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lO-5-2007 Ramadan Jumah Session Homewood, III 
With Allah's name, the praise and the thanks are for G_d. We thank Him for the gift and blessing of the model human person, Muhammed (Pbuh), the honorable and noble servant and Messenger of G _ d and what follows ofthat 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 Qur'an. 
We thank Allah for this day, the best day, according to the sayings of our Prophet, Muhammed; the best day in the year, Jumah Day. And he said on this day Adam was created and no one is resurrected except on the pattern of Adam, 60 arm spans, referring to the social life of mankind. I. lb He created the femaLe but she was created after He created the maLe. He created Adam first from one self or from one soul, Nafs. In Qur'anic Arabic it is, "Nafsen Wahidah," one self or one souL.And He created from it or made from it, its mate, Adam's mate, the femaLe; and spread from those two all the men and women on earth. This is the saying ofG_d in the Qur'an.1c 
When we gather on this day of Jumah it is transLated in the Qur'an in the English Language by Yusuf Abdullah as the Day of Assembly. So the word comes from the verb, "Jama', which means to collect, to come together or to assemble for a speciaL purpose. In the case of Jumah, it is to worship G_d, Allah and to obey Allah and His messenger. It is for us to come together, not just to pray. Some of us put more importance on saLat, we say "Let's go make saLat in Jumah. You do more than make saLat in Jumah. You also hear a khutbah and if you did not hear a khutbah, you did not go to SaLatul Jumah. You have to have the Jumah Kbhutbah and then salat. 
I have heard some of the learned ones, not in our community but in the international community of Muslims, say, "When you attend the Jumah Prayer you only say two rakats at the time of the noon day, Thuhr prayer instead of four rakats. You are only obligated to say two." I was within hearing distance of his voice and this particuLar learned, pious brother said, "That shouLd tell us the teaching is as important as at least half of the prayer for the midday." 
The khutbah is very important and I'm saying that with a follow up. Our Prophet, Muhammed, is the model for mankind; the model person, the model Leader, the model human being for mankind. And Allah says of him with reference to this particular statement I made, "You are an excellent modeL for any who believes in G_d and the last day." 2 It did not say for Muslims. It didn't say for Jews and Christians. It says for any who believes. That goes beyond Jews, Christians and MusLims, too. To believe in G _ d is not enough. The Prophet said, "Say I beLieve and thereafter be upright." So just to believe in G _ d is not enough, but believe in G _ d and be upright, have good deeds, as the Bible or the Christians say; beLieve and present good deeds. 
Those who believe in the last day they conduct themselves on this earth with respect for G _ d's judgment. The last day means G _ d is going to judge all of us. He is going to settle all disputes. He is going to bring justice to everything, to all of us, everywhere; that is, G _ d, highly praised is He. 
 
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uhammed is our Prophet an 'our modeL You are supposed to say, "Our Prophet". You never should , is, "Our messenger". If yOL do, you are ignorant, or you are making a big violation. He is not our ssenger. He is G_d's messenger. We did not send him, but he is our prophet, Allah's messenger. 
lat is that saying to us, brother? It is saying to us Muhammed is the model for all human beings and he he Prophet of those who accept him as the messenger of G _ d. For them he is their prophet, but he is 
l>, by reasoning, the prophet for all mankind. 
mankind should one day, I don't know, Allah says He made us different and He made us with the vilege to be different; so we will differ. And G _ d says in His holy book, the Qur'an, that they will feo So people are going to differ and Muhammed, the Prophet, G _ d blessed him to see those in Lven. Allah showed him the heavens and he saw the followers of Moses and Jesus and his own lowers in that picture, upon the prophets be peace.3b That tells us that we should never expect that :rybody on earth is going to believe the same way. But we should just work to extend goodness as 
ch as we can do it. That is, don't give up, promote goodness always and hope the people will conform. t do not expect them all to do that, because G _ d says if He had wanted them to be all the same He 
uld have made them the same. 3c 
He gives them the freedom. G _ d gives His human creation freedom. Would G _ d create a human being 1 creature to think on his own and then not permit him to do that? Think about that. 
rayer Qiyam addresses man feeling power and dignity when he stands erect 
I going to read now from Surah 52 of the Qur'an. G_d says, "Now await in patience the command of Lr Lord for verily you are in our eyes." This is directed to the Prophet himself, but it includes all of us. j is aware of all of us and He sees all of us all the time. The verse continues, "And celebrate the 
ises of your Lord while you stand forth." 4 I'm giving you the tra~slation in English that is in the 
r'an, translated by Abdullah Yusuf Ali, the one that we recom~end. Although you can read anyone 
L like, that is the one we recommend. 
>eating, "And celebrate the praises of your Lord while you stand forth." Standing, that is what we 
lt to focus our mind on right now~ Every prayer begins with standing and we are given the signal when tand and the signal says now, for sure, it's time to stand for prayer. In Arabic it is, "Qad qaamtis 
It.'' The Arabic word, "Qad", means, "for sure, right now". And we stand for prayer and in that 
ition we praise G_d. We say, "Bismillahir rahmaanir raheem. Al hamdu lillahe rabbil 'alameen." In 
: position we praise G _ d. That is the beginning of our utterance when we make the stand. In fact, owing some you don't hear, "Bismillah". In fact, the majority, you don't hear them say it out loud. 
~y say it in their heart. They begin the recital with, "AI hamdu lillahe rabbil alameen." And it is in the ings of the Prophet, Muhammed, that, that expression holds up the sky. And when you are standing 
r stature or your form is as high as it can be. You don't pray on your tiptoes. When you stand on your Desyou are standing as high as you can, because you are supposed to stand erect in prayer; not bent 
r, not sloughed, but standing erect. 
praise G _din that position. That is the highest position of man, the standing position. And when he is ldinghe feels his power and he feels his dignity. When he feels his dignity he wants to stand erect, ight up. So this is the position that you take that can get you in trouble if you are not praising G'-.- d. So lat position, the first thing you say is, "AI hamdu lillahe rabbil alameen," while you stand forth. And 
 
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the judgment, will you sit for judgment, or will you stand for judgment? We stand for judgment. The Judgment Day is called, The Day of Standing. There is another name for it, The Day of Standing, The Judgment Day and in Qur'anic Arabic it is pronounced, "Yaumal Qiyaamah." 
I want you to recall the English translation for this Jumah Prayer, Salatul Jumah Day is The Day of Assembly and that is what we do. We assemble and we call it Jumah Prayer. [t means the prayer done by the collective group members all together. 
Before concluding the first part of this khutbah I want to come to another focus. Let us now change the focus fTom man in the standing position to the Prophet, Muhammed, as the model for us. And this time we want to speak of our Prophet in connection with what G _ d says in the chapter of the Qur'an called the city, al Balad and verse 2 of that chapter. I want to read to you, also, from Abdullah Yusuf Ali's footnote on that verse #6131; 
Allah says of Muhammed, the Prophet, "And you are a free man of this city." Let us see in the note:' what Abdullah Yusuf Ali says about this. He says the word for free man is "Hill" or "Hilun". When you read it you have "Hilun". The pronunciation changes following the rules of Qur' anic reading. It is, "Hilum be haadhaa balad." 5 In these times that we are living in, especially as influenced by democracy in America, many of our Muslim scholars and teachers do not want us to say, "Free man" and they say it does not say "Free man." But Abdullah Yusuf Ali is no ignorant translator. He is well respected in Mecca, Egypt, all the powerful Islamic centers of knowledge. So ifhe says, "Free man", let us see why he says free man. 
He says it means Prophet Muhammed is an inhabitant. G _ d is saying he is an inhabitant of that town, a man with lawful rights; a man free from such obligations as would attach to a stranger to the city; a free man; in a wider sense than the technical sense to which the word is restricted in modern usage. The Prophet should have been honored in his native city. He was actually being persecuted. He should have been loved as a parent loves a child. Actually, his life was being sought and those who believed in him were under a ban, that is, they were under restrictions. They could not have the privileges that the other free citizens had. They called a boycott. Some of you are familiar with it. But time was to show that he was to return triumphant to his native city after having made Madinah sacred by his life and work. 
Now, a few comments on the English commentary given by Abdullah Yusuf Ali. We are free citizens in the United States. In what sense or by what reference are we fr~e citizens of the United States? You have to go back to the legislation. You have to go back to the process of freedom in the United States, the growth and developmentoffreedom for the people of the United States; because when they first formed the language of the constitution for this nation they said that we are free by virtue of the fact that all human being are created the same, or have the same common worth. We all have our 5 senses. We all have our freedom to question things. We all have this same great brain that G_d gave only to humans, not to animals. And since we all have the same life form and the same brain, the founders or writers for framing the language of the constitution established that all citizens are equal and are due the same rights accorded to anyone else; and those rights carmot be taken from us by political power or government. Those rights are inherent rights, meaning that they came with our form that G _ d gave us. Is that clear? I don't know. I hope it is. Just stay on the ground with me and stay rational like I am and everything will be all right. It will be clear. 
We are free citizens. That was not the freedom given to us in the wilds. That freedom that we are talking about that is given to us and protected by the Constitution of these United States and the good people, it was given to us under agovemment body that was planning for our future generations to come. That is how it came to us and it has been protected by the people through their legislature. 
 
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when we say of Muhammed, the Prophet, that G _ d said of him he is a free man of this town, we are -ing it with respect for civilized order or civilized establishments, govemments_ And the Meccans, ugh they were behaving not as civilized people, they had established laws long before the generation Muhammed, the Prophet. Those laws had been established for the Arabs and they had social reform chers before Muhammed, the Prophet, and they had gone astray. 
1 not talking about Prophet Abraham. They had social reform teachers who were not messengers or Iphets of G _ d to help them come to some sense of social order and govemment. And they were not laving even with respect for their high leaders, those political and social guides who were before or lerations before the time of Muhammed, the Prophet. So they had not only gone astray, they did not )w Abraham's way, that had been completely lost. But they had not only lost that. They had also lost 
better teaching for social order and govemment that they had received in previous times. 
'ur'an Is to be read in a social, spiritual, political and in a time context 
this statement is not one that you can just hear and deal with nothing but words. In fact, I don't know 
r statement in the Qur'an that you can treat that way. You can't just read what is in the Qur'an and deal h it as though it is nothing but words. No. Those words have a social, spiritual context, a political 
ltext. They have a context. They fit in a particular focus, a particular framework, and they also have a Ie context, a time framework etc. That is not all there is to it. 
don't think you can just read something in the Qur'an and now you are a Ph. d. and you want to 
~stion everybody based upon what you know. Do want to question everybody based upon what you )w? You can't handle the Qur'an like that, please. That is not the way to handle any respected book. If 1 give me a statement from any respected book you have to respect what that book requires of the 
der. The same is for the Qur'an. There is no difference. It is even more so because it is a sacred Book :h the words directly from G _ d, Himself. 
e worst thing we can do is allow our prejudice as people who are not satisfied with Arabs, or not 
isfied with the American govemment, go to the extreme. The worst thing we can do and we have those ) extremes. One the extremes we have is those who have prejudice against Arabs and you would like to away with the tradition of Muhammed and make your own Islam. Then we have the other extreme 
ere we have those whojust hate to give credit to the United States of America. They don't want to ::nowledgethe U.S. for the credit that it is due among us African Americans and also outside. That reme, too, blinds your eye to the guidance ofG_d in the Qur'an. You cannot expect to get the pure, 
ar message ofG_d that is for us in the Qur'an if you are going to have prejudices that are unjust. 
th that I conclu,de this first part of the khutbah. And may G _ d forgive us our ignorance. You should re your hands up because you really need this dua. May G _ d forgive us our ignorance and may He give us our suspicious minds and guide us to His mercy. Ameen. 
 
p.11 of 125 We praise G_d in His name, always. We begin our endeavor and we praise Him and we salute Muhammed, His servant and Messenger, our Pr9phet, the last and seal of the prophets. 
In concluding the khutbah for today we started with the Qiyaamah, standing, and now I will conclude it with Ruku. We stand and after we clear ourselves before our Lord, in that position, we bow down to ruku' _ It is the position, as you know, where we place our hands at our knees, in the bowing position and say, "Glory for my Lord, the Mightiest ," three times. And we have to stand up again before going down to sajdah, to the floor. We say, "Sami Allahu liman hamidah," translated, "G _ d hears whoever praises Him." It did not say the Jews, the Christians and the Muslims. It says whoever praises Him. G _ d hears whoever praises Him. Actually it is saying G _ d has already heard whoever praised Him. If you did it a half second ago he heard it If you did it a million years ago, He heard it. 
While in that position, bowing, we say, "Subhana rabbeyal atheem." "Glory is for my Lord, the Mightiest" Man, in the standing position expressing his pride, his power, might, or whatever, he has to repent that So when you put your hand on your knees what you used when you were a little baby before you became a toddler, walking, you put your hands on the kneecap and you say, "Glory is for my Lord the Mightiest" I'm not mighty. I have achieved a great power and a great nation. I am the leader, . commander, of the armed forces, the military of a great nation. But I have awakened and I repent my wrong and confess that You brought me up from my knees. You are the Mightiest. 
In concluding the second part of the khutbah on this best day of the year, Salatul Jumah, when we read the Qur'an and finish our reading what do we say? "Sadaqal laahul atheem," again, the Mightiest. So what does that indicate to us? What does that communicate to our senses, our intelligence, our brain, our mind? What should it communicate to us as students, as learned men, as leaders? That the Qur'an is all about breaking dictators and destroying the mighty who want to impose their will on mankind. And you should start with your little self, brother Imam, standing over the people. Repent and Allah will love you more and increase you in all that is valuable and beneficial for your life now and in the future. 
Abu Huraira reported that the Prophet said, "Allah created Adam in His picture, sixty cubits (about 30 meters) in height. When He created him, He said (to him), 'Go and greet that group of angels sitting there, and listen what they will say in reply to you, for that will be your greeting and the greeting of your offspring.' Adam (went and) said, 'As-Salamu alaikum (Peace be upon you}-' They replied, 'As-Salamu¬'Alaika wa Rahmatullah (Peace and Allah's Mercy be on you).' So they increased 'Wa Rahmatullah.' " The Prophet added, "So whoever will enter Paradise, will be of the shape and picture of Adam. Since then the creation of Adam's (offspring) (i.e. stature of human beings is being diminished continuously) to the 
present time." 	. 
 
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bu Lubaba bin 'Abddul Mundhir reported the Prophet (pbuh) said, "Verily Friday is the master of the 
3YS and greatest of them in the sight of Allah (swt). It is more glorious in the sight of Allah (swt) thant he 3Y of sacrifice and the day of fitr (Eid Fitr). It has five characteristics: 
Allah (swt) created Adam on it 
Allah sent down Adam towards the earth on it. 
And on it Allah (swt) took Adam unto him (he died). And on it will be (the last) hour on which the servant of Allah (swt) will not beg of Allah (swt) anything but it 
Will be granted to him unless he begs for anything unlawful. 
On that day will occur the Resurrection. 
; Qur'an 4.1; Reverence Allah and family 
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~h ever watches over you." 
e have indeed in the Apostle of Allah a beautiful pattern of (conduct) for anyone whose hope is in Allah j the Final Day and who engages much in the praise of Allah.". 
ankind was but one nation but differed (later). Had it not been for a word that went forth before from Lord their differences would have been settled between t~em." 
m Abbass reported Allah's (swt) Apostle (pbuh) said, -Nations were displayed before me;'one or two phets would pass by along with a few followers. A prophet would pass by accompanied by nobody. 
m a big crowd of people passed in front of me and I asked, 'Who are they? Are they my followers?' It :;said, 'No. It is Moses and his followers.' It was said to me, 'Look at the horizon.' Behold! There was a Ititude of people filling the horizon. Then it was said to me, 'Look there and there about the stretching !' Behold! There was a multitude filling the horizon. It was said to me, 'This is your nation out of whom enty thousand shall enter Paradise without reckoning.' " 
 
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"If thy Lord had so willed He could have made mankind one People: but they will not cease to dispute." 
Now await in patience the command of thy Lord: for verily thou art in our eyes: and celebrate the praises of thy Lord the while thou standest forth. 
5. Qur'an 90.1-2; You are a free man in this city 
1.	I do call to witness this City 
2.	And thou art a freeman of this City 
a-I Adam
a- Adam built on 60 cubits l; 
a- Friday Adam created after Asr 1; 
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Freedom You are a free man in this city2; Friday Adam created after Asr 1; 
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j- Friday Adam created after Asr I; 
j- means prayer done by the collective group 2; 
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Prayer Qiyam man feels his power, dignity 1,4; Ruku means Allah brought me up from my knees 4; 
:ophet
You are a free man in this city 2; 
. Muhammed is excellent model 1; 
. Muhammed is our Prophet never say he is our messenger. He is Allah's messenger!; 
You are in our eyes 2; 
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iyam Prayer Qiyam man feels his power, dignity 1,4; [r'an is to be read in a social, spiritual, political and in 
a time context 
 
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With Allah's name, the praise and the thanks are for G_d. We thank Him for the gift and blessing of the model human person, Muhammed (pbuh), the honorable and noble servant and Messenger of G _ d and what follows of that 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 Qur'an. 
Before I begin the presentation to begin the sessions for today I want you to be aware that whenever I am scheduled for a program like this, whether it is the convention, Labor Day weekend, dIat we start also on Jumah Day. The Jumah delivery is also the session. So what you received today as a khutbah and also the selections from the Qur'an for the salat, you should get a copy of all of that. All of that should be in the recording and the transcription. So next year when you get the transcription for this year that should be in there and you should see it as a continuation. You should see it as the session is starting with the Jumah delivery and it is continued. 
But I had a few things I wanted to bring to your attention that is very good news to me and I know it is very good news to most of the believers. Imam Darnel Karim was a student in the same class and taught by the same professor I was taught by, Professor Jamil Diab, who passed recently as an old man. He was our professor and teacher, and an excellent teacher. Two students stood out. They were my youngest brother, Akbar, who is Dr. Akbar now, a professor teaching in the State University of New York, Binghamton in upstate New York and Imam Darnel Karim. Akbar was just excellent in speaking and writing Arabic. Darnel Karim was an excellent all around student, too, but he stood out for his voice and recitation of Qur' an. And I am very proud of him and what he has accepted to do now. He is doing a very excellent job. He is making a recording of the Qur'an, juza, section by section and I think he is about to soon finish maybe five or six sections. Already he is up to four sections. Pretty soon there will be five or six complete sections and I told him as soon as they are complete and ready for distribution he should start distributing them. And believe me, they are not only going to sell among us, they are going to sell 
	outside of us. 	. 
There are many beautiful Muslims in the international world of Muslims who have their eyes on us and they are looking at us with happy eyes and anticipating our growth, that we are going to grow .more and more in Al Islam and going to have a beautiful model community in the United States of America. They have strong faith in t~at. They did not just start. They have been watching us over the years and they will be happy and proud to buy and share the recitation of Qur'an by our Bilal, Imam Darnel Karim. Praise be to Allah. 
Bilal, may Allah be pleased with him, there is a lot in Bilal that you do not know. Only a few of you know. Bilal is a prophetic picture and I do not mean a prophet. Prophetic picture does not mean, necessarily, a prophet, but it means a picture out of prophecy. He is a picture that we can find in Bible prophecy and writings. That is what I mean by prophetic figure~ He is a prophetic picture or prophetic figure. He is not just there by accident as the Muadhan for Prophet Muhammed. We will talk about that at another time on some other occasion. 
 
