Category: How to Act

THERE, THEIR, THEY’RE – What’s the difference???

Bismillahi Rahmani Rahim

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As-Salaamu ‘Alaikum Dear Sisters,

This is pretty funny, even though I wouldn’t say I’m a grammar “Nazi.” I don’t want to show empathy towards the Jews, but you get the idea…

Basically, “there” signifies a location. Whenever you want to indicate where something is, was or will be, always use “there.” For example, you would write, “The book is there.”

 However, there are other instances when it would also be grammatically correct to use “there.” For instance:

–“There are billions of our people who need to hear the TRUTH.”

– “There is nothing I wouldn’t do to help save my people.”

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“Their” is a possessive pronoun. It is used to show possession instead of using the noun.

If a book belongs to the children, you would write, “That is their book.”

Generally, possession indicates ownership of a particular object. In the previous example, I used a book. It would also be used for other material possessions, such as a car, house, bike, etc.  However, the possessive pronoun “their” should also be used when referring to intangible possessions, such as ideas, emotions or characteristics. For example:

– “We enjoyed their interpretation of John Coltrane’s Love Supreme.”

– “Their outlook on life is refreshingly positive.”

It doesn’t necessarily have to refer to a physical object.

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Now, “They’re” is a contraction. (Notice the apostrophe.) Contractions are two words that are combined to make one word.

“They’re” is a contraction of “they” and “are”. Instead of writing “They are…” you can just write, “They’re…”. You would write “they’re” whenever you would otherwise write “they are.”

Here are some examples of when to use “They’re”:

– “They‘re going to have to plant more fig trees.”

– “The bus will take them wherever they’re going.”

– “They‘re going to have to light the charcoal before burning the frankincense.”

Here are some more example sentences. Notice the differences.

– “They’re” anticipating a beautiful addition to their family.”  

– “Wherever they’re going to build the train, there is going to be an influx of new customers for their businesses.” 

WHO’S vs. WHOSE

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As-Salaamu ‘Alaikum Beloved and Beautiful Asiatic Sisters!

In this information age, we are communicating with each other via Internet on a daily basis. We want to always use proper grammar whenever we write, to show the greatest intelligence.

There is nothing that irritates me more than reading posts with improper grammar and misspelled words. I understand typos occur. But, Sisters, we should proofread EVERYTHING we post before pressing “Enter”.

You might recall I wrote a blog on “Who vs. Whom” a little while back. Well, this morning I remembered that I really didn’t know the difference between “Who’s” and “Whose.” So, I thought, “Why not look that up also?” I’m sure there are many others who also never learned the difference.

So, here’s the deal. You probably know “Who’s” is a contraction of “Who is”, right? So, you could write “Who’s minding the store?” as opposed to “Who is minding the store?”

On the other hand, if you want to know who owns the store, you would write, “Whose store is it?” “Whose” is a possessive pronoun. It is used to show ownership.

Get it? 🙂

Here are a few more examples:

– “Whose phone are you going to use?”

– “The person who’s bringing the flowers should be here soon.”

– “Whose flowers are they?”

We, are the wisest of all life on the Planet, Our Saviour taught Our Beloved Messenger (PBUH). We have to show the greatest intelligence at all times.

THEN vs. THAN

Bismillahi Rahmani Rahim

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As-Salaamu ‘Alaikum Beloved and Beautiful Asiatic Black Sisters!

The photo pretty much sums it up in a humorous kind of way. But generally, “then” is used to indicate a particular moment in time. “Than” is used for comparative purposes. You would use “then” when you want to tell when something happened and “than” when you are comparing somethings.

For example:

– “I did all my laundry, then I baked a Bean Pie.”

– “The pie I baked this time was better than my last one.”

– “Hakim ate his piece and then asked for more.”

– “I told him he is going to be bigger than I am very soon.”

