Ramadan Session 2007
October 5, 6, & 7, 2007
Lecturer: Imam W. Deen Mohammed
at
The Homewood Hotel
Homewood, Illinois
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Contents:
10-5-2007 Friday Jumah Ramadan Session
10-5-2007 Friday ‘Asr Ramadan Session 10-62007 Saturday Morning Ramadan Session 10-62007 Saturday Asr Ramadan Session 10-72007 Sunday Morning Ramadan Session 10-72007 Sunday `Asr Ramadan Session 10-72007 Radio Broadcast
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10-5-2007 Ramadan Jumah Session
Homewood, Ill
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.
Imam Warith Deen Mohammed
Peace be unto you As Salaam Alaikkum. Ramadan Mubarak.
We thank Allah for this day, the best day, according to the sayings of our Prophet, Muhammed; the best
day in the year, Jumah Day. And he said on this day Adam was created and no one is resurrected except
on the pattern of Adam, 60 arm spans, referring to the social life of mankind. 1- ill He created the female
but she was created after He created the male. He created Adam first from one self or from one soul,
Nafs. In Qur'anic Arabic it is, "Nafsen Wahidah," one self or one soul.And He created from it or made
from it, its mate, Adam's mate, the female; and spread from those two all the men and women on earth.
This is the saying of G_d in the Quean.lc
When we gather on this day of Jumah it is translated in the Qur'an in the English language by Yusuf
Abdullah as the Day of Assembly. So the word comes from the verb, "lama', which means to collect, to
come together or to assemble for a special purpose. In the case of Jumah, it is to worship G_d, Allah and
to obey Allah and His messenger. It is for us to come together, not just to pray. Some of us put more
importance on salat, we say "Let's go make salat in Jumah. You do more than make salat in Jumah. You
also hear a khutbah and if you did not hear a khutbah, you did not go to Salatul Jumah. You have to have
the Jumah Khhutbah and then salat.
I have heard some of the learned ones, not in our community but in the international community of
Muslims, say, "When you attend the Jumah Prayer you only say two rakats at the time of the noon day,
Thuhr prayer instead of four rakats. You are only obligated to say two." I was within hearing distance of
his voice and this particular learned, pious brother said, "That should tell us the teaching is as important
as at least half of the prayer for the midday."
The khutbah is very important and I'm saying that with a follow up. Our Prophet, Muhammed, is the
model for mankind; the model person, the model leader, the model human being for mankind. And Allah
says of him with reference to this particular statement I made, "You are an excellent model for any who
believes in G_d and the last day." 2 It did not say for Muslims. It didn't say for Jews and Christians. It
says for any who believes. That goes beyond Jews, Christians and Muslims, too. To believe in G d is
not enough. The Prophet said, "Say 1 believe and thereafter be upright." So just to believe in G_d is not
enough, but believe in G_d and be upright, have good deeds, as the Bible or the Christians say; believe
and present good deeds.
Those who believe in the last day they conduct themselves on this earth with respect for G_d's judgment.
The last day means Cid is going to judge all of us. He is going to settle all disputes. He is going to bring
justice to everything, to all of us, everywhere; that is, G_d, highly praised is He.
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Mohammed is G d's Messenger and our Prophet
Muhammed is our Prophet and our model. You are supposed to say, "Our Prophet". You never should
say is, "Our messenger". If you do, you are ignorant, or you are making a big violation. He is not our
messenger. He is G_d's messenger. We did not send him, but he is our prophet, Allah's messenger.
What is that saying to us, brother? It is saying to us Muhammed is the model for all human beings and he
is the Prophet of those who accept him as the messenger of G_d. For them he is their prophet, but he is
also, by reasoning, the prophet for all mankind.
All mankind should one day, I don't know, Allah says He made us different and He made us with the
privilege to be different; so we will differ. And G_d says in His holy book, the Qur'an, that they will
differ.3 So people are going to differ and Muhammed, the Prophet, G_d blessed him to see those in
heaven. Allah showed him the heavens and he saw the followers of Moses and Jesus and his own
followers in that picture, upon the prophets be peace.ab That tells us that we should never expect that
everybody on earth is going to believe the same way. But we should just work to extend goodness as
much as we can do it. That is, don't give up, promote goodness always and hope the people will conform.
But do not expect them all to do that, because G_d says if He had wanted them to be all the same He
would have made them the same. 3c
So He gives them the freedom. GA gives His human creation freedom. Would G_d create a human being
or a creature to think on his own and then not permit him to do that? Think about that.
Prayer Qiyam addresses man feeling power and
dignity when he stands erect
I'm going to read now from Surah 52 of the Qur'an. G_d says, "Now await in patience the command of
your Lord for verily you are in our eyes." This is directed to the Prophet himself, but it includes all of us.
G_d is aware of all of us and He sees all of us all the time. The verse continues, "And celebrate the
praises of your Lord while you stand forth." 4 I'm giving you the translation in English that is in the
Qur'an, translated by Abdullah Yusuf Ali, the one that we recommend. Although you can read anyone
you like, that is the one we recommend.
Repeating, "And celebrate the praises of your Lord while you stand forth." Standing, that is what we
want to focus our mind on right now. Every prayer begins with standing and we are given the signal when
to stand and the signal says now, for sure, it's time to stand for prayer. In Arabic it is, "Qad qaamtis
salat." The Arabic word, "Qad", means, "for sure, right now". And we stand for prayer and in that
position we praise G_d. We say, "Bismillahir rahrnaanir raheem. Al hamdu lillahe rabbil calameen." In
that position we praise G_d. That is the beginning of our utterance when we make the stand. In fact,
following some you don't hear, "Bismillah". In fact, the majority, you don't hear them say it out loud.
They say it in their heart. They begin the recital with, "Al hamdu lillahe rabbil aiameen." And it is in the
sayings of the Prophet, Muhammed, that, that expression holds up the sky. And when you are standing
your stature or your form is as high as it can be. You don't pray on your tiptoes. When you stand on your
tiptoes you are standing as high as you can, because you are supposed to stand erect in prayer; not bent
over, not sloughed, but standing erect.
We praise G_d in that position. That is the highest position of man, the standing position. And when he is
standing he feels his power and he feels his dignity. When he feels his dignity he wants to stand erect,
straight up. So this is the position that you take that can get you in trouble if you are not praising Qd. So
in that position, the first thing you say is, "Al hamdu lillahe rabbil alameen," while you stand forth. And
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the judgment, will you sit for judgment, or will you stand for judgment? We stand for judgment. The
Judgment Day is called, The Day of Standing. There is another name for it, The Day of Standing, The
Judgment Day and in Qur'anic Arabic it is pronounced, "Yaumal Qiyaamah."
I want you to recall the English translation for this Jumah Prayer, Salatul Jumah Day is The Day of
Assembly and that is what we do. We assemble and we call it Jumah Prayer. It means the prayer done by
the collective group members all together.
Before concluding the first part of this khutbah I want to come to another focus. Let us now change the
focus from man in the standing position to the Prophet, Muhammed, as the model for us. And this time
we want to speak of our Prophet in connection with what G_d says in the chapter of the Qur'an called the
city, al Balad and verse 2 of that chapter. I want to read to you, also, from Abdullah Yusuf Ali's footnote
on that verse #6131;
Allah says of Muhammed, the Prophet, "And you are a free man of this city." Let us see in the notes
what Abdullah Yusuf Ali says about this. He says the word for free man is "Hill" or "Hilun". When you
read it you have "Hilun". The pronunciation changes following the rules of Qur'anic reading. It is,
"Hilum be haadhaa balad." 5 In these times that we are living in, especially as influenced by democracy
in America, many of our Muslim scholars and teachers do not want us to say, "Free man" and they say it
does not say "Free man." But Abdullah Yusuf Ali is no ignorant translator. He is well respected in
Mecca, Egypt, all the powerful Islamic centers of knowledge. So if he says, "Free man", let us see why he
says free man.
He says it means Prophet Muhammed is an inhabitant. G d is saying he is an inhabitant of that town, a
man with lawful rights; a man free from such obligations as would attach to a stranger to the city; a free
man; in a wider sense than the technical sense to which the word is restricted in modem usage. The
Prophet should have been honored in his native city. He was actually being persecuted. He should have
been loved as a parent loves a child. Actually, his life was being sought and those who believed in him
were under a ban, that is, they were under restrictions. They could not have the privileges that the other
free citizens had. They called a boycott. Some of you are familiar with it. But time was to show that he
was to return triumphant to his native city after having made Madinah sacred by his life and work.
Now, a few comments on the English commentary given by Abdullah Yusuf Ali. We are free citizens in
the United States, In what sense or by what reference are we free citizens of the United States? You have
to go back to the legislation. You have to go back to the process of freedom in the United States, the
growth and development of freedom for the people of the United States; because when they first formed
the language of the constitution for this nation they said that we are free by virtue of the fact that all
human being are created the same, or have the same common worth. We all have our 5 senses. We all
have our freedom to question things. We all have this same great brain that G_d gave only to humans, not
to animals. And since we all have the same life form and the same brain, the founders or writers for
framing the language of the constitution established that all citizens are equal and are due the same rights
accorded to anyone else; and those rights cannot be taken from us by political power or government.
Those rights are inherent rights, meaning that they came with'our form that G_d gave us. Is that clear? I
don't know. I hope it is. Just stay on the ground with me and stay rational like I am and everything will
be all right. It will be clear.
We are free citizens. That was not the freedom given to us in the wilds. That freedom that we are talking
about that is given to us and protected by the Constitution of these United States and the good people, it
was given to us under a government body that was planning for our future generations to come. That is
how it came to us and it has been protected by the people through their legislature.
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Arabs had political and social leaders before the Prophet
So when we say of Muhammed, the Prophet, that G_d said of him he is a free man of this town, we are
saying it with respect for civilized order or civilized establishments, governments. And the Meccans,
thongh their v',-,-,,1-,f-A,Tvino; not ar riv;7;7pri fe ,fl estpl-)1i-11,d long before the generation of
Muhammed, the Prophet. Those laws had been established for the Arabs and they had social reform
teachers before Mohammed, the Prophet, and they had gone astray.
I'm not talking about Prophet Abraham. They had social reform teachers who were not messengers or
prophets of G_d to help them come to some sense of social order and government. And they were not
behaving even with respect for their high leaders, those political and social guides who were before or
generations before the time of Muhammed, the Prophet. So they had not only gone astray, they did not
know Abraham's way, that had been completely lost. But they had not only lost that. They had also lost
the better teaching for social order and government that they had received in previous times.
Qur'an Is to be read in a social, spiritual, political and
in a time context
So this statement is not one that you can just hear and deal with nothing but words. In fact, I don't know
any statement in the Qur'an that you can treat that way. You can't just read what is in the Qur'an and deal
with it as though it is nothing but words. No. Those words have a social, spiritual context, a political
context. They have a context. They fit in a particular focus, a particular framework, and they also have a
time context, a time framework etc. That is not all there is to it.
So don't think you can just read something in the Qur'an and now you are a Ph. d. and you want to
question everybody based upon what you know. Do want to question everybody based upon what you
know? You can't handle the Qur'an like that, please. That is not the way to handle any respected book. If
you give me a statement from any respected book you have to respect what that book requires of the
reader. The same is for the Qur'an. There is no difference. It is even more so because it is a sacred Book
with the words directly from Old, Himself.
The worst thing we can do is allow our prejudice as people who are not satisfied with Arabs, or not
satisfied with the American government; go to the extreme. The worst thing we can do and we have those
two extremes. One the extremes we have is those who have prejudice against Arabs and you would like to
do away with the tradition of Muhammed and make your own Islam. Then we have the other extreme
where we have those who just hate to give credit to the United States of America. They don't want to
acknowledge the U.S. for the credit that it is due among us African Americans and also outside. That
extreme, too, blinds your eye to the guidance of G_d in the Qur'an. You cannot expect to get the pure,
clear message of G_d that is for us in the Qur'an if you are going to have prejudices that are unjust.
With that I conclude this first part of the khutbah. And may GA forgive us our ignorance. You should
have your hands up because you really need this duo. May G_d forgive us our ignorance and may He
forgive us our suspicious minds and guide us to His mercy. Ameen.
2nd Part of Khuthah
Ruku means Allah brought me up from my knees
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We praise G_d in His name, always. We begin our endeavor and we praise Him and we salute
Muhammed, His servant and Messenger, our Prophet, the last and seal of the prophets.
In concluding the khutbah for today we started with the Qiyaamah, standing, and now I will conclude it
with Ruku. We stand and after we clear ourselves before our Lord, in that position , we bow down to
ruku'. It is the position, as you know, where we place our hands at our knees, in the bowing position and
say, "Glory for my Lord, the Mightiest ," three times. And we have to stand up again before going down
to sajdah, to the floor. We say, "Sarni Allahu liman hamidah," translated, "G_d hears whoever praises
Him." It did not say the Jews, the Christians and the Muslims. It says whoever praises Him. G_d hears
whoever praises Him. Actually it is saying G_d has already heard whoever praised H im. If you did it a
half second ago he heard it. If you did it a million years ago, He heard it.
Ruku Means Allah brought me up from my knees
While in that position, bowing, we say, "Subhana rabbeyal atheem." "Glory is for my Lord, the
Mightiest." Man, in the standing position expressing his pride, his power, might, or whatever, he has to
repent that. So when you put your hand on your knees what you used when you were a little baby before
you became a toddler, walking, you put your hands on the kneecap and you say, "Glory is for my Lord
the Mightiest." I'm not mighty. I have achieved a great power and a great nation. I am the leader,
commander, of the armed forces, the military of a great nation. But I have awakened and I repent my
wrong and confess that You brought me up from my knees. You are the Mightiest.
Qur'an Is about breaking dictators
In concluding the second part of the khutbah on this best day of the year, Salatul Jumah, when we read the
Qur'an and finish our reading what do we say? "Sadaqal laahul atheem," again, the Mightiest. So what
does that indicate to us? What does that communicate to our senses, our intelligence, our brain, our mind?
What should it communicate to us as students, as learned men, as leaders? That the Qur'an is all about
breaking dictators and destroying the mighty who want to impose their will on mankind. And you should
start with your little self, brother Imam, standing over the people. Repent and Allah will love you more
and increase you in all that is valuable and beneficial for your life now and in the future.
Index 10-5-2007
References:
1. Bukhari 8.246; Adam built on 60 cubits
Abu Huraira reported that the Prophet said, "Allah created Adam in His picture, sixty cubits (about 30
meters) in height. When He created him, He said (to him), 'Go and greet that group of angels sitting there,
and listen what they will say in reply to you, for that will be your greeting and the greeting of your
offspring.' Adam (went and) said, 'As-Salamu alaikum (Peace be upon you).' They replied, 'As-Salamu'Alaika wa Rahmatullah (Peace and Allah's Mercy be on you).' So they increased Via Rahmatullah.' " The
Prophet added, "So whoever will enter Paradise, will be of the shape and picture of Adam. Since then the
creation of Adam's (offspring) (i.e. stature of human beings is being diminished continuously) to the
present time."
lb Al hadith 3p455#662; Friday Adam created after Asr
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Abu Lubaba bin `Abddul Mundhir reported the Prophet (pbuh) said, "Verily Friday is the master of the
days and greatest of them in the sight of Allah (swt). It is more glorious in the sight of Allah (swt) thant he
day of sacrifice and the day of fitr (Eid Fitr). It has five characteristics:
1.
2.
3.
4.
Allah (swt) created Adam on it
Allah sent down Adam towards the earth on it.
And on it Allah (swt) took Adam unto him (he died).
And on it will be (the last) hour on which the servant of
Allah (swt) will not beg of Allah (swt) anything but it
Will be granted to him unless he begs for anything
unlawful.
5. On that day will occur the Resurrection.
lc Qur'an 4.1; Reverence Allah and family
relations
"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,"
2 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 Allah."
3. Qur'an 10.19; Mankind was one community
"Mankind was but one nation but differed (later). Had it not been for a word that went forth before from
thy Lord their differences would have been settled between them."
3b. Bukhari 7.606; Jews, Christians, Muslim in heaven
Ibn Abbass reported Allah's (swt) Apostle (pbuh) said, -Nations were displayed before me; one or two
prophets would pass by along with a few followers. A prophet would pass by accompanied by nobody.
Then a big crowd of people passed in front of me and I asked, 'Who are they? Are they my followers?' It
was said, 'No. It is Moses and his followers.' It was said to me, 'Look at the horizon.' Behold! There was a
multitude of people filling the horizon. Then it was said to me, 'Look there and there about the stretching
sky!' Behold! There was a multitude filling the horizon. It was said to me, 'This is your nation out of whom
seventy thousand shall enter Paradise without reckoning.' "
3c Qur'an 11.118, G d could have made man one
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"If thy Lord had so willed He could have made mankind one People: but they will not cease to dispute."
4 . Q u r ' a n 5 2 . 4 8 ; You are in our eyes
Now await in patience the command of thy Lord: for
verily thou art in our eyes: and celebrate the praises of
thy Lord the while thou standest forth.
10-5-2007 Friday Asr Ramadan Session
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.
Imam Warith Deen Mohammed
Before I begin the presentation to begin the sessions for today I want you to be aware that whenever I am
scheduled for a program like this, whether it is the convention, Labor Day weekend, that we start also on
Jumah Day. The Jumah delivery is also the session. So what you received today as a khutbah and also the
selections from the Qur'an for the salat, you should get a copy of all of that. All of that should be in the
recording and the transcription. So next year when you get the transcription for this year that should be in
there and you should see it as a continuation. You should see it as the session is starting with the Jumah
delivery and it is continued.
But I had a few things I wanted to bring to your attention that is very good news to me and I know it is
very good news to most of the believers. Imam Darnel Karim was a student in the same class and taught by
the same professor I was taught by, Professor Jamil Diab, who passed recently as an old man. He was our
professor and teacher, and an excellent teacher. Two students stood out. They were my youngest brother,
Akbar, who is Dr. Akbar now, a professor teaching in the State University of New York, Binghamton in
upstate New York and Imam Darnel Karim. Akbar was just excellent in speaking and writing Arabic.
Darnel Karim was an excellent all around student, too, but he stood out for his voice and recitation of Qur'an.
And I am very proud of him and what he has accepted to do now. He is doing a very excellent job. He is
making a recording of the Qur'an, juza, section by section and I think he is about to soon finish maybe five
or six sections. Already he is up to four sections. Pretty soon there will be five or six complete sections
and I told him as soon as they are complete and ready for distribution he should start distributing them.
And believe me, they are not only going to sell among us, they are going to sell outside of us.
There are many beautiful Muslims in the international world of Muslims who have their eyes on us and
they are looking at us with happy eyes and anticipating our growth, that we are going to g row more and
more in Al Islam and going to have a beautiful model community in the United States of America. They
have strong faith in that. They did not just start. They have been watching us over the years and they will
be happy and proud to buy and share the recitation of Qur'an by our Bilal, Imam Daniel Karim. Praise be
to Allah.
Bilal, may Allah be pleased with him, there is a lot in Bilal that you do not know. Only a few of you
know. Bilal is a prophetic picture and I do not mean a prophet. Prophetic picture does not mean,
necessarily, a prophet, but it means a picture out of prophecy. He is a picture that we can find in Bible
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prophecy and writings. That is what I mean by prophetic figure. He is a prophetic picture or prophetic
figure. He is not just there by accident as the Muadhan for Prophet Muhammed. We will talk about that at
another time on sonic other occasion.
We are very proud of Imam Daniel Karim's work and he has a partner with him, Imam Vernon Fareed
from Norfolk, Virginia and I complement them both. They are doing an excellent job. Also, since I am
doing this I'm trying to get these out of the way because once I start the session we are not going to
interrupt the sessions with anything other than what is the material I have for the session.
The blind man can see now. We all are blind while seeing at the same time, but we are blind.
If you can take a note here, those who think they can benefit from this as your teacher. I hope that is how
you accept me. I believe you can benefit from this, but I have not contacted them so I'm going to give
you this information. You contact them for yourself and you decide yourself after you contacted them to
see what they say and what they have, whether it is worth your time and money.
Live Qur'an tutor on line.
So you can actually be tutored on line in the Qur'an. It says two weeks free trial for live tutoring. The
phone number is: 1 (443) 282-1168.
The E-mail is www.Qur'anreading.com.
They also have another E-mail Info@Queanreading.com,
So if you just want to call them for information, maybe you want to contact them at the second one. I
have one other help that I think would be good for you, but I took it upon myself to go and order some of
the publications and they will be coming to me soon. If I am impressed as I am with the information on
the publication then I'm going to make it available to you either through the Journal, or by direct radio
broadcast or something, or both. I definitely believe I will be doing it through the Journal, but we may
also put it on the broadcast at the end.
This is also help, an Arabic dictionary to help you with your study of the Arabic language. It seems good,
especially to give you good help with the Qur'an, learning to read the Qur'an in Arabic.
Do you feel tired? Those who feel tired and want a break right now raise your hand. Okay, you don't
want a break. You are like me. You just want a break from hellfire. That is all. We are going to go up to
break fast time, is that okay? We are fasting. We are strong.
I have to tell you this. Like many of you out here, I am sure, in the audience, this is a time when
everybody has some sickness. There is hardly anyone free of some kind of sickness. The food and
pollution everywhere just keeps people with some illness. I have type II diabetes and the doctor strongly
recommended that I cat very often. I have to eat small meals every two or three hours. I am not to go past
four hours without putting something in my stomach and it is working. Believe me it's working well. I'm
doing real well as you can see. I looked at this guy in the mirror and turned my head right away. I said,
"You will make me vain. I don't want to see you."
Our Prophet's model for all human beings
In the Salatul Jumah we mentioned our Prophet's model and we said his model is for all humanity. If I did
not put it that way you should write it now.'' His model is for more than those people who are called the
people of the Book or for the following of Muhainmed, the Muslims. And Allah puts it in the best way
and that is where I'm coming from; that you will definitely find in Muhammed an most excellent model
for any person who believes in GA and the last day.
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confused state. Do they not look at the sky above them, how we have made and adorned it and there are
no flaws in it?" 8
How are we to see this reading? Why is it brought to the prophet's attention and through him to the
attention of mankind or humanity? How has G_d ordered the skies above us? The first thing we should
know is that revelation or scripture is on-going. It is continuous. So whatever is said here has some
reference to what G_d said before about the sky.
How to read the Qur'an
What I'm doing is showing you how to read the Qur'an, how to read scripture, especially Qur'an. So
don't just read this about the sky and keep reading and don't have any thoughts of where this is coming
from. Where is it coming from? It is coming from the G_d, Who revealed the Bible. Someone will say,
"Oh no, Allah did not reveal the Bible." I know your problem. I'm going to excuse you. I'm not even
going to comment on your problem. I'm just going to continue what I'm saying.
The Qur'an is a continuation for helping us understand what G_d revealed to th e Jews and the Christians,
the Torah and the Gospel, or Injeel. If this is talking about the sky, we don't go out there and just look at
the sky and think that is what it is talking about. It is not the sky that the weather man checks. It is the
sky that the Prophet checks and the ones who have been blessed with understanding of G d's word. They
have been blessed by G_d with understanding of His word. It is talking about the sky that they check.
Sky symbolically is in the head of the leaders of our world
So where is the sky, brother? It is in the head of the leaders of our world. And it is said plainly in the
Qur'an. We don't have time to just get everything from there for this occasion, but it is plainly said in the
Qur'an. But I'm just going to give you one. Allah says in the Qur'an, hell has seven doors. 9 Is that not
right? And heaven has seven." Seven up and seven down. Now let us count. One mouth goes up from
that one; two, right nostril, three left nostril; four, right ear; five, left ear; six, right e ye; seven, left eye. If
a person is in hell it is because some bad influences came in through one or more of those doors. And if
anybody is in heaven it is because the angels of G_d were watching over those doors; because there was a
special human in that body, one that Gd loved. And He gave that person His mercy and assigned an
angel to stand at every door. Praise be to Allah.
Man fell because he thought he was an angel,
a divine being
Fallen star is a sign of our fall because of man's
mis-perceived self perfection
Continuing with Qur'an, "How we have made it and adorned it." Adorned it with what? Beautiful lights.
Aren't the stars beautiful lights up there above us? You don't have to even go to Texas to see that it is
beautiful. And in Texas you have a wide beautiful sky. The land is so big and the prairies are so wide that
you can see those stars up there and it looks like you can just almost throw a rock and hit one. They look
that close; or you can shoot and maybe touch one with a bullet or a missile or something. And it is like a
piece of black cloth bedecked with jewels and they are just sparkling all over it. That is why the translator
sees that. He registers the beauty of the clear sky at night with all of the lig hts shining and he used the
English word, "adorned". And I'm sure the Arabic word is even more rich in describing it; adorned it and
there are no flaws in it.
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Some may say, "Yes, there are some flaws. Stars fall." They fall because they got out of the system. That
is why they fall. Something happened to make them lose their place in the system and they fall as a sign
to us, that no matter how perfect we think we are sometimes we fall. And we really believe that in order
to serve the Lord, GA, Who created everything, man, he had to fall. He ascended and he thought he was
an angel, or he thought he was a perfect being. He thought he was a divine or god-like creature. He
thought that and he had to fall; and he fell. "b And a man, a prophet of GA, by the name of Abraham,
Ibraheem, in the Qur'an, knew the place of the falling.mc So, he went there where he knew the star fell.
The star is nothing but a metaphor, a symbol, a sign of our fall from perfection that we perceive, back
down here with everybody else. You can set yourself up as angel, or as divine, but pretty soon, or later,
we are going to find you burning out falling from heaven and burning out; And when you cool we can do
something for you and do something with you.
A house for all mankind, even the wild man in the jungle
So our father, Abraham, peace be on him, he found and took that stone and he placed it in the corner of
the house that was going to be a house for all mankind. It was going to be equally the home of a white
man as it is for a black man, for a Jew; as it is for a Christian or a Muslim, a Hindu, a wild man in the
jungle or whatever. It is going to be the home for everybody who was ever in human creation.
And everybody at birth is in human creation. I don't care if he is born in the wilds. When he comes from
his mother he is in human creation. There are not tigers coming out when the delivery is there. That baby
is ready to go into any civilization. Though born in the wilds, the jungle, he is ready to come up in any
civilization. You could bring that child right straight from that wild society and wild mother straight to
my house and I raise him in my house, he will come up just like my sons and daughters. GA presents
them right into man's world. That is why the Prophet said, "Everyone is born a Muslim until
circumstances makes them otherwise, 11
Prayer: Qiyam a man stands in his dignity, power
Sunnah: Symbolizes that you have to take
responsibility for self, family, and the nation
We are talking about life form and prayer. So when you are standing up in Qiyaam, your own pride in
your own self interest, in your own picture of your superiority over somebody else, you are standing up in
your sky. And you have to come down from there. You come down from Eqaamah, step 1. You go to
Ruku, step 2. You go to sajdah, step 3. You sit up and realize that you have made three wrong steps. You
realize that you have been struck out at the plate and what do you do? You say, "Allah pardon me, grant
me mercy." But you say it in the plural, "Allah pardon us and grant us mercy." You speak for all people,
because you know you did not do that wrong by yourself. Now isn't this beautiful?
Allah says in the Qur'an, "Your death and resurrection is as the death and resurrection of a single soul."
111) And the prayer, or salat worship service, especially the Jumah but every time we pray the five daily
prayers, it is communicating this to us. And when the Prophet required all of his followers to also do
sunnah prayers that means you have to pray by yourself, without an Imam. What is he saying? The
Prophet is saying your death and resurrection is as the death and resurrection of a single person, or of a
single soul.
And Allah says, "Yaa ayyuhal ladheena amanu quit anfusahum wa ahlekum naara," translated, "Oh
believers, save your own selves and your families from the hell fire.'2 Allah authorized the individual
person in Al Islam, following the way of Muhammed, the Prophet, to take upon himself or herself
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(because the sisters do sunnah, are obligated to do sunnah just like we arc), the responsibility for the
downfall of the family and for the downfall of the nation. You are going through exercises. You are
going through training that is given to you by the highest Boss in existence. And He can train you to save
yourself, your family, and even the nation and the whole world, the global community.
Then what did the Prophet teach us? He said that Friday is the best day of the year and it was the day
Adam was created on. It is the day that you also die on and no one is resurrected except on that day. 11 13bThis
is the month of Ramadan and there are scriptures that were revealed before the Qur'an. And in one
passage it says, "Unless the hearts of the children be turned to the father and the father's heart be turned
to them, the earth will be smote with a cursed."14 Well, look at America's cultural scene right now. Isn't
the earth smote with a curse? Yes.
This is the time of Noah's flood, repeated
Don't we influence the cultures of the whole globe. We are so powerful with out media and with our
means of communication, and with our influence as a culture. We are so powerful we are influencing the
cultural life of people all over the world and they are falling down all over the globe to corruption. You
don't know but this is the time of Noah's flood, repeated. It is here again. This is the time of, Sodom and
Gomorrah, again. All of the big pictures of tragedy for the whole of the known world at that time and in
those places are happening right now in the United States of America.
But mind you, the city of Jonah, Nineveh, was so terrible at one time G_d told the prophet, "Go tell these
people that they only have so much time to get it right. I'm going to destroy this whole place". And he
was so disgusted with what was happening there he went and got on a commercial ship and ended up
sleeping down in the hull of the ship, resting against the cargo, resting on the money. 15' 16 And he finally
gets in trouble and calls on G_d. And G_d is merciful if you turn to Him with your whole soul, or your
whole heart. He is going to deliver him no matter how bad a thing he did.
So G_d delivered him and when G_d delivered him he finds out that the city that was supposed to be
destroyed is not destroyed. In fact, it is striving now, doing better than it was before. Now he's got a
problem with the communication that G_d gave him, thinking, "Why did You communicate to me and
embarrass me like this? I went and told those people they were going to be destroyed. Why did You
embarrass me like this?" "You slept too long on the cargo. You don't know what happened after you went
to sleep. The people started repenting in bigger numbers and I told you, you sleeping fool, that if you just
found one there who was good I would not destroy the city".
The Qur'an refers to it as Nafsen wahidah. If you just find one there I will not destroy the city.17 Now the
picture that automatically comes to the eye is of one physical person. That is not what G_d means. If you
find the original person that I created in that town, if you find some people still holding on to the original
pattern of Adam, I am not going to destroy them, because I created that pattern. That is My man. I'm not
going to destroy My own works.
Ugly America is destroyed
We look at America. The Honorable Elijah Mohammed said America is going to be destroyed. It already
was destroyed. The ugly America that he worked against all his life is gone. The truth destroyed it.
Righteousness destroyed it. Good efforts by blacks, whites, and Jews and others destroyed it. G_d was
with their efforts and it was destroyed. Some will say, "It is still there." Where, Jonah? Tell me. "Oh
look at the crime, the drugs, and the bad morals". Well, why don't you get busy on that problem. The
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government has done all it can do. It can't legislate behavior for each and every one of you. You have to
answer Allah's call, "Save your own soul and the family from hellfire". 18 That is a job for us that is not a
job for the government.
Moral corruption to be corrected by religious leaders
not the government
Interfaith Groups have similar responsibility to
maintain the world
When you look at the nasty behavior of our citizens out there, that is not job for the government. The
government does not legislate morals. For the citizens of this country down through history going back to
the beginning of this country's concept or idea of government, never was there any legislation of moral
behavior. It depended upon religious people serving G_d to address the moral behavior of the citizens.
The citizens are people who are supposed to be believing in G_d. So it is an obligation of the leaders who
say they believer in G_d to deal with this moral corruption spread so wide in our country. Even those high
up in the corporate world, who go to prison for ethical violations of what is ethical, or violations of what
is law or moral decency, the law will punish them. But if we see that the real problem was that they just
fell to the influences of moral corruption in this culture, then that is not only a problem for government.
Government can only go so far and say you broke this law and it can't deal with anything but laws you
violated. But we can deal with the form you violated. You came out of the form of the original Adam who
G_d put in the garden. You let the serpent of culture seduce you to come out of your original form. So it
is an obligation of the religious leaders, Muslim, Jew, Christian, and even those with the same moral idea
and appreciation of human values who are not even in these religions. The Buddhist has decency. He has
a knowledge of his original form. And a Buddhist is given training to go in the direction of the ascent of
his nature so that he comes to illumination; to become a bright and enlightened person with righteousness
shining and also intellect shining.
Turn the hearts of children return to the father means return to your fitraa, your original human
design, Adam
So the people of the Book and the Muslims are not the only ones with this belief. And I repeat, the
children have to return to their father. The Christians and the dumb preachers make the mistake of
thinking this means return to Allah. No, return to your father. Allah is not your father. He is your
Creator. That is what He says in the Qur'an of the Prophet, "I'm not the father of any of your
men." When I want one I get one from those I already created".' So that saying in the Bible. The
children's hearts have to turn to their father means that you have to do what the Qur'an, Al Islam,
Muhammed's sunnah, designed for us. You have to return to your Fitraa, to your original human design,
who is Adam. That concept is called Adam in scripture. And when your hearts return to that, the natural
person that Allah created, you have turned to your father.
Islam says return to fitraa, the original human design. When the heart returns, you turn to the father. Then
it says the father has to turn to you, right? Well if you turn to that in the correct way, that itself, will
reward you. Do you see what I am saying? Qd has already created us with our salvation built into our
very natural form and if we have the innocence to follow G_d's guidance and get back to it, once we are
back to it, it will reward and will start increasing our value; and soon there will be a new creation on the
scene of this nasty world. That is what we are doing right now.
Allah is speaking to you through Elijah's son
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The Honorable Elijah Mohammed initiated us going back to our father, didn't he? He said you are the
original man and you are Muslim, right? And he said, "What is my own self? My own self is a righteous
Muslim". Allah says of Adam who fell, don't follow the seducer who seduced your parents in the garden
to come out of their original dress, the dress of righteousness." It is all perfectly clear.
Now look at the sky and see how it is adorned. Can't you sec how it is adorned with such beautiful lights?
Now look at and see it, again. Do you find any flaws?" You don't find any flaws. Ameen. Allahu Akbar.
Can I tell you the plain truth? Would you go crazy? Allah is speaking to you right now through Elijah's
son and I am no prophet, no angel. I'm Wallace D. Mohammed. The Prophet said the sign of the end of
the world will be that the poor people will be competing with the rich people in the building of
skyscrapers. 22 Isn't this a tall house we are building right now? We are putting together a tall structure
right now and I think we can compete with the rich, can't we? Not just the rich in money but the rich also
in knowledge. Now please don't repeat what 1 told you about Allah speaking to Elijah's son. You don't
want to repeat that.
