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

For the past two Sundays, I have been talking to you, and to the world through internet, about a human-built planet that is above our heads, made like the Universe. Wheels within wheels. The enemy calls them “UFOs.”

This Wheel was seen by Ezekiel in a vision 595 years before Jesus the prophet was born. His vision has now become a reality, and it has frightened the scholars and scientists of this world, because the wisdom that is apparent from the way the Wheels move tells the scholars and scientists that they have no wisdom, science, or the technology to equal or touch what God has produced for two purposes.

You have heard it said when Allah (God) destroyed the wicked in the days of Noah by flood; and you have heard it said when Allah (God) destroyed the wicked in the days of Sodom and Gomorrah: Water that time—fire the next time.

You have read in the Qur’an and in the Bible of a fire that would burn. You don’t need to look for that after you are dead. If you live through these next few years, you would be wise to try and escape the fire that was not prepared for you, but was prepared for Satan, and all his hosts.

I told you two weeks ago, as I had said it when I made the announcement that Elijah Muhammad gave me to make, that before you can mock me, you would see these Wheels over the major cities. And for 10 days straight, The Wheel was seen over Lake Erie. However, Chicago newspapers; the news media are not talking about it, because it verifies what I said!

The Wheel is there to destroy the United States of America at the Command of God.

Why did God destroy Pharaoh? He was angry with Pharaoh over Pharaoh’s mistreatment of the Children of Israel.

Why is God angry with America? Allah is angry over America’s mistreatment of the Black man and woman of America who are His people!

As I said in my Saviours’ Day message two weeks ago, the Children of Israel are not the so-called Jews. The Bible and Qur’an, from one cover to another, is talking about you, me,—us—that would be in bondage in America under a wicked oppressor for 400 years. And, for 450 years, we have been here in America, and we have caught hell every day of that 450 years.

You may think: “Yes, but today we have a Black president!” President Barack Obama cannot save America. He would like to; he has a good heart, but unfortunately he has come at The Time of the Fulfillment of the Judgment that is spoken of in both these books.

You have read, in both Bible and Qur’an, that we should be looking for a man like Moses. And Moses is referred to more in the Qur’an than any other prophet. Why? It is because the People of Moses were subjected to harsh treatment and torment by a wicked ruler. And the man like Moses would come from a people who are also tortured, destroyed, and turned inside-out by a wicked ruler whose people were wicked also.

In the Bible, Pharaoh said, “Me and my people are wicked.” So, in the greatest nation of the last 6,000 years, here we are, in the worst condition that we have ever been in.

We are proud of our Black president, and the beautiful people that he has surrounded himself with that are Black. When you turn on your television, you look at Black news commentators; we have Black governors, Black mayors, Black police chiefs, Black city councilmen, Black sheriffs.

What do you think they are in office for? They’re in office to show us that we have the ability to govern ourselves if we are separated from our enemies, and have land and territory of our own. We have qualified people among us that we can run a Nation, a government—and even a world!

The enemy already knows this, so today, you are a lawful captive, as Isaiah the prophet said. You’re legally bound to your slave master. You wear their names; and you confess their religion. You’re a White person in Black skin.

They have made us into themselves, so the wickedness that we do every day of our lives is because of our sojourn with wickedness; with wicked rulers that we have looked up to. And through a religious teaching, that makes Jesus a Caucasian; and then call him the “Son of God,” knowing that if he is the son, and he has a father, he’s White, then the father must also be that, so this is a subtle way of making you worship White people, and hate yourselves.

Don’t be afraid! I’m doing the talking. But the fearful and the unbelieving will have their part in the Lake of Fire.

God Himself has declared war on Satan

When God comes, after the workings of Satan, He declares war on Satan. So the Coming of God is the beginning of The Final War.

Do you know why Jesus, The Messiah, is dangerous to Satan? Because Jesus first starts as a teacher, casting out demons. Then Jesus said, “Think not that I come to bring peace, nay, a sword….”

When a man talks about “bringing a sword,” well, you know what a “sword” is. But when you look up the definition, it means armies, where there is going to be violence and destruction, because when Jesus comes, he comes to set in motion that which will bring about the destruction of the world that Satan has made.

This means systems of government, politics, education, juristprudence, religion, art, culture, economics, social system. All of that is already here!

And in the Bible, the man that comes says, “Behold, I make all things new, and the former things shall pass away.” You will not live under the government of America. You won’t live under the politics of this world. You will come out of their educational system that makes you a slave to material things, so that you work more for money than for the service of the people who need your knowledge the most. You will come out of their system of juristprudence. Yes—and you will also come out of religion.

Satan has poisoned all of religion, so God is not coming to reform it—He’s coming to get rid of it all, and set a new thing down! There will be a New Islam! He makes all things new.

Christianity vs. Islam: Which one will survive?

“Which One Will Survive the War of Armageddon?”—this is a question that Master Fard Muhammad asked, where on a blackboard under this question was a picture of America’s flag of stars and stripes on the left side, and the Flag of Islam’s Sun, Moon and Stars on the right side.

Underneath these flags were the words: Christianity vs. Islam.

Islam (The Sun, Moon and Stars) or the Stars and Stripes? The American flag has great meaning, but the Flag of Islam has greater meaning, because the American flag cannot exist without The Sun, The Moon and The Stars. The people of The Flag of Islam are the people of Islam. The people of this, the American flag, are the people of the Cross (Christianity).

Now look at this: America right now is leading the nations of the West—England, the European Union; even Japan, and some other nations—against what? Islam. Master Fard Muhammad knew that America was going to lead the fight against Islam!

Do you really think America wants peace? Do you see what’s happening to your country? I’m talking now to the citizens of America. Do you think that the wise in America did not know that a showdown was coming between them and your God? I want to show you how America is preparing for The Great War, which she has already lost. It’s just a matter of time now.

What is the meaning of Armageddon? In 1972, at Mosque Maryam, the Honorable Elijah Muhammad went into that word: The first three letters, A-r-m, does not mean your arm strength, but it represents arms and armies.

“Armies,” the Honorable Elijah Muhammad said, “gathered together for the doom.” All the armies of the Earth, now, are getting ready.

My dear Christian family, I hope that you will not say that we are enemies of Christians, because the Qur’an does not say that. The Qur’an says, “Those who are Christians and those who are Jews and those who are Sabians, those who believe in Allah and the Last Day, they have their reward from their Lord, and there is no fear for them, nor shall they grieve.”

If you follow Jesus as Jesus would have you follow him, you don’t have to be afraid in an hour like this. I’m saying this to Christians who are White, or non-White. But you can’t play with Jesus, because he’s not to come—he is present.

And to be very frank about it, I represent him.

The Synagogue of Satan

America has now become a “fascist” country. Do you remember how Senator Huey Long is quoted as saying, “When fascism comes to America, it will be called anti-fascism.”

Fascism is designed, and defined, as an authoritarian political ideology that combines nationalism with a corporatist, economic system. Fascists advocate the creation of a single party. Do you think that the Democrats and the Republicans are different?

Who controls the U.S. Congress? Do you think it’s you? Can you really depend on the Senate and the House of Representatives to represent your interests? They’re in bed with insurance companies. They’re in bed with special interests. And they’re in bed with Israel.

Many of your senators and congresspersons are honorary citizens of Israel, and members of the Knesset control America’s wealth. President Bush was controlled! There’s not a president that is the real power! The real power are those money people! Barack is not in power! How dare you think that he could give you what no other president before him has been able to give you, even if they desired to do it!

Right next to the Holocaust Museum in Washington is where the Federal Reserve prints the money. The Federal Reserve is the Synagogue of Satan. They, along with the Rockefellers, the DuPonts, the House of Rothschild: These are the people that have corrupted the entire world. And I am here to pronounce your doom!

You will never kill me

I have to pay the price for what I teach, but you won’t say that I don’t love you, because I’m willing to die to prove it, as well as to live to prove it.

What I said today is a death sentence on myself. But you know, the Bible says, “My father, he sits in heaven, and he laughs at you if you think thatyou can put that small-time stuff over today on us!”

I know that when you write of me after what I said today, you will step up your anger and your hatred of me, and those that are with me. It is written that the Dragon was after the Woman that was pregnant with a man child who was destined to rule the nations with a rod of iron. So the Dragon spewed out of its mouth a flood after the Woman.

The Book of Revelation teaches, “The accuser of our brethren”—meaning the prophets—“who accuse them night and day before the throne is cast down…” so unleash your flood. It will only carry away those who are not firmly moored; firmly settled.

Come after me with all that you have. ButI want to tell you today, that before the week is out, God will answer what I have said today.

He wants you to know that your hatred of me will bring about the death and destruction of what you think you love. He may allow you to take me into your hands—my life, you can’t have. But He may allow you to take me, but you will never kill me. Never!

Recently, there was some wind blowing in New York, and the planes couldn’t fly. There was some unusual snow coming down, where nothing moved; tornadoes; and floods and mudslides on the West Coast. But earthquakes: You’ve been having little tremors. Within one week since I last spoke to you, there were 72 earthquakes that took place. And you haven’t seen anything yet!

There will be more wind, more unusual rain and violent storms. You all better start storing something in your houses—and I’m not talking about guns—I’m talking about food that is non-perishable, because this thing is falling, and falling fast. And when your people can’t find jobs, and can’t have money, murder and bloodshed will be all in the streets. There may come a time when you won’t be able to come to the mosque, but the Qur’an says, “Make your homes places of worship.”

The Honorable Elijah Muhammad said that there will be hail stones coming out the sky like blocks of ice, killing all your livestock! Destroying your homes, and killing anything that it touches! So go ahead and come after us!

I am His Son, so to you preachers and rabbis: Call that blasphemy! And if you go to war with Iran, I can’t be with you, so call that sedition! I am not going nowhere!

According to the Bible, the Pharisees realized that Jesus was preaching their doom, and when they reached out to get him, he was gone.

When the enemy comes for me, know that when my feet are gone, the end of your world has come because God is going to multiply your calamities.

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

In The Beginning (“The Genesis”), “Satan,” as a serpent, only deceived two people in The Garden.  But in The Revelation—and the end of his time—Satan is now a huge dragon that has deceived the whole world.

In the Book of Revelation, the 12th Chapter, the 9th verse, it reads:  “And the great dragon was cast out, that old serpent, called the Devil, and Satan, which deceiveth the whole world: he was cast out into the earth, and his angels were cast out with him.” 

Look at the evil that’s in the world:  Look at the hatred, the division, the schisms, the strife, the enmity that’s in the world; the bloodshed that is in the world; the wars and revolutions that are in the world—all of this is real. 

So if the wars are real, the evil is real, then The Cause that produced this is as real as The Effect.  We knew, before The Caucasian came into the world, we had many problems among ourselves; but not to the degree that it is now. 

So The Enemy knows that The Time is now for his deceit to be exposed, and for him to be exposed, and so he has to become a “universal snooper” … . 

In the Holy Qur’an, Surah 2 Al-Baqarah (“The Cow”), verse 30, when Allah (God) said He was going to “place a ruler in the Earth that would create mischief and cause the shedding of blood” the angels were confused. 

They said, “We celebrate Your praise, and extol Your holiness—but why would You do something like this?” and God said, “I know what you know not.”

Satan has a work to do in causing mischief and the shedding of blood.  So Satan says to God, “Please respite me”; “Delay my doom for the evil that I am doing, for the mischief that I am making, for the blood that I am shedding. 

Delay my doom until the day when they, whom I have put to sleep with the carbon monoxide of my lies, are raised.”  Raised how?  “Into the consciousness of me”—Satan—“and The Lies I have told, and The Deceit I have worked throughout the entire world.” 

Then Satan said to God, “Now that I am respited, I’m going to come at them.”  Come at who?  The People who are of Allah’s (God’s) Nature: 

“I’m going to come at them from before them, from behind them, from the left side and from the right side, and You won’t find most of them thankful.  In fact, I’m going to make them all deviate.”

Satan said:  “I’ll come at them from behind them; I’ll follow up their righteousness with mischief.  I’ll come at them from their right side, posing as a ‘friend’—and then I’ll come at them from their left side as their Open Enemy. 

