[Editor’s note: Leading up to the historic Million Family March held on October 16, 2000, in Washington, D.C., the following article was first published in Vol. 19, No. 37 (July 18, 2000) as part of a special series of articles on “Rebuilding The Family.”]

In The Name of Allah, The Beneficent, The Merciful.

Allah (God) says in the Qur’an that each creature is created in need. Therefore, Allah (God) is the supplier of all needs. Allah (God) is independent of His creatures, but He created all of His creatures to depend on Him.

Allah (God) supplies the needs of all of His creatures through what He has created. Each creature has the duty of doing something for itself. This is the nature in which all living things are created.

Every human need is a human right. When we are born into this world we are complete yet incomplete, therefore, we have needs. All human beings have a need to be made secure or to feel safe. As we grow in life, our needs may change, but the need to be made secure will follow us from birth until death.

The baby is secured in its mother’s womb, but when it comes into its new environment it cries because it is insecure. The baby is secured by the love and warmth from the mother’s body; it is secured by the milk that flows from its mother’s breast;

It is also secured by the loving care of a mother who makes sure that the needs of the baby to be fed, to be changed, to be in a clean and safe environment are met. All of this must be provided by the mother, with the help of the father.

Love is a human need. Therefore, to be loved is a human right. To feel the warmth of a loving embrace is a human need. It is a human right to be encircled by the love of a mother, a father, a sister, or a brother who love each other. To have a sense of family is a human need.

Therefore, to have a family or to be a part of a family is a human right. We are born into the world knowing nothing, but, we are born into a universe filled with knowledge.

Allah (God) gives us a curious nature and has placed within us a hunger to learn what is in our environment and to master what is in our environment. To learn, or to grow in knowledge is a human need. Therefore, the attainment of knowledge is a human right.

Every mother and every father should strive to provide the tools of learning for the new life, for it begins to learn from the moment it leaves its mother’s womb. Each child is gifted from the Creator with a very special gift that is unique to itself, but, these gifts must be discovered; must be cultivated; must be exploited for the good of the individual, the family, and the nation.

America and the industrial nations are concerned about human rights violations in the under developed or newly developing nations of the earth. However, with the criteria that we have mentioned, all nations in some way or another are in violation of the human rights of the people, for all nations in some way interfere with the attainment of the needs of the human being.

The desire of children for ‘approval’and ‘validation’

Children desire validation from their parents. “How do I look, mommy?” “How did I do, daddy?” No matter what the child does, it desires to be approved by those who mean the most to it: (1) Mother (2) Father (3) Siblings (4) Friends and Playmates.

Children need encouragement when they falter that they may do better. The misuse of language and/or the harshness of language in rebuke can hurt the emotional and psychological development of the child. Remember, the need to be made secure is with us throughout our lives.

So, as we grow, what it takes to secure us mentally, spiritually, morally, economically, and politically is always at work, even in the home. The child wants to know that we are aware of its presence.

Even though consciously the child may not be aware, subconsciously, it wants to know that its rights even as a child are respected and protected in the family environment when dealing with parents, guardians and when disputes arise among the siblings.

The need for justice at all levels of development is that which helps to make the human being secure. Each child looks to the parents to settle their disputes with justice. When disputes arise in the family, it gives the mother and the father a chance to teach and instill family values, moral values and also to build good character in the children.

All of the aforementioned are needs. All of the aforementioned are rights. Some of us think that disciplining our children is abuse, but everything in creation has its affair regulated by law.

In the home there is a need for rules, regulations or laws. Rules and regulations are a human need, and to deny our children the discipline of rules is to deny them that which ultimately will make them secure. There must be rules in the home.

There must be rules that teach us how to relate to one another properly in the home. There must be rules of respect for parents, children, self and one another that are taught in the home because everywhere we go we will find existing rules and regulations.

Where there are no rules, there will be no order. Chaos will be the result. Where there is chaos, it will bring to an end to the activity or the life of the home, school, community, nation, and the world.

Having discipline in our homes is not abuse of our children. We learn to respect rules in our home so that when we go to school and meet with the children in the neighborhood, rules of social behavior if taught.

Accepted and practiced in the home mean that our children will be more apt to accept and obey the rules of society, then, jail or prison will not be an end for us. The respect of rules and regulations starting in the home could mean the end of prisons.

Children have a need for attention. “Look at me.” “Listen to me.” These are not words coming from the lips of the children, this is written in the nature of the child.

On disciplining our children

We must be careful in disciplining our children. There is a line, which if crossed in disciplining our children could be labeled as abuse. In a world that is prophesied to come to an end; where human beings are suffering loss and enduring great levels of stress, as parents, as teachers, as leaders, as preachers, as foremen.

And as authority figures, we must be careful not to take out our stress on those under our authority, thus violating their rights. More and more there are children killing their parents, killing their teachers; workers killing their foremen, or bosses; spouses killing each other because of abuse and violation of rights.

I believe this is why Jesus said that, “Nation will rise against nation and kingdom against kingdom … and the mother-in-law will be at variance with the daughter-in-law … and they of a man’s household will be his worst enemy.”

Corporal punishment is not abuse if it is done with moderation, with the thought in mind of correction and not the thought of afflicting pain, but, to bring about change in the behavior to make a better child and a better human being.

Punishment must always be in accord with the violation, and devoid of anger. The love that we have for our children is the reason why we punish them because our desire is to make the child better.

In today’s society the rights of parents are gradually being taken away and although this is supposed to be a Judeo-Christian society, the Bible’s teaching of how to rear the children is being ignored and uprooted. The Bible says, “He that spareth his rod hateth his son; but he that loveth him chasteneth him early.” 

(Proverbs 13:24) “Withhold not correction from the child: for if thou beatest him with the rod, he shall not die.” (Proverbs 23:13) It also teaches, “Train up a child in the way he should go: and when he is old, he will not depart from it.” (Proverbs 22:6) The Qur’an is the best companion of this scripture because it gives us guidance on how to train the child.

If we as parents coming into the knowledge of Allah (God) are instructed by Jesus in these words, “Verily, I say unto you, Except ye be converted, and become as little children, ye shall not enter into the Kingdom of God.” 

(Matthew 18:3) If we follow these instructions, they will give us a greater understanding of how our minds, and our children’s minds should be in listening to instructions that we may be trained in the Way of Allah (God).

While parents are too busy, children are neglected

These are areas that must be studied and approached with wisdom. Every child is not the same, but, every child hungers to be disciplined. The teachers that we remember most are those who were firm, yet, just. Where there is no discipline, there really is no love.

When we do not get sufficient attention as a child, we act in a manner to get attention and sometimes this results in anti-social conduct or behavior. When the need for attention and validation is not supplied in the home or in the school, and we find that we have a gift or talent, that sets us apart and gives us attention.

We have a tendency to focus on that talent and give all of our time to that talent, gift, or profession because it has given us the attention, acceptance and validation that we missed coming up as children.

As Black people growing up in a society where we feel rejected by the larger society, and, are mistreated by the larger society, we grow up with a mentality desiring attention and validation from the members of the larger society.

When we discover a gift or talent that sets us apart from the rest of our un-validated people that gives us attention from our former slave masters and their children, we give all of our time to that talent, gift or profession because it has given us the attention and acceptance that we have not experienced growing up Black in White America.

Sometimes when we marry and have our children, we choose our gift and our talent and its ability to create wealth over the needs of and our duty to our wives and children. Oft-times as we become “great” in our profession, getting the attention and validation for our gift, skill, or talent.

We may find that somewhere along the line we have lost our balance and neglected our duty to our wives, and our children. While we bask in the adoration of our fans, patients, students, clients, and congregation, we may find that we have lost something more precious than what we gained in the world, because, in our blindness.

We did not look at life and the needs of our children and our wives from their perspective, and, therefore, failed in our duty to them. This is why people whom we look up to, that have everything in life that we think we would want, are very unsuccessful in marriage, and very unsuccessful in parenting their children.

In going through life, we really cannot see until we can see from the perspective of others. When there is an argument and we try to see from the side of the person with whom we have a disagreement or variance, as you would want them to see from your side, more than likely seeing from the other person’s perspective can cause us to arrive at a balance and accomplish the reconciliation of our differences.

Our children will not voice their opinions or share their perspectives in a home that it is ruled by fear, and they will never say to the parents what they really feel.

If our homes are ruled by love, and governed by the principle of justice, then, we will encourage our children to speak to us so that we may know how they think and what they see and feel. We then have the task to either help them to see better, or in listening we may find ourselves at fault and we correct ourselves.

This is why the principle of atonement works so well in the home, if we allow our children to point out to us where they see or feel we have treated them unfairly or handled them improperly. As parents, we carry the pride of parenting and oft-times the arrogance of parenting disallows us to listen to the child’s perspective.

In this type of home, the old adage is, “A child should be seen and not heard.” Suppose those in authority over us as grown-ups feel that we, under their authority should be seen and not heard, and if we voiced our grievance and were punished by those in authority, we would then say that we are living under tyranny and some of us would plan or take part in a revolt.

This is the same spirit that will come into the hearts and minds of the children in the home by disrespecting their rights and by not allowing our children to share their feelings and thoughts with us as their parents.

This attitude of not listening will lead to a hostile attitude in the children toward their parents. A gulf then develops between the children and the parents that oft-times is never bridged.

If the children in the home do not find the attention, the love, the validation and the sense of family that they need, they will take to the streets and find what they have missed in the homes in what is called the gangs.

As a parent, teacher, preacher, politician or leader:  Those under our authority have rights that must not be ignored by those who have authority. 

Use of ‘parental authority’ to either develop or abuse our children

Children have rights. Parents have rights.  But, parents have authority. How authority is used is critical to the development of those under our authority.  Using our authority to trample on the rights of our children is a violation that there may not necessarily be a law on the book of society for which to punish us.

But the law of justice is written in the nature of creation, therefore, at some point, we will have to face the fact that we have not looked through the eyes of our children and have not listened to the cry of those under our authority.

We think that providing for them a home, food and some of the amenities of life is all that we have to do to expect complete submission from our children. When we understand that they too have rights and try to see from their perspective and be balanced in sufficing their needs, we will produce better human beings, better and stronger families, a stronger, more just, and peaceful society.

Remember, those in authority are the custodians of our needs and the guardians of our rights.

Thank you for reading these few words.

