1978-December-22

Bilalian News

The Shackles Of Mystery: Part 1

Imam W. Deen Muhammad


With the Name Allah (In the Name of God) the Gracious, the Compassionate.

As-Salaam-Alaikum

All praise is due to Almighty God, the guardian evolver and sustainer of all the worlds. The blessings and peace be upon Muhammad, the Messenger of Allah to us all.

O Allah, guide us, forgive us our faults, and grant us the blessings of faith. I bear witness there is no deity except Allah and I bear witness Muhammad is His Servant and His Messenger. Peace be upon him, his descendants, his companions, the righteous servants, all of them, and upon us in America and throughout the world:

Dr. Fard Muhammad, the professor, as he was often called, the teacher of the Honorable Elijah Muhammad, gave us many books and pamphlets. One little pamphlet of questions and answers — a kind of composition — and many vague terms that actually suggested there was nothing to our minds ,at first. In fact, we took only the literal meaning of these things.

We used to have to keep our weight down. He said no black man should weigh over 150 pounds, and everybody, I don't care if they were 8 feet tall, tried to weigh 150 pounds. You can image what kind of trouble that was. He never said gain if you were below, but if you were above, he said you had to reduce.

How many of us went to the dictionary and looked up the word, reduce? I don't think any of us did. Because we were so enchanted, so fascinated by the witchdoctor we couldn't even question his madness. When we look up the term reduce in the dictionary we find it has an archaic meaning, a very outdated meaning, not in use now, but it's there. If you check Webster's dictionary, I believe it's the 7th Collegiate edition you will find this meaning. It means righteousness. Reduce means righteousness.

In the scripture it says that a certain people had been accused of corrupting their lives, and in the Bible God says, "They have waxed fat.'- Now these are old terms. We say the moon waxes and wanes; wax means to grow, these are the people who have grown fat.

If we tie that term that Fard Muhammad used with the Bible meaning we have the answer. Fat means to corrupt your life by taking on too much appetite for the material things of the world. A fat person in this sense is a materialistic person.

He said none of us should weigh over 150 pounds. Again, that figure or saying is loaded with symbolism, or mystery.

One-hundred and fifty pounds — what is that? Five senses; ignore the zero, the 15 is where the information is — 3 times 5 is 15. Instead of having the Holy Ghost in your three-part existence or being, you should have five senses in your three-part existence or being.

If you evolve the five senses three times, you have 15. If you can do that, you're a little more than 15-years-old. You're 15 and you weigh about 150 pounds, you're kind of heavy.

If you check this dictionary for the term dualism, you find different definitions, but one takes us back to ancient ideas of how this universal nature operates. It was believed, and still is believed, that the world operates on two opposite principles — two opposite or opposing principles. You may call them negative and positive — good and bad—good, evil. The se ideas are still with us.

Now, let us go to something very light. "Jack Sprat could eat no fat, his wife could eat no lean, but together they licked the platter clean." Isn't that a terrible combination?
What is this little innocent nursery rhyme saying? "Jack Sprat could eat no fat." Who is Jack? Jack is a name derived from Jacob, the Jahcubite. The Jahcubite is forbidden to eat fat.

God forbids them to become materialistic, they have to be scriptural people.

But he has a counterpart who can eat fat. His counterpart eats the fat and he eats the lean and together they lick our world of wealth and value clean.

No, let's look at the word "secularism." We speak of our world as being divided: secular and non-secular. When we check this word in the dictionary we find that it also has a very interesting meaning, and that is "aging and cycling." Once in an age or once every century.

The Muslims will recall in the sayings of Prophet Muhammad (PBUH and all the righteous servants) "that once at the head of every century there will come a Mujeddid who will renew for you my religion or the religion of Al-Islam."

What is this secularism now? Should it be a secularism? No! It should be the light that is reflected out of the Divine revelation or from the Divine revelation. It shouldn't be materialistic, it should be knowledge that is of the essence of Divine revelation. But instead, our world is filled up with lies, materialism, corruption, injustice.

There are two bodies of people: one party controls, the others are being controlled. Have you heard this little rhyme here? "Old MacDonald had a farm. E-i-e-i-o." And on his farm he had a lot of different animals. We will talk only about the cow. We don't have enough time to go through all of it today.

"On his farm he had some cows. E-i-e-i-o." With a moo-moo here and a moo-moo there and a moo-moo everywhere. That's his description of the Western world and the rest of the world that he's ruling. One big animal farm.

Who is the cow going moo-moo here, and moo-moo there? The dumb religious establishment that doesn't know how to correct problems, just moo-moo here and moo-moo there.

To understand what "moo" means you have to go back to ancient mythology and you'll find a certain religiously inspired creature by the name Mu. He was preaching the destruction of the world and the world was destroyed by flood.

And these so-called religious workers we know that call themselves self-educated don't do anything but keep up that same old note. Moo-moo here, destruction is going to be here. Moo-moo there, destruction is going to be there. Moo-moo, moo-moo everywhere, destruction is going to be everywhere. Preachers of doom!

That's the cow. They can't learn anything else because they like to chew the cud.
After a cow eats the food you've given him, he eats it over again. He's got a second operation going, just chew, chew, chew. He can't rest, he starts all over again, chew, chew, chew.

In Genesis you'll find that the cow is created on the same day that the man of six is created. He created the man, the cow, the snake, and as the Bible says, creeping things. All the deceptive things are born on this sixth day.

The man that's born on the sixth day is not the Christ-natured man, he is the devil-natured man — the Satan-natured human being, the deceiver.

Allah is the perfect being. Allah is all righteous, truthful — no imperfections in Allah. Allah is Supreme and Perfect without any imperfections.

O Allah. Make us of those who purify themselves and of those who repent, and guide us in your path. Amen.

Peace be to you
Your brother in service to Allah,
Wallace Deen Muhammad

(To be continued)