Imam Mohammed by vision took the oath under the tree
I've been under the tree where the followers of Prophet Muhammed took an oath. They placed their hand
on his hand and they kept placing their hand on each other's hand and all their hands were supported by
his hand." His hand was the first to take the oath upon and they were told by G_d that the hand of
Allah's is above the last hand. So Allah also verified that oath was approved by Him, that his followers
took, "Baith", the Arabic term for oath, under that tree. Well, by a vision Allah brought me under that tree
and I have taken my oath. Don't get spooky. By vision Allah showed me his followers under the tree and
1 joined them in putting my hand there. And that will be reflected in my leadership from Ramadan, now
forever, en sha Allah, G_d is my protector.
Continuing Chapter 78: Verse 7, "The earth we have spread it out and set thereon mountains standing
firm and produced therein every kind of beautiful growth in pairs." The mountain is mentioned after the
sky. Some mountains are so high if the higher regions up there are cloudy the mountain is going above
even the clouds. And if you look at the way the sky appears, it looks as if it is a dome. And it appears that
the walls come down and touch the earth and man in his structuring, designs buildings, especially castles,
high places for government leaders, offices and whatever like we have in the white house in Washington
(where you have the oval room and the capitol building) with a big dome. Then you find the religious
people, not government, they had these big domes on their churches, places of worship, long before
government. Some of us think the dome of the mosque is given by the Muslims. No, the Christians had
the dome even before the Muslims. The Muslims got rich and found out they had enough money to build
domes, too, and they started and they fell like Lucifer. Scripture says, "Oh Lucifer, that bright star of the
morning, why have you fallen?"' In another place in the Qur'an Allah says, "If He had not placed
mountains in the earth it would have become shaky and would have given way. 25
Now that you know where the sky is, G_d has created man to have strong leaders rise up among them
who are fin-n, almost immovable, unshakeable, like a mountain. And Allah let us know that these
mountains are not a mystery. He said He placed them like pegs. You know what a peg is? You have to
put a peg in the ground. You put a peg deep enough and it will hold. The peg can be ten feet in diameter
if you have something powerful enough to drive it down into the ground, and they do. Modern industry has
something powerful enough to drive a ten foot diameter peg into the ground and even bigger if they have
to. So it is telling you this thing is not permanent. That is what Allah is saying, "The mountain I'm
talking about is not permanent. Not even those mountain you are looking at of mine are permanent either.
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If you check the geography and have an archeologist inform you, they will tell you there is a little hill
over there, a wide, raised place. It used to be a high mountain. So when the righteous in the scripture say
one day Qd is going to level the mountains, you think you will have a big bull dozer; an earth mover or
something is going to come and push all these mountains down and make the earth just one level plain.
That is crazy. You might need an earth mover. But you are not going to move anything except a big
headed man who can't accept truth and reality and yield to the pressure of nature and G d on us to
conform to the best for the human population. And the higher you go the colder it gets.
Moses gave a demonstration of that in the Bible. Those people had hot heads and just kept arguing with
him and each other. So he raised up a sign in the wilderness and the medical world has taken it and
adopted it as a sign from them. And he said, "You hot heads have to cool off. Go up to higher regions.
Your interest is too low. Your interest is in nothing but material things, so go up". The higher the
mountain goes up the less is its diameter in material mass. It does not start with a small base and spread
out like a palm tree. It starts with a broad base and gets narrower, like the an ancient pyramid that is on
your money.
Dollar's light at top of a pyramid symbolic of the
leader taking little and giving much to the society
You look on your money, where is the light? Is it at the base or is it up there at the top? Is the eye at the
base or is it up there in the small part? When you accept to live on a little bit and give much to the many
the light is going to come on for your society; not just for you, but for your society that you are over, or
your congregation, or you community that you are over. When your mass that you want in your control
becomes small and when it goes from you to others, it gets bigger and bigger. Feed the many and take
your share only. That is the message of that sign. And the light will come on and the eyes will be opened
to work in the light.
Mountain is only temporary
Mountains standing firm. When you are constituted wrongly or constituted upon moral and ethical
weakness, or corruption of moral life, no matter how tall the mountain is, no matter how big the mountain
is, it is temporary. It is going to go fast. Conditions are going to bring it down fast. You think it is
permanent. It is not permanent.
The same verse continuing: "And the earth we have spread it out and set thereon mountains standing firm
and produce therein every kind of beautiful growth in pairs." When the mountain is not in accord with
Gcl's plan or design and it is top heavy the earth is cheated of its intended production and beauty that
Allah's will wants for it. So you will have a mountain and the land all around is a desert, barren, cheated.
Allah has given us sites like this on the globe; not that the people are like that. But Allah has created the
earth so that it gives us sites like that, so that His creation communicates to man's world, his plans and his
behavior, his doings, his commands, etc. And those who have an innocence worthy of G_d's mercy look at
the mountain standing in the garden. It might be a child for that society and he starts thinking on how the
people are suffering and the man over them, high above them like the top of a mountain; got all he wants
and all of his relatives and his friends are just enjoying, doing as they please; enjoying whatever they
want. But even sometimes down the slopes of the mountain it is all barren and there is nothing at the top
but snow and ice, nothing growing on the slopes. At the top is snow and ice. That is what Mr. Fard called
the ice house.
Black-eyed pea is symbolic of a mind limited to race
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color
Many of them did not even enjoy them because their mind was too small. Their brain was too much like a
black-eyed pea. If you get a black eye it means some damage has come here. The blow came to close to
the eye or came to the eye. Right? It is not Muhammad Ali. He did not throw that punch. You hit
yourself with your ignorant controls. You blackened your own eye. Mr. Fard said don't eat black-eyed
peas. I'm eating black-eyed peas. I love them. They taste good. Someone may say, "He's bragging that
he does not follow the Nation of Islam's teacher." Yes, I do follow the Nation of Islam's teacher. It is to
lead me beyond a black-eyed pea that you buy in a grocery store and see the black-eyed pea in the mind
of the black man where his brain has turned out to be nothing but a little black-eyed pea. All his mind is
black and white, the black man and the white man. He is nothing but a black-eyed pea in the brain and it
hurts his vision. He has had a terrible blow. Now Mr. Fard did not tell you the extent of that black eye we
have. It is so bad it is like we got hit first by Sonny Listen, then by Joe Frazier, then by Muhammad Ali,
and the members of the Nation of Islam.
Everything is created in pairs. When this was revealed do you think they had botany, zoology? The
followers of the Prophet in one century established universities that became beacons. We should take off
like that. The history of the fall of the Muslims leaders should show us that we should see that we have a
good beginning. We were not bosses in our beginning. The bosses in the time of Prophet Muhammed
didn't join him because he wasn't a boss.
Mr. Fard told us to not eat black-eyed peas, meaning in the mind of the black man the brain is nothing
but a pea. He sees only a black man and a white man. That hurts his vision. It is like getting hit by
Sonny Liston, Joe Frazier and Muhammed Ali, he hit us, too. The black eye has closed up the eye and
the blood is all congealed, clotted. It is going to take a long time before sight can come back. The
congealed blood is going to have to be dissolved. The eye is going to have to gradually heal. It is
going to have to gradually go into the system and the blackness or the bruise goes away. That is the
extent of our black eye.
Baal and Donkey is symbolic of the soul riding a man
who renders himself as a pack animal
It's just like that donkey that saw the angel with a flaming sword and decided he was not going to carry
foolishness on his back anymore and he said, "Baal why did you struck me these three times?" 27 Now
we think Baal was a person that had gotten on the back of an animal. No, the animal was a person who
had lost his original person and was being treated like an animal because he had rendered himself in that
form, as a pack animal or an animal to be used. So his own soul was riding him. Baal is his own soul. But
when he saw the angel standing in the way with a flaming sword, then he started questioning his own
soul that was riding him saying, "Why did you strike me out at the plate? I want to go home."
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So Allah revealed to Muhammed, the Prophet, the best of the human creation, in the Qur'an, to tell the
believers, "Oh you who believe save yourself and your families from the fire." " And He is addressing
us as, "Nafscn Wahidah", one soul. " He is addressing our humanity when He says, "Oh you who believe
save yourself and families from the fire."
Let us now give our attention to this expression, "Beautiful growth in pairs." I have already begun. I said
that modern science has now made it available to any student who wants to go and learn science; that
everything in the material existence is existing as a duality, dual; existing in two's, as two, not one. In
matter, material things, you have electrons and protons. In flowers you have male and female and in
animals, including human beings, flesh, male and female. Right? And industry respects that. So when
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industry builds something, i.e., a house, and uses electricity, they will speak of male and female plugs.
And it just does not go for the adapter or the plug that you put into the receptor, only. But that language
continues throughout the language of science and industry.
You should think about this. How are you going to really know your Muslim worth as a believer in
Allah's word, the Qur'an, and as followers of His messenger, the mercy to all the wnrlds?
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going to really know your value? If you don't know your value how can you have your life? Are you
listening? The great philosophers of ancient times going back to Africa even before, during and after the
Pharaohs, Ethiopia, Africa and going to Greece, the learned teachers, what did they say was the most
precious orientation in the mind or the intellect? The orientation to find yourself. And the famous words
of the philosopher says what? Know thyself. That was not the Nation of Islam. That saying was o ld
enough that if it could breathe, it would put mold all over your house. That is how old it is. Know thyself.
Adam was created right, perfect as innocent as a new
born baby
And what did the Honorable Elijah Mohammed teach us? Know your own self. And what did his teacher
say? Your own self is a righteous Muslim, Your own self is Adam, the man who was created right,
perfect, as innocent as a new born baby; not spoiled, not changed; still in the mold or pattern that G_d put
it in. That is what he is saying. And didn't the Honorable Elijah Mohammed say that you are a baby
nation? It did not originate with the Nation of Islam.
Qur'an to awaken the mentally dead
There is another strong hint that many of us couldn't think about intellectually or academically. You are a
baby nation. Some would say, "That means we were growing and we didn't have the material and didn't
have everything yet. We were just growing, starting from infancy". No, it is not about the material scene.
It is about the rational scene. The leader came to free us mentally, not materially. I'm using his own
language. The mentally dead. He did not say the materially dead. He said he came to free, deliver or to
wake up the mentally dead. And that is what the Qur'an is for, to wake up the mentally dead. To wake up
Adam in us. The Western culture has an expression that says, "Up and at them," and a long time ago
when they took pride in going to work they used that expression. It means let's get up out of that bed and
go to work.
America's culture now is paradise lost
And both Bible and Qur'an give us a picture of Adam as the one who developed this earth. How do you
know this? I know you feel it and see it. In Genesis Adam comes and G_d charges him with developing
the garden. He gave him the responsibility to take care of the garden. That means the natural world before
man influenced it. And most of the lovers of nature their love is for the original beauty of the earth.
Industry, that is their love. It is like a paradise picture for them. The culture in America now is a picture
of paradise for them, but paradise beginning and when you look at the culture in America right n ow you
look at paradise lost. You who have done a little reading in literature you know where I'm coining from.
You know where the language is coming from.
Shuraa is he conducting it
Africa notorious for having dictators
Agricultural preceded industry
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Continuing with the verse, "He created every kind of produce therein, every king of beautiful growth in
pairs." I get one strong meaning here, firstly, because it has been talking about those who want to stand
higher than everybody else. They want to be over the heads of everybody else, the sky, the mountain, etc.
Then it says every beautiful growth in pairs. Now the one who want to be over everybody is he
conducting affairs upon shuraa? Most of them, you find they are dictators and Africa is notorious for
having dictators. Everywhere you find them struggling to come into the industrial age. Most likely they
have been tolerating dictators. Am I right or wrong? So where is the beautiful growth? They cannot
have it because their interest is too small though they are over everybody. They have great body, great
mass, great might because they control the masses. They are powerful and strong but they have no
condition to bring their country to flourish with beautiful agricultural growth and industry.
Do you know agriculture preceded industry for many, many, centuries, maybe thousand's of years? And
when industry started, it started on the foundation or the back of agricultural growth, didn't it? Even
factories have to use the gifts of agriculture when they run the factories. I know it because I worked in a
factory. They learn how to use water in manufacturing, capturing especially material things. The practice
was already in the agricultural world for thousands of years. They would cut stones and other hard things
and found out if they had water running at the same time on the instrument it would not wear out too
soon. It helped the instrument, kept it sharp enough to keep cutting. So you go to the factories even now
you'll find machinery and they have to have liquid running on it. Right? If they don't it will burn up or
break. That is one example I'm giving you.
The word for beauty is a very strong and pleasant word in the Arabic language. The philosophers they
saw into this and wrote beautiful philosophy and poetry because they were inspired by these beautiful
concepts and pictures that G_d put into the revelation He gave Muhamrned, the Prophet. Can't you see
how some of those men back there were motivated and got strong enough to go on the battle front with
inferior weapons and say to those who outnumbered them sometimes many times over, a big army. I
remember they shouted at the army that was gathered in from of them. "We love death more than you
love life, Allahu Akbar." And then they charged right into them. It took the fight out of them when they
said that. Maybe a few of them held on to their "To the death courage." But most of them were defeated
when they heard that, saying, "These people love death more than we love life. Let's get the hell out of
here. We are dealing with something we don't know anything about." Someone may say, "He said hell in
Ramadan." There goes that black-eyed pea. We love you all but we are not going to let black-eyed peas
stop us from going where we have to go.
It says, "Beautiful growth in pairs." The word for pairs is explained here beautifully. There is no need for
me to go further with it. But the last expression is, "To every servant turning to Allah." We need some
elaboration here. The word in Arabic is "Muneed" and it does not say turning to Allah. It describes a
person who has determination for G_d, a determined will for G_d, but also has a tender heart for
humanity. So when you are a person like that you are with Allah's will. So that is why he translated it
like that. it does give the idea of a person who has been coming by gradual steps closer and closer to what
Allah wants for that person.
Snake shed skin is culture with little benefit
Reptile shows no hair, sign of cold cultures
Now we go to another verse," And We send down from the sky Rain charged with blessing and We
produce therewith Gardens and Grain for harvest.
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worshiped the god they called the rain god. So here are people who had over generations, over the
centuries, many generations, come to appreciate the rain that comes down for their needs from the sky so
much that they fashioned or formed a god. And they put the god in the image of a reptile. Why a reptile?
Because a reptile shows no cultural growth. The skin appears to be bare. When he sheds he sheds skin,
not hair. It is not like your big dog that you feed more than you feed two children, who is all hairy and
furry and stuff. He gets hot in the summer and he sheds that hair. But when he sheds hair there is still hair
on him. He just got rid of some of the hair so he wouldn't be so hot, so tortured in the heat. But the snake
has no hair to shed. So he sheds a skin as a sign. He didn't design himself. The Creator of everything
designed him as a sign that there are cultures that give you little or nothing. Cold natured cultures, they
give you little or nothing. And they shed their skin and it means they leave a sign that they are still
around. When the snake leaves his skin there it looks like a snake is still there. So he puts his form's
imprint in your mind and on your culture so it is still there and he is gone somewhere else. He is doing his
work somewhere else. He's going to do his work there and when the season is over he's going to leave
another pattern back there for them to follow. We are talking about today and yesterday. There is a lot to
say about that but I know you want me to keep moving and I'm going to keep moving.
The Qur'an says "We send down from the sky rain charged with blessing"" When rain comes to a barren
land man might be fearing he's going to lose everything and the rain comes just in time to save his crops.
Now you know how grateful he is to the heavens. Here he is about to be put out of business and look how
drought has almost put the whole of the Africans out of business. Drought and human corruption put
Africa out of business. It is pitiful. I have a book. I started to bring it with me. A high school teacher who
dealt with problems in Los Angeles in the schools, is still living and he puts out a book called, "The Black
Curse." I got a copy of it. I did not know about the book but I told you some time ago "We are under a
curse and we have to repent." This professor wrote a kind of recent book, I'm sure it came after my
bringing this to your attention. I was looking at our people and it was registering on me as a curse on our
people, their behavior and what's going on.
Do you know our leaders you might say, "He shouldn't talk about blacks. This is Ramadan." Well how
did you start your fast at Fajr time? Weren't you supposed to see the black of day and the white line of
night running parallel?" That is all I'm trying to do, to get it to run parallel in your mind. Don't tell me I'm
not in Ramadan. I'm in Ramadan 12 months out of the year and the Lord blesses me every ninth
Ramadan month. As David said, "He anointed my head with oil and my cup runneth over. 33 means He
gives me more than I could use. That is what it meant. David was saying He is so generous, He gives me
more wisdom than I have use for. I don't know where to put all of this wisdom. I don't know what to do
with it. What does Allah say in the Qur'an? We do dhikr 33, 33,33, 100, AlIahu Akbar. But Allah says
that He is different from us. He gives without counting. " And what is the scripture that came before the
Qur'an all about? Counting. How many was in the city by number and how many here.
How many fell from heaven and all of that. And they have a whole chapter called, numbers. So Allah
comes to us through the angel, .Tabril and Muhammed, the perfect, tells us "Your G_d gives without
counting". He's telling us that is the way we should give. If somebody comes to you poor, you should
follow your heart. Don't be a fool because we have teachings for every fool and wise man. The prophet
said pbuh don't extend your arm of charity out to its full extent and don't hold it to your neck. Don't just
care about feeding your own self and don't give up all so that you become a dependent on society like that
poor person you are tying to help. " That is the teachings of our Prophet.
Prophet more than an Arab Allah's second creation
was human
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Our prophet, do you hear what I'm saying? He is no Arab. He is our prophet. He is only an Arab because
of where he was born in some geographic location. But, Allah took that good, innocent Arab and then He
taught him Himself and breathed into him of His own spirit and will and created another man, "Khalqan
akhara. 35 Do you think Muhammed after revelation was the same man before revelation? If he was, why
does G_d say of him in the Qur'an, "We found you straying and guided you?" 36 You were an innocent
person but you were straying. And Allah says, "The Beneficent, the Merciful G_d taught Qur'an to His
servant, Muhammed, firstly, and created the human person.36 Created the man with the humanity that
G_d wants to be in all of us. Then Gd says, "It is G_d Who teaches you." 38 In Arabic the word "Kum"
means all of you.
Allah is punishing immoral black and the church is not
alarmed
In the Qur'an Allah says, " It is Allah Who teaches you." Well, if I'm giving you the Qur'an and
especially giving you understanding correctly and I told you what can happen and what has happened to
Elijah's son, I don't want to repeat it. But I told you didn't? Well, see the proof I bring you from the
Qur'an? If you doubt you know you ought to get the worst punishment? See Allah punishing our people?
Their public life is just shameful, nasty, disgusting, downgraded and the church is not helping them. It is
not even alarmed by it. I mean the church as a whole. If there is any alarm their numbers are probably
smaller than ours in this big Christian population. And the press and media are not paying any attention to
them because they don't think they should give credit to the church for addressing the issue; because
there is not enough of the church involved in addressing the issue of our people's downgraded,
deteriorating life.
Now at that time when this was revealed they did not know that in the rain drops is not only water but
also substance of material nature, nitrates, fertilizer, coining down with the rain to help the growth down
here. Science had to discover that long after, hundreds of years, after it was revealed in the Qur'an. So
blessings are in the rain drops for your needs. Allah says, "Sec how He provides for you your needs from
both the skies and the earth? 3s And Allah says again you men of science, knowledge, "Can't you
observe that the heavens, skies and the earth were once a whole before it was separated?" 40 Separated
where? In the mind of man. He made the sky spiritual and the earth, the material, when the same system
of logic runs continuously through both the skies and the earth. Actually what is the earth to another
object in the heavens millions of light years from our earth? Tell me where would our earth be? In the
sky; to an object far away our earth is in the sky. That is why Allah revealed to Muhammed , "See how all
these bodies are moving as though swimming without any apparent structures holding them up?"' Isn't
it beautiful?
Allah is telling us, "I did not make this creation to speak to you of your sciences. I made this creation to
hold for you your sciences. But 1 made it as a script to read to your life, your history, your wrong doings
and your right doings and your final consequences on this planet earth that I made"." I think it was Lena
Horn who said, "The sky above is a black board." Nothing but a black board with a message on it, that is
Gd's creation.
Isn't that what Christ said? Unless you bear fruit, unless you be productive that is what it means. " Now I
have brought the good rain, the pure water. I brought it to you and I'm raining it on your dry grounds, on
your desert. But you have to appreciate this water. And later on down the road you might discover that it
also had some material substance in it to aid the growth, nitrates.
If you don't harvest in time you still lose your crop, don't you? So we have many of you who are my
students. You write down. You try to get all you can get from me and you take it and put it in your
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collections and you make it first among the reading materials. I know you do. You put nothing above it
but Allah and His messenger. I know that and that is what you have to do, because that is what I have to
have you do, or I will be burned in the hellfire. I know you treasure it. You take it in and put it with your
collection. You don't lose the harvest. Praise be to Allah.
Imams must get knowledge before they start teaching
People like palm tree hugging itself while growing up
And what is produced, also, other than these things that are used up quick like garden vegetables? It also
produces tall and stately palm trees, with shoots of fruit stalks piled one over another; like you love it so
much you are just hugging it over and over again while you are growing up. Looks like the tree is
hugging itself, doesn't it? It is just thankful to G_d for what is growing inside. And notice here is the sign
from G_d. The tree goes up straight and if it is a date tree or an olive then it spreads out. It does not
spread out too close to the ground because if it does its gifts won't go as far. So it goes way up then it
starts branching out. It is going to give you the fruit of a cleaner atmosphere and it's going to give you
fruits of a higher graduation. That means it's more knowledge. It went up higher for more knowledge.
The lower the grade the smaller the knowledge. So it went up high like the mountain and it branched out,
But it would not branch out down here like that. The date palm tree has more fruit in comparison than the
apple tree or any other tree. Up there in that little space it just has big clusters of fruit. And the flavor is
more intense than the apple. The sugar is more, the sweetness is more. I'm about to get up out of this seat
and shout. My body does not want to stay in this seat. I'm going to get up. I had to get up.
There is a sign to tell the leaders of this world, especially we brother Imams, grow for a while before you
start teaching people. Don't be so quick to think you got it all and you're going to start giving people
information in your infancy, instruction for adulthood and manhood and you are in your infancy. You are
not Jesus Christ, You don't talk in the cradle. " You cry, moan and groan in the cradle, laugh and make
trouble. Get out of that cradle first. Go on up like that palm tree and when you get way up there where the
air is cleaner and the weather is a little cooler, you went to a zone in your mind. You traveled by mind
power and went to a zone a little cooler, to a little higher region, all right? And you waited until you had
graduated quite a bit before you spoke and then you spoke. And you spoke delicious fruit, praise be to
Allah; tall stately palm trees with shoots of fruit stalks piled one over another.
These are not two descriptions of the date palm, though. The date palm is a little different. Like you trim
trees, they cut it so they will grow up to get more growth; the more strain on them the less they can go
upwards. So they cut and trim them so they can go up high. And isn't it this way for the growth of our
intellect? Paul said it, what he knew as a child he could not use it anymore." He threw it away so he
could speak as a man. When they are cutting off the wrapping and leaving the stem it is the tree, not the
trunk. That is when you cut it but it is what grows up as the post.
Bark of the tree has no information
I have another picture now I want to share with you. A lot of trees especially in the North, they are
covered with bark and in the Bible I read, that is why I'm sharing it with you, that they are dumb dogs
that can only bark. " Now the average preacher in these churches they don't know that it is talking about
the tree of knowledge and they are dumb dogs that can only bark. Now the bark is not really a part of the
continuous growth of the tree. It is something growing on the outside of the tree. And it is giving
protection. It is covering the tree to protect the real life that is growing upwards. But the bark can't teach
you anything. You take the bark off and research it, it teaches you nothing. But you cut the tree and it
gives you its age. It shows you how old it is. Every year there is another ring.
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So you can cut the tree and get its history. But you take the bark off you get nothing but something to put
on fire wood. It helps the fire wood, but on the tree it helps protect the tree from insects and whatever.
Isn't that how these small preachers are? They can do nothing but keep bugs like black, bad behaving
people, off of the industry of the establishment; bark on the outside of the growth of the establishment.
Resurrection is like growth for society
The Qur'an says, "As substance for Allah's servants and we give new life therewith to land that is dead,
thus will be the resurrection. " So how can we miss this? Allah is not telling Muhammed to whisper to us
or keep secrets. If you want to know what the resurrection is going to be like He tell you. It is going to be
like growth for a society who plants, invests in the ground, in the earth. They invest in their land and trust
G_d to bless it from heaven. Don't just think of the weather, now, like I did Labor Day weekend. And
like those who were with me, they supported me with their hearts and their spirit and with their monies.
They supported me and the rain did not come. I asked two months some of you go and consult the
Farmer's Almanac and tell me what are they saying about this weekend. I was told that they were saying
that they expected rain.
Allah wants us to think community
So we arc coming to the conclusion now. So we should understand, this is just one reference to the
resurrection, showing that a parable or picture of it is a town that is dead, not culturally developed, not
industrially developed and things happen to favor its birth and its development.''' So don't think of our
individual life and souls that is taken care of by G_d, don't worry about that. That is very selfish to think
about your own self going to heaven and forget about all the other people out here. Allah wants us to
think community. And He raised us to be a community, not selfish islands of individual interest.
En sha Allah, after Iftar and salat, we will all be free; not free as persons in this bad society of ours, but
free in the mold that G d created for us. We can go farther than New York and Chicago, Los Angeles and
places like that. We can go as far as space will allow. We can go to the ends of the galaxy and beyond if
we stay in the form of our father, Adam, that G_d made for all of his children. That is the freedom I'm
talking about, the freedom to travel in the original form. Keep it intact, please.
Hud chapter 11 comes from the word guidance
So we will start, en sha Allah, the session in the morning reading from the Surat' Hud. I don't know
where you are in your reading. Some of you might be near there. That chapter Hud comes from the word
guidance. So, en sha Allah, we will start in that chapter tomorrow with commentary and blessing in the
month of Ramadan, charity from our Lord, Who created the heavens and the earth, and the sunnah of our
prophet, Muhammed.
We have some time to relax and get ready for Iftar. I'm not going to leave. I'll be here for Iftar with you.
If you do not have anything I'm going to be parched mouth, too. But I hope they have something. I
believe they have. I know my office has done everything it could to have some nice dates for us and
water. Look back there. Look at the gathering, isn't that a beautiful sight? Is that forecast coming true? I
said the Ramadan Sessions will eventually overtake the convention in crowds and next Ramadan the
convention is going to be in Ramadan. We are not going to break Ramadan. We're going to put the
convention right in Ramadan.
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Footnotes:
1. 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 Allah."
2. Qur'an 58.12; Give charity before consulting the
Prophet
"0 ye who believe! W hen ye consult the Apostle in
private spend something in charity before your private
consultation. That will be best for you and most
conducive to purity (of conduct). But if ye find not (the
wherewithal) Allah is Oft-Forgiving Most Merciful."
3. Qur'an 81.28-29; There is no willing but Allah
28. (With profit) to whoever among you wills to go
straight.
29. But ye shall not will Except as Allah wills The
Cherisher of the Worlds.
4. Al hadith2p633#377w; Marriage is half of religion
"Anas reported the Prophet said, "When a man has married he has fulfilled half of religion. Then let
him fear Allah for the remaining half."
5. Qur'an 37.11; Man's creation not bigger than the
universe
"Just ask their opinion: are they the more difficult to create or the (other) beings We have created?
Them have We created out of a sticky clay!
6. Qur'an 114. 1-6; Seek Allah
1. Say: I seek refuge with the Lord and Cherisher of
Mankind
2. The King (or Ruler) of Mankind
3. The Allah (or Judge) of Mankind
4. From the mischief of the Whisperer (of Evil) who
withdraws (after his whisper)
5. From the mischief of the Whisperer (of Evil) who
withdraws (after his whisper)
6. From the mischief of the Whisperer (of Evil) who
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withdraws (after his whisper)
7.
Qur'an 95.4; Man created in the excellent form
4. We have indeed created man in the best of molds.
5. Then do We abase him (to be) the lowest of the low.
8. Qur'an 50.5-11; Earth to be observed by every
devotee
5. But they deny the truth when it comes to them: So
They are in a confused state.
6
- Do they not look at the sky above them? How We
Have made it and adorned it and there are no flaws in
it?
7. And the earth--We have spread it out and set thereon
mountains standing firm and produced therein every
kind of beautiful growth (in pairs)
8. To be observed and commemorated by every
Devotee turning (to Allah).
9. And We send down from the sky Rain charged with
blessing and We produce therewith Gardens and
Grain for harvests;
10. And tall (and stately) palm-trees with shoots of fruitstalks piled one over another
11. As sustenance for (Allah's) Servants; and We give
(new) life therewith to land that is dead: Thus will be
the Resurrection.
9. Qur'an
15.43-44; Hell has seven gates
43. And verily Hell is the promised abode for them all!
44. To it are seven Gates: for each of those Gates is
(special) class (of sinners assigned).
10. Qur'an 71.15; Allah created seven heavens above
"'See ye not how Allah has created the seven heavens one above another
10b
Qur'an 2.36; Get you down
36. "Then did sastan make them slip from the garden
And get them out of the state of felicity in which
They had been. We said: Get you down all with
enmity between yourselves on earth will be you
dwelling place and your means of livelihood for a
time."
10c Qur'an 6.75-79;
Abraham rational searched for Ci d
75. So also did We show Abraham the power and the
Laws of the heavens and the earth that he might
understanding) have certitude.
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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 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."
11. Buktiari 2.440; Every child born a Muslim
Abu Hurairah narrated the Prophet said: "Every child is born with a true faith (nature) but it is his
parents the convert him to Judaism or Christianity or Magainism. As an animal delivers a perfect baby
animal, do you find it mutilated?
12. Qur'an 66.6; Angels flinch not
"Oh ye who believe] save yourselves and your families from a Fire whose fuel is Men and Stones over which are
(appointed) angels stern (and) severe who flinch not (from executing) the Commands they receive from Allah but do
(precisely) what they are commanded."
13. Bukhari 8.246; Adam built on 60 cubits
Abu Huraira reported that the Prophet said, "Allah created Adam in His picture, sixty cubits (about 30
meters) in height. When He created him, He said (to him), `Go and greet that group of angels sitting there,
and listen what they will say in reply to you, for that will be your greeting and the greeting of your
offspring.' Adam (went and) said, 'As-Salamu alaikum (Peace be upon you).' They replied, 'As-Salamu'Alaika W2 Rahmatullah (Peace and Allah's Mercy be on you).' So they increased 'Wa Rahmatullah.' " The
Prophet added, "So whoever will enter Paradise, will be of the shape and picture of Adam. Since then the
creation of Adam's (offspring) (i.e. stature of human beings is being diminished continuously) to the
present time."
13b Al hadith 3p455#662; Friday Adam was created
after Asr prayer time
Abu Lubaba bin `Abddul Mundhir reported the Prophet (pbuh) said, "V erily Friday is the master of the
days and greatest of them in the sight of Allah (swt). It is more glorious in the sight of Allah (swt) thant he
day of sacrifice and the day of fitr (l=id Fitr). It has five characteristics:
1. Allah (swt) created Adam on it
2. Allah sent down Adam towards the earth on it.
3. And on it Allah (swt) took Adam unto him (he died).
4. And on it will be (the last) hour on which the servant of
Allah (swt) will not beg of Allah (swt) anything but it
Will be granted to him unless he begs for anything
unlawful.
5. On that day will occur the Resurrection.
14 Malachi 4.6; Turn hearts of father to children
"And he shall turn the heart of the fathers to the children, and the heart of the children to their fathers,
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lest I come and smite the earth with a curse. "
15. Qur'an 21.87-88; Jonah cry pray repent I wronged myself
87. And remember Zun-nun when he departed in wrath:
he imagined that We had no power over him! But he
cried through the depths of darkness ''There is no
god but Thou: Glory to Thee: I was indeed wrongl'
88. So W e listened to him: and delivered him from
distress: and thus do We deliver those who have faith.
16. Jonah 1.3; Nineveh left city went fled to Tarish
But Jonah rose up to flee unto Tarshish from the presence of the Lord, and went down to Joppa; and
he found a ship going to Tarshish: so he paid the fare thereof, and went down into it, to go with them unto
Tarshish from the presence of the Lord.
17. Qur'an 4.1; Reverence Allah and family relations
"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."
18. Qur'an 66.6; Save your own selves
"0 ye who believe! save yourselves and your families from a Fire whose fuel is Men and Stones over
which are (appointed) angels stern (and) severe who flinch not (from executing) the Commands they
receive from Allah but do (precisely) what they are commanded."
19. Qur'an 33.40; Mohammed is the seal of the Prophets
"Whammed is not the father of any of your men but (he is) the Apostle of Allah and the Seal of the
Prophets: and Allah has full knowledge of all things."
20. Qur'an 39.4; Allah choose a servant from what He created
"Had Allah wished to take to Himself a son He could have chosen whom He pleased out of those whom
He doth create: but Glory be to Him! (He is above such things.) He is Allah the One the Irresistible."
21. Qur'an7.27; satan caused your parents 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. "
22. Bukhari 1.47; Poor will compete with their masters
One day while the Prophet was sitting in the company of some people, (The angel) Gabriel came and
asked, "What is faith?" Allah's Apostle replied, 'Faith is to believe in Allah, His angels, (the) meeting with
Him, His Apostles, and to believe in Resurrection." Then he further asked, "What is Islam?" Allah's
Apostle replied, "To worship Allah Alone and none else, to offer prayers perfectly to pay the compulsory
charity (Zakat) and to observe fasts during the month of Ramadan." Then he further asked, "What is
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lhsan (perfection)?" Allah's Apostle replied, "To worship Allah as if you see Him, and if you cannot
achieve this state of devotion then you must consider that He is looking at you." Then he further asked,
"When will the Hour be established?" Allah's Apostle replied, "The answerer has no better knowledge
than the questioner. But I will inform you about its portents.
1.
When a slave (lady) gives birth to her master.
2.
When the shepherds of black camels start boasting and competing with others in the construction
of higher buildings. And the Hour is one of five things which nobody knows except Allah.
23. Qur'an 48.10; Allah's hand over their hand at the oath
Verily those who plight their fealty to thee do no less
than plight their fealty to Allah: the Hand of Allah is over
their hands: Then anyone who violates His oath does so
to the harm of his own soul and anyone who fulfills what
he has covenanted with Allah Allah will soon grant him a
great Reward.
