Estimated reading time: 26 minute(s)
By Traci C. Muhammad
There has always been a need to communicate rapidly and accurately. Communication at its core has taken place in two primary formats consistently: conversation (vocalized-sound wave)and written (letters, numbers and symbols). The question is what happens when communication is disrupted at its most critical moment, before it is expressed? Before what is to be communicated is still in its thought stage? The logical question then becomes, what can successfully disrupt thought creation at its inception?
We learn from our Lessons, that they “…started making trouble among the righteous people telling lies. They accused the righteous people causing them to fight and kill once another.” How did it start? With the purposeful corruption of communication, through the skillful use of language, designed to inflict harm and create disharmony. The Holy Qur’an (113:4) warns us to seek refuge in Allah (God), “from the evil of those who cast (evil suggestions) in firm resolutions.”
The dictionary defines a suggestion as ‘the action or process of calling up an idea or thought in someone’s mind by associating it with other things.’ Things or ideas the hearer is familiar with. So, a suggestion, in firm resolution, means that it is an idea or thought called up in the mind of the hearer, that has the effect of convincing the person that what they have heard is a fact. Let us look closely enough at this so that we can see the unseen. The unseen reality here is that, though the suggestion is cast in firm resolution, if there was no basis (foundation) for this verbal parasite to attach to it would die, immediately. What does it attach to then? It attaches to a thought process already held secretly by the person (the hearer) against a person, activity, or thing. Again, the evil suggestion would not find a firm resting place, if no place existed in the person’s thinking already.
Jesus warns Peter (still known as Simon at the time), “…the Lord said, Simon, Simon, behold, Satan hath desired to have you, that he may sift you as wheat.” (Luke 22:31) Perhaps, one interpretation of this profound statement could be that Satan desires to sift and shift our thinking to see what secret thoughts, we hold towards Jesus or other Believers, friends, co-workers or family members. Secret thoughts, those things that hide deep within a person. The Honorable Elijah Muhammad refers to them as a “Leviathan” drawing the comparison to things hidden deep within the ocean. Things that only reveal themselves at a certain depth or when strong storms or vibrations in the form of deep ocean earthquakes force them to the surface.
The Honorable Minister Louis Farrakhan teaches us that the “mind has an atmosphere.” This mental atmosphere produces its own weather patterns, resulting in sunny days, rainy days, cloudy days, etc. In this rich metaphor, the Honorable Minister Louis Farrakhan uses the word days to represent the mood and thought process of the thinker. For example, has someone ever said something to you that changed your whole thought process? This thought process changes you and causes you to go from a happy pleasurable mood to a sour and downcast one. What happened? In this example, either the person’s words struck a chord of familiarity in your thinking because the thought was already present as a secret thought, or they dropped a “seed” on you.
The Honorable Minister Louis Farrakhan gives us the depth of the commonly used statements, “that blew my mind” and “my mind was blown.” He teaches that, “Sometimes you can hear something, and it can blow your mind. Meaning, you are getting an electric current of knowledge that you don’t have a foundation to handle so it blows the circuits (of the mind). Then belief gradually turns to disbelief and hypocrisy.” The ‘thought seed’ that was dropped was in fact a negatively charged idea (evil suggestion) that alternated the electrical current of one’s thought pattern. This altered electrical current produces the effect of heaviness of mind and if unchecked could manifest in physical consequences—even death.
Negative thoughts take away one’s beauty appearance by misdirecting the energy of life into thoughts of death and destruction. Beauty can only be maintained in a positively charged atmosphere. This is the science behind dimly lighted night clubs—negative, deceptive energy lurks in the shadows. When full light is not available, trickery—deception, is easy.
When the Saviour came, He gifted us much. One of the things He gifted us was the precise format for a letter. A letter written in such a way as to never be rejected by the intended reader. A Saviours Letter. The Saviours Letter is written in cursive. Cursive as a term “derives from Middle French cursif from Medieval Latin cursivus, which literally means ‘running’. This term, in turn derives from Latin currere (‘to run, hasten’).” Cursive, by definition means, “written with the characters joined.” Cursive therefore is defined as “any style of penmanship in which characters are written, joined in a flowing manner, generally for the purpose of making writing faster, in contrast to block (printed) letters.”
