(I didn't see any particular name attached to this article, but because of the truth of it and the ills that it points out that keeps us down as a people I wanted to share it. Bro. Mustafaa)
Why I Am Giving Up Negroes In 2002!!
I am soo tired of Negroes!!!!!
I have had enough of:
A. The 'I believe everything white people tell me' negroes. Damn, GOD gave you a brain for a reason and it wasn't so your head would not cave in when you put headphones on. Use it once in awhile, you may grow to like it.....
B. 'Their ice is colder than ours negroes.' My GOD in heaven, we got people who WILL NOT FOR ANY REASON do business with people who look like them. What is that all about? Is your self-esteem that low that anyone who looks like you will automatically have an inferior product? Please consult a therapist, ASAP!!
C. 'Black people and African people do not get along Negroes.' Please cut the foolishness and make a new friend and stop listening to divide and conquer tactics of the oppressor.
D. 'The Hispanics ain't for s*** negroes.' See C.
E. 'I like what your organization has done, but never mind it's almost 100 years old and you are doing great work, I am going to steal your information, put my name on it and call it something new' Negroes!! How disrespectful can you get? Your ancestors shed blood and lost lives creating these organizations. They did it so that you could use them as a stepping stone and move from a position of advance so that your children could advance as well. Now here you come, a Johnny-come-lately and you think the elders of these organizations are inadequate or past their prime? Take time and listen to or walk with them, they have a lot to share. Do this and you will see, as I do, that while you can and probably will enhance what the organization is about, yours is not an original thought, and to suggest such a thing is very insulting.
F. 'I am gonna treat you any kind of way I want, cause you a N*gg* like I am Negroes'. Oh No , see,,,, #1,. I am not a N*gg* and you and I will have some issues if you call me that horrible word!! #2. You got some issues with self-esteem and self-love and you transferring that mess to me? No, I am not having that!!!
G. 'I will run interference to defend some one who don't give diddly about me, against my own people Negroes'. How ignorant can you be?
H. 'I don't care what you say,, the massa been mighty good to me Negroes'. I hope you enjoy it when you burn in hell with your massa!!!! Don't be surprised when your massa kicks you to the curb when we no longer pay you any attention. You see your 'worth' will be nil and that's all massa can use of you, your worth to the Black community. When we finally take you to the edge of the village, don't be shocked to see your massa walking away from you as well.
I. The We's Negro. i.e., 'We's sick boss?' This is somewhat on the flag wavers. Those Blacks who think they are included in the American dream. Malcolm said we didn't have a dream, we had a nightmare. I agree. Wake up!!!
J. The 'My Ego is soo outta proportion, it's in charge Negroes'. You know you really need to check that mess. It will cause you to self-destruct and I will be on the side lines watching,, Believe it!!
K. The 'It's all about me Negroes'. I hate to burst your bubble, but it is NOT about you. It never has been and it never will be. It's about the collective. You see, long before you were a glimmer in the eyes of your parents, millions of Black people died so that you could have the chance to be as selfish as you are. As the Elders say "If you don't stand for something, You'll Fall for anything!!!!" Check yourself and do it soon.
L. The 'I am so miserable in my life that in order for me to feel better, I must tear your down Negroes'. To see this is actually a shame. That person is so unhappy, they don't see joy in anything or anyone. What a waste of the precious time you have on the earth. Don't waste it with a lot of foolishness. Get a grip, do something. Do something you've always wanted to do, and stop sitting around nagging and picking all of the time!!
M. The 'I am better than you Negro' get on my last nerve. What makes a person think they are better than anyone else? The Holy Qu'ran says the best are those who keep their duty to ALLAH. What makes you think you are better? Schooling, money, a job, where you live? I hate to be the one to tell you, but you are in error, grave error. There is no one who is greater than another, some have more or less material items, some have more or less artistic ability, some have more or less formal education, but all are equal and are to be treated and respected as such.
N. One would think the 'Color Struck Negroes' would have died of natural causes by the year 2001, but alas, no, we are still cursed with them. I never could understand that light is right madness, but still I see and hear it. Please see M.
When I started this list of the Negroes I am kicking to the curb in 2002, I had no idea the list would be this long. What a family, huh? 30 years later and our inter-family skills are still lacking. Most of us do not want to think we still have these problems and that we have 'advanced'. How can one advance in the world when we have foolishness at home?
Wednesday, February 28, 2007
Monday, February 26, 2007
The day religious people woke up
by Brother Mustafaa Muhammad
In the Name of ALLAH, The Beneficent, The Merciful
Recently, On a fairly mild cold day, I went to visit the church of my birth with my family. Now this isn't anything interesting, because millions attend church every Sunday throughout America and the world. What made this return interesting is that I went as a Muslim post 9/11. Many, due to media conditioning or their own ignorance, assume that Muslims have an innate dislike for Christians or Jesus.
Many were surprised that I appeared in Church to congregate with members of a different faith. But I am always on the move and desirous of promoting ISLAM to the best of my ability whether through my direct actions or my speech. I attended the pre-church and discussion. Of course I had to pass on the breakfast Sausage(pork)to maintain my health. In the discussion, I used my knowledge of The Bible and The teachings of Jesus as they relate to the universal principles of ISLAM. I showed them the commonness that we do have(One God, Truth, prayer, good deeds) despite some doctrinal differences over the person of Jesus(May peace be upon him). There was an unspoken "awe' that this Muslim knows the Bible very well.
Through the teachings and example of The Honorable Minister Louis Farrakhan I have developed a universal-ecumenical view of the worlds religions and the people of God. I am very grounded in ISLAM and 100% convinced of its correctness, however I see the truth in the teachings of all the prophets and make no distinction between any. As Minister Farrakhan said recently at Saviours' Day 2007, "If Jesus and Muhammad were on this stage they would embrace." If these two men of God can embrace then why can't the "Followers" as a whole embrace in true love. Of course the devout Christian might say, "Well if you don't accept the blood of Jesus you are doomed to hellfire my friend." the devout Muslim might respond like, "Well if you reject the last Prophet Muhammad(Peace be upon him) and the Qur'an then you are doomed to hell fire."
