You are a Black man that doesn�t have any value.
So, when they want to move you, they move you. When they want to
kill you, they kill you. When they want to beat you, they beat you.
When they want to raise you, they raise you, but always it is when
they want to, and, it is only after you press and press that they
give in.
It is like a baby growing in the womb. The mother
may not want to give an inch but the baby may twist and kick its
foot, and, if it kicks a nerve, the mother�s legs may go out from
under her. She didn�t mean to lose her balance, but, it is that
which is in her moving that is messing up her balance. So it is with
you today. You are moving inside the womb of America. You are not
yet free, but, your movement is causing trouble inside the womb,
inside the nation. The White man is feeling the movement of
the Black man because life is now coming into you and it is only a
matter of time before we will all be free.
You may wonder, why are you Black? Are you Black
because you are cursed? Some of you have awakened and looked in the
mirror at your Black face, your hair, your lips and you wondered to
yourself, "Why couldn�t I have come into the world White? Why did
I have to be Black?"
The Bible says, "In the beginning." It
does not tell you when that beginning was, but it is letting you
know there was a beginning. "In the beginning God created the
heavens and the earth. And the earth was without form and void, and
darkness was upon the face of the deep." So darkness preceded
light. Now let us take a look into this "darkness."
The Honorable Elijah Muhammad said that, "The
darkness that we see now is not real. When the night comes you are
in the dark, but it is not real darkness." How do you know?
Because when the light comes, the darkness goes. Where did it go? It
vanished. Why? Because it wasn�t real in the beginning. The thing
that is real is what produced the darkness.
If you go outside and let the sun strike you, if
you are facing east the sun striking your body will send a shadow
toward the west. When you look at the shadow you see this dark
thing following you, but, that which is following you is not real.
What is real is you. What is real is the sun, and, as the sun
strikes you and you block that sun, you produce what is called
darkness or a shadow.
When one side of the earth is in the light of the
sun, the other side is in the shadow of the Earth. When you are in
the shadow of the Earth, you call that night, but, the darkness is
not real; it is produced by the motion of the Earth in relationship
to the sun. What kind of darkness was that when there was no sun,
when there was no moon, when there was no star? That is the darkness
that is beyond the diameter of sunlight.
At the wall of the universe where light does not
go beyond it, there is darkness. That darkness is not a shadow. That
darkness is real. When scientists talk about a black hole, they are
not talking about some unreal shadow. They are talking about real
darkness, and, real darkness contains a power.
There is a power out there that is always
bringing new objects into view. Stars are dying and stars are being
born. That power that is out there is bringing new objects out of
darkness that is real into light. The darkness of the womb is not a
shadow; that is real darkness. The Holy Qur�an calls it "triple
darkness." It is layers of darkness, but, in that darkness is
the power to create life. In that darkness there is the germ of
light. That is why any Believer in Allah (God), no matter how dark
the day seems, no matter how dark the trouble is that you think you
are in, yet, in that darkness there is light, and, there is life if
you hold on and do not let the darkness overtake you until your mind
becomes as dark as the darkness that envelops you.
The power of darkness is that it can create you
after itself. For example, sometimes we get in a bad spirit. We may
liken it to darkness. A gloom comes over the mind because of a
thought that we are thinking, real or imagined, and, then that
thought begins to reflect itself in our skin. It begins to reflect
itself in our posture�our shoulders begin to droop, we do not feel
good. What happened? A thought that is in your brain is remaking you
according to the darkness of that thought. So, you become as dark
and as gloomy as what is in your mind.
So, it is with the real darkness that was in
existence before there was light.
The Honorable Elijah Muhammad said to us that,
"An atom sparkled in the darkness and God began to create Himself
out of the material of the darkness." The Honorable Elijah
Muhammad is telling us that matter was there but the matter was
doing nothing. It had no form, aim or purpose until an atom sparkled
in the darkness.
Look at you, Black man and woman. Allah (God)
said you are created in His image and after His likeness. How did
you start? From a tiny life germ, the one that impregnated the egg
that you cannot see with the naked eye, that is how infinitesimally
small that sperm was. That is how infinitesimally small the egg was,
but, that sperm with a little tail and a head had some intelligence
in it because it knew where it wanted to go and it knew what it
wanted to do.
In the dark that sperm found the egg and the
first cell of life began in darkness, but, the cell had a light of
itself�electricity inside the cell, a neutron, a proton and an
electron. The cell of life was like an atom. The light of itself
caused it to start rotating around the light of itself and it began
breaking down and building up.
We do not know how long it took for brains to
form in the darkness, but, the first thing that forms when a baby is
conceived in the womb is not the tail. The first thing that forms is
the head. It is the head that calls the arms into existence, the
feet into existence, and, the organs into existence.
When you didn�t even have thought, before you
could think there was an intelligence working in you that is the
Light of Allah (God), the Power of Allah (God). Even before the
growth of intelligence in the darkness, we were being fashioned out
of a tiny life germ�sperm mixed with ovum. We were called into
existence by what was in that tiny sperm, the head of it, and, at
the end of nine months, we came forth knowing nothing, but, with a
capacity to learn everything.
So, when the Holy Qur�an, in Surah 112, says,
"He neither begets nor is He begotten." The first God was the
Originator of Himself. He was not begotten. The One that comes in
the end does not beget. He does not need a son from His loins. He
produces a nation from the wisdom of His mouth. He fashioned Himself
out of darkness. We learn how environment can influence heredity;
therefore, we must be careful what environment we put ourselves in
because no matter what is in you of good, if you are in the wrong
environment, that environment can affect the good that is in you and
turn you into itself.
Who is the Original Man? Are you Black because
you are cursed or are you Black because you took your color out of
the darkness out of which the First Life came? Since we agree that
environment influences heredity, if the real darkness before there
was sunlight had matter in it that was real, how then could the God
make Himself up in darkness and come out white? If He made Himself
up out of darkness and the darkness covered Him, then, the God who
originated the heavens and the earth is a Black God. This is what
the Honorable Elijah Muhammad taught us. The question that has to be
asked, is this a made up teaching or is this Divine Revelation?
More next week, Allah (God) willing.
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and I are a people that walk in darkness. We are without form, and,
we have been made void. Anything that is voided has no value. You
throw it away.