Chapter - Simple Food are Best
Allah (God) Who Came in the Person of Master Fard Muhammad, to Whom Praises are due forever, taught us how to eat to live without being tormented with sickness and disease.
DO NOT LOOK at me when you see me sick. This suffering is what I have to go through with to prove myself worthy of being the Last Messenger of Allah. I am afflicted with everything that you are afflicted with. According to the Bible, Isaiah, Chapter 53, ‘In all of your afflictions he was afflicted.’ Allah (God) Wants To Show you in the example that He makes of me, that I have suffered the same afflictions that you have, so that you will not have this as an excuse for your disbelieving. You cannot claim that I did not suffer the same things that you suffered, that God Would Not Have Found me to be the good Messenger.
I suffer sickness with you. I suffered imprisonment with you. I suffered the deprivation of family as you have. Show me what you have suffered, that I have not suffered. It is necessary for the Last Messenger to suffer a taste of what all of the prophets before him suffered. Therefore, the Last Messenger is called the fulfillment of the prophets. He fulfills the same history of the former prophets except death. He is not to be murdered God Will Not Suffer that.
IT IS hard to get pure, good, health food for those who desire it. The enemy, the devil has poisoned everything. He has poisoned the Bible and the food that we eat. But, do the best that you can until he has been removed. The devil seeks to remove you with himself. Allah (God) Has Power over all things.
WHEN I was in Phoenix, Arizona, a few years ago, before I arrived some one had fired shots at my house. Another devil said, "Do not shoot him, get him in his water" What had I done to be shot or poisoned for? That shows that they are the murderers of the prophets of old, and that Allah (God) Should Take revenge on this generation for the righteous that they killed before.
WE look too much at the fancy and the artificial foods that the enemy made and accepted for himself. He eats just the opposite things from that which the righteous eat.
SIMPLE foods are the best. The Bible warns us to beware of the dainty foods of the enemy. Meats are not good for us, but we eat meat.
But, do not eat the swine flesh. We should not eat any stale meat. What I mean is that we should not eat food that is ready to become rotten -- poison. When food smells like it is spoiled, we should not eat it.
THIS is why I ask you all the day long to help me and my followers to purchase farms, although they are hard to get. When they look up and see the poor Black once-slave wanting to buy the farm, they raise the price and keep the Black once-slave at his mercy to eat whatever food the enemy, white slave master prepares for him.
Allah, (God), Master Fard Muhammad, to Whom Praises are due forever, Has Taught us that the white man is the devil and you will agree with me one of these days that he is just that, the devil. He cannot help himself. He is doing what he was made to do. Neither can I help doing what I was made to do -- to preach the truth while the devil preaches falsehood.
SIMPLE navy beans is one of the best foods that we can eat. You do not have to strain the beans to eat them. Straining the beans is a real habit that we took up years ago. But, they are better if you eat them in their hull (skin).
DO NOT put a lot of spices, or what you call season, in such good food. Do not do this. You will ruin your food. The value of the bean is taken away by your putting so much seasoning in them. Just put the beans on and cook them until they are done. Let the beans stay in its jacket. Of course I see them crush the beans, and since the cooks and the eaters like it like that, I go along with them. But I like it better when you just cook them right in the jacket.
I FEEL like I could eat a bowl full of beans right now while I am talking about it. You can eat that bean seven (7) days a week. It is very appealing to the appetite.
WE SHOULD have a great field of hundreds and thousands of acres of beans to feed our people. It is a very cheap and a very healthy food for us. We should buy canning factories for ourselves and can beans. If you want meat in them, just put a taste of chicken in them to give them the flavor of meat. Or put a little piece of lamb or beef, but not enough to make it part of the contents of the can of beans. Just put enough in them for flavoring. Or you can take the essence of lamb or beef and pour a little of it in the beans. You will have to put a little piece of the flesh of the lamb or beef in the beans if you want meat because the tallow of beef does not taste good.
THE Bible and the Holy Qur-an both forbid us from eating the fat of anything, regardless of what life it is -- fowl or animal.
LET US take a look at the bread of the Southern Black People. They were born eating corn bread. It was the first bread that they ate. It is a very shameful thing to do to give an infant rough corn bread to put in his tender little milk-stomach. This is why so many of them have stomachs with ulcers and cancers.
FEED your children good navy beans (small size pink, red or white) there are many that are good for you and me. Take those freshly cooked and iced cakes off of the table. They are not good for you and me, unless they were cooked two times. Cook plain cakes and do not ice them over with bought essence to make icing with. If you want icing, make your own icing with sugar or eggs.
