Ramadan Session 2005
October 21-23, 2006
Perception as Used in Scripture
Imam W. Deen Mohammed
at
The Homewood Hotel
Homewood, Illinois
Acknowledgements
We wish to express our gratitude, thanks, and appreciation to Imams Shaheed A. Ghani, C. B. Hanif; Melton
Mustafa; Rashad Sharif and Ronald Shaheed, for their assistance in preparing this Ramadan Session 2005.
Nasir Ahmad
September 2006
Ramadan Session 2005
October 21-23, 2006
Perception as Used in Scripture
Imam W. Deen Mohammed
Please Note: The transcribed lectures of Imam W. Deen Mohammed are the sole property of Imam W. Deen Mohammed and
therefore the reproduction, duplication, or selling of such transcribed lectures are strictly prohibited without the written permission of
Imam W. Deen Mohammed. Imam W. Deen Mohammed will pursue legal remedies against any persons or organization violating
these provisions. Written consent regarding Imam W. Deen Mohammed's lectures, interviews, etc., transcribed or on tapes (audio and
video) or CD/DVD must be obtained from Imam W. Deen Mohammed by writing to Imam W. Deen Mohammed, P.O. Box 121 Hazel
Crest, Illinois 60429; Telephone 708-798-6750 or fax 708-798-6827.
11
Contents:
10-21-2005 Ramadan Session Introductory comments
10-21-2005 Jumah Ramadan Session
10-21-2005 Asr Ramadan Session
10-21-2005 Magrib Ramadan Session
10-22-2005 Thuhr Ramadan Session
10-22-2005 Asr Ramadan Session
10-23-2005 Thuhr Ramadan Session
10-23-2005 Asr Ramadan Session
111
10-21-2005 Jumah
10-21-2005 Ramadan Session Introductory comments
Homewood, IL
Imam Warith Deen Mohammed
Congregational prayer is what I'm talking about now
and whenever you meet to pray together, whether it's on
the streets, on land, on the outside, or under a roof like
we are now, wherever we pray together that is the
masjid. Allah swt says, "The earth is the Mosque, or
Masjid for G_d". That's what they do all over the world.
They don't just pray in homes and in buildings, or places
to gather. They pray on the ground anywhere and we do
the same thing sometimes. You know that. You are
familiar with that. Sometimes we prefer to pray outside
on the Tid Day, when we find a nice, convenient place.
Privacy is better than praying outside, because someone
can come along and not know what you're doing and
they could cause problems. So it is always best when
you're the minority, a small number in a big society as
Muslims, it is best to have this prayer that we have in
privacy.
1 can use this time to acquaint you with what is going to
be our program for these days. We will be having Fajr
Prayer for anyone who wants to do it. There is a room
right here in the morning and you have to have
something in your room to break fast with. We have
plenty of dates that we're going to bring later on today.
If anyone is here who wants dates and do not have dates
we will have dates.
This time is Jumah, today, but at Thuhr time tomorrow
we will have prayer and after it we will have some
business authorized for this occasion, for these days of
the weekend. We will have the sale of WDM
publications and WDM ministry, or the WDM Mosque
Cares publications. My son sells the publications. I gave
him the business after he proved over many years to be
responsible and reliable. He is very excellent. I'm very
proud of him, my son, Warith Ud Din or Wallace D, the
second.
p.1 of 4
He sells for himself. It was my business. I gave it to him
because he did such a wonderful job with it. And then
there is WDM Publications Convention Address, the
Jumah on Convention Day and some other talks that we
do. The Mosque Cares sponsors those events and there
are the exclusive rights of the Mosque Cares upon my
authority. I don't know if you know this, but any
speaker, if he speaks no one can have his words in print,
or any other form, legally, without his permission. That
includes the TV networks. When I go on television, I
have to sign an agreement with them for them to use
what I do on their own show. It is their show but it is my
property. What comes out of my mouth is my property.
I give it to the Mosque Cares and I give it to my son. As
I said, events like the Convention, sponsored by the
Mosque Cares, are the rights of the Mosque Cares. And
my son, he has no right of possession unless he buys
them from the Mosque Cares and he does. Occasionally,
he buys tapes from the Mosque Cares and he also tapes
himself. Then there are tapes that I give him if he's not
there at the location where I speak, like on college
campuses where I speak sometimes, or other places. I
give tapes to my son for him to distribute.
He is really taking care of a lot. He is back in the
position he was in many years ago with me, about 15 or
20 years ago, and he's doing a very good job of
processing the mail and taking all The Mosque Cares
contributions to the bank and depositing them. He's a
person who loves to be organized and he likes to be well
organized. He has been very helpful to me. I'm saying
this because some of you are not aware of that. You're
just aware of the properties, my speeches and whatever
being the property of The Mosque Cares. But that is not
so unless I give it to The Mosque Cares
The Mosque Cares is W.D. Mohammed and I have an
obligation to look out for my family, my children. So I
do not want The Mosque Cares to have everything.
Maybe when I pass the courts will say the property
belongs to the Mosque Cares and maybe the people who
take over The Mosque Cares may not be our friend. Who
knows? They could sneak in. I mean our friend, your
friend and my friend. I'm not just talking about family. I
am talking about the community in association with my
leadership.
We will have Jumah prayer and after prayer, today,
Salaam Nutrition is going to come before us with an
announcement and Sister Amatullah Sharif is going to
10-21-2005 Jumah
come before us, too. She's going to have the
publications sold by The Mosque Cares.
We will have Jumah prayer then some presentations and
from that time when we finish we will have a break and
we will not start the session until after the time for Asr
prayer. Tomorrow after Thuhr prayer we will start the
session. The same schedule is for Sunday after Thuhr
prayer we'll start the session. That will give us a chance
to have a little break and I think we need that.
Understand, too, the day is very short not long now.
Sunset is about 6:00 p.m. Maghrih prayer is about 6:00
p.m. here in the Chicago area. "Asr will come pretty
soon after Thuhr prayer around 2:30 p.m. and Maghrib
prayer will come at 6:00 p.m.
If we can be ready at 3:00 p.m. to start our session and
go to break fast time, Iftar, then we can go again after
Iftar, quickly. Some people think Iftar is a time for
relaxing. It is not. The purpose of the ritual is to have us
obey the guidance of G_d directly demonstrated to us by
Muhammed, the Prophet pbuh. I know it is not
intentional, but when it is time to eat you do not eat
when you want to. You have to eat when it is time to eat.
As soon as the sun sets you are supposed to put
something in your mouth. Do not loaf around and talk
with each other. When the sun sets everybody should
quickly take water and some fruit. You cannot eat
anything man made. It has to come naturally from the
earth. You do not break your fast with anything man
made. You cannot break it with a candy bar, a cookie,
or something like that. You have to break it preferably
with dates and water.
I love the tradition of our Prophet pbuh. If you do not
have dates and water you can break it with an orange,
apple, grapes, a banana, and you can break it with a
piece of raw cabbage. You can break it with anything
that is not man made or has not been changed by man.
That has a great meaning and we will talk about it, en
sha Allah swt. There is a great message there.
At Iftar time do not waste time, because G_d excuses us
because He knows we have been fasting and we are
weak. He excuses us for Maghrib during the month of
Ramadan at the time when you are suppose to be saying
Maghrib prayer if it is not the fast month. In this month
G_d excuses us. We don't have to say Maghrib Prayer
right on the minute. We should see He excuses us for the
whole month of Ramadan, permitting us to take some
food into our mouth. So do not waste time sitting around
talking and socializing. Take your food, a little dates and
p.2 of 4
at this time you are not filling up, but you take only a
little mouth full of food, a drink of water or whatever it
is and then get ready for prayer. It should take no more
than two to five minutes to do that. You should be
finished and then go right into Maghrib Prayer. Once
you finish Maghrib Prayer we will resume the session
and will continue until it is time for Eshaa Prayer.
Eshaa Prayer time is close because of the short days we
have in this month and it is at 8:30 p.m. or maybe
sooner. As soon as there is no sign of Maghrih in the sky
and it's dark we can do Eshaa Prayer. I wish all of you
would learn the time by the tradition of our Prophet pbuh
and not by these calendars that they make. It is wrong to
pray Jumah all through the year at 1:00 pm. They do it
for convenience but that is wrong. It is not 1:00 p.m. all
throughout the year; and that is not the way Muhammed,
the Prophet pbuh established it. He established it to be
said at the proper times.
Fajr prayer is at a designated time
The shadow of the sun for Fajr Prayer, as you know, is
when the light and darkness runs horizontal. It appears to
be going parallel, horizontally, and not vertically up and
down. It is straight across, an even line. I have seen it
more than once. If you get up early on a clear day or
night you can see it as a black and white line and it will
he on the eastern horizon going straight together; a black
and white line of the light of the sun. It will be showing
like that separating the darkness. When you, see a
shadow when you can go outside or if you can make a
shadow or a tree outside or anything you look at outside,
if it makes a shadow, it is too late for morning prayer.
Don't think that because you think it is kind of light
outside, "I'm too late. I can't make Fajr Prayer." Yes,
you can.
The best time to make it is at that time when the light is
running horizontal, especially for the month of
Ramadan. In fact that is the only time it is mentioned,
during the month of Ramadan; and that is to tell us we
have to stop eating or whatever we are doing for our
bodily sensation, to satisfy the flesh. You have to stop at
that point. But most Muslims, they will wake up early.
Some of the Sandia Arabians, I think they call the adhan
by that time. They call an early adhan at that beginning
point for Fajr. But most of the believers around the
world, here and all over, they pray after the dawn
appears. When dawn appears, you see the night has
10-21-2005 Jumah
p.3 of 4
changed. A little light is in the sky on the Eastern
horizon and you are starting to see the night get a little
light coming into it. That is dawn and at that time we
start Fajr or the Dawn Prayer. But as I said, that time
will go up to the time when an object under the sun, with
the sun shining, has a shadow. It has to be a clear sunny
day and if the light makes a shadow, it is too late for Fajr
Prayer.
Prayer time. You can't pray when you can look at the
sun while standing up without raising your head. If you
look Westward to the sunset and you see the sun and you
did not have to raise your head, then you do not do any
prayer at that time.
The Prophet phuh is reported to have reminded his
muadhdhan appointed by the Prophet himself phuh, Bilal
ibn Rabah, may G_d be pleased with him, he said, "Bilal
you overslept and the time for the Fajr Prayer has
passed." They were in travel, so he went on the way
until the sun got up good, like about the brightest time of
the sun, called Duhaa. Duhaa comes between morning
sunrise and noon. Usually for us it is like 9:00 a.m. or
10:00 a.m. when the days are long. But it could
sometimes even be like 8:30 a.m. If you can imagine the
earth as a straight line and then cut it in half and you
have two big half circles formed over the earth, the point
right above the line is called the zenith and it will be
noon. But do we pray at Noon Time? No, we pray at
Thuhr time and it is a little after noon when the shadow
starts to appear on the other side going in the other
eastward direction.
Maghrib Prayer time is when you have to wait until the
sun goes down and does not appear at all on the Western
horizon and there is only the reddish look of it on the
horizon. That is when you do Maghrib Prayer.
Jumah Thuhr prayers when the shadow appears
Eastwards
When the sun is rising from the east the shadow is going
westward and when it reaches perfect noon there should
be no shadow going east or west. But because the sun
also moves north and south, some of you never noticed
it, it never came to your mind, but Allah swt gave it to
Muhammed pbuh. He must have seen it so Allah swt
addressed it as the two easts and the two wests. When
the shadow is not casting itself east nor west that is the
perfect noon. But when the shadow starts to cast itself
Eastward in the direction that sun is coming from that is
Thuhr time. As soon as you see the shadow appear at
any measure eastwards that is the time for Thuhr Prayer
and it is the time for Jumah Prayer.
Asr prayer when the sun is past the half way mark
The 'Mr will come when the sun is past the half way
mark between the zenith, noon or that right angle and it
starts to go in the margin. Then it is time for Asr Prayer.
And it will be Asr Prayer time as long as the sun has not
gone half past that right angle. I hope you are following
me. When it is half past that angle it is no more `Asr
Maghrib prayer when the sun does not appear on the
horizon
Eshaa Prayer when the sun's light cannot be seen
Getting to the last prayer time, it is when the sun has left
and its light and its glow cannot be seen on the Western
horizon, and it appears to be dark. That is called Lail.
That is the time you can make Eshaa Prayer. Usually,
they wait until the darkness has been there for a while, or
has appeared and some time has passed, like a half hour
or an hour. But for this occasion when we are all
together here, as soon as darkness comes we can make
Eshaa Prayer. We make Eshaa Prayer followed by Witr
if you like, or we can go right into Taraawih, the night
prayers, the prayers of night in the fast month; or we can
do Witr Prayer at that time and then do the Taraawih
Prayers. You know Witr Prayer is three rakats that are
said at nighttime in all the months, not just in the month
of Ramadan. It is not fard but it is highly recommended
that we say Witr Prayers, the three rakats.
When we complete the Taraawih Night Prayers in the
month of Ramadan we will be free then. Our time is our
own. If anyone can't stay for prayer, like sisters or
anyone having exemption according to the Qur'an and
the tradition of our Prophet pbuh, you don't have to stay
with us. I love to do Maghrib Prayer, Eshaa and
Taraawih Prayer Night Prayers. Then after that I will go
home, en sha Allah swt.
The restaurant here, I believe they prepared halal food
for us in the hotel. Yesterday, I visited the restaurant of
the culture center on Halsted Street in Harvey, Illinois,
and 1 was so impressed until I said to myself, "We are
going to nominate the two brothers who are the leaders
over there for "Man of the year 2006." They have to
share it. If you see what they have done and you know
how lazy and negligent we have been in the Chicago
10-21-2005 Jumah
area you will really join us in nominating these two
brothers. They have been around since the time of the
Honorable Elijah Mohammed. They followed him and
they follow me. They had no problems making the
change. They are wonderful brothers.
horizon 3;
o- I
P-1
Index 10-21-2005 Pre-Jumah
Qur'an 55.17; Lord of the two casts and wests 3;
Prayer
p- Asr prayer when the sun is past the half way mark 3;
p- Eshaa Prayer when the sun's light cannot be seen 3;
p- Jumah prayer when the shadow appears Eastwards
p Maghrib prayer delayed the whole month Ramadan
2;
p- Maghrib when the sun does not appear on the horizon
3;
p- Thuhr prayer when the shadow appears eastwards 3;
q-1
a-1
Allah
a- Lord of the two casts and wests 3;
Asr prayer when the sun is past the half way mark 3;
b-1
c-1
d-1
r-1
Ramadan Maghrib prayer delayed the whole month
fasting 2;
e-1
East Lord of the two casts and wests 3;
Eshaa Prayer when the sun's light cannot be seen 3;
s-1
t-1
Thuhr prayer when the shadow appears eastwards 3;
f-1
Fajr prayer at designated time 2;
u-1
F
a
s
t
v
f- Iftar food must be natural date, water etc 2;
f- Maghrib prayer delayed the whole month 2;
g-1
h-1
i -1
Iftar
i- food must be natural date, water etc 2;
Maghrib prayer delayed the whole month 2;
1- I
Jumah prayer when the shadow appears eastwards 3;
kI
-
m-1
Maghrib
- prayer delayed the whole month Ramadan 2;
m - time when the sun does not appear on the
p.4 of 4
-
1
w-1
West Lord of the two casts and wests 3;
x- I
y- I
z-1 Index 10-21-2005 Pre-Jumah
10 21 2005 Jumah
-
-
p. I of 8
to put you to difficulties. (He wants you) to
complete the prescribed period and to glorify
Him in that He has guided you; and
perchance ye shall be grateful.
Ramadan fast is training to bring us closer to purity
10-21-2005 Jumah Ramadan Session Homewood, IL
Umar bin Al Khattaab reported Allah's Apostle said,
"The reward of deeds depends upon the intention
and every person will get the reward according to
what he has intended. So whoever emigrated for
Allah and His Apostle, then his emigration was for
Allah and His Apostle. And whoever emigrated for
worldly benefits or for a woman to marry, his
emigration was for what he emigrated for."
Imam Warith Deen Mohammed
With Allah's name, the praise and the thanks is for G_d.
We thank Him for the gift and blessing of the model
human person, Muhammed (pbuh), the honorable and
noble servant and Messenger of G_d, and what follows
of that salute, or that traditional salutation to the last
Prophet (pbuh), the seal of the Prophets, mentioned in
the Bible as it is given in the Qur'an.
-
Dear believers, As Salaam Alaikum. Ramadan Mubarak!
We begin this khutbah, praise be to G_d, the Lord,
Sustainer of the worlds and we salute Muhammed the
last Prophet (pbuh), with the traditional salute and peace
be upon him.
Q. 1185; Qur'an sent down in Ramadan
C
0-6 41-5.4-5
.
dzi* L-.:Fa.-?v , :t- , ;y.3
$
Ramadan is the (month) in which was sent
down the Qur'an as a guide to mankind also
clear (Signs) for guidance and judgment
(between right and wrong). So everyone of
you who is present (at his home) during that
month should spend it in fasting but if anyone
is ill or on a journey the prescribed period
(should be made up) by days later. Allah
intends every facility for you He does not want
Bukhari 1.51; Matters are judged by intention
Allah swt invites us to purity and we have what we call
in Arabic, "An-niyyah," purity of intentions. And
Prophet Muhammed (pbuh), he has said that matters are
judged by intention. He went on to say if someone
migrated from the persecution in Mecca to Medinah and
if he made that migration so that he would be relieved
from some problem, some stress or some burden or to
get a wife, then his migration was for that for which he
migrated. So matters are judged by intention. We know
we have the word "Taharab," purity, from the Qur'an
and Allah (swt) says, "I do not want for you hardship but
1 want that you be purified." This month of Ramadan is
called the blessed month, the month of blessings, and the
purpose of this training that we have or we are doing in
the month of Ramadan is a training mainly to bring us
closer to the purity that Allah (swt) wants for us, that our
Creator wants for us.
Purity covers everything we do and it is not just cleaning
the body, as you know. For Jumah, it is preferred that we
take a full bath and those who wear scents are to put
their nice scent on. Not loud scent, because anything
you do to get the attention of another person it hurts the
Jumah, the congregation, when we are praying. No one
should have to turn his head and say, "Who is that 1
smell? Where is that good smell coming from?" It
should be mild, so you don't take the attention off of the
ones who are praying. They come there for G_d, to pray
to our G_d.
Another thing that I have to mention at this time is, do
not wear writing on your clothing. That is okay for
10-21-2005 Jumah
outside, but when you come to Jumah don't wear any
writing on yourself, even if it says "Allahu Akbar". We
wait for the Imam to say, "Allah Akbar". We say it
behind him. We don't want to read it on you because
you would be taking our attention away from what we
came for. Don't wear clothing with messages on them.
You are not to do that. It was not done in the time of
Muhammed, the Prophet (pbuh). No one should come
with any wording, or message, or thought on his
clothing.
You do not have to wear anything on your head,
brothers. The sisters should and it is the tradition to
cover their head. But if you understand it, it is tradition
also of the men to cover their heads. This practice comes
from the climate that the Muslims are in. If you do not
have your head covered in the sun you can get a sun
stroke in Saudi Arabia and some other places like
Pakistan, too, where the sun is very hot. And many
places were Muslims are in big populations, the sun
shines very hot on their head. So if you have a covering
it is just good common sense to protect your own self,
your health, to have something on your head. So do not
think it is a must to have something on your head. You
see I'm wearing something. I do not usually do this. If I
want something it is an African style, but today I chose
to wear this because I want to talk to you about it. You
see me wearing something but you don't have to wear
something on your head, the men that is.
Al Islam is prescribed for the original nature of all
people
This religion is the religion that is prescribed for the
original nature in all people and shyness is in the original
nature of all people. Those who don't have shyness they
cannot enter paradise. They are the ones satan wants.
Satan wants those who have no shyness. If you feel
yourself personally better with your head covered you
should cover your head. It is not a must that you do it
and there is no instruction saying you shouldn't do it. If
you want to cover your head you should cover your head
and some of you have covers on your head. If you feel
comfortable like that, that is the way you should come to
pray and you would he wrong to come to prayer without
a covering on your head; and if you don't feel
comfortable praying that way, you will be doing wrong.
This is the religion that respects the good nature of all
human beings.
Natheef is clean in general Taharah means ethics,
justice
p.2 ()I' 8
The focus for this khutbah is purity. When we give zakat
we just cannot give charity just to give money. If you
give zakat from money that you got from non-halal work
or non-halal things, it is not accepted in the zakat. So,
even our money is under the principle or rule of purity.
The money should be clean as we say in the streets and
other places. Purity covers everything and we should
understand this word is a new word. The common word
for clean is not "Taharah," it is "Natheef." If you say in
the streets to the common person this is "Natheef" he
knows what you're saying is, "this is clean." If you say
this is "Taharah," you might confuse him. He does not
know what you are talking about. This is a Qur'anic
term and it does not just cover moral decency on the
common level. It covers decency and justice on the
highest level. So this word includes ethics, not just
morals.
When G_d says He wants not hardship for you but He
wants that you be purified, he is talking not just to the
common body of people; but He is talking also, mainly,
to their leaders, saying that He wants an ethical society.
Your ummah or community should be not only a moral
society but the rule of decency, justice and moral
excellence should also be the rule of the ruling body so
that we have an ethical society where our education will
he clean, where our government activities will be clean;
where everything we do as professionals will be clean
and then that is an ethical society.
•
We ask GA to accept our fasting in the month of
Ramadan and to accept our Qur'an reading in this month
of Ramadan and to give us His guidance in all things
that we have to do; and give us an appreciation for the
last Prophet (pbuh), the mercy to all of the worlds,
Muhammed (pbuh); an appreciation for him where we
don't see him as in a race. We don't see him as one of a
certain tribe, but we sec him as Allah (swt) presents him
to us, "Uswatan hasanatan," an excellent human model
for any who believe in GA and last day.
10 21 2005 Jumah
-
2" Part of Khutbah
Forty Hadith p.64P1 7; Excellence in everything
- •
sq. jrjp
•••-•
Vi L....5-41i 01
c
Abu Ya'la Shaddaad ibn Aus reported the Prophet (pbuh)
he said "Allah (swt) has prescribed excellence in all
things_.."
Muhsin is from the word Ha.sana that means excellence
I witness that G_d is One. There is no partner with Him
and I witness that Muhammed (pbuh), is His servant and
His Messenger. Continuing the focus for purity,
Muharrirned, the Prophet (pbuh) said, "When a believer
endeavors to do a thing he seeks to make it perfect, or to
perfect it". Excellence is the rule in Al Islam. Everyone
who says he is a Muslim in the ummah of Muhammed,
the Prophet (pbuh), or the ummah of Al Islam, should
not be satisfied with sloppy work, half doing something.
He said if you are going to slaughter the animal then
make sure the knives are sharp so that you don't cause
undue pain to the animal that you are slaughtering. He
said that to tell them that this teaching is not just for you
like a song or a hymn that you are going to sing. This
teaching is for you to put into practice for the benefit of
your whole life. He says to us that G_d wants that we be
good. We say, "good", but the word is "excellent". Allah
(swt) says, surely He loves the "Muhsineen." This word
is from the same word, "1-lasana," that means excellence,
not just good. It means the best that you can do, referring
to those people who do the best they can do, respecting
the morals and moral life that G_d wants for us as
human beings.
Allahu Akbar is priority, order our priorities
Qur'an 5.7; We hear and obey
"And call in remembrance the favor of Allah unto
you and His Covenant which He ratified with you
when ye said: "We hear and we obey": and fear
-
p.4 of 8
Allah for Allah knoweth well the secrets of your
hearts."
In many places G_d says, "And do good" as it is
translated. But it means more than just do good. It means
perform at your best, be excellent. If we would strive to
live in excellence, if we would just have pure intentions
to do that, Allah (swt) will save us. He will bless us. He
will be with us. He will love us. He will bring us closer
to His way, to His presence, and we will be much more
successful than we are now. Do not look at the few who
practice perfection and say, "He's a perfectionist. He
disgusts me. He gets on my nerves. He just has to have it
right. I don't have patience to wait on him to get it like
that." We say that to criticize people sometimes, but you
are impatient, sloppy boys, or sloppy girls.
Allah (swt) wants us to strive for excellence but know,
too, that a great principle comes from the expression
"Allahu Akbar". That communicates to us another great
principle. It is priority, how to order your priorities. And
when we say, "Allahu Akbar", it means that Allah (swt)
is number one among our priorities. Not me, not my
wife, not my children, but Allah (swt) is the number one
priority; not my business, not my life. And what does
Allah (swt) say? This is purity. I am still addressing
purity of the spirit. When the spirit becomes pure the
spirit does all these things. When the spirit becomes pure
then we can be among those whvay in Qur'anic
Arabic, "Same'naa wa ata'naa," translated, "We hear
and we obey." And the expression is translated into
English in anther way, "To hear is to obey," not the king,
but G_d. To hear Allah (swt) is to obey Him.
Now Allah (swt) is giving us a great mercy in educating
us and sensitizing us firstly, to the need to establish a
priority and to order those priorities where G_d is
number one, first, and most important. That is, among
those priorities, a great mercy and teaching He is giving
us. If you reach that point where your spirit has become
pure, then you won't say, "G_d says I should pray Fajr
Prayer, but let us see, today, I have to do this. I have to
do that. I've got a very busy schedule today and I have
to make this money, or my bills are not going to be paid
at home." The moment you start thinking that way then
you step out of the grace of G_d. You don't think about
it. You realize it is Fajr Prayer time, but you do not
think about it. Your body just starts moving towards the
water to make ablution, or towards the washroom to do
what you have to do and make ablution and be prepared
for prayer. These are the foremost among the servants of
10-21-2005 Jumah
GA. I'm describing the foremost among the servants of
GA.
Dua' request Allah's help
Qur'an 2.285; We hear and obey forgive us our Lord
p.5 of 8
spirit to obey G _ d and present ourselves clean and
decent before Him. The world is a temptation and it did
not just begin to be a temptation. Allah (swt) revealed to
Muhammed, the Prophet (pbuh), by way of inspiration to
him, that the word was made safe for His servants and
all human beings are His servants and jinn, also. In the
Qur'an Allah (swt) says He did not create humans nor
jinn except for His service, except to be his servants.
Satan didn't form until man was given charge as
khalifa
Qur'an 2.34; Iblis did not bow to Adam
";;.
The Apostle believeth in what hath been revealed
to him from his Lord as do the men of faith. Each
one (of them) believeth in Allah His angels His
books and His Apostles "We make no distinction
(they say) between one and another of His
Apostles." And they say: "We hear and we obey;
(We seek) Thy forgiveness Our Lord and to Thee is
the end of all journeys."
If you ever get the courage to say and mean it with
purity of intention, "Allah I cannot manage this life for
myself, not without You. Please make my life what You
want it to be, what You prefer it to be. Do not allow me
to act on my own. Help me to act only in obedience to
You". If you mean that, Allah (swt) will do that for you.
Then after He does that for you, then remember these
words, "Same'naa wa ata'naa ghufraanaka rabbanaa wa
elaykal maseer," translated, "We hear and we obey.
Forgive us. Your forgiveness we ask our Lord." Why?
Because we have not been hearing and obeying. This is
the soul realizing he shouldn't he letting his mind come
into the picture and weaken him so that he cannot
continue to do the action or do it as he should do it. He is
realizing that so he acknowledges that. He has to beg his
Lord's pardon for his past actions and he says, "To You
is the eventual goal." in Arabic "Elaykal maseer. To You
is the eventual goal or the destiny that we can't escape".
The earth is safe for all Allah's servants
Qur'an 51.56; Men jinn created for My worship
______ Lt,
"I have only created jinns and men that they may serve
Me."
In this month of Ramadan we are strengthened in our
 "And behold we said to the angels 'Bow to Adam and
they bowed down. Not so Iblis he refused and was
haughty."
The Prophet (pbuh), was shown that before Satan came
into the picture the earth was safe and good for His
human creatures or His "Ebaad," His servants. Satan did
not form until man was given charge as khalifa. He was
peaceful and satisfied among the angels as their leader.
But the instant that G_d let the news out to the angels
that He was going to make a human being, a mortal flesh
and blood person, a man, Khalifa in the earth, satan
rebelled against that. It is said in the Qur'an, "Abaa was
stakbara," translated, "He refused and became bigoted,
self important".
Salat starts with Eqamah, standing upright in nature
We know how the story goes. This is not the subject
matter for the khutbah today so I won't go into that. But
the point is only to say that we should be careful of how
we disposition ourselves. The important thing is how
you disposition yourself. What does salat start with?
Eqaamah, which is standing up erect, right? So we take
that position first, before we even begin reading or
reciting the words of Allah (swt). What does that
position say? "I'm perfectly attentive", because when
people are not perfectly attentive their mind strays. But
the more they are aware that what they are saying is of
very great importance to them, they stop straying and
they ask, "What did you say? What was that, again,
man?" He stands up, doesn't he? It is your nature to do
10-21-2005 Jumah
that when your interest is strong and you are hearing
something that is of vital importance. If you are lying
down you want to get up on your feet, don't you? G_d
knows what He created. He knows the nature of the
creature He created so He gives him a religion that suits
his best nature. So we begin the prayer standing up
straight.
Adhan means my mind, ears are attentive for G d
The Muadhdhan will put his hands to his ears. That is
saying, "My mind is attentive. My ears are for GA. I
want to hear from my Lord".
Purity. if you take the right disposition, you clean
yourself, you have made your ablution. If you need a full
bath you have done that, so you are clean. If you can't
find water you can take clean earth, clean sand. Do you
know clean earth from the vacant lot works where there
is no water? Dry top soil and no grass is growing there.
If it has been dry a long time you can take that dusty
earth and if you have some food on your hands, it is
actually something that you can clean your hands with.
When it is dry the dust will go right off and your hands
will be clean. We have done that. Not just me, many of
you brothers have done that. You have taken dry dirt and
you have cleaned your hands. I have done it as a boy. I
learned as boy that it would clean my hands, so I cleaned
my hands with it.
What am I saying that for? You don't have to go to
Saudi Arabia and get some sand and make tayyammun.
They have clean sand and you have some clean earth,
too. And if you don't have it take anything clean that
you know is clean and wipe your hands with it. I mean
anything with respect for Allah (swt) and for the
guidance of Allah (swt) through Muhammed, the
Prophet (pbuh). Clean your hands and wipe your face.
You're finished and you are ready to make your salat.
That is tayyammun. My beloved people, believers, males
and females, I hope I am reaching you with what I'm
saying, because what I'm saying to you will lighten your
burden and Allah (swt) will love you more. Don't make
excuses for yourselves and don't put the small things
over the big things, or the small things ahead of the big
things. It is more important to pray than it is to wash in
certain water.
And maybe this time we are living in knowing the
religion says if you can't find suitable water make
tayammum. You know we don't have pure water, it is
supposed to be pure water. That water coming out of the
p.6 of 8
faucets is not pure. It has chemicals in it to fight the
bacteria, the impurities in it So it is not like the water
that they had in the time of the Prophet (pbuh). I would
not but I think, would 1 start a revolution that would be
successful if I would say, "Be sure you keep with you
some clean sand or clean earth because the water is not
fit to make ablution with." You will not go this far, I
buy pure water and when I'm doing my ablution I take
the pure water, pour it out of the bottle into my hand and
rinse my mouth three times. I put it in my nose. I don't
even want faucet water on my face. I take the water I
buy, I'm an expensive believer, an expensive prayer, I
take the water from my bottle and wash my face three
times. I don't mind it going on other places but I don't
want faucet water around my eyes, nose, my mouth. I
don't drink it and I don't want it on my face. If my son is
here he will tell you. He knows what I do. So I'm not
stretching anything. I don't lie and I don't stretch things.
If I do I will tell you. I acknowledge it because I'm a
comedian, too. I will tell you not to take that too
seriously. I stretched that. It was not the truth.
This is for the purpose of getting us in the situation or in
a position to do better with our lives so that Allah (swt)
will give us more rewards and more benefits that He has
in His creation for us and we will become a more
prosperous community. That is my wish, my intent. My
desire and purpose is to free us up as much as possible
so that we become more dutiful for Allah's (swt) way
and so that we can become more prosperous as a people
or as a community of African American Muslims.
I know a few of you among us arc not an African
American and what I have recommended is good for
man. I don't care what color you are. We conclude the
khutbah asking G_d to help us purify our intentions.
Allah (swt) our Lord, help us purify our intentions and
help us to study more so we will know this religion and
study. The best source You have given us is Your word,
the Qur'an, and the excellent model person, the mercy to
all the worlds, Muhammed, the Prophet (pbuh); so that
we will know better how to live this religion. And
forgive us our ignorance, forgive us our mistakes,
forgive us our weaknesses and strengthen us. And give
us more spirit to live the life as You have revealed it to
Muhammed, the Prophet (pbuh), and given to us in the
Qur'an, for all us. Make our stand firm and increase our
spirit for patience and enduring and remaining in a good
mood while we are suffering for Your sake. Ameen.
10-21-2005 Jumah
Announcements
Tomorrow I may bring some jewelry that my good
friend gave me and I have some good prices on it. You
might want to buy some silver and something else you
can buy too. You might want to make some money. I
have a Bridges TV presentation I would like to make to
you. Anyone who wants to get Bridges I have coupons
that sell for ten dollars and it will give you Bridges
television and also international channels and a lot more
I will give it to you. There is no cost for them to come
and set the equipment up so that you can get the antenna
for the overseas channels and the channels here at no
cost for anything. For one month everything is free.
After one month you pay only fifteen dollars for Bridges
TV.
I get ten dollars for just selling this to you and I want to
give you five of those dollars. I'll take five and you take
five. And if you want to sell it when you go back don't
give me ten just give me five. You can mail it to me at
P.O. Box 395, Markham, Ill 60428. Tomorrow I will
have all of the applications and everything for you. I will
bring it with me, tomorrow. It should take no time to fill
it out. Those who want to get Bridges TV, you now
know the time that I will make myself available to you
for that. So you will be able to come up and take your
papers and if you don't have ten dollars on you just send
five dollars for my share, send it to me at my post office
box. I will get it to you today and I will give to you
again, tomorrow, En sha Allah (swt).
W.D. Mohammad's poetry and drawings
I like to sing and write poetry, I sing to myself and I
doodle a little bit and I draw some pictures. Some of
these are going to go into a publication that I'm going to
put out, but I thought some of my good friends and
supporters who know me as their brother and friend, not
just as Imam, they might want these pictures. So I am
going to have some of these pictures available too, some
of tiny drawings. The first one, I'm not going to put out
too many. You should save them and one day who
knows, there may be some people waking up to the
value of the Nation Of Islam started by Mr. Fard and the
Honorable Elijah Muhammed. They are going to wake
up to the value of it and wake up to the value of the
transition and our work here in America ;and who
knows, the picture may have much more worth in the
future than it will have when I sell it to you.
p.7 of 8
I want you to have money and I believe you will get
some. I said these days in Ramadan and the purpose
we're serving, what we are doing, these sessions could
become as big and as inspirational in our life as the 26th
of February was in the time of the Nation of Islam.
CPC Suit Deals
I don't ask a penny from sales I let it all go to the
Mosque Cares and to help and strengthen those who we
know are doing excellent work in the community.
This is the business part, strictly for CPC Comtrust LLC.
We have our brothers here, Imam Abu El Amin of San
Francisco, California. And we have our brother, Yayha
Abdullah, both here and they both made a presentation
before to us and they are here today with us. I tried to
reach him because I wanted to tell him that I said I was
going to try to be in position to buy, invest ten thousand
dollars in the purchase of the suits, and I think I'm there.
I don't have it. The bank told me to just come on in and
get a loan and I think it makes good sense for me to get a
loan to buy these suits. The suits are going to be sold,
that is for sure. I sold the last ones I bought. I don't have
any left and they brought me good money. So it makes
good sense to me to go to the bank and borrow this
money and pay them their interest and count the money
once those suits are sold.
I don't know any business better than this business. If
you invest one dollar we guarantee you are to get two
dollars. So if you put in a thousand you're guaranteed to
get two thousand and what we expect you to get totally,
is three thousand; two thousand for one thousand. Now
if you don't get it, it is because you ran into difficulty.
That is why I say if you have some expenses yourself,
trying to house the suits, or put them in inventory
somewhere, and you have a little problem, little
expenses trying to sell them, you still should be
guaranteed at least one dollar. That is 100 percent, one
dollar for every dollar you spent, but I' m expecting and
they are expecting that you are going to get at least three
dollars for the one dollar you spent. Where are you
going to find that?
The suits are of good quality. Abu Qadir just told me he
is wearing one that he bought when we first purchased
and he said he has been wearing it for four years and it
looks like it is new almost. We did not buy junk. We
bought very nice quality suits before and what we are
talking about now is at least double in value over the
ones we purchased at first and the price is right along the
10-21-2005 Jumah
same lines. We are getting them for about the same
price; a little bit more but not much more and we are
getting rid of lot a of problems. We don't have to come
through customs anymore. In the past our goods had to
stay in customs until they released them to us and these
big textile people in the United States, especially in the
South, they put pressure on the government and the
government puts pressure on the importers.
So it is not too easy to conic if you are bringing the
goods directly from a country. It is not so easy to get
these goods to you, directly, if we have to come through
customs. Both South America, Mexico, I think you made
a contact also in South America, and also the new source
that Imam Yahya just mentioned to us from Hong,
Kong, China, we don't have to come through customs.
They will deliver directly to the address and the price is
the same.
I would not be pushing this. You who know me know I
wouldn't be pushing anything or bringing anything
unless I know it is going to be excellent. 1 mean really
good. I hate to see you miss the opportunity to get some
more money. We all need it and you are not going to
find a clean way to get money better than this, because
the company bringing it in would take more and these
brothers selling them would take more and by the time it
comes to you, you would be getting 1/3 of what we are
going to give you. We are going to give you an
opportunity to make real good money. If you have been
sluggish or something you should really wake up now
and get some suits and sell them and make your life,
make your family life better and put yourself in a
position where you will be able to contribute to your
community a little more.
You won't have to hold your hand out asking somebody
for something, but you will be having that position that
Muhammed, the Prophet (pbuh), told us is the better
position; and this is putting something in somebody's
hand. And I would like to help. Some of us we did not
benefit from the Honorable Elijah Muhammed telling us
to think big. It went into me and it is my life. I don't like
thinking small, 1 don't think small,and if I had,an
opportunity to get a trillion dollars 1 wouldn't hesitate
like you saying, "What am I going to do with all of that
money?" You can multiply that trillion by a trillion,
then a hundred trillion.
I have something to do with all that money. If I get the
p.8 of 8
opportunity, I want it all, because as much as I love
human beings and as many of them out there needing
help who are good people too, that trillion won't be with
me long. But I won't be a fool, because Al Islam says
don't hold your hand so close to yourself, to your own
neck. That means you are selfish and greedy. And don't
extend it all the way out so that you make yourself
become dependent on the society. I'm a rational man. If
I get that much, right now I can't get anything. I told
myself a long time ago, I told my associates as long as
the Muslims in our community are poor I have to live
like they live. But once you get up I'm going to get up,
too.
And believe me, I think G_d has blessed me with health
and spirit and I feel like I did when I was in my thirties.
And I think that is His blessing on me so that I live to
see something big happen in this community. The door
of opportunity is wide open. We are having some
problems right now getting our structure built on 159 th
street, but Allah (swt) tests us and I'm sure we are going
to be successful in making a big success out of our
investment on I59 th street, a stable place. A banker, a
vice president of the bank he wrote, sent me a letter to
CPC. I read it and he says, "I pass by this site every day
on the way to work in South Holland. I want to
congratulate you on the site you have chosen. You are
going to prosper there." And he invited us to come and
talk to him about getting an investment loan if we need it
for our construction or equipment; and he named several
other things.
So we are situated good and I want you to have faith
because things are beginning to turn around. I have
personally taken charge of CPC Comtrust, our company.
It belongs to all investors and I have invested there too.
We have stopped the drainage and the bank accounts are
starting to grow. So trust us and have faith.
Index 10-21-2005 Jumah
Qur'an 2A85; Allah wants ease for you 1;
Qur'an 5.7; We hear and obey 3;
Qur'an 2.285; We hear and obey forgive us our Lord 4;
Qur'an 2.34; Iblis did not bow to Adam 4;
Bukhari 1.51; Matters are judged by intention I;
Forty Hadith p.64#17; Excellence in Everything 3;
a- I
10-21-2005 Jumah
Action Matters are judged by intention I;
Adhan means my mind, ears are attentive for G_d
Allah wants ease for you 1;
p.9 of 8
10-21-2005 Jumah
b-I
c- I
Clean Natheef in general and Taharah for ethics, justice
2;
Clothes no writing on them during prayer 2;
p.10 of 8
m-1
Muhsin is from the word Hasana that means excellence
3;
Muslim Excellence in Everything 3;
n-1
Nathee in general and Taharah for ethics, justice 2;
CPC suit deals 7;
d- I
Devil satan didn't form until man given charge as
khalifa 4;
Dress no writing on them during prayer 2;
Nature
n - Islam is prescribed for the original nature of all
people 2;
o-1
Obey
e-1
Earth safe for all Allah's servants 4;
Ease Allah wants ease for you 1;
Eqaamah Salat starts with Eqamah, standing upright 4;
Excellence
e- in Everything 3;
e- Muhsin is from the word Hasana that means
excellence 3;
o- We hear and obey forgive us our Lord 4;
o- We hear and obey 3;
p-1
Prayer
p- Adhan means my mind, ears are attentive for GA
p- Salat starts with Eqamah, standing upright 4;
p- attention no loud smelling perfume that distracts 1, 2;
p- no writing on your clothing 2;
q-I
f-1
Fast Ramadan is a training to bring us closer to the
purityl;
Forgive We hear and obey forgive us our Lord 4;
g-1
h-1
Hasan Muhsin is from the word it means excellence 3;
Hear
h- We hear and obey 3;
h- We hear and obey forgive us our Lord 4;
i-1
Intention Matters are judged by intention 1;
Islam is prescribed for the original nature of all people 2;
l
r-1
Ramadan fast is a training to bring us closer to the
purity I ;
Religion
r- Islam is prescribed for the original nature of all people
2;
s-I
Salat starts with Eqamah, standing upright 4;
satan didn't form until man given charge as khalifa 4
Slaughter kind, Excellence in Everything 3;
Suit CPC suit deals 7;
t- I
Taharah Natheef in general and Taharah for ethics, Ijustice 2;
Jumah prayer
j- attention no loud smelling perfume that distracts 1, 2;
j- no writing on your clothing 2;
k-I
WD Mohammad poetry, drawings 6;
Work Excellence in Everything 3;
10-21-2005 'ASR p.1 of 19
10-21-2005 Asr Ramadan Session Homewood, IL
Imam Warith Deen Mohammed
With Allah's name, the praise and the thanks is for G_d.
We thank Him for the gift and blessing of the model
human person, Muhammed ((puh)), the honorable and
noble servant and Messenger of G_d and what follows
of that salute or that traditional salutation to the last
Prophet ((puh)), the seal of the Prophets mentioned in
the Bible as it is given in the Qur'an.
Perception as used in Scripture
I see signs in the community everywhere I go almost and
I certainly see signs here in this area now, that Allah swt
is giving us special blessings in the month of Ramadan. I
never fasted a month of Ramadan and did not realize that
my blessings were more in that month than any other
month of the year. I'm not talking about money.
Blessings come in many forms and my blessings are
always more in Ramadan than in any other month of the
year.
We are going to begin the session now by witnessing
that G_d is One and has no partners in the rule of the
heavens and the earth or in the run of the universe; and
we witness that Muhammed ((puh)) is His servant and
His Messenger ((pub)).
There are many things that I'd love to discuss with you.
There are many things that I feel that you would love for
me to discuss and I'm telling you at this time, if you
want to come tomorrow and bring something to my
attention you can. There are a lot of you, but I think we
can just pick questions at random and maybe I will
choose ten from whatever is submitted. There might be a
thousand submitted. I'll take about ten of them at
random and 1 will be asking that G_d's angels guide my
hand to pick the right ones out of the many.
The focus for this presentation or discussion, what I will
present, is really like a discussion of the subject, not a
conversation, a presentation where I am discussing the
matter. The focus for this presentation is perception as
used in scripture and if you do not know this already or
if you have not taken this from me already, you should
also make a note that whatever issue is taken up in the
Qur'an that issue has already been taken up before the
Qur'an in the time of prophets, before Muhammed, the
Prophet ((puh)).
The Qur'an is firstly, revelation. That means it could not
have come to man except from a Power and an Authority
that is in charge of man's life, That Authority is not man,
but is in charge of man's life and that Authority is the
Creator of all things.
Qur'an 13.16; Allah is the Creator of everything
A
3J.