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We are very proud offmam Darnel Karim's work and he has a partner with him, Imam Vernon Fareed from Norfolk, Virginia and I complement them both. They are doing an excellent job. Also, since I am doing this I'm trying to get these out of the way because once I start the session we are not going to interrupt the sessions with anything other than what is the material I have for the session. 
The blind man can see now. We all are blind while seeing at the same time, but we are blind. 
If you can take a note here, those who think they can benefit from this as your teacher. I hope that is how you accept me. I believe you can benefit from this, but I have not contacted them so I'm going to give you this information. You contact them for yourself and you decide yourself after you contacted them to see what they say and what they have, whether it is worth your time and money. 
So you can actually be tutored on line in the Qur'an. It says two weeks free trial for live tutoring. The phone number is: I (443) 282-1168. 
The E-mail iswww.Qur•anreading.com ..
They also have another E-mail Info@Qur•anreading.com. 
So if you just want to call them for information, maybe you want to contact them at the second one. I have one other help that I think would be good for you, but I took it upon myself to go and order some of the publications and they will be coming to me soon. If I am impressed as I am with the information on the publication then I'm going to make it available to you either through the Journal, or by direct radio broadcast or something, or both. I definitely believe I will be doing it through the Journal, but we may also put it on the broadcast at the end. 
This is also help, an Arabic dictionary to help you with your study of the Arabic language. It seems good, especially to give you good help with the Qur'an, learning to read the Qur'an in Arabic. 
Do you feel tired? Those who feel tired and want a break right now raise your hand. Okay, you don't want a break. You are like me. You just want a break from hellfire. That is all. Weare going to go up to break fast time, is that okay? We are fasting. We are strong. 
I have to tell you this. Like many of you out here, I am sure, in the audience, this is a time when everybody has some sickness. There is hardly anyone free of some kind of sickness. The food and pollution everywhere just keeps people with some illness. I have type II diabetes and the doctor strongly recommended that I eat very often. I have to eat small meals every two or three hours. I am not to go past four hours without putting something in my stomach and it is working. Believe me it's working well. I'm doing real well as you can see. I looked at this guy in the mirror and turned my head right away. I said, "You will make me vain. I don't want to see you." 
In the Salatul Jumah we mentioned our Prophet's model and we said his model is for all humanity. Iff did not put it that way you should write it now. I. His model is for more than those people who are called the people of the Book or for the following of Muhammed, the Muslims. And Allah puts it in the best way and that is where I'm coming from; that you will definitely find in Muhammed an most excellent model for any person who believes in G_d and the last day. 
 
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We had some comments on the position of prayer in the Eqaamah. First, we say, "Allahu Akbar", right? To begin any prayer we must say that. Now understand this, make a note here, too. [fyou have not done it, [ have talked on it before. Salat is not prayer as prayer is understood in the world. Prayer in the world is dua. Salat is not limited to dua, whereas the whole of the prayer is a dua, because we give whatever we are reciting from Qur'an in our salat. We are in a spirit to submit to what Allah wants of us, if we are praying correctly. If we come to the prayer correctly we are in a spirit to accept whatever Allah wants for us as our form and life on this planet earth. That should be our disposition, spiritually, if not registered rationally on our minds. [think the hearts of the believers conform to that. 
But dua is not salat. There are dua's in the Qur'an. So I might be reciting a passage [Tom the Qur'an, or a chapter in my salat and there might be a dua within the contents, or context of that passage, or that chapter I'm reciting from Qur'an; because the Qur'a,n has also prayers of special believers that were revealed as part of the Qur'an. 
So prayer is a better word for salat. I don't try to impose this on persons outside of those who accept my influence, my guidance, or my leadership, and what I give as guidance in support of or reflecting what is in Qur'an and in the sunnah of the Prophet. Salat is worship and worship in Qur'anic Arabic and understanding or meaning comes from the word "abd" or "abada". When we stand for salat we stand as the Ebaad of G _ d, the servants or the worshipers of G _ d. That is what He calls us. He gave us that name. He says, in Arabic, "Yaa ebaadee," translated it is, "Oh My slaves, oroh My servants." But we know 
G _ d is kind and merciful, gentle, to His servants. So the term slave is too harsh and it has such strong meanings, such strong communication in the history of the world and how the world has treated human beings and enslaved them. 
So it is a word too harsh in English for us to use. I'm proud and happy to be G_d's slave. But for communication's sake, for communicating the right meanings and right feelings, we should say servant and not slave, like they do in Qur'an. In Qur'an the translators translate it servant. 
Worship in Al Islam is conforming to the will ofG_d G _ d's will is going to inherit you 
So worship in Al Islam is conforming to the will of G _d. Obedience, agreeing in and to G _d's will, that is what worship is. And G_d's will was before He revealed any scripture to any prophet or anybody, peace be upon the prophets. His will is what supports His creation. G _d's will is not spooky. It is not a spooky thing I'm talking about. Don't think G _d's will is like your will and again, it is similar to your will. Your will is nothing but a poor reflection ofG_d's will. "And you can't will except as G_d wills". 3 That is Allah's swt word in the Qur'an. Even though you will something wrong, that was in G_d's will for you to have that freedom to do that; to even will something wrong. And in the end you are going to be fmished and G_d's will is going to inherit you, not you inherit G_d's will. After you are finished, dead, G_d's will is going to inherit you and you are going to go back into His system of matter. And His system of matter makes salat to Him. His system of matter is a Muslim and it makes salat to its Creator. In other words it brings its form to conform to the will of its creator, the will of G _ d. 
So our salat is worship and everything we do in our life should be worship. This is the teachings of Allah's book, the Qur'an and the teaching of our Prophet. Everything you do should bean act of worship, called in ArabiG, "Ebaadah". But as I said, we all do not conform completely. We are not perfect, but we 
 
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p.18 of 125 should be striving to bring our whole life to be an expression of our worship of Allah. Muhammed, the Prophet, was that kind of a person. His whole life was worship of Allah. 

Someone may ask, "What about his wives? He was married to women." That was half of his religion. That is his saying, "Marriage is half of religion." 4 He said malTiage is half of the religion. You have to get away from this Western influence in your mind. I'm talking about the Western influence that comes from incorrect reading of the Bible (you should be writing that down). I said incorrect reading of the Bible. So don't go out there and say, "The Imam said that the problem is in the Bible, brother. That problem comes from the Bible." No, [ said it comes from incorrect reading of the Bible. That is a big difference. So what happens to society? It is influenced by the moral problems of pious men who accepted to give up wives, women and sex, and then broke down and had to go to the court for sodomy. They should have read the Qur'an where Allah says, "This world is too big for you." 5 "If you don't accept My guidance this world is going to get the best of you". They have a thing with sex. And the 

shay tan comes in and he uses their defects and influences the whole culture, but not directly. He whispers his influences into the culture and they are already weak for it, so they buy it. 6 

So when you give the natural life artificiality imposed upon that natural life, a life that is really strange to the natural life and artificial, not real when you look at what is natural life, what happens? The behavior register in that life is confused. You confuse it and it becomes so confused that it sends you into extremes to get rid of the problem. The nature to register of what is going on, what the influence is asking of the natural system inside you, it becomes confused and then it sends your spirit and your behavior to extremes. One goes to extremes and he wants to just give up the world. He wants to give up women. Sex is so nasty that he wants to give up women. 

Believe me you have a lot of homosexuals who do not know their own problem. The culture has influenced them. They think they have a natural problem. There are not many who have a natural problem. If you have a natural problem come to me I will halal it for you. But if it is in your mind I can't halal it. I have to bring it out of your mind. You have to be corrected in your thinking. If it is a natural problem, why don't we just halal each other? Those of you who have the problem, just halal yourself. They say, "It's a natural problem." Well, I'll give you the sharpest knife you have ever had in your hand. It won't give you any pain. It will just quickly halal you. But it is not there. It is in your brain. 

The culture has influenced mothers going way back into time and mothers are sometimes influenced to raise boys in the wrong way. And they make a homosexual out of their sons. I'm speaking from knowledge. So it is all ahout form. G_d created us in the best form.7 The Qur'an says, "We have created the human person in the best form," the best model, the best mold, the best pattern. That is what it is talking about. But the influences of your own selves in your own world can help you or take you out of that. The Qur' an goes on to say, "AJ;ld as a consequence of your own doings that excellent pattern is reduced to the lowest ofthe low", to the bottomless pit, lower than a dog. And you know that. I think it was true in all times, but now more so than ever. We offend and insult the animal kingdom when we call some'oftheseno good so-called a human beings a dirty dog. "Yourat." You have never seen a rat that gives the world as many problems as you. Don't hurt that rat's image like that. 

We have had a discussionofEqaamah and we had some discussion ofRuku' where we bend~oxera.O.d bow down and place our hands on our knees. Now, this is from Surah Kaf, the 5Qtjl€hapter..b~ginning with verse 5 through .11. I will read. "But they deny the truth when it comes to.Jp.,em,so they are in a 
 
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p.190f125 confused state. Do they not look at the sky above them, how we have made and adorned it and there are no flaws in it?" 8 
How are we to see this reading? Why is it brought to the prophet's attention and through him to the attention of mankind or humanity? How has G _ d ordered the skies above us? The first thing we should know is that revelation or scripture is on-going. It is continuous. So whatever is said here has some reference to what G_d said before about the sky. 
What I'm doing is showing you how to read the Qur'an, how to read scripture, especially Qur'an. So don't just read this about the sky and keep reading and don't have any thoughts of where this is coming from. Where is it coming from? It is coming from the G_d, Who revealed the Bible. Someone will say, "Oh no, Allah did not reveal the Bible." I know your problem. I'm going to excuse you. I'm not even going to comment on your problem. I'mjust going to continue what I'm saying. 
The Qur'an is a continuation for helping us understand what G _ d revealed to the Jews and the Christians, the Torah and the Gospel, or Injeel. If this is talking about the sky, we don't go out there and just look at the sky and think that is what it is talking about. It is not the sky that the weather man checks. It is the sky that the Prophet checks and the ones who have been blessed with understanding of G _d's word, They have been blessed by G_d with understanding of His word. It is talking about the sky that they check. 
So where is the sky, brother? It is in the head of the leaders of our world. And it is said plainly in the Qur'an. We don't have time to just get everything from there for this occasion, but it is plainly said in the Qur'an. But I'mjust going to give you one. Allah says in the Qur'an, hell has seven doors. 9 Is that not 
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right? And heaven has seven. Seven up and seven down. Now let us count. One mouth goes up from 
that one; two, right nostril, three left nostril; four, right ear; five, left ear; six, right eye; seven, left eye. If a person is in hell it is because some bad influences came in through one or more of those doors. And if anybody is in heaven it is because the angels of G _ d were watching over those doors; because there was a special human in that body, one that G ~d loved. And He gave that person His mercy and assigned an angel to stand at every door. Praise be to Allah. 
Man fell because he thought he was an angel, a divine being 
Fallen star is a sign of our fall because of man's mis-perceived self perfection 
Continuing with Qur'an,"How we have made it and adorned it." Adorned it with what? Beautiful lights. Aren't the stars beautiful lights up there above us? You don't have to even go to Texas to see that it is beautifuL And inTexas you have a wide beautiful sky. The land is so big and the prairies are so wide thc,t you can see those stars up there and it looks like you can just almost throw a rock and hit one. They look that close; or you can shoot and maybe touch one with a bullet or a missile or something. And it is like a piece of black cloth bedecked with jewels andthey are just sparkling all over it. That is why the translator sees that. He registers the beauty of the clear sky at night with all of the lights shining and he used the English word, "adorned". AndTm sure the Arabic word is even more rich in describing it; adorned it and there are no flaws in it. 
 
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p.20 of [25 Some may say, "Yes, there are some flaws. Stars fall." They fall because they got out of the system. That is why they fall. Something happened to make them lose their place in the system and they fall as a sign to us, that no matter how perfect we think we are sometimes we fall. And we really believe that in order to serve the Lord, G _ d, Who created everything, man, he had to fall. He ascended and he thought he was an angel, or he thought he was a perfect being. He thought he was a divine or god-like creature. He thought that and he had to fall; and he fell. lOb And a man, a prophet ofG_d, by the name of Abraham, Ibraheem, in the Qur'an, knew the place of the falling.lOe So, he went there where he knew the star fell. The star is nothing but a metaphor, a symbol, a sign of our fall from perfection that we perceive, back down here with everybody else. You can set yourself up as angel, or as divine, but pretty soon, or later, we are going to find you burning out falling from heaven and burning out; And when you cool we can do something for you and do something with you. 

So our father, Abraham, peace be on him, he found and took that stone and he placed it in the comer of the house that was going to be a house for all mankind. It was going to be equally the home ora white man as it is for a black man, for a Jew; as it is for a Christian or a Muslim, a Hindu, a wild man in the jungle or whatever. It is going to be the home for everybody who was ever in human creation. 

And everybody at birth is in human creation. I don't care ifhe is born in the wilds. When he comes from his mother he is in human creation. There are not tigers coming out when the delivery is there. That baby is ready to go into any civilization. Though born in the wilds, the jungle, he is ready to come up in any civilization. You could bring that child right straight from that wild society and wild mother straight to my house and I raise him in my house, he will come up just like my sons and daughters. G _ d presents them right into man's world. That is why the Prophet said, "Everyone is born a Muslim until circumstances makes them otherwise. 11 

Prayer: Qiyam a man stands in his dignity, power Suonah: Symbolizes that you have to take responsibility for self, family, and the nation 

We are talking about life form and prayer. So when you are standing up in Qiyaam, your own pride in your own self interest, in your own picture of your superiority over somebody else, you are standing up in your sky. And you have to come down from there. You come down from Eqaamah, step 1. You go to Ruku, step 2. You go to sajdah, step 3. You sit up and realize that you have made three wrong steps. You realize that you have been struck out at the plate and what do you do? You say, "Allah pardon me, grant me mercy." But you say it in the plural, "Allah pardon us and grant us mercy." You speak for all people, because you know you did not do that wrong by yourself. Now isn't this beautiful? 

Allah says in the Qur'an, "Your death and resurrection is as the death and resurrection of a single soul." lib And the prayer, or salat worship service, especially the Jumah but every time we pray the five daily prayers, it is communicating this to us. And when the Prophet required all of his followers to also do sunnah prayers that means you have to pray by yourself, without an Imam. What is he saying? The Prophet is saying your death and resurrection is as the death and resurrection of a single person, or of a single soul. 

And Allah says, "Yaa ayyuhalladheena amanu quu anfusahum wa ahlekum naara," translated, "Oh believers, save your own selves and your families from the hell fire.12 Allah authorized the individual person in Al Islam, following the way of Muhammed, the Prophet, to take upon himself or herself (because the sisters do sunnah, are obligated to do sunnahjust like we are), the responsibility for the 
 
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p.2lofl25 downfall of the family and for the downfall of the nation. You are going through exercises. Y ouare going through training that is given to you by the highest Boss in existence. And He can train you to save yourself, your family, and even the nation and the whole world, the global community. 
Then what did the Prophet teach us? He said that Friday is the best day of the year and it was the day Adam was created on. It is the day that you also die on and no one is resulTected except on that day. 13. LJb This is the month 0 f Ramadan and there are scriptures that were revealed before 'the Qur' an. And in one passage it says, "Unless the hearts of the children be turned to the father and the father's heart be turned to them, the earth will be smote with a cursed.,,14 Well, look at America's cultural scene right now. Isn't the earth smote with a curse? Yes. 
Don't we influence the cultures of the whole globe. We are so powerful with out media and with our means of communication, and with our influence as a culture. We are so powerful we are influencing the cultural life of people all over the world and they are falling down all over the globe to COlTuption. You don't know but this is the time of Noah's flood,.repeated. It is here again. This is the time of, Sodom and GomolTah, again. All of the big pictures of tragedy for the whole of the known world at that time and in those places are happening right now in the United States of America. 
But mind you, the city of Jonah, Nineveh, was so terrible at one time G _ d told the prophet, "Go tell these people that they only have so much time to get it right. I'm going to destroy this whole place". And he was.so disgusted witR what was happening there he went and got on a commercial ship and ended up . sleeping down in the hull of the ship, resting against the cargo, resting on the money. 15,16 And he finally gets in trouble and calls on G_d. And G_d is merciful if you turn to Him with your whole soul, or your whole heart. He is going to deliver him no matter how bad a thing he did. 
So G_d delivered him and when G_d delivered him he finds out that the city that was supposed to be destroyed is not destroyed. In fact, it is striving now, doing better than it was before. Now he's got a problem with the communication that G _ d gave him, thinking, "Why did You communicate to me and embalTass me like this? I went and told those people they were going to be destroyed. Why did You embalTass me like this?" "You slept too long on the cargo. You don't know what happened after you went to sleep. The people started repenting in bigger numbers and I told you, you sleeping fool, that if you just found one there who was good I would not destroy the city". 
The Qur'an refers to it as Nafsen wahidah. If you just find one there I will not destroy the city.17 Now the picture that automatically comes to the eye is of one physical person. That is not what G _ d means. If you [md the original person that I created in that town, if you find some people still holding on to the original pattern of Adam, I am not going to destroy them, because I created that pattern. That is My man. I'm not going to destroy My own works. 
We look at America. The Honorable Elijah Mohammed said America is going to be destroyed. It already was destroyed. The ugly America that he worked against all his life is gone. The truth destroyed it. Righteousness destroyed it. Good efforts by blacks, whites, and Jews and others destroyed it. G_d was with their efforts and it was destroyed. Some will say, "It is still there." Where, Jonah? Tell me. "Oh look at the crime, the drugs, and the bad morals". Well, why don't you get busy on that problem. The government has done all it can do. It can't legislate behavior for each and every one of you. You have to 
 
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p.22 of 125 answer Allah's call, "Save your own soul and the family from hellfire". 18 That is a job for us that is not a job for the government. 
Moral corruption to be corrected by religious leaders not the government 
Interfaith Groups have similar responsibility to maintain the world 
When you look at the nasty behavior of our citizens out there, that is not job for the govenunent. The government does not legislate morals. For the citizens of this country down through histOly going back to the beginning of this country~s concept or idea ofgovemment, never was there any legislation of moral behavior. It depended upon religious people serving G _ d to address the moral behavior 0 f the citizens. The citizens are people who are supposed to be believing in G_d. So it is an obligation of the leaders who say they believer in G _ d to deal with this moral corruption spread so wide in our country. Even those high up in the corporate world, who go to prison for ethical violations of what is ethical, or violations of what is law or moral decency, the law will punish them. But if we see that the real problem was that they just fell to the influences of moral corruption in this culture, then that is not only a problem for government. Government can only go so far and say you broke this law and it can't deal with anything but laws you violated. But we can deal with the form you violated. You came out of the form of the original Adam who G _ d put in the garden; You let the serpent of culture seduce you to come out of your original form. So it is an obligation of the religious leaders, Muslim, Jew, Christian, and even those with the same moral idea and appreciation of human values who are not even in these religions. The Buddhist has decency. He has a knowledge of his original form. And a Buddhist is given training to go in the direction of the ascent of his nature so that he comes to illumination; to become a bright and enlightened person with righteousness shining and also intellect shining. 
Turn the hearts of children return to the father means return to your fitraa, your original human design, Adam 
So the people of the Book and the Muslims are not the only ones with this belief. And I repeat, the children have to return to their father. The Christians and the dumb preachers make• the mistake of thinking this means return to Allah. No, return to your father. Allah is not your father. He is your Creator. That is what He says in the Qur'an of the Prophet, "I'm not the father of any of your 
men."!9 When I want one I get one from those I already created".20 So that saying in the Bible. The children's hearts have to turn to their father means that you have to do what the Qur'an, Al Islam, Muhammed's sunnah, designed for us. You have to return to your Fitraa, to your original human design, who is Adam. That concept is called Adam in scripture. And when your hearts return to that, the natural person that Allah created, you have turned to your father. 
Islam says return to fitraa, the original human design. When the heart returns, you turn to the father. Then it says the father has to turn to you, right? Well if you turn to that in the correct way, that itself, will reward you. Do you see what I am saying? G_d has already created us with our salvation built into our very natural form and if we have the innocence to follow G_d's guidance and get back to it, once we are back to it, it will reward and will start increasing our value; and soon there will be a new creation on the scene of this nasty world. That is what we are doing right now. 
 
