The Teachings @Mosque #12 (11/03/2024)
Mosque #12 Sunday Teachings (11-03-2024)
This lecture, delivered November 3 2024 at Mosque #12, features three ministers: Student Minister Joseph Muhammad, Student Minister Ameen Muhammad, and Student Regional Minister Rodney Muhammad. Each ministers r emphasizes core tenets of the Nation of Islam, including the belief in Allah as the one true God, the divine mission of Master Fard Muhammad and the Honorable Elijah Muhammad, and the continued leadership of the Honorable Minister Louis Farrakhan.
Core Themes & Teachings●
Divine Intervention: The lecture repeatedly affirms the belief that Allah intervened directly in human affairs by appearing in the person of Master Fard Muhammad. Master Fard Muhammad’s coming to North America, specifically to uplift Black people, is presented as an act of divine mercy, as Black people were considered “irretrievable” and “irredeemable” by society at large.●
The Significance of Minister Farrakhan: All three speakers highlight Minister Farrakhan’s crucial role in continuing the work of Master Fard Muhammad and the Honorable Elijah Muhammad. Student Minister Joseph Muhammad credits Minister Farrakhan with revealing the potential of Black people to achieve godhood. Student Minister Ameen Muhammad draws parallels between Minister Farrakhan and Jesus, arguing that seeing Minister Farrakhan is akin to seeing Master Fard Muhammad and the Honorable Elijah Muhammad “all wrapped up into one human being”. Minister Rodney Muhammad emphasizes Minister Farrakhan’s journey from Fruit of Islam member to leader, teacher, guide, preacher, and Messiah.●
Unity as the Key to Survival: Student Minister Ameen Muhammad dedicates a significant portion of his lecture to the concept of unity as essential for Black survival. He argues that true unity must be “for and by us,” not dictated by external forces. He cites the Million Man March as a powerful example of Black unity, drawing on statistics about increased voter registration and adoptions, as well as the peace that prevailed in Black communities on the day of the March. He contrasts the positive impact of the Million Man March with the destructive force of the atomic bomb, underscoring the Honorable Elijah Muhammad’s teaching that Black unity is more powerful than any weapon.●
Truth-telling and Self-Reliance: The lecture also stresses the importance of truth-telling and self-reliance. Student Minister Ameen Muhammad argues that lying undermines character and trust, hindering the development of strong Black institutions. He critiques the hypocrisy of discussing unity while engaging in harmful behaviors towards each other. Minister Rodney Muhammad emphasizes the high cost of ignorance, arguing that it forces people to rely on others for basic needs. Both speakers advocate for Black people to take responsibility for their own lives and communities.●
The Role of the Devil: Minister Rodney Muhammad tackles the complex question of why God created the devil. He suggests that the devil, born from humanity’s negative qualities, ultimately serves a divine purpose by exposing imperfection and driving humanity towards perfection. He draws on biblical stories like Jacob wrestling with an angel and Moses lifting up the serpent in the wilderness to illustrate the Nation of Islam’s understanding of the devil’s origins and role in human history. He emphasizes the need to study and understand the devil, as represented by the first 10 questions of Lost-Found Lesson No. 1, in order to achieve true peace and unity.
The Significance of Hidden History
The lecture emphasizes the importance of uncovering “hidden history” to understand the present and navigate the future. Minister Rodney Muhammad argues that the traditional narrative of history has been corrupted and that true knowledge lies in understanding the deeper, often symbolic meaning behind biblical stories and historical events. He contends that this “hidden history” reveals the true origins and nature of the Caucasian race, as well as the divine plan for Black people’s redemption. By understanding this history, Black people can break free from the cycle of frustration and dependence and achieve their full potential.
00:00:00:00 – 00:00:07:19
Student In The Ministry Joseph Muhammad
sir. At this time, could we please stand for prayer?
00:00:07:22 – 00:00:24:09
Student In The Ministry Joseph Muhammad
Attention, prayer. Surely I am being turned to thee, O Allah. 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 are all for a law of the.
00:00:24:09 – 00:00:25:20
Student Minister Rodney Muhammad
Lord of the worlds.
00:00:25:22 – 00:00:46:28
Student In The Ministry Joseph Muhammad
No associate has he in this am I commanded. And I am of those who submit. O Allah, thou art the King. There is no God but the. Thou art, my Lord and I my servant. And I have been greatly unjust to myself, and I confess my faults. So grant me protection against all my faults, for none grants protection against false with thee, and guide me into the best of morals.
00:00:46:28 – 00:01:06:04
Student In The Ministry Joseph Muhammad
For none can guide into the best of morals. But thee. And turn away from me the evil and the indecent morals. For none can turn from me the evil and the indecent morals. But thee and all Allah make Muhammad successful and make the true followers of Muhammad successful. Thou did make Abraham and the true followers of Abraham successful.
00:01:06:06 – 00:01:45:19
Student In The Ministry Joseph Muhammad
For surely thou art praised and magnified, and all are blessed Muhammad and blessed the true followers of Muhammad, as thou just blessed Abraham and the true followers of Abraham. For surely thou art praised and magnified. I mean, you may be seated in the name of Elijah, beneficent, the Most Merciful. We give praise and thanks to Allah that anytime the human family falls, the streets from the position that he has put us in, he is always generous and loving and merciful enough to us that he will send a messenger, Warner, or a prophet to elevate us and bring us back to the pinnacle of success that he would wish to have us in.
00:01:45:22 – 00:02:08:22
Student In The Ministry Joseph Muhammad
But in this case, in our case, he did not send a messenger, a one, or a prophet. He came himself God in the person of Master Farad Muhammad. We thank him for coming among us and staying three years and four months. And in that time he was doing a work. He was working on the people who were labeled irretrievable, irredeemable, even dead.
00:02:08:25 – 00:02:09:13
Student Minister Rodney Muhammad
All right.
00:02:09:15 – 00:02:31:09
Student In The Ministry Joseph Muhammad
But that didn’t stop him because he knew how. And he knows how to raise a dead man and woman. And the people who were they were referring to the social scientist with you and I, the black man and woman in the hills of North America. And in that three years and four months at a meeting like this, when a man showed up who had heard about this great teacher who was bringing the truth, well, he had he didn’t take it on face value.
00:02:31:09 – 00:02:56:03
Student In The Ministry Joseph Muhammad
He had to go and see for himself if all that he heard was actually true. And he showed up and he heard them at the meeting, when he heard this master teacher speaking, he recognized him on sight. As a matter of fact, we could say that it was love at first sight and then from that point on, that meeting went on and it came to his conclusion, and the question was asked how many would be willing to come and join on to your own.
00:02:56:05 – 00:03:14:18
Student In The Ministry Joseph Muhammad
He walked right up, and when he got close to the master’s teacher, he uttered these words, I know who you are, because he recognized and from his knowledge of Scripture, the King James Version of the Bible, that this is the one that the world had been waiting for. And when he uttered those words, this teacher pulled him close and said, yes, but who knows it?
00:03:14:18 – 00:03:39:27
Student In The Ministry Joseph Muhammad
But you? Well, it didn’t stop there and went on. And that relationship is still evolving. As we sit here today, the man who uttered those words, that Georgia born giant, born Elijah Poole. But because of the wonderful and magnificent work that he was and is doing among us still, he became known as the Most Honorable Elijah Muhammad. All praise belongs to Allah, but that wonderful, wonderful human being.
00:03:39:29 – 00:04:02:22
Student In The Ministry Joseph Muhammad
However, brothers and sisters, I did not meet those first two. I did not meet Master Muhammad and I did not meet the Most Honorable Elijah Muhammad, but the man who took the key and turned it into my rusty red locks and opened it up so that not only could I see those two better, I could even see myself in a better and more glorious light, because we were all told that we were nothing.
00:04:02:24 – 00:04:19:09
Student In The Ministry Joseph Muhammad
As long as you black and you know the other part of you points toward the ground, you will never be nothing. But this man is showing us that not only can we be something, we can become a God, male and female. And the one that I speak of right now, he is our illustrious leader, teacher, guide and friend.
00:04:19:09 – 00:04:42:17
Student In The Ministry Joseph Muhammad
He is our champion. The Honorable Minister Louis Farrakhan and their names. I greet you all once again with the greeting words of peace I Salaam alaikum. How are we? Just morning family. Oh, praise is due to Allah I you feeling like me? I am so honored. Just that God saw fit to show me mercy one more time. Just because I’m not worthy.
00:04:42:20 – 00:04:58:25
Student In The Ministry Joseph Muhammad
I gotta say it. I mean, maybe it’s not the things that I’m doing sometimes. It’s the things that I think that alone can get me the death sentence if God. So please. But he didn’t see that he’s a no. I still got something to do with you. So you’re going to be around for a minute. So I thank him for his mercy that he has shown to us.
00:04:59:01 – 00:05:18:23
Student In The Ministry Joseph Muhammad
I thank him for the living and walking mercy among us and the Honorable Minister Louis Farrakhan. All praise belongs to lot. Thank you all, brothers and sisters, for being here this morning on time. Thank you for submitting to the check procedure. Thank you for having the spirit of humility to allow our brothers and sisters to check us or go over us thoroughly.
00:05:18:25 – 00:05:44:08
Student In The Ministry Joseph Muhammad
So thank you for that first act of giving of yourself. And so, dear family, before I bring up our first presenter, just a final call newspaper. If you don’t have it, get it because there are timely messages in here. There’s local, national and international news. Most already know that. But I have to say it because as a part of this program and, you know, review is always good for us because sometimes we forget.
00:05:44:10 – 00:06:05:23
Student In The Ministry Joseph Muhammad
But just in case you want to have something to have a conversation with someone about you, never out of words, just pick up the final call this newspaper, read it first, and then go in. Open up the dialog with our people, y’all. All right? Praise be to a lot. So with that being said, without any further delay, I want to bring to you, another student in the ministry.
00:06:05:29 – 00:06:24:11
Student In The Ministry Joseph Muhammad
He’s a wonderful brother. Most of us have seen him since he was a bubble in his mom’s stomach. Well, we knew that bubble was it. We didn’t know it was going to be him, but he’s here now. And we watched him grow up into the man that he is becoming today. Let’s bring to this rostrum. Brother student in ministry, Amin Muhammad, with a round of applause.
00:06:24:11 – 00:06:29:03
Student In The Ministry Joseph Muhammad
Salaam aleikum.
00:06:29:06 – 00:06:52:26
Student In The Ministry Ameen Muhammad
Assalamualaikum. In the name of Allah, the beneficent, the merciful. I bear witness that there is but one God whose proper name is Allah, who appeared to us in the person of Master Fard Muhammad the Great. Might be to whom all praise is forever due. And we forever thank a lot for intervening in our affairs and for raising up a messenger from among us that he could deposit himself into.
00:06:52:26 – 00:07:15:15
Student In The Ministry Ameen Muhammad
And that beautiful man that we always speak of is none other than the Most Honorable Elijah Muhammad. But we further thank Allah for sending the Most Honorable Elijah Muhammad, a helper in the Honorable Minister Louis Farrakhan. He is our divine reminder, Divine Water, and the Messiah that is in our midst. So it is in their three holy and righteous names that I greet all of you this morning with the greeting words of peace.
00:07:15:15 – 00:07:45:29
Student In The Ministry Ameen Muhammad
Assalamualaikum. How are we this morning? Family? Praise be to Allah. Once again, I like to thank you all for coming out to this morning to hear the life giving teachings of the Most Honorable Elijah Muhammad has taught and demonstrated by his Chief student, the Honorable Minister Louis Farrakhan. And we could simply not thank Allah enough for giving to us the Honorable Minister Louis Farrakhan, because of his continuous commitment of sacrifice to the original people of the Earth.
00:07:46:02 – 00:08:20:05
Student In The Ministry Ameen Muhammad
And he is a man that, in truth, like his spiritual father, the Honorable Elijah Muhammad continues and as always demonstrated, an unequal love and an unparalleled commitment to the resurrection and upliftment of black people all across the Earth, not just in the United States, but all over. But it’s an important note to mention that both of these men, both the Honorable Elijah Muhammad and the Honorable Minister Louis Farrakhan, have been and are still being taught and guided by a master teacher.
00:08:20:05 – 00:08:45:09
Student In The Ministry Ameen Muhammad
Is that right? And saw a 53 the star and the Holy Koran. It says your companion is not, nor does he deviate, nor does he speak out of desire. It is not but revelation that is revealed. One mighty in power has done what taught him the Lord of strength. So he attained to perfection. And he is in the highest part of the horizon.
00:08:45:09 – 00:09:11:15
Student In The Ministry Ameen Muhammad
All praise is due to Allah. So family, in that same breath of thanking the Honorable Minister Louis Farrakhan and thanking the Honorable Elijah Muhammad, we can never think Allah enough for coming to North America by himself traveling 9000 miles from Mecca. Is that right? We are taught that he came in the flesh and clothes of our enemies and our enemies.
00:09:11:15 – 00:09:30:10
Student In The Ministry Ameen Muhammad
They looked at him, but they really didn’t see the man because they thought they were looking at one of their own. But in reality, who were they looking at? One of us. A man that was born to deliver us from the wicked hands of our oppressors, the Honorable Minister Louis Farrakhan, like all of us in this room this morning, never saw him as the Father Muhammad.
00:09:30:10 – 00:09:55:15
Student In The Ministry Ameen Muhammad
Is that right? But he saw a witness of his presence and the Honorable Elijah Muhammad. Minister Farrakhan, he once gave an analogy. He said that if the lights go out and no one president can fix the light, but then someone comes who is able to turn that light back on. You don’t have to ask if that person is what an electrician because their work bears witness of them.
00:09:55:17 – 00:10:30:23
Student In The Ministry Ameen Muhammad
So we can think about it like this. If Master Fard Muhammad was not a wise man, he could not have produced two wise men and the Honorable Elijah Muhammad and the Honorable Minister Louis Farrakhan. All praises due to Allah, none of us were born prior to Master Fard Muhammad’s departure, but I can say that I see his work being manifested in the Honorable Minister Louis Farrakhan today, the Honorable Minister Louis Farrakhan had to live the life of the Honorable Elijah Muhammad to grow up into him.
00:10:30:25 – 00:10:48:16
Student In The Ministry Ameen Muhammad
So now he can say to the world, as Jesus said to Philip, one of the disciples, when he asked Jesus, when will we see the father? And in the book of John what did Jesus say? He said, have I not been among you this long, and you have not seen him? When you see me, you see the father.
00:10:48:16 – 00:11:29:29
Student In The Ministry Ameen Muhammad
For me and my father are one. I am in him, and he is what in me. So, family, I submit to you this morning that when you see the Honorable Minister Louis Farrakhan, we actually see the Honorable Elijah Muhammad and Master Father Muhammad all wrapped up into one human being. So even though we may not have been present walking the streets of Detroit with Master Fard Muhammad because of the sacrifice of the Honorable Elijah Muhammad and the sacrifice of the Honorable Minister Louis Farrakhan, it shouldn’t affect the conviction in which we can say, I bear witness that there is no God but Allah who appeared to us in the person of Master Fard Muhammad.
