know it’s kind a like
BE HOME BEFORE DARK
In closing… 🙂
Although, I view the arrival of the “new year” as the Return of Life to whatever area of the Planet I happen to be on (after the death of Winter) The New Year means New Life, Flowers Bloom and Babies! 🙂
There are a few calendars, each with a first day of every twelve month cycle. The Lunar, The Chinese, The Islamic, Mayans and others.
Whichever one(s) you recognize – start a Family Tradition!
Have a ceremony and then Plant some FRUIT TREES AND THEN CELEBRATE WITH A FEAST, A SPECIAL DINNER WITH FRIENDS FAMILY AND TABLECLOTHS! 🙂
A tree that bears no fruit is practically useless. We say it is BARREN.
It has Reached its final stage of evolution and NO FRUIT!
WASTE.
It will have to start all over.
MAKE SURE YOUR TREES ARE FRUIT TREES.
You don’t even have to go through the trouble of digging a hole and inserting the seeds in the earth and then covering them.
Just drop the seeds on the dirt.
I have seen leaves that still have the seed casing on them!!!
No cap!
MAKE SURE YOUR TREES ARE FRUIT TREES!
SUSTAINABILITY, BABIES!
KEEP YOUR SEEDS!
PLANT THEM AND STOP MONSANTO!
ESPECIALLY GRAPES, WATERMELON, OLIVES, PINEAPPLES, MANGOES, ORANGES, APPLES, DATES!
I remember when we still had a choice between grapes with seeds or seedless.
No more.
Watermelon next.
Olives. Seeds at the Farmer’s Market only.
Oranges.
Apples.
When you find a store that sells them with seeds. BUY THEM!
TELL YOUR FRIENDS!!!
PLANT FRUIT TREES!
PLANTS – PLANETS!
AS-SALAAMU ‘ALAIKUM!
UMI 🙂
BIBLE – Luke: Chapter 8
1And it came to pass afterward, that he went throughout every city and village, preaching and shewing the glad tidings of the kingdom of God: and the twelve were with him,
2And certain women, which had been healed of evil spirits and infirmities, Mary called Magdalene, out of whom went seven devils,
3And Joanna the wife of Chuza Herod’s steward, and Susanna, and many others, which ministered unto him of their substance.
4And when much people were gathered together, and were come to him out of every city, he spake by a parable:
5A sower went out to sow his seed: and as he sowed, some fell by the way side; and it was trodden down, and the fowls of the air devoured it.
6And some fell upon a rock; and as soon as it was sprung up, it withered away, because it lacked moisture.
7And some fell among thorns; and the thorns sprang up with it, and choked it.
8And other fell on good ground, and sprang up, and bare fruit an hundredfold. And when he had said these things, he cried, He that hath ears to hear, let him hear.
9And his disciples asked him, saying, What might this parable be?
10And he said, Unto you it is given to know the mysteries of the kingdom of God: but to others in parables; that seeing they might not see, and hearing they might not understand.
11Now the parable is this: The seed is the word of God.
12Those by the way side are they that hear; then cometh the devil, and taketh away the word out of their hearts, lest they should believe and be saved.
13They on the rock are they, which, when they hear, receive the word with joy; and these have no root, which for a while believe, and in time of temptation fall away.
14And that which fell among thorns are they, which, when they have heard, go forth, and are choked with cares and riches and pleasures of this life, and bring no fruit to perfection.
15But that on the good ground are they, which in an honest and good heart, having heard the word, keep it, and bring forth fruit with patience.
16No man, when he hath lighted a candle, covereth it with a vessel, or putteth it under a bed; but setteth it on a candlestick, that they which enter in may see the light.
17For nothing is secret, that shall not be made manifest; neither any thing hid, that shall not be known and come abroad.
18Take heed therefore how ye hear: for whosoever hath, to him shall be given; and whosoever hath not, from him shall be taken even that which he seemeth to have.
