03/08/2003
IWDM Study Library
Brothers’ Session Pt. 1 
Chicago IL

By Imam W. Deen Mohammed
The story goes that the water, the land was dry. This is Genesis and G-d calls the rain, light rain to come down and wet the earth. Then He made the man. Because even in the mind of a little child, say He made him from dust. How did he hold him together? Dust doesn't adhere, it doesn't stick together. So to satisfy that, which is good though, it all goes along with this language, this logic, it's perfect. So it says He made him from dust. But the Bible said He caused the rain, light rain to come down. And then He formed him from the earth, right? Formed the man of the earth it says, formed him of the earth after a light rain. So it's saying He made him from dust, but there had to be, something had to happen before He gave him form.
For him to get the right form, it had to come down some rain, some water to mix with the dust to make it adhere, make it stick together. Mud pies or something like that. You remember that. If you didn't do it, your sister did. Mud pies. My name used to be Wallace D Muck Mud. I'm telling your truth. It was spelled M, same way I spell it now, but our family called it MucK Mud. And if somebody asked me my name, I'd say my name is Wallace D. Muck Mud. Sounds funny now. It wasn't funny then. One of my brothers would knock out all your front teeth if you laughed at it, and he most likely he'll get you too. He was a sneaky rascal. He hit you when you're not expecting it.
And he did. He did hit some. That's right. Yeah, he used to beat up on guys for disrespecting us, especially my sister. One guy disrespected my sister. My brother beat him mercilessly. No mercy at all. I ain't going to tell you his name. He's not here. I don't see him. He could be here, but I don't see him. It's not Elijah. I tell you that. Elijah's over here. And it's not me either. I said my brother, not me. Yeah, so Adam, Adam, now keep that in your mind now and use your own intelligence. Now you pictured a man that looked just like me, didn't say He made a baby, even if it was an infant. I still have trouble understanding that. A man like you made from the dust, but the dust needed some water on it so it would stick together. That water came, rain came down, and then the ground was shaped in the shape of a man and then breath was breathed into him, divine breath of G-d was breathed into that dead mud shaped man and he became a living soul, a living man. If you still believe that, don't ever say you follow Imam WD Mohammed.
Please choose another Imam, another leader please. That's embarrassing to have somebody follow me believing that. It's only true by translation. It's true by interpretation and translation. That's the only way it's true. The dust has to represent something else. The dust must be a metaphor, a symbol, a sign of something else for an intelligent person to accept that, for an educated, intelligent person to accept that. Unless you just force yourself. Some people believe, like Allah says in the Qur'an, speaking of the People of the book, that's the Christians, mainly the Christians, but Jews too, say most of them don't even know the scripture except by faith. Except by faith. So whatever is said, they just say, well, this is what I have to believe in. I have to believe on faith. I have to believe that. So they don't let their rational mind deal with it. They don't let their intelligence question it. They just force themselves to stand with that and not even use their own intelligence. So you may be one of those. And you got intelligence, but you don't use it because you respect that so much. You respect the way you were given it so much you just say, well, I don't want no question. I don't want to think about it. G-d said it. It's true. That's it.
You know are under a terrible burden and you will never become leaders in the world until you free yourself of that burden. You can't become leaders of the world with that kind of burden on your mind. Where you are believing something that your own mind will say is a lie. It's a fib. It's a big story. It's fantasy. It's is not true. It's not real life. Your real mind will say that if you just let your mind think. So you are keeping your mind from thinking. So just like your mind is being held back from using its natural life and powers to deal with that, you have told your mind that I don't want you dealing with reality. So you have a lot of problems dealing with any reality. You wonder how come you can't keep a job. Maybe that's why. You wonder how come you can't compete in this world. Maybe that's why. You are forcing lies upon your intelligence instead of dealing with 'em.
Now if any Imam in Islam tell you that you are supposed to believe that just the way it is, he either wants to be your slave master or want to have you as his fool, or he himself is a fool or a devil or a partner with devils. Yes. No sound, sensible, sane person will leave people like that. And that's what Mr. Fard didn't like, that people were left with nothing but lies and their intelligence was being held back and held down. They were dead mentally. That's what he called it. Dead mentally. The mentally dead. And he came to break it. He didn't come to break it just for us as we thought originally. After studying his work and studying him, I know he came to break it for the world. He came to shock the whole world by using us, a people who didn't know, a people, dumb, uneducated, that's the ones he picked.
