Sunday Lecture 8-04-2024

Sunday Lecture August 4 2024

Student Ministers Rodney Muhammad and Joseph Muhammad delivered powerful lectures emphasizing the distinctive mission of the Nation of Islam and the importance of active devotion to its cause of Black upliftment. They underscored that true adherence to Islam extends beyond rituals, necessitating a resolute commitment to this mission.

A pivotal concept interwoven throughout their lectures was the significance of recognizing the unique nature of the Nation of Islam’s path. Student Minister Rodney Muhammad emphasized that this path diverges from those of other Islamic communities, urging listeners to avoid emulating external models. This distinctive approach, he explained, finds its roots in the actions of Master Fard Muhammad, who exemplified devotion through practical acts of service, such as direct community engagement and door-to-door teaching. The Honorable Elijah Muhammad, Student Minister Rodney Muhammad highlighted, embodied this unwavering commitment by dedicating his life to the advancement of Black people.

Student Minister Joseph Muhammad echoed this sentiment by stressing the vital role of studying the teachings of both the Honorable Elijah Muhammad and the Honorable Minister Louis Farrakhan to cultivate a deeper comprehension of the Nation of Islam’s mission. He presented the Final Call newspaper as an invaluable resource for enriching one’s understanding and staying abreast of current events pertinent to the Black community.

Drawing compelling parallels between the experiences of the Honorable Elijah Muhammad and the Honorable Minister Louis Farrakhan, both speakers brought to light the persistent attempts to discredit Black leaders and their messages. Student Minister Joseph Muhammad shared excerpts from a past issue of the Muhammad Speaks newspaper, in which the Honorable Elijah Muhammad directly confronted efforts to misrepresent his teacher, Master Fard Muhammad. The Honorable Elijah Muhammad’s unwavering stance in challenging these distortions, even offering a reward for substantiation, illustrated his commitment to truth and transparency.

Connecting this historical context to the present day, Student Minister Joseph Muhammad argued that the methods employed to undermine Black leaders have persisted, citing the unfounded attacks directed at the Honorable Minister Louis Farrakhan. By illuminating these recurrent patterns, the speakers underscored the ongoing need for vigilance and discernment.

Concluding their lectures with resonant calls to action, both Student Ministers urged their audience to translate their understanding into concrete actions that advance the Nation of Islam’s mission. Student Minister Rodney Muhammad challenged listeners to actively engage with their communities by inviting others to the mosque and fostering dialogue with those experiencing hardship. Authentic peace and fulfillment, he posited, arise from embracing the responsibility of uplifting others.

Extending this call to action, Student Minister Joseph Muhammad emphasized the significance of regular participation in study groups and meetings as a means of cultivating a strong sense of community and shared purpose among believers. Concluding on a powerful note, he quoted the Honorable Minister Louis Farrakhan, who aptly stated that the exchange of ideas through dialogue constitutes a fundamental step in the transformative journey from human to divine. 

Here is a study guide with questions and answers for Student In The Ministry Joseph Muhammad based on his message.

Questions:

1. Who are the three key individuals discussed in relation to the Nation of Islam, and how are they connected?
2. Answer: The source discusses:

• Master W. Fard Muhammad: Presented as the divine founder of the Nation of Islam.
• Elijah Muhammad: Presented as the chosen successor, tasked with carrying on Master Fard Muhammad’s teachings.
• Minister Louis Farrakhan: Presented as the current leader who embodies the legacy of both predecessors.

1. The source connects these figures as a lineage, with each inheriting and passing on a vital spiritual message. Minister Farrakhan is described as “housing them both” [1], suggesting he carries their combined essence.
2. What extraordinary qualities does the source attribute to Master Fard Muhammad?
3. Answer: The source attributes many impressive abilities to Master Fard Muhammad, portraying him as being more than a typical human. These qualities include:

• Linguistic Mastery: He is said to have spoken 16 languages and written 10, possibly including the languages of birds [2-4]. This suggests a connection to the natural world exceeding normal human capacity.
• Vast Historical Knowledge: He is said to be able to “dictate history back 150,000 years” without error [5]. This goes far beyond typical historical records, implying a unique form of knowledge.
• Cosmic Awareness: The source claims he could see the inhabitants of Mars in the 1930s [6] and “knows all the life in the universe” [5]. This suggests a level of awareness beyond the limits of human senses.

1. According to the source, how do historical accounts from outside the Nation of Islam portray Master Fard Muhammad, and how does the source challenge these accounts?
2. Answer: The source indicates that outside accounts often present negative or inaccurate information about Master Fard Muhammad. It specifically mentions attempts to label him as a “flimflam artist” with a criminal past [7].
3. The source refutes these claims by:

• Citing Elijah Muhammad’s Rebuttals: It quotes Elijah Muhammad directly, challenging newspapers to prove their accusations and offering rewards if they could [8, 9].
• Highlighting the Scarcity of the Time: It argues that the Black community in Detroit during the 1930s was impoverished and could not have provided Master Fard Muhammad with substantial wealth if he were motivated by money [10].
• Emphasizing Master Fard Muhammad’s Abilities: By emphasizing his extraordinary abilities, the source implicitly challenges the idea that he would need to resort to trickery or crime [2-6, 11-15].

1. According to the source, why is it important for individuals to be active participants in the Nation of Islam’s community, especially in the face of opposition?
2. Answer: The source repeatedly stresses that being part of the Nation of Islam’s community is crucial for spiritual growth and for withstanding external pressures. Key reasons for this emphasis include:

• Shared Learning: The source highlights the importance of group study and sharing thoughts, quoting Minister Farrakhan’s statement that this exchange is how people move “from man to God” [16].
• Mutual Support: Facing opposition is presented as an inevitability, with Student In The Ministry Joseph Muhammad stating that attacks will eventually be directed at all individuals within the Nation of Islam [3]. Being part of a supportive community is implied as a way to withstand such challenges.
• Continuing a Legacy: The emphasis on community participation connects back to the theme of inheriting and carrying forward the teachings of Master Fard Muhammad and Elijah Muhammad. Active involvement ensures the legacy continues.

1. What metaphor does the source use to describe the ‘check procedure,’ and what does this metaphor suggest about the Nation of Islam’s approach to community and self-preservation?

Answer: The source uses the metaphor of a computer filter to describe the ‘check procedure’ [17]. Just as a filter protects a computer from harmful viruses, the check procedure is portrayed as safeguarding the Nation of Islam’s community by screening out negative influences or potential threats.

This metaphor suggests that the Nation of Islam prioritizes:

• Protecting Its Members: The check procedure is presented as a measure to ensure the well-being and “utmost of comfort” of both members and newcomers [17, 18].
• Maintaining Internal Harmony: By filtering out potential negativity, the check procedure aims to preserve a positive and supportive atmosphere within the community.
• Controlling External Influences: The metaphor implies a degree of caution and selectivity in who is allowed to participate, reinforcing the idea that the Nation of Islam is safeguarding its teachings and community from outside interference.

00:00:06:17 – 00:00:13:05

Student In The Ministry Joseph Muhammad

I said I’m breaking your fam at this time. To be. Please stand for prayer.

00:00:13:07 – 00:00:19:12

Student Minister Rodney Muhammad

Real. In the manner in which you are most comfortable.

00:00:19:14 – 00:00:40:28

Student In The Ministry Joseph Muhammad

Surely I am being turned to thee or alone, striving to be upright. To he who originated the heavens and the earth. And I am not of the polytheists. Surely my prayer, my sacrifice, my life, and my death to all who allow the Lord of the world. No associate has he in this am I commanded? No. I’m of those who submit.

00:00:41:00 – 00:01:00:03

Student In The Ministry Joseph Muhammad

Oh, Allah! No art the king. There is no God with thee. Thou art, my Lord, and I am not servant. And I have been greatly unjust in myself, and I confess my faults. So grant me protection against all my faults. Anon grants protection against faults with thee, and guide me into the best of morals that none can guide into the best of morals.

00:01:00:03 – 00:01:09:01

Student In The Ministry Joseph Muhammad

But thee, and turn away from me the evil and the indecent wars. But none can turn from me, the evil in thee. And decent morals. But in all of.

00:01:09:03 – 00:01:09:21

Student Minister Rodney Muhammad

Them.

00:01:09:23 – 00:01:20:29

Student In The Ministry Joseph Muhammad

Make Muhammad successful. And make this from followers of Muhammad successful. The make Abraham and the true followers of Abraham successful. For surely thou art breathed and magnified.

00:01:21:01 – 00:01:22:09

Student Minister Rodney Muhammad

And all Allah.

00:01:22:12 – 00:01:50:08

Student In The Ministry Joseph Muhammad

Blessed Muhammad and blessed the true followers of Muhammad. His eldest blessed Abraham and the true followers of Abraham. For surely, though I praise and magnify, may be seated in the name of a lot of beneficent, the Most Merciful, we give praise and thanks to Allah for his coming and appearing to us in the person ish of master W far out of Muhammad, the long awaited Messiah of the Christians and the Mahdi of the Muslims.

00:01:50:08 – 00:01:54:13

Student In The Ministry Joseph Muhammad

We thank him for coming to seek and save that.

00:01:54:15 – 00:01:56:02

Student Minister Rodney Muhammad

Which was lost.

00:01:56:05 – 00:01:57:20

Student In The Ministry Joseph Muhammad

The Black Lion in.

00:01:57:22 – 00:01:59:01

Student Minister Rodney Muhammad

Illinois, America.

00:01:59:03 – 00:02:18:22

Student In The Ministry Joseph Muhammad

And we thank him. Thank you, thank you. Staying among us three years and four months. And in that time he made a decision, and he chose a man that after those three years, and for amongst his being among us, he departed is very heart, mind, the very essence of himself into that man. And that man would take his place.

00:02:18:25 – 00:02:46:11

Student In The Ministry Joseph Muhammad

So we can say, as the Koran said, that that man became the vice Jarrett of Almighty God alone. We thank him for choosing this one, a Georgia born black man, a man who had the same spirit, the same heart as his teacher, Master Fard Muhammad, born Elijah Poole. But because of his dedication and his love for you and I, the black man and woman, he became known as the most Honorable Elijah Muhammad.

00:02:46:14 – 00:03:12:23

Student In The Ministry Joseph Muhammad

We thank our Lord for that beautiful and wonderful human being. All praises to Allah. However, I did not meet either of those two, but the man who is on scene today, who is the representation or the embodiment of the two of them and one man. This man houses them both. And not not only does he have them both, we can say that he houses all the prophets of Scripture because of the work that he is doing.

00:03:12:23 – 00:03:39:22

Student In The Ministry Joseph Muhammad

We can connect the dots and show where he is doing the exact same work that they were doing in both Bible and Koran. So we thank Allah for this bold, courageous, wonderful, wonderful black man that walks among us. And we know him. I can say he was born Louis Walcott, but because of the wonderful and magnificent work that he is doing, he is known as the Most Honorable Minister Louis Farrakhan.

00:03:39:27 – 00:03:58:02

Student In The Ministry Joseph Muhammad

All praises due to Allah. But that third in that trilogy of the ones who had some hats to wear. And he does. Man, does he wear his hat. That’s what we thank our law for, that beautiful, beautiful, person that is among us and the honorable Minister Louis, for our time, we say he is the Messiah, and he is.

00:03:58:04 – 00:04:19:02

Student In The Ministry Joseph Muhammad

And we can prove it at no limited time. Thank you, dear family, for being here on time. Since we were talking about time and being in your seats to be able to hear some of the life giving teachings of the Honorable Elijah Muhammad the, has imparted to us through the Honorable Minister Louis Farrakhan. thank you first and foremost, again, for being here on time.

00:04:19:02 – 00:04:23:14

Student In The Ministry Joseph Muhammad

And thank you for submitting to the check procedure, because the check procedure.

00:04:23:16 – 00:04:23:24

Student Minister Rodney Muhammad

Is a.

00:04:23:24 – 00:04:54:21

Student In The Ministry Joseph Muhammad

Procedure and an exercise that is designed to filter out certain things. You know, we have filters on our computer because we don’t want, you know, viruses to come in, right, and destroy our hard drive so that we can no longer it makes our computers inoperative. Well, we’re the same way on the physical sense that we have filters at the door where we can filter out certain things that come in, not just physical things, but we even check the spirit so that we can filter that out so that if someone comes to the door and they’re not in a good mood or they’re not feeling too well, we can say, well, listen, maybe you should come

00:04:54:21 – 00:05:15:28

Student In The Ministry Joseph Muhammad

back another time. And that’s the only that’s only fair because we want you to be in the utmost of comfort, but we also want to be in the utmost of comfort. So what we do is we remove any doubt about anything harmful coming through the door by following the teachings of the Honorable Elijah Muhammad and the Honorable Minister Louis Farrakhan, by checking everything at the door.