24. Isaiah 14.12 ; Lucifer how has thou fallen?
How art thou fallen from heaven, 0 Lucifer, son of the morning! how art thou cut down to the ground,
which didst weaken the nations!
25. Qur'an 16.15; Mountains placed to prevent shaking
And He has set up on the earth mountains standing firm lest it should shake with you; and rivers and
roads; that ye may guide yourselves."
26. Numbers 21.8-9; Moses raised a serpent on a pole
And the Lord said unto Moses, Make thee a fiery serpent, and set it upon a pole: and it shall come to
pass, that every one that is bitten, when he looketh upon it, shall live. [9] And Moses made a serpent of
brass, and put it upon a pole, and it came to pass, that if a serpent had bitten any man, when he beheld
the serpent of brass, he lived.
27. Qur'an 62.5 Donkey carry books
The similitude of those who were charged with the (obligations of the) Mosaic Law but who
subsequently failed in those (obligations) is that of a donkey which carries huge tomes (but understands
them not). Evil is the similitude of people who falsify the Signs of Allah: and Allah guides not people who
do wrong.
28.
Numbers 22.23; Baal's donkey saw flaming sword
And the ass saw the angel of the Lord standing in the way, and his sword drawn in his hand: and the
ass turned aside out of the way, and went into the field: and Balaam smote the ass, to turn her into the
way.
29. Qur'an 78.8; We made you in pairs
30. Genesis 215; Adam told 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.
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31. Qur'an 50.9; We sent rain charged with blessings
And We send down from the sky Rain charged with
blessing and We produce therewith Gardens and
Grain for harvests;
33. Psalm 23.5; Anointed my head with oil cup runs over
" Thou preparest a table before me in the presence of mine enemies: thou anointest my head with oil;
my cup runneth over."
34. 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."
35 Qur'an 17,29; Charity practice no extremes regarding it
36.
Qur'an 23.14; Man created from sperm
"Then We made the sperm into a clot of congealed blood; then of that clot We made a (foetus) lump;
then We made out of that lump bones and clothed the bones with flesh; then We developed out of it
another creature: so blessed be Allah the Best to create!"
37. Qur'an 93.6-8; He found you wandering
6. Did He not find thee an orphan and give thee
shelter (and care)?
7. And He found thee wandering and He gave
thee guidance.
8. And He found thee in need and made thee
independent.
38. Qur'an 55.1-4; Allah taught Qur'an created man
Gave clear speech
1. (Allah) Most Gracious!
2. It is He W ho has taught the Qur'an.
3. He has created m a n :
4. He has taught him speech (and Intelligence)"
39. Qur'an 2.282; Allah teaches you
"And it is Allah Who teaches you. And Allah is well acquainted with all things."
40. Qur'an 34.24; Allah feeds from above and below
Say: "Who gives you sustenance from the heavens and the earth?" Say: "It is Allah and certain it is that
either we or ye are on right guidance or in manifest error!"
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41. Qur'an 21.30; Sky and earth were one life began in water
Do not the Unbelievers see that the heavens and the earth were joined t (as one unit of Creation) before
We clove them asunder? We made from water every living thing. Will they not then believe?
42. Qur'an 21.33; Planets swim (Bow) in their orbits
43. Qur'an 45.3-4; There are signs in the earth and yourselves
3.Verily in the heavens and the earth are Signs for those
who believe.
4. And in the creation of yourselves and the fact that
animals are scattered (through the earth) are Signs for
those of assured Faith.
44. John 15.2; Branch bear no fruit he takes away
"Every branch in me that beareth not fruit he taketh away: and every branch that beareth fruit, he
purgeth it, that it may bring forth more fruit."
45. Bukhari 1.58, Believers like palm tree
Allah's Apostle said, "Amongst the trees, there is a tree, the leaves of which do not fall and is like a
Muslim. Tell me the name of that tree." Everybody started thinking about the trees of the desert areas.
And I thought of the date-palm tree but felt shy to answer the others then asked, "What is that tree, 0
Allah's Apostle ?" He replied, "It is the date-palm tree."
45b Qur'an 50.10; Tall stately palm tree
And tall (and stately) palm-trees with shoots of fruit-stalks piled one over another
46. Qur'an 19.29-30; Jesus cradle spoke
"But she pointed to the babe. They said: "How can we talk to one who is a child in the cradle?" He
said: "I am indeed a servant of Allah (swt): He hath given me revelation and made me a prophet;"
47. 1 Cor. 13.11; When I was a child I spoke as
"When I was a child, I spake as a child, I understood as a child, I thought as a child: but when I
became a man, I put away childish things."
48. Isaiah 56.10-11; Dumb dogs bark
" His watchmen are blind: they are all ignorant, they are all dumb dogs, they cannot bark; sleeping,
lying down, loving to slumber. [11] Yea, they are greedy dogs which can never have enough, and they are
shepherds that cannot understand: they all look to their own way, every one for his gain, from his
quarter.
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49. Qur'an 50.11; Sustenance for Allah's servants
As sustenance for (Allah's) Servants; and We
the Resurrection.
give (new) fife therewith to land that is dead: Thus will be
50. Qur'an 2.260; Abraham the dead are raise, train 4 birds
Behold! Abraham said: "My Lord! show me how thou givest life to the dead. He said: "Dost thou not then
believe?" He said: "Yea! but to satisfy my own understanding." He said: "Take four birds; tame them to
turn to thee; put a portion of them on every hill and call to them; they will come to thee (flying) with speed.
Then know that Allah is Exalted in Power Wise."
a- I
Abraham knew the place of the fallen star 6;
Adam
a- Adam built on 60 cubits 1;
a- dress satan seduced Adam out of is righteousness 9;
a- Friday Adam created after Asr 1;
a- Man fell because he thought he was an angel, divine 4;
a- was created right, perfect as innocent as a new born
baby 11;
Africa notorious for having dictators 12;
Agricultural preceded industry 12;
Allah
a- Can't count the blessing of Allah 7;
a- created seven heavens above 4;
a- Allah's hand was over their hand when
they swore their oath 5;
a- He taught Qur'an and created humanity 7;
America
a- Moral corruption to be corrected by religious leaders
not the government 8;
a- culture now is paradise lost 12;
a- Ugly America is destroyed 8;
Anointed my head with oil eup runs over 7;
Arab Prophet more than an Arab Allah's second
creation was human 14;
Ayat In the sky, earth, your self are signs 8;
b-1
Baal and Donkey Is symbolic of the soul riding a man who
render himself as a pack animal 11;
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Bark
b- Dumb dogs bark 15;
11- of the tree has no information 15;
Believer Save yourself and your families 4;
Bible Western problem is incorrect reading of the Bible 3;
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Black
b- Allah is punishing immoral black and the church is
not alarmed 14;
b- eyed pea is symbolic of a mind limited to race color 10;
Blessings Can't count the blessing of Allah 7;
Business Agricultural preceded industry 12;
c-1
Child When I was a child I spoke as 15;
Children
c- Turn the hearts of children return to the father means
return to your Fitraa, your original human design 5, 7, 8;
Cradle Jesus spoke in cradle 8;
Creation
c- Man's creation bigger not than the earth 3;
Culture
c- America culture now is paradise lost 12;
c- Snake shed skin is culture with little benefit 7;
d- I
David Anointed my head with oil cup runs over 7;
Death and resurrection as single sou] 4;
Devil Lucifer how has thou fallen? 9;
Dog Dumb dogs bark 16;
Dollar light top of pyramid give much to the masses
understanding comes 10;
Dome started with Christians not Muslims 9;
Donkey Baal and the donkey 6;
Door Seven doors to heaven or hell 6;
Baal and Donkey Is symbolic of the soul riding a man
who render himself as a pack animal
Double portion 3;
Dress satan seduced Adam out of is righteousness 9;
Dua Prayer in the world is dua. Salat is not limited to dua. 3;
e-1
Earth
e- We feed you from both skies and earth 8;
e- Man's creation bigger not than the earth 3;
e- Sky and earth were one 8;
Education He taught Qur'an and created humanity 7;
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Elijah Muhammed
e- Ugly America is destroyed 8;
e- start turning our hearts to the father saying you are the
original man 9;
Eqaamah, Ruku, Sajdah to correct three wrongs 7;
Eye Dollar light top of pyramid give much to the
masses understanding comes 5;
f-1
Family
f- Turn hearts of father to children 5;
f- Save yourself and your families 4;
Father
f- Turn the hearts of children return to the father means
return to your Fitraa, your original human design 5, 7, 8;
Feed We feed you from both skies and earth 8;
Freedom You are a free man in this city 2;
Friday Adam created after Asr ;
Fruit Branch bear no fruit he takes away 8;
g1
Get you down man thought he was an angle or divine 6;
-
Gomorrah
g- Noah's flood, Sodom and Gomorrah are repeated
in the united States 7;
Government
g- Leaders must get knowledge before they start
teaching 15;
h-1
Hand Allah's hand was over their hand when they
swore their oath 5;
Heart
h- Turn the hearts of children return to the father means
return to your Fitraa, your original human design 5, 7,
8;
Heaven
h- Allah created seven heavens above 6;
h- Seven doors to heaven or hell 6;
h- Sky is in the head of the leaders of our world 6;
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Hell
h- has seven gates 4;
h- Seven doors to heaven or hell 7;
Homosexual
h- from Misreading of scripture 3;
h- Noah's flood, Sodom and Gomorrah are repeated in
the united States 7;
Hud chapter 11 comes from the word guidance 16;
Imam
I - must get knowledge before they start teaching 15;
I - Sky is in the head of the leaders of our world 4;
Interfaith groups have similar responsibility to maintain
the world 8;
Industry Agricultural preceded industry 12;
Islam
i- Islamic Worship is conforming to the will of G_d 3;
i- Marriage is half of religion 3;
j-1
Jesus
j- Branch bear no fruit he takes away 8;
j- Jesus spoke in cradle 8;
Jonah
j- departed Nineveh in wrath 5;
j- Nineveh left city went fled to Tarish 5;
k-1
11
-
Leaders must get knowledge before they start teaching 15;
Lucifer how has thou fallen? 9;
Leader Sky is in the head of the leaders of our world 4;
m-1
Man
m fell because he thought he was an angel, divine 4;
m - He taught Qur'an and created humanity 7;
m - Man's creation bigger not than the earth 3;
m - Will of man is a poor reflection of Allah's will 3;
Marriage is half of religion 3;
Matter Man's creation bigger not than the earth 3;
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Model Muhammed is excellent model 1;
Moral corruption to be corrected by religious leaders
not the government 8;
Moses raised a serpent on a pole 10;
Mountain
m - firm constituted wrongly is only temporary 5;
m - Mountains placed to prevent shaking 9;
Muslim
m - Everybody born Muslim even in the wild 4;
m Muslim like palm tree 15;
n-1
Noah's flood, Sodom and Gomorrah are repeated in the
united States 7;
Nation of Islam
n Black-eyed pea is symbolic of a mind limited to race
color 10;
n - Ugly America is destroyed 8;
o-1
Oath Allah's hand was over their hand when they
swore their oath 5;
Oil Anointed my head with oil cup runs over 7;
p-1
Pair We made you in pairs 11;
Palm
p- People like palm trees hugging itself while growing
up 15;
p- High in clean atmosphere then gives fruits 15;
p Muslim like palm tree 15;
-
Prayer
p- You realized you made three wrong steps 4;
p- Prayer in the world is dua. Salat is not limited to dua.
3;
p- Egaamah, Ruku, Sajdah to correct three wrongs 7;
Preacher some like dumb dogs barking 15;
Prophet
p- Allah's hand was over their hand when they swore
their oath 5;
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p- Found you straying but innocent 7;
Sky
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p- Prophet more than an Arab Allah's second creation was
human 14;
Pyramid
p- Dollar light top of pyramid give much to the masses
understanding comes 10;
q-1
Qur'an
q- He taught Qur'an and created humanity 7;
q- is about breaking dictators 2;
q- Qur'an to awaken the mentally dead 6;
q- Tutor on line 2;
r-1
Race, racism
r- government can't legislate morality 8;
r- Moral corruption to be corrected by religious leaders
not the government 8;
Rain we sent rain charged with blessings 7;
Ramadan session will eventually out grow the convention crowds 16;
Religion
r- Interfaith groups have similar responsibility to
maintain the world 8;
r- Islamic Worship is conforming to the will of G_d 3;
r- Leaders must get knowledge before they start teaching
15;
r- Marriage is half of religion 3;
Reptile god chosen because it shows no cultural growth 13;
Ruku
r- Eqaamah, Ruku, Sajdah to correct three wrongs 7;
s-1
Sa'dah
s- Eqaamah, Ruku, Sajdah to correct three wrongs 7;
satan Lucifer how has thou fallen? 9;
Seven
s- Allah created seven heavens above 6;
s- Hell has seven gates 6;
Shuraa is he conducting it 12;
Sign In the sky, earth, your self are signs 8;
Skin Snake shed skin is culture with little benefit 7;
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s- Sky and earth were one 8;
s- is in the head of the leaders of our world 4;
Sodom Noah's flood, Sodom and Gomorrah are
repeated in the united States 7;
Soul Death and resurrection as single soul 4;
Serpent
s- Moses raised a serpent on a pole 10;
s- shed skin is culture with little benefit 7;
Snake
s- Moses raised a serpent on a pole 10;
s- shed skin is culture with little benefit 7;
Star
s- Abraham knew the place of the fallen star 6;
s- fallen Is a sign of our fall from the mis-perceived
of our perfection that we 6;
Straying Found you straying but innocent 7;
t-1
Tree
t- Bark of the tree has no information 15;
t Muslim like palm tree 15;
t- People like palm trees hugging itself while growing
up 15;
-
u-I
Man's creation bigger not than the earth 3;
v-1
w-1
W D Mohammed
W- by vision took the oath under the tree 9;
Will
w- of man is a poor reflection of Allah's will
w. None wills except as God Wills 3;
x-1
Y1
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10-6-2007 Ramadan Saturday Session
Homewood, Ill
With Allah's name, the Merciful Benefactor, The Merciful Redeemer. 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, the seal of the Prophets mentioned in the Bible as it is given in the Qur'an.
Imam Warith Deen Mohammed
Morning Session
Ramadan is always a month that brings special blessings to us. We get special blessings in the month of
Ramadan for out intentions even if we are unable to, because of health or some other condition, to fast the
month. If our spirit and heart is with it then we discipline ourselves as much as we can in the month of
Ramadan and Allah rewards us for that. So every month of Ramadan I have never experienced a time tha t
I was not made aware that I was receiving special blessings from Allah.
Allah revealed in His Book, the Qur'an and I quote, "Allah wants not that you be burdened but that you
be purified." Let me make a comment on this session before we continue. We have persons with us in
this gathering here today and yesterday, also, who have not been attending sessions like you have as my
students. And they arc not from our history or our experiences in America, especially our experience as
followers of the Honorable Elijah Mohammed, our late leader, may G_d forgive him his sins and give
him paradise. So for them it is not expected that they will be moving smoothly with us as I present the
material that I have for today. And yesterday it was the same for those who are not in our history and
orientation and familiar as students of my sessions and my leadership.
Believers Gd will take the fear off of us as a burden
Allah's will is above ours, the fearful mortals, man, us, in our mortal life form. Man's order of rule or
government is fated to one day come down to meet the common person's needs on earth that justice may
be for all. This is the process that has been going on since civilization started. And we have made a lot of
progress on this earth but it is not finished. There is still much to be done that G _d's justice for man in
society may be realized for all of us.
Allah's will is always above the will of fearful mortals. We fear for our flesh life. We fear for our life in
the flesh. And when we are put in situations where we are fearing for our very existence, we are going to
be killed or we are going to die, Allah allows more than He allows under normal conditions. For example,
Allah says that if you are forced by fear of starving to death, starvation, you can even eat pork, the
forbidden. 2 But you can't eat it with a desire to eat it. You have to cat it hating it. But eat it just so you
won't die and eat just enough to survive until you can get some food. So see how Allah is a merciful, kind
G(.1. We are cruel to ourselves. Allah is kind and merciful always to us.
I repeat Allah's will is always above the will of fearful mortals. The Qur'an it says, "On them will be
neither a burden of fear nor a burden of grieve. 3 G_d will take the fear off of us as a burden (when we're
involved in something difficult) Allah takes it off of us as a burden and will take grief away from us as a
burden. It does not mean that there won't be occasions for us to fear something but it will be a temporary
thing. It will be a passing thing that just passes away quickly. As soon as we remember our G_d fear will
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go away and we accept His will no matter what it is. So on them will be neither a burden
of fear nor a burden of grief. .
There are some loose ends from yesterday so recalling them I'm giving a summary here to finish up the
first session before beginning the second session now.
Man's destiny sas created while he was yet in his
mother's womb
I have some itemized steps. First, is man's earthen form, not earthly, earthen; man's earthen form for his
beginning on earth and man's created form for the global life challenge, G_d is the Fore Knower, as I
heard one minister say under the Honorable Elijah Mohammed's leadership once. He was preaching and
he had my attention. I was a boy and he said, "Allah is the Fore Knower." That means He knows what is
coming before it happens; Allah as the One Who knows the beginning and the end of everything and the
one Who makes every thing exists and determines its conclusion. He created man's form for global life
challenges. Man's global destiny is inherent, inscribed upon man's natural life at the conception of that
life, while we are in our mothers. This should not be difficult for those who are familiar with Qur'an.
You should not have to stretch your imagination. Allah says that He gives us our form while we are in the
bellies or the stomachs of our mothers. 4
Founding fathers had the Bible and Qur'an
And Allah says He inscribed upon everything dignity or honor. Now if this language reminds you of the
language of our founding fathers for this nation it is not by co-incidence. Our founding fathers at least two
or three of our presidents in the beginning of this American history are recorded to have had in their
possession the Qur'an. This point is made to say that in this present time that we arc living in portions of
the Qur'an for man's guidance here now and hereafter arc more relevant today than at any other time in the
history of civilizations. Why is that? It is because the conclusion that the guidance directs us for is here
now. It never was here before as it is today.
Never before did continents, islands, nooks and crevices of human populations all come together with
awareness of each other; never before in the history of mankind. This is a young place here that we are on
right now. This land, North and South America, called the New World, it is young in the history of
civilization. The discovery is young in the history. And before the Europeans came here the inhabitants
here might have had some contact before with people outside but there was no communication lines
established. So this is called the discovery.
The Qur'an points us to a time that is called the day when everything will be concluded. All of our
doubts and suspicions, all of our aspirations, etc., will be concluded. It is when man will have a situation
to be in touch with man all over the planet earth; a one world system of communication. We have it now.
So now if we propagate the religion the whole world can get it if we are free to propagate it. Never did
that happen before. So you want to know when the judgment is coming? It is here. You want to know
when the Day of Religion is. It is now. You want to know when the great standing is? It is now. The
great meeting is now. Someone may say, "No, that is after the earth and everything is destroyed." Well,
it already has been destroyed and it has appeared again. Do you think the physical world is going to be
destroyed? G_d made the physical world, why would He destroy this physical world that He made? For
what? The world is not sinning, we are sinning on it. I'm the son of Elijah Mohammed reborn.
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So now let us turn to another focus here. We know the spirit is something that we cannot know
completely, Allah says of the spirit man knows very little, the Holy Spirit. 5 The Ruh. G_d didn't say man
does not know anything of the spirit, He says he knows little. And this is talking about the average man.
G_d is referring to the common man, not to His messengers. He revealed to His messengers much about
the spirit and especially His last servant and Messenger, Muhammed.
So we are turning our thoughts now to the Holy Spirit or Ar Ruh, the Spirit. Allah says of the spirit that
He has given to everything something of His Spirit. He did not say just to mankind. 5b
And also let us focus now on our Qiblah. Our Qiblah is designated by the house built by our prophet
Abraham and his son. And it is a sign to all humanity or all mankind. Allah says of that house that he
built it for all mankind or for all people. Of the house He says in Arabic, "Bayte wudeya len naas," it was
constructed or built for all the people. 6
At one time in situation our Prophet Muhammed instructed Bilal his muaddhan to go up on top of the
Kabah. You did not know that our Prophet had a black man, an African stand on top of our house that is
built for all mankind. He had him stand on top of the house and the people to pray and make adhan, may
G_d be pleased with Bilal, the companion of our Prophet.
Let us turn our focus to something else that the Prophet never had. You go in nice, big beautiful masjids
especially overseas, Turkey has some of the finest and grandest masjids, i.e., the blue Mosque. And we
have two of our brothers from Turkey present with us right here today. They are American citizens but
their native land is Turkey. A great history is there for mankind of how civilization was born and
progressed. My father he had friends from Turkey especially at the end of his mission, his work among
us. At one of the last occasions for us to meet all together at one time, the convention the Honorable
Elijah Mohammed had guests from Turkey and you know the Turkish people are white. And you know
we said the white man was the devil, right? So the Honorable Elijah Mohammed wanted to get it straight.
So at that time he pointed to his guests who were sitting behind him on the stage and he said, "This is our
brother from Turkey. He is a white man. He's a Muslim saint, a scientist in al Islam." So get rid of the
black-eyed peas, okay?
Minbar you ascend the steps like the Prophet ascended
We want to talk about the minbar, this minbar that they make. And by the way the masjid on Stony Island
has a beautiful gift of a beautiful minbar and it was shipped to us from Turkey when I became the leader;
not long after I became the leader. It was very soon after I became the leader that they shipped the minbar
to us. It came from overseas, from Turkey, a nice minbar. It has more than three steps for the Imam to
walk up. So they gave us enough steps for us to grow and progress, praise be to Allah. Forgive me, I
am a man of humor, too. You who don't know that I'm a man of humor. I can't help it.
The minbar is built for the Imam or the leader who leads the congregation in prayer to deliver his
khutbah, his speech. And it permits him or it accommodates him going up higher than the congregation
so he can see the congregation and the congregation can see him more easily; but also as a sign because
when he give prayer he does not give his own mind and his own language. He gives the Qur'an. And
when he gives his khutbah on the Jurnah he has to base his khutbah upon the Qur'an and the traditions of
our Prophet, the sunnah. So we know or maybe you don't know that Allah says that the Qur'an and
Muhammed and the light that came down with it, meaning not only the Qur'an, descended into our life
down here. But also Muhammed, himself, is the light for mankind, put in mankind for humanity, the
human light for human enlightenment; the human light in the human flesh.' The flesh did not descend
down but Muhammed, the Prophet, as the light for us in the flesh, his sunnah came down from heaven.
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Didn't he ascend up, the ascension, the vision, the ascension and the travel? And then he
had to come back down, didn't he? And Allah gave him back down to us and it was not long before the
international ummah was established in Medinah Munawarah, the city of enlightenment.
So ascending the steps of the minbar you should ascend at least three and if you just step up one that is no
crime. But if you ascend at least to the 3r d step and sit down it is better. But if the minbar has more steps
ascend as many steps as you like, as many as you feel comfortable to ascend. And the minbar that is
given to us as a gift has as I said more than three steps, at least more than twice three steps.
Human spirit seeks perfection
Let us think about our own breath. Now we know the Ruh is divine spirit. But let us think about our own
spirit. The human spirit itself seeks perfection and it means to seek to come into a condition that will
permit the human mortal, flesh to perform at its best. Now Muhammed, the Prophet, he had developed in
his mortal form to that existent before even he knew of revelation, the Holy Spirit or anything like that.
I see my brother looking at his guest he wants to get their eye, "Is he okay? Is he saying the right thing?"
That white man is powerful, isn't he, especially on a black man. I'm comfortable these brothers are just
like me, we are the same. And they know they don't know everything and I know I don't know
everything and they know they don't know as much as me about the Qur'an. I'm saying it in their face,
right before them. And they are my brothers. I love them so much and we are indebted to them a lot, the
Muslims in the world. Allahu Akbar.
Allah created the human person to ascend in his aspirations or in his soul seeking excellence so that he
pleases his Lord and so that he be in a condition to serve his Lord at his best and to get the best results in
society for Allah's pleasure. This is life. This is the good life of human beings. This is the good life of
humanity. So Muhammed, himself, thank G_d for him and we praise G_d for giving him to us. He ha d
already met that requirement before he received any communication from (3_4:1 as revelation. How do we
know that? Allah says it in the Qur'an, "Certainly we have seen or observed you," meaning G d, angels,
heaven, the saints. We have certainly observed that you are established on a mighty foundation of
character.8
The last Prophet, G_d choosing him, it has a great message in that. Choosing him, a mortal who had not
received scripture or guidance but was already in his own creation ready for G_d - , ready for Gid's
presence and ready for G_d to communicate to him the message to benefit al humanity. What is that
message? The greatest message in that for us is that we have had, down here on this earth, conditions that
led to belief that man in his own natural composition or fonn is a sinner by nature. He inherits sin from his
father who sinned in the garden and he is a sinner by nature and he cannot be advanced on this earth unless a
divine comes to him. A god has to come to him. So they say Jesus Christ, Gd, fo rgives man for this. Jesus
is god and man at one and the same time. And you know all the rest of the story that made me just throw up
my hands.
I was a boy reading this and I said how can any sane person read this and believe it or stay sane? That
was my attitude towards it as a boy. And it wasn't because my father was reading with me. He was not
reading the Bible with me. I was reading it on my own. It was because he had dispositioned me in my
soul and mind to look for sense. If things did not make sense I could not be comfortable with it. That
doesn't mean I have to understand everything with my rational mind in order to believe, no. I was never
like that. I followed my father. That should tell you a lot. And I followed him as a true follower.
So you dismiss those things that you can't deal with if your faith is strong enough in what you want to
hold on to. You don't want to deal with it. That is why you dismiss it from your mind, because you don't
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want to put your commitment in jeopardy. You were committed to the Honorable Elijah Mohammed for
the progress of the Nation of Islam. That was more important than those things that you couldn't
understand. So you put those things out of your mind if they are disturbing you and you just keep going
forward.
Isn't that the way Allah in the Qur'an wants us to be? Yes, The believers are those who believe in the
absence of proof, it says, "Amanu bil ghaib." It is a must that believers believe, "Bil ghaib." It means in
the absence of proof. You can't follow Allah, His guidance, with your small mind, expecting your mind
to be able to digest everything to your satisfaction. Much of it is too big for your capacity but your
commitment to Gd is so big and important and so strong you dispel those things that give you trouble.
You just put them out of your mind. You don't reject them because G_d has given you those things. And
those things that you can digest you work with it. And those that threaten your peace because you don't
know the answers, you put them aside. And that is the way you read the Qur'an. You read the Qur'an
with the strong commitment to not let anything jeopardize your commitment. And Allah says, "Take the
best there of. 9
There are some people in the history of mankind who didn't take the best thereof. So we will find in
reading the Qur'an there were those who were attracted to small things and not interested in the big
things. And there is one reference in the Qur'an were the prophet Moses had a lot of trouble with his
people being stubborn, argumentative and the word of Allah says, "Hall you want is pot herbs, go to any
city, any Misree, city. Go to any Egypt, literally translated. 1°
Moses had been given a mission to take the captives to freedom. They were going to a land where they
could live the religion that G_d was revealing through Moses, that He revealed before Moses, also. They
were holding up travel, the mission, tying him up with little small things. So he said if that is what you
want, the onions and garlic and some lentils, go to any city.
Why the word Misree for city? Because they were under the secret culture of the Pharaoh in Egypt, a
culture that was designed to hold the population in check, to limit their freedom so that they never come
to the fulfillment that G _d inscribed upon the human person in the conception of the human person.
Qahhar, Cairo says to Hold in check
Pharaohs some of them were excellent rulers
Arabs were not always divided
The word Qahhar, and the word Cairo says, hold in check, control, dominate by influence. So that is why
it was chosen. I don't think the history of the Pharaohs is the history of all bad rulers. The history of the
pharaohs, I studied, is of some very excellent rulers. They improved the social lif of the Egyptian people.
They progressed the social life of Egyptian people. The same is for the Arabs. They were not always
divided into tribes fighting each other. If you study their social history for their society or their history as
a people under their leaders you will find that they had leaders a few hundred years or less than that
before Prophet Muhammed who had actually led them to a sense of social life and sense of being a social
community. But they lost it.
Look how quick we lost. It is not even 150 years yet and look how the African Americans as a people
have lost our Southern moral sense and social sense. We had a social sense of how we should live with
each other and we had a moral sense of how we should live with each other. And we had more unity, and
more respect to support us progressing as a people then than we have right now today at this late hour. I
mean this is plain. We all know this is very clear to you how we have degraded as a people after being
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freed from slavery in the south and I should say in the north, too. That was the worst degree in the South
but also there was an intolerable degree of enslavement that we suffered here in the North.
Dr. Martin Luther King driven by a human spirit
We did not have a physical boss telling us to go into his field and sleep in the barn for the slave. We did
not have that degree of disrespect for our human worth and value but we also were limited in the North
even after all of us having Dr. Martin Luther King a great speaker, a great man, a man driven by a human
spirit, the same human spirit that was in Muhammed, the Prophet. It is one human spirit for all of us and it
wants excellence. Someone may think, "He's the son of the Honorable Elijah Mohammed and he's
calling Dr. King our leader?" Yes I am. Wake up.
Blacks satan's plan after slavery to bring the world
down through the former slaves
Dr. King was a great man so powerful as a moral spirit, with a moral determination and a human spirit to
do away with injustice to people, because once he breaks injustice to blacks he has broken it for all
people; because we were down the lowest. So if you free blacks in American or in the world you free all
people. And let me tell you something here. The shaytan's plan was the plan that was worked, that white
southern man did not conceive that plan. He was not educated enough. That plan was conceived by
shaytan himself. The devil conceived how to create racism, turn blacks against whites and whites against
blacks and how to enslave blacks and anticipate them one day being freed and being in a condition
spiritually and a condition mentally to be manipulated by the shaytan himself and eventually become the
influence to bring all people down.
And who's spirit is the shaytan using to reach the whole cultural world and bring mankind down? He's
using the Negro spirit. Excuse me, but I want it plain. He's using the black man's spirit. He's using the
Afro American spirit. He's using the African American spirit. Isn't that some progress there for shaytan? It
is terrible but it's true and it is real. And Allah has shown it to Elijah Muhammed's son for what? So we can
survive and prosper in spite of the works of satan, so powerful and so prevalent in the greatest country in
the world, the United States of America.
America has great progress for freedom and satan
Devil was bound then set free after a thousand years
Here is the greatest progress for human freedom or democracy and here is the progress of satan's
freedom and I can't understand how people have a religion that tells them that their first leaders were
given the keys to lock up satan and to loose him, or free him. I'
Raise your hands you preachers or whatever out there, if you are familiar with that. I see quite a few
hands. Can you tell me where this comes from? Say it loud so we can hear it. The Bible, thank you.
Getting back to the point, Allah created man in the best of molds, or He gave man the best of
construction.' By virtue of his creation man among living things is given the best construction. In
Qur'anic Arabic it is pronounced, "Fee ahsane taqweem." And you start right among people, that is what
the language tells us. Among all the people on earth, those who accepted al Islam and follow the model or
the uswa of Muhammed, the Prophet, their establishment is the best establishment on this planet earth.
They have the best of construction. They are in the most excellent mold.
Allah created us for the meeting
We know that Allah created us for the meeting, and over and over again in the Qur'an--this is the month
of Ramadan. You have read the Qur'an so this is really a great time for me to be giving you these points
because you should have already read support for what I'm giving you—Allah says He creates us in the
best of molds, the human form. So we know the meeting is the meeting of humanity or mankind for G_d.
G_d is going to be the Presider over that meeting. This is the final meeting. Now G_d told Moses, "You
can't see Me directly. You want to see Me look at the mountain. And if the mountain stays as you see it
you will see Me." 13 When Moses looked at the mountain trying to see G_d the mountain crumbled to
dust. It disappeared because Moses was not ready yet. His tongue was still tied, he could not speak. And
he prayed to G_d to untie the knott in his tongue. The tongue was tied, the brain also was knotted. 14
Someone will say, "You shouldn't say that about Moses." I'm saying that about you. I'm using Moses
but I'm saying that about you. .
So the great meeting is the meeting where G_d will be present and He will preside over that meeting
when all human beings, all mankind will stand up before their Maker. Today is that time. Well where is
Allah? He is here always but today is that time. Allah is present with us more in the Qur'an, His word
than He is in any other thing though He says wherever you are, wherever you meet two, He is the third; 15
or any number bigger or smaller He is present. He is there. So G_d, Allah, is with us. He is always
present with us.
So He does not have to come. He says in the Qur'an "When My servants ask about Me tell them I am
close by." 16 "If My servant asks about me" He told the Prophet, "Tell them I'm close by." And the
preacher when he is preaching he is hollering like G_d is way out there in the far distance of the universe.
He is just hollering and screaming. I'm not saying this to make mockery. I'm saying this to open the
mind. Don't think they just started screaming. They were screaming long before the Prophet's time. So
the revelation comes saying, "Tell them I'm close by." Don't be hollering, screaming
G_d knows how to communicate to man because this sense of respect and intelligence He put into human,
into the mortal human person. I have heard persons say, "Don't holler, don't scream, man, I'm right here
man. I hear you." So when man wakes up to his excellence, his pure human essence and knows that he
owes the credit to his G_d, he is ready to meet his Lord. Don't just think you have to die physically to be
ready to meet your Lord. If you understand Al Islam from Qur'an and Muhammed, the Prophet, hell
begins in the first life and heaven also begins in the first life and is fulfilled in the later. 17
Also we should understand that man has already fulfilled. Abraham, G_d said he fulfilled his commitment
to G d in his own life and G_d made him a father of all nations, an Imam or leader for all the people.18
Adam did not fulfill that commitment. He is just the beginning. And the Prophet has taught us that in
his ascent the first level above common man that he came to in his ascent was Adam's level. After
Adam's leve,I Christ Jesus and John's level. And after Christ Jesus and John's level the level of Yusuf
and on up to 7 levels, the level of Abraham. 20
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And when he came to each level he greeted them. To Adam he greeted my father Adam and gave him
salaam. And he greeted the second level Christ Jesus and John my brothers Jesus and John and he went to
the third and on every level he said my brother or my father. One father below and one father above.
When he got to the seventh level he greeted Prophet Abraham, the highest in ascension, he greeted and
said my father Abraham. All these are relatives, brother and fathers.
