1976-February-6

Bilalian News

Self-Redemption

W.D. Muhammad

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8. Allah doth know what every female (womb) doth bear, by how much the wombs fall short (of their time or number) or do exceed. Every single thing is before His sight, in (due) proportion. 

9. He knoweth the unseen and that which is open: He is the Great, the Most High. 

10. It is the same (to Him) whether any of you conceal his speech or declare it openly; whether he lie hid by night or walk forth freely by day. 

11. For each (such person) there are (angels) in succession, before and behind him: They guard him by command of Allah. Verily never will Allah change the condition of a people until they change it themselves (with their own souls). But when (once) Allah willeth a people's punishment, there can be no turning it back, nor will they find, besides Him, any to protect.

Holy Quran, Yusuf Ali Translation – Sura 13, verses 8 - 11
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Let us look at the problems that we have as Bilalian people here in the Western Hemisphere. We were captured and emptied of all of our cultural knowledge and of all of our heritage. We were separated from the traditions of our people, from the knowledge of our people, and from the life of our people. Being so thoroughly emptied, we became empty vessels for another people to fill up. They filled us up with whatever they wanted to put in us. This is not the first time that a situation like this has occurred in man's history, but it had never happened to this great extent.


The Wine Of Fornication

In the past, evil people had put corruption into the minds, the traditions, the knowledge, and the thoughts of other people - but they had not totally emptied the people of everything that was originally in them. The Caucasian captors of our foreparents filled them with thoughts and beliefs that were foreign to the nature of our foreparents. The Book (Bible) says that the wine of fornication would be put into the sacred vessels. This is a symbolic description of how unrighteous people corrupt the minds of other people by feeding their minds with things that would make the righteous people mentally drunk.

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"Will a man rob God? Yet ye have robbed me. But ye say, wherein have we robbed thee? In tithes and offerings.

" Ye are cursed with a curse: for ye have robbed me, even this whole nation."

(-Malachi,3:8,9)
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The Book says that God charged the unrighteous people of robbing Him of a whole nation of people. This means the taking of a body of people from their natural place and putting them in a place foreign to themselves and raising them in the absence of their own history. It means making that body of people think that they have no connection outside of the miserable life that they were put into.


The Spark Of Human Life

Even though we were placed in a condition by the slave master that was miserable and inhuman, still the spark of human life that was deep within us could not be totally extinguished. Slowly but surely that spark began to burn brighter and brighter into a glow which lit the desire within us that eventually would lead us to "self-redemption."

Our people in the West became "self-protective" working with old knowledge, but we could only go so far with that knowledge. All of the knowledge that we had was not enough to make us independent and it was not enough to get the Caucasian people to recognize us and to properly respect us. In our history we had men and women who were learned in the Caucasian grafted knowledge. They were able to bring us to the frontier of the recognition of the need for "self-defense," and they made us "self-protective." We began to speak out against the wrongs that Caucasians were doing to us and we began to criticize their conduct, their minds, and their actions. But something was missing.


Grafted Knowledge

The Caucasians knew that "the Negro" had gotten smart enough to see that they were acting wrong, but they knew that we had not yet gotten smart enough to see that our knowledge (which was their knowledge) was wrong.

The grafted man's knowledge was wrong for us. If you are living among thieves and kidnappers and you pick up their philosophy of life to defend your rights, you are only going to have as many rights as they are willing to give you. The best you can hope to become is another member in the society of crooks and murderers. No matter how much our people studied and tried to achieve under the Caucasian man's teachings, the best they could become was just another member in a society of corrupt people. Being weaker and not having the material resources that the Caucasian had, they were at the mercy of the Caucasian people.


So-Called Miracle Workers

The religion (Christianity) that is taught to Bilalian people by the Caucasian is a physical religion People are seen on radio and television performing so-called "miracles" on people. But how many of those so-called miracle workers can restore the blind moral eye so that the man can walk away with moral sight? How many of them can restore the broken moral leg of the man so that that man can walk away morally upright? They say that they can bless you with more money, with a better relationship with your husband or wife, or with better physical health. But how many of them can you find that have the power to restore life to the limbs of the mind and to the vital organs of the mind? How many can walk away and know that they are going to be successful in life from that time on?