If there is a hellfire will billions of people enter it because of differences in theology? It is this supposed religious bigotry that we are better that keeps us from loving each other as brothers and sisters.
This world is fastly descending into hellish conditions which are plaguing our families and communities and all we can do in such times is argue one to the other. Makes you wonder why some have just thrown their hands up and given up on religious people and church in general.
In conclusion, The Minister Farrakhan said this world is in trouble because the religious people(Muslims, Christians and Jews) who have the light have put it behind their backs and shut there mouths.
My fellow believers in God, despite your affiliation, open your mouth and let your light shine forth.
Thanks for reading
Copyright2007Mustafaa Muhammad
In the Name of ALLAH, The Beneficent, The Merciful
Recently, On a fairly mild cold day, I went to visit the church of my birth with my family. Now this isn't anything interesting, because millions attend church every Sunday throughout America and the world. What made this return interesting is that I went as a Muslim post 9/11. Many, due to media conditioning or their own ignorance, assume that Muslims have an innate dislike for Christians or Jesus.
Many were surprised that I appeared in Church to congregate with members of a different faith. But I am always on the move and desirous of promoting ISLAM to the best of my ability whether through my direct actions or my speech. I attended the pre-church and discussion. Of course I had to pass on the breakfast Sausage(pork)to maintain my health. In the discussion, I used my knowledge of The Bible and The teachings of Jesus as they relate to the universal principles of ISLAM. I showed them the commonness that we do have(One God, Truth, prayer, good deeds) despite some doctrinal differences over the person of Jesus(May peace be upon him). There was an unspoken "awe' that this Muslim knows the Bible very well.
Through the teachings and example of The Honorable Minister Louis Farrakhan I have developed a universal-ecumenical view of the worlds religions and the people of God. I am very grounded in ISLAM and 100% convinced of its correctness, however I see the truth in the teachings of all the prophets and make no distinction between any. As Minister Farrakhan said recently at Saviours' Day 2007, "If Jesus and Muhammad were on this stage they would embrace." If these two men of God can embrace then why can't the "Followers" as a whole embrace in true love. Of course the devout Christian might say, "Well if you don't accept the blood of Jesus you are doomed to hellfire my friend." the devout Muslim might respond like, "Well if you reject the last Prophet Muhammad(Peace be upon him) and the Qur'an then you are doomed to hell fire."
If there is a hellfire will billions of people enter it because of differences in theology? It is this supposed religious bigotry that we are better that keeps us from loving each other as brothers and sisters.
This world is fastly descending into hellish conditions which are plaguing our families and communities and all we can do in such times is argue one to the other. Makes you wonder why some have just thrown their hands up and given up on religious people and church in general.
In conclusion, The Minister Farrakhan said this world is in trouble because the religious people(Muslims, Christians and Jews) who have the light have put it behind their backs and shut there mouths.
My fellow believers in God, despite your affiliation, open your mouth and let your light shine forth.
Thanks for reading
Copyright2007Mustafaa Muhammad
Nation of Islam at crossroads as Leader exists
Photo Fabrizio Costantini for The New York Times
Nation of Islam at a Crossroad as Leader Exits
By NEIL MacFARQUHAR
Published: February 26, 2007
DETROIT, Feb. 25 — Louis Farrakhan, the departing leader of the Nation of Islam, gave what was billed as his last major public address here on Sunday, with his extended illness throwing into sharp focus the question of whether the group will shift toward more mainstream Islamic teachings to survive once it loses its central charismatic figure.
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Mr. Farrakhan, 73, looking fairly robust for a man who emerged from major surgery six weeks ago, spent most of his two-hour address denouncing the war in Iraq and calling for the impeachment of President Bush.
“If you don’t want to impeach him,” Mr. Farrakhan said, “censure him, say to the world something went wrong with our leadership and we repent after our wrongdoing.”
He also made an appeal for religious unity in the address before thousands at Ford Field, home to the Detroit Lions football team, capping an annual convention of Nation of Islam members.
It was his first major speech since August, when health problems forced him to turn over control of the Nation of Islam to an executive committee. His health problems stemmed from radiation seeds implanted a decade ago to combat prostate cancer, said Ishmael Muhammad, the organization’s national assistant minister. The treatment obliterated the cancer but also damaged nearby organs.
Given his age and health problems, and the lack of an obvious successor, questions loom large about the future and direction of the Nation of Islam.
Nation members dismiss the notion that the organization’s viability is linked to one man. But academic experts and Muslim leaders say they believe that without Mr. Farrakhan’s leadership, the Nation — which has been divided over its teachings in the past — will shrink even more dramatically unless it shifts toward mainstream Islam’s beliefs.
The 77-year-old Nation of Islam once enjoyed a near monopoly over interpreting Islam for black Americans, using the faith as a vehicle to promote black separatism.
But it now competes with sects that branched away, and with groups ascribing to the more traditional and inclusive Islam followed by millions of Muslim immigrants and their offspring.
Along with a significant bloc of former Nation members, many of these Muslim branches oppose crucial aspects of the organization’s beliefs, which some consider blasphemy.
Leadership changes have altered the Nation’s direction in the past. Elijah Muhammad, the organization’s leader for more than 40 years until his death in 1975, was succeeded by one of his sons, Warith Deen, who broke with his father over the issue of Islamic orthodoxy (and changed his last name to Mohammed). Following Warith Deen Mohammed, this branch embraced diversity and traditional Sunni Islam’s teachings on unity.
Although members of his branch and Mr. Farrakhan’s now profess to respect each other and display less public animosity than in the early days of their split, they still spar over their beliefs.
Imam Muhammad Siddeeq, an Indianapolis cleric and senior aide to Mr. Mohammed, said that for the Nation of Islam to survive, it must turn more toward mainstream Islam.
“In the final analysis they have no option but to move in the direction we are or to just dissipate or disappear,” Mr. Siddeeq said. “This community is going to reconcile itself to pure Islam and reconcile itself to being American citizens who are part of a multicultural society.”
He echoes many others in arguing that the Nation should abandon some of its teachings. The Nation holds, among other teachings, that the group’s founder, W. Fard Muhammad, was the Mahdi, or savior, sent by God to Detroit around 1930 and that spaceships hovering above the earth will eventually play a major role in smiting sinners and rescuing the righteous.
