Sunday Lecture on 8-25-2024
Sunday Lecture
Student Minister Rodney Muhammad’s address centers on the concepts of submission to God’s will, the importance of self-improvement, and the power of knowledge. He emphasizes these themes through a blend of religious teachings, historical parallels, and personal anecdotes.● Muhammad underscores the significance of submission to a higher power for achieving personal and collective transformation. He argues that individuals can transcend the limitations of the material world and tap into a greater purpose by aligning their will with God’s. This theme of submission is woven throughout his address, emphasizing the importance of obedience and trust in the divine plan.
He emphasizes the transformative power of knowledge throughout his address, asserting that it is the key to liberation and empowerment. He links the act of reading with intellectual growth and highlights how it has enabled individuals to escape mental and societal constraints, citing examples of gang leaders who, upon embracing literacy, were able to uplift their communities and pursue more constructive paths.
Muhammad also stresses the importance of self-reflection and self-improvement. He encourages his listeners to examine their actions and motivations and strive to become better versions of themselves. This emphasis on personal accountability reinforces the idea that true change begins at the individual level. This message resonates with the previous discussion of names and titles, highlighting the reverence given to figures who embody these principles within the Nation of Islam. The study guide’s exploration of historical parallels and dynamics of belief further underscores Muhammad’s central message: that by embracing knowledge, submitting to a higher power, and actively pursuing self-improvement, individuals can overcome obstacles, achieve their full potential, and contribute to the betterment of their communities.
00:00:00:06 – 00:00:07:15
Student In The Ministry Joseph Muhammad
I said I’m looking to your family at this time. Can we please stand for prayer?
00:00:07:18 – 00:00:28:11
Student In The Ministry Joseph Muhammad
In the manner in which you are most comfortable, follow along silently. Please. Surely I am being turned to thee. Oh Allah. Striving to be upright. To he who originated the heavens and the earth. You know I’m not of the polytheists. Surely my prayer, my sacrifice, my life and my death are all for Allah, the Lord of the worlds.
00:00:28:13 – 00:00:50:13
Student In The Ministry Joseph Muhammad
No associate has he in this. Am I commanded, and I am of those who submit. Oh Allah, thou art the King. There is no God with the Lord, my Lord, and I am the servant. And I have been greatly unjust to myself, and I confess my faults. So grant me protection against all my faults, for none grants protection against faults with deep, and guide me into the best of morals.
00:00:50:13 – 00:01:22:28
Student In The Ministry Joseph Muhammad
But none can guide into the best of morals, body and turn away from me. The evil in the indecent morals with none can turn from me. The evil in the indecent morals. But the you know Allah make Muhammad successful and make the true followers of Muhammad successful without did make Abraham and the true followers of Abraham successful. For surely, though I praised and magnify and oh Allah, bless Muhammad and bless the true followers of Muhammad, the doubted blessed Abraham and the true followers of Abraham.
00:01:22:28 – 00:01:56:10
Student In The Ministry Joseph Muhammad
For surely now I praise and magnify. I mean may be seated in the name of Allah, the beneficent, the Most Merciful. We give praise and thanks to allow for his coming and appearing to us. In the person issue of master W Farad Muhammad, the long awaited Messiah of the Christians and the Mahdi of the Muslim. And we thank him for spending time among us three years and four months, and in that time choosing one, that he could deposit his very mind into the weight of the mind of God and a human being, and that person, that human being, would not break forth to know where they leave the post.
00:01:56:12 – 00:02:15:22
Student In The Ministry Joseph Muhammad
And the man that I speak of is a Georgia born black man, the one who showed up at a meeting just like this in the early 1930s, around 1931, and when it was his turn to receive the master teacher and shake his hand, and what we call acceptance, when he was close to him, he looked at him and he says, I know who you are.
00:02:15:25 – 00:02:40:25
Student In The Ministry Joseph Muhammad
And the master teacher pulled in close and says, yes, but who knows it but you? Well, brothers and sisters, a relationship developed between those two that lingers and wanders right into the very moment that we are now. This dispensation of time. Because of that exchange, we are so thankful for that one who recognized who the master teacher was and is, and the man who ordered those words, I know who you are.
00:02:41:01 – 00:03:20:27
Student In The Ministry Joseph Muhammad
That Georgia born giant, born Elijah Pool. But because he was saddled with a responsibility that no man before him had ever had before, so much so the social sciences says that we were in such a bad condition that we were irretrievable, irredeemable, that we were dead. Right. But the Honorable Elijah Muhammad was saddled with that responsibility. And because of the mind that he had, the love that he had and has for a with that kind of word being employed to lift us up to the pinnacle of the top of civilization, he became known as the Most Honorable Elijah Muhammad.
00:03:20:29 – 00:03:39:04
Student In The Ministry Joseph Muhammad
All pretty is due to a lot. We thank our Lord for that wonderful, wonderful human being, for were it not for he, I could not bring on the next man that I want to say. I can’t bring him on. He’s always present because if we’ve ever heard him, he’s in our hearts and in our minds. That’s how beautiful he is.
00:03:39:08 – 00:04:03:19
Student In The Ministry Joseph Muhammad
That’s how powerful the word is. So much so that before his teacher, the Honorable Elijah Muhammad, left him in 1934, he said, brother, while I’m gone, don’t you change the teaching, all right? And he hasn’t he hasn’t changed the teaching. We can prove that at no limit of time. If you get the tweets 2.0 by the honorable Louis Farrakhan, a brother in there asked a minister a question.
00:04:03:22 – 00:04:08:24
Student In The Ministry Joseph Muhammad
He said Farrakhan. We didn’t ask what. He made a statement. He said, brother, I’ve been listening to you for over 20.
00:04:08:24 – 00:04:09:26
Student Minister Rodney Muhammad
Five years.
00:04:09:28 – 00:04:26:25
Student In The Ministry Joseph Muhammad
And you teaching the same old thing. And the minister said, well, brother, thank you for bearing witness that I of obeying the instructions of my teacher. He told me not to change the teachings, and I’m not, and I didn’t, and I have it. So all praises due to allow for the Honorable Minister Louis Farrakhan. I let his name out.
00:04:26:25 – 00:04:53:12
Student In The Ministry Joseph Muhammad
Y’all already knew we. Whoa! I didn’t have to say it. But again, here’s a man. He loves us so much that no matter how much pain he’s in, he has no problem coming to the rostrum to teach us and give us divine guidance so that we can he can save our lives. Is that no greater love has any man that he would lay down his life for his brother every time the Honorable Louis Farrakhan speaks, though he’s not in the public so much now.
00:04:53:14 – 00:05:12:13
Student In The Ministry Joseph Muhammad
But if you check him on social media, his life is still in danger. Why? Like the Jesus of 2000 years ago, he was hated by the Jews. He was hated by the government, and he was hated by the scribes. Well, scribes, if you don’t know that it would. That is in a mighty context, if the media knows that.
00:05:12:13 – 00:05:43:10
Student In The Ministry Joseph Muhammad
Right? But yet he’s walking in the shoes of the prophetic Jesus of the historical Jesus. Pardon me, of 2000 years ago, so we can look at him and say, yeah, we have Jesus in our midst. Why? Because he’s going through the same thing that the Jesus of 2000 years ago was going through. And the beauty of it is, regardless of whom or what, he never falters in his responsibility to us, he always gives us what we need to get us to the next level.
00:05:43:13 – 00:06:03:15
Student In The Ministry Joseph Muhammad
And I have to say this. Our sister, Winnie Mandela, years ago, when they were having the wars in South Africa and her husband was still in prison, and they were having what they call necktie parties over there, you know, for the traders, they would put the tire around their neck, put gasoline lighted, just to send a signal to those who were trying to disrupt the good that they were trying to do.
00:06:03:16 – 00:06:24:02
Student In The Ministry Joseph Muhammad
Well, anyway, she said. They got really hard on her. we get hard on her and she and her daughter was sitting one day and our daughter said, she said to her daughter, she was shaking her head, you know, maybe she was reciting a prayer or something to that effect and just talking to her daughter. And her daughter said, mommy, let’s put on Farrakhan.
00:06:24:04 – 00:06:42:14
Student In The Ministry Joseph Muhammad
Oh, wait a minute. He just you hear what I said? Let’s put on Farrakhan. Just grab the lecture. Let’s just listen to what he has to say. It doesn’t matter which one it is, anyone will do because there’s such a divine with so much divine wisdom in it, so much love in it. That is a cure for any of our sicknesses.
00:06:42:20 – 00:07:00:05
Student In The Ministry Joseph Muhammad
All we got to do is put it on. We don’t have to stick it in our veins necessarily, but we can do it with our eyes or get it into our ears. And once it gets into our bloodstream, then before you know it, in eight minutes and 20s or 500 seconds, we find ourselves perking up no matter how bad the situation is.
00:07:00:11 – 00:07:22:02
Student In The Ministry Joseph Muhammad
So we thank Almighty God, Allah, and the Most Honorable Elijah Muhammad for the Honorable Minister Louis Farrakhan. All praise is due to a lot is in their names. I’d like to greet you all once again with the greeting words of peace I Salaam alaikum. So how are we doing this morning? Family? If I could borrow from my brother, the math doctor.
00:07:22:02 – 00:07:47:11
Student In The Ministry Joseph Muhammad
Brother Shaheed, how are you thinking? Oh, praises. Due to a lot. I know he don’t mind if I take a little snippet of that this morning. You know, because our thoughts mean everything today. If we’re not, you know, we have a system and our bodies and all our sicknesses start right here in the mind. And if you know how it is that one system is out of order, the body is said to be in a deceased state.
00:07:47:14 – 00:08:05:22
Student In The Ministry Joseph Muhammad
So if we don’t correct our thoughts, then all of a sudden the heart gets weak. Then when the heart gets we need to, something goes wrong with the lungs, then the kidneys, then the liver, then it’s a chain reaction. So we have to correct it. Not necessarily getting medications. Now I’m not saying Brother Joseph is not saying that if you get sick, don’t take medicine.
00:08:05:23 – 00:08:28:27
Student In The Ministry Joseph Muhammad
That’s not what I’m saying. I’m saying that the root to all of what we are going through starts in our minds. And this is what’s known as the hereafter. Yeah, we’ll have health in the hereafter. Hereafter our thoughts are changed. Once we change the way we think, everything around us starts to correct itself, or we correct it because we corrected it in ourselves.
00:08:29:04 – 00:08:48:05
Student In The Ministry Joseph Muhammad
And before I go any further, because I was leading up to something, I’m going to come back to self-improvement because that’s where it all starts. But I’d like to thank you all first and foremost for being here on time. And thank you for submitting to the check procedure, for we live in a very dangerous time in the check procedure is very necessary because we want to check everything at the door.
00:08:48:10 – 00:09:02:20
Student In The Ministry Joseph Muhammad
We have to be security minded today, not just in the month, but the minute we step outside that door, when we get to our car and we come out in the evening, we get to our car. You don’t just get in and slam the door. You should be looking in the back seat. Make sure none of the other doors are open.
00:09:02:20 – 00:09:25:04
Student In The Ministry Joseph Muhammad
Make sure the trunk isn’t open because we don’t want to be. Brother Kevin told me once that a former captain told him. Brother, you don’t never want to be in a hostage situation where you tied up. Yeah, that’s a bad predicament to be in. So we secure ourselves by checking the post. You know, we take charge of this post and all property and view temple property and view us first.
00:09:25:04 – 00:09:51:01
Student In The Ministry Joseph Muhammad
And everything that’s connected with us. We check it to. So I go back to thanking you again for submitting to this check procedure. All praise is due to Allah and I don’t want to be remiss in my duty. I have to bring up the baddest, the boldest, the most powerful newspaper on the planet. All 196,940,000mi². This is the most horrible paper in the world.
00:09:51:04 – 00:10:12:20
Student In The Ministry Joseph Muhammad
Second to none. All praise is due to Allah the Final Call newspaper. And if you look up in the corner, you see that little brass trumpet blowing right there. But right above it there’s a man who is this trumpet and I missed date. He’s sounding the truth to all who will hear. And all we have to do is here.
00:10:12:22 – 00:10:17:15
Student In The Ministry Joseph Muhammad
Come on now, this call and response. Y’all know how that work. We are singing group this here.
00:10:17:17 – 00:10:18:02
Speaker 1
You know.
00:10:18:04 – 00:10:41:14
Student In The Ministry Joseph Muhammad
Praise be to Allah. That’s where we have family. So the final call newspaper get it. And then we have local national and international news. Everything in here is geared to give us guidance because of the time that we have entered. And it’s Savior’s day, the Honorable Louis Farrakhan, the 2022 that, he has said to us that the war of Armageddon has begun.
00:10:41:16 – 00:11:06:02
Student In The Ministry Joseph Muhammad
And he told us years ago at a, a lecture that he did and titled War. And as he opened up the election, he says that if you don’t know, you are in a war, you have lost before you even got to fight. Y’all all right, think that over. Look at the people out there right now. They don’t even know they in a war, you walk up to them and say, brother, sister, here’s, here’s the final call.
00:11:06:02 – 00:11:20:29
Student In The Ministry Joseph Muhammad
Would you like to read it? Is this you can tell him is $2, but you can give it to him. Is it? No, no. I’m good. No, you’re not, because you don’t have the good news. You need to read this paper because there’s something in here that directly.
00:11:20:29 – 00:11:23:05
Student Minister Rodney Muhammad
Affects you and.
00:11:23:05 – 00:11:39:28
Student In The Ministry Joseph Muhammad
Me. Even if you just turn to how to eat, to live, if you just start working from that page right there, there’s the answer is there’s something that’s going on in our very lives. Y’all all right. All praises due to Allah. So if you don’t have a final call, get one before you leave today. Take it home and just lay it on the table.
00:11:40:05 – 00:11:56:11
Student In The Ministry Joseph Muhammad
And if you got family members in there, don’t even bother. Just kind of stand back and do an experiment and see how many people walk by it in your house and maybe somebody opened it up. It could be one of the children. They may open it up and say, mommy, daddy, did you know? Y’all all right? Yes. So let’s move on.
00:11:56:13 – 00:12:15:21
Student In The Ministry Joseph Muhammad
As I was saying a moment ago, with all the things that are going on in our lives, you know, we have to do something called as the Honorable Louis Farrakhan. Farrakhan introduced it to it after he had his vision like experience on the wheel in 1985. He said that when he was there, he heard the voice of his teacher, the Most Honorable Elijah Muhammad.
00:12:15:23 – 00:12:32:24
Student In The Ministry Joseph Muhammad
He said, I didn’t see him, but I knew his voice. He said, and as I was, as he was given talking to me, a scroll rolled down in front of me. He said it was in cursive writing. He said I couldn’t read it because as soon as it rolled down, it rolled back up. Well, I’m leading into something.
00:12:32:27 – 00:12:55:02
Student In The Ministry Joseph Muhammad
The following year, in 1986, he came out with the self-improvement, the basis for community development study guys. So these study guys, if you just walk with me, came from the will. And the Most Honorable Elijah Muhammad gave it to the Honorable Minister Louis Farrakhan. All praise is due to a. And if you.
00:12:55:02 – 00:12:56:27
Speaker 1
Read.
00:12:57:00 – 00:12:58:04
Student Minister Rodney Muhammad
This book.
00:12:58:07 – 00:13:14:17
Student In The Ministry Joseph Muhammad
But don’t just read it. Come out to the class on Friday. Be here, be in the circle because there’s medicine just being here in the circle when you sit among your brothers and your sisters and maybe you maybe you didn’t have the clear thought about your brother or your sister. I mean, you see them walking through them all.
00:13:14:17 – 00:13:32:26
Student In The Ministry Joseph Muhammad
They think they all that and all that kind of stuff. Then you sit in the circle and you realize, man, they going through the same stuff I’m going to through. Maybe it’s not exactly the same, but it’s similar. And then when you start to hear your brother and your sister relate their narratives as it relates to the lesson, your heart starts to change towards your brother and your sister.
00:13:33:03 – 00:13:51:24
Student In The Ministry Joseph Muhammad
You know, maybe, maybe you won’t love them, but then you start to have a different kind of respect for them. But you get to see that we’re all struggling. Ain’t none of us really living. We are surviving. That’s what we’re doing in this world. We’re not living. Come on now. Right now. But I ask you to raise your hand and ask you, are you in debt?
00:13:52:00 – 00:14:09:20
Student In The Ministry Joseph Muhammad
Don’t raise your hand. I don’t even have that. I mean, you don’t have to raise your hand. I know you are, because I am. It’s a confession. It’s good for the soul. We all. If you living in Satan’s world, you catch it. Hell, especially if you are a black man or a black woman or a black child. You catching hell.
00:14:09:22 – 00:14:19:06
Student In The Ministry Joseph Muhammad
Children go home and look at their parents with that look on their face. Mama, daddy, I gotta say something. Not right now. I’m trying to work something out.