In the first sentence, “then” indicates that I baked the pie after I finished doing laundry. It tells when something happened (time). The second sentence uses “than” because it is a comparison of the two pies. The third sentence uses “then” because it tells when Hakim asked for more pie. The final sentence uses “than” because it is a statement of comparison between me and my son.

Sisters, we have to be knowledgeable in every area of learning. We are responsible for teaching our children. We must be sure that we are teaching them right. We are also the paradigm of womanhood for the whole universe. We should let no woman beat us in anything when it comes to intelligence. (She can be our equal.) We should never waste time in frivolous trivialities. We should use every moment of our lives improving ourselves. There is no limit to what we can accomplish.

Whose Christmas?

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CHAPTER 32

Whose Christmas?

If You look at the emblems which represent these two religions and understand their meanings, you will say, “How could I have ever been a Christian? Or ever to have believed in such a religion which will display such a gruesome sign – a murdered prophet to beckon me on a path to murder.”

The whole history of the white race is written in the shedding of innocent blood. They kill the righteous. Do you not hear how openly they speak of killing me and my followers? Do you not see how they go in gangs, armed to the teeth, to kill me and my followers? They try to provoke us to strike back at them – innocent people upon whom they prey.

They attack our meeting places like wild jungle creatures; actually shoot up the walls of our temples to show their hatred of the righteous and the right-doer – without any cause whatsoever, as you see and know. We carry no weapons, but this is no defense or excuse to the white race, which is, by nature, made to attack and kill the innocent without an excuse.

They go in carloads and truckloads, raiding the poor innocent Black sections to take our lives without any cause or provocation whatsoever – wrecking our property – knowing that we have no arms. They cowardly, evilly come in great numbers as though they expect a great army to rise up against them. Cowards!

They have no respect for good. They bomb our Black Christian brothers’ churches in the South. They Shoot them down on highways, in their homes and on the job – anywhere he can satisfy his lust for blood; a blood-thirsty wicked human beast.

They go out on the streets and run down the poor Black man to take his life, with no excuse except their hatred of him and to bear witness to the truth of himself that he is the devil.

They have the nerve to tell the poor innocent victim (Black man) that the teacher of the truth is teaching hatred of him! Who could love him? There should be no need to teach hatred of you to a people who were born and brought up under your feet and who daily experience the cruel blows from your heavy boots, because that person already knows that you are the heartless enemy – who will not let him go free in a separate place here in this wide territory.

But You would rather hold them here under your eyes so that you can do evil things to them – beat and kill them while they are helpless. Your enemies would gladly arm every one of them, but Allah (God) does not want us to bear arms.

He wants to show you that He is God. He wants to fight you with His weapons, the forces of nature – rain, hail, snow, and earthquakes; the sun, moon, and the star. As little as we respect that little dried up piece of our planet called moon, which looks harmless, it has such power of magnetic pull on our planet that it could affect our lives.

Now comes the Christians’ big holiday which they call Christmas. With all the fantastic foolishness of jungle savages, they pretend to love worshipping the prophet on the 25th day of December. They stagger drunkenly all over the streets, campuses, and most of the homes and churches, with card games, dice and other games of chance and all kinds of whisky and beer – to celebrate that great prophet; with fighting and killing and eating swine flesh. Such is the day which they call the birthday of Jesus.

They have nothing of good in their behavior. It is like Isaiah said, “This people worship me with their mouth but their hearts are far from me.” This is true.

It is all false that Jesus was born on the 25th day of December. But the poor Black slave, who used to rejoice that his master gave him one day of rest from the hard labor which he was made to serve, until any day his master said was a holiday was all right with him, as long as he did not have to work.

Until this day, they do not stop to ask what is the meaning of his holiday and where it sprang from. There is no holiday of the white people which the so-called Negro should worship as his day. He never seeks to find a day of his own on which he can worship.

