The History Of The Nation Of Islam
Sunday Lecture
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This lecture, given at Muhammad’s Mosque Number 12, focuses on the history of the Nation of Islam, emphasizing its independence from other movements and the importance of its teachings. Joseph Muhammad’s Introduction:
● Joseph Muhammad begins by thanking the audience for attending and submitting to security procedures, emphasizing the importance of safety and comfort in receiving the “weight of truth.”
● He highlights the importance of the Final Call newspaper, formerly Muhammad Speaks, in spreading the message of the Nation of Islam.● He frames the current period as a “makeup” opportunity for those who missed previous chances to “get to A1” under Master Fard Muhammad and the Honorable Elijah Muhammad.
● He stresses the need to learn from the teachings, comparing the Final Call to a “baby bomb” that will “explode in the minds of the people.” Rodney Muhammad’s Lecture:
● Rodney Muhammad opens his lecture with a prayer and thanks to Allah, Master Fard Muhammad, the Honorable Elijah Muhammad, and the Honorable Minister Louis Farrakhan.
● He uses the analogy of stars and the sun to describe the Nation of Islam’s leaders. Minister Farrakhan, like the sun, is a source of light, while other ministers, like stars, draw their light from him
.● He underscores the importance of the Nation of Islam’s unique message, highlighting its ability to counter the “fire” of opposing viewpoints.● He links laziness to the devil, drawing parallels to Pharaoh’s justification for enslaving the Israelites.
● He emphasizes the need for knowledge and self-reliance, advocating for the building of a separate world for Black people.● He warns against ignorance, quoting James Baldwin’s statement that choosing to remain ignorant makes one complicit in their own murder. The History of the Nation of Islam:
● Rodney Muhammad draws on Abraham’s prayer in the Quran to illustrate the historical context for the Nation of Islam’s emergence, emphasizing God’s promise to deliver Abraham’s descendants from bondage.
● He highlights Jesus’s ministry to the “lost sheep of the House of Israel,” arguing that this refers to Black people in America, distinct from those in Israel.
● He emphasizes the importance of independence, arguing that true freedom requires a distinct identity and a willingness to challenge conventional norms.
● He criticizes those who prioritize appearances and conformity over genuine action and solidarity.● He quotes Elijah Muhammad’s teachings on the importance of studying history to understand the present and future.
● He urges Black people to learn about the suffering and resilience of their ancestors in America, emphasizing that true freedom comes from embracing their true nature. Addressing Misconceptions and Opposition:
● Rodney Muhammad debunks claims that Master Fard Muhammad was associated with Noble Drew Ali’s Moorish Science Temple of America, highlighting the distinct nature of their teachings.● He clarifies that Elijah Muhammad was not a follower of Marcus Garvey, pointing out the limitations of Garvey’s focus on “Negro improvement.”
● He defends the Nation of Islam’s teachings against accusations of hating white people, citing the close relationship between Minister Farrakhan and a Caucasian Catholic priest as evidence to the contrary.
● He recounts the efforts to discredit Master Fard Muhammad’s identity, emphasizing the Nation of Islam’s refusal to engage in fruitless debates about its founder’s origins. The Nation of Islam’s Resurgence
:● Rodney Muhammad uses numerological parallels to connect significant events in the Nation of Islam’s history, emphasizing the number 42.● He draws comparisons between Minister Farrakhan’s experience and the Prophet Muhammad’s, highlighting their shared reliance on divine guidance and the opposition they faced.
● He recounts the Nation of Islam’s rebuilding efforts after 1975, highlighting the parallels with the Tabuk expedition described in the Quran. Concluding Remarks:
● Rodney Muhammad concludes by reiterating the importance of Minister Farrakhan’s message and his role in confronting the “architecture” of white supremacy.
● He encourages the audience to engage in critical reflection on the upcoming presidential election, urging them to consider which candidate can truly offer protection from God’s wrath.● He highlights the importance of truth and its unifying power, emphasizing Minister Farrakhan’s respect for anyone who teaches truth, regardless of their background.● He closes by reiterating the need to support the Nation of Islam’s work, calling on attendees to contribute financially and attend upcoming events.
00:22:33:14 – 00:22:36:03
Student In The Ministry Joseph Muhammad
Pull the pin up on three.
00:22:36:05 – 00:22:48:11
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Pin and most of them learn to love jewelry. He said black men follow me to America. They will go for your neighbor.
00:22:48:13 – 00:22:59:14
Student In The Ministry Joseph Muhammad
His words reform through his clothes. Since that time, we’ve been wrestling with the gold. We landed here in Jamestown, Virginia.
00:22:59:17 – 00:23:06:24
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400. So, my friend, it’s easy to tell.
00:23:06:24 – 00:23:12:28
Student In The Ministry Joseph Muhammad
This white man is a black man who.
00:23:13:00 – 00:23:35:09
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All the time.
00:23:35:11 – 00:24:03:26
Student In The Ministry Joseph Muhammad
Is good. I said I’m like your family at this time. Can we please stand for prayer? In a manner in which you were most comfortable. Follow along silently. Surely I am being turned to thee. O Allah. Striving to be upright. To he who originated the heavens and the earth. I am not of the polytheists. Surely my prayer, my sacrifice, my life and my death are all for Allah, the Lord of the world.
00:24:03:28 – 00:24:24:25
Student In The Ministry Joseph Muhammad
No associate has he in this am I commanded, and I am of those who submit. O Allah, thou art the King. There is no God but the Lord, my Lord. And I am not a 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 thee, and guide me into the best of morals.
00:24:24:25 – 00:24:44:11
Student In The Ministry Joseph Muhammad
For none can guide into the best of morals but thee. And turn away from me the evil and the indecent morals. For none can turn for me the evil and the indecent morals. But the and, O Allah, make Muhammad successful and make the true followers of Muhammad successful. Thou didst make Abraham and the true followers of Abraham successful.
00:24:44:13 – 00:25:17:24
Student In The Ministry Joseph Muhammad
For surely no, I praise them. Magnify and O Allah, bless Muhammad and bless the true followers of Muhammad the daughter. Bless Abraham and the true followers of Abraham. For surely thou art praised and magnify. I’m 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 is a master for our Muhammad, and we thank him that after three years and four months, that he chose one to hold his place and be in his stead.
00:25:17:26 – 00:25:43:28
Student In The Ministry Joseph Muhammad
He chose a divine messenger for us. One who came from us and the man he chose, that Georgia born giant, born Elijah Poole. But because of the most wonderful work that any man could ever do among a people who were labeled dead as politically, socially, economically, spiritually dead, he did a work to raise us up. So we say we thank our Lord for that Georgia born giant, born Elijah Poole.
00:25:43:28 – 00:26:08:06
Student In The Ministry Joseph Muhammad
But because of that work, he became known as the Most Honorable Elijah Muhammad. And so the two of them, I didn’t meet either one of them. They are the, if you will, the foundation of the next one that I’m going to mention. And this next one, he is, without a doubt. He has no equal. His teacher told him that.
00:26:08:07 – 00:26:26:23
Student In The Ministry Joseph Muhammad
He said, brother, you have no equal. He said, because you will do what I’m going to in my absence. You will do what I have. You was chosen to do what you will carry out this work in so many words. But the man who I’m talking about right now, dear family, he is our illustrious leader, teacher, guide and friend.
00:26:26:25 – 00:26:48:19
Student In The Ministry Joseph Muhammad
The Most Honorable Minister Louis Farrakhan is. They’re their names. I greet you all once again with the greeting words of peace. I Salaam alaikum. How are we this morning, family? All praise belongs to Allah. You know, we should be supreme. Because that song used to go. I woke up this morning. I woke up one time. I woke up this morning and I woke up in my right mind.
00:26:48:21 – 00:27:10:03
Student In The Ministry Joseph Muhammad
Oh, praise belongs to Allah. So dear family, thank you. Thank you for being here this morning. And Muhammad’s mosque, number 12. We are the headquarter mosque for the Delaware Valley region. But all over this country, our mosque are opening up this morning giving a message of truth, a message of guidance and instruction for all those who will lend an ear.
00:27:10:06 – 00:27:29:16
Student In The Ministry Joseph Muhammad
So you are here today. I implore us that if you don’t have a pen and pad, well, maybe some don’t need it. Some of us may have a retentive memory, you know. You can just retain what you get. If that’s. That’s good. All praise is due to a lot, but if not, try to take some notes because there are things that are going to come across this rostrum that are going to be of the utmost importance.
00:27:29:23 – 00:27:49:07
Student In The Ministry Joseph Muhammad
And I would like to say to you before I go any further, thank you for submitting to our check procedure, because the check procedure is very necessary as the Jesus of 2000 years ago had warned us. Then he said, let no man deceive you, for we live in diverse times. It means that people can change in the twinkling of an eye.
00:27:49:14 – 00:28:07:02
Student In The Ministry Joseph Muhammad
So to ensure that you are comfortable when the weight of truth comes across these microphones across this rostrum to you, you don’t have to feel uncomfortable about somebody being rubbed the wrong way because of a lack of understanding of what is being said, and then they may want to harm someone sitting near them. So we remove all of that.
00:28:07:05 – 00:28:27:06
Student In The Ministry Joseph Muhammad
So right now, this is the safest place that you could be anywhere in the world is in Mohammed’s mind right now. All right, y’all all right, sir? Praise be to Allah. Dear family, before I go any further, let me just say to you, this is the most wonderful tool that any people could ever have. This is the final call newspaper.
00:28:27:08 – 00:28:45:20
Student In The Ministry Joseph Muhammad
It used to be the Muhammad Speaks. And before that it was, Muhammad Speaks. The final call was the day. This is the final call. You know, we were taught that, in the early days when Master Fard Muhammad, we were like students in a class when Master Fard Muhammad was here, you know, we failed to get the agree.
00:28:45:22 – 00:29:04:22
Student In The Ministry Joseph Muhammad
We didn’t get to a m. Many Honorable Elijah Muhammad was left in his stead. We stayed under him and he taught for for over 40 years. And we didn’t get to be grave. So we get one more chance which is mercy. Mercy in the form of a human being and the Honorable Minister Louis Farrakhan to get to see great.
00:29:04:29 – 00:29:28:09
Student In The Ministry Joseph Muhammad
Right, y’all. All right, so we get a chance to do a makeup. We missed the first two, but, you know, at least we’ll be passing. We’ll get a passing grade this time around. So did a family take the final call home with you? Just lay it down in the house somewhere. And even if you don’t read it white right away, if there are others in your home, they will pick this paper up and you’ll just flick through the pages before you know it, they might stop somewhere.
00:29:28:09 – 00:29:45:02
Student In The Ministry Joseph Muhammad
Like what? How do you live? What that mean? Then they start going through it and say, well, I didn’t know that the benefit of having a baby bomb in your house, it will explode in the minds of the people who would dare to read it. Right? Y’all all right? All praise is due to Allah again, thank you family, for being here.
00:29:45:02 – 00:30:09:09
Student In The Ministry Joseph Muhammad
Submitting to the check procedure. Delaware County Steward, Regional Minister Rodney Muhammad, our keynote speaker today, and he’s going to bring a powerful message. And the beauty of it is, is that he, he didn’t just study to prepare this. He labored over it. That’s the difference from the ordinary student and a laborer. The ordinary student would just look at the work.
00:30:09:11 – 00:30:23:28
Student In The Ministry Joseph Muhammad
But a laborer, he spends time like one tilling the garden. When we’re building a health, there’s labor involved in it. You have to put some time in to extract the truth, the feed to the people who are, you know, hurt.
00:30:24:00 – 00:30:24:09
Speaker 3
Right.
00:30:24:10 – 00:30:47:05
Student In The Ministry Joseph Muhammad
And everybody in this room has been hurt at some time or another right now, this pain in this room right. You know how I know y’all listen because I’m one of the victims to. And the question was that. How do you mend a broken heart? Well, it starts with the truth. We gotta start telling the truth. And we got to work on ourselves.
00:30:47:05 – 00:31:07:00
Student In The Ministry Joseph Muhammad
And the only way that we can start to tell the truth, there has to be something called self-improvement. The basis for community development. Now, we know the the community out in the physical community, the houses, the buildings that we see. But no, what about this house right here? This is a community of systems that work together to ensure that we function properly.
00:31:07:00 – 00:31:29:03
Student In The Ministry Joseph Muhammad
Right. Respiratory, circulatory. You know what I mean? Y’all get what I’m saying. But their system and this could be considered a community. But none of these in this community is out of order. If you here right now, you sitting here and all your faculties are working, they’re working together, right? Right. But nevertheless, the health system, the brain, there’s some stuff that’s going on in there.
00:31:29:06 – 00:31:45:11
Student In The Ministry Joseph Muhammad
Some of us got some old hurt going back years that has never been treated right. Well, I want to say to you, welcome to the clinic, because this is where we start. That process is a clinic. As a matter of fact, you can call it urgent care. You can walk right on in and we’re going to serve you.
00:31:45:11 – 00:32:02:15
Student In The Ministry Joseph Muhammad
And by the grace of Allah, by the time you walk out of here, you’re going to feel way better than when you first came in. Y’all all right. All praise is due to Allah. And I know if the clap ain’t that strong right now, I know some of us on the national fast, I get it. So if you just get one, I got you, I know you.
00:32:02:18 – 00:32:21:09
Student In The Ministry Joseph Muhammad
We had Thursday. That was the last meal. But all praise is due to Allah. He gave it to us. He’s doing it to us, but he’s really doing it for us. And doing that, that that fast. We just reset our immune system. So whatever’s coming down the pike, we already set up for it. Yeah, let’s move on for him.
00:32:21:14 – 00:32:43:02
Student In The Ministry Joseph Muhammad
Just real quick. How many were out on Friday for study group just by show of hands was just a few. Praise be to Allah. Well, listen, if you weren’t there, I’m going to say I implore us to go this coming Friday. Get out there. Because it was really something that we can benefit from. We are dealing with study God nine right now, intimate relationship with Rabbi al-Amin.
00:32:43:05 – 00:32:58:23
Student In The Ministry Joseph Muhammad
That means our Lord God taking a think and making it a cheese stage after stage until it reaches its eventual point of perfection. Now, we got some of you perfect in here right now. This might not benefit you. All right. Okay. We gonna move on on that one. You don’t even have to say nothing. We just gonna move on on that one.
00:32:58:23 – 00:33:18:25
Student In The Ministry Joseph Muhammad
Okay, so the question was asked, and I want to deal with these questions specifically on Friday. If we fail to listen to the voice within, what are the results? That is a powerful question because we hear ourself all the time, especially when we are about to do something that’s kind of questionable. There’s a little voice that comes up inside of us.
00:33:18:28 – 00:33:37:19
Student In The Ministry Joseph Muhammad
Maybe you shouldn’t do that. Yes, sir. You driving your car? Don’t move over here and you move over anyway. Bam! Not unit accident. There’s a hold up 176 and there’s a gap year delay. And we don’t want to be the cause of the gap year delay. Y’all. All right, y’all get what I’m saying? No. Or maybe we’re about to embark on something.
00:33:37:19 – 00:33:56:00
Student In The Ministry Joseph Muhammad
You know, maybe there’s a brother. Maybe there’s a sister that we see. Him, me, everybody. Like somebody right now. We keep it real. We hope if we family. Right, we can tell everybody like somebody. But, you know, you married, okay? You still like them. Take that. Like a make him a fish and bring him out here. The life giving teachings of the Honorable Elijah Muhammad.
00:33:56:00 – 00:34:19:04
Student In The Ministry Joseph Muhammad
Don’t take the low desire that we carry within ourselves and follow up on that, because that voice is talking to us. So we’re asked a question. If we fail to listen to that voice within, what happens? Well, there’s some death, right? There’s psychological death there, spiritual death, and ultimately an untimely death. You ever hear that saying when people say, well, I’ve never met him, ever.
00:34:19:07 – 00:34:47:25
Student In The Ministry Joseph Muhammad
Let’s go this way with it. It’s, you know, we’re taught that you’re asked a question by the honorable Louis Farrakhan. Would we kill the Messenger of Allah? And of course, everybody say, no, I wouldn’t do that. I wouldn’t kill Prophet Muhammad. I wouldn’t kill Jesus, or even the one that walked among us today. But he told us that every time we silence that voice that’s within that is reproving us and checking us, we and that have and that act kill the Messenger of Allah.
00:34:47:28 – 00:35:11:16
Student In The Ministry Joseph Muhammad
That’s our talking to us. Well, how can you say that, Brother Joseph? How that Allah? Because the Koran says that he’s closer to us even than our jugular vein. So how much closer can you get? That’s what’s within us, right then in the Scripture that says you’re all God’s children of the Most High God, all they talk about you, me, everybody, we see there’s a potential for a God built up in us.
00:35:11:19 – 00:35:27:12
Student In The Ministry Joseph Muhammad
But if we quiet the voice every time we quiet it, it gets weaker and weaker. And then it leaves to something that I want to read, right quick, that it talks about how we, failed. It says.
00:35:27:15 – 00:35:51:01
Student In The Ministry Joseph Muhammad
We come under the power of the lower self, the holy Koran. Ask question. Have you seen those who take their low desires? Besides a lot? The fall of Adam represents a man succumbing to the power of his lower nature, the underworld. Prior to eating the forbidden fruit, Adam had no knowledge of his lower nature existed because he was clothed in the nature of God.
00:35:51:05 – 00:36:08:06
Student In The Ministry Joseph Muhammad
Look at that! He was so clothed in the nature of the Creator himself, he didn’t even know he had a lower nature. Right? And if you notice this, sometimes you come in contact with people that will suggest things to you, and you be like, you never entertained that thought before, but because they’re coming from a low position and not a high one.
