From Colony To Community -Nuri Muhammad
Sunday Lecture
Student Minister Rodney Muhammad focused on the trials and tribulations that the Nation of Islam faced after the death of the Honorable Elijah Muhammad in 1975. He read an excerpt from Minister Louis Farrakhan’s speech from the first Saviors Day after Elijah Muhammad’s death, which took place in 1981. In this speech, Minister Farrakhan compared the rebuilding of the Nation of Islam to the birth of a nation, drawing parallels with the birth of Jesus. Muhammad also spoke about Master Fard Muhammad’s sacrifice in laying the groundwork for the Nation of Islam and the importance of having a strong leader like Minister Farrakhan to guide the Nation.
He reminded the audience that Master Fard Muhammad endured suffering to show his love for the Nation of Islam and teach Elijah Muhammad the cost of spreading truth in America. Minister Rodney Muhammad also explained that Master Fard Muhammad had a “plan of action” for building the Nation of Islam, which involved sending trained ministers all over the country to spread his teachings.
Student Minister Nuri Muhammad delivers a lecture that focuses on the concept of transforming “the hood” into a “neighborhood,” a space of unity and community. He uses the metaphor of the earth’s rotation and the power of light to illustrate the potential for change in the black community, emphasizing the need for spiritual enlightenment and a shift in consciousness. He urges listeners to cultivate positive thoughts, support black businesses, and prioritize personal transformation before attempting to change external conditions. He also underscores the importance of financial literacy and building businesses within the community, highlighting the power of collective action and shared purpose.
Study Guide
01:03:21:00 – 01:03:29:14
Unknown
And like you, I just. You’re. Come on, man.
01:03:29:16 – 01:03:34:08
Student Minister Nuri Muhammad
Oh, praise I do to Allah. Thank you. Thank you so much. Family.
01:03:34:10 – 01:03:36:08
Speaker 3
Oh, praise I do to Allah.
01:03:36:08 – 01:04:01:16
Student Minister Nuri Muhammad
Thank you, thank you, thank you. Please, please be seated. In the most holy name of Allah, the beneficent, the merciful library witness that there is no God but Allah who mercifully intervened in our affairs in the form of a well made man named Master Fard Muhammad. We forever thank him for coming among us and raising up in our midst his messenger Messiah, the Most Honorable Elijah Muhammad.
01:04:01:18 – 01:04:22:03
Student Minister Nuri Muhammad
And we thank the two of them for preparing one. They put their two hands, the two minds and two hearts together to form one in our midst today. That is without a doubt a divine leader, teacher and guide for you and me. He’s the man that taught me everything that I know, and is the man that I hope to one day become.
01:04:22:06 – 01:04:43:29
Student Minister Nuri Muhammad
And I’m looking at you, and I can tell that he was the Savior of everybody in this room. Right now. I’m talking about the Honorable Minister Louis Farrakhan. Oh, praise. I do to Allah. Before I begin, I have to let you know that the Honorable Minister Louis Farrakhan extends his love and greetings of Assalamualaikum for maybe 30 degrees.
01:04:43:29 – 01:04:58:01
Student Minister Nuri Muhammad
God forgive me. My God, sir, we will do just that. And I want you to know that the minister is in good health. Yeah, and he’s in good spirit. Thank you for listening. I greet you in.
01:04:58:03 – 01:05:22:23
Student Minister Nuri Muhammad
That’s all you need. It. Because if he. Okay, we okay. Is that right? Yes, sir. I don’t know about you, but I don’t know nobody on the planet that deserves to be in good health and good spirit. More than the Honorable Minister Louis Farrakhan. He is the hardest working human being that has ever existed since the first originator formed himself in triple darkness.
01:05:22:26 – 01:05:45:05
Student Minister Nuri Muhammad
He works morning after noon and night at the age of 92 years. Young, and he does not stop. That’s right. So, I’m happy to let you know that he’s in good health and good spirit is getting his legs back. Bro. Rodney? Yes. He’s standing. He’s walking again. He’s moving again. Throwing the cane.
01:05:45:05 – 01:05:55:02
Unknown
Down. They. They.
01:05:55:05 – 01:06:27:13
Student Minister Nuri Muhammad
They tried to kill the minister by poisoning him with radiation. And it is just now having the residual effects on his legs. Right. But by the grace of Allah, they told him that. That he would just continue to decline from where he was and get worse over time. Right. But we believe we can beat the old prophets. Prediction and hell, a cracker with a robe on ain’t no and a smock on death.
01:06:27:13 – 01:06:57:09
Student Minister Nuri Muhammad
Ain’t no prophet. So to hell it was some doctor tell you at the hospital. If we can beat the old prophets prediction, surely the Messenger of God can beat the doctor’s prediction. So him and Mother Khadijah, they have trainers that are teaching them how to reinvent the nerves and get them hooked up. The cells regenerated. So now they’re moving toward each other, walking toward each other.
01:06:57:15 – 01:07:06:06
Unknown
Better than ever. Oh, praise. Due to Allah.
01:07:06:08 – 01:07:08:10
Student Minister Nuri Muhammad
This is the City of Brotherly Love.
01:07:08:12 – 01:07:09:15
Speaker 3
Yes, it.
01:07:09:17 – 01:07:33:19
Student Minister Nuri Muhammad
And there’s no better brother to love than the Honorable Minister Louis Farrakhan. Right. And I have to tell you something. That coming in that that circle of the high respectable persons that is worthy of our love in the city of brotherly love is a brother that, in my humble opinion, is one of the greatest teachers that the Nation of Islam has ever produced.
01:07:33:21 – 01:07:44:17
Student Minister Nuri Muhammad
Your brother and student regional minister, Brother Rodney Muhammad, a brother worthy of love, worthy of support, worthy of loyalty, worthy of back and worthy of listening to.
01:07:44:19 – 01:07:50:11
Unknown
Thank you, Brother Rodney. Thank you.
01:07:50:14 – 01:07:51:16
Unknown
Hey, hey.
01:07:51:19 – 01:08:21:24
Student Minister Nuri Muhammad
Well, we have for our subject today a subject title from colony two community. Yes, sir. As we were driving in talking about where the new mosque was and where the old mosque was, and we talked about on Broadway, and the mosque was in the hood where it’s supposed to be. Now, we over here. Oh, we in the hood still.
01:08:21:27 – 01:08:23:06
Speaker 3
That’s right.
01:08:23:08 – 01:08:46:01
Student Minister Nuri Muhammad
But as we were calculating the location of the mosque and surely the the key to warfare is to establish a beachhead behind enemy lines. And since our people have become the best and the worst enemies of one another. Yeah, surely we gotta be in the hood where our people are if we attempt to resurrect them from the dead.
01:08:46:03 – 01:09:11:16
Student Minister Nuri Muhammad
You cannot stick your shovel in Ohio and expect to dig some up in the grave that’s been buried in Arizona, right? Wherever they’ve been buried, that’s where you have to stick the shovel. That way. I say that to my Muslim brothers and sisters that want to know why we don’t preach from the Koran more often. It’s because our people are buried in the Holy Koran.
01:09:11:18 – 01:09:37:14
Student Minister Nuri Muhammad
The assignment that we’ve been given is to help the Most Honorable Elijah Muhammad and the Honorable Minister Louis Farrakhan, perform the hardest job ever given to a human being. And that job is to describe as the resurrection of the dead. What if someone’s physically dead? You have to dig them up where they’re buried, right? Since our people are buried in the.
