THE STAR & CRESCENTThe Online E-zine of the Nation of Islam London Study Group
Issue 26June 2017
THE NATION OF ISLAM LONDON STUDY GROUP
WISHES YOU
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RAMADAN MUBARAK2017
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In the name of AllahThe Beneficent, The Merciful……
As salaam alaikum – Peace be unto you!
Surah 2:183 – O you who believe, fasting is prescribedfor you, as it was prescribed for those before you, soyou may guard against evil.
Dear Reader
Welcome to the June 2017 issue (number 26) of the Star &Crescent E-zine.
Ramadan Mubarak! Every year, for 30 consecutive days,the Muslim community worldwide engage in fasting duringthe Holy month of Ramadan. During this time, Muslimsabstain from the consumption of food and drink duringdaylight hours.
There are several health benefits to be gained whenfasting. Fasting allows the digestive system to rest. Itenables the body to expel the digested poisons and toxinsthat have built up over time. Fasting helps the body torestore balance and repair itself internally. Fasting regularlybasis slows down the ageing process, and its the best andmost reliable way to lose excess pounds (or kilos) inweight.
Yes, you may experience some discomfort at first, as yourstomach growls impatiently at you. You may feel a bit lightheaded as your oxygen intake increases into your bloodsystem.
You may experience new feelings you never thought orknew you had. Fasting heightens the senses. Your sense ofsmell becomes more acute. When you stay the course,your mind and body will soon adapt. Its a good opportunityto examine the food you eat. Buy good quality food andavoid poor quality junk food and snacks. Fasting helps youto train your mind to take control of your stomach. Mindover matter. Its a good exercise in strengthening your selfdiscipline and building the will.
Fasting increases humility. We live in a world where food isabundant in certain places and scarce in others. Fastingkeeps you in touch with the poor and is a reminder that thefood we eat should not be taken for granted.
Fasting is an awesome challenge. The best way to fast isto have a positive attitude. When fasting becomeschallenging, and sometimes it does, call your Brother orSister who is also fasting, for some moral support.
Ramadan Mubarak!
ContentsMinister Louis Farrakhan on the Clifford Kelly Show ..................................................................................3
Fasting during the Holy Month of Ramadan........................8
Message to the Blackman by the Honourable Elijah Muhammad …...................................................................10
Black History 365..............................................................12
Money Mob Launch, Brixton, London................................13
What is Moringa?..............................................................16
Nation of Islam London Study Group meetings................20
What the Muslims want.....................................................20
What the Muslims believe.................................................21
Dianetics Wins!
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Minister Louis Farrakhan
Minister Louis Farrakhan on the Cliff Kelley Show
The following article contains edited excerpts of MinisterLouis Farrakhan’s 9 May 2017 interview on WVON1690AM Talk of Chicago radio with host Cliff Kelleyconducted at WVON studios in Chicago, Illinois.
Cliff Kelley (CK): This wonderful gentlemen, we love himso much, he is the Honourable Minister Louis Farrakhanwho is in our studio again. How are you Brother Minister?
Minister Louis Farrakhan (MLF): I am fine my dearbrother thanks to you for permitting me to be on your showtoday and thanks to all of your listeners. I’m very honouredto see you again. America has entered a great time oftrouble and so have we.
Minister Louis Farrakhan and Radio Host Clifford Kelly
Our time of trouble is because we have not paid good
attention to the Messenger of God that He raised among usto warn us of the days that we are now witnessing, dayswhen factories closed and long lines of persons looking fora job. He asked us to get up and do something forourselves before we were forced to do it. Unfortunately wedid not listen. Now we are being forced by circumstances todo something for ourselves because our depending onothers to do it for us will not work.
The violence that has been going on incessantly in ourcommunity, getting worse and worse by the day, when weare slaughtering ourselves in unprecedented numbers,filled with selfhatred for each other in a spirit of retaliationand revenge. You kill my dog, I’ll kill your cat, as thoughthere are no consequences for this behaviour, I havewarned us about for the last 3, nearly 4 decades telling ourpeople we’re going to have to pay a price for this.
General James “Mad Dog” Mattis
Mr Trump has brought into his cabinet General James“Mad Dog” Mattis, who is Secretary of Defence. Dogs areso lovely as creatures that many of us who have dogs, loveour dogs sometimes more than we love our familymembers. Because the dogs when we feed them andnurture them, they love us and they’ll never turn on us —but a “mad dog?” A “mad dog” is a dangerous creature.
And to think of sending such a man with such a reputationinto Chicago after he, President Trump, has said to ourmayor and the police department, “You all better get thisviolence thing straight or we’ll have to help you do it.” Andto help the mayor to do it, they’re intending to come andsearch homes for weapons and kill those who wouldadvance opposition, a slaughter.
The Honourable Elijah Muhammad said when the childrenof Israel rebelled against Moses and Aaron and did notwant to leave their slavemaster to build an independentnation of their own under the guidance of God, Godchastised them with fiery serpents and cockatrices. TheHonourable Elijah Muhammad asked me one day, “do youknow what it means fiery serpents?” I said, “No sir.” Hesaid, “It means angry white people.”
White people are getting more and more angry every day,and as I said on this same wonderful program before, MrTrump was elected that the mask of civility — like an onionpeeling — is being peeled off. Now naked hatred, not onlyin word but in deed, is being openly shown to us. Brothersand Sisters they will come in to chastise us. But since we
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are no longer forsaken, and are the people of God, God willanswer whatever they do of evil to us. I’m warning thegovernment and I am warning General Mattis, and all thosewho would kill us outside of the law of justice, that the Godof justice will pay you back in full.
CK: Thank you Brother Minister, very strong openingstatement. You’ve pointed out obviously one of our majorproblems with this person who is now recognized as ourpresident. But not only do we have a major problem there,we have a problem with the state, we have a problem withthe city. I’m talking about our people all across the board.
We have a situation now we don’t have a budget in thestate of Illinois. We don’t even know relative to the citywhether our children are going to be able to go back toschool when they’re supposed to or whether they’re goingto have to leave early because of a lack of money. I readthis great paper, you probably heard of it — The Final Call.We have these problems nationally, statewide and the city.Where do you want to start?
MLF: I’ll start with the reality. If we’re having problemsnationally, we’re having problems on the state level andthen on the local level, what message is that sending toBlack people who are not supposed to be intelligent but thegrassroots understand? What that means in this time, as inthe time of Moses, it means buckle on your boots andshoes and let’s get the hell out of here. As the boys said inthe movie, “it’s time to get out.”
CK: In the interim what do we do relative to before thathappens we’ve got a lot of people of all ages MinisterFarrakhan, Black Lives Matter, it’s been a great groupmillennials getting involved as they should. Younger peopleon social media has been good and bad, good as far asorganizing. But it’s also, I think you would agree, it’s beenbad relative to gang warfare. What do we do in the interimbecause the Nation has trained so many people to do somuch good for so many others, including the Nation itself.And we look towards the Nation — many of us do of course— to give us some hope as to what we can do now, do forself. What do we do?
