According to The new international Webster’s comprehensive Dictionary of the English language. (Encyclopedic edition) Page 1383. The definition of Utopia is;
1. Any state, condition, or place of ideal perfection. A visionary, impractical scheme for social improvement.
2. An imaginary island described as the seat of a perfect social and political life in a romance by Sir Thomas More, published in 1516.
Utopian. Excellent, but existing only in fancy or theory. One who advocates impractical reforms; a visionary.
Utopianism. Highly idealistic and impractical views, especially about social problems.
In other words, according to this world’s view, Utopia means, NO-SUCH-PLACE.
We in the Nation of Islam take a different view. We believe that Utopia is real and was in existence in the distant past and will be brought back into existence in the not to distant future.
The term, Utopia is only one of the names used to describe this wonderful place. Down the ages it has been called; Paradise, The Garden of Eden, Heaven on Earth, Jerusalem, (City of Peace), The kingdom of God, and much more.
We believe that the Creator of the Heavens and the Earth, Almighty God, (Allah), created the members of the human family to be social beings obeying and following His laws and statutes.
Only when we deviate from His divine guidance, i.e. the disobedience of Adam, do we fall away from His high standards, and the state of existence that He prescribed for us then becomes, in our own minds, NO-SUCH-PLACE.
This is because in our deviation from the nature in which He created us, (Which is the nature to submit our will to do his will), we get into trouble. In this troubled condition, we increase in disbelief. In our disbelief, we lose the knowledge of ourselves, and in losing this knowledge; we lose the knowledge of God because He is a part of us and we are a part of Him.
So the lower self of flesh, lust, greed, instinct, urges, fears, doubts, pain and grief becomes the God of our life. Our lower self then leads us into living the life of a beast.
The lower self is incapable of believing in such a concept as Utopia on either a spiritual or physical plane.
Even if an unenlightened person were to arrive in Utopia, they would have great difficulty recognizing where they were, and would act in such a way that would lead to the destruction of a society that is “too perfect.”
If we are not reeducated into the knowledge of God and Self, then we will never be able to understand how life produced people like, Abraham, Moses, Jesus, Mary and Muhammad and the beautiful examples that their lives represent to us.
These examples are to be followed and not worshiped, by we who are their modern day brothers and sisters, that where they are, we might also be.
Just imagine for a moment how these ordinary people became extra-ordinary by their thoughts, words and actions. We can do the same.
Every social, political and economic system has come into existence as a result of mans thoughts, words and actions and that is why we in the Nation of Islam know without doubt that Utopia, or the Kingdom of God on Earth is not fantasy but in actual fact, reality.
Please study this brief glossary of sayings. Each one when understood in the language of positive thinking and mathematics, equals = UTOPIA.
In the beginning was the word. And the word was God. And the word dwelt among men. And the word became flesh.
Man, know thy self.
As a man thinketh, in his heart so is he.
As it was in the beginning so shall it be in the end. (Alpha and Omega)
Thy Kingdom come on Earth, as it is in Heaven.
Not my will, but Thy will be done.
Be yea perfect even as I am.
The Kingdom of God is within.
Be not conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind.
I will make all things new.
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