There is no question that the use of the scriptures, by the Honorable Elijah Muhammad, is still very relevant—and indispensable—to the solu­tions of the problems of Black people of America, and elsewhere, by reason of the fact of the powerful effect of the work of the Honorable Minister Louis Farrakhan. He uses the same instruments his teacher used to do his work.

Did the Honorable Elijah Muhammad know of the mathematics in the writings of the scriptures before Doctor Khalifa, and others, did? Not only did he, but he demonstrated that he was brought into the under­stand­ing of far deeper mathematical truths, which produced, correlated and in­terlocked all aspects of reality—including all of the problems of human­ity—by Almighty God Himself. He was taught the very root of all mathe­matics. This root is in the brain, or mind, of the human being. God taught and brought him into the very nature of the movement of the mind of Him, Who originally conceived of all of that which we call “universe” and Who produced the human mind.  Allah taught him the root of math­ematics—which ultimately resides in the core of the mind of God Him­self.

The six written lessons that we received through the Honorable Elijah Muhammad were put together out of an extraordinarily high mathematical manner. And, let us remember, he was a man with a 4th grade education, who started his teachings in the 1930s, presenting scientific facts before this world’s scientists learned of them!

Yes, he knew of such high mathematics. Every now and then, in pub­lic lectures, the Honorable Elijah Muhammad indicated—and to some ex­tent explained—the relation between certain mathematical formulations con­tained in the Bible and the Holy Qur’an. This make it very evident that he was more than just aware of the code, involving the number 19, with which the Holy Qur’an is written. He used it in his work among us, and still does. 

The Holy Qur’an was written by the Creator and Sustainer of the uni­verse. As we learn to follow God’s guidance, we grow to be in tune with Him, each other, ourselves and His creation. We would then live mathematically, according to our nature, and we would be benefited ac­cordingly. Greater wisdom is required and is being utilized by God in guiding people today than is used in governing the rest of creation. In fact, the divine work—now going on—of raising the spiritually dead to life; judging the world; and creating a brand new one, in which evil be­comes an impossibility, requires wisdom and power superior to what was required to bring man and the universe into being in the very begin­ning of creation! Creation, unlike man, does not rebel against the Cre­ator. Man does. So to bring into existence a world in which human be­ings will­ingly live according to the best or highest aspects of their na­ture—the na­ture of divine—requires infinite wisdom; even superior to that used in the beginning of the origin of the universe.

The Honorable Elijah Muhammad is the first man to really teach the pub­lic that Islam is mathematics and that mathematics is Islam. Both (Islam and mathematics) are the nature of God and the people He created from Himself. It is natural, therefore, that in the preparation of the Bible and the Holy Qur’an, long ago, these books were originally written in ac­cor­dance with the nature of God Himself, as He is the Author of its truths. He wrote and revealed this mighty book, the Holy Quran, accord­ing to His nature.

Certainly, the Bible has been tampered with. However, as the Honor­able Elijah Muhammad stated, the Bible is true when you understand it. God gave him the true understanding of both books. He has given that un­derstanding to Black people and the world.

The Honorable Elijah Muhammad once stated, in the Mosque in Chicago, in 1960, that Allah gave us to him (Honorable Elijah Muham­mad) before He took leave of us. And He gave him (the Honorable Elijah Muhammad) to us to bring us to Him (Allah).

The Honorable Minister Louis Farrakhan was produced by God for the Honor­able Elijah Muhammad to get us all for him (the Honorable Elijah Muhammad). This work is now in full progress. 

Thus, Minister Farrakhan’s success grows out of his obedience to di­vine guidance, (and deeper, as it was written, he is actually under the control of his teacher). This guidance is from the God, Who governs creation, and this guidance is through the Christ—the Honorable Elijah Muhammad. His work, therefore, being rooted in the foundation laid by the Honorable Elijah Muhammad, cannot and will not be anything other than successful because God is real and is present. The greatest of all controversies is being resolved for all time!

I once asked the Honorable Elijah Muhammad questions concerning The Supreme Wisdom Lessons given  to us by Master Fard Muhammad to His Servant The Honorable Elijah Muhammad for the Lost Found Nation of Islam in North America. I asked him why there were 10 Student Enrollment and not some other number; and why there were 20 Statements of Facts and not some other number. I knew that the numbers to our Lessons were significant. He answered by telling me that the 10 Student Enrollment represent the big family of ten; the nine planets and the sun making up the family of ten. Then he stated that the 20 Statements of Facts represents the length of time some would undergo a particular study. Then he stated to me that he’s not to tell me the answer to all that I was to study and found out for myself.

Early last year, I was with the Honorable Minister Louis Farrakhan at the farm in New Buffalo and I asked him how long did it take for him to complete his musical album? He told me 14 years. I knew that the 14 years was/is very significant and is connected to our Supreme Wisdom Lessons.

The Honorable Elijah Muhammad once said of and to Minister Farrakhan that he “… would rise to the pinnacle of success in this world’s life.” This world’s life has existed for six thousand years. Now we are at its end. This world rejected both God and His Anointed One, as it was expected. So did our nation (Black people of America), as a whole.

This world was doomed before it was born. Not so with our nation. Nevertheless, as we move towards the final judgment, we’ve rejected the opportunity of receiving an “A” or a “B” grade. However, we have a chance for a “C” grade through our Brother, The Honorable Minister Louis Farrakhan. The “C” grade will save us from the “D” (doom of this world) grade—which will do us out of God’s greatest rewards and do us in. This is a most serious matter.

Only 144,000 were prophesied to escape the doom of this world, by some of the Wise Scientists. One “slim” last chance, or way was outlined in the scriptures, however, to save the millions of our people; even to providing others of this world a way out. It’s there in the scriptures. It involved the production of Minister Farrakhan—by the Lord of the worlds, and special preparation by and the prayers of the Honorable Elijah Muhammad for him, before his departure in 1975.

Get and study the musical box set Let’s Change The World by the Honorable Minister Louis Farrakhan.

More next issue, Allah willing.

The post Supreme Wisdom, Supreme Mathematics and the Mind of God appeared first on Final Call News.

