CHICAGO—On Feb. 23, 2025, the Divine Command of Allah (God) was given from the Honorable Minister Louis Farrakhan and delivered by his National Assistant Student Minister Ishmael Muhammad, to every inhabitant of the earth, to repent.
That call for contrition came in a message titled “Repent, For the Kingdom of God is at Hand” on Feb. 23 during the Nation of Islam’s annual Saviours’ Day 2025 convention on the grounds of the Nation of Islam’s headquarters, called the National Center.
Repentance is not just for America, Student Min. Ishmael Muhammad said. Israel, the nations of the earth, their leaders, and the citizens of every country face a collective and individual punishment for their evils and for ignoring the call from a divine man to “turn from your wicked ways,” he said.
Saviours’ Day honors the Birth of Master Fard Muhammad, the long-awaited “Messiah” of the Christians and the “Mahdi” of the Muslims, Teacher of The Most Honorable Elijah Muhammad and founder of the Nation of Islam. He was born on February 26, 1877 in Mecca, Arabia.
While the message was delivered via livestream to the world, more than 7,000 people heard the message on The National Center grounds—thousands under a huge tent-like structure, thousands in the mosque and musallah (prayer hall), and hundreds more in the Muhammad University of Islam gymnasium.
For Mr. Trump and Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, the Student Minister Ishmael Muhammad cited the warning from prophet Obadiah in the Bible, “… As you have done, it will be done to you; your deeds will return upon your own head.”
The promise of a better future for America that Mr. Trump is making will prove to be false, Student Min. Ishmael Muhammad explained. America would have to do a miraculous thing of justice and fair dealing to postpone the “dreadful days” that will visit America, he said.
“America has been weighed in the balance and comes up short, [that] means your evil has outweighed your good. Then God and the universe begin to act against you,” he said.
Reading the Honorable Minister Louis Farrakhan’s words, Min. Ishmael said Mr. Trump “survived an assassination attempt from an assassin’s bullet that could have very well killed him, but it grazed the ear.
Why the ear? Could it be, Mr. President, that … God wants you, Mr. President, to listen? You are in the position to help America escape the Wrath of God.”
Continuing with Minister Farrakhan’s words, Student Min. Ishmael Muhammad said to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu: “What you have done, Mr. Netanyahu, has sentenced your people to death from God by what you have done to innocent people you forced from Gaza through a pretext of the attack by Hamas that you knew (about) very well, a year before the attack on Oct. 7, 2023.”
In reminding the audience what the Honorable Minister Louis Farrakhan stated last year in his Saviours’ Day 2024 message, National Assistant Student Minister Ishmael Muhammad said that Mr. Netanyahu allowed it because he has a vision for a greater Israel that includes annexing the West Bank, Lebanon, and Syria.
Student Minister Ishmael Muhammad said the total devastation of structures in Gaza proves Netanyahu planned to use the attack by Hamas, which cost nearly 1,300 Israeli lives, as a pretext to totally remove Palestinians who lost more than 46,000 lives from Israeli bombs and bullets, according to Al Jazeera.
The sign of Jonah
Student Min. Ishmael Muhammad used the prophet Jonah’s history and the words of Jesus that read “Repent, for the kingdom of God is at hand” to paint a picture of the condition of the world today.
Jonah, he said, was the only prophet who literally ran from fulfilling his assignment from God. And everywhere he ran, trouble found him. Once he accepted his assignment to warn the king and people of Nineveh of God’s plan of death for the city, the king called the people to repent, saving Nineveh for a time from God’s punishment.
“He’s urging the people, pleading with the people to change their course from a way that leads only to death,” he said, referring to the words of Jesus and Minister Farrakhan’s 70 years of delivering the message of salvation from the Honorable Elijah Muhammad. “Why Jonah? Jonah is the sign because it involved a man with a prophetic voice.”
Student Min. Ishmael Muhammad recited four of the eight steps of atonement presented by Minister Farrakhan during the 1995 Million Man March. The fourth step is repentance, but to “point out the wrong” is the first and most difficult step, he said.
Acknowledging and confessing the wrong are the second and third steps followed by repentance, he added.
“If there is no change of mind and heart, then your so-called apology, your so-called ‘I’m sorry’ is shallow. That’s why some of us don’t accept a simple ‘sorry,’ because it doesn’t come from a contrite heart. A real offer of an apology carries with it remorse” and an ask for forgiveness, he said.