And when I get finished with them, they’ll be so confused, they won’t know who their real ‘friend’ or ‘enemy’ is.”  Look at the confusion in Tahrir Square in Egypt:  Now, these poor people don’t know where all this started. 

But Satan does … .  Look at the confusion in Syria, in Qatar, in The Arab Emirates in Saudi Arabia—look at the confusion all over the world.  The people want to know  “Where Is God?”—while all these evil things are being done?

God has given Satan power and time to do his evil; God absented Himself to give Satan freedom to do his evil, as the scripture teaches in Surah 2, verse 36:  “… Go forth, some of you are the enemies of others. 

And there is for you in the earth an abode and a provision for a time.”  So now, Satan has deceived the whole world:  The world is in confusion, utter confusion.  America is in confusion, utter confusion.  The government of America is in confusion; utter confusion. 

The Earth, now, is boiling, and is headed for hell and complete destruction—unless Allah (God) intervenes and stops our fall into hell by manifesting Satan, his deceit and his treachery.  The Lie and The Liar are now being exposed.

‘Universal Snooper’ fears exposure of his ‘Greatest Deceptions’

Satan is a “universal snooper.”  Satan has to snoop.  He has to look.  He knew this day was coming, but while the time was not yet, he was raising total hell; because he knew it was not time yet for The Truth to be told.  But the moment he comes into the knowledge that this is The Time of his doom, he has to do something about that.

When The Deliverer was to come in the days of Moses, Pharaoh hatched a conspiracy and killed the male children because he knew The Deliverer would be among The Oppressed—and he’s going to be a man.  When The Deliverer was to come in the days of Jesus, Herod said: 

“Kill the boy babies.”  Now, we are at the end:  The time that Jesus The Prophet prophesied of in “The Coming of Jesus The Messiah”—Who would come in his name into the world after The Workings of Satan; and Jesus The Messiah would begin to expose Satan.

“The Greatest Deception” along with The Deception of “The Reality of God” is The Deception of “Jesus”.  Because Jesus is The One that comes into the world and exposes Satan, then, in “the language of Christianity,” Jesus “goes to heaven with God” and becomes

“The Christ” anointed with Power to Crush The Wicked—so Satan has to keep us away from “Jesus” and from “The Christ”; And in “the Islamic language,” Satan has to keep us away from “The Presence of The Mahdi” in the world and “The Messiah” that is with The Mahdi. 

So if you fear somebody coming to tell The Truth, you have to set “watchers” wherever you think The Truth is going to come from, to keep you “informed” of anything or anyone that will disturb or expose your deceit.

But, since this Truth may be coming from anywhere today—but particularly in the West, in the United States of America:  He had to put “watchers” among us.  If you remember the Counterintelligence Program [COINTELPRO] of the United States Government: 

They feared that a “Messiah” would rise among Black people who would unite the nationalist element among us, and unite us as a people; and destroy their power to continue their wicked rule and oppression of us.

What does it mean “to snoop”?  “To prowl or pry; to go about in a sneaking, prying way; to investigate and look around furtively in an attempt to find out something, especially information about someone’s private affairs.”

In another of the Honorable Elijah Muhammad’s monumental books, “Our Saviour Has Arrived,” in Chapter 7 “Time Has Arrived That Allah Will Fulfill His Promise” on page 19 he writes:  “The devils are universal snoopers.

They pretend to be interested in your spiritual meetings, but [they come] only to listen to what you are saying among yourselves …”—they listen to the pastor; they listen to the people.  They want to see how awakened your pastor is becoming; and then they make moves to destroy his church. 

And that’s why there are thousands of churches today in America under “foreclosure.”  You may see him “listening in” on our meetings—and we are so “happy” to have them come among us; but, they come only to keep us from accepting The Truth, Submission to The Will of God. 

The Honorable Elijah Muhammad continues: “I am for the separation of my people from their enemies; that they share not in their enemies’ destruction, even though I may lose my own life in this daring attempt to save [my people with] the plain, simple Truth of God and Power.” 

And in Chapter 12 “Allah, God, The Supreme Being,” on page 60, he speaks about The Caucasians, writing:  “They are the only people on our planet whose time is limited.  We can clearly see today why Allah limited their time.”

The National Security Agency (“NSA”) is a “universal snooping institution.”  Why, they are even trying to listen in on that “Exalted Assembly,”  But, they find only “a flame.”  What is the meaning of “universal”?  “Applicable everywhere or in all cases; present everywhere.” 

In Surah 7, verses 26-27 it says:  “O children of Adam, We have indeed sent down to you clothing to cover your shame, and (clothing) for beauty; and clothing that guards against evil—that is the best. This is of the messages of Allah that they may be mindful.

O children of Adam, let not the devil seduce you, as he expelled your parents from the garden, pulling off from them their clothing that he might show them their shame. [For] He surely sees you, he as well as his host, from whence you see them not. Surely We have made the devils to be the friends of those who [disbelieve].”

Satan, a “Universal Snooper:”  Why does he need to know everything that everyone is saying and doing?  So that he can use it to silence us if we come into the knowledge of Truth, or to “blackmail” us—or “whitemail” us, either one—into submission to his will. 

He listens to your foolishness on Facebook and Twitter; and he sees your dislike of each other.  And whenever he gets ready to use you against each other, he just pulls up what you’re saying, and begins to manipulate your division, and “enhance” it.

Members of Congress:  Once you get too close to The Truth, he will show you what he has on you.  He has to know about you so that he can, from our weaknesses, take us away from The Truth and bring us into the sphere of his influence. 

So the FBI (Federal Bureau of Investigation) and the NSA are searching all of us out; so if the devil “sees us from whence we see them not,” who is the Holy Qur’an talking about?  It’s talking to The Messenger; saying that he is watched by Satan.  And he’s talking to The Messenger’s followers … . 

You should know, Nation of Islam, that we are on “The Watch List.”  We should know that there’s nothing that we are saying on social media that has escaped his attention, nor in emails or on phone calls, or on Twitter. 

Look at the hatred that America is showing for Muslims:  Don’t you think he’s listening to all our conversations?  How do you start your conversation?  With “As-Salaam Alaikum”—and The Universal Snooper is quick to pick up on those specific words: 

“Ah!  That’s a code term.  Zero in on that conversation!” If you mention The Name “Allah,” that’s a code; and when that code comes up, he’s listening.

He’s spying on China, Japan; he’s spying on Germany, on Italy, on France, on Russia—he is spying everywhere.  So here comes Mr. Edward Snowden to reveal something that was so secret, that even the members of Congress who are members of a committee on “intelligence.”  They did not know that such a thing existed that was gathering information from all of the social media.

Well, the government of America is spying on leaders from all over the planet to know their weaknesses, to make America, really, dangerous if this Truth is made known. In a July 2013 article appearing in The Guardian (United Kingdom) newspaper, the headline read: 

“Obama Orders The U.S. to Draw [Up] Overseas Target Lists for Cyber-Attacks.”  There is a U.S. federal court known as “FISA Court” [established and authorized under the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act of 1978 ].

With different districts; and with now 11 justices under The Supreme Court Chief Justice, their job is to give warrants, or orders, for the government to conduct surveillance on anyone whom they target or select to watch closely.

Well I’m not “blind”:  I know they’re watching me, and listening to me.  But I also know they’re listening to you.  And although U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder had to give orders, they spied on him.  The very Supreme Court Chief Justice that sends down orders, John Roberts: 

He’s spied on.  The president is spied on; so he has no “personal life” or “national life” where somebody is not watching him and listening to his most private conversations to see if he’s “toeing the line” [not “straying beyond a rigidly-defined boundary”].

They watched President Barack Obama night and day; they are watching all the members of The Supreme Court, they are watching members of Congress; they know any deviation from morality that any top person in government or out of government is doing.  Why do they do this? 

So that they can force you, just when you think you’re getting on good, and you’re rising, you’ll get a message from them to “come in”; that they have “something to tell you about.”  And they’ll tell us about ourselves.

However, study the Holy Qur’an, Chapter 31, verse 16.  Luqman is talking to his son:  “O my son, [even] if it be the weight of a grain of mustard-seed, even though it be in a rock, or in the heaven or in the earth, Allah will bring it forth. 

Surely Allah is Knower of subtleties, Aware.”  Also, study the New International Version of the Bible, in the Book of Mark, Chapter 4, verse 22:  “For whatever is hidden is meant to be disclosed, and whatever is concealed is meant to be brought out into the open.”  How will God do this? 

Here is a 29-year-old man, Mr. Snowden, a high-school dropout who is hiding like he’s a little “mustard seed” hidden in the rock in the Earth.  Well, he came forward; so small, so insignificant, yet:  He had the government of America in a “tizzy.” 

And This is how God makes manifest what is being done in the darkness:  He brings someone or something out of the dark to make it manifest; and though it be like a Leviathan, or a creature in the depth of the ocean, yet will God bring it up and make it manifest.

‘Blood on their hands’:  The FBI’s secret relationship with organized crime leaders

During my address at Saviours’ Day 2011, I mentioned The Enemy, The Synagogue of Satan:  When they get ready to get after you, they use two organizations:  The IRS [Internal Revenue Service] and the FBI [Federal Bureau of Investigation]. 

And it has been reported that when someone went to the White House and asked officials about “hate crimes,” the officials said, “Oh, we don’t look into that.  We have the ADL and the Southern Poverty Law Center.”

The ADL and the Southern Poverty Law Center are agents of the government.  So when you hear the ADL speaking, you hear the Southern Poverty Law Center speaking … . 

And when you hear that now we, the Nation of Islam, are being brought before courts—many of us are being asked to come before a “Grand Jury” (a Grand Jury that’s been sitting for more than 18 months)—the IRS is involved and the FBI is involved.  But let’s look at this “FBI” … .  There is blood on the hands of the FBI.

It is written in a book titled “Deal with the Devil: The FBI’s Secret Thirty-Year Relationship with a Mafia Killer” by Peter Lance that a man named Gregory Scarpa Sr. carried out more than 26 hits while acting as a paid informant. 

A secret relationship between the FBI and a mafia capo [“leader”] that allowed Scarpa to walk away from at least 26 murders while under the Bureau’s protection has been exposed. 

Scarpa’s most bloody killing spree period (between 1980 and 1992, when the Mafioso ordered or carried out at least 26 killings) came when he was in the pay of the FBI, earning millions of dollars in today’s money as a “Top Echelon Criminal Informant.” 

Scarpa wasn’t just supplying intelligence; Mr. Lance writes he was “… acting with the apparent consent of top FBI officials to commit crimes and induce other members of the mafia to break the law.”

What about the trial of James “Whitey” Bulger?  According to a reporter:  At Whitey Bulger’s trial, during the testimony of Bulger’s former FBI handler John Morris who was confirming to the court that Bulger cooperated with the FBI as an informant, Bulger screamed out, “You’re a big [‘f-word’] liar!” 

Here is a man, Bulger, who received information from the FBI agents Morris and John J. Connolly (Morris’ subordinate) about investigations conducted by other law enforcement agencies into his criminal activities—and these FBI agents tipped him off about potential informants in his organization, and Bulger killed every one that the FBI told him about.

This is the same FBI that is snooping around in mosques; listening to the conversation of Muslims who may not like Jews, who may be angry with Israel, and want to harm Jews because of something that the Israeli government has done. 

So the FBI approaches them, and sets up a plot with them—and then exposes the plot.  This is “entrapment” to show that “Muslims are planning evil against America.”  These are the enemies that are among us all.

Now look, FBI:  You are allowing people to kill, and you kill?  My sister, Assata Shakur killed no one.  She has been down in Cuba for nearly 30 years, bothering no one, yet you would call her a “domestic terrorist”? 

What about “The Son of Sam”—David Berkowitz?  [For over a year, beginning in the summer of 1976, Berkowitz shot, killed and wounded several people, and eluded a massive police manhunt.]  Weren’t the people terrorized when he was killing?  You never called him a “terrorist.”