“Say: O People of the Book, why do you hinder those who believe from the way of Allah, seeking (to make) it crooked, while you are witnesses? And Allah is not heedless of what you do.” (Holy Qur’an 3:98)

“And certainly We know those among you who go forward and We certainly know those who lag behind.” (Holy Qur’an 15:24)

“And the vision of all is become unto you as the words of a book that is sealed, which [men] deliver to one that is learned, saying, Read this, I pray thee: and he saith, I cannot; for it [is] sealed: And the book is delivered to him that is not learned, saying, Read this, I pray thee: and he saith, I am not learned.” (Isaiah 29: 11, 12)

“And in that day shall the deaf hear the words of the book, and the eyes of the blind shall see out of obscurity, and out of darkness. The meek also shall increase [their] joy in the LORD, and the poor among men shall rejoice in the Holy One of Israel. They also that erred in spirit shall come to understanding, and they that murmured shall learn doctrine.” (Isaiah 29: 18-19, 24)

“Verily, verily, I say unto you, The hour is coming, and now is, when the dead shall hear the voice of the Son of God: and they that hear shall live. (John 5:25) For as the Father hath life in himself; so hath he given to the Son to have life in himself; (John 5:26) And hath given him authority to execute judgment also, because he is the Son of man. (John 5:27) Marvel not at this: for the hour is coming, in the which all that are in the graves shall hear his voice, (John 5:28) And shall come forth; they that have done good, unto the resurrection of life; and they that have done evil, unto the resurrection of damnation.” (John 5:29)

“… Allah, He is the Truth, and He gives life to the dead, and He is Possessor of power over all things, And the Hour is coming, there is no doubt about it; and Allah will raise up those who are in the graves.” (Holy Qur’an 22:6, 7)

***

How well do we understand the above (somewhat randomly selected) passages from the Bible and the Holy Qur’an? What about humanity as a whole? How well do the billions of the readers of these two books understand them?

It was in the early fall of 1931, when the Honorable Elijah Muhammad first heard that there was a man teaching “Islam” who was going by the name of Mr. W.D. Fard. He heard this from his brother, Charlie. They were then living in Detroit, Michigan. Charlie’s excitement stimulated his interest.

Although he had the wrong idea of Islam, at that time, as he thought it was a “heathen religion,” he was told enough that he wanted to meet the Teacher and hear His teachings.

There was something deeper in him that caused him to want to see and hear this man. Ever since he was a little boy–after he learned to read and write–he was a reader of the Bible. He only went to the fourth grade of school, as his father needed him to work in the fields. His father was a sharecropper.

He was not at all lazy, but when he was a little boy, he said, he would crawl under a house or a barn, and read the Bible, as often as he could. He was drawn to its contents.

Now it’s September 1932. He was told that Mr. W.D. Fard was teaching a few people in a basement. He went there but did not see Him. He was told the man was there earlier.

His determination to see Him intensified. He went to other meetings held there and elsewhere, but continued to miss Him until the night of September 22nd. He was eager to see and hear Mr. Fard because he had a strong feeling about this man’s identity. He had quietly grown to expect the man whom his understanding of the Bible told him he should expect, “right about that time.” He felt this was the One he was expecting, prophesied in the Bible.

As soon as he saw and heard Mr. Wallace D. Fard, he knew Him to be the One the world had been expecting for the last 2,000 years. It came to him that the man he beheld was the very man expected by the prophets and others, Who would come in, or under, many good names: Jesus included.

That which Mr. W.D. Fard said and did, at that meeting, convinced the Honorable Elijah Muhammad of the truth of His identity. The Messenger would later say to his followers and to the world that the first thing that struck him about Mr. Fard was that His words and actions tallied with the Bible’s prophecy about what the coming One would say and do on His arrival.

Mr. Fard began speaking on the origin of things. He went on to teach of the measurements of the Earth, its weight, the distances between the Earth, the sun and other planets. He spoke of their rotation, measurements and so on.

He could not but compare what he was listening to, with the prophecy of the coming of God in the book of Habakkuk and elsewhere in the Bible.

Mr. W.D. Fard said much about the nature and history of Black and White people. He spoke about the future, including the coming judgment of this world and of the new world to be established after this world’s power was broken.

He said that Mr. Fard Muhammad went on to say that we were not in our own names, that we were in the names of White people, that He had come to give us our own names (names of God and our people). As he listened, Elijah said to himself: “This has got to be the man.”

When the meeting was over, he got in line with others to shake the Speaker’s hand. When his turn came, Elijah told Him that He was the One Whom the Bible’s prophets foresaw coming along about that time, about 2,000 years after Jesus, or the Son of Man.

Almost simultaneously, Mr. Fard Muhammad looked around to see who else heard that, and then looked at Elijah a little sternly. His smile followed the look. He bent His head close to him, put one hand on his shoulder, and the other on his forehead. Pressing His mouth against Elijah’s ear, He whispered:

“Yes, I am that One. But who else knows that but yourself?”

A few months and 23 years later, on February 26, 1955, the Honorable Elijah Muhammad would first physically see the Honorable Minister Louis Farrakhan.

During his speech that day, he looked up to and gave Minister Farrakhan his assignment, when he said for him to put the teachings that he, the Honorable Elijah Muhammad, was teaching, “into that fine language that you know.”

It was his Teacher’s interpretation of the scriptures that was the means by which he recognized his “Aaron”–Minister Farrakhan.

More next issue, Allah willing.

The post Scriptural recognition appeared first on Final Call News.

One of the most misunderstood characteristics of the Honorable Minister Louis Farrakhan is the nature of his love, out of which comes his way.

By the word “way” I mean: a means, manner or method of doing or achieving something; the state or condition of somebody or something, especially with regard to the issues of life common to us all; a usual, characteristic, or distinctive activity or style of behavior; the customary style or practices of somebody’s life; a particular journey or the route followed or to be followed.”

I’m referring to Minister Farrakhan’s progress on the path through which he lives his life and copes with all manner of experiences, difficulties, and trials, which he–with Allah’s help–continues on despite ignorance, criticism, misunderstandings and all of what he must endure to hold up God’s pure light in a dark and degenerate world.

(Order, via this newspaper, or reread his book, “A Torchlight For America.” As he warns America, in a beautiful way, he is also warning us. When was the last time we’ve read that book?)

In John 14:6, Jesus says that he is the “way.” The meaning in Greek translated into English is simple, yet very profound. It means: “a traveled led way, road.” Strong’s Concordance also states that “metaphorically” this word means: “a course of conduct; a way or manner of thinking, feeling, deciding.”

Let’s revisit his words that appeared in interviews I conducted with him. Let’s look as deeply as we can into the words of a Brother who is both wise and humble; who is aware of his importance, but yet makes of himself no important.

It’s critical to study his way and seek to understand the principles out of which he was created and which he teaches. I intend to continue this point after we look at some of his valuable words. The following are excerpts from Farrakhan: The Traveler Vol. 21; No 18 that I wrote on January 10, 2002.

Brother Jabril: Would you say that, in a limited circumstance, we can make true judgments, but not the truest judgments?

The Honorable Minister Louis Farrakhan: In a limited circumstance, we can make true judgments, but oftimes our egos are so wrapped up in the judgments that we make, we never leave room in our judgment for the possibility of mistake or error. That is the tragedy of judgment.

This is why, in my mind, to be made a judge of the human condition is one of the greatest honors that can be bestowed on a person. But when you are made a judge, you are in the greatest position to come under the judgment of God.

So when I see a person robed in the garment of a judge, I often wonder how bias, how prejudice, how status symbols, how the nobility of a person, or the lack of it, enters into the judge’s decision.

So when God says, “Judge not lest you be in danger of judgment,” we ought to speak less and think more, and desire to know as much as we can about the circumstance, the event, or the person, before we open our mouths to make a judgment.

