The Honorable Elijah Muhammad in his July 21, 1956 article, noted that we: “…are inclined to righteous worship so much so, until they are constantly seen disgracing themselves, in their ignorant way, due to the lack of knowledge … .”

It is clear that as the master robbed the slave of his natural ability to think, feel and do for himself. He (the slavemaster) directed our thoughts, feelings, and actions into their service. They turned our natural inclinations against ourselves and for themselves. They warped our minds. They reduced us during slavery into nothings in contrast to what we were and could become.

On page 304 of Message To The Blackman, the Honorable Elijah Muhammad made clear that the slaves were made to think he would get a better life, including wealth, after the white man worked, or otherwise, put him to death. The masters taught the slaves to seek his reward in a heaven in the sky after death to control the slave. They did not want the slaves thinking over the wealth the slaves were producing for the masters while both were alive here on earth. The white man filled the slaves’ imaginations with pictures of a false heaven to which they would go if they obeyed the masters. Moreover, the slaves saw no way to get a better life while they lived. Thus, the slaves’ longing for a better life was directed into fantasy; unreality. They did not know that their deepest yearnings would and could never be realized where and how they thought–in the sky after they died.

As the Honorable Elijah Muhammad teaches, the masters knew that no slave who died would be able to return to tell his brothers and sisters that the white people deceived them.

The slaves put their hopes for a good life beyond death because of the lies of the masters. They planned for death, not for life. They even expected to become white, like their white masters taught them Jesus was–a white god.**

The crushing weight of slavery combined with what the white people taught our people of Jesus produced a yearning for deliverance and a deliverer. Despite the fact that the slavemaster directed this longing to that which did not exist, this longing continued and intensified.

From the days of physical bondage until 1930, there were few changes in the Black man’s thinking about God, Jesus or himself. However, those changes that did occur were due to such factors as migration to the North, World War 1, increased education, somewhat better economic conditions and Marcus Garvey– who generated the first mass movement among Black people in America. This resulted in a drift from Christianity. But this drift was neither rapid nor far.

Another factor in this drift was despair of ever being relieved of the white man’s evils by means of the Christian religion. This despair combined with an inability to really understand the mystery god of Christianity, tended, somewhat, to reduce the Black man’s desire to rely on that god and religion.

Underlying all this (in America) and more (around the globe) was the unseen hand of Allah. He was active in behalf of His own, though they were unaware of Him. Their deliverance was being prepared, although they knew it not. The Deliverer was on the way, despite their ignorance of Him.

In another part of the earth, in the East, the Son of Man was preparing to openly manifest His presence among them and initiate His plans of salvation for those who were lost here in the West. All of this was written in the very Bible our fathers and mothers were reading and in which they believed.

Five thousand years earlier Abraham was helped to foresee this terrible state of condition. He was told by the Living God that he through his descendants would inherit the land which was shown to him. He asked God how shall he know this. He asked God for the means, the manner by which he could know this. He was not asking from a doubtful mind. He had demonstrated that he fully trusted his God. His God answered him by first giving him some instructions involving some birds. We will return to these details later.

Then, as it is recorded in Genesis 15:12 “As the sun was setting, Abram fell into a deep sleep, and a thick and dreadful darkness came over him.” Note: As, or while, or in accordance with which or with the way in which the sun was setting, he went into a peculiar kind of sleep. Other versions read: “a deep sleep fell upon Abram; and, lo, a horror of great darkness fell upon him.” Others use the word “terror” for “horror.”

Abraham went into an unusually deep sleep. The word variously translated horror, or terror, also means fear, and terrible dread. It implies something extremely frightening. The word translated darkness also means to make extremely dark or black, or to hide; even to confuse, in some of its nuances. It was a darkness, according to other aspects of its meaning, that enveloped, engulfed, or wrapped up that which it fell on.

The word fell, in the text, means that it (the darkness) has such power so as to cast down, divide, overthrew, and to make inferior, that on which it fell. It made one to fall and was that which had power to cause to fall.

The idea in that which is called a trance, is, to some extent, involved in the state of mind into which God put Abraham. A trance is, according to one simple definition: “a half-conscious state, seemingly between sleeping and waking, in which ability to function voluntarily may be suspended, especially a state produced by hypnosis or religious ecstasy.”

However, this does not cover all that this prophet of God experienced. He went into a state of sleep deeper than that which the above definition of trance tells us. He was taken in his spirit into our day. He was transported into this 400-year period of our enslavement and made to experience, in his spirit, something of what we were to go into 5,000 years after his time.

It was while he was in this condition that the Living God told Abraham–with the utmost conviction–these words, in verse 13: “Then the LORD said to him, ‘Know for certain that your descendants will be strangers in a country not their own, and they will be enslaved and mistreated four hundred years.”

For certain it happened! These words pointed directly to the millions of millions of Black people who were enslaved by the enslaver. But, with equal certainty, which originated from His infinite wisdom and power, He further told His servant, as verse 14 reads: “But I will punish the nation they serve as slaves, and afterward they will come out with great possessions.” (NIV)

This refers specifically to the United States of America. Some will say but that was in the past. Later we’ll come, Allah willing, to the sign of Jonah and how that nation which he warned took the words and lived, and the relevance of this to the Honorable Minister Louis Farrakhan and this country.

More next issue, Allah willing.

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One of the present realities, with which we all must deal, is the reality that even in 2017; most Black people still dislike themselves—to one degree or another. The larger picture, however, is that this self-hatred comes from the days of our physical bondage and the whole way in which White people taught, or reared, Black people. In making us to hate ourselves, and in fooling us into keeping this process up, they made us to hate our origin; ultimately God Himself.

To hate self is to hate God. True, this is changing, for the better. But this is still a fact—a crucial illness that must yet be dealt with. And many are. To hate self is to hate God. To hate God is to love the devil and evil. To love the devil involves bowing to his will, following his lead and practicing what he says we should do.

If one looks into the reality of the definition of the hatred of self, they find that self means nature. Our self is our essential nature. So to reject our original nature is to reject self as well as the origin of self—God Himself. This is an oversimplification that is nevertheless 100 percent true.

This is at the root of our disunity; the envy; the jealousy; the arrogance; the vanity; the foolish arguments we engage in 24 hours a day; our murder of each other, whether physically or through slander—which comes from the pathological hatred some unjustly have for others, and so on. Being stool pigeons for the wicked against one’s own people; drunkenness; dope addiction; wife beating and child abuse—all of this comes from self-hatred!

This is at the root of what holds us back as a people—self-hatred! Self-hatred opens us up to being further deceived by the wicked against our self-interest. This evil cuts at the root of what builds a strong Black nation, which is to love for your own Black Brother and Sister as you love yourself. But, this which is called the golden rule can’t be truly operational among us until we really understand who we are—in terms of our origin: Allah Himself!

