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Day 20: World Friendship Tours

Following the Million Man March, Minister Louis Farrakhan took the healing message of atonement throughout the world during three World Friendship Tours over the next three years. Needless to say, the Honorable Minister Louis Farrakhan’s World Friendship Tours marked a pivotal turning point in the history of the Nation of Islam’s outreach to the world following the historic Million Man March held in Washington, D.C.’s capital on October 16, 1995. Within the three following years, he was guided by Almighty God, Allah, to travel abroad visiting a multitude of countries in Africa, Asia, Europe and the Middle East which also took him through parts of Central Asia or Eurasia, Russia and Siberia on the fringes of the Caucasus Mountains.

Everywhere he traveled he was received and honored as a head of state by spiritual and political leaders. His name and accomplishments under our Eternal Leader, the Most Honorable Elijah Muhammad, went throughout the world following the successful assembly of nearly two million men on the Capitol Mall in Washington, D.C.

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Day 18: Mother Tynnetta Muhammad

Mother Tynnetta Muhammad was born Tynnetta Alethea Nelson on May 10, 1941, in Detroit, Michigan. Since early childhood she studied many world cultures and societies. A gifted child in oratorical and writing skills, she developed a wide range of creative expression in the performing arts, including theater and dance. She often appeared in public recitals and was a regular performer on local television stations at an early age. At age 16, Mother Tynnetta Muhammad embraced the Divine Teachings of the Most Honorable Elijah Muhammad, and received her “X” at 17 in 1958. The Most Honorable Elijah Muhammad’s Teachings guided her to the study of the Holy Qur’an. Ever since, she remained devoted to the study of the Divine Word of God.

She eventually married the Most Honorable Elijah Muhammad, Leader of the Nation Of Islam in America. Together they had four children, Madeeah Muhammad, Ishmael Muhammad, Rasul Muhammad and Ahmad Muhammad. Her Study of the Holy Qur’an became the foundation of her music computational works and creative spirit. Mother Tynnetta Muhammad was self-taught without formal training in music theory or instrumentation and credited her musical expression to be - “A Gift from Allah and an answer to a Prayer.”

Mother Tynnetta Muhammad with her husband The Most Honorable Elijah Muhammad.

In 1959 she was chosen to be the first Muslim Woman columnist in the Pittsburgh Courier, the Lost Angeles Herald Dispatch, and the Muhammad Speaks newspapers, writing under the title “The Woman in Islam.” Mother Tynnetta wrote a weekly column in the Final Call newspaper entitled, Unveiling the Number 19. She participated in many noteworthy international conferences and authored several publications on Islam rooted in the Divine Teachings of the Honorable Elijah Muhammad from its global perspective.

Mother Tynnetta began the publication of the Cultural Links News Journal in 2002 to support the Honorable Elijah Muhammad Educational Foundation, a nonprofit organization which she founded in 1978 to promote the expression of the cultural arts. Through the publication of Cultural Links, Mother Tynnetta was able to promote educational programming dedicated to the study of the arts and sciences of civilization to audiences around the world.

Mother Tynnetta Muhammad pausing from reading the Holy Qur’an.

She was the fashion designer of the Dress 19 collection and introduced the Al-Tai Fashahnn ensemble, inspired from her journey to the Al-Tai Republic in Russia. Some of her fashion designs were featured in the July 1996 issue of Essence magazine and in the Spring 2013 issue of Virtue Today Magazine.

Mother Tynnetta Muhammad was greatly aided and supported throughout the years by the late, Alice Coltrane wife of the legendary jazz artist and genius, John Coltrane. Mother Tynnetta cultivated a lifetime and endearing friendship with the late Syretta Wright (Muhammad), former Motown performing artist, lyricist, and former wife of Stevie Wonder. Syretta is the founder of the performing artists and dance ensemble The Divine Hands. Other notable friendships include the late Miriam Makeeba, Mrs. Winnie Mandela, rap artist and movie producer, O’Shea (Ice Cube) Jackson and wife, Kimberley Jackson. Mother Tynnetta developed friendship with the Unification Church and its leadership and Founder, the Reverend and Mrs. Sun Myung Moon, affectionately referred to as “True Parents” and “Mother and Father Moon.” Through them the doors of communication and cultural links were opened to the Mongolian people.

Mother Tynnetta Muhammad with Erykah Badu and India Arie at the Millions More Movement.

