The Final Call

Healing women, healing a Nation

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“Be not the slave of your own past. Plunge into the sublime seas, dive deep and swim far, so you shall come back with self-respect, with new power, with an advanced experience that shall explain and overlook the old.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson

A Nation is judged by its woman and until we rid ourselves of the behaviors that are destroying and degrading us, we will never be that fit and recognized people that the Honorable Elijah Muhammad, and now the Honorable Minister Louis Farrakhan, is teaching us to be. One definition for fit is “of a suitable quality, standard, or type to meet the required purpose.” The “fit” here is not achieved by running to the gym, although we need to do more of that (smile), but we hide deep pain under a whole lot of stuff ... lashes, hair and make-up, revealing or even extra layers of clothes, muscles, and uniforms.

We try to escape the nightmares of our experiences by reaching for comfort in oft time destructive relationships, negative behaviors, and overindulging in our appetites.

Why do we do the negative things we do? Why we do not think well of ourselves? As women, and mothers, we always seem to be in a rush or frenzy. There is never enough time in the day to get everything we need done accomplished. When we aren’t able to live up to the unrealistic goals we set for ourselves we become stressed. We become overwhelmed with work, children, spouses, family and friends. We take our anger out on whoever is in our path.

We blame people for things that have happened to us years ago. We blame our spouses and accuse them of acting like former boyfriends or fathers, who’ve abandoned, abused, neglected or mistreated us. We hold people responsible for others’ mistakes. Then after heated arguments, hurt feelings, things you have said and done that can’t be unsaid or undone, we fall into a slight depression and ask ourselves: Why did I behave in such an irrational way? Why does something that happened to me so long ago still affect me today?

“The entire physical pain and painful emotion of a lifetime, whether the individual ‘knows’ about it or not, is recorded,” explains A’ishah Muhammad, National Student  Auditing Coordinator for the Nation of Islam.

Sis. A’ishah Muhammad

Dianetics is from a Greek word meaning “to revolve in the mind; or of pertaining to reasoning, especially digressive or cursory reasoning,” where the mind hops and skips from one thought to another or from clarity to confusion without apparent cause and as if under some strange and seemingly uncontrollable compulsion, according to L. Ron Hubbard, who created the therapy. He is also author of “Dianetics The Modern Science of Mental Health.”

This technology, auditing, was given as a tool to address and remove impediments to our development, even to negative experiences while in the womb, says Sister A’ishah. It involves confidential sessions with another person in a co-audit, where the partners listen and question one another in turns, or a certified auditor takes an individual through the process. The goal is to get to the root of pain and triggers that bring painful episodes back to the person or make one act in sometimes irrational ways.

Minister Farrakhan has taught on the book of Isaiah in the Bible, which says, “My thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways my ways.” The Minister has been working to help us rise above our current level of thought and pain into a healthier and more productive mindset. How can rise if we do not utilize a process that allows us to tap into things that drive our behavior and thoughts and heal?

Life Repair Seminars offered to Muslims and the broader community are designed to help us let go of pain, says Sis. Aishah.  Imagine being on a dark road and someone lights a candle, your vision is limited, but you still walk the path, just at a slower rate and with trepidation. Imagine street lights coming on, now you can see clearly, and have no fear walking the path. You are confident and your senses are heightened. This is how Life Repair helps us. It allows us to think clearly, and make better choices, because we are not weighed down, or burdened by the past.

Sister A’ishah stresses “this process is not about the things we have done to others, but more so, about things that have been done to us. … We all are on this journey in life searching for who we are. We can’t just go through the motions of life, unaware or unsure of our choices. We have to look at our present condition, and be brave enough to admit that façade. We don’t see ourselves as we should.

“Only when we do, are we able to allow ourselves to be healed. We can’t let fear of our ‘business’ getting out, prevent us from healing. Our lives and wellbeing are more important than the fear of someone discovering the skeletons in our closet.”

“The woman is man’s field to produce his Nation, what kind of crop can we produce if the evils that were done to us remain in our psyche? How have we affected our children? Attitudes are carried in phrases and behaviors and passed down from one generation to the next. All of us have these cyclical learned behaviors that we have to free ourselves from,” Sis. A’ishah notes.

“Fortunately, the Honorable Minister Louis Farrakhan offers us all the prescriptions to our ills that we would ever need contained in his lectures and writings, so we do not have to stay in a state of apathy any longer.   Allah, Who Came in the Person of Master Fard Muhammad, came to give us life and give it more abundantly. He made our beloved Minister for the Honorable Elijah Muhammad, and for us, and we thank Him for His unmerited grace.”

Life Repair seminars are available. If you haven’t started the process, don’t waste another second. Contact your local mosque. If you have been audited, stay in the process. The poet T.S. Eliot once famously said, “Only by acceptance of the past, can you alter it.” May we all start the journey to become free women by accepting our own and being ourselves!

Sister A’ishah can be reached at [email protected] or by calling (773) 358-7931 or at Mosque Maryam (773) 324-6000.

This article was written by Laila Muhammad she is a Chicago-based videographer and writer.