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Ramadan Session 2002

Topic: Looking For Happiness

Conceptual Wholeness (Four Sacred Conflicts)

Lecturer: Imam W. Deen Mohammed At Ramada Inn - Homewood hotel
Chicago, Illinois

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Topics:
I.  Conceptual Wholeness (Four Sacred Conflicts)
A. Man's Spiritual Association
B. Man's Industrial Association
C. Man's Dialectical (speech making) Association
D. Man's Political Association Abraham - Ideological Dialectic Devotion
II. Contextual Wholeness: Aspirations (Tauheed) Ideological Development
A. Building the Context to Sexual Expression (Family)
B. Socialization of Spiritual Life; The spiritual expression of human (Mortal   Flesh) aspirations
C. The Rational Expression of Spiritual Life - The Moral Urgency
D. The Devotional (Occupational) Expression of Spiritual Life (Culture)
E. Dialectic Expression in the Community Life
F. Shuraa (As Shuraa): Dialectic Rule
G. Securing the Ethical Rule H. The Spiritual Republic
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We wish to express our thanks and appreciation to Imam Khalid Salahudin and Imam C. B. Hanif for their assistance in preparing this document.
Nasir Ahmad

Ramadan Session 2002 Topic: Looking For Happiness
Conceptual Wholeness (Four Sacred Conflicts)
Lecturer: Imam W. Deen Mohammed
At Ramada Inn -Homewood hotel Chicago, Illinois

I. Conceptual Wholeness (Four Sacred Conflicts)

A. Man's Spiritual Association
B. Man's Industrial Association
C. Man's Dialectical (speech making) Association
D. Man's Political Association Abraham Ideological Dialectic Devotion

II. Contextual Wholeness: Aspirations (Tauheed) Ideological Development

A. Building the Context to Sexual Expression (Family)
B. Socialization of Spiritual Life; The spiritual expression of human (Mortal Flesh) aspirations
C. The Rational Expression of Spiritual Life - The Moral Urgency
D. The Devotional (Occupational) Expression of Spiritual Life (Culture)
E. Dialectic Expression in the Community Life
F. Shuraa (As Shuraa): Dialectic Rule
G. Securing the Ethical Rule 
H. The Spiritual Republic
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11-21 -2002 Ramadan session Conceptual Wholeness (Four Sacred Conflicts) Thursday Fajr Prayer Chicago, III

Topic Looking for happiness.

Conceptual Wholeness
(Four Sacred Conflicts)

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 Muhammad (pbuh), the honorable and noble servant and Messenger of G-d and what follows of the 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 Quran.     As Salaam Alaikum

I know practically everyone here knows who this is, this is my daughter Ingina, she's been working with me ever since I started as a young girl. I was typing the thank you letters myself and she joined me and after a while I'm listening to her and both of us were typing. And I listened to her and   I said "That girl is faster than I am." So I sent it over to her and a lot of other things I sent them over to her. Baqirah the same, she was a young girl when I who moved to Oakland I stayed there for three years as the Imam there and Baqirah was with me all those years and she too couldn't type. So we were typing and I was listening to her and after a while I said, "Okay you got it."

Those two daughters of mine they were really a big help to me in the early years of my ministry or leadership, they were just like my right arm.   And even now when I need something, sometimes I have to go to them because I know they will do it right, do it the way I want them to do it. I have a few others too like that, but not many. And you don't have many either that will do something just like you want it.

They aren't picking on me that's the treatment you get from every body, they don't want to do it just like you want them to do it, they got to put something else to it or lake from it or add to it, just have to make it a little different. I guess they say, "Where is my fingerprint on this?"

Q. 89.27-30: Soul pleasing to Allah and yourself

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

28.   "Come back thou to thy Lord well pleased (thyself) and
well-pleasing unto Him!

29.   "Enter thou then among my Devotees!

30.  "Yea enter thou my Heaven"!

I'm going through this outline here titled: "Looking for happiness" there is a surah in the Quran and a verse of that surah at the end of the surah it says, G-d saying, "Oh soul pleased, return to your Lord." Really the first expression is not exactly pleased Mutmainnah is word the in the Quran, it means satisfied. It says, "Return to your Lord pleasing and pleased." And it also connects the soul with the paradise, the garden, it says, "Enter you My garden," the word in Arabic is "Jannatee.," "Enter you My garden, enter you among My servants. In Arabic it is "Fee ebadee."

Then it says, "Enter you My paradise." So this surah makes it very clear to us that the need in the human soul, the appetite, the hunger, the main surviving appetite stays there all the time, you die with it. And if you have a resurrection, you are resurrected still having that as your appetite, it is an eternal appetite. When we're talking remember anything we say for the individual it is true for all of us taken together. So there is a collective soul, there is a plural member soul, all of us are in that soul, we're in that one soul.

That soul has different features just like the soul of a single person, just like we, according to the teaching of the Quran, we have the "Nafsel Mutaminnnah," the one that we are addressing now, the tranquil soul or the soul that is satisfied, peaceful. And we have "Nafsal lawwaamah." I'm giving them in reverse than they are given most of the time when they being discussed. And we have "Nafsal La ammaru." To the first one I gave you meaning, the second one "Nafsal lawwaamah." is translated by translators of Quran as the self accusing soul.

Maybe before we finish we can have a blackboard, we have one at the office, I know we have one in the CPC office, don't worry about it that much if we had one it would help because I could put these terms in Arabic, it would help you. If you saw them in Arabic you could copy them correctly and you will see them in Quran as you're reading Quran or if you want to go back to these areas of Quran you will be able to go back and see what I’m saying and read other verses behind them. And even 
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read commentary that usually conies at bottom of the verse.

Naflawammah self accusing, critical 

Q.75. 2; Lawwamah Self accusing soul

And I do call to witness the self-reproaching spirit; (eschew Evil).

So the "Nafsal lawwaamah," the self accusing, critical of oneself, self critical, self accusing, putting the blame on self, the verb of that word really means to cast blame. So really you're blaming yourself more than you blame something outside of you, you're blaming yourself all the time. These are characteristics of the soul that are true for everybody, it's human nature, that is what we are addressing. The essential human nature and the features of the soul.

La ammarratun tendency to be in command 

Q.12.54; "Nafsal La ammarah."

"Nor do I absolve my own self (of blame): the (human soul) is certainly prone to evil unless my Lord do bestow His Mercy: but surely certainly my Lord is Oft-Forgiving Most Merciful."

This "Nafsal La ammarah." If you know "La" when it is used this way it is an intensifier, it says that this is very strong, in the soul. These are tendencies, the features of the soul and they are tendencies in the soul. So this "Nafsal La ammaru," is the tendency to be in command, to be in charge. The tendency to come from your own self and insisting upon something.

It is insisting, it is demanding, taking charge. The very root of this word, you can get the word amir. And amir means one who is in charge or prince but literally or the real meaning is one in charge, one giving commands. The one who is giving commands, orders. The word or verb to order is "Amara," it means to give an order. So this "La amarrah" is the insisting spirit in the soul. And this gets us in trouble so Allah (swt) says, "Nafs la umarruh bes-suu-e illarahema." Translated, this tendency in the soul leads to sin, except the soul that receives G-d's mercy. If it is not for G-d's mercy we all would be sinners, lost in sin because we have that tendency to take charge, act independently, insist upon our own way, assert authority, make demands.

These are characteristics of the human soul, these characteristics are with us when we're born and the mothers can tell you more about this than I can. But I have observed little babies, infants and the mother to attending their infants and the little infants come here and they have serenity written all across their face, just as peaceful, tranquil that is "Mutmainnah."

We thank Allah (swt) for these faithful people assisting us. We continue talk of these features in our soul at birth, we come here with those features. The little infant will also be critical too, you see the little babies and they can't even talk, they will start crying.

And not all of the time are they crying because you hi them, they cry sometimes because they are hurt for w they did although they can't even speak to you in English or in your language. They are crying because they are hurt for the way they behaved, they might ha been ugly to you and they are hurt, they will cry. So that is self critical.

And you will find the .little children that are always putting on you pressure to come and see about them at when you come and see them you have a hard time trying to please them, they're always making demands on you. The little infant can't speak your language yet can't walk, can't stand up yet, always making demand: on you, that is the   "Nafsal La ammarah." So these three come with birth, either the formation of the life in the womb of the mother or in the body of the mother.

1 see my acquaintance, my friends coming from way back in time when I was Minister Wallace D. Mohammed. Thank Allah (swt) that we are together, v survived and are still together, I thank Allah (swt) for; of you, Allahu Akbar.

Abraham obligated by nature to fulfill the covenant

Going back to the features in the soul, that feature in the personality, in the soul that we call satisfied, tranquil.; peace and feeling good about itself, having the good feeling, that is the description of Abraham the Prophet in Quran, he was such a soul. And G-d said of him that he fulfilled his obligation, he fulfilled his covenant, his obligation to G-d. His obligation where? Did G-d
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reveal him something and obligated him? Yes, but that is not what is being referred to now. What is being referred to now is his obligation that was given to him just like those features of his soul when he was forming in the body of his mother. That obligation was given to him. Soil is a covenant that really is created when the life itself is created.

It's an obligation or a covenant, an agreement, a pact with G-d, whatever you want to call it that is with life when it is forming in the body of the mother. It is something in the soul that wants us to please G-d.   And we think its until it's brought to our knowledge or understanding, we think that this is in us just for ourselves.   That urge to be pleased, the urge to want to be happy, the appetite for happiness is not in you for your self alone, more importantly its in you for your relationship with your G-d. It is to bring you one day into a relationship with your G-d, that your soul needs in order to be truly pleased, truly happy.

Happiness is a word known to everybody, some of us look for happiness in our own personal self, too self-conscious, too-self centered, too much devoted to our own self and not to other things and most important is to G-d. And we just engage ourselves all the time for happiness. When you are looking into the mirror too long, you're already washed up, you already brushed your hair, you did all that and you still like to look into the mirror, that might be coming from that trouble. Vanity is one of the major sins, to be stuck on your own self, that is the common expression, fascinated and held by your own beauty or appearance can really destroy us. Happiness is the burden on the soul. To find happiness, the soul is created to find happiness.

Allah created man for His mercy 

Quran 11.119; Allah created man for His mercy

"Except those on whom He hath bestowed His Mercy: and for this did He create them."

Allah (swt) says that He created us for His mercy but He also says of the soul, surely this feature in the soul is prone to sin, subject to sin, going to sin, that is where it is going except that it receives G-d's mercy. So here the nature that G-d created it is there and G-d didn't say that its sinful by itself or in and of itself, no it has a tendency. There was a problem for it, it can easily slip into sin.

Save yourself

But if it was really sin then why would the servant of G-d, pleasing G-d win the respect of people and they think he is a good leader, they support him, he becomes their amir and he is of that nature? He is actually performing in the role of one who makes or gives orders, one who insists upon certain things, one who is in charge commanding. That shows you G-d wants that in you, but He wants you to save it from sin.

Quran 66.6; Save yourselves and your family from a fire

"O ye who believe! save yourselves and your families from a Fire whose fuel is Men and Stones over which are (appointed) angels stern (and) severe who flinch not (from executing) the Commands they receive from Allah but do (precisely) what they are commanded."

We are always hearing "G-d saved me from sin" but in the Quran we are obligated to save ourselves and our relatives from sin, in Arabic it says, " Quu anfusakum," translated, "Save your own selves, your own souls, "Wa ahleekum" and your family members from the hell fires of sin.

So actually we are to save ourselves, we are our own saviors. G-d is the Savior but we are obligated ourselves to be our own saviors.   We are also having the nature, and this is very important for this discussion of happiness, the appetite in the soul for happiness.

We are also having in own nature, in our own soul, in our own original nature or self, in our own original self we are having an appetite to be pleased with own self. Everyone who starts out to find truth does not start out really knowing G-d, they out start seeking truth, they are truth seekers. And this truth is not sought just so you will know the truth from the lie, the real need to know the truth it is the need to feel good inside, to be at peace with yourself etc., it is the "Nafsal Mutinnah." the soul that has the nature to not stop until it is satisfied and it feels good about itself.

Discussion after Fajr prayer to Duhaa prayer time
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Muhammad the Prophet (pbuh) it is the tradition to have Fajr prayer for teachers of Al Islam and after Fajr have discussion like we doing now. And we do it up to the time of Duhaa. Duhaa it means brightest time of the day, so we do it up to the brightest time of the day and most of us think this is noon time, but we don't live in the open plains like Muhammad (pbuh), the Arabs and many people, like in Texas, and the open prairies, the big wide open prairies.

We don't live out there, if we did we would recognize that when the sun is at an angle in the sky, not directly over our head, but at an angle still in the East but up so you would have to look up to see it, that's the brightest time of day. When the sun is at angle and the light is beaming down, that's the brightest time of the day. It is called Duhaa and that is even a prayer, but it is not an obligation to pray prayer, that is one of the prayers we say at Duhaa time. You can do two rakats anytime you like, it is good to do these prayers that we are not asked to do, but they are prayers that were done by the Prophet (pbuh) and by other servants of G-d before him. We are only obligated to do the five prayers as you know.

This appetite in the soul to be pleased with yourself, to have yourself look acceptable and pleasing to you when you look at your own self, now really that involves all of those acting together.

The tranquil soul that wants to have happiness and be pleased, satisfied, and the one that is insisting; so they are working together aren't they?   G-d is insisting that you have truth or insisting that you have these things that you're missing to have that satisfied state. And the one that is critical is criticizing too, yourself if you have something in your own self that is in the way of that fulfillment. So really the three are acting together aren't they? The three are acting together and one can get us in big trouble. In fact even the "Nafsal lawammah,"can get us in trouble, the self, critical spirit or appetite in the human soul, it can get us in trouble too.

Even the desire to be pleased and satisfied with yourself, that can get us in trouble too. but not as critical for us as problems as the "Nafsal La ammarah.". That is why the emphasis is on it. big trouble, that is what the expression says. "La ammarah." big trouble, that's where the big trouble is. in the "La ammarah.".

I will go to the board now and put these names or descriptions in the soul on the board just in case some of you don't have them you will have them. I didn't bring my little work kit with me, I'll have it tomorrow if not later on today en sha Allah. Sooner or later we're going to need paper towels, so let me have it now.    This is my special assistant he's been here with me, I feel better when he's sitting here with me. Imam Earl Abdul Malik.

I hate to do that, just give me a paper towel, that looks like somebody's shirt, I know how you feel, I feel the same way too. I would give my shirt too, but it isn't necessary. That's a good sister who just left here and she's single. The best helper G-d gave us are these two (hands) you might say "The board looks ok why did he stop (to clean it)? Nafs Mutmainnah   I always like to use short pieces (chalk) like this I got it from____.

If we put all the (vowels) signs this An Nafs we don't pronounce the "L" when you have Shamsiyyan letters coming after the "L" and that "N" there is called Nun, in that is Shamsiyyah letter so you don't pronounce "L", we say An Nafsu. Nafs, soul, self. An Nafs, the soul or the self, the soul. And here is Mut-ma-in-natun,   the tranquil soul, satisfied inside, at peace with G-d.

These are all in this description of the soul in Quran, these are all tendencies, urges, appetites in the soul for this satisfaction. And this next one Nafsal La Ammara. Nafsal Law-wam-mah, Law-waamatun if it is used as a noun this is the self accusing one, literally they don't go like this I should have put them in order, I'm going to reverse it. This Lawwaamh will be number two. They are all in us to start with, don't think they are three in order of formation, they are all in us when we are born, when we are in the womb.

Souls connected to each other before birth 

Q. 4.1; Mankind created from one soul

Luke 1.41; Elizabeth heard Mary, babe in womb leaped

"And it came to pass, that, when Elisabeth heard the salutation of Mary, the babe leaped in her womb; and Elisabeth was filled with the Holy Ghost:"
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I was reading a portion of the New Testament, the Gospel of the birth of the Prophets Jesus and John, peace be on them, and something got my attention and it was while one baby was being made in the womb of its mother the other baby was being made in womb of his mother too, at the same time. Not that they started together but while one mother was carrying one, the other mother was carrying the other. The Bible gives the message or the impression that these two children's lives were in touch with each other even while they were in the wombs of their mothers. And what was happening for one child in the womb of its mother was affecting the other child. The other child was responding to something that was happening to the child in the womb of the other mother, a strong spiritual bond. What the Bible is saying is that those two souls had a strong spiritual connection, John and Jesus, peace be on them. That's not to teach you the Bible I teach the Quran and the Quran has a lot of references to what is in the Bible.

Tranquilizer is from tranquil

Mutmainnah will be three and then "La Ammarah" here are the three. Mutmainnah this is the one at peace, satisfied, tranquil. That is a term in English meaning peace, beauty, it's a beautiful word, or we might say perfect peace, heavenly peace, tranquil. But you can use it for any kind of peace. From tranquil comes the word tranquilizer that is certainly not the peace we're talking about. So this is help en sha Allah so you will know these terms when you see them in the Quran, you who are reading the Quran in Arabic, or if you are taking Islamic studies you will recognize these terms.

La amarrah insisting, self criticizing

So let us say them together now, An Nafs Mutmainnah, Lawwaamah, La Ammarrah. When we start off we are doing more insisting on having our way as we develop the soul. Then we look at ourselves and don't like something about ourselves we become self-critical, Lawwaamah. And we are trying to get all the time to get here, Mutaminnah, where Abraham was, right? Have peace inside, be satisfied with own self and our own performance as servants of G-d. That's the goal.

I didn't bring my watch so 1 need to know the time. We have plenty of time. I'm going to stop right here before going further with this and give you the schedule. We will having Fajr prayer every morning, G-d willing I intend to be here with you for every Fajr prayer in the morning.

Outline will be a publication without full discussion

Immediately after Fajr prayer we'll start the discussion. We will follow this outline that we have here, today I hope to complete about 1/3 of the outline. This outline will be made a publication, the publication will not have all that we will be discussing or giving in these sessions.

Don't share knowledge with a person who will make trouble

You be wise and know what to share with whom, don't make trouble for yourself, don't make trouble for your Imam, Imam Warith Ud Din Mohammed, my Imam and your Imam and don't make trouble for this community. Some things if you discuss them with people who are looking for something to blow up and to charge us with bidah, bringing something to Al Islam that's not acceptable, you will be working against us even though you are doing it in innocence, don't do that. You know these people, they are just looking for some reason to disqualify us so they can possess us as their little babies, their little students.

Immigrants plan to use us in America

I want you to know this, I have tried my best to have good relationships with all immigrant Muslims, and I'll still try. And I have reached out to them more than they have reached out to us.   I have even offered them to do something concrete, to do something practical that is good for them and good for us, they have not accepted it. Individually a few of them say, "Yes we should do that brother Imam," but nothing is done over the many years, I mean many years, ten years or more nothing has been done.

I have come to the conclusion that they are organized, they are together, they are organized for a plan to have us under them so they can have the honor and also material benefits of having us under them so that they can represent us to the United States government. So they can represent us to their country wherever they come from Egypt, Saudi Arabia or wherever.

They are deceived by our history, they say, "We know these people they can't manage themselves, they can't do it alone, they have to have somebody over them.
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They came as slaves, the white man was over them, the white man and the Jews have been ruling in their lives. That's not going to change, so why should we leave the white man and the Jew to rule in their lives? They are ours." I am giving you the exact language, "They are ours." So they have a plan to get you. And they will wear themselves out trying to get you, I say wear themselves out because some of you will never go to them.

So they will wear themselves out trying to get you from the Hon. Elijah Muhammad. But they don't know the Hon. Elijah Muhammad is gone and now you give your allegiance to his son. They don't even understand that, no really they don't.

Black Muslims are now transparent Muslims

They say, "Oh these Black Muslims, brother we have to get the Black Muslims." We are not black Muslims, are white Muslim. All these who used to be black Muslims we are now white Muslims, even better than that they are transparent Muslims, showing no color at all.

Ramadan session time schedules

So we will start at Fajr time, we will go up to Duhaa time. Duhaa will be between 9:30 a.m. and 10:00 a.m. we will conclude. We only have two sessions each day, we will conclude this session between 9:30 a.m. and 10:00 a.m. I will not be scheduled to be back with you for Thuhr prayer most likely I won't be with you for Thuhr prayer, until Asr time. And Asr time we will do Asr prayer and we will begin the second session for the day.

That session will go until the time with just a minute or two before Iftar, break fast. Right after break fast we will have salatul Magrib prayer and I will not be scheduled to be with you anymore until Fajr time the next day. So we have two sessions, one beginning after Fajr prayer and continuing until Duhaa time and we have the second session starting immediately after Asr prayer and continuing until break fast Iftar time and I will be with you for Magrib and then see you on the next day for Fajr.

Convention, Ramadan sessions groups should meet

In between these sessions, after all, I don't invite you only , but I also strongly urge you - - we have our best people, representative of our best interests for this community among you, in this group, this gathering that came here for this Ramadan session. So you who have interest in improving the school system for this community why not meet before you leave here, why waste all this time and opportunity, why not meet while you're here and see if you can in the month of Ramadan discuss the needs of our school system and make some progress en sha Allah.

And you who are here as business people with an interest in this community like we are, CPC Collective Purchasing Conference and our investors, our owners, the owners of the company, why don't you meet too? David Hasan from Fayetteville, North Caroline he's here and he's been in touch with me all along and he's trying to find a time area, time slot during these three days for meeting with investors and those who are interested in this business being partners with us or getting a share or handling the products, whatever your interest may be.

We would like for you to meet. Even if you have your own business like we have Tayyab food and a few others, we have business, big businesses. Tayyab food was a big business before we started. If you want to meet for your own interest, to acquaint the community with what you're doing so we will be aware of what you're doing, this is a free community, this is an open community and our doing business as CPC does not want to intimidate you, we don't want to check your growth. We want to encourage you to do all you can do to be the best you can be at whatever you're doing, your business.

Medical team should meet during convention, Ramadan session

This is competition, if you're better than we are, we salute you, we congratulate you. we cheer you on. And if we are better than you are, you should do the same and if you don't that's ok. we going to still be our own selves. It costs money to come together in any one place so let us take advantage of this, let's make this money work for us. Let us make these occasions work for us.

It doesn't have to be business and education it could be some other need. Health is very important for us, you medical people, doctors etc. if you want to get together, you know your organizations better than I do
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perhaps. So if any of your organizations want to meet here during this time, find out what is the schedule for everything.

Get together and schedule your meeting so that all of us will have a chance to come in this room and meet for our particular interest. Hold your questions if you have some.   I just want to make it clear the schedule for the sessions and make it clear that we want to take advantage of this situation we have that has brought us all together at this place. So let us take the time, let us take advantage of the situation, the place, the time to do something together and make progress. Whenever there is a meeting, a convention, such time like this please you who are devoted to overall interests or progress for this community take advantage of the situation and meet and see if you can progress or make progress for the community. We had some hands going up, I don't want to answer any questions, if you can write it down, do it when I have concluded.

Life disagrees to have agreement

We are going to go back to the outline, we are discussing happiness, the need in the soul, the appetite in the soul looking for happiness. You will see the outline has two parts, Part I and Part II.   Part I is about Conceptual Wholeness (Four sacred conflicts). They don't necessarily have to be conflicts. Life begins wanting agreement and to have the agreement life disagrees. Life disagrees to have agreement.

The major force or urge in life is agreement and we don't know it until we know G-d or until we have a relationship with G-d. that we appreciate or are conscious of. We are needing agreement with His plan, His purpose for our existence. His will. We need agreement with that so that we can find the proper relationship with everything else, so that everything else will be pleasing and acceptable.

Marriage best when both mates seek to please G-d

Even with our mates, sister, and your husband, and brother, your wife, happiness for your can best be established and preserved it both of you have as your greater appetite, the appetite to please G-d. If both of you have your greatest appetite, the appetite to please G-d, then you can manage all other appetites and all other relationships. So really that's the end goal. I just came to something that is so beautiful I'm going to share
with you later, I felt myself go up through the ceiling and go up in the sky. That's the end goal.

Taqwa was in man before he's created

The end goal is to please G-d. And it is in us from the very beginning. It is that Taqwa that G-d created us with. It formed in us the very beginning with the creation of our life in our mothers, Taqwa is there. In fact Taqwa is there before even the life germ is formed. When the life germ is formed it forms of the matter created by G-d. And the matter created by G-d has also Taqwa. Taqwa is in nature of everything G-d created, not just in human nature.

Q. 4.1; Reverence G-d and the family ties

"Reverence Allah through Whom ye demand your mutual (rights) and (reverence) the wombs (that bore you): for Allah ever watches over you."

Taqwa, we call it reverence, respect, we call it G-d consciousness, we call Taqwa by all of these names. If you use the verb form "It-taqe," it means have regard for, to reverence. This sometimes is reverence, sometimes it's regard. How do we know? I speak not from anything but what G-d has revealed, you can be guaranteed that.

I do not speak from anything except what G-d has revealed.   My attachment is not to myself or my knowledge or anything I want for myself, my attachment is only to what G-d wants, to His Word, be assured of that. This Taqwaa, G-d says "It-taqel-lah" have this reverence for   G-d. Regard G-d with the respect due Him. And G-d says, "Wai Arham," and also the close family ties or the wombs, literally, the wombs that bore you. But it means the close family ties, metaphorical or picture description that can best be expressed as the close family ties.

Al Hadith Ip.l80#l: Ip.236#l2l; 

Mother love three times then father

Abu Hurairah reported a man asked the Prophet (pbuh) 'Who is the most proper for my good association?' "Your mother", he replied. Then he asked, "Who is next?" "Your mother", he replied. Then he asked, "Who 
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is next?" "Your mother", he replied. Then he asked, "Who is next?" "Your father and then your nearest relatives.".

We started off with the raw expression but it is kind of raw to say the wombs of your mother is kind of raw. And reverence the close family ties. The closest of family ties is what? Mother not father, mother first. How we know this? Muhammad the Prophet (pbuh) he was asked by a young man who wanted to know who should he answer when both his needy parents are calling on him, asking him to help them.

Muhammad the Prophet (pbuh) said, "Your mother, and he asked again, he said, "Your mother," and he asked for a third, and Muhammad the Prophet (pbuh) said, "And your father," he finally said your father.

That was to say your obligation is more important to your mother than to your father. You owe her a little more than you owe your father. And a woman will tell you that, a wife or a mother will tell you that, "I will take the skin off of your little black ass. You don't know how I suffered with you." I just gave you what I heard, I didn't want to change it, I thought it was really effective the way I heard it. And that's exactly what she said, "I will take the skin off of your little black." She meant with a belt, she would whip you so much that the skin would break. The obligation is first to our mother.

Reverence G-d and the wombs that bore you, or more refined, reverence G-d and the close family ties. And the closest, the first of them is the mother then the father and then close members to you. It doesn't stop there, your aunts, your uncles, your brother, your sister. In fact your brothers and sisters will come before even your uncle and your aunts.

Your brothers and your sisters from your father and your mother then uncles and your aunt then you get farther away. The close family ties, it would be best to keep the immediate family in mind, but if the brothers and sisters of your mother and father, if they are in the family, because many times they stay in the same house. One of them will be in the same house like it was for us at one time. If they are in the house then you have to give them that kind of reverence, regard too because they are in the house.

Now sometimes they don't deserve it because of the bad condition of their soul, when I say soul I mean the whole life, mind, habits, everything. Because of the bad condition of their soul they can't be given the affection that we should give them. But even though they are not earning our affection we have to always keep a certain amount of regard, respect for them. I don't care if the person is drugged, or the person is drunk, or the person is criminal that is your relative, keep a certain amount of respect for them.

And many times that respect will have a better affect on them to make them become better than your being critical, rejecting them and throwing bad things at them all the time.

Q. 31.15; Parents bid shirk don't but be kind to them

"But if they strive to make the join in worship with Me things of which thou hast no knowledge obey them not; Yet bear them company in this life with justice (and consideration) and follow the way of those who turn to Me (in love): in the End the return of you all is to Me and I will tell you the truth (and meaning) of all that ye did."

G-d obligates us to have respect for our close relatives beginning with our mother and of the parents G-d says, "If they try or give you something for which you don't find a knowledge base" - - It means in your own religion, you can't find it in Quran, you can't find it in the life of Muhammad (pbuh), his teachings etc., anything to support what they are trying to impose upon you. And it is addressing shirk, like we are Muslims from Christian families, we might have a parent who just wants to insist that we believe that Christ Jesus is also G-d, that is shirk. What does Allah (swt) say to us for situations like that?

He says, "Do not obey them in that, that you know is against what Allah (swt), G-d has revealed in what He has given us in Muhammad the Prophet (pbuh). But keep good company with them in this life, that's very serious.

We should take that to heart and try to keep good relationship with our Christian close relatives who are trying to impose their beliefs on us. Don't fight them, don't argue with them, you should never argue with your parents. You might say. "Well you rejected your father." Rejection does not necessarily mean arguing.
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never was I arguing. There is nobody here and I mean there are people here that knew my relationship with my father, when I was having problems with what he taught us, it was personal what he taught me. I wasn't looking for an audience, I was dealing with what was bothering me. And some of my close relatives and friends knew it and it got out.

So there are some here who knew me, Sister Margaret Husain is here, could you stand up beautiful lady? This is a pious women, she has been that way even before she became a follower of my father, she came to him because she was that kind of person. Have you ever seen me argue with my father? Have you ever seen me looking like I wanted to be angry with him? Thank you.

It was personal and impersonal at same time. It was a personal need in me and it was impersonal because this is a matter that is decided by G-d, not by you daddy, not by me. When he rejected me and put me out, do you think that meant we were not on friendly terms? I never felt that way, I knew the law of the Nation Of Islam that I was not supposed to contact anybody in the Nation Of Islam and that's with my family once I'm rejected, put out.

But I said to myself, "I got to respect what is in my heart. And if he let me break this rule, it is going to be broken."

So I would write him letters, I would send him a letter, I didn't accept that there be no communication, that was the rule, but I wrote him letters. And I picked times to write him letters, when I thought he read it. Just before Savior's day I would always write him a letter telling him, I'd say, "You convention is approaching and I just wanted to wish you well, wish you a very successful Savior's Day," I would write him like that.

Conceptual wholeness

Every eye shall see him not two eyes

Q. 90.8; Have we not made two eves for him

Rev. 1.7; Every eye shall see him

"Behold, he cometh with clouds: and every eye shall see him, and they also which pierced him: and all kindreds of the earth shall wail because of him. Even so. Amen."

The first perception for the inquisitive mind, questioning mind, searching mind is object perception, seeing an object. That's why the eyes are so important in the development of the human soul.

Now we know that we have these physical eyes and we also have a spiritual searching, a spiritual need to have answers, to know, feel good, that is what I mean. A spiritual need to have certain conditions for ourselves. And inside of that urge is another eye, not these physical eyes, it wants to see too. And it is the greater eye, the one inside is the greater eye. The eye inside of us that wants to have things right, it wants to understand things correctly, and to understand things correctly, we have to see things correctly, perceive things correctly. So the eye is very important in religion.

Q. 102.7; You shall see it with certain vision 

"Again ye shall see it with certainty of sight!"

Allah (swt) mentions the eyes in the Quran, "Have not We given you two eye?" Ainain. In the Bible it says. "Every eye," it didn't say, "Eyes," it uses the singular not two eyes.

Q. 90.11; Has he not made progress on the steep path But he hath made no haste on the path that is steep.

The Quran speaks of the object, the aim, what we're reaching for, what we're trying to get says, "And has he made any progress in path that's steep?"

Allah (swt) in the same passage we're given, "Did not we give him two eyes? Has he made any progress on the path that is steep?" Now these are all objects, the path, we visualize it on earth somewhere, the hill, a mountain we visualize it on earth somewhere. So these are objects given to aid us in the development of our perception. So these are concepts and what you are perceiving is conceptual.

Adam the first human, the one created by G-d, our first parent, Adam.   Adam is more a type than Adam is an individual, not to say he is not an individual, yes Adam is an individual.  But Adam for our understanding, for 
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our study, it is more important to understand Adam as a type rather than as a person or individual.

The Adam that G-d is talking about in Genesis before the Quran and the Adam that G-d is addressing or talking about if we can use that language, Adam in the Quran is the plural figure that represents all of us in the beginning.

So just 70 yrs ago I was not here and most of you more recently, you were not here, but Adam was here. Not only was Adam here, your Adam was here. Yourself, you were here. You might say, "Oh, how was that?" Conceptually speaking you were here. You are essentially human, your identity as human is more important than your identity as John, Yaya or Rasul whatever your name is or as Warith Ud Din, Wallace's. My identity as human is more important than this identity.

Identity is first human then ethnic or national

And when I formed my identity, when I come here they name me Wallace, but I'm not Wallace yet. Listen this Islamic education is science as well as regular, common education or knowledge, this is science. When I come here from my mother delivered out of her body and they see me, they have already named me Wallace.

I'm not Wallace yet I'm only human, that's my first identity. I was human not Wallace. They could take me right away and put me in Saudi Arabia and I will not come up like I am, I would be a Saudi, speaking Arabic, being a Saudi in my spirit, in my behavior, in my aspirations, my whole life would be Saudi.

Human existed before physical conception

So actually the person I become depends on where I come up, where I'm placed and where I come up - the person I become. I'm Wallace speaking English and I'm American because this is the place that I was put in. I was put here. So the most important identity is human identity. And as a human I existed before even physical conception. Where was I? I'm deep and heavy you bet, where was I? I rather say I'm   philosophical, it is not heavy for lovers of this language. I'm light. But for you who are not attuned to this kind of language I'm like 50 ions of granite on your mind, on your head and shoulders.

The Mother of human nature is the material universe 

Q. 30.30; The religion of Fitraa

"So set thou thy face steadily and truly to the Faith: (Establish) Allah's handiwork according to the pattern on which He has made mankind: no change (let there be) in the work (wrought) by Allah: that is the standard Religion: but most among mankind understand not."

My human nature came from the matter G-d created, this world, that material universe, that is the mother of my human nature. The mother of my human nature is this material universe. What parent taught us to be human? None, you are born with that, but the ignorant society or ignorant environment you're put in can block that development, but it's there for every new born baby, it is born perfectly human.

Now we know if you take drugs or something or smoke while you're carrying the baby, the baby can come with birth defects, I'm not talking about a baby with birth defects. But even that baby with birth defects, the defect blocks you from seeing that there is a real human there, the real human is still there. I mentioned earlier that this Taqwa is in the earth, in the material world that we come out of, hence the saying, "The heavenly bodies are Muslims, the earth is a Muslim." What does it mean? It is a philosophical statement, it means that the nature of all matter is to obey G-d, the Creator of it.

So this obedience we call Taqwa and Taqwa is translated also obedience, not just reverence, regard etc., it is translated also obedience. It is an obedience that is sacred, it comes from purity of our nature or our soul, this obedience is formed there in the purity of our nature and our soul, this obedience for G-d, Taqwa. This Taqwa, this condition to respect G-d, to reverence Him, to respect what He has established, what G-d has established is in all things made by G-d. He didn't make anything that doesn't bear His will. Every thing wants to conform to the will of its Maker or Creator. So that means put IT a little heavier, make the expression a little heavier.

When we say mother earth, and believe me we say mother earth because mother earth is closest to us, but actually the matter of mother earth is the matter of the universe, the same. The elements in the earth are
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elements in the universe. What makes up the material earth is also in the material universe, out there everywhere. Comets fall down, they break from their proper places in the system of matter or in the sky and they drop to earth. If they don't burn up before they get here we find remains of them and many times the remains of them tells us what they are made of. We find the elements in those things that we have in the earth, in fact isn't that a way of revealing to us? Allah (swt) says in the Quran, "And He reveals iron," that is a metal, the Quran said He reveals iron.

This is a big subject all to itself, "He revealed iron." It has reference to man discovering iron as a metal, but it also has reference to our social life and our culture that He revealed iron. And it is addressing our nature, iron has reference to our human nature, something in our human nature. These elements are all in the universe. We say Mother earth, but you must understand that the whole of world matter, the universe is also our mother, we are born of matter.

Q. 50.9; Rain charged with blessings

"And We send down from the sky Rain charged with blessing and We produce therewith Gardens and Grain for harvest."

Q.34.24; Allah feeds from skies and earth

Say: "Who gives you sustenance from the heavens and the earth?" Say: "It is Allah and certain it is that either we or ye are on right guidance or in manifest error!"

Nitrates come down with rain and feed the plant life, it is not just water, nitrates, that is a substance for growing plants, it comes down with rain and it feeds plants. We eat the plants, the animal eats plant, so can we say all our food came from earth?

No, some of it came from the heavens, from the sky, some of it came down with the rain, came out of the higher atmosphere. It was formed in the higher atmosphere, not down here, I was speaking as a student of science too. Not down here it came from up there, nitrates were formed up there and then came down here to feed our plants.   And addressing (his with the Word of G-d, Allah (swt) says. "And He provides for you your food from the heaven and the earth." Now we know this is spiritual but it is also material, not just spiritual it is also material.

But the whole material reality is as our mother and closest to us in body sense or terms of the body. That He provides our food, for our physical body, the earth provides them, the vegetables, fruits, the animals, everything, seafood, all of this is from the earth.   But we must also recognize, having our recognition that, that comes to us that we need not only from the earth but from above. And it is from the sun's energy giving us our food, our provisions. He provides it from the sky, the heaven and from the earth.

In Arabic the sun is feminine, moon is masculine

If it were not for the sun's energy we couldn't even exist, we wouldn't even have what the earth produces, if it was not for the sun's energy. And in the theology of religions the sun is masculine, but in the Arabic language the sun is not masculine the sun is feminine. "As Sham" the sun, "Heya," meaning "She". We say can't "Huwa," meaning "He," it would be incorrect Arabic if you give masculine description for the sun or masculine identity to the sun. The moon in gender is male, he and in Arabic "Al qamara," is translated the moon. "Huwa," he.

So you students should be aware of that, that the sun is feminine in the Arabic language, Allah (swt) did not pick that language because the Arabs spoke it, that is not what Allah (swt) says. G-d picked that language because it best serves revelation. The sun. she, there is no "It," neuter gender in Arabic, meaning there is no three in Arabic.

He, she, but not "It" in Arabic, everything by gender is either she or he and no other, no in between, there is no neutral. So there is no "It" like we understand it in English. The sun is not called "It," it is called "She," the moon is called "He." A man is called "He," woman is called "She" and everything, else even energy and things invisible or not visible to the eye, they must be called "He" or "She" in Arabic it is nothing in between.

Q.26.7; Everything made in pairs

"Do they not look at the earth how many noble things of all kinds we have produced therein? "

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made us in pairs, male and female," then He says of plants He made them all in beautiful pairs.

So before the world of science Allah (swt) had revealed that everything in creation had been formed upon a duality, a dual nature, upon male and female, upon pairs. Modern science developed and it has given us the same. How many here took science in elementary school? Raise your hand, I did, I took science in elementary school.

Matter is duality not trinity

How many took science in high school? I did too. How many took science in college? I did not, only in the university of my mother, the universe itself, that's were I studied, in that university. So you took science, you learned in science that everything in matter has that dual function, right? Male and female. In electricity the concept, male and female, it is throughout science, it is not a trinity, matter is not a trinity, matter is a duality and men got to see conceptual wholeness.

Man's spiritual association

Man according to science is by nature gregarious, it means he has the nature to come together, form a group, not live by himself, not play by himself, not work by himself, his happiness is when he forms a group. When he's on a team, or in a group or organization etc., man's nature is to come together.

Man is spiritual and expresses himself materially

His first coming together is spiritual, but it expresses itself as material interest, but man is first spiritual before he is any other form. When I say man I means male and female, talking about the family of human being we call man, and this is in the English dictionary. Man means the individual male and man means the family of human beings, male and female, the dictionary entry will tell you that.

And that's what Allah (swt) says, that He created us from one soul both male and female, in the one soul. And He caused the soul to become two and he mates and He spread from the two, all the males and females, men and women on the earth. This is the picture that G-d gives us.

Man is first a spiritual community, in the study of human society, the development of human society the researchers have established that human grouping or bonding to have a group or society first are spiritual. And if you study the earlier societies of those that are still around and haven't evolved like we have, like America and the so-called industrial civilized world, you find them still in the spiritual mold. And their spiritual sense is much stronger, their spiritual perception is much stronger on the whole or generally speaking than ours.

They are super people when talking about the spiritual life, sensitivity. We go among them and we would need them to guide us, we would need them to protect us because their spiritual sense is so much stronger than ours. They will know when danger is coming before you know it, they know how to get to a place without a map, they have documented this. And usually there is always one among them or a few among them stronger in that ability, as it is for everything else that man has those properties that are useful for his action or performance. They always have one among them or a few among them that are excelling.

So they have a leader, he's more spiritually sensitive than the rest of them. And modem researchers they give them different names, I don't want to use these names because I don't want to take you off, I want to as much as possible keep us here on this paper. They give them names. I don't want to give them names, we're talking about the nature.

So they form a society, the leader is that man, that very sensitive one, more sensitive than the rest of them and that's why we call, describe or identify their society as a spiritual society because the main energy source and resource for them is their spiritual nature and its powers. So that's why we call them a spiritual society. And they are in the mold of spirituality.

Q. 32.7; Allah created man from clay

He Who has made everything which He has created most Good. He began the creation of man with (nothing more than) clay
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If they are innocent in that mold then they are as a type or as a picture, they are helpful to us if we want to see the beginning of human life, how it begins. Allah (swt) says, "He made the human of water. He made the human being of clay, He made the human being of dust." These are descriptions in the soul like La Amarrah . Lawwamah, Mutainnah so we have these description in the soul.

And G-d says - - Conceptual, don't forget we're just addressing what is conceptual now.   Quran says in Arabic "Bada-a," it means He began our creation with clay, in Arabic it is "Bada khalqan ensaan men teen," He began the creation of the human being with clay. Now is this conceptually speaking, is this material clay? No, so really this has to be dealt with in the second part because though it's telling us something that we can conceive, when I say conceptual I'm speaking that there are things abstract too that are conceptual.

But I in this first part we are addressing that, which is seen or can be seen by physical eyes. He began the creation of man from clay, what is it saying? This is saying the same thing that G-d already said, that He didn't create the human beings except to worship Him, to serve Him. And the word in Arabic means, - - see this is the importance of study in a group like this. You just don't want to know the word as worship, you want to know the word as servant, you want to know the word as worker, you want to know the word as obedience. He didn't create the human for any purpose except to obey Him.

Clay is pliable, the baby in the womb is human, Without identity

Now when you think about clay, and this going into the concept, not just looking at the concept but now we're going into the concept. When we look at clay we see what? We see a material that can be pliable, it gives in to be shaped and formed and impressions made upon it. The soft, fresh clay if you want your finger print on it. all you have to do is put it there. You want an alligator, if you know how to make the shape you can make it. You want a man or baby, you can make it with the clay. So it is there ready and rendering its own matter to be shaped or impressed, impressions to be put on it as you please.

Allah (swt) is saying that is how He created us. Isn't that the nature of the baby when they come in the world? The baby is so impressionable and the baby learns how to be human from us, the baby learns how to be itself from us. We give the baby what it needs to form its own self.

In the womb man is human then another identity after birth

It comes here as nothing but human. It is going to become a person, but the baby is like clay waiting for us to make impressions upon it and it will respond to and receive those impressions and as it does it's own person is forming. Your own person is not there to begin with, only the soul is there ready to be formed or shaped by the outside. So see we are formed inside, but the real person, I have to be formed on the outside.

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When we're in our mothers we are all just nothing but human with identities, even though we got a name before we came, before we were delivered. Like myself I was given a name long before I was delivered by my mother. I was already given my name Wallace D. Mohammed.

Jesus spoke in the cradle; spirit stronger than matter 

Q. 19.29-30; Jesus spoke in cradle

29. But she pointed to the babe. They said: "How can we talk to one who is a child in the cradle?"

30.  He said: "I am indeed a servant of Allah: He hath given me revelation and made me a prophet;"

Luke 2.42-46; Jesus spoke in temple 12 yrs old

[42] "And when he (Jesus) was twelve years old,[46] after three days they found him in the temple, sitting in the midst of the doctors, both hearing them, and asking them questions."

Mans' spiritual association, man comes firstly on the earth and forms spiritual bonds, and really our bond to mother is spiritual. The first bond we form with our mother is a spiritual bond, it is spirit sensitivity inside here. It is a spiritual world inside here that is registering and responding to her. Her kindness, her caring love etc.. it is responding to that and it is being shaped by that. If the mother is mean it doesn't necessarily result in the child being mean.
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The child's human nature may be so strong that it will dislike that (bad treatment) and even become stronger in its own form, become stronger as a human and refuse to be warped or taken into an ugly creature by the ugliness that it is given. Look how strong the spirit is, G-d made us clay to receive these impressions, but the spirituality, it is so strong that it can say, "Oo oh my Lord didn't create me for this impression, I reject it." It can't speak, we know that, and then again it can. Nature speaks, not the tongue, not the intellect, not the rational mind, nature speaks.   And Jesus Christ, peace be on him, he spoke while he was in the cradle.

So though G-d made us of clay, the spirit is stronger than matter because it is more exactly our nature than the matter. The matter is really the material created for us to express our nature through it. Allah (swt) created us to express our nature through the material but the life is not material the life is spiritual. So though G-d made us from clay He promises another creation, that's Quran. You who don't know Quran, understand, what I told you earlier, I don't come from my knowledge only from G-d's Word and His Prophet, His Messenger Muhammad our Prophet (pbuh).   That may send me to science, that may send me to culture, may send me to a lot of things, may send me to the Bible, but that is where I'm coming from.

Q. 2.30; Will You make one who will shed blood?

Behold thy Lord said to the angels: "I will create a vicegerent on earth." They said "Wilt thou place therein one who will make mischief therein and shed blood? Whilst we do celebrate Thy praises and glorify Thy holy (name)?" He said: "I know what ye know not."

Al Hadith 4p.208#4; Angels made from light

Aisha reported the Prophet (pbuh) said "The angels were created of light and the jinn were created of smokeless fire and Adam was created of what has been described to you."

Spiritual association bonding is the first. G-d said to the angels when He was forming His man. they were afraid of this material creature that He was Making because they are not material, they were made of pure light. They said to G-d, "This creature that You're making here, there will be bloodshed etc., other problems. G-d said, "Wait until I breathe into him of My own spirit." It means G-d didn't say, " I disagree with you, G-d didn't say I agree either, but G-d didn't say He disagreed. So that means He left what they said standing, right? He didn't knock it down. He left what they said standing.

Q. 38.75; Allah; Adam created with My two hands

(Allah) said: "O Iblis! what prevents thee from prostrating thyself to one whom I have created with My hands? Art thou haughty? Or art thou one of the high (and mighty) ones?"

So in human nature it is a tendency to shed blood, to make trouble, break the peace, but in this man I am making I have put into him My own will and made him a little different than I made you angels. I made him with My two hands. So when Iblis comes in the picture He says, "What's wrong with you Iblis that you don't accept that, which I made with My two hands? I made you with My one hand and I made these angels with My one hand. I decided I wanted a creature made with My two hands. And that is the creature I'm making and you are judging him before he is matured.

Certainly he's prone to do these things because he will be carrying the heavy cross of the material reality. Bull am going to inspire him with My own spirit. He is going to be inspired of My own spirit and will and when that happens I won't tolerate your disrespect any longer. G-d didn't put it like that, He said, "Then make sajdah," when that happens you make sajdah, speaking to the angels.   Isn't it in scripture that came before in the Bible? Yes it is, I'm a student of the Bible also.

Rev 22.8-9; Angel man bow not to

"And I John saw these things, and heard them. And when I had heard and seen, I fell down to worship before the feet of the angel which showed me these things. [9] Then saith he unto me. See thou do it not: for I am thy fellow servant, and of thy brethren the prophets, and of them which keep the sayings of this book: worship God."

Jinn from a fire free of smoke it means no repentance 

Q. 55.15; Jinn made from fire gives off no smoke 

"And He created Jinns from fire free of smoke:"
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It says in the Bible also that certain ones who have reached that maturity or the perfection for his life that G-d gave him, the angels submit to him, that angels do obeisance, the angels render themselves to serve him. And in the Bible it says that he has made him a little above the angels. So this is the understanding. And He made the jinns from a fire that give off no smoke, meaning it submits to nothing, it gives up nothing. It is a fire that gives off on smoke, no repentance, repentance is not in its nature, it does not admit any faults, it repents nothing. That is the nature of the jinn, conceptual wholeness.   And we're addressing spirituality, right now, man's bonding as a spiritual life which we will come back to.

Q. 7.13; Get you down from here

(Allah) said: "Get thee down from this: it is not for thee to be arrogant here: get out for thou art of the meanest (of creatures)."

Al Hadith3p.l31#7;   Prophet jinn became a Muslim

Ibn Masud reported the Prophet (pbuh) said "There is none among you who was not entrusted with an intimate friend from jinn and with an intimate friend from angels." They asked and you too oh Messenger of Allah (pbuh)? He said "And I too, but Allah (swt) helped me to prevail over him and so he submitted and he does not enjoin me but with good."

Q. 13.11; For everyone there are angels in succession

"For each (such person) there are (angels) in succession before and behind him: they guard him by command of Allah. Verily never will Allah change the condition of a people until they change it themselves (with their own souls)."

It was asked, " Oh Messenger (pbuh) of G-d, do you have a jinn or did you have a jinn?" Muhammad the Prophet (pbuh) he said yes, but my jinn became Muslim." So this nature is also in human life, it is in man so G-d said when the jinn caused rebellion. He said. "Get you down from here all together." And the expression in Arabic "Qubad," it means like the fingers of the hand that becomes a fist, like the live fingers of the hand that becomes a fist. What is it saying to us?

Man can separate from his angels

You could separate from these things, you can separate from your jinn. And the angels are always separated from you, even though they be with you. Because we know that the teachings of Al Islam, like the teaching of some other major religions, Christianity, Judaism and some others, says that for every human being angels are assigned.

So I have my angels, I'm Wallace but I also have my angels, they are in my makeup too. One is recording the wrongs, my bad deeds, the other is recording my good deeds. For my right hand, for my left hand, right? In the judgment, one is recording my good deeds and one is recording my bad deeds. Now which hand is this? It is my right hand, one is recording my bad deeds, one is recording my good deeds.

Deeds good, bad Unconscious acts (left side) forgiven 

Q. 11.114; Good removes evil

"For those things that are good remove those that are evil."

In the first stage of my development, the major progression for my development, my bad deeds are here (left hand). G-d forgives all of these bad deeds that from here on this side (left) when I become Muslim. When I take my shahada, G-d forgives all of the bad deeds that formed on this side (left) because they were not intentional, they were Adam, they slipped into bad habits, it was not intentional. But all that forms over here (right side) I will not be forgiven, they go against my record.

Right hand empty scale of bad deeds

So once we become Muslim it is not the left hand that emptied the scale it's the right hand that fills up the scale and also empties it.

The good deeds fill it up, the bad deeds from consciousness, that you're aware of, they empty the good deeds. Good deeds cancel bad deeds, this is Islamic teachings, good deeds cancel bad deeds. If good deeds, cancel bad deeds, bad deeds also cancel good deeds. But good deeds have more power than bad deeds Good deeds can cancel many times its volume of bad deeds, but bad deeds cancel small amounts, no more
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than the equal of its volume of good deeds, this is Islamic teaching. And we will take up too much time if I go and give you every reference.

Q. 2:58;   Enter gate in sajdah 

And remember We said: "Enter this town and eat of the plenty therein as ye wish; but enter the gate with humility in posture and in words and We shall forgive you your faults and increase (the portion of) those who do good."

Mark 10; 14-15; Unless come as babes as enter heaven

"Verily I (Jesus) say unto you. Whosoever shall not receive the kingdom of God as a little child, he shall not enter therein."

Man's spiritual bonding, man's spiritual association is first in his conceptual formation. So we see man in flesh body, the objective picture of him is a physical body, his flesh, male and female. And we see him having life inside the body that is actually stronger than his physical flesh. And that's his spiritual reality inside the flesh body. And the spiritual reality is stronger than the material that he got from his mother, it is stronger. So he forms, though he is flesh and blood, he forms upon his spirituality and his leader becomes a spiritual leader.

Scripture says, "Unless they come in as little babies into heaven, you want to earn heaven if you want to earn heaven, and the Quran says same thing, but with a different expression. "Wad khula baaba sajjjadan", translated "Enter the door or the gate making sajdah. " It means as little babies, it is the same thing.

It doesn't mean physical babies, it means complete surrender or submission, that's what it meant. Make it like sajdah as a baby makes sajdah to come out of the womb of the mother. To come out of the mother, the baby comes out. making sajdah. The baby is upside down first, right? The baby turns over in the form of sajdah, and that means it is ready to come out.   "Wad khula baaba sajjjadan", translated it means, "Enter the door or the gate in sajdah that is what it means. You will not go in except as little babes. The Quran says the same thing, G-d was telling Muhammad (pbuh) to say this again, restate this to them, Muhammad (pbuh) enter the gate or door in sajdah.

So these early societies, though they are in the flesh body as a community we don't see development beyond the flesh body. They are still in the material mold that G-d first gave them and that's their own body.

They haven't learned how to build towns, cities, systems to support their towns or their cities, they haven't learned how to do that yet. They are just living on bare mother earth, ground and walking around on it and having their livelihood on it without even tents or etc. For shelter maybe they will run under a tree if a tree is there, if there are no trees maybe there is a cave, no cave maybe they will hide behind a big rock. They haven't developed any material structures, they are living only in the material structure that G-d gave them for the expression of their life for their spirit.

As it was in beginning

Q. 21.104; As we created you the first time

"The Day that we roll up the heavens like a scroll rolled up for books (completed) even as We produced the first Creation so shall We produce a new one: a promise We have undertaken: truly shall We fulfill it."

Matthew 24.37; As was in days of Noah

"But as the days of Noah were, so shall also the coming of the Son of man be."
But they are bonded by spirit and the Bible says as it was in beginning so shall it be in the end and the Quran says, "As He created you in the first instance so shall you return, it is the same thing. We need to know how to make connections for what came before with what came after, that's learning brother and sister, that's really being educated in the Quran when you know how to make the right connections. With all the things important for us in the education of our community or our leaders male and female, that's very important.

If our leaders don't have that, they will always be babies in the hands of the Islamic world and your old brothers, speaking to Joseph now among us, not you in particular, but you for certainly for sure, I'm speaking to you Joseph, that's Yusuf. He was named Joseph, his Islamic name is pronounced Yusuf in Arabic. And it is not an Arabic name, they did not have any Yusuf before
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revelation, it's a revealed name. And it happened to be in Arabic so it’s Quranic Arabic.

Quranic Arabic and Arabic there is a difference

We should know the difference between Arabic and Quran Arabic. Quranic Arabic is not only Arabic language but it is Arabic   terminology that they didn't have before, Arabic words that they didn't have before revelation came to them. They knew nothing of Joseph.

Q. 86.6-7; Man emitted from a fluid

6.  He (man) is created from a drop emitted

7. Proceeding from between the backbone and the ribs:

I John 5.6; Come as water and blood

"This is he that came by water and blood, even Jesus Christ; not by water only, but by water and blood. And it is the Spirit that beareth witness, because the Spirit is truth."

When you look at the conceptual, physical objective pictures, the visual pictures, the visual things that are put before the eye, G-d says, He made man from sperm.

Someone might say, "Oh that word sperm where is that in the Quran? From a thick watery fluid, He made human life from a thick watery fluid, opaque, milky looking, that's how it's described in Quran, He made him from that fluid. So this is the beginning for human life isn't it? It has reference, that concept that is physical for us, the physical picture of that substance that is the basis of life in formation of my body in my mother.  It combines with something of the mother and when it has both the thick watery substance and what it gets from my mother, it comes together then life starts, my life starts.

So this is water and blood, this is what scripture tells us and of Christ Jesus. This is Quran too, I'm not talking about anything that is not in Quran. Of Christ Jesus he says, " I come not of water only but of water and blood." So in the progression for our formation as a living organism, or a material body it is that thick watery substance that Allah (swt) says issues from between the loins and the ribs, that's wisdom too, we don't have enough time for all of this.

It issues from between the loins and the ribs and you know the female in the Bible is associated with rib, right? A spiritual community, don't forget where we are now. We are talking about the spiritual community so whatever I am saying in the concrete you have to translate it into spiritual or spirituality or things, spiritual essence or reality.

And then it becomes blood, it says, "And He causes blood to become a congealed substance." They say a clot, this is not clot, a clot in medicine is trouble, we know they say blood clot, it means it congeals I'd rather use congeal, let's say blood congeals for this. You don't want anything that suggests something to your mind that takes from the beauty and the logic that you're engaging and seeking to know better or seeking more of.

So clot I don't like it, in my studies, to say. "And then it became a clot," I don't like that. That language disturbs my tranquility, my peace, it tells me trouble with the blood, I don't want to hear that, so say congeal. And some translations they don't say clot they say, He made man from congealed blood, isn't that right? So let us use the better expression here, congealed blood.

Q. 23.14; G-d created fetus, lump than another creation

"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!" 
It says, then a lump of flesh, it's a fetus lump, a lump of flesh. So this shows the progress for this life and we're looking at it objectively, we're looking at it as concrete physical matter, something our five senses can perceive or detect readily. Then He caused the lump of flesh to have bones in it, that's the fifth isn't it? Then after bones, "He clothes it with flesh," so bones are in this fetus before the fetus is really completed, bones have started to form in it, the fetus. Then He clothes the flesh and it become the picture of the baby that is still in the mother but it's complete just like a baby is when it's out. it is complete.

The whole series or progressions for the physical form has been completed, it says "Then He clothed it with
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flesh," "Thumma Khalqan akhar,"   thereafter another progression, another creation for it. So these are two creations. G-d is saying after you're formed physically you're not complete, that you have to undergo another progression, another series of steps in development. And the second progression will be similar to first, it will be progressions really on the first. So the watery substance will be progressed, your spirituality will be progressed and you become a new creature in your spiritual life. So for all other steps -- but since we are just addressing right now man's spiritual association we are going to stop right there for that description.

Spiritual means your life is expressed in and through material

So the water is the basis of life, your sensitivities and your nature to form spiritual bonds. Don't think of revelation, every time you say spiritual you think of revelation, no. Every time you hear spiritual think firstly of your own nature. And spiritual for a human only means life expressed in the material. Your life expressed in and through, the material, that is what we mean when we say spiritual. You love that's spiritual, hate that's spiritual, nasty, clean your whole life, essentially all of your life that makes up-you, your true self is spiritual. You are not this (body), you express yourself in this. You are what is being expressed in that, you are what is using this instrument, this body is your instrument.

You love, that's spiritual, you hate, that's spiritual, you're afraid, that's spiritual, you feel secure, that's spiritual, you dislike that is spiritual, you say that is nasty or that's clean, that is spiritual. Your whole essential life, all of your life that makes up you, your true self is spiritual.

Trumpet blown, the body will tell of our deeds 

Q. 36.51; On that day trumpet will be blown

"The trumpet shall be sounded when behold! from the sepulchers (men) will rush forth to their Lord! "

You are not this (body) you are expressing yourself in. You are not this physical, you are not that, you are what I    is being expressed in that. You are what is using this ,     instrument, this is your instrument, your body is your instrument, you are what is using that instrument. So G-d created you spiritual and He gave you, the body as your instrument and as your servant. The body is made to be your servant and your instrument, that is what it is to you. But you can't really express yourself without your body as a musician can't express his without his instrument. You can't express yourself without your instrument, that's your human body.

And it says, "And on that day the trumpet will blow." What is the trumpet? Your whole body is the trumpet that will be blowing, it will be your human body that will be blowing.

And it will be sending off warning, it will be your soul, your breath of life sending warning through your trumpet, your human body to the world. Quran says, "And on that day the trumpet will be blowing and they will rise at once," all at once, a single blast of the trumpet and they all will be standing up.