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what G_d said to him, "I in you and you in me." 22 Making it clear that he identified with all human
beings as flesh and blood mortals, not that divine. And he also said according to the Gospel as it exists
now and has existed since the beginning of the Bible I guess in print, " Peter who do you sa y I, the son of
man, am?" 23 This is the first leader, the one I mentioned earlier in this presentation. I don't think I
mentioned him by name. The person be asked is the one who is going to become the first leader after his
passing away. So he did not leave room for them to say that he was not a mortal person. And then Peter
gave his reply and he said you are GA just to make it short. But understand that is the same one that in
the present form of the Gospel, these great scholars in Islam they say, "That's the Bible brother, that is not
like the Injeel," I wish you could walk with me for a while, even sleep with me for a while and you would
wake up better, with a clearer mind to deal with these things.
Bible's language is feeding and baiting the pagans
St Basil advised leadership to use pagan language but
influence it with Christian principles.
We understand that changes have been made but we know that there is no Injeel that is going to be so
much different from the Gospel that we won't be able to say this is the same. The only thing that will be
different is that it is clearer language regarding the concept of man and G_d. But the Bible is pretty clear
itself. If the preacher would just read the Bible with a clear, innocent mind, not prejudiced by what he
was taught in the seminary or whatever, with an independent, clear and innocent mind, if he would read
the Bible as it is now he would see that the Bible is feeding and baiting the pagans and at the same time
condemning the trick that it is pulling on the pagans and giving us help to see the truth while blinding the
pagans.
Why does it have to blind the pagan? Because if the pagans had gotten the clear message of Jesus Christ
the pagans would have done everything to see that the Christian following or that f ollowing would never
be able to progress in their society. And this is history. St Basil advised the Christians in his time, the
Christian leadership, to use the language of pagans but influence that language with our principles. Those
are the words of St. Basil. We are afraid, we are fearful. A people who are afraid to have their knowledge
come out when the time is here for it to come out, they are afraid of their knowledge. And they
underestimate their knowledge. I'm talking about the Qur'an and Muhammed' s tradition. They
underestimate the power of their knowledge. So they say, "Don't mention the Bible. Don't bring the
Bible into it." How can I not mention the Bible?
He has already brought the Bible into it when He said that this Prophet of ours you will f ind him in the
Torah and in the Injeel or the Gospel. He is mentioned in both those Books, Allah directed us to go to the
Bible and what was Muhammed told to tell his people who were not people familiar with scripture? They
had not received prophets who came to them with scriptures, the first Arabs that Prophet Muhammed had
to deal with. What did Allah say to tell them? Tell them to ask the people of the Book, 24 You don't
know scripture and you are doubting me. You can't support or verify what I'm saying. Go to those people
who received scriptures before me and they will be witnesses that I'm giving you revelation from G_d.
And you know many of the Christians and some Jews became Muslims in the time of Muhammed, the
Prophet.
Allah mentioned the sincere Christians who were devoted to the study of His word how when they heard
the recital of the Qur'an it says their eyes swell up with water, tears, and the tears flowed down so
heavily that it wet their beards. This is Allah in Qur 'an.
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These are the things that have the ummah so disturbed, so confused and so off tract, the fear of engaging
Western civilization and engaging their Bible. We have learned Imams, the ummah of Muhanuned, in
centers in different places, Morocco, Egypt, even over there where all the trouble is right now Iran and
Baghdad, Iraq. We have learned saints in these places but they are so fearful of consequences they don't
help their own students or their own following, only to hold them, to hold them by influence, not by
rational guidance.
Muslim scholars are holding their people back for themselves
They won't even take you unless you worship them first. I'm talking about the guru, the saint, the sheik,
whatever you want to call them. I think most of them are not even a good milk shake. I'm really serious
and I'm not saying this to hurt anybody. They are holding their people for them and they should be
holding their people for Allah.
Allah created us for unlimited freedom of spirit and intellect
Allah frees his slaves and He says the garden that I have prepared for you is as wide as the heavens and
the earth.' In the Qur'an it says His throne used to be on the water. 27 "But now the garden that I have
prepared for you its expanse is as the expanse of the earth and the skies", meaning all the space that
exists. G_d has freed us to imagine. Don't you know with our imagination we don't want to stop
anticipating reality within the earth boundaries, or within the sun boundaries, or within the sky at night
boundaries? Our mind still wants to go beyond, wants to know what is beyond that that I'm seeing now.
So Allah created us for unlimited freedom of spirit and intellect.
A curse is on the ummah and a curse is on the black man in America
So they are holding their people for themselves, not for Allah. Shouldn't they have a punishment
coming? If you arc holding people back from the freedom Allah created them for you should have a
punishment. So when we look at the condition of the Islamic ummah we should look at it just the way we
look at the condition of the black community, now, that has betrayed its better tradition and a curse is on
us. A curse is on the ummah and a curse is on the black man in America. Allahu Akbar.
The spirit I am talking about right now that fulfilled itself or reached its destiny in Muhammed, the
prophet's mortal life, brother, let that come alive in you and you won't feel anything physical until you
are finished with the spiritual. In concluding this I just want us to do what Allah says. He says in the
heavens and in the earth are signs as well as in your own self. That means in your own human creation.
But most go along heedless paying no attention to those signs. They don't have the sense Allah created us
for. The Qur'an says they question Allah and He says why don't you question your on creation.' Most
of the people, they don't have the knowledge. They don't have the sense Allah created us for.
So let us think about some things here, small things. Allah says you question what Allah has revealed.
You question G_d. Why not question your own creation? 29 This is Allah-in the Qur'an, not me, not my
words. Isn't that what the mysterious teacher in the Nation of Islam, Mr. Fard, told us? "Your teacher
wants to hear from you at once. Ask questions and learn all about what, black power? Your self, your own
soul, your nafs. He did not leave us to wonder. It is my self, the self that the great philosopher in Greek
history identified as my self. He gave you his own definition of "nay self." He said my own self is a
righteous Muslim." Was he speaking without any base, Qur'anic base, or base from the Prophet's sunnah?
No, he was speaking with a base. The Prophet said everyone is born Muslim until circumstances make
them otherwise. We salute our Prophet, the best of human creation.
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A true Muslim in conscious as well as the mortal nature
So the original nature is Muslim and wants to be reconciled with Qd's purpose for human life. That is the
meaning of surrendering, peacefully. You want to be reconciled with G_d's purpose for human life and you want
to do it not resisting or acting ugly. You want to do it willingly and if you do it willingly you do it peacefully.
You are a true Muslim in conscience as well as the mortal nature.
Breath Light travels in straight line seratal mustaqeem
Breath and light rays travel straight and spread out. A flash light in the dark its light takes the form of a cone. You
know how an ice cream cone is shaped? The smallest end is where breath starts but it goes out like a cone and
spreads into a bigger circle. The little small circle spreads into a bigger circle. Light traveling is concentrated.
Light traveling from the source is concentrated at the source and spreads by it being projected. The more it goes
out the more it spreads. So, it starts with a little small circle at the source and as it is projected, it becomes
bigger and bigger.
Light, breath, are signs of charity as they go out, they get bigger
Now that is true of the breath and light. If you take your hand while you are talking, speaking, take your palm and
put it against your breath while you are speaking, you can feel that every time you pronounce something breath hits
your palm. Its movement is straight. Light and breath are seratal mustaqeem. Its movement is straight spirit and
light; study self, straight. G_d wants us to look at and study our own creation, our own environment, in search of
meaning that supports guidance for your life, to get to His purpose, intended for us on this planet earth. Someone
may say, "All we need is the Qur'an". I agree. In fact, all we need is Muhammed. Allah says of Muhammed he's
enough for all mankind. 30 When we are speaking, especially in our khutbah, it should be a charity and it should
come from the person to the many, to the bigger circle and that will be as charity. Your breath goes out
straight and spreads for a wider circle as it is projected, a sign of true charity.
Minbar Three steps is a sign of charity
Jalsa is sign of charity come down from the pure regions
The third plain upward upon man's Qiblah. I said man's Qiblah, the Qiblah we have is for all people. I'm speaking of
man, meaning humanity, the people. The third plain that is given to us in the ascent of Muhammed, the Prophet,
as he ascended upwards upon or at our Qiblah, man's Qibla, or man's Qiblah center. I would like to add the word
center for a purpose and a minbar having a minimum of three steps for the speaker leading the salat; again, a sign
of Muslim charity.
A minimum of three persons are required for performing group salat, again a. sign of true charity. True charity
qualifies one to sit on the throne. Jalsa is a sign of true charity. In Allah's swt plan it is divine charity. It came
down from heaven, to us from the pure regions where there is no air pollution, no bad breath. The closing of
one's salat is by greeting all life, not just human life, but humans, first, certainly. If you read the traditions of our
Prophet, his sunnah, how he respected animals and brought it to the attention of his followers in his immediate
circle, environment, that we also have to give animal their rights; if you know that, then you know that we wish
peace to the whole of life. And animals are in the life. They are not of the life. And some of the animals have
such a sensitive nature for associating with people that the person who has brought this animal into their home, or
into their bosom, they become so
attached to that animal that, that animal becomes the first relative in the family. It gets the better treatment and
everything. Now I want to check you now. We are not supposed to follow the West in their love for animals and let
the animal replace the brother, sister, the son, or the daughter. No we don't accept that.
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Sajdah two means reconcile with the material system
Jalsa. Mind you, sajdah is two before you make salaam, do the greeting. In every rakat there are two sajdah.
Why? You want to be reconciled with the material system in its Muslim form as G_d created it. Don't you know
the great teachers, philosophers, in the Islamic worlu history told us that creation, itself, is Muslim? The stars, the
earth and the moon are Muslim. So G_d's Will and the nature to agree in G_d's Will is in everything He created as it
originally existed from G_d. So this is no orientation that G_d is imposing upon humans and did not give it to the
whole of His creation to be reconciled according to His Will for His creation. It is in all creation. That discipline or
that nature is in everything created, or in all the material universe, the whole material system. Someone may say,
"This is heavy." If it is too heavy for you don't try to carry it. I don't want to be responsible for giving you hernias
and back problems. Do like we did in the Nation of Islam. If it was too heavy, we left it and we kept going. We did not
want to be overburdened and couldn't keep following the Honorable Elijah Mohammed.
Our greeting of peace is not just peace but it is also mercy, because we have just concluded our salat with Allah's
words. Allah says "Bismillah" before or beginning with each chapter except one, the 9th chapter. But in the context
of that chapter it is given, though it is missing in the beginning of that chapter, what? With Allah's name the
Merciful Gd.
When you do your midday prayer you should combine them even if you are not from out of town. In a situation and
a country like this where prayer is not established in the public scene, we have to pray in private quarters or in our
own facilities or on the ground outside. It is allowed that in situations like this, when you are strained to do your
prayers, when you find an opportunity to do them, if you could combine them it would be better.
It is good to see you, and some of you that I have not seen you in a little while. It is good to see your faces,
praise be to Allah. It is just a blessing and a joy for real people to be together.
We have two small booklets. I am sure some of you have probably seen it. They are on sale in the vendor's area.
One is from a speech or lecture that I gave, the radio broadcast. We titled it, "Poor People Were First." The
publication, Sister Amatullah Sharrief is responsible for the sales. Then we have another that is just being
introduced and it was taken from a lecture that I gave at the Wisdom University sponsored interfaith meeting,
dialogue. I gave a lot of our own personal history here. Sister Aisha chose to put a picture on the front of it and it
really goes there, too. It is real nice, the picture that my father had me take. I was a young minister who he had sent
to Philadelphia and once a month we had to come in and bring reports into headquarters in Chicago.
Mr. W. D. 40
I was coming right off the road really and a very popular African-American photographer, Gordon Parks, some of
you know him, the Honorable Elijah Mohammed had gotten him to do the photo. And he did not move from his seat.
He was sitting just like he is in the picture and he saw me coming in the front door which is right in front in this
picture. It is called the pine room and it had Mr. Fard, W. D. 40's picture. He is W.D. 40, not me. I am Warith Ud
Mohammed. On the picture he is WD 40. Whether you know it or not, this is the teacher who made possible the
progression from the first until now. This is the wise teacher who made it possible. We did not come from no where,
we came from Mr. Fard's work to where we arc now. Many of you did not, because you came since I have been the
leader. You did not come through
that. But your leader did and your leader's circumstances that Mr. Fard created produced your leader. I am not at
all hesitant to say that he is my teacher. Mr. Fard, he is my father's teacher. He is also my teacher. Whether you
know it or not Elijah Mohammed is still here in his son W. D. Mohammed, gene- wise or flesh wise and also spirit
wise. He had a spirit to help our people. I have the same spirit, not different. And Gd intervened and that
happened.
The same G_d has made the present happen, this that I represent. The same G_d Who made our people not
tolerate to be slaves, their spirit couldn't tolerate it, the same spirit is in all of us. How can you separate yourself
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from the original 17 million? He said he had 17 million keys. That meant that he was interested in freeing every
black man in America, because he said that was the number at that time. And some of you don't even want me to
talk to the African American people. You just want me to talk in house. You are some strange Negroes. You are
aliens. You will never separate me from my people. Some will say, "We are not supposed to do anything except
teach the Qur'an and the sunnah." That is exactly what I'm doing. The Qur'an says save yourself and your family.
And my bigger family is my African American family. Allahu Akbar. 31
I did not want to start the session like that, but I just couldn't help it. I don't like artificial Negroes. I want to help
them, but my heart Icfes them because they are my brothers in humanity; and they arc G_d's creation. But I do not
love., their personality and their mind set. I dislike it. I hate it because they are artificial. That is why onr people are
in the condition they are in right now as a race, because we did not keep the spirit of community, the spirit that
African Americans should progress as a community. They let themselves be taken out into the loose public and
forget their traditional life and are paying a mean price for it.
Four rivers are urges in human nature to educate and develop culture
What I give you there is much room for me to develop and expand upon it. But I just want you to get the main
picture, the main concepts. I want you to get the important concepts in the guidance that Allah gives us. Let us
start with rivers. I mentioned four rivers. Now in al Islam or Islamic knowledge we have pictures, or concepts,
brought to mind of rivers; four of them in number that address the Bible's four rivers. 32'" In the Bible we find
four rivers coming out from a source, a place, and watering the area and flowing out from the area. 1 believe the
place is Mesopotamia. And the area of the geography for us now is right around the vicinity of the city of Baghdad
where the war is going on right now.
That place was made a garden on earth like a paradise according to scripture. Those four rivers went out from that
source and watered the garden. Now this is not just talking about geography, it is talking about how efforts are
made to educate and develop culture for society; and how the urges for that development are in the human person.
So these are urges in human nature and in the Islamic knowledge there are four rivers above, or in heavens, or in
the skies, and four in the earth, called rivers. They are urges.
In scripture we recall that the mother of Moses put her son, her baby, Moses, peace be on the prophet, on the river
in a basket and the river stream carried him to the house of Pharaoh."'" And his wife saw the baby on the river
and took him from the river into the house of the Pharaoh. There, he became like a son to the Pharaoh until he
started seeing and identifying with his people and becoming aware that his people were in bondage under pharaoh.
G_d eventually came to him, called him, gave him revelation, and guidance, and he became an opposer of pharaoh
and Pharaoh was very severe in his punishments. He was a powerful man, so the Pharaoh eventually
excommunicated, or exiled the people. But, actually, he did not want to let the people go, but he rejected Moses.
And when Moses wanted to go out with the people, take his people away from Egyp, the Pharaoh opposed that.
And he even opposed it, physically. When they started out he sent the army out to stop them and it pursued them as
Allah gives it in the Qur'an, in the form of revelation to Muhammed. He was prevented by forces that he did not
know how to deal with. And the followers of Moses were assisted by G_d, divine help. Their guidance permitted
them to cross through the river on dry land. The water, the wind, separated the waters and permitted them to cross
on dry land. And when the Pharaoh or his army pursued them the waters converged again as they were in the normal
situation and drowned; the Pharaoh and his army. This is the story that is in both Bible and Qur'an. That was not
a river. That was the red sea, I believe. But we have a river, the Nile river, that Moses' mother put him upon and
floated him down to Pharaoh's house.
Heaven two rivers are hidden
Earth two rivers are Nile and Euphrates; urges for nobility, justice
So the learned teachers tell us that there are two rivers in the heavens and two rivers in the earth." So that is our
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focus for a few minutes here. Now we know that there is an urge in human being who are persecuted and
denied freedom, justice or rights, that should be accorded to every natural citizen of any land. They have these
urges and one is a sense of nobility. There is a river, an urge, that flows
from its source and it is our sense of nobility, or excellence of character. Excellence of character, or our principle of
character will not permit us to just be treated any way; to have our human value ignored, disrespected, walked on,
rejected. There is a dignity in the human character. Men of good and excellent character can't tolerate their worth
being disregarded and treated unfairly. They can't tolerate that, And
that is the character that accounted for our progress as a people, because that character also has an urge with it; and
it is the urge for justice. If you are a person of character then you also do not like to see yourself denied your
rights or denied justice. So those two urges, the urge for dignity that says, "No you can't treat me like that," the
excellence of character. That is dignity, nobility in the person that G_d put there. 38 He created us for nobility and
honor. "He has certainly made noble all the sons of Adam." Not one, all of them. Allah spoke the truth. Isn't that
what we're supposed to say when you read from Qur'an? It means we did not speak that. G_d spoke that and He is
the mightiest.
These two urges of the natural form, or the mortal, that Allah created on the earth. The son Adam and the sons of
Adam, his descendants in his own concept, in the concept of Adam that GA, Himself, created. So these are the
mortal urges on earth, nobility and justice; the urge to have your nobility or your inherent dignity free and not
abused, rejected or stepped upon; but also the spirit for justice.
Dr. Martin Luther King was the culmination of the spirit for justice in us
You know Dr. Martin Luther King was for us the culmination or the termination of that spirit in us. The terminal
point for that spirit in us as a people, because after him we have not had anybody like that; nobody to rise and be
recognized like that. Our people changed their ways and changed their thinking and they changed their spirit, most
importantly. The spirit in our people changed, no more the productive spirit but the fun spirit. We lost the
productive spirit to the fun spirit. As I say we forgot the best of our leadership that supported us to freedom and
acceptance in America as citizens equal with other citizens under American, U.S. law. Not that the white people's
hearts everywhere accepted that. No, that was a bitter pill for them to swallow. But many of them were never
opposed to that and many of them lost their life trying to help us get that recognition in America. We should
understand that, too, and acknowledge help that we got from the people who were really responsible for denying
us our life and freedom that Allah intended for us.
So the two urges in heaven. And, again, Dr. King said, "I been to the mountain top. I may not get there with you,"
meaning to full rights that are accorded a citizen of the United States. He died before we realized it. But the law,
he saw that the government was changing and he knew that the government was positioning itself to defend the
rights of every citizen and that meant the rights of African American citizens. He saw that it was going to be
completed. The government was going to knock down all barriers to justice for black people.
Bouncing to the funk
Now the government can't come in your house and run your family life. It can't take you by the hand and lead you,
morally, in America. The government can't go into the hearts of white citizens and others who have prejudices and
have a degrading picture of our people as a people. The government can't go into their hearts and take that out.
That is not the role of government. But that is the role of education and it should be the responsibility of our
religious leaders in America, all of them; to not tolerate this injustice and to bring the best education, or the best
influences from holy scripture, and the best guidance to our American public. And some of them are doing that. If
you watch some of the programs on the nature series, on the education channel, you will find a lot of help coming
to help this immoral public of ours come back to its senses. But it is a small effort when we look at the big
population and the big job to be done. And how many of them are going to watch education television? They have
come under the fun spirit so they are not interested in watching the public television channels. Most of them won't
watch education TV they turn on 24 hour junk and bounce to the funk. I'm choosing my words very carefully. There
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is not indecency here, believe me. The indecency is the picture that I'm addressing. The youngster
comes in and turns to that channel They go to sleep and it is on. They get up the next morning, if it is not on they
will wake up and turn it on; a bunch of foolishness, sick, disgraceful foolishness.
Dr. King driven by spirit for justice
Blacks participating indecency in the media
Satan is just making a fool out of all of our people. He is doing the same thing that we protested under our leaders that
were leading us to freedom; the same picture of our people that we protested and successfully protested it, because they
stopped putting us on television and radio as silly monkeys, buffoons carrying on wasting our time in nonproductive endeavors, non-productive interests, non-productive spirit; producing nothing positive except they give
you some money for you entertaining or attracting viewers to the television so that the number of viewe rs increase
from the black community and make it financially beneficial, attractive, to the big commercial people to get time on
that channel because there are a lot of viewers watching that 24 hours a day. So Dr. King was a man of excellent
character and a man with a spirit for justice, who came from his human sense of value or nobility. We don't have
those leaders popular anymore.
Heaven two rivers are knowledge and guidance
So these rivers are missing for us on earth, aren't they? The two rivers are missing in us. The presence of that nature
is very small now in the African American people. There arc also two rivers in the heavens, we said earlier, and
they are the rivers of knowledge and guidance on high, preserved by G_d on high. The Qur'an has that. The
heavenly rivers are preserved for us in the Qur'an. The knowledge to awaken the urge in us for knowledge and
understanding is in the Qur'an and when we read it, it influences us, it sensitizes us inwardly to devote ourselves to
the study of knowledge in the revelation, in the context of the Qur'an and it gives us light for our guidance. Correct
knowledge is light.
The stars in the sky, they appear as lights in the night and they are also knowledge. Allah has revealed in the Qur'an
that He has caused everything that exists to serve the broadcasting of correct knowledge, the spread of knowledge.38
And we talked about how light travels in straight lines. If you have seen the light rays coming through the openings
of the clouds, sometimes at noon time the clouds thicken up, darken the area up, and when they start opening up
and the rays penetrate, go through the clouds and come down to us, they come down straight.
"Out of the darkness into the light"
The heavenly life is the life that comes after G_d reveals to man. Then man's heaven, or sky of knowledge,
appears and it becomes adorned with stars giving lights. The Prophet is pictured as a star and the star is called as a
lamp giving or spreading light. You have man's heaven or sky of knowledge appear and it is adorned with light. The
Prophet is pictured as a star, called a lamp spreading light." Now, this is to bring it home down to us on earth. We
can understand what a lamp is but there are also stars. .
The star is a little bit difficult for us to relate to, to understand how the heaven is what represents higher knowledge,
higher, purer, and better education. All these signs we must relate them to the need for man on earth to become
enlightened, educated and guided by correct knowledge into the light. And isn't that the purpose of G_d's guidance,
to bring us out of the darkness (the language of Allah in the Qur'an) into the light? Qur'an says the night assists the
day and the day assists the night. And they move in turn, the night appearing, followed by the day; the day
appearing and then the night.
When man is in darkness he strains for understanding, light and guidance. And every person is conceived in the
dark and delivered into the light, another sign. And when this world's light, Allah says He made the day for
activities, man's activities. " When the day comes man increases his activity and increases his presence and his
domination over the natural environment. He eventually dominates the natural environment with his
manufactured or created environment and especially in big cities. When you wake up in the morning and you go
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out from your house, you are in the environment of man, not the environment of the garden that Allah created;
that pristine, natural environment that man had before he changed it with his creations. So your environment is made
by man and his environment is made to serve not only society and life but made, too, to make money. And sometimes
making money becomes more important than protecting human life and serving G_d for the good of humanity.
When that happens, like the condition, we have right now in America, you're in the dark as far what Allah wants as
a life for man and society on this planet earth. You are in the dark.
Going to the heaven that G d created
So it could be daytime by man's clock, but midnight by G_d's clock. So when that happens, it could be at noonday, but
if the urge or the river of dignity, nobility and justice is in the person, that person see this world as darkness,
midnight and that person wants to go to the heavens that G_d created. Then that person starts to reflect on the natural
world and the natural sky as G_d made it. And he begins to seek revelation. He trusts his Lord. He goes to the
Qur'an and studies it and he finds out that really the natural heaven, the skies with stars and moon are noting but
signs. And he comes to understand that Allah did not intend for this to remain a mystery forever; not a burden of
mystery on man's intellect forever, or on his heart.
There is coming a time when G d is going to roll up the sky like a scroll
There is coming a time when Allah is going to roll up that sky as a scroll. Isn't that what he says? The stars shall
disappear and He shall roll up the sky as a scroll. A scroll puts in my mind writing, reading, literature, education,
and He says also in this connection mountains, because we know the source of the rivers are mountains. Rivers,
their source is high mountains. The water that collects becomes ice in the top. When warmth comes the water melts
and runs down from the mountain. The source of the Nile river that the Mother of Moses put her child on is in the
mountains in Ethiopia. And it runs down from the mountains. all the way through Egypt. The Nile is the longest
river. The river water comes from mountain tops. And what does Allah say of the mountains? There is coming a time
when the mountains are going to disappear, as if they were nothing but a mirage. This is not a new prediction, or a
new prophecy, or something. It is in the Bible, too. And the Bible says He will level the mountains. Now we know it
is not talking about the physical mountain. Jabul Nur is going to stay right there. But the knowledge mountain that
man sits over and keeps the average person in the dark about, that is the mountain that has to come down, one day.
Allah is going to bring that mountain down.
So all of this mysterious teachings that we have in religion that depends on people just following„ blindly is going
to be exposed, one day, and the common people are going to be free. How can you be free you are believing in
spookism? Do you remember what I told you in the first session? I said I had a vision and I saw the Prophet
Muharnmed in this vision accepting the oath, the pledges under the tree, baith; and they were putting their hands one
upon the other. The Prophet's hand was first and they were putting their tand on his. And in the vision I saw
myself place my hand on the hand as they were placing their hands. Don't think I'm dOing something foolishly. I'm
not exposing anything except what should be exposed.
This is the time to expose this superstition and ignorance and ideas of reality that keep the average person, the.
masses, as fools. It has lost its ability to help the life of the masses, because the world has become one World order
and it is too intelligent for that baby, picture language, religion. It is not doing any good. It is
not working. It does not hold the people in check anymore to believe this foolishness. I know by correct translation
or interpretation it is not foolishness. It is guidance, but that is not how they put it on us. They put the weight on
our minds as mysteries, not guidance. For example, saying, "G_d made man from the earth." And they have grown
up in this modem advanced time in the church believing it. They can't deal with it. They don't reject it and they
have in their mind dirt, earth, clay, being shaped and then G_d or Jesus Christ blowing into it and it is animated,
it become a living creature. Human intelligence was not given to us to accept that. It disrespects our human
intelligence.
So a sign of the end of time, as I told you already in the first session, our Prophet says is that we will see the
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common person, the poor little person, competing with the rich in building skyscrapers, tall buildings. They will be
competing with the rich and the powerful. That tells us that in time Allah is going to bring about progress for the
common person, for our intelligence. He is going to bring about progress that is going to situate those who were
kept under everybody else to rise and compete with their former masters." And believe, me it is not talking
about physical structures, but yes it includes that, too. But before you can build physical structures in
competition with your former masters you must build mountains of science, knowledge and guidance.
Moses ascended the mountain of knowledge, science
Mountain to ascend it you can't carry indecency
Moses did not go up to the mountain to bring down dirt. He went up there to bring down light for guidance,
laws to govern society, etc. That is the mountain he went up, a mountain of knowledge, science and he even
wanted to have his spiritual life freed; and he was bothered. He couldn't understand the reality, the Nafs, or the
Person of G_d. And G_d had to reveal to him, "You can see the mountain. You can see this education. You can
see how that this science starts at the base and goes up to a conclusion. You can see that but you can't see Me,
except that you see that." That is your reference for seeing Me." Praise be to Allah.
So these mountains that they give us a pictures in our minds and the stars in the sky, the heavens up there, are
given to the minds of those who they want to keep us in check forever, and keep us out of the knowledge that
lifts up civilization. They will keep us out of it forever if they can, because the more of us who are ignorant the less
they have to share. The more you rise in intelligence, the more they have to share.
But understand, my brothers and my sisters, because we can't be free without you sisters, a sign with the mountain
that you have to go up to higher regions is also a sign that you can't carry vulgarity and moral indecency with you if
you want to ascend; because G_d did not make the mountain to go up to unclean air. He made the mountain to
go up above unclean air.
Ethics and ethical society, that is our destiny
So we should rise with our moral nature to the concept of ethics and an ethical society. That is our destiny.
Allah wants that for our destiny, ethical society, rising up upon pure, innocent moral nature until the rules of moral
thinking are established, to check even our disciplines of science and our disciplines of government order and rule.
And I do believe the term ethics in the West or English language is from the name they gave Ethiopia. It had men
who ascended for the benefit of society to get knowledge and purity
before even Christianity came to Ethiopia. It has a long and great history. In fact, that part of the land atid Sudan,
Egypt, was once under one rule. The people were called Kush and they were very advanced people in science.
J. A. Rodgers, an African American historian who became bigger in his image in our
minds and knowledge, that is the African American people, he was a very devoted research scientist
researching history. His nobility and his character were the two urges in him sending him into that field of
study and keeping him moving forward with his findings. I heard that they had something on TV
recently, I'm sorry is missed it, where they were acknowledging him as a worthy historian.
Deceit can he innocent when used by oppressed masses
Do you think G_d is going to destroy His physical creation that He made and it did not commit any sin? '
So Allah says the mountains are going to be removed as if they were nothing but a mirage. Then you
don't expect for the physical mountain to be removed. It is the mountain in the knowledge that this world
has given us; just a picture but no understanding, a picture and no translation or no interpretation. Now
any of you Muslims in here, African American or non African American, if you are uncomfortable with
the way I handle this, you can forget it.
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A river of deceit
There is also the river of deceit, that is, satan's river. Now deceit it can be innocent, too, can't it? The
mother of Moses planned to deceive Pharaoh, didn't she? But her deceit is innocent. She did it in the
interest of delivering or helping her people get in a situation so they could get help to their community of
enslaved, those who were under dictatorship of the of the Egyptian pharaoh of that particular time.
So her deceit was innocent. She floated him upon the river and knew that eventually the river urge would
take her child past the palace of pharaoh and she knew that somebody would see that beautiful child of
hers. It was no ordinary child. This was an illuminated child. He was just shining in the basket. So when
the wife of pharaoh saw that illuminated child in that basket she could not resist going in there and getting
that basket and taking it into the house of pharaoh. That is a river of deceit.
Mr. Fard created the Nation of Islam as a river of deceit
Mr. Fard created a spirit, the Nation of Islam, a river of deceit, and the FBI studied it, saying, "There is no
problem here for us. This is going to counter the movement of the talented tenth, Dubois and these other
boys who are trylrigim establish a civil rights movement and want to interrupt our order, challenge our
establishment. These people don't want our establishment. They say they want us to let them go. They
want a nation of their own. You know what we did for the Indians and all of their nations. We can handle
this one."
And Mr. Fard decorated the baby that he was floating down the river. He decorated the baby to appeal to
the enemy and then he told the enemy through us, he gave us identification cards to identify us as
members of the Nation of Islam and he put on the card, "If you find this person other than righteous
punish the said person and take this card away from them."
A black lotus child flouted down the river
When the FBI saw that they said, "This man is not trouble. He is telling these blacks that they better stay
straight and clean. If they don't, he's authorizing us to arrest them, punish them and take their ID away
from them. We have to study this a little deeper. This baby looks real good." A black lotus child floated
down the river, nothing supporting him but water. But Mr. Fard said, "My river is a river of deceit and
justified". He said, "The son of Elijah Mohammed, I'm praying to G_d that he will get the hidden
message and that he will walk away from the river onto dry land". So the time is now. Praise be to Allah.
Thank you.
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References:
1. Qur'an 2.185; Allah wants case for you
"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."
2. Qur' an 2.173; Pork eat only out of necessity
"He hath only forbidden you dead meat and blood and the flesh of swine and that on which any other
name hath been invoked besides that of Allah but if one is forced by necessity without wilful disobedience
nor transgressing due limits then is he guiltless. For Allah is Oft-Forgiving Most Merciful."
3. Qur'an 2.62; Whoever believes in the G d shall have
no fear
"Those who believe (in the Qur'an) and those who follow the Jewish (Scriptures) and the Christians and
the Sabians and who believe in Allah and the last day and work righteousness shall have their reward
with their Lord; on them shall be no fear nor shall they grieve.
4. Qur'an 3.6; Allah shapes you in the wombs as He
pleases
"He it is Who shapes you in the wombs as He pleases. There is no god but He the Exalted in Might the
Wise."
5. Qur'an 17.85;. The spirit you have little knowledge of
They ask thee concerning the Spirit (of inspiration).
Say: "The Spirit (cometh) by command of my Lord; of
knowledge it is only a little that is communicated to
you (0 men!)
5b Qur'an 32.7-9; G d breathe of His s_pirit
8. And made his progeny from a quintessence of the
Nature of a fluid despised:
9. But He fashioned him in due proportion and breathed
into him something of His spirit. And He gave you
(the faculties of) hearing and sight and feeling (and
understanding): little thanks do ye give!
6. Qur'an 3.96-97; Kabah built for mankind is full of
signs Hajj a duty men owe to Allah
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96. The first House (of worship) appointed for men was
That at Bakka full of blessing and of guidance for all
kinds of beings:
97. In it are signs manifest; (for example) the Station of
Abraham; whoever enters it attains security;
Pilgrimage thereto is a duty men owe to Allah those
who can afford the journey; but if any deny faith Allah
stands not in need of any of his creatures.
7.
Qur'an 7.157; Follow the light sent down with him
"Those who follow the apostle the unlettered prophet whom they find mentioned in their own
(Scriptures); in the law and the Gospel; for he commands them what is just and forbids them what is evil:
he allows them as lawful what is good (and pure) and prohibits them from what is bad (and impure); He
releases them from their heavy burdens and from the yokes that are upon them. So it is those who
believe in him honor him help him and follow the light which is sent d own with him it is they who will
prosper."
8. Qur'an 68.4; Prophet is on the exalted character "And
thou (standest) on an exalted standard of character."
9. Qur'an 39.18; Take the best there of
"Those who listen to the Word and follow the best (meaning) in it: those are the ones whom Allah has
guided and those are the ones endued with understanding."
10. Qur'an 2.61; food we have only one type only
"And remember ye said: "0 Moses! we cannot endure one kind of food (always); so beseech thy Lord
for us to produce for us of what the earth groweth its pot-herbs and cucumbers its garlic lentils and
onions." He said: "will ye exchange the better for the worse? Go ye down to any town and ye shall find
what ye want!" They were covered with humiliation and misery; they drew on themselves the wrath of
Allah. This because they went on rejecting the signs of Allah and slaying His messengers without just
cause. This because They rebelled and went on transgressing."
11.
