[Editor’s Note: The Final Call presents a portion of a message by Student Minister Ishmael Muhammad, National Assistant to the Honorable Minister Louis Farrakhan. Below are edited remarks by Student Minister Ishmael Muhammad from part of his keynote delivered Sunday, November 3, 2024, titled:
“The Survival of the Black Community: Who of the Presidential Candidates Can Save the Lives of the People of America From the Wrath of God?” part 3. To view the entirety of parts 1, 2 and 3, visit media.noi.org.]
In the Name of Allah,the Beneficent, the Merciful
As-Salaam Alaikum!
We believe that the mission that Allah God gave the Honorable Elijah Muhammad to raise us up from the spiritual, mental, moral, political and physical death and to form us into a mighty nation can never be reversed. Where’s the proof?
How long have we been here? I’m talking about the Nation of Islam, soon, to be a century. And we have influenced the landscape of America. The teachings of the Honorable Elijah Muhammad have gone so far and wide, beyond the borders of America, into Central and South America, the Caribbean, into Asia, Europe, Africa, all over the world.
He has won. Master Fard Muhammad started a process that is irreversible, and that’s why, with all of the vehement opposition against the Nation of Islam, against the Honorable Minister Louis Farrakhan, as he (Minister Farrakhan) told me two weeks ago to lift that scripture, ‘No man’s visage was more marred than the man of God.’
No Black leader has been more marred than the Honorable Elijah Muhammad and the Honorable Minister Louis Farrakhan. That’s a fact. They have called these two leaders the worst of names, everything but who they are. Why? Because they represent a new idea. You can’t have a new system without a new man.
You can’t have a new world without a new idea. That’s who Christ represents: a new mind, a new heart, a new spirit. And he’s so attractive that those that want to keep the people in the past, they have to do everything to mar the image, the reputation, the character and the word of that man.
So, the Scripture says, ‘If we don’t stop him, the whole world,’ not just one people in a nation, ‘the whole world, will go after him.’ The Honorable Elijah Muhammad’s Teaching is not just good for the Black man of America. His teaching is good for the Black man all over the planet.
It’s good for the Yellow man, it’s good for the Brown man. It’s good for the Red man, and it’s good for the White man. That’s why, whenever we present ourselves, you don’t hear hatred. You may have heard, ‘Oh, I hear one of the Nation’s representatives is on the program. That’s one of those anti-Semites, that’s one of those haters.
But then when you start listening and you adjust your eyesight, this does not sound like anything that I have heard. These people got something. Oh, yeah, we got something for real and it’s so beautiful, and it’s so universal.
We don’t hate the White man because he’s White. If that were the case, why do we wear white garments? You don’t hate color because of color. We hate the evil that has been done to us that has come through that flesh. But we also in given root knowledge know the purpose of the White man.
And, you can’t accept a thing until you know the purpose for which God called it into existence. We know their origin. That tempers our emotions. We know their purpose. That gives us wisdom into God. Isn’t that something? So, you come around us. There’s no hatred here. We do hate injustice.
Well, God doesn’t hate. What Bible did you read that out of? What translation did you read? God hates injustice. God loved Jacob and hated Esau. God loves and God hates. So, stop all this silly talk—God loved everybody. Well, tell me something.
Why is His Wrath kindled? Why are the forces of nature now manifesting itself with such violence now? No, God does not love this world of injustice, tyranny, oppression, classism, sexism (and) materialism. … That’s why He sent His Son into the world.
And Paul said, ‘Be ye no longer conformed to this world, but be ye transformed by the renewal of your mind.’ You can’t renew your mind on your own. You gotta be introduced to a new mind that starts the process of changing your patterns of thought because the pattern of thought is after the pattern of the rebellious man.
But God, in the Bible, He makes a new man, a new Adam, who is the Adam or atom of a brand new world. And as all have sinned and all have died because of the one man’s rebellion, all will be made righteous by the obedience and righteousness of the one man that’s called Christ.
We are on a path, the Honorable Minister Louis Farrakhan wrote, that can never be turned back. The Black man of America and the world will rise and fulfill our destiny. Your future and your destiny is not determined by the two candidates. You’re too invested in that.
What did the Honorable Elijah Muhammad say? He’s our guide. He said to us, ‘This election is one of the most serious in the history of the American government, because either party that seeks the office of presidency is faced with the problem of saving the lives of the people of America’ (The Fall of America, from the chapter, “The National Election”).