God's Great Miracle

Which is the greater miracle, taking paralysis from the jaw or removing paralysis from out of the mind? There have been men who have sat in the seat of power over the entire nations who did not have the use of their arms or their legs, and some have gone blind. But because their minds remained strong, they were able to dictate the life of that nation and rule over it until their mind passed out of this world.

The real miracle that God works is not a miracle in your physical body, but it is a miracle in your mind and in your heart. The great miracle of God is the healing of your vital parts in your mind and in your heart.
The rise of the Lost-Found Nation of Islam in the West (now the World Community of Islam in the West) to the position of moral and spiritual leadership for the whole world is a modern day "miracle."


Alcoholic Ideas

Some people walk like drunkards because they are drunk in the mind. They are not under the influence of alcohol, but they are under the influence of an alcoholic idea. There are men and women who cannot stand up physically because their minds are weak, dead, and turned off to reality and truth. Do you think that Almighty God made prophets who just had the power to produce miracles on your physical flesh but that He did not make prophets who had the power to produce miracles in your mind? Your mind is more important to you than flesh. It is the mind that rules over the flesh. In misunderstanding the truth of God's miracles, Christianity has led the world far away from the right way into darkness.


Sin Without Fear

The Church's false teachings on Jesus have also kept the world in ignorance and darkness. The conspirators of Christianity put Jesus in a flesh Caucasian body and told you that he died for you and for your sins. This kind of teaching releases you and them to commit greater sins. You thought that since you did not have to die for your sins, you could continue to sin without fear because Jesus had paid the price with "self-sacrifice." You accepted that kind of religion because it satisfied your weaknesses.


The Crucifixion Of Truth
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157. That they said (in boast), "We killed Christ Jesus the son of Mary, the Messenger of Allah.;- but they killed him not, nor crucified him, but so it was made to appear to them, and those who differ therein are full of doubts, with no (certain) knowledge, but only conjecture to follow, for of a surety they killed him not:

Holy Quran, Yusuf Ali Translation - Sura 4, Verse 157
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The truth that the Christians hid from you is that they did not crucify the physical man Jesus, they crucified his truth. That is the reason that the world came under darkness.
Even if you crucify a man physically, it will not hurt him at all if he remains alive as a living light of truth and knowledge to the world. He will continue to grow because people will continue to follow his truth. But if you crucify the truth of a man, he will die in the earth.


You Were Made Like Sheep

The cross is a symbol of death. A dead man was placed on it to show the dark (ignorant) world that Christ "died for you." To give the effect that Christians wanted to make in your mind and in your heart, they took the so-called "Semitic Christ" and put blue eyes in his head, blond hair on his head, and they gave him very sharp features so that he would look like the typical Caucasian. So, with a false understanding of love, you turned the sentiments of your heart to the so-called white image of Jesus' Caucasian body. In doing that, you were being used by Satan to direct your love and your concern away from your own kind to another people.

The conspirators of Christianity knew that if you would accept that the physically dead body on the cross was the body that contained the very presence of God on the earth, you would look at all people who had bodies like that body as being God-like or divine. They knew that you would fear to question their judgment, you would fear to arouse their anger, and you would fear to disturb them or to insult them. You were made to be as passive as sheep and to accept everything that was done to you without question.


From Self-Sacrifice To Self-Defense

The history of Bilalian people in the West is the history of a people who have continually moved from one period (way of life) to another period (way of life). These periods were not distinct periods, and there were times when they overlapped each other. When we were in physical bondage, we were rebellious but patient people. Because of our rebellious spirit, the slavemaster put Christianity in us to make us "self-sacrificing." We were told that this made us "like Jesus." We said that the Caucasian could have the whole world if we could just take "sweet Jesus." We were told not to grumble about the inhuman conditions that we were forced to suffer. We were told not to fight or even to talk back to our oppressors. We thought that God wanted us to love our enemies.

