Chapter 35
Allah, in the person of
Master Fard Muhammad, to Whom
praise is due forever, came to
give us a spiritual life which
would automatically give us a
physical life of Himself (the
life of the righteous), which we
lost by following other than
righteous guides.
We cannot be successful in
making the progress of a
spiritual life, unless we have
the guidance for the physical
life. This guidance comes to us
through laws, rules and
regulations of our physical
life.
We must make this teaching of
eating once a day binding upon
us, as a law, in order to get
any good from it, as Allah (God)
desires. The purpose of these
dietary laws and the time that
we should partake of food is to
lengthen our lives, by ridding
us of the greedy desire to eat
three times a day and between
meals if we are offered food.
The main purpose of this
teaching, "How to Eat to Live,"
is to prolong our lives.
Beauty appearance is
destroyed in us -- not just our
facial appearance, but the most
beautiful appearance about us,
our characteristics (the way we
act and practice our way of
life). We achieve one of the
greatest beauties when we
achieve the spiritual beauty and
characteristics through
practicing them. We achieve the
spiritual beauty through
practicing or carrying into
practice the spiritual laws.
We know that we have been
made ugly by our enemies’
rearing of our parents. We know
that many of our people
throughout the earth have been
made ugly by not practicing
culture that would beautify
them. But we are blessed that
God, Himself, has visited us to
guide us in His way. What people
on the earth has God visited in
person today, other than you and
me here in America?
The Wisdom that He teaches us
is the Wisdom of God and of the
Gods. It is Supreme Wisdom,
because it is above and far
ahead of what we have ever heard
and what we see practiced by
others today. Should we not obey
that which is good for us, when
we are members of the nation of
good? Why should we not practice
that which is good for us?
It has come to us and Allah
(God) has said that it is
ourselves that He is giving to
us. Should we not accept the
good for ourselves, instead of
accepting evil and disobedience
to the law of goodness, when the
bible verifies this truth?
Why should you and I not
accept such good teaching and
practice it? It will do away
with sickness and keep death
standing outside our doors for a
long time -- for many years.
Think over Methuselah and Noah
who kept death standing outside
of the door for nearly one
thousand years. Now we cannot
stay here one century, which is
one tenth of that time. We
invite death inside the door,
instead of obeying a law of God
that will keep it outside for a
long time.
Eat one meal a day. Stay away
from the hog, of which 10 ounces
takes away from you. God has
said, three one-hundredths
percent of the beauty
appearance.
This civilization has a
thousand and one things for you
to eat. It is not necessary for
you to go around trying to eat
everything people say to eat to
have good health. But, what you
eat, let it be good and do not
eat yourself to death at that
one meal a day. This book has
described to you good, common
food. You do not have to be rich
to purchase it.
And I would not like you to
follow the Bible in Genesis
where Adam is told to go and eat
of all the herbs of the earth.
There are some poisonous herbs
that would have killed Adam.
This is a mistake that the
theologians put in the Bible.
You cannot eat all herbs; some
of them will kill you. But, eat
the best of herbs that God
approves for you and me and do
not think He approved of Adam
eating all the herbs of the
earth.
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