4/26/2003
IWDM Study Library
Brothers Houston TX


By Imam W. Deen Mohammed
With G-d's name. We witness that He is one alone, has no other with Him in the run or rule of the universe that He created except as servants of his. He says, none comes to Him except as servants. We know that He has angels and men in His creation and Jinn and all the other things that are more distant from human life. He has created and He's the creator G-d of all of that. And He says, "Is it not for G-d the creation and the command?" That says that human beings who want to take responsibility for the world should understand the logic that they themselves advocate. The rules of logic, of human logic should establish for us that the G-d who created everything has the right to say how it is to be used, ordered, shared, etc. We believe, that brings us to the Qur'an now. We believe that Qur'an is communication from the G-d that created everything, that G-d is eternal existing without change in His nafs. I use the word nafs, that's a Qur'anic word because person is not exactly nafs. The way person is used is not exactly the way nafs is used, that G-d has not any change in His person or in His nest I prefer, and He has never had a beginning and never has an ending. He is the same now as He has been always and as He is now, He will always be, no change.
It is not for us to use our little brains or our little knowledge to try to question what G-d has revealed of Himself, doubted it or looking for other explanations or other ways of perceiving Him after He has revealed himself highly glorified is He. It is said in the Qur'an that Jesus Christ, peace be upon him when he will be answering before G-d regarding what his followers said of him being a G-d also, he will give this in his answers along with other statements that he will give he will give this. If I had done so, you would know, you would have known it. I know not what is in your nafs, but you know what is in my nafs. So if Jesus Christ, who's called in both the religions of Christianity and Islam, a spirit from G-d himself, Ruh, the Spirit from G-d himself. And he himself Jesus Christ is saying in the Qur'an that I know not what is in it the identity of G-d's essence, of G-d's essence. His nafs.
Then why should we be fools to be trying to rack our brains to know what is in G-d's nafs. As advanced as our sciences are in the west and now in the world, the efforts of the scientists are the efforts of many nationalities, the nationalities of the whole world now. Not led by only western people or western minds. The effort in science is led by minds from all over the world. And the Asians and some others are advancing and becoming more and more important in the effort of science for the whole world. Not quite like it used to be, just Europe and America leading everything. Not that way anymore. But for men, to get to the point. The best minds in science, if we had them right here today, present now, and I would ask them the question for us, do you have a map of all matter existing? Do you know the end of space where it starts and stop? They would say no. They would have to say no to both questions. So, if we don't even know how to understand and perceive and understand what G-d has done, because this is His works. We don't know the limit of it. We don't know where it starts and where it ends. Then why should we be racking our brains trying to know everything about G-d's nafs?
That's what through the Christians off in the Nicene debates, conferences, councils as they call it in history, that's what threw them off. They were trying to understand G-d's nafs and they came up with certain conclusions that didn't satisfy all of them. They remained divided, but the majority imposed their thinking on the rest of the world, but not on all those that were to share in the decision. Cause the Eastern church right now differs with the Western church. And there are different denominations of Christianity that differs with the popular idea about the nafs of G-d. So that's what I want to tell you first because our perception of reality is great and has been very productive for human society, for managing life in society. Have been very productive because we of these advanced societies, these leading societies today believe that man is not the highest order. That the divine is the highest order and over that order is G-d himself, His own nafs.
We wouldn't have the conveniences, the transportation, the communication advances, the great advances in science. We would not have this beautiful, powerful and advanced world in it's sciences and industry, et cetera, and benefits of human life and comforts if it had not been for G-d communicating His will to a human being. Because it is not those societies that did not receive that have their nation with all of these great advances. It is those that received the Messengers from G-d and have that communication that have realized all these great advantages. Isn't that wonderful?
 You all got to wake up to modern day realities, modern day realities that support faith in G-d and faith in His revelation. And as I told the sisters, this part is both brothers and sisters, as I told the sisters, we are blessed. The Muslim world is in trouble. Their publics have been abandoned their leaders have abandoned their obligations to their publics. Their publics are used just for the political entity and commercial life. They're not included at all in G-d's covenant or in G-d's message to mankind. They're not included at all. Muhammad the Prophet said that his nation would come under darkness, that his following, his Ummah would come under darkness. But he said just as it was raised up by G-d first time it'll be brought up again. That's what Muhammad the Prophet promised. I believe in all my being, with all the life that is in me. I believe that that time is here now. And the vision for that reawakening of what G-d gave to Muhammad to us through Muhammad is happening in America under the spiritual leadership of the son of Elijah Muhammad.