You have serial killers; you have people that escape from prison using helicopters, and killing people as they exit prison:  Not one of them have you called a “domestic terrorist.” 

You hold this against my sister, because race is at the root of your evil against her, as well as your evil against Larry Hoover, your evil against The Cuban Five, your evil against The Nation of Islam—your evil against Black people that has been going on for 450 years.  And now, your time has come.

‘Go back to your ‘first love’: A Warning for ‘The Nicolaitans’ of our time

To The Muslims, I warn you, in The Name of Allah, from 2 Peter, the 2nd Chapter, the 1st verse:  “But there were false prophets also among the people, even as there shall be false teachers among [us], who privily shall bring in damnable heresies, even denying the Lord that bought them, and bring upon themselves swift destruction.” 

And in the Book of Revelation, Chapter 2, verses 6 and 15, there is mention of a group of people whom God “hated” their deeds and their doctrine, called “Nicolaitans.”  Study this chapter in the Book of Revelation.  These “Nicolaitans” are heretics.

What is a “heretic”?   A heretic is “one who teaches against the original moral teachings of the prophets.”  Well, God is saying to the mosque and to the Believers, “you see the wickedness that’s going on:” 

We saw when The Supreme Court knocked down the Defense of Marriage Act, and ok’d that it’s “all right” for same-sex marriage.  The church has agreed with this ruling, many of them;

government has agreed—and even our president, during his June 2013 trip to Africa, has gone to Africa saying that “We, too, should agree with same-sex marriage.”  This is “heresy:”  This is that which has entered the church, entered the mosque, and entered the synagogue.

And while we dislike the practices of “the Nicolaitans,” or the false teachers, and verses 4-5 of this chapter in Revelation teaches that we have found favor with God by disliking their practices; yet, we must repent for our backsliding—and go back to our “first love:” 

“Nevertheless I have somewhat against thee, because thou hast left thy first love.  Remember therefore from whence thou art fallen, and repent, and do the first works; or else I will come unto thee quickly, and will remove thy candlestick out of his place, except thou repent.” 

And what is the “first love” that we had?  To the Jews it is Moses; to the Christians it is Jesus; to the Muslims it is Prophet Muhammad; and to The Nation of Islam, it is both Prophet Muhammad and the Honorable Elijah Muhammad.  This is our “first love!”

So when you go back to your “first love,” the scripture, in the Book of Revelation, teaches you’re going back to “the Alpha and the Omega.”  (Study Rev. 1:7-13, Rev. 21:3-7 and Rev. 22:1-14.)  How is He “Alpha” and “Omega”?  He is ending The World of Evil, and He is opening The Door to The Paradise of God.

Brothers and sisters:  We have to clean up our act; we have to clean up from listening to the Inner Satan and the Outer Satan as well, for the Honorable Elijah Muhammad said, “The Hereafter for my followers is now.”  Heaven does not start after you are dead.  It starts when you come to life in The Spirit and Knowledge of “God,” “Self” and “The Time.”

So we can say, in conclusion that “The Lie” is exposed, and so is “The Liar:” so let us feed on The Truth, and stop our lying, and become The Righteous again.

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

First, I am eternally grateful to Allah (God) for your presence this afternoon, for all of the many distinguished brothers and sisters, spiritual teachers, Imams, Muslims, Christians and Hebrews.

I’m honored by the presence of the family of the Honorable Elijah Muhammad and by the presence of each one who took time to come out today to hear what we have to say.

I’m stunned by the words of our beloved sheik, and I can only say that all of us who come to this life are gifted by our creator with gifts and talents and skills. Our duty is to use our gifts and talents for the glory of Allah, our God.

Some of us use our talents for vain purposes, and for those vain purposes God will still make us successful, but in our vanities we truly die. But those who use their gifts and skills and talents for the glory of the eternal Creator, these are they for whom death cannot come.

Allah (God) says in the Holy Qur’an, Muhammad is but a Messenger. Indeed, Messengers have passed away before him. If Muhammad dies or is killed, would you turn back on your heels?

So here the Prophet of Allah passes from this earth and many did not wish to believe that he had passed and Umar was ready to kill anyone who said that the Prophet had passed.

But Abu Bakr went to the Mosque and quoted those words that I just quoted from the Qur’an. The words of the Qur’an calmed Umar and calmed the followers.

No human being, no community that serves Allah (God) is happy when the one who taught them of God, gave them the example of the life that Allah (God) would have us to live, when that person leaves there is tremendous sadness.

We never wanted to see Muhammad leave, but Allah (God) says Muhammad is but a messenger and we are not to worship human beings no matter if they carry the sacred word of Allah, and live in front of us as a perfect example, they are not worthy to be worshipped.

Only Allah (God), the Supreme, the Eternal, The One, the Mighty, the Wise; but then Allah (God) says, “Think not of those who are slain or who die in the way of Allah (God) as dead. They are alive but you perceive not.”

So the Prophet has passed but he’s not dead. Abraham has passed but he’s not dead. Death only comes to those who live vain lives and set up with Allah (God) partners, death comes to them; but those who pass from this earth in the way of Allah (God) are not dead and we should not speak of them as though they are dead.

How do you know that Muhammad is alive? Because a billion and a half people everyday are coming to say prayer. How do we know that Jesus is not dead; that Moses is not dead; that Abraham is not dead?

The Prophets are not dead because they left this life in the way of God, and if the way of God lives they who serve him and walk in his way live also.

Now, I wanted to say to the sheik and those who speak such great words of Brother Farrakhan, you know they gave me a lot of titles this past weekend and at my table the other night, I said, “You cannot give me a title. Allah (God) is He who assigns to all of us who we are.”

So you can’t make me. Only Allah (God) can make me. I said “Now, you may call me sheik. You may call me imam and all these great names, fine, but the best title is Muslim.” A man may be a sheik and not a good Muslim.

A man may be an imam and not be a good Muslim.  A man may be a king, a ruler, a potentate and not be a good person, but a Muslim, is one who has surrendered his will completely to do the will of God, and that is the greatest title and that is the one that God has given to every human being.

I appreciate the kind words and they really are wonderful, but, you know, I’m striving. I just want to be a good Muslim, and if I strive to be a good Muslim, then all the other titles are fine. And what is a good Muslim?

Prophet Muhammad (PBUH) said, “You are not a Muslim; you are not a believer until you love for your brother, what you love for yourself.” If envy and jealousy and greed and lust and these things have contaminated the heart.

Then we have to strive to clean up so we can be good Muslims, good righteous people. Well, there are Christians in the audience. There are Hebrews in the audience. They may feel offended if you say I want to be a good Muslim, that all human beings are made Muslim.

Well, now, let’s look at that. Christian is a name.  Jew is a name.  They have good meaning all right enough, but they are names given after a revealed word came down. 

In fact, in the Bible, it says, the followers of Jesus didn’t become known as Christians until at Antioch, where the enemies of Jesus began to call them Christians and the name stuck because they believed that Jesus was in fact, the Christ.

The name Jew came after the revelation of the Torah. So if the name Jew came after the revelation of the Torah and the name Christian came after the revelation of the Gospel, yet both Jesus and Moses claim Abraham as the father. What was Abraham?

Allah (God) says in the Qur’an that Abraham was not a Jew nor was he a Christian.  Now, don’t get angry, please. Don’t get angry. This is a classroom. Look, Allah (God) says in the Qur’an, “O people of the book,” that’s those who call themselves Jews and Christians, you are the people of the book and the book here is the Bible. 

“O people of the book, why do you dispute about Abraham when the Torah and the Gospel were not revealed until after him”? Do you not understand? Behold you are they who disputed about that knowledge.

Why then do you dispute about that which you have no knowledge and Allah (God) knows while you know not. Abraham was not a Jew, nor a Christian but he was an upright man, a Muslim, and he was not one of the polytheists.” Now, let’s look at that.

Wait a minute. We didn’t have Muslims on the earth until Prophet Muhammad (PBUH) came and Prophet Muhammad (PBUH) brought Islam, and so Islam is the youngest of the three religions. Wrong. If Abraham is the father and he was not a Christian, he was not a Jew, what is a Muslim?

If he was an upright man and a Muslim, what is a Muslim? A Muslim is one who declares that he or she will bow down and submit their will entirely to do the will of God, the Creator.

Now, I said, all of us have that name, didn’t I.  Allah (God) says in the Qur’an that He created the human being in the nature of Islam. He created us to surrender totally and completely to God, and Allah (God) says, all submit except a rebellious devil.

Now, when we start rebelling against obedience to God, we become a devil. I’m going to say that again. There are a whole lot of devils everywhere, in the mosque, in the synagogue, in the church, in government, in school—a whole lot of devils.

It’s not what you claim, it’s what you do. I’ll say that again. It’s not what you claim you are, it’s what you do. Now look, I can say I believe in Jesus and I do. I can say I believe in Moses; I believe in Abraham; I believe in Muhammad (PBUH).

I do. That’s fine. You get credit for belief, but Islam is not belief. Islam is carrying into practice what you believe and if you do not practice your belief, you are not what you say you are.

Now, how many practicing followers of Jesus are there? How many practicing followers of Moses are there and how many practicing followers of Prophet Muhammad are there, peace be upon him? Well, I practice. I say my five daily prayers. That’s good. That’s a start but that’s not it. I fast during the month of Ramadan.

That’s good. I pay zakat. Oh, that’s wonderful. You haven’t reached it yet though. You’re on the road. No. We are not practicing until we surrender completely to carry out the will of God. Well, what is His will? His will is not just prayer. His will is not just fasting. Those are disciplines that get you ready to do His will.

Now, if you go to the mosque and stay in there all day praying, that’s not being a good Muslim. You can stay in church all day long praying. Prayer answers things. If you don’t get up and start doing something about your prayers, you won’t get any answers to your prayers.

So the call to Muslims, Christians and Jews is that we don’t talk about the Torah, talk about the Gospel, talk about the Qur’an; that’s easy to do. But what Allah (God) demands of us today is that we observe the Torah, observe the Gospel and observe the Qur’an, and to observe it means to follow Jesus, follow Moses and to follow Muhammad (PBUH). 

And if we don’t follow him and them—by follow I mean carry into practice exactly what they did when they lived among us—if we’re not doing that, we are not followers of the Prophet (PBUH).

We know his name, his book, but if we are not carrying into practice the will of God, then we are hypocrites in our profession of faith. Now, if what I’m saying stings a little bit, I don’t want you to be upset, because the intention is not to hurt, but to help us to see that we all must make a commitment to know the will of God, and then to do His will. 

And if all of us in this room just started doing what we know of the will of God and then increasing our knowledge of His will everyday, because the more you know, the more you’re responsible.

And those of us who are in leadership over God’s people are the most responsible to be examples for Him Whom we are telling the people about; and, most importantly, the sheiks, the imams, the pastors, most of them and the rabbis, are the ones who are misleading the people of God.

As I said last Sunday, the condition of the three communities: the Christians, the Muslims and the Jews, bear witness against our scholarship and our leadership, something has happened. We need to know what happened.

Have you noticed that when the prophets of God are among the people, their community is one? The moment the prophet leaves, the community becomes fragmented, divided. When Prophet Muhammad (PBUH) was here, there was no Sunni, Shiite, Sufi, Hanbali, Hanafi, all these different schools of thought and sects.

It was only one. What is the Prophet (PBUH)? I am a Muslim. That’s what the Prophet (PBUH) was. What was Abraham? He was a Muslim. What are you? See, we say I’m Baptist. Well, what was Jesus? Was he Baptist? Come on. Was he a Methodist? Was he Episcopalian? Was he a member of the Church of God in Christ?

Tell me, what was Jesus? Then whatever Jesus was, you should be if you follow him. Prophet Muhammad would be displeased to see the division in his house. Jesus would be totally upset to see the division in his house, and the prophets that came to the children of Israel would all be totally upset to see the division in the house.

How did these divisions come? What precipitated these divisions that within the House of Islam we are fighting each other? Within the House of Christianity, we are fighting each other. Within the House of Judaism, we are fighting each other. Yet, we claim one father, Abraham.

