For Life….

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CHESTNUT EYES

EYES THE COLOR OF CHESTNUTS

BRILLIANTLY BROWN

GLOWING

NOT WITHHOLDING

THE FIRE BURNING WITHIN

DEEP DOWN

UNDERNEATH THE SURFACE

IT’S LOVE

(FOR ME)

YOU CAN’T HIDE IT

IT’S THERE FOR EVERYONE TO SEE

IF THEY KNOWIN’…. 😉

ESPECIALLY ME

YOU CAN’T DENY YOUR LOVE FOR ME

* * * * *

SWEET AS CHOCOLATE DEMEANER

A DEMEANER AS SWEET AS CHOCOLATE

MILKY AND AS SWEET AS CHOCOLATE

AN HONOUR FROM FIRST GLANCE

JUST TO SEE YOU IN YOUR B-BOY STANCE

HUMBLED BY YOUR SALIENT GAZE
MY PURPOSE IN LIFE
IS TO PLEASE YOU
YOUR HIGHNESS
YOUR EVERY WISH IS MY COMMAND
I ADORE YOU
YOUR MAJESTY
YOU ARE MY WORLD,
– THE QUEEN

SPRING MITTENS

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BISMILLAHI RAHMANI RAHIM

In the Name of Allah, The Beneficent, The Most Merciful

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To see the mittens in greater detail click HERE

 As-Salaam-Alaikum Dearly Beloved Asiatic Sisters!

I was thinking with the advent of Spring, I wouldn’t be crocheting any warm weather attire, but it’s been unseasonably cold the last couple of days and we even had rain a couple nights ago! So, I’ve been bundling up with my crocheted hats and scarves and whatnot, but I have yet to replace my gloves.

I decided to crochet some mittens and these are very simple so I thought I would share the tut with my Beloved Readers! I was going to make them without the bumps, but they are a part of the pattern so I kept them. And they ended up being the most fun part!

I used a smaller hook and crocheted the stitches tighter so my pattern is a bit different. I also crocheted more bumps.

Anyway, if you have the wherewithal to create these wonderful mittens, comment and post a picture. Share your talent! 😀

As-Salaam-Alaikum!

 

PATTERN

Chain 10
One Returning Chain
Row 1 – Ten Single Crochet in Backloop
One Returning Chain
Complete 24 more rows
Connect edges
Remove hook and turn inside out
Row 1 – 42 Single crochet across top
Row 2 – Bump, 5sc (single crochet), bump, 5sc, bump sc to the end of the round
*Bump* – insert hook into backloop, yarn over, insert hook into next backloop, yarn over, insert hook into next backloop, yarn over, pull through first loop on hook, yarn over, pull through two loops on hook, yarn over, pull through last two loops on hook, insert hook into last stitch, yarn over, pull through loops on hook
Row 3 – sc entire round
Row 4 – sc entire round
Row 5 – Five sc, bump, five sc bump, sc, bump, sc to the end of the round
Row 6 – sc entire round
Row 7 – sc entire round
Row 8 – Bump, 5sc (single crochet), bump, 5sc, bump sc to the end of the round
Row 9 – sc entire round
Row 10 – sc until 9 loops from first bump, chain 9, insert hook 9 loops from chain,  sc to the end of the round

Repeat pattern until desired length then decrease

*Decrease* Insert hook into backloop, yarn over, pull through, insert hook into next backloop, yarn over pull through, yarn over pull through all three loops

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MOTHER’S DAY

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As-Salaam-Alaikum Beloved Sisters & Brothers!

Anyone who knows me knows that my Mom and I have an estranged and strained association. I’m not going to even say “relationship.”

I think she’s never liked/loved me because she couldn’t give my sister her fourth birthday party because she was in the hospital giving birth to me. The pictures are so depressing. I think she held (holds) that against me because she never threw another birthday party for any of us.

It’s all good though, because now that I am in THE NATION OF ISLAM, it just made not celebrating birthdays that much easier. Mother’s Day also.

I was kind of destined to have an estranged relationship with my mother. My mother wasn’t speaking to he mother when I was born. My grandmother found out about my birth from her cousin.

I told my hubby how I never felt like my mother ever loved me because she would buy my sister and brother whatever they wanted but not me.

He told me something that corresponds with the Holy Qur’an:

“But she gave you everything  you needed!”

He told me that twenty years ago but it’s just now, that I’m a Muslim, starting to sink in.

So, thank-you Vanessa, for feeding and clothing me when I was little. Even though it feels like you did it out of duty rather than love. I never knew what it felt like to go to bed hungry or without shoes. I had toys and a comfortable bed. A roof overhead and a fairly happy childhood. I thank you for nursing me, enabling me to enjoy good health. Thank you for giving me respectable, somewhat decent boundaries. Thank-you for treating me like a slave so that now housework comes easy and is second-nature. Thank-you for buying wheat bread when my friends had white; fruit instead of cookies & candy.. Oh, and we always had Honey – My favorite – thanks to  you!

Thank-you for that one time we baked Nestle Toll House Cookies, instilling in me my love for baking.

