The Teachings @Mosque #12 (12/15/2024)
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Student In The Ministry Joseph Muhammad
Family. At this time, could you please stand for prayer?
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Student In The Ministry Joseph Muhammad
In the manner in which you are most comfortable, follow along silently.
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Student In The Ministry Joseph Muhammad
Surely I am being turned to thee. Oh, along. 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 Lord of the world. No associate has he in this am I commanded, and I am of those who submit.
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Student In The Ministry Joseph Muhammad
Oh Allah, thou art the King. There is no God but thee. Thou art my Lord, and I am not a servant. And I have been greatly unjust to myself, and I confess my false. So grant me protection against all my faults, for none grants protection against false for the, and guide me into the best of morals. But none can guide into the best of morals.
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Student In The Ministry Joseph Muhammad
But the. And turn away from me the evil and the indecent morals. For none can turn from me the evil and the indecent morals. But the. And oh Allah make Muhammad successful and make the true followers of Muhammad successful. The doubted make Abraham and the true followers of Abraham successful. For surely I praise and magnify and O Allah, bless Muhammad and bless the true followers of Muhammad as thou did.
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Student In The Ministry Joseph Muhammad
Bless Abraham and the true followers of Abraham. For surely thou art praised and magnified. I be. You may be seated in the name of Allah, the beneficent, the Most Merciful. We give praise and thanks to Allah for his grace, mercy, love, and protection of us. We thank him for coming and seeking and saving one that would be worthy to stand in his place.
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Student In The Ministry Joseph Muhammad
After three years and four months, we thank Master Fard Muhammad for coming on the scene and showing the love that he showed for us. And after he left in those, after those three years and four months, he left the man in his stead. And the man that he left, he did not earn. He did not make a mistake.
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Student In The Ministry Joseph Muhammad
A Georgia born giant, born Elijah Poole. But because of the wonderful and magnificent work that he was and is doing among us, he became known as the Most Honorable Elijah Muhammad. We thank him for his wise choice. However, dear family, if we lived a thousand years, we could never thank them enough for the man that is on the scene today who, after over 40 years of teaching us, he chose a man himself because he had to move on.
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Student In The Ministry Joseph Muhammad
He had another mission to accomplish and the man that he chose in his stead, the Most Honorable Elijah Muhammad. He, like Master Fard Muhammad, did not make a mistake. He chose a man who is a wonderful leader, teacher, guide, friend, confidant. He is our illustrious leader, our champion. The Honorable Minister Louis Farrakhan did just like their names. All praise is due to Allah.
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Student In The Ministry Joseph Muhammad
I greet you all once again with the greeting words of peace I Salaam alaikum and welcome, dear family to Muhammad’s holy Mosque. Muhammad’s mosque number 12. We are the Delaware Valley region’s, flagship mosque. We thank you for being here. And thank you for being here on time where you could have spent your time anywhere but you chose to come in here.
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Student In The Ministry Joseph Muhammad
The life giving teachings of the honorable, Most Honorable Elijah Muhammad. And in so doing that no matter how you felt when you walk through those doors, if you felt a little down when you leave, you will feel up. If you felt good. When you leave, you will feel supreme. And I want to say that that keep that in the back of your mind because the subject matter is self.
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Student In The Ministry Joseph Muhammad
That’s coming from our Delaware Valley student, Regional Minister Rodney Muhammad, is going to be that which will lift and elevate and motivate our thinking and our spirit to another level. Right, y’all? All right. Praise be to Allah. Let me thank the Honorable Minister Louis Farrakhan for really just rebuilding the nation singlehanded. There was nobody there to help him in the beginning.
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Student In The Ministry Joseph Muhammad
He got up and he went to work and he has not stopped working. Here is a man that is worthy of every great gift that this world could offer, and that all I could present to him, and then some just right. There’s nothing that he shouldn’t have because of what he’s done for you and I. And even if you don’t know if you are in first time here in this teaching and you don’t know what he has done, I implore you to keep coming out and you will see that not only are the membership in the Nation of Islam benefiting, but you’ve been benefiting all along.
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Student In The Ministry Joseph Muhammad
You just didn’t know it because of the Honorable Minister Louis Farrakhan, a man who is of impeccable integrity. He is a man that is worthy to be helped by us. All right, family. So I’m going to come back to that. But let me not be remiss in my duty and thanking you for submitting to the check procedure for the check procedure is very necessary today because there are those who don’t want to see us progress.
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Student In The Ministry Joseph Muhammad
We’ve been here for 400 years. Everybody else need to come to America and do a wonderful job. But when except for us, why? Is it because the enemy knows that as long as they can keep us down and stand on our neck, he will always be up. But any time we rise up and try to do something for self, they always want to bring us down.
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Student In The Ministry Joseph Muhammad
That’s why they don’t like or love the Honorable Minister Louis Farrakhan, because he is the example for us, whether we are female or male. He is that example that says, you know what I’m going to do for myself by his example, y’all are yesterday. Let’s move on real quick. Family. So thank you for submitting to the check procedure.
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Student In The Ministry Joseph Muhammad
And while I’m on that talking about checking, have you checked out the Final Call newspaper? This is the baddest newspaper on the planet. Pardon the colloquialism, but you know, I gotta say that I gotta put it in that way because, you know, in some places, bad is good, and good is about as bad as you can possibly get, right?
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Student In The Ministry Joseph Muhammad
Well, just. And that says bad. This is a good thing. And if you want to know the current events, the more the events that are happening and got going to happen down the road, read the final Call newspaper. And if you look at it, this is a it’s like a musical instrument, right? Because in it the thing is a volume.
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Student In The Ministry Joseph Muhammad
But yet there’s a trumpet here, there’s two trump is here. Actually there’s the brass trumpet, the instrument itself. But then there’s the Honorable Minister Louis Farrakhan, trumpeting the sound of truth to the black man and woman in the hills of North America and all over the planet Earth. And, matter of fact, I can go on to say that it’s not just for us.
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Student In The Ministry Joseph Muhammad
It’s for all the fallen humanity. Everybody who want to live through this war of Armageddon that we’ve just entered, it would behoove them to listen to the Honorable Minister Louis Farrakhan, right? Yeah. All right. Fine. Let’s move on. I want to talk about a subject matter today. Just very quickly. Just a minute. And my brother is going to come behind me and he going to lay it out for us, and then Brother Ryan is going to come in and he’s going to put the creme de la creme on the rest of it and just smooth it all out.
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Student In The Ministry Joseph Muhammad
Y’all ready for that? If you don’t have a pencil and pad, I would implore us to take that out right now. Unless you got, a very retentive memory. I’m not. I ain’t mad. As if you do that part. Praise be to Allah, cuz, you know, people losing a memory today. But if you got one, use it.
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Student In The Ministry Joseph Muhammad
Today I’m going to talk about something called prayer. Y’all know what prayer is, right? Yes, sir. It’s a tool, you know. Well, let me just go this way with it. Prayer is defined according to the book or the, you know, one of the dictionaries, definitions of it. It’s a solemn request for help or expression of faith addressed to Lord God.
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Student In The Ministry Joseph Muhammad
Think of that, a solemn request. Then it goes on and says A religious service, especially a regular one, at which people gather in order to.
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Student Minister Rodney Muhammad
Pray.
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Student In The Ministry Joseph Muhammad
Together. We do that every Friday around 1:00. Race called Juma prayer. It is the communal prayer. You know, the family that prays together stays together. A couple of members, background singers, they want to jump in. All right, there we go. Do it one more time. The family that prays together, they, There we go. We we in tune.
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Student In The Ministry Joseph Muhammad
We back on the at home. We back. Yeah, we we stay together. And all of these impediments that.
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Student Minister Rodney Muhammad
Keep us apart from each other through prayer.
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Student In The Ministry Joseph Muhammad
You know, you become a little more, you know, acceptable of. You become that way of each other when we rubbish other the wrong way. Right. Prayer, you say, you know what we just made prayer together. You know, I was going to cut him out. I was going to cause they’re out. But you don’t do it because the remembrance of our lives is the greatest force.
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Student In The Ministry Joseph Muhammad
And it checks that horizontal nature in us. It brings us right back to the upright. So the thing that we were about to do that was going to call the bigger problem because of the prayer we check it and it says also that man is cooperating with God or cooperating with him, allowing our Lord God to express himself and His desire through us and thus accomplish his purpose.
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Student In The Ministry Joseph Muhammad
But what is his purpose? He wants us to be what he is. He wants us to be. God know not just mere men and women, but God. And a God is one who does what he wills with force and with power. Right. Who think that okay, we talk about that for another time, but that ain’t what I’m supposed to do today.
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Student In The Ministry Joseph Muhammad
I’m supposed to just break this up. But let me reason. Can I can I find this in Scripture? Of course I can. Let’s go to John 15 and seven. If ye abide in me, and my words abide in you, ye shall ask what you will, and it shall be done unto you.
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Student In The Ministry Joseph Muhammad
I think that. Okay. Well let’s go to Matthew. Matthew has something to say about that. Two he said but now when our prayers enter into thy closet, and when thou hast shut that door, pray to thy father which is in secret, and thy father which is in secret, shall reward thee open. That prayer is a powerful thing. And the Honorable Louis Farrakhan said that the universe is like a giant mammary.
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Speaker 2
Gland.
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Student In The Ministry Joseph Muhammad
Like a baby when it pulled the baby. Don’t know what milk is when it first come into the world. We were there. We were there one time, right? We know we we don’t even know we was pulling. But we had faith that there was something here. And if we pray and have the faith, the universe arranges situations and circumstances in our path that as we keep praying and working, the thing that we want comes right into our life.
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Student In The Ministry Joseph Muhammad
Isn’t that a beautiful thing? Wonderful formula. So let’s let’s go on. Let’s go to Luke. Brother Luke, he said this, and I say unto you, ask, and it shall be given to you, seek and ye shall find. Knock and it shall be opened unto you. Now you can go back and look at these scriptures yourself. But right now I’m just putting seed to let you know the importance of prayer.
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Student In The Ministry Joseph Muhammad
Well, let’s go to the book, the Holy Koran. In our book Around the Cow, Sura two, I at 43 and keep a prayer and pay the poori and bow down with those who bow down. Do you enjoin men to be good and neglect your own soul while you read the book? Have you no sense of the Koran as blood and you ain’t got no sense?
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Student In The Ministry Joseph Muhammad
Come on, are you reading this stuff and you ain’t acting on it? Come on now. All right. And seek assistance.
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Speaker 2
Through patience.
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Student In The Ministry Joseph Muhammad
And prayer. And this is hard except for the humble one. Look at that prayer. As hard as you. Humble. Yeah, I guess I guess that’s why all I keep was in trouble, right? You keep us humble. Because every time we get in prayer trouble. The minister says that’s the only time I can get a sincere prayer from when trouble is in our life.
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Student In The Ministry Joseph Muhammad
Well, okay. But surely after the difficulty comes and after he. There’s difficulty. And I said, who knows that they will meet their Lord, and that to him they will return. These are just some scriptural references that we can, go to their family. But listen to this when we say our prayers. Of course we pray for ourselves. We pray for the things that we want.
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Speaker 2
But how many of us.
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Student In The Ministry Joseph Muhammad
In our supplication. You know, at the end of the prayer there’s something called a supplication. This is a prayer that you make that away from the original prayer that has to do with things that are or people that we want to pray for things and or people or additions that we trying to pray for, to ask Almighty God a lot to help us with.
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Student In The Ministry Joseph Muhammad
But who do we ever ask them to pray for? The messenger among Hannibal, Louis Farrakhan, his family, Mother Khadijah? Yet they’re worthy of that. Why? Because they have sacrificed their entire lives for you and me. Mr.. Is. It says these are just some some words. This is a way. Why do we do it? It’s a way to show respect, honor and gratitude for his love, mercy, humility and the sacrifice for us.
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Student In The Ministry Joseph Muhammad
So we ask the Lord to bestow blessings upon him and exalt him to that most exalted and risen place that thou hast promised him. For surely thy never break his promise. Think that over. So the Honorable Louis Farrakhan is worthy of. After we ask our Lord to guide us to the things that we want, we should. We should really.
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Student In The Ministry Joseph Muhammad
We should throw him out there first. Put him on the list first. Put Mother Khadijah on there first. We don’t know the pain that they. That they’ve had to go through. He make it look easy. You know, he he said my yoke is easy. Why? Because he he’s he’s attached to the yoke holder. That’s almighty God, our Lord and the honorable Elijah Muhammad.
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Student In The Ministry Joseph Muhammad
So it looks easy, but he wears it well. Have you did you know that in the 1960s, when the Cold War was allegedly ended and he pulled all the agents away from Russia and those different places, they put together a 100 man task force to follow the Honorable Louis Farrakhan around, just to see if they could find some wrong money.
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Student In The Ministry Joseph Muhammad
Now, wait a minute. A hundred men, all these people were agents. They were professional. They following the Honorable Louis Farrakhan. They check in everything he does. He can’t. He can’t even go to the bathroom without them knowing that he’s in there. Now imagine that. Now you know, some of us, you know, it would take all of us up a few minutes as soon as they got on the post and we got him, he’s all, it’s done.