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The Holy Qur’an, Surah 103, Al-Asr (“The Time”) states: “… Surely man is in loss, except those who believe and do good, and exhort one another to Truth, and exhort one another to patience.” Allah (God) has been hitting America, and the world, with calamities.

As you have noticed, these calamities have been increasing more and more since 2005. And now that we are in “2013,” we are at The Hour of The Doom of America and this world.

Believe me, I am not “joyous” in telling you what I am telling you. I know that I have put my life in danger—and maybe, the lives of those who are with me!

But to The Believers, who are “doing good” based on your belief, and “enjoining one another with Truth and enjoining one another to patience,” remember the words of Jesus as taught in the Book of John, Chapter 15, verses 18-19: “They will hate you because they first hated me … .”

Some of you will be cast into prison. Some of you will be beaten. And some will be put to death (refer to the Book of Matthew, Chapter 10, verses 15-22); the scripture also teaches in the Book of John, Chapter 16, verses 1-3 that “they will kill The Righteous, thinking that they’re doing service to God.”

Oh America: Would that you had listened. The window of opportunity for you is all but “closed”—not fully; but, when it closes it will be like the door of “The Ark” that Noah built in a desert on dry land. Noah preached to the people for 150 years, and they laughed at him, they mocked him, they called him “a madman”… .

See, you scribes, you Pharisees, you Sadducees of today—look at yourselves: You make mockery of my father, my teacher, the Most Honorable Elijah Muhammad; and therefore you make mockery of me, his student! You like to “tease us,” and “make mockery” and “make mischief” with us! You say, “That Farrakhan: He needs to be quiet! He’s a negative force… .”

No, you are “the negative force”! I have shed no man’s blood! I have lied on no man! I tell you The Absolute Truth at the cost of my life to warn you that The Time of the end of your mischief-making and your blood-shedding has come, and that what you have done to others is now coming upon you!

The Honorable Elijah Muhammad said to us Justice is “The Weapon” that God would use in “The Day” or “Time” of Judgment. This is that time! And what is The Law of Justice?

As the Bible teaches in the Book of Galatians, Chapter 6, verses 7-8, “…as a man soweth, the same shall he also reap,” and in the Book of Obadiah, Chapter 1, verses 13-15, “…as thou hast done, so shall it be done unto you; thy reward shall return upon thine own head.”

And in the Book of Hosea, Chapter 8, verse 7, Jesus said: “You have sown the wind; now you will reap the whirlwind.” The “reaping” is not just according to “the amount” of what you sowed, because if you sow “one grain of corn,” you could get back a stalk—and on that stalk, seven ears!

And on each ear, a hundred grain… ‘ So multiply what is coming to The Mischief-Maker and The Blood-Shedder! You have not repented! You refuse to repent! And I am calling on you for the last time: Repent of the evil that you have done and maybe God will have mercy on your soul, and give you a further extension of His Grace.

How ‘The Law of Justice’ is working on behalf of God’s Chosen People 

Let us see how “The Law of Justice” is working in America: Have not you, America, destroyed the cities and the towns, and the people, of other nations? Well, look at your own cities and towns, America: 

Some will be ravaged by fire; others, by water. Towns destroyed by tornadoes, hurricanes and floods. And soon, great earthquakes will be tearing down cities. The Chastisement of God has begun. The Grace Period is over.

But forget about your “foreign policy” right now—we’ll go more into that in future broadcasts. I want you to look at how you treat us, the Black man and woman here in America: God is after you because of what you have done, are doing—and what you planned to do—to His chosen people, The Real “Children of Israel”:

The Black Man and Woman of America and the Western hemisphere! The Black man and woman of America have toiled under “the whip and the lash” for 400 years, and the affliction has not stopped. Genocide is in your heart for this poor and suffering people. And, you have done everything in your power to create mischief.

Who created “The Crips” and “The Bloods”? Who created “the gangs,” and then put hatred among the gangs where we are now, with guns in our hands, killing one another? That is The Mischief-Maker!

That is The Blood-Shedder! By telling lies, and using his police force, he would take a “Crip,” and drop him in the neighborhood of the “Blood,” knowing that he would not come out alive. They would take our young men and give them drugs to sell for the police. Yes, you have done all of this evil to us! But now, God is going to bring His Wrath more fully on you than you have ever seen.

There are those of you who may say, “Let’s get rid of Farrakhan. Let’s stop his mouth!” I can’t stop you, if that is what you wish to do. But the moment you attempt it, you’ll be “stopping your own mouth.” 

You will be picking up your wicked pens that write evil against a righteous man; but remember, the scripture teaches: “No weapon formed against the righteous will prosper.”

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In The Name of Allah, The Beneficent, The Merciful.

Brothers and Sisters, once again I am thankful to Allah for the privilege of being in your midst. We want to go directly to our subject matter this evening. For the last few weeks we have been dealing with the subject of “Time,” and so I will quote a few verses from the Holy Qur’an, Surah 103 Al-‘Asr (“The Time”), which will be the base of our work this evening:

“By the time, surely man is in loss, Except those who believe and do good, And enjoin one another to truth, And enjoin one another to patience.”

 “Time” is The Criterion of The Measurement of   Our Action–if our actions do not correspond with the dictates of time, our action will bring us to loss, as the Holy Qur’an teaches us of   The Manifestation of Losses (Surah 64).

 Many of us are losing daily, hourly. We’re losing self-respect, self-worth. We’re losing our minds, we’re losing our families. We’re losing our loved ones. This loss is to bring grief upon the community that we may reflect again on The Time and act according to The Time.

Grammatical Correctness in Language

 The Honorable Elijah Muhammad was not known as an English-language “scholar”; some say he didn’t speak well, but I was with him one day and he taught me a very profound English lesson.

 In The Problem Book of The Supreme Wisdom Lessons, which details the condition of Black people in a mathematical way, we are told to put our Mathematical Theology to work to secure benefit for ourselves, which are money, luxury, good homes and friendship in all walks of life. We are also told that if we don’t speak the Language well, we will not be successful.

 Every discipline has its language, every skill has its language, and if we do not speak the language of our discipline or our skill well, we are not successful in communicating. Every time, every era has a language that is peculiar to that time. If you do not speak The Language of The Time, then you are not communicating properly, and you will not be successful. So in sitting with the Honorable Elijah Muhammad one morning, he said, “Brother, the English language basically is not spoken well when you speak and do not use grammatical correctness.”

 In grammar, there must be subject and verb agreement: if the subject is in the present, then the verb, or the action, must be in the present, otherwise you don’t have subject and verb agreement. You are not speaking grammatically correct, and it impairs your success. The Honorable Elijah Muhammad taught us that as you use language to communicate your ideas, communicate your thoughts, you must speak in a way that your words, your thoughts, your ideas are clearly perceived by the one or ones to whom you are speaking. The less possibility there is for misunderstanding what you’re trying to communicate, the better it is that people will understand us.

 What was Elijah Muhammad saying? The verb in the grammatical construction of the language represents the action; in other words, the “tense.” The word “tense” here means: Is it Present? Is it Past? Is it Future? Is it Present Perfect? Is it Past Perfect? Or, is it Future Perfect? These are the different tenses that you understand if you’ve studied grammar. But if you haven’t studied grammar, don’t worry about it; we’ll break it right down.

 Look at the sentence “I am here”–the subject “I” is in Present tense because the verb “am” (be) is in Present tense. However, if I said: “I was here and I am here,” I would not be speaking grammatically correct. So what is Elijah Muhammad saying? If you and I live in The Present, our Action should be Present Tense. But if our actions belong to a Time gone by, then we are in the present, acting out the past–there is no “subject and verb agreement,” therefore we are not communicating properly and we are not speaking correctly. And when there is a lack of communication, there is a breakdown in social relationship.

 The word “tense” has to do with time. When we are “out of time,” we increase t-e-n-s-ion (tension). When we increase tension because we are out of step with time, then we increase stress. And where there is tension and stress in our relationship because we are out of step with time, there is a cleavage (definition: “the act of a division or split”) apart, rather than a cleavage together.

 “By the time, surely man is in loss. …” so Time is The Criteria. You are not a “slave,” but if your actions reflect slave mentality, then you’re not communicating properly and you begin to lose. If slavery was over, according to White folks words, with the “Emancipation Proclamation,” and we today in The Present are still looking to the Caucasian to provide us with our necessities of life, food, clothing, shelter, employment, education, then that action that we are involved in is an action that belongs to the past, to an era gone by.

 You are in the present, but your actions are not proper; therefore, you are communicating well with the Caucasian, but you are not communicating well with one another because you are not speaking well.

Become Servants of Righteousness, not Sin

The Honorable Elijah Muhammad said to us that it was divinely prophesied that we would serve America 400 years. We bear witness the 400 years of our servitude to America is up, and if it is up, we must adopt an action that corresponds to the time. If the Scripture teaches we will go into bondage to serve Satan and follow the path of sin and iniquity, and The Time given to Satan’s rule is up and The Time given to our service of Satan and sin and iniquity is up, then The Time demands another action: We must stop serving Satan and start serving The Lord of The Worlds.

We must stop being servants of sin and we must start serving ourselves in righteousness.

 Now does that seem so strange or farfetched? If we have run out of the time given to evil to hold sway over the people, and the evil is steadily losing, how can we come into our own, following an out-of-date activity? Evil is an out-of-date activity because it will not permit us to communicate properly to one another. We cannot do evil to one another and communicate to one another. The Time given to evil is over, so doing evil will not bring results, it will bring deterioration, loss, ruin, disgrace and death. If our actions can be judged as evil, and we are out of The Time given to evil, then we are not communicating correctly.

 Either we’ve got to go out with the evil world, or we’ve got to change our actions to be in harmony with The World of Righteousness that is coming in.

 Now, God has not sentenced you and me to death, God has sentenced to death The Wicked–but we are practicing wickedness. The longer we persist in the practice of evil, the more the fate of the wicked becomes our fate. If God’s Truth and Righteousness condemns something that we are practicing, though we like it, we’ve got to give it up. We may like evil deeds, but if The Word of God in The Time of Right condemns the action that belongs to the old world and to the past, then we have got to make up our minds to correct our conduct by The Standard of Time.

 If you can agree that the White man’s world is on its way out, then the White man’s way is on its way out. And if the White man’s way is a way of evil, and is on its way out, then we’ve got to give up evil. Beloved, life and the spirit of life is tied into The Spirit of Righteousness. The Creator, Who set this whole Universe in motion, is a Righteous Creator. He set it up in righteousness, so the very energy that perpetuates the life of the Universe is a Righteous Energy. This is why there is so much talk in the Scriptures of the Bible of that which is called “Holy Spirit.”