01:09:37:14 – 01:09:38:19
Speaker 3
Bible.
01:09:38:21 – 01:10:07:18
Student Minister Nuri Muhammad
We have to stick our shovel in the Bible to dig them up out the Bible. Build a bridge from the Bible to the Holy Koran so they can go over there and get the wisdom that God gave Mohammed. They go back over there, get the wisdom God gave to Jesus, then come on and jump off the bridge and get in the airplane and fly up there to get the wisdom God gave to the Most Honorable Elijah Muhammad.
01:10:07:21 – 01:10:11:08
Unknown
And it all ties in together with one another.
01:10:11:10 – 01:10:17:10
Student Minister Nuri Muhammad
I said to the brothers, I said to you, have you ever wonder why where we live at, we call it the hood.
01:10:17:13 – 01:10:19:13
Speaker 3
01:10:19:15 – 01:10:48:12
Student Minister Nuri Muhammad
When the full word is your neighborhood? The reason we don’t call the hood the neighborhood is because the concept and function of neighbor is missing from the environment. We share space and time with one another. You see, if we were neighbors of one another, then you and I would be brothers and sisters. And if I’m your brother and you’re my sister, my sons, your nephew, your daughter is your niece.
01:10:48:13 – 01:10:53:26
Student Minister Nuri Muhammad
We don’t talk about each other’s children and what each other’s children are doing wrong. We help each other’s children.
01:10:53:29 – 01:10:58:21
Unknown
Because every problem is a family problem. If we were in a.
01:10:58:25 – 01:11:28:17
Student Minister Nuri Muhammad
Neighborhood, we were shot with our brother before we shot with another, right? If we were in a neighborhood, we would look out for one another. We would respect one another. We would love one another. That’s right. I’m not that old, but I remember that there was a time when I was young that that if you was, was just cutting up around the corner and then.
01:11:28:19 – 01:12:03:17
Student Minister Nuri Muhammad
Oh, do y’all remember this? Then you you you might be in front of Miss Maybelline’s house. Yeah. You’re out there cussing. I do anything, miss Maybelline. Slide that window up. Hey. Yeah, you little boy right there, ain’t you, Suzy boy? Yeah, I heard you use that all foul and you stay right there. I’ll be right down. Yeah. And Miss Maybelline put that that that pink one there for one piece,
01:12:03:19 – 01:12:08:09
Unknown
Come on out there in front of everybody and look your behind and drag you.
01:12:08:09 – 01:12:18:09
Student Minister Nuri Muhammad
All the way back to your house. Knock on the door, say, look, Suzy, your your son, your son was in front of my house using some of the most foul language. Beat his behind.
01:12:18:10 – 01:12:21:25
Speaker 3
Yeah, that’s not nowadays.
01:12:21:28 – 01:12:40:23
Student Minister Nuri Muhammad
Suzy may want to fight Maybelline nowadays. They want to call CPS, right? But back then, Suzy May will say thank you, Mabel. Me bring you into the house. Whoop! You watch for cussing and they whoop you again for embarrassing.
01:12:40:23 – 01:12:50:14
Unknown
Her in front of Miss Maybelline. That was a neighbor, Hey, y’all. Y’all wake me.
01:12:50:16 – 01:13:19:06
Student Minister Nuri Muhammad
Hood as a suffix, means the state or the condition of whatever the base word is. But if you just remove the dash from in front of the word hood, it no longer is a suffix. It now becomes a proper noun. Yes. Stuck in the dictionary, a hood is a piece of fabric that’s attached to the back of a shirt, coat, or a jacket used to cover the head.
01:13:19:09 – 01:13:20:15
Speaker 3
Right.
01:13:20:17 – 01:13:49:07
Student Minister Nuri Muhammad
Wow. Yeah. Do you know the Most Honorable Elijah Muhammad said the only reason that all people live in the slums is because slum thoughts live in other people’s mind, right? What is he saying? That what’s going on in the hood is a sign of what’s going on under the hood, right? The hood is nothing more than a physical manifestation of the collective consciousness of the people.
01:13:49:10 – 01:14:07:22
Student Minister Nuri Muhammad
They share space and time with one another. If you change the way the people thing, you don’t have to worry about picking up the dirt from the streets. Clean. Pick up the dirt from the mind and the hands will automatically pick up the dirt from the streets. But if all we do is go out and pick up trash, right?
01:14:07:24 – 01:14:18:10
Student Minister Nuri Muhammad
Stand out in front of the liquor store and boycott the liquor store. Stand in front of trap house trying to keep people from going in or burn the trap house down. That would never solve.
01:14:18:10 – 01:14:24:24
Unknown
The problem of the hood. Do you know.
01:14:24:27 – 01:14:40:16
Student Minister Nuri Muhammad
That a dope fiend, when they come to the trap house and see that it’s closed down, they don’t say, oh man, trap house, close down. Guess I’ll be sober from here on out.
01:14:40:19 – 01:15:19:14
Student Minister Nuri Muhammad
The alcoholic when they show up at the liquor store and it’s not open no more. He don’t say, oh, liquor store. Go ahead. I’m never drinking again. No alcohol. They go down the street three blocks over and get his drink right. And the dope fiend go two blocks over to the other trap house and get his blast. But if we were to burn down the idea and the desire for the alcohol, or for the drunk inside the alcoholics or the drug addicts brain, then you won’t have to burn down the trap house.
01:15:19:14 – 01:15:42:01
Student Minister Nuri Muhammad
Oh boy, got the liquor store. They would automatically go out of business because business is about supply and demand. If we kill the demand, you can have all the supply you want, but you won’t have nobody but me and you will go out of business. Oh, praise is due to Allah. That’s the kind of revolution that the Nation of Islam makes right?
01:15:42:07 – 01:15:51:00
Student Minister Nuri Muhammad
We don’t make no revolution. We’re no pop gun or some Molotov cocktail or some voting left. Come up.
01:15:51:03 – 01:15:53:25
Speaker 3
Come on, come on man.
01:15:53:27 – 01:16:27:09
Student Minister Nuri Muhammad
Do you know what causes this planet to make a revolution? Oh, come on, come on. We live on a planet right now. There’s 24,896 miles in circumference, 7926 miles in diameter. It has 57,255,000mi² of land that stick up out of 139,685,000mi² of water. Yeah, it weighs 6 sextillion tons. That’s the number six, followed by 21 zeros.
01:16:27:10 – 01:16:27:18
Speaker 3
Right.
01:16:27:20 – 01:16:50:29
Student Minister Nuri Muhammad
And with that much land, water and weight, the Earth makes one rotation on its axis every 23 hours, 56 minutes and 46 seconds. Because it’s moving at the terrific speed of 1037 and one third miles per hour, it makes one complete revolution. All right. Every day.
01:16:51:02 – 01:16:52:09
Speaker 3
Right? Well, hell, how.
01:16:52:09 – 01:17:25:06
Student Minister Nuri Muhammad
Long have we been talking about making a revolution? For hundreds of years. Well, how does the earth, with that much land, water and weight make? There is revolution in one day. And we still talking about making 102 hundred, 300 years later. The difference between us and the Earth is that what causes the earth to make a revolution is that there’s a ball of fire out there in the universe called the sun, right, right, right.
01:17:25:08 – 01:17:57:08
Student Minister Nuri Muhammad
853,000 miles in diameter, burning at 14,072 degrees, with 10 to 20,000 mile high flames coming off of its surface. And one ray of light can travel from the sun 93 million miles to the Earth in eight minutes. And 20s, because light is moving right at 186,000 miles per second. But as soon as that light hits the Earth’s equator, the Earth agrees with and bows down to the law of light.
