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

On this, the seventh anniversary of the Million Man March and the month of the 40th anniversary of the Cuban Missile crisis, we are approaching a tremendous crisis that will be initiated by the present administration.

But it will bring to the world a war that the prophets dreaded, a war that ultimately would end all wars—the war that is called Armageddon. I want to talk to you tonight in a very sober, reasoned way and appeal to your intelligence.

No one in his or her right mind wants to be opposite the President of the United States of America. He’s the most powerful, it appears, human being on our planet and he is the head of the house (country).

The Qur’an and the Bible teach us to respect those in authority over us whether they respect us or not, because the idea of Allah (God) is always to have an ordered society. You cannot have an ordered home, an ordered school, an ordered church or an ordered community if there is no respect for law and respect for authority.

The only time we ought to rebel against authority, even if it is our own mother, is if our mother asks us to associate a partner with Allah (God) and to worship that which is unworthy of worship.

Then we are to disobey mother, but still with respect. If we can disobey our own mother, who brought us into the world, then we can disobey authority when authority asks us to do that which is against the principle of our faith.

The scripture says, “Blessed are the peacemakers for they shall be called the children of God.” If the peacemakers are blessed, then [cursed] are the warmongers for they shall be called what they are, the children of Satan.

The scripture says that the serpent would deceive the whole world. He starts off in the Genesis of the Bible as a serpent and he’s also called a serpent in the Qur’an, but in the Revelation he’s a dragon. He’s grown so huge in power.

Enemy of democracy?

(The late President Richard M.) Nixon once said that the real enemy of democracy is not communism, it is fundamentalist Islam. He said that the Third World War has already begun and we are losing it. What do you mean, Nixon? Nixon was the type of president who saw the Constitution as a stumbling block and he had a secret government that was operating. (President Lyndon B.)

Johnson, his predecessor, knew how to manipulate Congress. The Tonkin Gulf Resolution was passed, but it was based on a lie and Congress signed that resolution and gave the president the power that he was looking for to send 500,000 American soldiers into combat in Vietnam.

What Americans do not know is that the foreign policy of America has always dealt very wickedly when it came to oil. In Iran, Mohammed Mosadeq nationalized the oil industry. The CIA overthrew him and put the Shah of Iran in power, and America used the Shah as their policeman in that area of the world.

At that time Imam Khomeini was in Iraq, then Khomeini went to France, and from France he inspired the revolution. When the Shah was overthrown and Khomeini came home, he had all of that weaponry that America had put there with the Shah and he began to talk as an Islamic zealot that there is no king in Islam. And that’s right; Allah (God) is the King.

Imam Khomeini said he was going to move down that Persian Gulf and if he had moved and taken over the Gulf and Saudi Arabia, Iran would have controlled all the energy power of the Western world. America could not abide that. Nearly 20 years ago (1983), the (Iraq/Iran) war was already on and it was going badly for Iraq. So guess who was sent as special envoy (to Iraq) from President Reagan?

It was Mr. (Donald) Rumsfeld, who is now the Secretary of Defense. What did he go to Baghdad for? Rumsfeld offered Baghdad help in the war. Why? Because America did not want Iran to succeed with the Iranian revolution. How did you aid him, America?

It came out in a magazine that America gave Iraq weapons intelligence and fed Iraq some of the germs that developed into his program because at that time America wanted Iraq to stop Iran so that the Gulf and Saudi would be free to keep giving oil to the West. America made Saddam powerful and strong.

After the war, Iran was weakened and so was Iraq, but Iraq still had more power than any Arab nation and was considered a potential threat to Israel. The cornerstone of America’s foreign policy is Israel. Israel and the United States are locked together.

I don’t have time to go into all the details of that marriage, but suffice it to say that since 9-11, President Bush’s war on terrorism has served the purpose of Israeli Prime Minister (Ariel) Sharon.

Now Sharon can say that the Palestinians—who are suffering tremendous suffering in their own land—are not freedom fighters, they’re now terrorists. Sharon has conveniently used Bush’s war on terror that is legitimate from 9-11 as a cover to destroy the Palestinian leadership and the Palestinian Authority.

Sharon does not want to live side by side in two states with the Palestinians. So, the Bible teaches you that when you see Jerusalem surrounded by armies, that’s a sign of the end. The end of what? The end of this system of things.

Notice how the country was the day before the attack on America, on Sept. 10. The country was divided. People were claiming that the presidency was stolen.  Many Democrats were upset because Al Gore had won the popular vote. Then September 11th took place. Right after that, the country was united.

In less than a week, they had the picture of 19 Arabs in the paper. I asked the question: How did you know so much the day after but didn’t know anything the day before? Cynthia McKinney raised this question.

They said she was unpatriotic and marshaled their forces against her. But now we learn there were 32 or more intelligence tidbits sent to the intelligence gathering agencies of the government warning of something like this.

Now it was convenient to blame Arabs. It could have been. I really don’t know, but I looked at who the beneficiaries were. And the beneficiaries were what (President Dwight) Eisenhower warned the country against—the military industrial complex. Right after 9-11, there was a rush to give the President the power to make war.