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The Honorable Elijah Mohammed initiated us going back to our father, didn't he? He said you are the original man and you are Muslim, right? And he said, "What is my own self? My own self is a righteous Muslim". Allah says of Adam who fell, don't follow the seducer who seduced your parents in the garden to come out of their original dress, the dress of righteousness.21 It is all perfectly clear. 
Now look at the sky and see how it is adorned. Can't you see how it is adorned with such beautiful lights? Now look at and see it, again. Do you find any flaws?" You don't find any flaws. Ameen. Allahu AkbaL Can I tell you the plain truth? Would you go crazy? Allah is speaking to you right now through Elijah's son and I am no prophet, no angel. I'm Wallace D. Mohammed. The Prophet said the sign of the end of the world will be that the poor people will be competing with the rich people in the building of skyscrapers. 22 Isn't this a tall house we are building right now? We are putting together a tall structure right now and I think we can compete with the rich, can't we? Not just the rich in money but the rich also in knowledge., Now please don't repeat what I told you about Allah speaking to Elijah's son. You don't want to repeat that. 
I've been under the tree where the followers of Prophet Muhammed took an oath. They placed their hand on his hand and they kept placing their hand on each other's hand and all their hands were supported by his hand.23 . His hand was the first to take the oath upon and they were told by G _ d that the hand of Allah's is above the last hand. So Allah also verified that oath was approved by Him, that his followers took, "Baith", the Arabic term for oath, under that tree. Well, by a vision Allah brought me under that tree and I have taken my oath. Don't get spooky. By vision Allah sho\Ved me his followers under the tree and I joined them in putting my hand there. And that will be reflected in my leadership from Ramadan, now forever, en sha Allah. G _ d is my protector. 
Continuing Chapter 78: Verse 7, "The earth we have spread it out and set thereon mountains standing firm and produced therein every kind of beautiful growth in pairs." The mountain is mentioned after the sky. Some mountains are so high if the higher regions up there are cloudy the mountain is going above even the clouds. And if you look at the way the sky appears, it looks as if it is a dome. And it appears that the walls come down and touch the earth and man in his structuring, designs buildings, especially castles, high places for'government leaders, offices and whatever like we have in the white house in Washington (where you have the oval room and the capitol building) with a big dome. Then you find the religious people, not government, they had these big domes on their churches, places of worship, long before government. Some of us think the dome of the mosque is given by the Muslims. No, the Christians had the dome even before the Muslims. The Muslims got rich and found out they had enough money to build domes, too, and they started and they fell like Lucifer. Scripture says, "Oh Lucifer, that bright star of the morning, why have you fallen?"24 In another place in the Qur'an Allah says, "If He had not placed mountains in the earth it would have become shaky and would have given way. 25 
Now that you know where the sky is, G _ d has created man to have strong leaders rise up among them who are 'firm, almost immovable, unshakeable, like a mountain. And Allah let us know that these mountains are not a mystery. He said He placed them like pegs. You know what a peg is? You have to put a peg in the ground. You put a peg deep enough and it will hold. The peg can be ten feet in diameter if you have something powerful enough to drive it down into the ground, and they do. Modem industry has something powerful enough to drive a ten foot diameter peg into the ground and even bigger if they have to. So it is telling you this thing is not permanent. That is what Allah is saying, "The mountain I'm talking about is not permanent. Not even those mountain you are looking at of mine are permanent either. 
 
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If you check the geography and have an archeologist infonn you, they will tell you there is a little hill over there, a wide, raised place. It used to be a high mountain. So when the righteous in the scripture say 
one day G_d is going to level the mountains, you think you will have abig bull dozer; an earth mover or something is going to come and push all these mountains down and make the earth just one level plain. That is crazy. You might need an earth mover. But you are not going to move anything except a big headed man who can't accept truth and reality and yield to the pressure of nature and G _don us to conform to the best for the human population. And the higher you go the colder it gets. 
Moses gave a demonstration of that in the Bible. Those people had hot heads andjust kept arguing with him and each other. So he raised up a sign in the wilderness and the medical world has taken it and adopted it as a sign from them. And he said, "You hot heads have to cool off. Go up to higher regions. Your interest is too low. Your interest is in nothing but material things, so go up". The higher the mountain goes up the less is its diameter in material mass. It does not start with a small base and spread out like a palm tree. It starts with a broad base and gets narrower, like the an ancient pyramid that is on your money. 
Dollar's light at top of a pyramid symbolic of the leader taking little and giving much to the society 
You look on your money, where is the light? Is it at the base or is it up there at the top? Is the eye at the base or is it up there in the small part? When you accept to live on a little bit and give much to the many the light is going to come on for your society; not just for you, but for your society that you are over, or your congregation, or you community that you are over. When your mass that you want in your control becomes small and when it goes from you to others, it gets bigger and bigger. Feed the many and take your share only. That is the message of that sign. And the light will come on and the eyes will be opened to work in the light. 
Mountains standing firm. When you are constituted wrongly Or constituted upon moral and ethical weakness, or corruption of moral life, no matter how tall the mountain is, no matter how big the mountain is, it is temporary. It is going to go fast. Conditions are going to bring it down fast. You think it is permanent. It is not permanent. 
The same verse continuing: "And the earth we have spread it out and set thereon mountains standing firm and produce therein every kind of beautiful growth in pairs." When the mountain is not in accord with 
G _ d's plan or design and it is top heavy the earth is cheated of its intended production and beauty that Allah's will wants for it. So you will have a mountain and the land all around is a desert, barren, cheated. Allah has given us sites like this on the globe; not that the people are like that. But Allah has created the earth so that it gives us sites like that, so that His creation communicates to man's world, his plans and his behavior, his doings, his commands, etc. And those who have an innocence worthy ofG_d's mercy look at the mountain standing in the garden. It might be a child for that society and he starts thinking on how the people are suffering and the man over them, high above them like the top of a mountain; got all• he wants and all of his relatives and his friends are just enjoying, doing as they please; enjoying whatever they want. But even sometimes down the slopes of the mountain it is all barren and there is nothing at the top but snow and ice, nothing growing on the slopes. At the top is snow and ice. That is what Mr. Fard called the ice house. 
 
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Many of them did not even enjoy them because their mind was too small. Their brain was too much like a black-eyed pea. If you get a black eye it means some damage has come here. The blow came to close to the eye or came to the eye. Right? It is not Muhammad Ali. He did not throw that punch. You hit yourself with your ignorant controls. You blackened your own eye. Mr. Fard said don't eat black-eyed peas. I'm eating black-eyed peas. I love them. They taste good. Someone may say, "He's bragging that he does not follow the Nation of Islam's teacher." Yes, I do follow the Nation of Islam's teacher. It is to lead me beyond a black-eyed pea that you buy in a grocery store and see the black-eyed pea in the mind of the black man where his brain has turned out to be nothing but a little black-eyed pea. All his mind is black and white, the black man and the white man. He is nothing but a black-eyed pea in the brain and it hurts his vision. He has had a terrible blow. Now Mr. Fard did not tell you the extent of that black eye we have. It is so bad it is like we got hit first by Sonny Listen, then byIoe Frazier, then by Muhammad Ali, and the members of the Nation ofIslam. 
Everything is created in pairs. When this was revealed do you think they had botany, zoology? The followers of the Prophet in one century established universities that became beacons. We should take off like that. The history of the fall of the Muslims leaders should show us that we should see that we have a good beginning. We were not bosses in our beginning. The bosses in the time of Prophet Muhammed didn't join him because he wasn't a boss. 
Mr. Fard told us to not eat black-eyed peas, meaning in the mind of the black man the brain is nothing but a pea. He sees only a black man and a white man. That hurts his vision. It is like getting hit by SonnY Liston, Joe Frazier and Muhammed Ali, he hit us, too. The black eye has closed up the eye and the blood is all congealed, clotted. It is going to take a long time before sight can come back. The congealed blood is going to have to be dissolved. The eye is going to have to gradually heal. It is going to have to gradually go into the system and the blackness or the bruise goes away. That is the extent of our black eye. 
Baal and Donkey is symbolic of the soul riding a man who renders himself as a pack animal 
It's just like that donkey that saw the angel with a flaming sword and decided he was not going to carry foolishness on his back anymore and he said, "Baal why did you struck me these three times?" 27,28 Now we think Baal was a person that had gotten on the back of an animal. No, the animal was a person who 
. had lost his original person and was being treated like an animal because he had rendered himself in that form, as a pack animal or an animal to be used. So his own soul was riding him. Baal is his own soul. But when he saw the angel standing in the way with a flaming sword, then he started questioning his own soul that was riding him saying, "Why did you strike me out at the plate? I want to go home." 
So Allah revealed to Muhammed, the Prophet, the best of the human creation, in the Qur'an, to tell the believers, "Oh you who believe save yourself and your families from the fire." 12 And He is addressing us as, "Nafsen Wahidah", one soul. 17 He is addressing our humanity when He says, "Oh you who believe save yourself and families from the fire." 
Let us now give our attention to this expression, "Beautiful growth in pairs." I have already begun. I said that modem science has now made it available to any student who wants to go and learn science; that everything in the material existence is existing as a duality, dual; existing in two's, as two, not one. In matter, material things, you have electrons and protons. In flowers you have male and female and in 
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p.26 of 125 industry builds something, i.e., a house, and uses electricity, they will speak of male and female plugs. And it just does not go for the adapter or the plug that you put into the receptor, only. But that language continues throughout the language of science and industry. 
You should think about this. How are you going to really know your Muslim worth as a believer in Allah's word, the Qur'an, and as followers of His messenger, tl).e mercy to all the worlds? How are you going to really know your value? If you don't know your value how can you have your life? Are you listening? The great philosophers of ancient times going back to Africa even before, during and after the Pharaohs, Ethiopia, Africa and going to Greece, the learned teachers, what did they say was the most precious orientation in the mind or the intellect? The orientation to find yourself. And the famous words of the philosopher says what? Know thyself. That w~ not the Nation of Islam. That saying was old enough that if it could breathe, it would put mold all over your house. That is how old it is. Know thyself. 
Adam was created right, perfect as innocent as a new born baby 
And what did the Honorable Elijah Mohammed teach us? Know your own self. And what did his teacher say? Your own self is a righteous Muslim. Your own self is Adam, the man who was created right, perfect, as innocent as a new born baby; not spoiled, not changed; still in the mold or pattern that G _ d put it in. That is what he is saying. And didn't the Honorable EIUah Mohammed say that you are a baby nation? It did not originate with the Nation ofIslam. 
There is another strong hint that many of us couldn't think .about intellectually or academically. You area baby nation. Some would say, "That means we were growing and we didn't have the material and didn't have everything yet. We were just growing, starting from infancy". No, it is not about the material scene. It is about the rational scene. The leader came to free us mentally, not materially. I'm using his own language. The mentally dead. He did not say the materially dead. He said he came to free, deliver or to wake up the mentally dead. And that is what the Qur'an is for, to wake up the mentally dead. To wake up Adam in us. The Western culture has an expression that says, "Up and at them," and a long time ago when they took pride in going to work they used that expression. [t means let's get up out of that bed and go to work. 
And both Bible and Qur'an give us a picture of Adam as the one who developed this earth. How do you know this? I know you feel it and see it. In Genesis Adam comes and G _ d charges him with developing the garden. He gave him the responsibility to take care of the garden. That means the natural world before man influenced it. And most of the lovers of nature their love is for the original beauty of the earth. Industry, that is their love. It is like a paradise picture for them. The culture in America now is a picture of paradise for them, but paradise beginning and when you look at the culture in America right now you look at paradise lost. You who have done a little reading in literature you know where I'm coming from. You know where the language is coming from. 
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p.27 of 125 Continuing with the verse, "He created every kind of produce therein, every king of beautifl.ll growth in pairs." [ get one strong meaning here, firstly, because it has been talking about those who want to stand higher than everybody else. They want to be over the heads of everybody else, the sky, the mountain, etc. Then it says every beautiful growth in pairs. Now the one who want to be over everybody is he conducting affairs upon shuraa? Most of them, you find they are dictators and AfTica is notorious for having dictators. Everywhere you find them struggling to come into the industrial age. Most likely they have been tolerating dictators. Am I right or wrong? So where is the beautiful growth? They cannot have it because their interest is too small though they are over everybody. They have great body, great mass, great might because they control the masses. They are powerful and strong but they have no condition to bring their country to flourish with beautiful agricultural growth and industry. 
Do you know agriculture preceded industry for many, many, centuries, maybe thousand's of years? And when industry started, it started on the foundation or the back of agricultural growth, didn't it? Even factories have to use the gifts of agriculture when they run the factories. I know it because I worked in a factory. They learn how to use water in manufacturing, capturing especially material things. The practice was already in the agricultural world for thousands of years. They would cut stones and other hard things and found out if they had water running at the same time on the instrument it would not wear out too soon. It helped the instrument, kept it sharp enough to keep cutting. So you go to the factories even now you'll find machinery and they have to have liquid running on it. Right? If they don't it will burn up or break. That is one example I'm giving you. 
The word for beauty is a very strong and pleasant word in the Arabic language. The philosophers they saw into this and wrote beautiful philosophy and poetry because they were inspired by these beautiful concepts and pictures that G _ d put into the revelation He gave Muhammed, the Prophet. Can't you see how some of those men back there were motivated and got strong enough to go on the battle front with inferior weapons and say to those who outnumbered them sometimes many times over, a big army. I remember they shouted at the army that was gathered in from of them. "We love death more than you love life, Allahu Akbar." And then they charged right into them. It took the fight out of them when they said that. Maybe a few of them held on to their "To the death courage." But most of them were defeated when they heard that, saying, "These people love death more than we love life. Let's get the hell out of here. We.are dealing with something we don't know anything about." Someone may say, "He said hell in Ramadan." There goes that black-eyed pea. We love you all but we are not going to let black-eyed peas stop us from going where we have to go. 
It says, "Beautiful growth in pairs." The word for pairs is explained here beautifully. There is no need for me to go further with it. But the last expression is, "To every servant turning to Allah." We need some elaboration here. The word in Arabic is "Muneed" and it does not say turning to Allah. It describes a person who has determination for G _ d, a determined will for G _ d, but also has a tender heart for humanity. So when you are a person like that you are with Allah's wilL So that is why he translated it like that. It does give the idea of a person who has been coming by gradual steps closer and closer to what Allah wants for that person. 
Snake shed skin is culture with little benefit Reptile shows no hair, sign of cold cultures 
Now we go to another verse," And We send down from the sky Rain charged with blessing and We produce therewith Gardens and Grain for harvest. 
Now let us give some thought to this for a few comments. Rain coming down as a blessing. Now there are cultures from the ancients existing right now'in Mexico and South America. The Aztecs, the Mayans 
 
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p.28 of 125 worshiped the god they called the rain god. So here are people who had over generations, over the centuries, many generations, come to appreciate the rain that comes down for their needs from the sky so much that they fashioned or formed a god. And they put the god in the image of a reptile. Why a reptile? Because a reptile shows no cultural growth. The skin appears to be bare. When he sheds he sheds skin, not hair. It is not like your big dog that you feed more than you feed two children, who is all hairy and furry and stuff. He gets hot in the summer and he sheds that hair. But when he sheds hair there is still hair on him. He just got rid of some of the hair so he wouldn't be so hot, so tortured in the heat. But the snake has no hair to shed. So hesheds a skin as a sign. He didn't design himself. The Creator of everything designed him as a sign that there are cultures that give you little or nothing. Cold natured cultures, they give you little or nothing. And they shed their skin and it means they leave a sign that they are still around. When the snake leaves his skin there it looks like a snake is still there. So he puts his form's imprint in your mind and on your culture so it is still there and he is gone somewhere else. He is doing his work somewhere else. He's going to do his work there and when the season is over he's going to leave another pattern back there for them to follow. We are talking about today and yesterday. There is a lot to say about that but I know you want me to keep moving and I'm going to keep moving. 
The Qur'an says "We send down from the sky rain charged with blessing"3l When rain comes to a barren land man might be fearing he's going to lose everything and the rain comes just in time to save his crops. Now you know how grateful he is to the heavens. Here he is about to be put out of business and look how drought has almost put the whole of the Africans out of business. Drought and human corruption put Africa out of business. It is pitiful. I have a book. I started to bring it with me. A high school teacher who dealt with problems in Los Angeles in the schools, is still living and he puts out a book called, "The Black Curse." I got a copy of it. I did not know about the book but I told you.some time ago "We are under a curse and we have to repent." This professor wrote a kind of recent book, I'm sure it came after my bringing this to your attention. I was looking at our people and it was registering on me as a curse on our people, their behavior and what's going on. 
Do you know our leaders you might say, "He shouldn't talk about blacks. This is Ramadan." Well how did you start your fast at Fajr time? Weren't you supposed to see the black of day and the white line of night running parallel?" That is all I'm trying to do, to get it to run parallel in your mind. Don't tell me I'm not in Ramadan. I'm in Ramadan 12 months out of the year and the Lord blesses me every ninth Ramadan month. As David said, "He anointed my head with oil and my cup runneth over. 33 It means He gives me more than I could use. That is what it meant. David was saying He is so generous, He gives me more wisdom than I have use for. I don't know where to put all of this wisdom. I don't know what to do with it. What does Allah say in the Qur'an? We do dhikr 33,33,33, 100, Allahu Akbar. But Allah says that He is different from us. He gives without counting. 34 And what is the scripture that came before the Qur'an aU about? Counting. How many was in the city by number and how many here. 
How many fell from heaven and all of that. And they have a whole chapter called, numbers. So Allah comes to us through the angel, Jabril and Muhammed, the perfect, tells us "Your G _ d gives without counting". He's teiling us that is the way we should give. If somebody comes to you poor, you should follow your heart. Don't be a fool because we have teachings for every fool and wise man. The prophet said pbuh don't extend your arm of charity out to its full extent and don't hold it to your neck. Don't just care about feeding your own self and don't give up all so that you become a dependent on society like that poor person you are tying to help. 34 That is the teachings of our Prophet. 
Prophet more than an Arab Allah's second creation was human 
 
