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
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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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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.

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I love you all,

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Feeling like a Muslim

Our Community

In the Name of Allah, The Healer, The Source of Life, The Master of His Creation

I bear witness that Allah came in the Person of Master Fard Muhammad, The Honorable Elijah Muhammad is His Messenger and Christ and that the Honorable Louis Farrakhan is His Divine Reminder

As-salaam-alaikum,

How do you feel today? Do you feel like a Muslim? Are you thinking like a Muslim? Talking and acting like a Muslim?

A Muslim is one who submits and surrenders One’s will to the Will of Allah.
One of the characteristics of a Muslim is to be stress-free. The Honorable Minister Louis Farrakhan teaches that stress is bought on by derelict or failure of duty. The stress I am referring is not the natural stress that occurs when we are face with a task to do in our lives but the stress bought on by worrying or guilt from our Self-accusing Spirit. This stress burdens us and brings us out of a state of peace. Being at peace with your Righteous Self Allah is Islam.

Feeling like a Muslim requires our emotions to be focus intently on attaining God-consciousness. That means our focus and awareness is directed to our Higher-selves which enables our emotions to be subordinated by our Spirit (the Life Force within us). To feel like a Muslim is to purposely think and eat the right foods to induce the desire to return to our natural state as Muslims. Every creature must sustain themselves with the food that is in its environment. If we chose to sustain ourselves with mental and physical foods in negative environments we are directing our Life-Force (Spirit) to an unnatural bondage and slavery to our lower selves. (Clubs bars, etc.)

(The environment is subject to the atmosphere created by the dominant thoughts of the Son of Man inhabiting it.)

Our Lower selves were made in fact to be subordinate to our Higher-Self submitting completely to the will of the Highest aspect of our Being. To feel like a Muslim is to enjoy studying our emotions and drives so we can Master them and subject them to the will of our Highest Being-Allah, who came in the person of Master Fard Muhammad, a Man, to show and prove the latent potential in all of us. His emotions are fully directed on exercising the Supreme Will of the Creator which involves personally being happy, confident, and at peace. When we feel like a Muslim we are embodying the will to grow to exercise Godhood. (Self-Mastery and the study and practice of Divine Will and Power through Universal Consciousness)

Don’t we all want to be happy and peaceful in a crazy world? Try practicing Islam taught to us by the Messenger for a Month and tell me how you feel. Watch and witness your demeanor and attitude change to make you feel more confident and happy even when you’re alone. Write to me at info@noiyouth.org or to www. Makingmyidentity.wordpress.com and leave a comment if you want the public to see your testimony.

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“Accepting our Divinity”

In the Name of Allah the Beneficent, the Merciful,

Learning to Love again pt 5

“Accepting Our Divinity”

As-salaam-aliakum,

I wrote this article because I have been greatly unjust to myself running from my own divinity and purpose. Because I am in a position to teach does not mean that I am not in the classroom of love myself learning as I grow and make mistakes so we might all be inspired and motivated to Learn to Love the Right way and not the way that constantly leads to pain, sorrow, and heartbreak. The subject today is about accepting the divinity that is in each and every one of us.

What makes us lie, betray and, become dishonest to the ones we love? Is it because we are scared to trust that Allah (God) will reward our faith? Why do we blame others for not doing our purpose? Do we hold our apparent lack of titles, post, or positions and indicators of our righteous, moral, and civic responsibility? Should we wait for that job, car, house, girlfriend, boyfriend, spouse, as an authorization to be true to ourselves and our family?

The heart must accept its relationship to the Creator to have any measure of faith. Without an inkling of understanding of the full reality of Allah we must still have of faith in what we struggle to comprehend of His Infinite Love and Compassion for US. By accepting Him in the Reality of a Protecting Friend (Al-Wali) that can hug us and love us when no one else can we are truly exercising faith in Him. The awareness of our divinity is our connection to His Presence. When we are being sneaky and conniving it is His love for us that allows us to be exposed, not to degrade us but to uplift us with the assurance that is Allah that manifests all truth.

Learning to Love again is not just about suffering as a victim of circumstance it is about accepting responsibility for our Duty to Allah and our Love ones and how we have fallen short and must do better to have peace. Accepting our Righteous Nature is not an actual fact that can be shelved for conversational purposes. It is the only path to achieve lasting peace because neither money, nor fame has ever completely satisfied one’s Soul. Accepting our Divinity is taking our crown of Righteous Nobility and wearing it with the honor of a King and the humility of a servant. Allah can destroy us for our misdeeds through the hatred of others or Nature if he was not merciful and compassionate for the believers. He will let those who He doesn’t care about seemingly get away with all kinds of dirt and discipline us quickly for even a bad thought to Manifest His Active Presence in our affairs. When we can accept the divinity in ourselves we can start to recognize it, appreciate it, and treat other people like we should view ourselves.

