MSTA Temple 19 Atlanta

10/01/2026

Islam

One of the challenges within an organization where members have the power to vote for a change in leadership is that the same power meant to protect the organization can also be used to prevent the organization from progressing.

Sometimes leadership introduces changes that are unfamiliar, uncomfortable, or different from what members have grown accustomed to. That does not automatically mean those changes are harmful. Sometimes discomfort is simply the natural result of growth. Yet people can become so attached to what they know that they would rather vote out the person introducing change than seriously consider where that change could take the organization.

There is a difference between holding leadership accountable and resisting leadership simply because it challenges the status quo. Accountability asks, “Is this good for the organization?” Fear asks, “Why can’t things stay the way they have always been?”

If every leader must remain within the boundaries of what makes everyone comfortable in order to survive the next vote, eventually leadership stops leading and begins managing comfort.

The power to vote can protect an organization from bad leadership, but without wisdom, patience, and discernment, that same power can protect an organization from progress.

Sometimes the greatest obstacle to change is not the absence of power to change. It is having that power and continually using it to preserve what is familiar.

Peace

09/28/2026

Islam

The Grand Sheik and the Chairman of the Moorish Science Temple of America is in power to make law and enforce laws.

Peace

09/27/2026

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Islam, Moslems!

With love and peace, we present the elected National Officials of the Moorish Science Temple of America, Inc. for fiscal year 2026–2027.

Please join us in congratulating our Brothers and Sisters as they serve in their respective offices. May their work be guided by Love, Truth, Peace, Freedom and Justice.

Love and Peace

09/21/2026

Islam Friends & Family,

Moorish Science Temple No. 34 would like to congratulate Sister A. Raveneau-Bey ( Amirah Raveneau-Bey ), Chairman of the Moorish Science Temple of America! Our sister makes history as the 2nd sister to serve as the Chairman of the Moorish Science Temple of America. She is also the first Sister Chairman to serve with a sister as an assistant. Sister P. Smith-Bey!

May Allah be pleased with her past work and continue to bless her now and in the future.

Peace! ✋🏽

08/28/2026

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08/17/2026

08/10/2026

Be More Humble

07/31/2026

Untempered Mortar

07/22/2026

Reality Is Negotiable

Two people can experience the exact same event, hear the same words, witness the same actions, and walk away with completely different realities. Why? Because reality is not experienced solely through our senses. It is filtered through our beliefs, experiences, expectations, fears, hopes, and mindset. The event may be objective, but the meaning we assign to it is often subjective.

This is why protecting and developing your mind is so important. A disciplined mind can find lessons in adversity, while an undisciplined mind may find only offense and defeat. We may not always control what happens to us, but we have tremendous influence over how we interpret it. In many ways, the quality of our reality is determined not just by what we experience, but by the lens through which we choose to see it.

Peace

07/09/2026

Hezekiah: Reformation and Restoration

In the genealogy of Jesus provided in our "Koran Questions for Moorish Americans", one of the names we are instructed to know is Hezekiah. This is not incidental. Hezekiah represents a period of reformation, restoration, and the return to divine principles after a period of decline and confusion.

If we apply that lesson to the present condition of the Moorish Science Temple of America, it becomes clear that we are living in a symbolic "Hezekian" age.

King Hezekiah inherited a people who had become divided, disconnected from their principles, neglectful of their sacred institutions, and uncertain of their collective identity. His work was not to create something new, but to restore what had been forgotten, repair what had been neglected, and reunite a people around their divine purpose.

Likewise, our work as Moorish Americans is not merely to preserve an organization or defend personalities. Our work is to restore nationality, revive divine principles, rebuild institutions, educate our people, and cultivate the character necessary to sustain what our Holy Prophet, Noble Drew Ali, established.

The age of Hezekiah requires sacrifice over comfort, study over speculation, service over self-interest, and unity over division. It demands that we clean our own house before attempting to govern the world around us.

Reformation is not accomplished through slogans.
Restoration is not achieved through nostalgia.
Both require labor.

Perhaps the lesson of Hezekiah in our Questionnaire is not simply that he was an ancestor of Jesus, but that every generation must decide whether it will participate in the decline of a nation or in its restoration.

The question before us is simple:

Will we be remembered as spectators of Moorish American restoration, or as laborers in it?