01:17:57:10 – 01:18:07:24
Student Minister Nuri Muhammad
And as soon as they submit to the Law of light, it begins to make motion. And it has complete change in just one day.
01:18:07:26 – 01:18:08:26
Speaker 3
And one day.
01:18:08:28 – 01:18:29:14
Student Minister Nuri Muhammad
Okay, well, what does the black man need to do? See, we need the light of truth to hit the equator of our mind. All right? So that we can start making some changes in our life. Yeah. Now, now you say. Well, well, well, I’ve been getting sun all summer. That’s what you gotta do more than get physical sun.
01:18:29:16 – 01:18:36:00
Student Minister Nuri Muhammad
You got to get to spiritual sun from the spiritual sun. I’ll leave it alone.
01:18:36:02 – 01:18:39:05
Speaker 3
Let me two.
01:18:39:07 – 01:19:03:00
Student Minister Nuri Muhammad
Back in the scripture. Light is synonymous with truth. Yes, sir. Light is synonymous with knowledge. Yes. Is that right? Yes. When you’re talking to somebody and you want them to have great comprehension skills, you say, man, may God bless you with the light of understanding. Yeah. Is that right?
01:19:03:05 – 01:19:04:03
Speaker 3
Yes, sir.
01:19:04:05 – 01:19:39:18
Student Minister Nuri Muhammad
When David was talking, he said that the Lord is a lamp unto my feet. That’s right. So. So when you break down what the light is spiritually is knowledge, is truth is understanding and is love God. So if we are in agreement with knowledge, with truth, understanding and living in harmony with the law of God, we are living in accord with the law of light, and like the earth, can make a revolution in one day.
01:19:39:19 – 01:20:10:26
Student Minister Nuri Muhammad
We can make a complete change in a 24 hour time period to we don’t take hundreds of years. Oh praise due to Allah. Okay, so in the scripture, the wisest man of the Bible by the name of Solomon says in Proverbs 23 verse seven that as a man drive, if you so is he. Don’t say that as a man wearing sir.
01:20:10:29 – 01:20:30:26
Student Minister Nuri Muhammad
Don’t say that either. Well, what about as a man have it in his pocket, right. So. But it says as a man. So, so so what the God is saying is what’s more important than the clothes we wear, the house we live in, the car we drive, or the money in our pocket is the man that’s inside of our head.
01:20:30:28 – 01:20:39:05
Student Minister Nuri Muhammad
That’s where our life really is. Our mind turned inside out.
01:20:39:07 – 01:20:41:12
Student Minister Nuri Muhammad
I think, you know, thoughts don’t just stay.
01:20:41:12 – 01:20:43:06
Speaker 3
Thoughts, right? Right.
01:20:43:09 – 01:21:14:13
Student Minister Nuri Muhammad
Oh, those become words. Words become actions. Actions form habits. Habits make character, and character produces a future. But it all starts in thought form. The Most Honorable Elijah Muhammad said that the average thought travels at 24 billion miles per second. And then he told us that inside of the brain, there’s 14 billion brain cells. And if you look at a cell, a cell is shaped like a circle.
01:21:14:16 – 01:21:51:09
Student Minister Nuri Muhammad
If you’ve got anything moving in a circular motion, it produces 1 or 2 forces. Centripetal or centrifugal. Centrifugal means when an object spins and repels things away from but centripetal, like a tornado, is when an object spins. Tornadoes don’t send things away. It sucks things in and breaks it up. But the mind is so powerful that whenever we are thinking a thought at 24 billion miles per second, that moving in a circular motion in our head, you have both laws in play.
01:21:51:12 – 01:22:20:15
Student Minister Nuri Muhammad
We began to attract to ourself by the law of centripetal force, people, situations, a circumstance to match the nature of our thinking. And we begin to repel by the law of centrifugal force, people, situations and circumstances that match opposite of our thinking. Yeah, only three of y’all agree with that. Okay, you did. All right, well, let me ask you this.
01:22:20:17 – 01:22:29:14
Student Minister Nuri Muhammad
Why did Paul say, let this mind be in you see, the same mind that was in what.
01:22:29:16 – 01:22:31:12
Speaker 3
Jesus is, right.
01:22:31:15 – 01:23:01:20
Student Minister Nuri Muhammad
Well, well, wait a minute. Whose mind did Christ Jesus have? Decries. Have the mind of God. Joseph gave the sperm. Mary provided the womb. But God, Father Jesus, mind you like, right? So if we are invited to have the same mind of Jesus, which is the mind of God, and as a man thinketh in us all, so is he.
01:23:01:20 – 01:23:03:25
Student Minister Nuri Muhammad
If you got the mind of God, you are.
01:23:03:25 – 01:23:12:03
Unknown
A God, right? And oh, praise is due to Allah.
01:23:12:06 – 01:23:38:26
Student Minister Nuri Muhammad
So we can’t go outside and say we waiting on the government. We waiting on the city council. Come on now we can take charge of our post and all temple property in view. And if he woke up in a perfect manner, keeping always on the alert, we would go from the hood to the neighborhood, from a colony to a community.
01:23:38:28 – 01:24:10:05
Student Minister Nuri Muhammad
What’s the difference between a colony and a community? You know, there are words in our vernacular that we use interchangeable with one another, but they have two different definitions. We might we we might use the term daddy and father interchangeably, but they mean two different things. A daddy is a man that knows how to plant a sperm in the vaginal trap that brings birth to a child, but a father is one that knows how to teach the child how to successfully navigate in the world.
01:24:10:05 – 01:24:34:19
Student Minister Nuri Muhammad
He’s been brought in farther and farther. All the same, we’re just missing a letter. The job of a real mother and a real father is not to make your children like you, right? No. Look, sons and daughters. Young, young soldier. This is the reason why Mom and daddy be so hard sometimes. Some of the mistakes that they see you getting ready to make.
01:24:34:19 – 01:24:43:09
Student Minister Nuri Muhammad
We already been there, done that, bought the t shirt, cut it up and made a bow. Tie the headpiece out of.
01:24:43:12 – 01:24:49:17
Student Minister Nuri Muhammad
That we don’t want to see you be on. Crash dummy.
01:24:49:19 – 01:25:14:22
Student Minister Nuri Muhammad
There’s only two types of knowledge you ever going to get in this world. That’s about knowledge and taught knowledge right? About knowledge is what you pay for with life experience. But talk not just what you. You learn by observing other people or by reading books. I mean, do you know the formula for for learning is an acronym? Y’all know the acronym is right?
01:25:14:23 – 01:25:37:28
Student Minister Nuri Muhammad
Yes. Yeah, yeah. You don’t. Yes, sir. It’s whenever you have a word in every letter in the word represents another word. Like CIA is accurate. The cocaine import agency. FBI finding a black man doing glossary.
01:25:38:01 – 01:25:45:10
Student Minister Nuri Muhammad
Come on. You got a job? Yeah. You just over broke.
01:25:45:13 – 01:26:15:17
Student Minister Nuri Muhammad
You won’t. Look, you got a labor under correct knowledge. You can have all the Foley flow was rabbit’s foot you want, but if you don’t work. Come on. No luck is coming. No, no. Pope is an acronym. Protector of pedophiles everywhere. That’s what’s been going on. It’s an acronym. The formula for learning it’s called core.