He seeks to worship what the white man worships – and feels rejected if not permitted to go to war with his master regardless of whom his master is fighting, even though it be his own brother or family. He thinks he is disgraced if he is not involved in whatsoever his master is involved in, and he believes he has a share in it because he wants the love and respect of his master so much.

In fact, he does not believe in what he teaches you of Christianity. Even the very basic principle of Christianity is wrong and false (three Gods in one). And that one of them had to die, he being the Son of the Father, to save the wicked world of the Caucasian race is the most damnable teaching against your peace and happiness. It takes you right out of life.

Another false practice on the 25th day of December: the children between the ages of 3 and 12 think a Santa Claus is visiting them, making them believe they are getting presents from some foreign or strange person other than themselves (the parents).

Some of the parents go so far as to scratch the chimney and tell the children “Santa came down here last night.” This is outright false and telling other than the truth. They even have pictures made and commercialized on it.

How could one come from way around the North Pole driving a small sled-like cart? And where did he buy all of those toys? How does Santa drive his sled in the South where there is no snow or ice for him to drive on? They rob themselves of the honor of the child at his receiving their gifts.

Jesus is garbed up and commercialized on by a world of evil and sin and you like this, my people – you love this now. You defy anyone, even God Himself, to try and remove your love of what is false.

You cannot prove that the 25th day of December is the birthday of Jesus and you are preaching out of a Bible which does not carry any such history. It gives you an idea that He could not have been born on December 25 by these worlds “While the shepherds watched their flocks by night.”

If it had been in December, could they have been sitting out at night watching the flock eat good green grass? December is wintertime! Winter starts on the 21st day of December – you are four days into winter there.

Of course, there are some parts of the earth where winter does not come and there is pasture for the sheep all year round. But it is not like that in Palestine – in the winter, especially at night.

According to the Christian saying and representation, the Son of God is worshipped. His birth is mocked and disgraced with drunkenness, murdering, gambling, and every type of evil committed on such a day by the Christians while the Muslims walk through their midst, soberly, peacefully fasting through the month and not thinking of drinking alcoholic beverages – not eating the flesh of anything – eating once a day, and that only at night.

At the same time, the evil Christian world disgraces the name of one of the most perfect prophets of the past, Jesus. Should not God take revenge on them for such mockery of Jesus? They lie when they say Jesus was born without the agency of man. Then they lie of his death and say that he rose again physically.

And yet, the Black preacher today, in this modern, advanced spiritually scientific world which represents such falsehood, scorns the truth of Islam (entire submission to the Will of God). Should not the preacher be divinely chastised as it is written that he will be?

The Pope of Rome knows that his followers here in the West are making a mockery of Jesus and his teachings, but he will not try to change it, for he is the father of it (church).

The Sign of Christianity is death. The sign of Islam is life. Teach your children the truth. Make them practice truth. Make them practice truth, and do so yourself, as their guides.

The Christian Holidays

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CHAPTER 31

The Christian Holidays

My Dear Black Brothers and Black Sisters, the religion Christian holidays that you celebrate are holidays for white people and not for Black People.

The white people do not worship any day belonging to Black People. Why should you worship their days… days which are to their interest and not to the interest of the Black Man?

On the 25th day of December, when you seek to worship the birthday of Jesus, you are just as far from worshipping his birthday, as two thousand (2,000) years ago is to this past September. For Jesus was not born in December.

Allah (God) Who Came in the Person of Master Fard Muhammad, to whom Praises are due forever, Taught me that Jesus was born between the first and second week in September. If any Christian thinks that Allah (God) Is Misleading you and me, let the theologians of Christianity attack His Word and show proof that they are worshipping Jesus’ birthday on the 25th day of December and that Jesus of 2,000 years ago rose from his grave on that day they celebrate as Easter.

As a People who have been robbed and spoiled as we the Black People have been robbed of our own, naturally we dance by the music of the white slave-master and his children until we learn who we are.