In 2009, the Honorable Minister Louis Farrakhan introduced one of Mother Tynnetta’s original compositional works entitled Ta Ha: The Final Call Symphonic Suite to a large audience during the Saviours; Day Convention. Mother Tynnetta Muhammad was an assistant and Spiritual Helper to the Honorable Minister Louis Farrakhan, appointed by her husband to help continue this Great Work of Divine Unity and Global Mission in the Spiritual Resurrection of Our people world-wide embracing the whole of humanity.

She attended an International Leadership Conference in Mongolia accompanied by two outstanding Vanguard, Sister Anita Muhammad from Washington D.C. and Sister Vivian Lee from the Oakland California Bay Area. This event inspired Mother Tynnetta to present an entrepreneurial and ambassadorial training program for the MGT Vanguards in partnership with the entire MGT class. Mother Muhammad was gifted withe a psychic sense of perception seeing into the future of a new world, which will flourish upon the vibrations of peace and unlimited progress for the Righteous.

Below is a few words from interviews Mother Tynnetta Muhammad had with Virtue Magazine:

Virtue: What things did you teach your children as they were growing up? What values did you feel were important to teach them?

Mother Tynnetta: I believe it is important to give children a strong spiritual base. they must learn to nurture God, honor and respect, prayer and cleanliness.

Virtue: What did you learn about Virtue from the Honorable Elijah Muhammad? What is the state of Virtue of women Today? What changed do we need to make as women?

Mother Tynnetta: Women are being abused in society today and children are being raped and murdered. There are psychological imbalances in male and female relationships because of the lack of respect. No virtue in a woman demonstrates the type of leadership society is under. the female energy has to give back, to give balance. Women should be trained by all women teachers. Women need to be put back in our rightful place. Keeping that family together and the virtuous is on the woman. We need to reeducate the male. We, as women, have to be aware of how we act and dress and its affect on society we are part of. The Mother’s Eye has to be attentive, even of the father.

Virtue: How can we encourage music and culture with our children?

Mother Tynnetta- First of all, each mother and father has to go inside themselves. There is a certain frequency that we all have, a certain tonality, a certain sound or temperament we all have, but because our lives have been so “noisy” or I should say our environment has been so “jammed” with so many expressions from rock and roll to rap that we have rarely touched upon these types of vibrations inside of us or even know how to respond to it when it is there. I remember coming up in school and we would go see symphonies. One does not have to be trained in musical instrument to get in touch with inner vibrations and frequency of sound. Exposing our children to nature, flowers, insects etc., will help them find that inner nitch. The more that we expose our children to museums, science museums, art museums and ballets, the better outlook they will have. I would expose my children and take them when I traveled. Today they say “mom exposed us to so many things which is why we have such a global outlook.” We must raise our children in such a way because they have the potential to become great artists and cultural benefactors. But if we are lazy and don’t make programs in which we include them, [they won’t learn as much.] Children learn by example.

Virtue: How can we as women help to be helpers or Vanguards in building a righteous Nation?

Mother Tynnetta: well, the kind of energy I had since my youth continues with me. If you put our positive energy and think of how to “grow” an idea or situation into the future, then you are going to force the mind to create for you your reality. I am saying that is most important as a Vanguard myself and having come up through the ranks as a MGT and GCC under the leadership of the late Ethel Muhammad, the eldest daughter of the Honorable Elijah Muhammad. She encouraged the young people to have their own activities within the class structure. That is how I got involved with teaching the MGT and GCC juniors and we got involved with everything we wanted to and we would just report it to the MGT such as writing, poetry, etc. We even produced a book that The Honorable Elijah Muhammad approved that has stories of Islam. We had art classes and ceramics up until around 1972 or 1974, just on the edge of the Honorable Elijah Muhammad’s departure. What we tried to do is take our minds and be creative. We have to think positively and bring or [work] through, as much as we can, what is considered to be negativity in our environment that prevents us from being who we are.

Virtue: Good point. Thank You.

Mother Tynnetta represented in life, from her childhood in Detroit through her matriculation and development into a world-traveler and cultured and refined woman of the Nation of Islam, her contribution to the world will impact generations. She is a Divine Woman and a great example of how a genius thinks like and what a Queen looks and acts like. A warrior, a mother, a great cook, a scholar, a scientist, the NOI ambassador of culture, a composer, musician, an actress, a dancer and much more. She work continues to inspire many in the global mission of the Teachings of The Most Honorable Elijah Muhammad.