00:14:19:08 – 00:14:41:11
Student In The Ministry Joseph Muhammad
That hurts the child because they want to console with those they love. And they believe that you love them. But when you don’t have time to share the experience of your life with them, it hurts them. Then you wonder why they going out and coming back, nanny smoking weed or whatever else they doing out there. They drinking. Yeah, that’s because they started with us.
00:14:41:13 – 00:14:59:13
Student In The Ministry Joseph Muhammad
We are the answer to our own problem. But it’s got to start with self-improvement. The basis for community development. So when we come out on Friday and we sit in that circle and we still have to break it up, and you can ask anybody in here who’s come out, I’ve heard people say, you know what, I don’t know why I waited so long.
00:14:59:15 – 00:15:23:12
Student In The Ministry Joseph Muhammad
Sometime is fear. Sometime is shame that you’re going to be put on the spot to speak. So never we don’t worry about that. Or somebody else said what I was going to say. Don’t worry about that. Your response is just as different as a snowflake. There are trillions of snowflakes, but none of them are the same. And when you give your your your response to the question or make a statement to the subject matter is different than anybody else.
00:15:23:12 – 00:15:43:00
Student In The Ministry Joseph Muhammad
Five people could have said something similar, but all of them are different. Why? Because we are different. All praise is due to Allah and that is the way. Almighty God, our light expresses himself through each one of us. That’s why we have a, I pattern, a voice pattern, a fingerprint and a footprints. That wasn’t before us. And it won’t be after us.
00:15:43:02 – 00:15:45:12
Speaker 1
That makes us unique.
00:15:45:14 – 00:16:08:25
Student In The Ministry Joseph Muhammad
Ain’t that what they say about Allah? God. He’s unique. There’s none like him. Well, there’s you unique. I’m unique. There’s none like us. We are all God’s children of the Most High God. But in order to develop it, we gotta come into the class. Come on. Don’t be scared to come into the class. Honorable Louis Farrakhan teaches us in the, the Green Book.
00:16:08:28 – 00:16:33:09
Student In The Ministry Joseph Muhammad
You know, the, our success. Yo, yo, yo with me? Yes, sir. Yes, sir. He says in that book that wisdom that what causes us to heal ourselves. Yes. The more knowledge we put into our hands, the more strong, stronger we are when it comes to facing difficulties or the vicissitudes of life that lie in front of us every day.
00:16:33:11 – 00:16:55:29
Student In The Ministry Joseph Muhammad
And we, you know, difficulties are there. when I wasn’t here, last week is funny. I was, my wife and I have visit down to the Carolinas, you know, just a we were down in the trees, moving the sticks, I mean, and when it was dark, it was dark. It ain’t no streetlights. Pardon me, but while we were there, you know, I’m,
00:16:56:02 – 00:17:20:27
Student In The Ministry Joseph Muhammad
I’m just reflecting and I’m looking and I’m saying, man, because self-improvement be what we need to do sometimes is to stop, go back, reflect and come forward. Because in it and being around those trees and the beauty of it was it was hard. But there was a certain serenity there that, you know, that it just came over us, myself and her.
00:17:21:00 – 00:17:35:01
Student In The Ministry Joseph Muhammad
But the other part of the story was that we were in those trees. We were driving down the highway one night, coming from one of the stores, and, it was getting late. It was right. It was there when it got late, 8:00. It was dark, I mean, pitch black. And when you got on certain highways you couldn’t see.
00:17:35:04 – 00:17:56:07
Student In The Ministry Joseph Muhammad
And, you know, the lights come on, they go high. But as I’m driving, I remember turning my, headlights off. Auto. And, you know, when you do that, you know, you’re running lights. The security lights in the daytime stay on. But my tail lights weren’t on, and I got pulled over by one of those redneck, you know, white cars.
00:17:56:09 – 00:18:11:24
Student In The Ministry Joseph Muhammad
But anyway, is how we handle this. How we handle the police is how we get out of it. So he came up, he had the lights flashing, and he walked up on the side of the truck. And I look back and he says to me, he says, yes, your you don’t have any your tail lights, you don’t have any tail lights.
00:18:11:26 – 00:18:27:17
Student In The Ministry Joseph Muhammad
I said, oh really? So that’s an interesting. So he says, do you have a driver’s license? And, you know, and proof of responsibility on your vehicle? I said, yes, I do. And there was a slight pause because all you asked me was, did I have it? I said, yes, I do have it. So he didn’t say that.
00:18:27:17 – 00:18:47:10
Student In The Ministry Joseph Muhammad
He’s looking at me. And I said, do you want to see it like that? He’s oh, yeah. Yeah. Y’all want to see it say, well, I give it to him. I already had it out. I gave it to him. He walks back, he weighs about five and then he comes back and he looks at me and he says, well, because in North Carolina, if we stop you, we have to give you it’s called an incidentrillioneport.
00:18:47:16 – 00:18:52:25
Student In The Ministry Joseph Muhammad
So this is not a ticket. You don’t have to pay anything. Because really, what he did was when he ran my stuff, he couldn’t find nothing.
00:18:52:28 – 00:18:53:09
Speaker 1
I.
00:18:53:12 – 00:19:09:17
Student In The Ministry Joseph Muhammad
And he’s looking like nothing. This man don’t have a parking ticket. All praises due to Allah. I’m not bragging on Brother Joseph, but I’m saying that exchange could have been a totally different. Yeah, I got a license. What would you want? Would you stop me for? I got like, y’all, can I fix it? And I could have went another way.
00:19:09:23 – 00:19:31:13
Student In The Ministry Joseph Muhammad
But the teachings of the honorable Elijah Muhammad has given to us by the Honorable Louis Farrakhan. It teaches us how to deal with death because the white man is death. The Honorable Louis Farrakhan said that he had just came to Philadelphia in the 1960s, and he said he had just recorded, the white man’s heaven is a black man’s hell.
00:19:31:15 – 00:19:46:28
Student In The Ministry Joseph Muhammad
He said, I must be what I brother. Look, man. But he didn’t say. We said, I just recorded I’m Leaving Philadelphia and a cop pulled up behind me, and I’m thinking of the minister, and they say. And he said, the man told me you ran a stop sign back there. I said, I know I didn’t run no stop sign.
00:19:46:28 – 00:20:02:07
Student In The Ministry Joseph Muhammad
So he made me get out a car and he, told me, you stay over there, the on the curb. So I went over to the curb and he went through my car. He said, I don’t know what he said, I don’t know, maybe it was all I. I don’t know where, but if he had seen that tape, the white man’s habit of the black man’s hell, that might have been something to spark him up, he said.
00:20:02:07 – 00:20:16:26
Student In The Ministry Joseph Muhammad
But he didn’t. But anyway, he he was looking for something. So I asked him. I said, do you want to search my trunk? I can open it for you. He said, no, I want you to do that. Just stay over there where you are. I ask you all that. And he said, you know. So I had told him the way the Honorable Elijah Muhammad had taught us.
00:20:16:29 – 00:20:39:15
Student In The Ministry Joseph Muhammad
He said, because I was dealing with death, I could have lost my life. But the other side of that coin was he could have lost his life because he dealing with a black man that’s got the truth of Almighty God a lot in him. And I felt the same way. I didn’t feel feel threatened because before it all finished up, I said before it all started, I said Allahu Akbar, Allah, you guide us through it.
00:20:39:18 – 00:20:54:23
Student In The Ministry Joseph Muhammad
I didn’t want my wife getting caught up in that. So we, we, we got through and we came out of escape. My point being brothers and sisters with that long story is that it is the self-improvement. 20 years ago, I don’t know how did matter when I’m out. I got out the car before he got there and ran up on him in my foolishness.
00:20:54:26 – 00:21:14:25
Student In The Ministry Joseph Muhammad
But because I have entered a class that’s teaching us how to maintain self control, right? Have patience with ourselves first and then with others, and then our guides us on out with with truth. Y’all all right? Yes, sir. So let me read just a little bit about the Honorable Louis Farrakhan. If I bore you with that story, I’m.
00:21:14:29 – 00:21:32:10
Student In The Ministry Joseph Muhammad
I don’t I didn’t mean to, but I wanted to make a point. That is our training. The teaching that we have is second to none. People were paid hundreds of thousands of dollars to get this. You white folks would be here to get this if they could, the minister told us. He said, you better hope I don’t start letting them in the mosque again.
00:21:32:13 – 00:21:48:05
Student In The Ministry Joseph Muhammad
Yes, again. They used to come in. We talk about that story another time, but it was because of them that they can. But he said, if I start letting them in again, you better get here early. You know how you like to show up and struggle. Struggle in, he said. You better get here early because if you don’t, they going to hell.
00:21:48:05 – 00:22:06:17
Student In The Ministry Joseph Muhammad
You’ll see because they want to know how to save their lives. He was just saying that they wish. You want to know how to save our lives. Who? Especially when we have truth right at our hands. Listen to this, dear family. I just want to go over. Just slips a couple of our pieces out here before our keynote speaker, I brought Delaware Valley Student Regional Minister Rodney Muhammad comes out.
00:22:06:19 – 00:22:31:11
Student In The Ministry Joseph Muhammad
It says, my dear, beloved brothers and sisters, we can see that we live in such times today. For even though we have scholars and scientists who absolutely are reading creation, they are not reading creation to find the will of God, Allah. They are reading creation to learn how to use the powers of creation for their veins. Self-seeking and self-serving is so Allah.
00:22:31:11 – 00:22:55:22
Student In The Ministry Joseph Muhammad
God must step in and confuse the sciences, to confuse the scholars and to bring their knowledge to know. This is because their knowledge is not serving them in the service of our Lord God and humanity, but their knowledge is destructive to them and to humanity. Can I, if you notice, I said that, Allah was going to confuse him.
00:22:55:25 – 00:22:56:16
Speaker 1
Right?
00:22:56:18 – 00:23:16:12
Student In The Ministry Joseph Muhammad
And he’s doing that, and we can prove it in no limit of time. And Sura one on 105 and the Holy Week, my Lai Mohammed, addition of the Holy Koran, Allah feel is called the elephant. Sounds like the Democratic Party. Walk with me. This is what it says. It says in the name of Allah, the beneficent, the merciful.
00:23:16:15 – 00:23:21:00
Student In The Ministry Joseph Muhammad
Have thou not seen how the Lord dealt with the possessors of the elephant.
00:23:21:03 – 00:23:22:17
Speaker 1
By.
00:23:22:19 – 00:23:48:12
Student In The Ministry Joseph Muhammad
Says, did he not cause their war to end in confusion and sin against them? Birds in flocks, casting at them decrees stones, so he rendered them like straw eating? No. Think about that. Are we looking at the debate? Did we see that? Not the debate. well, yeah, we can go back to when, president, former President Trump and President Biden.
00:23:48:18 – 00:24:08:29
Student In The Ministry Joseph Muhammad
We had a little debate this. You see how crazy it looked, how it was like two kindergartners arguing my daddy bigger than your daddy, my mama prettier than your mama. Basically, it was just name calling. And these are the people that they want. The world has bowed to. And the reason the Koran says Allah is called and their war to end the confusion.
00:24:09:04 – 00:24:31:13
Student In The Ministry Joseph Muhammad
The war for them is their survival to maintain control over the whole planet. But they see themselves losing the grip as we speak. So what they do is people of the other countries who used to bow to America, they looking at them now, they be like, this is what we afraid of. They they like. What would Abbott and Costello, for those who remember that that’s show.
00:24:31:15 – 00:24:53:22
Student In The Ministry Joseph Muhammad
I mean, they were just goofy, goofy goofballs, if you will. And that’s what Allah is bringing out of them. So the whole world is looking at America and its power structure as there was nothing. It’s like straw eating. No. You ever seen a cow or animal chew straw? It’s like all mushy and soft. There’s no structure to it.
00:24:53:24 – 00:25:14:16
Student In The Ministry Joseph Muhammad
Well, that’s what’s happening to this economy. That’s what’s happening to this country, because Allah has set his hand against it. And we don’t even want to talk about the birth rate. You know, when Robert Roe v Wade, when they said that now they want to allow incest, rape, it don’t matter. Let the child be born. Hit the brakes for a minute.
00:25:14:18 – 00:25:42:17
Student In The Ministry Joseph Muhammad
That is not for the black woman. No no no. That’s for white women because they see themselves based on what their own social scientists have told them that by the year 2045, going into 2050, America is going to be brown and the Honorable Louis Farrakhan lovingly. That and that’s not a ex-lax commercial. No, no, no, no, this is a prediction because they see themselves being birthed out of the position that they’re in.
00:25:42:19 – 00:26:04:08
Student In The Ministry Joseph Muhammad
The white woman can’t have babies anymore. They have to give her fertility drugs, and then she produces children like litters. Y’all remember Octomom, then she have 16 babies at one time. They’re trying to stay here. This is another reason why they don’t want the the Mexicans to come back into Colorado. So Texas, California, Nevada, all of that used to be there.
00:26:04:13 – 00:26:28:21
Student In The Ministry Joseph Muhammad
They’re coming back, but they know they have this insatiable urge. They want to get with darker people. And when they do, they can produce brown babies. Black man, black woman, black baby, white man, black woman. Black baby. Black man white woman black baby. So they see themselves being birth out of power. And his allies hand. That’s on it.
00:26:28:24 – 00:26:49:05
Student In The Ministry Joseph Muhammad
And again the diamond set against the womb of the white woman. She can’t have babies. Now notice the different fertility drugs for white women. Birth control for black women. But it ain’t working. The black woman is so strong that even though she got all them chemicals in her system, she ain’t. She live in a food desert, can’t get fresh vegetables, fresh fruit.
00:26:49:08 – 00:27:09:09
Student In The Ministry Joseph Muhammad
But yet she produce these little babies. They come in already knowing that this is a shark. Oh, praise this new tool. Like they just come in ready to go to work and all they need is to be put into a classroom that the Honorable Louis Farrakhan has set up. So if you got grandbabies and yes, I’m with you got grandbabies here right here in Philadelphia.
00:27:09:11 – 00:27:26:20
Student In The Ministry Joseph Muhammad
The ecology education is a key to learning center. Get them babies in there. Sister Kimberly, it’s this divine. Got some waiting for them. They go. Have you have a little genius sitting right up in your house and you don’t even know it? But a school like that can help to bring them in to what they really are supposed to be.
00:27:26:24 – 00:27:48:03
Student In The Ministry Joseph Muhammad
That’s how we can be set on top at once, set in heaven at once. It starts with our youth. With is our future. Honorable Louis Farrakhan. As I close this up, he said that the problem with America is that she warehouses her wisdom. Which is there anybody which is the elderly, and she abuses her future, which is the youth.
00:27:48:05 – 00:28:12:02
Student In The Ministry Joseph Muhammad
Think over there. Well, we don’t I don’t want to abuse anything else right now because I’ve had my time and my time is up, and I want to step down and bring to this rostrum a brother who I really admire him because he his ability to remember, I mean, people here, we’ve got people going, our age, going through all timer, and they can’t remember what happened a few minutes ago.
00:28:12:05 – 00:28:30:21
Student In The Ministry Joseph Muhammad
This brother can recite history of, you know, different, different times in history, different people’s histories. And he has it verbatim because if you go check it, it’s almost word for word. Well, that’s the brother that’s among us in any if you know any minister that is in the Nation of Islam, any laborer, when our brother name comes up, they say, yo that.
00:28:30:22 – 00:28:53:29
Student In The Ministry Joseph Muhammad
Yes, sir. That’s right. That’s my brother. He’s sharp, he’s on point. He is here with us. He’s a helper in the cause of Islam. And the ministry of the Honorable Elijah Muhammad is represented by the Honorable Minister Louis Farrakhan, Delaware Valley Student Regional Minister Rodney Muhammad. Let’s bring him over to play.
00:28:54:01 – 00:29:01:16
Student Minister Rodney Muhammad
The dutiful, let’s give another hand to Brother Joseph Muhammad. All praises to our brothers back.
00:29:01:19 – 00:29:02:15
Student In The Ministry Joseph Muhammad
And,
00:29:02:17 – 00:29:36:03
Student Minister Rodney Muhammad
He’s back swinging. So in the name of Allah, the one, the our wise, the true, and the living God who we thank because he’s the revealer of all truth and the sender of all prophets of whom we make no distinction. We thank him for all of the prophets, from Abraham to Muhammad. we thank him for Moses and the Torah, for Jesus and the gospel, and we thank him for Muhammad and the revelation of the Holy Koran.
00:29:36:05 – 00:30:02:26
Student Minister Rodney Muhammad
as a student of the Most Honorable Elijah Muhammad, the life giving message, I’m most thankful to Allah for his own intervention in our affairs and the divine person of Master Fard Muhammad, to whom praise is due forever. We thank him so much for his coming and raising one from amongst us that was worthy to receive him as a 100% convert.