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Student In The Ministry Joseph Muhammad
You you can bring him on in now if you want, but not the minister. It’s been almost 70 years. It has been 70 years that they’ve been following him and they can’t find anything on him.
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Speaker 2
Right?
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Student In The Ministry Joseph Muhammad
As a matter of fact, one. Right. White, guest writer in the final call years ago, the man said, I studied Minister Farrakhan, and I can find no guile in him. But what is guile? Who is one who is insidious, cunning, deceptive, deceptive, or duplicitous? I mean, they say one thing, then do something. No, no, no, no, not the honorable Louis Farrakhan.
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Student In The Ministry Joseph Muhammad
He walks that straight, and now you can’t find him deviating ever so much for. So I was reading the Twitter, not the Twitter. It was called The Teachings 2.0. And a man said to the Honorable Louis Farrakhan, he said, Farrakhan, man, I’m listening you for 30 years. He’s still saying that same old stuff and images that came back.
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Student In The Ministry Joseph Muhammad
He said, well, brother, I guess you were just bearing witness that I am following the instructions that were given to me by my teacher. He told me, brother, don’t you change the teachings while I’m gone? But we’ve been watching you for 30 years and I’m still on the radio Luther King than I am obedient, I am humble, I am some submissive, I’m tolerant.
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Student In The Ministry Joseph Muhammad
But damn it. Excuse me. I’m still a boy who don’t want to make no mistake with that. Oh, he will tell you in the street if he had to. But dear family, those are the words I want to share with us today. All I can say is continue to hear the Honorable Minister Louis Farrakhan, because he will get us to the other side of the lake or the river on his shoulders.
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Student In The Ministry Joseph Muhammad
And he won’t say, look what I have done. He will say, look what God has done. Thank you for the time you’ve allow me this morning, dear family, let me bring on another student in the ministry. Brother. He’s, Well, you’ll see. I don’t even want. Oh, oh, we want to pump you up. You go see for yourself.
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Student In The Ministry Joseph Muhammad
Let’s bring him to the rostrum right now. He’s very spirited. I call him a southern minister, a Baptist minister, but he’s our brother, Lao Muhammad. Let’s bring him all.
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Unknown
Over the block. Brother.
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Student In The Ministry Lyle Muhammad
All praises. Due to all our. Let’s keep that. A round of applause going for.
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Unknown
The Minister of.
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Student In The Ministry Lyle Muhammad
Joseph. All praise is due to Allah. In the name of Allah, the beneficent, the merciful, I bear witness. There is no God but a lion. I bear witness that Muhammad, this is messenger. I’d like to greet you all. My beloved brothers and sisters in the nations, greeting words of peace in Paradise of us. Salaam alaikum. Happy to, to greet you all.
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Student In The Ministry Lyle Muhammad
My dear, beloved brothers and sisters, with the greeting words of peace. You know, that that’s an indication that a lot allowed me to wake up this morning. And I’m thankful. So I’m happy to be able to give you the greetings in the Arabic language of Assalamualaikum, because that’s a blessing. Yes, sir. All praise due to us.
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Student In The Ministry Lyle Muhammad
A blessing for you to be able return those greetings. Is that right? Yes I did, they aren’t guaranteed. Is that.
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Speaker 2
Right? That’s right.
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Student In The Ministry Lyle Muhammad
The morning is not guaranteed. So I thank all. My, my dear brothers and sisters once again, it’s my great honor to share with you the life giving and transformative teachings of the Most Honorable Elijah Muhammad, as taught and demonstrated, by the Honorable Minister Louis Farrakhan, the Divine Reminder and the Messiah in our midst, I think Student Minister Rodney Muhammad, for this privilege to have this opportunity to share with you some of the words, wisdom and guidance that we have received as a result of being students and followers of the Most Honorable Elijah Muhammad.
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Student In The Ministry Lyle Muhammad
Now, the subject that I want to dovetail off of my brother is, coming from a message to the black man, page 157 A prayer for the messenger will be a prayer for the messenger. Now, in this article, the Honorable Elijah Muhammad makes it clear who this prayer is referring to. Is that right now I’m going to start by laws, grace and permission.
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Student In The Ministry Lyle Muhammad
I’d like to start with, sir, in the Holy Quran. In the Holy Quran it reads and Sura two 128 through 129 our Lord, and make us both submissive to thee, and raise from our offspring a nation submissive to thee, and show us our way of devotion, and turn to us mercifully, surely thou art the oft returning to mercy, the merciful, our Lord, and raise up in them a messenger from among them, who shall recite to them the message, and teach them the book and the wisdom, and purify them.
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Student In The Ministry Lyle Muhammad
Surely thou art the mighty, the wise. Now this is the A known as the Abraham. Abraham’s prayers. They’re right y’all. I’ve heard this before. Now the Honorable Minister Louis Farrakhan says this regarding this verse in the Holy Quran, the Honorable Minister Louis Farrakhan says this. He says those three attributes, mighty and wise and merciful. It was merciful for God to raise up a nation submissive, and it was abundant mercy to give them a messenger from among themselves, to teach them the book and the wisdom, and purify them, because they would be in such a terrible condition that it would take a mighty God and a wise God to bring them from where the slave master
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Student In The Ministry Lyle Muhammad
had placed to where God wanted them to be. But the key word is show us our way of devotion. So when you ask for somebody to show you something in this verse, we are asking God to make a demonstration of the way he wants us to devote our lives to him, not just teach us, but show us well.
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Student In The Ministry Lyle Muhammad
We have a specific way of devotion that was given to us, not by a prophet as such, but by Allah Himself, who visited us and made a perfect demonstration of the way of devotion and the means by which we would be purified.
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Student In The Ministry Joseph Muhammad
Yes, we.
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Student In The Ministry Lyle Muhammad
Also the means by which he would bless us to become what he had already will for us, and that is to place us on top of civilization as the head of his government, up to now, all praise is due to Allah for the Honorable Minister Louis Farrakhan and the Honorable Elijah Muhammad. These are words of the Honorable Minister Louis Farrakhan and that beautiful.
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Student In The Ministry Lyle Muhammad
Now, there has never been a man taught by God in America except the Honorable Elijah Muhammad. I’m to let you marinate on that for a minute. There has never been a man taught by God in America except the Honorable Elijah Muhammad.
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Student In The Ministry Joseph Muhammad
Yes.
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Student In The Ministry Lyle Muhammad
The direct Word of God from his mouth goes beyond contempt for every thought, scriptural criticism and interpretation. Right? It is the firm truth that the Honorable Elijah Muhammad was indeed taught by Almighty God, Allah, who appeared in the person of Master Faraj Muhammad. All praise is due to a lot. He taught the honorable Elijah Muhammad the works that have been compiled in many and all of these books that we have from the Honorable Elijah Muhammad.
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Student In The Ministry Lyle Muhammad
Is that right? So let’s not get it twisted when the information in the book came from. Is that.
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Speaker 2
Right? That’s right.
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Student In The Ministry Lyle Muhammad
So now what I would like to do in that context is speak about just for a few moments, that chapter and message to the black man, page 157 entitled A prayer for the messenger. Y’all are right. The Honorable Elijah Muhammad writes a message to the black man, chapter 74. I’ll say that again. Chapter 74 A prayer for the messenger.
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Student In The Ministry Lyle Muhammad
The following prayer is for the Messenger of Allah, O Allah, make Muhammad successful and the true followers of Muhammad successful as thou did, make Abraham successful and the true followers of Abraham successful. For surely they are praised and magnified in our midst. Allah bless Muhammad and the true followers of Muhammad as thou did. Bless Abraham and the true followers of Abraham.
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Student In The Ministry Lyle Muhammad
Surely that are praised and magnified in our midst. In the above prayer, the believers of the lost and found members of a great nation pray for the messenger whom Allah God, has raised among them a guide to the lost and found path of Allah. For 400 years they have been wandering in darkness, blinded by the torch of Satan.
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Student In The Ministry Lyle Muhammad
The devil. But now the light of Allah has shone upon them, and they have turned themselves now to him. And they have submitted to a lot to do his will. Being blessed as the Jews and the Arabs were to have a messenger born in their midst to teach and guide his people into the spirit knowledge of his teacher.
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Student In The Ministry Lyle Muhammad
Is that right? Almighty God of law, in person, the believers are not satisfied with prayers and asking refuge in a law without asking a word of prayer for the success and blessings of Allah upon the messenger and His followers, whom Allah has so abundantly bestowed upon them. The answer to Abraham’s prayer that he raised a messenger from among them, that he may teach the wisdom of the Bible to so many of them who do not understand the very book Bible, and which they think they believe, but without the true knowledge or understanding of scriptures of Moses and Jesus.
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Student In The Ministry Lyle Muhammad
Therefore a correction must come to them in the way of true understanding of the scriptures, and which their history is constantly referred to in the mentioning of the Jews and Christians through the prophets that were sent to them. Come on.
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Speaker 2
Come on.
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Student In The Ministry Lyle Muhammad
Now. The Honorable Elijah Muhammad continues and says, the Orthodox Muslims think this refers to Arabia and the Muhammad made the peace and blessings of Allah be upon him of nearly 1400 years ago was the one fulfilling the answer of Abraham’s prayer. But if they look at it again and ponder over it, it is like their belief and thinking that Muhammad of 1400 years ago was a prophet like Moses, that Moses prophesied in Deuteronomy.
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Student In The Ministry Lyle Muhammad
Deuteronomy 1818 but they forgot that Moses was a man who was raised in a house of bondage under a king, who held him and his people in bondage to him and to his false worship. God and religion. And he desired no one to interfere with his teaching given to his slaves. His fear, according to the Holy Quran, was that Moses would change the religion.
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Student In The Ministry Lyle Muhammad
Does that sound for me? All praise is due to Allah for the Honorable Elijah Muhammad. Now look, brothers and sisters, as I begin to bring this to a close, the central theme of this article in message to the Black Man by the Honorable Elijah Muhammad. Again, is the message that you are hearing is coming from his teacher God in person.
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Student In The Ministry Lyle Muhammad
Is that right, Master Farid Muhammad, he is the messenger of Almighty God, Allah. So in the context of what you hear, you would as brother, student, student, Minister Joseph just mentioned about the fact that the Honorable Elijah Muhammad was a Georgia born black black man who only went to the fourth grade. Is that right?
00:27:09:06 – 00:27:36:20
Student In The Ministry Lyle Muhammad
In what? You just heard me read. Does that sound like a Georgia born black man with the fourth grade education? Unless you say he met with somebody, sir. Is that right? Oh, praise the Duke to Allah be so. So. Look, brothers and sisters, the central theme of this article revolves around the prayer for the messenger, for Allah, and the significance that the message role is in fulfilling prophecy for people historically lost and oppressed.
00:27:36:23 – 00:28:17:11
Student In The Ministry Lyle Muhammad
Now the prayer emphasizes blessings for Muhammad and his followers, which parallels the blessings upon Abraham and his followers as a divine continuum. Is that right, God? It says in the Bible, God never changes. Is that right? So this continuum is he’s blessing those followers of his messenger. Is that right? Now, the historical context of this is the fact that when you look at the background of the lost people from this messenger who will be raised as the Honorable Elijah Muhammad teaches us, you’re looking at a people.
00:28:17:11 – 00:28:29:04
Student In The Ministry Lyle Muhammad
For 400 years, this group of believers wandered in spiritual and physical bondage. Is that right? Blinded by falsehood and oppression. Does any of this sound for me?
00:28:29:07 – 00:28:29:15
Student In The Ministry Joseph Muhammad
Yes.
00:28:29:22 – 00:28:52:05
Student In The Ministry Lyle Muhammad
The arrival of this messenger signifies the liberation through the guidance and wisdom of who Almighty God of love, is that right in the person of massive Harold Muhammad? The Honorable Elijah Muhammad is the fulfillment of Abraham’s prayer. That’s what I’m trying to say. Oh, praise to Allah. I’m just going to make it plain as I close. I’m just going to make it plain.
00:28:52:05 – 00:29:09:09
Student In The Ministry Lyle Muhammad
He is the he is the answer to Abraham’s prayer. The messenger is seen as the answer to Abraham’s prayer for someone who would teach and correct misunderstanding. Where we. Yeah, we have misunderstandings of the scriptures that we have misunderstanding of the Bible.
00:29:09:12 – 00:29:09:27
Speaker 2
Yeah.
00:29:10:00 – 00:29:18:20
Student In The Ministry Lyle Muhammad
This is referring to the Honorable Elijah Muhammad. The messenger brings clarity to the misunderstood text of Moses, and Jesus is that right?
00:29:18:22 – 00:29:19:21
Speaker 2
Yes, sir.
00:29:19:23 – 00:29:41:25
Student In The Ministry Lyle Muhammad
You know, as the Honorable Elijah Muhammad made that reference about the messenger and him being likened unto Moses, the Honorable Elijah Muhammad argues. Now the question you have to ask yourself is, what right does, a Georgia born black man with a fourth grade education have the right to argue with the scholars on whom this is talking about?
00:29:41:28 – 00:29:42:22
Speaker 2
Learn?
00:29:42:25 – 00:29:50:20
Student In The Ministry Lyle Muhammad
What right does he have? The better question you should ask is why can’t they contend with what he says as.