As the Honorable Elijah Muhammad said in the Theology of Time series, “Who are you going to love after you hate yourself?” Who can we really love if we hate, or continue to hate ourselves?

Now, according to the scriptures, when God comes at the world’s end, He reveals Himself fully to one man. That man’s task is to make Him known to His people and to the world. For what? Ultimately to put those on top who were at the bottom. And He has come. He did not come to show off that He is God. He is not like that. Nor did He make His servant like that. (Nor did that servant make the Honorable Minister Louis Farrakhan like that.) His servant said He is already on top and He came to put us on top!

The very nature of his task has the effect of raising those who are in the worst condition to the top and at the same time it brings those who are at the top— by means of their wickedness—down, down, down. … However, they too can rise and be better if, and only if they accept the right principles.

God could not, and would not, use a proud man as the instrument, or channel, to and through whom He would reveal Himself. Among the several qualities He would require in the man He would choose to be the conduit of His Person, (wisdom, aims and purposes) humility would, of course, be prime among them. This special servant of His would possess this quality, and other qualities of the greatness of God’s nature, to a greater degree than any other human being anywhere. He would develop all of the qualities in His servant to their fullest potential. The manner or principles He used in this development is the way He raised His servant according to his nature.

This is one of the reasons God would have to personally visit and choose one from the Black men and women of America. We are the people who were put, for centuries, in the most humiliating position and condition imaginable. God would naturally have to choose one from the most crushed of all people on earth in order for Him to get that man who was potentially greater than everyone else. This man would also be the most humble of us all. From them the Christ (the Crusher of the wicked) would naturally come.

Of course, there were other factors in God’s choice of the Honorable Elijah Muhammad. For example, he only had a fourth grade education. He learned just enough to be able to read and write, as he has said. This was so that this evil world cannot lay any claim in God’s preparedness of him. Thus this world cannot make any claims on God or express any rights to His kingdom. They cannot claim that they were responsible for his wisdom. Therefore, they have no claim on God’s new world.

Again, God came to a people reduced to nothing that He might do just as was written of Him; that He would bring into existence a new creation. This is that time. He is bringing in that which will be totally new through the most humiliated and humbled people who ever lived, the Black man and woman of America. We are called “no people” in the Bible.

All of the above leads to a chapter that I wrote in an unpublished book concerning the humble nature of a very powerful Blackman—the Honorable Minister Louis Farrakhan.

This was the man of whom the Honorable Elijah Muhammad said to a few thousand Black people in Mosque Maryam that his Minister, the Honorable Minister Louis Farrakhan, was a very humble Brother. By the time he said this, 17 years had passed since the Honorable Elijah Muhammad first laid eyes on the Honorable Minister Louis Farrakhan. By then, he knew his Minister well.

Naturally, our response to, or our attitude towards anyone, is rooted in our view of that person. If we disrespect or don’t like another, we will not regard them and what they say as we would another for whom we have greater respect. Likewise, the more we understand another, the easier it is to accept what they have to say—or, at least, it is easier to see things from their viewpoint, whether or not we agree with the contents of their view. Our self-concept may or may not interfere with a clear view of that person, their sayings and doings. It depends on how healthy our self-concept is. Humility is a quality which aids us in developing a balanced view of others. For instance, it keeps us from, or at least reduces rash assumptions about the other; their circumstances, and, in short, all those facts about others of which we really know little or nothing.

How do we see humble people? What do we feel about them? What are our definitions of this word? What comes up in our minds when we consider this term or quality? As a people we have not studied the qualities of good character, not to think of the qualities that composes the character or nature of God, which includes humility. We do not usually study the process by which good character grows. For example, just why is it that we often seem to learn better only after certain experiences—usually painful ones? What is really the root of the saying: experience is the best teacher? What is at the root of this seemingly universal factor in the growth of the human being?

More next issue, Allah Willing.

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“And your Lord says: ‘Pray to Me, I will answer you. Those who disdain My service will surely enter hell, abased.’ ”   -Holy Qur’an 40:60

What the Honorable Minister Louis Farrakhan speaks and acts from and urges all to acquire is certain knowledge, not theories. He teaches what he does from the Honorable Elijah Muhammad, who received what he did from God, Himself.

Theories are like conjectures, opinions, speculations, assumptions, presumptions, beliefs, suppositions and guesses. None of these will ultimately help the Original and poor people of the world up out of their condition of ignorance, illness, misery and poverty.

Only supreme truth today will resolve the problems of humanity. That supreme wisdom was brought to America and taught to the Honorable Elijah Muhammad. Furthermore, Minister Farrakhan was divinely made to carry on this divine message throughout the world.

Certainly, this sounds bombastic, childish, crazy, overly simplistic, naive and unsophisticated in the extreme. However, that is what the scriptures say would be said of this truth.

But billions believe that at the end of this wicked world that God is to come and take over the rule of this world and destroy it. This will happen after He first gives everyone the opportunity to accept or reject His truth that He revealed to a special servant of His. The nature of the weather is a major factor forcing the realization of the Presence of God on an increasing number of people.

In a little magazine of some of his articles that was published in 1956, the Honorable Elijah Muhammad stated that Master Fard Muhammad alone taught him, and that He continues to reveal His truth to him, “although to some it is unbelievable; but search your Scriptures and you will find that they verify that which you read in this book–that which Allah (God) has revealed to me.” We can read his words in his books obtainable from The Final Call.

Now, when we say this verifies that, we are saying that what is doing the work of the verification is not necessarily dependent on that which verifies. This is not the general use of the word “verify.” However, when distinguished from its synonyms, verify implies: “The established correspondence of the actual facts or details to those that are given in an account or statement. When what is in question is a suspicion, a fear or a probability, it can be verified only in the result, event or fulfillment.” This definition, of the special implication of the word verify, is from Webster’s New Dictionary of Synonyms.

The God today verified the words of the prophets with His servant and by fulfilling them in our faces.

Certainly, many have said and written that they don’t like what Minister Farrakhan teaches. But they have not and cannot prove it to be false. When they try to explain these teachings, they must use outright lies or words that camouflage their dislike for God’s truths and the defective reasoning. When forced to explain the basis upon which they stand, in their attempt to refute Minister Farrakhan’s presentation of God’s truths from His Messiah, they cannot. Why? A lie can only be told, not explained!

“Such then is Allah, your true Lord. And what is there after the truth but error? How then are you turned away!” (Holy Qur’an10:32)

“Many of the people of the Book wish that they could turn you back into disbelievers after you have believed, out of envy from themselves, after truth has become manifest to them. But pardon and forgive, till Allah bring about His command. Surely Allah is Possessor of power over all things.” (Holy Qur’an 2:109)

What brings on the darkness that just precedes or introduces the darkest hour? Is it envy?