 This kind of spirit is different from the spirit of the world, because the spirit of the world has not any righteousness or holiness attached to it. It’s the spirit of the world, which is the spirit of adultery, the spirit of freakishness, the spirit of sport and play and partying. It is not the spirit of the serious intent of The God who fashioned life, so the key to longevity is in being in harmony with the spirit that perpetuates the life of that which keeps you living.

 You draw your life’s sustenance from the Earth and what she produces. What the Earth produces is in harmony with the spirit of the Life Producer, Almighty God Himself. The Earth is producing you fruits of obedience, fruits of submission and you and I survive and grow strong from the fruit that the Earth produces. If we were in harmony with the spirit that germinates life, which is submission to the Will of the Life Giver, that spirit generates life into us.

The Power of Thought

 Being in harmony with The Thinking of The Creator generates electrical energy in the cells of the brain picked up by the blood and carried to every part of the body. So you can’t just eat well, we’ve got to think better.

 So, the song says, “I’m going to change my way of thinking, I’m going to change my style, I’m going to change my walk and my talk…”–that’s an old song we used to sing. But when the Right Word in accord with the Right Time strikes your ear, if you let it enter it starts changing up the way you think. And once the way you think is changed, the way you think starts changing up the chemistry of the cells.

 This is nothing but pure science–and if there are doctors, and scientists, and biologists and chemists in the house, all you have to do is take what Brother Farrakhan says from the Honorable Elijah Muhammad, go and study it, and come on back and bear me witness that I have been taught by a Master Teacher.

 We must change the thinking, for the scripture teaches “As a man thinketh, so is he.” This is telling you The Power of Thought. Thought shapes and reshapes matter, so the Honorable Elijah Muhammad was not just interested in getting you to eat properly, he wanted to change the way we think. In changing the way we think, he will then change the way we act. And if our thinking gets in harmony with the Will of God, gets in harmony with The Time, then our actions follow suit, and instead of showing loss, we will show gain.

 Even though the world seems to be going contrary to the way we think and act, we will be steadily gaining and the world will be steadily losing because we are on time.

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When the Honorable Elijah Muhammad said, “we are gods,” he wasn’t making mockery. He was showing us our Divine potential if we fed that which is in us from Allah and allowed ourselves to grow spiritually. Like you feed your stomach to grow physically, then spiritually you’ll grow right on up into God. And this is why, beloved Muslims, Allah gives us the right to wear His Attributes. He has 99 Attributes, and when you put them all together, you have Allah.

 Well, what about The People of God? If we wear His Name and manifest His characteristics and recognize that as God’s Names work together for the fruition of His Will, and His Name represents His Attributes and Characteristics, then if we wear His Name, manifest His Attributes, and we come together in unity under His Will and His Guidance, then we become Allah!

 The Holy Qur’an says: “And We adorned the lower Heavens with Stars. And We made man and We know what his mind suggests to him. And had We wished to take a pastime from before ourselves, surely We would have taken it. Nay, We cast Truth at falsehood till We knock out its brain.”–“We” who?

 The We is us who believe and submit to The Will of The Supreme Being, The Lord of The Worlds, Almighty God, Allah. We have become “the actors of His Will,” so when you see us acting, it’s not “us” acting, it’s Allah Acting. When you hear us speaking, it is not “us” speaking, it is Allah Speaking. And when you see our manifestation of righteousness, it is not “our” righteousness, it is Allah’s Righteousness.

 That is why the Honorable Elijah Muhammad wanted you to change your way of thinking and looking at your own self.

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There was a U.S. Senator from Kansas by the name of John James Ingalls who, on January 23, 1890 during a meeting in the Senate, addressed President Benjamin Harrison regarding the Senate’s consideration of a bill (“S. 1121”) to “provide for the emigration of persons of color from the Southern States.”

Pay attention to his words: “Mr. President, the race to which we belong is the most arrogant and rapacious, the most exclusive and indomitable in history. It is the conquering and the unconquerable race, through which alone man has taken possession of the physical and moral world. … All other races have been its enemies or its victims.”

“Rapacious” means “destructive and vicious; engaging in violent pillaging, and likely to harm or destroy things.”

 In the book “Imperialism: A Study,” (published by New York, James Pott & Co., 1902) by British economic journalist John A. Hobson, in the chapter “Imperialism and The Lower Races” under Section VI (“6”), page 266, he writes: “The actual history of Western relations with lower races occupying lands on which we have settled throws, then, a curious light upon the theory of a ‘trust for civilization.’ When the settlement approaches the condition of genuine colonization, it has commonly implied the extermination of the lower races, either by war or by private slaughter, as in the case of Australian Bushmen, African Bushmen and Hottentots, Red Indians, and Maoris”—or “The Aborigines” of Australia—“or by forcing upon them the habits of a civilization equally destructive to them. …” The Honorable Elijah Muhammad said for every 1,000 years of the White race’s existence on our planet, they have killed 100 million people of color for every “1,000 years.” So in 6,000 years:

They have killed nearly 1 billion people of color! And now, according to what we have read from Mr. Henry Kissinger (refer to “Part 4” of this lecture series): They intend to cull (“exterminate,” “get rid of”) the population of our planet by 2-3 billion people. These are The Blood-Shedders of our planet. Mr. Hobson continues: “This is what is meant by saying that ‘lower races’ in contact with ‘superior races’ naturally tend to disappear. How much of ‘nature’ or ‘necessity’ belongs to the process is seen from the fact that only those ‘lower races’ tend to disappear who are incapable of profitable exploitation by the superior White settlers, either because they are too ‘savage’ for effective industrialism or because the demand for labour does not require their presence.”

Brothers and sisters: Are you looking for a job? Are you “too savage” for effective industrialism, or, because the demand for labor does not require your presence? Are we going to Washington to celebrate the 50th Anniversary of The March on Washington, and are we—50 years later—going to still be begging government seeking “Jobs and Justice”?

Mr. Hobson writes: “Whenever superior races settle on lands where lower races can be profitably used for manual labour in agriculture, mining, and domestic work, the latter do not tend to die out, but to form a servile class. This is the case, not only in tropical countries where White men cannot form real colonies, working and rearing families with safety and efficiency, and where hard manual work, if done at all, must be done by ‘coloured men,’ but even in countries where White men can settle, as in parts of South Africa and of the southern portion of the United States.” This “servile” state of being is our lot.

“As we entered these countries for trade, so we stay there for industrial exploitation, directing to our own profitable purposes the compulsory labour of the lower races. This is the root fact of Imperialism so far as it relates to the control of inferior races; when the latter are not killed out they are subjected by force to the ends of their white superiors.”

 An author and a Southerner named Gerald W. Johnson in 1964 wrote: “Of all the creatures to appear on this earth, the White man is the fiercest by far.” And when a female author by the name of Riane Eisler wrote in the “Introduction” to her book “The Chalice and The Blade: Our History, Our Future,” asking the questions: “Why do we hunt and persecute each other? Why is our world so full of man’s infamous inhumanity to man—and to woman? How can human beings be so brutal to their own kind? What is it that chronically tilts us toward cruelty rather than kindness, toward war rather than peace, toward destruction rather than actualization?”

 It is because you become frustrated; you become disappointed. And in that “disappointment,” you don’t handle it well—and it drives you to insanity. And then, you want to kill someone.

Taking off ‘the mask of civility’ worn by a cold-hearted savage 

Have you noticed that there was a time that Black people could find refuge in France: Many musicians and entertainers went there, and the French saw them as a “novelty”; and, they felt as though they were really accepted more than they were accepted in their own countries? Do you remember after “colonialism” died, many of those that England colonized began to move to England; and at first, it was a “novelty”: Here are brothers and sisters from the former colonies in The Caribbean, from the former colonies in Africa, from the former colonies in Asia and the Isles of the Pacific? Yes… And you were “accepted.” What’s happening today?

As Caucasians begin to feel “threatened,” and their “security” is compromised, “the mask of civility” comes off—and then you see murder coming out of their hearts and their eyes. It is the same in France; it is the same in Belgium. It is the same in Norway and Sweden, and Finland, and Denmark. It is the same in Germany, and in Russia. All over our planet, “The Hatred of Black” is manifesting.

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In The Name of Allah, The Beneficent, The Merciful.

The time that we live in is so strange, that those men and women whose ideas some disagree with, and whose persons are not loved by all, are a target for assassination. It is so shameful that when we disagree, the only way we have to settle disagreements is through assassinating someone with whom we disagree. That means you don’t have confidence in your truth, because as sure as light vanishes darkness, Truth vanishes Falsehood. If truth is with you, then you have nothing to fear from anyone who comes bringing darkness and falsehood, so the assassination of such person is unnecessary for Shining The Light is sufficient.

But of course, if you have been made to believe that you have light, while in fact you are in the dark, then anybody who comes shedding light on your darkness will vanish the false ideas and concepts that you hold true; that enslave you to those in power whose aim is to control your lives and your destiny. Then there is a real threat to those in power who fear your ideas.

Why “the furor over Farrakhan”? What is “the great controversy”? Those in the media who wish to paint a picture of me in your minds have had the freedom with their big brushes to paint me as such. But now is my turn to ask: “What is the problem?” The problem is the fear on the part of those in power of The Rise of Black men and women to The Destiny that Almighty God has called us to. The fear is that after, now, 450 years of evil mistreatment, injustice and inequity, somebody is going to come along and turn these young and older Black men and women into an army of revenge against a society that has set them at naught. That is the fear. And that fear is the same as it was with Pharaoh.

Those of you who read scripture, Pharaoh feared the multiplication of The Children of Israel. He feared that they might join themselves on to an enemy and come against him. He knew the evil of him and his people against The Children of Israel. Was his fear justified? Not really, but the guilt of The Guilty makes them always feel that their wickedness is deserving of the punishment that they know should come.

But Moses was not a vindictive man, neither was Aaron, neither Jehovah. The idea was to give Pharaoh a chance to repent and do justice by The Children of Israel, that Egypt and Pharaoh might avoid total destruction. But because of Pharaoh’s fear of a Spokesperson rising whom The Children of Israel would listen to that may change their religion, change their way of thinking, change their way of believing; Pharaoh decided to “Let us put a double burden on them”: Let them make bricks out of straw; spare their women, but kill all of the male children.

