بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم
السام علايكم و الرحمت الله و البركت
الحمد لله الله اكبر
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CHAPTER 83
A SOUND ECONOMIC PLAN I
1 The economic plight of the black people of this land has so long been neglected by so-called leaders that even our own people have forgotten it’s basic importance.
2 Our economic position remains at the bottom of the ladder because of this ineffective leadership and because so many of our people ignore the basic rules of a healthy economic life. We fail to develop self-leadership in economics.
3 We are in the midst of the so-called civil rights struggle and ferment among the black and oppressed reaches new heights. I shall list, critically, but constructively, the guide and outline which must be followed if this black nation of 22 million is ever to achieve true independence and equality.
4 We shall begin with these four points.
5 No. 1. Our knowledge of self, others, and the time should force us to become more prudent in our spending. Unnecessary spending by trying to keep pace with the wealthy of this country has done more to put us on the path of the “prodigal son” than anything else. Let us be taught how to spend and save by those of us who desire to see us out of poverty and want.
6 No. 2. Do not be too proud to meet together as leaders and teachers to discuss the solution of “How to stop this reckless down-hill fall of our people.”
7 No. 3. Not one so-called Negro leader seems to want a meeting with me to discuss the plight of our poor people in North America.
8 No. 4. I have set before you a program, according to the Divine Supreme Being and his Prophets. You have neither produced a better program nor anything to equal it. Your present plans are involved in one of the most disgraceful programs — especially you who boast that you are free and want freedom, Justice and equality with your slave-masters by sitting, standing and begging to be accepted as the brothers of those who, for 400 years, have brought you into your present condition, and have made you a people unwanted by the civilized nations of the earth.
9 No one wants foolish people who love everyone but themselves and their own kind; who would rather beg than go for self, or even ask the slave-masters to help them go for self. Such people, numbering into the millions, are on the road to destruction if their down-hill speed is not checked by Allah (God) and His Messenger.
10 HOW TO MAKE AN ECONOMIC PROGRAM SUCCESSFUL: It is very hard for an economist to plan a wise program and see his plans carried out, because the so-called American Negroes’ economics are controlled by the white man. The white man owns the country and the industry. He is manufacturer and producer of everything. Now, it is difficult to plan an economic program for a dependent people who, for all their lives, have tried to live like the white man.
11 The first step the so-called Negro wage-earners should take is to spend only when necessary and according to their income. They should save as much of their salaries as possible — weekly, biweekly or monthly. We, as wage earners, should always plan to save something from whatever we are paid. Do not become extravagant spenders like the rich, who own the country and everything in it. It is sheer ignorance for us to try to compete in luxury with the owners.
12 If we can save just five cents a day from our wages, 25 cents a week, $1 a month — that would mean $52 a year we could save in a national savings bank. We number around 22 million and approximately five million are wage-earners. If five million wage-earners saved $52 a year, this would mean $260 million saved out of our wages. At the rate of 25 cents per week, it would be painless. But the so-called Negroes do not have that in a national bank.
13 Let us see how much money we spend unnecessarily: Suppose we spent the same amount (25 cents a week) in tobacco (cigarettes, cigars, chewing or snuff dipping). But, of course, you will spend far more than that. Some people spend 25 cents per day for cigarettes alone. Let us say we spent the same amount (25 cents a week) on beer. Again the actual amount would be more. This means $260 million a year spent for beer and the same spent for whiskey, wine, cigarettes and cigars. We also spend unnecessarily on sports. You average the same on sports ($260 million). Another $260 million is spent in gambling — averaging five cents a day, 25 cents a week. This is just the minimum.
14 If five million wage earners saved just $47 per year, they could save over a billion dollars a year. And this figure would be far greater if we included extravagant buying of clothes, furniture and cars. Eating the hog, the Divinely forbidden flesh which keeps us filled with arthritis, rheumatism, high blood pressure and fever makes unnecessary doctor and drug bills. All of this wasteful spending should be checked and you will see within a one-year period that you have not saved one billion dollars, but several billions.
15 The economical way to use the money you save is first to buy farm land and produce your own food. You can raise enough cattle, sheep, cows and chickens by the thousands if you try following our program. We could cut down on our clothing bills — some of us by about 30 per center — and yet be well-dressed. Again in this way we could build a national savings bank from deposits for ourselves, and invest our money in the purchase of necessary things for our nation. Then, you could cut down your present high cost of living.
16 Purchase real estate, buy farm and timberland. Convert the timber into lumber and build homes for
yourselves as the white man is doing. Of course, he will have the authority over whether or not to sell the land to you. Get clay land. With marsh clay land and hill clay, you can make your own bricks. Bricks are inexpensive to make once you get your kiln built and tracks laid. The greatest expense would be coal or gas to fire your bricks.
Build brick homes for your own people and sell them to your people at a very reasonable price.
17 Try and save your people from unnecessary high-price buying. Take your cotton to the mills and have it converted into lint. And take the lint to the textile mills and have it converted into cloth. You are very smart. We have many technicians among us who are about as smart as they come. Why shouldn’t we get together and produce something for ourselves?