Surah 113:3 of the Holy Qur’an refers to this dark period as “the evil of intense darkness.” In this dark time, evil people will cast “evil suggestions in firm resolutions” as they never have before then. So will envy.

Minister Farrakhan’s Study Guide Number 13 teaches us to make Allah the center of our lives in this ever darkening time and for us to seek refuge in the Lord of men, the King of men, the God of men, “from the evil of the whisperings of the slinking (devil), who whispers into the hearts of men, from among the jinn and the men.” (Holy Qur’an 113)

Minister Farrakhan is, as many of us refer to him, a divine reminder. He is a divine reminder of divine warnings, such as the following prophecy of Jesus.

At that time, the kingdom of heaven will be like 10 virgins who took their lamps and went out to meet the bridegroom. Five of them were foolish and five were wise. The foolish ones took their lamps, but did not take any oil with them. The wise, however, took oil in jars along with their lamps.

The bridegroom was a long time in coming, and they all became drowsy and fell asleep. At midnight, the cry rang out: ‘Here’s the bridegroom! Come out to meet him!’

Then all the virgins woke up and trimmed their lamps. The foolish ones said to the wise, ‘Give us some of your oil; our lamps are going out.’

“‘No,’ they replied, ‘there may not be enough for both us and you. Instead, go to those who sell oil and buy some for yourselves.’

“But while they were on their way to buy the oil, the bridegroom arrived. The virgins who were ready went in with him to the wedding banquet. And the door was shut.

“Later the others also came. ‘Sir! Sir!’ they said. ‘Open the door for us!’ But he replied, ‘I tell you the truth, I don’t know you.’

“Therefore keep watch, because you do not know the day or the hour.” (Matthew 25:1-13)

The Amplified Bible verse 13 reads: “Watch therefore [give strict attention and be cautious and active], for you know neither the day nor the hour when the Son of Man will come.”

The Holy Qur’an has the following in it, which reminds me of the above passage of Matthew: “On that day thou wilt see the faithful men and the faithful women, their light gleaming before them and on their right hand. Good news for you this day!–Gardens wherein rivers flow, to abide therein! That is the grand achievement.

“On the day when the hypocrites, men and women, will say to those who believe: ‘Wait for us, that we may borrow from your light. It will be said: Turn back and seek a light. Then a wall, with a door in it, will be raised between them. Within it shall be mercy, and outside of its chastisement.

“They will cry out to them: Were we not with you? They will say: Yea, but you caused yourselves to fall into temptation, and you waited and doubted, and vain desires deceived you, till the threatened punishment of Allah came, and the arch-deceiver deceived you about Allah.” (57: 12-14)

Remember, Moses asked Allah to provide him with his brother, and for Allah to “send him with me as a helper to confirm me.” (Holy Qur’an 30:34)

Confirm “usually implies the removing of all doubts, as by an authoritative statement or by indisputable facts.”

Remember, among other facts, Minister Farrakhan heard his teacher’s voice in a manner that confirmed that he is physically alive!

More, next issue, Allah willing.

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The Honorable Elijah Muhammad recognized Master Fard Muhammad on first sight on the night of September 22, 1931.

He told us that Master Fard Muhammad told him “not to give the little baby [us] ‘meat,’ but ‘milk’ instead. Meanwhile, He would feed the man He chose to represent Him, ‘meat’ and plenty of it during the next three plus years.

Sometime during the next month, in October 1931, He paid His servant a visit at his humble home. The Honorable Elijah Muhammad said that for the next 40 months His Teacher would teach him “night and day, seven days a week.”

He said they would often sit from the early part of the night and continue to sunrise and beyond. He constantly taught him things of Islam and of that which was before, and of what was to come. They were practically inseparable.

There were times when Master Fard Muhammad carried His servant just outside of town in His Chevy Coup. They would sit many hours while He taught His pupil many facts about the universe. It’s interesting to notice that the scientists of this world gradually came to agree on many of the scientific facts the Honorable Elijah Muhammad was taught, which he made known many years before they knew or confirmed them for themselves.

He said that Master Fard Muhammad gave him a copy of the Holy Qur’an in Arabic. He said he couldn’t read it. Then he said He gave him an Arabic-English copy of the Holy Book. It was the Muhammad Ali translation. A short time later He gave him the Yusuf Ali translation. Afterwards he said He lined him up with about two-thirds of it to study.

Before going further, let’s pause to ponder the words that were used to open the last article. They were:

“By what authority does the Honorable Minister Louis Farrakhan teach and do what he does? Who validates it and with what? Minister Farrakhan teaches that the Honorable Elijah Muhammad met God Himself. What convinced him?”

I’m responding to the third and fourth questions by quoting from the words of the Honorable Elijah Muhammad. Back in the early part of 1968, I transcribed many of his words from tapes and from accurate notes I made from what I heard him say.

I used some of his words in my witness of him in This Is The One. I used some of his words in Chapter Ten of that same book, and am using some of his words, here, in my witness to the truth of my Brother, the Honorable Minister Louis Farrakhan.

It’s my prayer that his words, and my comments on his words, serve the purpose of helping us to see the rock-solid basis of the work of Minister Farrakhan. It’s my conviction that without our understanding and accepting the nature of his authority, we won’t get through the dark hour.

Let’s ponder these words of the Honorable Elijah Muhammad. He said the first thing that struck him about the Great Mahdi, Whom he would soon represent to the world, was that His words and actions tallied with the Bible’s prophecy about what the One to come would say and do on His arrival.

What does “tallied” mean? “Tallied” is the past tense of “Tally.” “Tally” means, in the sense in which he used it, “to agree, correspond, or come to the same amount, or to cause two or more things to agree.”

He used this word, “tally,” to mean, “something that corresponds to or is the counterpart of something else.”

Our response to his words, here, is critical to our seeing exactly what convinced him of the identity of the One he was seeing and hearing.

I have heard him say that from his earliest memories he was attracted to the reading of the Bible. He said he would sometimes crawl under the family’s home or their barn to read it undisturbed.

Another of his earliest memories was that of his father preaching the Bible from the pulpit of the church. Increasingly, he grew to disagree with his father and other preachers on the meaning of the Bible. Moreover, he grew to expect the One that the Bible teaches would come in the last days of this world.

Think over his use of the word “tally” to describe what went on in his mind as he saw and heard Master Fard Muhammad. That’s the word he used to explain, or express, what went on in his mind, as he quickly saw connections between what he had read in the Bible, to the words and actions of the Man he saw, Who was addressing the audience of which he was a part, that night on September 22, 1931.