MLF: The greatest gift of God to us today is right guidance.The enemy has money that he can throw at problems butthe problems never get solved because we’re violating thegood guidance and warning that God sent to us through theHonourable Elijah Muhammad. So now what do we do?You mentioned earlier we don’t know whether we’ll be ableto go to school because of budgetary constraints, thatmight not be bad because the schools are not doinganything of value for our children in the first place.
Jesus said you can tell a tree by the fruit it bears and if theeducational system of white America is good for us, whereis the fruit from that system that says so? We don’t producejobs for ourselves. We’ve been here 462 years undertyranny and oppression. Where are our factories thatproduce the clothes we wear, the shoes we wear? Whereare our farms that produce the food that we eat? Where arewe producing jobs for our jobless people like other peopleare doing?
The Chinese are not looking for a place at the white man’stable. You don’t see the Chinese picketing because theydon’t have a seat at a table. They make their own table.You go to Chinatown you see any Black people down thereselling egg foo young? No. It’s the Chinese in the Blackcommunity, it’s the Koreans in the Black community, it’s thePalestinians in the Black community. It’s the Indians fromthe subcontinent of India in the Black community. Everyrefugee finds his American dream on the backs of thenightmare of Black suffering in America.
I don’t have anything to say about what they don’t have, abudget that’s not true, that’s a lie. They won’t give younothing because in their minds you don’t deserve nothing.If the schools close, the hell with that. Every church shouldbe a school. And then we should take over the schools inour own community that they closed down.
Open them up and then make the government give us ourtax dollars that we pay for an education that we don’treceive. Give us back our tax dollars that we pay for policewho do not serve nor protect. Then maybe we can educateour people, make them a better people and make ourcommunity a more decent and safe place to live.
It’s time to unite all of these little tribes that we have thatseem to have joy in the little crumb that we get from thisplace or that place or this grant and that grant. So you canrob the grant giver and not give to the people they give youthe money to help. No. Let’s stop all of this foolishness andcome together as a people or we will deserve thechastisement of God that is about to come down.
Especially on the rich and the professional welleducatedBlack person who could make a way in the desert for ourpeople, but you’re so tied to your slavemasters and theirchildren. You don’t want to leave them nor do you want tolead your people into doing something for self. We’re at theend of it now. I don’t know whether I’ll ever be back on thisgreat show again but in the meantime you better prepareyour behind for the butt kicking that God intends to give.
Salaam Restaurant, Chicago
CK: When I grew up here in Chicago midsouth way, wehad all kinds of Blackowned businesses, peoplesupporting each other. I was just telling the guest we had
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earlier it was so odd. I got a call today because I wasspeaking of the fact that one of the worst things thathappened to us has been integration. When I grew up therewas nothing but Black businesses. Then all of a suddenpeople understood — “oh white folks will take our moneytoo.” And a lot of the Black businesses closed.
A gentlemen called me as I was saying this, MinisterFarrakhan, and said, “listen I am looking into a beauty shopthere are 5 Black women in there and there is not oneBlack person who is serving them.” One of my favouriterestaurants I used to love it — Salaam at 83rd Street andCottage Grove Avenue. I would go in there and this issomething that I’ll never forget. The Brothers were just sogreat and the food was excellent.
MLF: Segregation was ugly but we made something goodout of something ugly. Since we were not welcome in otherplaces run by white people, we were forced bycircumstances to let our dollars circulate in our owncommunities. We had the convenience stores. We had thesupermarkets. We had bus stations and all the things thatwhite folks had we had our own.
Most of the people after “emancipation” moved to theNorth; so Chicago is one of those great cities that it’s reallyup SouthNorth because most of the people that came herecame from Arkansas, Louisiana, Alabama, Mississippi,Georgia and other places South. When they came here itwas segregated. They knew wherever they settled they hadto do something for themselves. When you were young andI was young, there was a plethora of Black businesses.
But when white folks said, “yes, come and spend yourmoney with us,” we ran downtown when we could onlypass through downtown. Now downtown has our money.We used to have an allBlack baseball team, all Black starsand when white folks took Jackie Robinson and broughthim into the major league that was the beginning of thecrushing of Black baseball teams and leagues.
Jackie Robinson
Here we are now several decades up from that. Where arethe Black businesses? They’re not here. The Koreans arehere, the Chinese are here, the Arabs are here, the Indiansare here. Everybody that wants to make a dollar is makinga dollar on our lack of thought to do something for
ourselves that was not present in that older generation thatcame from the South.
The trade schools closed, so young Black men don’t knowhow to build a house, or put a roof on a house or buildcabinets anymore. We used to go to school to learn how tomake ourselves useful in the trades. Then a man by thename of Samuel Gompers, a Jewish fellow, broughttradespeople from Eastern Europe, unions started and keptus out.
Samuel Gompers
We’re having a problem on the national level, on the statelevel and on the local level because it’s telling us that thewhite man doesn’t want you anymore. You have no placein his house anymore except to be a little flunky around thedoor.
When you get enough of that and that foot gets in yourbehind, will you get up and do what God wants you to do?And what does God want us to do? As He did with thechildren of Israel in Egypt — He wanted the children ofIsrael to separate into a state or territory of our own. You’regoing to have to decide. Some of you want to stay — stay.
Some of you want to be white — be white! But we want tobe ourselves, we want something that we can pass on toour children other than a cheap job and a hustle sellingdrugs and pimping our women. We are tired of what theenemy has made of us and now we must begin to makesomething of ourselves.
We don’t need a lot of time. What we need is the unitynecessary to cut time short. See you’re powerless andthat’s why it takes a lot of time. Because I’m over heredoing my thing, you’re over there doing your thing.Somebody down the street doing their thing but our thingshould be one thing and that is the liberation of our peopletotally. We can’t do that as long as we’re divided andenvious of one another. We’re like little stupid children, likea dog around the foot of a master. He keeps kicking youaway and you keep coming back for more.
No, we don’t need a lot of time. We need to recognise whatElijah Muhammad said, listen to his words. “We are anation in a nation.” Why not use these 22 million (at that
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time) 50 million people’s power for their eternal salvationinstead of temporary enjoyment with the same wickedpeople who murder our people?
Let us build our own political machine. You’ve been in theDemocratic Party, you got nothing. We were Republicansat one time, at least, we had a fake declaration ofemancipation. No, if you and I unite with that man, and thatman is Elijah Muhammad, the MessengerMessiah, withthe help of Allah he said, I will get you what you want and Iknow what you want for I am your brother.
Think about this. If we’re united, I wouldn’t care about awhite school board getting me a little something. The hellwith the school board, that’s the white supremacy boardand the white supremacy board wants you reading stupidbooks rooted in the idea of white supremacy. I don’t want athing to do with white supremacy. I want to deal with thetruth and a proper education that will not allow us to beeducated and then come out and beg another man for a jobwhen you should be creating a job for yourself.
