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.

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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.

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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)

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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?

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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.

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“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.

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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.

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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

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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.

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Among the many valuable contributions The Honorable Minister Louis Farrakhan has made to the rise of our people, were/are study guides, based on an address he made in Phoenix, Arizona, titled: “Self-Improvement: the Basis For Community Development.”

Not one of us who are serious about the rise of Black people should be without at least one of these study guides. If we are to take full advantage of what God guided Minister Farrakhan to produce, in these study guides, and if we are fulfilling the part of Surah (Chapter) 75 in the Holy Qur’an where the rise of God’s people is described, then we must face our weaknesses and then by the help of Allah, drive through them to the strength which is part of our birthright.

Minister Farrakhan has been divinely made an example for all of us. Let us take advantage of the blessing that Almighty God Allah and His Christ have provided for us in Minister Farrakhan, before the fall–the crashing down on our heads–of this world.

In these articles and books that I’ve written, I have attempted to point to something of the vastness of the divine love, wisdom and power that is backing Minister Farrakhan. It is this divine support that has made him a winner at every critical turn as he has struggled to lift the name and rebuild the work of the Honorable Elijah Muhammad.

Just think of where he, and we were in 1977, when he stood up in the public, in a dark and dangerous hour, and announced his intention to do what he has done. What were the qualities of head and heart, with which Minister Farrakhan faced all kinds of opposition to what he intended to do? Remember, the opposition included the most powerful force the White race ever produced– the United States Government, which was directly involved up to its wicked neck, in the destruction of that which the Minister was determined to rebuild. As stated earlier, take a look into dictionaries and carefully study the definitions of the 99 names of Allah.

These names point to the qualities that comprise His nature. Out of His nature He speaks and acts. Out from Himself Allah produced the Honorable Elijah Muhammad and the Honorable Minister Louis Farrakhan for us and humanity at large. Look into the qualities of the nature of God and you’ll see them at work in Minister Louis Farrakhan, back in 1977 and now, as he goes about his work. A divine work, done by a divine man, requires divine qualities.

Minister Farrakhan started with nothing but a heart full of love and a head full of faith in the Honorable Elijah Muhammad and in the truth of his teachings. Day by day, week by week, month by month, that grew into years, this kind, loving, strong Black man forged ahead with an ever growing number of poor helpers to accomplish the seemingly impossible. Remember, no Black group has come back from the United States government’s destruction of it, except the Nation of Islam. It has come out through the release of government documents, that the United States government tried every dirty trick on the Nation of Islam that they successfully used to destroy other governments. They failed. However, the Nation of Islam fell from within. However, it is back.

This is stated to emphasize that Minister Farrakhan, despite his brilliance, could not have done what he has done without the kind of love and faith that he has. Deeper than that, he could not have succeeded without the direct help of the living God and His Christ. It is not enough for us to see him as a great man. We must see him as he is, a great man, made great, who continues marching on the right path, the straight path, because of the nonstop flow of guidance from the Supreme Being and His Christ.

If you mentally disconnect him from God, you can’t see him properly. Then you cannot benefit from his work as you should or could. If you don’t mentally connect him, to God, you are bound to stumble and fall. The Minister is more than just connected to the word of God. He is rooted in the word of God. He is absolutely an integral part of the “story” line, or the narrative of your Bible. To continue to be ignorant of this reality is to be headed for a fall. This is not to say that we cannot get up. However, such a fall could be fatal. Again, to disconnect yourself, or to fail to learn the relationship of Minister Farrakhan to Christ and the God of creation, is to disconnect yourself from a major aspect of reality, at the very least, or from God, the Source of reality at worst.

The Honorable Elijah Muhammad said to me, that the Holy Qur’an was/is his root. I later learned that he also pointed this fact out to others. Then I came to see that this fact also applies to the Honorable Minister Louis Farrakhan. This is not hard to see.

President Trump and his advisors would do well to really get acquainted with Minister Farrakhan. In fact, all of the scholars of America would do their country a great service to really learn the truth of the Honorable Minister Louis Farrakhan. This would open the doors to what the Nation of Islam is all about and then some. The problems in this country are so staggering, so huge that it takes insight far superior to what can be gained in the dying educational system in America. Without God’s light no one can see, much less walk, out of this quagmire.

I recall that the Honorable Elijah Muhammad wrote in a public article that there were persons paid, by this government, just to “ … study the problem of prophecy.” By now they ought to know what is, what am and who is who. Why not meet with Minister Farrakhan and discuss it all. You will find him open, intelligent and very informative, as you already know.

Now, we are peeping behind the veil, symbolized by the veil or curtain King Solomon placed in the Temple (a sign of the earth). A full view of what is behind the veil won’t come until a certain time, when a little is opened up.

Please read the 4th and 5th chapter of the 66th Book of the Bible; the Book of Revelation. There we read of a change to occur at the end of the time of the wicked, which also marks a change of the powers of heaven. The change of the powers on earth is forced with force, due to the desire of the wicked to unjustly remain in power. The change in heaven, that we read of in Revelation, chapters 4 and 5, is peaceful.

These are changes of the most significant kind. A man was seen sitting on a throne. The scene is in heaven. According to the book of Revelation, in the 4th verse of the 4th chapter we read: “In a circle around the throne were 24 other thrones, on which were seated 24 elders dressed in white and wearing crowns of gold.” After additional more aspects of this heavenly scene are described, “ … the 24 elders fall down before the one who sits on the throne, and worshipped him who lived forever and ever.” They threw their crowns down in front of the throne and said, “Our Lord God! You are worthy to receive victory, honor, and power. For you created all things, and by your will they were given existence and life.”

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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This article was written immediately after the last one, which was written earlier today (June 13^th) and after the Honorable Minister Louis Farrakhan delivered Part II of The Guide and the Guidance.