He was mentally operating on the highest level of thinking, or mathematics, known to this world. His Teacher caused this. He would cause him to go higher, deeper and broader. Through the teachings and guidance of his Teacher, he would surpass everyone who ever lived, except, of course, his Teacher.

Sufficient, manifest proof–which is beyond evidence–of his teacher’s superlative status, was the more than a vision experience of Minister Farrakhan, on the night of September 17, 1985.

On page 151 of Fall of America, the Honorable Elijah Muhammad wrote: “In these two books, one can easily find everything foretold that is happening today.” The books he was referring to are the Bible and the Holy Qur’an. I’ve never learned that he ever referred to any other book, or books, as having this kind of potent information.

On page 90 of Message to the Blackman we read; “If we have the true knowledge of the Bible and Holy Qur’an, we could agree on the truth of God, devil, religion and the people of Allah.”

On page 91 of this same book, we also read, “The Bible and Holy Qur’an are filled with truth that leads us up to the judgment, and some of their prophecies refer to the hereafter.”

On page 92, of this same book he also wrote, “Man makes himself a fool to try attacking Him in arguments. So, we have no doubt the Holy Qur’an is from the Lord of the Worlds. It is one of the cleanest reading books you ever read.”

The above sums up what convinced Minister Farrakhan’s teacher of Whom he met and was taught by. It’s obvious that one must be especially blessed to access the mind of God, in person.

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An event occurred on May 8, 1942, when the F.B.I. arrested the Honorable Elijah Muhammad on a false charge, that bears directly on Minister Farrakhan and us today.

To use his words, in a speech he delivered in Phoenix, Arizona, December 1967, he stated,

“They questioned me all night long in their office, until approximately eight or nine o’clock that morning–it was Friday when I was arrested. And they sent for a doctor to examine me to see if I was getting a little ‘off,’ but I was still normal. There was much said that night, and many questions were asked and most all of them were answered.”

More next issue, Allah willing, on one of those questions that is vital to an intelligent answer to: “By what authority does the Honorable Minister Louis Farrakhan teach and do what he does? Who validates it and with what?”

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It has been estimated, by some, that most people use but a very small amount of the potential of their minds. I’ve read percentages. How they arrive at those figures, and justify them, I don’t know. But the point they make is that human beings live very far within their capacity for demonstrating the qualities that make them “human.”

What does a fully developed human being look like? How different would he or she be from the vast majority of us, who are living far within our capacity for the best or full manifestation of the capabilities of a human being?

We already have countless examples, past and present, of the capacity of human beings to express the most depraved, degenerate, wicked, heinous qualities imaginable. But what of the opposite kind of human being?

There are many, the world over, who believe that there were powerful people, on this earth, who lived lives that were sublime, awe-inspiring, or even divine. Then, later or closer to our times, they point to the transcendent lives of the prophets. They also mention others, who although not on the level of the prophets, nevertheless lived magnificent and extraordinarily productive lives.

We’re taught that we ought to take example after these exceptional men and women, who led exemplary lives, even though they lived under the evil rule of Satan. Satan is the one, who according to Jews, Christians and Muslims, is the ultimate enemy of God and of humanity, and has ruled the earth for the last six thousand years, by His permission, and is the root cause of the misery of human life. How much better were humans, or could humans be, without Satan?

Most people don’t live by the principles of the lives of the prophets. And so the “religious” people teach of the Judgment Day. They state that the prophets foresaw a day when God Himself would change everything for the better–especially human life.

The Day of Judgment involves not just the doom and the destruction of this present world, or system of things, but the establishment of an infinitely superior world, in which people will live lives that express the best that is in the human being.

Now, what is that “best” that is in the human being? What kind of world will such people build, under Allah’s guidance? And, furthermore, what words would you use, now, to describe the human beings who will build, rule and live in such a world?

Here is one approach to this question. In Surah 2:285 of the Holy Qu’ran, we read: “The Messenger believes in what has been revealed to him from his Lord, and (so do) the believers. They all believe in Allah and His angels and His Books and His messengers.”

The messenger of the Qu’ran and the messengers of Allah before him, were all taught by Him. The messengers of Allah and their followers, take on “Allah’s colour, and who is better than Allah at colouring, and we are His worshippers.” (2:138)

Yusuf Ali translates this passage with these words: “(Our religion is) the Baptism of Allah: And who can baptize better than Allah? And it is He Whom we worship.”

In footnote number 137, Mr. Ali translates the Arabic word (which he transliterates “sihgat” with the English word “baptism” and states that “the root meaning implies a dye or colour” and that “apparently the Arab-Christians mixed a dye or colour in the baptismal water, signifying that the baptized person got a new colour in life.” He continued: “We do not believe that it is necessary to be baptized to be saved. Our higher baptism is the “Baptism” of God, by which we take on a colour (symbolically) of God, and absorb His goodness in us.”

It follows, then, that the more and more a person takes on the “color” of the Almighty, the more and more that person becomes like God; godly or divine.

The great majority of Muslim scholars teach that Allah possesses 99 attributes, or qualities that compose His character or nature. They teach, in effect, that living an excellent life, in essence, is living a life that expresses His attributes. If taking on the colouring of Allah means the absorption and the manifestation of the attributes or qualities of the character of Allah, then how much of our capacity for such life are we presently living? How many are expressing or manifesting what is called the 99 names of Allah?

Certainly we have the capacity to express the principles (or fundamental truths) that form the character of those who take on the color of Allah, but look at us and look at the sea of humanity throughout the earth. Most live miserably.

In his introductory letter to his study guides, the Honorable Minister Louis Farrakhan stated that: “each study session is designed on the guidance of Allah to produce … the self-accusing spirit.”

He made clear that these study guides were intended to activate within us the divine spirit that would move us out of the lowest state, or stage of human life, in which we are really savages, who live a beast life and cause in us that movement towards our true selves or to become one with Allah–God Himself.

Since this is the time of the end of this world, the end of Satan’s rule over human life, it’s also the end of the time of human-beast-like life.

The present rulers are to be replaced by rulers who will be spiritually, mentally or intellectually and morally superior in contrast to the present wicked rulers. That’s in the workings now, in the changes now taking place.

Now, what are some of the terms you would use to describe the people of the next world, in whom envy, jealousy, murder, disputing, slander, etc. finds no place?

Can you imagine a people, so taught and trained, that they have become masters of the laws of the spiritual, mental and moral aspects of their beings, and whose physical health is constantly in a state of excellence? Can you mentally see a people who have reached the point of maturity, that they display the most fitting view of, language for, emotional reaction towards and actions respecting every situation they encounter?

