Mosque 12 Sunday Lecture 09-22-2024
Sunday Lecture
Student Minister Joseph Muhammad and Student Regional Minister Rodney Muhammad, focus on the teachings of the Nation of Islam, particularly the role and importance of the Honorable Elijah Muhammad and the Honorable Minister Louis Farrakhan.
The lecture emphasizes the importance of submitting to the will of God, understanding that it is the true source of power in the universe and that this submission is the path to overcome personal and societal challenges.
The lecture also highlights the importance of resisting the temptations of the world and the constant struggle to remain connected to God’s will. The ministers use biblical and Islamic teachings to underscore the message of submitting to God’s will and navigating the complex realities of life in the world.
00:00:00:00 – 00:00:09:06
Student In The Ministry Joseph Muhammad
Voila. Make Mohammed fix this. Make the two followers of Mohammed successfully. Now, then make Abraham and the true followers of Abraham successful.
00:00:09:11 – 00:00:10:17
Student Minister Rodney Muhammad
Sure.
00:00:10:20 – 00:00:41:15
Student In The Ministry Joseph Muhammad
I agree, then that I know Allah. Bless mom and bless this from followers of mom, bless Abraham and this from followers of Abraham for sure. Now I praise and magnify. Maybe see in the name of Allah, the beneficent, the Most Merciful. We give praise and thanks to Allah for anytime that the human family for the series from the position that he has us in, we have fallen to the depths of hell.
00:00:41:17 – 00:01:09:05
Student In The Ministry Joseph Muhammad
He always sends a messenger or Warner or prophet to raise us back to the pinnacle of success that he had put us in, and that he desires for us to be on. So we thank Almighty God a lot in the person of Master Muhammad for coming to America in July 1930 to a place called Black Bottom, Detroit, to help black men and woman back to where we rightfully belong.
00:01:09:07 – 00:01:33:09
Student In The Ministry Joseph Muhammad
We thank him for spending three years and four months among us, and in that time in Black Power in Detroit, we are taught in our history that he gave our 25,000 holy names. That’s a lot of names. But he gave it to the people whom this society of social sciences had labeled us as irretrievable, irredeemable. We were even referred to as dead.
00:01:33:16 – 00:01:56:00
Student In The Ministry Joseph Muhammad
That’s right. But the work that he had to do among us, he came to lay a foundation. But he was looking for a man that could further carry out the instructions that he would give them. And we are talking about he’s looking for a man with the spiritual and psychological and physical constitution that he could withstand the weight of God, mind being in him and on him.
00:01:56:03 – 00:02:21:11
Student In The Ministry Joseph Muhammad
And not only that, to the very people that he had to help uplift those people were his greatest detractors. You and I, we gave him a harder time than the enemy who didn’t want him teaching the truth that he had came to give to each one of us. But the man that came who was able to handle this great responsibility, we say that he is the most powerful and greatest human being that has ever lived in the annals of history.
00:02:21:13 – 00:02:44:23
Student In The Ministry Joseph Muhammad
Because he was saddled with the responsibility that none before him had ever been saddled with, and that was to raise a dead black man and woman, not a physically dead black man, a woman, but a man and woman who had lost their name, their religion, their culture, their God, their folkways, their mores. You know, they we had we were politically, socially, economically, spiritually dead.
00:02:44:25 – 00:03:14:05
Student In The Ministry Joseph Muhammad
So he came that we might be able to come up and demand that he put that great responsibility to you on was a Georgia born giant, and he was born on the heels of slavery in 1897, born Elijah Poole. But because of the wonderful and magnificent work that he was saddled to do with you and I, a difficult people and anybody who takes on the job to try to reform us, that’s a work laid out for you.
00:03:14:11 – 00:03:37:05
Student In The Ministry Joseph Muhammad
But he didn’t run from that. He stayed his course and he never left his post, regardless of whom or what. And the man that I speak of, that Georgia born giant, the boldest, the baddest, most courageous black man that has ever lived, and the annals of history, the most honorable Elijah Muhammad. All praise is due to allow for that beautiful, beautiful human being.
00:03:37:07 – 00:04:07:11
Student In The Ministry Joseph Muhammad
But brothers and sisters, in the Bible of the King James Version of the Bible, we might be able to read these words that confession is good for the soul. I never met Master Farad Muhammad. I never met the Most Honorable Elijah Muhammad. But there’s a man today who is the premier exam of what a man should be. So if you want to see that, and if you look at that with moon light reflected off of you that your brother might look like, then study this man.
00:04:07:13 – 00:04:28:09
Student In The Ministry Joseph Muhammad
He is the most famous Muslim on the planet, and we can prove it at no limit of time. He is the Jesus in our midst and we can prove it at no limit of time. Why do we say that? Because the pattern of the Jesus 2000 years ago, he was hated by the government. He was hated by the Jews, and he was hated by the scribes.
00:04:28:11 – 00:04:48:00
Student In The Ministry Joseph Muhammad
Were the scribes of those who write in a modern context? That would be the media. Well, the man that I speak of is hated by all three, just as the historical Jesus was hated by those of his time who wore those same shoes with this man that walks among us. He is a giant. As a matter of fact, we can say that he’s being made into a god right before our eyes.
00:04:48:06 – 00:05:09:28
Student In The Ministry Joseph Muhammad
What does God mean? That means anything that is done with force and power to the mothers in the house. You a God with force and power. If you have children, you gave birth to a child. That was force and power. Come on now and then. In the end, you replicated your own creation and your me. Oh that’s powerful.
00:05:09:28 – 00:05:33:22
Student In The Ministry Joseph Muhammad
Another subject for another time. But the man who I’m talking about right now, who is causing me to fall deeper in love with what we call Islam and the teachings of the Most Honorable Elijah Muhammad. He is our illustrious leader, teacher, guide, friend, confidant. The Honorable Minister Louis Farrakhan. It is in their names like this. You all once again to your family with the greeting where the peace?
00:05:33:25 – 00:05:50:18
Student In The Ministry Joseph Muhammad
Hey. Salaam alaikum. What is it? How are we? Just morning family banter. How are you thinking? All right, what if you ain’t thinking straight right now? Before you leave here again. To you. To you. You have a thought in your mind that you can wait upon. You’re leaving this building. And when you get to your health, something’s going to come up.
00:05:50:18 – 00:06:08:09
Student In The Ministry Joseph Muhammad
A word that came across this rostrum. It’s going to hit you in a certain way. You might not pay any attention to it right now. We call it this in science. They call it a delayed reaction. In some parts of the world, they call it a way. Homer Miller, you figure it out on the way home, but it’s going to hit you either way and we talk.
00:06:08:09 – 00:06:27:26
Student In The Ministry Joseph Muhammad
What we’re talking about right now is the truth. But before I go any further, please allow me to say to you, thank you for being here this morning on time. And thank you, dear family, for submitting to what’s known as the check procedure for the only admittance into the building today. The house is that we all had to get a going over.
00:06:27:27 – 00:06:49:27
Student In The Ministry Joseph Muhammad
We all had to be checked and myself included. Not everybody. The keynote speaker, our student regional minister Rodney Muhammad, he had to be checked. I said, why? Why are we checked? Because the Honorable Elijah Muhammad teaches us, and the Honorable Louis Farrakhan continues to remind us that we can change in the twinkling of an eye, something good to happen to us out there.
00:06:49:28 – 00:07:12:11
Student In The Ministry Joseph Muhammad
And we bring that demon in on our shoulders and we’re not feeling right. And we come in and or maybe the person comes in and they just aren’t themselves that day. Maybe they’ve turned devil and devil is any live germ grafted is taken from original. So we are of our original righteous thoughts and we are devil and we can do devilish acts if something isn’t there to keep it in check.
00:07:12:12 – 00:07:33:11
Student In The Ministry Joseph Muhammad
So that’s why we have our check procedure, because we want you to be able to sit there and hear the weight of truth coming across this rostrum, and you don’t have to be looking over your shoulder or wondering who’s behind you or who’s in front of you. That might cut up because we’ve already eliminated all of that. So, dear family, at this time, I’m not going to belabor the point.
00:07:33:14 – 00:07:54:00
Student In The Ministry Joseph Muhammad
Our brother is here, but before he comes up, please, before you leave, grab the final call. Newspaper. This is the greatest newspaper in the world. Why? Because there’s a volume. It has local, national and international news in it, and there’s a spiritual content in it that you can read from the Honorable Elijah Muhammad, the Honorable Minister Louis Farrakhan.
00:07:54:02 – 00:08:14:29
Student In The Ministry Joseph Muhammad
Brother Jabril, may Allah be pleased with him and Mother Benita Muhammad may all be pleased forever with them. This spiritual content is so powerful that if you read this, if you are a social light and we all are, and you like talking to people, you have so much to talk about. If you just read these articles and take it out with you and feed it to your family and friends, y’all all right, all right, dear family.
00:08:14:29 – 00:08:40:26
Student In The Ministry Joseph Muhammad
Well, at this time, I’m going to get out of the way and make room for our brother. He is a hard working soldier. He is the representative, the helper of the Honorable Minister Louis Farrakhan in the Delaware Valley region. He is our brother, Student Minister Rodney Muhammad. Let’s bring him on with a lovely round of applause. So I’m gonna take go.
00:08:40:29 – 00:08:57:23
Student Minister Rodney Muhammad
In the name of Allah, the beneficent, the merciful, the one God to whom praises to the Lord of the worlds. We thank Almighty God, the revealer of all truth and the center of all prophets, of whom we make no distinction.
00:08:57:23 – 00:09:07:08
Student Minister Rodney Muhammad
We thank him for Moses and the Torah, for Jesus and the gospel. We certainly thank him for Muhammad and the revelation of the Holy Quran.
00:09:07:11 – 00:09:38:03
Student Minister Rodney Muhammad
Can he turn this up? But as a student of the Honorable Elijah Muhammad to life giving message, I’m most thankful to Allah for his own intervention in our affairs and the divine person of Master Fard Muhammad, to whom praise is due forever. We cannot thank him enough for his coming. Though we have been so ruined, we didn’t even know to expect his coming.
00:09:38:05 – 00:10:42:07
Student Minister Rodney Muhammad
We weren’t waiting on him in the sense that we were consciously aware that he should appear. The. Nevertheless, he has come and the evidence that he came is that he converted one. A man who became a 100% convert to him, the Most Honorable Elijah Muhammad, a man unfailing in his commission and now his exalted servant. A Christ figure not only for the Christian world, but the Christ figure of the Muslim world, is called Mahdi, as we thank Allah because any man who comes and doesn’t find what he was looking for.
00:10:42:09 – 00:10:50:10
Student Minister Rodney Muhammad
He has to stand in the place of what he needs until he can make what he needs.
00:10:50:11 – 00:10:52:08
Student In The Ministry Joseph Muhammad
That’s right, that’s right.
00:10:52:11 – 00:10:59:09
Student Minister Rodney Muhammad
And so he came and was called the Mahdi. But he was to make one right?
00:10:59:10 – 00:11:03:13
Student In The Ministry Joseph Muhammad
Right.