Man's spiritual association. So I hope I'm giving you some understanding on your true origin, self and how that is where you must return after we have gone from the physical world that G-d created us to live in, express ourselves in, our flesh and blood bodies. We engage the material world with our intelligence, with our intellect, our rational tools and we form material structures, huts, houses, mansions, pathways, roadways, highway, expressways, we go from the donkey to automobile, trucks, ships, airplane, rockets.

Matter is the material for the inner expression of man 

Q. 38.75; Allah Adam created two hands

(Allah) said: "O Iblis! what prevents thee from prostrating thyself to one whom I have created with My hands? Art thou haughty? Or art thou one of the high (and mighty) ones?"

Look how we are increasing material instruments for our expression. I'm going to give you something deep again. What are all these things we made but means for further expression and benefits? So with that I tell you the human spirit is evolving the material world. The Material universe is giving birth so spiritual life that G-d said. "I created with My two hands. And when I have inspired him of My own spirit make sajdah." 

Khalqan akhar second creation after revelation only

Q. 11:119: Man is the purpose creation was made
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Q. 23.14; Then another creation

So what is the purpose of the whole material realm, all the material reality, sun, moon, stars, planets, everything, earth and everything that's in it and comes out of it, what is the purpose of all that? To express our humanity, to express our own life. So actually I'm a dynamic creature, I am the purpose for which the world was made, I'm the purpose for which the universe was made. And I am in the universe as a life germ. And I make it burst open and reproduce itself, throw up structures, reach other planets with matter from the earth. My matter is shooting rockets up to another planet in the sky. My thought went there before I sent my rocket there, and the rocket, my houses, my streets, my systems, everything is no more than an expression of me.

That is where G-d wants us to go with our searching minds and that is the spiritual life force that makes all of that happen. And it can't happen without the revelation of G-d. You can go so far but you can't have that "khalqan akhara," another creation, without revelation from G-d.   It says "Thumma khalqan akhar," thereafter another creation that will have another similar pattern series for its development. And it only can happen with revelation from G-d.

Q. 2.36-37; Satan caused Adam to slip, but he met word

36. Then did Satan make them slip from the (garden) and get them out of the state (of felicity) in which they had been. We said: "Get ye down all (ye people) with enmity between yourselves. On earth will be your dwelling place and your means of livelihood for a time."

37.   Then learnt Adam from his Lord words of inspiration and his Lord turned toward him; for He is Oft-Returning Most Merciful.

In the Quran G-d says, "Adam, the jinn caused him to slip from the foundation that G-d had set him upon and more important for understanding that foundation, it is the original righteousness that G-d created him with. He was deceived by the Satan, he and his wife were deceived by the Satan to come out of the original dress of righteous, that's what Allah (swt) says in the Quran. He says. "And that dress was the dress of righteousness." So the first foundation he was established upon was his righteousness, his innocence that wanted to be good. obey, please G-d. The Satan deceived him out of that and the troubles came, but G-d said, "And he met a word from his Lord and he repented."

So we don't believe in A parent that is a sinner, we believe in a parent that is by nature righteous and was prone to sin, but after sinning - - and he had to be deceived by, the Bible says, "The most subtle creature in earth," meaning the one that had the intelligent skills to deceive and manipulate and trick, his skills for that were the biggest in the earth, greater than Adam. So Adam in his earlier formation, could not deal with it, he was deceived, he was overcome.

And Allah (swt) says we're are not to stop there, don't give him that picture, his true picture is not that, that was his mistake, his true picture is innocence, righteous, purity. And it stayed in him and he overcame the trouble. He met a Word from his Lord and he repented that, meaning he got back into his righteousness, he go back into his true form.

Heaven returning to G-d is to return to the original nature

Q. 6.94;   Return to G-d

"And behold! ye come to Us bare and alone as We created you for the first time: Ye have left behind you all (the favors) which We bestowed on you: We see not with you your intercessors whom ye thought to be partners in your affairs: so now all relations between you have been cut off and your (pet) fancies have left you in the lurch!"

So (A). In the outline is on the first stage in the human being, the first formation for the human being's soul, not only for the individual but also for the society. Societies form too first spiritually. And don't forget we're saying to this state you must return. So actually the return to G-d is also a fulfillment of the promise of G-d that for righteous people there is heaven, the happy abode right?

So our heaven is really this (original innocence). When this goes wrong we're cast out of the garden. Even these primitive societies they are existing in a state of
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heaven, ignorant, underdeveloped, not progressed as G-d wants them to be, but as far as their souls, they exist in the garden of paradise, they are happy there.

One society in this developmental level studied by Margaret Meed, she said that she found no vice, no crime, isn't that something? So she's saying to us, "I verify what G-d revealed," that human beings in their nature are created innocent, pure, not bad. Not only of this tribe that she found, others have been found more formed or more progressed, they had engaged freedom of thought to a certain degree, but they had such strong human sensitivities such beautiful and strong and human sensitivities that they shared everything.

If somebody made a boat the boat couldn't be his boat and he wouldn't be making if for himself, he made the boat for his community. And he would leave the boat on the river and whoever wanted would get it. If someone went there and they found somebody else was using it, they would wait until it came back and they would use the boat.

And likewise it was for the things that the community needed, they did not claim it for individuals, they claimed it for the community, isn't that beautiful? And these are people who haven't been educated, these are people knowing nothing about Western industry, science etc., but look how beautiful they are in infancy, just like the new baby born to mama and dad, just a few minutes ago, just as beautiful and innocent and inclined to respond to goodness and be good.

Q. 91.7-8; Allah gave every soul its Taqwa and Fujura

7.   By the Soul and the proportion and order Given to it;

8.  And its enlightenment as to its wrong and its right;

So this is what we want to perceive of our original nature. And believe that G-d made us right. Our own indiscretions make us wrong or our freedom to do our own thing and leave obedience and leave Taqwa, that is what causes all the problems. And where is that freedom given?

In our Fujtir. Allah (swt) according to His teachings in the Quran and our Prophet's (pbuh) teachings. He gave every human being He created Taqwa and Fujur.   That isn't old age. I have a minor problem, a case of arthritis, but it's getting much better. J have to share something with you too later, another session, health session. I don't know how you feel, I feel good.

In the Quran Allah (swt) says He gave every soul its Taqwa and its Fujura. Taqwa is reverence, regardfulness, translated sometimes fear, in the obedient nature is fear to disobey. So that's Taqwa, in the obedient nature is the fear to disobey, you put that all together, it is Taqwa. And because of that nature in us we want to respect that, which is due respect because we fear to disrespect anything G-d created us to respect. And that first and most important respect is for G-d "Attaqellah," reverence G-d, "Wai arhaam," and close family ties.

Fajr begin dawn time when spirit agree with rational 

Q.2.187; See two threads

"And eat and drink until the white thread of dawn appear to you distinct from its black thread;"

Fujur. Now you see the word is "Ettaqe," it means to have that Taqwa for G-d, and Fujur can't you see Fajr in Fujur?   This fujur this is Fajr, this is the time when the sign of night and the sign of dawn meet and form one line like two threads, the description in Quran. A black thread of night and a white thread of the coming of the day, the dawning. So what does this say to us these two straight lines paralleling one another? That your consciousness should be in perfect agreement with your original human spirit, which is the night. And should also be the knight spelled with a letter "K," the boss, the one in charge.

So it is saying that G-d created you and He created you with your spirituality agreeing with your original spirituality, what He created you with, agreeing perfectly, that is what the two parallel lines perfectly flowing with one another together is saying to us one above the other.

It says to us, speaking though a concrete picture, this is an objective picture, black and white objective conception, you are looking at a concept of a physical to our eyes, these concepts are visible to our physical eyes.

So we are being told with this metaphor that G-d is saying to you He created you with a nature to have your original soul and spirit agree perfectly with your consciousness in the world, with your mind in the world.
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They are not supposed to disagree, G-d created you to have the two running parallel in perfect agreement with one another on the "Level," as they say in the religions.

Fajr time, so you see how symbolically speaking, how important this fajr time is for us in our study, for our elevation of our minds and for the development of our ideas, very important the fajr time. So we begin from that time when the two are in agreement, that is what it is saying, this tradition of speaking and discussing these matters in religion, important matters in religion. At this particular time it is saying that we begin from that point, if we want to be successful in having a good, successful discourse, discussion, teaching, we ourselves should be in harmony spiritually, soul wise with our life or consciousness in the world.

Fujr is not bad; if it causes your fall it can raise you up

Q. 97.1; He revealed it in the night "We have revealed it in the night"

The trouble comes in the day, "And He revealed it in the night," blessed night, "Peace it is until rising of dawn, "Salaam heya hataa matla'l fajr." Until the rising of the dawn. So the trouble comes here, in the Fujur." But is the Fujur originally sinful, bad? No, the sign of the Fujur is this perfect harmony with the original life or soul, the darkness in the time of Fajr. Meaning that when this life began in your consciousness as G-d created, it begin from a sinless situation and becomes sinfully situated later, why? Because of your mistakes, the limitation for you as a human being, you make human error, you get into human trouble.

But the same thing that made possible your slip from the garden can also be engaged again and the same that brought you down can lift you up. It was reasoning that brought you down, you followed the Satan, the suggestions from the evil side, from the bad side, you followed suggestions from him and you depended on rationalization, your own rational powers and forgot to depend on your Taqwa firstly and then your rational mind.

Q .30.41; Corruption on land and water

Mischief has appeared on land and sea because of (the meed) that the hands of men have earned that (Allah) may give them a taste of some of their deeds: in order that they may turn back (from Evil).

Matt. 23.15; Corruption on land and water

"Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye compass sea and land to make one proselyte, and when he is made, ye make him twofold more the child of hell than yourselves."

You forgot Taqwa and began to be fascinated by your rational powers and you started forming rationalization and you rationalized that it is ok to do this and repent later because this is going to bring a lot of good immediately and   our society needs this right now. So it's ok to do this right now, repent later. And pretty soon the trouble made got bigger than you. And others got it that could not even think as well as you think, couldn't handle the situation as well as you. And trouble becomes so much like the Scripture, Allah (swt) says, "And corruption has spread over land and water," the whole earth is burdened by corruption. But I said the same that got you in the trouble will get you out of trouble, as we reason off the center of our Tawqa, off the foundation of our Taqwa and got into trouble.

If we will again find our Tawqa and start reasoning again we will solve the problem, Allahu Akbar. And that's what happened for the righteous, they again find the basis, their Taqwa, the foundation of Taqwa.

And they reason again and they get rid of all these mistakes they made and make their society beautiful. It happened for Muhammad (pbuh), it happened for others, peace be upon the servants of Allah (swt).

World, woman is man's tilth 1st mate is earth 2nd society

Q. 2.223: Your wive is your tilth

Your wives are as a tilth unto you; so approach your tilth when or how ye will.

Man's industrial efforts brought in man's industrial association. So as man formed all of these material structures his attention grows these material structures. The world of man's creation becomes his mate. The first mate for him is the world of G-d's creation, the world in
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its mature state made by G-d. The next mate for him is the world made by man. So he engages Eve and gets into trouble, the world man made becomes his second wife and he gets into trouble.

Getting from the world G-d made limits his intelligence, terribly limits the possibility for his intelligence, for his education. This world would be much more advanced in terms of progress for human society, civilization, sometimes that term is not the best to use.

But in terms of progress for civilization this world would be advanced much more, thousands of years advanced over from where it is now if we had not lost our fist mate and began to relate to our second mate without relating to our first mate, first then the second mate.

Colleges established upon what G-d made

Our institutions of learning, they have to engage our first mate, the world made by G-d. You cannot have any of the sciences except from the world made by G-d, in their development. After they are developed, certainly you can go from there, you can go where they stopped, you can go to man's world then and study what he made. His machines, his buildings, his structures, all of them etc., his theories etc., you go to man, what he got. But to form that discipline, that body of knowledge, you have to first go to the first mate of the world G-d made, the natural world.

And the proof or the legitimacy for that development of the sciences that man gave us from his studies and research or whatever, it has to be established upon what is in the material world G-d made.

And the proof or the legitimacy for that development of the sciences that man gave us from his studies and research or whatever, it has to be established upon what is in the material world G-d made.

The universe is the Word of G-d 

Q. 31.27; Trees, pens oceans ink

"And if all the trees on earth were pens and the Ocean (were ink) with seven Oceans behind it to add to its (supply) yet would not the Words of Allah be exhausted (in the writing): for Allah is Exalted in power Full of Wisdom."

So we have the study of the composition of matter, molecular structure, atomic nature, all this. We have all that but where is it supported, upon what reality is it supported? The study of the world G-d made. Likewise for astronomy, for medicine, you just name it, for art, for literature, for everything we must go back to the world G-d made. Hence G-d said, "If all the trees were made into pens and the seas multiplied over were made into ink, it would all be used up before you use up the Word of G-d."

Q. 45.3-4; Signs in sky, earth and yourselves

3. Verily in the heavens and the earth are Signs for those
who believe.

4. And in the creation of yourselves and the fact that animals are scattered (through the earth) are Signs for those of assured Faith.

Now what is G-d referring to when He says the Word of G-d in this expression, what is the Word of G-d? The whole universe is the Word of G-d. The universe is nothing but signs from the Creator. The Quran says, "In the heavens and in the earth are signs as well as in yourself," so everything as the native Americans called Indians say, these things that we see with our eyes, the material things, the world, the American Indians said of those, "They are only messages."

The Indians said that long before the Quran came, the Indian people had that idea long before the Quran came. Muhammad (pbuh) didn't know the Indians, he didn't know those people. Allah (swt) revealed to Muhammad (pbuh), "That in the heavens are ayats, in the earth are ayats as well as in yourself, ayats." It says, "But most people go along heedless not reading the signs."

Now a verse is not called verse in the Quran or in Arabic, not a verse of the Quran. A verse of the Quran is not called verse, it is called a sign, it is called ayat. So really reading the Quran is reading signs, do you follow the reasoning? So reading the Quran we say reading verses, but translate the word for verses, signs. Reading the Quran is reading verses, but those verses are not called verses in Arabic or in the Quran, they are called signs. So reading the Quran is reading signs.

And G-cl says now. I'm saying, putting it this way, but G-d actually says this, that is where I get authority to put it the way I'm putting it to you. because G-d actually said it. The Quran does not have all the signs, the Quran
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has only the signs revealed to man by G-d on highest level of revelation, "Wahe." The signs are all that G-d did, the signs are in the skies and the earth and also in man and what's between skies and earth. So everything created, all matter are signs and they are signs from Allah (swt).

Man's works in society is an extension of G-d's will 

Language forms from influence of creation 

Q. 41.21; Allah gave speech to everything

"They will say to their skins: "Why bear ye witness against us?" They will say: "Allah hath given us speech (He) Who giveth speech to everything."

Let me go further, man cannot not reproduce creation in its many forms like he's done without the will of G-d. The light came first in the stars and in the sun, the moon. Now there is a light in that (light bulb) fixture, so man now has reproduced light and he has presented light to you through a different form.

I am saying to you he cannot extend G-d's creation without conforming to G-d's language. So don't think G-d stopped speaking to us when He created the material universe before man touched it. Whenever man touches it G-d already preordained, pre-decided before man had anything to think about or do, G-d had already prearranged that whatever man does will speak My will and My language.

And he can't take My matter out of My will and out of My language, I created him to extend it. So the   light fixture speaks the Will and Word of G-d. Everything speaks the Will and word of G-d. You cannot take it from G-d's language, you cannot take matter out of G-d's language. It may speak a warning, it may speak of blessing, it may speak both a warning and a blessing. It may speak a curse, it may guide you to salvation, what man did it you read what man did.

So if G-d says there are signs in the heavens, signs in the earth and also signs in you, don't think He's just speaking about your physical body, although that's the direct reference. The direct reference is to your physical body, male and female, that there are signs in you, but there are signs also in the way He created you to perform. There are signs also in what He created you to do. In short, there are signs in both G-d's made
world and man's made world. And man's made world is nothing but another expression of the Will of G-d, G-d's message to man. He thinks he doing his own thing, he's doing 
G-d's thing.

Q. 99.5; Earth inspired

4. On that Day will she (earth) declare her tidings:

5.  For that thy Lord will have given her inspiration.

And the earth shall speak, that's what Allah (swt) promises, as though revelation had came to her, Allah (swt) says that in Quran. "And the earth shall speak as though she has received revelation."

Man's industrial association

So we see man is drawn by spiritual nature to form communities, to form work teams, to form leadership, to form whatever he needs to make the society more beneficial and more pleasant for him. Then man forms material ties. Now I will give you something else that you perhaps wouldn't get except here with Imam Warith Ud Din Mohammed, I'm a free soul.

Don't think this knowledge is separate from the wisdom of the ancient, the wisdom of the ages, it is not separate from that. This knowledge that was revealed to us as Islam, the Quran and Muhammad's (pbuh) way has connections for the Bible or revealed scripture of the people of the Book firstly and more importantly. That is what came to Jews and what came to the people of Aaron's house, the Prophet Aaron peace be upon him. But is also has reference to the wisdom of the ages and most importantly for this focus or perception is ancient myths.

Language forms upon a logic

But also the rational movement for the productive intellect, when I say productive intellect I mean that which wants to improve community life, that which wants to improve the world, make it better as a living situation for human life. The productive intellect or productive mind, it has reference to that, not the Greek thinkers alone, but certainly the Greek thinkers who gave us myths like Egypt did and like many other parts of the world. All of the world gave us myths, but they also gave us dialogue, dialectics, rational discussion and a desire to know how language is to form by nature of the references to the matter that forms upon a logic, a
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scientific logic. So the language we speak, English, Japanese, French, Arabic whatever, our languages should respect the mother that gives birth to language, and it should also be supported by logic of science.

So when our language respects the mother that bore it and it forms upon a logic, a science, we have more power of expression and we have a better tool for giving us the progress we want on this planet earth for human community.

The Quran is the most powerful form of language expression for man

Q. 51.23; Your speech is intelligent

"Then by the Lord of heaven and earth this is the very Truth as much as the fact that ye can speak intelligently to each other."

So those men, the thinkers, they were in the womb of expression and they were struggling for more powerful and more accurate, more productive expression. And the Quran, which is in my understanding, saying that it is the most powerful body of knowledge in expression. In the power to express itself for man's benefit on this earth. It is not failing to acknowledge that this process was not started in Muhammad's time (pbuh), but this process started a long, long time ago. In fact it started with the creation of man. Man has this yearning, this appetite to reach his goal and he has been given the power of speech.

The Quran mentions this to bring our attention to the value of the power of speech from the urge in the intelligence, it says. "Are you remembering or are you aware that you have been created to speak intelligently?" It means to speak with intelligence, with rational sense, this is the Quran.

Man fails because he disengaged the first mate, matter

The material world that forms it engages us, and the reason why it overcomes us is because we have disengaged the first male, the material universe.

College, schools need re-ordering, re-tooling 

Rev. 21.22-26; Light the whole world

"And I saw no temple therein: for the Lord God Almighty and the Lamb are the temple of it. [23] And the city had no need of the sun, neither of the moon, to shine in it: for the glory of God did lighten it, and the Lamb is the light thereof. [24] And the nations of them which are saved shall walk in the light of it: and the kings of the earth do bring their glory and honor into it.

[25] And the gates of it shall not be shut at all by day: for there shall be no night there. [26] And they shall bring the glory and honor of the nations into it."

So all of these institutions of learning are in need of, and the time is here, they are to do a re-ordering and it is going on. You who are sleeping you don't know what's going on. What we are doing in religion as Imams and ministers, preachers, the same thing is happening in the whole universe now. This is the day that is promised when the light shall go down from the One on the throne. And it shall come even out of the throne, this is Bible. The light shall come from the enlightened one, it shall emanate from his own body, meaning his own life, but it also shall come from the throne. The throne itself is going to release light, it is going to give forth light. And the light is going to spread from the enlightened one and from the throne to fill the whole world with light. It says, "And the whole world shall become light," isn't that something?

Adam created in dust; dust is undeveloped industry

How do we understand it? By what G-d has already revealed, "All the world is nothing but ayats," if those ayats are read with right understanding or the right keys from
G-d. It says with G-d are all the keys, this is Quran. When it is read with the right keys from G-d all the dark cells will be opened with keys and the whole world will become light.

The industrialist - - closing out this part on the industrialist association. Man has been created for industry. Adam is not only a human type, Adam is a human type made from earth. What is made from earth? Industry. The language makers, authorities have kept the connection for dust and   what man has created, the material world he created in + dust try. And Adam was made from dust. If he was made from dust his Creator put him in dust. He was dust, if He made him from dust that is where he was.
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Dust is the undeveloped industry

So what does dust mean? The un-development of industry, dust is undeveloped industry. Now to have developed industry what do you have to have? Yes, you can use dust but you also need agriculture, so you need water to come to the dust, need to irrigate dry land that, that was dust before will become agricultural land from agricultural land we get industry.

Women want to marry working a man

Adam first man is the man who works earth to build

The working man that works with the earth to build things, home that is your first father and believe me it is the nature of females to not want to marry anything but Adam. If you aren't going to engage this material world and create something, make something, get or make her a house, go out and get some clothes or something or hunt and get you a bear hide to put on her if it's cold weather. Bring in a bear skin or something or a sheep, skin from there, get that woman something warm to wear when the cold weather comes. If you are not going to do that she doesn't see you as a man.

So she keeps telling you, "You aren't a man, nigger." She is angry with you brother, she knows G-d made you to be Adam and you are being sissy, "You aren't a man, nigger." and you're right. She means you don't do what the white man does, nigger, yeah she is talking about that white man. You got it brother, that is exactly, that is her reference. She is looking at Adam who is doing it and Adam who is not doing it.

She says "You aren't a man, nigger." Don't hate her love her, say "Girl thank you, keep whipping my dumb so and so until I wake up please." You should be begging her for more whipping until you start being the man G-d created you to be, the first man, man number one, man in the beginning of the evolution of the world of mankind, man number one, industrial man. And isn't that what Mr. Fard came to awaken in us?

The original man. And isn't that where the Hon. Elijah Muhammad focused our attention to material needs and material things and our obligation to provide these thing for our own neighborhood? The industrial man.

Q.I7.95; Earth populated with angel He'd send one

Say "If there were settled on earth angels walking about in peace and quiet We should certainly have sent them down from the heavens an angel for an apostle."

So Allah (swt) didn't create any people to be floating in space not connected with the material earth and its resources and great benefits. He didn't create any man for that, He says, "had the earth been populated by angels I would sent you an angel as a Messenger, but I sent you a mortal man like yourselves," to guide you to the full expression of your life.

Conceptual Wholeness 

Q. 64.3; Allah made your feature excellent

"He has created the heavens and the earth in just proportions and has given you shape and made your shapes beautiful: and to Him is the final Goal."

We spoke of spirit in the man, now we have brought the picture and He says, "That we have made for you your surah," your pictures. So we addressed man as the invisible body, the more important one, the real life inside the physical. Now we have been addressing man as a physical body, male and female that has to interact with the material world, following the intelligence and the Taqwa and the Fujura, they are to engage world with his intelligent mind, he and she. So that he extends the matter G-d birthed him out of. And isn't that a regeneration for life, just as my son and my daughters or children are regeneration for our life?

Sex more importantly to reproduce the mind not only the body

So think not of the single person without thinking of the collective person in the community as the body, the world, the earth and the community as the body, think of that.

And when G-d says that He created you to reproduce. He is not talking about having sex. physical, flesh sex, G-d isn't that petty. He uses that concept. He's speaking to a concept of your physical life and the concept of your engaging your wife sexually. He is using that concept to speak to you of a higher concept, much higher than that concept. And that is the concept of your community life. Scripture says that He has made man u community, a plural life. And He obligates you by our own nature to reproduce. Now when you reproduce for your
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community as you want sons who are better extension of yourself. You don't want sons having no more knowledge than you, limited by your education, by your own skills. You hope to produce sons that advance your dreams, right? Or plans for your life and for the life of your family.

So that regeneration, that procreation should be for your community with the same interest that my community be reproduced and I bring extensions, put extensions on my community life that will improve it, make it better. So that each extension that I make for my community life advances its worth to human life, man in society. This is the better way of looking at the teachings in Al Islam, it's a better way of looking at G-d's revelation. This is the real way, the better way of looking at G-d's revelation, this means progress for your people who will treat G-d's revelations the way I'm telling you to treat G-d's revelation.

How you think Muhammad the Prophet (pbuh) and his followers in just a short period of time, almost in the period of time in one man's life went from nothing, unknown as producers in the world to become the leaders for all known societies upon the planet. Institutions of higher learning sprung up almost like overnight. A people who cared for nothing except to migrate going from water hole to water hole or oasis to oasis in the desert or stay around the holy precinct and wait for superstitious worshipers to come there on their pilgrimage so the merchants could make money, that was their life. And they are called the jahilliyah, age of ignorant people. In the Quran and in history now they're called that, so what changed them so suddenly to be great torch bearers of light for man's future in society or on this earth?

In industry, we said looking for happiness, conceptual wholeness. So what kept them from that wholeness? It was their ignorant focus, the ignorant interest, the things that they were focusing on. When the focus came from G-d, when G-d told them how to focus, look how quickly, it is so amazing that the learned, literary, scientific world of the West say it's amazing. And some writers have given Muhammad (pbuh), the man that made the greatest contribution and did the most marvelous works in the short span of time, in his lifetime. The leader for all the rest, the most outstanding among all, Allahu Akbar.

If that's not doing it for the Islamic world now, shouldn't that make you agree with me that it is because they don't have what that world had. Those in the world now don't have what Muhammad the Prophet (pbuh), had and shared with his companions and with those who followed him, obviously they don't have it. And Allah's (swt) sympathy was with the slaves that lost their connection with their previous life, culturally uprooted, totally uprooted. History says we were culturally uprooted, but totally uprooted and separated, detached, disconnected. And over here treated worst than animals are treated, and the North knowing it and did nothing about it.

North didn't stop slavery

The North didn't want it in the North, it was really the Northeast, I think Chicago would have had it if they had authority to have it. it would have been right here in Chicago, but because Chicago was with the Northeast politically Chicago didn't have it either. But it really was the Northeastern man. Why the Northeastern man didn't want it? And allowed it, but didn't stop it? Because he was cultured, refined, well educated. Industry educates us, understand that, you can study any branch of knowledge, astronomy, but it is literature and industry is what educates you.

Literature is history, literature is the expression of a people, the cultural expression of a people, the cultural language, expression of a people, it's their message. Literature without industry is nothing, because industry produces literature, industry produces everything.

That's why the type of the industrial life and its progression is Adam meaning the first parent and from the first parent came all the others, right? That means whatever you have of science, of education, the beginning of it was industry, it all came out of the industrial man.

G-d blessed me to see this. The industrial man is the parent for all of these, and Allah (swt) says, "He taught Adam the names of things," it says all of it, "Kulla." And we have Imams and they wouldn't dare listen to me, they just think, they look at where I came from. Look, don't think 1 ever want you to see me as a Prophet or as a Messenger of G-d. We all are His servants, we all are His messengers in a way, but not the Messenger (pbuh).
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Don't think of me as the Prophet or Messenger of G-d, I don't want it, even if G-d told me, that's yours I would ask G-d, "Can I keep it a secret G-d?" I'm not a Prophet, G-d never told me anything, I've searched for G-d and I found His Word that He revealed to others, I haven't received any revelation except for what He revealed already. And the Quran is the last revelation.

The world including Muslims tolerated slavery

Look at our condition that we were in as a people and how the whole world was tolerating it that means Saudi Arabia, Egypt, Sudan, you name it they all were tolerating it. If they did do something about it they were doing it in secret, it was not recorded. We know Mr. Fard did something in secret, it was wonderful what he did.   You think, free yourself to really use your best senses, your best thoughts or intelligence and look at this. Here is a G-d Who has power over all things, here is a G-d who created us for His mercy. Here is a G-d Who created us to have our property and He says our natural property is the sciences, He created us to have our properties, I'm speaking from Quran and Muhammad's life (pbuh).

G-d is seeing all of that, He is the all seeing G-d and He's looking at a few that have been taken out of His promise, a few that have been denied the freedom to progress with His mercy and His favors and His sciences that He created when He created the world, this is what He promised all of us. And here are some being held back and treated so bad, and the people who treating them like that claimed revelation.

As Frederick Douglass said, "They claimed Christ Jesus, peace be on G-d's servant and Frederick Douglas said, "But your behavior and you claim Democracy to be the best democracy," he says, "But your behavior is such that it would shame a nation of savages." Those are the exact words of the great teacher, educator, liberator, freedom fighter Frederick Douglass.

Keep your mind on this picture okay? Now look in the Old Testament and see how the Jews were mistreated and see what G-d had to do as an obligation. Now tell me looking at that picture of the Jews in their treatment and how they were under a hard task master, a bad natured Pharaoh and how he had subjected them (o raw, material performances and would not permit them to develop their intellect and their spirituality, not under
him with him observing it. If he saw it he would punish them for it. And look at us coming up and how we were in the South during the days of slavery in these United States, called a peculiar institution of slavery, this is what the historians say about it, the peculiar institution of slavery. Meaning that there was not another like it in the history of man.

So looking at all of this now and understanding that the G-d Who created us for life is seeing us held back from it by a people who claimed to be the leaders of democracy, the leaders of the best order of society for man. And claiming also to be followers of Christ Jesus, the righteous, a Word from G-d, Jesus Christ, peace be on him. Tell me what do you think our G-d will be obligated to do? He is obligated to take over and work for us on our behalf, he is obligated to do that.

These people have us now, they are holding us back from what He created us for and they are doing it in His name. G-d says if you publish something in His name you obligate Him, that is the scripture. Now I'm speaking of what the white man did saying that they represent the society of Christ Jesus, that they are authorized by G-d's Word to do these things, to have the society as they had it. A terrible shame in the eyes of any intelligent man or beast. An animal would cry, if they could understand the situation. I'm sure a lot of dogs did cry looking at us, the way we had been treated. I can see them and hear them now, I'm sure they did it. And a horse too in his own way, a mule and all of them, I bet you a chicken too saw us in our misery, that roster gave a moanful crowing. Every living thing pitied us in the state that we were in, pitied the treatment that we were getting from another so-called human brother.

So what do you think G-d is going to do?    So is it a big thing that I tell you G-d has guided Imam W. Deen Mohammed and gave Imam W. Deen Mohammed what he needs to take you all the way where He wants you to go. And you are absolutely hurting your own self, cutting your own self out of the blessings when you want to choose some other person as a leader of Islam over what I tell you. And you go to their book and put down the book that I give you. you go to their book and get their language and put down the language that I give you, you are under a curse. G-d has cut you out of the blessings. And that is just the plain truth that I'm giving you as a brother and a friend. Because I forgive you, this isn't personal. I am not in this for myself, no indeed. So
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I'm hurt when you turn me down, I am hurt for you when you turn me down, not for myself, no indeed. That's what we should expect.

Al hadith 1p372#69: See wrong change with hand, tongue

Abu Sayeed al Khudri reported the Prophet (pbuh) said "whoever among you see anything wrong let him change it with his hand. If he is not able then with his tongue and if he is not able, then with his heart, that is the weakest form of faith."

The Almighty G-d observed our situation and saw no help coming from people who claimed to be His representatives, who were treating us that way, they were the cause of our misery and the whole Islamic world knowing about it too and couldn't deal with it. Let us say that they couldn't deal with it, don't say that they didn't have compassion, let us allow that they did have compassion, that they did feel sorry for our condition here, all of them. Let's say the majority of them did have compassion, the majority of them did feel sorry for our condition here and maybe secretly they prayed, but isn't that a weak Jihad? Muhammad the Prophet (pbuh) has told us about this Jihad. He said. The Jihad is it to correct a wrong with your hand," that's the first, most important and the strongest of Jihad. The next is to correct it with your speech. How come if they didn't have the power to deal with this great material world of the white man, why didn't they use their speech?

Slavery, the elder brothers put us in it for future gains 

Q.I2.5,8,10; Joseph brother plotted to get rid of him

8. They said: "Truly Joseph and his brother are loved more by our father than we: but we are a goodly body! Really our father is obviously wandering (in his mind)!

10. Said one of them: "Slay not Joseph but if ye must do something throw him down to the bottom of the well: he will be picked up by some caravan of travelers."

Why didn't they speak from the Holy Quran and say, "our Book tells that you have an incorrect reading of your Book, you are not getting the beauty of your own Book, you're not getting the help that G-d put for you in your own Book, your rule is wicked? Why didn't they come out and speak if they didn't have the power to pick up arms or the means the wherewithal to deal with the man materially? How come they did not use the second form of Jihad to speak out against it? Why? Because they were the elder brothers of Joseph - you should write this - and they had sold Joseph in slavery and hoping that Joseph would one day be rescued by G-d, not them.

M. 291

And that G-d would be obligated to rescue Joseph because they were putting Joseph in a situation where G-d would have to come to his aid. And when Joseph is rescued and when he rises up in the government of the Pharaoh or the ruler, he will be there to serve his elder brothers. Elder brother go to hell.   Maybe you don't follow me with this language I'm giving right now, some don't follow me but when this language reaches them, and it will, they will understand it clearly.

They have been planning for these centuries while we have been suffering and they have passed their hopes on to their children, those who died passed their hopes on to their children secretly. And now they have their little mutts, little small, uncivilized dogs coming in our neighborhood opening the grocery stores, investing materially in our community thinking that, "These are still Niggers, they are still Negroes, they are waiting on the white man to run the neighborhoods, provide for them their needs. Why don't we go, in they are ours."

They claim us, "They are ours, why don't we go in their neighborhood, why don't we be the material life, business life of their neighborhood? And make money but also to decide their fate and their future."

Never, it won't happen. We don't need thousands to stop it from happening, we don't need more than the number that is with me right now and we can stop it from happening and we will stop it from happening. Because Allah (swt) is with us, the most High G-d is with us. He's with us, they will not be able to do this thing.

They say, "Well this is something that we do not want to dirty our hands with, but if brothers from overseas can come in and take over where they are neglecting life, take over and do that, let them do it." So they are not going to stop anything their brothers are doing unless it
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is something outright sinful like gambling, drinking whiskey, eating pork, they will condemn their brothers Tor that. But they are not going to bring the issue to you, you have to bring the issue to them, then they will tell you "Yes it is wrong brother, he's a Muslim, no it's wrong ." I am talking about the best of them, the worst of them they are the ones who are trying to get you to not give support to the whole interest that your Imam W. Deen Mohammed is standing for and trying to get you to stand for. 
Their hope is that they will take you from that, they say, "The Imam he's messing up now brother. We love our Imam,   he's our Imam too, we love Imam Warith Ud Din Mohammed. He's done a wonderful thing, he's going to get the jannah, he's already done enough to get the jannah.

The jannah is his, brother, he brought so many poor souls to Islam more than any in modern history." He says, "But brother work with our Imam but brother please, he should not be engaging in this business thing. He should stick with Quran, you need Islamic education. Imam shouldn't worry about these material things, this is materialistic, you know these materialists." Ask him to show you his bank book, he got one. He will say to you, "You know this materialist, these things are corrupt." And you African American with your little innocent, poor, silly self will say , "en sha Allah", and the next time I see you, you're not one of us. If you don't speak it with the tongue, your face says you're gone.

Satan influenced the environment the first mate 

Q. 1539; Decorates path causing man to err

(Iblis) said: "O my Lord! because Thou hast put me in the wrong I will make (wrong) fair-seeming (decorate) to them on the earth and I will put them all in the wrong

Al hadith 4p. 178#42; Gabriel shown earth Satan changed

Abu Hurairah reported The Apostle of Allah (peace be upon him) said: "When Allah created Paradise. He said to Gabriel: Go and look at it. He went and looked at it, then came and said: O my Lord! Bs Thy might, no one who hears of it will fail to enter it   He then surrounded it with disagreeable things, and said: Go and look at it, Gabriel. He went and looked at it. then came and said: O my Lord! By Thy might. I am afraid that no
one will enter it. When Allah created Hell, He said: Go and look at it, Gabriel. He went and looked at it, then came and said: O my Lord! By Thy might, no one who hears of it will enter it. He then surrounded it with desirable things and said: Go and look at it, Gabriel. He went, looked at it, then came and said: O my Lord! By Thy might and power, I am afraid that no one will remain who does not enter it."

So we're stupid if we don't engage the first mate and also the second mate. We engage the second mate to get the benefits to work with her, to live with her, to make improvements on her because the shaytan has left his imprints on her, he has put his spirit in her, so we have to work on her to get her halal. And the first obligation is to our self, our own family, our own household and plan all the time to change your neighborhood. They have neighborhoods that are halal. Have a halal neighborhood.

The second session we will start on part C.    We have discussed as an introduction Looking for happiness and we have begun the first chapter of this publication "Conceptual Wholeness (Four sacred conflicts)"

Q. 41:10; Man given needs in four days

"He set on the (earth) Mountains standing firm high above it and bestowed blessings on the earth and measured therein all things to give them nourishment in due proportion in four Days in accordance with (the needs of) those who seek (sustenance)."

Q. 9:36; Four months of the year are sacred

"The number of months in the sight of Allah is twelve (in a year) so ordained by Him the day He created the heavens and the earth; of them four are sacred; that is the straight usage."

Sacred conflicts: Spiritual, industrial, dialectical, political

Allah (swt) says reminding the Arabs that He made sacred four months and He says also that He has given every creature its needs for its life and livelihood, four provisions in four parts or in four categories, provisions. And we are talking about here the sacred conflicts for man's spiritual, industry, speech making or dialectic, political. So there are four: Spiritual, industrial, dialectical and political associations for man.
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In concluding this the discussion made by great teachers, thinkers of the Greeks that brought them to a high, great civilization, the nation states of Greece and the world they became the leaders who were influencing the world back then like the United States is doing now in the world. They were the main, greatest influence in the world.

And all of their wisdom and their creativity came from the fathers of Greek society, the philosophers, the thinkers, and their discourse was dialectic which we will be discussing at the next session but not Greece or ancient Greek teachers. They are not in our view alone, but we will have reference to them, they are not the subject of this discussion that we are going to have. Thank you very much and we end this session and we will see you en sha Allah at Asr time.

Those who missed Thuhr prayer let us combine Thuhr with Asr when I return. I'm going to have to go, keep it written down the next session I will open with questions before beginning the session.
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11-21 -2002    Ramadan session Conceptual Wholeness (Four Sacred Conflicts) Asr session Thursday

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 Muhammad (pbuh), the honorable and noble servant and Messenger of G-d and what follows of the salute or that traditional salutation to the last Prophet (pbuh).

As Salaam Alaikum The discussions will be transcribed

We are not going to go right into this, we're going to have time for questions, maybe some few minutes for discussion, discuss the matters that you might have questions for en sha Allah maybe, we will see. This morning just for the sake of those who came in after our session this morning, I believe quite a few came in after our session this morning, raise your hand if you missed this morning's session, you really did not miss it,   it's recorded it's going to be given to you transcribed, thank you I just wanted to know, to have an idea of how many were not present for the session after the Fajr prayer.

This morning we begin these topics under the heading "Looking for happiness," this is what we have focused upon or on for the Ramadan sessions today, tomorrow, and Saturday, three days. And for the benefit of those again, who were not here earlier for the earlier session, we will have two sessions a day en sha Allah. The first session will start immediately after we finish the Fajr prayer, the early morning, dawn prayer and it will conclude en sha Allah around 9:30 a.m. at least by 10:00 a.m. We will not go any longer than 10 a.m. I'm putting a stop on it myself.

That we won't go later than 10 O'clock in the morning, that gives you time to go back to bed, to do things for yourself if you have to do some things for yourself. Go back to bed and get some more sleep because you. like myself, you stay up too late, you don't get enough sleep. If you go to bed and sleep three or four hours your health will be in bad condition, that's no good. So go back to bed and get you some more sleep and be ready for the midday prayer en sha Allah, for Thuhr prayer.   I may not be with you forThurh prayer, I will go home and I will come back I may not be with you for Thuhr prayer.
but I will be for here Asr time. And if I'm here I will pray with you at Asr time, Asr prayer.

The second session starts right after Asr prayer and continues until Iftar, break fast time. And we will break our fast and that concludes the sessions for that day.

They tell me, they say, "How you do it brother Imam, how do you keep up with it?" You just got part of what I'm doing, what you see in the journal is just part of what I am doing, and I keep up with it alright. With your prayers, Allah's (swt) help I am doing fine. I'm almost, I'm going on 70,1 will be 70 years old next year and I almost feel 17 not 70 years old. I can't prove it to my wife, but I prove it to the punching bag. I got a punching bag at home, I prove to the punching bag, I punch just as fast, just as skillfully and just as long as I did at 15 years, 16 years, 17 years, 21 years, 23 years, 26 years, just as good as I have ever been right now. Thank Allah (swt) for preserving my physical life too, although I have health problems, but Allah (swt) is giving me help with that.

Diabetes, I think I had it all of my life and I did not know it because the symptoms of diabetes I have been having it all the time and did not even know those were the symptoms of diabetes. With the help from a pioneer in this community it is better, and I want to share it with all of you. I went back to the doctor, he said your sugar - - he was very disappointed because he was angry with me for stopping the medicine. He said, "Why did you stop the medicine.?" He is an Indian, not Muslim, Asian doctor, he said, "Why did you stop the medicine?" I said "Well I just felt I didn't need it." He said, "Do you know what you're doing? You are diabetic." So after the test came back, the results came back - - some time elapsed, a week almost, I went back to get my test results. No prescription, he didn't give me any prescription, he knew I was out of the little white pills. But he gave me no prescription, he didn't know who the credit would go to, he did not want to do that,   he said, "Your sugar is very low."

Diabetes solution pink or red grapefruit

I told the brother who gave it to me, I told him. "Just like you shared it with me I got to share it with everybody, I can't keep it from them." Pink or red grapefruit wash it, cut the whole grapefruit up in chunks maybe like an inch or an inch and a half, little small chunks. The whole grapefruit, seeds and all.
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everything, boil it, cover it with water until the grapefruit floats in it. Boil and bring the water to a boil, as soon as the water comes to a boil, turn the heat down to a simmer, let it simmer on a low fire for 20 to 30 minutes. Take if off the fire, take it away from the fire, let it cool and drink the liquid one glass before you eat your meal. I was told by my doctor to take the white pill 30 minutes before I eat, this pioneer just told me "Take it before I eat," I'm telling you what I do.

I would like to share with you what I do too. I give 30 minutes time before eating. Now let me tell you what else I have done. I said to myself, "It is something in this grapefruit that is doing this, that helps the diabetic patient." I said , "I think" I didn't know I said, "I think it's in the oil of the peel. It could be both the acid and oil, I don't know."

So my mind told me, it said "Instead of drinking the liquid off of that, pour it all into the blender." So I started cutting it up into smaller chunks so the blender could work with it easily. So instead of an inch or so, cut it in about 1/2 inch chunks. I put it all in the blender, I blend it. It looks so pretty, especially in Ramadan, it looks so pretty it tastes like sherbert. Orange sherbert, I psyche myself, it looks like orange sherbert so it tastes something like orange sherbert to me.

It is pretty, it looks real pretty I drink it, I have been doing it for a couple of months or more and it is doing nothing but helping me. So the whole grapefruit I am taking it as a liquid and I drink a cup or glass, the brother told me one cup, one glass. I drink one cup or one glass and wait 30 minutes before eating my main meal, and he told me for every meal. I'm getting these .results and I am doing it just for one meal.

I eat in the morning, that is usually almost my heaviest meal, the morning meal, and I take it late I do not take it early. I like to give 12 hours to my system to be without food. So I go to bed 2:00 a.m., which happens often, and I don't want to eat anything until 2:00 p.m. the next day, then I eat something. I give my system about 12 hours, at least 10 hours, but normally 12 hours before putting something else into it. Your system needs time to clean itself, digest, the system needs to work all that, that is why fasting is so good for us during the month of Ramadan. It gives our system time to work on what is in the crevices of the stomach and intestines and work it out.

I've been doing that, and the signs that I had with me ever since I can remember, that I thought was just, like one of my sons said, "You got a cold." I said "It isn't anything, I keep a cold." He is never without a cold. I had problems, that I was never without. I know this is Ramadan session but this is help for you this is very important, this is for Ramadan too, to help people.

Those signs and symptoms have gone, all of them have gone, its amazing. So I thank Allah (swt) for that brother, I for thank Allah (swt) for whoever or whatever gave him that remedy. For me it works.

Dietary supplements

I have a sister, my sister Ethyl she is seriously diabetic, and recently I got some more help which I will share with you some other time or later, I hope I can share it with you before you leave. In fact I will, those who are interested I want to share it with you before you leave, it is dietary supplements, two I have. One may help all illnesses that you may have, one of the supplements may help any illness that you have, it may help it because it is believed that it fights all harmful things in your system. Anything that your system, nature shouldn't have this is believed to fight all of it, no matter what it is, including cancer, it fights it. Not that it can cure cancer, but it fights cancer. I do not want to tell you too much because I don't want you to be disappointed.

Let us accept it as a supplement for its known benefits. I will talk to you about it later, I do not want to go into all of that now it takes a little time, I will talk to you about it later before you leave en sha Allah. I want to share this with you,   it is money, business I got it, it is a business too. So somebody says, "Well he has a money interest." No, I would not even have this product if I did not believe it was good for people and that people should have it, that is the only reason I have. If I wanted money I could sell black-ism, I could sell black power and make all the money I want and more than I want, because I do not want a whole lot for myself, I would be giving it to somebody else or to some other cause.

I know how to get money, if I want to be wrong, if I want to be a crook, I don't have to sell a vitamin supplement. I could spook people up and come out once a month, work one hour a month, they will wait a whole month to see me, one hour a month, spook them up and get all their money, but I would not. that is not in my nature, no way.
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So to let you know, you who were not here in the morning what we did, you should have this outline for the Ramadan sessions. If you don't have this outline you should raise your hand and the office is going to have to get you this outline. I do not see many hands most of you got it, it might be about 15 or 20 hand went up. So the office should get you all copies, you need this and you need to keep this with you.

Every time we have the sessions get one of these, get the copy of the outline. So the outline titled "Ramadan sessions 2002 Ramadan in Homewood hotel lecturer Imam W. Deen Mohammed." The topic for all of the sessions is "Looking for happiness."

Part 1 of the sessions of the material that is used for these sessions is "Conceptual wholeness" (Four sacred conflicts)

Q. 90:4; Man created in toil

"Verily We have created Man into toil and struggle."

G-d says that He has created us and put us into toil, that means He created us to put us into toil. Toil means something difficult, you have to struggle with it, you have to wrestle with it, you have to try to overcome it. So G-d puts us in situations where we have to toil, struggle hard or be overcome by it.

Q. 84:19; You shall develop stage by stage 

Ye shall surely travel (develop) from stage to stage.

And He says, "You shall develop stage by stage. So what is the difficulty and toil for? To develop us so that we will have our progressions for our life growth or our development that our Creator cares for us and wants for us.

The true self is the invisible reality within the body

We began by addressing man's true self, when I say man I mean man and woman, mankind, humanity. By addressing man's true self and we said the true self is not the flesh and blood body, the material body. The true self is the invisible body, the life inside this body, that is the true self and your spirituality. I am reviewing this because it is necessary to do this, it helps you before I go into the next topic. The spiritual self, we must stop thinking of the spiritual self as a mystery.

We must stop thinking of the spiritual self as just a spirit in religion or a spirit in spiritual life with G-d, that is where it starts. It is created by G-d and it is for G-d, created for G-d, for you to have a relationship with your G-d and for you to have progress if necessary with revelation for assistance from your G-d at some point in the development of the individual and in the development of society. We can't get help except from G-d, at certain points we will not get any help unless G-d helps us Himself.

Allah guide to our paths means knowledge. 

Q. 14.12; You guided us to our paths

"No reason have we why we should not put our trust on Allah. Indeed He has guided us to the Ways we (follow). We shall certainly bear with patience all the hurt you may cause us: for those who put their trust should put their trust on Allah."

And in the Quran we read the righteous saying, "And we would not have found our ways, guidance or our paths, had You not guided us." This is not one path, the Seraatal Mustaqeem, or the sabeelilah that is one path. Seraat is one path, this is talking about the paths of science, the different disciplines of science. Here the righteous acknowledge that they would not have those disciplines of knowledge if it was not for G-d guiding them to it. G-d guided them to it.

Idris reference to human hunger for knowledge

One Prophet in the list of Prophets in Al Islam his name is called Idris. If you understand his name, his name in the root means to study. So here is a Prophet representing the beginning of man's culture. And his name is Idris with a reference to the human hunger for knowledge to want to study and learn, that is a Prophet. It tells us that the discipline of science or knowledge that holds up society did not come itself to man directly, it came to man indirectly, meaning G-d guided him to it. G-d gave him revelation and guided him to it. We see the proof of that in what the Quran did for those people who didn't have scriptures, and did not have industry or sciences. So when the Quran came to them, within the lifetime of a human being, they came into the sciences and became the leaders of the sciences. If that
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is not proof, what should we be looking for as proof? Nothing could convince us, if that itself can't, that is history.

A Man's spiritual association

By association we mean grouping, bonding together, coming together, it begins with the industrial interest, that means interest in work, interest in the material world and its benefits that it holds for human life and for human society. That is where everything began for man as a society. What begins for man if he's out of society, if he tries to do it without society? Nothing, absolutely nothing, you can't have any life, you can't even have your humanity unless you work with others to get it. You have to have interaction with human beings, so man is originally what? Grouping means gregarious, having the nature to want to be with each other, like sheep. That's why sheep are so important as a metaphor, a figure in religious language, because he groups. The term for it is also social life, man associates with man, people associate with one another and they form social bonds. So here we are talking about first grouping and we are saying that it is a spiritual grouping, certainly it is spiritual, but it couldn't manifest, we couldn't come to our consciousness, we couldn't have as a practical life, a real life before coming together with each other grouping, bonding.

That bonding is social but the force urging the need for it is spiritual. Man fears the thunder, man fears the lightning, man fears the wild animal, man fears the things that he thinks may kill him, take his life away from him, he fears being moved out of an area by wild beast or something, the fears in him of the external world - - and a fear of dying because before we knew what would kill us can you imagine how many people were dying because they were eating stuff that would kill them.

So somebody eats something and they died mysteriously, so what happened? The most spiritual one among them became their leader and they would go to him when they got sick, this is the history of early tribal development and some tribes still exist like that on earth. They called him the medicine man, the witch doctor, the shaman different meanings given to him, bin he's one who is strongly spiritual and they believed in his spiritual powers.

The intellect's mate is the material environment 

Q. 4:1; From one male female made countless people

O mankind! reverence your Guardian-Lord Who created you from a single person created of like nature his mate and from them twain scattered (like seeds) countless men and women;

Genesis 1:28; Be fruitful and multiply

"And God blessed them, and God said unto them, B( fruitful, and multiply, and replenish the earth, and subdue it: and have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over every living thin£ that moveth upon the earth."

This is the beginning of society, this is how society began. It began with the people trusting one that they thought had more spiritual powers than they did, he became their leader. But they are flesh and blood and they have to have food and water, they have to have something from the material world to sustain their life. So immediately you have to engage the material world right?

So though the starting in the development is spiritual and the leader is spiritual the life is engaging the material. And without the life engaging the material there is no progress for the spiritual leader and his people. He engaged the material that is how his knowledge increases.

The mind mates with matter as man mates with his wife

So his mate is the material environment, the mate for hi intelligence, for his rational mind and his curiosity it is the physical environment. Just like we mate with a woman, our wife and reproduce ourselves, extend our life, improve our life, we mate with the material world using our intelligence and our rational mind and curiosities. We mate with that material world and we extend our material existence. We increase and extend our material existence, just like mating with our wife extends our biological existence. A wife from one make two and then we mate, now we have ten children, look ; that extension of our flesh. And the mind is to extend m material, give increase to my material possessions just like my biological life or physiology has been designed
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To give extension to my biological or my flesh existence or possession.

We find this in the scripture and they go hand and hand, when G-d says be fruitful and multiply He is not telling you to have sex and have a lot of physical children, although if that is what man wants to do good, that is the common man. If that is all he can get, G-d gave it to him. But he should have known that without talking to G-d, as soon as he got with his woman and started seeing all those babies everywhere he should have known that, that he could be fruitful and multiply. It is talking about increase for your knowledge body, the knowledge that grows your personal life and grows your life as a community, that knowledge body.

Man is spiritual and social

By association we mean grouping together, becoming a social society or social member in a social body. Man is spiritual and social at the same time but one will go out ahead of the other. In the early life of mankind the spiritual goes out ahead of the social. But in time the social life interacting with the material world, that is mate for man it gets his attention away from the spiritual to the social and the material. And as he engages more the social and the material his spiritual energies become less and less and in time he's no more to be described as a spiritual community but he is to be described as a social community because he developed now laws to regulate the community, social science etc., he becomes a social community.

Earlier I mentioned to you, do you mind me just speaking to you like this? If you want me to hold to this outline, I am on it, but if you let me go like I am going I will be more comfortable. If you're happy OK, but felt somebody saying. "Why doesn't he stick to the outline?"

The racist is an error in social development

Nationalistic is an error in development

Man the more he engages the material the more his social life forms and comes into view and his society becomes a social body. And it becomes so social that he may develop his society and see that society as tribal, as family, and his perception of himself as family becomes so strong that he may become racist. Taking pride in his own race over other races, thinking that his race is the superior race, the super race over other races, or he
develops so strongly, he disengages from his spiritual life, his true life, he becomes so powerful as a material force, matter, industry makes him so powerful that he see's his nation as an industrial nation superior to other nations and that will cause him to become nationalistic, he see's his might, his energy, his security in material things so he becomes nationalistic. My nation, our nation, let us do this for our nation with what's in the mind. What is the excitement about?

Our material power, our great army, our many men, our great weaponry etc., he becomes so powerful in his own eyes. He promotes nationalism, the glory of the nation. So he's taken off from his spiritual basis and taken away from his spiritual center, his true self. He's taken away from it by engaging the material world and material interests and making his social body so powerful that he worships his own self, his own nation, his own achievements, he worships those things, he glorifies his own accomplishments, this is Quran, this is scripture.

The Quran connects man back to his own self

Now what happens? He gets in trouble like the city, the great civilization called Nineveh, he gets in trouble like many others, and one among them is still decent enough to care about the condition and wants it to change.   And that person is the one that G-d gives revelation to. G-d gives revelation to that person. Revelation comes and connects him back to his own self. Isn't it worth our giving second thoughts to Mr. Fard coming and telling us, "Your own self is righteous Muslim. Be your own self" Coming back trying to get us to see that we had lost our own identity, we had gotten away or been taken away by the world from our own self. Now he says a righteous Muslim, the same thing I am addressing when [ say, your "Original self or your spiritual identity not your flesh Identity." He did not say "You are black or a black man" and stop there, he didn't say "Your own self is a black man" he said, "and your own self is a righteous self is a righteous Muslim."   Not a black man not a white man. Your own self, is a righteous self is a righteous Muslim, that is what he said.

Fard with his great knowledge that he had of the spiritual sciences, psychology, great knowledge of the spiritual sciences in religion also gives you great knowledge of psychology, the psychology of human life, human behavior etc. the spiritual sciences give you that more than the courses in psychology, if G-d is with you. if
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you mean well G-d will guide you to the sciences of life, with His guidance.

Q. 87:14; Successful who spends on his soul 

But those will prosper who purify themselves.

We have to come back to our spiritual center, to our original self, so we said the return is both a return to self fulfillment for our happiness of our need for happiness, the fulfillment of our happiness, the urge in us for happiness. The fulfillment of that is the development, progress for my own soul, growth and development for my own soul. The word of G-d is, "Unless you spend on your soul." What happens ? He becomes reduced to lowest of the low, without investing in development of our own soul we become the lowest of low, lower than animals.

I forgot to connect it with the garden, the promise of the paradise, the garden, that fulfillment is the paradise, it is the garden. That is your garden that G-d created for you and He promises all those who earn it, He promises us paradise. He promises the garden. We will have our own garden, that garden is ours, it was created for us by G-d, all things belong to G-d, ultimately return to G-d, because all things are made possible by Him alone.

Quran is in Arabic because it is the best language suited for the purpose

Arabic was chosen for the last revelation because Arabic is best suited for what G-d wants to say to mankind, all people, all languages. It was the language that was best suited for it, it has no neuter gender, it has only male and female, everything must be described as either male or female. The sun, we went over this, this morning, you must say "She" not " It," "As shamsu heya," "She." The moon is masculine, "Al qamar," the moon "Huwa," "He." So it is for everything else visible and invisible, it is either masculine or feminine in Arabic language, there is no neuter gender, only two genders, no neuter gender.

G-d chose Muhammad (pbuh), and an Arab and the language to reveal it in is Arabic because He could have gotten a Persian, like Moses got Aaron to help him with language. He could have revealed it in Persian script, it was a mighty script during those days and it still is a very powerful script, language, the Persian, Iranian. The language of the Iranians, Farsi that is the name. And that is no new name it is an ancient name, it is in the Bible, Farsi referring to those ancient people of Persia, the Iranians.

Enter you My garden, it is your garden

When G-d says, "Wadkhulee jannatee," Enter you My garden," they translate it My garden, you who study Arabic and can read this in Arabic, look at "Janntee" an see if there is a letter "Ya" on it with the dot meaning my possession. It is not on there. So how they come up with this meaning, translation?

G-d says "Enter you My garden" because G-d is hinting that the garden is mine, because when you hear it, when you look at the word, the letter it says garden, it doesn't say My garden, it says garden. But the sign on it, it is affected by the preposition so the preposition affects it, it is "Jannatee", it is not "Jannatun". "Wadkhule Jannatee," Enter you My garden," but just as we can hear G-d saying "Enter you My garden," we can also hear maybe G-d is saying to us "This is your garden." "Jannatuka," it may be    from the pronoun "Yours," because when you get spiritually involved in what you're reading and you see G-d says "Wadkhule janntee," G-d will help you see. G-d is hinting to you, yes it is His garden, but I did not put the word "Mine" on there, it is affected by the preposition and that is why you are saying "Tee" and "Maybe I, G-d want you to understand this is your garden." I know that is the way we are to understand it.

Heaven, paradise is your own life in progress

Our life and everything belongs to G-d, but the paradise or the garden is really the paradise and garden of your own life in progress. Your own life in progress will bring you eventually to a state that will be like paradise, heavenly. And the heaven that you will be in will be the heaven of your own life progression.

You will be living in your own life that has become beautiful, healthy, truthful, marvelous in so many ways and that's your paradise. I am in mine already, G-d knows I'm in paradise, I'm in it already. When I leave this world as a flesh and blood body I pray G-d will keep me in my paradise until the whole world is gone as it exists now and He reproduces creation and gives me a place in that creation. I believe I'm going to remain in the garden until then, because once I die physically it is no throwing me out of the garden, you won't be able to
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reach me with your temptations. So when I make it beyond this flesh there will he no robbing me of my place in the garden, I will have my garden it will stay with me. Now where is the support in scripture for this? The support is in Bible, the support is also in the Quran, but plainly in the teachings of Muhammad the Prophet (pbuh).

Heaven or hell begins in this life 

Q. 16:30;   Good in this life and hereafter

To the righteous (when) it is said "What is it that your Lord has revealed?" they say "All that is good." To those who do good there is good in this world and the Home of (he Hereafter is even better. And excellent indeed is the Home of the righteous."

Q. 9.74;   Punish now and hereafter

" They swear by Allah that they said nothing (evil) but indeed they uttered blasphemy and they did it after accepting Islam; and they meditated a plot which they were enable to carry out: this revenge of theirs was (their) only return for the bounty with which Allah and His apostle had enriched them! If they repent it will be best for them; but if they turn back (to their evil ways) Allah will punish them with a grievous penalty in this life and in the hereafter: they shall have none on earth to protect or help them. "

The Bible said 'Those who did not have life on this side will not have it on the other." That is the teachings of (he Bible, if you don't get it on this side you will not get it on the other.