00:30:02:29 – 00:30:43:01
Student Minister Rodney Muhammad
The Most Honorable Elijah Muhammad, a man unfailing, in his commission, the extraordinary humility of this man so that the power of God could work in his person, is a lesson for all of us. because, without humility, the Honorable Minister Louis Farrakhan said we’re not going to make it, I thank him, for.
00:30:43:04 – 00:30:50:23
Student Minister Rodney Muhammad
Knowing that he alone met with God.
00:30:50:25 – 00:31:22:21
Student Minister Rodney Muhammad
And, you know, a man can feel like. Look, if I met with God, what do I need with someone else? But even though he met with God, he prayed for help. And he knew the helper wasn’t coming from the east. Because the one that taught him had already come from the East by himself. So he praying for a helper to come from among the Negroes.
00:31:22:23 – 00:32:04:09
Student Minister Rodney Muhammad
He didn’t know who he was, but he knew that God would make him to know him when he showed up. So and so he saw his helper. As I said to you last week and even the week before that, in those meetings on Saviors Day, the first timers were always put down front. But even though he was a first timer, if they put him in the balcony, so the Honorable Elijah Muhammad would be able to look up and see him.
00:32:04:12 – 00:32:28:29
Student Minister Rodney Muhammad
And so we are thankful for the student servant and apostle. He’s our leader, teacher and guide. the Honorable Minister Louis Farrakhan. Yes. and so it is in their names, that we extend to you the Nation of Islam, salutation of peace in the language and tongue of our fathers. Salaam alaikum. Sir. thank you all.
00:32:30:11 – 00:32:58:21
Student Minister Rodney Muhammad
So much for, being out. and to have faith and or trust in the picture, that the Honorable Elijah Muhammad is giving us, you know, you can head in same kind of television set, but it don’t mean everybody’s on the same channel.
00:32:58:24 – 00:32:59:22
Student In The Ministry Joseph Muhammad
That’s right.
00:32:59:25 – 00:33:40:04
Student Minister Rodney Muhammad
And, if you’re on this channel, you see things that people watching another channel don’t see, sir, The week has been, a storm of excitement among black people because of the four days in Chicago with the Democratic National Convention, and it’s good to see, especially our folks feel like they’re being recognized and being acknowledged.
00:33:40:06 – 00:34:19:21
Student Minister Rodney Muhammad
but the Honorable Minister Louis Farrakhan said on the channel that we’re on, and that a lot is going to take away that thin veneer of civility. and show us who these folks really are. I already you saw Mister Barack Obama tell people that there’s excitement in this room, but when you leave this United Center.
00:34:19:23 – 00:34:49:01
Student Minister Rodney Muhammad
another whole group of people out there that ain’t feeling you right, and, You know, sometimes you can get caught up in a euphoria because you’re around everybody that thinks like you think, talk like you talk. Look forward to what you may be looking forward to. And you can forget that there people that won’t just the opposite.
00:34:49:08 – 00:34:53:11
Speaker 1
Yesterday.
00:34:53:14 – 00:35:28:05
Student Minister Rodney Muhammad
when I woke up around midnight, it was about one in the morning. I couldn’t get back to sleep, so I turned back on the Sons of Liberty. I like to watch that over and over again about the origin of this country. And when Samuel Adams and his cousin John Adams and John Hancock, who had all his wealth taken from him by the King of England, they said, we need a document, somebody to write something.
00:35:28:07 – 00:36:01:03
Student Minister Rodney Muhammad
So they came to Philadelphia because they said, there’s a man we need to meet. And it was Benjamin Franklin. And Benjamin Franklin said, do you have these demands that you want? He read them. He said, you ain’t never you never going to get what you demand. as a subject of the English king, the only way he said these demands can be satisfied.
00:36:01:05 – 00:36:32:22
Student Minister Rodney Muhammad
You need a new country, a new nation, you know. And it certainly made me think about us, because we got a list of demands on the back of our newspapers, starting with freedom, justice and equality. And I think when people see it, and I hope that we see it that way down the board, Elijah Muhammad sees it. He’s not asking white people for their approval.
00:36:32:24 – 00:36:40:01
Student Minister Rodney Muhammad
He’s not asking them for validation about who we are for.
00:36:40:04 – 00:36:41:12
Student In The Ministry Joseph Muhammad
Right.
00:36:41:14 – 00:36:51:21
Student Minister Rodney Muhammad
The man who came from the East unto the West to teach us. Who we really are. Didn’t ask white folks for permission.
00:36:51:22 – 00:36:52:04
Student In The Ministry Joseph Muhammad
That’s right.
00:36:52:07 – 00:37:22:13
Student Minister Rodney Muhammad
To teach us that. And as I told you before, I was listening to Malcolm X, he said, the Honorable Elijah Muhammad taught us that he was sitting out there like you, sitting now listening to this man teach. And he said the one thing he noticed about this man when he was teaching, he didn’t teach about God is going to judge the world.
00:37:22:15 – 00:37:24:12
Student Minister Rodney Muhammad
He said, I’m going to judge the world.
00:37:24:14 – 00:37:26:06
Student In The Ministry Joseph Muhammad
Come on down.
00:37:26:08 – 00:38:05:19
Student Minister Rodney Muhammad
He said, this man teaching in Detroit, he said he didn’t say, God, our law is going to destroy the world because of that evil. He said, I’m going to destroy him. He said the man spoke independent, right? Right of the mystery God that we had been in worship of over 400 years, you know. Yes. And as the Honorable Elijah Muhammad grew in to this man, if we notice, he spoke independent of everything and everyone except Master Fard Muhammad.
00:38:05:19 – 00:38:34:22
Student Minister Rodney Muhammad
Yes, sir. Then he said his desire is to make us like him, you know, which means if we stay in this process, we stand a chance of speaking independent. Of everything and everyone except that God and the ones that he gave us to follow.
00:38:34:29 – 00:38:36:22
Student In The Ministry Joseph Muhammad
Come on. Us right.
00:38:36:24 – 00:38:51:27
Student Minister Rodney Muhammad
Right. Now, if you spoke independent of everything and everyone in this world except the Honorable Minister Louis Farrakhan, you one bad person standing up, On this planet, among the cities.
00:38:51:27 – 00:38:53:19
Speaker 1
They say, who is this man and who.
00:38:53:19 – 00:39:37:23
Student Minister Rodney Muhammad
Is that woman? You know, so, man, we’re into something, isn’t? You know, the minister talked about Boston and how they were tough on the streets, and he said, man, New York, they were really tough. But he didn’t realize till he moved to Chicago. He said they got gangs everywhere but Chicago, Illinois is the gang capital. And to be a big time gang, leader, you had to be able to manage thousands, of people.
00:39:37:26 – 00:39:55:29
Student Minister Rodney Muhammad
So. You know, black men grew up on the streets. Their credibility, too often is tied to either. How tough you are, what you can’t control, or what kind of respect you get on the streets, like street credit.
00:39:56:05 – 00:39:57:00
Speaker 1
Right?
00:39:57:02 – 00:40:25:05
Student Minister Rodney Muhammad
You know, I think when Brother Collier was our captain in Chicago, he used to call it your ghetto car to come on. And, and, and if you go too far on the other side and betray your people, they take your ghetto card away from you, you know, and we should have a taboo system. I wish it was a stronger code like that where you could not be guilty of, treachery against your own.
00:40:25:08 – 00:40:51:02
Student Minister Rodney Muhammad
I mean, openly, in a defiant way. You know, everybody got to make a living. But, you know, when you actively are doing something and then you put a tape recorder on you for the FBI and everything, say, why don’t you just, call us in for questioning?
00:40:51:04 – 00:40:53:15
Student In The Ministry Joseph Muhammad
you.
00:40:53:17 – 00:40:58:28
Student Minister Rodney Muhammad
We want to know what they’re teaching over there. Did you get the tape.
00:40:59:00 – 00:41:06:02
Student In The Ministry Joseph Muhammad
Or, Hmhm.
00:41:06:04 – 00:41:22:28
Student Minister Rodney Muhammad
They told Malcolm when they came to his house. you know, we, We want you to help us. Malcolm said we already helping you with what the Honorable Elijah Muhammad taught us. We clean enough people up.
00:41:23:01 – 00:41:23:28
Speaker 1
That’s right, that’s right.
00:41:24:00 – 00:42:04:26
Student Minister Rodney Muhammad
From delinquency, right. Anti-social and criminal behavior. Look like we already helping you with what Mr. Muhammad is teaching us. What kind of help are you looking for? Yeah, and they are always looking to plant people amongst us to find ways that they could, cause us to stumble and fall. And so the letter to us from the Honorable Minister Louis Farrakhan for this last Saviors Day in Detroit, he said, my term is coming to an end.
00:42:04:28 – 00:42:16:08
Student Minister Rodney Muhammad
And when a man’s term comes to an end, it produces an exam right? Or a test, right?
00:42:16:10 – 00:42:17:25
Speaker 1
Yes. Or.
00:42:17:27 – 00:42:27:22
Student Minister Rodney Muhammad
And I don’t know about you, but every test I took, the teacher didn’t teach you while the test was going on, right?
00:42:27:22 – 00:42:29:16
Student In The Ministry Joseph Muhammad
No.
00:42:29:19 – 00:42:51:23
Student Minister Rodney Muhammad
It usually went something like this. close your books, close your other notepad, clear your desk. Pass this thing out. Stop looking over on the other desk. And the teacher’s up there. Quiet. The most you could do. You couldn’t come up there and say, can you teach me on this course? No, no, no, we taught on.
00:42:51:23 – 00:42:54:01
Speaker 1
On it right.
00:42:54:03 – 00:43:09:13
Student Minister Rodney Muhammad
this is now we got to see what you. What? You’re not saying nothing in the classroom. It ain’t time for me to talk. When it was time for me to talk, you should have been listening. We hope you were listening right.
00:43:09:16 – 00:43:36:27
Student Minister Rodney Muhammad
So, we lost our dear sister, the wife of, Supreme Captain and the Honorable Louis Farrakhan. Wasn’t speaking because he, under instructions, not to say anything in the public. Before that, he spoke for up to two hours in a more closed session. Everybody’s waiting for that to come out. They said, well, it’s not coming out. It’s pulled.
00:43:36:27 – 00:43:54:11
Student Minister Rodney Muhammad
Why? Because he under instructions. That’s right. Not to say the teacher is already quiet, which says to me, we could already be in a test, all right. And not really be aware of it.
00:43:54:13 – 00:43:56:03
Student Minister Rodney Muhammad
God is smart.
00:43:56:05 – 00:43:57:13
Student In The Ministry Joseph Muhammad
Yes, sir.
00:43:57:16 – 00:44:13:23
Student Minister Rodney Muhammad
Real smart. Wise, real wise. I want to give him a new kingdom. I want to give him a government, or they own a whole new society, or they own and everything. Well, let’s just take them and put them in it. No, no.
00:44:13:23 – 00:44:14:21
Speaker 1
No, no.
00:44:14:24 – 00:44:42:03
Student Minister Rodney Muhammad
Let’s put him in the mosque and see how they act. They’re. It is smart. God. There was a preseason game. I didn’t see it, but there was a preseason game on, and I wasn’t aware. But the preseason game is designed to see who they’re getting rid of because they got too many people.
00:44:42:05 – 00:44:42:16
Speaker 1
And that’s.
00:44:42:17 – 00:45:05:14
Student Minister Rodney Muhammad
It. That’s I think, I hope I’m not in a preseason game, but a we really can’t usually, yeah. Who wants to be canceled out when you. I’m hoping I’m seeing some make you take this a little bit more serious and not as casual.
00:45:05:16 – 00:45:07:10
Student In The Ministry Joseph Muhammad
And clear.
00:45:07:13 – 00:45:11:03
Student Minister Rodney Muhammad
Because the enemies that we have are not casual.
00:45:11:06 – 00:45:12:07
Student In The Ministry Joseph Muhammad
Not at all.
00:45:12:10 – 00:45:36:15
Student Minister Rodney Muhammad
And that’s why we said to everyone when we filed the lawsuit against the Anti-Defamation League and the Simon Wiesenthal Center, all we asked everybody to do now, we know it was a it was a body of work for evidence behind that, I think spearheaded by Reno, 787 pages. But the hundred pages, about 96 pages just read the complaint.
00:45:36:18 – 00:45:48:07
Student Minister Rodney Muhammad
The complaint is an eye opener. And since it didn’t say Louis Farrakhan is suing, but Louis Farrakhan and the nation of Islam, which includes us.
00:45:48:09 – 00:45:49:05
Speaker 1
Yes, sir.
00:45:49:07 – 00:45:51:19
Student In The Ministry Joseph Muhammad
You have filed.
00:45:51:21 – 00:45:52:13
Student Minister Rodney Muhammad
A lawsuit.
00:45:52:16 – 00:45:53:25
Student In The Ministry Joseph Muhammad
Right? Yes, sir.
00:45:53:27 – 00:46:12:20
Student Minister Rodney Muhammad
If you told somebody I’m in the nation of Islam under the leadership of the Honorable Minister Louis Farrakhan, they say, oh, you file a lawsuit, then you what? What do you mean? Well, the thing said, Louis Farrakhan and the Nation of Islam. You just told me you were a member. So you for the lawsuit. Do you even know what the complaint?
00:46:12:23 – 00:46:14:22
Student In The Ministry Joseph Muhammad
Yeah.
00:46:14:25 – 00:46:26:01
Student Minister Rodney Muhammad
So the complaint is an eye opener. And I was saying watch that because we can’t you there’s no way to trivialize that these people took this serious.
00:46:26:08 – 00:46:27:15
Student In The Ministry Joseph Muhammad
To do.
00:46:27:17 – 00:46:43:07
Student Minister Rodney Muhammad
What Mr. Durga, which and the head of the Simon Wiesenthal Center and Jonathan Greenblatt should have done, was said, man, we’ve been waiting for a day like this till far come to come on and bring this thing to court so we can show we’re the real people, right?
00:46:43:11 – 00:46:43:22
Speaker 1
Right.
00:46:43:24 – 00:46:48:13
Student Minister Rodney Muhammad
The children of Israel, right? This is the time I’m bringing. Tell him to bring his Bible.
00:46:48:20 – 00:46:49:11
Speaker 1
Come on. Come on.
00:46:49:16 – 00:46:58:18
Student Minister Rodney Muhammad
Because we got our we got the Torah and and the Talmud and we got all of this. This was a time they rushed to have it thrown out.
00:46:58:21 – 00:47:03:04
Student In The Ministry Joseph Muhammad
Oh, yes, that’s right. Safety.
00:47:03:06 – 00:47:08:12
Student Minister Rodney Muhammad
These are people that don’t just control judges. They appoint judges.
00:47:08:18 – 00:47:10:14
Student In The Ministry Joseph Muhammad
Yes, sir. Yes, sir.
00:47:10:20 – 00:47:46:22
Student Minister Rodney Muhammad
And they call with their connections to get the. Can you get this thing thrown out? And we’re under appeal. we intend to take this fight to him. If it be a loss, will. Okay. And, so we’re going to spin. September. dealing with a subject called the Test of Wills. Come on. In the holy Koran, I think I was in the seventh, sir.
00:47:46:24 – 00:47:53:14
Student Minister Rodney Muhammad
Connected to,
00:47:53:16 – 00:48:19:29
Student Minister Rodney Muhammad
Section two of the Holy Koran is called the devil’s opposition to man. So what’s not here is what that opposition is comprised of. But I have to say that just looking on the face of it, if the devil is opposed to man, he don’t want you to be a man.
00:48:20:01 – 00:48:29:19
Student In The Ministry Joseph Muhammad
That’s right. That’s right. I’ll teach brother. That’s good. Yes, sir.
00:48:29:21 – 00:48:48:00
Student Minister Rodney Muhammad
So it goes on. This man, Lord Rothman, the Raheem. And we indeed created you. Then we fashioned you. Then we said to the angels. Slash scientists.
00:48:48:02 – 00:48:49:08
Student In The Ministry Joseph Muhammad
Yes, sir.
00:48:49:10 – 00:49:04:17
Student Minister Rodney Muhammad
Make submission to Adam. So they submitted all except Iblis. He was not of those who submit. When you say he’s not of those, he don’t. You don’t. He don’t want to be identified.
00:49:04:17 – 00:49:05:28
Speaker 1
Right, right, right.
00:49:06:00 – 00:49:07:12
Student In The Ministry Joseph Muhammad
That’s right. Come on with.
00:49:07:12 – 00:49:28:26
Student Minister Rodney Muhammad
You know that, like they say, some among you and they say we believe. But then when they alone with their devils, they say, well, well, what was you doing over at the class? Oh, I was just barking. You thought you deceived God, but you really deceived yourself and you can’t even perceive it. This is how blind you are.