00:29:50:20 – 00:29:51:27
Speaker 2
Being the truth?
00:29:51:29 – 00:29:52:27
Student In The Ministry Lyle Muhammad
Is that right? Yes.
00:29:52:28 – 00:29:53:17
Speaker 2
Oh.
00:29:53:20 – 00:30:18:06
Student In The Ministry Lyle Muhammad
That it was. It can’t be Moses, right? Because the description don’t fit. Is that right? It can’t be Moses. I mean, it can’t be Muhammad because the description don’t fit. It says one that would be like unto Moses. Well, Muhammad was not in bondage to anyone. He did not contend with the King as the Honorable Elijah Muhammad says, but that is some people who have been in spiritual darkness.
00:30:18:09 – 00:30:42:24
Student In The Ministry Lyle Muhammad
There is some people who have been in spiritual blindness. Is that right? There are some people in the hells of North America who did not have a messenger raised by God that needed to be liberated with the truth from God, and that is us, and that is the Honorable Elijah Muhammad. All praise is due to Allah. All praise is due to Allah.
00:30:42:25 – 00:31:14:15
Student In The Ministry Lyle Muhammad
So as I, close and take my seat now, as Brother Joseph said in this prayer, a prayer for the messenger, he deserves our prayer. That’s right. His success is our success. That right, we should be praying for the Honorable Minister Louis Farrakhan. We should be praying for the Honorable Elijah Muhammad. Is that right? When we say this prayer, we should think differently about this prayer because we know who the prayers talking about Abraham was not praying for Muhammad.
00:31:14:21 – 00:31:33:12
Student In The Ministry Lyle Muhammad
He was praying for the Honorable Elijah Muhammad. That’s who he was praying for. You can take in a letter long, brothers and sisters, you can take it or let it alone. Come on. All I would say is this in which you heard the Honorable Elijah Muhammad say a message to the black man in and for that matter, in all the books.
00:31:33:15 – 00:31:55:19
Student In The Ministry Lyle Muhammad
As Brother Joseph said, we need to thank the Honorable Minister Louis Farrakhan for resurrecting the nation and bringing all these books back. Is that right? If it wouldn’t have been for the most honorable, for the Honorable Minister Louis Farrakhan, I wouldn’t know nothing about the Honorable Elijah Muhammad. I wouldn’t know nothing about message to the Black Man, fall of America, how to eat, to live,
00:31:55:21 – 00:32:18:02
Student In The Ministry Lyle Muhammad
I wouldn’t know nothing about none of those books. They want to write him out of history. But you can’t write God’s truth out of his. And you cannot write God’s messenger out of history. Thank you for listening as I leave you, as I came before you with the greeting words of peace and Paradise, I like.
00:32:18:04 – 00:32:44:28
Student In The Ministry Joseph Muhammad
Yes, all praise is due to Allah. Keep that applause going for our brother soon in the ministry. Brother. Li’l Muhammad. So y’all didn’t believe me, did you? I don’t know, y’all don’t believe me? He took all I look. The only thing missing was the choir. We thank our brother for what he brought. And all praise is due to allow for his following the, instruction as we give it to us.
00:32:45:02 – 00:32:51:25
Student In The Ministry Joseph Muhammad
And I want to make just one correction. Brother Lao. Not student minister Joseph. Just student in the ministry. Brother Joseph.
00:32:51:27 – 00:32:52:21
Speaker 2
Okay.
00:32:52:23 – 00:33:20:15
Student In The Ministry Joseph Muhammad
So, we’re all students, and that’s what keeps us humble. So, just real quick, real quick. And we’re going to bring on our keynote presenter today. You know, I remember listening to Minister Jabril once, and he said to us that if we anybody who goes through life without having Almighty God or law or in their life is like a man, a blind man walking into a dark house looking for a black cat that ain’t even there.
00:33:20:18 – 00:33:32:21
Student In The Ministry Joseph Muhammad
I’m gonna leave it right there. And with that on our mind, let’s bring to this roster, Delaware Valley student, regional minister, student Minister Rodney Muhammad with a rousing round of applause. So I’m gonna.
00:33:32:24 – 00:33:34:13
Speaker 2
Take you.
00:33:34:16 – 00:34:03:08
Student Minister Rodney Muhammad
You got me with that? Salaam alaikum. In the name of Allah, the beneficent, the most merciful, the one God to whom praise is to the Lord of the worlds. We thank Almighty God, the revealer of all truths, the sender of all prophets of whom we make no distinction. We thank him for all of the prophets, from Noah to Muhammad, and we are most thankful to Almighty God.
00:34:03:11 – 00:34:37:26
Student Minister Rodney Muhammad
For in these days he has intervened in our affairs in the divine person of master Father Muhammad, to whom praise is due forever. His intervention, is the raising of one. He came with something and whatever he came with, even as the lessons asked about Jacob’s children. What did the devil bring with him? And what kind of life did he live with?
00:34:37:26 – 00:34:57:06
Student Minister Rodney Muhammad
What did this man bring? Who came from the East unto the West? And what kind of life did he live? And where did he place what he came with? And where did he leave? What he came.
00:34:57:06 – 00:35:00:18
Speaker 2
With?
00:35:00:21 – 00:35:13:14
Student Minister Rodney Muhammad
On his coming. He didn’t pass it on to someone that came with him because he told us he came by himself.
00:35:13:17 – 00:35:29:02
Student Minister Rodney Muhammad
And if a man. Says with certainty to you and I, I came to North America by myself. It keeps us from having to leave North America, going east, looking for anybody.
00:35:29:04 – 00:35:34:27
Speaker 2
In the world.
00:35:35:00 – 00:35:54:04
Student Minister Rodney Muhammad
So every thing that we see going on, we shouldn’t be looking for anybody, anywhere else other than the one who came by himself.
00:35:54:06 – 00:36:18:25
Student Minister Rodney Muhammad
And I is he’s making it clear that if we’re looking for who gave him his independence. You can’t find anybody. So the Honorable Elijah Muhammad said he’s self independent, right?
00:36:18:27 – 00:36:29:16
Student Minister Rodney Muhammad
Most people going around saying I’m free. The question is, who freed you? And you said, didn’t nobody free me?
00:36:29:18 – 00:36:59:09
Student Minister Rodney Muhammad
I’m self independent. And so when he came and made himself known to us, he made himself known to us in a declaration not of his independence, he declared our independence. Let’s look at that now. And ever since he declared our independence.
00:36:59:11 – 00:37:06:23
Student Minister Rodney Muhammad
We acting like we looking for somebody to free us.
00:37:06:25 – 00:37:12:05
Student Minister Rodney Muhammad
But he found one who would get that message right.
00:37:12:08 – 00:37:18:12
Student Minister Rodney Muhammad
And we’re thankful for his servant now. His exalted servant, the most honorable Elijah Muhammad.
00:37:18:15 – 00:37:21:13
Speaker 2
Just.
00:37:21:16 – 00:37:26:04
Student Minister Rodney Muhammad
An exalted Christ.
00:37:26:07 – 00:37:37:18
Student Minister Rodney Muhammad
I don’t know if you’ve ever googled all the people in history who said they were to Christ, right? Right.
00:37:37:20 – 00:37:42:27
Student Minister Rodney Muhammad
Because Jesus said, many will come in my name.
00:37:42:29 – 00:37:43:17
Speaker 2
That’s right.
00:37:43:20 – 00:38:19:00
Student Minister Rodney Muhammad
And we’ll deceive many. So I was looking these people up and not only did they believe they were the Messiah, the Christ, but they deceive many. They had whole armies with them. And I said to myself as I was reading one after the other, they had no claims. They showed no works. They weren’t even a match.
00:38:19:02 – 00:38:19:23
Speaker 2
Right?
00:38:19:26 – 00:38:21:28
Student Minister Rodney Muhammad
For what was in revelation.
00:38:22:00 – 00:38:23:12
Speaker 2
No.
00:38:23:14 – 00:38:34:27
Student Minister Rodney Muhammad
And it seemed like they just made the claims and didn’t care whether they were a match for anything or not.
00:38:35:00 – 00:38:36:19
Student In The Ministry Joseph Muhammad
False or.
00:38:36:22 – 00:38:39:26
Student Minister Rodney Muhammad
So. They just didn’t even care what we thought.
00:38:39:28 – 00:38:41:28
Speaker 2
Yes. Right.
00:38:42:00 – 00:39:21:27
Student Minister Rodney Muhammad
So he found one worthy. And we say he fits that bill. We can find documentation. That’s a in the divine sense of the word that gives evidence and supports our claim that the Honorable Elijah Muhammad is his exalted servant. And to the two of them, I’m eternally grateful for this student, this servant, apostle and helper. He’s a divine water divine reminder.
00:39:21:29 – 00:39:57:17
Student Minister Rodney Muhammad
But we see that just like we went to school in kindergarten, don’t nobody expect you to stay there. Don’t. If somebody leaves for years and comes back, they don’t expect to find you in the same grade you were in. They figure as you’re learning, you’re evolving, right? So we’ve seen an evolution in a man who was Minister Warner and Teacher.
00:39:57:20 – 00:40:15:03
Student Minister Rodney Muhammad
But now he used to teach about one that had power. And the scripture says he would be like that. He would point toward the father, but toward the closing chapters of his mission, he would start talking about himself.
00:40:15:05 – 00:40:16:03
Speaker 2
Yes, sir.
00:40:16:06 – 00:40:45:21
Student Minister Rodney Muhammad
In fact, he represented the father. So someone said to him, well, when will we see the father? It’s a good question. You talking about him? When will we see the father? And he said, have I not been with you all this time? And you asked, when will you see the father? When you see me? He said, you see the father.
00:40:45:23 – 00:41:10:27
Student Minister Rodney Muhammad
So there’s been an evolution here. Everything. Don’t stay where it started. So we see the Honorable Minister Louis Farrakhan in a far greater light. Than when he first started on this journey. Yes, sir. So I’m thankful to them. And I greet you with the greeting words of peace. Salaam alaikum.
00:41:10:29 – 00:41:11:09
Speaker 2
To the.
00:41:11:09 – 00:41:34:02
Student Minister Rodney Muhammad
Author. Thank you, Brother Lyle, who is sharing with us. There are four places in the monumental book message to the Black Man in America, where the Honorable Elijah Muhammad defends his own messenger.
00:41:34:04 – 00:41:36:04
Speaker 2
Yes.
00:41:36:07 – 00:42:06:07
Student Minister Rodney Muhammad
And one of them is on page 157. Believe the others. 148 one is on 248 and one on 286. But he defends his own messenger ship right. And when a messenger of God, if you believe that, defends his own messenger ship, then he shows you how to defend him. You don’t. You don’t have to try to figure it out.
00:42:06:10 – 00:42:33:06
Student Minister Rodney Muhammad
And one time I remember calling the Honorable Minister Louis Farrakhan. This is back when our meetings were two and afternoons. You could get him in the morning, before. And I asked him a question and he gave me an answer. And then he said, before we hung up, it’s wonderful not to have to think. So right stirred on my mind.
00:42:33:09 – 00:43:04:16
Student Minister Rodney Muhammad
Look like he’s thinking all the time when I’m talking to him. But he was saying to me, I don’t have to try to figure this out. Not only has the plan already been laid out, he said, but my life has already been planned. All I need to do is be obedient. Yes, and follow the guidance that’s set out for me in accord with the plan.
00:43:05:27 – 00:43:40:04
Student Minister Rodney Muhammad
I just don’t have to think. I just gotta obey and take the next step. And before you know, it, I heard him say that as he’s been obeyed and he has been following the guidance and he has been. He said, I didn’t know it, but before I knew it, I was at the cross. In other words, if we’d been thinking, I can tell you what we’d be thinking if we thought how to how to avoid it.
00:43:40:06 – 00:44:08:17
Student Minister Rodney Muhammad
How to get around it in so God don’t show you everything. And I never forgot when we got in this fight. How he said he went in a door and what he saw made him want to turn around and go back out the door that he came in. But when he went for the door, the door was gone and it was a wall.
00:44:08:17 – 00:44:20:03
Student Minister Rodney Muhammad
There. And then the words of the Honorable Elijah Muhammad came clear to his mind. Ain’t nothing like a good fight.
00:44:20:06 – 00:44:27:06
Student In The Ministry Joseph Muhammad
Wow. Oh!
00:44:27:08 – 00:44:33:27
Student Minister Rodney Muhammad
So the Honorable Elijah Muhammad said, so. The message that I give you is not for cowards.
00:44:35:02 – 00:44:49:00
Student Minister Rodney Muhammad
That Jesus is the courage of a muslim in regard to this message. Makes you and I look insane to a coward.
00:44:49:02 – 00:44:52:04
Student In The Ministry Joseph Muhammad
Yeah. I think.
00:44:52:07 – 00:44:52:28
Speaker 2
You’re.
00:44:53:00 – 00:44:55:22
Student Minister Rodney Muhammad
All going gonna fight you.
00:44:55:24 – 00:44:56:18
Student In The Ministry Joseph Muhammad
Man.
00:44:56:18 – 00:45:00:26
Student Minister Rodney Muhammad
You better. They crazy.
00:45:00:29 – 00:45:03:26
Speaker 2
I.