00:05:16:00 – 00:05:34:09

Student In The Ministry Joseph Muhammad

So thank you again for submitting to the check procedure. And while I’m on that and going through the things that we have in the Nation of Islam that are jewels, this is a jewel is called the first tool of the Nation of Islam, the number one tool of the Nation of Islam. And that is the final call newspaper.

00:05:34:11 – 00:05:53:16

Student In The Ministry Joseph Muhammad

Yes. This is an advertisement, if you will. If you don’t get the final call, you should get one now and take it home with you. But at the faces I’m looking at, it looks like everybody in here probably gets a final call. And don’t just get it, read it because it has local, national and international news. It has an article that is just the only part 4 or 5.

00:05:53:16 – 00:06:13:09

Student In The Ministry Joseph Muhammad

Now where it’s talking about the Honorable Louis Farrakhan attacking obesity. Right? He said, wherever you see obesity, that’s Satan rising up in us. Think that over never looked at it like that, but it’s satanic to have that kind of stuff on us because it causes us not to feel good physically and ultimately psychologically. We will start to be the same way.

00:06:13:11 – 00:06:20:05

Student In The Ministry Joseph Muhammad

So when did we get the call? Brother, sister, can you come out and do doesn’t how often I’m going to be able to make it? Today something came up.

00:06:20:07 – 00:06:22:22

Student Minister Rodney Muhammad

With.

00:06:22:25 – 00:06:44:05

Student In The Ministry Joseph Muhammad

I’m not going to dwell on that one. But the deal is, is that we, and the final call have all kinds of new. We have articles from the Honorable Elijah Muhammad, articles from the Honorable Minister Louis Farrakhan. Minister Jibril Muhammad will forever be pleased with him. And from mother time now to Muhammad may, he also be pleased with her for their timely articles.

00:06:44:11 – 00:07:01:01

Student In The Ministry Joseph Muhammad

And as as if when you read them as though they just wrote them yesterday, all we have to do is study them and we can see where we are in history and how our motion is with time. And that’s right, y’all. All right. Praise be to Allah. Well, your family, there’s a lot going on. We can bear witness to that.

00:07:01:07 – 00:07:29:16

Student In The Ministry Joseph Muhammad

Yes. Of course it’s hard. Yes, but the minister always tells us there’s a hotter day coming. And, that may not have anything to do with physical heat, but is the spiritual and psychological heat that we are all going to have to undergo because we are in a trance territory, like we’re in transition, we’re being evolved into something, and that I can only bring out of us, within us, unless he puts us through pressure and trials.

00:07:29:19 – 00:07:54:28

Student In The Ministry Joseph Muhammad

Heart trial. Right. Because heart trials according to the Koran purify, right. So the more that we can endure the hard trials, the more the gift that Allah has embedded in us and buried deep within us will manifest itself. And only through the trial can we get that to happen. We can prove that at no limit of time. However, I want to go back just a moment and talk about something that you hear all the time.

00:07:55:00 – 00:08:19:15

Student In The Ministry Joseph Muhammad

And for some it’s a review, and for others to be the first time maybe hearing it. You know, we talk about at the introduction, we talk about Master Fard Muhammad, God and person coming. And you know, when he came back and not when he made himself known back in 1930, the enemy tried to discredit him because not because he showed up, because he was so skillful.

00:08:19:15 – 00:08:37:18

Student In The Ministry Joseph Muhammad

He had been in and out of America for 20 years. They didn’t know how to deal with a man that his wisdom is so far beyond their. They couldn’t even fathom that who he was, and he kept it a secret until it was the right time. Y’all all right, listen to this. I just want to read some of this stuff.

00:08:37:18 – 00:08:58:10

Student In The Ministry Joseph Muhammad

It says, does that picture up? Yeah. No, it’s not up. You brothers are brilliant. If you could just just put it up. I want to read something from the Muhammad Speaks newspaper. no, this is okay. Praise be to Allah. This is the Honorable Elijah Muhammad talking. He’s talking about the detractors of his teacher and those who came along and tried to explain.

00:08:58:13 – 00:09:27:06

Student In The Ministry Joseph Muhammad

Master Foreign Muhammad, listen to his words. He says there are still other books, pamphlets and newspapers perpetuating on the same incorrectness and being passed off as the legacy of Elijah Muhammad and the Nation of Islam. I’m sorry, this is a brother commenting about the Honorable Elijah Muhammad. It is the epitome of ignorance to deny the truth of a matter and at the same time admit that you don’t have the facts, sound familiar in a modern context, and tell what they do about the Honorable Louis Farrakhan.

00:09:27:08 – 00:09:49:11

Student In The Ministry Joseph Muhammad

They just conjure up something and then another one bears witness to it. Oh yeah. Yeah. He’s right. Come on. Anyway, it is the height of folly when men, when attempting to build an unsupported argument the size of a planet, then make the attempt at fitting you through a plane of speculation. I’m sorry. The pinhole of speculation theory and conjecture.

00:09:49:18 – 00:10:16:29

Student In The Ministry Joseph Muhammad

There should be a law against elevating such ignorance to the level of scholarship. One of the greatest public attempts at discrediting the Nation of Islam was initiated by Simon Booker and Ed Montgomery. Mr. Booker had written a book published in 1964 entitled Black Man’s America, wherein he stated that the Nation of Islam was founded by a flimflam artist who served three year a three year sentence in San Quentin Prison for narcotics law violation.

00:10:17:01 – 00:10:41:25

Student In The Ministry Joseph Muhammad

This aspect is mentioned because of the same lies, but more extensive, were published in the San Francisco Examiner in 1963, in response to a poisonous venom with this snake and those who helped him spewed up about Master Fard Muhammad, who in fact is Allah and person, and who is the one and only teacher of Elijah Muhammad, the messenger publicly.

00:10:41:27 – 00:11:10:17

Student In The Ministry Joseph Muhammad

Now these are the words of the Honorable Elijah Muhammad. He says, Elijah Muhammad, Messenger of Allah. I told the Los Angeles Herald Examiner office on Monday, July the 29th, 1963 that my followers and I will pay the Los Angeles Herald Examiner newspaper $100,000 to prove the headline charge. Black Muslim founder exposed as a white man made against us that we are following one.

00:11:10:17 – 00:11:43:00

Student In The Ministry Joseph Muhammad

Wallace died with many aliases, including the name Fard, that he is the man that I am representing to my people as being Master Farrakhan. Muhammad Ali in person, who appeared among us in Detroit, Michigan in 1931 and is the same person Wallace died the Los Angeles Herald Examiner also printed his prison history in San Quentin Federal Penitentiary on a charge of peddling dope, and that he admitted he was teaching us if he died, was teaching for money.

00:11:43:00 – 00:12:03:18

Student In The Ministry Joseph Muhammad

In those panic days in Detroit, he did not get it from us. Mr. Dyer undoubtedly must have been teaching the white people if he received any money at all, because we did not have any. Then he goes on to say we did not pay master pay, Mr. Fard any money to teach us. And there are many who will verify this statement who are yet alive.

00:12:03:20 – 00:12:29:07

Student In The Ministry Joseph Muhammad

We could hardly pay the rent of the hall in those days. Sometime they, the believers, would give him master foreign Muhammad gifts such as top coat, overcoat, ties, shoes, or a few packages of handkerchiefs. But money was so scarce in those days that we just did not have any. Just about everyone who believe was on the relief. And for those who don’t know what that is, that was public assistance, y’all.

00:12:29:07 – 00:12:57:02

Student In The Ministry Joseph Muhammad

I was just a little history. Just history. Crazy to a lot in Detroit, including myself. I would like the Los Angeles Herald Examiner to prove that this man died, was my teacher, by bringing him to this country at our expense. Mr. Wallace Fard Muhammad, whom praises I do forever the finder and life give it to we the loss of our members of the great Asiatic black nation from the tribe of Shabazz speaks 16 different languages.

00:12:57:04 – 00:13:22:08

Student In The Ministry Joseph Muhammad

Ten Mr. Wallace Dyer speaks 16 different languages. Mr. Wallace Fard Muhammad also writes ten of these languages. He speaks fluently. His native language is Arabic. Mr. died speak Arabic, of which we have in his handwriting, and it is the best handwriting or penmanship in the Arab world. Let Mr. Di prove that he was among us. Prove that he gave us our name.

00:13:22:14 – 00:13:43:28

Student In The Ministry Joseph Muhammad

Let Mr. Dodd prove who was his secretary and where the identification cards were printed, of which we have with us today. And did he write the Arabic on them himself? Y’all all right? If Mr. Di was the Mr. Wallace Fard Muhammad, why did the FBI arrest him for the teaching of truth?

00:13:44:01 – 00:13:45:04

Student Minister Rodney Muhammad

Let this paper prove.

00:13:45:04 – 00:14:09:11

Student In The Ministry Joseph Muhammad

These things before it headlines us as liars and worshipers of the white devils. I would like to ask the Herald Examiner to give us a minute. My new close up, or of this fake Mr. Di, who they like to make the public believe is our savior. Even the description of this man’s height and weight does not correspond to Master Fard Muhammad, to whom praise is I do for ever his measurement.

00:14:09:13 – 00:14:33:11

Student In The Ministry Joseph Muhammad

I know his height, his weight, the size of his clothes, and his shoe. Y’all all right? Okay. When Master Fard Muhammad left us, it was in 1934 again that Mr. Dot proved that he and I were together, and that the lesson that I am teaching to my followers are from him. And where were they given to me, and did he ever examine me on what he gave me and where?

00:14:33:13 – 00:14:55:08

Student In The Ministry Joseph Muhammad

There are many questions that I would like to ask Mr. Dodd about that would prove to the world that this man is a fake, and that the Los Angeles Herald Examiner has put that has published. We believe this by the reasoning of such unfounded truth. I’m going to stop right there. You can see that. Has anything changed? No, sir.

00:14:55:11 – 00:15:14:23

Student In The Ministry Joseph Muhammad

As a matter of fact, we. Yeah, it is changed. We can say that the media, those that were writing back then, it’s gotten worse. And this is why when they did write about the Honorable Louis Farrakhan, all they wrote were lies and untruths about him. So he’s walking in those same shoes. But, brothers and sisters, did you know that we are walking in no shoes too?

00:15:14:25 – 00:15:39:27

Student In The Ministry Joseph Muhammad

Pretty soon that kind of same attack is going to come against each one of us that are sitting here right now. But let me go into Master Fard Muhammad just a little bit more. Now we just read where he spoke 16 different languages and he wrote ten of them. Always ask the question were 16 different languages? Who were the people he was talking to and saying, why is it that he spoke 16 but only wrote ten?

00:15:39:29 – 00:15:56:25

Student In The Ministry Joseph Muhammad

What about the other, the other ones that he didn’t see? Why we don’t? What is the only have to write ten who else was he talking to? Well, you know, we talk we are talking now lessons in the history that he went down into the jungles of Africa and he learned the language of the birds hmhm birds don’t necessarily write, do they?

00:15:56:28 – 00:16:16:29

Student In The Ministry Joseph Muhammad

Just something to think about. All right. And it says he visited every inhabited place on earth again. How many inhabited places are there on earth? Do we know them all? Do we even know the ones that they talk about in the news? Think about that. You know, you saw you hear about Iraq, Iran. You didn’t know about it until they decided to make him the enemy.

00:16:17:02 – 00:16:33:12

Student In The Ministry Joseph Muhammad

But now you hear about them all the time. But what Master Fard Muhammad was doing this 20 years before he made himself known to the people in America who are the world power for us right now? All right. And they didn’t even know where he they don’t even know all the places on earth where the inhabited people are not.

00:16:33:13 – 00:16:34:13

Student Minister Rodney Muhammad

All right. Yes.

00:16:34:16 – 00:17:02:27

Student In The Ministry Joseph Muhammad

Let’s move on. It said he was in and out of America for 20 years, making himself known. Then he said he can dictate history back 150,000 years and not miss a beat. That’s six cycles of time now with us. Time. The way we write history is 25 years, 25,000 years. We call it foreign, right? Well, he knows six Korans.

00:17:03:00 – 00:17:23:25

Student In The Ministry Joseph Muhammad

That’s 150,000 years that he can dictate back. And it’s the he cannot miss a beat. Some of us can barely what happened a few minutes ago. Right. And he remembered 50,000 years ago, 150,000 years ago. And then he says he knows all the life and the universe. He knows it’s the beginning, his purpose.