00:49:28:28 – 00:49:39:05
Student Minister Rodney Muhammad
Because. Because when you when you’re nosediving into a hypocritical state of mind, the Honorable Elijah Muhammad said, the first thing a law does is take your light from you.
00:49:39:07 – 00:49:40:26
Speaker 1
Look at it.
00:49:40:28 – 00:50:09:06
Student Minister Rodney Muhammad
That’s bad right there. Without light, I can’t even see what the hell I’m doing. Which means I don’t know what my deeds are gonna end up for me. See if an evil person knew what the end look like for them in their evil, it might check them and stop them from doing it. You say, well, why do they keep doing it?
00:50:09:08 – 00:50:11:13
Student Minister Rodney Muhammad
Because they can’t see the end.
00:50:11:16 – 00:50:13:12
Student In The Ministry Joseph Muhammad
Come on.
00:50:13:15 – 00:50:31:10
Student Minister Rodney Muhammad
That’s what sometime the Koran tells you. We don’t tell you what’s going to happen in between. What was the end of those who rejected our messages? Don’t talk about what they was riding in and driving when they was rejecting. How did it end up.
00:50:31:12 – 00:50:32:28
Student In The Ministry Joseph Muhammad
Right.
00:50:33:00 – 00:51:12:11
Student Minister Rodney Muhammad
And we’ve given you the picture from some ancient civilizations of what happened. So you can fix in your mind the same doggone thing going to happen to you. There’s nothing exceptional about this time other than we’re living in the fullness of time. But the patterns that we’re following, they’re the same, right? So Allah sees this rebellion. What hindered the.
00:51:12:14 – 00:51:23:04
Student Minister Rodney Muhammad
That thou didst not submit when I commanded thee. Then he says back to Allah. I’m better than he.
00:51:23:07 – 00:51:24:05
Speaker 1
He’s looking at.
00:51:24:07 – 00:51:34:16
Student Minister Rodney Muhammad
This is at the core of devil. Now, the minister said, you know, the original people always had. Without this satisfaction, you can’t make change.
00:51:34:17 – 00:51:35:10
Speaker 1
That’s right.
00:51:35:12 – 00:51:48:15
Student Minister Rodney Muhammad
So original people always had dissatisfaction, but it wasn’t negative. So he said, we always had dissatisfaction, but we didn’t always have a devil. There’s some 25,000 year cycles where devil is not even in there.
00:51:48:18 – 00:51:50:07
Student In The Ministry Joseph Muhammad
Come on, Jake, real talk.
00:51:50:09 – 00:52:01:03
Student Minister Rodney Muhammad
I told you when we were sitting with Brother Jabril in Phenix, I said, well, if we renew his three or Koran every 25,000 years. I said, where the other Korans. He said they in a secret vault in Mecca.
00:52:01:05 – 00:52:03:02
Student In The Ministry Joseph Muhammad
So I think about that.
00:52:03:05 – 00:52:19:00
Student Minister Rodney Muhammad
He said an Honorable Elijah Muhammad taught me that Master Foreign Muhammad’s father took him into that vault. Come on. At the age of four. Oh, and he began learning the histories.
00:52:19:02 – 00:52:25:06
Student Minister Rodney Muhammad
So you. That means there’s some Korans where you don’t even have disbelievers right there.
00:52:25:08 – 00:52:27:01
Student In The Ministry Joseph Muhammad
Look at that.
00:52:27:04 – 00:52:30:21
Student Minister Rodney Muhammad
There’s some periods where they didn’t even exist.
00:52:30:23 – 00:52:32:05
Student In The Ministry Joseph Muhammad
Because.
00:52:32:07 – 00:52:34:03
Student Minister Rodney Muhammad
Hypocrites didn’t exist.
00:52:34:05 – 00:52:36:20
Speaker 1
Right?
00:52:36:22 – 00:52:57:12
Student Minister Rodney Muhammad
Who? Because a devil didn’t exist until this 25,000 years cycle? In the year 8400. And and we made devil, right? Because devil is not the color of your skin. Devil, the minister say, starts with a thought that’s opposed to the will of God.
00:52:57:15 – 00:52:57:25
Speaker 1
That’s right.
00:52:58:02 – 00:53:01:08
Student Minister Rodney Muhammad
That’s how it starts.
00:53:01:10 – 00:53:03:25
Student In The Ministry Joseph Muhammad
To.
00:53:03:28 – 00:53:20:07
Student Minister Rodney Muhammad
Work where Caucasian people made all the history shows that. But the lesson says y’all are cool. Wouldn’t a devil strike? Is everybody following me there? I mean, unless you read some different.
00:53:20:10 – 00:53:21:00
Student In The Ministry Joseph Muhammad
Ones, you.
00:53:21:03 – 00:53:31:11
Student Minister Rodney Muhammad
Know, said he was an original black man, so the orientation class wasn’t white. People. Come on, follow me. Now. This evil started inside us.
00:53:31:13 – 00:53:34:02
Student In The Ministry Joseph Muhammad
Right? That’s right.
00:53:34:05 – 00:53:41:13
Student Minister Rodney Muhammad
So he taught the devils to do this devilish man.
00:53:41:13 – 00:53:41:29
Speaker 1
It’s got to.
00:53:42:00 – 00:53:42:28
Student In The Ministry Joseph Muhammad
Be. Yes.
00:53:43:00 – 00:54:06:03
Student Minister Rodney Muhammad
So without that being said, I just would have thought. Grafting just makes you know how to do it, right. But he had to teach them tricks in life, remember? Mosa only went and gave them some of the forgotten treatment. Not all of it.
00:54:06:05 – 00:54:06:27
Student In The Ministry Joseph Muhammad
Proper.
00:54:06:29 – 00:54:10:13
Student Minister Rodney Muhammad
That’s probably why we got a chance to get out of this.
00:54:10:16 – 00:54:11:17
Student In The Ministry Joseph Muhammad
Yes.
00:54:11:19 – 00:54:55:20
Student Minister Rodney Muhammad
I don’t know what would have happened if he didn’t had all of it right. We ain’t dealing with him. We dealing with his children. So. So, you know, he he feels better. And because he had laws, because he had rules, because he had regulations, because Yaakov had structure, he could produce a human being who wasn’t the original human being, but because of the structure that they came under, it was so tight that the richest white person looks down on you, right?
00:54:55:20 – 00:54:56:21
Student In The Ministry Joseph Muhammad
That’s right.
00:54:56:24 – 00:55:00:29
Student Minister Rodney Muhammad
And a trailer park, beer drinking white person looks down on you.
00:55:00:29 – 00:55:08:05
Student In The Ministry Joseph Muhammad
Cookie stars real tall, Yes, that’s the yes, sir.
00:55:08:07 – 00:55:18:14
Student Minister Rodney Muhammad
Go around the trailer park and try to talk. You. I’m sure my name is Mr. Johnson. The third. You did a it round here.
00:55:18:17 – 00:55:20:08
Student In The Ministry Joseph Muhammad
Slurp.
00:55:20:10 – 00:55:21:18
Student Minister Rodney Muhammad
Come on now.
00:55:21:20 – 00:55:22:06
Student In The Ministry Joseph Muhammad
Yes, sir.
00:55:22:09 – 00:55:33:24
Student Minister Rodney Muhammad
That’s what structured it. How to make a devil. What can I structure do. Look at that. If we say we making a god.
00:55:33:27 – 00:55:36:14
Student In The Ministry Joseph Muhammad
Yes, sir. Teach brother law.
00:55:36:16 – 00:55:40:19
Student Minister Rodney Muhammad
Can a law and a rule and some regulations help us out?
00:55:40:19 – 00:55:46:21
Student In The Ministry Joseph Muhammad
Yes, sir. Absolutely hate.
00:55:46:24 – 00:55:50:23
Student Minister Rodney Muhammad
Okay. I’m better.
00:55:50:25 – 00:55:52:14
Student Minister Rodney Muhammad
I’m made a fire.
00:55:52:16 – 00:55:54:18
Student In The Ministry Joseph Muhammad
That’s what.
00:55:54:21 – 00:56:33:16
Student Minister Rodney Muhammad
Wow! Him dow made of dust. So, you know, you don’t want to follow the rules and my commands here. So get thee forth from this state right? For it is not for thee to behave proudly there in c down. A Elijah Muhammad said of his teacher in August of 1932. He called me into his ministry not because of education, because I had none, not because of works, he said, because I had none.
00:56:33:21 – 00:56:51:17
Student Minister Rodney Muhammad
But for his own cause. Did he call me into his ministry, that if I would come in and not work because he said, I said, hey, it’s not good for you to behave proudly there. And he said, as long as I don’t pride myself against my teacher, right.
00:56:51:19 – 00:56:52:10
Student In The Ministry Joseph Muhammad
Oh.
00:56:52:13 – 00:57:14:27
Student Minister Rodney Muhammad
Look at what he’s saying now, this is the Honorable Elijah Muhammad s words. He careful about what he’s saying, right? To train the ministers, he said, because he made me to make ministers and send them into all the cities. So he’s talking to these ministers now in 1935 that then broke out with a lot of crazy stuff, because somebody in the class said, hell, I’m better than Elijah, right?
00:57:15:00 – 00:57:17:02
Student In The Ministry Joseph Muhammad
Look at that. Look at that.
00:57:17:05 – 00:57:25:02
Student Minister Rodney Muhammad
Yeah. In what way are you better?
00:57:25:05 – 00:58:01:21
Student Minister Rodney Muhammad
Go forth. Therefore, thou art of the abject ones. So now he’s put out, you know he can’t be happy. Not a happy camper, he said back. Respite me to the day when they erased. He said back to him, then thou art surely of the respected ones. Now we could go into the history our ques that with the powers of his day cut a deal right?
00:58:01:24 – 00:58:21:03
Student Minister Rodney Muhammad
We don’t get along. Let us go. Let’s separate. and we’ll go our way. Only, we going to need some money. So at least enough to hold us for 25 years, right?
00:58:21:06 – 00:58:38:18
Student Minister Rodney Muhammad
They get on the boat. Some people don’t make it right because he had inspection. So we know it was like we say Wednesday night, 59,999. He got on the boat that made 60,000. We do not know how many got to that island.
00:58:38:20 – 00:58:39:07
Speaker 1
Right.
00:58:39:09 – 00:58:44:14
Student Minister Rodney Muhammad
Because Honorable Elijah Muhammad said he looked for people who knew how to fish. I need more devils.
00:58:44:18 – 00:58:45:14
Speaker 1
Yes. Come on, come on.
00:58:45:18 – 00:58:47:00
Student Minister Rodney Muhammad
They didn’t know what he was making.
00:58:47:08 – 00:58:48:16
Speaker 1
Right, right, right.
00:58:48:19 – 00:58:55:22
Student Minister Rodney Muhammad
But I need some workers. The term he use, the ability to reproduce yourself.
00:58:55:24 – 00:58:56:15
Student In The Ministry Joseph Muhammad
Wow.
00:58:56:17 – 00:59:04:01
Student Minister Rodney Muhammad
So I can’t use lazy people know. So you start throwing them overboard?
00:59:04:01 – 00:59:05:12
Student In The Ministry Joseph Muhammad
Yes, sir.
00:59:05:15 – 00:59:34:00
Student Minister Rodney Muhammad
Back out into the wild sea with sharks and all manner of life. Well. And so they get to the island, right? He holds a regional meet. And he says, look what they did. They put us out as the jet. That’s the gin them up. Let’s get him. But they didn’t put him out. He cut a deal and asked to leave.
00:59:34:03 – 00:59:47:06
Student Minister Rodney Muhammad
What’s wrong with this meeting? He lying already heard. And then the other thing he’s lying about, he’s admitting that he got enough money to last 25 years. That’s a lot of money.
00:59:47:09 – 00:59:47:22
Speaker 1
Right?
00:59:47:24 – 01:00:10:07
Student Minister Rodney Muhammad
They don’t know about it. Yes. And then, like every dissatisfaction. He asked them for permission. If that’s conditional. If you make me your leader, see? I have you go back. You have other people serving you.
01:00:10:10 – 01:00:12:02
Student In The Ministry Joseph Muhammad
That’s right.
01:00:12:05 – 01:00:28:05
Student Minister Rodney Muhammad
That was interesting. Mr. Yaqoob did not create Christianity. The messenger say he taught Islam, but he had a twist to it. We’re going to make some money off some other people.
01:00:28:08 – 01:00:32:02
Student In The Ministry Joseph Muhammad
Look at it.
01:00:32:05 – 01:00:38:06
Student Minister Rodney Muhammad
Is it sounded more familiar now that.
01:00:38:08 – 01:00:39:16
Student In The Ministry Joseph Muhammad
It.
01:00:39:18 – 01:00:43:14
Student Minister Rodney Muhammad
I mean, making money is not wrong. It’s the objective, right?
01:00:43:14 – 01:00:44:13
Student In The Ministry Joseph Muhammad
Right.
01:00:44:16 – 01:00:48:17
Student Minister Rodney Muhammad
He’s making this their purpose in life.
01:00:48:20 – 01:00:53:03
Student In The Ministry Joseph Muhammad
What I’m.
01:00:53:05 – 01:01:22:25
Student Minister Rodney Muhammad
So he he he gets the respect because a lot tells him you got a respin that doesn’t mention the six days in here, but he got six days to work. Now, he don’t tell God what he had in mind, but he can’t lie to him right? See, one thing about the devil, he can’t lie to God, right? And the messengers said, the more we become like God, it’s hard for a liar to stay in front of.
01:01:22:25 – 01:01:29:24
Student In The Ministry Joseph Muhammad
You because it’s right. Come on. You see? Yeah.
01:01:29:26 – 01:01:38:18
Student Minister Rodney Muhammad
Look at the meetings that the Honorable Minister Louis Farrakhan has had with Caucasian people.
01:01:38:21 – 01:02:09:08
Student Minister Rodney Muhammad
Not one of their. Some have to be corrected because they just have the wrong interpretation and understanding to some, but not one of them. In a bull face, we have stood in front of him and lied, right? They got to tell the truth. When they in front they might lie to us, but, to him, I just have not seen that meeting in my 40 some years of being in the nation.
01:02:09:10 – 01:02:19:28
Student Minister Rodney Muhammad
So the deals made, and this is where we know the devil does not believe in a law. He knows him.
01:02:20:01 – 01:02:20:24
Student In The Ministry Joseph Muhammad
Yes, sir.
01:02:20:27 – 01:02:28:20
Student Minister Rodney Muhammad
He know God not going to break his word. For when we learn that we’d be a whole lot stronger.
01:02:28:22 – 01:02:29:07
Student In The Ministry Joseph Muhammad
Yeah.
01:02:29:09 – 01:03:01:10
Student Minister Rodney Muhammad
But the devil knows that. That’s why he can do everything he won’t do in this six days. But in the six days or 6000 years, a vacuum comes in our history, right? And and, he knows that a day is coming. He says, will you recite me to the day they erase. So there’s a power coming, that he don’t have power over?
01:03:01:13 – 01:03:03:12
Student In The Ministry Joseph Muhammad
Yes, sir. Teach. Brother. Miss.
01:03:03:14 – 01:03:22:02
Student Minister Rodney Muhammad
He don’t say the day they raise up, they ain’t got no power to raise up after what he’s getting ready to do to it. But he’s recognizing that one who has the power. Can raise because he’s not talking, to somebody else. He’s talking to the God.
01:03:22:04 – 01:03:25:00
Speaker 1
Right, right, right, right.
01:03:25:02 – 01:03:46:13
Student Minister Rodney Muhammad
So now the deals cut. He knows God ain’t going to break his word so he can go do what he wants to do. So look what he says to God now, as thou has a judge me to be erring in another way. Other passages say, because you have caused me to remain disappointed, right?
01:03:46:20 – 01:03:50:05
Student In The Ministry Joseph Muhammad
Right. That’s right.
01:03:50:07 – 01:04:07:28
Student Minister Rodney Muhammad
I will certainly lie in wait for them in thy straight path. You do not have to go looking for trouble in this world. It’ll come to you. Yeah, and you can’t hide from it. Trouble will sniff us out and find us.
01:04:08:00 – 01:04:10:16
Student In The Ministry Joseph Muhammad
Yes, sir.
01:04:10:18 – 01:04:34:23
Student Minister Rodney Muhammad
Then I shall certainly come upon them from before them, and from behind him, and from their right and from their left. And thou will not find most of them thankful. In other words, when you come to raise them, you ain’t going to most of them not going to even be grateful. When I get to. I’m going to ruin them in a way,
01:04:34:26 – 01:04:42:14
Student Minister Rodney Muhammad
Because part of being raised is our participation in the raising.
01:04:42:16 – 01:04:43:00
Student In The Ministry Joseph Muhammad
Yes, sir.