00:45:03:28 – 00:45:11:12
Student Minister Rodney Muhammad
Yeah. Courage looks like insanity. Only to a coward.
00:45:11:14 – 00:45:12:13
Speaker 2
Well.
00:45:12:15 – 00:45:50:21
Student Minister Rodney Muhammad
I’m thankful to Almighty God for the kind of leadership that we have first. And the Honorable Minister Louis Farrakhan and our Executive Council. You know, when nations. Don’t want to see other nations successful. And I think all of you, along with myself, we received a letter from the Honorable Minister Louis Farrakhan earlier this year. They do not want the Nation of Islam to be successful.
00:45:50:23 – 00:46:11:21
Student Minister Rodney Muhammad
They do not want Black America to be successful. And if you kept the words from that letter that we all received in front of you through this whole presidential campaign. You could see.
00:46:11:23 – 00:46:26:23
Student Minister Rodney Muhammad
That they are working actively against our success. And if it looks successful to them, they going to try to get in front of it. Surely I will come in front of them, right?
00:46:26:25 – 00:46:28:02
Student In The Ministry Joseph Muhammad
Do you.
00:46:28:04 – 00:46:28:19
Student Minister Rodney Muhammad
Hear them?
00:46:28:19 – 00:46:32:24
Speaker 2
All right.
00:46:32:27 – 00:46:51:15
Student Minister Rodney Muhammad
And if they start doing as Brother Lao was doing up here, unraveling the scriptures, I’m coming on the straight path, and I won’t stop till they come back to our religion.
00:46:51:18 – 00:46:58:25
Student Minister Rodney Muhammad
And what religion is that a mystery? God.
00:46:58:27 – 00:47:00:13
Speaker 2
You know, more than.
00:47:00:16 – 00:47:10:20
Student Minister Rodney Muhammad
And by the time you and I get wrapped up again in mystery God teaching, we look like a mystery.
00:47:10:23 – 00:47:26:06
Student Minister Rodney Muhammad
It’s mysterious how I can leave one country and go to the land of my dreams. The United States of America, where I can make the most out of myself. Yet I see some black people that have been here the whole time.
00:47:26:08 – 00:47:27:06
Speaker 2
Come on, come on.
00:47:27:08 – 00:47:38:06
Student Minister Rodney Muhammad
And ain’t made nothing of themselves as a people, right? But that’s a mystery.
00:47:40:21 – 00:48:21:11
Student Minister Rodney Muhammad
We have been talking on revelation. And, every time I think I’m going to some other subject, I keep finding material that we just can’t let get away from us because we’re not a community that’s living from religious exegesis. We’re living from revelation. And if they asked us, well, what Book of Scripture was revealed to you all, we said, no.
00:48:21:11 – 00:48:43:12
Student Minister Rodney Muhammad
A messenger was raised from amongst us right? He didn’t receive any scripture. What he received was a perfect explanation of all Scripture. The.
00:48:43:14 – 00:48:52:27
Student Minister Rodney Muhammad
We’re not here to judge you by a book that was revealed to us. We’re here to judge you by your own book.
00:48:52:29 – 00:48:54:07
Speaker 2
Look at that.
00:48:54:09 – 00:49:13:13
Student Minister Rodney Muhammad
Last week we read that, put it on. They weren’t even true. The Koran said if you had observed the Torah and observed the gospel, you got the Torah and the gospel, and you would have not observed it.
00:49:13:16 – 00:49:14:10
Student In The Ministry Joseph Muhammad
Jesus.
00:49:14:13 – 00:49:28:29
Student Minister Rodney Muhammad
You don’t sound like Moses. You don’t sound like Jesus. You don’t act like Moses. You don’t act like Jesus. You got the book. We don’t have it.
00:49:29:02 – 00:49:50:18
Student Minister Rodney Muhammad
We’re more in harmony with the Torah, and we’re more in harmony with the gospel. As the Honorable Elijah Muhammad said, A real Muslim is a Christian, and a real Christian is a muslim. When you properly understand.
00:49:50:20 – 00:50:14:17
Student Minister Rodney Muhammad
It right. We’re taking labels off of people. Why? Because you’re perpetrating a fraud. We’re taking labels off of people because the human soul is yearning for what’s real. Now.
00:50:14:20 – 00:50:37:21
Student Minister Rodney Muhammad
Religion has become empty and all it has is rituals and every real ritual in religion. The Honorable Minister Louis Farrakhan teaches us. Stored up inside of the ritual is a hidden truth. We are here to represent that truth, right?
00:50:37:23 – 00:50:39:14
Speaker 2
That’s right.
00:50:39:16 – 00:50:52:16
Student Minister Rodney Muhammad
Come on, they said. Well, when was it revealed to you? It wasn’t revealed to me, but one from amongst us, right. And I’m part of the echo chamber.
00:50:52:19 – 00:50:53:09
Speaker 2
Mean.
00:50:53:12 – 00:51:05:10
Student Minister Rodney Muhammad
Come on. You ever seen an echo where you said something and just keep saying it over and over and over and over and over again? He has come by himself.
00:51:05:13 – 00:51:11:17
Speaker 2
I hate it, I hate.
00:51:11:19 – 00:51:28:00
Student Minister Rodney Muhammad
In the Koran. Look what it says. Now, we’ve talked about everything. All revelation except, the section called the Recipient of revelation. And the recipient comes from the word receipt.
00:51:28:03 – 00:51:29:26
Speaker 2
Yes.
00:51:29:28 – 00:51:39:14
Student Minister Rodney Muhammad
Young folks say today I got receipts on receipts. Supposed to mean if you purchase something. Where’s the evidence? You showed a receipt?
00:51:40:24 – 00:52:09:05
Student Minister Rodney Muhammad
The recipient of revelation. Who is the messenger? See, is one thing to learn about what was revealed. But now to learn about the one who’s revealing it. The Honorable Elijah Muhammad said, you must not only learn of the message, but in the theology of time, you must learn of the messenger.
00:52:09:07 – 00:52:11:09
Speaker 2
Right, right, right.
00:52:11:11 – 00:52:19:12
Student Minister Rodney Muhammad
We had, here, a man who.
00:52:19:14 – 00:53:01:02
Student Minister Rodney Muhammad
Was called the dean of the ministers of the Honorable Elijah Muhammad. Yes. Sorry. Minister Lucius Beer and the Honorable Elijah Muhammad had made him a field minister to go out. But he was a preacher of the seventh day Adventist Church. So they do study in that church. Scripture and the seventh day Adventist, they’re talking about the advent of the seventh day, a day in which we are in now, because the Honorable Elijah Muhammad said the 6000 year period is up.
00:53:01:05 – 00:53:10:16
Student Minister Rodney Muhammad
And this man that came from the East unto the West, he said, he comes early on the seventh day.
00:53:10:18 – 00:53:39:05
Student Minister Rodney Muhammad
And so the advent of it, we’re in it right. And because this man taught it so well in the seventh day Adventist Church, when he heard what the Honorable Elijah Muhammad was teaching, he didn’t hear the messenger. He heard. And therefore, while on the street talking about y’all, Coop’s history. And so he said, you know, where did you get that from that you’re talking.
00:53:39:07 – 00:54:06:06
Student Minister Rodney Muhammad
And he said, we got it from messenger Elijah Muhammad. This is around 1939 going into 40. And he said, Messenger Elijah Muhammad, where is this man? I would like to meet him and ask him some questions, because if he can answer my questions, I will leave the church. Now, leaving the church is not required. We’ve never told anyone.
00:54:06:08 – 00:54:17:07
Student Minister Rodney Muhammad
You gotta lead a church. You gotta lead the masjid. You gotta lead the. You just need the truth to come in. You don’t need to be in no house where you not allow in truth to get in.
00:54:17:14 – 00:54:18:06
Student In The Ministry Joseph Muhammad
Come on, come on.
00:54:18:06 – 00:54:51:24
Student Minister Rodney Muhammad
Real see, religion has double crossed us. But truth will never double cross itself. And where the. Where the truth unites religious orders because of our own pettiness, we don’t let that kind of unity take place. So, He said it was about a year, a little over a year before he actually met the Honorable Elijah Muhammad. And he said, I told him, if I met you, I had some questions for you.
00:54:51:24 – 00:55:06:05
Student Minister Rodney Muhammad
He said, I have three questions for you if you can answer them for me. In other words, I’m good. He said, they said, you said you were a messenger. He said, I am.
00:55:06:07 – 00:55:10:02
Student Minister Rodney Muhammad
I didn’t take long.
00:55:10:05 – 00:55:15:25
Student Minister Rodney Muhammad
It said. They said. You said you met with God. He said I did.
00:55:15:27 – 00:55:17:08
Speaker 2
And.
00:55:17:10 – 00:55:32:01
Student Minister Rodney Muhammad
That was it. So the last question he said, he asked, how do you know that the man you meant was God? And he said he wasn’t ready for the answer. He said he looked at him and said, because he has made.
00:55:32:01 – 00:55:33:09
Speaker 2
Me.
00:55:33:12 – 00:55:35:19
Student Minister Rodney Muhammad
All into himself.
00:55:35:22 – 00:55:36:16
Student In The Ministry Joseph Muhammad
Okay.
00:55:36:19 – 00:55:41:05
Student Minister Rodney Muhammad
Think of this now.
00:55:41:08 – 00:56:01:26
Student Minister Rodney Muhammad
Before I met this man, I needed to turn on channel six to see what the weather was going to be. But after I met him, the weather man got a call me up. That’s really what he’s saying. We make rain, hail, snow and earthquake.
00:56:01:29 – 00:56:05:27
Speaker 2
And that’s how.
00:56:05:29 – 00:56:34:29
Student Minister Rodney Muhammad
He’s made me into him. So he said so he came in the nation and they were teaching from the book the Department of Supreme Wisdom. But as he went in it, he could see Bible verses that went right with what was in there. So he was teaching. So he got a cuz, he said of changing the teaching. So the Honorable Elijah Muhammad had him teach him one night and he didn’t know.
00:56:35:01 – 00:56:57:06
Student Minister Rodney Muhammad
He said that the messenger had come. He slipped in and sat behind and was sitting there while he was teaching. And he said, I wish more of my ministers would teach like this book. Why? Because my people don’t understand the lessons and thing, but they understand the Bible in terms of hearing it.
00:56:57:09 – 00:56:58:13
Speaker 2
Come on.
00:56:58:15 – 00:57:24:04
Student Minister Rodney Muhammad
So he said he ended up living 2 to 3 years with the Honorable Elijah Muhammad. And he said every time he would find an interesting book he would purchase two of them, one for him and one for the messenger. And I think he was on the third book or something. That Honorable Elijah Muhammad looked at him. Brother, why are you buying me books?
00:57:24:06 – 00:58:00:00
Student Minister Rodney Muhammad
He said, I am the book. You should study me right? Why? Because when this messenger comes, the Scripture says he comes in the volume of the book you find in study and not only the revelation, but the recipient of revelation. You’ll find that in his life he touches aspects of the life of all the prophets, where the scriptures came from.
00:58:00:02 – 00:58:35:03
Student Minister Rodney Muhammad
So this seventh day, the days of our Lord, is not a day where law is revealing. Most Scripture. The seventh day he’s revealing himself to his servant. No people could be the beneficiaries of something greater than what you and I have received. The one thing we know about revelation because the Muslim world will cry, Will. Prophet Muhammad is the seal of the prophets.
00:58:35:03 – 00:59:35:07
Student Minister Rodney Muhammad
The end, the end of prophethood is not the end of revelation. God, don’t shut off revelation just because prophethood has ended up no revelation goes on. And we’re proving that look what the Koran says here. And the recipient of revelation and the law has made some of you excel, others in means of subsistence. So those who are made to excel give not away their sustenance to those whom their right hands possess, so that they may be equal there in will they then deny the favor of Allah?
00:59:35:10 – 00:59:39:02
Student Minister Rodney Muhammad
In other words.
00:59:39:05 – 00:59:54:18
Student Minister Rodney Muhammad
If some are made to excel, others, the only one that does that is the God that created us right? And Lord knows best where to place the message doesn’t.
00:59:54:18 – 00:59:56:26
Speaker 2
Mean.
00:59:56:28 – 01:00:40:28
Student Minister Rodney Muhammad
You might not have a good suggestion where it ought to go, and somebody else might have a better one. But a Lord knows best. When Master Fard Muhammad came and had the ministry class. They would always choose who would be over the class. So they made choices and maybe sometimes better choices than others. But the minister told us Master Muhammad asked them, would you allow me to make a choice?
01:00:41:00 – 01:01:16:27
Student Minister Rodney Muhammad
And then when he made a choice, he made the best choice. He called Kareem from the back. Elijah, and put him over the class and all hell broke loose and. I’m. Now he’s about to set this man aside and begin to pour himself into this man. To the degree that he tells his student, you don’t need me any more.
01:01:17:00 – 01:01:58:20
Student Minister Rodney Muhammad
And Elijah is insisting that he needs him, and he says, you don’t need me anymore. That means he has given him something and already recognize in him a capacity. When you have capacity that deals with how much you can contain, how much you can produce. So black people have great capacity, but we’re functioning far below our capacity right?