00:11:03:16 – 00:11:15:23
Student Minister Rodney Muhammad
Teach Muhammad a Christ figure, somebody whose mind can be crystallized into oneness with God.
00:11:15:25 – 00:11:19:21
Student In The Ministry Joseph Muhammad
So.
00:11:19:23 – 00:11:31:04
Student Minister Rodney Muhammad
Long awaited for his servant. Meaning that Elijah Muhammad didn’t just get up one day in Detroit and make this up.
00:11:31:06 – 00:11:33:11
Student In The Ministry Joseph Muhammad
Come on.
00:11:33:14 – 00:11:44:03
Student Minister Rodney Muhammad
There was already a world of religion waiting on this man.
00:11:44:06 – 00:11:54:11
Student Minister Rodney Muhammad
I’m thankful to him because if you are bold enough to tell the world.
00:11:54:13 – 00:12:26:15
Student Minister Rodney Muhammad
And its governments. I met with God right? If you bold enough to tell the major religions on the planet. I met with God, it would seem that you’d be so powerful and independent of everything and everyone. The last thing you would tell the world is that you praying for a helper. Come on.
00:12:26:17 – 00:13:09:29
Student Minister Rodney Muhammad
And somebody say, well, you met with God. You need help. And, he prayed for helper. And that prayer gave him a man who came to him in 1955. In 379 year wait for those who were brought here and enslaved and, He looked at the man and said, you know, when I went to the school to be taught, the door was closed.
00:13:10:02 – 00:13:12:23
Student In The Ministry Joseph Muhammad
Right, right.
00:13:12:25 – 00:13:23:25
Student Minister Rodney Muhammad
And I can’t speak that fine language that you know, but don’t you pay attention to how I’m saying what I’m saying? You just pay attention to what I’m saying.
00:13:23:27 – 00:13:24:19
Student In The Ministry Joseph Muhammad
Right?
00:13:24:21 – 00:13:39:23
Student Minister Rodney Muhammad
Take what I’m saying and put it in the fine language that you know. And that’s been what this man has been doing since Saviors Day. He’s 19 and 55. The honorable minister.
00:13:39:23 – 00:13:41:12
Student In The Ministry Joseph Muhammad
Louis Farrakhan.
00:13:41:15 – 00:13:56:27
Student Minister Rodney Muhammad
Put it in plain language. Elucidating and helping us to see better into this magnificent truth that the Honorable Elijah Muhammad called an invincible truth.
00:13:56:27 – 00:14:01:04
Student In The Ministry Joseph Muhammad
That’s right.
00:14:01:06 – 00:14:10:06
Student Minister Rodney Muhammad
We know we’re not done. We didn’t fall out from another world. We came up out of the world you were in.
00:14:10:13 – 00:14:12:08
Student In The Ministry Joseph Muhammad
That’s right, that’s right.
00:14:12:10 – 00:14:20:16
Student Minister Rodney Muhammad
So we know what man’s mind suggest to him, you know, are they crazy saying God came.
00:14:20:18 – 00:14:21:18
Student In The Ministry Joseph Muhammad
From them.
00:14:21:20 – 00:14:33:01
Student Minister Rodney Muhammad
To North America? But ask yourself, why do you even bother to go to any service if you ain’t expecting something.
00:14:33:03 – 00:14:34:03
Student In The Ministry Joseph Muhammad
There.
00:14:34:05 – 00:14:51:29
Student Minister Rodney Muhammad
With the hell that we’re catching? If you in church or temple or a monastery, a massive masjid. What’s the. What’s the point in going if you ain’t expecting somebody to come and make a change?
00:14:52:01 – 00:14:57:12
Student In The Ministry Joseph Muhammad
You,
00:14:57:14 – 00:15:15:27
Student Minister Rodney Muhammad
So we know that we make bold claims. And we know what people say about us when we make these claims. But we keep echoing just what he said.
00:15:16:00 – 00:15:16:23
Student In The Ministry Joseph Muhammad
That’s right.
00:15:16:26 – 00:15:43:25
Student Minister Rodney Muhammad
July 4th, 1930. He declared our independence to teach. We just an echo chamber and and, despite what you say about us. We’re duty bound to proclaim this truth. Yes, sir. The Honorable Elijah Muhammad had a saying. Take it or leave it alone.
00:15:43:28 – 00:15:45:25
Student In The Ministry Joseph Muhammad
That’s right. Right.
00:15:45:27 – 00:15:54:12
Student Minister Rodney Muhammad
If you don’t want it, leave it alone. Right. But what we found is the people that don’t want it, they don’t want to leave it alone either.
00:15:54:15 – 00:15:59:15
Student In The Ministry Joseph Muhammad
On me, on that.
00:15:59:18 – 00:16:11:25
Student Minister Rodney Muhammad
And they’ve been giving us hell ever since. Right. We proclaim this. So I’m thankful. I am so thankful to the Honorable Minister Louis Farrakhan.
00:16:11:25 – 00:16:14:19
Student In The Ministry Joseph Muhammad
For this man.
00:16:14:22 – 00:16:23:17
Student Minister Rodney Muhammad
There’s no way he could do this, brother Jibril said. Without an extraordinary level of humility.
00:16:23:19 – 00:16:25:22
Student In The Ministry Joseph Muhammad
No.
00:16:25:25 – 00:16:36:18
Student Minister Rodney Muhammad
And. Living day by day, taking the cheap shots that come from our people.
00:16:36:24 – 00:16:40:12
Student In The Ministry Joseph Muhammad
That’s right.
00:16:40:14 – 00:16:57:04
Student Minister Rodney Muhammad
Because they don’t understand. So we, But thankful to be helpers of his. I mean, we we read his little titles, but really, it it only comes out in the Koran to be a helper.
00:16:57:07 – 00:16:59:23
Student In The Ministry Joseph Muhammad
Right?
00:16:59:25 – 00:17:03:11
Student Minister Rodney Muhammad
Well, why are you a helper? Because it’s not my mission, right?
00:17:03:14 – 00:17:06:01
Student In The Ministry Joseph Muhammad
Right.
00:17:06:04 – 00:17:19:08
Student Minister Rodney Muhammad
I never met with God. I never met with anybody. I never met with God. And,
00:17:19:10 – 00:17:46:09
Student Minister Rodney Muhammad
And because of that. I don’t have a mission. Not that came from God. In other words, if the mission fails, God is not going to hold me solely responsible for him. You know who he holds responsible? The one he gave the mission to. That’s what that. But the man he gave the mission to will hold me responsible for.
00:17:46:11 – 00:17:52:19
Student Minister Rodney Muhammad
If I said I was going to help him, and I didn’t even try.
00:17:52:21 – 00:17:54:12
Student In The Ministry Joseph Muhammad
To do.
00:17:54:14 – 00:18:32:17
Student Minister Rodney Muhammad
So, I’m responsible to the Honorable Minister Louis Farrakhan, who says he thanks me and thanks you for helping him in his mission, not ours. And when you were helper, the Honorable Louis Farrakhan asked the best question, what kind of help do you need right? Don’t come up with your own ideas how he needs to be helped. You didn’t know nothing about this mission until he received it.
00:18:32:20 – 00:18:56:21
Student Minister Rodney Muhammad
And, That’s hard to serve because if you ask someone else, how can I help you? Then you’re relinquishing your will to do the will of him. And whosoever he has submitted his will to.
00:18:56:23 – 00:18:58:27
Student In The Ministry Joseph Muhammad
That’s right.
00:18:58:29 – 00:19:36:01
Student Minister Rodney Muhammad
And the human being is curiously self-willed. And we like to do what we want to do. And mercy. Come on. Are you saying is bad or good? I’m just saying what it is. And curbing what you want to do and what you will to do to submit your will, to do the will of the one who has the mission.
00:19:36:04 – 00:20:27:02
Student Minister Rodney Muhammad
That alone is a challenge. So we have been on a series this month, an incredible month. We talked about September the 17th and the more than a vision experience that the Honorable Minister Louis Farrakhan had. But remember September the 27th in the year 19 and 31, the Honorable Elijah Muhammad had his first meeting with Master Ford Muhammad, who did so we have we have a lot of things going on in this month and next month, you know, coming up.
00:20:27:02 – 00:20:46:12
Student Minister Rodney Muhammad
But our subject is the power of God in you, right? So the power of God in you. Is the will of God. So if I could just review what we covered,
00:20:46:14 – 00:21:31:26
Student Minister Rodney Muhammad
The Honorable Minister Louis Farrakhan said, all in creation. All in creation is a manifestation of God’s will. So nothing is here because it just popped up on his own, right? So that means somebody intended for it to be here. And if there was an intention, that means there’s an aim and a purpose. Think so? Nothing we could say, if it’s a manifestation of God’s will, is here without aim.
00:21:31:28 – 00:21:32:27
Student Minister Rodney Muhammad
And purpose.
00:21:33:04 – 00:21:37:00
Student In The Ministry Joseph Muhammad
That’s right.
00:21:37:03 – 00:21:49:08
Student Minister Rodney Muhammad
Allah did not create the creation for sport and play off one just to be here and chill.
00:21:49:10 – 00:21:54:22
Student In The Ministry Joseph Muhammad
Come away.
00:21:54:24 – 00:22:17:27
Student Minister Rodney Muhammad
And win. We come into creation and we did not create ourselves. And there’s an aim and a purpose for us when we’re not doing that, there’s an emptiness inside man, and Satan’s world is, an expert at distracting you.
00:22:18:00 – 00:22:18:26
Student In The Ministry Joseph Muhammad
Right.
00:22:18:29 – 00:22:33:21
Student Minister Rodney Muhammad
From your real aim and purpose in life. That’s right. Come on. We need to be honest. It’s just a big distraction problem. And depending on what it takes to distract you, he’s got everything out here that he can find.
00:22:33:21 – 00:22:35:08
Student In The Ministry Joseph Muhammad
That’s right. Yes, sir.
00:22:35:10 – 00:22:56:11
Student Minister Rodney Muhammad
Well, I, I he don’t distract me because I go to church and he don’t distract me because I make all my Salah tell Juma prayers at the masjid and everything in the last day, the Honorable Elijah Muhammad said Satan’s last weapon will be religion, is he will take religion and weaponize it.
00:22:56:13 – 00:22:57:20
Student In The Ministry Joseph Muhammad
Yes, that’s right.
00:22:57:22 – 00:23:08:01
Student Minister Rodney Muhammad
And if you look at the bombs that are being dropped, and we talk about the women and children that are being slaughtered, if you go to the root of this, it’s about religion, right.
00:23:08:03 – 00:23:10:02
Student In The Ministry Joseph Muhammad
Right, right. Okay.
00:23:10:04 – 00:23:23:04
Student Minister Rodney Muhammad
That man don’t understand. So the Honorable Elijah Muhammad teaches us that Islam is not necessarily a religion that we have to join.
00:23:23:05 – 00:23:24:26
Student In The Ministry Joseph Muhammad
Yes. That’s right.
