Learning to Love Again “How to Trust again”

In the Name of Allah (God), Al-Wakil, The Most Trustworthy One on whom we all depend on.
The Source of our Loving Divine Identity-Al Wadud (The Loving One)

As-Salaam-Alaikum,

Have you ever been hurt to the point where you didn’t know how or where you would find the strength to love and trust again? What was it about your experience that disappointed you so much that it severely damaged you emotionally and traumatized you psychologically? Did losing someone disrupt your image of security and happiness?
From sharing my experience and desire to ‘Learn to Love’ with others, I have witnessed that many of us struggle to trust people once we have tasted the bitter pill of disappointment in our lives. Since it seems trust is a very valuable commodity and trait, how is trust defined?
Trust:

1. Reliance on the integrity, strength, ability, surety, etc., of a person or thing; confidence

2. Confident expectation of something; hope

Almost all of us have been in relationships where our trust for someone was compromised severely and now we find ourselves on the teetering edge of completely doubting not only other people, but the very idea and concept of someone being trustworthy.

Please allow the insight I have discovered within myself to help you regain, reclaim, and rebuild the desire to love and trust another human being before you become another sad victim to somberness, bitterness, and doubt from an unpredictable calamity of love that has ravished your expectations and hope to Love again.

In “Learning to Love Again: Part 1” I was forced to access and analyze why my heart broke in the first place and what steps I was going to take to raise myself from my wretched, emotional condition.

The Only way to seek refuge from the kind of pain that comes from betrayal is to seek refuge in The God of Trust, The Source of Trust, and The Only One that we can wholeheartedly put all of our hope, faith, and trust in–The Trustee of Our Hearts–God Himself.

That is where all healing begins and ends. When we have surrendered our Will, our deepest hopes, dreams, and aspirations squarely on the shoulders of the Only Man worthy of such absolute dependence, then we free ourselves of worry, doubt, and unduly suspicion.

We protect ourselves from attaching ourselves to a relationship that only belongs to Him–our Identity. In the ‘Making of My identity’ I am forced as a Man to attach to no idea, no dream nor aspiration of Love and security, that is independent of The Loving One’s (Allah), God’s guidance and blessing. The idea of a loving family or career must be completely centered in our service and submission to the author of our Divine Identities.

We must reestablish our Identities and what constitutes our self-worth to ourselves on the only foundation that will never crack or falter under the weight of expectation and disappointment. We can no longer define ourselves by the circumstances of our past.

To Love and trust again, our identities must be broken down and reoriented from all of the images of television, magazines, and talk shows that have littered our minds with the idea of personal happiness and success void of true divine inspiration and guidance. We cannot predict to the precise moment exactly when Allah (God) will bless us or attract to us anything we earnestly desire. Real love–not the ever-passing illusionary infatuation of romance–comes from God based on His plan for Us. I’m sorry to all of those who have been led to believe that there has ever been a replacement for patience in attracting that kind of love to your life.

Patience:

1. The quality of being patient, as the bearing of provocation, annoyance, misfortune, or pain, without complaint, loss of temper, irritation, or the like.

2. An ability or willingness to suppress restlessness or annoyance when confronted with delay: to have patience with a slow learner

3. Quiet, steady perseverance; even-tempered care; diligence: to work with patience

But fear not. Patience is never idly waiting. Patience involves the quiet work of desiring, attracting, and becoming that which our hearts truly yearn for. So if we want Real Love we are going to have to become a Real Loving Person ourselves, and When Allah (God) produces the right atmosphere of inner peace and tranquility in our lives, we are bound to attract the kind of people that resonate and vibrate on our same spiritual wavelength.

Our Identities must be reshaped and revamped to fit new ideas of Love that are not rooted in false images of masculinity and femininity. Those ideas must be instilled educationally, morally, and spiritually, from a Clear self-concept free from baggage of subliminal reactionary pain that haunts us psychologically like ghosts from our past.

It is who we think we are and what we think we should have that ultimately defines success, and happiness, for us presently. When our Identities line up with the Supreme One we put ourselves on a course of perfection that draws us up from emotionalism–to the thinking and mind of God.

Emotionalism:

1. A tendency to display or respond with undue emotion, esp. morbid emotion.

2. Unwarranted expression or display of emotion.

I want you all to find Love, happiness, and trust, in your lives. I know that we all have to have a clear definition of what we want and clear steps to get there to have a measure of peace in our lives. So walk with me, study with me, and sojourn with me as we continue to navigate through our souls–Journey to Learn to Love again.

Your Brother and Friend,

Jameel Muhammad
www.makingmyidentity.wordpress.com
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Accepting Happiness

In the Name of Allah (God), The Embodiment of Love in a Living Being, The Noblest One, The Healer of Wounded Souls,
The Mender of Broken Hearts

Learning to Love Again pt 10

Accepting Happiness

As-Salaam-Alaikum,

I am forever grateful to Allah to have experience this journey of Love because through the pain, and turmoil I have learned to be happier than ever before. The parody in this apparent oxymoron is that our emotional perspective of our love experiences will undoubtedly define in the future for us the capacity for us to discover joy, and happiness in our future relationships.

