In the Name of Allah, the Beneficent, the Merciful,

As-Salaam Alaikum.

Our subject today is “Redistribute the Pain.” This subject was first introduced 10 years ago by the Honorable Minister Louis Farrakhan, when he was touring the country promoting the 20th anniversary of the Million Man March, when we gathered in Washington, D.C., in 2015. And the theme for that March and the call 10 years ago was “Justice or Else.”

Many were frightened. Farrakhan, “Justice or Else?” They were frightened at that “or else.” Well, in the Message of Allah, through His messengers, in that message is contained a threat. There is always with God, “or else.” If you don’t do this, then. So many young people, some that hadn’t been born, and some that were too young to be at the Million Man March in 1995, gathered on 10.10.15 (October 10, 2015), and it was an absolutely beautiful crowd, and the message was magnificent. Hundreds of thousands of us gathered, and the Honorable Minister Louis Farrakhan, leading up to 10.10.15, went around the country and was asking Black people to Redistribute the Pain of our suffering by withdrawing from spending money that we don’t have during the holiday season.

You all remember that? And encouraging Christians who believe in Jesus to kick that fat dude from the North, Santa, to the curb with Rudolph and all the reindeer. “Up with Jesus, Down with Santa.” Now, the Minister (Farrakhan) gave us a great guiding principle in redistributing the pain. Our pain and suffering is self-absorbed, and we direct our pain and our anger destructively against ourselves and against our community. And we are angry, but directing our anger and pain in a positive way, in a constructive way, alleviates the pain and ultimately removes the pain altogether that we have suffered from the enemy and redistribution of the pain affects a healing. The Honorable Minister Louis Farrakhan said, “Anger not channeled can be self-destructive. When God met with Moses in a ‘burning bush,’ it doesn’t mean an actual ‘bush.’ God was so angry in coming because He heard the moaning and the groaning of the Children of Israel, according to the wickedness of their taskmasters. Moses heard Him (God) out of a ‘burning bush,’ which represents the fire of His (God’s) anger, but that fire was contained. It’s very difficult when we are angry to contain our anger.”

We are a wounded people. Yes, we are, after 400 years being in a strange land among a strange people, made slaves to another. They never treated us then, and they don’t treat us today as human beings. You may not want to accept that, but our condition today bears witness that we are still in their minds’ property. If you and I were (seen as) human, then you and I would not be racially profiled. If you and I were seen in their eyes as equals, then they would not shoot us down, come into our neighborhoods and break into our apartments and tie our children by the hands.

Anyway, we’re wounded, and our wounds need to be healed, but you can’t, and we can’t have a healing without a doctor and a medicine that can affect healing. And remember, the process of healing is always from the inside. So, the Holy Qur’an tells us that Allah (God) will never change the condition of a people until they change within themselves.

The first change that I have to make within myself is to accept God, and my willingness to hear Him, submit to what He says, and if I’m willing to hear from my Lord, my Maker, the Author of my life, who knows this life better than me, better than those out here, then I have already put myself in a position for God to change my condition. Does that make sense? The prophet Jeremiah, he expresses his hurt and pain over his people’s condition. And look at what the prophet (Jeremiah) says, “I hurt with the hurt of my people. I mourn and I’m overcome with grief. I mourn, and dismay has taken hold on me,” (Bible: Jeremiah 8:21). …You can’t deliver these words—and this is talking about a prophet several centuries ago, in fact, about it more than several. Jeremiah was before Jesus, over 2,000 years ago—and not bear witness to a man that is the servant of God in our midst, the Honorable Minister Louis Farrakhan, who hurts and is hurting over the condition of his people first and foremost, but the overall condition of humanity.

How we handle disappointment and dissatisfaction is critical; how we handle pain. One day years ago, the Minister (Farrakhan) said, “Son, you cannot avoid pain, but one must learn how to manage pain.” Dissatisfaction and disappointment precede treachery. That’s big, because the dissatisfaction or disappointment goes all the way up to The God and the envy that’s in the hearts of people. They take it out against the person that is the recipient of a divine blessing or favor from God … . See, God is always in charge. He chooses whom He pleases. Well, God didn’t ask me who I thought it should be. How could He ask you and you’re dead? He knows how you would choose, that’s how you vote. You’re going to choose somebody based upon nice talk, choose somebody based upon eloquence, choose somebody based upon appearances.

God doesn’t choose His Messenger like that. Man looks at the outer appearance, but God looks in the heart. He knows best where to place His message, and He chose the Honorable Minister Louis Farrakhan because of the quality of his heart. And all of these that get puffed up with knowledge, Paul said it best, “if I have all knowledge and can fathom all mysteries and can speak with the tongues of men and the tongues of angels, but have not love, I am nothing.”

Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., (a) great, great brother. He wasn’t killed because he had a dream. They killed him because he woke up. Dr. King was fighting for integration, and then he realized, before he was assassinated, that he was integrating his people in a house that was burning, and on the other side of Dr. King and the integrationist movement at that time was the Honorable Elijah Muhammad, and He said: “No! Separation.” Separation is the answer, because He understood that God never wanted the Children of Israel to integrate into a house and a people who had caused them pain. And God had come to judge that nation which we have served. So, God didn’t send Moses to integrate them. He sent Moses to call them out into a land that He had prepared for them as their inheritance because they suffered pain and they were guilty of no crime. And the Minister (Farrakhan) points out, which is a fact that today, (that) we have more millionaires than we ever have had, more educated Blacks, more middle class. We have thousands of public servants in politics, hundreds of mayors, city councilmen, aldermen, sheriffs, deputies … everything that you can think of, but our minds are still not healed.

Dr. King pointed out to us in 1968 that we as Black people brought in $30 billion annually or more out of the American economy. But look at what Dr. King said. He said, “We have to redistribute the pain, and when we’re in pain, we’ve got to make them feel pain.” He said, “Now the other thing we’ve got to do is this: Always anchor our external direct action with the power of economic withdrawal. Now we are poor people,” he said. Individually, we are poor when you compare us with White society in America, we are poor. Never stop and forget that collectively—that means all of us together—collectively, we are richer than all the nations in the world with the exception of nine. Did you ever think about that?

“After you leave the United States, Russia, Great Britain, West Germany, France, and I could name others, the American Negro collectively, is richer than most nations of the world. We have an annual income of more than $30 billion a year, which is more than all of the exports of the United States and more than the national budget of Canada. Did you know that? That’s power right there if we know how to pool it.”

Today, the collective purchasing power of Blacks is estimated to be over $1.6 trillion, and it’s projected to reach $1.7 trillion by 2030, which is comparable to the Gross Domestic Product of other countries. When you compare Black consumer spending to the Gross Domestic Product of nations like Russia and Canada, South Korea—Russia at $2.2 trillion; Canada, $2.1 trillion; South Korea, $1.7 trillion. But, it is not the purchasing power where our wealth is. That’s the power of us being consumers, but we do not reinvest what we receive in income so that we could develop an economy where we have a Gross Domestic Product that then we will be valued, not according to how we spend or what comes in and what we spend, but according to real wealth.

Real wealth is ownership. … Look at this: when you consider that Blacks as a whole control few resources, manufacturing, means of production, banking, finance (and) exports. It’s not found. So, we are not producing. We are consumers, but we are not producers or manufacturers of the goods, products that we buy at the stores, right?

The Chicago Crusader, back in May, wrote an article, and they were talking about … how under President Barack Obama, Black Americans were experiencing the greatest transfer of wealth and financial loss during the subprime mortgage crisis. According to the U.S, Census Bureau, 53% of Black wealth in the U.S. was destroyed between 2007 and 2010. By contrast, only 16% of White wealth was wiped out; 16% of White wealth to 53% of Black wealth. And our Latino family lost 66% of their wealth during that period. And between those years of 2007 and 2010 alone, Black Americans lost over half their total wealth, a collapse engineered by predatory lending and systematic racism. No major bankers were criminally prosecuted, despite reported widespread evidence of mortgage fraud, deceptive business practices, predatory programs and misleading investors. It’s about bundled mortgage securities. When it came time for the government to act, the banks, insurance companies and auto manufacturers received hundreds of billions of dollars in federal bailouts through the Troubled Asset Relief Program, while millions of American homeowners, especially Black and Latino families, were left to their own devices.

During that, the government gave $700 billion into the economy, with $182 billion, if you remember, went to AIG insurance, $45 billion to Citigroup, $45 billion to Bank of America, $25 billion to JP Morgan, $25 billion to Wells Fargo. The troubled homeowners were encouraged to renegotiate their mortgages, but only one million received permanent modifications, while the majority were denied relief or were re-foreclosed.

The Brookings Institute released the study that the devaluation of Black assets found that if Black-owned businesses had the same access to capital as White-owned businesses, they could create over one million new jobs. This is serious because we have to talk about economics when we talk about freedom and justice. …We have to redistribute the pain. See, we have to establish a national treasury … that every one of us put something in because the other thing that this article showed was how much ownership of land and property we lost.

So if we’re not owning as a collective, and we don’t have millions of acres of land that they took from us. The government through their subsidies supported White farmers, but the Black farmer was left out here, struggling. So, from the early 20th century, when we had more than 15 million acres of land, where do you think it stands today? Less than two million. … Little by little, they are running us into extinction.

So, you all are getting ready for Christmas and the only reason why they came to some compromise is because of this season. You’ve got to understand, these are tricksters. They have a system of tricks and lies. And then the president said he was considering from everything that they collected from the tariffs to give $2,000. What are you going to do with the $2,000? … I’ve got to go buy something nice. It’s been rough lately. That’s how we’ve been programmed. When you’re depressed, go buy something. Now don’t you go out here Christmas shopping. They don’t even call it Christmas anymore. It’s not about Christ-Mass. So, they put “Xmas” on it, because X in mathematics stands for the unknown. You’re going to put lights up; the utility bill is already increased. How are you going to say you’re a Christian and you believe in Jesus and have a tree in your house that does not have anything to do with Jesus Christ, that the Bible tells you “don’t follow the way of the heathen who goes into the forest and cuts down a tree and fastens it with silver and gold and decks it.” Now we are spending, spending, spending, and I mean, it’s all a scheme. …

The Honorable Elijah Muhammad said, “Debt is slavery.” See, you’re not up to speed on modern slavery. Then someone says it, you’re thinking about chains. Look at your pocket. You’re chained financially. You’re chained educationally. You’re chained culturally. You’re chained, devices—slaves. … A slave is one whose power and authority is ruled over by another. … Look, we’ve got to redistribute the pain. We’ve got to unite as a people and do for self.

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

As students and followers of the Honorable Elijah Muhammad, under the direction and guidance of the Honorable Minister Louis Farrakhan, we thank Allah for His intervention in our affairs in the Person of Master Fard Muhammad, The Great Mahdi.

That is the title of one that is expected from the Muslims. He’s called Mahdi, one who comes at the end of Satan’s world to sit down all of the tyrants, set justice in the earth, break the cross, kill the swine.

The one that our Muslim brothers and sisters are looking for has appeared here in the West in Master Fard Muhammad, who raised from the Black man and woman of America, His Messenger, Messiah,

The Most Honorable Elijah Muhammad, and has given one to us today in the Honorable Minister Louis Farrakhan as a Divine leader, teacher, guide and warner. We greet all of you with the greeting words of peace, once again, As-Salaam Alaikum.

Do you wonder that a man born from us has been selected by God, anointed by God, to be a messenger of his people and a warner to the world and the nations? That is, who these two men are.

If you look at the Honorable Minister Louis Farrakhan’s words, over his 47-year ministry, absent his teacher, he’s been representing the Honorable Elijah Muhammad and what He taught for 70 years.

