7-31-2004 
Chicago, Illinois

Adult Dawa Classes

Imam Warith Deen Mohammed


With G-d's name we begin, the praise and the thanks is for G-d, we thank Him for the gift and blessing of the model human person, Muhammed (pbuh), the honorable and noble servant and Messenger of G-d and what follows of that salute or that traditional salutation to the last Prophet (pbuh), the seal of the Prophets, mentioned in the Bible as it is given in the Qur'an...

Most people do not speak correct grammar

And understand that most of the people who speak Arabic are just like most of the people who speak English. They speak bad Arabic in their country. Do you think they are different from you? You are in your county and you speak bad English and you think they are in their county and they do not speak bad Arabic.   They have a much higher illiteracy rate than we have in this country. We have educated the masses, the public is much more educated in our country than in most Muslim countries.

Bukhari 3.624; Help your brother when he is wrong

Anas reported Allah's Apostle said, "Help your brother, whether he is an oppressor or he is an oppressed one." People asked, "O Allah's Apostle! It is all right to help him if he is oppressed, but how should we help him if he is an oppressor?" The Prophet said, "By preventing him from oppressing others."

You can meet professors, doctors, lawyers from overseas, not the common people and some of them cannot speak well. You can have people with a PhD using bad grammar because of association with people who use bad language, bad grammar most likely you are going to have that happen unless you make a strong effort not to have that happen. And you want to be their friend you want to talk like they talk so you use the same bad grammar that they use. That is not helping your brother.   Muhammed the Prophet pbuh said help your brother even when he is in the wrong. Whether he is in the right or the wrong, help your brother.

So if he mispronounces a word in the prayer and you go away, you finish the prayer and you leave the place and say "As Salaam Alaikum brother," and you did not bring it to his attention that he mispronounced a word you are not following the Prophet pbuh in that, because he said help your brother whether he is right or wrong. You are more helpful to your brother when you correct him than you are when you just go along with him. That is the way of the weak people, they want to keep a friend, they would rather keep a friend than to help a friend.

Shaddah

The moon letters can take shaddah but not after "AT the definite article "The." Example "Shawwal" it has shaddah; the letter "Sh" and the letter "W has shaddah and then the letter "L." All of them can take shaddah, it is made for more than one reason.

Shaddah with "Al" following "The" is to join the letter before it, the shamsiyyah sun letter. But shaddah in other places most likely means strong emphasis. It is a strong point you are making, it intensifies or stresses whatever you are expressing. You are doubling up on the letter. You are going to get plenty examples of it as we read.

If the shape is the same it connects the same, even if the shape of the letter is different it may connect the same. We are going according to the order of the alphabet.   You need to indicate on your paper how you can connect these letters.
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Write the alphabet or go in your book and use 'pencil you can erase it, don't use ink. You can put a little check that will mean you can connect there. If you put a check on both sides of the letter it means you can connect on both sides of the letter. Or you can use whatever mark you want, do it whatever way will please you and work for you in the right way.

I want you to practice what I write. I couldn't connect this from the left, pronounce:

Daaru; daari means "my house". 

Baitun, it also means "house, home". 

Al baitu, "The house".

"Al baitu fee Mecca, The house is in city of Mecca".

Qur'an 3.96;   Ka' bah built for all mankind

"The first House (of worship) appointed for men was that at Bakka full of blessing and of guidance for all kinds of beings:"

IWDM:
What house is that?

Students'. 
The Ka'abah

IWDM
G-d's house, also our house. It belongs to all of us, the whole of humanity. Someone might say, "Oh it belongs to the Muslims." How do we know? You are going to be corrected right now, it belongs to all mankind. "Aw-wal baiten wude'a len-nass," translated, "it is the first house built for all people".

That is in the Qur'an.

They were making circles around it before Muhammed (the prayers and the peace be upon him), the Prophet brought Al Islam but they were pagans. They had lost the meaning of it. Prophet Abraham built it but the understanding had been lost.

Baiti it is a warm house

Baiti, my home or my house. When you say Baiti it is a warm house, it is a home where you live with your family.

Dar

Dar can be a government house too. It can be your house on your street. It also can be the government house. It is not as intimate as, not as warm as, Baiti.

Qur'an 49.13; Mankind made into nations to know each other

"O mankind! We created you from a single (pair) of a male and a female and made you into nations and tribes that ye may know each other (not that ye may despise each other). Verily the most honored of you in the sight of Allah is (he who is) the most righteous of you. And Allah has full knowledge and is well acquainted (with all things). "

Ka 'abah is called Bait not Dar

The Ka'abah is not called Ad Dar, it is called Al Bailee for all mankind are socially bonded together as brothers and sisters. G-d says He made us families, tribes or nations that we should get acquainted with each other not that we should despise one another. So that we can socialize together, that is what get acquainted means; so we can be bonded, socially, because we're one family
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of human beings.

Daaree, Bailee, Naar, Naarun, fire 

Naaree.

IWDM
What does it mean?

Students: "My fire".

IWDM
Right, if I turn the eye of the stove on under my pot don't you turn off my fire until I want it off. That will be my fire not yours.

Imam Darnell Karim used to have to erase the blackboard. The teacher may pull you from the rear. You need practice writing. Everything I write you are supposed to write on loose leaf notebook paper using a pencil not a pen. Whatever you are going to keep like your test you should have a spiral notebook and do not tear the pages out of it. You are going to need loose leaf note book for practice and I might want to see it and you can get it back.

Qaala. Qaalatil bentu

IWDM
Who said something? The girl said something. This brings you to another rule. Remember I told you that the description goes after not before. You do not say a beautiful girl, that is not the way you talk or reason in Arabic. You say "A girl beautiful," Bentun jameelatun.

You do not say, "The girl said." Al bentu qaalat, you can but that is' not normally the way it is done, if you keep saying it you can get by with it. But the best way is Qaalal al bentu or Qaalatil bentu, translated, The girl said.


The boy said, Qaalal waladu. Bentun is girl.

The street people they do not know these rules of grammar so here is what they do to make it easy. They say Qaalat al bent. They do not worry about putting the signs and after a while the language goes way off. You would be surprised how much it goes off. They cannot understand each other. Iraqis go to Egypt, the Egyptians say, "Will someone translate for me?" if the person is speaking street language or colloquial.

Qaalatil bentu salaamu alaikum 

Greet the believer in the plural, Alaikum

Qur'an 5.32-34; If you kill one it is as if you killed all

"On that account: We ordained for the Children of Israel that if anyone slew a person unless it be for murder or for spreading mischief in the land it would be as if he slew the whole people: and if anyone saved a life it would be as if he saved the life of the whole people."

Qur'an 31.28; Your creation, resurrection is as one soul

And your creation or your resurrection is in no wise but as an individual soul: for Allah is He Who hears and sees (all things)."

IWDM
You do not have to say, As Salaam. If you want to say G-d's peace be on you, As Salaam alaikum, but if you just want to say peace, Salaam.    This is what she will be saying in quotations, she said peace be on you. And this "Kum" means upon you all. It is not proper to greet any believer and not say, "You all."

I can't say to a brother, "Salaam alaika," that is wrong. I can say it but it is not a greeting. I am
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saying it for some reason. Maybe I'm telling him go or maybe I'm making it very personal. It is not the Muslim greeting anymore. The Muslim greeting has to have "Kum", plural, meaning all of you. You have to treat him as though he is the whole people and it was written in the law that if you kill one man it is as though you killed the whole people. And if you save one man it is as though you saved the whole people. I am quoting scripture.

Allah swt says in Qur'an, "Your life and your death is as the life and death of one person ." That is why we say As Salaam Alaikum, speak to the person as though he is the whole people. That is to remind us to see the person as though he or she is the whole people. It is wonderful but it is very sad that we don't see that reflected in the life of Muslims and certainly not overseas. It is more in American society than it is in Muslim society where people care about a human being, they highly value a human person's life.

That is what that is for, to tell us the human person's life is valuable, so high that to do wrong by one is as though you did it to all. I'm just as vulnerable, if you do it to that person you get me, you're going to do it to me, too, right? You have to nip it in the bud as my father said, stop it right there, don't let it keep going.

Question:

IWDM
Salaamu Alaikum peace be on you, you never change it from "Kum" the pronoun stays "Kum." It can't be "Kam or Kern."

IWDM
What is the meaning of surah?

Students: 
"Chapter".

Surah

Wall privacy, fence for loss of trust

IWDM

Suuri, it is different. You just take the feminine "T" off "T" marbuta, the tied "T", and it means all together something different. But in a way they are similar, why? Because a chapter frames or puts so many expressions or words or ayats into one frame, into one boundary. Sur without the "T", it means a wall. You don't have to worry about it right now. It means a wall, the first four letters in my name, Wallace. I tear down walls I don't build them. I don't like walls, walls don't make for us privacy. I don't like fences either. People should be able to have a home next to each other without fences. All that will change when people start trusting each other. The trust is lost, now you have a big fence all around your house.

My child is supposed to be able to come right across from my house to your lawn, not go out of a gate and come into your gate. That is not trust. That is no love. But that is the world. Now you better have an army out there ready to fire.