00:23:24:28 – 00:23:51:11
Student Minister Rodney Muhammad
It is the nature of us. But we don’t know our nature. And since we don’t know our nature, but we in a world where we think we know religion, then our mind has designed our nature to fit the theme of religion, to reintroduce to us the nature that we were created in.
00:23:51:13 – 00:23:52:09
Student In The Ministry Joseph Muhammad
Yeah, look at that.
00:23:52:12 – 00:24:20:18
Student Minister Rodney Muhammad
Yes, sir. Everything in creation is a manifestation of the will of God. Then he goes on to say that in this universe, the attributes of Allah are expressed throughout all things created. So to read the creation, it’s like reading the mind of God, right?
00:24:20:19 – 00:24:22:17
Student In The Ministry Joseph Muhammad
Yes, that’s man.
00:24:22:19 – 00:24:45:27
Student Minister Rodney Muhammad
And what we are taught is that when man falls, come on and can no longer read the creation, then man’s fall means he can’t read the mind of God, which is the will for man. Come on in creation of which he is a part of it.
00:24:46:00 – 00:25:08:15
Student Minister Rodney Muhammad
So if he can’t read the creation, he doesn’t know what the will of God is. So. So now we have to read the creation for him. Yes, sir. Meaning that the scientists, they understand that the planet is approximately 25,000 miles in circumference.
00:25:09:24 – 00:25:22:01
Student Minister Rodney Muhammad
And they understand that if they going to write a history ahead of time, that there would be a mile for a year.
00:25:22:03 – 00:25:22:29
Student In The Ministry Joseph Muhammad
Wow.
00:25:23:01 – 00:25:44:00
Student Minister Rodney Muhammad
Oh, the Greeks drew imaginary lines on the earth so that we could study the longitude and latitude of degrees. Right this way you could follow on a chart and pinpoint something.
00:25:44:02 – 00:25:45:06
Student In The Ministry Joseph Muhammad
Yes, sir.
00:25:45:08 – 00:26:12:06
Student Minister Rodney Muhammad
So these are men who could study the thoughts of people, the minds of people, to determine what the future was going to be like for those people and the succeeding generations from them. In other words, the longitude and latitude, the thought and action. We can pinpoint what kind of person you’re going to be for you. Go ahead and what the outcome of your civilization is going to be.
00:26:12:08 – 00:26:42:17
Student Minister Rodney Muhammad
And when it’s time for a certain thing to be fulfilled, a prophet is either sent or messengers reign, because that’s the way with time. So right there in our lessons. Right? Yes, sir. Because if the Nation of Islam is all wise and does everything right and exact, the ministers say reading makes you right, but writing makes you exact think that over.
00:26:42:19 – 00:27:23:04
Student Minister Rodney Muhammad
So they read and then they write, and they give us books called Bible and Koran because we’ve lost our way. This is the will of God. And you can do it because the creation expresses his attributes, meaning characteristics of the God right. So we just review it, since the will is the faculty of conscious and or deliberate action, then the conscious thought always precedes action, right?
00:27:23:06 – 00:28:01:10
Student Minister Rodney Muhammad
That means that the will, he said, is the power of the control of the mind over its own actions. Can you imagine the mind having actions right and being able to control that? That’s that’s somebody that’s mastering self right to control the way you think. I remember the ministers saying, the new world will be populated by people who are careful how they think, careful how they act and careful how they eat.
00:28:01:13 – 00:28:04:13
Student In The Ministry Joseph Muhammad
That’s right.
00:28:04:15 – 00:28:31:05
Student Minister Rodney Muhammad
You can talk to somebody now about trying to eat right, and you find out the faulty thinking. Don’t bother me about poor. I’ve been eating pork all my life. My grandfather ate it. Right. Come on. When we tell you, you act like we never ate pork back. We know about Oscar Meyer. Come on. Somebody, Sir? Yes, sir.
00:28:31:07 – 00:28:59:08
Student Minister Rodney Muhammad
But even your grandmother taught you. When you learn better, you do better, Yeah, you do better. And now they’re. They’re finding out all the things that are wrong. And the saturated fats and everything that they’re telling you. You shouldn’t be eating this. And this is causing diabetes and this is doing this. But all the stuff that you’re telling us, we need to be careful about that they’re doing to the foods.
00:28:59:11 – 00:29:01:20
Student Minister Rodney Muhammad
You said the pig.
00:29:01:23 – 00:29:04:00
Student In The Ministry Joseph Muhammad
Yes, sir.
00:29:04:03 – 00:29:17:12
Student Minister Rodney Muhammad
So you’re going to be careful about that. But you’re going to define me when I say we, we should, we should resist consuming the flesh of the swine vaccines or.
00:29:17:15 – 00:30:01:06
Student Minister Rodney Muhammad
So the minister said you have to have when you, when you’re dealing with the, with the, with the revelation of God, you need an attitude of receptivity. Yes. So yes, you know, when the truth is preached, you say I receive it. The that’s an attitude, a receptivity attitude. When when I came and heard the Minister at Saviors Day 1981 and I joined shortly after, they said, look, we you can’t we know for pork.
00:30:01:08 – 00:30:10:16
Student Minister Rodney Muhammad
Cut it out right now. I need what about the pork chop I got at home? So I’ll eat out soon as you get home.
00:30:10:19 – 00:30:12:03
Student In The Ministry Joseph Muhammad
Right and right.
00:30:12:05 – 00:30:16:15
Student Minister Rodney Muhammad
Yeah, and I did. You know why? Because I had an attitude of receptivity.
00:30:16:18 – 00:30:18:25
Student In The Ministry Joseph Muhammad
Come on, come on.
00:30:18:28 – 00:30:21:11
Student Minister Rodney Muhammad
And you had it to.
00:30:21:13 – 00:30:21:21
Student In The Ministry Joseph Muhammad
Your.
00:30:21:21 – 00:30:53:12
Student Minister Rodney Muhammad
Early stop. I remember watching my wife before I ate worms, waiting for the. And you just say one meal every 24. I look at you. Look how we attack that thing. And we we did it almost instantly, right? You know why? Because we was able to will come. So we have to talk more. Where the minister is breaking this down.
00:30:53:17 – 00:31:23:16
Student Minister Rodney Muhammad
He’s so wanted everybody to hear this because he’s studying the way we thank him. And he can tell by the way we’re talking. Yes. And he’s healing the way we’re acting. So, you know, I was in Chicago. We weren’t on Stoney Island yet. We were in the final car building. He said, you know what? I want you to think about when you driving down 79th Street, this building never being open again.
00:31:23:18 – 00:31:46:26
Student Minister Rodney Muhammad
And then he closed it down. Close it down for almost a month. So for three Sundays, we didn’t even have a meeting. You had to listen to him from the palace. And he dealt with a subject called the Will of God, part one, two and three. So I keep saying that every week. So you understand how serious this subject matter is.
00:31:46:28 – 00:32:04:06
Student Minister Rodney Muhammad
That’s right. And how close it is to our development and what it’s going to take to build a nation. The minister goes on the will, he say, is the power behind the universe.
00:32:04:08 – 00:32:39:24
Student Minister Rodney Muhammad
That means, you know, we say, surely I have turned myself to thee. But the minister said, we really can’t turn yourself right any more than the earth can turn itself. It’s it’s the power of the sun’s light striking the Earth at its equator that causes the Earth to turn. So as the Earth is turning and making its orbits around the sun, the ministers say it’s making a path through space.
00:32:39:26 – 00:32:52:14
Student Minister Rodney Muhammad
Well, it ain’t the same path as Venus or Jupiter or Uranus, but the path that a planet travels in space determines the life forms.
00:32:52:16 – 00:32:53:16
Student In The Ministry Joseph Muhammad
Yes.
00:32:53:19 – 00:33:26:07
Student Minister Rodney Muhammad
That’s the teach us that the path you choose in life, a form is coming out of that. That’s why the believer prays 32 times a day. Oh Lord, guide me on the straight path so that the form of my thoughts and the form of my character and everything is straightened in the way of God. They call us on our thermostat game, on.
00:33:26:09 – 00:33:54:24
Student Minister Rodney Muhammad
But it’s the straight path. Jesus in the Bible used a narrow path. He said, narrow is the gate. When you’re going through a narrow gate and you got a whole bunch of luggage, you just may have to leave that, you know, in that we use the term, you got a lot of baggage. You might have to leave that right if you’re going to go with the master.
00:33:54:27 – 00:34:27:27
Student Minister Rodney Muhammad
Yeah. Because he won’t fit through a narrow gate. They ain’t got room for all that foolishness and everything that we might want to carry. Right. The will, he say, is the power behind the universe. And the will is the real power of a law in man. That’s the power. The power of God in us is our submitting our will to do.
00:34:27:27 – 00:34:47:00
Student Minister Rodney Muhammad
He is. It comes down as simple as that. Look what the Minister goes on to say. To be able to will is to have the creative force within that actually can change the conditions of our life, and it can change the condition of
00:34:47:00 – 00:34:55:15
Student Minister Rodney Muhammad
our homes. It can change the condition of our community. It can change the condition of the nation.
00:34:55:17 – 00:35:02:29
Student Minister Rodney Muhammad
It could change the condition of the world.
00:35:03:01 – 00:35:13:21
Student Minister Rodney Muhammad
So how do we will? That’s where we want to go today. The minister said.
00:35:13:23 – 00:35:21:09
Student Minister Rodney Muhammad
The food for building the will is called desire.
00:35:21:11 – 00:36:01:16
Student Minister Rodney Muhammad
Now, so we get it right from him, he said. That desire to attain a goal brings us face to face with difficulty. That’s the first problem right there. A lot of times difficulty is not some big mountain of opposition. Sometime maybe you should have waited before you told somebody about your desire. I found one word that’ll that’ll shoot down all your dreams.
00:36:01:18 – 00:36:26:18
Student Minister Rodney Muhammad
Somebody ask you how? Come on. I want to do what I want to become and I want to do. And they say, how are you going to do it? And you know what? If ten of us want to do something and somebody ask us how ten of us are going to have to say, I don’t know. And because you don’t know now, now doubt comes in.
00:36:26:19 – 00:36:58:18
Student Minister Rodney Muhammad
That’s, that’s the devil’s food. Yes, sir. The doubt that you can eat so this is, this becomes a difficulty to hold on to a desire. Because you come face to face with difficulty, it is unavoidable. There’s no such thing as having a desire. And you can escape difficulty. Because in the Koran it says difficulty is ordained. It is all.
00:36:58:18 – 00:37:30:22
Student Minister Rodney Muhammad
It’s already here. And get away from the spooky belief that God don’t have difficulty. He’s overcome every day. That’s why he’s God, But he’s overcome every difficulty. And if he’s going to make you like him, anything like him, he can’t do that without letting you face difficulty. But what did the minister tell us about our Lord’s will?
00:37:30:25 – 00:37:50:27
Student Minister Rodney Muhammad
It never fails. Come on now, that’s a perfect track record. Grades a why he should be trusted and not Donald Trump.
00:37:51:00 – 00:38:00:07
Student Minister Rodney Muhammad
Go through the history. Help me and show me where he failed.