00:36:08:09 – 00:36:32:20
Student In The Ministry Joseph Muhammad
Next thing you know, there we go. Our clothes start to come off. So that’s what he’s talking about. They took off their clothes, know the clothing of the Spirit of Allah that was on them. That’s what showed their nakedness. Y’all all right? Yes, sir. Let’s move on. Then. It goes on to say his the serpent in Genesis told Adam that if you ate, if you ate of the fruit, you shall surely you shall not surely die.
00:36:32:22 – 00:36:59:10
Student In The Ministry Joseph Muhammad
Your eyes shall be open, and you shall be as God, knowing good and evil. Adam did die, Adam did die, and that his fall under the powers of the lowest self resulted in ruin, disgrace, and ultimately death. Spiritual death is followed by an untimely physical death. Look at that. This is passed on to all men and women who live in rebellion to the will of God.
00:36:59:13 – 00:37:23:26
Student In The Ministry Joseph Muhammad
Now this is tantamount right here. This is the Honorable Louis Farrakhan just going ahead and just unpacking this, he says, I must respectfully say that 90 to 95% of the human family of this Earth have already nullified their existence. Our Lord God did not create man to live on the plane of law and animals. If the aim and purpose of Allah, God for man is that man, be his vice.
00:37:23:26 – 00:37:49:20
Student In The Ministry Joseph Muhammad
Jared, his Khalifa, his successor in this realm, man is to rule in this realm. Realm. We are not doing that. We are living the life lower than the animals. And therefore in the Bible, in the book of Revelation, the Revelator is saying that the rulers of earth are titled or given the names beast, wow, Dragon. These are not good characteristics.
00:37:49:22 – 00:38:16:08
Student In The Ministry Joseph Muhammad
Great beast ruling humanity, a dragon ruling humanity, a serpent ruling humanity. This is a nullification or who and what? We are human beings. And now you can reread this yourself and this study guide you the Will of God, part two, paragraph 37 and 38. So for I’m going to close this out very quickly. I just want to add this when it comes to our self-improvement, I found this is very interesting.
00:38:16:08 – 00:38:33:09
Student In The Ministry Joseph Muhammad
It says we must kill for devils. And then when we came in, we were asked to do that. Now you know, the Honorable Elijah Muhammad was calling the white man the devil. But that’s not what I mean. We don’t talk about killing people. These are devils that live right up within ourselves. I found six that maybe they’re proud of me, but I’m gonna read them out anyway.
00:38:33:09 – 00:39:14:01
Student In The Ministry Joseph Muhammad
This this is very applicable. Does you know that laziness is a devil? Laziness kills ambition. Anger kills wisdom. Fear kills dreams. Ego kills growth. Jealousy kills peace, and doubt kills confidence. Well, let’s reverse day. How about ambition kills laziness. Wisdom kills anger. Dreams kill fear. Growth kills ego. Peace kills jealousy and confidence kills doubt. All praises Google. I know I’m going to capitalize this into one and then we’ll get out of the way.
00:39:14:05 – 00:39:41:17
Student In The Ministry Joseph Muhammad
We can summed it all up into this verse from the Koran. Obedience is better than sacrifice. Prayer is better than sleep, but the remembrance of Allah is the greatest for us. Thank you, dear family, for the time you’ve allowed me. Let’s bring to this rostrum, Delaware Valley shooting regional minister with a rousing round of applause. Youth Minister Rodney Muhammad, praise Allah, thank you.
00:39:41:19 – 00:39:48:13
Student Minister Rodney Muhammad
All praise is due to Allah. Let’s give Brother Joseph another hand here.
00:39:48:16 – 00:39:51:05
Student In The Ministry Joseph Muhammad
All praise is due to Allah.
00:39:51:07 – 00:39:51:16
Student Minister Rodney Muhammad
In the.
00:39:51:16 – 00:39:53:21
Student In The Ministry Joseph Muhammad
Name of Allah.
00:39:53:24 – 00:40:15:21
Student Minister Rodney Muhammad
The beneficent, the merciful, the one God to whom praise is due to the Lord of the worlds. We thank Almighty God. We cannot thank him enough. He is the revealer of all truth, the sender of all prophets, the rays of messengers. We have made no distinction between them. We do thank him for Moses and the Torah, for Jesus and the gospel.
00:40:15:21 – 00:40:45:20
Student Minister Rodney Muhammad
We thank him for Muhammad and the revelation of the Holy Koran. But we are students of the Honorable Elijah Muhammad is life giving message. And that being said, we’re most thankful to a love for his intervention in our affairs as it was prophesied and predicted that he would intervene. And we thank him in the person of Master Fard Muhammad, to whom praise is due forever.
00:40:45:23 – 00:41:25:15
Student Minister Rodney Muhammad
He raised a servant worthy of what he brought with him from the East, and that servant proved to be unfailing in his commission, which confirms that the Koran says he knows best where to place his message. We thank him for his exalted servant, the Most Honorable Elijah Muhammad. To the two of them. I’m here only out of an eternal sense of indebtedness for their student, their servant, their apostle.
00:41:25:17 – 00:41:49:19
Student Minister Rodney Muhammad
That gave me a leader, teacher and guide the messianic voice. Today the preacher of freedom, justice and equality. Today, their servant serving us, the Honorable Minister Louis Farrakhan. And so in their names I greet you with the greeting words of peace that’s in the language and the tongue of our fathers.
00:41:49:22 – 00:41:51:15
Student In The Ministry Joseph Muhammad
Salaam alaikum.
00:41:51:17 – 00:42:26:02
Student Minister Rodney Muhammad
Sir. Thank each of you. And I thank you, Brother Joseph, for that. What you read. We need to take what you just read in big print and put it up on one of these walls. Black America needs that. Because we’re so discouraged. And we have been through so much of broken promises that we have really embraced the spirit of defeat.
00:42:26:05 – 00:42:59:06
Student Minister Rodney Muhammad
And for most of us, we are defeated before we even get started serving. That’s why you need a leader who knows you better than you know yourself. And he will push you even when you think you can’t make it. It’s a spiritual coach. Like that can bring the best out of you. So when you go on the field, you make a good accounting of yourself in this life.
00:42:59:08 – 00:43:18:02
Student Minister Rodney Muhammad
I think a lot for the Honorable Minister Louis Farrakhan producing for us stars that, that are bright in the sky. They’re light.
00:43:18:05 – 00:43:26:02
Student Minister Rodney Muhammad
Cannot be seen. When the sun is present,
00:43:26:04 – 00:43:49:25
Student Minister Rodney Muhammad
And we have this saying that the stars come out. But really, if you know the science of astronomy, the stars don’t come out. They’ve already been out, right? They were there all the time. You just can’t see it because of the light of the sun.
00:43:49:27 – 00:43:50:18
Student In The Ministry Joseph Muhammad
So.
00:43:50:21 – 00:44:08:22
Student Minister Rodney Muhammad
But when the sun is gone, you can only see the stars. Those that believe in God through the testing of their belief.
00:44:08:24 – 00:44:14:16
Student Minister Rodney Muhammad
May not be seen.
00:44:14:18 – 00:44:30:06
Student Minister Rodney Muhammad
In the value that we have before God. But when the sun is gone, you’ll only see the stars. And that’s the believing people in God.
00:44:30:06 – 00:44:32:25
Student In The Ministry Joseph Muhammad
Yes, sir.
00:44:32:27 – 00:44:55:07
Student Minister Rodney Muhammad
So our light don’t look like much right now, but God promises that it’s going to get darker. And as it gets darker and you don’t have the sun to turn to, you’ll only have two stars.
00:44:55:10 – 00:45:17:12
Student Minister Rodney Muhammad
The stars don’t have their own light. We were taught that after the sun was willed into existence, that the original nation borrowed fire from the sun to produce the stars.
00:45:17:14 – 00:45:19:24
Student In The Ministry Joseph Muhammad
Of the moon. Yeah.
00:45:19:26 – 00:45:33:20
Student Minister Rodney Muhammad
So they not out there of their own accord. They have an origin that’s in the sun. And even though stars die, the sun hadn’t died yet.
00:45:33:23 – 00:45:35:05
Student In The Ministry Joseph Muhammad
You look at that.
00:45:35:08 – 00:45:40:05
Student Minister Rodney Muhammad
Fire still burning after trillions of years.
00:45:40:08 – 00:45:41:14
Student In The Ministry Joseph Muhammad
It’s a.
00:45:41:16 – 00:46:13:27
Student Minister Rodney Muhammad
And once the Honorable Minister Louis Farrakhan said, of those that do this work, you got to get connected to what the sun is connected to in Satan’s world. They have a term called burnout, where you just work to you just got burned out, he said. But the sun is still burning, and if you were connected to what the sun was connected to, your light would never go out.
00:46:14:00 – 00:46:24:07
Student Minister Rodney Muhammad
And you never lose the energy that the sun relies on because the sun relies on God.
00:46:24:10 – 00:46:25:13
Student In The Ministry Joseph Muhammad
And so on.
00:46:25:15 – 00:46:41:15
Student Minister Rodney Muhammad
And the more we connected with God, that’s energy that don’t run out. It don’t get tired. And it certainly doesn’t burn out. So. But you can burn others out.
00:46:41:22 – 00:46:43:15
Student In The Ministry Joseph Muhammad
Come on.
00:46:43:17 – 00:47:02:09
Student Minister Rodney Muhammad
They came to the Honorable Elijah Muhammad with a dispute about what he preached. He said, so they brought their fire and I brought mine, and ultimately mine burned their fire out and more. They said, Elijah, well, what you teach and they didn’t teach us in the theological seminary.
00:47:02:09 – 00:47:03:00
Speaker 3
But.
00:47:03:02 – 00:47:08:11
Student Minister Rodney Muhammad
He said they didn’t have it over there to teach you.
00:47:08:14 – 00:47:09:25
Student Minister Rodney Muhammad
This is new.
00:47:09:28 – 00:47:10:23
Speaker 3
Right?
00:47:10:25 – 00:47:45:10
Student Minister Rodney Muhammad
They have come to us. So I’m thankful to Almighty God to be connected with something like this. Yeah. Praise be to Allah. And so today we had hope to see more for a unity session. But our our month of October is a busy month for the Nation of Islam. So that means we’re busy because we’re members of the nation.
00:47:45:12 – 00:48:06:07
Student Minister Rodney Muhammad
And as Brother Joseph mentioned, laziness being a devil. That was the first devil that Pharaoh raised when Moses claimed that the Lord wanted us to be let go. And the first thing that came out of Pharaoh’s mouth is. But they’re lazy.
00:48:06:14 – 00:48:07:18
Speaker 3
00:48:07:20 – 00:48:09:02
Student Minister Rodney Muhammad
What was he saying.
00:48:09:04 – 00:48:10:12
Student In The Ministry Joseph Muhammad
00:48:10:15 – 00:48:14:04
Student Minister Rodney Muhammad
If I let them go, how are they going to eat.
00:48:14:06 – 00:48:15:12
Student In The Ministry Joseph Muhammad
And then look at that.
00:48:15:15 – 00:48:23:01
Student Minister Rodney Muhammad
That’s going they too lazy to grow their own food.
00:48:23:03 – 00:48:42:13
Student Minister Rodney Muhammad
If I let them go how are they going to clothe themselves. Say I’m the one that got Macy’s and Walmart and stores and Burlington, they don’t have nothing. How would they clothe themselves? They too lazy to. So.
00:48:42:16 – 00:48:44:26
Student In The Ministry Joseph Muhammad
00:48:44:28 – 00:48:53:14
Student Minister Rodney Muhammad
If I let them go? How their children going to be schooled and or educated?
00:48:53:16 – 00:48:54:27
Student In The Ministry Joseph Muhammad
Look at it.
00:48:54:29 – 00:49:01:06
Student Minister Rodney Muhammad
They too lazy to teach them. It’s all they rather drop them off to me.
00:49:01:09 – 00:49:05:22
Speaker 3
00:49:05:24 – 00:49:21:29
Student Minister Rodney Muhammad
So he said they’re lazy. If I let them go in the wilderness they’ll die because they don’t have it in them to work for themselves.
00:49:22:01 – 00:49:37:08
Student Minister Rodney Muhammad
That’s a devil. And up to four devils as in the lessons that I know. The Honorable Minister Louis Farrakhan told us the first devil is ignorance.
00:49:37:10 – 00:50:04:20
Student Minister Rodney Muhammad
Because in physics, darkness has no basis for existence. And you know that I’ve come in this building and walked up here and the lights were out. It was completely dark up here. I’m. So I hit the switch back there. Bang. And when the light came on, guess what? The darkness couldn’t fight. The light. Come on. Soon as I hit the switch, the darkness was gone.
00:50:04:23 – 00:50:09:22
Student Minister Rodney Muhammad
What does that mean? In physics, the darkness had no basis for.
00:50:09:22 – 00:50:11:12
Student In The Ministry Joseph Muhammad
Existence, right? Right.
00:50:11:15 – 00:50:28:21
Student Minister Rodney Muhammad
So it couldn’t fight the light. Are you following that? Up. People who choose to remain ignorant. Because when knowledge presents itself, ignorance can’t fight.
00:50:28:24 – 00:50:32:01
Student In The Ministry Joseph Muhammad
Come.
00:50:32:03 – 00:50:47:17
Student Minister Rodney Muhammad
But the host life that is ignorant may fight it. And if you choose to remain ignorant, like darkness has no basis for existence, you will have none.
00:50:47:20 – 00:50:48:16
Speaker 3
Yes, sir, and.
00:50:48:16 – 00:50:50:03
Student Minister Rodney Muhammad
Neither will I.
00:50:50:06 – 00:50:51:02
Speaker 3
Is, Right.
00:50:51:05 – 00:51:22:23
Student Minister Rodney Muhammad
So the Honorable Elijah Muhammad said, I’m bringing you a requisite knowledge. It’s a light that when it comes on, it wakes you up. And then once you wake up, you stand up. Come on, come on. And then once you stand up and your mind gets up in you, it gets your body up. Then you get busy building a world for yourself.
00:51:22:25 – 00:51:30:19
Student Minister Rodney Muhammad
Absolutely. So we say don’t hinder the messenger from delivering the message.
00:51:30:22 – 00:51:31:09
Speaker 3
Right.
00:51:31:12 – 00:51:33:29
Student Minister Rodney Muhammad
Which is what we got to talk about today.
00:51:34:01 – 00:51:35:10
Student In The Ministry Joseph Muhammad
Come on.
00:51:35:13 – 00:51:52:02
Student Minister Rodney Muhammad
Because if you don’t hinder him, they he will get these people up. And we have become a burden to white Americans. Right.
00:51:52:04 – 00:52:04:10
Student Minister Rodney Muhammad
And the messenger said there’s moaning and groaning going on in the bushes. And he said, it’s Caucasians. They’re moaning and groaning about what in.
00:52:04:12 – 00:52:05:27
Speaker 3
Hell.
00:52:06:00 – 00:52:08:16
Student Minister Rodney Muhammad
Are we going to do with these Negroes?
00:52:08:19 – 00:52:09:00
Speaker 3
You say.
00:52:09:00 – 00:52:51:09
Student Minister Rodney Muhammad
Where is millions of them now? I can barely take care of my own. How in God’s name am I going to take care of them? And by exalting ignorance and rejecting knowledge, we’re losing our basis for existence. And all it takes is a mind that really don’t care to see. You hear no more time. And they’ll start working on a plan to just annihilate all of us.
00:52:51:11 – 00:52:59:04
Student Minister Rodney Muhammad
And as we were saying last night, we were quoting Mr. James Baldwin.
00:52:59:06 – 00:53:07:04
Student Minister Rodney Muhammad
The choice to remain ignorant makes you an accomplice in your own murder.
00:53:07:06 – 00:53:10:00
Student In The Ministry Joseph Muhammad
00:53:10:02 – 00:53:49:07
Student Minister Rodney Muhammad
So somebody wants to kill you, and they need a mind that’s cooperative so that you could be an accomplice to the crime. Right? And all you have to do is reject God, and everything else will work itself out. So we thankful for you all being here today. Now, I said, this is a busy month on tomorrow the 7th of October.
00:53:49:10 – 00:54:28:05
Student Minister Rodney Muhammad
It is the day that the Honorable Elijah Muhammad chose, as I understand it. Pardon me, just as his birthday, but the records were very sloppy in these counties then. So none really know the exact date of his birth. But he chose the seventh. And in 1995, the Honorable Minister Louis Farrakhan was working with dates to hold the, historic Million Man March.
00:54:28:05 – 00:54:48:04
Student Minister Rodney Muhammad
He wanted the seventh, and they said the seventh is not available in Washington, DC. The next date that’s available is the 16th. And so he said, well, the one in the six equals seven. So we took the 16th.
00:54:48:06 – 00:55:11:06
Student Minister Rodney Muhammad
And there’s so much more could be said about that number that takes you back to ancient Egypt. So everything we were doing, you could see out of the guidance of God it it was connecting us. But, tomorrow we’re going to have, a prayer service, I believe. And then we have a day of service.
00:55:11:09 – 00:55:12:17
Student In The Ministry Joseph Muhammad
Right.
00:55:12:19 – 00:55:40:05
Student Minister Rodney Muhammad
On his birthday to the community. And then this Friday night, we normally have study group circles, but we got a big meeting Friday night, and our guest, minister, minister Nouri Mohammed, is going to be here. So if you all can be out, praise be to Allah. He’s going to be with us Friday night. And of course, he’s authored a new book on mathematics.
00:55:40:07 – 00:56:06:03
Student Minister Rodney Muhammad
And that’s at the root of the universe now. So he’s really getting into it. But he has successfully authored other books also. He also will be here on the weekend for an event, that will be taking place in South Philadelphia, I believe in ordinary high school, but Friday night we just going to break down the circle, and, he will be we’ll be right up here.
