Words: Masterpieces of Limitation

By Abdul-Rahmaan Abd-Raheem Muhammad

WORDS MASTERPIECES OF LIMITATION AS-SALAAM-ALAIKUM! This book of poetry you are about to be exposed to is designed to enhance your mind, enlighten your spirit, evolve your consciousness, and enrich your soul. Your desire to ever completely read this entire book of poetry is not the concern of the writer. What you gain from whatever you read and truly understand will be your blessing and your reward. The writer is seeking to share with you his periods of enhancement during sixty-six years of mental involvement, spiritual enhancement, and religious enlightenment. These motivations were based on his engagement with the teachings of the Honorable Elijah Mohammed and his son, W. D. Muhommed, following the revelations to Prophet Muhammed (PBUH). What you do with this book of poetry is on you; what you dont do with this book of poetry is also on you. May the blessing of the CREATOR be with you and your family. Thanks for your consideration. WA-ALIKUM-AS-SALAAM! ABDUL-RAHMAAN ABD-RAHEEM MUHAMMAD

• Language: English
• Publisher: Xlibris US
• Release date: Aug 6, 2010
• ISBN: 9781450097499

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Contents

DEDICATIONS

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

FOREWORD

PREFACE

BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH OF ABDUL-RAHMAAN ABD-RAHEEM MUHAMMAD

WORDS OF PEACE AND HAPPINESS

WORDS

CREATIONS

MAN

FLIGHT

LET THERE BE

SERENITY

FEELING

CHANGE

CONCEPTION

IMPACT

GRATITUDE

FREEDOM

UNDERSTANDING

SELFHOOD

CONFLICT

OVER DO

CHALLENGE

FALSE

JUSTICE

COURAGE

LIMITATION

IN MEMORY

ROLLING RIDGE O ROLLING RIDGE

1 KING I

THE WIND

IN LOVE FOOL

SO CALLED BLACK BROTHERS & SISTERS

WORDS OF CONSCIOUSNESS AND STRUGGLE

BLACK MAN BLACK MAN

GETTING OUT

NIGGER

1971

PRESCRIPTION FOR INSTITUTIONAL RACISM

I WAS

VICTIM OF SOCIETY

DEATH BE NOT MERCIFUL

CALL OF THE BLACK VET

WOUNDED KNEE DON’T HURT

HILLS AND FOREST NOT FOREST HILLS

CANARSIE

DO DAY CARE

THEY STILL SAID I WAS LAZY

I COOKED

WELL DONE

GHETTO COOKING

STARVATION

FEED THE OLD PEOPLE

COOKING OR BURNING

OFF OUT OUT

SOCIAL WORKER-SOCIAL WORKER

JUST LOOK WHAT WE GOT

BLACK ADMINISTRATOR

TALK AIN’T WHERE THE ACTION IS

MRS. MILLER’S INTERVIEW AND ENLIGHTENMENT

YOU SAY YOU DON’T WANT TO CALL ME BLACK

WRIGHT WAS RIGHT

SOME NIGGERS I’VE KNOWN

NEGRO

WORDS FROM THE FIRST PERIOD OF DEVELOPMENT

 BE A MUSLIM

YOU WANT TO BE A CHRISTIAN

MUHAMMAD KNOWS

LOST-FOUND EGGHEAD

 DEVIL TALK

MUHAMMAD SPEAKS

ELIJAH MUHAMMAD: THE MENU OF BLACKNESS

THE MESSENGER SAID

LEARN BABY LEARN

STOP JIVING BLACKMAN

EDUCATION

ELIJAH MUHAMMAD HAS CAPTURED THE CHARACTER

TO BE OURSELVES

THEM FOLKS ARE NIGGER LOVERS

MUHAMMAD’S WHITING H&G

LIVING IN A WHITE EXPERIMENT CALLING IT A BLACK EXPERIENCE

ELIJAH MUHAMMAD THE GREATEST AND LAST MESSENGER TO BLACK AMERICA

MUHAMMAD’S TEMPLE OF ISLAM #7E

DO NOT MOURN FOR ELIJAH MUHAMMAD

WHY QUESTION DEATH

PROCESSING BROTHER

THE BROTHERHOOD OF THE FOI

NATIONS OF THE WORLD TAKE HEED!