When I started composing my first article, I marked my first year anniversary being divorced. It was a starting point to access the damage that had been done to me and how I was determine to find a reason to smile inside again. Every one of us has to regain and discover the root of happiness within ourselves and find an outlet to express our unique creativity that will release our emotions in a positive productive manner. We have to paint the reasons God Loves us on the canvass of our countenance, transforming our innocent smiles into divine affirmations of aptness and purpose.

Before we can ever learn to love anyone else or ourselves properly we have to learn why Allah (God) loves Us in the first place? What made us so special that Allah (God) would pattern our seemingly mundane genesis after His own Self-Creation in the womb of triple darkness? Why would He imbibe us with a specific combination and ratio of His attributes unique only to our soul’s imprint? Finding out Who we are in relation to God Himself requires us to thoroughly examine our physical, mental, and spiritual attributes in the light of our Creator’s purpose for giving us life.

Have you asked yourself lately what do you like to do and why do like to do it? What kind of impact do you want to have on people-your friends, family, classmates, colleagues, and peers? Can you write down 10 reasons why God loves you right now? Discovering the reasons why we can love again and should love again starts with us breaking through the fear, and self doubt that prisons our emotions from expressing happiness.

If I may base my definition of love from the Honorable Elijah Muhammad teachings, Love is the freedom to be justified expressing our purpose as to become equal with everything in Allah (God’s) creation. Learning to Love again removes the selfish, egotistical, view of love that is conditional of the satisfaction of our needs and evolves into a divine outlook and expression of God’s Spirit that attracts and extracts the best part in human beings whenever it contacts them. Well what is the best part of people? In women it is her feminine nature that passionately and freely surrender’s her will to do the Will of Allah (God) to become His reflection of Righteousness, Beauty, Wisdom, and Mercy in an exquisite form irresistible to Man’s nature . In Men it is their masculine nature that submits humbly to Allah’s Will to manifest and become a conduit of His Wisdom, Beneficence, Power and Sovereignty as Khalifah, or Vicegerent.

The best part in us is our Gifts, Interest, and Likes that exude our Divine purpose. When we are Learning to Love Again we acknowledge the poor part of ourselves but we are choosing to settle on the best part of ourselves and others that brings us closer to God in character and speech. Accepting our happiness is accepting that part of us that brings us joy and excitement in life. When we do what we love we attract people that will inevitably love us for being ourselves.

Well how do we know we can ever find true happiness and love in someone else again? In a simple but powerful word-Faith. But faith must be strengthen with pray, fasting, and positive thinking. People who believe and say that there are no good men and women out there are right because they will never attract which they don’t believe exist.

The possibility of Love must germinate like a seed in your heart to blossom into the fruit of our desires. Our faith in the Source and Bestower of Love is the rope that carries us through patience and with perseverance. With Allah’s (God) help it will be that constant conscious thought of doing His will and Purpose design for us that He will bless us with a helpmeet eventually to aid us in His divine Plan. The possibility of Love manifest once there has been closure and rebirth in our lives. Although closure is commonly consistent of two people absolving and concluding their relationship and purpose for being together, its success is only contingent on its seekers to completely atone him or herself of all misdeeds major and minor inflicted and sincerely appreciate any and all positive influences the person has had on our lives. A sign that we are approaching rebirth is when our new encounters with people is now indicated by our unconditional attempt to learn and accept people for who they are with no expectations and requirements for their future roles in our lives.

Dating is discouraged from this process because it hampers genuine communication without expectations. An exercise of purposeful comrade through patient diligence plants the seeds of friendship far better than superficial displays of taste and class.

I pray that my words have touched all of us to desire to learn more on how to love again that will free our souls to experience the felicity of a mended heart. I promise you that if you try to learn to love again properly your fear of disappointment and heartbreak will disappear and you will tap into the infinite abundance of divine love that is in each and every one of us and that is more potent in our hearts than conditional love ever was.

This article bookmarks a chapter in my life that has witness pain, self-examination, and growth. With the Help of Allah my friends and readers I feel free now to tap into a new well of abundance, joy, and happiness that has sprung forth through my journey to learn to love again personally. I thank every kind word, warm greeting, and unexpected phone call I received from my friends that cheered me up to continue on this quest. I will with God’s Help, publish this series in the form of a book so I that I may continue to proselytize loving in a manner that transform us into Living Expressions of Divine Love, Peace, and Happiness.

If you have any questions or comments feel free to contact me directly at littleelijah@yahoo.com or you may comment on my blog with feedback.

Your brother and Friend,
Jameel Muhammad
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Inherit the Kingdom of God

The Urban Brand of Sam Renaissance

In the Name of Allah (God), Khalifa, Inheritor of the Will and Power of the Creator, born as a child and groomed to become Master of this Day of Judgment by Allah’s permission.