“Those are ideas for kindergarten, a trip to Oz,” Mr. Siddeeq said. “Those are not ideas for people living in the real world.”
Ishmael Muhammad, 42, the Nation’s national assistant minister, who said he was among the youngest of Elijah Muhammad’s 21 children, said the Nation’s message of social reform still resonated, especially its call for black economic empowerment.
“There are a few black politicians and a few millionaires and a couple billionaires, but the fact is that our people are dying,” he said in an interview. “Our struggle to integrate and be accepted has left the masses behind.”
Ishmael Muhammad has sometimes been named as a possible successor to Mr. Farrakhan, as have a couple of Mr. Farrakhan’s sons, but none of them enjoy the same wide following as the departing leader.
But Ishmael Muhammad responds that the era of charismatic leaders is over — that one main goal of the Nation is teaching people to be self-sufficient, particularly in their relationship to God.
Despite his frail health, Mr. Farrakhan on Sunday demonstrated the same passion that has held followers rapt and angered his detractors. He assailed the Bush administration for the war in Iraq, which he said was built on lies and had caused great suffering and disunity.
Mr. Farrakhan gave his speech before thousands of members at Ford Field, wrapping up the annual convention of the Nation of Islam.
“Sunni and Shiite lived together, Christian and Jews lived together in Iraq, you didn’t hear none of this stuff before America came in,” Mr. Farrakhan said. “There was no bombing of Shiite holy places. You don’t need to look at Shiite and Sunni, you need to look at those who came in. After they came in all hell broke loose.”
Mr. Farrakhan also urged young black Americans not to join the military.
“I am telling you brother and sister that will be the worst mistake you make to join the military today, because you will leave America in one way and you will come back in another,” he said.
Back in the 1950s and ’60s, as the battle for civil rights was growing, the separatist message, and storied converts like Malcolm X and Muhammad Ali, won the Nation a broad appeal. But Malcolm X quit the movement and was eventually assassinated by Nation members in a fight provoked partly over Islamic orthodoxy.
“We could not continue on this Black supremacist line and be Muslims, be part of the world community of Islam,” said Imam Faheem Shuaibe of the Ulwaritheen Mosque in Oakland, Calif. “When you say Muhammad is the messenger of God, but you mean Elijah Muhammad, it doesn’t work.”
Reliable statistics are very hard to come by for Muslims in the United States, but the middle range puts the population around six million; some 40 percent of them are African-Americans, a majority of whom follow Warith Deen Mohammed, experts said.
The Nation of Islam will not specify its membership numbers. But Lawrence A. Mamiya, a professor of religion and African studies at Vassar College, puts the number around 50,000, with an ardent following in prisons, where the emphasis on black identity and the struggle against racism, he said, have a pervasive appeal. There are also small branches scattered around the world, particularly in England and the Caribbean.
Breaking away from Warith Deen Mohammed’s reforms, Mr. Farrakhan began rebuilding the Nation based upon its original principles in 1978. He introduced stricter Islamic precepts into the Nation, including prayer five times a day. Members hold that they are just as Muslim as any of the faithful, indeed that North American black slaves were a kind of lost tribe of Muslims forgotten by the faith’s mainstream.
But along with his reforms, Mr. Farrakhan gained notoriety and drew widespread criticism for speeches that were deemed racist against whites, particularly Jews.
In 1995, he organized the Million Man March on Washington, and although he failed to translate that into a sustainable political movement, he became one of the few leaders who appealed to a wide spectrum of black Americans.
Academics who study Islam in America suggest that the followers of Mr. Farrakhan and Warith Deen Mohammed will eventually gravitate elsewhere.
One possible national leader is Siraj Wahhaj, an imam based in Brooklyn. He quit the Nation years ago but came to the convention here to lead Friday prayers, urging Muslim unity in a sermon liberally sprinkled with quotes from the Koran in fluent Arabic.
Many immigrant Muslims question whether Nation members should be called Muslims. Even the followers of Warith Deen Mohammed are criticized by some for giving more weight to his pronouncements than to the holy texts.
“They still haven’t reached the point where there is no color,” said Yassir Chadly, an imam based in Oakland, who immigrated from Morocco 30 years ago. “Islam is universal; it can’t be cut into little sections.”
Such statements make followers of the Nation bristle.
“We are not imitators of Arab culture; that would put us in an inferior position and make them our superiors,” said Muhammad Muhammad, a 40-year-old adherent from Oklahoma City.
In the long run, academic experts said, it is the debate over religion that will most likely relegate the organization to a marginal position after Mr. Farrakhan is gone.
“He talked black, but to join his organization you had to commit yourself to his religion, and the religion has a lot of quirks in it,” said Ihsan Bagby, an associate professor of Arabic and Islamic studies at the University of Kentucky.
Mr. Bagby said that younger Nation members and potential members might find it hard to accept all of the branch’s teachings. “They are realizing that you can be committed to the black community and have a black agenda and still be a Sunni Muslim.”
Post 9/11, Islam flourishes among Blacks
Post 9/11, Islam flourishes among blacks By Matthew Bigg
Sun Feb 25, 9:00 AM ET
ATLANTA (Reuters) - Islam is growing fast among African Americans, who are undeterred by increased scrutiny of Muslims in the United States since the September 11 attacks, according to imams and experts.
Converts within the black community say they are attracted to the disciplines of prayer, the emphasis within Islam on submission to God and the religion's affinity with people who are oppressed.
Some blacks are also suspicious of U.S. government warnings about the emergence of new enemies since the 2001 attacks because of memories of how the establishment demonized civil rights leaders Martin Luther King and Malcolm X.
As a result, they are willing to view Islam as a legitimate alternative to Christianity, the majority religion among U.S. blacks.
"It is one of the fastest-growing religions in America," said Lawrence Mamiya, professor of religion at Vassar College, speaking of Islam among black Americans.
He said there were up to 2 million black U.S. Muslims but acknowledged there are no precise figures.
"It's not viewed (by authorities) as a threat because the numbers are small and once we get past the war on terror and all the negative images then it will continue to spread."