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Our prophet, do you hear what I'm saying? He is no Arab. He is our prophet. He is only an Arab because of where he was born in some geographic location. But, Allah took that good, innocent Arab and then He taught him Himself and breathed into him of His own spirit and will and created another man, "Khalqan akhara. 35 Do you think Muhammed after revelation was the same man before revelation? [f he was, why does G d say of him in the Qur'an, "We found you straying and guided you?" 36 You were an innocent person but you were straying. And Allah says, "The Beneficent, the Merciful G_d taught Qur'an to His servant, Muhammed, firstly, and created the human person.36 Created the man with the humanity that G_d wants to be in all of us. Then G_d says, "It is G_d Who teaches you." 38 [n Arabic the word "Kum" means all of you. 
Allah is punishing immoral black and the church is not alarmed 
In the Qur'an Allah says, " It is Allah Who teaches you." Well, if['m giving you the Qur'an and 
. especially giving you understanding correctly and I told you what can happen and what has happened to Elijah's son, I don't want to repeat it. But I told you didn't? Well, see the proof[ bring you from the Qur'an? If you doubt you know you ought to get the worst punishment? See Allah punishing our people? Their public life is just shameful, nasty, disgusting, downgraded and the church is not helping them. It is not even alarmed by it. I mean the church as a whole. If there is any alarm their numbers are probably smaller than ours in this big Christian population. And the press and media are not paying any attention to them because they don't think they should give credit to the church for addressing the issue; because there is not enough of the church involved in addressing the issue of our people's downgraded, deteriorating life. 
Now at that time when this was revealed they did not know that in the rain drops is not only water but also substance of material nature, nitrates, fertilizer, coming down with the rain to help the growth down here. Science had to discover that long after, hundreds of years, after it was revealed in the Qur'an. So blessings are in the rain drops for your needs. Allah says, "See how He provides for you your needs from both the skies and the earth? 39 And Allah says again you men of science, knowledge, "Can't you observe that the heavens, skies and the earth were once a whole before it was separated?" 40 Separated where? In the mind of man. He made the sky spiritual and the earth, the material, when the same system of logic runs continuously through both the skies and the earth. Actually what is the earth to another object in the heavens millions of light years from our earth? Tell me where would our earth be? In the sky; to an object far away our earth is in the sky. That is why Allah revealed to Muhammed, "See how all these bodies are moving as though swimming without any apparent structures holding them up?" 41 Isn't it beautiful? 
Allah is telling us, "I did not make this creation to speak to you of your sciences. I made this creation to hold for you your sciences. But I made it as a script to read to your life, your history, your wrong doings and your right doings and your final consequences on this planet earth that I made".42 I think it was Lena Horn who said, "The sky above is a black board." Nothing but a black board with a message on it, that is G d's creation. 
Isn't that what Christ said? Unless you bear fruit, unless you be productive that is what it means. 43 Now I have brought the good rain, the pure water. I brought it to you and I'm raining it on your dry grounds, on your desert. But you have to appreciate this water. And later on down the road you might discover that it also had some material subst'ance in it to aid the growth, nitrates. 
If you don't harvest in time you still lose your crop, don't you? So we have many of you who are my students. You write down. You try to get all you can get from me and you take it and put it in your 
 
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p.30 of 125 collections and you make it first among the reading materials. I know you do. You put nothing above it but Allah and His messenger. I know that and that is what you have. to do, because that is what [ have to have you do, or I will be burned in the hellfire. [know you treasure it. You take it in and put it with your collection. You don't lose the harvest. Praise be to Allah. 
And what is produced, also, other than these things that are used up quick like garden vegetables? It also produces tall and stately palm trees, with shoots of fruit stalks piled one over another; like you love it so much you are just hugging it over and over again while you are growing up. Looks like the tree is hugging itself, doesn't it? It is just thankful to G _ d for what is growing inside. And notice here is the sign from G _ d. The tree goes up straight and if it is a date tree or an olive then it spreads out. It does not spread out too close to the ground because if it does its gifts won't go as far. So it goes way up then it starts branching out. It is going to give you the fruit of a cleaner atmosphere and it's going to give you 
. fruits of a higher graduation. That means it's more knowledge. It went up higher for more knowledge. 
The lower the grade the smaller the knowledge. So it went up high like the mountain and it branched out, But it would not branch out down here like that. The date palm tree has more fruit in comparison than the apple tree or any other tree. Up there in that little space it just has big clusters of fruit. And the flavor is more intense than the apple. The sugar is 'more, the sweetness is more. I'm about to get up out of this seat and shout. My body does not want to stay in this seat. I'm going to get up. I had to get up. 
There is a sign to tell the leaders of this world, especially we brother Imams, grow for a while before you start teaching people, Don't be so quick to think you got it all and you're going to start giving people information in your infancy, instruction for adulthood and manhood and you are in your infancy. You are not Jesus Christ. You don't talk in the cradle. 45 You cry, moan and groan in the cradle, laugh and make trouble. Get out of that cradle first. Go on up like that palm tree and when you get way up there where the air is cleaner and the weather is a little cooler, you went to a zone in your mind. You traveled by mind power and went to a zone a little cooler, to a little higher region; all right? And you waited until you had graduated quite a bit before you spoke and then you spoke. And you spoke delicious fruit, praise be to Allah; tall stately palm trees with shoots of fruit stalks piled one over another. 
These are not two descriptions of the date palm, though. The date palm is a little different. Like you trim trees, they cut it so they will grow up to get more growth; the more strain on them the less they can go upwards. So they cut and trim them so they can go up high. And isn't it this way for the growth of our intellect? Paul said it, what he knew as a child he could not use it anymore.46 He threw it away so he could speak as a man. When they are cutting off the wrapping and leaving the stem it is the tree, not the trunk. That is when you cut it but it is what grows up as the post. 
I have another picture now I want to share with you. A lotof trees especially in the North, they are covered with bark and in the Bible I read, that is why I'm sharing it with you, that they are dumb dogs that can only bark. 47 Now the average preacher in these churches they don't know that it is talking about the tree of knowledge arid they are dumb dogs that can only bark. Now the bark is not really a part of the continuous growth of the tree. It is something growing on the outside of the tree. And it is giving protection. It is covering the tree to protect the real life that is growing upwards. But the bark can't teach you anything. You take the bark off and research it, it teaches you nothing. But you cut the tree and it gives you its age. It shows you how old it is. Every year there is another ring. 
 
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So you can cut the tree and get its history. But you take the bark off you get nothing but something to put on fire wood. It helps the fire wood, but on the tree it helps protect the tree from insects and whatever. Isn't that how these small preachers are? They can do nothing but keep bugs like black, bad behaving people, off of the industry of the establishment; bark on the outside of the growth of the establishment. 
The Qur'an says, "As substance for Allah's servants and we give new life therewith to land that is dead, thus will be the resurrection. 48 So how can we miss this? Allah is not telling Muhammed to whisper to us or keep secrets. If you want to know what the resurrection is going to be like He tell you. It is going to be like growth for a society who plants, invests in the ground, in the earth. They invest in their land and trust G_d to bless it from heaven. Don't just think of the weather, now, like I did Labor Day weekend. And like those who were with me, they supported me with their hearts and their spirit and with their monies. They supported me and the rain did not come. I asked two months some of you go and consult the Farmer's Almanac and tell me what are they saying about this weekend. I was told that they were saying that they expected rain. 
So we are coming to the conclusion now. So we should understand, this is just one reference to the resurrection, showing that a parable or picture of it is a town that is dead, not culturally developed, not industrially developed and things happen to favor its birth and its development.49 So don't think of our individual life and souls that is taken care of by G _ d, don't worry about that. That is very selfish to think about your own self going to heaven and forget about all the other people out here. Allah wants us to think community. And He raised us to be a community, not selfish islands of individual interest. 
En sha Allah, after lftar and salat, we will all be free; not free as persons in this bad society of ours, but free in the mold that G_d created for us. We can go farther than New York and Chicago, Los Angeles and places like that. We can go as far as space will allow. We can go to the ends of the galaxy and beyond if we stay in the form of our father, Adam, that G _ d made for all of his children. That is the freedom I'm talking about, the freedom to travel in the original form. Keep it intact, please. 
So we will start, en sha Allah, the session in the morning reading from the Sunih Hud. Idon't know where you are in your reading. Some of you might be near there. That chapter Hud comes from the word guidance. So, en sha Allah, we will start in that chapter tomorrow with commentary and blessing in the month of Ramadan, charity from our Lord, Who created the heavens and the earth, and the sunnah of our prophet, Muhammed. 
We have some time to relax and get ready for Iftar. I'm not going to leave. I'll be here for Iftar with you. If you do not have anything I'm going to be parched mouth, too. But I hope they have something. I believe they have. I know my office has done everything it could to have some nice dates for us and water. Look back there. Look at the gathering, isn't that a beautiful sight? Is that forecast coming true? I said the Ramadan Sessions will eventually overtake the convention in crowds and next Ramadan the convention is going to be in Ramadan. We are not going to break Ramadan. We're going to put the convention right in Ramadan. 
 
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"Ye have indeed in the Apostle of Allah a beautiful pattern of (conduct) for anyone whose hope is in Allah and the Final Day and who engages much in the praise of Allah." 
2. Qur'an 58.12; Give charity before consulting the Prophet
"0 ye who believe! When ye consult the Apostle in private spend something in charity before your private consultation. That will be best for you and most conducive to purity (of conduct). But if ye find not (the wherewithal) Allah is Oft-Forgiving Most Merciful." 
3. Qur'an 81.28-29; There is no willing but Allah /t/~• -/ 
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29. But ye shall not will Except as Allah wills The Cherisher of the Worlds. 
"Anas reported the Prophet said, "When a man has married he has fulfilled half of religion. Then let him fear Allah for the remaining half." 
5. Qur'an 37.11; Man's creation not bigger than the umverse
"Just ask their opinion: are they the more difficult to create or the (other) beings We have created? 
Them have We created out of a sticky clay! 
1.	Say: I seek refuge with the Lord and Cherisher of 
Mankind 
2. The King (or Ruler) of Mankind 3. The Allah (or Judge) of Mankind 
4. From the mischief of the Whisperer (of Evil) who withdraws (after his whisper) 
5. From the mischief of the Whisperer (of Evil) who withdraws (after his whisper) 
6, From the mischief of the Whisperer (of Evil) who 
 
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58.	We have indeed created man in the best of molds. 
59.	Then do We abase him (to be) the lowest of the low. 
8. Qur'an 50.5-11; Earth to be observed by every devotee
5.	But they deny the truth when it comes to them: So They are in a confused state. 
6.	Do they not look at the sky above them? How We Have made it and adorned it and there are no flaws in it? 
7.	And the earth--We have spread it out and set thereon mountains standing firm and produced therein every kind of beautiful growth (in pairs) 
8. To be observed arid commemorated by every Devotee turning (to Allah). 
9. And We send down from the sky Rain charged with blessing and We produce therewith Gardens and Grain for harvests; 
10.	And tall (and stately) palm-trees with shoots of fruit¬stalks piled one over another 
11.	As sustenance for (Allah's) Servants; and We give (new) life therewith to land that is dead: Thus will be the Resurrection. 
43. And verily Hell is the promised abode for them all! 44. To it are seven Gates: for each of those Gates is (special) class (of sinners assigned). 
lOb Qur'an 2.36; Get you down 
36.	'Then did sastan make them slip from the garden And get them out of the state of felicity in which They had been. We said: Get you down all with enmity between yourselves on earth will be you dwelling place and your means of livelihood for a 
time." 
75.	So also did We show Abraham the power and the Laws of the heavens and the earth that he might understanding) have certitude. 
 
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76. When the night covered him over he saw a star: he said: "this is my Lord." But when it set he said: "I love not those that set." 
77.	When he saw the moon rising in splendor He said: 
"This is my Lord." but when the moon set he said: 
"Unless my Lord guide me I shall surely be among those who go astray." 
78.	When he saw the sun rising in splendor he said: 
"This is my Lord; this is the greatest (of all)." But When the sun from your (guilt) of giving partners to Allah. 
79.	"For me I have set my face firmly and truly toward Him Who created the heavens and the earth, and Never shall I give partners to Allah." 

 
Abu Hurairah narrated the Prophet said: "Every child is born with a true faith (nature) but it is his parents the convert him to Judaism or Christianity or Magainism. As an animal delivers a perfect baby animal, do you find it mutilated? 
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"Oh 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." 
Abu Hurairareported that the Prophet said, "Allah created Adam in His picture, six.ty cubits (about 30 meters) in height. When He created him, He said (to him), 'Go and greet that group of angels sitting there, and listen whatthey will say in reply to you, for that will be your greeting and the greeting of your offspring.' Adam (went and) said, 'As-Salamu alaikum (Peace be upon you).' They replied, 'As-Salamu¬'Alaika wa Rahmatullah (Peace and Allah's Mercybe on you).' So they increased 'Wa Rahmatullah.''' The Prophet added, "So whoever will enter Paradise, will be of the shape and picture of Adam. Since then the 
 
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l3b AI hadith 3p455#662; Friday Adam was created after Asr prayer time 
Abu Lubaba bin 'Abddul Mundhir reported the Prophet (pbuh) said, "Verily Friday is the master of the days and greatest of them in the sight of Allah (swt). It is more glorious in the sight of Allah (swt) thant he day of sacrifice and the day of fitr (Eid Fitr). It has five characteristics: 
1.	Allah (swt) created Adam on it 
2.	Allah sent down Adam towards the earth on it. 
3.	And on it Allah (swt) took Adam unto him (he died). 
4.	And on it will be (the last) hour on which the servant of ~ Allah (swt) will not beg of Allah (swt) anything but it Will be granted to him unless he begs for anything unlawful. 
5. On that day will occur the Resurrection. 
"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. " 
87.	And remember Zun-nun when he departed in wrath: he imagined that We had no power over him! But he cried through the depths of darkness "There is no god but Thou: Glory to Thee: I was indeed wrong!" 88. So We listened to him: and delivered him from 
distress: and thus do We deliver those who have faith. 
But Jonah rose up to flee unto Tarshish from the presence of the Lord, and wEmtdown to Joppa; and• he found a ship going to Tarshish: so he paid the fare thereof, and went down into it, to go with them unto Tarshish from the presence of the Lord. 

 
"0 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; reverence Allah through Whom ye demand your mutual (rights) and (reverence) the wombs (that bore you): for Allah ever watches over you." 
 
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"0 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." 
"Muhammed 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." 
"Had Allah wished to take to Himself a son He could have chosen whom He pleased out of those whom He doth create: but Glory be to Him! (He is above such things.) He is Allah the One the Irresistible." 
"0 ye children of Adam! let not satan seduce you in the same manner as he got your parents out of the garden stripping them of their raiment to expose their shame: for he and his tribe watch you from a position where ye cannot see them: We made the evil ones friends (only) to those without faith. " 
One day while the Prophet was sitting in the company of some people, (The angel) Gabriel came and asked, "What is faith?" Allah's Apostle replied, 'Faith is to believe in Allah, His angels, (the) meeting with Him, His Apostles, and to believe in Resurrection:" Then he further asked, "What is Islam?" Allah's Apostle replied, "To worship Allah Alone and none else, to offer prayers perfectly to pay the compulsory charity (Zakat) and to observe fasts during the month of Ramadan." Then he further asked, "What is Ihsan (perfection)?" Allah's Apostle replied, "To worship Allah as if you see Him, and if you cannot achieve this state of devotion then you must consider that He is looking at you." Then he further asked, "When will the Hour be established?" Allah's Apostle replied, "The answerer has no better knowledge than the questioner. But I will inform you about its portents. 
1.	When a slave (lady) gives birth to her master. 
2.	When the shepherds of black camels start boasting and competing with others in the construction of higher buildings. And the Hour is one of five things which nobody knows except Allah. 
Verily those who plight their fealty to thee do no less than plight their fealty to Allah: the Hand of Allah is over their hands: Then anyone who violates His oath does so to the harm of his own soul and anyone who fulfills what he has covenanted with Allah Allah will soon grant him a great Reward. 
How art thou fallen from heaven, 0 Lucifer, son of the morning! how art thou cut down to the ground, 
which didst weaken the nations! 	. 
 
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And He has set up on the earth mountains standing firm lest it should shake with you; and rivers and roads; that ye may guide yourselves." 
And the Lord said unto Moses, Make thee a fiery serpent, and set it upon a pole: and it shall come to pass, that every one that is bitten, when he looketh upon it, shall live. [9] And Moses made a serpent of brass, and put it upon a pole, and it came to pass, that if a serpent had bitten any man, when he beheld the serpent of brass, he lived. 
The similitude of those who were charged with the (obligations of the) Mosaic Law but who subsequently failed in those (obligations) is that of a donkey which carries huge tomes (but understands them not). Evil is the similitude of people who falsify the Signs of Allah: and Allah guides not peo')!':; who do wrong. 
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. 
And We s.end down from the sky Rain charged with blessing and We produce therewith Gardens and Grain for harvests; 
" Thou preparest a table before me in the presence of mine enemies: thou anointest my head with oil; my cup runneth over." 
"And He giveth you of all that ye ask for. But if ye count the favors of Allah never will ye be able [0 number them: verily man is given up to injustice and ingratitude." 
Make not thy hand tied (like a niggard's) to thy neck nor stretch it forth to its utmost reach so that thou become blameworthy and destitute." 
 