00:11:29:29 – 00:11:56:06
Student In The Ministry Ameen Muhammad
All praise is due to Allah. So once again, it is in their three holy and righteous names that I greet all of you this morning with the greeting words of peace. Assalamualaikum. Before I go any further family, I like to also thank our Delaware Valley Student Regional Minister, Brother Rodney Muhammad, for his continued work in service and helping the Honorable Minister Louis Farrakhan right here in the city of Philadelphia, but in truth, all over the Delaware Valley region for so many years.
00:11:56:06 – 00:12:13:23
Student In The Ministry Ameen Muhammad
And I thank him for giving me an opportunity to just share a few words with you all this morning. It is always an honor and a privilege for those of us in the ministry class to share just some of what we’ve been learning and studying for this short time. And I also want us to give another round of applause to Brother Joseph.
00:12:13:23 – 00:12:41:26
Student In The Ministry Ameen Muhammad
We just spoke and opened up for us this morning. All praises due to Allah. So family, I’d like to open this portion of our talk today with the Holy Koran. Saura eight verse 46. It says, and obey the law and his messenger, and dispute not one with another, lest you get weak hearted and your power depart and be steadfast.
00:12:41:28 – 00:13:09:07
Student In The Ministry Ameen Muhammad
Surely Allah is with the steadfast. So if it be the will of along the short time that I have with you all this morning, I like to speak about how our unity has and always will be the key to our survival. At this current time. Many of us may find ourselves entangled in this political battle that is currently taking place in this nation.
00:13:09:09 – 00:13:34:24
Student In The Ministry Ameen Muhammad
And no matter what side we fall on, if we decide to choose one of these sides, we find that we still haven’t made true progress in our own sojourn, and we definitely find as black people, we have not built a firm foundation of unity amongst us. I think we can all agree on that. The Honorable Minister Louis Farrakhan taught us that our unity is the key to our survival.
00:13:34:26 – 00:14:02:11
Student In The Ministry Ameen Muhammad
And when we say our unity, this is an important note to bring up. When we say our unity, this does not mean our unity guided by our enemy. If you’re just out and we’re just out and we’re physically gathered together, that doesn’t necessarily mean that we have true brotherhood and sisterhood. If the enemy gathers us together to do something of a wicked nature, well, that doesn’t mean that we can claim we have unity.
00:14:02:14 – 00:14:29:03
Student In The Ministry Ameen Muhammad
So when we say our unity, this is meant to say our unity for and by us are we following? The Honorable Minister Louis Farrakhan once gave a speech, and this was at the National Conference of Black Lawyers in Chicago. And in this speech he outlined three tests that Allah has given each of us as proof of our worthiness to face and overcome all the struggles of life.
00:14:29:09 – 00:15:02:14
Student In The Ministry Ameen Muhammad
Three tests, the first being a hostile environment, number two overcoming overwhelming odds, and number three pulling up against the force of gravity. These are three difficult things, but we’re going to talk about how everybody in this room has already done this, and already proved that we’re worthy to overcome all the other struggles of our life. The ability to overcome all struggles is something that is innate in every human being.
00:15:02:16 – 00:15:33:10
Student In The Ministry Ameen Muhammad
From the beginning of their life, right at the onset of our journey, God puts us in a race or we could say a competition. There billions of sperm, but only one will get to the egg to produce the first cell of life. Are we following the sperm? Doesn’t have a whole lot of time and it has to get to the egg rather quickly.
00:15:33:10 – 00:16:01:22
Student In The Ministry Ameen Muhammad
Right? And why does it have to get there quickly? Because the track that is in due to its high level of acidity can be considered a hostile environment. But when the right sperm comes along and touches that egg, the first cell of life has begun to be following. In this hostile environment, the sperm has to swim upstream, kind of like a salmon swimming.
00:16:01:22 – 00:16:03:02
Student Minister Rodney Muhammad
Upstream.
00:16:03:04 – 00:16:34:18
Student In The Ministry Ameen Muhammad
Against what is known as what gravity. So we could say, all of us in this room today, against all odds, we made it against everything that was put up against us from the beginning. We made it. Struggle didn’t stop us. Adversity didn’t stop us. If we’re here today in this room, we can say we made it. But one thing that we have to get in our minds is that no person, no person or people can become great.
00:16:34:25 – 00:17:06:08
Student In The Ministry Ameen Muhammad
Having an easy time. We can stop right there. As Muslims, some of us believe that because a lot loves us. We were supposed to have life given to us on a silver platter this past Wednesday. One of the things we discussed was how, in most cases, it’s easier for us to see allies hand God in things that we deem positive in life, and it’s harder to see his hand and perceive negatives.
00:17:06:10 – 00:17:30:09
Student In The Ministry Ameen Muhammad
So if we get a promotion on our job, we’ll see God’s hand in that and we’ll say, I worked hard, this is my promotion. A lot was watching out for me. But if an unfortunate event befalls us or one of our family members, a death in the family, a sickness, now we’re singing a different tune and we’re singing, God, why me?
00:17:30:12 – 00:17:55:24
Student In The Ministry Ameen Muhammad
We aren’t meant to fly through life without struggle. That’s a fact, right? A lot doesn’t work this way. And we have to get rid of that old way of thinking. Allah has ordained a struggle for all living things. Is that right? Everything from the ant to the spider to the snake to the human being he’s ordained struggle for all living things in our life.
00:17:55:27 – 00:18:19:01
Student In The Ministry Ameen Muhammad
But the Koran also teaches us that after difficulty comes what is. So God will put you in a difficult environment and you’ll be singing, God, why me through the whole thing? But after something very tragic happens in your life, you typically find that the moment after that passes, he brings ease into your life in some form or fashion.
00:18:19:03 – 00:18:54:09
Student In The Ministry Ameen Muhammad
We’ve been taught by the Honorable Elijah Muhammad and the Honorable Minister Louis Farrakhan. That man has struggled to conquer the hostile environment of the jungle, but he’s still done it. We’ve been taught that man has struggled to conquer the hostile environment of the desert, but he’s still done it. Are we following? And we’ve also been taught that man has struggled to conquer the hostile environment of the oceans, and to conquer the hostile environment of the mountains.
00:18:54:12 – 00:19:04:03
Student In The Ministry Ameen Muhammad
A man has even struggled to conquer the hostile environment of space. And now in 2024, we see ships go right on to space, right?
00:19:04:05 – 00:19:05:01
Student Minister Rodney Muhammad
Yes, sir.
00:19:05:03 – 00:19:32:22
Student In The Ministry Ameen Muhammad
So if we think about it like this, nothing really remains in the path of men who is resolved or determined to succeed in life. Are we following? And think about this. If we conquer the most hostile environment of life before we even develop intelligent sense, what should we be able to do now and what type of environment should we live in now?
00:19:32:27 – 00:19:36:07
Student In The Ministry Ameen Muhammad
Having a higher degree of intelligence?
00:19:36:09 – 00:19:37:07
Student Minister Rodney Muhammad
Come on.
00:19:37:10 – 00:19:45:21
Student In The Ministry Ameen Muhammad
We know that there was an estimated 100 million lives lost in the Middle Passage. Is that right.
00:19:45:23 – 00:19:47:08
Student Minister Rodney Muhammad
Sir?
00:19:47:10 – 00:20:09:18
Student In The Ministry Ameen Muhammad
But who made it to the shores of America? Only the strong and only the strongest of the strong. So no wonder the Scripture tells us and teaches us that the race is not to the swift. But what? To the one who can endure to the end? And if we as a people want to survive, we need to be strong.
00:20:09:20 – 00:20:39:03
Student In The Ministry Ameen Muhammad
But the first person that you need to be looking at is yourself. We’re not saying all this this morning. For us to conjure up the different people in our head to point out, Will this person not strong or this person not strong? Let’s figure out if we’re strong. So the minister says we have to ask ourselves as an individual, am I as an individual willing to exert myself to the fullest to ensure that I outlast what is coming upon this world?
00:20:39:05 – 00:21:02:04
Student In The Ministry Ameen Muhammad
So he says, if you make the commitment and you say yes, then there is a job that you have to do right now as an individual, not to look at someone else as an individual. Our unity is the key to our survival. But what does it mean to survive? To survive means to outlast, to outlive or to go beyond.
00:21:02:07 – 00:21:33:16
Student In The Ministry Ameen Muhammad
It means to stress one’s power to endure, as in overcoming difficulty. If we want to survive, there is a way. And the Honorable Minister Louis Farrakhan, he once said that he knows that the enemy has plans and that we should consider his plans. And his plans are deadly ones, and his might is great. But the Honorable Elijah Muhammad said that the unity of the black man would give us a weapon more powerful than any hydrogen or atomic bomb.
00:21:33:18 – 00:21:55:03
Student In The Ministry Ameen Muhammad
But we’re going to stop there for a second, because many times we just say our unity is more powerful than an atomic bomb. But if we continue to just read over the words of the Honorable Minister Louis Farrakhan and the Honorable Elijah Muhammad without actually having discourse about them and going deeper into the meaning, we’ll just have a surface level understanding of what it is that they’re saying.
00:21:55:05 – 00:22:25:04
Student In The Ministry Ameen Muhammad
So he’s saying that our unity will give us a weapon more powerful than any hydrogen or atomic bomb. But let’s think about something for a second. We know that there was an estimated. I think the range is between 90,000 and 166,000 people. That lost their life during the, the atomic bomb in Hiroshima. Now that’s powerful. That’s 166,000 people that died.
00:22:25:07 – 00:23:03:25
Student In The Ministry Ameen Muhammad
And in that 166,000, even those that maybe didn’t die, there were probably a whole bunch more that were ill affected by what happened there. Was that right? And though this event was devastating and it was widespread, I’d like us to shift the conversation a little bit and talk about a unity bomb known as the Million Man March. And I want us to see how the Honorable Elijah Muhammad was not just creating a catchphrase when he said, our unity is more powerful than an atomic bomb, but he was actually giving us insight into our own true power as original people of the earth.
00:23:03:25 – 00:23:23:07
Student In The Ministry Ameen Muhammad
All praise is due to a lie. So if we have time after today’s meeting, I like us all to look in an article in the final call in newspapers from 2020, and it’s titled more than a million more than a march. If we can write that down, if we’re taking notes. More than a million, more than a march.
00:23:23:09 – 00:23:44:17
Student In The Ministry Ameen Muhammad
You typed that in on Google and type in. It’ll pop right up this is where a lot of these statistics are going to come from. If we ever talk about the Million Man March with friends or family, a lot of times we’ll hear. And this is either purposeful or at times it can be out of ignorance. But they’ll ask us, what did the march accomplish?
00:23:44:19 – 00:24:16:04
Student In The Ministry Ameen Muhammad
What did the Million Man March do? You had almost 2 million people there. What did he do this morning? We’re going to talk about three things. We know it did. Do we know that the Million Man March ushered a new wave of black political action? What do I mean by this? There are people right now, as we’re talking this Sunday morning, knocking on our people’s doors, asking us to vote.
00:24:16:06 – 00:24:44:24
Student In The Ministry Ameen Muhammad
Well, if we want to talk about voting and that’s where the conversation is leading, we want to give some statistics to you. Do we know that at least 150,000 participants at the Million Man March registered to vote that day? And additionally, the black turnout rate increased by about 13% between 1966 and 2012, according to the US census. And listen to this.
00:24:44:26 – 00:25:19:06
Student In The Ministry Ameen Muhammad
This brought black voting rates from behind non-Hispanic whites by about eight percentage points to surpassing them in 2012. And look at this, incidentally, Barack Obama, the first black president, was elected in 2008 for his first term. He also attended the Million Man March. So the focus of giving you these statistics is not just to show us that black people can go out and vote, but it’s to focus on what our unity enabled us to do.
00:25:19:09 – 00:25:45:12
Student In The Ministry Ameen Muhammad
Second thing, the Million Man March did for us. Do we know that an increase in adoptions were attributed to the March? The National Association of Black Social Workers reported thousands of applications to adopt black children after the Million Man March. See, now, I don’t teach this in school. You don’t learn about them in March. You wouldn’t be able to imagine when the brothers are out selling the Final Call newspaper.
00:25:45:12 – 00:26:06:19
Student In The Ministry Ameen Muhammad
How many young brothers, we ask them, have they heard about the Million Man March? And they say they haven’t. And that’s of no fault of their own. That’s not their fault. It’s not being taught to them. It’s not being explained to them. So it says. It was reported that thousands of applications to black children were, adopted after the Million Man March.
00:26:06:21 – 00:26:41:14
Student In The Ministry Ameen Muhammad
Ben Davis, national director of the march, said that over 25,000 black children were adopted as a result of the gathering. So now we’re dealing with 150,000 people who? Black people, black men who registered to vote. You’re dealing with 25,000 adoptions. How many people does 25,000 adoptions affect? We talked about the Hiroshima bomb affecting between 90,100 and 66,000. If we just add up the numbers we just talked about, we’re already affecting more lives than what, an atomic bomb.
00:26:41:16 – 00:27:03:25
Student In The Ministry Ameen Muhammad
So lastly, did we know that the march brought a day of peace in black communities, in prisons all over the country, all over black America, black on black crime was down in many places that day. Listen to this. There were no arrests in Washington, D.C. the day of the March.
00:27:03:28 – 00:27:08:25
Student In The Ministry Ameen Muhammad
No arrests.
00:27:08:28 – 00:27:49:29
Student In The Ministry Ameen Muhammad
And some federal and state correctional facilities. Men were allowed to watch the March program on television, not work. And many had programs that included leaders of rival gangs speaking on unity and working together. Our unity is the key to our survival. So the next time somebody asked you, what did the Million Man March accomplish? We should go right to this and tell them what it accomplished, because there are people right now in Philadelphia, in the United States of America that benefited from the march and don’t even know it if you’re if you are a beneficiary of one of those adoptions, you should be thanking the Honorable Minister Louis Farrakhan for putting on that March all
00:27:49:29 – 00:28:14:22
Student In The Ministry Ameen Muhammad
the time. All praise is due to Allah. But we’re talking about our unity is the key to our survival, and if we want to survive, we have to trust each other. That’s a big thing and we all struggle with that. We have to. And one thing about trusting each other, it’s hard to trust somebody if they lie all the time.
00:28:14:24 – 00:28:41:27
Student In The Ministry Ameen Muhammad
So one thing we have to do as a people is give up lying. That’s a hard thing to do because we’ve all lied. Any time we lie, we undermine our own character and development, no matter how bad the situation seems. If we tell the truth, we actually begin to build our own character, and we build character. We can create trust with each other and we build confidence in each other.
00:28:41:29 – 00:28:56:08
Student In The Ministry Ameen Muhammad
We follow in. How can any institution that black people build survive if we don’t have trust and confidence in one another, and none of us can have confidence in a liar?
00:28:56:10 – 00:28:58:06
Student Minister Rodney Muhammad
Come on.
