The Architecture of Resurrection – Self-Improvement, the Basis for Community Development

Opening: Student in the Ministry David Hassan explains what we mean by “divine Messiah” and “Muslim,” then asks the Minister’s question: what are we doing with God’s time? From Holy Qur’an Surah 103 he teaches that belief is joined to doing good. “You don’t need permission to do good. Good is already in your seed.”

 

Lecture — Student in the Ministry Linda Muhammad, “How Strong Is Our Faith?”: We were only asked for faith as a grain of mustard seed, but no one can borrow it. She warns against going to God on our own terms, teaches that Allah gives what we need rather than what we want, and shows faith in action from Noah’s ark to the Million Man March.

 

Keynote — Student in the Ministry Joseph Muhammad, “The Architecture of Resurrection: Self-Improvement, the Basis for Community Development”: He traces the study guides to the scroll the Honorable Minister Louis Farrakhan saw on the Wheel and anchors the course in Surah 96: read in the name of your Lord. Any community development that doesn’t begin with transforming the individual is doomed to collapse, and material growth without moral growth builds “a sophisticated graveyard.” He walks through self-examination, self-analysis and self-correction, the distorted self-image behind the violence in our streets, and Study Guide 19B, the key to the kingdom of God. Reading the Minister’s 1987 letter “We Must Study,” he calls everyone to the Friday study group: “Tell death to take a vacation. We can’t die now. We are too ignorant.”

 

Close: Brother Joseph gives the invitation. Student Regional Minister Rodney Muhammad takes up the offering for a building where our children can learn, announces the Nov. 14 program on Fidel Castro at Mother Bethel Church with Student Minister Abel Muhammad, and introduces next Sunday’s guest, Brother Salaam. Brother David closes with announcements and prayer.