00:38:00:09 – 00:38:43:02
Student Minister Rodney Muhammad
And I’ll show you a victory that you just didn’t see properly. I do not think you’re right. So, he goes on to say, when we undergo the trial of difficulty, the trial may be so intense that it extinguishes the light of the desire to attain the goal. Yeah. You just give up. The mind becomes a graveyard for the buried ideas that we had, that we never pursued.
00:38:43:04 – 00:38:44:11
Student Minister Rodney Muhammad
Isn’t that something.
00:38:44:14 – 00:38:44:21
Student In The Ministry Joseph Muhammad
Sir?
00:38:44:25 – 00:39:09:02
Student Minister Rodney Muhammad
We talking about? Billions of people on the planet and out of billions of people, if they get up in the morning and look in the mirror, they can’t see greatness. And if they see it, they got to work hard to maintain that idea for a 24 hour period. And how much negativity is in the world? That has to be overcome.
00:39:09:06 – 00:39:36:09
Student Minister Rodney Muhammad
So nobody that wants to achieve something, as the Honorable Elijah Muhammad said, any man in this world that wants to do good, this world is going to test you to see just how determined you are to do good. It’s going to come against the good. He. It started with him. He wanted to be a helper to the man that raised him in Detroit.
00:39:36:11 – 00:40:06:09
Student Minister Rodney Muhammad
He said, I’ve taught you everything. You don’t need me anymore. He said, yes, I need you. I can only do this mission if you backed me. The whole. So he he had his backing down, but he didn’t know. And we can never know that we got his back. And unless we face a difficulty. So they rose up in the house against Elijah and.
00:40:06:11 – 00:40:39:18
Student Minister Rodney Muhammad
And he fled Detroit from his own words. He came to the East coast back up and down, not staying in in one city longer than two weeks. They didn’t even have an automobile, but they wanted to kill him for them. So they go to Mother Clara, disguising themselves as friends. Saying if they can use the car, they can get to Elijah to help him, but they wanted to get to him to kill him, right?
00:40:39:21 – 00:41:08:16
Student Minister Rodney Muhammad
So he’s using whatever ingenuity he knows he ain’t got time to stop and build a mosque, but he’s got time to plant seeds. And so as he’s planting seeds on the East coast, see, a lot of people don’t realize by 1952, Malcolm Little gets out of prison, starts in Detroit with Minister Philbert, his brother, and gets sent to Philadelphia.
00:41:08:18 – 00:41:22:24
Student Minister Rodney Muhammad
And he comes here to settle a case and go back to the Honorable Elijah Muhammad. And the messenger said to him, brother, why did you leave my sheep there without shepherd?
00:41:22:26 – 00:41:23:21
Student In The Ministry Joseph Muhammad
Come on.
00:41:23:23 – 00:41:55:14
Student Minister Rodney Muhammad
So he came back to Philadelphia. And he stayed here until he took over the Harlem Mosque. And that’s when Wallace Muhammad, his son, took over here. So, I mean, the Honorable Elijah Muhammad is moving up and down the East Coast. And he describes one night that they caught him. And when they caught him, somebody went in their pocket, obviously, to get a gun.
00:41:55:18 – 00:42:07:00
Student Minister Rodney Muhammad
That takes a thought, right. And so he’s thinking, I get the gun and he goes in to reach forward, and he can’t get his hand out of his own pocket.
00:42:07:03 – 00:42:07:27
Student In The Ministry Joseph Muhammad
Come on.
00:42:08:00 – 00:42:16:04
Student Minister Rodney Muhammad
Now. The Honorable Elijah Muhammad said, no, I know he’s with me. He’s with me.
00:42:16:06 – 00:42:21:00
Unknown
Oh my God, got him.
00:42:21:02 – 00:42:47:09
Student Minister Rodney Muhammad
And the Koran says, have you not noticed how we have restrained their hands? If I wasn’t working and restraining their hands, they would have got you a long time ago. Yeah. We have been sent out into a vicious world as sheep among wolves.
00:42:47:12 – 00:42:52:15
Student Minister Rodney Muhammad
So,
00:42:52:17 – 00:43:21:19
Student Minister Rodney Muhammad
If God wills something. And that Will says, I want a nation to come up and his will never fails, then whosoever stays with his will, they will always be victorious. And success will. There would be more occasions where the Honorable Elijah Muhammad would be shown.
00:43:21:21 – 00:43:59:19
Student Minister Rodney Muhammad
That his God was with him because opposition came all around. But you know what? It never took away his desire. This is the food for the will. Look what food is. Food is any substance containing nutrients such as carbohydrates, proteins, and fats that can be ingested by a living organism and then metabolized, converted into energy and body tissue.
00:43:59:21 – 00:44:41:25
Student Minister Rodney Muhammad
Food is anything that provides mental nourishment or stimuli or stimulus. Food for thought. So you gotta have the thinking about your desire. I remember the minister saying, it is in that sweet hour of prayer that that a lot of releases chemicals from this brain. This is the real drug store of the universe. And when those chemicals are released in the sweet of our prayer, the minister said, you’re identify with your God.
00:44:41:27 – 00:44:46:27
Student Minister Rodney Muhammad
That’s how it never gets extinguished.
00:44:46:29 – 00:45:11:11
Student Minister Rodney Muhammad
A man was asked you were a top soldier. I just put that in there. But the Koran says. And so they asked him, how is it that you ended up in hell? And you know what his answer was? We were among those found not praying. We just had stopped praying right. And it all started falling apart.
00:45:11:13 – 00:45:13:11
Unknown
So it all.
00:45:13:11 – 00:45:43:03
Student Minister Rodney Muhammad
Falls apart when we become disconnected with the will of God. A will that never fails. The only way his will can live in me. I got to not be self-willed. I got about my will to his this earth made people wonder. You know I can’t. I’m tired of this. I’m leaving anyway. Are you still there after 15 years, 25 years, 35 years, 45 years?
00:45:43:08 – 00:46:05:02
Student Minister Rodney Muhammad
You still there? Yes, I’m still here because I’m tied to his will. He’s still here. And if I’m tied to his will, I’ll be here. It’s only when I separate myself from my God that I’ll be gone with you. I.
00:46:05:05 – 00:46:31:16
Student Minister Rodney Muhammad
Love so. Desire. Look what he says. I. As we embark upon the course of building the will, he says, we see the importance of keeping alive the light of desire. For the will is exercise only as long as there is desire.
00:46:31:18 – 00:46:46:02
Student Minister Rodney Muhammad
Continuing perpetual desire. Generates continuing perpetual exercise of the will.
00:46:46:04 – 00:46:50:19
Student Minister Rodney Muhammad
Without desire we have lost the nourishment.
00:46:50:22 – 00:46:52:00
Student In The Ministry Joseph Muhammad
Yes.
00:46:52:02 – 00:47:23:09
Student Minister Rodney Muhammad
To strengthen our will. Come on. Which weakens and is ultimately our will is ultimately starve to death. So. I mean desire. Keeps you in the running for whatever goal is that your will has been established in.
00:47:23:12 – 00:47:23:26
Student In The Ministry Joseph Muhammad
Yes sir.
00:47:23:27 – 00:47:41:24
Student Minister Rodney Muhammad
I am now some people think, well I gotta give up everything to do the will of God. And that’s not done. But he made promises when he came. This one, that damnable Elijah Muhammad and the Honorable Minister Louis Farrakhan represent to us. He made some promising money right?
00:47:41:24 – 00:47:43:22
Student In The Ministry Joseph Muhammad
Come on.
00:47:43:25 – 00:48:05:20
Student Minister Rodney Muhammad
Good home. Come on. Because just because you got money don’t mean the home is good. Hey, that’s why some people stay out and got to be put out of the place. This last call for alcohol, You ain’t got to go home. But you can. Come on.
00:48:05:22 – 00:48:31:15
Student Minister Rodney Muhammad
He’s cleaning off the bar and trying to get you out of there. You hate to go home. You got money. You got money to drink all into the next day. But the bars, clothes, you got money, but the home ain’t good about it. So, Yeah. Money. Good home. And in friendships and all walks of life. Not some of them.
00:48:31:17 – 00:49:23:12
Student Minister Rodney Muhammad
All of them. And sometimes you don’t realize how you got friendships everywhere with this God, I’ve been this, two affairs where highly well-placed people, we everybody’s all dressed up and everything, and folks have friends with each other because they live on a certain level lifestyle. That’s okay. I can go with that. But you know what? When that thing ends and it’s 1130 at night and we’re leaving, I said, now I can go and walk down 15th Street in North Philly at 1130 at night and see somebody that recognizes me only because I’m a helper to him.
00:49:23:14 – 00:49:46:28
Student Minister Rodney Muhammad
Are you following them? But the other people at that affair, it ain’t going. No, no. 15th Street, not that time of the night. Allergy. Well, they you know, some can have. No, we know the brothers that got the dice game at 19th Street. You know they out there, they shooting and you can talk to me. Brother Muhammad. Are you doing?
00:49:47:00 – 00:50:15:22
Student Minister Rodney Muhammad
Man, y’all need to come on to the mosque and get at a hey, I am, brother. You know, soon wonder. But look. But the other folks at that fair, they’re not coming down there. See, we got friendships in all walks of life, right? And after the Million Man March, which was a call for a million men with 2 million showing up right?
00:50:15:24 – 00:50:19:26
Student Minister Rodney Muhammad
Those men came from every walk of life in America.
00:50:19:28 – 00:50:22:04
Student In The Ministry Joseph Muhammad
Yes. Yes, sir.
00:50:22:07 – 00:51:02:15
Student Minister Rodney Muhammad
And rather than bask in that success and that victory, the minister reminded us it was a lost cause. He just used me as his instrument. See that? Now he wants me to get up and go. And he went on a world friendship tour. And, you know, we found out we got friends in other walks of life, other cultures, other philosophies, other schools of thought and persuasion, friends, nevertheless, they open up their countries to him.
00:51:02:17 – 00:51:17:26
Student Minister Rodney Muhammad
He he never met these people before in his life. But the Honorable Elijah Muhammad said, brother, he’s going ahead of you to make friends for you all over the planet.
00:51:17:28 – 00:51:28:12
Student Minister Rodney Muhammad
He will make friends for you all over the planet. That’s when we submit our will to do. He is.
00:51:28:16 – 00:51:30:29
Student In The Ministry Joseph Muhammad
Yes, sir.
00:51:31:02 – 00:52:22:00
Student Minister Rodney Muhammad
As power. Power is force times distance. Force multiplier times distance equals work. And you take work and divided by time. That equals power. If you look at the mathematical expression, it’s really w equals is equal to f times d. See this man came. He was w f Muhammad. 0WD far. All the letters are here. This is the time for his coming.
00:52:22:02 – 00:52:43:23
Student Minister Rodney Muhammad
People want to know why are you talking about this now? This is the time for his coming. It was already written that he would come. Yes, I humble and so he’s come with power. Well, they put him in jail. The Honorable Elijah Muhammad said he didn’t have to go. There was a hiding of his power.