But these last 47 years have been absent his teacher. But everything that the Minister has said in 47 years has come from his teacher. Very important. Because the man is not before us of himself.

He’s not trying to steal or rob the credit, and that’s why you have a humble man in the Honorable Minister Louis Farrakhan.Unlike any other student, disciples, call them successors, of the great ones.

Minister Farrakhan never fails to let the listener know that “I am grateful and thankful to my teacher, Elijah Muhammad, and that I would not be the man that I am today without Him.” …

Do you know that the Minister in these 47 years has foretold many events that have come to pass, revealed many things that were hidden? And you can’t say things that are going to happen in such great detail if you’re just one of these seers, you know,

There are seers out here and these psychics out here. You have to be connected to God who Sees and Knows what is hidden, because He knows what is hidden, and He knows what is manifested.

So, I would like us, for just a few moments, to look at a few things that the Minister [Farrakhan] has said in recent years that we can see what is happening to America.

What is happening in the world were not only foretold by the prophets of old, but one that God raised from among us to show us that all of these prophecies are being fulfilled, and then he’s telling us of things that are happening in real time.

So, let’s look at the recent history of what the Honorable Minister Louis Farrakhan has said that is manifesting before our eyes that further proves he is a messenger of God.

Nearly 20 years ago in 2006, the Honorable Minister Louis Farrakhan said hard days are coming to America. Why are they coming America? Because, like Babylon in the scriptures, America said, “I sit as a queen and shall see no sorrow.”

America has caused great sorrow to other nations and people on our planet and America never thought that she would suffer what she is suffering today. She forgot this law, this principle of justice:

“As thou hast done so shall it be done unto you.” You reap what you sow. The Honorable Elijah Muhammad said decades ago that what we see afar off will soon be at our doorstep in America and is going to help us to see what is unfolding, what is unraveling before our very eyes.

The Honorable Minister Louis Farrakhan said in 2006, that America has made other nations and their cities desolate, burned them to the ground, destroyed their governments, as long as those governments did not rule according to America’s wishes.

And every leader in Africa who rose, brothers and sisters, to fight for the true liberation of Africans, the U.S. government either assassinated them or orchestrated coups through funding and drove those leaders out so that the multinational corporations of America could continue to suck the blood of those nations.

In 2020, in Detroit on the occasion of Saviours’ Day, his subject was, “The Unraveling of a Great Nation.” The subject was given to him in the moment that he was asked what his subject would be for that year.

And I was blessed to visit with him in his home in Phoenix, and before I left him to go to the airport, I said, “Brother Minister, do you have a subject for Saviours’ Day?” And he said, “No, son, I don’t, but when I do, I’ll let you know.”

And, right when I was about to take my leave, he said, “Son, my subject is the ‘Unraveling of a Great Nation.’” God had given it to him, and this, if you remember, I was with him, either it was December of 2019, or it was the early part of January of 2020, I can’t remember exactly, but this was ahead of the (COVID-19) pandemic.

God gave the Honorable Minister Louis Farrakhan the subject, “The Unraveling of a Great Nation.” And he said, “My subject is full of good news and warning.” In that message, the Minister said, “When you unravel something, you undo twisted, knitted or woven threads, you investigate and solve or explain something complicated or puzzling.”

America is puzzling to the world. And this is 2025 and she continues to unravel.

The Minister said quote, “You my poor, pitiful brothers and sisters, you’re opting to be a part of that, that is unraveling right in front of your eyes. You see the country cascading downward.

You see the moral fiber of America getting into the gutter. Who wants a membership in a house of whores, bought and paid for leaders? Nobody can stand up if the enemy says you don’t stand up for that and Satan is having a field day with America.

Evil has been made fair-seeming. Look at the scriptures: Babylon is fallen, is fallen. Substitute America for Babylon. She’s unraveling. America is falling, is falling. Why is America falling?

Because the Revelator said Babylon had become a habitation of devils, a hole for every foul person and a cage for every hateful or unclean bird. It was the Honorable Elijah Muhammad who taught us the fall of America and wrote a book that you need to get a copy of.

It’s entitled, ‘The Fall of America.’ When God sends a messenger from Himself, He’s warning the people that there is a fall that has already ensued out of His mercy before He punishes. He always gives the people a Messenger from Himself.”

The unraveling of a great nation. Did the Minister speak it? Are we witnessing it? Are we living it? He lifted up this verse from the Holy Qur’an that’s in the 16th Chapter, the 92nd verse, where it says, “And do not be like her who unravels her yarn, disintegrating it into pieces after she has spun it strongly.”

The Honorable Minister Louis Farrakhan said her here is not talking about a woman as such. But if you see somebody knitting something with a design, and they leave it not secured one stitch, and then the same woman who stitched it strongly starts pulling on the yarn that she has knitted until it comes to pieces; that’s what’s happening to America as we speak.

He said, quote, “America was not built on a firm foundation; although the weaving was done strongly, the nation called America was doomed from its inception. How do you build a nation killing the Native people?

How do you build a nation bringing a whole people out of Africa to America, to be made slaves? This is America’s foundation. So, for them to lie to you and make you think that America is a land of promise for you, and you believed it. No wonder Jesus said, ‘You shall know the truth, and the truth shall set you free.’”

How long have we been fighting for justice? How long? America was not built by White folks for us. They built it for themselves. And what they knitted, if you will, what they spun strongly in its Constitution, in their Declaration of Independence, in their education, in their institution, is the idea that Whites are superior to Blacks.

White superiority is what undergirds all of this. So, we are now living in the time of the unraveling of this great nation. She cannot be spun again. Did you hear what I said? So, when President Donald Trump talks about, making America great again,

He and those that share that ideology, what are they saying: “We want to bring back, strongly, the idea of White supremacy and put those people in their place.”

Did you know that a survey was done and about six in 10, 63% of the American people do not express any confidence at all in the future of the U.S. political system? Did you know it was the Honorable Minister Louis Farrakhan … in 1992, nearly 33 years ago, he talked about how then the seeds of anarchy and revolution had been sown.

So, all of what we saw on January 6 in 2021, when they ran up on the Capitol; what was that, that shocked the country that never in the history of America has its citizens rose up in that manner?

Just as the Honorable Elijah Muhammad said decades before that, “what you see from afar will soon be at America’s doorstep.” We have seen the people rise up, go to their State Capitols.

We have seen anarchy and revolution all around the world, but America was not insulated from that. She now has it in her front and her backyard. There is so much dissatisfaction in the country.

The Final Call encourages our readers to view and study the Honorable Minister Louis Farrakhan’s 2020 Saviours’ Day message, “The Unraveling of a Great Nation.” For more information, visit store.finalcall.com.

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The message, titled “The Invaluable Gift of Allah: Happy 92nd Birth Anniversary to the Honorable Minister Louis Farrakhan,” was delivered Sunday, May 11, 2025, at Mosque Maryam in Chicago to mark the birth anniversary of Minister Farrakhan and also to commemorate Mother’s Day. To view this message in its entirety, visit media.noi.org.]

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

We give Him praise and thanks for His many blessings, for His many gifts, His goodness and His mercy to the human family. We thank Allah for His honored servants, the prophets, for as Muslims, we make no distinction between any of God’s servants.

We thank Him for Noah. We thank Him for Abraham and from Abraham to Moses, from Moses to Jesus, from Jesus to Prophet Muhammad, peace be upon him, to the present day of the Messiah.

We thank Him for His intervention in our affairs in the Person of Master Fard Muhammad, The Great Mahdi, expected by the Muslims, who came among us in 1930, to give to Black people the knowledge of self, to give to Black people our original religion, if you will.

He taught us of our origin in the world, our history. He taught us of the knowledge and history of the Caucasian people. He taught us that we are now in the time that the scriptures tell us about, the Day of Judgment, the Day of Requital, the Day of Resurrection.

We thank him so much for finding one from among us to continue to impart that knowledge. The man that He found was the Most Honorable Elijah Muhammad, and He made Him a messenger to the Real Children of Israel. He made Him His Messiah.

And as Master Fard Muhammad’s time among us was short, yet He left one in the Honorable Elijah Muhammad. And the Honorable Elijah Muhammad also had a term for about 40 years, but before He left, one was prepared to stand in His place as a divine leader, teacher and guide, and that man is the Honorable Minister Louis Farrakhan.

It is in their names that we once again greet all of you with the greeting words of peace,

As-Salaam Alaikum!

Well, it has already been said, so we all must know what today is. But to really put this into context that the Honorable Minister Louis Farrakhan is 92 years old today. Now that may not mean much until you know something of his life journey, something of his adversities, something of the great opposition.

Many of us do not know how the wicked satanic forces of evil have tried several times to get rid of our brother and friend, the Honorable Minister Louis Farrakhan. That’s a fact.

What he has endured, what he has survived is nothing short of a miracle. So, he’s here today because a Mighty God has been with him from the very beginning of his conception in the womb of his mother! We in the Nation of Islam are not taught to celebrate your birthday.

When we celebrate our own birthday, we look for people to recognize us by giving us gifts as though we really did something. And of course, upon receiving gifts and presents, it makes you feel special.

But we were taught on your earth, born day, since you and I did nothing but kick and make mom to know “I want out of here.” There were forces. There were the contractions, but that was not done by any of us.

And then there is the mother, who had to labor with great pain to bring you and I into the world. So, it’s only proper that on your and my earth, born day, who deserves the present, who deserves the gift? Who deserves the honor more than mother?

So, on your so-called and my so-called birthday, the honor should go to mother. All Praise is due to Allah! We receive gifts, and we give gifts. And, the Honorable Minister Louis Farrakhan said, “we have a tendency to love those who give you gifts, but nobody has given a gift like God gives.

He gives you and I, eyes, and then He gives you and I something to look at. You and I have an earth at which you can keep on looking and looking and looking. And the more you and I look, the more we see; the more we see, the more we marvel at a Mighty God.

And when we get tired of looking at the earth, we lay down on the grass and look up at the wonders in the heavens. And if you get tired of looking up into the heavens, we go down in the water and look at the world under the water. You open up the earth, and another world is in the earth.”

“That’s why we have this verse. We acknowledge God as Lord of all the worlds. Worlds that we have seen, and many worlds unseen. He is the Lord of all the worlds.”

So, this day, May 11. Now there’s been a May 11, it wasn’t called the fifth month of the current calendar year. It was not called May thousands of years ago, but by whatever measure this day has been, it has come many times.

But this day, May 11, in the Year of Our Lord, 1933, a very special child was born. This day is a very special day in the history of Black people in America, Black people all over the earth, and not just for Black people, but for the whole of humanity.

The Honorable Elijah Muhammad taught us that when a people are longing for freedom and justice in “Message to the Blackman in America,” He wrote, “Wherever there is a longing or a demand for change, nature will produce that man, who will bring it about.”

Western civilization under which we live, the Caucasian dominion on our planet came into existence,, according to the Honorable Elijah Muhammad, “from 30% dissatisfaction.”

He taught us that dissatisfaction brings about a change, and that the dissatisfaction 6,000 years ago brought about a change that has never before been seen.

The Honorable Elijah Muhammad said, that “Allah God taught me that the percentage of dissatisfaction is 98%, near 100% with the present ruling powers, and that this 100% dissatisfied will bring about a 100% change. The father of the Caucasian people, Yacub, did not bring about,” He wrote ,” a 100% change, but near 90%”

So, by one man, a 90% change came on our planet, but that was out of 30% dissatisfied. But today, there’s 100% dissatisfied. Dissatisfaction on our planet that leads to a 100% universal change. But out of the dissatisfied, out of the longing of the people for justice, nature produces a man.