01:26:15:20 – 01:26:16:02
Speaker 3
M.
01:26:16:04 – 01:26:30:05
Student Minister Nuri Muhammad
C o r e in that order. Communication observation reading and less experiment.
01:26:30:07 – 01:26:31:01
Speaker 3
Come on.
01:26:31:04 – 01:27:00:25
Student Minister Nuri Muhammad
Problem with this world is that they tell us that experience is the best teacher. Come on now, that’s a lie. Might be the most effective, but it’s not the best. All right. The Holy Koran tells us as Muslims travel to Earth, right. That’s right. And say the ears of those that have gone before you, he don’t tell us to go experiment like you’ve never seen them advertise a new automobile and the safety features and the CEO or the CFO or the owner of the company is inside the car, driving into the wall to show you how good the airbags and seatbelt work.
01:27:00:27 – 01:27:23:10
Student Minister Nuri Muhammad
Oh hell have you know, they always put them little plastic fellows inside with them yellow and black stickers all on them. They call them crash noise and that’s something Big Mama said. A fool learns from the old mistakes. Well, why ask? People learn from others. So to the young soldiers who are mom and daddy is trying to do the.
01:27:23:10 – 01:27:37:25
Student Minister Nuri Muhammad
Even though you can find out that they used to do the stuff, you thinking about doing, but they know the effects of what they did, they know the cost of what they did, and they trying to keep you from having to pay the same cost. That’s right.
01:27:38:01 – 01:27:38:25
Speaker 3
Right.
01:27:38:28 – 01:28:04:08
Student Minister Nuri Muhammad
So last, people communicate to learn. Come on, observe to learn. Did you know the Most Honorable Elijah Muhammad said the solution to every problem is in a book somewhere. So so so wise people, they don’t they don’t experiment to learn. You never see scientists in the laboratory mixing chemicals together. And they they said, let me see how this does.
01:28:04:10 – 01:28:32:26
Student Minister Nuri Muhammad
No, they got guinea pigs, lab rats. Is that right? Then they put the oh it killed but they not taking a sip to find out. That’s not wise. So for us, if we want to be wise as young people, we have to get the taught knowledge. Come on now. Not the boat knowledge and what Mom and dad is trying to do.
01:28:32:26 – 01:28:37:03
Student Minister Nuri Muhammad
They’re trying to put you up in street terms, put you up on game.
01:28:37:05 – 01:28:38:16
Speaker 3
Night, right?
01:28:38:19 – 01:28:56:07
Student Minister Nuri Muhammad
To let you know that I’ve been down that road and I had a boyfriend like the one you trying to get me. And I’m telling you, this ain’t worth it. I remember I was just like you, and I quit like you. Quit. And I promise you, I regret it, right? Right. See you in this life as I’m a two pains.
01:28:56:07 – 01:29:19:18
Student Minister Nuri Muhammad
The man’s going to suffer the pain of discipline. Or the pain of regret. Discipline is whenever you are willing to put pain on yourself, on the frontier, to have long term gain on the back end. But if you go for short term pleasure on the front end, you go after long term pain on the back. It, I tell the young soldiers in the high school, same thing I told my son.
01:29:19:18 – 01:29:48:15
Student Minister Nuri Muhammad
I said, look, pay now and you can play later. That’s right, that’s right. But if you play now, you’re going to pay later. That’s right. He’s here. And I told myself, learned that when he was a teenager. And I can see him looking like I’m. I’m young. Everybody else playing. I think I’m gonna play. That’s right. I said, I can see by looking in your face that you not understand what now and later represents me.
01:29:48:17 – 01:30:12:11
Student Minister Nuri Muhammad
So let’s put some time on it so you can play for these five years and you going to pay for it for 50. But if you go ahead and discipline yourself to do what you should do, when you should, when you should do it, whether you feel like doing it or not, maintain that action even after the excitement has worn off.
01:30:12:14 – 01:30:36:09
Student Minister Nuri Muhammad
Make your word bond regardless to whom or what you. If you make your mind up that I’m going to keep my word to my God and myself and I’m not going to quit when I’m tired. I’m going to quit when I’m gone and go. I may have to make an adjustment. I may have to take a detour. I may slow down, but I’m not abandoning the object.
01:30:36:11 – 01:31:04:09
Student Minister Nuri Muhammad
Right, right. If you make your mind up to pay for the five years, you’ll be at a play for 50. That’s right. Which one do you want to pay and then play later. That’s what discipline get you. But if you play now, you’re going to pay later. And that’s where regret comes. That’s right. And when regret hits you, you can’t rewind the clock and go back in time to fix what you messed up on.
01:31:04:12 – 01:31:32:13
Student Minister Nuri Muhammad
Right. Y’all still all right? Well, there’s a difference between looking at something and actually seeing it. Yeah. Come on, sir, look at something. All it means is that light hit the eye and register that there’s an object present. Yes, sir. But in order to see what we look at, we have to engage the mind’s eye or the third eye and give the correct interpretation to what we’re looking at.
01:31:32:18 – 01:31:56:02
Student Minister Nuri Muhammad
Right? We look at, look and see to it. It’s a difference between hearing and listening, right. To hear something. All it means is that the the the eardrum vibrate and sound is recognized. But in order to listen, you have to now use not just like the third eye, the third ear to give the correct interpretation of what the sound represents.
01:31:56:06 – 01:32:18:27
Student Minister Nuri Muhammad
Yeah, a colony is not a community, right? Right. Colony is when people that live in an environment don’t own the property or the business is in the environment, someone else owns the property and the businesses, and they suck out the economic blood of that environment and take it to another neighborhood where they live to make their neighborhood better.
01:32:19:03 – 01:32:48:05
Student Minister Nuri Muhammad
That’s right. But a community is. Whenever people live in an environment, they own the property, in the environment they do. They own the businesses in the environment, right? Right. Y’all hear me? Yes. Before we can get registered in the nation, we have to do something called student enrollment. Right? Is that right? Question we ask is who is the than the original man is the answer.
01:32:48:07 – 01:33:19:02
Student Minister Nuri Muhammad
The maker. Imagine is the maker. The renter. It don’t even sound right. Does the maker the renter? You only want to say cream on the planet over. After that. So so on in some is what we supposed to do? Y’all with me? Yes. So in every community or colony, hood, you got an Italian pizza spot.
01:33:19:04 – 01:33:46:06
Student Minister Nuri Muhammad
Yeah. You got a white man on payday loan spot now is that right? You know, you got a Jewish owned pawn shop or two. Is that right? You got a Pakistani owned, you buy a we fry. Is that right? You got an Indian owned gas station with a convenience store attached to it. But wait, but let me ask you this.
01:33:46:09 – 01:34:18:00
Student Minister Nuri Muhammad
Have you ever seen any of them in any of the black businesses? So was not one hot? I have one, they don’t even have the respect. After sucking the economic blood of the neighborhood to even sponsor programs for our children. Did you never see the the the Little League baseball team sponsored by Luciano’s Beauty Supply House? Do you?
01:34:18:03 – 01:34:42:09
Student Minister Nuri Muhammad
So are you telling me that these are human leeches that come into our community and suck the economic blood out of our community, and then they go live in the suburbs with white people and take all her art on money to make white people’s neighborhood better. You know, we need to take control of our destiny.
