Making The Word Flesh-A Brief Story of Grindin

In the Name of Allah, the Beneficent, the Merciful

Allah is the creator of all things, the revealer of all truth, the Lord, nourisher, sustainer, and evolver of all things into their eventual perfection.



A Business is a project. A Business is a project that requires the personal involvement, effort, and work of concerned men to organize to achieve a measure of success. In the word Business the letter ‘i’ can be interchanged with the vowel ‘y’, making it “Busy-ness.” Business requires motion.

The first step toward the establishment of a Business is motion. The first form of motion is thought, which travels at 24 billion miles per second. The first thought that must come is the vision that we have. In his recent lecture titled, Put on the New Man, Minister Farrakhan gave a simple blueprint. He said,

“The ideal scene is composed of vision that has set a goal, and then a process, and a strategy, and tactics, and policy, and data to help us move toward that goal.”
The above are the key elements to the establishment of any business: Visison, Process, Strategy, Tactics, Policy, and Data! To further illustrate the process by which one can attain a state of busy-ness, the Minster continued,

“A nation of gods that have the intelligence, the skill, to say "Be." Organize their gifts, skills, and talents, and resources with a plan and bring what they envision into existence.”

If a man (business) TRULY desires success something more is required! Any business that expects to have true longevity must be attached to the source of longevity, Allah. “We were birthed into His Universe which is a manifestation of His mind.” The Universe is a manifestation of the mind of Allah. Our Busy-ness is the manifestation of Our minds. The spiritual always descends into physical form. Therefore, “You can tell the mind of a man by the working of his hand.”

When establishing a Business, it is important to realize that through your and my intimate relationship with our Lord, we are most able to achieve success. In Study Guide #4 by Minister Louis Farrakhan he writes, in regards to our connection to the Lord of the way of Ascent- Allah. He states, “Lord of the ways of Ascent indicates that Allah (God), the Author of all existence, has given to the whole creation its means of nourishment and has even ordained for every single one of us, a sphere of capacity. Within that sphere, He has already provided us the means or ways by which each of us attains to our goal of perfection in that which He has given us.” Anything we wish to accomplish, business related or otherwise, it absolutely possible as long as we are connected to the Lord of the Ways of Ascent. Then He pre-provides the means, greatness, and mechanisms necessary to accomplish a task. Calling on him, by the way, does NOT excuse us from WORKING Ourselves! It simply puts us on the right course toward perfection.



When we make Allah (God) the true center of All Reality in our Personal live, then we begin to see beneficial results later on. This is the glue that sticks the key principle to each other thereby creating a good, positive, and peaceful cohesion upon which Business’ lay.

All of the above can only be considered to be theoretical until it is actually applied. I along with some classmates put the theory to practice! During my junior year in higschool, I along with my high school classmates was able to open a student ran coffee shop. We originated the idea in our Principles of Business class, which we had planned to channel our natural entrepreneurial abilities by opening a Business. This is the first step, THOUGHT. Unbeknown to us then, we would eventually open a full-service coffee shop to our fellow students, staff, and faculty. This is the Second Principle, VISION. We began to brainstorm and work on small steps toward creating our own coffee shop. Early on, the matter of financing had created doubts for us. At that time we were uncertain how to pay for such a project. Fortunately, as we were inviting young people to hear Minster Farrakhan’s “Justifiable Homicide” lecture series, we encountered a flyer offering up to $5,000 for youth who were interested in starting a business. Immediately, we hurriedly continued creating a Business plan to apply for the grant albeit the deadline was three days away at that time. Our application was accepted and we were granted the “free” money, which allowed us to jumpstart our Business. Here, we began taking our vision and making a manifest reality. To complete our project we had to finish our Business Plan, which included the following skills as, mentioned before: Vision, Process, Strategy, Tactics, Policy, and Data.




Be sure to follow your vision and then call on the author of your vision. Never let opposition become a deterrent. If we want to see a new reality, then we must build it OURSLEVES!