That, unfortunately, is not always done. And this, unfortunately, will always be the human condition, until we become so humble and righteous in character that we desire to do no man or woman wrong.

So then, we must speak less and we must counsel more, and do it with patience. This is what I find in the Qur’an, that God is consistently counseling us to learn to be patient.

Brother Jabril: Brother Minister, since we will one day have a full-blown judicial system, which will include judges, what are just some of the qualities that immediately come to your mind that should characterize these kinds of persons?

Minister Farrakhan: I think the greatest quality must be first, a love of God; a love of truth and an insatiable desire to know more and more and more about the subject.

One must have the characteristic of humility. No judge should be arrogant, because arrogance over your position makes you ineffective as a judge.

Humility always keeps your heart open for greater knowledge, because you recognize the value, the importance of making a right judgment and you recognize the consequences of making an improper judgment.

It is the consequences of faulty judges and faulty decisions that bring down nations, societies and individuals.

So a judge must not just be one who has completed the course of study in law that is required, but the judge must have the quality of character that would make one a good judge of the affairs of human beings.

Brother Jabril: Brother Minister, yesterday we spoke a little bit about some of the factors involved in the advancement of human life, of society, of nations. You said that there was no advancement without sacrifice and that the advancement of humanity toward the ultimate objective of God requires, on the part of some or many or all, to one degree or another, pain, bloodshed and even the loss of life. Please comment.

Minister Farrakhan: There is no advancement without the sacrifice of life, bloodshed and pain. Those human beings whom God has chosen to advance us, in whatever discipline that is, must first have the quality to endure suffering, to endure insult. Such persons must be able to endure criticism, made by judgmental persons who are comfortable where they are and are challenged by where this human being is trying to lead us.

There is no advancement in any field without tremendous sacrifice and then life lost and bloodshed. Any advancement in any field has caused the one who leads us into that new field of knowledge and advancement suffering or great suffering.

The Honorable Elijah Muhammad said, “Blessed is he who forges the way for others.” There is a scripture that talks about the one whom God assigns the task of bringing in a world that is totally new. This would mean he brings in a new knowledge–a knowledge that challenges the scholarship of his day. So the scripture teaches, “No visage was more marred than his.” This is because what he’s doing is like cutting a path through a jungle.

The branches of the trees that you have to cut down hit your face and scar your face, but as you cut that branch down, the ones coming behind you feel little or no pain, because you have felt it for them.

So it says, “By his stripes we are healed.” In the newness of the knowledge that he brings, and in his intense love for the world that he sees in his mind, which is not yet in reality–this in what causes him to endure what he endures of the ignorance of his contemporaries. So, when his truth is established, he may or may not be present, but he will be vindicated by history.

To be continued next issue, Allah willing.

The post The patient way of Minister Farrakhan appeared first on Final Call News.

In a radio broadcast, many years ago, the Honorable Elijah Muhammad said that one day Master Fard Muhammad told him to tell us that His Father made Him for us and that He loved us.

In one of his Saviour’s Day address the Honorable Elijah Muhammad said to an audience full of his poor suffering people, “I love you.” Many who heard him that day say they “felt” enveloped by his love. (Contact The Final Call for a copy of that videotape which was done in the 1970s.)

In the early fall of 1955, the Honorable Minister Louis Farrakhan and two other Brothers were introduced to the class. That was their first F.O.I meeting. When it came his turn to speak to the men he said that he would take this message to every nook and cranny of America. He has. That’s love! Despite his suffering, here he is, forty-nine years later, demonstrating his love for us.

One day in the mid 1950s two Brothers were driving back to Chicago. They had a flat tire in the trunk of their car. Then one of their tires blew. They were stuck about fifty miles outside of Chicago. What were they going to do?

In those days the Messiah had a business card with his phone number on it. They had one of them. They called him to please come and pick them up. He was in a good mood. He answered : “Well Brothers, I’m justa not a goin’ to do it.”

In the fifth chapter of Hebrews there is a formula that runs throughout the scriptures, that applies to the two Messiahs and the Believers–in the last days of the wicked. It is: obedience to Allah, through (or while) suffering, results in perfection–over time.

Slightly paraphrased and condensed here, I wrote in This Is The One the following. We’ve learned from the Honorable Elijah Muhammad that the most important question we could ask is “Who is God?” Then he taught and proved that: “Of all the knowledge that one may have or obtain, the knowledge of God is the greatest, and most necessary of all knowledge.”

Since the most important question one could ask concerns God’s identity, the next most important question and knowledge must be of the identity of God’s Messenger. Why? God revealed Himself only to him. He then taught Allah’s revelation to us.

Then came February 1975. The world was told he was dead. Minister Farrakhan arose thirty months later. He made it known worldwide that he was not dead but alive and was exercising great power.

Minister Farrakhan did not sit in his teacher’s seat by Allah’s permission. No! He was willed towards that lofty position before the nation fell by Allah and the Messiah. Later, at the proper time, he was placed in that seat by Allah to do what was written of him.

Essentially, his task is to make his teacher’s commission known. To do that he had to make his teacher’s identity known. He has and continues to do so. So hearing Minister Farrakhan is key to understanding the Messiah’s identity and presence.

The Messiah made God known after God revealed Himself to him. Minister Farrakhan made the Messiah known the world over. This supremely wise arrangement is a manifestation of the infinite love of Allah. This obligates us to really study Minister Farrakhan; his teachings and his ways.

Black people of America are the dead of the scriptures, whom God was to raise in the last days, from our grave of ignorance. This work has and is producing the messianic community or nation, out of the most despised of all of the people on earth–the Black people of America. The birth, formation and growth of the Nation of Islam can be read throughout the scriptures.

“Prepare Me a body and I will go down and redeem man.” How was His “body” prepared? Why is it written that He would “go down” and then redeem man? Why “down?” Why “and?” Who is the “man” to be redeemed? Redeemed from what? What is the process of redemption?

God foreknew our condition. So several seemingly simple word pictures were made for us. But He also foreknew we would be so dead we would not be able to see ourselves in the pictures–even though they plainly described us.

So as it was written: “… in that day shall the deaf hear the words of the book, and the eyes of the blind shall see out of obscurity, and out of darkness.” (Isaiah 29^: 17-24) So He provided the two Messiahs to teach us so we could hear.

Here is a part of one of those word pictures. “Jesus said: ‘A man went down from Jerusalem to Jericho, when he fell into the hands of robbers. They stripped him of his clothes, beat him and went away, leaving him half dead.

“But a Samaritan, as he traveled, came where the man was; and when he saw him, he took pity on him. He went to him and bandaged his wounds, pouring on oil and wine. Then he put the man on his own donkey, took him to an inn and took care of him. The next day he took out two silver coins and gave them to the innkeeper. ‘Look after him,’ he said, ‘and when I return, I will reimburse you for any extra expense you may have.’ ” (Luke 10:30,33-35)

The man who was beaten and robbed went down. The Good Samaritan went down after him.