So now we are learning who we are and a great separation is taking place between Black and white. We cannot hinder this separation even if we try to do so because it was Divinely Appointed thousands of years ago that a separation between good and evil would come about.

We, the Black People are from the God of Good; we are not from the god of evil. This, I repeatedly teach you. And the world of religious scientists will bear me witness, because this is true.

We make a fool out of ourselves by jumping up worshipping days and people that the white slave-master and his children say we are to worship.

We, the Black People, have no right to worship one day of Jesus of two thousand (2,000) years ago; for Jesus came ahead of time to bring about a judgment of this people and he died for the mistake that he had made in understanding the scripture. Then Jesus declared that he would go away… give his life… for what he had stood for.

So you do not have anything to worship on any day of the year for Jesus because he did not have any day for us to worship. If he had had a day to be worshipped on, it would have been for Jews and not for you and me, for we were not there to be represented.

Jesus came to the Jews and not to us and then he got disappointed that he was ahead of the time of the Jews to preach the doctrine of the destruction or judgment and the setting up of a New Kingdom of Heaven after the destruction of the Jews’ civilization. Jesus was born two thousand years ahead of the judgment of the Jews.

So you go out and spend your hard-earned money to worship with white people. They force you under disguise and defraud you into worshipping the birthday of that wicked old Nimrod on December. And if you knew the truth of him, you would not dare to worship it.

And so many false statement have been made to keep the falsehood strong enough for you to continue to believe until today; falsehood has come face to face with truth. And falsehood cannot stand in the face of truth. Truth condemns falsehood.

This world and this life and this way of civilization is falling and it soon will be no more. You are at the end of it before you realize it. Of course the scientists of the white people try to tell you, but, you are so sold to the falsehood that they have taught you and me for the last four hundred (400) years that you have come to love it. You would rather have the false than to have the truth. That is why you do not follow me.

But everyone of you should take those bells off your door. It is a foolish thing to worship a God with a bell, while the Bible tells you that God will use a trumpet. If you display anything, it should be a trumpet and not a bell to announce the Resurrection and Judgment.

Leave off the false; for truth has come and falsehood must vanish.

“AND WE MADE THE SON OF MARY AND HIS MOTHER A SIGN…”

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“And We Made The Son Of Mary And His Mother A Sign, And We Gave Them Refuge On A Lofty Ground Having Meadows And Springs”

If the Bible students would have taken this 50th verse of the 23rd Chapter of the Holy Qur’an, under study together with the birth, ministry and death of Jesus, as given in the Bible, Matt., Mark, Luke and John, they would agree that the man, Jesus, 2,000 years ago and his mother were a sign of something to come.

But the preachers of Christianity have always been overly anxious to put some fancy myth (other than the truth) around Jesus’ birth, ministry, and death, 2,000 years ago, to the extent that the Catholics make monuments of an imaginary Mary and her son, Jesus, and bow down and worship their handmade statues.

The Christians have no true pictures of Jesus and his mother, Mary, in possession, so they use imagery and the ignorant take it for truth.

The son of Mary and his mother, a sign. Let us see if we can direct the sign and find something that corresponds with her son’s birth and the hostile attitude of the Jews against the prosperity and future of these two people.

Why was the government, at that time, against the birth of Jesus and his freedom to live as other men? The Bible, Matt. 2:8, teaches that on his birth, when Herod heard of it, sent spies to ascertain the truth of the news that Mary had given birth to a child called Jesus. He told them to bring word to him that he may go and worship him. But by no means did he intend to give a true worship and recognition of Mary’s son, Jesus. He desired death for the son because he had read the Torah and in it is a prophecy of the Coming and Birth of a Ruler who would be King of the Jews. He felt that his authorities and rule would be threatened and brought to a naught if this was the baby prophesied of.

