A Message From The Honorable Minister Louis Farrakhan Delivered by his Student National Assistant Minister Ishmael Muhammad
[Editor’s note: The following is an excerpt from the first part of the Saviours’ Day 2025 keynote message delivered at Mosque Maryam in Chicago on Sunday, February 23. To order this message in its entirety, visit store.finalcall.com.]
In The Name of Allah, The Beneficent, The Merciful, we give Him praise and thanks for His many blessings, for His many gifts, for His goodness.
We could never thank Allah (God) enough for His blessings. And the greatest of His blessings to the human being is to give the human being guidance, direction.
And whenever any member of this family has fallen from the grace of God, the glory of God, He always intervenes in the affairs of the people, and raises from the people a messenger, or a prophet, through whom He gives divine guidance.
As Muslims, we make no distinction between any of God’s servants. We thank Him for Noah. We thank Him for Abraham. We thank Him for Moses. We thank Him for Jesus. We thank Him for Muhammad. Peace be upon these worthy servants.
I am a student and a follower of the Honorable Elijah Muhammad under the leadership and guidance of the Honorable Minister Louis Farrakhan. And I am happy to say how grateful I am for the intervention of God Almighty in our affairs in the Person of Master Fard Muhammad, The Great Mahdi of the Muslims and The Promised Son of Man of the Christians!
We thank Him so much for coming among us and choosing from the despised and the rejected, the ex-slaves of America, the Honorable Elijah Muhammad to be His Messenger-Messiah, and giving to him the greatest helper—and there have been some great helpers in the history of the prophets. Aaron was a great helper to Moses;
If it were not for Paul, we would know nothing about Jesus today; The Caliphate, after the Prophet Muhammad, peace be upon him. But this man … This man, that I have the great honor of re-presenting to us today, the Honorable Minister Louis Farrakhan was given to us from us by God Himself!
I wouldn’t be where I am today—and there would be no Nation of Islam if it were not for the Honorable Minister Louis Farrakhan!
All praise is due to Allah! You may or may not know that after the departure of the Honorable Elijah Muhammad, the United States government and the Satanic forces of this world deemed that the Honorable Elijah Muhammad’s name, his work, and his Teachings would be buried and never exhumed again to give light, life to a dead people.
But the enemy can never calculate on God …
So, God had His man “in the pocket”: He had him already hidden, that at a certain time that man’s faith would be restored.
I know, Satan, you didn’t count on the Honorable Minister Louis Farrakhan rising up again in 1977… . You didn’t calculate that. But we are here because of the love and the faith of Minister Louis Farrakhan! And his name will never be written out of the history!
All praise is due to Allah! It was 70 years ago, at the Nation of Islam’s Saviour’s Day Convention, that that man, Brother Louis (Minister Farrakhan), showed up.
And the Honorable Elijah Muhammad, who petitioned God like Moses petitioned God, for a helper—and he was looking for his little helper in 1954, but it would not be until the 400th year of our sojourn …
Not from 1619! No! From 1555! The slave trader by the name of John Hawkins who brought the first of our fathers into the western hemisphere; and they had the nerve to name that ship “Jesus.” Isn’t that something? But in the 400th year, in 1955, the helper that the Honorable Elijah Muhammad was promised was given.
He was in the balcony while the Honorable Elijah Muhammad was delivering the address, and Minister Farrakhan was critiquing the Honorable Elijah Muhammad.
And he said, “Uh, he does not…”—in his head—“doesn’t speak well.” Splitting verbs … and right when he was thinking that thought, the Honorable Elijah Muhammad read right into his thought!
This is, this is a true story! I’m trying to tell you something! And he looked right up in the balcony, and he said: “Brother, when I went to school the door was closing.”
The son of a sharecropper. So, anybody that knows about those days, children worked in the fields. And then he told Minister Farrakhan—he didn’t call his name, he just looked right at him. But he knew! He knew … He knew who Brother Louis (Minister Farrakhan) was. Isn’t that something?
[The Honorable Elijah Muhammad said:] “Don’t pay attention to ‘how’ I am saying it, you pay attention to what I am saying, and then you take it in that fine education that you got. No brother, don’t pay attention to how I am saying it, pay attention to what I am saying.”
And the Honorable Minister Louis Farrakhan has become the Honorable Elijah Muhammad’s mouthpiece. He is the Honorable Elijah Muhammad’s Aaron. After Saviour’s Day 1955, he became a registered follower of the Honorable Elijah Muhammad and member of the Nation of Islam in October of 1955. And the rest is history.
So, we have a proven man that has stood the test of time. And we have never had a leader among us for this protracted period of time! And everything that they have tried to do against him—even tried to poison him and kill him—Farrakhan is here! All praise is due to Allah!
He (Minister Farrakhan) made a promise … . When he was brought before the men that belong to Islam in North America called “The F.O.I.,” and he made a promise; he said: “I will take this word to every nook and cranny in the United States of America.”
He made his word bond: Not only did he take it to every nook and cranny in the United States, but to the Caribbean, Central America, South America, all over Africa, Canada, Asia, Europe! Everywhere … and all over the world, they’re talking about the Honorable Elijah Muhammad.
So! If you thought because Minister Farrakhan is not out here physically in front of us, and that he’s on a “death watch”: No! Some of us are probably going to die before him.
Tell me something: What Black organization has survived nearly a century now? And they did not face the vehement opposition; none of their leaders were called all the ugly names that they put on Minister Farrakhan and the Honorable Elijah Muhammad!
