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

Brothers and Sisters, once again I am thankful to Allah for the privilege of being in your midst. We want to go directly to our subject matter this evening. For the last few weeks we have been dealing with the subject of “Time,” and so I will quote a few verses from the Holy Qur’an, Surah 103 Al-‘Asr (“The Time”), which will be the base of our work this evening:

“By the time, surely man is in loss, Except those who believe and do good, And enjoin one another to truth, And enjoin one another to patience.”

 “Time” is The Criterion of The Measurement of   Our Action–if our actions do not correspond with the dictates of time, our action will bring us to loss, as the Holy Qur’an teaches us of   The Manifestation of Losses (Surah 64).

 Many of us are losing daily, hourly. We’re losing self-respect, self-worth. We’re losing our minds, we’re losing our families. We’re losing our loved ones. This loss is to bring grief upon the community that we may reflect again on The Time and act according to The Time.

Grammatical Correctness in Language

 The Honorable Elijah Muhammad was not known as an English-language “scholar”; some say he didn’t speak well, but I was with him one day and he taught me a very profound English lesson.

 In The Problem Book of The Supreme Wisdom Lessons, which details the condition of Black people in a mathematical way, we are told to put our Mathematical Theology to work to secure benefit for ourselves, which are money, luxury, good homes and friendship in all walks of life. We are also told that if we don’t speak the Language well, we will not be successful.

 Every discipline has its language, every skill has its language, and if we do not speak the language of our discipline or our skill well, we are not successful in communicating. Every time, every era has a language that is peculiar to that time. If you do not speak The Language of The Time, then you are not communicating properly, and you will not be successful. So in sitting with the Honorable Elijah Muhammad one morning, he said, “Brother, the English language basically is not spoken well when you speak and do not use grammatical correctness.”

 In grammar, there must be subject and verb agreement: if the subject is in the present, then the verb, or the action, must be in the present, otherwise you don’t have subject and verb agreement. You are not speaking grammatically correct, and it impairs your success. The Honorable Elijah Muhammad taught us that as you use language to communicate your ideas, communicate your thoughts, you must speak in a way that your words, your thoughts, your ideas are clearly perceived by the one or ones to whom you are speaking. The less possibility there is for misunderstanding what you’re trying to communicate, the better it is that people will understand us.

 What was Elijah Muhammad saying? The verb in the grammatical construction of the language represents the action; in other words, the “tense.” The word “tense” here means: Is it Present? Is it Past? Is it Future? Is it Present Perfect? Is it Past Perfect? Or, is it Future Perfect? These are the different tenses that you understand if you’ve studied grammar. But if you haven’t studied grammar, don’t worry about it; we’ll break it right down.

 Look at the sentence “I am here”–the subject “I” is in Present tense because the verb “am” (be) is in Present tense. However, if I said: “I was here and I am here,” I would not be speaking grammatically correct. So what is Elijah Muhammad saying? If you and I live in The Present, our Action should be Present Tense. But if our actions belong to a Time gone by, then we are in the present, acting out the past–there is no “subject and verb agreement,” therefore we are not communicating properly and we are not speaking correctly. And when there is a lack of communication, there is a breakdown in social relationship.

 The word “tense” has to do with time. When we are “out of time,” we increase t-e-n-s-ion (tension). When we increase tension because we are out of step with time, then we increase stress. And where there is tension and stress in our relationship because we are out of step with time, there is a cleavage (definition: “the act of a division or split”) apart, rather than a cleavage together.

 “By the time, surely man is in loss. …” so Time is The Criteria. You are not a “slave,” but if your actions reflect slave mentality, then you’re not communicating properly and you begin to lose. If slavery was over, according to White folks words, with the “Emancipation Proclamation,” and we today in The Present are still looking to the Caucasian to provide us with our necessities of life, food, clothing, shelter, employment, education, then that action that we are involved in is an action that belongs to the past, to an era gone by.

 You are in the present, but your actions are not proper; therefore, you are communicating well with the Caucasian, but you are not communicating well with one another because you are not speaking well.

Become Servants of Righteousness, not Sin

The Honorable Elijah Muhammad said to us that it was divinely prophesied that we would serve America 400 years. We bear witness the 400 years of our servitude to America is up, and if it is up, we must adopt an action that corresponds to the time. If the Scripture teaches we will go into bondage to serve Satan and follow the path of sin and iniquity, and The Time given to Satan’s rule is up and The Time given to our service of Satan and sin and iniquity is up, then The Time demands another action: We must stop serving Satan and start serving The Lord of The Worlds.

We must stop being servants of sin and we must start serving ourselves in righteousness.

 Now does that seem so strange or farfetched? If we have run out of the time given to evil to hold sway over the people, and the evil is steadily losing, how can we come into our own, following an out-of-date activity? Evil is an out-of-date activity because it will not permit us to communicate properly to one another. We cannot do evil to one another and communicate to one another. The Time given to evil is over, so doing evil will not bring results, it will bring deterioration, loss, ruin, disgrace and death. If our actions can be judged as evil, and we are out of The Time given to evil, then we are not communicating correctly.

 Either we’ve got to go out with the evil world, or we’ve got to change our actions to be in harmony with The World of Righteousness that is coming in.

 Now, God has not sentenced you and me to death, God has sentenced to death The Wicked–but we are practicing wickedness. The longer we persist in the practice of evil, the more the fate of the wicked becomes our fate. If God’s Truth and Righteousness condemns something that we are practicing, though we like it, we’ve got to give it up. We may like evil deeds, but if The Word of God in The Time of Right condemns the action that belongs to the old world and to the past, then we have got to make up our minds to correct our conduct by The Standard of Time.

 If you can agree that the White man’s world is on its way out, then the White man’s way is on its way out. And if the White man’s way is a way of evil, and is on its way out, then we’ve got to give up evil. Beloved, life and the spirit of life is tied into The Spirit of Righteousness. The Creator, Who set this whole Universe in motion, is a Righteous Creator. He set it up in righteousness, so the very energy that perpetuates the life of the Universe is a Righteous Energy. This is why there is so much talk in the Scriptures of the Bible of that which is called “Holy Spirit.”

 This kind of spirit is different from the spirit of the world, because the spirit of the world has not any righteousness or holiness attached to it. It’s the spirit of the world, which is the spirit of adultery, the spirit of freakishness, the spirit of sport and play and partying. It is not the spirit of the serious intent of The God who fashioned life, so the key to longevity is in being in harmony with the spirit that perpetuates the life of that which keeps you living.

 You draw your life’s sustenance from the Earth and what she produces. What the Earth produces is in harmony with the spirit of the Life Producer, Almighty God Himself. The Earth is producing you fruits of obedience, fruits of submission and you and I survive and grow strong from the fruit that the Earth produces. If we were in harmony with the spirit that germinates life, which is submission to the Will of the Life Giver, that spirit generates life into us.

The Power of Thought

 Being in harmony with The Thinking of The Creator generates electrical energy in the cells of the brain picked up by the blood and carried to every part of the body. So you can’t just eat well, we’ve got to think better.

 So, the song says, “I’m going to change my way of thinking, I’m going to change my style, I’m going to change my walk and my talk…”–that’s an old song we used to sing. But when the Right Word in accord with the Right Time strikes your ear, if you let it enter it starts changing up the way you think. And once the way you think is changed, the way you think starts changing up the chemistry of the cells.

 This is nothing but pure science–and if there are doctors, and scientists, and biologists and chemists in the house, all you have to do is take what Brother Farrakhan says from the Honorable Elijah Muhammad, go and study it, and come on back and bear me witness that I have been taught by a Master Teacher.

 We must change the thinking, for the scripture teaches “As a man thinketh, so is he.” This is telling you The Power of Thought. Thought shapes and reshapes matter, so the Honorable Elijah Muhammad was not just interested in getting you to eat properly, he wanted to change the way we think. In changing the way we think, he will then change the way we act. And if our thinking gets in harmony with the Will of God, gets in harmony with The Time, then our actions follow suit, and instead of showing loss, we will show gain.

 Even though the world seems to be going contrary to the way we think and act, we will be steadily gaining and the world will be steadily losing because we are on time.

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When the Honorable Elijah Muhammad said, “we are gods,” he wasn’t making mockery. He was showing us our Divine potential if we fed that which is in us from Allah and allowed ourselves to grow spiritually. Like you feed your stomach to grow physically, then spiritually you’ll grow right on up into God. And this is why, beloved Muslims, Allah gives us the right to wear His Attributes. He has 99 Attributes, and when you put them all together, you have Allah.

 Well, what about The People of God? If we wear His Name and manifest His characteristics and recognize that as God’s Names work together for the fruition of His Will, and His Name represents His Attributes and Characteristics, then if we wear His Name, manifest His Attributes, and we come together in unity under His Will and His Guidance, then we become Allah!

 The Holy Qur’an says: “And We adorned the lower Heavens with Stars. And We made man and We know what his mind suggests to him. And had We wished to take a pastime from before ourselves, surely We would have taken it. Nay, We cast Truth at falsehood till We knock out its brain.”–“We” who?