00:56:06:06 – 00:56:44:19
Student Minister Rodney Muhammad
And so he’s looking forward to being with us here in the city of Philadelphia. Okay. All praise is due to a law, but the weekend ain’t over. It’s just kicking it off, you know, Friday the eagle flies, but, Sunday, we would not be meeting at 11 a.m.. Sunday is the official, day that we will be, having delivered a major message for the World Day of Atonement.
00:56:44:21 – 00:57:16:13
Student Minister Rodney Muhammad
The World Day of Atonement is really the anniversary of the Million Man March. The Honorable Minister Louis Farrakhan has made it known. It’s no secret that God has closed his mouth for right now. So he’s not allowed to speak in the public. So what he has done, he has fed our student, national assistant Minister Ishmael Muhammad. What he wants us to hear is.
00:57:16:15 – 00:57:51:06
Student Minister Rodney Muhammad
And that message has been put together, and Brother Ishmael will deliver it next Sunday, for the World Day of Atonement. The meeting will start at 3 p.m.. Doors open at two and will be here Sunday afternoon. So those that communication will be going out. And so we really want to see a big show in in Philadelphia when this call came for the Million Man March, Philadelphia vicinity sent the most people to that march.
00:57:51:09 – 00:58:17:07
Student Minister Rodney Muhammad
We were according to the surveys that were taken, we were number one in the country. I believe Detroit was number two. But, more people came from Philadelphia in this vicinity, than anywhere else in the country. We had a very large local organizing committee and on, here and of course, a body of work has already been done.
00:58:17:10 – 00:58:27:15
Student Minister Rodney Muhammad
Last night, as most panel discussions that talk about what black America is going to do, it always turns toward the violence in our.
00:58:27:15 – 00:58:29:04
Speaker 3
Community, right.
00:58:29:06 – 00:59:01:23
Student Minister Rodney Muhammad
But I can remember the first time I sat and beheld the Honorable Minister Louis Farrakhan teach. And it was in 1979. And when I was sitting there, I realized he was the only voice talking about us killing each other in our commune. Nobody was talking about it. Nobody. Black felt a need to talk about it. But he warned us that more black men were dying on the streets of America than were dying in Southeast Asia.
00:59:01:24 – 00:59:14:24
Student Minister Rodney Muhammad
With the Vietnam War. We got people who are black. Killing now weren’t even alive. They weren’t even born when the Vietnam War was taking place. But if you know anything about that.
00:59:14:24 – 00:59:16:19
Speaker 3
War.
00:59:16:22 – 00:59:26:15
Student Minister Rodney Muhammad
And it was it was conceived in corruption, 58,000 U.S. soldiers lost their life in the Vietnam.
00:59:26:15 – 00:59:27:26
Speaker 3
War.
00:59:27:28 – 00:59:52:24
Student Minister Rodney Muhammad
And there was a draft. And because there was a draft, there was big public outcry pushing against the draft, pushing against the war. It wasn’t a black white thing. Then white people were fighting against the war. And some of us might remember Kent State in Ohio, where all those white people were gunned down by their own people. See, we got it.
00:59:52:25 – 01:00:04:00
Student Minister Rodney Muhammad
We got to get a history. And we got to talk about it today to because our memories are too doggone short. And it’s costing.
01:00:04:00 – 01:00:05:23
Speaker 3
Us.
01:00:05:25 – 01:00:40:19
Student Minister Rodney Muhammad
To repeat the same mistakes in history because we have not paid attention to them. So, we welcome you today. Our subject today is the history of the Nation of Islam. And we can only truncated an abbreviated. But it’s a it’s a deep history. So I don’t I don’t hardly know where to start, but I had a, you gotta start with God, we didn’t start a nation.
01:00:40:21 – 01:00:49:11
Student Minister Rodney Muhammad
He did. Yeah. He.
01:00:49:14 – 01:01:11:28
Student Minister Rodney Muhammad
But, I think I got the. Okay, let’s go to the Holy Koran. That’s the best place to start. This is over 5000 years ago that I’m reading to you from the Holy Koran.
01:01:12:01 – 01:01:28:18
Student Minister Rodney Muhammad
Bismillah. Rothman. Rahim, our Lord, this is Abraham. Praise our Lord and make us both submissive to thee. Look at this and raise from our offspring.
01:01:28:18 – 01:01:32:01
Student In The Ministry Joseph Muhammad
Oh, come on, brother, come on.
01:01:32:03 – 01:01:56:04
Student Minister Rodney Muhammad
A nation submissive to thee. He didn’t say, make us a nation. All right. So Abraham didn’t make a nation, but he prayed that his offspring. That God would make them a nation submissive to him and show us our ways of devotion.
01:01:56:07 – 01:01:57:17
Speaker 3
You take.
01:01:57:19 – 01:02:45:02
Student Minister Rodney Muhammad
And turn to us mercifully. Surely, thou art of returning to mercy. The merciful. This is the holy Koran. This prayer is prayed thousands of years before the time that we are in right now. But if you trace through 5000 years, you can’t find no one. That’s from Abraham, that God came to them and made them a nation. Well, in the Bible, the book of Genesis, which comes from the word genes, because he’s targeting the genetic makeup of someone.
01:02:45:05 – 01:02:50:02
Student Minister Rodney Muhammad
Abraham is told by God, your seed will be in.
01:02:50:02 – 01:02:53:14
Speaker 3
Bondage, right? Oh, come on.
01:02:53:16 – 01:03:09:21
Student Minister Rodney Muhammad
And in the land that they are in, which is a strange land. I know what you’re talking about. It’s only a strange land, which means the politics are strange, The religion is strange. The culture is.
01:03:09:21 – 01:03:11:19
Speaker 3
Strange.
01:03:11:21 – 01:03:16:02
Student Minister Rodney Muhammad
Although your seed will be in a strange land.
01:03:16:04 – 01:03:21:21
Student In The Ministry Joseph Muhammad
Don’t do that. So think about it as us.
01:03:21:24 – 01:03:27:13
Student Minister Rodney Muhammad
Among some strange people. As the scripture saying that.
01:03:27:15 – 01:03:29:05
Speaker 3
Right.
01:03:29:07 – 01:04:01:28
Student Minister Rodney Muhammad
And they’re going to suffer in that land and be afflicted. You ever been in a fight and after the fight was over, win or lose, you had signs that you had been in to fight, so you got wounds and bruises or swelling or whatever pain somewhere, you know, and but you was in a fight, which means you got hit, but you hit somebody to see it.
01:04:02:01 – 01:04:16:00
Student Minister Rodney Muhammad
But when you are afflicted, that means you have been bound and you just taken punches and you can’t deliver no blows to the land where they’re afflicted.
01:04:16:03 – 01:04:17:09
Speaker 3
Right?
01:04:17:11 – 01:04:38:18
Student Minister Rodney Muhammad
In other words, they’ve been made helpless. There’s a new term that they use for black America. It’s called learned helplessness. If you gotta learn how to be helpless, that means you got a teacher who’s teaching you how to be helpless.
01:04:38:20 – 01:04:42:01
Speaker 3
Good question.
01:04:42:03 – 01:04:49:20
Student Minister Rodney Muhammad
That lamb, whatever afflicted the Lord says I will come. He never named a prophet.
01:04:49:23 – 01:04:50:26
Student In The Ministry Joseph Muhammad
Right?
01:04:50:28 – 01:05:09:07
Student Minister Rodney Muhammad
He never named a servant who would come to them? He said, I will come to them, and I’m going to bring them out with great substance. So people have tried to claim that.
01:05:09:10 – 01:05:11:14
Student Minister Rodney Muhammad
But it’s a faulty claim.
01:05:11:16 – 01:05:12:15
Student In The Ministry Joseph Muhammad
Yeah.
01:05:12:17 – 01:05:22:04
Student Minister Rodney Muhammad
We’ll take it to court. Under legal argument, you find out they made a false claim. Come on, come on.
01:05:22:06 – 01:05:25:18
Student In The Ministry Joseph Muhammad
So you don’t make some.
01:05:25:20 – 01:05:57:07
Student Minister Rodney Muhammad
That’s right. And I claim in the Nation of Islam is that we are the seed of Abraham. I claim in the Nation of Islam. Is that the God who said, I will come to them? He has already come. That’s our claim witness. Since his coming, we have been doing like I’m doing. We gotta make our case.
01:05:57:09 – 01:06:15:10
Student Minister Rodney Muhammad
Teaching. If you go back over this prayer, Abraham. As I said, is not trying to be a nation, but from his offspring. He wants them to be a nation.
01:06:15:12 – 01:06:16:18
Speaker 3
You.
01:06:16:20 – 01:06:24:17
Student Minister Rodney Muhammad
But he wants them to be a nation that is submissive to God.
01:06:24:20 – 01:06:32:15
Student Minister Rodney Muhammad
The Scripture says of Jesus. He teaches his ministry. Don’t go the way of the Gentile.
01:06:32:17 – 01:06:33:00
Speaker 3
01:06:33:02 – 01:06:39:25
Student Minister Rodney Muhammad
That’s right. Don’t bother with the Samaritan and others. Right now. I want you to focus on the lost sheep.
01:06:39:27 – 01:06:40:22
Speaker 3
Who are you.
01:06:40:24 – 01:06:52:18
Student Minister Rodney Muhammad
In the house of Israel? Notice what he didn’t say. I want you to go to the lost sheep in Israel. Know the house of Israel?
01:06:52:21 – 01:06:54:07
Student In The Ministry Joseph Muhammad
Yes.
01:06:54:10 – 01:07:00:14
Student Minister Rodney Muhammad
The Israel over there and the House of Israel are not one in the same.
01:07:00:17 – 01:07:02:09
Student In The Ministry Joseph Muhammad
Plane a plane.
01:07:02:11 – 01:07:28:25
Student Minister Rodney Muhammad
The House of Israel is founded by men who exhausted themselves in biblical study and wanted to be, free from an old world of kings and rulers. And so they chose to put God in their document of freedom.
01:07:28:27 – 01:07:30:26
Student In The Ministry Joseph Muhammad
That.
01:07:30:28 – 01:07:36:25
Student Minister Rodney Muhammad
So they would say one nation under God.
01:07:36:28 – 01:07:41:02
Student In The Ministry Joseph Muhammad
And that’s.
01:07:41:04 – 01:07:44:10
Student Minister Rodney Muhammad
America is the house of Israel.
01:07:44:12 – 01:07:46:15
Student In The Ministry Joseph Muhammad
We are.
01:07:46:17 – 01:07:55:27
Student Minister Rodney Muhammad
Because she tried to pattern herself after the nation of Israel, because in the Bible, the nation of Israel was said to be guided by God.
01:07:55:29 – 01:07:56:29
Speaker 3
They looked at.
01:07:56:29 – 01:08:08:24
Student Minister Rodney Muhammad
Him. So they tried to design their nation. Look, it’s in their documents. They put God in their documents. Nobody wished it in there. They wrote it down in there.
01:08:08:26 – 01:08:12:01
Speaker 3
Yes, they did.
01:08:12:03 – 01:08:18:08
Student Minister Rodney Muhammad
So this is the house of Israel, and we’re the sheep that are lost in it.
01:08:18:11 – 01:08:19:12
Student In The Ministry Joseph Muhammad
Yes.
01:08:19:15 – 01:08:30:25
Student Minister Rodney Muhammad
This is not the lost lions, the lost wolves. It’s the lost sheep. Not because the character and the nature of a sheep is they don’t fight back.
01:08:31:01 – 01:08:33:06
Student In The Ministry Joseph Muhammad
Right. All right, look at that.
01:08:33:09 – 01:08:38:21
Student Minister Rodney Muhammad
That’s perfect for affliction. Perfect for suffering.
01:08:38:23 – 01:08:48:08
Unknown
Strange man. I’m.
01:08:48:10 – 01:08:54:07
Student Minister Rodney Muhammad
Show us our ways of devotion.
01:08:54:09 – 01:09:04:02
Student Minister Rodney Muhammad
Why? Because whatever way that is, it may not look like everybody else’s way.
01:09:04:05 – 01:09:21:05
Student Minister Rodney Muhammad
And, you know, people have a tendency in mob psychology. To, you know, people talk about they want to be independent, but the price you pay for being independent, independent. You don’t look like everybody else.
01:09:21:07 – 01:09:22:20
Student In The Ministry Joseph Muhammad
Yes, sir.
01:09:22:22 – 01:09:43:10
Student Minister Rodney Muhammad
The price you pay to be independent, you don’t sound like everybody else. But if you want to still look like everybody else and sound like everybody else, then you don’t want to be independent. So stop talking about you want to be free, but you want to look like and be like everybody else.
01:09:43:13 – 01:09:50:04
Unknown
But the other. The more.
01:09:50:07 – 01:09:51:17
Student Minister Rodney Muhammad
I have to talk like this.
01:09:51:24 – 01:09:54:06
Speaker 3
Like,
01:09:54:09 – 01:10:13:26
Student Minister Rodney Muhammad
Every time there’s a death I’m confronted with. They said we supposed to do the gymnastic this way. And now why don’t you just follow Louis Farrakhan? Yes. He’s different, but he’s different because he’s independent.
01:10:13:29 – 01:10:25:08
Student Minister Rodney Muhammad
You act like you afraid of Mecca. Yeah. You are like you are afraid of these country. Do you see them bombing their people over there?
01:10:25:10 – 01:10:27:19
Student In The Ministry Joseph Muhammad
What?
01:10:27:21 – 01:10:37:26
Student Minister Rodney Muhammad
And the Muslim, according to Prophet Muhammad, is one who wants for his brother what he wants for himself. Well, your brother’s getting bombed out of his house.
01:10:37:28 – 01:10:39:23
Student In The Ministry Joseph Muhammad
From.
01:10:39:26 – 01:10:47:09
Student Minister Rodney Muhammad
Your brothers. Women are being bombed out of their house and they’re being murdered. Come on. And you sitting.
01:10:47:09 – 01:10:49:12
Speaker 3
There.
01:10:49:15 – 01:10:58:15
Student Minister Rodney Muhammad
They damn bin sound the alarm. And when you hear the alarm sound, that was supposed to be a response.
01:10:58:17 – 01:10:59:15
Student In The Ministry Joseph Muhammad
That’s right.
01:10:59:15 – 01:11:08:13
Student Minister Rodney Muhammad
You everybody sit.
01:11:08:15 – 01:11:13:24
Student Minister Rodney Muhammad
And if we end up like everybody else, that’s what we’ll be doing.
01:11:13:27 – 01:11:19:19
Unknown
Not good teaching.
01:11:19:22 – 01:11:46:16
Student Minister Rodney Muhammad
So the new turkey is well, brother. Right. We shouldn’t talk about that right now. We need to talk about what’s going on in Philadelphia. Muslim is a world citizen, Is a world citizen. Once you a muslim, you’re a citizen in every other Muslim country on the planet that you.
01:11:46:18 – 01:11:51:21
Student Minister Rodney Muhammad
Well, I don’t know about that. Your leader traveled to all of them. That’s right.
01:11:51:24 – 01:11:52:18
Speaker 3
Go ahead.
01:11:52:21 – 01:12:02:14
Student Minister Rodney Muhammad
How did he get in? Know way he spoke in most of them.
01:12:02:16 – 01:12:27:06
Student Minister Rodney Muhammad
Yeah. One of them was so afraid. They met him when he got off the plane on the tarmac this morning. We’re happy to have you here, brother Farrakhan. Two things we want to ask of you. Don’t mention my Eleanor Muhammad Ali. And don’t mention Elijah Muhammad.
01:12:27:09 – 01:12:28:19
Student In The Ministry Joseph Muhammad
This.
01:12:28:22 – 01:12:30:10
Student Minister Rodney Muhammad
Is what you tell him that.
01:12:30:10 – 01:12:32:23
Speaker 3
For me.
01:12:32:26 – 01:12:37:25
Student Minister Rodney Muhammad
01:12:37:28 – 01:12:50:04
Student Minister Rodney Muhammad
You said. To be honest, I hadn’t really thought about it. But now that you mention it, that’s exactly what I’m going to do.
01:12:50:07 – 01:12:57:20
Student Minister Rodney Muhammad
Yeah.
01:12:57:22 – 01:13:06:01
Student Minister Rodney Muhammad
And when he got through spanking them. You think we’ve been spanked in some of our meetings? Even spanked them?
01:13:06:03 – 01:13:07:17
Student In The Ministry Joseph Muhammad
Yes, sir.
01:13:07:19 – 01:13:10:23
Student Minister Rodney Muhammad
Playing up to the Europeans. He said you ain’t got one.
01:13:10:23 – 01:13:13:03
Student In The Ministry Joseph Muhammad
Convert him.
01:13:13:05 – 01:13:14:13
Student Minister Rodney Muhammad
From Europe.
01:13:14:15 – 01:13:15:10
Speaker 3
You go ahead.
01:13:15:13 – 01:13:17:27
Student Minister Rodney Muhammad
And you worrying about what they think.
01:13:17:29 – 01:13:18:24
Speaker 3
See.
01:13:18:26 – 01:13:20:18
Student Minister Rodney Muhammad
They don’t even want your God.
01:13:20:23 – 01:13:22:01
Speaker 3
Look at that.
01:13:22:03 – 01:13:23:17
Student Minister Rodney Muhammad
How do you think they want you?
01:13:23:19 – 01:13:25:04
Speaker 3
Come on.
01:13:25:06 – 01:13:26:06
Student In The Ministry Joseph Muhammad
Now.
01:13:26:09 – 01:13:29:12
Student Minister Rodney Muhammad
Come on brother, here’s an African nation.
01:13:29:15 – 01:13:32:23
Speaker 3
Oh come on, come.