00:28:58:09 – 00:29:27:05
Student In The Ministry Ameen Muhammad
The Honorable Minister Louis Farrakhan talked about this. He once said, what is a lie and what is a liar? Well, a lie is a false statement made with a deliberate attempt to deceive an unintentional truth. Untruth. Oh, excuse me, an intentional untruth. I’m a read that again. A lie is a false statement made with a deliberate attempt to deceive, an intentional untruth.
00:29:27:08 – 00:30:04:18
Student In The Ministry Ameen Muhammad
We’ve all done that at some point of our lives. But telling a lie does not necessarily make one a liar. Listen to this. A liar is a person who has lied or lies repeatedly. So not one time or every once in a while we’ll call you a liar. But you lie often, consistently. Yes, sir. According to the teachings of the Honorable Elijah Muhammad, a liar is one who is predisposed by nature to telling lies, intentional deceit, to achieve an end.
00:30:04:21 – 00:30:33:12
Student In The Ministry Ameen Muhammad
And what is the end? The liar that wishes to achieve it is the mastery of the original people of the earth until the coming of the Lord God. So the liar and the lie must be exposed. We are taught to speak the truth regardless to what the circumstance and when we lie, or when we speak the truth. Rather, this doesn’t just apply to speaking the truth.
00:30:33:12 – 00:30:55:13
Student In The Ministry Ameen Muhammad
Other people, but it also applies to when you’re speaking with yourself. Because the person we speak with most in life is ourself. When we’re on the bus, we’re speaking to ourself, thinking about where we’re going when we wake up in the morning, we’re speaking with ourselves. When we’re at work, we’re speaking with ourself, and all day we’re wrestling with things that are personal to us.
00:30:55:13 – 00:31:17:17
Student In The Ministry Ameen Muhammad
Is that right? So if we have a habit of lying, then the person that the habit affects most is not the person you’re lying to, but it actually affects you the most. Right? If I lie to Brother Joseph, we talked about this on Wednesday. If I lie to Brother Joseph, Brother Joseph may never figure out that I’m lying to him ever.
00:31:17:25 – 00:31:37:24
Student In The Ministry Ameen Muhammad
We may go to the grave. It might be about something big. You never know. But a lie knew and I knew. And every time I lied to my brother, I actually undermined my own character. But if I turn it around, I start telling Brother Joseph the truth. Right? I’m actually building my own character. All praise is due to a lie.
00:31:37:26 – 00:32:05:10
Student In The Ministry Ameen Muhammad
All praise is due to a lie. And on that note, when we lie to ourselves, oftentimes we as a people have a habit of talking about unity without being about unity. We need to have unity. But how can I call you brother and talk to you about unity? If I’m fighting, beefing with, or killing members of your family in the street?
00:32:05:12 – 00:32:26:18
Student In The Ministry Ameen Muhammad
But I come back the next day and say, you’re my bro, or you’re my brother, or you my cousin, but I’m beefing with your nephew or your niece, and I just killed your mom last week. But I come to you. I’m saying, bro, how can we call each other sister if we’re allowing women in our family to be inappropriately touched by men?
00:32:26:20 – 00:32:36:14
Student In The Ministry Ameen Muhammad
So we have to strive to do what is known as making our word bond, right? If we make a promise to each other, we say we’re going to do something. We should do.
00:32:36:14 – 00:32:38:03
Student Minister Rodney Muhammad
It.
00:32:38:05 – 00:33:07:04
Student In The Ministry Ameen Muhammad
That is a principle of survival. So these are a few questions we should ask ourselves. How can we have unity if we’re gossiping about each other? How can we have and create brotherhood, spying on one another and backbiting one another? Good family. Once we’re prone to gossip and doing dirty things behind each other’s backs, the enemy of our unity sees this.
00:33:07:07 – 00:33:32:17
Student In The Ministry Ameen Muhammad
And once he finds us weak and character, he uses this to destroy our organizations and discredit us. So each one of us has to do what is known as police ourselves. This means that we can’t always look to someone else to catch us when we’re about to do wrong. Will do for self doesn’t just mean open a business.
00:33:32:20 – 00:33:59:02
Student In The Ministry Ameen Muhammad
We don’t have a self accusing spirit for nothing. So even though we know that a reminder is absolutely a blessing, this does not mean we should take off the responsibility of ourselves to police our own activity. Are we following do for self? Our unity is the key to our survival? Yes. So this program of survival doesn’t start with this brother or this sister starts with yourself.
00:33:59:04 – 00:34:09:19
Student In The Ministry Ameen Muhammad
The Honorable Minister Louis Farrakhan taught us that if we would just stop doing the negative things that we do to each other, we would be 50% on the road to survival.
00:34:09:22 – 00:34:10:05
Student Minister Rodney Muhammad
Yes.
00:34:10:07 – 00:34:36:21
Student In The Ministry Ameen Muhammad
And we’d be closer to solving that ultimate challenge. What’s the ultimate challenge? Well, if we will begin today, right after this meeting, to begin to think about our differences with each other as minor and our internal enemies as major, and work to scrutinize and uproot those internal struggles we have, then we would have faced the ultimate challenge right?
00:34:36:23 – 00:35:02:23
Student In The Ministry Ameen Muhammad
Me and brothers, every line could be talking all the time, and I could always be pointing out brothers lines flaws. But if I’m never looking at myself, even if in a way I’m helping brothers every line, I’m not helping myself because I’ve never looked at self. We’re taught that what self-improvement is the basis for community development. So if we’re talking about self-improvement, that doesn’t mean the first thing we look at when we read a book is saying, oh, this sound like that, brother?
00:35:02:25 – 00:35:31:25
Student In The Ministry Ameen Muhammad
Or this sound like that’s just a no, it sounds like you and me, right? Praise be to Allah. So we’re solving the ultimate challenge, and we’re told that the ultimate challenge is not the white man. That’s not the ultimate challenge to solve. The ultimate challenge is ourselves. The ultimate challenge is not the United States government. The ultimate challenge is the foolish and weak government that rules our brains.
00:35:31:28 – 00:36:03:09
Student In The Ministry Ameen Muhammad
The ultimate challenge is to root out and destroy the negative forces within ourselves. So the Honorable Minister Louis Farrakhan has taught us that once we can root out those negative forces within ourselves and recognize that the hostile environment within ourselves and in the society is what we need to flex the muscles of our will against. And once we recognize that even though the odds are great and seemingly overwhelming, that’s what we were talking about in the beginning.
00:36:03:09 – 00:36:26:08
Student In The Ministry Ameen Muhammad
How we all got here that they are not odds we cannot overcome. And once we realize that we must pull up against the gravity of our vain and personal desires that keep us self divided, then we will survive. Our unity is the key to our survival. So family, as we move to close, we have a little bit more.
00:36:26:11 – 00:36:44:28
Student In The Ministry Ameen Muhammad
I like us to think about. Think hard about this. We cannot as a people continue to depend on others to feed, clothe and shelter us and yet desire to be treated as an.
00:36:44:28 – 00:36:45:21
Student Minister Rodney Muhammad
Equal right.
00:36:45:21 – 00:36:46:24
Student In The Ministry Joseph Muhammad
And right.
00:36:46:27 – 00:37:10:22
Student In The Ministry Ameen Muhammad
We all grew up with a parent, and to be honest, if every parent, I’m not a parent. But if I was to guess and be honest, no parent thought of them and their child is equal, right? Right? Okay. No, nobody thought that I was, you know, you were equal with your daughter or equal with your son. No, you were feeding and clothing and shelter and that baby as they grew up.
00:37:10:22 – 00:37:29:11
Student In The Ministry Ameen Muhammad
Right. So you weren’t you weren’t equal to them. And if the child ever felt as though they were equal to the parent or had a little bit of mouth, I did this a lot growing up. And if they ever felt as so that the parent was swiftly showing the child how you are not my equal in this house, right?
00:37:29:13 – 00:38:05:23
Student In The Ministry Ameen Muhammad
So think about us as black people being in the house of our enemy. We claiming we’re equal, but we don’t own nothing. We’re equal. But we rant. We’re equal, but we have no farmland. How are we equal? Keith wrote our. So once again, we as a people cannot continue to depend on others to feed, clothe or clothe, excuse me and shelter us and yet desire to be treated as an equal, we must become a productive nation right?
00:38:05:25 – 00:38:29:02
Student In The Ministry Ameen Muhammad
And if we really look at this, you know, if we look at the pandemic, the pandemic was really the, a catalyst to a lot of the black businesses that we see today. Because for the first time, we were put in a situation where we were forced to do something for ourself. Once they said that you couldn’t come back to this job unless you took that jab, we said, oh, I gotta do something for myself.
00:38:29:04 – 00:38:52:28
Student In The Ministry Ameen Muhammad
And it was it was grassroots businesses. It wasn’t something that was always super duper spectacular. If you’re in the sneakers in 2020, you might have started a sneaker cleaning business, right? If you were into planning, you might have started planning your own crops and then selling that. Some people bought up farmland. All of a sudden more sisters were doing hair and creating different businesses, different beautifying businesses.
00:38:53:00 – 00:39:02:01
Student In The Ministry Ameen Muhammad
So sometimes what a lot has to do is put us in a state, in an environment where we’re forced to do something because sometimes we won’t do it on our own.
00:39:02:03 – 00:39:03:01
Student In The Ministry Joseph Muhammad
Each brother.
00:39:03:04 – 00:39:21:23
Student In The Ministry Ameen Muhammad
But on this same note of trying to be equal with our former slave masters, we have to think, first of all, why are we trying to be equal to a man that enslaved us? Let’s stop right there. Why do you want to be equal to that?
00:39:21:26 – 00:39:22:18
Student In The Ministry Joseph Muhammad
Good question.
00:39:22:21 – 00:39:54:26
Student In The Ministry Ameen Muhammad
We could do wonderful things for ourselves if we got the idea of social equality and integrating with the slave masters, children and their societies out of our minds and out of our hearts. This is why in Los found Muslim lesson number one, the question is asked, why does the devil keep our people apart from his social equality? And the answer is because he does not want us to know how filthy he is in all his affairs.
00:39:54:28 – 00:40:33:23
Student In The Ministry Ameen Muhammad
He is afraid because when we learn about him, we will run him from among us. Socialist means to advocate a society of men or groups of men for one common cause. And what does equality mean? Equality means to be equal and everything. And look at the basic definition of social equality. Look at this basic definition. Social equality is a state of affairs in which all individuals within a specific society have equal rights, liberties, and status.
00:40:33:25 – 00:40:58:01
Student In The Ministry Ameen Muhammad
And this already doesn’t sound like anything that black people experience on a day to day basis. But listen, possibly including civil rights, freedom of expression, autonomy and equal access to certain public goods and social services. None of what we just read sounds like anything that black men in black woman experience on a day to day basis in.
00:40:58:01 – 00:40:59:14
Student Minister Rodney Muhammad
America.
00:40:59:17 – 00:41:30:20
Student In The Ministry Ameen Muhammad
So it’s clear that this is something that those in power do not intend to give us. So before we close out, I want to read a little bit from our Savior has arrived. If we don’t have this book or haven’t read it completely, I definitely recommend that we all do. So. This is in the section titled God Helps Those Who Help Themselves.
00:41:30:22 – 00:42:06:28
Student In The Ministry Ameen Muhammad
So listen to this. It says it is almost unbelievable to see and talk with our people and find in their talk in this modern rise of advanced education, for all that our very educators and intellectual people desire nothing more than to remain in the free mental shackles of slavery with nothing constructive for themselves and their people. If we talk with most of our friends, family, relatives, most people just want a few things.
00:42:07:01 – 00:42:20:03
Student In The Ministry Ameen Muhammad
They want to have a job. They want to have an apartment or somewhere to later head at night, and they want to have a little bit of money in their pocket to do something on the weekend. That’s what most of us want.
00:42:20:05 – 00:42:21:04
Student Minister Rodney Muhammad
To take, Lord.
00:42:21:06 – 00:42:50:00
Student In The Ministry Ameen Muhammad
And it says, after 400 years, of which 100 of these years the once slave masters claim they freed us, there has not been much of an effort on our part to go free. Indeed, even with every resource we have now, we really still don’t desire to be free. That’s why when you talk about slavery, a lot of black people will say, well, I’m not in slavery today.
00:42:50:03 – 00:43:22:26
Student In The Ministry Ameen Muhammad
And no, you’re not in shackles slavery. But if we were to really be honest, we’re in a worse slavery today than we were in before. Because it’s one thing when someone can bound your arms and legs with force, right? It’s not much you can do when someone’s doing that, but it’s another thing and you’re dealing with a whole different ballgame when someone doesn’t have to put you in any change at all, and you just still won’t do nothing, that’s that makes it so that we qualified ourselves to say we live in a worse predicament today than in slavery.
00:43:22:28 – 00:43:45:23
Student In The Ministry Ameen Muhammad
It’s hard to say that, but it’s true. In slavery, we had more unity with each other. Now, today, as long as I’m successful, it doesn’t matter if my brother and sister aren’t successful. We’ll look at them and say that they’re not working hard, or they didn’t do what I did to achieve what I have in life. Right? But in reality, we have no unity amongst each other.
00:43:45:25 – 00:44:13:07
Student In The Ministry Ameen Muhammad
So. So the Honorable Elijah Muhammad says this. Imagine people out here with a B.A., B.S., M.A., M.S., and PhD degrees still begging the white man to give them a job and to care for them as their fathers did in slavery times. Think about it when you have a PhD, you absolutely have the knowledge that you need to do something for yourself.
00:44:13:09 – 00:44:36:12
Student In The Ministry Ameen Muhammad
But because we weren’t grown up understanding how to go for self and understanding that we should have some sense of unity to do for self. Even when I get the knowledge that this world can help me with and provide me with, I still don’t look to do that for myself. And I ask others to do a lot of things for me.
00:44:36:14 – 00:45:00:02
Student In The Ministry Ameen Muhammad
So he says this actually shows that the more highly educated listen to this. This actually shows that the more highly educated and trained our people are, the more they want to be like white people and be recognized as one of them throughout the government of America.
00:45:00:04 – 00:45:01:13
Student Minister Rodney Muhammad
That’s right.
00:45:01:15 – 00:45:25:28
Student In The Ministry Ameen Muhammad
Now, this this sound like it struck a nerve once again, we go read it again. This actually shows that the more highly educated and trained our people are, the more they want to be like white people and be recognized as one of them throughout the government. America. So that’s something hard to fight against. The more we actually learn, sometimes, the more we want to actually be like white people.
00:45:25:28 – 00:45:59:13
Student In The Ministry Ameen Muhammad
Now also, because I don’t want it to get confused. The Honorable Elijah Muhammad actually outlines in this book that if we want to go to college, the education that we receive and get from the institutions of today could actually be useful to go for self. But he says, if we want to go for self, so if you grow up and you’re just an intelligent person but you’re never told to do anything for yourself, it doesn’t matter how intelligent you are, once you get to that point, you’re never going to want to do for self.