00:52:43:26 – 00:52:47:19
Student In The Ministry Joseph Muhammad
Come on, man, know. That’s right.
00:52:47:22 – 00:52:57:18
Student Minister Rodney Muhammad
He deliberately hid it. Read the interviews of some of the brothers and sisters from Detroit from the 30s.
00:52:57:18 – 00:52:58:20
Student In The Ministry Joseph Muhammad
Right.
00:52:58:23 – 00:53:20:25
Student Minister Rodney Muhammad
And the brother said, somebody in a church in Detroit hit him in the mouth. They just wanted to know what church it was. And he had 15,000 in the mosque in Detroit. All they wanted to know, he would not tell them. Right.
00:53:20:27 – 00:53:43:08
Student Minister Rodney Muhammad
These people were ready to take down an entire church on. For that level of attack, I just want you to know how many people were involved in Detroit. Then don’t look at Detroit where it is now. We’re talking the 1930s.
00:53:43:10 – 00:53:56:09
Student Minister Rodney Muhammad
The the minister. Wanted us to see that the work that we’re involved in, it takes will.
00:53:56:12 – 00:53:57:25
Student In The Ministry Joseph Muhammad
Yes. Right.
00:53:57:27 – 00:54:34:13
Student Minister Rodney Muhammad
Will is the faculty of conscious and or deliberate action. Every December 31st. Everybody sings Auld Lang Syne and whatever part of they they wait in the countdown to the new year starts. And you know what we do? We we from the faculty of our conscious thinking. We voice. We vocalize what we deliberately want to see. And ourselves for the new year.
00:54:34:15 – 00:54:48:04
Student Minister Rodney Muhammad
And by January 31st, we don’t went back to the default position on it. Why? Because the will is weak.
00:54:48:06 – 00:54:57:15
Student Minister Rodney Muhammad
And you can make the mistake of thinking that your staying power was because of you.
00:54:57:18 – 00:54:58:04
Student In The Ministry Joseph Muhammad
Right?
00:54:58:06 – 00:55:32:18
Student Minister Rodney Muhammad
The minister said, don’t you? You you you you you started the whatever victory you’re counting. He said, look, you were connected with the original self of you, all right? The God of you that has been lying dormant until this one came. And your victory is because of that. And when you begin to think it’s because of you and your personality and what school you went to and your skill sets and your and your charisma or whatever, and you get disconnected with that on the inside of you.
00:55:32:22 – 00:55:40:21
Student Minister Rodney Muhammad
The minister said a lie will allow you to experience a humiliating episode on Nickerson.
00:55:40:27 – 00:55:41:27
Student In The Ministry Joseph Muhammad
Come on.
00:55:41:29 – 00:56:06:22
Student Minister Rodney Muhammad
And you realize it wasn’t me at all, sir. It was the God of me. Somebody wants me to come back to myself. Yeah. Yes. And when you read about what we were like, you will see in the Koran, we always talked about we did such and such.
00:56:06:26 – 00:56:07:05
Student In The Ministry Joseph Muhammad
Right.
00:56:07:08 – 00:56:30:11
Student Minister Rodney Muhammad
And we never separated ourself from each other. When the one rises up out of self-will and Allah says what caused thee not to submit? He said, I’m not of those who bow down. What is he saying? I ain’t even part of that team. They saluting and bowing and everything. I don’t even want to be a part of them.
00:56:30:13 – 00:57:03:02
Student Minister Rodney Muhammad
And you ask? So he disassociated himself with all those that would submit. They will to do the will of God. So what happens is that, the minister said all this got to be guided. Yes. Faith is always bigger than knowledge. And and when you don’t have the proper knowledge, it doesn’t steer you right with the power right to will.
00:57:03:04 – 00:57:21:24
Student Minister Rodney Muhammad
And you end up willing for something that’s more self self-destructive. When, when, when we are not connected to and submitting to the will of God, which is a higher civilization, right then we are victims of our low desire.
00:57:21:27 – 00:58:06:07
Student Minister Rodney Muhammad
To see when you live by all the appetites and forces that live below the navel of the human anatomy, then it’s it’s called the underworld. And you live in more low down. This is why pornography is $1 trillion a year industry. This is this is why, many of the things that are called vices. The things that that always have an ending story of some tragedy or ruin in your life.
00:58:06:09 – 00:58:07:12
Student In The Ministry Joseph Muhammad
Yes, sir.
00:58:07:14 – 00:58:10:29
Student Minister Rodney Muhammad
They come from the lower desires, right?
00:58:11:01 – 00:58:12:27
Student In The Ministry Joseph Muhammad
That’s right.
00:58:13:00 – 00:58:28:10
Student Minister Rodney Muhammad
And the Lord desire, which is food, is you’re feeding a will of self. If these things live below the navel. They were made to be controlled.
00:58:28:12 – 00:58:29:27
Student In The Ministry Joseph Muhammad
Yeah, that’s right.
00:58:30:00 – 00:58:58:15
Student Minister Rodney Muhammad
By a higher, a higher force of mind. But watch this, Mr. York, whose children turned our civilization upside down. Yes, sir. So when you take the human anatomy and turn it upside down, what was beneath the waistline? You put it at the top and was at the top. You put it at the bottom. That’s right. Which means the lower desires reign supreme in the mind.
00:58:58:17 – 00:59:08:28
Student Minister Rodney Muhammad
And so now we’re victims of things that Satan controls. He got an industry out of it.
00:59:09:00 – 00:59:10:05
Student In The Ministry Joseph Muhammad
So.
00:59:10:08 – 00:59:24:13
Student Minister Rodney Muhammad
And he sells this stuff to us. You see these reality programs that are out now. They have the nerve to title one of them Love and Marriage.
00:59:24:16 – 00:59:25:20
Student In The Ministry Joseph Muhammad
Right.
00:59:25:23 – 00:59:32:07
Student Minister Rodney Muhammad
And then you watch it and it’s a mess.
00:59:32:10 – 00:59:58:09
Student Minister Rodney Muhammad
And people are under forces that they can’t seem to control, which are in themselves. Right. And, see, the thing, Mr. Yaqoob, I was reading in the Supreme Wisdom this morning. I mean, he was not as determined as the ones who saw him in the year one.
00:59:58:12 – 00:59:59:08
Student In The Ministry Joseph Muhammad
Right?
00:59:59:11 – 01:00:25:01
Student Minister Rodney Muhammad
So the determination did not start at his birth. It didn’t start with him. He was just a vessel of what they had determined. Right. That’s why it said he was born with a determined idea. One man, when you determined to do something, Brother Jabril said he wanted to know the utmost knowledge. So he studied the germ out of which the man.
01:00:25:08 – 01:00:30:22
Student Minister Rodney Muhammad
I mean, you really trying to learn about somebody. You go back to the germ of what brought him into existence.
01:00:30:25 – 01:00:31:24
Student In The Ministry Joseph Muhammad
That’s right.
01:00:31:26 – 01:01:03:21
Student Minister Rodney Muhammad
And then you work to tamper with that. Why would we think he wouldn’t tamper with other things? Well, you know, they they doing some sort of. Oh, they ain’t doing nothing to the food, but it messing with the germ that you started with. They’re messed with anything and everything. And they’ll turn a man’s dick through his thinking. They’ll turn a man into a woman and a woman into a man doing.
01:01:03:24 – 01:01:28:27
Student Minister Rodney Muhammad
The power of the mind. The minister say it works on matter. And it has a way of rearranging matter. So you can be born a man, but think you are a woman. And so the minister said before this is over, the God is going to heal people of these things.
01:01:29:00 – 01:01:33:04
Student In The Ministry Joseph Muhammad
Jesus.
01:01:33:07 – 01:01:41:06
Student Minister Rodney Muhammad
We have an event coming up, where we’re going to be talking about the life of James Baldwin.
01:01:41:08 – 01:01:43:13
Student In The Ministry Joseph Muhammad
Yes, sir.
01:01:43:15 – 01:01:52:00
Student Minister Rodney Muhammad
A man fiercely, devoted to the black liberation struggle.
01:01:52:02 – 01:01:52:07
Student In The Ministry Joseph Muhammad
Right?
01:01:52:08 – 01:02:28:25
Student Minister Rodney Muhammad
That but James Baldwin was homosexual. But you know what? He never took his personal life choices right over the struggle of black people. The scene James Baldwin always kept. Go look at all the interviews. He did, and neither did Bayard Rustin, who was homosexual, who organized for a Philip Randolph the march in 1963.
01:02:28:27 – 01:02:58:23
Student Minister Rodney Muhammad
So you didn’t see James Baldwin politicking for drag queens on to be in kindergarten class, reading stories to children, No, I’m just going to be. Nobody trying to lift. Nobody put nobody down. But we just talking about how Satan has taken this thing that they’ve weaponized this thing. They didn’t just politicize it. They created a cancel.
01:02:58:28 – 01:03:01:12
Student In The Ministry Joseph Muhammad
Cancel culture. Yeah. Go ahead.
01:03:01:14 – 01:03:32:18
Student Minister Rodney Muhammad
That you better not say anything. Are we coming after you, get you in the papers and get you on, on air and everything and make you go, with this. But see, the Honorable Elijah Muhammad had this man at his dinner table. He knew what the man’s persuasion was, but they didn’t talk about that. Right. So when you read Mr. Baldwin’s book of how.
01:03:32:18 – 01:03:50:02
Student Minister Rodney Muhammad
Therefore, I picked him up and took him to the home of the Honorable Elijah Muhammad for him to be seated at the table. And they discussed he said he didn’t realize that they would they were taking him back to his hotel about the judgment that Mr. Muhammad was talking about, and then to do with just black and white, right.
01:03:50:05 – 01:04:16:04
Student Minister Rodney Muhammad
It was the righteous and the wicked. He said, I should have solid teeth because God gave Noah the sign in the rainbow, no more water the fire next time. And that’s the name of the book that came out. But you see what persuaded him to put that title there? It was that dinner, yes, sir, that he had with the Honorable Elijah Muhammad.
01:04:16:06 – 01:04:40:15
Student Minister Rodney Muhammad
That level of wisdom Mr. Baldwin was able to benefit from. And he became a force in his time. Right. So they’re going to we’re going to will be one of the places, as they travel around the city where we’re going to have a discussion on that. Mr. Baldwin, and his life. So let me let me finish this up.
01:04:40:18 – 01:04:50:02
Student Minister Rodney Muhammad
Because this is so important.
01:04:50:05 – 01:05:30:24
Student Minister Rodney Muhammad
The minister talks about our pledge. He says, and we put up our word. He said this act of giving our word is our first step toward overcoming resistance. Let us. So what do you run into when you give your word? I’m going to do something. When you give your word, I’m going to be something. When you give your word, I’m no longer going to be this, and I’m no longer going to do that.
01:05:30:26 – 01:05:44:28
Student Minister Rodney Muhammad
You run the difficult that you run into is the inertia of yourself. Interpret your own inertia. What routines are you in? Because the human being is a creature of habits.
01:05:45:00 – 01:05:45:23
Student In The Ministry Joseph Muhammad
Come on.