01:13:32:25 – 01:13:45:07
Student Minister Rodney Muhammad
Yeah. So Abraham is praying man, and Ishmael is with him in this prayer. And it don’t end yet.
01:13:45:09 – 01:13:48:13
Student Minister Rodney Muhammad
I think,
01:13:48:15 – 01:13:51:00
Student In The Ministry Joseph Muhammad
01:13:51:02 – 01:14:07:07
Student Minister Rodney Muhammad
Maybe I think it went. Yeah. So they go on our Lord. Raise up in them a messenger. They go from among them. Who’s the them. Which among his offspring.
01:14:07:09 – 01:14:08:24
Student In The Ministry Joseph Muhammad
Is.
01:14:08:27 – 01:14:10:04
Student Minister Rodney Muhammad
He looking down.
01:14:10:04 – 01:14:11:28
Speaker 3
Time.
01:14:12:00 – 01:14:16:20
Student Minister Rodney Muhammad
At a prevailing condition.
01:14:16:23 – 01:14:28:12
Student Minister Rodney Muhammad
And he don’t turn to any political power. Religious authority. He turns to God. Why? Because only God can fix.
01:14:28:12 – 01:14:34:27
Student In The Ministry Joseph Muhammad
It, right? Right, right. You’re that. No, you’re right. But no, you’re right.
01:14:35:00 – 01:14:40:19
Student Minister Rodney Muhammad
Our lord raise up in them a messenger from among them.
01:14:40:22 – 01:14:42:01
Student In The Ministry Joseph Muhammad
Out.
01:14:42:03 – 01:14:47:27
Student Minister Rodney Muhammad
So stop you running to Arabia.
01:14:47:29 – 01:14:51:02
Student Minister Rodney Muhammad
But a messenger is supposed to come up from the hood.
01:14:51:05 – 01:14:52:14
Student In The Ministry Joseph Muhammad
Take.
01:14:52:16 – 01:14:53:17
Student Minister Rodney Muhammad
How about this now?
01:14:53:25 – 01:14:57:03
Student In The Ministry Joseph Muhammad
Oh, yeah.
01:14:57:05 – 01:15:02:14
Unknown
Oh, yes. You.
01:15:02:17 – 01:15:09:18
Student Minister Rodney Muhammad
And when you raise him up, he will recite to them thy messages, right?
01:15:09:19 – 01:15:10:20
Speaker 3
Yeah.
01:15:10:23 – 01:15:15:20
Student Minister Rodney Muhammad
Then call. Call on us to, commit them to memory.
01:15:15:22 – 01:15:16:15
Student In The Ministry Joseph Muhammad
Yes, sir.
01:15:16:17 – 01:15:20:00
Student Minister Rodney Muhammad
Then we can recite.
01:15:20:03 – 01:15:22:22
Student In The Ministry Joseph Muhammad
Real go under the law.
01:15:22:25 – 01:15:40:21
Student Minister Rodney Muhammad
And then teach them the book. You. A lot of people are reading the book, and then they apply guesswork and facts. But when somebody teaches you the book, it takes you beyond recitation.
01:15:40:23 – 01:15:42:12
Speaker 3
Right, right.
01:15:42:15 – 01:15:49:12
Student Minister Rodney Muhammad
Now you go into what everyone must have understanding.
01:15:49:14 – 01:16:24:25
Student Minister Rodney Muhammad
So he’s gotta teach the book and the wisdom right? So you take the books of Scripture and you teach them, but you have to. The book got wisdom, right? Yes. So to teach a wisdom to separate from the wisdom that’s already coming out of the book, this is a supreme wisdom which the Honorable Elijah Muhammad said, it takes you to the root of wisdom, where all wisdom really started.
01:16:24:27 – 01:16:30:07
Student Minister Rodney Muhammad
So we want to teach them the book, teach them the wisdom and purify them.
01:16:30:09 – 01:16:32:14
Student In The Ministry Joseph Muhammad
Expound.
01:16:32:16 – 01:16:47:06
Student Minister Rodney Muhammad
Now they got they going to have some habits that are unpleasing to the God.
01:16:47:08 – 01:16:57:07
Student Minister Rodney Muhammad
They’re going to have some habits that are incongruent with the nature that they were created in.
01:16:57:10 – 01:16:59:19
Student In The Ministry Joseph Muhammad
01:16:59:22 – 01:17:16:23
Student Minister Rodney Muhammad
So they need to be purified of these things. So when you purify some, you taken away the elements, contaminants and things out of. So getting the contaminants out of our life. Right. First thing you got to do, you got to get them off these ribs.
01:17:16:29 – 01:17:22:10
Student In The Ministry Joseph Muhammad
Oh come on, you.
01:17:22:12 – 01:17:38:00
Student Minister Rodney Muhammad
Look at the resume now, the resume may think of the Mahdi. According to Prophet Muhammad, the first thing on the resume, he killed the swine.
01:17:38:02 – 01:17:41:13
Student In The Ministry Joseph Muhammad
He says, yes, sir.
01:17:41:15 – 01:17:48:01
Student Minister Rodney Muhammad
So Saudi Arabia’s not sitting there waiting on the Mahdi? No, because they don’t eat it.
01:17:48:03 – 01:17:49:18
Student In The Ministry Joseph Muhammad
Right? Right.
01:17:49:21 – 01:18:05:11
Student Minister Rodney Muhammad
Indonesia is not sitting there waiting on the Mahdi. Neither is Pakistan. Nor North and South Yemen, where the Serbians are. These people don’t eat pork, right? So they can’t be waiting.
01:18:05:11 – 01:18:07:12
Speaker 3
On the Mahdi, right?
01:18:07:15 – 01:18:32:17
Student Minister Rodney Muhammad
Because when he get there, there’s no swine to kill. Y’all are with me here. You got to find some pork eaters. We sitting over here with Oscar Meyer, Rib tips. Oh, awesome. Pork our house sausage. Bob Evans.
01:18:32:19 – 01:18:33:25
Speaker 3
Dennis.
01:18:33:28 – 01:18:36:04
Student Minister Rodney Muhammad
Come on now. I was.
01:18:36:06 – 01:18:38:04
Student In The Ministry Joseph Muhammad
Tony.
01:18:38:06 – 01:18:39:16
Speaker 3
And.
01:18:39:18 – 01:19:05:15
Student Minister Rodney Muhammad
Frank will fight you about this pork. It it. Some of y’all had these fights when you got with us, didn’t you worry? Especially on the holiday. No. Thank you. I won’t have any chitlins. We can push those. No. Thank you. You act like you know.
01:19:05:17 – 01:19:05:24
Speaker 3
You.
01:19:05:24 – 01:19:10:13
Student Minister Rodney Muhammad
Better than us or some boy raised you own,
01:19:10:15 – 01:19:12:21
Student In The Ministry Joseph Muhammad
Oh, yeah. Go ahead.
01:19:12:24 – 01:19:22:25
Student Minister Rodney Muhammad
Come on. We don’t have to fight now. It’s my first day as therefore, I’m throwing away pork chops and things and baloney and stuff.
01:19:22:27 – 01:19:24:14
Speaker 3
Yeah.
01:19:24:16 – 01:19:30:08
Student Minister Rodney Muhammad
Boy, have you lost your mind.
01:19:30:11 – 01:19:31:03
Student In The Ministry Joseph Muhammad
Yeah.
01:19:31:06 – 01:19:36:28
Student Minister Rodney Muhammad
One lady look and say, well, hey, they don’t eat pork no more. What do you. What do they eat then?
01:19:37:00 – 01:19:42:10
Student In The Ministry Joseph Muhammad
Come on.
01:19:42:13 – 01:19:53:16
Student Minister Rodney Muhammad
Right, right. Well, that was the kind of people you got to fight. How are you going to go somewhere and overlook a nation of people eating swine? Need to be purified, right?
01:19:53:23 – 01:19:55:14
Student In The Ministry Joseph Muhammad
Looks good to me.
01:19:55:16 – 01:19:58:12
Student Minister Rodney Muhammad
He found us smoking cigaret.
01:19:58:15 – 01:19:59:21
Speaker 3
And knows how to. Come on.
01:19:59:23 – 01:20:21:04
Student Minister Rodney Muhammad
He got all these? Yeah, and look, the carcinogens and stuff, it’s just killing. So look what Mr. Muhammad started something, and it was unheard of to tell people. You can’t, I don’t want. I can’t take all that smoking around me in the workplace.
01:20:21:08 – 01:20:21:15
Speaker 3
Right?
01:20:21:21 – 01:20:44:17
Student Minister Rodney Muhammad
And smoking inside of buildings, being over, you know, when you got your little apartment set up and everything, you find these fancy ashtrays? Is this where your guests can put the cigarets out? You. Mr. Muhammad is talking about? We don’t smoke on.
01:20:44:20 – 01:21:11:21
Student Minister Rodney Muhammad
Us. He’s independent, doesn’t he? Ain’t trying to look like everybody else. Then he told us. Don’t eat white bread. It has no nutritional value. It’s poison to the system. And don’t you know what? That’s all we got in store. When this started out, that was all we had in the store. See, some of you are looking at me crazy, but there was a time in the 60s you went to the store, go down and get a loaf of bread.
01:21:11:25 – 01:21:20:09
Student Minister Rodney Muhammad
That meant get a loaf of white bread. Is somebody with me on there? And you came home. There was no Roman meal.
01:21:20:11 – 01:21:21:02
Speaker 3
When I was growing.
01:21:21:02 – 01:21:39:09
Student Minister Rodney Muhammad
A Roman meal was the only dark colored bread sitting up in the store. We didn’t like black. Thurgood Marshall, come on, had been fighting for years, and he finally got a case up to the Supreme Court. And in 1954, he won the.
01:21:39:09 – 01:21:41:01
Speaker 3
Case.
01:21:41:03 – 01:22:14:27
Student Minister Rodney Muhammad
That segregation in the public school was unconstitutional, which which caused an explosion in the South. And the civil rights movement took off. But they never talk about how Thurgood Marshall won that case, because arguing about segregation, you live in over here and whites living over there. How’s that so bad for you? And Thurgood Marshall was trying to show the the, the, the real scars of segregated living.
01:22:14:27 – 01:22:46:16
Student Minister Rodney Muhammad
And when the scars are psychological, when the scars are emotional. No, it’s hard to prove in court. But he remember Doctor Kenneth Clarke and his wife, Mamie Clark, in 1942 had done an experiment, and black girls were given white dolls and black dolls. And when the black girls were brought forth to choose which doll was more favorable for them, every last one of them took a white doll.
01:22:46:18 – 01:22:47:20
Student In The Ministry Joseph Muhammad
Look at it.
01:22:47:22 – 01:22:57:02
Student Minister Rodney Muhammad
When Thurgood Marshall brought to the justices that the young black girl said that the black dolls were evil, even though the black dolls look like them.
01:22:57:03 – 01:22:58:22
Student In The Ministry Joseph Muhammad
Right? Right, right.
01:22:58:25 – 01:23:03:02
Student Minister Rodney Muhammad
He said, this is these are the scars of segregated living.
01:23:03:04 – 01:23:04:04
Student In The Ministry Joseph Muhammad
So.
01:23:04:06 – 01:23:17:21
Student Minister Rodney Muhammad
So we’ve been trained. For you to look at yourself and hate yourself, you gotta admit that’s strange. And could never do that.
01:23:17:26 – 01:23:19:22
Student In The Ministry Joseph Muhammad
Come on, come on. Look.
01:23:19:24 – 01:23:41:22
Student Minister Rodney Muhammad
Do look at himself, smell himself and and reject himself. A baby could never do that. No creature less than man could ever do that with their own species. Only the Negro who had been trained this way.
01:23:41:24 – 01:23:43:24
Speaker 3
That’s strange. Yeah.
01:23:43:26 – 01:24:17:22
Student Minister Rodney Muhammad
And if people got to be strange to say, we need you to hate yourself. We had to be purified of all of that. It says, surely thou are the mighty, the wise. Now, Abraham’s prayer was answered at a time in America that black migrations, were underway. Most black people being brought here, slaves. You got to remember, we were brought up in the South.
01:24:17:25 – 01:24:26:07
Student Minister Rodney Muhammad
We were on plantations, working cotton fields. And back then cotton was like oil.
01:24:26:11 – 01:24:27:15
Student In The Ministry Joseph Muhammad
Yes, sir.
01:24:27:17 – 01:24:53:11
Student Minister Rodney Muhammad
Yes, sir. They called cotton King the antebellum South. You want to know what the antebellum South looked like? Watch a movie that came out in 1939 called Gone with the wind that shows you what the antebellum South is. The South before the Civil War, right? Don’t look at it after the Civil War. Look at what life was like the before that.
01:24:53:13 – 01:24:57:19
Student Minister Rodney Muhammad
And the white man was in Paradise.
01:24:57:22 – 01:24:59:27
Student In The Ministry Joseph Muhammad
Massacre. Yes. Come on. Black.
01:25:00:00 – 01:25:24:12
Student Minister Rodney Muhammad
He he had workers for everything, right? And if he didn’t want the misses of the South to have her feet touch the floor of the porch, your little three year old son was made to lay up under her so she could use that as a pillow. Imagine your son is laying there. So does what she wants,
01:25:24:14 – 01:25:26:04
Student In The Ministry Joseph Muhammad
That’s great.
01:25:26:07 – 01:25:42:04
Student Minister Rodney Muhammad
I never forget when I came in the nation, brother Djibril kept saying, every member of the nation needs to get a good book on slavery. Because if you did ever read it, you’d think we up here making some up.
01:25:42:06 – 01:25:52:01
Student In The Ministry Joseph Muhammad
Real. Come. Yeah.
01:25:52:03 – 01:26:24:06
Student Minister Rodney Muhammad
And so we lived under this chattel slavery for 310 years. Beyond chattel slavery was 100 years of Jim Crow. And all of this is segregated living, using terror tactics. Fear was the main tool used to try to keep, you know, it’s like, keep a nigger in his place.
01:26:24:09 – 01:26:28:02
Student In The Ministry Joseph Muhammad
Right.
01:26:28:05 – 01:26:30:22
Speaker 3
01:26:30:24 – 01:27:04:11
Student Minister Rodney Muhammad
But all the time from Abraham’s prayer that can be found in the Koran and God’s answer to Abraham, that’s in the Bible of what will happen to a people who have been for a hundred years. In a slave like existence. So. And when you come out of the slave like existence, then they produce in us a slave mentality.
01:27:04:13 – 01:27:56:02
Student Minister Rodney Muhammad
All which elongates the slave like existence with a few variations. But the slave mentally keeps you tied to him. So here’s God now telling Abraham that he’s going to send someone we we don’t understand. If God is talking, because if he’s not his political yes. If he’s not, you know, it’s just a social movement. But if God is talking and if God who created heaven and earth, is speaking about events to come, then we’re not dealing with political affairs or cultural affairs or social affairs.
01:27:56:03 – 01:28:34:06
Student Minister Rodney Muhammad
We dealing with cosmic affairs. This is a cosmic thing, which means that there be signs in the sun and the moon. As Jesus said, there be signs in the heavens. And, you know, when you taking the driver’s exam, the scientists is required to be past 100% right? They can’t afford to have you out here driving a vehicle, guessing what a sign me.
01:28:34:09 – 01:28:56:17
Student Minister Rodney Muhammad
So Jesus tells the people, you know, when the sky clouds up, you say a storm is coming up. When the wind comes and you say the desert will bring, a great burst of heat from itself. How is it that you can read the signs that are in the skies, and you can’t read the signs of the time?
01:28:56:20 – 01:28:57:21
Speaker 3
Look at them.
01:28:57:24 – 01:29:19:23
Student Minister Rodney Muhammad
Why is he bringing it up? Because a careful review of the signs of the time is necessary for you to understand what you in on. So Mr. Muhammad preached, and Farrakhan preaches the time and what must be done. Why?
01:29:19:26 – 01:29:23:01
Student Minister Rodney Muhammad
It takes a level of perception.
01:29:23:04 – 01:29:23:25
Speaker 3
To.
01:29:23:27 – 01:29:49:09
Student Minister Rodney Muhammad
That’s divine. Because if God’s got something to do with it, then it’s a divine movement right? If God has something to do with it and a solution is needed, then it will be a divine solution, which is what the Honorable Elijah Muhammad said, that only a divine solution was going to heal our problem.
01:29:49:11 – 01:29:51:04
Student In The Ministry Joseph Muhammad
Well.
01:29:51:06 – 01:30:02:18
Student Minister Rodney Muhammad
So yeah, and we are involved in it now. So look what happened in the heavens. You can review it yourself. It’s so easy to review things now.
01:30:02:20 – 01:30:03:28
Student In The Ministry Joseph Muhammad
You see.
01:30:04:00 – 01:30:09:02
Student Minister Rodney Muhammad
In 1929 there were only eight planets.
01:30:09:05 – 01:30:13:12
Student In The Ministry Joseph Muhammad
In the plate.
01:30:13:14 – 01:30:24:12
Student Minister Rodney Muhammad
But in 1930 they discovered a ninth planet had ruled out of the darkness.
01:30:24:15 – 01:30:49:07
Student Minister Rodney Muhammad
And in 1930. Which is, A great time of the depression. The stock market had just really crashed in 29. July 4th, 1930. This man stood up and declared I independence. I just think.
01:30:49:07 – 01:30:56:26
Unknown
Of this now. Now.
01:30:56:28 – 01:31:25:20
Student Minister Rodney Muhammad
This ninth planet didn’t have a name, but there’s a young white girl that said, it should be Pluto, a pluton which was supposed to be the Roman god of the underworld, which, you know, the real name for the Roman Empire was the Greco Roman Empire, because the Greek influence was great in it. And Hades, was the god of the underworld in Greek mythology.