“What is man but what he strives for? “–Holy Quran 53



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All Praise Be to Allah for the Honorable Elijah Muhammad!

All Praise be to Allah for the Honorable Elijah Muhammad!

The whole world has been in search of a Messiah. Muslims and Christians tend to believe that he came 2,000 years ago as Jesus, son of Mary. The Jews are a more theologically accurate in their belief that Jesus of 2,000 years ago was not the Messiah.
Before I continue its appropriate to quote Islamic Scholar A. Maudidi. He states, “If one takes a biased view of something and deliberately nourishes prejudice against it in his mind, then he can neither see any virtue in it nor can hear anything in its favor no can (he) open his heart to consider it dispassionately. This is the law of nature.”

If we want to find the Messiah we must examine the prerequisites to Messiahship. We must examine the function and role of a Messiah and THEN look for the man that would fulfill such roles.

"This Mild Looking Blackman is the MOST powerful Blackman in America"-Readers Digest

One of the first mentions of this Messiah or Son of Man is found in the Book of Psalms. “What is man, that thou art mindful of him? And the son of man, that thou visitest him (Psalms 8:4)?" However, in 1896, Hans Lietzmann startled the theological world by stating that this phrase could not be found in the Aramaic language, which Jesus spoke. Is there any biblical evidence of this? ABSOLUTELY! Paul writes that Jesus was a man born out of due season (1 Corinthians 15:8). This means that Jesus of 2,000 years ago was born before it was time for the Messiah to come. Thus, when he was casting out devils, they were frustrated with his timing. “And, behold, they cried out, saying, What have we to do with thee, Jesus, thou Son of God? Art thou come hither to torment us before the time (Matt 8:30)?” Even the devils that Jesus began to deal with knew that it was not time for the end that the Messiah is to bring. The bible teaches six days shall we labor and on the seventh day shall we rest (Ex 34:21) and a day is as a thousand years (2 Peter 3:8) bringing the devils rule to a total of 6,000 years. It is AFTER Satan’s rule is over that the promised Messiah is to make himself known since this Messiah is to crush the wicked.

Jesus of 2,000 years ago was a great man. But, he was not the Messiah that we’ve thought him to be. In an article entitled "Who Do Men Say that I Am?" (The Humanist Magazine May/June 1991) writes:
"Most of what we know about Jesus comes from the four gospels. Yet scholars agree that these are hardly dependable as historical sources. For one thing, they did not take shape until late in the first century, a generation or two after Jesus died...Scholars also agree that the gospels were not written by any of the 12 apostles-probably not anyone named Matthew, Mark, Luke, or John, probably not by anyone who was even alive when Jesus was... "

In a publication by Dr. Wesley Muhammad titled Was Jesus of Nazereth Christ, he writes, “In 1991, an august body of 200 biblical scholars calling themselves the Jesus Seminar published their results of over 6 years of research trying to ascertain how much of the New Testament really speaks of Jesus of 2000 years ago. They concluded that only 20% of the Jesus of the Gospels goes back to the son of Mary 2,000 years ago, almost none of the Gospel of John. Robert Fortna, biblical scholar from Vassar College and member of the Seminar said ‘Most scholars, if they had worked through the sayings as we had, would tend to agree there is virtually nothing in the fourth gospel (John) goes back to Jesus.’
And the hammer hits the nail! The above evidence is clear. But, some may feel they need to see Quranic evidence as well.

The Quran makes a distinction between the prophetic Jesus and Jesus the Messiah. The Quran shows that Jesus the prophet was given one book while Jesus the Messiah would be TAUGHT numerous books. Speaking of the prophet the Quran reads, "He (Jesus) said: I am indeed a servant of Allah. He has given me the Book (the Gospel) and made me a prophet (Holy Qur'an 19:30) (Holy Quran 57:27). Moreover, Jesus of 2,000 years ago was a sign (Holy Quran 23:50). The sign is not the fulfiller. The sign points to the fulfiller. Who then is the fulfiller?