The next period was a way of life in which we became "self-protective." We felt that we had to stand up for our rights and protect ourselves, not just as individuals, but for the whole Bilalian community. We began to stand up and to defend ourselves and our brothers and sisters against the evils done to us.


The Truth Came

Then, in the 1930's, the truth came to the Bilalian community of America in the teachings of two great and masterful teachers, Master Fard Muhammad and the Honorable Master Elijah Muhammad (peace of Allah be upon him). Their teaching started the growth of a new crop of people. The people of this new period were a "self-redeemed" people. This is the point that we want all of you to reach. You cannot be just "self-sacrificing" and "self-protective," but you must also be "self-redeemed." Due to the efforts of a few outstanding figures in our history in North America, we had managed to become "self-protected" but we could not redeem ourselves.


The Call To Right Worship

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"And he said to the woman, thy faith hath saved thee; go in peace."

"And Jesus said unto him, receive thy sight; thy faith hath saved thee."

(St. Lukes 7:50 & 18:42)
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The Book says that man should save (redeem) himself, and in many places in the Holy Quran it says to save yourself. To become "self-redeemed," you need a new knowledge.
To be "self-redeemed" means that you have the knowledge and the power take charge of yourself, to accept the responsibility for yourself, and to know yourself. A "self-redeemed" person knows and understands the workings of society. When you are "self-redeemed," no man has the power to come to you with a bag of "magician's tricks" to make you fall down and start worshipping him and his tricks. You cannot be fooled anymore because your knowledge has moved you up to a higher place of understanding. The knowledge that we teach of the original truth of the scripture has made the World Community of Islam in the West a superior people for the job of calling the world to the right worship of God.

Our teachings make you a truly "self-redeemed" people. Once you accept our teachings, you cannot be destroyed by anybody. You can go anywhere on the earth and nobody can destroy you unless you want to be destroyed.


We Have God's Message

The only thing that can "self-redeem" the Bilalian community in the West is for us to step outside of the Caucasian man's work, analyze his work, study his work from bottom to top, and see what makes his world work. You should do this, not with a view of coming into his world, but with a view of conquering his world. When you have the wisdom to come up with the powers of nature in your favor, you can face the slave master and feel comfortable. Then you do not feel like you have to throw out a word two miles long to impress him because you have his life "in your pocket."

Under the influence of the wisdom of the Nation of Islam (the World Community of Islam in the West), which was established over 40 years ago, Bilalians are now able to stand proudly before the world for the first time. We do not have to pretend superiority anymore, we are superior because we have the message from God that will solve the problems of the world.


Two Classes Of People
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"And God saw the light, that it was good; and God divided the light from the darkness."

(- Genesis 1:4)
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From the beginning, there have been two classes of people. Genesis, in the Bible, says that in the beginning God created light and then He separated the light from the darkness. "Light," in the symbolic language of the scripture, means truth and wisdom. Truth and wisdom separate people. There is one class of people who cannot face truth. They are not strong enough to accept wisdom, so they would rather accept falsehood and lies. They are people of the dark (people of ignorance and weakness). God never separates people by their physical skin color, but He separates them by their nature. Robots can be made to look just like people, but they do not have the nature of people - so they are not people. They might be able to mechanically do a lot of things that people can do, but the nature of the human being is not in them.


Self-Create Yourself

Today, we in the World Community of Islam in the West are here to call you back to that which God made for you to use to create yourself. God is the Creator of all the worlds, including the material world, but He gives us the materials to create a higher world. God has given us the material to make us come to life in the earth, and He has further given us the materials that we can take into our own hands as tools to create ourselves. The Holy Quran says that we should create ourselves after the design of our Creator.

You have the power to create yourself. If you do not accept the responsibility to create yourself, you will always be created by others. Ideas, thoughts, words, and knowledge create you in your body. Until you accept the responsibility to self-create yourself, you will always be a grafted creation and you will be t he make of somebody else.
Self-redeem" yourself by separating yourself from the darkness of this world and create yourself in the light of our new world.