That should tell you something about what this is all about. And it is written, “The gates of hell shall not prevail against this house.” The Honorable Elijah Muhammad knew that The Nation (of Islam) was going to fall, but he knew also that it was going to rise.
And he said to Brother Minister Farrakhan, “Brother, The Nation is going to fall.” And when he saw his Minister’s countenance fall, he said, “Don’t worry, brother. It will be rebuilt, and it will never fall again.”
THE NATION OF ISLAM IS HERE FOREVER MORE.
All praise is due to Allah! Well, we’ve got a lot to get into. I am deeply humbled, beyond words, to be asked by the Honorable Minister Louis Farrakhan to deliver his message for this Saviours’ Day.
A Message from him is a Message from God. A Message from the Honorable Minister Louis Farrakhan is a Message from The Lord of The Worlds, King of kings, The God of Men, and from His Christ. And you will hear, and you will know after we finish sharing this word, that it absolutely came from on high.
This is a heavy subject matter. When the Honorable Minister Louis Farrakhan was sharing with me what he wanted said, he said:
“Son, the best way that you could prepare to deliver such a message is you have to think about calling a people to repentance that are unconscious of their sins.”
It’s deep. Before I read the transcript, I took two to three weeks—I was traveling, and giving, messages … But those words: I kept pulling from it, and asking Allah, “Please help me to deliver this word from Your heart into the hearts of the people that You love.
The people that You love, God”; that God is trying to save us from ourselves. Because we have brought on ourselves the punishment and chastisement of God out of a natural law that no human being escapes.
All of us have fallen short of the glory of God. All. Not some, all! And Allah says in the Qur’an if He were to punish man for their wrongdoing, He would not leave on the earth a single creature.
But He gives them a respite for a stated term; and when their term expires, they would not be able to delay the punishment for a single hour, just as they would not be able to anticipate it for a single hour.
So, Allah gives the people a “respite,” a delay. It’s a mercy from Him; it’s grace from God! But when that grace period is up, and you have not paid the debt, you accrue penalties.
And the longer it goes, you have compound interest. So, the debt increases over the time because we didn’t pay the credit card bill. He gives you a little grace period, but once that’s up … .
Everybody know about that? Well, it’s the same way with God. [The] grace period is up for us to correct our behavior, confess our faults, turn from our wicked ways, and to seek God’s forgiveness.
This message is for the president of the United States of America. This message is for all of the world leaders. The message is for every inhabitant of our planet. So, the Honorable Minister Louis Farrakhan doesn’t want us looking at anyone else but your and my self.
… Jesus said, “You see the moat that is in your brother[’s] or your sister’s eye, but behold, the beam”—beam—“is in thy own eye.” You hypocrites: First remove the beam that is in your own eye, and perhaps you will see your brother’s or sister’s fault clearer.
The point is you will never see it because we’ve got too many faults of our own to be pointing out and concerned about the faults of another. That’s a cop-out! Misery likes company.
I don’t want to see my own faults and my own mistakes. So, as soon as I see the defect or the fault in another person, I can turn the attention away from myself and redirect it on somebody else.
The Holy Qur’an says, “Those who disbelieve will not benefit from the respite granted to them, but will instead add to their sins and face a disgraceful chastisement.” The Bible tells us, “Father, there is no one righteous, not even one.” Oh, that’s big! There is no one who understands, there is no one who seeks God.
“I go to church.” You’re not seeking God. If we’re really seeking God when we go to church, and mosque, then I, you, we become a better human being!
But we go in to church and mosque one way and we come out the same way, because the heart and the mind is not on God. It’s not on Jesus. It’s on feeling better about our own shortcomings. So, I can give in tithes and offering…
“… I’ve done something that God would accept,” or that “I could be pleasing in His sight”—but I go on living the same life; I keep engaging in the same behavior. But I have not set my mind on Him, that I may be changed to become a new creature.
But we’re decaying right now, we’re decomposing, and we don’t even see it! We are wasting away… And money can’t fix it! So, keep chasing it, because it’s soon not going to have any value at all! But it’s good to have it while it’s here, right?
Let’s keep everything real, right? “All have turned away. They have together become worthless.”
“There is no one who does good, not even one.” Listen to this. “Their talk is foul like the stench from an open grave. Their tongues are filled with lies. The poison of vipers is on their lips.
Their mouths are full of cursing and bitterness. Their feet are swift to shed blood. Ruin and misery mark their ways, and the way of peace they do not know.”
My God … The Honorable Minister Louis Farrakhan has been telling us for years to “watch the weather.” Fire on one side of the country, ice and storms on the other side; extreme weather events striking the country.
Not only here in America, but all over the world. The events are telling us that we have entered into a very serious and troubled time. A time that the prophet Daniel said has never been and never to be equaled.
The Honorable Elijah Muhammad wrote in his monumental book, “Fall of America,” that the dreadful plagues and confusion of America are, are “beginning to boil,” and they are boiling. He said the fuel making it boil will not cease until it is boiled down to the last of the dregs.
Then he said the present promise of a better future that America is making not only to its citizens but to black people will prove to be false. All of her false promises to us will be short-lived by both, because the time of her doom has approached.”
Then he said this: “America would have to do a miraculous thing of justice, a square deal to turn it back. A fantastic show of tempting Black people to filth and evil will not work.” He said, “It takes justice to postpone the dreadful days of America.”
To be continued