00:17:23:28 – 00:17:25:22

Student Minister Rodney Muhammad

And it’s in.

00:17:25:25 – 00:17:45:27

Student In The Ministry Joseph Muhammad

Who is that powerful? That’s what makes him God. That he. I mean, let me move on because I’m getting excited. He said. He depicted and extracted the language of the people on Mars now in our history, he said in the 1930s, he had a glass of water on a podium and he would tell them to come up. I’m going to show you what they look like, what?

00:17:45:29 – 00:18:06:21

Student In The Ministry Joseph Muhammad

Oh, man, there’s a there’s a tying point to all of this. Just give me a second right there. They said. The Honorable Elijah Muhammad said that Master Fard Muhammad will live for 400 years, but that his wisdom would last throughout all of eternity. And this is the good news. He came for you and me to make us just like himself.

00:18:06:23 – 00:18:23:01

Student In The Ministry Joseph Muhammad

This is here. All the things that he can do. Can you imagine being able to remember what happened last year and not miss a beat? I might be talking about 103,000 years ago, or be able to see down the road and know what’s coming. Come on. That’s what he came to do to us. But we got to be here in the class.

00:18:23:07 – 00:18:37:11

Student In The Ministry Joseph Muhammad

If we don’t come to the class, we’ll never get to be like God. All praises to Allah, your brothers and sisters. That’s. That’s just a little taste. And hopefully that whet your appetite to want to come out to the class.

00:18:37:11 – 00:18:43:14

Student In The Ministry Joseph Muhammad

Because this is going to be these things are going to be taught. And the only way that we’re going to know is that we have to be in the class.

00:18:43:14 – 00:19:02:08

Student In The Ministry Joseph Muhammad

And the honorable Minister Louis Farrakhan, as I close, said to us every Friday, he said, the only way we can move from man to God is that we have to share our thoughts with one another. That’s a cool yes. So if you want to share your thoughts with one another and we are hanging out with somebody else, you’re right.

00:19:02:09 – 00:19:25:27

Student In The Ministry Joseph Muhammad

We need to be around the believers, right? We got to be with the believers on Friday when we have study group and all the meetings on Wednesday, Monday, Saturday we got to be here. So with that being said, your family, that’s all I have for us today. I pray that you got something out of what was then and at this time, let us bring to this rostrum our brother, the hardest working black man in the region, the Delaware Valley Student Regional Minister, Rodney Muhammad.

00:19:25:27 – 00:19:36:10

Student In The Ministry Joseph Muhammad

Let’s bring him on the floor. I salute.

00:19:36:12 – 00:20:15:01

Student Minister Rodney Muhammad

In the name of Allah, the beneficent, the Most Merciful, the one God to whom praise is due, the Lord of the worlds. We thank Almighty God. We cannot thank him enough for seeing fit to raise in our midst a divine leader, teacher, and God. Because of his coming and fulfilling what God does, he reveals all truth, sins, all truth bearers, his own prophets, with the promise that they would be fulfilled.

00:20:15:01 – 00:20:49:07

Student Minister Rodney Muhammad

Because if it’s a prophet, then he prophesies us, right? But if he prophesies this, then he’s not the one to fulfill what he prophesies is. So he makes you to expect someone if you believe in him and in prophecy and black people have never been taught in prophecy. And because of that, we don’t know what a fulfill looks like for sure.

00:20:49:09 – 00:21:01:21

Student Minister Rodney Muhammad

But if we knew prophecy, it would be a little easier to see or fulfill of when he comes back.

00:21:01:23 – 00:21:13:16

Student Minister Rodney Muhammad

God came. As it was prophesied that he would come after the workings of Satan.

00:21:13:18 – 00:21:23:13

Student Minister Rodney Muhammad

If, he’s everywhere, all at the same time.

00:21:23:15 – 00:21:32:09

Student Minister Rodney Muhammad

He really couldn’t come because he’d already be here for.

00:21:32:11 – 00:21:41:06

Student Minister Rodney Muhammad

We have so much to learn. Yes, I it.

00:21:41:08 – 00:21:57:01

Student Minister Rodney Muhammad

It says the eyes of the Lord are everywhere. how could that be if he’s got come so.

00:21:57:03 – 00:22:26:08

Student Minister Rodney Muhammad

When he continues himself in his own people. And his own people are everywhere. That’s his eyes. See? And, He just has to wake us up to the God like nature of us. And then his eyes would really be everywhere.

00:22:26:10 – 00:23:10:28

Student Minister Rodney Muhammad

It was a brother who was a high ranking laborer of the Honorable Elijah Muhammad. And, Very critical of many, but especially critical of the Honorable Minister Louis Farrakhan and his stand to rebuild the work of the Honorable Elijah Muhammad. And, the minister happened to be in Switzerland. And coming off the elevator saw this brother with a white woman.

00:23:11:00 – 00:23:25:04

Student Minister Rodney Muhammad

Now, he figured, ain’t nobody ever going to see me in Switzerland. Who goes to Switzerland, where the eyes of the Lord.

00:23:25:06 – 00:23:34:11

Student Minister Rodney Muhammad

Is everywhere. And you don’t know where that I might pop up? yeah.

00:23:34:13 – 00:24:08:13

Student Minister Rodney Muhammad

And then it says every eye will see him. somebody told me. Well, Muhammad, that means the spiritual. I said, well, then it should have said in the spiritual, I would see him. This said, every eye. Every eye means the spiritual eye. And the physical eye right across. I called every eye would see him. Does that make sense?

00:24:08:15 – 00:24:48:00

Student Minister Rodney Muhammad

Well, we believe he has come and he has been sighted. Yes. but there would need to be for a doubting community more evidence of his coming. So this man came in the person of Fard Muhammad, and he raised one. And then stepped back and let that one.

00:24:48:02 – 00:25:42:03

Student Minister Rodney Muhammad

Be like him among the people. Now they see this one. And he’s like him, right? Elijah Muhammad and the minister said, because the builders of civilization have rejected us, a stone that the builders rejected, we were the junk pile. And so what this one came to do? He looked at the junk pile and took one from the junk pile, not discrediting the rest, but this one’s heart was more prepared for what he wanted to do with the whole pile.

00:25:42:05 – 00:26:24:03

Student Minister Rodney Muhammad

No one. In other words, this man wouldn’t run out on us. And, so he chose this one. And he worked with this one. He’s been building them right in front of us and right in front of our enemies. This is fantastic of what they’re doing with the Honorable Elijah Muhammad. The enemy couldn’t kill him. So what they want to do is kill his reputation, his name, and write him out of history.

00:26:24:06 – 00:26:49:18

Student Minister Rodney Muhammad

But we make history, right? Every 25,000 years. So you could never write Elijah Muhammad out of history and even as they’re trying now, the man only gives you a history month. You, the writers of history.

00:26:49:20 – 00:26:49:26

Student In The Ministry Joseph Muhammad

Didn’t.

00:26:49:28 – 00:27:22:03

Student Minister Rodney Muhammad

Think of that. And so the Honorable Elijah Muhammad has so many luminaries out there that they’re trying to use. First, the man would try to use the prophets to make you exalt the prophets in the presence of the God that sent the prophets. That’s why you can go to the church and say, God. And you’ll get a reaction.

00:27:22:06 – 00:27:35:01

Student Minister Rodney Muhammad

Right? But if you say our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, what’s up? That has a stronger ring in the ear of the Christian.

00:27:35:04 – 00:27:47:17

Student Minister Rodney Muhammad

And the Muslims are the same. You can say along and you’ll get some response. But if you say His Holy Prophet Muhammad, that’ll resonate a whole lot louder.

00:27:47:20 – 00:28:04:14

Student Minister Rodney Muhammad

But both Jesus and Prophet Muhammad were servants of a God, and what ring louder in their ear was the God and not some other personality?

00:28:04:16 – 00:28:41:15

Student Minister Rodney Muhammad

So, we are thankful for the Most Honorable Elijah Muhammad for carrying us deeper into the revelation of the Holy Koran. But the Koran says the beneficent taught the Koran right? Right. And then after he taught the Koran, then he created man. Well, I thought the first man was created for the Koran ever existed. This is another creation taken place.

00:28:41:17 – 00:28:56:04

Student Minister Rodney Muhammad

And if the creative process is to first teach the Koran and then create your servant, then the Koran is the root of Muhammad, right?

00:28:56:06 – 00:29:30:09

Student Minister Rodney Muhammad

I remember we had Minister Lucius, here, who was the dean of the ministers of the Honorable Elijah Muhammad. And he lived with the messenger for three years, I believe. But he said he would keep seeing interesting books, and so he would always purchase two, one for him and one for the messenger. Or you couldn’t tell him he wasn’t doing so until I got the Honorable Elijah Muhammad.

00:29:30:09 – 00:29:44:25

Student Minister Rodney Muhammad

I found something, and then he kept getting the new book for the messenger. The messenger said, brother, pack the body. Why are you giving me books? He said, I am the book.

00:29:44:27 – 00:29:46:14

Student In The Ministry Joseph Muhammad

Yeah. Come on.

00:29:46:17 – 00:30:22:03

Student Minister Rodney Muhammad

You should study me. Wow. You think the book is a provision to give you instruction and guidance? He said, I am the book. I’m the life force of it. You got a dead page there. But every word that’s in it is alive in me. Elijah Muhammad just thank God who was in our midst.

00:30:22:05 – 00:30:35:09

Student Minister Rodney Muhammad

And we let that get away. But he didn’t let us get away. He produced the servant. That’s right. Wow.

00:30:35:11 – 00:31:12:13

Student Minister Rodney Muhammad

And he’s been fashioning him over a protracted period of time. And he said, brother, Allah has made me to take his place among the people. I’m making you to take mine. And making you is the progressive tense. Right, sir. So in a meeting with his servant, who he’s making, he told us he’s not making me any more. I’m made.

00:31:12:15 – 00:31:47:24

Student Minister Rodney Muhammad

So that process is that. And in this way, I know we’re near the finish line. Right? No man knows the hour. But you can tell the season a few events start taking place because the man will start preaching and only of the father. Right. And as you keep going toward the end of the first phase of his work, he’ll talk more about himself.

00:31:47:26 – 00:31:49:16

Student Minister Rodney Muhammad

I think we about there now?

00:31:49:18 – 00:31:50:15

Student In The Ministry Joseph Muhammad

Yes.

00:31:50:18 – 00:32:15:25

Student Minister Rodney Muhammad

He’s not talking about himself to be braggadocious. He’s talking about himself to show what God is doing with him. He and he’s not the same as when he first started. We in a hell of a divine process. I’m thankful that Master Father Muhammad has come. Yes.

00:32:15:27 – 00:32:57:09

Student Minister Rodney Muhammad

They have tried to do away with him to even to the point of doing something silly. Getting some man out of prison and tell us that’s the man that taught Elijah Muhammad. In hope that some of us would be silly enough to believe that Jesus. And, The man that they arrested has. There’s a number on the police report.

00:32:57:11 – 00:33:28:00

Student Minister Rodney Muhammad

And when they arrested Fard Muhammad in Detroit, there’s a number on that police report. They went and took that number and tried to superimpose it on to one of this other man. Now, if. The man that they claim is the one that taught Elijah Muhammad, then the message will let him recite the lessons of God. He didn’t even know what they were after at all.

00:33:28:02 – 00:34:01:03

Student Minister Rodney Muhammad

So see if the Honorable Elijah Muhammad had to recite it near correct to go from being a minister Elijah Muhammad to messenger, and this is the man that he recited to, well, then that man ought to be able to recite them. Does that make sense? And he should be able to cover what Elijah was taught.

00:34:01:06 – 00:34:24:25

Student Minister Rodney Muhammad

So, you know, they they’re they’re desperate now, trying to find every measure, you know, to keep black people first from getting this, because this will wipe out everything that they have done to dumb us down. Yeah. You can recover.

00:34:24:28 – 00:34:27:14

Student In The Ministry Joseph Muhammad

Right?

00:34:27:16 – 00:34:52:18

Student Minister Rodney Muhammad

In fact, so much so that his coming makes this a time of reclamation that comes from the word reclaim. Why are you reclaiming us? Since re is the Latin prefix c, which means again, do you.

00:34:52:21 – 00:34:56:13

Unknown

That’s right. We can have.

00:34:56:16 – 00:35:19:24

Student Minister Rodney Muhammad

It is because when we were first brought here, we were brought here as slaves. The one that kidnaped us and deceived us and brought us here, claimed us, then sold us. And the one that purchased us made that claim on us.