IWDM be a witness against Muslims with weapons

Some of you start arming your house and I learn about it we go to court having an armed weapon or something at your house, I'm going to be a witness in the court against you. You might say, "Imam now is a bad time, we should have this." I will say, "Look, the man is dangerous. I don't know how we escaped being hurt by him, please lock him up for a long time."...

Qur'an 30 sections

We want to get out the 30th juza'a Amma that is the name they have given the last 30th of the Qur'an. The Qur'an is divided in 30 parts, 1 through 30 sections. Is that for a reason? Do you think it is
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just 30. Do you think 30 doesn't have significance i the Qur'an?

Jesus betrayed for 20 pieces of silver, Joseph sold for 20 pieces of silver

Qur'an 12.20; Joseph sold

"The (Brethren) sold him for a miserable price for a few dirhams counted out: in such low estimation did they hold him!

Genesis 37:28; Joseph sold for 20 pieces of silver

[28] Then there passed by Midianites merchantmen; and they drew and lifted up Joseph out of the pit, and sold Joseph to the Ishmeelites for twenty pieces of silver: and they brought Joseph into Egypt.

Matthew 26:15; Jesus betrayed for 30 pieces of silver

"And said (Judas) unto them, What will ye give me, and I will deliver him (Jesus) unto you? And they covenanted with him for thirty pieces of silver."

They sold Joseph for 20 pieces of silver. This is better than Arabic. If you have this in Yiddish it is better than Arabic. They sold Joseph for twenty pieces of silver. They betrayed Jesus for thirty pieces of silver. This is the Bible. You youngsters this is for the Imam. There are a few here and we have some students here who study the religion to understand the things that are not explained or are not obvious.

Joseph rational mind was moral

They betrayed Jesus Christ for 30 pieces of silver, so here is Joseph representing one orientation in the mind or in the mental make-up of the person who is serving or striving for something. For Joseph it represents moral nature, his rational mind was moral. He did not have a rational mind that was secular. He was a perfect man in is moral nature, Jesus Christ, too, but Joseph typifies or represents that; whereas, Jesus Christ represents the spirit.

Spirit is the third. The mind has two (thought, reflection)

The spirit has three. My rational mind has two, essentially, thought and reflection or thought and memory, thought and questioning, thought and examining, thought and re-thinking. That is the mind. That is the nature of everybody's mind, thought and re-call.    Joseph was not like the average person who just thinks for whatever situation. Whatever the Prophet Joseph did or thought it was governed by righteousness or moral conscience.   He refused to do wrong even when it would help him a lot personally to do wrong.

Qur'an 12.23-28, 30-32; Women tempted Joseph

If he had satisfied the big lady, the wife of the ruler who wanted him for her man, he could have gotten a lot because she was the big boss's wife. He could have gotten a lot from her, but he refused her. And he refused those ladies under her who wanted him too. He was accused by the lady of being forward with her and he was saved by his shirt that was torn from behind. It showed that the lady who wanted him was holding him, so that was the proof that he was innocent.

Jesus Christ is three: Body, mind and spirit

Jesus Christ is spirit and spirit comes naturally. Before it reaches the conscience its nature for us is just to be good, to be innocent, to not to want to do wrong. So the spirit is in our body, that is, in the body. The spirit is good in the body. Then the spirit comes to the mind; flesh, mind, these are the stages. The baby is born flesh. The baby becomes conscious, now his spirit is in his mind or expressed from his mind, not only from is body; that is two. And you know_____said body mind, right? And
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We just mentioned Joseph, Yusuf, in Arabic, being typical of the mind, thought and reflection, that is the second.

Twenty is Body, mind

Why twenty? Why not one, two or three? All of these are conscious dispositions. Joseph is conscious disposition when he was in mind, that is the second part, i.e. body, mind. So here is the twenty.

Mark 13.11; Think now what you will say the spirit will

"But when they shall lead you, and deliver you up, take no thought beforehand what ye shall speak, neither do ye premeditate: but whatsoever shall be given you in that hour, that speak ye: for it is not ye that speak, but the Holy Ghost."

Luke 2.49; I'm about my father's business

"And he said unto them, How is it that ye sought me? wist ye not that I must be about my Father's business? "

Jesus Christ, his was by G-d Who had put the spirit in him. So he was not conscious of all of these things that were working in him. The only thing he was conscious of was his spiritual life. But it is not manifest for him, he is being motivated by G-d. He doesn't know where he will go tomorrow or what he has to do.

The third with Jesus is purpose

So he is guided by the Spirit of G-d or the Will of G-d so this third dimension for want of a better expression right now, is purpose, how do we know this? He said, "I have to be about my father's business," this is the Gospel, the New Testament, that means G-d. He has to do what G-d ordered him to do, that is exactly what he meant, saying "G-d has given me a job. I have to do what G-d gave me to do." This is what he said. 

Qur'an 4.171; Jesus a word and spirit from G-d

"O people of the Book! commit no excesses in your religion: nor say of Allah aught but truth. Christ Jesus the son of Mary was (no more than) an Apostle of Allah and His Word which He bestowed on Mary and a Spirit proceeding from Him: so believe in Allah and His Apostles. Say not "Trinity": desist: it will be better for you: for Allah is One Allah: glory be to him: (for Exalted is He) above having a son. To Him belong all things in the heavens and on earth. And enough is Allah as a Disposer of affairs."

So he was saying that his purpose in the world was to do what G-d ordered him to do or what G-d had assigned him to do, that his purpose was to do that. When G-d moves us or when G-d inspires us and he himself represents now not the rational life. Jesus Christ, himself, represents the spiritual life, we know this from scripture also, from the New Testament and also from the Qur'an.   Jesus Christ represents the spiritual life, not the brain with its intuitive powers, like Joseph, Yusuf.

He represent the spirit and the spirit in him is the spirit to take him to his purpose. Where does that spirit come from? It comes him struggling to obey G-d so his spirit becomes the spirit of obedience to G-d and G-d will protect that spirit.

Mark 13.11; Think now what you will say the spirit will

"But when they shall lead you, and deliver you up, take no thought beforehand what ye shall speak, neither do ye premeditate: but whatsoever shall be given you in that hour, that speak ye: for it is not ye that speak, but the Holy Ghost."

John 16.25; I speak to you now in parables 

"These things have I spoken unto you in
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proverbs: but the time cometh, when I shall no more speak unto you in proverbs, but I shall shew you plainly of the Father."

If you give your spirit to G-d in obedience to Him, G-d, Himself protects that spirit. He assists that spirit, G-d, Himself will assist that spirit. You don't know all of the time how you will handle a situation if you are in that disposition, if that is your makeup, you trust G-d. Another way of seeing this is to look at what Jesus told his disciples. He said, "Don't prepare any notes. Don't prepare any speeches." He said just go and when you get there the spirit will speak through you, according to the Gospel, this is what he told his disciples.

He not only represents that, but he was a teacher who was promoting that kind of trust in people. Trust G-d you don't know, we don't know he was their teacher saying, "I can't tell you everything" and he said that. He said, "I speak to you now in parables (proverbs) meaning I can't explain all of this to you, but never the less I will return and speak to you in plain language."

Now you are speaking to me in parables, you're my teacher, what am I going to do? You are telling me to go to this country and speak to the people there, what am I going to do? "Trust the spirit", that is what he told them. Don't prepare anything, just go there and G-d will speak through you, the Holy Spirit will speak through you, that is what he told them, that his how he taught.

What does that have to do with thirty? He is conscious of obedience to G-d. He's conscious of giving his spirit in obedience to G-d. The spirit represents the third; body, mind and spirit. Someone may ask, "Is that for we children also brother Imam?" Yes. When you were a baby you were careful to listen to your mama and your daddy. You get up a little older you start giving them the deaf ear.

And pretty soon you're acting on spirit. So the flesh was born innocent your mind was the second dimension. Your mind was turned on and your mind was at first obedient, then you gave up conscious effort to follow your mama and daddy or whoever you should be following. You gave up conscious effort and you gave your behavior to the world, to your friends and to the world. Now you're not thinking about the right and wrong of things or whether I should go home now or stay out a little later, you're following your spirit. You have a spirit to stay out all night.

Man is created to be dominated by spirit

So everybody moves in those three dimensions. Your flesh, you act according to your body what your body wants like when you are hungry you eat. When you have to go to the wash room, you have to go to the washroom, that is your body. Then you act in your mind. Your mind says, "Well I have to eat but it is more important for me to stay here and listen to what the Imam says, I'll eat later. I have to go to the washroom but I think I can hold it."

So now your mind is ruling over your body, the first one that ruled is not ruling anymore. When you were a little infant, it's gone, the diaper is ruined and you start crying. You're hungry, you're thirsty, you start crying, the body says "Give it to me right now." It does not say, "Well mama is busy," a little infant can't think like that. "Mama is busy I have to hold this."

That is how they go. Your first dimension is your body, the rule of your body; then the rule of your mind. And then your mind, if you don't discipline your mind for G-d's sake, your spirit takes over. And if your spirit is not under G-d, the spirit of G-d, you go astray. You become self destructive, destructive to others and other things. Eventually, your spirit destroys you.