If you understand that we are, have become, a nation in anation, 50 million people. You have nations now in theUnited Nations with 70,000 people. You’ve got nations inthe UN with 12,000 to 14,000 to 20,000 to 30,000 people.We’re a nation and the one thing that we don’t have is landthat we can call our own.
We don’t want to integrate with these people. We’re tired ofbeing with them. We want to be with ourselves in a land ofour own under the guidance of God. Brothers and Sistersyou are going to get the worst chastisement that you haveever received from God because good guidance has cometo you and you have thrown it aside for what? To get acrumb at your master’s table, to be accepted by yourmaster, to open the door for your master and beg yourmaster to open the door for you?
CK: Brother Minister, I just want to say everybody wouldsay, “hey, he’s right how do we achieve this?”
MLF: First thing we have to do is recognise the time. We’reat the end of the time of the white world to dominate Blackpeople and Original People all over the planet. Can’t yousee it? Can’t you see that the God of justice is whipping thehell out of America with the storms, with floods, with hell,with hurricanes, with tornadoes? Can’t you see that thingsare happening? The clouds of war are gathering. Trump isthe right man in the right place in the White House for whitepeople at the time of the end of their power to rule over us.He’s going to bring it on.
I say, “go ’head Mr Trump bring it on” because this is thewar to end all wars. No warmonger will live after this onejumps off. And the people that I’m looking at, they’re nolonger afraid of the big bad wolf. So you can bring yourMother Of All Bombs.
You can bring everything you think you got to fight againstGod and the Original People of our planet but you will losemiserably. You better go back and read your Bible andread your Holy Qur’an because Satan can’t exist after thiswar. The devils will not exist after this and if you exist you’ll
exist by God’s permission. Take it or let it alone.
CK: I was talking about that there was this questionnaireand Americans are thinking about the unthinkable.Unbelievable numbers of people are thinking about WorldWar III. Is that anything that you are bringing about?
MLF: Oh I can’t bring it about. I don’t have that juice.Before the Honourable Elijah Muhammad departed fromus, we sat at his table. He ran down what is about to godown. That is war. And he said, America, look you shoulddo everything you can to hold off this war because everyday that you hold it off is a day good for you. But if you rushahead like you’re doing right now — why are you botheringwith North Korean leader Kim Jong Un? “Well he hasatomic nuclear weapons he trying to get.” You (America)have them, don’t you?
Kim Jong UnSupreme Leader of the Democratic
People's Republic of Korea (North Korea)
All your white buddies that have been giving hell to Blackpeople all over the earth, don’t they have them too? Didn’tyou help South Africa get nuclear weapons? What did yougive it to South Africa for? You know there’s a time comingthat you’re going to want to use them. Use them againstwho? The rise of the Black man all over the planet.
But you’ll never stop our rise. We have something for you.I’m not joking — I don’t play with this. You have no powertoday to stop God from dealing with you the way theprophets said he would. I’m only representing my teacher,a Warner from God. You can take it or let it alone. But I willspeak the truth I don’t give a skip who doesn’t like itbecause I’m not trying to be your friend. I’m trying to warnyou, that I may be the friend of God.
CK: How can we prevent this?
MLF: You can’t. You can’t prevent World War III. You don’thave any juice. In fact, World War III will free you. Yourtime has come. If I never speak again on any radio or ifGod silences me tonight I would have told you the truth andI will go to my grave knowing that I and my teacher will bethe winner in the end. Every knee is going to bow andevery tongue is going to bear witness that there is no Godbut Allah and Muhammad is His Messenger. Take it or let italone.
CK: We are continuing with our guest the Minister LouisFarrakhan and we are just so pleased to have him here. Hehas been giving us a lot of information. I’m going to take acall.
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CALLER DARCELLE: I just want to bring to your attentiona couple of concerns and if you can clear up the air for me.I do see Muslim Tweets out there on Facebook and inSocial Media. One, that you’re planning to or you’ve beeninvited to meet with the current occupant in the WhiteHouse. I didn’t know if that was actual fact or alternativefact.
MLF: First, I don’t know anything about an invitation tospeak with Mr Trump. I do know that in the Holy Qur’an, aswell as in the Bible, God gives a directive both to Mosesand Aaron. And he says to the both of them, “Go you bothto Pharaoh. I have given you both an authority.”
And if you notice the way I speak, I don’t speak likesomebody that doesn’t have authority to say what I’msaying. You don’t need to send people to talk to Mr Trumpwho don’t know what time it is.
But if there should come a time that I would talk to themodern Pharaoh, I know exactly what to ask for and I’m notasking for Negro tidbits. I’m asking for what God wants.Land of our own and a good send off after we’ve given you400 years of our sweat, blood and tears and received inreturn some of the worst treatment ever afforded to ahuman being.
CK: Sister Darcelle also asked you about Trump. You’reaware that Omarosa would like to meet.
Ms Omarosa Manigault
MLF: Yes, I am. I am so proud of that sister, Omarosa. Letme say this about Ms Omarosa Manigault of the Trumpadministration. Sometimes you may not like the door,maybe the knob is a little funny or maybe the door is notmade of the material that you would like to go through.
But when God gives you a door, if you want access, you gothrough that door. People didn’t like Jesus. Oh, they had allkind of reasons to hate him but Jesus said, “I am the door.Any man who enters must come by me. If you don’t comeby me,” he said, “you’re a thief and a robber.”
Well, if Ms Omarosa is the door to Trump, well I kind of likethat door. That’s a pretty door. That’s an intelligent door.That’s a spiritually rooted door. So whenever Mr. Trump isready to hear what I have to say, he must know that when Ispeak I’m not just speaking for Louis Farrakhan and a few
Negroes. You have to know who I represent.
I represent God, Allah, who came in the Person of MasterFard Muhammad, the Great Mahdi. And I represent hisMessengerMessiah, the Honourable Elijah Muhammad. Idon’t need to say anymore. Just who I represent should letyou know that you are going to have to hear from mesooner or later.
Source: http://www.finalcall.com Pictures: http://www.finalcall.com http://www.independent.co.uk/
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Fasting during the HolyMonth of Ramadan
During Lent and the Holy Month of Ramadan, Christiansand Muslims are regularly required to perform fasting inobservance of their faith. Lent lasts for a period of 40 daysand nights (approximately 6 weeks) prior to Easter inrecognition for the time that Prophet Jesus spent in thewilderness in preparation of his ministry.
According to their faith, Christians are required to give upsomething they enjoy, add something of value to their livesthat will bring them closer to Allah (God), and often givetime and money spent doing that towards a charitablepurpose or organisation.
During the Holy Month of Ramadan, for 30 days, aftersunrise and before sunset, Muslims are required to refrainfrom eating food and drinking water. The fast is intended tobe an act of prayer and deep personal worship in whichMuslims seek a raised level of closeness to Allah (God).
Fasting is said to redirect the heart away from worldlyactivities. its purpose being to cleanse the inner soul andfree it from harm. Properly observing the fast is supposedto induce a feeling of peace and calm.
It also allows Muslims to practice self-discipline, patience,sacrifice, as well as sympathy for those who are lessfortunate, intending to make Muslims more generous andcharitable.