Weapons of mass destruction?

Here’s a man (Saddam Hussein) that they say has weapons of mass destruction and that the U.S. has to go there and disarm him. But America and England have been bombing Iraq for the last 12 years and they say that in 12 years Iraq couldn’t knock down one craft.

If this country is a threat to America and has been bombed for 12 years and has not been able to knock down one American or one British plane, how then are they a threat to their neighbors?

Brothers and sisters, I’m telling you that within the next three months I believe we’ll be at war. I feel sorry for the soldiers, the sailors, the Marines, Black men, Black women, Brown men, Brown women, White men, White women who love this nation and they are made to believe that they are under a threat.

Senator (Robert) Byrd asked the question, how much money is it going to cost? Where is the money coming from? When Gore and Bush were debating during the presidential campaign, they were talking about several trillion or more dollars that was a surplus.

Now all of that is gone. The country is nearly $6 trillion in debt. And I have a document from the Federal Reserve that says no way America can climb out of debt. There is no way, no way, no way!

The country is spiraling downward and the Bush administration is trying to make it appear that everything is all right. They can print money and it costs hardly anything to print. They don’t have enough money in circulation that if we got it all back, America still couldn’t pay her debt. And it’s not backed by anything substantive. So you’re looking at hard times coming real hard times.

Forty years ago, the American generals wanted a war with Cuba so bad they could taste it. And they came up with a plan to shoot down a plane and get a boatload of Cubans and blow it up and blame it on Fidel Castro to anger the American people.

Forty years later, they know that if they had attacked Cuba, that Cuba had nuclear weapons already there facing American cities. If President Kennedy had listened to his generals, many American cities would have been nuked.

Now look at the reverse, 40 years later. The generals are telling the president, don’t do this. And you have people in the Bush administration that never saw war now committing your children to war. I think we have a problem and it is serious.

What is the consequence of this war? I told President Bush in a letter that he was going to run into something that he and his planners had not figured on. I read something in the Qur’an the other day that all planning is Allah’s (God’s).

So they plan and they think it is they who are planning, but it is Allah (God) who is planning it all. The sad thing is that our planners are blinded in the arrogance of their power. When you are arrogant, you don’t see little things. You stumble and fall.

President Bush has a heavy pro-Israeli lobby around him. These people are more loyal to Israel than they are to the United States of America. Iraq cannot threaten America, but Iraq will always be a potential threat for Israel.

Iraq is to the Arab world what Germany is to Europe. What is Germany to Europe? They are the most disciplined; they are the most scientific and technologically prepared of all the Europeans.

So it is with Iraq. Iraq is the most disciplined, scientific and technologically developed country of the Arab world. Look at what they want in their new UN resolution. They want the scientists of Iraq to come out so that they can be questioned.

Lies! They want to take those scientists and use their science and rob the Arab world of any scientists that could develop any weapon to bring detente to that region. Israel already has many weapons of mass destruction and she is not afraid to use them.

No Arab nation can be allowed to have weapons of mass destruction to challenge Israel. That’s the whole idea: Make an example of Saddam. They are going to go into Iraq and look at what they are saying.

Senator Byrd asked, what are you going to do when you get there? There was no answer at that time but now the answer is coming out. They are going to occupy Iraq like they occupied Japan. They are going to control all of the oil that’s coming out of Iraq—112 billion barrels.

The second largest oil reserve in the world will be in America’s hands. And right now they are bargaining with China, with France and with Russia.” You go along with us and when we take the oil, we’ll give you so much,” and you so much. But I warn you China; I warn you in the Name of Allah (God).

I warn you France and Russia, in the Name of Allah (God). The Qur’an says the devil promises only to deceive. When he has it (oil), I guarantee you that he will not give it to you, Russia because he fears you will rise again.

The consequence of war is that all the nations are going to be afraid of the United States of America who is justifying a pre-emptive strike. She’s the aggressor but she’s making herself look like she’s being attacked.

What are the consequences? No nation will feel safe; therefore, as it is written in the Bible, “Proclaim ye this among the Gentiles; Prepare war, wake up the mighty men, let all the men of war draw near; let them come up:

“Beat your plowshares (means of cultivation of earth and people) into swords (instruments of war), and your pruning hooks into spears: Let the weak say, I am strong.

“Let the heathen be wakened, and come up to the valley of Jehoshaphat; for there will I sit to judge all the heathen round about.”

The nations now have to seek weapons because they don’t know where America is coming next. It’s Iraq today, Iran tomorrow, Libya the day after. But America really wants a regime change in China; they want one in North Korea; they want one in Russia, if Russia doesn’t go along.

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

As-Salaam Alaikum!  I am so happy to be here, and to thank Allah for each and every one of you, and for the great senseis who have come in support of our Grandmaster and sensei in this time of our sadness. But joy comes in the morning.

And even though we are a little sad, yet we are so happy to be followers of the Honorable Elijah Muhammad and believers in his Great Saviour and ours, Master Fard Muhammad.

