"A New Beginning"

In the Name of Allah, the Beneficent, the Merciful...the Best Knower.

Allah says, in the Holy Qur'an:
"O people, if you are in doubt about the Resurrection, then surely We created you from dust, then from a small life-germ, then from a clot, then from a lump of flesh, complete in make and incomplete, that We may make clear to you. And We cause what We please to remain in the wombs till an appointed time, then We bring you forth as babies, then that you may attain your maturity..."

When the sperm is emitted from the male, it signals a "New Beginning".

When the sperm fertilizes the egg, and forms a life germ, it signals a "New Beginning".

When the germ grows through full gestation in the womb, to a fetus, and is born into the world, it signals a "New Beginning".

When the child is born, it is complete...yet incomplete. Complete in its basic form and function, independent of the confines of the Womb that once sustained it, but incomplete in its ability to satisfy its own needs, depending on mother and father for the sustenance of its needs outside the Womb.

When that Child Matures, and goes out on its own as an adult, it signals yet another "New Beginning". The Adult is complete...yet incomplete. Although he or she is no longer dependent upon parents for the sufficing of his or her needs, this new adult now finds himself or herself dependent on the successful interaction with other adults for the satisfying of his or her needs. So he or she is complete in one sense, yet incomplete in another sense.

NONE OF THESE "New Beginnings" is a "change in direction". Each "New Beginning" is a necessary step in the process of growth toward the Person's eventual Perfection and Oneness with his or her Creator.

If this is true of Individuals, then it is also true with the conception, birth and growth of NATIONS that are comprised of Individuals.

There was a time when we, in the Nation of Islam, were taught in a way that kept us in a "Womb" of sorts (or culture), isolated from the elements and dangers of the "outside world", secure in a "firm resting place" while the slow process of growth in the womb took place under the Evolving Force of Love from Allah, the Hon. Elijah Muhammad, and the Hon. Louis Farrakhan.

Master W. Fard Muhammad came to the "dark womb" of America in the 1930's, where our people had been "held" in a confined existence, and like a Divine Sperm, found and fertilized the Mind of the Hon. Elijah Muhammad, producing in him a new "life germ" of Mind, that immediately began "turning in the darkness" that engulfed our people.

As time passed, and as he continued to "turn" in the Darkness according to the Nature of the Life that was deposited in him, he began multiplying himself, gradually duplicating the Idea from God that was in his head...and soon the "Life germ" became a "clot" (a small group of believers), and then, after a while, the "clot" began to develop structure that would eventually support it later on, including different systems that would collaberate to sustain the evolving life once separated from its host.

Like the New Born Baby, the Nation of Islam is now in a position where we are being pushed out of the "womb" of our comfortable isolation, into the world with other Nations whom we must now learn to interact with properly in order to continue our growth and development into the People that our Father - Master Fard Muhammad - desires for us to be...the Rightful Rulers of Self and the Universe, by God's Permission and under God's Guidance.

The changes in the form of the Nation are not to be mistaken for a change of "direction". Where we are going now, is where we have always been headed...and beyond...from our very beginning. It just takes time, understanding and patience to fully appreciate the process of growth...for individuals AND Nations.

May Allah Bless the Nation of Islam, and the entire Human Family, in our "New Beginning".

RM