Why fast? What does it feel like to fast? Do you have thewill power to deny yourself eating food, even if it is only forone day? Can your mind and body endure a fast? How willfasting affect me if I am unwell or on a special diet?
Over time, poisons and toxins build up in the body as aresult of the air pollutants we breathe, the chemicals whichhave been added to our food and water, and by other
means. Periodically, the body seeks to rid itself of thesetoxins and release them from the body's tissues. The toxinsenter the bloodstream causing the body to experience a'low' or 'down' cycle. During such a cycle, we mayexperience headaches, diarrhoea or depression.
Fasting is a safe, natural and effective method in helpingthe body to detoxify itself and move through this low cyclewith greater speed and fewer symptoms. In fact, fasting isrecommended for any illness as it gives the body the rest itneeds to recover.
Acute illnesses, colon disorders, allergies and respiratorydiseases are most responsive to fasting, while chronicdegenerative diseases are least responsive. By relievingthe body of the work of digesting foods, fasting permits thebody's systems to rid themselves of toxins while facilitatinghealing.
But fasting is helpful not just in times of poor health orduring the body's low cycles. By fasting regularly, you giveall your internal organs a rest, you reverse the ageingprocess and you live a longer and healthier life.
During a fast the following happens:
• The natural process of toxin excretion continues,while the influx of new toxins is reduced. Thisresults in a reduction of total body toxicity;
• The energy normally used for digestion isredirected to immune functions, cellular growthand eliminatory processes;
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• The immune system workload is greatly reduced,and the digestive tract is spared any inflammationdue to allergic reactions to food;
• Due to the lowering of serum fats that thin theblood, tissue oxygenation is increased and whiteblood cells are moved around the circulatorysystem more efficiently;
• Fat stored chemicals, such as pesticides andpharmaceutical drugs, are released; and
• Physical awareness and sensitivity to diet andsurroundings are increased.
Due to these effects, a fast can help you heal with greaterspeed, cleanse the liver, kidneys and colon, purify theblood, help you lose excess weight and water, flush outtoxins, clear the eyes and tongue and cleanse the breath.
Depending on the length of the fast, it can accomplishdifferent things. For example, a 3 day fast helps to rid thebody of toxins and cleanses the blood. A 5 day fast beginsthe process of healing and rebuilding the immune system.A 10 day fast can take care of many problems before theyarise and help fight off illnesses, including degenerativediseases that are so common in our chemically pollutedenvironment.
Certain precautions should be taken during a fast. First, donot fast on water alone. An all water fast releases toxinsfrom the body too quickly, causing headaches and worse.Instead, follow a live juice diet as this both removes toxinsand promotes healing by supplying the body with vitamins,minerals and enzymes.
Such a fast is also more likely to lead to a continuedhealthy diet once the fast is over as it will accustom you tothe taste of raw vegetables and the vitality that this dietpromotes.
Second, whenever you fast for more than 3 days, do sounder the supervision of a qualified health careprofessional. If you have diabetes, hypoglycaemia or otherchronic health problems, even short fasts should besupervised by a doctor. Pregnant and lactating womenshould never fast.
Finally, it has taken several years to wear your body downand it will take time to build it back up to its peak condition,but only if you believe that it can be done. Then wheneveryou start to feel unwell, fast and feel better.
The Holy month of Ramadan is the 9th lunarmonth in the Islamic calendar.
Source: Nutritional Healing Magazine (not dated).Pictures: http://www.bbc.co.uk http://www.darrenhibbs.com http://chemistry.about.com
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Message to the Blackman
Accept your ownAmerica has been number one on the list of God for totaldestruction for a long time; even in the prophecy of Moses,Isaac, Habakkuk and Jesus. Her (America's) destructionhas been coming gradually for the past 34 years.
The nations of the earth are becoming her enemiesbecause of her evils and the murders of the socalledAmerican Negroes, who now could choose to build thekingdom of heaven. There is no let up in her evil, brutalityand murder of her once slaves (the Negro) who are still herslaves mentally. She would not like you to know that thedoom is because of the way she treated her slaves. Shehas deceived everyone who deals with her, as recorded inthe Revelation of john prophesied, the head of the church(the Pope of rome) helping her deceive the Negroes andkeep them in the church so they may be destroyed withher.
The only thing that will hold the Negro is his belief in whitesas a people of divinity. They hold to this religion(Christianity), which they use to deceive everyone theypossibly can. It was through Christianity that they got theirauthority over the Black, Brown, Yellow and Red races.
The holding of the white man's name is another chain thatcarries the Negro down with his enemies. It is laughableand saddening to see the socalled Negro preachersreading and preaching from the bible while they do notunderstand it. Negro professionals, scholars and scientistsare still ignorant of the fact that as long as they are in thewhite man's name, they are his slaves.
In every nation, as soon as he presents himself in thename of the white man of America or Europe, they knowthat he is dumb to the fact that he cannot be free until hebreaks his slavemaster's hold on him – his name, hisreligion, his way of living and his evil practices. These mustbe given up before any nation or even God can help oreven aid the Negro in becoming a free people recognisedby other nations.
Proof has been offered in the name of the presentheavyweight champion of the world, Muhammad Ali. It is a
divine name – both Muhammad and Ali are the names ofGod. Quickly the nations of his kind held out their handsand called to him. Christian Black preachers have neverbeen so recognised because of their ignorance in holdingthe name and religion of their slavemaster.
Muhammad Ali
The Revelation of John in the Bible (The Revelatorrepresents them spiritually as beasts because of theirsavage way of dealing with and murdering Black people)and even Isaiah warn you who hold to the white man'snames and religion.
This is your America. We have proven this to you, not yourslavemaster, that you will get respect and honourthroughout the world if you accept your own and take onthe names of the divine supreme being. It is in your Bible,and now it has been made manifest to you.
Watch how anxious the white man is to hold you and callyou by his name. He would still like to call the Champion,Cassius Clay, after himself, and he would like to call mePoole, after himself. This is to keep the blind, blind; thedeaf, deaf and the dumb, dumb to the knowledge that eventhe name alone is sufficient to free you of this evil people.
I have offered America a solution to her problems with herslaves. But because she knows that you are dumb enoughnot to want to accept it, she is condemning herself to anearly doom by rejecting it. The only way out is to separatethe two people despite the foolish Negroes' cry that theylove white people and want to remain with them.
The time has arrived. The only way to put off for a fewmore years the total destruction America is to deal fairlywith the Negro. But, nevertheless, one day it will come,unless she would like to return to Europe instead ofsending the Negro back to Africa.
The whole Western hemisphere belongs to the darkerpeople, and Europe was given to the white people. Youranger against the Negro getting a just deal has hastenedyour doom. America will suffer some of the worst calamitieswithin the next year or two – calamities worse than anynation has endured since man has been on the earth – thatis, if she does not make the right move.
Square up with justice for the slave, and do not try todeceive him through intermarrying your women. Give him
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up and let him go, or suffer death and destruction.