00:35:19:27 – 00:35:47:18

Student Minister Rodney Muhammad

When they couldn’t tame us the way that they wanted to. Then they said, then take their babies. and let’s raise their babies up, because they won’t know the difference. Now we can make a claim. Why? Because the baby will proudly wear our name and not their own. And the baby won’t call themselves by what a Lord has created them.

00:35:47:18 – 00:35:49:28

Student Minister Rodney Muhammad

They will call themselves by what I call.

00:35:49:28 – 00:35:54:02

Student In The Ministry Joseph Muhammad

Them, right?

00:35:54:05 – 00:36:29:20

Student Minister Rodney Muhammad

So they have been claim. Now one comes and he’s a master. And we call him master. Maybe we don’t want to be master, but if you don’t get mastered by him to some degree, you still going to be on the slave master, right? Because you and I don’t know how to free ourselves. So he makes a claim. This is the hour to retrieve.

00:36:29:23 – 00:36:46:14

Student Minister Rodney Muhammad

So the white man’s going to try to let him work. Say, you think you can pull these Negroes? Well, he proved he could retrieve us. The brothers right here are wearing a uniform designed by him.

00:36:46:17 – 00:36:49:17

Student In The Ministry Joseph Muhammad

But he.

00:36:49:19 – 00:37:04:20

Student Minister Rodney Muhammad

Gets up in a field of blue. A color that Allah never created. According to the Honorable Elijah Muhammad, blue is a deceptive color. Come on.

00:37:04:22 – 00:37:34:05

Student Minister Rodney Muhammad

His flag got 50 stars in a field of blue. The star represent justice. But if the star is sitting in blue, it’s justice that you’ll never see real tall. He’s deceiving you and me right? Right. But look what the Honorable Elijah Muhammad did, didn’t this? Not my subject about the uniform, but he took. What? Everybody gotta live under the sun.

00:37:34:08 – 00:37:45:26

Student Minister Rodney Muhammad

I don’t care who you are, what country you are. The Olympics got all kind of flags. But everybody live under the sun.

00:37:45:28 – 00:38:19:17

Student Minister Rodney Muhammad

It’s got the moon on it. And then the stars. Think of that. And the Honorable Elijah Muhammad took what lives above every human being in the universe. Every creature in the universe, every planet in the universe is under sun, moon and star. He took that which is above us and put it on the shoulder of the brothers.

00:38:19:19 – 00:38:53:12

Student Minister Rodney Muhammad

What’s greater than the sun? What’s greater than the moon? Was greater than the stars is the unequaled wisdom that Elijah Muhammad is putting into the head of these black men, and he’s letting them know when I’m finished with you. Through my teacher, Louis Farrakhan, what is in the heavens will rest on your shoulder, and then you take charge of that post and all temple property in view.

00:38:53:14 – 00:38:56:22

Student In The Ministry Joseph Muhammad

Footage. Yes, sir.

00:38:56:25 – 00:39:36:23

Student Minister Rodney Muhammad

I greet you with the greeting words of peace. Assalamualaikum. I want to finish today because we have to talk today about our labor. But I wanted to cover some things with us that I thought were important. As the Honorable Minister Louis Farrakhan so often does cover things with us that are important. In the Koran, we have a prophecy wrapped up in a prayer.

00:39:36:25 – 00:40:14:27

Student Minister Rodney Muhammad

Abraham, the father of the righteous and his son Ishmael, offer prayer to Allah. And they said in that prayer, our Lord, and make us both submissive to thee and raise from our offspring a nation submissive to thee. We should all know that Abraham was a black man that lived better than 5000 years ago. A.

00:40:15:00 – 00:40:52:07

Student Minister Rodney Muhammad

Not after you take our offspring. It’s just me and an Ishmael. But our offspring is to become a nation. Make them submissive. Now, being in submission to Allah and in submission to his will. When you express that in Arabic, the word is Islam. So when you say of our offspring, make a nation submissive to thee, you’re really saying, make a nation of Islam.

00:40:52:10 – 00:41:39:17

Student Minister Rodney Muhammad

That’s right, that’s right. And look at this and show us our ways of devotion. And turn to us mercifully, surely, thou are off returning to mercy. The merciful. Then they call again into prayer. Our Lord, and raise up in them a messenger from among them, who shall recite to them thy messages, and teach them the book. And the wisdom, and purify them.

00:41:39:20 – 00:42:15:09

Student Minister Rodney Muhammad

Surely thou art the mighty, the wise. Now I the revelation of the Holy Koran. Look at how the Honorable Minister Louis Farrakhan goes into it. He says, I want to try to raise the level of consciousness of the believing community. See, just because you believe, just because I believe don’t mean we know it all.

00:42:15:12 – 00:42:47:20

Student Minister Rodney Muhammad

People who think they know it all, they say, I’ll be back when the midterms are given or the final exam, because I know I can pass the test from what I learn, so no sense in me. Keep coming to the class. I’ll just show back up at exam time. Now that’s a big mistake in any school, but as the ministers say, what kind of student are you?

00:42:47:23 – 00:43:02:11

Student Minister Rodney Muhammad

You in school and you don’t ever show up at class right now. You in the classroom of God, a teacher like you’ve never had.

00:43:02:13 – 00:43:19:21

Student Minister Rodney Muhammad

And you cut in class and and in school. You cut yourself out of opportunities. But here you cut yourself out of life itself.

00:43:19:23 – 00:43:51:25

Student Minister Rodney Muhammad

That’s not to scare you. I hope I can scare you. Yes, sir. Because it’ll save you. Yes, sir. But he says so. I want to try to raise the level of consciousness of the believer in class. What if you cut that class where he’s trying to raise the consciousness? That would be another whole element that you would miss, and you’d be forced to continue to operate at the level of consciousness that you were at when you first met him.

00:43:51:28 – 00:44:29:24

Student Minister Rodney Muhammad

And he says, I know that when I come out to speak, it’s always nice to see the lost found, he said. But I’m looking at the lost, found Muslims. He said, and I want us to be stronger so we ain’t strong enough wiser. So we’re not wise enough. That’s better. So we’re not as good as we could get more righteous community.

00:44:29:26 – 00:45:04:25

Student Minister Rodney Muhammad

So we ain’t as righteous as we need to be. Every prophet came to give their people the way that God will, except purify and bless those people whom the prophet was sent to. But each prophet gave their followers a duty, and in carrying out that duty, those who followed the prophet were blessed, purified, and exalted. under the law.

00:45:04:27 – 00:45:49:23

Student Minister Rodney Muhammad

That’s why Jesus said, those who hear these sayings of mine and do them not a like unto a man. He built a house, but he built it on sand on. And those who hear these sayings of mine, and do that which I said and taught, and instructed them, I’m doing the amplified version. He you. They’re like a person that before they built the house, they dug down until they got to the bedrock and then built their house on a stronger foundation, he said.

00:45:49:23 – 00:46:17:07

Student Minister Rodney Muhammad

Then when the storm came, them on both houses, the house that was built on sand, it was destroyed and its destruction was complete. But the house that was built on a stone foundation was still standing. So storms have the ability to destroy houses.

00:46:17:09 – 00:46:43:25

Student Minister Rodney Muhammad

If it didn’t, it couldn’t have destroyed the other house. He’s not talking about houses. He’s talking about believers and what they’re building on. Are you following now? Come on now. So why didn’t the other house get destroyed? It didn’t get destroyed because it was a better house than the other one that got built. It stood because of what it was built on.

00:46:43:28 – 00:47:21:18

Student Minister Rodney Muhammad

Yes. Cutting class means you’re not rooted in Elijah Muhammad, who set the class up. Cutting class means you’re not rooted in Louis Farrakhan and being not rooted in them. You’re not rooted in the one who came. Here and served. So the minister said somebody heard the sayings and they carried out the duty. Remember? He said, everybody could say, I love, but duty is the activity of your love.

00:47:21:20 – 00:48:03:22

Student Minister Rodney Muhammad

And when people say they love but don’t carry out duty, that minimizes the love. That’s he goes on to say, if we accept the religion of Islam as acceptance of a mission, then our devotion is more than prayer. To our devotion, we asked him to show us our way of devotion. Don’t show me somebody else’s art. I’ve seen people follow other people’s way of devotion, and I see how devoted they are.

00:48:03:25 – 00:48:11:10

Student Minister Rodney Muhammad

With this prayer said, show us our way of devotion. We’re.

00:48:11:12 – 00:48:26:29

Student Minister Rodney Muhammad

The minister told us one day, don’t follow other people in Islam. I don’t want to see you looking like them.

00:48:27:01 – 00:48:36:22

Student Minister Rodney Muhammad

I don’t want to hear you acting like them like that. When you accept that.

00:48:36:24 – 00:48:45:12

Student Minister Rodney Muhammad

You’re not going forward. You going backwards. You realize that.

00:48:45:14 – 00:49:25:12

Student Minister Rodney Muhammad

He said, if we accept the religion of Islam as acceptance of a mission, then our devotion is more than a prayer. These people are. Devotion is more than charity. Think about our devotion is more than fasting. It’s more than the pilgrimage. If we only follow the principles of belief and practice, we are not yet Muslim followers of the Honorable Elijah Muhammad.

00:49:25:15 – 00:49:58:15

Student Minister Rodney Muhammad

Look at this. This is what he’s saying. Even though we say our prayers, and even though we give in charity, even though we fast and try to live as best we can by the law, if we do not accept the mission of the Honorable Elijah Muhammad, we are only part Muslims only. now let’s go back a minute.

00:49:58:17 – 00:50:26:23

Student Minister Rodney Muhammad

He said. Every prophet came to give their people the way that God would accept him and purified him, the way that God would bless them. That was their way of devotion. Some of us come on, that wasn’t what the prayer was for. That’s right. If the prayer was, oh Lord, give us the other people’s way of devotion, then we’d be all right.

00:50:26:26 – 00:50:44:11

Student Minister Rodney Muhammad

No, the prayer was show us our way. That speaks louder. Caesar. See if you don’t want this where you belong in another community, come back.

00:50:44:14 – 00:51:00:11

Student Minister Rodney Muhammad

Are you getting rid of us? You don’t got rid of yourself. Teach on that. When you’re not devoted to this. That’s devoted to this means we accept his way of devotion.

00:51:00:14 – 00:51:05:12

Unknown

Let’s say of.

00:51:05:15 – 00:51:10:23

Student Minister Rodney Muhammad

Let’s stop letting somebody say, y’all ain’t real. You ain’t real. A real Muslim.

00:51:10:26 – 00:51:15:17

Unknown

Yeah. How about that?

00:51:15:20 – 00:51:19:23

Unknown

Identical. I’m always talking.

00:51:19:23 – 00:51:42:12

Student Minister Rodney Muhammad

About what somebody else said. Hell, you ain’t a real Muslim because that Islam in America has a mission, right? Come on, ask everybody that showed up. Now with Islam. They only came after the Nation of Islam made a way for them.

00:51:42:15 – 00:51:58:19

Student Minister Rodney Muhammad

Let’s be honest about that. You wouldn’t be running around here doing all this if it hadn’t been for FOIA and MGT. It is because our way of devotion made a way for you. That’s the.

00:51:58:21 – 00:52:09:23

Unknown

Truth. You saw rock and roll.

00:52:09:25 – 00:52:13:10

Unknown

Yeah. Come on.

00:52:13:12 – 00:52:50:00

Student Minister Rodney Muhammad

You know, when I was, watching the movie of the history of the black women who worked at NASA in the 60s. before IBM computers were actually made and brought in to do the calculations, these black women were doing the calculations for them. That that goes to show you what a lot created is a better computer. Anything that’s coming out of Dell and Bell and Howell and whatever else.

00:52:50:00 – 00:53:23:25

Student Minister Rodney Muhammad

Hewlett Packard, they can’t they can’t make something superior. We just unacquainted with the real power of our brain. Versus and the social, scientific thinkers and psychologists all agree that the human being is using no more than 6 to 10% of their real brain power. Man. So if we were using eight, just 60% of it, we probably could heal ourselves.

00:53:23:27 – 00:53:33:15

Student Minister Rodney Muhammad

We you. We can’t sit around and talk about what can’t be done. And we only using 10% of our brain power.

00:53:33:18 – 00:53:50:25

Student Minister Rodney Muhammad

And and one quantum physicist said to be using 100% of your brain power means you have you have been in a perfect education.

00:53:50:27 – 00:53:57:02

Student Minister Rodney Muhammad

And I said, you know what? He’s right. Because only one get you a perfect education. Is God himself.

