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Nectar of Life
This is Sul Ya Man in his own words. Faith, ancestry, hard lessons, street knowledge, and a lifetime spent questioning who gets to name the truth.
From the Doctrine
“As wine turn to water my doctrine is intoxicating to stand the rest of time, while yet it is the oil for this society of morbid behavior vie time and the vicissitudes of time in an era end era of random change three dimes change quarter. My five cents minus three pennies. Revelations 6:6. That in modern time the Congress and Senate has become the Sanhedrin of our times.
We all have been hoodwinked The president is Emperor, Congress is Pharisees and Senate has been the Sadducees, Scribes professional shit stirrers news media we still 2000 year Dog Star Cannan 1 st miracle”
Sul Ya Man — Author’s Commentary
The Author
Sulyaman Al Islam Wasalaam writes as Sul Ya Man – Sun God Man. For more than forty years, much of it on his own time, he has followed questions through scripture, history, ancestry, social order, and the world directly in front of him. He does not write from a distance. As he puts it, he writes “straight off the cuff”. What you read is what you get.
Cherokee and Croatan heritage, the African diaspora, and the Islamic tradition all run through his work, but he does not present them as labels to hide behind. They become part of a larger argument about knowing where you come from, knowing yourself, and deciding what deserves to be carried forward.
Responses
This book made me stop more than once and think about my own assumptions. Sul Ya Man doesn’t write to make the reader comfortable; he writes in a way that keeps pulling you back into the question.
Marcus Bennett
Advance Reader
What I liked most was how faith, memory, ancestry, and street knowledge all sit together without feeling separated. It reads like someone speaking from experience instead of trying to sound polished.
Denise Carter
Early Reader
I didn’t agree with every idea, and that is exactly why I kept reading. The voice feels personal, direct, and completely his own. It leaves you thinking after the page is finished.
Raymond Ellis
Reader of Excelsior
The Book
HARDCOVER EDITION
$29.99
For readers who want Excelsior: Nectar of Life as a lasting copy, something to keep, revisit, and return to when a line asks for a second reading.
PAPERBACK EDITION
$18.99
A lighter way to carry the full book, from Sul Ya Man’s first doctrine to the final maxims, wherever the reading takes you.
DIGITAL EBOOK
$9.99
Keep the full text close on the device you already use, ready whenever you want to return to a chapter, a question, or a line that stayed with you.
Writings
JANUARY 15, 2025
Some wounds close without returning us to who we were before. Sul Ya Man looks at restoration, change, and what survives in us after hardship has already done its work.
DECEMBER 8, 2024
A community can spend together without ever building together. Sul Ya Man looks at ownership, local business, jobs, and what happens when money leaves a neighborhood faster than opportunity comes back.
NOVEMBER 20, 2024
Sul Ya Man breaks peace into three places: within the person, inside the life they build, and finally in the world around them. His order raises a harder question: can we fix outside what remains unsettled inside?
Questions
It is Sul Ya Man’s examination of identity, faith, ancestry, survival, community, power, and self-knowledge. The book moves between personal memory, spiritual thought, social commentary, and philosophy rather than following one conventional storyline.
It contains all three, but it does not sit comfortably inside only one category. Sul Ya Man draws from personal experience, Islamic and Biblical references, ancestry, history, and his own philosophy to question how people understand themselves and the world around them.
No. Sul Ya Man repeatedly treats the book as a conversation rather than something the reader must simply accept. He questions, argues, reflects, and asks readers to examine their own conclusions rather than borrow his.
The book contains 38 chapters arranged across five parts. It begins with knowledge, identity, and language, moves inward toward soul, faith, healing, and survival, then widens into community, history, power, street knowledge, and finally a series of maxims and closing reflections.
Yes. Parts of the book use strong language and contain explicit sexual and violent material. This is especially true in the street-knowledge section, where Sul Ya Man intentionally keeps the writing raw and unfiltered.
Not a ready-made answer. He describes the work as a blueprint shaped by lessons life has already taught, and much of the book keeps returning to self-examination, knowing where you come from, and deciding what you will do with what you know
What’s Next
New editions, future books, appearances, and fresh writing from Sul Ya Man. When something new is ready to be shared, hear about it here first.