01:01:58:22 – 01:02:31:18
Student Minister Rodney Muhammad
Even what we’re doing and have done as a nation under the Honorable Elijah Muhammad, Mr. Muhammad said. We’re moving slow toward progress. The faster we believe something, the faster will achieve something. But as long as we’re following the recipient of revelation without any suspicion, then it makes us hesitant in our following. You got it?
01:02:31:23 – 01:02:33:00
Speaker 2
Yes, sir.
01:02:33:02 – 01:03:19:20
Student Minister Rodney Muhammad
So let’s let’s let’s, let’s review for a minute. You know, the first revelation we thought the Bible started with Genesis, but it really started with revelation. Why? Because Mr. Yakubu, who was said to be, the wisest of his time, could not like other prophets, see into the future of the end of his children’s world. So that tells us something that when you mean evil, it doesn’t mean that a lot through his permissive will won’t allow you to do the evil.
01:03:19:23 – 01:03:26:09
Student Minister Rodney Muhammad
But you’re you’re blind to what the ends are.
01:03:26:11 – 01:03:30:17
Student Minister Rodney Muhammad
When you do evil, you’re not made to see the outcome.
01:03:30:19 – 01:03:32:21
Student In The Ministry Joseph Muhammad
Come on out.
01:03:32:23 – 01:04:07:10
Student Minister Rodney Muhammad
Because if you could really see the outcome that you will end up in ruin. It could stop you from doing the evil that he has permitted, right? So, Mr. Yaqoob, who could not see the end of his children’s world, we had to reveal to him. And of course, it’s wrapped up in symbolic language, begging for somebody who knows how to decode symbol.
01:04:07:12 – 01:04:38:08
Student Minister Rodney Muhammad
That would have to be a man who perfect understanding has been given to. This is why the Koran says, oh, people of the book. Surely we have sent our messenger to the explaining to the after and cessation of the messengers. In other words, if he’s coming with an explanation, he’s not coming with Scripture. He’s coming to give us a perfect picture of what the Scripture is representing to us.
01:04:38:10 – 01:04:39:07
Speaker 2
Yes.
01:04:39:09 – 01:05:15:12
Student Minister Rodney Muhammad
Okay. The Honorable Elijah Muhammad said that we would suffer for 6000 years, a vacuum in Black World history. So this past 6000 years, we can see the conversation in the Koran where Satan is saying, fight me till the day they erase he. Don’t start out Satan. He got a uniform on like everybody else. But his mind ain’t right.
01:05:15:14 – 01:05:29:03
Student Minister Rodney Muhammad
See, when the mind is not uniform and you can dress up to look like that, we’re, we’re, we’re we’re beginning to set up counterfeit religion.
01:05:29:05 – 01:05:33:29
Student Minister Rodney Muhammad
We can look the part, but not be it.
01:05:34:01 – 01:05:51:29
Student Minister Rodney Muhammad
Yeah. So all this got to be searched out in the last day. This is why he got to know best where to place his message. Look at how it says. And then there came a time when the sons of God went before God and Satan was with them. They didn’t even know Satan was with.
01:05:51:29 – 01:05:53:01
Speaker 2
Them.
01:05:53:03 – 01:06:02:12
Student Minister Rodney Muhammad
When they went to report. The Scripture says, God says Satan, whence come as thou?
01:06:02:15 – 01:06:45:03
Student Minister Rodney Muhammad
And Satan said, I’m going up and down to and fro. He is the cross seeking whom I may devour. See no other, no other faith on earth has been, set up and exalted in the name of going to conquer in that name. Other than Christianity coming out of Europe, I don’t get offended. Nobody’s the. See, you gotta understand that true Christian theology and Christianity are not the same.
01:06:45:05 – 01:07:19:08
Student Minister Rodney Muhammad
The the best place to start with with Christianity is trying to figure out how could Jesus be born in Bethlehem, grew up in Nazareth, right? Get crucified in Jerusalem. Resurrected and flanked by the disciples. Last seen in Galilee and the capital for Christ, or Christian is Rome.
01:07:19:11 – 01:07:21:24
Student Minister Rodney Muhammad
Now, how did that happen?
01:07:21:26 – 01:07:23:00
Speaker 2
Christian did.
01:07:23:02 – 01:07:28:26
Student Minister Rodney Muhammad
And then when we investigate, the Romans are the ones that killed him.
01:07:28:29 – 01:07:31:01
Student In The Ministry Joseph Muhammad
About as well.
01:07:31:03 – 01:08:06:28
Student Minister Rodney Muhammad
But they’re the ones who reserved the right to represent him. And the Honorable Elijah Muhammad said, and so they have the Pope of Rome as the head of the Christian faith. And those that are Christians that don’t want to follow the Catholic order and accept the Pope as their head, they are the result of the protests that rose up.
01:08:07:00 – 01:08:31:12
Student Minister Rodney Muhammad
And the protest had a lot to do with what was called the sale of indulgences. Now we have to go into the subject on the Bible about that. But the sale of indulgence was this you’re a sinner, I’m a sinner. You want to be absolved from your sin? Pay me some money and I’ll pray to God. It’s called the sale of indulgences.
01:08:31:15 – 01:08:45:14
Student Minister Rodney Muhammad
Well, let me let me indulge myself and give thee some money so my sins will be. And you don’t know you sin. And now.
01:08:45:17 – 01:09:13:26
Student Minister Rodney Muhammad
And the Vatican got rich in these. But there was a protest against this. There was a protest against men not taking wives. There was a protest of these men asserting themselves over saying they could pray the soul out of purgatory as the Honorable Elijah Muhammad said, there was a protest and not of the word protest. You get the word Protestant or Protestant.
01:09:13:28 – 01:09:17:10
Speaker 2
He was right.
01:09:17:12 – 01:09:57:05
Student Minister Rodney Muhammad
In the student enrollment, even though Jesus goes back 2000 years, the Honorable Elijah Muhammad says Christianity is only 551 years old. What happened here? See? But what you find when you go back from 1933, in the in the recitation of the student enrollment to, this period of time, you somewhere around 1382. And this is where John Wycliffe took the Latin Vulgate, who took it from the Hebraic see, but the prophets didn’t speak the Roman tongue.
01:09:57:12 – 01:09:58:16
Speaker 2
Right.
01:09:58:19 – 01:10:28:22
Student Minister Rodney Muhammad
But the Latin Vulgate now has it all translated and preserved it, keeping the word from the people. Right. And then but Wycliffe gets a hold of it, and he translated into the English tongue. And they hated him for that. And he because now the word is getting into the hands of the people. This is what is 551 years old.
01:10:28:25 – 01:11:04:10
Student Minister Rodney Muhammad
He so I mean, all of this represents Christianity and they’re set up. They were already split. With the way they saw Jesus as opposed to the eastern part of the Roman Empire. So the split came with the Roman Catholic Church. And then in the eastern part they had the Greek Orthodox Church mass. Mariam was a Greek Orthodox church.
01:11:04:13 – 01:11:06:03
Speaker 2
And.
01:11:06:05 – 01:11:12:18
Student Minister Rodney Muhammad
The Honorable Elijah Muhammad claimed the building when they were building it.
01:11:12:20 – 01:11:14:21
Student In The Ministry Joseph Muhammad
Came.
01:11:14:24 – 01:11:19:02
Student Minister Rodney Muhammad
He knew his God was going to be with him.
01:11:26:02 – 01:11:46:14
Student Minister Rodney Muhammad
The, The Christian theology is a lot different from the Christianity set up right?
01:11:46:17 – 01:11:50:06
Student Minister Rodney Muhammad
In Jerusalem.
01:11:50:08 – 01:12:28:16
Student Minister Rodney Muhammad
It’s is the body of Jesus. Which Europeans would make a pilgrimage to Jerusalem because they wanted to see the body of their Lord. And because of the the bandits, Hakim and others that they were leading, robbing people, it caused the Europeans to say, we need to get some arm guards to go with the pilgrims. These armed guards, you can go down to any the Masonic Lodge there.
01:12:28:16 – 01:12:54:26
Student Minister Rodney Muhammad
The night Templars and the Night Templars raided the Temple of Solomon, they said, for its riches in that that’s why. And when King Philip had these people sentenced to death, it was on a Friday the 13th. Right? So these this resonated through Europe became a bad. And so when they begin to build over here, you didn’t have a 13th floor, right?
01:12:54:29 – 01:13:09:14
Student Minister Rodney Muhammad
In the early years there was no floor 13 on the elevators. Superstitious people right. But, you know, there are a lot of things. And so when we visited the Masonic lodge down there, I brought all this up. They couldn’t deny.
01:13:09:14 – 01:13:10:23
Speaker 2
It.
01:13:10:25 – 01:13:23:27
Student Minister Rodney Muhammad
And right go down there across from City Hall, paid a little money. I think it’s about $25 now. But in the center of the floor is in the name of Allah. Because, see this the, the the knowledge of us was in Europe.
01:13:23:29 – 01:13:25:12
Speaker 2
Come on.
01:13:25:15 – 01:13:52:26
Student Minister Rodney Muhammad
But based on not true Christian theology but Christianity. They had to get this out of Europe. So they didn’t want no Koran, no hadith or anything. So the people they held onto that they had to go underground. And this is how you got the Freemasonry. They underground with some of our knowledge and the highest they can get used to 33 degrees.
01:13:52:28 – 01:14:26:04
Student Minister Rodney Muhammad
Jager Hoover was 33rd degree. You can only get it overseas in Scott. That has to be given to you. And but in the circle of knowledge, mathematically that’s 360 degrees. So when you look for 33 degrees and draw it, you’re still crawling from these. So the best of what this present day civilization had you, you can’t even stand upright when you’re crawling.
01:14:26:06 – 01:14:49:27
Student Minister Rodney Muhammad
Creatures that are on four legs. You know, they have to walk down. They don’t walk upright. So to stand upright, you have to be able to hold yourself up at 90 degrees. We call it straight up on the square, but it can’t be achieved without balance.
01:14:50:00 – 01:14:51:14
Speaker 2
Come on, come on.
01:14:51:16 – 01:15:16:06
Student Minister Rodney Muhammad
So we’re learning that to be upright with God, you can’t hold it without balance. And balance is keeping our law at the center of our life. That’s the real balance for upright man and an upright woman. I hope you learned something because I feel like giving us something today. We can work.
01:15:16:06 – 01:15:19:09
Student In The Ministry Joseph Muhammad
With amount now.
01:15:19:12 – 01:15:30:05
Student Minister Rodney Muhammad
These folks are mad because they come in and they want to know, how do you know all this stuff?
01:15:30:07 – 01:15:58:08
Student Minister Rodney Muhammad
In the Bible it says when the Pharisees and that got upset with Jesus, they said, by what authority do you these things? They want to know who authorized you. And he’s saying, the author of creation, because authority comes from the word author, authorized comes from the word author. So if you want to know who authorized me, he said, see, it’s the author of creation.
01:15:58:11 – 01:16:04:24
Student Minister Rodney Muhammad
Now who has control over every atom in creation.
01:16:04:26 – 01:16:08:01
Speaker 2
Come on.
01:16:08:03 – 01:16:21:16
Student Minister Rodney Muhammad
Which means if the author is with me, every atom in creation is with me.
01:16:21:19 – 01:16:55:21
Student Minister Rodney Muhammad
Wow. The messenger, the recipient of revelation, is a channel. One way of looking at a channel. It’s a length of water that joins two large bodies of water together. See, sometime we call it a canal. So you got the Panama Canal is in the problem book. Wow. You have the Suez Canal.
01:16:55:23 – 01:17:29:23
Student Minister Rodney Muhammad
But these waterways are called channels. But they’re designed to connect to different bodies of water. So when a man becomes a channel, that man can be a passageway out of one old world into a new one. Come on. Another, definition of channel is a band of frequencies that you find on radio and television. What channel are you on?
01:17:29:26 – 01:17:43:16
Student Minister Rodney Muhammad
So you you come out talking about a channel or something, you watch, but somebody else is talking about it. They want another channel.
01:17:43:18 – 01:18:05:19
Student Minister Rodney Muhammad
I was listening to a channel some people were on and they said, global warming is getting us. Said, that’s not the channel I was on the channel I was on say for great judgments were on America. And it’s working on them. And even if it was global warming, who’s warming the globe?
01:18:05:21 – 01:18:08:28
Speaker 2
Well, come on.
01:18:09:01 – 01:18:15:14
Student Minister Rodney Muhammad
Because if you complaining about it, you you couldn’t warm it up and it seems like you can’t cool it off.
01:18:15:16 – 01:18:17:12
Speaker 2
Go ahead.
01:18:17:15 – 01:18:30:09
Student Minister Rodney Muhammad
See, we’re not talking about somebody that don’t have control. The last thing black people need now is leadership that don’t have no power.
01:18:30:11 – 01:18:31:07
Speaker 2
Back.
01:18:31:09 – 01:18:37:19
Student Minister Rodney Muhammad
Then. You don’t need leadership that’s powerless. I’m already powerless.
01:18:37:21 – 01:18:42:03
Speaker 2
In the matter.
01:18:42:06 – 01:18:45:01
Speaker 2
Yeah.