All of humanity has fallen short of the glory of Allah (God) and, like Jonah’s example, He gives the people a respite. “It’s a mercy from Him,” Student Min. Ishmael Muhammad continued. “It’s grace from God. God is trying to save us from ourselves because we brought on ourselves the punishment and chastisement of God,” he said.
Student Min. Ishmael Muhammad then explained how the people in the time of the historical Jesus came asking for a sign of the end of times. Jesus called them a “wicked and adulterous generation” for seeking a sign to determine how long they had to do their evil. Jesus said the best sign would be the sign of prophet Jonah, who warned a king who heard the message and repented.
The Honorable Elijah Muhammad said the last man, like Jonah, would be a “fulfiller,” he said.
“Jonah had the assignment to call a people who were unconscious of their wickedness to think about their wickedness and hear the call of God,” he said. “The whole world is being rocked, and God is striking continents, countries!
The storms are striking the country (America), but we are asleep. We’re in our man caves … getting high! The Honorable Elijah Muhammad wrote an article, ‘The Worst is Yet to Come.’
“Farrakhan is not your average Black preacher, spiritual teacher or leader. God’s aim is not to kill. His aim is to save. That’s why this is called Saviours’ Day,” he said.
“America, God has been telling you, let my people go,” he said, referring to the captive Black man and woman, the real Children of Israel that Master Fard Muhammad came to raise. “When we run from God, we run from one trouble into another.
Could it be that each of us … have been running from God to do His Will? And until we submit, we will not be delivered … from what troubles us.
“Death is at the door now. It was the last plague that God visited upon Egypt, death, that forced the hand of Pharoah. We need a healing,” he said.
‘I came for knowledge’
The meeting opened with remarks from Chicago Student Minister Jeffrey Muhammad, student in the ministry Sister Tairah Muhammad, Student Minister Daniel Muhammad and Student Minister Nuri Muhammad of Mosque No. 74 in Indianapolis.
“It is with great joy that we present ourselves as witnesses of God’s presence, God’s love, and God’s saving grace. After seeking and searching for God all of our lives, we found the Nation of Islam, which is what our souls have been longing for,” said Student Min. Jeffrey Muhammad.
“The power of the voice of that man (Farrakhan), the spirit of love in that man, the love that he shared with us raised our consciousness. We made the conscious decision to accept the process of transformation, reformation and resurrection.”
Sister Tairah Muhammad highlighted the divinity of the female, particularly the Black woman, as a result of the Teachings of Master Fard Muhammad through His witnesses, the Most Honorable Elijah Muhammad and the Honorable Minister Louis Farrakhan.
“God came to put an end to Satan’s world and establish His Kingdom. He came to elevate, uplift and cultivate the woman, because it is through her womb that entire nations will be produced.
“Minister Farrakhan taught us that every prayer we pray will be answered through the womb of the woman,” she said.
“Women, we are mothers of civilization, yet this world devalues the woman,” she said. “That’s why every religion and every society must reevaluate how we look at the female.”
Before introducing Student Min. Ishmael Muhammad for the keynote address, Student Min. Daniel Muhammad said an old world is going out and a new world is coming in, as taught by the Most Honorable Elijah Muhammad. America, he said, has reached the end of the 6,000-year time period that Allah (God) had permitted Satan to rule.
“When something expires you can see decay and decomposition. Her society is beginning to smell,” he said. The light and guidance you will see emanating from this rostrum is not just a message for Black people. No matter what race, color, religion, today is a message for each and every one of you, he concluded.
As people piled into the sanctuary of Mosque Maryam, Andro Cristina sat patiently waiting for a message he had flown 4,000 miles to hear. Mr. Cristina, 46, a mechanical engineer born in Curaçao but now resides in the Netherlands, said he has followed the Honorable Minister Louis Farrakhan “intensely” for three years. He came for knowledge, he said.
Present for each of the three-day Saviours’ Day convention, Mr. Cristina said the Health workshop “blew my mind,” adding he even asked for the PowerPoint presentation of it.
“Every message I’ve heard since I started following the Nation of Islam has been a key message, it’s the truth. But behind the message, you need to be courageous, you need to be bold. But many people are scared to carry the message,” he said.
“I’ve traveled the world and everywhere I’ve traveled, I see that the Black man is seen and treated as lower class. And it’s because of a lack of knowledge and information.”
To view the 2025 Saviours’ Day message in its entirety, visit media.noi.org