01:31:25:23 – 01:31:57:12
Student Minister Rodney Muhammad
Kronos was the father and king of. And he was so obsessed with power that he didn’t want to even have to pass power on to his sons, so he wanted no children. So the woman who bore his children in this Greek mythology remember she had to hide her sons. She had three sons and she hid them. One was Zeus.
01:31:57:15 – 01:32:26:28
Student Minister Rodney Muhammad
He would become the greater of them. The other controlled the waters of the planet called Poseidon. And the third son was Hades. He was in the underworld and Cronus would have killed them had he known he had children. So she went and had these children away from him. Just just think of this. And if you study the people that are ruling over us, they have the Cronus complex.
01:32:27:00 – 01:32:42:18
Student Minister Rodney Muhammad
They’re obsessed with power, and they don’t want nobody else having a power. It’s a pathological need. We keep thinking something’s wrong with us. No, something’s wrong with them.
01:32:42:21 – 01:32:57:20
Student Minister Rodney Muhammad
Somebody raped you for 310 years, and we acted like something’s wrong with us. Something’s wrong with them. Somebody reduced you to a subhuman level. In their document.
01:32:57:23 – 01:32:57:28
Speaker 3
Of.
01:32:57:28 – 01:33:12:06
Student Minister Rodney Muhammad
The articles of the Constitution, 3/5 of a man. And we act like something’s wrong with us. Something’s wrong with them. I think I need to heal. They need to heal.
01:33:12:08 – 01:33:19:00
Student Minister Rodney Muhammad
This is our history.
01:33:19:03 – 01:33:25:29
Student In The Ministry Joseph Muhammad
So let’s put it on a road. Put it on.
01:33:26:01 – 01:33:57:28
Student Minister Rodney Muhammad
So we walk into a world where black people easily kill other black people. And you accuse us of. I hate teaching, but you, the one practicing hate one. You’re not under this teaching, killing each other. You are under your own teaching from a false teacher who obviously hates you, right? So he need those that are learning from him to learn how to hate themselves.
01:33:58:00 – 01:34:37:26
Student Minister Rodney Muhammad
That’s to his advantage in the 76 sura of the Holy Koran. 76 is significant because the Honorable Elijah Muhammad said, in the cosmic reality we live in, this thing called universe is 76 quintillion miles in diameter. All the way seven and six is written. I mean, really, you have the seven coming up behind the six, right? So after 6000 years of a rule of the enemy of God, the seventh day has come in to the this look at this.
01:34:37:28 – 01:35:10:17
Student Minister Rodney Muhammad
And when the seventh day comes in, right? I mean, he said, this man Saad comes early on the seventh day, right in the 7000 year. Now. And as he comes in, he’s pushing out the world that the 6000 year ruler produced these. So the Honorable Elijah Muhammad said, never has there been a time like this. This is the changing of worlds.
01:35:10:19 – 01:35:29:22
Student Minister Rodney Muhammad
And if you’re going to change a world, then that means you’re not going to stay the same. Because if you stay the same, then you might as well keep the old world old. The only thing is, it can’t stay here. So change is required.
01:35:29:25 – 01:35:32:08
Student In The Ministry Joseph Muhammad
Yes.
01:35:32:11 – 01:35:36:00
Student Minister Rodney Muhammad
And when you change, it, look strange.
01:35:36:02 – 01:35:36:29
Speaker 3
Come on.
01:35:37:01 – 01:35:47:07
Student Minister Rodney Muhammad
Let me show you what strange look like. It’s 1934. How are you doing? My brother? I ain’t you, but we didn’t grow up on same. How?
01:35:47:09 – 01:35:48:25
Student In The Ministry Joseph Muhammad
Like that. That’s,
01:35:48:27 – 01:36:01:28
Student Minister Rodney Muhammad
Call me your brother. Don’t call me your sister. We didn’t grow up together. So he does what? The MGT card. In the early years. Some of y’all to leave now. Somebody insults you like that. But let me tell you, we have some tough soldiers.
01:36:02:02 – 01:36:03:21
Student In The Ministry Joseph Muhammad
That’s right, that’s right.
01:36:03:24 – 01:36:20:05
Student Minister Rodney Muhammad
It takes zeal to be a muslim. To be a muslim today, you gotta grow a spine,
01:36:20:08 – 01:36:27:06
Student Minister Rodney Muhammad
I mean, sisters in this city.
01:36:27:09 – 01:36:35:17
Student Minister Rodney Muhammad
Faced a lot of public humiliation.
01:36:35:19 – 01:36:58:15
Student Minister Rodney Muhammad
And then Minister Jeremiah made Sam Christian the captain. All that stopped because no real man let his woman get put down in the street. Ain’t no philosophy. Ain’t no scripture.
01:36:58:17 – 01:37:04:14
Student Minister Rodney Muhammad
That justify a man sitting on his rear end. When his woman is under attack.
01:37:04:17 – 01:37:12:25
Unknown
You know, you go.
01:37:12:27 – 01:37:23:07
Student Minister Rodney Muhammad
Yeah. With Sam Christian as captain and Ronald Harvey as the first officer, all that stopped.
01:37:23:09 – 01:37:44:17
Student Minister Rodney Muhammad
We don’t have time to teach you of the value of the mother of civilization and all the wonderful things about the woman. Don’t you ever let me hear the sisters say they came down the street again, and y’all did this here. See, we got a little Islam teaching for you.
01:37:44:19 – 01:37:47:01
Student In The Ministry Joseph Muhammad
Come on. It was the wisdom.
01:37:47:04 – 01:38:09:06
Student Minister Rodney Muhammad
So when we were at that gymnasium, all those women that were there that used to be mgt. They remember that. I mean, that place was full when Sam Christian left us. But, it’s just to demonstrate to you that this work ain’t been easy for us.
01:38:09:08 – 01:38:14:11
Student Minister Rodney Muhammad
And we love our people. God knows we’re peaceful because we carry no weapon.
01:38:14:11 – 01:38:16:00
Speaker 3
That’s right.
01:38:16:02 – 01:38:26:09
Student Minister Rodney Muhammad
But we’re not doormats. You can’t just walk over us.
01:38:26:11 – 01:39:01:13
Student Minister Rodney Muhammad
So we’re thankful for this. Now, some of the things that I got to show you today, just so, because the white man is very upset about this nation coming into existence, you know, I want to show something because I had something to read. It said before the popularization of the holy Koran in America by the Nation of Islam, the Holy Koran was a rare book, right?
01:39:01:15 – 01:39:22:24
Student Minister Rodney Muhammad
I remember the Honorable Minister Louis Farrakhan saying that he would go to the library and request to see the holy Koran and have to show a Social Security card or, you know, they they put you through a lot of trip. The first thing they want to know, how do you know such a book exists? I didn’t know it existed.
01:39:22:27 – 01:39:35:28
Student Minister Rodney Muhammad
But he said, it’s the rare book. It was the exclusive possession of academic institutions.
01:39:36:00 – 01:39:45:10
Student Minister Rodney Muhammad
That’s why the Honorable Elijah Muhammad saw the Koran at the Library of Congress. Notice I didn’t say he stopped at the Islamic bookstore. There were none.
01:39:45:12 – 01:39:48:17
Student In The Ministry Joseph Muhammad
That’s right, that’s right, that’s right.
01:39:48:20 – 01:40:14:12
Student Minister Rodney Muhammad
Well, see, we we think these Korans all over the place. Now, let me tell you how they got here. You’re asking since you say we’re not real Muslims, but whoever you call a real Muslim, they were too damn scared to mass produce the Koran and get Korans out in this city and the cities of America.
01:40:14:14 – 01:40:25:17
Student Minister Rodney Muhammad
It was the possession of academic institutions. It was the possession of religious scholars and Moslem Shriners. That’s right. Who? The Shriners, this. These white folks.
01:40:25:19 – 01:40:28:23
Student In The Ministry Joseph Muhammad
Right.
01:40:28:25 – 01:40:36:23
Student Minister Rodney Muhammad
So, you know, don’t stop on Broad Street over there. How on these amazing. They don’t let you get further than 32 degrees.
01:40:36:26 – 01:40:38:23
Student In The Ministry Joseph Muhammad
Right, right right, right.
01:40:38:26 – 01:40:49:12
Student Minister Rodney Muhammad
The 33rd degree. You got to go over to Scotland. That has to be given to you. And the 33rd degree takes you from being a mason to a Shriner.
01:40:49:14 – 01:40:50:04
Student In The Ministry Joseph Muhammad
Right.
01:40:50:06 – 01:41:16:05
Student Minister Rodney Muhammad
Come on now we have a lesson. You say, why does Muhammad make the devil study from 35, 50 years? Why, before he can call himself what a muslim son? And see, we sitting around trying to be a muslim son. We’re the father. The original black man is the father.
01:41:16:08 – 01:41:50:13
Student Minister Rodney Muhammad
Right. So these Moslem Shriners and high Place individuals. But it is the Nation of Islam that freed the Koranic text. So that it could be, at long last, establishing a presence in America by becoming a familiar and popular book among the poor and oppressed black people of America. And that’s because of the Honorable Elijah Muhammad. Oh, praise was due to Allah.
01:41:50:16 – 01:41:54:24
Student Minister Rodney Muhammad
See, we have to run this down.
01:41:54:27 – 01:42:18:14
Student Minister Rodney Muhammad
That his teacher, Fard Muhammad. When he came, he said, brother, unless you can speak the language well, you will not have the success I desire for you. At that time, the language was the language of Christianity. That’s why. Because our people did not know the Koran. But we knew of the Bible, right?
01:42:18:16 – 01:42:20:22
Student In The Ministry Joseph Muhammad
That’s right.
01:42:20:25 – 01:42:47:24
Student Minister Rodney Muhammad
Our people did not know of Muhammad, but we knew of Jesus. And Mr. Muhammad knew the language to talk right. And so if you study the early writings and the early preaching, you see many references from the Bible, not the Koran, because we didn’t have a Koran. And he used the Bible trying to show the pastors the power in the book.
01:42:47:26 – 01:42:55:27
Student Minister Rodney Muhammad
You don’t, you don’t, you don’t have a white man lynched you, and then you waiting on a white Jesus to save you. Mathematically, that can’t work.
01:42:55:29 – 01:43:00:16
Student In The Ministry Joseph Muhammad
Then. So he drifted.
01:43:00:18 – 01:43:27:27
Student Minister Rodney Muhammad
That’s why when Malcolm started preaching, he challenged the whole thing about a white Jesus. And what did that do? They backed away from it. All right, come on. They’ve they’ve given up on trying to get you a white Jesus. I grew up thinking Jeffrey Hunter was Jesus. The king of King on. They did a number on us as black people.
01:43:28:01 – 01:43:29:06
Student Minister Rodney Muhammad
They said we were jungle.
01:43:29:06 – 01:43:31:03
Speaker 3
Bunnies.
01:43:31:06 – 01:43:51:13
Student Minister Rodney Muhammad
In the 50s and 60. They. Oh, y’all, jungle bunny. But I would turn on television on Saturday morning. Tarzan was running the jungle. He was white. He swinging through the tree. Better than the black man I never saw a black man grab a thing and travel through the trees. He got to run. Tarzan is breezing through the trees and everything.
01:43:51:13 – 01:43:54:00
Student Minister Rodney Muhammad
Man, what the hell is going on here.
01:43:54:03 – 01:43:55:25
Student In The Ministry Joseph Muhammad
At this moment? Yes, but.
01:43:55:28 – 01:44:02:00
Student Minister Rodney Muhammad
Then Tarzan is running the jungle. Keep watching the Jetsons. Come on.
01:44:02:03 – 01:44:02:23
Speaker 3
Come on.
01:44:02:25 – 01:44:14:27
Student Minister Rodney Muhammad
No black folks in the jet now. The Jetsons is the future. All right, come on, come on. No black people in The Jetsons.
01:44:15:00 – 01:44:19:24
Student Minister Rodney Muhammad
So from Jungle Bunny to you ain’t even hear no more.
01:44:19:26 – 01:44:22:26
Student In The Ministry Joseph Muhammad
Come on. On the corner.
01:44:22:29 – 01:44:27:12
Student Minister Rodney Muhammad
Thank God for the light, man.
01:44:27:14 – 01:44:36:28
Unknown
Hey, Oh, praise the Lord.
01:44:37:01 – 01:45:11:10
Student Minister Rodney Muhammad
So let’s look at what Mr. Muhammad says to us as we finish off this about the history teacher. This is a letter to the ministry class from the Honorable Elijah Muhammad. Our history is, above all our studies, the most attractive and best qualified to reward our research. Why did that, Mr. Muhammad see? Because if you know who you were, right, you know who you are.
01:45:11:12 – 01:45:52:06
Student Minister Rodney Muhammad
If you know what you did, then you know what you capable of doing. Without history, you don’t have a reference point back. So Mr. Muhammad goes on. It rewards our research. It develops the springs and motives of human action and displays the consequence of circumstances which operates most powerfully on the destinies of the human being. The teacher. Every nation of people should know the history of their nation.
01:45:52:08 – 01:46:18:06
Student Minister Rodney Muhammad
Right now, America is in denial of the truth of her nation. And if they get project 2025, as is documented, they want to ban all books. Look, they didn’t say from the libraries. They want to ban all books that deal with black history.
01:46:18:11 – 01:46:21:10
Student In The Ministry Joseph Muhammad
Right. So.
01:46:21:12 – 01:46:29:18
Student Minister Rodney Muhammad
So we would not be able to sell any. You can’t open a store and sell any books that deal with black history because they would be banned.
01:46:29:20 – 01:46:31:05
Student In The Ministry Joseph Muhammad
Right?
01:46:31:08 – 01:47:08:19
Student Minister Rodney Muhammad
So they’re they’re in denial about their role in history. And what would this do? This will mess up the lives that they have told for centuries. They have lied about who they really were and what they really did. Mr. Muhammad goes on. The second thing that history does, he said it stands true that we, the lost, found nation of Islam in the wilderness of North America, have not applied ourselves to the study of history, but rather to folly.
01:47:08:21 – 01:47:29:03
Student Minister Rodney Muhammad
I’ve made sure I knew just what folly is going after folly means no sense and foolishness. So if we regret that, we don’t give ourselves to the study of history, but rather to foolishness.
01:47:29:05 – 01:48:04:04
Student Minister Rodney Muhammad
Having a lot of the bread of idleness. And when an effort was made to the above affect of history, study it was to our detriment because we’re not knowing what history that was more valuable. So you give me the history of George Washington. But what’s more valuable is me learning about myself. It doesn’t mean I, I don’t I can still learn about George Washington, but to only learn about him and never learn about myself.
01:48:04:07 – 01:48:07:08
Student Minister Rodney Muhammad
Where am I going to get my reference point?
01:48:07:10 – 01:48:08:04
Student In The Ministry Joseph Muhammad
That’s right.
01:48:08:06 – 01:48:18:21
Student Minister Rodney Muhammad
And if my reference point is right and I’m black, I’m in CBS trying to get some skin white.
01:48:18:23 – 01:48:20:27
Student In The Ministry Joseph Muhammad
01:48:21:00 – 01:48:33:22
Student Minister Rodney Muhammad
The Malcolm X movie starts off with with him getting his hair done. He said, oh, it looks white, don’t it? That was our reference point, sir.
01:48:33:24 – 01:48:39:17
Student In The Ministry Joseph Muhammad
Yeah.
01:48:39:19 – 01:49:13:04
Student Minister Rodney Muhammad
So not knowing what history it was, that was valuable. Watch this to aid us in the knowledge of our own nation. We just don’t have no history like that. The wise man is the one who has made a careful study of the past events of ancient and modern history. The knowledge of the future is judged by the knowledge of the past.
01:49:13:06 – 01:49:41:04
Student Minister Rodney Muhammad
There are men born with a gift of prophecy, while some are trained into the knowledge by intense studies of the past events of history. See, this is what Mr. Muhammad is saying now. This is the most attractive thing for us to learn. Yes, you. We have young people that don’t even know the suffering that your own people went through here, right?
01:49:41:06 – 01:49:42:25
Student In The Ministry Joseph Muhammad
Right, right, right.
01:49:42:28 – 01:50:11:02
Student Minister Rodney Muhammad
So they’ll put you in a history class and you say, oh man, I’m into it. I’m learning about ancient Kemet, and I’m learning about never teary and, African queens over here. But you don’t know nothing about Sadie and the South and these women. Right. That watched over us. You don’t you don’t know nothing about the suffering that we’ve had right here in these United States of America.
01:50:11:05 – 01:50:37:14
Student Minister Rodney Muhammad
You got to stop thinking. You got it made. You know, you don’t have it made. You been made into something other than self defense. And we can’t live with power because we’re outside of the nature we created you. If a if a lion wants to act like a sheep, then the power that the lion had is never manifested.
01:50:37:17 – 01:50:38:04
Student In The Ministry Joseph Muhammad
Nor.
01:50:38:06 – 01:50:45:29
Student Minister Rodney Muhammad
The lion can only manifest real strength and power when he comes back into the nature of what he was created in.
01:50:46:02 – 01:50:48:25
Student In The Ministry Joseph Muhammad
Black man, if you are a lion.
01:50:48:28 – 01:50:59:27
Student Minister Rodney Muhammad
And not a sheep, see what I’m saying? If you act in a nature that he has designed for you, you’re never witnessed the real power of your own being.
01:50:59:29 – 01:51:03:27
Student In The Ministry Joseph Muhammad
That oh, look at that ahead.
01:51:04:00 – 01:51:21:25
Student Minister Rodney Muhammad
So now the maneuvering got a star. Let’s see what they doing here. We see we just read the history. First thing they got to do. Well, you know Elijah Muhammad got his star with noble. Drew Ali. Break it down. The more science temple of America.