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"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!" 
37. Qur'an 93.6-8; He found you wandering 
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6.	Did He not find thee an orphan and give thee shelter (and care)? 
7. And He found thee wandering and He gave thee guidance. 
8.	And He found thee in need and made thee independent. 
38. Qur'an 55.1-4; Allah taught Qur'an created man Gave clear speech 
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1.	(Allah) Most Gracious! 
2.	It is He Who has taught the Our'an. 
3.	He has created man: 
4.	He has taught him speech (and Intelligence)" 

 
Say: "Who gives you sustenance from the heavens and the earth?" Say: "It is Allah and certain it is that either we orye are on right guidance or in manifest error!" 
Do not the Unbelievers see that the heavens and the earth were joined t (as one unit of Creation) before We clove them asunder? We made from water every living thing. Will they not then believe? 
"It is He Whd created the Night and the Day and the sun and the moon: all (the celestial bodies) swim along each in its rounded course." 
 
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• 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. 
"Every branch in me that beareth not fruit he taketh away: and every branch that beareth fruit, he purgeth it, that it may bring forth more fruit." 
Allah's Apostle said, "Amongst the trees, there is a tree, the leaves of which do not fall and is like a Muslim. Tell me the name of that tree." Everybody started thinking about the trees of the desert areas. And I thought of the date-palm tree but felt shy to answer the others then asked, "What is that tree, 0 Allah's Apostle ?" He replied, "It is the date-palm tree." 
"But she pointed to the babe. They said: "How can we talk to one who is a child in the cradle?" He said; "I am indeed a servant of Allah (swt): He hath given me revelation and made me a prophet;" 
"When I was a child, I spake as a child, I understood as a child, I thought as a child: but when I became a man, I put away childish things." 
" His watchmen are blind: they are all ignorant, they are all dumb dogs, they cannot bark; sleeping, lying down, loving to slumber. [11] Yea, they are greedy dogs which can never have enough, and they are shepherds that cannot understand: they all look to their own way, every one for his gain, from his quarter." 
As sustenance for (Allah's) Servants; and We give (new) life therewith to land that is dead: Thus will be the Resurrection. 
 
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pAO of 125 Behold! Abraham said: "My Lord! show me how thou givest life to the dead. He said: "Oost thou not then believe?" He said: "Yea! but to satisfy my own understanding." He said: "Take four birds; tame them to turn to thee; put a portion of them onevery hill and call to them; they will come to thee (flying) with speed. Then know that Allah is Exalted in Power Wise." 
a-L 
Abraham knew the pLace of the fallen star 6; 
Adam
a- Adam built on 60 cubits L; 
a- dress satan seduced Adam out of is righteousness 9; a- Friday Adam created after Asr I; 
a- Man fell because he thought he was an angel, divine 4; a- was created right, perfect as innocent as a new born 
baby II; 
Africa notorious for having dictators 12; Agricultural preceded industry 12; 
Allah
a- Can't count the blessing of Allah 7; a- created seven heavens above 4; 
a- Allah's hand was over their hand when they swore their oath 5; 
a- He taught Qur'an and created humanity 7; 
America
a- Moral corruption to be corrected by religious leaders not the government 8; 
a- culture now is paradise lost 12; a- Ugly America is destroyed 8; 
Arab Prophet more than an Arab Allah's second creation was human 14; 
b-I 
Baal and Donkey Is symbolic of the soul riding a man who render himself as a pack animal 11; 
Bark
b- Dumb dogs bark 15; 
b- of the tree has no information 15; 
 
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Black
b- Allah is punishing immoral black and the church is 
	not alanned 14; 	_ 
b- eyed pea is symbolic of a mind limited to race color 10; 
Blessings Can't count the blessing of Allah 7; Business Agricultural preceded industry 12; 
c-I 
Child When I was a child I spoke as 15; 
Children
c- Turn the hearts of children return to the father means return to your Fitraa, your original human design 5, 7, 8; 
Creation 
c- Man's creation bigger not than the earth 3; 
Culture
c- America culture now is paradise lost 12; 
c- Snake shed skin is culture with little benefit 7; 
d-l 
David Anointed my head with oil cup runs over 7; Death and resurrection as single soul 4; 
Devil Lucifer how has thou fallen? 9; 
Dog Dumb dogs bark 16; 
Dollar light top of pyramid give much to the masses 
understanding comes 10; 
Dome started with Christians not Muslims 9; Donkey Baal and the donkey 6; 
Door Seven doors to heaven or hell 6; 
Baal and Donkey Is symbolic of the soul riding a man who render himself as a pack animal 
Double portion 3; 
Dress satan seduced Adam out of is righteousness 9; 
Dua Prayer in the world is dua. Salat is not limited to dua. 3; - 
e-l Earth
e- We feed you from both skies and earth 8; 
e- Man's creation bigger not than the earth 3; e- Sky and earth were one 8; 
 
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e- Ugly America is destroyed 8; 
e- start turning our hearts to the father saying you are the original man 9; 
Eye Dollar light top of pyramid give much to the masses understanding comes 5; 
f-l Family
f- Turn hearts of father to children 5; f- Save yourself and your families 4; 
Father
f- Turn the hearts of children return to the father means return to your Fitraa, your original human design 5, 7, 8; 
Feed We feed you from both skies and earth 8; Freedom You are a freeman in this city 2; Friday Adam created after Asr I; 
Fruit Branch bear no fruit he takes away 8; 
g-l 
Get you down man thought he was an angle or divine 6; 
Gomorrah
g- Noah's flood, Sodom and Gomorrah are repeated in the united States 7; 
Government
g- Leaders must get knowledge before they start teaching 15; 
h-l 
Hand Allah's hand was over their hand when they swore their oath 5; 
Heart
h- Turn the hearts of children return to the father means return to your Fitraa, your original human design 5, 7, 8- 
, 
Heaven
h- Allah created seven heavens above 6; h- Seven doors to heaven or hell 6; 
h- Sky is in the head of the leaders of bur world 6; 
 
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Hell
h- has seven gates 4; 
h- Seven doors to heaven or hell 7; 
Homosexual
h- from Misreading of scripture 3; 
h- Noah's flood, Sodomand Goni.orrah are repeated in the united States 7; 
i-I Imam
I - must get knowledge before they start teaching 15; I - Sky is in the head of the leaders of our world 4; 
Interfaith groups have similar responsibility to maintain the world 8; 
Islam
i- Islamic Worship is conforming to the will ofG_d 3; i- Marriage is half of religion 3; 
j-l 
Jesus
j- Branch bear no fruit he takes away 8; j- Jesus spoke in cradle 8; 
Jonah
j- departed Nineveh in wrath 5; 
j- Nineveh left city went fled to Tarish 
I-I 
Leaders must get knowledge before they start teaching IS; Lucifer how has thou fallen? 9; 
Leader Sky is in the head of the leaders of our world 4; 
m-l 
. Man
m - fell because he thought he was an angel, divine 4; m - He taught Qur'an and created humanity 7; 
m - Man's creation bigger not than the earth 3; 
m - Will of man is a poor reflection of Allah's will 3; 
Marriage is half of religion 3; 
Matter Man's creation bigger not than the earth 3; 
 
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Moral corruption to be cOITected by religious leaders not the government 8; 
Moses raised a serpent on a pole 10; 
Mountain
m - firm constituted wrongly is only temporary 5; m - Mountains placed to prevent shaking 9; 
Muslim
m - Everybody born Muslim even in the wild 4; m - Muslim like palm tree 15; 
n-l 
Noah's flood, Sodom and Gomorrah are repeated in the united States 7; 
Nation of Islam 
n - Black-eyed pea is symbolic of a mind limited to race color 10; 
n - Ugly America is destroyed 8; 
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OathAllah's hand was over their hand when they swore their oath 5; 
p-l 
Pair We made you in pairs 11; 
Palm
p- People like palm trees hugging itself while growing up 15; 
p- High in clean atmosphere then gives fruits 15; p - Muslim like palm tree 15; 
Prayer
p- You realized you made three wrong steps 4; 
p- Prayer in the world is dua. Salat is not limited to dua. 3• 
, 
p- Eqaamah, Ruku, Sajdah to correct three wrongs 7; 
Prophet
p- Allah's hand was over their hand when they swore their oath 5; 
p- Found you straying but innocent 7; 
 
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p- Prophet more than an Arab Allah's second creation was human 14; 
Pyramid
p- Dollar light top of pyramid give much to the masses understanding comes 10; 
q-1 Qur'an
q- He taught Qur'an and created humanity 7; q- is about breaking dictators 2; 
q- Qur'an to awaken the mentally dead 6; q- Tutor on line 2; 
r-l 
Race, racism 
r- government can't legislate morality 8; 
r- Moral corruption to be corrected by religious leaders not the goverrunent 8; 
. Rain we sent rain charged with blessings 7; 
Ramadan session will eventually out grow the convention crowds 16; 
Religion
r- Interfaith groups have similar responsibility to maintain the world 8; 
r- Islamic Worship is conforming to the will ofG_d 3; 
r- Leaders must get knowledge before they start teaching 15; 
r- Marriage is half of religion 3; 
Ruku
r- Eqaamah, Ruku, Sajdah to correct three wrongs 7; 
s-l Sajdah
s- Eqaamah, Ruku, Sajdah to correct three wrongs 7; 
Seven
s- Allah created seven heavens above 6; s- Hell has seven gates 6; 
Shuraa is he conducting it 12; 
Sign In the sky, earth, your self are signs 8; 
Skin Snake shed skin is culture with little benefit 7; 
 
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s- Sky and earth were one 8; 
s- is in the head of the leaders of our world 4; 
Sodom Noah's flood, Sodom and Gomorrah are repeated in the united States 7; 
Serpent
s- Moses raised a serpent on a pole 10; 
s- shed skin is culture with little benefit 7; 
Snake
s- Moses raised a serpent on a pole 10; 
s- shed skin is culture with little benefit 7; 
Star
s- Abraham knew the place of the fallen star 6; 
s- fallen Is a sign of our fall from the mis-perceived of our perfection that we 6; 
t-l Tree
t- Bark of the tree has no information 15; t- Muslim like palm tree 15-; 
t- People like palm trees hugging itself while growing up 15; 
u-l 
Universe Man's creation bigger not than the earth 3; 
w-l 
W D Mohammed 
W- 'by vision took the oath under the tree 9; 
Will
w- of man is a poor reflection of Allah's will w. None wills except as God Wills 3; 
x-I 
y-I 
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10-6-2007 Ramadan Saturday Session Homewood, III 
With Allah's name, the Merciful Benefactor, The Merciful Redeemer. The praise and the thanks is for G_d. We thank Him for the gift and blessing of the model human person, Muhammed (pbuh), the honorable and noble servant and Messenger of G _ d, and what follows of that salute or that traditional salutation to the last Prophet, the;;eal of the Prophets mentioned in the Bible as it is given in the Qur'an. 
Ramadan is always a month that brings special blessings to us. We get special blessings in the month of Ramadan for out intentions even if we are unable to, because of health or some other condition, to f:1')t the month. If our spirit and heart is with it then we discipline ourselves as much as we can in the nWfllll ~)1. Ramadan and Allah rewards us for that. So every month of Ramadan I have never experienced a time that I was not made aware that I was receiving special blessings from Allah. 
Allah revealed in His Book, the Qur'an and I quote, "Allah wants not that you be burdened but that you be purified." I Let me make a comment on this session before we continue. We have persons with us in this gathering here today and yesterday, also, who have not been attending sessions like you have as my students. And they are not from our history or our experiences in America, especially our experience as followers of the Honorable Elijah Mohammed, our late leader, may G _ d forgive him his sins and give him paradise. So for them it is not expected that they will be moving smoothly with us as I present the material that I have for today. And yesterday it was the same for those who are not in our history and orientation and familiar as students of my sessions and my leadership. 
Allah's will is above ours, the fearful mortals, man, us, in our mortal life fonn. Man's order of rule or govenunent is fated to one day come down to meetthe common person's needs on earth that justice may be for all. This is the process that has been going on since civilization started. And we have made a lot of progress on this earth but it is not finished. There is still much to be done that G _d's justice for man in society may be realized for all of us. 
Allah's will is always above the will of fearful mortals. We fear for our flesh life. We fear for our life in the flesh. And when we are put ill situations where we are fearing for our very existence, we are going to be killed or we are going to die, Allah allows more than He allows under normal conditions. For example, Allah says that if you are forced by fear of starving to death, starvation, you can even eat pork, the. forbidden. 2 But you can't eat it with a desire to eat it. You have to eat it hating it. But eat it just so you won't die and eat just enough to survive until you can get some food. So see how Allah is a merciful, kind G_d. Weare cruel to ourselves. Allah is kind and merciful always to us. 
I repeat Allah's will is always above the will of fearful mortals. The Qur'an it says, "On them will be neither a burden of fear nor a burden of grieve. 3 G _ d will take the fear off of us as a burden (when we're involved in something difficult) Allah takes it off of us as a burden and will take grief away from us as a burden. It does not mean that there won't be occasions for us to fear something but it will be a temporary thing. It will be a passing thing that just passes away quickly. As soon as we remember our G_d fear will 
 
pAS of 125 go away and we accept His will no matter what it is. So on them will be neither a burden of fear nor a burden of grief. . 
There are some loose ends from yesterday so recalling them I'm giving a summary here to finish up the first session before beginning the second session now. 
Man's destiny sas created while he was yet in his mother's womb 
I have some itemized steps. First, is man's earthen form, not earthly, earthen; man's earthen form for his beginning on earth and man's created form for the global life challenge. G_d is the Fore Knower, as I heard one minister say under the Honorable Elijah Mohammed's leadership once. He was preaching and he had my attention. I was a boy and he said, "Allah is the Fore Knower." That means He knows what is coming before it happens; Allah as the One Who knows the beginning and the end of everything and the one Who makes every thing exists and determines its conclusion. He created man's form for global life challenges. Man's global destiny is inherent, inscribed upon man's natural life at the conception of that life, while we are in our mothers. This should not be difficult for those who are familiar with Qur'an. You should not have to stretch your imagination. Allah says that He gives us our form while we are in the 
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bellies or the stomachs of our mothers. 
And Allah says He inscribed upon everything dignity or honor. Now if this language reminds you of the language of our founding fathers for this nation it is not by co-incidence. Our founding fathers at least two or three of our presidents in the beginning of this American history are recorded to have had in their possession the Qur'an. This point is made to say that in this present time that we are living in portions of the Qur'an for man's guidance here now and hereafter are more relevant today than at any other time in the history of civilizations. Why is that? It is because the conclusion that the guidance directs us for is here now. It never was here before as it is today. 
Never before did continents, islands, nooks and crevices of human populations all come together with awareness of each other; never before in the history of mankind. This is a young place here that we are on right now. This land, North and South America, called the New World, it is young in the history of civilization. The discovery is young in the history. And before the Europeans came here the inhabitants here might have had some contact before with people outside but there was no communication lines established. So this is called the discovery. 
The Qur'an points us to a time that is called the day when everything will be concluded. All of our doubts and suspicions, all of our aspirations, etc., will be concluded. It is when man will have a situation to be in touch with man all over the planet earth; a one world system of communication. We have it now. So now if we propagate the religion the whole world can get it if we are free to propagate it. Never did that happen before. So you want to know when the judgment is coming? It is here. You want to know when the Day of Religion is. It is now. You want to know when the great standing is? It is now. The great meeting is now. Someone may say, "No, that is after the earth and everything is destroyed." Well, 
it already has been destroyed and it has appeared again. Do you think the physical world is going to be destroyed? G _ d made the physical world, why would He destroy this physical world that He made? For what? The world is not sinning, we are sinning on it. I'm the son of Elijah Mohammed reborn. 
 
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So now let us turn to another focus here. We know the spirit is something that we cannot know completely, Allah says of the spirit man knows very little, the Holy Spirit. 5 The Ruh. G_d didn't say man does not know anything of the spirit, He says he knows little. And this is talking about the average man. G _ d is referring to the common man, not to His messengers. He revealed to His messengers much about the spirit and especially His last servant and Messenger, Muhammed. 
So we are turning our thoughts now to the Holy Spirit or Ar Ruh, the Spirit. Allah says of the spirit that He has given to everything something of His Spirit. He did not say just to mankind. Sb 
And also let us focus now on our Qiblah. Our Qiblah is designated by the house built by our prophet Abraham and his son. And it is a sign to all humanity or all mankind. Allah says of that house that he built it for all mankind or for all people. Of the house He says in Arabic, "Bayte wudeya len naas," it was constructed or built for all the people. 6 
At one time in situation our Prophet Muhammed instructed Bilal his muaddhan to go up on top of the Kabah. You did not know that our Prophet had a black man, an African stand on top of our house that is built for all mankind. He had him stand on top of the house and the people to pray and make adhan, may G _ d be pleased with B ilal, the companion of our Prophet. 
Let us turn our focus to something else that the Prophet never had. You go in nice, big beautiful masjids especially overseas, Turkey has some of the finest and grandest masjids, i.e., the blue Mosque. And we have two of our brothers from Turkey present with us right here today. They are American citizens but their native land is Turkey. A great history is there for mankind of how civilization was born and progressed. My father he had friends from Turkey especially at the end of his mission, his work among us. At one of the last occasions for us to meet all together at one time, the convention the Honorable Elijah Mohammed had guests from Turkey and you know the Turkish people are white. And you know we said the white man was the devil, right? So the Honorable Elijah Mohammed wanted to get it straight. So at that time he pointed to his guests who were sitting behind him on the stage and he said, "This is our brother from Turkey. He is a white man. He's a Muslim saint, a scientist in al Islam." So get rid of the black-eyed peas, okay? 
We want to talk about the minbar, this minbar thatthey make. And by the way the masjid on Stony Island has a beautiful gift of a beautiful minbar and it was shipped to us from Turkey when I became the leader; not long after I became the leader. It was very soon after I became the leader that they shipped the minbar to us. It came from overseas, from Turkey, a nice minbar. It has more than three steps for the Imam to walk up. So they gave us enough steps for us to grow and progress, praise be to Allah. Forgive me, I am a man of humor, too. You who don't know that I'm a man of humor. I can't help it. 
The minbar is built for the Imam or the leader who leads the congregation in prayer to deliver his khutbah, his speech. And it permits him or it accommodates him going up higher than the congregation so he can see the congregation and the congregation can see him more easily; but also as a sign because when he give prayer he does not give his own mind and his own language. He gives the Qur' an. And when he gives his khutbah on the Jumah he has to base his khutbah upon the Qur'an and the traditions of our Prophet, the sunnah. So we know or maybe you don't know that Allah says that the Qur'an and Muhammed and the light that came down with it, meaning not only the Qur' an, descended into our life down here. But also Muhammed, himself, is the light for mankind, put in mankind for humanity, the 
. human light for human enlightenment; the human light in the human flesh. 7 The flesh did not descend down but Muhammed, the Prophet, as the light for us in the flesh, his sunnah came down from heaven. 
 