Black Americans typically attend mosques separate from Muslims from immigrant backgrounds despite sharing common beliefs, according to Aminah McCloud, religious studies professor at DePaul University in Chicago.
But imams in Atlanta, a U.S. center for black Muslims, said they were subjected to less scrutiny than Muslims from the Middle East and Indian sub-continent.
RAP BROWN'S MOSQUE
Many blacks converted during the civil rights era, when Malcolm X helped popularize the Nation of Islam, attracting boxer Muhammad Ali among others. Islam still attracts prominent blacks such as rapper Scarface, a recent convert.
But the Nation of Islam has declined as a force at the expense of an association of mosques led by Warith Deen Muhammad, the son of Nation of Islam leader Elijah Muhammad, who died in 1975.
At a street-corner mosque in one of Atlanta's oldest and poorest neighborhoods, a recent Friday sermon illustrated the power of the history of Islam in the United States for blacks.
Men and women sat separately on the mosque floor, heads covered, as cleric Nadim Ali recounted stories from history of Muslim slaves brought from Africa who struggled to uphold their faith in the face of slaveholders' opposition.
If Muslims could remain true to Islam under slavery, the audience should follow their example, Ali said at the Community Masjid of Atlanta in the city's West End district.
"You are talking about a people who were cut off from their roots .... Islam reconnects you with Africa and with other parts of the world so your peoplehood transcends race," Ali said later in an interview.
The mosque has a direct link to a slice of black history. It was founded by H. Rap Brown, a one-time member of the 1960s Black Panthers group. Brown became a Muslim in prison in the 1970s and changed his name to Jamil al-Amin.
He was convicted for killing a sheriff's deputy in Georgia in March 2000 and is serving a sentence of life without parole, but in his absence the mosque has continued what Ali said was the low-profile work of building a local Muslim community.
CONVERSION
The mosque teaches there was no distinction between Sunni and Shi'ite within Islam, according to people who attend regularly. Sermons urged Muslims to find work, stay free from crime and drugs and maintain stable family lives.
Ali said he assumed the mosque was bugged and infiltrated by informers, in part because its leaders remained skeptical about U.S. policies since September 11.
"They (the government) unplug black people and plug in Arabs or Muslims. They unplug Arabs and plug in communists. America needs war to maintain its economic status," he said.
The larger Masjid of al-Islam mosque in another mainly black neighborhood of Atlanta is part of Warith Deen Muhammad's group. Its imam, Plemon el-Amin, said he was involved with local interfaith work as well as with a local Islamic school.
One recent Friday, Mark King, a new convert, and hundreds of others at the mosque listened to a preacher urge Muslims to seek God through the Koran. Followers of other faiths should seek God through their own holy books, the preacher said.
King, who wears his hair in dreadlocks, converted after visiting Africa for the first time and in Gambia read the Koran and realized its teaching chimed with his own beliefs, not least in fighting injustice.
"For young African Americans, there is some attraction to learning about traditions that have been associated with resistance to European imperialism," said King, who has adopted the name Bilal Mansa since his conversion
Sun Feb 25, 9:00 AM ET
ATLANTA (Reuters) - Islam is growing fast among African Americans, who are undeterred by increased scrutiny of Muslims in the United States since the September 11 attacks, according to imams and experts.
Converts within the black community say they are attracted to the disciplines of prayer, the emphasis within Islam on submission to God and the religion's affinity with people who are oppressed.
Some blacks are also suspicious of U.S. government warnings about the emergence of new enemies since the 2001 attacks because of memories of how the establishment demonized civil rights leaders Martin Luther King and Malcolm X.
As a result, they are willing to view Islam as a legitimate alternative to Christianity, the majority religion among U.S. blacks.
"It is one of the fastest-growing religions in America," said Lawrence Mamiya, professor of religion at Vassar College, speaking of Islam among black Americans.
He said there were up to 2 million black U.S. Muslims but acknowledged there are no precise figures.
"It's not viewed (by authorities) as a threat because the numbers are small and once we get past the war on terror and all the negative images then it will continue to spread."
Black Americans typically attend mosques separate from Muslims from immigrant backgrounds despite sharing common beliefs, according to Aminah McCloud, religious studies professor at DePaul University in Chicago.
But imams in Atlanta, a U.S. center for black Muslims, said they were subjected to less scrutiny than Muslims from the Middle East and Indian sub-continent.
RAP BROWN'S MOSQUE
Many blacks converted during the civil rights era, when Malcolm X helped popularize the Nation of Islam, attracting boxer Muhammad Ali among others. Islam still attracts prominent blacks such as rapper Scarface, a recent convert.
But the Nation of Islam has declined as a force at the expense of an association of mosques led by Warith Deen Muhammad, the son of Nation of Islam leader Elijah Muhammad, who died in 1975.
At a street-corner mosque in one of Atlanta's oldest and poorest neighborhoods, a recent Friday sermon illustrated the power of the history of Islam in the United States for blacks.
Men and women sat separately on the mosque floor, heads covered, as cleric Nadim Ali recounted stories from history of Muslim slaves brought from Africa who struggled to uphold their faith in the face of slaveholders' opposition.
If Muslims could remain true to Islam under slavery, the audience should follow their example, Ali said at the Community Masjid of Atlanta in the city's West End district.
"You are talking about a people who were cut off from their roots .... Islam reconnects you with Africa and with other parts of the world so your peoplehood transcends race," Ali said later in an interview.
The mosque has a direct link to a slice of black history. It was founded by H. Rap Brown, a one-time member of the 1960s Black Panthers group. Brown became a Muslim in prison in the 1970s and changed his name to Jamil al-Amin.
He was convicted for killing a sheriff's deputy in Georgia in March 2000 and is serving a sentence of life without parole, but in his absence the mosque has continued what Ali said was the low-profile work of building a local Muslim community.
CONVERSION
The mosque teaches there was no distinction between Sunni and Shi'ite within Islam, according to people who attend regularly. Sermons urged Muslims to find work, stay free from crime and drugs and maintain stable family lives.
Ali said he assumed the mosque was bugged and infiltrated by informers, in part because its leaders remained skeptical about U.S. policies since September 11.