How do you explain that this man’s voice is unlike any sound of any man? How is it that when this man speaks, it resonates all in our being? It is because it is God talking to us through His instrument.

Because when you and I hear a voice that goes deep down inside, past the auditory nerve of the ear, past whatever satisfies the mind in its search for knowledge—answers to questions, solutions to problems.

But, when it goes all the way into the soul, that’s God speaking into the souls and hearts of men. The man that the longing of the people for change, this longing produces a child that’s called “a son.”

Thus, in the scriptures, we get this title Son of Man out of the longing and the yearning of the people, the Spirit of God moves among the people and finds a womb, finds a woman that from that womb comes the answer to the people’s prayers.

Prayers are not answered by something dropping down out of space. It may have come down from on high. But the answer to the people’s prayer comes from the womb of the woman.

You can’t have a son without a woman, and you can’t have a son without a man, but it’s the woman, a very special woman, that brings forth a very special child. The mother of Jesus in the Holy Qur’an is regarded above all the women in the world because she produces from her womb a child that comes into the world to bring about a universal change, a complete, total change.

You can’t have such a special child, son, without God being intimately involved. Nothing is more special and precious to God than the female. … No one is worthy to be honored next to God and the Messenger than mother and it is a shame that we have to have a day to celebrate mother that is commercialized for businesses to take advantage of our love for mother.

Every day is Mother’s Day. So, we say Happy Mother’s every day. And again, a very Happy Mother’s every day to Mother Khadijah Farrakhan, the wife of the Honorable Minister Louis Farrakhan! We love you, mom. The Bible tells us, honor thy mother and thy father, which is the fifth commandment, with a promise.

Now, who’s giving us this command? God. He’s telling all of us: Honor your mother and your father, and this is My promise to you, so that it may go well with you and that you may enjoy long life on the earth. The Bible further tells us, every one of you shall revere his mother and his father.

Honor her for all that her hands have done, and let her works bring her praise at the gates., Strength (and) dignity are her clothing, and she laughs at the time to come. She opens her mouth with wisdom, and the teaching of kindness is on her tongue. She looks well to the ways of her household and does not eat the bread of idleness.”(Proverbs 31:25-28)

The Qur’an says,“Allah brought you forth from the wombs of your mothers, you knew nothing, and He gave you hearing and sight and hearts that you might give thanks.” (Surah 16:78)

Prophet Muhammad, peace be upon him, when asked, “Who do you honor after God and the Messenger?” (His response was) “Your mother.” And, he was asked a second time and after that, “your mother,” and then he was asked again and on the third time, “your mother.”

Evidently, the questioner didn’t get it. So, on the fourth time he (Prophet Muhammad) said, “your father.” So, three times the value is mother, is the female, is the woman.

The Honorable Minister Louis Farrakhan said in his wonderful message, and as we lift up these words—no teacher, no leader—present or past—has ever lifted up and taught on the divinity and the limitless, immeasurable value and beauty of the woman more than the Honorable Minister Louis Farrakhan.

Chief Student and Helper of the Honorable Elijah Muhammad.  The Honorable Elijah Muhammad and Minster Louis Farrakhan taught us that a “nation can rise no higher than its woman.”

We can’t talk about going into heaven without the woman. No such thing. So, he said right from this Mosque in 2009: “Some women may look in the mirror and think, ‘Oh, I’m not so pretty.’ They may not be considered physically attractive, but physical attractiveness is not beauty.

Physical attractiveness is not beauty. That is why I am teaching.” These are Minister Farrakhan’s words on the limitless, immeasurable value and beauty of all women.

The beauty of the woman is the matchless beauty of God. This is you on the inside. Can I say it again? The beauty of the woman is the matchless beauty of God. This is you on the inside. Satan wants you on the outside, but the real beauty of the woman is the matchless beauty of God that is in you.

Women are the foundation of civilization. The Holy Qur’an has a chapter called “Al Nisa (The Women).” Further on, you will see that it also has in the 19th chapter the title, “Maryam (Mary),” that makes reference to the very special woman who is the mother of Jesus, the Messiah.

The Honorable Minister Louis Farrakhan said this Qur’an was not arranged haphazardly. It was divinely arranged so each chapter has significance. The number four, he said, “Is a foundational number.

You can’t become president of the United States until you reach the age of 40. Moses was 40 when he received God’s command, and he was in the wilderness 40 days. Jesus fasted for 40 days and 40 nights.”

And, consider that 2025 marks 470 years of the Black man and woman’s sojourn in America. The number four signifies that something was and is being done to lay a foundation. Well, why women, Minister Farrakhan asks? “What is a woman the foundation of?

The world in which we live has been destroyed because the woman has been spoiled and laid waste. Look at what the Honorable Elijah Muhammad said.

He taught us that where there are no decent women, there are no decent men, because the woman is the mother of civilization, and that civilization is not judged by the man. Civilization is judged by the female.

“Women are devalued in this society. They’re made so low.” And it doesn’t seem, Minister Farrakhan said, “that we as men care, because some of us will put our women up for sale for the sake of money. But once men are taught the knowledge of God and the value of a woman, then men will kill to keep her safe.

But because you and I don’t know her value, and we don’t know our own value as men we play with her, we devalue her, we laugh at her.” And Minister Farrakhan said, “How can she open her knees to you and you impregnate her and then walk away without even a thought of responsibility.

Mother is next to God, and the Messenger of God, who brings the Word of God and is the example of how that word should be carried forth into life. Next to those two, nothing supersedes mother.” 

And when a man, he said, “Learns to honor and respect his mother and perceives her in accordance with Allah’s (God’s) Will and purpose for her creation, then it flows from that perception (of his mother) and understanding that all women who are mothers potentially, should be given the same honor and respect that one would give to one’s mother.” (Closing the Gap, pages 58-59)

“When you see your sister, a potential mother, you honor your sister. You protect your sister, as you would protect your mother, your aunt, and your cousin. This flows from the proper perception of mother, which flows from the proper perception of women.” (Closing the Gap, page 59)

We, as men, are the natural protectors of women. We are the guardian of women. We are the maintainers of women. And when the Black man rises, and the Black man comes back to himself, then our neighborhoods, our communities, our women and our children will have a safe and decent place for us to live.

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Now, if you think, as you look at history: “Oh, this has been going on for a long time.
They’ve been getting away with it for a long time.” No, they only got away with it because God allowed it. But you’re out of the season now. …  You’re in the season of God’s justice, now.  And it’s going to get so terrible.

And that, that we witness over there (Israel, Palestine), that has happened, it’s not without great significance and serious ramifications. The Bible talks about two Jerusalems. Two. Two. That part over there, on the earth, and another one above our heads that’s called “New Jerusalem,” that John saw as “a city in the sky.”

“New Jerusalem” is over our heads!  I’m going to close with New Jerusalem—but we’ll stay on earth before we go up. “When you see Jerusalem surrounded by armies, then you will know that the time of its destruction has arrived.”

Then the Book of Daniel tells us that “desolations are determined,” “the end will come with a flood and war and its miseries are decreed from the time to the very end.”

“Desolations” is extreme sadness caused by loss and loneliness. It means “to destroy, lay waste, devastate, to be astonished.” Something so horrible, that it can leave a person speechless.

The prophecy of Daniel and the meaning of “desolations are determined” is debated by biblical scholars, and some interpret it as referring to the destruction of Jerusalem in 70 AD while others see it as a broader prophecy about the ongoing struggles and wars that Israel will face.

And look at this scripture; we said it earlier: “God is not mocked. Do not be deceived, for whatever one sows, that will he also reap. A man reaps what he sows. Whoever sows to please the flesh, from the flesh will reap destruction. And whoever sows to please the spirit, from the spirit will reap eternal life.”

They have sowed from the greed of the flesh. So, you now are in jeopardy of reaping the total destruction of you and your people. “The day of the Lord is near”—Obadiah 1:15—“for all nations. As you have done, it will be done to you; your deeds will return upon your own head.”

This is what America is facing. This is what Israel is facing. This is what the leaders are facing. That’s what makes this subject so critically important: “Repent.” Repent. It’s the only thing that’s going to save America.

Mark these words from the Bible—but mark them now, in this time, because those words were said for now!  And it takes The Messiah of God to make that appeal; and that’s why Trump is the last president to receive the offer of God, the plea of God to repent, because it’s going to get terrible.

And guess what?  Guess what?  We, too, are in that. Because if we keep running, and if we keep on in the foolishness that we are engaged in, we are going to suffer, brothers and sisters.

When that Qur’an tells us the chastisement of Allah is something to fear—whew!  Because God knows how to turn you against yourself. He can whip you from the outside and whip you from the inside. There is no escape from Him.

The president (Donald Trump) …  Mr. President: You’re a rich man, and you’ve gathered around you billionaires; rich men like yourself.  Elon Musk, Amazon’s Jeff Bezos, Apple’s Tim Cook, Mark Zuckerberg (Meta), Bernard Arnold of LVMH, a France-based conglomerate of luxury brands that includes Moet, Hennessy, Louis Vuitton. Look at all of these rich people. TikTok’s CEO, and Sergey Brin of Alphabet. 

Did you know that all these billionaires, that’s just a little less than 10, right? Guess what their net worth is? Four hundred billion dollars.  Guess what? More than the GNP, the gross national product, of 172 countries.

According to the United Nations, there’s only about 195 sovereign nations!  So, 172 countries!  Oh, but there was a certain rich man who was clothed in purple and fine linen, and he fared sumptuously every day.

But there was a beggar by the name of Lazarus, and he was full of sores, and he was laid at the gate, desiring to be fed from the crumbs that fell from the rich man’s table.

And the dogs came and licked Lazarus’ sores. So it was that the beggar died and was carried by the angels into the bosom of Abraham.  And the rich man also died; and he was buried, too!  But he went to hell, to be tormented.  Look at this:

He lifts up his eyes and saw Abraham afar off, and he saw Lazarus in his bosom …Now, look at this, and look at the thinking:  And he cried out, “Father Abraham, have mercy on me”—look at this—“and send Lazarus.”  See?  Still think[ing] he’s still a slave!  Still a slave! 

“Send me that boy, that he may dip the tip of his finger in water and cool my tongue, because I am tormented in this flame.”  But Abraham said, “Remember that in your lifetime you received your good things, and likewise Lazarus’ evil things.

But now he is comforted, and you are tormented. And besides all of this, between us and you, there is a great gulf. And the gulf is fixed; so that those who want to pass from here to you cannot, nor can those from there pass to us.” 

And the rich man said, “I beg you … I beg you that you will send him,” look at this, “to my father’s house, for I have five brothers; that he may testify to them, lest they also come to this place of torment.”  Abraham said, “They got Moses and the prophets.  Let them hear them.”  And the rich man said:

“No, Abraham. But if one goes to them from the dead, they will repent.” Did you all catch that?  They already have had Moses and the prophets, but one that has been risen from the dead—one that you mistreated, one that you put your foot on his neck, one that you deny is in the bosom of God Himself…

In the bosom, …  And God wants to show us as it is written, “I have loved thee,” … with all of the evil that we have taken!  Because “Lazarus” is a sign of a people, but it’s a sign, also, of a man …  This conversation between the rich man and Abraham is deep.

“Maybe if you send one from the dead, they will repent.” But Abraham said, “If they did not hear Moses and the prophets, neither will they be persuaded through one risen from the dead.” 

Elijah Muhammad has been risen from a people who are considered dead, but you, world, have rejected him!  Then God gives you an extension of time, and gives you grace personified in the man the Honorable Minister Louis Farrakhan—but did you listen to Minister Farrakhan?