Say: ''Who is the Lord and Sustainer of the heavens and
the earth?" Say: "It is Allah." Say: "Do ye then take (for
worship) protectors other than Him such as have no power
either for good or for harm to themselves?" Say: "Are the
blind equal with those who see? Or the depths of darkness
equal with Light?" Or do they assign to Allah partners who
have created (anything) as He has created so that the
creation seemed to them similar? Say: "Allah is the
Creator of all things: He is the One the Supreme and
Irresistible."
Qur'an is a Book of knowledge and wisdom
Qur'an 2.1-3; Qur'an for those who believe
:A-3)
s
1. A.L.M.
2 . This is the Book; in it is guidance sure without doubt
to those who fear Allah."
3 . Who believe in the Unseen are steadfast in prayer
and spend out of what We have provided for them.
You know in the Qur'an Allah (swt) says that He is the
Creator of everything, in Arabic, "Al khaalequ kulle
shayen." And it also says that He is the Lord of
everything, "Rabbit alameen." It means all the worlds as
it is translated, but it has specific reference to worlds that
have evolved in the history and life of mankind. Like the
world of science, the world of mathematics, the world of
10-21-2005 'ASR p.2 of 19
business, it has direct references to that.
1-1
10-21-2005 'ASR p.3 of 19
If it was a reference to the worlds that we see, those big
objects in the skies and the earth, if it was a reference to
that it would not be telling the common man much,
because every man believes that some superior force
above man made what is in the sky and made this earth.
Everybody knows that. Is that a big deal to tell
somebody that? The language that Allah (swt) reveals
through Muhammed, the Prophet ((puh)) by way of the
medium, the angel Jibril, the Qur'an, is addressing issues
for man's thinking and issues for man's interaction with
man, communities, establishments, whatever, man's
mind or his brain and his interaction with other men and
other things that have evolved in the history of man's
life on this planet earth and in the history of his life on
the planet earth as a thinker. It is not talking about
savage, primitive man. It has nothing to say to the
primitive or savage man, except, "You are primitive and
savage and that is why you reject this or that is why it is
not understood by you, because you are primitive and
savage".
The Qur'an is a Book of knowledge. It is a Book of
wisdom. It is a Book of guidance and Allah (swt) says in
Arabic, "Dhaalekal ketaabu laa rayba feehe hudan
lilmut-taqeen. AI ladheena yu' menuuna bel ghaybe wa
yuqeemuunas salaata wa mem-maa razaqnaakum
yunfequun. This Book, there is no faults in it, no error,
no defect, hudan lil mut-taqeen," guidance for those who
believe in G_d, the Unseen". They were the people
before Muhammed. "Al ladheena yuqeemuunas salaata,"
translated, "And those who establish prayer and give in
charity, etc". This is describing the activities and life of
the people of the Book, Jews, Christians, and even
people before. So it is the Book of guidance to people
who had not received scripture. How is that? Allah
(swt) says in Qur'an, the Book revealed to the unlettered
one and to a people who had not received scripture
before (that would be the Arabs of the ignorant age in
which Muhammed ((puh)) lived), "A messenger comes
from a people who didn't receive scripture before." Now
a messenger is raised up from among them to warn them
of that vicinity where the Kabah is and whoever is in its
surroundings as it is says in Arabic, "Ma haula". Who is
in the surroundings? Everybody, because we come from
all parts of the earth or parts of the world and we make
pilgrimage there. So it was a reference to what was
going to come about in time and it did not take long. The
religion spread fast under Muhammed, the Prophet's
((puh)) leadership.
Kabah is the sign of the ties of community life
Al Islam is bigger than government and outlives
government
Qur'an 3.96; The Kabah is the fist house for worship
4;1/4,00;4 t49.3
4;
"The first House (of worship) appointed for men was
that at Bakka full of blessing and of guidance for all
kinds of beings:"
It is saying that it is for the people around the Kabah.
Why is the Kabah so important? Because it is a symbol
or sign of the beginning of the true life that Allah (swt)
wants for all people, not one people. Their true life is a
life in cooperation, or a life that ties them all together, or
what we call community life. But it's not as some people
may think. It is not governmental life. AI Islam is bigger
than government. The life order that Allah (swt) wants
for believers is bigger than government. Governments
come and go, but the community life that Allah (swt)
reveals stays.
And there is a dua' that says, "Oh Allah, make
Muhammed successful as You made Abraham and the
followers of Abraham successful". And it says, "Bless
Muhammed ((puh)) as You blessed Abraham and the
followers of Abraham." When you make these
connections then you get the right picture.
Qur'an 46.9; Islam is no new message
Say: "I am no bringer of new-fangled doctrine among
the apostles nor do I know what will be done with me or
with you. I follow but that which is revealed to me by
inspiration: I am but a Warner open and clear."
Qur'an 2.146; They know this as they know their own
sons
"The people of the Book know this as they know their
own sons; but some of them conceal the truth which they
themselves know."
10-21-2005 'ASR p.4 of 19
Al-Islam is building on what came before and correcting
problems that were in what came before; and it is extending
the light, the guidance for what or on what came before.
This is the Qur'an. So this is the important thing to
understand. Allah reveals in the Qur'an to Muhammed
((puh)) saying, "This is no newly composed revelation."
And it says of the people of the Book speaking of
Muhammed who they were denying, although a lot of them
embraced Al-Islam, even Jews. But a lot of Christians
embraced Al Islam in the time of our Prophet Muhammed
((puh)). The Qur'an says they know him as they know their
own sons. How did they know him so well and the Arabs,
that he was born among and was one of them, they did not
know him? They knew him to be honest and trustworthy.
They called him El Amin the honest, and Saadiq, the
truthful. But they didn't recognize him as a Prophet.
Abu Sufyan, he saw great evidence in time, but he was
defiant for most of the time. But, finally, he saw great
evidence that there was serious work being done by
Muhammed, the Prophet ((puh)) and he said, "I witness
that G_d is One, but he did not witness that Muhammed
((puh)) was the Messenger. So Abu Sufyan, he knew
Muhammed close up, but he did not witness that
Muhammed ((puh)) was the Prophet. The Qur'an says the
people of the Book know him as they know their own sons,
why? Why did they know him and the Arabs did not? For
the very same reason that I have given you already where
G_d says a messenger has come from among a people who
had not received a messenger or a revelation. They did not
have revelation. The Arabs, they knew nothing about
scriptures, about Christianity, nor Judaism. They did not
know about that. If they did they just knew that there were
Jews and Christians. But to know what they believed in,
they didn't know or they didn't have access to their scriptures
such as the Bible or anything like that. And they would not
have accepted it anyway because they were a people who
thought they knew every thing and in fact they knew
hardly anything.
Qur'an 2.256; Let there be no force in religion
r
,5
1
9.9J0.11.2
)A1:1L-.4"lke
-
4,-. 4
"Let
there
be
no
compulsion in religion. Truth stands out clear from error;
whoever rejects evil and believes in Allah hath grasped
the most trustworthy hand-hold that never breaks. And
Allah heareth and knoweth all things."
They thought they were the bosses in the land and they
thought that they were the bosses of their knowledge too.
They prided themselves and when they were asked to
change they said "No, we won't change. We stand upon
what we found our fathers in or we believe as our fathers
believed." Their traditional belief in idol gods and
whatever they believed in, they didn't want to look at
anything else. They just held to that stubbornly and
would not consider anything else. But when Muhammed
((puh)) was raised up among them that changed
everything, in time.
So it is the people who read scripture who were best
situated to know Muhammed, the Prophet ((pub));
because he is a Prophet coming in the line of Prophets
and coming with scripture addressing scriptures that
came before him. This is as plain as day in the Qur'an.
The point that I'm making here that I want you to
register is, if you don't want it don't accept it. No force
comes from me. No pressure will come from me to you
to accept anything I say. And it is not only because Allah
(swt) says, "Laa ekraha fid deen," translated, "Don't
force people in religion"; or "don't compel people to do
these things in religion only. It's because I have nothing
in my soul or spirit for dominating people or wanting
you to accept what I offer you whether you like it or not,
no. If you don't like it, forget about it. Move on out of
here and give some more room to the rest of them. And
I'll be happy. I'll smile while you are leaving.
I always felt this way. But as I got older in knowledge
not just older in age I said that is a sin for someone to
say, "This is from the Lord, Creator Who made
everything and has power over everything. He can do
whatever He wills and then you want to tell somebody or
force them to believe in what G_d gave them freely as
goodness from Himself? You are going to force them to
take it. You don't do that with each other. If you see a
relative of yours or a friend trying to force something
good on another person you will stop them and say,
"Don't force that person to take that. It is only for his
own good." You don't want to be forcing it on
somebody because it is disrespecting the value of what is
being offered, if you are going to force somebody to take
something that is very valuable and for their own good.
You will say, "Don't force that on that person. Leave
him alone. Give it to me, somebody who appreciates it."
That is the normal and natural spirit of human beings in
10-21-2005 'ASR p.5 of 19
their natural life. So to me it is much worse for us to try
to impose G_d's gift or favor on somebody who is
rejecting it.
G d guides the sincere followers after their leader
passes
Perception. That is what we have in focus now for this
discussion. But not perception from the English
dictionary or any other dictionary, not perception from
my thinking or your thinking; no, perception as it is used
in the context of revelation. When you get yourself
focused right then you can follow and understand better.
Have patience and believe Allah (swt) will guide you
after I'm gone the way He has guided me. It is open to
everybody but you have to be sincere. You have to want
it not selfishly, not to show people you know something
or have something. You have to want it not for yourself,
but for all people who will receive it and remember
those who need it most and take it to them first.
What kind of doctor would go to a strong and healthy
people and start administering something to them? They
would say, "Doctor I'm alright maybe I can take an
aspirin," and there is somebody over there who needs his
leg amputated and needs a head on his body. I know
what I'm saying. Someone who has no eyes, born blind
and this particular doctor can take care of all those needs
but he goes to one who has no problem and asks, "All
you need is an aspirin, here let me get my aspirin out."
He would be insane or deserving of death right on the
spot. What is wrong with some of these Imams who
think I shouldn't address the serious needs of the African
American people? I am one and I live in their
neighborhood. I can't get away from them. I am one. I'm
in their community. I have to live with them and I am
comfortable living with them. I don't want to live with
other people. Why should I want to live with other
people? Something would be wrong with me and if they
want to live with us and not their own people something
is wrong with them. So this is just natural.
Allah (swt) is with us and He is going to be with us
whether I'm here or not. And I see signs that He is with
many of us, both males and females. He is going to stay
with us. Don't think, "What are we going to do when
Imam W. Deen Mohammed is not with us anymore?"
The same thing we did when the Honorable Elijah
Mohammed was not with us anymore. Allah (swt) is
going to show us the one we are supposed to support.
Don't worry about that and this is no farewell message.
I'm saying this for some of you, not for all of you. I
don't need to say it for myself or my family. They know
I' m full of life and I'm buzzing more than I buzzed in all
of my days. I never have been buzzing with life like I
am buzzing now, praise be to Allah (swt). And the spirit
is just like it was when I was in my twenties, thirties and
forties. The spirit is the same.
What I mean by, "The spirit is the same," I don't feel
anymore sick or aged or dying than I did back there
when I was in my twenties, thirties and forties. G_d is
my Witness. I feel nothing but youth and relief from
burden. It is not the body. It is the spirit. When you
come alive in the spirit that is the life and it even can
help your body deal with problems, avoid problems, and
sustain itself, or keep its youthfulness.
Qur'an 96.1; Read with the name of your Lord
Perception. When you read the Qur'an, if you go by
chapter, it begins with al Fatiha. But let us look at it both
ways, both progressions. As for chapters, the
organization of the material begins with al Fatiha, but
the revelation came not as the organization of the
material runs. The first word that came was in Arabic,
"Iqraa, read". If someone asks you what is the first word
that came to Muhammed, the Prophet ((puh)), you have
to say if you understand and you know, you've seen it in
the Qur'an, "Read."
And with that word "read" came how many verses? Five
verses came with that reading. It is very, very important
to understand that. "Read in the name of your Lord Who
created". It didn't say, "Read in the name of the lord of
Israel. It didn't say, "Read in the name of Allah" (swt).
No, "Read in the name of your Lord Who created".
What is the most important'? The first expression from
G_d to Muhammed ((puh)), "Read in the name of your
Lord Who created," put that group of words before your
eyes and look at it. Is there another Lord? Do I have
another Lord, one who didn't create? No, because Allah
(swt) says in the Qur'an, "You have no Lord except the
Lord of the worlds", the Lord Who created everything,
or the Lord of everything. When we think of Lord we
think of the master. Right away when the average person
speaking English thinks of the word Lord he thinks of
the master and that is what they call Jesus Christ. He is
called Lord and master almost interchangeably.
Don't stick with that kind of language to understand
Lord in Qur'an. That is the wrong meaning for Lord in
10-21-2005 'ASR p.6 of 19
Qur'an. Lord in the Qur'an has no direct reference to
master unless it is a schoolmaster, because the head of
school is also called schoolmaster. If you think of it as
schoolmaster it is good. Wasn't Jesus called teacher? So
we shouldn't even think of Jesus as a master, meaning
that he is the boss over the subject No, because he was
called master and it meant schoolmaster and it only
meant that he was a master in his field of knowledge.
You get a Master's Degree from college right now and
you get a PhD degree. But really the PhD degree is
nothing but proof that you can use your Master's
Degree, or you can use the training you got working for
the Master's Degree; that you can write a dissertation
and show, prove, your ability, that you are the authority
in this field, a dissertation, or a book or whatever.
Rabb Lord has direct connection with parenting
Lord in the Bible and also Lord in Qur'anic Arabic has a
direct connection with parenting. Rabb is Lord and also
parent. It is used just as we use parent because "Rabbaa"
is for both the mother and the father, both male and
female parents. For two parents we say, "Rabbayyaane,
to raise me up, they raised me up when I was young or
little. That is in the Qur'an. To understand "Rabb" you
have to look at the role of parents over their children.
G_d as the "Rabb" is like a parent who loves His
children and is responsible for His children. The children
are under His responsibility.
We are all, taken together, mankind, under His
responsibility as dependents. We are in G_d's hands or
in G_d's charge just as the average civilized society
would recognize that our minors are in our charge. And
He loves us like the best parent loves the children. What
is the most serious want in the parent for the children?
That their character be good, that they be intelligent and
that they have opportunity to learn and advance in the
world. The parent will, if they are parents of means, and
G_d has everything at His disposal, if they are parents of
means they will spend on those children to see that they
have a good situation, a good environment to live in and
the help they need for their minds to grow and mature.
They will see to that. When we read "Rabb" in the
Qur'an don't forget this picture that you are seeing right
now. He is One, although He did more. Some males
will say, "I created him." No you didn't, because you
didn't even know what you were doing. You were busy
taking care of your own self and you got your son. He
came into our world.
G_d, He is the One Who created everything, made
.
everything possible. Then He takes the creature that He
has already created and created him now, with five
senses and created him with power, spirit and will
power, with all these wonderful things or properties.
Then, even after doing all that, He sees His creature who
is dependent on Him in trouble; not using his five senses
properly, not having will, a spirit and drive and He
doesn't like that. So then He may not go directly to that
one. But sometimes He goes directly to that one who is
receptive. So He goes directly to that one and He causes
something to happen in that one's life, not
communicating to him like he communicates to
prophets. But He may cause that person to meet
somebody else and the happening in the coming together
of the two may change that person's life forever. It may
take him from a dull spirit to a happy spirit, take him
from a weak will to a strong will. That happens. He is
taking that which He created and He is caring for it and
watching over it and will put it in circumstances or bring
circumstances to it to help it continue to grow and
develop. G_d as the "Rabb" is the One Who cares about
the creation He created so much that He keeps watch
over it. And when He finds it is unable to advance itself,
He will come in and intervene and bring something to
happen, to occur, to turn that creature on to life and give
him hope, will power, and give him guidance,
communicate to his mind the guidance for him to
continue on the path of growth and productivity.
Allah (swt) says that He wants that you may grow. He
wants us to grow. He does not want us to stand still.
Allah (swt) wants just what the good parent wants. He
does not want that child to go to elementary school and
say, "That is enough." The good parent will say, "No,
you still can go further. Go on to high school son, or
daughter. Go to college, keep going until you get to the
top. If you can make it to the top then don't stop until
you get to the top." At least you won't be on the bottom
if you have that kind of spirit and support behind you.
Seeing G_d indirectly
Qur'an 102.7; You shall see it with certain vision
1
________________________
"
: " . "
-
4
riiNj }N")
"Again ye shall see it with certainty of sight!"
Rev. 1.7; Every eye shall see him
10-21-2005 'ASR p.7 of 19
"Behold, he cometh with clouds; and every eye shall
see him, and they also which pierced him: and all
kindreds of the earth shall wail because of him. Even so,
Amen."
Bukhari 9.502; I am as My servant see Me
Narrated Abu Huraira The Prophet said, "Allah says:
'I am just as My slave thinks I am, (i.e. I am able to do
for him what he thinks I can do for him) and I am with
him if He remembers Me.
Qur'an 7.143; Moses went to the mountain
"When Moses came to the place appointed by Us and
his Lord addressed him He said: "0 my Lord! show
(Thyself) to me that I may look upon thee." Allah said:
"by no means canst thou see Me (direct); but look upon
the mount; if it abide in its place then shalt thou see Me."
When his Lord manifested his glory on the mount He
made it as dust and Moses fell down in a swoon."
Qur'an 20.27; Moses said untie my tongue
"And remove the impediment from my speech."
People change the way we are to see G_d, the way we
are to perceive G_d and some will say, "You can't see
G_d." Yes you can see G_d. If you couldn't see Him it
wouldn't say in the scripture, "Every eye shall see Him."
Well, how are you going to see G_d'? Moses went up to
see G_d and G_d said, "You can't see Me, directly."
G_d did not say, "You can't see Me Moses". He said,
"You can't see Me, directly". How did he say that to
Moses? He said, "You can't see Me but look at the
mountain. If it stays in its place you shall see Me". But
when Moses looked to the mountain he fainted. Does
that mean everybody would faint just because Moses
fainted? Moses had a knot in his tongue and he had to
have Aaron who did not have a knot in his tongue to
help him carry out his mission. So if Aaron was up there
do you think Aaron would have fainted? My guess is
that Aaron would not have fainted. But Moses had a
knot in his tongue, and if there was a knot in his tongue
there was a knot in his brain somewhere. Someone will
say, "Oh, you're talking about the Prophet like that".
Moses was not educated, that is all I'm saying. I'm not
talking about the Prophet. Moses was not educated,
Aaron was.
Education can show us G d
Moses went up in the mountain. He was a skilled laborer
and he was very intelligent, but Moses had not been
educated in scripture so he fainted when G_d said,
"Look to the mountain". What did it mean? It was too
much for him. To see G_d by way of the mountain was
too much for him so he fainted under the strain of trying
to see. He did not have the education to know what G_d
meant. G_d meant there is a reference in that mountain
and if you see that reference in the mountain you will see
Me by reference, but not directly. That is telling us that
education can show us G_d. We can't see Him directly
but education can show us G_d. Allahu Akbar. Praise be
to Allah (swt).
Qur'an 96.1; Read in the name of your Lord
Genesis 1.1-5; In beginning was darkness let there be
light
In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth.
[2] And the earth was without form, and void; and
darkness was upon the face of the deep. And the Spirit of
God moved upon the face of the waters. [3] And God
said, Let there be light: and there was light. [4] And God
saw the light, that it was good: and God divided the light
from the darkness. [5] And God called the light Day, and
the darkness he called Night. And the evening and the
morning were the first day.
Bukhari 1.3; Prophet squeezed three times and told to
read
Narrated by Aisha (the mother of the faithful believers)
The commencement of the Divine Inspiration to Allah's
Apostle was in the form of good dreams which came true
like bright daylight, and then the love of seclusion was
bestowed upon him. He used to go in seclusion in the
cave of Hira where he used to worship (Allah alone)
continuously for many days before his desire to see his
family. He used to take with him the journey food for the
stay and then come back to (his wife) Khadija to take his
food likewise again till suddenly the Truth descended
upon him while he was in the cave of Hira. The angel
came to him and asked him to read. The Prophet
replied, "I do not know how to read."
The Prophet added, "The angel caught me (forcefully)
and pressed me so hard that I could not bear it any
more. He then released me and again asked me to read
and I replied, 'I do not know how to read.' Thereupon he
caught me again and pressed me a second time till I
10-21-2005 'ASR p.8 of 19
could not bear it any more. He then released me and
again asked me to read but again I replied, 'I do not
know how to read (or what shall I read)?' Thereupon he
caught me for the third time and pressed me, and then
released me and said, 'Read in the name of your Lord,
who has created (all that exists) has created man from a
clot. Read! And your Lord is the Most Generous." (96,1,
96.2, 96.3) Then Allah's Apostle returned with the
Inspiration and with his heart beating severely. Then he
went to Khadija bint Khuwailid and said, "Cover me!
Cover me!" They covered him till his fear was over and
after that he told her everything that had happened and
said, "I fear that something may happen to me." Khadija
replied, "Never! By Allah, Allah will never disgrace you.
You keep good relations with your kith and kin, help the
poor and the destitute, serve your guests generously
and assist the deserving calamity-afflicted ones."
I have to go slow with this. I can't rush with it. Again,
let us look at how the two Books, Bible and Qur'an,
open. One says, "Igraa, Read", as the first word. What
is the first word of Genesis? "In the beginning"... What
was in beginning? Darkness. It was everywhere. It
covered the earth. "Everywhere" means darkness was in
the whole universe as far as this particular reader or one
who was saying these things was concerned. It wasn't
G_d. This is somebody else saying something of the
time. It is not G_d speaking. In the beginning darkness
covered the earth. It was everywhere and what
happened? Spirit first, like Jibril, moved along the
surface of the water and G_d said, "Let there be light".
And in the Qur'an G_d says, "Read". They both began
the same way.
First, get past ignorance. Was there darkness before
"Read" in this communication with Muhammed ((puh))?
Yes, there was and how do we know? The command
said, "Read", and he said, "I can't read". Then, G_d told
him again, "Read". He said, "I can't read". But on the
third time he began reading, why? Because the spirit
moved along the face of the water and the light appeared
from the depth.
Genesis 1.16; Lesser and greater light made
And God made two great lights; the greater light to
rule the day, and the lesser light to rule the night: he
made the stars also."
And it said there was darkness upon the deep and G _ d
said let there be light and there was light. Now there was
darkness upon the deep but where did the light appear?
Did the light appear in the depth of the waters'? No, the
light appeared above, in the heavens. It says He hung the
lesser light that is the moon and then He hung the greater
light that is the sun. This is progress not for a physical
person watching something happening in the material
reality. No, this is for a curious person, who wants so see
the light, who wants understanding, who wants
perception for his life in religion.
Light of the moon is the light of faith, the light of
thought
The first light is the light of the moon. What is that
light, the light of the moon'? The light of the moon is the
light of faith, the light of thought in the head. You do not
have to be educated, you just start thinking and can't you
see a little bit? The average man, if he would just think,
couldn't he see a little bit? The moon has no light of its
own. The Honorable Elijah Muharnmed taught us that
the moon's light is only the reflection of the sun. And
the sunlight is a light that is free of the earth. And it is a
light that shines on the whole earth. We may say
universal light.
Abraham came to understanding by observing the
universe
Qur'an. 6.75; Abraham searched for G d
75.
So also did We show Abraham the power and
the laws of the heavens and the earth that he
might (with understanding) have certitude.
76. When the night covered him over he saw a star: he
said: "this is my Lord." But when it set he said: "I
love not those that set."
77.
When he saw the moon rising in splendor He
said:
"This is my Lord." but when the moon set he said:
"Unless my Lord guide me I shall surely be among
those who go astray."
78. When he saw the sun rising in splendor he said:
"This is my Lord; this is the greatest (of all)." But
when the sun set he said: "0 my people! I am
(now) free from your (guilt) of giving partners to
Allah.
79. "For me I have set my face firmly and truly toward
Him Who created the heavens and the earth, and
never shall I give partners to Allah."
So man is trying to understand things. He is trying to use
his own mind. But as long as he is isolated from the
universe, he is not connected with the universe, he can
only be a moon showing himself in the dark. When the
light of day comes you can hardly find him. This is
what this is all about. The first light that dawns for man
10-21-2005 'ASR p.9 of 19
is the light of morality, the light of fear, the light of
decency, the light of his own thinking. But as man
studies and grows in knowledge of the material universe
he stops depending on his own thinking and he submits
his thinking, or subjects his thinking to the truth and to
the knowledge and sciences that he comes by. And he
does this by separating himself from his own thinking
and listening to the communication that comes from the
universe itself. The creation of G_d communicates to
man's mind. G_d created the human mind for the
universe and created the universe for the human mind.
And once you get that interest where you want to
understand the whole workings like Abraham did...He
did not come to the right conclusion until he observed
the whole world, the universe, the sky, and everything.
That is how he came to right thinking.
Moon represents spiritual mind, man's own thinking
The moon represents the spiritual mind and that which
man has to begin with. He begins with a spiritual mind
and if G_d blesses him to have curiosity or wants him to
know how the universe works, how the material system
works, eventually he will stop having a spiritual mind
and he will start having a scientific mind. He will move
from a spiritual mind to a scientific mind, or he will
move from being supported by his own thinking to being
objective and that means submitting his thinking to that
which is superior to his thinking that he gets from
observing the objective world, the universe.
In the beginning is the beginning of a particular
civilization
Perception is what it is all about, but not perception in
any context, perception in the scriptural context. So
these are people who believe in G d and it begins with
people who believe in G_d. So when the Bible says, "In
the beginning", as the Honorable Elijah Mohammed's
teacher told him, it is not the beginning of mankind. It is
the beginning of a particular civilization. That was not
quite right, but it is the beginning of man as a spiritual
creature recognizing that there is something bigger than
his material reality and that it is unseen and the spiritual
reality. That is the beginning of man as a spiritual
creature and as a spiritual entity trying to understand the
world.
The spiritual side of man's nature opened up the world
It is the spiritual side of man's nature that opens up the
world for him. Isn't that something? It is not his
material side that opens up the material world to him. It
is his spiritual side that opens up the material world for
him. And the proof of that is that the people who begin
their life in history as servants of G_d, as people of
scripture, they are the ones who have advanced the
world the most and they are the ones who are in power
now. Who are they? The people of the Book. The
Muslims were in power at one time but we lost it and
now it is the Christians and the Jews. Mainly, the
Christians are in power and the Jew he knows how to tag
along. So he's in power, too, tagging along and I don't
know what the Muslims are doing. They are not even
tagging. They are just hitting at something that isn't
there. It is pitiful! Not all of them are like that, but that is
the shape of the world of the Muslims. The picture of the
Muslim world is just what I described to you. We know
there is the exception. Some of them see problems, too,
and they are trying to do the best they can in their little
situation to awaken the Muslim ummah. It is very
difficult.
G_d wanted Adam to go to sleep to his own
perception
Genesis 2.21-22; Eve from rib of Adam in deep sleep
And the Lord God caused a deep sleep to fall upon
Adam and he slept: and he took one of his ribs, and
closed up the flesh instead thereof; [22] And the rib,
which the Lord God had taken from man, made he a
woman, and brought her unto the man.
Perception. That is our focus. I have read the Bible and
you perhaps have read the Bible, too, where there were
people who were trying to find a way, trying to see the
way for themselves in their life given the reality that
they were put in by G d. These people were called seers
at one time, not Prophets. They were called seers and
then the Bible has a theme, if you can follow it, from
Genesis to Revelation. And what is that theme? The
theme is perception.
The first man created is our father, Adam. And what
happened to him? First, let us go to the Bible. G_d
caused him to go into a deep sleep. He was made but
G_d caused him to go into a deep sleep. We think that
just says we should picture a man alive walking about
and then suddenly he falls down and goes to sleep. G_d
caused him to go to sleep to his perception. G_d wanted
10-21-2005 'ASR p.10 of 19
him to go to sleep to his own perception. When we close
our eyes we dream, we can't command our thinking and
we have also dreamers in scripture who said he received
a dream. It was no ordinary dream. This is me, speaking
in the language of the Bible, not my language. He
received a dream that gave him guidance. He woke up
from his dream and he realized that dream was a
message from G_d and G_d wanted him to do
something. So dreams come on different levels, not just
the ordinary level of the common person going to sleep
dreaming. It comes on a higher level than that, for
guidance can come to you while you are asleep in your
dream.
Adam fell into a deep sleep, so he would not be in
charge of his own mind, his own thinking. So G_d made
him dependent solely upon G_d. He didn't have power
to think the way he wanted to think. His mind was out of
his hands. G_d took his mind out of his control and G_d
said it is not good that the man should be alone. So then
He took from man a rib and from the rib of the man He
made his mate, a woman. Here it is going to get so good!
This is Ramadan. I told you this is the month I get more
blessing than any other time of the year. I heard many
comments on that rib. One Imam told me, [He was not
from our community. 1-le is from overseas but he is a
citizen here in the United States. I don't know if he got
his citizenship or not. He had been here a long time. He
used somebody else's name but he did not give their
name] he said, "So and so said "The reason why G_d
made woman from a rib of the man is because you can't
straighten it out. If you try you will break it." He is a
Muslim now but he is using the Bible. You see what
they do, sisters? They don't follow the logic. They don't
follow the sunnah when they want to say something
about you, or they want to keep you in your place
beneath them. I see some brothers up here saying,
"That's right." I don't buy that. I don't buy any
disrespect to Allah's creation, especially to a human
being. I wish he were here now to hear what G_d has
blessed me with.
Rib a sign of universal knowledge
Qur'an 4.1; Mankind made from a single soul
Eve from rib of Adam in deep sleep
G_d made the community from a rib. I didn't say
woman. I didn't say female. I said community. G_d
made the community from a rib of man, because a rib is
an arch or part of circle. A curved line if you keep
extending it, what did Einstein say would happen? It
comes right back to itself. If you keep extending it, it
will complete the circle. So the curved line will
eventually give you the full circle. And what is the full
circle? The universe, everything. So it is just a hint or a
sign of universality, universal knowledge, universal
perception, where man makes connection by studying
the whole system that G_d created, the whole system of
matter. He makes connection and comes to a whole and
he has a whole knowledge instead of part knowledge or
piece of knowledge that eventually takes him to whole
knowledge.
A living soul means a thinking man
Qur'an 32.9; When I breath My breath in him then bow
Genesis 2.7; G d breathed in man and he became
living soul
"And the Lord God formed man of the dust of the
ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life;
and man became a living soul,"
This woman that is being made from the rib of the man
is a society, or a community, or a worldview for the
whole world that is being made from an appetite in the
consciousness or in the soul of this man to complete his
knowledge. He has an appetite to complete his
knowledge. He's not confining his curiosity o r his
interest to a locality or to the local place where he is. He
is looking at the sky thinking about the whole vast world
that he sees with his eyes and he wants to make that
knowledge complete. So eventually he strains. When he
begins that kind of thinking he has already formed a .
small arc or a small curve. Its effort is to make the
whole to come to completion, so he has only gotten so
much like the rib. The rib responds to breath and G_d
says in both scriptures, Bible and Qur'an, He breathed
into man the breath of life and man became a living soul.
So if I would tell you that this story of the wife or the
mate being made from the rib of the man is saying no
more than G_d breathed into the man the breath of life
and man became a living soul, I would be correct
whether you can see it or not. It is saying the same thing.
When G_d says man was not formed yet, he was not
alive and G_d breathed into the man the breath of life of
His own breath meaning, "Men Ruhee," His own breath,
from His own spirit, meaning inspiration and will. When
10-21-2005 'ASR p.11 of 19
He breathed that into the man or He communicated that
into the man the man become a living soul. What is the
difference between a living soul and a soul not living?
A soul not Living is a person not thinking and a soul
living is one thinking. So He took a man who wasn't
thinking and He started him to thinking and according to
the Qur'an until you think you don't exist, because Allah
(swt) made "llhakr" and "Untha", men and women. And
when He made Jesus Christ G_d's revelation comments
on the mother and the child, the mother being female
and the child being male and He says, "Laysa dhakra kal
untha," translated "The male is not like the female." But
what dhakir'? It is the thinker and you will get that in
another part of the Qur'an where it says and "The
thinking men and the thinking women.
Qur'an 33.35; Women thinkers communication for the
Qur'an to Muhammed ((pub)). It said, "Read." It goes
directly to the real meaning, not indirectly by giving
you metaphors or a story and pictures. It goes right
directly to it. The first word says, "Read."
When we read of the blind in scripture, are they blind'?
No, they are blind to the light of G_d. They are
uninformed. They are uneducated. Do you think G_d
would send revelation from Himself to a human being to
tell him how to treat physical blindness in somebody's
eye? You can read the Bible and Qur'an at the same
time for ten years to a blind man and his eyes will stay
blind, if he is blind in that physical way. You have to
send him to somebody who reads and the one who reads
and knows the sciences of the eye maybe he can give
that poor fellow his eyesight back or at least improve his
sight maybe. But revelation, as I say, you can make it
into liquid and pour it over his eyes for ten thousand
years and he will still be blind. It is not talking about.
that.
Thank Allah (swt) for the Honorable Elijah Mohammed
and his teacher who sent him on the right road for his
good senses, that we do not have to be convinced of that.
We who followed the Honorable Elijah Mohammed you
don't have to convince us that it must be talking about a
person who is mentally blind.
J
Muslim men and women for believing
"Ye shall certainly see Hell Fire!
men and women for devout men and women
for true men and women for men and women
who are patient and constant for men and
women who humble themselves for men and
women who give in charity for men and
women who fast (and deny themselves) for
What does the Qur'an say? It did not say you should see
G_d, but it says the person who loses his life, who has
lost the life that G_d created him for, he lost his own
soul that G_d created and he indulged the wicked world,
in sin, he shall certainly see hell.
men and women who guard their chastity and
for men and women who engage much in
Allah's praise (Thinking) for them has Allah
prepared forgiveness and great reward. "
The Qur'an and the Bible have the same subject being
addressed in the beginning. If you understand the
Genesis it is addressing ignorance being in the world.
The world is in ignorance and G_d does not accept that
His creation that He created for civilization, for
education, be in ignorance. So
G_d brings His creation out of ignorance. This is
Genesis. And the same is for the beginning of
Qur'an. 102.6; You shall certainly see hell
And he shall see it with sure vision. It will be no
mistake, no possibility of him being in doubt that he is
not looking at hell. The Qur'an says he shall see it in
Arabic, "Aynal yaqeen," meaning perfect sight, perfect
vision. But it is not only G_d that the people long to
have the right understanding of or the right perception
of. It is also hell. The mad witch doctors is preaching
hell, too, saying, "You are headed for the hell fire with
flames like huge demons." They hear that man and say
"G_d will I ever understand this? Please one day help
me to see hell as it really it. Is this the picture, G_d? I
10-21-2005 'ASR p.12 of 19
don't believe you are this cruel. When you touch me it is
with kindness and mercy and love. I don't believe You
want this for any creature."
So we want to see also this hell that they told us about
and Allah (swt) is saying to us through Whammed, the
Prophet ((puh)), He revealed to him that we are going to
see hell with sure vision, certain sight, sharp, clear sight.
And I witness today that hell is so plain and obvious in
the life of people today that we see it with sharp, clear
vision.
It says in Arabic, "Latarawunnal jahecm, thumma
latarawun nahaa aynal yaqeen", translated, "You shall
see the hell then you will not be questioning the promise
of G_d that He promises." He promises blessing to His
faithful ones. You won't be questioning that anymore
because you will see what happens to His unfaithful
ones. And you will know those who escape that are His
faithful ones and you will know that it is G_d Who
saved them because they live in the name of G_d. They
live fearing and trusting G_d. And when you see that the
fire is not consuming and burning them or keeping them
in agony, they are spared and others are in hell, you and
others like you are in hell, you will not be asking, "Prove
to me that G_d is going to give you all of these things
you are saying. Prove to me that this G_d can save you
from all these things you say He can save you from."
Many times they see your life and they see you living a
good, decent life and they are living a hellish life filled
with hell and they still say, "I don't want to listen to that
old religion you are talking about. I don't see it doing
much for you." Now they are drunk in jail half of the
time, getting beat up on the street and you are not
suffering any of that. When hell gets near enough in its
full fury they are going to wake up. They are going to
see it and a lot of them are waking up right now. They
are seeing it, especially the people of scripture.
Remember we're talking in the context of scripture.
The people of scripture they can see that this is a time
that we ought to be giving ourselves to reflection on the
words of G_d. They know that because they see that this
is not an ordinary condition in this life. This is a
condition that we find a picture of in the prophecy that
we find in scripture. There we see a picture of this thing
that we have in our life today where mama cannot reach
daughter, father cannot reach son. There is a separation
put between them and no matter how much the children
are suffering we can't reach them to help them and they
can't reach us. They don't want to reach us. They refuse
to reach us.
So parent and children are now separated and you can't
even communicate to them. The child is in hell fire and
you can't talk to him. And G _ d has left it to its own
wishes, and it can't even reach you, no reasoning can
make the child reach you. And you fail because he is not
receptive or she is not receptive to anything you have to
say. We suffer that but Allah (swt) saved me. When you
give yourself completely to Allah (swt), He will protect
you from all had influences. I don't care if it comes from
your children He will protect your private environment
of your soul, your mind and your spirit, etc. He will
protect from anything that attempts to penetrate it to
make you miserable. The more you love them the pain is
more; because the more you understand G_d, the more
you love them, to. You love them the same and even
more, but they can't make your life miserable. That's the
blessing to be in heaven and unreachable by anything
from hell.
Imam Mohammed read the Bible several times
In the Bible I came across this reading. I read the whole
Bible. There is not a word in the Bible that I have not
read. 1 read it all the way through from the first words in
Genesis to the last word of Revelation. I did this as a
duty 1 placed upon myself. I said I'm committing myself
to work for al Islam. I shouldn't be inviting people to al
Islam from their religion and not know at least what
governs their life, what is given to them to govern their
life, that is the Bible. So I made it my duty because I felt
it would not be intelligent of me or right of me not even
sensible of me to say I'm going to invite these people to
come out of what they are in and I do not know what
they are in.
So I read the Bible. I said of the first reading, "I'm going
to not take time to question anything. I'm not going to
interrupt the reading to try to see anything in it. I'm just
going to read it", and that is what I did. G_d blessed me
to follow my own decision and I read the Bible from
Genesis to Revelation.
But before I did that in the same breath almost I said,
"After I read it and complete my reading then I'm going
to start all over again from Genesis and I'm going to
pick it apart". That was my commitment to myself and
that is what I did. It so happened I was in Libya. I went
over seas to make Umra and while I was making Umraa
10-21-2005 'ASR p.13 of 19
I wanted to go to Iran, because with my route I would
not have to pay that much more money. I would have
been able to come from the precincts of Mecca, from
umraa, and go to Iran (I thought) and then from Iran I
wanted to go to Libya. And I didn't think I could go any
more than that on my ticket. But if I could have I wanted
to go to Egypt and into Sudan and other places; but I
couldn't.
a white cover. It happened that way. I'm telling you that
G_d is in my life. He's been in my life all of the time.
This custom agent said, "This one, what is this for?" I
said, "I've been studying it and making a lot of notes in
it." He couldn't follow the notes. I knew I was going to
have a lot of reading to do to qualify for what I wanted,
so I had gone to school and learned my own short hand.
There was no way he could read the short hand of mine.
It would drive him crazy trying to figure out what I
wrote. He said, right after picking up the Bible and
asking me what it was, "We believe that there is a person
who is going to come to lead the Muslims. Maybe you
are that person." That's what he said. And he gave my
belongings to me and I went on.
I made plans to go to Iran and Libya. When I went to see
if 1 could get my ticket to take me to Iran they refused to
permit me into Iran. It was not the airline. It was Iran. It
refused to permit me a visa to come into Iran, but Libya
did. Libya allowed me to come there. They gave me a
visa right at the airport. As I got off of the plane they
were right there to meet me and they gave me a visa.
They wrote me an entry permit and I went into Libya.
Perception is enlightenment for the mind
I went straight to a hotel called, Funduk Firdaus.
"Funduk" is Arabic for "hotel". Who can tell me what
Firdaus is? Paradise. The hotel that I was in, in Saudi
Arabia, was called Yamama. It does not mean what it
sounds like but that is what it said to me. It said, "Your
mama," and you know that's swearing if somebody says
"your mama". It was not a curse word but it sure was a
light curse on me, because they charged me too much to
stay at that hotel that was not that classy and my money
was running out. It was taking all of my money to stay at
the hotel and they were not nice and friendly at all.
So it is perception from cover to cover. Perception then,
is what? Enlightenment for the mind. And the things that
were in the way of our minds being enlightened as our
Creator intended for our minds to be enlightened is the
perception that we got from the religious world of man,
of woman, of the world, of G_d, of hell, of heaven. All
these things burdened the true, sincere believer who
wants so to obey G_d, but there is a lot of stuff that
doesn't quite respect my intelligence. I'm speaking in
the position of the common person who is sincere and
wants to understand. He says, "I want to understand this,
0_4, I don't want to turn against you. I want to
understand You."
But I went to this hotel called Firdaus and I met there
young students who were staying at the hotel. It was
mostly occupied by young students and there was just a
few of us, like myself. Really, in comparison to what I
experienced at Yamama hotel and what I experienced in
Libya it was like coming from a person who said, "Your
mama" to a situation like paradise. It was very nice
there, very clean. The people were friendly and nice. The
students were very respectful.
Gen 1.5; Evening and the morning was the first day
As I am coming back home, leaving Libya, I had to go
back through checkpoints, customs. They had already
gone through all of my things so an agent pulled out a
book by Alvin Toffler. I was reading it and he said, "I
like this book" and he put the book back into my bag.
Then he pulled out the Bible. The first Bible I did the
reading in was not the Bible I did the next reading in. I
had more than one Bible in the house. The first one had
a black cover. This one that I picked apart had a white
covering on it. I didn't decide this. It happened without
me deciding anything. I did not decide to pick up a black
Bible and I did not decide to pick apart the one that had
.
G_d is saying that you will understand one day. The •
Bible says, "The eve and the morning was the first day."
Here is darkness put before light. The eve is the
beginning of darkness coming and the morning is the
beginning of day coming. So the beginning of the first
day for G_d's creature is darkness and it starts with a
little darkness and it gets darker and darker; not in one
day as we're thinking, but in the history of mankind.
Week end weak
You take natural man with his natural common senses
who can't see clearly but he can see a little bit. He is
like the evening and you give him your communication
and he becomes thoroughly blind, all together blind,
can't see a thing. But the same G_d Who permitted that
10-21-2005 'ASR p.14 of 19
is going to also bring the morning. The morning is going
to come not at once but it is going to grow gradually out
of the darkness until man is in the full light of day. This
is something that happens over and over again. We say
seven days in a week, and look what they call seven days
when the seven days are over, weekend. if the last of the
days of that seven is a weak end then what was Monday
or Sunday? That must be the strong end.
When you think about the life of the Christian world,
Sunday is the day you go to church. That is your strong
day. It is the first day of the week for Christians. You get
weaker and weaker. You have your strong day, Sunday.
Monday, a song says, "I do not' have a cent and they
don't show up no more. But Friday you have money, by
Monday you don't have a cent". That's a song by Lady
Day, Billie Holiday.
Monday you're a little weaker, Tuesday still weaker,
Wednesday still weaker, Thursday, thirsty. Are you
thirsty? Friday, I looked it up. You do not have to look
it up, it is "Free day. You get paid and you are free for
the weekend. The boss lets you go on Friday, normally.
Saturday you spend and are having your fun and Sunday
you go to church and start the week all over again and
go back to get your heart, mind and spirit in the right
place. And then you go hack to the boss and the boss
takes you to the weekend. Not week, but w.e.a.k. He
takes you to the weak end. He is not doing that,
intentionally. All he does is give you an opportunity to
make money and the world influences how you will
spend that money and that is the weak end.
Muhammed is our Prophet
We conclude with this reference in the Bible to
Muhammed, the Prophet ((puh)). It could have been to
anybody before Muhammed, the Prophet ((pub)). But in
his time its reference is to him. And since he did it there
is not need for another to do it. It is already done, so he
is the last, the seal of the Prophets. He is our Prophet.
What does that mean? Any Muslim will tell you that
Muhammed, the Prophet ((puh)) taught us to say, "Our
Prophet", because just as intelligence or intelligent
perception is the inheritance of every human being,
likewise, is the human capacity we call "prophet status",
or "prophet station", or the capacity to receive revelation
on the level of a prophet. it is in human nature. It is in all
of us. We have this so clearly in the teaching of the
Prophet ((puh)).
