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"Say: O Allah, Owner of the Kingdom, Thou givest the kingdom to whom Thou pleasest, and takest away the kingdom from whom Thou pleasest, and Thou exaltest whom Thou pleasest and abasest whom Thou pleasest. In Thine hand is the good. Surely, Thou art Possessor of power over all things."
�Holy Qur�an, Surah 3, verse 25

A particular woman of Amran is mentioned in the 34th verse of the 3rd Surah of the Holy Qur�an entitled: The Family of Amran. This woman gave birth to a female child who is named Mary. Mary�s genealogy as a descendent of Amran connects her to the priestly class, as a Sister of Aaron whose Father also bears the name Amran. In another tradition, Amran is also considered to be the name of Mary�s father. This makes Mary the Mother of Jesus and her Son the last Sign that precedes the birth of the Messiah Who comes at the end of the world that we have known. He comes as the Scriptures states as a Thief in the Night!

"Truly Allah chose Adam and Noah and the descendants of Abraham and the descendants of Amran above the nations, Offspring, one of the other. And Allah is Hearing, Knowing." Surah 3, verses 32-33. The further explanation of the word Imra�at or Amran is explained in the 412th footnote of the Holy Qur�an�s Translation by Maulana Muhammad Ali as meaning both a woman and also a wife. The significance of this study helps us to understand the genealogy of the Messiah who is in the world today.

The Genealogy of the Founder of the Nation of Islam in America is derived from two distinct family lines and peoples. The Mother�s people and ancestry is traced from among the Peoples of the Caucasus Mountains, whose lineage is of the Caucasian or White Race that may prove to be of Jewish descent. On his Father�s side, we trace a lineage that connects him to his Black Roots or Origin, which may be of Egyptian or Moorish Descent, with genealogical traces into Spanish Sahara and fabled places such as Timbuktu. One might ask upon what basis has my research led me into this conclusion and what might be the purpose of this discussion.

The theme of Saviours� Day was centered around the Celebration of Family. With this focus, I realized that there was very little discussion on the Family of the Founder of the Nation of Islam in America, Master W. Fard Muhammad. Studying upon the basis of what we were taught by the Honorable Elijah Muhammad about His Mother and His Father�s Names and their origins, one being of the White Race (the Mother), and the other being from the Original Black Nation, I have researched over the years the study of names and tribes in various parts of the world who have derived linguistic roots to their name origins. At another time in my articles, I will go more deeply into what has been revealed on this subject.

"The Family of Amran" is numbered as the third Surah in the arrangement of the Holy Qur�an. Working within the context of the Mathematical Theology of Islam, we have discovered that the number 3 is linked with the number of a cube. Twice 3 is 6 which produces a cubical surface. Three added to 6 gives us the number 9. In three trimesters, life is conceived and evolved in the mother�s womb in triple darkness or stages, and then we come forth from our Mothers� Wombs. Three squared is nine and cubed is 27. This number three manifests great and dynamic laws in the Universal Order of Things. It is precisely in the 9th Surah, the square of 3 in which the 19 based Mathematical Code of the Holy Qur�an is omitted. When the number 3 is cubed, we come to Surah 27 in which the "Missing Bismillah Statement reappears 19 Surahs later in verse 30.

The number 3 is the number of trial and it takes at least 3 to make the initial Family unit comprised of the Mother, the Father and the Child. So it is with Jesus, the central figure of the Gospels, he has both a Mother and a Father and a genealogy that is traced in the first Four Gospels to David and Solomon with ultimate links to Abraham, Noah and Adam and the descendants of Amran. Only in the case of Melchisadek, the High Priest of Jerusalem, first mentioned in the Book of Genesis, do we read of a strange genealogy which speaks of the Office of Priest that has neither father or mother but a perpetual priesthood that lives forever.

It is this Genealogy which comes the closest to describing the Reality of the Black Man�s Origin, which has no beginning or ending of days, and whose genealogy is linked to the Birth of the Great Wise Master, W. Fard Muhammad. The link between that of Israel and the White Race and that of the Original Black Nation, the Mothers and Fathers of Civilization gives us the Root Genealogies of both Peoples that united to give birth to the Great Mahdi of the Muslims and the Messiah of the Christians that the world has been looking for.

When the Honorable Minister Louis Farrakhan visited the Muslims of Russia, Siberia and Central Asia, we felt that we had come close to the hills in the Caucasus, while in Daghestan, where possibly the Mother of Master Fard Muhammad and her Family lived. We all wondered what it would be like to meet her and to dine with her family. Could she also fit the prototype of A Woman of Amran who gave birth to Mary who gave birth to Jesus who became known as the Messiah?

"And when the angels said: O Mary, surely Allah has chosen thee and purified thee and chosen thee above the women of the world. O Mary, be obedient to thy Lord and humble thyself and bow down with those who bow. This is of the tidings of things unseen which We reveal to thee. And thou wast not with them when they cast their pens (to decide) which of them should have Mary in his charge, and thou wast not with them when they contended one with another."