Those who are not resurrected in this life will have no resurrection after this life. You have to be born again in this life to have life, hereafter, after this. This is teachings of the Bible, teachings of Christianity, Christian teachings. Whoever missed it here will not get it after death. You must get it in this life or you would never have it. The teachers in Al Islam they teach us both heaven and hell begin on this side but as Allah (swt) says "You will not get the full measure of hell, until after this side." but you get some of it on this side. So both hell and heaven start on this side.

Q. 102.7:   Certain vision 

"Again ye shall sec it with certainty of sight!"

And even the heaven is given the same way, addressed the same way, it says. " You shall see with certain vision."

Every eye shall see him

Rev. 1.7; Every eye shall see him

When we have certain vision, G-d does not bless anybody with "Ainal yaqeen," with certain vision unless that person is righteous and worthy of the gift, "Every eye shall see Him," who is the Him? Right away we think it means G-d. The wise left it like that because they know that it is in the nature of people to want to see G-d. But for me, G-d's knows I never wanted to see G-d in material body, as I am looking at these material things, I never wanted to see G-d that way.

And really   my mind wouldn't let me accept that I could see G-d that way, I have never been like that, for as long as I can remember. You may say, "You didn't believe in what your father taught did you?" I didn't disbelieve it, but I did not believe it either. If you can not accept something, it does not mean you condemned it, but you just didn't let it affect you.   I did not let that idea affect me, I did not   reject it because I loved my father and wanted to please him. So I did not address that and say, "This is wrong," no that is not how I began.

I began not messing with his thing, that's how I began, but certain things in his teaching my nature wouldn't accept and that was one of them, that I'm supposed to see G-d in a material body a black man or any man, I never could deal with that, 1 wouldn't let it affect me.

I don't believe it is really in the true nature of any human being to want to see the Creator of all of this. He made all this. He made the material world and he was a man? What was he eating, what was he drinking, how was he breathing etc.,?" "Oh well he was in material body." Well that's what you ought to stay with, you ought to stay with what you say he was and don't make him this other thing that we cannot accept with our intelligence. "Oh He made his unseen presence manifest and communicated it through the material." Well if that is so he didn't really need the material except to talk to us or to show himself to us. so really he didn't even by your own reasoning. He's independent of the material, you see? So why not just give up this folly of trying to come
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up with ideas independent of revelation.     Believe in those men who came with the great ideas that govern life on this planet for all of us.

They came to those great ideas because their Prophets received revelation from G-d and it guided them to all other paths as we mentioned earlier that they would not have found and had progressed on had not God revealed His truth to man, given to assist him for the progress in this life, on the road for the progress for this life.

Universe like wife is man's mate 

Q. 2:223; Wife as a tilth

"Your wives are as a tilth unto you; so approach your tilth when or how ye will. But do some good act for your souls beforehand; and fear Allah and know that ye are to meet Him (in the Hereafter) and give (these) good tidings to those who believe."

Q. 57:21; Garden its expanse as skies and earth

"Be ye foremost (in seeking) forgiveness from your Lord and a Garden (of Bliss) the width whereof is as the width of heaven and earth prepared for those who believe in Allah and His apostles: that is the Grace of Allah which He bestows on whom He pleases: and Allah is the Lord of Grace abounding."

Man's spirituality, man's spiritual association or bonding, man's industrial association engaging the material, his mate. Man was created and G-d created for him his mate. Yes it means physical, biological flesh but the higher understanding, the understanding that enables us to make for progress for our human world is that his mate, is the material universe. Firstly, the earth that he comes out of and he is in touch with, but finally, eventually the whole universe.

The garden he is promised G-d says, "It's expanse is as the expanse of the heavens and the earth." What does G-d call your wife? Your tilth. So we mate with a physical woman and this physical woman gives us children and she urges us to go out and engage the field.

Universe is man's second mate wife is first mate

The material. "I need this for these children, I need this for (his baby." The woman sends you out of the house and you mate with that world out there, you engage it;

look I keep saying engage, there's a reason for me to keep saying engage, somebody got it. You go out and engage the outside world while she is busy at home. So you end up with another mate and that mate produces for you too. It yields from the womb of the earth, it yields corn, wheat, it feeds the animals and increases the number of animals and the life of the animals and you end up with great possessions born out of the womb of matter.

Intelligence is born from and supported by matter

Language from matter 

Q.2:31-32; Tell Me your names if you know

31 .And He taught Adam the nature of all things; then He placed them before the angels and said: "Tell Me the nature of these if ye are right."

32. They said: "Glory to Thee of knowledge we have
none
save that Thou hast taught us: in truth it is Thou who
art
perfect in knowledge and wisdom."

But also your own intelligence, it is given and supported from the material reality, your own intelligence. Man cannot speak one word of language without engaging the material reality. Quran says, "And He taught Adam the names of all the things," the industrial man. He taught the industrial man the names of all the things, "Kullaha," all of it. And then He exposed it to angels and He said to the angels, "Tell Me these names if you know, tell me your name if you know." Meaning that He gave the industrial man even the perception, the power of perception and insight to give names to angels and the angels were not able to name themselves.

G-d says, "Tell Me your name if you know." Said and He gave him the names, "Kullaha," and I know what the others say about this. He gave him the names, gave him all of it, the whole language all of the names in the vocabulary of the language.

It says He gave him the names "Kullaha" all of it and exposed it to the angels. Then He said to angels, "Tell me their names if you know," the angels didn't even know their names. When He said "Kullaha' He was talking to the angels "Even your names," He said all of it, and then He challenged them He said, "Tell Me your names it you know," and they said "G-d we have no
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knowledge except what You gave us." And they submitted to obviously they were saying, "G-d You know we don't know our names, You didn't tell us our names." do you see what I'm saying, you see what I'm referring too?

He exposed the names to them and then said, "Tell Me your names," and He gave Adam the names all of it or nil of them or all of it. Then He said to the angels, "Tell Me your names, if you know" and the said , "G-d we have no knowledge except what you gave us. So it is laying "You know we don't know our own names."

Adam is industrial man who engage the world 

Earth man’s mother then becomes his wife 

Genesis 2.18;   Man was lonely G-d made a mate

"(18) And the Lord God said. It is not good that the man should be alone; I will make him an help meet for him.(2l ] And the Lord God caused a deep sleep to fall upon Adam and he slept: and He took one of his ribs, and closed up the flesh instead thereof; [22] And the rib, which the Lord God had taken from man, made He a woman, and brought her unto the man."

Earth is man's mother then his mate

Who named the angels? And who is Adam? The industrial man, the man who engaged his mate, the physical world. So man was lonely, right? So it means a man made from the material reality, from the dust he must engage the material reality from which he came, he must engage that reality from which his own life was taken, formed and formed of that is his mother. But when he is outside of it and when he engages it, it is not his mother anymore he has formed another relationship with it, it is his wife, it is his mate, the mate for his creative intelligence.

And unless he mates with her, he cannot reproduce himself, he cannot extend his creation, he cannot grow his world. Stop seeing yourself as just your biological self, that is not your true self, that self cannot form unless you have a social environment for it. You cannot learn language you cannot have human nature unless you're in a social environment where you're interacting with other human beings.

Science has discovered that, has done research and has proven that, that you cannot even have a human life if that human person or child is not in a social environment with other human beings.

Prophets sent so we would see the collective body

So stop thinking of yourself individually. These Prophets are not given to us for us to see one person, they are given to us to see the composite, the collective body. So myself is Wallace for certain personal needs, I am this one person, but myself really, my true self, no; my true self is my community, my true self is the community of mankind, that's my true self in my original nature, it is my collective body. So I should not work for this small possession here weighing less than 200 pounds, I should work for the big body, the human body, I should work for humanity. I should see myself as humanity, I should work for humanity. My mind, intelligence should engage G-d's creation to benefit the whole body, not the little body, the whole humanity.

Earth study of science removes racism

The great scientists that we have in the many areas or fields of science, they were not selfish men, they were attracted to the material world to seek its powers, its knowledge etc. and they didn't engage it as a particular race. Maybe their society, their nation was supporting them with their money and everything, but engaging this material world it grows you up from being racist, black thinking all the time in terms of your identity, in terms of your identity among other people, black, white, red, yellow no, come out of that. Science will pull you out of that and you will become a servant of humanity.

In ancient societies they executed many scientists, many learned people. Why? Because they wouldn't go along with their ideas, they would not be narrow in mind in service to the society. Though they were blessed with a special child, a special human person, they executed him, they saw him as a threat to their establishment.

History books, scrolls from speeches of the wise 

Q. 87.18; Scrolls of Abraham and Moses
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And this is in the Books of the earliest (Revelations)

Man's spiritual association, man's industrial association, man gathers together, groups together, comes together for discussion, to discuss knowledge, life, problems of life etc. So when he comes together for that pretty soon he starts recording, it becomes so valuable, the words that they arrived at, the language that they arrived at become so precious and so valuable to them for sustaining their society and preserving the future of their society, they have to put it in writing. Preserve what they say, his speech, their discussions, the knowledge of the logic, a particular discipline, they want to preserve, they put it in writing. And the earlier forms were not books like we have now, but rolled up papers called scrolls "Suhufe". And in the Quran it mentions the scrolls of Abraham and Moses "Suhufe Ibraheema wa Musaa," the ancient scrolls of Abraham and Moses.

Politician from the best speech maker, not the dictator

We're not going to be able to go into this number "C" in the first part, man's dialectical speech-making association.   Speech-makers they become so learned, the speech-maker he becomes popular and the people start gathering around the speech-maker. And the speech-maker becomes the attraction for the whole society and if he is a great speech maker that helps the society, in time they will record what he says and they come up with a body of knowledge on paper, in print, literature.   And that is a fourth progression given here as man's political association.

So discussing matters brings out knowledge of how they should best be governed, how the society should best be ordered and governed. And the same speech-maker becomes the political leader, the best speech giver becomes the political leader, hasn't that survived until today?   That is if you have a free, open society, this is all dealing with man as a free creature, a free mind.

Q. 90.2;   You are a free man in this city 

And thou art a freeman of this City

G-d did not create dictatorships, G-d created man for freedom of expression, freedom to contribute to better the society etc. And G-d says to Muhammad (pbuh) say to them. "I'm a free man in this town." So Muhammad (pbuh) when he came to preach to them, he claimed freedom for himself. And they say, "Its not really a free man, this means that I am a citizen of this town," that's what some of the translators say.   But the word means not just citizen, it means that I'm a member of this society with the same rights of every other member, so that's even stronger than what I am saying, free man. It is saying that I am a citizen, a member of this society with the same rights as all other members of this society. That's a strong way of claiming your freedom.

Iftar be aware of the correct time for breaking the fast

Don't' take your food now. I don't know if your watch is much better than his, I'd much rather be a minute late than minute early I tell you that. If the paper says 4:37 p.m. I usually wait until 4:39 p.m. I give about one to two minutes at least. So let's not rush to do it right at that time, let's feel more comfortable with it. They say the sun sets at 4:31 p.m., let's not eat until 4:32 or 4:33 p.m. before putting anything into our mouths, give it a couple of minutes. The date is the best but I would eat a banana before I torture myself any longer.

Jumah is part of the session, we included Jumah in the session, right here.

It is time for Iftar . The dua for breaking the fast is as follows:   Here is what you say: "Billaahe amantu lel-laahe tawakkaltu beresqellaahe aftartu", now in English, "I believe in G-d, in G-d I trust, with what He provides I break my fast," Allahu Akbar.

I thank the sisters and the brothers who are helping us. They are part of our staff at the Mosque Cares office. I see Brandy, Baqirah, they are here Ngina is somewhere here too and others in the office.

I was watching a program on television it was a program to help the consumers select more nutritious foods and of the date they said that the date has more food value than any other fruit or thing you can eat taken by itself. Carrots, vegetables and other fruits none of them have the food value, nutritional value of the date. They say it is also a complete food, the date. The water, I had nothing to do with it the water is compliments of the Mosque cares. 1 believe the dates too.

We want that same camaraderie, we want it here but without the haram. the same camaraderie we want it here for us brothers without the haram. Love your brother and
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share with him, let him eat from your hand, from your food, let him drink from your drink.

I still respect, that I was diagnosed diabetic so I try to keep the sugar down, I don't eat a lot of sugar, stay away from sugars. Starch, the chemistry of the body converts starch into sugar, so keep away from sugar, sweets and also starches. See your doctor or your nutritionist the one who knows because even the body needs a certain amount of sugar.

G-d was with me, I felt really sleepy when I got up out of the bed. I got up about 4:30 a.m. I said I don't have much time, I got in here and I woke up, that is spirit over matter.   I have gone into the business of selling dietary supplements I sell them because I experienced wonderful results.   I have dietary supplements. I'm selling them because I experienced wonderful results from these supplements.

I am in it because I know they help me and they will help you, help people, that is why I am in it. After I decided to go in it then my thoughts I said "I need to lake this, I need to share this with others," then my thought came to the money. I don't want you to think that I am not looking at it as business. I am looking at it as business, I am looking at the money. I am a businessman selling this product, but I will give it to you G-d knows. I will give it to everyone who supports me with my ministry all these years and you are out here. You supported me from the very first day that I said, "I want to come out of these small walls, I want to have my own ministry so we can come out of these close confinements."

You have supported me ever since, I have not been put out of doors, I have not had to have my phone cut off, nothing Allahu Akbar. If you want anything I am selling you can have it for nothing, just let me know if you need it. if you do not have the money, you don't need any money you can have it for nothing, that is anything.

My poems which are my private hobby and these supplements that I will be selling you can have them. So please don't do without it because you don't have the money, just tell me you want it. the office will send it to you or I will get it to you.

Tomorrow during the first session we have to complete the first part so that tomorrow at Asr time we will go into the second part. And en sha Allah Saturday we will
complete this whole outline. I am watching it, we will be able to complete the whole outline, we have to complete the whole outline for the session.

Thank and may Allah (swt) give you all the good that you are wanting and need from His great abundance of good. As they say "Jazakallaah khairan men khairehe kulle," all of it.
"Jazakumullaah khairan katheeran men khairehe kulle," blessed Ramadan. As Salaamu Alaiukm.
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1 1-22-2002 Ramadan session Fajr Prayer Friday Chicago, III

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 Muhammad (pbuh), the honorable and noble servant and Messenger of G-d and what follows of the 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 Quran.

As Salaam Alaikum. We thank Allah (swt) for our presence here in the blessed month of Ramadan on this most blessed day of the year according to the words of Allah's (swt) servant and Messenger Muhammad (pbuh) Friday, Jumah day. As Salaam Alaikum we wish all of you a blessed Eid. Some of you I might not be with you on Eid day, some of you I will be with, en sha Allah. May Allah (swt) bless you and your family, your loved ones with a blessed and pleasant Eid.

Before we begin the after Fajr prayer session I want to give a few minutes, not much time to questions that you had when I asked you to hold those questions for a later time. If you made notes of your questions, if you will pass those questions, please don't start writing any more questions right now, just pass those that you have already written to me, hand them to the security brother and they will bring the questions to me. And indicate, if you don't put your name on it at least indicate whether you're male or female. You can put "M" or "F' in a circle and make it big enough for me to see it. If they are business questions related pass it now. If you don't get your question responded to, you know what happened to it the filter got it.

Q. 28.77; Seek hereafter don't forget share of the world

"But seek with the (wealth) which Allah has bestowed on thee the Home of the Hereafter nor forget thy portion in this world: but do thou good as Allah has been good to thee and seek not (occasions for) mischief in the land: for Allah loves not those who do mischief."

Question:

In the Quran Allah (swt) says,"Wabtaghe fi maa aataakal laahud daaral aakhirata wa laa tansa nasibaka minad dunya" and in English it says, "And seek with the wealth which Allah has bestowed on you the home of the hereafter." What does it means in the ayat that speaks about getting our share? Is it really the people of Qaaruun speaking?

Imam W. D. Mohammed:

Al Aakhirah really means not hereafter, it means the end, the final. "Wa laa tansa" and do not forget or neglect your share of this world "minad dunya". Now I will give you the question. Does it matter that in the ayat that speaks about getting your share of the dunya, that it is really the people of Qaarun or it is Allah (swt) speaking to him, the people of Qaarun who are speaking to him, that is to this rich man and not Allah (swt)?

No, it is Allah (swt) speaking to him, the people of Qaarun they asked questions but that comes from Allah (swt), Himself. Allah (swt) says, "Seek," no matter who speaks the people said, "We hear a caller calling to faith and we have believed," that's Allah speaking. Allah (swt) is speaking everything good in the Quran, the whole Book is the Word of G-d, there is nothing in the Quran that is the work of somebody else, the whole Quran is the Word of Allah (swt), the Word of G-d.

And no matter what is said there it is put there for us, and guidance is guidance. If it is telling the history of a people like they slew the she camel, that's still Allah (swt) talking, Allah (swt) is revealing that, that they slew the she camel. But that's something they shouldn't have done, you shouldn't do that. So when Allah (swt) is speaking to man it is Allah (swt) addressing the problem of this wealthy man, the same wealthy man that is in the Bible by a different name. When Allah (swt) is addressing the wealthy man to correct his thinking we have to follow that as guidance. When Allah (swt) says "ghairel maghduub alayhim" is that G-J speaking or someone else speaking?
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So why would G-d be praying? G-d doesn't have to pray, G-d has given that to us for us to say. So I don't know how you come to this reasoning, that this is the people of Qaarun speaking and not Allah (swt) speaking. I don't know how you come to that kind of reasoning, this is confusing to me.   I speak, over the years I have spoken everywhere almost, what I mean in all the most important places. And that is an often quoted saying in the Quran by other Imams outside of our community as well as by me. In fact I meet in discussions with big scholars and we often mention this ayat, some of biggest in world and we mention this ayat and this ayat is to tell us that Allah (swt) wants us to have our spirituality but He does not want us to neglect our material life. 
Your life is not only spiritual, your life is spiritual and material. And your life as a community can't be established without material. So G-d knows that there are people just like African Americans who will neglect their share of the dunya, of the world. Not just African-Americans but He knows that there are people like us who will neglect their share.

The rich man can gain heaven also

Q. 7.40; Rich man no heaven until camel pass eye of needle

"To those who reject Our signs and treat them with arrogance no opening will there be of the gates of heaven nor will they enter the garden until the camel can pass through the eye of the needle: such is Our reward for those in sin."

John 3.3-6; Rich man born again not see heaven

"Jesus answered and said unto him. Verily, verily, I say unto thee. Except a man be born again, he cannot see the kingdom of God. [4] Nicodemus saith unto him, How can a man be born when he is old? can he enter the second time into his mother's womb, and be born?"

And they are saintly people, this is really for saintly people because people like us are supposed to be taken care of by the intelligent ones of us. People who have no industry and no industry about themselves, they are our responsibility, we're supposed to help them. But it is really interesting saintly people who think they have become so holy and angelic, so angel like that they stay away from the material world. That's been a big problem in religion. Al Islam is not that kind of religion.

Al Islam is a religion for community life, it is not religion for training somebody to be saint or an angel or a different creature from humans. That is not Al Islam, we want to make it very clear. That is why that is in the Holy Quran, to tell the rich people G-d does not reject you because you want wealth. Are you fair with it? And are you fair even with yourself? Are you just developing your material side and neglecting your spiritual side.

But look how G-d comes and gives the answer. Was this revelation? Every bit of it is revelation.   Look how G-d comes with the answer to the man who is rich, it sounds like an answer to the person who is poor. But it's not. It is to the rich man, saying "Seek with the means that G-d made available the hereafter, the end, the blessed end, but don't forget your share of this world."   The rich man already has too much of his share, but look how G-d is speaking to him. That is why so many rich people came to Al Islam, G-d knows how to reach everybody. So the rich man now he's is being reached.    Here is G-d telling me that I'm entitled to my share of the world I got more than my share. He is going to feel like that, he's going to feel repentant most likely unless he's a devil or one of the devils.

He says, "here is G-d tells me so nicely, that I'm entitled to get my share of world, I got mine and about 2000 of these citizens' shares. But G-d begins by telling him also firstly that he should seek spiritual destiny with all the means that I have availed you, but don't neglect your share of the material world. How wonderful, how can this come from mortals? This is divine revelation. The mortals don't have the intelligence and the knowledge and the justice to tell a rich man who is robbing people like Allah (swt) dealt with that rich man.

Now in the Bible the rich man came and he asked about the hereafter and he was told according to the Gospel that you have to be born again. And the Arabs have a saying, and it is in the West too, but I think it's origin is Arab wisdom it says, "Never will the rich man get into the heaven until the camel can pass through the eye of the needle. I'm sure some of you heard that.
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Fasting of pregnant women 

Question:

Do pregnant and nursing mothers have to make up their fast? Do they have to feed the hungry, please explain. Because if you keep getting pregnant and nursing never could you be able to make up your fast?

Imam W D Mohammed:

Well you have to make sure you don't keep getting pregnant every year and missing the month of Ramadan. No, there is nothing I know of that says a woman who is carrying her child can't fast.   Women fast during the month of Ramadan. These days now are very short. I don't see any problem with pregnant women unless your doctor knows you got some kind of health problem that wouldn't permit you to fast. If you take enough food before the dawn, plenty of water etc., if you have any kind of vitamin supplements that you're taking that the doctor advised you to take, if you take all that before dawn there are not that many hours now in these short days for this time of season, time of the year. For me I don't see a problem, you can take it.

If you have a problem that the doctor says then you're not blamed if your doctor says you shouldn't fast and in my opinion you shouldn't worry about making those days up. Like you say, when are you going to make them up if you are pregnant every year, nine months you only have three months left, you could make it up but it's pretty difficult. You need time healing and etc., the body has to readjust and everything else, it will be difficult. I don't believe that if the doctor would say that you shouldn't fast the month it wouldn't be your obligation to make those days up.

But you say, "What about feeding the hungry?" I would think you should. If you got money and you could not fast during the month of Ramadan because you were pregnant or having some kind of problem because of the situation of your pregnancy, it would not permit you to fast, then  I would say if you have the money you should feed a poor person for every day you miss, that's what I would say the sisters should do, feed a poor person for every day you miss. And it will make you feel better, a sincere believer will feel much better if they have some way to make it up. Allah (swt) didn't do this for Allah (swt). Allah (swt) needs nothing from us and if we obey Him and love Him and follow Him as we're supposed to follow Him, He blesses us to not need anything from each other. That is you will not do things out of need you will do things out of love, goodness and charity etc., it won't be because you need it.

So even the Imam won't want you to give to the Masjid for reasons other than to have to satisfy your obligation to G-d. I think this person just wants to tell these sisters stop getting pregnant every year.

Q.57.11, 18; Loan to Allah beautiful loan

"Who is he that will loan to Allah a beautiful Loan? For (Allah) will increase it manifold to his credit and he will have (besides) a liberal reward. "

Question:

What does it mean when Allah (swt) says "And loan to G-d a beautiful loan?"

Imam W. D. Mohammed:

It means your whole life, with your whole life, trust G-d. This is language and it is a beautiful language, trust G-d with your whole life, you and your possessions, what you own, what you have, trust Him. So give it in the path of G-d. Give your life and your possessions, this is what G-d says. Struggle in the path of G-d with your life, with your own selves and your possessions. And here He says, "And loan to G-d a beautiful loan." The beautiful loan is yourself and all your possessions. And a beautiful loan means you give it with pleasure, you give yourself and your possessions for the cause of Allah (swt) and you give it with a pleasure, that's a beautiful loan.

Why is it a loan? Because anything you give for G-d's sake and for His cause you're going to get it back and more than double, Allahu Akbar. So it's not something you are going to be without, no you're going to be without it for a while, but what G-d will give you in return will be your beautiful loan and much more. The best interest G-d gives it many times over the amount that you give. He gives it to you in return. That is a good question, nice question and not to say the others were not.

Ribaa

Question:

Imam Mohammed please address ribaa. Can you address ribaa?

Imam W. D. Mohammed:

This is constantly addressed when Muslims are purchasing   houses. Be careful who finances that house for you, who arranges that because sometimes it is they who say, "Don't go to these banks it's ribaa," and the financial arrangement they make for you it is really ribaa. You have good sense that's all I can say. I'm not speaking from nothing I'm speaking from something. I know of cases where this person was trying to get a house financed and this was from someone claiming that they were Muslim and that their institution was halal, not haram and that they were not charging interest. But when the financial facts were put on paper they were paying more than they would pay if they went to the bank and got a mortgage loan.

That's ridiculous. You're going to tell me you got some method to help me I want the proof, it is in the pudding, the proof is in the results. You tell me you got something that is going to save me and keep me in halal and save me from being guilty of ribaa and when I look at you financing my mortgage, I end up paying you more than I would pay those who you are charging with ribaa. So you don't need a lawyer, you don't need an Imam, you are just stupid, if you let that person do that to you, you are just stupid and you deserve what you get if you're that stupid.

Some of us are so quick to worship everybody but G-d and to glorify everybody but your own people. So the other people you're just agreeing with them, you don't care what they say. They can say any ridiculous thing, they can put your head in a vice and tighten it up and telling you to make dua. and you will be saying, "Al hamdu lillah," blood oozing out of you, blood start coming out of the head, die, dead, killed and just keep agreeing with them and just loving them and being so nice and agreeable, you are in bad shape, you are crazy niggers, excuse me. you are.

You are some of the craziest Niggers history has any knowledge of. The Hon. Elijah Muhammad if he was here, I'm telling you he would have somebody to beat some of you up. Let me tell you the Hon. Elijah Muhammad he didn't play, he'd say, "Look they are disgracing all of us, Sharrief have somebody go and talk to them" and you won't like that talking brother.

Q.18.9,14, 21; Youths in the cave

9. Or dost thou reflect that the Companions of the Cave
and of the Inscription were wonders among Our
Signs? 

13. We relate to thee their story in truth: they were
youths who believed in their Lord and We advanced
them in guidance:

Youth in the caves refers to young in knowledge

Question:

Two questions. Explain the youth falling asleep in the cave.

Imam W. D. Mohammed:

The Quran speaks of these youth in the cave and the time or the duration of time that they were in the cave and their situation in the cave. It's a mystic passage in the Quran, it's mystical and it says in there that no one knew exactly how much time they spent in the cave that's the answer. No one knew how much time they spent in the cave. Youth here refers not to youth in calendar years, but youth in knowledge.

Like the Hon. Elijah Muhammad told us often and he said his teacher told him that "We are the baby Nation Of Islam."    The same way we are to understand that expression we are to understand youth. Young is young in knowledge, not developed, mature, grown, advanced in knowledge like a young child or youth is not advanced in years, not advanced in knowledge and experience etc., in the path of G-d or in the path of G-d for the seeker who seeks G-d for understanding, knowledge etc.,.

So these seekers were very young in that sense and it is referring to a particular people on this earth. There is a particular people that it is definitely addressing and their companion was a dog and I think that's enough.
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Number two, explain the fish that Moses looked for.

Fish in the channel is the mind searching for direction

Q. 18.61-63; Moses fish straight in the channel

"But when they reached the Junction they forgot (about) their Fish which took its course through the sea (straight) as in a tunnel."

Question:

0 Explain the fish the Moses looked for. 

Imam W. D. Mohammed:

If I understand it correctly this in Quran it wasn't Moses, Moses was being led by someone else, the one who was deciding the circumstances or the situation was not Moses, it was the wise man. But he was doing all that to teach Moses and he said, "We missed our fish at the fork where the waters separated," and the fish was a fish that traveled straight in water, all fish don't travel straight in the water, in fact most fish weave, they go like this through the water erratic, not with regular straight movement. They wander through the water or go here and there looking, wherever, if they see an object they go there. So their path is not straight in the water.

This fish they were looking for was a fish that goes straight in the water as though it was channeled, its movement or its advancing in the water was guided or controlled by a channel, it was going straight. And some fish go like that, straight in the water. I have seen that on movie screens etc., in fact I've seen fish in the water look so straight like an arrow. So they want explanation, I don't know how much explanation you want.

Fish is the mind searching in your spirituality

It is talking about the searching mind, your searching mind that's searching for direction for your mind in the body of your spirituality. So here is thought in the body of your spirituality searching for the food of knowledge that you want. But if you don't have that particular idea or a particular object in your mind, your thoughts will go like the fish. He jumps here, something attracts him over here, he jumps there, something attracts him over there, he jumps there. This will never increase you in knowledge and understanding of the way of G-d when your mind is just going from things that attract you. Like some of you say "Brother Imam what does it means that the earth weighs 66 sextillion tons?" And then after he asks that question, "Brother Imam who are the unbelievers?" That is that fish that is doing this. It has no definite plans for your studies. You have no object that you're trying to reach with your mind, with your questions, with your intelligence, you are just darting about.

This is wisdom, we know the wise man is leading Moses, right but now if I say Allah (swt) gives us guidance, that our mind should not go irregularly going to little insignificant matters, petty matters because they are attractive. We have to keep focus and go directly to the main purpose or to the bigger importance. If I say that is Allah's (swt) guidance and I'm speaking from what Allah (swt) says through the story of Moses and the wise man, can you tell me, "No, that's not Allah's (swt) guidance, that is the wise man's guidance." No. Allah's (swt) speaks through the story of Moses and the wise man, that's Allah's (swt) guidance. I'm going back to the problem the brother had earlier.

Everything good in the Quran is from Allah (swt), the Quran is from Allah (swt) and it is Allah (swt) revealing it and He uses stories like we do. A teacher will use history, a teacher will use stories of individuals in different situations, but the teacher is using this,   this is all part of the lesson plan of the teacher. So when his character speaks in his lesson plan, sure his character is speaking but who is really speaking? The teacher. Sometime ask me to explain the fish the F.O.I, used to go out and get, that fish needs to be explained. I'm not at all having any problem with that question, I like the question it is very good.

Quran translation requires piety and great knowledge

Question:
Is there a Quran translated by us in the works?

Imam W. D. Mohammed:

I hope not. if you all start to translating the Quran we're in trouble. I'm just having fun and at the same time cautioning you, be careful of this language. I don't know a one of you that's qualified to translate the Quran, now if there is one I haven't seen him or met him. There is not one that I know and there are a couple that I know who want to do the translation, in my opinion they are far from being qualified to translate Quran.
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These people who have translated Quran and have done a good job that has been accepted or have their works accepted by major centers of Islam in the international world, those people are educated in Quran, they are educated in the life of Muhammad the Prophet's (pbuh). Those people are educated in the knowledge of Arabic language, Quranic Arabic, they are knowledgeable. And those people are high in their reverence , their regard, in their love and respect for Allah (swt) and His Messenger (pbuh) and His Word etc.

You have to qualify spiritually, morally, and also rationally and you have to have love and you have to be devoted to Allah's (swt) Book, the Quran. You just can't be a student with a little knowledge of Arabic and an Arabic dictionary and an Arabic lexicon, these books on Arabic language, no that isn't enough. You have to be moved by G-d, inspired by G-d. G-d has to bless you with the spirit, the sensitivities for that work. G-d has to bless that and G-d has to be in you, aiding your spirit and your sensitivity, your feel for what it correct and what is right and what is best.

It takes very special people to do a translation of Quran. In Christianity, do you think anybody can just go and do a commentary on the Bible? No, not anybody can do that just because they are studious that won't work.

Q. 56.79; None can touch it

"Which none shall touch (the Quran) but those who are clean:"

"None can touch it except the purified ones," that's what Allah (swt) says. You know what touch means in the common language, "Oh you can't touch that man, oh man it is no need in you trying you can't touch it." It means you can't do it, whatever the thing is. It means you can't measure up to that. Allah (swt) says, "None can touch it except the purified ones." Well make sure you are the purified one before you want to make a translation of Quran.

Why am I saying this? I know individuals already trying to do this from our community and they think they have learned so much about the vocabulary of Quran, that they don't even need me and they did not even think that way until I inspired them and I'm not G-d.

They were inspired by a human like me, this human being, they were inspired by me to even get involved in that kind of thing. Now they have become so knowledgeable all of a sudden because they know a certain amount of words, what they mean from somebody else. You have a lexicon from somebody else, you have a dictionary from somebody else and you think you know because you're using those resources. You think you know how to translate the Quran, it is not that kind of Book. And all revealed Books are of a different nature, you cannot get in those books just because you are a student of language, no. Allah (swt) makes a challenge doesn't He says, "If you can produce the like of this, do it, call on jinn and men to help you. And see if you can produce the like of this."

G-d inspires me also to make a challenge: If you can produce the like of my commentary on Quran do it, and you call on man and jinn and when you have done it bring it to me and show it to me.

I'm thankful to G-d for what He has blessed me with and you should be thankful too. You should not be competing with me to show me up, competing with me to try to outdo me, that shouldn't be your spirit. You should be working with me to put me up more and to advance me farther. Because I'm your leader you say and you are supposed to be on the team that's with me. So team players are not playing against their coach, good G-d Almighty something is wrong with these people who don't have the right nature.

The last Prophet not the last messenger

Messengers are angels and men 

Question:   Inaudible 

Q. 33.40; Muhammad is last, seal of Prophets

"Muhammad is not the father of any of your men but (he is) the Apostle of Allah and the Seal of the Prophets: and Allah has full knowledge of all things."

Imam W. D. Mohammed:

I have already told you it is not proper to say Muhammad the Prophet (pbuh), is the last Messenger because Messengers are both angels and men. And angels will be sent by G-d, whenever He wants to send you an angel G-d will send you an angel.
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So angels are His Messengers too and He will send Messengers to His human being that He wants to have help from Him. He will be sending us messengers from Him, angels from Him with messages for as long as we will be on this earth, for as long as the creation exists and we exist as human beings, G-d will be reaching human beings with messages and sending angels to human beings.

Q. 20.38; Mother Moses, received revelation

"Behold! We sent to thy mother by inspiration the message:

Q. 3.45; Mother Jesus received revelation

"Behold! the angels said "O Mary! Allah giveth thee glad tidings of a Word from Him: his name will be Christ Jesus the son of Mary held in honor in this world and the Hereafter and of (the company of) those nearest to Allah."

Understand that the mother of Moses received revelation from G-d and the mother of Jesus Christ received revelation from G-d and that is just two of the main figures. Also other females received messages from G-d although most of the time the book is all about man because man is the public figure, man is the worldly figure, man is making the world, man is giving help to the world and also causing problems for world, not women. So G-d is addressing man and G-d is sending man as a messenger, but no where in the Quran does Allah (swt) say of Muhammad (pbuh) that he is the last Messenger, it says he's the last Prophet (pbuh). Muhammad (pbuh) he is the last Prophet and Messengers have been coming before him and will continue to come after him. Messengers don't all come with good news some messengers come with bad news too.

Q. 2.221; Marry not your daughters to polytheist

"Do not marry unbelieving women (idolaters) until they visits to him to believe; a slave woman who believes is better than an unbelieving woman even though she allure you. Nor marry (your girls) to unbelievers until they believe: a man slave who believes is better than an unbeliever even though he allure you. Unbelievers do (but) beckon you to the fire.

But Allah beckons by His grace to the Garden (of Bliss) and forgiveness and makes His Signs clear to mankind: that they may celebrate His praise."

Q. 18.29; Let believe whosoever will

Say "The Truth is from your Lord": let him who will believe and let him who will reject (it): for the wrongdoers We have prepared a Fire whose (smoke and flames) like the wall and roof of a tent will hem them in: if they implore relief they will be granted water like melted brass that will scald their faces. How dreadful the drink! How uncomfortable a couch to recline on!"

Question:

What does Islam say about women marrying non Muslim men?

WD Mohammed:

Well first let us see what it says about marrying a nonbeliever for a male and a female. We are not to marry nonbelievers.   Allah (swt) says a believing servant or a believing slave is better for you than a nonbeliever even though that nonbeliever may be more appealing to you or more desirable, or more attractive to you. First look at that.

I have found nothing saying that our women cannot be married to believing people of the Book, that's not in the Quran. And those who take that position, they cannot show me, I've already met them in discussion, they were not able to show me anything in the Quran to support that. But the history of the Muslim in the time of Muhammad (pbuh) until now it shows that hardly ever a Muslim woman being married to a non Muslim man, it just doesn't show up in the history. So that should tell us the Muslim women, nothing was imposed upon the women, that came later. In the time of Muhammad (pbuh) nothing was imposed upon anybody, if you didn't want it you could reject it, even the Religion you could reject it.  In the time of war if you did it then you were a traitor, you were killed. But if it wasn't a wartime and you wanted to leave the religion that was your business Allah (swt) says the way is clear, "Let him who wants it take it or he whoever does not want it let him leave it or reject it. This is the teaching of Quran, it is Allah (swt) speaking in Quran.
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To marry within your own culture is best for you I

Ibn Majah 3pl85#l968; Marry your equal, culture

Aisha reported the Prophet (pbuh) said, "Choose for your offspring the best women, marry with equals and make propose of marriage to them."

In the time of Muhammad the Prophet (pbuh) women weren't forced or treated like they're treated now in Islamic cultures under the rule of man and their whole life being determined by their husbands, it wasn't like that. So if those women really wanted to marry a non-Muslim man, a Christian or a Jew or somebody else they could have done so. It was the women they preferred Muslim men and you sisters ought to prefer Muslim men to Christian men and most of you do.

You ought to be looking for a Muslim man, not a Christian man or a Jewish man or some other man from some other religion, you are Muslim, so you should be looking for a Muslim man. And it should be very rare for this community that we hear of some sister wanting to marry a non-Muslim, that should be very rare. So it should not be popping up in our history like it does not pop up in the history of Muslims of the past.

I can't say that we have anything to stand upon in the Quran to tell a sister or a family, "You can't marry your daughter to this Christian man or to this Jew or to a person of the Book or to a believing person, a person believing in G-d and the last day." I can't tell you, "No it is in the Quran," I don't find that in the Quran, I have nothing to stand upon in the Quran. But I can tell you consensus is against it. Muslim world consensus is against it. And not only today, history seems to say that Muslim world consensus has always been against it.

I don't know if you know about it, but some years ago I took the position that we should be with the immigrant Muslims and say to our sisters, "You shouldn't marry any but a Muslim man," that was my position and I still hold that position, you should only marry a Muslim man.

And you shouldn't be quick to even marry a Muslim man outside your own ethnic, racial group. Some might say "Oh that's racist, you hear him I told you brother, he's still corrupt, he is still bidah." No. you don't know the religion you dumb brute, empty head savage.

This religion doesn't encourage us to leave our immediate community to marriage outside of that community, Islam wants you to marry the people you know best, because the marriage that will last is most likely the marriage to the person that you know best and whose life is more like yours and eats the kind of food you eat, likes the kind of cultural expression you like.

Are you ready to change cultures? That is no easy thing for an intelligent person. For a dumb sycophant who just wants to suck the toes just because they came from another land, yes it is easy for you, but for we intelligent, normal people that's not easy for us. To eat somebody else's food and smelling their smells, that is why they are not looking for you to marry.

It is difficult to come out of your cultural life mode and come into another people's and smell their scents, having their habits, coming under their ways, being affected by their sensitivities. Don't you know the sensitivities of an ethnic group is not necessarily your sensitivities? Even the sensitivities, the feel for certain things are not the same.

So you are talking about imposing another life on your life, just to say you are married to somebody of another race, you ought to be ashamed of yourself. Where is Sharrief? Tell Sharrief I said to take care of this problem. He's too old to do something about it, he's still with us too. We got to get rid of this problem we got. We brothers in the same mind, we should not be happy with this situation of our people ready to just leave their own life and give themselves to another people. We should not be satisfied with that brothers, we can't be satisfied with that. This is not a question this is just a message that someone wanted to get to me.

We're going into our session, into the material that we have to discuss and you can include this in this part of the session, this is for this occasion for this session. But it's comments on our problem as a people, our special peculiarity here.

Stories in scripture shows what can happen to people

We are much like the people of Moses and whatever has been put into the stories of scripture of the plight of other people and how G-d was called into that plight or was obligated to get into their affairs.
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It is not there for one people, it is there to show all people what can happen, if the circumstances form what can happen for any people. Those stories are not just for Jews. Allah (swt) is showing us what can happen to any people if the circumstances form like it formed for those people. Now the circumstances that formed for us is just like the circumstances that formed for the Hebrews or the Jews in bondage, the circumstances are so similar.

The enemies of Moses were destroyed

Numbers 16.1-3, 12-13, 30-33: Dathon vexed Moses

Now Korah, the son of Izhar, the son of Kohath, the son of Levi, and Dathan and Abiram, the sons of Eliab, and On, the son of Peleth, sons of Reuben, took men: [2] And they rose up before Moses, with certain of the children of Israel, two hundred and fifty princes of the assembly, famous in the congregation, men of renown: [12]   And Moses sent to call Dathan and Abiram, the sons of Eliab: which said, We will not come up: [13] Is it a small thing that thou hast brought us up out of a land that floweth with milk and honey, to kill us in the wilderness, except thou make thyself altogether a prince over us?    [31 ] And it came to pass, as he had made an end of speaking all these words, that the ground clave asunder that was under them: [32] And the earth opened her mouth, and swallowed them up, and their houses, and all the men that appertained unto Korah, and all their goods. [33] They, and all that appertained to them, went down alive into the pit, and the earth closed upon them: and they perished from among the congregation."

Moses was the leader and they were asking for that which would liberate them from the bad conditions imposed on them by another people. When they got the leader and he was brave, and he proved he was brave enough to be their leader. He challenged the top man and the odds were against them.

Moses the Prophet he qualified, but those people they gave him so much trouble. One among them in Cecil B. Demill's movie The ten commandments was one called Dathon and they showed him. Edward G. Robinson played Dathon. Why was Dathon with the people of Moses in their exodus from Egypt when his heart was not with the exodus back there in Egypt?

I see some of you as Dathons you are among us your is heart not with what I'm doing, you just stay with us to watch us, to know what we do and how we are progressing hoping we have problems. You can't leave us, your assignment is hell, you can't enjoy what we enjoy, it tortures you.   You have been assigned to hell for your disease you have in your heart. I pity you and I pray for you and what I say now I hope reaches you to redeem your soul to have you repent so you will be brought up out of hell. If you don't like to think on what I'm saying , just leave it.

Q.37.10; Steal a hearing get flames

Except such as snatch away something by stealth and they are pursued by a flaming fire of piercing brightness.

You don't like to see the leader with people in big numbers, you are just hanging around claiming you with them to see what they are doing and you hope to influence it negatively. You put yourself in hell, every time we rejoice you get pain. Allah (swt) is blessing us, we are going to rejoice often, so the flames are going to be turned up buddy on you and your wench.   There was a time when they could steal a hearing, now they find fiery missiles shot at them.

Here are people who believe in G-d and they believed that G-d was a just G-d and G-d did not want the life for them that their rulers, their masters, the Pharaoh's order imposed upon them. We were taken from Africa and brought here to America and put in similar circumstances. The treatment that we received from the people that captured us and held us in bondage was so bad that it caused us to wonder, "Are these people really with G-d, how can they be with G-d and do these things?" Then it caused us to plead with our plead to G-d.

We said, "G-d we have no help except it comes from You and we know You do not approve of this, we know You are just G-d." Can't you see the same situation, the same problems and the same kind of responses that we see in the story of the Hebrews in bondage?

Greatest sacrifice is not to die but live right daily

And we too believed that G-d Himself would rescue us, is that not true? Well if we believed that G-d Himself would rescue us, then we should expect a believing leader, a G-d fearing leader to be our leader.
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G-d is not going to pick a nonbeliever to rescue us if G-d is going to rescue us. He's going to rescue us with the hand of a believing person. When we get the believing person who is ready to die for the cause - - see dying physically is not always proof of the quality of your sacrifice or the quality of your heroic spirit. Sometimes being ready to die physically is not the greatest proof.

The greatest proof is that you are willing to live and suffer abuses, suffer rejection, suffer being judged wrongly even by your own people who should be supporting you and cheering you on. But you suffer that and die in your heart, have spears coming from them piercing your heart and you are killed all the time over and over again by them. But you will still insist that you're going to work for the cause and want all of them to be helped, that is the greatest savior, that is a greatest sacrifice, that is the greatest hero.

So this is the kind of people that we have too. The leader can't do anything without them criticizing, nitpicking, trying to look for fault in him, just like the people of Moses. And if I'm not your Moses you are not who you are, G-d has blessed you with the Hon. Elijah Muhammad who was a man like Moses, yes indeed. Now He has blessed you with another from his loins, that is a man like Moses, that is no joke. I want for you no less than what Moses wanted for his people.

Exodus mentally

The exodus from out of the bondage and the cultural life and influences of the oppressor, is not necessarily a movement across land, across geography. It is a movement from one condition to another that takes you out of the mold that the people had you in without you moving across geography. You are still in that geography but you have an exodus. I don't have any problems reaching the intelligent ones with this, only Dathon's followers I can't reach.

So you bet we are on exodus, we've been on an exodus ever since we discovered that this world did not welcome and appreciate us. Our best leaders have been taking us on an exodus to find our own selves, to find our own comfortable identity, to find our own behavior. Not only as individuals, our own behavior as a group, how should we behave.

Don't you know this world set our behavior and it was a world that didn't like us. it was a world that rejected us. I am not talking about the teachings from the church, I am
talking about the culture that most of us are held by, the grip of the culture.

It did not prepare us to deal with that, it did not make us equally equipped to deal with that, with people of other ethnic groups or other racial groups, no. We are very ill equipped to deal with the problems of this culture when we look at the condition of other people how they are equipped to deal with the problem of this culture. We are much more vulnerable to the bad influences, to the corruption, to the stupidity in the culture. We are much more subject, vulnerable to that than other ethnic groups or racial groups, don't you agree? I know it. And it is because we have not yet found home for our spirituality, home for our cultural appetites, we have not found a home for it.

Al Islam comes to help us to find that and Al Islam is enough help for us, we don't need anything else. The Quran and Muhammad (pbuh) is enough help to show us what is bad, we should get rid of and what G-d does not approves of. And G-d approves also of the excellent cultural life of a people, their cultural appetites. He just wants you to keep those cultural appetites in line with His wish for you to have your life moral, ethical, pure and rational, that is all G-d wants.

Sing halal songs

There's nothing wrong with singing, those who tell you, "You cannot sing," go to their country, turn on their radio, damn hypocrites. Follow him back home, see what he's listening to; but he tells you, "This is haram brother," everything you do is haram if it is not following him in dhikr or buying his oils and toothbrushes or prayer rugs.    Everything outside of his commercial interests in you is haram. It is harm to be vulgar, it is haram to be stupid, it is haram to get on the stage and make a stupid display or make a vulgar display, be nasty, that's haram.

It is halal to express your beautiful spirit and beautiful appetite for excellent and good things, that is halal. Jazz is not necessarily haram. it is only when you are communicating to me something from low appetites, filthy appetites. When you're communicating something unacceptable in the presence of G-d, then your jazz is haram, then your blues is haram, then your hill-billy, folk music is wrong.   I say it because I am telling you I am coming from what I like. I like jazz. I like blues, I like folk songs and music. I like all this.
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Dance is not haram if it is in good cultural taste

It is only haram if you're coming from that which is haram and you're communicating something that is haram, but the culture itself is not haram.   They say dancing is haram, go to their countries and turn on the TV. You don't even have to do that, turn on their ethnic Channel right here in the United States and see what comes on the Pakistani station or some of the other groups that they have on television, see what they are doing, see if they are dancing, see if they are not singing.

This is stupid to me for you to see people, how they behave, and then you are ready to do whatever they say. You're ready to run to us -- not to me necessarily, most of you know you're going to get fire when you come to me, if you come to me wrong there is some fire waiting on you. So you don't like to come to me because you know you cannot handle me. But you go to those who follow me who you think you can influence, "The Imam aid it is okay, but where is it in the Quran, where is it in the sunnah where this is okay? Imam such as such he says that this is haram."   And if you are weak you will join that person and that person just told you that your Imam is not qualified to lead you. So you join that person and you'll continue to say that I am your Imam but you are following that person who said that their criticism of what I'm doing, my leadership, they just told you that your Imam is not qualified to lead us. So see yourself, look at your own self.

So we are in the same situation like the people of Moses and Moses had a hard time with his people. Even while G-d was giving him the answer for them, a new perception of life, rule and government, a new picture of life and government and how they should live as the people on the planet. Moses was being blessed with that by G-d. G-d was giving him the vision. And every time he would come with something they would annoy him, vex him with all kinds of questions, nitpicking, trying to get others to reject him with their questions. Their questions were designed to make others reject him. I have experienced the same from you and I am continuing, I am still experiencing the same from some of you who say you are with us, but you are not.

You are miserable among us, you are unhappy. Moses was successful, his people were established, and we are going to be successful, we are successful and we are increasing our establishment, it's growing.

Looking for happiness, let us look at what G-d says about the soul, the nature of the soul, what the soul really wants. It wants satisfaction, it wants to be pleased, it wants to be in heaven. In heaven means you want to be pleased and if G-d promised us heaven He is promising us that one day if you earn it you are going to be pleased, you're going to be happy.

Q. 2.35; Adam, wife in garden

We said: "O Adam! dwell thou and thy wife in the garden and eat of the bountiful things therein as (where and when) ye will but approach not this tree or ye run into harm and transgression."

Heaven it is not a place for moaning, complaining, nobody in his good mind or her good mind sees heaven like that, we see heaven as a state or a situation or a condition or a place where we will not have such problems. Where we will be happy, pleased, have a pleasant life, a pleasant existence without these problems.   So what is Allah (swt) telling us when He invites us to heaven and tells us we can earn it with our good actions or with our good deeds? Allah (swt) is telling us that I have created you to not want misery, to not want confusion, to not want corruption, to not want unfairness or injustice, I created you to want paradise, heaven under your Lord, the G-d, the beautiful and Just Ruler or Authority, G-d Himself.

That is what G-d is telling us when He says that He created us and put us in the garden. As He created us we could enjoy the heavenly state, but the Satan seduced us out that which G-d put us in. He seduced us out of the form, mold that G-d created us in. And then the trouble came and we were losers, we lost our paradise, we lost our heaven, and then G-d tells us that you can earn admission into it again.

Q. 89.28-30; Soul pleasing to Allah and yourself

27. (To the righteous soul will be said:) "O (thou) soul in
(complete) rest and satisfaction!
28.   "Come back thou to thy Lord well pleased (thyself) and   well-pleasing unto Him!
29.    "Enter thou then among my Devotees!
30.  "Yea enter thou my Heaven"!
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Q. 103. Faith and good works

"Except such as have Faith and do righteous deeds and (join together) in the mutual teaching of Truth and of Patience and Constancy."

James 2.17, 20, 26; Faith without works is dead

[20]Even so faith, if it hath not works, is dead, being alone. 26]     But wilt thou know, O vain man, that faith without works is dead?

Matt 25.21; Faithful servant enter the joy of the Lord

"His lord said unto him, Well done, thou good and faithful servant: thou hast been faithful over a few things, I will make thee ruler over many things: enter thou into the joy of thy lord."

And this beautiful reading in Quran where G-d speaks Himself, it's a personal relationship G-d has with His creature, human creation. He says, "Yaa-ay yuhal mutmainnah, Oh soul pleased, wanting to be at peace, wanting to be pleased. Return to your Lord pleased and pleasing." It means you finally reached that fulfillment that I created you for where you now like yourself and you have presented yourself before your G-d and your G-d likes you.

Pleased and pleasing. It says, "Enter you among My servants," also "My workers, also My worshipers," the word has all those meanings. Servants, workers, worshipers, doesn't the Books the Bible and the Quran say, "You cannot earn heaven or paradise without works? Faith alone will not get you there? "Enter you among My servants, My workers, also My worshipers. And enter you My paradise," how beautiful.

So the lover, the philosopher who has that nature of the philosophers for such persons that is so beautiful, it is fine and beautiful how G-d has shown us our own reality, our own nature. The nature of our own soul, the reality for our own soul, the really that we exist for, our human creation is to measure to what our intelligence and our moral life can be comfortable with.

"And you have measured up to it oh soul that has been struggling, I see you have measured up to what your own intelligence and your own moral life approves of and you presented yourself to Me and 1 approve of you too and I am pleased with you too.

G-d is saying that you have a natural need in you to reconnect with your Creator, your G-d. He says I don't have to be moving you and pushing you to do this, you found Me, I wasn't looking for you. I just created you to find Me, and you found Me and you presented yourself to Me and I am approving of you and I'm pleased with you. You qualified because you were under the pressure of your own values, your own standards, your own evaluation of your worth is what pressured you and drove you to be the beautiful creature you now are. Your own life was demanding you to make improvements upon it. And now you have pleased your own soul. Your moral life likes what it is looking at and your human intelligence likes what it is looking at and I want you to know that I too like what I see in you. That's G-d and that is what He is saying.

G-d is saying, "Look you don't understand your own struggle, you don't understand your own life, you don't understand your own struggle to accomplish what your own soul demands of you, you don't understand it. You think you are doing this to please Me (Allah), you are doing this to please the best in you, the best you, the true you, the Muslim you. The man I created, the woman I created, you are doing that to please yourself. It is yourself demanding that of you.

I created it but you are responding to yourself, what yourself is asking of you. Now all of us don't do that. A lot of us respond to the urges that are taking away and the appetites that take away that beauty, that excellence, as Allah (swt) says, "They follow their own desires in Arabic the term is "Hawa" which is more than desires, it means your own aspirations, your own spirit influences and you just follow them. And the Quran says, "They make their desires god, they make their aspirations their god," and people do. Those are the ones that are not moved by the excellence of their creation, they are moved by the weakness of their creation, yielding to temptations in the world that feed those weaknesses.

So they debase themselves, they reduce their value, they put themselves in hell. Wherein those who are true to themselves, true to their own souls, they elevate themselves, they graduate their worth and they are not satisfied until satisfaction is in their souls.
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“I’m pleased with my life." You hear people say that and they have a right to say that, "I'm pleased with my life." I am pleased with mine and many of you out there looking at me right now you're pleased with yours because you know you're doing what's best, you know that you are responding to your better nature and your better sensitivities and better motivations, you know you're responding to that. So you are happy with yourself and you are already in a small paradise, you got a small garden already and G-d is going to enlarge it for you as time marches on, praise be to Allah (swt).

Forty Hadith p.64#17: Excellence in everything

Abu Ya'la Shaddaad ibn Aus reported the Prophet (pbuh) he said "Allah (swt) has prescribed excellence in all things..."

So this happiness that we are talking about is happiness that G-d made us with when He created us. He created us with the appetite for this happiness. The intelligent world recognizes that man is a creature motivated by an inherent, inborn appetite for excellence. Muhammad the Prophet (pbuh) said, "G-d has inscribed, the Creator has inscribed excellence for everything." So the appetite for excellence is inherent in all life, it is in us.

Look at the infant that comes here just the moment it arrived from the mother, what is the nature of its life? To grow better, to become more valuable as a human life, that is its natural life, its natural appetite or urge, it is to become better. The brain wants to learn more, the heart wants to experience more, the spirit wants to express more, the sensitivities want to become bigger and better and that is the growth of the human being, 
isn't it? That's progress for the life of that human being.

Q. 30.30;   Din religion of fitraa, nature

"So set thou thy face steadily and truly to the Faith: (Establish) Allah's handiwork according to the pattern on which He has made mankind: no change (let there be) in the work (wrought) by Allah: that is the standard Religion: but most among mankind understand not."

So when G-d says, "This is the religion of Fitraa, the blackboard is there right?. Don't be wasteful, please bring my little broken-up pieces of chalk for the next session. I hope you can see this. This is Fitraa, I just put the word Fitraa on the board. The word Fitraa is formed - most Arabic terms are formed from verbs, action words. I just put word fitraa on the board and it is formed from the verb fatara.

I was invited to Smith college, an all-female college as the guest of the student body and faculty there and I want you to know that was one of the best times I have had as the guest or speaker on a campus of higher institutions of learning. I couldn't have asked for a better reception. The president, a female, she was not there for my arrival but her husband is her assistant, he was there. So he was there at the table with us for Iftar, for break fast and for dinner. And I was about halfway maybe into my dinner the president came. She had another meeting, she came and she sat there at the head of the table with her husband at the other end of the table and welcomed us and was so pleased to receive us.

The audience to me looked like it was 50, 50, African Americans and European Americans or black and white, and there were no more seats, there were people standing. And the area was a big area so the capacity was bigger than this, the seating capacity was bigger than this (Hall). I hadn't experienced anything like that on campus before.   And they paid me well too and I understand that they are a very, very rich institution so they could have paid me more. But   I think they appreciated what they heard and they want to invite me back next year, I do believe that. I believe I will be invited back again.

And because of invitations like that the invitations are coming and our brothers and sisters who are themselves students or former students on these campuses and our Imams too who are intellectual or at least academic they love knowledge and they love seeing people progress upon knowledge, they are working more and more, we're getting more and more help from you to get our message to the educated people and the studious people on these campuses, you're making real progress. I say sometimes, "What is happening here?" All of a sudden we are in situations I couldn't have dreamed of.

My mother and my father for most of my life they were not in a situation to know that this could happen. They couldn't themselves have dreamed of this, I couldn't have dreamed of it, my brothers and sisters could not have dreamed of it that we would be where we are today. The son of the Hon. Elijah Muhammad going to these places, invited by these people in these high places, high quarters of the world, invited by them to be their guest. And they are looking at me and being more respectful of my leadership, and my state in the world than most of our Imams, not all of you, some of you are just genuine, you're the greatest.

But many of you joke with me, you throw little digs and you know I get it too, you do it to irritate me and you do it when you know it is not reaching the ear of a strong follower, because you know they would hurt you for disrespecting the man they love and appreciate. You know they will hurt you, so you don't do it when you know one of them is around, so when you think you can get by with it, you're throwing your little insults at me and I go along with it, it runs off of me like that mother used to say, "Like water off a duck's back." It does not reach my feelings, you think you're hurting my feelings, if my feelings are disturbed it is for you, I am hurt for you that you are like that. You can't hurt me, G-d protects me. I don't want praise, I don't want what you want, I don't.

So when you try to hurt me by saying "Oh I don't think you're that great, to me you are just a regular old dude," you're not hurting me because that's what I want to do, I want to disappear out of your sight to make sajdah on the ground, that's what I want to do.

So it is not my nature to have people praise me, I don't want that and you think you hurt me saying, "They worship him, I'm going to show him what I think of him." With your ugly expressions, pitiful, I leave you to your own foolishness. And you got enough problems that you have already created for yourself, I don't have to give you any problems. You are already whipped too much, I don't even want to hurt your feelings.

We will go back to the words on the board and what we are talking about is the human, where are we in this plan? We're still in this first part of the plan "Looking for Happiness," and the spiritual life under this [A] part of the outline. " Man's spiritual association. " but we are also including now part [D] Man's Political Association.

Four needs: Spiritual, industrial, speech and politics

Even our political life appetite is inherent, it is part of our nature, G-d has already put the seed for our political development in us when He created us. He put the seed for our political development in us and so it is for these four, for the spiritual development, for the industrial development, for what I'm calling speech-making or dialectal development, man's language that he needs as a tool for his progression and man's political life.

Q. 2.261; Charity parable seven ears

"The parable of those who spend their substance in the way of Allah is that of a grain of corn: it groweth seven ears and each ear hath a hundred grains. Allah giveth manifold increase to whom He pleaseth; and Allah careth for all and He knoweth all things."

Matthew 13.23; Seed in ground increase

"But he that received seed into the good ground is he that heareth the word, and understandeth it; which also beareth fruit, and bringeth forth, some an hundredfold, some sixty, some thirty."

Mark 4.28; Earth blade, ear corn

"For the earth bringeth forth fruit of herself; first the blade, then the ear, after that the full corn in the ear."

Man is spiritual, man is industrial life and we speak of business, but understand business is life; all of these descriptions and needs you are created with.   So it's just like you take a corn kernel seed and you put it in the earth, you put it in the environment G-d created for it to bring it out so it can see itself, have its life. You put it in the earth in the right circumstances and it comes up a big, nice, beautiful corn stalk with many ears of corn. Its life has been multiplied so many times, it has become increased in life, its life has been increased so many times for it. This is given in scripture too, both the Quran and Bible, the value of the corn in the language of G-d that educates us in the religion.
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Q. 55.1-5; Allah taught Quran created man

1. (Allah) Most Gracious!
2.  It is He Who has taught the Quran.
3. He has created man:
4. He has taught him speech (and Intelligence)

John 1.1; In the beginning was the word

"In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with G-d, and the Word was G-d."