01:04:43:04 – 01:04:44:12
Speaker 1
That’s right.
01:04:44:15 – 01:04:47:27
Student Minister Rodney Muhammad
Our cooperation and the raising of us.
01:04:48:00 – 01:04:48:21
Speaker 1
Sir.
01:04:48:23 – 01:05:07:12
Student Minister Rodney Muhammad
Our labor in the raising of us right. And without that, That’s what you call being robbed and spoiled when you’re spoiled.
01:05:07:15 – 01:05:23:29
Student Minister Rodney Muhammad
You don’t think you have to do anything right, Up your own. So. So you don’t try to apply yourself because in in us, we think somebody ought to be doing it for us.
01:05:24:02 – 01:05:25:21
Student In The Ministry Joseph Muhammad
Come on.
01:05:25:23 – 01:05:29:28
Student Minister Rodney Muhammad
So a lot of spoiled children grow up to be weak adults.
01:05:29:29 – 01:05:30:26
Student In The Ministry Joseph Muhammad
Yes. Right.
01:05:30:28 – 01:05:34:26
Student Minister Rodney Muhammad
Because they don’t learn to take work responsible ability.
01:05:34:27 – 01:05:36:12
Student In The Ministry Joseph Muhammad
Yes sir. We all talk.
01:05:36:14 – 01:06:11:00
Student Minister Rodney Muhammad
Yeah. So we’re on the same page and see you know when a person is spoiled, you know, they can get angry at the one that’s making them to become more responsible for themselves, right? Yeah. And you could become unthankful. You don’t talk directly to God. I don’t talk directly to God except in our prayer. But the one that God gives us, that’s the one that catches the hell.
01:06:11:02 – 01:06:20:29
Student Minister Rodney Muhammad
So in the Bible, it puts it like this, that Allah has a they don’t eat this, this fruit.
01:06:21:02 – 01:06:22:03
Student In The Ministry Joseph Muhammad
That’s right.
01:06:22:06 – 01:06:25:13
Student Minister Rodney Muhammad
The messenger said they bought in, they bit into a false teaching.
01:06:25:19 – 01:06:26:27
Student In The Ministry Joseph Muhammad
Yes, sir.
01:06:26:29 – 01:06:36:04
Student Minister Rodney Muhammad
Forget about what they told you. Whether it’s. I saw some theologians on television arguing. Was it an apple or pear? Come on man.
01:06:36:06 – 01:06:36:27
Student In The Ministry Joseph Muhammad
Green.
01:06:37:00 – 01:06:42:19
Student Minister Rodney Muhammad
Trees don’t have knowledge. How about that one? Yeah.
01:06:42:22 – 01:06:43:05
Student In The Ministry Joseph Muhammad
Are.
01:06:43:08 – 01:07:08:02
Student Minister Rodney Muhammad
And if you study botany, a tree can’t make two different kinds of fruit on the same tree. So this is a symbolic picture of something that has to be properly decoded. The Honorable Minister Louis Farrakhan said the Bible cast forth metaphors that have to be broken down and understood so we can get the message. Yes, that God has.
01:07:08:02 – 01:07:13:13
Student Minister Rodney Muhammad
For this is a family tree of people who were given divine guidance.
01:07:13:14 – 01:07:14:11
Speaker 1
Yes, sir.
01:07:14:13 – 01:07:30:25
Student Minister Rodney Muhammad
And some of the forgotten trick nology they got the knowledge of both of them. So they know how to make themselves look good. Why are they tricking you? On the other hand?
01:07:30:27 – 01:07:56:09
Student Minister Rodney Muhammad
It’s good to give people a Bible if they could read it and understand it. And. But if you read some of the nationalist community, they said this why they were against religion. They said, this man sailed into Africa, go to Africa and the Bible. He closed his eyes, praying to Jesus. And while his eyes was closed, holding the Bible, the man stole the land from up under their feet.
01:07:56:11 – 01:08:14:07
Student Minister Rodney Muhammad
So he did some that look good on the outside, right? But the trick was to get them distracted. Then he got the land, got took the mineral rights and everything to the point that when Mandela became president and it was global euphoria.
01:08:14:07 – 01:08:16:16
Speaker 1
Right, right, right.
01:08:16:18 – 01:08:44:12
Student Minister Rodney Muhammad
brother Ben Chavis was in the taxi. He asked the man, could he pull over by the diamond mine? He just wanted to see it because our people had been under apartheid oppression. Like to just look at the wealth that’s under people’s feet. And the African told him, you can’t go in there. You’re forbidden to go in there to open Hammer’s own this.
01:08:44:15 – 01:08:45:28
Student In The Ministry Joseph Muhammad
Yes, sir. Look at it.
01:08:46:00 – 01:09:11:20
Student Minister Rodney Muhammad
But I thought was free and you know Mandela was president. You know we should be able to just look at it. I ain’t trying to take nothing. Big fence up there. Keep out guards there to make sure you stay out. Because even though this supposed to be your land, this don’t belong to you. I’m claiming it. Just. Just thinking for a minute.
01:09:11:20 – 01:09:41:16
Student Minister Rodney Muhammad
So, in in the book, they eat from this tree, the first thing they show you how bad our understanding is. The Lord said, today you eat from this tree, you’ll surely die. Yet the Bible records Adam’s age going to wood 962. Well, how do you get to 962 of you supposed to die the day you eat from a tree?
01:09:41:18 – 01:09:44:01
Student Minister Rodney Muhammad
See, there’s another level of death.
01:09:44:01 – 01:09:46:19
Student In The Ministry Joseph Muhammad
Here.
01:09:46:21 – 01:10:02:07
Student Minister Rodney Muhammad
Yeah. And the way he fell, he lost the power to reflect God. God’s in him. But he lost access to the God that’s in.
01:10:02:09 – 01:10:03:21
Student Minister Rodney Muhammad
He can’t reflect them.
01:10:03:27 – 01:10:05:14
Student In The Ministry Joseph Muhammad
No, sir.
01:10:05:16 – 01:10:23:18
Student Minister Rodney Muhammad
And so he’s out of touch with the power that comes with God. Yeah, he’s subject to somebody else now. So. God has a call out meeting.
01:10:23:20 – 01:10:29:13
Student Minister Rodney Muhammad
Everybody lying in the meeting room.
01:10:29:15 – 01:10:41:03
Student Minister Rodney Muhammad
I told you not to eat from that tree. Why did you eat from the tree? I told you not the woman you gave me. He don’t even say yes or no.
01:10:41:06 – 01:10:41:20
Student In The Ministry Joseph Muhammad
Oh.
01:10:41:22 – 01:11:12:00
Student Minister Rodney Muhammad
Come on, man, he already. You know, I didn’t go looking for no woman. You said it wasn’t good for me to be alone. You put the woman here. The woman you gave me. And, So the Lord goes, woman, what is thou done? She. Don’t say I’ve sinned before you, Lord. And I did tell him he should eat from it also, which he did.
01:11:12:02 – 01:11:33:00
Student Minister Rodney Muhammad
she don’t say yes or no. She said the serpent beguiled me. You mad? You in a meat. You trying to get to the truth of the matter? That’s why you had to have a meat. You got to bring everybody. And because if they left somebody out, then you. Something would have been a minute and it wouldn’t have been they fault you didn’t bring everybody.
01:11:33:01 – 01:11:36:15
Student Minister Rodney Muhammad
And the Lord made sure everybody was at this meeting.
01:11:36:17 – 01:11:37:29
Student In The Ministry Joseph Muhammad
Right.
01:11:38:01 – 01:12:20:29
Student Minister Rodney Muhammad
And so, you know, he curses the serpent, you know the story. And then he tells the woman, she’ll bear children with fainting and pain and and everything. And the man, they are going to be banished from this garden now. But he says, but the seed of the woman and the seed of the serpent will settle this score. The Honorable Elijah Muhammad said, so from what we read from the Koran and what happened and what we’re talking about from the book of Genesis, we going to talk about the test of wills because that’s what we’re down to.
01:12:21:01 – 01:12:41:23
Student Minister Rodney Muhammad
The will of Satan and the will of God, strong. And the people that are being tested is us. They not being tested, but we’re being tested. Whose will we’re going to live under?
01:12:41:25 – 01:12:46:18
Student Minister Rodney Muhammad
I think it was Wednesday night. I said.
01:12:46:21 – 01:13:15:05
Student Minister Rodney Muhammad
Sometime we think we got to be this fantastic, faithful person in order to enjoy a more heavenly existence. But I said, we need to look carefully at Master Farad, Muhammad’s words to the messenger. He said, Elijah, tell them I’m prepared to set them in heaven at once. What not if they believe or have faith, if they just submit.
01:13:15:07 – 01:13:37:03
Student Minister Rodney Muhammad
You ain’t even. You’re not even deep in belief yet. If you just submit to some of the things that I told you to do, say, because there’s a place in the Koran where they come to Muhammad and say, we believe. And he said, don’t say you believe, just say you submit faith, have not yet entered into your heart.
01:13:37:05 – 01:13:42:29
Student Minister Rodney Muhammad
But there’s a benefit when God is present, even with submission.
01:13:43:02 – 01:13:43:24
Speaker 1
Right? Right.
01:13:43:27 – 01:13:49:04
Student Minister Rodney Muhammad
There’s a benefit. You tell me to eat one meal.
01:13:49:04 – 01:13:50:07
Speaker 1
A day.
01:13:50:10 – 01:13:58:27
Student Minister Rodney Muhammad
And don’t eat pork. And I submit to that. Yes, sir.
01:13:59:00 – 01:14:25:00
Student Minister Rodney Muhammad
You know, you tell me things to do to take care of myself. Just out of submission. People can already see a drastic change in me, right? That just come from submission. I haven’t even really worked on my heart yet. What kind of real person I am deep inside. But God will get there to just on the surface, this is where you come.
01:14:25:01 – 01:14:31:05
Student Minister Rodney Muhammad
How can you say I was deep in belief when I walked through the door? You didn’t know everything when you walked in the door, right?
01:14:31:08 – 01:14:35:04
Student In The Ministry Joseph Muhammad
That’s right, that’s right.
01:14:35:06 – 01:14:59:29
Student Minister Rodney Muhammad
That doesn’t mean you didn’t have some sense of love for the Word of God and what came. But there were things sometimes, you know, just being in submission and knowing very little, we made more progress than when we learned a whole lot. And now spirit is gone. So,
01:15:00:01 – 01:15:02:01
Speaker 1
It.
01:15:02:03 – 01:15:38:11
Student Minister Rodney Muhammad
The will of God. The Honorable Minister Louis Farrakhan says we should understand, is the power that’s behind the universe. So he says both the Bible and the Holy Koran teach us that the will of God is the power behind the universe, no matter what kind of power is being exercised on earth, the Earth is still part of a cosmic reality.
01:15:38:13 – 01:16:09:23
Student Minister Rodney Muhammad
A raw intelligence teaches us that no matter what they control here, whether they make you have a Social Security card, they write the birth certificate and the death certificates, so they get you going and coming right. They can cut your lights off, your gas off, your water off, and everything here, the planet is three fourths water and they can cut your water off, but not paying a water bill.
01:16:09:26 – 01:16:12:07
Student Minister Rodney Muhammad
Electricity is all coming from the sun.
01:16:12:12 – 01:16:14:12
Student In The Ministry Joseph Muhammad
Yes, sir.
01:16:14:15 – 01:16:33:16
Student Minister Rodney Muhammad
But they can. Pico can cut your lights off right? Your electric bill. So no matter how much power or authority they’re exercising in the earth, raw intelligence tells us they don’t control everything out here in the universe.
01:16:33:19 – 01:16:35:05
Speaker 1
You right?
01:16:35:07 – 01:16:44:26
Student Minister Rodney Muhammad
They got two people right now. They they don’t want you to use the word stuck. They want to stay delayed. Two people stuck out in space for Jesus.
01:16:44:28 – 01:16:54:24
Student In The Ministry Joseph Muhammad
Oh, now, said, let’s go back. Come on. You know, Hmhm.
01:16:54:26 – 01:17:00:07
Student Minister Rodney Muhammad
We think we got a way to get them home. They are arguing over whose car. Are you going to use.
01:17:00:09 – 01:17:01:07
Student In The Ministry Joseph Muhammad
Your.
01:17:01:10 – 01:17:13:19
Student Minister Rodney Muhammad
Boeing? No, the plane’s been acting up. They mad because now they going to change the cap. So get them out of there and put them in something else that can get them home. They don’t trust that thing up there right?
01:17:13:22 – 01:17:14:25
Student In The Ministry Joseph Muhammad
Come on.
01:17:14:28 – 01:17:37:00
Student Minister Rodney Muhammad
The man is asking them in the hearing. Are we going to try to repair our relationship? He said, we’re not trying to repair or destroy anything. We, going by the data and the data tells us this vehicle. It’s got some troubling factors in it. It can’t get them home without killing them. So we got to get them out of there and put them in another thing and transport them down here.
01:17:37:04 – 01:17:39:28
Student Minister Rodney Muhammad
We ought to pay attention because he’s showing.
01:17:40:00 – 01:17:42:17
Student In The Ministry Joseph Muhammad
Up now, chief. That’s right. That’s right, that’s right.
01:17:42:20 – 01:17:48:03
Student Minister Rodney Muhammad
Yeah. You can foreclose on my house. You can fire me from a job, but you can’t get these people.
01:17:48:07 – 01:17:55:15
Speaker 1
That’s why. Come on.
01:17:55:17 – 01:18:00:16
Student In The Ministry Joseph Muhammad
This brother.
01:18:00:19 – 01:18:10:28
Student Minister Rodney Muhammad
So the Honorable Minister Louis Farrakhan told us the originator of the heavens and the earth did not want us to get out of his mind.
01:18:11:04 – 01:18:12:00
Student In The Ministry Joseph Muhammad
No.
01:18:12:02 – 01:18:16:26
Student Minister Rodney Muhammad
So he created universe.
01:18:16:28 – 01:18:26:11
Student Minister Rodney Muhammad
So that when we’re born, even though it’s from our mother’s womb, we’re really born out of a book that he wrote.
01:18:26:13 – 01:18:28:06
Student In The Ministry Joseph Muhammad
Teach about.
01:18:28:08 – 01:18:52:11
Student Minister Rodney Muhammad
What’s in the book. God is not mocked whatsoever. A man soweth, that shall he also reap. That’s not made up. Didn’t nobody take no vote on that? That’s written out here. And you’re assured if you believe in God, somebody really do you wrong. Davis is coming, right?
01:18:52:15 – 01:18:55:04
Speaker 1
Think about that.
01:18:55:07 – 01:19:09:10
Student Minister Rodney Muhammad
We did evil before Master Farad. Muhammad came. Ours is coming. The only thing saves us. He’s not a judge. He’s the master of the Day of Judgment.
01:19:09:13 – 01:19:10:29
Student In The Ministry Joseph Muhammad
Right. That’s right.
01:19:11:01 – 01:19:24:03
Student Minister Rodney Muhammad
And the. The universe was written up as a cause and effect universe. You cause something to affect this coming. And the minister teaches us this one who has come. He’s mastered the.
01:19:24:03 – 01:19:25:11
Speaker 1
Law.
01:19:25:13 – 01:19:43:12
Student Minister Rodney Muhammad
Between cause and effect. So he can raise us above our own karma. That’s right. What? You thought you had coming of evil because you accepted him as the master. Come on now. We have escaped judgment from things in the past.
01:19:43:15 – 01:19:44:13
Student In The Ministry Joseph Muhammad
Yes, sir.
01:19:44:16 – 01:20:03:00
Student Minister Rodney Muhammad
Jesus, we. We have an escape. What we right now is a. But anyway, we just under a great power. So. Abraham is shown.
01:20:03:02 – 01:20:24:00
Student Minister Rodney Muhammad
Know of a surety that thy seed will be in bondage in a strange land amongst a strange people. Yeah. They will suffer and afflict him for 400 years. Right? And after this time of their suffering, I will come.
01:20:24:02 – 01:20:25:06
Speaker 1
Right.
01:20:25:08 – 01:20:31:17
Student Minister Rodney Muhammad
Not sinning a prophet or somebody. I will come. Notice he uses the word I.
01:20:31:20 – 01:20:32:14
Student In The Ministry Joseph Muhammad
That’s,
01:20:32:16 – 01:20:34:26
Student Minister Rodney Muhammad
He don’t say us. Are we.
01:20:34:29 – 01:20:35:18
Speaker 1
Right?
01:20:35:20 – 01:20:51:10
Student Minister Rodney Muhammad
So we shouldn’t look for committee. Yes. Come on. So he wrote us in the English lesson I. My name is Muhammad. I came by myself. If you see me with company, I got it from among the Negro. Come on now.
01:20:51:13 – 01:20:56:13
Speaker 1
They didn’t come with me. I work among you.