Mother Khadijah Farrakhan (‘The Wind Beneath My Wings’)

Yes, I brought her with me. I can never come here without Khadijah. So, I’m here now—but I am not without Khadijah. So, you all go and do what you do, and I’m with you if you’re giving a tribute to the woman whom God gave me that is the best gift I could have other than His Presence, and the presence of the truth and the mission that He gave to the Honorable Elijah Muhammad.

So thank you so much for your tribute to her, because really, that sets the stage so completely perfect for me. Thank you very much. Thank you, sisters.

Forsake vanity, self-conceit in order to become a great student

Wow. With tears in my eyes in remembrance of The Queen of my life, I know she would be overjoyed to have witnessed what I witnessed today, this afternoon. I want to thank all of the senseis.

And I pray that God, Allah, will give you long life, that you may continue to teach young people and old people to take care of their bodies which is the real house of God. Take care of your diet, which demonstrates your love for the house that God wants to live in with you.

God wants to live in us!! You didn’t hear me, so I’ll say it again!Allah (God) wants to live in what He created, but you have to understand Who you are and Who you want to be like and belong to!

I am so overwhelmed looking at my young baby brothers. Now, when an old man sees a baby doing the things that these babies did, I know our Nation is safe. To my right and my left, my son and my son—not my physical son, but a spiritual son.

My physical and spiritual son[s], I thank Allah for the both of you, and for my other son, Grandmaster Abdul Azziz Muhammad. Come over here, sit with daddy. (Smile)

When the Honorable Elijah Muhammad said to me, “Brother, you may sit in my seat as the father of the house in my absence,” just think about that. “You are not the father”: I am not “the” father, but I can sit as the father. What makes me sit as the father? Because I have become his begotten son.

I rejoice in you today. I am inspired by you today. … Because what my grandmaster brother [Oso Tayari Casel] said. Oh man! Where mi brudduh from Jamaica [Captain Robert Hibbert], man? Come, man, come! I love you, man.  All the grandmasters … .  Listen!

Where would we be without these great men and women who taught us, who are teaching us? Oh, my dear brother who gets beat up all the time [Shodan DeMonet Bernstein], Sit right down here, brother! I am honored to have you as my son!

What a young man! And he has been doing this since he was almost a little boy. He has been the one that they beat up every year! But he is a warrior, man! I was so impressed with him one year, I wrote a check to him, to say, “Brother, you are such a wonderful helper to the masters, as you are becoming a master.”

“Why, somebody asked me, was it you, Farrakhan?” She was dying. My son is my witness that I really didn’t know at first what to say to her; because she was disappointed in the choice of me.

In the middle of our talk I was talking to her as a brother who honored her and loved her, and love her still, for the sacrifice that she made in her life to give me a teacher in her husband, the great Yusef Shah.

Malcolm was my teacher, but Yusef Shah was my maker. You can’t be a great minister unless you become a great follower. And if you are not a strong follower of a great teacher, you will never achieve the greatness because your vanity will rob you of the power that you need to equal the masters that teach you.

As I looked at you and I thought of my wife, when I came here today, I told you “I brought Khadijah with me.” You may say, “Man, this is a spooky dude!” Yeah, well you need to get “spooky” like me, because you are not listening to the Farrakhan that you knew. You’re becoming acquainted with The One that I am becoming, and really, have become.

I want you to pay attention! Because vanity, self-conceit, putting your desires over the desire of your teacher, will cripple you and cause you to cripple those under you. You come under a teacher to learn from a teacher, that one day you may take the place of that teacher and learn to be a greater teacher like the master said.

“What master?” I’m talking about Jesus. “What about Muhammad?” That’s Jesus. Jesus and Muhammad is one and the same. You may not understand it yet because you see Muhammad as a Muslim. What do you see Jesus as?

Not one time in the Bible did you ever hear him say, “I am a Christian.” He never said, “I am a Baptist,” though he was baptized. He never said, “I am a Methodist,” though he said, “I Am The Way.” He said, “I Am The Way. I Am The Truth,” “I Am The Life.”

‘I Am The Life’: The Example of a Great Student Fusing with a Great Master

Jesus didn’t say, “I am A Life.” “I Am The Life.” What did he mean? I can tell you. Not because I know of myself, but because I have grown by His Grace into him. How could Jesus say, “When you see me you see the father”?

And he said to his disciples, “Have I been among you this long and you have not seen my Father?” You don’t know who you’ve been looking at! Look again. My Father is now in me, and I Am in Him. Me and My Father have become One.

Wait, now! Wait! “What about ME?” you say. I am a proof of what we all can be if we stop thinking about who we are and think about Who The Creator is. Because He is in us!

To know Jesus is to strive to become one with him. If he found the purpose for life when he could say, “I Am The Way, I Am The Truth, I Am The Life,” what “Life” are you, Jesus? He is The Life that God put in every single one of us! And none of us have reached The Goal. Your life, and its purpose, is to mature in that life to become One with God, your Creator.