Would not such a people also have reached a level of internal power that would enable them to have power over the forces, or laws, of what is called nature; that govern the whole of creation?

Could the word “gods and goddess” be terms you could justifiably use to describe a people, who have become living manifestations of God’s attributes? What of our present state of development? Does the term “the children of God” apply to us, as we are now?

If we are using Minister Farrakhan’s study guides properly, to activate the spirit of God within us, what are we now, and what are we becoming?

If you say you can’t qualify for such a process, you are “dead” wrong. But if you continue without God’s purpose for you, and if you aim at nothing, you will hit it every time.

Does history, prior to this world’s existence, science and the scriptures support the above?

More next issue, Allah willing.

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We are into one of the crucial areas of this book—Closing The Gap. The word “crucial” means “vital to the outcome of something.” To me all of the answers the Honorable Minister Louis Farrakhan gave in this book are “crucial.”

From Closing The Gap, pages 124-127, with inserts.

Brother Jabril: Brother Minister, about a week and a half ago I showed you the chapter, titled, Minister Farrakhan’s Magnificent Answer out of the little book, Is It Possible That The Honorable Elijah Muhammad Is Still Physically Alive???”

You were somewhat amazed over your own words in it. There have been many instances where you looked back at words that you have spoken to me, in interviews, such as this interview, and in your speeches, etc., with utter and genuine surprise. Please comment.

Minister Farrakhan: I was with the Honorable Elijah Muhammad one day and they were playing a tape of him speaking. He made a point and he applauded. He was excited and he said, “Boy, Allah really gave me something there.”

Well I’m like that too. You give me a question, I give you an answer, but the answer comes as inspiration. Then if I’m blessed to be able to read what I said, sometimes I ask the question, ‘Did I say that?’ Well I didn’t say it. He said it through me, but now I’m fascinated and often overwhelmed by what came out of my mouth.

It just drops me almost to the floor in humility, to know that God would use me in this way to glorify Him and His servant, the Honorable Elijah Muhammad, and to help our people, and the people of the earth, out of the condition that 6,000 years of Satanic rule has put humanity under. I am awed and overwhelmed that Allah saw fit to use me in such a magnificent way. You are right.

To see the end of your faith, meaning to see the flourishing of what your faith has shown you. Although I may not live necessarily to see all of it because there’s so much that the words of the Honorable Elijah Muhammad causes one to see, but at least, to get a glimpse into the Hereafter would be a tremendous blessing.

Brother Jabril: Well honestly I feel, you are going to get more than a glimpse. I earnestly believe that. Of course, many might say, “Well, that’s just you talking, Jabril.” But I believe that. I want that for you, my Brother—and all of us.

Minister Farrakhan: For all the Believers.

Brother Jabril: Right!

I began to ponder over the unique power of speech that Allah blessed Minister Farrakhan with (and us through him) early, while I was still in the hospital, last year February (2007). Then, during the first few weeks, I was hardly able to speak clearly. I could not write one word of anything. But Allah blessed me to be able to think and to observe—not to moan. I was in school.

I do not intend to spend your precious time writing about the condition (aphasia) that Allah is blessing me to overcome. I intend to share this elsewhere, Allah willing. I’ve been writing in this column from the time the newspaper was published up to right now. Its purpose was and is to bear witness to the truth of the person, teachings and the mission of Minister Farrakhan and his relation to his teacher and to Almighty God Allah.

I had an experience that provided me with an a little more insight into what I already know, while I was yet still in the hospital last February. I intend to continue this by the help of Allah, in the next few articles.

Jabril Muhammad: What is the key in the interpretation of anything, especially in what you intend to do in the Beethoven violin concerto on February the 13th in Los Angeles?

Minister Farrakhan: In order to properly interpret anything that has been said or done by another, one has to be in harmony with the mind and the spirit of the one whom he or she desires to interpret.

People that wish to interpret the word of God cannot do so properly without His permission. That person must be in tune with the mind and the spirit of God, as He revealed His word, in order for one to properly interpret that word.

Every mind of greatness is from God. Every person of greatness in any field, who becomes a standard of measurement of proficiency in that field, must be studied, not from the mind of envy; not from the mind of jealousy; not even from the mind of self-aggrandizement.

For example, to study a prophet, whose heart was so humble that he could receive revelation from God, and in order for you to even approach the meaning of that revelation of that prophet, you would have to be in the same spirit of humility of the one who received God’s word, for God to open that revelation up to you. Based upon your capacity to grasp, God gives you.

In upcoming articles, are such questions as, how he (Minister Farrakhan) uses adversity in his life to advance the cause of Allah. He also insightfully answered several other questions, including the divine purpose and place of chaos in the overall divine plan for our perfection and the fundamental spiritual scales, which must be removed from our eyes, if we are to make the progress we can to fulfill the purpose of Allah for our lives.

Meanwhile, study these words of Mother Tynnetta Muhammad’s article, Volume 21 No. 21, part of which reads:

“The Honorable Minister Louis Farrakhan outlined ‘Eight Steps of the Atonement Process’ while delivering to us, and the world, the Redemptive Message that was intended to put us on the road to a high civilization as he addressed nearly two million men gathered for the Million Man March in Washington, D.C., on October 16, 1995.

“It is due to this continual disrespect of the Principles of the Brotherhood to Practice Unconditional Love among us that is leading to distrust, immorality and a decline in our success as a people that is separating us into groups to be judged by God. This lack of discipline in our lives is also separating many from the bright light and example of the Honorable Minister Farrakhan while we are being grouped into ranks, some of whom are revealing themselves as uncongenial company.

“The Prophet was not made totally aware of the mischief-makers and their various machinations; only Allah and His Angels were given charge over them. Those who read these words may take note of their actions and better recognize who they are. Such uncongenial company will soon be removed from among the Believers by Allah, God, Himself, Who is sifting and testing us through trials and tribulation, as the Most Perfect Judge.

“Being guided by Allah’s Spirit, I will only say, All Praise is due to Allah for His Presence and Saving Grace. Without His Abundant Mercy and Forgiveness, none would escape the Divine Chastisement of Allah. The Holy Qur’an reveals in Surah 8 that the threatened punishment would not come while the Servant of God was still in our midst; but once he was removed, the executioners would come. This is a True Prophetic Picture of our present condition today.”

The Honorable Elijah Muhammad has stated that, “Disagreement is like a lighted fuse.” He also said that “agreement is the basis of love.” Believers should be 100 percent in agreement with Minister Farrakhan’s study guide 13, that he is asking us to study.

More next issue, Allah willing.

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I’m making this clearer than ever. I’m not saying that the Honorable Minister Louis Farrakhan is Daniel. No! I’m saying to study this deeper than ever.

In the Bible, we read in the book of Daniel; “it shall come a time of trouble such as never was since there was a nation even to that same time.”