We must teach our ownToday with all of our white civilised schooling, we have notbeen taught of our own. They will never teach us of ourown.
Since the coming of Allah, their reason for not teaching usof our own is made crystal clear. The knowledge that Allahhas given us gives the knowledge of our own. Being thefirst people on the earth, we are destined to be the last; weare the creators and the makers. This limited civilisation ofthe white man and his rule is now terminating, never to bebrought into existence again. This makes it absolutelyagainst the will of the white man to honour and respect youand me and our Nation as being the first people and themakers of the universe.
Why so much teaching and warning given to the Americansocalled Negro and so little or no teaching of the kindbeing given to the African and Asian Black Nation? It is dueto the fact that we are living in the midst of a people whomAllah (God) will destroy in the very near future. We are onthe brink of fire and must be removed to a zone of safety.
The ignoring of such warnings and of the time of theJudgment of this world (the Caucasian world with theirgreat universal power that they have exercised over theBlack Nation) makes it very hard for the average Blackperson to conceive of the idea of such a strong race ofpeople being removed. This is a very small thing in theeyes and power of Allah, removing and destroying peoplewho have brought His anger against them for their neglectof worship and respect of Him as the Supreme Being, whodo not even respect His representatives but prosecute andkill them.
These people have been the worst people to us (the BlackNation) since they have been on the face of the earth. Theywere created and made for just the purpose of destroyingour peace as well as our lives. They have destroyed 600million of the Black Nation since they have been on ourplanet. This averages 100 million every thousand years oftheir rule. They have affected ninetenths of the totalpopulation of the Black man under their rule, including thebrown, red and yellow races. They have deceived as thebible (Revelation of John) says – the whole world, and nowthey are being made manifest as the deceivers andadversaries of Allah and His true religion of entiresubmission to His will (Islam).
This Black people of America, who have been swallowedsymbolically by the white slavemaster and his children,must now be brought out of this race of people and betaught the knowledge of their own. Allah is holding theaffair in person under the name of Master FardMuhammad. He has chosen us today to be his people andmeans to take us and build and establish forever a peoplewith unlimited knowledge of the Divine Supreme Being.The very last of one of these will become greater than thegreatest of this world.
The Orthodox Muslims will have to bow to the choice ofAllah. Allah will bring about a new Islam. As for thePrinciples of Belief, they remain the same. There will be nomore signs to be watched for the coming of God andsetting up of a new world of Islam. We are seeing thischange now and entering into it. The devils oppose thischange, and the Orthodox join them in opposing usbecause of their desire to carry on the old way of Islam.
Allah will place those in authority in the making of the newworld, and others must obey whomever He puts in authorityor find themselves fighting against the power of whomeverthey hold to be on their side and in their favour. We musthave a new world. We accept for a new nation completely.
As Yacub brought about a people (the present white race)who were a completely new people made out of the originalof us, another new people must be made to be the rulingvoice of tomorrow out of this old world that is now living herlast days. They will be completely new people. The HolyQur'an and bible refer to them as being brought about bythe power and will of God in Person in the resurrection ofthe mentally dead, lostfound original people in America.We may not seem to please you or to be pleasing to Allah,but it is written in the Bible that He will give to whom Hepleases and chastise whom He pleases.
This is to warn us that we have no choice in the matter.Whatever Allah desires, He will bring into being, whetherwe like it or not.
From Message to the Blackman in America by theHonourable Elijah Muhammad
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Black History 3651 June 1968 – Henry Lewis is the first Black musicaldirector of an American Symphony Orchestra the NewJersey Symphony.
2 June 1971 Samuel L Gravely Jr is the first BlackAmerican admiral in the US Navy.
3 June 1890 – L H Jones patents corn harvester.
4 June 1972 – Angela Davis acquitted of all murder andconspiracy charges.
5 June 1987 – Dr Mea Jemison is the first Black womanastronaut.
6 June 1831 First annual "People of Colour" conventionheld in Philadelphia.
Kwame Ture
6 June 1966 – Kwame Ture launches the 'Black Power'movement.
7 June 1917 – Poet Gwendolyn Brooks, first BlackAmerican to win the Pulitzer Prize (Poetry 1950), born.
8 June 1863 – John Archer UK's first Black Mayor inLondon (for Battersea), born.
8 June 1953 Supreme Court ruling bans discrimination inWashington DC restaurants.
9 June 1995 Lincoln J Ragsdale, pioneer fighter pilot ofWorld War II, dies.
10 June 1854 – James Augustine Healy, first BlackAmerican Roman Catholic Bishop ordained.
10 June 1898 – Hattie McDaniel, the first Black Actor towin an Oscar for Best Supporting Actress in Gone With TheWind 1940, born.
10 June 1960 – Maxi Priest, singer and musician, born.
11 June 1912 Joseph H Dickson patents player piano.
Medgar W Evers
12 June 1963 Medgar W Evers, civil rights leader,assassinated in Jackson, Mississippi.
13 June 1967 – Thurgood Marshall nominated to the USSupreme Court by President Lyndon Johnson.
14 June 1864 Congress rules that Black Americansoldiers must receive equal pay.
15 June 1969 – Ice Cube, actor, born.
16 June 1822 – Denmark Vesey leads rebellion inCharleston, South Carolina.
16 June 1970 – A Gibson elected mayor of Newark, NewJersey, first Black American mayor of a major eastern UScity.
16 June 1976 – Sharpeville massacre in South Africa. 69murdered, hundreds injured when Black school childrenprotested (against the forced use of European languages inclasses), were shot down by racist Europeans.
17 June 1775 – Minuteman Peter Salem fights in the Battleof Bunker Hill.
Venus Williams
17 June 1980 – Venus Williams, tennis champion, born.
18 June 1863 – The 54th Massachusetts Coloured Infantryattacks attacks Fort Wagner, South Carolina in the US CivilWar.
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19 June 1865 Black people in Texas are notified of Emancipation Proclamation, issued in 1863. "Juneteenth” marks the event.
20 June 1894 – Dr Lloyd A Hall, pioneer in food chemistry, born.
20 June 1953 Albert W Dent of Dillard Universality elected president of the US National Health Council.
21 June 1945 – Colonel Benjamin O Davis Jr is the first Black American to command a US Army Air Corps base.
22 June 1897 William Barry patents the postmarking and cancelling machine.
22 June 1937 – Joe Louis defeats James J Braddock and is the heavyweight boxing champion of the world.
Wilma Rudolph
23 June 1940 – Sprinter Wilma Rudolph, winner of 3 gold medals at the 1960 Summer Olympics, born.
24 June 1964 – Carl T Rowan appointed the Director of theUnited States Information Agency.
25 June 1941 Franklin D Roosevelt issues executive order establishing Fair Employment Practice Commission.
26 June 1975 Samuel Blanton Rosser is the first Black American certified in paediatric surgery.
27 June 1991 Supreme Court Justice Thurgood Marshall retires.
28 June 1864 Fugitive slave laws repealed by Congress.
29 June 1886 – Photographer James Van Der Zee born.
29 June 1963 – Errol Christie, boxer, born.
30 June 1921 Charles S Gilping awarded Springarm Medal for his performance in Eugene O'Neill Emperor Jones.
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Money Mob LaunchBrixton, London
6 May 2017
On Saturday 6 May, members of the Black Communityconverged on the Karibou Centre, Brixton, London tosupport the launch of Money Mob.
