Editing Five-Percent Nation (section)

=== Basis ===
The men of the Five Percent Nation view themselves as Gods, both individually and collectively as the "Original Man".<ref name="IslamIn" /> According to the ''Five Percenter Newspaper'', "God first means that it is no longer a judicial argument; centered means everything we do is about God. Culture is the practices and principles of a people at any given time."<ref>Five Percenter Newspaper volume 16.5 p.2</ref> Gods and Earths sometimes refer to themselves as [[scientist]]s, implying their search for knowledge and proof.<ref>{{Cite book |title=Five Percenter Rap |last=Miyakawa |first=Felicia |publisher=Indiana University Press |year=2005 |isbn=0253217636 |pages=[https://archive.org/details/isbn_9780253345745/page/30 30, 68, 157] |url=https://archive.org/details/isbn_9780253345745/page/30}}</ref><ref name="Jackson Richardson 2014">{{cite book |chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Gl6hAwAAQBAJ&pg=PT174 |title=In: Understanding African American Rhetoric: Classical Origins to Contemporary Innovations |last=Miyakawa |first=Felicia |publisher=Routledge |year=2003 |isbn=978-1-136-72729-0 |editor-last=Jackson, Ronald |editor-first=Ronald L. and Elaine B. Richardson |location=New York, NY |pages=174, 179 |chapter=The Duty of the Civilized is to Civilize the Uncivilized: Tropes of Black Nationalism in the Messages of Five Percent Rappers |oclc=881034429 |author-link1=Ronald L. Jackson II |access-date=April 23, 2019 |archive-date=August 19, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200819111826/https://books.google.com/books?id=Gl6hAwAAQBAJ&pg=PT174 |url-status=live }}</ref>

The teachings of the Nation of Gods and Earths are passed on through a modern oral tradition. The advancement of a God or Earth is based on their memorization, recitation, comprehension, and practical application of the Supreme Mathematics and the Supreme Alphabet and also the 120 Lessons, sometimes referred to as degrees, a revised version of the Supreme Wisdom lessons of the NOI, originally written by [[Wallace Fard Muhammad]] and [[Elijah Muhammad]].<ref name="ThisFar" /><ref name="The5">{{cite book |title=The Five Percenters: Islam, Hip Hop, and the Gods of New York |url=https://archive.org/details/fivepercentersis00knig |url-access=registration |author=Knight, Michael Muhammad |publisher=Oxford, England, UK: Oneworld Publications |year=2007 |isbn=9781851685134}}</ref><ref name="CantStop">{{cite book |title=[[Can't Stop Won't Stop: A History of the Hip-Hop Generation]] |first=Jeff |last=Chang |author-link=Jeff Chang (journalist) |publisher=St. Martin's Press |year=2005 |pages=258, 259}}</ref>

The anthology ''Knowledge of Self: A Collection of Wisdom on the Science of Everything in Life'' by Supreme Understanding details the teachings of the Nation of Gods and Earths.<ref>{{cite book |last=Ankh |first=Nur |title=Knowledge of Self: A Collection of Wisdom on the Science of Everything in Life (9780981617022): Supreme Understanding, Sunez Allah, CBS Alife Allah: Books |date=July 30, 2009 |publisher=Supreme Design |isbn=978-0981617022}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.supremedesignonline.com/knowledgeofself.html#reviews |title=Knowledge Of Self |publisher=Supremedesignonline.com |access-date=February 13, 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120129222911/http://www.supremedesignonline.com/knowledgeofself.html#reviews |archive-date=January 29, 2012 |url-status=dead}}</ref> [[Wakeel Allah]] has written ''In the Name of Allah: A History of Clarence 13X and the 5 Percenters'' and ''The Naked Truth: From the Goal Mind of Abu Shahid, the Elder of the Nation of Gods and Earths''.<ref>Muhammad, Ashahed (March 21, 2017). "In the Name of Allah, A History of Clarence 13X and the 5 Percenters". ''The Final Call Newspaper''. Retrieved March 26, 2014.</ref>