01:18:45:04 – 01:19:15:28
Student Minister Rodney Muhammad
A channel is a person who serves as a medium, particularly in the spirit. Look what Jesus said in the book of Luke. The Holy Spirit is upon me. Does. Because I have been anointed to preach the gospel. And what will it do? See, it will set free to captive, to just think of the thing the blind will be able to see.
01:19:16:01 – 01:19:24:18
Student Minister Rodney Muhammad
The deaf will be able to hear, the dumb will be able to speak plainly. Think of that.
01:19:24:21 – 01:19:25:23
Speaker 2
Here we go.
01:19:25:25 – 01:19:35:28
Student Minister Rodney Muhammad
The leper will be cleansed for us. Spiritual leprosy is you black. But your mind is white.
01:19:36:01 – 01:19:38:12
Speaker 2
Go ahead.
01:19:38:14 – 01:19:49:26
Student Minister Rodney Muhammad
That’s why Malcolm would say in The Ballad of the Buddha, if you’re black you should be thinking black.
01:19:49:28 – 01:19:52:01
Student Minister Rodney Muhammad
But we’ll be black. Has time.
01:19:52:04 – 01:19:52:15
Speaker 2
On.
01:19:52:17 – 01:19:56:24
Student Minister Rodney Muhammad
Telling somebody don’t bring that black stuff to me.
01:19:56:26 – 01:19:57:25
Speaker 2
Yes.
01:19:57:28 – 01:20:01:07
Student Minister Rodney Muhammad
But what kind of stuff do you want? If you don’t want.
01:20:01:07 – 01:20:04:17
Speaker 2
No black stuff for.
01:20:04:20 – 01:20:09:04
Student In The Ministry Joseph Muhammad
Jesus.
01:20:09:07 – 01:20:12:12
Speaker 2
If.
01:20:12:15 – 01:20:24:05
Student Minister Rodney Muhammad
So it should be understood that if we’re going to receive revelation that there’s going to be opposition and.
01:20:24:07 – 01:20:24:26
Speaker 2
Yes.
01:20:24:29 – 01:20:47:11
Student Minister Rodney Muhammad
So I thought I just read from the Honorable Minister Louis Farrakhan one of the first things he said as I review, he said the highest form of communication, there’s there’s forms of communication. Some somehow they got some communication out here. They don’t want you to know about color. Highly classified.
01:20:47:13 – 01:20:50:20
Speaker 2
And there’s no.
01:20:50:22 – 01:20:53:17
Student Minister Rodney Muhammad
Stamp. Top secret.
01:20:55:17 – 01:21:16:02
Student Minister Rodney Muhammad
We we got we pulling labels off. What was topsy. We don’t pull that off. Let’s tell everybody. Come on down to the mosque this Sunday so we can tell. Oh, everybody.
01:21:16:05 – 01:21:35:23
Student Minister Rodney Muhammad
Well, I thought that was supposed to be a rally. Muhammad was over there talking about it. Yeah. Look at it. The highest form of communication. He said, is to speak, ask questions about, even.
01:21:35:23 – 01:21:38:01
Speaker 2
Argue over.
01:21:38:03 – 01:22:12:02
Student Minister Rodney Muhammad
What God has revealed to his servant. Perfecting our understanding of what God reveals increases the level of energy. It charges all the cells in the brain, in which case there are 14 billion of them. God knows we only got a flicker of them operating because we’re not on the level of communication that’s in line with our capacity.
01:22:12:05 – 01:22:13:01
Speaker 2
What’s more.
01:22:13:03 – 01:22:23:09
Student Minister Rodney Muhammad
We can do way more than what we’re doing. But you know what? Because we’re not on that level of communication. Nobody ever charged us with doing it.
01:22:23:12 – 01:22:24:05
Speaker 2
Cool.
01:22:24:07 – 01:22:28:21
Student Minister Rodney Muhammad
Now we gotta teach him. And training.
01:22:28:22 – 01:22:28:28
Speaker 2
Yes.
01:22:28:29 – 01:23:03:27
Student Minister Rodney Muhammad
So that demands of us. Someone told me once, I don’t know if it’s altogether true, but they said the Honorable Elijah Muhammad sent a sister to get a message to someone at the airport. And the brothers drove her to the airport, and she tried to get there, but the plane had taken off. And when she came back with the disappointing news, they said, the messenger said to her sister, after what I taught you, you should been able to call the plane back.
01:23:03:29 – 01:23:06:20
Speaker 2
You know.
01:23:06:22 – 01:23:12:26
Student Minister Rodney Muhammad
Now, that may have happened. It may not have happened. But I’m telling you, the expectation.
01:23:12:28 – 01:23:13:29
Student In The Ministry Joseph Muhammad
Is there.
01:23:14:01 – 01:23:30:25
Student Minister Rodney Muhammad
Because if all the cells in the brain, active and you isolating at the highest possible level, you and a house of high expectation.
01:23:30:27 – 01:23:33:22
Student Minister Rodney Muhammad
Our women shouldn’t let us get away with a.
01:23:33:22 – 01:23:35:25
Speaker 2
Job right.
01:23:35:28 – 01:23:36:22
Student In The Ministry Joseph Muhammad
Now.
01:23:36:25 – 01:23:44:15
Student Minister Rodney Muhammad
Why? Because we she out of want nothing less. When you come home, then a whole new world. When we.
01:23:44:15 – 01:23:46:04
Speaker 2
Operating at.
01:23:46:04 – 01:23:51:12
Student Minister Rodney Muhammad
A high level. See, the Honorable Elijah Muhammad said.
01:23:51:14 – 01:23:52:05
Speaker 2
This fight.
01:23:52:05 – 01:24:16:24
Student Minister Rodney Muhammad
I have with my followers, they spend too much time and I don’t talk. But if they were talking over this communication, asking about even arguing over what God had revealed to the Honorable Elijah Muhammad, so much activity just comes out of that. In fact, your expectation of yourself starts to grow.
01:24:16:26 – 01:24:19:07
Speaker 2
As a fact.
01:24:19:10 – 01:24:40:01
Student Minister Rodney Muhammad
I was reading an author who said, many people who entertain the word of God, they don’t even have a desire for something big enough that requires God to come into their life and help. You should be asking for something.
01:24:40:03 – 01:24:40:29
Speaker 2
Oh.
01:24:41:01 – 01:24:42:29
Student Minister Rodney Muhammad
I was totally promised money.
01:24:43:01 – 01:24:45:12
Speaker 2
Come on.
01:24:45:15 – 01:25:04:16
Student Minister Rodney Muhammad
We shouldn’t talk about money. He did. Come on, come on. Why are you talking about. You should get a blank sheet of paper and write down everything you know. I got 190,000 left on my mortgage. Let me put that down. I got, this left on my car. Note I got ahead is for groceries to send the children to school.
01:25:04:16 – 01:25:10:27
Student Minister Rodney Muhammad
I got to get clothes. I got to get this done and all that up. Maybe it comes to a half $1 million.
01:25:10:29 – 01:25:12:14
Speaker 2
Oh, come on.
01:25:12:17 – 01:25:15:08
Student Minister Rodney Muhammad
Come on. If he can’t do that, what are we.
01:25:15:08 – 01:25:19:05
Speaker 2
Doing right now? Right? Yeah.
01:25:19:08 – 01:25:29:09
Student Minister Rodney Muhammad
We have, in the Koran. The enemies of God say your god got his hands tied. Yeah, you ought to take that as an insult.
01:25:29:11 – 01:25:35:00
Unknown
That’s right. You should.
01:25:35:02 – 01:25:44:02
Student Minister Rodney Muhammad
We don’t start out seeing ourself like that. But God gives us somebody that he’s working in, right?
01:25:44:02 – 01:25:45:04
Speaker 2
Yes, sir. Yes, sir.
01:25:45:08 – 01:25:50:12
Student Minister Rodney Muhammad
And he gives us a reason to believe that something like that could take place.
01:25:50:14 – 01:25:51:01
Speaker 2
Okay. Go ahead.
01:25:51:01 – 01:26:14:02
Student Minister Rodney Muhammad
Yes. See the followers of the Honorable Elijah Muhammad. At a certain point, man, all somebody said was, we don’t need the Honorable Elijah Muhammad on no plane with nobody else. He need his own jet. We just said, yes, sir, I believe us. Just went to work. We believe we could do it now. We might not get it for ourself.
01:26:14:04 – 01:26:20:15
Student Minister Rodney Muhammad
But he was loved enough, believed in enough, and he inspired us enough.
01:26:20:17 – 01:26:23:03
Student In The Ministry Lyle Muhammad
Come on, come on.
01:26:23:05 – 01:26:29:17
Student Minister Rodney Muhammad
Because he’s the recipient of revelation.
01:26:29:19 – 01:26:33:20
Student Minister Rodney Muhammad
Here’s a God tells you you’re going to get some opposition.
01:26:33:23 – 01:26:36:26
Student In The Ministry Joseph Muhammad
That’s the right.
01:26:36:29 – 01:26:49:20
Student Minister Rodney Muhammad
You want me to get them? No. Take plenty. That’s two word instruction. Take plenty.
01:26:49:22 – 01:26:54:12
Student Minister Rodney Muhammad
Here. Come. It didn’t. It didn’t take no time to start.
01:26:54:15 – 01:26:56:08
Speaker 2
Yeah.
01:26:56:11 – 01:27:30:21
Student Minister Rodney Muhammad
Get to know and look at it. Did people want to kill him? Yes, sir. And. And surely, by the due course of time, he grew into strength. He had many people that would live for what he taught and kill for anybody that wanted to hurt him. And he saw him in the audience. And the minister said he never pointed them out to us who these people were for seven years.
01:27:30:21 – 01:27:54:17
Student Minister Rodney Muhammad
They were trying to kill him. Look at the man who said, some people were sitting around and idle talk against Minister Farrakhan. Louis X, the Minister of Mines number 11, in Boston. Brother gets out of prison. He said if the man’s that bad, he shouldn’t even be here. So he goes to get a gun to go kill him.
01:27:54:19 – 01:28:33:27
Student Minister Rodney Muhammad
Right? This really happened. And the brother ran into Rodney Smith on his way to do it. And he said, brother, brother Lewis is not like that. Whatever them people around slack talking about, he’s not like that. And the brother refrained from going to do what he had in his mind to do years later and to rebuild. It was a funeral back in Boston, and the minister and mother, Khadijah Wynn, and the brother they wanted to kill him was sitting in the audience at the funeral home with a smile on his face.
01:28:34:00 – 01:28:50:08
Student Minister Rodney Muhammad
And the minister told us, you know, that brother was smiling because he said, I’m sure glad I didn’t do what I had in mind to do. Years ago. Look at what this man has done.
01:28:50:11 – 01:29:02:00
Student Minister Rodney Muhammad
Now you got some of us. We want to get rid of somebody because they looked at us cross-eyed. But I’m following leadership of somebody that took plenty.
01:29:02:02 – 01:29:07:00
Student Minister Rodney Muhammad
And he waited them out.
01:29:07:02 – 01:29:09:25
Speaker 2
Look at.
01:29:09:27 – 01:29:38:11
Student Minister Rodney Muhammad
So when you talk about this teaching, you got to have a. I know they like Starbucks or Dunkin Donuts, something nearby, because by the time you keep talking, you say, y’all want to get some coffee or something, and it just keeps going. You know why? Because you feel good when your brain cells are activated. Like.
01:29:38:13 – 01:29:45:23
Student Minister Rodney Muhammad
We we have something that the Caucasian, as Sister Ava used to say, he can’t even write an essay on it.
01:29:45:26 – 01:29:50:13
Speaker 2
Right. That’s really all he he has had.
01:29:50:15 – 01:29:59:22
Student Minister Rodney Muhammad
His, his agents took from the Honorable Elijah Muhammad in 1942. All the writings.
01:29:59:24 – 01:30:25:25
Student Minister Rodney Muhammad
So that means that what we have in the lessons they had, that the whole the you haven’t seen one white person that has benefited from what’s in the Department of Supreme Wisdom. Look up countless numbers of talk shows have been on for years. They don’t even discuss it. They don’t want you to know. But the least informed black person.
01:30:26:02 – 01:30:27:05
Speaker 2
On.
01:30:27:08 – 01:30:41:12
Student Minister Rodney Muhammad
Life has been changed because of what’s in supreme wisdom. Just think of this for a minute now. This is it. We. If we just took that and put that on the table and start analyzing it.
01:30:41:15 – 01:30:42:23
Speaker 2
Go ahead, go for it.
01:30:42:25 – 01:31:05:21
Student Minister Rodney Muhammad
You know what you say, teacher. How come I don’t talk about this more? In fact, what am I talking about? Other thing the ministers say when you have been blessed with divine revelation that tells you things of the present and tells you things of the future, patience is absolutely necessary.
01:31:05:23 – 01:31:07:25
Speaker 2
You.
01:31:07:27 – 01:31:17:19
Student Minister Rodney Muhammad
See, growing impatient with what God revealed and make you jump out with a raggedy plan.
01:31:17:21 – 01:31:18:27
Student In The Ministry Joseph Muhammad
For the day.
01:31:19:00 – 01:31:40:16
Student Minister Rodney Muhammad
And try to work it out in the way they have Abraham described in the Bible. The Lord told him what the future is going to be like. I’m going to bless you with a child. He’s looking at Sarah. She can’t have no more children. But the Lord said it.