He didn't ask for no college people to follow him. He didn't have college people follow him. He didn't even ask for high schoolers. He didn't have 'em follow him. He asked for people who can't read, the most ignorant. But look what Jesus asked for. He said, go and find me a donkey untied ,with no tie on him. Meaning nobody has claimed him. Said, when you find him, bring him to me and if anybody question you, tell them the master has use for them. He didn't say tell them Christ has use for them. He didn't say tell them Jesus has use for them. Say tell them the master has use for him, for the donkey. This donkey represents ignorant, uneducated people that nobody cares for out there, nobody claiming, nobody claimed, nobody want. Too dumb, too dumb to do anything. Not even employable. And then stubborn too. Cause a donkey not only dumb, he's stubborn. He won't follow and he's temperamental. He carry you for a while and then stop for no apparent reason and then look at you like he say, it's my business, I stop when I please.
That's how he look at his rider. Stop and look at his ride- This my business, I stop when I please, but that's the kind of follower he wanted. Because if he didn't, he wouldn't have said, get me a donkey untied. He didn't say, get me a camel untied. Camel is not stubborn and defiant. The donkey is stubborn and defiant. So who was he appealing to? The dumb, uneducated, ignorant masses who were dissatisfied and defiant, and defiant. When Mr. Fard put his package together, it appealed to just that type. Those that didn't identify with the intellectual world or the intellectuals. Those that didn't see themselves in that kind of a picture and didn't associate with 'em, weren't even looking to them. And those that were disgruntled having irritation, sore places in the heart, the world mistreated them and had a tendency to defy and disobey the established order. A tendency to defy and disobey this established order.
Not willing and not trusting the established order. He didn't have to say, I don't want you all who are satisfied with the white man and his world. I don't want you all who think that you have hope or have a place in his world if you just work with him. I want those who don't have any hopes of having a place with him. I want those who are dissatisfied with it. That's the one he wanted. He didn't say that that way, but he designed a package that would get nothing but that type or get mostly that type. Because he condemned them outright as a world of devils and that they're fit for nothing but the fire to be destroyed. Their very nature was wicked.
So that satisfied, that type. So that's the way he calls the donkeys. He called the donkeys. DuBois didn't come, he never came. He was living W.E.B Du Bois, leader of the talented tenth. The educated people, the educated blacks, he didn't come. It didn't appeal to him at all. Mr. Fard wanted to make sure he didn't come and he intentionally made it so it didn't appeal to educated people. Educated people say ridiculous. Them negro people going crazy. That's what they called us, ol' crazy muck muds. Yeah, that's what they used to call us. Ol' crazy muck muds.
Yes. So he went after that type. That type will not have the problem of choosing between the new teacher and what the world taught. They were ready to reject everything the world taught in fulfillment of scripture. He wanted to empty vessels, meaning they don't have anything in their minds of what the world wants in their mind. So in the world there are empty vessels. Then he wants to put into those empty vessels a new wine. A new wine. This is scripture. And if you don't know that Mr. Fard came in the role of Jesus Christ playing the role of the Christ, then you don't know Ms. Fard yet. Mr. Fard, WD Fard, Fard Muhammad, whatever you want to call him that he left as his names. He came, he studied the Bible, he studied our condition, and he chose for himself to come in the role of Jesus Christ. Now, how did Jesus Christ deal with the government? I'm coming back to Adam, but you should know this. How did Jesus Christ deal with the government? He knew the government would persecute him if the government knew what he was doing. He knew the government would stop him. So he presented himself to the government in a way to make the government permit him to do his work.
He said, give me your tired. Is that right? And burdened, isn't that what he said? So here he is appealing to the government people. You got some dissatisfied people. They're tired with all the burden of this society, a burden of your society on them, and they're the ones that will revolt or will rebel against you. I come to save you from your own trouble that you have in your society. Give me these. I have something for them that will attract them and hold them. Now, can they trust him now? Now they're wise, they hear his language, they see his language. He's saying that I'm going to take away from you your fear, take off of you your fear of your disgruntled, unruly, bitter, and some angry members in your society. I'm going to take that burden off of you. I'm going to give them something that will contain them, hold them and you won't have to worry about them. But can they trust him?
Now, a man like this, he doesn't go to the government directly. I know him. He wouldn't go to that government directly. If he went, he would go not as Mr. Fard. He would say he's somebody else and he would speak in the name of Mr. Fard, but not admit that he's Mr. Fard. Pretend he's somebody else. But I don't even believe he did that. He could have though, I'm not dismissing that possibility. He could have. But I know he did this. He did the same thing Christ Jesus did. Christ Jesus made it clear. He said, render unto Caesar what is Caesars. Isn't that the New Testament? And unto G-d, what is G-d's. We didn't come to take his money. Don't get him upset now. Give him his money. Make him believe we only want the soul. Give him the material things that was appeasing, that was resting the fears of the establishment. Oh yeah, he's safe. He's saying something different. But he's safe. He is okay. He's telling those boys to pay their taxes and you know some of 'em been holding 'em back. Let him work with 'em.