01:05:45:25 – 01:05:56:21
Student Minister Rodney Muhammad
And see. In this land it was prophesied that it would become a habitation of devils, which shows you the habit patterns that people are living now.
01:05:56:23 – 01:05:57:23
Student In The Ministry Joseph Muhammad
That.
01:05:57:26 – 01:06:21:26
Student Minister Rodney Muhammad
You know, we got this idea of devil that he’s got to be really got to have a pitchfork. He got to really do some evil, like Friday the 13th or something. Come on. But the minister say devil is the thought, the first, the the thought that starts a train of thinking that takes you in opposition to God’s will.
01:06:21:29 – 01:06:35:17
Student Minister Rodney Muhammad
Come on, come on. So opposition is written all through the Koran because difficulty is ordained for us in this 25,000 year period. There’s an enemy.
01:06:35:19 – 01:06:37:15
Student In The Ministry Joseph Muhammad
You and.
01:06:37:17 – 01:07:14:28
Student Minister Rodney Muhammad
And if you take soil with nothing growing and plant lettuce, carrots, cabbage, and wait for what you plant to come up, it will come up because you’ve sown it. But something you didn’t plant comes up with it. It’s called weeds, the minister said. That’s the teach us everything and everybody got an enemy, Not because you did something.
01:07:15:00 – 01:07:46:27
Student Minister Rodney Muhammad
Not because nobody does. We live in a cause and effect universe. So from the cause to the effect, there’s enemies, there’s opposition that has to be overcome. We call it a difficulty. But when you overcome the difficulty, you build character. Character is the chief word for characteristic. Then there’s a characteristic about you that you don’t run from obstacles.
01:07:46:27 – 01:07:58:20
Student Minister Rodney Muhammad
You, me, and overcome all obstacles in your path that sound familiar?
01:07:58:23 – 01:08:32:09
Student Minister Rodney Muhammad
Reality. The minister said. Reality is painful. In this in this civilization that we live in now, for black man, reality is really painful. This, yeah, you might have a job, you might have a pension and all that family could be tucked away and secure. But deep inside, you know there’s something greater that ain’t living. That’s right. And not expressing itself.
01:08:32:11 – 01:08:59:11
Student Minister Rodney Muhammad
And then you might not be doing so good. And the conditions may be bad, but to face reality and really try to do something about it is so difficult, it’s easier to just smoke a blunt. I’m gonna go somewhere and get a drink, find some way to escape. Some people are not on narcotics. Some people’s drug is a whole lot of sex.
01:08:59:13 – 01:09:00:15
Student In The Ministry Joseph Muhammad
Yes, right.
01:09:00:17 – 01:09:10:18
Student Minister Rodney Muhammad
With with with with with addicted to things. An addiction is something where you put aside everything in order to defeat it.
01:09:10:20 – 01:09:15:08
Student In The Ministry Joseph Muhammad
Which is, Come on.
01:09:15:11 – 01:09:49:10
Student Minister Rodney Muhammad
But these forces are here nevertheless. And. And the minister teaches us that every attribute of a law is a force. So if the creation is made to express his attributes, we live in the midst of forces. And the reality is we have to know how to master these forces. And that’s a big assignment.
01:09:49:11 – 01:09:50:23
Student In The Ministry Joseph Muhammad
Yes, sir. Yes.
01:09:50:23 – 01:10:31:02
Student Minister Rodney Muhammad
Follow me. That’s a big assignment. And so, When you. When you connect with the God whose mind has perfected what was created, it brings you. And it brings me into a greatest state of mastery over the forces and the conditions that try to control our life. Yes. Come on. When you read the papers, you’ll think that everybody at the top got all the money.
01:10:31:02 – 01:10:34:21
Student Minister Rodney Muhammad
Everything has run out and everything. We haven’t even begun.
01:10:34:22 – 01:10:37:00
Student In The Ministry Joseph Muhammad
Right? That’s right. Come on.
01:10:37:03 – 01:11:11:11
Student Minister Rodney Muhammad
As I watched the story of Mahalia Jackson, last night, I said I wanted to see something, and I they they they had shown this at the essence Festival, but he hadn’t come out yet with let Us see singing. And when you see her life the way she just opened her mouth and the music that came out, it’s like a blues singer, Ma Rainey said.
01:11:11:13 – 01:11:29:14
Student Minister Rodney Muhammad
You know, the wife who they can see it coming out of us, but they don’t know where it come from. See, they go get it. If they could, if they could get it. And so, you know, if you study the earth, they’re valuable things on the earth. But the things that are treasured most are deep in the earth.
01:11:29:16 – 01:11:55:20
Student Minister Rodney Muhammad
And you have to dig for gold. You gotta dig for diamonds. You have to go deep in the waters for pearls. And the Honorable Elijah Muhammad said, like the most precious things among men in their civilizations are deep in the earth and deep in the waters. So the most valuable of gifts are at the bottom of civilization. Right?
01:11:55:23 – 01:12:11:17
Student Minister Rodney Muhammad
So they they, they take their little girls and put them in ballet, music schools and everything. But they can’t sing like Aretha. So they they wonder how hell we cut them off from everything we’ve read. Line now.
01:12:11:21 – 01:12:13:20
Student In The Ministry Joseph Muhammad
Right?
01:12:13:22 – 01:12:52:17
Student Minister Rodney Muhammad
We took their schools to make sure that they had substandard education. Right. Adolf Hitler is over here talking about the Aryan white man is the superior being on the planet. No one can beat him physically and right out of the ghettos of Chicago. Here come Jesse Owens. I bring everybody. Look, they playing baseball together. That’s the heartbeat of America in a world of sport and play.
01:12:52:19 – 01:12:55:12
Student Minister Rodney Muhammad
We want to play nigger. You can’t play on his team.
01:12:55:19 – 01:12:56:28
Student In The Ministry Joseph Muhammad
Good.
01:12:57:00 – 01:13:14:26
Student Minister Rodney Muhammad
So we start our own team, the Negro League. Yeah. You know, but then they say you can’t play here during the day. So we had to get lights to put on so we could play at night because we weren’t allowed on the field during the day. But now they played night.
01:13:14:26 – 01:13:17:26
Student In The Ministry Joseph Muhammad
Ball through their unit.
01:13:17:29 – 01:13:41:26
Student Minister Rodney Muhammad
And they had a man pitch in for the Kansas City Monarchs black man named Satchel Paige. There. They they said when he threw the ball, it come whistling through on a curve. It looked like it was over there. And then it come right on over the strike you out. They said it looked like a little golf ball. By the time I got to say he was striking them out to.
01:13:41:28 – 01:13:42:10
Student In The Ministry Joseph Muhammad
Come on.
01:13:42:16 – 01:14:19:22
Student Minister Rodney Muhammad
They had him, a bat catcher with the Homestead Grays. His name would come back to me. But anyway, he knocked the ball out of Yankee Stadium and, Josh Gibson, they still haven’t broken that record. They just added the record from the Negro Leagues into the Baseball Hall of Fame. They had denied because some of these records have just astounded Jackie Robinson was about the fourth or fifth best player in the Negro leagues.
01:14:19:25 – 01:14:49:21
Student Minister Rodney Muhammad
They were 4 or 5, but they didn’t have the temperament that they felt they could work with Jackie Robinson to work him into the major to the major leagues. I’m telling you, the talent that has just come from the bottom of civilization. The Honorable Elijah Muhammad said a lob made the bottom rich with gifts and talents, and that’s why they attach themselves to it so they can exploit it.
01:14:49:23 – 01:15:18:29
Student Minister Rodney Muhammad
And we’re still giving gifts, yes, sir, to the world. Not from the top of civilization, from the bottom. Right. Oh, yeah. So, you know, to end this, we have to fight the inertia. So look what the minister say. This is necessary because we cannot build a nation without improving self for the benefit of ourselves and others.
01:15:19:01 – 01:15:34:19
Student Minister Rodney Muhammad
So. The Bible says it like this. A man you know, once sowing seeds. And,
01:15:34:22 – 01:16:10:18
Student Minister Rodney Muhammad
Because opposition is vital and necessary. And we can’t prove. You know, the minister said that we have the power to overcome opposition. Have you noticed that you can plant something and a storm can come? A storm that tearing down trees, right. But when the storm is over, there’s a little twig that still there. Is there. And the minister said, see, the twig is attached to something.
01:16:10:20 – 01:16:11:10
Student In The Ministry Joseph Muhammad
Right?
01:16:11:12 – 01:16:29:15
Student Minister Rodney Muhammad
There’s not a parent right. But, you know, it’s there even though you can’t see it, because the twig is still there. Not only did the storm not destroy, but it drank from the storm to get stronger. It drink from the storm to get stronger.
01:16:29:18 – 01:16:30:10
Student In The Ministry Joseph Muhammad
Oh yeah.
01:16:30:12 – 01:16:55:16
Student Minister Rodney Muhammad
The Nation of Islam under the leadership of the Honorable Minister Louis Farrakhan. When you compare it to the institutions of the world at that time in 19 and 77, we look like a little twig. Louis. And they laugh hysterically at the minister’s claim that he was going to rebuild the work of the Honorable Elijah Muhammad. Yes, sir.
01:16:55:18 – 01:17:27:24
Student Minister Rodney Muhammad
Every storm you could name political, religious, social came after us, right? We did not get destroyed by it. We drank from it. The will got stronger, just like it was with Noah. When they laughed at him. Why did they laugh at Noah? Because Noah, the first prophet. He was building something on dry land. As he said, there’s no need for what you have built.
01:17:27:27 – 01:17:57:13
Student Minister Rodney Muhammad
So they laughed at him. So he said, so as you laugh at us, we too are laughing at you. As are you laughing at us because you think what we’re doing is unnecessary, but we laughing at you because what you doing is what’s unnecessary. And when the destruction came, the the Koran says those that were with Noah in the ark, it was a floating mercy.
01:17:57:16 – 01:18:24:16
Student Minister Rodney Muhammad
Yes, sir. I’m. See, when we talk about Muhammad. University of Islam. That looks unnecessary. Come on. Why? Because we’re saying we already got public schools. Why don’t we just work to get them properly funded? Come on, that’s what they say. If we want farmland, they say we got Tyson. We got all these other food company. Why are we trying to go from when?
01:18:24:16 – 01:18:41:29
Student Minister Rodney Muhammad
What are we gotta do is go to Acme and Shoprite. Why are you trying to build a clothing factory? You know, we got the shoes, we got the clothes. All you gotta do is come down there where we are. We gotta sell.
01:18:42:02 – 01:18:44:24
Student In The Ministry Joseph Muhammad
Oh, oh.
01:18:44:26 – 01:19:13:11
Student Minister Rodney Muhammad
In other words, nation Islam. What you doing is unnecessary. But Allah had told Noah. Surely they will be drowned, right? And the Honorable Louis Farrakhan has already been informed that the world that we think is going to be here, it will go down the same way it was with Noah. It was Jesus that said, as it was in the days of Noah, so shall it be in the last days of the coming of the Son of Man.