So man is created to be dominated by spirit, because none of us can guarantee the society that our body
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will never do wrong. And none of us can guarantee the society that our mind will never do wrong, none of us, no matter how much you are educated. There are PhD's who go to jail for petty crimes, for shop lifting, there are PhD's who can't live a decent life because they have become alcoholics or drug addicts.

So there is no guarantee that you're going to be saved by your body or by your mind.   And there is not guarantee that you're going to be saved by your spirit unless you give your spirit to G-d, like Jesus Christ did and like Muhammed (the prayers and the peace be upon him) did and like all of G-d's servants did. You give your spirit to G-d in obedience to Him, now you're really saved. You're saved from the limits of your own mind or the weaknesses of your own mind. You're saved from your body and your mind and your spirit that would be loose on its own, if you bring your spirit under G-d.

The spiritual dimension is the most important for man

Qur'an 4.171; Jesus a word and spirit from G-d

Actually, it is the spiritual dimension that is the most important. A man who has become mature in his spirituality or in his spirit he is superman in this world that we know now. If he has become mature in his spirit and he gives his spirit in obedience to what is correct, proper, right, and just, that is what we want, we all are trying to get there.

Jesus Christ is a word and spirit from his Lord. So he typifies in his type of man, he represents the spiritual life and how the spiritual life has to be disciplined, stand up to tests, because the world will try to take you out of that spirit. The satan will come at you himself and it is written in the scripture about Jesus Christ.

Qur'an develops man into the spiritual model G-d wants

How come now we have thirty sections for the Qur'an? This Qur'an is a Book, if we follow it, it will take us to or develop us into that spiritual model that G-d wants for mankind. It will eventually develop you into that spiritual model that G-d wants to be leader for mankind, all people.

Our'an thirty parts. Jesus betrayed for 30 pieces of silver

As Jesus Christ was betrayed, as I said, for 30 pieces of silver, it means they sold his worth as a leader, leading people to give their life, their spirit into G-d's charge as servants of His, they sold it for Puritanism, 30 pieces of silver. So they got the puritanical society. They sold his effort to bring the people into the spirit of obedience to G-d to bring about a puritanical society.

So they created a puritanical order to enforce purity on the people. They didn't have Jesus Christ's faith in people, so they enforced the law and that is what he came to break. He came to bring people out from under the law so that they would trust their own good nature and connect with G-d so that good nature would get its proper support and food.

If you study the history of the church that is exactly what happened. After Jesus Christ went away they became puritanical, puritans. They were hiding their human weaknesses. They weren't angels. They weren't protected or safe from error, morally, sexually, or whatever, but they hid it all. They would not let the public know that they were falling victims to these laws that they were enforcing upon people. So if you couldn't stand up under the law you were treated like an animal. You were not respected as a human being.

They would beat you like an animal, holler at you like you were an animal, kill you as though you
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were an animal. You would not have to be a police officer to kill somebody. Any man of standing in their eyes could kill one of these common people and would not go to jail or anything. Believe me, it is almost like that in some countries right now. A common citizen, I can be a police officer and kill you and someone could say, "What happened?" The response would be, "Oh this loud mouth, trouble maker, lazy resisted me and I had to kill him." They would take his body away and that would be all. That goes on in the world right now, don't think every country is like this country where you are protected by law, no.

Jesus Christ was governed by intent 

Bukhari 1.1; Matters are judged by intentions

Umar ibn Al Khattaab I heard Allah's Apostle saying, "The reward of deeds depends upon the intentions and every person will get the reward according to what he has intended. So whoever emigrated for worldly benefits or for a woman to marry, his emigration was for what he emigrated for."

Luke 2.49; I'm about my father's business

Prophet Muhammed pbuh said, "Matters are judged by intentions." So actually Jesus Christ was governed by intent, he said, "Don't you see I have to be about my father's business?"

So his intention was always to serve G-d, to do what G-d put him in the world for, His intentions. If you keep the intent right, pure, it will become automatic obedience for you. When it becomes automatic obedience now you've come into the spirit to obey. Al Islam is designed to do that, the Qur'an is our salvation. Al Islam is designed to bring us into that obedience to G-d and to develop us to have pure intentions, all clean, innocent intentions. And if we have that then the human spirit is free, meaning you can give your spirit to whatever you want to give it to. But the human spirit is also by nature hungry for the best possible condition, it wants the best possible condition for itself.

Whatever you follow will take over your spirit

So people will choose a moral life because they know that enables them to have more comfort for their spirit, they can live with a more comfortable mind and spirit. If they choose to follow G-d's guidance and follow it very determined about that, if nothing else is more important to them than that, then eventually their spirit will be the spirit of G-d's guidance. If you follow something your spirit will become that. If you follow the rappers your spirit becomes the spirit of rap music. Whatever you give your spirit to, whatever you follow, that is what you become.

Attention, but first it is the intent, you have to have the intent first. You have to intend to be right. If you don't intend to be right then anything can take your spirit, the rappers or whatever. But if you intend to be right even if you don't know G-d. Prophet Muhammed (the prayers and the peace be upon him) didn't know G-d. If you intend to be right and you're so set upon that you won't take anything from the world to give that up, they can't pay you to give that up, your intention is to be right like Prophet Muhammed pbuh was and like other servants of G-d then that intent will eventually bring you to seek G-d. Your mind won't be satisfied with the world, things in the world will disappoint you one behind the other and you will be lost for something to support your good nature and your good intent. You will be crying out to the void, to the darkness, for light and G-d will come in there and speak to you. G-d will guide you. That is what happened to Prophet Muhammed (the prayers and the peace be upon him). That is what happened to those before him. G-d will speak to you and guide you.
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'That is the way it happens when you don't have guidance. But now we have guidance from men who experienced those things. Now wouldn't we be fools to put aside this guidance and follow just our good intent? In that case G-d is not with us because you're asking Him to help you, personally, and He already helped everybody. You want personal help. You won't follow what He revealed to Prophet Muhammed (the prayers and the peace be upon him), so He is not going to help you. You will never get help. You have to recognize the good that is already here and support yourself with that good that is already here and then G-d will give you additional support, too. This is the way of G-d.

No man has control over the spiritual dimension inspiration or intuition is from G-d

Matthew 7.8; Knock it shall be opened

"For every one that asketh receiveth; and he that seeketh findeth; and to him that knocketh it shall be opened."

This is not a small thing we're talking about. The spiritual dimension is never solely in our control, nobody can control the spiritual dimension alone. You can only control it with G-d and when He begins to guide you by way of inspiration or intuition you can't say, "I'm going to use my intuition to figure this out". It does not work that way. It comes but you do not know when it is coming, you can just hunger for it. And Jesus Christ said, "Knock, don't be impatient, knock and someone will answer. The door will be opened if you just continue to knock. Don't give up."

Prayer, dua's is asking for somebody to help us

Have faith and keep trying to receive help for your good intent in your mind. You want to develop your mind for a particular purpose. You want to serve a particular cause and you need more help. You need more light on the subject matter. Don't give up, he said, "keep knocking". You're knocking on the door for help. You want somebody to answer it. We do it with Dua', with salat. We also do it with our conscious mind. We talk directly to G-d as though He is there before us like a person and eventually you'll get the answer if you keep the purity of intention.

After you will yet serve G-d

It is a future thing. The spirit is always a future thing. It still has somewhere to go after the world is made right because you're going to die.   If G-d made me to want to obey Him and serve Him, forever, why did He make me like this, if I can't do that? This is wrong for Him to make me like this if I can't do that? I don't want to serve Him ten more years or twenty more years or a thousand more years. I want to serve Him forever, so how come I can't do that? The will is in me to serve Him forever, so how come I can't do that?   I can and you can, too, and that is what faith is all about. It is about believing that there is something beyond this world that we know now.

Word is revelation not flesh Jesus is a word 

Luke 22.19; Take in remembrance of me

1 Corinthians 11.24-25; Take in remembrance of me

"And when he had given thanks, he brake it, and said, Take, eat: this is my body, which is broken for you: this do in remembrance of me. [25] After the same manner also he took the cup, when he had supped, saying, This cup is the new testament in my blood: this do ye, as oft as ye drink it, in remembrance of me. "

The Qur'an was put in thirty parts to let us know that this is the Word of G-d that Jesus represented. Jesus represents a spirit and a word of G-d. He is a word and a spirit from G-d. So word is revelation, not flesh and it is in the Gospel. He said, Do this in remembrance of me". And he gave them
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unleavened bread and they ate the bread and he
said, "This is my flesh."

Bread is the doctrine 

Matthew 16.12; Bread doctrine

"Then understood they how that he bade them not beware of the leaven of bread, but of the doctrine of the Pharisees and of the Sadducees."