01:34:42:12 – 01:34:46:27
Unknown
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01:34:46:29 – 01:34:49:02
Unknown
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01:34:49:04 – 01:35:16:28
Student Minister Nuri Muhammad
Problem now is that black people don’t like supporting black people’s businesses. Yes, Lord. So the Scripture says that we are we are sheep like people. Sheep ships are easily led in the wrong direction. Oh yeah, the heart and lead in the right direction. Do you do you know that sheep will fight each other well, but they’ll never fight the wolf, the shepherd boy or the dog?
01:35:16:28 – 01:35:28:10
Student Minister Nuri Muhammad
The shepherd boy used to herd the sheep. Ain’t that something? Tell me that ain’t black people. A whole nation of sheep. All.
01:35:28:13 – 01:35:41:11
Student Minister Nuri Muhammad
I know ain’t a word. But y’all understand. Make sense? Don’t you? You with me, right? We gonna put an Urban Dictionary next year, sheeple.
01:35:41:13 – 01:36:04:21
Student Minister Nuri Muhammad
When we were coming into town, Brother Rodney, I was talking to the great Brother Freeway. The great Ortiz Freeway. We going to get together soon? He’s. He’s such a beautiful brother. We had a conversation once. I don’t mean where you are, but. Oh, they let me speak at a, hip hop concert in Brooklyn. That’s where it was.
01:36:04:23 – 01:36:32:15
Student Minister Nuri Muhammad
And I took the stage and spoke. We met talk to him, and I said something to him. He has me in his album now. What I said to him is, on his album, but I was noticing that just like every other major city, I just put it out in the atmosphere. I asked, I said how many Asian city county council members do you all have?
01:36:32:18 – 01:37:04:09
Student Minister Nuri Muhammad
None. How many Asians do you have on a school board? No. How many Asians do you have working in the mayor’s office or the governor’s office? None. How do you even have any Asian congressmen here? No. No Asian senators? No, I said, but but Asians have power. We’re no politics. Mean black people got politics, but ain’t got no power.
01:37:04:12 – 01:37:11:04
Student Minister Nuri Muhammad
Question is, what do we want? Do we want politics? Or do we want power?
01:37:11:07 – 01:37:11:28
Speaker 3
Come on.
01:37:12:00 – 01:37:47:08
Student Minister Nuri Muhammad
We we need to take a page from the Asians book. Right? We did. Do you know that right now that the median income of Asians in America is the highest in the United States of America? The median income for an Asian in America right now is $97,626. The median income for black people in America is $47,596. They’re making double what we make and only been here for a quarter of the time.
01:37:47:08 – 01:37:48:24
Student Minister Nuri Muhammad
We’ve been here.
01:37:48:26 – 01:37:49:20
Speaker 3
Right?
01:37:49:22 – 01:37:51:12
Student Minister Nuri Muhammad
That’s past awkward, right?
01:37:51:12 – 01:37:53:27
Speaker 3
Okay.
01:37:54:00 – 01:38:00:06
Student Minister Nuri Muhammad
What is that? Right. Got it. Y’all catch that?
01:38:00:09 – 01:38:02:19
Student Minister Nuri Muhammad
Right.
01:38:02:21 – 01:38:10:14
Student Minister Nuri Muhammad
Do you know that they did a calculation on how long money stays in the hands of every community?
01:38:10:16 – 01:38:12:23
Speaker 3
Anyway, that’s all we can.
01:38:12:25 – 01:38:43:06
Student Minister Nuri Muhammad
Number one at the top of the list is the Asians. They keep their dollar in their community 28 to 30 days before lease. Yeah. Next. After them. What’s the Jews? They keep theirs for 17 to 21 days after the Jews. What’s the Latino family? They keep theirs for two weeks. And you got your seatbelts on. Coming up next on the black man and woman of North America.
01:38:43:09 – 01:38:49:09
Student Minister Nuri Muhammad
The black community keeps their dollar in their community 3 to 6 hours.
01:38:49:11 – 01:38:52:03
Speaker 3
Oh, God. That is.
01:38:52:05 – 01:39:10:04
Student Minister Nuri Muhammad
Hold on out there. This is a digital era. Now, you ain’t getting checks no more, right? Right. You get direct deposit, right? So if you got direct deposit on Friday morning when you went to work and you got to work eight hours and the dollar don’t stay in our community, but 3 to 6 before we even get off to work.
01:39:10:04 – 01:39:13:13
Student Minister Nuri Muhammad
The white man got his money back.
01:39:13:15 – 01:39:14:19
Speaker 3
Yes.
01:39:14:21 – 01:39:43:09
Student Minister Nuri Muhammad
That’s bad math right there. Do you know that that this two things that, Well, more than two things, but many things that are different about the Asians than us. Do you know that in their mind, they never trained their children to be employees. They train their children to be entrepreneurs. Right. Did you know that without somebody saying it, they shop with their brother before they shop with another?
01:39:43:12 – 01:40:09:03
Student Minister Nuri Muhammad
Right. They are patriotic, meaning they are loyal to their own people. And when you are patriotic, you patronize. Oh yeah. One of the key things that can be done as a litmus test to determine whether or not we are patriotic as a black person is how much patronizing do we do? The black businesses?
01:40:09:06 – 01:40:11:13
Speaker 3
Yeah. Good question. Good question.
01:40:11:19 – 01:40:54:10
Student Minister Nuri Muhammad
In the Asian community, did you know right now the Japanese lead the world in patent filings? Do you know, since 1870 they have been number one in science, technology, language communication and life expectancy. What’s their formula for in kindergarten, for one hour a day? In kindergarten, for one hour a day, the four and five year olds learn courses on leadership, hard work, positive thinking and patriotism.
01:40:54:12 – 01:41:06:02
Student Minister Nuri Muhammad
And because they are in kindergarten, the word kindergarten is German for kind of a garden.
01:41:06:04 – 01:41:21:06
Student Minister Nuri Muhammad
The Most Honorable Elijah Muhammad said that if you feed a child the right spiritual and and physical food from the womb to the time that they are six, by the time they reach the age six, they will already know what they’re born in the world to do.
01:41:21:09 – 01:41:22:12
Speaker 3
That’s right.
01:41:22:14 – 01:41:32:12
Student Minister Nuri Muhammad
What is he telling us? That the most impressionable years of a child’s life is from the womb to the time they are six, right?
01:41:32:14 – 01:41:33:29
Speaker 3
Right.
01:41:34:01 – 01:41:58:00
Student Minister Nuri Muhammad
Yo, yo. Hit me. Yes, sir. Have you ever seen a baby that’s born and had to have the suction device to get them out? The wound in the disfigure figures the head. Now they sell helmets, and you can put a helmet on the baby, and the helmet will automatically get the head the shape right. But back in the day before they had helmets.
01:41:58:01 – 01:42:27:08
Student Minister Nuri Muhammad
Mothers. Yes. We just robbed that spot. Didn’t. Yes. See? Am I telling the truth? Mothers? And when you couldn’t, you rub it and reshape. A skull was present. But the skull was so soft that way it was easily form. The Honorable Elijah Muhammad said the outside reflects the inside. So if the skull of the head is easy to fall, that’s a sign that the mind is easy to fall.
01:42:27:10 – 01:42:38:28
Student Minister Nuri Muhammad
So what they are doing is they are indoctrinating their children into devotion, love and support and defense of their own kind.
01:42:39:00 – 01:42:39:22
Speaker 3
Okay.
01:42:39:25 – 01:42:49:25
Student Minister Nuri Muhammad
So the rest of the time they go to school. Yes. Give them ideas, reinforce. But what are we learning.
