The
first time we even heard about Yacub and his role in manufacturing the
Devil was a book published by the Nation of Islam on February 20th,
1934 called the Supreme Wisdom Lessons. That book was only made available to
registered members of the Nation of Islam and contained instructions to its
laborers, a mathematical problem book and a series of lessons. Some of those
lessons introduce Yacub and lay out who, what, when, where, why and how
the Devil was manufactured. The primary book that was made available to the
general public that summarized some of those lessons, and expounded upon Yacub’s
narrative, was called Message to the Blackman in America. When the Message to the Blackman was published in 1965, Allah, the founder of the Five Percenters, had
already founded the Five Percenters a
year earlier on October 10th, 1964. Upon his departure from the Nation of Islam, Allah
kept only the lessons from the Supreme Wisdom book and eventually developed an
alphanumeric system of numbers and letters known as the Supreme Mathematics and
Supreme Alphabet that unlocked hidden meanings and connections within
those lessons. Allah then began to share this cultural perspective with the youth
in the streets of Harlem who were neglected by the religious, political and
social organizations within his community.
My
reasoning for giving a general background of the lessons, the departure of
Allah, his establishing of the Five Percent and the eventual publishing of the
Message to the Blackman was to give context. When the Five Percent were
introduced to these lessons, especially those pertaining to Yacub, it was not
within a religious context. One of the reasons behind Allah’s departure was what he was learning in the lessons were not being taught in the Temple. So he decided to leave the religion alone.
Patmos; an island situated on the Aegean Sea
So let me give a brief overview of Yacub. Yacub was an original black man, a scientist, said to be born 20 miles outside of the city of Mecca in the year 8400 among 30% of a population who were considered dissatisfied. 70% were of the people were content with the societal conditions at that time. Known as the father of the
Devil, Yacub was aware of his determined idea at the age of six. In fact, he
communicated this idea to his uncle one day while playing with two pieces of
steel. A brilliant child, Yacub finished all of the colleges and universities
of his nation at the age of eighteen and because of his unusual sized head
people often referred to him as the “big head scientist.” It was at this age that
he started teaching among the dissatisfied within the streets of Mecca about Islam and making promises of luxury. As his followers began to grow the authorities became
fearful of his influence and started persecuting and arresting them. This had
the opposite effect and Yacub found himself the leader of 59,999 followers who
began to overfill the jails. Upon arresting Yacub, the King visited him in his
cell to negotiate an agreement to stop the civil disobedience. Yacub requested
that the King give him twenty years of resources to start his own nation away from Mecca. The King agreed and rounded up all of Yacub’s followers to board
ships that were destined for the island of Patmos [Pelon] situated 2,000 miles away on the Aegean
Sea. Yacub examined all of his followers and those who
were not healthy, strong and good breeders he sent them back. In the Message to the Blackman the Honorable
Elijah Muhammad stated that those who were unfit were thrown overboard. Those
who were considered not good in multiplying were married at the age of sixteen.
When Yacub arrived on Patmos he as the King chose doctors, ministers, nurses and cremators as his top laborers. Next he gave these laborers laws of birth
control; a system of eugenics to breed out the dominant black traits and keep
the recessive brown traits. Yacub’s society had zero tolerance and advocated the death penalty. Anyone who was found guilty of breaking the law were killed. The Doctors were instructed
to examine all those who desired to marry. In turn, through fake blood tests,
he qualified or disqualified them to the Ministers who would only marry those
that were unalike. Only brown skinned people were given privileges to marry and
have a family. If the couple bore a child that was black the nurse would kill it
by sticking a pin in its head or feeding it to some wild beast and then
lie to its mother that her baby was taken to heaven. The cremators would burn
the black babies whenever the nurses would bring them. According to the
Honorable Elijah Muhammad, after 200 years of this society’s brown skinned privilege,
there were no more black people on the island of Patmos. After another 400 years
all of the brown people were gone and there was an island of only people who
were yellow and red. In this 600 year this became a society of blue eyed white
people; Devils. Yacub was said to only live 150 years so he never saw his own
creation. Sometime after the 600th year these white people journeyed
to Mecca and turned the entire city upside down within 6 months of being there,
causing the black and brown inhabitants to fight and kill one another. When the
King realized what was going on he instructed his people to round up every white person that they could find and prepared to exile them. The people of Mecca took
everything from them and made them walk every step of the way across the
Arabian Desert to the Caucasus Mountains in West Asia as they now call it Europe. The journey was 2,220 miles and they would remain bound to these caves for 2,000 years until Musa was
sent to teach them civilization.
The above narrative is both directly communicated
in our lessons and in the Message to the Blackman pages 110-127. Whether Yacub was
a Doctor Moreau-like character who died on the island of Patmos in the year
8,550, there is no evidence to support that. I am also not aware of any archaeological dig on that island that has produced a Homo Capensis shaped skull from 6,000
years ago. This does not means that Yacub did not exist as an actual person.