See, when I told you I was “coming with my wife,” you didn’t understand what I was saying. “How were you coming with her? She’s dead.” The hell she is! You just don’t understand! Allah says in the Holy Qur’an, “Think not of those who die or are slain in the way of God as dead. They are alive but you perceive not (you understand not).”

What is it about “life” and “death” that we don’t understand? You don’t understand the words that I said when I came. “I came wrapped up in Khadijah.” “Well, how could that be? She is dead.” To you. But she lives with God.

And what this man [Oso Tayari Casel] said, I want you to pay attention to what he said; because he is not just a great sensei, we just have to go deeper into what he says.

“There are stars out there,” and he broke down the chemistry of a star, and the light that they give us. But they die…  “Stars die; you can blow them out,” they are like a candle. “But you can’t destroy the light. The light is traveling through space from stars long dead. But the light that they have, the light that they gave to us is still giving light.”

My teacher once said to me—you notice how I said that? “My teacher.” I have a great teacher. Elijah Muhammad, to me: I couldn’t have a better teacher. You say, “Well God is the greatest Teacher!” Yes, He is. But when a man of God—look at the preposition “of”: When a man of God has given himself to God and is obedient in every way in his life to God, then God takes him into Himself and fuses him.

It’s not “fission.” See, “fission” is just a cracking of an atom. “Fusion” is the marriage of the atom and the molecules into oneness. How could that brother come out here with a sword and have you put the sword to his neck, and put a man there, pushing another man that can push the sword up into his throat, and he push them back?

How could he do that?! … It’s Divine Science. It’s not nigga science! It’s not cracka science! It’s not White folk science! It’s not half-ass man science!

You say, “Damn, Farrakhan! You, you kind of carrying on today!” I have to say it right: Damn right. And I’m not cussing! See, “damn” is a word that is describing “right.” It’s an adjective in this case. “Damn right” is so right that it dams up your foolishness … .

Damned fool. Like a dam holds back the water, “God damn” holds back all this bull…! Foolishness is not wisdom. Foolishness is stopping you from being wise; it is stopping you from growing and becoming complete.

Well, boy! I’m getting fired up in here. But if you didn’t get fired up over what you saw, there’s something wrong with you. If it didn’t move you, you’re clogged up, and you really need something to remove the [cause] of the clog up and unclog your brain of what you call “knowledge.”

Learn the lessons in what is being demonstrated before you

This was a demonstration today, to me, for Mr. Trump, for Mr. Netanyahu. Wait! Wait! I know I wasn’t supposed to “go there,” but write it down! See, every one of these young men and women, you saw what they did not with a weapon.

But with the mastery of their brain, their hands. Taking a weapon … . Boy, don’t nobody come with a weapon with you, brother [Captain Hibbert]. That happens every year and they can’t get a shot off!

“What are you saying under that, Farrakhan?” The man that had the sword, I am sure he had to think, “Should I do this?” But the sensei said, “Come on,” and then he put a man behind that man to make sure that he would push, and keep that man standing still. Do you know what that was? That’s the power of a mind over the molecules and the atoms that appear to be losing; you know, moving about so.

But I knew this as a young Muslim when I was standing post for Elijah Muhammad, and they said somebody was going to take his life. The instruction was, “You all go out and stand post.” I never stood post shaking. Look at my record, brothers.

I was the first to stand up every time I was in the line, and my Teacher was threatened. One time the Supreme Captain said, “Minister, you’re just so small.” I said, “Yes sir.” He said, “You  don’t have no weight; you couldn’t stop a bullet.”

Well, the fat one over there, if he don’t know how to turn that fat into steel, he’s just butter for a bullet. But when that brother steeled himself! Look in his face; he wasn’t smiling, he was making his body firm. He was making his throat harder than the wood that that sword was in.

“You mean you can do that??” Yes, you can! Was it Sampson that whooped all these people with the jawbone of an ass? Poor Goliath. Such a punk! And he got punked! Didn’t it only take one smooth stone out of the brook by a man with the heart to stand up against a bully?

I want to say this with all respect to warriors who trust in their weapons. What these brothers showed us, what these sisters showed us, learn the lesson. The lesson is this: If you are on the outside of this and you said, “Damn! I don’t know.

I don’t wanna mess with them,” well, that’s wise. But not only is it wise, it’s supreme intelligence. Why is that? You see, when you think you’re powerful and you forget God Who is The Real Power, then you don’t have the power to move what He created to make it like what that brother did to hold that sword from piercing his skin.

Now, they say this on television, “When you see masters doing things, now, don’t go out there stupid”; they tell you right away, “No, no, no. Don’t try that.”

Try this: “Let me first make myself into what God can use.” Please listen! God is in everything that He created! And there is no thing out here that was a creation of somebody else but God, The Author of all life, The Author of all creation. Oof! I’m … I’m going to finish; I’m going to wrap it up, now! But be careful, now, [laughs]. I’m a Baptist preacher, you know?

