The Healing of the Black Family

By Muhammad Amin

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• Language: English
• Publisher: AuthorHouse
• Release date: Jan 6, 2011
• ISBN: 9781467063364

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DEDICATION

This book is dedicated first to my Father, Mr. Jimmie Lee Johnson Sr. He worked not just two jobs, but sometimes three to provide food, shelter, and warmth for his eleven children. Thank you Dad, I love you, and regret that I was not a better son.

Second, I dedicate this book to my children, I love you all. Danielle and Toni, my first two. Monica and Anitra, my second two, and last, to Charlotte and my only son Joseph Khallid Muhammad Amin

Last, but not least, I dedicate this book to my Mother Charlotte Johnson who in an effort to put us on the right path exposed us to The Church of God in Christ, The Seventh Day Adventist, The Jehovah Witnesses, Catholicism, Baptist, Episcopalian, and finally Islam. I guess her thinking was choose one, and I chose Islam. The teaching of The Honorable Elijah Muhammad as presented to me by The Honorable Louis Farrakhan.

Thank you all

With Love

Muhammad Amin

Acknowledgement

A great thanks to Authorhouse for its unwavering support to see this book through. To: Dr. Ray Hagins, Chief Elder and Spiritual leader of the Afrikan Village and Cultural Center In St. Louis, Missouri, for allowing me to place on the cover of this book a photograph of members of the cultural center and study group he took to Egypt in August, 2007.

Thank you Dr. Hagins, and thanks to that beautiful black family which represents for all of us, The Healing of the Black Family. Also, I would like to thank the poets.

Graveyard Moss, who wrote Boots and Shoes, and I Need Love

Kirk Shack, who wrote My Son, My Son

Ronald E. Jefferson, who wrote I Believe, Pressing On, and The Truth

Charlotte Amin, who wrote Is it Fair, Conscience, In Honor of My Mother, and Someone Special.

Thank You All,

With Love

Muhammad Amin

8 Stages to

ATONEMENT

1)POINT OUT FAULT/WRONG. It is necessary for fault or wrong to be shown to us.

2)ACKNOWLEDGE/ADMIT THE EXISTENCE OF OUR FAULT OR WRONGDOING.

3)CONFESS TO GOD. This will free your soul of the burden of your faults.

4)REPENT. To feel contrition for what one has done or failed to do.

5)RECOMPENSE. We must make amends—compensations—for the wrong(s) committed.

6)FORGIVENESS. We must wipe the slate clean and pardon wrongdoers from the heart—

not just lip service.

7)RECONCILIATION AND RESTORATION. We must become friendly and peaceable, then, return to an original or unimpaired condition.

8)PERFECT UNION. A new bond will be established, a bond that will be made through the will of GOD.

Presented by Minister Louis Farrakhan, to nearly two million black men (and women) at the Million Man March, October 16, 1995, Washington, D.C.

I Need Love

Born into the burning desires of other people.

You must find your way to a truth of your own.

Good and evil, sweet and sour, you learn the difference.

Love and hatred grow up on the same street.

The shock at a death is true as the joy of new life.

Pants or dress, legs or arms, they all have eyes.

Who are you, What is the world, and Where is God?

Birds, bugs and spirits can fly, and all have loves.

What makes love have meaning & What does love do?

Love gives you a reason for living so you can enjoy

the endearing feelings, I Need You.

Graveyard Moss

1995

ATONEMENT

THE HEALING OF THE BLACK FAMILY

BY MUHAMMAD AMIN

APRIL 1996

"In my brain it injures me.

Anger can make you old; yes it can.

Anger will make you sick children.

Anger destroys YOUR soul!"

MARVIN GAYE

ANGER, 1978

Marvin Gaye died April 1, 1984, at the hands of his father in a fit of anger and rage. There is no room for love in the heart when anger, as Marvin said, is burning hot.

"There is no room for rage in there.

There is no room for rage in here.

Ain’t it some place to go to be mad.

’It’s a sin to treat your body bad.

ANGER, it injures me!"

On October 16, 1995, Minister Farrakhan offered eight stages of ATONEMENT as a PRESCRIPTION for the HEALING of the black family. Not unlike Alcoholics Anonymous, a person must first recognize the need for a Physician before he or she can resolve to accept his prescription. Therefore the question becomes, do we need to atone? Is it necessary that we atone, and what is Atonement anyway? Well I looked up the word atone, and Webster’s New World Dictionary states that atone means to make amends for wrongdoing. I think that’s a worthy thing to do, especially if we want to reconcile our differences. Is it necessary that we make amends? I think so. How else can we re-establish friendly relationships? If someone harms you, at the very least you want an apology. You want compensation for your injury. You want to be paid for your pain. Right? That’s only human nature.