01:20:56:15 – 01:20:58:24
Student Minister Rodney Muhammad
That’s right. As a sign to.
01:20:58:24 – 01:21:00:17
Speaker 1
Us.
01:21:00:20 – 01:21:38:01
Student Minister Rodney Muhammad
Of greatness that’s stored up there that we not given ourself access to. so. I will come and he says I will bring them out with great substance. Now, everybody’s already got a little mental cash register working. That’s right. We got to get paid. No. Look at what the Honorable Minister Louis Farrakhan say. The greatest substance is knowledge, wisdom and understanding.
01:21:38:03 – 01:21:45:18
Student Minister Rodney Muhammad
It’s greater than silver and gold and.
01:21:45:20 – 01:22:01:08
Student Minister Rodney Muhammad
So the will of Allah, the Honorable Elijah Muhammad said, since Will is the faculty of conscious and deliberate action. I mean, I’m thinking, doggone it, I want this is what I want to happen.
01:22:01:15 – 01:22:02:18
Speaker 1
Yes,
01:22:02:20 – 01:22:23:12
Student Minister Rodney Muhammad
It’s a thought right now, right? But I’m a god, so I know how to manage my thoughts. And the minister say the will is is the power that we have of control over the actions of our mind.
01:22:23:14 – 01:22:24:28
Student In The Ministry Joseph Muhammad
You have. Come on.
01:22:25:00 – 01:22:31:10
Student Minister Rodney Muhammad
God, man. See, the battle really is in the mind of God.
01:22:31:13 – 01:22:32:28
Student In The Ministry Joseph Muhammad
By the means.
01:22:33:00 – 01:22:38:13
Student Minister Rodney Muhammad
The originators mind is so great. He made a universe. We can’t get out of it.
01:22:38:15 – 01:22:41:07
Speaker 1
Come on!
01:22:41:10 – 01:22:51:13
Student Minister Rodney Muhammad
Even this great one that came got a Koran in his hand in the picture. So you say, well, y’all say that’s God. What are you doing? Reading the book. He’s mastering it.
01:22:51:19 – 01:22:56:12
Student In The Ministry Joseph Muhammad
That’s right, that’s right. good people in.
01:22:56:14 – 01:22:59:00
Student Minister Rodney Muhammad
And he’s going to perfect what started.
01:22:59:02 – 01:23:00:00
Student In The Ministry Joseph Muhammad
Yes. Right.
01:23:00:03 – 01:23:13:15
Student Minister Rodney Muhammad
If it was perfect, what started, we wouldn’t be catching hell. Now. Come on, somebody. Something went wrong. Now.
01:23:13:17 – 01:23:15:13
Student Minister Rodney Muhammad
So there are.
01:23:15:14 – 01:23:17:13
Student In The Ministry Joseph Muhammad
Laws.
01:23:17:15 – 01:23:41:00
Student Minister Rodney Muhammad
Operating in the universe. We can’t get away from us. So when this Koran comes to us, believe in the unseen and without unseen don’t mean unreal. Right? So nobody’s going to jump out of a 16 story window talking about. I don’t see no gravity out there.
01:23:41:02 – 01:23:41:12
Student In The Ministry Joseph Muhammad
look at it.
01:23:41:15 – 01:23:50:06
Student Minister Rodney Muhammad
You don’t see it, but it’s there. And if you step out there, you find out it’s unseen. But it ain’t unreal.
01:23:50:08 – 01:23:52:23
Student In The Ministry Joseph Muhammad
That’s right. Go ahead.
01:23:52:25 – 01:23:54:17
Student Minister Rodney Muhammad
You can’t see the wind.
01:23:54:19 – 01:23:55:18
Student In The Ministry Joseph Muhammad
No snow.
01:23:55:20 – 01:24:01:21
Student Minister Rodney Muhammad
You see what gets caught up in the wind? Like dust and debris and everything. But you can’t see the wind.
01:24:01:23 – 01:24:03:16
Speaker 1
That’s right.
01:24:03:19 – 01:24:24:23
Student Minister Rodney Muhammad
Nicodemus comes at to night. That’s that’s, biblical and Koranic scholars who don’t like press conferences. They don’t like to be seen. They write these little tiny words at the bottom. You need an extra lens or something to see what they said about something they don’t want. Help get the world in the mess we in right now.
01:24:24:25 – 01:24:29:21
Student Minister Rodney Muhammad
Because even though they call scholars, they’re involved in guess work.
01:24:29:23 – 01:24:32:19
Student In The Ministry Joseph Muhammad
Good teaching. Yes, that’s right, that’s right.
01:24:32:21 – 01:24:46:08
Student Minister Rodney Muhammad
What the Honorable Elijah Muhammad has given us from God. There’s no margin for error. yeah.
01:24:46:10 – 01:24:56:25
Student Minister Rodney Muhammad
Even though his teacher heard him recite and said, this is very near. Correct. The minister say near don’t mean is wrong.
01:24:56:28 – 01:24:58:15
Student In The Ministry Joseph Muhammad
Sir. Teacher. Brother.
01:24:58:18 – 01:25:18:01
Student Minister Rodney Muhammad
It just need more development. We gotta look deeper in it. Build on it. Right? Yes, sir. So, I mean. So I want us to get back to this God who ain’t going to let us get out of his mind no more.
01:25:18:03 – 01:25:19:17
Student In The Ministry Joseph Muhammad
Come on.
01:25:19:20 – 01:25:23:24
Student Minister Rodney Muhammad
The one who came and raised the Honorable Elijah Muhammad prayed.
01:25:23:29 – 01:25:25:09
Student In The Ministry Joseph Muhammad
Yes, sir. Yes, sir.
01:25:25:11 – 01:25:26:05
Student Minister Rodney Muhammad
Wait, wait.
01:25:26:12 – 01:25:28:19
Student In The Ministry Joseph Muhammad
Come on, do it.
01:25:28:21 – 01:25:38:18
Student Minister Rodney Muhammad
Oh, he prayed to himself. Oh, come on, the originator. He prayed, but his prayer went to the point of origination.
01:25:38:20 – 01:25:42:03
Student In The Ministry Joseph Muhammad
Is the teacher great teacher.
01:25:42:06 – 01:26:11:20
Student Minister Rodney Muhammad
If we talk deep enough on the spiritual level, you. He had to be at the point of origination. Because the Honorable Elijah Muhammad said, he took me into the mind of the originator. Yes. Showed me how he brought this about. First, he said, he took me in the mind of Yakov. Why? Because your coop’s mine. Come on. The the faculty of his consciousness and his deliberate action.
01:26:11:26 – 01:26:40:27
Student Minister Rodney Muhammad
Come on. Was like this first one. He did not want his creation to get out of his mind. So even though he only lived 150 years, he left a series of written works. So they would feed on his mind right? So that after a 600 year period when they came out, they would do exactly what he wanted them to do as if he was there.
01:26:41:02 – 01:26:41:29
Speaker 1
Right?
01:26:42:01 – 01:26:49:05
Student In The Ministry Joseph Muhammad
Right. They. Asked for.
01:26:49:08 – 01:27:07:00
Student Minister Rodney Muhammad
Master. The original man. Right. If there’s no altering a lost creation. And the originator created us with his essence in us, then no enemy of God in the righteous can take that from us.
01:27:07:03 – 01:27:08:20
Student In The Ministry Joseph Muhammad
That’s right.
01:27:08:22 – 01:27:16:19
Student Minister Rodney Muhammad
Why? Because there’s no altering a lost creation. The Koran said. But you can tamper, as I said last week with the characteristics.
01:27:16:20 – 01:27:17:22
Speaker 1
Yes, sir.
01:27:17:24 – 01:27:21:29
Student Minister Rodney Muhammad
And with that you can blind a man that he even has it.
01:27:22:01 – 01:27:23:15
Speaker 1
Yes, sir.
01:27:23:17 – 01:27:28:06
Student Minister Rodney Muhammad
A person that won’t use that brain ain’t no different from somebody. Don’t have one.
01:27:28:07 – 01:27:32:14
Student In The Ministry Joseph Muhammad
Right. Come on man. You can have.
01:27:32:16 – 01:27:44:21
Student Minister Rodney Muhammad
If you walking around here and you want to stay in a state of ignorance and you’re not using your brain, you’re no different from somebody who’s incapacitated and don’t have a brain.
01:27:44:24 – 01:27:47:05
Speaker 1
You.
01:27:47:07 – 01:27:57:10
Student Minister Rodney Muhammad
The only thing matters is what’s in use. What is the useful land? You show me all this going on. What’s useful? What good are you?
01:27:57:12 – 01:27:59:10
Student In The Ministry Joseph Muhammad
Come on, brothers.
01:27:59:12 – 01:28:10:16
Student Minister Rodney Muhammad
If you know something and you ain’t doing nothing with what you know. So it’s got to be something useful. Because you can always show a greater capacity, right?
01:28:10:17 – 01:28:11:28
Speaker 1
Yes, sir.
01:28:12:01 – 01:28:28:14
Student Minister Rodney Muhammad
But. But who’s operating at the greatest capacity? So what’s being used? So when we learn about the, the, land and water of the earth and 196,940,000mi², the question got to be yes. How much of the useful land.
01:28:29:04 – 01:29:01:29
Student Minister Rodney Muhammad
In fact, it asked, what are the exact square miles of the useful land that’s being used? Is the other unusable? You know, is the desert unusable at 4,861,000mi²? Or can it be used? Malcolm X used to teach from the temples, and he. And on the board, Elijah Muhammad mentioned the works of J.A. Rogers. We got cities built under the sand.
01:29:02:01 – 01:29:04:11
Student Minister Rodney Muhammad
Right? Somebody was using it.
01:29:04:13 – 01:29:09:02
Student In The Ministry Joseph Muhammad
Oh, come on, please teach.
01:29:09:05 – 01:29:43:11
Student Minister Rodney Muhammad
So the will of God. We going to close now? But the will of God is tied to, the the the faculty of conscious and deliberate action. And if we’re going to be successful beings with a knowledge and a wisdom that’s unequaled. I will has to be submitted to his will. Yes, he’s already proved what he could do the best.
01:29:43:13 – 01:29:48:23
Student Minister Rodney Muhammad
And I think if we’re honest, we prove what we can’t do without him.
01:29:48:26 – 01:29:52:29
Student In The Ministry Joseph Muhammad
Yes, sir. That’s right. That’s. It’s.
01:29:53:01 – 01:30:30:18
Student Minister Rodney Muhammad
So how is the will? constructed here? Because, see, the white man’s world has to be a world of deception and tricks, right? Trick you and keep you involved in something that keeps you from, a serious no. If we spent more time, dealing with, the knowledge that really benefits us rather than the entertainment that we feel benefits us, we’d be much further along as a people.
01:30:30:20 – 01:30:36:13
Student Minister Rodney Muhammad
Did I say get rid of entertainment altogether? No. But to make that primary more.
01:30:36:13 – 01:30:37:05
Student In The Ministry Joseph Muhammad
Come on.
01:30:37:07 – 01:30:58:01
Student Minister Rodney Muhammad
In other words, let’s just have a community meeting to talk about what we could do about the violence in our community, the filth in our community, the level of crime in our community, the lack of services in our community, the quality of education in our community. Let’s have a meeting about it. And it’s like pulling teeth to get us out.
01:30:58:03 – 01:31:00:01
Student In The Ministry Joseph Muhammad
Right. Right.
01:31:00:03 – 01:31:10:21
Student Minister Rodney Muhammad
But let’s have a party. Get lady B and let’s have a basement party. here we come. You know.
01:31:10:23 – 01:31:17:13
Student Minister Rodney Muhammad
So. Yeah, but we’re made this way, right?
01:31:17:16 – 01:31:18:07
Student In The Ministry Joseph Muhammad
Well.
01:31:18:09 – 01:31:33:24
Student Minister Rodney Muhammad
How come we can’t just get out and walk away from it? Because the will of the white power structure. Right. Everything is set up. Robert Knowles wrote a book in the 60s called, Institutional Racism.
01:31:33:29 – 01:31:35:13
Speaker 1
Yes, sir.
01:31:35:16 – 01:31:43:08
Student Minister Rodney Muhammad
Now, remember, the menace that teaches us racism is just a tool in the hands of white supremacy?
01:31:43:10 – 01:31:44:09
Student In The Ministry Joseph Muhammad
Right.
01:31:44:11 – 01:32:22:02
Student Minister Rodney Muhammad
So they use racism to as a tool to, weaponize their idea into social order. But, the the, will that Mr. Knowles was talking about came from Charles Hamilton and Stokely Carmichael, who said in the 60s there is a less traceable and there is a less identifiable form of racism.
01:32:22:04 – 01:32:47:03
Student Minister Rodney Muhammad
That form they called institutional racism by Robert Knowles. That means that the idea that white is supreme. It must be planted in our policies, and it must be planted in our institutions, which are designed to reinforce our ideas.
01:32:47:06 – 01:32:57:28
Student Minister Rodney Muhammad
The idea that we want is white is supreme. So everything in the social order must speak to that.
01:32:58:00 – 01:33:28:07
Student Minister Rodney Muhammad
So you want to go to an all black college, which you should be proud of. But they have work now to where many of black parents are feeling their child don’t get a quality education. Unless you in a white school. See you free to go get knowledge from anywhere, even if it’s a black school. You can go to Germany and get a teacher and bring the Honorable Elijah Muhammad to use whoever can teach us.
01:33:28:07 – 01:33:34:10
Student Minister Rodney Muhammad
What? Because he knew once we were taught, the next set of teachers was going to be us.
01:33:34:12 – 01:33:35:26
Student In The Ministry Joseph Muhammad
That’s right. Right.
01:33:35:28 – 01:34:06:17
Student Minister Rodney Muhammad
Right. But because we’re in their mindset, the will of the white power structure is to keep us, always looking up to them for. And anything that tries to break that contract. Teaching hate seeing and the menace have destroyed that. Hate is an emotion. You can’t even teach it. You can teach.
01:34:06:20 – 01:34:07:00
Speaker 1
And.
01:34:07:07 – 01:34:22:11
Student Minister Rodney Muhammad
And it can only be 1 or 2 things. It is the truth. Or as false as. And then, however we react to it on. That’s not what we’re teaching. That’s the reaction to what we have taught.
01:34:22:13 – 01:34:24:24
Student In The Ministry Joseph Muhammad
Yes, sir.
01:34:24:27 – 01:34:49:29
Student Minister Rodney Muhammad
But imagine him. accusing somebody else of teaching hate when institutionally, all of his institutions have expressed his hatred for us. Yes, sir. So we’re down to a fight now. And this is why you can see, project 2025 taking center stage.
01:34:50:06 – 01:34:51:00
Speaker 1
Right.
01:34:51:02 – 01:35:11:05
Student Minister Rodney Muhammad
In this and this election. Yes, sir. Because if you read through it, they’re trying to take back some things. they used to be a game when I was a little boy. They call it, red light or something. You know? But you turn your back and you might say, one, two, three. Red line. When you turn back, if you call somebody, move.
01:35:11:06 – 01:35:34:24
Student Minister Rodney Muhammad
You could you could eliminate them. Right? But you noticed somebody started way back there sometime when you turn around, they almost right at you. That’s what happens when the white man gets distracted. Negroes start moving. And by the time he turn back around. Damn, they don’t got up here. So now they gotta write up something. But we gotta correct this and get these people pushed back.
01:35:34:26 – 01:35:36:04
Student In The Ministry Joseph Muhammad
That’s right.
01:35:36:06 – 01:35:50:14
Student Minister Rodney Muhammad
This is his will, right? But now we’re in a time that a will more powerful. Because a mind that’s more powerful has already come into America.
01:35:50:16 – 01:35:51:12
Student In The Ministry Joseph Muhammad
Right.
01:35:51:14 – 01:35:53:29
Student Minister Rodney Muhammad
And what that mind needs now is some.
01:35:53:29 – 01:35:57:04
Speaker 1
Believers, right, who believe in.
01:35:57:04 – 01:35:59:18
Student Minister Rodney Muhammad
Love with that intensity.
01:35:59:21 – 01:36:00:03
Student In The Ministry Joseph Muhammad
Right.
01:36:00:05 – 01:36:28:00
Student Minister Rodney Muhammad
As a witness to his coming. When the Honorable Elijah Muhammad heard this teaching for three years and four months, he was so fired up, he said, if I go to the colleges that and, because, you know, they used to look around and we used to look around in government and everything we say, everybody’s white. Look at the boards.
01:36:28:00 – 01:36:39:17
Student Minister Rodney Muhammad
Everybody’s white. Look at the commission’s over the counter. Everybody’s white. You know what we need? We need this black people in here. And to our disappointment, we got some black people in there.
01:36:39:19 – 01:36:42:27
Student In The Ministry Joseph Muhammad
But no.