It means that if a person thinks that, it’s what they believe. White skinned people walking around today does not literally prove
the validity of the above narrative or even the existence of a person named Yacub. What
the narrative does communicate are proven conclusions in areas of psychology,
sociology, genetics, group-think, axiology, geopolitics and other sciences of life that we
see every day. Let me add-on…
The
story of Yacub is a narrative about the potential destruction that can be produced from a psychological state and social condition that is rooted
in dissatisfaction. Left unchecked, that dissatisfaction can manifest the personification
of evil. It is an
example of how socioeconomic
engineering [eugenics] and political science
is oftentimes the outgrowth of a
mindset that may have been cultivated in a
person as a child. This
is why psychoanalysts, physicians, psychiatrists, psychologists and any professional
who is striving to assess our current state whether physically or mentally,
starts with our childhood and family history. Yacub lived 20 miles outside of
Mecca, away from 70% of the population; a demographic who were satisfied with their station in
life. The only family members mentioned in Yacub’s life is an uncle, not even
by name, during his formative years; at the age of 6. There is no mention of
his family dynamics or early childhood development. In regards to brain
development, 95% of the child’s brain is formed by the time they reach 6 years
old. This is the reason a child’s head at that age is not proportionate to
their body. The brain goes through a process known as “synaptic pruning” to
eliminate synapses to help the brain run more efficiently. Ideas up to this
point become determined and form the neurological blueprint of the child’s future
development. This is why children
enter Kindergarten [which is actually a “garden”]
right before the age of 6 when the seeds of development are first rooted
and cultivated. Our lessons
tell us that Yacub made a declaration about his determined idea at the age of 6
while playing with two pieces of steel. In early childhood development children
are encouraged to participate in ‘dramatic play’ because it promotes social
emotional development. Yacub playing with steel, envisioning building a nation
when he was older is dramatic play. It indicates
that even in what would be
consider to be “innocent play”, a deep
determined idea is work.
A synonym for Mecca is “magnet” which means a place that everyone wants to visit.
Again, Yacub was born 20 miles away from this location among the dissatisfied who were
without. The two pieces of steel he played with at the age of 6, one piece with magnetic and
the other piece without, is a metaphor for how he viewed the 70% satisfied and the 30% dissatisfied; the haves [with] and the havenots [without]. Like with many of us who have grown up in
similar conditions, low/vacant esteem became the seedlings of an inferiority
complex that encouraged us, like Yacub, to overcompensate for what we didn’t have. Some
of us chose sports, the creative arts or other things to overcompensate with.
Some of us, like Yacub, chose academics. So at the age of 18 Yacub was said to have
finished all of the colleges and universities of his nation. Another curious
thing that was mentioned about Yacub is that he had an unusually large head. While
this could imply that he was Macrocephalic or that he suffered from a condition
known as Hydrocerphalus which causes the head to enlarge due to spinal fluid around
the brain, there is no evidence of this. The fact that he finished all of the
colleges and universities of his nation and was known as THE, not “a”, big head
scientist does imply something about his personality when you do a
psychological profile. What it would indicate, according to a DSM, is
Narcissistic Personality Disorder [NPD]; an inflated sense of self importance, delusions
of grandeur, lack of empathy, manipulative and demanding. His narrative is an almost textbook diagnosis of NPD and hints at other health conditions
related to Megalomania.
As
Yacub started to gain followers in Mecca he also began to challenge the status
quo. Growing up on the outside, Yacub
developed a sense of disdain towards the 70% satisfied who looked just like
him, yet didn’t recognize the concerns of the 30% who were dissatisfied. This disdain was Yacub’s self-hatred
that echoed how he essentially
felt about himself. Why? Because who he considered oppressors, 70% satisfied, looked just
like him. This is no different than a young male growing up despising other males
based upon his negative experience, or lack thereof, with other males. In some
instances, males like this have such contemptment for or ingrained prejudice
against other males, that they desire to be a female. Yacub, as a black man, had
a determined idea to destroy the black population in order to make a nation to
rule in their place.
Yacub
wasn’t a person in a laboratory pouring potions in beakers trying to make a new man. Yet the island of Patmos, because of
its isolated, alienated controlled
environment, geographically represents a laboratory. This being the name of the place where the Devil was manufactured, Yacub
was the big [senior], head [lead] scientist. An
island “is-land” surrounded by a body of water. The brain is an organ that is also surrounded
by a physical body of water.
Patmos is an external replication of
how the brain actually functions. The same way in which
Yacub’s determined idea was manufactured on the island of Patmos, thoughts are manufactured in the brain. His
Patmos society was managed by laborers who governed the life cycle of human
beings to insure that his undertakings were successful. According to Yacub’s
society and like today, the medical, ministerial, nursing and death care [doctors,
ministers, nurses and cremators/morticians] industries are present at the beginning, throughout
and at the end of a human being’s entire life cycle. Our lessons state that
these laborers followed his law and were bound to secrecy in the same way that
these modern day professions require confidentiality and won’t disclose client
information. The nurse's law of Yacub in particular is reflective of the racist program promoted by Eugenicist Margaret Sanger. According to Yacub’s narrative, after 600 years of ethnic cleansing, that society produced a white Devil; the personification and archetype of
evil. Evil that's likened to the white supremacy/nationalism, colonialism and institutional racism that has turned the whole world upside down today.
As
this article is already lengthy so I won’t go into the history/symbolism behind the Devil
going to Mecca, turning it upside down and then being exiled into the Caucasus
Mountains until Musa came to teach them. I was inspired to share this article and some of these
points, especially for those who believe that this entire narrative can be simply summarized by the physical
appearance of white people. That is not only unscientific but it's completely absurd. Yacub by definition means to supplant, replace, override or trip
up. This is what the name functionally means, regardless what we may call ourselves.
Practically applying this narrative gives us the tools to self-assess if we are
playing this role of a big headed scientist. It enables us to help teach and redirect
the youth in our community; helping insure that dissatisfaction, lack of family
structure, disenfranchisement, low/vacant esteem and a sense of inferiority does
not become a breeding ground for future Devils. It empowers us with the ability
to recognize how anti-social behavior, separation and disassociation is an Patmos-like island and that island
could be a tell-tale sign of a laboratory of sickness or even suicide. Lastly,
this narrative shows us that our lessons are not to be taken on face value...
Peace,
Saladin