This capacity is in all human beings. Every person born
is born a Muslim. As he comes from the creation, from
Creator, every person is born a Muslim. And every
person is born with the same capacity to enlarge upon its
life. But Allah (swt) only grants it to certain ones to
come into the full capacity. We are not prophets. We
have the capacity to be it, but we are not prophets. We
didn't have the circumstances and we did not have the
mind and spirit to bring that capacity to its fullness or its
completion. But we have it. We're human and all of us
become human because we're human.
They have it in other religions, too; not just the Jains, but
they are one of them, a group that still lives. I did not
think they were still existing, when I was studying them,
because I knew of no Jains. But they are living. In fact, I
know one of their leaders a very nice, very kind man. He
likes me and I like him.
Qur'an 17.1; Prophet's night journey
"Glory to (Allah) Who did take His Servant for Journey
by night from the Sacred Mosque to the Farthest
Mosque whose precincts We did Bless in order that We
might show him some of Our Signs: for He is the one
Who heareth and seeth (all things).
Jain religious belief is similar to belief in the Body of
Christ
1 Cor. 12.27; Members of the Body Christ
"Now ye are the body of Christ, and members in
particular."
John 14.2-3; I go to prepare lace foryou
"In my Father's house are many mansions: if it were
not so. I would have told you. I go to prepare a place for
you. [3] And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will
come again, and receive you unto myself; that where I
am, there ye may be also."
They have this idea of a huge figure of a man and they
imagine him being as big as the whole universe. His
head goes up high and his feet are low, the cosmic man.
Their belief is that common men in their ordinary
smallness should be aspiring to see light. And once they
see the light of truth and they are connected with the real
light of truth, then they will become a part it; and their
light will merge with the light of this big creature. They
10-21-2005 'ASR p.15 of 19
will become one with the big creature. Doesn't that
sound similar to what the Christian religion tells you? If
you believe that Jesus said, "You are members of my
body and I prepared a room and if you are faithful you
will one day be in Christ", the language and thinking is
similar. It is talking about the same thing.
Muhammed ((puh)) gave us this picture. He said that he
was lifted up from the earth, from where? The Kabah.
He was in Mecca at the House and G_d lifted him up
from the Kabah, up into the higher regions of the world,
or of the atmosphere, or the sky. And as he was lifted up
he saw on one level Adam, which means that Adam is in
paradise. He is not on earth. In Muhammed's vision, or
travel while he was in this state, he saw Adam on a level
above the reality that we know.
He was lifted up still higher to a second level and he saw
Jesus Christ and John, peace be upon the Prophets. And
he was lifted to a third level and he saw Joseph, Yusuf;
and to a fourth level where he saw Idris. He was lifted
up to a fifth level and he saw Aaron and to the sixth
level and he saw Moses. He was lifted up to the seventh
level, the one that the Bible scripture says is in the
highest heaven. Seven is the highest heaven. He comes
to that highest heaven and he greeted the first level,
Adam, saying, "My father", and he greeted all other
levels until he reached Abraham, saying to the Prophets,
"My brother." And on the highest level, Abraham's
level, he said, "My father, Ibraheem."
insight, he was able to go to Medina and they had invited
him there because he was persecuted in Mecca. They
said, "Come here, we welcome your people." So he went
there and he began the building of the ummah and in less
than eleven years he had achieved the success. He had,
established the ummah in Arabia. The whole of Arabia
had come under Al Islam and he had also begun to reach
distant places with the message of Al Islam, Africa,
Persia, even European people.
Prophet Muhammed represents the last elevation in the
ascent of all human beings
This is our last Prophet ((puh)) who represents the last
elevation in our ascent, in every human being's ascent.
When we impregnate our wives science says thousands
of germs of sperm that could possibly be sons and
daughters go out, but only one or two manages to mature
and come to us as a new child or twins. Look how many
persons our population is. We have over 5 billion on
earth and it is like a big burst of germs. I doubt if you
can find five who are fit to lead all of us in scripture. I
don't mean that they are dirty. They just do not have the
knowledge.
Qur'an 2.78; The Book they know not but only
conjecture
"And there are among them illiterates who know not the
Book but (see therein their own) desires and they do
nothing but conjecture."
Amos 8.11; Famine of hearing word of G d
G_d took him in that travel upward through seven levels
and carried him across, horizontally. That is why it is a
lifting up and a travel, both. It took him by way of travel
to the farthest Mosque in Jerusalem.to the spot that
represents the kingdom, the great achievement in
governmental for the people of the Book in civilization
and in government. He comes from that experience and
what is the next big event in his life? The migration from
Mecca to Medina and what was that for? What did that
open up? The establishment of the community that Allah
(swt) wanted him to establish for the new people of
scripture, the Muslims. He established the ummah in
Medinah, so what is this telling us? That G_d,showed
him the seven heavens and completed his vision, and
took him to the place where the people of the Book
achieved their greatest accomplishment that was made
there, where the kingdom of Solomon was, the son of
David, peace upon them .
.
With that experience that gave him great knowledge and
"Behold, the days come, saith the Lord God, that I will
send a famine in the land, not a famine of bread, nor a
thirst for water, but of hearing the words of the Lord:"
They can preach ethics to you but they don't have the
key. They can give you faith and they can educate you in
the world but they can't turn the light on to the meaning
of heaven, hell, man's origin, man's purpose in this
world. This is not my position. Scripture says, "Most of
them do not know the book except by faith"; and again,
"except by conjecture", except by "Yathunna," opinion.
They have their opinion. Don't you know if they really
had what you are getting they could unite themselves? If
one Christian leader on this earth had what I'm giving
you he could unite the rest of the churches and
Christians.
10-21-2005 'ASR p.16 of 19
Muslims left the guidance
You might ask, "Why don't you unite the Mosques?"
They arc not worthy of it. That is why Allah (swt) is not
causing them to see what is happening here among you.
They have failed and have proven to be unworthy of
what you are getting. So Allah (swt) is going to make it
happen and when it has happened in a big way, then
Allah (swt) will let them see it. They are going to see it
in time but they are not going to have any part in its
construction or in its making, because they failed. And
they did not fail because they did not have guidance.
They failed because they left guidance for their own
interests.
The Bible says there was darkness all over the world and
a famine all over the world. It says it was not a famine of
food or the absence of food. It was a famine of hearing
the words of the Lord, all over the world. What
happened? A man comes by the Book and tries to read it
and he can't read it. So he says, "I' m going take this
Book to someone to see if they can read this to me". He
takes the Book and he finds someone and he says, "Read
this to me" and this person looks at the Book and says,
"I can't read. I'm not a man of letters", meaning, "1 have
not been educated. I can't read it". So he goes on and
keeps going and he finally takes it to another man and
the second man says in words, "I can read letters, but I
can't read this because it is sealed". That means it's
locked up against my attempt to read it. It locks out the
reader. That is the way that story ends.
Now here comes the revelation to Muhammed ((puh))
and the first word of G_d to him is, "Read!" How is it
that their scholars, their leaders, don't make connections
with this? Because they are afraid of the Bible. They are
afraid that if they read the Bible, they will be converted
to Christianity. They fear reading the Bible because it
might break their faith. So, they don't read the Bible.
Ahmed Deedat read the Bible in South Africa, but he
never came upon that. I don't know how he missed it
because that is powerful evidence that Muhammed
((puh)) is the prophesied one in the scriptures of the
people of the Book.
Revelations 5.6, 7, 9; A lamb broke the seven seals
[6] And I beheld, and, lo, in the midst of the throne
and of the four beasts, and in the midst of the elders,
stood a Lamb as it had been slain, having seven horns
and seven eyes, which are the seven Spirits of God sent
forth into all the earth. [7] And he came and took the
book out of the right hand of him that sat upon the
throne.[9] And they sung a new song, saying, Thou art
worthy to take the book, and to open the seals thereof:
for thou wast slain, and hast redeemed us to God by thy
blood out of every kindred, and tongue, and people, and
nation;
WD Mohammed has broken the seals
It says, finally, in the New Testament, not in the Old
Testament, the little lamb reached up and he took the
Book and broke the seven seals. It was sealed but he
broke the seven seals. They say that is Jesus Christ. He
was the one who broke the seven seals. Maybe so. He
might have broken the seven seals but not much came
out, except the moon. It took Muhammed ((puh)) to
bring us into the full light of day. It was Muhammed
((puh)) who brought the world into the full light of day;
and it is the same spirit that Allah (swt) blessed
Muhammed (puh) with that has come to the son of
Elijah Muhammed by way of His word in the Qur'an
and by His communication that He has in everything that
He made. He has fed my soul from everything that He
made. And the son of the Honorable Elijah Mohammed
has broken the seals.
Iftar dud the word Fear represent the thirst for
understanding
In the Iftar dua there is the word for food and the next
word is "Khauf', fear, and that's water. He gave us
water for our thirst. Those who fear, they thirst for
understanding. Mr. Fard, he knew the formula. He said,
"If a man is starving, dying of hunger, you don't take
him a glass of water first. You give him some food first,
then the water comes later.
Al Hadith 1p.360#109w; Scholars are near the
Prophets
Ibn Abbas reported the Prophet (((puh))) said "The
nearest of men in the rank of Prophet-hood are the
learned and the fighters for Religion."
Miskat Siddiqui 1p.133#212; Scholars are heirs of
Prophets
Abu Darda reported the Prophet ((puh)) said,
"Verily the scholars are the heirs of the Prophets."
10-21-2005 'ASR p.17 of 19
I had an experience now and there is a saying, "What is
not meant for you, you won't get it." I'm going to share
something with you. I hesitate to do it in the month of
Ramadan. I think it might have been the 12 th of October.
I made a dua' to Allah (swt) and it went like this, "Oh
Allah, please permit that my sincere students and I be in
paradise, together." And a communication came to me
and it said ,"You will be in paradise with Muhammed,
My servant, the Prophet ((pill -))."
1 wanted to share that with you. I was praying for you
and me and I believe it. We will be in paradise with
Muhammed, our Prophet ((puh)). He said the scholars
will be in ranks next to the prophets. That is not for all
of us. Some of us, we can't buy it. Some of us don't
want to be next to the Prophet ((pub)). There is no
creature that Allah (swt) made that I want to be close to
more than I want to be close to Muhammed, the Prophet
((puh)). He is the joy of my life. If I could have been in
that time that he was in, if I could have just been a
distance from him like some of you sitting way in the
back, what a joy that would be just to see him with my
eyes and to hear his voice with my ears; and to feel him
with my soul up close like that.
Iftar take a date, a little water and pray immediately
We want to make Magrib Prayer. We made Iftar and I
didn't eat much and I took just a drink of water. That is
enough. Now we should pray. If G _d is so kind and
merciful to us not to hold us to praying first, and then we
eat, then we should make it quick and get to our prayer.
The sunnah prayer before Fajr is extremely important
and sunnah prayer after Magrib is very important.
Index 10-21-2005 Asr
Qur'an 13.16; Allah is the Creator of everything 1;
Qur'an 2.2; Qur'an for those who believe 2;
Qur'an 46.9; Islam is no new message 23;
Qur'an 2.146; They know this as they know their sons
2;
Qur'an 102.7; You shall see with certain sight 6;
Qur'an 7.143; Moses went to the mountain 6;
Qur'an 20.27; Moses said untie my tongue 6;
Qur'an 96.1; Read with the name of your Lord 7
Qur'an 33.35; Thinking women 10;
Qur'an. 102.6; You shall certainly see hell 10;
Qur'an 4.1; Mankind made from a single soul 9;
10-21-2005 'ASR p.18 of 19
Qur'an 32.9; When I breath My breath in him then bow
9;
Qur'an 17.1; Prophet's night journey 14;
Qur'an 2.78; Book know not but conjecture 15;
Bukhari 1.3; Prophet squeezed three times, told to read
7;
Bukhari 9.502; I am as My servant see Me 6;
Al Hadith 1p.360#109w; Scholars near the Prophets
16;
Miskat Siddiqui 1p.133#212; Scholars heirs of
Prophets 16;
Rev. 1.7; Every eye shall see him 6;
Genesis 1.1-5; In beginning darkness let there be light
6, 7;
Genesis 1.16; Lesser and greater light made 6, 7;
Genesis 2.21-22; Eve from rib of Adam in deep sleep 8,
9;
Gen 1.5; Evening and morning was the first day 12;
Genesis 2.7; G_d breath in man, he became living soul
9;
1 Car. 12.27; Members of the Body Christ 14;
John 14.2-3; I go to prepare place for you 14;
Amos 8.11; Famine of hearing word of G_d 15;
Rev 5.6, 7, 9; Lamb broke the seven seals 15;
a-1
Abraham
a- came to understanding by observing the universe 8;
Allah
a- Allah is the Creator of everything 1;
a- G_d breath in man and he became living soul 9;
a- I am as My servant see Me 6;
a- see Education can show us G_d 6;
a- Eve from rib of Adam in deep sleep 8, 9;
Adam
a- Eve from rib of Adam in deep sleep 8, 9;
a- G_d wanted him to go to sleep to his own perception
8, 9;
Ascent
a- Muhammed represents the last elevation in all human
being's ascent 14;
b-1
Begin
h- In the beginning is the beginning of civilization 8;
g-110 21 2005 'ASR
-
-
p.19 of 19
Fear is thirst for understanding 15;
Body Christ
b- Jain religious belief similar to belief of Body Christ
13, 14;
b- Members of the Body Christ 14;
Book know not but conjecture 15;
Breath
G_d in man he became living soul a thinking man 9,
10;
b.- When 1 breath My breath in him then how 9;
c-1
Christ Members of the Body Christ 14;
Christian
c- Jain religious belief similar to belief of Body Christ
13, 14;
d-1
Dark In beginning was darkness let there be light 6, 7;
Day Evening and morning was the first day 12;
Du a
d- Iftar dua' the word Fear represents the thirst for
understanding 16;
e-1
Education
e- can show us G_d 6;
e- In beginning was darkness let there be light 6, 7;
e- Prophet squeezed three times and told to read 7;
e- Read with the name of your Lord 7;
e- Scholars near the Prophets 16;
Eve
e- from rib of Adam in deep sleep 8, 9;
e- Evening and morning was the first day 12;
Eye shall see certain sight 10;
f-1
Faith
f- Light of the moon is the light of faith, the light
thought 7;
Famine of hearing word of G_d 15;
Fast Iftar take a date, a little water and pray immediately
16;
G_d, God I am as My servant sees Me 6;
h-1
Hell You shall certainly see hell 10;
Human Muhammed represents the last elevation in all
human beings' ascent 14;
i-1
Al Islam
a- is bigger than government and outlives it 2;
I Islam is no new message 3;
lftar
dua' the word Fear represents the thirst for
understanding
16;
i-take a date, a little water and pray immediately 16;
Interfaith Islam is no new message 3;
Israa Prophet's night journey 14;
j-1
Jain religious belief similar to belief of Body Christ 13,
14;
Jesus
j- I go to prepare place for you 14;
j- Jain religious belief similar to Body Christ 13, 14;
j- Members of the Body Christ 14;
k-I
Kabah sign of the ties of community life 2;
Knot Moses said untie my tongue 6;
Knowledge
k- Education can show us G_d 6;
k- In beginning was darkness let there be light 6, 7;
k- Prophet squeezed three times and told to read 7;
k- Rib a sign of universal knowledge 9;
k- Scholars near the Prophets 16;
1-1
Lamb broke the seven seals 15;
Leader G_d will guide the sincere follower after the
leader 4;
Light of the moon is the light of faith, the light thought
7;
Lord Rabb has direct connection with parenting 5;
10-21-2005 'ASR
Man.
m - G_(.1 breathed in man and he became living soul 9;
m - Spiritual side of man's nature opened up the world
8;
Mankind made from a single soul 9;
Mansion I, Jesus go to prepare place for you 14;
Moon
m - Light is the light of faith, the light thought 7;
m - Moon represents spiritual mind, man's own thinking
8;
Morning Evening and morning was the first day 12;
Moses
m - Moses said untie my tongue 6;
in - went to the mountain 6;
p.21 of 19
Rabb, Lord has direct connection with parenting 5;
Read with the name of your Lord 7;
Religion Islam is no new message 3;
Rib
r- Eve from rib of Adam in deep sleep 8, 9
r- Rib a sign of universal knowledge 9;
s-1
Seal Lamb broke the seven seals 15;
Scripture Book know not but conjecture 15;
Scholars near the Prophets 16;
See G_d I am as My servant see Me 6;
Seven Lamb broke the seven seals 15;
Sight Eye shall see certain sight 10;
Sleep
s- G_d wanted Adam to sleep to his own perception 8, 9;
s- Eve from rib of Adam in deep sleep 8, 9;
Mount Moses went to the mountain 6;
Son They know this as they know their own sons
Muhammed
m - is our Prophet 13;
m - represents the last elevation in all human beings'
ascent 14;
Muslims left the guidance 15;
n-1
Night Prophet's night journey 14;
o-1
P-1
Perception is enlightenment for the mind 12;
Prophet
p- Muhammed is our Prophet 1 3;
p- Muhammed represents the last elevation in all human
being's ascent 14;
p- Prophet's night journey 14;
p- squeezed three times and told to read 7;
p- Scholars near the Prophets 16;
p- They know this as they know their own sons 2;
.
q-1
Qur'an
q- Qur'an book of knowledge, wisdom 2;
q- for those who believe 2;
Soul
s- G_d breathed in man and he became living soul
means a
thinking man 9, 10;
s- Mankind made from a single soul 9;
Spirit
s- Moon represents spiritual mind, man's own thinking
8;
s- Spiritual side of man's nature opened up the world 8;
t-1
Thinking men and women 10;
Thirst, Fear word in Iftar dua is thirst for understanding
16;
Tongue Moses said untie my tongue 6;
u-1
Understand Fear is thirst for understanding 15;
v-1
Vision Eye shall see certain sight 10;
r-1
10-21-2005 'ASR
w-1
WD Mohammed
w- dua; to be in paradise 16;
w- G_d will guide the sincere follower
after the leader 4; w- has broken the seals
16;
w- Imam Mohammed read the Bible
several times 12;
p.22 of 19
10-21-2005 'ASR
Water Fear is thirst for understanding 15;
Week end weak
Woman
w- Eve from rib of Adam in deep sleep
w- Mankind made from a single soul 9;
w- Thinking women 10;
Word Famine of hearing word of G_d 15;
Y-1
z-1 Index 10-21-2005 Asr
p.23 of 19
10-21-2005 Magrib p.1 of 8
Idol worship created by planners
Qur'an 31.13; Oppression is worst than slaughter
10-21-2005 Magrib Ramadan Session Homewood, IL
Imam Warith Deen Mohammed
With Allah's name, the praise and the thanks is for G_d.
We thank Him for the gift and blessing of the model
human person, Muhammed (pbuh), the honorable and
noble servant and Messenger of G_d and what follows
of that salute or that traditional salutation to the last
Prophet (pbuh), the seal of the Prophets, mentioned in
the Bible as it is given in the Qur'an.
Our session is seeing, perceiving, the world of mankind
as given in the scripture and as given in the saying of the
Prophet pbuh. We are going to talk a little hit about our
perception of the world tonight and also on the real
serious difference in Qur'an that clearly distinguishes
religion for us from religion of the people of the Book.
This is very important, especially for Imams and
teachers of Al Islam and for our dialogue with non
Muslims, Jews and Christians.
By searching we can find the common spirit, the
common truth, the common language, the common
thread of purity for the Bible and Qur'an. But you have
to search for that. It doesn't readily come to your eyes.
But there are clear teachings in the Qur'an that show that
we differ with the people of the Book and that is what
we Imams and teachers should be aware of. What is the
strategy for bringing this to the light for them as a
strategy to bring our differences to them? If they inquire
a little bit or if they just observe us they will see the
difference and they will know that GA has been most
merciful to the people of the Book in bringing these
things to them in such a very soft and gentle way and
they are very serious matters.
For our session tomorrow we will begin with that. It will
help us see when we look at these differences how we
should perceive the world and how others perceive the
world, others in religion. It has been the religious people
who have formed these pictures or perceptions, these
concepts and passed it on to the people of the world; and
the common people have just been spooked up.
Behold Luciman said to his son by way of instruction:
"0 my son! Join not in worship (others) with Allah: for
false worship is indeed the highest wrongdoing."
I am going to tell you what I strongly suspect. I don't
believe that idol worship was created by common
persons, by common people. It was created by thinkers
and planners and also very educated people. We call it
foolishness, but really it is not foolishness. Those idols
hide a message, symbol and a reading. Those idols had
meanings for the educated people that they didn't have
for the common people. For the common people it was
just something to spook them up. But for the educated
people it was their symbol in their language of science.
They had a science and they had to be convinced that
their way of dealing with mankind was oppressing
innocent people as it is phrased in Arabic, "La thulmun
atheem," translated,"Surely shirk is a mighty form of
oppression". And they also translate it as a great sin, a
great wrongdoing. But actually the Arabic word
"Thalam and thulm" have the meaning of oppression and
oppression started in Egypt. The worst form of
oppression you can find is in Egypt. And the most
advanced sciences you can find of ancient times is in
Egypt. These people are not foolish who created all of
•
this spookism. They created if for the foolish as
spookism but for them it is code reading that hides their
sciences.
They didn't have the idea of unity of matter. That had
not come to universals. And universals mean what you
are talking about stands up everywhere. If it gets to a
man in Asia, a man in America, a man in Europe, a man
in Africa, it is common knowledge. It makes good sense
and it is logic for all of them. It doesn't cause any of
them any problems. They are all able to see and say,
"We recognize this. It is right, and it is universal".
But if it is right only in your town and with your folks
and when you take it outside of there the people say, "I
can't buy that", it is not universal. Mathematics is
10-21-2005 Magrib p.2 of 8
universal. It is the purist of all of the sciences that man
has and Mr. Fard the teacher of my father said,
"Mathematics is Islam and Islam is mathematics." And
what he meant by that is that mathematics is a pure
science and it is exact and that Al Islam is pure and
exact, also. But he was also saying...G_d helped me to
find this when I was a young man studying hard trying
to figure things out...he was saying really as
mathematics is the truest and purest of the sciences man
uses in his secular world, at the same time, it is
symbolic. The language of mathematics is symbolic.
When you say 4 times 4 is 16, what are you talking
about? We really need to know what you are talking
about because four pennies times four pennies are
sixteen pennies. But you could have been talking about
four persons times four person. He was saying at the
same time Islam is a symbolic language and in the
Qur'an Allah swt says that this Book has been revealed
in allegorical, metaphorical, symbolic and basic. Those
who prefer the symbolic or the allegorical over the basic
they have a disease in their hearts.
Hollywood is hollow wood, a dead culture
The people who run our culture prefer the symbols over
the basic and they use it in their communication of the
culture, mostly motion pictures, records, theater. The
theater is a little cleaner than records and movies, but
that is where most of it is, right out of Hollywood. It
says Hollywood, hollow wood. Hollow means empty. It
is a play on empty. And what is wood? Dead culture. A
living tree is a living culture, a dead tree is a dead
culture. Wood cut is dead. It is not living anymore. They
always speak to their people. They have to. They are
speaking to their people above the heads of all of us. But
they didn't know they couldn't speak above the heads of
those who Allah swt wanted to inform.
Prophets make no distincfion between them
Qur'an 2.136; Make no distinction between the
Prophets
Say ye: "We believe in Allah and the revelation given
to us and to Abraham isma`il Isaac Jacob and the Tribes
and that given to Moses and Jesus and that given to (all)
Prophets from their Lord we make no difference between
one and another of them and we bow to Allah (in Islam)."
Allah swt has always informed messengers and prophets
so that they would not be able to speak over their heads
and Muhammed pbuh was the last and the greatest of
them; the greatest in communication, communicating
what G_d wants for us; not greater as a soul. G_d says
all of His Prophets pbuh that they are the same. We
should make not a distinction between them. Don't say
one is legitimate and the other one is not legitimate, or
one is higher in the presence of G_d than the other. He
does not like that we say that. But in terms of the work
they had to do Muhammed pbuh was he one who did the
greatest and the biggest work.
It looks like most of us are back here after dinner. How
did you do that? How did you get hack here about the
same time I got here? You didn't do it at all. G d's spirit
in all of us brought us together here at the right time. I'm
happy to see you back here. I thought some of you went
to get a nap. It is very tempting. After you eat that meal
in Ramadan sometimes I feel like I'm paralyzed at the
table. I can't get up. We are going to have Eshaa Prayer
and after it the night prayers, the Witr prayer, or you can
say the Witr Prayer at home. You can pray it back at the
hotel if you like. It is not a must, not even during
Ramadan. But the night Taraawih Prayers are a must
during Ramadan. When I say must I mean a strong
tradition prescribed by the Prophet pbuh that hurts your
heart if you do not do it; because you know the Prophet
pbuh established that for us and Ramadan is mentioned
in the Qur'an. So it is very strongly advised that you
pray the Taraawih night prayers in the month of
Ramadan.
Qur'an 37.10; Whoever tries to steal a hearing is pursued,
except such as snatch away something by stealth and they are
pursued by a flaming fire of piercing brightness.
In the Qur'an Allah swt says there were those who used
to listen to get a hearing into the heavens and with the
coming of Qur'an circumstances for them had changed
and it was very difficult for them to listen into the
heavens. If they did it they would be bombarded with
fire shooting at them. When the truth comes and
removes falsehood, which happened with the revelation
of the Qur'an, if they pried into that truth to get its
heavenly light to use it, the truth is so plain and so clear
that the torture wouldn't be worth the successful effort.
He would rather that he didn't steal it because he ran into
so much that burned him up so badly that he regrets he
went into it. That is the Qur'an. The Qur'an, if you go
into it and you are not right it will certainly tear you up.
It will break you down. It will burn you up if you are not
right, and you will wish that you had not gone into it.
10-21-2005 Magrib p.3 of 8
But if you are right, it is such a relief to know this world
is not confusing, not the world that G_d made, and it is so
beautiful and wonderful as He made it.
Muhammed, the Prophet pbuh said that Allah swt showed
Gabriel, the archangel known as Jibril, His creation that He
was going to make and when Jibril saw it he said, "My
Lord, what a wonderful creation. How can anyone be lead
astray by this creation?" Then G_d quickly, almost within
an instant, showed him the same creation but the way it
was going to look after satan put his influences all into it
and Jibril said, "My Lord, how can anyone go straight in
such a world?" The two extremes are referred to. The way
we see reality has been formed for us by people who gave
us their communication and said it was from G_d. They did
it so cleverly. They fixed it so they could interpret it
themselves to justify it and support the way of G_d if they
interpret it themselves. But they are the only ones who
could interpret it, because they are the ones who formed it
and locked it up against the common mind, or common
person. If the common person reads it, it is very, very
dangerous and it will take the person away from the right
perception of G_d's creation that includes G_d, Himself. It
even incorrectly communicates the person of G_d. I say
person as an entity or soul. Gd refers to Himself as a Nafs
and Nafs means psyche, or soul.
Soul has reference to the essential core life
Qur'an 91.8; The soul has enlightenment to Fujoorah
and Taqwaha
"r
$1.";
or'
4-*
j-1k)_5-3
8. And its enlightenment as to its wrong and its
right;
Psyche is non-tangible. It is not material that you can touch
or see with your eyes or feel and so is soul. Soul and
psyche means the same thing. But when you say psyche it
has a reference to the mind. When you just say soul it has
reference to the essential life of the person without the
mind, the conscience. So that would be the soul which
would be subconscious with all of the sensitivities that the
human being has. The soul has feeling; the soul feels good;
the soul feels bad; the soul feels a relief; the soul feels
burden. The soul has feelings, but not thinking.
Psyche relates directly to conscious thought or the mind
Soul Our core life before and after consciousness
The psyche is the same. It has feeling. It is
impressionable and it relates directly to conscious
thought or the mind. Soul and mind , when we say it, it
is the same thing, soul Nafs, my self, Nafsee, or Nafsee,
my soul. If we want to say my psyche, it is Nafsee. It is
one word describing all of this. We then come to
understand that our soul is the core life of our life before
consciousness and after consciousness.
Allah swt says He made, created the human soul and
gave it its properties. It has certain properties. It has one
property called Taqwa. The word is "Taqwaaha," and it
means regardfulness; but not regardfulness you got from
the world that you were educated to know, or developed
with you or in you with your knowledge, with your
education, with your teaching. No, it is what you're born
with. You are born with a respect and no matter how
new a baby is in the world, if you observe the baby it has
faith. The baby has suspicion. The baby will express
faith. The baby will express fear. The baby will express
suspicion and the baby will express respect. We are born
with these attributes as our properties and others we are
born with also. They come at birth.
Those properties or activities in us are not sinful at birth,
nor corrupt. The world that we live in if it is bad it will
threaten us and may corrupt us, but we're not born
corrupt. We are born innocent. What is its Fujootuha?
G_d created the human person, the Nafs, the soul and He
gave it its Taqwa and its Fujoorah when He created it.
So it is something we are born with, naturally.
Fujoor is Fajr unborn: It is the dawning of intelligence
If you look at the word Fujoorah and the world Fajr, they
have the same root letters F.J. R., fa, jeem, ray. Fajr and
Fujoor have the same root,So Fujoor is Fajr unborn, if
you accept the way I am giving it. I am giving it to you
in a clear way. Fujoor is Fajr unborn. That is to say Fajr
will come out of fujoot, or fujoor will develop into fajr.
And what is fajr?
Fajr is the first beginning of the light. So don't think
about the world outside. Think about the world inside of
your own self. That is the dawning of your intelligence.
The potential for the dawning of intelligence is fujoor
and that fujoor sometimes gets us in trouble. It can either
support our good behavior and our good intentions and
10-21-2005 Magrib p.4 of 8
serve that good behavior and good intention to bring us
into the world and into enlightenment safely; or we can
follow our weak inclinations tempted by the world,
tempted by appetite for things in the world, and that fujoor
will give us support or aid us on to hell.
Qur'an 4.1; Reverence Allah and family relations
1,4-1104L71'I11:
,
".;.
L;:Al
04,1:,&Cc,DI
.-'
)
‘
\
;_j444,
"0 mankind! reverence your Guardian-Lord
Who created you from a single person
created of like nature his mate and from them
twain scattered (like seeds) countless men and
women; reverence Allah through Whom
ye demand your mutual (rights) and
Then he became full of regrets.
4.8-15; Cain killed Abel
And Cain talked with Abel his brother: and it came to
pass, when they were in the field, that Cain rose up
against Abel his brother, and slew him.
Genesis
Man is created to have moral life, life of regard and
respect for that which is sacred, such as GA; respect for
parents which is sacred. G_d says, "At taqul laah wal
arhaam," translated, "reverence G_d, have Tagwa for
G_d and also for the close family ties. "Arhaam" has
reference, directly, to the wombs of the females and it is
used in Qur'an because it has reference in the Bible to
this. And where is the reference? There were two
brothers, Cain and Abel, and if you are going to try to
help people understand religion as the person advancing
the message of al Islam in the world you should really
take these notes, because these are things that are
missing in most teachers and Imams. They don't know
how to make the right connections.
(reverence) the wombs (that bore you): for
Allah ever watches over you."
Q. 5.27-31; Cain, Abel
27. Recite to them the truth of the story of the two sons
of Adam. Behold! they each presented a sacrifice (to
Allah): it was accepted from one but not from the
other. Said the latter: "Be sure I will slay thee." "Surely"
said the former "Allah doth accept of the sacrifice of
those who are righteous.
Q. 5.28; Cain Abel
28. "If thou dost stretch thy hand against me to slay me it
is not for me to stretch my hand against thee to slay
thee: for I do fear Allah the Cherisher of the worlds.
Cain is identified with products of the land
These two brothers, Cain and Abel, they are mentioned
in the Qur'an. Everyone mentioned in the Bible is not
mentioned in the Qur'an but these two brothers are
mentioned in the Qur'an and their story is the same.
One brother took advantage of the other. Cain took
advantage of Abel in the Bible and Qur'an. Cain, he,
according to the Bible, is figured as a land man, one who
works the land, industry from the land, farming
whatever, trees and all of that. Everything that comes •
from the land Cain is identified with it.
Abel is identified with everything that comes from the
womb
Q. 5.29; Cain Abel
29. "For me I intend to let they draw on thyself my sin
as well as thine for thou wilt be among the
companions of the fire and that is the reward of
those who do wrong."
Q. 5.30; Cain Abel
30. The (selfish) soul of the other led him to the murder
of his brother: he murdered him and became (himself)
one of the lost ones.
Q. 5.31; Cain Abel
31. Then Allah sent a raven who scratched the ground to
show him how to hide the shame of his brother.
"Woe is me!" said he: "Was I not even able to be as
this raven and to hide the shame of my brother?"
Abel is identified with everything that comes from the
womb of an animal. So he is identified as a shepherd
who cares for animals like sheep. It could be goats,
cows, all animals that bear young and give their milk
and meat and their hides.
Allah swt says, "And reverence the family ties," or
reverence the wombs that bore you. Here is Cain. He
gives a gift to G d. His gift that he gives is the products
from the land and Able, his gift that he gives to G_d is
10-21-2005 Magrib p.5 of 8
fruit or products from the wombs. So Allah swt He
preferred Abel's charity or gift over that of Cain and this
made Cain jealous and hitter. So now Cain goes out to
kill his brother. So the fruit of womb that language is in
the Bible and then the Qur'an has "Arham," which is a
reference, directly, to the wombs of females. And He
says respect, have reverence for G_d. In Arabic it says,
"Wal ar harm, translated "And for the wombs that bore
you" by one translator, or "For close family ties."
What is the Bible saying? It is saying that G_d prefers
one who devotes himself to family life, to raising of
children and care for the family relations and social ties.
He cares for the one who gives attention to that more
than He cares for the one who gives his attention to work
in the earth to bring out its products. Does that make
human sense to you? But who created these two fellows?
The same G_d. So He wants both of them, but He wants
that the respect be balanced, that there be equal respect
for both; and if He has a preference, He'd rather not
have us looking for materialism, but looking for social
excellence, the development of the social community;
and Muslims are a social community.
Allah swt says that you are brethern and Muhammed
pubh taught us that the Muslim is the brother of his
brother and G_d refers to us as a "Wall" of each other
saying, "The Muslim is the Wali of the believer." Wali
means one who is a friend but he is a protecting friend.
He is like a guardian. He is a friend who will guard your
interest. He cares about your welfare and he is
committed to protect your welfare, to protect your
interest, and to respect you and your rights, your
property, etc. These kind of sentiments and affections tie
our hearts together and isn't that what G_d says? He has
brought you together in the heart. He brought your hearts
together, bonded you by the sentiments of the heart. That
says that we are a family, we are a community of friends,
a community of brothers. That clearly says that we are a
social community. To socialize with somebody means
to take him for an associate. That is a bond. When you
take them for an associate now you are bonded with that
person and these are the most precious bonds that
society has. The most precious bond for society is the
bond of brother and brother, sister and sister, friend and
friend; but a protecting friend.
The devil influences us to accept his meaning of
everything. He wants to give us something. G_d gave
you something and it has one meaning. The devil works
hard to take it out of that meaning and put it in the
meaning he wants it in. So the devil has influenced us.
This is nothing spooky we're talking about when we say
the devil, the Honorable Elijah Mohammed was right
and wrong. He was right when he said the white man
was the devil and he was wrong by not telling us that
anybody can be a devil. We have black devils, plenty of
them, now. They are growing faster than the white
devils. I don't think they will get far. They don't know
that business like the white man. They can't get too far.
The white man will tell them they are second-class
citizens in his world. He will tell them, "You boys are
second class citizens in my world. Don't you know that,
brother? You shame the title that I wear. You little petty
sinners, you don't know what sin is all about."
Educated professionals: are to translate language to
benefit the common man's productivity
We have to respect the family and the social life. That is
the most important life for us and when you hear the
language like Adam, our father, that is telling us we
should be a social unit like a family. And you educated,
professional ones, when you hear the expression
"Abraham is our father," you should know that G_d has
also planned our life when He created us so that we have
an order of professional, well educated people. You on
that level should also be a family and you should see
everyone on your level and everyone beneath you as
human beings entitled to knowledge and education, to
have the freedom to advance as far as they want to go
and can go. And you shouldn't be selfish as has been the
case with the intellectual people. They pride themselves
as being over the common person. They make benefits
available only to people in their circle and they don't
want to share those benefits, publicly. •
You should be trying to translate the language of higher
education into the language of the common person, so he
will grow faster in knowledge and be able to live a more
fruitful and productive life. That is what you should be
doing. You should be very charitable.
Prayer of Abraham
Abraham was very charitable. He did not hold back
anything. And we pray in Al Islam and we say,
"Allahumma sulli alaa Muhammed wa alaa aali
Muhammed kamaa sallayta alaa ibraheema and alaa aali
Ibraheem,." Translated, it is, "Oh Allah swt make
Muhammed phuh successful and the followers of
Muhammed pbuh successful as You did for Abraham
I 0-21-2005 Magrib p.6 of
and the followers of Abraham? Who are the followers of
Abraham?" The Jews and the Christians.
We fail to see that tie and Muhammed pbuh told them
how to pray. They asked, the disciples, his followers
around him, they said, "How should we pray for you?"
So he told them how to pray. Now didn't that happen to
Jesus also? And he told his disciples how to pray, "Thy
kingdom come, Thy will be done on earth as it is in
heaven." That is the Lord's Prayer that he gave to his
disciples, his students. So here Whammed phuh was
asked and he gave that one to his students. It is very
important that we understand what that is saying.
Muhammed pbuh knew the tendency in the people and
the tricks of world; that they were going to try to
separate him from Christ Jesus and he said, "Pray, Oh
Allah make Muhammed pbuh successful and the
followers Muhammed phuh successful as You did for
Abraham and the followers of Abraham", So how were
they made successful? Those who claimed to be
followers of Abraham, many of them are, firstly, Jews.
The Jews say that after they were blessed with Abraham
he pointed them to the future and the future is called the
Promised Land. And the promise was that they would be
blessed to come into great opportunities and great
production. I am just summing it up.
If Muhammed pbuh said to pray that prayer, let us look
at the first half of it. That means that Muslims should
also be expecting a future that has great opportunity,
great promises, and a future that will show them how to
be very productive. But when you look at that Muslim
world under Muhammed, the Prophet pbuh, they jetted
forward like a jet plane and became. the attraction for the
intellectual people of the whole earth. This is history. It
is a fact. So what happened? We lost it. When I say
"we", I'm a Muslim of the Muslim community at large
as well as here.
Then the second part of the prayer says, "Oh Allah swt,
bless Muhammed pbuh and the followers of Whammed
phuh as You blessed Abraham and the followers of
Abraham". How was Abraham blessed? First of all how
was he blessed? He was blessed to come into the
knowledge that G_d's world has one law, the law of
universals, universal gravitation. And his perceiving, or
studying of the whole external world led him to believe
in the unity of matter and to believe that this design here
is no accidental design; that it must have a G_d over it;
or a Power over it; or a cause behind it. And he
identified that cause as Allah swt. He called it the G_d.
And that knowledge is key for engaging G_d's creation
with your mind, recognizing that it is one system with all
parts connected, having a relationship to another part and
following under one law, universal gravitation and who
know what else.
He saw the unity of matter and that it told him there is
one Designer, not two, three, or four. There are no
different gods warring. Those who created the many
gods they even had the gods warring with each other.
This is in the story of the mythology of creation. Isis
betrayed her father and they all were supposed to be
gods. She was a goddess. Osiris was a G_d, but Isis
betrayed her father and put out his light like some of
these women put out our lights. Isis is a daughter and in
some parts of the myth and in the same Egyptian myth
she's the wife of Osiris. And she transformed herself
into a serpent, crossed his path and called for an eclipse,
or his death. In the myth the eclipse means his death.
Abraham was blessed to see these ideas of G_d are just
man's guessing, man's fancy. This is man's opinion of
the matters he's looking at. If you don't have right
intentions you see differences and conflict in creation.
You see it as the nature of creation. It is "a" nature of
creation but not "the" nature of creation. I hope you're
following me. The nature of creation is unity, oneness.
But "a" nature of creation is also conflict and
differences. But what rules in the body of creation,
conflict or accord? Accord, peace_ That makes me want
to do sajdah, now! Peace reigns throughout the heavens
and the earth! That is the purpose! The aim is peace!
Qur'an 6.73; Heavens and earth created for justice
It is He Who created the heavens and the earth in true
(proportions): the day He saith "Be" Behold! it is. His
Word is the truth.
Allah swt says in the Qur'an, "We have not created all
this for any except just means, justice. Justice is the goal,
everything works to bring justice to mankind. Praise be
to Allah swt.
Qur'an 24.41; Every creature knows mode of prayer
-k9 LF
10-21-2005 Magrib p.7 of 8
"Seest thou not that it is Allah Whose praises all
beings in the heavens and on earth do celebrate and the
birds (of the air) with wings outspread? Each one knows
its own (mode of) prayer and praise."
The prayer says, "Bless Mohammed pbuh and the
followers of Mohammed pbuh as You blessed Abraham
and followers of Abraham." So here are two things,
success and blessings, and the word for blessing comes
from the word, "Barak", the same word root that we use
for Ra.madan. We say, "Ramadan Mubarak". It is the
noun form, meaning, "May you have a blessed
Ramadan'. And Allah swt says of the Kabah, the House
called Bait, "In it is much blessing, or many blessings
for mankind"; not for Muslims, for all people.
So in the last part of the prayer we ask for blessing. In
the first part of the prayer we ask for success. Why do
they translate that success? Does it really mean success?
How is the Arabic phrase, "Sulle ala Mohammed,"
success and the Arabic word, "Fatah", is success? In the
call, "Hayya alal falah," it means, "Come to success"
and "Suite ala Mohammed," is that success, too? It must
have a difference. There must be a difference. There is
that much difference in the sound of the words. There is
a lot of difference.
If 1 say, "I'm going to pray", I say, "u-sal lee". The
phrase, "Sulli ala Mohammed kamaa sulli ala Ibrahim,"
means "As You made success for Abraham What is this
prayer in Al Islam? What is for Muhammed? What is
this word "Sulli" for Mohammed pbuh now? What is the
word "Sulli" in prayer in Al Islam? Allah swt says
"Every creature know its mode of prayer" and it uses
that same word; and it means creatures, those walking on
four feet, those flying in the air, insects and man walking
on two. All that G_d has created, everything moving in
the earth, living, G_d is referring to when He says,
"They know their mode of prayer." This is true all of the
time. Except for man, it is not true all of the time. It is
true only when he is born. When he is born a baby he
knows his mode of prayer. He is following that pattern
that G_d created for his life until the world gives him its
pattern.
We say in dua', "Allahumma Sulli alaa Muhammad". It
means more than just praying. In fact, in praying like
Christians pray we make dua. We pray and Christians
make prayer and their prayer is dua. Our prayer is a kind
of theater holding so much science on how man comes
into civilization and falls and how he's raised back up.
The fall and rise of man as a civilization, or as a society,
that is what our prayer is. The Qur'an says, "Every
creature know s his mode of prayer". Again, we say,
"Allahumma Sulli alaa Muhammad," translated, "Oh
Allah, preserve the mode of life that is our prayer, our
salat. Preserve the mode of life that You created us for as
You preserved it for Abraham, preserved it for
Muhammed pbuh and his followers, as You preserved it
for Abraham and his followers.
Then the second part says, "Oh Allah, bless
Mohammed" pbuh. So once you have the life
established and protected in the mode, pattern of
behavior that G_d created it for, now, upon that pattern,
you want to earn benefits. So bless our efforts as You
did the efforts of Abraham and his followers. Bless that
for Mohammed pbuh and his followers so we come into
great civilization and abundant production.
Thank you very much. Tomorrow we are going to begin
with a very exciting topic: "The real differences between
us and people of the book".
Index 10-21-2005 Maghrib
Qur'an 31.13; Oppression is worst than slaughter 1;
Qur'an 2.136; Make no distinction between the
Prophets 2;
Qur'an 37.10; Whoever tries to steal a hearing is
pursued 2, 3;
Qur'an 5.27-31; Cain and Abel 4;
Qur'an 6.73; Heavens and earth created for justice 7;
a-1
Abel
a- Cain 4;
a- Abel is identified with everything from the womb 5;
Abraham Prayer 6;
b-1
c-1
Cain
c- and Abel 4;
c- Cain is identified with products of the land 4, 5;
Culture Hollywood is hollow wood, dead culture 2;
10-21-2005 Magrib p.8 of 8
d-1
Soul has reference to the essential core life 3;
e-1
Educate, education
e- professional people teach language to benefit the
co mmon man 4 , 5 ;
t-1
u-1
v-1
f-1
Fujur is Fajr unborn t is the dawning of intelligence 4;
w-1
Wood
w- is culture 2;
g-I
w- Hollywood is hollow wood, dead culture 2;
Hear Whoever tries to steal a hearing is pursued 2, 3;
Hollywood is hollow wood, dead culture 2;
1-1
Idol worship created by thinkers 1;
Isis betrayed her father 6;
i-1
k-1
m-1
n-1
Oppression is worst than slaughter 1;
p-I
Idol worship created by thinkers 1;
Prayer of Abraham 6;
Prophet
p- make no distinction between the Prophets 2;
Psyche relates directly to conscious thought or the mind
3;
q-1
r-1
s-1
Shirk
s- Idol worship created by thinkers I;
s- Oppression is worst than slaughter 1;
x-1
yz-1 Index 0-21-2005 Maghrib
10-22-2005 Thuhr p.1 of 17
10-22-2005 Thuhr Ramadan Session Homewood, IL
Imam Warith Deen Mohammed
With Allah's name, the praise and the thanks are for
G_d. We thank Him for the gift and blessing of the
model human person, Muhammed (pbuh), the honorable
and noble servant and Messenger of G_d and what .
follows of that salute, or that traditional salutation to the
last Prophet (pbuh); the seal of the Prophets mentioned
in the Bible as it is given in the Qur'an.