01:36:42:29 – 01:36:48:28
Student Minister Rodney Muhammad
See. So we still unhappy.
01:36:49:00 – 01:36:55:13
Student Minister Rodney Muhammad
He would love for us to think black skin will change everything. No. Black is consciousness.
01:36:55:16 – 01:36:58:06
Student In The Ministry Joseph Muhammad
Yes.
01:36:58:08 – 01:37:19:15
Student Minister Rodney Muhammad
Black is culture, not just color. And it’s a cosmic connection to the origin of the universe. If you ain’t connected to the origin of universe, you’re not dealing with original it. The original man took black for his color. Yes, because he conquered the darkness of space in between.
01:37:19:18 – 01:37:21:07
Student In The Ministry Joseph Muhammad
Come on now.
01:37:22:10 – 01:37:46:26
Student Minister Rodney Muhammad
Everything was in that black. So melanin is in our skin, right? Spirit and rhythm is there. That’s right. That’s the Jesus of the Bible. When he comes to teach, you can tell that the truth that he said will set you free. It had rhythm in it, and it gave you spirit.
01:37:46:27 – 01:37:47:25
Student In The Ministry Joseph Muhammad
Yes.
01:37:47:27 – 01:37:59:19
Student Minister Rodney Muhammad
So he says, I pipe to you all day long. That’s like a DJ. I’ve been playing all night. You still on the wall? Oh, you said. Jesus said you ain’t danced to.
01:37:59:19 – 01:38:02:09
Speaker 1
The truth yet. And it’s got spirit.
01:38:02:09 – 01:38:05:19
Student Minister Rodney Muhammad
And rhythm in it. And it needs people know.
01:38:05:19 – 01:38:14:29
Speaker 1
How to deliver it with the rhythm and the spirit that it deserves. That’s why we got Louis Farrakhan.
01:38:15:01 – 01:38:19:12
Unknown
All praises due to a love.
01:38:19:14 – 01:38:20:16
Unknown
Spirit.
01:38:20:18 – 01:38:23:10
Student In The Ministry Joseph Muhammad
Come on, brother Minister.
01:38:23:12 – 01:38:30:10
Student Minister Rodney Muhammad
So we’re going to be dealing with this all through. You know, September, because we got to spend some time on it.
01:38:30:16 – 01:38:32:19
Student In The Ministry Joseph Muhammad
Yes, sir.
01:38:36:12 – 01:38:48:18
Student Minister Rodney Muhammad
The minister says desire is the food that builds the wheels. Yes, sir.
01:38:48:20 – 01:38:58:17
Student Minister Rodney Muhammad
desire causes us to strive to achieve whatever the object of our desire is.
01:38:58:20 – 01:39:01:10
Student In The Ministry Joseph Muhammad
Come on. That’s understanding.
01:39:01:11 – 01:39:12:02
Student Minister Rodney Muhammad
And then you will recall that desire was defined in the glossary in session three. Overcoming difficulty.
01:39:12:04 – 01:39:12:25
Speaker 1
Yes.
01:39:12:27 – 01:39:20:07
Student Minister Rodney Muhammad
So the minister says the desire to attain a goal brings us face to face with difficulty.
01:39:20:09 – 01:39:22:08
Speaker 1
Right. Right.
01:39:22:11 – 01:39:38:10
Student Minister Rodney Muhammad
So in America, it’s New Year’s Eve. What do we do besides drinking? Try to sing Old Lang Zion or something. We make a New Year’s resolution,
01:39:38:12 – 01:39:39:03
Student In The Ministry Joseph Muhammad
Yes, sir.
01:39:39:05 – 01:39:52:03
Student Minister Rodney Muhammad
That’s a goal. Now, we don’t treat it that way. But look what he says. So when you desire to change, attain a goal, it bring you face to face with difficulty.
01:39:52:05 – 01:39:52:24
Speaker 1
Right.
01:39:52:26 – 01:40:19:01
Student Minister Rodney Muhammad
I’m going to stop doing this. That’s usually what it is. Or I’m going to start doing this by by January 31st. We don’t went back to the default. Why? Because the difficulty makes us shirk from it. He says when we undergo the trial of difficulty, the trial may be so intense it extinguishes the light of the desire. Right.
01:40:19:08 – 01:40:30:06
Student Minister Rodney Muhammad
You don’t even have it anymore, right? You don’t. Because the difficulty. Just wipe that out. You ain’t going to do nothing. That’s the other thing in your head. You. You just fooling yourself.
01:40:30:09 – 01:40:31:23
Student In The Ministry Joseph Muhammad
Yes, sir.
01:40:31:25 – 01:40:49:19
Student Minister Rodney Muhammad
You got on the treadmill Monday. By Wednesday, you. So anyway. So. So he says without desire, we’ve lost the nourishment to strengthen our will.
01:40:49:21 – 01:40:54:21
Student In The Ministry Joseph Muhammad
Exactly.
01:40:54:23 – 01:41:10:09
Student Minister Rodney Muhammad
Which we now remember. The will of Allah is the power behind the universe. So the earth is not turning at 1037 and a 30mph on its own.
01:41:10:12 – 01:41:11:05
Speaker 1
Now.
01:41:11:08 – 01:41:12:07
Student Minister Rodney Muhammad
There’s a will.
01:41:12:08 – 01:41:14:18
Student In The Ministry Joseph Muhammad
That’s right.
01:41:14:20 – 01:41:16:12
Student Minister Rodney Muhammad
That’s making sure it.
01:41:16:15 – 01:41:18:11
Student In The Ministry Joseph Muhammad
Yes, sir.
01:41:18:13 – 01:41:49:27
Student Minister Rodney Muhammad
That it don’t fail in his turn. Everything. in what they call the cosmic reality. When we leave Earth’s, serpent, we dealing with astronomy? The science of astronomy. The Honorable Louis Farrakhan once taught is the science to train a man and how to build a permanent civilization. Why? Because the Honorable Elijah Muhammad said there in submission. Yes.
01:41:50:00 – 01:42:16:24
Student Minister Rodney Muhammad
To the will of God. So their existence is perpetual, but inside of Earth’s sphere and the world’s that the Earth has set up. Because Satan is the God of this world, the history is replete with the bleached bones of nations. All it talks about is the rise and then the fall of nations. Ain’t nothing perpetual about it except the evil.
01:42:16:27 – 01:42:17:19
Speaker 1
Yes.
01:42:17:21 – 01:42:41:20
Student Minister Rodney Muhammad
And now that’s being checked. So he’s saying you gotta have a desire. Notice he said the one man’s faith, one man’s faith rebuilt the nation. Yes, sir. Oh, no. We have faith. We did. We ain’t done that. We were inspired. One man’s faith rebuilt this.
01:42:41:22 – 01:42:42:05
Student In The Ministry Joseph Muhammad
Yes, sir.
01:42:42:12 – 01:42:50:22
Student Minister Rodney Muhammad
When? When? When? When Jesus talks to Peter, he eats. He doesn’t say every. He’s on this rock.
01:42:50:26 – 01:42:51:14
Speaker 1
That’s what he.
01:42:51:17 – 01:42:59:18
Student Minister Rodney Muhammad
I build my nation. Yes, sir. The Honorable Elijah Muhammad didn’t call out no committee. He called him out right?
01:42:59:21 – 01:43:04:02
Student In The Ministry Joseph Muhammad
That’s right. That’s right.
01:43:04:04 – 01:43:38:09
Student Minister Rodney Muhammad
So the nourishment to strengthen our will is gone, which weakens and is ultimately starved to death. In the absence of the desire to read. Why reading? Because that was the first command given to Muhammad. That’s right. Which me and God goes to the root of everything. So reading is at the root of education, right? In the absence of just the desire to read.
01:43:38:12 – 01:44:03:00
Student Minister Rodney Muhammad
I have a picture that I told you about. Eight children never own a pair of shoes in their life. Barefoot, feeding milk in the cow, getting the water from the well and everything. Before they went, they walked four miles to school and four miles home barefooted. The desire to read. They didn’t want to be illiterate. Right. Now you live across the street from a library.
01:44:03:02 – 01:44:06:19
Student Minister Rodney Muhammad
I got $300 Air Jordans on and don’t want to read.
01:44:06:21 – 01:44:06:27
Speaker 1
Right.
01:44:07:01 – 01:44:08:16
Student In The Ministry Joseph Muhammad
Through that. Look at them.
01:44:08:18 – 01:44:35:06
Student Minister Rodney Muhammad
See, this man have worked on us, and he has worked on our determination to come out of the snares and the traps. He has us in. You can’t say he’s just holding us captive. He got our minds enslaved. Every plantation was beautiful with trees and things. What is it you don’t see? You don’t see a prison fence with barbed wire like that.
01:44:35:08 – 01:44:36:03
Speaker 1
Right?
01:44:36:06 – 01:44:40:28
Student Minister Rodney Muhammad
Right. With thousands of slaves on it. Ain’t nobody trying to go nowhere.
01:44:41:00 – 01:44:42:02
Student In The Ministry Joseph Muhammad
You know.
01:44:42:04 – 01:44:58:14
Student Minister Rodney Muhammad
Because he killed that passion in us like Harriet Tubman and said he had to put a gun on some people, forced them to keep going. On. So you gotta have. You don’t belong in leadership. And you don’t want to read.
01:44:58:17 – 01:45:00:29
Student In The Ministry Joseph Muhammad
This, right? Say that.
01:45:01:02 – 01:45:24:09
Student Minister Rodney Muhammad
You can’t. You know, that’s what I talked about Wednesday night. I’ve seen some charismatic gang leaders in Chicago growing up. But the ones who didn’t read couldn’t hold a gang long. And the ones that couldn’t read, they they lead the gang into destruction. They end up in prison. They have on dope. They end up on everything. But the ones that were reading, that’s the one.
01:45:24:09 – 01:45:46:29
Student Minister Rodney Muhammad
They made sure they put a boy in jail a long time because they said they started out one way, but when they started reading, said, I got all these people. That’ll do what I say. Let’s get some property. Come on. When Bobby Gore took the vice lords of the West Side of Chicago when I was growing up, they were at 12,000 on the West Side.
01:45:47:02 – 01:46:10:07
Student Minister Rodney Muhammad
He started reading. So they start getting the storefronts and see if they could start helping to clean up the neighborhood. Now they moving in on Bobby Gore and Callaway and they got put away. Yeah, Jeff Ford and the Blackstone Rangers, they first started out on the street. That was all right. Raising hell, doing all that shoot and kill.
01:46:10:09 – 01:46:12:29
Student Minister Rodney Muhammad
But as soon he started reading.
01:46:13:01 – 01:46:13:18
Speaker 1
Right.
01:46:13:21 – 01:46:23:28
Student Minister Rodney Muhammad
Now, he may have been reading with the Moors. This white man had him down as just four. But when they brought him out of prison, he said, I’m Prince Malik.
01:46:24:00 – 01:46:24:24
Student In The Ministry Joseph Muhammad
Come on.
01:46:24:26 – 01:46:29:03
Student Minister Rodney Muhammad
What you been reading?
01:46:29:05 – 01:46:48:11
Student Minister Rodney Muhammad
Now you got these people and they got these properties and everything. You know, they don’t want nobody reading the cobblestones of 55th Street in Chicago. They were 800, but Mickey Cardwell got all them down at, Nixon’s inauguration.
01:46:48:13 – 01:46:49:06
Student In The Ministry Joseph Muhammad
Okay.
01:46:49:08 – 01:47:24:27
Student Minister Rodney Muhammad
He’s working with union heads and stuff. These people are reading. Same with the Caucasian gangs. The Jews. You never going to find them in the in the in the family of gangsters. Because they only have one generation in their. They didn’t had a sons take over the syndicate operations. They had they put them into legitimate businesses. So by the time the, the Meyer Lansky and the long women’s were gone, the Purple Gang out of Detroit and others, they put their sons, Arnold Rothstein, who was a master at it.
01:47:24:29 – 01:47:26:23
Student Minister Rodney Muhammad
but these people were vicious.
01:47:26:26 – 01:47:27:28
Speaker 1
Yes.
01:47:28:00 – 01:47:57:27
Student Minister Rodney Muhammad
Murder incorporated. April had killed 35 people himself for he start, turning in tapes on them. So, these were all Jews, but they were vicious. reading that makes it impossible. He said when you, in the absence of a desire to read, is impossible to achieve literacy.
01:47:58:00 – 01:48:05:04
Student Minister Rodney Muhammad
You know, the 62nd sura says Allah has raised from among the illiterates a messenger.
01:48:05:04 – 01:48:05:20
Speaker 1
Yes, sir.
01:48:05:22 – 01:48:09:12
Student Minister Rodney Muhammad
From among themselves.
01:48:09:14 – 01:48:29:27
Student Minister Rodney Muhammad
We must look at the mindset. We must have the will to read, so that when difficulties are encountered in just learning how to read, we’ll be able to overcome those difficulties and accomplish the goal.
01:48:29:29 – 01:48:35:14
Student Minister Rodney Muhammad
I don’t want to read all of this, but look at here.
01:48:35:16 – 01:48:56:26
Student Minister Rodney Muhammad
When a child is crawling and he doesn’t even realize he has the ability to walk until he performs the act. What triggers his consciousness and his deliberate action to walk? Desire.
01:48:56:29 – 01:48:59:03
Student In The Ministry Joseph Muhammad
Right.
01:48:59:05 – 01:49:22:09
Student Minister Rodney Muhammad
see, the minister say the mother. Father may call him. Come to mommy, come to daddy. And out of the desire to do so, they stand up. And what happens when we stand up? We wobble, right? Usually we fall down. And the thing is, we get back up again, right? We don’t decide as as children. You know what I feel?
01:49:22:09 – 01:49:27:00
Student Minister Rodney Muhammad
I ain’t never doing that again. Right? We keep getting up.
01:49:28:00 – 01:49:56:00
Student Minister Rodney Muhammad
Probably fall again. and we keep getting up to. We could stand up. Look what the minister said. You only way we can stand. He achieves balance, right? What happens? Why are we wobbling? When we stand up, it is the first time the human being feels the whole weight of their existence. So when a people are crawling under 33 degrees of knowledge.
01:49:56:02 – 01:49:57:04
Student In The Ministry Joseph Muhammad
Do.
01:49:57:06 – 01:50:16:08
Student Minister Rodney Muhammad
Because that’s the highest level of knowledge. And your secret orders in this world. And on a circle of 360 degrees, you crawling, right? You can be in the Masons all you want. When the Honorable Elijah Muhammad taught in the Masonic lodges, they followed him to his hotel room because they said, look, they ain’t teaching us that over.
01:50:16:08 – 01:50:17:06
Speaker 1
There.
01:50:17:08 – 01:50:27:01
Student Minister Rodney Muhammad
On the messenger. They don’t have this over there to teach. Well, I, I got the full circle of knowledge.
01:50:27:04 – 01:50:37:07
Student Minister Rodney Muhammad
Yeah, he already had a lesson. Why does Muhammad make the devil study from 35 to 50 years? He. So he can call himself a muslim. What, son?
01:50:37:10 – 01:50:37:24
Student In The Ministry Joseph Muhammad
That’s right.
01:50:37:24 – 01:50:38:15
Speaker 1
Like, for myself.
01:50:38:22 – 01:50:40:20
Student Minister Rodney Muhammad
If it’s a son, he got a father.
01:50:40:23 – 01:50:42:06
Speaker 1
That’s right.
01:50:42:08 – 01:50:45:26
Student Minister Rodney Muhammad
And we are the fathers of the wisdom of God.
01:50:45:27 – 01:50:46:10
Speaker 1
Yes, sir.
01:50:46:18 – 01:50:48:16
Student In The Ministry Joseph Muhammad
Yes, my son.
01:50:48:19 – 01:51:19:12
Student Minister Rodney Muhammad
So then he says he achieves his balance. He walks. Or he brightly colored ball is placed in his range of vision. And he’s delighted. He wants to touch it. He wants to pick it up and handle it. His desire for the object leads him to exercise his will. See, this is not an activity that’s far in the US.
01:51:19:12 – 01:51:33:17
Student Minister Rodney Muhammad
All of us did this. At one point, we stopped crawling out and when we stood up, we had never felt that weight before. But once you get balance, you can stand up.
01:51:33:19 – 01:51:34:05
Speaker 1
Yes.
01:51:34:08 – 01:51:35:27
Student Minister Rodney Muhammad
And never crawl again.
01:51:35:29 – 01:51:38:19
Student In The Ministry Joseph Muhammad
Oh, come on.
01:51:38:21 – 01:52:04:10
Student Minister Rodney Muhammad
So he overcame the difficulty and he must overcome it in order to walk. And that should teach us that if a people are going to stand up, we have to get balance right. Balance is not just what you think. Being able to hold this weight like this and the balance is knowing what to prioritize.