As-salaam-alaikum,

Why are we taught of the history of our Savior Master Fard Muhammad from his birth in 1877? He was a baby born of destiny in the right time from the right parents in the right environment to Master all of Creation and to assume the Supreme Authority as Lord of the Worlds. He grew into His ultimate identity from His Faith in Himself and by submitting to a course of training that would enable Him to not just become a god but the Supreme Being, the Best Knower.

Why is it important for us to know the reality of God? The knowledge of who God is enables us who are Children of Elijah, Farrakhan, Clarence 13x, Imam, and others, to accept our divine Identity as Architects and Builders of a New World Order. We are a Messianic Generation that is characterized by Joshua and Caleb in the bible to continue the work of the Moses of our Time and establish our Culture in the land- which includes all of the arts and sciences needed to build a superior civilization in the midst of Yakub’s world.

In the Movie, The last Airbender, the main character, the Avatar, is taught from the cradle to master elements and techniques that will enable him to become a Savior for his people from tyranny and oppression. He struggles to come into his own identity as a Savior as he goes around helping people unite and regain their self-respect and sovereignty as peaceful human beings. That sounds a lot like us doesn’t it? We have been given the highest degrees of knowledge in our Supreme Wisdom yet most of us sometime struggle to feel confident and proud of our Islamic heritage and destiny as Righteous Rulers in a land of our own.

Noiyouth community is based on this premise which is to help infuse a cultural awareness and pride that will lift our heads up and give us back our dignity in being different in this world. I created NOIyouth.org to unite us into one online community as a sign that one day we will be united socially, economically, and politically in a physical community of our own. Why is this so important? Why can’t we just be happy achieving individual success in this world? We are princes and princesses to an ancient Throne set-up by the King, God Himself, to Govern and Rule according to Universal Righteous Principles of Freedom, Justice, and Equality. For us not to feel a part of this Divine Purpose negates our individual purpose and relegates us to obscurity and mediocrity following false images of fame and status.

My achievements personally means nothing if I don’t have a community to share it with. Where are we going to live? Educate our Children? How are we going to establish a Peaceful environment for our families to thrive in if we don’t want to establish a community that respects our values, language, and traditions? Did you know people all over the world ask me about us and the progress of NOIyouth? We are the Originators of High Culture and we still remain the trendsetters of the world in fashion, music, art, and all facets of creativity. It is from our Culture that Hip-hop has its roots birth from-the Creativity of the Youth that studied the Supreme Wisdom. When are we going to take our Inheritance back as Protectors and Shepherds of our Communities? When are we going to accept our Identity as Producers and builders of high Civilization? It is our time. We are the Real Children of Israel. Help me build a stronger Community of Love, brotherhood and sisterhood in NOIyouth. Help me build a stronger, more vibrant social NOIyouth. Contact me directly at littleelijah@yahoo.com to be train as an administrator. We have no future in Facebook, Myspace, and others invest into your own and do for Self.

Your brother and friend,
Jameel Muhammad
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Learning to Love Again Part 9 “How to Love Ourselves”

In the Name of Allah (God), The Evolver, Who nourishes His Creation stage after stage until It reaches its eventual Perfection

Learning to Love again pt 9
How to Love Ourselves

As-salaam-alaikum,

We all love ourselves right? Of Course! But this epic journey of love has bruised us, battered our self-esteem, and self-worth and forced us to ask the soul trenching question as to, “Why me”? “Why did I have to go through what I went through”? There is no generic answer or cliché saying that could possibly speak to the unique imprint of pain that each individual must go through to find ourselves, discover the undeniable truth of our own perseverance that must be unlocked from the treasure of an emotionally dramatic experience.

We would have to stop talking, complaining about circumstances, stop imitating our perception of life and listen to our heart in the quietness of mind in the stillness of tranquility, set in a oasis of peace. When our world hums with the rhythm of our solitude, vibrating affirmative thoughts, we come face to face with what all of us is tried with, the reflection of ourselves through the window of our past.

Accepting our memories, the first time we fell in love, the first time we gave our heart must be contemplated, enjoyed upon, and let go with the promise of the present and faith of tomorrow’s gift of the unknown. First we have to believe in possibility of Love and become a daily witness of its power to rebirth, rejuvenate, and transform our lives. Secondly we must absolve our feelings of guilt, and betrayal or become prisoners of rage, sorrow, and vindictiveness doubting and sabotaging any opportunities we have of happiness. Finally we must become students of the only real Love in the Universe which is Divine Love from the Source from which it springs.

The ninth phase of us learning to love again takes us into the circle of the depth of our spiritual journey where we climax with happiness and wallow in grief in faster intervals than ever before. We have open the door to accept our divinity, let go (at least striving our best to) of our past, and have sought true Validation from the Only Reality, God (Himself).We also have unfortunately sought relief with our emotional substitutes, our instant gratifiers, and maybe even experimented with drugs, alcohol, and casual sex to sedate our mind into believing that we are happy neglecting our spiritual obligations to ourselves.