01:42:49:28 – 01:42:52:26
Student Minister Nuri Muhammad
TikTok a little.
01:42:52:28 – 01:42:55:07
Speaker 3
On.
01:42:55:09 – 01:42:56:29
Student Minister Nuri Muhammad
This is a major problem. No.
01:42:57:02 – 01:42:58:03
Speaker 3
Yes.
01:42:58:06 – 01:43:33:01
Student Minister Nuri Muhammad
See. See. The Honorable Minister Louis Farrakhan in the time and what must be done. Let’s just says he said that you are what you eat. And even more what you think you say in this world, the scientists of this world like to tell us there’s only two gates to the human mind, the eye and the ear. But the Most Honorable Elijah Muhammad on page 53 of How to Eat to live but one he he said that these two systems, the digestive system and the brain have a lot in common.
01:43:33:01 – 01:43:35:04
Student Minister Nuri Muhammad
What hurts one hurts the other.
01:43:35:06 – 01:43:36:01
Speaker 3
Yes. Come on.
01:43:36:01 – 01:44:07:17
Student Minister Nuri Muhammad
How do you. There’s three gates to the mind, right? It’s the eyes, it’s the ears, but it’s also the mouth. And everything that we put in the eye, the ear or the mouth is either 1 or 2 things, is either tannic or toxic. Tannic. Meaning that it promotes healing and life. Toxic means that it causes disease, promotes death and sickness.
01:44:07:20 – 01:44:08:21
Speaker 3
Go ahead man.
01:44:08:23 – 01:44:25:05
Student Minister Nuri Muhammad
You say, well, you I mean, I can understand that about food come off, but I can’t understand that about, you know, you turn this information like that. Yeah. The question when you go on through Facebook or Instagram and you scroll it down, don’t take out at your feed.
01:44:25:08 – 01:44:29:00
Speaker 3
Yeah. Say right.
01:44:29:03 – 01:45:06:27
Student Minister Nuri Muhammad
You’re not you’re not eating it though with your mouth. So what’s eating it? It’s feeding the mind, right. So. Whenever we are constantly downloading the tonic, we’re going to stay in the car and the car that he never have a community. Come on. Community. The base word of community is unity. So what do you know? The Most Honorable Elijah Muhammad said that our unity is more powerful than a nuclear bomb.
01:45:06:29 – 01:45:38:08
Student Minister Nuri Muhammad
Do you know how powerful a nuclear bomb is? There’s a M.I.T. study that was done on March 2nd of 2022. Listen to what they found and keep in mind, Japan, brother Rodney, I heard him saying that Japan is is killing the whole world and all of the most important areas. And they had a nuclear bomb dropped on them, and that’s something some did not 500 years ago, just a few minutes ago, that thing.
01:45:38:10 – 01:46:03:20
Student Minister Nuri Muhammad
But they bounced back. That’s right. Was that a sign of we’ve been through slavery, but guess what we can do bounce back. That’s right. All praise is due to Allah. Look what they found about a nuclear bomb. That the radiation is much more destructive than the physical damage from the impact.
01:46:03:22 – 01:46:05:12
Speaker 3
Yes. Right.
01:46:05:14 – 01:46:24:05
Student Minister Nuri Muhammad
So when a bomb is dropped, it has one degree of physical damage. But then the radiation, it begins to renegotiate the molecular structure of the air in the environment where the bomb was dropped. And people are starting to breathe in those chemicals for decades.
01:46:24:08 – 01:46:25:15
Speaker 3
Right.
01:46:25:17 – 01:46:46:26
Student Minister Nuri Muhammad
And the next thing you know, what happened way back then is affecting people way up here now, right? What if our unity is more powerful than a nuclear bomb? Don’t worry about whether us being united today is going to get everything we want. We gotta drop a bomb. But radiation is going come. That’s right. That’s down the line of time.
01:46:46:26 – 01:46:53:29
Student Minister Nuri Muhammad
When our children’s children’s children are able to reap the benefit of the sacrifice that we made. Oh, praise is due.
01:46:53:29 – 01:47:01:17
Unknown
To a lot. All right, wrap it up, wrap it up. So.
01:47:01:19 – 01:47:39:22
Student Minister Nuri Muhammad
Whenever a Lord God established the first neighborhood, how did he. How did he make it? That’s how we should ask. So when you look at the first community that was created by God himself, according to the Bible, it was in the Garden of Eden, of Eden. In the inner garden, not the parking lot, right of securely. Yeah, not in the parking lot of Taco Hill.
01:47:39:25 – 01:48:13:04
Student Minister Nuri Muhammad
Not in make devils, not the murder king. Not a Kentucky Fried Chicken. You was the first community God created. He placed them where you know well what grows in a garden? Vegetables and fruit. What’s the God tell us? We need to be eaten, right? Y’all right. Then, according to Genesis, there were four instructions that were given to man that be fruitful.
01:48:13:06 – 01:48:17:15
Student Minister Nuri Muhammad
Both multiply, replenish the.
01:48:17:15 – 01:48:18:16
Speaker 3
Earth.
01:48:18:19 – 01:48:52:08
Student Minister Nuri Muhammad
And subdue it through fruitful and multiply. Sound like the same word, but it’s kind of like colony and community. Daddy and father look and see and hear. Enlist. And then we use them to. But they different definitions for them. All right. Multiplication means the physical reproduction of offspring. Right. And we do a real good at that. Yeah. You can take the pill the shot all kind of stuff.
01:48:52:09 – 01:48:55:17
Student Minister Nuri Muhammad
Still be pregnant with twins.
01:48:55:19 – 01:48:58:01
Speaker 3
All right.
01:48:58:04 – 01:49:33:29
Student Minister Nuri Muhammad
Yeah. Just that that’s just a that we got. We got that down pat. But being fruitful is a spiritual thing, you see. Multiplies when you bring two bodies together to bring birth to a son or daughter. But being fruitful is when you bring minds together to bring birth to ideas and institutions and plans. Our problem is, since we’ve been bringing children into the world, but we haven’t been fruitful to have institutions and businesses for them to operate in after they are brought into existence.
01:49:34:02 – 01:50:05:05
Student Minister Nuri Muhammad
So we we celebrate. Oh, praise is due to Allah. We celebrate the tassel flip. Come on, they made it. They got their degree and. But hell, because we haven’t been fruitful. We’re not. Children come out with an engineering degree when they come out with an architectural degree. When they come out with a construction, engineer degree, we don’t have anywhere for them to work at as an institution or a business for them to practice their craft.
01:50:05:08 – 01:50:21:13
Student Minister Nuri Muhammad
Right. So they are left to go out into the world and give. I open it in me right there, give skill and talent. And for paycheck, they are forced to uphold white supremacy.
01:50:21:15 – 01:50:49:03
Student Minister Nuri Muhammad
Oh yeah, we gotta be fruitful. Then multiply. Do you know the Honorable Minister Louis Farrakhan said business is the activity of life, right? And I, I read a Bible verse that Reverend, he ain’t he. He never said this one before. So I tell you, how much you supposed to be doing for money, y’all, right? Yes. I didn’t plan on saying this.
01:50:49:03 – 01:51:03:06
Student Minister Nuri Muhammad
I hope I can find it the time. If I can’t find that I’m a paraphrase. It just go have to go look it up yourself. But I promise you, I’m telling the truth. I’m.