Take this anger and dislike on the part of the beast that seeks to destroy the child of a woman, Bible, Rev. 12:4 “…and the dragon stood before the woman which was ready to be delivered, for to devour her child as soon as it was born.” If Mary and her son are a sign, or an example, of that which is to come, then whose birth and enslavement could correspond with these prophecies and signs any more than we, the American So-Called Negroes here under the white man?

Our God is nursing us into the knowledge of our Black self, as a mother nurses her babies from a nursing bottle or from her breasts. The angry enemy watches the growth of the children whom God Has Chosen to build for Himself a kingdom. The enemy becomes angrier and angrier as the American so-called Negro (the Lost – Found Members of the Aboriginal Nation) grow into the knowledge of self, our God and our True Religion, Islam (Entire submission to the Will of God).

In the Bible, the Book of Revelation gives a symbolic picture of the story of Mary and her son, Jesus, which is recounted in the 1st Chapter of Matt., but nevertheless, if understood, it is easy to see that Mary and her son were a sign of the American so-called Negro coming in the future. He would have a worse enemy against him; one who has the nature of a beast.

As Herod did, the enemy admires the so-called Negro, but at the same time he hopes to trick the Negro to go down with him to his doom. As it is prophesied, Bible Rev. 19:20, actually the beast did deceive the people.

The Prophets say that the slave, being deceived, worshipped the mark of the slave-master (his religion and name). There are many of our people today who hope to be dignified and respected by worshipping the cross and by going in the slave-master’s name.

This worship called Christianity and the names of the white slavemaster dooms Black Americans to an eternal death in the fire of hell. This fire of hell will be kindled from the atmosphere and sun over America. This is the only part of the earth of which it is prophesied that God would turn it into a Lake of Fire; not the whole earth. The reason it is called a lake is because a lake is confined to a certain area. A lake is inland surrounded by land.

The fleeing of Mary with her son to Egypt and Joseph’s aiding her to make haste to Egypt Bible Matt. 2:13, is a beautiful sign of the so-called American Negro fleeing out of America to the open arms of the Muslim world.

The King, Herod, desired most of all to kill Jesus in his infancy. Bible, Rev. 12:4 tells us that the dragon stood before the woman. The woman here represents the Messenger of God. The child represents the followers of the Messenger.

In the Bible, Rev. 14:1, we find the Lamb (Messenger of Allah, God) standing on the Mount Zion (foreign shore); with him was a hundred and forty four thousand (his followers who had escaped from the anger of the beast).

The average so-called Negro preacher has always believed this was referring to Jesus, the son of Mary. But this is due to his lack of knowledge of the Bible story of Jesus. Jesus, as I have said and written, was only a prophet. He is not what the average so-called Negro is made to believe from the surface teachings of the Bible. They have been taught that Jesus is some kind of mysterious being, and not a natural man, and that he is God, and that he could be killed, put into a grave back there 2,000 years ago, and ascend up into space to await the end of the world. They have been taught to believe that he will return and usher in the Judgment of this world. All of this is wrong.

The fleeing out of Jerusalem under the cover of darkness is backed up by prophecy made in the Bible, Ez. 34:12, “…and will deliver them out of all places where they have been scattered in the cloudy and dark day.” This is referring to the last days; that Allah (God) would gather us in under a cover of a cloudy and dark day. We go further back to prophecy. Bible Ex. 12:31, 42 says that Israel was brought out of Egypt under cover of darkness. The Bible, Rev. 8:12 refers to a time of darkness in which “the third part of the sun, moon and stars was smitten and it was dark part of the day and the night.”

Since the world that Allah (God) will be destroying is a world of spiritual darkness, it is natural then that his judgment should correspond with the spiritual darkness of the evil world that He is removing.