When we say inherent in us we mean the seed. Imagine that the seed for your life it has in it the appetite for spiritual development, material growth, maturity, development, industry and education that is really language. Education is impossible without language. So it is because of the development of language that we become educated, and a reference to this value is in the Bible and Quran where it says "In the beginning there was the word."

Man's development begins with the ability to articulate his concerns and reach another person with that, this is how he grows, this is how he becomes better educated, this is how he progresses in every aspect of life. So that is part [C] of the outline, then [D] that is political.

So we have in us too the seed for our political development. G-d created us with the desire to be ruled by authority that qualifies in the presence of our own demands on our own selves. We have already talked about demands on our own selves, how demands on our own self that G-d created us for actually are the reasons, the causes for us going to heaven or being put in heaven. G-d gives us a simple way, said, "Your good deeds have earned you paradise, your obedience has earned you Paradise."

Heaven due to obedience to the best of yourself

But G-d with His great love and great, superior knowledge, G-d reaches us with His revelation. G-d is independent, G-d doesn't have an ego, G-d is independent and has no need for us to praise Him. He has no need for that. And He is so big and so important, so perfect and beautiful that He will not even accept that the worshipers stay with idea that they're qualifying for heaven purely because of their obedience to Him.

He wants them to know that really your obedience to Me is only the product of your nature that I gave you to be obedient to the best of your own self, Allahu Akbar. This is wonderful, this is for me, this kind of teaching it is for me, G-d created me with this nature to want what He has given me and to love what he has given me. Nothing is more desired by me than what G-d has given me of understanding in this religion. Nothing is as perfect and as beautiful, and as valuable to me as that and I want to do sajdah right now, I want to cry, I'm just trying to contain myself, it is so wonderful.

So we talked about these four portions and you are going to hear it, you who missed it so I don't want to waste time going over things, so I am going to leave it there.

Founding fathers respect G-d and man also

This is sacred life, and you think we're the only ones knowing about this? "We hold these truths to be self evident that all are created equal and endowed by their Creator?" And this country is the great Satan, this is the great wicked country, your corrupt country? "And endowed by their Creator." Isn't that what Islam wants? That people acknowledge their Creator? And the best we can hope for is that the leaders of the society acknowledge the Creator.

So here we have those who formed our system of government and our way of life in this part of world, we have them saying G-d is the greatest Benefactor and G-d is your greatest Authority, that is what this is saying. This language that precedes the Constitution of these United States from our founding fathers is saying openly, freely, they are not holding back anything, they are saying, because they happily discovered it and they love it and they want to share it with all people, but it is particularly ordered for the citizens of the government that they have designed or planned. So they say to the citizens those who will be responsible for upholding this government, they say to their public, "These truths are self evident that all men are created equal," life for human beings is one.

Founding fathers recognized G-d not Jesus

The original excellent life is the same for all human beings regardless of origin or nationality, the fitraa is the same for all of us, that's what they are saying. "We hold these truths are self evident that all men are created equal and endowed by their Creator. "

Here they are recognizing G-d, I don't care what they say about the separation of church and state, those who conceived this beautiful government order or society order they recognized G-d the Creator, they didn't say Jesus Christ, they did not impose a narrow view of religion on their citizens. They opened their country so that their country, if Muslims ever came here they can be comfortable too here, if Jews come here they can be comfortable here.

They opened it where any decent human being, even if he is a atheist, he cannot help but appreciate the fine things said about the common human essence or common human worth of all people.   They can't help but appreciate it even if they are atheists and do not believe in G-d because these designers of this new world order --1 am not talking about what they've been talking about now -- they are paying high compliments and these high complements are for every man and woman on earth equally, not only for the citizens. "We hold these truths are self evident that all men are created equal and endowed by their Creator with certain inalienable rights. " That G-d has created them for rights that you cannot or no authority can take away from them.

The founding fathers studied human nature

What are of these rights? Among these is life, first you have been given the right to life by your Creator. What is it saying? Did he hear the Creator, did he hear G-d, didn't those the designers of this plan for the Constitution of the United States, did they hear G-d saying this? You might say "Yes they read the Bible, they read Quran," no that is not where they were coming from. They were coming from the study of human nature. Certainly they were helped by their religion, but they were coming from the study of human nature.

These men were also knowledgeable of the nature of human life and what that life wants. So they said man is created like the great philosophers who discussed human existence, human appetites, and aspirations, like the Greek philosophers. They met together and they discussed these things and eventually the best of their ideas evolved and they had a great ancient civilization, the Greeks under their great teachers, the philosophers. The same kind of way these designers for the constitution of the United States came together and they had discussions, you can read about their life story as copartners in this task of forming the pattern for the government or the Constitution of the United States and the government. You can read of their life and you can see they were such men. Man's dialectical association, that is what that was.

Dialectic means consistent whole on nature and language

The Greeks had it and that's what these designers of the Constitution had, they had this high language, this refined language, this language that sought to make parts come together, combine, this is the meaning of dialectic or dialectics. It means bringing the parts that belong to a whole together, connecting them as they should be connected to get a coherent, harmonious, consistent whole in terms of demand on nature and language to conform to what is intelligent and to have a consistent logic. The rules that govern this order must be consistent and must conform to an inherent logic that transmits or reveals itself to the intellect of man, an inherent logic. I'm not talking about spooky stuff now, this is all science, rational.

So these men were men who had dialogue going on, a dialectic discussion going on that required skills in the logic for language and also insight into the nature of man, his creation. Knowing how his life is put together to make him have certain appetites, certain desires, certain aspirations.

Quran reveals man's nature, composition

The Quran reveals man's nature, composition and function for his nature, it reveals it in a way to give you the science of it. The Quran will make you a psychologist, the Quran will make you a scientist of human form, nature, behavior, the Quran will make you that. What educated the Arabs? Did they have teachers coming from Greece, teachers coming from another land? Nothing came to them, the Quran, you see it? I got it in my hand, nothing came to them but this Quran that is all that came to them. And they became astronomers, doctors of medicine, men of industry, they became leaders in all the disciplines of knowledge and science, they became the leaders and nothing came to them but that Book through a man that was not educated into the scriptures. To a man who was not expected to become the leader for the world, he was just an ordinary man, a common man not having any professors, no educators to educate him, just a Book from G-d given to His beautiful nature.
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And G-d knew that his beautiful nature could absorb what G-d gave him as a Book and G-d knew that once he absorbed it he would become the most qualified man on (he planet to guide humanity, to lead humanity, praise be to Allah (swt).

Fitraa

Q. 30 JO: The religion of nature Din Al Fitraa

" So set thou thy face steadily and truly to the Faith: (Establish) Allah's handiwork according to the pattern on which He has made mankind: no change (let there be) in the work (wrought) by Allah: that is the standard Religion: but most among mankind understand not."

Deen al Fitraa. The word Fitraa belongs to our own nature. This is not something we get after we're created, this is something we are born with. So how are we to understand this word fitraa? G-d says this is the religion of Fitraa "Fitratal laahil latee fataran naa sa alaihaa." The Fitraa that G-d patterned creation upon, "Fataran naa sa alaihaa." So this is the Fitraa that is the original pattern upon which G-d patterned man's life for his development into excellence.

Iftar, what does it mean? Breaking fast. Futuur is breakfast.   Fitraa is your original nature. "Fatara " means originated. Originated what? That is the power of expression for Arabic. The verb is "Fatara" and it means originated. Originated what? Originated your fitraa, yourself, your nature, your true self. Iftar is breaking lust in Ramadan, the act of breaking fast in Ramadan.

Al Islam Din Al Fitraa is your natural property

So it is all the same, it comes from the same root, these are expressions from the same root meaning, right? Yes. so when G-d says that Al Islam this is the Din Al Filraaa. "Fitratal laahil latee fataran naa sa alaihaa." Allah (swt) is saying that your religion is also your natural property. Please listen to this, I told you before but I can't tell you enough, I don't think it registers on most of you all of what I'm saying. Allah (swt) is saying that your religion is your natural property.

Al Islam respect the standards of man's society 

Q. 3.110; Enjoin by what is right, equitable

"Ye are the best of peoples evolved for mankind enjoining what is right forbidding what is wrong and believing in Allah. If only the People of the Book had faith it were best for them; among them are some who have faith but most of them are perverted transgressors."

Numbers 1.52; Each man by his own standards

"And the children of Israel shall pitch their tents, every man by his own camp, and every man by his own standard, throughout their hosts."

"Fitratal laahil latee fataran naa sa alaihaa," the originality or original, the form upon which He patterned, originated or gave the original pattern, upon which He patterned the human society. At this point we should also recognize that Al Islam does not hold us only to what G-d revealed to Muhammad (pbuh), the Quran. But the Quran also tells us that you should be respectful of the excellent standards for society that mankind has been blessed to have, they are called standards.

Al Maruuf means the known society standards

Q.7.199;   Order by what is right

"Hold to forgiveness; command what is right; but turn away from the ignorant."

Is this in Bible? Noting is in Quran without a reference to something that came before. In the Bible we get the expression, "Standard bearer," is that true, you who read the Bible, you students of the Bible? The Scripture, the Bible wants to progress man's standards that set the level or the order for preserving and advancing human life in society. This is called in Quran Al Maruuf. in English translated as known standards.
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It comes from the Arabic word "Arafa" which means to know standards. "Wa bil ma'aruuf' translated it means "And order by the known standards." See what G-d is saying? He didn't just say, "Order by revelation, order by what the Prophet (pbuh), says. "Wa'mur bil 'urfe," G-d is obligating us to also recognize that man has set fine, high standards for performance. And you should make your orders and your command with respect for those standards, this is Al Islam. See how beautiful Al Islam is, how broad, how universal, how respectful it is of man's achievements before Muhammad the Prophet (pbuh), my leader, my love.

When G-d says, "Din Al Fitratal laahil latee fataran naa sa alaihaa," G-d revealed to Prophet Muhammad (pbuh), it reaches the wise, it does not reach the fools, very few among the fools it reaches, it reaches the wise who are sensitive.

G-d is saying, Prophet Muhammad (pbuh) has not been sent or raised to impose something on you that is not in your own original appetite for excellence. We aren't sending him to reject the excellence that you have achieved already. He is sent here to approve it, and that is in scripture before. G-d gave and missioned His Messengers to tell the people, "This, is good, this is excellent, G-d is not coming to you to condemn that. He is coming to you to put the certification on it, to tell you that this is good."

Q. 89.28-30; Soul pleasing to Allah and yourself

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

Matt 25.21; Faithful servant enter the joy of the Lord

"His lord said unto him, Well done, thou good and faithful servant: thou hast been faithful over a few things, I will make thee ruler over many things: enter thou into the joy of thy lord."

I forget that expression among the Christians and Jews say, I cannot recall it just right now. "Obedient servant" 1 think it said, "Obedient servant welcome, you have earned your admission," something like that.   I'm giving it in my language but that is what it meant, "Beautiful servant welcome you have earned your admission." G-d is saying, that "You have upon your own behavior and your own appetites and aspirations, you have progressed and I like what I see and you have earned admission welcome servant." Isn't that what the Quran is saying, what I gave you earlier? "Enter you among My workers, pleasing and pleased, and enter you My paradise," the same.

Nature requisitioned the Quran, Al Islam

The Fitraa, all of this is inherent. The inherent in us is also Al Islam. Al Islam is the natural property of mankind. So G-d hasn't revealed anything in Al Islam except that which your own nature has been asking for. Your nature requisitioned the Quran and you needed help from your Creator to get it to you, so He sent what you asked for down out of the skies, sent it down to you on a beautiful and blessed night. The night in which the Angels and the holy spirit descended obeying every order or every command. Following every errand, they were sent on an errand. Said give My man what he asked for, it is his property and the Satan took it, caused him to loose it and cut him off from it.

Man conceived in heaven but formed on the earth 

Q.2.36; Get you all down in the earth for a time

Then did Satan make them slip from the (garden) and get them out of the state (of felicity) in which they had been. We said: "Get ye down all (ye people) with enmity between yourselves. On earth will be your dwelling place and your means of livelihood for a time."

Q.5.112-115; Send down table spread 

Matthew 6.10; Thy kingdom come

"Thy kingdom come. Thy will be done in earth, as it is in heaven."

"Din Al Fitratal laahil latee fataran naa sa alaihaa," Is this not what the Gospel asked for?   "Give us this day our daily bread, Thy kingdom come Thy will be done on earth as it is in heaven." The plan was above our heads but it was not to stay above our heads, the plan belongs to us, our very nature and it has to come back to us or we have to become connected to it, it has to become our property. Because it is inherently our property. Thy kingdom come Thy will be done on earth as it is in heaven." In both the Quran and in the Bible man's beginning is in heaven. Man was conceived in heaven and then formed in the earth, this is in both Christianity and Al Islam and in Judaism.
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Heavens earth was once joined mean spirit with flesh 

Q. 21.30; Heavens and earth was once joined together

"Do not the Unbelievers see that the heavens and the earth were joined together (as one unit of Creation) before We clove them asunder? We made from water every living thing. Will they not then believe?"

Allah (swt) says can't you observe that the heavens and earth was once a continuous whole, united together before it was separated? So if it was that before, what separated it? It has to come back together, it has to be reconciled, earth and heaven has to be reconciled. My heavenly nature has to be reconciled with my mortal life, the connection has to be made.

My Islam that belongs to me vvis as a natural property for my mortal life, it is up above my head, it has to be sent down. And when I am reconnected I will have the kingdom of G-d on earth and it will be my kingdom, it will be the human kingdom, the kingdom for human mortals, the government order for human mortals Allahu Akabr.

Abraham the 2na father

Abraham the second father after Adam, peace be upon them, he is the one who became an Imam as Allah (swt) say in Quran, not father, but do we recognize him as father? We certainly do. Where do we get it? Prophet Muhammad (pbuh) told us that when he shared with us his ascension experience in travels to the far Mosque Al Aqsa. He shared that experience with us and he said that G-d caused him to rise up from the sacred precincts in Mecca, where we make Hajj there at the Kabah. G-d caused him to rise up from that place and as he went up he came to the station of Adam.

Now here is Adam made from earth but Muhammad (pbuh) sees him in heaven. And the first man, or figure he meets is Adam and he greets him, As Salaam Alaikum my father Adam, "As Salaam Alaikum Abee Adam." he said, peace be unto you my father Adam. And he went, G-d lifted him higher, this knowledge that is given in this ascension of Muhammad (pbuh) is known in Christianity, they may not see it in same language exactly, but it is the same idea. It is know in Christianity, Judaism and even in religions that are not religions of the Book, this is my own knowledge and experience I am speaking from.

He comes to another level, a higher level, the second level and there he sees Jesus and John, peace be upon them, and he says to them - - because they came at the same time Jesus and John and they came addressing the same problem for society. So therefore they are on the same plane, in the same spiritual level, but more is to be said about that spiritual level than just spiritual. I guess you can recall some things that I have already said about it that would help you.   So I won't have to keep talking and waste too much time, we want to cover this en sha Allah. So I won't have to keep talking and waste too much time, we want to cover this en sha Allah.

Muhammad ascension connection of knowledge bodies

Bukhari 4.429; Prophets ascension to the seven heavens

He said to Jesus and John, peace be on you my brothers Jesus and John, his brothers. And he was lifted to a higher ascension and there he saw Joseph, the Prophet Yusuf, peace be on him and he greeted him he said, peace be upon you my brother Joseph. And he was lifted on to the fourth level and there he saw the Prophet Ezekial some say, but we are not sure of that. We know his name is Idris, the name the Prophet (pbuh) gave us, he saw Idris and he said peace be upon you brother Idris. And G-d caused him to ascend still further or higher and there he saw the brother of Moses, Aaron. And he said to Aaron, peace be upon you my brother. And G-d lifted him up still higher and on the sixth level - - all the levels they are all firm, strong firmaments, seven strong firmaments.

Prophet 7 heavens reconciled the lives of the Prophets

So He lifted him up to the sixth level and there he sees the Prophet Moses and he says to Moses As Salaam Alaikum "Yaa akhee Musa",   peace be onto you my brother Moses, what is this saying? That G-d had reconciled Muhammad (pbuh), his body of knowledge, as he represents a body of knowledge, G-d has reconciled Muhammad's life (pbuh) with the life of Adam, with the life of Jesus and John, with the life of Idris, with the life of Yusuf, Joseph and with the life of Aaron with the life of Moses and He still lifted him up further to the highest heaven, the highest firmament.
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And there he saw Abraham and he said "As Salaam Alaikum Yaa abee Ibraheem," peace be unto you my father Abraham.

Upon his life, his body of knowledge that would govern his life and those he shared it with, his bread and his blood, upon that knowledge body that had ascended, qualified for that ascension, G-d opened the way for him to travel and make the connection for the sacred house in Mecca with the destiny which is the kingdom to come. He connected him with the far distant Mosque Al Aqsa in Jerusalem, the place where the Jews believe the ideal kingdom was once established and they lost it under Solomon the wise.

Fitraa nature to ascension the government order

Q. 97;3; Night of Power better than a thousand Months 

"The Night of Power is better than a thousand Months."

He is taken from the Fitraa, the sign of fitra to the sign of kingdom and when G-d showed him that progression, how man's life in its original form created by G-d for progress moves from nature to expression in society and an orderly kingdom or government order, how it achieves a government order, When he saw the elevation, the graduation for achieving government order, he went to Medina, G-d opened the way for him to go to Medina and there he established the government order. You can clap if you want to, I am too, praise be to Allah (swt).

It is called the ascension and the night travel and it has to have something to do or a connection with Lail Qadr, the night of power. The Quran coming down in the ninth month and in the blessed night "Lailatul Qadr khairum men alfe shar" translated it is, "The night of power better is than a thousand months. Tanaz-zalul malaa-e-kate war ruuhu feeha be-edhne rab-behim me kul-lle amr," translated, "Therein descends the angels and the holy spirit." "Salaamu heya hat-taa matla'il fajr." Translated, "Peace it is until the rise of the dawn."

Rising of dawn was building society in Medinah

So when Prophet Muhammad (pbuh) went to Medina and started building the Ummah, the Islamic order for society, that was the rising of dawn.

And even the Jews who had earlier been applauding his development said, "Oo oh we got to stop this guy," then the wars came, the beginning of war. Peace it was, blessed night, peaceful until the rising of the dawn. It was beautiful coming to the soul as revelation for mankind, but when the leader had to effect it, when he had to apply it, when he had to establish it on earth for man, the people felt threaten and they began persecuting and began warring to destroy it.

Blood up to horse9s bridle reveal secrets oppress masses

Q. 96.1; Man made from congealed blood

"Proclaim! (or Read!) in the name of thy Lord and Cherisher Who created."

Ezekial 16.6;   Wallow in your own blood

"And when I passed by thee, and saw thee polluted in thine own blood, I said unto thee when thou wast in thy blood, Live; yea, I said unto thee when thou wast in thy blood, Live."

Q.100.1; Horses that pant 

By the (Steeds) that run with panting (breath) 

Rev. 14.20; Blood up to horse's bridle

"And the winepress was trodden without the city, and blood came out of the winepress, even unto the horse bridles, by the space of a thousand and six hundred furlongs."

The prophecy is that when the truth has come, the truth will lead you into all truth. And the prophecy is that G-d will send you another comforter and the prophecy is that when he returns he will have not mercy for his enemies, the wicked. He will spill their blood and their blood shall flow in such great volume, that the blood shall come up to the reins that hold the horse, the horse's reins. That means his mouth, right into his mouth. This is an exaggerated picture but it is a picture exaggerated for effect and it has double meaning.
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The problem is spilling blood means to reveal the secrets the controls the masses

What is blood? Spilling the blood, giving them mortal flesh, their blood comes from their flesh bodies, that is one killing, but is that the worst killing? The worst killing is spilling their secrets, cutting them so that the secrets come out of their body, and the knowledge that they were hiding from the world that was needed to build the society.

And the Scripture says, "I found you wallowing in your own blood/' I don't have to say more to some of you. And    Allah (swt) says, "From congealed blood and then a fetus lump, and then bone in the lump, and then skin covering it and thereafter another creation." Praise be to Allah (swt).

Numbers 22.21-31; Why hit me these three times

[21] "And Balaam rose up in the morning, and saddled his ass, [23] And the ass saw the angel of the Lord standing in the way, and his sword drawn in his hand: and the ass turned aside out of the way, and went into the field: and Balaam smote the ass, to turn her into the way.[25] And when the ass saw the angel of the Lord, she thrust herself unto the wall, and crushed Balaam's foot against the wall: and he smote her again. [28] And the Lord opened the mouth of the ass, and she said unto Balaam, What have I done unto thee, that thou hast smitten me these three times?"

Common people are the horses for the wicked

The second coming, he is going to slay the wicked and spill their blood so much until it will come up to the mouth and nose of the common people who are the horses for the wicked world. And to the common people who are their horses to run their races, to carry their burdens, to carry them across the land. Their horses are going to taste what has been kept secret, going to smell what has been kept secret. And the horse is going to say like the donkey said "Baal, get off of my back." And he will say, "Why are you balking on me, my ride animal?" There is an angel in my way with a flaming sword, justice is illuminating before my eyes, get off my back.

U.S. secrets to control society is from Greece and Egypt

See the Greeks had that secret and the modern world took it from the Greeks. The United States secrets mostly comes from Egypt and Greece, and I am telling what I know not what I'm guessing at. No guess, God has blessed me to know for sure and completely. 
Quran humanized the world

Their secrets for containing the society, comes from ancient Egypt and from ancient Greece. With the coming of Quran they got big help and the Quran is what made their society more human, more humane. Before the Quran came their society, it was not near as human and humane as it is now. I am speaking of not only America but also Europe, the Western world. And because of the Western world getting the benefit the whole world is now much more humane than it was before the coming of the Quran. They had been for centuries students of Christianity but had not established a human and humane world, this is history. You could read about their brutality, their savagery, Christian world leadership savage and brutal, cruel, barbaric and professing to be Christian.

You students you know about the Inquisition, right? Look what they did to the poor Spanish-speaking people of the continent, that was after Al Islam. That shows you that all of their leaders were not influenced by the beauty of Quran that really is the key for them understanding or them unlocking the beauty of their Bible. I'm not doing any sloppy work up here, everything I'm doing is very skillful done, precise, take my word for it.

Quran to unlock Bible for the Christian world 

Prophet Muhammad was the return of Christ 

Q. 21.107; Muhammad mercy to al the worlds 

"We sent thee not but as a mercy for all creatures."

Muhammad (pbuh) is a mercy to all worlds, Al Fatiha, and the Quran are the keys to unlock Bible, to bring out its beauty and its purity more abundantly for the Christian world.

So isn't Prophet Muhammad (pbuh) the return of Christ? He is the return of Christ and he also is Prophet Muhammad (pbuh), he is two in one.   And he said, 'The time shall come when they see myself and Christ Jesus together." So the promise of the return of Christ Jesus was not the Ahmadiyyah leader, Ghulam Ahmed, may G-d forgive him his wrongs and give him paradise for his goodness. It was not him and all these others who claim to be the return of Christ, it is not them. Prophet Muhammad (pbuh) is such man he doesn't want to claim anything, he doesn't want to take any credit, he doesn't want you to look at him, he does not want you to see him as a Christ. The world that saw Jesus Christ as Christ it became a world of shirk. So Mohammed avoided saying, "I am the return of Christ," that was not in Mohammed's (pbuh) spirit or nature to claim that, to say I am the return of Christ. But G-d revealed it to him in a plain way so that the students like me, Imam W. Deen Mohammed will see him and know that he is the return of Jesus Christ. I know that and I hesitate to tell people this because I know it may make problems. But I have to tell somebody or my body will explode like that fictional stuff you see in the movies if I go to my death with this in me. I have to tell it to somebody.

I tell you what I know. Prophet Muhammad (pbuh) is the return of Jesus Christ and no other person after him is the return of that Christ except as missioned by Prophet Muhammad (pbuh). Prophet Muhammad (pbuh) missioned others to continue to come back and show the picture, but they are not the original, he is the original, they are missioned by him to show the picture so that the world can see the true Christ again, praise be Allah (swt). If they are true they will point to him not to themselves, he is the Christ return. As the Book says when he comes he will be a warrior, the other one took abuse. This one will be a fighter, he will be a warrior and he will establish justice and he will establish the kingdom.

Q. 33.6; Prophet closer to believers than their own selves

'The Prophet is closer to the Believers than their own selves and his wives are their mothers. Blood-relations among each other have closer personal ties in the Decree of Allah than (the Brotherhood of) Believers and Muhajirs: nevertheless do ye what is just to your closest friends: such is the writing in the Decree (of Allah)."

Government is inherent in man's creation

Abraham, I hope you understand what we mean by man's political association. Man is created to be governed by laws and he's created to want those laws to be agreeable with his own best human appetites and sensitivities. So this is created in him. The kingdom for the government order is inherent in the creation of man.

Abraham engaged the universe with his intelligence

So Abraham, the one who Prophet Muhammad (pbuh) was lifted up to, he was the one who engaged the universe with his intelligence seeking to know what should govern in man's life, what should rule in man's life. He left his father because he worshiped idol gods, this is not only Al Islam this is also Judaism, this is the story of Abraham. He left his father because his father was the ruler in a great society, modern society. Some people say he came from the place called, Sumer. And Sumer is in the Middle East, the part of the Middle East that's rich in ancient history, ancient civilization and sciences, that part, that is where Sumer goes back to.

Isn't it something that a Prophet comes out of a great civilization ruled by his father and he's still a child not quite yet a man, he's really still a child, and he rebelled against the order of his father. You know the story it is beautiful to mention especially in Ramadan. It shows that young man already had great wisdom. So He broke the idols up and his father brought him to account for it. He said, "it is reported that you destroyed these idols. Did you destroy these idols son?" He said, "Father ask the biggest one who did it." You got people worshiping these things and they can't help you out? Just like I was rejected by my father when I didn't gave him his answers, he didn't want my answers, he wanted his answers. Abraham was rejected and just like Moses when Moses was exiled, G-d spoke to him directly. And when Abraham was exiled G-d communicated to him on the highest level. And he became G-d's Prophet and Messenger and our second father or the Imam for all people, leader for all people.

Abraham blessed with universal knowledge

This says what? G-d blessed Abraham with universal knowledge, not just knowledge for local situations or for regional situations.
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He blessed Abraham with the knowledge for the vision that would open up the whole world to his truth, universal knowledge.

Islam is the order of Abraham 

Q. 2.135; The Millah order is of Abraham

"They say: "Become Jews or Christians if ye would be guided (to salvation)." Say thou: "Nay! (I would rather) the religion of Abraham the true and he joined not gods with Allah."

"Milla Ibraheem hanifa" translated "Our order is the order of Abraham the upright in his nature," this is AI Islam. Our Prophet is Muhammad (pbuh), our order is the order of Abraham.   G-d blessed Muhammad (pbuh) to have the order of Abraham, the upright in his nature. So who are now claiming to be recognized as the people of the covenant? We are, yes.   Moses' people were the people of the covenant, Jesus Christ's people were the people of the covenant, the Quran came, Muhammad (pbuh) was given to us and now we are the people of the covenant.

And not only are we the people of the covenant, the covenant has been fulfilled for us, we have reached the promised land. We have the "Milla" of Abraham, the upright in his nature. You are really not knowing your religion when you are looking for the coming of Christ Jesus again. You really   don't know your religion when you are separating yourself from a claim to the covenant and from a claim to the promised land, you are missing your religion.

Q. 6.75-79; Abraham searched for G-d

Abraham, his mind was burdened with the world as he was seeing it, his father's civilization and it worshiping idols claiming those idols were gods. So a story of him is given, it's really a pictorial script or screen, listen to me please.

Q. 39.3; Idol we not worship, they only bring us to Allah

"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."

It is a pictorial script or screen put before our eyes. And it says Abraham was sitting, contemplating the reality of matter, the order of the objective world, looking for something that would point him to the knowledge of what authority should govern in man's life so the kingdom could be established, the governmental order could be formed. And he saw, he observed the heavens at night and he watched it until he saw a bright star, the brightest star in that sky for him on that night. Some say it was Sirus and he looked at it and said, "That must be the god."

Now understand, look at his progression, he said "That must be the god." While he was watching some stars fell, he didn't see the bright star fall, he just saw a star fall. What does this have reference to? Not stars up there, but people down here. Stars up there really in the language of the wise who tell the common people, "These idols are gods and give them names. They know their intelligence won't permit them to really believe, to have the superstition to believe that if they pray to that idol they will get answers. But they put that on their masses to keep their masses out of their hair, to tie them up so they won't get into the hair of the ruler asking for bread. "Give them water, give them tiddy milk, we keep the bread. Keep them infants, we eat the food for adults."

They knew better so when they were challenged, what did they say?   "We know these idols can't speak but they are a means for reaching G-d."

"All that ever came before me are thieves and robbers: but the sheep did not hear them."

John 19.23; Soldiers took Jesus robe

"Then the soldiers, when they had crucified Jesus, took his garments, and made four parts, to every soldier a part; and also his coat: now the coat was without seam, woven from the top throughout."

They said they know the idol has no power, couldn't speak or anything, but they are a means, meaning that this is our instrument, this is our connection for them that will connect them with G-d.
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An answer, a reasonable answer. But for the intelligence that G-d created man to have, no excuse for the injustice done to common people. You are thieves and robbers and the Book says, "All before me were thieves." What does that mean? All before the truth of human nature and its value were nothing but thieves and robbers. Once the   truth of human nature and value comes those who have been robbed will get their properties back. They have been robbed of their excellent nature, they will get their properties back. And Jesus is a sign peace be upon him. And what did they do? They sought to crucify him, and to kill him and to rob him of all his properties, stripped while he was helpless on the cross, according to in their language even though we don't have to believe in that in that way, in the way they believe in it.

So Abraham he sat all night, and after he saw one star fall he said, "Well these stars are not G-d, they are subject to die, to fall." So he sat around a little longer and when the sun began to come up he said, "Oh what magnificent one, a bright and magnificent one, this must be G-d." I told you I said it was given as though it was a pictorial script on a screen or something, this story.  What does it have reference too when it says that he saw the sun and he said this must be the G-d?

Stars fall means influential people fall

Abraham's story relates our problem to us Q. 6.75-79; Abraham searched for G-d
This is not really Abraham's problem, Abraham is a figure relating to us our problem, the problem of man in his search for the right authority to govern in his life. He sees these stars in the night who separate themselves from the day, these saintly heavenly creatures, these top pious, holy people. And he sees, he is relating to us how man saw them and the brightest one among them said, "That must be god." But he saw one of them fall, he knew that some of them fell. So he concluded that none of them could be god because they all have the same nature, they are all in the same realm and if one of them falls, all of them are subject to fall one day, so he dismisses them. No its not my G-d. And when the sun came up, he saw, the sun he said, "Oh this is the brightest, oh how beautiful and splendid, how bright, how magnificent. That's human intelligence, the intellect of man, the rational productive mind of man.

When he saw that he said, "this must be the god." Remember what I told you, I said Abraham is just a means for communicating to us, not his personal problem, but the problem for man in the history of the search for the authority that should rule government of his life or should rule over his government.

He watched it. He saw it rise and reach the zenith, the highest point at noon, and he saw it start to decline and he did not question it at any of those points because goodness can come down and kiss the earth and bless it, he didn't have any problem with that. But when it went out, when the light went out Abraham had a problem with that. Ibrahim said, peace be on him, , "My G-d is not One to set.

Seth ancient Egypt myth killed, hid body of his father

Sun not set 

Luke 22.52-53; Arrest me in the day

"Then Jesus said unto the chief priests, and captains of the temple, and the elders, which were come to him, Be ye come out, as against a thief, with swords and staves? [53] When I was daily with you in the temple, ye stretched forth no hands against me: but this is your hour, and the power of darkness."

And the word "Set" has a play on Seth, the evil one in the ancient Egyptian mythology who after his sister had eclipsed their father, he Seth, took and mutilated the body of his father and hid the pieces so that nobody would be able to find his father and put his father back together. His father is not a human body, his father is a body of wisdom, a body of knowledge for governing society.

So he hid it in many different places believing that nobody would find it. And Seth has reference also to darkness. And Christ Jesus said, "I have preached all the time in the open, why you come and arrest me in dark?" That is Seth.   So the word set for the sun goes back to Egypt, I told you there were secrets that all go back to ancient Egypt and Greece.
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Two Adams, one deceived and one in heaven with G-d

So the word Seth, set, "And he taught Adam the names of all the things." But there is an Adam that was deceived by the Satan and there was an Adam that repented and is with G-d in the heaven. The one that erred and followed the suggestion of Satan is still here, on earth, he is in every government of man on earth on this planet. He lives in human body with stolen knowledge, he waits for his descendants, when he dies one of his descendants will get it. So they continue the order of the thief that robs the people of their inheritance, their G-d given properties.

Man names things and forms language 

Q. 2.31; Allah taught Adam the names of everything

He is still around and he is still naming things, he is still giving the names to things. G-d gave him, created him with that power, to give names to things. That is a mortal property, that is a mortal ability, the ability to give names to things. The rational mind enables man to do that. He created man with the rational intelligence and that enables man to give names to things. To perceive their nature, and give them names, their natural form and function and give them names, the rational mind can grasp that and then name that thing. The name is improper if it is not true to the contents. A label on a product is improper if it is not true to the content, a name for anything, electricity or whatever we are talking about, wood, tree whatever, man, woman, a name for anything it is improper if it is not true to the content.

So no one can give names properly but the rational thinker who seeks to know the natural form and the natural functions of that form.   When he perceives that then he can form language that says what he saw. That is why one word means so much, communicates so much.

Seth communicates a lot, but who will hear in s-e-t, Seth the thief? In the midst of ancient Egypt's religion, who will hear that but those who have studied and have been guided? So is it every Adam, is it every common human that can see the names and understand the names and give names? No, if s only those who been blessed to have the elevation that G-d created Adam for that can see names and understand the names and give names. And I'm telling you the wicked they are still giving names to things, the language is filled with the imprints of the wicked schemer. Not just in the English, English is a bigger language so it has more of this in it. It is a more widely used language, it's a bigger language in the world so it has more of it in it, but it is in all those languages, in Arabic too.

Righteous in heaven are seen as light, they’re scientists

This picture, a description of a time when the lights went out in the world and Abraham would say to it, "My G-d is not One to set," and Christ Jesus said, peace be upon G-d's servants according to their report, "I am the light of the world as long as I am in the world," meaning when I'm gone I'm not your light, is that plain or not? Meaning when I'm dead and gone, not among you anymore I'm not your light, hence, "He will send you another comforter."

Abraham looking at things and staying with them even after he believed he perceived them correctly, he had the patience to study their nature, to study their movement, to study what was happening to them before he put the final stamp of approval on what he believed. That's the discipline of a scientific mind, so Abraham is not only a Prophet he's also a scientist aided by G-d, and he was believing in G-d so G-d aided him. In fact all those in heaven, are not only righteous beings but they are scientists, that is why they are seen as light.

When we study that pictorial script or screen upon which the story of Abraham is put we see Abraham as a human being, a great thinker searching for a certain truth and proof of what should rule the life of man and his society, he is searching for that. And he sees the things that man has had trouble with and we think there are objects and these are really dispositions in the reasoning of man that brought him to believe that he is god, that man is god; hence, the language, "Son of man," he is mortal but he is also god, that's the mistake they made.

And what makes him god? Because he is free, a perfect intellect of man so he is the savior of man. Jesus he gave up the ghost and the light went out of the world. Abraham said, "My god is not one to set."

John 9.5; Jesus the light of the world when in it

"As long as I am in the world, I am the light of the world."
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John 16.7; Expedient I go away so the comforter comes

"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."

Jesus said according to their reports, I am the light of the world, as long as I am in world, when I'm gone I'm not your light. When I'm dead He will send you another comforter.

Quran take best meaning thereof be selective with it 

Q. 39.18, 55; Quran take best meaning thereof

"Those who listen to the Word and follow the best (meaning) in it: those are the ones whom Allah has guided and those are the ones endued with understanding."

That is what he said. I studied the Bible when I was searching for understanding and help, to help my father's works. I am not talking about G-d, I'm talking about Elijah Muhammad, my mortal father, the father of my flesh. When I was searching for the knowledge I studied the Bible and I said, "This is ridiculous that these people believe that Jesus Christ is G-d." I said, "He stressed plainly here." And you know Allah (swt) says in the Quran of revelation, of the Quran itself Allah (swt) says, "And take the best thereof." Meaning that there is more help in some revelations and some of these ayat for you than others.

So G-d says "And take the best thereof." G-d is telling us students of Quran to be selective when reading the Quran. Isn't that respecting us and our worth as moral and rational creation? That's G-d respecting us so much that He gives you His own word. His own reading for you, His own communication for you and He tells you to select the best thereof. Here I give you this Book all of it is from Me, but select the best. That's respecting my moral life, my moral excellence and my rational life.

Quran says, And He sends down rain, it comes down upon the same ground, but some things come up niggardly and other come up beautiful, better.

So even the Quran says this is food for everybody low and high, to the free, high, so they won't be held too low G-d says, "be selective, take the best thereof.

John 13.16; Sent not equal to the sender

"Verily, verily, I say unto you, The servant is not greater than his lord; neither he that is sent greater than he that sent him."

Malachi 4.5-6; I will send Elijah before the dreadful day

"Behold, I will send you Elijah the prophet before the coming of the great and dreadful day of the Lord: [6] And he shall turn the heart of the fathers to the children, and the heart of the children to their fathers, lest I come and smite the earth with a curse."   Jesus Christ he says of himself, "The sent is not equal to the sender," this is in the Bible they haven't taken it out yet. And they say G-d sent him into the world, is that what they say? He is the sent, isn't he? And the scripture promises that G-d will send them a Messenger before that coming of the awful, dreadful day and the Lord said, I will send you Elijah the Prophet, right? To unite the hearts of the father with the children and the children with the hearts of the father.

John 1.25; John was asked if he was Elijah

"And they asked him, and said unto him, Why baptizest thou then, if thou be not that Christ, nor Elias, neither that prophet?"

And John when he was asked, "Are you that Prophet?" He refused to say yes, why? Because, yes I am a figure representing that Prophet, he didn't say that, but the truth is John was a figure representing the coming again of Elijah. But he was just a figure coming as a herald to announce even a brighter and greater presence of the fulfillment of that.   He didn't say Jesus Christ, but that's who it was.   That's why you see John and Jesus in the second elevation.

II King 4.32-34; Elijah widow's son dead he raised

[32] And when Elisha was come into the house, behold, the child was dead, and laid upon his bed. [33] He went in therefore, and shut the door upon them twain, and prayed unto the Lord. [34] And he went up, and lay upon the child, and put his mouth upon his mouth, and his eyes upon his eyes, and his hands upon his hands: and he stretched himself upon the child; and the flesh of the child waxed warm."
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Elijah, what was he? Elijah had two great powers that G-d gave him. One was the power of righteousness, the courage to face evil and not to be afraid. So he challenged the order of the world that was. But also he came as a medicine man, wasn't he? He had powers also to heal, isn't that Christ Jesus? Christ Jesus came announcing the kingdom and   warning the world of impending doom for the wicked and calling them back to their humanity so that they will have compassion on the weak and the poor, the sick, etc. He himself had healing powers. He could heal the sick, he could give life to the dead by G-d's permission, Allah (swt) in the Quran, with G-d's permission. And Elijah had the same, didn't he? Elijah is the power to heal the sick and give life to the dead. I believe it was the widow's son, wasn't it? He came to the aid of the widow and gave life to the widow's son. So the two figures are the same. I told you I am a student of both Books.

Matt 5.17; Jesus law not come to destroy

"Think not that I am come to destroy the law, or the prophets: I am not come to destroy, but to fulfill."

Mark 9.2-4; Jesus transfiguration tell no man

"And after six days Jesus taketh with him Peter, and James, and John, and lead them up into an high mountain apart by themselves: and he was transfigured before them. [4] And there appeared unto them Elias with Moses: and they were talking with Jesus.

When Jesus wanted to show his followers, his disciples, himself, he took them up in the mountain and showed them a configuration. And the Bible says in that configuration was Moses, Elijah and Christ, if I remember it correctly, I believe I do. They asked if he comes to do away with the law. He said no, but to fulfill it.    Jesus said he comes not to destroy law but to fulfill, its connection had to be made with Moses. He showed his disciples light, it was one transfiguration seen in one of Moses, Elijah and Jesus. So they said to him, "Are you coming to do away with the law of Moses?" He said, "No, to fulfill it," isn't that Bible?

Many of you were attracted from Christian theology by the Hon. Elijah Muhammad, the Nation of Islam to him and you're still with him through his son Warith Ud Din Mohammed, I know you studied those things. Many of you had no following but that's where your interest was so you studied those things and you got familiar with the Bible especially the New Testament. Christ Jesus said he comes not to destroy the law, not even one small bit of it, but to fulfill it. So the connection had to be made for Christ Jesus with Moses, so Jesus Christ showed his disciples that our light is one. They were a configuration seen in one light, Moses, Elijah and Christ Jesus.

John 1.25; John asked if he was Christ or Elijah

And they asked him, and said unto him, Why baptizest thou then, if thou be not that Christ, nor Elias, neither that prophet?

Bukhari 2.250;   Bilal footsteps in paradise before Prophet

Abu Huraira narrated at the time of the Fajr prayer the Prophet asked Bilal, "Tell me of the best deed you did after embracing Islam, for I heard your footsteps in front of me in Paradise." Bilal replied, "I did not do anything worth mentioning except that whenever I performed ablution during the day or night, I prayed after that ablution as much as was written for me."

John represents return of body of knowledge of Elijah 

Mark 1.9-10; John baptized Jesus

"And it came to pass in those days, that Jesus came from Nazareth of Galilee, and was baptized of John in Jordan."

They asked John they said, "Are you that Prophet?" meaning Elijah, he refused to say yes to that. Why? Because he was a figure representing the return of that Prophet, not in person but as a body of knowledge and help for mankind. He was a figure representing the return of that so he couldn't say no, but he really couldn't say yes because Jesus Christ was going to be the bigger manifestation of that. But look what Jesus Christ asked of John, when John was baptizing, he came to John and said John baptize me. So here he asked John to baptize him. And I see a connection for that with our Prophet Muhammad (pbuh) and Bilal. Prophet Muhammad (pbuh) he said that he heard the footsteps, the sandals of Bilal going before him in the paradise. So here is John going before Jesus Christ and Jesus Christ authorizing John to baptize him.
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Mark 1.7; I'm not worthy to unlace his shoes

"And preached, saying, There cometh one mightier than I after me, the latchet of whose shoes I am not worthy to stoop down and unloose."

And John he was humble before the great Christ Jesus, he said, "I am not worthy to lace your shoes," but Jesus Christ kind of overlooked that, bypassed that and insisted that John baptize him. All of this is not in there the conversation ends there. I'm giving you my reasoning for this.

Baptism cleans sensitivity, other cleans the rational mind

Matthew 3.11; One baptizes with fire

"I indeed baptize you with water unto repentance: but he that cometh after me is mightier than I, whose shoes I am not worthy to bear: he shall baptize you with the Holy Ghost, and with fire:"

The Bible says, one is coming who will baptize you in fire. So there is another baptism there isn't it? A baptism of water and a baptism of fire. One baptism cleanses the human sensitivities, the second baptism will cleanse the rational mind, two baptisms.

Q.51.23; Intelligent speech

"Then by the Lord of heaven and earth this is the very Truth as much as the fact that ye can speak intelligently to each other."

Muhammad fulfilled that. His teachings focused the value and importance of society benefiting from the precious tool that G-d created when He created intellect of human beings, the rational mind. It keeps pointing to the rational mind and challenging man to test it with your rational mind, test these claims with your rational mind. And let your speech be also logical, didn't G-d create you to articulate? To be precise and have exact meanings?

Abraham dismissed everything that man had identified as a god in the material world or in the material picture of the world. He dismisses the stars, he dismisses the sun, he dismisses everything that man had attached himself to and believing it was a god. he dismisses it all.

And he concludes that the G-d is the Artist Who created all this.
G-d is the Artist Who did all this beautiful work, that is the G-d.

So he reasoned the plan had a Planner, the effect has a Cause, that it did not cause itself as Marx and some others tried to establish. That the earth, the creation, the material world is its own creator, that the material world itself is evolving and had no Creator, the communists leaders or fathers Karl Marx and others. Abraham dismissed all of that, and he said, G-d is the One Who did this, caused all this to be. And he is one who established one G-d or monotheism for the searchers who searched for that truth, on G-d. And he is called the leader or father of the three faiths, Judaism, Christianity and Al Islam. And you see how the leaders in these three religious disciplines are propagating or publishing that idea, that we are all tied together under Prophet Abraham, the three, Jews, Christians and Muslims.

Promised land is a society under G-d

I have here the word dialectic, devotion to that kind of discipline of the rational mind searching for the right thought, searching for the right idea, searching for the right direction for arriving at a specific logic that would govern man's life on earth or in society. That kind of study was Abraham's devotion, he devoted himself to that. And   most of his life was devoted to that. Abraham is not known   to go around preaching, he was not a preacher, he was not a roaming preacher, he did not go around preaching to people. He studied, he searched and researched and he eventually came up with his conclusion and he left it to the generations and told them, "You use what I have given you   and it will lead you to the promised land." That is to the best order for society possible, the promised land, only the excellence of government life that can come to man with G-d's help, only with G-d's help.

Abraham millah means order and hope

Abraham was promised that he would have a covenant with G-d, G-d promised him that he would get that and he left that with his descendants. And with the generations to come they were left that. And we find that it was accepted by Jews, and then later by the Christian and then finally the Muslims, the promise G-d made to Abraham.
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His hope is called millah, and it is translated order, the order of Abraham the upright in faith or upright in his nature. But it is more than just an order, the word comes from a word meaning to desire or hope. It is an inborn desire, it is our inborn hope, the desire or hope for a society that will be fair and just by everybody. And gives everybody the opportunity to reach their growth planned for them by G-d or their possibilities given to them by G-d without being held back, without being denied freedom or opportunity to reach the highest level or the highest height possible for them in the creation G-d gave them.

Medina the answer to promised land Abraham, Moses

So this is their hope, what their hope was, so the word "Millah" is from the word meaning to hope for something. We have the expression, "His hopes were fulfilled." So finding that order that is satisfying the best of human hopes or aspirations for a just order or society was given to Abraham as a vision and it was passed on to others to follow him and it finally came to Muhammad (pbuh) and all of his followers that hope. And the order for society we see in the life of the people of Medina during the lifetime of Muhammad the Prophet (pbuh) and immediately after is a sign of the birth of that kingdom that G-d promised and was prayed for, "Thy Kingdom come thy will be done on earth as it is in heaven. Give us this day our daily bread."

Education 5 loaves bread 2 fish is the right to education

Matthew. 14.17-20; Two fish, five loaves

"[19] And he commanded the multitude to sit down on the grass, and took the five loaves, and the two fishes, and looking up to heaven, he blessed, and brake, and gave the loaves to his disciples, and the disciples to the multitude."

Public education compulsory under Muhammad 

Q. 96.1; Read with the name of your Lord

The bread was five loaves and the fish were how many? Two fish and five loaves of bread, it is the promise of free society and liberal society, a free and a liberal society where the citizens, all members will have the right and the freedom to become educated. So this is a hope that liberal education, knowledge will come to world and that is what has opened the world and beautified it and humanize it, nothing is to get more credit for that kind of progress for man and society than the revelation of G-d. Because before the Quran the world didn't have it, there was no such thing as public education.

Public education did not begin two decades ago or a century or so ago in this world, public education began with Prophet Muhammad's (pbuh) leadership. As soon he became the leader he obligated the society to educate all members of the society, no matter what their levels were, whether they were male or female.

So really the prayer of New Testament, "Give us this day our daily bread," is answered with the Quran and Muhammad (pbuh). And the promise of the kingdom to come is answered by the Quran and Muhammad (pbuh) and the establishment of the ummah in Medinah, called in Arabic "Munarawah," it means the city of the light. See even the name of the city tells you something. "Medinatul munarawah" means the city of enlightenment.

We will begin this evening at Asr time or maybe right after Jumah we will begin where we left off we will begin part two, we finished part one. So we see that there is need in man's soul and mind, intellect to make sense of his existence, to make sense of his own life and to make sense of the external world. And those thinkers who G-d blessed to come up with that sense, they sought and couldn't help it because there was an urge in their own spirit and nature.

Languages all formed from the same logic

They sought to find the wholeness, the systemic wholeness of matter of the universe and they came to understand that everything in this whole is related and works together for the life, preservation and progress of the whole. And upon that perception of the creation they began to establish the order and rules for speech, language and thereafter they developed these wonderful great languages. English is from terms of many other languages, Arabic, English and others. English is a language taken from many other languages, it is because of the wide influence that the West has had. So it had to include into its language terms from many other languages even Arabic.
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But Latin ~ that is a dead language now they say --French, Spanish, Arabic, all of these languages and there are many others, Chinese, Japanese, whatever the language, all these languages have formed to the same logic. Do you think they formed accidentally? You are not scientists yet, you're not scientists studying these things yet. No language formed accidentally, these languages formed to a superior logic. So they discovered that the whole is governed by natural law and every part in the whole comes under the natural law for the whole, all governed by natural. So they come up with the perception of this governed universe as being the universe having essentially one nature and a universal law. And that it is a consistent whole that is not in conflict with itself.

Universe in conflict yet one Man's unity likewise 

Q. 41.11; Earth come willingly or unwillingly

We see expressions in conflict with each other, but the essence and the nature is not in conflict with itself. Just like if we return to the original humanity, the human person in his excellence, we will have no conflicts for our nations and races etc. But it is only when we express our separate spirits and our separate interests do we have clashing.

And the same is for the universe. G-d used the universe to speak to us, He says, and the heavens were in violent commotion and G-d said, come ye together willingly or unwillingly.

And they said, "We come willingly," meaning that though they were disturbed and out of order they spoke from their stronger nature and purpose and they said, "We come willingly." And isn't that what the obedient servants of G-d say to Him when they are reconnected with their original nature, their Fitraa that G-d gave them. They say, "G-d surely I confess my faults I come willingly."
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11 -22-2002 Ramadan session Asr Prayer Friday Chicago, III

CPC new business dietary supplements

I hope we have time to make our gathering here acquainted with our new CPC business, the dietary supplements. Sister Kizie I met her some time earlier in business.    I got acquainted with her really through her husband, he was bringing her products to me and I was using her products. And I ran out of it and forgot and I forgot how it got to me.

And I'm panicking trying to think, "I got to have this . product." I asked the Mosque Cares office, I said, "Get on the Internet, find these people." I went to the health food store I said, "Do you know how to get this product?" They said, "The label is blurred, information is missing if we had all the information we could give you supplements that would be the same but not in one substance or pill." She said, "I suggest you go on the Internet and look for both of those names on the label maybe you will find it."

So I asked my office, the Mosque care's office, the ministry office to do that, they could not, they never got back with me, I did not get any help. I told sister Ijlah, that terrific producer for CPC, I don't think it was hardly 24 hours before she got back to me. She said, " I found it brother Imam," she said, "Do you know where you got that from?" I said no. She said, "You got that from Sister Kizie."

People bring me things and they don't tell me the source, they just leave it. So they must have just brought it and left it and did not make the connection, so I did not know where to go for it. But I believe in this, it is not a sales pitch. I was relieved when she found it and sister Kizie is here now and we got acquainted, she saw what I wanted her to see, what I am involved in right now as a businessman but also as a representative of CPC.

And we decided that we should work together because both of us will be handling dietary supplements, selling what we believe in, I would not sell what I do not believe in.    I am selling what we believe in and she is not only my partner she's our partner because she is also now a partner with CPC.

So she will be helping me sell the product for CPC and also for us because we are business people we're going to earn something too, get some money out of that too.
But   I am doing it as a CPC member and investor and I put this product in the hands of CPC.

The commercial attorney, we have been advised that we need a separate company, he said you shouldn't handle something that people put in their mouths under the same corporation or company that is selling clothes or something else. He said because if you are sued - - and you know we are liable to be sued by anybody. People are crazy, they are just out to get somebody in court and try to get some money. You do not have to be wrong when they sue you, you did nothing wrong, but they can get a crooked attorney and get you tied up in court. So he said if they get to you, you do not want them to get the whole company. He said, for something like this you need a separate company. And really they can't get us because when they take us into court, the judge is not going to blame us because we are not responsible for the contents. The people that sell us the dietary supplement, they are responsible for the content, we are not responsible for it. So if they can't prove that we did something improper or wrong we won't have to even go to court except maybe to be dismissed, to be heard and the judge would dismiss us, I am sure.

We don't expect that because we are dealing with all - -1 would not even be involved with anybody that I thought had any wrong in them or any bad intentions. These are all straight people. Everybody we are dealing with under my leadership in business you can count on, you can trust them and count on them. I don't select them until I know they like what we are doing, if they like what we're doing they have to be good people. If they like what we're doing and they have similar values, they are G-d fearing and share our values, their values are very much like ours, then I feel free to engage in business with them, to involve us.

So that is the way it is with me and it is beautiful, it is working fine, G-d has given me that protection, that is our protection. Don't get involved with anybody that's not like you. Don't form any business relationships with them or partnerships or anything. That's my policy and it's working well, good. And there are plenty of important, good people out there that are ready to do business with you if you tell them your leader is Imam W. Deen Mohammed.

We've got some terrific people in the leadership of this community. I am so happy I thank Allah (swt) so much. You people are making me feel wonderful, yes you are.
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I belong to a heavenly community, we're doing things that's unheard of for black folks. We're doing things unheard of for black folks, for African-Americans.   And believe me the other African American leaders like Rev. Jesse Jackson and others they are looking at us, with eyes admiring, happy eyes admiring what we're doing. They aren't saying anything publicly, they can't because !  their associates, their friends will condemn them for it, but their hearts are touched and they are cheering us on quietly, they are watching what we're doing. And Jessie Jackson he does not hide it, when he sees that we're
I   doing works for good he gets on it right away. And that is good and if I see him doing anything that I like I'm going to get on it right away too, that is the way we should be.

Q. 18.49; Book, leave nothing out small or big

"And the Book (of Deeds) will be placed (before you); and thou wilt see the sinful in great terror because of what is (recorded) therein; they will say "Ah! woe to us! what a book is this! It leaves out nothing small or great but takes account thereof!" They will find all that they did placed before them: and not one will thy Lord treat with injustice."

We are beginning now our afternoon Ramadan session. We had two Fajr sessions now, this will be the second afternoon session, that will make a total of four, won't it?    I'm going back to a perception that I believe G-d inspired in me or inspired me to have that I gave you and it resembles something in ancient religious wisdom. In fact I would not even move on it unless I thought that it was also in the Bible, in Scripture and in the Quran.

Q.I8.49;   Book leaves out nothing small or great 

Q. 98.3; In Quran are books made upright 

"Wherein are laws (or decrees) right and straight." 

Q.I8.29; Let him believe whosoever will

Whatever is in the Bible is in the Quran if it is important for the human being, hence the saying, "And they say, what a book; it leaves nothing out small or great." It leaves out a lot of things of man's world. But when it is talking about Scripture, "What a peculiar book, what a surprising book, it leaves out nothing small or great," this is the people of scripture saying that it didn't overlook or pass up anything in our scripture whether it was a small issue or a big issue, it did not miss any of that. That is what we have to believe about the Quran.

When Allah (swt) says of the Quran that it is "Feehe kutubun qayyeemah," translated "In it (in the Quran) are the books in their corrected form." We have to believe that. So whatever Books G-d gave Moses, whatever Books He gave Christ Jesus, whatever revelation He gave Jesus, we have to believe that those are contained in the Quran in their correct form. So isn't it stupid for us to be fearing that our following if they read the Bible they're going to prefer maybe going to Christianity? If they do we're happy, go you do not belong here.

We do not want people who were already inclined to leave us, anybody who goes to them they are already inclined to leave us so why should we hold them here? Be happy that they go. I'm telling how we can be comfortable with this freedom that G-d gives us. G-d gives us the freedom to go where ever we want with our mind, wherever we want with our heart. G-d is not going to force anybody to be in His religion that He prefers for us, no.

No force in the religion of Al Islam 

Q. 109.6; To me my way and to you your way

"To you be your Way and to me mine." 

Q. 16.125; Argue people of book beautifully, wisely

"Invite (all) to the way of thy Lord with wisdom and beautiful preaching; and argue with them in ways that are best and most gracious: for thy Lord knoweth best who have strayed from His Path and who receive guidance."

You read the Quran you will never get that idea or impression that Allah (swt) is saying "You have to be a Muslim, you have to stay with this." No, He tells you says, "The way is free for anybody, and those who don't want it they may reject it, and those who want to accept it let him accept it. Let him who wants to reject it who wants to reject it, and him accept it who wants to accept it."   Another surah in Quran says in Arabic, "Qul yaa-ay yuhal kaafiruun," this is talking to those who reject faith period. "Say oh you disbelievers, rejecters, "Yaa-ay yuhal kaafiruun," and it continues. Then it says "For you is your religion for me is mine."
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Now isn't that saying G-d has given you the freedom to make your own choice? And it didn't say, "But we're going to follow you up and kill you. We're going to kill you for choosing another religion other than this or we're going to persecute you or we curse on you." No it doesn't say that.   And Quran says in another surah in Arabic, "Wa jaadelhum bel latee heya ahsan," translated, "And complain against them but in the best way argue." They translate it, "Jaadilhum" to argue, but actually it means call them to issue, register your complaint against them, but in a way that is excellent and beautiful.

It means call them to issue in a way that is excellent and beautiful "Bel latee heya ahsan." The Arabic word "Ahsan " is the intensifier, superlative, I think it is the correct term, it is the stronger word for saying beautiful and excellent. Excellent means respecting intelligence, respecting logic, good sense, intelligence, logic.

But it also has a reference to how it appeals to the person, that it is beautiful. With excellent and beautiful speech, not insulting, not speech cursing them out, with excellent and beautiful speech. This is instruction to us from G-d Almighty.

When the angels expressed fear of what could be the consequences when G-d revealed to them or told them of His plan to create a man, a human being with rational ability and the jinn and free will. He had never trusted any jinn with His creation, but now He is going to trust a human being with His creation and look what man has done with His creation. And the people of faith, as I have often pointed out to you here recently, in the last few years of my life with you, I have pointed out to you the miracle, what is a miracle. And I say a miracle it is the great thing that has been proven to support the belief in G-d and in His Word and in His Messengers, peace be on them.

And that is that this world has been a world of nations, ideas, clashing, competing with one another to show or to prove which is of more value to human society, which is more valuable to man or to human life, which is more worthy to be the idea or order or the faith for ail people. And who has survived and excelled and has produced more for mankind, all people, than any others. It is the people of Abrahamic faiths, Jews, Christians and Muslims. I did not put it in that order for any reason except calendar. On the history calendar Jews are first. Christians next then Muslims, the Ummah of Muhammad the Prophet (pbuh).

So who has contributed to this great civilized world, industrial world, advanced world more than those three? None, and we know others they have contributed, they had great civilizations and contributed to science. The Indians they say contributed a lot to man, the Asians, the Indians from the Far East. All of them have contributed a lot, the Greeks before they were Christians contributed a lot, but who gets the credit now? Under them we didn't have medicine developed like we have now, under them we didn't have government developed like we have now, under the past contributors.

We did not have industry developed as it is developed now. It was only after the coming of the Quran and Prophet Muhammad's (pbuh) works that the world got new help for its destiny. And because the Christians, Jews are close, we are kindred faith communities having closer ties with one another than we do with Buddhists, Hindus or anybody else. So it's because they are people speaking the language we speak, I'm talking about the spiritual and academic language. They speak in the same spiritual essence or in reality, really the same academic language we speak. Because of their closeness now they benefited from Prophet Muhammad (pbuh) just like Muslims did.