 The We is us who believe and submit to The Will of The Supreme Being, The Lord of The Worlds, Almighty God, Allah. We have become “the actors of His Will,” so when you see us acting, it’s not “us” acting, it’s Allah Acting. When you hear us speaking, it is not “us” speaking, it is Allah Speaking. And when you see our manifestation of righteousness, it is not “our” righteousness, it is Allah’s Righteousness.

 That is why the Honorable Elijah Muhammad wanted you to change your way of thinking and looking at your own self.

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There was a U.S. Senator from Kansas by the name of John James Ingalls who, on January 23, 1890 during a meeting in the Senate, addressed President Benjamin Harrison regarding the Senate’s consideration of a bill (“S. 1121”) to “provide for the emigration of persons of color from the Southern States.”

Pay attention to his words: “Mr. President, the race to which we belong is the most arrogant and rapacious, the most exclusive and indomitable in history. It is the conquering and the unconquerable race, through which alone man has taken possession of the physical and moral world. … All other races have been its enemies or its victims.”

“Rapacious” means “destructive and vicious; engaging in violent pillaging, and likely to harm or destroy things.”

 In the book “Imperialism: A Study,” (published by New York, James Pott & Co., 1902) by British economic journalist John A. Hobson, in the chapter “Imperialism and The Lower Races” under Section VI (“6”), page 266, he writes: “The actual history of Western relations with lower races occupying lands on which we have settled throws, then, a curious light upon the theory of a ‘trust for civilization.’ When the settlement approaches the condition of genuine colonization, it has commonly implied the extermination of the lower races, either by war or by private slaughter, as in the case of Australian Bushmen, African Bushmen and Hottentots, Red Indians, and Maoris”—or “The Aborigines” of Australia—“or by forcing upon them the habits of a civilization equally destructive to them. …” The Honorable Elijah Muhammad said for every 1,000 years of the White race’s existence on our planet, they have killed 100 million people of color for every “1,000 years.” So in 6,000 years:

They have killed nearly 1 billion people of color! And now, according to what we have read from Mr. Henry Kissinger (refer to “Part 4” of this lecture series): They intend to cull (“exterminate,” “get rid of”) the population of our planet by 2-3 billion people. These are The Blood-Shedders of our planet. Mr. Hobson continues: “This is what is meant by saying that ‘lower races’ in contact with ‘superior races’ naturally tend to disappear. How much of ‘nature’ or ‘necessity’ belongs to the process is seen from the fact that only those ‘lower races’ tend to disappear who are incapable of profitable exploitation by the superior White settlers, either because they are too ‘savage’ for effective industrialism or because the demand for labour does not require their presence.”

Brothers and sisters: Are you looking for a job? Are you “too savage” for effective industrialism, or, because the demand for labor does not require your presence? Are we going to Washington to celebrate the 50th Anniversary of The March on Washington, and are we—50 years later—going to still be begging government seeking “Jobs and Justice”?

Mr. Hobson writes: “Whenever superior races settle on lands where lower races can be profitably used for manual labour in agriculture, mining, and domestic work, the latter do not tend to die out, but to form a servile class. This is the case, not only in tropical countries where White men cannot form real colonies, working and rearing families with safety and efficiency, and where hard manual work, if done at all, must be done by ‘coloured men,’ but even in countries where White men can settle, as in parts of South Africa and of the southern portion of the United States.” This “servile” state of being is our lot.

“As we entered these countries for trade, so we stay there for industrial exploitation, directing to our own profitable purposes the compulsory labour of the lower races. This is the root fact of Imperialism so far as it relates to the control of inferior races; when the latter are not killed out they are subjected by force to the ends of their white superiors.”

 An author and a Southerner named Gerald W. Johnson in 1964 wrote: “Of all the creatures to appear on this earth, the White man is the fiercest by far.” And when a female author by the name of Riane Eisler wrote in the “Introduction” to her book “The Chalice and The Blade: Our History, Our Future,” asking the questions: “Why do we hunt and persecute each other? Why is our world so full of man’s infamous inhumanity to man—and to woman? How can human beings be so brutal to their own kind? What is it that chronically tilts us toward cruelty rather than kindness, toward war rather than peace, toward destruction rather than actualization?”

 It is because you become frustrated; you become disappointed. And in that “disappointment,” you don’t handle it well—and it drives you to insanity. And then, you want to kill someone.

Taking off ‘the mask of civility’ worn by a cold-hearted savage 

Have you noticed that there was a time that Black people could find refuge in France: Many musicians and entertainers went there, and the French saw them as a “novelty”; and, they felt as though they were really accepted more than they were accepted in their own countries? Do you remember after “colonialism” died, many of those that England colonized began to move to England; and at first, it was a “novelty”: Here are brothers and sisters from the former colonies in The Caribbean, from the former colonies in Africa, from the former colonies in Asia and the Isles of the Pacific? Yes… And you were “accepted.” What’s happening today?

As Caucasians begin to feel “threatened,” and their “security” is compromised, “the mask of civility” comes off—and then you see murder coming out of their hearts and their eyes. It is the same in France; it is the same in Belgium. It is the same in Norway and Sweden, and Finland, and Denmark. It is the same in Germany, and in Russia. All over our planet, “The Hatred of Black” is manifesting.

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

The time that we live in is so strange, that those men and women whose ideas some disagree with, and whose persons are not loved by all, are a target for assassination. It is so shameful that when we disagree, the only way we have to settle disagreements is through assassinating someone with whom we disagree. That means you don’t have confidence in your truth, because as sure as light vanishes darkness, Truth vanishes Falsehood. If truth is with you, then you have nothing to fear from anyone who comes bringing darkness and falsehood, so the assassination of such person is unnecessary for Shining The Light is sufficient.

But of course, if you have been made to believe that you have light, while in fact you are in the dark, then anybody who comes shedding light on your darkness will vanish the false ideas and concepts that you hold true; that enslave you to those in power whose aim is to control your lives and your destiny. Then there is a real threat to those in power who fear your ideas.

Why “the furor over Farrakhan”? What is “the great controversy”? Those in the media who wish to paint a picture of me in your minds have had the freedom with their big brushes to paint me as such. But now is my turn to ask: “What is the problem?” The problem is the fear on the part of those in power of The Rise of Black men and women to The Destiny that Almighty God has called us to. The fear is that after, now, 450 years of evil mistreatment, injustice and inequity, somebody is going to come along and turn these young and older Black men and women into an army of revenge against a society that has set them at naught. That is the fear. And that fear is the same as it was with Pharaoh.

Those of you who read scripture, Pharaoh feared the multiplication of The Children of Israel. He feared that they might join themselves on to an enemy and come against him. He knew the evil of him and his people against The Children of Israel. Was his fear justified? Not really, but the guilt of The Guilty makes them always feel that their wickedness is deserving of the punishment that they know should come.

But Moses was not a vindictive man, neither was Aaron, neither Jehovah. The idea was to give Pharaoh a chance to repent and do justice by The Children of Israel, that Egypt and Pharaoh might avoid total destruction. But because of Pharaoh’s fear of a Spokesperson rising whom The Children of Israel would listen to that may change their religion, change their way of thinking, change their way of believing; Pharaoh decided to “Let us put a double burden on them”: Let them make bricks out of straw; spare their women, but kill all of the male children.

And today in America, the Black male is under siege. Today in America, because of hate not taught by Farrakhan, but hate that has been bred into Black men and women for self and for their own kind and for their origin in the world, we have been made to hate ourselves, our color, our hair, our features, our origin. To destroy one another is to destroy what we “hate,” so that today, Black young men are the number one destroyers of self. White folk are not doing to us what we are now doing to ourselves.

As a human being, I would love to see all human beings act as human beings and get along as human beings. Reality says that there are about 10 percent of the human family that control the lives of 85 percent of the human family. There is about 85 percent which is the mass of every race that is unlearned, especially when it comes to The True and The Living God and The Nature of The Law of Cause and Effect. This 85 percent are mis-taught by 10 percent who know the truth, but hold the truth as their private domain and use their knowledge of truth to mislead the masses, so that the masses become slaves to this 10 percent. So the 10 percent are considered the “blood suckers of the poor.”

No “race,” no “religion”–just a percentage that know what is right, but refuse to teach the masses what is right. And therefore when somebody comes to educate the masses who should have been educated by institutions of higher learning, then there is a hue and a cry by the 10 percent, because somebody is going to take away the foundation of their riches.

Now let me make it a little clearer: What would you think of me if I was a used car salesman, and I sold you an automobile that looked real good; and after I took your money and you got in it, I kept the key? So all you could do is sit in it, enjoy what it looks like, but you couldn’t go anywhere with it? You would call me a pretty awful ugly fellow. You would bring me before the Better Business Bureau, you would accuse me of fraud and thievery, and you would want your money back, and you would be justified!