And today in America, the Black male is under siege. Today in America, because of hate not taught by Farrakhan, but hate that has been bred into Black men and women for self and for their own kind and for their origin in the world, we have been made to hate ourselves, our color, our hair, our features, our origin. To destroy one another is to destroy what we “hate,” so that today, Black young men are the number one destroyers of self. White folk are not doing to us what we are now doing to ourselves.

As a human being, I would love to see all human beings act as human beings and get along as human beings. Reality says that there are about 10 percent of the human family that control the lives of 85 percent of the human family. There is about 85 percent which is the mass of every race that is unlearned, especially when it comes to The True and The Living God and The Nature of The Law of Cause and Effect. This 85 percent are mis-taught by 10 percent who know the truth, but hold the truth as their private domain and use their knowledge of truth to mislead the masses, so that the masses become slaves to this 10 percent. So the 10 percent are considered the “blood suckers of the poor.”

No “race,” no “religion”–just a percentage that know what is right, but refuse to teach the masses what is right. And therefore when somebody comes to educate the masses who should have been educated by institutions of higher learning, then there is a hue and a cry by the 10 percent, because somebody is going to take away the foundation of their riches.

Now let me make it a little clearer: What would you think of me if I was a used car salesman, and I sold you an automobile that looked real good; and after I took your money and you got in it, I kept the key? So all you could do is sit in it, enjoy what it looks like, but you couldn’t go anywhere with it? You would call me a pretty awful ugly fellow. You would bring me before the Better Business Bureau, you would accuse me of fraud and thievery, and you would want your money back, and you would be justified!

But what about making you pay for an education; and then at the end of your time you get a degree, but you are unable to use it to solve the critical problems of your day, your time, your society? I am concerned not only about my people, I am concerned about a country that is the greatest country on Earth that is on its way into the abyss of hell because leadership blinds the people to the real truth of what’s going on in America; what is happening to this nation.

Educators: With all due respect, the country is in trouble and you have a responsibility to teach these young people and let them stand on the shoulders of your scholarship. Not to train them to think like you, but to train them to see beyond you, because if the problems of America are beyond your scholarship, then to train them to acquiesce to your scholarship is to train them to acquiesce to the prevailing conditions that they will never be able to solve with what you are teaching them.

God says in the Quran when he sends a prophet to every nation, he teaches every nation a specific way of devotion. Suppose the Native Americans’ way of devotion is not your way of devotion, or my way of devotion: Should we make mockery of their way of devotion simply because we don’t understand it? Who arrogated to us the right to condemn others? Intolerance–but did Farrakhan bring intolerance to the American scene?

This great outpouring of so-called love by America and her presidents for Black people has caused us to live on one side of the track, and they on another. And while you act as though White and Black drinking fountains was a relic of the “ancient past,” that was just [40] years ago. I couldn’t go in a Christian Church in the South except I went up in the balcony. Have you forgotten? We were fighting and bleeding and dying for a “democracy” that we didn’t even know the meaning of, in a segregated armed forces. Was that love that divided us, or was it hate?

And now you say “Farrakhan” is dividing you. What are you doing with truth and justice to unite human beings of various races and creeds? You talk so hypocritically about a pluralistic society, but how can it be a pluralistic society with a Euro-centric education? The very Euro-centricity of it of the education, of the religion, of the politics, of the dynamics of the society, of its system of jurisprudence, says in its practice that there will never be equal respect for all of the various components that make up what is called “America.”

The Philosophy of Racism and White Supremacy has poisoned religion, education, economics, the social fabric and the system of justice. Until that philosophy that has created a White mind that feels itself superior because of its Whiteness, and a Black mind that feels itself inferior because of its Blackness is destroyed, and a Ideology and Philosophy given to the American people that will allow us to see each other as we really are, then the talk of a pluralistic society is blowing in the wind.

I suggest to you that it is deceitful language made by that 10 percent who want to keep the 85 percent believing that you are on the road to something that you don’t have the mechanism to get where they told you, you were on the road.

So you are sitting in the car and it looks good and it feels good, but try to get it started to move you down the road to your goal: You are not getting there.

In the publication The Secret Relationship Between Blacks and Jews, Volume 1, The Nation of Islam’s Historical Research Department unearthed the following fact from an unpublished doctoral dissertation of Dr. Harold Brackman written in 1977: It was certain Talmudic rabbis who invented “The Curse of Ham” myth about the origin of Black people; that through the eyes of these pseudo-intellectual anthropologists, the Old Testament teaches that Black people are called “The Hamitic People” (as though we waited around until Ham to come into existence).

This “Curse of Ham” developed by scholars and imposed on scripture use your love of God and your love of religion as a tool to defeat you. Surely if I am a child of Ham who laughed at his father’s nakedness and drunkenness, and was cursed; and The Hamitic Curse is that we would be doomed by our Blackness to be hewers of wood and drawers of water for the other brothers, then that means that Black people should have a “servant” attitude and mentality.

See, if you are in that 10 percent, I can understand that you must be terrified that somebody knows the truth. But to the masses of you, the 85 percent: You should rejoice that somebody knows something to free your minds.

How can they know the scriptures accept they have a Preacher? And how can they have a Preacher except he be sent? The same people that put you in this condition, the 10 percent, are not going to send you a Preacher to free you from their grip. That is why nobody from America’s educational institutions has been able to free the masses.

You would think with all of the degrees that you give out each year, you would be giving something out that the masses could go free, with this “fine education.” I suggest that something is wrong with an educational system that does not allow you to become a thinker, analytical and creative–but suppresses your creativity; and shapes and molds you according to books from scholars whose knowledge of the discipline is much less than absolute. Also, who will not allow you to rise in your time above the scholarship of the so-called scholars that you may write new text books that give a better view of life today than those who went before you.

You are being trained to be herded into a political and social dynamic, without being able to see it as it is, or correct it as it is, but to become tools of those who control it. And if you “get out of line,” whether you are White, Black, Hispanic, Jew, Gentile–it doesn’t make any difference: If you get out of line with what those in power determine should be the way you think and act, then they find a way to break you.

That is why America is in the condition that it is in: It kills the best minds. It destroys those who would be thinking to lead us beyond.

I have never been anti-Semitic, and I am not now. I have never been anti-Jewish and I am not now. But I recognize something, and what I recognize is that what is not in the best interest of Jews or Blacks, I have to speak against it. When I said that some Jews were involved in The Slave Trade, they attacked me so viciously like I said something wrong.

So when my brothers and sisters saw the attack on me, the Historical Research Department was formed, and they went digging not in our libraries, in yours; and they found Jewish historians, rabbis and scholars who confirmed what I had said and gotten attacked for: That Jews were heavily involved in the slave trade.

Yes, Gentiles, Africans, Arabs were involved; and yes, some Muslims were involved. Everybody of the world had a part in that Slave Trade. “Well then, why are you focusing on Jews?” Because in the books that we read, we always read it was Arabs, we always read that it was Gentile White people–but we never read where the Jews had a hand.

So it is our duty to tell the truth because in this day and time, everybody that had a hand in bringing this people to slavery has to have a hand in helping us up, or God will punish all.

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America: I am not your “enemy.” We are your best friend, because we are warning you of “what is to come”—and how you can save yourself and lessen this distress! In this message, America, I am informing you that there is a lot that you can do better than what you are doing; so, the “watchword” for you right now is “The Principle of Justice.”

The Honorable Elijah Muhammad said: “Justice is that Great Principle of ‘fair dealing.’” But, America: You’re not “dealing fairly” with the American people. You’re certainly not “dealing fairly” with Black people, or Brown people.

You’re not “dealing fairly” with the people of Africa, and the people of the third world; your policy is to cull 2-3 billion people from this Earth—that is not “justice”!

So, this Great Principle of Fair Dealing, “Justice”: It is a Weapon that The God would use in The Judgment of the world! How does “justice” become a “weapon”?

The scripture teaches in the Book of Obadiah, Chapter 1, verse 15: “As thou hast done, so shall it be done unto thee …,” and as Jesus said in the Book of Hosea, Chapter 8, verse 7, that you “sow the wind,” but you “reap the whirlwind”—so all the things that you have done around the planet, they are going to “come back home” to us, here in America.

However, the thing that is more important than your “policies abroad” is this: What are your plans for The People that God, The Black Man and Woman, whom God has chosen to be His Own?

When we look at “The Intervals of Calamities”: They are one behind another. Do you know what it’s all about? It’s not about your “policy” toward the Palestinians or Israel, although that’s important; and I will go deeper into that subject in another broadcast, God Willing.

Nor is it about “birth control” or these kinds of things that you’re putting on the people of the third world to “cull” the populations of—no! It is about your plans for The Black Man and Woman of America, because the more you plan to get rid of us, rather than do justice by us, you’re hastening The Day of your own doom.

I am not “pleased” to have to say these things to you, but, look about you! Look at what is happening to the country! Look at what’s happening to the economy! Look at what’s happening to you as a people! “Justice” is what you have to practice. And if you refuse to practice “justice”—fair dealing with The Children of The Slaves—then the end of your civilization is not only “in sight,” it has entered America!

Just as “The Last Plague of Pharaoh” that God brought to Pharaoh was a plague of death, then I am sorry to tell you: Death has entered America, as well. Famine is on the way, pestilence is on the way, terrific earthquakes are on the way, all because some of “the wise” of you know “The Time,” but you are afraid to let us go.

Keep watching The Weather, The Forces of Nature, for it is Time, now, that the Black Man and Woman in America must be delivered. It is Time, now, that we should be set free. It is Time, now, that you should help us to go for ourselves.

It is Time. And if you did it, some of this stress, distress and affliction that you are suffering will come off of you; and then you can work on what you have to do in the world.

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In The Name of Allah, The Beneficent, The Merciful.

[Excerpt of the closing lines from Brother Harold Power’s spoken word tribute to Mother Khadijah Farrakhan, “The Queen’s Reign” that was originally recited at her 90thbirth anniversary in November 2025.]

“We all saw The Nation dismantled and reassembled, but tell me: Who did you see sinking beneath the waves, descending into the cold crushing abyss when the depths of The Minister’s Source had him anchored a thousand leagues beneath the sea?

It was she! She broke the chains! She freed the man! She resuscitated his inspiration, and FARRAKHAN lived again! She is the quintessential manifestation that no nation can rise any higher than its woman! …

“… So no, we will not wait for the Vatican or for the popes in Rome to pontificate and debate over whether to bestow sainthood upon our Queen Mother! She has gone through more trials and tribulations and has brought forth just as many miracles as any other.

