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God, Family and the Less Fortunate - The Power of Charity in the New Year (1364 hits)

I greet everyone reading this with Peace.

As the "New Year" approaches I just wanted to share a few thoughts about God, Family and as the Bible put it, "The Lest of These.

Matthew 25:31-46 Jesus speaks of the day when He returns and will separate the people of the earth as a shepherd divides the sheep from the goats. The sheep on His right hand are those who have served others while the goats on His left are the selfish who took only thought for themselves.
He tells the sheep (v34-40) "Come, ye blessed of my Father, inherit the kingdom prepared for you from the foundation of the world: For I was an hungered, and ye gave me meat: I was thirsty, and ye gave me drink: I was a stranger, and ye took me in: Naked, and ye clothed me: I was sick, and ye visited me: I was in prison, and ye came unto me."
"Then shall the righteous answer him, saying, Lord, when saw we thee an hungered, and fed thee? or thirsty, and gave thee drink? When saw we thee a stranger, and took thee in? or naked, and clothed thee? Or when saw we thee sick, or in prison, and came unto thee?"
"And the King shall answer and say unto them, Verily I say unto you, Inasmuch as ye have done it unto one of the least of these my brethren, ye have done it unto me."
In Islam there are Hadiths or Sayings of Prophet Muhammad (PBUH). The 13th Hadith says: "None of you truly a Muslim (one who submits his will to do the Will of Allah (God) until he loves (some translations say: wants) for his brother (and sister) what he loves (wants) for himself."

Conversely we should; Hate for our brothers and sister what we would Hate for ourselves. This is regardless of their religious affiliation, regardless of age, regardless of s*x and any other Willie Lynch like progams that have us hate one another "without a justice cause."

It's simple, yet powerful!

Although the words are simple, for many of us it will be a great struggle to overcome that programing of self hate and purge that virus out of our spiritual system.

How can we purify ourselves of self-hate,of being self-endulged, vain and having only gross self interest? Prayer yes, that is a start. However prayer, faith and believe are nothing unless put into action.

What action should we take? It is one that is manditory, required and obligitory in every religion, and that's Charity.

Dr. Ibrahim B. Syed, Ph. D. wrote of Charity stating; Charity, preached by every religion of the world, is a way of bringing justice to society. And justice is the essence of religion, Islam has therefore made charity that is Zakah, obligatory and binding upon all those who embrace the faith; it has been made into an institution in order to give in permanence and regularity.
A society can flourish only when its members do not spend all their wealth to fulfil their own desires but reserve a portion of it for parents, relatives, neighbors, the poor and the debilitated. As the saying goes: Charity begins at home. A true believer is thus always prepared, after meeting the needs of his family, to assist other people in need of his help.
Thus the spirit of kindness and well wishing is the essence of charity. The giver is not to expect any reward from the beneficiary as there awaits for him an abundant reward from God - material, moral and spiritual - what God deems it best to confer on His servant.
Why am I writing this? If we don't come together as a people, as a family, as a community, as a Nation we will suffer like not other people have suffered in the anals of history.

Right now, because of the Subprime Crime, many of our people are homeless, that includes 'our' children. Because of the bad economy adoptions are down and aportions are up. Our young people are falling into despair committing suicide by committing homicide.

Let's start with a kind word, let's start by acknowledging each other presents.

I'll end it with this: Ezekiel 37
The Valley of Dry Bones
11 Then he said to me: "Son of man, these bones are the whole house of Israel. They say, 'Our bones are dried up and our hope is gone; we are cut off.' 12 Therefore prophesy and say to them: 'This is what the Sovereign LORD says: O my people, I am going to open your graves and bring you up from them; I will bring you back to the land of Israel. 13 Then you, my people, will know that I am the LORD, when I open your graves and bring you up from them. 14 I will put my Spirit in you and you will live, and I will settle you in your own land. Then you will know that I the LORD have spoken, and I have done it, declares the LORD.' "
Peace!

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Posted By: Steven Muhammad
Monday, December 21st 2009 at 4:12AM
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Hello Steven Muhammad,

Our way, what we must do and what is going to happen is clear. God has intervened in our dilemma about two years now.

We must first identify our genuine prophet. The first thing that God does when coming to a people is to present a genuine prophet to that people. For instance, when God came to the Arabian people, God presented them with Prophet Mohammed. Likewise, when God came to the children of Israel, God presented them with Prophet Moses. The Prophet is always of the same race that the people are. Consequentially, our Prophet will be as one of us, a Black American who is a descendent of slaves. That prophet will be promoting and advocating our permanent solution since God will be backing that person and only that person. As God only backed Prophet Mohammed and Prophet Moses.