Founded by Brother Paul Muhammad in 2016, in the spaceof one year, Money Mob has mobilised thousands of Blackpeople throughout London, the UK and beyond to supportBlack owned business.
A local Black owned business is targeted, a date is set andBlack people, armed with their Black pound, will literallymob the business spending their money (usually aminimum of £10) with that business on the day.
Money Mob have organised visits to Black owned grocershops, supermarkets, restaurants, fruit and vegetablemarket stalls, restaurants and hair salons. Money Mob hashelped to put several Black businesses on the map andpermanently in the minds of Black consumers, locally andthroughout the city of London.
It has attracted more and more interest from Blackconsumers. It has fired up the imagination and galvanisedlocal Black people into action to keep and preserve aphysical Black business presence on the high street.
Money Mob is also educating the community. Business iswarfare. In raising overall awareness, Black ownedbusiness and consumers are increasingly mindful that ourenemies on the High Street are flooding the market withsimilar brands, undercutting prices and usurping wellknown established Black products in an attempt to divertthe Black pound away from the Black owned business andinto the pockets of others.
Sister Celestine Muhammad modelling the new Money Mob t-shirt range
Money Mob recognises that there is much work to do.There has to be training in customer service. People inbusiness need to know that when you look after yourcustomers, they will come back with more people tosupport you.
Money Mob continues to raise awareness, winning thehearts and minds of our people. It is imperative that Blackpeople make the right consumer choices, that they buy thebest quality products that are available to them, and to stayaway from products that are hazardous to human health.
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Contributors to the Money Mob launch were as follows:
Sister Juney Muhammad
Sister Juney Muhammad, introduced the Money Moblaunch and spoke on how important it is for Black ownedbusiness to exercise and regularly use good customerservice. When giving good customer service to yourcustomers and your workforce, the business will be moresuccessful than businesses who do not use it in their day today operations. Your workers will work for the businessinstead of against it. Also imperative for the survival of thebusiness is to honour the word you give to others.
Sharon McClean addressed the meeting and spoke abouthow best to use your gifts and talents in your business. Youmay have good presentation skills, or you may be a goodproblem solver, or you may possess good organisationalskills which could be put to use to help a business growand function more efficiently.
Beverley Walker, an accountant talked about how it wasimportant to take a business from one level to the next.When a business grows, how do you address businessexpansion? What if you need to take on more staff, or morevolume and product as well as developing your supplychain?
Sharon Thomas, business solicitor, stressed theimportance of honouring deals and contracts. Contracts arelegally binding documents. A contract can save yourbusiness and no contract can break your business.
Brother Paul Muhammad and Sister Sandra of Xsandy Hair and Beauty
Sandra of Xsandys Hair and Beauty talked about Businessis Warfare. Her story inspired Brother Paul Muhammad intoaction to set up Money Mob. Sandra told the meeting thatthe warfare against her business is still ongoing. Her Asianrivals sent people into her shops to spy on her business.They went away to their own business and deliberately
adjust their prices so as to undercut her prices. The onlyway to overcome this is to buy in bulk so as to keep streetprices competitive.
Xsandys Hair and Beauty have two shops both in SouthLondon at Lewisham Shopping Centre MolesworthStreet, London SE13 7HB and 161 Rye Lane, Peckham,London SE15 4TL.
Brother Andrew Muhammad, The Investigator, gave ahistorical perspective. Black people are commercial peopleby nature. Our children need to know what our ancestorsaccomplished. He referred to Mansa Musa the world'srichest man ever to live on the planet earth and also toBlack Wall Street in Tulsa, Oklahoma, USA.
Brother Andrew also emphasised how it is important that ifyour business is going to survive, it must be managed andmaintained constantly. You must be very careful who youare going to trust and most important of all, always have aback up plan in case things go wrong and you can engagePlan B.
Brother Paul Muhammad and Sister Maxine ofThe Caribbean Shopping Centre
Also present was Sister Maxine of the CaribbeanShopping Centre, 383 London Road, West CroydonCR0 3PB. This is a Black owned supermarket that we allneed to support regularly. Sister Maxine thanked theMoney Mob for their support and putting the supermarket
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on the map. Today, Sister Maxine and her family businessis starting to flourish and prosper.
Traders stalls on the ground floor
On the ground floor, there was a traders market. It was anopportunity for vendors to sell Black owned products toconsumers and for businesses to network with each other.
The Nation of Islam London Study Group table
The Nation of Islam London Study Group were present,selling books by the Honourable Elijah Muhammd, CD'sand DVD's featuring Minister Louis Farrakhan, t-shirts andmagnesium bath salts.
Justice or Else T-shirts London style
Also on sale was Muhammad's Bean Pies and thedelicious Bean Soup.
In the future, Money Mob are looking to develop a supplychain of produce sourcing food directly from the Caribbeanto the UK to your local Black owned grocer/greengrocer.
Also Money Mob are looking at developing businessnetworks among Black owned businesses to encouragegreater co-operation between Black business.
Sister Maxine and Brother Bari selling the world famous Muhammad's bean soup and bean pies
Money Mob are also looking at developing a supply chainwhere produce (fruit and vegetables) is sourced from theCaribbean, imported into the UK and is available to buy inBlack owned shops.
The launch was a huge success. However, there is muchwork to do. We must keep the black pound circulatingwithin the Black Community. We must continue to raise theawareness of Black economics if we are to survive. Wemust become a nation of producers.
If you know of a Black owned business who needs to havetheir profile raised, who needs support from the blackcommunity, you can call on the Money Mob.
Look out for Money Mob. Coming soon to your local neighbourhood.
Pictures by Ibrahim Muhammad
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What is Moringa?The Moringa Tree
– A solution to malnutrition
Moringa trees
Moringa Oleifera is a small, fast-growing tree found in alltropical regions. Moringa tree leaves are among the world’srichest vegetables. Moringa tree is a plant food of highnutritional value, ecologically and economically beneficialand readily available in the countries hardest hit by the foodcrisis.
The Moringa tree has been identified as the vegetable withthe highest nutritional value among many types of foodspecies studied. Easy to cultivate and resistant to drought,the Moringa tree produces abundant leaves with highconcentrations of proteins, vitamins, and minerals: 100 gmsof fresh Moringa tree leaves provide the same amount ofprotein as an egg, as much iron as a steak, as muchVitamin C as an orange, and as much calcium as a glass ofmilk.
Moringa growing regions
The Moringa tree grows throughout the developing worldand has already been used by programmes to reduce childmalnutrition in India and parts of the African continent. TheMoringa tree's dried leaves, can be easily preserved andused.
Eating 30 gms of Moringa tree leaf powder a day, a childcan satisfy all his/her daily requirement of Vitamin A, 80%of daily calcium needs, 60% of daily iron needs, and nearly40% of protein needs.