That is my firm belief. And if you will believe half much as I believe we will be able to do in America what the Muslims were able to do in Arabia and in that world of that time, and we won't have to wait long to see it come about. Just as it happens for Muhammad the Prophet in about 12 years or less, it would happen for us too in about 12 years or less, but in a much bigger way because there are advances for transportation, advances for communication. We live in a much more equipped world for supporting the dawah and the message and the vision for Muslims on this earth. We have much more going for our task than they had in that time going for their task. So look, wake up and have faith that you have been selected for great work.
Why us? Why not somebody else? If this is G-d's plan, you say, why us? I ask you why somebody else? The people of Moses came from bad circumstances. They were servants in the strange land and that life was controlled by those that were in charge. And G-d was not pleased with that. So, He raised from among them a liberator. And the same thing happened in the time of Prophet Muhammad; Peace be upon him. He started off himself and a few friends, called them companions. But look at how they multiplied in numbers. It was a few who attracted the many. It's not going to happen any differently in any other time in our history. It's going to be a few that attract the many.
You know yourself. You know those among you too who are alive and those who are dead. So let the living come forward and the dead be awakened by the great works that we will do. Yes, our works will awaken the dead. What is the Islamic world missing most of all? t is missing basic concept and the most important perceptions for the human mind, especially for Muslims. They are missing the correct perception of even G-d. Sure, they say Allah is one, but they're not knowing Him as they should. They say Muhammad, they're missing the perception even of Muhammad the Prophet. They say yes, they say Muhammad is G-d's Messenger. He's the last Messenger. He's the last Prophet. But they are not perceiving him as Allah revealed him originally in Islam, in Al Islam. They're not.
They're perceiving too the unity of mankind, but they're not perceiving it as those early followers perceived it. How do you know Imam WD Mohammed? I know because G-d has blessed me to know. That's how I know. They're not perceiving Muhammad as he should be perceived. That's why they want him to be in competition with Jesus Christ. Say, oh, we want the Christians, we want the West, but they're attached to Jesus Christ and it's shirk, it's forbidden the way they are attached to him believing he's the G-d. So let us challenge them with Muhammad. Let's show them Muhammad, the Messenger of G-d.
But you are missing the important things in the pictures of Muhammad the Messenger of G-d. So when you come with your challenge to their Jesus Christ, they laugh at you. How is he equal to the Son of G-d, to Christ Jesus, son of G-d? Their knowledge of Muhammad is not full enough and clear enough to defeat even the Shirk, the cross belief in Jesus Christ as the son of G-d. And the logic that they bring from Qur'an, which is a powerful logic about the universality, the oneness of G-d and the oneness of His creation, the oneness of His creation in terms of its nature.
And it's place in the order of belonging to one system. One system of matter, it's oneness. The oneness of creation or oneness of matter, the material scheme. They can bring all that logic, but they don't know that the ones who came up with this idea that Jesus Christ is G-d manifest, that he is the son of G-d, they faced all that argument before they came to the conclusion that he is G-d. They faced all that argument and they believe their idea is consistent with that logic. So when you come with your language that's you impressed with and you think it's going to impress them, every now and then you get one or two. The great multitudes of the Christian leaders and thinkers stay in their religion. You're not changing anything at all. Your accomplishments are very, very small. When the world of Christianity was backwards, the world of the Christians were backwards scientifically speaking in terms of science and high order for civilization.
They were making converse from the Christian world, right? Yes. But that's because they impressed the Christian world with their advances in knowledge and in science, et cetera, and their vision for the world. The Christians were impressed with that. But once the Christians were turned on to that and they had a revival for their own intellects or intellectuals and their scientific thinkers got into the field and into the work to start doing it, and their leaders in the works of their doing start to benefit their society and their society start to reap the benefits of their labors, then their society looked at the Muslim world and they don't see anything in the Muslim world anymore that's attractive to them.