00:53:57:04 – 00:53:59:22

Student In The Ministry Joseph Muhammad

That’s right.

00:53:59:25 – 00:54:09:26

Student Minister Rodney Muhammad

We’ve already learned that just what was revealed to the Honorable Elijah Muhammad charges the blood.

00:54:09:29 – 00:54:11:12

Student In The Ministry Joseph Muhammad

That’s right.

00:54:11:14 – 00:54:26:11

Student Minister Rodney Muhammad

That’s traveling from the from the head to the foot and back to the head in eight minutes. And 20s, we found that the blood, if the right word enters the ear gate.

00:54:26:14 – 00:54:27:11

Student In The Ministry Joseph Muhammad

Right? Right.

00:54:27:14 – 00:55:00:24

Student Minister Rodney Muhammad

That the energy of that word charges the blood. And when the blood gets to the brain, it fires up and causes to oscillate, and all the brain cells, they start coming back alive. They’ve been sitting dormant for centuries. And because there’s been no information, we would like an egg that’s in the supermarket. You can’t walk over to the poultry section and just open up.

00:55:00:26 – 00:55:21:21

Student Minister Rodney Muhammad

Yeah, yeah, a dozen eggs and take our egg and set it up under here. And there’s not enough genetic information in there to produce life. Yeah. Come on, come on. That’s right. We wouldn’t have no life if somebody had not come. So when these black women were helping NASA, they said, well, we want to get the thing out in space.

00:55:21:21 – 00:55:45:14

Student Minister Rodney Muhammad

Well, we can get it out there. That wasn’t the problem. The problem is, how do we get it back? Because once you in an orbit like that, you stay in that forever, right? And they realize the only way to come back into Earth’s gravity. You have to be intentional. You can’t fall back into it by accident.

00:55:45:17 – 00:55:47:06

Student In The Ministry Joseph Muhammad

That’s right, that’s right.

00:55:47:09 – 00:56:13:09

Student Minister Rodney Muhammad

So there’s a point there. And they had to have the right mathematical calculation. You can’t be a second off. So she had to have that thing all the way down to the decimal point of where John Glenn would be able to come back into Earth’s atmosphere, and you gotta come straight through the fire.

00:56:13:12 – 00:56:44:11

Student Minister Rodney Muhammad

Well, where are you going, brother Rodney? There’s a scripture that they’ve hidden from us right where man was in heaven. Oh, on a higher plane of existence than the hell we live in. In some. And the voice said, prepare me a body that I may go down and redeem them. I gotta lead this orbit on him. And I gotta calculate the right time for me to come back into the atmosphere of gravity.

00:56:44:14 – 00:57:05:12

Student Minister Rodney Muhammad

Because gravity comes from the word grave. My people are in the grave because they’re dead to the knowledge of themselves. They’re morally and spiritually dead. I gotta calculate the time. So when you tell somebody God has come, they don’t want to believe it because they didn’t know the time.

00:57:05:15 – 00:57:08:02

Student In The Ministry Joseph Muhammad

Right? to come to.

00:57:08:05 – 00:57:33:02

Student Minister Rodney Muhammad

Whoa. Why why why didn’t we learn this back then? It wasn’t time for it. So while he was in that orbit. Yes, sir. And he had already come in all his. We’re not talking about a god. Well, you gotta look at your watch and wait on him. Well, he’s supposed to come in 1930. He was already here 1910.

00:57:33:04 – 00:57:41:04

Student Minister Rodney Muhammad

He just wasn’t talking to you. He wasn’t talking to me.

00:57:41:06 – 00:57:42:09

Student In The Ministry Joseph Muhammad

You broke the law, sir.

00:57:42:16 – 00:58:13:25

Student Minister Rodney Muhammad

Break it up. Yeah. Somebody was prepared for it. And the body that was prepared, he had to use the flesh from the original people. Right? That’s where the seed comes from, right? But the flesh of the enemy had to clothe that. Teach me about that so he could get in unobserved, not detected. Right. Well, I don’t believe that.

00:58:13:27 – 00:58:35:05

Student Minister Rodney Muhammad

Then who fulfills that? Because that’s written in prophecy. He would come like that unobserved. That’s he would come like a thief in the night. He’d be disguised as Doctor Wesley said it was a strategy.

00:58:35:07 – 00:59:10:25

Student Minister Rodney Muhammad

Well, anyway, look at this. That. Those three attributes, mighty and wise and merciful. It was merciful for God to raise up a nation submissive. That came out of mercy. Yes. Don’t. Don’t act like God told you this. The law of God. That’s how we treat the class. Hell, he owed me some anyway. I ain’t coming out Saturday.

00:59:10:28 – 00:59:43:02

Student Minister Rodney Muhammad

Going to Six Flags. Man. So come on. Because we act like somebody owe us something. This is. This is the spirit of the Caucasian in us. That. No, his coming was mercy. That’s that’s undeserved kindness and favor. Don’t act like you deserve something right? We didn’t deserve nothing. He wouldn’t have been wrong if he to left us very hard.

00:59:43:05 – 01:00:17:18

Student Minister Rodney Muhammad

But he promised his servant Abraham. Oh, come on, they’d be in bondage for 400 years. There be afflicted. And after they have served that time, not a day before. After they have served that time, I will come. I’m going to claim them and retrieve them. Oh, yeah? And anyone that thought I was wrong to claim them. You going to take these Negroes and do something with them?

01:00:17:20 – 01:00:32:25

Student Minister Rodney Muhammad

He did more with us than any Caucasian ever did with us in the Western Hemisphere. And guess what? He’s not finished yet.

01:00:32:28 – 01:01:05:10

Student Minister Rodney Muhammad

He said it was abundant mercy. The ministers say to give them a messenger from among themselves, to teach them the book and the wisdom, and also purify them, he said, because they would be in such a terrible condition. A condition was terrible. In 30. Yes. And you could see us growing more savage again.

01:01:05:12 – 01:01:14:29

Student Minister Rodney Muhammad

In some places we living like pigs, and and we can live around filth.

01:01:15:01 – 01:01:19:17

Unknown

That’s right. Change.

01:01:19:19 – 01:01:39:21

Student Minister Rodney Muhammad

The first thing a military does when they get to our areas. Clean it up. Right. That’s the first you would first thing that he orders. All his officers get this area cleaned up. Let’s get it ready. Then they pitch a tent up so they can put the maps out. They had war. God, no time to be nasty.

01:01:39:23 – 01:02:12:14

Student Minister Rodney Muhammad

To feed. But look at this. Here. because they would be in such a terrible condition. He. He teaches Islam in a way to fit the condition of our mind. You, if you want somebody to think the way you think and rather than the way they thinking, well, you you gotta find out how they think. Come on. Make sense?

01:02:12:16 – 01:02:43:24

Student Minister Rodney Muhammad

What he call self color. Negro. He got a lot of terms for himself. So he’s confused. Shocking. Hit him. Hit him with it. You’re the black man of Asian. Now, here’s a term we didn’t even like. You think we didn’t like the N-word in the 30s. We didn’t like the term black until he hit it. And guess what he did?

01:02:43:25 – 01:03:07:18

Student Minister Rodney Muhammad

He made us all accept it. Eventually we got people say, well, you know, he learned everything from Marcus Garvey, Marcus Garvey, as great as he was, the name of his organization was the Negro Improvement. You can’t improve a Negro.

01:03:07:21 – 01:03:22:06

Student Minister Rodney Muhammad

That’s that’s not a creature that can be improved. Negro is a creation of the United States of America. Yes. Come on.

01:03:22:09 – 01:03:49:12

Student Minister Rodney Muhammad

So it would take a mighty God to minister, say, and it would take a wise God to bring them from where the slave master had placed them, to where God wanted them to be. So he brings us. So, you know, when you first wake up out of the the first, the first emotion you give when you start getting this is anger, right?

01:03:49:15 – 01:04:05:00

Student Minister Rodney Muhammad

Mary White man, you know, that’s all right. First we was dead, wasn’t getting death out of us. You know?

01:04:05:02 – 01:04:24:27

Student Minister Rodney Muhammad

I used to tell people, well, we gotta we gotta look at the Satan himself. They would call my radio show. Muhammad ain’t no Satan himself. You just. You just trying to make it easy on the white man. no, we gotta, we gotta we gotta look deeper. Now, I’m trying to tell people, people just waking up to this, they still at that anger, still I said, I’m.

01:04:24:28 – 01:05:01:16

Student Minister Rodney Muhammad

That’s where I was some years ago. You know. Well, this is all. Let me let me finish this part with the ministers on the minister say but the key word, the key word is show. Show us our way of devotion. Devotion means love, loyalty, enthusiasm for a person or an activity or a cause. Devotion means religious worship or observance.

01:05:01:19 – 01:05:38:08

Student Minister Rodney Muhammad

It’s the act of dedicating something like your life to a cause. That’s devotion, he said. So when you asked for somebody to show you something in this verse, he said, we’re asking God to make a demonstration of the way he wants us to devote our lives to him. Don’t make up how he should be served. We ask him to show us how to serve him.

01:05:38:11 – 01:06:08:18

Student Minister Rodney Muhammad

Yes. That’s right. We didn’t ask him right it out. And then we can read it out and try to figure it from there. No. Give us a demonstration. Right. That’s what a serving you look like. So can’t nobody trick me, Jesus. And tell me we doing a Lord’s work, Let me see if what you tell me we doing.

01:06:08:20 – 01:06:36:12

Student Minister Rodney Muhammad

Does it look like what he did? Because he did something right? The minister goes on not just teach us, but show us. The prophet. We saw a picture. Of him reading the Koran. Yes.

01:06:36:14 – 01:07:06:13

Student Minister Rodney Muhammad

But we not picking up the Koran and reading it to pick up. Why don’t you? That’s why we don’t sound like him. Jesus. Come on, now we look, let’s go back to what the. Why the minister started this whole conversation. No, I want to raise your consciousness. You prancing around here and got everybody carrying all your stuff, and you walk in with an entourage, but your consciousness is is wanting.

01:07:06:16 – 01:07:43:13

Student Minister Rodney Muhammad

Oh, come on, Minister. Thank you. I’m so thankful I don’t have no problem being by myself. I don’t need no entourage to feel important. If God came for me, I got a level of importance that no entourage can ever match. For you, I was walking one day. Savings. I was walking down the hall, you know, and people were greeting me from other cities.

01:07:43:16 – 01:08:01:15

Student Minister Rodney Muhammad

And so I said to me, brother, honey, why are you around? You ain’t got no security on you. I said, no, brother, I do what I know. A law secures us our brother, but I don’t see. I say, you see them two brothers over there? They from number 12. And that’s why I said, look over there, sitting over there.

01:08:01:16 – 01:08:22:23

Student Minister Rodney Muhammad

He from number 12, all right? I’m always. I don’t ever say I ain’t got no security. The eyes of the Lord are everywhere.

01:08:22:25 – 01:08:36:26

Student Minister Rodney Muhammad

Don’t ever say the brothers don’t secure me. I’m always secure. Just because I’m not walking like somebody else. I don’t need all that. Yes, sir. But.

01:08:36:28 – 01:08:53:01

Student Minister Rodney Muhammad

Devotion, man. Look at this. Here. He’s showing us how to help him. He’s reading the Koran. he’s out door to door. Come on.

01:08:53:04 – 01:09:11:08

Student Minister Rodney Muhammad

He didn’t. He didn’t start out inviting people to the mosque. He started out getting himself invited into their homes. You know, this thing didn’t start with a mosque meeting. Started with a dinner. That’s right. Yes. That’s right. And then he saw the things they was eating. He pushed that to the side and pushed that over and over a meal.

01:09:11:08 – 01:09:33:13

Student Minister Rodney Muhammad

He started to teach them about himself they like. Pretty soon they kept listening to him. He didn’t have to keep pushing stuff to the side because they was learning what to put on the plate. Right. So you got to be patient with our people and start where they are. That’s right. That’s it. You don’t go in beating up on a man.

01:09:33:13 – 01:09:42:22

Student Minister Rodney Muhammad

You gotta ask a mile. You don’t start all that. They don’t know.

01:09:42:25 – 01:09:44:15

Unknown

Got a ham,

01:09:44:18 – 01:09:57:25

Student Minister Rodney Muhammad

He move all that to the side and did that. And then. But then as you teaching them, you see what makes a lot of sense?

01:09:57:28 – 01:10:13:20

Student Minister Rodney Muhammad

Good thing it’s his way of devotion. What he did in the beginning, every one of us in this room could do.