What was the teaching my father got from his teacher Mr. Fard? You cannot destroy the devil. If you do, if you go out killing white folks, you may be killing some of your own people. Is that not the teaching of the Honorable Elijah Muhammad? You may be killing some of your own people. So the white man hear that say, "Oh we safe." Leave that to our savior. He said he will take care of all of 'em himself. Right? Yeah. So the big man hears this too, said this seems okay, let's keep on listening to Elijah. Wait a minute, let's hear him out. Let's hear Elijah out Ralph, let's hear Elijah out. If you work for him give him an honest day's work. Don't cheat the white boss. Isn't that the teaching of the Honorable Elijah Muhammad? "Some of these niggas we got, these Christian niggas ain't giving us an honest day's work. Let's hear Elijah out."
After Mr. Fard left, they stopped getting the Nation of Islam identification card. But in the thirties they got identification cards. And since I was born in 30, my mother actually showed me my cardJ just like they do now, when you're born now you get a social security card, right? You didn't do that a few years ago. You didn't do that. You had to go and apply for one later when you needed it. But now they give you a number when you're born, right? Am I right? When you're born you get a number. So when I was born, I got a card. My mother showed me the card, I knew what was on those cards. But I'm thinking mine may be a little different since I was a minor. I read the card. If the bearer, those who are in authority, police, tell the police if the bearer of this card is found other than righteous, take the card. What? Leader of the Nation of Islam giving the devil the power to take my identification card, my membership card in the Nation of Islam? Yes. Take the card and punish the said bearer.
That's what he said. Elijah know it. I got many in here know it. Theyaround. They know it. Now ou think about those things. I don't know what to say about you folks. Some of you, some of you are genuine. I wouldn't be here if you wasn't genuine. You're my encouragement to stay here. I love you all too. The rest of you just as much really as my brothers, not as workers. But I love you just as much as my brothers in the human family and in the religious family. But you are some kind of people. I'm telling you, the angel can get on your back and ride you and tell you, look ahead. I have replaced bell. You had a slave master on your back. Now I'm your friend. Look ahead in the road there. You see something? That's a flaming sword. That's another angel. He's ready to kill you and the rider if I hadn't saved you. He's going to kill you and the rider because he doesn't accept slavery. And you can't see that. Show it to you as plain as day. And they could be given a book, a book, written book, and it could descend out of the heavens. And those of the disbelievers will say still it's nothing but magic.
Wouldn't believe in it. Say though they see with their own eyes a book coming down from the skies. Now that's not how it happens. But what Allah is saying in the Quran, don't worry yourself with people who don't believe. If they're set on not believing, you can show them evidence as plain as a real book coming down out of the sky and they will say, no, I don't believe it. Enchantment, magic. They won't believe it. So we accept that, that some people are just determined not to accept truth because they're not ready to accept that they have their conscience awakened. To accept truth awakens your conscience. And they know that, every human being knows that. If they got something they hiding or something that they know they should do, but they ain't going to do it because they got some support from the world or some support from some source to keep them where they are, they're going to keep depending on that source there to have some comfort of mind.
Well, I ain't the only one. Most of 'em don't believe that. They believe that, but we don't believe that. So they got company in their wrongdoing, but they know if they ever accept the truth, they won't have company in their wrongdoing and they're not willing to face with their own mind and conscience the problem because they're not ready to change their lives. That's too bad, too bad. Because Allah want to give you a much happier life than you've got. And Allah can give it to you. He made you and He knows what will make you happier and better.
Yeah. Alright, lemme get back. Don't want to take too much time on this. Now what I'm saying is that there is language in the language. You read English, but scripture that's written in English has language in that language. And it takes G-d to bless you with the ability, the sight to see that and know how to read that language. And He's not going to bless you unless you are a very special person. You have to struggle for it. You have to be innocent in the first place. You had to be not wanting it selfishly, not wanting to make yourself great. You want it for nothing but holy purposes, sacred, honorable purposes. And you have to be yourself committed totally to serve G-d's will. Then He will show it to you. Then He will open those things up to you and you will see it. And once you see the hidden language, you'll become as wise as any man on earth in that kind of knowledge. In fact, usually when G-d makes a man like that, he is the wisest in the world. Nobody in the world is as wise as He. I'm telling you what I know.