"They (the government) unplug black people and plug in Arabs or Muslims. They unplug Arabs and plug in communists. America needs war to maintain its economic status," he said.
The larger Masjid of al-Islam mosque in another mainly black neighborhood of Atlanta is part of Warith Deen Muhammad's group. Its imam, Plemon el-Amin, said he was involved with local interfaith work as well as with a local Islamic school.
One recent Friday, Mark King, a new convert, and hundreds of others at the mosque listened to a preacher urge Muslims to seek God through the Koran. Followers of other faiths should seek God through their own holy books, the preacher said.
King, who wears his hair in dreadlocks, converted after visiting Africa for the first time and in Gambia read the Koran and realized its teaching chimed with his own beliefs, not least in fighting injustice.
"For young African Americans, there is some attraction to learning about traditions that have been associated with resistance to European imperialism," said King, who has adopted the name Bilal Mansa since his conversion
Saturday, February 24, 2007
The Resurrection of the Dead - The Greatness of Master Fard Muhammad
By the Honorable Minister Louis Farrakhan
In The Name of Allah, The Beneficent, The Merciful.
Those of you who do not know Master Fard Muhammad may think that we are in error for believing in Him as Mahdi. What I want you to do is to give Him a chance to tell you through the Honorable Elijah Muhammad what He reveals, then you go and study it. If He (Fard Muhammad) lied, then we can cast Him aside, but if He told the truth, then you are going to have to reason with this man.
Master Fard Muhammad came among us and He taught us "Actual Facts." That which is actual, means it exists; it’s fact or real. A fact is that which actually exists; it is reality; it is truth. Why did Master Fard Muhammad give us Actual Facts? It is because you cannot build anything until you know the actual facts.
The problem with us is that we have believed what others have told us, but the actual facts we may not be acquainted with. How could the enemy rule us if we had the same knowledge that he has?
Regardless to your degrees, the enemy has never shared with you what he has of knowledge.
That is why when you come out of college, you go to him and look for a job. It is because you are not prepared to make a job for yourself.
Master Fard Muhammad was only among us three years and four or five months. He said He came to us from the Holy City of Mecca in Arabia. Master Fard Muhammad came to Detroit to a place called "Black Bottom," where the people lived in the deep ghetto. He started teaching there, going door-to-door, like an ordinary salesman. This is what is meant in the scripture where it says, "He made himself of no reputation and became obedient even unto death."
The Bible says, "He stood and He measured the Earth." Seventy-one years ago, when Master Fard Muhammad came, He told us that the total area of the land and water of the planet Earth is 196,940,000 square miles. He said the circumference of the planet Earth is 24,896 miles, and all of us had to memorize this. The diameter of the earth is 7,926 miles; the area of land is 57,255,000 square miles; the area of water is 139,685,000 square miles. He said the Pacific Ocean covers 68,634,000 square miles and the Atlantic Ocean covers 41,321,000 square miles. The Indian Ocean, He said, covers 29,430,000 square miles, and the lakes and rivers cover 1,000,000 square miles. The hills and the mountains cover 14,000,000 square miles; the islands are 1,910,000 square miles; and the deserts are 4,861,000 square miles. Mount Everest is 29,141 feet high, and the producing land is 29,000,000 square miles. The earth weighs 6 sextillion tons—a 6 followed by 21 zeros—and is 93,000,000 miles from the sun, traveling at the rate of 1,037-1/3 miles per hour. Light travels at the rate of 186,000 miles per second; and sound travels at the rate of 1,120 feet per second. The diameter of the sun is 853,000 miles.
We were just students under a Master Teacher who asked us to study. Then, Master Fard Muhammad began to tell us about the distance of the planets and the life that is on the planets. He taught Elijah Muhammad, who was from the cotton fields of Georgia and who only went to the fourth grade of school. If you compare what Master Fard Muhammad said 71 years ago with the dimensions that the scholars have given, every year they have gotten closer and closer, until now their computations are similar with Master Fard Muhammad’s—the man who taught Elijah Muhammad and came to raise us up from a dead level and make us rulers over those who once ruled us, not by guns and sticks, but by giving us a superior knowledge.
Seventy-one years ago, before you knew anything about Mars, Master Fard Muhammad called Mars an inhabited planet. He said Mars is 141,500,000 miles from the sun, and she travels at the rate of 1,037-1/3 miles per hour. He said her diameter is 4,200 miles. Master Fard Muhammad said Mercury is also an inhabited planet and is 36,000,000 miles from the sun. Her diameter is 3,000 miles and she travels at the rate of 1,037-1/3 miles per hour. Think about that. No matter how close they are to the sun or how far they are from the sun, all of the planets travel at the same rate of speed.
Master Fard Muhammad said Jupiter is 483,000,000 miles from the sun. She takes eleven years and nine months to make one complete circle around the sun; her diameter is 88,700 miles; Saturn is 886,000,000 miles from the sun; Uranus, 1,782,000,000; Neptune, 2,793,000,000 miles from the sun; and the far planet Platoon, or Pluto, 4,600,000,000 miles from the sun.
Pluto was first discovered in the year 1930, the same year that Master Fard Muhammad found you and me. How far is Pluto from the sun? Four billion, six hundred million miles. In this figure, you have the numerals four and six.
The Book of Malachi—meaning,—"My Messenger"—which is the last book of your Bible, tells us who we should be looking for. "Behold, I will send you Elijah the prophet before the coming of the great and dreadful day of the Lord." I will send you who? Elijah! In what chapter does his name appear? The fourth chapter, from the fourth to the sixth verses. Now, here is the meaning.
The first four represents 4,000 years from Moses. Why Moses? Because both Bible and Qur’an teach us that the man that Allah (God) would send in the last days would be a man like unto Moses. How could you have a man like Moses unless you have a people like the Children of Israel, and a wicked ruler like Pharaoh and his deceitful magicians? The second four represents our 400 years of bondage, and the six represents the end of the 6,000-year rule of Caucasian people.