Now, the father is all right. Ishmael and Isaac had different upbringing, different circumstances, I should say. A similar upbringing but different circumstances but they didn’t fight each other so God’s covenant was with both Isaac and Ishmael.

But now the people who say they are Muslims say well, we are from Ishmael. The people that are Jews, they say they’re from Isaac. So what difference does it make? If you’re from Ishmael or Isaac, if you are not like Abraham, you are not of Ishmael or Isaac. Let’s talk about it.

So Jews and Muslims are killing each other and hate each other and Christians and Muslims and Jews hate each other, have slaughtered each other and yet claim one father and one God.

Something is wrong, isn’t it? Allah (God) says in the Qur’an, listen to these words, “And they did not become divided until after revelation came to them splitting up their religion into sects and parties, each one rejoicing in their part”—not the whole, but their part.

We are wrong to make distinctions among God’s servants. Even though Prophet Muhammad (PBUH) is the seal of the prophets, we are not to say that Muhammad is better than Jesus or better than Moses.

His revelation was higher, but to lift one up to put some others down is not what Allah wants because all those prophets represent one God and one community and one basic principle—set up no partner with Allah (God) and bow down and obey God’s will.

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

One of the lessons that life teaches and one of the lessons that I have learned in my young days on this earth is that Allah (God) hates ingratitude. One cannot be grateful to Allah (God), whom we have not seen, and be ungrateful to those who Allah (God) has sent our way to make us who and what we are.

None of us in this room is privileged to use the independent pronoun “I.” For I, of myself, like Jesus said, can do nothing. I am not anything of, or by, myself. Whatever I am, a community of people helped to make me who and what I am.

So the soft pronoun “we” is better because when I stand, I don’t represent myself. I represent a beautiful mother who nurtured me. I represent a father whom I never knew. I represent teachers and persons who took an interest in me and gave me good words of encouragement.

I am who I am today because of a great community of persons who are gone on, many of them, but I remain as their representative. To come back home to St. Cyprian’s is a stopping off point to say how grateful I am that St. Cyprian’s Episcopal Church nurtured me into the human being that Allah (God) is blessing me to become.

St. Cyprian’s was more than just a church. It was indeed an extended family. I never knew my father, but every male member of the church was like a father to me; every female member of the church was another mother for me.

As I grew in this church, I was always encouraged by the membership of the church to be the best that I could be. You did not know what you were putting inside of me. You did not know, nor did I, what Allah (God) would have me to do with my life.

But I say to each and every one of you, blessed is the human being who discovers his or her purpose for living. When you live and don’t know why you are alive, when you live and don’t know why Allah (God) put you here, that is not the best way to spend your time or your life.

Elijah Muhammad taught me that what one loves to do and what one does best is more than likely what one is born to do. When you do what you are born to do, it is never work, it is a labor of love, that as you give it, you also receive from it.

That’s why people say to me, “Gene,” they call me Gene because everybody knows me from way back, “you look so well, you don’t seem to have aged so much.”

It is true that when you hold things in your bosom that you should give up, when you, through the experience of life, become embittered rather than emboldened, when the heart becomes possessed of bad emotions, these are the things that age the human being.

But when we try to live in harmony with Allah (God) and to live in harmony with nature’s laws and you find your purpose in life and live your purpose, then every day that you live, you give, but in your giving, you receive and your soul is always watered by what you do.

In coming here tonight, my soul is already watered to be in the company of so many that nurtured me in my youth. When I was a little boy of three, I joined St. Cyprian’s.

In those early days, it was a group of sincere, hardworking persons from the Caribbean who felt a sense of rejection in American society, even among our own Black brothers and sisters. In St. Cyprian’s, you could hear the various accents of all of the islands. And it was those accents that nurtured my life.

I heard the various accents and my mother thought I was sleeping, but I was always listening to the older people when they talked. As Father (Henderson) Brome said earlier of the pain of these early pioneers who were rejected by White Episcopalians and had to find refuge among their own, I would hear these things.

And these things watered what Allah (God) had already put within me. And when I was in Sunday school, I would raise questions that were not normal for children my age.

But I wanted to know if Allah (God) loved us and He could send Moses to deliver the children of Israel and send Daniel and send David and send others to deliver suffering people, was there somebody that would come along that had us in mind, that felt our pain and our suffering, and would stand up for us?

I did not know that that spirit was growing in me to stand for our people. I didn’t know the pain that it would take to stand up for us, when we don’t have courage to stand up for ourselves.

I didn’t know what it would take to go up against the powers that be and watch your own people shrink in fear, worrying over some little position that you think you have, that you have never had, because whatever you have that somebody can frighten you to take away from you, you don’t have it at all.

I determined from my West Indian mother that I was going to be a man and that I was going to stand up for Black people in the midst of oppression.  If it costs my life, it did not make any difference to me.

And even though in some quarters I am evil spoken of and some may have been affected by what others say about me, all you have to do when you go to church tomorrow is think about Jesus. Think about him walking in Roman society.

Think about the things that they said about a good man who opened the eyes of the blind and made the deaf hear and the dumb speak and raised the dead to life.  But every miracle that he did, they said he did it by means of the devil. Think about that.

You didn’t walk with Jesus. But if you were living 2,000 years ago, if you didn’t meet Peter, if you didn’t meet James or John or Luke or Matthew, from whom would you hear about Jesus?

If you heard about him in the daily news from the Roman authorities, what did they say about him? If you heard about him from the religious leaders of his day, what did they say about him?

I know Jesus from another angle because I try to walk in his shoes. And when you walk in the shoes of the Master, He said, “Blessed are ye, when men shall revile you, and persecute you, and shall say all manner of evil against you falsely for my sake.”

Then He said, “Rejoice and be exceedingly glad for so did they the prophets that were before you and great is your reward in heaven.” (Matthew 5:11)

I don’t live for the honor of men. I live for the honor of Allah (God). And living for God’s honor and living for His service and to serve the cause of justice has caused me to be loved in many quarters all over the world, but hated by those who are the oppressors of our people.

I would rather be hated by the oppressor and loved by Allah (God) than to be loved by the oppressor and hated by Allah (God) for selling out the people and the principles of justice and freedom and truth for a few crumbs from the master’s table.

Fulfilling Prophecy

I didn’t leave the church because I disliked the principles of this great teaching. I left the church because the church was not relevant to the struggle of Black people for justice.

I want to see a relevant church, a church that lifts people from where they are and stands up for the people, like Jesus stood for the weak and the poor and the oppressed of the society. The church must not walk by the drug addict.

The drug addict needs a home in St. Cyprian’s. The prostitute needs a home in St. Cyprian’s. It’s not just those who seem to have the strength, but it’s the weak ones that need the church and the family of the church. Please don’t walk by them, because some of them are the best that you would know if you could just wash the mud off of them.

Did you know that we are fulfilling prophecy by our sojourn in the Western Hemisphere? Did you know that it was by Divine mandate that we were taken out of Africa on a westerly course and dropped, as my Masonic brothers would say, in the North Country, buried in a shallow grave, with a little sprig of cassia to mark the grave.

You are not really dead as such—you’ve just been hit in the head and don’t remember who you are and your greatness in the world.  If you don’t know what was, how do you know what is, and how can you prepare for what is to come?

When our fathers were brought into the Western Hemisphere, it was by design that we would no longer be connected to our original culture, language, God or religion. We grow up now with the names of foreigners.

These names that we glorify today are not ours. They are the names of our former slave masters.  And just like you brand a horse or brand a cow, you name your slave after you. These are the invisible chains that bind us to our former slave masters and their children.

Right from the Caribbean they broke us and they brought those that were broken here to America. These were the most broken, the Blacks in America. But when you came from the Caribbean, you brought something to Black America that we never had.

You saw Blacks in the Caribbean in positions of authority that we never saw in the United States of America. When you got here, you always aspired to higher things.  And you would achieve what you aspired to and you would inspire Black Americans to want to do better. You did a great job.

Marcus Garvey did a great service to us in this country. So many from the Caribbean have awakened us. But now, in the time that we are to come into rulership, those that know this are determined that that should not happen.

Twenty years ago, there was a study on Black population that said if our birthrate continued as it was 20 years ago, by the year 2056 we would be equal to or the majority population in America. When those figures came out, somebody went to work.

And now in every city in America, the funeral parlors are filled. And guess who they are filled with? Grandma—not you. Grandpa—not you. It’s filled with your children, your grandchildren, babies from 18-40 years old. 

And the number one killer is AIDS; the number two killer is gunshot wounds. Those of us who came through the ravages of slavery never committed suicide, but suicide is the third biggest killer among young Black people today.

We can’t see these statistics and be blind. Crack cocaine, that’s chemical warfare. AIDS, that’s biological warfare. These are weapons of mass destruction that are being used on us.

That’s why religion has to be preached with great fervor and not rituals, because rituals contain the truth, but the ritual, in and of itself, is not the truth. If we just become ritualistic, then religion loses its meaning and you just go to church because it’s a place to go, something to do, but it has no more effect on your life.

Religion should be a transforming experience.

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

Thank you, thank you.  I love you, with all my heart.  I thank Allah (God) so much for allowing me the privilege to be a follower of the Honorable Elijah Muhammad, and to love him, and The God he represents, above all of creation; and to offer him my life, and every aspect of my being.  And this is why he sat me in his seat; because he knew that I loved him, he knew that I loved The God Who raised him. 

He knew that I loved you, the people of Allah’s choice—and he also knew that I would give my life to see the freedom of our people and the relief of humanity from the grip of Satan.  I greet you all with the greeting words of peace: As-Salaam Alaikum.

First, to Brother Minister Ishmael Muhammad and to the co-host of the plenary session, Jaleela Muhammad, and to all of you who spoke so eloquently, so beautifully, so inspiring: To me, as a young man …  Not that I’m “young,” but you have made me to feel so good; because when I saw you, when I listened to you, when I observed you, you lifted my spirit! 

And you made me to know that the sacrifices that those who have gone before you, that have made The Nation of Islam what it is: That you stand on their shoulders.  And because of what I heard today, as I said in the subject matter (for Saviours’ Day 2017): “There is No Fear for The Future!  The Future is Ours!”

Beloved, the devil wants you.  He needs you to give him hope that he has more time.  But from what I saw and heard today?  He can take that hope off the table!  I am so proud of all that spoke.  I am so proud of the grip that you have on the word, and I am so proud of the grip that the word has on you!  I am honored to be your brother, and I am honored to be one who is The Chief Helper of the Honorable Elijah Muhammad, who was given by Master Fard Muhammad the hardest job ever given to any man that ever lived! 

‘I was born, made, for the task of sharing in my Teacher’s burden’

One day, when I was the Most Honorable Elijah Muhammad’s minister in New York, he sent for me (to come to Chicago); and when I got to 4847 S. Woodlawn Avenue, he said: “Brother, my head pains me at night; I feel sometimes like I’m going to have a stroke.  I called you here to give you some of my burden.” 

I didn’t know what he meant.  So, I was waiting, after coffee, for him to lay out, you know, the “burden” that he wanted to give me; and after a few more minutes, he said: “Well, thank you very much for coming, brother.  You may return to New York City.”  Sometimes, when a wise man is talking to you with wisdom, you don’t always understand it at first; so I went back to New York, a little perplexed. 

But in reading the Holy Qur’an, in Surah 20, “Ta Ha,” God is talking to His servant Moses, and Moses is praying to his God for a “helper”; and in his prayer, Moses said these words: “O Allah!  Loosen the knot in my tongue, that they may understand my word.  And make him to share my task; strengthen me by his hand.” 

Well, 44 years later, the task that he gave me is you, is a nation of 50,000,000, and a world of 4,400,000,000.  “Is that part of your task?”  Yes.  “What must you do to bring the world to the Most Honorable Elijah Muhammad?”  One day, he was telling me of my value to him, and he started with “a mound of gold and diamonds.”  Well, that’s pretty valuable. 