Jerusalem’s elevation is about 2,600 feet above sea level. Jericho is about 825 feet above sea level. The difference is about 1,775 feet. That’s how far down you go “down” to get from the higher city to the lower city.

There is a road that goes down from Jerusalem to Jericho. I’ve read that it’s 17 miles long.

See Mother Tynnetta’s book, The Comer by Night from pages 103 through 107 on the significance of the number seventeen and that it’s the number of initiation.

“Initiation” means an action that causes something, especially an important process or event, to begin. It’s the introduction of somebody to a new activity, interest, or area.

The Good Samaritan was prepared to go down and initiate the process of redemption of the beaten-down man–us. Then He left the poor man in the hands of two prepared men until He returned.

The Messiah said the Good Samaritan is a sign of Master Fard Muhammad. The two Messiahs have been taking care of the poor ever since.

All of this and more is well known to highly placed Caucasians, who are Shriners. This reminds me of two very interesting reports concerning presidential candidate Mr. John Kerry, who suggests that Minister Farrakhan should do his homework on his record. (The Final Call; Volume 23; Number 42)

If Mr. Kerry had done his homework on the wisdom underlying Minister Farrakhan’s statement respecting him, he would have responded another way. Or maybe he has but must keep quiet. Time will tell.

Nevertheless, those in power are yet responsible for how they handle Minister Farrakhan.

More next issue Allah willing.

The post The work of the Good Samaritan: A demonstration of love appeared first on Final Call News.

I ended my last article with these words: “His self-creation implied or compelled the eventual coming of Master Fard Muhammad, as well as the Honorable Elijah Muhammad and the Honorable Minister Louis Farrakhan.

“We just have to go back in time to see or make sense of the solution. Remember, we are being taught, according to the words of the Honorable Elijah Muhammad, the root of the wisdom of the Creator of all, by Him Who is now in the process of creating all things new; improving on everything that has ever been done by the First One and all of the Gods Who came after Him.”

The Holy Wise Scientists, the Writers of the Holy Qur’ans or the Mother of the Books, down through the eons of time, knew that there was this in us that They were finally going to permit to be brought out of us. They saw Yakub and They decided to let him do what they foresaw that he would do, despite the terrible consequences to follow.

But why was it allowed full expression now, during this particular cycle of world history writings? Why did the Original Scientists choose to allow this evil force to come forth at this time? Was it because of the vacuum that they foresaw that would come around the time Yakub would be born?

Was it in the nature of all things that this was the very best time to allow him to make devil? If They had not allowed devil to be made, by Yakub, what would Master Fard Muhammad have faced on His coming?

I believe Master Fard Muhammad was coming from the very beginning of the First God’s self creation, in a certain sense. This vacuum, in my humble view–to be corrected with greater light– was the ultimate result or consequence of the ending of the First God’s work or even His effect. Hence, and grandest of all renewals, restorations or  the regeneration, about which Jesus is said to have spoken.

The regeneration  cannot take place without the willingness, the loving cooperation of the Black women–God’s second self. She must help the Black men meet their responsibilities to build the new world.

Families will be composed of the alive, not the dead. So the families will be of God’s spirit, as the persons who make up the families will be alive. In these new families every “negative” or un-divine idea, emotion and motivation will have to be overcome and eliminated, not just for the peace and security of the families, but because the good and excellent qualities (which are to be gained as we grow out of the evil, self-centered, selfish ways of thinking and feelings) are only those which will enable us to enter fully into His kingdom.

What is the history and the present state of the Black family in the United States of America? Even after a through review of the scholarship, generated in this world’s universities, you’ll find that what’s missing in the studies, on the Black family, is the light of the revealed word of Allah to the Honorable Elijah Muhammad.

The slave masters continued to determine the state of Black family life even after physical servitude was said to be abolished. To what extent has this changed and what factors produced those changes?

Many, both scholarly and otherwise, have pointed out good aspects of Black family life, prior to 1931, when Master Fard Muhammad began teaching the Honorable Elijah Muhammad. Up to a point there is merit in these observations. However, we must take into consideration, that Allah best knows the truth of our condition. We were described, in divine prophecy, as that people so destroyed by our enemies that we were foreseen as “the dead.”

Despite our condition, Allah determined a total change for us from death to life–His life.

Although it may be insulting to many of us, but can we say, with truth, that our family life was or could be any more alive than the spiritual or mental state of “the dead” who composed them? Can our families be more alive than the “dead” individuals who make up these families?

Since God Himself deemed us “the dead,” then even at its best Black family life was and could never be what it can and will become until after those who compose these families have been raised from death to life.

Allah personally began producing changes for the better in the status of the Black family, through what He taught the Honorable Elijah Muhammad, beginning in 1931. To what extent have the concepts which generated those changes affected the state of the whole of Black family life?

Although I personally cannot answer that question, we must still go back to the principle that Black family life can be no better than the extent to which those composing those families are spiritually alive.

We know that as a people, we’re coming to life. The spirit of Allah–Master Fard Muhammad as the Honorable Elijah Muhammad publicly wrote back in 1956, was moving in and among our people. Look at the effect of the Honorable Minister Louis Farrakhan’s work. It’s clear that the resurrection of the dead is taking place.

So, the answer to the question of to what extent has Allah’s truths affected Black family life is at least proportional to the extent to which those composing those families have been made alive by His spirit.

When we must ask “the whys of God,” we must do so in the proper spirit. To ignorantly ask Him of His “whys” in an arrogant spirit is to bring an answer we’ll find hard to take.

Please get and study the whole of what the Honorable Minister Louis said on family at the Family Summit conference. Here are excepts of his words: “Only God can bring us all together and make us one. Jesus couldn’t do it, he was 2,000 years too soon. Prophet Muhammad wanted to do it, but he was 1,400 years too soon and his followers became corrupted, so they can’t do it.

“So the Mahdi, Master Fard Muhammad, came to us and out of my love for my Messenger Messiah, the Honorable Elijah Muhammad; look at this family. Many colors coming from many different perspectives. But we are one family because God is at the root of our family.”

More next issue, Allah willing.

The post Spiritual resurrection and the root of the Black family appeared first on Final Call News.

Holy Qur’an 13:27: “…Say: Allah leaves in error whom He pleases, and guides to Himself those who turn to Him–Those who believe and whose hearts find rest in the remembrance of Allah. Now surely in Allah’s remembrance do hearts find rest.” 42:13: “…Allah chooses for Himself whom He pleases, and guides to Himself who turns (to Him).”

On page 341 of Closing The Gap, the Honorable Minister Louis Farrakhan stated: “You know, no matter what gifts a person may be blessed to have, it is out of the heart that the real issues of life are formed and the real meaning of the person’s life gets found. It is not in the talent. It is the heart. The heart of a servant of God, is formed by God. It is not formed by a mother, or a father, or circumstances. It is formed by God and is manifested through circumstances.” (Bold mine)

*******

Anyone who picks up the book, Closing The Gap, starting on page 347, you can read the Honorable Minister Louis Farrakhan’s response to my question of his trials. He gave other answers to questions that appear in this book, that have an indirect bearing on his trials. This is why I asked him that question that produced his answers on his life.