But what about making you pay for an education; and then at the end of your time you get a degree, but you are unable to use it to solve the critical problems of your day, your time, your society? I am concerned not only about my people, I am concerned about a country that is the greatest country on Earth that is on its way into the abyss of hell because leadership blinds the people to the real truth of what’s going on in America; what is happening to this nation.

Educators: With all due respect, the country is in trouble and you have a responsibility to teach these young people and let them stand on the shoulders of your scholarship. Not to train them to think like you, but to train them to see beyond you, because if the problems of America are beyond your scholarship, then to train them to acquiesce to your scholarship is to train them to acquiesce to the prevailing conditions that they will never be able to solve with what you are teaching them.

God says in the Quran when he sends a prophet to every nation, he teaches every nation a specific way of devotion. Suppose the Native Americans’ way of devotion is not your way of devotion, or my way of devotion: Should we make mockery of their way of devotion simply because we don’t understand it? Who arrogated to us the right to condemn others? Intolerance–but did Farrakhan bring intolerance to the American scene?

This great outpouring of so-called love by America and her presidents for Black people has caused us to live on one side of the track, and they on another. And while you act as though White and Black drinking fountains was a relic of the “ancient past,” that was just [40] years ago. I couldn’t go in a Christian Church in the South except I went up in the balcony. Have you forgotten? We were fighting and bleeding and dying for a “democracy” that we didn’t even know the meaning of, in a segregated armed forces. Was that love that divided us, or was it hate?

And now you say “Farrakhan” is dividing you. What are you doing with truth and justice to unite human beings of various races and creeds? You talk so hypocritically about a pluralistic society, but how can it be a pluralistic society with a Euro-centric education? The very Euro-centricity of it of the education, of the religion, of the politics, of the dynamics of the society, of its system of jurisprudence, says in its practice that there will never be equal respect for all of the various components that make up what is called “America.”

The Philosophy of Racism and White Supremacy has poisoned religion, education, economics, the social fabric and the system of justice. Until that philosophy that has created a White mind that feels itself superior because of its Whiteness, and a Black mind that feels itself inferior because of its Blackness is destroyed, and a Ideology and Philosophy given to the American people that will allow us to see each other as we really are, then the talk of a pluralistic society is blowing in the wind.

I suggest to you that it is deceitful language made by that 10 percent who want to keep the 85 percent believing that you are on the road to something that you don’t have the mechanism to get where they told you, you were on the road.

So you are sitting in the car and it looks good and it feels good, but try to get it started to move you down the road to your goal: You are not getting there.

In the publication The Secret Relationship Between Blacks and Jews, Volume 1, The Nation of Islam’s Historical Research Department unearthed the following fact from an unpublished doctoral dissertation of Dr. Harold Brackman written in 1977: It was certain Talmudic rabbis who invented “The Curse of Ham” myth about the origin of Black people; that through the eyes of these pseudo-intellectual anthropologists, the Old Testament teaches that Black people are called “The Hamitic People” (as though we waited around until Ham to come into existence).

This “Curse of Ham” developed by scholars and imposed on scripture use your love of God and your love of religion as a tool to defeat you. Surely if I am a child of Ham who laughed at his father’s nakedness and drunkenness, and was cursed; and The Hamitic Curse is that we would be doomed by our Blackness to be hewers of wood and drawers of water for the other brothers, then that means that Black people should have a “servant” attitude and mentality.

See, if you are in that 10 percent, I can understand that you must be terrified that somebody knows the truth. But to the masses of you, the 85 percent: You should rejoice that somebody knows something to free your minds.

How can they know the scriptures accept they have a Preacher? And how can they have a Preacher except he be sent? The same people that put you in this condition, the 10 percent, are not going to send you a Preacher to free you from their grip. That is why nobody from America’s educational institutions has been able to free the masses.

You would think with all of the degrees that you give out each year, you would be giving something out that the masses could go free, with this “fine education.” I suggest that something is wrong with an educational system that does not allow you to become a thinker, analytical and creative–but suppresses your creativity; and shapes and molds you according to books from scholars whose knowledge of the discipline is much less than absolute. Also, who will not allow you to rise in your time above the scholarship of the so-called scholars that you may write new text books that give a better view of life today than those who went before you.

You are being trained to be herded into a political and social dynamic, without being able to see it as it is, or correct it as it is, but to become tools of those who control it. And if you “get out of line,” whether you are White, Black, Hispanic, Jew, Gentile–it doesn’t make any difference: If you get out of line with what those in power determine should be the way you think and act, then they find a way to break you.

That is why America is in the condition that it is in: It kills the best minds. It destroys those who would be thinking to lead us beyond.

I have never been anti-Semitic, and I am not now. I have never been anti-Jewish and I am not now. But I recognize something, and what I recognize is that what is not in the best interest of Jews or Blacks, I have to speak against it. When I said that some Jews were involved in The Slave Trade, they attacked me so viciously like I said something wrong.

So when my brothers and sisters saw the attack on me, the Historical Research Department was formed, and they went digging not in our libraries, in yours; and they found Jewish historians, rabbis and scholars who confirmed what I had said and gotten attacked for: That Jews were heavily involved in the slave trade.

Yes, Gentiles, Africans, Arabs were involved; and yes, some Muslims were involved. Everybody of the world had a part in that Slave Trade. “Well then, why are you focusing on Jews?” Because in the books that we read, we always read it was Arabs, we always read that it was Gentile White people–but we never read where the Jews had a hand.

So it is our duty to tell the truth because in this day and time, everybody that had a hand in bringing this people to slavery has to have a hand in helping us up, or God will punish all.

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

[Excerpt of the closing lines from Brother Harold Power’s spoken word tribute to Mother Khadijah Farrakhan, “The Queen’s Reign” that was originally recited at her 90thbirth anniversary in November 2025.]

“We all saw The Nation dismantled and reassembled, but tell me: Who did you see sinking beneath the waves, descending into the cold crushing abyss when the depths of The Minister’s Source had him anchored a thousand leagues beneath the sea?

It was she! She broke the chains! She freed the man! She resuscitated his inspiration, and FARRAKHAN lived again! She is the quintessential manifestation that no nation can rise any higher than its woman! …

“… So no, we will not wait for the Vatican or for the popes in Rome to pontificate and debate over whether to bestow sainthood upon our Queen Mother! She has gone through more trials and tribulations and has brought forth just as many miracles as any other.

So all those who are present and in agreement, raise your hand to the sky and say ‘I,’ thus, by the power of the people, in the presence of God’s Vicegerent and the rest, in acknowledgement of all the years that you have sat perfectly upon the throne,

And for the magnificent example that you have set,’ everyone, turn and fix your gaze upon the face of the one whose grace shall never leave her. And on this, the 90th year of her birth, help me celebrate our newly enthroned Saint, Mother Khadijah.”

The Honorable Minister Louis Farrakhan: ALLAH-U-AKBAR! ALLAH-U-AKBAR! Thank you, brother. Boy, you could not have said it better. I know those are words inspired by God and touched my heart, because I know the truth of my wife’s greatness; greater than you would hear it said. But she will rise from among the dead to be crowned before God and the world, this beautiful Ruggles Street girl!

Well, I call her “Struggles Street,” because she struggled every day to be the best that she could be. So how could I not rejoice over the beauty of your soul that captured my wife and let her life unfold? You did it, dear brother.

And I am grateful for you, because you made my day that was very sad indeed! But I know there is a great future for all of us because she paved the road before we leave. Thank you so much. …

[Opening lines from Sister Stephanie Mills’ song tribute to Mother Khadijah Farrakhan, a beautiful rendition of “The Wind Beneath My Wings”]

“It must have been cold there in your shadow, To never have sunlight on her face. She was content to let you shine—that’s Her Way. She always walked right beside.

“Pops, you were the one with all The Glory. THANK ALLAH! While she was the one with all The Strength. A beautiful face; you’ve changed her name—that’s Your Way. A beautiful smile to hide some pain.

“Did you ever know that she was Pops’ Hero? She was everything you needed her to be!

“You can fly higher than an eagle, For She was The Wind Beneath Your Wings.”

The Honorable Minister Louis Farrakhan: Did you know that she is my hero? All the things I needed that she could be, God did it all to help me that I might be the one to resurrect a nation and then go on to a world and set people free.

Oh yeah, she is my hero alright. I mean, she really broke through. Every day on the news they were talking about her! They sent me all these words from around the world—I couldn’t even read it all; I had to stop.

She opened the door for us. She took a cover off of me! So, through her, the world will look at me a different way. But no woman could stay with a no-good man for now 73 years, and 10 years more before that! No woman got that kind of strength. But every rotten thing that the enemy would write about me hit my family, hit my friends!

It was like I had a disease; nobody wanted to be a close friend to me. Yeah …  They would come behind the door and say, “Farrakhan, we love you” a lot more. But Khadijah: She never let the news confuse her as to who her man is. Never! There was not one time in 73 years that she wavered about me.

I mean, just, just think about that. You all are married, but damn! I mean …  No, no, no! This is real talk! You all are married, but how long does it last? Damn, before the party is over the wedding is too! Talking about “honeymoon”?

