In Search of the Messiah
Who is the Original Man? Part III
by Mother Tynetta Muhammad

"Say: O people, I am only a plain warner to you.  So those who believe and do good, for them is forgiveness and an honorable sustenance.  And those who strive to oppose Our messages, they are the inmates of the flaming fire."
--Holy Qur'an Surah 22, Verses 49-51

The first several weeks of September have proven to be most impacting in the global perspective of world events. Of all the issues that have surfaced with the greatest intensity, whether in the field of religious, political, social, educational, health, ecology and other scientific arenas of controversy, among all nations and peoples have been the evils of racism and discrimination and its affects on human development. Until we can go to the root of understanding this number one problem that is destroying humanity, we may soon be eradicated as a species having lost the rights to be counted among the human family of the planet earth.

The Divine Teachings of the Honorable Elijah Muhammad go to the root of the problem of racism, which originates in Satan�s scheme to use color to divide the human family, one from another. It has appeared throughout history that only when the white or lighter colored of a race or people enter into the mix of the original family that we begin to experience traumatic problems of racism and discrimination. Racism is a disease and a methodology used by Satan to accomplish the dominant rule as God�s adversary over the people. Satan has fostered and cultivated an attitude of racial superiority while charging others who are the victims with the same. With the appearance of the Caucasian or White Race out of Europe and the Caucasus Mountains and their expansion East and West on our Planet, the testimony of their encounter with the Original people in all lands is the same, from mischief-making, to wholesale slaughter, destruction, bloodshed and death, making color the major badge of superiority by their separatist behavior dividing one group from another.

Returning to the Biblical story of Genesis, in helping us to find some of the answers, we discover in the word Genesis, "gene" in the first part and the name "isis" or "sis," all beginning in this mystical Garden of Eden. Throughout all ancient history, it is the woman who knows the secret of the genealogical tree of the law of inheritance and the genetic mapping of the line of descent of the seed. This is why the most ancient of world cultures and civilizations venerate mother. Thus the rise and development of the matriarchal system was created to keep a record of the generations of the birthrights of the rulers in the order of descent.

Could we conceive that Satan�s approach to the woman in the Garden of Eden was to subdue her as a vehicle through whom he could reckon his own line of descent? The last 6,000 years of world history have witnessed the emergence of the patriarchal system in the course of world development, while the woman gradually came under the rule of the male, being subject to her husband. When in the original Edenic order, she was equal to the man as the second self of God. According to Genesis, chapter 3, Verse 16, we read: "unto the woman he said, I will greatly multiply thy sorrow and thy conception; in sorrow thou shall bring forth children; and thy desire shall be to thy husband, and he shall rule over thee."

Having raised these provocative questions in terms of male and female relationships and family life in general, let us turn our attention to some of the key events that have marked the first several weeks of September, particularly with a focus on the weekend beginning Sept. 1 (Friday) through a sequence of days ending on Sept. 12. The first weekend of September we witnessed the 25th anniversary of the work of Imam W. Deen Mohammed with his community outreach as American Muslims. Within the precise timing of those days and that event, we also witnessed one of the largest gatherings of foreign Muslims under the organization of I.S.N.A., the Islamic Society of North America, drawing participants numbering from 35,000 to nearly 40,000 people at the Rosemont Convention Center near Chicago�s O�Hare Airport.

Following a grueling overseas journey to Africa, within a day of his return, the Honorable Minister Louis Farrakhan made his appearance and greeted the Imam and those gathered at the U.I.C Pavilion and addressed an enthusiastic crowd of well-wishers. Shortly thereafter, during the next several days of the following week, there were assembled more than 100 heads of state at the United Nations Millennium Celebration. Once again, Minister Farrakhan was received by many of these important dignitaries, including President Khatami of Iran.

We will note that throughout these proceedings that a call was made from the United Nations by its Secretary General, Kofi Annan, to the White House to discuss in concert with these world leaders the number one global problem that is affecting all relationships worldwide�which is racial diversity and racism. It is unfortunate that world leaders reject the study dealing with these issues that gives us the spiritual answers coming from religious leaders. In the forefront of this controversy is heard the voice of Elijah and his Divinely Appointed Representative, Minister Farrakhan, crying in the wilderness beckoning for a respectful dialogue between spiritual and world leaders who are suffering for the lack of this knowledge that has now been revealed.

Biblical Truths and the Qur�an�s Revelation are being overlooked and viewed as non-productive in giving answers and solutions to this problem by world leaders, and politicians and civic leaders because the glaring truth and evidence therein is threatening to the present world order of chaos and confusion manipulated by Satan�s fraudulent scheme.

Returning to the Garden of Eden in the Book of Genesis, Satan�s approach to the woman was to initiate the process of inbreeding into the human family with his own genealogical tree, producing offspring that would become open disputants to God�s Divine Law. In every story of the Book of Genesis in relationship to family and inheritance there surfaces the struggle of the younger, who forces his rule over the elder through acts of deception or fraud, lying and stealing until the seed of life is generated through the priestly line of descent to a certain woman named Mary, who gives birth to a righteous seed from a righteous branch and said figure becomes the Messiah that the world has been looking for.

As we near the end of September we will have passed the date of Sept. 17, the anniversary date that marked 15 years since Min. Farrakhan first experienced his Vision and contact with the Honorable Elijah Muhammad on the Great Mother�s Wheel. As we approach the Million Family March on Oct. 16, the Spirit of God is moving among the people from all nations, religions, creeds, races, and people to exalt the Name of God, Who in reality is making this Great Call to the entire Human Family of the Planet Earth to gather on that day in Washington, D.C., on the Mall. To God be the Praise and the Glory!

"The kingdom on that day is Allah�s. He will judge between them. So those who believe and do good will be in Gardens of bliss. And those who disbelieve and reject Our messages, for them is an abasing chastisement." 
--Holy Qur�an, Surah 22, Verses 56 and 57