Given the world food crisis, the use of local resources like
the Moringa tree is critical to reduce the dependence ofdeveloping countries on imported goods, and improvenutrition among poor households. Two or three Moringatrees in a courtyard are sufficient for the needs of onefamily.
Moringa the Miracle TreeOften referred to as the "miracle tree" because of itsuniquely diverse array of nutritional, medicinal, andpurifying properties, Moringa Oleifera is a "superfood"treasure with incredible potential to greatly improve healthand eliminate hunger around the world.
The Moringa tree contains high amounts of protein, all 8essential amino acids, a full spectrum of vitamins andminerals, and a large quantity of phyto-nutrients and otherpowerful disease-fighting antioxidants.
Because of its many valuable uses, and the fact that itgrows so quickly and easily in semi-arid, tropical, andsubtropical climates, the Moringa tree is quickly becominga go-to plant for combating malnutrition, treatinginflammation, promoting healthy blood flow, and preventinginfection, among other things.
Moringa leaves
What is particularly unique about the Moringa tree is thatevery part of the plant, including its bark, leaves, flowers,and roots serves a unique purpose in promoting humanhealth. Rich in amino acids – the leaves of the moringa treecontain 18 amino acids, 8 of which are essential aminoacids, making them a "complete" protein - a rarity in theplant world.
Moringa flower
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Indeed, the Moringa tree protein content rivals that of meat,making it an excellent source of protein for vegetarians andvegans. Protein is needed to build muscle, cartilage,bones, skin and blood and also needed to produceenzymes and hormones.
The Moringa tree calcium and magnesium – One serving ofMoringa tree leaves provides us with approximately 125%of our Reference Daily Intake (RDI) of calcium and 61% ofour RDI of magnesium.
Moringa leaves and powder
These two trace minerals work in synergy; while calcium isneeded to build strong bones and teeth, we also needmagnesium to help us to absorb it. Since Moringa containsgenerous quantities of both, it is especially good atguarding us from osteoporosis and other bone conditions.
Moringa Oleifera tree
The Moringa tree nourishes the skin - due to their tracemineral content, dried and powdered Moringa leaves aregreat for nourishing the skin. Indeed, more and morecosmetic companies are starting to include Moringa treeextracts in their products for this reason. Moringa treecreams and lotions can be applied topically on the desiredareas, thus allowing the nutrients to soak into, andrejuvenate the skin.
Dried Moringa leaf powder
Regularly consuming Moringa tree leaves has also beenlinked to lower blood pressure, improved digestion andmood, immune-boosting effects and, thanks to their highfibre levels and low fat and calorie levels, weight loss.
The Moringa green tree superfoods revolution
The Moringa tree leaf is a nutritionally rich, ecological,economical vegetable available in practically all countrieswith malnutrition issues.
Moringa pods also known as 'drumsticks'
The Moringa tree is known worldwide for its nutritional andmedicinal benefits and industrial uses. Almost every part ofthe Moringa tree has nutritional value. The Moringa treepod is cooked as a vegetable in India and exported tomany countries, fresh or canned.
Moringa root
The Moringa tree root can be used as a substitute forhorseradish. Moringa tree foliage is eaten as greens,boiled, fried, in soups or for seasoning. Dried Moringa treeleaf powder can be added to any kind of meal as anutritional supplement. The Moringa tree seed can beroasted and eaten like a peanut.
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Moringa seeds
Moringa tree leaves are an inexpensive source of proteins,vitamins and minerals for developing countries. Dried andmilled, Moringa tree leaves are easily stored and used byfamilies who can then add the powder to their daily meals.
The Moringa powder can also be used by food businessesto enrich their products in nutrients. Moringa tree leavescan help decrease developing countries’ dependence onimported goods, such as vitamin and mineral complexesthat ward off nutritional deficiency, but are too expensive tobe used in a sustainable way.
The Moringa tree, a powerhouse of nutrition
“Much of the problem with nutrition is not the quantity offood but the quality of food. You need about 40 differentnutrients to be healthy.” Ideally, good nutrition is assured bya varied diet rich in meat, root, grain, fruit and vegetablefoods.
“If you have a poor diet it makes you less able to resistdisease, so the diseases come more frequently and theylast longer. And when you get over your diarrhoea orrespiratory chest infection or your coughing or cold, if youare on a poor diet you don’t have the convalescence soyou don’t regain the weight you have lost. So you stutterfrom infection to infection.”
Micro-nutrient deficiencies are now recognized as animportant contributor to the global burden of disease.
Source: http://moringathemiraclecure.weebly.com
Uses of Moringa
Moringa Leaves• Rubbed against the temple, they can relieve
headaches. • To stop bleeding from a shallow cut, apply a
poultice of fresh leaves. • Contains anti-bacterial and anti- inflammatory
properties when applied to wounds and insectbites.
• Extracts can be used against bacterial or fungalskin complaints.
• Leaf tea treats gastric ulcers and diarrhoea. • Eating moringa food products is good for those
suffering from malnutrition due to high protein andfibre content.
• Use the leaves to treat fevers, bronchitis, eye andear infections, inflammation of the mucusmembrane.
• The iron content is high. Used in the Philippinesas a prescription for anaemia.
• Dried Moringa leaves are used to treat diarrhoeain Malawi.
• The powder ground from seeds is used in thetreatment of scurvy skin disease.
Moringa flower• Flower juice improves the quality and flow of
mother's milk when she is breast feeding.• Flower juice is useful for urinary problems as it
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encourages urination.• In Haiti, villagers boil Moringa flowers in water and
drink it as tea as a powerful cold remedy.
Moringa pods• When eaten raw, the pods act as a de-wormer
and treat liver and spleen problems, and pain inthe joints.
• High protein and fibre content helps in treatingmalnutrition and diarrhoea.
Moringa seeds• Used for their anti-biotic and anti-inflammatory
properties to treat arthritis, rheumatism gout,sexually transmitted diseases and boils.
• The seeds are roasted, pounded, mixed withcoconut oil and applied to the problem area.
• Moringa seed oil can be used for the sameailments.
• Roasted seeds and oil can encourage urination.• They can be used as a relaxant for epilepsy.• Moringa seeds are effective against skin infecting
bacteria staphylococcus aureus andpseudomonas aeruginosa.
• They contain the potent antibiotic and fungicideterygosperim.
Moringa root, bark and gum.The roots and bark have all the above properties but are more concentrated therefore much more care should be taken if you are using them as medicine.
The roots and bark are used for cardiac and circulatory problems, as a tonic and for inflammation;
• In Senegal and India, roots are pounded andmixed with salt to make a poultice for treatingrheumatism and articular pains. In Senegal, thispoultice is used to relieve lower back or kidneypain.
• The alkaloid spirachin (a nerve paralysant) hasbeen found in the roots
• The gum is a diuretic, astringent and absorifacientand used against asthma.