More recently, thank-you for letting me in the house a couple times when I couldn’t get in the shelter. That was a nice surprise after turning me away repeatedly.

However, I wish you had left my father, before I was born. He told me  he left you because of something I had written in my diary! If you had left him he would never had had his nose in my business.

Thank-you for teaching me how to sew up the holes in my socks. I was shocked to learn, after living in shelters, how many women can’t even thread a needle!

But most importantly, thank-you for leaving West Angeles so we could go to Trinity where I Fell In Love With My Prince!

HAPPY MOTHER’S DAY!

FIRST KISS

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Outside the Girls’ Gymnasium

I Think it was

Right After Lunch

Right Before Drill Team

(Maybe Not)

Hurriedly Excited

You Were

I Didn’t Know It Then

You Must’ve Been

What A Fool I Was

Not To See

How Madly In Love

You Were With Me

*****

Took My Whole Adult Life

To Realize

How Much That Kiss Meant

Wasted Nearly Thirty (30) Years

Trying To Find

A Substitute

For You –

Someone In Your Class (Stead)

Allah (God) Told Me

“IT’S IMPOSSIBLE!!!”

No One In The Universe

Can Take Your Place

I Submit (Give Up)

To You

I’ll Spend The Rest Of My Life

Waiting

For

Another

One

❤

LEIMERT PARK FOLKS

بِسْــــــــــــــــــمِ اﷲِالرَّحْمَنِ اارَّحِيم

ARTSY

HOMELESS

PLAYER or PIMP

HARD TO TELL

MUSICIANS – Dime a Dozen

WINOS – the same….

STYLISHLY FASHIONABLE “Smoker Ladiez”

VIRGIL – “THE VILLAGE CRIER”

SHABAZZ CATERERS WHO AREN’T MUSLIM

FAKE MUSLIMS

MOORS

NGEs

ONE FIVE PERCENTER (PRT_ME) 😉

MASONS

HOMIES

CASUAL OBSERVERS

BEAN SOUP SCIENTISTS

HYPOCRITES

AGENTS

SODOMITES

PERMANENTLY UNDERGROUND EMCEES

HIP-HOP HEADZ

PREDATORS

PREY

TRY TO STAY AFLOAT

FAMILIAR FACES (Boring)

NEW FACES (White)

U.N.W.E.L.C.O.M.E.!

MONEY-HUNGRY MERCHANTS CANNIBALIZING CULTURE

DEVIL-LOVERS COMMERCIALIZING OFF MY (OUR) HERITAGE

SEARCHING DESPERATELY

FOR A

SILVER LINING

NO HOLE IN MY PENNY YET

JUST WAITING TO SEE WHAT HAPPENS NEXT

BUT MOESHA IS LONG-GONE

THINKING ABOUT MOVING

NOWHERE TO BE FOUND

M.I.A.

JUST A FADED MEMORY

Just a memory….

SEPARATION OR DEATH!

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The Spiritual Properties of OLIVE OIL

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olive-oil-being-poured-into-a-bowl

As-Salaamu ‘Alaikum Dearly Beloved Sisters & Brothers

Anyone who knows me knows I used to swear by Shea Butter, especially when my son was little. I used to use it for cuts, scrapes, burns and whatnot. It even worked when I put it on my cheek in the event of a toothache! And it’s skin softening properties go without saying.

However, I had a Muslim Brother (r.i.p.) who once told me that his mom used to swear by Olive Oil in the same way I used Shea Butter. I never forgot that little jewel even though I kept using the Shea Butter.

Well, after becoming homeless, the Shea Butter was much less accessible and the Olive Oil started looking pretty appealing. So, I bought some in the Shea Butter’s stead and was and am very pleased with the results.

Not to mention “The Good Samaritan” qualities associated with it. Right? I’ve been carrying it around with me and have had the opportunity to share it with people I’ve come in contact with who needed a little salve. I also seem to recall it being used by Prophet Isa (Jesus) on somebody’s feet or whatnot and also in other places throughout the Bible. So one would have to conclude that Olive Oil is not only good for physical healing but spiritual healing as well.

I bear witness.

After applying it to my skin after showering, and I must add here, that it is not at all greasy, as you might think – not nearly as greasy as Shea Butter. You can apply it to your hands and then pick up a book and not leave a fingerprint!

But back to its spiritual healing properties…. After applying it to my whole body, I went about my business as usual. Shortly thereafter, an event occurred that under regular circumstances would have really discomfited me.

But just as my blood started to heat, I could physically feel the Olive Oil I had applied on my skin begin to go to work, and I immediately began to feel a sense of calmness over my whole body!

It was unbelievable but true, Sisters and Brothers. I felt relaxed and at peace, whereas otherwise I would have felt agitated and annoyed and I knew it was only due to the Spiritual Healing Properties of the Olive Oil I had applied. Al Hamdulillah!

I carry the small bottle in my purse and have decided when (if) I make my body butter again to only use Olive Oil as my oil.

But, I’ll probably just keep on using the pure Olive Oil. I like the perks! 😀

In the Bible (Esther) the women were prepared for marriage by using oils.