We must stop looking for people to occupy our time and turn to Allah in Solitude if we are to reestablish that bond with God that is greater than any pain that can be inflicted. I am your brother and I am learning to Love again with humility and patience. We must stay away from the herd of negative people both male and female that will suggest to us like a slinking devils to be dishonest to ourselves and love ones out of their apathy for moral uprightness and family. Those who have denied their own divinity will always drag us to the same immoral depravity if we let them. Our Divinity is the Gift we have to connect to the Creator’s Will. To ignore it or worse to deny it by our actions is to sentence our lives to empty existence of vanity that will forever be dependent on the approval of others by what we have.

We are to Love Allah with all our heart and soul and ask Him to guide our heart back to where it belongs. Ask Him to forgive us for our shortcomings and make us be better. Stay away from philosophies that absolve personal responsibility and a God Centered approach to relationships. Men don’t completely know Women and Women don’t completely know Men so it is trifle to engage in discussions to science up the other sex as if genuine sincerity was not the only way to have an eternal loving relationship. We must study ourselves and fall in love with our Higher-Self or Divinity to approach love with maturity. Our Natures complement one another because of our differences and similarities. Our souls and nature demand a polarity in the opposite sex that will MAKE us be better people.

I know we are all sick of seeing Homosexuality as the NEW relationship alternative. There is no future in that lasting. Men and Women not only need each other to physically procreate but to spiritually mature to connect to the One God who created us in pairs in the first place. To run from that reality is to run from the purpose we were created. An unbalance appetite for Sexual Gratification will ruin us and reduce us to the level of a beast-even lower-and we will be blinded to the Divinity within the opposite sex that God put there as a guide to help us behold the attributes of Allah unfold in the experience of Loving one another.

This article is a dedicated to encourage all of us who run like Jonah from our Mission

I love you all

Brother Jameel Muhammad

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The Origin of Needs

Can You Find Your Needs in this Picture

In the Name of Allah, The Independent, Irresistible, The Self-Sufficient
Who Created Himself out of Supreme Love

The Origin of Needs

As-salaam-alaikum,

In the Womb of Space according to the Honorable Elijah Muhammad teachings, existed Allah as a latent motionless Divine Force. He existed in this form for an immeasurable amount of time. In an inexplicable moment to manifest Himself, a spiral-type motion was made resembling the number 6 which marks according to the teachings the beginning of time. This occurred seventy-six trillion years ago.

I will attempt to try to capture a divine moment of theological history to relate it to ourselves and what we go through every day. From this spiral-type motion a need was born that all of creation must revolve around and be dependent on Him for Existence. Everything that was, is and will, exist within the Creator’s Will to Perfect Himself and Creation. This need is binding, compulsive, nonnegotiable; it is a Divine Right of Him for us to exist through Him, The Architect of the Universe. To an egotistical individual there is an illusion that there is some other need for some other entity that is independent of the first motion of the first spark of light in which all things manifest. We look at our circumstances and think that we need something that we are indebted to anything beside Allah. We think we need drugs, sex, alcohol, vices and people to validate our divinity, our right and freedom to exist happily.

Out of that divine moment the God created a vacuum of need that revolved around Him. It is also called an Atom and it became the root of His physical body which took six trillion years to build up. This vacuum of need is now as expansive as the universe because all in creation is dependent upon sustenance for its existence. Before His spiral-type motion, there was no need, no purpose; there was nothing in the realest sense because He is the Creator of Needs.

So we can lose our home, spouse, our love ones, and our jobs, whatever and realize what or Who we really Need in this world is our Remembrance and Connection to Allah. Everything in Creation is replaceable and does eventually become replaced but the Eternal Will of Allah. No matter how hurt we are or how much we swear we need something personally we can always imagine our life without it. Because all needs is an illusion outside of Allah as the Center. We need sustenance for our Life but the sustenance we need is also dependent for its sustenance so therefore we can reasonably say that all of our real Needs are rooted in Allah. None of us can get out this circle no matter how emotional and disappointed we feel at times.