Jesus' body represented his teaching, his revelation

In the Gospel it says the bread is the doctrine, that is the teaching of the New Testament.    So the Bible doesn't leave us in the dark as to what bread is. It did not say the bread is in the grave or the bread was embalmed, that would be his flesh. It did not say the bread died or the bread is in the tomb. It says the bread is the doctrine of the New Testament, doctrine means teachings. Isn't that what the Qur'an says that he is a word from G-d? So if he said the bread represents his flesh and the Bible says bread is the teaching of the New Testament then what does his body represent? His body represents the message of revelation that he was given. It represented his teachings, that was his body.

I can prove that in any court of intelligent people. Any judge, I can prove that to him, maybe not you. Some of you are messed up. Satan messed you up I can't reach you, but I can go to any sane court and a sane judge will say, "The man is correct." I don't care what you say preacher, "The Pope said no that's not the way." The judge will say, "No Pope the man is correct. He's not talking about something that is invisible he is talking about what is written in your Bible and it is right here and it says, Jesus Christ told them to do this in remembrance of him . And he said that the bread was his flesh. And this man has shown us that in the Gospel the same teachings of Jesus Christ that you have it says the bread is the doctrine of the New Testament.

Doctrine means teaching." The judge will be on my side. Then you go back to what the Bible and the Qur'an says. It's says that he was a word. He said himself.

The will is with (j-d then put into a human who constructs language, revelation

John 1.1,14; In the Beginning was the word and it took on flesh

"In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God." [ 14] And the Word was made flesh, and dwelt among us, (and we beheld his glory, the glory as of the only begotten of the Father,) full of grace and truth".

Everybody high up in religion, not you, they know what bread is. It is the doctrine, it is the teachings. "In the beginning was the word and the word took on flesh". In the beginning G-d's will was with G-d then He put it into a human being and it took on construction.

First it is just spirit. It is just a will to do and obey but not it is a communication, language is coming and the language takes construction. You make an expression, you make a sentence, you make a paragraph, you make a chapter, it's taking construction and it's giving you a picture of the message, right? That is the language taking on flesh.

Take on flesh means expression

Flesh means feeling, meaning, expression. This is my flesh, I feel, it communicates to my mind. I pinch it, it says that hurts, it is a pinch. I rub it, it says it feels good. My flesh tells me that. The flesh speaks, doesn't it? In the beginning there was a word and the word took on flesh. The word came into flesh and flesh yielded to the Word of G-d just like a baby's flesh is obedient to goodness not to evil when it first comes here. The flesh yields to
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G-d. The mind now looks at that and the mind likes that. Now the mind is engaging flesh, seeing how obedient flesh is to a higher purpose.

Mind becomes like the flesh obedient to the will of G-d

Now the mind takes over and then revelation, now, is coming to the mind. Help now comes to the mind from G-d because you have connected with the Will of G-d in your flesh to obey Him, to appreciate beauty and righteousness and goodness. You have embraced that and you have connected with that so you are now in tune with that. And now your mind has become like your flesh. It does not want ugly stuff. It doesn't want pain. It wants pleasure. It

When you get old you might like filth better than you like cleanliness, but every baby cries when filth is on it, they don't like filth.

Qur'an 23.12-14; Man made from a clay then another creation
12.  Man We did create from a quintessence (of clay);

13.  Then We placed him as (a drop of) sperm in a place of rest firmly fixed;

14. Then We made the sperm into a clot of congealed blood; then of that clot We made a (foetus) lump; then We made out of that lump bones and clothed the bones with flesh; then We developed out of it another creature: so blessed be Allah the Best to create!"

Now the mind is becoming like the flesh in its originality. In its originality it is good flesh, the mind becomes like that. Then the mind now is rational so the mind starts like the flesh is put together in an orderly way it is constructed. It is in the Qur'an; from a clot of blood and then a morsel of flesh and then bones come in and give structure to it. Then it is covered with flesh and then it is completed, a whole creation. And it says "Then comes another creation." The spirit comes in it, the spirit of G-d comes in the flesh and makes another creation, the development starts all over again. Where is its development? It is not physical, this second development is in your mind. It is the spirit moving your mind and having your mind obey the spirit and the guidance of G-d.

Here your mind begins to form in obedience to G-d and you now can express that to somebody else what has happened, what you experience. You communicate that to somebody else and they will be so impressed they write it down. Now it is written down, they are writing it, but it came through you. Now we have rational construction of the Word of G-d. It is taking, conforming to sentence structure, paragraphs into a written scroll or book. It is forming and they use the human body because everything started with the human body.

I Corinthians 12.12; Members of the body of Christ

"For as the body is one, and hath many members, and all the members of that one body, being many, are one body: so also is Christ. "

So they are talking not about flesh but they are talking about a new body and you say a "Body of Knowledge," don't you? There is a church that calls itself the Body of Christ. The members are all called the Body of Christ. And the Bible speaks of them as members in Christ, people who follow him as members in him, members in Christ. If you can follow what I have been saying for these several minutes to you it should be perfectly clear to you that the Bible is not talking about Jesus' meat on his bones, on his body that came from his flesh mother. But it is talking about his mind, how his mind is formed into another body, a mental body, his mind takes the shape of a mental body and in his mind there is order just like it is in his body.

In his mind there is a heart beat. In his mind there is
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a brain. In his mind there is a moral pulse or a social pulse. In his mind are all the things we have. You touch with your hands, he also touched with his mind or you feel with your hands, you see with your eyes, he also sees with his mind. You hear with your ears, he also hears with his mind. So the body is such a perfect metaphor, figure, symbol, concept or picture of whatever reaches you. That is why I'm speaking of these to associate with what takes place in the construction of the mind in its obedience to G-d, like every flesh forms in obedience to its Maker, the G-d Who created it.

Every baby comes here just as the G-d Who created it wants it. You come here crying, you come here laughing. You come here wanting to be happy or be relieved from misery. You come here wanting to learn, you come here wanting to socialize with people and be loved by people, G-d makes all of us the same. Likewise for the man who wants to become obedient to his G-d as his body was when he was born. And G-d recreates him, G-d creates him anew, G-d puts His Spirit into that man and that man's mind, heart and everything forms anew and he becomes a higher creature, a human but a higher order, a human being of a higher order. G-d is in him. That is how we should understand that.

Three required to do Jumah and Fard prayers

Matters are judged by intentions. The Prophet said, we only need three to perform Jumah prayer. You know we hope to have many more than three people but if we have three people we can do Jumah. If we have three people we can do any prayer including Jumah and Eid prayers.

Three pray one in front is the spirit of G-d

There is three again, body, mind and spirit. So if it is three of us, one stands to the left, one stands to the right and the third one goes out in front, right? The third one is the leader, it represents the leader in the leadership that G-d wants for the world. He wants the third one in the front, that is the spirit. We want the spirit of G-d to be in our leader, he stands out in front.

Two praying the left leads like Joseph, the right trusts his mind

Now if we don't have him, a man inspired, or a man who knows how to follow the spirit that G-d wants in us, we just have two, on the left, that man leads the prayer, not the one on the right. He is the leader. So who is the one on the right? The one on the right is the one who trusts his mind. Who is the one on the left? The left is the one who follows his moral nature G-d created for him, he obeys the moral nature G-d created. He is like Joseph. He is supposed to be in the form like Joseph is in.

So we pick the moral man, the clean and upright moral man and he leads us though we know more in the world than he knows. But if we have the third one, the one inspired by G-d, the one who has G-d's spirit in him then he is our leader he steps out in front.

Qur'an has thirty parts

The Qur'an has thirty parts, it is to bring us to that spiritual leadership where G-d, Himself will be in our leader, moving our leader where he should go and we follow him where we should go. So Jesus Christ is just a sign that, that type of leadership is for the whole world. The spiritual leader who has the spirit of G-d in him is the leader we want for the whole world, for every human being, exactly but definitely for the leader, because if it is not in the leader then the ones who do not have that spirit in them will be leading the people astray.

Jesus didn't follow the Jews nor the scripture before him

Prophet Muhamrned (the prayers and the peace be upon him) came to answer that mystery, no more mystery where Jesus Christ comes into the world
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and he leads the people and he trusts not the world, he doesn't even trust the scripture that came before him.

John 16.7:1 will send the comforter

"Nevertheless I tell you the truth; It is expedient for you that I go away: for if I go not away, the Comforter will not come unto you; but if I depart, I will send him unto you. "

He didn't follow the Jews. He trusted what was in him by nature and what G-d had added to that as the spirit and guidance from G-d, Himself. So that is what he trusted. He spoke to them in parables. His job wasn't to lead them all the way but he said, "If I go away the father will send him unto you." They understand that to be the holy spirit, the holy ghost, yes, but still it is a mystery.

Jesus is urge to obey the holy spirit

We really want to understand this as Muslims, the urge in man to obey the holy spirit and wait on the holy spirit to indicate where I'm to take this or where I'm to go or how I'm to get further in the road, that is Jesus Christ. Here we have a child born (Jesus) and his spirit won't go along with anything but what G-d wants.

Muhammed mind wouldn't go along with what is wrong

The next stage is not in the spirit it is in the rational mind. Jesus was born of a spiritual nature, he was born of a spiritual order. He comes from a religious order so he was a spiritual formation in the mind or in the nature. Prophet Muhammed pbuh was born in a rational society that was astray as far as religion, it was backwards and very much astray, pagan, idol worshipers, but he never went along with that, his mind would never go along with them.