All the honey dripped off that moon, and we as dry as the moon, (smile)— no water nowhere, no love nowhere! We’re playing games in the Name of God. … So beloved, go home and really try to make something out of your marriage by making something out of yourself.

You can’t be what you won’t live to be. So “faking”: You know, there is an old saying, “You’ve got to fake it (until/before) you make it.” And most of us are fakers.

Marriage is sacred. Living to be together and struggling with each other so that you could become one, that’s not funny, that’s not a joke. That’s the reality of life itself!

‘Khadijah still is The Wind Beneath My Wings’

If you’re afraid to be with God, you will never realize your own greatness, because when you are afraid, you can’t bring out of yourself what is buried there, hiding under fear, hiding under wanting to be loved but won’t do what will make you worthy to be loved.

This man sitting beside me, Brother Stevie Wonder: He’s like an archangel—you know I’ve got to talk about the angel! You think he can’t see? You wish you had eyes like he has! I want to say a few words about my Brother Stevie. Steve is like a conductor in the angelic choir of God.

Did you know that the Attribute of Allah, “Mercy,” “Beneficence”: He wants you to be comforted. Half of us probably in the room, forgive me if I step on your corn, but you really need to be reborn, because “faking it until you make it” is not God’s way. See, you’ve got to come out from behind the acting school of Satan, [where] Satan is the master.

And he is the one that gives you an Oscar. (“That’s my Oscar nigga.”) You didn’t hear me! Because you put on a face when you come out the door (“Who shall I be today? I’ve got to be what will make me accepted.”) If you will be yourself, you will not be “accepted,” you will be divinely protected.

So, beloved, you’ve got me fired up! And that’s because Khadijah still is the wind beneath my wings. So, when you go home and look at your wife, what do you see? No, no—no, please don’t answer! (Smile) You don’t know what you’re going to see, or you don’t know how to say what you see.

But you all have it deep within yourself: God is sitting there, waiting for you to discover Him. You running around making everybody your “hero,” but The Hero is sitting right up inside of you—or laying down next to you.

Stop faking it. Khadijah wouldn’t have been with me for 72 minutes if I was a false dude. And these are my children here, and they have grown up under me and their mother. … But they never heard me argue with their mother. They never heard me call my wife out of her name in anger.

Did you hear me?! How many of you speak evil words to your wife?I am very serious now! Brothers and sisters, we are hurting inside, all of us as Black people. In fact, all the human family is like that. So, we fight each other rather than trying to really discover what’s hiding beneath the cover, a very beautiful, righteous lover.

So, when you go home, as we celebrate Khadijah, let’s make a vow to turn over a new leaf, to be a better person. Joy has never been in sex. Righteousness is the joy of life itself, and if you are not trying to be right, you are never going to have peace or joy in your life.

[PICTURE PLACEMENT: SISTER MONICA MORGAN’S PHOTO OF MOTHER ON DISPLAY DURING REPAST]

That woman, right there, Khadijah: She lived her vow. And after 72 years, when she took her last breath, I wanted to scream out over her death. But as I was about to break down, God held me, and I could feel His arms around me; and therefore, I couldn’t break. And as Ishmael said, I cried out, “The Lord is my strength and He is my salvation. Of whom, then, shall I be afraid?”

And when you live in fear, you don’t know The Lord. When you are cowardly and won’t present yourself as God would have you to be, you are hiding the reality of the greatness of yourself. Come out of the closet.

Just don’t say that to those who are homosexual or lesbian. No, no, don’t do that. Come out from the closet of being other than yourself; and putting on a mask to hide the reality not of who you are, but of the fake that you’re trying to be today.

That wife of mine, O Allah! Look at that picture. Sister Monica Morgan, she loved that picture! And I am with her, Monica. I love that picture. And I love you for taking that picture.

So, I am going home to a lonely bed, and nobody is worthy to be in her stead. I’ll be alone until God says, “Come home.” Because she will never leave my side; she is the most beautiful kind of bride.

Dear Mother Khadijah Farrakhan, Mother of The Faithful: We’ll Be Loving You Always!!

So, I close with this point. You read about Jesus; they say Jesus was hated without a cause. People did not want to associate with Jesus when he was among us, and all the miracles that he had performed didn’t change their mind about him because they said his miracles were made by Beelzebub.

(That’s another name for the devil.) So even though he was doing things that others never could do, they refused to see who he really was. So, you could not talk about Jesus openly.

And people do not talk about me openly, honestly. You knowI’ve been a good man! Somebody on television said, “Seventy-two years and not one scandal.” It is not that me and Khadijah are perfect, no. But no scandal was behind our name.

Brothers and sisters, I will miss her, big time. And I am so grateful that all of you came to celebrate her.But underneath, you had to understand when you saw me, and the enemy writing about me day after day, week after week, month after month, and year after year … What did I do?

I didn’tkillnobody! I didn’t rob nobody! Didn’t rape no woman or sleep with no man! What did I do? I told the truth and spoke the truth, and the enemy didn’t like the truth.

I’ve got to tell you about my friend Stevie! Stevie and I were in Nigeria together. … Stevie corralled me one day and said, “Farrakhan, you should leave the singing to me.” It’s the truth! And Stevie said, “Why don’t you go back and get what Elijah Muhammad was teaching you?”

He said, “Now, you can help me, because you may be able to write lyrics and stuff, but let me do the singing.” Because I was so bad at it after I had been so good at it; but I was trying to get back at it when The Nation fell, and I couldn’t find my voice; I looked everywhere. I tried to play my violin; it looked like the strings would pop. (Smile) It wasn’t for me. And Stevie put me back on the right track!

And I can tell you this: This man came from God. Nobody talks about love better than this man, because love is the key to The Life of God. And in our pain and hurt living under White supremacy, God sent people into the world to comfort us, to preach to us, to sing for us. Mahalia Jackson, “Come Sunday” written by Duke Ellington; Billie Holiday, “Strange Fruit.”

And we marvel at their voices, and we love to hear our people sing. … Stevie caused us to live another day. And one day he called me on the phone and instead of saying, “Hey, Farrakhan!” he said, [singing] “I just called to say I love you!”

[Audience sings along: “I just called to say how much I care.”] Now, see? Wouldn’t you like to get a call like that from Stevie? How do you think I felt with my brother saying words like that to me?

I still got the call, Stevie. I will never throw it away, because Stevie invited me to be with him when he recorded “Songs in The Key of Life”—one of the greatest albums ever done by any musician. And I know this man will be tops in The Hereafter.

Each one of these musicians and artists are God’s gift to help us get through the horrors of living under White supremacy. And every time that Stevie sings about love, I would say “Stevie, you know, your songs and you are not for this world.” And Stevie doesn’t belong to this world. Stevie is in this world, but he is trying to get everybody in this world to be worthy of a better world.

So, “We just called to say I love you. We just called [audience joins in] to say how much we care. We just called to say I LOVE YOU, AND WE MEAN IT from the bottom of our hearts.” And so, Stevie, you can’t die.

I mean the flesh will go, but not Stevie. So, I thank God that he came. He’s a man [born also] in the month of May, on the 13th. I’m on the 11th; Mother Tynnetta is on the 10th. And here we are, together, to celebrate my beautiful wife.

So, Stevie, you’ve got the mic in your hand…

Brother Stevie Wonder [singing a rendition of “As,” from the album “Songs in The Key of Life”]: “As around the Sun, the Earth knows she is revolving, And the rosebuds know to bloom in early May. Just as hate knows love’s the cure, You can rest your mind assure, That I’ll be loving you always.”

The Honorable Minister Louis Farrakhan: [Singing along] “That I’ll be loving you always.” Come on, Steve!

Brother Stevie Wonder: “As now can’t reveal the mystery of tomorrow. But in passing we’ll grow older every day.”

The Honorable Minister Louis Farrakhan: Yeah!

Brother Stevie Wonder: “’Tis all is born is new, Do know what I say is true”—

The Honorable Minister Louis Farrakhan [sings in unison]:  “That I’ll be loving you always!”

Brother Stevie Wonder: “Until the rainbow burns the stars out in the sky…”

The Honorable Minister Louis Farrakhan: Come on, Steve!

Family of Believers: “ALWAYS!”

Brother Stevie Wonder: “Until the ocean covers every mountain high …”

The Minister & Family of Believers: “ALWAYS!”

Brother Stevie Wonder: “Until the dolphin flies and parrots live at sea …”

The Minister & Family of Believers: “ALWAYS!”

Brother Stevie Wonder: “Until we dream of life, and life becomes a dream—
I’LL BE LOVING YOU, I’LL BE LO-VING YOU…

MOTHER KHADIJAH:
YOU’LL KNOW I’LL, WE WILL BE LO-VING YOU ALWAYS…

THE MINISTER WILL BE LOVING YOU ALWAYS!”

The Honorable Minister Louis Farrakhan: THAT’S RIGHT!