01:51:21:27 – 01:51:22:17
Speaker 3
Is here.
01:51:22:19 – 01:51:53:13
Student Minister Rodney Muhammad
Now. He established temple the first one. He did one in Newark, new Jersey. And of course, he planted something in Philadelphia, Washington, DC in there. But it was when he went to Chicago that the largest following, began. Noble drew Ali. Now, what we have to understand about Noble Drew Ali was he probably is the first, home grown person that was over anything of what we call it, Islamic society.
01:51:53:15 – 01:51:54:23
Student In The Ministry Joseph Muhammad
Right.
01:51:54:25 – 01:52:08:20
Student Minister Rodney Muhammad
But noble Drew Ali had some writings that was supposed to be lost. Portions of the Koran. So he never had the Koran that we know of. This is important for you to know.
01:52:08:22 – 01:52:10:28
Speaker 3
Oh, come on, sir.
01:52:11:00 – 01:52:34:25
Student Minister Rodney Muhammad
And I don’t have time to go into all of his teachings, but he established a temple in Chicago. They claim he had up to 35,000 followers. He gained his largest following in the country while he was based in Chicago between 1922 and 1925. The thing is, they’re trying to say Master Farid Muhammad was a part of this operation.
01:52:34:27 – 01:52:51:05
Student Minister Rodney Muhammad
This is what they’re going to tell you now. And look, all the stuff that they did before, they figured generations now that we’ve been sleeping on this, they getting ready to revisit all this and throw this back out at you know, he was never a part.
01:52:51:11 – 01:52:52:04
Student In The Ministry Joseph Muhammad
That’s right.
01:52:52:06 – 01:53:13:28
Student Minister Rodney Muhammad
He wasn’t a massive fraud. Muhammad was never a part of. Nobody drew Ali’s movement. And ask yourself if he was. Why teach him what noble drew our little boy? So if he’s noble Drew Ali student right back, then he would be teaching what noble Drew Ali taught school.
01:53:14:01 – 01:53:28:13
Student Minister Rodney Muhammad
That at least Noble Drew Ali tried to do something independent. Of the children of our former slave masters. So ain’t nothing to be ashamed about. If you were a member.
01:53:28:15 – 01:53:29:11
Speaker 3
Of some of.
01:53:29:13 – 01:53:31:12
Student Minister Rodney Muhammad
But it’s just not true.
01:53:31:14 – 01:53:32:19
Speaker 3
Right?
01:53:32:21 – 01:53:48:05
Student Minister Rodney Muhammad
That’s right. The man who taught the Honorable Elijah Muhammad came from the East, right? Noble Drew Ali was born in what North Carolina moved to new Jersey. He worked on the trains.
01:53:48:07 – 01:53:49:15
Speaker 3
Soon.
01:53:49:18 – 01:54:08:19
Student Minister Rodney Muhammad
Began to teach some variation of what he called Islam, and said that all black people in America were Moors. From I never heard the Honorable Elijah Muhammad condemn him, right? I never heard the Honorable Minister Louis Farrakhan condemn.
01:54:08:19 – 01:54:10:08
Speaker 3
Him.
01:54:10:11 – 01:54:36:01
Student Minister Rodney Muhammad
But it’s just not true. That followed Muhammad was a part of that. You know, he was questioned on that. He, the reporter asked out a boy, Elijah Muhammad was five. Muhammad, a follower of noble Jew. Ali, the messenger said, no. Was he associated with him? No. Was he a member? No. Finally down the board, Elijah Muhammad said he was not a follower of him or anyone else.
01:54:36:01 – 01:54:45:11
Student Minister Rodney Muhammad
He was self independent. And the Honorable Elijah Muhammad said, when a man is self independent, who is there for him to follow, right.
01:54:45:14 – 01:54:46:02
Speaker 3
Right.
01:54:46:04 – 01:54:50:15
Student In The Ministry Joseph Muhammad
Right, real selfish.
01:54:50:18 – 01:55:21:09
Student Minister Rodney Muhammad
The next thing they’re going to do is tell you the Honorable Elijah Muhammad and them started out with Marcus Garvey and Marcus Garvey headed up probably the largest mass movement of black people in the history of. Since we’ve been here, nobody was mobilizing more black people than Mr. Garvey. And before Mr. Garvey came here. What do you need to know about Mr. Garvey?
01:55:21:12 – 01:55:32:18
Student Minister Rodney Muhammad
Is that his closest associate and teacher was Duce Muhammad.
01:55:32:20 – 01:55:42:17
Student Minister Rodney Muhammad
And when this man taught Mr. Garvey, Mr. Garvey looked afar. Right. And he was inspired by Booker T Washington.
01:55:42:19 – 01:55:43:23
Speaker 3
Right.
01:55:43:25 – 01:56:26:02
Student Minister Rodney Muhammad
What was it about Mr. Washington, among many others, voices that had Rosen, among black people, William Monroe Trotter from Massachusetts out of B, Wells from Chicago. She had to run to Chicago because they were trying to kill her in Memphis, Tennessee. Right. Even W.E.B. Dubois, who really fathered Pan-Africanism, black and he and other B Wells were, were among the black founders of the NAACP, and both had to, begin to divorce themselves from that because they didn’t see it.
01:56:26:02 – 01:56:32:15
Student Minister Rodney Muhammad
The energy that was needed to really get black folks up. But, Mr. Garvey.
01:56:32:17 – 01:56:33:22
Student In The Ministry Joseph Muhammad
Come on.
01:56:33:24 – 01:57:21:03
Student Minister Rodney Muhammad
Came to America wanting to be with Booker T Washington and Mr. Washington had died. And Mr. Garvey started his work in New York City. And a large movement of black people, as Mr. Garvey said, Africa for the African at home and abroad. He brought the star line with moneys that were raised and everything. If you see the documentary on Marcus Garvey, the person that brought him down was a top lieutenant working right next to him, that he was already working with the FBI, and they were trying to make sure that black people weren’t mobilized in a way that they could be, independent from the cultural, social and political grip of their white
01:57:21:03 – 01:57:31:05
Student Minister Rodney Muhammad
masters. And so. Mr.. Mr.. Garvey had a great movement, but the Honorable Elijah Muhammad was not a.
01:57:31:05 – 01:57:34:10
Student In The Ministry Joseph Muhammad
Member of it. That’s right, that’s right.
01:57:34:13 – 01:57:42:03
Student Minister Rodney Muhammad
The Honorable Elijah Muhammad taught us about his condition before he came and met Master Fard Muhammad.
01:57:42:06 – 01:57:43:00
Speaker 3
Yes.
01:57:43:02 – 01:57:54:11
Student Minister Rodney Muhammad
Master fried Muhammad. And and what what is the main thing that the Honorable Elijah Muhammad taught us? That you are not what a Negro is, right? That you are a so-called.
01:57:54:11 – 01:57:55:26
Speaker 3
Negro, right?
01:57:55:28 – 01:58:22:17
Student Minister Rodney Muhammad
But when you look at the name on Marcus Garvey Building, it’s the Negro Improvement Association. But the messenger told us, Negro means death, which means you can’t improve a Negro. You can’t improve a Negro mindset. Are you fine? There’s no way to improve on a Negro that doesn’t put Mr. Garvey down, but it’s just saying it’s no.
01:58:22:17 – 01:58:24:10
Speaker 3
Match.
01:58:24:12 – 01:58:33:01
Student Minister Rodney Muhammad
For what the Honorable Elijah Muhammad taught. You gotta be able to defend this thing.
01:58:33:04 – 01:58:39:14
Unknown
All praise is due to Allah with these articles.
01:58:39:17 – 01:58:48:12
Student Minister Rodney Muhammad
Come on. When Mr. Five Muhammad came. He allowed a picture of himself to be taken.
01:58:48:12 – 01:58:49:22
Speaker 3
Yes, sir.
01:58:49:24 – 01:58:53:17
Student Minister Rodney Muhammad
Holding the Koran with it open. Reading it.
01:58:53:19 – 01:58:56:10
Student In The Ministry Joseph Muhammad
Right.
01:58:56:12 – 01:59:03:01
Student Minister Rodney Muhammad
If he was a follower of noble Jew Ali, that’s the Koran. He would have had.
01:59:03:04 – 01:59:03:26
Student In The Ministry Joseph Muhammad
That.
01:59:03:29 – 01:59:34:15
Student Minister Rodney Muhammad
Which wasn’t really this Koran with the 114 service. Some 19 chapters or something that somebody from Morocco was supposed that told him were missing pieces of the Koran. So, you know, some say he wrote his own Koran, but he is pieced together from things that people had. Now, some say, well, you know, Elijah Muhammad made this man out to be some that he didn’t make himself out to be.
01:59:34:17 – 01:59:42:03
Student Minister Rodney Muhammad
He said he was a prophet for I. There’s no place where Master Farid Muhammad taught that he was a prophet.
01:59:42:03 – 01:59:45:05
Student In The Ministry Joseph Muhammad
That’s right, that’s right.
01:59:45:07 – 01:59:52:16
Student Minister Rodney Muhammad
Look what the Honorable Elijah Muhammad said in Chicago. He preached and looked right at me and said, I am God Himself.
01:59:52:18 – 01:59:53:04
Student In The Ministry Joseph Muhammad
He.
01:59:53:07 – 02:00:02:07
Student Minister Rodney Muhammad
That’s right. Let’s go to another part the Honorable Elijah Muhammad. When being interviewed, he he described that we pray to him.
02:00:02:09 – 02:00:03:01
Speaker 3
To.
02:00:03:03 – 02:00:12:24
Student Minister Rodney Muhammad
See if I got a if if you got a canteen and no water is in and I’m dying of water on the desert, you can bring the canteen. But ain’t nothing in there to keep me alive, right?
02:00:12:27 – 02:00:13:04
Speaker 3
Right.
02:00:13:06 – 02:00:14:16
Student In The Ministry Joseph Muhammad
I teach brotherhood.
02:00:14:23 – 02:00:33:21
Student Minister Rodney Muhammad
But you bring a canteen filled with water. And I drink the water. And it saves my life. The canteen didn’t save my life. It was what was in it. Why are you following now? Look at the Honorable Elijah Muhammad is worth a lord. Came in the person of Master Farad.
02:00:33:21 – 02:00:45:28
Unknown
Muhammad. I.
02:00:46:00 – 02:00:47:21
Unknown
Come on.
02:00:47:23 – 02:01:02:04
Student Minister Rodney Muhammad
Jordan Road. When Prophet Muhammad was praying, he looked up and saw the form of a man. Yes, he said, behold, it is Jibril.
02:01:02:07 – 02:01:03:04
Student In The Ministry Joseph Muhammad
Clearly.
02:01:03:06 – 02:01:39:27
Student Minister Rodney Muhammad
And the first five verses of the Koran from that man were revealed to him when he got to his wife in chills. He never said, I’m the messenger of Jabril. The form that he saw. I’m the messenger. What came in him? I’m the messenger of Allah. Are you following now? The Honorable Elijah Muhammad? Said nearly three and a half years, when a man who taught him day and night.
02:01:39:29 – 02:01:54:15
Student Minister Rodney Muhammad
When that man left in 1934. The Honorable Elijah Muhammad never used these words. I am the messenger of Master Farid Muhammad. He said, I am the Messenger of Allah.
02:01:54:18 – 02:02:01:18
Student Minister Rodney Muhammad
I. You know, folk get mixed up here. Come on, come on.
02:02:01:20 – 02:02:04:16
Student In The Ministry Joseph Muhammad
Come on.
02:02:04:18 – 02:02:07:22
Student Minister Rodney Muhammad
And get it twisted. Amen.
02:02:07:24 – 02:02:11:08
Speaker 3
Then,
02:02:11:10 – 02:02:24:14
Student Minister Rodney Muhammad
They tried this later on. This is what got them. This thing here. Barely more. All right, let’s look at this. Go here.
02:02:24:16 – 02:02:25:15
Student In The Ministry Joseph Muhammad
You.
02:02:25:18 – 02:02:33:01
Student Minister Rodney Muhammad
Know, they’re not going to stop trying right now. Let’s start on the right, master for our Muhammad.
02:02:33:01 – 02:02:34:18
Student In The Ministry Joseph Muhammad
Yes, sir.
02:02:34:20 – 02:02:58:16
Student Minister Rodney Muhammad
Every time the reporters. Yeah. Were coming to the Honorable Elijah Muhammad with questions. One of the questions was always, where is he now? You don’t know where he is. You can’t find him. We’re teaching about him, but you can’t find him. You. You can find everybody.
02:02:58:18 – 02:02:59:28
Student In The Ministry Joseph Muhammad
That’s right.
02:03:00:01 – 02:03:21:24
Student Minister Rodney Muhammad
And you remember some of you. I don’t remember Patty Hirsch with the 70s Liberation Army. Suppose that kidnaped her then they said she joined them and everything. But, see, her father was over this newspaper, right. That print it that this criminal Wallace Dodd Ford who came from New Zealand.
02:03:21:26 – 02:03:22:23
Speaker 3
Yes.
02:03:22:26 – 02:03:31:13
Student Minister Rodney Muhammad
This was the man who started the Nation of Islam.
02:03:31:15 – 02:03:45:11
Student Minister Rodney Muhammad
Yeah. This is. And so the Honorable Elijah Muhammad, in short, took a, took some money out of the bank and had a hundred, hundred thousand dollars certified check.
02:03:45:11 – 02:03:46:27
Student In The Ministry Joseph Muhammad
Yes, sir.
02:03:47:00 – 02:04:05:03
Student Minister Rodney Muhammad
In which case Minister John Shabazz, his regional minister out there, along with Brother Jabril, that was Abdullah. And Brother Jabril took it to this newspaper. That was the Honorable Elijah Muhammad offer. If you can prove that this man, Wallace Dot Ford, is the man that taught me.
02:04:05:06 – 02:04:05:29
Speaker 3
Right.
02:04:06:02 – 02:04:19:08
Student Minister Rodney Muhammad
Now, one of the things that, Doctor Wesley’s investigation already showed up is that the papers and the mug shots that they took of Wallace died for it has some numbers up on it.
02:04:19:10 – 02:04:20:10
Speaker 3
Yes, sir.
02:04:20:13 – 02:04:41:28
Student Minister Rodney Muhammad
They went and took these numbers from Detroit when they arrested Fraud Muhammad in the 30s, and superimposed those numbers on the documents in California years later to make it look like they were the same man. Then what happened was the pictures that they took of for Rob Muhammad in Detroit, and that turns out the FBI had all them destroyed.
02:04:42:04 – 02:04:43:05
Speaker 3
Look at that.
02:04:43:07 – 02:04:50:19
Student Minister Rodney Muhammad
So that this so that they would have this as the only set of pictures. This just look now and they they’re they’re really working.
02:04:50:22 – 02:04:52:00
Speaker 3
Yes, sir. No.
02:04:52:03 – 02:05:00:24
Student Minister Rodney Muhammad
Rather than if you got the truth for who Jesus was, who God is, who the prophets were and everything, why don’t you just bring that out right?
02:05:00:26 – 02:05:03:18
Unknown
Come on, come on, man. Hey.
02:05:03:20 – 02:05:17:16
Student Minister Rodney Muhammad
That’s why I say we found a $4.8 billion lawsuit against the Simon Wiesenthal Center and the Anti-Defamation League. And really, if they got the truth, they should say, bring it.
02:05:17:16 – 02:05:19:16
Student In The Ministry Joseph Muhammad
On.
02:05:19:18 – 02:05:22:05
Student Minister Rodney Muhammad
You to real people. Bring it on.
02:05:22:07 – 02:05:23:08
Student In The Ministry Joseph Muhammad
Bringing.
02:05:23:10 – 02:05:48:17
Student Minister Rodney Muhammad
But they said, no, throw it out. Of course, get rid of it. Because if you talk about it, it’s divine material and cross examination and everything. Before you know it, we’d be writing Saviors letters in the back of the courtroom. People would be joining, people be reciting a student in Rome and next door. They and we’d be saying, all praise is due to a love for the Honorable Elijah Muhammad.
02:05:48:19 – 02:05:53:19
Student Minister Rodney Muhammad
All praise is due to Allah.
02:05:53:21 – 02:05:56:29
Student Minister Rodney Muhammad
They don’t want to discuss it.
02:05:57:02 – 02:06:02:04
Student In The Ministry Joseph Muhammad
This good morning.
02:06:02:06 – 02:06:07:28
Student Minister Rodney Muhammad
The man that taught the Honorable Elijah Muhammad spoke 16 languages. Yes.
02:06:08:01 – 02:06:08:19
Student In The Ministry Joseph Muhammad
Yes. Come on.
02:06:08:24 – 02:06:25:09
Student Minister Rodney Muhammad
The Honorable Elijah Muhammad. Say, let let’s all talk with him together and see. Can he speak any one of them? The man that taught the Honorable Elijah Muhammad spoke fluent Arabic. Yes, sir. Mr. Ford should be able to speak. So come on.
02:06:25:11 – 02:06:28:12
Student In The Ministry Joseph Muhammad
That’s right. That’s the last. Come on.
02:06:28:15 – 02:06:33:28
Student Minister Rodney Muhammad
He taught me lessons, right? That we have right here today.
02:06:34:01 – 02:06:34:19
Speaker 3
Three.
02:06:34:21 – 02:06:39:28
Student Minister Rodney Muhammad
Can Mr. Ford teach us those lessons? No, sir. That he taught me.
02:06:40:02 – 02:06:40:12
Speaker 3
Come on.
02:06:40:18 – 02:06:43:29
Student Minister Rodney Muhammad
See? So they don’t want you there. They don’t want nobody else talking with.