Let me explain. I was very enthused. But I was also sad because of the many who partly heard him or didn’t hear him at all. His ending contained a very serious warning and he seemed to be ending a critical series of speeches that began with his Saviours’ Day speech in February. I thought of others who may never hear this critical talk (and those leading to this one.) 

Urge all to get and listen to these critical series of speeches of Minister Farrakhan as fast as possible.

After I “finished” both articles, I felt that since they won’t appear, until weeks after today’s speech, Allah willing, they may help some get the tape or others may carefully re-listen to it.

By the way, there’s much talk of Alzheimer’s disease but not much of its connection with aluminum and its relation to the problem of forgetfulness. Why?

In making an excellent point in his speech today, Minister Farrakhan cited an experience I had on an airplane about five or six years ago.

I had another similar experience in a public place about four months ago. I was in a long line of customers. I was reading a book. There was a white woman who was about five customers ahead of me. I noticed that she kept turning her neck around looking in my direction. The line was moving slowly. I kept reading.

Finally, she got out of the line and took a few steps toward me. She asked, “What are you reading?” I turned the book up so that she could see the front cover. Her face began to turn red as a beet. She abruptly turned around and got back in her place in line. She said nothing more to me. I said nothing at all.

The book’s title was Rogue Nation. Between the two words composing the book’s title, is the American flag shaped according to the boundaries of the United States. At the top in much smaller print is: American Unilateralism and the Failure of Good Intentions. At the bottom in small print, with reference to the author, are the words, Author of Trading Places. In somewhat larger words is the author’s name, Clyde Prestowitz.

There is smaller print on the back cover of the book on which was written advance praised for this book. Among the “big” names of those who praise this book and urge others–especially those in power–to read it are: Zbigniew Brzezinski, former National Security Adviser and Peter Sutherland, Chairman of Goldman Sachs International, former Director General, World Trade Organization.

On the inside back flap are these words by David Gergen, Director of the Center for Public Leadership, Harvard University, Former White House advisor to presidents Nixon, Ford, Reagan, and Clinton. He wrote: “This is a brave book that should be read by all who care about America’s success. A man of impeccable conservative credentials, Clyde Prestowitz directly challenges a new orthodoxy on the right–which the U. S. should aggressively pursue its own interests regardless to what others may think. No one writes with more authority and love of country.” (Emphasis his.)

Three paragraphs down, on the inside flap of its paper cover, are these words: “Rogue Nation is not an argument against American dominance or the exercise of American power. It’s an argument against stupidity, arrogance and ignorance in the exercise of power.”

Even though I had only read the words of a few others, as mentioned above, the publisher’s words on the inside cover flaps and a few pages of his book, it was clear to me that Clyde Prestowitz is an above average intelligent “conservative” white man, who loves America and is doing what he can to warn her.

I don’t know if Prestowitz is among the growing number of Caucasians who know, to an above average degree, the extraordinary value of Minister Farrakhan’s advice to President Bush. Many have known that the Minister is right, but fear to say this publicly, due to fear of being caught up in the most massive disinformation ever waged in history. But an increasing number of Caucasians are publicly agreeing with him—directly and indirectly. Blacks are witnessing this.

David Gergen characterized this book as “a brave book” and that its author “directly challenges a new orthodoxy on the right?” (Emphasis his.)

“Brave” in part, means: “having or showing courage, especially when facing danger, difficulty, or pain; to face the onslaught of something unpleasant with courage and resolution.”

Who did Mr. Prestowitz identify as the “new orthodoxy on the right” whose presence, work and power is such that they should be challenged and that to do so, bravery is required?  Rather than assume, I stopped typing and read beyond page seven (where I had stopped reading) of Mr. Prestowitz’s book.

On page 277, for instance, he points out clearly that the “new orthodoxy on the right” whom he challenged are, broadly speaking, the same group whom Minister Farrakhan has “called out.” But there are significant differences in their knowledge. 

On this critical and complicated subject, Mr. Prestowitz’s knowledge is wide-ranging and comprehensive. He wrote that he interviewed many, read widely and has had broad experience. His solutions, however, won’t solve America’s problems. He did not deal with the root cause of America’s problems–the position and condition of America’s Black people.

Minister Farrakhan’s knowledge, on this same complex subject, is divine. Furthermore, he unfailingly makes clear and unhesitatingly states that the source of his special knowledge is his teacher, the Honorable Elijah Muhammad. He knows the solution to America’s problems.

The context of Mr. Gergen’s use of the word “brave” reminds me of Minister Farrakhan’s bravery or courage, in the face of his being the target of the greatest and the most massive and sustained disinformation campaign ever launched against any one Black man in America’s history–or anywhere–which thoroughly involves the most powerful government of the past 6,000 years. This year marks the nineteenth consecutive year of a major aspect of this campaign against Minister Farrakhan.

Of course, this campaign is part of the same that has been directed against the Honorable Elijah Muhammad and the Nation of Islam since the early 1930s–from within and without.

What makes this the greatest disinformation campaign ever is that it’s knowingly designed to defeat the aims and purposes of the Supreme Being. Not all involved in it, however, are aware of its full scope, not to think of its ultimate defeat and destruction. 

Of this evil campaign, the Holy Qur’an states “They desire to put out the light of Allah with their mouths, and Allah will allow nothing save the perfection of His light …  .” ( 9:32)

Now, what do the following words mean? “… Then said I, Lo, I come: in the volume of the book it is written of me, I delight to do thy will, O my God: yea, thy law is within my heart. (Psalms 40: 8)

How was God’s law written “within” his heart? When? Who is speaking here? How do you know? If you have an answer, how do you verify it?

More next issue, Allah willing.

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