01:10:13:22 – 01:10:37:03

Student Minister Rodney Muhammad

That somebody could just invite you over right. The Honorable Elijah Muhammad started following his way, and the woman would say, well, it’s going to be even. And soon, you know, we’re going to have to get something fixed for everybody to eat. The Honorable Elijah Muhammad say, would you allow me to fix something here? Well, sure. He’s down in Washington DC.

01:10:37:03 – 01:11:00:14

Student Minister Rodney Muhammad

The woman said he cooked all his food. Yes, sir. She said, that’s too much food. There. We can’t eat all that. He said, do you know some other people? Come him that look, they invited people up and down the street. They was all there eating. He didn’t have nothing to talk about except what God talked to him about.

01:11:00:16 – 01:11:37:24

Student Minister Rodney Muhammad

Him. All of us could do that. All of us eat. Come on. Sit. We may not make every call out, but you can get called in somewhere. And eat. So. And, you know, part of purifying us is to get us away from the bad foods. Well, so he says now he shows us a way. Well, we have a we have a specific way of devotion that was given to us, not by a prophet.

01:11:37:24 – 01:12:07:10

Student Minister Rodney Muhammad

As such, but by a Lord himself who visited us and made a perfect demonstration of our way of devotion and the means by which we would be purified. Also the means by which he would bless us to become what he had already willed for us, and that is to place us on top of civilization as the head of his government of peace.

01:12:07:12 – 01:12:10:26

Student In The Ministry Joseph Muhammad

And this.

01:12:10:28 – 01:12:36:10

Student Minister Rodney Muhammad

One day the Jews wrote on me. And, what is the Jewish? post or something? But this was years ago, so it was North Philly was so bad. So I said, well, I’ll get in as a ward committee person, run for the ward leader. It doesn’t pay anything. But then you’re everybody got to come to you to get votes and you could make some demands.

01:12:36:10 – 01:12:59:17

Student Minister Rodney Muhammad

We want a new playground, a new senior home or something. So when the Jews wrote on me to minister Carl and so he said, well, brother, I don’t know if I want that for you. He said, the post I want for you is to sit over the dissatisfied. So that’s interesting. That’s the position y’all cooped up, right? Right.

01:12:59:20 – 01:13:29:01

Student Minister Rodney Muhammad

Isn’t he. It was it was dissatisfied. And you know, he said dissatisfied people always look for a leader. Yes, sir. and, Well, they do if you go in that section, Mr. Yaqoob said, if you will make me your leader. Yes, sir. Right, right. Now you unhappy? That’s right. You want to get out of being unhappy? If you make me your leader?

01:13:29:03 – 01:13:35:11

Student Minister Rodney Muhammad

it got worse after that. See, the minister say we’ve always had dissatisfaction, but we didn’t always have a devil.

01:13:35:14 – 01:13:36:19

Student In The Ministry Joseph Muhammad

Right, right, right.

01:13:36:22 – 01:13:57:16

Student Minister Rodney Muhammad

But Mr. Yakubu had something in his mind because he was born with a determined idea. So anyway, now, in order, look what the minister said. He said also the means by which he would bless us and become what? What he had willed us to be. He want us on top of civilization, the head of the government of peace.

01:13:57:18 – 01:14:32:28

Student Minister Rodney Muhammad

Now, in order to do and be what a law wanted us to be, it started, he said, with his giving us the knowledge of himself, he started telling us who we were. He started out telling who he was. I have come from the East. Yes, sir. Just just look at what he left, he said. Then he gives us the knowledge of ourselves, the knowledge of our enemy and the knowledge of the time and what must be done, and the knowledge of his true religion, Islam.

01:14:33:00 – 01:15:05:25

Student Minister Rodney Muhammad

But we had to improve ourselves from the condition that 400 years of slavery and injustice had placed us in. So he gave us the restrictive laws which he said, which if followed, would produce in us greater love for him. You see, it’s hard to be a rebel and grow in love with the one who set up the order that you rebelling against you.

01:15:05:27 – 01:15:13:04

Student Minister Rodney Muhammad

I’ve seen rebels claim they love master for Muhammad more than we do.

01:15:13:06 – 01:15:38:00

Student Minister Rodney Muhammad

More mystery. And you showing me by rebelling against the order that he set up. I didn’t set it up right. Well. I’m not the commanding officer. That’s God himself. But every prophet he sent, they received and obeyed the instruction. And they passed on to the Sentinel, who relieved them, didn’t he?

01:15:38:07 – 01:15:42:03

Student In The Ministry Joseph Muhammad

Yes I did. Yes, sir. He.

01:15:42:06 – 01:15:57:13

Student Minister Rodney Muhammad

You gotta always obey God. Every prophet that came said, look, I don’t seek nothing over you. I only ask that you obey him, right? He is the commanding officer and.

01:15:57:16 – 01:16:24:24

Student Minister Rodney Muhammad

And everybody, according to the minister here, everybody at one time or another was the officer of the day. The day to day lived in. So we obey all that commanding officer, the officer of the day. And I, I never been commissioned by God. Right. So I’m a I’m a noncommissioned officer. That’s right. Of the God. Good to. That’s right.

01:16:24:25 – 01:16:49:24

Student Minister Rodney Muhammad

You told if you if the laws would follow, it would produce in us greater love for him to grow up. Look, he said if the law was followed, it would produce in us a greater love for ourselves. Right? There ain’t no love in the house because there ain’t no law in it.

01:16:49:26 – 01:16:58:04

Student Minister Rodney Muhammad

Yeah, you don’t want to follow the law. You can’t never grow in love.

01:16:58:07 – 01:17:02:14

Unknown

Wake us up.

01:17:02:16 – 01:17:14:18

Student Minister Rodney Muhammad

Then he goes on. It would produce in us a greater love for our messenger, and it would produce in us a greater love for our people. See, love grows in you.

01:17:14:20 – 01:17:17:19

Student In The Ministry Joseph Muhammad

Yes, he.

01:17:17:21 – 01:17:50:25

Student Minister Rodney Muhammad

Grow in, he said, from savagery up the ladder of law to the expression of love. Yes, he said, it is Master Fard Muhammad’s perfect love of us that made him forsake his place in the East. Yes, sir. And come amongst us in the way. See, he studied for 42 years. Yes, sir. Right. To prepare himself to deliver us.

01:17:50:26 – 01:18:19:16

Student Minister Rodney Muhammad

Yes, sir. So he not just studying to put information up in his head. He’s studying to see. How should I use it? Right. Skillfully and effectively, so that I can bring them out of the condition that they’re in into the desired state. But I thought about this. It said he had a love and it made him forsake his place.

01:18:19:19 – 01:18:31:17

Student Minister Rodney Muhammad

See, just the love that we had when we heard this word from the preaching of the Honorable Louis Farrakhan. It made many of us forsake our places.

01:18:31:19 – 01:18:43:10

Student Minister Rodney Muhammad

That a lot of us could have been doing a lot of thing. We have forsaken a lot of a lot of things. Oh boy.

01:18:43:12 – 01:19:16:25

Student Minister Rodney Muhammad

So he came to live amongst us, then raised a servant from amongst us whose heart was just like his own. Now we don’t have to ask. Our Lord does he live the law because our lessons teach us. He would stay among us and not fall victim to the devil civilization? Yes, sir. To your feet. So he was. See, you can fall victim to his civilization just by who you interact with most of the time.

01:19:16:27 – 01:19:36:26

Student Minister Rodney Muhammad

The minister said the believers wounded because they’re interacting with people that don’t believe anymore. And if you spend more time with them than you do with people who do believe, mathematics says, eventually you’ll fall out of belief.

01:19:36:28 – 01:20:04:21

Student Minister Rodney Muhammad

It’s just it’s it’s this is business. I saw a thing with the the the count yoga and the the man was trying to fight to help the woman not get bit by him. And then, she hit the the vampire with somebody. Got him in the heart. So he he the vampire’s gone. And destroyed and you know, you right at the end.

01:20:04:23 – 01:20:13:24

Student Minister Rodney Muhammad

Then the woman goes to hug the man that she with, and he it turned into the thing.

01:20:13:27 – 01:20:19:21

Student Minister Rodney Muhammad

you got to be careful in this.

01:20:19:23 – 01:20:42:07

Student Minister Rodney Muhammad

Oh, you know, in Blacula, he had bit the woman. Such as? He said, that’s my sister. Because they was putting a stake in our heart. She said, that’s my sister. He he they tried to she is part of the undead now. You looking at in a whole different way. That’s how we are. I soldier with brother. You know, I we came in together.

01:20:42:07 – 01:20:53:09

Student Minister Rodney Muhammad

We were cited almost the same week and everything. That’s good. But he got bit.

01:20:53:11 – 01:21:05:06

Student Minister Rodney Muhammad

And if you stay there, you going to get bit? See, this is business. This is divine business.

01:21:05:08 – 01:21:28:06

Student Minister Rodney Muhammad

You can help them by staying firm, right? Yes, sir. I came up with a lot of brothers that walked away in Chicago. I have talked to many of them there. I tell you, my only conversation. Go in. Plant yourself in a seat on Sunday and just stay there. Some have done it and they’re back. I said, don’t put too much on yourself.

01:21:28:06 – 01:21:47:24

Student Minister Rodney Muhammad

You’ve been away a long time. You’ve got a misunderstanding. Just sit down on Sunday. That’s all I told them. Summertime I what they call me for post. So I’m going over here and I said, well, don’t put too much on yourself. Too fat. No, I’m, I’m all right. You know, they just want to get back. See, they a little ashamed because they’ve been away for so many years.

01:21:47:26 – 01:21:59:02

Student Minister Rodney Muhammad

But that’s that’s all right, man. You know, the messenger looked at a bum on the street. He said if a had given him what he’s given me, that man would be able to do what I’m doing. Jesus.

01:21:59:05 – 01:22:01:16

Student In The Ministry Joseph Muhammad

See you.

01:22:01:19 – 01:22:45:23

Student Minister Rodney Muhammad

It’s not us. It’s the God. so. Right. I mean, this is so much. But he said the Honorable Elijah Muhammad. Well, let me go back here, master. For Muhammad, he said, was an example to the Honorable Elijah Muhammad of his way of devotion and the Honorable Elijah Muhammad for you and me as our way to achieve the blessings of the fulfillment of Allah’s promise of our exaltation to become a God.

01:22:45:25 – 01:23:27:19

Student Minister Rodney Muhammad

He said, the Honorable Elijah Muhammad whole life amongst us was commitment. Not just to pray, not just to fast. That’s right. But he came to give his whole life as a commitment to the rise of our people. That’s right. That’s. Oh, man, that’s so I wanted to get to a part that I saw before we finished. The minister talks about, our work in our business and.

01:23:27:21 – 01:23:52:26

Student Minister Rodney Muhammad

The Honorable Elijah Muhammad said this. My message is not for cowards. Right. So I made a note. So two things we have to do to be a muslim today. We cannot be a muslim today without acceptance of the mission. Okay. And to be a muslim today, since you can’t be a coward, you gotta grow a spine. Okay? Okay.

01:23:52:29 – 01:24:21:19

Student Minister Rodney Muhammad

You ever heard the minister talk about spineless Muslims who, who are vowing to America see a law said, in the Koran he would exchange your fear. Don’t act like you don’t have fear. But if you turn to a God that’s fearless, he said, I’ll exchange your fear with security. And once, once you feel secure in something, see what now?

01:24:21:19 – 01:24:46:05

Student Minister Rodney Muhammad

You ready to say come on with it? Yeah. I never forget when the minister said. When did. When they started attacking him and called him a black Hitler and he fired back. He said he walked in the door and he said, I look. And what I saw, it made me turn around to go to the door to go back out.

01:24:46:05 – 01:25:10:26

Student Minister Rodney Muhammad

And the door was gone. And then and it was a wall there, and my back was against that wall. And he said the words of the Honorable Elijah Muhammad came clear in my head, ain’t nothing like a good fight, And so the minister said, when it’s like hell, then come on with it. Then.

01:25:10:28 – 01:25:28:08

Student Minister Rodney Muhammad

We’re cornered right? See, even the most benign creature, when cornered, turns into something else. Even if it gets destroyed. If it’s cornered, it’s going down. Fight! Yes, sir.

01:25:28:10 – 01:25:34:13

Student In The Ministry Joseph Muhammad

Real talk.