00:45:59:15 – 00:46:32:06
Student In The Ministry Ameen Muhammad
So listen to this, he says they are leading their poor brothers and sisters in Mississippi, Georgia, Alabama, Florida, the Carolinas and other southern states, as well as the northern states into a more slave like condition than our parents were in. Because this type of slavery, mental slavery, is worse than physical slavery. If I don’t have to do anything, but you’re never going to leave the block that you were born on.
00:46:32:09 – 00:47:07:29
Student In The Ministry Ameen Muhammad
I’ve done my job. That’s right. It was harder for white people to keep us enslaved in slavery time than it is right now. There was more of an effort that had to be put on that. But now we can go our whole lives never striving to do anything for ourself. So it says, if you notice, in talking to most intellectual black people, you can see readily in their conversations that they want to be members and the society of white people, they care not what happens to the poor man in the mud.
00:47:08:02 – 00:47:32:25
Student In The Ministry Ameen Muhammad
And right here he says, we could do wonderful things for ourselves. We read this earlier. If we get the idea of social equality and integrating with white people in their many societies out of our hearts. So he says, regardless to how disgraceful that society may be, and they have a society now going partly nude, some of our people want to be members of it.
00:47:32:27 – 00:47:59:03
Student In The Ministry Ameen Muhammad
If you ever ask a person or explain the person about how we want to get a land of our own, some of our people are scared to do that. And even if they didn’t have to do much of the legwork and we got a land of our own, some of us are scared of that. There’s been some of us who have heard us explain that to our people, and they’ve said, a land of just black people.
00:47:59:06 – 00:48:15:24
Student In The Ministry Ameen Muhammad
That’s it. That was it. That sounds a little scary, right? Come on. And that’s because we’re imagining it in the way that we live right now. We’re not imagining a land of righteous black people.
00:48:15:27 – 00:48:42:10
Student In The Ministry Ameen Muhammad
We’re imagining a group of ignorant black people in a in a crowd just trying to be free. But that’s not what the Honorable Elijah Muhammad is pointing us to. So he says, imagine these intellectual people, preachers and pastors of churches, going into spiritual places for worship of God with their wives and daughters wearing dresses up across their thighs.
00:48:42:12 – 00:49:04:08
Student In The Ministry Ameen Muhammad
He said, what kind of God would recognize you in such a filthy and disrespectful manner in a house called by his name? So we have to keep this on our mind. Family. We live in a day to day that we should want to separate from our open enemy, and we live in the day where God is trying to separate us from our open enemy.
00:49:04:08 – 00:49:23:27
Student In The Ministry Ameen Muhammad
But as long as we fight the progress, and as long as we always look to our brother and sister for what they’re not doing, and don’t start with the man in the mirror or the woman in the mirror, we won’t make any progress toward our surgeon. So family, as I close, I want us to keep this on our mind.
00:49:24:00 – 00:49:56:23
Student In The Ministry Ameen Muhammad
As long as we continue to keep our minds focused on building a nation of righteous men and righteous women, we’ll move forward in creating a better life for ourselves and our families. So, family, let’s stop looking for others to do that which we can do for ourselves. All praises due to Allah. So brothers and sisters, I pray that we learn something today and I pray that we take what we learned and discussed and work to apply it in our everyday lives.
00:49:56:23 – 00:50:12:11
Student In The Ministry Ameen Muhammad
All praise is due to a lie. So family, may Allah continue to bless us all with the light of understanding. Thank you for listening as I greet you in peace, I Salaam alaikum. Please help me to receive Brother Joseph Muhammad. Assalamualaikum.
00:50:12:13 – 00:50:37:03
Student In The Ministry Joseph Muhammad
Family. Give him another round of applause. Brother. Delve deep. He’s touched a lot of nerves. As he stated a moment ago. And as the Honorable Elijah Muhammad said, the roots of our problem is that we have petty differences. Slander, backbiting, backstabbing. No, if I can say this real quick before I bring on our keynote presenter. Is Brother Nuri missing something when he was here?
00:50:37:03 – 00:50:53:25
Student In The Ministry Joseph Muhammad
He talks about how when the Honorable Louis Farrakhan was getting his hair cut with his barber and he said his barber starts trying to tell him something about something that had happened with somebody who wasn’t there and the minister related to him. He said, brother, stop. He said, and what you’re telling me is they going to edify me?
00:50:53:25 – 00:51:08:17
Student In The Ministry Joseph Muhammad
No. Will it edify you? And the barber said, no. And he said, is it going to edify the person to whom you’re talking about? So he said, if the barber says no, he said, then, brother, why even bring it up? Y’all see? You see the point? Yes, sir. Don’t bring it up. If the if it’s not even worth talking about.
00:51:08:17 – 00:51:33:02
Student In The Ministry Joseph Muhammad
That’s right. All right. Family. With that being said, let’s bring to this rostrum one who imparts that same kind of wisdom because he comes from the head teacher, the commander in chief, the Honorable Minister Louis Farrakhan, our Delaware Valley Student Regional Minister Rodney Muhammad. Bring him on with the plug.
00:51:33:04 – 00:51:35:08
Student In The Ministry Joseph Muhammad
Salaam alaikum.
00:51:35:11 – 00:51:53:04
Student Minister Rodney Muhammad
In the name of Allah, the beneficent, the merciful, the one God to whom praise is due, the Lord of the worlds, we thank our almighty God. We cannot thank him enough. He’s the revealer of all truth, the sender of all prophets of. When we make no distinction, we thank him for all of the prophets, from Abraham to Muhammad.
00:51:53:07 – 00:52:19:27
Student Minister Rodney Muhammad
Peace be upon them. As a student of the Honorable Elijah, Muhammad is life giving message I’m most thankful to alive for his own intervention in our affairs and a divine person of Master Fard Muhammad, to whom praise is due forever. We cannot thank him enough for his exalted servant, the Most Honorable Elijah Muhammad, the eternal leader of our Nation of Islam.
00:52:19:29 – 00:52:41:27
Student Minister Rodney Muhammad
But I never met God. I never met his exalted servant, the Most Honorable Elijah Muhammad. But I met their student. And such a good student then. That he’s made today our leader, teacher and guide.
00:52:41:28 – 00:52:43:11
Student In The Ministry Joseph Muhammad
Yes, he.
00:52:43:14 – 00:52:49:20
Student Minister Rodney Muhammad
Today’s preacher of freedom, justice and equality.
00:52:49:22 – 00:52:51:02
Student In The Ministry Joseph Muhammad
That’s right.
00:52:51:04 – 00:52:56:15
Student Minister Rodney Muhammad
Their Messiah. One that was predicted to come.
00:52:56:20 – 00:52:59:07
Student In The Ministry Joseph Muhammad
Yes. The.
00:52:59:10 – 00:53:26:23
Student Minister Rodney Muhammad
We could say if a man starts in the first grade, he doesn’t stay there. He keeps going from one grade to another. So he started out a member of the Fruit of Islam. Only to become the quintessential fruit.
00:53:26:25 – 00:53:47:01
Student Minister Rodney Muhammad
We thank them for their servant, the Honorable Minister Louis Farrakhan. I greet you all as I pleasure to do with the greeting words of peace in the language and tongue of our fathers. Salaam alaikum. Let’s give Brother Amin another big hand. I love hearing him.
00:53:47:03 – 00:54:27:15
Student Minister Rodney Muhammad
All praises. Due to Allah, we had, a couple of things to, cover and, thought I had that with me, but I forgot to bring it out. But I wanted to review, a couple of things that came from Student Minister Ismail’s address on, the holy Day of Atonement. And the first thing that I remembered making note of was wrath.
00:54:27:18 – 00:55:03:27
Student Minister Rodney Muhammad
Because the subject was, can the presidential candidates, what can they do to help prevent God’s wrath? And, you know, and the Bible says that wrath is a strong feeling of hatred or resentment, usually with a desire for vengeance. Say, see, are you talking about God? Said vengeance is not ours. Said vengeance is. He is.
00:55:04:00 – 00:55:06:13
Student In The Ministry Joseph Muhammad
Right. That’s right.
00:55:06:16 – 00:55:13:06
Student Minister Rodney Muhammad
So there is a such thing as revenge is just. We’re not supposed to take it.
00:55:13:08 – 00:55:14:17
Student In The Ministry Joseph Muhammad
That’s right.
00:55:14:19 – 00:55:26:20
Student Minister Rodney Muhammad
But. But it says vengeance is. Is. Does he hate. I thought he loved everybody.
00:55:26:22 – 00:56:01:06
Student Minister Rodney Muhammad
You can love somebody and hate what they’re doing. And because of what they doing, you may want to try to help them stop doing it, but they won’t stop. They going to keep right on doing what they’re doing. So even if you love it, may cause you to bring about an action against what you hate.
00:56:01:08 – 00:56:12:05
Student Minister Rodney Muhammad
So yeah, God. God love from work. We know mercy.
00:56:12:07 – 00:56:18:25
Student Minister Rodney Muhammad
We say as well as God have mercy. How do you think we hear?
00:56:18:27 – 00:56:29:11
Student Minister Rodney Muhammad
What are we living on right now? Since we are out of order with him? What’s keeping us here is mercy.
00:56:29:12 – 00:56:33:10
Student In The Ministry Joseph Muhammad
Yes. Yeah.
00:56:33:13 – 00:57:07:07
Student Minister Rodney Muhammad
Justice. Justice is not keeping you here. It. Garen tells us if we start crying to God, be just with everybody. Not one of us would be left on the planet. We’ve all, the Bible say, fallen short of his glory. So nobody would pass this test. So it says so you don’t want to try to rush a day to come when his wrath would come down.
00:57:07:10 – 00:57:18:17
Student Minister Rodney Muhammad
So, this war breaks out in the Middle East.
00:57:18:20 – 00:57:48:19
Student Minister Rodney Muhammad
And, you know, for some of us as American citizens, if that’s what we are, we’re not treated like that. I guess that’s why we still have movements with regard to that. But. This war breaks out in what is called the Middle East. I don’t know how you get to the middle of the East. And if it’s the Middle East, where’s the rest of the East?
00:57:48:21 – 00:57:52:07
Student In The Ministry Joseph Muhammad
Yeah, that’s right. But then,
00:57:52:09 – 00:58:03:20
Student Minister Rodney Muhammad
They call it Asia minor. If it’s Asia minor, then there has to be a Asia major.
00:58:03:23 – 00:58:17:15
Student Minister Rodney Muhammad
And, you know, we were taught by the Honorable Elijah Muhammad that the entire planet, the entire 196,940,000mi² is called Asia.
00:58:17:17 – 00:58:21:04
Student In The Ministry Joseph Muhammad
That’s right.
00:58:21:06 – 00:59:02:29
Student Minister Rodney Muhammad
Well, wait, brother Rodney, what about Africa? That’s East Asia, as they now call it. Africa. Come on. Do you have to remember that our oppressors name the continent Africa? Yes, after one of theirs. We didn’t name it. And you found some African nations when they fought starting in the 50s, to achieve. Through their revolutionary efforts, political independence, they took the name away.
00:59:03:01 – 00:59:43:15
Student Minister Rodney Muhammad
That their colonizers had called the land. To restore an ancient expression of the name of that land. When, Robert Mugabe and Joshua and Como and others were fighting against Ian Smith over Rhodesia. When they finally obtained their independence, they took the name Rhodesia off of that African country and went back to Zimbabwe.
00:59:43:17 – 00:59:49:21
Student In The Ministry Joseph Muhammad
Come on, come on.
00:59:49:23 – 01:00:09:10
Student Minister Rodney Muhammad
That right there is just a small sign that they’re hitting things on the earth, and it shows you that intelligence, as Marcus Garvey said, rules the world. And ignorance is the burden bearer.
01:00:09:12 – 01:00:17:10
Student Minister Rodney Muhammad
The greatest devil will ever fight is ignorance.
01:00:17:13 – 01:00:20:25
Student Minister Rodney Muhammad
And.
01:00:20:28 – 01:00:31:02
Student Minister Rodney Muhammad
That’s a slick devil because ignorance has a way of making you feel proud about your ignorance state.
01:00:31:05 – 01:00:32:14
Student In The Ministry Joseph Muhammad
Oh.
01:00:32:17 – 01:01:18:20
Student Minister Rodney Muhammad
Now somebody with knowledge can’t even imparted to you because there’s a wall up right in resistance to what could take them out of the ignorant state. The Honorable Minister Louis Farrakhan remind us that, you know, in physics. Darkness has no basis for its existence. If darkness had a basis for existence, when you walk in a dark room and hit the switch and cut the light on the darkness is not still there fighting against the light right?
01:01:18:23 – 01:01:28:07
Student Minister Rodney Muhammad
The darkness is gone. Well, how could it do that? Because it didn’t have a basis for existence. It was only there in the absence of the light.
01:01:28:09 – 01:01:32:13
Student In The Ministry Joseph Muhammad
Come on.
01:01:32:16 – 01:01:40:29
Student Minister Rodney Muhammad
Ignorance is light. Darkness. It really don’t have no basis for existence.
01:01:41:02 – 01:01:43:00
Student In The Ministry Joseph Muhammad
Right?
01:01:43:03 – 01:02:25:02
Student Minister Rodney Muhammad
Ignorance, like darkness, can’t challenge light when it comes. Because when the light comes on, like darkness is dispelled. When knowledge is present, ignorance is dispelled. Right? We always say, if you know better, which is what the word knowledge comes from, knowing if you know better, you ought to do better, right? So, to remain ignorant.
01:02:25:05 – 01:02:45:25
Student Minister Rodney Muhammad
Makes you and me defiant against God. Because God always starts with knowledge, right? Pardon knowledge to us. And if you want to stay ignorant, then all you need do is reject the knowledge.
01:02:45:27 – 01:03:27:28
Student Minister Rodney Muhammad
Now there’s a price tag right, for staying ignorant. That’s right. Any nation that wants to keep its citizens ignorant, then they’re they’re headed for a very expensive endeavor. If I was a ruler and said there, the best way for me to rule is to keep everybody ignorant. Then I gotta spend my day, right? Right. Giving you food, clothing and shelter because out of ignorance you won’t know how to do it yourself.
01:03:28:00 – 01:04:08:23
Student Minister Rodney Muhammad
Right. That’s great man. I hope you’re thinking with me here. That’s. Just cause somebody keeps us ignorant, dumbed down so they can rule us, they gotta keep maintaining us. Or the dissatisfaction will grow so great there’ll be an explosion of knowledge, right? Right. We’ll be desperate to find something that could get us out of a situation of near starvation, nakedness and out of doors.
01:04:08:25 – 01:04:46:25
Student Minister Rodney Muhammad
So ignorance is a devil. But to go back to this thing in the Middle East, the Honorable Minister Louis Farrakhan subject was what does the great Mahdi and the great Messiah have to say about this war? And this whole area has been an area of focus in the rise of the Nation of Islam from the onset. Why did we take Jerusalem from the devil?
01:04:46:27 – 01:04:53:01
Student Minister Rodney Muhammad
How long ago?