p.50 of 125 Didn't he ascend up, the ascension, the vision, the ascension and the travel? And then he had to come back down, didn't he? And Allah gave him back down to us and it was not long before the international ummah was established in Medinah Munawarah, the city of enlightenment. 
So ascending the steps of the minbar you should ascend at least three and if you just step up one that is no crime. But if you ascend at least to the 3 rd step and sit down it is better. But if the minbar has more steps ascend as many steps as you like, as many as you feel comfortable to ascend. And the minbar that is given to us as a gift has as I said more than three steps, at least more than twice three steps. 
Let us think about our own breath. Now we know the Ruh is divine spirit. But let us think about our own spirit. The human spirit itself seeks perfection and it means to seek to come into a condition that will permit the human mortal, flesh to perform at its best. Now Muhammed, the Prophet, he had developed in his mortal form to that existent before even he knew of revelation, the Holy Spirit or anything like that. 
I see my brother looking at his guest he wants to get their eye, "Is he okay? Is he saying the right thing?" That white man is powerful, isn't he, especially on a black man. I'm comfortable these brothers are just like me, we are the same. And they know they don't know everything and I know I don't know everything and they know they don't know as much as me about the Qur'an. I'm saying it in their face, right before them. And they are my brothers. I love them so much and we are indebted to them a lot, the Muslims in the world. Allahu Akbar. 
Allah created the human person to ascend in his aspirations or in his soul seeking excellence so that he pleases his Lord and so that he be in a condition to serve his Lord at his best and to get the best results in society for Allah's pleasure. This is life. This is the good life of human beings. This is the good life of humanity. So Muhammed, himself, thank G_d for him and we praise G_d for giving him to us. He had already met that requirement before he received any communication from G _ d as revelation. How do we know that? Allah says it in the Qur'an, "Certainly we have seen or observed you," meaning G_d, angels, heaven, the saints. We have certainly observed that you are established on a mighty foundation of character. 8 
The last Prophet, G_d choosing him, it has a great message in that. Choosing him, a mortal who had not received scripture or guidance but was already in his own creation ready for G _ d; ready for G _ d's presence and ready for G_d to communicate to him the message to benefit al humanity. What is that message? The greatest message in that for us is that we have had, down here on this earth, conditions that led to belief that man in his own natural composition or form is a sinner by nature. He inherits sin from his father who sinned in the garden and he is a sinner by nature and he cannot be advanced on this earth unless a divine comes to him. A god has to come to him. So they say Jesus Christ, G _ d, forgives man for this. Jesus is god and man at one and the same time. And you know all the rest of the story that made me just throw up my hands. 
I was a boy reading this and I said how can any sane person read this and believe it or stay sane? That was my attitude towards it as a boy. And it wasn't because my father was reading with me. He was not reading the Bible with me. I was reading it on my own. It was because he had dispositioned me in my soul and mind to look for sense. If things did not make sense I could not be comfortable with it. That doesn't mean I have to understand everything with my rational mind in order to believe, no. I was never like that. I followed my father. That should tell you alot. And I followed him as a true follower. 
So you dismiss those things that you can't deal with if your faith is strong enough in what you want to hold on to. You don't want to deal with it. That is why you dismiss it from your mind, because you don't 
 
p.51 of 125 want to put your commitment in jeopardy. You were committed to the Honorable Elijah Mohammed for the progress of the Nation ofIslam. That was more important than those things that you couldn't understand. So you put those things out of your mind if they are disturbing you and you just keep going forward. 
Isn't that the way Allah in the Qur'an wants us to be? Yes, The believers are those who believe in the absence of proof, it says, "A manu bil ghaib." It is a must that believers believe, "Bil ghaib." It means in the absence of proof. Vou can't follow Allah, His guidance, with your small mind, expecting your mind to be able to digest everything to your satisfaction. Much of it is too big for your capacity but your commitment to G _ d is so big and important and so strong you dispel those things that give you trouble. You just put them out of your mind. Vou don't reject them because G _ d has given you those things. And those things that you can digest you workwith it. And those that threaten your peace because you don't know the answers, you put them aside. And that is the way you read the Qur'an. You read the Qur'an with the strong commitment to not let anything jeopardize your commitment. And Allah says, "Take the best there of. 9 
There are some people in the history of mankind who didn't take the best thereof. So we will find in reading the Qur'an there were those who were attracted to small things and not interested in the big things. And there is one reference in the Qur'an were the prophet Moses had a lot of trouble with his people being stubborn, argumentative and the word of Allah says, "If all you want is pot herbs, go to any city, any Misree, city. Go to any Egypt, literally translated.1o 
Moses had been given a mission to take the captives to freedom. They were going to a land where they could live the religion that G _ d was revealing through Moses, that He revealed before Moses, also. They were holding up travel, the mission, tying him up with little small things. So he said if that is what you want, the onions and garlic and some lentils, go to any city. 
Why the word Misree for city? Because they were under the secret culture of the Pharaoh in Egypt, a culture that was designed to hold the population in check, to limit their freedom so that they never come to the fulfillment that G _ d inscribed upon the human person in the conception of the human person. 
Qahhar, Cairo says to Hold in check Pharaohs some of them were excellent rulers Arabs were not always divided 
The word Qahhar, and the word Cairo says, hold in check, control, dominate by influence. So that is why it was chosen. I don't think the history of the Pharaohs is the history of all bad rulers. The history of the pharaohs, I studied, is of some very excellent rulers. They improved the sociallif of the Egyptian people. They progressed the social life of Egyptian people. The same is for the Arabs. They were not always divided into tribes fighting each other. If you study their social history for their society or their history as a people under their leaders you will find that they had leaders a few hundred years or less than that before Prophet Muhammed who had actually led them to a sense of social life and sense of being a social community. But they lost it. 
Look how quick we lost. It is not even ISO years yet and look how the African Americans as a people have lost our Southern moral sense and social sense. We had a social sense of how we should live with each other and we had a moral sense of how we should live with each other. And we had more unity, and more respect to support us progressing as a people then than we have right now today at this late hour. I mean this is plain. We all know this is very clear to you how we have degraded as a people after being 
 
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freed from slavery in the south and I should say in the north, too: That was the worst degree in the South but also there was an intolerable degree of enslavement that we suffered here in the NOlih. 
We did not have a physical boss telling us to go into his field and sleep in the barn for the slave. We did not have that degree of disrespect for our human worth and value but we also were limited in the North even after all of us having Dr. Martin Luther King a great speaker, a great man, a man driven by a human spirit, the same human spirit that was in Muhammed, the Prophet. It is one human spirit for all of us and it wants excellence. Someone may think, "He's the son of the Honorable Elijah Mohammed and he's calling Dr. King our leader?" Yes I am. Wake up. 
Blacks satan's plan after slavery to bring the world down through the former slaves 
Dr. King was a great man so powerful as a moral spirit, with a m~ral determination and a human spirit to do away with injustice to people, because once he breaks injustice to blacks he has broken it for all people; because we were down the lowest. So if you free blacks in American Of in the world you free all people. And let me tell you something here. The shaytan's plan was the plan that was worked, that white southern man did not conceive that plan. He was not educated enough. That plan was conceived by 
shay tan himself. The devil conceived how to create racism, turn blacks against whites and whites against blacks and how to enslave blacks and anticipate them one day being freed and being in a condition spiritually and a condition mentally to be manipulated by the shay tan himself and eventually become the influence to bring all people down. 
And who's spirit is the shay tan using to reach the whole cultural world and bring mankind down? He's using the Negro spirit. Excuse me, but I want it plain. He's using the black man's spirit. He's using the Afro American spirit. He's using the African American spirit. Isn't that some progress there for shay tan? It is terrible but it's true and it is real. And Allah has shown it to Elijah Muhammed's son for what? So we can survive and prosper in spite of the works of satan, so powerful and so prevalent in the greatest country in the world, the United States of America. 
Here is the greatest progress for human freedom or democracy and here is the progress of satan's freedom and I can't understand how people have a religion that tells them that their first leaders were given the keys to lock up satan and to loose him, or free him. II 
Raise your hands you preachers or whatever out there, if you are familiar with that. I see quite a few hands. Can you tell me where this comes from? Say it loud so we can hear it. The Bible, thank you. Getting back to the point, Allah created man in the best of molds, or He gave man the best of construction.12 By virtue of his creation man among living things is given the best construction. In Qur'anic Arabic it is pronounced, "Fee ahsane taqweem." And you start right among people, that is what the language tells us. Among all the people on earth, those who accepted al Islam and follow the model or the uswa of Muhammed, the Prophet, their establishment is the best establishment on this planet earth. They have the best of construction. They are in the most excellent mold. 
 
We know that Allah created us for the meeting, and over and over again in the Qur'an--this is the month of Ramadan. You have read the Qur'an so this is really a great time for me to be giving you these points because you should have already read support for what I'm giving you-Allah says He creates us in the best of molds, the human form. So we know the meeting is the meeting of humanity or mankind for G _ d. G _ d is going to be the Presider over that meeting. This is the final meeting. Now G _ d told Moses, "You 
can't see Me directly. You want to see Me look at the mountain. And if the mountain stays as you see it you will see Me." 13 When Moses looked at the mountain trying to see G_d the mountain crumbled to dust. It disappeared because Moses was not ready yet. His tongue was still tied, he could not speak. And he prayed to G _ d to untie the knott in his tongue. The tongue was tied, the brain also was knotted. 14 Someone will say, "You shouldn't say that about Moses." I'm saying that about you. I'm using Moses but I'm saying that about you .. 
So the great meeting is the meeting where G _ d will be present and He will preside over that meeting when all human beings, all mankind will stand up before their Maker. Today is that time. Well where is Allah? He is here always but today is that time. Allah is present with us more in the Qur'an, His word than He i;; in any other thing though He says wherever you are, wherever you meet two, He is the third; 15 or any number bigger or smaller He is present. He is there. So G _ d, Allah, is with us. He is always present with us. 
So He does not have to come. He says in the Qur'an "When My servants ask about Me tell them I am close by." 16 "If My servant asks about me" He told the Prophet, "Tell them I'm close by." And the preacher when he is preaching he is hollering like G _ d is way out there in the far distance of the universe. He is just hollering and screaming. I'm not saying this to make mockery. I'm saying this to open the mind. Don't think they just started screaming. They were screaming long before the Prophet's time. So the revelation comes saying, "Tell them I'm close by." Don't be hollering, screaming 
G _ d knows how to communicate to man because this sense of respect and intelligence He put into human, into the mortal human person. I have heard persons say, "Don't holler, don't scream, man, I'm right here man. I hear you." So when man wakes up to his excellence, his pure human essence and knows that he owes the credit to his G _ d, he is ready to meet his Lord. Don't just think you have to die physically to be ready to meet your Lord. If you understand Al Islam from Qur'an and Muhammed, the Prophet, hell begins in th~ first life and heaven also begins in the first life and is fulfilled in the later. 17 
Also we should understand that man has already fulfilled. Abraham, G d said he fulfilled his commitment to G d in his own life and G d made him a father of all nations, an Im;m or leader for all the people. IS 
19 Adam did not fulfill that ~mmitment. He is just the beginning. And the Prophet has taught us that in his ascent the first level above common man that he came to in his ascent was Adam's level. After Adam's leve,l Christ Jesus and John's level. And after Christ Jesus and John's level the level ofYusuf and on up to 7 levels, the level of Abraham. 20 
And when he came to each level he greeted them. To Adam he greeted my father Adam and gave him salaam. And he greeted the second level Christ Jesus and John my brothers Jesus and John and he went to the third and on every level he said my brother or my father. One father below and one father above. When he got to the seventh level he greeted Prophet Abraham, the highest in ascension, he greeted and said my father Abraham. All these are relatives, brother and fathers. 
Two fathers and brothers what is that to say? Allah said of Muhammed, say to them, "I am a mortal just like you." 21 And before Muhammed, the Prophet, the Gospel or the Injeel came to Jesus, who spoke 
 
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what G _ d said to him, "I in you and you in me.,,22 Making it clear that he identified with all human beings as flesh and blood mortals, not that divine. And he also said according to the Gospel as it exists now and has existed since the beginning of the Bible I guess in print, " Peter who do you say I, the son of man, am?" 23 This is the first leader, the one I mentioned earlier in this presentation. I don't think I mentioned him by name. The person he asked is the one who is going to become the first leader after his passing away. So he did not leave room for them to say that he was not a mortal person. And then Peter gave his reply and he said you are G _ d just to make it short. But understand that is the same one that in the present form of the Gospel, these great scholars in Islam they say, "That's the Bible brother, that is not like the Injeel," I wish you could walk with me for a while, even sleep with me for a while and you would wake up better, with a clearer mind to deal with these things. 
St Basil advised leadership to use pagan language but influence it with Christian principles. 
We understand that changes have been made but we know that there is no Injeel that is going to be so much different from the Gospel that we won't be able to say this is the same. The only thing that will be different is that it is clearer language regarding the concept of man and G _ d. But the Bible is pretty clear itself. If the preacher would just read the Bible with a clear, innocent mind, not prejudiced by what he was taught in the seminary or whatever, with an independent, clear and innocent mind, if he would read the Bible as it is now he would see that the Bible is feeding and baiting the pagans and at the same time condemning the trick that it is pulling on the pagans and giving us help to see the truth while blinding the pagans. 
Why does it have to blind the pagan? Because if the pagans had gotten the clear message of Jesus Christ the pagans would have done everything to see that the Christian following or that following would never be able to progress in their society. And this is history. St Basil advised the Christians in his time, the Christian leadership, to use the language of pagans but influence that language with our principles. Those are the words of St. Basil. We are afraid, we are fearful. A people who are afraid to have their knowledge come out when the time is here for it to come out, they are afraid of their knowledge. And they underestimate their knowledge. I'm talking about the Qur'an and Muhammed's tradition. They underestimate the power of their knowledge. So they say, "Don't mention the Bible. Don't bring the Bible into it." How can I not mention the Bible? 
He has already brought the Bible into it when He said that this Prophet of ours you will ftnd him in the Torah and in the Injeel or the Gospel. He is mentioned in both those Books. Allah directed us to go to the Bible and what was Muhammed told to tell his people who were not people familiar with scripture? They had not received prophets who came to them with scriptures, the ftrst Arabs that Prophet Muhammed had to deal with. What did Allah say to tell them? Tell them to ask the people of the Book.24 You don't know scripture and you are doubting me. You can't support or verify what I'm saying. Go to those people who received scriptures before me and they will be witnesses that I'm giving you revelation from G _ d. And you know many of the Christians and some Jews became Muslims in the time of Muhammed, the Prophet. 
Allah mentioned the sincere Christians who were devoted to the study of His word how when they heard the recital of the Qur'an it says their eyes swell up with water, tears, and the tears flowed down so heavily that it wet their beards. 25 This is Allah in Qur'an. 
 
p.55 of 125 These are the things that have the ummah so disturbed, so confused and so off tract, the fear of engaging Western civilization and engaging their Bible. We have learned Imams, the ummah of Muhammed, in centers in different places, Morocco, Egypt, even over there where all the trouble is right now Iran and Baghdad, Iraq. We have learned saints in these places but they are so fearful of consequences they don't help their own students or their own following, only to hold them, to hold them by influence, not by rational guidance. 
They won't even take you unless you worship them first. I'm talking about the guru, the saint, the sheik, whatever you want to call them. I think most of them are not even a good milk shake. ['m really serious and I'm not saying this to hurt anybody. They are holding their people for them and they should be holding their people for Allah. 
Allah frees his slaves and He says the garden that [ have prepared for you is as wide as the heavens and the earth.26 In the Qur'an it says His throne used to be on the water. 27 "But now the garden that I have prepared for you its expanse is as the expanse of the earth and the• skies", meaning all the space that exists. G_d has freed us to imagine. Don't you know with our imagination we don't want to stop anticipating reality within the earth boundaries, or within the sun boundaries, or within the sky at night boundaries? Our mind still wants to go beyond, wants to know what is beyond that that I'm seeing now. So Allah created us for unlimited freedom of spirit and intellect. 
So they are holding their people for themselves, not for Allah. Shouldn't they have a punishment coming? If you are holding people back from the freedom Allah created them for you should have a punislunent. So when we look at the condition of the Islamic ummah we should look at it just the way we look at the condition of the black community, now, that has betrayed its better tradition and a curse is on us. A curse is on the ummah and a curse is on the black man in America. Allahu Akbar. 
The spirit I am talking about right now that fulfilled itself or reached its destiny in Muhammed, the prophet's mortal life, brother, let that come alive in you and you won't feel anything physical until you are finished with the spirituaL In concluding this I just want us to do what Allah says. He says in the heavens and in the earth are signs as well as in your own self. That means in your own human creation. But most go along heedless paying no attention to those signs. They don't have the sense Allah created us for. The Qur'an says they question Allah and He says why don't you ques.tion your on creation.28 Most of the people, they don't have the knowledge. They don't have the sense Allah created us for. 
So let us think about some things here, small things. Allah says you question what Allah has revealed. You question G_d. Why not question your own creation? 29 This is Allah in the Qur'an, not me, not my words. Isn't that what the mysterious teacher in the Nation of Islam, Mr. Fard, told us? "Your teacher wants to hear from you at once. Ask questions and learn all about what, black power? Your self, your own soul, your nafs. He did not leave us to wonder. It is my self, the self that the great philosopher in Greek history identified as my self. He gave you his own definition of "my self." He said my own self is a righteous Muslim." Was he speaking without any base, Qur'anic base, or base from the Prophet's sunnah? No, he was speaking with a base. The Prophet said everyone is born Muslim until circumstances make them otherwise. We salute our Prophet, the best of human creation. 
 