The Halal meat business, we have changed the building
we had the sausage in over to a warehouse and we are
going to sell factory discount business type suits and
whatever. We are situated real good as the Mosque
Cares. We have a big sign right on the express way
which has come so close to our property. They gave us
eleven thousand dollars for our property. The express
way is so close to the building now until everybody will
he able to see the sign and we can advertise to those
thousands and millions of cars that will be passing by
and we also can advertise on 159th street; and we expect
nothing but success. Allah swt is with us.
When 1 saw the property it said, "For sale." I felt Allah
swt wanted us to have that property, so we went and got
it; the same for the property on I67 th Street. We are
nicely situated to grow and prosper so we are not
wasting any time trying to save you from McDonald's
hamburgers. Go on and get your hamburger, we are out
of the halal meat business. We lost too much with that.
We will not lose with these business suits. It is good
money, very good money. Thank you so much. I will
come and give a khutbah any time you like in Atlanta,
free of charge, no strings attached. I'm serious. I want to
come there and do whatever you want to do. I see my
friend. He is like a son to me, Imam Plemon. He hears
what I'm saying and he knows I mean it.
Perception helped by all of our senses
Yesterday we were discussing perception. Perceiving
means seeing, but not just seeing with the eyes; seeing
with your intelligence, seeing with your mind.
Perception is seeing with the mind, but we
see also with
our hearts. So whatever we see with our five senses, our
mind, our sentiments, our heart, whatever, perception is
served or helped by all of our senses working to help us
understand something. We mentioned issues in the
history of the people of the Book and we include people
who are not in the Book, also, who are religious people.
All sincere, religious people have had it in their soul to
want justice to come, because the world was denying
especially weak people or poor people or persons not in
control of society, denying them justice. For a long time
females were denied recognition with males as equal
human beings and there are many males now in different
parts of the world, everywhere, and there are
undesirables who break the law in the United States who
treat women like they are property. They do not respect
women on their level as human beings. They treat them
just like animals, just like property and every now and
then it comes to the news and we hear in the news some
person is brutalizing a female, denying the female her
rights. The females and slaves, mind you, slaves were
not always black. It is documented by the best historians.
In fact, J. A. Rogers documented it, the African
historian, that Africans had slaves; and even some
Africans in certain periods of time had white slaves, or
slaves who were European by origin. So slavery has
been a part of man's society for time un-calculated. You
can't say it started three thousand years ago. We don't
know. We think people have had slaves all of the time.
I said that to say there has been a longing in the souls of
these sincere religious people to see women get their
justice and servants, the slaves, get their justice. In late,
more recent history blacks have been singled out for
slavery, servile duties, and we became so popular in the
history of man as slaves until most people don't even
think of anybody as slaves anymore excepts blacks. But
that is not the case. Right at this moment there is some
white who is a slave to somebody. A man, some white
woman is a slave to somebody, or some white child at
this moment is a slave to somebody.
Many persons of different nationalities, of different
racial origins, actually sell themselves. They go looking
for a master to buy them. This was in the time of the
Bible, Old Testament, that people would go and sell
themselves saying, "I will work for ten years or five
years." And they would be contracted to serve that
person and stay where that person would tell them to
stay. They were not able to move about freely and had to
I 0-22-2005 Thuhr p.2 of 17
be available to that person at anytime that person wanted
them. That was slavery, but slavery that people
voluntarily put them selves in.
think about this. Should we go this way, or should we go
that way?" Then the revelation came saying, "Believers
conduct their affairs by shuraa baynahum". Now most of
us don't include baynahum.
Shuraa members are of good character and knowledge
Qur'an 42.38; Believers conduct affairs by
consultation
J
0
0i4.-H4-'4)),
)..Ii
"Those who hearken to their Lord and establish regular
prayer; who (conduct) their affairs by mutual
consultation; who spend out of what We bestow on them
for sustenance."
So it is in the nature of human beings to be under
another human being. It is in all of our natures. To tell
you the truth my inside would be much more pleased if I
was second, not first and if I were working for a number
one person. I would be more pleased if there were
someone qualified and you would accept that person at
this moment, right now. I would tell that person to be the
leader with your permission and I would be number two,
three, number four, or number 69, whatever it is. I just
want the thing to go right and I don't like to boss or tell
people what to do. That is not in my spirit. I would be
happy for somebody else to do that job.
Muhammed, the Prophet pbuh, I'm nothing in
comparison to him. He was that kind of man. He was a
prophet, a Messenger of G_d. His communication was
coming from the Lord of the worlds, the Creator of
everything, but did he behave as though he was
conscious of that kind of authority? No, his whole life
showed that he was not behaving as though he was
responding to or acting upon an awareness of that kind
of authority over all people.
He discussed matters with others. He asked others to
share in the decision-making. He consulted those who
had experience and knowledge of certain areas and he
would call them forward and say, "So and so." He did
not say, "Ya Akhee," like we do, nowadays. If your
name were Yahya, he would say, "Yahya come and
address this concern, or tell us how we should approach
the matter". He would say, "Umar, tell us what you
There is no shuraa by yourself, brother, and there is no
shuraa when the conversation is going one way; you are
talking and nobody else is talking and you are having
your way and nobody else is having input into the
decision or into the information or into the meeting that
will be recognized, respected and that will be used to
make a decision. So it is not shuraa if there is
somebody dominating the meeting. Nobody dominates a
real shuraa meeting. It is conducted by those who are
qualified, firstly, by good character and secondly, by
their knowledge or experience in the matter.
You don't always have to have knowledge and
experience in something yourself. You can have
intelligence and you listen to those who have knowledge
and experience and maybe you will be the one who will
bring them to the right conclusion. So good character is
number one and then expertise. That is how we have
shuraa, shuraa baynahum. Don't forget that. It is not
complete unless you get the expression that follows
shuraa. It means they participate. It is among them. It is
between them. They are discussing the matter among
themselves and between one another and they listen to
the best. Because these persons are not supposed to be
dumb bells, you can't bring a group of retards in there
and have shuraa. They need a doctor.
I'm saying to some of you brothers who you know, you
cannot contribute anything to shuraa and you are the first
one to come up, saying, "Yeah, brother, I'm a member
of this community. Let me tell you what I'm thinking
about. I think you ought to do this." You should
disqualify yourself first. You know you are going to hold
things up and mess things up and you will be happy
then. It makes you feel good to turn it over to those who
are qualified. You will get rid of that migraine headache.
I never rushed to the front. It is not in my nature to do
that. I think I heard it in the scripture once. "I rather be
called than to come up and be turned down." I trust the
people in authority, you know. If you don't know me
and there is something that I think is very serious and I
think my input is needed I will raise my hand. If you
ignore me I'll make sure you or others who are around
you and me will know that you're ignoring me. I will
say, "I have been raising my hand brother. Here I am,
I'm over here." Because if it is serious enough you will
10-22-2005 Thuhr p.3 of 17
be committing a sin not to have your input when you
know your input will help the situation.
Al Hadith 1p372#69; Wrong change with hand, tongue,
Or heart
Abu Sayeed al Khudri reported the Prophet (pbuh)
said "whoever among you see anything wrong let him
change it with his hand. If he is not able then with his
tongue and if he is not able, then with his heart, that is
the weakest form of faith."
The Prophet pbuh said, "The believer or Muslim who
sees a wrong is obligated to correct it with his hand if he
can. The hand means physical action. If it is necessary
you are to be prepared to act physically to stop a wrong
even though the law does not permit us to put our hands
on people. You are not supposed to put your hand on
anybody. But if you saw somebody abusing another
person and they wouldn't stop, most of you brothers
would risk your own self and go in there and check that
person. That is human nature. That is your nature,
especially a man's nature. But it is in women, too.
I was being beat up and no male helped me. A woman
ran to me and rescued me from three guys who were
beating on me. When they saw she was very serious,
they ran. He said if you can't find the wherewithal to act
against it, then speak out against it. And if you can't find
the wherewithal to speak out against it, at least be
against it in your heart. Have a silent protest where your
heart is against it. And if your heart is truly against it,
believe me, those wrong doers will see in your face, the
look on your face, that you are against what they are
doing and that is help. Even if we don't have anything
but a look on our face that says, "I don't like this. I'm
not with this." That is help!
Prophet spoke to the Body mind and soul
What the Prophet pbuh said and how he put things
together, how he worded things reveals something to us,
too. He said, "The best act would be to take physical
charge of the matter. That is the best response, but it is
not always necessary to take physical action. But be is
saying that there is more merit in the physical act to
correct a wrong than just preaching words or just giving
words, speaking out against it. One is the physical body
that he is saying, put the physical body into action. The
other one is to put the words into action. Body, but
where are the words coming from? Your mind. Body,
mind, then he said, at least dislike it in your heart, spirit.
Do you see how he spoke? Body, mind. spirit.
When we grow into understanding of how we should
live on this earth, our purpose under the Creator, under
the Lord Who designed it and made it all, when we are
trying to live that it is first in our spirit, then in our mind,
then in our actions. That is how it goes. So what is the
Prophet pbuh telling us? He is also telling us that the
will of G_d expresses itself in man's spirit or human
spirit, then in his mind and then in actions. And if what
we have as our major concerns is not expressed in our
actions we die and leave nothing for the next generation.
Some may ask, "What is all this emphasis on business
and money? We are losing it. Our Imam is going away
from the main concern." No Allah swt addressed human
beings as souls. You can't see soul. You see body and
then He obligates the soul to be responsible for life, your
own life and the life of your fellow man, that you owe
something to your self and your fellow man. Then he
obligates us to contribute to the structures that we need
to support our life on this earth; contribute to the
building of homes, the making of roadways and
whatever and everything.
Soul produces the material
So though he addressed us in our abstract identity, our
soul, he is addressing us to have us accept responsibility
of dressing and clothing the soul and also clothing or
dressing the environment. So it is not the material
producing the soul. It is the soul producing the material.
But if you are not guided by the Lord, Creator, the
Maker Who made all these things, us and the things we
use, you will fall under the influence of the growth of
material things, the presence of material things, or the
influence of material things, and you will become
physical, firstly, instead of spiritual firstly; or instead of
a spiritual person you become a material person.
Material life and material interest will be guiding your
spirit and your spirituality will be shaped by material
interest and material things. Here is the reversal of the
direction that life should go in. G d made the life to
start with spirit and progress and express itself in
material things. I said express itself in material things.
When we look at these lights, at these walls whatever we
designed, whatever man has had his hands on or his
designs on; when you look at it, what you are seeing is a
request from the soul.
10-22-2005 Thuhr p.4 of 17
"Again ye shall see it with certainty of sight!"
Creation is a reflection of what is in G_d
And when we produce these things materially we are
expressing our own life and our own desires, our own
hopes in what we do, just as the artist who makes a
painting or the artist who takes an instrument and plays
the music, gives us music, or he sings, gives us his song.
He is expressing what is in him and when it comes out to
us we see a product and it gives us comfort. It soothes us
or it make us uncomfortable and offends us. But it is all
coming from inside. The spirit is riot material, G_d is
non material, and He needs nothing of the material. But
He is the influence behind everything. He made the skies
and the earth and when we look at the beauty we see the
reflection of what is in G_d. When we see the excellence
of things we see something that was in G_d and it came,
or it manifests as we see it because of His spirit and will
for it. Allah swt says, "Surely the hereafter is greater in
quality and also greater in quantity".
Rev. 1.7; Every eye shall see him
.
We need the material to express the spiritual and I'm not
telling you anything new. Those who made horns for the
first time that is what they made horns to say; that the
spiritual is expressed though the material. Whether it
was a bugle, flute, or whatever it was, when they
designed those instruments that is what they designed
them to say, the original people; not the guy who goes to
buy something because he has a gig tonight; not that
guy. He knows nothing. All he knows is that it sounds
good and it makes money for him. Most likely he knows
nothing. But those who first gave man or the society
those instruments, they were spiritually focused and they
were making an instrument to communicate their
understanding of spirit; that the spirit needs the material
for its expressions. We hear voices, my voice. We hear
each other's voices. If Allah swt had not created the
instrument we call the human body, you would not hear
anything.
So there is importance for the material. There is real
importance for it and it is absolutely necessary. But the
more valuable and the more important and that for which
the material exists is the abstract, the spiritual.
Getting hack to perception, we are trying to conclude
perception so we can go to the next issue for our
discussion; and that is differences for Al Islam and the
People of the Book; what differences are there for Al
Islam and the religion of the people of the Book, the
Jews and Christians, mainly.
Qur'an 102.7; You shall see it with certain vision
"Behold, he cometh with clouds; and every eye shall
see him, and they also which pierced him: and all
kindreds of the earth shall wail because of him. Even so,
Amen."
Perception is what we want to have and it is seen with all
of your senses and that coming into your mind, all of
your senses helping your mind to have the right picture
or the right understanding. So there is perception and
there is understanding. But when you use the word
perception it is understood that the one who perceives
correctly also has understanding. So it is different from
hearing only, but it is hearing and understanding what
you hear; then you are perceiving. It is not just seeing
with the eye. It is seeing it and understanding what you
are looking at, what you are seeing; then you are
perceiving it.
This is the eye that is used in scripture, singularly. It
didn't say every two eyes shall see. You know we see
with these physical eyes, unless you have one of them
knocked out or something. You see with two eyes and
they agree in one focus. But scripture that came before
Qur'an, it says, "Every eye shall see." That word
"every" means every person with intelligence to perceive
shall one day perceive and have understanding. That is
the promise and as we said of certain issues yesterday in
the history of human society, that stands out above all
other issues for the people of religion, or the people of
scripture.
I'm going to repeat them today, how people
communicate to G_d, to other people, to have them have
an idea or a perception has been a big issue for mankind
on this planet earth. They communicated how we should
perceive G_d in ways that burden the soul and make us
want to cry out to the world and say, "You might be
comfortable but I'm messed up. You have messed me
up."
And another perception is of our own selves. How we
perceive human life has also been messed up, terribly,
by religious people. I am talking about religion. I am
10-22-2005 Thuhr p.5 of 17
talking in the context of scripture; not in the context of
the world, or worldly knowledge, or the secular thinking.
I'm talking in the context of scripture and the life of
people who sincerely want to follow the way of G_d for
human beings. So please don't forget that. If you get off
of that you are out of touch with me.
Qur'an 6.54; Allah prescribes mercy for Himself
When those come to thee who believe in Our Signs
say: "Peace be on you: your Lord had inscribed for
Himself (the rule of) Mercy: verily if any of you did evil in
ignorance and thereafter repented and amended (his
conduct) lo! He is Oft-Forgiving Most Merciful."
So it is for the Qur'an. Do you think scripture came to
address the tree that you have in you back yard or things
that you see when you come outside of your house or in
your house? No, the Qur'an came to address what people
said G_d said and that is the big issue. GA intervenes
when people say, "G_d said this, or GA gave that" and
it is not right. G_d has to intervene. You obligate Him to
intervene. And Allah swt tells us in the Qur'an that He
obligates Himself . He says, "I have prescribed mercy
for Myself." That is what Allah swt says in the Qur'an;
meaning, "Your pitiful life and pitiful state of life didn't
make Me merciful. Before I created you I prescribed
mercy for Myself'.
What am I trying to do? I'm trying to bring you to good
common sense. The world gives you a crazy idea of the
important matters for your life. I'm just trying to bring
you to good, clean common sense and I want nothing
from you, absolutely nothing. You couldn't pay me to do
this. I would go home, spend my time with my wife and
my children and be happy. It is G_d's will behind me. It
is the biggest thing that exists and that is G d and His
purpose. That is what is making me do this, nothing else.
So don't be looking at me with strained eyes and
uncomfortable hearts. I didn't come here to ask you for
anything, not even for your presence. Your presence is
for your own good. If each one of you brought a million
dollars and you were not interested in what I'm saying,
take your million dollars and leave. Go! G_d knows that
is me, Imam W Deen Mohammed. I'm not here for
anything but G_d's will. This person you are looking at
now has progressed in the way that G_d wants me to
grow, to the point where I don't take credit for anything
I do. If I give a poor person some money, they thank me,
but in my heart what am I saying? "Allah is giving you
this not me." And if I love you in the right way, clean,
right love, I don't say, "I'm loving you". But Allah swt
isl oving you. Some of you cannot think that deep. G_d
made me happy. He put my soul in paradise.
Qur'an comes to verify and correct previous scriptures
Perceiving: The Bible says "Every eye shall see," and
then the Qur'an comes and verifies it. The Qur'an is
given to Mohammed pbuh to verify that which came
before that was correct and it comes to correct that
which was lost, that which man lost and put his own
thinking into it. And then it comes to complete it as G_d
intended it to be completed. So Allah swt says very
clearly in the Qur'an that this is a discussion of things
that came to people before and it is a correction, clear
evidence, and a completion, completing the matter.
New Testament is a revision of the Old Testament
Now this was attempted by people of the Book. If you
have read the Bible like I have, I read it twice. I read it
once just reading. Then I read it the second time and I
studied it very carefully. If you read the Bible you know
that concerns and hopes are just repeated over and over
from Genesis to Revelation. And things got so far out of
line from what the righteous people believed was G_d's
way that they even made improvements or revision on
what they had as the word of G_d. What do you think
the New Testament is? It is a revision of the Old
Testament. It seeks to bring the important matters of the
Old Testament forward, together, without having a
whole lot of the unimportant things. It goes right to the
most important matters. So the New Testament is like a
revision bringing all of the most important matters of the
Old Testament into focus.
Qur'an 24.35; Allah is the light of the heavens and
earth .
07
,A
: 1 ° . 7 " 1 . .
I 4.0
o
iGa
Ls.s.1
‘,
4
10-22-2005 Thuhr p.6 of 17
Allah is the Light of the heavens and the earth. The
parable of His Light is as if there were a Niche and
within it a lamp: the Lamp enclosed in Glass: the glass
as it were a brilliant star: lit from a blessed Tree an Olive
neither of the East nor of the West whose Oil is well-nigh
luminous though fire scarce touched it: Light upon Light!
Allah doth guide whom He will to His Light. Allah doth
set forth Parables for men: and Allah doth know all
things.
not be prepared? I'm not a fool. I'm a rational man and
John 9.5; Jesus I am the light of the world
We mentioned that there was darkness that covered the
earth and in another place it says it was a famine that had
covered the earth. It said it was not a famine of being
without food, but a famine of hearing the word of the
Lord. That is the Bible. And this darkness that covered
the whole world, it doesn't say it but it was not a
darkness of the absence of the electric lights, or the sun
light, or star light or moon light. It was the darkness that
blocked perception, to keep you from perceiving things
correctly.
"As long as I am in the world, I am the light of the
world."
Rev. 22.18-19; Bible change it not
For I testify unto every man that heareth the words of the
prophecy of this book, If any man shall add unto these
things, God shall add unto him the plagues that are
written in this book: [19] And if any man shall take
away from the words of the book of this prophecy, God
shall take away his part out of the book of life, and out
of the holy city, and from the things which are written in
this book.
Jesus comes and he goes and he says, "I am the light of
the world as long as I am in the world and when I'm
gone darkness is going to come again". So he predicted
that they were going to be in darkness again and he came
as the light. This is Bible. I know some of you Christian
preachers you're happy now because I'm at your table
dining with you. So here comes the book of
Revelations, the last chapter of the Bible, and in
Revelations matters are discussed that were matters of
confusion for the people of the Book. And John, the
Revelator, he gives his revision on those things that were
revealed before. Certainly they were extremely
important issues and when he finishes what does he say?
"It is sealed! It's locked up. Let no man interfere or
bother this again". I'm using my words, but making it
plain to you. "It is like we want it. "It is locked up and
don't any man attempt to make any change on this".
Council of Nicea in 325 A.D.
But it did not solve the problem. They still have serious
issues. Before the Bible was made available to the
Gentile world they had to discuss some of these issues
we're talking about right now for over two centuries
going into a third century. One was the Council of Nicea
in 325 A.D. You think I would come before you and
am not a bad man. I respect life, every human being. I
would not come before you and impose myself on you if
I was not prepared. I knew that none of you had what
G_d has blessed me with and that made me comfortable
to accept being your leader. I would not have been
comfortable being your leader if I did not know that. It
would not be right for you.
Genesis 1.1-5; In the beginning was darkness, let there
be light
In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth.
[2] And the earth was without form, and void; and
darkness was upon the face of the deep. And the Spirit of
God moved upon the face of the waters. [3] And God
said, Let there be light: and there was light. [4] And God
saw the light, that it was good: and God divided the light
from the darkness. [5] And God called the light Day, and
the darkness he called Night. And the evening and the
morning were the first day.
Amos 8.11; Famine of hearing word of G d
"Behold, the days come, saith the Lord God, that I will
send a famine in the land, not a famine of bread, nor a
thirst for water, but of hearing the words of the Lord:"
satan work to corrupt a good person
2 Thessalonians 2.3-4; satan sought G d's seat
"Let no man deceive you by any means: for that day
shall not come, except there come a falling away first,
and that man of sin be revealed, the son of perdition; [4]
Who opposes and exalts himself above all that is called
G_d, or that is worshiped; so that he as G_d sits h in the
temple of G d, showing himself that he is G_d."
10-22-2005 Thuhr p.7 of 17
And we trace all of it hack to satan. Man will fall under
darkness because of human nature. He is subject to err.
He is subject to go wrong. In time, he is going to make
mistakes, but satan comes in and he takes over th e
matter. He is not just using had people, but he has the
wisdom to take advantages of the weaknesses of an
innocent person, a good person and keep working on that
person's weaknesses until he makes that person a corrupt
soul. So he is not just using had people he is
manufacturing bad people and increasing their sins with
no let up. You are never too sinful for satan. He is
constantly studying how he can make you a bigger freak
than you are, or a bigger criminal than you are, or a
bigger cruel person than you are. He just wants to
enlarge and increase the bad. How does that help him?
When you are like that you are out of GA's plan and
you have left GA's plan to Satan. That is what he wants.
He wants to be in charge of G_d's plan. I can respond
to your thoughts. I hear you. It does not take me long to
answer your thoughts.
If you trust the Bible it says, "He aspired to go up to
heaven and sit on the very throne of G_d, the most
High." For your own good you shouldn't fight that
which is good for you. You should come to it peacefully
and you should come to it with a kind nature and a kind
spirit, a kind heart; and you should welcome it into your
ears. This is not saying you should not use your own
intelligence. Always use your intelligence. Always
respect your own intelligence. And if I say something
that does not respect your intelligence, then do not
accept that; reject that. I'm subject to make mistakes.
I'm subject to say something 1 did not intend to say. I'm
human. That does not make me wrong and unfit to be
your leader.
Muhammed pbuh said things that he did not intend to
say and Allah swt had to correct him and he had to
change it. And I am no Prophet. I am not him. I'm not
on that high plane. So you give that man on that high
plane a break and you won't give a little man like me a
break? You should be ashamed of yourself. Allah swt
has blessed you with the best thing that man has had on
this planet earth since Muhammed pbuh; not me
personally, my Imam Warith Ud Din Mohammed. He
has blessed you with that and you don't have the
religious knowledge. You don't have the insight in
religious matters. You don't qualify at all for what you
have. Your only qualification is you have been
mistreated more than any other creatures on this planet
and G_d wants to favor you with the best. Allahu Akbar!
I know, brother. You make me very comfortable. I know
you brothers and sister are with me 100 percent, but if
we are really serving G_d we are not pleased to see any
of our people lost No.
When I was discussing the ascent of the human soul,
yesterday, and using the knowledge from Qur'an and our
Prophet's pbuh teaching to bring understanding to the
picture, 1 was following a certain line of knowledge and
reasoning and other things were coming into my mind. I
don't have a full speech prepared. I just have notes for
focus and to tell me when to change focus. I'm sorry I
left out something because it is very much needed for
you to understand clearly. If you have your notes I am
going to give you something to put with your notes that
is on the seven heavens and the seven levels that Allah
swt blessed Muhammed pbuh to ascend.
I said that after G_d blessed him to ascend up into the
highest heaven, the seventh heaven, where our father
Abraham's station is, then Allah swt also took him by
flight from the Kabah or the ancient House in Mecca to
as Allah swt says in Qur'an, to the distant, farthest
mosque. When he returned from that experience the
next major thing that happened for him (and if it
happened for him it happened for the ummah), the
Muslim following of his, was that he responded to the
invitation of people of Medinah to come to Medinah
where they said, "You won't have problems there with
us like you have here in Mecca from your fellow
citizens." Understand that he was a citizen of Mecca. He
was born there and that is addressed in the Qur'an, also,
his rights as a citizen of the land that was treating him so
badly.
He goes where he can have comfort now and have the
support of the people of Medina; not all of them,
because some Jews were there and they made trouble for
him later. And there were other people from the idol
worshipers there and they made trouble for him; not all
of the people, but he had a sufficient number. Isn't that
beautiful? Do we ever need all of the people? You just
need a good number of good people. That is all. And
look what the sociologist said, a woman, "A few
intelligent persons can come together and change the
world. Not only can they do it, that is the only way it
ever has been done."
Not by the many, just a few and the few in time they
reach the strong and the strong can deal with the many
because they are weak. A small number of the strong can
10-22-2005 Thuhr p.8 of 17
deal with big numbers of the weak and if you have their
interest at heart, that small group she is talking about
they always have the interest of the whole of the people
at heart. If you have their interest at heart, soon they are
enjoying your products, the fruits of your labor. They are
enjoying your production. They are enjoying your
creation. You might say, "Oh only G_d only creates."
No, Allah swt says He is the best of creators. He
recognizes that there are other creators, so He says He is
the best of creators. He made us to be creators, too.
They create the environment and when they create it, the
ignorant rebels stop rebelling. They start enjoying the
environment that the strong produced for them. And that
is exactly what these little towns and places will become
that we are in right now. When we produce enough they
are going to thank us. And they will be saying As
Salaam Alaikurn. They will not change their religion.
They will say, "Brother kafa, Brother Shaheed, is
everything alright? Can I help you do something?" just
like he is one of us. The preaching is good but it is not as
good as expressing the soul in the material environment
and using the material environment. It communicates the
beauty of the soul.
We were talking about those levels of ascension, the
seven. And I didn't bring it home because not only did
G_d lift Muhammed pbuh up in the sky, or in those steps
of ascension, he caused him to take flight from that
position and go to the ancient sight of the greatest
accomplishment for the people of Book in a material
picture that they ever realized or ever had and that was
the great kingdom of Solomon the wise.
Qur'an 2.144; Turn your faces to Kabah
" Turn then thy face in the direction of the Sacred
Mosque; wherever ye are turn your faces in that
direction. The people of the book know well that is the
truth from their Lord nor is Allah unmindful of what
they do."
So Allah swt took Muhammed from the precincts of
Mecca where the kabah is to the place where they had
the greatest kingdom at one time, the kingdom of
Solomon, the wise. And there is also the place called the
farthest Mosque, because Muhammed, the Prophet pbuh
had been directing his following to turn in that direction
for prayer, in the direction of Jerusalem; not in the
direction of Mecca. And it wasn't until Muhammed
pbuh began to realize that was not the direction he
should be turning in that it started to burden his soul
and heart; and Allah swt said, "We have seen you
distressed and low in spirit. Now we are going to turn
towards a Qibla that will please you. Now turn your
faces al] of you toward the Qibla in Becca, Mecca..
Becca is an old ancient name for Mecca and that
changed the Qibla. If you go to Jerusalem to this sight
we are talking about right now where Masjid Al Aqsa is,
if you can't see it yourself the guide will tell you, "This
is the place of Qiblatain." Why? Qiblatain means two
Qiblahs. It is because they were turning towards that
place and then instructions came while they were turning
towards that place right there at that place and every
where else where the believers, the followers of
Muhammed pbuh were, they were turning in the
direction like we do now all over the earth; because we
are everywhere now, Muslims that is. When that
instruction came the believers didn't disobey. They
turned right around. Here they are turning this way
praying towards Jerusalem and when the revelation came
they turned right around the opposite way facing the
Kabah in Mecca and they prayed. And what did it say?
It said that G_d wanted to test you to see who would
really be the believer and follow and who would turn
back on his heels. So He was separating the corrupt
from the pure. The corrupt ones, they are always looking
for a reason to deny, not toobey, not to believe. So it
shows who were the strong and who were the weak.
Those weak ones they started whispering, "I was
believing, I was following him, but now I can't
understand this. What he is doing now? If G_d is really
guiding him and he is getting his instructions from G_d,
why didn't G_d turn him to the right place, the right
direction, in the first place?" This is true. This really
happened. This is the kind of thing they started
whispering, like you do. "What is this American Muslin)
society? When is he going to get it straight? We were the
World Community in the West, now American Muslim
Society. I'm telling you he just keeps my mind messed
up."
I heard one Imam from overseas say, "If you really truly
follow Muhammed, the Prophet pbuh, and you are
sincere with you heart, you are going to experience in
time, the things he experienced". He is a sign of what we
will experience, if we take up his responsibility. As
Jesus said, if you take up his cross you are going to
suffer like he suffered; and if you take up the
responsibility that Allah swt gave Muhammed, the
Prophet pbuh, loving him, following him, and trying to
10-22-2005 Thuhr p.9 of 17
obey that office that Allah swt gave him, you are going
the have some of the same misery put in your life that he
had in his. ButAllah swt sustained him until the victory.
He died victorious. We may die one after another, but
we are guaranteed the victory in this United States of
America.
Qur'an 41.11; He completed seven firmaments
"So He completed them as seven firmaments in two
Days and He assigned to each heaven its duty and
command. And W e adorned the lower heaven with
lights and (provided it) with guard. Such is the Decree of
(Him) the Exalted in Might Full of knowledge."
Genesis 1.7, 8; G d mad the firmament
"And God made the firmament, and divided the
waters which were under the firmament from the waters
which were above the firmament: and it was so. [8] And
God called the firmament Heaven. And the evening and
the morning were the second day."
Qur'an 65.12; created seven above for you similar
"Allah is He Who created seven Firmaments and of the
earth a similar number. Through the midst of them (all)
descends His Command: that ye may know that Allah
has power over all things and that Allah comprehends all
things in (His) Knowledge.
Allah swt says, "And there are above you seven tracts,"
referring to those same seven planes, or what the Bible
calls seven firmaments, what the Qur'an calls seven
strong heavens. And Allah swt says in you, meaning the
people on earth, for all of us, is a like number, seven. So
there are seven in the heavens representing those seven
levels. Adam was on number one; Jesus Christ and John
on number two; Yusuf on level number three; Idris on
number four; Aaron on number five; Moses on number
six; Abraham on number seven; Seven levels and eight
persons. Then Muhammed pbuh comes and he is lifted
up to the highest of the heavens. He comes through all
the seven levels. Then he becomes the eighth figure;
seven up, eight down. Seven up. The Qur'an says, "Get
you down from here." Eight to establish the life in the
earth.
You were not made to he in the heaven like those
spiritual priests and monks, etc, living up in the heavens
and the earth is filthy but yet the donation is coming
from filthy earth that puts them in a very comfortable
position. They live very comfortably with the wealth of
the poor and suffering souls and this way existed for
hundreds of years. two thousand years, in fact. For the
people of Book it existed for more than a thousand years
where they prided themselves in being the enlightened
few having the divine will and spark in them and called
themselves a higher order in creation than the common
people on earth. They put themselves in the heavens
over all the other people that they called animals. They
call all of us animals.
Numbers 22.28; Why strike me three times
"And the Lord opened the mouth of the ass, and she
said unto Balaam, What have I done unto thee, that thou
hast smitten me these three times?"
When they are talking about donkeys in the Bible they
are talking about people. When they are talking about
snakes in the Bible they are talking about people. When
they are talking about dogs in the Bible they are talking
about people. There is no animal in the Bible that is a
real animal in their minds when they were writing that.
All the animals in the Bible are human beings. Now
why would animals be in the Bible if it is not for human
beings? There is a donkey talking, saying, "Why have
you struck me these three times?" That is enough to
make you go crazy or enough to entertain an African
American who has nothing else to do but be entertained
by foolishness. What gives a seeing man the holy ghost
is good sense.
Qur'an 18.110; I am a human like you
Say: "I am but a man like yourselves (but) the
r.)
:"Cf,13"12.
inspiration has come to me that your Allah is one Allah:
whoever expects to meet his Lord let him work
10-22-2005 Thuhr p.10 of 17
righteousness and in the worship of his Lord admit no
one as partner."
John 14.20; I in you, you in me
"At that day ye shall know that I am in my Father, and
ye in me, and I in you."
What is that saying so clearly? More than anything else
I want you to know yourself. Isn't that why we received
the teachings? It says, "Know yourself' and that is what
Allah swt wants for us in the Qur'an. He wants us to
know our self. But know yourself in your best picture
and know yourself in your strongest picture and know
yourself in your most productive picture. That is what
Allah swt wants. Your Creator wants that for us. And
that is what we are addressing right now with the
material from our Creator, the Word of G_d, the Qur'an,
and with the guidance of His servant, His Messenger,
Muhammed pbuh, our Prophet. We are addressing that
right now.
So the seven in us or in the people under their leaders
who are in heaven, they are gone, they are in the
heavens. It means it is to say to us, "You have the same
material in you, invisible and visible. You have the same
material in you that lifted them up to the heavens and
lifted Abraham your father up to the highest heaven.
Whatever is in them that made it possible for that
ascension, that going up you have it in you, too, in all of
you.
Qur'an 33.21; The Prophet's character best for
whoever believes
jar'1
p
`
"
Oi-^"
frfrmt)
!
1;.
"Ye have indeed in the Apostle of Allah a beautiful
pattern of (conduct) for anyone whose hope is in Allah
and the Final Day and who engages much in the praise
of Allah."
That is why Jesus said, "1 in you, you in me." And that is
why Muhammed pbuh was told by Allah swt, "Say to
them, 'I am a mortal just like you'." I'm no angel. I'm
no god. I'm no special creation. I'm the same creation
you are. But, if you understand it brothers, you students
and you Imams and teachers, the only difference is that
G_d has favored me with His mercy and His mercy
brought me to realize my station. But you have that same
thing. Why would G_d give us a model to emulate if we
can't be like him? He says, in Arabic, "Laqad" "For
surely, without a doubt. "Enna" means surely. "Qad"
means surely. But when you say, "Laqad," it is stronger
than all of the other expressions, to say, "Surely without
any doubt you have in Muhammed pbuh an excellent
model," Did He say for Muslims or for his following?
He said for any who believe in G_d and the hereafter
Don't Christians believe in G_d? Don't Jews believe in
G_d? Allah swt says he is, "Rahmatan lil alameen." He
is a mercy for all of the worlds; for the religious people,
the spiritual people; for the medical doctor; for the
scientist; for the general on the battlefield; for the
entertainer with his instrument; for all the worlds,
because culture and entertainment represents a whole
world unto itself, doesn't it? What has fed man's mind to
manifest all these different disciplines? Material
sciences, art, music, medicine. What has to materialize
for his thinking to bring him to all these great beautiful
productions? His intelligence. If his intelligence doesn't
grow he never will have those things for his comforts in
the environment. What grows his intelligence? The
guidance of G_d. G_d guides him to know how to
benefit from His creation.
I say in my common language to you now, who is better
to prepare you to succeed in a matter more than the One
Who produced that matter? the Creator, Himself. Now,
some of you can't even understand that. Forget about the
name Allah swt or any other name, we see a design, we
see a pattern in all material things. So whatever is behind
that manifesting, coming into existence that is G_d, that
is Allah swt, that is the Creator. You can say it is the
energy force, call it anything you want. What is better
for you, for your mind that gave the name energy form
that caused all of this? What is better for you to have as
an authority for you to approach this matter that you said
"An energy force produced this beautiful, mighty
magnificent pattern we see?" What is better for your
mind for you to call on for help than that original energy
source, or whatever you want to call it, that produced all
of this in this beautiful pattern, magnificent creation?
When you look into it, it is so magnificent.
Qur'an 2.130; Whoever turns from Abraham's way is a
fool
"And who turns away from the religion of Abraham but
such as debase their souls with folly? Him We chose
10-22-2005 Thuhr p.11 of 17
and rendered pure in this world: and he will be in the
Hereafter in the ranks of the righteous.
We are told in Qur'an by Allah swt any who accepts a
religion other than the religion of Abraham, the second
father, the man who uses his intelligence to come to the
conclusion that all these things point to a Creator, a
Designer behind it all; and he came up with the idea of
the one G_d. None of these things that we can see with
our eyes or that we can influence with our life but it is
Invisible above all creation, unlike any matter that we
know that has caused all this to exist and His will is
moving it as He wants it to go, whether we like it or not,
whether we support it or not When our father Abraham
discovered that, then G_d said, "You are the leader for
all nations, for all people, all the worlds". The Bible
says, "Father of all the nations."
For each (such person) there are (angels) in
succession before and behind him: they guard him by
command of Allah. Verily never will Allah change the
condition of a people until they change it themselves
(with their own souls). But when (once) Allah willeth a
people's punishment there can be no turning it back nor
will they find besides Him any to protect.
Allah says, "Does any soul think it is going to be left
alone without a guardian or authority over it"? No
individual will be left alone without an authority over it.
You were created to have an authority over you and
G_d will have your angel be an authority over you until
He blesses you with a teacher from among yourselves.
Then your teacher will be over you to help you know
better how to get the benefit from your angels. The devil
is just waiting. Those who refuse Qd's way, there is a
devil, ratan. He's just waiting. He says, "This one is
mine."
Khalifa is in the soul and nature of every person
If you would believe what has been revealed about your
own value as a human person, that Allah swt has created
every human being to be khalifa; he needs no more than
one khalifa at a time but he has created all of us to be
kahlifa. So if He made all of us to be khalifa, shouldn't
we have it as an appetite in our soul, a hunger in our soul
to see a khalifa established? So the true in their nature,
the ones who are correct in their nature, they don't ask
saying, "G_d make me kahlifa, make me the leader of
these people." Their prayer in the Qur'an is, "Our lord
give us from among ourselves a son who will be an
Imam for us and a leader for us." That is their prayer.
They prayed for a leader. And you go around saying
that's been our trouble, we don't need a leader anymore.
That is our problem. We just have leaders. We don't
need any leader." You got one whether you want one or
not and I am not talking about myself. Shaytan is there
for you. He is smiling when you talk like that. He says,
"There is my baby."
Authority everyone has over them
Qur'an. 4.83; Refer to Prophet and those with authority
" If they had only referred it to the Apostle or to those
charged with authority among them the proper
investigators would have tested it from them (direct). "
Qur'an 13.11; For each person are angels appointed
I think we have finished what we had prepared for
yesterday and we will start with the subject today. It
should be dear now where we left off on the seven
ascensions. You should add there are seven like planes
or possibilities for ascension in every human being.
We have channel 7 on television and what do they say
on that channel? "Seven on your side." ABC where are
they coming from? From scripture that says seven eyes
went out to prove man is worthy of the high station that
scripture has for him; and seven went out to disprove it.
So that's why ABC says, "Seven on your side," because
there is another seven that is against you, working
against your good nature and working against your good
future.
Seven and seven makes fourteen. This is only for my
brothers who used to struggle back there. The sun is
fourteen thousand degrees hot, the productive energy
lying dormant, resting in those who haven't been freed,
their minds haven't been freed to use it, sleepers.
Dormant means sleeping and seven are active, not
sleeping. Now all matter that is burning, this is good for
those who have a mind for it. Every body doesn't have a
mind for what I am saying now. Everything that burns
was once rested, not active. Fire makes the particles
active. So man looks at things and he reads into these
things messages from Creator by way of creation. My
father told me once, he said, "Son if a coal rolls out and
gets away from the burning coals it loses its fire and its
heat. Here he is using this picture to speak things to me
10-22-2005 Thuhr p.12 of 17
and I was a boy, but I could understand it. I knew
exactly what he meant. I had no teaching on little things
like that, but I knew exactly what he meant.
taught me in science. You might have forgotten your
science. I didn't forget my science.
Environmental taste influences the life form
I knew he was not talking about coal. He was talking
about people. The people, they are warm and they are
brightened, lively with the religion and if you go off
away from the religious people, your own community
and you get out there in the world away from them you
are going to lose your fire, you are going to lose your
heat, you are going to lose your life. That is what he was
telling me. He wasn't telling me that for my sake. He
was telling me that to tell me about the people, period,
because I had no wish, no desire to go away myself and
he knew that.
Life: The right perception of reality
We are going to begin this session with the same focus,
perception from Genesis to Revelation. The discussion is
more about perception than any other thing. Another
word for perception is life because if you don't have the
right understanding you can't have the right life. If you
don't have the right picture you can't have the right life.
So perception is really the life and the more you come
into the right perception of reality and the G_d Who is
behind reality, the more life you are going to enjoy in
your own soul, in your own self and in your own family.
Life just becomes so much bigger and so much more
beautiful for you inside and outside when you come into
the right perception.
Qur'an 17.72; Blind here and hereafter
"But those who were blind in this world will be blind in
the Hereafter and most astray from the Path."
Those who are blind in this world will be blind in the
hereafter, isn't that in scripture? That is the Bible. If you
don't have life here you won't have it in the hereafter
and that is scripture, both books, Bible and Qur'an.
When we look at the issues for human decency, or for
human moral excellence and human intelligence, what
do we see? We see authority, who or what should be the
authority in man's life, that's one of the great issues.
Man has successfully arrived at the acceptance of the
right authority by the process of elimination, or just as
animals progress, if you took biology, from simple and
weak to complex and strong; or just as one species
advances the species it is by selection. That is what they
Selection, adaptation. The material creation influences
the shaping of the life, but the life also has a hunger, an
appetite, a desire for better for itself. So it selects so it
will have the better for itself. And when it selects and
becomes accustomed to staying where it found a home
that it likes and it found food that it likes, when it stays
there, the environment itself will influence the growing
or the shaping of that organism. And that organism will
be influenced to depend upon its taste. If it had poor
taste the environment will influence it to stay in poor
shape. But if it had excellent taste, then because of it
selecting the excellent things the environment will he
excellent for it; because it selected an environment. It
had excellent taste.
Selection, adaption, evolution
Allah swt uses the same language so why can we believe
that this revelation, Qur'an, is not from G_d when He
does not speak in spookism, in guesses, chances and
accidents? No, G_d speaks in the real nature of the
matter that He created. And He give us language that
when the scientist looks at it he has to say, "It is not in
conflict with science." That is what modern scientists
have said of the Qur'an. They won't go further and tell
you what they know and what has helped them. They
say no, it has helped man arrive at the plane or
destination for science. If they would admit it all, they
would say that.
We have been burdened as humans on this planet earth
by religion giving us pictures and telling us G_d is this
picture, man is this picture, heaven is this picture, hell is
this picture; death is this picture; life is this picture. So
they have not given us all the important concepts that we
need in order to have comfortable minds and be situated
to do good and prosper with our own human life that
G_d created for us. They burdened it and made it almost
impossible for the average person to really take care of
him or herself. So you have to go to the modern witch
doctor, called preacher or priest, or minister, rabbi, or
Imam. You have to go to them to be comfortable in your
soul. You have to live with their picture that they gave
you until the next witch doctor theater. He invites you to
his theater and he makes you happy. He makes you cry
tears of joy. But when you leave him for two or three
10-22-2005 Thuhr p.13 of 17
days the narcotic wears off and you start crying those
salty tears; no more sweet tears. The miserable life is
staring you in the face again. And you hurt bad until the
next meeting where you go back to the witch doctor.
Isn't that a Sisyphus dilemma to be in? Struggling most
of the time and only happy when he is coming down the
hill trying to catch up with the ball, this round stone
rolling down the hill. That is what they are doing, rolling
you down the hill and going down is easier than going
up. So you go right back again for another roll down the
hill.
Look how it all starts. Man is put into the garden and he
is put in there as G_d wanted him to be. But here comes
the deceiver and he whispers to the man and suggests
that he doesn't listen to what he was listening to before;
"But listen to me", that is what the satan suggested.