Al Hadith Ipl40#67; Islam return to poor.
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Abu Hurairah reported the Prophet (pbuh) said " Al Islam began with the strange, and it will soon go back as it began."

And Muslims got so comfortable, they were fresh out of tents, fresh out of barbarism and etc., when they got all these comforts that Al Islam opened up to them they went to sleep and Muhammad (pbuh) said it would happen in the comforts.

The Prophet said "My community is going to go down, go into darkness," but he said, "It will rise upon what it formed upon as it did before in the beginning." And what did it rise upon?

The people, philosophers, scholars in Al Islam the pious, bright minds in Al Islam, we say it started on the backs of the common people and it will be supported again by the common people.   I'm not differing with that, but more importantly we are to see it started with obedient followers that wanted with all their mind and soul, they wanted to obey what G-d had revealed to Prophet Muhammad (pbuh). And they wanted to obey their leader Prophet Muhammad (pbuh).

It started with very sincere supporters who were working selflessly, not for self interest, they were working for the cause and they were real believers. I believe we should first see that prediction in that light, that his community will come back to the sincere ones. And it got its success because it was supported by sincere ones, after losing its purity, it will again be revived and it will be revived because of attention and support given by sincere ones.

What we see as a revival of Al Islam here in the United States, in this special circumstance that G-d has brought about in the African-American people is not the only effort like this. I love Imam Quftaro of Syria, who is the grand Mufti of Syria, if they have not taken it from him. The last I heard he is almost like under house arrest, the Syrian government will not permit him to travel outside of Syria because he is a free soul, he's a free spirit, he is going to speak his mind no matter what the consequences are. If he thinks it should be said he is going to say it. I love him, that is the kind of man that I am. I call him my leader, my Imam and I mean it. When I'm around him I don't want to teach him, I do not want to give him a khutbah, I don't want to challenge him, I don't want to show him what I know.

I just want to embrace him and be his little brother, sitting by his side and I'm just ready to hear anything he wants to tell me. I'm ready to accept any of his good advice he gives me. For me? No, for the cause in this world, for us. He has been working for a long time, he is an old man approaching 90 years old I think, he has been working for a long time.

Muhammad Abdullah was Fard Muhammad

A hard worker just like Muhammad Abdullah, my old friend who died, just like he was. His age never stopped him from working, he was just as busy as he was when he was young, every day trying to do something for the cause. Even what appears to be nothing but a friendly relationship with a person if you studied Muhammad Abdullah you knew that friendly relationship was also for the cause.

We have among us some brothers who knew him very well, they were his friends too, his companions, they are here, we thank Allah (swt), we love him don't we brothers, we pray for his soul to be in paradise. That man was W. D. Fard, that is who that was. He came back, made a second appearance in the same way he appeared to get help to us, through my father and mother, he appeared to again get help for the next progression through me and my wife Shirley.

He came to our house in Philadelphia exactly the way Mr. Fard came to my mother's house in Detroit, offering the same assistance. He came in the kitchen, he did the same thing that Mr. Fard did in my father and mother's house. He asked me, "Can I show you how I fix the food?" I said "Yes, sure," but this time he did not give Moroccan food, how to make something close to Moroccan food, he gave me his food, the Indian food, Pakistani food. But when he left his country there was no such thing as Pakistan, he left it long before 1947 when it became Pakistan. India was separated and became two nations, two separate governments. He
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came from what is now Pakistan, but then it was called India. And he gave me their food and he told me he wanted me to come in the kitchen with him like he did my mother, he actually was relating to me like he related to both my mother and my father but more like he related to my mother.

So he came in there and he said, "It is almost dinner time," I said, "Yes, my wife is going to prepare something." He said "Do you have onions, do you have garlic, do you have that and this?" I said, "Some of those things no, I don't." He said, "May we go to the store?" I said , "Sure." We went to the store, I went with him, we shopped, we brought the groceries back, chicken and stuff. He said, "I want you to come with me."

I went in the kitchen with him, we took the groceries out again to prepare. He showed me how to prepare, he prepared the garlic, he prepared the onions, everything, he got the chicken himself. And I was with him watching, every now and then he'd said "Do you have this?" I say, "I think so," and I get it for him, hand it to him.

So when he finished we sat down we ate, it was delicious. He came back to the house again and this time he offered to teach me Quranic reading, how to read Quran in Arabic.
But while he was teaching me, he said "Your Arabic is so good," he said, "I can't teach you Arabic." he said, "Would you like to learn Urdu?" that is his native language. I said, "Sure." I want to learn all of the languages I can, if I have the time and the situation for it, it opens your mind, expands your mind. So I said, "Yes, sure." He started teaching me Urdu, I can speak some Urdu, I can understand some Urdu.

But He said, "Let's sit down and read the Quran together." So we would sit down and he would have me read it in Arabic, and he read it very little, sometime he would read a little bit in Arabic, but he would have me read it in Arabic. And he was just marveling over the beauty of the Quran, not teaching me the Quran, but he would read something and he said, "Isn't it wonderful?" and I could see it affecting him, he was a lover of G-d and G-d's Word. I could see it affecting him, he said, "This is what G-d Allah (swt) is saying, isn't it wonderful? This is the beauty of Islam." That is how he would be talking to me. And when we finished, just reading the Quran much like Imam Quftaro, the grand Mufti. We sit with him, we have conversation, but he's also a lecturer, Quftaro is a lecturer, he just has to give khutbahs forever. And I love him for that, saintly man, beautiful man. When he finished he said "Let's prepare the food," this is the second time. We went in the kitchen he said, "Oh no, you are going to do it."

He said, "I will be here, you do it." I had to do what he did, the onions and the garlic, everything, cut up the chicken, separate the bone parts, leave a little meat on it for the curry and put the solid chicken meat in a different situation to make the chicken Palau and chicken curry those were the two dishes. So I did it and after I finished and everything was ready he said, "Let's eat." We sat down and ate and he said, "Yours is better than mine," and never again did he cook, he would always tell me to prepare the food. I think some of you understand. After that, never did he prepare anything.

Fard turned community over to Imam W.D. Mohammed

Q.19.10-11; Zacharia speak not three nights

10. (Zakariya) said "O my Lord! give me a Sign." "Thy Sign" was the answer "shall be that thou shall speak
to
no man for three nights although thou art not dumb."
11.  So Zakariya came out to his people from his chamber: he
told them by signs to celebrate Allah's praises in the morning and in the evening.

This man is speaking to men like Zakaria spoke during his fasting in the Quran. It said, "Do not speak except by signs, don't audibly speak, just speak by signs" don't speak except through signs. So this man was telling me, Fard can no longer prepare food for you, Fard is turning it over to Warith Ud Deen Mohammed, that is what he was telling us, saying, "I showed your father and I'm showing you and I'm telling you that you are the one to feed your people, not Fard Muhammad."

And I'm a good cook, that is no joke, I am a good cook, G-d has blessed me to be a good cook. I love my own food, I love others' too, but I am the greatest admirer of my own dishes I am always looking for somebody to taste it, "What do you think?" And I love   to prepare meats, I am not interested in deserts, I don't make deserts, 1 love to prepare meats, vegetables and soups and some breads, I got my own bread. I got something that is not whole wheat or white and not rye either, 1 hope you get a taste of it sometime. It has soy flour in it and some other flour in it, it has wheat germ in it, it has other flours in it.

It has other bleaches, white flour and it is delicious. I start eating it and I cannot stop.   Let's return to what I introduced to you hesitantly, I did it with some hesitation because I don't want anybody - - and I know among you I' are those who can't accept anything from me unless you r can piece it apart, unless you can completely understand ' it and approve of it with your own intelligence, you don't want to accept it from me.   If you can do that you are my superior, if you can judge everything that I give you, why do you need me?

If you can grade, you're the teacher and I'm the student. I haven't met the person who can grade my work, this is no boast.

Maybe they exist but I haven't met them. So I hesitate to tell you certain things because you are so doubtful, doubting Thomases, so doubtful so suspicious. And you know you do not know everything, but you believe you know enough to check everything I say. So where are you going to get the evaluation of it? To the immigrant Muslims, if you're going to them to get the evaluation of it, they might be in worst situation than you to evaluate what I am giving. If they were in such great situation why isn't the state of the Muslim world better than it is? The few good people around are not enough to make a difference in the Islamic world. The great Imam Ghuftaaro, the grand Mufti of Syria and the others that I know, he is not the only one, there are others and they are around, they are from different countries. Egypt, Pakistan, Saudi Arabia, Malaysia they all have special minds producing for Al Islam. And many of them have organized efforts producing under the qualified leaders for Al Islam. But they are unable to bring sense, sobriety, sanity to the Islamic world, not to mention justice, fair dealings, freedom, justice and quality, they are not in any situation to establish that, not even for their own publics. It's time we accept that this is a new beginning over here in the United States, and it has started without them and they need us more than we need them, that is what you have to accept. If you don't accept that you are just hurting yourself.

Human product of the tree of the universe

What I brought was this idea that the human being is really the product of the universe. If the whole universe could be seen as one huge tree the fruit of that tree is the human that Allah (swt) wants. Now the fruit of the tree is really the life of the tree, it is the essence of the tree, it is the beauty of the tree, it is the best of the tree. If we can imagine the whole universe stars, moon, planets,, earth, sun everything as one tree, I repeat that tree its fruit, its final product is the human Allah (swt) wants.

Universe is our mother we are children of the universe 

Q.34.24; Allah feeds from sky and earth

Say: "Who gives you sustenance from the heavens and the earth?" Say: "It is Allah and certain it is that either we or ye are on right guidance or in manifest error!"

Q. 95.1: Fig and the olive 

"By the Fig and the Olive"

So we say mother earth, no, the universe is our mother. We are closest to the mother, our closest mother is earth, but really it is the whole universe - - because the earth is nothing but a member in the scheme of the whole universe, that's all it is. And its nature, etc. is the same as the nature of the whole universe. And we are being born in one place but we are being fed from heaven and from earth, we mentioned that is in the Quran, so we are really children of the universe, aren't we?

Fig, imagination first tool of intelligence

You need to develop what that white man had and still has who got ahead of all of us, that is the power of imagination, use your imagination. That is the first tool of intelligence that G-d gave you, imagination. In Quranic Arabic it is, "Wat teene wa zaytun wa turee seneen", use your fig power, and they still connect it to the mind by saying, "That's a figment of your imagination." Fig-ment of your imagination.

See I you told that G-d said He taught Adam the names of all of them. So much evidence, I am never in want of proof for what G-d has blessed me with to give you. I am never in want of proof. The proof is so available to me and you know when I started out I could preach until the sun set and come up again, couldn't I? You know how long I can preach now? For 80,000 years
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philosophically speaking without interrupting the discourse. Is this man for real? Yes, your circumstances and your need called for G-d to involve Himself with you, with us as much as He involved Himself with any other people.

So you should expect that G-d has engaged your leader like He engaged the leader of other special people, special groups, that He Himself was obligated to work with. It is not hard to understand, when I think of myself, like you, I say, "No not me." That's why I have to separate the self that has been blessed by G-d from the self that my mother gave birth to. So I say, "My Imam is Warith Ud Deen Mohammed, I can accept that I am that big.

I can't take the credit, I can't believe I'm that man that's my Imam, Allahu Akbar. This picture I give you of universe as tree if you can use your imagination, the universe as a tree and its final product, its best product is a fruit and that fruit is the human being. Put another way, not only the earth but the creation as a mother is giving birth to it's finest product the human being that G-d wants.

Jews were the fathers of communism

The communist, world the fathers of the communist world, do you know they were Jews? How many of you know they were Jews, raise your hand? Most of you know, who did not know that they were the fathers of the communist world were Jews, who did not know it? A lot of you did not know it either, they were Jews. Karl Marx, a Jew, he was the main, the main father of communism.

But even those who came into his circle or that he included in his circle, like his companions, his co-workers were Jews. Later on it went to others, but it came from Jews. Jews have been in the knowledge, in the business of preserving, protecting and disseminating the light, the revealed light long before the Christians. It was the Jews who passed it on to the Gentiles, who passed it on to the Europeans, it was the Jews. I don't believe, unless they can prove it to me, that any leaders in Christianity know as much about that business as the learned and taught ones in Judaism.

They have to prove it to me to make me believe that, and I don't see the evidence that they know more than the top and most learned in Judaism.  It is not saying they
are not as good as these people as servants of G-d, for the most part I think they are better than Jews as servants of G-d because they have been freer with His blessing, with His light, Christians have been freer as open workers for G-d. But as secret workers for G-d the Jews have done more, because They passed it on to the Gentile that we call the Christian world now.

Gentile means jinn

I am using their language. I hate to call the Christians Gentiles, to me they are not Gentile, they are human and they are believers in G-d. Gen-tile means they are jinn, do you hear what I'm saying? Gen-tile means they are jinn, not truly human. So the Jews devised a plan to bring the Gentiles into the family of faith, followers of the Book and it worked.

So it was Karl Marx who was the father of these theories that gave the world a new ideology that they thought would be good enough to have religion if they wanted it, but it was not necessary any more. They put down the value of religion and even spoke of it very insultingly. The communist party said, "Religion is the opium of masses." Meaning drugs, to keep the masses drugged. We know the effect of religious preaching coming from some preachers is like a drug, just as drugs to people, it does not help the condition it just keeps them drugged.

But we know that religion can't be described as such because religion has opened the eyes of many people and has fed their total life, spirit, intellect, moral life everything and it is responsible for them progressing and rising in the world. So though there are some preachers who are silly and they give the people nothing but strong wine, drugs to keep them sedated or high, we cannot charge that to the religion and say religion is the opium of the masses.

So they were not fair, the communist people. Now understand this came from Jews, the same people who gave them the religion, the same group who gave the world Christianity now has members from among them out to discredit it, you think about that.

Dialectic mean where energy trying to take matter

But look, they are wise and all that they said is not to be dismissed, but is to be seen correctly. They spoke of dialectic -- we used dialectic already in the outline --they gave us their people in the world something called
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the dialectic materialism. This is an expression from communist theories or ideas, Marxist theories or ideas.

Now they explained the reality of matter, the nature of matter, the dynamics of matter, that is where the energies are trying to go, where they in energies in matter are trying to take matter including man, because we belong to matter too. They explain it with that language dialectic materialism, meaning that the material body we call the world is evolving itself, that there is no G-d to be given credit for this. That it is evolving itself, its nature, its workings, the matter itself is striving and struggling for more and more progress or improvement on itself.

And the theory says that the material world is evolving man. This theory in the mouth of some of the advocates of this idea goes like this: "If there is a G-d the material world is producing that G-d, that G-d is evolving and what is producing G-d is the material reality." So they are seeing the world too like a tree and not only man but everything else, even G-d if there is a G-d it is the product of material dynamics.

The nature of the material thing improving by engaging in conflicts or being engaged in conflicts, conflicts neutralizing themselves or the more powerful overcoming the weaker and the matter is evolving stronger and better, just growing, an organic world growing, and it is growing to reach its heights, its height is man. The communist theory definitely claimed that its height is man.    And to the religious people they said, if there is a god, it also is an evolving G-d.

I am what I shall become 

Exodus 3.13-4:1 am that I am

"And Moses said unto God, Behold, when I come unto the children of Israel, and shall say unto them. The God of your fathers hath sent me unto you; and they shall say to me. What is his name? what shall I say unto them? [14] And God said unto Moses, I AM THAT I AM: and he said. Thus shall thou say unto the children of Israel, I AM hath sent me unto you."

Now we can't accept that. The Quran, the Scripture says G-d is not evolving. Now look how the Bible reads in Genesis, said He told Moses to tell his people, "I am as I shall be", arc you familiar with that language? I am what I will he. 11 G-d doesn't guide the seeker, you will take what is said of man and think that is being said of G-d. That's not talking about G-d, that's talking about man.

Man in the light of G-d is coming not that is G-d coming 

Q. 102.7; You shall see with certain vision

Rev. 1.7; Every eye shall see him

"Behold, he cometh with clouds; and every eye shall see him, and they also which pierced him: and all kindreds of the earth shall wail because of him. Even so, Amen."

G-d told Moses to tell them I am that I am. But the Jews say the translation is not correct it should say - - and they may be correct, it should say, "I am what I will be." And this explains the idea of the coming savior, the coming presence of G-d.

I am but you can't see me now but I will appear in the end. I am a coming G-d, I am a coming light, a light in the process of establishing itself and showing itself to the whole world. I am a light in progress. Again I say that is not talking about G-d Almighty the Creator, that's talking about man. That the light is coming to man but it is coming so gradually you can't see it now. When He made Adam, you don't see it. But as others were given to mankind - - Noah, Abraham, Moses - -the light gets brighter and brighter doesn't it?   So He is coming, not G-d, Himself but in His Word. He is coming and His presence is becoming more obvious and more obvious.   His light is becoming brighter and brighter and in the end every eye shall see him.

Muhammad is second coming of Christ 

Rev. 1.7; Every eye shall see him

"Behold, he cometh with clouds; and every eye shall see him, and they also which pierced him: and all kindreds of the earth shall wail because of him. Even so. Amen."

Al Hadith 3p.410#579; Prophet's character the Quran
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Sa'ad bin Hisham reported I went to Aisha and asked: Oh mother of the Faithful, inform me about the conduct of the Prophet of Allah (pbuh). She asked, "Do you not read the Quran? Yes, replied I. She said 'The conduct of the Prophet (pbuh) is the Quran."

Muhammad is the return, the second Christ

The Bible says "Every eye shall see him", not G-d, His Word, His revelation. His revelation is what is growing man, it is the real life of man. His inspiration and His communication is really the real life of man. That's why Aisha she said of her husband Muhammad the Prophet (pbuh) he is the Quran living among us, the Word of G-d living among us.

What is she saying? That he is the second coming of Christ, the word has again appeared among men, that's exactly what she's says, he is the Word of G-d manifest and living among us.

Jesus and Muhammad be together

If he is the Quran, the Quran is the Word of G-d, so he is the Word of G-d. And he said, "In the end they shall see me and Christ Jesus together." And Imam Warith Ud Din Mohammed, this little black son of Elijah Muhammad, the strange guy is the one telling the world that today, I'm not just telling you that. I'm telling the pope of Rome this. I'm telling the whole world this, Allahu Akbar. praise be to Allah (swt).

This communist idea, this communist theory, they are nothing but theories, in fact all man got is theory, scientific theory, communist theory, all theories. The only One Who has reality is G-d. He has the real thing as the youngsters say. praise be to Allah (swt). And He gives to whomsoever He pleases, that is what He says in His Book.

The Jacobites want to present Israel as god to the world

They say matter is evolving man, but they shouldn't stop there, they shouldn't just say that, they are really trying to project themselves as god for the Gentiles. You heard me I said exactly what I wanted to say. These thieves in the sacred knowledge they are trying to get the Gentiles as their instrument, they think they are their instrument, that instrument is going to deceive them again. They are trying get their baby that they created to recognize them as G-d Almighty, as the presence of G-d Almighty on earth.

This present government in Israel is influenced more by these thieves than anything else. And they are trying to bring America to be their police, their robo cop. Don't think that they are not also the creators of robo cop, they are the creators of that too. They are trying to get President Bush, our great president, the man is a beautiful man, but a victim of heavy foreign political trouble right now and battling almost alone. And he has an advisor breathing his suggestions into his ears and into his heart. They are trying to get through the Christian church leadership and throughout government, they are trying to get the message to our public through our leaders that Israel is god.

Jacobites said David and Jesus were the son of G-d

Psalm 2.7; David begotten son of G-d

I will declare the decree: the Lord hath said unto me, Thou (David) art my Son; this day have I begotten thee.

Why do they not accept the Prophet, Messenger, servant Christ, Jesus peace be on him? Because they have schemed and planned to introduce themselves, their own power as the Christ, the son of G-d. Is this something new for them? In their scriptures they say David was a son of G-d. G-d"s beloved son. His only begotten. And then later introduced Christ Jesus as His only begotten son of G-d. The same people that influenced the reading of scripture to say that one of their great leaders, David was the begotten son of G-d. The same ones who introduced Christ Jesus improperly and said he is the son of G-d.
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And the same ones who permitted the West to put Jesus in the picture of a European Gentile with blond hair and perfect Aryan, white European features. And they just .recently changed it after the Hon. Elijah Muhammad started saying that the white man is the devil. They liked that, these thieves they liked that, they say, "Yes this is the devil we created, Elijah is right, we know our creation, he is the devil. But look they are hurting our projections of the coming savior, Israel. They are going to be suspicious of this blue-eyed, blond-haired Christ Jesus. Aren't we controlling the literature? Well let us change the way he is presented. Let us make him look darker, give him dark hair, he has to look Semitic not Aryan." They did it, they took that picture out of circulation. And where was that picture more popular or more present than anywhere else? In the poor black neighborhoods, in the homes of the poor black neighborhoods, hundreds of blond hair, blue eyed Christ, that was done to tell you, "This is your god and don't you make no mistake," it's a blue eyed white man.

It is terrible, we are halaling that goat, praise be to Allah (swt). When we get through with him he going to be clean and fit to eat, praise be to Allah (swt).

Man is born out of creation then stands over it

If they would say -- put it like this; in fact I could put it like this and give it to you and it is really good, it is great insight. The material world is giving birth, I do not want to say evolved, it is giving birth to its finest product, the best of itself, the human being following the plan for it of its Creator. This is a plan of the Creator, it had no power to design itself, the Creator designed it. And one of the attributes of G-d in Al Islam we know is the Designer "Al Musaw-wir." He is the One Who gives design upon which things develop and materialize. If we just say that, we will be correct, the creation is giving birth to its best product, the best of itself, man, human beings in the nature and in the condition Allah (swt) wants for His human creature, that is true.

There is a religion. I know the one that I have read about and I read this in their language, in the script on their religious disciplines and ideas, I read this in their language. The idea that matter, this material world gives birth to the enlightened one and when he is fully developed he is freed from the material womb. The material womb can no longer hold him, it has to let him go like the woman has to let her child go in the ninth month, when it is ready to be born. The material creation cannot hold him any longer so it releases him and he breaks from the material realm and rises, towers above it, and towers above it as light in the form of a man.

The smaller cosmic figure eventually becomes the superior and escapes the cosmic body and is freed from it and towers over it as the light, the tower of light, this is their imagination. It is beautiful, it is similar to what we're told in Islamic tradition that Jibril the angel appears in every respect as man. And he was once seen so big, so huge, so tall passing through the lands that his shadow eclipsed the sun and darkened the area that he passed through. Now we know that this is folk tales, see you were looking for something higher. Folk tales, legends, to me that is what that is, it is somebody stretching their imagination.

But if you penetrate what they are saying and if you seek to know why they made that big exaggeration you can accept it. And I think it is very closely related to the Jains idea. I thought the Jains had disappeared from the earth. I was reading their literature, I didn't know they were here on earth. Now I met somebody, I consider him my friend, who is one of the leaders in Jainism. He loves and admires your Imam so much and I love him as a free soul, a free spirit and a wise man. He is a Jain and he said, "oh yeah there are plenty of us in Asia and here too in America no." Their idea is something else.

I was looking for material that Mr. Fard got that inspired him to plan his works, I knew he got it from somewhere, from what I heard him, I was studying him. See you can know a man by studying his mind and you study his mind by studying his actions, when he did what he was doing. So I was really learning his mind, studying his works. G-d blessed me to figure him out, to know what he would do.

I see it, this man went everywhere getting stuff, putting it together to form his temporary logic, his Frankenstein. He's going to the graveyard of the ancients digging up stuff to form in his creature and give life to it, raise up to the storm and let the lightning hit it and charge it and give it life. So he was making his Frankenstein and he went to these different places. So when I saw the number 8, 4, and it didn't say hundreds, it said thousands, I said, "The zeros don't matter, this is where he got these numbers from that Yakub was born in the year 8,400.

So I went all over the world searching their myths, not physically, but searching the myths of the world to see
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where he got this from and the religion. I read of the religions of the people of Asia, Hindus, Buddhist, this man worked, I was worked, I earned it, I did, G-d rewarded my works. I wish Shirley was here just to tell you, what she tells sisters sometimes, brothers, she says, "I know Wallace, we have problems, but he is sincere. One day I left him, I got tired I had to go upstairs and go to bed. He had papers and books all across the table, a big dining table too. I woke up and came downstairs the next morning, there he was still sitting at the table working in those papers."

When you have an honest person serving you and seeing you like that, nobody can make them believe that you are not sincere and that you did not earn what you got. Shirley is one of my strongest followers, yes she is, to the death she will be with me as a follower, as a believer.

Universe created as a womb to birth and educate man

Now I have given you enough I think really for you to understand and appreciate this statement: the whole orderly universe, the picture of material objects in the sky and in the earth, all of this exists as a womb, support and as communication. Allah (swt) says it's signs, not only is this a mother giving birth to be the special creature that Allah (swt) wants to be khalifa in the world - - he's a plural body, he's a type for all, the excellent creation that G-d made. He's not a single figure, he's Wallace D. Mohammed, he's not Moses except that Moses represents too a type for the many and not one person, not Moses by himself.

Also the womb supports and communicates to man, man's life and life functions, his vital life and vital life functions, educating man. G-d created the universe to educate man. But man can't handle the school alone, G-d had to come and make His presence known and assist man in his struggles to learn the lessons that G-d had put in matter for man when He created it.

Q. 20.27; Moses said untie my tongue "And remove the impediment from my speech."

Q. 2.58; Enter door humbly

"And remember We said: "Enter this town and eat of the plenty therein as ye wish; but enter the gate with humility in posture and in words and We shall forgive you your faults and increase (the portion of) those who do good."

G-d, Himself had to come and unlock something that was locked up. Moses said, "Untie my tongue," He had to unlock something that was blocked or locked up for man's thinking, make man universal and tell man, "You can't come in unless you're straight, and you can't come in proud, you must humble yourself."

In Arabic it is "Wadkhuluul baaba sujjada," enter the gate or the door in prostration, in sajdah. G-d had to come and give man that help so he can conform to what G-d's will was for his mind and for his spirit and for his ego. And then he could engage the material world and get all the great education in it for him, it is unlimited. G-d has turned us on to it, G-d has situated us for this relationship with matter. And G-d has turned us on to this interest and has fired up this attribute in us.

We are going to be learning and progressing until G-d finishes this creation. Don't think we know, how much farther can we go? Much farther. Look how amazing it is to look at what has been accomplished by man now over what we saw 20 years ago, and 20 years ago we were saying, "Oh this world what else can it do?" But look what it has done in about 20 to 30 or 40 years, look what it has done.

When that astronaut said, "A small step for man and a giant step for mankind." I think that was a kind of a prophetic statement he made. It has more to do with just their landing on the moon, it has to do with the progress for a scientific world in its many aspects and activity. So we look at what it did some years back in my lifetime and I see what it is doing now, what it has done recently is certainly one giant step for mankind. Now we may think, "Oh what can it do now?" Well look back at what has happened recently and for those like me when I was a teenager, look what has happened recently for those who thought, " What can it do after this?" And believe that more giant steps are coming for mankind.

If you have my spirit you cannot be held back from progressing, this going into your life germ right now, believe me, I'm not mad. they called some Prophets crazy, mad, they called Christ Jesus a mad man they called Muhammad (pbuh) a mad man. I'm not mad and I'm not a Prophet either. I'm not mad and I'm speaking from intelligence.
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I'm telling you that I know if you absorb, it you accept, you eat, you accept my food and you love it, it's going into your body, it's going to be into your genes and when you have children you're going to bear the f' product, the fruit of this labor. And your children will be more powerful mentally, morally, spiritually and even physically than those who didn't get this sensitizing that I'm giving you, I know that.

Universe exists as womb to give life to man

The whole orderly picture of the material world, its I' objects in the sky, in the earth, all exists as womb taken all together or separately, that's what I'm saying. It exists as womb, as a support and communication. Communicating to man, man's life and life functions. As our first native Americans have it and I'm quoting them, their wise men's words: "Every part of it, meaning the material world, holds a message for the human and human society."

These are the native Americans that we write off, don't think they are not wise. "Oh they are savage and the [, white man conquered them" no not yet. They are still defying them, that tells me that they are not completely conquered yet, they are still defying him and their wise men have told them "Don't give in to him, to Western civilization we will outlive him and you will have your life back again."

So they tell their children that when they're born, they wait and they see who is going to be a chief, who is going to be wise and when they find one mind they can trust, they pass it on to that child, you have been selected. And it stays among them generation after generation. And they are not going to give it up they will be with it until Allah (swt) changes this world.

Identity is preserved by keeping logic for your life

They are wise, they are faithful, they are human, they are little giants, their wise ones,   do not underestimate these people that the white man conquered. Hasn't the white man, the West also conquered the following of Muhammad (pbuh)? Certainly, are we uncivilized, are we stupid? No, do we have a survival plan like the native American? I don't see it. We keep deteriorating.

The Islamic world keeps deteriorating, where is our survival plan? At least we don't see the native Indian deteriorating, he's holding, he's now where he was when the white man came. In tact he's wiser speaking for them as a whole or the majority of them, they are wiser than they were before white man came. But they still have the same determination to preserve their own identity and to preserve your identity, you must preserve your logic for your life, that's how you preserve your identity. And they are not giving it up.

Believe me it hurts my heart seeing how they were treated, it hurts my heart seeing them held back from the benefits of civilization, of industrial world comforts and education and everything, it still hurts my heart. But when I really saw their plan and their determination that pain went away, I don't have that pain in my heart for them anymore, they are little giants. And they are not as bad off as the world thinks they are. They have a survival plan and are not giving it up.   I wish they could see Al Islam. Al Islam is their property, Al Islam is their inheritance just as it is ours.

The whole orderly picture of matter, the material world, objects in it, in the sky and in the earth exists as womb, as a support and communication, communicating to man, man's life and life functions as our first native Americans had it, "Every part of it, meaning the universe, the object world it holds a message for human and human society." End of quote.

Q. 93.1-3; By the morning and the night

1. By the Glorious Morning Light.
2. And by the Night when it is still
3. The guardian-Lord Hath not forsaken thee Nor is He
displeased.

The sunlight moves and softens, the light itself. It appears at Fajr time soft, the light has softened it is softer than even the light of the night, the stars, the moon that early dawning of the light it is soft. So it appears softened, it grows intense to reach the time we call Duhaa, believed by the Arabs and many others to be the brightest time of day.

Allah (swt) says in Arabic. "Wad duhaa" translated "And by the dawn" and "Lail" the night. "Edna sajaa" when they appear or come. "Sajdaa" stretch out. "Maa wa da'ka rab-buka" translated "Your lord has not forsaken you and has not left you void." I know the translation, I don't have it down I'm giving it to you, I'm translating it.
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This is Muhammad the Prophet (pbuh), G-d is speaking to him saying to him, "By the dawn and by the light as it is stretched out, extended, your Lord has not forsaken you. Your Lord will tell him that "We shall ease your burden. Your Lord shall enrich you." So that you will not have any hunger or want or neglect in your life. This is what Allah (swt) is telling him.   G-d is going to fulfill your needs, "He has not forsaken you."

This is said to Muhammad (pbuh) and he was burdened carrying grief or burden because of the condition he saw the people and the world in and G-d was promising him enlightenment and assistance that would relieve him of all his distress and fully equip him for his mission. That's Allah's (swt) promise to His Prophet (pbuh), His servant Muhammad (pbuh). If we accept him, Muhammad (pbuh), that's also G-d's promise to us. We're burdened now, we've been struggling with a heavy load on us and we've been distressed.

But we shouldn't despair because G-d's promise is true and if we accept what He offers us for our life as guidance, mercy etc., we are going to be relieved of all our distress. And G-d is going to guide us to the full light of day.

Eid you get a new birth and blessing of the light

We are going to be enriched by both the Lail and the Duhaa. The brightest time of the day. Do you know the two Eids are observed at the time of Duhaa? And the two Eids represent for us the new birth where you will get what Allah (swt) promised you, a new birth where you will receive what Allah (swt) promised you, the blessing of the light.

Eid fitra celebrates original nature

And the first is the fast and the celebration is the Eid of the fast and the second Eid is the pilgrimage, the unity of mankind and the revelation that G-d gives us on the Hajj, if we're blessed. And that Eid is called Eid Al Adhaa, what does it mean? It means the brighter of the two.

Eid Adhaa celebrates enlightenment for nature

The first Eid is the Eid Al fitra, the Eid of the human nature, of the original, and the second Eid is the Eid Al Adhaa. the brighter Eid. And the brighter Eid is the enlightenment for the nature. We celebrate the blessing. the gift of this beautiful nature that G-d created and we celebrate the gift of enlightenment for this nature. So the enlightenment, the help for the nature it must be the Quran because the Quran came in the month of Ramadan and you're supposed to concentrate yourself, you're supposed to devote yourself to the reading of the Quran more intensely in the month of Ramadan than at any other time.   So the Word of G-d, the Quran must be the help for the nature, right?

Eid adhaa comes after three months

After Quran you be will dead in earth three days, three months later it is Eid al Adhaa that great illumination. You say, "When is it going to happen?" It is a promise and it is happening all the time, but few know about it. These are signs, the month is a sign, they hold great knowledge for us, these are concepts, this is communication holding great knowledge for us.

So in the third month after the celebration of the Eid, the birth of the nature and its purity aided by the Word of G-d, when the Word of G-d comes to it in only three months, three periods, three days, see it is symbolic. Only three months, three time periods, three phases, three days and there will be the birth of the enlightened one, the brightest of them all Al Adhaa the Eid, the brighter celebration.

Eid Adhaa commemorates Abraham sacrifice

Eid Adhaa commemorates Abraham's sacrifice doesn't it? And   he thought he was supposed to sacrifice a real living body, his son's mortal life. But G-d stopped him and told him, "You have fulfilled your obligation, now sacrifice a lamb and feed the poor." Beautiful and some of you understand I am sure the full language.

Shadows go in the opposite direction as sun rises

Q.25.45-46: Shadow contracts, draw to ourselves easy

25.Hast thou not turned thy vision to thy Lord? how He doth prolong the Shadow! If He willed He could make it stationary! Then do We make the sun its guide:

26. Then We draw it in towards Ourselves a contraction by easy stages.

G-d speaks to us of the shadows, the light «;rows extending itself and then it relaxes, starting to set. The
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light starts to relax like going to sleep, going to bed, it relaxes as it calls man's attention to the concepts in reverse. When the sun rises the shadows are pushed in the direction that the sun is going and the shadows are stretching out, reaching in the direction that the sun is going in. The sun is coming up from the East and going westward and the shadows in the beginning of the rising of the sun are stretched out all the way, straining for where the light is to go. And it reaches a point and it starts to retreat, it pulls itself back. And it keeps shortening itself as the sun approaches noon time, the zenith, and it disappears, like the moon waxes to fullness and thins, it starts waning until it disappears. And for a day or two almost it is gone, no moon is visible hardly in the sky.

If you look closely you can detect a little ring of its presence, but the first sight of it, the average child will say, "There is no   moon out tonight."

But somebody really straining to see it, if it is visible --it could be in a position where it won't be visible. You will see a black moon and a little light ring around the edge of it. And it is gone, the moon has gone, darkness is where it was. The light is not really the moon it is just the radiation, sunlight radiating or reflecting on the outer rim of it or outer perimeter of it.

The moon and the sun start to go down, it didn't change its direction did it? It came from the East but it's going westward. But the shadow at the afternoon time changes its direction. The shadow was reaching for the destiny that the sun was straining for (Westward), then it stops reaching for the destiny that the sun was straining for and it starts reaching for the place of its rising the shadow. The shadow then goes eastward.

As the sun goes down it keeps stretching and the more the sun moves past the zenith point, it keeps stretching towards the East. And at sunset just before the light is gone it has stretched itself as far as it can go. And the shadow of things are longer than they ever were. When it is coming up in the East, as soon as it comes up and casts a shadow, the shadow is as long as it possibly can get. But as the sun goes up to the Zenith the shadow retracts and become smaller and smaller until at the point of exact zenith - and the sun is hardly ever exact, it will be a little North or little South or something, you see a little shadow, but the shadow is almost completely gone. Sometimes the movement of this body will be perfectly overhead and there will be absolutely no shadow. And at
one time in the year there will be absolutely no shadow at all, it is gone.

But as it starts to move more westward to go uphill, at the zenith it is going downhill in its path or down slope, the shadow starts to grow but now it's reaching for the place of its nativity, the shadow and it is stretching out Eastwards. It wants to know its origin, the light, while it casts a shadow, the shadow it wants to know its destiny.

All shadows become one in the earth's shadow

And then darkness overcomes it, shadows are infused with other shadows and all the individual shadows are lost in the one shadow of the earth. This is at sunset and when that happens the night comes and reveals many lights in heavens. And the sun rises again in the dawn and the same thing happens again, the shadows stretch to perceive the destiny, to reach the destiny.

And it stretches so much that they lose their effort in the universal effort, isn't that beautiful?

Q. 45.3-4; Signs in heavens, earth and yourselves

Allah (swt) tells us there are signs in the heavens and signs in the earth and signs in you that most go heedless of, they are not reading these signs. Now if you can appreciate what I have observed and shared with you, you are on the way to be the new mind to lead the new world. Maybe not in my time, but eventually you are going to be the best or you are going to join the best in the leadership of the world. Once you been have reconciled with the creation of G-d and your interest now is engaging His creation, you are on way brother and sister you are on the way to the top.

Shadow is the concept of man's identity for his destiny

Q. 79.27; Is man more difficult to create or the heavens

When man is shadowed, it means a concept. Man wants to form concepts and he strains to form a concept that will hold for him his identity, for the destiny, and he loses it in universality, he's not that important as an individual. The Quran says. "Oh man don't you know that your creation is not a bigger thing than the creation of the world?" No your creation is a small thing, it is birthing you, is it producing you, you didn't produce it.
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Man gives up hope and he loses himself in the shadows of the earth. The earth's shadow is bigger than he is, he loses himself first in the light of the sun and then he starts straining to find his birth place to find his origin, to know his origin, to know his nativity and he strains and he strains and the shadow goes as far as it can go and after a while all shadows become one in the shadow of earth.

Shadow stretch means man's knowledge increases

Allah (swt) does not want us in His creation having these great wonderful time periods for our searching mind and intellectual curiosity growing in knowledge. The shadow increasing means the knowledge is increasing, man's knowledge is increasing and you're seeing the context. Everything that is objective casts a shadow in the light. The shadow means the concept, your own shadow means your concept, the light reveals your concept, what you are, your identity, the light reveals it.

Revelations 21. 23; city needed no light

"And the city had no need of the sun, neither of the moon, to shine in it: for the glory of God did lighten it, and the Lamb is the light thereof."

But as the light of this world reveals it and continues to progress, it loses it and that is repeated over and over again. We are promised a light that will not set, there will be no setting of the sun, isn't that the Bible? So man has in his desire to get out of this cycle, history for his intellect and his curiosity wherein he grows and grows and then dies and loses it all to the influences of the bigger body. The earth itself overcomes him and he has to be born and reborn over and over again into knowledge, into civilization, into history however you want to put it.

He wants to break that cycle where he will not have temporary glory and it passes, it defeats him, the earth defeats him and he loses it all. He wants to have the light stay with him. So G-d has put it in his nature to want the light to stay with him and G-d promises him that there will be no setting in that glorious time on the other side, there will be no setting of the sun. And no burning under the light, the light will be burning but it will be cool, very pleasant for you, meaning there will be no extremes that are unpleasant, no burning of the sun on you and the light will not leave you it will be with you always. This is the promise.

Quran is the light that will not set

Where is that light? It is the Quran. The Quran is revealed light and if you keep it your civilization will never need to go down or die. But you have to keep it and obey it and respect it and not let comforts, the material benefits weaken your faith and take you from your duty to Allah (swt). Stay piously devoted to His cause always and He will preserve your civilization, your order for society. The sun will never set on you, the sun of enlightenment will never go down, it will be with you always. This I believe with all my heart, this I read in His signs, that is for your understanding, praise be to Allah (swt).

Shadows make sajda give up their knowledge 

Q. 16.48; Do you not observe the shadow make saidah

These shadows what do they do? They make sajda. Quran says, "Man don't you observe these objects? And how their shadows make sajdah?" And they submit and give up their knowledge no matter how glorious it was in the bright time of their heyday for their efforts, they give up theirs and they die in the body that Allah (swt) created. And because they submit and die a Muslim they have a resurrection and G-d has promised them life eternal. They make their sajdah, or their sujud and then they point to the intellect, the thinker, the searcher away from themselves on to the bigger picture, to the universe that shows itself when all shadows are gone, praise be to Allah (swt). We have to break fast now, we have to stop for If tar.

Perpetual Wholeness that's where we are in part II

Contextual Wholeness, man's aspiration, his aspirations for unity, for consistency in his logic and the unity of existence, the unity of matter. He is searching for Tauheed,the one
G-d, Creator and the unity of matter. Its harmony, its consistency, its one nature and laws for all, the Muslim in all of it. And he is straining for ideological development to develop his idea so his idea can be
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passed on to the next generation. And they can continue to work on these ideas so these ideas reach perfection, grow and progress with the coming generations of thinkers, searchers.

Tomorrow en sha Allah we will start with [A] in the outline, building the context of sexual expression family life, that is where we will start tomorrow.   Fasting, if you eat Iftar one minute early you broke your fast, that's disobedience. Allah (swt) is teaching us perfect obedience, exactness. And the tendency is if you aren't hungry, if you're doing something in the office or you got company and you're enjoying the company, the tendency is to forget to break your fast on time, that's bad, that's disobedience.
Sometimes I see believers I ask, "Did you break?" and it is a minute, sometimes a half a hour or more "Oh no I didn't break it yet." What do you mean you didn't break it yet? You break it when you want to instead of breaking it when G-d says break it? That is not obedience.

So the whole purpose of their fasting is defeated because they are disobeying what G-d asked them to do. You are not supposed to do what you feel like doing, you're supposed to do what Allah (swt) says to do, not what you feel like doing.   "Oh I'm not hungry, I can go on I don't have to eat right now. I will break my fast later." You are doing what you want to do, not what Allah (swt) asked you to do. If you want to strengthen your will power and become closer to G-d when you're suppose to break your fast at a certain time then you break it at that time I don't care how strong you feel or how busy you are with something else, you break it at that time. You should have something in your pocket or something in your car to make sure you are not without something to break your fast when the time comes to break your fast.

Allah feeds from sky and earth materially, spiritually 

Q. 34.24; Allah feeds from sky and earth

"Say: "Who gives you sustenance from the heavens and the earth?" Say: "It is Allah and certain it is that either we or ye are on right guidance or in manifest error!"

He feeds us from the earth and the sky. He feeds us materially and spiritually. Fitraa refers to our nativity, birth of our nativity. We don't break fast with any food.
hamburger, we break with any natural food that Allah (swt) made.

Travel breakfast make up later

There is a question when you travel and arrive do you continue to fast? No once you arrive you resume fasting, but if you're in travel and your stay is temporary you are allowed to eat.

Question: Is it permissible to read more than 1/30 per day?

Imam W.D. Mohammed:

You can read the whole Quran in one day but don't neglect your needs. I mentioned our problem with immigrant Muslims, those who come here have plans, they have us in it but as their little children that they take by the hand and market. Back home in their own land among their government officials, they are not like that. They don't like their citizens coming here and doing what they are doing. They say to me, "Imam Muhammad you should be their leader, because you struggled there, you can best help all of us to get the benefits. You just accept to go out front and be leader. They will support you." I told them, I can't do that, the Muslims in America would have to invite me.   I don't want to go out campaigning. Most of the countries they're happy with us, only those over here have a plan to be in control of Islam and control us.

Eid join all Muslims in prayer

Question:

Should we knowing them, should we have our Eid by ourselves with our own gathering, by gathering our own group and having our Eid with our own group to better celebrate our culture and pertinent concerns of our community from our own leadership? What is best?

Imam W.D. Mohammed:

It is best that we be with all Muslims and try to have our Eid with all Muslims, that's best. We should at least pray with them and then come back to our center and celebrate Eid.

Savior's Day celebration

Question:
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Should the focus be on our early history or a day of celebration of the wonderful ways of G-d or a day to commemorate our past leadership?

Imam W.D. Mohammed:

I discussed this with a person who is interested in us not losing, and not getting out of touch with our history and what has helped us along the way, that's Imam Idris from Charleston, South Carolina sitting right there. So we discussed this and I told him, "Since you have the interest why don't you represent this interest?" And that's what he has done and I have two or three times been with you to observe Savior's day, right? So the question is, Should the focus be on our early history or a day of celebration of the wonderful ways of G-d or a day to commemorate our past leadership?   I think it should be a day to focus on our history, not for the sake of just recalling history but also to benefit from the best of our past history as we make history, that is what it should be all about.

Question:

About the Quran how it was revealed to address certain events, certain circumstances as those presented themselves, as they occurred.

Imam W.D. Mohammed:

The first need was the need in Muhammad (pbuh), and the Quran came to him saying, "Read three times" and he began to read or recite what G-d was revealing, that's the first.

Question:

Please explain how Prophet knew how to consolidate ayats into complete surahs.

Imam W.D. Mohammed:

No, G-d revealed it that way, G-d revealed it to him, it appeared at different times and it was left to them to collect it, the scribes, and put similar passages together. So the ordering or the arrangement was done by the collectors, the scribes who wrote it down and then later arranged it.

But I'm sure that they were obeying the Prophet (pbuh). they didn't disobey him, they were obeying him. For a while they were not written down but it was preserved by hafiths. The first word from G-d to Muhammad (pbuh) was not Al Fatiha, the first words were, "Read in the name of your Lord Who created? Five verses were revealed. Ok here's a question, a good question, intelligent question but somebody got it wrong.

Q. 2.138; Our religion is the baptism of Allah

"(Our religion is) the baptism of Allah; and who can baptize better than Allah? and it is He whom we worship."

Question:

Please explain what is meant in the Quran when it revealed to Muhammad (pbuh) our religion is the color of G-d.

Imam W.D. Mohammed:

When G-d says, the whole Quran is the Word of G-d. No, there is nothing in the Quran like this, it said, "Our color is color is the color of G-d," our coloring, our dye for coloring is the color of G-d. It doesn't mean G-d has color, it means it is the color given to us by G-d. Stick to your good knowledge and let the tongue speak only with respect for your good knowledge. The color of G-d, it doesn't mean G-d has color, our dye is the coloring of G-d meaning "Sebghatunaa sebghatullah,." our dye, our coloring is the coloring of G-d, just like the Word of G-d. It doesn't mean that - - this is not a description of G-d. And I think the person here has a problem, has confused thinking that this is a description of G-d, no.

The color is not describing G-d. "Sebghatullah," means that it is the coloring that we were given from G-d, we got this from G-d. G-d gave us this just like the Arabic term "Ketabullah" the Book of G-d, the Word of G-d. The coloring it means that is what He gave us, but this is the real meaning "Sebghatullah." our dye or our coloring material is the color, it means that G-d gave us this, it's not the color of the world, it's the color of 
G-d.

In the English language they have literature that has this language color, "He colored it," what does it mean? When you took an expression or an idea and colored it, what are we saying in English literature when we say "You colored it?" We mean you put your own opinion there, you put your own thoughts and ideas there, you took away from it, it's purity and originality, that's what we mean when we say you colored it. So coloring
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something that's pure and genuine and original, you made it defective. And what is this saying? The teachers in the world who ignore obedience to G-d*s Word they have coloring that takes the truth out of its original form. They colored truth, make it defective.   We don't do that, our coloring is from G-d, not from our own minds, from our own selves.

I don't know about you I'm ready to put these papers down and pick up a knife and a fork. And we have to make Magrib prayer.
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11 -22-2002 Ramadan session Jumah Prayer Friday Chicago, III

As Salaam Alaikum

We praise G-d, we witness He is One alone in the rule of heaven and earth, and we witness that Muhammad (pbuh) to whom Quran was revealed over 14 centuries and 20 years and more ago is His servant and His Messenger the last of the Prophets. And we witness that he is the promised one given in the Quran with reference to the scriptures of Christians and the Jews wherein it said that there would be one to lead the people to purity. To lead them out of darkness into light and to take from them the heavy yoke that weighed them down and to break every bond of slavery.

He received Quran in the month of Ramadan, this blessed month, and the first revelation came in a blessed night, and he was missioned by G-d to tell his people and the world what Moses came down from Mt. Sinai, Jabl Nur, and told his people after he had gotten revelation from G-d, that is G-d is One alone. He said G-d is only one G-d. And we know that the people whose cars that fell upon were believers in many idol gods, it is said they had about 369 fertility gods, household gods, all gods made by their own hands. And when they were questioned about these gods they said, "We found our fathers worshipping these."

And when they were questioned about other things that needed correcting in their lives and changes in their lives so that they would have G-d's guidance and His mercy they would always refer back to their fathers saying, "We found our fathers practicing this." And it was said lo them, "Even though your fathers were ignorant?"

Amos 8.11; Famine of hearing the word of G-d

"Behold, the days come, saith the Lord God, that I will send a famine in the land, not a famine of bread, nor a thirst for water, but of hearing the words of the Lord:"

The age or the time referred to, Muhammad's (pbuh) coming is called the ignorant age, Jahiliyyah.

And it is prophesied in the Books that came before to the people that are contained in what we call the Bible now, maybe not in their original form or pure form but they are there. And in those Books it said the world would come under darkness, there would be a famine all over the land, everywhere but it would not be a famine of food but a famine of hearing the word of G-d. It did not say the word of G-d would not be among the people or in the people, but it said it would be a famine of hearing the word of G-d. And I understand that to mean that the word of G-d was with them but they had no knowledge of it and they were not following knowledge, they were ignorant.

Not only were the Arabs in darkness when Muhammad (pbuh) began his mission as a mercy to all the worlds, the whole known world at that time was in darkness. The people of the Book acknowledge that they were in darkness at that time and they acknowledge today that the grandest time for the people of the Book was the great, glorious page in the history of the Muslims in Cordova, Spain where Al Islam ruled and was respected and loved by the citizens of Spain, even by non-Muslims. It was appreciated and loved for 500 years. And the life of society continued for about 700 years, that is a long time. The United States is not nearly that old and really the people practicing Christianity in this part of the world is not that old, maybe close to 500 years but certainly not 700 years and maybe not even 500 years.

This is the kind of longevity for civilized, G-d fearing, orderly government, and I talked with people from parts of the Muslim world that are descendants of those who left Africa and went to Spain and set up the wonderful governmental order that they enjoyed for centuries. A time of religious tolerance, a time of cooperation in good works for humanity by Christian leaders and Jews and Muslims.

Spain fell because of corruption among Muslim leaders

Q. 19:59; When society misses prayer it is destroyed

"But after them there followed a posterity who missed prayers and followed after lusts: soon then will they face Destruction"
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When I listened to the Moroccan telling me about that time, one of them said to me that history records that corruption set into the leaders themselves. Comforts, material things and comforts that material things bring about or made possible, this Moroccan told me that is what brought them down. And he told me, long before the society itself began to lose its grip on the land and on the religion first of all, corruption had already taken its toll on the leaders.

Q.24:41; Every creature knows its mode of prayer

Seest thou not that it is Allah Whose praises all beings in the heavens and on earth do celebrate and the birds (of the air) with wings outspread? Each one knows its own (mode of) prayer and praise. And Allah knows well all that they do.

Allah (swt) says never did a people fall until they began to abandon prayers, stop praying give, up their prayers. So we should understand by that, especially if we understand, a few you will understand this, the saying of G-d, "That every creature knows its mode of prayer." If you understand that then you truly understand the statement no civilization fell until it abandoned prayers, salat.

Q. 2:185;   Ramadan is blessed month

Ramadan is the (month) in which was sent down the Qur'an as a guide to mankind also clear (Signs) for guidance and judgment (between right and wrong).

This is the blessed month of Ramadan, it is the month in which the Quran was revealed to Muhammad (pbuh), "Shahru ramadaanal ladhee unzila feehil qur'aanu hudal tin naasi wa bayyinaatim minal hudaa wal furqaan."

Translated the month of Ramadan in which the Qur'an came down as guidance for mankind and as plain evidence of what is guidance and what is not, the criterion, the blessed month of Ramadan. And when we witness this month G-d says -- and witness means that you know it has started and you are present in your home or in your location — then you should begin your prayers, your fasting. But if you are on a journey, you're not present, then G-d exempts you from this on the day of your travel.

Fasting is exempt for the traveling person

The learned Imams, scholars today, the pious teachers, they are saying, most of them that we should accept G-d's allowances that He makes for us. That to turn down His allowance that He makes for you is insulting. Like if a great ruler, or a great man of great stature offers you something, you don't feel comfortable rejecting it. How much more should we be uncomfortable if Allah (swt) tells us when traveling I don't have to fast. Let us not be like the serpent who had to reason with what G-d said and trusts his own reason and came up with his own answers. Let us not be like the serpent, like the shayatan, Satan.

Let us accept advice from the best of our scholars and from our pious leaders at least, give it respect. And don't shut it out but reason with it, listen to it, think about it and see if your intelligence and your good nature encourages you to come to that conclusion. I have done that and I have come to that conclusion. Wouldn't you give it respect if your intelligence and good nature comes to their conclusion.

No matter how comfortable my travel is, this is modern time we know that, no matter how comfortable my travels G-d said when I am traveling I don't have to fast. I'm exempt from fasting, if I'm traveling, if I'm not present in my town. Why is this given? Al Islam is a religion, the teaching of Prophet Muhammad (pbuh), the Quran and the teaching of Prophet Muhammad (pbuh), respects human goodness and human excellence.

It does not at all want to interfere with the natural learned, good nature and good motivations, good desires, good sensitivities, it does not want to interfere with it, it does not want to do away with that, deny you that. It is in the best of human beings, if someone gives them something they are grateful and say, "Thank you," and even if they don't have a need for it, the real good one and intelligent ones they aren't going to say, "I don't have any need for this." They don't want to be offensive, they don't want to be rude, they don't want to hurt the feelings of the person who is coming to them with love. So they will take something they don't even have a use for and when they get out of sight they say, "I don't have a need for this I'll find somebody who can use it." That is respect.
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So Allah (swt) says when traveling you are exempted from the fast. We reason and go back in the time and we say "Because there was great hardship," that's true, this is why. But isn't G-d the All-knowing? Didn't He know that transportation was going to be improved, the world was going to be advanced and one day it wouldn't be so hard to travel and man would have the comforts He promised him? Even in that time the comforts were not here, G-d promised man great comforts and said a time is coming in life when it is going to be easy for you.

So G-d knew the time of ease was coming for your travel, so why did He leave it like that -- if you are traveling you are exempted?   Because that's not the only reason, the hardship they endured or the hardship they encountered was not the only reason for exempting them from fasting. Allah (swt)   didn't say "You have to travel on your pack animal for days and nights or you have to walk for months to get to the Hajj, to the pilgrimage or other reasons I am going to exempt you from fasting during traveling. Or you're traveling for other reasons of importance to you, and you are suffering this long, long time on the road and hardship you encounter, so for that reason I exempt you from fasting." That is not the reason. And look, Allah (swt) says of fasting in the inspired hadith of Muhammad the Prophet (pbuh), one that is treated as revelation to Muhammad the Prophet (pbuh), it comes from a group of inspired hadiths called hadith Qudsi that are called holy, sacred hadith. Meaning they came from G-d.

Fasting exercises self restraint for perfect obedience 

Hadith Qudsi p64 # 10; Fasting is Mine

Abu Hurairah reported the Prophet said, 'Allah (swt) said, "Fasting is mine and it is I who give reward for it.'"

G-d inspired this in him as He gave him revelation but not on the high level that revelation that came through Jibril. It is said, "Fasting is for Me," G-d said that to us. Now if fasting is for G-d, how can you say, "Well it's not hardship anymore, it's easy?" You are not the subject, whether is hard or easy is not the subject, G-d has required it, that is ihe subject. G-d has asked you to do that for Him. for G-d we fast. And you know what fasting is an exercise in self restraint to increase our obedience to G-d, an exercise in self restraint, denying yourself what you would ordinarily take or want.

So that your obedience to G-d will become more perfect. 

Ramadan in the ninth month like life is born within

It is abstaining, keeping away from the appetite of the flesh body and also the appetites of the mind that are not acceptable in your religion. It is keeping away from all of them. Though we are to practice this discipline or self restraint all the time in every month, this particular month is a special month for training the muscles of the will power, the muscles of the moral life, the muscles of the will power, this is this month, the month of Ramadan, the ninth month of the year. Life delivered me to my mother in the ninth month.

So it is a chance for you to really be reborn and if you are successful when you're delivered in this month you get so many gifts. You're talking about a baby shower, so many beautiful gifts. I have never since I started fasting and that's been so long I can't tell you when, a long time ago, long before I became your leader I was fasting the month of Ramadan. I never recall fasting any month of Ramadan before that month was over I wasn't aware that I had received a very special blessing from Allah (swt), my Lord, my Creator.

So be aware of this blessed month. Getting back to Allah's (swt) allowances that He has made for us, that you don't have to fast if you are traveling. I don't believe Allah (swt) said that you can break your fast, I believe He said that you're exempt. He didn't say it is up to you, He said He exempts you, yes, and it is hard when you want to obedient, it is hard when you want to show, present yourself before your Lord in the best state you can. It s hard to break your fast, when your own strength is saying, "I don't need to eat, I can keep my fast," and then something else comes into play. "I don't want to make up for any days, it is hard to fast when there's nobody fasting with you," G-d knew that too. And that is going to make you stronger and G-d wants to see how many of us are truthful. "Did you fast the month of Ramadan brother?" "Oh yeah brother," — he missed about 10 days —"Oh yeah brother," and he is lying. But if we see him fasting   ten extra days in the next month, don't we look at him and love him?

So what Allah (swt) orders for us brother is the best, and when we let our own thoughts come into it, we can spoil the beauty and the blessings.
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There are considerations too, see when I mentioned this, not me, there were other Imams telling me this and they were from the outside community, they were people I met in traveling or abroad, they were telling me this. And I had to respect it and give it thought. So I said to myself, "Even though it is not hard on me when I'm traveling especially on the airplane, the stewardess, the attendant up there comes with some nice juice, if it's first class it is nice juice, nice water, nice white cloth is put down. It is hard for me, a true human being to turn that down, to tell them, " I'm fasting." It is easy for that ugly human to do, to say, "I'm fasting, you don't you know I'm fasting, it is Ramadan?"

Even on Southwest my favorite airline because of our pockets, it is a good airline, I don't like to tell the attendant no, that's a courtesy , they put all that in the ticket, but that is something that the good attendant enjoys, bringing the passenger something to please them. Because whether you are traveling two days, two hours or only 40 minutes, it is not the same as being off that plane, that time you spent is hard time.

I don't care if it is a short trip to Detroit, you have to do something to keep your mind off of it from being bored. Just sitting in one place, not seeing any beautiful scenery, sometimes you're looking at nothing but clouds, so Allah (swt) knows best, He exempts us.

Fast increases purity and perfects obedience to Allah

I'm dwelling on this today to get more of us to see the respect we are to give our G-d, to see better the respect we are to give our G-d, if our G-d offers us something, accept it with respect that is due from G-d, or allotted from G-d. And also remember that your reasons may not be all clean, honorable or intelligent, like saying," I don't want to make up any days, I don't want to break my fast." That is self interest, that is not the discipline for us in the month of Ramadan, that is breaking from the discipline of the believer during the month of Ramadan.

Fasting is not for losing weight, fasting is not for making the body healthier, it does all that. Fasting is not for increasing your will power, it does that. Fasting is for increasing your purity and perfecting your obedience to your G-d. fasting is for Allah (swt). He reveals to Muhammad our Prophet (pbuh). fasting is for Me, G-d said that.

And look what else He says, "The breath of the fasting person for G-d is as the most pleasant perfume," think about that. So yours breath smelling, it may offend me, your friends with your breath during the time of the fasting. You may even offend yourself, but Allah (swt) wants you to know, "Feel comfortable with this bad time for your breath, it reaches only the humans that way. It reaches Me as the finest and the most pleasant perfume." Isn't that wonderful? This is a beautiful month of Ramadan.