So the original nature is Muslim and wants to be reconciled with G _ d's purpose for human life. That is the meaning of surrendering, peacefully. You want to be reconciled with G_d's purpose for human life and you want to do it not resisting or acting ugly. You want to do it willingly and if you do it willingly you do it peacefully. You are a true Muslim in conscience as well as the mortal nature. 
Breath and light rays travel straight and spread out. A flash light in the dark its light takes the form of a cone. You know how an ice cream cone is shaped? The smallest end is where breath starts but it goes out like a cone and spreads into a bigger circle. The little small circle spreads into a bigger circle. Light traveling is concentrated. Light traveling from the source is concentrated at the source and spreads by it being projected. The more it goes out the more it spreads. So, it starts with a little small circle at the source and as it is projected, it becomes bigger and bigger. 
Now that is true of the breath and light. If you take your hand while you are talking, speaking, take your palm and put it against your breath while you are speaking, you can feel that every time you pronounce something breath hits your palm. Its movement is straight. Light and breath are seratal mustaqeem. Its movement is straight spirit and light; study self, straight. G _ d wants us to look at and study our own creation, our own environment, in search of meaning that supports guidance for your life, to get to His purpose, intended for us on this planet earth. Someone may say, "All we need is the Qur'an". I agree. In fact, all we need is Muhammed. Allah says of Muhammed he's enough for all mankind. 30 When we are speaking, especially in our khutbah, it should be a charity and it should come from the person to the many, to the bigger circle and that will be as charity. Your breath goes out straight and spreads for a wider circle as it is projected, a sign of true charity. 
Minbar Three steps is a sign of charity 
Jalsa is sign of charity come down from the pure regions 
The third plain upward upon man's Qiblah. I said man's Qiblah, the Qiblah we have is for all people. I'm speaking of man, meaning humanity, the people. The third plain that is given to us in the ascent of Muhammed, the Pr:ophet, as he ascended upwards upon or at our Qiblah, man's Qibla, or man's Qiblah center. I would like to add the word center for a purpose and a minbar having a minimum of three steps for the speaker leading the salat; again, a sign of Muslim charity. 
A minimum of three persons are required for performing group salat, again a sign of true charity. True charity qualifies one to sit on the throne. Jalsa is a sign of true charity. In Allah's swt plan it is divine charity. It came down from heaven, to us from the pure regions where there is no air pollution, no bad breath. The closing of one's salat isby greeting all life, not just human life, but humans, first, certainly. 
If you read the traditions of our Prophet, hissunnah, how he respected animals and brought it to the attention of his followers in his immediate circle, environment, that we also have to give animal their rights; if you know that, then you know that we wish peace to the whole of life. And animals are in the life. They are not of the life. And some of the animals have such a sensitive nature for associating with people that the person who has brought this animal into their home, or into their bosom, they become so attached to that animal that, that animal becomes the first relative in the family. It gets the better treatment and everything. Now I want to check you now. We are not supposed to follow the West in their love for animals and let the animal replace the brother, sister, the son, or the daughter. No we don't accept that. 
 
Jalsa. Mind you, sajdah is two before you make salaam, do the greeting. In every rakat there are two sajdah. Why? You want to be reconciled with the material system in its Muslim form as G _ d created it. Don't you know the great teachers, philosophers, in the Islamic world history told us that creation, itself, is Muslim? The stars, the earth and the moon are Muslim. So G_d's Will and the nature to agree in G_d's Will is in everything He created as it originally existed from G _ d. So this is no orientation that G _ d is imposing upon humans and did not give it to the whole of His creation to be reconciled according to His Will for His creation. It is in all creation. That discipline or that nature is in everything created, or in all the material universe, the whole material system. Someone may say, "This is heavy." If it is too heavy for you don't try to carry it. I don't want to be responsible for giving you hernias and back problems. Do like we did in the Nation ofIslam. Ifit was too heavy, we left it and we kept going. We did not want to be overburdened and couldn't keep following the Honorable Elijah Mohammed. 
Our greeting of peace is not just peace but it is also mercy, because we have just concluded our salat with Allah's words. Allah says "Bismillah" before or beginning with each chapter except one, the 9th chapter. But in the context of that chapter it is given, though it is missing in the beginning of that chapter, what? With Allah's name the Merciful G d. 
 
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en you do your midday prayer you should combine them even if you are not from out of town. In a ation and a country like this where prayer is not established in the public scene, we have to pray in rate quarters or in our own facilities or on the ground outside. It is allowed that in situations like this, ~n you are strained to do your prayers, when you find an opportunity to do them, if you could combine n it would be better. 
good to see you, and some of you that I have not seen you in a little while. It is good to see your ~s, praise be to Allah. It is just a blessing and a joy for real people to be together. 
have two small booklets. I am sure some of you have probably seen it. They are on sale in the 
dor's area. One is from a speech or lecture that I gave, the radio broadcast. We titled it, "Poor People 'e First." The publication, Sister Amatullah Sharrief is responsible for the sales. Then we have another is just being introduced and it was taken from a lecture that I gave at the Wisdom University 
Isored interfaith meeting, dialogue. I gave a lot of our own personal history here. Sister Aisha chose ut a picture on the front of it and it really goes there, too. It is real nice, the picture that my father had take. I was a young minister who he had sent to Philadelphia and once a month we had to come in and g reports into headquarters in Chicago. 
s coming right off the road really and a very popular African-American photographer, Gordon Parks, e of you know him, the Honorable Elijah Mohammed had gotten him to do the photo. And he did not e from his seat. He was sitting just like he is in the picture and he saw me coming in the front door 
:h is right in front in this picture. It is called the pine room and it had Mr. Fard, W. D. 40's picture. He .D. 40, not me. I am Warith Ud Mohammed. On the picture he is WD 40. Whether you know it or this is the teacher who made possible the progression from the first until now. This is the wise teacher made it possible. We did not come from no where, we came from Mr. Fard's work to where we are 
. Many of you did not, because you came since I have been the leader. You did not come through 
But your leader did and your leader's circumstances that Mr. Fard created produced your leader. I 
lot at all hesitant to say that he is my teacher. Mr. Fard, he is my father's teacher. He is also my 
ler. Whether you know it or not Elijah Mohammed is still here in his son W. D. Mohammed, gene- 
or flesh wise and also spirit wise. He had a spirit to help our people. I have the same spirit, not 
rent. And G _ d intervened and that happened. 
:;ame G _ d has made the present happen, this that I represent. The same G _ d Who made our people )lerate to be slaves, their spirit couldn't tolerate it, the same spirit is in all of us. How can you 
~ate yourself from the original 17 million? He said he had 17 million keys. That meant that he was ~sted in freeing every black man in America, because he said that was the number at that time. And : of you don't even want me to talk to the African American people. You just want me to talk in 
;:. You are some strange Negroes. You are aliens. You will never separate me from my people. 
~ will say, "We are not supposed to do anything except teach the Qur'an and the sunnah." That is ly what I'm doing. The Qur'an says save yourself and your family. And my bigger family is my an American family. Allahu Akbar. 31 
not want to start the session like that, but I just couldn't help it. I don't like artificial Negroes. I want lp them, but my heart loves them because they are my brothers in humanity; and they are G _d's 
.on. But I do not love their personality and their mind set. I dislike it. I hate it because they are 
;ial. That is why our people are in the condition they are in right now as a race, because we did not the spirit of community, the spirit that African Americans should progress as a community. They let 
 
p.59 of 125 themselves be taken out into the loose public and forget their traditional life and are paying a mean price for it. 
What I give you there is much room for me to develop and expand upon it. But Ijust want you to get the main picture, the main concepts. I want you to get the important concepts in the guidance that Allah gives us. Let us start with rivers. I mentioned four rivers. Now in al Islam or Islamic knowledge we have pictures, or concepts, brought to mind of rivers; four of them in number that address the Bible's four rivers. 32,33 In the Bible we find four rivers coming out from a source, a place, and watering the area and flowing out from the area. I believe the place is Mesopotamia. And the area of the geography for us now is right around the vicinity of the city of Baghdad where the war is going on right now. 
That place was made a garden on earth like a paradise according to scripture. Those four rivers went out from that source and watered the garden. Now this is not just talking about geography, it is talking about how efforts are made to educate and develop culture for society; and how the urges for that development are in the human person. So these are urges in human nature and in the Islamic knowledge there are four rivers above, or in heavens, or in the skies, and four in the earth, called rivers. They are urges. 
In scripture we recall that the mother of Moses put her son, her baby, Moses, peace be on the prophet, on the river in a basket and the river stream carried him to the house ofPharaoh.34,35 And his wife saw the baby on the river and took him from the river into the house of the Pharaoh. There, he became like a son to the Pharaoh until he started seeing and identifying with his people and becoming aware that his people were in bondage under pharaoh. 
G _ d eventually came to him, called him, gave him revelation, and guidance, and he became an opposer of pharaoh and Pharaoh was very severe in his punishments. He was a powerful man, so the Pharaoh eventually excommunicated, or exiled the people. But, actually, he did not want to let the people go, but he rejected Moses. And when Moses wanted to go out with the people, take his people away from Egyp, the Pharaoh opposed that. And he even opposed it, physically. When they started out he sent the army out to stop them and it pursued them as Allah gives it in the Qur'an, in the form of revelation to Muhammed. He was prevented by forces that he did not know how to deal with. And the followers of Moses were assisted by G _ d, divine help. Their guidance permitted them to cross through the river on dry land. The water, the wind, separated the waters and permitted them to cross on dry land. And when the Pharaoh or his army pursued them the waters converged again as they were in the normal situation and drowned; the Pharaoh and his army. This is the story that is in both Bible and Qur'an. That was not a river. That was 
the red sea, I believe. But we have a river, the Nile river, that Moses' mother put him upon and floated him down to Pharaoh's house. 
Heaven two rivers are hidden 
Earth two rivers are Nile and Euphrates; urges for nobility, justice 
So the learned teachers tell us that there are two rivers in the heavens and two rivers in the earth.36 So that is our focus for a few minutes here. Now we know that there is an urge in human being who are persecuted and denied freedom, justice or rights, that should be accorded to every natural citizen of any land. They have these urges and one is a sense of nobility. There is a river, an urge, that flows 
from its source and it is our sense of nobility, or excellence of character. Excellence of character, or our principle of character will not permit us to just be treated any way~ to have our human value ignored, disrespected, walked on, rejected. There is a dignity in the human character. Men of good and excellent character can't tolerate their worth being disregarded and treated unfairly. They can't tolerate that. And 
 
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that is the character that accounted for our progress as a people, because that character also has an urge with it; and it is the urge for justice. If you are a person of character then you also do not like to see yourself denied your rights or denied justice. So those two urges, the urge for dignity that says, "No you can't treat me like that," the excellence of character. That is dignity, nobilitY in the person that G d put there. 38 He created us for nobility and honor. "He has certainly made noble all the sons of Adam!' Not one, all of them. Allah spoke the truth. Isn't that what we're supposed to say when you read from Qur'an? It means we did not speak that. G _ d spoke that and He is the mightiest. 
These two urges of the natural form, or the mortal, that Allah created on the earth. The son Adam and the sons of Adam, his descendants in his own concept, in the concept of Adam that G _ d, Himself, created. So these are the mortal urges on earth, nobility and justice; the urge to have your nobility or your inherent dignity free and not abused, rejected or stepped upon; but also the spirit for justice. 
You know Dr. Martin Luther King was for us the culmination or the termination of that spirit in us. The terminal point for that spirit in us as a people, because after him we have not had anybody like that; nobody to rise and be recognized like that. Our people changed their ways and changed their thinking and they changed their spirit, most importantly. The spirit in our people changed, no more the productive spirit but the fun spirit. We lost the productive spirit to the fun spirit. As I say we forgot the best of our leadership that supported us to freedom and acceptance in America as citizens equal with other citizens under American, U.S. law. Not that the white people's hearts everywhere accepted that. No, that was a bitter pill for them to swallow. But many of them were never opposed to that and many of them lost their life trying to help us get that recognition in America. We should understand that, too, and acknowledge help that we got from the people who were really responsible for denying us our life and freedom that Allah intended for us. 
So the two urges in heaven. And, again, Dr. King said, "I been to the mountain top. I may not get there with you," meaning to full rights that are accorded a citizen of the United States. He died before we realized it. But the law, he saw that the government was changing and he knew that the government was positioning itself to defend the rights of every citizen and that meant the rights of African American citizens. He saw that it was going to be completed. The government was going to knock down all barriers to justice for black people. 
Now the government can't come in your house and run your family life. It can't take you by the hand and lead you, morally, in America. The government can't go into the hearts of white citizens and others who have prejudices and have a degrading picture of our people as a people. The government can't go into their hearts and take that out. That is not the role of government. But that is the role of education and it should be the responsibility of our religious leaders in America, all of them; to not tolerate this injustice and to bring the best education, or the best influences from holy scripture, and the best guidance to our American public. And some of them are doing that. If you watch some of the programs on the nature series, on the education channel, you will find a lot of help coming to help this immoral public of ours come back to its senses. But it is a small effort when we look at the big population and the big job to be done. And how many of them are going to watch education television? They have come under the fun spirit so they are not interested in watching the public television channels. Most of them won.'t watch education TV they turn on 24 hour junk and bounce to the funk. I'm choosing my words very carefully. There is not indecency here, believe me. The indecency is the picture that I'm addressing. The youngster 
 
p.61 of 125 comes in and turns to that channel. They go to sleep and it is on. They get up the next morning, if it is not on they will wake up and turn it on; a bunch of foolishness, sick, disgraceful foolishness. 
Dr. King driven by spirit for justice 
Blacks participating indecency in the media 
Satan is just making a fool out of all of our people. He is doing the same thing that we protested under our leaders that were leading us to freedom; the same picture of our people that we protested and successfully protested it, because they stopped putting us on television and radio as silly monkeys, buffoons carrying on wasting our time in non-productive endeavors, non-productive interests, non-productive spirit; producing nothing positive except they give you seme money for you entertaining or attracting viewers to the television so that the number of viewers increase from the black community and make it finimcially beneficial, attractive, to the big commercial people to get time on that channel because there are a lot of viewers watching that 24 hours a day. So Dr. King was a man of excellent character and a man with a spirit for justice, who came from his human sense of value or nobility. We don't have those leaders popular anymore. 
So these rivers are missing for us on earth, aren't they? The two rivers are missing in us. The presence of that nature is very small now in the African American people. There are also two rivers in the heavens, we said earlier, and they are the rivers of knowledge and guidance on high, preserved by G _don high. The Qur'an has that. The heavenly rivers are preserved for us in the Qur'an. The knowledge to awaken the urge in us for knowledge and understanding is in the Qur'an and when we read it, it influences us, it sensitizes us inwardly to devote ourselves to the study of knowledge in the revelation, in the context of the Qur'anand it gives us light for our guidance. Correct knowledge is light. 
The stars in the sky, they appear as lights in the night and they are also knowledge. Allah has revealed in the Qur'an that He has caused everything that exists to serve the broadcasting of correct knowledge, the spread of knowledge.38 And we talked about how light travels in straight lines. If you have seen the light rays coming through the openings of the clouds, sometimes at noon time the clouds thicken up, darken the area up, and when they start opening up and the rays penetrate, go through the clouds and come down to us, they come down straight. 
The heavenly life is the life that comes after G_d reveals to man. Then man's heaven, or sky of knowledge, appears and it becomes adorned with stars giving lights. The Prophet is pictured as a star and the star is called as a lamp giving or spreading light. You have man's heaven or sky of knowledge appear and it is adorned with light. The Prophet is pictured as a star, called a lamp spreading light.39 Now, this is to bring it home down to us on earth. We can understand what a lamp is but there are also stars .. 
The star is a little bit difficult for us to relate to, to understand how the heaven is what represents higher knowledge, higher, purer, and better education. All these signs we must relate them to the need for man on earth to become enlightened, educated and guided by correct knowledge into the light. And isn't that the purpose of G_d's guidance, to bring us out of the darkness (the language of Allah in theQur'an) into the light? Qur'an says the night assists the day and the day assists the night. And they move in turn, the night appearing, followed by the day; the day appearing and then the night. 
 
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When man is in darkness he strains for understanding, light and guidance. And every person is conceived in the dark and delivered into the light, another sign. And when this world's light, Allah says He made the day for activities, man's activities. 40 When the day comes man increases his activity and increases his presence and his domination over the natural environment. He eventually dominates the natural environment with his manufactured or created environment and especially in big cities. When you wake up in the morning and you go out from your house, you are in the environment of man, not the environment of the garden that Allah created; that pristine, natural environment that man had before he changed it with his creations. So your environment is made by man and his environment is made to serve not only society and life but made, too, to make money. And sometimes making money becomes more important than protecting human life and serving G_d for the good of humanity. When that happens, like the condition, 'we have right now in America, you're in the dark as far what Allah wants as a life for man md society on this planet earth. You are in the dark. 
)0 it could be daytime by man's clock, but midnight by G_d's clock. So when that happens, it could be at 100nday, but if the urge or the river of dignity, nobility and justice is in the person, that person see this NorId as darkness, midnight and that person wants to go to the heavens that G _ d created. Then that person ; tarts to reflect on the natural world and the naturalsky as G_d made it And he begins to seek revelation. ~e trusts his Lord. He goes to the Qur'an and studies it and he finds out that really the natural heaven, the :kies with stars and moon are noting but signs. And he comes to understand that Allah did not intend for his to remain a mystery forever; not aburden of mystery on man's intellect forever, or on his heart. 
['here is coming a time when Allah is going to roll up that sky as a scroll. Isn't that what he says? The tars shall disappear arid He shall roll up the sky as a scroll. A scroll puts in my mind writing, reading, iterature, education, and He says also in this connection mountains, because we know the source of the ivers are mountains. Rivers, their source is high mountains. The water that collects becomes ice in the op. When warmth comes the water melts and runs down from the mountain. The source of the Nile river o.at the Mother of Moses put her child on is in the mountains in Ethiopia. And it runs down from the J.ountains all the way through Egypt The Nile is the longest river. The river water comes from mountain )ps. And what does Allah say of the mountains? There is coming a time when the mountains are going to isappear, as if they were nothing but a mirage. This is not a new prediction, or a new prophecy, or omething. It is in the Bible, too. And the Bible says He will level the mountains. Now we know it is not lIking about the physical mountain. labul Nur is going to stay right there. But the knowledge mountain lat man sits over and keeps the average person in the dark about, that is the mountain that has to come own, one day. Allah is going to bring that mountain down. 
o all of this mysterious teachings that we have in religion that depends on people just following" blindly : going to be exposed, one day, and the common people are going to be free. How can you be free you 
re believing in spookism? Do you remember what I told you in the first session? I said I had a vision and saw the Prophet Muhammed in this vision accepting the oath, the pledges under the tree, baith; and they 'ere putting their hands one upon the other. The Prophet's hand was first and they were putting their 
md on his. And in the vision I saw myself place my,hand on the hand as they were placing their hands. 'on't think I'm doing something foolishly. I'm not exposing anything except what should be exposed. 
his is the time to expose this superstition and ignorance and ideas of reality that keep the average person, ,e masses, as fools. It has lost its ability to help the life of the masses, because the world has become one orId order and it is too intelligent for that baby, picture language, religion. It is not doing any good. It is 
 
