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IWDM Study Library
     THESE ARE BAD TIMES, BUT WE ARE AMONG THE LIVING 
PT. 5
By Imam W. Deen Mohammed

00:00 Imam W. Deen Mohammed: He knew, Satan knew that he's no longer G-d's man, now he's Satan's man. The evil spirit of Satan and his works in the life of America, what has it done? First, it broke our allegiance to G-d by hurting our respect for sacred matters, weakening and hurting our respect for sacred matters, making it easy for someone to pay attention to the sacred matter or just ignore it. Making it easy for you to give someone calling you to be serious about G-d and just ignore them.

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00:56 IWDM: Satan conditioned you to come into that mind and spirit where you don't have the fear of G-d anymore, you don't have shyness in you when you're displeasing G-d anymore. Satan worked on you for a long time. Generation after generation in these United States of America, during my lifetime I have studied his ways, and seen him. When I was a young man in my 20s, they brought out a headline on a popular magazine. The headline said, "G-d is Dead." G-O-D I-S D-E-A-D. That was on the caption, big caption on the front of the magazine. G-d is dead. Now how many of us are so weak, tired and weary trying to keep going the way of the righteous, keep walking the straight path with all these temptations to have it easier, and we just drop our principle for awhile and go the way of the wicked world? We could make much more money selling liquors, make much more money running a gambling joint, selling numbers or something. How many of us saw that statement and it helped us to go in that direction, to go in the direction for release in the world from struggling and waiting on the favors on the mercy of G-d? 

02:38 IWDM: Yes, they knew what they were doing. It wasn't for them, it wasn't for the wise and the strong. It wasn't for those that are strongly established in their life, it was for those that are really having it hard, walking the path of G-d. It was to get them to forget G-d or say, "Oh that magazine said G-d is dead." You don't have to think about it. Satan knows that once something comes in through your senses, once something is received by your senses, sense of sight, sense of hearing or whatever it is, once something is received by your senses, you don't have to think about it, it's working in, on you, while you are even sleeping. It came into your senses, it'll be working on you in your sleep, it'll come up maybe a little bit in your dreams, it's working on you, and he knows that. Once he get it through the door of your senses, he knows that the influence is there and if you didn't fight it when you saw it, it's gonna be working on you.

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03:48 IWDM: Huh? He knows that. They have all kinda language, the scientific, the subconscious and all that, but the way I'm explaining it to you is good enough. It's the plain easy way to understand it. You don't have to go take a course in psychology, you get just one statement from Imam W. Deen Mohammed on this problem, and you got it.

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04:18 IWDM: So then after saying G-d is dead, now the next magazine caption came out, "We were still having most of our people living a life of religion." If you told them, "You know you shouldn't be doing that, is that what they teach you in church?" They would come back to their senses, most of them would come back to their senses and respect what you're saying, as a matter of fact, we didn't even have to use G-d most of the time. "Does your mama know you're doing this?" And that would be enough, I'm talking about the early '50s, the early '50s in fact all the way up to the '60s, that life was still strong in most of the African-American people. Yes. But they worked on us then they turned to culture, you know, the culture of soap operas used to be soap operas.

05:15 IWDM: Soap is a play on washing, cleansing, they used to be soap operas, the main purpose was to show people something about life, about the common life or the regular life of people that would help cleanse them of sin and problems in their life that they shouldn't have, so they were soap operas, earlier it was so innocent, but now, oh boy, it's a wicked, wicked group, a wicked scene on television, right? 

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05:56 IWDM: Yes. Feeding you with greed, selfishness, lust, devilishment, etcetera, they're no more soap operas. Now they have become sin operas. Huh? That mean the devil won, didn't he? The devil won. He worked on them until he got the control of their life, and now he's showing the life and he's boasting. Yeah. G-d said he's gonna give all this authority to his worshipper. Look what I've done to his worshipper. G-d now look at your worshippers. They're mine. Now the same one who gave you the soap opera gave you the sin operas, same one. He sneaks in, doesn't he? He sneaks in pretending he's with you obeying G-d, and he weans you back by degrees. He weans you off of the diet that G-d prescribed for you, and open you up to the filth that he wants to feed you, and pretty soon he got you. Yes? 

07:14 IWDM: Now, what other ways he have come into our life and taken over our life? By taking over every important issue, he takes it over. Freedom. Freedom was freedom from the evils of plantation slavery, wasn't it? From the injustice of plantation slavery. But now you're free. Give them plenty, give them job, let them have money, break down their respect for G-d, make the church of no effect. Huh? Yes. And until they're not carrying in their mind the fear of G-d anymore, now they'd be free to have me come into their house via television, by way of TV, and take over the family. I'll be speaking to their little children while they're away from home or sleeping. I'll be speaking to their little children, feeding their little children's mind, taking over the spirit of their children, giving them the spirit to just spend money and waste money just to look rich, to look popular, to look like they're somebody. Huh? That's what had happened.

09:00 IWDM: And lastly, we have in the scripture, a prediction that there's coming a final war, great war, the war of Armageddon, forces of Gog and Magog. This is not only in the Bible, this is in the Qur'an. Yajuj and Majuj, Gog and Magog. Yes. And G-d has revealed in the Qur'an, revelation, signs, ayats, in the Qur'an that will open the eyes of the searcher who's trying to get closer to the truth so he could be more effective as a servant of G-d in the world. There are signs and light there waiting for him to show him Gog and Magog, Yajuj and Majuj.