Learning to love ourselves again is now predicated on our knowledge and experience of witnessing ourselves in our most euphoric moments and our weakest points. The mystery is finished and the trumpet of self-discovery is blown once we know what we are capable of doing under any circumstance. When we discover our limits of what we are capable of doing under any amount of influence or distress we can translate our self-awareness into Self-love. As we go through trials our character reveals itself to us and our Savior Allah (God) becomes intrinsic and vital to us as Our Best Guide and Companion to overcome the tremendous emotional burdens we face. The more we submit our will to Love again the closer we are drawn to the Source of all Love, God Himself, which attracts others who are also revolving in the Circle of Light, Life, and Power. Our Peace comes from that Self-awareness and Our Love for other human beings becomes infinite individual expressions reflecting our Universal Divine Love for God Himself.

Learning to Love again involves loving from a higher perspective that removes the vanity of selfishness from its root. It is as valuable and in infinite abundance as the air we breathe, it cannot be hoarded, saved, or excluded for any particular group or time. It is based on the Universal righteous Principles of God Himself and can be shared, enjoyed, and encountered by any who chose to act upon them. Learning to Love ourselves discovers how we can become a better asset to our Creator, family, friends, community, and love ones. It turns our, “Why me?” into “Why not me?” so now our experiences become fertilizer to replant the seeds of love in our heart so our Divine Purpose may be realized.

When our prays and devotional praise take on a greater meaning than performing religious rites and our habits and behavior become much more than mundane expressions of our existence then we are finding purpose for every second of our lives to show our love to Him and ourselves. Our devotional service no longer becomes a token towards our spiritual advancement but learning to love again becomes a prerequisite for spiritual growth and happiness once the seal is broken and the heart is free to love with knowledge of experience. To neglect this spiritual reality is to allow ourselves to succumb to bitterness and perpetual grief.

We start loving ourselves with a Positive Thought that Validates our Intentions with a verbal and physical affirmation. That means getting down and prostrating ourselves to pray first. Pay attention to your Spirit and Ask (Allah) God to show you how to Love yourself and free your heart of the rancor of pain and disappointment. Next exercise to show yourself and God that you are grateful for the vessel He has blessed you with and you plan to start taking care of it indicative of your new found self-love. Feed our Mind and body with the right spiritual and physical food that will reaffirm the Original thought that we Love our God and Ourselves as One. Learning to Love ourselves is the most vital process in our journey to Love again. Our degree of expression reflects our readiness to attract a mate into our lives.

All of Our Thoughts creates atmospheres which produce circumstances like forms of weather that reflect our attractive power. So we will attract inevitably the dominant thoughts we express. So even if we don’t know how to love ourselves truly, we can try and we will gradually find more and more things we can do to enhance our mood, finances, and love life because ultimately love is the creative force that Allah (God) uses to bring his Will into existence. One of the greatest fulfillments is when two people can love each other while completely being themselves.

So let’s work on accepting our own and being ourselves so others can love the intelligent, healthy, ambitious, compassionate, successful people we are.
(Since the last time I wrote pt 8 “Self-Validation” I have been on an emotional journey searching for my own personal happiness fighting through the affliction of life’s disappointments. I could not write to you until personally I experience the tremendous benefits of learning to love myself through the discovery some of my greatest strengths and weaknesses).

I thank you all for reading and having the emotional courage to embark on this journey to learn to love again with me.

Your brother Jameel Muhammad
Founder Webmaster
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A Writing from the Heart

In the Name of Allah, Who came in the Person of the Highest Potential of a Human Being, to show us our Divine Powerful Identity as Living Vessels of the Creator’s Will in
Individual Expressions

As-Salaam-Alaikum,

I could never thank Allah enough for coming in the Person of the Black God because in Him was wrapped all of our Identities, dreams, and wishes. A definitive answer to the question of “Who am I?” poetically spoken in flesh. But why did God appear to our Grandparents when the image in their minds could not comprehend the fullness of His identity? Because all He needed was one man to recognize Him. Just like in our own personal lives, we are only looking for that one person to recognize us for who we are and love us for life. Through that man Elijah, He fished-in my parents from the wretched condition they were in; confused from Christianity and on a certain path to spiritual and physical death. But since Master Fard Muhammad was not from here, how do we know that it’s possible to become God again? He took a man that didn’t know who God was, drank alcohol and ate the wrong foods and resurrected him to Himself. You might say, “But he met God in Person. I’ve never met Him in Person”. Then there is The Honorable Minister Louis Farrakhan. He was neither saint nor angel when he came to Islam, yet Allah is exalting him to represent Elijah the Messiah in His physical absence.