We are living in that time.

It says in the Bible that at that time, this great prince Michael shall stand up. And Michael is also referred to as the one in the book of Jude who contended with Satan, over the body of Moses.

Contended with Satan, over the body, is the argument over whether or not the Honorable Elijah Muhammad is alive or dead.

The above is 100% true–not that I’m so wise, but this comes from the wisdom of the Honorable Elijah Muhammad, who met the Supreme Being, Master Fard Muhammad–both of whom backs up Minister Farrakhan.

All of this is to lead to Minister Farrakhan–who sums up the wisdom, out of which he “operates”–from the wisdom of the Honorable Elijah Muhammad.

The Honorable Elijah Muhammad has been healed and is now wearing his crown of glory and seated at the right hand of the wisest, most loving and powerful being Who has and Who will ever live: Master Fard Muhammad.

His Teacher has given to him that book which contains the wisdom and the guidance for the next world.

In the last book of the Bible, called Revelation, we read of Their meeting and of a city called New Jerusalem, which is seen coming down from heaven. This is to say that those in that heavenly state are working on and have an ongoing connection to those on earth–where we are!

From where he is, the Honorable Elijah Muhammad is working through and guiding his servant, Minister Farrakhan. He is doing so with wisdom which exceeds any definition of wisdom which this world can imagine.

Through Minister Farrakhan he is making clear the right road or the straight path in which we all must walk.

His–Minister Farrakhan’s–service to us is of the greatest, the highest value. This involves everybody, both Black and White and also the most powerful Jews in America.

I will give the words of the Honorable Elijah Muhammad which tells us of his value, next article Allah willing! I’ve wrote of this several times in articles and books.

In the Bible you can read this. But read it carefully:

“And I saw in the right hand of him that sat on the throne a book written within and the back side, sealed with seven seals.

“And I saw a strong angel proclaiming with a loud voice, ‘Who is worthy to open the book, and to loose the seals thereof.’

“And no man in heaven, nor in earth, neither under the earth, was able to open the book, neither to look thereon.

“And I wept much, because no man was found worthy to open and to read the book, neither to look thereon.

“And one of the elders saith unto me, ‘Weep not: behold, the Lion of the tribe of Judah, the Root of David, hath prevailed to open the book, and to loose the seven seals thereof.’

“And I beheld, and, lo, in the midst of the throne and of the four beasts, and in the midst of the elders, stood a Lamb as it had been slain having seven horns and seven eyes, which are the seven Spirits of God sent forth into all the earth.

“And he came and took the book out of the right hand of him that sat upon the throne.” Revelation chapter 5:1-6

Thirty months after the departure of the Honorable Elijah Muhammad, in 1977 Minister Farrakhan arose–right on the divine schedule, mentioned in the scriptures.

Eight years later he was taken to the Honorable Elijah Muhammad, in a powerful vision and heard his teacher’s voice–the Honorable Elijah Muhammad. I’ve made my view of his experience public, several times.

His teacher told him, among other things, that after he did one more thing he would then see him in person.

It is clear from these words that he had passed the test of faithfulness–in the eyes of his teacher–even at that time. And much has happened since then, that marks this illustrious Minister Farrakhan.

He is on his way to receiving the new teachings from his teacher. Allah willing.

We cannot know the above or see the above, in this article, without knowing and learning the truth from our hearts. Does this involve envy and the worse kind of jealousy?

In creation of the universe, the very basis of evil that was not removed in the beginning, but where there was a very, very, very, hint of it, is now being removed forever. Now is the time, this “forever” that’s about to come in, and, will be just that, “forever.”

How do I know? This comes from the wisdom of the Honorable Elijah Muhammad who met The Supreme Being.

We cannot know this or study this, without a very, very deep respect for Minister Farrakhan. We cannot even know the Honorable Elijah Muhammad without knowing him–Minister Farrakhan and his words, which have been made public over the world, for many years for His purpose!

More next issue, Allah willing.

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The Holy Qur’an teaches: “And they say: Obedience. But when they go out from thy presence, a party of them plan by night doing otherwise than what thou sayest. And Allah writes down what they plan by night, so turn aside from them and trust in Allah. And Allah is sufficient as having charge of affairs.” (4:81)

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Part of the first question I asked the Honorable Minister Louis Farrakhan for the book entitled, “Closing The Gap,” was: “Brother Minister, this first question concerns a universal phenomenon which affects the relationship between a leader and his staff and followers–divine leaders in particular.

“From time to time, gaps develop as the leader moves ahead and the followers work to keep pace… Please comment.”

The first part of his remarkable and profound answer was:

“The first thing that I shall do is analyze why gaps appear between leaders of consequence–particular Divine Leaders–and their followers at given times in the growth and development of them in their mission.      

“Whenever a leader is chosen by Allah (God), he is chosen oft-times thousands of years before he comes to birth. He is formed in his mother’s womb under certain circumstances, which makes him for the specific job he is to do, by equipping him with the basic material at birth.

“As he comes into the knowledge of his assignment or mission, the next greatest need for him is to find the adequate and proper help to fulfill the mission that Allah (God) has given him. This is where the problem begins.

“First, he has to grow to understand his mission. In the course of his growth, persons come to help him at every stage of his evolution. As people do not always evolve with the leader, some fall off when the leader is in the seminal stage. Some fall off when the leader is a clot. Some fall off when the leader is embryonic. Some fall off when the leader is in the fetus stage, and some fall off when the leader is a child in understanding. Some others fall off as he begins to mature.

“There are those who think they fully know him and his teachings when they became acquainted with him in the clot stage. However, such people lose sight of him as he evolves and they go out, thinking they fully know him and his teachings. They teach what they know, but a gap develops and widens between them and the leader as he goes through the clot stage; the embryonic stage; the fetus stage; the child stage; and finally becomes the mature man.

“What can prevent this? His help has to evolve with him. All of his help may not necessarily have been formed under the unique circumstances that led to his evolutionary development from before he was actually in physical form, even while that which produced him was being formed. So, now he comes into the world constitutionally fit for his mission, but his helpers may or may not have that base, that brilliance, that insight, that foresight which comes from being Divinely Prepared.

“So his helpers, at best, come according to their own understanding of this man, his mission and his teachings at the moment in time when they first encounter him. But as he continues to grow and evolve, change and mature, perhaps they will not see him in the same way in the next phase of his development as they saw him in the stage when they first came to help him.  Why? Because he sufficed a particular need that was very personal and individual for them. When that need is met, they claim him as their leader. As he evolves more and more, if they do not grow with him, a gap develops,

“Therefore, Allah (God) gives His servants helpers from Himself. That help is the best help because these persons grow along the same lines [the servant] grew. They are formed in the same way he is formed; their hearts are formed in the same way his heart is formed. Therefore, these helpers see into this man what other helpers may not see, because the latter were not made from Allah (God) to be his helper in the same way or degree as the former.