02:06:43:29 – 02:06:46:02
Student In The Ministry Joseph Muhammad
Him that you teach.
02:06:46:04 – 02:06:49:00
Student Minister Rodney Muhammad
And from what we got. No, they flew him out of the country.
02:06:49:02 – 02:06:52:16
Speaker 3
Yes. Right.
02:06:52:18 – 02:07:01:19
Student Minister Rodney Muhammad
Oh, man. I could go on. Yes, sir. But we’re catching them at every turn.
02:07:01:21 – 02:07:04:09
Student In The Ministry Joseph Muhammad
Yes, sir. Yes, sir.
02:07:04:11 – 02:07:41:10
Student Minister Rodney Muhammad
And you know, the Bible has a good verse here so that we understand the laws that Jesus taught about this whole thing. I think it’s an, not the book of John. The book of Luke. Look at here, where Jesus is warning people about, how to examine something for a good tree bear of not corrupt fruit, nor does a corrupt tree bear good fruit.
02:07:41:12 – 02:08:11:19
Student Minister Rodney Muhammad
Each tree is thereby recognized by his own fruit. People do not pick figs from thorn bushes. People do not get grapes from briers. The good man brings good things out of the good that’s stored up in his heart. And you, you can’t have a funky heart and bring forth good fruit.
02:08:11:22 – 02:08:13:29
Student In The Ministry Joseph Muhammad
And say, that’s right. See it?
02:08:14:01 – 02:08:28:19
Student Minister Rodney Muhammad
The heart is the seat of a man’s affections, the center of his intellect and and the place out of which all the issues of his life flow. If the heart is found, your life don’t look good. You don’t sound good.
02:08:28:25 – 02:08:30:04
Student In The Ministry Joseph Muhammad
Keep.
02:08:30:07 – 02:08:35:28
Student Minister Rodney Muhammad
And you don’t mean good to yourself. For nobody else grows old.
02:08:36:00 – 02:08:38:02
Student In The Ministry Joseph Muhammad
We never did.
02:08:38:04 – 02:08:44:02
Student Minister Rodney Muhammad
So. So he’s still telling us. Trees then are known by their fruit.
02:08:44:05 – 02:08:45:21
Speaker 3
Yes, sir.
02:08:45:23 – 02:08:49:22
Student Minister Rodney Muhammad
A man is known by his work.
02:08:49:24 – 02:08:55:19
Unknown
Jesus. Yes, I think of that.
02:08:55:21 – 02:09:05:19
Student Minister Rodney Muhammad
He goes on to say here, because they argued with him about his teaching. Like they arguing with us about what’s being taught.
02:09:05:21 – 02:09:06:10
Student In The Ministry Joseph Muhammad
02:09:06:13 – 02:09:19:29
Student Minister Rodney Muhammad
Stop arguing with him about his place and who he is based on the teaching. Just like they argued with Farrakhan about who he based on what’s being taught.
02:09:20:01 – 02:09:21:03
Student In The Ministry Joseph Muhammad
Come on.
02:09:21:05 – 02:09:31:02
Student Minister Rodney Muhammad
So Jesus said, then, do not believe in me unless I do the work of my father.
02:09:31:04 – 02:09:32:06
Student In The Ministry Joseph Muhammad
Yes, sir.
02:09:32:08 – 02:09:45:14
Student Minister Rodney Muhammad
And if I do? He said, but if I do them the work of my father, even though you don’t believe in me, didn’t believe in my.
02:09:45:14 – 02:09:48:16
Speaker 3
Work, I.
02:09:48:19 – 02:10:07:18
Student Minister Rodney Muhammad
So you saying we don’t have to believe in you? We believe in your word. Yeah. Because a man is known by his word, Look, a tree is known by the fruit it bears. Man’s known by his word for our kind. You are. Hey, teacher. But you can’t find. Hey, on!
02:10:07:21 – 02:10:08:12
Student In The Ministry Joseph Muhammad
Jesus.
02:10:08:14 – 02:10:16:11
Student Minister Rodney Muhammad
You hate white people. But one of the closest companions said Honorable Minister Louis Farrakhan is a Caucasian Catholic priest.
02:10:16:13 – 02:10:17:25
Speaker 3
Okay.
02:10:17:27 – 02:10:39:24
Student Minister Rodney Muhammad
What would make this white man such a close friend and companion to the Honorable Minister Louis Farrakhan? Because they both love truth. They’re not trying to love black skin or white skin. Do you love the truth? Can you stand with the truth?
02:10:39:26 – 02:11:16:15
Student Minister Rodney Muhammad
Oh, so. We could go on with interviews that the Honorable Elijah Muhammad had, but to, get down to to close this out, The nation went down in 1975. Now, we talked about the the the. Sir, the man is 76, the seventh year coming in 66,000 years going out. But if you multiply seven times six, you get 42.
02:11:16:15 – 02:11:18:14
Student In The Ministry Joseph Muhammad
Yes, sir.
02:11:18:17 – 02:11:24:25
Student Minister Rodney Muhammad
Abraham received a promise that God was coming after his seed.
02:11:24:28 – 02:11:25:21
Student In The Ministry Joseph Muhammad
On.
02:11:25:24 – 02:11:32:16
Student Minister Rodney Muhammad
From Abraham to the birth of Jesus is 42 generations. Isn’t that interesting?
02:11:32:17 – 02:11:33:17
Speaker 3
Look at that.
02:11:33:19 – 02:12:01:13
Student Minister Rodney Muhammad
And and, not only that, but Master Fard Muhammad studied 42 years, right before the work of our deliverance. Just did this. Follow me for a minute. When he finds the man that he wants to place the message in, he teaches him just about 42 months before he leaves.
02:12:01:15 – 02:12:02:08
Student In The Ministry Joseph Muhammad
Come on.
02:12:02:10 – 02:12:26:11
Student Minister Rodney Muhammad
That man works 40 to 44 years and the nation goes down. And then after the nation is down, it takes about two years for this man to do a work, to try to wipe out the work of the Honorable Elijah Muhammad. And the nation can’t be found anywhere,
02:12:26:13 – 02:12:27:23
Student In The Ministry Joseph Muhammad
Because it.
02:12:27:25 – 02:12:41:13
Student Minister Rodney Muhammad
And in 1977, he’s got the Honorable Minister Louis Farrakhan stands up at the age of 42. Think of this now.
02:12:41:16 – 02:12:49:09
Student Minister Rodney Muhammad
I think we I could make this up.
02:12:49:11 – 02:12:50:23
Student In The Ministry Joseph Muhammad
It up.
02:12:50:25 – 02:13:15:12
Student Minister Rodney Muhammad
And if you follow the history of Muhammad, we are told that lost found lesson number one is the base of our word. That’s the base of it. And Brother Jabril last, the Honorable Elijah Muhammad does the 14 questions and answers of lost found. Lesson number one correspond with the 1400 year history of Prophet Muhammad. And he said, yes, absolutely.
02:13:15:14 – 02:13:49:27
Student Minister Rodney Muhammad
So if you go back 1400 years, Muhammad, if you study Muhammad of Arabia, he was always trying to find a way to reform his people and men of great learning, and who gave deeper thought to life customarily would go on retreats and they would go seclude themselves away from the society that they were in, which had grown more and more corrupt, even though Christianity was there and Judaism was there.
02:13:50:00 – 02:14:12:07
Student Minister Rodney Muhammad
Now that follow this now. So Muhammad was one of those men, and one time when he secluded himself, this is when he had the encounter of the revelation coming from the cave. Minister Farrakhan wasn’t in a cave, but he was in a hotel room. And Bernard Cushman said, read this.
02:14:12:11 – 02:14:13:29
Speaker 3
That’s right.
02:14:14:02 – 02:14:30:20
Student Minister Rodney Muhammad
It was an angel named Jabril. They went to Muhammad and told him to read in the name of the Lord to read. So Jibril saying, just read this. So when the minister finally ready the Lord, he said, the scales start coming from his eyes.
02:14:30:26 – 02:14:31:12
Speaker 3
That’s right.
02:14:31:18 – 02:14:41:19
Student Minister Rodney Muhammad
And in 1977, when he walked out of the hotel room, he started teaching that night. And he hasn’t stopped teaching.
02:14:41:21 – 02:14:44:23
Student In The Ministry Joseph Muhammad
The last and.
02:14:44:26 – 02:14:48:24
Student Minister Rodney Muhammad
And he he named Bernard Kush. Mel Jabril.
02:14:48:24 – 02:14:50:19
Student In The Ministry Joseph Muhammad
Yes, sir.
02:14:50:21 – 02:15:20:29
Student Minister Rodney Muhammad
Because he had done when the minister turned to know the. I got to go back and rebuild. The Honorable Elijah Muhammad is work. The one he turned to first was his wife, Bessie Jean Farrakhan, from the Muhammad of 1400 years ago, turned to his wife, Khadija. So he named his wife Bessie Jean Khadija Farrakhan. Are you following now because.
02:15:21:02 – 02:15:54:01
Student Minister Rodney Muhammad
It’s come to him what he’s got to do. The climate of death is around Farrakhan. It was around him in 1975 when he went to Saviors Day. And if you watch the footage, when he comes to the mike, you see all them gather around him because they don’t know what he’s going to say. And he gives them a gift to Warf Deen Muhammad, and you see them back away.
02:15:54:04 – 02:16:12:14
Student Minister Rodney Muhammad
So do you know the body language alone shows you that. But the the climate of death was around Minister Farrakhan. And like Muhammad, had not built up 1400 years ago, and Army Farrakhan had not built up an F1, mgt.
02:16:12:16 – 02:16:13:05
Student In The Ministry Joseph Muhammad
Right.
02:16:13:08 – 02:16:46:09
Student Minister Rodney Muhammad
So there were elements that hurt his preaching. And surprisingly, it was Vernon Jarrett of Chicago, writer for the Sun-Times, had television show national board member of the NAACP. His daughter is really his daughter in law because his son died early, but his daughter in law became senior adviser to Barack Obama. The whole eight years in the white House, that’s Valerie Jarrett, who had married Vernon Jarrett, son.
02:16:46:12 – 02:17:11:14
Student Minister Rodney Muhammad
And, but the nationalist community came around the minister to protect him while he was building a force. Now, this this this happened with Muhammad with the early converts. But the pressures became so great in Mecca that they all had to flee Mecca.
02:17:11:16 – 02:17:12:04
Speaker 3
Yes.
02:17:12:07 – 02:17:31:27
Student Minister Rodney Muhammad
So that’s the history. So the Muslims who fled Mecca, they went to a Christian land to find refuge. And this is where Abu Bakr and all of them were. We couldn’t stay on Stoney Island no more. The hatred had grown for anybody that was going to bring back Elijah Muhammad. Brother. You understand? So we all had to.
02:17:31:27 – 02:18:03:01
Student Minister Rodney Muhammad
Everybody had to leave Stoney Island. And it wasn’t a Christian land, but it was a Christian church that they were in. Reverend Porter’s church we follow in the steps. We couldn’t have made this up. And from that church we went to the final call building. Yes, sir. And we were at the final call building. The number three, if you count from Reverend Porter’s church to the years we were at the final call building, we marched back to Stoney Island.
02:18:03:03 – 02:18:29:17
Student Minister Rodney Muhammad
If you look in the Koran, it’s called the Tower Book Expedition. For us, it was the National Center Drive. And we made great sacrifices to get back on Stoney Island. Some of y’all were here yesterday. You know how we went? City to city. Coming around. We would be raising money all night. He sent Brother Russell here and people was calling people out of bed.
02:18:29:19 – 02:18:58:18
Student Minister Rodney Muhammad
We’re raising money to help the minister. Come on, let’s get to the bank. Let’s get to something. So. And, if you look in the Koran at the taboo expedition, this was the same thing. And somebody said it appeared, on the face of it, to be a hardship on the believers. But while Muhammad was raising to get the believers back in Mecca, Allah was driving the hypocrites out of the house.
02:18:58:20 – 02:19:08:11
Student Minister Rodney Muhammad
So he kept pushing his messenger, pushed them, pushed them, and the hypocrites would choke it.
02:19:08:13 – 02:19:13:22
Unknown
Damn and raise some more money.
02:19:13:25 – 02:19:48:09
Student Minister Rodney Muhammad
By the time we got to Stoney Island yesterday, we were about free of hypocrites for a while because a hypocrite give and charity. But they will not sacrifice and national sin a drive. Cause for sacrifice is not charity. You notice that when Jesus is about to start his ministry, he’s led by God to go to John the Baptist.
02:19:48:11 – 02:19:49:06
Student In The Ministry Joseph Muhammad
Right?
02:19:49:09 – 02:20:17:12
Student Minister Rodney Muhammad
And you notice when he goes to John the Baptist, John is trying to tell him you should be baptizing me, not I, you, but Jesus. Say it so that all righteousness so that the Scripture shall be fulfilled. John was to baptize him, and right after he’s baptized, you notice the spirit comes down on him and says, this is my son with whom I am well pleased.
02:20:17:18 – 02:20:23:15
Student Minister Rodney Muhammad
But it says, the spirit led him into the wilderness, and he’s tested by Saint.
02:20:23:17 – 02:20:25:03
Student In The Ministry Joseph Muhammad
James brother, Minister.
02:20:25:06 – 02:20:38:27
Student Minister Rodney Muhammad
And he passed the test. And and the Bible says, and he came out of the wilderness, filled up with the spirit. And the first people to attack him was the Jews. That’s where we’ve.
02:20:38:27 – 02:20:40:23
Student In The Ministry Joseph Muhammad
Been.
02:20:40:25 – 02:21:03:29
Student Minister Rodney Muhammad
That’s where we’ve been. The minister never taught on the Jews. He never taught against them. He never said anything. It was Reverend Jackson that came to him and said, Will you help me, Brother Farrakhan? I’m running for president. And they wanted to hurt Jesse. Right. And the minister appealed to them. Why don’t why don’t we talk and have dialog?
02:21:04:06 – 02:21:18:28
Student Minister Rodney Muhammad
They didn’t want to hear that. So they got mad and called him a black Hitler. You, y’all you, me. I was at the meeting and they called him Nate Hentoff called him that, and so did Nathaniel Perlmutter of the ADL.
02:21:19:00 – 02:21:19:27
Student In The Ministry Joseph Muhammad
Come on, write it down.
02:21:20:03 – 02:21:48:28
Student Minister Rodney Muhammad
You know, and the minister wasn’t looking for that fight. He was looking to get black people up. But this is what God wanted. Moses and the minister came to learn that the architecture of white supremacy, that God didn’t lead him to the architecture. He led them to the architect, the one that has built this thing to last. But we got to break free the nation.
02:21:48:28 – 02:22:11:18
Student Minister Rodney Muhammad
Now, Islam’s history is not over. We’re still writing our history. And if it pleases the Lord and he spare our lives, we will be here to see the final victory. Thank you for listening. I salaam.
02:22:11:21 – 02:22:29:02
Student Minister Rodney Muhammad
Oh. Praise is due to a lot. We’re thankful to Almighty God for the leadership of the Honorable Minister Louis Farrakhan. And, you know, it’s appropriate because they fought us even in the Million Man March.
02:22:29:04 – 02:22:30:03
Student In The Ministry Joseph Muhammad
Come on.
02:22:30:06 – 02:22:51:24
Student Minister Rodney Muhammad
October 4th, 1995, the ADL weighed in and tried to stop black men from going to Washington. And it energized the black community. So that they would be told, which you shouldn’t have told us what not to do.
02:22:51:27 – 02:22:52:12
Speaker 3
Right.
02:22:52:15 – 02:23:16:05
Student Minister Rodney Muhammad
Now. The people that were scratching their heads, still trying to figure out if they you just made their mind up for them. So, you know, we’re thankful to Almighty God that he used the minister to make that call. And we have that as a matter of record on the black man’s, history for this country, because that’s an unprecedented moment.
02:23:16:08 – 02:23:51:00
Student Minister Rodney Muhammad
But, this Sunday, coming up next Sunday, we’ll be meeting, the doors are open at two. We’ll be meeting at three. The Honorable Minister Louis Farrakhan is sending the nation. I mean, sending a message to the nation and to the world. And, of course, it’s talking right into the politics of our day. On the flier, it says which of the candidates running for president of the United States of America can, can really protect us against the wrath of God.
02:23:51:02 – 02:24:18:27
Student Minister Rodney Muhammad
So you see, we not having the right conversation in a time like this, you know, and there were there’s a history in the Bible, especially where certain kings saw great calamities visiting their nations, and the kings put on sackcloth and ashes and said to the nation of their people, we need to pray to God to end this thing.
02:24:19:03 – 02:24:20:06
Student In The Ministry Joseph Muhammad
So.
02:24:20:09 – 02:24:25:18
Student Minister Rodney Muhammad
That we will repent. But there are too proud in this land.
02:24:25:20 – 02:24:26:16
Student In The Ministry Joseph Muhammad
This earth.
02:24:26:18 – 02:24:42:14
Student Minister Rodney Muhammad
And you know, the sad part is, they’ve made us like that. We’re too proud to say, you know, maybe we need to check ourselves. Maybe we need to look at ourselves and see. Have we played some role in our own demise?
02:24:42:14 – 02:24:42:24
Speaker 3
Right.
02:24:42:24 – 02:24:51:12
Student Minister Rodney Muhammad
That our children are killing each other and we’re trying to find someone to blame and we not looking even at ourselves?
02:24:51:15 – 02:24:52:16
Student In The Ministry Joseph Muhammad
You know.
02:24:52:19 – 02:25:18:28
Student Minister Rodney Muhammad
How how does somebody come out of your womb and then out of our homes? And somebody’s done got Ahold of them and turned them into something that you and the woman never intended. You know, and we not having no conversations about this. And, you know, James Baldwin said this. Everything you face, you may not change, but nothing’s going to change if you don’t face it.
