Ma'atic Islam

"We, the tribe of Shabazz, says Allah (God), were the first to discover the best part of our planet to live on. The rich Nile Valley of Egypt and the present seat of the Holy City, Mecca, Arabia. " The Honorable Elijah Muhammad, Message to the Black Man.

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‎"Remember that there are two main keys to knowledge. This is the first: ‘The without is like the within of things, the small is like the large; there is only one law and he who works is One...And this is the second:’ MEN ARE MORTAL GODS AND GODS ARE IMMORTAL MEN.’ Happy the man who understands these words, for he holds the key to all things." A Hierophant (teacher) from the Mysteries to his Student

"The Egyptian Mystery System had as its most important object, the DEIFICATION OF MAN." Richard King, African Origin of Biological Psychiatry

"The Father is our own kind. He wants to make you and me, not just believers, but Gods. Everyone of you, according to what He (Master Fard Muhammad) has taught me, will be Gods…There is no doubt that we are really Gods, but we lost our power and knowledge as shown in the parable of the Jesus. “Salt is good as long as it has saving power. When it no longer has saving power it is not good for anything, but to be thrown out and trampled under people’s feet.” This is referring to us. We had knowledge and we will be powerful when we are restored to what we originally were. But, we have been robbed of power through depriving us of the Knowledge of Self...." The Hon. Elijah Muhammad, Theology of Time

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‎"the Egyptian’s...gods (were) in their own image, only they attributed to them super-human powers.” Egyptologists E. Wallace Budge, The Gods of the Egyptians

“Thus we can understand why the Egyptians always painted their gods black as coal, in the image of their race, from the beginning to the end of their history.” Cheik Anta Diop, African Origin of Civilization

“I saw my Lord under the form of a young man, beardless and curly haired.”  The Holy Prophet Muhammad, via Abd Allah ibn Abbas.

"The heretics (who deny God’s possession of a human form) cite in evidence the Qur’an verse ‘Nothing is like Him,’ but the meaning of this verse is only that nothing compared to God in His divinity. In form, however, God is like you and me." Muhammad b. Sa'dun al-'Abdari al-Qurashi (d. 524/1130), the famous Zahiri imam and hafiz of Andalusia and Baghdad.

"He (God) is on the Throne in His essence in the sense of being in contact with it ... when He descends [from His Throne, that descent] entails movement from place to place... His essence has limits, and ... measure and extent… one who descends must do so from above, and so...His descent (is) in terms of sense experience, i.e. that kind of descent by which bodies are described...the Divine Attributes (are described) in terms required by sense experience…and they represent Him as a physical person (shakhs) whose beauty exceeds all beauty…" An older orthodoxy, that of the school of Champion of the Sunna Imam Ahmad b. Hanbal.

‎"The ignorant belief of the Orthodox Muslims that Allah (God) is some formless something and yet He has an Interest in our affairs, can be condemned in no limit of time. I would not give two cents for that kind of God in which they believe." “God is a man and we just cannot make Him other than a man, lest we make Him an inferior one.” The Hon. Elijah Muhammad 

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                                          Image courtesy Bro Akbar Shareef Muhammad

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"The woman is made after the womb out of which God created Himself, and in the woman is the Secret of God. The reason you are far away from God is because of your attitude towards women. You will never find God and you will never grow to honor God, as long as you are a mistreater and disrespecter of women. The woman is the Secret and she contains the Secret....The riddle has been with God, but the secret of the riddle is in woman, and unless and until we become better acquainted with who she is, you may never see who you are." The Honorable Minister Louis Farrakhan, “WHO IS GOD?” February 24, 1991

“If thou will contemplate the Creator even in perishable things, in things which are on earth, or in the deep, reflect, O my son, ON THE FORMATION OF MAN IN HIS MOTHER’S WOMB.” Thoth Hermes, the Egyptian god of wisdom, to his son Tatian

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“O Rē' who gave birth to righteousness, sovereign who created all this, who built his limbs, who modeled his body, who created himself, who gave birth to himself.” Theban Tomb 157

“I (Atum) created my body in my glory; I am he who made myself; I formed myself according to my will and according to my heart.” Coffin Text 714 

"our First Father formed and designed Himself. Think over a Man being able to design His own form and He had never seen another Man before He saw Himself. This is a powerful thing." The Honorable Elijah Muhammad, Theology of Time

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‎"He (God) came out of total darkness and He was dark. He proved that He came out of darkness, because His own color corresponds with the conditions of what is now the Heavens and the Earth, that was nothing then but total darkness. A totally dark man came out of total darkness..." The Hon. Elijah Muhammad, Theology of Time

"We have found the Black complexion or something relating to it whenever we have approached the origin of nations. The Alma Mater, the Goddess Multimammia, the founders of the Oracles, the Memnon of first idols, were always Black. Venus, Jupiter, Apollo, Bacchus, Hercules, Asteroth, Adonis, Horus, Apis, Osiris, and Amen: in short all the...deities were black." Godfrey Higgins, Anacalypsis

"Nearly ALL THE ANCIENT GODS OF THE OLD AND NEW WORLD WERE BLACK AND HAD WOOLY HAIR...' J.A. Rodgers, 100 Amazing Facts About The Negro.

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‎"Well, we all know that there was a God in the beginning that created all these things and do know that He does not exist today but we know again that from that God the person of God continued until today in His people." "The Father is our own kind." The Honorable Elijah Muhammad 

"The religious system (of the Yoruba) is based on the conception that each human being is the representative of the ancestor god. Filiation is through the male line. All members of the same family are posterity of the same god..." Leo Frobenius, the first Western anthropologist in Western Africa.

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