MESSAGE TO THE BLACKMAN
CHAPTER 75
EXPLANATION OF WHAT MUSLIMS WANT AND BELIEVE
1 I would like to put a little emphasis on some of what the Muslims want.
2 If we ask you (meaning the white American slave-master) for freedom in deed, I think that we are right. We
use the word IN DEED, as we have been your subjects for now 400 years. That is a long time to be subject to a
people or the slave of a people. Three hundred of those years we worked for you for nothing. And those 300
years we were treated like your own herd of cattle. You have no regret for our human rights, no more than you
did your animals.
3 You slashed the backs of my fathers and my mothers without any mercy. You killed them whenever you felt
you wanted to, and you sweethearted with my grandparents.
4 Truth hurts. You went into our grandmothers, had children by them and then put them on the block for sale,
and today you are still crossing over to our women. This should show you why we want to take leave of you
today. In those days you sold her children, who were your own sons and daughters. I am telling you what my
own grandparents told me. My father’s mother told me her father was a white man, and she looked it. Today
our women are all subject to your biddings. You take their sons and bash their brains in with your club and
blow their brains out with your gun — throughout the country without due process of the law that you already
put here before them.
5 You have in words trodden us under foot in the name of civilization and now today you stand as our chief
adversary to prevent us from escaping your evil and unjust doings to our people whose sweat and blood has
helped to build the greatest country and government on the earth.
6 You are so rich today that you are able to feed almost every mouth in Europe. You are so rich that you can
now give away billions of dollars to nations in order to get their friendship. You are so powerful that you can
command the high seas, the air, the land, even the ice caps of the poles of the earth. All this we helped you do.
Some of us went to your wars, shooting down your enemy as you pointed them out to us and we were being shot
down also.
7 If we cry out for justice you twist it and make it look as though we are the real enemies of justice. If we say
that you are evil, you want to make a case against us for falsely accusing you, when you know that you have
never been good to us.
8 Today you are trying to deceive the poor once-servant slaves of yours by telling them that you will now show a
little friendship. I will let you ride beside me on my best transportation; I will also allow you to work in my
office. I am going to put you in the government. What is that going to do for us and our children in the future?
Will this help us to make a great future for our people and own what you still won, which is a place we can call
our own? WHY HINDER US?
9 Your dog is more classified as a citizen in the land than we so-called Negroes. If the dog wants freedom, if the
dog whines in the night because he is uncomfortable, you will get up and try to comfort it. But if you hear a
million Negroes crying and suffering from the brutal instrument at your hand and the hand of your people, you
will laugh.
10 I am here with the truth. Take the words, turn them over and examine them, put them on the scale of facts
and weight them, and if I am not teaching you the truth I say come up here and prove it and I will lay down my
head on the floor and let you chop it off.
11 We want freedom IN DEED. Why should we not want to leave a people who have lynched and burned us.
Why continue to send our own brother out there falling under the blows of so-call peace officers and falling
from a bullet from his gun. I have seen police vex our people to try and make them say something so they can
beat or kill them.
12 You say you want to help us. Help us to do what? If you do not want to help us leave you with a good send off,
then what are going to help us do if we stay here?
13 I have lived with you all my life. I was born in the South. I have looked upon the evil treatment of our people
day and night. I have shed tears for you many times. No justice whatsoever. I have seen people kicked about who
asked for a fair salary. I have heard it said to a brother, You take what I say, you don’t figure behind me,
Nigger.
14 We are 20 million people who have come (according to the old prophets) through toil and tribulations. We
are here today asking for equal justice under YOUR OWN LAW. We are asking for freedom that you claim you
have given to us. Freedom to do for ourselves. We do not want to be beggars. But if we are given freedom IN
DEED we can build for ourselves the same things that you have.
15 Our people who are educated in your colleges and universities, our technicians and engineers of all kinds,
why should they go and make a way for their own people as a nation, build and construct a government for their
people as your fathers did for you when they crossed the Atlantic? They may be a little lazy and want to start at
the top first, but you were not able to start (at the top). You have put it in their minds that they cannot go for
themselves.
16 How educated were your fathers when they crossed the Atlantic and started working for their freedom? They
were not wise politicians and senators as you are today, but, nevertheless, they kept digging and turning the soil,
felling trees, pacing the country for a place for themselves. Today they have made a nation. They were not
satisfied with try to do this alone, they had to go across the Atlantic and get our fathers to help them. If you
wanted to be your lily-white self, why did you go and get black people to come here. Why would you mix your
blood with the black people and yet deprive them of equal justice?