"Whatever you were listening to before don't listen to
that. Don't believe it. Don't listen to it but now listen to
me". In Genesis he doesn't say, "I'm your sincere
advisor, does he? But in the Qur'an it is different. It
says, he comes to the person as a sincere and true
advisor. He communicates that to the person that you
have had people mistreat you. You have been mistreated
you poor mistreated person in this had shape. You are in
this bad condition. I'm coming here to tell you that your
problem is you've been listening to the wrong voices.
Now listen to mine. So he gives him his influence to
listen to satan. He listens to satan and he goes astray
from the nature, spirit and the way that his Creator
intended for him .
Dress means total production
Qur'an7.27; satan caused our arents to remove
their garments
"0 ye children of Adam! let not satan seduce you in the
same manner as he got your parents out of the garden
stripping them of their raiment to expose their shame: for
he and his tribe watch you from a position where ye
cannot see them: We made the evil ones friends (only)
to those without faith. "
He gets hasty. He is not patient anymore. He can't wait
anymore on his Lord. He has to go after this fast thing
that Satan offers him. He caused the man, as it is in the
Qur'an to lose the dress that G_d put him in. What is the
dress? The dress means the production, but total
production. There is production for the spirit. There is
production for the intellect. There is production for the
material world, total production. Satan took the man into
a different position that caused the man to lose his future
with G_d and the total production of himself and the
environment that Gd planned for him. Satan wants that
production, so he took the man out of position to get it.
Plant is more dressed up than a seed
Qur'an 71.17; Man as a plant
"'And Allah has produced you from the earth growing
(gradually)."
We know the fate of Adam was not as we believe it to be
in this world or in Christianity. He erred. He went astray
by error. He did not intend to go astray. This is G_d's
word to us in Qur'an. It is that he was deceived by the
most clever satan. He was deceived to come out of the
clothing that Gd put him in. G_d put him in a clothing
that is similar to the clothing of the plant life. A seed of a
plant has clothing. It has protection for its life, for its
soul or its core life. The outside, hard matter protects it
and when it is given to the earth what's inside is freed
and it starts to grow into another form, into another
picture. And as it grows it takes on more dress. Look
how naked a seed is and how dressed up a rose bush is;
or how naked an apple seed is and how dressed up an
apple is; or how dressed up an apple tree is. The dress
increases. The Qur'an says, "The likeness of your
creation is the likeness of the creation of the plant life. It
is a parable of man's creation.
The brain is quick but believe me we have been set so
far behind until I need about a thousand years to give
you this subject. Some of you are a thousand years
behind. You are a thousand years away from reality of
today, maybe even longer than that. But I know you're a
thousand years away from the reality of this day and
time where human beings mind should be in this
scientific world we're living in now. This is not to
criticize you. This is to awaken you.
Garden Adam placed in includes everything
Genesis 2.15; Adam to dress the garden
And the Lord God took the man, and put him into the
garden of Eden to dress it and to keep it.
Let us look at what Christians says. We are talking about
the differences that is said to the people of the Book
10-22-2005 Thuhr p.14 of 17
first. He put the man in the garden and, believe me, it's
in the earth. It is the whole earth and really it is the
whole knowable world all around us, sky and earth,
everything, including yourself, because you live, firstly,
in yourself and then you live in the outer environment.
So it includes everything. What responsibility did He
give the man? Who can tell me, quickly? To dress the
garden. He charged man with the responsibility to dress
the garden. What does that mean? It was a beautiful
garden. It is paradise. Isn't that how an innocent
environment is that no bad thing has come into? Isn't it
paradise? But it hasn't been opened up to the
productivity of the human soul and brain; not yet. So the
dress is really inside of the soul and brain of the man.
So He put the man in the garden to dress it up.
Qur'an 3.148; Allah dress the world and the
hereafter
L .Y
-11
-33
He is busy in a wonderful, marvelous act of creating.
This is the Qur'an.
There is a brother who has a facility that we will use for
our future meetings. This is going to relieve our
community. It is going to be a big financial relief for our
community and also the Ramadan Session. The next
time we come here we won't have these expenses here.
We will go to his facility and I'm going to tell him, "To
get more blessing, brother, don't charge us anything for
the Ramadan session. It is a blessing to you that we're
going to have the Ramadan session on your property". I
am going to try to get it for nothing and that is going to
cut down the hundred dollars to fifty dollars. It won't be
a hundred dollars next year. En sha Allah, it will be half
that.
Ramadan session senior and children cost fifteen dollars
L?
"And Allah gave them
(dress) a reward in this world and the excellent (dress)
reward of the Hereafter. For Allah loveth those who do
good."
How does the Qur'an differ with this picture that the
people of the Book give us? Allah swt says, "For surely
it is in Allah's possession. It is Allah's authority to
clothe or dress both this world and the hereafter." The
Qur'anic phrase is, "Fa-a-taa humul laahu thawaabad
dunya wa husnaa thawaabel aakirate."
This is a people who thought they knew right and using
their own thinking, their own opinions, to guide
scripture, but using their own limited mind thinking that
they are doing something right as if knowing that they
are the heavenly light. They are writing for man as
though they are the right hand of G_d and saying that
man is put on this earth to be responsible for producing
the world of mankind; that, that is his responsibility; that
G_d, the Creator, rested on the seventh day and left it to
man to take over from there.
We are told by Allah in the Qur'an, "He neither sleeps
nor slumbers," He neither takes a sleep and is out of it,
unconscious of what is going on, nor does he even nod;
no degree of loss to His awareness; not in any measure
does he lose awareness; no sleep, not even a nod; no
slumber and He has not rested. At every instant in time
And for the senior citizens it is probably going to be
about fifteen dollars. Some of the senior citizens, they
are going to donate a hundred dollars. They are terrific!
They are something else. We won't charge them any
more than fifteen dollars, maybe less; and children that
you have to supervise if you have to bring them with
you, nothing. They will not be charged anything. But
children who are 12 years of age who can manage for
themselves, who you don't have to worry about, they
will pay also the same price as the senior citizens about
fifteen dollars, or it might be less. We are going to
follow the guidance of Allah swt and the way of our
Prophet pbuh arid we are going to lighten the burden on
our people and that is the way you grow. That is not
kindness only. That is good business sense. And watch
this community how it is going to multiply and grow.
When we build homes and houses it is so difficult now
for landowners. Real estate managers have such
problems with people. So we'd rather just build and sell
and build up money to invest. But we do intend to build
some homes for our members, for our professional class;
and also affordable housing, single family house
dwellings. We have permission. Brother Pasha and his
brothers who work with him, they didn't give up. They
worked with the mayor. He said "no" and the board said
"no" to us. "You can't have town houses here and you
can only have seven small family dwellings here. You
have to have a lot of space between house and house".
But recently they accepted to have CPC Comtrust put up
some town houses and that is wonderful; that will be
great.
10-22-2005 Thuhr p.15 of 17
Land Muslims do not sell
Bukhari 3.528; Abandoned land is for who cultivates it
Aisha reported The Prophet said, ''He who cultivates
land that does not belong to anybody is more rightful (to
own it)." 'Urwa said, "Umar gave the same verdict in his
Caliphate."
And we don't want to lease those. We are going to own
them. We will lease the accommodation but we will own
the land and the property. You know instructions to
Muslims in Al Islam is do not sell your land and look
how valuable land is today. Way back there, fourteen
hundred years ago, they were told do not sell your land
and do not lose your land because you are not
productive. In Al Islam if you are not productive you are
not entitled to the land. And you know we need that. It is
an order for us like a doctor's prescription. If you can't
make it productive get out, move out, let somebody else
come in and see if they can make it productive. The
future is looking brighter and brighter for us, real good.
Now they are saying if you have been reading the paper
and listening to the news this low interest may not
continue. They might be getting ready to change it
because of rising inflation.
So we'd better take advantage of it and invest in
property right away and do the best we can to get land
and property as quick as we can, because it is not going
to be so easy to finance a home. It is not going to he so
easy like it is now. It is a golden time for people to
invest in real estate. En sha Allah swt, we are going to
grow and take advantage of it.
Index 10-22-2005 Thuhr
Qur'an 42.38; Believers conduct affairs by consultation
2; Qur'an. 102.7; You shall see it with Certain sight 5;
Qur'an 6.54; Allah prescribes mercy for Himself 5;
Qur'an 24.35; Allah is the light 6;
Qur'an 17.1; Prophet's night journey 8, 9;
Qur'an 2.144; Turn your faces to Kabah 9;
Qur'an 41.11; He completed seven firmaments 9, 10;
Qur'an 65.12; Seven above and in yourselves 10;
Qur'an 33.21; Muhammed is excellent model 11;
Qur'an 2.130; Whoever turns from Abraham's way is a
fool 1 1;
Qur'an. 4.83; Refer to Prophet and those with authority
12;
Qur'an 17.72; Blind here and hereafter 13;
Qur'an7.27; satan caused your parents to remove their
garments 14;
Qur'an 71.17; Man as a plant 17;
Qur'an 3.148; Allah dress the world and the hereafter
14;
Al Hadith 1p372#69; Wrong change with hand, tongue,
Or heart 3,
Bukhari 3.528; Abandoned land is for who cultivates it
15;
John 9.5; Jesus I am the light of the world 6;
Rev. 22.18-19; Bible change it not 6;
Genesis 1.1-5; In beginning darkness let there be light
7;
Amos 8.11; Famine of hearing word of Gil 7;
2 Thessalonians 2.3-4; satan sought Gil's seat 7;
Genesis 1.7, 8; G_d mad the firmament 9, 10;
John 14.20; I in you, you in me 10;
Numbers 22.28; Why strike me three times 10;
Genesis 2.15; Adam to dress the garden 14;
a-1
Abraham Whoever turns from Abraham's way is a fool
11,
Adam Garden he placed in includes everything 14;
Allah
a- Creation is a reflection of what is in G_d 4;
a- dress the world and the hereafter 14;
a- is the light 6;
a- prescribes mercy for Himself 5;
Authority
a- Authority everyone has over them 12;
a- Refer to Prophet and those with authority 12;
b-1
Baal Why strike me three times 10;
Believers conduct affairs by consultation 2;
Bible
b- Bible change it not 6;
b- New Testament is a revision of the Old Testament 6;
Blind here and hereafter 13;
Body Prophet spoke to the Body mind and soul 3, 4;
c-1
Clothes
c- Allah dress the world and the hereafter 14;
c- Dress means total production 13, 14;
c- satan caused parent to remove garments 14;
10-22-2005 Thuhr p.16 of 17
i- I in you, you in me 10;
Comtrust we are out of the Halal meat business 1;
Consult Believers conduct affairs by consultation 2;
CPC we are out of the Halal meat business 1;
Creation is a reflection of what is in G_d 4;
d-1
Dark In beginning darkness let there be light 7;
Devil
d- satan caused your parents to remove their garments
14;
d- satan work to corrupt a good person 7;
d- Satan sought G_d' s seat 7;
Donkey Baal Why strike me three times 10;
Dress
d- Allah dress the world and the hereafter 14;
d- means total production 13, 14;
d- satan caused parent to remove garments 1.4;
e-1
Earth Creation is a reflection of what is in G_d 4;
Environmental taste influences the life form 13;
Eye You shall see it with Certain sight 5;
f-1
Famine of hearing word of G_d 7;
Firm He completed seven firmaments 9, 10;
g-1
Garden Adam placed in includes everything 14;
G_d Creation is a reflection of what is in Gd 4;
h-1
Halal meat we are out of the Halal meat business 1:
Hand Wrong change with, tongue, or heart 3,
Heart Wrong change with hand, tongue 3.
Heaven
h- He completed seven firmaments 9, 10;
h- Seven above and in yourselves 10;
i-1
I in you, you in me 10;
Israa Prophet's night journey 8, 9;
j-1
Jesus
j- I am the light of the world 6;
k-1
kahah Turn your faces to Kabah 9;
Khalifa is in the soul, nature of every person 11;
1-1
Land
1- Abandoned land is for who cultivates it 15;
1- Muslims do not sell 15;
Leader
1- must have 12;
1- Refer to Prophet and those with authority 12;
Life
1- Environmental taste influences the life form 13;
1- the right perception of reality 12;
Light
I- Allah is the light 6;
1 In beginning darkness let there be light 7;
I- Jesus I am the light of the world 6;
m-1
Material Soul produces the material 4;
Matter Creation is a reflection of what is in G_d 4;
Meat we are out of the Halal meat business 1;
Mercy Allah prescribes mercy for Himself 5;
Mind Prophet spoke to the Body mind and soul 3, 4;
Model Muhammed is excellent model 1 I;
.n-1
Night Prophet's night journey 8, 9;
o-1
P-1
Plant is more dressed up than a seed 14;
Perception
p helped by all of our senses 1, 4, 5;
p- Life the right perception of reality 12;
p- You shall see it with Certain sight 5;
Prophet
p- Muhammed is excellent model 11;
p- Prophet's night journey 8, 9;
p- spoke to the Body mind and soul 3, 4;
q-110-22-2005 Thuhr p.17 of 17
Qiblah Turn your faces to Kabah 9;
Qur'an comes to verify and correct previous scriptures 6;
r-1
Ramadan session senior and children cost fifteen dollars
15;
s-1
ratan
s- caused your parents to remove their garments 14;
s- sought G_d's seat 7;
s- work to corrupt a good person 7;
Seed Plant is more dressed up than a seed 14;
Seven
s- above and in yourselves 10;
s- He completed seven firmaments 9, 10;
Sight You shall see it with Certain sight 5;
Shuraa
s- Believers conduct affairs by consultation 2;
s- Shuraa members are of good character and secondly
knowledge 2;
Slavery
s- has been a part of man's society II;
s- were not only black 1;
Soul
s-Soul produces the material 4;
s- Prophet spoke to the Body mind and soul 3, 4;
Spirit
s- Soul produces the material 4;
t-1
Testament New Testament is a revision of the Old 6;
Three Baal donkey asked why strike me three times 10;
Tongue Wrong change with hand, tongue, or heart 3,
u-1
Universe Creation is a reflection of what is in G_d 4;
v-1
w-1
Word Famine of hearing word of G_d 7;
Wrong change with hand, tongue, or heart 3,
x-1
y- I
z-1 Index 10-22-2005 Thuhr
10 22 2005 Asr p.18 of 18
-
10-22-2005 Asr Ramadan Session Homewood, IL
Imam Warith Deen. Mohammed
With Allah's name, the praise and the thanks are for
G d. We thank Him for the gift and blessing of the
model human person Muhammed (pbuh), the honorable
and noble servant and Messenger of G_d, and what
follows of that salute or that traditional salutation to the
last Prophet (pbuh), the seal of the Prophets, mentioned
in the Bible as it is given in the Qur'an.
Qur'an 6.91 ; No just estimate they made of Allah
"No just estimate of Allah do they make when they
say: "Nothing doth Allah send down to man (by way of
revelation)": Say: "Who then sent down the Book which
Moses brought - a light and guidance to man? But ye
make it into (separate) sheets for show while ye conceal
much (of its contents): therein were ye taught that which
ye knew not neither ye nor your fathers." Say: "Allah
(sent it down)": then leave them to plunge in vain
discourse and trifling.
Allah (swt) says in the Qur'an, "No just estimate have
they made of G_d." It is saying and I am sure that you
understand that those words of Allah (swt) in the Qur'an
are saying, that someone has underestimated G_d. Now
remember that my position is, and I believe it is the
position of all the learned good people in the religion,
that whatever is said in the Qur'an it is said in the
context of sacred scripture. If Allah (swt) says in the
Qur'an, "No just estimates have they made of Allah
(swt)," when He speaks it is like the president and when
the president speaks he speaks for everybody in his
domain, or in his territory. That is for everybody in the
United States and for all the powers at his disposal.
When Allah (swt) speaks He speaks to man in the
language of man, of human beings, and He speaks with
authority over all that is in the universe. And He speaks
with the authority over angels and human beings and
over His creation in its fullest extent or in its farthest
boundaries. So He is speaking for everything. He is
speaking His will in His creation. So when He says, "No
just estimate has been made of G_d," also no just
-
estimate have they made of G _d's communication to His
Messengers or to the prophets. No just estimate have
they made of the realm of His angels or the existence of
His angels. No just estimate have they made of the
creation that He created. No just estimate have they
made of the human being that He created, because by
failing to make a true picture respecting the majesty of
G_d Himself, they have also failed miserably to estimate
the value of the things He created.
We have addressed G_d and we have addressed His man
that He created during the session. When Allah (swt)
says ,"No just estimate has been made," does this have a
reference to something that we are aware of? Yes, when
they say GWd is a white man named Jesus they have
certainly miserably underestimated G_d. Now why did I
say a white man? We have a few here close to my age. I
am about the oldest person here. You know what color
Jesus was in your house when you were a child. You
know his picture was of no Arab. You know he was a
white man and you know he had yellow, blond hair and
you know he had blue eyes. That should tell us
something, shouldn't it?
When they want to do their thing they give Jesus Christ
blond hair and blue eyes. When they want to do their
thing on the black man's mind and on the black man's
psyche, on his spirit, on his soul and on his mind, when
they want to do their thing in the sacred waters of his,
they do not have any limit for their action. They give
him blond hair and blue eyes. But now you hear
discussions on the radio, you hear discussion on
television and they are saying, "One thing is for sure. It
is hardly likely that Jesus Christ had blue eyes." I heard
this myself on television.
And you can hardly find a picture or an image they call
Jesus Christ with blue eyes and blond hair nowadays. So
what are they doing? They say, "Black people are
asserting their rights and the government is opening up
the opportunity to them and if we keep that blond hair,
blue-eyed image in their neighborhood they are going to
wake up and start throwing those images out of their
neighborhoods; or we will have a rebellion going on in
the black church". So they give him color now, don't
they'? He has brown eyes, dark hair. "No just estimate
have they made of G_d."
10 22 2005 Asr p.2 of 18
-
Racists gave the black man a white image as G d
Do you know what I used to do when I was a minister
for the Honorable Elijah Mohammed? I just used my
common senses. I was a little bit crude and a little
rough. I had a lot of rough edges but I'm telling you
when I look back at that young man, he was alright with
me. I think we needed some rough edges like that. We
were so much out of it, mentally, we needed somebody
like W.D Mohammed to help his father, the Honorable
Elijah Mohammed to bring home the truth. I said, "How
can you in the church let the white man give you a
picture of himself after enslaving you, discriminating
against you, lynching you, for a hundred years to put
fear in you that you will never rise up against him?" So
he thought. I am talking about the real racist and those
who tolerated and let the racist have his fun, let him have
his party at the black man's expense. I said, "How can
you accept that? Something has to be wrong with your
mind that you would let the people who treated you like
that give you a picture of themselves and tell you that is
G_d." No just estimate have they made of G_d.
Qur'an 6.101; Allah has no consort nor wife
"To Him is due the primal origin of the heavens and the
earth: how can He have a son when He hath no consort?
He created all things and He hath full knowledge of all
things."
Qur'an 19.28; Mary's father was not evil, her mother
was not unchaste
"0 sister of Aaron! thy father was not a man of evil nor
thy mother a woman unchaste!"
Jesus is not G d in a third
The Qur'an is addressing this picture that they have
given to mankind that this is G_d, the human image of
Jesus Christ. Allah's (swt) way of handling the problem
for the people of the Book is so merciful. He is so kind
and gentle with them. He gives them a logic to think
about so that they will come by the way of intelligence,
good reason and real logic to see their errors. And
occasionally, He comes forcefully to them and He says,
"You who have been very insulting to the mother of
Jesus Christ". Do we think about it? Most of us don't.
How is there a belief that Jesus Christ is the son of
Mary, a virgin who had no man touch her? How is this
idea insulting her high station that G_d gives her in
scripture? Flow is that insulting her, a pure innocent
-
woman? The minds of most men can't understand this
stuff you are talking about, that the woman is pregnant
and we see her stomach swelling, getting bigger all of
the time and she has a baby. And after nine months she
delivers a child and you say G_d did it. You open that
woman up for the suspicion of the people thinking,
"That woman has committed fornication or committed
adultery." That is the insult. That's the mistreatment of
Mary that they charge her with having that child like
that.
I know what you are thinking, that the Qur'an says the
same thing. You are wrong. The Qur'an does not say
the same thing. The Qur'an just says that no man
touched her. But the Qur'an does not suggest but goes
against any suggestion of any role being performed by
Gd as a man with Mary. It does not say that. It does not
give us that picture.
But it says He has no consort. That is the old European
English word. We do not use that word in American
English so you read it and do not know what it is talking
about and you are not curious enough to go and get a
dictionary to search until you find out what the meaning
is. It means he had no female mate. That is plainly said
in the Qur'an, so that takes away the thoughts that we
want to fight back, to keep out of our mind, that there is
some kind of male - female thing that went on and a
child was born of G_d.
We want to ask, "How did that happen? Was it a bolt of
lightning that came from Him and entered Mary or
something?" We are trying to deal with it. How did it
happen? Since he's light maybe it was a bolt of
lightning. I'm not laughing, this is very serious for me.
Somebody will say, "He made fun." I am not making
fun. I am very serious. The Qur'an says, "He has no
mate, no consort," no female as His mate. Then it goes
on to give us the guidance, the understanding, the light
so that we understand that Mary was no different
creature. She wasn't a non-earthly creature, some kind of
creature from another universe, or from another material
that is not like our material, or not like this reality. She
wasn't something from an unknown dimension in matter
or something. No, she was a woman like every other
woman but just a decent, pure, an obedient woman to
Gd.
Qur'an 5.75; Jesus and his mother ate food
10 22 2005 Asr p.3 of 18
-
Christ the son of Mary was no more than an Apostle;
many were the Apostles that passed away before him.
His mother was a woman of truth. They had both to eat
their (daily) food. See how Allah doth makes His Signs
clear to them; yet see in what ways they are deluded
away from the truth!
Qur'an 5.75; Jesus and his mother ate food
Christ the son of Mary was no more than an Apostle;
many were the Apostles that passed away before him,
His mother was a woman of truth. They had both to eat
their (daily) food. See how Allah doth makes His Signs
clear to them; yet see in what ways they are deluded
away from the truth!
Allah (swt) says, "See how he and his mother had to eat
food?" They had to eat the same food humans eat?
Allah (swt) does not eat and doesn't need you to feed
Him, this is Qur'an as plain as day. He is not fed and He
does not need you to feed Him, but see how Christ and
his mother hungered and had to be fed?
Jesus i ffed physical food or spiritual word he is not
GJ1
-
You are Christian and Muslim at the same time. We
don't know which side of the fence you are going to fall
on, in the yard of the church or in the yard of Al Islam.
You are straddling the fence, sleeping and nodding and
about to fall off of the fence with your half Islamic ideas.
You have to come out of that. You are trying to make
the errors in Christianity right and using my help that I
give you to guide you to the purity of Al Islam, that is,
my intention is for you to use the help that I give you for
guiding you to the purity of Al Islam. You use it to
justify your making some things that are wrong in the
religion of the people of the Book, right. You want to
believe that they are right . You want to believe that the
Bible is right all through and through. No it is wrong,
terribly wrong, when it comes to how they picture G_d.
A great big mistake, the biggest sin that we can make on
earth is there where they say G_d is three in one.
.
Qur'an 5.73; They sa Allah is a third
"They do blaspheme who say: Allah is one of three in a
Trinity: for there is no god except One Allah. If they
desist not from their word (of blasphemy) verily a
grievous penalty will befall the blasphemers among
them."
1 know what some of you are saying, some of you
Look how beautifully it is given in the Qur'an, "G_d is
not a third." If there is three in one and to understand
how they come together to be one you have to see G_d
as one of them in the trinity, isn't that what they say?
And what does trinity mean? In the three, G_d is one in
the three and if He is one in the three, then He is a third
and Jesus is a third and the holy ghost is a third. And if
you put all thirds together you got one.
women, too. "He is talking about the literal reading. It
doesn't mean that and he knows it doesn't mean that."
That is what some of you are saying. Let us look at the
hidden meaning. If it means that he had to be fed the
spirit of G_d, he had to be fed communication from G_d,
now where are you? How can he be G_d? The one who
has to be fed the words of G_d cannot be G_d. He and
his mother had to be fed the guidance of G_d. How can
they he G_d when they had to he fed the guidance of
G_d? He could not be illuminated or come to life until
G_d fed him His spirit and His word. Now, how can he
be G_d?
Like in mathematics they say the whole is equal to sum
of all its parts. So they have it even in mathematics
something to support them. But it still doesn't jell with
rational, sound reasoning and logic. Why? Because
these parts are parts. Now are you going to call a part the
whole? Are you going to call Jesus Christ the whole? He
is the whale G_d? So what is the purpose of three in one
if the third is also a whole? This is the logic the Qur'an
gives us by using the Arabic Queanie term "Thaalethu"
G_d is not a third in this trinity. When you say He is one
of three that is what you are saying. He's a third.
John 8.28; Jesus had to be taught
Then said Jesus unto them, When ye have lifted up
the Son of man, then shall ye know that I am he, and
that I do nothing of myself; but as my Father hath taught
me, I speak these things.
Muslim straddling the fence of Christianity and Islam
So the matter is settled. The lies vanish and the truth
stands clear on its own. So you stop straddling the fence.
Qur'an 2.13; Disbelievers are fools but realize it not
10 22 2005 Asr p.4 of 18
-
When it is said to them: "Believe as the others believe"
they say: "Shall we believe as the fools believe?" nay of
a surety they are the fools buy they do not know.
Allah (swt) wants to make man's senses strong and
correct. He wants to establish man as an intelligent
thinker and this idea you have establishes you as a fool
and they call the believers fools. The Qur'an says no,
"You are the fools but you understand it not."
They called the followers of Muhammed (pbuh) the
fools. Allah (swt) says no, you arc the fools but you
don't even perceive your own foolishness. So you want
to talk about likeness of Al-Islam to Christianity, that we
are so much alike. I go to dialogues but I go to dialogues
as a Muslim and I go there in the interest of seeing
people get closer to truth. I do not go there to make
Christians feel comfortable in their ignorance. I go
hoping I will influence them or touch them somewhere
to make them become more aware that their ideas are not
intelligent. So from now on, brother Imams, when you
go to these dialogues with the Christian, don't just sit
there with them as though everything is all right and
make them think that your religion is just like theirs. It
is not like theirs.
Trinity has retarding effect on mankind
We have major differences. The only way it is like the
Christians is in their desire or in their intent to be good.
So we don't say they are bad people. No, their intent is
to be good. They want to he good people but their
thinking is terribly flawed and what they live by retards
the intelligence of mankind. It has a retarding effect on
the whole community of mankind who are exposed to
that stuff and want to respect it.
I was not born in that. I was born under a different
teaching. I wasn't born under the church teaching so it
was always nonsense in my mind. I could not
understand how black people, especially, could accept
this idea letting them take G_d out of His true Self and
put him in a white man and you buy it. So don't look at
me like you are surprised or something because I told
you I was never taught that. My mind was left natural
like G_d made it, so this unnatural, freakish idea here, I
couldn't buy it. Thank Allah (swt) that I could not buy
it.
So we have serious differences in major concepts for
man that are needed in man's life to open up his brain,
his mind, for proper food of thought, so he can be guided
by the universe that G_d made to engage his intelligence
-
and also come to have faith that there is a design behind
that and that there is a living superior Power above man
and all things made. In order for your mind to he situated
to travel along that path to your true liberation, to your
true freedom and salvation, the only way you can have
that is that you have to have your mind meet the idea of
G_d, the Cause behind all existence. And you have to
have your mind meet another idea that man is the work
or the creation of that Cause and he has been given a
purpose and his purpose is higher than the purpose of
animals or anything else created. Therefore, he should
respond to that Cause and seek guidance and
understanding from that Cause. These are absolutely
necessary if you are to come into full blossom, full
bloom, full maturity for your life's possibilities.
And another thing, you must not think that this creation
is the work of somebody who said "Shazaam" and it all
took place. You must have an intelligent perception of
the objective world of material things to have the
courage to not be spooked up, to go into it like the white
man has done. While you were looking at his image as
G_d he was doing the thing that G_d wants every man to
do and this is engage this world with his intelligence and
bring out the utility that the First Cause, or G_d,
Himself, the Creator, put in there for the brain, heart and
comforts of mankind. So if you are not situated to be
connected with G_d and His true identity, with matter or
the world and its true nature, with your own self and
your true purpose, if you can't be situated to be
connected with G_d you are out of it.
Qur'an7.32; Who denies My servants this world
heaven starts in this life
A.
1-4
•
"Say: Who hath forbidden the beautiful (gifts) of
Allah which He hath produced for his servants and the
things clean and pure (which He hath provided) for
sustenance? Say: they are in the life of this world for
those who believe (and) purely for them on the Day of
Judgment. Thus do We explain the signs in detail for
those who understand."
10 22 2005 Asr p.5 of 18
-
satan's servants go after knowledge and world positions
You never will be any competition for the world of satan
because he makes sure that his sinful servants go after
science, matter, money and all of that. So you can't be
any competition for them. But if Allah (swt) enlightens
you with His word and you accept what He gives you as
the picture of truth and reality, you can be not only
competition, you will eventually he put over those
people. You will be advanced beyond them. They will
be behind you. Why? Because they have falsehood and
if you follow the guidance of Allah (swt) in the Qur'an
you will have all truth. And do you think the Creator is
going let to them outstrip you or be your leaders and
ahead of you and they have truth and falsehood mixed
for their own personal benefit? No, He would not accept
that.
Allah (swt) gives us all the reassurance that we could
dream of, or possibly need. He says, "Who has said to
My servants this world of material things is not for
them? To the contrary, it is for them in this life and in
the hereafter it will be exclusively for them."
So in the Qur'an Allah (swt) tells us the liars, the wicked
people, the wrongdoers, the thieves, the corrupt ones,
they are going to be shut out of this dunya, they are
going to be shut out of the benefits of this material world
in the hereafter. It is as plain as day in the Qur'an. Allah
(swt) is so gentle and so merciful. He reasons or He
awakens the reasoning for those who have gone astray,
made a mistake, a big error, in their religion. He
awakens them gently. He doesn't give them a rude
awakening. He awakens them gently, slowly, as if to
say, "You are sleeping by a very poisonous snake. I
know what you have been told that this thing you are
sleeping with here is harmless, but look at what they say
about this thing. Does it make good sense to you? Look
at how you are created. You are created with five senses.
You are created to make sense of things. Now can you
make sense of the thing that you are lying here by, that
you are sleeping with?" This is how merciful and gentle
G_d is to the People of the Book.
Satan studies mankind
Qur'an 19.88-90; Creation outraged at saying G d has
son
88. They say: "(Allah) Most Gracious has begotten a
son!"
-
89. Indeed ye have put forth a thing most monstrous!
90. At if the skies are ready to burst the earth to split
asunder and the mountains to fall down in utter
ruin.
Qur'an7.27; Satan watches you where you can't see
him
"0 ye children of Adam! let not satan seduce you in the
same manner as he got your parents out of the garden
stripping them of their raiment to expose their shame: for
he and his tribe watch you from a position where ye
cannot see them: We made the evil ones friends (only)
to those without faith. "
GTd, after coming gently, mercifully, every now and
then He gives them a jolt. He says, "The whole universe
would be outraged that you should say G_d has fathered
a son. - Isn't that in the Qur'an? Satan is very shrewd.
He has been studying man long before man came to
study himself. So he knows you ahead of you knowing
yourself. He got ahead of you and formed the
understanding of yourself before you even got curious.
He gave you the understanding, so what do you have to
work with? You have nothing to work with but his
thinking and the only way for us to be guided or for
anybody to be guided in this world is they have to die to
the thinking the world gave them. You have to die to the
thinking the world gave you. Don't try to work with part
of it, hanging on to some of it. Die to all of it! Die to the
whole thing that this world gives you for your thinking,
for your mind. Don't let them tell you what reality is.
Die to everything that they told you was reality because
everything they gave you as reality was figures of a
dream world, of a thief who wanted to steal your
inheritance.
I know one Christian program that I have seen lately that
I like. I'm happy to see it. It was a relief for me to see
this program. It is called Break Though TV Ministry.
These people are sincere. They have some actors among
them. If they are preachers they have to have one or two
actors among them, but most of them arc very sincere
and they are trying to bring the truth home to people.
The main thing they are fighting is the tendency in
modern church people to go to church for fun and not to
receive G_d's guidance and His forgiveness and mercy.
Their main effort is to get people to leave that kind of
disposition, where they go to church just to be happy and
have fun. I appreciate that change because that is what
is wrong with the African American people.
10 22 2005 Asr p.6 of 18
-
Black church and community threatened by too much
fun
Nothing is stronger in the spirit of the African American
people than church fun, not "Fund." Some of you your
minds are so locked where it is you will go and say, "He
said nothing is stronger in the spirit of the African
American people than church fund. We really need to
give more charity, learn to be more charitable, I think." I
did not say fund. Church fun, that is what they go for.
How can your soul be edified? If you do not know that
word you should look it up. How can your soul be raised
up step by step and improved and made richer and more
productive? Now you know what edify is. How can
your soul experience that if religion means nothing but
fun for you? Some say, "We had a good time."
Manipulators of the culture work against Imam
Mohammed and persons like him
There are a number of people who are knowingly or
unknowingly nothing but servants of the devil, the
shaytan, and they want so badly to keep the African
American in his black church. I hope you understand
what I'm saying. They want so bad to keep our people in
our black church that they will absolutely use all forces
and all resources at their disposal to work against a man
like me and those who think like 1 do, whether Christian
or Muslim, to discredit us, to turn our people against us
and to deny us access in this world's life to the things we
have to have in order to perform, function and have the
community life that we are created for. They are in
power. They have the material. They have the media, the
biggest hold on the media. They have the biggest role
and power in newspapers, television, radio and
entertainment.
Extremes in black entertainment enriches manipulators
They have the biggest power so they use all that is at
their disposal, plus they have influence in other areas
that they do not actually manage. But they have indebted
persons in those areas who are so fearful of them
bringing wrath on them that they will do their bidding to
keep Imam W.D. Mohammed and people who think like
him, or people who think what a good and intelligent life
of our people to come from fun to be mature grown ups
using their intelligence and let the babies play and let the
grown ups work. They don't want to see that. They want
to keep us a funny, fun loving people going to extremes
loving fun, sex, and just foolishness. That is the way
they want to keep us. And they will spend big dollars,
-
billions to keep us like that. Why? Because we're giving
them trillions in our ignorance. We are letting them
have the neighborhood, the land, the businesses and
everything. So they will spend some billions. Some one
will say, "Oh Imam, teach us the Qur'an and hadith."
That is what I am doing, teaching you Qur'an and
hadith. You don't know Qur'an and hadith. Allahu
Akbar.
Qur'an 99.4 5; Earth will declare
-
4. "On that Day the earth will declare her tidings:"
5. For that thy Lord will have given her inspiration.
Are we going to continue just to let days, weeks, and
years pass by us and leave us in the same position, not
making any major change in how we think and see
things and behave? If you do, you are in for a big
punishment, bigger than what you have seen so far. It is
going to befall us. Can't you see that the earth itself is
whipping the sinners? Allah (swt) says in the Qur'an
there will come a time when the earth is going to behave
as though G_d revealed to it, G_d had inspired her, the
earth itself; meaning the natural life, the natural creation
is going to start performing as though G_d had inspired
it and put it on a mission to bring sinners to justice and
open the way for the righteous and the innocent.
We complete this session and I hope Allah (swt) blesses
you to come closer to truth and goodness, obedience to
G_d; and I hope that you will have the courage to do
what the true believer does according to the words of
G_d in Qur'an. When they get the direction from G_d
they stop using their own mind, their own opinions, and
their own thinking. They say, "We hear and immediately
obey." We don't take time to think about it. It's a sin if
we take time to think about what G_d has already given
us and has concluded the matter. What do you want to
think about it for? That is an insult to G_d_ That is a
shame and a sin on our part. Are you going to think
about what I told you? You go on and think about it.
I'm not alone. I have brothers and sisters sitting out there
who are not going to think about it. They are with inc.
We move, we hear, and we obey_
Tomorrow, we want to look at how Al-Islam grew for
the early ummah and we want to take that as guidance to
us, as light on how we should grow in this time. We are
living in a mostly non-Muslim environment. That will be
the last session, how we are to grow as a community in
10 22 2005 Asr p.7 of 18
-
America, getting our light and understanding from the
pattern that growth took in the early time, for the early
ummah. When I say the early ummah I'm talking about
how it grew in the time of the Prophet (pbuh) himself
and immediately after him, which will show us a life in
devotion to Allah (swt) where the whole life is seen as
obedience and devotion to G_d; and how the intellect
was inspired to revive the sciences for the world and
lead the world in the sciences and built beautiful
structures; beautiful, clean art and beautiful structures
and how it lasted not for a hundred years, or for a life of
one person, how it lasted for 500 years, 700 years. In
fact, it didn't die until just a few hundred years ago. It
was only a few hundred years ago. The light of Al-Islam
started to disappear from the known world a few
hundred years ago. Muslims were in power. Don't think
it was a long time ago. It wasn't a long time ago.
Non-Muslim nations, they just came into power about
300 years ago; in fact, not quite then. What was that?
17`h, 18th century? They still had to reckon with Islamic
nations in that time. So it hasn't been a long time. We
know the glory of the message of Al-Islam. The bright
light and the glory of the efforts and works of the
Muslims, it was declining and it had lost most of its
brilliance at that time. But it lasted for a long time. We
know every thing has to reach a point where it has to be
revitalized in this world that we live in. The time has
come for the revitalization of Muslim life and it is
happening right here in America among the unexpected
population, the blacks, the African Americans. If you
don't realize it, let me tell you, you are worse than dead.
You are living corruption, living death. You are the
walking dead. That is worse than death. The dead man,
he rests. You are still being burdened. You are the
walking dead. I'm waiting for all those questions. I want
to pull them out at random.
Ramadan session tapes, transcripts are not for the public
When this tape of the Ramadan session is finished I'd
like to have the right to go over it and make sure that
there is nothing there that I would object to going out;
that the language is good and the ideas are correct and
not offending the taste of intelligent and decent Muslims
anywhere, here, or in the world. You do a disservice,
really, to our effort to produce excellent products when
you take a raw piece of material and then you start
giving it to people. This is not meant for the public. This
is meant only for us and I think I made that clear a long
time ago. So you shouldn't do that. So please, if you
-
have done that see your error and don't do it, please!
Question and Answers
I picked eleven questions out of the box and I did it at
random so I do not know what I have here and you do
not know. So ]et us now find out.
Question:
When the Prophets were rejected by their people, is that
the influence of Iblis or satan being arrogant when he did
not give sajdah before G_d's purpose in man?
Imam WD Mohammed:
To obey G_d's instruction, to accept man as khalifa,
maybe there can be some connection with that in some
way. But when the people rejected their Prophets they
rejected them for the same reason the weak people reject
good leadership today. Satan is ready for something but
we are responsible for our own actions. Satan is doing
his thing. He is carrying out his plan, his scheme, but
when we reject good leadership, whether a Prophet or
just an ordinary leader, or just a good person, we are
responsible. We cannot blame it on Satan. We make our
own choices and usually when we reject them we want
to keep the relaxed life we have. We are comfortable in
our old habits and we don't want to change. That is the
reason. Satan is in some a little bigger than that.
Question:
Bismillah. Should a married brother or sister have a
platonic relationship with the opposite sex?
Imam WD Mohammed:
You got one here. I guess your thrill is just to have me
read this. You don't want any answer, you just wanted to
put this in the air and see the response. Married brothers
and sisters should only have sex relationships with one
another in accordance with the guidance of G_d in the
Qur'an and the wonderful example set by the Prophet
Muhammed (pbuh) for all of us. Anything outside of that
is not acceptable.
Question:
Bismillah. As Salaam Alaikum. Ramadan Mubarak.
Brother Imam please address the issue of organizing
efforts and putting programs together for public
gatherings. Often times we have events and because they
are not properly organized they arc not as successful as
10 22 2005 Asr p.8 of 18
-
we desire. What can we do to avoid this problem in the
future? Thank you.
Imam WD Mohammed:
You said, "We". You put yourself among those who are
not doing it right. If you had said, "They," I would have
advice for you.
Question:
Regarding the salat times, ASA, meaning As Salaam
Alaikum. Once the salat times comes should the adhan
be given at that time? And how much time should be
allotted before the eqaamah?
Imam WD Mohammed:
Good question. As soon as time comes for the salat the
adhan should be made and then if it is Magrib Prayer at
sunset, again, as soon as the sun sets we should make the
adhan and call the eqaamah. But there should be a space
of time between adhan and eqaamah. The only time we
can make time between the two very short is when we
know everybody is here, present and in their places and
they are already present for prayer to make salat. One
day I hope we will hear the adhan called in all of our
neighborhoods where Muslims live. People have to hear
the adhan and go and make ablution or wake up from
their beds and go to the washroom and get themselves
prepared, clean, to make salat. Then you should give
more time.
If you have been in a Muslim country overseas where
the adhan can be heard by persons living in the area you
know they make the adhan very early and long before
the time of prayer comes to get your attention. It might
be maybe five almost ten minutes before the time of
prayer is come to get the people up and on the way to
prepare them selves to be ready for salat. But again
most of our situations are not that, we are already here in
position most of the time for prayer even when you go to
the Masj id, you have made wudu' and you are sitting in
the Masjid or you are on the floor waiting for the adhan
and eqaamah so you don't have to do that.
Even in our situation like this we have to allow for a few
sisters and brothers who might want to rush and do
ablution quickly and join us. So give them a little time.
Do not just immediately call the eqaamah. But if half the
crowd here has to make ablution, then they have to have
a second eqaamah and make prayer after we may have
made prayer and give them space. If enough of you
come late like you do on the Eid days, you have the
Imam call the eqaamah for you and the rest of them do
-
their prayers so that everybody would have done their
prayers. You have to do the reasonable thing. This
religion is the religion of good sense. Just do the
reasonable thing.
Youth Music, rappers, wrap up the productive minds
Question:
With the Name of Allah (swt) what is your vision for the
young people now for the future?
Imam WD Mohammed:
Keep listening to me and read my articles in the paper.
I'm sure you will get it. The first thing you need to do is
break from the grip of the nasty world on you, because
you are not going to have a vision if you let them keep
holding you. These young brothers and sisters, good
Muslim parents, they were born in Al-Islam, in this
community. Smoking reefers, following the crazy world,
wanting to be "Hip hop," that is sure a frog life or
something. I want more than frog life myself. A frog
can't even talk clearly, it has so much water in his
mouth.
Question:
This is from the editor, Ayesha K. Mustafaa. You asked
me to remind you to speak about Muslim Journal. Can
you announce that Muslim Journal will follow your
suggestion to sell shares in it? We are looking at the
corporate structure. We are reorganizing the corporate
structure to make selling shares in Muslim Journal
possible.
Imam WD Mohammed:
Muslim journal has a board and they conduct their
affairs by shuraa baynahum. We expect that they will
soon be announcing that they have reorganized to sell
shares. When they do I hope I have enough money and
I'm going to try to have enough; and if I don't, I will
have enough in time. I would like to buy a few shares
myself in the Muslim Journal.
The Muslim .lournal is looking like it wants to go some
place, now. We just need brothers and sisters, too, who
value this community and want to see it grow and all the
good things we have grow. That is all we need.
Everybody is not made or cut out to sell papers. But a lot
of you are and I bet you are selling something, some of
you, and you are not doing so well with it. So take some
papers along with you.
10 22 2005 Asr p.9 of 18
-
This paper is not for those who have been converted.
This paper is to help people to get their life in better
condition. It is not just to convert people. And there are
people all around you out there and walking the streets
young and old who need some help to get their lives in
better condition. So why don't you at least sacrifice a
little bit of your time, two days out of the week, or one
day out of the week, and say, "I'm going to spend an
hour and I'm going to try to sell this paper to people on
the street or take it to their home". It is a little thing you
can do on your part. Some of us won't even encourage a
person who is in a position to help. We don't want to do
it. We won't do it and we don't want to encourage
somebody else who is in a position to do these things.
That is not good.
Rappers Are used as sterile black mental wrapping for
the minds of black youth inhibiting mental
progress.
Media people, the producers, they tape you and when
they are finished they say, "That's a wrap!" It means it is
finished. You could become a leader of the youth if you
believe what I'm going to tell you right now. As soon as
the slave makers who want to enslave our mind and
good human spirit saw the African American community
recovering from the setback of the loss of Dr. King,
Malcolm, the Honorable Elijah Mohammed and some
others, and the mind was beginning to become active
and productive again they started denying opportunity
for African American youngsters and middle-aged ones
to have the public audience. And they started looking for
African Americans to give the public audience to, being
those that they would be able to manage.
So they found the rappers who are angry. And they said,
"Let us get this young angry mass and give them
opportunity to vent their hostility. It will be therapeutic
for them and we will get them out of our hair. And it will
be almost impossible for the black nationalists and the
moral socialists among them to reach them, those who
are interested in building family and community. Look,
don't we want to sterilize them so they can't keep
reproducing their black minds? So let us take these
rappers and make sure that they are wrappers and they
will produce no children or no likeness of themselves.