As-Salaam-Alaikum!

p.s. I only use the Extra Virgin  ^.^

It is also nice to add fresh ROSEMARY to give it a sweet smell,
Or you can always purchase flavored Extra Virgin Olive Oil. I’m using lemon flavored right now and it’s fab!

Sadness In Your Smile….

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I See It

And

Know

That

I

Am

The

Cause

😦

Your Eyes Don’t Have That Shine Anymore, Baby

What Happened To The Sparkle In Your Smile? 😦

You Don’t Even Look Happy When You’re Smiling….

You’ve Lost Your Glow, Sweet Honey-Stick –

And I’m The ONLY ONE Who Can Return It –

It Makes Me Sad To See You Look So Sad When You’re Smiling

You Need Me

To Make You Smile (Happy)

In Your Eyes….

I Saw It The Last Time I Saw You. 😀

It Fills My Heart With Joy –

My Knees Get Weak –

My Insides Turn To Melted Butter –

The Belly Butterflies Start To Flutter –

& When Our Gazes Mingle

We Both Get That Tingle….

That Only The Other Can Inspire

You Set My Heart Afire

I’m Back-Flipping On A High-Wire

Our Hearts Race Like Cheetahs

And Love Runs Just As Wild & Free

I Carouse Through The City

Hoping I’ll See THE Smile

That I Haven’t Seen In Quite Awhile

Not Since The Last Time I Saw You 😉

Stevie Wonder Can See

The Sadness In Your Smile

Your Eyes Belie Your Grin

Your Sadness From My Sin

I Know You Too, Sugar-Pie

I’m Sorry

&

Whether You Want To Admit It

Or Not

You Need Me

ALLENSWORTH, CALIFORNIA

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As-Salaamu ‘Alaikum Dearly Beloved Asiatic Black Sisters & Brothers 😉

A few years ago my son and I were lucky enough to be a part of an expedition that traveled from Los Angeles to the remains of the historic all-Black California city of ALLENSWORTH.

You may be familiar with the John Singleton movie about the all-Black township, “Rosewood,” or about the all-Black town, Greenwood, Oklahoma aka “Black Wall Street”. Well, there were several ALL-BLACK towns, at one time, all across America! The first one to be incorporated that was also immortalized in Zora Neale Hurston’s novel which was made into an HBO movie, starring none other than Miss Halle Berry – Their Eyes Were Watching God – was the town of Eatonville, Florida. It is also the only one I know of that is still in existence today.

All the others met the same fate – destroyed overtly or covertly by the American devil slavemasters and their children, who cannot stand to see their once-slaves living independently.

The founder of  Allensworth, Allen Allensworth was killed in a suspicious motorcycle accident while out soliciting more residents for his burgeoning metropolis, which was followed by construction of a railway through the town which brought about its ultimate demise.

For more information on Allensworth,, click here.

DAVID WALKER’S APPEAL

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As-Salaamu ‘Alaikum Dearly Beloved Asiatic Black Sisters! (and Brothers 😉 )

I am so happy that I have been blessed with the ability to study Black History at the college level. I learned the shameful history of the American white people toward their Black slaves to an extent that is and will never be taught in primary nor secondary school. Al Hamdulillah!

I also learned of Black resistance to slavery which is only taught among a certain section of Black intelligentsia outside of college, but the majority of so-called American Negroes are not privy to such a wealth of information.

Most may have not even heard of Nat Turner whose armed rebellion caused terror in the hearts of the devils to such an extent that they enacted several laws prohibiting the mere congregation of two or more Black people across the country.

As a journalist, I am a firm believer that “The pen is mightier than the sword.” And, am convinced of the truth that if you control a man’s mind, you can convince him to kill whomever you want him to kill. Swords don’t kill by themselves. :/

Therefore, I’m sure you can imagine my enthusiasm and excitement when I learned about Brother David Walker.

All Praise is due to Allah for the Internet! When I was in college, the Internet was still fairly new, so I was not able to read Brother David’s Appeal at that time. However, I just looked it up and found the entire document and he had me at the title page.

Please, in the wake of Ferguson and Baltimore, read this document that was written nearly one hundred years ago. We still have not learned that we must stand up like decent and intelligent men and women and defend ourselves from the brutal hand of our enemy, in order to be respected in the eyes of our children and the world.

The slavemaster will not teach you of Brother David Walker, who propagated armed resistance against slavery in a time when most Blacks were advocating litigation to bring about an end to the institution.

We see today, that litigation does not work. We are still slaves to America. Their Emancipation Proclamation only removed the shackles, but did not free us IN DEED. We are still slaves to America and will remain her slaves until we have what she has – our own land which will give us the means to produce for ourselves the necessities of life.

Now remember, Allah Has Power over the weapons. He Created the steel out of which the weapons are made. His Messenger (Peace Be Upon Him) taught us that we should not carry weapons because we are more likely to use them against our own Brothers and Sisters. And, it reads in the Holy Qur’an that we should Never Be the Aggressor but to Defend Ourselves if Attacked. We Must Seek JUSTICE For Ourselves, Brothers and Sisters, against the heartless devil slavemaster’s children or We Might As Well Go Out and Commit Suicide.

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