When honors are accorded to highly valued individuals, it is often said that by honoring this individual, we honor the best in ourselves. It means there’s something unique about this person, making them valuable beyond riches, fame, notoriety, or power.
They reflect intrinsic values and inherent gifts within us, regardless of wealth, celebrity, or influence. They share knowledge to help us discover our true selves and power.
The Honorable Minister Louis Farrakhan and Nation of Islam First Lady Mother Khadijah Farrakhan, who were honored May 11 at The Salaam Restaurant in Chicago, are two such persons.
It was Minister Farrakhan’s 92nd birth anniversary and Mother’s Day.
When you look at the honors accorded to this man whose success is due to Almighty God, Allah, you see his most incredible helper has been his wife, Mother Khadijah.
They were honored by people across the globe on social media or different public “shout outs,” some over radio stations. They were honored by family, Believers, religious leaders, political leaders, some famous friends and old, longtime friends.
Our people wished them well and wished Minister Farrakhan many more years of life to enjoy and to help guide us.
It is fitting for a man who worked for over 70 years to uplift us to be accorded such respect and appreciation. It shows something is changing in the hearts and minds of our people. Throughout our history, the enemy has been successful in turning our people against the very leaders who were most dedicated to our success and our survival.
Only later did we learn that the Honorable Marcus Mosiah Garvey, Noble Drew Ali, Paul Robeson, the Most Honorable Elijah Muhammad, leaders of the Black Panther Party, and other nationalist groups labeled enemies by the state were suffering and dying for us.
They were mislabeled as violent, extremists, and radicals to scare us away from light carried to dispel darkness imposed by our slavemasters and their children.
Today, however, more and more of the masses of our people are rejecting the views, influence and analysis of so-called leaders who are enemy-approved.
Despite all of the foes, Jewish groups, plots, condemnations, repudiations, lies, misinterpretations, and media whiteouts, a solid number of our people stand with Farrakhan.
They are unmoved by the open enemy’s attempts to publicly ban him and privately and publicly crucify those who would even take a picture with him, let alone support him to help our degraded people rise.
During his 1984 presidential campaign, Reverend Jesse Jackson used unwise language in what he thought was an off-the-record media conversation. His words about “Hymietown,” a reference to Jewish power in New York, allowed Jews to attack him.
They sought to ruin the civil rights leader because he wanted a balanced U.S. policy in the Middle East. Death threats against Rev. Jackson increased. Minister Farrakhan defended his brother and called for dialogue.
“I say to you as intelligent people, sit down and talk with Rev. Jackson. Sit down, Jewish leaders, and talk with us. We are ready to talk with you. Sit down and talk like intelligent people who have a future at stake.
But if you harm this brother, I warn you in the name of Allah, this will be the last one you harm,” Minister Farrakhan said at a February 25, 1984, rally on behalf of Rev. Jackson.
“We are not making any idle threats, we have no weapons, we [don’t] carry so much as a pen knife. But I do tell the world that Almighty God Allah is backing us up in what we say and what we do, and we warn you in His name leave this servant of Almighty God alone. Leave him alone. If you want to defeat him, defeat him at the polls. We can stand to lose an election, but we cannot stand to lose our brother … .”
Nathan Perlmutter of the ADL and Nat Hentoff of the New York-based Village Voice declared him the “New Black Hitler.”
Perhaps we don’t fully understand how insulting, degrading, and dangerous that label is. Here is a good man, a divine man, a compassionate man, who has never harmed anyone, called by the name of one of the worst of the White man’s wicked murderers. Black America should have risen up outraged by such scornful abuse.
Despite their best efforts, these enemies have not been able to stop Minister Farrakhan.
Minister Farrakhan has gone everywhere to share the light of the Teachings of the Honorable Elijah Muhammad. He rebuilt the destroyed Nation of Islam, starting in 1977. He established institutions like The National Center which houses Mosque Maryam, the flagship mosque for the Nation of Islam in Chicago.
He established an incredible, cutting-edge audio-video ministry that allows his words to be distributed to anyone who wishes to hear or learn the truth.
He established over 100 mosques and study groups in the U.S. and abroad. He has sought to end strife between our people in the entertainment industry, in our communities and on the world stage.
He has spoken beautifully about the wonders and the gifts of the Black woman, in fact, all women, and why women must never be oppressed. Like his spiritual father, the Most Honorable Elijah Muhammad.
He taught us the proper value of the Black woman and how she must be respected and protected in this decadent, dangerous wilderness of North America as we live among these uncivilized demons.
He has advocated for a true and proper education, steeped in a deep knowledge and love of self. He reestablished Muhammad University of Islam around the country and associated schools sprang up. Independent schools have arisen to raise our children so that they will never be the slaves and tools of our enemy.
Minister Farrakhan has inspired entrepreneurs inside and outside of the Nation of Islam. He spoke out for reparations when anyone who advocated such was called a madman or living in a fantasy. Minister Farrakhan also called for and convened the historic Million Man March on October 16, 1995 and nearly two million men showed up.
Our people are falling more and more in love with the Most Honorable Elijah Muhammad as they learn the truth about him. That is only possible because the Minister put his teacher in proper perspective and in his proper divine place.
Like his teacher, Minister Farrakhan has been a divine warner to the nations of the earth, its leaders and our people declaring that the prophesied Day of Judgment is here. He has sought and still seeks to save lives by delivering Allah, God’s word. What is more worthy of honor, respect and appreciation?