TRUE BELIEVERS TAKE HEED

MUHAMMAD’S   APPRECIATION   DAY

DEATH    IS   FOR   THE   LIVING   DEAD

LIGHT BEHIND THE X

FROM SLAVE NAME TO X

WORDS OF ENLIGHTENMENT

THE MENTAL UNCONSCIOUSNESS OF THE SOCIALLY CONSCIOUS

IMMACULATE CONCEPTION-GESTATION-DELIVERY

 MISSION IMPOSSIBLE

BLACK THINKER-WHITE THOUGHTS

SOME FOLKS NEED

EVOLVE YOU MIGHTY NATION

BLACK HEAD WHITE BODY

NOT LIKE A FLOCK OF SHEEP

POWER OF THE PRESS

PRESS POWER

MIND TIME

WHOSE MIND AM I

WHITEY IN THE TEMPLE

FIGHT FIRE WITH FIRE

SELF-CULTURE

WHITE CHRISTIAN THEOLOGY IS TRICKNO1OGY AND PSYCHOLOGY

EMANCIPATED FROM THE WILL TO LIVE

CAN NOT BEAT ALLAH GIVING

DIVINE UNDERSTANDING

WORDS OF UNDERSTANDING LIBERATION AND SALVATION

ALLAH MUST FREE YOU

BIG MAC—BIG APPLE—BIG TROUBLE

JEREMIAH

WHAT IS YOUR EXCUSE

ONE CREATOR-ONE CREATION-ONE LIFE AND NATURAL LAW

THE REAL JESUS

YOU NEVER WANTED TO DEAL WITH ISLAM

STANDING OUTSIDE OF THE ENVIRONMENT

FOR MY PEOPLE BURIED IN THE BIBLE

PHYSICALIZED

WORD OF GOD

RHYTHM—RHYME—PARALLELISM

BIBLE OUT OF CONTEXT

WORD IMPLOSION

DEDICATIONS

I, Abdu1-Rahmaan Abd-Raheem Muhammad, dedicate my book of poetry to my understanding wife Sahirah Kameela for her unselfish consideration, undying support, unlimited commitment and unre1inquishing constructive criticism.

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

For the ability to write these poems I thank Allah; for the motivation to gain knowledge of self I thank the Honorable Elijah Muhammad; for the enlightenment to grow stage by stage in the universal understanding of the reality that words make people, I thank Allah for the blessing of Imam Warith Deen Muhammad

FOREWORD

ABDUL-RAHMAAN ABD-RAHEEM MUHAMMAD:

BEATING THE DRUM

He leads us on to the sinuous syncopation of symphonic rhythms. Life and love have no separation in these beats. The discordant heightens and uses our sensibilities, while much sweetness are contained within.

Out of time and out of space has been the invisible man. Yet Abdu1-Rahmaan’s visibility and viability have the form, structure and basics that pervade the man and re-create the man. That man has been and is through the many sons of our loins—our recreation.

The flow and unity of his poetry speaks to our kinship. The kinship of healing, dealing, sharing and caring. He beats a clashing, clanging, comforting, banging, pulsating, booming and all-embracing drum!

Through his sounds, let freedom guide your choice for our rhythms to weld and our beings to unify.

Atkins Preston

PREFACE

In the following pages you will experience the evolution of a poet and his poetry. The purposes of this book are to bring enlightment to growing minds; to provide, so far as possible, a poetic view of the evolutionary stages of growth and development of a former Christian who became a follower of the teachings of the Honorable Elijah Muhammad in the Nation of Islam, and a follower of the leadership of Imam Warith Deen Muhammad in the American Muslim Mission, submitting his will to Allah, the Holy Quran, and the Sunna of Prophet Muhammad (PBUH).

It should be known that throughout these stages of growth my sole search has been a search for one thing, and one thing only. That thing is truth. In these pages are condensed many important statements of truth and religious fact, thanks to the blessings of Allah.

I advise that you read this book through the first time without attempting to master its contents. Then, re-read it carefully in the light of the knowledge that comes to you from first reading. As you read, note the levels of growth, stage by stage, that Allah blesses the writer to encounter.

It should also be known that there is no conscious effort to please the reader for monetary considerations. The value of this book is not represented by the nominal price at which it is sold. My desire in writing these poems has been to relate the TRUTH as I have been blessed to perceive it during my journey of life.

Abdu1-Rahmaan Abd-Raheem Muhammad

BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH OF ABDUL-RAHMAAN ABD-RAHEEM MUHAMMAD

Born on February 10th, 1944, in Hattiesburg, Mississippi as Andrew Sylvester Thomas. He was the product of an out of wedlock teen age pregnancy. His mother, Elnora Jackson was 13 years old when he was born. Elnora was informally adopted by the Jackson Family after being abandoned in a New Orleans Hospital. The Jackson family moved from New Orleans, La. to Hattiesburg, Mississippi shortly before the birth of the baby. Soon after the birth Elnora and her child, whose name was Andrew, moved in with the parents of Elnora’s adoptive father. Both Elnora and her baby were then raised by her grandparents Sylvester and Mattie McClourign, known to the family and the Palmers Crossing community as Big Dad and Maw-Tumple.

Elnora or Baybay as she was known by everyone was a very affectionate mother to her child. She subsequently married Johnnie Adams, and they had two daughters, Irma Louise who was named by her brother, and Lorine. A fourth boy born prior to the girls died soon after birth.

Early on in the late 40’s, the marriage had ended and the mother and two young daughters returned to Mississippi A