"And He (Allah) will teach him the Book and the Wisdom and the Torah and the Gospel (Holy Qur'an 3:44-48).” The fulfiller is the man that is TAUGHT by Allah these four things. This corresponds with David the Psalmist saying the Lord would visit the Son of Man (Psalms 8:4). It is in this visit or short stay that the Son of Man would be taught the above wisdom. Who can lay such claim?

God Himself taught Elijah Muhammad. Elijah Muhammad IS the Son of Man, the long-awaited Messiah. He is the one whom the world has looked for! How do we know? To know the identity of the fulfiller you have to examine the work that this man was to fulfill.

All Praise be to Allah for the Honorable Elijah Muhammad!

The Messiah is to be made a ‘messenger to the Children of Israel’, which means he must be a man like Moses (Deut 18:18). You cannot have a man like Moses unless you have a people that were in bondage to a modern Pharaoh. We, the Black People of America are the Real Children of Israel who were prophesied to be in a strange land amongst a strange people. Muhammad was made to deliver the Message of Allah to us.

According to Holy Quran (3:46-51) the Messiah is also to do the following: Heal the Blind and the leprous, raise the dead, and teach them what foods to eat and what to store. The language here is symbolic. Muhammad healed the spiritually blind Black People of America. He healed a people totally helpless and buried wholly in sin. A people in a state of ignorance so intense that it is incomparable to anything previously seen. Muhammad reformed a people that took on the identity of another man and took that oppressive man as a god. Muhammad is bringing this people back to life. Lastly, he is to teach the people about FOOD. Neither Jesus of 2,000 years ago nor Muhammad of 1400 years ago did this. Elijah Muhammad taught us HOW TO EAT TO LIVE. Muhammad is resurrecting a dead Nation.

All Praise be to Allah for the Honorable Elijah Muhammad!

Well, the last thing we must ponder is the so-called death of Elijah Muhammad. The Nation of Islam under Minister Louis Farrakhan has challenged anybody in the whole world to prove that Elijah Muhammad is dead. In fact, Minister Farrakhan has declared that we will shut our mouths if anyone can prove Elijah Muhammad to be dead. We have the dental records (the only way one can determine the identity of a carcass) and we are ready to deliver them to whoever is willing to challenge us. The KEY aspect in the life of the promised Messiah is that he must escape death! Why? The Honorable Elijah Muhammad told His Minister once ‘if Allah could not save me then there would be no hope that he could save you.’ “And for their saying: We have killed the Messiah, Jesus, son of Mary, the messenger of Allah, and they killed him not, nor did they cause his death on the cross, but he was made to appear to them as such. And certainly those who differ therein are in doubt about it. They have no knowledge about it, but only follow a conjecture, and they killed him not for certain (Holy Quran 4:157).” This is a Cardinal principle for us.

“But if it is preached that Christ has been raised from the dead, how can some of you say that there is no resurrection of the dead? If there is no resurrection of the dead, then not even Christ has been raised. And if Christ has not been raised, our preaching is useless and so is your faith (Please Read 1 Corinthians 15).” So I say to the followers of the Honorable Elijah Muhammad under the guidance of HIS Minister Farrakhan, stand firm, stand strong, for the victory of the apostle is nigh!

“We know also that the Son of God has come and has given us understanding, so that we may know him who is true. And we are in him who is true--even in his Son Jesus Christ. He is the true God and eternal life (1 John 5:20).” “I write these things to you who believe in the name of the Son of God so that you may know that you have eternal life (1 John 5:13).”

Lastly, the word Messiah literally means ‘wiped over’ or one anointed with oil. When we Understand and connect with THE Messiah, we realize that our connection to Him makes us ALL little Messiah’s. We all become wiped over with the Spirit of God. We all become anointed and in tune with the God within. But to get there you must go through THE DOOR.

All Praise be to Allah for the Honorable Elijah Muhammad!