They will just die in their state inside the prophylactic of
their own mind and behavior."
So they give you the opportunity to abort your
productive mind and cut you off from the leadership that
-
could really put you on the road to succeed so that we
can't have our next generation, They have them under
the "wrappers."
There is to be no writing on your prayer clothing
Animals should not be in cages or fish bowls
Question:
Yesterday you spoke of writing on clothes for Jumah.
How about pictures or animals on your clothes?
Imam WD Mohammed:
If you are talking to me, I don't have any pictures of
animals on my clothes. You should say, "Our clothes."
No, it is wrong. It is not the tradition of our Prophet
(pbuh) to even have pictures of animals in our
environment and only certain animals are permitted to be
in our environment. In your home you should not have
dogs. They give your home bad dog smell. if you have
dogs in your home, people come to your home and they
smell a dog. I don't care how clean you try to be, the
smell of the dog will be in that house when you leave
him in that house.
.
So Muslims, if we follow the way of Prophet
Muhammed (pbuh) we will not have dogs in our house
and we will not be people who love to see animals who
were created to be free to have their natural life and their
natural habitat, natural environment for raising their
families and living; if you are really sensitive as a human
being in your heart, you would not want to see fish in a
bowl where it can't do anything but swim around in a
little space. You would not want to see a bird that is
given wings to go great distances in the air and across
the land in a cage. Don't follow the way of the world
that Satan designed. Come back to your original nature.
No pictures, no writing is to be on your clothes. It
distracts the believers who come to pray. It keeps their
mind from being on G_d and education in Al-Islam. We
come to be educated in Al-Islam and to pray and
worship our Lord. We don't want to be looking at your
writing on your clothes. You can wear clothing that is
not a distraction. You don't have to put writing on it. So
don't come here with sharp shoes that look like flashing
lights are coming off of them. Do not come here like
that.
10 22 2005 Asr p.10 of 18
-
Question:
We were told that we should have broken our fast
because we have traveled over fifty miles. Is that true?
Imam WD Mohammed:
Yes it is true that you were told that. I didn't tell you
that.
-
who are resisting that, you should question your self in
light of what Allah (swt) has revealed and what Muhammed, the Prophet (pbuh) accomplished, by
having people come together and participate and work
together and benefit from one another, Allahu Akbar.
Qur'an 4.3; Limit four wives; one is best if you can't
be just
Question:
Please announce the business meeting for those who
want to sell suits.
Imam WD Mohammed:
There will be a business meeting for those interested in
buying those very high quality, beautiful suits that will
sell themselves. You don't have to do anything but hold
them up. There will be a meeting after dinner when you
come back, before the Taraawih prayers. We will have a
business meeting for all of those interested in the suits.
And I understand since yesterday when our brothers
addressed us regarding this suit business that we have
had some wonderful responses from the business people.
It is very encouraging.
"If ye fear that ye shall not be able to deal justly with the
orphans marry women of your choice two or three or four;
but if ye fear that ye shall not be able to deal justly (with
them) then only one or (a captive) that your right hands
possess. That will be more suitable to prevent you from
doing injustice."
Qur'an 4.129; You are never able to be just between
women
Imams in the same city should work together
Qur'an 3,200; Form Alliances
j'•
"0 ye who believe! persevere in patience and
27,"
-
4.4.0
constancy: vie in such perseverance; strengthen each
other (Form alliances); and fear Allah; that ye may
prosper."
Could you speak to shuraa in terms of community
structure as it relates to cities within an area with several
masjids and centers?
"Ye are never able to be fair and just as between
women even if it is your ardent desire: but turn not away
(from a woman) altogether so as to leave her (as it were)
hanging (in the air). "
Imam WD Mohammed:
Question:
Question:
I think I understand exactly what you are addressing.
Muslims are told to work hard, reverence, G_d, and form
alliances, make connections, network. So this is an
instruction of G_d in Qur'an for us to do this. Any imam
who is responsible for a. masjid in this Chicago area and
you have no interest in working with other imams in
your area, you are committing a sin. You are supposed to
be seeking each other out and meeting with one another
to see if what you are doing can help me do what I am
doing better. And some things that I am doing may help
you do what you want to do and realize better results. By
coming together the whole benefits much more and
Allah (swt) has instructed us to do that. So you imams
As Salaam Alaikum, Brother Imam. What advice and
instructions would you give to brothers who marry a
second wife and do not continue taking care of the
household needs of the first, whose financial
responsibility is in disarray, and the second family is
living large?
Imam WD Mohammed:
I know this has to be a sister, or a homosexual. We have
plenty. I know that's a problem. You have another sister
10 22 2005 Asr p.11 of 18
-
and you are living large and you have one living small.
That will not work, brother. You've got to be in a
situation to be just, financially. You have to understand
that. Be just by them and if you can't be just by them,
what does Allah (swt) say? Then stick with just one
wife. If you can't treat them justly then stick with one
wife and it is not justice to give one more, having her in
a nice car, a better home and the other one having less
and their social standing distinguishable. One is in a low
social standing and the other is in a high social standing.
That is wrongdoing. 1 would call that freaking out. That
is not decent in any society.
I have seen couples living together and one is a beautiful
person and usually it is a female. But sometimes it is a
male. it goes both ways. Sometimes the male is a
beautiful person and the female is getting by with bloody
murder, but the male just takes it. There is a tendency in
the community on the part of sisters to find a bad brother
and marry him so she can just point at him saying, "Is he
suppose to be doing this to me? is he suppose to treat
me like this?" You sisters must select with more
common sense. If you select a man who does not have a
job, what do you think he is going to do later? If you
select a flirt what is he going to do later? So you have to
select with good sense and you will change this problem.
Brothers are not going to respect you if you take
anything and if a brother knows that you don't care
about picking or selecting an intelligent decent brother,
he's not going to treat you like you are a decent person;
and you might be a decent woman. He is not going to
think he is obligated to treat you like a decent person
when you chose him to be your husband. I don't think
any brother sent in a complaint. I'm not talking to the
brothers. I am just talking to the sisters.
-
present among us?
No, it should stay exactly the way it is. If we let them
come over there pretty soon we will have a jamboree on
the holy site. They will be kicking up sand, not the dust.
The satan wants us to lose our lives. He wants the
Muslim to lose his real life. He wants the Christians to
lose their real life. Satan just wants us to lose our life. He
would like to see us all come together, especially those
who he has already progressed some with; those who he
has been able to make progress among to influence their
behavior and change their lives. He would love for them
to mix in with the others saying, "If we could just get
them to he accepted there among the Muslims at their
holy precincts, in time we can destroy the character of
the holy precincts. That is satan's scheme.
Drug abuse
Qur'an 2.49; They killed your men and let your
women live
"And remember We delivered you from the people of
Pharaoh: they set you hard tasks and punishments
slaughtered your sons and let your womenfolk live;
therein was a tremendous trial from your Lord.
Exodus 16.15, 16,
22; Kill the men: let the women live
[15] And the king of Egypt spake to the Hebrew
midwives, of which the name of the one was Shiphrah,
and the name of the other Puah: [16] And he said, When
ye do the office of a midwife to the Hebrew women, and
see them upon the stools; if it be a son, then ye shall kill
him: but if it be a daughter, then she shall live. [22] And
Pharaoh charged all his people, saying, Every son that is
born ye shall cast into the river, and every daughter ye
shall save alive.
Should non-Muslims visit the Kabah?
Question:
Matthew 16.3; Can't read the sign of the times
As Salaam Alaikum. Brother Imam, why are Muslims
the only ones allowed to visit the Kabah? Since this is
the house that Abraham built, shouldn't all believers be
allowed to visit at a pre-determined time?
" And in the morning, It will be foul weather to day: for
the sky is red and lowring. 0 ye hypocrites, ye can
discern the face of the sky; but can ye not discern the
signs of the times? "
Imam WD Mohammed:
Drug abuse allowed among the poor has reached the
leaders
Didn't I tell you there are big differences between what
we believe and what they believe? Don't you know if
you are just coming into our environment, into our
audience where we are and you have a different belief
than ours, don't you know you create a disturbance, even
though it is minor, for our soul's peace just by being
You know there is a saying in the Bible, New Testament,
that says Jesus told the people that they knew how to
10 22 2005 Asr p.12 of 18
-
read the signs in the sky of clouding up for rain, they
could read the face of the sky, but they couldn't read the
seasons. If you think back just a little bit in time when
our people, youngsters mostly of our people back then,
were getting on the craze of this reefer smoking fad. It
didn't take long before they came out saying, the
medical people were saying, it is harmless, why don't
you just legalize it? And some of them were saying that
it is good for you. I'm talking about professional people,
so-called health, medical people saying that reefers were
good for you, the benefits that it had. But now what are
they saying?
Now it has reached all of their youngsters and their
children are smoking that weed more than our
youngsters now and for some time. European
youngsters have been smoking weed more than our
youngsters, so what are they saying now? Watch your
children if you want them to be successful in school
because it has been tested and proven. This is what I
read in the paper. Reefer hurts your young child's
chance of succeeding in school. That is what they are
saying now. It is not just reefers. But when they want to
hurt or get more of the poor people who they think do
not offer much to society, they think that we are not
capable of doing much more than having babies and fun.
That mentality is strong in non African Americans, or
non-black people, and not just Europeans. The whites
who are inhuman and think they arc the best of humans
because they think they have the most knowledge and
wisdom, they think they are gods almost, those whites or
European Americans and others who consider
themselves white and we are black. They see a real
problem in having what they call non-productive people
multiply and increase in population.
So they have to think of all kinds of ways to kill you off,
to reduce your numbers where you are not a big problem
for their economy and their idea of how the society
should be run and look. So they devise ways to eliminate
you and kill you off. This is not a new thing. Both
Qur'an and Bible tell us of nation holders, people who
hold whole nations in their grip devising a scheme or
plan to kill off the productive ones of a people that they
didn't want to multiply in their society, or in .their nation.
It said they killed off your boys or your men and spared
your women.
You can read that two ways, brother, and I have talked
with you long enough. We can read it together. They
kill off your men, or your males, and spare your females.
-
Now if you look at it in the first instance, the first picture
or reading that comes to mind, it is literally male and
female, husband and wife, father and mother, kill off the
men and save the women. Now let us look at it by way
of interpretation or by way of translation in light of what
we know. They do that not only to flesh but to your
mind, to your spirit, and to the culture, killing off our
males and saving our females. The male is the one who
is supposed to be responsible for the household, isn't he?
Kill off the one who is suppose to be responsible for the
household, not to kill him physically, but deprive him of
the condition that he needs to take care of his house. Sec
that he is unemployed, or see that he is employed in
something that is no good for his life and he is still unfit
to be a husband and a father to his family. That is killing
him off, isn't it?
Kill off the males means kill off community leaders
Now let us look at it again. Kill off the leadership but
spare the community and you don't have to kill them off
physically. Kill them off by bringing a separation
between the people and their leader. Turn them off to
their leader so you cut the leader off from the people.
That is killing him and sparing the women. It means
spare their neighborhood and let us reap the money and
guide the neighborhood for them. That is going on and
has been going on all of the time but it is just worse now
than ever. Every corruption that scripture addressed in
the past is worse now.
The scripture addressed adultery. It is so popular now
until people laugh at it if you talk about it saying, "Oh
man he cheated on his wife." It's a joke, even if you say,
"He goes with a male." Homosexuality used to be an
outrage in ancient times not so far from us. But now if
you say something and someone will respond by asking,
"Are you prejudiced? You don't believe in diversity? It
is not right for a minority to deny another minority their
rights." And they will ostracize you and you will look
like you are the homosexual and they are straight. They
will put you by yourself and have you looking so sad
and pitiful so much so that you will go up and embrace
a homosexual just to get back in the crowd.
Malachi 4.5; There's coming a dreadful day
"Behold, I will send you Elijah the prophet before the
coming of the great and dreadful day of the Lord:
10 22 2005 Asr p.13 of 18
-
I often say this, scripture before the Qur'an says, "There
is coming the awful and dreadful day of the Lord;" and
what does it say of that day? It is going to be a bad day
for some, but a great day for others, because it calls it
also a great and dreadful day. So this is the time we are
living in, right now. The seers or the people who
prophesy and sec the future, not that they are always
Prophets, the Bible carries major and minor Prophets. So
these seers, people who can prophesy they looked at how
the world was changing and how sin was growing and
how comforts were increasing to make the life easy and
to take people's mind away from serious matters and
give their mind to just common pleasures; they saw that
and predicted the future.
They knew that was going to continue because man's
population was constantly growing. He is constantly
reproducing himself and the more numbers. The faster
the population grows it is just like germs, you have a
thousand men having babies and then they produce ten
thousand men. After their generation you have ten
thousand men producing babies. So they saw this, how
the population was multiplying, and they predicted with
the multiplying of population there will also be a
multiplying of environmental problems. People will not
be as intelligent in their behavior. They will be
overpowered with too many things, so their minds will
be taken away from their decent life and their principles;
and in time they will just be overcome by the growth of
wealth and the comforts that wealth produces or brings.
And that will break their moral life down and also break
up families, because once your moral fife breaks down
you become a factor for breaking up families.
So I'm saying you did not need a voice out of the cloud
to come and say, "There is going to be corruption on
earth. It is going to multiply and corruption is going to
spread over the seas and land." It just needs some
thinking person with good sense just studying what is
happening on earth for people in community life or in
society; then they predict what would happen down the
road and that is what they did.
Someone might say, "He is saying that didn't come from
G_d." The inspiration, I believe, came from G_d,
because these people would not want to put that in
writing and keep it safe for the generations to come if
they were not inspired by a pure and great power, G_d,
the purest and the greatest power. Certainly they were
inspired, but they were using their own intelligence to
perceive what would happen based upon what has
happened thus far. And the nature, or the dynamics of
-
social life and sexual relations, all they had to do was
study and predict and they did it.
Satan manipulates democracy to work for him
So they predicted all of these things and now we find the
old sins that are written in the Bible, they have grown so
big today and have become so prevalent and so common
that the legislators want to legislate rights for them;
where these people who used to be a threat to the decent
order of man's life on this earth arc recognized and
given the same rights that the decent people have. Now
you know that is something that shows you that Satan
has really taken over, hasn't he? Satan has gotten into
power with the wicked people. He has multiplied his
crowd. He has increased his crowd to such numbers,
now he can use democracy and make it work for him.
Isn't that something?
We are living in the end of time, the Day of Judgment,
the great day of religion. I am as convinced of that as I
am convinced of anything real in my life; that those
times that were predicted we are living in it right now. It
is not going to come. It is here! And thank Allah (swt)
we are situated to see it end. We are situated to live long
enough to see the beast die and all of his filth die with
him. It is coming. That is here, too.
When a disease reaches its fullness, its terminal end
state, it looks the worst. But that's the sign that it won't
be going any further. It won't be increasing anymore.
Healing is going to come now for those who kept life.
For the others they are dead. You can't do anything for
them. But those who held their life in the terminal state,
we expect healing to come and that's where we are. We
are at the point where corruption that satan encouraged
for man on this earth has reached its terminal state and
now the process of purifying has begun. And look at
how strong Allah (swt) has made some of these religious
bodies on this earth. They are Christian, some Jews. I
am not knocking the Jews. It won't hurt them anyway.
Buddhist and others, they all are coming together to
address the protection of the family life and to address
the need to fight immorality, corruptions, in the society.
And they are doing a beautiful job. I know, because I
interact with some of them by me belonging to a few of
these world organizations.
While we are seeing the dupes of satan working hard and
having their hay day, we also see a strong effort in the
10 22 2005 Asr p.14 of 18
-
heavens and healing is beginning to grow in the earth,
isn't it? We have Imam Yusuf Saleem from Washington
D.C. He shares information that he gets and he keeps
me informed of the activities of the Masjid there, how
they are coming along. They have a wonderful
movement. I really enjoy and appreciate your newsletter.
It is just what we want. He has an open and fair
community and he encourages people who can offer
something to come forward and that is what all of us
need. We only have a few like you, Brother Imam. Not
many Masjids are like that. We do have a few more. He
interacts with big people, not small people, in
government, big people in religion, and he can bear
witness with me that there is strong work being done in
the heavens; and it is beginning to grow and gradually be
seen on earth.
Don't be down hearted and don't loose faith, now.
Glory is just a step away, praise be to Allah (swt). This
is an ugly and dreadful time and at the same time it is a
great time that will bring rejoicing to the innocent souls
that stay with G_d. It is coming very soon.
Qur'an 3.148; Allah dresses the world and the hereafter
And Allah gave them (dress) a reward in this world
and the excellent (dress) reward of the Hereafter. For
Allah loveth those who do good."
Don't forget what we said from Qur'an, "Surely with
Allah (swt) is the power and the right to dress the
present life and the life hereafter." That is far reaching.
What Allah (.swt) reveals is deep, powerful, and far
reaching. If we believe in it we will have intelligent
insight. If we believe that brothers and sisters, as well we
should, organize and go to work. You don't have to be
here to organize. Organize your thinking. Be together in
our thinking and in our plan for our life of the
community on this earth. Let us get together in it. Let us
work together for the future of our community life as
Muslims on this planet earth, in the United States, in our
situations that we are in, or in our circumstances.
Environment Man has no right to use it except as G_d
intends.
Allah (swt) says it was wrong on the part of the people
of the Book to think man has a free hand to do whatever
he wants with the environment. Satan seduced him to
believe that and now satan is the one leading
environmental development making opportunity for sin
and corruption more than for righteousness and
-
production as G_d wants it. Don't go along with their
spirit, with their thinking. Don't go along with their
claiming the right to have the environment without
respecting what G_d wants for the environment. So they
have drugs, drinking whiskey, wine, beer, and all of that,
promiscuous sex. They have corrupt videos, corrupt
television, bringing in freakish, insane behavior, worse
than the behavior of any animal you can find in the
history of animals. They have that available for your
youngsters if you are not the manager over their affairs.
Allah answers the prayers of those who persevere
Qur'an 4.76; satan: fight his weak strategy
"Those who believe fight in the cause of Allah and
those who reject faith fight in the cause of evil: so fight
ye against the friends of Satan: feeble indeed is the
cunning of Satan."
Are we supposed to look at this culture and say, "This is
okay." No, Allah (swt) says, "Fight the schemes of
satan, for his schemes are weak." He has no right to put
his cultural design on G_d's creation, to dress the
creation without respecting the will of G_d for His
creation. That is what it is saying as plain as day. That is
what Allah (swt) is saying to us in the Qur'an. So you
are just going to still sit and let them take the world and
create corruption and keep multiplying corruption and
take your life, your family life, and with all your strength
and with all of your prayers you can't hold on to it?
Don't you know G_d will not answer the prayers of
people who give up? He answers the prayers of people
who keep fighting. If you give up on your decent life He
is not going to answer your prayers. He is going to let
you stiffer the consequences of your own shameful
neglect. So the way of the sinners multiplies and just
crowds us out.
G_d knows that if I thought that there was no way out
but to organize and I know the power of this society, I
know they have the weapons, the upper hand, I would
organize people to tear this world's structures down; to
destroy their world structures; to hit them hard, destroy
their strong holds. I would have a physical, violent
revolution if I thought there was no other way out. I'm a
real Muslim. I'm a complete Muslim. I'm prepared to
die and give up my life and suffer a death many, many
times for what I believe in. It would be easy for me to do
that. But I see signs that tell me that is not necessary.
10 22 2005 Asr p.15 of 18
-
We can achieve what we want just by the people being
serious instead of just relaxing. You have to be serious.
Your religion is the most serious matter for you. Your
religion is your life. Let us be serious you brothers. You
who have good minds, why don't you help me get the
right message to our people who are just dumb,
uninformed, or incorrectly informed, left to be blind in
the brain. You can do it!
And you should be running up to me. I shouldn't be
looking for you. You should be saying, "Imam, I heard
that you are going to have suits pretty soon that will
bring us two and three dollars for every one dollar we
invest. I'd like to form a team." They form gangs, don't
they? And the gangs multiply in the numbers of
hundreds and thousands, sometimes, members in the
gang. If you organize like they do to have gang power, if
you would organize to have economic dignity and
money power behind our business effort, if you follow
my advice, pretty soon you will become so strong we
will have a group of business youngsters so strong, that
they could help us change the face of this ugly life and
neighborhoods that we have. They will become so
strong, financially, if you follow my advice. And it
would be to not publish what you're doing, not to
broadcast it, not to show off, but just go quietly like an
old man about eighty years old in his youth and before
you know it you will become so powerful that it will be
too late for their schemes.
-
as easy as what is happening right now while I'm
talking to you. You youth, if you come together and
support CPC business factory purchases and sales you
could do marvelous things to turn life around, not only
for yourself, but for your parents and for your
community, for your neighborhood. The youth could do
that. And if you are not interested in that, then you are
getting what you deserve. The devil is running your life.
He is moving his bowels in your mouth and nose and all
over your head and he is enjoying that. He's got you
corrupting your life and satisfied with it, or sitting idly
by and not comfortable with your religious community,
not comfortable with your good parents. You are
wishing that you had the courage to risk going to jail or
being killed and you would like to join the gang, those
bad boys out there, but you are a little scared.
We can't be easy with wrongdoers. We can't be soft on
wrongdoers. That does not help them at all. You are
lucky that we are living in the time of law and order,
because if we were in a new land, what they called the
new territory of the new frontier in the beginning of the
history of this nation, if we were living in a time like
that, I would just talk to a young man and if he didn't
convert right away I would take a good stick or a good
belt or something, and I would do what my mother was
very good at, "Putting another spirit into you." I would
beat you until you come into another spirit and you
would be saved for life, eternal.
Dope dealers and gang leaders will he coming and
asking you, "You got a good thing here. This thing we
have is killing us. Can we be in on what you are in on?"
And then my advice to you would be give them the
product but tell them to give me some space. You work
on the other side of town. Help them but keep a good
distance between yourself and your activities and them,
because they have already shown that they were the
weakest of the youth. The strongest of the youth are
those who are still with decent families and those who
are still going to their churches and mosques.
Satan has corrupted some of these minds so much until
you actually have to kill them. A lot of them have to be
outright killed. They couldn't come to their good senses.
Even beating them won't bring them to their good
senses. Many of them with a little pain put on them
could come into the right spirit; which I would hate to
see. They are already in enough pain. Life is enough
pain for them. I would not want to see pain come to
anybody. But to save somebody's life you do what hurts
you to save them. Nowadays you cannot beat on them.
They will lock you up, the parents. But at least you
could take them to the jail and say, "Look, if I straighten
So the strongest of the youth are those who refuse to do
those things and who have kept the decent life. You
can't trust those who have shown already that they are
the weakest of the youth. You can't trust them to mingle
with and mix with them and be buddies and associate
with them and have them inside of your activity that you
have. No. Give them the product and have them just be
responsible for their own business activity way across
town and if they won't go across town, then you go
out this child or if I do what I know might straighten him
out you are going to lock me up and I can't do anything
with him. He is yours, take him."
across town and leave them there. That can happen just
And then they will tell, you, "If you put him out you are
going to be locked up." They will threaten to lock you
up. At least you would have said something to them and
if enough of us do that, go to jail and say, "You are
10 22 2005 Asr p.16 of 18
-
going to lock me up if I try to straighten up my own
child, I can't do anything with him. He will not change.
He won't respond to me, you take him." They will say
"You have to take him back home or we are going to
lock you up." Say, "You got my Message I told you,
you are responsible for me having a child like this."
Tell them that, "You are responsible, your system, your
way of handling family is responsible for me having a
problem with a child like this and I believe that you are
taking your way of handling matters from satan, himself.
And I'm not talking about a spook I'm talking about
Satan among you men;" and go on back home.
Dua for rebellious youth
Don't struggle with the child anymore. Don't say, "You
are not reading the Qur'an in Ramadan." Pray and make
a dua, "Oh Allah (swt) use the strap of his own body and
his own mind and whip him good, ameen." Let him hear
you pray it, too. Let him hear that dua.
An old man from Pakistan told me a story, once. I think
it is from Persian literature. He told me of a young man
who was told a story by an older man. He told him while
he was not yet married such and such person, a young
man, married a young woman and he wanted to
demonstrate to her that when he is serious he is serious.
So she was giving him a little problem and he went and
he grabbed their cat in the house and he took it and held
it down. He took out his sword. Back in that time it was
common to wear swords. Like in the days of the wild
West, it was common to wear pistols or guns.
-
It's too late for that, buddy! We heard from older guys,
"The way you start a relationship out that is the way you
have to finish it." Some of us start out being relaxed and
not insisting upon any rules to be obeyed and then all of
a sudden you want to change and start putting rules
down on people. It doesn't work. Some of us start out
being so romantic, just a charming guy. He is so nice
and so considerate of what his wife feels and what she
needs and what she wants. He gets out and opens the car
door and after he thinks he got her and she is his and he
is not worrying about losing her, he stops getting out to
open the car door for her. He stops being romantic and
she is seeing nothing but a dead corpse in her life; and
he's wondering why they cannot have happiness any
more, the love is gone.
If you start off kissing, you have to keep kissing. When
you met her, her breath didn't stink but now her breath
stinks. You can't change. Her breath still smells? Give
her Dentyne, or whatever they call it and don't stop
kissing, buddy! Look, you can't expect everything to be
perfect for you. You are not perfect for yourself. Having
a good marriage doesn't mean having somebody who is
sweet and smelling like a rose all of the time and
pleasing you all the time. She is going to smell good
tomorrow.
Index 10-22-2005 Asr
Qur'an 6.91 ; No just estimate they made of Allah 1;
Qur'an 6.101; Allah no consort nor wife 2;
Qur'an 19.28; Mary's father not evil, mother not
unchaste
2;
So he took his sword and he hit the cat and split the cat
in half. One half went on one side and the other half on
the other side and he went and wiped his sword off and
put it back in the sheath. And he sat down and just
pretended to relax as though nothing happened. And the
story goes that he had no problem getting her attention
any more. Another young man heard that story and he
had problems with his young wife and he had been
having problems with her for a long time.
Qur'an 5.75; Jesus and his mother ate food 2;
Qur'an 5.73; They say Allah is a third 3;
Qur'an 2.13; Disbelievers are fools but realize it not 3;
Qur'an7.32; Who denies My servants this world 4;
Qur'an 19.88-90; Creation outraged saying of G_d's
son 5;
Qur'an 99.4-5; Earth will declare 6;
Qur'an 43; Limit four wives. One best 10, 111;
Qur'an 4.129; You are never able to be just between
wives
So one day he recalls the story and he goes and grabs the
cat and takes his sword, hits the cat and splits the cat in
two. One half went one way and the other half went the
other way and the young wife looked at him and she said
"Ha ha, you were supposed to do that on the night of the
wedding!" Some of you brothers married a Christian and
you met her at a jamboree 2005 style. Now you are
going to put down the halal rules on her and she is
laughing at you just like that young lady in that story.
10, 11;
Qur'an 2.49; They killed your men, let your women
live 12;
Qur'an 3.148; Allah dresses the world and hereafter 13,
14; Qur'an 4.76; satan, fight his weak strategy 15;
John 8.28; Jesus had to be taught 3;
10 22 2005 Asr p.17 of 18
-
Matthew 16.3; Can't read the sign of the times 12;
Exod 16.15, 16, 22; Kill the men, let the women live
12, 13;
Malachi 4.5; There's coming a dreadful day 13;
a-1
Adhan and Eqaamah timing 7, 8;
Allah
a- answers the prayers of those who persevere 15;
a- Creation outraged saying of G_d's son 5;
a- dresses the world and hereafter 13, 14;
a- no consort nor wife 2;
a- No just estimate they made of Allah 1;
a- They say Allah is a third 3;
America, Satan manipulates democracy to work for him
14;
Animals should not be in cages or fish bowls 9;
b-1
Believers, Who denies My servants this world 4;
Bird Animals should not be in cages or fish bowls 9;
Black
b- Extremes in black entertainment enriches
manipulators 6;
b- Racists gave the black man a white image as G_d 2;
Boys, Kill the men let the women live 12, 13;
c-1
Child, Dua for rebellious youth 16;
Christianit
c- Black church threatened by fun 5;
c- Muslim straddling the fence of Christianity and Islam
3;
c- Racists gave the black man a white image as G_d 2;
c- They say Allah is a third 3;
c- Trinity has retarding effect on mankind 3, 4;
Church, Black church threatened by fun 5;
Clothes, There is to be no writing on your prayer
clothing 9;
d-1
Day There's coming a dreadful day 13;
Democracy Satan manipulates democracy to work for
him 14;
-
10 22 2005 Asr p.18 of 18
-
Devil
d- fight his weak strategy 15;
d- manipulates democracy to work for him 14;
d- servants go after knowledge and world positions 5;
d- studies mankind 5;
Disbelievers are fools but realize it not 3;
Dogs should not be kept in the house 9;
Dress
d- Allah dresses the world and hereafter 13, 14;
d- There is to be no writing on your prayer clothing 9;
Drug abuse
d- allowed among the poor has reached the leaders 12;
Dua for rebellious youth 16;
e-1
Earth will declare 6;
Entertainment
c- Extremes in black entertainment enriches
manipulators 6;
c- Rappers used as sterile black mental wrappers of the
black youth 9;
Environment, man is to use it only as Gd intends 15;
Estimate, No just estimate they made of Allah 1;
f-1
Family, Dua for rebellious youth 16;
Fish, Animals should not be in cages or fish bowls 9;
Food, Jesus and his mother ate food 2;
Fools, Disbelievers are fools but realize it not 3;
g-1
h-1
Hajj, Should non Muslims visit the Kabah 11, 12;
i-1
Imams in the same city should work together 10;
.1Jesus
j- Allah no consort nor wife 2;
j - and his mother ate food 2;
j- Can't read the sign of the times 12;
j- had to be taught not Gd 3;
q-1
-
j- if fed physical food or spiritual word he is not G_d 3;
j- No just estimate they made of Allah 1;
r-110-22-2005 Asr p.19 of 18
Jew Kill the men let the women live is no leadership12,
13;
Racists gave the black man a white image as G_d 2;
Ramadan session tapes, transcripts is not for the
public 7;
Rappers used as sterile black mental wrappers of the
black youth 9;
k-1
Kabah Should non Muslims visit the Kabah 11, 12;
1-1
Leader, Kill off the males is a community of no leaders
13;
m-1
Man, Kill the men let the women live 12, 13;
Marry
m - Limit four wives one best if you knew 10, 11;
m - Wives marry two, four one if you can't be just 10,
11;
Mary
m - Allah no consort nor wife 2;
m - Jesus and his mother ate food 2;
m - Mary father not evil, mother not unchaste 2;
Music
m - Extremes in black entertainment enriches
manipulators 6;
gm - Rappers used as sterile black mental wrappers of
the
black youth 9;
Muslim straddling the fence of Christianity and Islam 3;
n-1
o-1
P-1
Polygyny polygamy
p- Limit four wives one best if you knew 10, 11;
p - Wives marry two, four one if you can't be just 10,
11;
s-1
satan
s- satan fight his weak strategy 15;
s- manipulates democracy to work for him 14;
s- servants go after knowledge and world positions 5;
s- studies mankind 5;
Season Can't read the sign of the times 12;
Son Creation outraged saying of G d's son 5;
t-1
Trinity
t- has retarding effect on mankind 3, 4;
t- They say Allah is a third 3;
u-1
v-1
w-1
WD Mohammed
w- Manipulators of the culture work against Imam
Mohammed and persons like him 6;
Wives
w Limit four wives one best if you knew 10, 11;
w - Wives marry two, four one if you can't be just 10,
11;
Women, Kill the men let the women live 12, 13;
x-1
Y-1
Youth
y- Dua for rebellious youth 16;
z-1 Index 10-22-2005 Asr
Prayer
p-Adhan and Eciaamah timing 7, 8;
p- Allah answers the prayers of those who persevere 15;
10-23-2005 Thuhr p.1 of 12
10-23-2005 Thuhr Ramadan Session Homewood, IL
Imam Warith Deen Mohammed
Shea butter
Dr. Diab of North Carolina, he began some years ago
making products containing shea butter and we had a lot
of raw unprocessed shea butter on hand. That means we
had not added anything to it like scent and some of it
actually needed filtering. It was not as clean as we
wanted it to be. We did a lot of work and actually we
lost money on that purchase of shea butter. It was a big
one. The label cost too much for any profit to be made
by the Collective Purchasing Conference. So what we
did, we offered it to Brother Diab, who wanted to go into
the making of these products and he bought it at a
reasonable price.
We sold it to him at a good price for us and a good price
for him. He had been making products and he has
increased his product line. He is not the only one selling
products. I don't want to give you that Impression. I'm
sure we have others who have wonderful products, too.
The community is really growing in business. Dr. Diab
he is a dentist, so he has to know something about
bacteria, etc. He is a good person to be in a business like
this and I don't think he wants to pull any more teeth. He
has a shea butter product now that is a nasal
decongestant and, believe me, I have only tried one of
his products that I am not satisfied with. I'm working
with him. I'm patient. What I mean is I'm with him to
get it better.
He has a shea shaving lotion. I never used it because I
don't use a razor. I use a little hair trimmer like a clipper
to shave with. Brothers are raving over it and also nonMuslims. They say they never had a good feeling like
they get using this shaving lotion. I'm introducing his
products for reason number one, he is just doing a great
job and number two he is buying his shea butter only
from us, from our investor's company.
He has Shea Butter Skin Saver. It is a good product. It is
in a nice lotion. There is also a mouth wash and you
could actually brush your teeth with it; but you can use
regular tooth paste to brush your teeth and then use this
behind it as a mouth wash rinse. There is another
product for very serious, chronic and severe skin
disorder. There is a shea butter for the whole body,
applied to the entire body as needed. There is also shea
butter liquid soap, this is smooth like a cream. You can
actually brush your teeth with it. It has a powder and
rinse with it also. Another is called shea butter warm up.
You can put it on yourself when you go to the track.
By the way, I feel great today. I did my three miles on
the track and I looked like mighty mouse running around
there. That is that coral calcium. I hear you sneezing.
you are not taking coral calcium. I know you're not. If
you are sneezing you are not taking coral calcium,
regularly. If you are taking it, you are not taking it right
or often enough. You should take it three times a day
with every meal. It is for you. I would never come to
you with anything to make money unless I thought it
was what we need to have and was going to help us out a
lot. There is a lot of junk I could sell. We could get rich
and you would buy it, too, most of you, if we would
come to you with junk and big hype. But we can't do
that. We're conscious Muslims knowing G_d's way.
He has this soap he made for us called Salaam Brand bar
soap. This is the one I'm not completely satisfied with.
It slimes and we have been telling him and complaining
and he's been working very hard with us. He has
improved it a lot It does not slime nearly as much. I
use it. Wherever you have it, try to put it where it does
not sit in water. If you wash your hand and have a soap
dish and tend to drip the water into the soap dish, after a
while if too much water is in the soap dish, it will make
the soap dissolve too much and get soft and slimy. So try
to keep the soap in the soap dish free of standing water.
Shake the water out into the sink and that will help you
keep the soap nice.
Believers like this soap and they are buying it in Chicago
and others, too, not just Muslims. I'm not pleased with
it. I don't like the feel of slimy stuff on my hands.
Another product is the all-natural insect repellant. I think
what inspired him to produce this product was this story
that came out that has the mosquito that bites the animal
then the mosquito bites the human and he puts the
harmful germs of the animal into the human. It is
10-23-2005 Thuhr p.2 of 12
dangerous. Some people have died. We want to
congratulate Brother, Dr. Diab for his success with shea
q-1
10-23-2005 Thuhr p.3 of 12
butter and his increasing line of products containing shea
butter. He's doing a very beautiful job.
Bridges TV
There is a nice, beautiful poster now we're bringing to
your interest and attention, en sha Allah (swt). Bridges
TV, it started with a few immigrant Muslims and they
were lead by Brother Muzammil Hasan. I think he is of
Pakistani or Indian origin. He's been in America some
time and his English is so good that you do not think of
him as an immigrant, or as a person who came from
overseas and he is getting the American business down.
He's very serious, very much devoted to getting Muslim
life to be shown on TV without political issues or any
other serious issues, just to show Muslim life, how we
live. Believe me, when he told me of this idea I said,
"This is a very good, a very excellent dawah tool. It is an
excellent way to introduce Muslims to non-Muslims and
let them see the natural life of regular people, so they
won't be looking at military figures so much, men at
war, figures of revolutionary, etc. They won't be seeing
that figure. They will be seeing Muslims in their natural
life.
There is too much attention on war, on physical or
military Jihad, bombing and killing. Too much of that
takes the American people's mind off of the real Muslim
and the real Muslim life. That is just one aspect of
Muslim life. Yes, we're supposed to fight if we have to.
We're not supposed to let anybody treat us any kind of
way and not fight. My spirit is with Muslims who are
being mistreated in any part of the world, who have
taken it too long and they want to fight for their rights.
I'm with them and I'm fighting right along with them,
invisibly, in spirit. If they would ask me to come and
help them I would be happy to go there and help them. I
would not be able to refuse them if they would say,
"Brother Imam Warith Ud Din Mohammed, we need
you over here. We are being wronged and we need you
over here." I would come and join them, but only if they
would let me be part of the council to decide how we are
going to handle the problem.
Bridges TV is working with Dish TV. The word is like
your food dish and it is really becoming popular. But he
needs a lot of support. I think he is not getting the
support that he should be getting from the many
thousands of Pakistani Muslims, Indian Muslims and
other Muslims from the different parts of the Islamic
world that live right here in the Chicago area. This is a
program that goes all over the United States and
obviously he's not getting the support from his own
people. Why? They are intimidated by their leaders. If
their leaders say no they are afraid to do the thing. This
is done by a Muslim who wants to show the American
people of the United States the beautiful, everyday life
of Muslims. If he wanted to attack somebody, the
president, he would get plenty of support, but he is not
getting it.
They had a beautiful poster that shows myself. I haven't
seen myself on TV yet. I have Bridges but at the time of
the showing I have been busy with you or I'm busy with
breaking fast. I think I come on at 6:30 pm. It is on D.I.
S.H. and W.O.W. This is a new one also but they are
growing fast. Comcast is not as popular as D.I.S.H., not
in Illinois. He came to me with this because he wants to
help me, too, personally. He knows I'm a poor man and
he thinks I could have much more money than I have
like some of you, but I would not accept it. If I get it I
will put it to other purposes. I won't accept that I have a
lot of money or a big car, big house, until I see you
doing a little better. You're getting there. A lot of you
now have big fine homes. I have children who have
homes that are worth ten times more than mine in
dollars.
I'm comfortable, happy with what I have, and I'm going
to get more. I'm working at it and getting close too; and I
advise you to do the same thing. Don't be satisfied to be
without. Just don't be wrong with your money, don't be
sinful. Bridges TV has this program and I can't see how
they can do it. I think I understand it, now. They will
put all the equipment in and it will enable you to see
programs from around the world, international programs.
They will put a dish on your property, in the yard or on
top of the house and you will be able to get channels
from all around the world. You will be able to see
Islamic world news and everything. You will have sixty
channels here in the United States free of charge.
Putting that equipment in costs you nothing. You will
also get the first month free. All you have to do is just
give me ten dollars for this program that I've been asked
to promote. It is a ten-dollar gift card and it means you
pay ten dollars for having everything put in. If you don't
have cable it doesn't matter. I didn't have cable. They
came in and put all the equipment in for me and I'm
already having Bridges and all the other channels.
I get ten dollars for every one of these. They gave me
two thousand to pass out. He said this will bring you
10-23-2005 Thuhr p.4 of 12
twenty thousand dollars, brother Imam. This man is
sincere and he wants to give me twenty thousand dollars
and I can use it. But if you insist and you mean well you
can have it for nothing from me because I'm making it
all right. I can survive, not as well as some of you. I'm
asking that you give me five dollars and you keep five
dollars. You brothers who do not have money, you have
a chance to make some money. if you gel somebody to
take this program you will have five dollars like I have.
Every person you get to take it you will have five
dollars, because for every person you get yourself I'm
going to ask only five dollars and you keep five dollars.
If you get five persons, that is twenty-five dollars; ten
persons, fifty dollars. Like I said, if you say, "Brother
Imam, I really need more money. I can give more time to
it and maybe I can make some money and pay my bills,"
1 told you, you can take all of it if that is the situation.
But be fair with me.
what they should say to the public or people in their
congregation, then they should use it. They shouldn't
keep our people crazy. They think it is just religion and
it is insanity.
I have them here and anybody who wants the program
you just come up and give me five dollars, not ten, and
you can take the program. All you need to give the
person you want to accept the program to are these two
pieces of paper. I have a poster which shows me, also,
on television and as brother Yusuf said, I come on 6:30
pm every Monday. But he says it comes on at different
times.
The sister who has done the book is one of the
daughters. The book is titled "Some of This Good
Earth." The expression came from the Honorable Elijah
Mohammed. He said, "Let us have some of this good
earth." I will give you some of her book, "If you can
give people correct knowledge and guide them to the
sciences of matter you open the way for them to have
comfort unlimited." Then below she puts in quotation,
"Some of this good earth." She described her own
material to save me time to describe it to you and she
supports the journal very strongly. She designed her
book so several great issues of the journal are showing
right here on the book. And she says, "Unabridged
historical glossary and source index of English and
He said if you don't want a dish on the roof you can
choose W.O.W. and not D.I.S.H. and they will attach a
telephone-like equipment inside the house and you get
the same results. What do you pay after one month?
Only fifteen dollars a month. I used to have cable and I
paid more than that. I didn't get all of this I couldn't see
overseas programs. I guess they make their money on
advertisements like the newspaper or magazine business.
When it is set up it is just like cable. You will se e
Bridges and these same channels like cable.
Imam Yayha Abdullah, before you leave come and get
them. He is a fine businessman and also an excellent
student of mine. He's been that for a long time. I have a
lot of excellent students. Imam Plemon El Amin is a
very excellent student, a Harvard graduate student, and
he's been trying to get me to do something, saying you
should put your language in a book, especially your
comments on Bible, and sell it to the public. He feels it
will help a lot of these preachers. They are grabbing it.
They tell me when I meet them in the street saying, "Mr.
Mohammed, I want you to know I use your material in
my sermons." And I'm happy they do and that is what
they should do. If they get a better understanding of
You can relax better if you stop thinking about eating
and drinking. We have a lot of good work being done by
our good people in this community, brothers and sisters,
and I want to bring this hook to your awareness. This is
a book that was done by one of our good sisters in the
community sister Adeelah. She conies from a big
pioneer family. They have an excellent reputation in our
community and I called their father my general, our
general. He is up in age, what you call a very old man,
but he stands just like he stood when he was much
younger, as an FOI. He stands erect You won't catch
him slouching. He is always dressed nice and properly
and 1 just admire him so much.
Arabic words defined by Imam W Deen Mohammed and
she has also words, "From Muhammed Speaks to
Muslim journal."
So she has followed me from the time when the paper
was called Muhammed Speaks to this present time. It is
called the Muslim Journal and I have read it, edited by
her, and I think it is a very excellent job and a book that
is worth publishing and a book that is worth you having.
What will you pay for it'? I don't know what the price is.
It is probably on here somewhere. She has the saying of
the Honorable Elijah Mohammed on the back, "The
solution: a home, good earth that you and I can call our
own." Then she quotes me on the back, "Material
establishment and social strength and stability you can't
have spiritual existence without the whole life. You have
to have it with some of this good earth as the Honorable
10-23-2005 Thuhr p.5 of 12
Elijah Mohammed said." That language was his
language, "And you have to have knowledge of the earth
that G_d created and knowledge of yourself"
I'm promoting this book. Someone might ask, "I
wonder how much he is going to get out of it?" I haven't
asked her for a penny and I will not ask her for a penny.
If she wants to give me something I will thank her for it.
I won't ask her for anything because I want to see the
community helped. This will help the community. These
good efforts by you skilled and professional people is
what I have been waiting for, for years and now that I'm
seeing it, you're making me so happy I'm just riding the
air. We have many writers doing beautiful, excellent
work. We are very proud of your work and contribution,
Sister Adeelah. I know her, personally. She volunteered
to come to the office and work in the office. She doesn't
ask for pay.
Qur'an 2.185; Qur'an sent down in Ramadan
yanaaten menal hudaa wal furgan," translated "The
month of Ramadan is the month in which the Qur'an
was revealed to mankind. And it descended on the
heart of Muhammed (pbuh) and it says what it was
revealed for, as guidance to all people. When it first
came to Muhammed (pbuh) were there any people
calling themselves Muslims? Can you answer that? No,
there were no people calling themselves Muslim. So
who did it come down for? All people, guidance for all
people and clear evidence supporting that which is real
guidance and serving as a criteria to distinguish truth
from falsehood, real guidance from that which is not real
guidance.