This has a direct bearing on our understanding and use of such words as, how, what, when, who and why. This has to do with all of the realities of the information that is in our heads and our hearts. To say that something has a “direct bearing on something” is to say that it has an effect on something, or a connection with something.

I know that millions and millions, or billions of people do not know him, like many of the few of us know him. I know that some have learned about him on the basis of misinformation, and the like. So, I wanted people to see him, from his mouth, to get a view into his heart.

Minister Farrakhan did not know that I would ask him that question before I did it. I asked Allah, in the name of His Messiah, to bless me to ask him that question at the right time. So, I asked him that question in a respectful, simple, direct and clear manner that produced that powerful, insightful and beneficial answer for all to read his words. By the help of Allah I intend to go into this “all.”

At this point, I’m asking the reader to go look into the following words that appear in italic and bold a few lines below. These words are the basis of a few articles to come, by the help of Allah.

Closing The Gap contains Minister Farrakhan’s answers to a question on this very significant subject–his trials. To me his reactions to his trials are exemplary. Exemplary means: “so good or admirable that others would do well to copy it, designed to serve as a warning to others, serving as an illustration or example of something.”

What did the Honorable Elijah Muhammad see in Minister Farrakhan in 1957 (quoted in the last article) that caused him to say those words to him? If you have not read them, here they are from Minister Farrakhan.

“I was captain and then as a captain, I came out to Chicago for Savior’s Day and the Messenger had the captains to speak on that Saturday, February 1957. I spoke and the Messenger was sitting right behind me. In the pictures that I saw there, he had this beautiful smile on his face. As I spoke as Captain Louis that night he invited me, for the first time, to come to dinner with him.”

“That night I remembered him doing something that I’ve never seen him do since then. At the end of the dinner he went around the table shaking everybody’s hand. When he got to me and shook my hand he came close and whispered in my ear, ‘You remind me of David.’ Then he went back to his chair and of course, dismissed us. That was in February.”

The Honorable Elijah Muhammad whispered his words? Why?

When God was informing Samuel that He had appointed David (to be king instead of Saul) He said, “for man looketh on the outward appearance, but the Lord looketh on the heart.” (Read 1 Samuel 16: 7.)

That illustrates the value of the heart of the human being, from the Supreme Being’s supreme-view, which will prevail one day soon. Zechariah 14:9: “And the Lord shall be king over all earth…”

How do you see these words, spoken to Minister Farrakhan in 1957, “You remind me of David” relate or connect, to these words spoken to him, years later: “Allah prepared you for me”? How do you see these words relating to his trials and to you?

*******

Now back to his words on his trials. They are very valuable, as we will see, if we don’t see this now. On page 350 Minister Farrakhan begins.

“By May of 1957, because of problems with Minister Ulysses and the need for funding and money to keep up his quality of life, he had to work in a foundry or his job had took him away from the Mosque; so the Messenger decided in May of 1957, to make me the minister.

“Then other trials began. You know the trial of extreme poverty. I remember working in the garment district in Boston making forty-five dollars a week. They would take ninety cents out for FICA; Social Security and whatnot, and I would come home with forty-four dollars and ten cents; with my wife and three children. But I always found each week, money to donate to the Temple and of course, my charity to the Messenger, and encouraged the believers to do the same. But that trial was extreme poverty.

“When I finally got up to sixty-five dollars a week working days; I studied during my lunch hour. We didn’t each lunch. We ate one meal a day. So I would just have a cup of coffee and write my subject out to preach.

“I remembered the Honorable Elijah Muhammad said, “Well, you have gotten the Mosque up.” The believers were sufficient in number to support me. So he said that I should come away from the day job and concentrate fully on the resurrection of our people. He said that I could get one hundred dollars a week. This was 1958.

“Not one time in nine years did I ever get a hundred dollars. The most I ever got, as I can recall, was sixty-five to seventy dollars. But the actual charity was between thirty and forty-five dollars per week. For nine solid years I was not able to buy a new suit until the ninth year, when I was leaving. The believers gave me a new suit. I would wear suits from the pawnshop that my brother, from New York, would bring to me.”

More next issue, Allah willing.

The post Lessons from Closing the Gap appeared first on Final Call News.

“Aaron was given a hard time by the people after Moses left.”

(The Honorable Elijah Muhammad speaking of the Honorable Minister Louis Farrakhan in 1971.)

Why do we celebrate, or at least observe, anniversaries? As the month of August was ending, I thought, in a somewhat deeper way, of a very significant event, that occurred 26 years ago and its implications for the future. It was the rise and the stand of the Honorable Minister Louis Farrakhan. This occurred during the first or second week of September 1977.

Minister Farrakhan’s rise was the fulfillment of what was written of him, according to the scriptures. So, if you see his person, rise, teaching and work in the light of the proper interpretation of the scriptures, you see him properly–or as he is.

I’ve witnessed, in this column for years, that the Honorable Elijah Muhammad knew–from the early 1930s onward–that one day he would meet a man who would fully be to him, as Aaron was to Moses; as Paul was by Jesus; as Ali and certain other of Muhammad’s followers were by him–and at a certain point, grow to become even closer to him than those chief disciples were to those worthy servants of Allah.

The Honorable Elijah Muhammad was taught the proper interpretation of the scriptures by his Teacher, Master Fard Muhammad. These books contain the description of Minister Farrakhan and the work he was to do, as his chief helper after God Himself.

As the Honorable Elijah Muhammad became wiser to the truth of himself, he became wiser in the knowledge of the man who would be this special helper to him. The truth of this helper came to him in more than one way–all divine. For example, realizing that he was the man like Moses, it was not hard for him to read the characteristics of the man who would be to him as Aaron was to Moses, in the scriptures.

He prayed for this particular helper, as it was written he would do. Then, in his Saviour’s Day speech of 1954, he said that, “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.”

One year later, in celebration of Saviour’s Day 1955, that “helper” was in the audience. By a prior arrangement that would allow him to recognize this man, whom he knew, by the word of Allah, was the one he was expecting, he recognized this “helper” on first sight, just as he recognized his Teacher on first sight in September of 1931. Remember, he was much wiser in 1955 than in 1931.

He verbally gave him the essence of his assignment, while looking directly at him, in the presence of the audience, who was not to understand the significance back then. That would come many years later. From that year on, Minister Farrakhan has been doing his assignment, which he was born to do.

We cannot learn what we’re born to do trying to be someone else. Jealousy and envy stunts our growth. None can really develop, divinely, while filled with these spiritual diseases,  because today,  to learn who you are means to learn your divinity.