And I believe in this month those who seek understanding will be blessed more in this month than any other month. So please don't undervalue the value of reading Quran daily. So read Quran daily and if you can't read it at home take it with you to work, on the transportation, in travel the bus or train or whatever read Quran.

Quran read 1/30th daily

When you are sitting, waiting and bored have a little Quran in your pocket, take it out and read so that you stay in touch with the word of G-d more in this month than in any other month. And it is our hope that we complete the 30 sections of the Quran during this month of 30 days, but we know sometimes it is shorter like leap year for us in our calendar, it may be 29 days sometimes or 30 days normally. And also remember to not only avoid food and drink but avoid foolishness, accepting that into yourself is worse than breaking Ramadan with water or drink and food. Avoid foolishness in the month of Ramadan. Avoid vulgarity in the month of Ramadan, don't even entertain vulgar stuff like the regular dancing that we see in this world, males and females dancing, whether dancing alone or with a partner. These dances mostly are vulgar dances, they are not decent at all.

So don't even watch that stuff on the t.v. or movies during the fasting time, stay away from that kind of stuff and you will strengthen yourself, you will purify your willpower, you will purify your spirit and you will strengthen your willpower. Stay away from anything that you know is not becoming of a conscious Muslim during the time of fasting. It is to train us and make us devote special attention, to concentrate more to devote special attention to our own nature, our own life and our behavior to affect it perfectly if we possibly can to Allah (swt).
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So during this time he careful and avoid all things and ull influences that threaten to take you away or take you out of it, where it just makes you go to sleep to that excellence or to that obedience.

Jumah it is very serious don't laugh

You just chuckled a lot while I was talking, you did not hear me chuckling. There was humor in that but you did not hear me chuckle. We are a playful people they said before they brought us here, those Europeans they criticized us, they were stiff, cold rulers up in their lands and they didn't like our relaxed way of living and our humor. And they pointed to this as ignorance and a defect in us, they called us monkeys from Africa, the monkeys like to play a lot we know. Even when they're serious they look like they're playing.

So we don't want to give into any of these urges in us to laugh and be funny or enjoy humor during the fasting lime. You watch me I'm not laughing, maybe what I say is funny, I'm not laughing, don't laugh, don't play especially during Jumah it is very serious. When the Jumah khutbah is being given I don't care how funny it is you try not to laugh. Be pleasant, but don't laugh, you can put a kind of a smile on your face, but don't make a sound and laugh, that's no good, that's not for the congregation when we're having Jumah to make these sounds to laugh, chuckle, don't do that.

In the future I will be expecting you to obey and not do me things that you are in the habit of doing. We have to break these old habits. I know you enjoy and I'm slow to say stop or to correct you because I know you. But don't give in to humor, don't give in and start laughing during Ramadan, during your fast time and never during ihe khutbah, the speech that is given in Jumah, on Friday. And Allah (swt) will bless us with stronger will power, a more beautiful and a more perfect obedience to Him and that means we are drawing closer to Him. And there is no reward better for us than the reward of closeness to G-d, that's the best reward.

The closer you get to Him the more everything that's good comes to us and everything that needs improvement gets improvement. The closer we get to Allah (swt), that's the greatest blessing.   A great king, or a great ruler, a president like the one we have over the United States, a citizen of the country considers it a very special opportunity to be near him in the White House at the table sitting with him as his guest.

So we think this way in our life as humans of a very special event, nature doesn't change when it's G-d. G-d only wants us to express the best of our nature that He has given us. So this saying is expressed for G-d, if we're conscious that our obedience is bringing us closer to our G-d. Oh how wonderful the feeling is to feel that he used to be like G-d was in Los Angeles. Now we know He is not there as much as He is in some other state, but if G-d was in Los Angles and you were living where I live in Chicago and you heard that your obedience had brought you closer to G-d, now you are in Phoenix, Arizona, you would feel good.

I am just saying this because I know that town, it makes you feel good, G-d has opened opportunities to me and managed my affairs so I could be blessed me to be not so far from Him. This is wonderful to hear what I am saying to come from your best human motivations, and your best human sensitivities. It is wonderful what you feel when you read and hear, listen to this religion, teachings of our Prophet (pbuh) and especially the direct Words of G-d, the Quran.

The Month of Ramadan, the ninth month of the lunar calendar, three months later comes the Hajj, there is no accident that it has been arranged this way. That has meaning and it is very important that the Hajj month comes, the third month after the month of Ramadan.

Ramadan is said to be thought of as the month of the heat. Now we know this time of the year the heat is not severe, but this is the Islamic calendar. There must have been a calendar before that, Gregorian calendar or something and it was the month that came all the time in the very hot time of the year. And they said the desert dwellers and those who had the livelihood that required that they traveled for miles over the desert, through the hot sands, they say they formed the habit of wrapping the feet of the animal, the camels whatever. The camel takes you across the desert most of the animals cannot take you across the desert, they were wrapping the feet of the camels to protect their feet from the heat, from the burning sand.

They say the word Ramadan really came from that activity, that action, taken from wrapping the camel feet. Now I'm not superstitious or anything, but this is another great Ramadan for us and isn't it something that we are having it in a   hotel (Ramada) where ail we have to do is put a letter "N" on it at the end of it and it says Ramadan, Ramada Inn.
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If you just put the letter "N" at the end of Ramada you will have Ramadan Inn. I am not superstitious, but I said that is a coincidence that I think gets my attention and it should get my attention.

We thank Allah (swt) for this blessed month, a month for blessings. Certain things Allah (swt) has shown us He says of them "It is a blessing."

Q. 3.96-97; Kabah first house of worship full of signs

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.

Whenever you pray, remember as I do now after learning, remember that the house that you are facing, directing yourself to Him, the Kabah, that little house called "Baitul 'ateeq", it means the ancient house, also called "A! Bait," the house. It is called by certain names. And remember what Allah (swt) says about it, that it is the first of the houses in Arabic "Wude'a len nas," built and constructed for all people. And He says of it, "In it is blessings," some translate it, "It is full of blessing." That house as a sign to be understood by the curious minds of thinkers, of curious thought of G-d's devotees. It holds great blessings as a sign to man's mind, to his heart, to his life, great blessings, full of blessing.

Rebecca means vision of Mecca

There is a woman in the Bible Old Testament, her name is Rebecca. During my studies of the Bible I had to stop on that name and give a lot of serious thought and study it in the context in which it appeared to see if it might have reference to Mecca which was called in more distant times from us Becca, not Mecca. It was called "Bebecca" and it later came to be called Mecca by the Arabs. And it is mentioned "Bebecca." translation as Becca, meaning Mecca.

And here is a woman called Rebecca. And my suspicion I think was fed by G-d, my suspicion brought me to believe that the "Ra" was an additional word that made her name a combination of two words, "Ra" and "Becca."

And I reasoned that the meaning of that name meant the vision of Becca, the vision of Mecca or the eye of Becca or the eye of Mecca. And I don't know if I'm correct in that understanding or in that perception or not, I can't tell you I don't know but I have not put it down and I have not found anything to make me put it down that is why I have not put it down .

Isaiah 43:19; Rivers shall run in the Deserts

"Behold, I will do a new thing; now it shall spring forth; shall ye not know it? I will even make a way in the wilderness, and rivers in the desert."

The Bible promises that in that area waters shall come where there is desert and it says, "And the waters shall be plentiful". This is a prediction that dry land and that place where our sacred House is, our Qiblah it was promised that great waters would come. We know that upon the sand great water didn't come, but water did come up from below it, the sand at the heel of Ishmael or Ismail in the Bible. And the great well of Zam Zam formed, and this is supposed to have happened for Hagar, Sarah's handmaid. The wife that Sarah gave to Abraham her husband, Ibraheem as a present, gift and asked him to have a child by her because she was too old and could not give him a child.

We don't have waters where there is sand but there is plenty of water in the well of Zam Zam. And they say it seems as though the source cannot be used up, they say the more they use it, it looks like the stronger the force comes, the more they get.   And it is so much that they could actually distribute it all over the world if they wanted to, the Zam Zam water. And they are finding that it is appearing in lands far away from Saudi and in that area you will find it in stores. Zam Zam the water is plentiful. Look too at something that was more recently discovered in our times, the rivers of petroleum that is under that sand and how rich it made the people of Arabia.
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So G-d promised blessings would come to that area and great blessings have come to that area. And G-d says in that House are blessings, it means there are still great blessings.

A   Q. 3:96; Kabah a house built for all people

John 14:2; In my father's house are many mansions

"In my Father's house are many mansions: if it were not so, I would have told you. I go to prepare a place for you."

I'm sure that when the Bible uses the words, "In my father's house are many mansions," I'm sure that the idea, if not the physical or visual picture of the house, the idea that the house embodies is in the mind of the one who said it, "In my father's house are many mansions," accommodating everybody, all human beings. A house built for all people "Wudeya len nas," praise be to Allah (swt).

During this month we should be in dhikr, fill your mind with the remembrance of your Lord, G-d the Creator. Fight the temptation to think on worldly things during this fast month. Fight the temptation to give your mind to worldly things and strive hard to keep Allah (swt) on your mind and first in your heart, number one in your heart. Saying subhanallah, al hamdullilah, Aliahu Akbar, la elaaha illah, doing dhikr in any pattern that you prefer, you do the dhikrs. Practice remembrance of Allah (swt), He promises that if you will remember Him, He will remember you.

Q. 2:186; When they call Me tell them I am near

Now you know G-d does not forget and is not unaware of anything so His remembering you is simply saying He is going to respond to you as a friend and He is going to respond to you graciously, as a generous Giver, He is going to respond to you. If you remember Him he says tell them, this is what the Prophet (pbuh) is telling us. he said, "Tell them if they remember Me I will remember them." When a caller calls on me tell them I'm near, praise be to Allah (swt).

This is the month of Ramadan the month in which guidance came for all mankind, the final revelation to serve man's life in society for all times until Allah (swt) decides to end this world as we know it. Don't underestimate the value and beauty of this religion.

Q. 2.130; Who reject his religion debases him self

"And who turns away from the religion of Abraham but such as debase their souls with folly? Him We chose and rendered pure in this world: and he will be in the Hereafter in the ranks of the righteous."

None would reject this religion except someone who wants to make himself a fool, this is the way it's given. He who wants to degrade his own worth, that is what it means. And that is an ignorant thing for somebody to do consciously, doing something that you know is degrading your value and worth. That is the apex of ignorance, stupidity. So G-d says, "Who will reject this religion except one wants to make himself a fool."

Religions before Islam did not respect human worth 

Q. 5.3; Preferred Al Islam as religion

"This day have I perfected your religion for you, completed my favor upon you and have chosen for you Islam as your religion."

So though Al Islam respects other religions, Christianity, the people of the Book and their religious life and practices, it respects that, but it lets us know that G-d has completed His favor on the human family by revealing the Quran to Muhammad (pbuh) and making clear what is guidance from that, what is not guidance. The Quran says, "This day I have completed My favor upon you, I have perfected for you your religion and I have chosen for you Al Islam, Deenah." Al Islam in the place of what you have before as religion, that is what it means.

It means you had something you called "Din," religion, now G-d has guided you to see that what you had did not respect your own worth as a human being.

So G-d had saved you from what has been a discredit and a shame on your value as a human being, and He has given you what your life calls for. The excellence, the beauty, the quality life that your body called for, G-d has revealed it and completed His favor on you, perfected for you your religion and completed His favor on you. This is G-d's preference. It didn't say, "And has ordered Al Islam to be your religion." no.
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He says "I preferred," they say chosen, but the word means preferred. "I preferred for you Al Islam as religion." What does that mean? That what you had before this was made clear to you, you had other religions. Did I dislike them all? The expression says, " He must have liked something about some of the other religions, if not all of them, because He said, "I preferred."   If I say I prefer that, then it means I had a little appetite for this, but I prefer that. You use prefer to point to something that is more appealing to you, than something else. Not that the something else is not also appealing to you, it is appealing to you too, but you say I prefer to say that, that I am pointing or referring to is more appealing to me. He said "And I have preferred for you Al Islam in the place of your religions, meaning in the place of what you had as religion.

Allah trusted man not the angels 

Q. 59.23; Allah is a Believer 

Q. 9.61; Prophet in Allah and believers

A wonderful G-d, a beautiful G-d, our Friend, our Companion, our Protector and a Believer in us. G-d created us to believe and He gave the picture to angels of what He was going to create. The angels did not trust what G-d was going to make, they said, "This what He's talking about what He is going to put in the earth and make him the ruler down there or responsible person for the order down there they are not of the angels. He is going to shed blood, he is going to make trouble."

G-d says, "Wait until I have inspired him of My own sprit. My own will." So G-d created something that only He had faith in.

And the Satan was so disappointed, shaytan who himself was the leader of the angels at one time, he was so disappointed that he vowed to work against man and prove to G-d that man was not worthy of that great station and status that G-d was giving to him. And G-d continued to believe, to protect and keep to His Word that He would give that man freedom and that man would serve Him and prove worthy. So it seems almost that G-d alone was having faith in us, in what He created. By faith I mean trusting, G-d alone was trusting what He created, the others did not have any faith to trust.

And if you can see what I have been telling you,   and the light in which I put it or given it, you are situated wonderfully to keep your good life and your good nature and to invest in it. Allah (swt) says, "Invest in your own soul. He who does not invest in his own soul, he sinks to the lowest of the low, he debases himself, he discredits his own worth when he neglects his own value and therefore he loses it and becomes despicable, the lowest of the low.

So invest in yourself. It doesn't mean that you are self centered because you spend on your own self, you invest for your own good development and growth etc., improve your honor and dignity among or in the company of the righteous and in the company of human beings. This is a natural need and Allah (swt) wants us to invest in our own good development or in our own good growth. And the best investment is the investment in our own souls, invest for the growth and beauty of our own soul and Allah (swt) promises us the good life, the life of honor, beauty, respect and blessings.

First, second mercy Quran and Muhammad

So we thank Allah (swt) during the month of Ramadan, we thank Him firstly for first His mercy, the gift of revelation in the Quran, His great mercy and Prophet Muhammad (pbuh) His second mercy, a great mercy, "Rahmatan lei alameen," a mercy to all the worlds. We thank Him and ask Him to protect for us the good that He blessed us with so we don't lose it. Because we are not able at all times to protect our own blessings or the goodness that Allah (swt) has increased in our life for us. We can go to sleep, get distracted, taken away from the right focus or attention and lose it all.

So we ask Allah (swt) to keep it safe for us, protect it for us, keep it safe for us and to preserve it for our good offspring, children so they will inherit it and it will live among us for as long as Allah (swt) keeps this earth and keeps us on it, ameen.

Second khutbah 

Q. 6.38; Animals have community like yours

"There is not an animal (that lives) on the earth nor a being that flies on its wings but (forms part of) communities like you. Nothing have We omitted from the Book and they (all) shall be gathered to their Lord in the end."
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Al Islam is a complete way of life. Al Islam satisfies every quarter of human life. Al Islam is guidance for the industrialist, for the spiritualist, for the political figure and for the domestic life. It is for the military man, it is for the astronomer, it is for the banker, it is for the medical man, the man in the medical profession, it is for every aspect of man's life in society. The Arabic term "Ummah," meaning community is the context that we have to keep before us because society, what do I mean when I say society? Allah (swt) says, "There is not a creature crawling upon the earth that He has not given community life to resembling yours."

So we must understand that birds have community, a community of the species of the family of birds and ants have community life, bees have community life. These things that crawl upon the earth, Allah (swt) says they have community life resembling yours.

Allah (swt) wants us to see that life is best established and protected when life lives with life in a context of interaction for them, for that life, for members of that life, association for the members of the life with one another. An association not only because of their language and their particular habit and way of living or habits of living, but also because of their social life.

They need to socialize, they need to be with one another, they need the company of other members, it helps their willpower and it is also the situation or circumstances for their protection and their advancement as a life.

Muslim model community life

So G-d gives us the community context for our life and G-d tells us, "You are the best of communities brought out or evolved for all people." Meaning that you are a model holding guidance and blessings for all mankind, the community context, don't forget the community context for Muslim life.

Business life is a sacred duty as is any religious act

We are a community. If we are a community then we are responsible for having in our community what is needed for all members of society. Whatever is unacceptable, permissible, that is halal fora society under G-d, G-d asks this of us, we are obligated to provide our society, our Ummah, or community with that.

So to be the ones responsible for business life in our community is a religious duty as sacred as any other religious duty. Give in charity, also spend in the path of G-d, "Anfequ fee sabelillah." How are you going to carry out these responsibilities when you don't have jobs, if you don't have income? How are you going to be the one doing what G-d asks us to do? You can't do it. How are the lights going to be kept on in the Masjid? If you are not gainfully employed.

Money is not haram and the lazy sleeper is halal

So we have to get away from seeing money as haram and sleep as halal. When you are not producing for community your sleep is haram. You shouldn't be sleeping, you should be trying to find some employment or engage yourself in some activity that will bring income for your own good life and dignity, honor and also more importantly for you as a member of your community so that your increase in honor increases the community in honor.

If your own self decreases in dignity and honor, you have also diminished your community in that measure, in dignity and honor. So don't just think that the work that makes money and to increase your material life is something outside your religion, do not think that. See that as your sacred duty also and you will be successful. Don't lose the community context for all life and the community context for our life also requires that we be responsible for keeping the rule right. That which governs us, keep it right. You are obligated to question authority that is haram over you, whether it be in a person or in a political idea or in a context of the knowledge or body of knowledge for our beautiful and powerful land, the United States of America. It is not all perfect, don't leave it to Christian citizens, Jews and others to serve the further development of beauty and excellence of the American people or their society, their government. You be critical too of their government but with love and respect in your heart and with appreciation filling up your heart for the achievements that this people have already made on the path towards excellent government.

Don't say, "It is not for me to do anything about that." Yes it is. We have Najiy and before my son in law Najiy, we had many of you, and we still have many of you who are in the political field working to support justice, fairness and to help people qualify more citizens who have neglected their responsibility to get involved
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and qualify more to support the beautiful idea of our government and our society. And increasing in its excellence and in its beauty, and in its service and in its justice.   We in my opinion are best situated to be in the forefront of any good works. That includes the work to protect America, it's beauty. Let us contribute to it so that it will grow more beautiful in that. Thank you very much.

Let us pray to G-d to not let our hearts deviate, go back after He has guided us, and to give from His presence that which will sustain in us and satisfy us. And to give us in this life good, and also in the hereafter good, the afterlife good and save us and our family from the fires of corruption or the fires of sin, Ameen.

Comments after Salat

Unless you ask me or travel I think it is best that we say Asr prayer, if you are here, if you are leaving it is different, you combine the prayers. Blessed Ramadan en sha Allah (swt) we will be meeting with you soon after about 30 minutes. Those who want to continue the session we have a second session. So I think we should do it now in this time about 30 minutes from now, so we will have it all done and out of the way before Iftar. Peace, As Salaam Alaikum.
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11-23-2002 Ramadan session Fajr Prayer Saturday Chicago, III

As Salaam Alaikum

We praise and thank G-d for our presence here. We witness that He is One, there is no G-d except Him. And we witness that Muhammad (pbuh) is His servant and His Messenger (pbuh)

Fajr to Duhaa Prayer is time for discussion and study

This is the Fajr time, the time after the Fajr prayer and as you have been told already during these sessions where we are devoting ourselves to what Allah (swt) has revealed through His servant and Messenger Muhammad (pbuh). We have been told of this time that it is a tradition with the pious leaders of Al Islam in Asia, Africa and wherever we Muslims are, and we are in America too, that we are to begin our devotion with reading Quran and teaching it in the morning until the sun is at the brightest point in the sky.

It is thought that time is around 9:00 O'clock a.m. and when the sun is high in the sky but it is not noon, it is before noon and there is a small angle that is maybe an angle of about 30 degrees that is left before it comes all the way straight up at an angle of 90 degrees. If you measure the angle from the point of rising where the sun first appears, that is the ground level, and you go up 60 degrees, that is where Duhaa most likely is. The sun is believed to be at that time the brightest not the noon, that time is the brightest time of the day. En sha Allah we will continue to have sessions until about that time.

Q. 97.5;   Peace until the dawn

"Peace!... This until the rise of Morning!"

Q. 2.187; Fasting begin distinguish black white thread

"Seek what Allah hath ordained for you and eat and drink until the white thread of dawn appear to you distinct from its black thread; then complete your fast until the night appears;"

The Word of G-d in the Quran says in Arabic "Salaamun heya hatta Matla'el Fajr" translated "A blessed night until the rising of the dawn," in which the Quran was revealed bringing peace to the world. It says, "Peace it is until the rising of the sun," it is seen in the growing of the dawn, which appears firstly for us to begin the time starting our fast and abstaining from things in the daytime. It begins when the sign of the dawn as a straight white line across the eastern sky or horizon. And that leaves the sign of night also as a straight line. The two lines are paralleling each other and it is spoken of in the Quran as the white thread of the dawn and the black thread of the night. Thread only means the straight line of the night and the straight line of the dawn paralleling in perfect agreement with each other, that's what the paralleling straight line means. It means that they are flowing perfectly in agreement with each other, that the dawning and the night meet in perfect agreement.

Q. 98.4: They disputed after knowledge came to them

"Nor did the people of the Book make schisms until after there came to them Clear Evidence."

Allah (swt) says they did not fall into disputes or disagree until after the guidance came, so when truth comes serious differences that people have manifests and become private and public issues. The truth gives support and help that which they didn't have before. So you have even Muslims as the truth reaches them, they manifest their differences of opinion more, they stand out more.

In Al Islam we have all these differences of thought, we mentioned the four major schools of thought, the school of Maliki which is in Africa, the one that most Africans have. Most of the Africans are influenced by, big sufis and mystics, this is not to criticize them, I'm just talking now. I am not putting down anything. And we have the Hanafi school, Hanbali school, most of you know these major schools and Shafi, the fourth. And most of the learned leaders in Al Islam they accept all these schools.
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in fact I don't know any who reject any one of the [schools.

Those are not the only one, those are just four major schools. In Saudi Arabia there is the Wahabi school of thought and the name is given because it was Abdul I Wahhaab who taught them and they or he developed that school. He was the partner with king Abdul Aziz As Saud the father, then of all of the successors to his rule, his sons who became kings after him of Saudi Arabia, he is the father of all of them. He is one for whom the land was named after being called just Arabia, the one for whom the country has his name. So we have Saudi Arabia,   I don't think this was existing before 1918, this is a kind of recent event.

Religious school of thought to be developed by women in the future

Q. 3335; Thinking men and women

"And for men and women who engage (think) much in Allah's praise for them has Allah prepared forgiveness and great reward."

The Wahabi school of thought is not the only one, there are many schools of thought, though they don't make a big show or deal of it, they are closer to these more recent scholars, and teachers, pious people who devoted themselves to obedience to G-d and showing the society how to bring the society to conform to what G-d has revealed and to what G-d has ordered. These persons are men mostly, I don't know of any woman right now, but I'm sure in time there will be females too who will contribute so much, that there will be persons, students and scholars belonging to the schools of thought perhaps developed or headed by females. I can't see that not happening one day. Because of sensitivities and attitudes right now we don't have that, but I believe that will happen one day, it has to happen.

It is natural that it happens because the men are not the only ones that G-d has created for this role, women are also thinkers. The Quran says the thinking men and the thinking women to let us know that this is not the property of males only, and thinking means that they can be philosophers. In the world we don't think of women being philosophers, but G-d showed Muhammad (pbuh), he is the kind of man that will recognize that these women have intelligence like men. As they become interested and give thoughts to these things they are going to be philosophers too.

We call them scholars, those who head schools of thought but actually they are Islamic, Muslim philosophers devoting themselves to the study of understanding of Al Islam. Philosopher in the world, the term may mean something that we don't accept it for our thinkers. It could mean we don't accept it for our thinkers because their orientation may not be G-d-focused, but their focus is the world. Muslim philosophers are not material matter focused, but G-d focused.

Christianity has given birth to many great thinkers, philosophers, Judaism and so has all the other religions. And even the non religious idea or non spiritual idea has given birth to so many wonderful thinkers who were beautiful humans and who had an interest in the world and not just in part of the world, an interest in humanity not just in a section of humanity.

Q. 4.164; Some Prophets names you do not know

So we have to regard those people, and I believe when the Quran tells us of the Prophets that are mentioned in the Book it says, "And there are those who are not mentioned," I believe that there are some of these people with this description that I'm giving you right now that we, if you study their life and everything, we would have to say that these were inspired men, these were messengers to their people.

I wouldn't dare point to any philosopher I know of in history and say that he was a Messenger of G-d, but I'm saying that among the thinkers that have served the betterment of human society worldwide, I'm sure that there were some of those who were inspired by Almighty G-d, Allah (swt) and they fit in with those thinkers who are called Prophets and Messengers of G-d.

Prophet was a thinker reflecting on man's condition

Wasn't Muhammad (pbuh) a thinker when he was looking at his people and he began to bear on his heart the burden of their ignorance and their condition? He went up in the mountain for seclusion and went in the mouth of the cave and stayed there in the cave called Jabl Nur now. named for his concentration, meditation there in the mountain of the light. Wasn't he a thinker? He was thinking and reflecting, that's the thinker.
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Thinking, reflection like right and left legs

The thinker thinks and reflects, it is a duality as we mentioned earlier, man thinks and reflects, he thinks on the creation or on any single concern or focus and matter, he thinks on creation, human life and human misery, whatever he thinks on, he then reflects on it and it is like walking with the right foot and the left foot, or the left foot and the right foot; think and reflect. This is the process that goes on in the mind of the philosopher and it takes him closer and closer to the truth he is seeking.

Q. 3.36; The male is not like the female

The Quran says, "When she was delivered she said: "O my Lord! behold! I am delivered of a female child!" And Allah knew best what she brought forth, "and nowise is the male like the female. I have named her Mary and I commend her and her offspring to Thy protection from the Evil One the Rejected."

Man's mind and heart engaged and mated creation 

Q. 434; Men maintain, protect women

The thinker he is seeking the truth, he is seeking to know clearer, "How I should perceive this and how I should relate to it." And Allah (swt) says, "Laysa dhakaru kal unthaa" translated "The male is not like the female." But the Arabic word "Dhakaru" it has reference directly to the thinker and the term means male. So what is Allah (swt) saying to us?   Man by description is a thinker. Why is he a thinker? Because the burden of serving the family has been on him, men are maintainers of females, right?

This is Quran, men are the maintainers for females, we support females, males traditionally, historically have supported females by going out of the house into the field. Going out in the field and getting food and providing the needs for the home has engaged his intellect. His heart was mated with the creation itself, the field. the land that produced the food and the sky that he needs 10 have rain come down to help his crop. And the sunlight that he needs to be warm and to shine on his crop. So his devotion connects him with earth and sky and in time he falls in love with this beautiful world, he becomes a philosopher, beautiful thinker.

I go back to the point, this is not only a characteristic and a property of males, it is also open to females because they have the same mind, the same capacity and intelligence that we have. It is just a matter of time with this world growing it is going to free women so that they don't have to stay with child rearing. And as it frees them up more around the world, they won't have to spend so much of their life, practically all of their life with child rearing, they are going to find that they have to do something with their time.

Genesis 2.18, 20; Adam alone was not good

"And the Lord God said, It is not good that the man should be alone; I will make him an help meet for him.
And the Lord G-d caused a deep sleep to fall upon Adam and he slept: and he took one of his ribs, and closed up the flesh instead thereof; "

Man from between rib means matter is moved by spirit

Q. 86.7; Man created from between loin and ribs

6.   He is created from a drop emitted
7. Proceeding from between the backbone and the ribs:

Gen 2.18, 21-22; Rib woman made

[2:18] "And the Lord God said, It is not good that the man should be alone; I will make him an help meet for him. [21] And the Lord God caused a deep sleep to fall upon Adam and he slept: and he took one of his ribs, and closed up the flesh instead thereof;" :[22j     And the rib, which the Lord God had taken from man, made he a woman, and brought her unto the man."

Q 4.1: Man made from single soul

Women, they are going to be like Adam, bored. Scripture said the man was alone, bored to death and G-d saw that it was not fitting to leave him without a mate. So G-d caused him to fall under a heavy deep sleep, this is Bible, not Quran and G-d caused him to go into a deep sleep and made from the rib his mate. It is beautiful. The rib is mentioned in the Quran. It also talks of the life fluid that issues from between the loin and the rib. They call it a rib cage. What is the rib cage responding too? Your breathing, that is what it is
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responding to. It is made to respond to your breathing. As you put more air down there, the rib cage opens up more, it expands.

So it is responding to the rhythm of your breathing.  It is going in and out with every breath you take.  It is a matter that is being moved by spirit. The scripture says, "The man was lonesome and G-d saw that it was not fitting or good that he be left alone like that. So He caused him to fall under a deep sleep." Now when it tells us he was asleep, he was not seeing anything was he? Unless it was in a dream and it was during that time that G-d formed for him his mate. And in the Quran it just says, " G-d created you from one single soul" in Arabic "Nafs wahedah." This doesn't give you a picture I' of a man in body, it gives us an idea of the human being in his or her human essence, the spiritual body not the flesh body. This is "Nafs waheda."

Nafs means a person, but most of the literature and discussion of the nafs is not talking about a man in body, it is talking about the human soul. Nafs in the Arabic language more importantly is to be understood as soul. So G-d made one soul and from it He made its mate and from those two He spread or produced all the family of mankind over the earth, it says, "Males and females," or men and women, that is the idea in Al Islam.

Q.29.45; Thinking on Allah (swt) is the greatest

"Recite what is sent of the Book by inspiration to thee and establish Regular Prayer: for Prayer restrains from shameful and unjust deeds; and remembrance of Allah is the greatest (thing in life) without doubt. And Allah knows the (deeds) that ye do."

We are thinkers, that is where I want you to be this morning, know that we are thinkers and if we didn't have this nature and property of mind or intellect we would be no more than beast, maybe worst. To think is to be alive, conscious as a human and to think with a particular focus, with a particular interest, seeking certain rewards or certain benefits for your thinking. It is the thinking that profits you and human society, mankind. Allah (swt) says, certainly thinking or reflecting on G-d is the greatest power for producing results.

Now before I begin addressing the outline we have here for the sessions and start where we left off, I'm going to ask my special assistant Imam Abdul Malik to us speak to us from his heart, whatever he would like to say.

Imam Abdul Malik:

As Salaam Alaikum. With G-d's name the Merciful Benefactor, the Merciful Redeemer, first it is my pleasure and honor to address this special audience on these days of importance, significance in the month of Ramadan with our leader Imam W. Deen Mohammed. We are all witnesses to what has transpired, taken place over the last three days, we are witnesses to its importance for our characterization as Muslims, as believers, as people. We are witnesses to it's significance feeding our hopes and our aspirations, defining our identity. And we are witnesses that none of us have the capacity to serve us in the way that our leader has been inspired to serve us.

We are also witnesses that not only are we improved or made better by what we have listened to and taken in but also we're improved by the emphasis, where to place our emphasis, where to focus our attention in our reading of the Holy Quran and our study of the tradition of Muhammad the Prophet (pbuh) in our interest to serve our people and humanity. We are witnesses that we would not know what Al Islam is essentially and what Al Islam is as a help and a complement to man if it were not for the special set of circumstances that produced the need in us that was answered by the inspiration given to our leader to guide us and to lead us from being a people deficient and disrespected to the possibility of a people who history will record as great servants for the progress of man on the earth.

I don't want to take any more time from what our leader will share with us but I want to say in conclusion that I think we should place more importance on what has been provided for us to get to a point where we can appreciate a relationship with our own humanity, what has put us in that place, what has allowed us to read the Quran and get from it what perhaps no other Muslims get. And has made us or put us in a place or in a position where we are not only serving the needs of our religious community but we actually have promise that we are really making a contribution to advance this world. We have to consider deeply what has put us there and I would suggest and I am a witness and for me and my
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family, children we are witnesses that we have been put on this path because of our leader and what G-d has given him.

And we will never leave his way. Now I just want to read this, the Imam asked me to read this song and this is a song that I am sure many of you heard and it is brief, it is a poem, by the great jazz musician, perhaps the father of jazz he is called Louis Armstrong, he sang this song. And I think that this song fits quite beautifully with the theme that Imam Mohammed has addressed over these last three days, how man is inspired by the world in which he has been created. The name of the song is "What a wonderful world."

It goes: I see trees of green, red roses too. I see them bloom for me and for you and I think to myself what a wonderful world. I see clouds of blue and clouds of white, the bright blessed day, the dark sacred night and I think to myself what a wonderful world. The colors of the rainbow so pretty in the sky, the smiles on the faces on people going by. I see friends shaking hands saying how do you do. They are really saying I love you. I hear babies cry, I watch them grow, they will learn much more than I'll ever know. And I think to myself what a wonderful world. Oh and I think to myself what a wonderful world.

And Louis Armstrong his tag he would say, "Oh yeah." 

Imam WD Mohammed: 

Education, our mothers are the first teachers

Thank you. In Al Islam our mother is our first teacher. So we have to give great respect and attention to our females. That is what Muhammad (pbuh) wanted to awaken in the heart and conscience of the males in his following and he did a beautiful, wonderful job.

We're now in the second part of this outline headed or titled Contextual Wholeness, Tauheed.

That is what we mean by Contextual Wholeness, Tauheed. Man strains, the thinker, the philosopher, not necessarily a philosopher, but the thinker. Who comes into mind in history as the great thinker? It is the philosopher.

Universal unity appears to be in conflict at times

Man the thinker, he strives in his mind, in his senses to make some sense of what he sees as the world. And this straining in his mind eventually - - because G-d has designed His creation like this - - eventually brings him to the conclusion that this world of matter or material things, though existing in separate bodies where it sometimes seems to be in conflict with the other is one. One body in the sky will at times eclipse, come in the way of the other body and block the light and the other body is in the dark. So one body puts the other body in the dark and thinkers of old they saw this as death, the one body brought death upon the other. Eclipse didn't mean eclipse as we understand it, when we understand it, it means black out or something, right? But eclipse for them also meant death for that body that was eclipsed.

They also saw or observed storms in the lower heavens like tornadoes and things, and they wondered why is this trouble, why is this conflict going on. But they didn't stop there, they continued to think on it like Abraham, when we discussed Abraham or Ibrahim earlier, how he reflected or thought about things and arrived at his conclusion that nothing the in material world is G-d and that everything in the material world is subject to laws that govern these material things. They operate in a system called the universe and a system in which there are many other systems. Focusing on one function or one activity in the universe will sometimes make you think that the universe is in confusion or it is a system with internal conflicts and it is itself not agreeing with itself, this is Abraham.

G-d revealed with Quran that the universe, if you think on it and reflect, you will come to agree that it has one design that is responsible for its orderly life, orderly existence and that should suggest to the mind, to the thinker that the universe is a consistent whole. Consistent means where there is obviously differences, conflicts going on but the bigger reality is that even though these conflicts go on, the system stays, the system remains, the body is not being destroyed by these conflicts that are going on. The conflicts happens, the violence comes to rest or the conflicts come to rest, the system remains.

So the conclusion is reached that this is one consistent whole, that there is universal law governing this and the permanence is greater than the passing things that are
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occurring, the permanence that stays, that is greater, the order that stays is greater than these passing interruptions and disruptions that are coming and going, passing away.

|We come to the idea we call Tauheed from "Waahed" it 'means one, the word Tauheed is formed from that word "Waahed" it means oneness, it means unity. That the world G-d made is for sure one world though having in it many other worlds, it is one world, it is one system though having in it many systems.

And it should suggest to the thinker if the thinker stays with his interests, it should at some time in the process of his searching or thinking suggest to him that there must be a Designer for this, it couldn't have designed itself. Man respects what respects his intelligence, so when he discovers with his intelligence a beautiful intelligent system that he believes accounts for the permanence of the universal system - - and we know nothing is truly permanent, but permanent in man's perception of things, because we know eventually all these things. Allah (swt) revealed this whole system is going to die, but don't expect that in our lifetime and we don't see any need to prepare for that, it is so far away. So in the human mind and in the human interest the universe has a permanence.

And when we accept that, this tells me that there must be an Artist behind this great piece of work, there must be a Designer behind this great piece of work, when we start to think like that then the idea of G-d comes and the great thinkers in religion, not just Al Islam but in all the great people of the world, the great thinkers came to the idea of G-d. Most of them came to the idea of G-d because they believed that effects have causes.

When they study this objective world they see that effects have causes, there is no effect without a cause. If you belch something caused it. if you sneeze, if you bat your eye something caused it, every thing and every effect has a cause. The thinker respects his intelligence and he won't give up his logic that has been responsible for him getting as far as he's gotten with his studies and with his knowledge. So he is not going to stop and say, "Well at this point the effect has no cause." that is the kafir, he wants to come to that conclusion so he can continue to be independent of any authority over him. The Quran says, "Do you think that there is no authority over you?" .

No one will stop at that point and say "All effects have causes but for the universe itself, it is both effect and cause." No, he is going to say, "This beautiful piece of art work it is also an effect, not a cause, with no cause preceding it, but it itself is an effect, because it is conforming to something. What is it conforming to scientifically speaking? It is conforming to the nature of its own existence, that is what it is conforming to. So we can say the nature of matter is the cause for the effect, that is true. But now, this is a beautiful piece and I'm also a beautiful artist and I look at my beautiful work and I know that there is a cause behind it, I am the cause. The world influenced me and affected me and I began to have an interest in it and I produced my art. The art didn't produce itself, I'm the producer of my art.

Q. 96.1; Read in the name of your Lord

So then the thinker comes to the conclusion that there must been an Artist that was the cause for this beautiful piece of art I see as the universe, the world. So they give the name First Cause to G-d, among the spiritual philosophers or the religious philosopher, not that he identified himself as a religious person, but his nature and mind is that of a religious person. The religious philosopher comes to the conclusion there is a First Cause and that First Cause can't be the universe itself. The universe it is not it's own maker, there was a First Cause behind it. They say First Cause which tells you that they are universal thinkers and they did not say G-d, Allah, Jehovah or whatever they said First Cause. Read in the name of that, that is the First Cause.

When Allah (swt) responded to Muhammad the Prophet (pbuh) or to Muhammad (pbuh) the lonely man searching for truth, the first communication to him said "Read in the name of your Lord Who created." Created means made and usually when we think of G-d and the divine act of creation, we understand that this means bringing into existence for the first time.   Here is G-d saying to Muhammad (pbuh) "Read in name of G-d, that is the first cause, that is exactly what G-d is saying.

Muhammad (pbuh), the thinker he went up to the mountain to be free of all the distractions so his mind would not be bothered with all the things coming before him. And his ears wouldn't be bothered with things he would be hearing and he would be in a position to devote his full mind to finding the truth. He was a thinker and a truth seeker, and all the other Prophets were thinkers and truth seekers. He did not understand
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what was happening to him, but finally he obviously understood what G-d wanted to communicate to him and how he was to position himself for it. The report said on the third order, or third request of G-d for him to read he began reading or reciting and that was the beginning of the communication to mankind we call Quran, "Read in the name of your Lord Who created and it continues as you know with four more verses, a total of five ayats or statements.

Q.18.51; They witness not their own creation 

Q. 56.57-59; We created man

Man is a thinker and he's looking to make sense of the world all around him, and he wants to make sense of his own place in it at the same time. He has a twofold interest, to understand the world he is put into and has to be supported by and to understand his own creation. And Allah (swt) says, "They ask questions, they direct questions to Me, why don't they question their own existence." This is how the thinker comes to know G-d. You are asking questions of Me, "Who is this G-d, show Him to us in a flesh body."

How is the dead raised from something dead, what do you mean it is going to have another life, how can that happen? G-d said through His Messenger (pbuh) or servant, "Why don't they question their own existence?" They are seeking to know something about My existence, why don't they question their own existence?"   No human being knows fully it's own existence, why? Because you did not make yourself, you did not originate yourself, you did not create yourself, you are not the Maker of yourself, you can never fully know yourself unless G-d reveals yourself to you. The Maker has to (ell you about yourself, you will never fully know yourself. But G-d has created you with a searching mind, a mind that wants to seek and understand and He brings you to know yourself if you continue to seek and understand, but you will never know yourself fully, there will always be something about yourself that you don't know.

Belief in religion is called theory in science

Can any one of us, any scientist tell or make us fully understand how we came to be'.' No, they got theories of how matter and life produces life, they have theory, they never call it facts. And in Al Islam, in religion you call it belief. One says theory, the other one says belief and both mean, "You don't know all of it", we're not the masters of what we're talking about. We are students of what we're talking about. All of us are nothing but students, all of us are nothing but seekers and searchers whether it is in the secular or in the spiritual, religious world, we are all nothing but students seeking to understand, and none of us can claim that we know, we believe.

When the person is being objective in the secular world, the thinker being objective in the secular world, the scientist when he comes up with something and he gives it to you he says, "The molecular theory," theory of this and theory of that, he is telling you, "I can't prove this, it is theoretical." Tell me, how is that language more convincing than the language that says, "These are fundament principles of our faith? We construct them in a logical order and they satisfy our curious mind and our reasoning. And we begin forming our world upon the principles of our faith.

Q. 28.88; What is with G-d stays and yours will perish

"And call not besides Allah on another god. There is no god but He. Everything (that exists) will perish except His own Face. To him belongs the Command and to him will ye (all) be brought back."

Then we come up with some things that we say are practical and understandable and they are not principles of faith but they are principles of action or practice, they are five. How is our logical thought weaker than logic of science or the logic of the secular world? It is not weaker, it is stronger and it survives the secular world, they come and go, the religious world stays. The Quran says, "What is with Allah (swt) stays, what is with you shall disappear," that is the saying of G-d in Quran. If you want to think independently of G-d, if you want to go that route independently of G-d then know that what is with G-d stays, with is with you shall perish.

Secular world puts down G-d

The secular world whether it says it plainly, loudly or not it puts down G-d. Not only the communist world or the materialists, the secular world puts down G-d. My first few days in college I could see that the professor was trying to discredit religion. Saying things to win the person who fears and worships G-d over to his disciplines, trying to win the student to his disciplines 
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and have student give his complete devotion to the discipline and not be interrupted by his belief in G-d.

College institutions create many mental problems

So to keep the student from being interrupted, having his course or his mind entertained by G-d and causing an interruption for the professor, the teacher has to first feel comfortable with the student by tearing down belief in G-d. These institutions of learning make more mental cases than everything else in creation.

Now that doesn't mean we don't have to have them, yes we have to have them, but we have to purge them of atheists, nonbelievers who because they can't have faith in G-d, they are not comfortable with you until they have destroyed your faith in G-d. Atheists or those who are too weak to obey G-d's commandments they want company, so they tear you down so you can be built up again by them and join them in their way of thinking. When you go to these institutions don't go like a stupid nut believing that these persons are gods, they are no gods. Don't go there believing you are not supposed to question what they say. A good teacher encourages you to question what he is saying.

College students advised how to keep faith

So don't just question the subject, question also the one who is giving the subject, question both, but remain respectful. I am saying this because there are students in college and we want you to be very successful, be respectful don't invite his wrath. Don't make him fear you or her whoever that teacher is, don't make the teacher fear you, don't make the teacher think that you are trouble for him in the class. Always keep yourself in the eyes of teacher and the class as one on the team, you are a member of the team and the teacher is the team master and you are a member on the team.

Q.31.15; If parent bid shirk do it not

"But if they strive to make thee join in worship with Me things of which thou hast no knowledge obey them not; Yet bear them company in this life with justice (and consideration) and follow the way of those who turn to Me (in love): in the End the return of you all is to Me and I will tell you the truth (and meaning) of all that ye did."

So that means if you start to think something that you know may cause him to fear you and to see you as trouble in his classroom, you keep that to yourself. The way Allah (swt) teaches us to live with our parent who is contending with us to have us believe in something that Allah (swt) has not authorized is how we should treat the professor or our teacher. It says, "If they contend with you to get you to obey something that you have no foundation for, meaning what I have not revealed, don't obey them in that, but however keep good company with them in this world.

So for your own interest to succeed and get that diploma or that degree or to progress on to a higher level, you keep good company with them but don't agree with them if they are trying to get you to accept something for which you have no knowledge foundation in Al Islam.

Contextual wholeness ideological development

Idea begins with an interest

What is an idea?   An idea begins with an interest, a thought and an interest to develop that thought. And when that thought develops logically you have an idea. Ideal, the other spelling is also a thought, but idea, the first one, it suggests more thought has been given to it and that it has undergone a rational process and you have come to a rational conclusion and this is your idea. The world first formed because of thoughts studied, pursued, worked on, dwelled on until a rational conclusion was made about it, then we have an idea.

When we talk about this beautiful system we have we call this system of government America, it began in the mind of the founding fathers and they were thinkers. They arrived at certain ideas and they discussed them among themselves and when they were in agreement that this idea stands, that it has been put to the test of reason and it stands, it is beautiful for our interest, it serves our interest, then they recorded that idea. And that is how the process goes for any people, for any interest that will serve the people or any people. It all begins with ideas.

When we go to school we come under the thinkers and their ideas that is what we come under, and man's world has formed because of the thinker who arrived at ideas that he could pass on to people and those ideas could support and sustain them and open the future to them. The greatest idea, the most powerful idea, Allah (swt) says the most productive thought is the thinking on G-d. The greatest idea in terms of what it can produce for
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mankind, how it can support mankind, sustain mankind and advance the life of mankind is Tauheed.

Tauheed is the idea that forms in the mind of the thinker searching his own life and existence while at the same time searching the world without to make sense of it and coming to the belief that this system is one system, it is a consistent whole and that it must have had a Designer and that Designer is the first Cause. And that first Cause is not a company of gods or a company of first causes it is only one single cause behind one single system. It doesn't show there were different artists working to create this, it shows that only one artist created all this.

If you look at the art work of Picasso and you look at the art work of another artist they do not tell you, "This is one mind, this is one thinker, this is one cause," the two works tell you that there is a cause for this work and there is a different cause for Picasso's work, they are different causes.

When we study the order of the creation, the objective world we don't see that there were different artists. A snowflake falling in Chicago looks like a snowflake falling in New York or in the mountains of California where it is too hot for it to reach the ground and pile up, too warm. The snowflakes look the same and we know that there are no snowflakes on the moon, but there is something on the moon we can study. And when we look at the composition of matter on the moon its falls under the laws and design that explains the composition of matter on the earth. So it is for anything out there in the universe, that is what scientists conclude, the thinker has concluded.

Q. 19.93; None comes to Allah except as a servant

So the Artist is One, not two, there are no two gods, there are no two first causes, there is no three in one, there is only One. And Allah (swt) says, "And none comes to Him except as a servant." So there are no gods that come to G-d, if Jesus has come to G-d he came as servant not as a G-d. So I know I still have a few Christians in this audience and I love you my Christian brother and my Christian sister. I love you, but what you got is inferior to what Allah (swt) gave Muhammad (pbuh). You wouldn't dare challenge me. And it is not because you respect and love me only, it is because you fear losing the argument and being put to shame.

Q.2.36; Get you down from here all of you

Then did Satan make them slip from the (garden) and get them out of the state (of felicity) in which they had been. We said: "Get ye down all (ye people) with enmity between yourselves. On earth will be your dwelling place and your means of livelihood for a time."

Q. 20.55; Earth place of birth, death and resurrection

"From the (earth) did We create you and into it shall We return you and from it shall We bring you out once again."

The Satan, according to the teachings of G-d that He gave Muhammad the last Prophet (pbuh), the Satan after G-d made the world to be our support and be the support for us reaching our destiny, Satan changed the world G-d made originally. Where is that given? When the trouble was made in the heavens G-d said, "Get you down from here all of you together," in the earth will you find your livelihood and the fulfillment of your aspirations." Look what G-d says, "In the earth there you will live, there you die, and from there you be raised up again," that's what G-d said to them.

This again is a pictorial display as though on a heavenly screen for the thinkers to look at. It says and from there you will be raised up again, living after it caused you to die. Where I am putting you is going to bring you to life, to prosper, but also die. Not you singularly only, you collectively; "And for you will be a resurrection." You will be raised up living. But the point here for this discussion is G-d saying that you will find fulfillment for all of your appetites or your aspirations in the earth, on the earth you will find that fulfillment.

Build the context to sexual expression

Q. 77.25; Earth made place of drawing 

"Have We not made the earth (as a place) to draw together"

I have a beautiful drawing from Atique Mahmood he was sitting over here yesterday and he has these words in the drawing, beautiful painting, inspired and it says that G-d has made the earth "Kefaata". You forgot my little piece of chalk again and I know you say "Well take that little piece of chalk away, we want him to have a nice piece of chalk in his hand." Leave my little piece of chalk please. I can't do it without a little piece of chalk.
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you can't stone the devil without a little rock either. Don't get a big rock you will end up with a hernia and the devil won't be hurt. What is it saying? I believe out of millions of Muslims that speak Arabic that read that I don't believe it dawns on their mind exactly what G-d has said, that He has made the earth "Kefaata." He made the earth sufficient enough to serve all your needs.

So He said He put you in the earth, get down from here all of you together, there you will find your livelihood. The activities that you have up here are not for up here, they are for you in the earth, so it is out of place here. You get down there in the earth where you belong with this interest and there you will find the earth prepared to support all of your appetites bodily and spiritually and mentally. I made the earth to support all of that.

Man conceived in heaven but formed in the earth

Q.2.36, 38; 7.13; 20.123; Get you down from here

We said: "Get ye down all (ye people) with enmity between yourselves. On earth will be your dwelling place and your means of livelihood for a time."

Man is said to have been made from the earth, isn't he? Conceived in heaven formed in the earth. So you had no form until you are in the context of matter, the earth. You had to be in the womb or body of your mother for you to have form.

In the body of your mother you start to get form from something that is no more than milky looking water. And then you start to have form. So likewise for your thoughts, your mental interest, your intellectual curiosity, you can't have them up here in heaven. You can't have them up here detached and separated from your mother the earth. Get you down from here altogether into the earth, there you find your activities that you are trying to carry on up here. You'll find the place for those activities in the earth and there you will have a situation for the fulfillment of all of your aspirations. You want to be up here but go back down there and down there is where >ou are going to qualify to be up here. You are starting up here and you don't have any form yet, you're nothing but watery fluid, praise be to Allah (swt).

We underestimate as religious people the importance and value of material reality. Man cannot have any development or any existence or ;my language, or concept without him being firstly in the womb of his mother thinking in the body of the material existence and reflecting on it, that is how we come to be, how we develop, how we make progress and earn admission into G-ds' paradise, Allahu Akbar.

Innocence is your goodness

So the Satan decided that this goody - goody that G-d made - - see the true servant of G-d is a lover, Satan is not a lover. The true servant of G-d is a lover and Satan looks at the lover and he despises him, "Oh this inferior piece of boo, boo, "I'm serious, that is how he puts down the innocence of man. He sees your innocence as something terribly ridiculous. Your innocence is your goodness that is what is responsible for you being good, it is your innocence.

We underestimate the importance and value of material reality. Man can't have language or concepts without man being firstly in the womb of mother, in the body of material existence, that is how we develop and come into existence.

Jinn from afire of smoke means he doesn't repent 

Q. 55.15; Jinn from a fire without smoke

"And He created Jinns from fire free of smoke:" 

Q. 22.37; Blood not reach G-d but your sacrifice does

"It is not their meat nor their blood that reaches Allah: it is your piety that reaches Him:"

Philip 4.18; Sweet savory smell up to the Lord

"But I have all, and abound: I am full, having received of Epaphroditus the things which were sent from you, an odor of a sweet smell, a sacrifice acceptable, well pleasing to God."

You don't want to be guilty. Satan is not worried about being guilty of anything, he acknowledges no guilt for anything. That is what it means when it says, "He is a fire without smoke." Smoke in the religious language is not only in Al Islam, it is in the religious language of the other great religions. Smoke means repentance, it means you are repenting. And the beautiful expression in the Bible it touched me it says. "And the Lord acknowledged a sweet savory smell that went up from
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the sacrifice that they made." The smoke of the burnt sacrifice went up and it reached G-d and G-d acknowledged it as a sweet savory smell, that is the repentance, the true repentance. And how does Allah (swt) put it? The Quran says, "Your sacrifice of blood that doesn't reach G-d, but your Taqwa does. So that's the sweet smell that the Bible is talking about, it is that Taqwa that goes up to G-d, that reaches G-d, it goes up to heaven, your innocence, your true reverence, respect for G-d and for what G-d has authorized that you respect, your mother, parents and so forth.

Q. 17.53; Satan is enemy to man

"Say to My servants that they should (only) say those things that are best: for Satan doth sow dissensions among them: for Satan is to man an avowed enemy."

Q. 2.33; Adam tell them their names

So the Satan when he saw he couldn't change things, that he couldn't convince the angels, he lost the angels, isn't that wonderful? He lost the angels, he had the angels until G-d produced the human and said that the human should be the khalifa in the earth. Man should be the one charged with responsibility in the earth, not the angels and not the jinn. Oh the jinn didn't like that, he wasn't the devil before, he was just a jinn at that time. Well, when G-d made that idea manifest, he tried to influence the angels as an angel when G-d exposed to them fully His plan and let them know that what I am creating here has a superiority over you.

Rev. 12.4; Tail dragon drew 1/3 stars of heaven

"And his tail drew the third part of the stars of heaven, and did cast them to the earth: and the dragon stood before the woman which was ready to be delivered, for lo devour her child as soon as it was born."

I didn't create you with a rational mind to search and progress your society with the tools of rational intelligence, I didn't create you with that. The Quran says. "He taught Adam the names of things, in Arabic "Kullaha" translated it means all of it. And then He exposed it to the angels, that means He displayed it. He showed it, presented it so they could observe it. And then He said, "Now tell Me your names if you know," and the angels replied, "We have no knowledge except what You gave us." He said. "Adam tell them their names, " and he told them their names and they all submitted.

It is not like the Bible wherein it said only 1/3 of the stars in heavens were left, I think 2/3 fell. The Quran said only one fell that was shaytan, that was Iblis who by his refusal became Satan, the devil. And because he was disappointed. I'm not going to go over all of this I have gone over a lot of this with you at other times. Because he was disappointed he vowed to be man's enemy, not G-d's enemy.

Satan thinks he is helping G-d

So in Al Islam shaytan or Satan is the enemy of man "Aduuwan nas, "the enemy of humanity, the enemy of all humans, it doesn't say the enemy of G-d, but you know he is G-d's enemy. But he's not G-d's enemy in his own mind, that is what you have to understand.

This is a person who is so captivated, so possessed by his own mind and thinking that he can't see that he's really the enemy of G-d. This is not talking about something that is supernatural being in another reality, this is talking about something that is in the real world of human beings. So he can't accept that he's wrong or that he's against G-d, he thinks he's with G-d.

The devil can be in the church, Satan can be in the mosque, Satan can be in the Synagogue, Satan can be in the White House, Satan can be in Israel, in the government there, Satan can be in Saudi Arabia, in the government there because Satan doesn't even know he is working against G-d. He's so possessed by his own thinking. He doesn't even know he's working against G-d, he thinks he's working for G-d, so he says, "This is not going to work that you got, it isn't going to work for you. I care about you more than you care about yourself. And I'm going to show you that what you are doing here is not going to work. I'm going to prove that this creature that you're giving all this love and attention to and respect to and trusting him with responsibility in the earth, for forming the order of life down there, I'm going to prove to You that he's not worthy.

Seven eyes went out to condemn man

How does the Bible say this? Seven eyes went out to condemn man, to disprove, to prove man unworthy of the station great G-d that assigned for man. And seven eyes went out to prove him worthy. So these are the two positions and the two forces (hat are working in man's
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world. One working to prove him as unfit to be on his own, to be free with his own mind, to develop into a society where responsibility for that society is trusted to many and not one.

A dictator is distrustful of others

Not free to have his republic, his democracy whatever term we may use to try to give you a picture of what we're talking about. This is in the nature of man, isn't it? It is in the nature of man not to trust others if he thinks himself superior to them. And because of that disposition taken dictatorships form.

Republic leadership trusts the masses

And then there is also in man feeling and sensitivity, the disposition that even though they are not my equal in knowledge, they are made just like I am with the same possibility for them that I have for myself. Though I am superior to them now and they are depending on me and they need me like children need their parents, I know they have the same potential, the same capacity etc., that I have. I want to see them grow up to my level, I want to see these babies become grown up, so I'm going to form a democracy, a republic that will invite all them to come to the top and many of them will in time.

See that's the disposition that respects the creation of human beings, respects what G-d made and what G-d wants for the human being He made. So that may be put in the language, "Those are the seven eyes that go out to approve man," in that wonderful station given him by his Creator.

World created to inspire good but Satan corrupts it 

Q. 15.39; Satan decorates path of error

(Iblis) said: "O my Lord! because Thou hast put me in the wrong I will make (wrong) fair-seeming to them on the earth and I will put them all in the wrong."

The Satan decorates the world after G-d made it to inspire goodness, to inspire faith, to inspire truth, etc.. and to form thinkers and position them to have real and lasting progress, the Satan comes back and he puts his screen up before you and he shows you yourself on his screen. G-d shows us first on His screen and then He shows you the material interest on His screen.

G-d shows you the life force on His screen and He tells you that on earth you exist for pleasure without telling you your pleasure fulfillment is impossible without you pleasing the First Cause. He won't take it further Arabic says, "Mukhleseena lahud deena falau karehal kaferun. "We are the thinkers who work for the logic taken to its natural conclusion even though rejecters of faith hate it". These are devils and servants of the devils and dupes of the devil who don't know they are the tools and instruments of Satan in the secular world order, they reject faith and they hate that Muhammad (pbuh) and his students who pursue the logic to it's natural conclusion. They want you to stop in the material world and say there is nothing beyond this. I have a human heart and it heart tells me there is something beyond. I have my human soul that tells me there is something beyond where you have stopped. I have a human spirit that is pushing me to go further and I have a human reasoning machinery, a rational machinery that tells me to keep working on it.

Q. 109; I worship what you worship not

Says "For you your religion and for me mine."

"For you your religion and for me mine."    Let us part in peace, praise be to Allah (sws) "Mukhleseen lahu deen" and the followers of Muhammad the Prophet (pbuh) the faithful students and teachers who followed his way, they the are ones who caused the surah to be called Al Ikhlas. The surah that says, "Say He G-d is One." Ikhlas is not in that surah, they put that name there because they know that surah concludes the matter, the argument is finished. "Say He G-d is One, G-d is the Self sustaining One," He sustains Himself and He resists all attempts for something to change Him.

His permanence cannot be affected. He is eternal, "As Samad He is One, "Ahad" not just one but He is Ahad because the scripture could have said "Qul huwallahu wahad. Wahad means one, but it didn't say that. It says "Qul huwallahu Ahad, meaning one by Himself. One alone. So what is this responding to? The trinity, the idea of a trinity of gods, it is saying there is no trinity of gods, but it is not saying it directly.

It is medicine from a doctor and the doctor wants to give you the medicine in the most pleasant way possible. So it doesn't say you have falsehood this belief in more than
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one G-d or three gods in one, three gods together, working or existing as one.

Eventually the doctor too, he will come and ask, "What is the problem? I'm going to prescribe something for you," and you keep insisting on something not respecting the prescription. He will say "Look you have u disease, are you stupid, follow this prescription, you have a disease. This is a lie this is corruption.   Allah (swt) is like the loving doctor. He doesn't just come and say "Hey this trinity is nothing but a falsehood." He said (O Muhammad (pbuh), "Say G-d is one alone, Qul huwallaahu ahad, Allahu samad." Allah (swt) is eternal existing unchanged. This change that you are talking about, that He is now in a human body and He's now a servant and G-d at the same time is not acceptable. No, He is the eternal resisting all attempts to bring any change in Him, needing nothing from without. He is self sustaining and self supplied, needing nothing outside of himself.