So all those who are present and in agreement, raise your hand to the sky and say ‘I,’ thus, by the power of the people, in the presence of God’s Vicegerent and the rest, in acknowledgement of all the years that you have sat perfectly upon the throne,

And for the magnificent example that you have set,’ everyone, turn and fix your gaze upon the face of the one whose grace shall never leave her. And on this, the 90th year of her birth, help me celebrate our newly enthroned Saint, Mother Khadijah.”

The Honorable Minister Louis Farrakhan: ALLAH-U-AKBAR! ALLAH-U-AKBAR! Thank you, brother. Boy, you could not have said it better. I know those are words inspired by God and touched my heart, because I know the truth of my wife’s greatness; greater than you would hear it said. But she will rise from among the dead to be crowned before God and the world, this beautiful Ruggles Street girl!

Well, I call her “Struggles Street,” because she struggled every day to be the best that she could be. So how could I not rejoice over the beauty of your soul that captured my wife and let her life unfold? You did it, dear brother.

And I am grateful for you, because you made my day that was very sad indeed! But I know there is a great future for all of us because she paved the road before we leave. Thank you so much. …

[Opening lines from Sister Stephanie Mills’ song tribute to Mother Khadijah Farrakhan, a beautiful rendition of “The Wind Beneath My Wings”]

“It must have been cold there in your shadow, To never have sunlight on her face. She was content to let you shine—that’s Her Way. She always walked right beside.

“Pops, you were the one with all The Glory. THANK ALLAH! While she was the one with all The Strength. A beautiful face; you’ve changed her name—that’s Your Way. A beautiful smile to hide some pain.

“Did you ever know that she was Pops’ Hero? She was everything you needed her to be!

“You can fly higher than an eagle, For She was The Wind Beneath Your Wings.”

The Honorable Minister Louis Farrakhan: Did you know that she is my hero? All the things I needed that she could be, God did it all to help me that I might be the one to resurrect a nation and then go on to a world and set people free.

Oh yeah, she is my hero alright. I mean, she really broke through. Every day on the news they were talking about her! They sent me all these words from around the world—I couldn’t even read it all; I had to stop.

She opened the door for us. She took a cover off of me! So, through her, the world will look at me a different way. But no woman could stay with a no-good man for now 73 years, and 10 years more before that! No woman got that kind of strength. But every rotten thing that the enemy would write about me hit my family, hit my friends!

It was like I had a disease; nobody wanted to be a close friend to me. Yeah …  They would come behind the door and say, “Farrakhan, we love you” a lot more. But Khadijah: She never let the news confuse her as to who her man is. Never! There was not one time in 73 years that she wavered about me.

I mean, just, just think about that. You all are married, but damn! I mean …  No, no, no! This is real talk! You all are married, but how long does it last? Damn, before the party is over the wedding is too! Talking about “honeymoon”?

All the honey dripped off that moon, and we as dry as the moon, (smile)— no water nowhere, no love nowhere! We’re playing games in the Name of God. … So beloved, go home and really try to make something out of your marriage by making something out of yourself.

You can’t be what you won’t live to be. So “faking”: You know, there is an old saying, “You’ve got to fake it (until/before) you make it.” And most of us are fakers.

Marriage is sacred. Living to be together and struggling with each other so that you could become one, that’s not funny, that’s not a joke. That’s the reality of life itself!

‘Khadijah still is The Wind Beneath My Wings’

If you’re afraid to be with God, you will never realize your own greatness, because when you are afraid, you can’t bring out of yourself what is buried there, hiding under fear, hiding under wanting to be loved but won’t do what will make you worthy to be loved.

This man sitting beside me, Brother Stevie Wonder: He’s like an archangel—you know I’ve got to talk about the angel! You think he can’t see? You wish you had eyes like he has! I want to say a few words about my Brother Stevie. Steve is like a conductor in the angelic choir of God.

Did you know that the Attribute of Allah, “Mercy,” “Beneficence”: He wants you to be comforted. Half of us probably in the room, forgive me if I step on your corn, but you really need to be reborn, because “faking it until you make it” is not God’s way. See, you’ve got to come out from behind the acting school of Satan, [where] Satan is the master.

And he is the one that gives you an Oscar. (“That’s my Oscar nigga.”) You didn’t hear me! Because you put on a face when you come out the door (“Who shall I be today? I’ve got to be what will make me accepted.”) If you will be yourself, you will not be “accepted,” you will be divinely protected.

So, beloved, you’ve got me fired up! And that’s because Khadijah still is the wind beneath my wings. So, when you go home and look at your wife, what do you see? No, no—no, please don’t answer! (Smile) You don’t know what you’re going to see, or you don’t know how to say what you see.

But you all have it deep within yourself: God is sitting there, waiting for you to discover Him. You running around making everybody your “hero,” but The Hero is sitting right up inside of you—or laying down next to you.

Stop faking it. Khadijah wouldn’t have been with me for 72 minutes if I was a false dude. And these are my children here, and they have grown up under me and their mother. … But they never heard me argue with their mother. They never heard me call my wife out of her name in anger.

Did you hear me?! How many of you speak evil words to your wife?I am very serious now! Brothers and sisters, we are hurting inside, all of us as Black people. In fact, all the human family is like that. So, we fight each other rather than trying to really discover what’s hiding beneath the cover, a very beautiful, righteous lover.

So, when you go home, as we celebrate Khadijah, let’s make a vow to turn over a new leaf, to be a better person. Joy has never been in sex. Righteousness is the joy of life itself, and if you are not trying to be right, you are never going to have peace or joy in your life.

[PICTURE PLACEMENT: SISTER MONICA MORGAN’S PHOTO OF MOTHER ON DISPLAY DURING REPAST]

That woman, right there, Khadijah: She lived her vow. And after 72 years, when she took her last breath, I wanted to scream out over her death. But as I was about to break down, God held me, and I could feel His arms around me; and therefore, I couldn’t break. And as Ishmael said, I cried out, “The Lord is my strength and He is my salvation. Of whom, then, shall I be afraid?”

And when you live in fear, you don’t know The Lord. When you are cowardly and won’t present yourself as God would have you to be, you are hiding the reality of the greatness of yourself. Come out of the closet.

Just don’t say that to those who are homosexual or lesbian. No, no, don’t do that. Come out from the closet of being other than yourself; and putting on a mask to hide the reality not of who you are, but of the fake that you’re trying to be today.

That wife of mine, O Allah! Look at that picture. Sister Monica Morgan, she loved that picture! And I am with her, Monica. I love that picture. And I love you for taking that picture.

So, I am going home to a lonely bed, and nobody is worthy to be in her stead. I’ll be alone until God says, “Come home.” Because she will never leave my side; she is the most beautiful kind of bride.

Dear Mother Khadijah Farrakhan, Mother of The Faithful: We’ll Be Loving You Always!!

So, I close with this point. You read about Jesus; they say Jesus was hated without a cause. People did not want to associate with Jesus when he was among us, and all the miracles that he had performed didn’t change their mind about him because they said his miracles were made by Beelzebub.

(That’s another name for the devil.) So even though he was doing things that others never could do, they refused to see who he really was. So, you could not talk about Jesus openly.

And people do not talk about me openly, honestly. You knowI’ve been a good man! Somebody on television said, “Seventy-two years and not one scandal.” It is not that me and Khadijah are perfect, no. But no scandal was behind our name.

Brothers and sisters, I will miss her, big time. And I am so grateful that all of you came to celebrate her.But underneath, you had to understand when you saw me, and the enemy writing about me day after day, week after week, month after month, and year after year … What did I do?

I didn’tkillnobody! I didn’t rob nobody! Didn’t rape no woman or sleep with no man! What did I do? I told the truth and spoke the truth, and the enemy didn’t like the truth.

I’ve got to tell you about my friend Stevie! Stevie and I were in Nigeria together. … Stevie corralled me one day and said, “Farrakhan, you should leave the singing to me.” It’s the truth! And Stevie said, “Why don’t you go back and get what Elijah Muhammad was teaching you?”

He said, “Now, you can help me, because you may be able to write lyrics and stuff, but let me do the singing.” Because I was so bad at it after I had been so good at it; but I was trying to get back at it when The Nation fell, and I couldn’t find my voice; I looked everywhere. I tried to play my violin; it looked like the strings would pop. (Smile) It wasn’t for me. And Stevie put me back on the right track!

And I can tell you this: This man came from God. Nobody talks about love better than this man, because love is the key to The Life of God. And in our pain and hurt living under White supremacy, God sent people into the world to comfort us, to preach to us, to sing for us. Mahalia Jackson, “Come Sunday” written by Duke Ellington; Billie Holiday, “Strange Fruit.”

And we marvel at their voices, and we love to hear our people sing. … Stevie caused us to live another day. And one day he called me on the phone and instead of saying, “Hey, Farrakhan!” he said, [singing] “I just called to say I love you!”

[Audience sings along: “I just called to say how much I care.”] Now, see? Wouldn’t you like to get a call like that from Stevie? How do you think I felt with my brother saying words like that to me?

I still got the call, Stevie. I will never throw it away, because Stevie invited me to be with him when he recorded “Songs in The Key of Life”—one of the greatest albums ever done by any musician. And I know this man will be tops in The Hereafter.

Each one of these musicians and artists are God’s gift to help us get through the horrors of living under White supremacy. And every time that Stevie sings about love, I would say “Stevie, you know, your songs and you are not for this world.” And Stevie doesn’t belong to this world. Stevie is in this world, but he is trying to get everybody in this world to be worthy of a better world.

So, “We just called to say I love you. We just called [audience joins in] to say how much we care. We just called to say I LOVE YOU, AND WE MEAN IT from the bottom of our hearts.” And so, Stevie, you can’t die.

I mean the flesh will go, but not Stevie. So, I thank God that he came. He’s a man [born also] in the month of May, on the 13th. I’m on the 11th; Mother Tynnetta is on the 10th. And here we are, together, to celebrate my beautiful wife.

So, Stevie, you’ve got the mic in your hand…

Brother Stevie Wonder [singing a rendition of “As,” from the album “Songs in The Key of Life”]: “As around the Sun, the Earth knows she is revolving, And the rosebuds know to bloom in early May. Just as hate knows love’s the cure, You can rest your mind assure, That I’ll be loving you always.”