Life is full with surprises. Right under atone was of course atonement. But read this definition: an atoning, amends, the Atonement … the redeeming of mankind by Jesus’ death. I wasn’t counting on this. What does Jesus have to do with atonement? So I went to another dictionary, the World Book Dictionary, and here is what it read: "The Atonement, the reconciliation of God with sinners through the suffering and death of Christ. It went on to quote scripture, Romans 5:11: We also joy in God though our Lord Jesus Christ, by whom we have now received the Atonement." Wait a minute. At this point I went to the Qur’an. What does the Qur’an say about Atonement? The Qur’an, in a unique yet simple way, read: "Say: Why does he, [God] then chastise you for your sins?" (Sura 5:18).

Good Question!

If Jesus’ death was an atonement required by God to make amends for our sin, why are we catching so much hell for our wrongdoing today? What if "the Atonement is not in the Death of Jesus, but in the Life" Jesus lived? (The life he lived before he died. Smile.)

Jesus’ life was a perfect example of how we are to live to reconcile ourselves back into the oneness of God. It is living the life of Jesus that redeems us, not for the sake of God, dying the death.

And no soul earns (evil) but against

itself, nor does a bearer of burden

bear the burden of another

Sura 6:165

We are paying for our own wrongdoing or incorrect behavior right now. The fact that Jesus died on the cross does not shield us from the pain of error, nor might I add does it protect us from our failure to master mathematics.

Jesus was and is our example of right behavior, right human action. He did not live or die to be our scapegoat. We like to say, Jesus will fix it, the Lord will make a way, as if we have no responsibility at all. Let’s look at the word "scapegoat" and where it comes from.

We have made Jesus our scapegoat, yet we pay every day for what we do. For those of you who are concerned that I only use World Book or Webster’s New World dictionaries, I thought I would at least check Britannica’s Unabridged Third New International Dictionary with Seven Languages, and this is how it defines atonement:

This definition doesn’t even refer to death, only to the living example of Jesus. All praise is due to Allah!

Leviticus 16:30

For on that day shall the priest make an Atonement for you, to cleanse you, that ye may be clean from all your sins before the lord.

Before I go any further, I personally dislike the word sin. It has never had any relevance to me. I intentionally use wrongdoing or incorrect behavior because sin is so repulsive to me. It’s redundant, and it was used so much in the church by the time I was an adult, it was like, forget that. Only I didn’t use the kind language forget. Let’s be real; to be told something was a sin just didn’t cut it. It had no effect. Had we been told more about the injury, bitterness, anger and hate, perhaps, just perhaps, we may have understood more about the consequences of our actions.

It means more to me that a brother will not speak to his brother. It means more to me that children hate their father or their mother. It means more to me that a sister is not your sister but Mr. Goldsmith’s offspring. It means more to me that your father is not your father, or that your children are not your children. Yes, it means more to me that the enemy is not outside us, but in us. This, my beloved family, means more to me than sin.

Therefore I have not used sin very much‘ it is not important to me. Although in my references it appears quite redundantly, and for this I humbly ask that you please accept my apology. I hope you do understand.

For on that day shall the priest make an Atonement for you, to cleanse you, that ye may be clean from all your sins before the Lord.

On October 16, 1995, Minister Farrakhan offered 8 stages of "Atonement as a Prescription for the Healing" of the black family. Not unlike Alcoholics Anonymous a person must first recognize the need for a physician before they can resolve themselves to accept his prescription.

"How many of us have at sometime or another been wrong"?

Minister Farrakhan, October 16, 1995

If the answer to that question is an affirmative, then, I ask: if what you have read in regards to atonement is true and acceptable, can you now understand our need to atone?

Allow me to go a little further. Every wrong there is to do, we have done to each other (speaking of the black family). There is nothing under the sun we have not done. Nothing! My only hope is that in our families, we (by the Grace of God) accept this Prescription for Healing as given to us by The Honorable Louis Farrakhan. May the blessing of Allah (God) be upon us as we turn ourselves toward God that we may once again become one with God. PEACE!

THE EIGHT STAGES OF ATONEMENT

1.POINT OUT FAULT/WRONG.

2.ACKNOWLEDGE/ADMIT THE EXISTENCE OF WRONG.

3.CONFESS TO GOD.

4.REPENT.

5.RECOMPENSE.

6.FORGIVENESS.

7.RECONCILIATION and RESTORATION.

8.PERFECT UNION.

1. Pointing out fault, or in this case what is wrong.

It is necessary for fault or wrong to be shown to us.

THE BLACK FAMILY IS ANGRY WITH SELF!

The black man and woman are angry with each other. We blame us for us, meaning the conditions we are in. We don’t blame white people anymore (and I don’t think we should); we correctly blame ourselves. The entire family is angry. The children are angry, the parents are angry, the grandparents are angry, the whole community is just enraged. We have only two modes of operation: upset and attack.

Look at the way we