"And We granted abiding forever to no mortal
before thee. If thou diest, will they abide? Every soul must taste of
death. And We test you by evil and good by way of trial. And to Us you
are returned."�Holy Qur�an, Surah 21, Verses 34-35
As the old year goes out and the New Year comes in, we can truly
say that America and its citizens and the global community of nations
with all our diverse societies and peoples the world over have changed
forever. On the 25th of December, corresponding to the Christian
world�s celebration of Christmas, a tragic conclusion to the lives of
two brave souls terminated in a fatal plane crash a half mile
from the beach of San Onofre in the coastal waters of San Diego in the
mid part of the afternoon.
The young pilot, alone, barely escaped with his life, being emersed
in the cold, murky waters of the Pacific. He was courageously
rescued by police helicopter officers and a U.S. Coast Guard team, a
nearby lifeguard, and a surfer from Pasadena.
The mother of the young surviving pilot, Sister Syreeta Muhammad,
a very dear Sister of mine, reached out to me and others on the day of
the accident for my prayers and support as she was departing for the
hospital where her son was taken in critical condition. I was in
Phoenix, Az., at the time with the tentative plans that were canceled
on that day to fly over to Los Angeles to meet with her and a few
others concerning some of the program itineraries of the Nation
of Islam�s upcoming Saviours� Day event for February, 2002 to be
celebrated in the city of Los Angeles. On that same day in the
Entertainment World, the premiering of the film "Ali," was scheduled
to open at theaters around the country. The sign of these two
concurrent events, occurring on the day celebrated around the world as
Christmas, decry the tragic contradictions to Truth inherent in our
contemporary world.
In a world of sport and play, life and death walk hand in hand at
the price of Truth and Falsehood often being treated the same. The
decree of life and death for everyone living is entirely in the Hands
of Allah. The nature of life and death should produce in us an
attitude of humility and gratefulness to God for whatever He, Allah,
God, brings into our path and journey to Him.
We live and die many times over in this very lifetime through the
trials and tribulations which are binding upon us in the ever evolving
cycle of life and death. In life there is the seed of death and in
death there is life. The essence of the life force lives forever and
never dies because it is a continuous flow and an ever-evolving cycle
from the Fountainhead and Presence of God, Himself.
In the production of the crystal seed and its lattice like
structure, such resilience is created in the process of production so
that it is stated that a crystal lives forever and never dies, but it
changes its form from one crystalline structure into another with such
harmony, geometry and symmetry, from a gaseous form to a liquid form
and to a solid state. So, too, whatever the condition of our finite
structure, the Righteous truly never die, but evolve and harmonize and
synchronize as the crystal from one state to another emitting the
vibrations of color and sound into one�s journey of Eternity.
May these three gallant souls living and dying as Muslims leave
with us a living record of our own deeds as contained in the Crystal
Message of our Universal Souls which will always be as One with Allah
in Love and Peace, in life and in death, for all is Divine.
I close with the words of Cherokee spiritual leader Dhyani Ywahoo,
in her book: "Voices of our Ancestors," as a comfort for the bereaved
in the loss of life, and for those who remain behind, who have yet to
know the mystery of death and dying as well as the mystery of life.
"When we affirm love and forgiveness as a stream within our hearts, we
release in our bodies a great energy, and the sacred flow within us
flows more readily, more fully. In that stream of forgiveness we see
that we continue on in a process and that we have choices. Our words,
our actions, our very breath shape the fiber of our reality. The rocks
in the stream are part of the dream."
Everything in form is vibration. Energy moves along an axis, a line
of energy of greatest flow and of least resistance. Energy within
crystal structure flows as a generator; to manifest the initial form
it chooses a path of least resistance through the spiral. The shape,
the movement of the atomic structure within the crystal is
consciousness, and the consciousness atoms are moving within us. We
are in relationship to all that goes on in this universe.
"And when those who disbelieve see thee,
they treat thee not but with mockery: Is this he who speaks of your
gods? And they deny when the Beneficent God is mentioned. "Man is
created of haste. Soon will I show you My signs, so ask Me not to
hasten them."�Holy Qur�an, Surah 21, verses 36&37
To be continued..