01:31:40:19 – 01:31:44:16
Student Minister Rodney Muhammad
So they waited for a while, but they weren’t patient.
01:31:44:18 – 01:31:45:06
Speaker 2
Right?
01:31:45:09 – 01:31:56:19
Student Minister Rodney Muhammad
When patience runs out, we come up with a plan. So what was the plan? Sarah said. Well, why don’t you just go into my handmaiden?
01:31:56:21 – 01:32:17:22
Student Minister Rodney Muhammad
And have her bear you the child, and we’ll have the child. That’s just not what the Lord said, right? That’s. So you don’t need to watch The Young and the restless see some stuff going. This is some stuff going on now because not only did she get pregnant, but they all living under the same roof.
01:32:17:25 – 01:32:20:13
Speaker 2
Right? So.
01:32:20:16 – 01:32:26:20
Student Minister Rodney Muhammad
With now they ain’t like they discussed it and planned all this. This stuff just start happening.
01:32:26:22 – 01:32:28:11
Speaker 2
I promise the baby.
01:32:28:13 – 01:32:55:14
Student Minister Rodney Muhammad
Finally the Lord blesses her and then she has the child that the Lord had promised and the children were playing, and she felt that the child that Abraham had by the handmaiden was making fun of the child, that the Lord have blessed her to have. Isaac. So, she wanted the woman put out?
01:32:55:16 – 01:33:06:24
Student Minister Rodney Muhammad
Yeah, just put her out. Now. Abraham is the friend of God. Are y’all following this now?
01:33:06:26 – 01:33:08:06
Speaker 2
We’ve.
01:33:08:08 – 01:33:13:20
Student Minister Rodney Muhammad
So he’s reluctant to be throwing her out in the street with this child.
01:33:13:23 – 01:33:14:26
Student In The Ministry Joseph Muhammad
Not to.
01:33:14:29 – 01:33:16:20
Student Minister Rodney Muhammad
And the Lord comes to her.
01:33:16:22 – 01:33:17:23
Speaker 2
At.
01:33:17:26 – 01:33:25:06
Student Minister Rodney Muhammad
And says, hearken unto the voice of thy wife.
01:33:25:08 – 01:33:30:13
Student Minister Rodney Muhammad
Hearken unto the voice. In other words, put her out.
01:33:30:15 – 01:34:08:07
Student Minister Rodney Muhammad
But he had a plan for but remember he never told Abraham. Why, I’ll have you go into your handmaid. You. They came up with that? Because they had they had received revelation. But what they didn’t have to go with what was revealed to them from God was patience. Many of us have run out of patience with revelation that came to the Honorable Elijah Muhammad, and the same have come to the minister.
01:34:08:09 – 01:34:18:11
Student Minister Rodney Muhammad
But we’ve just tired of the time. So the Koran said, had it been a short journey and a near gain, everybody would have stayed.
01:34:18:16 – 01:34:19:01
Speaker 2
That’s right.
01:34:19:01 – 01:34:21:13
Student Minister Rodney Muhammad
Come on. The journey was long.
01:34:21:15 – 01:34:23:18
Speaker 2
Yeah. Hey.
01:34:23:20 – 01:34:33:04
Student Minister Rodney Muhammad
And by that long journey, I just won’t admit it. But I got impatient and I went out there and tried to make my own blessing right.
01:34:33:07 – 01:34:34:29
Student In The Ministry Joseph Muhammad
Wow.
01:34:35:01 – 01:34:35:29
Speaker 2
The the.
01:34:36:02 – 01:34:44:23
Student Minister Rodney Muhammad
30. But God bless Hagar. Yes.
01:34:44:26 – 01:35:02:11
Student Minister Rodney Muhammad
So, the the the the the revelation doesn’t stop. The Honorable Minister Louis Farrakhan said the Honorable Elijah Muhammad told him, brother, you don’t have to study.
01:35:02:13 – 01:35:14:06
Student Minister Rodney Muhammad
He said he didn’t mean I didn’t have to study. He said what he meant was, something’s going to be revealed to me. You can’t study what hasn’t been revealed.
01:35:14:08 – 01:35:16:05
Speaker 2
Right from.
01:35:16:07 – 01:35:54:09
Student Minister Rodney Muhammad
The minister. Say first it’s gotta be revealed. Then we can study it. But it’s gotta come out first. Could you ever have believed? That you could call a million black men to Washington, DC? Could you? I mean, just just ask yourself, could you have been faithful? And I know because I had to get on a plane and fly to Chicago, and we only had we had a date and we were only we had six months to do it whole.
01:35:54:11 – 01:35:57:08
Student Minister Rodney Muhammad
See, you gotta know where to place your message.
01:35:57:11 – 01:35:58:07
Speaker 2
Come on.
01:35:58:09 – 01:36:20:23
Student Minister Rodney Muhammad
Somebody that’s not going to trust in themselves, but they’re going to trust in the God right. That revealed it to them enough to stay with it and not work on it. He said to himself. When he came out, he wanted to call it back, and he said he thought about it. It might take a year or two years of planning to pull this off.
01:36:20:28 – 01:36:26:14
Student Minister Rodney Muhammad
No, we got six months to do this thing.
01:36:26:16 – 01:37:02:24
Student Minister Rodney Muhammad
And y’all, whose children came amongst us and turned our civilization upside down in six months? It didn’t even take them a year to get us to turn on each other and fight and kill. And they haven’t stopped doing it. So, Look. What look what has to happen here? The minister said, in the will of God before he allows, said be he had to had a desire to be.
01:37:02:27 – 01:37:35:12
Student Minister Rodney Muhammad
See, if we don’t have if we don’t have desire for something, nothing else is coming. You gotta have desire for something, you know, he said. Desire is the food that builds the will. You see the the messenger of God gotta be an example to us. The minister said. You can’t change people by force. You change people to being an example of what they could be.
01:37:35:12 – 01:37:57:06
Student Minister Rodney Muhammad
But you can’t force people into what you think they should be. You gotta be it, right? Right. When Brother Abdullah, like Muhammad, he was Minister J. John Shabazz, then over Los Angeles, he said he asked the Honorable Elijah Muhammad, I want to be a good minister and person for them. He said, brother, come spend the day with me.
01:37:57:09 – 01:38:15:22
Student Minister Rodney Muhammad
He flew to Chicago. He brought a new notebook to get all the notes for he said when they got got there before the messenger and they had coffee. Donovan Elijah Muhammad already knew what the question was. He gave him seven words and the meeting was over.
01:38:15:24 – 01:38:21:15
Student Minister Rodney Muhammad
If you want to know how to do this, be what you want them to be.
01:38:21:18 – 01:38:22:19
Speaker 2
Good faith. Good.
01:38:22:22 – 01:38:27:17
Student Minister Rodney Muhammad
You can’t force nobody to be something. You gotta be it.
01:38:31:25 – 01:38:53:27
Student Minister Rodney Muhammad
So you gotta have a desire. The recipient of revelation. God. One desire. Pleasing his God. Now, ours may be a mixture of stuff. But you ought to have God in it.
01:38:53:29 – 01:39:37:22
Student Minister Rodney Muhammad
See? Don’t go around telling people we rebuilt the nation. That’s not true. So one man rebuilt a nation. We were inspired. This is. This is built on one man and his faith. And we’re inspired by his faith. That I’m an inspired man. But I’m not the faith that the nation was built on. It was built on the faith of Louis Farrakhan and the word of the Honorable Elijah Muhammad and the God that came and revealed himself to him.
01:39:37:24 – 01:40:08:24
Student Minister Rodney Muhammad
Desire is the food that builds the will. Desire causes us to strive to achieve whatever the object is of our desire. You will recall that desire was defined in the glossary. In overcoming difficulty. Look at this. The desire to attain a goal brings us face to face with difficulty. As soon as you want to do something in life, I want to do something.
01:40:08:26 – 01:40:32:00
Student Minister Rodney Muhammad
Starting January 1st, I’m changing. That’s coming up. A whole lot of people in this country are going to start. Well, you know, I’m going to do this. I’m going to do that now, but that you don’t realize it, but just the fact that’s the way our universe operates, just the fact that you do something else and see when you set a goal in life, you don’t realize it.
01:40:32:07 – 01:40:58:26
Student Minister Rodney Muhammad
You have declared war against the status quo. Whatever your life is now, you’re in inertia. And according to physics, object in motion remains in motion until it’s acted upon by an outside force. So our declaration of war against whatever you’re doing now doesn’t even mean you’re doing something wrong. That got gotta change. Maybe you need to do more of it.
01:40:58:29 – 01:40:59:20
Speaker 2
Right.
01:40:59:23 – 01:41:41:26
Student Minister Rodney Muhammad
But whatever it is, it’s got to be a force that’s, impacting itself on the object that’s in motion. Look, when we you face to face with difficulty, he said when we undergo the trial of difficulty, the trial may be so intense that it extinguishes the light of the desire to attain the goal. So you have motivational speakers that say that the graveyard is the place where dreams have been buried, not people.
01:41:41:29 – 01:42:04:16
Student Minister Rodney Muhammad
They never they never, faced the difficulty they needed to, to do what they wanted to do in life because, opposition is a part of what set up in our universe. Go look at all the chapters of the Holy Koran one day and read all the section. Opposition is all through it, right?
01:42:04:17 – 01:42:07:18
Speaker 2
And right.
01:42:07:20 – 01:42:37:11
Student Minister Rodney Muhammad
The devil is opposed to man, so he ain’t on my side. Either way we go, then you can keep going. The devil as opposed to the righteous. Which means that the man that they were opposed to succeeded in building a community of righteous people, despite the devil’s opposition. The opponents. There’s another section called the End of Opposition.
01:42:37:13 – 01:43:07:26
Student Minister Rodney Muhammad
There is an incoming to it. The thing is, can you hang out to the end? Can I stay there to the end? Look what the minister said. Would that without desire we have lost the nourishment to strengthen our will, which weakens and is ultimately starve to death.
01:43:07:28 – 01:43:24:08
Student Minister Rodney Muhammad
Look at this. Now I know we say a lot of knows best where to place his message. And certainly we look at that as who he chooses to be his messenger. But let me tell you something. He chooses a.
01:43:24:08 – 01:43:26:05
Speaker 2
People right.
01:43:26:07 – 01:43:58:27
Student Minister Rodney Muhammad
To be with that messenger. That’s why I say many are called, but only a few are chosen. See, the few that are chosen are proven that they were worthy of the call. Why? Because the minute you join the spiritual army of God, it brings you face to face with difficulty.
01:43:58:29 – 01:44:26:08
Student Minister Rodney Muhammad
I mean, it’s a grand achievement. The Koran calls it. But look at this. In the history of Noah, we find a definitive portrayal of a man with strong will to do the will of Allah, the nourishment for his will was his desire to please God. I’ll just say it like that. While his knowledge was limited, his faith was not.
01:44:26:10 – 01:44:56:15
Student Minister Rodney Muhammad
You know how we used to say, I don’t know what the future holds, but I know who holds the future. See if look what the ministers say. If we don’t meet and overcome resistance, I will cannot develop. So if you’re the type of person you’re looking for the path of least resistance all the time, and then wondering why your will ain’t being developed is because you avoiding any kind of opposition.
01:44:56:17 – 01:45:17:24
Student Minister Rodney Muhammad
When a person goes in the gym saying, I’m going to get more healthy and get my body in shape and everything, you gotta face some resistance. You start picking up a weight and it pulls you to the floor. You can’t even get it up. But if you keep working, pretty soon you’ll lift that thing with one hand. But you gotta face resistance.
01:45:17:26 – 01:45:39:24
Student Minister Rodney Muhammad
Something is opposed to what you want to do, but the power, is with you. And even though the arm can’t do it now, when you keep working, it, it gets stronger. I just think this now you need to hear this today.
01:45:39:26 – 01:46:10:07
Student Minister Rodney Muhammad
We see these verses about Noah, and he was not weak and equivocal in his faith. Contrary to misconception of many of us, men of God have always been and must be strong willed. The opposition, on the other hand, is always self-willed. Go and see their people working against you right now to get you off your mount of belief.
01:46:10:09 – 01:46:13:16
Student Minister Rodney Muhammad
Fact.
01:46:13:19 – 01:46:45:12
Student Minister Rodney Muhammad
But they’re self-willed, right where your desire and mine should be is to please God. At the end of the day, it’s to please God. And guess what? God, doesn’t take pleasure in you being poor. God, what God doesn’t want is for you to be like some woman said, well, you don’t want money, because if you get money, it’ll take you away from God.
01:46:45:14 – 01:46:55:10
Student Minister Rodney Muhammad
If money would take us away from God, the devil need to fill all our pockets if he wants us. If it’s going to be money.
01:46:55:13 – 01:46:56:16
Speaker 2
You.
01:46:56:19 – 01:47:08:02
Student Minister Rodney Muhammad
See, we want an example. Yeah, that money don’t it? Don’t have no power to take you away from God unless you given it that power.
01:47:08:04 – 01:47:09:03
Speaker 2
Go it.