02:25:19:01 – 02:25:34:22
Student Minister Rodney Muhammad
You understand. And we’re not facing up to it to talk about. We’re talking about our children. And you can’t have a meeting that you call some white folks over to do. They are tone deaf.
02:25:34:24 – 02:25:35:23
Speaker 3
Right? That’s just.
02:25:35:25 – 02:25:37:29
Student Minister Rodney Muhammad
To what our own children are feeling out.
02:25:37:29 – 02:25:40:01
Speaker 3
Here.
02:25:40:03 – 02:25:59:04
Student Minister Rodney Muhammad
And I’m reading in the paper, this morning, they showing a chart. The poorer the person is in Philadelphia, the more to the political right. They’re leaning so out of their impoverished state, they not reaching for Kamala Harris.
02:25:59:06 – 02:26:00:12
Student In The Ministry Joseph Muhammad
Was.
02:26:00:14 – 02:26:08:27
Student Minister Rodney Muhammad
Almost in a self-destructive way. They reached for Donald Trump. If they were going to vote yes, sir, but most of them are probably not going to vote.
02:26:09:00 – 02:26:10:21
Student In The Ministry Joseph Muhammad
Right? Right.
02:26:10:23 – 02:26:25:16
Student Minister Rodney Muhammad
And this being a tight race, especially in Pennsylvania, we’re not even having a right conversation about that. Do you know, in Philadelphia they’re 1,038,000 registered voters.
02:26:25:19 – 02:26:26:22
Student In The Ministry Joseph Muhammad
From.
02:26:26:25 – 02:26:53:07
Student Minister Rodney Muhammad
Mostly all of a Democrat. Donald Trump wouldn’t stand a chance in his state if all them came out and voted, you know, but the truth is, they the fight been knocked out of them. The race is tight because, you know, most of them are not going to come out and vote even though they’re registered. So you have disenchanted, disillusioned and disaffected.
02:26:53:07 – 02:27:00:01
Student Minister Rodney Muhammad
These people, and we’re not even having no conversation about it.
02:27:00:03 – 02:27:21:03
Student Minister Rodney Muhammad
All we’re doing is saying, we got to go around and shake bells and do everything and get everybody out to vote. But, you know, the minister warned us. He said, if you give a child this hungry, a full plate of food and they push it away, is nothing wrong with the child, some wrong with the cook.
02:27:21:05 – 02:27:21:28
Speaker 3
On.
02:27:22:01 – 02:27:45:26
Student Minister Rodney Muhammad
And what we gave them and whatever we trying to shove down these younger generations throat. Maybe they don’t want it. Somebody need to have a conversation with them and find out what do they want and why do they want it. So I just see us making a lot of big mistakes here. If you have if you are for your first time, let me see your hand.
02:27:45:26 – 02:28:04:26
Student Minister Rodney Muhammad
You’ve been out with us. Thank you so much. My sister. Thank you so much, my brother. Praise be to Allah. Now if you are for your first. You know, I don’t know if you we we try to share with you what what we’re learning from the greatest teacher I’ll ever know in my lifetime, the Honorable Minister Louis Farrakhan.
02:28:05:01 – 02:28:29:11
Student Minister Rodney Muhammad
And that doesn’t mean we don’t have other great teachers. But one thing I learned from him, he honors everybody that’s teaching truth. He don’t care what color your skin he is, what country you come from. If you represent in truth, you’re going to be a friend of Farrakhan’s, because he loves the truth. And man, the more and more you grow to love the truth, the more and more you find yourself like him when you’re choosing people to.
02:28:29:13 – 02:28:51:25
Student Minister Rodney Muhammad
But if you out for your first, second, third time, how many of you feel that what you hear hearing is the truth and good for us as a people. Thank you so much. Praise be to Allah. Thank you so much. So, I want to ask this question on behalf of the Honorable Minister Louis Farrakhan. If you feel this is the truth and good for you as a people, how many of you would take another step to learn more about the truth?
02:28:51:28 – 02:29:06:10
Student Minister Rodney Muhammad
I mean, there’s no complaint. Thank you, my sister. Thank you so much. All praises be to Allah. So I’m gonna ask you to come on. I just want to shake your hand, all of you. That if your hand is up to be a part of this and learn more about this, we’re going to help you. How are you doing?
02:29:06:10 – 02:29:09:02
Student Minister Rodney Muhammad
My sister put your name Sarah Silverman.
02:29:09:08 – 02:29:10:02
Speaker 3
Cheryl.
02:29:10:09 – 02:29:18:06
Student Minister Rodney Muhammad
Cheryl, this is sister Cheryl. Come on. Put your hands together for. Hey, black man, how you doing? And what’s your name, sir?
02:29:18:09 – 02:29:20:09
Student In The Ministry Joseph Muhammad
What’s dance man? Watson.
02:29:20:09 – 02:29:42:24
Student Minister Rodney Muhammad
Roxanne. Watson. Watson. Yes, sir. Like the Watson. That was Sherlock Holmes, right? Yeah. That’s Watson. Come on, have a seat. Sister. Arlene’s going to talk to you right there. Come on. We need some other folks. You know, the Honorable Minister Louis Farrakhan. Sending a great message coming through this week. Coming Friday night. Brother Nouri Muhammad is going to be with us.
02:29:42:24 – 02:30:08:11
Student Minister Rodney Muhammad
So we asking everybody to come out. All of you that are guests, come on out and be with us this Friday night also, and as we get ready to do our public offering, I just want to say to you, now we gotta do at least $750 right now. Secretary said, we got we got things to pay. And so we got to bring our guest in and we got to be able to put them, put them up and, and be a part of this.
02:30:08:11 – 02:30:29:03
Student Minister Rodney Muhammad
Okay. So if you have $100 of $50, we should welcome it today. But how many of us can put together $20, $40 and that kind of thing? We need that kind of help today. Brother divine has got his hand up. Who else can give us $20 today? And then another brother, $200 coming from Brother Divine. Come on now, $200.
02:30:29:10 – 02:30:53:17
Student Minister Rodney Muhammad
That’s a big start right there, brother divine. Starting us off with $200. $200. All praise is due to a lot of there’s somebody can do $100, $50, $20. This is your opportunity and many of us can give $20. So brother, brother is Brother Vincent with $20. All right. Do I have four people that get behind brother Vincent, brother Joseph with $20.
02:30:53:20 – 02:31:12:00
Student Minister Rodney Muhammad
All praise is due to Allah. We need three other people. There’s. There’s brother, brother and $100 brother Abdul. And another $20 coming from Brother Shaheed. All praise is due to Allah.
02:31:12:02 – 02:31:36:23
Student Minister Rodney Muhammad
Brother Darian with $50. Go ahead now. Brother Darian with $50. Now. Sister Mary with $20. Give it up for now. Give it up for praise be to Allah. Who? Who else can help us? You can use your credit card, a debit card. We we were able to accommodate all of it. So think that way. And you might be able to do $50 $100.
02:31:36:23 – 02:32:02:26
Student Minister Rodney Muhammad
But we need your financial support today. We need your financial support today. So we’re asking you to help. Sister has her hand up over here. Brother Ronald with $10. Thank you so much. Thank you so much. Black man. Thank you so much. Who else can help us? Who else can help us with $20? How many $20 do we have right now?
02:32:02:29 – 02:32:12:13
Student Minister Rodney Muhammad
Now we know we’ve been raising for the safest day gift and everything. Let me tell you something. You. God is with you. Yes, sir. Yeah. We’re not waiting on him to come. He’s here.
02:32:12:15 – 02:32:12:18
Speaker 3
At.
02:32:12:18 – 02:32:39:13
Student Minister Rodney Muhammad
$20. It’s. It’s the key here with $20. There we go. Praise be to Allah. $21, brother Jerry, brother Darius with $100. Come on now. Oh, praise it. Due to Allah. All right, all right, 100. Anybody downstairs? Brother Rodney, you usually bring a report? Yeah. All right, here we go. So who else can help us here? Who else can help us here?
02:32:39:15 – 02:32:50:04
Student Minister Rodney Muhammad
Because we don’t want to stay. I’ll keep you all day unnecessarily. But you know, the Honorable Elijah Muhammad teacher told him. He said, you know, if you turn him upside down and everything come.
02:32:50:04 – 02:32:50:29
Student In The Ministry Joseph Muhammad
Down.
02:32:51:01 – 02:33:11:17
Student Minister Rodney Muhammad
It up. And he was serious and he said, you still they would be blessed because I got their back, you know. And, then he said, Elijah, if you can’t make them give, I can’t bless them. And he talking, you know.
02:33:11:20 – 02:33:13:04
Student In The Ministry Joseph Muhammad
You got $18.
02:33:13:06 – 02:33:23:22
Student Minister Rodney Muhammad
Anonymous with $15. There we go. Praise be to Allah. All right. Praise be to Allah. Brother Gregory’s hand is up. Brother Gregory’s hand is up on the wall.
02:33:23:24 – 02:33:25:18
Student In The Ministry Joseph Muhammad
112 coming from downstairs.
02:33:25:20 – 02:33:53:07
Student Minister Rodney Muhammad
All right. Brother, brother, brother, brother Gregory, $20. And Brother Joseph just notified me a report has come from downstairs. Another $112. Adding on all praise is due to Allah. Get $50, brother Luke, my $10, brother. Look, man. All right. Praise be to Allah. There we go. Praise be to Allah. So we’re going to pass the receptacle. I’m going to ask you to put something in there.
02:33:53:09 – 02:34:13:11
Student Minister Rodney Muhammad
We are so thankful for you. Now, Friday night, you need to be here. Our brother, Nouri Muhammad is going to be with us. He’s teaching today in Chicago. You know, I understand the Honorable Minister Louis Farrakhan wanted to hear from him. And so they they were able to get him scheduled. He’s been traveling, but he’ll be in Philadelphia with us.
02:34:13:11 – 02:34:31:03
Student Minister Rodney Muhammad
And so, we we we won’t be able to have him on the Sunday. So we having a Friday night meeting. I hope you don’t mind that, but I think we’ll have a good time. So, you know, make a point to be here. We’re going to be we’re going to be getting it together. We’ll be ready at seven.
02:34:31:05 – 02:34:55:14
Student Minister Rodney Muhammad
And as you getting in, we’re going to have prayer. And then we just going to going to have a prayer meeting. Good good good soulful prayer meeting with brother Nouri Mohammed. And he’s really looking forward to being with us. You be with us the whole weekend. And, I think he’s going to be a brother Michael Z’s, store for portraits and pictures and, other our our artifacts.
02:34:55:16 – 02:35:13:14
Student Minister Rodney Muhammad
So we’ll get you the whole, schedule for what? He’s doing while he’s here. And, of course, you’re blessed to have him here now because they called him to try to come in to Chicago. You know, they want him there to help. Help them there. But he said, no, I’m going to be in Philadel for you. So I’m I’m thankful that he’s here.
02:35:13:17 – 02:35:33:29
Student Minister Rodney Muhammad
So let’s come on out in big numbers. Praise be to Allah. And we’re getting ready for some special days. As believers, we need to show up for these days of service. And we’ll be connected with headquarters. Is that in the morning? Can somebody help me with the schedule? Is that scheduled, or do we start in the morning?
02:35:33:29 – 02:36:00:04
Student Minister Rodney Muhammad
System commission? Yes, sir. Prayer services tomorrow morning at 6 a.m. at 6 a.m.. And then tomorrow is going to be a day of service. Oh, is that. Oh. At 10 a.m., we start the day of service. Okay. So we’ll be meeting here, right, to go out. Okay, great. Great. All right then. So, all praise is due to allow me to turn it over to Brother Joseph to close us out in prayer.
02:36:00:04 – 02:36:25:27
Student Minister Rodney Muhammad
We have delicious dinners. Being prepared downstairs. You might want to take one home with you. And, man, they are cooking. And let me tell you something. Now, we were in Pittsburgh last week. It kind of cooking here. We and the other, captain and I, we went up to Allentown. Let me tell you something. They cooking around here, we.
02:36:26:00 – 02:36:31:27
Student Minister Rodney Muhammad
Wait a minute. Yeah, it’s a brother, Lamont. I got him. I said, oh, this one. How y’all getting number one?
02:36:31:29 – 02:36:32:26
Speaker 3
Come on.
02:36:32:28 – 02:36:51:10
Student Minister Rodney Muhammad
I see him in been on the nations thing. They they number one fish in and look, Pittsburgh almost had 100 people out last Sunday. So they go fishing on Sunday. They work in this thing now. They we got to get busy, All right. Praise be to the Lord. Brother Joseph, my husband.
02:36:51:12 – 02:37:11:18
Student In The Ministry Joseph Muhammad
Oh, praise this. New to our Lord. Let’s give him another round of applause. Delaware Valley student Regional Minister Rodney Muhammad. And while he was talking about cooking, didn’t he cook something for us today? Oh, oh, praise belongs to Allah. So, dear family, we’ve been fed. And if you don’t be, he was ready to feed us some more.
02:37:11:18 – 02:37:36:09
Student In The Ministry Joseph Muhammad
But I guess he didn’t want us to be overstuffed. So that means we’ll have to come back next week for the next part of this. By the grace of Allah. We have a few announcements. I’m going to go through them very quickly, and, we will close immediately thereafter with prayer. The first announcement is support the LC education, the Key to Learning Center and mu I affiliate offering a virtual learning experience for the 20 2425 school year.
02:37:36:17 – 02:37:55:08
Student In The Ministry Joseph Muhammad
Please check your email for the survey. And if you’re not on the email, see brother severe. He is our student Minister of Information within the mosque. Give me your email. Your email. He will be able to send you everything that comes up, within the mosque. And you could be abreast of all the, events that are coming down the line.
02:37:55:10 – 02:38:14:17
Student In The Ministry Joseph Muhammad
Number two, please hear from Sister Gina regarding the update on the PRC. Okay, for the staple Goods project. Sister Gina, there’s something you want to share with us. Yes. Some of, I just want to let you know that we will have a new you for.
02:38:14:20 – 02:38:28:02
Student In The Ministry Joseph Muhammad
Everything. Dante distracted and his. Where? Very, Oh, praise the Lord.
02:38:28:05 – 02:38:38:16
Student In The Ministry Joseph Muhammad
Take it in stride. September 20th, 20.
02:38:38:18 – 02:38:57:03
Student In The Ministry Joseph Muhammad
Yes, ma’am. Thank you, Sister Gina, for that important update. And no, we just made a breath. Brother Dante is going to be the new, coordinator of the Staple Goods. And brother David Hassan will be his assistant. Get get your products now, because we are in the fall of America. Might not be able to go to the grocery store.
02:38:57:05 – 02:39:16:14
Student In The Ministry Joseph Muhammad
Well, at least you can have something in your house. So do your family. Let’s move on with that. Thank you again, Sister Gina. Praise be to Allah. Tomorrow, Monday, October 7th, our national observation, of the birth anniversary of the Honorable Elijah Muhammad. A prayer service will commence. Please check your email for the precise time assist, student cab commission.
02:39:16:17 – 02:39:41:14
Student In The Ministry Joseph Muhammad
You said 6 a.m.. Prayer for the prayer. All right. You heard that? I’m sorry, I you know, I thought so. Log on. The family that prays together. Prays because a little weak. Would y’all understand what was going on, right? Oh, praise be to Allah, the 29th. And we have with that, we have saved the day. Check your email for more details.
02:39:41:14 – 02:40:03:12
Student In The Ministry Joseph Muhammad
This Friday, October, the 11 student minister, Nouri Muhammad will speak here at Muhammad Muhammad’s mosque. Members will check your email for more detail. Brother Rodney just went over that. So you understand what’s happening this Friday. Also the National Black Leadership Summit, that will be Saturday, October the 19th in Washington, DC. Check your email and flier for registration info.
02:40:03:18 – 02:40:33:02
Student In The Ministry Joseph Muhammad
And last but not least, dinner sales. Today, we have barbecue chicken, fried fish, vegetarian quiche size green beans, cabbage, mac and cheese, drinks and desserts, desserts are also available for sale. Again, we’ve been spiritually fed, psychologically starved, takes up home with you and then let it marinate at the same time. All right, dear family, if all hearts and minds are at ease, let’s close with prayer.
02:40:33:04 – 02:40:52:07
Student In The Ministry Joseph Muhammad
In the 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 praise is due, the Lord of the world, the beneficent, the Most Merciful master of the Day of Judgment in which we now live. The alone do we serve, and thee alone do we beseech for aid.
02:40:52:10 – 02:41:10:28
Student In The Ministry Joseph Muhammad
Oh Allah, guide us on the straight path, the path of those upon whom that was bestowed favors, not the path of those upon whom thy wrath is brought down, nor of those who go astray. After hearing that teach you see here lies one Allah is he upon whom we all depend. He neither beget nor is he begotten, and there is none like him.
02:41:11:00 – 02:41:29:00
Student In The Ministry Joseph Muhammad
I bear witness that none deserves to be served to worship. Besides the love who appear to us in the personage of Master Muhammad. And we thank him for given to us his wise choice in the Messenger of Messiah, the exalted, the risen and living Christ in the Most honorable Elijah Muhammad. And we thank the two of them for the gift that they’ve given to us.
02:41:29:02 – 02:41:59:28
Student In The Ministry Joseph Muhammad
A man that walks among us as the Messiah, the Honorable Minister Louis Farrakhan. It is in their names we pray. Amen. Dear family, the meeting is adjourned. Go in peace and remember, we are never to be the aggressive. But if we are aggressive upon, we fight with those who fight with us. I Salaam alaikum.
02:42:00:00 – 02:42:00:26
Student In The Ministry Joseph Muhammad
I do.