01:04:53:04 – 01:05:21:03
Student Minister Rodney Muhammad
Well, we took it because one of our righteous brothers, right? A prophet by the name of Jesus, it buried there. Now, a lot of people don’t know that. That’s right, that’s right. You started the Crusades, right? You don’t mind me talking about this, right? And look, he’s in a tomb with Muslim security.
01:05:21:05 – 01:05:25:21
Student In The Ministry Joseph Muhammad
Yes, sir. On that. Look, I’m not. That’s right, that’s right.
01:05:25:23 – 01:05:28:07
Student Minister Rodney Muhammad
So the Honorable Elijah Muhammad teaches.
01:05:28:10 – 01:05:29:08
Student In The Ministry Joseph Muhammad
Yes, sir.
01:05:29:10 – 01:05:34:23
Student Minister Rodney Muhammad
Not just washed and buried, but embalmed.
01:05:34:29 – 01:05:38:00
Student In The Ministry Joseph Muhammad
Right?
01:05:38:02 – 01:05:55:09
Student Minister Rodney Muhammad
So that he can last 10,000 years. This science of embalming. Come on. See, it’s coming from the original people, sir, not the grafted man.
01:05:55:11 – 01:06:45:24
Student Minister Rodney Muhammad
The pilgrims wanted to see their lord, and there was a muslim resistance from one of the leaders that caused the European nations to gather for a large religious convening, where I believe it was Pope Urban. The second delivered a sermon. About them coming into unity to go and take Jerusalem. This sermon was said to have been given in something like 1095 A.D. by 1099 A.D., the Europeans had marched on Jerusalem.
01:06:45:26 – 01:07:24:05
Student Minister Rodney Muhammad
They slaughtered Muslims, they slaughtered Jews, and they slaughtered eastern world Christians. Because a lot of people don’t realize when Jesus enemies set up Christianity. It’s split in half now. And so they had an Eastern Roman Empire and a Western Roman Empire and, so the eastern world Christians, these ones from Europe to the western part of Europe, were not in agreement with.
01:07:24:06 – 01:07:54:26
Student Minister Rodney Muhammad
So they slaughtered them along with the Muslims. They killed so many in the First Crusade, they said that a pyramid could be made out of the carnage. They held Jerusalem. And as the lesson say, we took the city from the devils about 750 years ago. So when the Honorable Elijah Muhammad is reciting this lesson, it had been exactly, I think, 11,000.
01:07:54:28 – 01:08:29:18
Student Minister Rodney Muhammad
It was about, 1147. So that’s about 1147 A.D. when the Muslims who maybe they were doing what brother mean, was talking about back biting each other and and gossiping against each other. It fractured the ranks. They couldn’t beat nobody. After the caliphs were gone. That’s what I think. And you’ll find that every defeat of the Muslims was on account of themselves.
01:08:29:18 – 01:08:54:08
Student Minister Rodney Muhammad
They were never overpowered. Not with the revelation of this Koran and the God that revealed it behind them. They weren’t supposed to ever lose a war, but they’re things that when we practice, we get out of principle with this God. There are things that we do to take us out from under the reach of his protection.
01:08:54:10 – 01:08:55:14
Student In The Ministry Joseph Muhammad
Look at it.
01:08:55:16 – 01:09:18:09
Student Minister Rodney Muhammad
And then once we’re out of his protection, we’re at the mercy of those that we’re fighting. So the Muslims, they lost that crusade, and these Europeans came in and they held Jerusalem. Now, we learned that Jerusalem was built by the original man.
01:09:18:12 – 01:09:18:20
Student In The Ministry Joseph Muhammad
Right?
01:09:18:20 – 01:10:01:24
Student Minister Rodney Muhammad
Come on now, that’s hidden from all of them, right? Even from us. We got churches that save money to go visit the Holy Land, not known as our people that built the city right? His name was Jesus and his name was Ariel. And if you look up, his name was Salam, which was peace. If you look at Jesus and Ariel and Salam, you can see how you can extract the name Jerusalem from there.
01:10:01:24 – 01:10:08:13
Student Minister Rodney Muhammad
But it was first built by the original man. That’s right.
01:10:08:16 – 01:10:12:14
Student Minister Rodney Muhammad
A general.
01:10:12:17 – 01:10:54:07
Student Minister Rodney Muhammad
A praying man came amongst the Muslims who had fragmented Salahuddin, and by him being able to unite the Muslims, they went from a few small crews, one over here, one over there, to a fighting force of 250,000. He was able to take Jerusalem back from them and from everything we know of history after those crusades, one after the other, he was able to hold Jerusalem.
01:10:54:09 – 01:11:35:01
Student Minister Rodney Muhammad
So these people that are over there now took the land that was originally to Judea, the Romans, and they’re occupying the land named it Palestine, right. And I believe it was Titus in 70 A.D. that was able to sack the city of Jerusalem, as the Honorable Elijah Muhammad said. But these military encounters, man, if we know something about them, we we we, you know, you can operate better today with the forces.
01:11:35:01 – 01:12:11:27
Student Minister Rodney Muhammad
Now, the people that go into this area, we’ve already shown they went in as refugees. Now they’re in there as conquerors. And the fighting that starts comes from organizations that they had set up to fight one another. Hamas. Wasn’t necessarily set up to fight Israel as much as Hamas was set up by them to fight Arafat and the PLO.
01:12:11:29 – 01:12:12:23
Student Minister Rodney Muhammad
That’s right.
01:12:12:25 – 01:12:14:24
Student In The Ministry Joseph Muhammad
That’s right.
01:12:14:26 – 01:12:48:15
Student Minister Rodney Muhammad
The the grievance of the Palestinian people had one representation, the Palestinian Liberation Organization, headed up by Yasser Arafat. I don’t know how many attempts have been made on his life, but probably just as many as Fidel Castro. Had everything from poison in his eye dropped to food to try to match him up with women that could help set him up and everything to get Arafat.
01:12:48:21 – 01:13:12:27
Student Minister Rodney Muhammad
He barely slept in one place every night, at least 2 to 3 places. Because not only because of Israeli intelligence tracking him down, but weak people on the inside of his own organization, letting them know where they can find him.
01:13:13:00 – 01:13:50:06
Student Minister Rodney Muhammad
But yet. Yes, yes. Arafat, who was an electrical engineer and gave up his profession for this fight as many of the Palestinians of his age, they were all highly technical people. Jesse Jackson suffered food poisoning over there in something like 1979 77, but he had to go to the hospital in Israel. 80% of the highly technological staff in the hospital of the Israelis were Palestinians.
01:13:50:08 – 01:14:17:02
Student Minister Rodney Muhammad
They were the technocrats of the Arab world. And the last thing Israel wanted was the other Arab nation with petrodollars to give the Palestinians money. Why? Because with money and their scientific knowledge, it was said that in less than five years they would become a regional superpower. So they had to stop this. If you understand what I’m saying.
01:14:17:04 – 01:14:52:09
Student Minister Rodney Muhammad
Now they have a leadership that has something planned that we would know nothing about. In fact, the United Nations was not in the knowledge of what they were planning on. And no other nation, even the United States, didn’t know exactly what they were planning. If they had known, they wouldn’t be running now trying to call for a cease fire, they said, we’re not prepared for something to explode into a regional conflict.
01:14:52:12 – 01:14:56:08
Student Minister Rodney Muhammad
The only one who knew was a law.
01:14:56:11 – 01:14:58:15
Student In The Ministry Joseph Muhammad
Sir. Yes, sir.
01:14:58:18 – 01:15:10:00
Student Minister Rodney Muhammad
So he then takes. Because ain’t no secrets with him. So he takes what was supposed to be a secret and reveals it to his servant.
01:15:10:03 – 01:15:12:21
Student In The Ministry Joseph Muhammad
That’s right. Come on, come on.
01:15:12:23 – 01:15:40:26
Student Minister Rodney Muhammad
Him. See, the minister is preaching. Save his day. He’s not, preaching. What does Farrakhan have to say about what’s going on in the Middle East? He’s saying I’m I’m I’m carrying on some information now. Something has been shared with me on that I must share with you, sir. They set this thing up October 7th. Take it. A letter of the law.
01:15:40:29 – 01:15:51:02
Student Minister Rodney Muhammad
That’s a fact. But now, brother Ishmael said they bear witness and it’s in the newspaper that they knew one year ahead of time.
01:15:51:08 – 01:15:51:14
Student In The Ministry Joseph Muhammad
Right.
01:15:51:15 – 01:16:04:03
Student Minister Rodney Muhammad
So that this attack was going to take place. Well, we already said that is tight as their defenses are. They seem pretty lax that day.
01:16:04:05 – 01:16:07:22
Student In The Ministry Joseph Muhammad
Yes, sir.
01:16:07:24 – 01:16:32:02
Student Minister Rodney Muhammad
But this was shared with the Minister. What their motivations were, and now it’s coming out in the newspaper. Then, during the talk. But before I get there, then Brother Ishmael says the minister said he’s under instructions from the Honorable Elijah Muhammad to be quiet.
01:16:32:02 – 01:16:36:12
Student In The Ministry Joseph Muhammad
Yes, sir. I write.
01:16:36:14 – 01:17:05:11
Student Minister Rodney Muhammad
Now, that says when I couple it with a letter that we got earlier this year where he talks about this phase of his work coming to an end, you know, when when it’s almost time for the semester in school to close out, there’s generally a final exam.
01:17:05:14 – 01:17:49:03
Student Minister Rodney Muhammad
So if we say he’s our teacher, then we’re saying, if he’s our teacher, we’re his student. That’s right. Are we saying that? Yes. If he’s my teacher, I’m supposed to be his student, right? And the teacher is saying this. The semester is about to end. Come on. And there’s going to be a test coming. So the student, knowing there’s going to be a test, has to start preparation, right?
01:17:49:03 – 01:17:51:02
Student In The Ministry Joseph Muhammad
Right. That’s a start.
01:17:51:05 – 01:18:03:06
Student Minister Rodney Muhammad
You shouldn’t be surprised. Right? We in a classroom picture you say but everybody’s not in the mosque. And then Muhammad said, the earth is my mask.
01:18:03:08 – 01:18:04:28
Student In The Ministry Joseph Muhammad
In your mouth.
01:18:05:00 – 01:18:46:14
Student Minister Rodney Muhammad
You should have been listening. Yes, sir. We have used modern technology, so there’s no meeting that we have that somebody on earth is not privy to yet. We’re picking up garbage from everywhere around the earth. Why not pick up? What did the great Mufti and the great Messiah have to say about this war? You’re marching in different cities, you’re protesting on college campuses all over.
01:18:46:16 – 01:19:14:19
Student Minister Rodney Muhammad
And you’re only getting your information from people that don’t know no more than you know, I’m good on. But if you listen to that Savior’s Day address, come on and go back to listen to the people who don’t know more than you know, you’ll find that what they’re coming up with is what he already said on February.
01:19:14:21 – 01:19:38:16
Student Minister Rodney Muhammad
We’re in the end of time. And I promise you that everything looks like it’s going to stay the same. And it looks like you can keep doing the same. But Brother Ishmael said he’s on the phone with our leader and teacher, and he’s being told what to tell us.
01:19:38:18 – 01:19:57:21
Student Minister Rodney Muhammad
That this presidential election, you can engage in it, but you should not latch all your hopes on it, no more than it can stop the wrath of God.
01:19:57:24 – 01:20:04:02
Student Minister Rodney Muhammad
While I’m away, too, I hear the leader say something. The last thing he said was he was instructed not to say nothing.
01:20:04:06 – 01:20:07:02
Student In The Ministry Joseph Muhammad
Right? Right.
01:20:07:05 – 01:20:15:28
Student Minister Rodney Muhammad
Now what do we do if he doesn’t say nothing? You should have listened to what he said when he was talking.
01:20:16:00 – 01:20:18:13
Unknown
And nothing to do but go back to the last thing.
01:20:18:13 – 01:20:26:01
Student Minister Rodney Muhammad
That he said.
01:20:26:04 – 01:20:30:10
Student Minister Rodney Muhammad
And he said, I’m told to be quiet.
01:20:30:12 – 01:20:33:07
Student Minister Rodney Muhammad
So I start thinking.
01:20:33:10 – 01:20:34:16
Student In The Ministry Joseph Muhammad
Yes, sir.
01:20:34:19 – 01:20:41:05
Student Minister Rodney Muhammad
Then Jesus got quiet when the trial started.
01:20:41:07 – 01:20:43:08
Student In The Ministry Joseph Muhammad
Yeah.
01:20:43:11 – 01:20:56:19
Student Minister Rodney Muhammad
Who how is this man who taught us can’t defend himself. We obviously can. But he won’t.
01:20:56:21 – 01:21:22:06
Student Minister Rodney Muhammad
But then there’s the first prophet Noah. And Noah is preaching and preaching and preaching for years. He’s holding his little meetings. And in the Koran he said, the more I preach to them, the more they turn away. The more I preach, the worse they get.
01:21:22:09 – 01:21:53:28
Student Minister Rodney Muhammad
God said, well, you know what? You go in the Bible, you just stop talking and you start building this according to my instruction. So Noah stopped preaching. Somebody got to the door to ain’t no meetings. No, we closed up. He wasn’t coming anyway. It’s closed down. No, no, it’s no meeting. Go in the Bible and see there. They say God closed the door.
01:21:54:00 – 01:22:08:00
Student Minister Rodney Muhammad
Well, what about Monday night? Maybe I can get an appointment. Appointments over. When God closed the door. You know, when God closes the door, I can’t even open it right?
01:22:08:03 – 01:22:23:24
Student Minister Rodney Muhammad
Well, what y’all? Y’all turning us away? You ain’t got tired of us. I think God got tired of you. Come on. Because he didn’t say we closed the door. Said he closed it.
01:22:23:26 – 01:22:56:26
Student Minister Rodney Muhammad
And no one stopped talking. And. No, I just stopped working. And he’s building something that everybody who looked to see what he was building in their mind, it was unnecessary. Schools. We got a school. Stores. We got stores. Raisin, raisin. Your own food and everything. We’re raisin food. You can buy it down at Acme.
01:22:59:04 – 01:23:16:07
Student Minister Rodney Muhammad
Why are you doing all this when all this is already present? It looks unnecessary. But, Noah, believe God that something was getting ready to come on. The people.
01:23:16:10 – 01:23:44:07
Student Minister Rodney Muhammad
And so Jesus said when they were pressing him about what the world would look like in the end when the Son of Man comes, Jesus said, go look at Noah. Really? That far back he said, yeah, because as it was in the days of Noah, so will it be in the last day? Wake us up when the Son of Man comes.
01:23:44:09 – 01:23:56:18
Student Minister Rodney Muhammad
But in the days of Noah they was violent and everything. I doubt you can watch the news without seeing a violent act. And I’m talking about every single day.
01:23:56:21 – 01:23:58:13
Student In The Ministry Joseph Muhammad
Yes, sir.