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In The Name of Allah, The Beneficent, The Merciful, The One God to Whom all praise is due, Who came in the Person of Master Fard Muhammad to Whom praise is due forever.  We thank Allah for blessing us, for our beloved leader, teacher and guide, The Messenger of Allah, the Most Honorable Elijah Muhammad. 

‘What The Muslims Believe’: A Reminder on Our Position toward the abject, despised

I wanted to start class by reciting something from the 80th Chapter of the Holy Qur’an, called ’Abasa, which means “He Frowned.”  It talks about Prophet Muhammad, the son of Abdullah, in Arabia, talking to a very prominent rich man, and a blind man came tapping up to Prophet Muhammad.  Prophet Muhammad was bothered by this blind man—because he was into this conversation with this rich man—and he looked at the blind man, and he frowned, and turned away.  When Prophet Muhammad frowned at the blind man, and turned away from the blind man, Allah (God) frowned on The Prophet, and the following verses were revealed:

“In The Name of Allah, The Beneficent, The Merciful.  He frowned and turned away, because the blind man came to him.  And what would make thee know that he might purify himself, or be mindful, so the Reminder should profit him?  As for him who considers himself free from need, to him thou dost attend.  And no blame is on thee, if he purify himself not.  And as to him who comes to thee striving hard, and he fears—to him thou payest no regard.  Nay, surely it is a Reminder.  So let him, who will, mind it.”

Allah (God) is saying to Prophet Muhammad: “Why would you spend your time with those who really have no need of you, when a man came seeking you, who would be benefited by what you have to say, and you turned away from him, and you frowned?” 

The Bible has something similar in the 14th Chapter of the Book of Luke, in “The Parable of The Great Banquet” (verses 15-23).  Jesus was at a feast in the home of a prominent Pharisee when he began to teach his host, and those gathered, about “a certain man” who was preparing a great banquet, and invited many guests.  When the feast was ready, this man sent his servant out for the doctor, and the doctor was busy; he the servant out for the lawyer and the businessman, and they both were both busy.  So, he (Jesus) told his servant (his disciples): “Go out into the highways, into the byways, and bring me the lame, the halt, the blind, the leper; they will fill up my feast,” and they did.

What is the moral, or the lesson?  Dear brothers and sisters, The Nation of Islam started and was built by the most abject of our people.  Yes, the people that nobody else wanted could come to Muhammad—he never would turn them down.  The people that had no home, no place to go, no one to love them, no one to care about them; yes, the prostitute, the pimp, the lowlife, the dope seller, the dope user, the wine drinker, the man that was so far down in the mud, nothing was looking out but his eyeballs… 

But that is the man that knew he needed somebody, that is the woman that knew she needed somebody, so they reached out for Muhammad, as Muhammad reached out for them; and they came, and in a matter of moments they were cleaned up!  Then when you looked at them again, you saw them clean, shining, and strong, doing things that the learned had not the courage to do.

Well, as it was that way in the first building of The Nation of Islam, so it is in the second re-building of The Nation of Islam.  Who are the people that are going to be the foundational stones of this re-building?  Oh, the doctor may come, the lawyer may come, the teacher may come, and what a blessing it is that such brothers and sisters come at the ground-floor level.  However, the brother and sister who is willing to make the sacrifice, even of life, is the brother and sister who feel that they don’t have anything to lose. 

To the brothers of The F.O.I., and the sisters of The M.G.T., and to those of you who visit with us: If you know that we are having a general meeting, go get the brother in the mud, go get the sister in the mud!  I mean, if your friend happens to be a teacher or doctor, we don’t reject anyone. But the brother and sister in the mud, they are the ones that nine out of 10 times will stand up when there is nothing there to stand on but The Word. 

Others who are used to going in and out of fine buildings, they can’t join you unless you have a fine building (“Oh, I would come…  But there?  That place, among those people?  I can’t come, oh, no!  But when you move up on Broadway, I shall be there!”).  Well, we understand.  But we have some brothers and sisters who don’t care where truth is, they will go there. 

Study the Holy Qur’an to understand God’s Nature, which is Your Nature

So I thought we would start on that note, to let the brothers and sisters who feel that nobody cares, nobody loves you, nobody respects you, I want you to know how the Honorable Elijah Muhammad looks at you!  When asked, “Muhammad, where is your God?,” the Honorable Elijah Muhammad said: “Every time I look at a Black man, I am looking at God.” 

I don’t take those words lightly.  When I look at you, sister, when I look at you, brother, I know who I am looking at!  There is no sense in me praying to God and then mistreating you, because if I mistreat you I am already a mis-treater of God, for the very essence of The Nature of God is in you both!  And if you doubt it, then study the Holy Qur’an.  The Holy Qur’an is an Index of The Nature of God; it is telling you what The Nature of God is, and really, it is a key to The Nature of Your Self. 

If you doubt that you are like the Holy Qur’an describes you, brother and sister, then let anybody come to you pompous and proud, and immediately you start closing off and rejecting them.  This is because the Holy Qur’an says “none comes to Allah except he comes as a servant,” and none can come to you and win your love, and your respect, except he or she comes to you as a servant.  They can’t come to you boastful and arrogant, and proud. 

The Holy Qur’an teaches us that “Allah hates any self-conceited boaster.” And you know what?  You do, too.  You may not know why people turn you off, but if they boast, if they are self-conceited, if they are arrogantly proud, it turns you off.  But you love the humble, yes, you do!  And it is something about you, that whether you are right yourself, you respect righteousness.  You hate hypocrisy!  It is in you, that you hate anybody that preaches a good word and then lives totally contrary to what he preaches.  (You can’t go for that!  There’s nothing in you to make you go for that.) 

You are, actually, the reflection of Allah.  And when you submit, and we submit our will to do the Will of God, and when leadership represents Allah properly, they get the goodwill of the people.  And the goodwill of the people is the very essence of the people, and that’s what Elijah Muhammad attracted from his followers.

Never has there been a Black man in the history of America who was able to get another Black man or woman to give him all that we had.  The Honorable Elijah Muhammad got it all. That’s the truth, brother!  He didn’t play no games, but we believed in him as The Messenger of Allah, and we submitted to him, and whatever he wanted for us, we gave it to him. 

When White folks saw Black men and women submitting to Black leadership in that way, it totally threw them, because they understand that when Black men submit to Black men, the end of their power over us has come.  Anytime a Black man rises up with good in him for us, they always try to come in between us and that leader by saying ugly things about that leadership so that you will never give your all to one from among your own kind. 

The enemy knows how to short circuit your respect and commitment, so he will say, “Yeah, they’re stealing from you.”  That will short circuit your respect and your commitment just so.  Or, “They’re jiving you.”  When they start talking like this, you pull back; and the moment you pull back, and you close up your support, then the enemy says, “We’re on the road to overcoming them.”

Understanding that ‘force governed by intelligence’ is The Reality of God in Man

Study Message To The Black Man in America by the Honorable Elijah Muhammad, the chapter “Program and Position.”  On page 172, the Honorable Elijah Muhammad makes a declaration on Allah (God) in the Person of Master Fard Muhammad:  “Who can be saved, you will ask?  The Muslim believers who have submitted to the will of Allah and His religion, Islam, and those who faithfully followed and obeyed His Messenger. Let us try to do something for ourselves.  Give praises to Allah for converting the people to me and blessing us with peace and security. Allah is one God. He is independent and has no need of us, but we have great need of Him. It is He the Prophets predicted would come in the last days of the world seeking us, the Lost People, to save us and restore us to our own. I declare to you that He has come in the person of Master Wallace Fard Muhammad by (1) a summary of His work for the past 33 years and (2) by the Messenger, who believes in what has been revealed to him by his Lord, as do the believers. They believe in Allah and His Prophets and His books. We make no distinctions in His Messenger. We hear and we obey.”

“Who is Allah (God)?”  “How can Allah (God) come in the Person of a Man?”  (These are questions that have been asked regarding the Teachings of the Honorable Elijah Muhammad.)  There is an old saying that “truth is stranger than fiction.”  Some of our people would rather believe that a spirit created the heavens and the earth rather than to believe that man is capable of doing this that has been ascribed or given to a spirit or nonentity.  …  And if we have misunderstood “God” all these years, we can’t say we are going to understand God in a day; but, the key to understanding The Reality of The Divine Being is understanding the reality of your self.

The Honorable Elijah Muhammad, in telling us that Allah (God) is a Man, that puts him on the outside of the whole Islamic world because the whole Islamic world believes that God is a spirit.  Well, consider this: We have heard said that God is a “Supreme Force,” right?  But there is no force that we know of in the universe that doesn’t have behind it intelligence.  Electricity is a force, but it is not intelligent.  We just can’t say that “the universe was created by a force” and leave it like that; there is too much intelligence in the design and order of the universe to say that it was just “a force” that created it, because forces don’t have intelligence!  So it must be something that is “force,” alright, but a force that is governed and guided by “intelligence.”