The Honorable Minister Louis Farrakhan: [Singing along] “That I’ll be loving you always.” Come on, Steve!

Brother Stevie Wonder: “As now can’t reveal the mystery of tomorrow. But in passing we’ll grow older every day.”

The Honorable Minister Louis Farrakhan: Yeah!

Brother Stevie Wonder: “’Tis all is born is new, Do know what I say is true”—

The Honorable Minister Louis Farrakhan [sings in unison]:  “That I’ll be loving you always!”

Brother Stevie Wonder: “Until the rainbow burns the stars out in the sky…”

The Honorable Minister Louis Farrakhan: Come on, Steve!

Family of Believers: “ALWAYS!”

Brother Stevie Wonder: “Until the ocean covers every mountain high …”

The Minister & Family of Believers: “ALWAYS!”

Brother Stevie Wonder: “Until the dolphin flies and parrots live at sea …”

The Minister & Family of Believers: “ALWAYS!”

Brother Stevie Wonder: “Until we dream of life, and life becomes a dream—
I’LL BE LOVING YOU, I’LL BE LO-VING YOU…

MOTHER KHADIJAH:
YOU’LL KNOW I’LL, WE WILL BE LO-VING YOU ALWAYS…

THE MINISTER WILL BE LOVING YOU ALWAYS!”

The Honorable Minister Louis Farrakhan: THAT’S RIGHT!

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Minister Louis Farrakhan by Final Call Staff. Originally published in January 2004, the information continues to be relevant in this hour.] 

 FC: Recent news reports have revealed a relationship among drug manufacturers, agricultural firms and the Food and Drug Administration. This has allowed substandard, chemically-riddled food to be approved that will undoubtedly lead to illness, more illness, for which the pharmaceutical companies produce so-called medicine to alleviate.

What are your views on this, and how can an unsuspecting public protect themselves from the danger to their health created by this link? How does the struggle for survival of Black farmers against discriminatory practices and regulations fit into this picture and perhaps a solution?

HMLF: I have read recently of this unholy alliance between pharmaceutical companies, agricultural conglomerates, chemical firms that produce pesticides and the Food and Drug Administration. There is no doubt in my mind that we live in The Valley of the Shadow of Death.

The Bible teaches that we are destroyed for the lack of knowledge. The unsuspecting American people have put their trust in those who feed and medicate us. Those who feed and medicate us are more interested in the bottom line of profit than they are in delivering health and well-being to the American people.

The Honorable Elijah Muhammad said to me that the medical profession is really not a profession of true healing; it is a profession of drugs. He said these drugs are created to stimulate a natural process.

However, stimulation of the natural process by the use of these drugs creates another problem—harmful side effects. This gives the pharmaceutical companies more leeway to make more drugs, to make more money, to cause more death.

How can this unsuspecting public protect itself? In reality, it cannot, unless the public is made aware and the public’s will is to take control of the earth and what goes in it that produces our food.

Unless we are watchful of the chemicals that are sold to the agricultural conglomerates and unless we are watchful of the pharmaceutical companies and their desire to make money from the illnesses that are created by this unholy alliance, then we are locked in The Valley of the Shadow of Death.

This is why the Honorable Elijah Muhammad wanted us to buy or lease millions of acres of land, so that we could be responsible for providing the food, which we need to maintain our lives. How our food is prepared and how we live our lives are important to help us to survive.

The poor Black farmer is in deep trouble and the small White farmer, as well. The farmers are in debt incurred for equipment, pesticides, seeds, water and the many things that they need to make their farms successful.

Many farms are in foreclosure. As the banks take over these farms, the conglomerates buy these farms and expand their unhealthy way of food production for the American people and for the people of the world. All of this is to the detriment of the masses of the people.

The greed of these companies is monumental and only our unity under the Guidance of Allah (God) will allow us to come up out of The Valley of the Shadow of Death and come to life. That is why the scripture teaches “to those who overcame, He gave them of the Tree of Life.” 

That overcoming is what we have to be involved in and it starts with a knowledge of Allah (God); a knowledge of self; a knowledge of the time and what must be done; a knowledge of the enemy of God and the true religion of Allah (God). This kind of knowledge will lift us up out of this horrible Valley of the Shadow of Death.

In my Saviours’ Day speech, I will go deeper into this aspect of what I’m now writing in a capsule form, be it the Will of Allah (God).

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In The Name of Allah, The Beneficent, The Merciful, The One God to Whom all praise is due, Who came in the Person of Master Fard Muhammad to Whom praise is due forever.  We thank Allah for blessing us, for our beloved leader, teacher and guide, The Messenger of Allah, the Most Honorable Elijah Muhammad. 

‘What The Muslims Believe’: A Reminder on Our Position toward the abject, despised

I wanted to start class by reciting something from the 80th Chapter of the Holy Qur’an, called ’Abasa, which means “He Frowned.”  It talks about Prophet Muhammad, the son of Abdullah, in Arabia, talking to a very prominent rich man, and a blind man came tapping up to Prophet Muhammad.  Prophet Muhammad was bothered by this blind man—because he was into this conversation with this rich man—and he looked at the blind man, and he frowned, and turned away.  When Prophet Muhammad frowned at the blind man, and turned away from the blind man, Allah (God) frowned on The Prophet, and the following verses were revealed:

“In The Name of Allah, The Beneficent, The Merciful.  He frowned and turned away, because the blind man came to him.  And what would make thee know that he might purify himself, or be mindful, so the Reminder should profit him?  As for him who considers himself free from need, to him thou dost attend.  And no blame is on thee, if he purify himself not.  And as to him who comes to thee striving hard, and he fears—to him thou payest no regard.  Nay, surely it is a Reminder.  So let him, who will, mind it.”

Allah (God) is saying to Prophet Muhammad: “Why would you spend your time with those who really have no need of you, when a man came seeking you, who would be benefited by what you have to say, and you turned away from him, and you frowned?” 

The Bible has something similar in the 14th Chapter of the Book of Luke, in “The Parable of The Great Banquet” (verses 15-23).  Jesus was at a feast in the home of a prominent Pharisee when he began to teach his host, and those gathered, about “a certain man” who was preparing a great banquet, and invited many guests.  When the feast was ready, this man sent his servant out for the doctor, and the doctor was busy; he the servant out for the lawyer and the businessman, and they both were both busy.  So, he (Jesus) told his servant (his disciples): “Go out into the highways, into the byways, and bring me the lame, the halt, the blind, the leper; they will fill up my feast,” and they did.

What is the moral, or the lesson?  Dear brothers and sisters, The Nation of Islam started and was built by the most abject of our people.  Yes, the people that nobody else wanted could come to Muhammad—he never would turn them down.  The people that had no home, no place to go, no one to love them, no one to care about them; yes, the prostitute, the pimp, the lowlife, the dope seller, the dope user, the wine drinker, the man that was so far down in the mud, nothing was looking out but his eyeballs… 

But that is the man that knew he needed somebody, that is the woman that knew she needed somebody, so they reached out for Muhammad, as Muhammad reached out for them; and they came, and in a matter of moments they were cleaned up!  Then when you looked at them again, you saw them clean, shining, and strong, doing things that the learned had not the courage to do.

Well, as it was that way in the first building of The Nation of Islam, so it is in the second re-building of The Nation of Islam.  Who are the people that are going to be the foundational stones of this re-building?  Oh, the doctor may come, the lawyer may come, the teacher may come, and what a blessing it is that such brothers and sisters come at the ground-floor level.  However, the brother and sister who is willing to make the sacrifice, even of life, is the brother and sister who feel that they don’t have anything to lose. 

To the brothers of The F.O.I., and the sisters of The M.G.T., and to those of you who visit with us: If you know that we are having a general meeting, go get the brother in the mud, go get the sister in the mud!  I mean, if your friend happens to be a teacher or doctor, we don’t reject anyone. But the brother and sister in the mud, they are the ones that nine out of 10 times will stand up when there is nothing there to stand on but The Word. 

Others who are used to going in and out of fine buildings, they can’t join you unless you have a fine building (“Oh, I would come…  But there?  That place, among those people?  I can’t come, oh, no!  But when you move up on Broadway, I shall be there!”).  Well, we understand.  But we have some brothers and sisters who don’t care where truth is, they will go there. 

Study the Holy Qur’an to understand God’s Nature, which is Your Nature

So I thought we would start on that note, to let the brothers and sisters who feel that nobody cares, nobody loves you, nobody respects you, I want you to know how the Honorable Elijah Muhammad looks at you!  When asked, “Muhammad, where is your God?,” the Honorable Elijah Muhammad said: “Every time I look at a Black man, I am looking at God.” 

I don’t take those words lightly.  When I look at you, sister, when I look at you, brother, I know who I am looking at!  There is no sense in me praying to God and then mistreating you, because if I mistreat you I am already a mis-treater of God, for the very essence of The Nature of God is in you both!  And if you doubt it, then study the Holy Qur’an.  The Holy Qur’an is an Index of The Nature of God; it is telling you what The Nature of God is, and really, it is a key to The Nature of Your Self. 

If you doubt that you are like the Holy Qur’an describes you, brother and sister, then let anybody come to you pompous and proud, and immediately you start closing off and rejecting them.  This is because the Holy Qur’an says “none comes to Allah except he comes as a servant,” and none can come to you and win your love, and your respect, except he or she comes to you as a servant.  They can’t come to you boastful and arrogant, and proud. 

The Holy Qur’an teaches us that “Allah hates any self-conceited boaster.” And you know what?  You do, too.  You may not know why people turn you off, but if they boast, if they are self-conceited, if they are arrogantly proud, it turns you off.  But you love the humble, yes, you do!  And it is something about you, that whether you are right yourself, you respect righteousness.  You hate hypocrisy!  It is in you, that you hate anybody that preaches a good word and then lives totally contrary to what he preaches.  (You can’t go for that!  There’s nothing in you to make you go for that.) 

You are, actually, the reflection of Allah.  And when you submit, and we submit our will to do the Will of God, and when leadership represents Allah properly, they get the goodwill of the people.  And the goodwill of the people is the very essence of the people, and that’s what Elijah Muhammad attracted from his followers.

Never has there been a Black man in the history of America who was able to get another Black man or woman to give him all that we had.  The Honorable Elijah Muhammad got it all. That’s the truth, brother!  He didn’t play no games, but we believed in him as The Messenger of Allah, and we submitted to him, and whatever he wanted for us, we gave it to him. 