01:23:58:16 – 01:24:06:11
Student Minister Rodney Muhammad
In the days of Noah, they were tearing down. They were building up.
01:24:06:13 – 01:24:22:16
Student Minister Rodney Muhammad
And I said, My God, gentrification. They tearing down what’s left of the old raggedy neighborhoods we were in. And now they build in them a little Paradise in the cities.
01:24:22:18 – 01:24:48:25
Student Minister Rodney Muhammad
They were marrying and giving away in marriage. So you got these international bachelorette programs and bachelor program. They give them $1 million. The ones after they get married, and they give this one away and that one. And I said, you know, we we right in the time, this is the time that the Son of Man is amongst us, as it was in the day.
01:24:48:25 – 01:25:15:26
Student Minister Rodney Muhammad
The violence that was in the earth was on account of the corruption of men, was the corruption of men for gun violence. They’re all pro-lifers, so they want laws to forbid a woman from destroying the fruit of her womb, which she couldn’t have made by herself. Only a man could have done that. But he’s going to tell her, no, you.
01:25:15:26 – 01:25:30:25
Student Minister Rodney Muhammad
You carry this child. And so. And that’s under the guise that he’s a pro-lifer. But once the life get here, they get that life. Hell, what kind of pro-life is that?
01:25:30:28 – 01:26:04:09
Student Minister Rodney Muhammad
And if books which you can’t force a book on somebody, the only way a book is going to be digested mentally is somebody’s gotta pick it up and actually read it yesterday. So that’s a good sign when somebody picks up a book and we’ll start drawing knowledge. But they want to ban books. Yes, sir. What do you want to ban any books?
01:26:04:09 – 01:26:32:04
Student Minister Rodney Muhammad
Just talking about black history. Well, there’s a book out about how you white men went over there and kidnaped us and in some cases deceived us and tied us up and put us in a ship. Well, we don’t want that in there. That’s black history. That’s not black history, that’s white history. Because we didn’t do that. That’s white history.
01:26:32:04 – 01:26:51:25
Student Minister Rodney Muhammad
You did that. So you ought to still have that on the library, right now. How we survived and how God came and we’ve been raised up after 400 dead. That’s our history,
01:26:51:28 – 01:27:01:25
Student Minister Rodney Muhammad
But guess what? If that comes from God and it does, you can’t ban that minister.
01:27:01:27 – 01:27:39:13
Student Minister Rodney Muhammad
Yeah, so, You know, we have people that want to keep doing what they’re doing. So in order for God’s servant to see God working with him, you can get so busy sometimes you can’t even see what God is doing for you. The messenger said, oh, great work is going on on our behalf in America right now, but we’re too busy looking at the problem.
01:27:39:13 – 01:28:01:16
Student Minister Rodney Muhammad
We can’t see the solution. You know, we. They did a experiment with these rats, and they wanted to experiment on what a creature does in frustration. But.
01:28:01:18 – 01:28:45:16
Student Minister Rodney Muhammad
Frustration, dissatisfaction and disappointment all run together. Yeah. And, these rats would come out on a bean and it would be two cards that they would knock down and find food. What they did, they took the food away from the right side. And every time the rat came and knocked the card down on the right and didn’t find food, they came back around the chamber and they come out knocked down the card on the left, and they find food, and so they’re satisfied.
01:28:45:18 – 01:29:09:15
Student Minister Rodney Muhammad
Then they took it from the left side and did the same thing. Ultimately, they took the food away all together. Now the rat is coming. They knocked down the left. No food right, no food left, no food right. No food. Frustration. Getting ready. Set in now. And when they come back, they start going to the left. And they keep knocking the car down.
01:29:09:17 – 01:29:49:00
Student Minister Rodney Muhammad
But there’s no food, no food. They leave the right one alone because they going left and right means you have to make a choice. But see once frustration sets in they’re trying to. So you, you close yourself off from other options. You generally are frustrated person. Don’t listen to nobody. That’s right. Then what they did once they were once they were secure that the rat would always go to the left and knock down the card, even though it didn’t get no food, they put some food there and took the card away on the right so the rat could see the food and they still went left.
01:29:49:03 – 01:29:50:26
Student In The Ministry Joseph Muhammad
They found it.
01:29:50:29 – 01:30:22:21
Student Minister Rodney Muhammad
Big. Why? Because they trained the rat in its frustration how to respond to it. We’re a frustrated people. We’ve been trying for 400 years to get freedom, justice and equality. We’ve been knocking down doors, not finding it here, not finding it there, you know? And now a feast is sitting there for us. A feast of knowledge and wisdom, unequal.
01:30:22:24 – 01:30:39:20
Student Minister Rodney Muhammad
It can get us out of everything. And we still going to the other card where we get none. That’s why you say, well, he likes the devil because the devil gives him nothing. When he gets on the other side, he doesn’t get it. Well, why did we keep doing it? We frustrated.
01:30:39:23 – 01:31:23:06
Student Minister Rodney Muhammad
Mr. yaku was a social engineer. Going to lessons. He had laws, rules, regulations. And with these, these this set up a social environment that helped to produce the kind of creature he was looking for, which takes me into something, as we talk about this, because, it’s it’s doing orientation, and somebody had a good question, and it’s such a good question because I know the Honorable Minister Louis Farrakhan put this question to us years ago.
01:31:23:08 – 01:31:31:12
Student Minister Rodney Muhammad
Why did God even make a devil?
01:31:31:15 – 01:31:35:21
Student Minister Rodney Muhammad
He’s sovereign. Lord.
01:31:35:23 – 01:32:06:12
Student Minister Rodney Muhammad
Everything in the heavens and the earth submits to him. Yes, sir. Oh, Lord, why make a devil? Why make an enemy? The devil didn’t make himself a guy, What the devil’s not a separate creation. So there’s a short answer to that. But I knew a person just coming in. Even that short answer would be too far ahead.
01:32:06:12 – 01:32:35:14
Student Minister Rodney Muhammad
It’s too much information in between. But the short answer is to obtain the full range of the knowledge of self. Come on. So I thought I would talk about it for a few minutes a day before we closed out, because these are questions probably still lingering among people who won’t ask the question. But it is a good question.
01:32:35:16 – 01:33:20:01
Student Minister Rodney Muhammad
Yes, sir. Why would God even make a devil? I was looking at a scripture. In job. Well, before I go to job, I want to go to John here. Nicodemus, who represents this world scholarship. He’s coming to Jesus under him. How can a man be born when he is old? He can. He entered the second time into his mother’s womb and be born.
01:33:20:03 – 01:33:57:10
Student Minister Rodney Muhammad
And Jesus answered, verily, verily, I say unto you, unto thee, except a man be born of water and of spirit, he cannot enter into the kingdom of God. That which is born of the flesh is flesh, and that which is born of the spirit is spirit. Marvel not that I said unto thee, you must be born again. The wind blow with where it listed, and thou hear, is the sound of the wind there of.
01:33:57:13 – 01:34:26:27
Student Minister Rodney Muhammad
But you can’t tell from whence it came. Neither can you tell whence it has gone, or goeth so. Is everyone that is born of the spirit? So there are two types of people here. One born of the flesh.
01:34:27:00 – 01:34:53:29
Student Minister Rodney Muhammad
Really doomed to live by the appetites of the flesh. A finite existence, but a spiritual person, unlike a person of the flesh or the natural man. They both can look at the same thing and come out with an entirely different narrative about what they’re looking at. And that’s why the Scripture says, you got people in the world who say, well, I can’t see it.
01:34:53:29 – 01:35:14:13
Student Minister Rodney Muhammad
Yeah. Because you’re you’re looking what is the natural man? The natural man, the carnal man and woman are the ones that are trying to see into the things of God from the weaker knowledge of this world. The Honorable Elijah Muhammad said, the knowledge of this world will never help you to see into what God revealed to me.
01:35:14:15 – 01:35:15:21
Student In The Ministry Joseph Muhammad
He means.
01:35:15:24 – 01:35:41:02
Student Minister Rodney Muhammad
You know you’re blessed if you have accepted the life giving teachings of the Honorable Elijah Muhammad, because in truth, none of us that accepted had everything explained to us before we accepted something called us to this teach brother. Then we can either be true to the calling or not true to the calling. But we were called to this.
01:35:41:04 – 01:35:57:02
Student Minister Rodney Muhammad
Oh yeah, go ahead. I didn’t come in the door being able to answer every question. Come on. But what I did here and what it did answer was more than enough for me to come in the door and stay.
01:36:02:12 – 01:36:03:07
Unknown
So look what.
01:36:03:07 – 01:36:14:29
Student Minister Rodney Muhammad
Look what he’s saying. The wind is blowing. I heard it was going to pick up to about 20 miles an hour.
01:36:15:01 – 01:36:37:26
Student Minister Rodney Muhammad
But they don’t know where it started. Meteorologists can’t tell you exactly where the wind started. This is what Jesus is saying are, you know, is that when you get to this spot, the wind is there. Go ahead, he said. Neither can you figure out where it goeth so you can keep going. Nobody has any been able to pinpoint that.
01:36:37:26 – 01:36:40:01
Student Minister Rodney Muhammad
The wind stopped right here, this.
01:36:40:06 – 01:36:41:08
Student In The Ministry Joseph Muhammad
Amen.
01:36:41:10 – 01:37:02:12
Student Minister Rodney Muhammad
You can’t find a street where the wind stopped. Where do you go? On the other side. And the wind is not there, and the wind is on the other side. Wherever you are, the wind is still there are you know that it was there when you saw it and you heard it, and it’s still there, and you can’t tell where it started, and you can’t tell where it’s going to end.
01:37:02:14 – 01:37:26:04
Student Minister Rodney Muhammad
That’s the original people, the people of the spirit. We ain’t got no birth record, and you ain’t going to be around to write a death certificate. For the original people of the Earth, it’s true. So Jesus goes on.
01:37:26:06 – 01:37:31:07
Student Minister Rodney Muhammad
I want to know, how can these things be?
01:37:31:09 – 01:38:01:12
Student Minister Rodney Muhammad
Art thou a master of Israel and knowest not these things? Jesus said, verily I say unto thee, we speak that we do know and testify, that we have seen, yet receive not you have received not our witness. If I had told you. If I’ve told you earthly things, and you. But you don’t even believe that, how are you going to believe if I tell you heavenly things?
01:38:01:14 – 01:38:29:28
Student Minister Rodney Muhammad
No man have ascended into heaven, but he that came down from heaven, even the Son of man, which is in heaven. And the Honorable Elijah Muhammad said, there is no hell down in the ground, right? You’re not going to no hell at death, and there’s no heaven up in the sky. Now they’ve been up there with all kind of cameras.
01:38:30:01 – 01:38:57:04
Student Minister Rodney Muhammad
He’s not afraid of bumping into heaven. So he. You know what? He’s built contraptions. And he’s gone to Mars with them and he’s not afraid of. I might bump into heaven. We need to navigate this thing better. He’s not waiting. Heaven and hell are two states of condition right here, I was told, man, when you go to hell, you’re going to be burned.
01:38:57:04 – 01:39:32:22
Student Minister Rodney Muhammad
Are you going to wish to die? After I came in a nation, I look back, I say, I realize you know how many people kill themselves in this life. Which means if I gotta go to hell to feel like that, they are already feeling it now, right? That’s right. Man. Young people, the numbers are spiking right? Of cyber bullies tormenting students.
01:39:32:22 – 01:39:58:17
Student Minister Rodney Muhammad
And that and many of them. Now there’s an increase just in them killing themselves. They don’t have to go to hell to feel bad. They catching hell right now. And the Honorable Elijah Muhammad said, hell is a condition that you can be in right now. Now. And if, if, if, if hell is a condition you can be in heaven is a condition you can be in.
01:39:58:20 – 01:40:18:12
Student Minister Rodney Muhammad
But Jesus didn’t pray. Thy will take us to heaven where your will is. He said, you know, we going to we’re going to practice your will on earth as it is in heaven. We’re going to take earth and and and give it our heavenly existence.
01:40:18:15 – 01:40:23:15
Student In The Ministry Joseph Muhammad
Take.
01:40:23:17 – 01:41:01:19
Student Minister Rodney Muhammad
So the part I wanted to get to where Jesus said, and as Moses lifted up the serpent in the wilderness, even so must the Son of Man be lifted. Moses lifting up the serpent of the wilderness is a hidden history of the. You know, what’s interesting is Jesus didn’t say, and as God freed the children of Israel from Pharaoh, he doesn’t even bring up Pharaoh.
01:41:01:21 – 01:41:32:00
Student Minister Rodney Muhammad
He doesn’t even Jesus don’t even talk about Pharaoh. And the Exodus. When he talks about Moses, he talks about a different history that they don’t teach us in the school or the church or the mosque. And that’s the history that the Honorable Elijah Muhammad gave us, which you can find in the Holy Koran of the Caucasian people who were run from amongst the original people.
01:41:32:03 – 01:42:05:04
Student Minister Rodney Muhammad
You will find that in a book that deals with the genetic makeup of the human family of the earth. All that inhabit the earth came from the black man and woman, all black. Black is not a color. Black is the essence out of which all color comes, but there’s no color that can’t exist. That black can’t cover it up, right?
01:42:05:07 – 01:42:59:21
Student Minister Rodney Muhammad
It is because that color had its beginning in blackness. And so the Bible says, out of one blood came all men. So all men got their start from one blood. We mixed up. Now our footnote, no question about that. But before the mixture, it all came from one blood. Why would God make a devil? Because the material to make the devil was already in us.
01:42:59:23 – 01:43:39:03
Student Minister Rodney Muhammad
And the Honorable Elijah Muhammad said that this. Number six. And as the minister said, it represented imperfection, right? Incompletion. Right. And it would produce with this imperfection. Symmetrically, you don’t even have a round circle. We can draw one, but the creation doesn’t have one. The earth is not perfectly round. You may go purchase a globe and it looks purposely you know, it looked like a beach ball.
01:43:39:06 – 01:44:09:17
Student Minister Rodney Muhammad
Yeah, but actually it’s an oblong shape. So in its motion, it’ll produce tremors in the Earth because it wobbles. Yes, sir. But the earth is inclined 23 degrees, 23.5 degrees and 30 minutes to the plane of its orbit. That means there’s the imposition of law, something that you always going to need when when perfection don’t exist, when everybody’s not going to act right.
01:44:09:17 – 01:44:37:24
Student Minister Rodney Muhammad
You need some laws to check people that don’t act right. Right. That’s why the laws are set up. And the minister always told us law is not set up for the stronger people in the society. Law is set up for the weaker people in society who without a law they can’t get checked because they don’t know how to check themselves as brother men said, or police themselves.
01:44:37:27 – 01:44:41:29
Student Minister Rodney Muhammad
So,
01:44:42:02 – 01:44:52:22
Student Minister Rodney Muhammad
The Honorable Elijah Muhammad said we were determined to do something about what we found in, self.
01:44:52:25 – 01:45:01:15
Student Minister Rodney Muhammad
That wasn’t pretty 66 trillion years ago.