01:51:03:09 – 01:51:23:00
Student Minister Nuri Muhammad
Well, let me read this to you. First. We going to get some more. Thus saith the Lord’s. The Honorable Minister Farrakhan said this money will come with true service. But when money is the focal point, it robs you of the real spirit that God wants you to have that will make you successful in all you do. See, look, listen to this.
01:51:23:03 – 01:51:50:19
Student Minister Nuri Muhammad
The minister said the acquisition of material things automatically comes to one who has cultivated and developed him or herself, through belief and application of the principles of faith. It is the principles that are Lord. God uses the measure of success, not the results, and the Bible backs him up in in Deuteronomy 38 or 9, listen to this, and you will again obey the voice of the Lord, and do all his commandments, which I command you today.
01:51:50:22 – 01:52:01:14
Student Minister Nuri Muhammad
And the Lord your God will make you successful in everything you do. You.
01:52:01:16 – 01:52:31:17
Student Minister Nuri Muhammad
In everything you do. So. So if we obey the Lord and hear his voice and start following his commands, he’s not going to get to give us the mightiest he can give us. The Mohammed touch. Everything you touch will be praiseworthy, worthy of praise and praise. The much. You are still all right? Yes, sir. You become. You become.
01:52:31:19 – 01:52:34:25
Student Minister Nuri Muhammad
I’m going to give you a few more. I’m trying to find this, this, this verse.
01:52:34:27 – 01:52:40:05
Speaker 3
My brothers, at the time.
01:52:40:07 – 01:52:50:07
Student Minister Nuri Muhammad
It talks about how many streams of income you should have. You okay with that?
01:52:50:09 – 01:53:02:29
Student Minister Nuri Muhammad
You. We need. We need have money. We need to have a lot of money. Look, Proverbs 1322 says A good man leaves an inheritance to his children’s children.
01:53:03:00 – 01:53:05:14
Speaker 3
Yes, yes.
01:53:05:16 – 01:53:27:13
Student Minister Nuri Muhammad
Is that generational wealth? The wealth? Did I say generational wealth? And I say generational income. Generational wealth, income and wealth are two different concepts. And come is what you earn in form of cash from trading a good product or service. But wealth is when you exchange that income for something that either keeps its value or increases in value over time.
01:53:27:15 – 01:53:39:13
Student Minister Nuri Muhammad
The only thing that keeps his value or increases in value over time is a business that you own, or real estate.
01:53:39:15 – 01:53:43:15
Student Minister Nuri Muhammad
Do they call it real?
01:53:43:17 – 01:53:51:23
Student Minister Nuri Muhammad
Estate. The only thing called real is real estate. So if it’s the only thing called real, what’s everything else.
01:53:51:25 – 01:53:53:13
Speaker 3
Is.
01:53:53:15 – 01:54:15:15
Student Minister Nuri Muhammad
Fake estate. So if we’re going to leave an inheritance for our children’s children, go ahead, listen to this. In Ecclesiastes 11 and two, invest in seven ventures. Yes, in eight. For you do not know what disaster may come upon the land.
01:54:15:17 – 01:54:21:14
Speaker 3
Come off! Think of that eight.
01:54:21:16 – 01:54:37:07
Student Minister Nuri Muhammad
Now don’t give me wrong. You shouldn’t just go out trying to find eight things right to just jump into an investing teach. No, no. First thing we have to do is find out what our purpose for living is.
01:54:37:09 – 01:54:39:26
Speaker 3
Right? Right. Come on brother, now.
01:54:39:28 – 01:55:08:05
Student Minister Nuri Muhammad
I was watching, the other day, Mister Rodney. Oh. Al Roker. Yeah, on the today show. Right. They had, you know, he made a joke about it, but but look what he said this morning. There was a study he was reporting, and he found that 80% of the people in the world were unhappy.
01:55:08:08 – 01:55:10:01
Speaker 3
Yeah.
01:55:10:04 – 01:55:26:00
Student Minister Nuri Muhammad
And two weeks later, he said, I wonder, does that count? This seems funny. 80% of the world to, in this study, are unhappy. But a few weeks ago we did another study and they said that 80% of the people are working a job that they don’t really like.
01:55:26:02 – 01:55:37:13
Student Minister Nuri Muhammad
And the Honorable Minister Louis Farrakhan said that that that that happiness. He said, look, I didn’t look in the dictionary. He said, I consulted myself. I just.
01:55:37:13 – 01:55:39:26
Speaker 3
Used right.
01:55:39:28 – 01:55:55:18
Student Minister Nuri Muhammad
I remember sitting backstage, it was Savior’s day, right? The new educational paradigm. Right? And I was sitting right there and he said, I looked up the word happiness. And he looked back. He said, no, not in the dictionary. But I consulted myself.
01:55:55:20 – 01:55:56:12
Speaker 3
He said.
01:55:56:14 – 01:56:03:17
Student Minister Nuri Muhammad
And I didn’t say it out loud, but I was thinking this. Yeah? Who in the hell is Webster anyway?
01:56:03:19 – 01:56:23:11
Student Minister Nuri Muhammad
That’s right. I ain’t saying, but I was thinking it and I said, man, I’d much rather have a divine definition from a servant of God to some white man named Webster. I don’t know nothing about. What if he was tipsy when he was doing the definition? I don’t know. I don’t know what we don’t know about Webster. Right.
01:56:23:14 – 01:56:35:26
Student Minister Nuri Muhammad
The minister said this. He said, happiness comes when you have found your purpose for living. Yeah. That’s right. And you are fulfilling that purpose. Yeah. The soul has an unspeakable joy.
01:56:36:02 – 01:56:36:18
Speaker 3
Yeah.
01:56:36:20 – 01:56:55:01
Student Minister Nuri Muhammad
He didn’t say you had to fulfill it. He said you just have to be in the process of doing what you’re born to do. The Honorable Elijah Muhammad said that what you love to do and what you do, well, it’s more than likely what you’re born to do. You gotta figure out that single activity of life that you do well with the least amount of effort.
01:56:55:04 – 01:57:18:19
Student Minister Nuri Muhammad
What is that one thing that you love so much that if you didn’t have to get paid for it, and you can still survive, you’d be willing to do it and not make nothing. See, the problem with the with the world and why people are so depressed and so sad is because there’s too many people that do what they’re paid for, not what they’re made for.
01:57:18:22 – 01:57:33:04
Student Minister Nuri Muhammad
If we were doing what we were made for and got paid for that happiness would fill our hearts with joy. So. So we gotta get our purpose first and build a life of purpose.
01:57:33:07 – 01:57:34:14
Speaker 3
Yeah, right.
01:57:34:16 – 01:57:37:03
Student Minister Nuri Muhammad
And then figure out how we can get some other stuff going. Yeah.
01:57:37:04 – 01:57:38:21
Speaker 3
That’s right.
01:57:38:23 – 01:58:00:09
Student Minister Nuri Muhammad
That won’t take away our time, energy and our focus on our purpose for living. Right. But I can get some things going that can generate revenue, that can keep coming in, because I gotta leave an inheritance for my children’s children. Yeah, yeah. That’s a, that’s a, that’s a and you plan on living to be 709. It’s a lot of children who may be born in that time.
01:58:00:11 – 01:58:15:21
Student Minister Nuri Muhammad
And what if your son make it to five and your daughter make it to 1700. What. What’s going why, how many babies they gonna have? You gotta have a lot of bread, y’all right? So I’m saying that the same.
