Rebuilding
The Family
Part
II
What
are Allah's (God's)
Thoughts and His Ways?
by Minister Louis Farrakhan
In The Name of Allah,
The Beneficent, The Merciful.
"For
my thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways my ways,
saith the Lord. For as heavens are higher than the earth, so are
my ways higher than your ways, and my thoughts than your
thoughts." Isaiah Chapter 55, Verses 8-9
These words being addressed to the people of
Allah (God) manifest how far off the mark the people are from that
which Allah (God) intended the human being to be. In the Qur�an,
Yusuf Ali translation, the 113th Sura, Verses 1-2 reads, "Say:
I seek refuge with the Lord of the Dawn, from the mischief of
created things."
This teaches us that natural things created by
Allah (God) are used by Satan to create mischief. The male and the
female are far beneath Allah�s (God�s) intentions for us. The
institution of marriage and the resultant family are far beneath
what Allah�s (God�s) intentions are for us. As hell is beneath
heaven, and, Satan is beneath Allah (God), this being the world of
Satan, these scriptures are teaching us that Satan has been and is
the director of the lives of most human beings, and, has taken the
natural order and creation of Allah (God) and has made mischief
with Allah�s (God�s) creation. Therefore, we are far beneath
the high thought and purpose of our creation; and our marriages,
for the most part, represent hell. Therefore, our communities and
nations universally have a hellish existence.
What are Allah�s (God�s) thoughts and ways
for human beings, for the institution of marriage, and, for the
development of family? His thoughts and His ways are found in the
nature of what He created. Let us then look into the Bible
and Qur�an to find Allah�s (God�s) purpose for the male and
the female and His purpose for marriage, and His purpose for
family.
In the Bible we are taught that Allah (God)
made man and woman in His Image and after His Likeness. This tells
us that both male and female are created by Allah (God) to
manifest His Divine Characteristics in their pursuit of life and
in their relationship with each other and in their relationship
with other human beings. We are the exact opposite.
Allah (God) says in the Bible that He created
the human being to have dominion over the fish of the sea, and
over the fowl of the air, and over every living thing that moveth
upon the earth. In the Qur�an Allah (God) states that He created
man to stand in His place. This means that He created the human
being to rule the earth and even the heavens, but, to rule in the
way that He set up His creation to be ruled. Our fall, by sin and
the resultant spiritual death of the human being, causes us to be
in a state so far from what our purpose is that both man and woman
are nothing more than a caricature of themselves. The Bible
teaches that Allah (God) gave the man instructions to multiply,
replenish and subdue the earth. This teaches us that the human
being by nature is to be productive. In the very nature of the
human being is the potential to subdue the earth. This means that
we have the potential to bring the earth completely under our
power by mastering the laws under which the earth and all therein
are created. Adam was told to dress the garden.
Dress:
To trim; ornament, or adorn. To prepare for use. To cultivate.
This word dress implies that Allah (God)
intended for man to adorn, beautify, prepare and cultivate the
earth for his use. This tells us that we have to master the
sciences that would allow us to dress the garden or cultivate the
earth and prepare it in such a way that it would be a heaven for
ourselves. Education must teach us to master the sciences. If
education does not prepare the human being to do what Allah (God)
intended for us to do, then, it is not the proper education for
us. This improper education is called training�training us to
fit into a world order that is controlled and dominated by Satan,
the enemy of Allah (God). The more the human being has grown into
the knowledge of the sciences, the more we have been able to
cultivate the earth, develop it, and mine out of it what is in it
that it may serve our purpose. However, because of sin and our
disconnection from the source of our existence, we have developed
knowledge of the sciences for evil as well as for good, but, the
evil of the human being now threatens the existence of the human
family. The suffering of the human being�the poverty, ignorance,
neglect and disease of the human family�bears witness that we
are indeed a long, long way from what Allah (God) desires for us.
According to the Bible, Allah (God) did
not desire the man to be alone. Therefore, He created from
a single essence the man and the woman, but, He created the woman
for the man. The word that is used in the Bible is help meet.
The female, according to the Bible, is created by Allah (God) to
help the man meet the obligation that Allah (God) has put within
the nature of the male. The Qur�an teaches us that Allah (God)
created the woman as the consoler of the man. This teaches us that
in the very nature of the female is her ability, desire and
will to console.
Console:
To alleviate or lessen the grief, sorrow, or disappointment
of; give solace or comfort; cheer up.
Allah (God) teaches us in the Qur�an that He
created the woman that the man might find peace and quiet of
mind in her. The very nature of the female offers to the
man that which enables the man to find that natural relief of the
stress or the pain involved in the struggle of man to obey Allah�s
(God�s) instructions.
The Qur�an teaches that Allah (God) created
the male a degree above the female.
Degree:
A stage in a scale of rank or station.
This teaches us that Allah (God) intended for
the man to be in authority over the female. This is why He created
him a degree above the female. Satan has created so much mischief
with the nature of the male and the female that there is a
prophecy in the Bible that says, "The younger shall
rule the elder and the weaker shall rule the stronger ... women
shall rule over them."
The Black female in today�s society literally
is several degrees above the male. She is manifesting superiority
in education and in the work force. Whereas the Black male for the
most part is unemployed, most of our educated females are working
and generally making more money than the male, and, in many
instances is providing for the man that lives with her. So, we can
say that Satan has reversed the roles that Allah (God) intended
for the Black man and woman demonstrated in our relationship to
each other. Black male and female relationships are at an all time
low. The Black female can hardly find her equal in the Black male
to form a successful marriage and partnership. Therefore, the
Black female may be more attracted to the white male and the male
members of other races because of the inferior condition of the
Black male.
The Black woman is completely frustrated and
hurt by the lack of development in the Black male. We can reverse
this trend only if the Black man can be reflective of the
characteristics of Allah (God) by submitting to Allah (God) that
He may guide the Black man to being himself. When the Black man is
himself, reflecting the characteristics of Allah (God), the soul
of the female will be satisfied, then, she can be as Allah (God)
created her to be, man�s consoler; and, man will find peace and
quiet of mind in her, for, the Honorable Elijah Muhammad said to
us, "The only heaven for man is found in the
woman."
Thank you for reading these few words.
More next week, Allah (God) willing. |