18 Ask the government to help us go for ourselves. And if the government will not help us, although we and our fathers have been loyal and helped them to become and remain independent, then appeal to your own people to allow you to move in among them. I am sure that if you are a Muslim you can find a place anywhere on the earth.
19 We are the righteous and it should not be hard for us to do something for self if we unite. We do not need to unite and then go fight some other nations to get their country. No! That will not be necessary. Come follow me and I will show you how to do this without having to shed a drop of blood. Shedding blood for something that you are Divinely justified in having is not necessary.
20 It is a disgrace for us to have all this present trouble — standing around begging, quarreling and fighting with slave-masters over something that we can do for ourselves if only given a chance. This chance can be had if you go about it in the right way.
CHAPTER 84
THE ECONOMIC PROGRAM II
1 As I noted previously, on matters of economics there is entirely too much distrust among us. We trust everyone but ourselves. We, therefore, have to build or produce trust in ourselves in order to do something for self and kind. We cannot depend upon the white man to continue to care for us and build a future of good for us and our children.
2 We can see every hour and every day how the white man’s world is narrowing and how his time is growing shorter. This narrowing of his world power teaches us that we must strike out for ourselves or be left behind helpless and without a future.
3 If you would accept Allah for your God and His religion, Islam — which means entire submission to His will — it would produce quality leadership that you could trust; a leadership capable and willing, with a heart of love for one’s people.
4 Christianity has never been able to produce the right leadership for our people — and never will. It is
disheartening to a wise leader of the so-called American Negro to see how foolish he has been made to think and act.
5 The black man in America as well as the black man abroad has never been able to provide good leadership for himself under Christianity, because Christianity is not the true religion of God. It is a division of religions and uses a division of God which makes it impossible to establish true love and unity of brotherhood.
6 As I wrote previously, it is difficult to plan an economic system for a people who are subjected to the whim of another people. You are limited in your jobs, salaries and incomes by the white man. But you still can learn not to be reckless and wasteful spenders and happy-go-lucky people with nothing of your own. Every sport the white man — will bulging banks of money — enjoys, you try to imitate him.
7 Take what he gives you and learn to save some of it. The hardest times are before those of you who will not accept this program and follow the way of Allah and Islam, guide you and set you in heaven at once, with money, good homes and friendships in all walks of life.
8 Begging and praying to the white man to accept you (his once abject slave, and now willing slave) and give you the things he is giving himself and his kind is really out of place today.
9 The white man claims he has given you freedom. He feels that he is not responsible for your poverty — since you have had 100 years on your own. He believes that if you did not like him, you should have left him, and if you do not like him today, you should leave him. You do not want to leave him because of your great desire for his wealth. This classified you as being lazy; a people who do not want to accept their own responsibility. Think it over, my friends.
10 We could save money by walking instead of riding in luxury. If we can purchase an automobile, we should not try to get the most luxurious model unless we can afford it.
11 You have read in previous articles on economics how you can save hundreds of millions of dollars — even billions — if you would accept the right economic program and stop using things which destroy your health, such as tobacco, which doctors warn us can cause cancer. While X-rays aid doctors in finding the source of an ailment, they are not good for our bodies. Scientists now warn you against gazing into TV sets for any long length of time, because this can produce cancer in the body. This is especially true of children, who prop themselves in front of TV sets and gaze for hours at close range.
12 We must remember that the new inventions are still in the experimental stage. None of the new inventions in this great modern world are completely safe. Look at TV only when you know there is something of importance to be seen; not for foolishness and sport.
13 Beware of the national elections, my black brothers and sisters. There is no salvation in them for you — only false promises. The only salvation for you and me now is in unity and being under the guidance of Allah through His Messenger and His program for us all.
14 Do not follow those self-made leaders who are seeking only the praise of the people and have no good in mind for you and will lead you back into becoming more of a slave than ever. Our problem is to be solved by a divine solution revealed to Allah’s Messenger.
15 Follow me and live. Reject me and die as people without the help of God and friend.
NOTE* – The mathematics is wrong in the above savings program.
$.05 per day, $.25 per week, $1 per month would allot $12 per year. 🙂
One would have to save $.20 per day, $1 per week or $4.00 per month to achieve the desired $52 per year. Very much still PAINLESS and should be initiated by all believers in ISLAM.
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FROM THE EDITOR:
As-Salaamu ‘Alaikum!
SAVIOUR’S DAY
RAMADHAN
OURSTORY
D-DAY
I pray Allah all is going well with you all. Do something FUN and PRODUCTIVE EVERY DAY!!! 🙂 We made it past the crazy full moon and now are on our way to the next month.
Meaning Ramadhan is halfway over and Saviour’s Day is less than a week away.
Get in your SALAAMS to all those you may have neglected in the past year and those you may have recently made acquaintances with. Build long-lasting friendships and UNITY among our BLACK PEOPLE this month and EVERY MONTH!!!
LOVE YOURSELF AND BE YOURSELF ❤ ❤ ❤ ❤
AS-SALAAMU ‘ALAIKUM!