No! You called him an anti-Semite!  You called him a hater!  You called him every evil thing. You falsely charged him, lied on him!  None of those things is he! … 

This makes 48 years of Minister Farrakhan’s work. See, “As it was in the days of Noah, so shall it be”: It represents a servant of God preaching for a long time. But the people of Noah, the imagination of their thoughts were continually on what? Evil. And the scripture says,

“And when man became numerous,” meaning a lot of people, now, are on the planet, but there was a servant that was warning them about the chastisement of God; and he started building an ark on dry land, and everybody mocked him and ridiculed. … But he was faithful to his God.

And whether you see it or not, the Nation of Islam is the ark of salvation for our people.

I know it’s not as fancy; it’s not the Titanic. But the Titanic sunk. And the Qur’an says, “And we made the ark to stay buoyant afloat before our eyes.”  This is an ark of refuge. It’s the ark of salvation. You can take it or leave it. But if you take us to task, we could defend it from Genesis to Revelation, from Al-Fatihah to Al-Nas. This is a miracle in and of itself.

So, you have not been persuaded by one raised from the dead. And so, let us close. “New Jerusalem”… 

You have heard us say from Minister Farrakhan, that the Honorable Elijah Muhammad told him last year, “Shh.”  He saw the Honorable Elijah Muhammad beckon him; and the Honorable Elijah Muhammad told him, “Be quiet.”  That’s so big. You all know Brother Farrakhan loves us.

He enjoys preaching the word of God; but it also pains him that in his labor of love, we haven’t responded. And it’s like a loving mother telling her children, “Look, look, look, look! When daddy gets home…  When daddy got home, he’s not going to ask questions.”

It’s true. And some of us have a very personal relationship with Minister Farrakhan; so you know that even in your personal and private conversations, one thing about Minister Farrakhan: He is transparent. 

He is not one man in the public and another man in private. That man is as transparent as the image of Jesus on the cross!  He has nothing to hide!  The man is genuine …

But when the Honorable Elijah Muhammad told him …  “Be quiet. Come, sit at my side, and watch the words I gave you to say at Saviours’ Day … .” You’ve got to let that marinate!  Did not the Honorable Minister Louis Farrakhan come before the world and his subject was: 

“What does Allah The Great Mahdi and The Great Messiah Have To Say About The War in The Middle East?” … And did not Minister Farrakhan in that message tell us what he was told to say?

How can you read in the scriptures of all of these communications of prophets and messengers with God as though God died after the last prophet to the world?  And you and I are in the greatest nation …  And that Qur’an says God has sent to every nation a messenger!  And He always raises His messenger up from the slaves.

“In God we trust.” “One nation under God.” Sometimes we talk as though God lost some juice or something. The Book of Malachi says, “I, The Lord God, do not change. My pattern is the same.”  He raised the Honorable Elijah Muhammad and  the Honorable Minister Louis Farrakhan; and you may want to deny it, but you can’t deny it. 

So, he was told, “Come sit at my side.”  That’s the “quieting” of The Mouthpiece of the Honorable Elijah Muhammad—and The Voice of God.  Not that God will not continue to give us guidance, but it will only be guidance from the word He already spoke.

Won’t be no new word—no new teaching.  There’s no “new guidance,” every one of us knows what’s right!  Nobody has to tell you right from wrong, it’s in our very nature!

So, the Honorable Elijah Muhammad told Minister Farrakhan, when he was still among us, there … If there was any symbol that he could choose to represent his work, it would be a trumpet. That trumpet has blown … 

Trust me when I tell you: This is not easy; because I am in it with you. We all stand in need of God’s mercy.  And that man has been a hedge for us!  And the Qur’an says that Allah would not chastise the people as long as the messenger was among them.

I mean, I said it earlier: God doesn’t want to kill us. But after we get a good whooping, we’ll be all right. “Yes Sir!  Yes, my Lord, at whatever you say, Lord!” 

“Cry aloud! Spare not! Lift up thy voice like a trumpet and show My people their transgressions and the house of Jacob their sins.” The Honorable Minister Louis Farrakhan has lifted his voice, and his voice is like a trumpet.  He said in “The Time and What Must Be Done”:

“A trumpet has a sound that is difficult for you to ignore. Whenever you go to a nightclub and the trumpeter picks up that trumpet and delivers his solo, if his trumpet is not muted it can be heard above all the members of the band. That’s the sound of the trumpet.

And when one anointed with the spirit of God is being used by God as His ‘trumpet’ above all the din, a mass discordant, inharmonious sounds of all those who preach:

Above all the confusion of those who preach, a clear sound resonates from that anointed one calling the people to God, calling the people to repent.” The Honorable Elijah Muhammad said when the first trumpet stops the second trumpet will begin.  And the second trumpet is death.

I’ve got to close with this: Master Fard Muhammad pointed out to the Honorable Elijah Muhammad a dreadful-looking plane in the sky, a half-mile by a half-mile. It was made after the universe, of spheres (wheels within wheels). 

It’s no secret anymore.  The Honorable Elijah Muhammad said it was a masterpiece of mechanics and engineering, and that nothing like this has ever been seen before. And he said it’s the greatest military weapon developed in the annals of history. 

Never, never before has something like this been built.  And he told us that the vision of this Wheel that’s in the sky was seen thousands of years before it came into being, or became a reality. 

And, he said that this weapon was made for the purpose of destroying the present world in the final battle with the forces of evil that have ruled our present world.

It’s not an accident that last year, after decades of denial, that the United States government finally admitted the existence, the reality of these Wheels.  The Pentagon said it’s a Mothership with smaller probes going in and out of it.  But Elijah Muhammad taught us about this Wheel from the 1930s …

You don’t think Minister Farrakhan can talk the way he talks, walk the way he walks, and those who follow him, except that we know we’ve got some serious backing!

I say that with humility, because The God that we serve: He is Possessor of Power over all things, but He also came introducing Himself, and He gave us His “card.”  Y

ou know, when you meet somebody, you give them a card, and on that card is a name, it’s their title, his function.  Well, Master Fard Muhammad gave us His card—that Wheel.  His calling card…

Pull up that map! This is a map of all the UFO activity …. Now that map wasn’t done by any member of the Nation of Islam!  This is from them.  The military sees it all the time.  Look at America:

It’s just lit up! I wonder why!  They had their hearings, you remember?  And the former Defense Department researcher, Luis Elizondo, he said: “Let me be clear …”

“UAPs”: See, now they’re no more “unidentified”; remember when there used to be “UFOs”?  Now they say “Unidentified Aerial Phenomenon” are “real advanced technologies not made by our government or any other government are monitoring sensitive military installations around the world.” 

They said Unidentified Aerial Phenomena are “a potential national threat and they need to be treated that way.” Minister Farrakhan said, “Whenever a nation is faced with a superior power that possesses a superior weapon that the present power and its warmongers cannot master.

Then that nation is unable to do the first thing that a sovereign nation must do, and that is to protect and secure her citizens.” No! They don’t pose a threat to you.  You pose a threat to life.  You pose the threat to the inhabitants of our planet, to all the creatures, to the atmosphere, the air, the water, the food—No! You pose a serious threat. 

So, you remember the movie The Day The Earth Stood Still?  Remember the character— “Klaatu.” Look at, look at these words: “We are only here because you threaten the existence of life not only on your planet, but the whole galaxy.  And if you don’t stop what you are doing, we will have to destroy you.” …

You can Google it for yourself (the Wheel).  This is real!  We didn’t believe the Honorable Elijah Muhammad, so the Honorable Elijah Muhammad said: “Well, OK. When the White man tells you, then you will say, ‘Oh, Elijah Muhammad sure told me the truth, because master, now, has said it!’”

Now, those Wheels have not even dropped a bomb …  See, they don’t pose a threat.  They are keeping this enemy in check from going to the extreme because they are about to do this.   They’re talking “peace.”  What does the bible tell us?  “And they seek peace, and they will not find it.”  

War is on the horizon, and those Wheels are monitoring the nuclear military installations for a reason!  They’ve got enough power; they can shut them down—and they have already reported power outages.  Man, it’s easy for them!  It’s keeping them in check.

So beloved, you’ve been outdone.  “Russia, China, everything on earth,” The Honorable Minister Louis Farrakhan said, “what you think has power, it has nothing.  It’s like nothing to that Wheel.  So, when the Honorable Elijah Muhammad, in his subject ‘O Wheel’?” 

Minister Farrakhan said, “That’s like saying “O God…”  No!  This is tremendous!  It has two sides of it.  See, it’s called “New Jerusalem” because there is new technology.  That is a human-built planet.  All of the cures are already there. …

So beloved, as we close.  Allah, with these Two Anointed Witnesses, the Honorable Elijah Muhammad and the Honorable Minister Louis Farrakhan, have held out in one hand an olive branch, and on the other hand, death and destruction.  And He wants us to make the right decision. 

When we add up the numbers 2025, it equals “9”: We’ve come to the completion of something. We’ve come to the end of a term; something else is about to come in.

You feel it!  But now, we’ve got to put ourselves in the right position; now we’ve got to do the right thing, because “Repent, for The Kingdom of God is” what? [Audience responds:] “At Hand!”

Do you want a place in the new that God is bringing in?  I know I do!  I want to be in the new!  That means I’ve got to do something now; I’ve got to humble myself, and surrender.  But “2025” is the 25th Chapter of The Qur’an: “Blessed is He Who sent down The Discrimination upon His servant, that he might be a warner to the nation.”

Blessed is The Life of the Honorable Minister Louis Farrakhan.  That man has kept the faith!  That man has fought the good fight!  That man has completed what God would have him to do!  And there is a crown laid up for him!  We do not see death for the Honorable Minister Louis Farrakhan, we see ascension.  We see ascension to that Wheel. 

One more thing…  “I know the plans I have for you, declares The Lord.  Plans to prosper you”—I like that! … “And not to harm you”—“and plans to give you hope and a future.” Don’t you want to be with The Lord?  Don’t we want to be with The Lord? 

Aren’t we tired of walking with Satan?  Aren’t we tired of living with Satan?  Come on, and let’s accept God, and let’s do the right thing!  And since we love to be on social media: Take pieces of this message, make it viral. 

Call the president and the nation to repentance! …  Let’s create an energy!  Because money isn’t going to get us out of this; so stop talking about economics, stop talking about money!  Stop talking politics!  Stop talking about votes!  Talk, and bring up God in your conversations, and put Satan to rest!

So, I close with this prayer, before our ending prayer.  And I want everyone, wherever you are in the world watching and listening to this message, I just want all of us to bow our heads where you are, sitting or reclining, if you’re driving in your vehicle, if you’re standing.  This prayer that I’m going say is preceded by these words from the Qur’an that close out the second chapter. 

It says: “Allah imposes not on any soul a duty beyond its scope, for it is that which it earns of good and against it that which it works of evil.” 

Here is the prayer:

“Our Lord, punish us not if we forget or make a mistake. Our Lord, do not lay on us a burden which Thou didst lay on those before us. Our Lord, impose not on us afflictions that we do not have the strength to bear; and pardon us, and grant us protection, and have mercy on us. Thou art our Patron, so grant us victory over the disbelieving people.
Ameen.”

We thank the Honorable Minister Louis Farrakhan for this profound and timely message, “Repent for The Kingdom of God is At Hand.”

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President (Donald) Trump, (Russia President Vladimir) Putin: Have you committed sin? All of the rulers of the nations, you stand before the people of your nation as sinners. Every leader, teacher, guide, stop for a moment and think about yourself because the day that you’ve arrived at is the day that you have to face yourself.

Because your evil is the cause of God’s Wrath. It’s the cause of God’s Judgment. And the effect of your evil manifesting in the weather will not stop until you surrender and turn from your wicked ways.