The far planet Platoon, or Pluto, is 4,600,000,000 miles away from the sun, yet the light of the sun reaches her and has her spinning at the same speed of the other planets, 1,037-1/3 miles per hour. What does this mean? It means that when the Light of Allah (God) touches you, you will start turning and you will be going at the same speed of all the people of wisdom on the planet, as long as you stay in the light, acknowledge the light, submit to the light, bow down to the light and the God Who raised you and brought you to the light.
Master Fard Muhammad came and the authorities arrested Him in Detroit for teaching us the knowledge of ourselves. He submitted. He didn’t have to go to jail. That is why the Book of Habakkuk says, "He had horns coming out of his hand: and there was the hiding of his power." Malachi says, "He became obedient even unto death." Death means the White man. He represents death, and we live in the very shadow of death under his rule.
The Honorable Elijah Muhammad said that when the White man tricked our fathers out of Africa, the first slaves came to America on a ship named "Jesus." When our fathers got here, they would wander down to the shore looking for that ship, and they would say, you can have all of this world, just give me Jesus, that ship that would return me to my native land and people. That is where our spirituals were born. "Swing low, sweet chariot, coming to carry me home." America isn’t your home. This is a strange land and we are living among a strange people whose ways are alien to Allah (God) and the Prophets of Allah (God).
The Honorable Elijah Muhammad said, "Little did our fathers know that it would be 400 years before the real ship Jesus came to get us." The real ship Jesus is Allah (God) in Person; The Mahdi coming to raise a Messiah. The Messiah did not live 2,000 years ago. Jesus of 2,000 years ago was a Prophet. The Messiah is more than a Prophet. He is a man in whom is the Indwelling Spirit, Wisdom, Knowledge and Power of Allah (God), Himself. Therefore, He opens the eyes of the blind. He makes the deaf to hear and the dumb to speak. He cleanses the leper and He raises the dead to life, by Allah’s (God’s) permission.
When Master Fard Muhammad went to jail, He sent for Elijah Muhammad. When Elijah saw Him behind bars, He looked at Elijah and said, "This is the price that you are going to have to pay if you want to free your people." The price is jail. The price is persecution. The price is being evil spoken of, and sometimes the price is death itself. Unless you are willing to pay the price, do not accept the assignment. Then, He said to Elijah, "If you don’t accept the assignment, somebody else will. So why don’t you go ahead and get the big name." The Book says that Elijah said, "Here am I, send me."
I did not know Master Fard Muhammad; I only saw His picture, but I listened to Elijah Muhammad teach me something about Allah (God), the Original Man, and how the Qur’an and Bible were actually made. I want you to think. Either this is Revelation or it is some made-up madness.
But tell me how made-up madness could raise a man from the dead? Tell me how made-up madness could take a fool like me and make me honored and respected all over the world? Tell me how could made-up madness make Malcolm X? How could made-up madness make Muhammad Ali?
Let us reason together.
© Copyright 2007 FCN Publishing, FinalCall.com
By the Honorable Minister Louis Farrakhan
In The Name of Allah, The Beneficent, The Merciful.
Those of you who do not know Master Fard Muhammad may think that we are in error for believing in Him as Mahdi. What I want you to do is to give Him a chance to tell you through the Honorable Elijah Muhammad what He reveals, then you go and study it. If He (Fard Muhammad) lied, then we can cast Him aside, but if He told the truth, then you are going to have to reason with this man.
Master Fard Muhammad came among us and He taught us "Actual Facts." That which is actual, means it exists; it’s fact or real. A fact is that which actually exists; it is reality; it is truth. Why did Master Fard Muhammad give us Actual Facts? It is because you cannot build anything until you know the actual facts.
The problem with us is that we have believed what others have told us, but the actual facts we may not be acquainted with. How could the enemy rule us if we had the same knowledge that he has?
Regardless to your degrees, the enemy has never shared with you what he has of knowledge.
That is why when you come out of college, you go to him and look for a job. It is because you are not prepared to make a job for yourself.
Master Fard Muhammad was only among us three years and four or five months. He said He came to us from the Holy City of Mecca in Arabia. Master Fard Muhammad came to Detroit to a place called "Black Bottom," where the people lived in the deep ghetto. He started teaching there, going door-to-door, like an ordinary salesman. This is what is meant in the scripture where it says, "He made himself of no reputation and became obedient even unto death."
The Bible says, "He stood and He measured the Earth." Seventy-one years ago, when Master Fard Muhammad came, He told us that the total area of the land and water of the planet Earth is 196,940,000 square miles. He said the circumference of the planet Earth is 24,896 miles, and all of us had to memorize this. The diameter of the earth is 7,926 miles; the area of land is 57,255,000 square miles; the area of water is 139,685,000 square miles. He said the Pacific Ocean covers 68,634,000 square miles and the Atlantic Ocean covers 41,321,000 square miles. The Indian Ocean, He said, covers 29,430,000 square miles, and the lakes and rivers cover 1,000,000 square miles. The hills and the mountains cover 14,000,000 square miles; the islands are 1,910,000 square miles; and the deserts are 4,861,000 square miles. Mount Everest is 29,141 feet high, and the producing land is 29,000,000 square miles. The earth weighs 6 sextillion tons—a 6 followed by 21 zeros—and is 93,000,000 miles from the sun, traveling at the rate of 1,037-1/3 miles per hour. Light travels at the rate of 186,000 miles per second; and sound travels at the rate of 1,120 feet per second. The diameter of the sun is 853,000 miles.
We were just students under a Master Teacher who asked us to study. Then, Master Fard Muhammad began to tell us about the distance of the planets and the life that is on the planets. He taught Elijah Muhammad, who was from the cotton fields of Georgia and who only went to the fourth grade of school. If you compare what Master Fard Muhammad said 71 years ago with the dimensions that the scholars have given, every year they have gotten closer and closer, until now their computations are similar with Master Fard Muhammad’s—the man who taught Elijah Muhammad and came to raise us up from a dead level and make us rulers over those who once ruled us, not by guns and sticks, but by giving us a superior knowledge.