Revelations. 20.2, 7; satan bound thousand
years Then freed
[2] And he laid hold on the dragon, that old serpent, which is the Devil, and Satan, and bound him a
thousand years, [7] And when the thousand years are expired, Satan shall be loosed out of his prison,
12 Qur'an 95.4; Man created in the excellent form
4. We have indeed created man in the best of molds.
5. Then do We abase him (to be) the lowest of the low.
13 Qur'an 7.143; Gd told Moses look at mountain he fainted
"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
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on the mount He made it as dust and Moses fell down in a swoon. When he recovered his senses he
said: "Glory be to Thee! to thee I turn in repentance and I am the first to believe." (Allah) said: "0 Moses! I
have chosen thee above (other) men by the mission I (have given thee) and the words I (have spoken to
thee): take then the (revelation) which I give thee and be of those who give thanks."
14 Qur'an 20.27; Is,:rssprayed untie my tongue
"And remove the impediment from my speech."
15. Qur'an 58.7; No secret meeting Allah is among the
group
Seest thou not that Allah loth know (all) that is in the
heavens and on earth? There is not a secret
consultation between three but He makes the fourth
among them nor between five but He makes the sixth
nor between fewer nor more but He is in their midst
wheresoever they be: in the end will He tell them the
truth of their conduct on the Day of Judgment for Allah
has full knowledge of all things.
16. Qur'an 2.186; Allah (swt) close and hears prayers
"When my servants ask thee concerning Me lam indeed close (to them); I listen to the prayer of every
suppliant when he calleth on Me; let them also with a will listen to My call and believe in Me; that they
may walk in the right way. "
17.
Qur'an 4.134; Reward in this life and hereafter
"If anyone desires a reward in this life in Allah's (gift) is the reward (both) of this life and of the
Hereafter: for Allah is He that heareth and seeth (all things)."
18.
Qur'an 2.124; Abraham an Imam for the nations
"And remember that Abraham was tried by his Lord with certain commands which he fulfilled; He said: "I
will make thee an Imam to the nations." He pleaded: "And also (Imams) from my offspring!" He
answered: "But my promise is not within the reach of evil-doers."
19.
G e n e s i s . 1 7 . 5 ; Abraham father for all nations
"Neither shall thy name any more be called Abram, but thy name shall be Abraham; for a father of
many nations have I made thee."
20.
Bukhari 4.429; Prophet ascended 7 heavens
The Prophet said, "While I was at the House in a state midway between sleep and wakefulness, (an angel
recognized me) as the man lying between two men. A golden tray full of wisdom and belief was brought
to me and my body was cut open from the throat to the lower part of the abdomen and then my abdomen
was washed with Zam-zam water and (my heart was) filled with wisdom and belief. Al-Buraq, a white
animal, smaller than a mule and bigger than a donkey was brought to me and I set out with Gabriel.
When I reached the nearest heaven. Gabriel said to the heaven gate -keeper, 'Open the gate.' The
gatekeeper asked, 'Who is it He said, 'Gabriel.' The gate -keeper asked, Who is accompanying you?'
Gabriel said, 'Muhammed.' The gate-keeper said, 'Has he been called?' Gabriel said, 'Yes.' Then it was
said, 'He is welcomed. What a wonderful visit his is!' Then I met Adam and greeted him and he said, 'You
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are welcomed 0 son and a Prophet.' Then we ascended to the second heaven. It was asked, 'Who is it?'
Gabriel said, 'Gabriel.' It was said, 'Who is with you?' He said, 'Muhammed' It was asked, 'Has he been
sent for?' He said, 'Yes.' It was said, 'He is welcomed. What a wonderful visit his is!" Then I met Jesus
and Yahya (John) who said, 'You are welcomed, 0 brother and a Prophet.' Then we ascended to the third
heaven. It was asked, 'Who is it?' Gabriel said, 'Gabriel.' It was asked, 'Who is with you? Gabriel said,
'Muhammed.' It was asked, 'Has he been sent for?' 'Yes,' said Gabriel. 'He is welcomed. What a
wonderful visit his is!' - (The Prophet added:). -There I met Joseph and greeted him, and he replied, 'You
are welcomed, 0 brother and a Prophet!' Then we ascended to the 4th heaven and again the same
questions and answers were exchanged as in the previous heavens. There I met Idris and greeted him. He
said, 'You are welcomed 0 brother and Prophet.' Then we ascended to the 5th heaven and again the same
questions and answers were exchanged as in previous heavens. There I met and greeted Aaron who
said, 'You are welcomed 0 brother and a Prophet". Then we ascended to the 6th heaven and again the
same questions and answers were exchanged as in the previous heavens. There I met and greeted Moses
who said, You are welcomed 0 brother and a Prophet.' When I proceeded on, he started weeping and on
being asked why he was weeping, he said, '0 Lord! Followers of this youth who was sent after me will enter
Paradise in greater number than my followers.' Then we ascended to the seventh heaven and again the
same questions and answers were exchanged as in the previous heavens. There I met and greeted
Abraham who said, 'You are welcomed 0 son and a Prophet.' Then I was shown Al-Bait-alMa'mur (i.e.
Allah's House). I asked Gabriel about it and he said, This is Al Bait-ul-Ma'mur where 70,000 angels perform
prayers daily and when they leave they never return to it (but always a fresh batch comes into it daily).'
Then 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.' Then fifty prayers were enjoined on me. I descended till I met Moses who asked me, 'What
have you done?' I said, 'Fifty prayers have been enjoined on me.' He said, 'I know the people better than
you, because I had the hardest experience to bring Bani Israel to obedience. Your followers cannot put up
with such obligation. So, return to your Lord and request Him (to reduce the number of prayers.' I
returned and requested Allah (for reduction) and He made it forty. I returned and (met Moses) and had a
similar discussion, and then returned again to Allah for reduction and He made it thirty, then twenty, then
ten, and then I came to Moses who repeated the same advice. Ultimately Allah reduced it to five. When I
came to Moses again, he said, 'What have you done?' I said, 'Allah has made it five only.' He repeated the
same advice but I said that I surrendered (to Allah's Final Order)' " Allah's Apostle was addressed by
Allah, "I have decreed My obligation and have reduced the burden on My slaves, and I shall reward a
single good deed as if it were ten good deeds."
21. Qur'an 18.110; I am a mortal like you
Say: "I am but a man like yourselves (but) the inspiration has come to me that your Allah is one Allah:
whoever expects to meet his Lord let him work righteousness and in the worship of his Lord admit no one
as partner."
22. John 14.10, 20; Jesus said I in you
[10] Believest thou not that I am in the Father, and the Father in me? the words that I speak unto you I
speak not of myself: but the Father that dwelleth in me, he doeth the works. [20] At that day ye shall
know that I am in my Father, and ye in me, and I in you."
23 Matt 16.13; Jesus said who do you say I am
When Jesus came into the coasts of Caesarea Philippi, he asked his disciples, saying, Whom do men
say that I the Son of man am?"
24 Qur'an 10.94; Ask, consult the people of the Book
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If thou wert in doubt as to what We have revealed unto thee then ask those who have been reading the
Book from before thee: the Truth hath indeed come to thee from thy Lord: so be in nowise of those in
doubt."
24 Qur'an 10.94; Ask, consult the people of the Book
If thou wart in doubt as to what We have revealed unto thee then ask those who have been reading the
Book from before thee: the Truth hath indeed come to thee from thy Lord: so be in nowise of those in
doubt."
25. Qur'an 5.83; Christian cry tears when hear scripture
"And when they listen to the revelation received by the Apostle thou wilt see their eyes overflowing with
tears for they recognize the truth: they pray: "Our Lord! we believe; write us down among the witnesses."
26 Qur'an 57.21; Garden the width of the sky and the earth
"Be ye foremost (in seeking) forgiveness from your Lord and a Garden (of Bliss) the width whereof is as
the width of heaven and earth prepared for those who believe in Allah and His apostles: that is the Grace
of Allah which He bestows on whom He pleases: and Allah is the Lord of Grace abounding. "
27. Qur'an 11.7; Throne was on the water
"He it is Who created the heavens and the earth in six Days and His Throne was over the Waters that
He might try you which of you is best in conduct. But if thou wart to say to them "Ye shall indeed be
raised up after death" the Unbelievers would be sure to say "This is nothing but obvious sorcery!"
28. Qur'an 45.3-4; There are signs in the earth and yourselves
3.Verily in the heavens and the earth are Signs for those
who believe.
4. And in the creation of yourselves and the fact that
animals are scattered (through the earth) are Signs for
those of assured Faith.
29. Qur'an 36.78; Why doesn't he question his own creation?
"And he makes comparisons for us and forgets his own (Origin and) Creation: He says "Who can give
life to (dry) bones and decomposed ones (at that)?"
30. Qur'an 34.28; Muhammed is enough for all humanity
"We have not sent thee but as a universal (Messenger) to men giving them glad tidings and warning
them (against sin) but most men understand not."
31. Qur'an 66.6; Save your own selves
"0 ye who believe! save yourselves and your families from a Fire whose fuel is Men and Stones over
which are (appointed) angels stern (and) severe who flinch not (from executing) the Commands they
receive from Allah but do (precisely) what they are commanded."
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32. 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 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)?
33. Genesis 2.10; River went out 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."
34.
Qur'an 28.7; Moses put in the river
So We sent this inspiration to the mother of Moses: "Suckle (thy child) but when thou hest fears about
him cast him into the river but fear not nor grieve: for We shall restore him to thee and We shall make him
one of Our apostles."
35 Exodus 2.3-7; Moses put in a basket on a river
And when she could not longer hide him, she took for him an ark of bulrushes, and daubed it with slime
and with pitch, and put the child therein; and she laid it in the flags by the river's brink. [4] And his sister
stood afar off, to wit what would be done to him. [5] And the daughter of Pharaoh came down to wash
herself at the river; and her maidens walked along by the river's side; and when she saw the ark among
the flags, she sent her maid to fetch it. [6] And when she had opened it, she saw the child: and, behold,
the babe wept. And she had compassion on him, and said, This is one of the Hebrews' children. [7] Then
said his sister to Pharaoh's daughter, Shall I go and call to thee a nurse of the Hebrew women, that she
may nurse the chiild for thee?
35 Exodus 2.3-7; Moses put in a basket on a river
36. Bukhari 4.429; Four rivers
Malik bin Sasaa reported the Prophet said 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.'
37. Qur'an 17.70; All children of Adam are honorable
"We have honored the sons of Adam; provided them with transport on land and sea; given them for
sustenance things good and pure; and conferred on them special favors above a great part of Our
Creation."
38. Qur'an 40.7: Allah embraces all in mercy,
knowledge
"Those who sustain the Throne (of Allah) and those around it sing Glory and Praise to their Lord; believe
in Him; and implore forgiveness for those who believe: "Our Lord! Thy reach is over all things in Mercy
and Knowledge. Forgive then those who turn in repentance and follow Thy Path: and preserve them from
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the Penalty of the Blazing Firer
39.
Qur'an 24.35; Lamp spreading light
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 cloth set forth Parables for men: and
Allah doth know all things.
40.
Qur'an 30.23; Night for rest, the day for activities
"And among His Signs is the sleep that ye take by night
and by day and the quest that ye (make for livelihood)
out of His Bounty: verily in that are Signs for those who
hearken."
41. Qur'an
18.47; The mountains shall be moved
"One Day We shall remove the mountains and thou wilt see the earth as a level stretch and We shall
gather them all together nor shall We leave out any one of them."
42. Bukhari 1.47; Poor will compete with their masters
One day while the Prophet was sitting in the company of some people, (The angel) Gabriel came and
asked, "What is faith?" Allah's Apostle replied, 'Faith is to believe in Allah, His angels, (the) meeting with
Him, His Apostles, and to believe in Resurrection." Then he further asked, "What is Islam?" Allah's
Apostle replied, "To worship Allah Alone and none else, to offer prayers perfectly to pay the compulsory
charity (Zakat) and to observe fasts during the month of Ramadan." Then he further asked, "What is
Ihsan (perfection)?" Allah's Apostle replied, "To worship Allah as if you see Him, and if you cannot
achieve this state of devotion then you must consider that He is looking at you." Then he further asked,
"When will the Hour be established?" Allah's Apostle replied, "The answerer has no better knowledge
than the questioner. But I will inform you about its portents.
1.
W hen a sl a ve (l a d y) g i ve s b i rt h t o h e r ma s t e r.
2.
When the shepherds of black camels start boasting and competing with others in the construction
of higher buildings. And the Hour is one of five things which nobody knows except Allah.
43. Qur'an 7.143; G d told Moses look at mountain he fainted
"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. When he recovered his senses he
said: "Glory be to Thee! to thee 1 turn in repentance and I am the first to believe." (Allah) said: "0 Moses!
I have chosen thee above (other) men by the mission I (have given thee) and the words I (have spoken to
thee): take then the (revelation) which I give thee and be of those who give thanks."
a-1
Abraham father Imam for all nations 6;
Adam All children of Adam are honorable 7;
Allah
a- Allah (swt) close and hears prayers 6;
a- No secret meeting 2 or 3 He is present 6;
American Founding fathers had the Bible and Qur'an 2;
Arabs were not always divided 3;
Ascension
a- Minbar you ascend the steps like the Prophet ascended 2;
America has greatest progress for freedom and satan 5;
Arabs
a- had organized society before the Prophet but lost it 5;
Ask people of the Book 7;
b-1
St Basil advised leadership to use pagan language but
influence it with Christian principles 7;
Believe Whoever believes in the Qd shall have no
fear 1;
Best Take the best there of 4;
Bible's language is feeding and bating the pagans 7;
Black
b- Blacks Are cursed because they betrayed their better tradition 8;
b- participating indecency in the media 9;
b- satan plan after slavery to bring the world down 3;
Bread Cast your bread on the water 6;
Breath
b- light travel in straight line seratal mustageem 4;
b- light Are signs of charity as they go out they get
bigger 9;
cCairo Qahhar, Cairo says to Hold in check 3;
Character Prophet is on the exalted character 4;
Charity
c- breath light going out 4, 9;
c- Ialsa sign of charity come down from pure regions 5;
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Christianity
c- St Basil advised leadership to use pagan language but
influence it with Christian principles 7;
Christians hear Qur'an tears flow 4;
d-1
Deceit can be innocent 9;
Devil satan bound thousand years then freed 5;
Dust Moses mountain crumbed to dust 3;
e-1
Earth Two rivers are Niles and Euphrates
z
e- go to any city 4;
e- Pharaohs some of them were excellent rulers 3;
e- Qahhar, Cairo says to Hold in check 3;
Equality All children of Adam arc honorable 7;
Ethics is from Ethiopia 9;
Ethiopia Ethics is from Ethiopia 9;
f-1
Family Save yourself and your families 7;
Fear G___d will take the fear off of us as a burden 1;
Founding fathers had the Bible and Qur'an 2;
Four
f- rivers honey, milk, water, wine 13, 14;
f- Four rivers are urges in human nature 13, 14;
Freedom All children of Adam are honorable 7;
g-1
Garden
g- width heaven-earth means the mind, soul has no limit 4;
h-1
1-leaven
h - begins in this life and hereafter 6;
h- Two rivers are hidden 7, 8;
h- two rivers are knowledge and guidance 8;
h- width garden means the mind, soul has no limit 4;
Hell begins in this life and hereafter 6;
Honey Four rivers honey, milk, water, wine 7;
Human
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h- exists in two forms mortal and enlightened 5, 6;
h- Human spirit seeks perfection 3;
h- prophet I am a mortal like you 6;
i-I
Imam Khutbah bre2th a sign of charity 4;
j-1
Jalsa sign of charity come down from the pure regions 5;
Jesus
j- Asked Peter Jesus said who do you say 1 am 4;
j-said I in you 6, 7;
j- who do you say I am 7;
Jumah Khutbah sign of charity 4;
k-1
Kabah
k- full of blessings 2, 3;
k - Qiblah 2, 3;
Khutbah sign of charity 4;
Dr. King driven by spirit for justice and the termination of spirit of justice for blacks 14;
1-1
Light
1- Breath light travel in straight line seratal mustageem 4;
1- Charity sign is light as it goes out it gets bigger 9;
I- Follow the light sent down with him 2;
1- sign of charity 4;
m-1
Man
m - destiny created while he was in his mother's womb 1;
m - The spirit man little knowledge thereof 2;
m We created man in the best mold 4;
Medinah Munawarah, the city of enlightenment 3;
Meet Allah No secret meeting 2 or 3 Ile is present 6;
Milk Four rivers honey, milk, water, wine 13, 13;
Minbar
to - you ascend the steps like the Prophet ascended 3;
- three steps sign of Muslim charity 9;
Moses
m - Moses ascended the mountain of knowledge, science 16;
- mountain crumbed to dust 5;
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m - Moses in a basket put into river 13;
m - told people go to any city 4;
m - prayed untie my tongue 6;
Mountain
m - will disappear one day knowledge oppressing masses 9;
m - Moses asked to see G d mountain crumbed to dust 5;
m - rivers come from 8;
m - to ascend you can't carry indecency 16;
Muslim scholars are holding their people back for themselves 8;
Mustaqeem
m - Breath light travel in straight line scratal mustaqeem 4;
n-1
Nature Four rivers are urges in human nature 7;
o-1
p-1
Peter Jesus said who do you say 1 am 6, 7;
Pharaohs some of them were excellent rulers 3;
1; Pork eat only out of necessity 1;
Prayer
p- Jalsa sign of charity come down from the pure regions 5;
p - Sajdah two means reconcile with the material system 5;
Prophet
p- ascended 7 heavens 6;
p- I am a mortal like you 6;
p- is on the exalted character 4;
p- Follow the light sent down with him 2;
p- Muhammed is enough 4;
q- I
Qahhar, Cairo says to Hold in check 3;
Qiblah 2, 3;
Qur'an
q- Christians hear Qur'an tears flow 4;
q- Follow the light sent down with him 2;
q- Founding fathers had the Bible and Qur'an 2;
q- Take the best there of 4;
r-1
Racism All children of Adam are honorable 7;
Revelation Take the best there of 4;
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River
r- Four are urges in human nature to educate and
develop culture 13;
r- Heaven Two rivers hidden are knowledge, guidance 13, 14;
r- Earth Two rivers are Niles and Euphrates 13. 14;
r- Moses in a bask:--,t pot into river 13;
Ruh
r- Allah gave to everything some of His 2;
r- The spirit man little knowledge thereof 2;
s-1
Sajdah two means reconcile with the material system 5;
satan bound thousand years then freed 5;
Scripture Take the best there of 4;
Spirit
s- Allah gave to everything some of His 2;
s- Human spirit seeks perfection 3;
s- man little knowledge thereof 2;
t-1
Tongue Moses prayed untie my tongue 6;
u-1
Urges Four rivers are urges in human nature 13, 14;
v-1
w-1
Water
w- Cast your bread on the water 6;
w- Four rivers honey, milk, water, wine 13;
w- Heaven 2 rivers hidden knowledge and guidance 13, 14;
w- Earth Two rivers are Niles and Euphrates 13;
w- Moses in a basket put into river 13, 14;
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10-7-2007 Ramadan Sunday Session
Homewood, Ill.
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 Mohammed (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.
Imam Warith Deen Mohammed
Morning Session
We start this morning, the last day of the session, he third session, the last day of the sessions. We are
going to begin this session with dhikr and I want you to follow me in dhikr: Subhanallah, the shortened
version, is said ten times. Al haamdu lil laah is said ten times. Allahu Akbar is said ten times. We have
completed the three dhikrs and we did each one ten times beginning with glorifying G_d, praising G_d,
and lastly acknowledging that G_d is the bigger the greater.
Where do we get that from? Who told us, Allahu Akbar? The one who was doing dhikr when Abraham
was contemplating the order of G_d's material system, earth, sky, every thing, he was contemplating or
reflecting on it, or thinking on it, dhirk, to take off the burden on of heart and soul; the burden of not
knowing to Whom he owed obedience. He was looking for the highest authority, the One to Whom he
said he owes obedience. But he didn't know who that was. So you know how the story goes, for the
benefit of some of you who might not have heard it I know most of you have. He began searching in the
night and he was studying the heavens, the skies, and understand that the word for, "Heavens" in the
Qur'an is skies. So we say skies, talking about what we see visibly up there then we say heaven, a
mystery. But in Qur'anic Arabic the same word for sky is the word for heaven.
So he was impressed by the beautiful canopy of the night, bedecked with stars, or adorned with beautiful
lights and one attracted him more than the other.' The star they believe he saw is the star called Sirius. It's a
big star in the heavens. He contemplated on it and it got his attention for a while and he was thinking it
could be G_d. Then, a star fell. As you know they do fall, but not the real big star; what we see in our
eyes that we call stars, not the scientific definition of the star. He said, "No, they cannot be my G_d
because they fall. Like Hollywood stars, they rise and fall.
But he stayed all night. This is scientific thinking. The story is to teach us what scientific thinking is.
Scientific thinking is not to jump to a conclusion. Like that is the impulse, the ordinary, common way of
responding, or the impulse in us and ordinary humans. It is to be impressed and we go with that. We don't
stop and question what impressed us. But Abraham was a scientific thinker and he didn' t jump td'
conclusions even if something impressed him. So he was impressed with the heavens and the stars and the sky
but he did not just say, "This is a beautiful sky, that must be G_d up there". Ile stayed with it and he wanted
to see what was going to happen. Will it remain this way after one hour? So he stayed long enough for a
star to fall and observed a star falling and that changed his mind.
Now he stayed until the day came. When it came the dawn was so beautiful and impressive and the rays
of the sun were so beautiful and impressive and when it got to its most beautiful stage, some of you if you
have been out in the morning in a wide open plain, the sunrise can be beautiful just like sun set;
especially if you're sitting on a water front like a big lake or ocean and you see the sun rising up out of that
water. It looks just like it is real. It looks like it is actually rising up out of the water.
"My G d is not One Who sets"
See how Allah made His creation? Think about that. Actually, I have done it. I watched it more than once
and if you are in the right situation where the water is a big lake or ocean the sun rises up and it looks like
you see water dripping off of it, like it is a dish or something, not fire. It looks like you see liquid dripping
off of it as it is coming up out of the water. Allah made it appear like that to us so that we would use our
sense of beauty and adore the Lord Who made that happen. But man is deceived, He thinks without
bringing his thought or his thinking to a logical conclusion. Abraham was such a man. He did not just
think. He wanted his thinking to bring him to a logical conclusion. He was a scientific teacher. He said it
is so beautiful, splendid, radiant this must be my G_d. But he is a scientific thinker He had to watch it
for a while. So he sat and watched it as it came up to noon time and went down. When it set and went out
and he did not see it anymore he said, "This cannot be my G_d. My Qd is One Who does not set. Praise be
to Allah." This has reference to a lot of things in the history of man's struggle to find the absolute truth
or the true reality of things.
Now let us go back in the story and life of Abraham. How did he begin? He as a boy and his father was
the ruler. And his father and his father's people worshiped idols. So Abraham, as a boy, didn't like that,
so he destroyed the idols and his father questioned him saying, "Abraham, did you do this?" Abraham
said, "Ask the big one." And his father exiled him, put him out from their kingdom. And Abraham began
traveling from one land to another. And you know how he became a scientific thinker, searching the
universe for Qd. I just went over that in little small details. Abraham also is the one looking for a spot to
place, to build the house for the worship of G_d. I hope you have your papers out because everything I'm
telling you is relevant to everything that I'm going to be saying for the first day, second day, and now,
even to the khutbah on Friday and the selection of the chapter that I recited. Everything is connected.
Nothing is disconnected. I planned the presentation and it begins with a khutbah and Salatul Jurnah.
Abraham is a community
Abraham found the Black Stone, and the way the story went is like he saw the black stone fall. Now
understand that this is the story of a scientific thinker who is looking for scientific support for what he
wants to introduce to people to order society. He was a community thinking man. He thought
community.' How do we know that? Because Prophet Muhammed said the ummah of Abraham and the
millah of Abraham. 3 This is the millah of Abraham. It means the hope of Abraham and it is a community
after the order of Abraham haneefah, the upright in nature. So we know that Abraham is a community.
I was in Saudi Arabia as a member of the Supreme Council of Masajid, masjids, and I still am. I still have
that poon. As I was leaving the president of Rabita al Islami, the Islamic world league, he said, "You
know Imam Abraham is a community." He said that because he wanted to leave that on my mind. He
was one of those learned people that if he likes you, he like to share something with you. I said, "Yes"
and he said, "And Muhaturned is a community." I had to think on that. I did not say, "Yes". I didn't say
anything. I remained quiet and just went out. I greeted him and left. I was getting ready to leave, coming
back home.
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But that is true. I don't know a prophet who is not a single figure and a plural figure at the same time,
especially Jesus Christ, Adam, Abraham, and Muhammed, peace be on them. Those for sure are single
and plural figures at the same time. That means when we think of that person, or that picture, or that
figure, we should understand that it is a man, a single person, but also he is a picture of the whole people
that he leads or is sent to lead. So he is a community picture as well as a personal or individual picture.
It is very clear and in the Christian world the church uses the expression the, "Body Christ," and they
are not talking about Jesus, personally. They are talking about the church, the whole congregation, the
following. I know where I'm going. I don't need a single note today, praise be to Allah.
Abraham thought where the black stone fell the message to him was, "Build My house, here". So that is
where he built the house, he and his son. And they put the Black Stone in the corner of that house. Too
many of you have a tendency to just take these things and don't try to ask what is this all about? If you
would follow the guidance of Qur'an and follow the guidance of Muhammed, the Prophet, that he gave
us, too, with his teachings and comments on things you wouldn't be lost like that.
Prophet Muhammed comes in the progression of the revelation
Prophet Muhammed comes in the progression of the revelation. He comes in the sequence of prophets
who came one after another, succeeding each other, who came one after another and the Qur'an is a Book
that is composed of Books that came before. That simply means there is no big deal. Don't be telling me,
"Your head is hurting and this is deep" if that is true of you, you should not come here. In fact, you
should just watch TV and listen to the radio and music and forget about serious matters. You are not
conditioned for it. Your mind is not conditioned for it. Something is wrong.
Do you know sometimes you open your mouth and you say, "I'm a hypocrite. I'm a disbeliever" and you
are not saying anything but, "Man he was heavy I couldn't get it. Did he give you a headache, brother?"
But when believers hears you they hear the voice of a hypocrite, a disbeliever. I'm talking about the true
believers among us. They know you, brother. You can't hide form them. They know each other. And if
you are not one of the believers they know you right away. And we knew that under the Honorable Elijah
Mohammed. We could tell a phony when we looked at him or when he appeared.
Kabah: Many houses were built but the Kabah was the first built for worship of the one true G_d
Abraham and his son built the house and Allah says of the house that he built that it is the, "Awwal bait,"
the most ancient of houses, the first of the houses. ° It is called, "Al bait ateeq." s That means the most
ancient house and it is called the first of the houses constructed for the worship of G_d. Now really, if we
are talking about a physical occurrence we know that is not the first of the house built. But if we are
talking about the true house with the construction that says this house is fortte worship of the true and
only G_d, the Kabah built by Abraham and his son is the first one. Many houses were built but they did
not receive guidance. They didn't call on the true G_d. Abraham identified the true G_d, so when he was
building that house, he was doing it with a knowledge of the true G_d. And the true G_d is the G_d of
everything. The true GA is the Gd of the universe and also the Lord of the universe, the Lord of all the
worlds.
Create means Gd brought matter into existence.
Evolver means He progressed the universe from its simple form to the complex form we see now.
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So he is the One Who evolved creation, itself. The word evolve is different from the word created.
Created means He brought it into existence. Evolved means that he progressed it from a beginning that
was simple to its big, huge, complex form that we see now. And we are told that the heavenly space, or
the universal, ethereal space, some of you have these other terms but I want everybody to understand
clearly what I'm saying. That space is said to have been smoke, or not real smoke, but appearing as
smoke or as dust in confusion.' Not dust rested, dust in confusion, shaken all about, stirred up; or as
smoke in confusion, the same thing as stirred up, going everywhere. And you have seen smoke like that.
Some smoke rises straight up. Some goes out and looks like it is just all confused and that is because the
way the fire is going on. So it can give a violent motion and some of them translate it, "In violent motion,
or commotion." It is a picture of the beginning of the creation in space. No star had formed, nothing
orderly had happened. It was in disarrangement. It was in disorder and G_d brought it to order and He
evolved life on earth from nothing to something. So this is what we mean when we say Allah is the Lord
of the worlds. We are talking about that process.
Allah, the Lord of Mankind
And when we say Allah is the Lord of mankind we are talking about a process beginning with man as
empty headed, nonscientific, uneducated and Allah revealed to one of them who presented himself in
form, in the natural body. This is not a revealed person, not a person who received revelation like
Muhammed, we discussed already, before revelation. He took a person like that and He communicated to
that person and made him a leader for the beginning of civilization, to start civilization on this planet
earth.
Abraham built the house with a knowledge of the oneness of G d. We started this session today on
Sunday which will be concluded with Thule' prayer. We are going to have after prayer a time space before
the live radio broadcast. So in that space if you don't have a schedule to get out of here quickly, we can at
least have 40 minutes for questions,
But your questions have to be taken at random. You will make questions and we will take a question from
a brother, a question from a sister and we will start up here and take one in the first three rows and then
we will go three more rows back and we'll take one question from that row and will continue until we get
to the back, going three rows back. So I can't handle a lot of questions. We don't have time so they will
bring the questions to me and we will take only two questions from each stop, one from a brother and one
from a sister. I will go through them and look at them and see which one I should respond to for the better
benefit of all of us. I will do the selection. So I might not select any more than about 3 or 5 and I will
answer those questions, en sha Allah.
A house built for all people, full of blessings
We don't have time in this session to bring out or to identify in Qur'an and the teaching of Muhammed,
the Prophet, and relate it to scriptures that were before, to show you the science that is in the house we
call Kabah. You look at a little simple house. It is simple, but very deep. It is simple but complex at the
same time. It represents humanity. It represents the beginning of human society in it best constniction.
Allah says of the house that in it are many blessings. It is a blessed house. What you should understand is
that the very house itself exudes or extends, imparts messages to the true thinker, the one who is thinking
for G_d's way. It imparts messages. It is full of blessings, a house built for all people; not for one people,
for all people; not for one nation, for all nations.
Adam not leader for all nation; he's the beginning
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He made Abraham the leader for all the nations and the Bible says he made him a father. And we call him
father, also. In the Bible G_d actually says that. "I changed your name from Abram to Abraham and you
will be a father to the many". s This means he is a leader to all the nations. It is in the Bible. It is the same
message in the Bible and in the Qur'an of him being the leader for all the nations and all people. Now
that is saying something, too, to us.
He never said that of Adam, why? Because Adam had not ascended enough to have enough knowledge of
G_d's creation. He is the beginning of the rise of the mind, intellect, and heart that G_d wants for the
people, or wants in the leader for the people. He is the beginning. He is the first In fact, he was so new
and his thinking was so new and fresh and young that the satan was able to deceive him out of his mind
that G_d created him in, But as we said in the session before that he met a word from his Lord and he
repented his wrong and G d, Allah, accepted him.'
I'm not rushing with this. Relax, you are fasting. You should be relaxed. A fasting man does have enough
energy to be all nervous and jittery. It is supposed to settle you down.
Qawaaid refers to grammatical construction
The house is a metaphor of the word of G_d
The expression, "Qawaaid bait", gives us knowledge, not just imagination and when Abraham was
building the house the term for how he was constructing it is, "Qawaaid." How many advanced students
in Qur'anic Arabic are in the first three rows? Do you know anything about grammar? Yes, Imam Agin,
who has studied for a long time, Qur'anic Arabic and this history of ours. The word that is used is the
word for grammatical construction. So the house is a physical picture, but the real meaning is not
physical. The house represents language that Allah communicated to Abraham.
So the house is a metaphor of the word of G_d. In the beginning there was the word. 10 So the house is a
metaphor, a physical picture, that you should not take as a physical house, but you should think on it,
dhikr. You should meditate on it. You should reflect on it. You should think deep into it. Now what
does it looks like? It looks like a little small cubicle and if it is the first house why is it so small?
Because it is the first house. It is saying, "This is your beginning. You have a big house now. You have
mansions but your beginning was from a little small simple house, a small simple structure; no furniture
in it. How do know? The rulers of Saudi Arabia took me and a few who were with me inside the Kabah
and asked us did we want to pray in there. Do you know what I told them? 1 don't feel right praying inside
the Kabah. Prayers are to be done outside.
It is not a real house. It is a sign that is imparting messages to the real thinker who G_d has blessed to be a
thinker. So it is speaking of our beginning as a social body. The real student if he doesn't understand
what I mean when I say social body, he will to go to the English dictionary, not to the Arabic dictionary.
You speak and you know English. You don't know Arabic. Very few of you know Arabic. Even those
who think they know Arabic don't know it, most of them. I'm looking at them and listening to them. We
have some here who know Qur'anic Arabic, good students. I'm very proud of them, too. I'm not going to
name anybody but we have several among us right not. There might be more, many more who are in this
audience right now, females, too.
So you should go to the dictionary and look up social and don't just look up the first definition. If it has
twenty definitions, go through all of them. I it has twenty entries explaining what social is or giving the
definition of it, you should not stop at just looking at entry 1. Go all the way down until you finish the
meanings given in that dictionary and use a good dictionary not a little pocket dictionary. You need a
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good collegiate dictionary, or American Heritage dictionary. You need a good dictionary that has a lot of
definitions in it and you go through it thinking on my expression I gave you and find the one that you
think gives you the most help and understanding about what I was communicating when I said social
body.
Allah made people to be a social order. "How can you prove that?" He says we all came from one father
and a mother, that is enough. That says it, that the original, the beginning of human beings on this earth is
a social order, socially related to one another; and you interact with each other upon respect for the
relationship that you have with each other. Father, parent, mother, parents and children, brothers and
sisters, those are relationships and what Allah calls the family ties. And He says reverence, have taqwa for
Qd, but also have taqwa for the family ties. So what does it mean? If G_d says have taqwa for G_d, for
Me and then He says, "Wal arham," meaning also the close ties of family. If He says that the word
literally goes back to the womb of the female, it means the fruits of her womb and the fruits of her are the
children that is produced by the father. So the common sense conclusion is that Allah is talking about
family. But the way He communicates is most powerful and rich in broadcasting meanings, light and
understanding.