Then Allah didn’t stop fishing with Malcolm, Farrakhan, Jabril or Tynetta. They even fished-in us, the new generation who were sick and tired of the Nation of Islam because of the pain our families went through to be witnesses of the first and second resurrection. Even though our Muslim families had been ripped apart from poverty, death, divorce, distrust and dysfunction, Allah kept on fishing through His believers. Through it all Allah has shown mercy to me and to all of us who grew up in Muslim households by giving us the opportunity to carve out a new future of Islam in America. He gave us a belief system so strong in the Reality of God that nothing could ever make us believe that God is an immaterial No-thing incapable of manifesting Himself in form. We could never eat pork or try any poisons without a clear conscious of what we are doing to ourselves. We might not have liked the Criteria of The Quran on our Shoulders when our peers are apparently free to try and do everything, but in the end our lives reward us for our good decisions. Islam, in my constant rebelliousness, found me wanting change. I wanted to speak up for those of us who were pushed around and forgotten in the Mosque. I wanted to show myself, my family and the Nation of Islam that NOIyouth is a Muslim Community striving to be Righteous despite our unique hang-ups. Allah never stopped fishing us. Even though a so-called “traditional” religious conversion is unlikely for a Muslim born or already registered in the Nation of Islam, a spiritual One is possible and can take place at any time. Allah loves us and came in the Person of Master Fard Muhammad to give us the awesome responsibility of cracking the esoteric meanings of the Lessons to show us a blue print on how to build a new world from our existing society.

Not a Nation of Islam that is seemingly religious in scope but a Nation of Islam that encompasses all manners of life through Culture and Problem Solving. A Nation of Islam where the Elders tell the Youth what Elijah and Farrakhan said about any given topic and we take that knowledge and bring it back to them and our community through developing food, clothing, shelter, communication, transportation, entertainment and all manners of sustaining and developing a Godly existence. Our Purpose for witnessing such an era of transition is to continue the fight for Freedom, Justice and Equality through all available avenues. We have become the wealthiest and most educated group of Muslims that the Nation as ever produced and we must use our wealth wisely. We must build currency between one another separating ourselves from the weakness of her economy. With currency I mean trust. Your word is your credit and reputation and if you lose that you are broke and definitely out of luck with us (believers). Your money is often equated with your time so spend your time where you would like your money to be. It doesn’t cost a dime to unite but we can’t try to hustle one another. We should focus more on taking care of each other needs. From an economical stand point, we are becoming too sacrilegious. We have to come to the trading table with the idea of taking care of the 40 million or more Black people in the USA or at least the 10 people in your family. We won’t build currency with one another if we don’t have anything worthwhile to trade with one another. Give life and everything you need to sustain and thrive in it. That way, we all can be Healthy, Wealthy and Wise and Allah who came in the Person will like the fact that we are a happy community of people striving to be One with our Righteous Nature; Allah, Who never stops fishing.

Jameel Muhammad
Founder, Webmaster www.noiyouth.org
Edited by Najah Muhammad
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Learning to Love Again pt 8 Self-Validation

In the Name of Allah (God) The Beneficent, The Most Merciful Savior

Learning to Love again pt 8

Self- Validation

If we are learning to let go of our past we must still find a way to find ourselves-find an identity that will accept the person that has been hurt or disappointed from the last experience. To validate is to confirm, sanction, and approve of the new person we are striving to be. It is not easy finding an identity apart from the natural comfort of a companionship or marriage because the experience helps shape us to become the person we are striving to be.

Learning to Love again starts with rediscovering how to love ourselves when we are constantly maturing and changing. What use to give us joy may fade over time so we have to take time find out what do we like to do that reflects our new found maturity, growth, and experience. Accepting and loving ourselves is the hardest yet most fulfilling journey we could ever undertake. The reason is because we are constantly learning about ourselves and changing. The moment we think we know ourselves we change and the process of self-validation and rediscovery continues. The Mistake we make is we often resort to what we USED to do BEFORE we enter relationships. Some of us go back to the Club, or bars to hang out. We try to date and pick-up exactly where we left off not taking into account we are different now.

Learning to Love again takes into account that you are a transitional Spiritual Being and how you think, talk, dress, behave, must reflect your spiritual/emotional state or we won’t have any peace of mind. Have you ever notice how a drink with friends becomes an addiction. It is not that the alcohol is so powerful but naturally over time we assign emotional and physical substitutes to our habits to compensate for the pain and disappointment we have and continue to experience.

In our Journey to validate ourselves we resort to things that in our past may have brought us great times and joy but is not so fun to have casual intimacy once we have become accustom to monogamous intimate experiences. Self validation begins with identifying who we are becoming and who we were in the past and designing a lifestyle that will give us a lasting peace of mind. I believe that most of us are at a point where we know what we want but we are too impatient to allow Allah (God) to bring it to us without resorting to some substitute vices.

So what if God doesn’t bless us to find the one we are looking for in the next year or two or 20? Does that mean that we will settle for an immoral existence where we subsist off our substitute lovers, and vices to abide the time? In the Making of our Identity we have to decide who we are going to be regardless to anyone else in or out of our lives. Self validation is about standing on principles and not allowing circumstances to makes us EMOTIONALLY DISHONEST to ourselves.

Are we Happy with Ourselves? Sure we can all claim Heaven is at our feet but we all know what we are doing individually that is breaking our peace… We have been hurt and we’ve hurt other people. We have been lied and cheated on. We have been the One Lying and cheating. Accepting ourselves is learning to Love that person in the mirror that has been your best friend and worst enemy at the same time. When we can accept the worst part that exists in ourselves but have chosen to settle on the best part of us that strives to be moral and righteous then we can learn to accept it in others. Patience and Love is one yardstick that is best measured within because we can only have love and patience with each other as we love and have patience with our own faults and shortcomings.