17 We built your railroads with our own sweat. We plowed your farms and plantations. We cut down the
underbrush and trees, and now today you have replaced that kind of labor with mechanical labor and you do
not have anything for us to do. With just two or three men you can cultivate hundreds of acres of land with
machine operations. You pick your cotton with a mechanical machine. Everything is done mechanically today.
Why don’t you want us to leave you? Especially when you do not wasn’t us to do anything but labor. Why
shouldn’t we want some of this earth where we can start building a government for the future of our people so
that they will not be just a people who labor, year after year, for another people and all their labor still be
subject to the brutal treatment?
18 You should be ashamed of yourself today to lynch and kill so-called Negroes while you have an army full of
Negroes helping you to fight and protect and maintain the government. You should be ashamed of it. Especially
when that same man=s father slaved for your fathers for nothing, and now you will go and take him before your
own judges and give him an unjust judgment.
19 This is a sham. Do you think you are going to get away with it forever?
20 We say Allah is God. We say in Arabic language, Allah U Akbar. We say in the Arabic language, La e La ha
el Allah, Muhammad Rasoul Allah. We that say that in your midst today should make you tremble and go off
and commit suicide.
21 Those babies crying in the Name of Allah (they were never taught by you to worship), you know that your
time must be short. Today, I say you see all of these things hear all of them as the Bible teaches even of being
plagued with divine plagues, and you still will not worship the God of truth and justice. The white race has
never believed in God — not the God of freedom, justice and equality.
22 The man of sin does not want to hear the poor so-called Negroes who are under your feet — he does not want
them to seek help from God because he is guilty and he knows he has mistreated us. We called on the God that
you said was the right one for a long time. For a hundred years we have been calling on your God and the Son,
both.
23 I am sure today that god and his Son that you are presenting to us have been for white people, surely they
were not friends of ours. He never heard us. He must have been off somewhere in conversation over your future
and did not have time hear our prayers. But Allah hears, Allah acts. Never any more will you fool us to bow and
pray to a dead Jesus any more than Moses or any other dead prophet and hope that my people believe that there
is a Jesus killed and buried but still sitting receiving their prayers. I hope that they wake up and know that they
haven’t been heard since the day he was killed. Those who represent that Jesus to you do not wait for Jesus to
answer their prayers, they answer their own prayers. Get out of that kind of stuff.
24 There is no such thing as dying and coming up out of the earth, meeting your friends and meeting those who
died before you. I say, get out of such slavery teachings. It keeps you blind, deaf and dumb to reality. Get out of
it, for if you depend on such, you will not believe in yourself. When you are dead, you are DEAD. I have proof of
that. Do you have proof of that which you say — they will come back? No! I say to you my friend, the mentally
dead are awakening. Your slave-masters have deceived you. They want you to remain deceived.
25 They hate any one of you that will try to teach facts. They hate any one of you that want to become equal.
They hate any one of you that want justice. They do not want that, yet, they will tell you that they want to help
you and they want to give you justice. You do not get it.
26 We want freedom, indeed, and we want to be human beings along with other humans. We want the world to
know that we love to be respected as other people are now being respected.
27 I say to you my beloved, freedom indeed is what we want. Freedom to do for ourselves as we think best. That
is what they (white race) are fighting for themselves. To be free to do as they want to, and they are fighting to
the death for it. You and I should fight to the death to be free to do what we want. You know and I know how
much these people hate me because I am teaching the truth, and they know I am doing a better job with you
than any one of those who ever appeared among you.
28 If the white circle leaders want to keep their circle white, I say keep it white. If the Klu Klux Klan want to
keep their race white, I say, help yourself, go to it. Now when I say to keep mine black — white Circle League
German Nazi — keep your mouth out of it.
29 We want to build a nation that will be recognized as a nation that will be self-respecting and receive respect
of the other nations of the earth.
30 I say we have a God that will make a place here for us.
31 What the Muslims want for the whole black nation of our people is freedom, justice and equality — that is
what we want for you. We cannot exercise or enjoy freedom, justice and equality unless we have a home on this
earth that we call our own.
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