In the Bible, Rev. 16:3, the angel dropped a vial into the sea, and the sea was turned to blood. The angel who had the power to do this work said that this was good as they loved the drawing of blood, they were given blood to drink. This refers to their evil murdering of people, especially the Black Man. No one fits this description better than America. She thought there was no help for us. But help has come to us as the Bible, Is. 62:4, prophesies, “Thou shalt no more be termed Forsaken…”

Retaliation is certain today, for Allah (God) has chosen us to be His People. Our enemy is angry against God Coming to our aid and His Raising of us into a true knowledge of self, Our God, and his True Religion, the same as Herod and the beast of Revelation (Bible) was against Jesus and the woman who was giving birth to her child.

The white man hates to see anything of good come to the American so-called Negro whom he has made blind, deaf, and dumb to the knowledge of self and others. He is working feverishly to bring to a naught the progress of the salvation that Allah (God), Who Came in the Person of Master Fard Muhammad To Whom Praises are due forever, has brought to us, the Black Man of America.

As Joseph was at his wits’ end trying to find a place for Jesus and His mother, Mary, at the time of his birth (Bible Lk. 2:7) so are we. Everywhere that we go trying to find an Inn to give birth to this baby (so-called American Negro) we are hindered, not by the common people but by the chief rulers of this land.

 

THE DISBELIEVERS

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THE DISBELIEVERS

In the name of Allah, the Beneficent, the Merciful 

Say: O disbelievers, I serve not what you serve,

Nor do you serve Him Whom I serve,

Nor shall I serve that which ye serve,

Nor do you serve Him Whom I serve.

For you is your recompense and for me my recompense.

MARY, JOSEPH, AND JESUS

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CHAPTER 29

Mary, Joseph, and Jesus

The 25th of December is the birthday of Nimrod, the evil demon of the white race, who was born in the last 300 years of the civilization of Moses (17th Century B.C.).

From Moses to Jesus, there were many minor prophets and there were many wicked rulers. Jesus came, warning the white race that if they did not accept the truth of their coming doom, it would come to them in a day that they would not be aware of.

The deceitful theologians and writers of Christianity along with their chief, the Pope of Rome, know the truth; but yet have deceived the people as to the knowledge of the truth by deceiving them to worship an evil demon like Nimrod. They have the history of Nimrod with them and they use him under the name of Jesus to deceive the people to make them believe that the 25th of December was Jesus’ birthday. And, in this way, they would have the world worshipping this wicked evil demon, Nimrod, for the all but perfect prophet, Jesus.

But Jesus was not born in December. God in the Person of Master Fard Muhammad, to Whom Praises are due forever, has taught me that his birthday took place between the first and second weeks of September, and that no one knows exactly what day he was born, for it was a secret kept between Joseph and Mary to save them both from being murdered by getting a baby out of wedlock.

The real truth that the Christians hate to confess is that Joseph had gotten the child, Jesus, by Mary while he was married to another woman and at that time had six children by the first marriage. So Master Fard Muhammad (God in Person) has taught me.

The Christians portray Joseph as someone taking care of a pregnant woman while he had nothing to do with the pregnancy of Mary. But, let us think sanely, as the Bible teaches us that Mary was put in the care of Joseph.

How could the theologians of the Bible write that the woman met Joseph to assure him that he does not have to fear taking Mary into marriage for that which she is pregnant with is not from man; it is from God, the Holy Ghost?

And, how could Joseph accept such an excuse for Mary’s pregnancy when he had not the knowledge of any woman in the history of man being found pregnant with a Holy Ghost’s son? For ghost means something that does not exist.

Instead, the theologians who wrote the history of Jesus and Mary should have used such words as: The child that Mary is pregnant with is a Holy child or a Prophet and you, Joseph, are the father of this Prophet and you should not fear accepting her and accepting the truth that you are the father of the child that Mary is pregnant with because the child will be the last Prophet to the white race (Jews). This would have made sense. Allah, in the Person of Master Fard Muhammad, To Whom Praises are Due forever, had taught me that this woman, whom the Bible mentions, told Joseph to his face that he was the father of the child that she was pregnant with and not the false teachings of the Bible that Jesus was something of a Holy Ghost and not flesh and blood.