God have inspired me to know that our only permanent solution is that we desire to become sovereign people or have complete independence on a portion of this continent that we could call our very own country with borders. What I say is going to happen. What I say comes only from God.

Mr. Farrakhan neither advocates nor promotes the sovereignty of Black Americans who are descendents of slaves. Consequentially, Mr. Farrakhan is not the anointed one, but I am.

Black Americans are neither Muslims nor Christians. Our guidance comes from our chosen prophet of God and not the Bible or the Quran. Our religious book is forthcoming. Our Prophet will not be following the dictates of previous prophets. In other words, if one Prophet were meant to walk in the footsteps of previous prophets there would never be a need for God. However, each Prophet made it plain that God were inspiring and guiding them constantly, am I right. Do you understand the fundamentals of what I have just said?

What say you?

Monday, December 21st 2009 at 10:28AM
Harry Watley

You copy and paste this message on every post don't you Brother Harry.

Out of respect, just comment on the article.
Monday, December 21st 2009 at 2:55PM
Steven Muhammad

Hello Steven Muhammad,

You said this, �You copy and paste this message on every post don't you Brother Harry.�

Steven, if what I was saying was not me and given to me by God then where could I go and copy such wisdom to paste? You are not making any sense. However, you have not said that I was wrong. It is just that you neither like nor adhere to my message yet, but you and Mr. Farrakhan will in time to come. It took the Hebrew people approximately 20 years before they came to understand that Moses was their prophet and his message was their only permanent solution out of Egypt.

Next, you said this, �Out of respect, just comment on the article.�

The article is fine for a roundtable discussion among theologian scholars. However, it does not rise to the level of Black America�s plight since Black Americans are not mentioned in the Quran, hadith of Prophet Mohammed, the Bible and neither is there a prophet mentioned or associated for Black Americans who are descendents of slaves.

Consequentially, I who am Black America�s first genuine prophet exceed the article that you have posted, am I right.

Tell me what you think.

Monday, December 21st 2009 at 3:18PM
Harry Watley

Charity is mentioned Brother Harry, in both Bible and Holy Quran. As far as Black Americans not being mentioned in the Bible and Holy Quran, nothing could be farther from the truth. We are mentioned from begining to end if you but understood. As a "prophet" you should know that. We are also mentioned in the Holy Quran and the Hadiths. We are mentioned in coded language that was hidden from the wise of this world and revealed unto children. We are the children (Luke 10:21). It is all being fulfilled right before your eyes.
Monday, December 21st 2009 at 4:38PM
Steven Muhammad

Adaam----Nuh-----Ibraheem-----IsaIbnMaryam-----Mohamed----

Whats coded about Adaam, Our Father: Ibraheem---The Friend of all Men----IsaIbnMaryam--The Miracle LongAgo and Soon----Mohamed---The Mercy and Guide of Men--------No secret code here unless you cannot Think and are too Lazy.

HarrySteveMuhammad,

Does any Scholarship Move you to pick up a book?
All you negros use the bibble to explain yourself and you then mix it with negroGhettoImToLazy to Read JUNK.

Color is not a definition, you negros; harrystevem; got that from the european, who made you represent yourself as a color rather than a son of Adaam--made from mud, dirt, dark, light, mixed and made as clay and with the ruh of AlKhalaq.

I am too old to hear young men so ignorant; quarreling about nonsense, neither having any ScholasticThought.---Giving Reverence to europeanThought ONLY.

Learn something, study something, if you like the bibble--learn and study it as it was written 2000 years ago, if you like AlQur'aan; study and learn it as Scholars from every corner of the world have studied it for 1430 years.---

If you Harry' in yourMind think you are a prophet? Give us a Book or a Guide.

And if both of you are just here in Cyberspace for cartoonish entertainment, Ok.

You both have nothing to offer Intelligent, Scientific, Scholarship.
Monday, December 21st 2009 at 9:05PM
robert powell

To the Blog,
of course since those jews made the golden calf, some created have decided that gold is better than the Red Sea swallowing Firaun.........or anything..........Big Revelation?
Monday, December 21st 2009 at 9:07PM
robert powell

Hello Steven,

Steven, Black Americans who are descendents of slaves is people that were made approximately 500 years ago when White American men of British descent bred themselves with African slave women.

