 
Khalifah: The Role of the Moral Life Pt.4
 by
 Imam W. Deen Mohammed

 Location: Video Lectures—Pg. 1




00:00 Imam W. Deen Mohammed: Can you please help me find a way for my people who are divided on tribal lines, who are ignorant and treat their own people bad? That's the Negro right now. "Oh, he called us Negroes". I just want you to remember yourself, that's why I used that name. I call you black, you don't know, you can't remember yourself. I call you a Negro, you remember yourself. Yeah, that's us right now. We're just giving ourselves to foolishness, fun at any cost. Have fun no matter what it costs. Cost you your marriage, cost you your family, cost you your children; just have fun. Cost you your business; just have fun. The average black African-American that fails in business is because he can't manage his pleasures. Fun kills it. Kills his future. Alright, now let's come home to this town, to Chicago, to Markham, to wherever we are; Homewood, wherever we are. Let's come home with it now. And my conclusion, dear people, I hope you've understood what I've been telling you. God put us on this world to stay morally alive.

01:39 IWDM: Morality, or moral life is not an accident, it's a choice. It's a choice. You have to choose moral life. That's why its in scriptures. It says I put before you two ways. The way of life and the way of death; choose you life. Now, I hate to do this, but I think I should. Do you know what some of these great thinkers were looking at when they said I put before you two ways? They were looking at the fanny of a woman, and they were looking at how---ut they weren't looking at it with a bad mind. They were looking at it with an excellent mind, not with an immoral, corrupt mind. They were looking at the fanny of a woman and they saw that out of one place, one door, comes new life: Babies, sons and daughters, and out of the other one comes stinky waste, and they associated the one that throws out the waste as the system of society that gets rid of impurities that is offensive to life. And they looked at the other opening as the door of life that gives us new human beings and... 

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