The next time, he told me: “You are more valuable to me than a thousand airplanes, and a thousand sheep on every plane.”  I said, “Wow, that’s big!”  But on the third time, he said: “You are more valuable to me than all the wealth that is in the earth.  I met that wealth when I came here and I will leave it when I am gone, but through you I will get all of my people.”

I want you to think about that.  One man—you’re looking at him—born of a woman, grew up in hell; longing for him; loving God; coming to The Nation.  And when I heard the word, the first time I heard it, I was critical of his command of English. 

Saviour’s Day, February 1955, his subject was “A Saviour is Born for The Black Man and Woman of America”: I was in the balcony at 5335 S. Greenwood Avenue, and the Most Honorable Elijah Muhammad said: “Brother, I did not get that mighty fine education that you got; when I got to the school door, it was closing.  So I don’t want you to pay no attention to how I’m sayin’ it, you pay attention to what I’m sayin’, and then you take it, and put it in that fine language that you know.  Only try to understand what I am saying.”

I became a follower, like you; I was just 22 years of age.  And my first day in the F.O.I., when I had a chance to speak I broke down as I was talking, and I told my brothers in the F.O.I. (it was about 60 of them at that time): “I’m going to take the word of the Honorable Elijah Muhammad to every nook and cranny in the United States of America!” 

Now, I just woke up!  But I gave my word.  Brothers and sisters, you all spoke so well today, but it does not mean that you are what you said until and unless you have been tried by your word!  I don’t sit before you like a man that has not been tried, and I don’t sit before you as a man not willing to be tried again.

The Messiah is in your midst

I ask myself over and over again: “Why, Dear Apostle, did you say that I am more valuable to you than all the wealth that is in the Earth?”  “Why, Dear Apostle, did you say, ‘Take that Crescent out of your Flag; it stands for “equality,” and you have no equal!’” Now listen to me, I’m not bragging, I’m not boasting; I’m telling you what God said—the Most Honorable Elijah Muhammad has already become the mouth of God! 

In 1958, as a new minister of his, I had his picture plastered all over the city of Boston because he was coming to speak (“Muhammad Comes to Boston!”).  At the table, he looked at me and he said, “Brother, everywhere I looked I saw myself!  Brother, one day they’re gonna do the same thing for you.”

How far-seeing was Elijah Muhammad, to tell me when I was first in his presence, as he shook my hand: “You remind me of David”?  I didn’t know what he was talking about.  I went home and studied David.  David is the prototype of The Messiah!

“The Messiah”: The whole world has been looking for The Messiah…  And I was looking for him, too!  No, I mean, I’m just being truthful to you; I didn’t know who he was.  I’m looking, too.  And then The Messenger, one day, he looked at me…  I mean, he is such a great teacher, so wise: He knew all about me before I knew anything about myself, and he gently led me, lovingly led me (“Come this way.  Come!  Come on…”)—and when I ended up conscious of where he had led me to, I was at The Cross.

How did Jesus bring the world to his father?  He gave his life on a cross of suffering, when his people had turned away from him, when his people chose a thief, Barabbas, rather than the man who had done so many wonderful miracles among them!  He gave his life.  And when he looked at his betrayers, who said they loved him, and one-by-one they all walked away. 

Even Peter, his chief disciple, when he was asked, “Aren’t you that man?  I saw you with that man!” (“Uh, no, I… I don’t know that man!!”)…  It’s something to be a hypocrite; it’s something to say from your mouth what is not in your heart!!  Because if you say it from your mouth, and it is in your heart, every day of your life you’ll be proving your word!

“Damn!  I mean, Farrakhan, your voice is very strong today!”  You inspired me.  Because it is you that I live for, and it is you that I will die for.  When I say to you “I love you,” don’t say to me “I love you more”—you don’t have it in you to love me “more” than God has made me to love you!

‘We will be tried by our words’: Young Muslims, study The Examples before you toknow meaning of true love, sacrifice

To the youth of The Nation of Islam:  I wanted to come out and see you.  I could have been in the suite, like I was at the Laborers’ meeting, talking from a nice room.  But not to you: I wanted to come out, because when I look at you, I see why my suffering has been worth it. 

This has not been an easy road for me, because I am in the footsteps of the man we all love, the Honorable Elijah Muhammad.  But if you don’t love deep enough to want to see your people free; if you don’t love deep enough to clean your life up to make your life a recipient of His Mind and Spirit, then you need to learn what “love” is. 

Our Father, Elijah Muhammad, showed us the meaning of love.  He lived it every day that he was among us; through prison time, being chased by hypocrites, because he began to teach them Who that Man was that taught him.  They called Him “Prophet Fard.” 

Elijah knew that we were being visited by God…  You know how when you know something, and you can’t “sit on it,” you want to tell somebody?  The Messenger of God was out there trying to “sneak it in” on the people “Who” this Man is.  “Who is this Man?”  And The Saviour called him up, and said: “Brother, I don’t want you telling the people that about Me.  Wait.  Wait until I am gone.  And when I’m gone, you can begin to tell the people Who I Am.”

Damn!  There is so much in his life to think about.  He’s so obedient to Master Fard Muhammad.  And I can tell you the truth, I pride myself in obeying everything he asked me to do—except one thing.  What’s that “one thing”?  He said, “I want you to master eating one meal a day.  And when you have mastered that, then I want you to eat once every other day.  And when you have mastered that, I want you to eat once every three days, and I want you to stay there for the rest of your life.” 

(I haven’t done that yet.  I did the one meal a day; I did the one meal every other day…  I fasted three days, I fasted seven days, I fasted 10 days, I fasted 12 days, I fasted 40 days.)

The Honorable Elijah Muhammad wanted to make me a spiritual teacher, but he never took me aside.  But there was another One guiding me…  You didn’t hear me.  At a certain point in my development, listen to his words: “Brother, I did not make you.”  That was like stabbing me with a knife.  I don’t know nobody else!  I said, “Oh, yes you did!”  (I even raised my voice.)  And he said:

“No, I did not make you, brother.”  Pay attention to his next words: “I never took you aside to teach you nothing of the prophecies that The Saviour taught me.  I gave you the same thing I gave everybody else!”  And then he said, “Only Allah could have shown you how to place the Teachings like you do.  No, brother, I did not make you!  Allah made you for me.”

(I have to make this short, because I told them I’m going to behave myself today.  But to tell you the truth, it’s your fault (smile)!  It’s your fault, because you all brought all of this out of me by the way you were bearing witness to The Greatness of Master Fard Muhammad and The Honorable Elijah Muhammad!) 

Jesus said it like this: “I am the way, the truth, and the life.  If you believe in me,” in words, “you will find eternal life.”  Our Father, the Honorable Elijah Muhammad: He knew that I would die for this Mission.  He understood it.  It took me time to understand it.  (Let me close.  That isn’t what I wanted to say to you; because He came to me in the night to tell me something for you.) 

Dear brothers and sisters, I want you to find your place in God’s kingdom.  You all were hitting it today!  And some of you hit it right on the head; you didn’t mess around with it.  But the sad thing is: We’re going to be tried by our words.  Satan’s seeing this, and he is angry, because your words say his end is nigh; because the next generation of Muslims is going to love The Law of God. 

And if God has allowed me to represent him after The Nation was gone, and lift his name back up again; and call for a million men (never been done before), and nearly two million came…  After witnessing that, did you know that the devils said: “Oh, there he is!  We’ve been looking for him, and Elijah Muhammad was making him all the time.”

When I say “making me” (I said it to the Laborers yesterday):  He told me he is going to “make all of my enemies bow down, and come at my feet, and then you will know that I have loved you!”  He is going to do something that proves himself, and me. 

“What are you gonna do, Dear Apostle?”  “I’m going to prove that my minister is a greater light to the world of man than Satan, his man, the whole of them!”  “Now stop a minute!  This is crazy talk, man!”  If it’s some individual who wants to be a “big shot,” then that’s a “nut”!  But when God says it, about what He wants to prove, He is working on the proof as we are sitting here!

The Most Honorable Elijah Muhammad: He has not made me afraid!  I don’t give a skip what power you think he has—I am taught and backed by The Lord of The Worlds and His Exalted Christ!  And another name for “Exalted Christ” is Al-Mahdi, “The Crusher of The Wicked.”

How To Win Against Satan: ‘Level up’ your conversations, energize your words using God’s Words

I close with this:  Satan wants you.  They say: “Farrakhan will soon be 90.  Hell, he won’t be around a year long!”  You better not say what you don’t know.  If I am blessed to go to The Wheel, there’s a whole new life for me there.  I’ve done what I was sent to do to earn my ticket! 

Here is what Master Fard Muhammad said to me to talk to you about…  Brothers and sisters, see, you are young, gifted and Black—but stupid, too, because you do great things and then destroy them by your love for aspects of the White man’s world.  Did you see Rihanna at the Super Bowl?  (Audience:  Yes Sir!)  I know.  (Smile)  “I, uh, I don’t look at no Rihanna!”  Shut up.  I damn sure was lookin’ at her!  “Well, what was you lookin’ for??”  I was looking to see.  That’s what you “look” for; to measure her growth, her development.  She had a baby, and she was pregnant that night.  She ain’t the same Rihanna. … … 

Now, this is what He wanted me to say to you (although He gave me all these nice words for you, too!); He said: The weight of the world is in the word that He revealed to the Most Honorable Elijah Muhammad.  Not the weight of this world, the weight of the new world coming in is in that word.  Look at this.  One day the Most Honorable Elijah Muhammad told me: “Brother, when a person is sick and you go to their bedside, and you speak into their ears the word of God, within 8 minutes and 20 seconds you will see a change.” 

I was on death row one day, meeting with those who had been condemned either to life imprisonment or death, and I wanted to minister to them, and I met a big strong-looking man, like some of you who go to these workout sessions.  (I know I got a grandson that’s like that; and I mean, when you look at him, you say, “Boy, look at that!”) 

Some of you that are so physical: You like to look at physical displays of beauty that may cover a world of ugliness.  You have to set your eyes on higher goals than the bust size, the hip size of any female.  And you, as a female, have to look at more than somebody who is handsome.  Yes, this is “the rough side” of this mountain; the “rough side” of this mountain is outer beauty covering inner ugliness. 

The real you is not the you that you show up as, the real you is the one that you hide.  Some of you love social media, and you just can’t seem to get enough of attention in social media.  I love social media, too!  But the way I use it?  They have taken me off of every platform because they don’t like the way I use what they came up with. 

But if you are a follower of the Honorable Elijah Muhammad through me: Why don’t you follow me?  Why is it so hard for you to make up your mind to clean yourself up from this nasty woman (or man), this dirty mind, and “Accept your own and be” who?  (Audience: “Your Self!”)  Hm, y’all said it right.  But between saying it right, and doing it right, there is a world.  You can mean well, but the road to hell is always paved with “good intentions.”  We want you to win.  We want you to be pleased with yourself.  And if you accept a freak life, you’re a very unhappy person sitting in here with me.

Why are you unhappy?  Why are you sad?  Why do you cry a lot?  Why do you wonder, “Where do I fit in this?” See, it’s because you don’t really know how to be you. 

The God, in one of these nights when I really couldn’t sleep well, He told me to talk to you about your level of conversation.  Ifyou’re a savage, it’s reflected in your conversation.  If you don’t like being around Muslims, who are trying to live the Teachings—and you’ve got your set of savages that you hang out with—then your talk on social media reflects who you are becoming.

Sisters in the M.G.T.:  Never show yourself to the world as you do sometimes.  You want a man.  I don’t blame you; glad you don’t want another woman.  But some of us have gone that way, too.  Your level of conversation helps you with the strength to win.  What do you talk about?  Worse, who are you talking about, and why?  See, if your conversations are negative; you don’t like this one, so you get on the phone, “Did you see what that so-and-so said?”; and you may use a few “nice words” to talk about your sister, or somebody.  That’s a sick level of expression.  See, our words… 

“Words”:  I spoke a lot of words, but the words that I spoke have a level of energy in that word!  And I can speak that word, and in eight minutes and 20 seconds, you’re up (“I want to hear more!”).  The electrical energy in the word of Allah is the highest energy of any word!  So if you don’t read His word, if you don’t converse about His words, then your conversations bring you down instead of bringing you up!  I want you to feed your minds better food. 

