Atonement and true citizenship

To atone and attain perfect union with Allah (God) is to know the self and the source of the self, as well as to think correctly in relationship to the source and the self. It is also to will oneself to be man.

The will to be man leads one to be a citizen. A citizen is a man who exists in conjunction to other men for the purpose which Allah (God) created all men. This is the will to self-governance and social governance.

Therefore, atonement carried out to its logical conclusion creates man the citizen.

Man the citizen is a state of being that calls for a definite action: the doing of something. Man the citizen is the activity of God�s commandment to be; therefore, he does something.

What is this something? Man the citizen must be responsible. In order to be responsible, man the citizen must be husband and married. Man the male citizen must be in domestic conjunction with the female citizen. In order for a female citizen to be responsible, she must be wife and married.

It is male man-citizen-husband-married in conjunction with female woman-citizen-wife-married that gives birth to the institutions of marriage and government.

Marriage is the science of facilitating all private institutional matters.

Government is the science of facilitating all public institutional matters.

When male man-citizen-husband-married maintains integrity with female-citizen-wife-married, they give birth to marriage and government.

Marriage and government subsequently give birth to industry and business.

It is business that gives rise to the need for scientific education.

The call for the atonement of the family on October 16, 2000, is the call for authentic marriage.

An authentic marriage is a marriage that facilitates all private institutional matters, while serving as the motor to the government and scientifically educating children.

We were called to atone as individuals on October 16, 1995. We are now being called to atone as families on October 16, 2000.

Without the individual atonement and the family atonement, no improvement, development, or expansion of the Black community can occur.

The completion of self-atonement gives to one a psychological and theological language. The completion of the family atonement will give a sociological and constitutional language.

Without a theological language, definition cannot be formulated. Without a psychological language, peaceful, harmonious relationships are not possible.

And, of course, without a sociological and constitutional language, social errors cannot be corrected and social policies cannot be established that fulfill needs and bring about justice.

It is my prayer that those of us who hear the Honorable Minister Louis Farrakhan�s call will not be foolish as were the people in Noah�s day. The people heard the call and kept doing all the things they had previously done, which ultimately led to their total destruction.

However, in Jonah�s day, the people heard the call, gave heed to the call, and averted disaster.

The call was loud and clear five years ago, "Come brothers, let us go before our God (Allah) and atone for our sins, and let us go out into our communities and nation and serve Allah (God) and the people."

Today the call is even louder and clearer, "Come families, let us go before our God (Allah) and atone for our sins. Then let us go out and build character, institutions, community, industries, businesses and a new nation based on truth and our new relationship with Allah (God)."