The Saviour, Master Fard Muhammad (To Whom All Praise is Due Forever), thought of everything. Nothing was left to chance or happens stance. He knew we were disconnected from Him, from ourselves and from each other. He crafted a letter that begins to lay the basis for connectivity-true unity. Nothing flowed for the Blackman and woman. All our activity was disrupted-blocked. When we tried to unite, we were cut off, we were slowed, we were stymied. We couldn’t even unite our own mind within self, living and thinking in chaos—no peace.
Each character in the Saviours Letter represents, metaphorically, the unique character of each person who would answer the call of the “One crying out in the wilderness.” We are all different, yet by His Divine Teaching’s put before all of humanity through the Honorable Elijah Muhammad and His National Representative (Re-Presentation), the Honorable Minister Louis Farrakhan, we could connect and flow together as one. Master Fard Muhammad understood that in physics, to break an atom’s flow of energy, more energy must be added to the atom—the current of energy must be altered. To force the current back to the desired pattern is to destabilize the intended receiver or carrier of the energy, rendering it useless. The intended carrier must be “wooed.” The intended carrier must want the energy and in wanting this energy, they open themselves up to receiving it. All psychological and emotional impediments are removed, and the flow of life returns.
Knowing this, the Saviour starts with a well-placed series of words in mathematical symbolic sequence designed to begin the recalibration of our minds, using three simultaneous levels of cognitive stimulus: concentration, observation, and submission.
Concentration is the “action or power of focusing one’s attention or mental effort.” Observation is defined as “the action or process of observing something or someone carefully…in order to gain information.” Submission means, “the action or fact of accepting or yielding to a superior force or to the will or authority of another person.” When we linguistically collapse all three definitions into one synchronous idiom, one potential reading will lead us to a directive. From this directive, we learn that we must focus all our attention, to gain information through careful observation and when we do this successfully and consistently, we will witness, the manifestation of a superior force through a man to a man. Culminating in the Honorable Elijah Muhammad stating during the Table Talks that we could ask Him “any question you would ask God.” All Praise is Due To Allah!
According to a Washington Post article, published May 7, 2013, “cursive writing is on the decline”. While a survey by Cision PRWeb indicated that 41% of elementary school teachers no longer teach cursive writing. To lose the skill of cursive writing dramatically affects our ability to concentrate, observe and ultimately, to submit. The power of a well-formed thought, clearly transferred to paper, is a critical step in the process of manifestation–creativity.
Cursive writing brings the full focus of the mind and marries it with the act of writing to align thought with actionable steps that can be taken to bring one’s ideas into reality. This inability to align thoughts is a part of the mental frustration and confusion that directly affects communication. If we cannot think in an organized fashion, we cannot articulate our thoughts in a civilized manner. The inability to effectively communicate without the use of foul language (curse words) is a sure sign of mental frustration.
Mental frustration in this instance is the lack of capacity needed to identify emotional constructs that arise along with a thought. From this space of frustration, agitation develops, which can manifest as excessive cursing or the failure to fully communicate pertinent thoughts and feelings all together. Articulation devolves into incomprehensible audible grunts, in the form of curse words spewing forth. Uncontrolled emotional outbursts occur. These uncontrolled emotional outbursts linger long after the verbal confrontation has ended. They live on as regret, embarrassment and shame. To think clearly is to think like Allah (God).
We cannot underestimate the effect of emotional frustration, at the point of thought creation. Consider these words from the Honorable Minister Louis Farrakhan,
“The improper handling of Emotion does not allow us to grow beyond Self. It makes our reasoning subjective and clouds our judgment of individuals, circumstances, and events. It makes us judge individuals, circumstances, and events by how we are affected personally, thus we never see the bigger picture. Improper handling of Emotion makes us judge selfishly.”
Insha’Allah, in our next article, we will go deeper into this topic.
May Allah Bless us all with the Divine Light of Understanding and the continued presence of the Honorable Minister Louis Farrakhan.
Your Sister,
Traci C. Muhammad
