“He (Allah) made the people rejoice for a short time, with a show of great prosperity and at the height of their great prosperity suddenly, He destroyed them. … The stock market, going up, and lots of shares being sold—this makes any man think that everything is all right. But this is only ‘The Lull Before The Storm.’”
— “Fall of America,” Chapter 50, titled “Lull Before The Storm,” by the Most Honorable Elijah Muhammad
On February 28, 2026, President Donald J. Trump, at the insistence of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, launched an unprovoked attack on the Islamic Republic of Iran, an attack both leaders expected to last several weeks, but one that now is in its seventh month.
The attack was anticipated to resolve two main goals—first, is Israel’s desire to neutralize Iran’s military power, the main threat to Israel’s regional prowess.
The second goal, according to the Honorable Minister Louis Farrakhan, National Representative of the Most Honorable Elijah Muhammad, was started years ago. In part 14 of his 2013 lecture series, “The Time and What Must Be Done,” Minister Farrakhan stated, “ Four-star U.S. army general Wesley Clark said that 10 years before 9/11, Paul Wolfowitz.
The neocon architect of Bush’s war on Iraq, told General Clark of plans to ‘clean out The Middle East,’ and take over those Muslim nations. Just 10 days after 9/11, Clark was shown a Pentagon memo that describes how they planned to ‘take out seven countries in five years,’ starting with Iraq, and then Syria, Lebanon, Libya, Somalia, Sudan and Iran.”
On September 11, 2001, the World Trade Center in New York and Pentagon in Washington D.C. were attacked.
As the country prepares to observe the 25th anniversary of that tragic day, the advice, warning and guidance given by the Honorable Minister Louis Farrakhan regarding that attack—and the trajectory it has set this country on—should be revisited and reconsidered.
Following the 9/11 attack that killed more than 2,500 people, the country shifted into a mood for retaliation. The alleged attackers were identified, nations and organizations involved implicated, and revenge topped the public discourse.
The nation launched a “war on terror.” The Department of Homeland Security was created, the Patriot Act was passed, all resulting in attacks on civil liberties of American citizens and creating fear among certain communities and ethnicities.
Out of the rubble continued a plan to “target” seven Islamic nations within five years for destruction or destabilization, a plan revealed by General Wesley Clark in 2003 in his book “Winning Modern Wars: Iraq, Terrorism, and the American Empire.”
Those nations included Iraq, Syria, Lebanon, Libya, Somalia, Sudan and Iran. Though it has been more than five years, all of those nations have successfully been neutralized—except Iran.
The Honorable Minister Louis Farrakhan has consistently warned every president that their desires to start wars against Islamic nations will lead to an even bigger war—Armageddon. That war, he has said, will involve all nations and end America’s power.
The question to consider today: Is Minister Farrakhan correct in his warning? If so, is the war in Iran opening the door to that great battle?
As recently as July 25 of this year, Minister Farrakhan warned President Donald Trump: “An aggressor is a loser. Because God is never with those who are aggressors, oppressors, tyrants, bullies, who love to make people afraid. … Yes, you’ve got an armada. Yes, you’ve got ships. Yes, you’ve got armies. Yes, you’ve got ballistic missiles.
“Yes … but you don’t have God. And if you don’t have God, you don’t have the forces of nature! And God is unleashing the forces of nature now! Don’t try Him. Don’t try Him, please. If you want to live, put the gun down, put the bomb down.”
A warning is a blessing
Minister Farrakhan’s warning contained aspects of the warning he gave to then-President George W. Bush in two letters to the former president after the 9/11 attacks—that he might “run into something he did not expect” in the Middle East.
“You may threaten Iran. Iran has something to fight back. My Teacher (the Most Honorable Elijah Muhammad) told me that this war was going to start with conventional weapons and it will end with nuclear weapons. I say this as warning before the war gets hot. Stop and think,” the Minister said to President Trump.
In warnings to Mr. Bush that fit circumstances today, Minister Farrakhan said, “Mr. President, I plead with you that this war that you intend could trigger that war that all the scientists of religion and of war have desired to escape.
The war that would end all wars, the War of Armageddon. The scriptures teach that, when you see Jerusalem surrounded by armies, this is a sign of the end of this present system of things.”
Similarities of the political and social environment prior to 9/11 reflect those environments today. The World Trade Center attacks occurred during a time of intense division among the American public.
A Pew Research Center/Council of Foreign Relations survey at the time found that weapons of mass destruction and terrorism were among top concerns of the leadership and the public. But the so-called “spread of radical Islam” was viewed by political and influential leaders as a greater threat to U.S. interests than the emergence of China as a world power.
