"They ask thee about voluntary gifts. Say:
Voluntary gifts are for Allah and the Messenger. So keep your duty to
Allah and set aright your differences, and obey Allah and His
Messenger, if you are believers." �Holy Qur�an, Surah 8,
verse 1
CULTURAL LINKS is published by the Honorable Elijah Muhammad
Educational Foundation, a not-for-profit corporation, which was
developed to aid and support the Advancement of the Nation of Islam in
its Spiritual, Educational and Economic Development. The Foundation
was first established in the State of California in 1978 for the
purpose of expanding world-wide Spiritual Consciousness through an
investigative and comprehensive study of the Divine Teachings and
Program of the Honorable Elijah Muhammad. The primary objective is to
promote and support Educational Development and Research into an
Evolving and Vibrant New Cultural Expression of the Arts and Sciences
of an Advanced Civilization, the extension of which is as wide as the
heavens and the earth.
The publication of Cultural Links was produced through the efforts
of many as a partial fulfillment of the meaning of Voluntary Gifts,
which began to manifest in this literary form in the latter part of
the year 2001. Within a few weeks of my return from the journey to the
Al-Tai Republic at the end of August, and towards the middle of
October, I began the preparation for the current magazine style in the
city of Phoenix with the help of the M.G.T. staff and one brother,
Graphic Artist and Designer of the Crystal Light Logo, Hamza Muhammad
with the hopes to finalize printing in time for our Saviours� Day
Event in Los Angeles and Chicago.
Because of the intensity of the experience, which I have recorded
in the previous three articles covering the background story of the
Cultural Links publication, I have established the Crystal Light
Project working in conjunction with the Carlos Diaz Experience and The
Ships of Light. This also includes more enlightening discussions to
come focusing on the Vision-like Experience of the Honorable Minister
Louis Farrakhan in the Mexican Village of Tepotzlan. The above
experience will involve a global outreach Educational Program in which
all of us are welcomed participants. The Cultural Links publication is
not the normal coverage of news events. It is, moreso, a Visionary
Spiritual Journey that opens up the Eye of Certainty in the Discovery
of one�s true Self which transforms us into manifold worlds of Higher
Spiritual Consciousness where Time is limitless and Eternal.
Finally, I sincerely, apologize for all errors that appeared in the
first and second printing of our News Journal. Please overlook these
errors and accept the grand purpose to which it aspires. We expect to
have a deluxe edition in a third more perfect printing available this
summer for further community outreach and for historical reasons. We
are preparing our New Story for publication for the July, August and
September issue. We thank you for your generous support and donations
to The Honorable Elijah Muhammad Educational Foundation received
through the first publication of Cultural Links. Your Voluntary Gifts
to this Cause will mightily increase our Success as a Nation and as a
People on the Rise in the New Millennium!