01:25:34:15 – 01:26:13:10

Student Minister Rodney Muhammad

So the mission, I mean, it becomes what we want. And so let me go over real quick how he shows us our way of devotion. Because in the book of Matthew, apparently they had a big meeting. And Jesus put out what was called the Beatitudes. Now, the people had never heard this kind of teaching before. And, the Beatitudes, as he’s saying this, the attitude you have to be in to enter the kingdom.

01:26:13:12 – 01:26:56:08

Student Minister Rodney Muhammad

So don’t don’t follow the Pharisees and all that with the laws and stuff, and just think that you can carry out a law and you entitled to some, It said when he finish the Pharisees and then they decided they wanted to kill him, but okay, but they feared the people. So the way the enemy has always worked here, it did not frighten him as much of what the Honorable Elijah Muhammad was teaching would frighten them.

01:26:56:15 – 01:27:24:08

Student Minister Rodney Muhammad

If you go back and read what they say, it. What frightened him was a packed house. they’ve always had some black people stand up speaking. The question is, how many people are listening to us? That’s right to you. If ain’t hardly nobody listening to you, they take better attendance than we do. If ain’t hardly nobody, they’re listening to you.

01:27:24:08 – 01:27:47:22

Student Minister Rodney Muhammad

You ain’t bringing nobody out. Well, they’re not as afraid, right? But they’re only afraid if it’s a packed house. It didn’t say they fear Jesus. God, who ain’t even say they feared some of the believers. They didn’t fear they. What they feared was he had people out.

01:27:47:24 – 01:27:49:00

Student In The Ministry Joseph Muhammad

Right a minute.

01:27:49:04 – 01:28:21:25

Student Minister Rodney Muhammad

Right. and I mean, they was ready to do it, but this stopped them. Look what the minister says. The minister says these. They gotta work. We gotta work hard. He said to get after the lost found. And he calls this a business. See if you in the if you’re in a business and you’re you got the wrong thing in your inventory to to give folks and then you wondering why you going out of business.

01:28:21:27 – 01:28:51:23

Student Minister Rodney Muhammad

So let me, cover a couple of things that the minister said. He said he said that is the business of the nation getting after the lost found. He said it’s not selling, being pye’s looking. It’s not selling. Final call newspaper. Stop right there. The newspaper’s important because the Honorable Elijah Muhammad did say, brothers, the paper will get you rest.

01:28:51:26 – 01:29:22:12

Student Minister Rodney Muhammad

It will bring life to you. And it will unshackle you and it will establish you own something that is your own. That’s what the final call newspaper will do for us. Well, then why is he saying it’s not selling the newspaper? When you sell the newspaper with just a mentality to get paper money, but not the people and see.

01:29:22:14 – 01:29:26:14

Student Minister Rodney Muhammad

Come on, you’re not in the business of the Nation of Islam.

01:29:26:16 – 01:29:30:08

Student In The Ministry Joseph Muhammad

He’s the one.

01:29:30:11 – 01:30:00:09

Student Minister Rodney Muhammad

We got a reason we got the paper out there, It ain’t just to get paper money. More the business. He goes on the business of the nation is people teaching and training and qualifying people to handle people. That is our business.

01:30:00:11 – 01:30:36:03

Student Minister Rodney Muhammad

He goes on, but the nation has flatlined. Now there’s a reason for it, he said. Do we have hypocrites in the mosque? Absolutely, he said. Once when the charity went down, the messenger wrote me a letter stating, brother, either the hypocrites have gained dominance over the believers or you have become a hypocrite. Said he said because he was judging me by productivity right?

01:30:36:05 – 01:31:02:26

Student Minister Rodney Muhammad

He said, don’t you think that’s a fair way to judge whether we should remain on our posts if we are not productive? Mr. Yaqoob started out seeing who was productive. People say, oh, he took 60,000 of us to the island up and land. No, he didn’t come. He had inspection. That’s right, that’s right. Go back in that section and message to the black man.

01:31:02:28 – 01:31:05:26

Student Minister Rodney Muhammad

He started looking over his believers.

01:31:05:29 – 01:31:07:11

Student In The Ministry Joseph Muhammad

To see.

01:31:07:14 – 01:31:20:18

Student Minister Rodney Muhammad

Who was real and who what? That’s right. Who could reproduce themselves, reproduce yourself, mean a guest right? Somebody he ain’t going to do not throw him over.

01:31:20:21 – 01:31:43:13

Student Minister Rodney Muhammad

I mean, they ain’t doing nothing. So we don’t know how many he got to the island with. But what we do know is those that he took to the island, they were committed. That’s right. They were dedicated to his evil plan. They didn’t even know it. They just had accepted him as day leader. Yes. So look at this.

01:31:43:16 – 01:32:09:24

Student Minister Rodney Muhammad

He goes on. if we cannot, then hold on. Or if we can’t make people want to be what we are, he said it’s deeper than that. He said. My subject for Savior’s day was, God will send Savior’s. Look what he’s saying. If I were to ask you, are you a Savior? What would your response be? He said, don’t lie and say you are a Savior.

01:32:10:01 – 01:32:35:16

Student Minister Rodney Muhammad

You haven’t saved a soul, and you’re about to lose your own culture. See, because the Koran says a lot goes amongst the dead. That’s why. And gets the living. Yes. And then the Koran said, then a lot comes in the house of the living. He comes amongst the living to get the dead, because some people are dying in here right now.

01:32:35:18 – 01:32:40:29

Student Minister Rodney Muhammad

Come on. Spiritually.

01:32:41:01 – 01:32:46:03

Student Minister Rodney Muhammad

The living and the dead are tied together.

01:32:46:05 – 01:32:54:20

Student Minister Rodney Muhammad

You gotta do something once life come in. You. If you want to stay alive. Hey.

01:32:54:22 – 01:33:08:01

Student Minister Rodney Muhammad

See, life and the preservation of it has a duty. And the minister said you can’t protect your life, and you can’t preserve it without discipline or.

01:33:08:03 – 01:33:29:20

Student Minister Rodney Muhammad

You. You can’t do anything you want with your life whenever you want and expect to save it. You have to avoid the things that you know will take your life. That’s right. And you have to discipline your life to the things that will protect it and preserve it.

01:33:29:23 – 01:33:32:25

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For more and.

01:33:32:27 – 01:33:49:05

Student Minister Rodney Muhammad

He says this. He said, you haven’t saved the soul and you’re about to lose your home. He said, you mean to tell me all the people that we talked to, all the people that we meet, that we couldn’t bring them to the mosque?

01:33:49:08 – 01:34:28:04

Student Minister Rodney Muhammad

the he goes on to say, if we say it is the acceptance of a religion because he asked the question, is acceptance of Islam the acceptance of a religion, or is it the acceptance? Is it our acceptance of Islam as acceptance of a mission? He say, if we say it is the acceptance of a religion without a mission involved, indeed, then this is a religion as we have always known religion, a religion where people just come worship God, but there’s no mission attached, he said.

01:34:28:04 – 01:34:32:10

Student Minister Rodney Muhammad

Then we’re a church.

01:34:32:12 – 01:35:14:13

Student Minister Rodney Muhammad

Whole time. Yeah. And he said, you know, some churches, got a little bit more on the ball now they’ve reaching out and they doing things in the community. So he said, but I want to get to this part here before we close. He said, Jesus of the New Testament. who really is Elijah Muhammad? Jesus said to his disciples, take my yoke upon you, for my yoke is easy and my burden is light to.

01:35:14:16 – 01:35:36:01

Student Minister Rodney Muhammad

And in another scripture, Jesus says, take my yoke upon you and learn of me, for I am meek and lowly of heart, and ye will find rest unto your souls.

01:35:36:03 – 01:36:06:24

Student Minister Rodney Muhammad

The minister says, now look, brothers and sisters, when you don’t do this work, your soul is not rested. You’re not Jesus. That’s right. My faith. If you sit under these teachings and do nothing to help our struggling people, your soul is burned and because you have failed to take on the mission of the messenger, you sit, you dress, you eat.

01:36:06:24 – 01:36:38:14

Student Minister Rodney Muhammad

According to his teachings, you benefit. You love the teaching. But after that, what he said, we say, oh yes, I give in charity. He said, oh boy, I’m really doing it. He said, not quite because of the lost from brother and sister that we passed on the way to the mosque means nothing to us. If the pain and the hurt and the cry of the mothers that are burying their children, if it means nothing to us see, then we haven’t really accepted this mission.

01:36:38:17 – 01:37:15:03

Student Minister Rodney Muhammad

And the word rest means peace of mind or spirit. Yes, sir. We we. So we sit under a light, but we carry out no real duty of it. And we’ve lost sight of what gives life to us. And the mission is people. That’s what they must be reached out for. And, whomsoever Allah intends to guide, he expands his breast for Islam.

01:37:15:05 – 01:37:35:25

Student Minister Rodney Muhammad

Whomsoever he intends to leave in error, he makes his breast straight and narrow, as though he he looks like he’s going up, but he ain’t saved the soul. See, you know you really can’t try to save nobody you don’t care about.

01:37:35:25 – 01:37:36:04

Student In The Ministry Joseph Muhammad

Right?

01:37:36:12 – 01:38:08:19

Student Minister Rodney Muhammad

So. And he says the Koran says he is like he was a sending upwards. Thus does a lot to lay uncleanness on those who believe not. Now the minister goes on with that verse. He said, if you feel that your breast is expanding for submission to the will of Allah and His messenger, and a desire to take the mission of the resurrection on your shoulder, he said, Then God intends to guide you.

01:38:08:21 – 01:38:21:01

Student Minister Rodney Muhammad

Why? Because he’s expanding your breath, expanding your breast. That’s just the chest cavity. Making room for a heart as growing.

01:38:21:03 – 01:38:37:15

Student Minister Rodney Muhammad

But if you going up in position but your heart and growing, you can tell by what’s happening to the people under your charge are easy. If you follow easy verses that.

01:38:37:18 – 01:39:03:14

Student Minister Rodney Muhammad

He said, but whoever Allah intends to leave in error, if you still want to live a lawless life, if you don’t want to help raise the dead, then he makes your breast narrow, meaning your heart. Where you think and where inspiration is, is short and straight and.

01:39:03:16 – 01:39:09:12

Student Minister Rodney Muhammad

I mean.

01:39:09:14 – 01:39:37:21

Student Minister Rodney Muhammad

That just that make people don’t even want to be in the house because the atmosphere changes a. Sea, the atmosphere that we live in. Like the lesson say, the sun and moon got attracting power on the Earth. That’s right, that’s right. It’s drawn. But you can’t see the water drawn up because it can’t be detected by the naked eye.

01:39:37:23 – 01:40:01:18

Student Minister Rodney Muhammad

But just because you can’t detect it doesn’t mean it’s not going up and it’s being caught up in currents. And when some some are swift and changeable, you was this way on Wednesday. By Sunday you don’t turn that way. That’s pretty swift. No different mindsets.

01:40:01:21 – 01:40:17:06

Student Minister Rodney Muhammad

And the ministers say, and when you’re whole to to the righteous, water goes up, the word of life goes up. But when it gets past, you would turn to ice around.

01:40:17:09 – 01:40:23:12

Student In The Ministry Joseph Muhammad

8 to 15 morning freezing.

01:40:23:14 – 01:40:42:18

Student Minister Rodney Muhammad

You mean? And like the minister warned the laborers why the nation fell? Because having power over people became more important in getting people.

01:40:42:20 – 01:41:12:25

Student Minister Rodney Muhammad

Greed sets in for position and power. Come on. Yeah. Rather than the heart expanding to get more people. Oh, teach mom duty, brother Minister and any of us in ministry. We have to look at ourselves too, because we ain’t supposed to be satisfied with a handful of people. Come. The messenger says, send me out there. I stay out there to everybody.

01:41:12:25 – 01:41:26:14

Student Minister Rodney Muhammad

Turn us down. The only way they can turn us down. You gotta go out and approach him. Yeah. Sorry. So, anyway, I think you get the point. Yes, sir.

01:41:26:16 – 01:41:42:02

Student Minister Rodney Muhammad

If we flatline me and you go back to the first word. Yeah. Oh, yeah. The newspaper. Not the just the newspaper to get newspaper money, but the newspaper to get people, right?

01:41:42:02 – 01:41:45:28

Student In The Ministry Joseph Muhammad

Yes, sir. Right, right, right.

01:41:46:00 – 01:42:03:14

Student Minister Rodney Muhammad

Because if you only have to. Newspaper money once. Once the lieutenant got newspaper money in his hand, he’s satisfied that he don’t care whether you ever touched the dead or brought somebody or anything. Long as he made his quota.