This is the month in which the first revelation came to
our universal Prophet Muhammed (pbuh) for all people
to guide their life on earth, their whole life not part of it,
and to serve as the yard stick or as the proving rod to
detect for us what is real guidance and what is not, what
is false guidance and what is true guidance.
Believers: Faith makes them smart; you can't fool
them
"t-th
,,y33
•••
- ; i
4
1
"
Ramadan is the (month) in which was sent
down the Qur'an as a guide to mankind also
clear (Signs) for guidance and judgment
(between right and wrong). So everyone of
you who is present (at his home) during that
month should spend it in fasting but if anyone
is ill or on a journey the prescribed period
(should be made up) by days later. Allah
intends every facility for you He does not want
to put you to difficulties. (He wants you) to
complete the prescribed period and to glorify
Him in that He has guided you; and
perchance ye shall be grateful. The Qur'an was
revealed in this month of Ramadan G_d says, "Al
ladhee unzela feehel Qur'an hudan len noose wa bay
The Qur'an is guidance to guide us. If you are Muslim
your life should be guided by the Qur'an as taught by
and demonstrated in the life of Muhammed, the last
Prophet (pbuh). Some of you are not registering that on
your mind because you still have the same spirit of the
people on the street and you still have the same behavior
of the people on the street. So that is evident to any true
believer. Believers are not dumb, just faith alone makes
you smart. Don't think they have to have degrees from
college and university to be smart enough to see you.
Believers see you and they know you arc not in the life
of Al-Islam, of the Muslim. They don't have to catch
you with a bottle of wine to know that. Your spirit tells
them you're not in it. Your attitude tells them you're not
in it. Your behavior tells them you not in it. The things
you favor tells them you're not one of them.
Religion: Behavior is distinguished
I don't think all of you want to be outside of the life of
Muslims. I think most of you who are caught like that
you are just ignorant. You don't know that Al Islam is
more than just coming here and saying, 'As Salaam
Alaikum, brother.' It is more than just learning a new
10-23-2005 Thuhr p.6 of 12
greeting. It is a way of life as religion is a way of life.
Christianity is a way of life. Judaism is a way of life.
Buddhism is a way of life. Religion is a way of life and
religion is supposed to distinguish your behavior; and if
you have it, your behavior in the public and at home
should be distinguished from the behavior of those
people who don't have religion; or don't give their life in
obedience to the disciplines of their religion.
Al-Islam comes to respect the excellence of every
human person and that is what you should be writing.
The excellence of man or human beings that is what puts
them over animals; it is excellence in moral nature, but
not only that because some animals are very clean and
very moral in their behavior. There are animals, even a
dog, the one you think is really nasty and he is, the
average dog is very nasty. very shameful. But a dog has
been given the nature to cover its dung. I have seen
dogs that couldn't get enough dirt and look like they are
looking scratching in another area. They don't want to
leave it uncovered smelling all over the place. That is the
decency dogs have. Man has been given more decency,
but that is not how you really stand so distinctly above
the animal kingdom. It is in your intelligence and Al
Islam comes to respect the intelligence of every human
person.
In some religions, especially the way they taught in the
church and places where they're preaching, it insults the
intelligence of the most ignorant person. But because
they say G_d is saying this, G_d is the speaker, it is in
the nature of every human person not to want to reject
G_d or disbelieve in G d. It is in our nature; that's
inherent. When we hear it we just accept it, blindly. We
don't look at it with our intelligence. We don't look at
what they're saying to us and what they're asking us to
do and believe with our intelligence. But they are
insulting the intelligence of the uneducated person who
didn't even go to high school or grade school. A lot of
things they're doing and saying in church and you go
away with, it is an insult to common sense, an insult to
the intelligence of even the uneducated or unschooled
person and that is what Al-Islam is responding to.
Allah (swt) missioned Muhammed (pbuh) to come into
this world with the guidance corrected, not influenced by
the satan, and give to mankind the true religion from his
G_d. I say his G_d because G_d is your Creator. the one
Who made the world and you and designed the world
and you to think, to respect and to try to understand; to
see, hear and whatever you can do, G_d designed that.
He's your Maker. He's your Creator just like He is the
Creator of the tree that grows out of the ground. And He
respects what He made and He will not accept that any
deceiver deceives us out of our own life as G_d intended
it to be for us and continue to do that and get by with it,
forever. No, G_d won't accept that. But G d will wait
just like a father if he sees children having the good
senses that he gave them to deal with certain matters. A
very intelligent father will let them go on doing the
wrong thing saying, "The boy, I gave him enough sense
to know better than that, so I'm going to let his own
behavior punish him. But if he ever turns to me and asks
me for help I'm going to help him out." And that is
G
What He put in us of excellence is the reflection of the
perfect nature or the perfect life of GA, Himself. So
when man gets tired of putting up with stupid stuff and
he starts to be curious and concerned like Muhammed
(pbuh) did, then G_d will speak to him and pick him out,
because he is the one who showed the concern; pick him
to be the messenger or the leader for the rest. That is
exactly the way it happened.
Iblis was not a true angel
Angels do not reason or question
Jinn performed as angel and question and reason
The story of all of the trouble that we are addressing
during these three days of Ramadan, during these
sessions, it started with someone who is the leader over
the angels in heaven. He was not a true angel. He was a
jinn, but he was performing in the role of an angel. Now
how is it possible that a jinn can be the leader for angels?
As long as he has no wrong in him he is superior to the
angel. If he can perform on the plane of angels and he is
a jinn, he is superior to them, because he can perform in
their role as angel but he has a role that they can't
perform. They cannot question things. They can only
respond to what G_d wants without reasoning or
questioning things. But the jinn is like the human. He's
rational and he can question things and he is also capable
of performing as an angel. He has the advantage over
the angel who can only perform as an angel, but can't
question things.
The superiority is very clear when G_d says, "I'm going
to create a mortal human being," meaning that he will be
like the jinn in that he will have the ability to examine
10-23-2005 Thuhr p.7 of 12
and question things and come up with his own
independent decision; but he will have human nature,
not jinn nature.
Human reasons and is a sensitive and sympathetic
Human nature means he will be a sensitive creature and
sympathetic. So this human being is going to he a
different creature from the angels in that he can question
and reason and he wants to grow in understanding and
knowledge; and he's going to he different from the jinn
in that he will be sensitive and sympathetic. He will have
compassion on the little guy, sympathy on the suffering.
He will be different from both of them, the angel and the
jinn.
Qur'an 2.30; Will You create one who will shed blood
Qur'an 7.12, 13; Iblis refused to bow: You made me
From fire him of mud
12.
"(Allah) said: "what prevented thee from bowing
down when I commanded thee?" He said: "I am
better than he: thou did. create me from fire and
him from clay."
13. (Allah) said: "Get thee down from this: it is not for
thee to be arrogant here: get out for thou art of the
meanest (of creatures)."
Qur'an 15.28-31; Angels submitted to Adam not lblis
28. Behold! thy Lord said to the angels: "I am about to
create man from sounding clay from mud molded
into shape;
29. "When I have fashioned him (in due proportion)
and breathed into him of My spirit fall ye down
in obeisance unto him."
30. So the angels prostrated themselves all of them
together:
31. Not so Iblis: he refused to be among those who
prostrated themselves.
Al hadith 3p.131#7; Prophet's jinn became a Muslim
Ibn Masud reported the Prophet (pbuh) said "There is
none among you who was not entrusted with an intimate
friend from jinn and with an intimate friend from
angels." They asked and you too oh Messenger of Allah
(pbuh)? He said "And I too, but Allah (swt) helped me
to prevail over him and so he submitted (became
Muslim) and he does not enjoin me but with good."
Iblis was not a true angel
Iblis the jinn was performing as an angel by
circumstances
When this was announced to the angels by G_d, the jinn,
'Nis, who was performing as an angel at that time (He
was an angel whether you can buy it or not. I don't have
enough time to deal with all these little small things
today). At that time Iblis was performing in the role of
an angel and he was an angel, but he wasn't an angel by
creation. He was an angel by circumstances.
Circumstances had put him with angels, so he was
performing as an angel. But when the test came to see if
he was really, truly an angel, he couldn't pass it, because
he was a jinn. He could think and reason.
.
Iblis's thinking took him out of the class of angels who
cannot think
When his thinking came into the picture, he said, "No,
I'm not going to accept this. I'm better than this creature.
I'm the leader way up here above all of them down
there. Are You going to choose something that doesn't
have my wisdom and my knowledge, my skills and my
ability, and I have been faithful to You, G_d, up here
with the angels? I have even kept them for You". But
G_d said, "When I have breathed into him of My own
spirit or inspired him of My own Self then you accept
him. You submit to him." So it made Iblis arrogant and
defiant. In Arabic is it, "Abaa was stakbara", which
means, he defied the order and he became proud and
arrogant. He saw himself too big to submit to what he
was asked to do. G d said, "Get you down from here all
of you together". So the angel and the jinn and the man
were cast down. The Arabic word "Qubad" means
together, like an organized group in an organized form.
They were cast down altogether.
GA put the rebellious jinn in the life of all human
beings because the only ones who were up there was the
10-23-2005 Thuhr p.8 of 12
father. We had not been born or come into existence yet.
All of us came from that one He cast down along with
the jinn and the angels, too, that rebelled. If any rebelled
they were cast down. We know the story very well. We
know the angels, they accepted but they were very
hesitant and questioned it, too. But they finally accepted
G_d's will. Every angel that questioned G_d's will and
said, "What would You create, something that is going
to make trouble in the earth and cause bloodshed,
everyone that responded like that was not a true angel.
Jinn, devil in each person
So it wasn't just Iblis, a jinn, up in heaven. There were
some others up there not knowing that they were not
angels and performing in the role of angels. But when
the test came they disobeyed, or questioned G_d's will
and authority and He said get all of you down in the
earth. Nothing has changed. There is a big devil, bigger
than all of us, big like Iblis and there are a lot of little
devils; and they are in you, in every one of us. A devil is
in every one of us and that devil is the one that interferes
with your obedience to Allah (swt) and you know he
comes up in your mind. The more you accept him to
entertain your mind or your thoughts the more powerful
he gets in your life. And pretty soon you will be losing
your obedience more and more and becoming far and
farther away from what Allah (swt) gives us as guidance
for our life. So be aware of that.
We don't call it devil in a person, but if it is speaking
bad, ugly things to you and testing your morals, to see if
you will do wrong, believe me, that is more than a jinn.
That is a devil. But some of you might not have that
much trouble. All of us have a jinn. They were cast
down right with us and Muhammed (pbuh) was teaching
his disciples, his followers, and one of them said, "What
about you, oh Messenger of G_d?" He said, "I too had a
jinn but my jinn became Muslim." Jinn can be converted
to Al-Islam, or they can be converted to Muslim
behavior, Muslim life. So there is hope for jinn.
Al Islam wants progress for the whole life
Perception is the theme for the entire duration of the
Ramadan Session. All this discussion the purpose of it
is to clear your perception, to clear your vision, to open
your eyes more to important matters and to clear your
vision so you will see things more correctly. And to
bring things into your vision or into your view and
perception that you might be missing. That process is a
process of learning and it is a process of education. Al-
Islam is knowledge and education. Islam qualifies your
brain, your heart, your spirit, your soul. It qualifies your
whole life to live an intelligent situation with intelligent
people and make great progress with your life. That is
what Al-Islam wants for all of us. Al-Islam is not a
religion that was designed just to make us feel good. It is
designed to elevate your life, to edify your life and make
your life much more productive than it is without AlIslam. And if it is being given to you and that is not
happening, you are not seeing that happen to you in your
life, that is a poor, empty Islam; null and void and not
the Islam Allah (swt) wants for us that G_d revealed for
us.
Sufi's were before Islam Suf means wool
We mentioned the symbols or signs of the moon and the
sun. The Prophet (pbuh) was asked about the moon and
I'm sure it was a Sufi. The Sufi's were before the time of
Prophet Muhammed (pbuh). They've been around to see
many, many rophels and messengers come and go.
Don't think Sufi's came with Al-Islam in the time of the
Prophet (pbuh) and they weren't existing before. They
existed before, maybe called by a different name.
Abraham's vision: his son appeared as a sheep
Suf means wool. Sufi is taken from wool. They love
also the sheep as a symbol of their leader, like the Bible
has a sheep as a symbol of the real leader, or the leader
who is going to be good by people, going to love people,
or a sheep without spot or blemish is G_d's choice. As
you know Abraham's son appeared to him as a sheep in
a vision for him to slaughter and Jesus Christ is also
depicted in the Bible as a lamb. So the Sufi order, they.
call themselves Sufi because they like the strong social
nature of the sheep. The sheep likes to be close with his
brothers and sisters and does not like to be away from
his brothers and sisters.
And the sheep can take a lot of heat. His clothing is very
hot and he is very sure footed like the goat. He can stand
on a very small ledge half the size of his foot and
balance himself without any problem. Sheep have great
skill for balance and he can go up the mountain just like
the goat, walks up the sharp, rocky incline. All of these
abilities I'm pointing to in the sheep have great meaning
for civilized, educated thinkers. Climbing up a mountain,
for them, it's climbing up the world of knowledge that
sometimes is very difficult to climb. It's hard to keep
10-23-2005 Thuhr p.9 of 12
your balance. You can't get a foothold many times. They
use this picture language to address a language that is
not picture language. It is a language of human life
mainly in its psychology, in its intelligence, in its
reasoning ability, and in its psychology; those areas,
mainly.
Intelligence, first of all, common sense, and the ability to
reason correctly and then the possession of a psyche that
can emit light once the intuitive urge comes into it, is the
high excellent life of the human civilization, or mankind
and it is told in stories that have animals in it. But you
will never get the light if you see nothing but a sheep
when you read the Bible or read the Qur'an. The sheep
that the farmer has on his farm and is going to put in the
market and will be on your table and you will be eating
it pretty soon, if that is the only sheep you have in mind
you are wasting your time reading the Book; because
that idea that you are accepting that it is, is going to
retard your ability to get other things that are in the
Book.
False religion cheats mankind
thousands of years.
When Muhammed, the Prophet (pbuh) began preaching
the Qur'an and demonstrating how it was to be practiced
and lived, the intellect, at that time, of persons who were
smart but were not turned on to the universe that G_d
made to study it and extract from it information by
scientific method, they were not doing that. So that was
called the age or time of darkness and in the Qur'an it's
called the time of ignorance, "Jahiliyyah."
It was the message of Qur'an as delivered by
Muhammed, the Prophet (pbuh), and lived by him that
touched the intellect of those who had rational curiosity
or an intellect that was thirsting for understanding. And
in a matter of just ten years, no more than eleven years,
they became the leaders in the sciences for academic
pursuits. This is history. It is not anything we have to
prove to you. All you have to do is read history. Go in
the library and look it up for your self and you will find
out that is the way it happened. The dawning of
intellectual life began only after Muhammed, the
Prophet (pbuh), came into the world with the guidance,
the Qur'an.
John 10.8; All before me were thieves
Every human being is psychic
"All that ever came before me are thieves and
robbers: but the sheep did not hear them."
Jesus Christ, I remember reading what he said in the
Bible. "All before me were thieves and robbers. He was
talking about the rabbis, the Jews, who had been
preaching before him. He said worse things about them,
but I won't say that here during these sessions. It is not
necessary. What was he saying? Religion that you had
before cheated you out of what G_d wants for you. Now
we live in a world today and the common, popular way
that we see religion given to people is nothing but theft,
stealing the people's blessing, holding them back from
their rights and their blessings that Allah (swt) created
them for. That is what most religions are doing today.
Perceiving the light of guidance that G_d revealed to
take care of the whole life of mankind on this planet
earth, if it wasn't for that light coming into the world in
the time of our Prophet Muhammed pbuh, who knows
for how long darkness would have reigned, or for how
long the world would have gone on in ignorance;
treating common people like animals; denying women
the right to education; and not just academic growth,
also denying them the right to progress in society. That
was the case back then that lasted for hundreds,
I said all that to say one thing, to get you to this point
because I know you're slow, not to learning. You are not
stupid. You are slow to follow me. A lot of you are
ready. If I had just you who are with me this could go so
fast and we could cover a hundred times more material;
if I just had you. Maybe that is what we ought to do. I
could cover a hundred times more material if I just had
you who are with me, because I would not be feeling
your rebellion, your refusal to follow me. Don't you
know every human being is psychic? And I am a clean
man. I can feel what is going on in your heart, mind, and
soul and I know almost how many and what percentage
of you are having problems in this audience. There is a
big percentage of you who are having problems in this
audience. But isn't that the way of mankind according to
scripture? Most of them will not believe. That is what it
says in the scripture, they will not accept real faith.
A man like me, Allah (swt) blesses him so much because
my purpose is only to give it to you. But in giving you
G_d has given me, too, and I am not rebellious, defiant. I
love it, so I'm getting much more than you with your
defiant self. That's G_d's justice. See how His justice
works?
10-23-2005 Thuhr p.10 of 12
You are cutting off that right of His to be your G_d
when you take your physical life and end everything for
yourself. That is why it is the biggest sin. It is not a sin
just against your self or against society. It is a sin against
G_d. G_d made that vessel. You are not supposed to
destroy it You are supposed to leave it and try to keep it
good, keep it up the best you can. He made it; you didn't
make it. Maybe on this little level here you can better
register the gravity of what I'm talking about. If a dear
and loving person of high reputation in the eyes of the
decent people gives you a fine, rich, expensive,
luxurious gift and you start mistreating it, you get tired
of it and take a sledge hammer and hash and break it all
up. That is the utmost of disrespect, rudeness,
insensitivity and cruelty. Remember that, when you're
mistreating your own body, your own life that Allah
(swt) gave you, the most precious gift He could give any
creature living in the world or on earth, the gift of human
life.
Qur'an 14.34; Can't count the blessing of Allah
"And He giveth you of all that ye ask for. But if
ye count the favors of Allah never will ye be able to
number them: verily man is given up to injustice
and ingratitude."
Let us say now I'm doing ablution, washing three times,
but I've been working as a plumber, or as a common
worker; or I'm a butcher working. I've been killing and
blood is on me and on my hands. I wash them three
times with the water. I know they are not clean and I
didn't get it all off. Am I going to stop with three? No,
I'll get some more water, some soap. Once you use soap
you have to start all over again, because soap is not for
wudu'. Water is for ablution. You get the soap and get
that stuff off that the water wouldn't move and then you
go back to the water with the stuff off and now you can
do three. Need I say more?
This is not to excuse you from anything. This is only to
bring our people to have more sense, more intelligence,
and not to be kept down or retarded by blind obedience
to rituals. Muhammed, the Prophet (pbuh), came to put
light in those rituals, to put understanding in those
rituals, to give the people knowledge and understanding
so what you arc giving them respects their intelligence,
so they feel better, and they feel liberated.
The Prophet went to the mountain with his original
nature
Qur'an 33.21; Muhammed is excellent model
"Ye have indeed in the Apostle of Allah a beautiful
pattern of (conduct) for anyone whose hope is in
Allah and the Final Day and who engages much in
the praise of Allall"
Bukhari 2.440; Everyone is born Muslim
After Asr prayer the focus will be on the two main levels
of human life. We have been talking about them. One
level is the natural level; the level of life and its natural
form, state, as it comes from the female or from our
mothers. And what did Muhammed (pbuh) say of that
life to set the stage for what I'm going to give you?
"Every human being is born Muslim". We'll be looking
at that life that remained good in Muhammed (pbuh) that
brought him eventually to be dissatisfied with the world
that his life was in and caused him to go up in the
mountain to be alone and try to connect with the Cause
behind causes, the First Cause that made everything
happen. He didn't know the name Allah (swt). He went
up there to connect with whatever was responsible for
the world being in existence. That is why he went up
there, in hopes that he would learn something to come
back to his people and take them out of their ignorance;
and it did happen for him.
Mankind created good before he received revelation
But he went up there with only the life that every child is
born with from his mother, human life. He had a spirit
and a nature. I guess he got it from his father. He didn't
have the knowledge, but his father was called Abduilah,
servant of G d. Obviously he didn't understand it, but
that was the name he had; because if he understood it
then he would have given Muhammed (pbuh) some
guidance and some religion, some knowledge before
Allah (swt) spoke to Muhammed (pbuh). When Allah
(swt) spoke to Muhammed (pbuh) he had not received
any guidance from scripture. He was not stupid. He was
educated in business and he had the best social life that
anybody could have, the best social nature and the best
social behavior. But he came by that, naturally. What
does that bring home to your mind? That we don't need
the world and we don't need revelation, or scripture to
make us good. No matter how many people the world
deceives there is always going to be a few who are not
10-23-2005 Thuhr p.11 of 12
going to be led to corruption and they are going to keep
the good life that Allah (swt) gave the first man, Adam,
who lost it to the suggestions of the satan and got it back
when he met a word from his Lord. This is Al-Islam.
communicate to you upon that medium. That is what
we're going to talk about when we go into the next part
of this session after Asr prayer.
Adhan first takbir short then the next are long
I always had a problem with religion because it talked
down to me and didn't even respect my own
intelligence. I don't have to have you tell me that G_d
made the world. I know something made it. I know man,
human beings, can't make it. I don't need you to tell me
that. To me that insults my intelligence. You might say,
"That's what Allah (swt) says." Allah (swt) is talking
about something much higher than that and Al-Islam
educates us so that we, the common person in Al-Islam,
can know that Allah (swt) is talking about something
much higher than these physical pictures; because He
says the Book has been revealed in picture language.
The word is allegorical, meaning in picture language.
The Book has been revealed in picture language and it
has been revealed for human intelligence. It says "basic"
to establish what is basic.
And it says those who prefer the picture language over
the plain, common sense teaching have in their hearts a
disease. They are corrupt. That is what it is saying. They
love the picture language more than they love the good
plain, common sense teaching. "Be just. Don't be cruel.
Love for your fellow man what you love for yourself.
Be clean. Don't be nasty." These are the basics. "Be
obedient to the higher authority." But, "a two-horned
creature came up spitting fire out of the side of his
mouth," that is not basic. But you like that gore stuff
more than you like the clear guidance.
The next level is made possible for human beings not by
some spook occurrence happening in the sky saying,
"What are you doing Moses? What is that in your
hand?" He should say, "Can't you see it? Why don't
you just tell me to be aware of what I have in my hand? I
don't know who you are, talking to me. Why won't you
tell me to be aware of what I have in my hand? Don't
carry me through this long drawn out spooky thing. You
are scaring me."
You who make adhan, Muhammed (pbuh) taught Bilal
how to make the adhan. The words came to Muhammed
(pbuh) by others who had heard these words in a vision
and when Muhammed pubh heard it he approved it
because he also had a similar experience; and he
established the adhan. Now that G_d has opened up the
knowledge to me I want to make sure you make the
adhan like you're supposed to. First, we begin with
"Allahu Akbar". Don't make it long. The first should be
short. The next one should be long. Actually, you put
them in two's. You could say them one by one, but that
is not the best way.
The next two in the expression are long. The hereafter is
more enduring and eternal. The first two address the
world, the dunya. The second two address the higher
life that comes by way of intuition. When it is clean and
pure in the creature then G_d speaks by way of that
medium.
Index 10-23-2005 Thuhr
Qur'an 2.185; Qur'an revealed in Ramadan 6;
Qur'an 15.28-31; Angels submitted to Adam not lblis
8;
Qur'an 2.30; Will You create one who will shed blood
8;
Qur'an 24.35; Oil luminous 10, 11;
Qur'an 2.189; New moon to mark time 11;
Qur'an 39.68;Trumpet two soundings 12, 13;
Qur'an 4.29; Kill not yourselves 13, 14;
Qur'an 14.34; Can't count the blessing of Allah 11, 13,
14;
Qur'an 33.21; Muhammed is excellent model 14, 15;
Al hadith 3p.131#7; Prophet's jinn became a Muslim
8;
Muslim Vol 1 p156# 482; Light from ablution areas
11;
Five senses gives birth to intuition that G d
communicates through
What you need to bring information from the universe
into your mind is your five senses, that if you use them
long enough, faithfully enough and be clean, those five
senses are going to birth inside of them another stream
of productive energy and it is called intuition. When
intuition dawns in you and you're seeking G_d, He will
Bukhari 2.440; Everyone is born Muslim 14;
John 10.8; All before me were thieves 10
a-1
Ablution
10-23-2005 Thuhr p.12 of 12
a- Face is a symbol for your character 12;
a- Hair is symbolic of your innate intelligence 12;
a- Head wipe once reconciles original intelligence 11;
a- Light from areas 11;
Abraham's vision - his son appeared as a sheep 9;
Adhan first takbir short then the next are long 15;
Adam Angels submitted to Adam not Iblis 8;
Allah you can't count the blessing of Allah 11, 13;
Angel
a- do not reason or question 7;
a- Iblis was not a true angel 7;
a- Iblis was performing as an angel by circumstances 8;
a- submitted to Adam not Iblis 8;
b-1
Believers faith makes them smart you can't fool them 6;
Blast Trumpet two soundings 12, 13;
Blessings Can't count the blessing of Allah 11, 13;
Bridges TV 2;
c-1
Character Face is a symbol for your character 12;
d-1
Devil
d- Angels submitted to Adam not lblis 8;
d- lblis was not a true angel 7;
d- Jinn, in each person 8;
i-1
Iblis
j- the jinn was performing as an angel by circumstances
8;
i- Angels submitted to Adam not Iblis 8;
i- was not a true angel 7;
Intuition Five senses gives birth to that G_d
communicates
Through 15;
Ishmael Abraham's vision his son appeared as a sheep 9;
Al Islam
i- Mankind created good before he received revelation
14;
i- wants progress for the whole life 9;
j-1
Jesus All before me were thieves 10'
Jinn
j- Iblis was not a true angel 7, 8;
j- Iblis a jinn was performing as an angel by
circumstances 8;
j- Jinn, devil in each person 8;
j- performed as angel and jinn, questions, reasons 7, 8;
j- Prophet's jinn became a Muslim 8;
e-1
k-1
f-1
Face is a symbol for your character 12;
Faith of Believers' makes them smart. You can't fool
them 6;
Fitraa Everyone is born Muslim 14;
Five senses give birth to intuition that G_d
communicates Through 15;
g-1
Get you all down from here angel, jinn, man 8;
h-1
Hair is symbolic of your innate intelligence 12;
Head Ablution wipe once reconciles original intelligence
11;
Housing Mosque Cares rental housing 4;
Human
h- Human reasons and is sensitive and sympathetic 7, 8;
1-1
Light
1- Light from ablution areas 11;
1-is Qur'an Oil luminous 10, 11;
m-1
Man
m - created good before he received revelation 14;
m - Jinn, devil in each person 8;
Moon New to mark time 11;
Mosque Cares rental housing 4;
Muslim Everyone is born. Muslim 14;
T1I-1
Nature Everyone is born Muslim 14;
10-23-2005 Thuhr p.13 of 12
o-1
Oil luminous 10, 11;
Wool Suf means wool 9;
P-1
p- jinn became a Muslim 8;
p- Muhammed is excellent model 14, 15
w- Face is a symbol for your character 12;
w- Hair is symbolic of your innate intelligence 12;
w- head wipe once reconciles original intelligence 11;
w- Light from ablution areas 11;
Psychic Every human being is psychic 10;
x-1
q-1
Qur'an
q- is the light 10, 11
q- man created good before he received revelation 14;
Y-1
Imam Yayha Abdullah 3;
Prophet
r-1
Religion False religion cheats mankind 10;
Religious behavior is distinguished 6;
Revelation created good before he received revelation
14;
Rob All before me were thieves 10
s-1
ratan
s- Jinn, devil in each person 8;
s- Iblis was not a true angel 7;
Shea butter Dr. Diab's various product line 1;
Sheep
s- Abraham's vision his son appeared as a sheep 9;
s- have great skill for balance 9;
Suf means wool 9;
Suicide biggest sin because GA gave you life 13;
Sufi
s- Sheep have great skill for balance
s- were before Islam Suf means wool 9;
t-1
Thieves All before me were thieves 10
Time New moon to mark time 11.;
Trumpet two soundings 12, 13;
u-1 v-1 w-1 WD
Mohammed
w- sensitive psyche 10;
Wudu'
z-1 Index 10-23-2005 Thuhr
10-23-2005 `Asr p. 1 1 of 18
up. He did not tuck it. Musa cut it off with a razor. He
said he found the white man living like a savage, like an
ape and monkeys, and he shaved them up and cut off
their tails.
10-23-2005 Asr Ramadan Session Homewood, IL
Imam Warith Dean Mohammed
With Allah's name, the praise and the thanks is for G_d
We thank Him for the gift and blessing of the model human
person, Muhammed (pbuh), the honorable and noble
servant and Messenger of G_d and what follows of that
salute, or that traditional salutation to the last Prophet
(pbuh), the seal of the Prophets mentioned in the Bible as it
is given in the Qur'an.
Qur'an 91.8; Soul enlightened to wrong, Taqwa
Le.
".)!
8. And its enlightenment as to its wrong and its
right;
9. Truly he succeeds that purifies it
You recall we were talking about human life as created
by G_d and it being equipped with what it needs to
succeed in life. Allah swt says that He created the human
soul and He gave it its fujoorahaa and its Taqwahaa. I
mentioned the blackboard and somebody brought one.
We have to keep moving. If I do not have to go to the
blackboard, I am not going to go to the board, because it
just takes more time and then most of you cannot see the
board because you are so far away and a blackboard is in
a low position here. It is good. I love to work with the
blackboard and they know that.
Allah swt is the One Who gave us our fujoor and our Taqwa,
those two that are mentioned by G_d in His revelation to us
by way of Prophet Muhammed pbuh. Those two must be
important for human life. Fujoor, if you want to spell it in
English is almost impossible to pronounce that incorrectly.
The other one is Taqwa and I am sure most of you know
how to spell Taqwa. Let me spell it in transliteration for
you, "T-u-e-k-w-a-a." Now do not forget what I gave it to
you for as transliteration and you will be looking at one
another saying, "I wonder what tuck has to do with how we
were created. I guess we had to tuck in a tail. We must
have had a tail." That is what evolution said, you had a
tail, right? But Moses,
in the story Mr. Fard gave us, he made his own stories
Tail can he a lie. Someone may say, "You're telling a
lie, a fib. You're telling a tail." Maybe it means he cut
off their lies. That is probably what Mr. Fard meant. He
cleaned them up, shaved them up, and cut off their lies.
Fajr refers to the beginning of the appearance of light
Fujoor refers to the capacity for the dawning of the
light
Tagwa is the capacity for moral life and moral
excellence
Fujoor, we already mentioned it during this session. I
think it was on the first day. You can see that Fujoor as a
word is closely related to Fajr Prayer our Dawn Prayer.
Fajr and fajoor are tied together. They have the same
root letters. Fajr, as we explained earlier, but 1 am doing
it again today, because some of you were not here and
because we're going into this again.lt is a repeat for
purposes of starting off with the clear picture that I want
you to have. Fujoor is differnet from Fajr in that Fajr has
reference right away to the beginning or the appearance
of light from the sun. Fujoor means the capacity for the
dawning of the light.
Qur'an 4.1; Reverence Allah and family relations
;
;
; :
1
& ;
1ij
4r:
)
.
5is
6e
,„
"0 mankind! reverence your Guardian-Lord
Who created you from a single person
created of like nature his mate and from them
twain scattered (like seeds) countless men
and women; reverence Allah through Whom
ye demand your mutual (rights) and
(reverence) the wombs (that bore you): for
Allah ever watches over you."
G_d has given every human person the capacity for
being educated, for being enlightened and He has given
you also a capacity for moral life and moral excellence.
That is Taqwa. Taqwa is translated piety. It is translated
10-23-2005 `Asr p. 1 2 of 18
regardfulness. It is translated different ways. But
understand that Taqwa has a direct reference to the
moral nature of every human person; that G_d has given
every person a moral nature, a nature to be afraid of
doing bad things and feel comfortable doing good
things. That is the seat of your Taqwa. It is regardfulness
because we learn from the delivery from our mother's
body into the world of family and people. We learned to
trust mama because she is the one who receives us and
cares for us. We learned to trust her, we feel comfortable
in her lap or in her arms next to her breasts. We feel
comfortable there. We learn to trust her.
Touch of mother is communicating to you love
Without thinking, although we're thinking creatures,
thinking beings and we cannot say that the baby is not
thinking, we do not know that. They say it is important
for you to have the mother in physical touch with her
child. That tactile relationship of mother with her child is
important for developing the healthy mind and nature in
that child. So when you're delivered from your mother
you are outside in the world of mankind, for in the world
of family and people, she takes you into her arms and
her touch is communicating to you her love, her care,
her concern for your life. As you grow to express
yourself even before you can talk, you feel indebted to
your mother. Love and respect, Taqwa naturally grows
into you for your mother. Allah swt says, "At taqul laah
wal arhaam." Have this Taqwa for G_d and also for the
close ties of the womb. Translated into good English it
means that which respects the taste of an intelligent
audience. You do not say the womb. You do not want to
mention that. You would say the close family ties
beginning with Mama, daddy, brothers and sisters. He
says, "And reverence the wombs that bore you," one
translation says. And another translation says, "And
reverence the close family ties." So this is Fujoor and
Taqwa. G_d mentioned, those two, so they must be the
most important. Everything else happens as the
branching off from those two All the other expressions
of life they must branch off from those two.
such as shall dwell for ever in the Fire and be given
to drink boiling water so that it cuts up their bowels
(to pieces)?
Genesis 2.10; River went out and became four heads
"And a river went out of Eden to water the
garden; and from thence it was parted, and became
into four heads."
Bukhari 4.429; Two rivers hidden and open
"I was shown Sidrat-ul-Muntaha (i.e. a tree in the
seventh heaven) and I saw its Nabk fruits which
resembled the clay jugs of Hajr (i.e. a town in
Arabia), and its leaves were like the ears of
elephants, and four rivers originated at its root, two
of them were apparent and two were hidden. I
asked Gabriel about those rivers and he said, The
two hidden rivers are in Paradise, and the apparent
ones are the Nile and the Euphrates."
They say four rivers went out from the garden to water
the world, or to the land. I heard a very learned, maybe
the highest learned person in his whole nation (1 am not
going to tell you his name or who he was. He was from a
Muslim country), I heard him say there are two rivers in
heaven and two rivers in the dunya, in the world. So if
there are two rivers in the world they must be rivers of
Fujoor and Taqwa.
Fajoor is the capacity to engage the world
The Fujoor is your capacity to engage this material
world, this natural world and all of its makeup; not just
money in all of its precious designs; to engage this world
with your intelligence and grow with the experience.
You engage the world. Right away, the world starts
feeding you information and you engage the experience.
So when the story was given that he was promised to
such and such women and they were engaged to be
husband and wife and Allah swt made a man, the first
man and Allah swt made for him his mate, the first
picture that comes to your mind is family and that is
Qur'an 47.15; Rivers water, milk, wine, honey
(Here is) a Parable of the Garden which the
righteous are promised: in it are rivers of water
incorruptible: rivers of milk of which the taste never
changes; rivers of wine a joy to those who drink;
and rivers of honey pure and clear. In it there are
for them all kinds of fruits and Grace from their
Lord. (Can those in such Bliss) be compared to
very important. But for the students and scholars in Al
Islam, for the students of Scripture, the education is not
to know that G_d made people male and female and
made them to marry each other and have children. The
most primitive man is doing that and he does it very
well. You do not have to help him with that.
10-23-2005 `Asr p. 1 3 of 18
Here is a higher reading you should have. G d made
man, most importantly, a human brain, a human mind, a
human intellect. That is him. That is his role. The
woman, He made her to bare his children, to take care of
his children and to keep the domestic quarters clean,
pure and progressive, qualifying him to build the world
outside. That is her main role. She is not limited to that.
The words of Allah swt in the Qur'an lets you know that
she's not limited to that. There is the exception. Some
women want to be professional. They want to go out and
build the world, too, and we cannot block it. So, be just
by our sisters in light of what G _d says in the Qur'an.
_
He made your brain for His creation and made His
creation for your brain. Please register that. He did not
make it for the brain of a monkey. He did not make it for
the brain of a wolf, for a snake, for any living things
other than human. He made it for the human brain.
Doesn't that make you feel special? You should feel
special. These great intellectuals, these great scientists,
these great philosophers, who have guided the life of
mankind on this earth, they learned that. They appreciate
it when that dawns in their mind. That is what made
them great, fed their growth, and caused them to rise up
high. If you do not appreciate that you are not going
anywhere. You are going to still be a common, hardworking little donkey, mule, dog, rat, whatever. You are
lucky if you are a cat; a little luckier if you are an eagle,
because they do not let you shoot them anymore.
Cleanliness the baby dislikes filth
Don't you know a baby does not want to be in filth?
That is why he cries. The mother has to get up and go
see about him. He wets on himself and says, "I do not
want to be in this stuff that I let out of my body." The
new baby cries, saying, "Take me out of this!" So
cleanliness is inborn, isn't it? It comes already in the life.
It has an appreciation for cleanliness. This is of the
Taqwa. Regardfulness and wanting to be clean, all of
that is of the Taqwa. But you will not evolve this
particular life in you if you don't engage the social
community.
Qur'an 3.110; You're the best evolved for humanity
"Ye are the best of peoples evolved for mankind
enjoining what is right forbidding what is wrong and
believing in Allah. If only the People of the Book had
faith it were best for them; among them are some who
have faith but most of them are perverted transgressors."
When you engage the social community, you learn to
express yourself and have a common language. When
you break wind somebody smells it other than you and
they say," Aren't you ashamed of yourself?" You do not
have to depend on just yourself for help. You have the
community to help you. Then life evolves so beautifully
if we respect what is decent. I am mentioning one thing,
but we experience so many things that can make us
ashamed. And living in the family setting and in the
community setting you're in the setting that is given by
G_d to open your mind and open your heart and grow
your mind and grow your heart and every issue to get us
in the high place that Allah swt wants us.
Taqwa: Shyness is of the wellspring of it
Scholars are among Imam Mohammed's students
Open up your mind and be grateful to G_d, that He has
selected humans and you are human. You could have
been born a rock, a tree or something else. You didn't
have to be a human. So Allah swt must have wanted you
here as a human. So He gave you a break. He put you in
the contest. He put you in the race. It was His choice to
bring you here and put you in the contest. Now that you
recognize your true identity is intelligence, a mor al
nature with shyness, to feel that, "This had conduct is
beneath me. I should not be behaving like this. I feel
ashamed of myself behaving like this." He has given you
shyness. Shyness is of the wellspring of your Taqwa. It
all springs up out of Taqwa, that capacity to feel shame;
that capacity to feel loved and appreciate it; that capacity
to feel filth and want to be away from it.
Allah swt said He made us a community. It is so
important that we live community life. The Qur'an says,
"You are the best community evolved for the good of all
people." Allah swt said that. You scholars know that.
Someone might say, "We have scholars other than the
Imam?" Yes, I know scholars in this community who
are students of Imam W Deen Mohammed and they are
also scholars. Some of them had degrees before they
started studying me. But some of them got their degrees
as a consequence of studying me. They were motivated
to get the degree because they studied me. Thanks be to
Allah swt, praise be to Allah swt. I can count. I can use
up all these fingers if I count the scholars in this
community. They are not all males, either. Allahu
Akbar.
10-23-2005 `Asr p. 1 4 of 18
Capacity Allah created its space to be occupied
Let us move now from just focusing on the inborn
capacity and what is expected of that capacity, because if
you have the capacity for something we expect that you
are going to put something in that space. So there is an
obligation to put what belongs in that space. If G_d
created a capacity there, it is just waiting to get what
G_d created for it. It is empty. It does not have anything
now, but it is there, hungering and thirsting. It wants
what Allah swt wants in the space to come into it.
Someone might say, "It is thirsting for dates". It is
thirsting for more than that. It is thirsting for what the
man who was in charge of banks in Chicago is thirsting
for; not one bank, but banks. That is a bigger thirst, isn't
it, than for just the dates that we ate yesterday, or the
dates that we are going to eat today when we make Iftar.
Some of you get so hung up on these rituals you will
forget working to put something in the bank. Just
thinking about the date fruit, that excites you more than
putting money in the bank saying, "Its time for Iftar."
Allah swt wants you to make Iftar and put the bank on
your table. He wants you to have a date for getting the
bank on your table and much, much more.
Fujoorr gives experience of a spiritual and material
nature
We're going to another focus of that life in progress.
You are born with those two capacities. Now we want to
focus on that life in progress. Fujoor, it works to give
me experiences of a spiritual nature and works to give
rue experiences of a material nature. My capacity, fujoor
and my intelligence want to invite the unknown of my
own life and nature. That's the spiritual progression,
starting with wondering about myself. Why am I
composed like this? Why am I put together like this?
Why am I different from all other life? Why am I
superior to all of these other living things that I am
around? These questions about yourself are the
beginning of progress for the fujoor and it leads you to
the dawning of light in the darkness of your soul as a
spiritual activity wondering about your abstract self; not
your flesh so much, but your mind, how it works; your
heart, how it feels; and your spirit, how it goes down and
goes up; how it is bright and sometimes dull. These
questions are what man engages and entertains about
himself and it leads man to the dawning of spiritual
awareness and spiritual sciences, coming from your
moral nature to feel alone, to feel that you are not
enough to take care of your life in this world; to seeking
a higher authority and to wanting to know the mysteries
behind all of this, That is the beginning on the route to
the religious encounter.
When this spiritual light dawns in the soul, the mind
mainly in the head, evolves from a base that is moral
because it is just choices. The baby does not like filth.
The baby does not like stinky smell. The baby does not
like mistreatment. Don't you know a little child who has
just come here and cannot talk will cry because another
baby was hurt? If one baby starts crying another baby
will start trembling and now it is crying.
Taste beauty comes with birth a baby will cry because
of ugliness
So this comes from a moral nature. It is a sensitive
nature we call moral nature, that senses had and good,
right and wrong, cruelty and kindness, things in pairs,
beauty and ugliness etc. Everything is not ugly to every
soul. Some things are ugly to some persons and not ugly
to others. But a baby will cry because you are ugly. So
the taste for beauty comes with life, also. I have seen
babies look at an ugly person and just start crying, as if
to say, "I have never looked at anything so unpleasant."
Qur'an 41.11,12; Creation in two days, come willingly
or unwillingly
1
"Moreover He Comprehended in His design the
sky and it had been (as) smoke: He said to it and to
the earth: "Come ye together willingly or
unwillingly." They said: "We do come (together) in
willing obedience."
12. "So He completed them as seven firmaments
in two Days and He assigned to each heaven its
duty and command. And We adorned the lower
heaven with lights and (provided it) with guard.
Such is the Decree of (Him) the Exalted in Might
Full of knowledge."
In the world Allah swt educates us on how it happens.
So how did He form the earth in two periods? Then the
heavens has in them four rivers, two rivers down here
and two in heaven; a total of four. And scripture says
four went out from the garden and watered the whole
earth, the whole world. So we have two of them now and
we'll get the other two at another time, not at this time. I
do not think you'll get it at this session.
10-23-2005 `Asr p. 1 5 of 18
G_d said to the skies and the earth, "Come you together
how"? Willingly or unwillingly. The Boss is talking.
You don't make up your mind as to how they are going
to come together. You don't make up your mind to wait
until when you want to come together. G_d is talking,
the real Boss! So He says, "Come you together whether
you like it or not!" Isn't that the way Mama talks to you
when she gets serious? She said, "You are going to go
out there and clean that yard whether you like it or not."
That is the boss in the house talking. G_d is the Boss in
the house of the universe and He told His world that He
was going to shape and put it together to make it for the
benefit of mankind. Don't you know that Allah swt
made the whole universe for man? What other creature
can appreciate the whole universe? You might ask,
"How can you prove that?"
The proof is that no other creature appreciates the whole
universe like the human. No other creature shows an
interest in the whole of the matter, or the whole universe
but the human. So that tells me that when Allah swt
created you and me human, He selected us for His whole
universe. I know how they give it to you in the spook
house saying, "Allah swt made Muhammed pubh and he
was with Allah swt before the world was created and
Allah swt made the world, the creation, for
Mohammed." Yes, He did, but not only for Muhammed
pbuh. Muhammed pbuh would not give the statement
like that. He would tell you, "Allah swt made it for
man". He would not say, 'just for Muhammed.' And He
did not say that. If you read the Qur'an and see that He
said He made it for man, you have to register these
things, the importance of these things. Here's a
communication coming to you and the one giving it to
you said, "1 did not give it to you on my own". It is
coming from the Creator of the heavens and the earth.