P.S. TARGET HAS TABITHA BROWN CLOTHING on tha d.l. 🙂 OTHER than that, which is completely unmarked, I did not see ANY SIGN of BHM at my local store. What about you? hmu in the comments below. Inquiring minds would like to know… 🙂
They are acting like we don’t or WON’T recognize…
I really hope they don’t pull her because I’m pulling their card, but seriously, I’m a JOURNALIST. this is what I do!
I mean, like, you would have to be BLIND to not see this….
Why she is not getting her props is kind of annoying me right now, so I’m going off here, but I kind of don’t want to yell too much because WHERE IS BLACK HISTORY MONTH????
I’ma shut up now…. 😉
THE TALKING DRUM:
MACY’S
When you RoundUp at the cash register this month, the charity is The United Negro College Fund!!! Yup.
Your charity goes to Ourstorically Black Colleges and University Students! How dope is that?
Peep UNCF.org for more…
Also at Macy’s; occasionally after you make a purchase, the price will drop or the item will go on sale. Macy’s still does price adjustments. Meaning, you can bring your receipt and they will refund the diff!
Hit ’em up!
Please, always KEEP YOUR RECEIPTS!
Learn EXCEL and tally them at the end of the day, week, month, year to keep your bank (checkboook 🙂 ) account balanced and an eye on your spending to recognize where you can incorporate more into your SAVINGS also prevent wasteful spending/shortages. 🙂
ISLAM
You can NEVER enjoy Unity under a religion whose god is divided into thirds. Think over that.
SPOTLESS:
JUNIOURS:
https://youtu.be/wMi2vUl2Xs4?si=bGttFl6mxA4VcNSS
You can sub the straw for a popsicle stick or something…
HAWAIIAN YOUTH SYMPHONY
Sooooo, I kinda lowkey had a WISH LIST for this month 😉 and going to the Symphony was up there. I have been feenin’ since the last show I had planned to attend was cancelled due to the Novel CoronaVirus 2019!
Al Hamdulillah, I did not have to fly to Oahu to see the monthly Hawaii State Symphony as I had “wished.”
Instead, I was Blessed to witness the HAWAI’I YOUTH SYMPHONY I !!!!!
YAAAAAYYYYYY ME!
You know I love the children and O.M.G., the oldest are 18, then they graduate from the program and In Sha Allah, move on to bigger and greater things, but the PROFESSIONALISM of this group of teenagers was on par with any SYMPHONY anywhere and any age group… THE ROYAL PHILHARMONIC, THE BERLIN SYMPHONY, etc…. They were that good!
I feel truly fortunate to have had my wish come true and so Blessed that it came in the surprisingly unexpected form as in a gift from the KEIKI! الحمد لله and ALOHA!!!!!
I always wanted to take gymnastics growing up. So, now that I am older and can make my own decisions, I found a gymnastics teacher who offers online tutorials for FREE!
She gears towards children, but if you can bear the silliness, it is good exercise.
https://youtu.be/KrPu4FIVx3E?si=k0l4fMUNPTZiREm5
GRADUATION/END OF SCHOOL YEAR HERE SOON: START CELEBRATION PLANNING NOW!
F.O.I.
JAHEIM (I had to remove this video due to explicit content)
WHEN THIS VIDEO CAME OUT MY SO-CALLED FRIEND SAT ME DOWN TO MAKE SURE I WATCHED IT.
LIKE “THIS YOU”
LIKE OH MY GOD.
HOW COULD WE EVER HAVE BEEN FRIENDS?
LIKE REALLY?
You expect me to feel bad for wanting a man who can provide?
Something wrong with you, hun! NOT ME! 
PARENTAL GUIDANCE!!!!
Not sayin’ he doesn’t have to have other qualifications.
#1 RIGHTEOUS F.O.I.
‘NUFF SAID 😉
FASHION PLATES:
As M.G.T., we are taught that our garment/uniform is not complete without our cape.
They are gaining in popularity once again after the seventies era.
Here are some cute ones. Beginning with… The CAPELET:
You can get in a few wears of this colour. Spring begins on March 21! 🙂
I C U MUSLIM MODEL!!! ❤ ❤ ❤ 🙂
FOR EVERYDAY
PONCHOS FIT INTO THIS CATEGORY AS WELL
Of course I have one, but I need to schedule a photo shoot to show how I rock it. 🙂 ❤ ❤ ❤
SHAWLS are also really hot right now, ALL YOU CROCHET-ERS!!! Next issue IN SHA ALLAH! ❤ ❤ ❤ 🙂 🙂 😉
btw
I couldn’t find any hint of BHM at Target, so I went online 😉
Here You Go! TARGET
SPOONS:
I am going to let you in on a secret I discovered quite by accident, or laziness, or whatever, but I don’t think most chefs even know this.
THERE IS MASSIVE FLAVOR IN ONION SKIN!!!
Just put some of the skin in your pot and let it cook, then remove before serving!
O.M.G.
ETIQUETTE:
Homemaking For The Black Muslim Woman Journal ™ 