Now, the rappers are rapping, you like the beat, but on that beat is a dirty, nasty word; and when you listen to that, and dance to that, look at your motions.  I saw a deaf girl doing Rihanna’s word, and that girl was so into that word; every action that she took had meaning!  She studied Rihanna’s words, and then in delivering that word through the medium of sign language, she became the star of that night. 

If you transformed your speech pattern…  Just try it out!  A Man gave us a body of knowledge.  I don’t know what you read, I don’t know what you listen to, but I know if you took some time, take the word of Elijah Muhammad found in Message To The Blackman, feed that to your mind, and then get on the phone with your sister and discuss what you read, that conversation is so uplifting, you don’t even know where the time goes!  You’ll be up talking all night, and you’ve got to go to work the next morning—but you don’t even feel no way tired, because the energy of the word of God is what will keep you from Satan’s grasp.

You were talking about it (in your plenary session): You know what I am saying is what you’re not doing, but it’s what we should be doing.  Because if you want righteousness, you must feed the word of righteousness into your thought process, and it will translate to your actions. 

That is what He told me to tell you.  Did you get the message?  I love you!  (And no, no, no!  You can’t say “more”!) Be kind and loving to each other.  And the best way to live is with the word all in your head, governing your speech; governing how you talk, how you walk, how you live!  And then Satan says: “Those are some negroes that we won’t be able to trick.”  Don’t let him win.  He is a loser. 

Thank you for reading these words.

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

On March 12, 2000, Pope John Paul II apologized for the sins of the Catholic Church against the Native peoples and other religious beliefs. He apologized for the use of violence that some Christians have committed in the service of “truth.” The United States was settled by persons who claimed the love of Jesus Christ, yet, our fathers were sold, bought, transported, sold again, and bought again mostly by so-called Christians and Jews.

The great sin that has been committed against Black people, in particular, is the destruction of the Black male and the corruption of the Black female; the denial of our natural right to marriage and the raising of a family. This purposeful destruction of us can never be corrected by an apology, but, the apology, the acknowledgment and confession of sin, is the prerequisite step toward doing that which will repair the damage that has been done. The destruction of the Black family is a sin of huge proportion, therefore, the effort to rebuild this family must be aided by those who destroyed the family, and, the responsibility of helping must be accepted by the generations that have benefited from the institutional slavery and the destruction of our families.

We can never rebuild the family without starting where Allah (God) started in the beginning. He started by the creation or the making of man and woman.

Therefore, the Million Man March and the Million Woman March was our first step in the process of rebuilding the Black man and woman. However, unless we destroy the effect of White Supremacy, on our men and women, we will not be able to make man and woman again in the image or likeness of Allah (God). White Supremacy, and its resulting racism, has poisoned the systems of religion, education, justice, governance, and economics. Until there comes from Allah (God) that which is able to penetrate the heart and mind of the Black man and woman and destroy that mind produced by White Supremacy, we will never be able to build a family that properly reflects the values that Allah (God) desires manifested among us. There is no school of higher learning that can help us in this regard.

It will take the intervention of Allah (God) to enable us to escape the sphere of influence of the philosophy of White Supremacy and the racist institutions that have sprung from it.

In the Bible, the Apostle Paul admonishes the early Christians in these words: “Be not conformed to this world, but, be ye transformed by the renewing of your minds.”

All of us who are educated by our former slave masters and their children are trained in the educational system to conform to this world. We are trained theologically to conform to this world, and, those who find it difficult to conform are classified as social misfits who end up on drugs, in prison, or suffering untimely death, but, those who conform are the ones that society accepts and puts upon them a stamp of approval. How can there ever be a renewing of our minds except that something comes to our ears that does not come from the architects of this world. It is this that is feared most by the present rulers.

It is written in the scriptures, “Behold I make all things new. There will be a new heaven, a new earth and the former things shall pass away.”

The Honorable Elijah Muhammad taught us that this means a new spiritual and political reality that will replace the old spiritual and political reality. This does not necessarily mean that there will come to us a new book, but, it does mean a fresh new approach, understanding and interpretation of the Word of Allah (God) that will break us out of conformity to a world that is in opposition to Allah (God) by bringing to us that which will renew our minds and give us a new way of thinking that will result in a new way of behaving. It is this new understanding that must be applied to make a new man, a new woman, a new family.

Again, the scripture teaches, “My thoughts are not your thoughts. My ways are not your ways. I am from above while you are from beneath.”

This teaches us that our thoughts and our ways are far beneath what Allah (God) desires for us. Therefore, what we have produced as the man, the woman, and the family by our thoughts, and, our ways are far beneath the man, the woman and the family that Allah (God) desires for us.

So, in order for us to make a new family, we have to return to Him who created the man, the woman and the family and we must be willing to accept His Thoughts and His Ways.

What are Allah’s (God’s) Thoughts and His Ways?

In the Book of Isaiah, Chapter 55, Verses 8-9, it reads: “For my thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways my ways, saith the Lord. For as heavens are higher than the earth, so are my ways higher than your ways, and my thoughts than your thoughts.” These words being addressed to the people of Allah (God) manifest how far off the mark the people are from that which Allah (God) intended the human being to be.

In the Qur’an, Yusuf Ali translation, the 113th Surah, Verses 1-2 reads, “Say: I seek refuge with the Lord of the Dawn, from the mischief of created things.” This teaches us that natural things created by Allah (God) are used by Satan to create mischief.

The male and the female are far beneath Allah’s (God’s) intentions for us. The institution of marriage and the resultant family are far beneath what Allah’s (God’s) intentions are for us. As hell is beneath heaven, and, Satan is beneath Allah (God), this being the world of Satan, these scriptures are teaching us that Satan has been and is the director of the lives of most human beings, and, has taken the natural order and creation of Allah (God) and has made mischief with Allah’s (God’s) creation. Therefore, we are far beneath the high thought and purpose of our creation; and our marriages, for the most part, represent hell. Therefore, our communities and nations universally have a hellish existence.

What are Allah’s (God’s) thoughts and ways for human beings, for the institution of marriage, and, for the development of family? His thoughts and His ways are found in the nature of what He created. Let us then look into the Bible and Qur’an to find Allah’s (God’s) purpose for the male and the female and His purpose for marriage, and His purpose for family.

In the Bible we are taught that Allah (God) made man and woman in His Image and after His Likeness. This tells us that both male and female are created by Allah (God) to manifest His Divine Characteristics in their pursuit of life and in their relationship with each other and in their relationship with other human beings. We are the exact opposite.

Allah (God) says in the Bible that He created the human being to have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over every living thing that moveth upon the earth. In the Qur’an Allah (God) states that He created man to stand in His place. This means that He created the human being to rule the earth and even the heavens, but, to rule in the way that He set up His creation to be ruled. Our fall, by sin and the resultant spiritual death of the human being, causes us to be in a state so far from what our purpose is that both man and woman are nothing more than a caricature of themselves. The Bible teaches that Allah (God) gave the man instructions to multiply, replenish and subdue the earth. This teaches us that the human being by nature is to be productive. In the very nature of the human being is the potential to subdue the earth. This means that we have the potential to bring the earth completely under our power by mastering the laws under which the earth and all therein are created. Adam was told to “dress the garden.”

“Dress”: “To trim; ornament, or adorn. To prepare for use. To cultivate.”  This word “dress” implies that Allah (God) intended for man to adorn, beautify, prepare and cultivate the earth for his use. This tells us that we have to master the sciences that would allow us to dress the garden or cultivate the earth and prepare it in such a way that it would be a heaven for ourselves.

Education must teach us to master the sciences. If education does not prepare the human being to do what Allah (God) intended for us to do, then, it is not the proper education for us. This improper education is called training—training us to fit into a world order that is controlled and dominated by Satan, the enemy of Allah (God). The more the human being has grown into the knowledge of the sciences, the more we have been able to cultivate the earth, develop it, and mine out of it what is in it that it may serve our purpose. However, because of sin and our disconnection from the source of our existence, we have developed knowledge of the sciences for evil as well as for good, but, the evil of the human being now threatens the existence of the human family. The suffering of the human being—the poverty, ignorance, neglect and disease of the human family—bears witness that we are indeed a long, long way from what Allah (God) desires for us.

According to the Bible, Allah (God) did not desire the man to be alone. Therefore, He created from a single essence the man and the woman, but, He created the woman for the man. The word that is used in the Bible is help meet. The female, according to the Bible, is created by Allah (God) to help the man meet the obligation that Allah (God) has put within the nature of the male. The Qur’an teaches us that Allah (God) created the woman as the consoler of the man. This teaches us that in the very nature of the female is her ability, desire and will to console.

“Console”: “To alleviate or lessen the grief, sorrow, or disappointment of; give solace or comfort; cheer up.”  Allah (God) teaches us in the Qur’an that He created the woman that the man might find peace and quiet of mind in her.

The very nature of the female offers to the man that which enables the man to find that natural relief of the stress or the pain involved in the struggle of man to obey Allah’s (God’s) instructions.

The Qur’an teaches that Allah (God) created the male “a degree above” the female.

“Degree”: “A stage in a scale of rank or station.”  This teaches us that Allah (God) intended for the man to be in authority over the female. This is why He created him a degree above the female. Satan has created so much mischief with the nature of the male and the female that there is a prophecy in the Bible that says, “The younger shall rule the elder and the weaker shall rule the stronger … women shall rule over them.”

The Black female in today’s society literally is several degrees above the male. She is manifesting superiority in education and in the work force. Whereas the Black male for the most part is unemployed, most of our educated females are working and generally making more money than the male, and, in many instances is providing for the man that lives with her. So, we can say that Satan has reversed the roles that Allah (God) intended for the Black man and woman demonstrated in our relationship to each other.

Black male and female relationships are at an all time low. The Black female can hardly find her equal in the Black male to form a successful marriage and partnership. Therefore, the Black female may be more attracted to the White male and the male members of other races because of the inferior condition of the Black male.

The Black woman is completely frustrated and hurt by the lack of development in the Black male. We can reverse this trend only if the Black man can be reflective of the characteristics of Allah (God) by submitting to Allah (God) that He may guide the Black man to being himself. When the Black man is himself, reflecting the characteristics of Allah (God), the soul of the female will be satisfied, then, she can be as Allah (God) created her to be, man’s consoler; and, man will find peace and quiet of mind in her, for, the Honorable Elijah Muhammad said to us, “The only heaven for man is found in the woman.”

Thank you for reading these few words.

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

I am honored to be here this afternoon, and I greet all of you, my dear brothers and sisters; and especially those parents and grandparents who have lost their loved ones to gun violence, with the greeting words of peace. We say it in the Arabic language: As-Salaam Alaikum, which means Peace Be Unto You. This is a greeting that we should learn, and a greeting that we should practice. Whether you are Christian, Muslim, or Jewish, all of the Israelite prophets greeted their community with: “Shalom, Shalom,” which means peace.

When Jesus walked this earth among us, he never came to his disciples and said, “What’s happening?” or, “What up, Dawg?” He said, “Peace Be With You.” He didn’t speak English; he spoke Ancient Egyptian Arabic, Hebrew and Aramaic, so when Jesus greeted the people, he said, As-Salaam Alaikum, because he, in that greeting, crystallized a prayer. That from his lips and from his hands and from his life you should expect that which would bring peace into your lives.

The cause and effect of wicked policies

There is a saying that reads like this: “Children do what is natural until they learn what is normal.”

Any child that you see, whether it is Black, White, Asian, Hispanic or Native American; whether it is Muslim, Christian, Jewish, Hindu or Buddhist, the child does what is natural, like learning to crawl, pull up on things that will help it to become erect and to walk—we didn’t teach it those things.

But then, the child learns to become normal. Normal means that you learn the norms, which are the folkways and the mores of the society or the culture in which you live. But then if we keep watching, we go further and further away from the natural; but yet, we are still considered normal.

