Reconciling the Factors: The Age of the Sun 72 Trillion Years Old or 78 Trillion Years Old???? By Maliki Fard If the Most Honorable Elijah Muhammad teaches us that God created himself in physical form 78 trillion years ago. Where did this being create himself? He created himself on the earth from the material of the earth, Correct? According to the Messenger this earth came into being within a 78 trillion year period and not 76. We surmise that the difference of time from the 76 trillion year period and the 78 trillion year period is that it took two trillion years for the earth to become stable enough to contain higher life forms. This is logical since Our Messenger teaches us that ”Allah was created; self-created from an atom of life. The atom of life was not only able to create flesh and have blood FROM THE EARTH THAT HE WAS CREATED ON…— Allah (God) was CREATED ON THE VERY EARTH THAT WE ARE ON TODAY.” (Elijah Muhammad, ‘Our Savior Has Arrived,’ 1974, p.146). Let’s study these words. Our Messenger gives us two fundamental historical and cosmological incidents regarding the creation of Man and the Making of Man. First Our Messenger states that “When the first man created Himself, He was the light of the circle. Then He willed the sun into being. It was 6 trillion years between the making of the sun and the creation of man.” We can easily see the science in the above that our Messenger was referencing two different states of the Original Man. The clue is in the below statement: ”When the first man created Himself, He was the light of the circle. Then He willed the sun into being.” Was the Messenger at this state of creation referencing a physical Man in a denser form? Let me explain. Our Messenger speaks on many levels of both the subjective and objective Man. For instance the Messenger teaches us that Allah began rotating as an Atom in the darkness: ”Just think it over; a little small atom of life rolling around in darkness. Think it over; Building itself up, just turning in darkness, making its own self. Let’s go into it. Do I have any proof of this? Yes, sir! He made Himself into total darkness. He put His Ownself turning, turning on His Own Timetable in the Black womb of the Universe. He started rotating. He demands every life that comes into the Universe today to start turning first. “Over to Me, for I had that to do myself.” (Our Savior has Arrived Chapter 11 The Knowledge of God Himself). Was the Messenger referencing Man as we know him today as HE in the above? NO. Again the Messenger teaches us in the Theology of Time that Allah ”[W]as made on the very Earth that we are on now but it was not as it is today. It was only an Atom itself.” Now if Allah created himself on this very earth but yet the earth was only an atom itself at the time then what was he referencing? Was not the Messenger referencing the potentiality of his being in the essence of the atom. For the atom held in its essence the potentiality of a Earth? The Messenger second statement references the physical Man in a composite form in the below statements taken from The Divine Sayings of Messenger Elijah
Muhammad: ”It was 6 trillion years between the making of the sun and the creation of man.” Now reason with me. If Allah was self created as a composite form on the earth and the earth is 78 trillion years old then we can assume that the composite Man came into being roughly 78 trillion years ago? Since Our Messenger teaches us that the Atom which is the first unit one from which Allah brought denser forms into being. We know that Darwin’s Natural Selection is flawed but is evolution in itself? Now the Messenger teaches us in Theology of Time that Allah created Himself but that we simply do not know how it happened. The Messenger gives a reason to this complexity, he states: ”In the Creation of Almighty God, Himself, I was not there and have not had any teacher to teach Me that they were there. I have not had a Teacher except Master Fard Muhammad to teach Me how the thing came about and how the thing that man has never known happened. We know that it happened but how is the question. In the making of God, Himself, He could not have a Will until He had brains capable of thinking.” Above our Messenger states that He truly does not know how Allah created himself without brains capable of thinking; capable of willing himself into being. However, Our Messenger stated that Allah was able still to create Himself. “He was Self-Created from an Atom of Life. An Atom of Life had to produce flesh, bones, and blood from the Earth that He was Self-Created on. “ The Messenger as you know in Our Savior Has Arrived teaches us that Allah had to wait for that atom to produce a Brain form him in order to have a Will. The Messenger teaches us that life comes forth from water. If this is so then not only did Allah come into being as a revolving light of water called the hydrogen atom in the darkened space, but that same atom of life formed molecules etc. that would produce flesh, bones. Now ask yourself does not science speaks regarding the microorganisms that existed in the waters of the earth in a volatile state, that would eventually give rise to man? Now, not to get off subject. Let’s conclude my point of the age of the sun being 78 trillion years old. ”There is no such thing as an end coming to the Blackman. He has been here ever since we had a universe and we have history, according to the word of God, dating back to ***seventy-two trillion years.*** SEVENTY TWO TRILLION YEARS THAT SAME SUN***that you see shining out there today, has been shining. (Messenger Elijah Muhammad Speaks in Baltimore in 1960. Since the above logically that the Black Man in essence and being has no beginning nor ending, but truly us in this form does. Let me continue. Our Messenger teaches us that ”It was 6 trillion years between the making of the sun and the creation of man.” First the Earth is 78 trillion years old and God created Himself on this very earth. This means that the Physical Man existing in the germs of the earth was and is at least 78 trillion years old. The 72 trillion years age of the star might have been the conception of or the earlier development of a star but not the end product of what we now call our Sun. Let me prove this. The Messenger stated that: ”It was 6 trillion years between the making of the sun and the creation of man.” Since man is at least 78 trillion years old we
can easily comprehend the above. The 6 trillion years between the making of the sun and the creation of man is simple. Please add the 72 trillion years which represents the age of our beginning Sun plus an additional 6 trillion years equals 78 trillion years of age which represents the Sun in its mature state and thus its necessity due to the creation of man came into being. Thus our Messenger stated ”It was six trillion years, so God taught me, before He put the Sun in Use.” Theology of Time (90). The Messenger supports my above conclusion and explains the reasoning within why it took SIX TRILLION YEARS, BEFORE HE PUT THE SUN IN USE, in these words: Please review with deeper clarity “Our Savior Has Arrived”, pg. 96 the Messenger states: ”These years (76 trillion) WERE DIVIDED IN SIX TRILLION YEARS beyond 66 trillion years which would make the said figure 76 be 78, instead of 76 trillion…” Look at this math 66 + 6= 72. However, the Messenger took the figure to 78 trillion instead of 72 trillion which means he was referencing two cycles of 6 trillion periods of time. In conclusion Our Messenger corrected and refined His statement made in 1960 regarding the age of the Sun. The Messenger stated in 1967: ”THE SUN is the first of the great lights of the heavens that was made.Second came the stars and third came the moon.” Freedom, Justice, Equality, Reprinted from the Muhammad Speaks Newspaper, March 31,1967, By Messenger Elijah Muhammad. Above the Messenger clearly states the Sun is the First of the GREAT LIGHTS! He then states that next came the stars. That makes a distinction between the age of the stars and our Sun. Since the star is 72 trillion years old and according to our science everything occurs in 6 periods or trillion year increments is it not logical that the same rule apply. 72+6= 78 trillion years old. With all the evidence I presented in my response I dissent your conclusion that the Sun is 72 trillion years old. The AGE OF THE SUN IS 78 Trillion years old, Star is 72 Trillion years old, and the Moon is 66 Trillion years old. Thanks to my Brother Rashaad Muhammad (Boris Muhammad) for giving me inspiration to write!!! Hoping to bring Clarity !!! Salaam Allah, Khalil Allah (L7)