Seventy-one years ago, before you knew anything about Mars, Master Fard Muhammad called Mars an inhabited planet. He said Mars is 141,500,000 miles from the sun, and she travels at the rate of 1,037-1/3 miles per hour. He said her diameter is 4,200 miles. Master Fard Muhammad said Mercury is also an inhabited planet and is 36,000,000 miles from the sun. Her diameter is 3,000 miles and she travels at the rate of 1,037-1/3 miles per hour. Think about that. No matter how close they are to the sun or how far they are from the sun, all of the planets travel at the same rate of speed.
Master Fard Muhammad said Jupiter is 483,000,000 miles from the sun. She takes eleven years and nine months to make one complete circle around the sun; her diameter is 88,700 miles; Saturn is 886,000,000 miles from the sun; Uranus, 1,782,000,000; Neptune, 2,793,000,000 miles from the sun; and the far planet Platoon, or Pluto, 4,600,000,000 miles from the sun.
Pluto was first discovered in the year 1930, the same year that Master Fard Muhammad found you and me. How far is Pluto from the sun? Four billion, six hundred million miles. In this figure, you have the numerals four and six.
The Book of Malachi—meaning,—"My Messenger"—which is the last book of your Bible, tells us who we should be looking for. "Behold, I will send you Elijah the prophet before the coming of the great and dreadful day of the Lord." I will send you who? Elijah! In what chapter does his name appear? The fourth chapter, from the fourth to the sixth verses. Now, here is the meaning.
The first four represents 4,000 years from Moses. Why Moses? Because both Bible and Qur’an teach us that the man that Allah (God) would send in the last days would be a man like unto Moses. How could you have a man like Moses unless you have a people like the Children of Israel, and a wicked ruler like Pharaoh and his deceitful magicians? The second four represents our 400 years of bondage, and the six represents the end of the 6,000-year rule of Caucasian people.
The far planet Platoon, or Pluto, is 4,600,000,000 miles away from the sun, yet the light of the sun reaches her and has her spinning at the same speed of the other planets, 1,037-1/3 miles per hour. What does this mean? It means that when the Light of Allah (God) touches you, you will start turning and you will be going at the same speed of all the people of wisdom on the planet, as long as you stay in the light, acknowledge the light, submit to the light, bow down to the light and the God Who raised you and brought you to the light.
Master Fard Muhammad came and the authorities arrested Him in Detroit for teaching us the knowledge of ourselves. He submitted. He didn’t have to go to jail. That is why the Book of Habakkuk says, "He had horns coming out of his hand: and there was the hiding of his power." Malachi says, "He became obedient even unto death." Death means the White man. He represents death, and we live in the very shadow of death under his rule.
The Honorable Elijah Muhammad said that when the White man tricked our fathers out of Africa, the first slaves came to America on a ship named "Jesus." When our fathers got here, they would wander down to the shore looking for that ship, and they would say, you can have all of this world, just give me Jesus, that ship that would return me to my native land and people. That is where our spirituals were born. "Swing low, sweet chariot, coming to carry me home." America isn’t your home. This is a strange land and we are living among a strange people whose ways are alien to Allah (God) and the Prophets of Allah (God).
The Honorable Elijah Muhammad said, "Little did our fathers know that it would be 400 years before the real ship Jesus came to get us." The real ship Jesus is Allah (God) in Person; The Mahdi coming to raise a Messiah. The Messiah did not live 2,000 years ago. Jesus of 2,000 years ago was a Prophet. The Messiah is more than a Prophet. He is a man in whom is the Indwelling Spirit, Wisdom, Knowledge and Power of Allah (God), Himself. Therefore, He opens the eyes of the blind. He makes the deaf to hear and the dumb to speak. He cleanses the leper and He raises the dead to life, by Allah’s (God’s) permission.
When Master Fard Muhammad went to jail, He sent for Elijah Muhammad. When Elijah saw Him behind bars, He looked at Elijah and said, "This is the price that you are going to have to pay if you want to free your people." The price is jail. The price is persecution. The price is being evil spoken of, and sometimes the price is death itself. Unless you are willing to pay the price, do not accept the assignment. Then, He said to Elijah, "If you don’t accept the assignment, somebody else will. So why don’t you go ahead and get the big name." The Book says that Elijah said, "Here am I, send me."
I did not know Master Fard Muhammad; I only saw His picture, but I listened to Elijah Muhammad teach me something about Allah (God), the Original Man, and how the Qur’an and Bible were actually made. I want you to think. Either this is Revelation or it is some made-up madness.
But tell me how made-up madness could raise a man from the dead? Tell me how made-up madness could take a fool like me and make me honored and respected all over the world? Tell me how could made-up madness make Malcolm X? How could made-up madness make Muhammad Ali?
Let us reason together.
© Copyright 2007 FCN Publishing, FinalCall.com
Muslims gather in unity
Muslims gather in unity
Leading scholars of the faith travel to Detroit for Nation of Islam event and to promote unity.
Gregg Krupa / The Detroit News
DETROIT -- For seven decades, many Muslims have looked largely askance at the Nation of Islam, often considering it not the true faith, at best, and even heretical.
But amid signs that ranking members of the Nation of Islam, including its leader, the Honorable Minister Louis Farrakhan, are hoping for unity within the faith, leading Muslim scholars traveled to Detroit for the organization's annual convention and joined in the important Jumu'ah prayer Friday at Cobo Center.
The event came on the first day of the Nation of Islam's annual Saviour's Day Convention.
"This is the first time that they invited a Spanish representative to come to the Nation of Islam," said Mansur Escudero, president of the Islamic Commission of Spain, as he and about 5,000 others completed the prayer.
"This is for the unity of all Muslims."
Some Christians also attended the prayer, which was billed by the Nation of Islam as an interfaith event.
After ranking members of the Nation of Islam, including Ishmael Muhammad, Farrakhan's assistant and the son of Elijah Muhammad -- who led the Nation for 40 years -- traveled to meet with him, Imam Siraj Wahhaj, an internationally known Islamic scholar based in Lexington, Ky., agreed to deliver the Jumu'ah sermon.
Wahhaj's prominence in two large Muslim groups in the United States, the Muslim Association of North America and the Islamic Society of North America, added significance to his appearance, especially because he said he consulted with the leadership of Sunni Islam in the United States before accepting Farrakhan's invitation.