Rain: symbolic of revelation from G_d
Some of you went out of here shouting yesterday. Sometimes you get more out of a quiet talk and cool
slow communication than you get out of hot, loud talk. That was beautiful yesterday. I had to get up out
of my seat. I got a little piece of the Holy Ghost and I could not sit down anymore. Allah compares His
sending down of communication from the heavens for our benefit on the earth as rain. And He describes
the Qur'an as a light rain that is coming steadily down. " It is light, fine drops of water, but corning
steadily, not like heavy rain comes with a lot of noise, big flashes of lightning and sometimes within a
minute or so the clouds are gone and the light is out shining again. Right? That is the way joyful
messages affects us and sometimes will actually make tears start coming down our eyes.
But that is good and Allah is the best Knower, because you know without the lightning flashes, the rain
that comes down may be only water. But you know I mentioned that rain comes down that is not only
water but has material substance in it, nitrates, natural fertilizer, to help the growth we need."
Everything G_d has created when man discovers it, it was created to communicate G_d's Will and plan
and His way of helping His creation. So no matter how much science draws out whatever it brings out, it
also is a communicator. Everything is a communicator. It communicates G_d's Will, plan and way for
mankind. So there are signs in everything Don't think because the science has gone in there and got it out
now we are talking about neutrons, atoms, electrons, but are we talking about something that Allah did not
do? No. Allah did this. Man did not create this. So even the neutrons, electrons, molecules, are signs,
chemicals, numbers I through 9 and then and then repeating it by the same logic until you get to a
hundred or infinite forever, you can just count forever. Did you know counting is eternal? Can you
imagine there is an end to counting? There is no end to counting. It is everlasting. It is ever extending. It is
eternal. But the word for this common language understanding we have is infinity. It goes on without end.
Jesus as a spirit and the word of G d.
Jesus Christ in the church or for the Christians is the image or manifestation of the divine, But to
understand even Christian science I'm talking about you can find it in many places in America. But I'm
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talking about in the Vatican, I know they have it. I've been among them, I have seen it. They have taken
me on tours. I know they have the higher understanding. They don't think Jesus is a flesh and blood
creation. That does not make Christ flesh and blood. This body here, this mortal form does not make
Christ. They know that. And they have the same understanding we have as Muslims who have been
informed or educated in this particular regard. They understand Jesus as a spirit and the word of G_d.
Now listen to what I'm going to tell you right now. Muhammed, the Prophet, said in one of the inspired
hadiths, it was not an ordinary hadith. He also had inspiration and under divine inspiration he spoke. It
was not the Qur'an. It was him speaking as a person, as one of the people in his circumstances, or in his
immediate environment. It was not as Prophet Muhammed. When Allah spoke to him as the Prophet or as
His messenger and it was Qur'an that he shared with us that was coming to him from G_d. But this
inspired hadith means that the spirit of G d was strong on him when he spoke that and here is one of the
things he said; and it, too, came down like that soft fine rain. "The servant devoted to his Lord, he strives
with his own soul, with his self, to get closer and closer in obedience to what his Lord wants. There
comes a time in his devotion and striving that he becomes so close in obedience to Allah's swt plan and
will that when He strikes you it is as though G_d hit you"."'"
And when he speaks to you it is as though G_d spoke. Some of you wrestled with what I said yesterday
all day and you tried to share your opinion, your views with others and you were not pleased with what I
did and said. I didn't bear you G d heard you." I'm telling you, you should not be among us. You are not
a believer. I'm speaking of yesterday of a vision of my hand with the followers of Muhartuned, in a
pledge under the tree.
Getting back to Abraham and building the house, raise your hand if you have better understanding of the
house, now. Wonderful, thank you, praise be to Allah. Let us now go from the building of the house to
Abraham's son who helped him build the house. Abraham had a partner building the house and his
partner was his son. Isn't that a beautiful picture? Such a great thing he was doing building a house that
would be a sign communicating wisdom, faith and blessing to all mankind, built for al people and his son
was working with him. Let us see how this son earned the right to help our father build such a marvelous
and wonderful sign.
Black people are Hagar's children
You know they call us Hagar's children. A lot of you young folks, you are far from that language. But
when I was a boy I heard the expression, "Black people are Hagar's children. Well we are making them
pay for it, all the derogatory slurs and whatever. Now is the time with your leader ImamW. Dcen
Mohammed. We can make all them pay for it; yes, those who are still in that ugly mind set thinking we
are inferior to white folks. We are going to bum them all. You know the truth can burn? It is a strong fire.
So we go to his son now and we want to review his son coming up from birth. The first thing we have to
see to understand this son, Ismail, is that his mother was a woman who had been put out, an outcast. High
society rejected her and the high society that rejected her was the society of the accepted religious order in
its highest recognition, or in the highest view we have of that community. The most respected of them
rejected her and that is given in the name, Sarah. For Sarah was the wife of Abraham and he was the
father of the order. After asking him to, "Take my maid servant. I am too old to hear a child." And he
did it as his wife Sarah asked him. He took Hagar for his wife, Hajar, in Arabic.
And as she began to show pregnancy Sarah began to get jealous. And Abraham, naturally, his heart is the
most excellent of human hearts, "Qalben salim." " It means beautiful, safe from harming anybody;
beautiful heart of peace that has no ill will in it, or interest in it to harm anybody. So he is going to show
kindness to Hagar and he is going to show more kindness and care as she becomes more burdened with
child. And this made Sarah jealous. You ask, "How can this man talk like this as he was there when it
happened." G_d was there and He is always there at all times and all places. So whatever G_d wants His
servant to know He just says be and it is, "Kun fa yakun." Actually for me I know I don't get any credit.
My disposition is I know nothing. I have access to nothing. This is not my credit, this is Your credit,
Allah
Hagar, Sarah denied her a place like Mary and Jesus
were denied
So she said take this woman out of here. She cannot stay here. So Abraham with a heavy heart because he
loved his wife Sarah with perfect love, he took Hagar out in a desert place. What does that tell us? Much,
but, I'm talking on the level that practically any common sense person can understand. That is where I am
talking now. When Mary, the mother of Jesus Christ, was carrying him, peace be on the two of them
there was not a place for her to deliver her baby. Every place rejected her. They wouldn't accept her, so
she ended up having to bear her child in a manger, a place where they kept animals, like a barn. The
picture is that of a barn where the animals were kept. That is where she had to go and have her delivery.
Now don't think there is not relationship, or no connection that is very important for Mary's dilemma and
desperate situation and that of Hagar and her baby's. There is a direct and strong connection. And
actuality, the issue is repeated in the New Testament; the same issue that is in the Old Testament it is
repeated in the New Testament; the issue of discrimination and judging people by their physical or
material status and by their situation under empowering forces that deny them free expression, free
exercise of the native talents that G_d 'created them with. The same issue comes up in the New Testament
and it is given in the concept, or in the picture of Mary and her child that she was carrying.
You see the rain is coming slowly, in fine drops. So when you see me slowing down like this I have to
wait, too. I have a cup, too. And it is coming down so slow I have to wait until I get enough in there. So
that barren place, that desert showed no cultural development, dead land. That barren place, arid land, dry
land, that is not producing anything, that land is where Abraham saw the marking, the black stone and the
place for building the house for all people, all mankind.
Hagar running back and forth is symbolic of the
mind trying to find a solution, desperately
Now his son, he is in that barren place and this is before the house was built. He is in his mother and she
delivers in him in that barren place, that nonproductive place, a garden with no fruits. She delivers him
and she can't find water for her baby and he is thirsting for water. So she panicked, became very
desperate. Panic means you lose you rational control. You lose your mental control. Thoughts are not
helping you. So you just panic and you just go upon spirit or upon the force of spirit in you. And she went
upon that, panicking as she went between the two hills. She would run up one hill, Safa and then she
would run to the other hill, Marwa. And the hills raise you up from lower levels, right? And isn't that our
natural spirit to go up to G_d? When you really desperately need G d you raise your hands and you go
up, you life, your head up, "Oh G_d! Oh G_d." And if there is a raised plain you want to get up higher. So
she saw these two hills. She ran up to one screaming and pleading for help and she ran to the other and as
soon as she would get there she would run back going backwards and forward. But isn't that the way the
mind operates when you are trying to find a solution? It goes from one extreme to another. It goes to
one extreme and it doesn't find an answer. Then it leaves that and goes to the opposite extreme. That is
what we should understand; that this picture of what was happening to her is what happens in our mind
when we are desperate to find the answer or solution because we need it immediately. We need to find it
in our mind, immediately. The situation is grave, so we start searching and we run to one direction in our
mind and we don't find the help; so then we go to the opposite direction, can't find the help. So you keep
running back and forth, back and forth. And while she was doing that the Merciful Gd was working, too,
and He caused a water well to spring up in dry land in the desert. Isn't this beautiful?
Ismail water springing up at his heels meant spiritual balance
Abraham was motivated more by reason than by soul or spirituality
Water sprang up at his heels. What does the heel mean? What do you rest on when you stand up? Your
heels, don't you? So the water springing up at his heels meant spiritual balance. Here is a son that G_d is
giving Abraham who is going to be spiritually balanced. Abraham needed help from somebody like that
Why? Because he was motivated by reason more than by soul or spirituality. That is why he asked certain
questions of G_d like, "G_d, tell me how the dead are going to be raised." 18 When Ismail grew up
nobody had to explain to Ismail how the dead would be raised, because he had already been dead and G_d
raised him up from the dead spiritually; gave him spiritual balance.
We died twice, as mortals and then as thinkers
And isn't that what Allah said? And from the dead He brings forth the living. And He brings the living
out of the dead. And that is what He has done for us. He brought the living out of the dead and now He's
bringing the dead out of the living. We died twice, didn't we? We died as mortals and then we died as
thinkers and we had to reject the dead matter that was in our thinking, before. That i s taking the dead out
of the living, isn't it? 1' Praise be to Allah.
The feet have more psychic awareness that any other body part
So Ismail is a great sign, especially water coming up in a dead desert place at his heel. Now you know
most of the leaders or thinkers in the religion, traditionally, they see that occurrence as the beginning of
people's awareness and travel to that spot for water, but not for just ordinary water, for water seen as part
of the ritual, or part of the rites of hajj, the Zam Zam well. That brings me to another important focus for
us during these sessions at the end of the session, really. And that is the saying of G_d, Allah, in the
Qur'an that the righteous who remain faithful, steadfast, and dutiful, there is prepared for them ga rdens
underneath under which rivers flow." And we mentioned in the session before four rivers, didn't we?
Two on the earth and two in the,sky or the heavens. Now from the sky rain descends and the river is
underneath. What is that saying to us? That this is activity in the psyche. The psyche is thought to be here
(mind) but where is its source? Psychic power, where is its source? It is in the feet, not in the head. The
feet have more psychic awareness than any other part of the body. The feet see in the dark better than our
eyes.
So the two rivers in the heavens, the river of light and purity. G_d says of purity we have been given
already, it is not that He wants to burden you but He wants that you be purified." So that is what Allah
tells us to position us to enjoy obeying I Jim even when it is difficult. And the real true believer, when
we're doing something for Allah, we know He wants us to do it. It could be so heavy on the muscle or
painful for the body or whatever, we arc not thinking about pain. Allah just takes the pain away from us
and makes us unconscious of the difficulty in pain. He takes it away from us and all we are doing is
enjoying doing what Allah wants.
It was not easy for those brothers to carry three hundred papers around. That is a lot of papers to be
carrying around. But for the love of Allah, believing with their hearts, soul and mind that what they were
doing is what Allah wanted and that the results would be big and good for the following of the Honorable
Elijah Mohammed or the Nation of Islam, we did not pay any attention to drudgery or difficulties. We
were not even aware of it. I have seen brothers standing on post in the snow in February outside the
armory and standing there and they had the expression on their faces like they were standing in a warm
plush palace or something.
St. Basil influenced the expression of Christianity
through pagan concepts.
You know we began with dhikrs, but I have a knot here and I had to yesterday when I got home, it came
to my mind that I left some important matters hanging. My thought was taken off of those things. I went
to something else and I brought that information back yesterday. So I did catch those things that were
hanging and filled in yesterday. And today, again I mentioned St Basil and I didn't complete it. My
thoughts went to something else. However, I did give this though in the previous session exactly, I didn't
come out in fullness.
What he said was, "Let us take what the pagans have in practice and put in it our principles". So here is
the leader of the Christians at that time or at least a strong influential leader of the Christians at that time
inviting the church or the leadership to express Christianity through pagan physical concepts. I
emphasize that physical concept because don't think the pagans were fools. They were learned people.
They just didn't have the right idea of G_d; but they were very learned people. They had high cultures
and civilizations but without the purity that Allah wants us to have it in. And it is mentioned in the Qur'an
that some of these nations that have passed away had achieved more than you. ' It was bigger and more
powerful than you. This is in the Qur'an.
So St. Basil was the one who sanctioned or gave the freedom to Christianity to use paganism and its outer
expression, but animate old paganism with Christian spirit and principles; give life to dead pictures; put
Christian spirit and messages in those images. So you know you don't have an image that is called
Baccus. That was one of the gods they put in physical picture, or Apollo. You will not go in a church and
see those by name. You will sec saints and rulers and even Jesus Christ and I don't even like to do or
mention this. But you will see them pretending to picture or represent him and he's in the form of a
material body. They have given him a material body and put a crown on his head of thorns that looks like
some of the crowns that the Roman Caesar rulers wore. But it is not a crown for decoration, it is
punishment. It has little spikes and it is crushed into his head and he is bleeding, showing that they are
penetrating his flesh and blood is dripping down from them. Then they have a bloody scene, too, where
he is pierced through the heart, they say, with a spear. They have all that and then some pictures show
blood dripping from the nails. They have his feet nailed, one upon the other, a foot upon foot and you can
see little bits of red blood dripping from that puncture wound, also.
So this is a sad and bloody scene, a savage scene. I call it savagery and I guess it is intended to say that
these people were not really human or humanly cultured or refined they were savages who did this to
Christ. So all those statues in the church that is from the culture of the pagans. It was approved by their
leaders for them to bring that into the church. That is saying that Jesus Christ did not do that. He did not
give them images like that.
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Ismail a lamb was shown so he was not sacrificed
When Jesus Christ wanted them to show, the common people, it is too much for the common people to
grasp or find by themselves. When he wanted to show his disciples, his companions, like those
companions of the Prophet, meaning those who represented the leadership close to the Prophet and
getting the best of instructions and knowledge, etc. from them, when Jesus Christ, according to the
Gospel, the Bible, wanted to show them himself what does the Bible say he did? " He took them up in a
mountain and when he got up there the picture, like Ismail, vanished and G_d imposed over that the
picture of a lamb to give instructions to Abraham that you don't have to sacrifice your son." But
understand the meanings to sacrifice a sheep as a ritual that holds the light and understanding for the
sacrificing of your son or the killing of your son as a sacred act or sacrifice.
Christ Jesus, according to the Gospel, took them up in the mountain and by some divine stroke or action he,
as they saw him in body, disappeared, vanished, and they saw light instead of him and in the Bible it says it
was the light of Moses and Elijah. Am I right? Those who are more familiar with the Bible you can correct
me if I go wrong. So it was not their bodies. They did not see the bodies of Moses and Elijah, but they saw
only light, he light of Moses and Elijah.
Jesus' light was the light of Moses and Elijah
So the light of Jesus Christ according to the Bible is the light of Moses and Elijah. That is the way he
wanted his students, his disciples, to see him, not in physical form but in the form of the light of
revelation; that his light or his body is a body of light and that body can best be seen and understood if
you see it as the light that G_d put into Moses and the light that G_d put into Elijah. And somewhere in
the Bible they asked the Prophet John, "Are you Elijah?" " It is the same kind of logic, perception and
reasoning. They asked the Prophet John, are you that prophet? And the explanation is in the Bible,
meaning Elijah (Elias).
So the people who were really knowledgeable among the following in the disciples they did not see
physical bodies they saw John and asked who is this? Is he coming in fulfillment of the word of G_d, the
revelation? Who is he? So the way he was conducting his mission they thought that maybe this is Elijah.
So they asked "Are you that prophet?"
Prophets existed in scripture before physical person
Muhammed existed in scripture before he was ever existing as a physical person on earth, so did Jesus
Christ; so did all the major Prophets or servants of G_d. "'"'"-" Allah says he is the one mentioned in the
Torah and in the Gospel. 3',32 And then gives words describing him and I found the very words that are
referred to in the Bible. I told you I studied the Bible I read it once from Genesis to Revelation without
studying it; and then I read it the second time and carried out really what I wanted to do the first time. The
language gives us the picture of a liberator coming to take the bonds of burden and yoke of slavery off of
the people. This is in the Qur'an and the same language is in the Bible. So that clearly supports what I am
saying, that Muhammed, the Prophet, was in the Bible, in scripture that came before G d materialized
him on the planet earth. And by materializing I mean gave him rebirth, enlightened him and raised his
stature high in the heavens.
Honey the product of the labor of the bees.
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I'm going to have to say something about honey just a little bit. Honey is the product or fruit of the labor
of the bees. And Allah mentions it in the Qur'an as the river honey.' I already gave you that one, but
more importantly, He says that it is beneficial or medicinal as a medicine for healing.' Now what you
will find in the world, I mean the Islamic world, is only that. They say, "Eat honey. It is in the Qur'an and
G_d says it has healing power or properties." True, but when you study the bee and the work that
produced that product that is when you get the higher understanding. Bees, especially the queen, those big
bees you see them flying, they look like an over loaded helicopter and it makes you wonder how that
heavy body can get about so easily on the air with those little short wings that look like very thin, see
through paper. And they are just carrying that heavy body. It looks like the wings are terribly weighted
down. A beautiful, beautiful sign of G d's word. You know what all the words in the Qur'an are called?
Aayaats, all the expressions are called Ayaats. An expression is called Ayat, sentences, Ayaats. And Allah
says in the heavens and in the earth as well as in your selves are ayaats. " He uses the same term, the
same expression. So if we have ayaat in the Qur'an then what are these ayaats? It is revelation from G d.
It is His communication, directly from Him through the medium of the angel, Jibril, to a man, a human,
Muhammed, and then to us from the human who received it.
So these are ayaats or ayat and he says they are in us, too. Everything in us, everywhere are ayaats and it
is translated so that you don't confuse this picture of communication with the Qur'an, it is changed by the
translators where they say signs. But the word used in the Qur'an is the same word used for the
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expression in the Qur'an from G d, ayaat. It is the same word, exactly. When Allah says there are signs
in us He does not say signs. That is a different word in Arabic. He said the same thing He said for the
Qur'an, ayaats.
Read my signs in creation, beneath the surface
And what was the first thing He told Muhammed? He said read. 36 "Read what, Lord? You did not give
me any thing to read, yet? Creation. Now you got it from Elijah's son. He told Muhammed read and He
had not given him anything to read yet. But He said read not in the name of Allah, read in the name of
your Lord Who created. So what was Allah telling Muhammed to do? "Read My signs in creation, in the
heavens, the earth and also in you. And when Muhammed finally understood that G_d was saying read
deep, beneath the surface, read into the matter and its nature and construction etc. When he understood
that then he was ready to get Allah's voice.
So Allah continued after He said read. The time between read first verse and the next verse in the history
of mankind on this earth that could have been maybe a thousand or two thousand years. G_d is not only
communicating to Muhammed, He is giving him the understanding of His will in the history of
civilization or human society. That it started Muhammed with them reading My creation. That is how
they were able to get their civilization started or their life as a civilized order on this planet earth.
It began with them reading into My creation or getting insights into My creation for their benefit and plan
on earth. And then you must understand Muhammed, that when they started doing that it gave them the
help they needed to establish themselves as a social order. This is the making of My man.
Chapter 96 Verse 2:
fle says man is from blood adhering. Now this is a physical picture of the mortal body, how it is brought
from sperm to blood and finally a fetus lump to finally a complete person. So Allah gives us those steps
and pictures but this is not talking about a single individual and it is not talking about mortal flesh it is
talking about the process that brought about the establishment of an intelligent social order. That you first
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We had some comments on the position of prayer in the Eqaarnah. First, we say, "Allahu Akbar", right?
To begin any prayer we must say that. Now understand this, make a note here, too. If you have not done
it, I have talked on it before. Salat is not prayer as prayer is understood in the world. Prayer in the world is
dua. Salat is not limited to dua, whereas the whole of the prayer is a dua, because we give whatever we
are reciting from Qur'an in our salat. We are in a spirit to submit to what Allah wants of us, if we are
praying correctly. If we come to the prayer correctly we are in a spirit to accept whatever Allah wants for
us as our form and life on this planet earth. That should be our disposition, spiritually, if not registered
rationally on our minds. I think the hearts of the believers conform to that.
But dua is not salat. There are dua's in the Qur'an. So I might be reciting a passage from the Qur'an, or a
chapter in my salat and there might be a dua within the contents, or context of that passage, or that chapter
I'm reciting from Qur'an; because the Qur'an has also prayers of special believers that were revealed as
part of the Qur'an.
"Oh My slaves, or oh My servants"
So prayer is a better word for salat. I don't try to impose this on persons outside of those who accept my
influence, my guidance, or my leadership, and what I give as guidance in support of or reflecting what is
in Qur'an and in the sunnah of the Prophet. Salat is worship and worship in Qur'anic Arabic and
understanding or meaning comes from the word "abd" or "abada". When we stand for salat we stand as
the Ebaad of GA, the servants or the worshipers of Cr_d. That is what He calls us. He gave us that name.
He says, in Arabic, "Yaa ebaadee," translated it is, "Oh My slaves, or oh My servants." But we know
G_d is kind and merciful, gentle, to His servants. So the term slave is too harsh and it has such strong
meanings, such strong communication in the history of the world and how the world has treated human
beings and enslaved them.
So it is a word too harsh in English for us to use. I'm proud and happy to be G_d's slave. But for
communication's sake, for communicating the right meanings and right feelings, we should say servant
and not slave, like they do in Qur'an. In Qur'an the translators translate it servant.
Worship in Al Islam is conforming to the will of Gd
G d's will is going to inherit you
So worship in Al Islam is conforming to the will of G_d. Obedience, agreeing in and to G_d's will, that is
what worship is. And Gd's will was before He revealed any scripture to any prophet or anybody, peace
be upon the prophets. His will is what supports His creation. G_d's will is not spooky. It is not a spooky
thing I'm talking about. Don't think G_d's will is like your will and again, it is similar to your will. Your
will is nothing but a poor reflection of G_d's will. "And you can't will except as G_,41 wills". IThat is
Allah's swt word in the Qur'an. Even though you will something wrong, that was in Gd's will for you to
have that freedom to do that; to even will something wrong. And in the end you are going to be finished
and G_d's will is going to inherit you, not you inherit G_d's will. After you are finished, dead, G d's will
is going to inherit you and you are going to go back into His system of matter. And His system of matter
makes salat to Him. His system of matter is a Muslim and it makes salat to its Creator. In other words it
brings its form to conform to the will of its creator, the will of G_d.
Western problem is incorrect reading of the Bible
So our salat is worship and everything we do in our life should be worship. This is the teachings of
Allah's book, the Qur'an and the teaching of our Prophet. Everything you do should be an act of worship,
called in Arabic, "Ebaadah". But as I said, we all do not conform completely. We are not perfect, but we
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should be striving to bring our whole life to be an expression of our worship of Allah. Muhammed, the
Prophet, was that kind of a person. His whole life was worship of Allah.
Someone may ask, "What about his wives? He was married to women." That was half of his religion.
That is his saying, "Marriage is half of religion." 4 He said marriage is half of the religion. You have to
get away from this Westc.*n influence in your mind. I'm talking about the Westc: r. 17uence that comes
from incorrect reading of the Bible (you should be writing that down). I said incorrect reading of the
Bible. So don't go out there and say, "The Imam said that the problem is in the Bible, brother. That
problem comes from the Bible." No, I said it comes from incorrect reading of the Bible. That is a big
difference. So what happens to society? It is influenced by the moral problems of pious men who
accepted to give up wives, women and sex, and then broke down and had to go to the court for sodomy.
They should have read the Qur'an where Allah says, "This world is too big for you." 5 "If you don't
accept My guidance this world is going to get the best of you". They have a thing with sex. And the
shaytan comes in and he uses their defects and influences the whole culture, but not directly. He whispers
his influences into the culture and they are already weak for it, so they buy it. 6
So when you give the natural life artificiality imposed upon that natural life, a life that is really strange to
the natural life and artificial, not real when you look at what is natural life, what happens? The behavior
register in that life is confused. You confuse it and it becomes so confused that it sends you into extremes
to get rid of the problem. The nature to register of what is going on, what the influence is asking of the
natural system inside you, it becomes confused and then it sends your spirit and your behavior to
extremes. One goes to extremes and he wants to just give up the world. He wants to give up women. Sex
is so nasty that he wants to give up women.
Believe me you have a lot of homosexuals who do not know their own problem. The culture has
influenced them. They think they have a natural problem. There are not many who have a natural
problem. If you have a natural problem come to me I will halal it for you. But if it is in your mind I can't
halal it. I have to bring it out of your mind. You have to be corrected in your thinking. If it is a natural
problem, why don't we just halal each other? Those of you who have the problem, just halal yourself.
They say, "It's a natural problem." Well, I'll give you the sharpest knife you have ever had in your hand.
It won't give you any pain. It will just quickly halal you. But it is not there. It is in your brain.
G d created us in the best form
The culture has influenced mothers going way back into time and mothers are sometimes influenced to
raise boys in the wrong way. And they make a homosexual out of their sons. I'm speaking from
knowledge. So it is all about form. G_d created us in the best form.? The Qur'an says, "We have created
the human person in the best form," the best model, the best mold, the best pattern. That is what it is
talking about. But the influences of your own selves in your own world can help you or take you out of
that. The Qur'an goes on to say, "And as a consequence of your own doings that excellent pattern is
reduced to the lowest of the low", to the bottomless pit, lower than a dog. And you know that. I think it
was true in all times, but now more so than ever. We offend and insult the animal kingdom when we call
some of these no good so-called a human beings a dirty dog. "You rat." You have never seen a rat that
gives the world as many problems as you. Don't hurt that rat's image like that.
Eqaamah
We have had a discussion of Eqaamah and we had some discussion of Ruku' where we bend over and
bow down and place our hands on our knees. Now, this is from Surah Kaf, the 50th chapter, beginning
with verse 5 through 11. I will read, "But they deny the truth when it comes to them, so they are in a
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had to form bonds and it was in a fluid state, you had not yet been able to establish a structural state or a
material picture, this was all in your mind and in your heart. So this is the plan that is conceived in the
heart and mind of those who read into or got insights from G d creation, blood adhering.
And then it is your social interest in one another as a social unit, as a family. Family is not just for the
private home it is also the family of mankind or the family of people who bond together for a particular
important plan that they want to develop. Companies they call those who arc at the top of the company
working together a family. Right? That is
what they call each other. So this is what you have to understand.
Muhammed the Prophet finally understood what G_d was communicating to him. Now if this
communication if you are understanding what I am saying this message is not only a communication for
him to recall and recite but this is also an education, this is a teaching process. Allah is teaching or
educating His servant at the same time. But for us it is just a recording. For us who want the
understanding and want to find logic and want to know how to use this in our practical life and we are
faithful Allah blesses us with our efforts to know more and He brings out to us what He brought out to
Muhammed. And that is why Allah says in the Qur'an that it is Allah, G_d Who teaches you all.37 Kum
is the Arabic word for you plural not just the Prophet.
Allah revealed it to the Prophet and educated him as He was revealing it to him, prepared him to be our
teacher. But the same process will be repeated. If any of us qualify for G_d's mercy it is repeated in our
life.
So the pure and noble followers of the Prophet both male and female Aisha and others not even named in
the tradition, may G_d be pleased with them, they qualified eventually they became pure at heart and
undamaged as believers or people of faith and Allah blessed their minds and hearts to open up and receive
the insights, that which is within, deep in the language. To bring it out so they too would have the pure
sciences, praise be to Allah. That happened and it is happening now not just for us if there are true
believers and there are in any place eventually it happens for those people.
Dhirk:
I mentioned dhikr, we want to go back to it. Allah says He give without counting. 38 We must have been
counting when the Qur'an was coming to Muhammed if we were not counting Allah would not have said
He gives without counting. And from the knowledge I have of the early following of Muhammed the
Prophet dhikr started with him even in his time they did dhikrs. But they did not use beads, rosaries, that
is a later thing that came into the Muslim rituals, that is from Catholicism, Buddhism and some other
religions. It was not something innate or born with Al Islam as the Prophet gave it to us.
Let us talk about dhikr on the fingers, thereis more than one way to do dhikrs. You can do it by reciting
the 99 attributes of Allah and completing it with Allahu Akbar but the most common way of doing dhikr
is not to recite all the names of Allah but just to say Subhanal laah, glorify G_d and you glorify Him 33
times. And then you praise Him 33 times Al hamdu lil laah. And then you say G_d is bigger or greater 33
times Allahu Akbar. And when you finish 33 times then you go to another finger, you don't stop on the
little finger like you do for the first two reading or reciting. The first two you stop on the little finger and
start back on the little finger again on it, but when you say Allahu Akbar 33 times you go from the little
finger for the 100th time to the next finger and you stop right in the base or the first joint in the base of that
finger and you say Allahu Akbar and you have finished the dhikr.
Dhikr means a thinking process
But you have to go through these fingers twice, 33 takes you through these fingers twice and what part of
the hand is carrying you through these fingers? The thumb. What do they say with the expression in
English? By the rule of thumb and what did they do in the arena of the Caesar where the gladiators were
fighting if one was real good and they thought his value was too much to have the victor kill him they had
to refer it to the Caesar and he would refer it to the audience. He would want a response from them.
Should we let this man be killed or not? And if the audience approved the gladiator being killed Caesar
would take his thumb and turn it down, that meant we have ruled that he be killed. By the rule of thumb.
Thumb Represents the logic mind working to find a
conclusion
So when you are thinking dhikr means a thinking process. The process of trying to arrive at understanding
by thinking. So if the thumb is doing that then what is that? That is the conscious mind. It is working to
find the conclusion for whatever the matter is. You want to reach the logical conclusion. So you are
working to arrive at the logical conclusion. This is a ritual practice, dhikr as I am explaining it now. So
you say subhanal laah and you always start at the base. Right? And there are three steps up. Right?
Now look at you hand if you have never done it, even if you have done it look at it again. Hold your
finger and look at the base. Can you see lines going straight up and down? Go to the next joint do you see
lines going straight up and down? Come to the third joint, the tips of your finger the last joint when you
look at it quickly what form do you see the lines taking? Circular, okay. So you go from the base one
step. Then you go two steps to the next joint„ then the third step shows you a circular pattern. So if you
have two standings the Prophet said have faith and there after be upright. It means stand straight up, be
upright. 39 If you can have two standings the third standing will free you. The circle means you are free.
So you start with the baby nature and you go up for one standing, then you go up for another standing.
After the second standing if you are going following the plan of G_d for your search and understanding
you should be spiritually free. This is spiritual life. But you are spiritually free but not complete.
Touch:
1 Jesus said touch me not I have not ascended
2. Mary not man touched me
3. Qur'an none can touch it but the purified ones
And Christ is said to have spoken in the cradle as a baby. 40 Right? But he was not yet freed as G_d
wanted him, in fact he had to life one life and leave and go up to heaven. And he had to return. Why does
he have to return? Because in the Bible he says to his disciples after he had been killed and came from
the physical earth and they saw him as a gardener. 41 They came to approach him and he said "Touch me
not I have not ascended." 42 It means I'm not ready for you to bring me into your own life, think about it.
I'm not approved for that yet. So touch me not.
The same language is used for Mary, "And no man touched me."43 And the same is used for the Qur'an,
"None can touch it but the purified ones." 44 So touch means more than what the language appears to be
on the surface. When you touch something it registers on your feelings and usually the desire to touch
is coming from the heart you say, "Come here, don't greet me way back there. I have not seen you in a
long time and you are getting ready to leave again. Come here boy and let me hug you." You have to
touch.
So touch is a powerful communication and especially when G d is involved. It concerns what G_d wants
for us or what kind of relationship that He wants Himself with His devoted servants. He said touch me no
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I have not ascended. So the Gospel as it is from Jesus Christ by this reasoning is not supposed to be taken
into your feelings and into your heart it is for you to study, not to take it into your feelings, into your heart
because if it does it will make a crazy communication of believers. Now I know it and the evidence is all
around. Look how long it took the efforts of free thinkers to bring the church down from the sky so that it
could deal with the practical matters of human life down here on earth. They denied the women their
freedom and their and their rights. Treated them as though they had no souls, in fact that is what they said.
Male and female from the same souland
They said, "The female has no soul," that is why Allah said in the Qur'an that lie created the male and the
female from the same sou1.45 Because the religious Christian order had taken the position that the female
was not a soul, just flesh. So if you were not special you did not receive education and if you were female
you did not receive education. That was under the Christian rule for a long time. It was only broken by
Martin Luther. I guess it was being broken all the time but his leadership is what ended it and freed the
free thinkers to think on their own or brought about freedom of religion and the Protestant movement.
And a different way of looking at church authority and finally to what we have today.
Kabah Means tying things together
So if is very important for us to tie things together. Kabah means tying things together. The very word
means making or bringing about the right connections. If you are going to understand a piece of
knowledge that is put in a book form, writing or whatever you can't just andrcad that. You have to read it
recognizing important connections. The idea has a logical progression. The thought, the focus or the
central theme has a logical unfolding doesn't it? So if you are not aware of these connection you will
read something but you do not know anything. You read the book but you did not get anything. In fact if
somebody asked you what you read you can hardly give them one complete sentence from that book. The
same if for the Qur'an for Gd's word.
Steps To freedom in Islam are Three
Steps To freedom in Christianity are Five
Is this in the Bible what we are doing here? Is there any reference in the Bible that I can bring to this?
Step one, step two, step three, free? Yes. But it is not one, two, three. It is one, two, three, four, five. So
here is the Islamic way distinguishing itself from the way that was before it with the Christians. For them
the fifth frees you, one, two, three, four, five. And they are the most judgmental people you will find on
the earth. Am I right or wrong for you who know and study? You know I'm right. The ruling order of
Christians is the most judgmental order on planet earth.
They don't want to listen to a thing you have to say, they arc getting much better. Reality is forcing them
to get better but they have been a very stubborn and judgmental people. Judge everybody else as heathens
even Muslims as heathens. Do you know for most of the history of the Christian and Muslim relations
they were calling Muslims heathens? And now they are on the Muslims for calling them kafirs. The
Muslims should say you called us worst than that you called us heathen, savages, people with a savage
mind. Very judgmental, talk to preachers they don't want to listen to anything you have to say, they are
afraid to listen. And that tells me you fear that what you have is not strong enough to stand up to what we
have.
