One of the fastest growing religions in the world today is the five percent nation of gods and earths known as five percenters.What is the nation of gods and earths?
It is a splinter group of the Nation of Islam. The phrase “Five Percent” refers to one of the basic tenets of the Five Percent movement: blacks are gods and women are the earths. Members are known as “Five Percenters.” Five Percent refers to the belief that only five percent of all people know and teach the truth and ten percent conspire to hide the truth.
What does this nation teach?
1. That black people are the original people of the planet Earth.
2. That black people are the fathers and mothers of civilization.
3. That the science of supreme mathematics is the key to understanding man’s relationship to the universe.
4. Islam is a natural way of life, not a religion.
5. That education should be fashioned to enable us to be self-sufficient as a people.
6. That each one should teach one according to their knowledge.
7. That the black man is god and his proper name is ALLAH: Arm, Leg, Leg, Arm, Head.
8. That our children are our link to the future and they must be nurtured, respected, loved, protected and educated.
9. That the unified black family is the vital building block of the nation.
What are their goals?
The five percenters’ achievements can be broken down into the following categories: national consciousness, community control, and peace.
1. National Consciousness: National Consciousness is the consciousness of their origin in this world, which is divine. As a nation of people they are the first in existence and all other people are derived from them. It is also the awareness of the unique history and culture of black people and the unequaled contributions they have made to world civilization, by being the fathers and mothers of civilization.
2. Community Control: Community Control of the educational, economic, political, media and health institutions in their community. Their demand for community control flows naturally out of their science of life, which teaches that they are the supreme being in person and the sole controller of their own destiny.
3. Peace: Peace is the absence of confusion (chaos) and the absence of confusion is order. Law and order is very foundation upon which their “Science of Life”rests. supreme mathematics is the law and order of the universe. This is the science of Islam, which is peace. Peace is supreme understanding between people for the benefit of the whole. This is their ultimate goal.
What is Supreme Mathematics?
Supreme mathematics is the basis of the five percenters’ teachings. They are the ten principles that correspond to the twenty six letters that they Allah (their founder) and Justice (his close friend) created together. With supreme mathematics they teach their youth how to break down and form profound relationships between significant experiences within life.
Since their beginnings in 1963, the Five Percent Nation of gods and earths has grown enormously. Today, you can hear many contemporary rap and neo soul artist make direct reference or strong allusion to Five Percenter ideology. These artists include Talib Kweli, Mos Def, the whole Wu Tang Clan, Erykah Badu, India Arie, and others.