"I believe one day soon, you will see the masses of the Muslims coming together," said Wahhaj, who 30 years ago was known as Jesse 12X and was a member of the Nation of Islam.
"I believe it. I always thought that some of the greatest followers of Islam would come out of the Nation of Islam."
When Elijah Muhammad died in 1975, some of his followers stayed in the organization under Farrakhan's leadership. Others followed another of Muhammad's sons, Warith Deen Muhammad, to a closer embrace of Islam, which is recognized by many Muslims.
You can reach Gregg Krupa at (313) 222-2359 or gkrupa@detnews.com.
Leading scholars of the faith travel to Detroit for Nation of Islam event and to promote unity.
Gregg Krupa / The Detroit News
DETROIT -- For seven decades, many Muslims have looked largely askance at the Nation of Islam, often considering it not the true faith, at best, and even heretical.
But amid signs that ranking members of the Nation of Islam, including its leader, the Honorable Minister Louis Farrakhan, are hoping for unity within the faith, leading Muslim scholars traveled to Detroit for the organization's annual convention and joined in the important Jumu'ah prayer Friday at Cobo Center.
The event came on the first day of the Nation of Islam's annual Saviour's Day Convention.
"This is the first time that they invited a Spanish representative to come to the Nation of Islam," said Mansur Escudero, president of the Islamic Commission of Spain, as he and about 5,000 others completed the prayer.
"This is for the unity of all Muslims."
Some Christians also attended the prayer, which was billed by the Nation of Islam as an interfaith event.
After ranking members of the Nation of Islam, including Ishmael Muhammad, Farrakhan's assistant and the son of Elijah Muhammad -- who led the Nation for 40 years -- traveled to meet with him, Imam Siraj Wahhaj, an internationally known Islamic scholar based in Lexington, Ky., agreed to deliver the Jumu'ah sermon.
Wahhaj's prominence in two large Muslim groups in the United States, the Muslim Association of North America and the Islamic Society of North America, added significance to his appearance, especially because he said he consulted with the leadership of Sunni Islam in the United States before accepting Farrakhan's invitation.
"I believe one day soon, you will see the masses of the Muslims coming together," said Wahhaj, who 30 years ago was known as Jesse 12X and was a member of the Nation of Islam.
"I believe it. I always thought that some of the greatest followers of Islam would come out of the Nation of Islam."
When Elijah Muhammad died in 1975, some of his followers stayed in the organization under Farrakhan's leadership. Others followed another of Muhammad's sons, Warith Deen Muhammad, to a closer embrace of Islam, which is recognized by many Muslims.
You can reach Gregg Krupa at (313) 222-2359 or gkrupa@detnews.com.
Tuesday, February 20, 2007
Farrakhan poised for key speech
The Detroit News
DETROIT – The Nation of Islam is preparing for what could be the last major address given by Minister Louis Farrakan. Savior’s Day, which is an annual national convention and conferences, begins next week, and dozens of officials and clergy laid down the welcome mat Thursday.
“As we seek to move beyond our theology and embrace our humanity, this event is significant because this is the birthplace of the Nation of Islam,” said the Rev. Sam Bullock, president of the Council of Baptist Pastors, who was one of about 150 people at a related news conference Thursday at the Charles H. Wright Museum of African American History.
Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick, who lured the Savior’s Day convention from event planners in Atlanta, said the swaying was evidence of the city’s ability to attract major events. The event is typically held in Chicago.
“All of us are coming together in a major way in our community to hear from the minister, but also to have some real dialogue with each other,” Kilpatrick said.
Farrakhan, 73, left a hospital Jan. 28 following abdominal surgery resulting in a five-week hospital stay. He has made no public appearances since August 2006. Farrakhan has said he may never again address a large audience like the 65,000 expected to hear him at Detroit’s Ford Field next Sunday.
His followers say he will discuss a new spiritual role for himself in the 77-year-old religious movement, described as a fusion of Islam and Black Nationalism. Representatives of the Nation of Islam have denied the possibility of the minister naming a successor during the event, or of rumors about a substantial shift and alliance with mainstream Islam.
Ishmael Muhammad, the son of Elijah Muhammad, the former Detroit auto worker who became the leader of the Nation of Islam in 1934, said the annual Savior’s Day event will focus on health, building stronger marriages, education, police brutality and Black-on-Black crime. It will also seek to foster greater interfaith unity.
“We plan to sit down with each other and share what each faith has in common and destroy – with the help of God – existing divisions,” Muhammad said.
The Detroit News
DETROIT – The Nation of Islam is preparing for what could be the last major address given by Minister Louis Farrakan. Savior’s Day, which is an annual national convention and conferences, begins next week, and dozens of officials and clergy laid down the welcome mat Thursday.
“As we seek to move beyond our theology and embrace our humanity, this event is significant because this is the birthplace of the Nation of Islam,” said the Rev. Sam Bullock, president of the Council of Baptist Pastors, who was one of about 150 people at a related news conference Thursday at the Charles H. Wright Museum of African American History.
Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick, who lured the Savior’s Day convention from event planners in Atlanta, said the swaying was evidence of the city’s ability to attract major events. The event is typically held in Chicago.
“All of us are coming together in a major way in our community to hear from the minister, but also to have some real dialogue with each other,” Kilpatrick said.
Farrakhan, 73, left a hospital Jan. 28 following abdominal surgery resulting in a five-week hospital stay. He has made no public appearances since August 2006. Farrakhan has said he may never again address a large audience like the 65,000 expected to hear him at Detroit’s Ford Field next Sunday.
His followers say he will discuss a new spiritual role for himself in the 77-year-old religious movement, described as a fusion of Islam and Black Nationalism. Representatives of the Nation of Islam have denied the possibility of the minister naming a successor during the event, or of rumors about a substantial shift and alliance with mainstream Islam.
Ishmael Muhammad, the son of Elijah Muhammad, the former Detroit auto worker who became the leader of the Nation of Islam in 1934, said the annual Savior’s Day event will focus on health, building stronger marriages, education, police brutality and Black-on-Black crime. It will also seek to foster greater interfaith unity.
“We plan to sit down with each other and share what each faith has in common and destroy – with the help of God – existing divisions,” Muhammad said.
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