Here we have a child born (Jesus) and his spirit won't go along with anything but what G-d wants. Now we have another child born Muhammed pbuh his mind won't go along with anything. So now just as the spirit protects us and guides us aright and will disappoint us, never betray us, so will the spirit develop in support of the mind that devotes itself to strict obedience to what is rational but also to what is correct and decent for human beings or for an human order or human society. That mind, rational mind struggling to make things come clear in his own rational mind so that he can see it logically and express it to people who have a common language of logic and reasoning.

He struggles for that and his struggling also generates a spirit. After he's done that for a long time it generates a spirit now his spirit has come in obedience to the mind that wants to go right, the thinking that wants to be correct. His spirit now conforms to it he doesn't even have a spirit to disobey that direction in his mind and what happens? Intuitive burst of light and he starts to see things that were never seen before by himself or anybody else. That is G-d revealing to him and he will then speak to the people and it won't be in parables, it will be in plain language.

Jesus cursed fig tree with not fruit, he was the fig tree

Matthew 21.19; Jesus cursed the fig tree

"And when he saw a fig tree in the way, he came to it, and found nothing thereon, but leaves only, and said unto it, Let no fruit grow on thee henceforward for ever. And presently the fig tree withered away."

John 15.1-2; I am the true vine

"I am the true vine, and my Father is the husbandman. [2] Every branch in me that beareth not fruit he taketh away: and every branch that beareth fruit, he purgeth it, that it may bring forth more fruit."
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Now somebody will say, "Jesus Christ condemned the fig tree," Jesus Christ was the fig tree, that is how come he said this tree that you Jews have offered me no fruit so cursed be this tree that it bear fruit no more. I will feed, I am the fruit, eat of my fruit, I am the fig tree, your fig tree is finished. It did not mean what we thought it meant, that he cursed a fig tree that would be insane, the tree didn't do any wrong why curse it? It is made so extremely ridiculous to force the rational person to put it down or to see a different meaning, it made intentionally very stupid and irrational.    Here comes a holy man and he sees the tree, I'm hungry and he has his disciples with him now picture this is how it is given in the New Testament, they are out, they don't work, they are holy men and they expect for somebody to just give them something. The neighbors see them and you have some bread, "May we   share with you your bread? We are travelers and we are holy men serving G-d." So he comes to this tree, this is a fig tree how come it does not have any figs?

Well I'm the good shepherd I'm the Lord, I'm this I'm that and it doesn't have any fruit for me? Curse be this tree, I curse it so it will bear fruit no more, dry up. That is pure insanity to treat a little innocent tree like that. You have the power of G-d to make this tree not bear fruit anymore and you are going to do it because it didn't have fruit for you. Take him straight to the funny farm.

Qur'an 53.19CUzza, Lat god have you seen 

"Have ye seen Lat an Uzza?" 

Qur'an 2.55; G-d manifestly show to us

And remember ye said: "O Moses! we shall never believe in thee until we see Allah manifestly" but ye were dazed with thunder and lightning even as ye looked on."

It doesn't mean that at all, it meant that G-d created Jesus Christ to trust his nature, his nature was pure and to trust his own human spirit because his human spirit would not disobey G-d. So when it says in the Qur'an The rejecters of Muhammed pbuh and his religion they said, "Have you seen this G-d?" That is what they asked Prophet Muhammed like they asked Moses. Muhammed pbuh was told by G-d to ask them, "Have you seen Lat and Uzza," those were the names of their gods. If they had said, "Yes he's on 59th street." They will say, "Can he speak to you, can he move from 59th street?" You are talking about something dead that you made with your own hands.   So they were wise they knew where he was going to take it, they weren't fools so they didn't say anything like some of you when I speak you won't challenge me because you know you're going to bed wiped out, so you just keep quiet and won't say anything. So they didn't say anything.

Qur'an 53.9-10; He was at two bows lengths

8. Then he approached and came closer.
9. And was at a distance of but two bow-lengths or
(even) nearer;
10.  So did (Allah) convey the inspiration to His Servant
(conveyed) what He (meant) to convey. 11.. The (Prophet's) (mind and) heart in no way falsified that which he saw.

Two Arrows one is (i-d's will the other the human spirit

Allah swt revealed to him the explanation, he said, "They were as two arrows fired or shot by one bow and they went and didn't deviate and met on the far horizon. They went as two arrows shot by one bow, it means they went parallel. I know you see it but I want to make sure. Here is the bow, the string is pulled, right? Here are the two arrows, one of these is the holy spirit, that G-d's will the spirit of G-d's will in the person and the other is the human spirit.
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One is the human spirit one is the holy spirit.

A ~

M ~

Muhammed's pbuh spirit coming from his original nature, the nature that G-d gives all of us when we're born, a baby, his nature is to obey his G-d. So one is I put M for Muhammed's pbuh spirit and the other one is G-d's spirit. There are two spirits so here I put A for Allah swt.   One is Allah's swt spirit and one is man's spirit represented in Muhammed the Prophet, pbuh. If your spirit will be 100 % in agreement with G-d's purpose for you and mankind G-d will bless you with the additional support of His Own spirit. And you will be one person, a human being but you will be motivated by your human spirit and by G-d's spirit, both of them will be in you. Your human spirit that wants to be perfectly in accord with what G-d wants and wants to be a perfect human being.

Qur'an 89.27; Oh soul pleasing Allah and pleased with self

"(To the righteous soul will be said:) "O (thou) soul in (complete) rest and satisfaction!"

When it says in the surah "Yaa ay-yuhansel Mutmainnah," translated oh soul pleased or wanting to be pleased. This is the disposition in the soul to want to have complete satisfaction. "Irje-e e-laa rab-beka raadeeyatan," return to your Lord pleasing and pleased, two conditions.

How is the human spirit able to go parallel in perfect agreement with G-d's spirit? With obedience. Now once he achieves this he is pleased with himself. His own soul becomes pleasing to him. And G-d says to him, "Now I am pleased with you." You are pleased with yourself that you have conformed in perfect obedience to My Will, My Purpose for you and mankind and you are pleased with yourself, your soul pleases you. And G-d says, "You have also pleased Me. So enter you now among My servants." The workers pleased and pleasing. Pleased with yourself and pleasing your G-d. Enter you my paradise.

Tashahud pointing of the fingers

When some of the prayers, the saintly people do their fingers like that at the end of the prayer in jalsah, that is what it is connected to the arrows. And they are saying the arrows are going in perfect agreement with each other, parallel agreeing with each other, in the purpose and in the direction. One is the spirit of G-d the other is the spirit of man. Which one is the spirit of G-d, which one is the spirit of man? The pointing finger is man, the middle finger is the spirit of man that G-d comes into one and once He comes into that spirit that man can't control by himself then that spirit becomes the spirit of G-d. And what do they say with this finger "F you" to show you what this world thinks about it. That is Satan's influence in the culture. The same generator who generates that writing God, backwards it spells dog he generated this vulgar middle finger meaning.

So what is it saying? The human life and human spirit is created good by G-d and our own thinking corrupts following misguidance or following the world or following somebody wrong or following ourselves giving into our weaknesses it is corrupted. But if you can keep it from being corrupted, keep it pure eventually G-d's spirit will come into human spirit because the human spirit is right. It is right for G-d, right for mankind if it stays pure. G-d's spirit will come into the human spirit.

Spirit reaches farther than the rational mind

The spirit is always more far-reaching than our
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rational mind, the spirit goes out ahead of our I have a spirit to get up from here and do something useful then my mind works it out for me, right? The spirit is always ahead of the mind. And even if the mind jumps the gun and goes out first if the spirit is not with it the mind is in trouble.

Stop looking for something big and unreal, something that doesn't look like this world of reality, G-d says when we wake up in the new creation we're going to say this resembles what we saw before. So don't look for something strange G-d says even after death you will be resurrected you will see the world of reality that will exist beyond this world, material things He says you're going to look at it and say, "This looks like what we saw before." What I want to say is that guidance in Muhammed's pbuh teaching in the Qur'an is should protect us from making unnecessary mess for ourselves, struggling unnecessary. If it doesn't look like what's rational and what's decent in this world you should reject it because He said its going to look just like what you have seen before.

You saw in your human life what was moral decency, human and what was not human, you saw what was beautiful and what made sense and what didn't make sense. So in the next look for the same thing, look for what makes sense,    look for what is clean, look for what is decent, don't look for something way out like somebody died and put in the grave 50 snakes and serpents and 70 raving bulls came in the grave with him and you are trying to figure how big that grave was and get all of those 50 and 70 creatures how did they get into that little grave he was put in, you are wasting your time. That doesn't resemble what is sensible in this world, that doesn't resemble what is fair and decent in this world. Why would G-d do that? All he had was a little pun tang and he wasn't married and now he's going to have serpents coming at him and a bunch of bulls charging at him and at the same time fire is leaping all up why go to that extreme Lord? Why do something that extreme, you need you a psychiatrist, you have a strange way of getting your pleasure.