This is serious. … The Qur’an says, “And those who disbelieve say, ‘The hour will never come to us.’ Say, ‘Indeed by my Lord, The Knower of The Unseen, it will certainly come to you. Not an atom’s weight escapes Him in the heavens or in the earth. 

Nor is there less than that, nor greater, but all is in a clear Book.’”  So, the next thing in that prayer that we ask God is: “Grant me protection against all my faults, for none grants protection against faults but Thee.”

We’re calling on Him to mitigate the effect of what we have done!  Because once it’s sent out into the universe, you don’t have the power to catch it and bring it back. So I’ve got to reach up to God and ask Him to pardon me, forgive me; mitigate the evil that I have done.

Destroy it, nullify it. Extinguish it. Because every thought, even if it’s unspoken from my lips, goes into the atmosphere. And the Honorable Elijah Muhammad taught us that the average speed of thought is 24 billion miles per second. That’s fast!

So how fast do you have to send another thought out to catch up with the evil thought that you send forth? Catch it, trap it, destroy it before it takes effect and before I suffer the consequences?  But nobody has that power but Allah, and that’s why the prayer is “none,” “none”… 

I’m seeking His protection from the consequences of my own evil; and then I’m asking Him: “Guide me to the best of morals, for none guides to the best of morals but Thee. And turn away from me the evil and indecent morals, for none can turn away from me the evil and indecent morals but Thee.”

The Honorable Minister Louis Farrakhan said, “That is the critical part of your prayer, because you recognize the power of God to punish you for your mistakes, and His power through His mercy to mitigate the fault that we have.” So, Mr. Trump, Mr. Putin, world leaders, you’ve got to bow!

You have to admit your faults. You’re the new president (Trump), but you can’t succeed, Mr. President, the way you’re going. You are full of yourself, but not full enough of God. So, this part of the prayer, you’re asking for protection.

And President Trump and all of us have to bow down and ask God to protect us from the consequences of our faults, for none grants protection except The God that gave me life and brought me from my mother’s womb and fed me from her breast and fed me from His creatures on the earth.

And if you and I recognize how wrong you and I have been … But you have been wrong to yourself.  And you thought you were getting away with what you did to others, but it’s at your door now. The question is can you ask God to forgive you? Because it starts with Him.

The Honorable Minister Louis Farrakhan said, “Nobody can escape this prayer. You may run but you can’t hide from this.  And now as the fire is coming down, and God is going to extend this flame in a way that you don’t want to see it. 

The arrogant and the proud may say, ‘God can’t do that to me.’  The proud may say, ‘I have my hand on the button. If I press this button, a nuclear weapon can be sent off.’”  Yes, we know that. But your finger doesn’t belong to you; because God can stop your finger from that, but you can’t stop His finger.

Remember when Minister Farrakhan said, in Trump’s first term in office, he said he was “the last president.”  Then when Biden won … See, you don’t see, we don’t see the future!  You remember when Minister Farrakhan said, “You know, President Trump is an anomaly.  He’s someone that doesn’t fit the norm.” …

We are the people of God. We’re supposed to do this: “The Lord’s will be done.”  “All things work together for good, for those who love the Lord and are called according to His purpose.”  The Qur’an says, “You may like a thing that is not good for you, and you may dislike a thing that is good for you.”

There has to be a pharaoh that negotiates your and my deliverance. There has to be a pharaoh that sees the power of God.  The scripture says to pharaoh, “For this very purpose I have raised you up, that I might show you My power, that My name may be proclaimed in all the earth.”

Trump is not like the other presidents, and he’s certainly not like us.

“But people wanted,” Minister Farrakhan said, “Mr. Trump, in his first term, to be more ‘presidential.’ But he is so transparent!  You wanted him to put on a suit and act dignified, like the thieves and robbers that dress up in suits and tell lies. We like that. You wanted him to be like that; and he’s telling lies all right, and you’re angry because he’s your reflection.” …

“He’s an anomaly. You can’t make him what you desire him to be, so that you can say, ‘that’s my president.’ He wasn’t made that way! God has him here. ‘What did you say Farrakhan?’  Do you think that God is not interested in who is president of the United States of America, especially when it is out of the time of evil? 

“Why did God permit this man to return to the White House? He prevailed against all the opposition and forces to keep him from becoming president.  We (Black people) went to the polls! We did everything!”  …

“So, after all that effort, God said he’s (Mr. Trump) going be president. He survived an assassination attempt from an assassin’s bullet that could have very well killed him, but it grazed the ear.  Of all the points of the face and head, why the ear? Could it be, Mr. President, that death is in the house?

Death is what approaches—and God wants you, Mr. President, to listen. You are in the position to help America escape the wrath of God.”

We’re about to bring this to a conclusion. The Honorable Elijah Muhammad wrote years ago, speaking to this last election, that it was the most serious in the history of the American government because either party that seeks the office of the presidency is faced with the problem of saving the lives of the people of America. 

And then he said there would be “a lull before the storm.”  And the storm can be delayed; and every hour and day that it can be delayed is to your benefit.

“Mr. Trump, you acknowledged God at a recent prayer breakfast. God is on your mind, Mr. President. You said after your near-death experience that someone told you God saved your life for a reason.

And you may think that God spared your life to make America great again, but we say humbly to our president: You can never make America great without bowing to and submitting to The God. Allah-u-Akbar, God The Great.  God The Great!  God The Greatest.

“America can never be great as long as your rule is based upon lies and deceit, wickedness, corruption, greed, injustice, and the killing of the innocent. You can’t be great. When God visited Egypt with those plagues, God told Moses:

‘Stand before Pharaoh and tell him that this is what The Lord, The God says, Let My people go!  Otherwise, I will send all my plagues against you and your officials, and your people, so you may know that there is no one like Me in all the earth.’” 

Listen to what God says, “For by this time, I could have stretched out My hand and struck you and your people with a plague to wipe you off the earth.” … And after nine plagues, then he submitted.

There is only one hope that Jesus held out to the rulers of the world: (The Sign of) Jonah.  It’s the only miracle of all the prophets that God has sent into the world; of all of the prophets, it was only Jonah. 

And, The Qur’an says, “And why was there not a town which believed so that their belief should have profited them but the people of Jonah?  When they believed, we removed from them the chastisement of disgrace in this world’s life, and we gave them a provision for a while.” 

The king of Nineveh heard Jonah, and the king came out in sackcloth and ashes. And from the king all the way down to the little man and woman, the whole city repented.

How can we keep on the way we are going? No leader, except this one today, has called an entire nation to take a day father, take a day pastor, take a day imam, priest, bishop, cardinal, pope—call the people to take a day, and let everyone stop what they’re doing, and let us ask God to forgive us for our sins! 

Do you know what that would produce? No work, no school, no activity.  No, no, no!  Everybody’s going to call on God and ask for forgiveness. You say:

“Oh man, really?” Okay, dismiss it. Dismiss the call of the messenger. We’ve been doing it up to this point; but this “2025”?  This is going to be a rough year!  So, we can go away from this message and continue in our rebellion if we want to. That’s your choice. And the president can turn a deaf ear to the message; that’s fine. But there’s going be repercussions, for real.

When the Honorable Minister Louis Farrakhan, last Saviours’ Day, was told by the Honorable Elijah Muhammad, “Say this with strength: MENE MENE TEKEL UPHARSIN … God has numbered the days of your kingdom and brought it to an end.” 

You have been weighed and found wanting. Your kingdom is divided. America has been weighed in the balance and has come up short.  While the wicked can manipulate the courts of men and confound international criminal courts for your chicanery, you cannot upset the balance that has weighed you.  

And when you have been “weighed in the balance and found wanting,” that means your evil has outweighed your good, and then God and the universe begin to act against you.”

Minister Farrakhan was talking to this nation, America. He was talking to Prime Minister (Benjamin) Netanyahu of Israel!  Because what you have done, Mr. Netanyahu, has sentenced your people to death from God by what you have done to innocent people that you have forced out of Gaza through a pretext of the attack by Hamas that you knew very well a year before the attack on October 7, 2023.

But you have a vision, Haaretz Israel (“Greater Israel”). Your vision, Mr. Netanyahu, as Minister Farrakhan exposed your mind …  And it was exposed to him by his teacher!

the Honorable Elijah Muhammad showed Minister Farrakhan in the middle of the night a picture of the Prime Minister Netanyahu. Then he brought his image back up, and enlarged it, and showed Mr. Netanyahu with his military commanders toasting. His vision is to annex Gaza, the West Bank, Lebanon, Syria, a greater Israel.

They knew Hamas was going to attack from the land, the air, and the sea. They got an Iron Dome Defense System, the most technological, sophisticated, advanced defense system in the world!  And they were willing to sacrifice their own people for their greedy gain.

When is the last time you looked at the images of Gaza? Look at that. Do you see that? This is how you know it was a pretext, because even though they lost maybe 1,300 Israelis, and our hearts go out to the families, but thousands have died. Nearly 100,000 lives!  And look at the devastation: It’s become desolate. And President Trump recently said, “There is nothing there. We will rebuild it. We’ll take it. We’ll make it better.”

The president is a real estate tycoon, a real estate developer. You’re looking at a desolate place; you’re looking at how you can make money from the loss, the misfortune, and the misery of others!  But your wickedness has not escaped the eye and the ear of God! 

To be continued.

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We’ve heard the call of one crying in the wilderness. A messenger of God has been speaking to us; we see him, we hear him, but … we’ve been seeing and hearing him as “a lovely song,” and one who plays well on an instrument. We come out to hear him all the time, but we do not act on the word he gives. And then when he is no longer among the people, the people will say, “Indeed, he was a prophet.”

The condemnation of their lack of hearing is that they heard him, but they did nothing to obey his admonition. So, like the ship, the captain, the crew, and America, that does not want to let God’s people go—and we are not willing to leave…  But death is at the door, now. 

And it’s something how when you’re threatened with death and your mortality, that’s a whole other orientation of the mind. And it was the last plague that God visited upon Egypt, “death,” that forced the hand of Pharaoh, but it also forced The Children of Israel to say: “We’ll leave.”

But look at how many plagues!  And the Qur’an says, “Whenever Allah sends a messenger, He seizes the people with distress and affliction …” Look at this: “… that they might humble themselves.”

“If My people, which are called by My name, will humble themselves and pray, and seek My face, and turn from their wicked ways, then will I hear from heaven, forgive their sins, and” what? … “Heal the land!”  This body comes from the earth: The “land” that’s got to be healed is this life; it’s my body!? 

It’s not talking about the 196,940,000 square miles of our planet! We need a healing!  And when this (body) is healed: Just look at the toxicity that’s in our bloodstream from eating improper food, thinking improper thoughts. All of us have become like toxic waste.

And we are becoming septic. But just as this body has become toxic, the earth is now full of poisons and toxicity.  The rivers are toxic, like the blood flowing in our body, toxic. Waste dumped in the oceans, in the lakes, on the waters of our planet—and look at the waste that we dump into this vessel that is the real Temple of God.

It’s not this!  It’s you!  It’s me!  The scriptures tell us that “Ye are the living temples …,” but who is on the throne? Because God is not dwelling in us. Satan!  Satan has been operating! 

And when that scripture tells us when the sons of God presented themselves before God, and Satan was also among them; and the only one that recognized that Satan was hanging out with the sons of God was God Himself! 

So that means Satan had already gotten them. So, when God said, “Whence comest thou, Satan?”  He didn’t hesitate; he didn’t say, “Who?  Who me?”  He stepped right out: …

“I’ve been going up and down, to and fro, in the earth, seeking whom I may devour.” And then God said, “Well, have you considered my servant Job?” … “But You’ve (God) got a hedge up around him. If You remove that hedge, whew, I’ll make him curse You to Your face!”