Save them from what? Save them from the anger of God. You see the unusual weather? You think that’s the result of climate change and global warming? … You say you’re a nation under God, you definitely are.
You are a nation that now is under the Divine Wrath of God. But it’s not just America. It’s a whole world. It’s a whole world because the system is not a national system. It’s a global, international system. That’s why we can be fighting over here, but it’s everywhere.
The Bible says ‘love of this world is enmity with God.’ God so loved the world. And this man, Jesus, he said, ‘I am the door.’ That’s big. ‘I’m the door,’ and a door admits you in, and a door takes you out. That’s what Jesus represents. I’m not talking about Jesus of 2,000 years ago.
I’m talking about the Messiah, the Messiah of God, who’s under the name Jesus, but his name is not Jesus. The Honorable Elijah Muhammad said, ‘if the present party Democrat remains in office, you know the answer. If the Republican Party takes over, you should know the answer.’ …
‘The Black vote could be cast or not cast. The White citizens of the government are going to win and continue to rule anyway.’
And what has been the history? They continue to rule no matter who you vote for, the more things change, the more things what? The audience responds: ‘Stay the same.’
So, none of our aspirations have been realized with any elected president. He (the Honorable Elijah Muhammad) said, ‘there’s much talk of this man and that man. Who shall the vote of the people put in the White House for the next four years? How much good have the two parties, Republican and Democrat, done for us for the last century in the way of freedom, justice and equality?’
He said, ‘regardless of what party wins, the die is always set against us, the Black people in America.’ He said, quote, ‘The Black man, should be very serious and careful about his voting.
Because 90 percent of the Black votes cast are cast by ones who do not have the knowledge of what they are casting their vote for.’ Then he closes it, ‘I still say, as I have said for many years, vote for God to be your ruler.’ And then he says, ‘Come follow me.’ …
When God raised Moses and Aaron up in Egypt, did he tell the slaves ‘you gotta vote for your pharaoh, election is coming up. Choose which Pharaoh you want to sit in the seat.’ … Did Jesus tell the people ‘the Senate is going to choose who the next Caesar is going to be? Y’all need to get involved now, because your future rests upon the Caesar you vote for’ the Pharaoh, you vote for’
God is not an integrationist. God’s solution always for the poor and the oppressed has been to separate. And Jesus said, ‘be ye separate.’ And when God raised Moses and Aaron, he didn’t raise them so that they could become a part of the system that had already subjugated them, oppressed them, tortured them, persecuted them.
Come and let us go into the land that the Lord God has set aside for us, that we can be a Nation of our own. … But we don’t consider God. So, the Minister (Farrakhan) said, ‘Allah God is not going to tolerate the righteous remaining with the wicked.’ You’re the righteous.
He said, ‘This is the day of separation in every house,’ talking about the nations of the Earth. ‘Allah God is going to separate those who love righteousness from those who choose to live a satanic way of life. Everything that Allah God forbids in the law this world of Satan says it’s okay to do.
We are a bamboozled people,’ he said, ‘who still believe in a government that is lying to us. We keep sentencing each generation of our people to struggle with the enemy of our own people, because, as Al Sharpton said, we’re dealing with Jim Crow yesterday, but we are dealing with Jim Crow Esquire today.’
Minister goes on, he said, ‘If we are dealing with. Jim Crow Esquire today, why do some of our leaders keep telling Black people that Jim Crow Esquire’s child is going to do better than Jim Crow Esquire or Jim Crow did by us? These are the same people with the same mind and spirit.
We must wake up and recognize that not one more generation of our people should be sentenced to their false words. Some Black people are trying to remain in this system. But it is frequently pointed out that there are two Americas: one Black, one White, one rich, one poor, separate and unequal.
This is the weakness of America because Black people have become the Achilles Heel of America, since this country no longer has use for us. … The rulers know our future, so their aim, brothers and sisters, is to take us completely out of favor with God and cause us to fall with them. When will we wake up?’
‘Many of us do not think we can live without White people. But we have lived trillions of years without them before they ever came to the earth, so we can live an eternity without them if they do not accept righteousness.’
So, what is the call of God? Come out of her, my people, that you be not partakers of her sins and her plagues, for her sins have reached unto heaven, come out of her and that’s a part of our survival.
It’s the come out of her mind, come out of her ways, come out of her lifestyle, come out of her system of education, come out of everything that’s a part of this system. And let’s begin building an alternate reality.
