[Editor’s note: The following are edited excerpts from portions of a message delivered by Student Minister Ishmael R. Muhammad, National Assistant to the Honorable Minister Louis Farrakhan, at Mosque Maryam in Chicago on Sunday, August 10, titled “The Unraveling of a Great Nation.” To view this message in its entirety, visit media.noi.org.]
In The Name of Allah, The Beneficent, The Merciful.
As students and followers of the Honorable Elijah Muhammad, under the direction and guidance of the Honorable Minister Louis Farrakhan, we thank Allah for His intervention in our affairs in the Person of Master Fard Muhammad, The Great Mahdi.
That is the title of one that is expected from the Muslims. He’s called Mahdi, one who comes at the end of Satan’s world to sit down all of the tyrants, set justice in the earth, break the cross, kill the swine.
The one that our Muslim brothers and sisters are looking for has appeared here in the West in Master Fard Muhammad, who raised from the Black man and woman of America, His Messenger, Messiah,
The Most Honorable Elijah Muhammad, and has given one to us today in the Honorable Minister Louis Farrakhan as a Divine leader, teacher, guide and warner. We greet all of you with the greeting words of peace, once again, As-Salaam Alaikum.
Do you wonder that a man born from us has been selected by God, anointed by God, to be a messenger of his people and a warner to the world and the nations? That is, who these two men are.
If you look at the Honorable Minister Louis Farrakhan’s words, over his 47-year ministry, absent his teacher, he’s been representing the Honorable Elijah Muhammad and what He taught for 70 years.
But these last 47 years have been absent his teacher. But everything that the Minister has said in 47 years has come from his teacher. Very important. Because the man is not before us of himself.
He’s not trying to steal or rob the credit, and that’s why you have a humble man in the Honorable Minister Louis Farrakhan.Unlike any other student, disciples, call them successors, of the great ones.
Minister Farrakhan never fails to let the listener know that “I am grateful and thankful to my teacher, Elijah Muhammad, and that I would not be the man that I am today without Him.” …
Do you know that the Minister in these 47 years has foretold many events that have come to pass, revealed many things that were hidden? And you can’t say things that are going to happen in such great detail if you’re just one of these seers, you know,
There are seers out here and these psychics out here. You have to be connected to God who Sees and Knows what is hidden, because He knows what is hidden, and He knows what is manifested.
So, I would like us, for just a few moments, to look at a few things that the Minister [Farrakhan] has said in recent years that we can see what is happening to America.
What is happening in the world were not only foretold by the prophets of old, but one that God raised from among us to show us that all of these prophecies are being fulfilled, and then he’s telling us of things that are happening in real time.
So, let’s look at the recent history of what the Honorable Minister Louis Farrakhan has said that is manifesting before our eyes that further proves he is a messenger of God.
Nearly 20 years ago in 2006, the Honorable Minister Louis Farrakhan said hard days are coming to America. Why are they coming America? Because, like Babylon in the scriptures, America said, “I sit as a queen and shall see no sorrow.”
America has caused great sorrow to other nations and people on our planet and America never thought that she would suffer what she is suffering today. She forgot this law, this principle of justice:
“As thou hast done so shall it be done unto you.” You reap what you sow. The Honorable Elijah Muhammad said decades ago that what we see afar off will soon be at our doorstep in America and is going to help us to see what is unfolding, what is unraveling before our very eyes.
The Honorable Minister Louis Farrakhan said in 2006, that America has made other nations and their cities desolate, burned them to the ground, destroyed their governments, as long as those governments did not rule according to America’s wishes.
And every leader in Africa who rose, brothers and sisters, to fight for the true liberation of Africans, the U.S. government either assassinated them or orchestrated coups through funding and drove those leaders out so that the multinational corporations of America could continue to suck the blood of those nations.
In 2020, in Detroit on the occasion of Saviours’ Day, his subject was, “The Unraveling of a Great Nation.” The subject was given to him in the moment that he was asked what his subject would be for that year.
And I was blessed to visit with him in his home in Phoenix, and before I left him to go to the airport, I said, “Brother Minister, do you have a subject for Saviours’ Day?” And he said, “No, son, I don’t, but when I do, I’ll let you know.”