01:45:01:18 – 01:45:20:25
Student Minister Rodney Muhammad
One of our own, Had a desire and was determined that everybody would be the same. Everybody would be. Now, the originator didn’t even create it. Two snowflakes, the same.
01:45:20:27 – 01:45:22:06
Student In The Ministry Joseph Muhammad
On.
01:45:22:08 – 01:45:27:01
Student Minister Rodney Muhammad
Why everybody else got to be the same.
01:45:27:03 – 01:45:29:00
Student In The Ministry Joseph Muhammad
Brother.
01:45:29:03 – 01:46:10:29
Student Minister Rodney Muhammad
As much snow that falls all over the earth, you’ll never find a duplication. This shows the unending, unlimited wisdom of God. You that he don’t have to make everything exactly the same. But this God wanted everybody the same. He wanted the same dialectic. Well, anyway, when he couldn’t get his way, he was determined that I will destroy all of them, even if it means I gotta destroy myself.
01:46:11:01 – 01:46:52:03
Student Minister Rodney Muhammad
This kind of mindset, this kind of mindset, it. It hurts. To hear that the human being carries this kind of trait in them right? To go back to the Middle East. The Honorable Minister Louis Farrakhan, in an earlier subject on this, he reminded us of what he heard from leaders in Israel. Saying that before Israel is destroyed, the whole world will have to be destroyed.
01:46:52:06 – 01:47:18:27
Student Minister Rodney Muhammad
It’s just a determination that lives in their mind. So the Honorable Elijah Muhammad said, when this thing took place, the deportation of moon, you know, it left a sign out there for us because we didn’t have a sign before 66 trillion years ago. So a whole new world of thought had to come in, right where we start symbolizing things to represent another reality, because you didn’t need a symbol.
01:47:18:27 – 01:47:44:16
Student Minister Rodney Muhammad
If God was among the people. That’s right, that’s right. But once he hid his face from man, now the man is left with his own ideas of God. The further he is from the reality of God, he’s coming up with all kinds of things. Come on. Yeah. So, this rebellion didn’t start. No white man was on the planet when this took place.
01:47:44:18 – 01:47:53:20
Student Minister Rodney Muhammad
If there was no white man, then. Then you had the idea of murder even before he existed.
01:47:53:22 – 01:48:20:10
Student Minister Rodney Muhammad
Well, what are we going to do about it? Well, nothing was done then. 50,000 years ago, somebody else said, I know something more. And I see something that you all don’t see. So I want to make the men like this rather than like that. And they said, you can make your man. You just can’t do it here. Right?
01:48:20:12 – 01:48:27:08
Student Minister Rodney Muhammad
Is that what he said to Shabazz, a rebel? You can you can make him. You just can’t make it here.
01:48:27:10 – 01:48:29:09
Student In The Ministry Joseph Muhammad
That’s right.
01:48:29:11 – 01:49:03:15
Student Minister Rodney Muhammad
So he went out and he went down into East Asia, as they now call it. Africa. He didn’t call it Africa. He didn’t name it that. And he made a man that was close to nature. And nature is indestructible. So this man would be indestructible. All this is working toward, the goal of God for man’s perfection. Right now.
01:49:03:15 – 01:49:38:08
Student Minister Rodney Muhammad
It’s a journey that’s got pain attached to it. So. But it’s all. But the question was, well, why did he make a devil? Because in man’s dissatisfaction, in his in his, frustration in that we never made something that had a form to deal with what was inside of us that kept coming out. So what we did, we were determined to give it a form and give it authority.
01:49:38:11 – 01:49:47:21
Student Minister Rodney Muhammad
Come on. So when you read the lesson, Mr. Jaco didn’t come up with the idea. It was already determined.
01:49:47:23 – 01:50:20:09
Student Minister Rodney Muhammad
We want to get to this and find out what this is in us right. So notice what he did. He he’s already born driven to obtain the utmost knowledge in his day. And he’s studying the life germ and in the life germ. The messenger say he saw two people right? And he said, if I could separate these separation, they they they act like we started separation.
01:50:20:12 – 01:50:49:26
Student Minister Rodney Muhammad
But this separation started with the father of this world. He said, if I could separate this one here from the controlling factor there, I can make a man out of this. That could rule over the one. So, in short, the weaker man was given authority over to man a string. And when I say strength, I don’t just mean brawn strength, but I mean in wisdom and knowledge.
01:50:49:29 – 01:51:11:19
Student Minister Rodney Muhammad
So the wise amongst us, they knew we were about to bring a new comer to our planet. So we had to start hiding the wisdom. And the ministers say we couldn’t hide the wisdom that was in the heavens, but we figured it would take them thousands of years to get to that. Right? Come on. But what was on earth?
01:51:11:19 – 01:51:42:23
Student Minister Rodney Muhammad
We started hiding, so we started hide in cities under the sand. Malcolm X used to teach of these cities being discovered and dug up, and sometimes a city was under a city. He said, yes, sir. If you go to the white man’s higher centers of learning, you’ll find whole departments on anthropology. Oh, and it looks intellectual. Let’s go to the anthropological department and see what the findings are.
01:51:42:25 – 01:51:53:04
Student Minister Rodney Muhammad
But you never thought, why is he digging up neighborhoods? If he was here all the time, looked like he would have had lived in him.
01:51:53:07 – 01:52:28:06
Student Minister Rodney Muhammad
You know, he’s a new comer to the planet, right? And he’s searching for wisdom now, symbolically in the Scripture, they’re in a garden, and there are people who know divine guidance, but they also know trick knowledge. So they call the tree of the knowledge of good and evil. Trees don’t have knowledge. That’s a symbolic picture of a people who are, with the knowledge of good and evil.
01:52:28:09 – 01:52:52:14
Student Minister Rodney Muhammad
We better know it because he gets on, tell her even Trump trying to make herself look good in the last days. He’s saluting and they’re showing the flag and how he’s going to he he named us. You know, everybody’s going to prosper. Black and brown and all. You know, look what he’s saying and everything and sound good.
01:52:52:15 – 01:53:06:08
Student Minister Rodney Muhammad
Only. But they got evil plan. When you look at project 2025 that’s just trying to tell you it’s two different languages comes out of these people. Now.
01:53:06:10 – 01:53:17:19
Student Minister Rodney Muhammad
Yeah. Because they got a mission. Now look, just follow me. Look what happened. Symbolically. God runs them. They run them out of the garden.
01:53:17:22 – 01:53:19:12
Student In The Ministry Joseph Muhammad
That’s right.
01:53:19:14 – 01:53:25:06
Student Minister Rodney Muhammad
And at the east gate, he set up strong guards.
01:53:25:09 – 01:53:25:24
Student In The Ministry Joseph Muhammad
That’s right.
01:53:26:00 – 01:53:34:27
Student Minister Rodney Muhammad
We never thought where the guards come from. I thought nobody was here but Adam and Eve. And the first thing they said, God is invisible.
01:53:34:29 – 01:53:36:10
Student In The Ministry Joseph Muhammad
They said.
01:53:36:13 – 01:53:52:07
Student Minister Rodney Muhammad
But when they when they bit into the philosophy of these people, it said they heard the footsteps of God. Okay, you heard something. How do you know it was a footstep? Unless he has a foot.
01:53:52:09 – 01:53:53:21
Student In The Ministry Joseph Muhammad
On.
01:53:53:23 – 01:54:31:17
Student Minister Rodney Muhammad
This, just follow me for a minute. Then it said so. They covered themselves up with the figs from the trees. See, man is starting to cover himself up with things now because he’s naked before the Lord. He’s exposed. So he’s going to make yourself look religious, even though he ain’t godly no more. Yeah, okay. And see that this, this fig leaf is important now, because the Honorable Elijah Muhammad said Satan’s final weapon is going to be religion.
01:54:31:20 – 01:54:57:18
Student Minister Rodney Muhammad
He’s going to weaponize religion and use it as. So we set up strong guards, lest they reach their hand back and touch the tree of life. And if they touch the tree of life, they live forever. That’s what they dig in for. That’s why they’re building contraptions and going up into the heavens. They’re trying to find a way to stay here.
01:54:57:22 – 01:55:22:24
Student Minister Rodney Muhammad
What are they disappointed about? Because in the Koran now Satan is having this, conversation with God. He said, well, the respite me. In other words, just leave me alone. Let me work to the day you get ready to raise them. Notice how he doesn’t say when you try to raise them? I’m going to I’m going to order them not to be raised or I’m going to.
01:55:22:25 – 01:55:24:05
Student Minister Rodney Muhammad
He ain’t got no power.
01:55:24:08 – 01:55:25:16
Student In The Ministry Joseph Muhammad
Right on.
01:55:25:18 – 01:55:45:10
Student Minister Rodney Muhammad
So he’s talking in the affirmative. Respect me to the day they’re ready. I know you going to raise them. I don’t have no power to stop you from raising. The most I could do is ask for a respite. And if you give me a recipe, I trust you. Because, see, Satan don’t believe in God. He knows him, right?
01:55:45:13 – 01:56:03:25
Student Minister Rodney Muhammad
So he know he can count on God. If God give his word, you have the respite it. Once he know God ain’t going to double cross him right now, he going to really act a fool. You know, he didn’t. He didn’t start talking to tough Tony talk till he found out he had a deal. Now, ain’t no God not going to bother.
01:56:03:25 – 01:56:34:25
Student Minister Rodney Muhammad
Surely I’m going to come from before him. Look how he talking now. And from behind him. From there. Left from there. Right. Even on the straight path. Even though I can’t alter our last creation, since man is lost and he’s trying to live under religion, I can alter his religion. I can change the language. The minister say you want to conquer people, change their law, change their language.
01:56:34:27 – 01:56:59:20
Student Minister Rodney Muhammad
And we sure can’t talk our own language right? So we’re so confused on religion. But he’s trying to reach his hand back for the tree of life. So he’s digging for wisdom that could give him something beyond the time limit that he was given, which has him disappointed. He knows this is his time.
01:56:59:23 – 01:57:00:27
Student In The Ministry Joseph Muhammad
Good.
01:57:00:29 – 01:57:33:03
Student Minister Rodney Muhammad
Now look what the minister showed us. Now how you could see this. Black people are entertainers. Some of them refused to play the Jim Crow South and be treated the way black people were treated in America. So they they went to France. Quincy Jones went to France. Bessie Smith went to all they they were all they were able to go over there and flourish in Europe because these countries would accept them.
01:57:33:05 – 01:58:06:08
Student Minister Rodney Muhammad
And unlike it would be here in America. But now the ministers say that the threat is out. What threat? God’s wrath. And what is his wrath. He said, respect me to the day they raid where we’re in the day that they’re being read. This wrath is coming. So now they’re uneasy. So you can’t go to Sweden and Finland and France anymore and get an open society right?
01:58:06:11 – 01:58:31:02
Student Minister Rodney Muhammad
You starting to get treated just like you was treated in Jim Crow South, in America, in these countries, out of fear. The minister said that then, veneer of civility is coming off of them. Well, and they’re coming down on you. So.
01:58:31:04 – 01:59:01:17
Student Minister Rodney Muhammad
The messenger said he was made from a weaker germ. A weaker germ made a weaker man, and a weaker man has a weaker knowledge. And if civilization is having knowledge, then the knowledge is weaker. And with weaker knowledge, you can’t see into what the Honorable Elijah Muhammad is teaching us. That’s why it has to really be studied. The messenger say he was made from the lower character of us.
01:59:01:20 – 01:59:33:02
Student Minister Rodney Muhammad
Look what he did. He told the doctor, marry only the light people. Don’t let a light one marry a darker one. And, As you marry the lighter, on to the lighter. Ultimately, we going to get something else. Then what was original? That’s right. A horse.
01:59:33:05 – 01:59:35:15
Student Minister Rodney Muhammad
And a mule are not the same.
01:59:35:18 – 01:59:37:02
Student In The Ministry Joseph Muhammad
That’s right.
01:59:37:04 – 02:00:03:09
Student Minister Rodney Muhammad
A horse can have a coat. But once you graft a horse with the horse and the donkey and get a mule, you know the mule can reproduce itself. This is the work of man. He knows grafting. He knows how to graft things. He knows how to take. The lemon and the orange and ultimately make a grapefruit. But the grapefruit is not original.
02:00:03:11 – 02:00:12:03
Student Minister Rodney Muhammad
Even animals have been grafted on the planet. The only original cat is the lion.
02:00:12:05 – 02:00:39:29
Student Minister Rodney Muhammad
So the Honorable Elijah Muhammad teaches. See? And if you see our fathers, when they made the great strength to show that a wisdom far beyond theirs was being exercised on this planet, you know, you you have the body of a lion with a man’s face because the lion was created, the messengers say, with absolutely no fear in him.
02:00:40:01 – 02:01:15:03
Student Minister Rodney Muhammad
And the original black man was like that. To fear is the number one thing holding us back. So, Mr. Yak, who is children were ran when they came out of this garden and they were run out, after making trouble amongst us, they were living in the caves in the hillsides of Europe, right. This was the serpent that was in the wilderness that Jesus talked about out of God’s mercy.
02:01:15:03 – 02:01:40:02
Student Minister Rodney Muhammad
Now, because they had a mission, the scientists, they’re trying to get after something. So they send Musa to them, or Moses, and Moses goes to them. To do what? Lift up the serpent that was in the wilderness. He begins to teach them how to cook food and not eat raw. He begins to teach them, you know how to take a bath.
02:01:40:02 – 02:02:03:03
Student Minister Rodney Muhammad
He teaches teaching them about eating fish, the aquatic life and things. He’s teaching them how to use salt, which is not a food, but it interacts with food to bring out flavor in food. So he teaches them how to season their food. He teaches them everything that they need to begin to build a civilization. Are you following now?
02:02:03:06 – 02:02:28:03
Student Minister Rodney Muhammad
And he gives them a strong law as he’s teaching them what God has revealed to him in the Torah. But the messenger said, some of them just listen to Moses long enough so they could get out of the cave. That’s all they were looking for, is some of us like that. We only want to hear enough of the teaching to get through whatever we trying to get through.
02:02:28:05 – 02:02:53:03
Student Minister Rodney Muhammad
Maybe you’re in prison. You don’t want nobody to bother you. So you join the fruit. You know, it’s always something. You got another angle. But it’s not that you trying to be one of Muhammad’s men. So, they start coming out of the cave life, and we never really talked about how they came out. We talked about how they got wrapped up in their.
02:02:53:06 – 02:03:21:10
Student Minister Rodney Muhammad
But the 18 sura shows you, as they talk to do alchemy, then that they want help because there’s a creature now. Because they have they have broke down. Have you seen some people on the streets of Philadelphia that have just broke down? You don’t know where they slept the day before. Have you seen sir Peter just broke down.
02:03:21:10 – 02:03:42:13
Student Minister Rodney Muhammad
I’m talking about they they they they may have been on drugs at one time. You could see they have nowhere to live. No one. So they walk in the streets, they got a cart. They’re trying to hold some possessions and everything. Man with the human being is breaking down.