Ha but guess what, we can want whatever our imaginations conjures up and that is where the danger lies. In wanting the American Dream, Good homes and Luxury, we all experience disappointment in attaining what we want when we want it. We fight and kill each other because we have difficulty in balancing our needs from our wants. We go from” I want that person” to “I can’t live without that person or there substitute” very quickly. Yes all vices are substitutes for what we really want in our life. We want people and things and when we can’t have them the way we want them we turn to other people or things to give us the allusion that we are experiencing something equal or better. We know inside if something or someone is a substitute or a genuine desire out of pure innocence and marvel. That is why I love Islam a Self-Conscious Religion that proves itself to its practitioner. You can lie to everyone else about what you need and what you want but Allah who created the First Need. So why should we torment ourselves running from deity to false god trying to satisfy a need that can only be satisfied by complete recognition and submission to Our Creator.

Are we scared of looking Religious? That people won’t like us anymore or want to be around us if we are so-called “spiritual”. We are all unique individuals with different personalities and gifts so no one can look spiritual in the truest sense. We have to BE like God from the inside. Our Character must reflect His Character to find any measure of lasting peace. Personally that is something that I have had to battle with because when people meet me that read my writings they look astonish because I don’t “look” like a traditionally spiritual or religious person. Allah shapes a person from the inside out so it is senseless to judge one’s outer appearance with no consideration of their inner Spirit that shapes them and gives them form. Yet we must go on something so the appearance of a thing is all we have until it manifest its attributes.

The first and Only Need resides and revolves around Allah the Creator of Needs. We naturally have wants and needs but should balance them within ourselves to live less disappointing lives. When we can’t get what we want we should not look to anyone or anything as a substitute for that feeling because we will never find happiness. Factoring in the disappointment that is in all our lives the only thing that is absolutely irreplaceable is our Faith and Love in Allah to make us feel at peace and happy. Everything and Everybody can be replaced but the Eternal Spirit of God so we should not wish for the impossible. Be happy in needing only One thing in Life (which is rooted in Allah’s Will for us) and let all of our other needs and wants revolve around that One thing and we will be happy guaranteed.

Research gathered from pg 55, 56 of “The Book of God” by True Islam AKA. Dr. Wesley Muhammad and from excerpts of the Honorable Elijah Muhammad 1969 SD address.
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Doing Our Purpose

Create Our Happiness

In the Name of Allah, The Self-Subsisting One who needs no consort,
Who came to us by Himself out of His own Mercy and Power

“Doing Our Purpose”

As-salaam-alaikum,

What do we really want to do with our time? Why do we want to do it? What is our practicing religion and what is our purpose? Tough Questions? They are to us who probably never take the time to even consider an original point of view. “Accept your own and be yourself” Those words revolutionized religious thought forever. It captured the sentiment of the first God, who created Himself out of triple darkness with no magazine article, BET reality show, or Facebook page. He formed Himself out of His own Imagination, purpose, and Will. Have we ever had a private thought that was not based on what other people thought about us? Let’s try to be a little selfish here. Not vain. Can we define happiness for ourselves? Do we know what Real happiness is? DOING OUR PURPOSE? It is a quiet peace that is confirmed when we look at the cruelest, most egotistical judge in our life, the mirror. It is the smile that enters our heart when we are all alone. It is self assuring. Cannot be faked or mocked. It is a quintessential quality of peace-happiness.

We sometimes approach Islam like it is something outside of ourselves that must be given to us. The only thing Islam is intended to do according to the Honorable Elijah Muhammad teachings is take away all the impediments that steer us away from our true Self and true nature. Have you ever been to a Club or around an environment that was unrighteous? You notice how everyone looks around to see who is watching them. That is how you know people are acting unnatural. When you are acting in accord to your righteous nature you don’t care who is watching you. You can’t mimic Creativity and copy your own unique style. It has to come from your imagination. It can be inspired but not given to you just like our purpose.

Only the God Within can give us our purpose. It is not in itself a Title, Post, Position, a Job, or the acquisition of material things although fulfilling our purpose necessitates acquiring these things eventually. We tend to run from our purpose and run to the approval of others. Whether it is at work, the Mosque, on the Street, or our Friends or Family, no group of people will give us the satisfaction that derives personally from doing our purpose. Like our physical life, that is one of the gifts only Allah can give us. So what about the mission of the NOI? It encompasses the purpose of our personal and collective existence to build and enjoy living in a peaceful civilized society through the resurrection of the mentally dead.

