I NOVEMBER 23, 1^ RELIGION 9 I By Scott Johnson /nk Staff Writer The Nation of Islam’s concept of the hereafter is quite simple - there isn’t one. In Christianity, the Bible teaches that after one dies, the spirit will leave the body and will either bum eternally in Hell or rise and live a peaceful life in Heaven. The Nation, however, believes that spiritual resurrection is impossible and that one can only be resurrected mentally. When brothers and sisters in the Nation of Islam speak of mental resurrection, they are talking about the re-awakening of the mind of the black man and black woman, which is currently dead. Blacks have, and continue to be, oppressed mentally because we are being controlled by the whitf man. No matter how afrocentric you claim to be, you are still living in a world which is dominated by the white man. We currently live in a world that is full of war, violent crimes, drugs and poor educational systems. That is attributed to the system which was started and is controlled by a devil-like entity. The Honorable Elijah Muhammad who carried and spread the word of Allah who appeared in the form of Master Fard, took it upon himself to make the black man and woman realize who the true enemy is. Although we, as blacks, are re sponsible for our direct actions, we are not responsible for the system which has and continues to put us in an oppressive situation. Brothers and Sisters of the Na tion of Islam are taught to provide and support the black community because we cannot trust those who, a little more than a 100 years ago, had us working on their plantations. So you may wonder, why the white man has tried to oppress the black man and woman, and you may wonder how the white man came to power in a world which was previously dominated by blacks. Well, in “Message to The Black Man in America,” the Honorable Elijah Muhammad tells the story of The Creation of the Devil: Moving Beyond The X Part Three the creation of the devil (the white man) as he learned it from Master Fard. Six thousand and six hundred years ago, this world gave birth to a God named Yakub. Mr. Yakub, as he is referred to by the Honorable Elijah Muhammad, was bom out of a population which was amongst the 30 percent dissatisfied. of the population. He did this by teaching Islam and promising luxu ries to those who followed him. Yakub promised his followers that one day he would make people work for them. As Yakub’s group of followers grew, the authorities in the area became afraid of the influence of his teachings. And it wasn’t long “No matter how afrocenttic you ilaun to be, you are stiU Uving in a world which is dominated by the white inan.” These 30 percent were very un happy with the way the world was, and the remaining 70 percent were satisfied with the state of the world. Yakub was bom about 20 miles outside of the holy city of Mecca. At the age of six, Yakub told his uncle that one day he would pro duce a group of people who would destroy. And from this moment on, Yakub knew why he was put on this earth—to kill and destroy and make life miserable for the righteous (the black man and the black woman). Yakub was extremely smart, and by the age of 18 he had finished all of the colleges and universities in his nation. Yakub loved to study science, and he spent a lot of time studying genes. After years of s&idying, Yakub learned that he had two genes in his body. One gene was black and the other one was brown. Yakub fig ured that if he were able to separate the black gene from the brown gene, then he could graft the brown gene into its final stage which is white. With this technique, Yakub knew that he could create a race of people who had this white gene and that this new race could control the black nation. Yakub sought to gather follow ers amongst the dissatisfied portion before the king had Mr. Yakub ar rested. When Yakub was brought be fore the court, he made a deal with the king. In exchange for the neces sities of life and the tools to siart a civilization, Yakub agreed to leave the nation and take his followers with him. So Yakub and his 60,000 fol lowers left the nation and sailed until they came to “Pelan,” which is “Patios” in the Bible. Yakub was selected as King of the Island, and he chose doctors and ministers as his top workers. Yakub came up with and utilized a plan which would weed out all of the blacks in Pelan and start the foundation of a race of whites. When people in Pelan wanted to get married, they had to go to the doctor for a blood test. If the two blood samples were okay, then the couple could proceed to get mar ried. Yakub instructed the doctors to tell all couples who had either all black genes or part black and part brown genes that they could not marry, and that only couples who had all brown genes could marry. If, by chance, a black baby was bom it would be killed; however, if the baby was brown it was said to be a holy baby. After 200 years, Yakub had got ten rid of all of the black babies. After another 200 years, his nation consisted of all red and yellow people. And finally, after another 200 years, Mr. Yakub had finished his creation of an all-pale white race. All members of the new race were very white with real blue- col ored eyes. In addition, they were corrupt and were guilty of lying and killing. The idea that black is bad was prominent in Pelan, so the new white race were inherently brought up to hale blacks. After some time on the island of Pelan, the whites went back to their original nation to take over. They were instructed by their leader at the time to cause havoc in the nation so that there would be a lot of killing and fighting between black.s. The whites were successful in their attempts to divide and conquer because they managed to upset the natural peace of the black nation by putting one against the other. Eventually, the King of the na tion realized that it was the white devils who had transformed his good- natured people into a fight ing breed, and had the white devils exiled to Europe. The history of the creation of the white man, according lo the Nation of Islam, is much longer; however, above are the essentials. The Hon orable Elijah Muhammad, like many scientists today, realized that the first people on this earth were the black man and the black woman. Elijah Muhammad and the fol lowers of the Nation of Islam have tried to reveal the Uiith of the cre ation of the while man which has been a secret for thou.sands of years now. It is okay not to believe the story of Yakub, but ask yourself a couple of questions and think about the possible answers. Why is it that society continues to teach us that Adam and Eve were while ifit is overwhelmingly proven that blacks were the first people on this earth? If Adam and Eve were white, then how did they accomplish the genetically impossible task of cre ating black human beings? Why is it that the whites in pre- Medieval Europe were known as a savage and barbaric race, when at the same time the blacks in Africa lived in a very cordial society? And finally, how docs a race (whites) hold the majority of power in a world which predominantly consists of people of color? 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