Brothers and sisters, the prophets said they heard God speaking to them in their ear.  What “force” do you know of that speaks?  Name any force that you studied in physics or chemistry, any force in the universe that communicates words in a language in the ear of men.  Can you name one?  No, you can’t.  So if the prophets said they heard God’s Voice, what “force” has a voice speaking words in a language that the prophets understood?  God didn’t present Himself to all of the prophets, but He communicated with them through what they call “dreams,” “visions,” and they heard His Voice.  Only one prophet in the scriptures says he saw God “face-to-face,” and God spoke to him out of His Mouth, and that is Moses.

If we want to understand The Reality of God, the Honorable Elijah Muhammad said that we live in a material universe—and God would have no pleasure in creating a material universe if He, Himself, were nothing of “matter.”  Everything that He created, you see; and there are things that He created that you don’t see, but nothing that He created is outside of “matter.”  “Spirit” and “energy” are wrapped up in matter; even down to the most intense light, which is called a “wave,” that is also matter and energy.  Even with an x-ray, which is a lower form of light than laser; the x-ray passes through you, but the x-ray still is “matter.” 

Now if this is so, then Master Fard Muhammad, Who was born of a woman: How could He be God?  The Christians teach that Jesus was born of a woman.  Yes, they do!  And they say that Jesus lived like ordinary men, and then grew to become God; and all the powers in the heavens and earth were turned over to Jesus, so that Jesus became “The Christ” which means “True God,” “True Man.”  That’s Christian teaching!  But when you tell the Christian that God is a Man, they don’t want to hear it—but yet, Jesus was a man.  Before and after his resurrection, Jesus was man. 

Allah (God), The Best Knower: His Nature is Our Nature

The Honorable Elijah Muhammad teaches us that Master Fard Muhammad’s Father was “Allah” before Him.  What does “Allah” mean?  The Qur’an opens up saying:  “I, Allah, am The Best Knower.”  Well, The One Who is “The Best Knower” is Allah.  Remember, there is no “force” that you know that can say it is “The Best Knower.”  Though knowledge is the supreme force, knowledge must be contained in something!  “Spirits” don’t walk around talking and conveying knowledge, it is a mind that contains knowledge, and Man is The Supreme Life in The Universe, and he is formed right after God, Himself. 

This is why the Holy Qur’an says Islam is not your religion, it is your nature, it is “The Nature of God and The Nature in which God created man.”  Allah (God) gives you His same nature.  Well, if you have His same nature, then you and Him are the same!  So, you’re not a “child” of God, you are a God, a descendent of The Creator Himself! 

“The time has come”: All the prophets have been talking about how God “will come.”  There is no prophet that said “God is present,” they said “God will come.”  Moses kept saying, “And when He comes…”; Noah said, “And when He comes…”; Lot said, “And when He comes… .”  Even Jesus said, “And when He comes, the Spirit of Truth, He will guide you into all Truth.” Jesus wasn’t talking about himself, he was talking about somebody that he recognized as greater than himself. 

David, the great prophet of Israel, looking down in the wheel of time, saw the “master prophet.”  This is why when you call the Honorable Elijah Muhammad a “messenger,” that’s the cheapest title you could give him, because he is not just a “messenger,” he is the master of all prophets.  He masters what they taught!  They were in darkness, and they revealed words of light, but they themselves didn’t understand the depth of what God had given them.  But the one who comes in the last days doesn’t come as a “prophet,” he comes with God. 

It is written that God would come after the sheep that was lost.  Brothers and sisters, God would come after you!  He wouldn’t send a prophet, He would come Himself. The Bible teaches, “In that day when God comes, every eye shall see Him, every tongue shall be made to confess.” 

How are you going to “see” something, but you can’t see?  What does this mean, “In that day, when you see Him, you will be like Him and He will be like you”?  What is the scripture talking about?  This means that as long as you don’t see God as yourself, you won’t call out of yourself your capabilities!  This means that as long as you think that The Master of The Universe is “some spirit out there,” you will never see yourself with the capabilities and possibilities of mastering the very forces of the heavens and the earth. 

You are the natural master of the forces of the universe, but you are going to have to grow into that, now.  So when God say it’s time to “go after the sheep that is lost,” where are they lost?  They are lost in The West, among wolves.  Who lives in The West?  The Caucasian.  Think about this: Anyone with jet black skin, if He comes into that house, they would spot Him immediately!  So the old Christians said, “Prepare me a body, that I may go down…” 

Brothers, this is beautiful wisdom if you understand it.  Here is a Man coming that is going to judge two people, the White man and the Black man.  He has to judge them, so He has to have the nature of both in order to deal with both.  In order to produce one that can get among the devils, The Father of Master Fard Muhammad had to find the right earth to plant His seed in. 

Look, there’s all kind of products that a farmer can produce, but you have to know the nature and quality of the earth and the nature and quality of your seed, and what you want to produce; then, you find the right earth for your seed.  One thing that we have never been taught, as the Honorable Elijah Muhammad mentions it in Message To The Blackman, on “Knowledge of Self”: The White man never wanted to teach Black people the science of mating.

We just lay down and have children, and luck up on geniuses (because we are so great).  But wise men study themselves, and know themselves.  Wise men say, “Well, I know ‘the multiplier,’ now let me study what ‘product’ I want.  If I want to produce this product, then if I am ‘the multiplier,’ and I know what I am, then what is ‘the multiplicand’?”  (Where will I find what I’m looking for to make my product?  For instance, if I know that I am a “4,” and I hope to produce an “8,” then I have to find a “2” to multiply with to produce the “8.”) 

Well, it is the same way in mathematics as it is in life: If I know what I possess, my characteristics, my qualities, and I know what I need, then I set my sight to look for the woman that has what I’m looking for, so that when I multiply with her I will get the product that I am after.  The Wise Father of Master Fard Muhammad was after a product that could get in among the devils.  And the scriptures say this of Him: “He came in sinful flesh to condemn sin in the flesh.”

Master Fard Muhammad, The Supreme Being: The Proof is in His Works

Master Fard Muhammad: A Man, born February 26, 1877.  He is not The Originator of the heavens and the earth; no, He wasn’t here then, but He is from that same line.  However, His knowledge is so great, that it supersedes the wisdom even of His Father.  He is so wise, so says the Honorable Elijah Muhammad, Master Fard Muhammad pictured and extracted the language of the people on Mars.  He spoke the language of the birds, talked to the wild beasts. He knew the language of the human families. I mean, He listened to you think; knows your thoughts! 

That’s no “heavy thing,” when you understand; that’s minor stuff!  But the heaviest thing is to control the universe and master its laws, and make the universe bow to His Will. That’s the kind of power that He has! 

Master Fard Muhammad comes to North America, as the scriptures teach “He came alone…”; and the Book teaches “He would measure the Earth, and tell its measurement.”  When He came, Master Fard Muhammad shot to us a barrage of questions: “What is the square mileage of the Earth?” “How much is the land? How much is the water?”  And He gives the answers: “196,940,000 square miles, that’s the square mileage of the Earth,” “The Water is 139,685,000 square miles,  and the Land is 57,255,000 square miles.” 

He starts running the circumference, the diameter and the distance between the Planets.  He is telling the Honorable Elijah Muhammad: “Look, I am The Master of this!  And I’m going to make you the master of this, so I’m going to give you a Flag that shows a master…  I’m giving you The Sun, The Moon and The Star—and the only man that is qualified to wear that Flag is a master!” 

And Master Fard Muhammad says to us, the Lost Sheep: “And you have to master the law that governs the universe in order to be qualified to wear The Flag of The Universe.  But I am going to give you that because I am a Master, and I am going to make you a master; but before I make you a master, I have to make one man among you a master.  Because, I am half-Original; I have a White-looking face, though my father is a jet-black man, but I’m coming to put a Black head on a Black body. 

I am not to be the head of that body, I am to be The Head of the head of that body; I am not to be the head of that body, therefore I searched among the Lost-Founds to find Me one man worthy.”  And Master Fard Muhammad found a little Georgia-born Black man that only went to the third grade of school, and He taught him three and one-half years, and went away. 

To prove that He, Master Fard Muhammad, is God, The Supreme Being: He leaves a man who didn’t go to school, and that man confounds the scholars with what His Teacher taught him!  To prove that He is God, Master Fard Muhammad tells little Georgia-born Elijah what was on Mars, what is on The Moon, and the nature of The Moon, and how The Moon got to be The Moon.  And the Honorable Elijah Muhammad reveals it, and the White man goes up and bears witness: “Elijah is right!”   Here is a little Georgia-born man telling you what was coming down the pike. We couldn’t even see the pike, much less what was coming!  And every word that Elijah spoke is right on it.  Who taught him but a Master?

Those who say that Master Fard Muhammad is not God:  Then who are you worshipping?  You say, “I worship the true God, Allah.”  Well then, what has your God taught you that is superior to what The Man, Master Fard Muhammad, taught Elijah? How come your scholars can’t handle the followers of Elijah?  How come the world couldn’t deal with that man Elijah? 