The body expresses spirit like the instrument expresses music

G-d created the world for us not for Himself. The earth He created to give us a body, not to give G-d a body. G-d did not need the world for Himself, He created the world for man, for human beings, for our comforts yes, even for our bodily comforts. But more importantly to grow our minds, our intellects as food for us, that's food for thought. He created this whole world and made it a place to express your spirit, your soul.

Like the musician who has a beautiful language that he feels inside and he takes the wind instrument, the trumpet or whatever and he blows his breath into it and the instrument had been designed to take breath that says nothing but would and give it the language of music. Similarly G-d has created the whole material world, all of it is a beautiful world that He just gave us as a poem (hat tells us that writer was inspired by this wonderful, beautiful creation. All of this beautiful, material world has been given to us as a body through which our spirit can "Woo, express itself through," and come out as beautiful buildings, beautiful paved streets, beautiful skyways, beautiful airplanes, automobiles, beautiful art works, beautiful systems to sustain the society, the body of the outer world in which we find greater expression, it is philosophical but true.

Spirituality with help of the intellect engages the world

Q. 53.9; Two bow lengths

"And was at a distance of but two bow-lengths or (even) nearer;"

The spiritual expression of the mortal in his flesh body, his aspirations, that's what we're talking about. Man's spirituality with the help of his intellect, in fact spirituality cannot be separated from intellect. Man's spirituality with the help of his intellect engages the world G-d made and put him in and it began to express it's wants, it's appetites and gives language and increase in forms to the material world, isn't that wonderful? And he can't do it except as G-d has willed for him to do it. So really He doesn't know that, what he is breathing into matter and giving as language and forms that enables him to have a bigger and better material reality to house himself, is really not his spirit alone, but two going to the purpose as shot from one bow. It is G-d too in him going with His spirit to the purpose.

So though man thinks this wonderful creation that he has created by breathing into it of his spirit, it was G-d's will that gave direction to his spirit until his spirit ran parallel with the spirit of G-d and went to the purpose, as two arrows fired by one bow. The rational expression of spiritual life, is it clear now?

Society must not plan sin to entrap the masses

The moral urgency, G-d says He did not create this world except for just conclusions. So whatever you do man it must support justice, it must respond to the need for truth and justice and if it does not G-d is going to condemn that, that you did not do in the interest of truth and justice. And He is going to show where your aim went off from His and a wrong thing was done in your world. Take that pork out of your community, take that gambling out of your community, take sin out of your planning, don't plan sin, leave people on their own and if they fall into sin let it be their fault and not your fault. Don't plan sin for My people. But the Satan did that and deceived others to be like him, possessed by their own logic to the extent that they can't even see that they are against G-d. They say "Oh we believe in G-d, we are for G-d we know this is the best way to govern society.

They believe the religious people and they believe the moral life to say "This is wrong," I'm not saying they
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are not doing some good, they lead the moral life to say "This is wrong," this order of society. That you be free to gamble, you be free to drink liquors, you be free to do things that you know Allah (swt) in any religion, says don't do but you're free to do it in this secular world system or order for us, you're free to do it. But they don't tell you, "You're free to also say it is wrong." You can say it is wrong. They permit the moral life to speak while planning sin. Some say, "Oh they didn't plan this sin," no don't tell me that. If sin is legalized then sin was planned and established by them, so don't try to excuse them, this is what we should see as the influences of shaytan after Allah (swt) made man innocent and created the beautiful world to inspire him in a good way then the Satan comes in and he sees things, he does his own reading.

Creation helps intentions good or bad

If you read creation Allah (swt) says the whole creation is a sign. If you read creation from your innocence you're going to get nothing but help for your innocence to do good. But if you read the creation from your weaknesses you're going to get help to feed your weaknesses.

Matter is created to guide man to G-d 

Q. 3.185; This world surface is deception

"Every soul shall have a taste of death: and only on the Day of Judgment shall you be paid your full recompense. Only he who is saved far from the fire and admitted to the garden will have attained the object (of life): for the life of this world is but goods and chattels of deception."

Q. 15.39; Satan decorate path to wrong

Al Hadith Ip555#347; Hell surrounded (decorated) by desires

Satan, shaytan is the one who first read creation from his weaknesses, he read a reading that's harmful, that's detrimental, that's poisonous, that's deceptive.  It says in this world, the great thinkers, they say all of this world is deception. But who made it deception? G-d didn't make it deception. The world as G-d made it is not deception, the material things that G-d made is not deception if you remain as He made you. innocent without wrong in your nature, without wrong in your heart, without wrong in your spirit, innocent like a baby you will get help.

Later on you get these diseases, this corruption in you and with the Satan coming into the world ahead of everybody else and designing the world over and telling you how to perceive it, how to see it, how to look at it, how to understand it, it is almost impossible for you not to take the wrong disposition and fall into sin. And the reference supporting this from our sources of knowledge is that G-d showed the great angel Jibril His creation before Satan put his thing on it or presented it to man in the form he wanted man to see it changed.   Jibril said, "My Lord how can anyone err, go wrong in such a beautiful creation?"

So that tells us beyond a shadow of a doubt that in Al Islam we are to believe that matter perceived as Allah (swt) made it and intends men to perceive it or see it will not lead man astray. So Allah (swt) says of Satan that he places attractions all through it to take your mind and heart off of the original attractions, he places his attractions all over.

Ghuruu, deception is one of the names of the devil

Satan decorated it with allurements, things to allure you, attractive things to lure you away from seeing it as G-d wants you to see it. And after he did that G-d showed Jibril what Satan was going to do and when Jibril said, "My Lord, how can anyone go straight in such a world?" So yes we have the deceptions, but who is the author of it? The Ghuruu. The ghuruu is one of the names of the devil and it means the one who created allurements, things to attract you that are deceptions, they are attractions but they are put there for the purpose of deceiving you and getting you to come out of your nature and state that G-d put you in. The devil is also the ghuruu, the one responsible for all of the deceptions in the creation. And look how he has gotten us to relate to sex. Ghuruu is, not only what he did which is called deception, but also he himself, that is one of his names, deception, he Satan is deception. And it is used like that in the Quran.

Sex problems from Satan that affects the industrial man

If you go in societies that have not been touched by cultures of the industrial world, you go in those societies
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you will not find pornography there, you will not find sex fetishes there, you will not find shops or sales people selling sex objects, that is only in the so-called civilized world where the industrialist has influenced the culture of people. And who does Satan want first? Adam, the man of industry, the industrial man, that's who he wants to get first.

Satan influences education and the arts

So most of our trouble forms in industry and in the commercial life of the society and it is assisted by servants who are like members of a secret order that have been created by shaytan and they too think that they are angels that are guardians of the way. And they influence the education and the arts. They are in these circles influencing education and the arts and they are working for Satan to put his language into the culture and they are thinking they are angels protecting the way.

ASM must establish Model Muslim communities

And it requires that we do more than be silent, that we speak out against wrong and that we work to build our own Muslim model of what the human being's world should look like. We must start on it today, you might say, "Oh the world is too much ahead of us," suppose the Arabs had said that to Muhammad (pbuh) that, supposed they said, "Muhammad (pbuh) you have this new idea that you say can present a new order and bring about a model that will stand as a witness that G-d had inspired us and it. Persia is too far ahead of us, Egypt is too far ahead of us, Rome is too far ahead of us, how can we ever catch up with them Muhammad (pbuh)? We got nothing but sand, no structures only this word you're giving us." Suppose they had taken that fatalist attitude what would have happened for them? Nothing.

We have much more than the Arabs had in the desert. Now you're going to tell me, "The Imam is naive," 1 hear you speaking, G-d helps me to hear your thoughts. 'The Imam's thinking, this is good, he's beautiful, I love him, but he's just entertaining himself," I don't want to say what I really want to say, what you say with your mind. "This can't happen, he's not educated, he can't do these things." You think, it wasn't said of Muhammad (pbuh) he's a man gone mad. he's enchanted, his own ideas have enchanted him," but look what happened after 20 years, look what happened alter 10 years, Allahu Akbar.

The man had no life form, and He breathed into him of His spirit, and He said, "Be and it came to be," you think it can't happen again? Again He's breathing into the man of His own spirit and He's saying , "Be" and you will be.

Islamic community can be in just in a four block area

So the moral urgency is for us to do something about it, for us to build a model of Islamic world life. You can have a picture of Islamic world in a four block square area. You don't need all the land in Chicago or in your town. You can   have a picture of Islamic world life in a area no bigger than four square blocks.

And those structures are enough for us to show the world our model for Islamic life or Islamic life in society. You can have a school, you can have a Masjid, you can have a cultural center, you can have a theater, you can have businesses, dwellings, those structures are enough to show the world Islamic life in society. Let us get busy and do more than we have done in the past.

Q.4.76; fight Satan scheme

"Those who believe fight in the cause of Allah and those who reject faith fight in the cause of evil: so fight ye against the friends of Satan: feeble indeed is the cunning of Satan".

James 4.7; Resist the devil he will flee

"Submit yourselves therefore to God. Resist the devil, and he will flee from you."

Let us get busy, let us do more than we have done in the past. The moral urgency is to fight the schemes of Satan. Allah (swt) said, "Fight the schemes of Satan," you don't go directly to him, you don't look for him as body, as a person, as a human being. Some may say, "Oh yeah Sharon is a Satan," I'm sure that's the way a lot of us see him, but I will tell you right now he's not Satan. as bad as he is Sharon is not Satan, he is an instrument of the Satan, he's one of the instruments of the Satan.
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Satan intends to present himself to the world as god

President Bush serves humanity but deluded by terrorism

President Bush is a faithful servant of humanity and also un-be knowing to himself, he is also an instrument of the Satan over there in what they're doing in the world  violence that he is involved in. The terrorism that he is trying to counter in the world has deluded even him and the planners and the government. They have formed now as an instrument in the hand of the Satan and I'm thinking that Satan is rejoicing that he soon is going to present himself before the world as god.

This little fellow down here, I know they probably dismiss me, "Oh you don't count," that's what they say, I know they will say that, but I want to tell them, "You are not going to be successful, never will you be successful trying to present yourself as god." I know you planned it for thousands of years, you and those before you but you will not be able to put it over on humanity, you will not be successful introducing yourselves as g-d or god in the flesh or the Christ, you won't succeed.

The moral urgency is that we fight the schemes of Satan. The scheme i.e. it is drugs, or alcohol, alcohol is a drug too. His scheme is gambling, bringing many people into the business of gambling and to support the business of gambling. I am coming from Quran it is not me talking it is Allah(swt) talking, it is His Word talking, I am speaking from His Word not from myself. And fight superstitions, so let us fight these schemes.

Many religious teachers fall under superstition in religion

Q.3.7; The perverse follow the allegorical seeking discord

He it is Who has sent down to thee the Book: in it are verses basic or fundamental (of established meaning): they are the foundation of the Book: others are allegorical. But those in whose hearts is perversity follow the part thereof that is allegorical seeking discoid and searching for its hidden meanings but no one knows its hidden meanings except Allah and those who are firmly grounded in knowledge say: "We believe in the Book: the whole of it is from our Lord": and none will grasp the Message except men of understanding.

Many of our religious teachers they fall under the intoxicant of superstition in the religion, they become fascinated with the unknowns and with the hard to explain as Allah (swt) says "And they take the metaphorical over the plain teachings, plain scripture, they prefer the metaphorical over the plain logic, the plain teaching so they go astray and they take their followers or their students astray.

Now this is talking about the Quran. So the Quran is designed as it says of itself in two characteristics, this scripture has two characteristics, metaphor or allegorical, that is what you read in the translation. Metaphorical or allegory and the logical that is supported by human logic. So they prefer the metaphorical or the allegorical over that which is rationally clear, logical and can be proven by logic to hold up and serve your needs. They prefer the mystical, they fit into the mystical and they preferred that over the rational and logical, over the practical and what happened? That defect in them caused them to go astray, and those who they lead, they also go astray behind them. So this is the tendency to become superstitious and to enjoy superstitions.

Prophet chest opened as a child

The idea about Prophet Muhammad (pbuh), angels coming to him when he was a little boy before even he was missioned to be the Messenger of G-d (pbuh) and splitting his chest open, operating on him, cutting his chest open and filling his chest with light. That stuff hurts our effort to awaken the rational mind of followers in Al Islam
so they can really be productive followers for the cause of G-d and the ummah.

Gabriel shadow darkened a whole town

AI Hadith 4p.208#4; Angels created of light

Aisha reported the Prophet (pbuh) said "The angels were created of light and the jinn were created of smokeless fire and Adam was created of what has been described to you."

And a report says that Jibril was seen walking through the town, they don't give you any rational explanation for it, that he was so huge that his shadow put the whole area in darkness. G-d doesn't send angels to put people in darkness. An angel is light, how in the world can something made of pure light cast a shadow? And even
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those teachers of yours if you ask them, "Well what is the angel made of? We are made of flesh, what are they made of?

Pure light. Well how in the hell did the angel pass a dark shadow over the people so big that it was nighttime for them while he was in their area, how in hell did that happen sheik? The mystical thinker, he has an answer, don't think he doesn't have an answer, he has an answer when he is put on the spot he says, "he's made of ether, it is not like our world. It was a shadow but you can't see it, you can't see it with the eyes of this world. You have to see it with the eyes of the other world.  If you could see it with the eyes of the jannah brother you would see a big shadow," and that's enough for some of you putty minded people. But for me it is not enough, address my reality I am not over there, I am here. So how in the hell am I going to see it? The son of Elijah.

Four needs are the four constitution rights

Q. 41.10; Allah gave what you need in four measures

"He set on the (earth) Mountains standing firm high above it and bestowed blessings on the earth and measured therein all things to give them nourishment in due proportion in four Days in accordance with (the needs of) those who seek (sustenance)".

Q. 10.16; Prophet lived a lifetime among you 

Q. 2.51; Moses fast forty days and night 

Luke 4.2; Jesus fasted 40 days

"Being forty days tempted of the devil. And in those days he did eat."

Spirit needs material to express itself

Going back to what I said G-d has created man essentially a spirit, human male and female essentially we are spirit to be expressed materially. Spirit needing lo have material expression so it will be visible to us in a material world or in a material reality.   This spirit must express itself also in culture, so we talk about the four winds, we talk about the four elements: Wind, water earth and fire.

These are our rights. We have the right to life, we have the right to property, we have rights to engage the material world and get the benefits, we have the right to have our aspirations express themselves, we have the right to pursue our appetites or our passions, we have the inherent right to do that. And we have the right to speak from our sensitivity to say what is morally correct and what is morally incorrect. These are the essential features of life, these are the necessary features of life, from these four follow all the other developments.

Forty means when your conscious

And when you hear 40 it only means that, which is in the conscious mind and Muhammad the Prophet (pbuh) G-d said of him, "And he has already lived with you a lifetime." G-d is referring to the 40 years before he became Messenger of G-d, Prophet of G-d (pbuh). It could be said again very correctly, very accurately, "He has already lived with you for 40 years."

40 acres and a mule 

Q. 21.16; World not created for sport and play

Not for (idle) sport did We create the heavens and the earth and all that is between!"

Forty is a very special number in the language of scripture or revelation. The Prophet fasting 40 days etc., do not think the secular world does not know something about it. When we were freed they said, "We will give you a mule and how many acres of land? Forty acres, and they are wise, they are Adam, they are the sons of Adam and they are also Adam.

Acres means ache

They are very wise when it comes to language. When they say acres it is a play on ache, see the deceivers, those who play with secrecy they enjoy the game. So what they say has to amuse them too, it has to be secret but also has to amuse them too.

That is why Allah (swt) says He didn't create this world for sport and playing, for your games, for your plaything and for Satan. Satan inspired orders of secrecy.

Mule means your stubborn mind

So when they said a mule and 40 acres, the mule is you. They are saying, "You aren't nothing but a stubborn
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dumbbell, you were in good hands when you were in the white master's hands. We woke you up in the morning, we told you when to go to go to bed, we whipped your ass, your animal to keep you in line, to keep you on the job. And without us overpowering you, you would be nothing but a stubborn, defiant donkey, mule headed, donkey headed person. You insist upon this freedom, you got it. We will give you a mule, we will give you yourself. And we will give you 40 acres, we give you the right have your inheritance, your four measures from G-d let us see if you can get it with your donkey head.

40 acres means space, freedom to pursue your potential

Did you ever get forty acres of land? Yes you did, they do not mean real land, they mean space and freedom to pursue your potential that G-d gave you, your divine inheritance, that is what they mean. We are close to getting it, a lot of us have gotten it, Christians and Muslims.

Hollywood black man image is heroic

I guess they are acknowledging it now, look at their culture, look at their fiction, look at their Hollywood movies, see how they are including the black man among their heroes. See how they are including the black man in heroic pictures of white and black men together? They are acknowledging with their art and their culture that the black man has now qualified to be recognized as one of the guardians of our society, our civilization. So we did do something with our mule and 40 acres, didn't we? And really Frederic Douglas was proof that could happen so they where laughing at us and even right now they say, "Oh Frederick Douglas is the exception not the rule.

Wallace has a good nature, he has a good mind, he has big ideas, he's want to do big things, but he is working with people who aren't going anywhere. He is the exception to the rule, not the rule," that is what they say.

Q. 31.28;   Your death resurrection as single 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)."

You don't need many, you just need one. The Holy Quran says, "Their death and resurrection is as the death and resurrection of a single soul." So once we all identify in that single soul, one man can call us to identify in that one single soul. We don't need but one person and once we all identify in that single soul if we can have a resurrection for all of us, that is how it is done, that is how it is being done now.

Culture is effect of man's sensitivity and spirituality

So the culture is really an effect of man's sensitivities and spirituality, it expresses itself in culture. And culture in its wholeness is every expression of man's essential life, his pure sensitivities, sometimes corrupt sensitivity. I'm speaking of this white culture. His sensitivity, his intelligence, his reasoning, his affections for his heart, his aspirations or his spirit, all of it. So if you look in the dictionary and you look up the term culture you will find that culture has different entries, different meanings. It can right away take your mind to entertainment, singing, theater etc, but that's not all of it, even the expression of the intellect, education, literature all of that we have expressed is culture.

Blessed Ramadan to you who I have not greeted. We are still addressing the problems for our perception that Allah (swt) wants us to have. Our understanding the picture of His world that He wants us to have, the problem for that made by the great deceiver, the Satan himself. How he made the world to be seen by us and it is not the world as Allah (swt) wants us to see it or created us to see it, it is deception Ghuruu by the ghuruu who is the Satan. Ghuruu is another name for by Satan, the shaytan, the devil.

Ghuruu is another name for by Satan, the shaytan, the devil.

Sex problem 

Forty hadith p.84#25; Charity is in legal sex act

On the authority of Abu Dharr he reported some of the companions of the Prophet (pbuh) said to him, 'The affluent have made off with the rewards. They pray as we pray, they fast as we fast and they give away in charity the surplus of their wealth. He said, "Has not Allah (swt) made things for you to give away in charity'.' Truly every Tasbeeha is a charity, every Takbira is a charity, every Tahmeeda is a charity and every Tahleela is a charity. To enjoin a good action is a charity and in the sexual act of each of you there is a charity."
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And addressing sex, the problem for sex. The way sex is treated there it no respect for sex in most of the people. The way Satan has inspired the secular world to present it to us has caused the majority of us to have a real bad idea of sex and a bad relationship with sex, that is the way we see it. The people in religion were first deceived in religion, not just in the world. In religion they were first deceived to believe that sex is something you should despise, sex is something that is dirty. And that was being preached or told to us over generations behind generations for hundreds, or few thousand years. And right now there is someone with that sensitivity in this audience, you don't like to talk about sex openly. Sex for many is a dirty word.

AI hadith 2p633#377w; Marriage is half the religion

Anas reported the Prophet (pbuh) said, "When a man has married he has fulfilled half of religion. Then let him fear Allah (swt) for the remaining half."

Muhammad the Prophet (pbuh) wanted to get rid of the influence of Satan and the wrong perception of sex for Muslims. He said for everything that you do which G-d permits there is a blessing. And one of the followers said, "If we have sex is there a blessing?" The Prophet (pbuh) said, "If you have it unlawfully isn't there a punishment?" And he made it clear to them that if you have sex lawfully there's a blessing in the pleasure.

They were talking about pleasure, the act of sex, they were not talking about the rewards later such as children, etc. They were talking about the act of sex itself, is there a blessing? In the answer of the Prophet (pbuh) he said "Yes there is a blessing because if you have it unlawfully there is a curse." So if you have it lawfully there is a blessing.   I guess they were trying to find something that they said. "Maybe he would except this, but not that." He stuck to it, in everything that Allah (swt) has permitted us there is a blessing and Allah (swt) has permitted us to have lawful sex. This community is not a community of celibates or celibacy, people who vow not to indulge in sex like many in Catholicism, among priests and among nuns, the fathers and the nuns or the priests and the nuns in the Catholic church. It is not only there it is in some other religions too where they don't have sex, where they don't marry.

Prophet Muhammad (pbuh) said. "That to marry is part of your religion, that you perform half of your religion when you marry and keep your marriage and your family good, your relation with your wife good. You marry and keep the relationship with your wife good then you have performed half of your religion.

Sex foundation of society like the body

Sex is not only something that is not offensive for Muslims but it is sacred for Muslims and sex is a pleasure G-d created for us and it is the foundation for society, sex is in the foundation of society. Just as it is in the foundation of the government of our physical body, if you don't have sex and don't want any more children, no more youth eventually no more you.

Sex best seen in mental intercourse

So just like it is the foundation in the procreation or in the preserving of our physical body isn't it also the foundation and the preserving of our society?   So let us look at sex and perceive it all over again. Sex is the way pleasure is realized for the two mates, male and female. It is pleasure but there is also a message - - in everything there are signs, this pleasure is a message.

The height of pleasure is physical in the minds of many, but for me it is not. it is intercourse but it is intercourse for my intellect, that is my highest pleasure, not intercourse with my body or my sex organs, intercourse with my mind is the highest pleasure for me. But for most in this material body, yes the highest pleasure perhaps is the pleasure we experience when we engage sex with our mate. What is that a sign of from our Creator? To reproduce, to have what Allah (swt) gave you, to reproduce for you. You should enjoy it, the more pleasure you find in it, the better the results, the bigger the results.

Work like sex if you like it you get good production

People who don't love work, they don't do well, the more pleasure you find in your work, the greater your work. So really it's a sign that if you engage something, if you do something that gives you great pleasure, it will give you great rewards And what is a better reward for a parent than to see themselves reproduced in another new life, a baby? And that's what really gives more power to the family to work together, to stay together and see the future together, when the baby, addition conies. When the addition comes then it is not just a bond or a company of two but now it is a company of three,
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daddy, mama and child. So the company gets stronger, the company get richer in human interest and gets richer in social interest. They get richer as you have that reproduction.

'So that's a sign from G-d that what you indulge in for profit or gain or for your pleasure, one gets pleasure out it. The more pleasure you get out of it the more you [will devote yourself to it and the more fulfilling it will ,be for you and the more productive your business will be or your interest will be, that's the message. We eat food and say "Urnm" I know a brother when he tastes something, when he's eating he says "Umm," but the pleasure of engaging in our lives is more intense than that, the pleasure is more than what we get from chewing food. I don't know if some of you are hungry, you fasters, I don't know if you probably forgot that you are on the Ramadan fast, we can lose reality. These brothers devote themselves so much to their brain that they don't want food hardly and don't want women hardly. That is really hurting to see your brother like that.

Sex belongs in the social context

One man looks at sex. he looks at the female organ and he sees maybe just sex, just the flesh pleasure he gets out of it. The thinker who looks for the message from G-d in it and the beauty of the Creator in it, he looks at it and he may see a beautiful flower. And the fluid, one may think it is despicable, another one may see it as drops of honey, it depends on how you look at it.  But if you don't see it in the social context as Allah (swt) created it, that is sex in the social context you will miss the message.

Sex belongs always in social context, it is not in the erogenous pleasure alone, that erogenous pleasure it is sensual flesh pleasure. That pleasure sends a message to us. that if you attend the needs of your social life to preserve it and extend it you will get the greatest pleasure, fulfillment possible.

Look how it tortures our flesh when our child goes to corruption, look how it tortures the flesh when the relationship becomes ugly with my mate. Look how my flesh is tortured, many times it is killed and my heart can't lake it. 1 have a heart attack, I have a stroke sometimes my mind can't take it. I go crazy, I say it for everybody.

So that got too much for me. when it gets too much for me I have to say, "1 can't carry you and me, 1 got too much load on my back. 1 will carry you when I have the time. I don't have time, I can't carry you. It is making your life miserable and mine miserable, let us separate. I point the finger, 1 said I'm a failure but I also want to tell you that if you go to any one of those women, every woman that I ever had involvement with she will have good things to say about that man, not bad things. And she will still tell you that. "He's my friend." some of them will say, "He's my husband whether he is here or not."

Now I don't accept that I am your husband, you lost that, we lost that. I'm not your husband but that's okay. I got a birthday card from one not so long ago. real beautiful and really I didn't expect that beautiful language to come from one. 1 had to read it two or three times and I still have it on the mantle, all the other cards are gone I still have her card up on the mantle. I couldn't believe it and she said, "To my husband." at the end of the card and I haven't been with her in years. But what she's saying to me and 1 love her for saying that, she is saying that, 'Though we cannot have the relationship, in my heart you're still my husband." And she almost got me back with that, in fact it is working on me even now. But so are the memories of frightening times, they both are working.

Sex in the social context

We should get rid of this perception, this picture of sex that the Satan has inspired. He wants us to see it as dirty, he wants us to see it as lust and he wants to feed the lust. He wants us to become lustful. Allah (swt) forbids that we marry out of lust for a woman, the sexual appetite. We can have it and certainly we're supposed to have it and it can be very, very strong but if you don't make the distinction between that enjoyment and the social bond that you are forming, the social bond is more important than the sex bond. The sexual bond is to be expressed through the social interest not outside of the context of the social interest. That is why it is so important, you are violating, you are not having a lawful marriage if you have sex outside of the social interest.

To have sex for sex is fornication and adultery, to ha\e sex to tighten the social bond, the love, the affection between you and the wife to make the bond of male and female stronger that is sex for social bonding, sex
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expressed through social interest or in the social context. Keep it in the social context.   When you have children it should strengthen that because now the social family has become three and not only two and the third one desperately needs the good support that G-d has created in the parent, the male and the female. So this is strengthening the social bond, isn't it?

So can't you see that your purpose for sex is not just the small time quick pleasure though it is heavenly in it's taste, it is not for that. That pleasure is to tighten and bring you closer in affection with the wife. Can you see it is not just the quick pleasure, but it is to tighten the bond? The Holy Quran says G-d bonds you with affections of your heart, He brought you together upon the affection of your heart or by the affections of the heart, to bond you together with your wife. When two people arc bonded that is the beginning of social bonding, male and female. The child comes here it and increases the social family, the membership, it becomes a stronger social bonding.

So never see sex separate from the social interest, the social bonding and extension of your life. If you see it that way, if they present it in schools like that, if it is presented in the Sunday school for the children in church or the dawa lessons to our children, if we present it like that, if its presented in education like that, and in academic courses like that, we will have a sexually healthy society.

Because it is taken out of context - - primitive people keep it in the social context, they are not exposed to all this madness that the Satan has given the industrial world, they are not exposed to it. So they are not freaks. they want sex in the normal human way, sex doesn't occupy them all the time. Some youngsters and some old people too can't even work for having sex interrupt their work.

Sex punishment abnormal acts

I went to the movie and a woman was sitting in front of me and I could not even enjoy the movie for her making all kind of sexual noises and gestures, becoming sexually insane. The Satan. that is his work to occupy us with sex interest out of the social context so that we lose connection with the life stream, the direction for our life. So this woman was messed up bad, it is not normal and in many ways it is terribly abnormal. And the way we are having sex , the way we are relating to sex is certainly freakish and abnormal.

Don't tell me it is pleasure. It is pleasure with punishment and the punishment is more than the pleasure. Look at the bad relationships we have with the males and females now. These young girls are telling me, "I know you are old," I say, "You don't know how old I am", I say. "I am three times your age." They say. "It doesn't make any difference, I don't want these young guys, Mr. Mohammed they aren't any good." That is what young women are telling me, young girls, and you would be surprised how young and thank G-d I'm still a good man, I don't take advantage of it, but it is there because the Satan has influenced the sexual life to corrupt it, to debase it, to make it so low that really the bonding now can't be respected.

Is it worse than animals, an animal has sex in the social context, maybe dogs and a few others they will have sex outside of the social context, but once pregnancy is there the mother and most dogs, even an alley dog will respect that. Sex has to be in the social context. Family interest becomes stronger than just flesh, having erogenous sex for pleasure.

If an animal keeps sex in the social context and if man lets sex get out of the social context his whole life is headed for destruction, the Satan knows that. The Satan knows that if he can take sex out of the social context, your whole life is headed for destruction. Never has sex been exploited to bring society down as much as it has been exploited recently for that purpose, never in the history of mankind and we have had some ugly pages of history, but for a very few people, mostly the ignorant and the mentally sick, not for the whole society, only a very few times in history can you find something like that.

Sex is flower of our social interest

It was only at the time when the society was without enlightenment or those who had that enlightenment had lost it. then sex took over as an erogenous pleasure, rather than as a social need and a social flower. It is the flower of our social interest. Sex is the beautiful flower of our social interest, from it comes our children, that beautiful flour has seeds and from it we get our children.

Men and women meetings
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I want to have a meeting with brothers only, there are things that 1 want to say that I cannot say in the presence of sisters. I was told that some of you were trying to get a meeting for me, with the brothers and a meeting with )the sisters, you are not working on it hard enough, I have not heard from you. Please arrange a meeting for me with the brothers and a meeting for me with the sisters separate at different times so we can discuss these things, you can ask me questions. Muhammad the Prophet (pbuh) made himself available to sisters alone. I am not him, I'm not as good as he, I'm not as trustworthy as he, but I must follow his tradition.

I will make self available to you sisters and let us have discussions like this and other discussions that you would like for me to have with you, please let me know. If you don't feel too comfortable with the brothers around, if you don't feel comfortable the say like some sister have already told me, "Imam we need you to meet with us and to address us and to respond to our concerns and questions," fine. I'm supposed to do that so let me know when.

I have to repeat that sex is basic, fundamental in the formation, preservation of life and if the Satan can enter that sanctuary and corrupt it, he brings your whole life down. He knows it so that is what he planned and that is what he has done to the world, not just the West. In Muslim lands they tell me, men and women are in the privacy of their homes looking at pornographic films.

Sex punishment via abnormal acts

I went to the movie and a woman was sitting in front of me and I could not even enjoy the movie for her making all kind of sexual noises and gestures, becoming sexually insane. The Satan, that is his work to occupy us with sex interest out of the social context so that we lose connection with the life stream, the direction for our life. So this woman was messed up bad, it is not normal and in many ways it is terribly abnormal. And the way we are having sex , the way we are relating to sex is certainly freakish and abnormal.

Don't tell me it is pleasure. It is pleasure with punishment and the punishment is more than the pleasure.  Look at the bad relationships we have with the males and females now. These young girls are telling me, "I  know you are old," I say. "You don't know how old 1 am", I say. "I am three times your age." They say.

"It doesn't make any difference, I don't want these young guys, Mr. Mohammed they aren't any good." That is what young women are telling me, young girls, and you would be surprised how young and thank G-d I'm still a good man. I don't take advantage of it, but it is there because the Satan has influenced the sexual life to corrupt it, to debase it, to make it so low that really the bonding now can't be respected.

Is it worse than animals, an animal has sex in the social context, maybe dogs and a few others they will have sex outside of the social context, but once pregnancy is there the mother and most dogs, even an alley dog will respect that. Sex has to be in the social context. Family interest becomes stronger than just flesh, having erogenous sex for pleasure.

If an animal keeps sex in the social context and if man lets sex get out of the social context his whole life is headed for destruction, the Satan knows that. The Satan knows that if he can take sex out of the social context, your whole life is headed for destruction. Never has sex been exploited to bring society down as much as it has been exploited recently for that purpose, never in the history of mankind and we have had some ugly pages of history, but for a very few people, mostly the ignorant and the mentally sick, not for the whole society, only a very few times in history can you find something like that.

Sex is flower of our social interest

It was only at the time when the society was without enlightenment or those who had that enlightenment had lost it, then sex took over as an erogenous pleasure, rather than as a social need and a social flower. It is the flower of our social interest. Sex is the beautiful flower of our social interest, from it comes our children, that beautiful flower has seeds and from it we get our children.

Men and women meetings planned

I want to have a meeting with the brothers only, there are things that I want to say that I cannot say in the presence of sisters. I was told that some of you were trying to get a meeting for me, with the brothers and a meeting with the sisters, you are not working on it hard enough, I have not heard from you. Please arrange a meeting for me with the brothers and a meeting for me with the sisters separate at different times so we can discuss these
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things, you can ask me questions. Muhammad the Prophet (pbuh) made himself available to sisters alone. I am not him. I’m not as good as he, I'm not as trustworthy as he, but I must follow his tradition.

I will make myself available to you sisters and let us have discussions like this and other discussions that you would like for me to have with you, please let me know. If you don't feel too comfortable with the brothers around, say like some sisters have already told me, "Imam we need you to meet with us and to address us and to respond to our concerns and questions." fine. I'm supposed to do that so let me know when.

I have to repeat that sex is basic, fundamental in the formation, preservation of life and if the Satan can enter that sanctuary and corrupt it, he brings your whole life down. He knows it so that is what he planned and that is what he has done to the world, not just the West. In Muslim lands they tell me, men and women are in the privacy of their homes looking at pornographic films.

If you give yourself to that kind of stuff it is going to take you more and more into it. You have already shown that you have a weakness and a disease because you are looking at it. So the weakness is there and it is going to get more and more and enlarge that weakness, it is going to make that weakness bigger and bigger until it takes you from your moral essence, your moral excellence. And you are going to find yourself becoming freaks, nasty people. The innocent nature G-d gave us to say, "That is nasty," don't lose it.

If it was nasty when you were ignorant, it should be nasty when you become wise. Not the thing, the natural act, not the natural flesh, it is not nasty, it is a sweet smelling flower, beautiful flower, to me it is the prettiest of all flowers. But if you have the wrong approach to it, it becomes nasty and you become freakish, your whole life becomes stinky. One movie I saw it said, "It stinks so bad that even stink would say that stinks." You become so funky, even funk would say that's funky. Please if we are going to have our life we have to fight the schemes of Satan. Keep sex in the social context.

Tower Babel 

Gen. 11.1: Tower of Babel language confounded

"And the whole earth was of one language, and of one speech. [7] Go to. let us go down, and there confound their language, that they may not understand one another's speech."

Satan is the one who dismembers - - Tauheed, we started with Tauheed, the unity, the oneness. So Satan is the one who knows also that really your life is preserved and advanced by bonding, making connections. So he exploits these connections, he corrupts these connections so that the connection is broken. The male is separated from female, the interests of male is separated from the interests of female. The sexual interest is separated from social interest, everything that G-d intended to be together, the Satan conspiring against man wants to break these sacred bonds.

Satan thinks he works for G-d

The scripture says, "Let us go down and confound their language, break their bonds so that they be a people no more," do you think that is G-d speaking? That is Satan speaking in the Bible. The Satan thought he was working for G-d, that is Satan speaking, thinking he is working for G-d. He says. "This is the way we get our enemies, let us go down and confound their language." So he comes down and your language that you had before did not make big trouble for you. Satan comes and he influences the way you use your language, influences the nature of your language. And he breaks every sacred bond and causes you to die as a society, be a people no more.

Vocabulary for the transcript

We are using terms here in the vocabulary for this speech, I wish I could really give you the whole vocabulary, I think we need and I will do it en sha Allah (swt). maybe later, maybe for the printing, for the transcription maybe 1 will do a little more work and establish a vocabulary, it will be helpful. A vocabulary for the first part and the second part.

Dialectics, many of you do not know what this word means and some of you are in the habit of hearing but you won't go and look it up in a dictionary, that is not how I became the student that I am and the leader that I am. I cannot be comfortable reading something and having a word there that I do not know the meaning of. I go to the dictionary. I make a note and later on if it is not convenient for me at the time, I make a note so that when I get home where there is a dictionary and 1 have
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time to go back to it, I go back to it. I get the meaning and then 1 read that part again so I will understand.

I told my son, I said, "You are not reading and getting benefit if you read and pass over words that you do not know the meaning of, if you do not know those words." I said, "Reading to get the benefit you must make note of every word that you do not know and then go to the dictionary or ask someone who knows to save the time if you want, look up the meaning of those words.

After you get the meaning then go and do a second reading of that part where that word is that you did not know so that you will be sure that you know or had communicated to you clearly the whole reading that you did. You want the whole reading to communicate itself to you, you do not want to miss any of it.   Sometimes one word will make you miss the message or the meaning in the whole paragraph or maybe the whole subject.

Dialectics logical argument

Dialectics, the dictionary entry says, "A method of logical argument in which contradictions are disclosed and synthetically resolved." So this is a process that went on in the mind of Abraham, this is a process that went on in the mind of thinkers who are trying to understand the objective world, even man's own purpose in it, his life and his purpose in. This is a process that goes on, logical discussions, it says argument, argument means discussion also, it does not mean it is a heated thing or a thing that involves anger or something. Logical discussion or argument in which there's contradiction.

I said the world shows us contradictions, but these are not as prevalent and not as obvious and not as enduring as the unity, the Tauheed. But man wants to find the Tauheed and believe in the Tauheed so he studies the contradictions and he wants to resolve the conflict or the contradictions or at least understand them in the logic of the whole. He wants   to understand these contradictions. Again I repeat in the logic of the whole, in which contradictions are disclosed, he wants to see these contradiction more, that is he wants to understand these contradictions: what is the role for these contradictions in the system that is whole, the whole system.

Diversity of the races are to carry man's unity

What role are they serving to preserve? I gave a statement once and the Focolore leaders they quote me and I've heard it many times from them Imam Warilh Ud Din says. "That   we have diversity so that our unity will be given legs or wheels to carry it, " and they quote me, PhDs quote Imam W. Deen Mohammed and you have - - shame on you, you are a disbeliever shame on you.   Allah (swt) wants us to believe in each other, not just believe in G-d, but trust each other and believe in each other.

Q. 9.61: The Prophet believes in Allah and the believers

He (the Prophet) believes in Allah has faith in the believers and is a Mercy to those of you who believe"

So they study these contradictions or these conflicts in the nature of the world that Allah (swt) made so that they will eventually lead us to understand their purpose for being in this creation. And we come to understand that they are really there to serve and promote the Tauheed, the preservation and advancement of the oneness.

Q. 40.64; He made your features beautiful

"It is Allah Who has made for you the earth as a resting place and the sky as a canopy and has given you shapes and made your shapes beautiful."

Look how the division of the races, black and white, ethnic divisions have challenged man and forced man to see that these divisions are here for a purpose. And the divisions are to be respected. This is the creation of G-d, black man, white man, African man, European man, this is the creation of G-d, we don't want to get rid of that. G-d doesn't want us to carry our identity as a burden and see it as a discredit. G-d wants us to feel good about our identity. He says, "He made your pictures when you were in the wombs of your mother and He made all of your pictures beautiful and excellent, this is Quran.

The Quran is far more advanced than the world, it is always ahead of the world, so while the races and the world are seeing individuals and saying, "This one is black so that is the mark of inferiority on them. This one is white that is the mark of superiority on them." White they are falling victim to their bad dispositions to this
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reality, they are bad, weak, ugly dispositions so they can't perceive this reality Allah (swt) has revealed long ago to Muhammad the Prophet (pbuh). It did not just start, this attitude, this superiority attitude that people have did not just start.

Transparency produces the colors in the rainbow

I have read the history of blacks too, how their civilizations developed and they too put language in their culture that said black was superior. Actually the white man coming into knowledge of the civilization of the African people, he discovered that and he just reacted to it and he made white superior, just as they had black as a mark of superiority in ancient black civilizations. The white man reacted to it and he put white as a mark or sign of superiority in his civilization. And now after man has lived and seen the trouble that he has created for himself now in this time of you and me we are seeing a new mind coming into the world where nobody wants racism.   When they say they want to achieve transparency, and they are saying this in high quarters, don't think they are not signaling that interest to every level under them, that we have to achieve transparency.

Color consciousness has been our downfall, now we have to come back to perceive man in his abstract not in his concrete and know that his abstract is his superiority not his concrete that he expresses his abstract through. But his abstract is his superiority, it is not the colors in the rainbow but it is the transparency in the rainbow that can produce the colors.

Coming back to this strain in the intellect to make sense of things, this is the description of that process that it is looking at conflict and differences and it is trying to make sense of these conflicts and differences in the order of the whole so that there is harmony, there is agreement, there is a consistency, there is coherent expression, a coherent language.

Muhammad, Jesus word dwelt among men

Al hadith 3p.410#579; Prophet character was the Quran

Sa'ad bin Hisham reported 1 went to Aisha and asked: Oh mother of the Faithful, inform me about the conduct of the Prophet of Allah (pbuh). She asked, "Do you not read the Quran? " Yes, replied I. She said "The conduct of the Prophet (pbuh) is the Quran."

M. 185

John 1.1; In the beginning was the word

"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."

Universe means one verse Tauheed

When you say universe you are saying, "One verse," universe means one verse. So it is not separated from expression, language, "In the beginning there was the word. The word took on flesh and dwelled among men." Universe, the whole world is a verse the Quran says, "And all are signs, ayats, the world was once one whole before it was separated. Are you following me? I mean are you following my language? What I'm saying I'm bringing things together, this is the bringing together, this is creation separated, I bring things together this is the act of creation, bringing things together that belong together, to work together so you have growth and the right results and be synthetically resolved..

Synthetic means bringing parts together

Let us look at synthetic, synthesis. Coherent means bringing parts together to see or realize the coherent whole. Connecting separate parts to see the whole or a coherent whole, that is what synthesis is about. This all can be found in the rational and logical way of thinking, for the thinker and for Abraham who came to perception of Tauheed and is the father not only of monotheism, although one G-d was before. But he is the one who educated the world, he is the one who started the education that would eventually educate man in the knowledge of this unity of matter and oneness of G-d. So next time when we start we will start with dialectic expression in the community life. Shuraa or As shuraa, community ethical rule.   Al Islam wants ethical rule, Christianity wants ethical rule, Judaism wants ethical rule,   but the Satan is in there working against it. And I got the expression here that I know you will say, "What does he mean the spiritual republic?"

It has nothing to do with the Republican party you can count on that.   As Salaam Aluikum I have an
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appointment for CPC, I wish all of us could, but we can't, but I wish all of us could go and see what this African-American man from Mississippi has done in Chicago with catfish, it is something. I was so impressed, I was so happy to see him, I told him, "We do not have a business relationship, still I thank G-d that I came here just to see what an African-American is doing. Sister Ijlal discovered this businessman and took I me there and we formed a business tie with him. He 'came from Mississippi and he started a catfish business i and he has been in the catfish business for I think twenty something years. But he has been in the Chicago area with his business for 17 years.

And he said it was hard, he did not have to tell us it was hard. He said, "They were trying to knock him down." He said, "He would not accept it, he stayed with it." And it looks like now he is really on top. He is the biggest and most important processor and distributor of catfish and catfish fillets in the Chicago area, an African-I, American. And CPC has a business partnership with him. I should be back then at 11 AM, I hope by 12 PM.

I hope I can get here at least one hour before Asr prayer because I'm going to miss the CPC meeting - - all of you are invited, but you do not have to be here. I want to meet with the CPC investors and those who are doing business with the CPC products. While I am away between this session and the next if you're not tired and have to go to bed, if you are tired go to bed, go back to bed, get a couple of hours of sleep, it helps you a lot. But if you're not that tired and you do not want to go back to bed then meet. I don't know what time David Hasan is the official for CPC interest and he is given the responsibility for promoting CPC interest and promoting CPC investments and sales. If you can meet with him, at least he will adjourn the meeting and then those of you who want to bring your concerns, bring your concerns to those investors or those who are interested in CPC and I hope to join you myself I hope maybe by 12:30 PM. Thank you. As Salaam Alaikum.
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11-23-2002 Ramadan session Asr session Saturday Chicago, III

As Salaam Alaikum we just came back from visiting an African American at the catfish processing plant. And I have been aware of it, live catfish being available in our area for maybe two years or more, maybe three years, going on three years. When I heard of it I made a call and called the owner, we talked on the phone and at that time I didn't see where we could have a good business relationship for us, for CPC, because to me it was a small volume that we couldn't get into right then. I thought it was best to continue to pursue the line of catfish as we were pursuing it.

And then it happened that sister Ijlal, the main salesperson for us right now and really the reason why we are still in business, sister Ijlal you met her, you know her, she learned of this business and she said, "Brother Imam you got to meet this man," and we finally did. I was so impressed and after meeting him I told him I said, "If we don't do any business I am so happy that I had a chance to learn about you, it is really encouraging. It makes us very proud to see an African American in this business that you are in and doing what you are doing."   I was so impressed.

He had about 16 or more workers doing things manually, he had catfish brought in, live from Mississippi and they were in these big cement containers lhat look like small swimming pools, rectangular swimming pools. And the water kept suitable for them, the water was temperature controlled, heat controlled, it is beautiful. And it is a family business he, his daughter and a son, I saw them working there. We met his daughter again today and his son. A   young girl and boy finishing high school or college, around that age or just beginning college, they looked to be about that age. I was so impressed, an African-American family doing this business and employing a few African-Americans but the majority looked like maybe two-thirds of the employees were Spanish Americans, not African-Americans. He said, "I have plans for this business, we're going to expand it, I am going to automate it," and within about three weeks the man had all he was talking about. So that is what we went there to see at 11 o'clock today and I am so impressed with this man. It makes you proud just to know him.

One day I am going to ask him can we do a video, not of his whole operation because business has to be protected, we don't want everybody to see everything he's doing.  I mean anybody, we don't want anybody to see what he does not want everybody to see. So what he can show us, like what he made available to us we want to show it. Maybe some of the operations.

But what he would permit us to video I'm going to ask him can we video and at one time in the future when we are having our CPC meeting or other meetings that will permit us to address business en sha Allah (swt) we're going to show you what this man has. An African American from Mississippi, a G-d fearing man, he believes in G-d, we know that, when you talk to him you know he believes in G-d. He started out working with the church, and then he got into the fish business. We were very much impressed with this man.

How many members of CPC do we have here? Raise your hands, excellent, look at that, that tells us a lot, this is no revelation for me. I believe if you support me in my business with religion we will be successful. The same people will support me I don't care what I am doing as long as they know that it is something for the community or for people, business politics I don't care what it is. Whatever I go into and the same people that support me for the religion or for G-d will support me for everything, anything. I do believe that, that is how it is supposed to be.

It is kind of surprising to see all your hands go up like that, we are getting in good shape I want you to know that. We are situating ourselves to do big business, but right now we need money to invest and I believe in G-d, I'm not afraid to invest. I believe that some way we are going to keep being successful, I spend the money for growth, I am spending the money so this business will grow. You authorized me to be president, you authorized me to be your leader and I am spending our money so we can grow.

We are situated now, the department of agriculture they are just so proud of us. they say, "You have the cleanest facilities we have ever been in." They say, "The way you are setting this business up, we don't see you doing anything but making plenty of money." That is what they tell us. And it does not have to come from the community, that is what is so good, we hope the community will cooperate with us, but it doesn't have to
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come from the community. We are going to get as much business as we need right in this Chicago area.

CPC should be duplicated everywhere

We would like to see this good, sound business operation duplicated wherever you would like to see it :duplicated. So one day en sha Allah (swt) we will have them in different areas, different cities. But to work better they should all work as sister operations, they should all come under the same design, working the same way, we will be very successful. And if we see any need to make changes or to do something a little different we should put our heads together and do it, and when we do it we should do it in agreement with each other. We should not do it separate from each other. That is a hard thing for us in business, most of our people in business when they make a few dollars they think they know everything, you can't tell them anything, they think they know and you don't know.

Eventually we have to pull out our credentials for them, from big business school, with the white man's signature on it, that impresses them a little bit. If you did not go to school they say, "What does the Imam know about business? He ought to leave this to us and he take care of the duas'." That is their attitude. When G-d blesses a man He blesses a man to do what he has to do. And if He gives me an assignment He blesses me to do everything I have to do. He is not going to bless me to just know how to read Quran, this community is what He blessed me for. And this community needs more than just reading the Quran, this community needs finances to take care of it. Moses and Muhammad (pbuh) both men were not just leaders in the spiritual life, both of them were leaders in the community life. They were the boss in all areas of community life.

Muhammad delegated authority

Moses was the boss in all areas of life, Muhammad (pbuh) was the boss in all areas of community life. He delegated authority, he gave people specific jobs to do, he used people who were resourceful and who could be trusted, he supported them in their positions, he trusted them with certain interests. He was the one who was responsible for leading the community and saying what should happen and what should not, what should be and what should not be. And I do believe G-d has qualified me to do just that.

Believe me if I meet some of you who I think I can turn any of these responsibilities over to, I'll be so happy, because the more somebody else can do and I don't have to do it, the more that relieves me to do more, to concentrate more in the more important areas. I'm looking for a person who can replace me in certain areas of responsibility and business is one of them. Anytime a sister or brother qualifies to take over this business responsibility I have, I'm ready to give it to you. But am I not going to give it to you if you just got a theory, you have to have more than that.

I've seen them with a certificate for 2 years in small business management, I am telling you it is something else. So the person that replaces me, you show me that you started a business and kept it going and progressing for the same number of years that we have been with this. And show me your business being in a good situation making money for one year and I will give the job to you. So I am not wasting any more time with you folks, I'm sorry I'm not saying this for nothing, they don't have anything but theory.

Somebody has trained you to be under a computer, they gave you four years of education, they trained you to go work under a computer, everything they want you to do is in the computer and you're just going to be someone doing what they have put into the computer. So what are you? You are a person with a computer that is your boss, you say "Wait a minute that should be in the program." I asked you a simple question, and you are telling me that it should be in the program.

They say, "Do you have a plan, do you have a marketing plan, where is the marketing plan?" Bring us some business and maybe we will have what you're talking about. First show me that you can do some practical things, that you have business sense, that you have a feel for what is correct and incorrect. They say, "Oh we need about a half million dollars," For what? It is going, it is progressing, it is looking better and better, we are in business already, we are selling, we are buying, we are selling, what do we need half million dollars right now for? "To pay me. I graduated from business college I didn't do that to come here and make nothing." Sorry, very sorry you want to go back there and help those meat cutters? That is the only job we have for you right now, sorry.

Immigration allowing foreigners to save U.S. business
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And right away we think this is black people's problem, no this is the problem for the American people's work force. Our work force has deteriorated so bad, that is why the government, immigration department has permitted so many Asians, Africans and others to come into the country, to save our country, save the business of our country because our work force can't qualify to do it, white and black, it is terrible. People who are working are the Asians, Indians, Arabs, Japanese, these people they still have work spirit, they still have respect, they value work. Our Americans, white and black all they want is money, they live for money, work for money, the values are not good for the work force.

Family motivated business

Family is what motivated people to want to make business. And our family is gone, family establishment is gone. So those who are still in the world, who are still devoted to family, America wants them and has opened the doors. They come in here, they work hard, they work with respect for work and they respect their boss. This African American in the catfish business, if you go there and see all those people working for him - - we saw them, Spanish, he has a few whites, blacks, a couple of them, that is all we could find. Maybe half of them are on their way out of the door.

And it is the non-whites and non-blacks of America who are really keeping him in business working hard and faithful, doing a beautiful job, they respect him.   We hire folks and you know the first thing they do, you hired them, you gave them the opportunity to make an income, the first thing they do is start looking to see who can they partner with, that you hired, they want partners to protect each other. Partners take advantage of the opportunity you have given them. So here you have hired people who are going to organize now to weaken you, to weaken your position, to weaken your authority and weaken the results that you expect from them by teaming up with each other, "oh here he comes, keep quiet, he's coming." We're not going to take that, we're not going down, I will cut my hand and leg off before we go down. If my own hand and leg was hurt, I would chop it off, take some fire and burn it to stop the blood from coming out and wrap it up with some rags until I can go to the hospital,   this is serious business. We are doing this for our future, for our life. We are doing this lo survive with dignity.

Marriage ceremony

We're going to start our sessions but it's going to be sometime later it should take me no more than a few minutes. At two o'clock I have an obligation that I accepted and I'm honored that I have been asked. A young sister wants me to officiate a marriage for them, they are here, Allahu Akbar. So we congratulate them and we wish them every good and every happiness, praise be to Allah (swt).

The sacred ceremony of marriage according to the guidelines for marriage in Al Islam, I will make a dua' and open with Al Fatiha, then after quoting from Quran, some verses I will then ask them to give their vows in the ears of myself and all these wonderful witnesses.

Al Islam requires we seek G-d and His approval, and His support for everything we do. This occasion is a very, very sacred occasion and a very, very beloved and beautiful occasion.

Marriage ceremony

This occasion is for the beginning of life and the occasion for the beginning of life goes back to the beginning of our father Adam and his mate. G-d charged Adam and his mate with being responsible not only to each other but being responsible to Him and being responsible for their duty in the earth, responsible for the environment.

So marriage is a big thing, it a big issue, every time a couple marries that first contract is repeated and they should look at their future the same way the first people looked at their future. Here is an opportunity to start life and make it right. And to make it beautiful Allah (swt) wants us to have life and a beautiful life and a productive life. A productive life in the sense of number one being successful as a family, as man and wife and as parents, but also a successful life in the world of opportunities.

We pray Allah (swt) bless them with all of that and we pray Allah (swt) bless them to have family and children that will be protected from the evils and harms of the world and that will give us a better future. Children and themselves who will contribute to us having a better future. And the future is yours may Allah (swt) bless you to make a great future.
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Allah (swt) says He has caused you to come together, in and woman   because of the sentiments of your ;art, your human affections. He created you of water id blood, He has given you your affections, your sensitivities and your affections are from G-d. And to marry is half of your duty, half of your religion, Muhammad the Prophet (pbuh) he said, "The people of my ummah marry, marriage is for us," because there are some religious communities that require their priests, their religious leaders not to marry. And by doing that maybe the message goes out to their members that to [' Stay away from the flesh and not marry is a virtue higher than the common people are prepared for, but that is not so. Marriage is a sacred responsibility and it is beautiful, it is holy and we want to always see it that way. And we should not forget that our reverence is for G-d, but we also should remember to reverence the family ties.

I hope that the marriage will strengthen your family on ' both sides and make you more proud and make your family members not you only, but your family members, your parents and all of your family members feel happy about this occasion and make them strong as a family M and more proud as a family. We began pray to Allah (swt) that He blessed this occasion and bless this couple, this wonderful and beautiful young couple with every good and every happiness that you seek Ameen.

Phillip B. Benjamin do you accept Latifa to be your wife in accordance with the Quran and the tradition of our Prophet (pbuh)?

Phil B. Benjamin: 

Yes I do.

Lateefah do you accept Phillip B. Benjamin to be your husband in accordance with the Quran and the tradition of our Prophet (pbuh)?

Yes I do.

Imam W D Mohammed:

Wonderful congratulations. Wasn't that wonderful? Blessings in Ramadan, you can expect beautiful things and good things to happen in Ramadan, don't ever be surprised. Wonderful young businessman, he finished college and went into business he and his family members and they have been successful and now he is saying that he wants to become also a member investor of CPC. And not a small investor in CPC, big money and we congratulate him and we pray that Allah (swt) increase him in help for his business, good help and open up more and more opportunities for his business Ameen.

Thank you brother Anthony, a wonderful businessman and his product I don't know if he knows where all of his products are being sold. We were in the Lincoln mall, that is near the area where we are now, a very big shopping mall area. We found his garments in the Lincoln mall, Heaven and Hell brand in the Lincoln mall. They are very attractive, youngsters love them, my sons, both of my sons that are with me here in this area, when they saw them they were ready to grab them, they said, "Can you hold one for me?" They are very appealing and this brother is very productive, creative and productive and every season he has a new line.

He is going to present to CPC his line for the coming season pretty soon and we're very proud of him. Anthony I know, many of them know you, stand up, some people don't know who I am talking about, he has fine products, he (Imam Shuaib) is wearing one of his shirts, that hat too? I got one too it is upstairs I had it down here earlier, I was wearing the cap too, and I mean fine products. So he advertises in the Muslim journal, we just want you to know that youngsters are grabbing them right up, and are eating them up and gobbling them like hot cakes.

And he is a great help for us, he agreed to support us, he faxed us a statement saying exactly what he already agreed to do. He agreed to support us with CPC, anything he can do for us he is ready to do it. He went over with the delegation that we sent to Thailand to see their factories and to do business for us and protect our interest, he went over there and they did a beautiful job. They were buying suits and made me feel very comfortable with what we are doing. He is ready to help us in all of our needs if he can, if there is something he can do. Really he is a special consultant for CPC. but he also has his own business that is a very, very beautiful business and a very successful business, the future is going to be even much greater for him. He says to me. I am reading his letter to me: "Imam Muhammad I commit all of my business skills, efforts to you, and this community" brother Anthony.
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A lady just walked in here who can tell you more things about me than I can't even tell you. Because she knew me from the time I was born until now.

My mother and my father had eight children, I say more than eight alive and I have only two sisters, the oldest is my sister Ethyl and the youngest sister Riyah, the baby sister in the family. Riyah was called before the Islamic name Lottie and she just walked in, I am happy to see her. Riyah do you believe I still love you as much as I ever did and more? I do, I have to say that because I'm so busy I am guilty of not staying in touch with my sister like I should.

And there is a beautiful sister in this community that I have known for some time, she is so close to my family and much supportive of our community that I feel she is a relative too, I feel that she is very close to us, sister Gladys Bostan. I know her husband, my mind is so filled with so many thoughts I can't tell you his name right now, Shamsideen. She cares about my sister and she went and got her and brought her here, thank you.

We want to begin where we left off in this session and we want to continue until about 15 minutes or ten minutes before Iftar if that is comfortable for you. I know some of you have to leave, you have to catch an airplane, if you have to go don't feel embarrassed or anything, if you have to leave early or even while I am speaking that is okay I understand that. I am letting you know how long this session is going to be. The session will go until about 4:15 p.m, let us say until    4:25 p.m en sha Allah (swt) and that will leave us almost 15 minutes before break fast. I think break fast time is about 4:35 p.m. it was 4:35 p.m. yesterday, but we allowed a minute extra so we do not want to be right on the scientific time, that is the scientific calculation that the sun set at 4:35 p.m.

So it might be 4:35 p.m. again today, this is Friday, Jumah. When you are going to bed at all the wrong limes, you don't know what day it is. I thought it was Friday. I have not yet hit that bed like I should, I thought it was still Friday. The scientific time is more reliable, we need to look in the paper, somebody needs lo look in paper. I need to see a paper. Sun times, Tribune any paper.

I get this paper delivered to my door every day, the Chicago Sun Times and the Chicago Tribune and I get a lot of other publications delivered to my door. I did not do that when I was a welder and had no responsibility but my family. But now I am your leader, and my obligation is to know what is happening in this world. How am I going to be your leader and I do not even know what is happening in the world, don't even know what is going on in the news? That is a poor leader, he should be fired. If you find out that he is that kind of leader you should fire him. Give him a warning, and if he does not straightened up and fly right, cut his wings off.

Devotional expressions of spiritual life

Masses are the resource for thinker leaders inventors

We are going to start again and we will start at the Devotional Expression of Spiritual Life, culture. We have already addressed this earlier in our sessions, but I will again address this. How the spirit of the people and especially the ones who contribute to the establishment and growth of the whole society in the different areas of interest, how they contribute to the beautiful pattern or designs that we see in our society, what we call cultural life. Immediately we think of the arts, the entertainment etc., but it includes every human expression that comes from the human individual and from the society itself.

We know that the thinkers, the visionaries, the skilled people, the professional people they are the ones who are making the greater contribution, but really their greatest resource is the common life of the people, that is their greatest resource. They are looking at the common life of the people, they are catering to the common life of the people and they are trying to prepare better for the common life of the people and serve the common life of the people better.    This is the main, I would say concern that moves in the artist, it moves in the entertainer, those who are in the performing arts and it moves in the educators and the neighborhood developers, the business people.