Self validation is accepting the worst that you have done and atoning for it. Then accepting the worst someone has done to you and forgiving them. Learning to Love again is being aware of your faults and other people faults and loving them despite of them. It is rediscovering the new person who is maturing into a reflection of the Most High and molding a lifestyle that reflects that new individual. It is acceptance, forgiveness, and most of all Love. We are all on this journey together so learn to be more loving and patient with one another as we transition in our Spiritual Journeys.

note*(Do you realize how hard it is for me to accept the fact that as a writer of inspirational articles that I still suffer from problems that stem from being divorced and single? When I share with you what Allah (God) places on my heart to share I have to pay close attention to what I write because I am in the classroom of Love with everyone else).

P.S. Please share this article with your family and friends it might just save a life!
You may read the previous learning to love 1 through 7 on my blog. You’re welcome to leave me your feedback, comments, questions, and suggestions.

Your brother and friend,
Brother Jameel Muhammad
Littleeijah@yahoo.com
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What is my Culture?

It is not the what but the Why that defines Our Culture

In the Name of Allah, The Author of Civilization, and Father to Our Culture

As-salaam-alaikum,

What is our Culture?

I absolutely love to answer this question on what is the culture of the Nation of Islam because I am a product of the Nation produced by its followers. The culture of the Nation of Islam cannot be adequately defined by the contemporary fashion or entertainment styles of our day. We are only left with passing illusions because these phenomenon change with the weather. Once Dr. Alim looked at me and told me that the culture of the NOI is the Nation of Islam Youth. It is only vaguely represented by us on the outside because we are not the final product nor do we adequately express or embody the principles we present. Our Culture is not our so-called religion, language, or traditions; they are the ingredients use to express one. How can we define our Culture with no mention of our Architecture, Social, Political, or Economical Institutions or Supreme Science we have yet displayed because we have not built our world/community fully at this point? We can only scratch the surface and describe what the foundation of our culture is because our Culture has built the humanly constructed Plane to house the NEW ideas that is to be of the NEW WORLD in a NEW ORIGINAL MAN.

Our culture-when you take in account how extraordinarily powerful Supreme Wisdom can have on our mind- is the summation of our Problem Solving Ability. That is what separate human beings-their ability to meet and master the difficulty or problems in their lives and environment. If you take the Pygmies of Africa for example their culture represents their knowledge of the natural laws of life, the Universe, and their nature. So their levels of understanding of these sciences are reflective in the decisions that make to solve their daily problems. Our clothes, dress, music, food all meet one criterion-A solution to immediate needs of our time and people. So when the Messenger introduced Islam to us he introduced the foundation of a NEW CULTURE because nobody has ever been able to come up with a mathematical solution to even approach our problems. How we solve our problems attest to our level of intelligence and spiritual development in no matter what field or endeavor.
So the youth represent our NOI culture because they represent our finest ability to produce answers to what plague us as a Nation. So their expression and style are indicative of their ability or inability to balance the WEIGHT of truth as Theory until it is proven a REALITY in their lives. So whether we are talking about the way they struggle to dress modest, or entertain themselves righteously we are describing our attempt to express our culture in our finest manifestation- the form of our youth.
Every Nation defines its Culture by the greatness of its modern innovation and invention by its youth. The Architect of the Great Pyramids built the structure for a very functional and divine purpose. If we are ignorant of that purpose we cannot incorporate the greatness of the pyramids into our Culture. History without Utility or function is considered trivial if not actively apart of one’s Living Culture .We are no different. So the next time we see our youth with their pants hanging down think analytically what social problem are they trying to solve or AVOID. What advantages do we as a Nation offer our youth to look or dress a certain way and what problem would we solve if they did or did not?

We are a Nation of Problem Solvers. That is our Culture since the First God Solved the Problem of manifesting Himself in the Triple Darkness by Himself. We have been creating problems and solving them ever since time immemorial. I invite anybody to find another culture outside of Mathematics for us. We just can’t do it without using our Culture as the tool.

Your brother

Jameel Muhammad
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Learning to Love Again pt 7 Letting GO

Letting Go is Letting God

In the Name of Allah, who came in the Person to show us the Embodiment of Love in the Presence of a Well Made Man.

Learning to Love Again pt 7
“Letting GO”

As-Salaam-Alaikum,

How is the beloved of God? I pray with each day we are getting closer to expunging our hearts of the bitterness and disappointment that poisons our Spirit and depresses our Soul. We are at the junction, the crossroads were we can plunge into despair and grief or swim into the bliss of happiness, forgiveness, and Love. There are two experiences that toil in our mind as warring enemies, incompatible, and viciously opposed to one another-the negativity, doubt, and pain of the past, or the hope, excitement, and the promise of peace of our future.