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Birds flying around symbolizes spiritual freedom
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On the first day G_d did this, 2nd, 3rd, 4th, 5th day the birds are flying in the open skies, that is the freedom. That
says freedom day. You know the expression, "Free as a bird?" You don't get free until you fly. And the
open sky, the canopy, it appears to be round doesn't it? A dome and the birds flying around in it. So doesn't
it give you a circular picture? Birds flying around in it, the spiritual freedom. So spiritual freedom is on
the fifth step not the third step.
So what is that saying? It is saying they used their own minds and studied and debated the truth of Jesus
Christ's Gospel, especially concerning essential concepts as man as a mortal, G d. Whether Jesus Chris is
both a mortal, G_d and divine or whether he is mortal only, or whether we should see him just as a divine.
That is exactly what the Gnostic order did. They debated this for how many centuries? I know for more
than one century, about 2 or 3 centuries. That is a long time debating. So that means they had real trouble
getting the leaders to agree on that. It took them centuries. Look how many died so the original rebuffers
or protesters died one after another, generation after generation, before, finally, they established it as a
rule the way it is in the Bible, New Testament now, about Jesus, peace be on him. The Nicene Council, is
that what they called it The highest level of them engaged themselves for 2 or 3 centuries, debating and
arguing, before they finally got enough material might to make a king or ruler so small until he said, "You
clergy, this is the way it is going to be whether you like it or not. Here is King James' version. You want
to go to jail, just teach something different"
Islam, you cannot be free by five senses
I am not joking. That is the way it was. So why is three for us so important? You cannot be free by five
senses. Human tools cannot work freedom for us. That freedom will be temporary, that freedom will be
destroyed eventually. Now the American people we have freedom, don't we? Freedom of religion, right?
Look at the culture, society and life of the people right now in America hasn't it failed? At one time we
were enjoying a sense of freedom but now the sense of freedom does not exist, You can only think free.
You are free to think but you're not free to live life that you want in this world. I do not say that life that
Allah revealed. You are not even free to live the life you want.
So the life that seems to be open to the population is the life of immorality, indecency, corruption. That is
what appears to be open to the population and that is what the more numbers are in or are giving
themselves to, a life of indecency, a life of corruption. So it has not produced for Christian civilization.
The good life has not materialized for Christian civilization. In looks like it is getting worse and worse
now. It is the worst of any time in the history of this culture. And it is so bad at the population cannot
even produce a son to impress us as a president.
President Must register the full interests of the American people
The most impressive figure we have right now is one from Africa. Not a native from this country, that is
Obama. Now they may have some more but I look at how the media is trying to make them look like they
are something, like they are worthy of consideration for presidency of the United States. But when I see
them I see somebody who is dead. A leader is not supposed to be dead. A leader is not supposed to be just
regular like an ordinary person, like a high school teacher or a college professor coming across as a
businessman who has a clothing store or something. His mind should be much more broader than that.
And his spirit should communicate that to us that I do not have a quarter of the American life as my
interest, I have 360 degrees full circle as my interest. Four quarters as my interest. That's what I want to
see.
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have something to say about the rich, too, to assist them and to make their life better without harming
mine unjustly. And you do not see people like that any more.
+Roosevelt was a man Iike that who was burdened by war. There were many others but 1 am just
naming a few that I am more acquainted with, like Abraham and Ismail. Roosevelt and his wife were that kind
of combination, but I do not see that in them. Some of us do not like the Republicans but General
Eisenhower was that kind of a person. He reached everybody. In fact, their slogan was, "I love Ike,"
because he was such a likable person. He registered the full interests of the American people. And he
was a military man. But he registered the full interests of the American people.
Step 1 first level Mortal body
Step 2 second level Rational body
Step 3 third level spiritual enlightenment.
So this five is not really freed. The five has proven to be insufficient. It cannot deliver us. It cannot bring
us freedom. So know that when they say the fifth and birds flying into heaven they are not talking about
material freedom or material science. They are talking about spiritual science. And the same five senses
that bring us into this world to live a practical life here, the same five senses should be able to liberate us
and bring us to a higher world, to the real world.
These five senses can do that but they cannot work unless you do them step-by-step from the essence,
spirit, spirit of your pure and original essence. It has to be pressing upon your mind that, "I need to deliver
myself from this limited perception of truth and reality." And you start in the base of the original nature
and you go 1,2, 3. And you are using your five senses but they are, because this is the rule in your five
senses, the thumb. You are using your five senses but this is the 5th one. 1, 2, 3, 4, 5. You are using the 5th
one but you are going through a spiritual pattern. You are following a spiritual pattern that begins in your
original nature and remains up right from the first level of your nature up to the second, which is the
mortal body, the second level, the rational body.
And if you go from the mortal body to the rational body with your intelligence, this is the fifth. It will
bring you to a third and the third with be spiritual enlightenment or freedom, but that is not enough. You
were working with the mortal body. You started with the mortal body, that is the baby, he baby finger,
and that is the baby life, the mortal life.
So you come to the next one which is the rational body, the rational thoughts and you start in the base of
your rational thoughts but you came from your mortal body. So you now have been freed. You have the
knowledge of your mortal body and how it should live with your rational mind, your reasoning. So now
you have freed yourself from the mortal. Now you have to take that knowledge and apply it to the base of
your rational life as you have it and correct it by what you receive from this exercise. So now I am
correcting my thoughts and I correct it in my mortal senses. I correct it in my rational senses, and then I
correct it in my spiritual senses, because this was a baby who is freed. Now I want to go higher than the
baby, so now you come to a third. Right? And this third is very difficult because now I want to
understand how is man inspired by Qd. I want to know something about the Holy Spirit. I need to know
something rational and practical about the Holy Spirit. It is a burden on my mind I have not been educated
enough.
So now you apply the knowledge that you got from this process and from this process, from this exercise
and from that exercise now you apply it to the spiritual and you start in the base, again, and you go from
the spiritual in the mortal to the spiritual in the logic or the rational thought and then you go to the
spiritual, again. Right? So spiritual one time, from the base, from mortal to spiritual, one time. From
mortal to spiritual two times, from mortal to spiritual, three times. Then what you have gained from here
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of insight and understanding you apply it to your judgment or your decision making or to your logic. You
arrived at a logic, so you want to apply it to that, too. But a decision, your decision based upon logic, that
is what this process is. It is a process to find logic.
So you have found the logic and you started in the base of it and you questioned your logic and you went
from the form of your logic to the reasoning to arrive at a conclusion that satisfies you in your logic and
then you come to what you believe to be freedom again. You think you are comfortable, you are free,
again. But you now take what you have gotten. You have had a mind that is questioning and making
judgments so you bring now the insight from this process, that last process where you examine your logic
and you came to a freedom. You felt, "This logic looks good and acceptable." Now you apply it to your
mind that makes judgments and you go through it, too.
So now you have a rebirth for your mind that was one time. The new mind now is going to question
everything it did before and question it with the new mind. It has circles, too, up here that freed itself with
the exercises of mind and you go through it one more time with the new mind. Once you go through it
with the new mind and then with the logic, you apply the logic to the new mind and obviously, the logic
took the test because it goes to the baby finger again; and it goes through it once and comes to the rational
mind and it stops at the base.
That tells us that the mortal now has the mind that it needs to be free in the world. You don't need to go
further. The mortal mind has the mind now to be free. And you apply this to the mortal mind You do not
apply it to your reasoning. No, keep your reasoning out of it. It is the new mind that Allah gave you. You
apply it to your mortal life and you put it in the foundation of your thinking and rational mind, your
thinking for rational understanding. You put it in the base of it; give it to the mortal body. Do not trust it
with the mind that is trying to free itself. You are already free. When you are reborn Allah has given you
the second life, you are already free. So you stop right there. And this finger on this hand, that is the
finger you put a ring on, isn't it? Praised be to Allah.
So this is insight into dhikr_ Remember what I said first because that is to caution you and disposition you
to he successful. Ritual is not enough for Muslims, even the ritual of dhikr. So I cautioned you before. I
told you Allah is the One Who gives without counting. So this dhikr is not enough for us. We first meet
the Qur'an, then we need Muhammed, the Prophet; and then we need to think on our own. And that is
what you are doing when you are doing this. You are thinking on your own and Allah will bless you if
you are sincere and pure in heart.
Bani means structure, logically raised as well as children
Bani simply means a structure that has been logically raised up. They speak of raising up a building,
don't they? And you can use the same word to mean tear it down. Right? Raise it to the ground. The
same word is raise it up, raise it to the ground, a reversal.
Ismail is spiritual balance
Abraham was rationally inclined
We are called the children of Hagar and Abraham's son, Isma'il, is a picture of a spiritual balance. And I
was saying that Abraham needed his son to help him structure the house, because Abraham tended to be
inclined toward the rational more than the spiritual. He was so much inclined towards the rational because
he saw the great future production for people who devote themselves to reason and to the rational for the
material construction of the world. He knew how important that was.
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So it really bothered him that, "Now, I have a son and this son is devoted to the spiritual nature and I
know G.A. wants me to do what I'm doing. GA wants me to build a society under Him, a world under
Him and I am rational. We have to deal with the rational and material reality. And this son of mine he
may cause a problem. If he gets too many people into his spiritual mode we will have difficulty building a
material society, an industrial world. "G_d, this is my son and my thinking is telling me You want me to
sacrifice him. I love him. This is my child. Lord, this is my child. Please, what am I going to do?" Allah
would not speak to him.
So he went and got the situation and got the knife. I believe it was a shining sword, illuminated sword.
And he got this illuminated sword and he was getting ready to kill his child and GA said, "Do it not. You
have already completed your commitment to Me. Your willingness to sacrifice him for My pleasure is
enough. Instead of sacrificing him get that little innocent lamb, that sheep and slaughter him with that
knife, sword blade you have. And when you kill it take all the stinky stuff out of him Wash it up real
good and then put it on the fire. And cook it and let a sweet savor as steam and smoke go up to the
heavens. Then serve it to the poor and you to eat from it, Abraham."
So we have that ritual every 10th day of the Hajj, don't we, where we make our slaughter, our halal , our
sacrificial animal? And the best animal to have for the occasion is a lamb. You can have a cow, camel.
They eat a lot of different kind of meats and they sacrifice them, too, over there. But the best is the lamb
because it is the most peaceful of all of them.
What a beautiful story, I'm telling you, the scene where he is tormented in anguish, in agony and GA
relieves him by showing him what to do. Do you know the sheep and goat, too, these are the most sure
footed of all animals. They can go up on ridges and stand on a little small stone and hold themselves right
there; climb up on mountains and stand on real small ridges. So G_d removes from Abraham's vision his
son and by some kind of activity in his mind there is an illusion and the son is replaced by the sight of a
lamb. And by him seeing that in a day vision, he reasoned that G_d is saying, "No, don't kill your son,
kill a lamb".
Kill the tendency to tolerate abuses
So don't kill him, kill a lamb. "Kill this tendency in your house, or in your following, to tolerate abuses
and be eaten by other animals and hunted by other animals, slaughtered by other animals. Get that out of
your people. It's an innocence this passive way of theirs. It is innocent, but Abraham you are right. It is a
problem for the work of establishing the new world under GA. So tell them that this nature in them is to
be digested by their minds and protected by their intelligence and their faith. Don't let your life become
the life of sheep. But benefit from the life of the sheep by digesting the knowledge and wisdom. The
sheep is peaceful and you are to be peaceful in accord with your best nature, your Muslim nature. The
sheep likes to be with each other and you should be close to each other like the sheep. And the sheep does
not like to engage in arguments and fighting. I want you to be like that, too."
"But if I command you to kill I want you to stop being a sheep and be a man on the battlefront. So
Abraham, teach them My signs that I put in the sheep. And from the sheep you get wool and you can take
the wool and protect yourself from the cold of night or winter. So you be like that. You produce that
which will help the people, keep them warm on cold nights or in the winter. You see all the beautiful
signs? And the sheep is well balanced, like Isma' il. So tell them not only your son, but they should all be
well balanced, spiritually. Don't be too heavy on the left. Don't be too heavy on the right. Don't be too
heavy forward. Don't be too heavy backward. But find the just mean for balance. Be hanifa, upright,
erect, not inclined to go off from the balance, spiritually balanced."
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A person who is spiritually balanced will stay rational. It is only the person who goes to spiritual extremes
in one direction not respecting the whole situation, not circumspect, not respecting the whole situation allaround. So they are going off on a tangent from the mean or from the balance or from the plummet line.
You preachers out there you're leaving the plummet line and going to extremes. And wasn't it G_d,
according to the Bible, Who ordered the plummet and the plummet line? Yes.
Somebody may say, "When he starts saying that the Bible has a continuous stream of purity in it from
Genesis to Revelation, he lost me. That is the poison book." With all this that G_d has shown me in the
Bible I cannot disrespect that book. I would be a sinner to disrespect it. And an ignorant person to
disrespect it.
If there comes a storm and it blows trash and dirt and the water rises so high that dirty, muddy water
comes into the masjid under the masjid door are you going to throw the masjid away? You should clean
the masjid up and make your salat. That is what Muhammed was guided to do by G_d; not go and destroy
churches and condemn the Christian people and prevent them from practicing their religion under his
order or in the land of the Muslims. He did not prevent them. He saw the corruption. He saw the filth and
there is filth in the Bible that is very embarrassing. But that was produced for the pagans who were a
people who were vulgar educated but at the same time their fun was vulgarity, sexual indecency and
vulgar display of their sexual interest. And they were a people who prided themselves in being powerful
as an army. So that instinct and that spirit in them to fight and kill was so strong and they took such pride
in it that their sport was to put fighters against each other and actually fight to the death.
There is much I have to say on that but we do not want to waste time. It is not for this session,
Gardens underneath where rivers flow, the psychic urges
The psyche. Gardens underneath where rivers flow, the psyche urges. Now these rivers flow underneath
at our feet because underneath is that that we stand upon, the ground. Our feet touch the ground. Right?
So it is saying underneath your feet. And where is the most sensitive part of your feet? You are standing
on it the most sensitive part of the feet and underneath the soul, sole of your feet, from underneath is
where rivers flow.
So the spiritual sensitivity, in the church when they get real worked up what starts moving, first? The feet.
And they say, "Oh Lordy." So the feet received it before the head did and it made the feet have to express
that something is happening in my soul. And after a while the whole body gets it. They have to stand up
and start jumping around but it started way down there. That water starts rising way down there. Gardens
underneath which Rivers flow, praise be to Allah.
The psyche is not the rational mind. You're not thinking how to work this out, that the preacher is saying
you are responding with your spirit. You are responding with your human sensitivities. You are
responding to what he is saying and through that particular medium you're taken over, you arc overcome
with joy. So that nature is in all of us. Even in the coldest of us the nature is there. You just have to bring
it out. Sometimes it is not a communication of jay that brings it out. It is a communication of pain. You
put enough pain on that hard guy that never responds emotionally he will break down emotionally,
saying, "That is enough. My GA, leave me alone, leave me alone. Stop if you have any sense. You have
no mercy. Stop please. I told to stop." He panics, too. He gets hysterical, too. You just have to find a way
to reach him.
We all are Bilal means we're sensitive
So when they spoke down to Bilal in the presence of the Prophet, thinking he is a black and inferior, he
said, "We all our Bilal". That nature that you are criticizing in him, yes, he is spiritual. He is not as
rational as we are. He's not devoted to the rational like we are. He loves the spiritual but we all are Bilal.
That is a property of human creation or of human nature and it is not just in blacks. It is in all of us.
Poor express their soul not the rational mind. The world
burdens and tortures their soul
And the proof of it is you can go to some white religious orders or establishment especially the poor
people, they have so much pain on them there's not too much they can express from the rational mind.
Their soul is what is bothered. The world burdens and tortures their soul. So when the message comes to
them of joy from
that He is a G_d of justice and He loves me and He wants me to have His mercy
and His communication, His revelation and wants me to have a good life and has promised me paradise.
And down here I cannot even move into certain areas and not be stoned or killed. I am talking about the
early times. Right now maybe it will happen.
A person like that they are more expressive outwardly because their soul is so burdened and when relief
comes to them for their soul they are so happy and there is at least G_d Who is not seeing me like this
ugly world is seeing me. So that brings them great joy. The Prophet knew all of that and he said we all
are Bilal. There is much to say about that but we won't spend more time there.
Gardens underneath which rivers flow, speaking of the spiritual urges that appear below in the
construction of the human form, before it comes up here to the rational mind. And these rivers are two
and we already discussed the two rivers.
Also, in the Qur'an Allah tells us about the rivers, that one is a river of honey." Now didn't the Christian
world tell us that in the heaven or paradise we're going to have milk and honey? Yes. Allah mentions the
river of honey. Honey is sweet, isn't it? But if I had enough time which I may do it, I may have enough
time for me to discuss with you or to share with you the words, the beautiful meanings in that particular
focus or on that particular substance we call honey, rivers of honey. You know there is a chapter in the
Qur'an for the bee. Some of these animals are so important Allah devoted long passages to it and it
became a whole chapter.
I mentioned St. Basil in the session before, how he told the Christian establishment--he was talking to the
leaders not the common people--the ones who would implement, carry out whatever he was telling them
and the people will get the effect of it from the leaders. He said to them, this is recorded in their history, I
found it during my research and this was before I became your leader.
I did a lot of research, My wife at the time, my son, Wallace, he knows. One day she went to bed and she
said, "Are you going to stay up?" I said, "Yes, I cannot go to bed right now". 1 had the dining table
covered with books and papers, big table too, big enough for at least six people to eat. She got up to use
the washroom, or I think she got up just to check, because something would not let her sleep. She came in
there and she saw me at the table still and I imagine that it was about 2 o'clock am and she said, "Don't you
think you should just go to bed and get some rest?" I said, "No, I am all right. I will rest later". And she
went back to bed. He got up in the morning and she came there and she said, "Wallac e are you still up?
You have been up all night."
So you should know the son of the Honorable Elijah Mohammed. Nobody was paying me to do that. And
I did not have any plans to raise myself up or to be your boss or your leader. G d knows that was not in
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my mind. But I was influenced from the earliest years. I can recall having a very different picture of
myself than what the average brother or sister in my family or the average child would have. When you are
told as a child that the man that your father calls Gicl in the person put your name on the wall, the back of
the door before you were born, while you were in your mother. And then it turns out to be they did not
have that method now that they use to determine whether it is a girl or boy, ultrasound. That came late in my
life. They did not know whether it was a boy or a girl. They couldn't tell, but they had already written the
name of a boy on the backside of the door, "Wallace".
I read the postcard that he sent to my mother and he said, "The delivery has arrived take good care of
him." That is all the postcard said, But my parents told me that he told them, Mr. Fard, W.D. Forty,
"Remember your promise, keep your promise."
And my parents told to me that the promise was that they would raise me to be a helper. Mr. Fard said the
exact words my parent gave me, "And promise me that you will let him help us do this work." So that
means Mr. Fard was saying that this boy that you finally have that I named while he was yet in his mother
and gave him my name. Many of you do not know that his name was also Wallace D. Fard. And that is the
name he used most commonly when he would write. Sometimes he would just put Wallace D,
Sometimes he would just put Wallace on the postcard. Some of these cards still exist.
At first, I think it was just for a split-second or so, I registered the heavy doubts that were in some socalled students out there while I was speaking and words of the Qur'an came to me. Allah revealed to
Muhammed that if they could see a huge book descending from the sky before their very eyes they won't
believe. They will say that is enchantment. So that takes the burden off of me right away, the discomfort
from me, instantly. It left. I am not the Prophet. Should I expect from people more than the Prophet was told
to expect? No. And I feel you right now, you doubter out there.
I feel sorry for you. A great feast has been prepared. Poor Negro. He can eat higher on the hog whatever
then he ever could imagine. Nobody in any quarters in this world is eating any higher on the animal than we
arc right now. Yes, I know that and I love you, too, very, very much. And look how you love me. There
are three pair of glasses up here on this table. Allah says in the Qur'an of the first believers of Prophet
Muhammed to them and to us too, do not think that what was said back then is not also perfectly proper and
suited to our situations in the world now; "He found you on the brink of the pit of hellfire." 5° You were right
on the brink, the edge, and you were about to fall over into the hellfire, into the bottomless pit and He saved
you from it. And He brought love between your hearts. He brought your hearts to embrace each other,
emerge. It means not only embrace, but emerge. Now you know when people really love each other the heart
does not just touch but your heart comes into my heart and my heart goes into your heart. It is like a
transference, or a transfusion. My heart sentiments or the blood of my heart going into yours and the blood
of yours going into mine and the power that is bringing that about is our love for one another.
Under the Honorable Elijah Mohammed during the first phase of his leadership understand that his
leadership went through transitions. The original spiritual life of the followers of the Honorable Elijah
Mohammed or the Nation of Islam was beautiful. We loved one another and our love was genuine. We
were ready to sacrifice for each other and felt no pain or discomfort. There was joy in doing it. We would
see a brother and if we were driving we would say, "Brother so and so are you riding? Do you need a
lift?" We care about each other but you who arc here your love is stronger than their love ever was or ever
could be. I know it. Your love now and it just happened in the last few years of my leadership, is stronger
now the Nation of Islam's love for one another ever was or ever could he, because the light was not pure.
The light is pure now and love can go to its maximum place in our hearts for one another. Praise be to
Allah. Allahu Akbar.
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Public life is evidence of what is going on in the private life
Look at the moral condition of America's public and you know the public life is nothing but evidence of
what is going on in the private life. That is all it is. So not all of us, but many of us must have some
terrible, perverted behavior going on in our homes for it to spill over into the public life like it is and
show such moral decadence; just a spirit and a love for ignorance. It looks like there is an effort to portray
them selves in the most ignorant, unintelligent picture. So it is not just moral, it is also intelligence that is
lost, because the two go together. Morality and intelligence go together.
There can be no man of noble character unless that man also is a man of human decency. If he is vulgar
he cannot have noble character. He cannot appear before us as a honorable noble character. He cannot do
that unless he also has a strong moral foundation. And Allah says of Muhammed, the Prophet, "And we
have certainly seen you established upon a mighty foundation of moral excellence, of human character.'
It was because of his moral excellence. They go together, moral life, intelligent life and character. If one
of those two are missing, intelligence or moral decency, there can be no noble character.
Mother is really the sacred temple of the house
Father is the leader or the spirit of that house
And this brings to my mind, when I said decency, that the Honorable Elijah Mohammed said where there
are no decent women there can be no decent men. So the mother is really the sacred temple of the house,
yes, she is. And the father should be the leader or the spirit of that house. He should be.
Angels Arc males because their word is representative
Of male nature and action
You know house in Arabic, Bait, is feminine, not masculine in grammar. We know angels and the world,
this is where Islamic knowledge parts, separates from the world. The world were given angels, feminine
pictures or images and children images, baby images as well as men like Jibril. But with the revelation of
Qur'an and Muhammed's pbuh teachings to us based upon the Qur'an he gave us the teachings that is
given in the Qur'an that the angels should not be called by female names. Their work is the work that is
more representative of male nature and action than female nature and action.
Kabah sign how to structure and serve society
The story and picture of Abraham and his son constructing the house should also he seen by us brothers
and sisters, especially brothers, as what we need in us in order to be successful in structuring society and
serving human society in the best way. We need people who are spiritually pure, spiritually balanced to
work with us; who are doing the rational or material work. We need their input and their authority as well
as that of the people who are more inclined or more orientated as industrialists or builders. The building
has to include them both.
Question and answers
Kabah Only for Muslims because every people have their
own Qiblah
Imam WD Mohammed:
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Because every people have their own Qiblah. That is in the Qur'an. All of the question are good but
some of them give me more of an opportunity to bring out the light G_d blessed us to understand.
Question:
Why or how did finding or seeing the black stone influence Abraham to build the Kabah there at that
place and time?
Kabah black stone Umar kissed it
Hunafaa believed in the best of humanity
Imam WD Mohammed:
It is said that one of the great khalifahs kissed the black stone, this is after the passing of the Prophet. He
said, "If I hadn't seen the Messenger of G_d pbuh doing this I would not do this." Understand that the
persons in the immediate association of Muhammed the Prophet were men who were called the Hunafaa.
They did not believe in superstitions. They only believed in what they could understand with their
normal, rational minds. But they also believed that the human being's creation--they did not call it
creation but the human's form among living things--was the most excellent of forms. Any thinking person
can come to that conclusion. You know we can do more with our minds than any other living thing. So we
are the best and the highest of all living things on the earth. So that was their belief and the logic for their
discipline is just that. Since I am the best then I should respect my form over all other living forms. I shouldn't
behave like a dog. I am a higher creation than a dog or a higher form than a dog. So these were the
Hunafaa.
They are very intelligent people. So the companion of the Prophet saw himself above kissing the stone
and he said I wouldn't do it if the Prophet himself had not done it. But now if he was not from the Arab
people and he had been from a Christian or another part of the world where Christians had been
established he would not have had any trouble kissing the black stone if he accepted the Prophet, the
Qur'an and his leadership. These were Arabs who had not been Christians. The Christians were
converted too. They were there, too, making pilgrimage. No, Christians were having a problem like that
because the Bible says, "And the rejected stone became the corner in the house.
Now if you understand building construction, masonry, which means building, what we call now the
developer, the one who puts the house up; if you understand what the corner is especially for back then
you form a right angle. That is the key. You form one right angle on the ground or dig a trench right
angle and once you do that you make a straight line from one side of that right angle to where you want it
to go or as far as you want it to go. You make it as long or as big as you want it and you stop. You take
the other side of the angle and you stop. Now you have half of the square. So once you get the corner you
can get the whole square building and the Kabah is square. So once you get one corner right all you have
to do is line the other ones up with it. The other three sides are lined up with it and you have a perfect
square for building the house.
Black stone represents original nature of mankind
Black Represents the human heart that turns black out of
the body
Black stone was white Passion for divinity has to burn out
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So the one corner is very important, the corner that you start with is very important. And the stone that
fell represents the original nature of mankind that fell from heaven, not physically speaking, but ideally
speaking. It is an idea that you arc developing, not a physical structure.
Once you get the corner lined up you've got it. The stone is black but it was not always black. It was
shining white in the sky. It burned out and when it cooled it was black. What is this blackness? This
blackness must be understood when we study the human heart. If you kill a person and take the heart out
and let it cool off in time it will turn black. The blood turns black.
So really the Kabah, that corner, represents the human heart and it is good. The heart made a mistak e
thinking it can go up above mortal life or flesh carnal nature, go above it and become saintly, angelic, or
divine. It made a mistake. So that passion for divinity has to burn out and that mind that thinks you are
something special, not human like other humans, has to die. All that message is in a star, a lit body
falling from the sky down here and cooling off.
Black stone white collar represents purity
So when we look at it now it represents the heart and it did not have a silver ring around it but the
custodians of the Kabah put a silver ring around it. You who made the Hajj and kissed black stone, or just
passed by, maybe you didn't have a chance to kiss it, because sometimes they rush you and you can't get
to it. If you saw it you saw a corner with a stone in there with a silver ring around it. Why did they add the
silver ring to it? They added the silver ring to say, "This is not just any heart. This is not a symbol or a
sign of just any human heart. This is a sign of a human heart that was blessed wit h purity. The white
metal represents purity. And the ring is around it to say this was a pure heart of Adam before he was
deceived by satan.
Al Islam Is ordered upon the social nature
Adam Represents the social nature
Heart Represents the social nature
Flag Red streaks that is the social nature
White streaks that is the conscience of the people
So it represents our first father and he is the human concept that represents shared identity. All of us have
this identity that is social; the social nature. The heart is symbolic, too, of the social nature. We love each
other. Our heart registers each other. It tells us that our society of Muslims is ordered, really, for
humanity, the same thing. It is ordered upon the social nature. When you look at the American flag and
you see the red streaks, that is the social nature. And the white streaks that is the conscience of the people.
The conscience should be clear, pure. And your passions should be social passion. Your love for people
and your spirit for people, it should be coming from your heart. So there are red lines, white lines. Then
you go up to the sky and then there is the dark blue of night and stars are in that dark blue area, right?
The same way you read this you have to read these signs in the Qur'an, too. You have to read the Kabah
the same way. You know their red doesn't represent just red. What value would a flag have to us if the
red streak is just a red streak saying, "Oh it is pretty." And some of us are so ignorant, that is the only way
we see it saying, "We got a pretty flag, red, white and blue, with some pretty stars in it."
The Bible says the rejected stone became the corner. What was rejected? The common nature that Adam
represents; the common human identity and nature. We all are identifying commonly, altogether, and
there is a name for our nature among living things. Tell me what is the name for our nature? Human
nature; not dog nature; not reptile nature; not elephant nature; human nature. That is what we all have in
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common and nothing else has that but we humans. And I'm going to have to recess right now. I will be
back with you, en sha Allah, for a few minutes before we make Thuhr Prayer. Okay? Thank you.
Index
10-7-2007
References:
1. Qur'an 6.75-79; Abraham rational 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
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 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."
2. Qur'an 16.120;
Abraham was a community
"Abraham was indeed a model (community) devoutly obedient to Allah (and) true in faith and he
joined not gods with Allah:"
3. Qur'an . 6.161; The path of Abraham
Say: "Verily my Lord hath guided me to a way that is straight a religion of right the path (trod) by
Abraham the true in faith and he (certainly) joined not gods with Allah."
4. Qur'an 3.967; Kabah built for mankind is full of
signs
The first House (of worship) appointed for men was
That at Bakke full of blessing and of guidance for all
kinds of beings:
5. Qur'an 22.29; Kabah is the Ancient house
"Then let them complete the rites prescribed for them perform their vows and (again) circumambulate
the Ancient House."
6. Qur'an 41.11; Come willingly or unwillingly
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"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."
7.
Qur'an 2.124; Abraham an Imam for the nations
And remember that Abraham was tried by his Lord with certain commands which he fulfilled; He said: "I
will make thee an Imam to the nations." He pleaded: "And also (Imams) from my offspring!" He
answered: "But my promise is not within the reach of evil-doers."
8. Genesis 17.5; Abraham the father of many nations
" Neither shall thy name any more be called Abram, but thy name shall be Abraham; for a father of
many nations have I made thee."
9.
Qur'an 2.37; Adam met a Word from his Lord
"Then learnt Adam from his Lord words of inspiration and his Lord turned toward him; for He is OftReturning Most Merciful."
10.
John 1.1; In the beginning was the word
"In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with G_d, and the Word was G_d."
11.
Qu r'a n 2 . 2 6 5 ; Garden a heavy or light rain suffices it
And the likeness of those who spend their substance
seeking to please Allah and to strengthen their souls is as a garden high and fertile: heavy rain falls on it
but makes it yield a double increase of harvest and if it receives not heavy rain light moisture sufficeth it.
Allah seeth well whatever ye do.
12. Qur'an 50.9; Rain sent down charged
"And We send down from the sky Rain charged with blessing and We produce therewith Gardens and
Grain for harvests."
13. Forty Hadith Qudsi p.104 #2 58 ;
Believer close Allah He is his seeing
is his seeing, hearing
Abu Huraira reported the Prophet (pbuh) said "Whoever shows enmity to a friend of Mine I shall be at
war with him. My servant does not draw near to Me with anything more loved by Me than the religious
duties I have enjoined upon him and My servant continues to draw near to Me with supererogatory works
so that I shall love him. When I love him I am his hearing with which he hears, his seeing with which he
see, his hand with which he strikes and his foot with which he walks. Were he to ask something of Me I
would surely give ti to him and were he to ask Me for refuge I would surely grant him it". - related by alBukhari
14. Qur'an 8.17; Prophet threw dust not but Allah
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"It is not ye who slew them; it was Allah: when thou threwest (a handful of dust) it was not thy act but
Allah's: in order that He might test the believers by a gracious trial from Himself: for Allah is He who
heareth and knoweth (all things)."
15 Qur'an 48.10; Allah's hand over their hand at the
oath
Verily those who plight their fealty to thee do no less than
plight their fealty to Allah: the Hand of Allah is over their
hands: Then anyone who violates His oath does so to the
harm of his own soul and anyone who fulfills what he has
covenanted with Allah Allah will soon grant him a great
Reward.
16. Qur'an 37.84; Abraham brought a sound heart
"Behold Abraham approached his Lord with a sound heart."
18. Qur'an 2.260; Abraham the dead are raise, train 4
birds
Behold! Abraham said: "My Lord! show me how thou givest life to the dead. He said: "Oast thou not
then believe?" He said: "Yea! but to satisfy my own understanding." He said: "Take four birds; tame them
to turn to thee; put a portion of them on every hill and call to them; they will come to thee (flying) with
speed. Then know that Allah is Exalted in Power Wise."
19. Qur'an 3.27; Allah brings living from dead
"Thou causest the Night to gain on the Day and Thou causest the Day to gain on the Night; Thou
bringest the Living out of the Dead and thou bringest the Dead out of the Living; and Thou givest
sustenance to whom Thou pleasest without measure."
20. By the heaven, holding mansions of the stars"
21. Qur'an 85.11; Rivers flowing underneath
For those who believe and do righteous deeds will be Gardens Beneath which Rivers flow: that is the
great Salvation (the fulfillment of all desires)."
22. Qur'an 2.185; Qur'an revealed in Ramadan Allah
wants ease for you
"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."
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23. Qur'an 40.82; Destroyed a people greater than you
Do they not travel through the earth and see what was
the end of those before them? They were more
numerous than these and superior in strength and in the
traces (they have left) in the land: yet all that they
accomplished was of no profit to them.
24. Matthew 17.1-3; Jesus transfiguration
And after six days Jesus taketh Peter, James, and John his brother, and bringeth them up into an high
mountain apart, [2] And was transfigured before them: and his face did shine as the sun, and his raiment
was white as the light. [3] And, behold, there appeared unto them Moses and Elias talking with him.
25. Qur'an 37.102-104; Ishmail said you will find
willing
me
102.Then when (the son) reached (the age of) (serious)
work with him he said: "0 my son! I see in vision
that I offer thee in sacrifice: now see what is thy
view!" (The son) said: "0 my father! do as thou art
commanded: thou will find me if Allah so wills ne
practicing Patience and Constancy!"
103. So when they had both submitted their wills (to
Allah) and He had laid Him prostrate on his
forehead (for sacrifice)
104. We called out to him "0 Abraham!
105. "Thou hast already fulfilled the vision!" thus indeed
do We reward those who do right."