02:03:42:15 – 02:03:54:24
Student Minister Rodney Muhammad
And living a beast life. They’re not beasts, but we’re living like a beast. Well, these folks that broke down like that.
02:03:54:27 – 02:04:25:01
Student Minister Rodney Muhammad
And now that they have come into power, this is the man Jesus is talking about. See, now that they have come into power, he says, the Son of Man is coming out from a people who been broke down like that. So as Moses lifted up the serpent of the wilderness, how how did they lift him? He lifted him with knowledge, guidance, strong law.
02:04:25:04 – 02:04:32:26
Student Minister Rodney Muhammad
And the Honorable Elijah Muhammad is a product of the unequal wisdom of God and strong law.
02:04:32:29 – 02:04:34:12
Student In The Ministry Joseph Muhammad
Yes, sir.
02:04:34:15 – 02:05:18:03
Student Minister Rodney Muhammad
So the Honorable Elijah Muhammad, we like reading about him, but he was a disciplinarian. And Malcolm X, the people always talk about Malcolm’s my man, but a lot of brothers are living the life that Malcolm spent his life condemning. Sir. And Malcolm was a fierce disciplinarian. Yes, sir. He was fair. Said you follow and, you know, people criticize a nation about Malcolm, but, you know, you most of these men couldn’t have survived in the mass under Malcolm X, the free who were under Minister Malcolm X, brother, you had to be sure use of shot and even let Malcolm come out and teach.
02:05:18:03 – 02:05:45:01
Student Minister Rodney Muhammad
Unless them brothers put people out in front of them. I mean, you you you had to be a sharp person. You you talking about a FOIA class ultimately that that got to 2500 on a Monday night. You spend the night, you at midnight still doing inspection, one man at a time. You you need 100 or 125 lieutenants to do the inspection like that.
02:05:45:01 – 02:05:46:13
Student Minister Rodney Muhammad
You know what I’m saying.
02:05:46:16 – 02:05:48:15
Student In The Ministry Joseph Muhammad
Sir?
02:05:48:17 – 02:06:21:23
Student Minister Rodney Muhammad
A nation was on fire. Do you think we knew everything? No. See, we heard enough. We know enough to take that step that someone asked the Honorable Minister Louis Farrakhan. Did you have to wrangle? How did you make a decision to leave your music and go with with Muhammad? He said the decision was easy, but after I made the decision, what I’m doing is proof that I made the right decision.
02:06:21:25 – 02:06:40:26
Student Minister Rodney Muhammad
See? That’s right. Yeah, because I’m doing what I was born to do, right, but I stepped he’s really saying I stepped into what I was born to do, out of a decision that most people would have made going the other way.
02:06:40:28 – 02:06:45:23
Student In The Ministry Joseph Muhammad
Lord, yeah.
02:06:45:25 – 02:07:13:09
Student Minister Rodney Muhammad
So this is a hidden history family and this hidden history that we are that that that we have is the history of the Caucasian people. And I’m abbreviating a lot of this because this there’s a, there’s so much that that went into this. But they want you to think that we’re teaching about a mad scientist named Mr. Yaku in the Bible.
02:07:13:09 – 02:07:41:26
Student Minister Rodney Muhammad
He’s called Jacob. You find the same work they they went and took the people out. See, the scriptures have been corrupted. They took the people out and they put sheep in to confuse you. But why would a man come to a man that’s already got a flock of sheep that are black? And he tells him he can do a work and start changing the colors of the sheep?
02:07:41:29 – 02:07:52:09
Student Minister Rodney Muhammad
It’s all in the book of Genesis because this is a genetic work he’s doing. Are you following? Genesis comes from the word genes.
02:07:52:12 – 02:08:17:01
Student Minister Rodney Muhammad
And the sheep come out speckled. And then they this color and that. But he was trying to achieve something. You find Jacob wrestled with the angel through the night. And once he wrestled with the angel through the night. Look what happened. They named him Israel and the Honorable Elijah Muhammad said, all white people are under the name Israel.
02:08:17:03 – 02:08:44:27
Student Minister Rodney Muhammad
Have you ever noticed that if a black person does something that they say as anti Semitic, they come out full blast and beat up on him in the public? Whether it’s Jesse Jackson or or Kanye West or this one and that they I mean, they, they go after them. But the white people that are, that are anti-Semitic, they don’t come on, Tucker Carlson was saying every despicable thing about the Jews on Fox News.
02:08:44:27 – 02:09:06:09
Student Minister Rodney Muhammad
They just wrote a nice little letter to Fox News. We’re concerned why? Why Tucker Carlson’s not not in the synagogue. Right? Why not go after him the same way? See, now you go back the Honorable Elijah Muhammad saying all of them are under the name Israel. Come on. I thought we was the real is. No, we’re the children.
02:09:06:12 – 02:09:39:19
Student Minister Rodney Muhammad
Yeah, we’re the children of Israel. And we we started out the lost sheep in the house of Israel. We’re not lost in Israel. We in Israel’s house because the Founding Fathers tried to make this country a country like the nation of Israel, one nation under God. So there’s so much that goes with the question of why did God make devil?
02:09:39:21 – 02:10:05:20
Student Minister Rodney Muhammad
But if you want to perfect something, you need something to come out. To fully expose was imperfect. There’s no way to get to something and make it perfect until all imperfection has been exposed. What this man does. This is why the Honorable Elijah Muhammad says, the devil is a part of our salvation. You say, well, how can that be?
02:10:05:23 – 02:10:33:27
Student Minister Rodney Muhammad
See, last round. Lesson number one is the base of our work. You got 14 questions and answers in there. Ten of them got the devil in it? Yes, sir. Right. It starts off so one through ten. You’re dealing with the devil. So he’s very much a part of the base of what we gotta do first. You can’t even get to a higher level of work without doing the base work, right?
02:10:33:29 – 02:10:57:09
Student Minister Rodney Muhammad
Come on. And if that’s the base of our work, why is. And he settle on the best part of the planet Earth. See? And we settled that. Because if the best part is where the wisdom and knowledge first started, when the planet was found, well, that don’t live in the dirt that lives in the brain. So the best part of the planet Earth is the brain of man.
02:10:57:11 – 02:11:29:18
Student Minister Rodney Muhammad
But it’s the most developed brain that we got on Earth right now is in Lewis Farrakhan. That becomes the best part of the planet Earth. That’s where the wisdom and the knowledge of the human family of the planet Earth is rested. He knows better than anyone. That’s right. That’s to teach us about our origin. Yes, sir. And to teach us about how we got astray from how we originated.
02:11:29:21 – 02:11:50:13
Student Minister Rodney Muhammad
Sir, only a man that has that kind of root knowledge of us can play a role in a universal government of peace, wherein we all can live in peace together. Thank you for listening. I solemnly.
02:11:50:16 – 02:12:08:14
Student Minister Rodney Muhammad
Brother Joseph is going to finish up, and then we have, Did they come, Brother David? Yes. Okay. Good, good. So, Brother Joseph, come on, let’s receive Brother Joseph Muhammad and give him a round of applause. Thank.
02:12:08:16 – 02:12:27:12
Student In The Ministry Joseph Muhammad
All praises due to all, I’ll give him another round of applause. Family. Delaware Valley shooting regional Minister Rodney Muhammad. Very, very powerful message. I thank him for what he gave to us. And on that, I’m going to ask three questions and then we’ll move on. We have any first timers today and went out for the first time.
02:12:27:14 – 02:12:33:21
Student In The Ministry Joseph Muhammad
Praise be to lot praise. Give our brother a round of applause.
02:12:33:24 – 02:12:45:19
Student In The Ministry Joseph Muhammad
Your brother while we got you. Got you there right now. Who invited you out itself by yourself? Praise be to all. Give him a round of applause.
02:12:45:21 – 02:13:01:24
Student In The Ministry Joseph Muhammad
And my next question is, how many of us believe that what we heard today is true and good for our people and all of humanity? Just about show of hands. And my final question is that if you believe that what you heard today is true and good for all of us and fallen humanity, would you be willing to take the next steps?
02:13:01:27 – 02:13:21:06
Student In The Ministry Joseph Muhammad
And I can’t say come and join if we’d be willing to accept your own and be yourself. That way you would be able to learn more of yourself. And if that is the case, if there’s anyone downstairs who may fit that or my brother right here, I would like to share on behalf of our Delaware Student Regional Minister Rodney Muhammad and the Honorable Louis Farrakhan, shake your hand and welcome.
02:13:21:06 – 02:13:32:01
Student In The Ministry Joseph Muhammad
You would you be welcome to do that today? Come on. Come on up, brother. Praise be to Allah.
02:13:32:03 – 02:13:33:04
Student In The Ministry Joseph Muhammad
Yes, sir. What’s the name.
02:13:33:07 – 02:13:35:10
Student Minister Rodney Muhammad
Of our king? I came, brother.
02:13:35:10 – 02:14:01:13
Student In The Ministry Joseph Muhammad
I came, but I came. Give our brother a round of applause. When we got back. King. Good to see Brother David, who had talked to you. Take your information and get you straight away. Dear beloved, thank you again for being here. Yes, sir. All right, soldier. Brother King, all praises due to Allah. So, dear family, with that being said and done, while our brother King is being taken care of over to the side, we have the next order of business.
02:14:01:13 – 02:14:03:27
Student In The Ministry Joseph Muhammad
And that is our charity portion of our meeting.
02:14:03:27 – 02:14:13:14
Student In The Ministry Joseph Muhammad
pass the receptacles at this time. If you have ten, five, four, three, two, one or if you just have a good spirit, you really wanted to give a monetary donation, but you just didn’t have it.
02:14:13:17 – 02:14:28:21
Student In The Ministry Joseph Muhammad
I implore us to continue to get here. The life giving teachings of the Honorable Elijah Muhammad, and in his own good time, he will allow us to be able to give whatever it is that we would like to give. But I would be remiss in my duty if I didn’t thank you for the first act of charity that you gave today, and that was of your time.
02:14:28:26 – 02:14:52:22
Student In The Ministry Joseph Muhammad
Thank you for being here to share your time to hear this wonderful and beautiful teaching given to us by the honorable, Elijah Muhammad through the Honorable Minister Louis Farrakhan. So at this time, dear family, as the receptacles are leaving the floor. Just a couple of announcements. The first one we have, support the XQ education is the key to the learning center.
02:14:52:24 – 02:15:14:20
Student In The Ministry Joseph Muhammad
Muhammad’s University of Islam affiliate offering a virtual learning experience for the 2024 2025 school year. Please see Sister Kimberly, who was right there in the back if you need to take care of that business today. If you don’t know who she is, she will just walk through the crowd. You’ll find her in the back. By the grace of Allah, before you fully.
02:15:14:22 – 02:15:40:03
Student In The Ministry Joseph Muhammad
Okay. Is this the whole festival? Thank you. Next. Order of business. Is that national believers meeting this coming Wednesday, November the 6th. If you are unable to attend in person, here’s a caveat. Please make sure to petition to watch from home by 8 p.m. on Wednesday. This is to ensure your request will be seen and time for approval.
02:15:40:06 – 02:15:59:09
Student In The Ministry Joseph Muhammad
So I wouldn’t pause if you can’t make it out on Wednesday. See, the secretarial staff down on the first floor at the table and make the arrangements. Now. But it says you can do it. Long as you do it before 8 p.m. on Wednesday. That’ll be time enough to get it approved. And also, we have Hoagie Sunday.
02:15:59:09 – 02:16:28:17
Student In The Ministry Joseph Muhammad
That’s today. There are hoagies available downstairs. As you leave the building there, drinks and desserts that are also available for sale. And last but not least, we have two new exits. So we have all praise is due to Allah. We have Brother Brant X and brother Chester Abdullah. Brothers, come on down. And as you come down, brother David.
02:16:28:20 – 02:16:31:18
Unknown
You got two brothers.
02:16:31:20 – 02:16:49:08
Student Minister Rodney Muhammad
Let’s give him a round of applause. All praise is due to Allah. Brother Brant X and Brother Chester X. Let’s keep them under. You know, a watchful eye. Encourage them. Keep the negativity away from them. As our student regional captain Mobley says. But, man, just keep showing them love.
02:16:49:15 – 02:16:51:26
Student In The Ministry Joseph Muhammad
And let’s get, busy, helping to.
02:16:51:26 – 02:16:56:05
Student Minister Rodney Muhammad
Work to help the Honorable Minister Louis Farrakhan. Give him a round of applause.
02:16:56:07 – 02:17:16:04
Student In The Ministry Joseph Muhammad
Oh, praise to Allah. As we say, I gave it to Brother David because he is our coordinator over the, orientation class. And for those who have gotten to next that, that’s the brother who’s done doing the work. He’s getting it. And we, applaud him for that. And the devil is mad. And I’m so glad that he lost that soul.
02:17:16:07 – 02:17:39:17
Student In The Ministry Joseph Muhammad
He thought he had a long live Muhammad. Long live Muhammad! Long live Muhammad! Long live Muhammad! All praise is due to Allah. Thank you, brothers and our brothers just gave in charity. Let’s you know they hitting the ground running. They already working. Giving of themselves and of their time. So dear family, at this time. And they’re all minds.
02:17:39:17 – 02:17:48:01
Student In The Ministry Joseph Muhammad
And our hearts are at ease. And we’ll close with prayer. So please stand for prayer for.
02:17:48:03 – 02:18:06:01
Student In The Ministry Joseph Muhammad
The manner in which you were most comfortable. Follow along silently. In the name of Allah, the beneficent, the Most Merciful, the one God to whom all praise is due, the Lord of the world, the beneficent, the Most Merciful, master of the Day of Judgment in which we now live, the alone that we serve and the alone do we beseech for aid.
02:18:06:04 – 02:18:25:15
Student In The Ministry Joseph Muhammad
Oh Allah, guide us on the straight path, the path of those upon whom thou has bestowed favors, not the path of those upon whom thy wrath is brought down, and nor of those who go astray. After hearing that teaching say he lies. One Elijah, he upon whom we all depend, he neither begat, nor is he begotten, and there is none like him.
02:18:25:17 – 02:18:43:06
Student In The Ministry Joseph Muhammad
I bear a witness that none deserves to be served to worship. Besides the law who appear to us in the person of Master Father Muhammad, we are truly grateful to him, that after three years and four months he gave to us his wise choice in the messenger, Messiah, the exalted, the risen and living Christ, and the Most Honorable Elijah Muhammad.
02:18:43:08 – 02:19:02:18
Student In The Ministry Joseph Muhammad
And we thank the two of them. If we lived a thousand years, we couldn’t thank them enough for the messianic figure that walks. And I missed a day in the Honorable Minister Louis Farrakhan and their name, we pray. I mean, meeting is dismissed. Their family go in peace and remember, we are never to be the aggressor. But if we aggress upon, we fight with those who fight with us.
02:19:02:23 – 02:19:07:27
Student In The Ministry Joseph Muhammad
Salaam alaikum.