01:58:15:23 – 01:58:50:09
Student Minister Nuri Muhammad
Fruitful is marrying ideas together. Do you know the the Honorable Elijah Muhammad. He said in a writing about the dinner table. He was talking about the way he functions at his dinner table. It was in the Muhammad Speaks newspaper. They were interviewing him. Do you know what the Honorable Elijah Muhammad said? He said you should have dinner with your family.
01:58:50:11 – 01:59:11:09
Student Minister Nuri Muhammad
And when you have dinner with your family and you invite other believers over to eat with you, I’m the only conversation that believers should have with each other is about the resurrection work, right? Or about economic development. What are we talking about?
01:59:11:13 – 01:59:11:24
Speaker 3
Right?
01:59:11:24 – 01:59:36:01
Student Minister Nuri Muhammad
Right is do you know that we haven’t found the 6 or 8 like minds because we don’t share what’s on our mind with 6 or 8 other people. Imagine if all we talked about was resurrection and economics. Then you might start talking about, you know, I’ve always wanted to have a drycleaners you. What did you say, sister? I’m not, I’m not.
01:59:36:01 – 01:59:55:16
Student Minister Nuri Muhammad
What did you. I say, I’m not. I’m not spying on your conversation. I’m not your husband. What did you just say? Oh, I dry clean. Me too, you know. You know, brother, so forth. Want to start a dry cleaners too? I didn’t know that. Boy. I wonder how many others is like this. Next thing you know, you found six people.
01:59:55:17 – 02:00:12:08
Student Minister Nuri Muhammad
All of y’all been wanting to start a dry cleaning. So what do you say? What can we agree to put up every week in a of fun? And let’s start meeting every week. And let’s give ourselves homework assignment. We can do the research where we can get this thing off the ground. How much money does it take to buy the equipment?
02:00:12:11 – 02:00:30:02
Student Minister Nuri Muhammad
How much money does it take to get it running? How much? Where’s the what’s the best location? Get all the math done and let’s start stacking our money. How long is it going to take? It’s going to take us three years. If we keep doing it like this, that and the other. Well, let’s stay consistent. Three years, do our research, and then in three years, we going to make it happen.
02:00:30:04 – 02:01:01:22
Student Minister Nuri Muhammad
But because we don’t trust each other enough, we’re walking around with the idea individually in our mind that we’ve been having for 20 years and 20 years later, because we didn’t want to unite with our brothers and sisters and pull our resources. 20 years later, we end up with an idea and 100% of nothing. But if we just came together 20 years ago with them 6 or 8, we could have had ten dry cleaners by now and we would have had 100% of something.
02:01:01:22 – 02:01:04:01
Student Minister Nuri Muhammad
Yes. Right. Yeah. Does that make sense?
02:01:04:01 – 02:01:06:18
Speaker 3
Yes yes, yes.
02:01:06:20 – 02:01:43:15
Student Minister Nuri Muhammad
So the next thing that is told is to do what? Replenish the earth. That there were replenish means to replace with something better. Our assignment is not to make our children like us, but to make our children better than us. To say fact. And I want to put this in atmosphere. Parents, stop being so hard on yourself because your children don’t fulfill your hopes and expectations at the time you think they should, or where there’s life, there’s still hope.
02:01:43:18 – 02:01:45:21
Speaker 3
That’s right, that’s right.
02:01:45:23 – 02:02:15:22
Student Minister Nuri Muhammad
Why did the scripture say train up a child in the way they should? And when they grow, what? When they grow up, their they will not. So what did the God know about that in between? You know, technically the original Hebrew doesn’t say grow old. He says mature when they mature, they will depart from your ways, see all of your children, they’re going to have an epiphany at a certain point, right?
02:02:15:24 – 02:02:38:19
Student Minister Nuri Muhammad
There’s going to be an moment. The light bulb is going to come on, and they’re going to start remembering by bumping into it in life, that if I had done what my mother, my father, told me back then, I would have avoided a whole lot of unnecessary pitfalls. Let me go back and renegotiate my contract with my mother and my father, and start activating some of the stuff they’ve been telling me to do, right?
02:02:38:19 – 02:02:58:19
Student Minister Nuri Muhammad
Right. And the next thing you know, you see them on the straight path. Yeah, but our ancestors knew that it takes more than just a good father and a good mother to make a great child. Before we was kidnaped in Caucasian eyes and westernized by the enemy, we had to ask him to say, it takes a village, to raise a child.
02:02:58:22 – 02:03:02:03
Student Minister Nuri Muhammad
Right? It takes all hands on deck.
02:03:02:05 – 02:03:04:08
Speaker 3
Yes, yes.
02:03:04:10 – 02:03:09:01
Student Minister Nuri Muhammad
So I’m saying this in closing.
02:03:09:03 – 02:03:24:15
Student Minister Nuri Muhammad
Lest our speaking greatness into our children. And look, if I’m your brother and you my sister, then all the children in the neighborhood are our nieces and nephews.
02:03:24:17 – 02:03:47:17
Student Minister Nuri Muhammad
So wherever you see a black child, speak greatness into them. Yeah. Let them know. Do you know you can do anything you put your mind to do? You know what? I’m proud of you. Come on. I believe in you. See? You’ll be surprised what happens to a child’s mind. Imagine if everywhere they go and meet a black adult, they’re getting that positive reinforcement.
02:03:47:19 – 02:04:02:20
Student Minister Nuri Muhammad
You can do anything you put your mind to. I believe in you. I love you that that that that I’m proud. You imagine what’s going to happen to them. At a certain point, they’re going to start believing that. Yeah. And the next thing you know, we’ll have a whole new generation of people.
02:04:02:22 – 02:04:03:03
Speaker 3
Right?
02:04:03:03 – 02:04:36:06
Student Minister Nuri Muhammad
That’s right. That will take us to that next level. And when that happens, we’ll be able to subdue the earth. Yes. Yes. Okay. Yes. Yeah. Who is the original man? The original man is the. Yeah. Okay. Stop right there. Asiatic is not the same as Asia. Now, right? The whole Earth used to be called Asia, right? So the term Asiatic means universal.
02:04:36:08 – 02:05:00:18
Student Minister Nuri Muhammad
Yeah, yeah. I want. With Asiatic black man. With the maker. Oh, I would own with the what? And with the God of the universe. But before we can be the God of the universe, we have to be the God of a continent before we can be the God of a continent. We got to be, before God of economy.
02:05:00:18 – 02:05:06:01
Student Minister Nuri Muhammad
We got to be the God of a planet before God of planet, and then after that, God of a God, then after that, we got to be God of a country.
02:05:06:03 – 02:05:07:16
Speaker 3
Yeah.
02:05:07:19 – 02:05:26:06
Student Minister Nuri Muhammad
After God of a country, we got to be God of a state. God of a city. Yes. Before we can be God in a city, we got to become God of the hood. Before we can become God of all who are. We got to become a God of our house. And before we can be the God of the house, we got to become the God of ourself.
02:05:26:08 – 02:05:32:06
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In freedom, justice and equality, harmony and balance. In this be.
02:05:32:08 – 02:06:01:28
Student Minister Nuri Muhammad
And when we do that, if all of us begin to engage in that kind of self-examination, self-analysis, self-correction, we will land at self mastery. And the next thing you know, since the hood is the physical environment that is a a reflection of the collective consciousness of the people to share space and time. If we all are thinking like a God, yes, then the ghetto will become God’s kingdom.
02:06:02:01 – 02:06:11:27
Student Minister Nuri Muhammad
The projects will become the Paradise and the hood can become heaven. Thank you for listeners. I greet you in peace, I. Assalamualaikum.