An example of what I am talking about is the children that Ms. Sally Hemming had for President Thomas Jefferson as his slave woman. Ms. Sally�s children are descendents of slaves. Her children are the same as we are today, am I right. Furthermore, it was nothing for the old slave master to sell his children he fathered through slave women. These are the multiples of reasons that we are today descendents of slaves. I do not understand why it is so hard for you to accept what I am saying since it is the truth.

No Black Americans today are Africans and neither is we Caucasians. We are a new breed or race of people that has emerged out of the ashes of slavery. Therefore, when Mr. Farrakhan says he is a Muslim he is out of his mind since a Muslim is an Arab person. Mr. Farrakhan is linked to Black Americans who are descendents of slaves.

Consequentially, we neither could be in the Holy Quran nor in the Bible since these books existed before Black Americans came into existence.

What I have just said is simple common sense and history bears the truth of what of what I have just said.

Everything that I say is the truth and is going happen.

Tell me what you think.

Monday, December 21st 2009 at 10:01PM
Harry Watley

Hello Robert,

My argument with you Robert is this, Allah clearly states that prophets are risen up from among their own kind. Now, what do kind means? Kind means race and notice that Prophet Mohammed is Arab and he is found within the midst of Arabian people. Likewise, Moses was Israelite and he was found in the midst of the Children of Israel. Now, what does this information tells you? Firstly, it tells you that since they are different races of people, prophets are risen up from among their own kind or race.

Consequentially, since you are not of Arab origin, but instead you are a Black American who is a descendent of slaves Prophet Mohammed could not be your prophet, am I right.

Since I am Black America�s first genuine prophet, then I am your prophet, am I right. Therefore, Al Quran is not your religious book to follow and neither is Al Islam your religion to practice. The text of all religious books is about the life and times of the Prophet. I said to you earlier that our religious book is forthcoming. In addition, I said to you that our religion is, �The Salvation of God for the Sovereignty Black Americans who are Descendents of Slaves�.

Black Americans are going to become a sovereign people or have complete independence from White America on a portion of this continent that we could call our very own country with borders.

How it is that White America is the most powerful country and people in the world today as Egypt was in the ancient world that White Americans literally owned Black Americans as the Hebrew people were the slaves of Egypt that now White America must let Black Americans go that in time to come Black Americans will advance further than White Americans could ever imagined. I know this because God has inspired me with this knowledge and wisdom as was done with Moses.

Anyway, Robert, what you need to answer is what does Allah means by raising up prophets from among their own kind.

Tell me what you think.

Monday, December 21st 2009 at 10:27PM
Harry Watley

HarryIrmaSiebra--HIS
In the months of back and forth, You know I have said that Allaah has given his last Prophet---Mohamed(as)----and His last revelation AlQur'aan

A Believer in MonotheisticThought and Monotheistic Evolution understands that with Musa were the golden calf worshippers--who loved gold more than The Creator of Gold.-----

they were with the bankers who loaned money to 'charitize' the nativeAmerican, and the African. they were with the HolyRomanEmperor who financed the Crusades, they were with the petty kings/queens of europe, they were with hitler, they were with biggie with all that junk around his neck, they were on WallStreet and Dubai, and they better be with harry if he is going to finance a nation of biggies, beyonces, crips and bloods.

Tuesday, December 22nd 2009 at 8:57AM
robert powell

Hello Robert,

Here you go again with your stupidity. Let me see if I could straighten you out.

You said this, �You know I have said that Allaah has given his last Prophet---Mohamed(as)----and His last revelation AlQur'aan�

Yes, this is what the Arabian people believe and their belief and understanding could only be binding on them. The Arabian people believe for themselves that Prophet Mohammed was there last Prophet and that is their business. What they believe cannot be binding on me since I am not Arabian, am I right.

For instance, perhaps I may be the first and last prophet to Black Americans who are descendents of slaves as Prophet Mohammed was the first and last prophet to the Arabian people. Unlike, the Jewish people they had many prophets since they were always turning back and doing wrong, am I right.

Next, you said this, �A Believer in MonotheisticThought and Monotheistic Evolution understands that with Musa were the golden calf worshippers--who loved gold more than The Creator of Gold.-----�

Did not Moses straighten out this problem when he came down the mountain with the 10 Commandments? Did he not asked one of his men to draw a line in the sand and said to his people those who are with him step on the other side of the line and those that remained, Moses ordered his men to kill them all.

How it is that you keep talking this nonsense about worshipers of the golden calf when they were all killed in the desert? What is wrong with you scholarship Robert?

Am I right?

Wednesday, December 23rd 2009 at 12:07AM
Harry Watley