An aggressor is a loser

I’m going to let you go, but you get the tape and study it, because they’re going to be talking about it. “That man ain’t no hater, he is a lover. He is a lover of God”—and he knows the incompleteness of man. See, you think because you’re a man, you’re complete. Wrong!

You think because you’re all grown up that you’re mature. You’re wrong! “Maturity” is not in a B.S. degree, or an M.S. degree, or in a Ph.D. degree. Yes, we got it, but put it on the wall and study it, because you can’t do almost anything with it. You’ve got a doctorate in sociology, and all the sickness in the society and you don’t know how to heal it?

You’re a Doctor of Economics and whatnot, and you don’t know what to do with garbage? We’ve got garbage on a barge going up and down the river because you don’t know what to do with garbage. Isn’t that something? But there’s no garbage in the economy of God’s Knowledge.

You die, and there’s a vulture there. You won’t last long out there; you won’t look the same, but the vulture will eat. And The Messenger told me that the buzzard has so much sense, that they’ll fly around. Are they just flying around? No, they’re looking as they’re flying. They’re listening as they’re flying. They are waiting for that which appears dead to really die.

Well, some of us are like that. You’re a damn fool if you work your life all the way to build wealth and then turn it over to a jackass. And they ask you, “What is your legacy?” and your children are jackasses. We ain’t got no damn “legacy”!

You’ve got bloodsuckers of the poor. You’ve got eaters of the dead. See, when you don’t know how to work for what you get, or are waiting for somebody to die to see what you can get, think about it, those sisters, those brothers, taught us this lesson: An aggressor is a loser.

I am saying this to the president: An aggressor is a loser. Because God is never with those who are aggressors, oppressors, tyrants, bullies, who love to make people afraid. During the demonstrations, there was a brother moving around, but the poor man lost the stick (knocked out of his hands).

Those brothers were mean out there! And if you are an aggressive fool, looking at what you saw, then the lesson is: Don’t be a bully. Find a better way to solve a problem! Yes, you’ve got an armada. Yes, you’ve got ships. Yes, you’ve got armies.

Yes, you’ve got ballistic missiles. Yes …  But you don’t have God. And if you don’t have God, you don’t have the forces of nature! And God is unleashing the forces of nature now! Don’t try Him. Don’t try Him, please. If you want to live, put the gun down, put the bomb down.

You can threaten Iran. Iran has a little something to fight back. But my Teacher told me that this war was going to start with conventional weapons and it will end with nuclear weapons. You heard it first from the Honorable Elijah Muhammad.

I say this as warning before the war gets hot. Stop, and think. Precious lives are on those ships, but God can maneuver the water in such a way, which you will see, and sink your ship. See, nothing can stand against the force of nature when it is unleashed.

Please  …  I am from God, whether you know it or not! Damn it, if you haven’t seen it yet, you are blind as hell! But I am telling you, I am from God! And what I say, you’re going to meet it again if you think you’re going to destroy people with your bombs, with your weapons! You will be destroyed!

So Khadijah, thank you for letting me say what I didn’t come here to say! But God asked me to say it while I am speaking. Because I told them [motions to Brother Mustapha and Brother Ishmael seated on either side of him], “You can let it go out on TV, I’m not going to say nothing.”

(Smile) I’m sorry. I wasn’t lying, but I didn’t intend to go as far as I did. But God is the Father of my words, and I am a warner to the nations.

I’m telling Saudi Arabia: Don’t let them lure you into the trap, promising you atomic weapons! They will never give them to you as long as Israel is by their side.

You say, “Well, Farrakhan, they’re going to … they’re going to put this in the media tomorrow!” Maybe you should, because there isn’t anyone telling them what they shouldn’t do! So God sent me to warn you all: The playing with God is over; the hypocrisy of saying what you believe and you’re a liar! Don’t play with Allah! Don’t play with God! Don’t play with the life that He gave you!

Live your life. Don’t let praise blind you—you ain’t made to handle it. [We applaud our teachers (“Great, sensei!”)], but the sensei is wise. I applaud you because I am proud of you.

But if you ever get so proud of yourself that you forget Who is The Giver of gifts, Who is The Protector of you in your exhibition and exploitation of your gift, then the gift will wrap you up as a present to Satan. And when you open your gift, Satan, you’ll see a damn fool. Because anybody that follows Satan is a damn fool.

All those who bow down in submission to The Lord of all creation, you have a chance to win!

I guess I have said it all. Khadijah told me: “You should go now and get some rest.” But I had a great time. And to all the senseis that came to help Brother Abdul Azziz, and demonstrate the greatness of your gift.

I pray that Allah (God) will give you long life, and strengthen you in your gift, and give you many students. And tell them, “Don’t be an aggressor,” and you have learned your lesson; “Don’t be arrogant,” and you have learned your lesson.

So, The Messenger tried me, that’s why he could sit me in his seat as the Father! And all of you know I have never tried to be what I am not! I am learning now to accept my own and be myself. You do the same.