When Allah showed Jesus Christ the light, he became the light in his time. When Allah showed Muhammad the light, Muhammad became the light in his time. And Muhammad said that there will come a time when Allah will teach a mujeddid Himself. I'm not saying I'm any of this. When Allah will teach, I don't want any of those titles. Allah will teach a mujeddid, a reviver, someone to revive the faith, to renew the faith. Says Allah will teach him Himself. Allah will teach him. He won't be educated by people. Allah will teach him. So he is a mujeddid coming like Christ. He is a mujeddid coming just like Christ. For Christ was not taught by man. Christ was revealed to. G-d revealed, even when he was a baby Christ received communication from G-d even as a baby, even before he was a baby born.
When he was in his mother, the spirit of G-d touched his mother and caused him to be vitalized, quickened in the womb of his mother. This is the gospel. This is the gospel. Okay? So I believe that. Tell me something. You brothers, if only two of you all were here listening to me, you think I'll get up and go? I say, well everybody gone. If two of you all stay with me, I need one witness so they might tell a lie, say I said something, I got to have two of you stay with me. If only two of you all stay with me, I would have the same interests I have now. You wouldn't even notice that my spirit had changed or my enthusiasm had gone or weakened. It'd be the same. So your numbers don't mean anything to me. It's your sincerity, your interest, your sincere interest. As long as one or two of y'all have sincere interests, I'll be here.
And now there are those that's trying to wreck us. Yeah, they think they can bring us down, they can confuse us and make us not have faith in what we are doing and we'll disperse. Go to Shi'a, Sunni everywhere, back to the church. That's what they hoping they're going to do us. And they succeeding with some of us. Yeah, some of us going to the church. Back to church. Some of us go on to different immigrant Muslim places. Yeah, they're succeeding with a few of us, but they're determined. They think they can break all of us. They think they can get most of us to just disperse and go our different ways. It's not going to happen. No, it's not going to happen.
So yeah, getting back to this, I know that you are a very special people on this planet. You are not like any other people on this planet. No other people have been so completely separated from their past life as a people on earth as you have. And I must include myself because I'm from you. But in a way I don't like to include myself. You know why? Because I was born on the new language. I never was in the language of the world. I was born in the language of WD Fard, Fard Muhammad. I was born in his language, taught by my father, my mother. I've never born in the language of the world. My first world was the world that Mr. Fard created for us. Alright. So that's why I tend to say you and separate myself from you all sometime, because I don't see myself the same. I wasn't a victim. I was born not victim of that world. I was born victim of Fard's world. And he put mud on my eyes and called me muck mud.
But he did it to bring sight to the blind. And it worked. It worked. Praise be to Allah. Yeah. So I know you are very special people, very special people. And you might want to deny it. But think about yourself, how your life has changed. How you are not like any other people on this earth other than these that are with me. And you came from the Nation of Islam, but you're not even like the Nation of Islam anymore. No. You're not like Farrakhans people or the Nation of Islam people. You're not like them anymore. You have changed. And you're not like the church people anymore. You have changed. You're not like Africans anymore. You've changed. You are a new people completely. And that's what G-d does when the world take the identity away from His creature He made. He gives them a new identity from Himself. He puts them in a situation to be created all over again. And then He puts his spirit into them. Yes, I'm muck mud.
And G-d has breathed into the mud image and I have become a living man. Allahu Akbar. That's a fact. Oh, you a Prophet? No, no Prophet, no special guy, nothing but mud shaped and inspired by G-d. And now I'm a living man. Praise be to Allah. Yes, living man with eyes open. After that blind man opened his eyes, mud was put on his eyes. He said, I was blind. And now I see. Yes. What does the mud mean? The mud means put something that has not been developed at all. See, mud is doesn't show any life development, but it will support life. And the water and the earth is out of proportion. Because some things will grow in mud, but most things won't grow in mud, will It? No, I don't think grass will grow in mud. You can't grow grass in mud. After it's there you can make it muddy and it'll live. But to get it to grow, it won't grow in mud. So it represents the life that's intended, but it has not been balanced for growth and development. Too much water. Too much water. But as the spirit in it, this is heavy now but you could follow me. It ain't heavy for me. It's simple as A, B, C. As the spirit in it begins to increase, the air dries out moisture.
And as it dries it out, the right balance comes to support life. What I mean by that? Your sentimental attachment to Yakub’s story, history, your sentimental attachment to the story of Jesus Christ, supposed to be the true story of Jesus Christ in the Nation of Islam. Your sentimental attachment to black man is G-d. That's the water. That's a whole lot of water mixed with a little earth, you see? But as your spirit to know the truth increases, the air is going to dry out a lot of those sentiments, a lot of that water. And finally, the right balance is going to be there to support true knowledge of true growth and development. And when that happens, the man starts to form of mud. Fashioned into shape. Huh? Yes. Yes. Well, I have experienced that. I'm not talking about something I see in scripture anymore.


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