01:52:04:12 – 01:52:05:06
Speaker 1
Yes.
01:52:05:08 – 01:52:21:15
Student Minister Rodney Muhammad
See, the minister say our first inclination is toward God. Not husband, not wife, but toward God. Somehow we must know that. Because when we get married, we use his name right?
01:52:21:18 – 01:52:27:14
Student Minister Rodney Muhammad
That might be the only time his name come up.
01:52:27:16 – 01:52:53:24
Student Minister Rodney Muhammad
But look. When you go to God, that’s primary. And that’s not a need. You have to go to school to cultivate you. Born with it and born with it. Now he’s here, and we don’t teach his coming. We teach his presence.
01:52:53:26 – 01:52:55:09
Speaker 1
That’s right.
01:52:55:11 – 01:53:00:25
Student Minister Rodney Muhammad
And when people ask you, well, then if he’s pressing, where is he?
01:53:01:29 – 01:53:04:06
Student Minister Rodney Muhammad
They should not have to look further than.
01:53:04:06 – 01:53:07:03
Student In The Ministry Joseph Muhammad
Us to.
01:53:07:05 – 01:53:36:14
Student Minister Rodney Muhammad
Notice. I said should not have to, but if, if, if, if, if we’re caught up in speech impediment. Not just stuttering when we talk but the Honorable Elijah Muhammad s lesson in speech impediment is you can’t talk like a free person and act like a slave because you don’t have subject verb agreement in.
01:53:36:17 – 01:53:39:13
Student In The Ministry Joseph Muhammad
Jesus. Go ahead and.
01:53:39:15 – 01:53:42:29
Student Minister Rodney Muhammad
So the Lord is my shepherd.
01:53:43:01 – 01:53:43:17
Speaker 1
That’s right.
01:53:43:22 – 01:53:58:00
Student Minister Rodney Muhammad
That’s what was put in his hand by the Savior before the Savior left him. The Lord is my shepherd. I should not one look at this.
01:53:58:02 – 01:54:07:27
Student Minister Rodney Muhammad
The struggle for balance. Our primary inclination is to law in our nature is the ultimate desire for him.
01:54:08:04 – 01:54:09:18
Speaker 1
Yes, sir.
01:54:09:20 – 01:54:37:22
Student Minister Rodney Muhammad
The best thing a wife can do for a husband is to is to know what she can only get from God. Because the husband, as good as he may be, is a secondary source. God is the source. are you right now? And it’s not, sir, to yourself, and is not fair to him to try to get from him what you can only get from God.
01:54:37:25 – 01:54:40:14
Student Minister Rodney Muhammad
You deserve a man that submits to God.
01:54:40:17 – 01:54:42:02
Student In The Ministry Joseph Muhammad
Right? Yes, sir.
01:54:42:05 – 01:54:49:12
Student Minister Rodney Muhammad
But even in his submission. That man should be pointing you toward God.
01:54:49:13 – 01:54:49:27
Student In The Ministry Joseph Muhammad
Yes, sir.
01:54:49:29 – 01:54:52:08
Speaker 1
That’s right. That’s right.
01:54:52:10 – 01:55:12:28
Student Minister Rodney Muhammad
Yes, sir. And the worst that a man could do for a woman is to try to get from her what he only can get from God. You make each other unhappy going to a secondary source, trying to satisfy our primary need.
01:55:13:01 – 01:55:19:17
Student Minister Rodney Muhammad
Strong.
01:55:19:19 – 01:55:46:24
Student Minister Rodney Muhammad
The minister says in our nature, our ultimate desires for Allah. But because we have been made other than ourselves, or other than the nature in which we were created, we may not realize our ultimate desire. But as the Holy Koran teaches, we take our low desires as our God. Yes. Before we can build our will.
01:55:46:27 – 01:56:20:19
Student Minister Rodney Muhammad
Our balance must be achieved so that we move forward with a law as the center of our existence and the center of our conscious mind and the center of our hearts. These words, along with others that we’ll share in the month of September, came from the Honorable Minister Louis Farrakhan, when he looked, we weren’t in what he would call a mass.
01:56:20:19 – 01:56:57:21
Student Minister Rodney Muhammad
He always called the final call building the administration building right? But whatever God made him to see in us, he shut it down. So for three Sundays, we didn’t have a meeting. Don’t even bother to come out. And we didn’t have zoom, He didn’t even come to it. But we had a radio broadcast, WBEZ and, people listen to that.
01:56:57:21 – 01:57:16:28
Student Minister Rodney Muhammad
But normally we were broadcasting live from the final call building. But he said, you know what? I’m it’s obvious what he’s seeing wasn’t what we should have been developing into. So he shut it down and he said, and you just sit.
01:57:16:28 – 01:57:18:18
Student In The Ministry Joseph Muhammad
Home.
01:57:18:20 – 01:57:41:26
Student Minister Rodney Muhammad
And listen to me. And he talk from the palace for three weeks. We were shut down almost a month. And, you said you listen. And he talked from there, and he said, every time you come down 79th Street, I want you to think about this building never opening again. And that’s how we got the will of God.
01:57:41:26 – 01:57:44:21
Student Minister Rodney Muhammad
Part one, two and three.
01:57:44:24 – 01:57:47:00
Speaker 1
Now.
01:57:47:02 – 01:58:17:28
Student Minister Rodney Muhammad
Keep taking the casual. But the devil is not casual. Satan is working hard and. We don’t know enough to defeat him. And some have grown in what we have received over the years. And they broke from the Messiah. But thinking they could beat this one out here. But what looks like can beat him is far from it.
01:58:18:02 – 01:58:24:04
Student In The Ministry Joseph Muhammad
That’s my brother.
01:58:24:06 – 01:58:37:26
Student Minister Rodney Muhammad
So I go back to the minister’s letter to us that Satan and his forces do not want the Nation of Islam to be successful.
01:58:37:28 – 01:58:38:27
Speaker 1
Right.
01:58:38:29 – 01:59:12:09
Student Minister Rodney Muhammad
That’s his will. Yes, sir. If we’re here, then it’s obviously. If it’s not, our will should be that it is going to be successful. We’re going. Hey. But like Obama tried to tell them in Chicago, it’s a lot of euphoria in here. But when you walk out of this United Center, it’s some people against you, But. And they going to work hard to defeat you.
01:59:12:12 – 01:59:24:11
Student Minister Rodney Muhammad
So in light of what he said to them there, I should tell you, no matter what you feeling in here, when you walk out of these doors, the will of the God of this world.
01:59:24:13 – 01:59:25:03
Speaker 1
Come on.
01:59:25:05 – 01:59:34:04
Student Minister Rodney Muhammad
He is. That you? Don’t? Because the Nation of Islam is not building and property and farmland. The nation is people. That’s right.
01:59:34:06 – 01:59:35:21
Student In The Ministry Joseph Muhammad
Real quick.
01:59:35:23 – 01:59:37:07
Student Minister Rodney Muhammad
And if he can defeat.
01:59:37:07 – 01:59:39:16
Speaker 1
Us.
01:59:39:19 – 01:59:54:12
Student Minister Rodney Muhammad
And hell, the nation is gone. All he got to do is make us hate each other as much as he hates us.
01:59:54:14 – 02:00:18:24
Student Minister Rodney Muhammad
And unless our will is stronger than he is. And the only way I can see our. My will ain’t stronger than he is. He’s an old soldier. He been around 6000 years. I’m just a baby in this thing here. So the only way my will will be stronger than he is. I got to submit my will to the one who is strong.
02:00:22:28 – 02:00:48:03
Student Minister Rodney Muhammad
I never talked with God like that. I never met with him. I never met the Christ. So I can’t play that with you. Come on. So I don’t know how to take you to them. I can only take you to the one who was born to take you to them. And Louis Farrakhan, I thank you for listening. I salaam alaikum.
02:00:48:05 – 02:01:20:17
Student Minister Rodney Muhammad
Yeah. Thank you so much. Thank you so much. Brother Joseph is going to finish us out. I think he’s, had announcements, and I say this for those that want to take a further step. The Honorable Minister Louis Farrakhan’s invitation is here. The only reason we have an invitation is because we didn’t choose God. He chose us. we’re his choice.
02:01:20:19 – 02:01:45:24
Student Minister Rodney Muhammad
He wasn’t our choice. We didn’t have sense enough to choose him. We didn’t even expect his coming to his coming is an interruption in everything we’ve been in. But nothing could be better for us, So Brother Joseph’s going to close us out. Thank you again for your service.
02:01:45:27 – 02:02:11:28
Student In The Ministry Joseph Muhammad
Let’s get the round of applause going. tell. See the regional minister, Rodney Muhammad. Praise belong to Allah. Mister. Learn anything? Yes, sir. Always. You can never come in the house of the Honorable Elijah Muhammad. Where truth is taught and represented by the honorable Louis Farrakhan and not learned something. But anyway, we’ll prove that at another time. But right now, I have three questions I need to ask very quickly.
02:02:12:00 – 02:02:33:12
Student In The Ministry Joseph Muhammad
how many are for the first time today? Any first timers? Welcome. brother. Over here. I would like to ask my sister who invited you out. Sister. Sister Rosa Muhammad. Where’s this arrow? That you in here? Well, let’s give sister. Okay. Give our sister a round of applause. And my brother, who invited you? Same sister wrote praise.
02:02:33:12 – 02:02:58:14
Student In The Ministry Joseph Muhammad
Be sure to give her another round of applause. Oh, praise you a lot. My next question is that if you are for your first second or third time, you believe. How many believe that what they heard today is true? And it’s good for our people, all for all humanity. Praise be to Allah. Well, if you believe that, and you would like to learn more, not just about just the teaching, but about yourself and who you are and how you fit into the scheme of all of this, I can’t say.
02:02:58:14 – 02:03:23:05
Student In The Ministry Joseph Muhammad
And we don’t say, come and join the Nation of Islam. You are already a member. But we say, would you like to come and accept your own and be yourself? Does that sound sweet? Yes, sir. Isn’t that wonderful? Yes. So if you would like to do that right now on behalf, the Honorable Minister Louis Farrakhan and his regional representative, the student Minister Rodney Muhammad, on behalf of him.
02:03:23:06 – 02:03:38:22
Student In The Ministry Joseph Muhammad
Those two, I would like to shake your hand. Give you a high five a pound however you want to do it. But on behalf and just with you having the courage to come out the day and hear the life giving seasons of the Honorable Elijah Muhammad. I think that is only the only thing. The best thing that I could do is just do that for you.
02:03:38:23 – 02:04:01:29
Student In The Ministry Joseph Muhammad
Would you be inclined to do so, sister? My brother. There’s no compulsion. I’m not trying to force you. I see your people are beautiful. I just it just started smiling. She already knew. But listen, if you don’t want to do that right now at the second story table downstairs, if you want to do it a little more discreetly, you can go down and talk to one about it with one of the personnel there, and they’ll take your name and your information, and then we’ll enroll you into a class.
02:04:02:02 – 02:04:19:18
Student In The Ministry Joseph Muhammad
It’s called an orientation class, and you can learn more about yourself. All right. All right. Sure. Going once. Okay. Praise be to Allah. So dear family. With that being said, the next order of business is that will move very quickly. We’re going to move to our charity. Public collection of our meeting. And then
02:04:19:18 – 02:04:22:20
Student In The Ministry Joseph Muhammad
so dear family, but we have gotten to that point.
02:04:22:22 – 02:04:51:14
Student In The Ministry Joseph Muhammad
The charity’s receptacles are leaving the floor and we have our, announcements for today. number one on the list support the CLC. That is, education is the key to learning center and affiliate. of Mu. I is offering a virtual learning experience for the 2024 2025 school year. Please check your email for the survey and if you are not on the email, please see someone at the secretary’s table downstairs.
02:04:51:17 – 02:05:15:19
Student In The Ministry Joseph Muhammad
Get your name on there and you can be abreast of all the upcoming events that is connected with our nation. our regional and national events. Number two, Sister Barbara Muhammad of Muhammad mosque number 35. mother has passed. Her mother, Sister Mary, saw to service. this Thursday, August the 29th. Check your email for more details.
02:05:15:21 – 02:05:34:10
Student In The Ministry Joseph Muhammad
And, you know, we we say in the Nation of Islam that we, pray that I’ll, I’ll be pleased with the life of our sister and all the good that she may have done while she was among us. Praise be sure. So we move on. Check the date. That’s August, the 29th, this Thursday. or check your email for further details.
02:05:34:12 – 02:05:56:24
Student In The Ministry Joseph Muhammad
Save this date. Check your emails once again. Black August event. Our brother, Michael Z. Muhammad invites you to attend this event being held at the African World Art Gallery. That’s at 6353 Green Street that Saturday, August the 31st. And brother Michael Z. here’s a flier. This is what it looks like, but I’m sure the secretary’s table have you checked?
02:05:56:25 – 02:06:22:09
Student In The Ministry Joseph Muhammad
You can probably get something, along this manner to, give you a reminder as to what’s taking place on Saturday, August the 31st. It is Black August event. All right. And back to school giveaway date has been changed and Mohammed smiles them as well. That’ll be at September the 7th. That’s September the 7th. That’s the change. That is the change date.
02:06:22:12 – 02:06:47:05
Student In The Ministry Joseph Muhammad
And, put that on your calendars. It is a back to school giveaway. So I guess that’s book bags with some materials in it a student could use in school. Y’all all right? Yeah. Y’all ain’t mad at me. I’m just. I’m just reading the paper. All right. Fine. Okay. Praise be to Allah. Yes, sir. Both of you.
02:06:47:07 – 02:06:53:05
Student In The Ministry Joseph Muhammad
Thank you. Okay.
02:06:53:08 – 02:07:18:26
Student In The Ministry Joseph Muhammad
Meanwhile, while that’s happening. we have a marriage and courtship dinner fundraiser at Lehigh Valley Study Group. Also on Saturday, September the 7th. There’s a $20 donation. Check your email once again and social media for updates. White party social date. Again, this has been changed to September the 14th at this event and all white party there will be a $25 donation.
02:07:18:29 – 02:07:28:29
Student In The Ministry Joseph Muhammad
It will be held here at mass number 12. See the Secretary with department for tickets and you have to have a.
02:07:29:01 – 02:07:57:23
Student In The Ministry Joseph Muhammad
Okay. Oh, yeah. Okay. And our brother Thomas from Muhammad from this mosque right here. his funeral is at Linwood Jones Funeral Home, 5911 West Girard Avenue at 11:00. That’s Wednesday at 11:00 this coming Wednesday. And y’all know Brother Thomas always come. Always. I mean, he was just. I was our brother. He was. He was one of the sparring partners of Muhammad Ali.
02:07:57:29 – 02:08:20:23
Student In The Ministry Joseph Muhammad
So he’s got some history in the Nation of Islam, a pioneer. So we can be out on this Wednesday at 11:00 at the funeral home to check out, see our brother going home event. dear family, praise be to Allah. So with that being said, we have the last but not least, we have dinner sales downstairs. we have fried fish, barbecue chicken or vegetarian meatballs.
02:08:20:27 – 02:08:36:28
Student In The Ministry Joseph Muhammad
And the size of mac and cheese, cabbage and green beans. Drinks and desserts are also available for you to take with you. Everybody all right? Yes. All hearts and minds at ease. Yes. That being said, let us close with prayer. Prayer.
02:08:37:01 – 02:08:59:17
Student In The Ministry Joseph Muhammad
In a manner in which you are most comfortable. Follow along silently. In the name of Allah, the beneficent, the most merciful. The one God to whom all praises to the Lord of the worlds, the beneficent, the most Merciful, master of the Day of Judgment in which we now live. The alone do we serve, and the alone that we beseech for aid or Allah guide us on the street.
02:08:59:17 – 02:09:17:11
Student In The Ministry Joseph Muhammad
Pair the path of those upon whom thou has bestowed favors, and not the path of those upon whom thy wrath is brought down, and who of those who go astray, after hearing that you say, he alone is one of those he upon whom we all depend, he neither beget, nor is he begotten, and there is none like him.
02:09:17:13 – 02:09:46:08
Student In The Ministry Joseph Muhammad
I bear witness that none deserves to be served. The worse of besides Allah, who appears to us in the personage of Master Foreign Mohammed Ray Charles, grateful to him that after three years and four months he gave to us his wise choice and the messenger Messiah, the exalted, the risen and living Christ, the most honorable Elijah Muhammad. And to the two of them, if we lived a thousand years, we can never thank them for the Messiah that walks in our midst, a gift to us from the two and the Honorable Minister Louis Farrakhan.
02:09:46:10 – 02:10:02:15
Student In The Ministry Joseph Muhammad
It is in their names, we pray. I mean, go in peace, their family. And remember, we are never to be the aggressor. But if we are aggress upon, we fight with those who fight with us. I solemnly.
