Reprinted from the June 4, 1971 issue of Muhammad Speaks Newspaper
In the Name of Allah, MASTER FARD MUHAMMAD, to Whom Praises are due forever. The Woman in Islam Give All Holy Praises to Allah (God) and forever thanks Him for His Messenger who teaches us the Natural Religion of the Black Man -- which, when practiced, restores the Black Man and the Black Woman to our natural self. We Thank Allah (God) for the Divine Light that His MESSENGER Brings to us so that we see and bear witness to, the teachings of MESSENGER MUHAMMAD.
UNDER Christianity, we the Black People, lived a life opposed to our own Black Nature. We lived under unnatural conditions even in something as important as our marriage. There was no healthy relationship between man and woman -- because we were reared by an enemy (white race). The enemy laid the pattern for our entire existence under his rule. We lived an unholy existance, for it was not according to the Law of the Holy God Allah.
TRULY only the God of Truth, Allah, Can untangle us from the enslaving net of the devil. Only by following MESSENGER MUHAMMAD'S teachings can we build a new future.
IT IS no wonder that the God of Righteousness and the People of Righteousness have so much anger against the devil. The devil thoroughly corrupted and poisoned the righteous people's very life.
THE devil poisoned the minds of our Black Man so that his thoughts were evil toward the Black Woman and he did not know and appreciate the value of the righteous Black Woman. Many poor Black Women have suffered the indignity and the humiliation of the Black Man asking her to marry him for no reason except that he wanted her to go 50-50 in support of food, clothing and shelter. This cold, calculating idea is spawned by the devil. It is against our very nature. No matter what he claims, such a man has the mind of a slave. He does not offer her love, comfort, spiritual and moral support, nor does he offer her a future.
NO Black Woman taught by MESSENGER MUHAMMAD would accept such a proposition. The teachings of MESSENGER MUHAMMAD has freed our minds. We must have a mate whose mind has been freed -- one who knows his own value and worth and who knows the value and worth of the Black Woman.
MESSENGER MUHAMMAD teaches us that the Black Man is the God, the Provider. The woman's part in the marriage is to adore her husband and to attend to his needs physically and spiritually. She is his loyal support and encourager in his doing something for self; "self" is the both of them, for they are one. Theirs is a tender relationship. By doing her job of being a Black Woman for her Black Man, she is happy and he is happy. She feels loved, needed and useful.
WE must practice Islam and take on a new mind of Freedom, Justice, Equality and Independence in all areas of our life. In Allah (God) we are conquerers; no longer slaves.
The Woman in Islam will not accept the unholy alliance of a cold, empty marriage. She will not allow her spirit to be killed by a man who wants only what he can get out of her and who sees nothing of her as a desirable woman. Nor is she looking for a husband who can only provide material things for her though he may have the wealth of a king. Her mate must be a righteous mate.
The Woman in Islam wants to love and be loved, for first she is a woman, Bible Mat. 6:31-33, "Therefore take not thought, saying. What shall we eat? or, What shall we drink; or Wherewithal shall we be clothed? (For after all these things do the Gentiles seek:) for your heavenly Father knoweth that ye have need of all these things But seek ye first the kingdom of God, and his righteousness; and all these things shall be added unto you."
ALL PRAISES ARE DUE TO ALLAH, (God) MASTER FARD MUHAMMAD