The theologians got this from the Jews who also accused Joseph of being the father of the child and that he made Mary pregnant by visiting her under the cover of darkness (the Jews charged him with acting like a ghost and visiting her under the cover of darkness and making Mary pregnant).

Joseph and Mary had promised to marry when they were going to school at the age of 6 and they were separated. Since Joseph was a poor man and Mary’s father was a rich man, he refused to give Mary over to Joseph when he became a man and Joseph went and married another woman and had been married to her for six years and had six children by this wife. When the opportunity came that he could visit Mary (as she called him and told him of the opportunity), he made good of it.

Then the love they had for each other when they were little sprang anew again while they were alone together in the absence of Mary’s father and this act took place. So Allah, in the Person of Master Fard Muhammad, to Whom Praises are Due forever, taught me.

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The Importance of Being pH Balanced

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As-Salaamu ‘Alaikum Beloved and Beautiful Sisters of the Asiatic Black Nation of the Tribe of Shabazz!

Dear Sisters, my son, Hakim is studying Chemistry and in his lessons today, he learned about acids and bases. The text mentioned pH, but it did not go into the details of what pH means.

Now, I’m sure we have all heard the term “pH” or “pH balanced” all our lives, right? I know I have. But I never knew what pH and pH balanced meant.

So, I just asked Google. I cannot express how much delight I feel due to the technology of today. We can ask Google anything!  And I ask it any and everything I can think of. We have no excuse to ever not know anything anymore!!

But I digress, pH is an abbreviation for “potential Hydrogen” and it is a measure of a substance’s acidity or basicity. When an acid is added to water, hydrogen ions are released and combine with the hydrogen atoms in the water to form H3O+ or the hydronium ion. When a base is added to water, it forms OH- or the hydroxide ion.

The pH of a solution is a measure of the hydronium ion concentration in the solution. The scale ranges from 0-14, with 7 being neutral. If a substance has a pH above 7  it is a base and a pH below 7 is an acid. Water has a pH level of 7 which means it is Neutral.

Acids have a sour flavor, react with metals and conduct electricity. Lemons, limes and other citric fruits have citric acid. Ascetic acid is the main ingredient in vinegar.  The citric acid in Lemons has a pH of roughly 2.2.

Bases have a bitter flavor and a slippery feel. They are often used for cleaning or removing dirt and odors. Sodium hydroxide (lye) is the main ingredient in soap. Sodium Bicarbonate (baking soda) is well-known for its odor-removing capability. The pH of sodium hydroxide (lye) is 14.

But this still does not tell me what pH balanced means?

pH balanced is when the levels of acidity and basicity in a substance neutralize each other leaving the substance with a neutral pH of 7 – like water.

There has been a trend for the past few years, encouraging people to eat more alkaline or “basic” foods because most people have an unbalanced pH that leans more toward the acidic. This is due to the fact that most people eat acidic foods, like meat and potatoes and soda. Most fruits and vegetables are alkaline. The Honorable Elijah Muhammad (PBUH) in his book How To Eat To Live, taught us that we should be vegetarians and eat only beans, certain types of fish, vegetables, fruits, whole-wheat bread, milk and butter. This will help maintain the pH balance in our digestive system.

Most health advocates say our pH should be slightly alkaline, probably to encourage people to stop eating so many acidic foods. While doctors, say “normal” is slightly acidic, probably because most people are slightly acidic. However, common sense tells you it should be 7 – NEUTRAL – Like water. Ideally, we should eat a balanced amount of acids and bases so that they neutralize each other, leaving us with a digestive pH of 7 – BALANCED.

I have yet to see a scientist or health advocate just come out and say this. But, you can test your urinary pH by using litmus paper which can be found at health food stores, so I’ve heard. I’m sure you remember using litmus paper when conducting experiments in school. It turns red for acids and blue for bases.

