As America continues to unravel, Allah (God) continues His divine chastisement on the country in the form of rain, hail, snow, tornadoes and extreme heat. The Most Honorable Elijah Muhammad, the Eternal Leader of the Nation of Islam, warned America to repent for the wrongs she has committed lest she face God’s Wrath.
The Honorable Minister Louis Farrakhan, National Representative of the Honorable Elijah Muhammad, has continued to warn America for decades to “watch the weather.”
“We are living at a time that was described by Jesus in these words: ‘If those days were not shortened for his elect’s sake, no flesh would be saved,’” the Honorable Minister Louis Farrakhan said in a Final Call excerpt titled.
“The Beginning of Sorrows,” based on a lecture delivered on March 5, 2006, in Chicago. “Storms raging throughout America, fire on one side, water on the other, snow, cold, ice in between; and the president of the United States unraveling in front of our eyes,” he said. Minister Farrakhan has also warned that White and Black people and others will be impacted.
At Final Call presstime, several states were still recovering from a recent storm system that swept across parts of the Midwest and South starting between May 15-16. The storms killed at least 28 people in Kentucky, Missouri and Virginia and injured more than 48 people.
The bulk of the deaths occurred in Kentucky, where several tornadoes, including two EF-3 tornadoes, damaged hundreds of homes and caused major road closures. Baseball-sized hail also battered parts of Kentucky.
“Kentucky is a tornado area, but most recently, we’ve had really bad hailstorms, so there’s been a lot of damage to vehicles,” Brother Jerald Muhammad, a Louisville, Kentucky, resident and member of the Nation of Islam Study Group in the city, said to The Final Call. He has seen vehicle hail damage repair services throughout his neighborhood. He also voiced concerns on power outages and food preservation.
“Someone reached out … via social media and asked how long can food stay in the refrigerator without power?” he said. “There’s been food loss where people have had to empty out deep freezers.”
The storm system also affected more than 5,000 homes in St. Louis, caused tornadoes in Wisconsin, contributed to the already record-breaking heatwave in Texas and covered parts of Illinois in dust, according to the Associated Press. ABC News reported that more than 100 tornadoes were recorded between May 15 and 18 from Colorado to New Jersey.
As authorities assessed the storm system’s death toll and damage, more storms swept across parts of Texas, Oklahoma, Arkansas, Kansas and Nebraska. These states saw additional severe weather alerts, tornadoes, thunderstorms, baseball-sized hail and damaging wind.
By May 20, nearly 44,000 customers were without power in Missouri, more than 22,000 in Oklahoma, more than 16,000 in Arkansas, nearly 14,000 in Texas and more than 9,000 in Kansas.
Meanwhile, parts of the Midwest, including South Dakota, experienced snow, and parts of the South and Southwest experienced extreme heat.
On May 20, some areas of Texas were under an extreme heat health risk with triple-digit temperatures. Areas in Louisiana, Mississippi, Georgia and Florida were under a significant heat health risk. A large portion of these states, along with Alabama and South Carolina, were under a moderate heat health risk.
Moderate heat affects people sensitive to heat, major heat affects people without cooling and hydration and extreme heat indicates a long duration of heat with little to no overnight relief and also affects anyone without cooling and hydration, according to the National Weather Service.
Triple-digit temperatures were also expected in Arizona and Southern California.
New Mexico’s State Forester issued statewide fire restrictions ahead of wildfire conditions, and a wildfire in Arizona burned across 20,000 acres.
The recent weather events came a few months after the Trump administration cut staffing of National Weather Service offices. The office responsible for the most-affected areas of Kentucky had a vacancy rate of 25% in March.
Staff was down by 29% at the Louisville, Kentucky, office and 16% at the St. Louis, Missouri, office, according to calculations by weather service employees obtained by the Associated Press. The news agency also reported that the Louisville office has been without a permanent head, a meteorologist in charge, since March.
“It’s a crisis situation,” Brad Colman, a past president of the American Meteorological Society and a private meteorologist, said to the Associated Press. “I am deeply concerned that we will inevitably lose lives as a result of the added risk due to this short-staffing.”