It is not a matter of debate. It is the simple flow of life. We are nothing to ourselves as incompetent human beings who offer no service and have no skills or use to our Community. Nobody has to make you feel like that because we will naturally feel like that out of guilt of not justifying our existence. We cannot enter in God’s Kingdom utterly incompetent without and aim and purpose. Our goodness is proportion to our works. Sometimes we view our natural Goodness as a badge of honor that does not requires any tangible output or service to the Community.

Our Charity won’t give us paradise alone unless our entire existence becomes a living testament to uplift ourselves our family, our people and humanity. The funny thing is when we are doing our purpose we feel like we are having too much fun for it to be even considered real work. It does not drag us down it lifts our spirits when we see the fruits of our labor. When I am writing to you I am doing a part of my purpose. It soothes me and comforts me from a long day at work. I love expressing and articulating what God gives me. I marvel at my own creativity, relishing in the Greatness of the Creator who is the author of Gifts.

No Person can do their purpose without deriving satisfaction from doing it. It is does not matter who reads my articles or acknowledge my works. Once I have put Quality in my work I know that it will demand respect and an audience whether I am around to see it or not. That is how I feel about doing my purpose. It reconciles my desire to help people and grow to become influential and great. It unites the lower and higher self to a harmonious agreement that is like the perfect marriage where everybody’s happy.

People can only compensate us for our time but no one can pay us our worth or enough to do our purpose because they can never own that part of us. Actually that is the part of us that cannot be corrupted or made by public opinion. When the Honorable Elijah Muhammad was on the run starting the Nation he didn’t have any money. He rented rooms under aliases and taught people. When the believers wanted a nicer place to meet they pulled their pennies together to get one. The Messenger was so humble doing his purpose. He simply told people the truth about what God taught him face to face.

Become completely isolated with no distractions and think about what you like to do and what makes you happy. Doing our purpose ultimately requires cultivating and expressing our gifts for the service of others. If we can’t find a job doing that then we should make one for ourselves. You can set-up and sell your idea or service at www.noiclassifieds.com for free. People in the NOI want to buy your products and patronize your service if it is worthy and valuable. The Nation needs us to do our purpose to build a community and we need you to find and do your purpose so you can be happy and enjoy a peaceful state of mind.

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I love you,

Jameel Muhammad
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Learning to Love Again – Part 4

In the Name of Allah, The Forbearer, The Life Giver, The One who Created Himself and Embodies His Spirit in Flesh as a Mercy to those of us who are of the Flesh.

As-salaam-alaikum,

Who has had to carry the cross of a broken heart and disappointment in this world? I have. I am sure you have, too. Jokingly, my image consultant was telling me that as a Man you know you have been broken hearted if you have ever cried your eyes out in the fetal position. Whoa! That’s pain! I am sure women can definitely relate to that pain, too. It is indescribably heart-wrenching to experience having your heart broken.

But there is hope in this fog of disappointment. There is a lesson and an opportunity to love again in a way that ultimately brings us closer to Allah (God). When the subject of trust comes up to the chorus of divorcees and the heartbroken it rings a deafening sound of grief and disappointment in the tide of relationships we have experienced. Although we all have our personal definitions of trust, allow me to share a general reference definition to help us look at something that may have caused an ear or two to fall off discussing it already.

Trust has been defined according to The American Heritage® Dictionary as follows: 

1. n. Firm reliance on the integrity, ability, or character of a person or thing.

When we come out of that fetal position we all seem to find solace in the only One Reality in which we can trust that will not be taken away or hurt us and that is the Eternal, Active Will of Allah (God). He understands our pain because of His direct relationship to us. His Spirit dwells within the Flesh so we can relate to Him in us.

When we are Learning to Love Again we are learning how to trust ourselves and each other again. But how do we do that? We have to turn to God in prayer and complete submission to ask Him to release us from the bondage and crippling effects of the pain and guilt we suffer. We are asking God to take us and show us a way, through His Mercy, to be grateful to Whom we can trust, depend and rely completely; God Himself.

Somehow in the darkness of our solitude a smile can muster forth like a rose from the soil of our grief and discomfort. We are alive again and reconnected to the source of life, happiness. and love through our Savior. Even through the pain and disappointment, we are now entering a phase where we are learning to view people through HIM. Forgiveness is now possible. Love is now possible because to Learn to Love Again is to rearrange our thinking. We now place Our God in the center of Our Hearts like the Sun and let the radiance of Our Love of Him shine on others like the planets revolving around us replenishing Life to our wounded, sullen souls.