How come the White man, who is a vicious beast, brother…  God raised up a little lamb in the midst of a beast, and the beast couldn’t eat Elijah.  Who was The God shutting that man’s mouth, and opening the mouth of Elijah?  We don’t carry no guns.  We were taught by Master Fard Muhammad through The Messenger: “Don’t even carry so much as a penknife.”  And they have attacked us, and we’ve taken their weapons and killed them with their own weapons! 

What God has been with us?  And to prove that God is still with us: The Honorable Elijah Muhammad has left, but he left his word with us.  Now we take the same word, and go right back to what the White man tore down, with hypocrites among us, and we are building it back up, defying the world.  God is present…  And you’re going to see it more and more when the devil starts attacking in the future. You will see that they won’t be able to do anything with Elijah Muhammad, nor his followers.  No, there’s a God!  He is present, and He has power.

Go study into The Attributes and Characteristics of God as found in the Holy Qur’an and the Bible; they will show you that these are not attributes of spirits, these The Attributes and Characteristics of The Divine Human Being. 

God is Ever-Living, that is true!  The Nation of Islam: There is no end to us, we will always be here.  See how cells in the body die all the time, but the body continues?  Every time you get in the bathtub, you see that ring around the tub.  Those are dead cells.  You are alive, but the cells have died; but, they gave birth to other cells. You’re straight!  Well, that is the way it is with God: The body remains, and it keeps on producing one who will be the head of that nation; and that head is always the best knower.

How can you  tell that Master Fard Muhammad is The Best Knower? He is revealing that which no man ever considered before. And when they try to fight it, the more they fight it, the more they say: “Man, He’s right.”

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

We are in a very, very serious hour. The sun is setting on this world, and as we approach the darkness of the hour, we have to be much more prayerful and much more mindful of what we think, what we say, and what we do. This is the greatest nation in the history of the present world, and our presence in this nation was fulfillment of Divine Prophecy. As it is written in the scriptures of the Bible, “I did not try you with silver and gold. But I tried you in the furnace of affliction.” We have been thoroughly tried in the 450 years of our sojourn in America and in all of our trials, in all of our pain, in all of our setbacks as a people, we have never turned on Allah (God). Even though some of us have wondered why are we suffering as we are suffering, what is it Allah (God), what have we done?

There is a scripture in the Book of John where there was a man born blind and Jesus and His disciples saw the man that was born blind and the disciples asked him, “Who did sin that this man is born blind? Did his mother sin? Did his father sin?” And Jesus said, “Neither his mother nor his father. But he is born blind that the works of God might be made manifest in him.”

Who did sin that we, as Black people, are in the condition that we are in–having eyes but not being able to see; having ears but having not really heard the word of God that would change the reality of our lives; having tongues but not being able to speak? Who did sin that the oppression on us has been harder than on any people in the annals of history?

There is something about the way Allah (God) handles what He loves. The scripture says that those whom the Lord loveth He chastens much. What is it that Allah (God) wanted from us that He would put us in the hands of somebody that hated us as the racist, White supremacists of this nation have hated and still hate us? How, God, could you tell me that you love me and then allow my fathers to be brought out of Africa and come into something like this? Allah (God) would say, “Yes, I know it was rough on you, son; it was rough on you, daughter. But I created the human being to struggle and to face difficulties. It is only when you struggle, it is only when you face the difficulties of your life that it brings out of you what I, the Creator, put in you. I never meant for you to have an easy time, because you can’t come into Me or come unto Me except you come through trial and tribulation. You can’t come into Me to be one with Me, and I with you, except that you be a purified thing. And the means of purification is not easy.

The Bible talks about gold and silver and their process of purification. When you are a purifying agent, you have to put that which is being purified into the fire and you’ve got to hold it there. You can’t hold it too long and you can’t hold it too short. You’ve got to watch it just right. When the dross is burnt off and it’s white hot but not burnt out totally, then you can fashion it and shape it into what you want it to be. Allah (God) wants to fashion a people to rule forever. This is what Jesus was talking about when he said if you follow him you will have eternal life. It does not mean that any human being will live forever. But, he will put you in a position where you and your people and your nation and your world will never die. We have been living in a world seeing nations rise and fall, seeing empires come up and go down. But, when Allah (God) makes a people after His own likeness, you will be like the sun: You will have permanence and you will be a light for the nations of the earth.

The Qur’an says that the Ka’bah (in Mecca) is a sign. The black stone there is a sign. And just as the Ka’bah had to be rebuilt–it’s an ancient, ancient house, the oldest house of worship known–so are you, the oldest people on this planet, like a house broken down that has to be rebuilt. You are a house full of idols, from which you must be purified. Taking stones and idols out of the Ka’bah is not more important than taking us away from polytheistic beliefs. Taking idols out of the holy house in Mecca is not more important than cleansing the human being from setting up rivals or partners with Allah (God) that are His own creation. It is only when we, as a people, are purified of all those things that are less than Allah (God) that we bow down and give worship so that we are washed and cleansed. The Bible teaches that you can’t put new wine in an old wineskin, lest the wine skin break and the new wine spill. That means we, as human beings, have to be renewed, purified, before that new wisdom can come in. And if that new wisdom is from Allah (God) Himself, and we take it in, then He will be in us and we will be the Glory of Allah (God).

We are not that right now. We are caricatures of what Allah (God) intended when He created the human being. We have not seen what the human being is capable of accomplishing, if we were cleansed of polytheism; if we were cleansed of the worship of things, rather than the pure worship of the one God. That is why we have been in this period of great suffering.

Sisters, you have been in a period of great suffering. You are to us like Hagar was to Abraham— You are running in the wilderness, looking for help because your man is not a help for you. That’s a negative condition. But, when we go to Mecca, we know Sarah was Abraham’s wife and we honor and respect Sarah, but we don’t follow the path of Sarah. When we go to Mecca and run between those hills, we are following the path of Hagar. Why Hagar?

Every woman wants a man that will be as Allah (God) intended a man to be. And what did Allah (God) intend a man to be in relationship to the woman? He said in the Qur’an that men are the maintainers of the woman. That’s a big job. That does not mean just giving her food, clothing or shelter. It means maintaining her in all aspects of her being, from the crown of her head to the soles of her feet. You can’t maintain a woman with physical strength. You can maintain a woman with spiritual strength and with wisdom. She is not created by Allah (God) to follow you with just physical strength. She can be attracted to you that way, but she will never stay with you. She will always be looking somewhere else because her mind is not being fed as it would be by a man who is a man of God. She is created from Allah (God), and the only man that she can be loyal to, and faithful to, and honorable with is a man who is truly a man of Allah (God).

Allah (God) created the human being to struggle. And most of us don’t like struggle. We like ease. But the Holy Qur’an says, after difficulty comes ease or with difficulty comes ease. You’re not going to get ease without difficulty. When the difficulties come in your life, know that ease is coming. You can’t run from the difficulty with a bottle in your hand, or with a reefer in your hand, or with the pipe in your hand, or with a woman by the hand thinking that this is going to console you and comfort you in your hour of difficulty. That’s running; that’s trying to escape. When you’re in difficulty, you must say, “Yes, Allah, I’m going to face it. Whatever it is, I know You are my Patron, you are my Friend, and You will see me through this. But I’ve got to face it. I can’t run from it.” When we face the difficulty with the help of Allah (God), we find ourselves overcoming it. And every time you overcome it with the help of Allah (God), you’ve wiped out another idol. You won’t worship this or that idol any more.

But, you know something? The Qur’an says, “I delivered you from every distress and lo you set up other God’s beside Me. Surely man is ungrateful.” And do you know that the first line of gratitude to show your love for Allah (God) is to show your gratitude to your mother? Whether you think your mother is all that you wanted her to be or not, you are not your mother’s judge. Allah (God) did not bring you into the world to be a judge of your mother. She may be wrong, but she’s your mother. She may not have been able to give you all the things that you needed or wanted, but she’s your mother. She bore us with fainting and pain and she died in order to give us life because the pain of birth is equal to the pain of death.

If you are not grateful for your mother, then there is nobody that you will ever be grateful to or for, and you certainly will not be pleasing in the eyes of Allah (God). You can’t be grateful to Allah (God) whom you have never seen, and be ungrateful for the blessings that He sends to you through those whom you see every day.

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

I am honored to have a few moments to address you on what they call “Father’s Day.” However, The Enemy always has a way of commercializing on our natural love for those who have served us, and served us well.

On “Mother’s Day,” billions of dollars is spent to fatten the pockets of merchants who benefit from our love for our mothers. And last “Father’s Day,” billions of dollars went out of the pockets of poor people who loved their fathers and loved their mothers, and wanted to show in some small way how much we appreciate what our mothers and our fathers have done for us.

But the Bible, in the Book of Exodus (20:12), the scripture teaches us to “honor your mother and father, that your days may be long in the land which the Lord, your God, gives you.”

God didn’t say honor your mother and father “one day out of the year”; but that is an every day work for us to honor our mothers, honor our fathers, and make them to know we love them and appreciate them.