01:19:13:13 – 01:19:44:19
Student Minister Rodney Muhammad
What was it like? The book of Genesis says, in the days of Noah, violence was throughout the earth. Oh, you, Jesus. It’s been almost 200 mass shootings this year at schools in America. Violence is on the streets. Violence. Oh, you got armies fighting in countries all over their theaters of conflict. All America got more guns than citizens.
01:19:44:22 – 01:19:47:01
Student In The Ministry Joseph Muhammad
Jesus.
01:19:47:04 – 01:19:57:09
Student Minister Rodney Muhammad
What else was it like in Noah’s day? They were tearing down and building up. Last time I checked, I’m running down North Philly. They tearing down.
01:19:57:12 – 01:19:57:29
Student In The Ministry Joseph Muhammad
After.
01:19:58:01 – 01:20:25:01
Student Minister Rodney Muhammad
And building up. Why. Because gentrification is taking place all over the country. And black folks are being moved out to the outskirts of the city and others from whites from from the 50s and white flight. They’re coming back into the city that take a look, tearing down and building up you, sir? Yes, sir. How many budgets and tax abatements are being set up for them?
01:20:25:01 – 01:20:53:15
Student Minister Rodney Muhammad
Tearing down, building up? What else happened in Noah’s day? They were marrying and they were given away in marriage. So you got the international bachelorette programs, the international bachelor program. Now they got the old folks. You seen them done. You are that baby. What did you do? I’m with Social Security. What, how long you been working with the Social Security Administration?
01:20:53:15 – 01:21:05:15
Student Minister Rodney Muhammad
I don’t work for them. I’m on social here. Come on, come on. So they married, and then they gave you the one you choose. You get $1 million.
01:21:05:20 – 01:21:07:00
Student In The Ministry Joseph Muhammad
Look at that.
01:21:07:03 – 01:21:25:24
Student Minister Rodney Muhammad
They’re marrying and they’re giving away in marriage. Isn’t that something? They’re as it was in the days of no. So will it be in the last days, the coming of the Son of Man? And we’re looking right at it.
01:21:26:01 – 01:21:27:02
Student In The Ministry Joseph Muhammad
That’s right.
01:21:27:04 – 01:21:30:11
Student Minister Rodney Muhammad
So.
01:21:30:14 – 01:22:00:26
Student Minister Rodney Muhammad
The saw, the minister says from the book of Matthew, scatters the seed all over. He said he didn’t just put it on the good ground, but he put it on the bad ground. See, bad ground will reject the seed. That means everybody that hears the word don’t want it right now. Not because the word is bad.
01:22:00:28 – 01:22:01:21
Student In The Ministry Joseph Muhammad
Right?
01:22:01:23 – 01:22:08:22
Student Minister Rodney Muhammad
But the mind is not fertile soil to receive the word.
01:22:08:25 – 01:22:11:23
Student In The Ministry Joseph Muhammad
Yes, I teach.
01:22:11:26 – 01:22:40:00
Student Minister Rodney Muhammad
So he puts it on good ground. He put it on bad ground as an example for we who preach not to neglect the unreceptive people. Seed. Stop looking, you know, for the cheerleading squad, if you’re going to preach the Word of God, you gotta preach to everybody. The easy person and a difficult person on the one who receive and the one who’s rejecting.
01:22:40:02 – 01:23:03:00
Student Minister Rodney Muhammad
Why? Because there must be a record that everybody had a chance. God wants a record out there that no one was forsaken when it came to the message.
01:23:03:02 – 01:23:09:21
Student Minister Rodney Muhammad
So the seed that fell by the wayside, the minister said.
01:23:09:24 – 01:23:29:24
Student Minister Rodney Muhammad
Beaten track across the field. That’s the case of those whose attention is on they business. I ain’t got no time for this. They they they this is, they mine is on their social gatherings in their worldly affairs. Yes. And it makes us unreceptive to the word.
01:23:29:26 – 01:23:31:03
Student In The Ministry Joseph Muhammad
Okay. So they look at them.
01:23:31:07 – 01:23:59:20
Student Minister Rodney Muhammad
But you can’t say you didn’t get it right. You put it to the side, it went to the wayside. You know, that that that was a decision you had to make. Look at it. The seed that fell on the rocky places. This is this is where a thin layer of soil above the hard rock, beneath is the case of those they quickly are susceptible to religious influence, but they’re warning and spiritual death.
01:23:59:22 – 01:24:08:03
Student Minister Rodney Muhammad
So no permanent impression can be made. So some of us start out enthusiastic, but we tire easily and we just fade away.
01:24:08:06 – 01:24:11:28
Student In The Ministry Joseph Muhammad
Right. Look at that. Look at me.
01:24:12:00 – 01:24:21:21
Student Minister Rodney Muhammad
This is somebody that had received the word right, but they did not allow themselves the time for the word to take root in them.
01:24:21:23 – 01:24:25:12
Student In The Ministry Joseph Muhammad
Right? So.
01:24:25:15 – 01:24:43:14
Student Minister Rodney Muhammad
Then you got the seed falling on the thorns. That’s the case of those of us who have every capacity for developing the highest spiritual gifts. But we only fail because we deliberately attempt to serve two masters.
01:24:43:19 – 01:24:44:18
Student In The Ministry Joseph Muhammad
Look at them.
01:24:44:20 – 01:25:07:16
Student Minister Rodney Muhammad
We just talked about that. There’s a lot up Juma Friday, and it says a lot did not create you with two hearts in your, you only got one, in that. And if you’re trying to serve two masters, you’ll end up unstable in all your ways. Yeah. Jesus said it can’t be done. You love one. You hate the right way.
01:25:07:19 – 01:25:51:02
Student Minister Rodney Muhammad
But you can’t have a little love over here and a little hate over there. A thin line between love and hate. You see? No. You don’t perceive it, but you love one. You hate the other. And finally, the seed that falls on good ground is the case of those of us who are not only receptive to being taught, not only receptive to being corrected, not only receptive to being renewed, but we respond to the teachings in proportion to the spiritual capacities and the unique insight that Allah has blessed us with individually and.
01:25:51:04 – 01:26:04:02
Student Minister Rodney Muhammad
God’s will, God’s will in us is God’s power in us. I say let it live.
01:26:04:04 – 01:26:08:00
Student In The Ministry Joseph Muhammad
If I’m on.
01:26:08:02 – 01:26:37:10
Student Minister Rodney Muhammad
Noah heard the laughing. The believers that were with Noah heard the naysayers. You still go over there. But you know, they found out something God knew. If they keep listening to these people, they’re going to get weak. So. So what I’m going to do is give them an assignment. I got some chores, divine chores for them to do.
01:26:37:12 – 01:26:55:02
Student Minister Rodney Muhammad
And Noah found out with every time this, this raggedy plank, every time he hit that nail, it was so loud. Somebody that was carping at him, right? The work made so much noise he couldn’t hear them.
01:26:55:05 – 01:26:56:23
Student In The Ministry Joseph Muhammad
Well, come on.
01:26:56:25 – 01:27:23:05
Student Minister Rodney Muhammad
But the only time you couldn’t hear him was when you was involved in the mission. Right. So the ministers say. So every every time you drove the nail in, you were one step closer to the goal that the wheel had. That’s for us. That’s every charity receipt that got your name on it. Every front on car, newspaper that hits a door every time you drill, every post you out.
01:27:23:06 – 01:27:32:27
Student Minister Rodney Muhammad
Every prayer you say you’re getting closer and closer to the goal and the will of God.
01:27:32:29 – 01:27:42:29
Student Minister Rodney Muhammad
If you’re in torment and under distress, the minister says that you’re not working.
01:27:43:02 – 01:27:56:03
Student Minister Rodney Muhammad
It’s not work to further him. You can’t further him, and I can’t further him better than God has already done it is for us.
01:27:56:06 – 01:27:57:09
Student In The Ministry Joseph Muhammad
Jesus.
01:27:57:11 – 01:28:31:14
Student Minister Rodney Muhammad
It drowns out the bad thoughts of throwing in the towel. It drowns out the people that attacks in you and saying this, that, and the other. It drowns out social media where people are committing suicide because of somebody else’s valuation of you, and you’re not even looking at God’s valuation of you, and the greatness that he’s seeing you, you can’t even live it because it’s too much noise listening to everybody else.
01:28:31:17 – 01:28:40:08
Student Minister Rodney Muhammad
They don’t even know how to value themselves. They need to get in the class with you and sit in the circle with you and read what you have. I thank you for listening.
01:28:40:09 – 01:28:45:17
Student In The Ministry Joseph Muhammad
I solemnly.
01:28:45:20 – 01:29:24:13
Student Minister Rodney Muhammad
All praises do pull up family. I don’t know if you out anyone out for the first time. Never been out with us. Okay, good, good. Oh, thank you all so much. Thank you. Thank you, young man. Thank you, thank you. You know, we try to share with you some of what we’ve been blessed to see and to an extract from the life giving teachings of the Honorable Elijah Muhammad, which really helps us perfect the, the, the religious teachings of the three great religions, particularly Judaism, Christianity and Islam.
01:29:24:15 – 01:30:02:17
Student Minister Rodney Muhammad
You know, the Bible says and all you get and get understanding. That’s what we want. We, we we’re not against the scriptures. We’re not against the prophet. We just want understanding that that empowers us to live a better life and improve ourselves. We want that for you. And so if you are for your first, maybe second or third time, if you feel that what you heard today is the truth and good for us as a people, this is a time for you to join your hand with mine as a little helper to the Honorable Minister Louis Farrakhan, a symbolic picture that you join in on to his hand.
01:30:02:22 – 01:30:24:29
Student Minister Rodney Muhammad
For even though you don’t see him, I’m telling you, his hand is extended to you right now. So this is your opportunity, male or female? Come on up and let’s get a part of this family and come on out and learn with us. That’s this is it’s time for that. And if you have something better, you know, there’s no compulsion in religion, right?
01:30:25:01 – 01:30:28:22
Student Minister Rodney Muhammad
We just don’t believe there’s anything better than what has come to us.
01:30:28:25 – 01:30:29:11
Student In The Ministry Joseph Muhammad
That’s right.
01:30:29:13 – 01:30:54:10
Student Minister Rodney Muhammad
And so, you know, you’re welcome to be out with us and continue to come out and learn. As we are still learning, we haven’t stopped. You know, I really can see what Prophet Muhammad meant when he said, he who goes in search of knowledge, he’s in the path of a lot till he returns to minister. Say you’ve never returned fire because the knowledge of God is unending.
01:30:54:12 – 01:31:19:20
Student Minister Rodney Muhammad
I’m on. I’m going to leave the planet learning and and I’m. I’m going, you know. Oh, this young man, oh, young man, how you doing? What’s your name, sir? Tell me your name. Jamal. Jamal, this is brother Jamal. This is Brother Jamal. Come on, give him a round of Islam. All right, brother, I’m gonna put you right here.
