MJ's Youth Voice: March 2, 2007

Ira “ENIGMA” Davis
QUESTION
Should there be a reinstitution of the F.O.I and M.G.T. or similar groups to combat some of the problems facing Muslim youth?
RESPONSE

Bro. Enigma,

As-Salaam Alaikum. I applaud your spirit. I see your enigma. You are a young Muslim with courage and conviction. I pray that Allah makes your way very easy. Your bold forthright thinking and fearless approach to truth is refreshing and vital to the growth of Al-Islam amongst the Negroes in America. We have many Christian Negroes and many Muslim Negroes in America. A Negro is a mind and a thought pattern. That mind accepts that it is second class to the Arab in the case of our brothers and sisters trying to follow Eastern cultures to the exclusion of our own. That mind accepts that White Christian values are to be embraced to the exclusion of our own value systems. That mind also accepts that Thomas Jefferson had a Quran and gets excited over that. Thomas Jefferson does not validate the Quran. The Quran was in the hands of many tyrants, slave dealers and racist Devils. Black and White! The Klu Klux Klan as well. The deceivers have always sought after the wisdom to enslave others. The reason that they put the Quran behind their backs was because Islam frees the human soul. It does not enslave it. They could not find anything in the Quran to justify making a slave. Having said that, the honorable Elijah Muhammad X’ed us out of all that inferior thinking. We gave it all back to the slave dealers, Arab, Caucasian and others who sought to subjugate and enslave our minds. The F.O.I. and the M.G.T. were the greatest organizational vehicles to free the Negro and to make the Black Man think for himself. The first teaching was “Be yourself and yourself is a righteous Muslim.” He did not say a righteous Arab or a righteous Christian. The Arab has his way and the Christian has his way and they both should be left alone to peacefully follow their way. The independent Nation of Islam frightened the hell out of Christian America and the Arab influences over Islam. They both subliminally joined forces to validate the teachings of the honorable Elijah Muhammad and the Nation of Islam. So we have an Enigma, people caught between the Devil and the Deep Blue Sea. The Deep Blue Sea is the deep spiritual truth of the soul seeking after Allah and his own place in this corrupt society of confused, hypocritical, religiosity. What is spiritual and what is religious very often clash unconsciously. Keep your mind open and your spirit free, my brother. Only Allah, the divine guidance of the Holy Quran and the life example of Muhammad the Prophet to whom the Quran was revealed are obligatory to you the Muslim. Everything else is by choice. There is no obligation in Islam but to “believe in Allah and then after be upright”. Allah will then guide you to the ‘Salaatul Mustaqueem’, the straight and narrow way. Whether one believes that Jesus the Christ is Lord or Fard Muhammad is God Allah, or only Jews are going to heaven is a personal choice. Allah will straighten out that religious mess on the Day of Judgment. But what is obligatory on every human being is to treat everyone with freedom, justice and equity or fairness. Human rights supersede religious rights. As we search for balance and empowerment as human beings let us embrace the truth of all matters religious and otherwise. A Muslim is one who is obedient to truth ‘Allah’. In answer to the question should the F.O.I. and M.G.T. be re-installed, absolutely and definitely yes and I daresay that if it is not, then the Negro will always be alive as a second class thinker and the Black Man will never be born in America. The teachings of the Nation of Islam of the time of Elijah Muhammad are past. The new free and independent thinking of truth in the light of the Holy Quran and the life of Muhammad the Prophet must replace the old way and the logical mind of thinking a thing through to its logical conclusion must take precedent over blind faith. Faith must be based in light or truth not in darkness or falsehood. Press on my brother, may Allah bless you with much light and courage.

Salaams,

Your brother in truth and faith

Allah-U-Akbar
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