The brightness of the universal light is everywhere; that
is brighter than the sunlight; that makes the whole
universe a shiny place, an illuminating place. So if He
says everything out there was made for my brain, then
everything out there has light. 1 see it in the light. It is
communicating to me that, "I (the universe) am existing
here for you to utilize me, engage me, work with me. I
am for you. My purpose here is for your brain, for your
intelligence". You have to raise the importance of the
language of G_d. What does G_d say? "Surely with
difficulty conies ease". And what else did He say? "I am
going to give you a weighty word, a heavy word".
Qur'an 41.11, 12; Come willingly or unwillingly
Qur'an 2.36, 38; Get you down from here
We said: "Get ye down all (ye people) with enmity
between yourselves. On earth will be your dwelling
place and your means of livelihood for a time."
The natural life and the natural capacity for things have
given you a light burden and a light communication,
light in weight. "But now you have contacted Mc. You
have earned a response from Me. I am going to talk to
you, teach you and educate you. "isn't that what G_d
says? "I am not only going to reveal to you", but, He
says, "I am going to teach you so that you will
understand and know and not forget". This is what
Allah swt tells His recipient who He is going to give the
revelation to. You should register or feel and sense the
heavy importance of those words that are spoken, not to
one man, that is spoken from G_d to every man; you
singular, you individually, you female and male, spoken
to all of us equally. The ones who respond in the best
way will benefit the most and go the farthest. That is His
justice.
Qur'an 73.5-6; Weighty Word
5. "Soon shall We send down to thee a weighty
Message.
6. Truly the rising by night is most potent for
governing (the soul) and most suitable for (framing)
the Word (of Prayer and Praise).
Qur'an 87.6; We'll teach you so you won't forget
"By degrees shall We teach thee to declare (the
Message) so thou shalt not forget."
Why does He say, "Come you together willingly or
unwillingly?" Why is that language given? Because
there are those in the world who had been responsible
for communicating to the people what G_d gave the
Messengers and Prophets and they have separated
heaven and earth and said that these two are not
compatible; that you have to reject the world if you
expect to have the heaven and they did not leave it just
like that. They gave us leaders who prided themselves in
being the heavenly creatures and refused to marry
women. I am talking about the Gnostic order and many
others around the world. This was just not limited to the
European. They refused to have sex with women,
10-23-2005 `Asr p. 1 6 of 18
refused to have children and family because they thought
to engage the material world and to experience the
appreciation for the material world, to satisfy appetites
for it, sexually or any other way, would hurt their
chances of developing their so-called angelic life and
divine spark, or divine essence.
Hermit, monks takes man away from G d's will for
man
So they thought that they had been made godly. The
Bible talks about the sons of G_d, the children of G_d,
gods and goddesses, and many other religions give the
same kind of picture. There's no son of G_d, or daughter
of G_d in Qur'an. There are no gods and goddesses.
There are no children of G_d in the Qur'an. So we are
not the products of these people who thought that. The
material body and the material world are the tempters,
the temptation that would deprive you, that will pull you
out of the heavenly position, the heavenly home. They
thought that. Yes, it will if you give yourself to that in
extreme. It will take you away from your good promise
or your good future that G_d has created for you. But so
will your obsession with you being above mortal people
or mortal flesh. That, too, will take you away from your
good life. That is why G_d said, "Get you down from
here all of you together. You have lost the great future
that I have planned for My creature". In other words,
aspiring to live as a monk, a priest, a hermit, an angel,
takes us away from the great productive life that Allah
swt created for every human person. It will take you
away from it, too.
So Allah swt said, "Get you down in the earth. That is
where you will find the things to fulfill your appetites
and also your hopes, your aspirations". This is in Qur'an.
I'm giving you nothing but Qur'an; not only what your
body is calling for, not only what your conscience at this
particular time is calling for. There is much that you
cannot even ask for because you do not even know it
exists. But I am going to put you back into the herd
where you can discover all of it.
Who would want a religion other than the religion of
Abraham except one who wants to make him self
stupid? You know you have people who make stupidity
a profession. They make it an art. They become very
skilled at being stupid.
Qur'an 32.7-9; Allah created everything good
7. He Who has made everything which He has
created most Good. He began the creation of
man with (nothing more than) clay
Genesis 1.31; G d made everything good
And God saw every thing that he had made, and,
behold, it was very good. And the evening and the
morning were the sixth day."
Qur'an 15.39; satan decorates the path to error
Satan said: My Lord, Because Thou has sent me
astray, verily I shall adorn the path of error for them in
the earth, and shall mislead them, every one."
Al hadith 4p. I78#42; Allah showed Gabriel the earth
before and after satan changed it
Abu Hurairah reported The Apostle of Allah (peace
be upon him) said: "When Allah created Paradise, He
said to Gabriel: Go and look at it. He went and looked at
it, then came and said: 0 my Lord! By Thy might, no
one who hears of it will fail to enter it. He then
surrounded it with disagreeable things, and said: Go and
look at it, Gabriel. He went and looked at it, then came
and said: 0 my Lord! By Thy might, I am afraid that no
one will enter it. When Allah created Hell, He said: Go
and look at it, Gabriel. He went and looked at it, then
came and said: 0 my Lord! By Thy might, no one who
hears of it will enter it. He then surrounded it with
desirable things and said: Go and look at it, Gabriel. He
went, looked at it, then came and said: 0 my Lord! By
Thy might and power, I am afraid that no one will
remain who does not enter it."
When Allah swt made the world what did He say,
according to the Bible and if you understand the Qur'an
it is supporting that same belief? That Allah swt made
every thing good. If it is not in the Qur'an for you to
understand very clearly I'll give you the words from
hadith, very quickly.
Muhammed pubh was inspired to see something and it is
inspiration on a level between common ability of human
beings to grasp knowledge and the highest level, which
is the inspiration and communication Allah swt gives
prophets. It is between there. He credited G_d for it
called the Hadith Qudsi, the sacred or holy hadith. He
said G_d showed Gabriel and there was no world created
yet there was only G_d and Gabriel. And then G_d,
10-23-2005 `Asr p. 1 7 of 18
within an instance, showed Gabriel the world that was
going to take place and it formed in space by G_d's will
just as He intended it to be. When Gabriel saw it, he
said, "My Lord how can anyone go astray in such a
world?" Then. Allah swt caused it to disappear within an
instant and the world appeared again in the shape it
would be in after satan had changed it and put his
decorations in it and Gabriel said, "My Lord how can
anyone go straight, or go aright in such a world?"
World originally created good
It is not the figure that is important right now for me.
The message is what is important. It says that G_d made
everything good and beautiful. Now when you look at
Genesis it says He made things on the first day, the
second day...the sixth day and on the seventh day He
rested and on each day what did He say? He beheld that
it was good. Nothing was bad. G_d beheld that His
works were good. That is saying the same thing that the
story about Gabriel is saying, that the creation as G_d
made it has nothing but good to offer human beings.
There is no trouble for the human brain. It is all good for
the human brain. But when satan comes, he plagues the
human brain with the perception that he gives us of the
world and life. He plagues the human brain. He tortures
the human brain. He confuses the human brain and he
retards the human brain to put as many as he can out of
the competition so that he would have a few great ones
who will have access to the great resources, the bounties
that Allah swt created for every human being. He will
have exclusive access to it, he and his elects. So he will
be the one who will be managing man's affairs in the
world and that is just exactly what has happened.
Man not born in sin
Genesis 25.33; Esau sold birthright to Jacob
"And Jacob said, Swear to me this day; and he
sware unto him: and he sold his birthright unto
Jacob."
Genesis 27.11; Jacob a smooth man
"And Jacob said to Rebekah his mother, Behold,
Esau my brother is a hairy man, and I am a smooth
man:"
Birthright is to know how man is formed humanly
Psalm 51.5; In sin my mother conceive me
" Behold, I was shapen in iniquity; and in sin did my
mother conceive me."
Is this just in these stories? This is in scripture. Too. This
problem we arc addressing, a theft and a thief who wants
to steal and this story is in the Genesis where one brother
got slick and the Bible says he was smooth. The brother
on the streets says, "slick". Especially when I was a
youngster, people would say, "That is a slick one there
man, be careful." He was so smooth he was able to take
his brother's birthright and then later took his
inheritance. The key to getting his inheritance was to
first get his birthright. What is his birthright? The right
to know how he is formed or how he is born. Prophet
Muhammed phluh says you are born a Muslim, born
innocent. But what does this world tell all of you in the
churches and on the street? You are born in sin. Now go
to Jesus Christ to be born again because the first birth
was no good. Muslims do not believe in any original sin
and we certainly do not believe that our babies who
come here from their mothers the first day are born
sinners. No, they are not born sinners. They are born
good.
Discipline children with a loving heart or you will
deform them
Their spirit, nature and soul want nothing but kindness,
goodness and love. They are not criminals. They are not
born that way. They are not ugly. They are beautiful. But
pain and suffering under us can make them very ugly
and sinful. I hope you registered that. We create sinners
ourselves, mad men, cruel people. We create them right
in our own houses by not being human towards our own
babies. Give them the best of your human nature. Show
them the best of your heart and they will grow up
healthy. That does not mean that you should let them do
whatever they want to do or not correct them. You
should correct them, but correct them from a heart that is
loving; not from a mind that is tortured, but from a heart
that is kind and loving. Then put the rod on them or the
law on them to correct them.
Some of you have to leave early because of your travel
plans and 1 am partly responsible for that because in
previous sessions we had last year and before I think we
concluded with noon prayer. So some of you were
expecting that. From now on we do not want to conclude
with noon prayer. So you will know next year we will
conclude with the session that follows Asr prayer before
10-23-2005 `Asr p. 1 8 of 18
Iftar. We will just say we want to conclude at 5:00 pm
after Asr prayer.
Satan: no Jew nor Christian can be satan
Intentionally, I did not give his name, because his name
sounds Jewish. I do not want to put the Jewish people on
the spot. Mr. Fard he was clever. He knew you didn't
know Arabic. He didn't say Jacob he said Yacub. He
gave you a Qur'anic name which is okay for Bible
readers. That is not okay for Qur'an readers, because
Yacub is a Prophet who did not do those dirty things. So
what is the Qur'an saying? That somebody fabricated.
They lied. They gave you that story about G_d's Prophet
and it is a lie. The Prophet did not do those things.
Somebody else who claimed to follow those Prophets
wanted to do those things and did those things.
Somebody might say, "He's talking about the Jews
now." No, I'm not. No Jew can be satan. He has to first
not be a Jew, then maybe he can be satan. No Christian
can be satan. Satan is a foreign creation, an alien
creation. He is not the product of Judaism. He is not the
product of Christianity. He is the product of something
far out there, away from all beauty and kindness. He is
formed in the coldest region of G_d's universe. Some
say he came from Pluto. No he did not. He came from a
place farther away than that. In fact, he invented himself
another space away from the universe and in the space
he invented, himself, away from the whole universe, the
system of matter that is where he dwelled and formed his
idea.
Some of you have done the same thing. You came up
with your freakish mind and idea. You certainly
separated yourself from G_d's universe to do what you
have done with your ugly, nasty minds. His universe
would not communicate that stuff, that ugliness, and that
cruelty that you have in your mind. I just want to bring
you home to good sense. Some of you had started
drifting out of space and we have to call the ambulance
to come and get you and take you to that special head
treatment place they have down the road.
Material extremes starves out the spiritual life
Qur'an 41.10; G d gave man all his needs in four
periods
"He set on the (earth) Mountains standing firm
high above it and bestowed blessings on the earth
and measured therein all things to give them
nourishment in due proportion in four Days in
accordance with (the needs of) those who seek
(sustenance)."
Allah swt says He has "Given every creature its
provisions in four measures." Mind you, these creatures
are animate creatures, not inanimate. A stone has not this
life that GA is addressing. Stone, iron and metals, they
do not have that life. Since human beings are fed from
everything in creation they can become in their makeup
like stone, like nickel, like iron, like the hardest thing
you can think of. They can become like those things. So
what has GA given us in the whole creation that He
wants us to engage with our minds? To bring out
information or utility to make the community of human
beings richer, more comfortable and more supportive of
their best aspirations, capacity and potential, that is what
QA wants. But this same universe, it entertains the
abstract life or person and if you are not careful you're
putting too much importance on certain things in this
environment that we are and it will take you away from
that which your heart and your soul needs to feed on.
You will just be feeding on the material area of your life
but you will be starving that part of your life that we say
is spiritual for want of a better word.
You will be starving your spiritual life and making it
weak and causing it to become dissipated or die while
you are engaging too much at the table of that food that
feeds your material side. So the extremes will destroy us.
In doing that then you in your human sensitivities, you
in your love, in your heart, you can become so
unconscious and so inconsiderate of your own needs in
that focus and also the needs of others in that focus that
you become so callous, so dry of feelings and sentiments
etc., in a human society, to decent and normal people
they see you as a stone and that is what the old seers
said. They called certain ones stony hearted.
Qur'an 29.43; Lot's wife lagged behind
"And when Our Messengers came to Lut he was
grieved on their account and felt himself powerless
(to protect) them: but they said "Fear thou not nor
grieve: we are (here) to save thee and thy following
except thy wife: she is of those who lag behind."
Genesis 19.26; Lot's wife became a pillar of salt
" But his (Lot's) wife looked back from behind him,
and she became a pillar of salt."
10-23-2005 `Asr p. 1 9 of 18
Luke 11.11; If child ask for bread would give a stone
"If a son shall ask bread of any of you that is a
father, will he give him a stone? or if he ask a fish,
will he for a fish give him a serpent? "
Crypt associated with the word kryptonite
In scripture there is a certain woman. She couldn't
entertain the blessings and the good future that was
opening up to the people of her times for dwelling on the
ugliness and the bad things that happened in the past. So
she lost her sensitivity. She lost her feelings for
kindness, feelings of loving and compassion. She lost all
of that and became a pillar of salt. She became salt rock.
And some become harder than that. But only the satan
himself can make kryptonite and put the poor innocent
beggars for truth in the crypt. It comes from kryptonite,
the same word. Kryptonite is the material. The crypt is
where they put you and against that cruelty what does
Jesus Christ say? "If your child asks you for bread
would you give him a stone?"
G_d made your child to eat something digestible and
something manageable with the teeth, bread. Who is that
talking to? He was talking to somebody, to some people
who existed at that time and they are around here. That
is cruel. Can't you see the picture? It doesn't have to be
a child. If an old man needs bread and you give him a
stone to break his teeth. That is real cruel. Somebody
must he doing that.
Then understood they how that he bade them
not beware of the leaven of bread, but of the
doctrine of the Pharisees and of the Sadducees.
Teeth in scripture refers to man's intelligence
In the Bible you are not eating with these teeth, you are
eating with the teeth of your intelligence. When Jesus
said, "Take this of me a drink for you to drink and
commemorate the communion or this time, this supper
that I am having with you, in the last supper. Jesus is
saying that to those disciples, teachers, scholars of his
when he was saying that he was not talking about wine
like they do. It is a ritual. Taking wine is a ritual. That
means it is a theater that is acting out something that is
not here. The real thing is not here but we have the wine
in the theater picture to represent what is not here. When
they take the bread it is the same thing. They are
enacting something in a theater scene, a ritual that has a
reference for something that is not there. It is not real
bread. You who are at home in the Bible, not the Qur'an,
let me help you, too. The Bible tells us just what that is.
It says his blood is the blood of the New Testament and
that blood is the spirit of the New Testament. It did not
leave you in the dark to go through a cannibalistic thing
and be stuck there with a cannibalistic feast. It takes you
to the real thing. It says the blood is the spirit of the New
Testament and the bread, or the flesh of Jesus Christ, the
bread representing his flesh is the doctrine, that means
the teaching.
Spirit in the teaching like spirit is in the body
Matthew 26.28; Blood of the New Testament
Communion is to be influenced by the spirit in words
"For this is my blood of the new testament, which
is shed for many for the remission of sins."
Matthew 26.26, 27; Bread is my body
"And as they were eating, Jesus took bread, and
blessed it, and brake it, and gave it to the disciples,
and said, Take, eat; this is my body. [27] And he
took the cup, and gave thanks, Wand gave it to them,
saying, Drink ye all of it;
Matthew 16.12; Bread but doctrine
Then understood they how that he bade them
not beware of the leaven of bread, but of the
doctrine of the Pharisees and of the Sadducees.
Matthew 16.12; Bread but doctrine
In the teaching of the New Testament and where does
spirit form? In flesh. So spirit forms in the teaching,
doesn't it? The teaching comes. It has spirit formed in it,
so when the teaching comes, it is to communicate to you
food to your mind, your spirit, or your soul. You take on
the spirit of those words. You are impressed and
influenced by the spirit of those words. So that is the
communion. That is the real meaning of it. When you
get the knowledge it feeds your mind. It edifies your
thinking and your intelligence. It structures the way you
see things inside of your mind. It puts flesh on the logic
like meat on the bones and you see a structure and you
appreciate it. So you are being given meat.
10-23-2005 `Asr p. 1 10 of 18
Meat is associated with meet
Genesis 2.18; Adam a help meet for him
"And the Lord God said, It is not good that the
man should be alone; I will make him an help meet
for him."
M.e.a.t. has a play on the word m.e.e.t and the Bible did
not leave that for you to guess about. It calls our mate
our helpmeet. The Bible uses both words, both spellings.
It doesn't leave us to guess if you are careful as a reader
and thorough as a reader.
Let's go back to the sun and moon as symbols and I'm
going to just close it out there. But, en sha Allah swt, I
will bring these things to you later if I have to put it on
tape and have them transcribe it and put it in a book, en
sha Allah swt. Someone may think, "1 do not want to
put it in a book because I plan to put his teachings in a
book." Put my teaching in a book. I want a thousand,
million books. Create a billion books. As much as you
can produce please produce them. I encourage you to
produce. We need as much help as we can get. But don't
think my book is going to depend on yours and I hope
yours won't depend on mine. I mean, on me putting one
out. Mine is not going to depend on you putting one out
and you shouldn't depend on me putting one out. Write
yours and get it out. We need it. But I hope you're
qualified, because if you're not, you are going to be soon
avoided. There are all kinds of courses to avoid you.
You will never see your product on the market. You and
your products will be avoided if you don't come right.
Don't think you can do what you want with what I' m
saying. You can't. You have to do what G_d intends for
us to do with it, if you expect to be successful. You will
not be successful if you do not do that, if you don't do
that, know you should not do anything.
Moon represents the dawning of consciousness and
intelligence in the spirituality of human beings
The Bible says the moon was. put in the sky, first, and
darkness was first, then light. The eve and the morning
were the first day. He put a lesser light in the heavens
and then later on a greater light. So the lesser one you
know is the moon. The Qur'an, it is not agreeing with all
of the language. But the Qur'an is certainly agreeing
with the logic.
The logic is that man is born in ignorance. He is born
without light and education has to dawn. The truth has to
dawn. Real knowledge has to dawn in the mind of the
individual who is born without light. The moon is the
first light that was up in the sky. It means in the seat of
authority, in the circle or realm of the seat of authority.
The moon being the first light means that the first
knowledge that ruled the people from on high not up in
the physical sky, but in the elevation of human progress
for your intelligence; the first light was spiritual, moral
light and with it was spiritual light, spiritual science, and
spiritual life. The moon is a symbol for fear forming as
an awareness of things that may threaten or endanger, or
may hurt life. It is fear of things. And with it comes
accomplishment that says, "I am afraid to do wrong"; a
moral awareness that you should behave in a certain
way. You just should not behave any kind of way. So
the dawning of this light is the dawning of consciousness
and intelligence in the spirituality of human beings, in
their spirituality, in their capacity for spiritual life or
spirituality. That is the glowing of the moon.
And as the sciences grow and increase man begins to
come under those sciences and those sciences are the
highest authorities in his life, the spiritual sciences. If we
study the history of civilization, whether they achieved
the heights that other civilizations achieved or not, or
other communities of people achieved or not, they did
achieve something for spirituality. You have the
shaman. You have the witch doctor. Everywhere they
have some spiritual leader who they gravitate towards.
It appears when you look at the moon rising, if you did
not know what science tells you, doesn't it appear that
the moon is actually coming up out of the water, if the
horizon is water, or it is coming up out of land if the •
horizon is Land? Before science and before traveling the
earth and mapping it who knew the end of the land?
Nobody knew, because as far as you look there is land.
Who knew the end of the water? Nobody knew, so the
first perception or the first picture the people had and
understood was that this moon is coming up out of the
earth. This sun is coming up out of the earth. Why did
G_d create us to be put in a situation where that is our
conclusion? Because He really wanted to guide you,
eventually, to the world of your own inside, to the world
of your soul, your spirit, your human sensitivity inside
that is connected with the need for your intelligence to
grow.
.:,
- That is what He wanted to teach. And inside of
you, the microcosm, the moon rises inside of you right
through the body. You sense things with your flesh that
.
10-23-2005 `Asr p. 1 1 of 18
registers in your curiosity, or registers upon your
curiosity.
Qur'an . 6.161; Deeds good get ten reward wrong gets
one
"He that doeth good shall have ten times as much
to his credit: he that doeth evil shall only be
recompensed according to his evil. No wrong shall
be done unto (any of) them.
Qur'an 6.164; None can carry burden of another
"Say: "Shall I seek for (my) Cherisher other than Allah
when He is the Cherisher of all things (that exist)?"
Every soul draws the reed of its acts on none but itself:
no bearer of burdens can bear the burden of another.
Your goal in the end is toward Allah: He will tell you the
truth of the things wherein ye disputed. "
Let us go to a saying in the Qur'an where G_d says, "If
one commits sin he gets only the measure of that sin and
no burden bearer can bear the wrong doings of another".
G_d is saying that He does not allow that you take on the
sins of somebody else and that is your burden, too. You
take on your burden and you take on their burden, too.
So what is it saying? That is wrong to say that G_d sent
Jesus, peace be on Christ Jesus, into the world to take on
the burdens of everybody else. No, the Qur'an is saying
that is wrong. No burden bearer can bear the burden of
another. G_d has made every soul to bear its own
burden. You can get help from mama and daddy if they
are good parents and the brothers and sisters, your
family and you are going to get a lot of help from the
Islamic teachers. But, ultimately, it falls on you to be
responsible for your own behavior. That is what it is
saying.
Darkness means: 1. Absence of education 2. Corruption
Thulmun means darkness, oppression
Behind this, G_d says, the sinner who sins, he gets no
punishment more than the sin that he has committed; not
from other people's sins, also. That is wrong. And it
goes on to say that no one is going to be dealt with as the
translator says, unjustly or unfairly. But what is the real
meaning in this word? It comes from the Arabic word
for darkness and darkness in scripture goes back to
scriptures before the Qur'an. Darkness has two main
meanings:
1. The absence of education, gross ignorance, being
deprived of any education in the world
2. And the other meaning is the world of corruption or
darkness because there's no light for your Taqwa; no
light for fajoor, ignorance; no light for your Taqwa,
immorality, corruption of the moral life. These are the
two meanings of darkness.
Allah swt says no one is going to be dealt with unjustly
and really the word means he is not going to he
oppressed. So the Qur'an is pointing to the worse
oppressors in the life of mankind, the imps of satan, the
servants of satan, the brotherhood of satan, Iblis, the
devil. They are the worse oppressors of mankind. And
many of them do not know they belong to the family of
oppressors. They're doing those wrongs and they do not
know that they are members of the family of the great
oppressor. And he is the one who wants you to believe
that there is not just one G_d, but two, three gods; as
many as you like. That is the worst oppressor because
going off of the track that G_d has put for us to travel
with our intelligence and our hearts to find logic, truth
and reality, what manifests for the person is the need to
have help thinking, "I am helpless in this big universe to
go by myself." So he becomes conscious of an existence
of a G_d even though he cannot see Him. He becomes a
believer in the Arabic word, "Al Ghaib," translated that
which is unperceivable or unseeable with his eyes. He
starts to believe in the hidden, invisible. He becomes
more and more curious, individually. He comes to
believe that One is the One Who did all of the work of
creation and designed it as it is.
So he comes to believe in that G_d and' believes that
G_d is the Maker and the Giver of this creation for the
intelligence of man. Now he engages the creation with
the belief in the unity of matter, with the belief in the
consistency of science and truth. Now he finds not only
G_d but he finds his heritage in the creation of G_d. He
finds his great heritage, his great resources that G_d has
created for him to benefit from in the universe. So it is
the satan, the thief, the greatest thief is satan. You who
are stealing you ought to be ashamed of yourself with
your little petty thing. I'd rather be back in the crib
sucking on a baby bottle, or on mama's breast than to be
doing what you are doing. You would be more dignified,
more honorable and more advanced, if you would just
get back in the crib, suck on the baby bottle, or on
mama's breast. This world is too big for this little,
stupid, petty stuff; and nobody would be doing these
10-23-2005 `Asr p. 1 2 of 18
things if it were not for satan's interruption. He
interrupted the world as G d intended it to be.
Qur'an 2.30; Angels ask if you're making one to shed
blood
"Behold thy Lord said to the angels: "I will create a
vicegerent on earth. They said "Wilt thou place
therein one who will make mischief therein and
shed blood? Whilst we do celebrate Thy praises
and glorify Thy holy (name)?" He said: "I know
what ye know not."
Qur'an 7.27; satan exposed Adam and wife their
shame
"0 ye children of Adaml let not satan seduce you
in the same manner as he got your parents out of
the garden stripping them of their raiment to expose
their shame: for he and his tribe watch you from a
position where ye cannot see them: We made the
evil ones friends (only) to those without faith. "
What is Allah swt saying? "You think you are angels."
He tested the angels and He proved that they did not
have the ability that they thought they had and He
proved that they did not have the judgment, the authority
to judge matters like they thought they had.
So here Allah swt is bombarding them. I'm reading
Qur'an and it is directing my language to you. He says
to these creatures they shouldn't even be called people.
They are inhuman. They were born to he human, but
they are inhuman. He says to them, "You have a system
that is oppressive and you think it is acceptable. "You
think you are angels over the system. You think your
system for regulating moral life is angelic. It is holy but
where is the fairness? You regulate moral life by
gauging moral intelligence and moral interest and moral
behavior in the society and when he gets so bad that it is
hurting and oppressing the people you do not leave it to
them to correct it. You have already put yourself in a
position superior to theirs. You have already gotten the
resources in the platform that is bigger than theirs.
So you address this concern and you are heard in their
little voices and in their little platform. They are almost
nonexistent in the society".
"So you take it upon yourself to feed the tendency to go
wrong. You feed the tendency to be unconscious, to be
not caring about behavior. You feed it. You show them
their shame". As Allah swt said, "Satan showed the man
his nakedness, or showed the man, really, his shame."
The Bible says "naked", but in the Qur'an it says
"showed him his shame". Here, they are still doing the
same thing. So they show us our shame, don't they?
They put it before us. They give you the TV to make
sure that your children can look at it even if you don't
like it. When you are away from home your children can
turn it on. They come into your house as an intruder by
way of the television.
And then they show all the shameful behavior, all the
shameful life. They show it to fire up the appetites, the
passions for this filth and corruption. And their strategy
is this: That "We will give them this sin in such an
extreme that they will become sick of having it and
when they become sick of having it, the trend will
change. It won't be for indecency, or immorality, or
wrong. It will be for right, decency, etc."
So this is their heavenly order of their angels and that is
the way they regulate life for our publics. You don't
know this but I'm telling you because G_d has showed
me these things. They think they are right, but the
Qur'an was revealed to Muhammed pbuh to tell them
that, "Your idea of G_d is the worse form of oppression
on human beings and your system for regulating moral
life is oppressive, the worse and most oppressive system
that exists. Why have you increased the sins of these
people? They should earn only the sin that they
commit". They do not want to inspire and encourage that
in them. "You have the world at your disposal. You
show what they're doing, or show the life that they arc
living. You are communicating from a position of
authority in the world and those who you are affecting
are not in such a high authority".
Qur'an 33.72; Offer trust to angels, mountain man ran
'
f
i
r
'44;
"We did indeed offer the Trust to the Heavens
and the Earth and the Mountains: but they refused
to undertake it being afraid thereof: but man
undertook it; he was indeed unjust and foolish."
y r
10-23-2005 `Asr p. 1 3 of 18
Qur'an 2.36, 38; Get you down from here
So they have no way of knowing what is right and
wrong if the world offers them something they think is
okay. The police department or the intelligence
department will not stop the television or tell the people
they cannot do that. So it has the sanction of the
intelligence department and the police department. How
can you correct a child who has all of that powerful stuff
coming at them from the highest authorities on earth; on
his earth at least, the soil of the United States of
America? How are you going to talk to him and they are
talking to him from the high and powerful places with
such authority and power? How are you going to get to
their brains? So you can't. She mother throws up her
hand saying, "I cannot do anything with this boy
anymore!" Daddy throws up his hands saying, "VII have
to kill him, or I have to leave the house, leave home. I
can't handle him anymore!" And Allah swt says, in
Arabic "Thaluuman jahuulan, Oh man, you're foolish.
You rush hastily to take up the responsibility on yourself
for the management of G_d's universe." Again Allah
swt says, in Arabic, "Thaluuman jahuulan," You are
ignorant and hasty!" Who is He speaking to? He is
speaking to the same ones that He is speaking to when
He says, "Get you down from here in the earth with this
human being. I'm going to reveal the world to not only
you, but to this human being. And you have to get down
there with him and see can you put that over on him,
once I have informed him. See if you can hoodwink him
after I have opened up his eyes. So you get down from
this hidden place you have over their heads. Get down in
the earth with them.
Mr Fard, Elijah Muhammed freed us from satan
Qur'an 29.41; Spider's house most flimsy
The parable of those who take protectors other
than Allah is that of the Spider who builds (to itself)
a house; but truly the flimsiest of houses is the
Spider's house if they but knew.
So you get down from this hidden place you have over
their heads, get down in the earth with them
Mr Fard, Elijah Muhammed freed us from satan
Qur'an 29.41; Spider's house most flimsy
The parable of those who take protectors other
than Allah is that of the Spider who builds (to itself)
a house; but truly the flimsiest of houses is the
Spider's house if they but knew.
Isn't that what the Honorable Elijah Mohammed did
with his teacher Mr. Fard? He brought that white man
and his whole world right down here with us, took the
fear out of us and made us suspect him, made us
question him, made us resist his guidance and resist his
behavior, turned our hands down on his behavior, down
on his world, that freed us to go after our own world.
Maybe it was magic, superstition, not the real, pure truth
of Qur'an, but it did free us from the satan, didn't it? It
freed us from the real satan, from that big satan; not him
in his flesh but him in his design on mankind. It freed us
from that and it made us struggle to see the light,
independently, on our own and the son of Elijah
Mohammed picks up the Book and broke the seven
seals. And a voice, a soul went flying in the midst of the
heavens and a voice said, "It is done. They can't oppress
the son of the Honorable Elijah Mohammed and they
can't oppress his followers any longer. It is done."
It is nothing to deal with now. We can handle it like we
can handle a spider's web. A bird feather can get rid of
the spider's web and knock it away, or if it is glass, we
can take a sledge hammer and knock the whole kingdom
down with one sledge hammer of truth from the Qur'an.
We'll hit his whole kingdom and knock it down. It is
nothing but glass with cob webs all inside of it; ghostly,
dead looking thing. A spider's web looks like it has been
dead a long time and the spider sitting up in his web, he
looks dead, too, like he's been dead for a long time.
Allah swt says that they were deceived to think that the
Prophet pbuh was not where he was, because when they
looked at it they didn't see him and his companion, Abu
Bakr. They saw a spider's web. So they were deceived to
believe that the early Qur'anic verses were spider web
thinking. "This is nothing but the tricks of the ancients to
catch flies and little insects. Don't worry about him. Pass
him up. Forget about him. Let's go on back home."
No there were two human beings behind that illusion
that you thought was a spider's web, Muhammed pbuh
and his companion; and they were going to Medinah to
an opportunity to establish the ummah. So they went on
back and the human beings came on out and they kept
on their journey, went to Medinah and established the
ummah, the society that would interrupt this scheme of
satan.
10-23-2005 `Asr p.14 01'18
Thank you very much. I wish I could say much more to
you. May G_d be with us always and protect us from
that satan and his schemes and make workers out of us
to undo his ugly schemes and take that burden off of all
of us; because his picture of reality is nothing but
oppression. Reject it and work only with the true
guidance of the Qur'an and the Muslim life as
Muhammed, the Prophet pbuh has lived it and you will
be successful. And when all of us in this room, or in this
place now have gone and our sons and daughters have
gone there will be a new generation still in what we're in
right now; and, eventually, a new people is going to
form a new world that will be just for human beings, for
human life.
It is going to come. Allah swt hasn't done all of this for
it to be aborted, to be neglected and forgotten, or to be
stopped by some enemy. Not this, it is too big for any
rational mind that is intelligent to believe that this is not
something that G_d is doing, that is going to be
permanent. This is permanent. G_d is bringing in a new
people and a new way of thinking, a new world. Those
who see what we are doing and they get something from
it I pray Allah swt blesses them to have the same thing
we have.
Hajj is future picture of no racism nor gender problems
That is what happened in Spain, didn't it? They were
working, but others came in, too. The Muslims did not
put them out. They did not reject them. Somebody told
me two white folks were in here yesterday. I told them
good. I hope they will become as white inside as they are
outside. And I hope that Allah swt will guide them as
He guides us. This is not a race thing. This is a human
thing. You do not see color and national identity. The
Hajj does not show us national identity and races. It gets
rid of all of that. It does not show us discrimination
against females. It gets rid of all of that, which tells us
this is the future picture. Hajj is the futuristic picture for
mankind, a day corning when we will not be coming
together upon our appreciation or pride in race.
Ramadan session next will he in a new facility
I conclude and I say to you Allah swt is with us and if
He wasn't with us the numbers for these Ramadan
sessions wouldn't be growing so fast. Next year we
won't have enough space here and Allah swt has already
provided for us. A brother has a big huge facility that
will accommodate us and He said if we pay a dollar to
anybody for the accommodation here, he says he will
charge half of it. He said give him fifty cents. I'm telling
you what he told me. We have a good brother. He is in
love with what we're in love with and he wants to see us
have a facility and opportunity to do what we have to do.
If it continues as I see it developing now we're going to
have brothers and sisters coming here who could not
afford the airfare, bus fare, especially when the
convention package was so expensive. That package is
going to be reduced considerably, marvelously, and
many who could not come are going to come. I would
not be surprised if we see 50,000 people converge on the
property, because we sure are going to tell them the price
is very low. If they paid $100 it's not going to be any
more than $50. The banquet, whatever it was is going to
be reduced at least by two-thirds. We're going to save
believers hundreds of dollars.
The next Ramadan session we might have to have it in
Garfield Park. You know they can throw up a structure
in a few hours? I believe we have some people in
Markham, Tinley Park, in these local towns and some
also in Chicago who will make sure that streets are
blocked, the park is open to us.
And I bet they will help us get a structure where we will
have a platform and something over our head to protect
us against the weather. They can throw up a frame
structure, actually a construction. They can put it up and
take it down in the same day. So we should look at what
the circumstance is now and envision and see the future.
I see a sign that tells me the day of the multitude is just
around the corner, just across the street; not a multitude
of people who have quantity and no quality; a multitude
of quality people.
I have to go so you have a joyous day, today, and
everyday. I don't care what happens in my life, T don't
care how bad it is, it is not enough to take away this big
joy that Allah swt has put into my life. The joy is too big
the trouble will be small.
Index 10-23-2005 Asr
Qur'an 91.8; The soul has enlightenment to Fujura and
Taqwa 1, 2;
Qur'an 47.15; Rivers water, milk, wine, honey 3;
Qur'an 3.110; You're the best evolved for humanity 4;
10-23-2005 `Asr p.1 of 18
Qur'an 41.11, 12; Creation in two days, come willingly
Blood spirit of the New Testament 9;
or
unwillingly 5, 6;
Qur'an 87.6; We'll teach you so you won't forget 5;
Qur'an 2.36, 38; Get you down from here 6, 13;
Qur'an 32.7-9; Allah created everything good 6, 7;
Qur'an 15.39; satan decorates the path to error 6, 7;
Qur'an 41.10; G_d gave man his needs in four periods
Body
b- Bread is my body Jesus 9, 10;
h- Spirit in the teaching like spirit is in the body 10;
8;
Bread
b- If child ask for bread would give a stone 9;
b- is doctrine 9, 10;
h- is my body Jesus 9, 10;
Qur'an 29.43; Lot's wife lagged behind 9;
Qur'an . 6.161; Deeds good ten reward wrong gets one
11;
Qur'an 6.164; None can carry burden of another 1 1;
Qur'an 2.30; Angels ask if you're making one to shed
Born In sin my mother conceive me 8;
Burden None can carry burden of another 11;
blood
12;
Qur'an 7.27; Satan exposed Adam wife their shame 12,
13;
Qur'an 33.72; trust offered of heavens man rushed to it
13;
Qur'an 29.41; Spider's house most flimsy 13, 14;
Bukhari 4.429; Two rivers hidden and open 3;
Genesis 2.10; River went out and became four heads 2;
Genesis 1.31; G_d made everything good 6, 7;
Genesis 25.33; Esau sold birthright to Jacob 6, 7;
Genesis 27.11; Jacob a smooth man 6, 7;
Psalm 51.5; In sin my mother conceive me 8;
Genesis 19.26; Lot's wife became a pillar of salt 9;
Luke 11.11; If child ask for bread would give a stone 9;
Matthew 26.28; Blood of the New Testament 9;
Matthew 26.26, 27; Bread is my body 9, 10;
Matthew 16.12; Bread but doctrine 9, 10;
Genesis 2.18; Adam a help meet for him 10;
a-I
Adam a help meet for him 10;
Allah G_d made everything good 6, 7;
Angels ask if you're making one to shed blood 12;
11-1
Baby Cleanliness the baby dislikes filth 3;
Beauty
b- Taste for beauty comes with birth a baby will cry
because of ugliness 5;
Bible Blood spirit of the New Testament 9;
Birthright
h Esau sold to Jacob 7, 8;
b- is to know how man is formed humanly 8;
c- I
Capacity Allah created its space to be occupied 4;
Child
c- Discipline children with a loving heart or you will
deform them 8;
c- If ask for bread would give a stone 9;
Chew Teeth in scripture refers to man's intelligence
10;
Christian No Jew nor Christian can be Satan 8;
Clean Baby Cleanliness the baby dislikes filth 3;
Community You're the best evolved for humanity 4;
Communion is to be influenced by the spirit in words
10;
Creation in two days, come willingly or unwillingly 5;
Crypt associated with the word kryptonite 9;
d-I
Darkness
d- means: 1. Absence of education 2. Corruption 11;
d- Thulmun means darkness, oppression 11;
Day Creation in two days, come willingly or unwillingly
5;
Deeds good get ten reward wrong gets one 11;
Devil
d- No Jew nor Christian can be satan 8;
d- satan decorates the path to error 6, 7;
Doctrine is Bread 9, 10;
e-1
Earth
10-23-2005 `Asr p.16 of 18
e- Creation in two days, come willingly or unwillingly 5;
e- World originally created good 7;
e- satan changed, decorates the path to error 6, 7;
g- Deeds good get ten reward wrong gets one 11;
g- G_d made everything good 6, 7;
g- World originally created good 7;
Education
e- The soul has enlightenment to Fujura and
Taqwa 1, 2;
e- We'll teach you so you won't forget 5;
e- Weighty word the whole universe is communication
5, 6;
h-1
Hajj is future picture of no racism nor gender problems
14;
Head River went out and became four heads 2;
Help meet Adam a help meet for him 10;
Hermit, monks takes man away from G_d's will for man
6;
Honey Rivers water, milk, wine, honey 2, 3;
Mr hard, Elijah Muhammed freed us from satan 13;
Esau sold birthright to Jacob 7, 8;
Eve Adam a help meet for him 10;
Evil Deeds good get ten reward wrong gets one I I
Excellent G_d made everything good 6, 7;
i-1
Intellect Teeth in scripture refers to man's
intelligence 10;
f-1
Fujoor
f- refers to the capacity for the dawning the light 2;
f- is the capacity to engage the world 3;
j-1
Fajr refers to the beginning of the appearance of light 2;
Jesus
j- Bread is my body Jesus 9, 10;
j- Communion is to be influenced by the spirit in words
10;
Family
f--Discipline children with a loving heart or you will
deform them 8;
f- Touch of mother is communicating to you love 2;
Mr Fard, Elijah Muhammed freed us from satan 13;
Four
f- Q__d gave man his needs in four periods 8;
f- River went out and became four heads 2;
Fujurah Fujoor
f- give experience of a spiritual and material nature 4;
f- refers to the capacity for the dawning the light 2;
f- The soul has enlightenment to Fujura andTaqwa 1, 2;
g-1
Gender
g- Hajj is future picture of no racism nor gender
problems 14;
Get you down from here 6, 13;
Good
Jacob
j- Esau sold birthright to Jacob 7, 8;
j- a smooth man 7, 8;
Jew No Jew nor Christian can be satan 8;
k-1
Knowledge
k- We'll teach you so you won't forget 5;
k- Weighty word the whole universe is communication t
5, 6;
Krytonite Crypt associated with the word kryptonite 9;
1-1
Light
1- hajr refers to the beginning of the appearance of light
2;
1- fujur refers to the capacity for the dawning the light 2;
1- Weighty word the whole universe is communication 5,
6;
Lot's wife lagged behind 9;
rn-1
10-23-2005 `Asr p.17 of 18
Material extremes starves out the spiritual life 8;
Meat is associated with meet 10;
Milk Rivers water, milk, wine, honey 3;
Mind Teeth in scripture refers to man's intelligence
10;
s-1
Salt. Lot's wife became a pillar of salt 9;
v-1
10-23-2005 `Asr p.18 of 18
Monk Hermit, takes man away from G_d's will for man
6;
Moon
m - represents the dawning of consciousness and
intelligence in the spirituality of human beings 10;
Moral
m - Baby Cleanliness the baby dislikes filth 3;
m - Darkness is 1. Absence of education 2. Corruption
11,
m - Taqwa is the capacity for moral life and excellence
2;
satan
s- changed earth, decorates the path to error 6, 7;
s- No Jew nor Christian can he satan 8;
Scholars are among Imam Mohammed's students 4;
Shyness is of the wellspring of your Taqwa 3;
Sin
s- Born In sin my mother conceive me 8;
s- Deeds good get ten reward wrong gets one 1 1;
s- Man not born in sin 7, 8;
s- None can carry burden of another 11;
Space Capacity Allah created its space to be occupied 4;
Mother Touch of mother is communicating to you love
2;
Muslim You're the best evolved for humanity 4;
n-1
Nation of Islam
n - Mr Fard, Elijah Muhammed freed us from satan 13;
0-1
Oppression Thulmun means darkness, oppression 11;
11-1
Pillar Lot's wife became a pillar of salt 9;
Potential Capacity Allah created its space to he occupied
4;
Priest monks takes man away from GA's will for man
6;
Prophet We'll teach you so you won't forget 5;
q-1
r-1
Racism
r- Hajj is future picture no racism nor gender problems
14;
Ramadan session next will be in a new facility 14, 15;
River
r- Two rivers hidden and open 3;
r- water, milk, wine, honey 3;
r- went out and became four heads 2;
Rock If child ask for bread would give a stone 9;
Soul
s- has enlightenment to Fujura andTaqwa 1, 2;
s- Material extremes starves out the spiritual life 8;
Spider's house most flimsy 13, 14;
Spirit
s- Blood spirit of the New Testament 9;
s- is in the teaching like spirit is in the body 10;
s- Material extremes starves out the spiritual life 8;
s- represents the dawning of consciousness and
intelligence in the spirituality of human beings 10;
Stone If child ask for bread would give a stone 9;
t-1
Taqwa
t- is the capacity for moral life and moral excellence 2;
t- Shyness is of the wellspring of your Taqwa 3;
t- The soul has enlightenment to Fujura andTaqwa 1, 2;
Teeth in scripture refers to man's intelligence 10;
Testament Blood spirit of the New Testament 9;
Thulmun means darkness, oppression 11;
Touch of mother is communicating to you love 2;
Trust offered of heavens man rushed to it 13;
Two Creation in two days, come willingly or unwillingly
5;
u-1
Ummah You're the best evolved for humanity 4;
Universe
u- made in two days, come willingly or unwillingly 5;
u- World originally created good 7;
w-110-23-2005 `Asr p.19 of 18
Water Rivers water, milk, wine, honey 3;
Wine Rivers water, milk, wine, honey 3;
Woman
w- Adam a help meet for him 10;
w- Lot's wife lagged behind 9;
Word
w- Weighty the whole universe communication to man
5, 6;
World originally created good 7;
Wrong
w- Deeds good get ten reward wrong gets one 11;
w- Thulmun means darkness, oppression 11;
x-1
yYouth
y- Discipline children with a loving heart or you will
deform them 8;
z-1 Index 10-23-2005 Asr
Chapter Notes:
P
P
P
P
P
P
P
P
P
P
P
P
P
P
P
P
P
P
P
P
P
P
P
P