106. For this was obviously a trial
107. And We ransomed him with a momentous
sacrifice:
108. And We left (this blessing) for him among
generations (to come) in later times:
26. John 1.25; Are you Elias?
"And they asked him, and said unto him, Why baptizest thou then, if thou be not that Christ, nor Elias,
neither that prophet?"
27. John 8.58; Jesus,
I was before Abraham
"Jesus said unto them, Verily, verily, I say unto you, Before Abraham was, I am."
28. John 17.24; I was before the foundation of the
world
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29. John 1.1; In the beginning was the word
"In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with G_d...."
30. Qur'an 2.127; Abraham and his son built K.abah
"And remember Abraham and Ismail raised the foundations of the House (with this prayer): "Our Lord!
accept (this service) from us for thou art the All-Hearing the All-Knowing."
31. Qur'an 7.157; Muhammed the unlettered Prophet
"Those who follow the apostle the unlettered prophet whom they find mentioned in their own
(Scriptures); in the law and the Gospel; for he commands them what is just and forbids them what is evil:
he allows them as lawful what is good (and pure) and prohibits them from what is bad (and impure); He
releases them from their heavy burdens and from the yokes that are upon them. So it is those who
believe in him honor him help him and follow the light which is sent down with him it is they who will
prosper."
32. Deut. 18.15; Prophet from your midst
"The Lord thy God will raise up unto thee a Prophet from the midst of thee, of thy brethren, like unto
me; unto him ye shall hearken;"
33.
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 such as shall dwell forever in the Fire and be given to drink boiling
water so that it cuts up their bowels (to pieces)?
34. Qur'an 16.69; Honey drink of varying colors is a
healing
"Then to eat of all the produce (of the earth) and find with skill the spacious paths of its Lord: there
issues from within their bodies a drink of varying colors wherein is healing for men: verily in this is a Sign
for those who give thought."
35. Qur'an 45.3-4; There are signs in the earth and
yourselves
3_Verily in the heavens and the earth are Signs for those
who believe.
4. And in the creation of yourselves and the fact that
animals are scattered (through the earth) are Signs
for those of assured Faith.
36.
Qur'an 96.1-5; Read in the name of your
Lord Who created
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1. Proclaim! (or Read!) in the name of thy Lord and
Cherisher Who created.
2. Created man out of a (mere) clot of congealed
blood:
3. Proclaim! And thy Lord is Most Bountiful
37. Qur'an 2.282; Allah teaches you "And it is Allah Who teaches you. And
Allah is well acquainted with all things."
38. Qur'an 3.27; Allah brings living from dead
He gives without measure
"Thou causest the Night to gain on the Day and Thou causest the Day to gain on the Night; Thou
bringest the Living out of the Dead and thou bringest the Dead out of the Living; and Thou givest
sustenance to whom Thou pleasest without measure "
39. Al hadith 1p.432#147; Believe then be upright
Sufyan ibn Abdullan al Sadafi reported I enquired oh Messenger of Allah (swt) tell me a word about Al
Islam which I shall not ask anybody after you. the Prophet (pbuh) said: "say I believe in Allah (swt) and
thereafter be upright."
40. Qur'an 19.29-30; Jesus cradle spoke
"But she pointed to the babe. They said: "How can we talk to one who is a child in the cradle?" He
said: "I am indeed a servant of Allah (swt): He hath given me revelation and made me a prophet"
41. John 20.15; Jesus as a gardener
"Jesus saith unto her, Woman, why weepest thou? whom seekest thou? She, supposing him to be the
gardener, saith unto him, Sir, if thou have borne him hence, tell me where thou hest laid him, and I will
take him away."
42. John 20.17; Touch me not I haven't ascended
"Jesus saith unto her, Touch me not; for I am not yet ascended to my Father: but go to my brethren,
and say unto them, I ascend unto my Father, and your Father; and to my G_d, and your G_d."
43. Qur'an 3.47; Mary was a virgin no man touched her She (Mary) said: "0 my Lord!
how shall I have a son when no man hath touched me?"
44. Qur'an 56.79; Qur'an none touches it but purified
ones
Which none shall touch but those who are clean:
45. Qur'an 4.1; Reverence Allah and family relations
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"0 mankind! reverence your Guardian-Lord Who created you from a single soul 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."
46. 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)."
47. Qur'an 85.11; Rivers flowing underneath
For those who believe and do righteous deeds will be Gardens Beneath which Rivers flow: that is the
great Salvation (the fulfillment of all desires)."
48. Qur'an 69.17; Eight angels carry throne
And the angels will be on its sides and eight will that Day bear the Throne of thy Lord above them.
Those who sustain the Throne (of Allah) and those around it sing Glory and Praise to their Lord; believe
in Him; and implore forgiveness for those who believe:"
49.
Qurn 17.93; Believe not until book descend
'Or thou have a house adorned with gold or thou mount a ladder right into the skies. No we shall not
even believe in thy mounting until thou send down to us a book that we could read." Say: "Glory to my
Lord! am I aught but a man an apostle?"
50. Qur'an 3.103; Brink of fire
"And hold fast all together by the rope which Allah (stretches out for you) and be not divided among
yourselves; and remember with gratitude Allah's favor on you; for ye were enemies and He joined your
hearts in love so that by His grace ye became brethren; and ye were on the brink of the pit of fire and He
saved you from it. Thus doth Allah make his signs clear to you: that ye may be guided.
51. Qur'an 68.4; Prophet is on the exalted character
And thou (standest) on an exalted standard of character."
a-1
Abraham
a- and Ismail sign need people spiritually, and materially
balanced and pure 22;
a- made leader of the nations 2;
a- Hagar denied like Mary Jesus denied 7;
a- Ismail water springing up at his heels meant spiritual
balance 9;
a- Ismail a lamb was shown so he was not sacrificed 10;
a- Jesus, I was before Abraham 11;
a- Milla of Abraham 1;
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a- name Abram to Abraham 2;
a- Ismail is spiritual balance 18;
a- sacrifice 18;
a- was rationally inclined 18;
a- was a community 1;
Adam
a- met word from his Lord 4;
a- not leader for all nation he's the beginning he didn't
have enough knowledge 4;
Allah
a- Believer so close Allah is his seeing, hearing 3;
a- brings living from dead 9;
a- over their hand at fealty pledge to
Him 3;
a- taught Qur'an and created man 11;
a- teaches you 12;
America
a- lost its public morals 15;
a- President must register the full interests of the
American people 15;
a- Public morals and intelligence is lost 21;
Angels are males because their word is representative of
male nature and action 22;
Arab
a- Arabic if you speak it you're an Arab 8;
a- Qur'an helped the Arabs develop culture language etc 8;
Arabic if you speak it you're an Arab 3;
Ascend Jesus said touch me not 1 have not yet ascended 13;
Ayaat
a- Read Muhammed My signs in creation 11;
a- revelation signs in the heaven, earth and yourselves 7;
a- verses are in skies, earth and yourselves 11;
b-1
Bani means structure, logically raised as well as children October 10, 200818;
St. Basil influenced the expression of Christianity
through pagan concepts 9, 20;
Believe then be upright 13;
Believer so close Allah is his seeing, hearing 3;
Bible Prophet mention in Torah and Injecl 7;
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Bilal We all are Bilal Means we're sensitive 19, 20;
Birds flying around symbolizes spiritual freedom is on the fifth 14;
Black people are Hagar's children 6;
Book If a book descended they would not believe 6;
c-1
Character Prophet is on the exalted character 21, 22
Children of Hagar means Slaves were taken from
Muslim lands 8;
Christian
c- St. Basil influenced the expression of Christianity
through pagan concepts 9;
c- called Muslims heathen. 14;
c- Judge everybody else as heathens 14;
c- Birds flying around symbolizes spiritual freedom is on the fifth 14;
Community Abraham was a community 1;
Cradle Jesus spoke in the cradle 13;
d-1
Dead Allah Dead out of living means to take dead matter
out of the thinking 9;
Dhikr
d- 3 3
d- fingers 12, 13;
d- means a thinking process 13;
d- rule of thumb 13;
d- Thumb represent the logic mind working to find a
conclusion 13;
Disbelievers If a book descended they would not believe 21;
Discrimination, racism Hagar, Mary and Jesus 3;
Dust Universe began as a vapor 2;
e-1
Education
e- Read Muharnmed My signs in creation 11;
e- Allah teaches you 12;
e- Public morals and intelligence is lost 21;
Elijah Jesus transfiguration light of Elijah, Moses 10;
Equality Male and female from the same soul 14;
Evolver Rabb, Evolver progresses creation 2;
f-1
Family
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f- Fathers Should be the leader or spirit of the house 22;
f- Mothers Are the sacred temple of the house 22;
Fathers Should be the leader or spirit of the house 22;
Female Male from the same soul 14;
Five
f- Birds flying around symbolizes spiritual freedom is on
the fifth 14;
f- Christian spiritual freedom 14;
Foundation
f- Jesus, I was before Abraham 11;
Free
f- Birds flying around symbolizes spiritual freedom 14;
f- Christian is on the fifth 14;
f- Islam is on the third 14;
g-1
Garden
g- a heavy or light rain suffices it 4;
g- Jesus as a gardener 13;
g- underneath where rivers flow, the psyche
urges 19;
h-1
Hagar
h- Abraham Hagar denied like Mary Jesus denied 6, 7;
h- Children of Hagar means Slaves were taken from
Muslim lands 8;
h- Hagar running back and forth is symbolic of the mind
trying to find a solution desperately 7;
Hajj
h- Abraham's sacrifice 18;
h- Ismail a lamb was shown so he was not sacrificed 10;
Hand
h- Allah over their hand at fealty pledge to
Him 3;
Heaven Sky, heaven have the same word in Arabic 1;
Heel Ismail water at heels means spiritual balance 4;
Honey
h - Honey The product of the labor of the bees. 11;
h- River of honey 5;
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Imam Leader must be resurrected 17;
Islam freedom is on the third 14;
Ismail
I - and Abraham sign need people spiritually, and
materially balanced and pure 22;
I - a lamb was shown so he was not sacrificed 10;
I - Ismail is spiritual balance 18;
i- water at heels means spiritual balance 9;
j-1
Jesus
j- Abraham Hagar denied like Mary Jesus denied 3;
j- as a spirit and the word of G_d. 6;
j- existed in scripture before physical person 11;
j - as a gardener 13;
j - I was before Abraham 1.1;
j - Ismail a lamb was shown so he was not sacrificed 10;
j- light was the light of Moses and Elijah 10;
j- spoke in the cradle 13;
j- Showed himself as the transfiguration of light 10;
j- Touch me not I have not yet ascended 13;
j- transfiguration light of Elijah, Moses 10;
k-1
Kabah
k - Ancient house 2;
k- first house of worship true G_d there were other houses
not worshiping true G_d 2;
k- In the beginning was the word 4, 11;
k - means tying things together and14;
k- Qawaaid refers to grammatical construction 4;
k - sign how to structure and serve society 22;
Knowledge
k - Allah teaches you 12;
k - Public morals and intelligence is lost 2 1 ;
k- Read Muhammed My signs in creation 1 1;
I-1
lamb Ismail a lamb was shown so he was not sacrificed 10;
Language
1- In the beginning was the word 11;
Leader must be resurrected 17;
Light
1- Jesus's light was the light of Moses and Elijah 10;
1- Jesus showed himself as the transfiguration of light 10;
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Living Allah brings living from dead 4;
tn-1
Male and female from the same soul 14;
Man
m - Allah taught Qur'an and created man 11;
m - Male and female from the same soul 14;
Mary
m - Abraham Hagar denied like Mary Jesus denied 3;
m - Mary said no man has touched me 7;
Milla of Abraham 1;
Moral Public morals and intelligence is lost 21;
Moses Jesus transfiguration light of Elijah, Moses 10;
Mothers Are the sacred temple of the house 22;
Muslim
m - Children of Hagar means Slaves were taken from
Muslim lands 8;
m - Christians called Muslims heathen. 14;
Mustageem Believe then be upright 13;
n-1
Nitrogen Rain sent down charged 2, 3;
o-1
°barna 15;
P-1
Poor express their soul not the rational mind. The world
burdens and tortures their soul 20;
President must register the full interests of the American
people 15;
Prophet
p- Allah over their hand at fealty pledge to
Him 3;
p- existed in scripture before physical person 11;
p- is on the exalted character 21;
p- mentioned in Torah and Injecl 7;
p- Read Muhammed My signs in creation 11;
p- you slew, threw dust not but it was Allah 3;
Psyche
p- Rivers underneath: refers to psyche activity 19;
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p- Psyche Refers to gardens underneath 19;
Public life is evidence of what is going on in the private
life 21;
q-1
Qawaaid with Kabah refers to grammatical construction 4;
Qur'an
q- Allah taught Qur'an and created man 11;
q- helped the Arabs develop culture language etc 8;
q- q- none can touch it but the purified ones 7;
q- revelation as light rain from G_d 2;
r-1
Racism Hagar, Mary and Jesus 3;
Rain
r- Garden light rain suffices it 4, 5;;
r- revelation from G_d 4;
r- Rain sent down charged with nitrogen 6, 7;
Read
r- Allah teaches you 12;
r- Muhammed My signs in creation 11;
Rivers
r- Gardens underneath where rivers flow, the psyche
urges 9, 19;
r- of honey 5;
r- underneath: refers to psyche activity 9, 19;
r- Rivers flowing Refers to psychic urges 9, 19;
s-1
Sign
s- Ayaat, verses are in skies, earth and yourselves 11;
s- Read Muhammed My signs in creation 11;
Skin as often as a layer of skin is burned we replace it 2;
Sky, heaven have the same word in Arabic 1;
Slave
s- Children of Hagar means Slaves were taken from
Muslim lands 8;
Soul Male and female from the same soul 14;
Spirit
s- Birds flying around symbolizes spiritual freedom 14;
s- Ismail water at heels means spiritual balance 4;
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Steps
s- Christian freedom is five steps 14;
sIslamic freedom is three steps 14;
tI
Teach Allah teaches you 12;
Thumb
t- Dhikr rule of thumb 13;
t- dhikr Thumb represent the logic mind working to find a
conclusion 13;
Torah Prophet mention in Torah and Injeel 7;
Touch
t- Jesus said touch me not I have not yet ascended 13;
t- Mary said no man has touched me 13;
t- Qur'an none touch but purified ones 13;
Transfiguration
t- Jesus transfiguration light of Elijah, Moses 10;
u-1
Universe began as a vapor 2;
Upright Believe then be upright 13;
v-1
Vapor Universe began as a vapor 2;
Verse Ayaat, verses are in skies, earth and yourselves 1 1 ;
w-1
W D Mohammed
w- vision of my hand with the followers of Muhammed in
a pledge under the tree 3;
Water Ismail water at heels means spiritual balance 4;
Women, Mothers Are the sacred temple of the house 6;
Word In the beginning was the word 4, 1 1 ,
x- I y-1 Index 10-72007
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10-7-2007 Radio Broadcast Sunday Ramadan Session
Homewood, Ill.
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, Muharnmed (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.
Imam Warith Deen Mohammed
We are happy to be here again with you in the radio listening audience. You who are Muslims and I'm sure
there are many listening to us in the various cities where we are heard on the radio. They are listening to
us right now and they are Muslims.
I want to first say to youm As Salaam Alaikum and Ramadan Mubarak, a blessed Ramadan. And if I do not
communicate with you before the Eid, the Night of Power and the celebration of this month, which is coming
soon, I say blessed Eid to all of you. And keep the faith as Christians and Muslims say and keep it strong.
Garden of Eden
For a brief period of time I want to talk about how we should see the Garden of Eden, the Garden of
Paradise and how we should live it, now, in this morally troubled world that we are living in. The Garden of
Eden is a message. It is not just a story. It is a message to the believer and the message is this: G_d did not
create us for corruption, evil and violence. He created our soul so that it would never be at rest until there
was no violence, no hatred, no deceit, no wrongdoings. If we would listen to ou r souls we would know at all
times that our souls arc communicating to us.
The Soul's nature is to warn us
When we arc doing the wrong thing with our mind our soul lets us know that. It will not let us be
comfortable. We fight that and resist it. Now if we fight and resist it enough our soul has been designed to
be intelligent by its Creator. So it will let us go on our way and we will have hardly no conscience bothering
us. But the nature of the soul is to warn us by saying that, "This is bad for you. This is good for you." When
you arc getting involved in something that is safe morally and is going to be good for your life now and in
the future the soul is made happy. The soul is cheered up. It is enlivened by that.
It is very important to understand that the Garden of paradise is also a message to our space that we
occupy, or the space that we arc responsible for. So G_d put our parents in the garden, our first father and his
wife and Ile gave them responsibility for keeping the garden pure and beautiful, like it was when He put
them in the garden. And He made them responsible for taking care of the things that grow in the garden so
that they would be benefiting from those things that grew in the garden.
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Think of your private quarters as your space for
Your paradise
It was the Garden of paradise, a garden of beauty, safety, security and abundance of the things that we
need to support life. We know every garden that we have is not like that. But we all should think of the
private quarters that we are responsible for, our apartments, our rooms that we rent and live in, our homes
that we buy or build, we should think of the private quarters that are ours in our possession as our space
for our paradise. We should follow G d's instructions in the message that is given in the scene of the
Garden of paradise where the man and the woman were there by themselves, like a couple just starting
life together, only a male and female together. So we should think of our privacy that we are responsible
for in the same way and do not let it become filthy. Don't let it become offensive to good human taste.
Keep it nice.
Some of us, we don't value the price we pay for things that support us being comfortable and living a
pleasant life. For instance, some of us buy a car and then neglect to keep it clean and in about one week it
does not look attractive like it did when we bought it off of the showroom floor, or from the dealer. And
we have spent money on it. I asked one young man, "Look, that new car, do you remember how it looked
when you went and got it? If it looked like it looks now would you have bought it?" And I said, "Take
care, man." I went on aboui my way.
Likewise for the home environment. The wife gets you to get her a nice beautiful apartment or
condominium, or a house and she says, "You can buy this for me?" She is just seeing it now. You took
her there so she can see it. So they opened it up for you and you showed it to her and after she looked at
every thing in there, the kitchen, the washroom, the toilet, she checked the ceiling and everything she
said, "Look honey you can get this for me?"
This is the typical woman of today. In about two weeks she is all depressed watching her television
program and she wants to curse you out and you did not do anything except buy her that beautiful place.
Junk is everywhere. A Kentucky Fried Chicken bone is on the floor. You step on it and you are so
embarrassed you won't even let her know you stepped on it. You will not tell her. You will just pick it up
and put it in the garbage. You can't walk around in your bedroom because things are thrown everywhere.
You get in the bed and you have to sleep on one side of the mountain of stuff that she piled up on it and
she sleeps on the other side. Now here is negligence, not laziness. Most of them are not lazy, they love to
work. They work at messing the house up every day.
The answer for this is for us to realize that Gd planned the universe and it operates on the laws that He
gave it and we do not know when it happened, eons of light years in the past. It is still operating on those
laws as Qd made it to operate. The sun still rises as it did eons of light years ago. The moon, the clouds
come and bring rain and the earth grows things just like it did eons of light years ago. That One Who
ordered that also is giving us a picture of our beginning in the garden with two, a couple of a male and a
female, man and wife.
Garden of Eden Is a picture of the future more than what happened in the past
That story never happened the way most of us kindergarten readers, or thinkers, see it. It is more a picture of
the future than a picture of what happened in the past. G d is projecting to us what He would like to see
happen in our life in every season of development for society, every generation or every new trend for our
generation. He would like to see us respect our environment and make our environment safe for health,
safe for life, clean not corrupted, decent and also productive.
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For it is the abundance of life that He entrusts us with, even though we are poor and have nothing. What
is the reality as for our relationship with the One Who made everything, Who created the earth and gave
us the natural world? There is plenty of food, apples, oranges, grapes, plenty of vegetables, cabbage and
everything. I love cabbage and corn. He gave us cabbage, corn, collard greens, everything, and even
black-eyed peas.
The earth no human being should claim it as his property
But now man has put his stake in the ground and he has claimed these territories. He has claimed these
farms and there is law to protect his rights. Don't say we still do not have the garden that G_d gave us and
it is having abundance of fruit. It till that exists and we can go to virgin lands right now where man's law
is not established and you will find trees, fruits, etc. And in some places you will find the natives
recognizing that no human being should claim those properties. All the natives in that area have a right to
go and get the fruits off of the tree. They have rights to use the boat, even the boat that the people made.
The boat did not grow out of the ground like a tree, but they took the tree that G_d made and they got the
wood, carved it and they made a boat. And those primitive societies give Mother Nature the credit for
that; or that god or whatever gods they had.
Public domain
So they see it as community property, that no individual should claim by himself and they all share it. If
the boat is there and you want to go fishing, you have a right to take that boat. The boat is community
property. There are societies just like that now. Isn't that proof of what man has in his nature and his
beginning before industry and modern law takes over everything? Isn't hat is evidence that G_cl's picture
of the paradise is true? That is what He gave us. He gave us the paradise and we should be conscious of
all space whether we are in charge of it or not. And especially the space we call the public domain.
We need a complete change in the way we think as possessors, owners of things. Some of us we have a
house and the women, now I hate to say this, sisters. I better call you ladies. I have to go home. As a very
young man I didn't like--now my mother was like this, too, but I sure didn't let her know I didn't like it.
She was from Georgia and she took a lesson from the slave master. She observed how the slave master
kept black people in check. I'm telling you, you would rather go out there and fight Joe Frazier than to
have my mother deal with you. My mother would say, "You get off of my couch with those dirty
clothes." Yes mama, we should get up off of this couch with our dirty clothes. But you are not helping to
communicate to us in a way that is going to get us to respond for long, because you say, "Your couch."
And we know we are your children. And we know that you say, "This is our house." So why is it that
you say, "This is your couch?"
Some whites throw trash in the black neighborhood
When it comes to the public domain, taking care of it we are out of it and even whites do it; especially in
our neighborhood. A lot of whites when they come to our neighborhood they think they came to the
garbage dump and you will see them throw trash out of their window. I began to think of the bad
treatment we received before the law was made right in the South and in the North and I wanted to get in
a fast vehicle and catch up with him and put some pain on him, because I think he is coming from that
high mind that makes him think he is a better creation than we are; that he is the superior human and we
are the inferior, animal-based, or animal level human.
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Some whites behave ugly because they see themselves as losers
I feel him coming from that when he opens his window in our neighborhood and throws trash out. Some of
them will do it just to contribute to your downhill, degrading behavior. Some of them, it is not many of them,
they are very few in number and that is what makes them so hateful and so ugly in their nature and behavior
because they see themselves as losers thinking, "Oh we have lost. We cannot keep these Negroes as our
inferiors anymore." I said Nigger, I think. 1 am not supposed to say that on the air. Forgive me. I will
pay the fine. Send my fifty cent fine to me I will pay it.
I said these people are just defeated and defeat is so bitter for them. The law has been made right for all of
us. They cannot discriminate in housing. So all these ugly laws are gone, they cannot tell us to go to the
black man's restroom, to the black man's fountain, or to the black man's section in the movies. All of that
is gone and for some of them it is such a hard pill to swallow. I believe some of them do not even know
that their defeat is dictating or causing them to think and behave in the ugly way they do. It is just
something that has just gone into their system and affected their soul, spirit, and mind and they are just
living the ugly person's life, the cruel person's life.
I have seen some ugly things done by whites in our neighborhood so that when it is found people will say,
"Look how these blacks treat their own property. Look how they treat their neighborhood. Look how they
treat this beautiful show that white folks used to come to when the neighborhood was white. Look how
they mess up the washroom and, etc." They come in there and mess it up so that it will be a bad
reflection on us. I pity them, really. I feel sorry for them. They have a terrible, damaged psyche. They
have not been able to adjust to fairness and justice.
I ask G_d to pardon them, have mercy on them and send them something, let something happen in their
life to bring them comfort and whether they know it Of not I am something that is happening that can
bring them comfort, because I understand how people can be driven. It is not always their fault. Those
who wanted to benefit materially, financially, from ignorant members of American society or the
American citizenry, they intentionally aggravated the relationship of blacks and white. They aggravated
that relationship. They did things that never should have been done. It wasn't right. It was for their
advantage in the future. They made the relationship of blacks and whites much worse. And I'm sure many
whites, if they heard what I'm saying right now they would agree and appreciate what I'm saying. I know
many of you African Americans, especially good Christians and good Muslims, you understand, too,
what I am coming from and you agree with my analysis. I am sure you do.
Almost every member in the family is working and it is not enough
The public domain. I know it is very difficult sometimes. You arc trying to make a living. You're
working full time. The wife is working full time and sometimes you have children working, too. You are
just working but it looks like you can never get into a comfortable situation where you do not have to
worry about the bills. Everybody is working and you still have to worry about the bills. You are not
getting enough money to satisfy just your needs. It is difficult.
They are raising the minimum wage. It has been raised but the complaint is coming from our politicians
that it is still not enough. We are still living below the poverty line, those who are poor. Our income is not
such that it can take us out of poverty. So this is the reality but we should work on it together. Do not get
angry with anybody and if you buy the logic that G d gives to us by the way of seeing reality and things
in our own charge the way G_d wants us to receive it. And believe me when He's speaking of the garden
He is not just speaking to common people. He is speaking more importantly to our government people.
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To the people who are in charge of our life, our community life, our government. He is speaking to them
more so than He is speaking to the common people.
But He is also speaking to the common people and He is speaking in such language that we preachers
need to bring the message that G_d has given us in these concepts and in these stories regarding these
concepts, to the common people in the following or the common citizens that we are also a member of
too. The preacher is a common citizen, too. If he was not he would not take up a collection. He has to
have a collection to pay his rent, pay his bills, too. He has bills coming at him, too, every month.
So we all are common, poor folks. Even our leaders are poor. Now we know some of them have a whole
lot of money but they are still poor because you have favored them having an appetite way above their
means saying, "We have to see our preacher in a new Cadillac. Get him a new Cadillac. He has been
driving that one for two years. Honey, let us ask the congregation to get reverend so and so a new
Cadillac."
So you have him living that way. And they call it enjoying achievement that is in another person that you
love and lift up that you really want to enjoy yourself. So you really want that Cadillac yourself. You
want a brand new Cadillac but since you can't get it and it takes the whole congregation to get one person
that Cadillac and he is your favorite son. The preacher is the favorite son, and should be. So you give him
the Cadillac. Now all the poor ones who do not have anything except a dune buggy to ride in put him in
that and when he is riding in it you are spiritually riding in there with him. In fact, you are under the
wheel thinking, "That is the car we bought reverend so and so."
Let us get G_d's message that He wants for us and lie wants us to all feel that we are equally His
creation. We are His dependents, equally. I am speaking from the language of the department of revenue
now. We are all equally G_d's dependents and He wants all of us to progress to the extent that we feel
good in our souls as achievers.
The Soul demands achieving better conditions
Do you know achieving better conditions, a better level of life in society or a higher status, that is a
demand in the soul? A lot of us don't know that our bad condition internally is not because we were
given some poison or some organ was damaged inside physically. It is because we are not measuring up
to the demands of our soul; the soul that G_d created to register what is happening to you and to carry the
burden for you; and to then let you know that by letting you feel the burden. So you become distressed,
you become confused. Sometimes it is so bad you become hysterical, you just lose your senses and you
scream, holler and throw things and nobody is guilty of causing that but you.
Blacks lost courage to face moral issues
It is your soul putting that burden into your conscience so you can hurt, too, up here, in the mind and in
your heart. So let us unburden ourselves by having the courage to face the moral issues. Do you know as a
race we have lost the courage to face moral issues? When Frederick Douglass charged the United States
with a great moral issue he placed upon the whole United States a heavy moral issue. At the time when
we were discriminated against, there were still some slaves around, too. He spoke out publicly and these
are his words. "You claim democracy and you claim Christ Jesus and your behavior is such that would
shame a nation of savages." Those are a few words. He didn't have to talk for a hour. They are just a few
words. It took him just a couple of minutes to say it but how far reaching and how impacting were those
words, compact in that they are powerful in a small expression. And it had the power to impact the
leaders of the United States and the world. They did not change suddenly but believe me they were dealt a
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blow that was going to eventually change the whole way that they were dealing with and treating black
people in this country.
Dr. King met with the Honorable Elijah Mohammed
Now after we have had such leaders to address moral issues in the behavior of whites of this country
towards blacks and others to follow them all the way to Dr. King who challenged this country to prove
worthy of having the respect that it wants and claims by making improvements upon its character.
He said that he had a dream that one day they would not judge a man by the color of his skin but by the
content of his character. Isn't that what he said? Now let's give this a few moments of thought. Do not
judge me by my skin color. This is the great leader that gained respect for all of us. Even the Honorable
Elijah Mohammed appreciated him so much until he invited him to his home. Many of you don't know
this. Dr. King sat at the Honorable Elijah Mohammed's dining table and they had coffee and pleasant
communication, pleasant talk.
Mr. Mohammed shared his thinking and his idea of what we should have as a future and how we should
help one another with Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. And Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. also gave him further
knowledge of what He wanted as a leader of the civil rights movement of our people in this country for
social justice. When they left they parted as friends. They greeted each other as friends. And the
Honorable Elijah Mohammed continued his work as he was doing it and Dr. King continued his work.
They did not attempt to change each other and make each other stop and say, "You accept my way or
nothing."
Two intelligent men met. Two spiritual believers in G_d met and that was a wonderful me eting. But
could it be shared with the public? No. If it had been shared with the public Dr. King would not have
been the leader for long because his stupid, narrow minded people in his following, not all of them, but it
would have been too many narrow minded Christians in his following who would not accept that he
continue to be their leader. So it was not made public.
Public domain is every citizen's property
The public domain is every citizen's property. If I am a citizen of the United States there is no public
street that you can block to me because my home is in New York. You cannot say I can't drive my car
down this street in Chicago because my home is in New York. I'm not a citizen of Chicago. You can't do
that. The public domain belongs to all the citizens of the United States. We have some turf bosses who do
not want to respect that, saying, "You come into my town you better get a letter saying that you have been
authorized to come here". Do you know we have dismantled that thing for a long time, for thirty or more
years or so and the attitude is still in some of the local leaders, "What are you doing in my town?" They
will speak to you just like that, "Where did you come from? What are you doing here?" It is none of your
business what I am doing. Do you want me to call the police on you, black man?" Deal with them. Don't
be afraid of them.
You are a citizen of the United States. You can go to any town you want. In fact, if your cousin lives next
door to his place you can sleep next door to him and tell him, "If you disturb me I'm going to call 911."
Living with their little small concept of reality. It is so small until it violates reality everywhere except in
about twenty-five square feet.
So it is in every person. It might be sleeping in our soul but if we bring the right words from G_d or the
right words from good common sense to you it will awaken that reality in your soul and you will gain
back your human nobility, your human honor, your human dignity in the best sense. We are all entitled to
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have as the Honorable Elijah Mohammed would say, "Some of this good earth," that we are responsible
for. And if you have nothing but your apartment or your room, please respect the authority that G d gave
you to make it a paradise. You are poor and you can't put a color television and all this technology in there,
but you know you do not need all of that. If you have the right spirit, the right feelings inside of you for
each other, whether it is a family or a few members, or just a man and a wife sharing one room, a
condominium or whatever. If you have that you can go out of your small room or apartment and go
walking through the park in your city. Stop and sit on the bench. Take a little break and look up at the
sky. Walk a little further and when you see a bunch of beautiful flowers stop and say, "Honey aren't those
beautiful flowers?" And if she is so irritated and says, "I don't want to see any flowers," just keep
walking. If she is happy to keep walking with you it is therapy. This is better than $50 an hour that you
would pay a shrink. And if her irritation increases say, "Baby do you want me to carry you on my back. I
think you're a little tired and weak." Now if you are me, you can't do that. Right? So you just tell her, "I
want to carry you on my back, sweetie." And she will say, "You know I can't let you carry me on your
back." And you just keep walking and walk on out of the park because irritation has set in and say, "You
like Kentucky Fried Chicken or you like Herald's Chicken. Do you have a taste for it now, Honey?" She
may ask, "Can I get a soda with it?" Sure you can get a soda and whatever else you like. The way I feel
now I'm ready to sell my watch and get you a steak". Create a paradise. Create a Garden of Eden. Create
a paradise. No matter what situation you are in, try to create a paradise.
I'm going to sum this up by going back to the public domain and our responsibility as citizens. Each of us
as citizens own the public domain. Who are the owners of the public domain? The citizens of the United
States of America, we are the owners of the public domain. It is not private property. It is collective
property. It is the property of the collective many, the citizens of the United States.
It is the shaytan, the devil who wants to see as many of the people as possible become irresponsible,
negligent of guarding their responsibility, caring less for values. Satan benefits because when you're like
that most of your money and earnings go to him. But if we love and care for each other, most of our
earnings will go to making our life a paradise, to making the family life a paradise.
But we are so selfish. Everybody wants a Mercedes Benz and we have to tell the child, "Boy, you are not
even out of high school yet and just because I'm making $70,000 a year and struggling, working hard,
you want a Mercedes Benz because I have one? You can't even get a bicycle, boy, until you show me
you have some industry and respect for your own self. Get out there and wash some windows and make
some money. Sell some Chicago Defender Newspapers. If you can't do more than that, do anything but
get out of my face until you show me you are willing to be productive. And if you ask me for a Mercedes
Benz again I'm going to cut your allowance down from fifty a month to five dollars_ Now how do you
like those marbles?" I'm telling you how to get this thing straight.
Do not punish children physically but use intelligence
Do not start hitting on him he will take you to court and you won't be able to go to work Monday. They
will have you locked up. So don't get physical, be intelligent. The evolution of civilization, the evolution
of the human spirit and mind has brought us to a time now where you must address problems not from
our feelings and emotions. We can't be beating on the physical body to get results. We have to use the
best of our tools and instruments, our intelligence, our education. We have to come from here, the mind
and from a good human heart and address the problem we have in our children. Do not be beating on
them physically. You are just making them see you as a cruel person.
They already have the world of this dead, corrupt, indecent, culture whipping them everyday. Now arc
you going to beat them, physically? You are not going to correct their behavior, You are just going to
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make them dislike you more and become more defiant, because they already know they have more burden
on them now than justice allows. Accept the created responsibility from Gd to make your environment
that you are responsible for, or that you at least have authority in, make it as much as you can a paradise.
And we love you. Peace, As Salaamu Alaikutn.