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While the urinary pH is a measure of the balance of acids and bases in our digestive system, other areas of our bodies naturally have different pH levels. Our blood, for example, has an alkaline pH of 8, while the digestive juices in our stomachs have an acidic pH of 2.

We women, however, have a unique situation in that we have a very special area of our body that requires extra-special attention and tender loving care to maintain its acidic pH.

Our vagina is the conduit through which we bring new life to our Nation. It is the physical connection allowing us to become one with our husband. Sisters, it is crucial to maintain a healthy and productive vagina.  A healthy vagina is naturally acidic with a pH of 3.5 to 4.5 and contains rich quantities of beneficial bacteria that help fend off infections and maintain a normal pH level.

Whenever we suffer from vaginal discomfort it is due to an imbalance in this very delicate and perfect part of our reproductive physiology. When the balance is disrupted, it can cause odor and discomfort. Accordingly, it is very important to maintain a healthy pH to reduce your risk of vaginal issues.

So, how do you maintain a healthy pH? The best way is knowing and preventing the factors that lead to an imbalance in its normal low acidic pH. Unfortunately, the main things that cause the pH to go up are the ordinary everyday things associated with it.

Semen has a pH of 8, which is a big jump from the 3.5 pH of the vagina. However, most of the pH issues that arise due to semen are as a result of sexual deviancy. So, this shouldn’t really be a problem for the Blackwoman because we are righteous by nature. However, if for some reason you do experience a condition termed Bacterial Vaginosis (where the normal balance of bacteria in the vagina is disrupted and replaced by an overgrowth of certain bacteria), there are medications you can take to restore the balance.

As I mentioned earlier, blood has a pH of 8. So, during menstruation, you want to make sure you change your pad frequently. I change mine five times a day when I make wudu (ablution) before Hakim makes prayer. NEVER EVER USE TAMPONS. This is bad for your health and prevents the blood from leaving your body causing the vaginal pH to rise.

Soaps are made from Sodium hydroxide (lye), a base, and if overused can raise the pH of the vagina. Use soap sparingly. NEVER USE DOUCHES. Douching can interfere with the vagina’s pH levels, reducing its acidity and setting the stage for bacterial infections. If your vagina has a strong or unpleasant odor, see your doctor; a douche will only mask the smell without curing the underlying problem that’s causing it.

So Sisters, I hope I didn’t make you too uncomfortable reading this. But we members of The Nation of Islam, The Black Nation, are Scientists and it is important that we know and understand ALL of the Sciences in Life and sometimes they can be pretty uncomfortable. But knowing is always better than guessing. Educate yourself in all matters relating to your body, your home, your planet and your universe, so that you can better inform your children and also share your own wisdom with your Sisters and Brothers.

WHO vs. WHOM

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Sisters, I have a degree in Journalism, and consider myself well-versed when it comes to words, however, the difference between these two words was never taught to me in any of the Colleges nor the University I attended. So, I decided to look them up myself.

What I found out is that who and whom are both pronouns, however WHO is used when referring to the SUBJECT of a question and WHOM is used when referring to the OBJECT of a sentence/question.

For example, I could ask, “Who ate the last piece of Bean Pie?”

“Who” is the subject because it is referring to the person who ate the last piece of Bean Pie. The subject of a sentence is the person doing the action.

On the other hand, if I ask, “To Whom did you serve the last piece of Bean Pie?”

“Whom” is the object of the sentence because it is referring to the person to whom the action was directed.

Here is another example.

“Whom are you courting, Brother?”

The Sister who is being courted is the OBJECT of the courtship as well as the question, so it would be grammatically correct to use the pronoun WHOM.

Conversely, if you were to ask the Sister the same question, you would ask, “Who is courting you, Sister?”

The Brother who is doing the courting is the SUBJECT of the courtship as well as the question, so it would be grammatically correct to use the pronoun WHO.