Everybody is looking for somebody to straighten out a mess that was made, unfortunately, by those in authority. We cannot stem the violence that is here at the bottom, which is an effect, unless we look at the violence that begins at the top, which is the cause. We are the effect of a cause that we did not stem the tide of, and now it’s manifesting in the children.

Every mother; every grandmother that lost a child, we who are here today feel your pain. Although we are trying to be good and righteous people; we go to church; we pay our tithes; we do what good parents and good people should do, some of us lose faith in God when a misfortune comes into our house. While we can never bring back what we lost, we have to ask the question, “Why should this come into my life?”

There is a verse in the Holy Qur’an, which is the book of scripture of Muslims, that says, “No soul dies but by the permission of God.” God gives life, and He is the ultimate cause of death, so why did He permit this? If these children had not died, would we be here? Jesus said, “Suffer the little children to come unto me,” because he had some disciples who were disrespecting the value of children.

We live in a society where we are not looking out for the elderly or the young; and many of us who are pastoring, we pay no attention to children because they don’t tithe! So it is only when something affects children that it wakes us up to something terribly wrong!

Dear mothers: Your children did not die in vain, because nothing advances in civilization without the sacrifice of life. Let us refer to the example of the life of Jesus: He had a mother that nurtured him; he came from among a people and a group that evidently were not so good, because the scripture says, “Can any good come out of Nazareth?”

As it is with people today who think the same: “Can any good come out of the South Side or the West Side? Can any good come out of Chicago—the murder capital of the world?” Yes. Of course good did come, but that good died young.

Those in positions of power lied on Jesus, because they didn’t want to deal with his truth, so they brought him to court. The people hated Jesus, and the Book says they hated him without a cause. He was rejected of men. He knew what it was to suffer, and he knew what it was to be scourged. And ultimately, he died a violent death, so that others might have a right to the tree of life.

Beloved family; those dear mothers and fathers and grandmothers and grandfathers, and friends and relatives are in great pain because someone they loved died in their youth. Grandmothers had to bring their grandchildren to their final resting place. But remember: Your child, your friend and your companion did not die in vain. Every life with God is sacred! And those children that lost their lives are martyrs for the Cause of Justice and Peace!

The culture of violence starts at the top

We say we want sensible gun laws, but we are demanding it from government at the same time that our government has the highest military budget of any nation in the world; developing more and more weapons to kill more and more people! How can the violence stop on the bottom, when the violence is perpetrated by policies at the top?

It is painful to me to say these truths in the presence of the superintendent of police and in the presence of other government officials here today, because the truths that I speak, sometimes, are uncomfortable, but it is not done out of hate. I speak these truths because I love; and I want to see things better. Not just better for my people or for my children, but better for all children.

Are our children our assets, or are they liabilities? Do we have problem children? Or do our children have a problem? And if our children have a problem, they are not the cause—they are the effect.

Every mother in here that has brought forth a child, that child came through you, but not from you. Since it is God Who gives life, then He permits life to be formed in your womb. The Qur’an says that to God is the eventual return of all life. So we come in at some point, and at some point, we have to leave here. If the eventual return is to God, because it is from Him that we came, then every child is a gift from God. Not only to the mother and father, but a gift to that family! A gift to that community! A gift to that nation! A gift to the world!

Jesus said, “I am The Way, The Truth, and The Life.” Why do we, as parents, lie to our children? Violence begins with lies, because you’re violating the mind when you tell a lie. When Jesus said, “You shall know the truth, and the truth shall set you free,” what is it that you would be set free from? It is freedom from the things that are the reason why we are assembled today.

In the Bible, Paul said, “We war not against flesh and blood, but against principalities and powers and the rulers of the darkness of this world and spiritual wickedness in high places.” High places are where the problems begin!

When you have a lust for something, like Air Jordan shoes or designer clothes, and mother can’t get it for you, why would you steal from your brother or your neighbor because of an inordinate value placed on something that has no real value? The real value is you and your life! Your friendship and brotherly love! The real value is the ability to live together in peace!

But in those high places, there is a lust for oil. Our government and our country is a slave to the energy crisis produced by an inordinate need for oil. The government is just like the drug addict, who will lie and cheat and steal to get their hands on a drug. Any parent in here that has a child that has unfortunately fallen victim to drugs, you know they are artful liars and manipulators. The addict will manipulate their parents and friends who love them, just to get their hands on something that will allow them to get something that will make them high.

In those high places, there are bad policies developed that are so wicked and deceptive so that our government can extract the wealth of others. You can’t stop drugs in the inner cities or in the suburbs if you don’t understand that the government of the United States is in Afghanistan where all the poppies grow.

These drugs weren’t so easily accessible when the Taliban had power, because the drug growth was down then. Once the Taliban lost power, now the drugs are flowing; heroin everywhere, and someone is getting rich at the top, while our children are going to jail for what they have in their possession.

Our real wealth is in our children

In the scriptures of Matthew and Luke, it reads, “For where your treasure is there your heart will be also.” As parents, and those in positions of authority, our treasure is not where it should be. Our priorities are not where they should be. And in the Holy Qur’an, you always have the following words shown simultaneously: “Your wealth and your children …” because our children represent our real wealth. But where should our hearts be?

Should our hearts be on the latest Gucci or alligator style? The latest designer-this or the latest “bling-bling” that? Where should our hearts be? It should be where our treasure is, and our treasure is our children.

I have been practically all over the world, however, everywhere I go in Chicago, I find that it is one of the most beautiful cities in the world. We who live here are blessed to live in this great city, but it’s a great city that needs a lot of great work to be done. Billions of dollars are spent on constructing huge building projects, but when you look at the education budget, we are not constructing these beautiful young lives as they should be.

The greatest asset of America is her people, and if our treasure is in our people, then the billions of dollars that the government is throwing away to bail out corporations like AIG, Bear Stearns, and Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae, why not put those billions of dollars to work on making giants out of these precious gifts—our youth—that God has given to America?

President-elect Barack Obama was a child just like these children who are here. He struggled in his young life, conflicted because he had a White mother and a Black father, and wanted to find his place. However, that young man got a grip on his life, just like we want you, youth, to get a grip on yours. Mr. Obama received an education, and then rose to the top of his class. And, in a meteoric rise, has become the first African American to become president of the United States of America.

Who are our youth now? Who will they be tomorrow if we cultivate them properly? Our youth are like putty; but putty is only valuable in the hands of the one that is going to shape it properly. As we are being shaped by our homes, our churches, and our society, then all of these shapers have to shape up.

The misconstrued power in weapons

Do we need guns? No. Where did they come from? Who gets these violent weapons into the hands of our children? Why aren’t those responsible being prosecuted instead of our children?

In this world, power is what moves people, and because many of us don’t realize that the real power is in the youth, a gun is put into a child’s hand, where they are told, “This is power.” This misconstrued concept of power in a weapon is what causes you to get a man to give up his wallet; or causes somebody to give up their own self to you if you are going to rape them. That is the misuse of weapons.

The Honorable Elijah Muhammad is our teacher, and he taught us that none of us, as Muslims, should carry a weapon—we don’t need them. We are not permitted to carry as much as a pen knife, because our aim is to show the world that we are a people of peace. We are not even permitted to argue with one another, because when you quarrel with one another, you destroy the spirit that would bring you unity, which would give you power to eradicate the impediments in the pathway of your progress.

But if we are always arguing and fighting, particularly in our homes where most of the problems take place, then it’s “I reach for my gun to settle my problem;” or “I shoot my wife,” or she shoots her husband. Now the child sees guns every time they look at the TV. This is violence that is being promoted, so the violence is now down in the kindergarten. If we have a problem, then we must practice talking it out, because we must not harm our brother.

Let’s be truthful in our dealings with each other. Let’s learn how to love, which starts with loving our own self. If you don’t know you, you can’t love you.

Black children have to know themselves in order to love themselves. If our children knew their rich history, their rich culture, their rich heritage, we would have a healthier view of who we are, and Whose we are.

When we see our brother, though he may be a “Crip,” a “Blood;” or he may be a “BG” or a “BD,” we must see that I am looking at my flesh. I am looking at my blood. I’m looking at myself. So if I love my self, and love my neighbor as myself, we can start building community.

I want to work with Father Pfleger, and I want to work with the Police Superintendent and others, to let us try and make this city a peaceful city.

Thank you.

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

I would like to speak tonight on the subject of the attack on Black youth, especially the attack on young Black men. Why is there an apparent conspiracy to destroy Black youth? What is so different about our youth that they could become the object of a conspiracy from the highest levels of power? Why have they become a generation marked to be destroyed?

If you were in power in the United States of America, it would be your duty not only to govern according to the Constitution of the United States, but it would be your duty to plan against the enemies that you see that might endanger your status, your power, your privilege.

There has always been a fear among the White rulers of this nation that one day Black people would rise to do unto them as they have delighted in doing unto us. It is this fear on the part of ruling Whites and on the part of White males, in particular, that causes them to make examples of Black men who get “out of line.”

This is why most of our Black leaders have been the object of a propaganda campaign that has either led to the imprisonment, assassination, or to the discrediting of that leader and his ideas.

Ideas are the real power behind any man and any movement. There is no great man in history that has ever been great without an underlying idea that is the source of his greatness. Most great men draw strength, guidance, and vision from their ideas.

And when they spread their ideas, they spread their vision and give hope to people based upon the people’s acceptance of that leader’s ideas.

When you kill the leader, you must also destroy the idea that gives the leader leadership and acceptance among the people. When you kill the idea, you kill the vision so that the people cannot and will not make progress.

Every great leader was a great visionary and every great visionary had an idea out of which the vision was born. When that leader was destroyed by those in power, those in power set their sight on destroying the idea, thus nullifying the vision so that the people would remain consistently blind and dependent on White people.

Now there is a problem with our youth and a conspiracy against them. At the root of this conspiracy is fear, fear that our youth are not afraid. Fear that there is nothing the enemy has devised that can control Black youth. Fear because the enemy understands the nature of the youth, the nature of the time, and what time has prepared in our youth.

What is the nature of our young people that makes them the object of a conspiracy and the object of fear? You could be 14, 15, or 16 years old, but when you are stopped by the police, they do not treat you as a child. The enemy’s fear of Black youth is so intense that the enemy will kill our young people either on the streets or in police stations.

The enemy feels that they have to get rid of Black youths because if they don’t, one day Black youths will get rid of them. But what is the nature of our youth?

The Bible and the Holy Qur’an teaches us that if you look at the history of Moses, who is the great liberator of the Old Testament, he was born from among a slave people with the idea to liberate his people.

Leaders like Moses are so endowed by the Creator with such a strong love for their people and a will to overcome their enemies that God uses their heart. He uses their mind. He uses their spirit and He uses their will.

He deposits His word in them and riding on that will, riding on that determination, riding on that spirit and that love that they are born with for their people, God uses them as instruments for the total liberation. But that liberator has to have helpers who share His own spirit.

There is a scripture in the Qur’an that says Moses sent Joshua to spy out the land that God had promised. But when he went to spy out the land, the land was filled with giants.

When the report came back that the land was filled with giants, the children of Israel did not want to go and take the land, even if God were with them. They didn’t have the heart to stand up against the giants.

But the children were more of the mind and spirit and determination to challenge whatever was in their way. Allah (God) can’t use people who are weak in faith because God is going to ride in on your faith in Him.

He wants to prove to the world that I (God) am with you. So if I (God) take children and send them against the giants and the children overcome the giants, what else can the world say but Allah (God) was with those children?

If you take that scripture and bring it up to the present day, we can see what is happening because today our own fathers who believed in Noble Drew Ali, who believed in Martin Luther King, Malcolm X, Marcus Garvey, who believed in the great teachers of the past, they were not strong enough in faith to carry the vision on when the leader was not among them.

So this becomes a personality cult where we adore a certain man and make him a hero. But that’s not the purpose. The purpose is to become imbued with the vision and the idea that made the man who he was that you may become the great man of today and tomorrow.

Our fearless Black youth are ready to move for liberation. It is not necessarily that they have to move the giants or Caucasian people who have become like a mountain in the eyes of Black people, but, like Jesus said, “If you have faith the grain of a mustard seed, you could say to the mountain, be removed.”