And the Muslims want to hide the leaders. See, you can hide something and lose it. You ever hear something and lost it from yourself? That's what the Islamic world did. It hid the precious knowledge of this Tauheed and the perception of human value and G-d and everything. They hid it. They hid it so long for so many generations that they lost it from themselves. They can't find it. But G-d is the Finder, isn't he? The life giver is also the finder. And it has been found where no one would expect it to be found.
Among the negro, these blacks in the ghetto, a child of an unlearned man, Eljah. Uneducated man, no proof, no credentials at all. And his wife, another, an uneducated woman. Now for the learned minds of this world, say, "Oh, no guy like that, he ain't got nothing. No matter what he says, don't believe him." But the learned in the spiritual world, the learned in the spiritual world shouldn't think that way. You should say, your mind should right away be drawn to the magnet of what has happened and your mind should witness that this is the way G-d does things.
The Islamic world so afraid somebody's going to come up and have the power to challenge it and win support from the Muslims away from them. They're so afraid of that. They will twist the truth. They will hide the truth. They will fight an innocent thing and try to embarrass it, turn you away from them. They'll do all these dirty things because they're so desperate to hold on to the little bit they still got. And all they have to do is say, Imam WD Mohammed the son of Elijah Muhammad who gave a concept of Islam that was completely wrong and in contradiction to what actually G-d revealed. Now from his son, has come a man that could have taken the followers of his father and become very powerful and wealthy and would've been a big problem for Islam in America. But he chose to give up all that.
Risk being poor and without the followers of his father to stand up for the truth. Leaders in Mecca, leaders in Arabia, leaders in Egypt, leaders in Pakistan, leaders everywhere should be standing up saying, we recognize G-d and they should be making me the leader of Muslims all over the world. Yes, they should. Is that what you want Brother Imam? I told you I want nothing. I want absolutely nothing for myself. I don't. So you think I'm going to work for that? I ain't going to work for that. That's not my interest. That's not my happiness, being the leader of all Muslims in the world. That's not my happiness. If G-d wants that to happen, G-d will bring it about. I know what G-d wants to happen. G-d wants the people that the world put down to have Imam Warith Udin Mohammed as their leader. That's all I'm interested in. That's all I'm interested in. And I believe what we can do here as Muslims in America will be enough to bring about change throughout the world. For Muslims. For Muslims. That's what I believe. I'm not interested in being their leader.
You see how I dress. You think I want something? If I was a man with an appetite for these things that you all want, I'm not speaking to all of you, just some of you. I wouldn't come here dressed like this. I wouldn't ride second class on the airplane, Coach, Economy Class. I wouldn't take Southwest Airline. Don't even have a seat. I have to come there early to get a seat. You think I would live like that? And really, I don't like to talk to you about myself. G-d is making me talk to you like that. That's not in my spirit to tell you these things about myself.
What I want to talk to you brothers about is your important place in the scheme of G-d's creation. That's what I want talk to you about. If you wake up to the value that Allah your maker establishes for you, you will be motivated. You will be motivated. You'll get a new spirit. Your mind will come alive for the second time. You will get a new mind. You'll become more productive than you ever have been. Allah didn't create life to die. Allah created life to live. Allah didn't create power to produce nothing. Allah created power to produce. Okay? He created every human being the same. He didn't create any human being differently. But as Muhammad the Prophet said, "It is the situation or the circumstances that you're put in that makes the difference."
So you put a child that is meant to be a Muslim, you put him in a Christian environment, most likely comes up a Christian. And likewise for any other environment you put him into. You put him in an environment of Chinese, he comes up speaking Chinese. Put him in an environment of English-speaking people, he will come speaking English. So it's the environment that makes the difference. But look how powerful G-d is. Muhammad like Jesus is a sign and Muhammad answers this sign Jesus Christ, Peace be upon the servant of G-d. He's put in the nativity with animals. Nativity means his birth, the birth. He's put in a picture of the nativity with animals. And Muhammad, here he is a child. Father dies before he can know him. Mother dies also. And he never really grows up under his mother. She's gone. He's an orphan.
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