This crossroad is our present-where the summation of our experiences, beliefs, hopes and dreams move our consciousness into eternity. So where are we going and how are we going to get there if we continue to hold emotional baggage of unresolved or unaccepted issues? Simply we are going to Let GO and hold on to the One Thing, Idea, Principle, Purpose, and Person that is Eternal, God Himself. Our Family, Our love Ones, our Best Friends will disappoint us, hurt us, or even betray us to where we become cold and bitter and lose faith that God upholds a Moral Justice that rewards honor, loyalty and trust to Righteousness.

How do we let go when we want to atone? How do we Let Go when we want forgiveness or want the other person to atone and make amends with us? We Let Go! Sometimes that means putting aside our Pride and Reputation and humbling ourselves to God, and our Loved Ones. Sometimes that means turning away from the substitutes of happiness-Drugs, Alcohol, Casual Sex etc. Sometimes that means picking yourself up from the stupor of self-pity, and depression, and getting back active doing the things you love that is Righteous. Letting Go sometimes mean being patient and allowing God to send you someone instead of degrading ourselves at bars and clubs for attention and companionship. Letting GO requires most importantly for us to challenge our Fear of Loneliness, and Rejection if we turn ourselves completely to the Originator of the heavens and Earth.

Letting Go requires us to stand on the rock of our Morality, Faith, and Purpose. We can’t Let Go feeling like we have no one or nothing to turn too. We all need to feel secure emotionally and physically. The Trial, the temptation of our lower Selves to rationalize immorality, and even hypocrisy occurs when we are faced with the apparent lack of genuine companionship. We begin to gravitate toward whoever shows us attention good or bad because of our sense of insecurity when left alone to face our thoughts of rejection and humiliation.
We need not fret or worry any longer because that rock of Faith we stand on allows us to Let Go and heal our hearts from our past transgressions while allowing us time to qualify ourselves to Love the way God Intended. Where the Love is Free from the strings of doubt, suspicion, and impatience. Learning to Love again is allowing God to make you feel innocent and deserving enough of another opportunity to be happy with someone no matter your current circumstances. One of the toughest challenges we have in this process is our desire for someone else to pick up where the other person left off denying ourselves the opportunity to have a clean slate and a fresh start. I know Letting Go is not easy and for many it takes a lifetime if ever but we have an opportunity to do it right now. But you can’t do it without God’s Help; it is impossible. Al Green sung about it and many people have tried unsuccessfully to replace their love ones without turning to the Creator, to heal us. The first thing to do is realize that it is a process that starts off with a commitment to self-discipline and steadfastness.
Accept your feelings. Know when you are under siege and subject to an emotional breakdown and call out to God to deliver you at that moment. Exercise, pray regularly, and Turn your life into a charitable expression of your gratitude to our Savior. Set yourself a 90 day course of action where you keep a journal and track your progress. Let it be your Resurrection Report Card where you give updates to yourself with emotional progress reports. The Success of our Lives is contingent on us achieving permanent happiness and peace. If we Let Go and Learn to Love again with God backing us He will protect our Hearts and allow us to find peace, love, and tranquility inside and with others once again.

Thank you for Reading and I hope I have helped inspire you to Learn to Love again,

I love you all,
Brother Jameel Muhammad
Founder Webmaster
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www.noiyouth.org
www.makingmyidentity.wordpress.com

Learning to Love pt 6 “Words to Live By”

Enjoying Peace

In the Name of Allah, Who comforts the Soul and gives it
Everlasting Peace

Learning to Love pt 6
“Words to Live By”

As-salaam-alaikum,

I compose this on a dawn of a New Year struggling, striving, yet committed to be found practicing what I preach. These are sayings that I have authored personally to take to heart because they are in essence spiritual food to feed the wounded Soul striving to be upright in a wicked world.

-Letting Go and Let God means isolating ourselves in our weakest moments and earnestly calling on the God we believe in to deliver us from our painful circumstances.

-Releasing ourselves from the bondage of sin is coming face to face with our worst nightmare-Our disappointment.

-There was a time when The Originator desired another Being like Himself. Loneliness is now required for all of us to conquer to Know Him who Created Himself with no Consort or Companion.

-Guilt will destroy you if do not know how to forgive yourself if no one else will. Atone SINCERELY to God First, Yourself second and your loved ones third. If your loved ones do not forgive you don’t try to make them you have done all you can do but be patient and leave it in the hands of Allah.

-Drugs, Alcohol, or Sex or any Combination thereof has never effectively soothed a broken heart. You will be tortured with guilt afterwards and wish you would have just faced your problems clear-minded or celibate.

-Striving to be Righteous is not Perfection it is the humble practice of removing all obstacles that stand in your way

-Men it is better to cry than to lie to yourself and others that you are not in pain. Release your tears because Allah counts every drop shed of the Righteous.

-Even a hypocrite good deeds will be rewarded so don’t waste time judging the heart of others especially when you have not exceeded them in works.

-Only a Living God that is a Man can hear your prayer and have the Power, Compassion, and Mercy to come to your aid when you need Him the most.

-The Greatest Love is unconditional like a Mother loving her Child. Real Love is Eternal regardless to time, place, or circumstance.