What Jesus was talking about is the mountain that you have erected or that Allah (God) has allowed to be erected as a powerful symbol in front of you. God wants you to go, and if you had faith the grain of a mustard seed, you could say to the mountain, “be removed.” And that’s the difference with our youth today.

Our youth have the basic quality to say to any mountain, “be removed,” and they are willing to go over the mountain, under the mountain, through the mountain, around the mountain or remove the mountain.

That is what creates the terrible fear in government—that the right man, coming with the right message, connecting with that kind of spirit in the youth, liberation will never have to be a dream anymore.

We don’t ever have to sing “We Shall Overcome” with young people today with God’s idea at the root of their brain. We will have already overcome.

The fearlessness of youth, the anger of youth, is being turned into a self-destructive modality. It isn’t that Black people want to kill one another, but business is being removed from the Black community and we, as the elders, have not supplied or created jobs for our own young people.

Since we have failed in our duty and government is failing in its duty and jobs are being removed, the young people have no place to go.

Now the spirit to organize is in our youth. We’ve always had what they call youth gangs, but never like today. You say, “it’s terrible, this gang problem.” But there is a positive side to it.

What you see as terrible is the fact that our people are coming together, but they are coming together for negative purposes. That’s because the vision and the idea that they are required by the time to get involved in is not yet in their head.

But what you see is the most powerful sign of the awakening of the masses. They are coming together. They have their own symbols, hand signs. … You say that’s madness? Well ask the Masons is it madness. Don’t you have your hand signals? Don’t your fraternities and sororities have handshakes?

So all the gangs have done is brought it out into the open; but with their spirit, their fearlessness and their willingness to die as well as to kill, they become a force of fear now. The mothers are crying out: “For God’s sake, let’s get rid of the gangs.”

No, mother, don’t cry out to get rid of the gang. Cry out that the gang gets the right idea so that they become protectors of the community. What I am suggesting is that what we want to do is turn a negative thing into a positive force, not destroy what God Himself is allowing to be created.

You have to recognize the time and what must be done. What time is it? It’s the end of a 6,000-year period of rule given to the idea of White Supremacy, and it’s the beginning of the time of the rise of the darker people of the earth.

If it’s the time of the end of White Supremacy, you can’t go to White people begging them for a job because they don’t have it to give you anymore. Allah (God) is taking their jobs from them so you won’t depend on them anymore.

It’s time for us to create jobs. It’s time for us to do something for ourselves. It’s time for us not to go to the White man for his education.

It’s time for us to educate ourselves because the Caucasians are going to educate you in a way to serve them and your time of being their servant is over. It’s time for you to come back and serve Allah (God) and serve yourself.

You must join onto your own kind and stop trying to join onto somebody else. The same way you would get together in what is called a gang because you have certain things in common, what is more common than the fact that we are Black people?

What is more common than the fact that we are the children of slaves, and what is more common than the fact that Allah (God) is at the root of our existence?

We are normally and naturally brothers and sisters, flesh of each other’s flesh, blood of each other’s blood, and bone of each other’s bone. If there is going to be any integration let it be from a position of strength.

You can’t integrate with somebody stronger than you; you will get taken over. But if you integrate with yourself and we become strong, then whomever we want to sit down with and form an alliance with, it will be from a position of strength for progress.

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My subject today was inspired by a sister who visited our home, and at the end of the evening, she asked me, “Brother Farrakhan, I’ve watched you grow and I’m touched by the growth of your love for our people. How can I grow to love like I see you love?”

I never have been asked a question like that, but, while she was asking, Allah (God) was giving me the answer. I answered her, and as I looked at the words going out of my mouth, I realized that Allah (God) had given to me something so profound that I determined that at the first chance I get, I would share it with you.

My subject today is taken from the Bible, and it’s called “The Two Great Commandments of Allah (God).” Jesus said, “Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy mind. This is the first and great commandment. And the second is like unto it, Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself. On these two commandments hang all the law and the prophets.”

The Old Testament, or the Torah, of the Bible is full of laws—what things you shall do and shall not do; and the blessings and the cursings if you do or don’t do them. The Holy Qur’an is a book of law, but Jesus said, “…On these two commandments hang all the law and the prophets.”

If you have a hanger and you have nothing to hang it on, you can’t hang up that which you want hung. So prophets who brought law come out of the Love of Allah (God) for the people, the Love of Allah (God) for His creation.

You don’t need law if you’re not lawless. Law only prescribes the limits that Allah (God) imposes on the human being for your growth, your development, and your success in the life that He gives you.

When you grow starting with law, starting with imposing limits on yourself, you grow into that out of which the law came. You grow into love. You grow into Allah (God). Then there’s no more need for law, because love is the essence of the law; and there is no law greater than love.

I looked at this word “love” and thought to myself how we have messed it up. You say, “I love you,” but you don’t know what that word “love” means! You use it in such a weak, cheap way because you don’t understand the word and the principle that undergirds the word. If you did, you wouldn’t be in the shape that you’re in. Your life is a loveless life.

You cannot separate self from Allah (God), because the self and Allah (God) are One. To know self is to know Allah (God), because Allah (God) is the Creator of the self and the self that He gave you in His Image is Himself. If you don’t have love, you don’t have life.

These are the same words. The Bible says, “There is a way which seemeth right unto a man, but the end thereof are the ways of death.” People today think they’re living life, but what they call life is really death. And what you call love is really hate. I’m going to prove it.

You receive gifts, and you give gifts. And you have a tendency to love those who give you gifts, but, nobody has given a gift like Allah (God) gives. He gives you eyes and then gives you something to look at. You have an Earth at which you can keep on looking and looking and looking.

And the more you look, the more you see, and the more you see, the more you marvel at a Mighty God. When you get tired of looking at the Earth, you lay down on the grass and look up at the wonders in the heavens above you. If you get tired, you can go down in the water and look at a world under the water.

You open the Earth, and another world is in the Earth. The more you look, the more you see. So the Master said, “Ask, and it shall be given you; seek, and ye shall find; knock, and it shall be opened unto you.” All you have to do is seek, but what you’re looking for is already here.

Knock and it shall be opened unto you. Ask and it shall be given, because Allah (God) is the Essence of love itself, and there is no love without Allah (God). If Allah (God) is not involved in your life, then love is not involved in you. And the words that you use are a mockery.

Mother, when you have your first child and you love it so much, and you put all you have into that little one, you may say to yourself, “Lord, I don’t know if I could ever love another child like I love this one.” Then you find out you’re pregnant again, and you’ve got more love for number two. Then if you have three, you have love for three.

You have four, you have love for four. It makes no difference how many you have, Allah (God) gives you the capacity to love whatever you bring. So when He says, “Love Me with all your heart,” you don’t know what all is until He stretches you, until you’re willing to be stretched. Allah (God) would not give you a Commandment that He knew you couldn’t fulfill.

When Jesus says that the first great Commandment is to love Allah (God) with all your heart, mind, soul, and strength, he knows that each of us can do it. But you have to know why. I’m in debt to Allah (God) for the eyes that He gave me to see this marvelous creation.

I’m in debt to Allah (God) for the ears that He gave me that I can hear the sound of my mother’s voice, the sound of my brother, my sister, the sound of my teacher, the sound of music. I can hear it, and I love what I hear because Allah (God) gave me ears.

I loved the Honorable Elijah Muhammad. He was my teacher. I loved him so much, I thought. And I did love him, and do love him, but was it love or was it that he satisfied a need? Think with me now.

Maybe you should say “I need” rather than “I love” because the word and our actions are not congruent. You’re hungry. You need food. You need the protein, the carbohydrates, the chemistry of what you eat, to keep what you love alive. When you fall in love with food, then you show how much you hate yourself.

The fact that I didn’t love myself meant I could never have loved Elijah Muhammad as much as I thought. And if you don’t love yourself, you can’t love Allah (God) as much as you would like. It starts with your recognition of Allah (God) and your recognition of yourself.

If you hate the fact that you’re Black, how could you love the God that made you Black? If you hate the nappiness of your hair and Allah (God) gave you that hair, how can you love Allah (God) and hate what Allah (God) has made? You’re lying to yourself. You’re lying to your wives, your husbands, your friends, because you can never love your neighbor except to the degree that you love yourself.

And your love of Allah (God) is tainted. It’s only based on what Allah (God) can do for you. And you love people based on what you expect people to do for you. If they ever stop doing for you, what happens to your love? So your love and our love has a condition to it.

I found out as a young minister that I loved Allah (God), I loved the resurrection of our people, but I also loved the applause. You noticed that I told you today not to applaud so much, but to listen and think. I don’t love that anymore. But when I was a child, I spoke like one. Now I’m becoming a mature man, and I have to put away childish things. I want you to hear me today.

I told this sister that I really didn’t love myself. I loved Elijah Muhammad and his family. I would do anything for him and his family, but I wouldn’t do it for mine. And I have to analyze that now. How could I look after Muhammad’s wife and don’t look after mine? How could I sacrifice for Muhammad’s children and neglect mine?

I could say, “it’s the cause. I’m for the Nation!” But I’m a liar if I say that I’m for the Nation and not for my family, when my family is the essence of the Nation. When you neglect your family, you have neglected the Nation. When you uphold your family and look out for your family, you’re looking out for the Nation.

When I began to answer this sister’s question about love, I said, “You know, sister, the more I fell in love with me, the more I could demonstrate love for you, because you and I are from the same source.”

And the more I could fall in love with me—not in a vain way—the more I could love Allah (God) Who Created me. I soon will be 70 years old, and I’m just learning how to love. It’s a long distance, brother, but it’s better to learn at 70 than never to learn at all.

I told the sister, “Go home and write down all the things about yourself that you love. And everything about yourself that you love is of Allah (God).

And on the other side, write down the things about yourself that you don’t like, and that’s what you’ve got to work on in order to love yourself more. Until you do that, you can’t love people any more than you love yourself. And you cannot love Allah (God) any more than you love yourself.”

And this is why the teaching of the Most Honorable Elijah Muhammad is the greatest message that you could receive, because in it is a profound knowledge of Allah (God) and a profound knowledge of self. You can only love yourself based upon what you know of yourself.

Thank you.

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April 10, 2026

As-Salaam Alaikum.
(Peace Be Unto You)

To The Family and Friends of Bob Law:

We extend the Greeting Words of Peace from all the members of the Nation of Islam, and offer to you all our deepest sympathies and condolences on the loss of our brother, friend and companion in our struggle, Bob Law.

Words are inadequate to express our gratitude to Allah (God) for producing through his parents such a wonderful son and servant to the Cause of Freedom and Justice as Bob Law.

The tall man of 6’9”, who ranked head and shoulders above most of his contemporaries and over those who claimed to work for the cause of liberation for our people, was a true giant. Bob Law was always working and studying to improve his service to our cause of liberation. His radio shows were monuments of study, knowledge, and commitment to the rise of our people.

You cannot be this kind of servant and this service not be marked as a sacrifice of those whom he loved who have been brought into this world and therefore suffered what he suffered and sacrificed willingly or unwillingly. Everybody attached to Bob Law had to make a similar sacrifice.

He was a deeply spiritual man who loved his church and loved his faith and he showed that in the way he carried out whatever he spoke, whatever he engaged in as work or service. He did it all with remarkable dedication and love.

This is why this unusual man will be known and loved by those who have known him and loved him, and the many who will get to know and love him by our witness of his greatness as a great servant. Jesus said in the scriptures, whoever would be great among you, let him be your servant.

Bob Law’s record of service to us and our causes of Freedom, Justice and Equality are unequaled by most of us who claim to serve.

With great love and extreme gratitude, we thank Allah (God) for him, his wife, his family, friends, colleagues, and students who try to keep his memory forever fresh by the good work that we shall do in honor of his name.

Sincerely with Peace and Love,
Your Brother and Servant,

The Honorable Minister Louis Farrakhan
Servant to the Lost-Found
Nation of Islam in the West

HMLF/abm

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