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[Editor’s note: Leading up to the historic Million Family March held on October 16, 2000, in Washington, D.C., the following article was first published in Vol. 19, No. 37 (July 18, 2000) as part of a special series of articles on “Rebuilding The Family.”]

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

Allah (God) says in the Qur’an that each creature is created in need. Therefore, Allah (God) is the supplier of all needs. Allah (God) is independent of His creatures, but He created all of His creatures to depend on Him.

Allah (God) supplies the needs of all of His creatures through what He has created. Each creature has the duty of doing something for itself. This is the nature in which all living things are created.

Every human need is a human right. When we are born into this world we are complete yet incomplete, therefore, we have needs. All human beings have a need to be made secure or to feel safe. As we grow in life, our needs may change, but the need to be made secure will follow us from birth until death.

The baby is secured in its mother’s womb, but when it comes into its new environment it cries because it is insecure. The baby is secured by the love and warmth from the mother’s body; it is secured by the milk that flows from its mother’s breast;

It is also secured by the loving care of a mother who makes sure that the needs of the baby to be fed, to be changed, to be in a clean and safe environment are met. All of this must be provided by the mother, with the help of the father.

Love is a human need. Therefore, to be loved is a human right. To feel the warmth of a loving embrace is a human need. It is a human right to be encircled by the love of a mother, a father, a sister, or a brother who love each other. To have a sense of family is a human need.

Therefore, to have a family or to be a part of a family is a human right. We are born into the world knowing nothing, but, we are born into a universe filled with knowledge.

Allah (God) gives us a curious nature and has placed within us a hunger to learn what is in our environment and to master what is in our environment. To learn, or to grow in knowledge is a human need. Therefore, the attainment of knowledge is a human right.

Every mother and every father should strive to provide the tools of learning for the new life, for it begins to learn from the moment it leaves its mother’s womb. Each child is gifted from the Creator with a very special gift that is unique to itself, but, these gifts must be discovered; must be cultivated; must be exploited for the good of the individual, the family, and the nation.

America and the industrial nations are concerned about human rights violations in the under developed or newly developing nations of the earth. However, with the criteria that we have mentioned, all nations in some way or another are in violation of the human rights of the people, for all nations in some way interfere with the attainment of the needs of the human being.

The desire of children for ‘approval’and ‘validation’

Children desire validation from their parents. “How do I look, mommy?” “How did I do, daddy?” No matter what the child does, it desires to be approved by those who mean the most to it: (1) Mother (2) Father (3) Siblings (4) Friends and Playmates.

Children need encouragement when they falter that they may do better. The misuse of language and/or the harshness of language in rebuke can hurt the emotional and psychological development of the child. Remember, the need to be made secure is with us throughout our lives.

So, as we grow, what it takes to secure us mentally, spiritually, morally, economically, and politically is always at work, even in the home. The child wants to know that we are aware of its presence.

Even though consciously the child may not be aware, subconsciously, it wants to know that its rights even as a child are respected and protected in the family environment when dealing with parents, guardians and when disputes arise among the siblings.

The need for justice at all levels of development is that which helps to make the human being secure. Each child looks to the parents to settle their disputes with justice. When disputes arise in the family, it gives the mother and the father a chance to teach and instill family values, moral values and also to build good character in the children.

All of the aforementioned are needs. All of the aforementioned are rights. Some of us think that disciplining our children is abuse, but everything in creation has its affair regulated by law.

In the home there is a need for rules, regulations or laws. Rules and regulations are a human need, and to deny our children the discipline of rules is to deny them that which ultimately will make them secure. There must be rules in the home.

There must be rules that teach us how to relate to one another properly in the home. There must be rules of respect for parents, children, self and one another that are taught in the home because everywhere we go we will find existing rules and regulations.

Where there are no rules, there will be no order. Chaos will be the result. Where there is chaos, it will bring to an end to the activity or the life of the home, school, community, nation, and the world.

Having discipline in our homes is not abuse of our children. We learn to respect rules in our home so that when we go to school and meet with the children in the neighborhood, rules of social behavior if taught.

Accepted and practiced in the home mean that our children will be more apt to accept and obey the rules of society, then, jail or prison will not be an end for us. The respect of rules and regulations starting in the home could mean the end of prisons.

Children have a need for attention. “Look at me.” “Listen to me.” These are not words coming from the lips of the children, this is written in the nature of the child.

On disciplining our children

We must be careful in disciplining our children. There is a line, which if crossed in disciplining our children could be labeled as abuse. In a world that is prophesied to come to an end; where human beings are suffering loss and enduring great levels of stress, as parents, as teachers, as leaders, as preachers, as foremen.

And as authority figures, we must be careful not to take out our stress on those under our authority, thus violating their rights. More and more there are children killing their parents, killing their teachers; workers killing their foremen, or bosses; spouses killing each other because of abuse and violation of rights.

I believe this is why Jesus said that, “Nation will rise against nation and kingdom against kingdom … and the mother-in-law will be at variance with the daughter-in-law … and they of a man’s household will be his worst enemy.”