-Anger is a broken wish that destroys its carrier from the inside.

-Anger is an emotion that requires complete adherence. If unbalance we can destroy our lives and the lives of others to harbor it.

-Anger must be channel to positive aggressive behavior to allow reason to enter into consciousness. Exercise is one of the best methods to channel it. Doing a Creative Task is another.

Acceptance of a situation requires acknowledgement of the actual facts. Avoid appeasing your Ego or you will succumb to anger easily.

-Hate is the opposite of Love. You can’t Hate that which you have never loved. It takes an incredible amount of negative energy to hate anything because it requires a destructive Nature to channel it.

-There is a time to defend yourself and go to war. Allah hates a coward that will not defend him/herself when being attacked unprovoked.

-You don’t have time to debate Who Is God when facing your death. Decide who He is to you so He can be of an Empowering Source before it is too late.

-A sincere Pray will calm the grieving heart. Read your choice of Scripture afterwards to talk to Him. I prefer the Holy Quran because that is what I am most comfortable with.

-Run towards the pain in your life to face it head on. Go through it committed to overcoming it Only with God’s Help and no substitute.

-Morality is the ladder to spirituality. To transcend the flesh it must be mastered and overcome.

-Loving a moral law is to derive personal satisfaction from practicing it and it is detach from vanity.

-The Restrictive Law of Islam gives us the FREEDOM to be Righteous when we have been in bondage to our sin and weakness.

-Every one is capable of some type of Creativity because it is the Signature Gift of God in us.

-There is no One more Powerful than a Determine Will posses by a Discipline Righteous Person.

I hope these words have inspired you to be a stronger upright person. They were composed as I turned within myself to meet and overcome the obstacles in my life. They are the thoughts that have comforted me in my time of distress and disappointment. Let the New Year Impress upon you an unparallel commitment to Self-Improvement and Positive change. Let this be the Year we Become the Change we wish to see.

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You can read the previous “Learning to Love” series by visiting my blog www.makingmyidentity.wordpress.com
Your brother,
Jameel Muhammad
Webmaster,Founder
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www.noiclassifieds.com
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Our Culture Creates Our Community

Our Community

In the Name of Allah
Who came in the Person of Master Fard Muhammad
To give us our Righteous Identity to build our Civilization

“Our Culture creates our Community”

As-salaam-alaikum

What is the Nation of Islam’s Culture? Simply it can be defined as the beliefs, attitudes, and lifestyle characteristics we posses within the Nation of Islam. What is our Culture based on? It is based on The Supreme Wisdom, and the teachings of the Honorable Elijah Muhammad as taught and represented by The Honorable Louis Farrakhan. Well is that it? No! We all have a profound impact personally on how it is to be interpreted to the outside world through the unique expression of our lives.

Why does it need to be defined? We are ultimately responsible for building a Community based on our culture for ourselves and our children so we can be free to live within a protected environment to cultivate our attributes in peace and security. We need to be able to know and express what it is because it is the expression of Islam put into the fine language of our collective behavior. It is the natural progression of the word of Allah taking form into a Cultural outfight that is indicative to the principles of civilized behavior.

Our identity as Muslims beckons now for us to establish residential communities to properly segregate ourselves from the filth of a decadent society to express our Culture and Self-Reliance. We are at the period of time where we must set up the clean glass of civilization against the dirty glass of contemporary society to further prove the greatness of the God we represent.

Our homes, our schools, our neighborhoods, our Community must become a sign of the world that will exist after the removal of the mischief maker from our planet earth. We can no longer bottle up our artistic, architectural, and intellectual creativity because we lack sufficient Muslim residential environments to express them anymore.

Within our Nation there is a need to continue to teach our people the truth and a need to set-up a civilization to flourish our culture for our children. They are as interconnected to our survival as the Spirit is to the body where one cannot exist in life without the other. I was born in the Nation of Islam and my heart and purpose lies within helping establishing our civilization intellectually as well as physically. We will have to marry the value of fulfilling the needs of today with the strategic planning of tomorrow.

We must provide adequate housing for ourselves and our people that establish our way of life and help secure the needs of our people. By having a clear concept of what our Culture is we will become empowered to desire more of a measure of sovereignty to complete our mission which is to help resurrect our people from mental death. If you would like to live within a Community that is established with our unique Culture let me know. If interested please contact me to sign up for the housing petition formatted to help us found out who is interested in living together in a Righteous environment that is safe, secure and affordable.

Please sign up and become a member of www.NOIclassifieds.com so our Community can support your business with your online presence.

Support www.NOIyouth.org we have our own online community for our youth safe from online predators so we should support the youth. IT’S ALL ABOUT THE YOUTH

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Contact me at littleelijah@yahoo.com for more housing information.
Note the artwork is by a internationally respected cool Muslim artist name Samuel Muhammad AKA Sam Renaissance

I love you all,

Brother Jameel Muhammad
Founder and Webmaster
www.noiclassifieds.com
www.noiyouth.org
www.makingmyidentity.wordpress.com