God said, “Deal. Go ahead!  Just … Just don’t kill him.”

One man. One man!  One man.  “Why isn’t the devil settled on the best part of the Planet Earth?” See?  They have been able to turn everyone; they’ve made all to bend the knee. But they have not made Farrakhan bend the knee!  They can’t!  They can’t…  THEY CAN’T! …

“As Jonah was in the belly of the great fish for three days and three nights, so will the Son of Man be in the heart of the earth for three days and three nights.”  As Jonah was in the belly of the fish for three days, so shall the Son of Man be in the heart of the earth for three days, developing a heart for a nation, for a people, to put into that nation a new cardiovascular system.

Because the old heart has become diseased.  It’s calloused. It’s become hardened. So, the scripture says God will take out a heart of stone from the flesh and give you and me a heart of flesh. … This heart, this is a vital organ. Why is there so much heart disease?

The number one disease and leading cause of death in America and around the world is heart disease. But the heart is so important because it pumps oxygen-rich blood and nutrients to the entire body. But the Son of Man is going to be in the heart of the earth … 

So as the physical heart pumps life through its arteries (that’s outgoing) and veins (incoming) that keep circulation going, “America” is the heart of the earth: She pumps ideas, culture, music, movies, technology; she supplies weapons, financial aid, her dollar, and her language all over the world. And America, her veins bring in resources, labor, talent from other nations, keeping its economy and innovation alive.

So just as the heart must be strong for the physical body to survive, America’s influence, whether good or bad, affects the entire world.  You want to send back the Mexicans, the Venezuelans, those coming from south of the border.

What do you think will happen to America and its economy … . Maybe they should just stop working at the meatpacking plants in Iowa, picking the oranges in Florida, picking the grapes in the Napa, Sonoma, and San Joaquin Valleys. 

Maybe you should stop working on the farms in the Midwest! Maybe you should stop working in the restaurants and in the hotels, just for one day, and watch what would happen to America! 

You would shut America down!  That’s how much power Black people have when we’re united. As the Honorable Elijah Muhammad said, our unity is more powerful than an atomic or hydrogen bomb.

So, a weak and diseased heart affects the entire body, leading to high blood pressure, blockages, and even heart failure.  America has a sick heart due to greed and corruption, inequality, sexism, materialism, immorality, and injustice.

And if the heart fails to function properly, the body dies unless treatment comes. And many have warned America of her errant behavior and wicked policies, but no voice has been louder and clearer in warning America that if she does not correct her moral and spiritual course.

It will suffer Divine Judgment—No one has been more outspoken and lifted their voices more than these two men, the Most Honorable Elijah Muhammad and the Honorable Minister Louis Farrakhan, as two divine warners. …

“If My people, which are called by My name, will humble themselves and pray, and seek My face, and turn …”  Well, that’s the hardest part. Because you know, the scripture describes us as hard-hearted, stiff-necked, and rebellious.  Easily led in the wrong direction, hard as heck to lead in the right direction.

Now, the Honorable Elijah Muhammad, from Master Fard Muhammad, gave us a prayer that is in the Qur’an, parts of it. Listen to this prayer that every Muslim says to start their day.

The first thing we say when we are blessed to make it through the night, because during the night you don’t know if you’re alive or dead; you only know you’re alive when you open up your eyes.

Have you ever thought about that? Have you ever thought about the blessing of just waking up? And we don’t even give thanks to God. We just go about our day, do what we do, and we don’t—the first thing out of our lips is not even “Thank You, Lord, for blessing me to open up my eyes to see another day.” 

We just take things for granted. But the words we say in the prayer: “Surely I have turned myself to Thee, O Allah, being upright …”—but the Honorable Elijah Muhammad put “striving [to be],” because we’re far from being upright; so I have to say “I am striving to be,”

But we do striving now—“…to Him Who originated the heavens and the earth, and I am not of the polytheists. Surely my prayer, my sacrifice, my life, and my death are all for Allah, the Lord of the worlds. No associate has He, for this am I commanded. I am of those who submit.”

Now this is the critical part: “O Allah, Thou art The King. There is no God but Thee. Thou art my Lord, and I am Thy servant.” … “I have been greatly unjust to myself, and I confess my faults.”

So, when The Minister was a young Muslim in The Nation, he visited the Honorable Elijah Muhammad here in Chicago. And the Honorable Elijah Muhammad invited the Minister to accompany him to run some errands.

And the Honorable Elijah Muhammad was talking to him about one of his ministers who abandoned the flock, and he said he would never restore a minister who abandons the flock. But in that conversation, he broke from that and said to The Minister these words, quote, “Sometimes you don’t know your faults.  You know you have them, but you don’t know your faults.” 

“Some of them you know,” and he’s talking to the Minister about the faults that he knows of himself.  “But this prayer,” the Minister said, “covers all faults. Those that you know, those that you don’t know, those that you will run into in your journey in life, your journey to God, and your journey in faith.”

“I have been greatly unjust to myself …”   When you think about your and my sins, when you think of what you do that is wrong, you don’t see it as an injustice to yourself; you are not conscious of being unjust to yourself, so He calls you back, now, to remembrance—God. 

“I have been greatly unjust to myself”: So you’ve got to think about yourself!  “I have been.”  Now the “I” comes up because you’re not talking about anybody being unjust to you, you’re talking about “me being unjust to myself.

But we never take it further. We never say,” The Minister said, “‘How have I been unjust to myself? Because the next part of that prayer has a command: ‘And I confess my faults.’” 

The Qur’an says, “And We have made every human being’s actions to cling to his neck, and We shall bring forth to him on the day of resurrection a book which he will find wide open. Read your book; your own soul is sufficient as a reckoner against you.”

Oh, that’s deep! “O, My servants, who have transgressed against themselves.”  So, in order to rectify the imbalance caused by sins, harm may affect a person as a consequence. And this is alluded in the Qur’an several times.  “And whatever strikes you of disaster, it is for what your hands have earned. 

“But He, Allah, pardons much.”  And look at what the Qur’an says, “But what comes to you of evil, O man, is from yourself.”

How many of you are familiar with the law of causality? You’ve heard of that?  “Causality.”  It’s the simple law; some call it “karma.” Now you know what I’m talking about, huh?  Expressed in the more common form, it’s the principle of law that “every cause”—“every effect,” pardon me, “has a” what?  “Cause.” 

“There is no beginning or change of existence without a cause. Causality is an influence by which one event, process, state, or object contributes to the production of another event, process, state, or object where the cause is at least partly responsible for the effect, and the effect is at least partly dependent on the cause. The cause of something may also be described as the reason for the event or process.”

This law is also found in the Bible: “You reap what you sow.” None of us are conscious that what we send forth: At some point in the journey of life, if you don’t rectify it, it’s coming back. We used to say it back in the day, … “What comes around, goes around.” 

It’s a law.  And then the Bible says, “As thou hast done, so shall it be done unto you.”  This is where the world is right now!  None of us can hide from God. He says in The Qur’an, every deed, He will bring it forth. And even if it is as small as an atom buried in a rock in the earth, yet God will manifest it. So, none of us can hide from God!

To be continued.

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Beloved brothers and sisters, all that are listening, the man Jesus, he starts his ministry, or started his ministry—I think it was in … Galilee?—with these words:

“Repent …,” followed by, “the kingdom of God is” what?  “At hand,” meaning it’s near; it’s right around the corner.  But he is crying out to the people to change their hearts and lives, urging the people, “Repent!”  He is pleading with the people to change their course from a way that leads only to death and brings upon them the wrath of God.

That word “repent,” it happens to be the fourth step, or stage, of an atonement process that the Honorable Minister Louis Farrakhan presented on the occasion of The Million Man March. 

No Black man has ever called for a million Black men to present themselves, and that call answered, like we showed up on October the 16, 1995. And he introduced on that day the great principle of atonement that involves eight steps. And the first one is the most difficult:

“Point out the wrong.”  Nobody wants their wrongs pointed out to them. And the second step is “Acknowledge the wrong.”  After you and I acknowledge our faults, acknowledge our wrongs, then there has to be, Father,confession.  I got to confess my faults.

But then there is repentance.  Because if there is no change of mind and heart, then your apology, your so-called apology, your so-called “I am sorry,” is shallow. And that’s why some of us don’t accept a little simple “sorry,” because it doesn’t come from a contrite heart.

There’s too much ego. So easy to say “I’m sorry”…  But a real offer of apology carries with it remorse, and I feel sorry that I have wronged you; I feel sorry for what I did to you, and I ask for your forgiveness.

And this is how you know that when we offer an apology, it’s not sincere: Because when we offer it, and that person doesn’t accept it, then we’re like this:

“Well, forget you. …”

That’s not the way it’s supposed to be … .  Jesus was asked, “How many times should one ask for forgiveness?”  What did he say? “Seven times” what? “Seventy”?  That’s 490 times?

That’s a lon[g]—that’s a lot of times!  But when it’s coming from a sincere heart, and I know I have hurt you, I know I have offended you, I know I have wronged you, every time I’m in your presence my head is bowing, because I am before God asking for forgiveness! 

HOW MANY TIMES DO YOU ASK GOD, WHOM YOU HAVE NEVER SEEN, FOR FORGIVENESS, BUT YOU DON’T ASK FROM YOUR BROTHER AND SISTER WHO YOU SEE EVERY DAY?!

While I’m on that point!  See, we got it all mixed up.  You go, and we go, into prayer—“space.” It’s a communication, all right; it’s a “wi-fi” communication, it isn’t hardwired.  I’m sending my message out, and I wouldn’t be praying to God unless I knew God hears. 

But the real worship of God is not in song, it’s not in dance, it’s not in prayer, it’s not in fasting.  The real praise and worship of God is how you treat your fellow human being.

Oh, we hypocrites. Notice I kept myself in it.  See that’s hypocrisy. We don’t realize each of us are made in the image and likeness of God. Who’s sitting next to you? “Oh that’s that ni—I mean, that’s that brother,” or “that’s that sister.” 

God, see?  I have to bow in honor and reverence to God, His creatures, His creation. Bowing!  So, it’s useless to pray “all day,” do all of that and then you come out of prayer to speak evil of another human being, to backbite another human being, to gossip against this one, to slander that one, to rob this one or that one, all in the name of Jesus, or Muhammad—or Farrakhan.  Pick your messenger.

“To repent”: Change one’s mind, or change the inner self.

Then Jesus talks about the people seeking a sign of the end times. He said, “When it is evening you say it will be fair weather for the sky is red.  And in the morning, it will be foul weather today for the sky is red and threatening.” 

Hypocrites.  You know how to discern the face of the sky but you cannot discern the signs of the times.” Then they asked Jesus to give them a sign of the time again and he said, “Hey, hey, hey, hey…  You wicked and adulterous generation.

You’re seeking after a sign…”—uh oh, but then it gets heavy!—“…but no sign will be given to it except the sign of Jonah. For as Jonah was in the belly of the great fish for three days and three nights, so will the Son of Man be in the heart of the earth for three days and three nights.” 

The Honorable Elijah Muhammad, from this very house of his, from that rostrum, he said these words: “You haven’t learned what the last man should look like, what he should do, or how the book teaches you that he’s a fulfiller. You don’t take the time to read what a ‘fulfiller’ is.”

He goes on to say: “When a man comes to you and is sent by another one, and tells you that he fulfills Jonah’s scriptures, well then, you should go and read Jonah and learn what Jonah did to see whether or not this man fulfills his work.  Because ‘fulfill’ means to do the same work which that man did. If the man you’re talking to corresponds, then he is fulfilling.