I know that as Black people, we have been hurt and stepped on by bad relationships. But the purpose is to show us something in ourselves that is human and divine and needs its Creator to guide it and Shape it to its Spiritual Maturity. Our emotional and spiritual immaturity must be disciplined to the point that we don’t take our personal circumstances as a God beside Allah (God). We all want to experience life with as much ease as possible, but our souls beckon to consciously connect to Our Essence in God Himself. When we look up from the circumstances of our lives we see a world; a Universe in Motion that will move without us if we don’t get in synch with the Creator’s Will. We are the Center of nothing. Allah (God) want us to wrap our emotions and our natural desire to be happy and in love through pleasing Him first through our spiritual, moral and civic obligations to one another. When the establishment and the perpetuation of truth and good values are at the center of our desire for personal fulfillment then our love is not suffocating from selfish motives.

So how do you clear your conscious of the negative emotions you have with your current or former loves ones?

The Eight steps of Atonement carried and practiced sincerely and with the guidance and help of Allah (God) is a giant leap in the right direction.

1. Someone must point out the wrong

2. Acknowledgement of wrong

3. Confess the fault; first to Allah (God), then to those offended

4. Repentance; a feeling of remorse or contrition or shame for the past conduct which was wrong and sinful

5. Atonement; meaning to make amends and reparations for the wrong

6. Forgiveness by the offended party; to cease to feel offense and resentment against another for the harm done

7. Reconciliation and restoration; meaning to become friendly and peaceable again

8. Perfect union with Allah (God) and with each other

From: The Pain of Infidelity by Minister Louis Farrakhan (Please review this helpful resource.)

Can or will we learn to trust someone who has hurt us?

Only we can answer that question because it is a question of the heart and desire. But we can trust Allah (God) in people if we allow ourselves to settle on the best parts of their character and make-up. We can support positive actions in one another that help our families and communities no matter how we personally feel about the person initiating it. We can Trust the outcome of Good works and deeds because Allah (God) is the Judge and he will ultimately settle things that we can’t or unable to do. In Learning to Love Again we are learning to build trust on the Only Reality which is God. From there we place our faith and love in Him and allow ourselves to reflect His Love and Compassion in others through Him and His Guidance.

If you are apart of the Learning to Love Again Movement or you are on the journey to love again write me and share your testimony. A broken heart that has Learned to Love Again can help others get on the same road and path.

An addition resource that may be helpful in our journey.

How To Rebuild Trust in a Relationship by Barbara Burgess

Your Brother & Friend,

Jameel Muhammad

Founder/Webmaster NOIyouth.org

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Learning to Love Again, Part 3

In the Name of Allah, The Life-Giver and Restorer of Love, Peace and Happiness in Wounded Souls.

As-salaam-alaikum,

How are you doing, Beloved Believers?  How is your progress in learning to love again, trust again and be truly at peace with yourself and God?  Have you ever notice that you could have all the right sayings in your head and be a good adherer to your faith and still find yourself unable to liberate yourself COMPLETELY of inner turmoil, stress, and sin?  Why is this the case for most of us?

In self-analysis I have realized that we all have deep-seated emotions that we have put in the backs of our minds and have refused to deal with properly.  When you have loved someone and they have hurt you and disappointed you it is healthy for us to give ourselves proper time to heal, meditate and contemplate on what will bring about a complete peace in our lives.

Although we may watch the days on the calendar roll by, if we are not taking the proper steps to alleviate ourselves of the stress, anger, bitterness, guilt and negative emotions associated with our pasts, we are not doing ourselves justice and we are deluding ourselves into believing we are prepared to love again when we are not.

Well how do you know if you are suffering from something?  You check for symptoms.  Do we find ourselves thinking about our past in awkward moments?  Do we find ourselves sadly glued to the couch when we have things to do?  Are we constantly engaging in relationships to occupy our time and keep us from being alone?  Do we commit sin to get away from painful thoughts?  Do we associate ourselves with negative images to reinforce our negative stereotypes of our past loved ones?

If you suffer from any of these symptoms, don’t feel bad.  It does not mean you are a bad or weak person.  We can have the best of hearts and help people all we can and still have to learn to love again so that we can be truly happy.

Your negative experiences are not there to haunt you and torment you forever.  They are there for you to experience and fully appreciate the value of God in your life.

The secret to dealing with pain is to not run from, but towards it.

There are certain thoughts that we are holding and when we deny or suppress them we will feel ashamed of them.  They then depress your Spirit.  Hatred is the opposite of Love and it is dependent on your suppression of your true feelings to fuel its drive in you.