Moringa has been used for:Tired blood (anaemia), Arthritis, Joint pain (rheumatism),Asthma, Cancer, Constipation, Diabetes, Diarrhoea,Epilepsy, Stomach pain, Stomach and intestinal ulcers,Intestinal spasms, Headache, Heart problems, High bloodpressure, kidney stones, fluid retention, thyroid disorders,bacterial, fungal, viral and parasitic infections.
Moringa is used to:reduce swelling, increase the sex drive (aphrodisiac), boostthe immune system and increase breast milk production.
Moringa when applied directly to the skin acts as a germkiller or drying agent (astringent), treatment for pockets ofinfections (abscesses), athlete's foot, dandruff, gumdisease (gingivitis), snakebites, warts and wounds.
Other uses of Moringa includes the cleansing ofundrinkable water.
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Nation of IslamLondon Study Group (LSG) meetings
Every week Brothers and Sisters of the Nation of Islammeet and engage in a course of study prepared by MinisterLouis Farrakhan called 'Self Improvement – The Basisfor Community Development.'
Brothers and Sisters are invited to join our family at ourregular weekly meetings, held at the following venue:
68 Tottenham Court RoadLondon W1T 2EZ
Every Friday from 8 pm to 9.45 pm.Every Sunday from 11 am to 1 pm (from 4 June 2017).
Underground: Goodge Street, Northern LineBuses: 14, 24, 29, 73, 134 and 390.
Email: [email protected] Website: www.londonstudygroup19.org YouTube channel: London Study Group
http:// bfsg. org.uk
The Honourable Elijah Muhammad
What the Muslims want 1. We want freedom. We want a full and completefreedom.
2. We want justice. Equal justice under the law. We wantjustice applied equally to all, regardless of creed or class orcolour.
3. We want equality of opportunity. We want equalmembership in society with the best in civilized society.
4. We want our people in America whose parents orgrandparents were descendants from slaves, to be allowedto establish a separate state or territory of their own–eitheron this continent or elsewhere. We believe that our formerslave masters are obligated to provide such land and thatthe area must be fertile and minerally rich. We believe thatour former slave masters are obligated to maintain andsupply our needs in this separate territory for the next 20 to25 years – until we are able to produce and supply our ownneeds. Since we cannot get along with them in peace andequality, after giving them 400 years of our sweat andblood and receiving in return some of the worst treatmenthuman beings have ever experienced, we believe ourcontributions to this land and the suffering forced upon usby white America, justifies our demand for completeseparation in a state or territory of our own.
5. We want freedom for all Believers of Islam now held infederal prisons. We want freedom for all Black men andwomen now under death sentence in innumerable prisonsin the North as well as the South. We want every Blackman and woman to have the freedom to accept or rejectbeing separated from the slave master’s children andestablish a land of their own. We know that the above planfor the solution of the Black and white conflict is the bestand only answer to the problem between two people.
6. We want an immediate end to the police brutality andmob attacks against the so-called Negro throughout theUnited States. We believe that the Federal governmentshould intercede to see that Black men and women tried inwhite courts receive justice in accordance with the laws ofthe land–or allow us to build a new nation for ourselves,dedicated to justice, freedom and liberty.
7. As long as we are not allowed to establish a state orterritory of our own, we demand not only equal justiceunder the laws of the United States, but equal employment
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opportunities–NOW! We do not believe that after 400 yearsof free or nearly free labour, sweat and blood, which hashelped America become rich and powerful, so manythousands of Black people should have to subsist on reliefor charity or live in poor houses.
8. We want the government of the United States to exemptour people from ALL taxation as long as we are deprived ofequal justice under the laws of the land.
9. We want equal education–but separate schools up to 16for boys and 18 for girls on the condition that the girls besent to women’s colleges and universities. We want allBlack children educated, taught and trained by their ownteachers. Under such schooling system we believe we willmake a better nation of people. The United Statesgovernment should provide, free, all necessary text booksand equipment, schools and college buildings. The Muslimteachers shall be left free to teach and train their people inthe way of righteousness, decency and self respect.
10. We believe that intermarriage or race mixing should beprohibited. We want the religion of Islam taught withouthindrance or suppression.
Master W Fard Muhammad
What The Muslims Believe1. WE BELIEVE In the One God whose proper Name isAllah.
2. WE BELIEVE in the Holy Qur’an and in the Scriptures ofall the Prophets of God.
3. WE BELIEVE in the truth of the Bible, but we believethat it has been tampered with and must be reinterpretedso that mankind will not be snared by the falsehoods thathave been added to it.
4. WE BELIEVE in Allah’s Prophets and the Scriptures theybrought to the people.
5. WE BELIEVE in the the resurrection of the dead–not inphysical resurrection–but in mental resurrection. Webelieve that the so-called Negroes are most in need ofmental resurrection; therefore they will be resurrected first.Furthermore, we believe we are the people of God’schoice, as it has been written, that God would choose therejected and the despised. We can find no other personsfitting this description in these last days more that the so-
called Negroes in America. We believe in the resurrectionof the righteous.
6. WE BELIEVE in the judgment; we believe this firstjudgment will take place as God revealed, in America…
7. WE BELIEVE this is the time in history for the separationof the so-called Negroes and the so-called whiteAmericans. We believe the Black man should be freed inname as well as in fact. By this we mean that he should befreed from the names imposed upon him by his formerslave masters. Names which identified him as being theslave master’s slave. We believe that if we are free indeed,we should go in our own people’s names–the Black peopleof the Earth.
8. WE BELIEVE in justice for all, whether in God or not; webelieve as others, that we are due equal justice as humanbeings. We believe in equality–as a nation–of equals. Wedo not believe that we are equal with our slave masters inthe status of “freed slaves.” We recognize and respectAmerican citizens as independent peoples and we respecttheir laws which govern this nation.
9. WE BELIEVE that the offer of integration is hypocriticaland is made by those who are trying to deceive the Blackpeoples into believing that their 400-year-old open enemiesof freedom, justice and equality are, all of a sudden, their“friends.” Furthermore, we believe that such deception isintended to prevent Black people from realizing that thetime in history has arrived for the separation from thewhites of this nation. If the white people are truthful abouttheir professed friendship toward the so-called Negro, theycan prove it by dividing up America with their slaves. We donot believe that America will ever be able to furnish enoughjobs for her own millions of unemployed, in addition to jobsfor the 20,000,000 black people as well.
10. WE BELIEVE that we who declare ourselves to berighteous Muslims, should not participate in wars whichtake the lives of humans. We do not believe this nationshould force us to take part in such wars, for we havenothing to gain from it unless America agrees to give us thenecessary territory wherein we may have something to fightfor.
11. WE BELIEVE our women should be respected andprotected as the women of other nationalities are respectedand protected.
12. WE BELIEVE that Allah (God) appeared in the Personof Master W Fard Muhammad, July, 1930; the long-awaited“Messiah” of the Christians and the “Mahdi” of the Muslims.We believe further and lastly that Allah is God and besidesHIM there is no god and He will bring about a universalgovernment of peace wherein we all can live in peacetogether. Source: http://www.noi.org
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