Minister Farrakhan is leading us all into a period of fasting and praying, symbolized in the scriptures as the putting on of “sack cloth and ashes.”

He is urging us to heed the warnings of the Holy Qur’an (Bible, too) of a time when “no excuse … will avail …”; “nor will they be invited (then) to seek grace (by repentance).” It’s a day when “they will not be allowed to make amends.” On that day “their excuse shall not profit” them “nor shall they be regarded with goodwill.” No “apology, on that day will” be accepted “nor will they be excused.” [30:56, 57, depending on translation.]

To avert this for ourselves, we must heed  The Final Call,  issued by Minister Farrakhan on God’s authority.

The Holy Qur’an often says that Allah says, without reservation, that at the end He will judge between us to resolve all disputes, differences and the like. We’ve been living in that day, since the early ’30s. All have that chance to understand His truths and get on His right side. Then He comes again to finally judge how we took the wisdom of His judgment. We’re all but there.

“We today, 6,000 years from the beginning of this world, are disputing with one another on who is who and what is what. But the wisest step taken to put an end to this disputing was taken by God, Himself, in the words: ‘Accept your own and be yourself.’ ” (Message to the Blackman)

This wisdom serves as a major key to ending every kind of dispute and would make it easier for us to learn our talents, grow and, at the same time, help each other in this regard–which is our divine duty. This wisdom also enables us to learn from the example–divinely given in Minister Farrakhan–how to discover our talents, use and develop them.

Bluntly, the Honorable Elijah Muhammad has said that if we couldn’t understand him, we would not understand, even if God spoke to us. As a people, we blew it!

Before he left, he prepared Minister Farrakhan to sit in his seat. One day, he told him that only Allah could have made him to put the teachings together, in the way that he did and that Allah made him (the Minister) for him. He was made for us, too. Only the ungrateful deny this.

Now, after 40 years of his teacher’s work, and 26 years of Minister Farrakhan’s work, none can say we don’t understand God’s truth and will for us today.

Minister Farrakhan was guided to institute Saviour’s Day, honoring his teacher and his teacher’s Teacher. He calls both these days: Saviours’ Day. Through this, he is also teaching us who we are and is calling us to our calling.

We are to use our talents as saviours; build a nation under divine guidance and to help others earth-wide into God’s supreme wisdom and righteousness, to build a new heaven and a new earth, which will last forever. This process has already begun and is being guided by Him, Who cannot be overcome.

You are not the bad things that happened to you. You are what you are in terms of your nature, which you cannot change. You cannot become who you are without divine guidance, especially now that God is present, any more than you can walk in the day and ignore the sun.

Minister Farrakhan’s STUDY GUIDES can help us really benefit from the LESSONS and the overall revelation of the Messiah–the Honorable Elijah Muhammad– who is very much physically alive, well and in power!

The Holy Qur’an tells us: “they killed him not … but he was made to appear to them as such.” Allah lifted him up into His presence and “there is none of the people of the book but will believe this before his death.” Whose death?

For a fuller explanation of “his death” see page 43 of  Is It Possible That The Honorable Elijah Muhammad Is Still Physically Alive???  and/or the next issue, Allah willing.

The post We are to use our talents as saviours appeared first on Final Call News.

The TV-movie and documentaries, which were aired last month (November) on Jesus, were, to me, somewhat odd. Normally, at this time of the year, movies and documentaries on Jesus are reserved for December, when what is called the anniversary of his birth is celebrated.

The ones I saw last month centered on the subject of the persons, groups, conditions and the circumstances involved in, and leading to, his death. His resurrection in each portrayal was short and superficial. Particular attention was given to the motives of those involved in his murder. One documentary even went so far as to examine Jesus’ own motives for placing himself in the position to be assassinated.

The New Testament devotes more space to Jesus’ return than to his first appearance. Now, if he were to reappear with the kind of power we’ve been taught that he had, what kind of businesses and institutions would he bring to an end? What new ones would replace them? Why these questions?

If Jesus was God, as many believe, and as we drew ever closer to the time of his return or arrival, universal changes would occur. All current things would begin to die out, as distinct signs of His near arrival. However, this process would greatly speed up when He actually arrived. That’s written.

So what does this have to do with the Honorable Minister Louis Farrakhan’s answer to my question of the 104 books that the Honorable Elijah Muhammad studied under the guidance of his Teacher; Minister Farrakhan’s identity; your ministry and the end of envy, which ended my last article?

Everything!

How did the Honorable Elijah Muhammad recognize Master Fard Muhammad’s identity? He recognized the correspondence between the person and words of Master Fard Muhammad, as he looked at and listened to Him, and the Bible’s prophecies of such a man as the one he beheld. Of course, He was deeply involved in this process.

The very first words of the Honorable Elijah Muhammad to his Teacher were: “You are the One Whom the Bible’s prophets foresaw coming along about this time, about 2,000 years after Jesus, or the Son of Man.”

The very first words Master Fard Muhammad spoke to His servant were: “Yes, I am the One. But who else knows this but yourself?”

That was the night of September 22, 1931.

Twenty-three years and five months later, on the day of February 26, 1955, he recognized Minister Louis Farrakhan on first sight, without the Minister having said one word! We’ll look at his first words to Minister Farrakhan later, in which he was given the very essence of his future work.

Jesus’ identity was intricately involved in the Honorable Elijah Muhammad’s first meeting with his Teacher. So, too, is your identity and ministry thoroughly tied to the identity of Jesus.

The arrival and the identity of Master Fard Muhammad and the significance of His meeting with the Honorable Elijah Muhammad, is most difficult to get Black people to understand and accept. The hardest thing for Black people (of America) to accept about the Honorable Elijah Muhammad is the fact that he met and was commissioned by God Himself. Yet, this is the most important fact about him. The hardest part of his message for Black people to take concerns Jesus. Yet, that is the part, which if understood, would awaken them at once.

Here is one way he put it: “After Master Fard Muhammad taught me, I saw quickly that this man’s (Jesus) history was the world’s most misrepresented and misunderstood. I do believe that, if my poor blind, deaf and dumb people could be taught the true knowledge of the true history of Jesus, they would awaken at once.”

This compound problem of getting us to really understand this is tied to every problem Black people now have. Yet, the truth of the identities of the Jesus of 2,000 years ago; God Himself; the Messiah; Minister Farrakhan and us, are at the root of the solution of every problem we (Black people) have or will have.

This is the awesome task that Minister Farrakhan has been working on, especially since 1977: the resurrection of an entire nation in a world under the judgment of God Almighty–a world which opposes him 100 percent.

Now, who is Minister Farrakhan?

Whatever your view is of his identity, how do you know it is true? What is the relevance of his identity to you? Who are you? How do you know? How do you know your self-view is true? How do you know that he is who you say he is and who you think you are? Are Minister Farrakhan’s identity and your self-concept important to Allah? Why? How is Minister Farrakhan’s identity and your identity related in the eyes of God? Have you ever thought of these questions and their answers? Why, or why not?

