The Black community is slowly building up.

"The Black Community Is Slowly Building Up The Capacitance To Lead The World", or "I Have No Desire to Rebuild that Yurugu Automobile"

Despite the slow transformation of Kemet (Egypt) into a besieged military state, its greatest accomplishments were in art, astronomy, science and spirituality. Many who have attempted to return to Maat (truth) have worked to improve themselves through the spiritual practices which were modified and transferred into the Old Testament. As scholar Mario Beatty explains, ‘interrelatedness, interdependence, and interconnectedness’ are the fundamental concepts of Maat. For example, the Hymn to the Sun Disk that was modified into Psalm 104, discusses the unity of life; an example can be found on page 388 of Donald Redford’s Egypt, Canaan and Israel in Ancient Times. Unfortunately, as Kemetic philosophy was modified, the balance of Feminine and Masculine in direct relation to the Creatress/Creator was one of the main losses.

Likewise, the prayers repeated by Muslims within North America and throughout the world have managed to keep the spirit of hospitality alive in spite of difficult circumstances. Hospitality requires trust, faith, and humility. It also requires strength of character because an increasing amount of anti-Muslim rhetoric is spewed across international airwaves; those with technical skills are harder pressed to block ‘liberating’ messages from the U.S. that are beamed at some Muslim and socialist countries. Of course, just as the Hyksos Shemitic Myth (Hamitic curse) failed to completely degrade African wisdom, contemporary U.S. and Israeli culture will not destroy Islam because it is a philosophy which, like "Christianity" and early Hebrewism, is also derived from Africans.

For those raised with the teachings of the Honorable Elijah Muhammad and his emphasis on engineering, reading about the concepts of ‘farad-’ as we pronounced Master Fard’s name- in physics class sparked interest.

Farad (F) is ‘A practical unit of electrical capacity; the capacity of a condenser having a charge of 1 coulomb under an electromotive force of 1 V.’

The word capacity is relevant here because capacitance is ‘the quantity of electric charge that may be stored upon a body per unit of electric potential. It is expressed in farads, abfarads, or stratfarads.’

Unfortunately, those familiar with these terms and the concept of electrical charge seem to have used them in ways contrary to the spirit of Maat. The Black community is full of people seeking to explain relationships with the Creatress/Creator in terms of electricity and equating that relationship with sexuality- particularly male sexuality. Perhaps the recent pedophile troubles of the Catholic and Protestant Churches have spurred renewed interest; perhaps people simply don’t believe that Christ could have maintained his chastity his entire life, though many admire the Buddhist monastic lifestyle; perhaps violent lyrics that have replaced love with narcissism are the reason; but one can hardly walk down Georgia Avenue or King Drive without hearing young men and women commenting on their ‘energy.’ Why this expression of energy requires attacking women who choose to cover ourselves from head-to-toe? I don’t know.

While the Honorable Elijah Muhammad taught that he met God (in Master Fard’s person) face-to-face, and that the Black Family has a 76 trillion year history, obviously no human being appeared out of thin air and then genetically modified himself to create his sister/daughter/wife because he missed the Womb out of which he had come. To the best of my knowledge, T. Owens Moore, Wayne Chandler, Richard King, Rosalind Jeffries, Danita Redd, Beatrice Lumpkin and Na’im Akbar have done research relevant to the creation as described by the Honorable Elijah Muhammad.

Inshallah the ‘charged up’ will continue to develop our capacitance for gentle, peaceful relationships. We will all develop the love of Original people that, though hidden, yet maintains Black communities. Every Black neighborhood still has its Cheikh, its Ngami, its En-Kai, its Jok, its Mbaba Mwana Waresa, its Kwoth, its Warrior/Doctor. When we consider that Allah (swt) is ar-Rahman (the Beneficent) – a term that is said to come from Rahm (the womb of darkness; the black matrix; the eternal)- and ar-Rahim (the Merciful), every Black person can be hopeful that the rebirth of our Mother/Father/Sister/Brother/Daughter/Son Mind is at hand.

Relevant Reading:
Qur’an – A. Yusuf Ali translation; Maulana Muhammad Ali translation.

Akbar, Na’im. "Nile Valley Science Origins of the Mind," in Egypt Child of Africa, Ivan Van Sertima, ed. New Brunswick: Transaction Publishers, 1995, pp. 341 - 354

Beatty, Mario H. "Maat: The Cultural and Intellectual Allegiance of a Concept," in The Preliminary Challenge, Jacob H. Carruthers and Lon C. Harris, eds., pp. 211-244

Chandler, Wayne. "Seven times Seven: The Seven Hermetic Principles of Ancient Egypt," in Egypt Child of Africa, Ivan Van Sertima, ed. New Brunswick: Transaction Publishers, 1995, pp. 215-229

Jeffries, Rosalind. "Kemetic Zoomorphic Figuration and Affinities in West African Iconography" given at Return to the Black Land: ASCAC 24th Annual Kemetic Studies Conference. ASWAN, Kemet, August, 2007
King, Richard D. "The Symbolism of the Crown in Ancient Egypt," in Egypt Child of Africa, Ivan Van Sertima, ed. New Brunswick: Transaction Publishers, 1995, pp. 355-375

Lumpkin, Beatrice. “Mathematics and Engineering in the Nile Valley,” in Nile Valley Civilizations: Proceedings of the Nile Valley Conference, Atlanta 1985

Redford, Donald B. Egypt, Canaan and Israel in Ancient Times. Princeton University Press, 1992, 377-94

Stedman’s Medical Dictionary, 27th edition. Baltimore: Lippincott Williams and Wilkins, 2000, pp. 278, 647

Webster’s New Universal Unabridged Dictionary, deluxe 2nd edition. Dorset and Baber, 1983. Compare definitions of capacitance, farads, and coulombs to those available in physics or chemistry texts.

Watkins, Valethia. The Divine Female Principle. Marimba Ani, Halima Hoover and Valethia Watkins on CD. See also the unnamed third sister.
Williams, Larry. "Black Women in Search of Kemet: A Bibliography," in Egypt Revisited. Ivan Van Sertima, ed., pp. 413-415

Zaslavsky, Claudia. Africa Counts: Numbers and Pattern in African Cultures. 3rd edition. Lawrence Hill Books, 1999.