01:31:19:22 – 01:31:51:17
Student Minister Rodney Muhammad
See right there. Brother David’s going to talk to you. Listen, every Monday night, after the end of this month, we’ve been we’ve been out, in the community on Mondays, and we got an extension where we were able to continue to go out. Oh, okay. Oh, okay. Sure. Yeah. But, we have an extension, so we’re still in out in the, community, but, every Monday night at 730, we have a class right here.
01:31:51:20 – 01:32:15:05
Student Minister Rodney Muhammad
And, and for those that are in our orientation class, the class still goes on here. The rest of us, we’re we’re out in the community, sharing, this great and marvelous truths and invincible truths, that was to be given to us in such a time as this. So, please, sign up with the secretary department.
01:32:15:05 – 01:32:39:12
Student Minister Rodney Muhammad
If you didn’t come forward and you’re all welcome on on Monday night, every Saturday morning, the women of God are here. So they’re here at 9:00, on Saturday mornings. And a wonderful, wonderful class. 75% other honorable Elijah Muhammad work is with the female, not with the male, but with the females. And so this is a great class.
01:32:39:15 – 01:33:03:04
Student Minister Rodney Muhammad
We don’t design it or anything. It comes straight from the God. That’s for the women. Through his servant, the Honorable Minister Louis Farrakhan. So you all welcome to to come on out and, and be a part. Now, look, Wednesday night, all every registered believers to be out. But Wednesday night we have citywide call meeting here.
01:33:03:07 – 01:33:37:20
Student Minister Rodney Muhammad
And we’re going to be dealing with the national agenda, a a book put together from the instruction of the Honorable Louis Farrakhan to then Ben Shabazz, who was the national director of the Million Man March, going around to, several national black organizations for input into a document that could help us formalize, our own, our own organization’s efforts in the communities throughout America.
01:33:37:20 – 01:33:59:01
Student Minister Rodney Muhammad
And so we’re taking this around the city and around the region. It’s called the National Agenda. We’ll have some of those books out. As we were telling them on the radio yesterday, they wanted to know, can they purchase one when they come here? They sure can. So Wednesday night will be upstairs rather than downstairs. But, the meltdown or democracy meltdown.
01:33:59:01 – 01:34:09:19
Student Minister Rodney Muhammad
And I know a lot of people don’t want to hear that right now because we involved in a presidential election. But, this comes from the unraveling of a great nation.
01:34:09:22 – 01:34:10:21
Student In The Ministry Joseph Muhammad
That’s right.
01:34:10:23 – 01:34:38:14
Student Minister Rodney Muhammad
And we can’t stop what’s happening here. And a lot of people have bowed out of even being a part of the electoral process. And that means that they’re so broken hearted and discouraged that even though they’re registered voters, they care not to even participate in that. And the government has no one to blame but itself for letting the people get to this state.
01:34:38:17 – 01:35:04:26
Student Minister Rodney Muhammad
And I was watching a program last night, about, the wife of the in Lyndon Baines Johnson. And it went through, you know, Doctor King getting killed and of course, John F Kennedy. And that all through the 60s, what what was happening in this country, Muhammad Ali refusing to go to Vietnam and, and others fleeing to Canada and the things that went on in this country.
01:35:04:29 – 01:35:42:02
Student Minister Rodney Muhammad
And I’m telling you, if you don’t learn what happened here yesterday, you won’t understand why today is like it is. And, you know, they’re murdering people all over this planet, and they’re putting money in the hands of people that have enough money for a thousand lifetimes already. And you remember the minister said, greed is a spiritual disease, not a political one, but they use politics so that they can feed their greed, and they’ll never be satisfied with all the money.
01:35:42:02 – 01:36:11:00
Student Minister Rodney Muhammad
And they’re subjecting people to greater and greater levels of poverty. You know, you can only go with so many dollar stores. I’ve read in Wall Street Journal, they get ready to try to open up another $1,187 stores. They, they, they and squeeze so much money we can’t afford Macy’s. You can’t afford Sears. Sears went out of business. So we got a little dollar store now to get the last few little dollars you got Ahold of and you could run in here.
01:36:11:07 – 01:36:34:25
Student Minister Rodney Muhammad
And even those are closing up. So they’re squeezing the people. I’m just telling you, and the country is constantly going down as the honorable minister Louis Farrakhan said, and the people are looking for someone who will tell them what they want to hear. And the last thing they want is for somebody to tell them the truth.
01:36:34:27 – 01:36:58:29
Student Minister Rodney Muhammad
Okay. So, come on out Wednesday night. Bring your guest out Wednesday night. And we have been pushing for, them to come out from all over the city, but it’s the beginning of a tour, so, we hope to see some of you out and tell your loved ones and your coworkers and all. Okay, so now we want to have our, public offering.
01:36:59:03 – 01:37:22:16
Student Minister Rodney Muhammad
Thank you so much. In that night last night, and and, you know, keep in mind, we got a busy month coming up in October. So I really want us, you know, to be out. We, brother Nouri’s going to bless us. He’ll be here in the city, and, he’ll be with us in October. We’re looking for something on the anniversary of the Million Man March.
01:37:22:18 – 01:37:45:13
Student Minister Rodney Muhammad
So we’ll let you know more about that when we hear from from our headquarter mosque in Chicago. Who else can give today? Who else can give today? You know, we can do all the credit cards and the debit cards and everything, right? So we’re going to pass the receptacles. We want to thank you all for whatever God puts in your heart to give today to help us here at mass number 12.
01:37:45:13 – 01:37:52:10
Student Minister Rodney Muhammad
Thank you so much.
01:37:52:12 – 01:38:16:05
Student Minister Rodney Muhammad
We also, we’ll have a flier going out about the, James Baldwin, event that we have coming up here. And we’re going to have more community discussions and things going on now on the 29th. It’s a to what’s a how do you pronounce her name? The sister, Caden G. Jackson. She’s on the Supreme Court.
01:38:16:09 – 01:38:40:19
Student Minister Rodney Muhammad
She’s the recent appointment to the Supreme Court. But she’ll be down the street at Uncle Bobby’s on the 29th, I believe. And that may be a ticketed event. Also, I received a phone call this morning, and I promised to just let people know that, there are a lot of reunions taking place. One took place this past week in Boston.
01:38:40:21 – 01:39:06:16
Student Minister Rodney Muhammad
We just probably saw one with our spring captain there in New York City with all those that went to the universities of Islam together, back in the 60s and 70s, in New York City. But, I believe this Saturday coming, they’re going to be honoring all those that helped MOS 25 get started. When the rebuilding started under Minister Cordier.
01:39:06:18 – 01:39:24:05
Student Minister Rodney Muhammad
And so they have, many soldiers, male and female, that they’re going to be honoring in that, in the city of Newark, new Jersey. But I just said I would let let us all know about that. So Brother Joseph closes out in prayer, we really thank you all for coming, Sister Arlene. I’m sorry.
01:39:24:08 – 01:39:31:02
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01:39:31:05 – 01:40:02:25
Student Minister Rodney Muhammad
Two guests from Georgia. From Georgia. All right. Good good good good, good to say Abdu Sharif Muhammad from Georgia. Thank you so much. Thank you so much for loving. Thank you all so much for being with us. We hope your stay has been good and and everything. I don’t know, when you return, but, we do have, don’t we have didn’t we have someone that went to just went to Atlanta, where it was Djibril.
01:40:02:26 – 01:40:14:22
Student Minister Rodney Muhammad
Well, he moved there, but some I thought I just signed a travel letter of somebody that was going to Atlanta and anything. But we always have a good time when we go to Atlanta. Over there. So, brother Joseph.
01:40:14:25 – 01:40:15:27
Student In The Ministry Joseph Muhammad
Just a couple of.
01:40:16:00 – 01:40:19:18
Student Minister Rodney Muhammad
Okay. Thank you. All right.
01:40:19:20 – 01:40:28:13
Student In The Ministry Joseph Muhammad
Do your family, let’s give him another round of applause. Delaware Valley student regional Minister Rodney Muhammad.
01:40:28:15 – 01:40:40:16
Student In The Ministry Joseph Muhammad
Did we learn anything? Oh, praises due to Allah. Did you take good notes? Oh, praise be to Allah. Dear family, let me just do it this way.
01:40:40:19 – 01:41:09:25
Student In The Ministry Joseph Muhammad
The few announcements that we have, I’ll read it very quickly. And immediately thereafter, we will close the prayer. The first announcement that we have today, support the EAC, LC, and mu I affiliate offering a virtual learning experience for 20, 24 and 25 school year. Please check your email for the survey. So if you’re not on our mailing list, see our Minister for information, Brother Severe, and he will put you on and you will be abreast of all mosque events that will come in the very near future.
01:41:09:27 – 01:41:37:12
Student In The Ministry Joseph Muhammad
Number two, let’s save the date. Check your email for more detail. Wednesday, September 25th 20. Emphasize attendance Wednesday night. The lecture held here at Muhammad’s Mosque. Number 12. Please make all intentions to be present and accounted for. Also, hoagies and other confessions will be available for purchase that evening. Yeah. All right. Okay. National Black Leadership Summit, Saturday, October the 19th in Washington, DC.
01:41:37:14 – 01:42:03:25
Student In The Ministry Joseph Muhammad
Check your email and flier for registration info and a special note. Please update your personal Nation’s program account regarding your education and employment information. If you have any questions or difficulty accessing your Personal Donations program account, please see Brothers Severe, Student Minister for information from the Secretarial Department. He will be downstairs. Upon, closing a prayer at the second series table.
01:42:03:27 – 01:42:26:13
Student In The Ministry Joseph Muhammad
And last but not least, we have on our dinner menu today, we have barbecue chicken, fried whiting, fish baked curry fish, or a vegetarian option size of mac and cheese, green beans and cabbage. Drinks and desserts are also available for all hearts and minds. At ease. Yes I will. Dear family, at this time, as promised, let us close with prayer.
01:42:26:15 – 01:42:48:22
Student In The Ministry Joseph Muhammad
Prayer. 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 the alone do we beseech for aid.
01:42:48:24 – 01:43:08:03
Student In The Ministry Joseph Muhammad
Oh our Lord, guide us on the street. Pat the path of those upon whom thou has bestowed favors, and not the path of those upon whom thy wrath is brought down, nor those who go astray. After hearing our teaching say, here lies one. A law is he upon whom we all depend. He need to beget. Nor is he begotten, and there’s none like him.
01:43:08:06 – 01:43:28:27
Student In The Ministry Joseph Muhammad
I bear witness that none deserves to be served a worship. Besides the law, who appeared to us in the person of Master Farad Muhammad, eternally grateful to him for given to us his wise choice in the messenger, Messiah, the exalted, the risen and living Christ, and the Most honorable Elijah Muhammad. And to the two of them, if we lived a thousand years, we can never thank him for the gift that walks among us.
01:43:28:27 – 01:43:53:15
Student In The Ministry Joseph Muhammad
In the Honorable Minister Louis Farrakhan, the Messiah in our midst, and their names, we pray. I mean your family. The meeting is the Smith. Go in peace. Safe travels. And remember, we are never to be the aggressor. But if we are rest upon, we fight with those who fight with us. I alaikum.