Any hatred or anger you have of a past loved one is a sign that you still love them whether you like it or not.  Oh no, don’t beat me up!  But it is true and it is also natural.  When circumstances arise that lead to two people separating it does not mean that they won’t still have love for each other, no matter what led to the separation.  Didn’t we love being younger?  We don’t have to negate the positive parts of our pasts to accept the fact that they are past.  We have grown older and more mature now.

It is the same with everyone who had a part to play in shaping us and helping us grow into who we are today.  It cannot be overstated for us to accept our feelings and release the negative energy attached to them.  We can then accept the reality of the present and future of our lives.

The hardest thing to do is admit to yourself that something someone did has hurt you and then forgive them for it.  We are approaching the Holy Day of Atonement.  Now is the perfect time to forgive, repent and atone to the people for whom your memory indirectly causes you to act other than yourself more than you would like to admit.

Learning to love again is a process that takes honesty with yourself, God and everybody else, too.  Our success actually depends on us dealing with our negative emotions.  Take your negative emotions and release them.  Then you can help someone else who is going through what you went through so you both can be happy and not bitter with the opposite sex.  If you have ever had your heart broken YOU should join the Learning to Love Again Movement.  Don’t you want to love without limits and conditions again and feel free?  Practice atonement, then spread the Spirit to someone else.  Together, we will Learn to Love Again . . . with each other and Allah’s help.

Your Brother & Friend
Jameel Muhammad
Webmaster, Founder – NOIyouth.org

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The Artist Formally Known as God

In the Name of Allah, The Originator of Beauty, Color, and Patterns; The First Artist to Express Himself and His Incomparable Creativity by the Manifestation of His Light

As-salaam-alaikum,

How many of us are Artist? Are you one? What makes us capable of creativity and innovation? What do you think about changing, influencing or improving the world or making changes within yourself? How do you express God in the language of your individuality? Your answers to these questions points to the “Black oil” bubbling inside each and every one of us. In this world we have equated greatness with popularity and celebrity star power. We have singled out a few among us to love, admire, envy and idolize to validate our false sense of mediocrity that imprisons our potential. The Entertainment and Sports business exalts a few of us to have the masses of us reaching for what is in most cases a physical improbability. We all have talent and are very gifted in unique ways yet, we look to the market to dictate to us what we can produce and what has value. As an executive in a marketing firm I will admit that value is not determined by anything outside of the energy, expertise, dedication, discipline and passion of the producer of its product. In other words, we have bottled up all this stored-up creativity and most of us are scared to death to let it out because we don’t know whether it will sell.

One of the most fulfilling aspects of any Artist’s craft is the ultimate satisfaction of expressing what is truly inside him/her. For example, I love to write to my audience about what concerns me and what I feel will motivate and inspire them to be better people. I try to pour my heart and feelings into every word I say to give praise to the Giver of Gifts, Allah, and to show how much I love you, the Believers. I find so much satisfaction in producing something real and authentic to which we both can feel and relate that I am often willing to forgo a good night’s rest to indulge in my passion.

The Artistic genius resonating within us comes from our Higher-Self. To harness it, we must simply find something we love that agrees with our Higher nature and do it until we become masters at our craft. In the World that God-In-Us is bringing, we will feel like we can actually do what we said we wanted to do when we were 6 years old. We can have multiple careers, hobbies and interests because we won’t let the fear of making money limit our potential. A True Artist must be free to learn and practice their craft until they have mastered it. They must not feel pressured to give their audience what they think they want but always give them an expression of what’s inside of them.

While talking with a Muslim A&R about the sad state of so-called Conscious Hip-hop we lamented at the volume of music that is produced with no real passion, introspection or reflection. The old days of positive rap are gone. Unfortunately, its harbingers have retired or sold out, so we have to reinvent a genuine and creative sound unique for this time. The world is waiting for the reality-peek behind the Righteous Mind and Lifestyle. What makes them happy? What do they do for fun? How are they hurt personally and what have they done to overcome their pain? When the Self- Conscious Artist brings his heart into his music it automatically makes it something of value because it represents a glimpse into Reality. So, automatically the feeling of achievement is produced that tells a story that writes history for the Original Man and Woman of the Universe. Don’t you want to contribute to our Cultural History? Tap into your interest or hobbies and find your passion. You don’t have to be a millionaire to be great but we must manifest the best part of our imagination and will to bring in something new.

“A Lover of the Arts”
Jameel Muhammad
Webmaster, Founder – NOIyouth.org

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