by Charlene Muhammad National Correspondent @sischarlene
Allah’s (God’s) Judgment continues striking America as severe thunderstorms, flash floods, damaging winds and elevated temperatures impact millions of people across several states.
The Most Honorable Elijah Muhammad, Eternal Leader of the Nation of Islam, taught for decades that Allah would use Four Great Judgments to bring America to account for centuries of injustice against Black and Indigenous people.
“The four great judgments that Almighty [God] Allah is bringing upon America are rain, hail, snow and earthquakes. We see them now covering all sides of America, as the Holy Qur’an prophesies, ‘curtailing her on all her sides.’
And these judgments would push the people into the center of the country, and there they would realize that it is Allah (God) Who is bringing them and their country to a naught,” the Most Honorable Elijah Muhammad wrote in Chapter 35 of His monumental book, “The Fall of America.”
The Honorable Minister Louis Farrakhan referenced that passage during Part 10 of his 58-week lecture series, “The Time and What Must Be Done,” delivered March 16, 2013, calling “The Fall of America” the book that “gives the clearest exegesis of the scriptures that foretell the fall of America.”
“What do you mean ‘pushing the people into the center of the country?’ He told me to tell you, and he wrote it himself, that the coastlines—all of them—will be destroyed. And some of your own scientists are talking about ‘global warming’ and the ‘melting of the glaciers’: This is not an ‘accident’!” Minister Farrakhan said.
“You want to say that it’s what we’re doing, and we have some responsibility, but The God of Heaven is doing this. And as these glaciers melt, the waters of the Pacific and the Atlantic are going to rise and as they rise, they are going to overspread and destroy your border,” said Minister Farrakhan.
“It’s happening now, but it will get worse as you continue your rebellion against God and His call that you must do in order to escape loss,” he continued.
These warnings and guidance are applicable today as more severe weather impacts the U.S.
Missouri Governor Mike Kehoe recently declared a State of Emergency after intense storms triggered flash flooding. On July 10, catastrophic flash flooding on Missouri’s Black River forced swift-water rescue crews to pull dozens of people from the Black River Lodge campground in Lesterville, according to the Reynolds County Sheriff’s Office, which said crews had rescued about 63 people.
Five campers camping at Bearcat Getaway were reported missing before being located and rescued, Sheriff Caleb McCoy said. Central County 911 dispatchers also fielded reports of campers stranded in trees, unable to get down.
The National Weather Service’s St. Louis office had declared a flash flood emergency, its most serious flood warning, calling conditions “a particularly dangerous situation.” Homes flooded in Annapolis and Lesterville, and one lane of Highway 49 washed out near the Black River in southern Missouri on July 10.
A week earlier, a storm brought more than eight inches of rain on southern Minnesota in a single day. According to local media reports, the National Weather Service said 4 to 7 inches of rain fell in Mower County in just a few hours on July 8.
The storms also swamped the city of Austin—with streets and basements flooded, and flood warnings were in effect in July for the Cedar River and local creeks, reported MPRNews.org. Earlier in the month, there was flooding in many of the same areas.
An EF2 tornado also struck the Detroit Lakes, Minnesota, area on July 6. According to CBSNews.com, “The National Weather Service says the tornado’s peak wind reached 115 mph and had a length of nearly seven miles. It touched down at 7:47 p.m., about a mile northwest of Wheeler Lake, and lifted 10 minutes later, about three miles east of Floyd Lake, according to a preliminary survey.”
Storms also impacted Wisconsin. The National Weather Service’s La Crosse, Wisconsin office said the rain “triggered numerous instances of flash flooding, urban street flooding, and river flooding,” flooding basements, including one where a wall collapsed. Flooding also closed a stretch of Interstate 90, and washing out several culverts, according to the Minnesota Department of Transportation.
Amid thunderstorms, much of the country is also still dealing with intense heat which at presstime, was forecast to continue. “It’s about to elevate fire risks and topple temperature records, with heat and/or fire weather alerts in effect for around 33 million people living in stretches of Western and Central,” The Washington Post reported.