“However, they (the latter) accept the role of a helper. Nevertheless, if they don’t stay in constant submission, in constant obedience, in constant study, and in constant growth, then gaps will develop between the teacher and the student that will lead the student (sometimes) to be critical of the teacher when the teacher grows beyond the particular need of that helper that motivated that helper to first want to help. That is the way I would answer that question.”

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The above ends the first part of his answer.

Now, just how important is Minister Farrakhan’s answer, not just to my question, but to our salvation?

Let’s start with the following excerpt from the Introduction of “Closing The Gap.” It reads: “A few days ago, when the Honorable Minister Louis Farrakhan saw a draft of this work, he immediately said to me that he wanted to give it away to the Believers as a Saviours’ Day Gift. He hoped that I would have been able to include my commentary in this volume. However, there was simply not enough time. It is my intention, however, to present that fuller volume as soon as I am able, and for the same reason.”

What follows, of course, is not that larger volume with my commentary. However, I would like to make some comments now, especially because of the hour.

This is the 3rd of January. Generally speaking–except for certain wise moves just made by Minister Farrakhan–this year is starting off as last year ended.

Is this overdoing it? No, as we’ll see next article, Allah willing.

Will this year continue as it started?

One morning over coffee in Chicago, Illinois, the Honorable Elijah Muhammad told me a significant truth, which I’m sure he shared with some others. A part of it was that too many of us followed him as the symbolic Moses followed the Wise Man, according to the Holy Qur’an. This tendency or inclination in us continues today in the way we follow Minister Farrakhan.

Minister Farrakhan sees his teacher as far, far above him in wisdom. However, the Honorable Elijah Muhammad did say at his dinner table that he would provide us with one closer to our condition. He definitely had Minister Farrakhan in mind, who is steeped in his wisdom–divine wisdom.

I strongly suggest that we read Surah 18 of the Holy Qur’an, sections 9 and 10, or verses 60-82 as that’s where we are going, Allah willing.

Based on the words of the Honorable Elijah Muhammad, especially with reference to him and Minister Farrakhan, we will find that, when we read this wonderful wisdom in this wonderful book, we are reading about ourselves.

May Allah bless us all.

More of the wisdom of his answer, next issue, Allah willing.

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I was taken to the hospital on February 18, 2007. Without details, my condition was/is called “conduction aphasia,” medically speaking. That has caused me to think more deeper than ever on my witness of the Honorable Minister Louis Farrakhan and his relation to the Honorable Elijah Muhammad. That experience caused me to see deeper and appreciate more than ever, his power of speech.

The word “profound” is not deep enough, or wide enough, to express his overall value adequately to humanity. I’m not exaggerating. (More on this word, “exaggeration, its evil use and its righteous use.”)

Minister Farrakhan had an experience that was extraordinary and had an impact on the world, and it continues to impact the world, even though most people on the planet do not know of it right now. I want the readers, to be acquainted with what I call his, “more than a vision” experience he had on September 17, 1985, while in Mexico.

He first told it to his wife Mother Khadijah and Mother Tynnetta Muhammad. A few days later when he saw me in Phoenix, Arizona, he told it to me. It had a powerful impact on me when he first told me what he told me of his experience. I wanted others to learn of his experience and under what circumstances he had it.

Years later due to that event, I decided to write a book that included a chapter on his experience. That book included words from Mother Tynnetta Muhammad of his experience. I asked Mother Tynnetta Muhammad, wife of the Honorable Elijah Muhammad, to give me a statement of her first reaction to his experience.

So, I asked her in 1991: “Please tell me when and where Minister Farrakhan first spoke to you of his, what I call his “more than a vision,” which he experienced back on September 17, 1985.”

“On the morning of September 19, 1985, immediately within hours of Mexico City’s worst earthquake, which occurred at 7:19 a.m. in the morning, the Honorable Minister Louis Farrakhan and his wife Mother Khadijah, left the hotel where they were staying in Tepoztlan and traveled to Cuernavaca to the home of Mother Tynnetta Muhammad.

“As they came up the steps into the kitchen area, Minister Farrakhan reached the top step and when turning into the kitchen, he suddenly recalled that he was taken up into the Mother Plane. As he entered the door, he began to share the experience that he had two days earlier on September the 17th.

“He appeared a little dazed as he sat down at the kitchen table. He spoke about climbing the sacred mountain called Tepozteco Mountain at the top of which is a small pyramid dedicated to the former king of Tepozteco. These histories of the Indigenous People of Mexico all ultimately lead to unveiling parts of the history of the great folk hero of all of Meso America known as Quetzalcoatl.

“The Minister began to describe that he was climbing the mountain, with a few companions, when suddenly an unidentified flying object (UFO) appeared upward at the side of the mountain where the pyramid is located. He then described that three metal legs appeared from the bottom of the wheel like plane. He said he heard a voice telling him. ‘Not them; just you.’ And that he was told to relax. He said a light came from the ship and he was carried up on a beam of light into it.

“He said that when inside this spacecraft that he never saw the face of the pilot or heard words from him. It moved away from the side of the mountain at a terrific speed. He said that he knew he was being transported to the Mother Wheel and that the pilot knew he was frightened of seeing such a great ship (the Mother Wheel). The pilot maneuvered his craft in a way that he did not see the Mother Wheel and backed into it in a tunnel.

“Minister Farrakhan went on to say that the pilot escorted him to a room. In the ceiling was a speaker. Then he said he heard the voice of the Honorable Elijah Muhammad clearly speaking to him.

“He said that the Honorable Elijah Muhammad began speaking to him and as he did, a scroll rolled down in front of him.

“He said the Honorable Elijah Muhammad began to reveal to him information about a war being planned by the president and the Joint Chiefs of Staff. He said the Honorable Elijah Muhammad wanted him to deliver this message at a press conference in Washington, D.C. and to reveal their plans and to tell them that he got this information from Elijah Muhammad on the Wheel. He told him that he had one more thing to do and that when he did that one more thing he would be permitted to come to the Wheel and see him face to face.

“I remember that I experienced with great excitement, enthusiasm and palpitation of my heart and I said to him, Brother Minister, do you realize what you’re saying? And he responded by asking me what did I see in this experience? I was so overwhelmed in my response that I could only think, my God; he literally had met with my husband. He has begun to communicate with him in his journey much like Ezekiel being taken up on a Wheel within a Wheel.