01:42:03:17 – 01:42:29:03

Student Minister Rodney Muhammad

Yeah, that can happen to us. Don’t make nobody bad. It just can happen to us. yeah. On on. I’m trying. I’m trying to find a way to stay focused. Brother. student Minister Ishmael was talking about hitting a target. Yes, sir. And how you you you you you you can’t hit. I was watching the Olympics with the bow and arrows, and they can’t afford to look up that way and and look back and let that thing.

01:42:29:03 – 01:42:45:10

Student Minister Rodney Muhammad

You got to stay there. Focus with that thing if you want to hit that bull’s eye. That’s right. Good. Islam got an aim. What are the aims of Islam? And the aim is people. But we start looking up here and looking over there.

01:42:45:11 – 01:42:50:16

Unknown

Looking down there. Right. Yeah.

01:42:50:18 – 01:43:20:17

Student Minister Rodney Muhammad

So, the duty of a civilized man is to bring civilization to those who are not civilized. They don’t know themselves. Civilized means to work, to teach the knowledge and wisdom of the human family of the planet Earth. So we should be learning about the history of all people in order to defend ourselves against a charge of anti-Semitism.

01:43:20:23 – 01:43:26:27

Student Minister Rodney Muhammad

If you not studying the human family or the planet Earth, you think those people don’t. People come from Europe.

01:43:26:29 – 01:43:28:13

Student In The Ministry Joseph Muhammad

Right? Right.

01:43:28:16 – 01:43:54:14

Student Minister Rodney Muhammad

They don’t have a Hebrew tongue. They speak Yiddish. That’s German dialect. You got to study the human family of the planet Earth. You. And the more you know, the less somebody can put over on you,

01:43:54:17 – 01:44:20:06

Student Minister Rodney Muhammad

We’re the original people of the Earth. We predate everybody. And the more you in the class and get restored, the more you can see. Yes, sir. Amen. And our Lord, don’t deprive you of nothing. I could go on with the minister saying. How are we going to be blessed in our personal lives? Trust them. Yes, sir. We all just want some money.

01:44:20:13 – 01:44:43:15

Student Minister Rodney Muhammad

You hit the man was taking your money. Islam didn’t ask you for nothing till he taught you how to eat, to live with food. Once you stopped eating and ate one meal every 24 hours, you came up with extra money. You eating all day, drinking all day and everything. You got off booze. You stop eating all day, you stop smoking.

01:44:43:15 – 01:45:18:11

Student Minister Rodney Muhammad

Cigaret. When I was in Vegas, send my son to cigarets. Cost $21. So we said those things over there cause I said, you mean the whole thing? The carton that’s gone? Oh, no. One package. If that don’t make you stop smoking, just, If they don’t make you stop and think $21 a pack, five packs is $100, you.

01:45:18:13 – 01:45:33:00

Student Minister Rodney Muhammad

So anyway, I thank you all for listening. Thank you. To Solomon Lake.

01:45:33:02 – 01:45:53:16

Student Minister Rodney Muhammad

And Brother Joseph going to finish us up. So treat him kindly and respond to him. And you get your food. We come back up because we got to take a few minutes with you today. Just just a few minutes. All right. Thank you so much for your patience along with your.

01:45:53:19 – 01:46:14:10

Student In The Ministry Joseph Muhammad

Keep that applause going for our Delaware Valley student Regional Minister Rodney Muhammad. All praises due to a. That was a very, very inspirational and powerful message that was given to us today. On the heels of that, we have now, brothers and sisters, what we call acceptance. How many, I mean, first timers do we have today? Any first timers got to guess our brothers neighbor.

01:46:14:10 – 01:46:45:01

Student In The Ministry Joseph Muhammad

Yeah, we got right here. Give our two young brothers around the clock. Any sisters? First time? First time today. Oh, there’s master you give me, said basically praise be to like, give him a round of applause for being here. Brothers. I know it’s she. I get your name, brother. Listening because he has these guys, has these houses. I should as much as my daughter’s name as either I see.

01:46:45:03 – 01:46:48:02

Student In The Ministry Joseph Muhammad

Yes. Who invited solo.

01:46:48:04 – 01:46:49:15

Student Minister Rodney Muhammad

Brother.

01:46:49:17 – 01:47:00:15

Student In The Ministry Joseph Muhammad

Brother River, give her a river around the block with you. Did you hear him? Around the clock? Praise be to Allah. This is who invited you out of who?

01:47:00:17 – 01:47:01:27

Student Minister Rodney Muhammad

By the Brant, brother Brant.

01:47:01:27 – 01:47:17:12

Student In The Ministry Joseph Muhammad

Oh, brother Brant. All right. Praise and processing praise. This will I give him a round of applause for bringing out. Yes. Brother Rodney just talked about. We in the people business. Thank you all for being here. My next question is that how many believe that what they heard today is true and good for our people and all the fallen humanity just by show of hands?

01:47:17:14 – 01:47:34:27

Student In The Ministry Joseph Muhammad

Praise be to Allah. Then my next question is that if what you heard today and you believe that is true and is good for all of our people, including yourself, how many of you would be willing to take the next step to come back? I can’t say join, but accept your own and be yourself. Is he my brother?

01:47:34:29 – 01:47:41:16

Student In The Ministry Joseph Muhammad

Oh, come on up now, brother. Raise his hand.

01:47:41:19 – 01:48:00:13

Student In The Ministry Joseph Muhammad

Yes. Your name, my name, my name is Bashir. Bashir for the Bashir. This is Brother Bashir. Welcome, brother. Praise this. All right. Thank you. There’s somebody right you up front. Out front. My brother. Out front. Oh, well, whoever the brother. Oh, brother was here. Thank you. Brother was here. Praise be sure. Have you seen your brother? Did you talk to you?

01:48:00:15 – 01:48:17:22

Student In The Ministry Joseph Muhammad

Is there anyone downstairs who might be down and want to come and accept their own and be themselves? Now’s the time to do it. Or brother Rodney, I know you’re going to make that run in a minute, but, if there is someone, please let me know. And I want to announce him on the mountain top. So we thank God, Brother Bashir for coming forth.

01:48:17:24 – 01:48:32:24

Student In The Ministry Joseph Muhammad

And dear family, we’ve had a wonderful, wonderful meeting. I’m not going to belabor the point. Take too long up here because we do have a follow up meeting right after this. It shouldn’t be too long. I would like to go into the next portion of our meeting, which is our charity

01:48:32:24 – 01:48:41:03

Student In The Ministry Joseph Muhammad

three, two, one, or if you just have a good spirit and you really didn’t have it, but you really wanted to give and it wasn’t in use a day to produce it.

01:48:41:05 – 01:48:58:04

Student In The Ministry Joseph Muhammad

let me first say, continue to hear the life giving teachings of the Honorable Elijah Muhammad and then our lives all the time. He will bless you to be able to give whatever it is that you we love to give. And we. Let me not be remiss in my duty in saying to you, thank you for the first active charity that you have shared today, and that is of your time.

01:48:58:07 – 01:49:20:02

Student In The Ministry Joseph Muhammad

Thank you for being here to hear these wonderful, wonderful teachings that’s given to us by Delaware Valley Student Regional Minister riding Muhammad. The teachings of the Honorable Elijah Muhammad, as represented by the Honorable Minister Louis Farrakhan. So their family has the receptacles on leaving the floor. I am going to go through the announcements very quickly and then immediate thereafter, we will close with prayer.

01:49:20:04 – 01:49:42:26

Student In The Ministry Joseph Muhammad

Okay. First on the on our announcements. Today is a national business meeting coming up this Wednesday, August the 7th. of course, we’ll have our, our regular meeting, which starts at 7 p.m.. So be here for that. But please come in and do the rest of.

01:49:42:28 – 01:50:05:22

Student In The Ministry Joseph Muhammad

This. So this Wednesday, August the 7th, please be out for the national business meeting. We always get a lot of valuable, valuable information coming from headquarters. So we we do ourselves a disservice not to come back to hear what we have, to be imparted to us. From headquarters number two, save this date, August 10th. The summer single social, is coming.

01:50:05:29 – 01:50:22:23

Student In The Ministry Joseph Muhammad

that’s August the 10th is a donation of $25. That will be from 6 p.m. to 9 p.m., and you must complete a survey to participate. So if you are interested in being at this event, please go online. Or if you’re not on the mailing list, see one of the, We’ll see our student Minister of Information, Brother Severe.

01:50:23:00 – 01:50:28:27

Student In The Ministry Joseph Muhammad

He can put you on the mailing list, and then you can be a part of all the events that are coming down the road. And also.

01:50:31:01 – 01:50:54:22

Student In The Ministry Joseph Muhammad

support ECU. LCC education is a key to learning center and is an affiliate of Mooi is offering a virtual learning experience from for 2024 to 2525 school year. So please check your email for the survey. Everybody get there. Your children, grandchildren, great grandchildren they want to lock them in, take them out of the killing fields or the public school system.

01:50:54:25 – 01:51:16:28

Student In The Ministry Joseph Muhammad

Tie them into something great with Sister Kimberly and Sister Yvonne, and they will be gladly powerful tissues. And I know some engineers that came up out of EC LCC. They working diligently right now because of that teaching. Wonderful, wonderful teaching. Okay. Yes, sir. I’m actually missing it, brother. And on the other side of this. Well, let me just say it now.

01:51:17:01 – 01:51:41:14

Student In The Ministry Joseph Muhammad

I was just informed that we had an additional $41 downstairs to all those who gave downstairs, we send you, shout out and a round of applause for your donation. Praise be to Allah. And last but not least, we have been spiritually fed. And we have some physical food downstairs. please go down and grab one of these delectable dishes, for they are waiting for you to take home with you to balance out your day.

01:51:41:18 – 01:52:07:23

Student In The Ministry Joseph Muhammad

And for those of us who are on the national fast, praise be to Allah, you you break your fast around 4:00 somewhere there’s about with a wonderful dinner and we have teriyaki big whiting, fried fish, barbecue chicken, vegetarian meatballs and the size of mac and cheese. Cabbage, green beans and drinks and desserts are also available. So if you are so inclined that you would like to indulge yourself, please stop down at the, facility downstairs and take something home with you.

01:52:08:00 – 01:52:26:16

Student In The Ministry Joseph Muhammad

And to all the registered believers, please, after you purchase your dinners, could you come back upstairs? There will be a short address by our student regional minister, and then we’ll be dismissed for the day. All right. All hearts and minds. Yes, ma’am.

01:52:26:18 – 01:52:28:17

Student Minister Rodney Muhammad

Did I say September?

01:52:28:20 – 01:52:51:06

Student In The Ministry Joseph Muhammad

I almost, almost got a little, three day, fast fog. All right, family, y’all heard it. August the 10th. I don’t know where September came from, but anyway, thank you, sister student Cabin Commission for pointing that out. And August the 10th. Summer Singles Socials $25 donation 6 to 9 p.m..

01:52:51:08 – 01:53:08:25

Student In The Ministry Joseph Muhammad

This fine, it says on this item it’s the fasting for you know during Ramadan we have Ramadan for. You know I make no excuses. It’s just real talk. But all praise is due to Allah. We are taught that a mistake shall not exist in Islam and once we correct it, it no longer exists. It’s all hearts and minds.

01:53:08:27 – 01:53:16:23

Student In The Ministry Joseph Muhammad

Is dear family at this time that is closing prayer.

01:53:16:26 – 01:53:46:06

Student In The Ministry Joseph Muhammad

In the manner in which you are most comfortable, follow along silently in the name of Allah, the beneficent, the Most Merciful, the one God to whom all praises do, the Lord of the worlds, the beneficent, the Most Merciful, master of the Day of Judgment in which we now live. The alone do we serve in the alone do we beseech for aid, O Allah, guide us on the straight path, 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.

01:53:46:06 – 01:54:12:14

Student In The Ministry Joseph Muhammad

After hearing that teaching. See, he allows one. Allah is he upon whom we all depend. He neither beget nor is he begotten, and there is none like him. I bear witness that none deserves to be served a worship besides Allah, who appeared to us in the percentage of master fathered Muhammad. We are eternally grateful to him for his wise choice and given to us the Messenger of Messiah, the exalted, the risen and living Christ in the most honorable Elijah Muhammad, until the two of them.

01:54:12:17 – 01:54:33:00

Student In The Ministry Joseph Muhammad

If we lived a thousand years, we can never thank them for the wonderful gift that they’ve given us in the messianic figure in the Honorable Minister Louis Farrakhan and their names, we pray, I mean, I the meeting is dismissed. The family go in peace and remember, we are never to be the aggressor. But if we are aggressive and we fight with those who fight with us, solemnly.