EAT THAT which is good. I am not saying that there are not good foods. I am just telling you that the simple foods are the best.
IF you just love corn bread because our fathers were brought up by the white slave-master to eat all of these rough foods, Allah (God) Master Fard Muhammad, to Whom Praises are due forever Taught me that we should cook it two or three times. Each time add a little flour to it and let it set for RISING. Put yeast in and let it rise and rise and rise.
Allah (God) in the Person of Master Fard Muhammad, to Whom Praises are due forever, Taught me that the food that we eat keeps us here and what we eat takes us away from here. I thank Him for Teaching me what was good for me to eat and what was bad for me to eat.
WE the Black People need to plant wheat and to raise all of the wheat flour that we can rise. We need to have great farms of pigeon-birds and eat only the ones who are too young to leave their nest. We call them squab. Allah (God) Said to me that this young bird is the only one that is fit for us to eat and do not eat Him after he flies from the nest. Chicken is not good for us to eat although we eat it. As you know the chicken is as filthy as the swine or the dog. He is a very filthy fowl and if you want to eat him, do not let him get away from you and stray out of the coop. Keep him closed up and feed him what you want him to eat. Never let him get out and eat bugs and worms. Feed him the things you know are good and pure. When he is fat you can kill and eat him. This still does not mean that he is too good for us. You have to study up on ways to protect his eating, for he will turn right around and eat his own droppings.
SO, for the habitual meat-eater, it is hard to get the right food, especially if you want meat. It is dangerous for your health to eat daintily prepared meals with all kinds of meat and all kinds of sugary bread prepared by someone’s recipe.
STAY away from the foods and the styles of the Christians. Ninety-five per cent of the foods that the Christians eat are unfit for good health and long life.
THERE is much fruits and vegetables that are good for us, but I do not have space to take them all up with you. Many of these are not injurious to our health. There are some people who eat only fruits and vegetables. They are vegetarians and they live a long time -- those who do not go after the wrong kind of vegetables and fruits.
DO NOT EAT such foods as collard greens. Do not eat black eyed peas, or brown black and many other peas. They are not good for your stomach. Feed them to the cattle. Do not eat baby or adult lima beans. Do not eat belly-busters. Allah (God) Taught me that no peas are good for you other than the ones that I have already announced to you.
HOW TO EAT TO LIVE -- there are many of my little Black Brothers who are hungry for offers and for leadership and they commercialize on what you find me writing. They take my writings and put it into other aspects and add in, and out of it, and offer it up, for a sale price because he does not want to do something for self. He wants to take everything that he can and commercialize on it. He is a thief and a robber under the disguise of putting out the teachings of the Messenger. You know my way of putting the teachings out. If I charge for some literature it is because I want to get back what we put into it and put the profit to work to build a nation. But, you are selfish and this why I do not give you any credit.
TAKE this that I give to the people directly, and do not add to it and try to make money. Allah (God) Has Already Promised you Money but do not try to make money out of His Word. There are people now who are trying to put some of their work, copied from my work, and with their own no-good additions to it.
LEAVE MY teachings as it is. No wonder the Jesus had to run the money-changers out of the Synagogue. They who were turning it into a market-place to sell their produces of this and that. You are doing the same.
You want to give little parties and dinners to commercialize on your place of teaching. They do not do that in their Holy Land. They do not take their prayer-house and turn it into a market.
WHEN a person is sick, he may have to eat two or three meals a day. The Holy Qur-an does not prescribe fasting for a person if he is sick. You cannot take fasts if you are sick. And you have to eat more than one or two meals a day until you are well again. But, Black Brother, if you have a pretty good hearty appetite do not do this and claim that you are sick when you eat that way.
HOW TO EAT TO LIVE. Eat only when necessary, when you are hungry and not before. Eat the right food. When you eat, fill up and eat until that is gone away and then fill up again.
LOOK at the camel. He fills his stomach with water then he goes a long time off of this one drink. Do not eat another fresh meal while the other is in the process of digesting, if you are well. If you are sick the complaint or the disease eats up the value of the food quickly, and you have to replenish it, so that you can continue to stay strong or rid yourself of the complaint or sickness, as the doctor will prescribe for you.
WHEN you are well again eat one meal and eat the right kind of food and you will live one hundred and forty (140) years, so Allah (God) Taught me. Eat one meal every twenty-four hours and eat good simple food. Remember to cook your food thoroughly before you eat it. This does not mean that you should cook your food into a waste, but just cook it so long as it is done and it is not half-done. Half cooked food will ruin your digestive system.