And, right when I was about to take my leave, he said, “Son, my subject is the ‘Unraveling of a Great Nation.’” God had given it to him, and this, if you remember, I was with him, either it was December of 2019, or it was the early part of January of 2020, I can’t remember exactly, but this was ahead of the (COVID-19) pandemic.
God gave the Honorable Minister Louis Farrakhan the subject, “The Unraveling of a Great Nation.” And he said, “My subject is full of good news and warning.” In that message, the Minister said, “When you unravel something, you undo twisted, knitted or woven threads, you investigate and solve or explain something complicated or puzzling.”
America is puzzling to the world. And this is 2025 and she continues to unravel.
The Minister said quote, “You my poor, pitiful brothers and sisters, you’re opting to be a part of that, that is unraveling right in front of your eyes. You see the country cascading downward.
You see the moral fiber of America getting into the gutter. Who wants a membership in a house of whores, bought and paid for leaders? Nobody can stand up if the enemy says you don’t stand up for that and Satan is having a field day with America.
Evil has been made fair-seeming. Look at the scriptures: Babylon is fallen, is fallen. Substitute America for Babylon. She’s unraveling. America is falling, is falling. Why is America falling?
Because the Revelator said Babylon had become a habitation of devils, a hole for every foul person and a cage for every hateful or unclean bird. It was the Honorable Elijah Muhammad who taught us the fall of America and wrote a book that you need to get a copy of.
It’s entitled, ‘The Fall of America.’ When God sends a messenger from Himself, He’s warning the people that there is a fall that has already ensued out of His mercy before He punishes. He always gives the people a Messenger from Himself.”
The unraveling of a great nation. Did the Minister speak it? Are we witnessing it? Are we living it? He lifted up this verse from the Holy Qur’an that’s in the 16th Chapter, the 92nd verse, where it says, “And do not be like her who unravels her yarn, disintegrating it into pieces after she has spun it strongly.”
The Honorable Minister Louis Farrakhan said her here is not talking about a woman as such. But if you see somebody knitting something with a design, and they leave it not secured one stitch, and then the same woman who stitched it strongly starts pulling on the yarn that she has knitted until it comes to pieces; that’s what’s happening to America as we speak.
He said, quote, “America was not built on a firm foundation; although the weaving was done strongly, the nation called America was doomed from its inception. How do you build a nation killing the Native people?
How do you build a nation bringing a whole people out of Africa to America, to be made slaves? This is America’s foundation. So, for them to lie to you and make you think that America is a land of promise for you, and you believed it. No wonder Jesus said, ‘You shall know the truth, and the truth shall set you free.’”
How long have we been fighting for justice? How long? America was not built by White folks for us. They built it for themselves. And what they knitted, if you will, what they spun strongly in its Constitution, in their Declaration of Independence, in their education, in their institution, is the idea that Whites are superior to Blacks.
White superiority is what undergirds all of this. So, we are now living in the time of the unraveling of this great nation. She cannot be spun again. Did you hear what I said? So, when President Donald Trump talks about, making America great again,
He and those that share that ideology, what are they saying: “We want to bring back, strongly, the idea of White supremacy and put those people in their place.”
Did you know that a survey was done and about six in 10, 63% of the American people do not express any confidence at all in the future of the U.S. political system? Did you know it was the Honorable Minister Louis Farrakhan … in 1992, nearly 33 years ago, he talked about how then the seeds of anarchy and revolution had been sown.
So, all of what we saw on January 6 in 2021, when they ran up on the Capitol; what was that, that shocked the country that never in the history of America has its citizens rose up in that manner?
Just as the Honorable Elijah Muhammad said decades before that, “what you see from afar will soon be at America’s doorstep.” We have seen the people rise up, go to their State Capitols.
We have seen anarchy and revolution all around the world, but America was not insulated from that. She now has it in her front and her backyard. There is so much dissatisfaction in the country.
The Final Call encourages our readers to view and study the Honorable Minister Louis Farrakhan’s 2020 Saviours’ Day message, “The Unraveling of a Great Nation.” For more information, visit store.finalcall.com.