“As I began to piece this experience together, in later days, I recalled the scriptures from both Bible and Holy Qur’an that mentioned Moses’ mystical experience in the mountain, where he left the children of Israel below and at that particular time, there were only a few elders or companions who were able to be present at the foot of the mountain.

“In the experience, the tablets were revealed and Moses was not able to see the face of his Lord, but was only able to see, according to the Bible, his hinder parts, his back parts, as he went by him. And again, in each instance of his highly mystical contact with God, there was a great earthquake.”

“Thank you, Mother Tynnetta Muhammad.”

A few days later Minister Farrakhan came to Phoenix, Arizona, with Mother Khadijah and Mother Tynnetta Muhammad. That’s when he told me of his electrifying experience. I’m going to share my first reaction to that experience next article, Allah willing.Years after his experience I wrote a first draft of a 25,000 word commentary on the veracity, significance and power of his experience. That was a chapter I wrote for a book. I wrote that first draft back in 1991.

While I was in the hospital about, or right after, February 18 for some weeks during March 2007, some of that material from that first draft, was sent to and printed in The Final Call. I’m grateful for that.

I’ve thanked Sister Traci (now of Phoenix) who sent some of my words to The Final Call to be printed for the public. Brother Jesse Muhammad, (of Muhammad Mosque #45) helped her with my words during that time. I was not able to keep up my articles during that time. I’m grateful for what they did.

That helped me to bear witness to Minister Farrakhan’s experience that the Honorable Elijah Muhammad is very much ALIVE.

More next issue, Allah willing.

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This article won’t appear until March 6, Allah willing, as it’s being written on Tuesday, February 21.

So much is happening so fast throughout America and the world that quickly brings to mind this, that or the other prophesy written of these days that has either been fulfilled, is being fulfilled, or is about to be fulfilled, that it’s hard to comment comprehensively within the space of a short article.

Fundamental to the correct understanding of everything that is taking place is the following fact. Starting in 1931, the Honorable Elijah Muhammad met and was being taught by Allah in the Person of Master Fard Muhammad. People saw and heard Him, and formed ideas of Him, but did not recognize that He was in fact The One of Whom all of the prophets prophesized to come had arrived.

The Honorable Elijah Muhammad taught us that He taught him, in Person, for three years and four months–from September 1931 onwards. This education included a thorough understanding of the Bible and Holy Qur’an.

When most think of the Old Testament, New Testament and Holy Qur’an, they think of Jews, Christians and Muslims respectively. The power of the truth that was revealed to the Honorable Elijah Muhammad is in the process of forcing the world to come to a new understanding of the scriptures.

Allah revealed to the Honorable Elijah Muhammad that the history in these scriptures of these three groups of people ultimately refers to Original people here in America and in this time period.

The Honorable Elijah Muhammad was taught by One Who went under the name (at first) of “W.D. Fard,” later adding “Muhammad” in 1933, as the Honorable Elijah Muhammad said He did. That was the same year He also gave him the name “Muhammad,” replacing the name “Karriem” (that He had given him earlier) with which He replaced his slave name.

Certainly, I did not hear or read everything the Honorable Elijah Muhammad spoke or wrote of the truth he was taught. But I bear witness to the truth of what he taught–even to that which I did not hear him say or write. Please expect an explanation soon.

I heard him say that his Teacher taught him that He used the name “Wallace” signifying “friend” and that He had befriended us, “the rejected and despised” of all people; that He had befriended us, a friendless people; and that He had befriended us to give us friendship with the righteous the world over.

I heard him say that he did not know what the “D” meant, but that does not mean that he didn’t later learn its meaning and mentioned it to others.

One of the reasons He used the name “Fard” was to declare that He was self-independent and He has come to make us, who were the most dependent people, especially on our open enemy, the most independent nation that ever lived.

One of the meanings of His use of the name “Muhammad” was that He was the “Praised One” Who was worthy of praise and that He had come to make us the praised of the nations.

There’s a little more that I did learn that I won’t mention here. Moreover, I am sure the Honorable Minister Louis Farrakhan (and others) learned what I did and more. In any case, this is clear: Two powerful signs of the truth and the power of His names can easily be seen in the rise to imminence of the Honorable Elijah Muhammad and now Minister Farrakhan.

Like Moses, according to the scriptures, who sought from God a special helper, the Honorable Elijah Muhammad sought from his Teacher a special helper to help him with what his Teacher informed him was the hardest job the Almighty ever gave to any man who ever lived.

From the ’30s onward, he continued to be on the lookout for signs from his Teacher of the identity of this special helper. In his February 1954 Saviour’s Day speech he declared:

“Since you and me are witnesses here this afternoon in this world that we live, we have been so greatly misunderstood that I desire that Allah send to me a little helper; for 22 years I have worked hard wherever I was or may be to try to get into your ears and into your hearts the truth that Allah has revealed to me.”

The next year, on February 26, 1955–the year that marked the fulfillment of the 400-year prophesy that we were to serve our enemies (Genesis 15)–the Honorable Elijah Muhammad was divinely given that sign. He recognized that special helper who was sitting in the audience and at once gave him the essence of his assignment.

That special helper, of course, is Minister Farrakhan. He would have to be that special helper to share with his teacher the hardest job God ever gave to any man!

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#598 “To blame a man of God for our misfortunes is doubly unjust. For he comes to save us from misfortune, and it is because we flout him or pay no heed to him, that our own rebellion brings its own punishment. If we realize this truth we shall be saved from two sins: (1) the sin of injustice to God’s Messengers, who come for our good, and not for our harm; (2) the sin of not realizing our own shortcomings or rebellion, and thus living in spiritual darkness. If the Message is from God, that carries its own authority: ‘enough is God for a witness.’ ”

#599 “The Apostle was sent to preach, guide, instruct, and show the Way, not to drive people to good, or to detect all that was evil. That is not God’s Plan, which trains the human Will. The Apostle’s duty is therefore to convey the Message of God, in all the ways of persuasion that are open to him. If men perversely disobey the Message, they are not disobeying him, but they are disobeying God. In the same way those who obey the Message are obeying God. They are not obliging the Messenger: they are merely doing their duty.”

#600 “If we trust … people who are not true, they are more likely to hinder than to help. But God is All-good as well as All-powerful, and all our affairs are best entrusted to His care. His is the best Guardian of all interests.

“Therefore we should not trust the lip professions of Hypocrites, but trust in God. Nor should our confidence in God be shaken by any secret plots that enemies hatch against us. We should take all human precautions against them, but having done so, we should put our trust in God, Who knows the inner working of events better than any human mind can conceive.”

More on these notes–in relation to Moses and the Wise Man–in Yusuf Ali’s translation of the Holy Qur’an, as they apply to Minister Farrakhan as well as his teacher, next issue, Allah willing.

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