However, if you don’t see Jonah’s work in this man’s work, then he doesn’t fulfill Jonah’s work.  ‘Fulfill’ means to do what another one does.” And then he closed the point by saying, “So be careful about how you label people to be something that they are not.”

Just like Jesus: Of all the prophets, he lifts up Jonah. Why Jonah? Jonah is one of the more important prophets in clarifying the sign of the time. Jonah lived at the time of the great city of Nineveh.

And Nineveh, brothers and sisters, was a city that God was very displeased with, and He wanted Jonah to prophesy unto that city and tell them: “In 40 days, the city will be destroyed.” 

Jonah had the assignment to call a people who were unconscious to their wickedness to think about their wickedness and hear the call of God. The Minister said, quote: What’s about to happen is going to be so great on the population of the earth that they must be still enough to understand why Jonah was given as the sign.”

Not “one of” the signs, but the sign, because it involves a man …  A man with a prophetic voice, who now is running from the knowledge that he has that Nineveh is about to be destroyed.

Ancient Nineveh represented an important city within the ancient world, and with its strategic location in upper Mesopotamia, the city became a center of culture, civilization, economy, and trade. But she was wicked, cruel, and did a lot of evil.

Now check this out!  When Jonah was called, he is the only prophet that’s found running.  “Hey, hey, hey, Lord.  Man, look … You got the wrong man!”  “Who, me??  Nah, nah.”  All the prophets that never felt that they were adequate enough for the job.

Moses, you know, he put up excuses: “… Look, I’m slow of speech. Surely, you’re not going to send me, an unlearned, uneducated man, up against Pharaoh, talking about ‘Let Your people go!’ He’ll look at me and say, ‘Get up out of here, man. You and your brother Aaron, get up out of here!’”  But Jonah literally ran! 

Oh, he was, he was running! And he boarded a ship from the city of Tarshish. And when he boarded this ship, look at what Jonah did: He immediately went below deck. And guess what he did? 

He fell asleep!  And while Jonah was asleep, a violent storm arose, and all the crew and its passengers were under a severe threat. And the ship’s crew and everyone aboard the ship was asked to pray to their God, but the storm would not cease.

The ship was under tremendous pressure. The people did not know why all of this was happening, but they have a knowledge—and maybe somebody on the ship knows what the heck is going on; and maybe somebody on this ship is responsible for what’s going on. Because evidently their gods didn’t stop the storm. … 

He (Jonah) was asleep.  Deep asleep.  And the captain said, “What are you doing? Don’t you know what’s going on??  Why are you asleep?!”  See, he’s talking about you, Jonah Derek, Jonah Destiny, Jonah Stephanie … Jonah John.

This nation is like a big ship. The storms are striking the country.  And as the Qur’an says, “See how We curtail the land on all its sides?”  A storm is happening—but we’re asleep!  We’re partying. We’re in our man caves. Huh? 

We’re getting high!  We’re getting tipsy!  Oh yeah …  Don’t know what the hell is going on with America.  And not just America, the whole world is being rocked, and God is striking continents, countries! And it’s going to get worse. And the Honorable Elijah Muhammad wrote an article: “The Worst is Yet To Come.”

That’s what makes this Saviours’ Day message so critically important!  I haven’t got to that point yet. But when a messenger of God has been among you as long as Farrakhan has been among us—and God tells him, “Be quiet!”…

You and I that know the scriptures, we should know what that means!  And if we don’t know, we’re going tell you.  Because all of us have known thatFarrakhan is not some ordinary man!

Farrakhan is not your average Black preacher! Farrakhan is not your average spiritual teacher or leader! There is only one Farrakhan!  God didn’t make two of them, He made one Farrakhan!

Did you see those fires in California?  And the firefighters had a great challenge, because they don’t have power over the winds. Eighty, ninety, one hundred mile-an-hour winds …  Look at the loss of property, and some lives!

God’s aim is not to kill. His aim is to save. That’s why this is called “Saviours’ Day.” God comes to rescue the people, save the people from danger. …

The unusual weather. The unusual storms. And Jesus said that there would be what?  Pestilence, famines, earthquakes in diverse places.”  There was an earthquake in Texas. There was an earthquake in Jersey.  Earthquake in this state of Illinois. Earthquake in Carolina.

The earth is moving, because the iniquity of the people on the surface of the earth have become a burden on the planet. Nature, now, is responding. We are experiencing the effect of a cause—and we are the causative agents!

So, when Jonah was finally awakened and went to the upper deck, the first question he was asked was: “Who are you?” “What people do you come from?” “What is your name?” “Who is your God?”

You’ve gotta be awakened. But the first thing is, “Who are you? What’s your identity? What people do you come from? WHO IS YOUR GOD?”

So, the story goes that Jonah: He ended up saying who he was, and he acknowledged that he was running from God.  He admitted it. “It’s all my fault” …  “And all this trouble is because of me.” And he told them, “I have been running from God.” And he said,

“If you throw me overboard, the storm will cease.”  But the captain and the crew didn’t want to do that. But the storm intensified, and it got to that point: “It’s either you, or us.  You got to go. You’ve got to go!” … They prayed, and asked God for forgiveness for throwing this man overboard. But they had to get rid of him.

Oh, America, see: God been telling you, “Let My people go.”  Oh, but you, you don’t wanna let us go—and you don’t wanna go. See, when we run from God, we run from one trouble into another.

So even after Jonah was thrown overboard, he gets swallowed up by a fish. He went from one circumstance into the other. Sound familiar? You go from one relationship to another; trouble there, trouble over here. Go ahead, relocate, go to a new city, get you a new place. Everything’s good for a minute.  But all of a sudden, trouble again.

Could it be that each of us personally, and each of us as a collective, have been running from God to do His will? And until we submit, we will not be freed and delivered from our afflictions and what troubles us.

To be continued

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In The Name of Allah, The Beneficent, The Merciful, we give Him praise and thanks for His many blessings, for His many gifts, for His goodness.

We could never thank Allah (God) enough for His blessings. And the greatest of His blessings to the human being is to give the human being guidance, direction.

And whenever any member of this family has fallen from the grace of God, the glory of God, He always intervenes in the affairs of the people, and raises from the people a messenger, or a prophet, through whom He gives divine guidance.

As Muslims, we make no distinction between any of God’s servants. We thank Him for Noah. We thank Him for Abraham. We thank Him for Moses. We thank Him for Jesus. We thank Him for Muhammad.  Peace be upon these worthy servants.

I am a student and a follower of the Honorable Elijah Muhammad under the leadership and guidance of the Honorable Minister Louis Farrakhan. And I am happy to say how grateful I am for the intervention of God Almighty in our affairs in the Person of Master Fard Muhammad, The Great Mahdi of the Muslims and The Promised Son of Man of the Christians!

We thank Him so much for coming among us and choosing from the despised and the rejected, the ex-slaves of America, the Honorable Elijah Muhammad to be His Messenger-Messiah, and giving to him the greatest helper—and there have been some great helpers in the history of the prophets.  Aaron was a great helper to Moses;

If it were not for Paul, we would know nothing about Jesus today; The Caliphate, after the Prophet Muhammad, peace be upon him.  But this man …  This man, that I have the great honor of re-presenting to us today, the Honorable Minister Louis Farrakhan was given to us from us by God Himself!

I wouldn’t be where I am today—and there would be no Nation of Islam if it were not for the Honorable Minister Louis Farrakhan!

All praise is due to Allah! You may or may not know that after the departure of the Honorable Elijah Muhammad, the United States government and the Satanic forces of this world deemed that the Honorable Elijah Muhammad’s name, his work, and his Teachings would be buried and never exhumed again to give light, life to a dead people.

But the enemy can never calculate on God …

So, God had His man “in the pocket”: He had him already hidden, that at a certain time that man’s faith would be restored.

I know, Satan, you didn’t count on the Honorable Minister Louis Farrakhan rising up again in 1977… .  You didn’t calculate that. But we are here because of the love and the faith of Minister Louis Farrakhan! And his name will never be written out of the history!

All praise is due to Allah!  It was 70 years ago, at the Nation of Islam’s Saviour’s Day Convention, that that man, Brother Louis (Minister Farrakhan), showed up.

And the Honorable Elijah Muhammad, who petitioned God like Moses petitioned God, for a helper—and he was looking for his little helper in 1954, but it would not be until the 400th year of our sojourn …

Not from 1619! No! From 1555!  The slave trader by the name of John Hawkins who brought the first of our fathers into the western hemisphere; and they had the nerve to name that ship “Jesus.” Isn’t that something? But in the 400th year, in 1955, the helper that the Honorable Elijah Muhammad was promised was given.

He was in the balcony while the Honorable Elijah Muhammad was delivering the address, and Minister Farrakhan was critiquing the Honorable Elijah Muhammad.

And he said, “Uh, he does not…”—in his head—“doesn’t speak well.” Splitting verbs …  and right when he was thinking that thought, the Honorable Elijah Muhammad read right into his thought! 

This is, this is a true story!  I’m trying to tell you something!  And he looked right up in the balcony, and he said: “Brother, when I went to school the door was closing.”

The son of a sharecropper. So, anybody that knows about those days, children worked in the fields. And then he told Minister Farrakhan—he didn’t call his name, he just looked right at him. But he knew!  He knew …  He knew who Brother Louis (Minister Farrakhan) was. Isn’t that something?

[The Honorable Elijah Muhammad said:] “Don’t pay attention to ‘how’ I am saying it, you pay attention to what I am saying, and then you take it in that fine education that you got. No brother, don’t pay attention to how I am saying it, pay attention to what I am saying.”

And the Honorable Minister Louis Farrakhan has become the Honorable Elijah Muhammad’s mouthpiece. He is the Honorable Elijah Muhammad’s Aaron. After Saviour’s Day 1955, he became a registered follower of the Honorable Elijah Muhammad and member of the Nation of Islam in October of 1955. And the rest is history.

So, we have a proven man that has stood the test of time. And we have never had a leader among us for this protracted period of time!  And everything that they have tried to do against him—even tried to poison him and kill him—Farrakhan is here! All praise is due to Allah! 

He (Minister Farrakhan) made a promise … .  When he was brought before the men that belong to Islam in North America called “The F.O.I.,” and he made a promise; he said: “I will take this word to every nook and cranny in the United States of America.”

He made his word bond: Not only did he take it to every nook and cranny in the United States, but to the Caribbean, Central America, South America, all over Africa, Canada, Asia, Europe!  Everywhere …  and all over the world, they’re talking about the Honorable Elijah Muhammad.

So!  If you thought because Minister Farrakhan is not out here physically in front of us, and that he’s on a “death watch”: No! Some of us are probably going to die before him.

Tell me something: What Black organization has survived nearly a century now?  And they did not face the vehement opposition; none of their leaders were called all the ugly names that they put on Minister Farrakhan and the Honorable Elijah Muhammad! 

That should tell you something about what this is all about.  And it is written, “The gates of hell shall not prevail against this house.”  The Honorable Elijah Muhammad knew that The Nation (of Islam) was going to fall, but he knew also that it was going to rise. 

And he said to Brother Minister Farrakhan, “Brother, The Nation is going to fall.”  And when he saw his Minister’s countenance fall, he said, “Don’t worry, brother.  It will be rebuilt, and it will never fall again.”

THE NATION OF ISLAM IS HERE FOREVER MORE.

All praise is due to Allah!  Well, we’ve got a lot to get into.  I am deeply humbled, beyond words, to be asked by the Honorable Minister Louis Farrakhan to deliver his message for this Saviours’ Day. 

A Message from him is a Message from God.  A Message from the Honorable Minister Louis Farrakhan is a Message from The Lord of The Worlds, King of kings, The God of Men, and from His Christ.  And you will hear, and you will know after we finish sharing this word, that it absolutely came from on high. 