“The National Weather Service in Salt Lake City, which serves most of Utah, called it ‘the most significant heat wave thus far this season,’” and noted that monthly temperature records could be on the horizon.
It was projected to possibly reach 106 degrees in Salt Lake City “which would tie for the city’s second-highest temperature on record since records began in 1874,” the Post reported. Parts of Idaho, Montana and Wyoming were also forecast to possibly break temperature records.
Philadelphia broke a 74-year-old rainfall record for July 9, flooding basements and shutting down Kelly Drive, Martin Luther King Drive and SEPTA’s Trenton rail line.
In New York City, Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s office urged residents of basement apartments to evacuate due to a flood watch for a fast-moving storm that dumped enough rain to flood streets waist-deep in Brooklyn and Queens and shut down the Belt Parkway, ABC News and various outlets reported.
Around the July 4th “holiday,” besides heat, storms also struck, and more than 60 million people from Ohio to Massachusetts were told to watch for flash floods, a level 3-of-4 threat. According to the National Weather Service, over 700 flights were canceled and 800,000 homes lost power.
Brother Dr. Ridgely Abdul Mu’min Muhammad, manager of Muhammad Farms in Georgia and Student Minister of Agriculture for the Nation of Islam, called these storms “a wake-up call.”
He also referenced the recent earthquakes, one of the Four Great Judgments taught by the Most Honorable Elijah Muhammad.
Bro. Dr. Ridgely referred to the earthquakes that struck Venezuela on June 24, 39 seconds apart. As of July 9, 3,889 have been killed, according to Venezuelan officials. He also referenced the small, rare earthquake felt near Chicago on July 8.
The 2.9 magnitude earthquake was recorded in the afternoon near the North suburbs, about 13.8 miles Northeast of Evanston. According to ABC7, “the quake was 3.1 miles deep in the lake (Lake Michigan).
Sister Landra Muhammad is an author and disaster preparedness researcher. She said that Minister Farrakhan’s call to “Watch the Weather” is about paying attention to what is happening but also a call for individuals, families and communities to prepare as these weather patterns continue.
“My concern has been the effects of the weather affecting the grid, our power, our electricity,” she said. “This is taking place around the nation … it’s continuous, and it’s growing,” she said.
Major power outages from storms can cause stress, strain and damage to power grids.
According to the article, “The growing threat of extreme weather to the U.S. power grid,” posted by the Penn State Institute of Energy and the Environment, the majority of U.S. outages (about 70%) occur at the distribution level (along streets and the wires connecting distribution lines to homes and businesses).
The June 26 updated article stated, “A common cause of damage is strong wind, which can knock down poles carrying electric wires or topple trees that then fall onto power lines.
Lightning can also disrupt power transmission by striking transmission infrastructure directly or by hitting nearby objects such as tree limbs that can fall and damage power lines. In some cases, flooding can also damage transmission equipment if it is submerged.”
Sister Landra cautions that it is imperative that Black people become better prepared for severe weather events. “FEMA’s not coming. We have to find ways to pool our resources and help ourselves,” she said, adding that the way out is through adhering to the warning and guidance from the Most Honorable Elijah Muhammad, under the guidance of and leadership of the Honorable Minister Louis Farrakhan.
In his book, “The Fall of America,” in the chapter, “Four Great Judgments of America,” the Most Honorable Elijah Muhammad warns in part, “To be plagued with too much rain will destroy property and lives. It swells the rivers and creeks.
Too much rain floods cities and towns. Large bodies of water at the ocean shore lines will be made to swell with unusually high waves, dumping billions of tons of water over the now seashore line.”
Over the next several days, as millions in the U.S. and abroad face severe weather, the warnings from the Most Honorable Elijah Muhammad continue to come to pass.
Please see page 30 for an article on disaster preparedness titled, “The importance of making yourself an asset in times of crisis, disasters.”
Final Call staff contributed to this report.