They are all contributing to the cultural life of the society along with many others, the sciences all of them. If they are not in touch with the common life of the people and responding to the common life of the people, the needs for that life and the aspirations for that life, then they are not really real creators, they are not real producers for the cultural life of the people.

G-d made man a creator, innovator
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Q.23.14; Allah is the best of creators 

So blessed be Allah the Best to create!"

Now you might say "What do you mean by creators? " I mean the power that G-d has given us to produce things I and when we produce these things for society or for people we say, "Oh that was so creative." If you come with something that strikes them that way, they say, "Oh that was so creative." And you will be given credit for creating new things for the society. And when G-d says that He is the best of creators, Allah (swt) says in His Holy Book, "He is the best of creators." When He says that He is respecting man's ability that He gave him to utilize or benefit from what G-d did originally, the first creation, to create himself new, previously unseen and beautiful things, wonderful things in their service and also in their appearance or in their beauty, their appeal to the eye that appreciates beauty.

Culture is the expression of the human spirit

Culture is the expression of the human spirit also. Everything that man produces for his world is an expression of the human spirit. If the human spirit is defective the product is defective and it will eventually punish the society.

Urban renewal made mistakes

In planning America's life many mistakes were made especially during urban renewal, the poor were not considered, the weak were not considered.

Urban renewal black businesses were lost

They planned to do something to give to the rich and to the established people that was in the poor people's community in their own establishments. So we lost, African-Americans and other poor people. We lost much of our business achievements, our accomplishments, we lost them and not only business we were hurt in many other ways too, to urban renewal. Urban renewal brought more hurt than happiness or goodness, no I'm not saying that.  But for us we were hurt more than anybody else. African-American people and minority groups, we lost a lot to urban renewal.

African-Americans lost more than any other ethnic group and it is because we don't have the community awareness and the community sense and devotion that other ethnic groups have. It seems like we are just looking for better situations for ourselves, so if there's a better situation, a better neighborhood to live in and we have to move out of our own neighborhood, we seem to have no problem doing that, at least this is our past behavior. We seem to have no problem doing that. We just pull up stakes and move and go in an all white neighborhood far away from our people and we were contributing, our presence there was contributing to the strength of that neighborhood, to the strength of that community.

So we have weakened our community, we have really taken the support from our businesses by not having a strong community sense and a strong commitment to our community. It is automatic for other ethnic groups to think community. The Mexican will think the Mexican community, the Polish will think the Polish community, the Irish will think the Irish community and on and on and on. But the African-American, just a few of us will think the African-American community before we make decisions that, for ourselves, that may negatively affect our community. No we just go we don't even think of the consequences to our community.

Blacks shopping in other places weakens their own neighborhood

We hear of a new business, a new store and we say, "Oh that store is fabulous, have you been there girl, have you seen it yet?" It is 25 miles away from your area, deep into the area of another group. Now you're going to take your money out of your area even if you don't own the store, if Jewel's is there, you're going to take your money from Jewel's now in your neighborhood and you're going to go way over to Jewel's or a Dominick's or somebody else 25 miles from you because your friend told you that place is exciting "And they have, oh the products look so good girl. They have vegetables and produce miles of it."   It is ok to go there and see it and maybe come back with a few things, but you should still frequent your neighborhood store because you take tax dollars out of your neighborhood and you take business out of your neighborhood to another.

So here you are contributing your finances to another neighborhood and making that neighborhood financially strong, you are contributing to its strength and you have taken away from your own, this is not good community sense, that should stop. We have to keep working against that until our people are normal, that is not normal to
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take your money from your neighborhood, from your community and strengthen somebody else's neighborhood and their community, it is not normal.

And I know what you say, "Well what if mine is not good?" What did people do in history, what have they done when they had a need or problem for their community? The conscious neighbors met and discussed the problem, they said, "Look we have a problem, now all of us need this store, we get our supplies from the store, but this store is not respecting us. It is giving us inferior stuff, not keeping the place clean, undesirables coming in and out of that business," whatever the problems are. The prices keep going up higher and higher and we see no justification for these high prices. Community life obligates members of that community, neighbors to protect the interests of that community for all members of that community.

Neighbors should assist the businessman if necessary

So we are obligated to keep community watch and don't just throw up our hands and walk away from problems in our community, let us put our heads together and address the problems in our community. Let us go to the businessman and say, "We support you. If we all would pull out or stop trading with you, you would not want that would you? Here are our complaints. Can you satisfy our complaints? We know it is going to be difficult for you, we are prepared to work with you so that you can satisfy our complaints."

And even if you have to have some people volunteer from the neighborhood to go in and sweep, wash, paint, maybe his money is out, maybe he is struggling, you should help him. Because when you help him, you help your community, he is a supplier in your community, when you help him, you help your community. Now if it is not justifiable to do that tell him, "No you're making good money, you're able to do these things yourself, you have to do this, you have to improve this business." If it is not improved it becomes an eyesore on the neighborhood or the community and if you leave it, money is taken out of your community and put into another community.

Community watch is for all needs not just crime

We need community sense, that means we need more involvement in what happens in our community. If we do not have a group that is serving as a community watch, then you should get together and say, "We need a small group, a small body of persons to serve us as a community watch." Good neighborhoods have that, don't they? Good neighborhoods have community watch, but the African-American it looks like they are just there for crime, crime just occupies them, community watch is just for crime. Community watch should be for every important need to watch the interest of that community, the whole interest of that community, not just crime, it should not be just for crime.

We need to become much more community sensitive, and accept that the responsibility is on each and every citizen of that neighborhood or that community to watch, look out for and work in the interest of that community, that obligation is on all of us.

Consumer awareness regarding inferior products

Consumer awareness is knowing when the prices are too high, knowing when the products are inferior, knowing when you're not being dealt with fairly by business, that is very important. They should not be only in the hands of individual members, we need to structure governmental bodies, and not put everything on the federal government and the local government, but do what other groups do. They do not leave all of their interests to government, they form themselves little government bodies to protect their interests, we have to develop that too.

We have it in-house but let us start doing it with our Christian neighbors. A Christian neighbor who is trying to get our community to be more conscious and to protect itself against bad things that are happening, even bad business operations, let us join those persons, let us be a part of it, let us be with them. And if it does not exist at all and no one is doing this, let us do it and Allah (swt) will be with us even much more.

I want to do this myself, I am too busy with the responsibilities of this office that I have as your leader, I am too busy, but occasionally I've gone out, I've done those things, nobody knew about it but me and the people I went to. Occasionally I do something to help the community, to protect the community, the environment and the members of that community. But 1 wish I had more time, I love doing that and I believe I can be very successful working with neighbors to pull together, the people who care and work to have a beautiful, very strong successful community.
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Organize your neighborhood associations

I believe I can do that, I know I can do that, and I really would love doing that, so I'm asking you to do that and it is very, very important, it is our obligation as Muslims to care about not only ourselves but also our neighbors, .this is what Muhammad the Prophet (pbuh) told us. To jf know your obligation is to your neighbor, to care about |/ your neighbor, do not even rest going to bed knowing that your neighbors next door they are going to bed hungry, these are the teachings of the Prophet (pbuh), so we have to care about the neighbor.

Culture and individuals are threatened by the same things

All of this is protection for the cultural life, what threatens our cultural life more than anything else are those things that threaten the individual's life, drugs, crime, violence etc., these are the things that are hurting the cultural life more than anything else, we should address those things.

Weak Business life invites neighborhood problems

If you weaken the business life of a neighborhood or of a community, then you really invite all those other problems. So let us see the whole picture and work to keep our community and our culture healthy and progressing.

Breath in society Right spirit makes the world right

If the spirit is right the world will be right, if the spirit is right in the business people responsible for the business life of the community, the business will be right. If the spirit is right for the artist, the art will be right. Those who are performing for us in the culture, the artist, what they show us, what they present to us, their theater, whatever they have it will be good for the community, it will be right if the spirit is right. If we want to help change the material look and the material appearance in all of this design, business, art, industry, everything, education whatever it is, if we want to change all that we should be involved with those who are doing those things, in making those things happen, but if we have the right leadership and if we're coming from G-d's guidance we can blow a breath into the society, we can breathe into the society a spirit that would change that whole society

M. 104

Breath Quran to revive fallen cities 

Q. 2.259; See how their roofs have caved in

Or (take) the similitude of one who passed by a hamlet all in ruins to its roofs. He said: "Oh! how shall Allah bring it (ever) to life after (this) its death?"

If we can just affect the spirit of the people in that society by breathing into them what G-d has blessed us with of His spirit the whole life will change. So it is not as hard as we think it is, is it? Allah (swt) speaks of the life and death not only of human beings, flesh and blood persons but Allah (swt) in His Quran, in His Book, our Book that He gave us speaks of the life and death of communities, cities, towns and He say, "See how they have deteriorated their roofs are caving in?" And then something is done and the town is renewed, He said, "And likewise is a resurrection of the dead."

Q. 89.30; Enter you My garden 

Genesis 2.15; Man dress the garden

"And the Lord God took the man, and put him into the garden of Eden to dress it and to keep it."

So Allah (swt) doesn't leave us to just think about the resurrection of human mortals after they die, Allah (swt) want us to think of also the resurrection of our environment after it dies. He tells us you should work for a resurrection of your community, do not let it stay in bad repair, but do what you know should be done to give new life and beauty to your community. And G-d made man, put him in the garden to be custodian, caretaker in that garden, isn't that the story of our beginning, the human family's beginning in the Quran and in the Bible? Yes, it never changes our obligation will remain the same, we can blame the federal government, we can blame the local government but G-d blames each and every human being He created for letting his life and his neighborhood deteriorate.

Greatest happiness is when we accept responsibilities

The greatest happiness we can have comes to us when we accept our responsibilities that G-d has given us and when we try to perform the best we can answering or trying to answer those responsibilities. When we do that
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we have the maximum happiness in our life. More happiness comes to the worker than comes to lazy person, more happiness comes to worker than comes to the silly person, the person who just engages in play, fun and folly, they fight their happiness, their happiness is a cosmetic happiness. The real happiness that which stays and it is all the way down, is not just a decoration on the outer surface, the happiness is all the way through and through. It is the happiness of the person who serves G-d in community for the benefit of the community and is not idle. Once you accept and fall in love with your duty to serve not only yourself, but also your community once you fall in love, that love makes you much more powerful, makes you much more energetic than you were before you had that love.

Now you are so resourceful, you have so much energy, they ask me, "Imam where do you get the energy, where your get the stamina? Imam get some rest."   Thank you I will and believe me I will get rest because I want to stay fit for this job, this job is important to me than this individual life. It is more important than my personal life. So I am going to get rest because I know if I don't I won't be able to do this job.

And don't you be stupid brother. Just keep going and you know you're not getting enough sleep, your wife is telling you, your children are telling you, "Daddy you better get some rest." They know you will risk a stroke or a heart attack, they are cautioning you and you think you are protecting your interest. Protecting your interest is protecting yourself. You keep yourself fit and that is the protection for your interest, even if you have to close up the shop for two days, you close up on a holiday anyway, you close it up for vacation don't you? Well I am telling you if you are sick or approaching a stroke or something it is time to take a vacation say, "Temporarily closed for a short vacation, say, see you Monday," and go to bed and get some sleep, take care of yourself please. Because you who are with us, we need you.

Don't worry about me, I am a conscious person and 1 know I am a sensible person and I know that if I do not take care of my health and get rest I will not be around to do this work. I will get my rest. I sleep on the plane, I sleep in the car while somebody is driving, I even let somebody drive, I say, "You want to drive?" I give them my seat, I sleep in a business place waiting to be seen, if they have a seat, I sleep in the bank waiting to be served. I thank Allah (swt) for Muhammad Abdullah he told me, "Get sleep whenever you can because you never know when you will not be able to get it." That is what I do. So it is no miracle, it is no spook here, this is a real man.

Dialectic expression in the community life

Q. 40.7; G-d's reach over all in mercy and knowledge

"Our Lord! Thy reach is over all things in Mercy and Knowledge."

Matter is logical and intelligent

There is a logic supporting everything, if anything stays it is because there is a logic supporting it. The world was built to be an intelligent body, I am talking about the physical matter itself, the system of matter is an intelligent body. And because it is an intelligent body it is also a sustaining body, it is sustained.

When we say intelligent what do we mean for creation? Creation is an intelligent composition, it is an intelligent construction, it is intelligent. Where are we coming from? When we study it we see laws and we see functions that we can measure and that we can perceive a design for, so we see a logic supporting it. Allah (swt) says in Quranic Arabic "Rab banaa wasia kul la shayen rahmatan wa ilman." In one place of Quran maybe more than one place.   Rahma means compassion, mercy, it means that for everything we look at there is knowledge or science, it is not only a physical body it is a knowledge body.

Not only a material body or physical body it is a body holding science, exact science, so when we are coming from or really expressing the innocence of our own nature and the beauty of our own nature whether we are planning this or not, when it comes out it comes out as a knowledge body, it comes out as a logic.

Music is from nature, man and animal

No musician sits down firstly, in the beginning and planned a logic for his expressions, pages came from his feelings, from his mind, from his natural rhythms he came. Like a bird whistles and it is a song, it is music. And then the man whistles this is song in music and it
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has a natural rhythm, measured rhythm, precisely measured, it is a logic.

Nature is logical and extends the message of logic

So nature itself is designed to come from a logic and to extend the message of logic, we're talking about the dialectic or that dialectical expressions in community life, that is what we are addressing right now.

Jazz is spontaneous is from nature not your thoughts

In jazz they call it spontaneous expressions, meaning that you did not think about it, you did not plan it with your mind, you just responded to the drumbeat inside you. There was a drumbeat inside of you boom, boom, boom and it is exact timing.

Heart beat Allah wants to set us to time

I guess when Allah (swt) created this heart in us He wanted to set us to time, in precise measurements, boom, boom, boom. The army when it marches, maybe -- this is not your appetite, am I pleasing you? I could be dining at the Lord's table it might not be what you like and I am going with you, maybe you should not be the guest, raise your hands if you're OK. If you are not OK tell me I know how to talk, I know how to get into another vein, a different groove, I like this one right now.

Jazz is spontaneous that is the nature of jazz, am I correct? I have some people who know about Jazz, if I am not correct I want you to correct me. As I understand the nature of Jazz it is spontaneity, it is its nature, that is how it started, spontaneity. And look how beautiful it is and look how it has survived many forms of music or expressions of music, jazz is still here, we still love it, you can still turn on that jazz station and get that beautiful Jazz like I do.

Q. 40.7; G-d's reach over all mercy and knowledge

Quranic Arabic says, "Wasia kul la shayen rahmatan wa ilman." Now "Ilman" is a logic, a science and because of that we have a mercy that comes with it. This material world in its natural form and order has been the resource for all kinds of products and ideas because an individual was attracted to these natural things.

Artist inspired by G-d's artwork

The artist goes to G-d's artwork for his skill, not only his skill, for his interests. It is G-d's beautiful work that inspired this desire in the person to be an artist, to be a painter, to be a musician, whatever, it is the beauty in His work that inspired the artist.

Industrialist inspired by G-d's works creation

Don't think the industrialists is not also the artist, he is producing beautiful art, they do not classify it like that a but doesn't he have to have appreciation for beauty and art to build the nice structures that he builds? And if he's not excelling in that, if he is a big businessman and a big developer he will have somebody on his team with that interest, with that sensitivity and those skills to help them put beauty in his works. And when he builds buildings and the towns didn't mercy, compassion also come with science? When the science was taken up and used to build scientific structures or exact measured structures conforming to exact measurements and etc. and with beauty it becomes a more comfortable environment for us. Isn't that the explanation for the Quranic statement "Wasia kul la shayen rahmatan wa ilman ?" Certainly that is the explanation for that.

Construction for science and better conditions for man

G-d is telling us that is just not revelation for you to listen to and hear and say, "Oh that is beautiful." G-d has created things so that all things communicate science and mercy. It is to say that when you become a builder, when you begin utilizing science to construct things in the world or to add to My creation for your world, remember that I did My wonderful work not only for science, but also for better conditions to come to My creatures a mercy. I gave My gift of My creation to you as a mercy to your intellect, not only to your environment but it is mercy to your intellect. You would be struggling and straining and suffering to come up with better ideas forever if I had not created My world to speak to your mind Allahu Akbar.

The Word of G-d is life

So this is very important that you say, "Why does he talks so long?" These are not words alone these are words and spirit. The words of G-d are words that are formed by man respecting the words of G-d, its life, life. life. G-d gives us life with His Word and I mean life for the whole body, for the whole community He gives us
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life. Let us learned leaders of this community, let us learn to appreciate science more, appreciate logic more, respect logic more. Let us stop being only "Figs" let us become "Zaytun" translated the olive. The fig is so easy for you to work with, you don't have to worry about breaking your dental when chewing figs, but Allah (swt) also gave us the olive, lets eat olives too. And let us get the benefit of the oil, let us take the oil and study its essence and let us light it so it will illumine our minds and our environment.

Better Help is in creation not college textbooks

Let us become lovers of creation with the mind that appreciates logic, the exact sciences and let us not forget (hut the necessary thing for this interest and development is G-d's creation. All those scripture though they are very valuable, we cannot ignore what man has written down to record his own experiences and achievements, but know that the better help is not in those college textbooks, the better help is in the world G-d created.

If you will be like the establishment and use the books but also go to the world that G-d created we will have a renewal of life, we will have a revival, will have a new community springing up in America like that, that sprung up in Arabia a thousand and twenty four years ago. It can happen again and it is going to happen again.

Just as that happened in Arabia it is going to happen again in this community for people who were written off they said, "Oh they will never be able to take care of themselves." Yes we will, not only are we going to take care of ourselves, we are going to take care of our obligations to our neighbors, we are going to take care of our obligations to the United States of America. We are going to take care of our obligations to mankind, all people.

And just as the first followers of Muhammad (pbuh) in less than 20 years begin to serve the whole family of mankind, we will too. You may say, "That is already being done, why should we?" Because maybe Allah (swt) has willed that we go in front of all those who are doing it now, maybe Allah (swt) wants us to be leaders to give the world better than it has gotten before, maybe Allah (swt) wants that so let us do it.

If you want to do it like I want to do it, if you have the tenacity of will and spirit that the Honorable Elijah Muhammad had and that I have and some of you I know have. I know you have it and you keep working what we are working with it is going to happen whether the majority of us care about it or not, is going to happen.

It is going to go from us into our seed, our children are going to inherit what we got and they are going to become more in number and better equipped than we are, and it is going to happen. What I'm asking you to do now it is going to happen. I'm not a Prophet, but I predict that 100 years from now people who stay with this work that we are performing are going to be among the most important people and leaders in this world, that is my prediction. It is going to come true en sha Allah (swt) and I know it is His will. It is going to become true because of His will it is going to come true.

Shuraa members are the most qualified persons 

Q. 42.38; Believers conduct affairs by shuraa

"Those who hearken to their Lord and establish regular prayer; who (conduct) their affairs by mutual Consultation; who spend out of what We bestow on them for Sustenance;"

Allah (swt) says in the Quran "The believers conduct their affairs by shuraa." "Shuraa Baynahum," amongst them or shuraa between them. What does it mean "Baynahum"? It means by mutual consultation and the tradition, the history of our first leader of this ummah is Muhammad (pbuh) himself and during his time the shuraa was made up of the most qualified persons. That does not mean that lesser qualified persons or anybody is not accepted or allowed to influence shuraa or to participate in shuraa, it does not mean that at all.

Shura should have various levels

But there should be levels of shuraa , for the Prophet (pbuh) there were those in his circle with the highest level of shuraa, but if you have concerns like - - say if this was our building here, this building has to be taken care of. It should not be one person saying how this building is to be cared for, and what should be done without respecting that maybe some others that he has working with him may have something to contribute that is missing. So he has to open up to others and not just make decisions (by himself).

Muhammad the Prophet (pbuh) never behaved like that, he was a wonderful man, no matter how heavy the load was or how important the task was, if it was big or small
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before he did it he would say, "What do you think about Ihis?" He would invite other people in this, it is the nature of the human being. When you're a whole human being that is your nature, you do not like imposing your way on people, even though you know you're more qualified than they are, you just don't like that, that is beneath your dignity to impose your way on people and not giving them a chance to tell you what they think about or how they feel about it.

Or what they can do to contribute to or help you with your responsibility, invite those people to help you with your responsibility, no matter how high responsibility is or how low it is. If it is something that is going to affect not only you but the community, then involve more than yourself in the decision-making. This is shuraa and it is supposed to be on all levels I repeat.

Muhammad the Prophet (pbuh) he said, "If you have a task to do, even if it is no more than something like sweeping the floor, but it requires more, it is a big job, you need help it too. Appoint someone to head up the project and that someone is obligated to involve those who are working with him in the decision-making. You have worked with people I am sure brother, painting, cleaning the yard whatever doesn't it work well when one is in charge and the one in charge says, "Oh here's the job we have to do fellas," and he does not tell you to shut up if you say, "Well I think we need to get this I think we need that, I think we need to start over there first." The good team leader he does not tell you, "I don't want to hear what you have to say." G-d has given him the nature to respect shuraa, shuraa is our nature.

So he listens to you although he is the boss for the job, he listens to you he says, "Ok we're going to do it this way." After he has listened to you, right? He just did not go without saying, "Ok fellows here is what we have to do." If you want to speak he's going to listen to you, he will hear you out and maybe there is another one that has something to say, he's going to hear him out. And after he digests what everybody has said, he might say, "Ok we're going to leave that alone, what you said Willie we're going to leave that alone, but we're going with this OK?" And the fellas see that he is a good team leader, the fellas see that he is a democratic leader.

So even though he did not accept my contribution I am just as excited about getting to work as the rest of them because I know he is a fair team leader and he respects each individual working on his team. That was Muhammad the Prophet (pbuh) that is his leadership und that is the way we have to be leaders.

Imam people won't come to you if you 're a dictator

Imams and workers in different offices and areas, all of us should be that way and we will have a beautiful community and a much more productive community. People will not come to you if you are a dictator, many people won't come to you or they will say, "Let that fool do it by himself."

Shuraa, remember As Shuraa is the name of a month loo, in the Quran is not As Shuraa, Imam Yusuf uses it a lot too, it is shuraa. We are about to conclude this aren't we? Wouldn't that be wonderful then we could use the rest of this time to engage each other in dialectic conversation.

Securing the ethical rule Fitra

Moral life forms of human sensitivities

Let me begin with the Fitra, the original nature of man its innocence and purity, Fitra. Now life forms of human sensitivities, G-d has created us to be sensitive. Man in seen in many pictures, in the picture of logical structure, our bones have logical structure for the symmetry of our bodies, but man is also seen in the picture of his sensitivities.

Q. 4.56; As often as a layer of skin is burned we replace it

"Those who reject Our Signs We shall soon cast into the fire: as often as their skins are roasted through We shall change them for fresh skins that they may taste the
penalty: for Allah is Exalted in Power Wise."

In the Quran Allah (swt) says, "He covered the body with a piece of skin and when one skin is burned away it will be replaced with another skin and you keep losing your skin to the fires of hell." One of the names of the Prophet (pbuh) himself and it is the name for all of us is "Bashir". "Bashir" means mortal, but really what is the constitution of man, what part of his life or feature in hi* life is being referred to with this language "Bashir"? There are some pious people, they are turned on to Muhammad the Prophet (pbuh) as "Bashir" so much they refer to him as "Sayyedenaa Bashar" translated "Our master." the human model. This word "Bashir"
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really has reference to our skin, the outer surface of our body.

Touch helps the child to develop socially

Science says that parents who will not cover the baby or parents who will not use their hands to show their love and affection for their children deprive the child- - my mother was something else. She was one of the toughest women I have ever known, but at the same time one of the softest that I've ever known. I have been asleep and slightly awakened by my mother, she would be rubbing me, I read in science that touch communicates love to your children. And that touch helps them develop sociably, if they don't get it they do not develop beautifully as a member of the social community. Many of them were not developed beautifully because they were denied that touch.

Rubbing the skin communicates love

So if you want your children to be healthy and be prepared to be healthy members in the social body, in the community and to be better students in the classroom, do not deny them the skin to skin, flesh to flesh contact. That is why they say, "Did you hug your child today?" But do not just hug the child, do what my mother did, she rubbed me, it communicates love, this communicates a different interest. She'd say, "Come here son", she would rub me when I was sleep and sometimes I would be awake or in the room, she'd say, "Come here son" I would come and she would rub me.

Nature taught her that, she did not learned that from anybody else, that was her nature, mother nature gave her that. And she was expressing her love for her child, not only me she did it to the other children too.

Bashar means sensitive mortal

My mother would rub her hand on me, she was communicating her love for me that was helping me form as a beautiful person.

So back to this "Bashar" it means mortal and the mortal means sensitive, a sensitive life. Now you go to the desert of Arizona like I have, and cross that desert you will see something running across that desert and you will say, "What the hell was that? It looks like a rock running across the desert." There is a little water out there to soften the life and give it that sensitive outer body.

So there's something running across the desert that looks just like something, inactive, dead, it looks like a rock I am telling you. I have seen something running across the desert looking like a rock running across the desert a piece of dead wood, a lifeless thing. It looked like it had no life, speeding through the sand, through the desert.

The abused victim remains hurt if he doesn't give love

So this is very important for understanding what a human being is supposed to be, a human being is supposed to have human sensitivity. Some of us we are| treated so bad or our giving love is treated so bad we tighten up and say, "I am not going to love anybody again." You are punishing yourself, not the person who hurt you, you're punishing yourself, don't do that. I have a poem that I have written about that, I entertain myself with my poems. I have a guitar too, I didn't get my lessons yet but I'm going to get them. Be a complete person enhance the beautiful life Allah (swt) created for us.

Q.23.14; Man created dust, sperm, clot, bone, flesh

"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!" 
Quran says "Then He clothed the body with flesh." These are stages in the development, how G-d created man, step-by-step in his development or in his growth in the womb of the mother. Then He clothed him with flesh in Arabic it says, "Thumma ansha'naa khalqan akhar," it is translated "Thereafter another creation," it means another process for his development that will bring him from step one to the finish, to the last step. Again this will be repeated for him and he will have another, a new creation G-d promises that.

Bashar one who is alive to the needs of his fellow man

Now the next creation it would not just be "Lahma'1 because "Lahma" does not say skin, skin says
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sensitivity, "Lahma" does not say skin or sensitivity. So He says, 'Thumma ansha'naa khalqan akhar." Meaning the next progression will create the "Bashar" the one who is alive lo the needs of his fellow man, alive to the life of his fellow man as he is alive to his own life. And really he becomes more live to his own life when he becomes more humanly sensitive. So this is the "Sayydenaa Bashar." The humanly sensitive person.

Moral life must have strong human sensitivities

We cannot really have strong moral life without strong human sensitivities. And like G-d promises a second creation for human beings after being born in the womb or finished in the womb of the mother or in the body of the mother, morality is naturally expressed, it is expressed even on your little baby in the bed. Morality means choices, making choices, moral life makes choices. If we can have a room like the fresh air out in the rural areas after the rain comes down we prefer that air to the stale air don't we? Well that sensitivity is the same sensitivity that expresses itself in moral choices.

This is selecting that which you are more comfortable with. And we're not comfortable only with things we feel with our hands, we have to be comfortable with things we, smell, comfortable with things we taste, etc., comfortable with things we look at, so if it is something distasteful to our eyes we say, "Oh that is ugly." Behavior we look at it, we say, "Oh that is ugly." So that is your moral sense speaking, that is your moral nature speaking. Then it expresses itself by saying, "This behavior is wrong, our society condemns it. It is morally wrong," right?

Sensitivity born again into ethical logic

Logic unchecked creates the problems for society

G-d promises us another creation, He gives us another creation for our moral sensitivities.   Those sensitivities coming into our reasoning and we look at your logic and we say, "That logic is not ethical."   So ethical is just a higher expression of moral life, we want ethical life or an ethical society. It is only a higher expression of the moral life that we want. It is higher because now we are obligating our logic to be fair, our logic to be compassionate. And it is usually the logic that creates the real problem for society.

Leaders without sensitivity create abusive societies

When the leaders who do not have the "Bashar" development they are not humanly sensitive, when they get into authority and they start ordering the society and influencing the order of the society they can take us into an ugly and hard, oppressive society and it will punish us rather than show us mercy. It will give us pain and misery rather than mercy or compassion.

Women increasing in the Leadership of ASM

So our logic, this is where we are now brothers and sisters in the leadership and thank Allah (swt) for blessings us with sisters to increase in our leadership. Our sisters are increasing numbers in the leadership of this community and we thank Allah (swt) for that.

Leaders must have love in the intellect

We are not just to think of moral needs and moral questions, we are to think of obligations on our logic, obligations on our leaders' thinking.   We are to obligate our leaders thinking to respect the good moral life and nature and to have ethical life for this community where moral interest has now gone up to the logic of this community and our logic is respecting correct choices, respecting human nature, human sensitivity. We need more love in this community and we will not have that love strongly established unless that love is in the intellect of our leaders. Love has to be in the intellect of our leaders, you have to be lovers not just rocks and stones.

Some say, "Oh I know I am the pillar of this Mosque. And I will not ever break or give in." Yes you are a solid rock, but do you love your work, do you love the people you want to accept your work, do you love them too? Do you love them enough to put love in your thoughts when you're planning for them? Do you love them enough to obligate your wisdom to love them also? If you do you are going to help us build an ethical community or society.

Securing the ethical rule

Q. 62.2: Prophet instructs and purifies

"It is He Who has sent amongst the Unlettered an apostle from among themselves to rehearse to them His Signs to sanctify them and to instruct them in Scripture
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and Wisdom although they had been before in manifest error."

When Allah (swt) says that He sent Muhammad (pbuh) to lead mankind out of the darkness into the light and to purify them, is that to purify only one aspect or several aspects of their life and leaving something unpurified? His mission is to purify or bring us to message from G-d to purify our whole life. So everything that we have falls under the moral obligation. Our education falls under the moral obligation and if our education falls under moral the obligation our moral interest is going to express itself in ethical teachings. The moral obligation is going to be recognized when we hear you educate us, when we hear you educate children.

Ethics constructs entities conforming to a moral need

We are going to feel it in your language when you're communicating knowledge that you respect the moral obligation, that is ethics. When the way you put something together logically conforms to a moral need that is ethics. They have an ethics committee don't they protecting our United States of America, protecting the citizens and the life of the country?

Ethics committee watches the thinking of leaders

The ethics committee is to watch the thinking of the leaders in government that will affect their performance and also affect the nature of our society, if they do not respect the rules of ethics on them. You don't just plan and write laws and organize activities with your brain you have to do it also with consideration for the moral obligation on you, then when you have thinkers respecting that you're going to have an ethical society.

These great religions want more for us and they are obligated to give us more than the baby level of correct choices or moral sensitivity and life. They have to give us more than that. Al Islam, Judaism, Christianity are more than just spiritual teachings, it is rational teachings, it is science, it is ethics. Christian ethics, Jewish ethics, Islamic ethics, so the higher development for the society is not a simple common person's idea of what is right and wrong, a common moral society, an ordinary society of moral life for the common thinker or for the ordinary mind, it is also an ethical society.

Q. 14.1: Prophet reveled the Book to lead out of darkness

"Alif Lam Ra. A Book which We have revealed unto thee in order that thou mightest lead mankind out of the depths of darkness into light by the leave of their Lore to the Way of (Him) Exalted in Power Worthy of all Praise! "

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Knowledge without mercy punishes people 

Q. 40.7; G-d's reach over all in mercy and knowledge

Allah (swt) says of him that he was sent to take us out of darkness into the light and to purify us, it means that G-d has missioned him to lead us to ethical society. Our thinkers and our logic, engaging things without consideration for what hurts and harms human beings takes us off the course of mercy. Knowledge without mercy punishes people, "Wasia kul la shayen rahmatan j wa ilman." It is translated, He has caused everything to communicate, to extend both science and mercy.

Imams don't be satisfied with limited education

We are to secure for ourselves an ethical rule, not just a moral rule, but an ethical rule we have to have leaders ii this community educated better. Don't be satisfied to have a limited amount of education and keep the responsibility of being Imam over people. If you are not ready to increase your education from an elementary level to high school level and then to college level you should be ready to resign your position. This is not a religion that limits our growth to elementary school level, it wants us to go to the highest level of education. "Well what about you brother Imam? You and your father, you didn't get it." You do not know what you're talking about, 1 am an educated man, many of you college graduates I don't consider you on my level academically at all. I could not have done it without G-d,| but with G-d's help I have attended the biggest university that is in existence, the University of the universe.

WD Mohammed graduated from the universe of Islam

Q. 57.21: Garden its width is as the heavens and earth
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"Be ye foremost (in seeking) forgiveness from your Lord and a Garden (of Bliss) the width whereof is as the width of heaven and earth prepared for those who believe in Allah and His apostles: that is the Grace of Allah which He bestows on whom He pleases: and Allah is the Lord of Grace abounding."

G-d said He will give us a field to work in and its expanse is as the expanse of the heavens and the earth.

I tell you G-d has freed me to go into that big university and He has taken me by the hand and He has led me to one level after another. And He has educated me and I am a graduate of the University of Al Islam Allahu Akbar. And if you don't believe it when I speak on the these kind of passages look at the face of your professors and you'll see that they know that they are listening to a degreed man. I have told different ones, professors and doctors "I would like to go back to school." They said, "What can we teach you?" You can teach me a lot, what they're saying is that, "You are on a level - - what do you mean you are going to come in here? We are going to be embarrassed teaching you." Now you may think this is not real, but that's real.

I have talked to them I said "I wish I could even have some private classes from you. " They are so humbled before me I am not saying this - -1 have no ego, they are so humbled before me, they are embarrassed that I asked them. They "Brother Imam what we're going to teach you?" They recognize the insights that G-d has blessed me with and they recognize that I see further and higher then they do. That is not done for me I am happy as a welder, that is done for you. You don't love your child that G-d gave you? G-d gave you a child, the community has a child and He educated that child for you, you don't want that? I know you all do I am trying to get the rest of them.

Securing the ethical rule

Education is in the forefront of all of our efforts. Taqwa, Jihad needs education in the forefront, behind it is our Taqwa, behind it is our determination to succeed and fight blocked ways or obstructions in our way. But what should be in the forefront? Education is always in the forefront, education leads societies, education lifts up societies, education beautifies societies, education sustains societies. Education opens up possibilities that would not be otherwise opened for society, education is the Herald of civilization. Education is the leader for civilization, opening up new ways, new opportunity, beautifying the life etc.

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Not just any education, it has to be an education that is in response to the need of community life, not just individual needs or the needs of a certain institution, but the needs for the whole community.

The Quran sensitizes and gives insight

So this is what the Quran gives us, the Quran sensitizes us and then prepares us to follow laws, rules and principles of logic, so to benefit the whole community. So to benefit the whole community it becomes the body of knowledge influencing our thoughts and educating our professions, influencing our thoughts and equipping us better and giving us insight that we would not otherwise have, the Quran does that.

Imam to lead this community must study Quran

Al Hadith  lp.361#l I lw: China go for knowledge

Anas reported the Prophet (pbuh) said, "Search knowledge though it be in China."

So if you want to be best prepared to lead this community to success you should make yourself a student of the Quran, study the Quran, become a student of the Quran and get help from others who are better qualified than you, even if you have to go out of the community, to members of the other ethnic community, do that. "Travel as far as China in search of knowledge," isn't that what Muhammad the Prophet (pbuh) said? I am sure there was no Islamic community in China at that time, he was saying even go to those who have a different religion, not even belonging to your sister
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community of religion. Because Judaism for us is a sister community and the Christian community, is a sister community, we three are sister communities of religion.

But the Buddhist in China they are not even in the family of our religion and Al Islam had not gone to China yet. And the Prophet Muhammad (pbuh) he said, "Go even to the far country of China in search for knowledge." So let us not just hear these things and not get the full impact of what it said.

Spiritual republic

Q. 9.108; Masjid foundation built on Taqwa

"There is a Mosque whose foundation was laid from the first day on piety; it is more worthy of thy standing forth (for prayer) therein."

Q. 91.8; The soul has its Taqwa and Fujur

We will address "The spiritual Republic" to conclude this session and this presentation. Al Islam like the Constitution of these United States seeks to build the society it wants upon the pure, sacred, productive essence of the human being G-d created. The Mosque if is the proper Mosque that is fit for our prayers, our sujud, our sajdah ii is the Mosque whose foundation from the very beginning has Taqwa and it is pronounced in the Quranic Arabic, "Lamasjedun Us-sesa 'alat taqwaa," and it is translated as, "It was founded or built upon Taqwa." Is Taqwa a property of G-d's existence or a property of human existence? It is a property of human existence.

Taqwa is respect, regardfulness

In the creation of the human being G-d said that He gave the human its Taqwa and its Fujur, it is for the human. So here is a Mosque built upon a property that is given by G-d but it is a property of my own human composition or construction, it is Taqwa.  It is built upon Taqwa. What is Taqwa? Regardfulness.  Isn't it respect for things of value that accounts for man building valuable structures whether they are concrete or abstract, whether they are seen visibly with our eyes or just appreciated or seen with our minds?

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If they're beautiful and valuable to human society the persons who account for the creation of these things or] for the building of these things or for the contributions these things were people who had respect for things of value.

So we must first have respect for things of value especially those we charge with responsibility to care for our community and to promote its growth etc. We must have appreciation in us for things of value and we must regard them and respect them. The honorable Elijah Muhammad really dwelled on that, to respect things of value, respect this property, respect yourself, wasn't that his teaching? That was his voice wasn't it? Respect yourself, respect this property, respect your responsibility that w have given you, respect your post that we assigned you to, this was the honorable Elijah Muhammad. A man who was always stressing the need for us to have respect for things of value. And he was a very strong and productive leader. In fact it was almost like a miracle, he having only three formal years of education in the South that was as far as he went, the third grade in education.

So the spiritual republic it is founded upon the appreciation for the equal valuable essence, order and dignity of every man and woman G-d created and it is founded upon that. Now if you're going to be a community of people your psyche is made more powerful, I could say your spirit is made more powerful, but not only the spirit, your psyche. If you don't know that word, do what I told my son to do make a mental note and go to the dictionary and look it up P.S.Y.C.H.E

Your psyche is empowered much more when you're working with things of higher value. The savage cannot produce much for the world because he does not value human life like the enlightened man in the enlightened society.  He doesn't have the appreciation for human life, for his own life that enlightened society has. So his contributions are really thwarted, blocked by his little evaluation of his own worth. Allah (swt) does not want us to estimate our worth and value to be something low. He gives us a high picture of our value as His creation. He has valued as above all the other life forms He created.
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And we see that in His works, He did not have to reveal (hat to us we see that we have been lifted up in the scale of life above all other living things. And what accounts for our great value? This inherent need to be selective and to be regardful of the value of things. So the more education you get the better selection you can make, is that not true? When you were not educated as much as you are now you perhaps did not even have caviar in your vocabulary. Perhaps you did not even have loin chops in your vocabulary, but as your education improved your knowledge improved of things of higher value and it freed you to make higher and better choices. So now you have on your dining table stuff that you did not have before, some of you do not want to believe that, you want to believe that you always have been where you are now.

Don't be ashamed to look back, G-d says, "And remember from where you came from, when you were a despicable life germ in sperm." Right? That is not talking about the physical life brother, that is just conditioning you to look back at your life in history, in the history of your family, in the history of yourself and for society and the history of mankind, look at your life in history.

I go back to the neighborhood where we used to live in when we were very poor, I occasionally go back there, it hurts my heart because the neighborhood has not changed. It looks just like you did when I lived there on Wabash, 5308 South Wabash. We were on Michigan too, but I am going back to 5308 south Wabash, if I am wrong Riyah will certainly tell me. She knows this history she knows the family better than all of us. She knows, she can tell us things that happened for us. Not only that, we looked at her as an adviser, all my brothers and sisters I am sure they know, especially the brothers they appreciated Lottie, they said, "Lottie is talking man it pays to listen to her. Lottie gives you some helpful advice." It is her nature to offer it. And we recognized her as such in the family among the children.     I go back and I drive through 5308 South Wabash, that area and I see the same pitiful bodies and faces walking down the street that I saw when I was u boy. I go around and see the taverns it looks like it did. und a little storefront churches those that have survived the urban renewal.

I don't know if you heard what I said or not? I got insight for another poem and we M& I he same pitiful human species, locked in and cannot come out, they can hardly go any distance more than about four blocks, hardly ever goes out the four block area. He does not know even the town that he lives in. If they could expand their minds they would come out of their condition.

We are obligated to do something about that, what did Mr. Fard say? The duty of the civilized person is to civilize the uncivilized. It is true today, it is true in this understanding of Al Islam just as it was true back then, the duty of the civilized person is to civilize the uncivilized. Let us not forget where we came from brothers and sisters and let us carry that burden on our hearts until we can change their condition.

Leaflets for the community dawah

Now we know we have no power to change their condition unless Allah (swt) has mercy on them, so pray to Allah (swt) to forgive them, their negligence and have mercy on them and then let us after making our dua' let us go in there with leaflets. I can't do all these things, I am one man let us go in these areas with leaflets, not saying come to the Mosque for a khutbah, give them a leaflet that has a whole message ask nothing for that leaflet, but it has a whole message designed to awaken an appreciation in them for the great value of human life Allah (swt) has revealed to us, let us to that.

Republic means to re-people by raising the conscience

The spiritual Republic builds its order upon the respect for the equal essence and high essence of every human being. Republic means to re-people, you're obligated 10 re-people your society, you keep raising the conscience of your people until you give new birth to them, to their sensitivities and their vision. Just like the generation keeps increasing from father and mother to children, from children 10 grandchildren and on and on and on. With the knowledge we can re-people our society. Give new energy, new inspiration, new vision to our people so that they are made a new people and keep them undergoing renewal.
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Mujeddid sent when community spirit is stagnant 

AI Hadith lp!43#247-8; Mujeddid every 100 yrs

Sami reported: about what I know from the Prophet (pbuh) he said: "The Almighty and Glorious Allah (swt) will send for this community at the head of every century (100 yrs). One who will revive their Religion for them. (Abu Dawud)

Muhammad says, "At the head of every century will come a Mujeddid to renew his community." So this community is a community that is promised renewal at the head of every century. Now we know this century is symbolic. It means whenever it loses its spirit, whenever it loses its life and starts to be complacent, starts to be stale and stagnant G-d will bless it with a thinker and with a moral force and a thinker to regenerate, to re-people it.

You also can re-people your society by selecting better leaders periodically, get better leaders, so we live in a country that is a republic, isn't it? I'm not talking about its parties I'm talking about its description, this is a democratic republic, that's what this is.   So let us understand how Allah (swt) wants us to begin building our society and let us build it as a society that will benefit from G-d's help, His Quran and benefit from the life of Muhammad the Prophet (pbuh) and be free to experience renewal and will listen to what has to be said not only by leaders but by every member in the society. It will give every member the freedom and opportunity to speak and work and influence the shaping and future of our community, then we will have an Islamic republic, that will be an Islamic republic and that will be a spiritual republic because our life is essentially spiritual.

And we wouldn't have it had not G-d breathed into us of His own spirit and we became a living soul. Thank you very much As Salaam Alaikum Allahu Akbar.

Break the fast with the natural food as Allah made it

It is important to be with your relatives for break fast and for dinner, the family that prays together stays together, the family that eats together stays together too. It was the habits of our people from the South that one day of the week or at least at certain regular intervals that the family would meet and those who left the house would come for dinner and they would all eat together. That's a good practice, it keeps the family strong, it keeps the family together.   Me and this little fellow here we never hardly eat by ourselves we're always together.

Let us make dua' for breaking fast "Billaahe amantu 'alallaahe tawak-kaltu wa be risqel laahe aftartu ameen."

You got man made food there, he said, "He's going to eat that after he eats. He knows how to do it, after he eats the G-d made food untouched by man and creating it, he can eat the manmade food, so that's how it happened.

Man was first fed by G-d the Creator and then afterwards he made his food and some of his food got me constipated with diarrhea and everything else, excuse me I'm sorry. I don't know why children don't care too much for dates, olives, tomatoes nowadays. When I was little we stayed so hungry it wasn't anything we did not like to eat, we liked anything you gave us. If our parents ate it, we ate it too and enjoyed it, those days are gone aren't they?

The date is the most complete food

The date, I saw on a food show on TV the host said the date is the most complete food existing, there is no other food, apple, orange whatever it is greens, no food exists that is more complete than the date. It means it has more of what your life needs, your body needs than any other food.

Now don't try to survive on dates if you have diabetes like I do. He said (my son). "I thought you were a random diabetic?" That's right sugar does not appear in my blood all the time. Sometimes they take the test and no sugar appears in the blood and at another time they take it and sugar appears in the blood. I told you I have
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help from one of the pioneer brothers in our community and I'm doing well, I am doing fine.

Sister Kizie is the sister who sells supplements for your health, dietary supplements and I got from her a gift of a supplement once and I used it and I had such faith in it, I saw benefit - - he knows too (my son) he could tell you. We were sick with a cold once, I am not saying it cures colds all the time, but this happened for us this time, it must have been some bacteria that this product has the power to kill. We were sick like with the flu virus and -I had been taking it as a capsule, my mind told me "This time open the capsule boil water, drink it directly," so that is what I did.

I opened the capsule and I put more than two in, I made it strong. I gave him a small portion I gave myself a big portion and we drank it, both of us were sick. And almost immediately as we swallowed it - - I am not saying this to sell this to you, I am saying this to report what happened, my experience, just to let you know what I experienced. G-d knows I am not saying this to make money off of you, but because you should have it, if you need it. And if you don't need it you should have it because it is a blood purifier, it helps in many ways, she can tell you all about it but we don't have time for a long presentation. She might have something that she would like to say, so I would like for her to say something to you. Whatever you would like to say to them in the interest of this product, this business that we got, but please make a very short like two minutes, we don't have time.

Muhammad when we swallowed it what happened? 

Muhammad Shakir Muhammad: 

We Looked at each other. 

Imam WD Mohammed:

And I said "Mohammed how do you feel?" Right, what did you say?

Muhammad Shakir Muhammad: 

Fine.

The body senses things good for it 

Imam WD Mohammed:

I said I do too. Almost instant results, cure, the next day we got up in the morning and we came in the kitchen I said, "Mohammed how do you feel? He said, "Good," I said "Do you feel like you still have a cold?" He said "No" I said I don't either. To me for whatever virus I had it was more effective and quicker results than you get from a shot of penicillin. But that is not why I had it, I had it because I had faith in it, your body like an animal body has been created by G-d to sense certain things that is good for it. And my body taking that just told me to keep taking it and I was desperate when I ran out. I said "Wow I ran out I have to get it, I didn't know who gave it to me."

And I went to the health food store, I showed them the bottle, I had been using it, my hands were sweating a lot and were wet, it had taken a part of the information off of it. They said, "If we had everything on the label that is in here we could give you perhaps several products Of substances that would have the effect of this. But we cannot see it, we don't know. Want to go to Internet and look up both of these names, New Body and the other.”

I asked the office to do it, they did not get results fait enough for me, so I finally ran into our productive business lady sister Iflal and asked her if she could help me. I said, "Can you go to the Internet and see if you CM find this product?" She found it and guess who was on the Internet, Sister Kizie.

And she said, "Brother Imam do you know who give you that product? She said, "Sister Kizie, brother Raheem who is her husband gave it to you." I said, "What"   Somebody handed it to me, maybe he did too and I might have forgotten or they left it with me and it got in my hands but they didn't tell me how it got in my hands. I didn't know how I got it, I was desperate to have it, so she gave me a supply so I could start bock using it.

I don't think I told you this Sister Kizie, there was an African that the Hon. Elijah Muhammad allowed to become member of the Nation of Islam in my understanding or knowledge I don't think he had ever permitted any persons from outside of the African American people or what we used to call back then so-called Negroes to come in the Nation of Islam, but he permitted him to join the Nation of Islam. His name was Namar Blee he said he had a cure for pneumonia and I
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was sick with the flu, I have been very susceptible or weak for flu germs, viruses.
This was way back there I am talking about 30 years ago maybe or longer than that maybe we called him Dr. Namar Blee but he was a natural doctor. He learned that I was sick and he said, "I got some medicine you won't like it, but if you take it you'll purify your blood and it will help you get well."   I took it, he told me what it was, it was hard but I took it. I cannot leave you in suspense like that, there was cow manure in it and he gave it to me and I got well. And he left me with some of the substance and I kept it and whenever I started feeling sick like that I would take it. It really was very helpful in protecting against that cold virus like the flu.

When I smelled the capsule - - you can actually smell it before you taste it, you can actually smell the capsule, it is not offensive, but it is not pleasant not like flowers of something. When I took it to put in my mouth, the first time I took what you gave me I said, "Wow this smells like brother Namar Blee's medicine." It has more in it some different substances in it than he had, but it has one that he had I know that. Because they smell the same and let me tell you I would not want to be without it.

It is not only for when you are sick, it is for you all the time, to help protect your system, to give you what you need, to purify your blood and she has a long khutbah to give you on it, as long as those I used to give you own Stony Island. And we are going to one day have an opportunity for her to at least give you a presentation and a time sister that you deserve to make a good presentation. It won't be in an hour she can give you a good presentation and maybe 20 minutes, at some future time en sha Allah (swt).

Actual Sister Kizie we're partnering up, she has her own business so I told her that if she would help us, me to sell these products we're going to give her 50 percent of all increase over total expenses. CPC will get 50 percent, she gets 50 percent. Do you agree to it? Raise your hand I can't work for CPC unless I know I am getting your approval, thank you very much.

I told her as the volume increases and her income becomes unreasonable that we're going to put a stop on it or reduce the margin for her and increase for CPC, is that fair? Yes it is fair. She accepted it. she is my sister and she is our sister, beautiful lady Sister Kizie.

Now this supplement is one, CPC, the commercial attorney, this is important that I give you this information, the commercial attorney, we need to make Magrib prayer pretty fast, pretty soon. The commercial attorney that we have to protect our business he told me he said, "Well Mr. Mohammed I'm going to advise that you form another company to handle these products because if you're sued then all of the businesses are sued and will have to go into court. But if you establish another company for this product that is going to be taken into the mouth or by mouth, if you are sued only that company will go into court." So he is hired, paid, to give us that kind of protection. I didn't question him I told him "Fine."

CPC, Comtrust Investors

So that is what we have done, we have formed another company and that company is called CPC, Comtrust Investors, that's our company. We are owners of that company too, it belongs to us CPC investors. So monies overall cost including what we're going to allow as fees, compensation to Sister Kizie will go into the CPC account.

Another product this was given to me by brother Rafa was the first one, I saw Rafa too yesterday I don't know if he is here today, he is here somewhere. Brother Rafa made me aware of this product and he told me of the value of it and a brother that he knew was distributing this product. He just came up here Bashir El Amin if you're here please stand so we can see you. This is the brother Bashir El Amin he knows that I had an interest in it and I wanted to keep taking it, he refused to take a penny from me, he has kept me supplied ever since then, if he knows my supplies are out - - in fact one time he sent me the product and I did not tell you I was out. I guess he figured I should have been out by then and he sent me this product.

I wanted you to know that Rafa he also shares it, whatever you give me he shares it, he gives me half, he takes half, I don't know if it is quite like that or not, I don't blame him I would be taking it too, this product is something. This product has all kinds of values too, this product has values that I believe or has been established but because there are so incredible I am not going to even tell you about it. I am not because I don't want to pressure you into buying this product. I don't want you coming in to it just crazy, when your emotions saying.
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"This is going to do this for me this is going to do that for me."

Every system of the human being is different, there are one out of 1000 maybe that won't get the benefit that the rest of us get. And then you will come to us and say, "I didn't get that benefit." And you want to take us to court and sue us, we're not going to say too much about this. What we know is that this is a source of calcium that goes directly to your bloodstream, almost instantly to your bloodstream and it has benefits for your immune system, it has benefits for the purity of your blood, it has benefits that fight bacteria etc., that ordinary calcium does not have.

This is not all calcium, it is calcium but it contains also some silver doesn't it? We will give you more information on this Sister Kizie and I we are going to get together and Sister Kizie is going to help us put together some information sheets that will be passed on to you in time, advertisements she is going to help me get some advertisements too. Some sheets that we can put together into a sales presentation package or just a presentation package for us when we have workshops.

We are going to her native state, she was born in North Carolina, we are going to her native state first where she has most of the support for her business. Now when you find family members and friends supporting you that is a good sign that what you have has real worth on the market. So we're going to her state and it is fortunate for us that we have a wonderful brother in her state who is also a salesman, brother Imam Waheed. A beautiful brother that I trust with all of my concerns, my interest. He is there and we're going to have a seminar, the first seminar for these supplements would take place in Charlotte, North Carolina and that is a good place to have it.

Can we expect to attract more investors and business people from there than they can from may be Durham or someplace?

This product I had been taking it for a good while and I really would not want to be without this product. These things are coming to us I think because Allah (swt) loves us. We did not have to have this come to us. that is what I believe. It cost but how much does it costs for you to pay the Doctor Bill? You take about three or four of these little sachets that are in here in each package I think has five, is that right brother El Amin? Six. I got a
package from another supplier it got five in it, I think it is only five in there in this package, one of the little sachets can take care of a gallon to maybe a pint of water, it depends on you, what is your condition. But just for the ordinary, no problem with your health, I would say from two to four of these in a gallon of water.

You just take them out of here put them in a gallon of water, your buy the water take the cap off put about four of these in a gallon of water, and you don't think you art feeling good and you don't need a whole lot of help, your immune system is pretty strong all the time just maybe put a couple in a gallon of water and agitate it. you did not tell me this but I agitate it. As soon as I put it in there I shake the water, I agitate it and you can lake that water and drink it immediately, is that right brother El Amin? You don't have to wait you can drink of wale immediately and it is there, it is in the water, you got it.

Comment:

I do a lot of talking but I listen a lot and I just ordered too big packs of coral calcium from an incredible infomercial on television. They were saying just M that capsule is saying, backing up what you saying about the long life, and is saying we are calcium critical. So what you're saying is absolutely verified and the doctors even have agreed but they don't want to get into it and they said that they don't do the doctors about it because the drug companies of course want the doctors pushing the drugs. But this coral calcium after my supply runs out I'm going to deal with them. I got it coming in the mail.

Imam WD Mohammed:

Thank you very much, you heard that didn't you? Let me tell you what the company we're working with and because of your Imam that is only reason why, because I am the leader of this community, these people see me as being very special. And they said to me. "Mr. Mohammed we don't want you coming through anybody," there were some brothers were introduced them to me and I am sure they have others in their business that can handle our needs, serve us. They said, "Your stature is so great," this is the first boss who told me that, he said, "I am one boss and there is another boss." He said, "I want you to meet him, you will be dealing with the top people, the owners of this company." And that is who I am dealing with, the owners of the company.
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You just take them out of here put them in a gallon of water, you buy the water take the cap off put about four of these in a gallon of water, and you think you are feeling good and you don't need a whole lot of help, your immune system is pretty strong all the time just maybe put a couple in a gallon of water and agitate it, you did not tell me this but I agitate it. As soon as it is put it in there I shake the water, I agitate it and you can take that water and drink it immediately, is that right brother El Amin? You don't have to wait you can drink of water immediately and it is there, it is in the water, you got it.

Comment:

I do a lot of talking but I listen a lot and I just ordered two big packs of coral calcium from an incredible infomercial on television. They were saying just as that capsule is saying, backing up what you saying about the long life, and is saying we are calcium critical. So what you're saying is absolutely verified and the doctors even have agreed but they don't want to get into it and they said that they don't do the doctors because the drug companies of course want the doctors pushing the drugs. But this coral calcium after my supply runs out I'm going to deal with them. I got it conning in the mail.

Imam WD Mohammed:

I had a meeting with them recently, I have been meeting with them now for about maybe five weeks or more, I had a recent meeting with them like three days ago. They said, "Mr. Mohammed we recently went on the Internet, we went on Internet for the first week we were doing about $700. Now it is up to $500,000." He said, "Do you know you can't see this except during the hours that most people are sleep." So they are not on the time when most people are watching television, they are on the time when most people are sleep.

They said the sales went from $700 to $500,000 in three weeks so that tells you the product is selling itself. I think we have gold in our hands. What she brought to me I think we have gold in our hands and we only need a few of you want to work with us. Any brother who wants to make money or sister can make some money, you have no excuse to be without income or money. Allah (swt) is blessing us with job opportunities for our community with the CPC, the meat processing company and with these products now that we are going to be selling. There will be no excuse for you to be saying, "Oh I can't find a job." You can find a job, you don't even have to look for it we will bring you a job.

But we're going to be highly selective, we are going to be very careful with whom we trust with our interests. So many of you may come and give us your name but only a few of you will be selected. And those who we select you trust whoever you want to trust. If you trust those who we did not trust that is fine with us, maybe you can handle them and we can't.

I just wanted you to know about these two products. There is a third one, it is very similar to this one, but it should not be ignored so we're going to get it too. It only helps this one, it only gives you more help, is a complement to this one here. It does not have any conflict with it, it is a complement to it. I am not going to tell you everything about it, as I said I don't want you to be having a belief in miracles happening, but the Japanese businessmen, this product comes from the coral reefs of Okinawa Japan. And we have more to say to you about it, I do believe it is G-d sent, this product.

They say 500 years ago they had it recorded by one of their leaders a saying that from the waters of Okinawa healing would come for disease. They recorded it, they have kept it all of these years, it is said from the waters of Okinawa will come something that will be a cure for the diseases of the world, this was recorded 500 years ago. And now here is this product, now they could lie. I am a scientific thinker, somebody could have fabricated that, it could be a fraud. But these people who tell me these things are genuine and they tell me that they are going to arrange for me to go to Okinawa, Japan, I did not ask for it, they say they want me to come to Okinawa. They will arrange for me to go there, not on our expenses, they are going to arrange for me to go there, to Okinawa and meet these people.

They say a man who experienced what this product can do before they started selling it, it came out of Japan, he experienced what this product can do for domesticated animals. He noticed that the ones who drank the water that this substance was in had more life, more vitality, they were healthier, they lived longer than those who didn't drink the water with this product in it. Why did I get it in the beginning? Now I have many more reasons after they informed me of the product. 1 have many more reasons for getting the product. But I had decided to carry this product for CPC before 1 learned of all these 
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things about it. And I will tell you when I decided upon it. As we age over the age 50 your bones start to deteriorate, you start to lose your bone and they become more brittle as you get older.   You can fall you break your hip, you can break something, if you supply yourself with the right amount of calcium it helps reduce the problem or the likelihood of that happening.

African-Americans have problems drinking milk and most doctors, they told him (my son) to drink six glasses of milk, recently. The doctor told my son Mohammed to drink six classes of milk. He does not like milk for some reason, maybe that is his own nature protecting him from cow's milk. He does not like milk for some reason, he won't drink it and I am not going to make him do it, but I do feel hurt, he knows it too. I say, " Mohammed did you drink the six glasses? The doctor told you to drink six glasses of milk." He is not even drinking one glass of milk.

I see him lacking and I encourage him to eat yogurt, so obviously it has the enzymes in it, his body accepts it, so I said, "He is getting good calcium. I encourage him to eat more yogurt. And he will tell you that he drinks this water. He is short for his age, he will be thirteen this coming July 6, 2003 next year. He was much shorter, his height was just like this, may be a year and a half ago, but look how much he grew in about a year and a half.

Mohammed what you think did that?

Mohammed Shakir:

The calcium.

Imam WD Mohammed:

Drinking that calcium water. Because he has been drinking it with me. After he was drinking it I noticed it and I said "Mohammed you are growing" and my mind told me "It might be that calcium water." I am a scientific thinker, I am not positively sure it is the water, but I am going to sure keep giving it do him and I'm going to keep taking it too.

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