These guys are trying to frighten people into obedience so they are dealing with ignorant publics and they are trying to frighten them into obeying G-d, so they tell all of these outrageous stories and say it came from Prophet Muhammed's pbuh hadith. If the Prophet pbuh was here it would be too bad. I'm sure he would announce that all of them are shirk, they're false and shouldn't be associated with Al Islam. Now you know if they tried to do it in his life time certainly after he died they will try to give the people something in his name.

The Prophet pbuh was living and this man asked Prophet Muhammed pbuh could he do it, he said, "You're the Messenger of G-d but I'm also the messenger of G-d" and he asked Prophet Muhammed pbuh to accept that there is a second messenger along with him while Prophet Muhammed pbuh was living. And Muhammed pbuh naturally he rejected him and the people who followed Muhammed pbuh rejected him. If they did that in his life time what would the do after? Much worse.

I know one thing, I don't love confusion, I hate confusion and I don't like disrespect, and you disrespect my intelligent when you tell me stupid stuff and tell me I'm supposed to believe it, you are disrespecting intelligence that G-d gave us. He gave me human intelligence and you're giving me this crazy stuff and telling me I'm supposed to believe that blindly. So you're not respecting my intelligence, you're telling me that G-d did certain things and my estimation of G-d is so high that down there on that level that you have put my G-d I can't accept that, you have disrespected my intelligence, you have disrespected my estimation of G-d's greatness so I can't follow it.

The Nation of Islam's teaching I found things in it that I couldn't accept but long before that the Hon.
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Elijah Muhammed had me as a minister for him and 1 was dealing with the Bible and I saw so many things in there I couldn't accept I said "Look the G-d in this Bible is psychotic, he is suicidal. I preached it from the rostrum and believe me I got young men to stand up and accept their own, many of them.  I don't think anybody heard me and went out there the same, once they heard me they were better. If they didn't accept the Nation of Islam they were better off for themselves and better off for other decent human beings once they heard me talk. Because I dealt with nothing but is reasonable, what is rational, what is logical, what is good and decent for human beings, what should be decent of G-d.

The first time I was afraid, I was, afraid of the wrath of G-d, but I said (I actually said this in my mind), I said '"Well if this is you G-d, if I'm wrong and this is really you G-d doing these things, if you have a court I'm going to defend myself in Your court. I'm going to charge you in your court." And I meant it I was a boy and I meant that, if this is G-d then you're wrong.

Bible a book of pure intent

And I'm so convinced you're wrong I'm going to prove your wrong, maybe we'll do away with G-d there won't be anymore G-d. Because if you're the only G-d I'm going to do away with you. I'm serious that is the way I felt and G-d was with me. G-d helped my mind develop more and more, travel more and more see more and more until I came to really know the Qur'an as a perfect and clear Book. And I came to know the Bible as a Book of perfect and pure intent. The intent is pure and perfect but it takes you on a nightmare trip to the destination. And the last Book is the worst nightmare of all, John the revelator, the book of revelation.

Now you're talking about a trip I had a hard time getting through that book I made my mind get through it, I read the Bible from cover from cover, every word I didn't miss a word. I got through revelation it is really some way out stuff in there, like man on LSD trip. But after I got through it and reflected on it I could see it all, it is powerful and beautiful. I could now preach the Bible from Genesis to Revelations and bring out the beauty and point to the purity and show that there is a consistent vein or line of purity going from Genesis 1 to the last word in Revelation. It is not broken it is continuous no matter how crazy and confusing it looks to you. It is a holy book it is a sacred book and the intent and purpose is pure and not lost.

Think about Muhammed the Prophet pbuh, this is supposed to be hadith, it might be legitimate, I believe it is legitimate but it doesn't have to be because they wrote so many hadiths and claimed the Prophet pbuh gave it, they say he saw his cousin Ali, may G-d be pleased with Ali with a Bible and he was reading it so they said he said to Ali, "Oh Ali," that is the way he spoke to everybody he wasn't like these new Muslims saying, "Brother Warith Ud Din, Imam, Dr. this so and so" he didn't call anybody doctor or Imam, nobody Mr. He called everybody by their first name, by the name they were known by that is how he addressed the people. He said, "Oh Ali is not my Qur'an that G-d sent me with enough for you?" And that all that was said and Ali didn't reply, he said nothing. Meaning he felt shame and he did not say anything.

Qur'an 16.43; Ask, consult the people of the Book

And before thee also the apostles We sent were but men to whom We granted inspiration: if ye realize this not ask of those who possess the Message."

Qur'an 2.136; We believe in previous revelations

Say ye: "We believe in Allah and the revelation given to us and to Abraham Isma'il Isaac Jacob and the Tribes and that given to Moses and Jesus and that given to (all) Prophets from their Lord we make no difference between one and another of them and we bow to Allah (in Islam)."
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I don't believe this hadith is correctly reported even if it happened because for one thing the Prophet pbuh wouldn't have stopped there because he would not have left the impression that Ali should not read the Bible. When the Qur'an mentions the revelation that came to Jesus Christ that came before over and over again and even says to the pagan Arab who were doubting Muhammed the Prophet pbuh it said, "They should consult the Christians the people of the Book to have them give them certain knowledge that they never had or never been exposed to, to give them that knowledge so they could understand where Prophet Muhammed pbuh was coming from with a lot of things he was saying because they had no knowledge of the Jews and the Christians.

I can't believe that he would do that without explaining to him . The hadith should have said, "I see you frequently reading having this Book," then I could understand it. But just that he was seen with the Book in his hand, no that wouldn't be a reason for him to doubt that Ali was preferring the Qur'an. But they want us, the leadership in the so-called Islamic world they don't want you to go in the Bible, they don't want you to know what is in the Bible. Once you become a Muslim they want you to stay away from the Bible, why? Because they know that the Qur'an and the Bible go together, that the Qur'an is a reference to the Bible and the Bible is a reference to the Qur'an if you understand it and if you make the connections for those two references you're going to become as wise as they are or wiser than they are.

They are afraid that you will become as wise as they are or perhaps wiser than they are because they have blocked their own minds out of certain things that they can't even get because they are so narrow minded. Maybe you'll be a little more open minded or freer to think and maybe you'll become their leader, that is why they don't want you to make connections. But thank Allah swt we came from church, my father and my mother came from church and we had Bibles in the house and Mr. Fard said look in your poison book. He called it poison but he said look in it he didn't say stay away from it and he told the ministers to use the Bible because this is what your people are used to. Use the Bible to get their attention and pull them out of the world of sin. That is what Mr. Fard told my father, not only my father others too, some of them are still living like my uncle Jon he is 96 years old he is alive and still preaching too in Detroit.

These things are very easily understood but you have to be freed you can't be a slave to a way of thinking that won't take you to light or take you to the river. You have to be free of those things, thank Allah swt I was free of them I had no problem with anything. I wasn't hung up on anything. I wasn't hung up on anything wrong no matter how holy it looked or no matter how much they said it was from G-d, if my mind said it looked wrong it is wrong and if it is right prove it to me. If it is ridiculous I don't have any patience, you take it yourself it is not for me. My G-d is not ridiculous so I'm not going to accept anything that you say is ridiculous about Him.

The human beings that I know is not ridiculous so I'm not going to accept anything ridiculous that you say about him, I don't care if you're the holy ghost, the holy spirit, the holy Pope I don't care what you are. You bring some foolish to my mind you're dropped you're no more holy and perfect to me, your image dropped in my eyes. And I don't have to listen to you, don't have to respect you at all, if you don't like me you go your way I'll go my way. I am not going to bother you and I don't want you bothering me. That is the way I've lived and that is the way I'm going to live until I'm dead unless G-d, Himself changes me and I don't think He'll do that.

We're going to read something from Surah Inshirah Qur'an 94
You see it says Al Inshirah but you see the word is not Inshirah look in the Arabic it is suratus Sharh and it is taken from the word "Nashr, A lam nashr." You see that word you don't have Enshirah, there is
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no letter "N" it is not "enshirah.

That  is ok, but in most of the books the translators translate it "Enshirah."   If you look in the vocabulary you'll see it again "Suratush sharh," they don't have it "Enshirah."

They have the word transliteration spelled out "Enshirah" but when you look at it, it does not say "Enshirah" it says "Sharhe." So just be aware, don't accept something you don't understand we just got through talking about that, no matter how sacred it is, don't accept it if it is not conforming to good sense. They are using a different word "Sharhe" and
"Enshirah" but they use the transliteration "Enshirah" but it is not there.

Now lets read, Bismillahir Rahmaanir Raheem you need to study the vocabulary and read these short phrases.   Practice the vocabulary and read the surah from the beginning to the end ten times at home. Write the surah one time and bring it back to me.