The mayor of St. Louis pleaded for help from the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) after massive tornado damage totaling over $1 billion. On May 15, just ahead of the storms, FEMA’s new acting chief announced plans to shift responsibility for disaster recovery to states.
The Honorable Minister Louis Farrakhan warned years ago of FEMA money running dry.
“(T)he last I heard with the calamities that are striking America one after another, FEMA does not have any more money to pay out to those who have suffered calamities in this year’s unprecedented calamities,” he said during a 2011 interview with longtime talk show host Cliff Kelley on Chicago’s WVON 1690AM.
FEMA changes were announced just in time for the Atlantic hurricane season, which begins June 1. Colorado State University’s Tropical Cyclones, Radar, Atmospheric Modeling, and Software Team forecasts “above-normal activity” for the 2025 Atlantic hurricane season. The researchers predicted 17 named storms and four major hurricanes.
In a message titled, “The Man Jesus and How Not To Fall Into Idolatry,” delivered on July 21, 2019, at the Nation of Islam’s Mosque Maryam in Chicago, Minister Farrakhan warned that “the weather is getting worse and worse.”
“The White meteorologists cannot tell you what the weather’s going to be; but my teacher told me. Who’s your teacher, Farrakhan? My teacher is the Most Honorable Elijah Muhammad. Without him and the Great Mahdi, I wouldn’t be here, but he told me there are two of us backing you up: Allah and myself.
They (the government) are worried about the weather. The president knows something. He says he doesn’t believe in climate control (climate change) and that we can do something to stop this,” he said.
Minister Farrakhan pointed out that if the scientists could stop what is happening on the earth, they would. “The scientists have a point, but the scientists don’t create rain, hail, snow and earthquakes. Some of these chastisements are being guided. Did you hear what I said?
Who has power to guide a storm and it destroys what the guide says? The Mahdi is not just a guide for human beings. He’s a guide for the forces of nature itself,” Minister Farrakhan said.
He added that America is—as the Honorable Elijah Muhammad taught—surrounded with the Judgment of Allah (God) and that “there’s no space on this earth that has received as much calamity from weather as the United States of America.”
“Minister Farrakhan said, ‘Watch the weather,’ and what the Minister has said, we’re now witnessing it and witnessing the aftermath of it. And it’s also interesting how the powers that be, they’re not connecting the dots that hey, could this be because of America’s behavior?” Brother Jerald Muhammad said.
He echoed words from the Most Honorable Elijah Muhammad and the Honorable Minister Louis Farrakhan on the need to store food in the home to prepare for weather-related disasters and famine on the horizon.
“We have items stored in our basement and in our garage. So being prepared the best we can for these things, because that was guidance and training that we have been given, and now we’re even seeing the importance and the relevance of that guidance and training by having things stored in the home,”
Brother Jerald Muhammad said. “We need to get that message to our people to be prepared, as well as having a generator,” in case of a power outage in the home, he explained.
He also encouraged Black people to listen to the divine guidance coming from the Honorable Minister Louis Farrakhan and to learn how to fast.
Can America stop the extreme weather events God is sending her way? The Most Honorable Elijah Muhammad offers a way out: repentance. In chapter 32 of His book.
“The Fall of America,” The Honorable Elijah Muhammad writes that “Babylon could have been healed, but was not for her wickedness was such that she was neither healed nor forgiven.” He likened ancient Babylon to modern-day America.
“Is not the history of ancient Babylon’s unforgiven evils a sign that a future enslavement of God’s people (the American so-called Negro) will not be forgiven?” He questioned. “Yet, there may be a chance, as Babylon had, but they will not do that which God desires them to do so that He may pardon them, forgive them and prolong their time.”
God is calling on America to repent for the evil done to His people, the Black man and woman of America.
“I have given her a right chance, but she does not want to do justice by her free slaves to get an extension of time from Allah,” the Honorable Elijah Muhammad writes. Later in the same chapter He writes, “The refusal of White America to do something about justice for her so-called free slaves is bringing her into the same type of Judgment that God brought upon ancient Babylon.”
“Long before America ever thought that she should repent of her evil done to her slaves or reject repentance, God hath set the snare to catch her. America is now in the same snare that God set for ancient Babylon,” He continued. “Will America repent that she should be healed or will she ignore it?”