Corporal punishment is not abuse if it is done with moderation, with the thought in mind of correction and not the thought of afflicting pain, but, to bring about change in the behavior to make a better child and a better human being.

Punishment must always be in accord with the violation, and devoid of anger. The love that we have for our children is the reason why we punish them because our desire is to make the child better.

In today’s society the rights of parents are gradually being taken away and although this is supposed to be a Judeo-Christian society, the Bible’s teaching of how to rear the children is being ignored and uprooted. The Bible says, “He that spareth his rod hateth his son; but he that loveth him chasteneth him early.” 

(Proverbs 13:24) “Withhold not correction from the child: for if thou beatest him with the rod, he shall not die.” (Proverbs 23:13) It also teaches, “Train up a child in the way he should go: and when he is old, he will not depart from it.” (Proverbs 22:6) The Qur’an is the best companion of this scripture because it gives us guidance on how to train the child.

If we as parents coming into the knowledge of Allah (God) are instructed by Jesus in these words, “Verily, I say unto you, Except ye be converted, and become as little children, ye shall not enter into the Kingdom of God.” 

(Matthew 18:3) If we follow these instructions, they will give us a greater understanding of how our minds, and our children’s minds should be in listening to instructions that we may be trained in the Way of Allah (God).

While parents are too busy, children are neglected

These are areas that must be studied and approached with wisdom. Every child is not the same, but, every child hungers to be disciplined. The teachers that we remember most are those who were firm, yet, just. Where there is no discipline, there really is no love.

When we do not get sufficient attention as a child, we act in a manner to get attention and sometimes this results in anti-social conduct or behavior. When the need for attention and validation is not supplied in the home or in the school, and we find that we have a gift or talent, that sets us apart and gives us attention.

We have a tendency to focus on that talent and give all of our time to that talent, gift, or profession because it has given us the attention, acceptance and validation that we missed coming up as children.

As Black people growing up in a society where we feel rejected by the larger society, and, are mistreated by the larger society, we grow up with a mentality desiring attention and validation from the members of the larger society.

When we discover a gift or talent that sets us apart from the rest of our un-validated people that gives us attention from our former slave masters and their children, we give all of our time to that talent, gift or profession because it has given us the attention and acceptance that we have not experienced growing up Black in White America.

Sometimes when we marry and have our children, we choose our gift and our talent and its ability to create wealth over the needs of and our duty to our wives and children. Oft-times as we become “great” in our profession, getting the attention and validation for our gift, skill, or talent.

We may find that somewhere along the line we have lost our balance and neglected our duty to our wives, and our children. While we bask in the adoration of our fans, patients, students, clients, and congregation, we may find that we have lost something more precious than what we gained in the world, because, in our blindness.

We did not look at life and the needs of our children and our wives from their perspective, and, therefore, failed in our duty to them. This is why people whom we look up to, that have everything in life that we think we would want, are very unsuccessful in marriage, and very unsuccessful in parenting their children.

In going through life, we really cannot see until we can see from the perspective of others. When there is an argument and we try to see from the side of the person with whom we have a disagreement or variance, as you would want them to see from your side, more than likely seeing from the other person’s perspective can cause us to arrive at a balance and accomplish the reconciliation of our differences.

Our children will not voice their opinions or share their perspectives in a home that it is ruled by fear, and they will never say to the parents what they really feel.

If our homes are ruled by love, and governed by the principle of justice, then, we will encourage our children to speak to us so that we may know how they think and what they see and feel. We then have the task to either help them to see better, or in listening we may find ourselves at fault and we correct ourselves.

This is why the principle of atonement works so well in the home, if we allow our children to point out to us where they see or feel we have treated them unfairly or handled them improperly. As parents, we carry the pride of parenting and oft-times the arrogance of parenting disallows us to listen to the child’s perspective.

In this type of home, the old adage is, “A child should be seen and not heard.” Suppose those in authority over us as grown-ups feel that we, under their authority should be seen and not heard, and if we voiced our grievance and were punished by those in authority, we would then say that we are living under tyranny and some of us would plan or take part in a revolt.

This is the same spirit that will come into the hearts and minds of the children in the home by disrespecting their rights and by not allowing our children to share their feelings and thoughts with us as their parents.

This attitude of not listening will lead to a hostile attitude in the children toward their parents. A gulf then develops between the children and the parents that oft-times is never bridged.

If the children in the home do not find the attention, the love, the validation and the sense of family that they need, they will take to the streets and find what they have missed in the homes in what is called the gangs.

As a parent, teacher, preacher, politician or leader:  Those under our authority have rights that must not be ignored by those who have authority. 

Use of ‘parental authority’ to either develop or abuse our children

Children have rights. Parents have rights.  But, parents have authority. How authority is used is critical to the development of those under our authority.  Using our authority to trample on the rights of our children is a violation that there may not necessarily be a law on the book of society for which to punish us.

But the law of justice is written in the nature of creation, therefore, at some point, we will have to face the fact that we have not looked through the eyes of our children and have not listened to the cry of those under our authority.