This is a heavy subject matter.  When the Honorable Minister Louis Farrakhan was sharing with me what he wanted said, he said:

“Son, the best way that you could prepare to deliver such a message is you have to think about calling a people to repentance that are unconscious of their sins.”

It’s deep. Before I read the transcript, I took two to three weeks—I was traveling, and giving, messages …  But those words: I kept pulling from it, and asking Allah, “Please help me to deliver this word from Your heart into the hearts of the people that You love. 

The people that You love, God”; that God is trying to save us from ourselves.  Because we have brought on ourselves the punishment and chastisement of God out of a natural law that no human being escapes.

All of us have fallen short of the glory of God.  All.  Not some, all!  And Allah says in the Qur’an if He were to punish man for their wrongdoing, He would not leave on the earth a single creature.

But He gives them a respite for a stated term; and when their term expires, they would not be able to delay the punishment for a single hour, just as they would not be able to anticipate it for a single hour. 

So, Allah gives the people a “respite,” a delay.  It’s a mercy from Him; it’s grace from God!  But when that grace period is up, and you have not paid the debt, you accrue penalties.

And the longer it goes, you have compound interest.  So, the debt increases over the time because we didn’t pay the credit card bill. He gives you a little grace period, but once that’s up … .

Everybody know about that?  Well, it’s the same way with God. [The] grace period is up for us to correct our behavior, confess our faults, turn from our wicked ways, and to seek God’s forgiveness.      

This message is for the president of the United States of America. This message is for all of the world leaders. The message is for every inhabitant of our planet.  So, the Honorable Minister Louis Farrakhan doesn’t want us looking at anyone else but your and my self.

… Jesus said, “You see the moat that is in your brother[’s] or your sister’s eye, but behold, the beam”—beam—“is in thy own eye.”  You hypocrites: First remove the beam that is in your own eye, and perhaps you will see your brother’s or sister’s fault clearer.

The point is you will never see it because we’ve got too many faults of our own to be pointing out and concerned about the faults of another.  That’s a cop-out!  Misery likes company.

I don’t want to see my own faults and my own mistakes.  So, as soon as I see the defect or the fault in another person, I can turn the attention away from myself and redirect it on somebody else.

The Holy Qur’an says, “Those who disbelieve will not benefit from the respite granted to them, but will instead add to their sins and face a disgraceful chastisement.”  The Bible tells us, “Father, there is no one righteous, not even one.” Oh, that’s big!  There is no one who understands, there is no one who seeks God. 

“I go to church.” You’re not seeking God. If we’re really seeking God when we go to church, and mosque, then I, you, we become a better human being!

But we go in to church and mosque one way and we come out the same way, because the heart and the mind is not on God.  It’s not on Jesus. It’s on feeling better about our own shortcomings. So, I can give in tithes and offering…

“… I’ve done something that God would accept,” or that “I could be pleasing in His sight”—but I go on living the same life; I keep engaging in the same behavior.  But I have not set my mind on Him, that I may be changed to become a new creature. 

But we’re decaying right now, we’re decomposing, and we don’t even see it!  We are wasting away…  And money can’t fix it!  So, keep chasing it, because it’s soon not going to have any value at all!  But it’s good to have it while it’s here, right?

Let’s keep everything real, right?  “All have turned away. They have together become worthless.”

“There is no one who does good, not even one.”  Listen to this.  “Their talk is foul like the stench from an open grave. Their tongues are filled with lies. The poison of vipers is on their lips.

Their mouths are full of cursing and bitterness. Their feet are swift to shed blood. Ruin and misery mark their ways, and the way of peace they do not know.”

My God …  The Honorable Minister Louis Farrakhan has been telling us for years to “watch the weather.”  Fire on one side of the country, ice and storms on the other side; extreme weather events striking the country. 

Not only here in America, but all over the world.  The events are telling us that we have entered into a very serious and troubled time. A time that the prophet Daniel said has never been and never to be equaled.

The Honorable Elijah Muhammad wrote in his monumental book, “Fall of America,” that the dreadful plagues and confusion of America are, are “beginning to boil,” and they are boiling.  He said the fuel making it boil will not cease until it is boiled down to the last of the dregs.

Then he said the present promise of a better future that America is making not only to its citizens but to black people will prove to be false. All of her false promises to us will be short-lived by both, because the time of her doom has approached.” 

Then he said this: “America would have to do a miraculous thing of justice, a square deal to turn it back. A fantastic show of tempting Black people to filth and evil will not work.” He said, “It takes justice to postpone the dreadful days of America.”

To be continued

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In the Name of Allah, the Beneficent, the Merciful. As-Salaam Alaikum

Our subject today is ‘The Survival of the Black Community.’ To survive means to live on. Survival is defined as the state of continuing to live or exist, typically, in spite of an accident, some ordeal or difficult circumstances.

We all are here, and we have continued up to this very point in our own time on the planet to live in spite of many adverse circumstances, many conditions that have come into our life. Most of the conditions and circumstances that have visited us are not of our doing. We are all victims of circumstances that we did not create.

So, you should celebrate your life that you have survived a lot, but I have to continue to live. I have to continue to gain requisite knowledge that would allow for me to not just be in a mode of survival, but I need to know how to live. And, there’s a difference between being alive and living.

As a people, boy, we have been through a lot. We’ve come a long, long way, but we’re still here. We have overcome overwhelming odds. So that tells you and me that God has been with us. That tells you and me that He’s intimately involved in our struggle.

The Honorable Elijah Muhammad said to us that we are at the end of this world. He taught us that we are at the end of Western civilization as we know it, that we are at the end of White supremacy, at the end of democracy, capitalism, socialism, communism, all the so-called political governance systems of the world are coming to an end. He taught us that we are in the time of God’s Judgment.

Both the Bible and the Holy Qur’an talk about the Judgment of God and the destruction of this world and most religious people, whether you are Christian or Muslim or Jew, all of us Believe in God. Do you believe in God?

Well, that’s the first step to knowing. Belief presupposes the absence of facts. Belief is the absence of knowledge, but belief starts you on a journey to confirm what you believe in.

There’s power in believing, but there’s more power in knowing, and that’s why the Scriptures say ‘to know God is to have life.’ Now you must know that God is, that means that He exists. He’s not a mystery, He’s not some spook, but He’s real.

But you must know the reality of God, and your belief in God leads you to the discovery of His existence. So, to know God is to have life, and you must know God and that all those who diligently seek Him are rewarded.

In all of these religions that believe in the oneness of God, there is a belief in the judgment of God, believing in God and believing that there will be what, a judgment. And one of the great principles of belief for Muslims and for Christians as well is a belief in the Day of Judgment.

The Honorable Minister Louis Farrakhan has said to us, ‘the people that live in the world must know that God is judging today, and He’s going to make it so clear as to why He’s judging and then give us that standard, and then command us to be in harmony with the requirements of the time that we might be successful and come through God’s Judgment of this present world. Most preachers, pastors, imams, don’t preach and talk about God’s Judgment.’

The Minister said they run away from the preaching of judgment. Why is that, when all the signs of the judgment, all the signs that Jesus spoke of and the prophets in the Bible, are clear? They’re manifesting. They’re being fulfilled in our face. And, the signs of the return of Jesus, the Christ, the Minister said, are in our face.

He raised the question, why aren’t they preparing the people for His coming? How can you talk about Jesus, represent Jesus to the people, and not prepare the people for His coming since we preach that you’re going to meet the Lord, you’re going to be in His presence? Well, how do you prepare to be in the presence of God?

Nothing happens except by the permission of Allah. It’s either out of His Permissive Will or His Active Will. Nevertheless, whatever happens is by His permission, and the Qur’an says, ‘Nothing will afflict us except what Allah has ordained for us. He is our patron, and on Allah let the believers rely.’

President Donald Trump has won the 2024 national election to be the 47th president of the United States. And that 47 is significant. He won the popular vote at last count with 74,657,054 votes to Vice President Kamala Harris with a little over 70 million votes. That shows you that though he won the popular vote by a very small margin, 5 million votes is not a lot, but it shows you how divided the country is.

He won the electoral vote 312 to Vice President Kamala Harris’ 226. It was a decisive victory for President Trump that has left half of the American people who voted for Vice President Harris disappointed and bewildered.

There was great hope that Vice President Kamala Harris could have been the first female president of the United States and the first Black woman to sit in the Oval Office.

Many in the Black community are upset and disappointed, and this election, like no other, created a lot of contemptuous exchanges in families, on the job, and it caused division among us. We invested so much in this election, and the loss has caused many to be troubled, some depressed, and many apprehensive over the future.

The Honorable Minister, Louis Farrakhan said, ‘We’ve entered extremely dark days in the fall of America and the fall of the present world. It is difficult for some of us to think about separation because we say separation is the scheme of nationalists.’

And, may I add, we think that the idea of separation is dated. We live in, what do they call it, a post-racial society. Really? Where do you live? The Minister said, ‘But even if you say that you are not with the nationalist, the question is, are you with God?

Because if you love God and are with God, then you should want to know what God wants. Have you even asked that question? What does God want? We don’t even consider Him.’ And then he said, ‘If you love God and are with God, and you should want to know what God wants. So, does God want us integrated into a house that is under divine judgment?’

The Honorable Elijah Muhammad said, brothers and sisters, that separation of the so-called Negroes from their slave masters’ children is a must. He said it is the only solution to our problem. You must know that this is the time of our separation and the judgment of this world, the Caucasian which you and I have known.

The Minister said, ‘Allah, God is not going to tolerate the righteous with the wicked. This is the day of separation in every house, and Allah God is going to separate those who love righteousness from those who choose to live a satanic life. Some people are trying to remain in this system. But it’s frequently pointed out that there are two Americas, one Black, one White, one rich, one poor, separate and unequal.’

And this, the Minister said, is the weakness of America, because Black people have become the Achilles heel of America since this country no longer has use for us. The rulers know our future, so their aim is to take us completely out of the favor with Allah God and cause us to fall with them.

When will we wake up?…

Don’t you think we need to come together and educate our own children? Come on! Come on! Don’t you think we should come together and create jobs and industry and factories and things where we can be progressive and productive as a people? Don’t you think it’s time for us to use our brain power and our intelligence and our resources to do something for ourselves?

Don’t you think it’s time now for us to stop depending on others to do for us what we can and should be doing for ourselves? Don’t you think it’s time now for us to stop looking to state government, county government, city government, federal government?

Mama may have, papa may have, and they do have. White folks have, Arabs have, Asians have … Everybody has. They got land that they can call their own, they take pride in their own flag. Where is yours? You’re not Jamaican, you’re not Nigerian, you’re not South African. You know you’re not Chinese, you’re not German, you’re not English. Who are you?

The Jamaicans come, they come into Chicago, they come into the cities, and they are segregated from us. Did you ever look at that? Our members of our family, the Ghanaians, the Nigerians, whoever comes. The Senegalese, they have their community, open up their restaurant, do their business and keep a distance.

Have you noticed that? That’s our family, but they come in with a certain pride, because they embrace their identity, right? And here we are. Been here now nearly 500 years. Did you know that’s how long we’ve been here, nearly five centuries? This is the 469th year of our sojourn, been it longer than anybody.

But you don’t see them begging government. You don’t see them with press conferences. You don’t see them complaining about crime … whatever problems they have in their community, they handle their business. The Italians handle their business. Something’s wrong. These are members of our family. Mama may have and she has, papa may have, but God blesses the child whose got his own.

So, the Honorable Elijah Muhammad came from Master Fard Muhammad with these words, and therein is our salvation, therein is the survival of the Black community: Accept your own and be yourself.

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