What does the word “identity” mean? Have you ever lost your wallet with those things called your “identification?” How were you affected? Have you ever had your identity misused by another? How did that affect you? In each case, how were those close to you affected by the lost and/or the misuse of those things that are called your identity?

Does the truth of your identity go deeper than your driver’s license; social security card; passport; marriage license; bankcard; birth certificate; school records; baptismal certificate; military discharge papers; some medical records and whatever else you lost?

Suppose you bumped your head and became an amnesia patient. Suppose this incident occurred to you somewhere far from those you know. How would you be able to identify yourself? Would public ads informing those who know you help? What of fingerprint records; DNA records; dental records, etc.?

Contributing identification factors to help identify you may well include: tattoos, vaccine records, blood type, involving rare diseases, surgical scars, etc.

Alright, suppose you were helped to regain your memory and to reconnect you with those who know you, and you even got back all of your “ID” materials, would that answer the question: Who are you?

Minister Farrakhan’s teacher said, in a Theology of Time speech: “If you can’t take less, how can you take more?” Jesus said something similar, according to the gospels.

We’re going into the simpler aspects of Minister Farrakhan’s identity to get to ours. If we reject the lesser facts, we’ll not ever grasp the greater. Then, we’ll be as those who will say: “O Allah, why have you raised me up blind when I used to see?”

Minister Farrakhan has been by his teacher as Aaron was by Moses; as Paul was by Jesus–and then some. This is far deeper than mere comparisons or analogies. We are dealing with fulfilled prophecies. Minister Farrakhan is fulfilling things you have read, or should have read, in the scriptures! So are you! So are others!

His answer to my question of the 104 books deal with “identity.”

Ponder this from “Message to the Blackman” by the Honorable Elijah Muhammad: “It is Allah’s (God’s) will and purpose that we shall know ourselves. Therefore, He came Himself to teach us the knowledge of self. Who is better knowing of who we are than God, Himself?”

More next issue, Allah willing.

The post The depth of your identity appeared first on Final Call News.

Now, consider the fact that there are more copies of the Bible in America than any other book. More copies of it are given away each year than any other book. Despite that it remains, year in and out, America’s best seller.

Its position among books in Christian America is the most prestigious. Indeed, it is regarded as containing the spiritual, moral, and to a large degree, the cultural heritage of the Western world. It occupies the position of honor during the most solemn occasions. For instance, it is used in swearing in government officials, during weddings and burials. It is used in courtrooms and in many other important situations.

Despite its seemingly honorable position, it is a very disrespected volume. Christians argue and fight over its meaning. In many situations, the best of its spiritual and moral precepts are considered out of date, or at best, is paid mere lip service.

If you are seen with the Bible in public, other than close to, or during “church” hours, you are regarded as a bit odd, in spite of the increased interest in Biblical studies. Indeed, in this “modern” world most people seem to care little about the Bible’s contents and its real message.

White Christians have made great claims for the Bible. However, they don’t seem to use it when dealing with the numerous problems which beset America. Though they claim it contains God’s own wisdom, they don’t use it, so it seems, when framing legislation in places (such as the capital in Washington, D.C), where they pray, supposedly, to the God of the Bible. Yet, as mentioned above, the Bible appears to be the most honored book in America. This is an interesting contradiction.

In terms of its widespread use, and the White man’s claim to divinity, and their claim to be in direct contact with God, the Bible should be the best known and understood book in this Christian country. But is it? In terms of its real meaning, and its relevance to our times and problems, it is the least understood and appreciated of all books in this land, but with the exception of the Holy Qur’an.

How do we reconcile the unusual wide distribution and use of a book so poorly comprehended? Bluntly, part of the answer lies in the fact that the versions (so widely distributed) were written by God’s enemies. Therefore, the real truth it contains (from God’s view) has actually been concealed from the public, until recently. The rest of the answer is contained in God’s purpose in permitting His enemies the freedom to do with His words as they pleased for until today.

This answer paves the way towards understanding the explosive significance of the historical Jesus for us today. Why the paradox, or the split mind White Christians have about Jesus and the Bible, touched upon above? What will we find at the root of the answer to these questions?

To the question of why the Bible is the leading selling book in America, many Christians would probably give an answer, which contains Jesus at its center. They would say Jesus is the answer. From the Christian point of view, Jesus is the central figure in the scriptures. They are right. They claim that the entire Old Testament tells of his significance and of his second coming. Again, they are right.

How do we reconcile the unusual wide distribution and use of a book so poorly comprehended? Bluntly, part of the answer lies in the fact that the versions (so widely distributed) were written by God’s enemies.

No less a scholar than Will Durant has observed, that despite all the criticism of the scriptures … :

“… the outlines of life, character, and teaching of Christ remain reasonably clear, and constitutes the most fascinating feature in the history of Western man.”

What is so fascinating about Jesus on whom White people have placed the title, “Christ”? This “fascination” is manifested in many ways. For example, Irvine Wallace has recently come out with another “best seller” entitled,  The Word.  In it he wrote:

“Some years ago, the top newspapermen in this country were polled by a leading public opinion firm. They were asked to speculate on what story, within the realm of scientifi c possibility or beyond it, could be the biggest story of this century. There were but many varied answers. Some newspapermen voted for the discovery of a cure of cancer. Others voted for a treatment that could enable human beings to live to the age of one hundred. Yet others voted for the landing on earth of creatures from another planet, or our reaching another planet and finding civilized life on it. Some voted for a day when the United States of the World was announced as a reality. But do you know what the  majority  of the newspapermen voted as the biggest possible story of our time? They voted for the Second Coming.

“If Jesus Christ returned to our earth in person, in the flesh, if He proved the Resurrection a reality tomorrow–if He came down amongst us tomorrow–that, those reporters voted, would be the biggest story of our time.”

Of course, Mr. Wallace’s book was fiction. It contains, however, many truths. Again, the point the reader is asked to think over is the fact that the Biblical Jesus occupies a larger place in the thinking of Americans than most actually realize, or would care to admit. It is in the nature of this thinking, a great deal of which is “subconscious,” where we will come to see the root and nature of this “fascination” with Jesus. It is here where we will also see into the reason for the seeming “split-minded” attitude of White Christians towards Jesus and the Bible.

In a book published in 1963, entitled, A New Look At The Bible Tradition, Mr. Louis V. Bischoff wrote:

“According to what some call ‘orthodox’ Christian view and doctrine, the four Gospels contain the ‘good news’ or ‘glad tidings’ that God visited the human race on this planet IN PERSON, much as a Sultan, in lowly disguise and masquerade, might mingle with his subjects for an hour or two. The word ‘gospel,’ as most of us are aware, literally means ‘good news,’ the eminently good tale or tidings of God’s visit.

“The theory that God visited this lonely planet is a very engaging one, and if true, would be of truly momentous import for all of us. And doubts that we might entertain regarding (1) God’s existence, (2) God’s genuine interest in us, (3) God’s goodness, and (4) God’s provision for the immortality of our personalities, would vanish at one full swoop. It would be the be-all and end-all of all of our doubts.”