When White folks saw Black men and women submitting to Black leadership in that way, it totally threw them, because they understand that when Black men submit to Black men, the end of their power over us has come.  Anytime a Black man rises up with good in him for us, they always try to come in between us and that leader by saying ugly things about that leadership so that you will never give your all to one from among your own kind. 

The enemy knows how to short circuit your respect and commitment, so he will say, “Yeah, they’re stealing from you.”  That will short circuit your respect and your commitment just so.  Or, “They’re jiving you.”  When they start talking like this, you pull back; and the moment you pull back, and you close up your support, then the enemy says, “We’re on the road to overcoming them.”

Understanding that ‘force governed by intelligence’ is The Reality of God in Man

Study Message To The Black Man in America by the Honorable Elijah Muhammad, the chapter “Program and Position.”  On page 172, the Honorable Elijah Muhammad makes a declaration on Allah (God) in the Person of Master Fard Muhammad:  “Who can be saved, you will ask?  The Muslim believers who have submitted to the will of Allah and His religion, Islam, and those who faithfully followed and obeyed His Messenger. Let us try to do something for ourselves.  Give praises to Allah for converting the people to me and blessing us with peace and security. Allah is one God. He is independent and has no need of us, but we have great need of Him. It is He the Prophets predicted would come in the last days of the world seeking us, the Lost People, to save us and restore us to our own. I declare to you that He has come in the person of Master Wallace Fard Muhammad by (1) a summary of His work for the past 33 years and (2) by the Messenger, who believes in what has been revealed to him by his Lord, as do the believers. They believe in Allah and His Prophets and His books. We make no distinctions in His Messenger. We hear and we obey.”

“Who is Allah (God)?”  “How can Allah (God) come in the Person of a Man?”  (These are questions that have been asked regarding the Teachings of the Honorable Elijah Muhammad.)  There is an old saying that “truth is stranger than fiction.”  Some of our people would rather believe that a spirit created the heavens and the earth rather than to believe that man is capable of doing this that has been ascribed or given to a spirit or nonentity.  …  And if we have misunderstood “God” all these years, we can’t say we are going to understand God in a day; but, the key to understanding The Reality of The Divine Being is understanding the reality of your self.

The Honorable Elijah Muhammad, in telling us that Allah (God) is a Man, that puts him on the outside of the whole Islamic world because the whole Islamic world believes that God is a spirit.  Well, consider this: We have heard said that God is a “Supreme Force,” right?  But there is no force that we know of in the universe that doesn’t have behind it intelligence.  Electricity is a force, but it is not intelligent.  We just can’t say that “the universe was created by a force” and leave it like that; there is too much intelligence in the design and order of the universe to say that it was just “a force” that created it, because forces don’t have intelligence!  So it must be something that is “force,” alright, but a force that is governed and guided by “intelligence.”

Brothers and sisters, the prophets said they heard God speaking to them in their ear.  What “force” do you know of that speaks?  Name any force that you studied in physics or chemistry, any force in the universe that communicates words in a language in the ear of men.  Can you name one?  No, you can’t.  So if the prophets said they heard God’s Voice, what “force” has a voice speaking words in a language that the prophets understood?  God didn’t present Himself to all of the prophets, but He communicated with them through what they call “dreams,” “visions,” and they heard His Voice.  Only one prophet in the scriptures says he saw God “face-to-face,” and God spoke to him out of His Mouth, and that is Moses.

If we want to understand The Reality of God, the Honorable Elijah Muhammad said that we live in a material universe—and God would have no pleasure in creating a material universe if He, Himself, were nothing of “matter.”  Everything that He created, you see; and there are things that He created that you don’t see, but nothing that He created is outside of “matter.”  “Spirit” and “energy” are wrapped up in matter; even down to the most intense light, which is called a “wave,” that is also matter and energy.  Even with an x-ray, which is a lower form of light than laser; the x-ray passes through you, but the x-ray still is “matter.” 

Now if this is so, then Master Fard Muhammad, Who was born of a woman: How could He be God?  The Christians teach that Jesus was born of a woman.  Yes, they do!  And they say that Jesus lived like ordinary men, and then grew to become God; and all the powers in the heavens and earth were turned over to Jesus, so that Jesus became “The Christ” which means “True God,” “True Man.”  That’s Christian teaching!  But when you tell the Christian that God is a Man, they don’t want to hear it—but yet, Jesus was a man.  Before and after his resurrection, Jesus was man. 

Allah (God), The Best Knower: His Nature is Our Nature

The Honorable Elijah Muhammad teaches us that Master Fard Muhammad’s Father was “Allah” before Him.  What does “Allah” mean?  The Qur’an opens up saying:  “I, Allah, am The Best Knower.”  Well, The One Who is “The Best Knower” is Allah.  Remember, there is no “force” that you know that can say it is “The Best Knower.”  Though knowledge is the supreme force, knowledge must be contained in something!  “Spirits” don’t walk around talking and conveying knowledge, it is a mind that contains knowledge, and Man is The Supreme Life in The Universe, and he is formed right after God, Himself. 

This is why the Holy Qur’an says Islam is not your religion, it is your nature, it is “The Nature of God and The Nature in which God created man.”  Allah (God) gives you His same nature.  Well, if you have His same nature, then you and Him are the same!  So, you’re not a “child” of God, you are a God, a descendent of The Creator Himself! 

“The time has come”: All the prophets have been talking about how God “will come.”  There is no prophet that said “God is present,” they said “God will come.”  Moses kept saying, “And when He comes…”; Noah said, “And when He comes…”; Lot said, “And when He comes… .”  Even Jesus said, “And when He comes, the Spirit of Truth, He will guide you into all Truth.” Jesus wasn’t talking about himself, he was talking about somebody that he recognized as greater than himself. 

David, the great prophet of Israel, looking down in the wheel of time, saw the “master prophet.”  This is why when you call the Honorable Elijah Muhammad a “messenger,” that’s the cheapest title you could give him, because he is not just a “messenger,” he is the master of all prophets.  He masters what they taught!  They were in darkness, and they revealed words of light, but they themselves didn’t understand the depth of what God had given them.  But the one who comes in the last days doesn’t come as a “prophet,” he comes with God. 

It is written that God would come after the sheep that was lost.  Brothers and sisters, God would come after you!  He wouldn’t send a prophet, He would come Himself. The Bible teaches, “In that day when God comes, every eye shall see Him, every tongue shall be made to confess.” 

How are you going to “see” something, but you can’t see?  What does this mean, “In that day, when you see Him, you will be like Him and He will be like you”?  What is the scripture talking about?  This means that as long as you don’t see God as yourself, you won’t call out of yourself your capabilities!  This means that as long as you think that The Master of The Universe is “some spirit out there,” you will never see yourself with the capabilities and possibilities of mastering the very forces of the heavens and the earth. 

You are the natural master of the forces of the universe, but you are going to have to grow into that, now.  So when God say it’s time to “go after the sheep that is lost,” where are they lost?  They are lost in The West, among wolves.  Who lives in The West?  The Caucasian.  Think about this: Anyone with jet black skin, if He comes into that house, they would spot Him immediately!  So the old Christians said, “Prepare me a body, that I may go down…” 

Brothers, this is beautiful wisdom if you understand it.  Here is a Man coming that is going to judge two people, the White man and the Black man.  He has to judge them, so He has to have the nature of both in order to deal with both.  In order to produce one that can get among the devils, The Father of Master Fard Muhammad had to find the right earth to plant His seed in. 

Look, there’s all kind of products that a farmer can produce, but you have to know the nature and quality of the earth and the nature and quality of your seed, and what you want to produce; then, you find the right earth for your seed.  One thing that we have never been taught, as the Honorable Elijah Muhammad mentions it in Message To The Blackman, on “Knowledge of Self”: The White man never wanted to teach Black people the science of mating.

We just lay down and have children, and luck up on geniuses (because we are so great).  But wise men study themselves, and know themselves.  Wise men say, “Well, I know ‘the multiplier,’ now let me study what ‘product’ I want.  If I want to produce this product, then if I am ‘the multiplier,’ and I know what I am, then what is ‘the multiplicand’?”  (Where will I find what I’m looking for to make my product?  For instance, if I know that I am a “4,” and I hope to produce an “8,” then I have to find a “2” to multiply with to produce the “8.”) 

Well, it is the same way in mathematics as it is in life: If I know what I possess, my characteristics, my qualities, and I know what I need, then I set my sight to look for the woman that has what I’m looking for, so that when I multiply with her I will get the product that I am after.  The Wise Father of Master Fard Muhammad was after a product that could get in among the devils.  And the scriptures say this of Him: “He came in sinful flesh to condemn sin in the flesh.”

Master Fard Muhammad, The Supreme Being: The Proof is in His Works

Master Fard Muhammad: A Man, born February 26, 1877.  He is not The Originator of the heavens and the earth; no, He wasn’t here then, but He is from that same line.  However, His knowledge is so great, that it supersedes the wisdom even of His Father.  He is so wise, so says the Honorable Elijah Muhammad, Master Fard Muhammad pictured and extracted the language of the people on Mars.  He spoke the language of the birds, talked to the wild beasts. He knew the language of the human families. I mean, He listened to you think; knows your thoughts! 

That’s no “heavy thing,” when you understand; that’s minor stuff!  But the heaviest thing is to control the universe and master its laws, and make the universe bow to His Will. That’s the kind of power that He has! 

Master Fard Muhammad comes to North America, as the scriptures teach “He came alone…”; and the Book teaches “He would measure the Earth, and tell its measurement.”  When He came, Master Fard Muhammad shot to us a barrage of questions: “What is the square mileage of the Earth?” “How much is the land? How much is the water?”  And He gives the answers: “196,940,000 square miles, that’s the square mileage of the Earth,” “The Water is 139,685,000 square miles,  and the Land is 57,255,000 square miles.” 

He starts running the circumference, the diameter and the distance between the Planets.  He is telling the Honorable Elijah Muhammad: “Look, I am The Master of this!  And I’m going to make you the master of this, so I’m going to give you a Flag that shows a master…  I’m giving you The Sun, The Moon and The Star—and the only man that is qualified to wear that Flag is a master!” 

And Master Fard Muhammad says to us, the Lost Sheep: “And you have to master the law that governs the universe in order to be qualified to wear The Flag of The Universe.  But I am going to give you that because I am a Master, and I am going to make you a master; but before I make you a master, I have to make one man among you a master.  Because, I am half-Original; I have a White-looking face, though my father is a jet-black man, but I’m coming to put a Black head on a Black body. 