01:47:09:06 – 01:47:35:00
Student Minister Rodney Muhammad
The children of Israel are written up in the scripture. They received a lot of money. You don’t even find in the book of Exodus that they were looking for. They just wanted to be free from Pharaoh. And the Lord came to Moses and said, go to the children of Israel and tell them to require of the Egyptians their gold and silver.
01:47:35:03 – 01:48:15:10
Student Minister Rodney Muhammad
And it says, and so the children of Israel did as the Lord had commanded Moses. And when they went to the Egyptians, they got their reparations. Didn’t they get out to the wilderness and start complaining again? The master just show you what complaining could do by the time they got through or what? I don’t talk, they took the gold and the silver and melted it down and made a calf and start bowing down to the calf.
01:48:15:12 – 01:48:40:15
Student Minister Rodney Muhammad
It was just a symbolic picture that you want to leave, Mohammed. You want to leave the mission, but you got money. Guess what? Without Muhammad and the mission, the money going to become your master, you be bowing to his every whim and before you know it, it’ll take you down a path. You won’t recognize where you are, and you won’t recognize yourself when money is finished with you.
01:48:40:18 – 01:48:42:27
Speaker 2
I’m. Oh head.
01:48:42:29 – 01:48:49:26
Unknown
You just look.
01:48:49:28 – 01:49:28:00
Student Minister Rodney Muhammad
So the minister goes on about us, given our word. He said the act of giving our word is our first step toward overcoming resistance. We meet in the inertia of self. This is necessary because we cannot build a nation without improving self for the benefit of ourselves and other. Notice he didn’t say for others and then ourselves. See, the best you can do for anybody is to make the best out of yourself.
01:49:29:16 – 01:49:49:07
Student Minister Rodney Muhammad
Stop thinking you want to make somebody else better. While you stay ragtag living, you help others by helping yourself. You make others more. By becoming more yourself. And you don’t turn to a resource. Hell, you’re the resource. God is the source.
01:49:49:09 – 01:49:53:04
Speaker 2
You.
01:49:53:06 – 01:50:24:19
Student Minister Rodney Muhammad
Look at this. We could go on about Noah and that, but I just want to abbreviate this talk here. There’s no such thing. Well, I better put it in context. The Honorable Elijah Muhammad called us to build a nation in accordance accordance with this call. As the minister said, he’s determined to develop a mosque to the glory of God.
01:50:24:22 – 01:50:31:01
Student Minister Rodney Muhammad
And he’s doing it through building, not a building. Building human potential.
01:50:31:03 – 01:50:33:19
Speaker 2
Right.
01:50:33:21 – 01:50:43:06
Student Minister Rodney Muhammad
When you build human potential, you’re saying, man, you all got abilities, you got talents, you got things in you, but you got to be built up, right?
01:50:43:06 – 01:50:44:19
Speaker 2
That’s right.
01:50:44:21 – 01:51:12:03
Student Minister Rodney Muhammad
And what will build us up? The will of God found in his word this year? It’s not how the word is broadcasted. How is it being received? This section is called the recipient of revelation. God can reveal. But who’s going to take what he revealed? We need a man who will take it and take all of it right?
01:51:12:06 – 01:51:21:19
Student Minister Rodney Muhammad
That’s what makes the Honorable Minister Louis Farrakhan of spiritual, moral, and material necessity for us.
01:51:21:21 – 01:51:54:28
Student Minister Rodney Muhammad
All praise is due to Allah. So he’s going to be a human potential. We said we want to help him. We gave our word by working to build the Ark. Each day. Noah’s will was strengthened. See, sometime God, we live in this microwave abracadabra type of, existence. We want everything to pop up. God ain’t interested in us getting more.
01:51:54:28 – 01:52:21:19
Student Minister Rodney Muhammad
He wants us to become more. So then he says, okay, I’m going to give this to you. But the way you going to get it, you’re going to be so fantastically greater than what you were when you requested it to. If you follow my path that so look, he says Noah, he got all these people thinking, this man is crazy.
01:52:21:21 – 01:52:32:20
Student Minister Rodney Muhammad
You preached about 120 years. That’s a lot of mass meetings, right? And according to the Scripture, didn’t have nobody come out. Just like now I’m like Noah.
01:52:32:23 – 01:52:37:15
Student In The Ministry Joseph Muhammad
Come over here.
01:52:37:17 – 01:52:45:23
Student Minister Rodney Muhammad
Noah’s will was strengthen. He said every nail he drove in took him closer to his goal.
01:52:45:26 – 01:52:47:26
Speaker 2
That’s right.
01:52:47:29 – 01:53:14:17
Student Minister Rodney Muhammad
The Koran says it was like planks and nails. You ever hit a nail in a plank? That’s a lot of noise. So if all you hear are your critics because. Because you’re not working right. See, when you sit idly by or you hear complaints, now you got complaints. But the people that’s working, they drive nails in,
01:53:14:19 – 01:53:16:02
Student In The Ministry Joseph Muhammad
And the sound.
01:53:16:04 – 01:53:22:02
Student Minister Rodney Muhammad
Of the building of something is greater than the sound of the critics who say it.
01:53:22:02 – 01:53:29:26
Speaker 2
Can’t be done.
01:53:29:29 – 01:53:42:22
Student Minister Rodney Muhammad
So the minister says, when you bring it up to our day, every newspaper you sell everything you do in the way of this work takes us all a step closer to our goal.
01:53:42:24 – 01:53:43:13
Speaker 2
Right?
01:53:43:15 – 01:54:07:15
Student Minister Rodney Muhammad
Everyone and every action counts. Every prayer we say every day, every good deed we do is a nail in the plank. And the sound of building drowns out the sound of the mockery coming from the opposition.
01:54:07:17 – 01:54:25:02
Student Minister Rodney Muhammad
God knows people are trying to work on your spirit. He knows that they want to extinguish the light of your desire. But if you work every day toward death, it starts drowning out the naysayers.
01:54:25:05 – 01:54:25:16
Student In The Ministry Joseph Muhammad
Go ahead.
01:54:25:23 – 01:55:07:11
Student Minister Rodney Muhammad
Oh my goodness. So the minister said, so. There’s no such thing as a member of a nation who does not count. That is why they take a census in this country. They want to count the human potential, the human resources available. We must build self and build our community. Our position is vital, necessary. Look at this. Without opposition, you cannot be proved and you cannot prove that a tender plant just, cannot be plucked out of the ground.
01:55:07:14 – 01:55:31:28
Student Minister Rodney Muhammad
Have you ever seen a storm? And after the storm? Yeah. Some little twig that’s coming up out of the ground. It looked like the storm should have destroyed it. You and you come back after the storm and the sun comes out and you see this little thing just still coming up. So the minister says, see, it looks easy.
01:55:31:28 – 01:55:40:26
Student Minister Rodney Muhammad
Like an easy knock over when you live like a savage. See, manhood is who you can take down.
01:55:40:28 – 01:55:42:04
Student In The Ministry Joseph Muhammad
Come on.
01:55:42:06 – 01:55:45:15
Student Minister Rodney Muhammad
We didn’t know the real man. Who it is. Who can you build up?
01:55:45:18 – 01:55:47:13
Speaker 2
Go ahead.
01:55:47:16 – 01:56:15:05
Student Minister Rodney Muhammad
So when they went to take that little twig down, guess what? After the storm, not only did it survive, but it drank from the storm the same way. The eagle don’t run from the storm it uses. The storm meets and overcomes his obstacles, and it uses the fury of the storm to carry it even higher. It don’t destroy the storm, it just knows how to fly over it.
01:56:15:08 – 01:56:47:00
Student Minister Rodney Muhammad
Don’t get caught up in all the madness. You know? I mean, it’s it’s a great thing when it’s when it’s understood. But it’s this opposition is necessary if you’re rooted in Master Fard Muhammad, if you’re rooted in the Honorable Elijah Muhammad, if you’re rooted in our leader teacher today, the Honorable Minister Louis Farrakhan, if you’re rooted in what God revealed, let me tell you something, man.
01:56:47:04 – 01:56:54:02
Student Minister Rodney Muhammad
It’s all kind of opposition will be coming in. It ain’t really started yet.
01:56:54:04 – 01:56:54:15
Speaker 2
But that’s.
01:56:54:15 – 01:56:56:10
Student In The Ministry Joseph Muhammad
Right.
01:56:56:12 – 01:57:12:05
Student Minister Rodney Muhammad
That’s the way they’ll talk about us before this is over. It’s going to be Satan screaming out, God knows his world is going down soon. They got drones right over new Jersey.
01:57:12:08 – 01:57:13:04
Student In The Ministry Joseph Muhammad
Come on.
01:57:13:07 – 01:57:14:05
Speaker 2
No.
01:57:14:07 – 01:57:29:13
Student Minister Rodney Muhammad
They said they don’t already talked about a mothership. So the representative out of the new Jersey, he hurried up to Washington and said, Iran has sent a mothership out and had a lot of little ships coming out of it.
01:57:29:16 – 01:57:31:06
Student In The Ministry Joseph Muhammad
They said.
01:57:31:08 – 01:57:41:17
Student Minister Rodney Muhammad
Everybody’s looking up there. One woman found out it’s the size of an SUV right?
01:57:41:19 – 01:57:45:01
Student Minister Rodney Muhammad
Some people I saw some people drinking and gambling.
01:57:45:03 – 01:57:45:21
Student In The Ministry Joseph Muhammad
Right.
01:57:45:24 – 01:58:10:09
Student Minister Rodney Muhammad
Somebody said, someone’s out there. They left the dice table and everything to go out on the roof. They looking up there. They said, I see a red light and two other white lights on the side of it or something. And the blind man, when we go to pull on it, we find out it’s rooted in the ground.
01:58:10:11 – 01:58:37:01
Student Minister Rodney Muhammad
It has a strength that is not apparent when you just looking at it. When they came after Minister Farrakhan helping Reverend Jackson in the presidential campaign said, oh, we going to take him down, the Jews came out, called the government with them, called the Negro preachers, with them called the civil rights leader. Oh, it was a big press conference.
01:58:37:05 – 01:59:07:23
Student Minister Rodney Muhammad
We condemn Farrakhan and they came and said the Senate voted 95 to 0 to condemn Farrakhan in that what they didn’t pay attention to. Yeah. Was that from 1977 to 1984, C and 85, the minister had been planting. Yeah. And the root was going down into the earth and see you when you see a little twig. We don’t see the root is down there.
01:59:07:26 – 01:59:20:13
Student Minister Rodney Muhammad
So people look at us, but they’re not looking at our God. They see us, but they don’t see his hand. They’re trying to figure out how they do this. They should have been gone by now.
01:59:20:20 – 01:59:21:21
Speaker 2
Go ahead.
01:59:21:24 – 01:59:47:20
Student Minister Rodney Muhammad
They don’t have no guns. They don’t have no bank. They don’t have no money or anything like that. God never gives the oppressed the same economic situation and condition of the oppressor. Right? So we’re not the billionaires. We’re not the even the millionaires. We’re not calling the shots financially around here, but we’re still rocking and rolling. Farrakhan is still here.
01:59:47:20 – 02:00:06:06
Student Minister Rodney Muhammad
He ain’t gone yet. The nation is still here. We not going yet. We promised him the nation would never fall. And it’s because we won’t let it fall. Thank you for listening. I salaam alaikum.
02:00:06:08 – 02:00:32:07
Student Minister Rodney Muhammad
Oh. Praise the due to Allah. So. Family. We want to see everybody. I’m sending the letter out. Everybody. That’s a registered member. Mosque number 12 has to be out next Sunday. So we want to see everybody. And then I’m going to go on the nations program. We got to find out who is still with the minister.
02:00:36:05 – 02:00:37:29
Student Minister Rodney Muhammad
You can’t be a war.
02:00:38:02 – 02:00:41:10
Student In The Ministry Joseph Muhammad
Right? No. Sorry.
02:00:41:12 – 02:00:47:29
Student Minister Rodney Muhammad
Now, if you’re dead, we understand.
02:00:48:01 – 02:01:12:20
Student Minister Rodney Muhammad
But we want to see everybody. So I’m just letting you know this is coming, okay? So Brother Joseph is going to finish this out. Let’s give Brother Joseph a round of applause. And the staff that’s working here. And I know you saw brother. We had, Brother Amin Muhammad with us on the team here. He’s been assigned to Chester, Pennsylvania.
02:01:12:23 – 02:01:48:01
Student Minister Rodney Muhammad
Chester is a mosque now, so he’s the new assistant minister there in Chester, Pennsylvania, to help Brother Keith for the next 6 or 7 months. And we pray that goes good, because we’re trying to build further around there. And, as we are working throughout the region, we’re going to be appointing others, to go places, to begin to take up the ministry there, to help as brother student Minister Ishmael is working very hard to get this ministry established throughout the country.
02:01:48:01 – 02:02:11:03
Student Minister Rodney Muhammad
Okay, so, we pray the Lord will bless him and be with him. He’s a wonderful brother. He got a wonderful spirit. He’ll still be helping us with the uniforms and everything for the FOIA, for the region. But, he’s going to be there with Brother Keith and Chester, Pennsylvania. Okay. Thank you again. Salam alaikum.
02:02:11:05 – 02:02:16:22
Student In The Ministry Joseph Muhammad
Keep that round of applause going. Delaware Valley city. The reason Minister Rodney Muhammad.