Prepare yourself for the role of ‘father’

My subject is “The Need For, and The Search For, ‘Father’.” Every human being needs a “father”; otherwise, God would not have ordained such. Every human being needs a father, but most humans who are fathers do not generally know how to be that.

We think that the sperm that is emitted which produces life makes us a “father,” but the sperm that produces physical life is what starts a man on The Journey to prove what he has learned up to that point, that prepares him to be a “father.”

The Bible teaches in Proverbs 22:6: “Train up a child in the way it should go: and when it is old, it will not depart from it.” But the question is: What is “the way” that the child “should go”?

Since the word should is the conditional form of the verbs “to go” or “should go,” then what are the conditions that must be present in order for a child to go in the way that it should go? And how can it go that way if mother doesn’t know the way? How can it go that way if father is not there to prepare the way?

So when you look at the word “father” in the dictionary, “to father” something means “to create; to found, to originate, and to acknowledge responsibility.” We call old and venerable men “father,” because the word venerable means “one that is worthy of respect or reverence by reason of character, dignity, position or age.”

Father’s Day… There are too few of us around these days who know the real role of a “father.” Well, how can you learn what your role as a father is? Where will you find a book, or something to teach us how to be what all of us eventually become as men?

If we live, we are born to procreate, so we become what should be a “father”; but because we have never known a “father,” or we don’t have a guide to how to be a father, we rarely become that.

So I thought I would reference the Bible, the Book of Genesis, and see how to be a father: How to be a producer, how to be a creator, a founder, an originator; how to acknowledge the responsibility that God has put on the shoulder of a man.

Since Genesis is “the birth” or “the beginning” of things, then surely we should find some record in here on how to be a father.

Well, who is our example for a “father”? If God made man in His own image and after His own likeness, then The Example of a “father” is God. In Genesis, Chapter 1, it teaches that God “created the heavens and the earth, and the earth was without form and void.

And darkness was upon the face of the deep,” and God went about separating the firmament from the waters, put light in the heavens … . He was busy doing things in preparation for His creatures! God made a way for each creature to fulfill that which nature requires of it.

Now you think about that: There is no “bread line” for worms; there is no “welfare” for sparrows. Even buzzards that live from the dead flesh always have something to eat. Somebody prepared for a creature before the creature came into existence, in order that the creature might sustain the life that The Creator gave it.

The Bible teaches that after “six (6) days” of work—while The Holy Qur’an says it a little different, in “six (6) periods”—here comes Adam. But the thing that fascinates me is that after “the sixth day,” God saw everything that He had made and said (pay attention to His words): “It was good; it was very good,” so He didn’t make a “bad” man; He didn’t make a “bad” woman!

But God, for His Handiwork, wanted a man that is powerful. In Genesis, Chapter 2, He said: “And every plant of the field before it was in the earth, and every herb of the field before it grew: for the Lord God had not caused it to rain upon the earth, and there was not a man to till the ground.”

See, no man should be without work, because God didn’t create us to sit around and do nothing! God created the first man to go to work and “till the ground.” When you “till” something, you prepare the land for raising crops by plowing and fertilizing.

So God had given man a job; and the fruit of the job would be what he produced from his labor. God was teaching man how to be a father, because no father is better than Our Father which art in heaven.

It is interesting to me that if God made man and said “it was good, and very good,” how did we get into this condition?

God did not make a mistake. He made a man, and the one thing He did for the human that He never did for any creature is that all of the creatures have to obey the law under which it is created. They can’t deviate.

But the human being, male and female: He gives us what is called “free will.” You and I can choose.

A Father’s test for His son

The God, after He made Adam, put him in a garden. That is really nice; fathers should always prepare a place for their children… . As men: You don’t have babies and not the wherewithal to prepare a place for them to grow, and an environment in which they can grow in accord with their nature.

God put Adam in a Garden, and He said to him: “Look at all these trees here. You can eat the fruit of all these trees, but I have one here in the middle of this garden, ‘The Tree of The Knowledge of Good and Evil’—and I don’t want you to eat from that tree.”

Now, I have never heard God talk directly, but Adam had a direct communication with God. Then the Book teaches God commanded Adam; so the first act of God after putting the boy in the garden was to give him a command.

But He also gave Adam free will: No man can come to The Father except he is tested or tried, so by every right, God had a right to test Adam. He gave him everything, so God said, “Now I want to see if you appreciate Me.”

Every father that makes a way for his child should be appreciated for the effort; so God wanted to know: “Adam, I did all of this for you as a Father would do for a son.” He didn’t call him a “son,” but what else was he? When you make a son and he doesn’t look like your image or your likeness, you are going on The Maury Povich Show… .

Therefore, if this one was made in the image and the likeness of The Creator, then in Him were the same qualities that are in The Creator. It’s very special.

God wanted to test him. It doesn’t say “I made the serpent,” but if a serpent was there, God had something to do with that. So, “I am going to see now if My servant, My son, will be obedient to My simple command, to show Me his gratitude:

Son eat of all of these things, but this tree is The Knowledge of Good and Evil, and you shouldn’t eat of it. For in the day that you eat thereof, you will surely die.” It is very interesting that the serpent then comes.

And snakes—human snakes, or humans that have the characteristic of a snake—are always looking for a way to interpret, or reinterpret, a command of God that will make you or me rebel.

Now what in the world is wrong with Adam, that when God gave him all these herbs to eat, all these trees with fruit to eat, there now is this tree in the middle of the garden which he thought was good for food? As though God didn’t give him food!

See, you and I surrender to Satan because he is always offering you something that God has not yet given you; or that God has already given you, but you have “pasted over” what God has given you.

So Adam, a Father to be, was being prepared to be a Father as God was to him, and all of a sudden he finds a reason to disobey. When Adam rebelled he did two things that were the original sin: He disobeyed, and he set up another god beside God.

‘Further what your father’: Knowledge to pass on for future success

To all the men who may be reading this: You can’t be a “father” without God. You don’t know how to be a father or a husband without God. And as men, it has been our failure to submit to God that has weakened us in our ability to be a father or a husband.

When you rebel against God, you weaken your own power to provide a place for your wife, to provide a wholesome environment for your children. Don’t come to church and “talk God,” go back home and live God! The more we live God, the more ability we will have to be a father.

Look at the words “father” and “farther”: When you project the seed, or the sperm, you have furthered your existence into the future. So a “father” has to be able to further what he fathers! You cannot further what you father by saying “I love you.” You can further what you father by doing what God did for Adam.

The Bible teaches that God breathed into Adam “the breath of life,” and he became “a living soul.” The Qur’an says it differently: When God made Adam, He taught him “all the names.”

When you teach your servant the names of things, you teach your servant the characteristics and the nature of things so that what you teach your servant will allow your servant to rule.

God could not give Adam supremacy over the foul of the air, the fish of the sea and every creeping thing that crawled unless He gave Adam knowledge of those things, and knowledge of himself.

So you cannot “further your children” and don’t know how to breathe into them The Word of Life from God. When you know God, know His Word—and live your life according to His Word—then you can further your children by The Knowledge that you give them.

But as parents, you won’t be able to stop your children from being tested; from being tried in life. They must develop The Value System of Christ in their own lives so that they can make a choice now whether “I am going to live for him”—or die in rebellion against him.

Obedience to God is the beginning of The Eternal Kingdom

Let us study Cain and Abel: Cain was a tiller of the ground, and Abel took care of the sheep. The Book teaches that there was “no man to till the ground,” so certainly if the first-born was a tiller of the ground, surely that is an honorable profession.

We all have to eat. If you live on a farm, you know farming is “no joke.” So Cain worked the field, breaking a sweat; and when he got the first fruit of the ground, he presented it to The Lord. And Abel, who was tending the sheep, took the firstling of sheep and presented it to God. God accepted Abel’s work and “rejected” Cain’s.

Now here is something I just want to say to the children: Sometimes you may think mom and dad are “rejecting” you if they show displeasure with some aspect of your work.

They are not rejecting you; but when you see mom or dad make over one of the children for something that they did to please them—because we are human; we want our children to do things that please us… . Well, doesn’t God want us to do things which please Him?

But suppose you do something that you see is good and doesn’t seem to get the favor as something that your brother or sister has done: How are you going to handle it?

In the case of Cain, he misjudged the whole thing. God is so far-seeing; that this is in The Genesis—but He knew way down “The Wheel of Time” that “a sheep” would be “lost.” And “the first born of God” is called “The Lamb of God”;

So God took a lamb from Abel not because Abel’s offering was better than Cain’s, but because in the end, when The Rebellious Day is over, a Lamb of God would be born Who would obey God and become The Eternal Father of a Nation that would obey God.

“For unto us a child is born and unto us a son is given and a government shall be upon his shoulder and he shall be called wonderful counselor, the mighty God, the prince of peace, the everlasting Father and of the increase of his government of peace there will be no end.”

A “failed father” in the beginning; a “successful father” in the end: That is the beginning of an Eternal Kingdom of God.

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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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