I am not to be the head of that body, I am to be The Head of the head of that body; I am not to be the head of that body, therefore I searched among the Lost-Founds to find Me one man worthy.”  And Master Fard Muhammad found a little Georgia-born Black man that only went to the third grade of school, and He taught him three and one-half years, and went away. 

To prove that He, Master Fard Muhammad, is God, The Supreme Being: He leaves a man who didn’t go to school, and that man confounds the scholars with what His Teacher taught him!  To prove that He is God, Master Fard Muhammad tells little Georgia-born Elijah what was on Mars, what is on The Moon, and the nature of The Moon, and how The Moon got to be The Moon.  And the Honorable Elijah Muhammad reveals it, and the White man goes up and bears witness: “Elijah is right!”   Here is a little Georgia-born man telling you what was coming down the pike. We couldn’t even see the pike, much less what was coming!  And every word that Elijah spoke is right on it.  Who taught him but a Master?

Those who say that Master Fard Muhammad is not God:  Then who are you worshipping?  You say, “I worship the true God, Allah.”  Well then, what has your God taught you that is superior to what The Man, Master Fard Muhammad, taught Elijah? How come your scholars can’t handle the followers of Elijah?  How come the world couldn’t deal with that man Elijah? 

How come the White man, who is a vicious beast, brother…  God raised up a little lamb in the midst of a beast, and the beast couldn’t eat Elijah.  Who was The God shutting that man’s mouth, and opening the mouth of Elijah?  We don’t carry no guns.  We were taught by Master Fard Muhammad through The Messenger: “Don’t even carry so much as a penknife.”  And they have attacked us, and we’ve taken their weapons and killed them with their own weapons! 

What God has been with us?  And to prove that God is still with us: The Honorable Elijah Muhammad has left, but he left his word with us.  Now we take the same word, and go right back to what the White man tore down, with hypocrites among us, and we are building it back up, defying the world.  God is present…  And you’re going to see it more and more when the devil starts attacking in the future. You will see that they won’t be able to do anything with Elijah Muhammad, nor his followers.  No, there’s a God!  He is present, and He has power.

Go study into The Attributes and Characteristics of God as found in the Holy Qur’an and the Bible; they will show you that these are not attributes of spirits, these The Attributes and Characteristics of The Divine Human Being. 

God is Ever-Living, that is true!  The Nation of Islam: There is no end to us, we will always be here.  See how cells in the body die all the time, but the body continues?  Every time you get in the bathtub, you see that ring around the tub.  Those are dead cells.  You are alive, but the cells have died; but, they gave birth to other cells. You’re straight!  Well, that is the way it is with God: The body remains, and it keeps on producing one who will be the head of that nation; and that head is always the best knower.

How can you  tell that Master Fard Muhammad is The Best Knower? He is revealing that which no man ever considered before. And when they try to fight it, the more they fight it, the more they say: “Man, He’s right.”

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Starla Muhammad, The Final Call (FCN): Brother Minister, why are you so concerned about health, food and nutrition? What do you see happening now and on the horizon? How is this related to the Honorable Elijah Muhammad’s teachings of How To Eat To Live?

The Honorable Minister Louis Farrakhan (HMLF): You asked three questions in one, so I’m going to try to remember them in order.

First of all, it is written in the scriptures that on the coming of God, He would give us life and give it to us in abundance. As you look in your scriptures at the old patriarchs they lived many long years, 300, 400, 500 years, and in the time of Moses, God gave the people at that time 120 years.

And by the time David came to be, the life span was cut down to three score and ten (70 years) and now we have turtles that live 400 and 500 years, we have trees that live a thousand years, but man and woman who are the glory of God can hardly make it to 100.

The reason that we are interested in food and the raising of food and how—and the correct foods to eat—is because that is the only way we can prolong human life and that is the gift of the Honorable Elijah Muhammad from Allah to teach us what foods to eat and what foods to store in our houses.

FCN: What do you see happening now and on the horizon?

HMLF: As you can see, we are learning more of the better foods to eat, but unfortunately our food growth is in the hands of those whom we call the Merchants of Death.

They’re not caring about how food is raised or how to protect the earth and its nurturing qualities. Pesticides and chemicals are being used, hormones are used to grow livestock at faster rates and chemicals are used for the growth of vegetation;

It may look good but in the end the product is toxic. This is why so many diseases are afflicting us. So we’re learning how to eat to live, what foods to choose, but now we must be willing to go to the earth and produce that food so that we can extend our days.

FCN: Can you discuss the connection between developing and maintaining an independent sustainable food source, economics and health as it pertains to Black people?

HMLF: If we go to the Teachings of the Honorable Elijah Muhammad, all economies are based on land and what the land produces.

If we now have no earth that we can call our own, then our food consumption is based on what others raise and how others raise that food. So we’re at the mercy of others because we don’t have earth that would give us sustainable agricultural growth and progress.

The Honorable Elijah Muhammad gave us an example—when he was here in the 1960s we went to Georgia and purchased 5,000 acres of land. We went to Alabama and purchased another 8,000 or 10,000 acres of land.

We went to Honduras and bought another 20,000 acres of land and the Honorable Elijah Muhammad had an ad in our paper at that time, Muhammad Speaks, that said we wanted to lease one million acres of land.

Why? Because we wanted to produce a sustainable agricultural program that would give us health, maintain our health and sustain us in a proper way.

FCN: Given the lack of access to healthy and nutritious foods in Black and poor neighborhoods nationwide (also known as food deserts) and the health problems that plague Black America, how should the community respond to this crisis? What should Black leaders and organizations be urging our people to do?

HMLF: Well, many Whites are building hoop houses and doing gardening to get away from the high cost of food and the denatured food being produced that looks so good in our supermarkets.

But in the Black communities, we have what are called food “deserts” because there are not adequate supermarkets bringing us whole food or organically grown foods, so we are living in the midst of death in the sense of fast foods and restaurants that are not producing or cooking and getting foods that are best for the consumers.

In these food deserts we are trying to utilize space in cities that are vacant that we might set up what are called hoop houses. One of the greatest exponents of that is a young man we had the privilege of meeting about a month and a half ago named Mr. Will Allen.

Who has gotten many awards, many accolades for the work that he is doing in the city of Milwaukee, Wisconsin. I went there recently to examine the work that he is doing.

And the beauty of Mr. Will Allen’s work is not only that he’s producing clean or wholesome fish for the consumer but he’s also producing products, vegetation that is from healthy soil that he himself is producing and teaching others how to produce good healthy soil.

We brought him to our farm in Michigan and he’s showing us how to turn that land and give life to the land that it would bring out more healthy produce for us.

And we’re going to hopefully set up some hoop houses and invite our laborers from across the country to learn how to do it then go back to their cities and produce this good food and fish—if they desire to eat fish—that they may be able to correct health problems and maintain a healthy life if they eat good food and eat it at the proper time.

FCN: In what ways can people with no agricultural or farming background be inspired to plant gardens and practice healthier eating?

HMLF: Just go and look at the food desert and see what you’re eating. If you’re not inspired to want to take care of the life that God has given to you then we’re truly mentally and economically, socially dead.

But if you love the life that you have, your desire should be to maintain that life and to give yourself a healthy lifestyle that will give you longer life. Anyone who is alive wants to have health and well-being.

The only way to have it is to have some of this earth that we can call our own and then go back to the earth and grow our own food, produce our own soil and give ourselves a chance to live the kind of life The Creator desires for us to live.

FCN: We have been “conditioned” to eat unhealthy food; how do we reverse that trend?

HMLF: The scripture says, “My people are destroyed for the lack of knowledge.” We eat unhealthy food because we don’t know what we’re eating and the effect of what we’re eating on the systems of our body, in particular on our brain.

So the only way to change that is to introduce new knowledge, correct knowledge, and when you have the correct knowledge, then you correct your behavior according to that knowledge.

So, the key is making our people more knowledgeable and that’s why the Honorable Elijah Muhammad set up Mosque Maryam and called it, “The National Center for the Reeducation and Retraining of the Black Man and Woman of America” and from there throughout the world.

FCN: Are more grocery stores, convenience stores and corner markets in poor communities the way to address the issues of health and nutrition or is more needed to educate and motivate people to take responsibility for their diets and lives?

HMLF: It would be great if we had more stores in our community servicing our needs. But we need earth to produce the food so the stores can bring the food that we produce to market so our people can have access to healthy food and good food. Yes, we need more convenience stores, more stores, more supermarkets, but what is the root of that? It is the earth and what the earth produces.

We need both. We need the earth to produce food and we need the urban marketplace to bring our produce to the market so our people absolutely can have good food.

FCN: As we know, Black farmers have been battling the U.S. Government to collect money and aid the farmers are due. In what ways can Black farmers and Black communities work with one another to combat these food deserts and to ensure the survival of Black farmers and a healthy food supply?

HMLF: First, if the U.S. government finally comes through and gives them the money that they have earned, that they deserve, they can plow that money back into producing crops for themselves, then bring those crops to the urban centers, putting products in convenience stores and stores in our community, or opening up marketplaces in the inner cities for the products from the Southern farmers.

It is going to have to be through connections—the unity of the farmers with each other, the unity of the farmers in the South with the urban centers of the South and the North, marketing plans, trucking systems, warehouses that we may begin, as the Honorable Elijah Muhammad said, to do something for ourselves.

FCN: And the last question: The U.S. House of Representatives passed bill H.R. 2749, a so-called food safety bill which gives increased regulating authority and control of growing food, storing seeds and harvesting crops to the FDA.

The equivalent U.S. Senate bill S510 was under review. With the passage of these bills, what are the social, economic and health implications on society as a whole?

HMLF: It will ultimately produce revolution. Because of the tyranny that is inherent in such a bill, the people that are suffering from these merchants of death and the quality of food and livestock that they produce are such that the people want alternatives.

With these bills it appears as if the legislation is designed to kill alternatives to big agribusinesses, such as the Monsanto company that produces seeds, and the genetically modified food being produced.

People don’t want it, people want health and well-being so if the government takes that position, then the American people, I believe, when they understand the weight of legislation, may rise up in rebellion against their government.

This kind of tyranny is what caused America to come into existence, and if government will produce these tyrannical laws that strip the American people of life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness, then the present government will need to be reformed or abolished and the American people are thinking along both lines.

FCN: Thank you, Minister Farrakhan for this interview.

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