The coming or visit of God to His people is no theory. He has come; just as the Bible and the Holy Qur’an predicted or prophesied that He would come. This fact is “of truly momentous import for all of us.”

This is GOOD NEWS!

By means of the Honorable Elijah Muhammad, Almighty God has provided us with the greatest opportunity imaginable. This has been expressed by the Honorable Elijah Muhammad, many times over the years. In a 1959 article he titled, THE OPPORTUNITY, he wrote:

“We have the greatest opportunity of any nation of the past, but this opportunity is on condition that we accept Allah (God) and His Religion of Islam (Peace) which was the religion of His Prophets, including Jesus. Islam offers love, unity, friendship, wealth, inking with it wisdom, knowledge, and understanding … .”

I’m making the below bold and in black. Why?

The Honorable Elijah Muhammad gave the Honorable Minister Louis Farrakhan his assignment when he first saw him. He has not changed his view of him from that time to now … .

More next issue, Allah willing

The post Understanding the real meaning and content of the Bible appeared first on Final Call News.

In this article and the last three, I’m bearing witness to the truth of the very special experience the Honorable Minister Louis Farrakhan had on September 17, 1985. The ramifications of his experience are worldwide and have a bearing on eternity. I’m not exaggerating. At the end of this series of articles that bear on his experience, I’ll explain in short, simple and clear words, why I used the word “eternity.”

Another factor making this event so striking was that there was a heavy cloud cover over the city (Tucson, Arizona). Therefore, there was no way that these flying objects could be mistaken for 60 moving stars, all going in the same direction. As we all know, clouds block one’s view of the stars. A total cloud cover blocks out all of one’s ability to see stars, if you are on the ground. These were not flying objects with which the authorities could cope. These were, according to trained observers, “UFOs,” and they were obviously flying under the clouds.

These “UFOs” generated excitement. Later I learned that there were local (in Tucson) radio interviews and several news programs, which were generated by this awesome event. However, it seemed that this startling display of intelligence and power was generally kept from the country as a whole.

Minister Farrakhan and I wondered, if we were being escorted, by the “baby” planes. Remember, there was a lot of evil and loud talk–especially from the Jewish community, and from the very highest government officials of the United States–about Minister Farrakhan. I took these planes to be Allah’s way of showing them that the Minister had plenty of backup.

Later on in this writing I wrote:

Four years after Minister Farrakhan received his more than a vision experience; he fully came to see that he had yet to hold that press conference which the Honorable Elijah Muhammad wanted him to hold in Washington, D.C. This realization was stimulated by four events, which over a four-month period, in 1989, crystallized for him his decision.

Two of these events were the death of Congressman Mickey Leland (of Texas) and the other involved the traumatic events at Tiananmen Square in China.

What was referred to in America’s press, as the Beijing Massacre at Tiananmen Square, began on June 4, 1989.

Representative Mickey Leland died in an airplane crash, in Gambela, Ethiopia, on August 7, 1989.

Minister Farrakhan was in Phoenix, in 1989, when these two events occurred. I noticed that both of these events seemed to have momentarily aged him as he wrestled with their meanings. He told me he knew both had something to do with him. He was in a strained state of mind as he pondered the significance of these events. The latter event, he said, had more to do with our people–especially Black youth–and yet in some way with him. But he did not know how.

After returning to Chicago, a phone call from Minister Don Muhammad of Boston, would take him further into a growing, or heightened awareness that something was going on that was big, in the biggest sense of that word. Minister Don Muhammad informed him of a gang problem in which they sought his help. He was told that the gang members were being pressured to give up their weapons. They said they would, but only if Minister Farrakhan would tell them to do so. His response was that he had not ordered them to pick them up in the first place. However, he later gave them wise and righteous advice, based on the teachings of the Honorable Elijah Muhammad, whose policies are known the world over.

Not long after he hung up the phone he was struck by what it all meant.

Out of Minister Farrakhan’s understanding of the significance of these events, he made a series of extraordinary speeches. They were titled “Stop The Killing.” Among the most powerful of these talks he would make was a stupendous one, which enlightened and warned Black youth as to what the slave-master’s children were up to and were planning against them and us.

Lastly in September, came the fourth event, which would lead to a most profound event, fulfilling a major part of what he was ordered to do, by the Honorable Elijah Muhammad, in his vision-like experience.

A Sister telephoned him to congratulate him on his anniversary. He thought her congratulations referred to the 35th anniversary of his marriage to his wife, Mother Khadijah, which was earlier that month on September the 12th. In the course of the conversation he came to see that she had the anniversary of his vision-like experience in mind. The call caused him to reflect over that experience and the course of events since that time.

(It then crystallized for him and we have benefited from his experience.)

Minister Farrakhan decided to hold a press conference in the next month; on the day following the Saviours’ Day conference in October (1989). He returned to Phoenix. Part of his preparation for this momentous event involved the preparation of his press statement. Minister Farrakhan decided to dictate the entire text, in my home, on the Friday prior to the Tuesday when he would deliver it at the press conference. Sister Marguerite X McCray did the typing.

About an hour after the text was typed and proofed, he and I headed for the airport to catch a plane for the East Coast. We went to New York City.

On the next afternoon, as we neared the capital, through a circuitous route, these words from his vision-like experience came forcibly to my mind: “With great speed it brought me back to earth and dropped me off near Washington where I then proceeded into this city to make the Announcement.” I then thought back to the trip we had made a little better than three years earlier the day before he made his statement to the press on February 4, 1986. We had also landed at that time just outside of the capital due to fog, as I explained earlier. I thought to myself, “That experience pointed to this one. This Saviours’ Day is a cover for this press conference.”

I voiced this thought to Minister Farrakhan.

The fact was that we were about to go to a place (arranged for by Minister Akbar Muhammad) “nearby or close to Washington, D.C.” We were about to “land” so to speak, just as he did in his vision-like experience, “near Washington.” It was quite a feeling.

I had a copy of the text of the statement that he dictated to Sister Marguerite just the day before. I was with him, continuously, from that time until he delivered it to the public; before the media on that Tuesday. The point of this is that I am a witness to the fact that he did not change one word of the text he dictated, from the previous Friday, when he dictated it, to the following Tuesday when he delivered it.

This is related to the profound correspondence between something he dictated in his statement for the press and an event which was a definite confirmation of the announcement that he had made to the press. It involved what many call “UFOs.”

Minister Farrakhan did not know how God would confirm his statement, in the ordinary way we obtain information. As we’ll see in a moment, from his prepared statement to the press, Minister Farrakhan declared:

“Before you will be able to establish your mockery of me (if that is what you wish to do) for what was revealed to me in the Wheel, you will see these wheels… .”

More next issue, Allah willing.

The post Bearing witness to Minister Farrakhan’s divine guidance and powerful backup appeared first on Final Call News.