Qur'an 53.19; 'Uzza. Lat gods have you seen them

Lets get back to what Prophet Muhammed pbuh told those idolaters when they asked him had he seen the G-d he was telling them about. He asked them, "Have you seen Lat and 'Uzza" meaning have you seen these gods that you claim you worship? And those gods they worshiped were only idols they mad with their own hands, they gave the features to them they did everything, they were their art work that is all they were. So if they had said, "Yes we have seen them, if they had pointed to their art work he was going to make them look very stupid and ridiculous. They sensed that, they knew that and he anticipated that too, he knew they wouldn't acknowledge those gods they were too intelligent for that. Understand this my students, I'm talking to m students who trust me and believe me and will believe anything that comes against me., those are the one I'm talking to now.

Those idol worshipers had stupid people in the public just like religion has stupid people in our public. The average person in our public they are dumb they don't know religion all they know is faith, they don't know the logic in religion, they don't know the rational teaching of religion only but a little bit of rational teaching. They don't know the logic that supports the religion, they don't know that.

Leaders will not share their knowledge with poor

Qur'an 30.28; G-d partners would you share wealth equally

He does propound to you a similitude from your own (experience): do ye have partners among those whom your right hands possess to share as equals in the wealth We have bestowed on you? Do ye fear them as ye fear each other? Thus do We explain the Signs in detail to a people that understand." Matthew 15.14; Blind lead the blind all fall in the ditch

"Let them alone: they be blind leaders of the blind. And if the blind lead the blind, both shall fall into the ditch."

The scriptural logic that supports those things and statements they don't know that so they are uneducated in religion, they are completely uneducated in scripture, but key persons in Christianity they know that but they will never give it to those people in the public and that is in the scripture to. It says, "Will you give to the poor man and make him equal with you?" It doesn't mean money it is talking about knowledge, wisdom. You are not going to give your wisdom to these people poor in knowledge and the wisdom and make them equal with you.

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what religion offers or what the church offers whether it is the house of worship, Christianity or not. They only go for what they offer them and they ask for no more, they don't even have the mind to question beyond things over the heads of their leaders or beyond their leaders, so they follow blindly.   The Bible says "The blind leads the blind and they all fall in the ditch." It is saying the blind can't lead the blind let us lead you blind folks and you stay blind and you won't fall into the ditch.

The same case was in the time of Prophet Muhammed (the prayers and the peace be upon him) when he asked these learned leaders had they seen their god, if he had asked one of the uneducated who were the great majority the same question they would say, "Yes we have seen Latt and 'Uzza, they are in the square. They look just like the ones we see in the square." Just like right the Christian, "You Muslims worship Allah, who is that Allah?"   You say, "You worship Jesus, who is Jesus?"

They will say, "The one on the cross. Jesus Christ the one in the Bible haven't you seen his picture?" But if you ask the Pope of Rome that he won't say anything or he'll give you an entirely answer, he knows better. He knows that is not Jesus, that flesh body is no Jesus. And he knows that Jesus didn't look like that picture that they have at all. So he wouldn't be tricked up, you couldn't catch him. He would be silent on you or he would test you to see how much you know and if you knew enough he would say, "There is a historical Jesus and then there is a Jesus," he would make a difference between historical Jesus and the real Jesus. That would be to let you know that you don't have to question him further and if you're wise you wouldn't question him further, you would accept that answer and wouldn't bother him any more.

You have to understand that the world behind paganism, pagan worshipers, paganism was very popular for the Mediterranean and for Europe as well. The Romans, the Greeks although some of you might not say they are Mediterraneans. Spain, Italy, Greece all those countries in that area including Egypt all of them were idol worshipers or pagans, all of the great nations then of the past were pagan. Do you think they were stupid enough to really that those idols were G-d? No. They were not different from our leaders today who see Jesus Christ as an idol but they know that idol is not G-d. So the pagans at that time did too. They had there logic, they had their wisdom. They couldn't manage science and road building, iron works, music and all the things that they developed, they couldn't have developed all of that and be that stupid.

Idol is a play on idle, not busy, wasting mind, life

We have to get away from this idea of thinking that they worshiped idols and they were savage, no. They had idols and they were as civilized as Manhattan, New York and we may be just as savage and pagan as they were today, possibly. We are just as savage and pagan or we are just as much in idol worship as they were in that time. So idol worship, what does idol say? It says two things 1. Idol meaning, bringing to mind something physical you can look at and touch, but idol is a play on idle, not busy, wasting your mind, wasting your life.   So is you have something occupying your time and it is ruling in your life but it is wasting your intelligence, wasting your human time that G-d gave you to be on this earth and accomplish things, you're worshiping an idol yourself.

Idol could be fun, wasting time

Qur'an 39.3; Idols they bring us closer to G-d

"Is it not to Allah that sincere devotion is due? But those who take for protectors other than Allah (say): "We only serve them in order that they may bring us nearer to Allah." Truly Allah will judge between them in that wherein they differ. But Allah guides not such as are false and ungrateful."
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I don’t care what it is, it could be rap music, it could a pretty woman or a pretty boy for you girls, it could be a book that you like that is nothing but past time it but it is not structuring your life for you. It could be going to movies and just being happy and silly, your fun can be your worst idol. What you think of as your fun, "I have to have my fun," that could be your biggest shirk, your biggest idol. So the logic for saying is an idol came from wise men who didn't believe this wall is G-d. They made idols to represent an image to tell you that if you worship this thing that has attributes of purity it will be good for you, they give you a physical image. And then they give you another physical image and they make horns in it or make it look like a demon and they say, "This thing is taboo or it is such and such and its bad for you." That is the way you talk to a little baby that needs to play with ABC blocks to learn their alphabets and that has lingered around until now. But Mr. Fard and the Hon. Elijah Muhammed came to destroy the world of make belief and bring people back to reality.

Qur'an 6.6; We destroyed people greater than you

"See they not how many of those before them We did destroy? Generations We had established on the earth in strength such as We have not given to you for whom We poured out rain from the skies in abundance and gave (fertile) streams flowing beneath their (feet): yet for their sins We destroyed them and raised in their wake fresh generations (to succeed them)."

Don't underestimate those ancient civilizations, that is what I want to tell you. The Qur'an says there was an ancient civilization many of them had more power than you, speaking of those present ones in the time of Muhammed pbuh and they built skyscrapers taller than yours and look what was their end, they had more than you and G-d brought them to an end.

This is the way the Qur'an addresses those great nations, it did not say they were nothing, stupid. They were mighty but they weren't stupid, they were in jahiliyyah. Jahiliyyah doesn't mean just having idols Jahiliyyah means just what it says, having no sense. They knew how to make money and that was it, they knew how to make money, sex or love. They were good merchants, good poets, some of them were of good family but so narrow in their family love that they would lead their family against your family, tribal wars that was that was.

Tashahud pointing of the fingers

Qur'an 53.9-10; He was at two bows lengths

Genesis 49.22; Joseph is a bough by the well

"Joseph is a fruitful bough, even a fruitful bough by a well; whose branches run over the wall:"

We had the bow and we had the string and arrow, we said one was human spirit and one was G-d's spirit, the Holy Spirit there is no diagram like this in the Qur'an I'm doing this diagram but the Qur'an gives you a mental picture, right? It says two arrows fired from the same bow.   The arrows would be perfectly parallel, perfectly straight and they are fired from this single bow.

The arrows are fired by the string that is tightened, right? A lot of stress is put on the string. So if this string fires both arrows, right? Did that come in the Qur'an from Muhammed pbuh in his time? No, it is also in the Bible, Joseph is a bough by a well these are the exact words. So a bow is mentioned in the Bible too and it calls the human being a bow. The wood represents the stick that you bend, the power comes from the stick, right? You bend the stick but it wants to get back like it was, you are pulling, straining it making it bend more and it wants to go back where it was, that is where the power comes from, it wants to get back where it was.

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string back so there is tension on the bow and tension on the string. The bow enables the string to fire when you let it go, the bow will pop back where it was, it throws the string back where it was. And in doing so it fires the arrow forward, right?

String of the bow represents potential, capacity

The string here belongs to the bow, right? So the bow and this string is the human being. This string represents potential and capacity. So the spirit strains for understanding or thirsts for understanding it is the human spirit, it is my spirit and your spirit. The bow is a picture of it how it strains for understanding and you pull on the string you're straining the spirit and the human nature can only take so much. You have human nature in your left hand that is the stick.

Bow is the moral life

You have the stick and you're straining the spirit, the stick is your body, your flesh, your mortal life, you're straining your spirit and sometimes that strain pops, breaks, it is too much for the mortal life, what you wanted is too much for the mortal life so the string will break. You're straining the spirit you're pulling it back and then you release them and when you release them you're firing two arrows.

Arrows show direction, they are going to a direction and they are going to a target in the Qur'an it says, 'The distant horizon or the far horizon." So they are going to a far away place, a definite place far away. What is this saying? It is saying that in human nature and capacity the potential in the human nature and capacity it strains to get understanding. It will fire both the human spirit and the spirit of G-d, they will be fired from that body. The human spirit and the spirit of G-d will be fired from that body by straining what is human.

The string is human, the wood is human, the pole and the string they are human, by straining that the purpose in the human capacity for understanding will be realized and when its realized it is not just man's spirit, it is also G-d's spirit in man. If we want to ignite or bring G-d's spirit into us ignite the human spirit, strain for the human spirit. And when the human spirit is fired G-d's spirit will also be with the human spirit. G-d's spirit accompanies the human spirit when the human spirit strains for what is right.