We think that providing for them a home, food and some of the amenities of life is all that we have to do to expect complete submission from our children. When we understand that they too have rights and try to see from their perspective and be balanced in sufficing their needs, we will produce better human beings, better and stronger families, a stronger, more just, and peaceful society.

Remember, those in authority are the custodians of our needs and the guardians of our rights.

Thank you for reading these few words.

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The Holy Qur’an, Surah 103, Al-Asr (“The Time”) states: “… Surely man is in loss, except those who believe and do good, and exhort one another to Truth, and exhort one another to patience.” Allah (God) has been hitting America, and the world, with calamities.

As you have noticed, these calamities have been increasing more and more since 2005. And now that we are in “2013,” we are at The Hour of The Doom of America and this world.

Believe me, I am not “joyous” in telling you what I am telling you. I know that I have put my life in danger—and maybe, the lives of those who are with me!

But to The Believers, who are “doing good” based on your belief, and “enjoining one another with Truth and enjoining one another to patience,” remember the words of Jesus as taught in the Book of John, Chapter 15, verses 18-19: “They will hate you because they first hated me … .”

Some of you will be cast into prison. Some of you will be beaten. And some will be put to death (refer to the Book of Matthew, Chapter 10, verses 15-22); the scripture also teaches in the Book of John, Chapter 16, verses 1-3 that “they will kill The Righteous, thinking that they’re doing service to God.”

Oh America: Would that you had listened. The window of opportunity for you is all but “closed”—not fully; but, when it closes it will be like the door of “The Ark” that Noah built in a desert on dry land. Noah preached to the people for 150 years, and they laughed at him, they mocked him, they called him “a madman”… .

See, you scribes, you Pharisees, you Sadducees of today—look at yourselves: You make mockery of my father, my teacher, the Most Honorable Elijah Muhammad; and therefore you make mockery of me, his student! You like to “tease us,” and “make mockery” and “make mischief” with us! You say, “That Farrakhan: He needs to be quiet! He’s a negative force… .”

No, you are “the negative force”! I have shed no man’s blood! I have lied on no man! I tell you The Absolute Truth at the cost of my life to warn you that The Time of the end of your mischief-making and your blood-shedding has come, and that what you have done to others is now coming upon you!

The Honorable Elijah Muhammad said to us Justice is “The Weapon” that God would use in “The Day” or “Time” of Judgment. This is that time! And what is The Law of Justice?

As the Bible teaches in the Book of Galatians, Chapter 6, verses 7-8, “…as a man soweth, the same shall he also reap,” and in the Book of Obadiah, Chapter 1, verses 13-15, “…as thou hast done, so shall it be done unto you; thy reward shall return upon thine own head.”

And in the Book of Hosea, Chapter 8, verse 7, Jesus said: “You have sown the wind; now you will reap the whirlwind.” The “reaping” is not just according to “the amount” of what you sowed, because if you sow “one grain of corn,” you could get back a stalk—and on that stalk, seven ears!

And on each ear, a hundred grain… ‘ So multiply what is coming to The Mischief-Maker and The Blood-Shedder! You have not repented! You refuse to repent! And I am calling on you for the last time: Repent of the evil that you have done and maybe God will have mercy on your soul, and give you a further extension of His Grace.

How ‘The Law of Justice’ is working on behalf of God’s Chosen People 

Let us see how “The Law of Justice” is working in America: Have not you, America, destroyed the cities and the towns, and the people, of other nations? Well, look at your own cities and towns, America: 

Some will be ravaged by fire; others, by water. Towns destroyed by tornadoes, hurricanes and floods. And soon, great earthquakes will be tearing down cities. The Chastisement of God has begun. The Grace Period is over.

But forget about your “foreign policy” right now—we’ll go more into that in future broadcasts. I want you to look at how you treat us, the Black man and woman here in America: God is after you because of what you have done, are doing—and what you planned to do—to His chosen people, The Real “Children of Israel”:

The Black Man and Woman of America and the Western hemisphere! The Black man and woman of America have toiled under “the whip and the lash” for 400 years, and the affliction has not stopped. Genocide is in your heart for this poor and suffering people. And, you have done everything in your power to create mischief.

Who created “The Crips” and “The Bloods”? Who created “the gangs,” and then put hatred among the gangs where we are now, with guns in our hands, killing one another? That is The Mischief-Maker!

That is The Blood-Shedder! By telling lies, and using his police force, he would take a “Crip,” and drop him in the neighborhood of the “Blood,” knowing that he would not come out alive. They would take our young men and give them drugs to sell for the police. Yes, you have done all of this evil to us! But now, God is going to bring His Wrath more fully on you than you have ever seen.

There are those of you who may say, “Let’s get rid of Farrakhan. Let’s stop his mouth!” I can’t stop you, if that is what you wish to do. But the moment you attempt it, you’ll be “stopping your own mouth.” 

You will be picking up your wicked pens that write evil against a righteous man; but remember, the scripture teaches: “No weapon formed against the righteous will prosper.”

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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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