10:24 IWDM: Yajuj or Majuj, Gog and Magog, those who are established in law and order, those who are pledged and committed to uphold law and order, it doesn't necessarily mean law as it is and order as it is, but they are always insisting that a civilized community or society must have laws and order. And the others who have a spirit to rebel against law and order, they are called anarchists, anarchists. Satan has brought this language in, these terms in, he's behind the language anarchist. He's behind that language, and he brought that in, and he influenced the way you want freedom. He influenced your appetite for freedom, and he feeds the appetite in you for freedom as he influences it. He influence it to want certain things, and then he'd have already planned to provide for that new appetite in your appetite for freedom.

11:53 IWDM: So you want freedom to have sex and not obey the law of G-d. You want freedom to be a homosexual and disregard the law of G-d. He gave freedom to all minorities, and he creates the minorities to demand freedom that he is behind. Freedom for sexual permissive, to be sexually undisciplined. Freedom to have sex with your own gender, male with male, female with female. And since this country is a country established to defend the rights for the people to be free, okay, congressmen and legislators, president, you're obligated to give freedom to this new minority. They wanna be free too.

12:53 IWDM: See how Satan is? He take the words out of their original places, and he gives the old words new meanings. And then he brings down the kingdom of the righteous. So now he pits those who are for law and order, he pits them against those who are anarchistic, those who are against law and order. And this is Gog and Magog. And it's everywhere. It's in the Congress, it's in the Senate, it's in the White House. Yes. It's in the workforce, it's everywhere. It's on the streets, it's everywhere. It's in the church, it's in the Mosque, it's everywhere. You got those who just naturally rebel, they have the spirit of Satan in them for anarchy, for anarchy. And they just naturally rebel against law and order. And I conclude it there. Let us know this world and see it as it is. For G-d is the light and His word is the light. Thank you.

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14:13 IWDM: Thank you. Praise be to Allah.

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14:21 IWDM: We are pleased and very happy whenever we are with the believers. And I'll be missing you until the next first Sunday. I won't take questions today. Inshallah next Sunday. I don't know about you, but I still have the spirit of Eid, Eid al-Fitr.

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15:07 IWDM: They may have some announcements to make. So I'm going to sit for a few minutes, and then I'll be leaving soon. That was, actually, I had just a brief appointment that I hope would have taken no more than one or two minutes because we could always have a follow-up meeting. Today I wouldn't be able to hang around and have any meeting with you. There are two sisters present here. I was able to meet the brothers, but I didn't meet the sisters, two of them. And they wanted to speak with me. If you could come up here while I'm sitting for a few minutes and just bring your concern to me quickly. You know who you are, there's only two sisters. You know who you are. If you come up quickly, the security will permit you to come and I will be able to speak with you quickly.

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16:36 IWDM: Yeah. Terry Tahun is here with us now, and he's here to make a shahada. Yeah. If you know how to make it then make it.

16:51 Speaker 2: I do not.

16:52 IWDM: I will give you, follow what I say. It's very simple.

16:56 S2: Yes, I will.

16:58 IWDM: There's no priest who had done anything in Islam. That's a religion of every common person and we have only G-d's word over us. Yes, so you repeat behind me. I witness.

17:14 S2: I witness.

17:15 IWDM: That there is but one G-d.

17:17 S2: That there is one but one G-d.

17:18 IWDM: The creator of everything.

17:19 S2: The creator of everything.

17:21 IWDM: He has no partners, no sons ruling with him.

17:24 S2: He has no partners, no sons ruling with him.

17:28 IWDM: He is G-d alone.

17:29 S2: He is G-d alone.

17:31 IWDM: And Muhammad of Arabia.

17:32 S2: And Mu?ammad of Arabia.

17:34 IWDM: Is his servant.

17:35 S2: Is his servant.

17:36 IWDM: And his messenger.

17:37 S2: And his messenger.

17:38 IWDM: And of mercy to all the worlds.

17:39 S2: And of mercy to all the worlds.

17:40 IWDM: Thank you.

17:41 S2: Thank you.

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18:41 Speaker 3: A couple of matters, the vendors... We're asking for everyone to support the vendors in the back here, so when it's over, please support the vendors in the back. And also as a reminder, we're announcing again, that on the 1st... December 4th, right after the first Sunday add ress he'll be sleeping at the Cultural Center this evening. He will be the keynote speaker at the Cultural Center back in Harlem, we are being reminded on Sunday, December 4th, from 6:00 to 9:00 PM...

19:28 S3: December 4th? It's right after the first, next first Sunday, immediately following the person and his first monthly, he [inaudible] and so forth, but anyways, The 4th of December.

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19:53 S3: The 4th, the 4th of December.

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20:28 S3: Cultural Center on... That was on 18th, Friday, at 8:00 PM there will be a fashion show, a fashion show in the Cultural Center on 154th street, and $15 for the dinner and so forth, and the booths, I've heard them said the booth's free. The booth fee is 20.00 dollars. This is also at the Cultural Center on November 18 and all of this will be on the east side will be available too.

21:06 IWDM: Together, and we're always present with one another, in spirit and in our hearts. Assalamu Alaikum.

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