When you're straining for what is right for human life and human purpose you're in accord with the will of G-d, you are already in accord with the will of G-d. So His spirit will be with your spirit that is all it is saying. G-d's spirit will be with your spirit it won't be just you a human.

Qur'an 8.17; Prophet threw dust not but Allah

"It is not ye who slew them; it was Allah: when thou threwest (a handful of dust) it was not thy act but Allah's: in order that He might test the believers by a gracious trial from Himself: for Allah is He who heareth and knoweth (all things)."

Forty Hadith p. 118 #38; Allah becomes seeing, hearing

Abu Huraira reported the Prophet (pbuh) said "Whoever shows enmity to a friend of Mine I shall be at war with him. My servant does not draw near to Me with anything more loved by Me than the religious duties I have imposed upon him and My servant continues to draw near to Me with supererogatory works so that I shall love him. When I love him I am his hearing with which he hears, his seeing with which he see, his hand with which he strikes and his foot with which he walks. Were he to ask something of Me I would surely give it to him and were he to ask Me for refuge I would surely grant him it."

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strain to be so obedient to G-d that he comes so close in his obedience to G-d that if he will strike you it is as though G-d struck you.   G-d will be in him and G-d will be with his actions, when he does things it is just as though G-d did it.

Qur'an 89.27; Oh soul pleasing Allah and pleased with self

"(To the righteous soul will be said.) "O (thou) soul in (complete) rest and satisfaction!"

"Yaa ay-yuhansel Mutmainnah,Irje-e e-laa rab-beka raadeeyatan," translated return to your Lord pleased and pleasing," it means pleasing yourself and you're pleasing before your G-d. He is pleased with you too. What is that saying? The key is to work for the excellence of human nature, for the excellent future and destiny of human beings on this planet. When you work for that you're working in accord with what G-d's purpose if for you being on this earth. You are in accordance with His Will. And if you do that He is going to be with you, His spirit is also in your spirit. Your human spirit is there and G-d's spirit is with you, G-d's spirit is in your spirit.

How did it get there, did something happen up in the sky and He breathed it down here? No. You got in accord with the best of your nature. When you got in accord with the best of your nature you were in accord with G-d's will and purpose for you, the both are the same that is what it is saying. The effort to please yourself in the right way that you are made to please it is the way that G-d wants you to act, so when that happens you are acting in accord with the will of G-d and your human spirit is also G-d's will and spirit. G-d has no spirit like we have.

G-d's purpose and will is your human spirit. Your human spirit has become G-d's purpose and will. So it is still human but at the same time its divine.

Comment:
We will be back in the garden of Eden.

Horizon is the same as the destiny or the promised land

Qur'an 53.7; Far horizon 

Qur'an 81.23; Far horizon

Qur'an 3.96, 97;   Ka'abah built for all mankind, signs in it

96.    "The first House (of worship) appointed for men was that at Bakka full of blessing and of guidance for all kinds of beings:"

97.  In it are signs manifest; (for example) the Station of Abraham; whoever enters it attains security; pilgrimage thereto is a duty men owe to Allah those who can afford the journey; but if any deny faith Allah stands not in need of any of his creatures.

IWDM
Yes, it says the far horizon that means the distant purpose or as the Bible would say the destiny. Abraham was shown the destiny and Moses came behind him to lead the people to the destiny, into the promised land.

The far horizon is the same as the destiny or the promised land for the Christian, not for us we have a different language. Where are you going? At that time maybe they were facing Jerusalem I don't know I can't say, they could have been facing Mecca, the Ka'abah. Now we know we face the Ka'abah and doing that in the time of Muhammed the Prophet pbuh.

Destiny, Ka'abah, promised land is one human family under G-d

We're facing the Ka'abah now if the two arrows were shot, like the fingers from the body in tashahud, if they were shot towards the Ka'abah, then what does the Ka'abah symbolize as our destiny? Is the Ka'abah our destiny? Yes.   It is a
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symbol of our destiny. What is that destiny? One human family under G-d, no superiority of race, color or anything else. No superiority of sex, the woman can pray by herself, she can pray in front of you, she doesn't have to have an Imam to lead her in prayers at the Ka'abah. The human destiny is the promised land, not America. America can be the human destiny for a while and then turn out to be a fecal house, right?

So as long as we keep the human purpose then America is the destiny too, but if we lose the human purpose for human beings here under G-d then this is no more the destiny. I like to say our land is a portable land, we can carry it in our suitcase, anytime it doesn't look right here we pick up our suitcase and go and sit it down somewhere else, but thank G-d we're in good shape now we can life here. If I was going to travel it would have been a long time ago, I look like a fool traveling now. Everything I was asking for it has come to pass. I can go out of here and not feel the klan going to catch me and string me up on a tree, I can run for the presidency of the United States and don't have to have any more fear than a white man. If they don't want him they're going to shoot him too.

Allah is inside of you more than anywhere else

Qur'an 50.16; Allah is closer to man than his jugular vein

Believe that G-d, Allah swt is everywhere and believe that for human beings, for our interest in our life and in the world G-d is more in us than He is anywhere else. G-d is more inside you right now for you, more than He is anywhere else. Why-should He be up in the moor or somewhere or in some stars out there far away from me and He is there for me? No, if He is somewhere for me He should be right here. And that is where he is, right here inside of us. When we become obedient in His will and enjoy it, not just obedient, you have to enjoy it, your pleasure, that is why it says, "Oh soul pleased," it has to be your pleasure.

When it is your pleasure to be with G-d and to have Him near you, close to you like that you will then know the presence of G-d, you won't doubt it. And you will know that G-d is in you. G-d is in you and yet far away from you as the farthest star in the universe and at the same time as close to you as Allah swt says in the Qur'an "As your jugular vein." And as close to you as your artery, your life vessel that takes the blood from your heart to your body and keeps it alive. He is that close but at the same time as far from you as the farthest imaginable thing in the universe.

Qur'an 8,24; Allah between man and heart

O ye who believe! give your response to Allah and His apostle when He calleth you to that which will give you life; and know that Allah cometh in between a man and his heart and that it is He to whom Ye shall (all) be gathered."

Comment:
It says right between your heart and man.

IWDM:
The spirit of G-d hover, the Qur'an gives the picture or puts in the mind a bird or a flying thing, it says He hovers between a mortal and his heart. The mortal means his fear for his own life and what his heart wants. Your heart wants to be good but your fear of your own life sometimes holds you back from doing all of the good you can do or from being as good as you can be. So it says G-d is between the two. Your heart wants something and your mortal life wants something. It wants food, clothing, shelter, sex and fan, but my hearts wants to please my G-d or it wants me to be an upright, decent person.

G-d is not in my in the extreme where I want to be a perfect person and He's not in the extreme where I'm fearing for my mortal life and I'm afraid that I won't be happy if I do all of these things, I will be
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short changed.

I can only go so far to the other extreme because I want to keep so much of this physical thing going, the fun life or whatever. G-d is not in either extreme that is what it is saying. He is right in the middle. What is that saying? G-d, He doesn't need to go to heaven, you need to go to heaven and G-d certainly is not in hell and is not going to help you go to hell.

Man doesn't have to be perfect to please G-d

So He's not in either extreme and He's there to bring you to the "Golden mead." A happy medium as we say as an expression, G-d wants you to come to that happy medium. I think that is a good expression because we're talking about being pleased and pleasing our G-d. G-d wants you to come to that happy medium where you're not in the far extreme that you think the lie you told fearing that you're going to be killed or it is going to put you in hell. And you're striving to not tell any lie every and you think that is going to get you into heaven, that is the minimum you need to do thinking, "I can't get into heaven if I tell a lie."

G-d is between the two extremes and He hopes to bring you to see that to please Him you don't have to be perfect He didn't create you to be perfect, He made angels to be perfect, He made human beings to be fated to trial and error until they get guidance and then to follow guidance as much as they can. Isn't that what Allah swt says? He says, "Do as much as you can of it." This is a loving G-d, this is not a G-d Who has no love for you He is a G-d Who has great love for all human being and all of the things He created. So He loves you and if you tell a little lie you put yourself in hell G-d is not going to put you in hell.

If you come in here and the Imam says, "If anybody comes in here late without a good excuse he is going to drop them from his class. They will never be able to come to his class again." You come in here late and you do not have a good excuse but you don't want to be dropped from the class forever. If I said, "How come you're late?" You would be a fool if you give the foolish answer and I say," Look you're late because you were doing that stupid, ridiculous thing, you can't come back to class anymore." If you told lie saying, "I was praying brother Imam and I just got lost I just drifted away from my awareness that I was supposed to be out early enough to get here on time." naturally I will say, "Have a seat."

Most of you will say "That is a terrible sin,"   look if you say you're praying that touches my heart, I love somebody who was praying and that is the reason why they couldn't get here. And everybody who heard you they like you because of the pray. Look at the good you did with a lie. To you right away the first look at it, it looks like it is terrible, he said he was praying that's telling a lie.