President Bush’s approval rating prior to 9/11 was around 50% and dropping, according to a Zogby poll at that time. The 9/11 attacks unified the nation and sent the president’s approval rating soaring.
One by one, the targeted nations succumbed to U.S. intervention or outright attacks by the U.S. military. Iraq fell to a U.S. invasion in 2003 under the false pretext that Saddam Hussein harbored weapons of mass destruction.
Economic sanctions and U.S.-provoked civil wars created chaos and instability in Syria and the Sudan. U.S. interference and support for aggressions by neighboring countries into Somalia has sparked persistent civil unrest.
Libya’s leader Muammar Gadhafi was killed by a U.S.-inspired uprising by rebel forces in 2011. Sanctions and Israeli attacks on Hezbollah are aimed at neutralizing Lebanon.
Reckless attacks today by Israel on Lebanon, Gaza and neighboring nations and Prime Minister Netanyahu’s open call for a “Greater Israel” is increasing the appetite for war and security, even as many Gulf nations are losing confidence in the U.S. military’s ability to protect them. Israel reportedly is setting its eye on Türkiye as the next target for conflict.
Ukraine, already at war with Russia, struck an Iranian commercial vessel in the Caspian Sea; Iran vowed revenge. Saudi Arabia is exchanging fire with Ansar Allah (Houthi) forces in Yemen; a seaport in Egypt has been struck.
A vision-like experience
President Trump’s recent announcement to increase the stranglehold on Iran’s economy and threats of economic sanctions to any country that trades with Iran has created wariness among nations, including China, Iran’s largest trade partner.
“China has already stated many times that it firmly opposes illegal unilateral sanctions. China will take all necessary measures to firmly safeguard its own rights and interests,” a spokesperson for Beijing told reporters, according to The Guardian newspaper.
President Trump can benefit from the advice Minister Farrakhan gave in his second letter to President Bush: “If the President of the United States seems to show no respect for world opinion or for the thoughts of the members of the Security Council of the United Nations, then, your actions will turn the nations of the world against you and against America,” he offered in an October 2002 letter.
Ultimately, the warnings delivered by Minister Farrakhan to U.S. presidents is rooted in a vision-like experience he had on Sept. 17, 1985, where he was told by the Most Honorable Elijah Muhammad on the Wheel (so-called UFOs) of a so-called meeting then President Ronald Reagan had with his Joint Chiefs of Staff to plan a war against an Islamic nation.
Minister Farrakhan publicly revealed his experience and said he came to believe the war was on Libya’s Muammar Gadhafi. He went to Libya to warn Brother Gadhafi, prior to a U.S. attack on the leader’s home.
But Minister Farrakhan said he also came to realize the war is on two fronts—Islamic nations in the Middle East and the Nation of Islam in the West, with a particular focus on Black youth.
He has said that everything he has done since that vision-like experience has been to warn Black America of the government’s plan, as well as to warn America of the consequences of her plan and get America to atone and, perhaps, extend her time as a power in the world. That was the main call of the 1995 Million Man March and the establishment of the observance of October 16 as a Day of Atonement.
Farrakhan’s consistent warnings
The Holy Qur’an, the Islamic book of scripture, says the duty of a messenger is to deliver the message. Minister Farrakhan’s words have shown him to be a friend and faithful warner to America and the nations:
“Whenever a nation becomes great and powerful by God’s Permission, as America has; whenever a nation becomes the undisputed ruler of the world, as America has, by Allah’s Permission; when a nation becomes the only remaining superpower, having the power to destroy other nations and people by the tens of thousands and millions.
As Allah has permitted America the power to do, and that nation then has a spiritual lapse and begins to sink into moral decline, the Qur’an teaches that Allah (God) raises a messenger, but he raises that messenger from among the poor and the abject to guide and to warn the great and the powerful.” Minister Farrakhan said during a press conference at Mosque Maryam on Sept. 16, 2001.
“I am trying to help America face the error of her ways and see the enmity she is sparking across the globe alongside a growing loss of friendship. This is not good for America, nor the world and only marches us steadily to acrimony, conflict and the final war of Armageddon spoken of in the Bible.
America can no longer act unilaterally in the world and be successful. Success can only come from righting old wrongs and purposing just and progressive policies,” he said in a 2018 statement from Tehran regarding his trip to the Muslim nation.
“I must lift up my voice and cry out, not just as one crying in the wilderness, but as one out of love who wants to see this nation avoid the pitfalls that have destroyed the great nations of the past,” he said in the first of two letters of counsel and concern to then President George W. Bush, who was contemplating a U.S. response to the Trade Centers attack. Is America listening today?