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So now let us turn to another focus here. We know the spirit is something that we calUlot know completely, Allah says of the spirit man knows very little, the Holy Spirit. 5 The Ruh. G _ d didn't say man does not know anything of the spirit, He says he knows little. And this is talking about the average man. G _ d is referring to the common man, not to His messengers. He revealed to His messengers much about the spirit and especially His last servant and Messenger, Muhammed. 
So we are turning our thoughts now to the Holy Spirit or Ar Ruh, the Spirit. Allah says of the spirit that He has given to everything something of His Spirit. He did not say just to mankind. Sb 
And also let us focus now on our Qiblah. Our Qiblah is designated by the house built by our prophet Abraham and his son. And it is a sign to all humanity or all mankind. Allah says of that house that he built it for all mankind or for all people. Of the house He says in Arabic, "Bayte wudeya len naas," it was constructed or built for all the people. 6 
At one time in situation our Prophet Muhammed instructed Bilal his muaddhan to go up on top of the Kabah. You did not know that our Prophet had a black man, an African stand on top of our house that is built for all mankind. He had him stand on top of the house and the people to pray and make adhan, may G _ d be pleased with B ilal, the companion of our Prophet. 
Let us turn our focus to something else that the Prophet never had. You go in nice, big beautiful masjids especially overseas, Turkey has some of the finest and grandest masjids, i.e., the blue Mosque. And we have two of our brothers from Turkey present with us right here today. They are American citizens but their native land is Turkey. A great history is there for mankind of how civilization was born and progressed. My father he had friends from Turkey especially at the end of his mission, his work among us. At one of the last occasions for us to meet all together at one time, the convention the Honorable Elijah Mohammed had guests from Turkey and you know the Turkish people are white. And you know we said the white man was the devil, right? So the Honorable Elijah Mohammed wanted to get it straight. So at that time he pointed to his guests who were sitting behind him on the stage and he said, "This is our brother from Turkey. He is a white man. He's a Muslim saint, a scientist in al Islam." So get rid of the black-eyed peas, okay? 
We want to talk about the minbar, this minbar thatthey make. And by the way the masjid on Stony Island has a beautiful gift of a beautiful minbar and it was shipped to us from Turkey when I became the leader; not long after I became the leader. It was very soon after I became the leader that they shipped the minbar to us. It came from overseas, from Turkey, a nice minbar. It has more than three steps for the Imam to walk up. So they gave us enough steps for us to grow and progress, praise be to Allah. Forgive me, I am a man of humor, too. You who don't know that I'm a man of humor. I can't help it. 
The minbar is built for the Imam or the leader who leads the congregation in prayer to deliver his khutbah, his speech. And it permits him or it accommodates him going up higher than the congregation so he can see the congregation and the congregation can see him more easily; but also as a sign because when he give prayer he does not give his own mind and his own language. He gives the Qur' an. And when he gives his khutbah on the Jumah he has to base his khutbah upon the Qur' an and the traditions of our Prophet, the sunnah. So we know or maybe you don't know that Allah says that the Qur'an and Muhammed and the light that came down with it, meaning not only the Qur'an, descended into our life down here. But also Muhammed, himself, is the light for mankind, put in mankind for humanity, the human light for human enlightenment; the human light in the human flesh. 7 The flesh did not descend down but Muhammed, the Prophet, as the light for us in the flesh, his sunnah came down from heaven. 
 
p.50 of 125 Didn't he ascend up, the ascension, the vision, the ascension and the travel? And then he had to come back down, didn't he? And Allah gave him back down to us and it was not long before the international ummah was established in Medinah Munawarah, the city of enlightenment. 
So ascending the steps of the minbar you should ascend at least three and if you just step up one that is no crime. But if you ascend at least to the ]'d step and sit down it is better. But if the minbar has more steps ascend as many steps as you like, as many as you feel comfortable to ascend. And the minbar that is given to us as a gift has as I said more than three steps, at least more than twice three steps. 
Let us think about our own breath. Now we know the Ruh is divine spirit. But let us think about our own spirit. The human spirit itself seeks perfection and it means to seek to come into a condition that will permit the human mortal, flesh to perform at its best. Now Muhammed, the Prophet, he had developed in his mortal form to that existent before even he knew of revelation, the Holy Spirit or anything like that. 
[ see my brother looking at his guest he wants to get their eye, "Is he okay? Is he saying the right thing?" That white man is powerful, isn't he, especially on a black man. I'm comfortable these brothers are just like me, we are the same. And they know they don't know everything and I know I don't know ~verything and they know they don't know as much as me about the Qur'an. I'm saying it in their face, right before them. And they are my brothers. I love them so much and we are indebted to them a lot, the \1uslims in the world. Allahu Akbar. 
<\llah created the human person to ascend in his aspirations or in his soul seeking excellence so that he )leases his Lord and so that he be.in a condition to serve his Lord at his best and to get the best results in ;ociety for Allah's pleasure. This is life. This is the good life of human beings. This is the good life of mmanity. So Muhammed, himself, thank G _ d for him and we praise G _ d for giving him to us. He had tlready met that requirement before he received any communication from G _ d as revelation. How do we mow that? Allah says it in the Qur'an, "Certainly we have seen or observed you," meaning G_d, angels, leaven, the saints. We have certainly observed that you are established on a mighty foundation of :haracter. 8 
rhe last Prophet, G _ d choosing him, it has a great message in that. Choosing him, a mortal who had not eceived scripture or guidance but was already in his own creation ready for G _ d; ready for G _ d's Jresence and ready for G _ d to communicate to him the message to benefit al humanity. What is that nessage? The greatest message in that for us is that we have had, down here on this earth, conditions that ed to belief that man in his own natural composition or form is a sinner by nature. He inherits sin from 
Lis father who sinned in the garden and he is a sinner by nature and he cannot be advanced on this earth 
In less a divine comes to him. A god has to come to him. So they say Jesus Christ, G _ d, forgives man for his. Jesus is god and man at one and the same time. And you know all the rest of the story that made me list throw up my hands. 
[ was a boy reading this and I said how can any sane person read this and believe it or stay sane? That "as my attitude towards it as a boy. And it wasn't because my father was reading with me. He was not eading the Bible with me. I was reading it on my own. It was because h~ had dispositioned me in my oul and mind to look for sense. If things did not make sense I could not be comfortable with it. That oesn't mean I have to understand everything with my rational mind in order to believe, no. I was never ke that. I followed my father. That should tell you a lot. And I followed him as a true follower. 
a you dismiss those things that you can't deal with if your faith is strong enough in what you want to old on to. You don't want to deal with it. That is whyyou dismiss it from your mind, because you don't 
 
p.510f125 want to put your commitment in jeopardy. You were committed to the Honorable Elijah Mohammed for the progress of the Nation of Islam. That was more important than those things that you couldn't understand. So you put those things out of your mind if they are disturbing you and you just keep going forward. 
Isn't that the way Allah in the Qur'an wants us to be? Yes, The believers are those who believe in the absence of proof, it says, "Amanu bil ghaib." It is a must that believers believe, "Bil ghaib." It means in the absence of proof. You can't follow Allah, His guidance, wi th your small mind, expecting your mind to be able to digest everything to your satisfaction. Much of it is too big for your capacity but your commitment to G_d is so big and important and so strong you dispel those things that give you trouble. You just put them out of your mind. You don't reject them because G_d has given you those things. And those things that you can digest you work with it. And those that threaten your peace because you don't know the answers, you put them aside. And that is the way you read the Qur'an. You read the Qur'an with the strong commitment to not let anything jeopardize your commitment. And Allah says, "Take the best there of. 9• 
There are some people in the history of mankind who didn't take the best thereof. So we will find in reading the Qur'an there were those who were attracted to small things and not interested in the big things. And there is one reference in the Qur'an were the prophet Moses had a lot of trouble with his people being stubborn, argumentative and the word of Allah says, "If all you want is pot herbs, go to any city, any Misree, city. Go to any Egypt, literally translated.1o 
Moses had been given a mission to take the captives to freedom. They were going to a land where they could live the religion that G _ d was revealing through Moses, that He revealed before Moses, also. They were holding up travel, the mission, tying him up with little small things. So he said if that is what you want, the onions and garlic and some lentils, go to any city. 
Why the word Misree for city? Because they were under the secret culture of tlle Pharaoh in Egypt, a culture that was designed to hold the population in check, to limit their freedom so that they never come to the fulfillment that G _ d inscribed upon the human person in the conception of the human person. 
Qahhar, Cairo says to Hold in check Pharaohs some of them were excellent rulers Arabs were not always divided 
The word Qahhar, and the word Cairo says, hold in check, control, dominate by influence. So that is why it was chosen. I don't think the history of the Pharaohs is the history of all bad rulers. The history of the pharaohs, I studied, is of some very excellent rulers. They improved the sociallif of the Egyptian people. They progressed the social life of Egyptian people. The same is for the Arabs. They were not always divided into tribes fighting each other. If you study their social history for their society or their history as a people under their leaders you will fmd that they had leaders a few hundred years or less than that before Prophet Muhammed who had actually led them to a sense of social life and sense of being a social community. But they lost it. 
Look how quick we lost. It is not even 150 years yet and look how the African Americans as a people have lost our Southern moral sense and social sertse. We had a social sense of how we should live with each other and we had a moral sense of how we should live with each other. And we had more unity, and more respect to support us progressing as a people then than we have right now today at this late hour. I mean this is plain. We all know this is very clear to you how we have degraded as a people after being 
 
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freed from slavery in the south and I should say in the north, too. That was the worst degree in the South but also there was an intolerable degree of enslavement that we suffered here in the NOlih. 
We did not have a physical boss telling us to go into his field and sleep in the barn for the slave. We did not have that degree of disrespect for our human worth and value but we also were limited in the North even after all of us having Dr. Martin Luther King a great speaker, a great man, a man driven by a human spirit, the same human spirit that was in Muhammed, the Prophet. It is one human spiIit for all of us and it wants excellence. Someone may think, "He's the son of the Honorable Elijah Mohammed and he's calling Dr. King our leader?" Yes I am. Wake up. 
Blacks satan's plan after slavery to bring the world down through the former slaves 
Dr. King was a great man so powerful as a moral spirit, with a moral detennination and a human spirit to do away with injustice to people, because once he breaks injustice to blacks he has broken it for all people; because we were down the lowest. So if you free blacks in American or in the world you free all Deople. And let me tell you something here. The shaytan's plan was the plan that was worked, that white ~outhern man did not conceive that plan. He was not educated enough. That plan was conceived by ;haytan himself. The devil conceived how to create racism, turn blacks against whites and whites against )lacks and how to enslave blacks and anticipate them one day being freed and being in a condition ;piritually and a condition mentally to be manipulated by the shay tan himself and eventually become the nfluence to bring all people down. 
\nd who's spirit is the shay tan using to reach the whole cultural world and bring mankind down? He's Ising the Negro spirit. Excuse me, but I want it plain. He's using the black man's spirit. He's using the Uro American spirit. He's using the African American spirit. Isn't that some progress there for shay tan? tis tenible but it's true and it is real. And Allah has shown it to Elijah Muhammed's son for what? So we :an survive and prosper in spite of the works of satan, so powerful and so prevalent in the greatest country n the world, the United States of America. 
Iere is the greatest progress for human freedom or democracy and here is the progress of satan's reedom and I can't understand how people have a religion that tells them that their first leaders were iven the keys to lock up satan and to loose him, or free him. II 
.aise your hands you preachers or whatever out there, if you are familiar with that. I see quite a few 
ands. Can you tell me where this comes from? Say it loud so we can hear it. The Bible, thank you. retting back to the point, Allah created man in the best of molds, or He gave man the best of )nstruction.12 By virtue of his creation man among living things is given the best construction. In lur'anic Arabic it is pronounced, "Fee ahsane taqweem." And you start right among people, that is what Ie language tells us. Among all the people on earth, those who accepted al Islam and follow the model or le uswa of Muhammed, the Prophet, their establishment is the best establishment on this planet earth. hey have the best of construction. They are in the most excellent mold. 
 
We know that Allah created us for the meeting, and over and over again in the Qur'an--this is the month of Ramadan. You have read the Qur'an so this is really a great time for me to be giving you these points because you should have already read support for what I'm giving you-Allah says He creates us in the best of molds, the human form. So we know the meeting is the meeting of humanity or mankind for G _ d. G_d is going to be the Presider over that meeting. This is the final meeting. Now G_d told Moses, "You can't see Me directly. You want to see Me look at the mountain. And if the mountain stays as you see it 
you will see Me." IJ When Moses looked at the mountain trying to see G_d the mountain crumbled to dust. It disappeared because Moses was not ready yet. His tongue was still tied, he could not speak. And he prayed to G _ d to untie the knott in his tongue. The tongue was tied, the brain also was knotted. 14 Someone will say, "You shouldn't say that about Moses." I'm saying that about you. I'm using Moses but I'm saying that about you .. 
So the great meeting is the meeting where G _ d will be present and He will preside over that meeting ~hen all human beings, all mankind will stand up before their Maker. Today is that time. Well where is Allah? He is here always but today is that time. Allah is present with us more in the Qur'an, His word than He is in any other thing though He says wherever you are, wherever you meet two, He is the third; IS or any number bigger or smaller He is present. He is there. So G _ d, Allah, is with us. He is always present with us. 
So He does not have to come. He says in the Qur'an "When My servants ask about Me tell them I am close by." 16 "If My servant asks about me" He told the Prophet, "Tell them I'm close by." And the preacher when he is preaching he is hollering like G _ d is way out there in the far distance of the universe. He is just hollering and screaming. I'm not saying this to make mockery. I'm saying this to open the mind. Don't think they just started screaming. They were screaming long before the Prophet's time. So the revelation comes saying, "Tell them I'm close by." Don't be hollering, screaming 
G _ d knows how to communicate to man because this sense of respect and intelligence He put into human, into the mortal human person. I have heard persons say, "Don't holler, don't scream, man, I'm right here man. I hear you." So when man wakes up to his excellence, his pure human essence and knows that he owes the credit to his G _ d, he is ready to meet his Lord. Don't just think you have to die physically to be ready to meet your Lord. If you understand Al Islam from Qur'an and Muhammed, the Prophet, hell begins in the first life and heaven also begins in the fust life and is fulfilled in the later. 17 
Also we should understand that man has already fulfilled. Abraham, G d said he fulfilled his commitment to G _din his own life and G _ d made him a father of all nations, an Im;m or leader for all the people. IS 
19 Adam did not fulfill that commitment. He is just the beginning. And the Prophet has taught us that in his ascent the first level above common man that he came to in his ascent was Adam's leveL After Adam's leve,l Christ Jesus and John's leveL And after Christ Jesus and John's level the level ofYusuf 
	and on up to 7 levels, the level of Abraham. 20 	. 
And when he came to each level he greeted them. To Adam he greeted my father Adam and gave him salaam. And he greeted the second level Christ Jesus and John my brothers Jesus and John and he went to the third and on every level he said my brother or my father. One father below and one father above. When he got to the seventh level he greeted Prophet Abraham, the highest in ascension, he greeted and said my father Abraham. All these are relatives, brother and fathers. 
Two fathers and brothers what is that to say? Allah said of Muhammed, say to them, "I am a mortal just like you." 21 And before Muhammed, the Prophet, the Gospel or the 1njeel came to Jesus, who spoke 
 
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what G d said to him, "I in you and you in me."n Making it clear that he identified with all human beings as flesh and blood mortals, not that divine. And he also said according to the Gospel as it exists now and has existed since the beginning of the Bible I guess in print, " Peter who do you say I, the son of man, am?" 23 This is the first leader, the one I mentioned earlier in this presentation. I don't think I mentioned him by name. The person he asked is the one who is going to become the first leader after his passing away. So he did not leave room for them to say that he was not a mortal person. And then Peter gave his reply and he said you are G _ d just to make it short. But understand that is the same one that in the present form ofthe Gospel, these great scholars in Islam they say, "That's the Bible brother, that is not like the Injeel," I wish you could walk with me for a while, even sleep with me for a while and you would wake up better, with a clearer mind to deal with these things. 
St Basil advised leadership to use pagan language but influence it with Christian principles. 
We understand that changes have been made but we know that there is no Injeel that is going to be so much different from the Gospel that we won't be able to say this is the same. The only thing that will be different is that it is clearer language regarding the concept of man and G _d. But the Bible is pretty clear itself. If the preacher would just read the Bible with a clear, innocent mind, not prejudiced by what he was taught in the seminary or whatever, with an independent, clear and innocent mind, if he would read the Bible as it is now he would see that the Bible is feeding and baiting the pagans and at the same time condemning the trick that it is pulling on the pagans and giving us help to see the truth while blinding the pagans. 
Why does it have to blind the pagan? Because if the pagans had gotten the clear message of Jesus Christ the pagans would have done everything to see that the Christian following or that following would never be able to progress in their society. And this is history. St Basil advised the Christians in his time, the Christian leadership, to use the language of pagans but influence that language with our principles. Those are the words of St. Basil. We are afraid, we are fearful. A people who are afraid to have their knowledge come out when the time is here for it to come out, they are afraid of their knowledge. And they underestimate their knowledge. I'm talking about the Qur'an and Muhammed's tradition. They underestimate the power of their knowledge. So they say, "Don't mention the Bible. Don't bring the Bible into it." How can I not mention the Bible? 
He has already brought the Bible into it when He said that this Prophet of ours you will fmd him in the Torah and in the Injeel or the Gospel. He is mentioned in both those Books. Allah directed us to go to the Bible and what was Muhammed told to tell his people who were not people familiar with scripture? They had not received prophets who came to them with scriptures, the first Arabs that Prophet Muhammed had to deal with. What did Allah say to tell them? Tell them to ask the people of the Book.24 You don't know scripture and you are doubting me. You can't support or verify what I'm saying. Go to those people who received scriptures before me and they will be witnesses that I'm giving you revelation from G _ d. And you know many of the Christians and some Jews became Muslims in the time of Muhammed, the Prophet. 
Allah mentioned the sincere Christians who were devoted to the study of His word how when they heard the recital of the Qur' an it says their eyes swell up with water, tears, and the tears flowed down so leavily that it wet their beards. 25 This is Allah in Qur' an. 
 
p.55 of 125 These are the things that have the ummah so disturbed, so confused and so off tract, the fear of engaging Western civilization and engaging their Bible. We have learned Imams, the ummah of Muhammed, in centers in different places, Morocco, Egypt, even over there where all the trouble is right now Iran and Baghdad, Iraq. We have learned saints in these places but they are so fearful of consequences they don't help their own students or their own following, only to hold them, to hold them by influence, not by rational guidance. 
They won't even take you unless you worship them fiTst. I'm talking about the guru, the saint, the sheik, whatever you want to call them. I think most of them are not even a good milk shake. I'm really serious and I'm not saying this to hurt anybody. They are holding their people for them and they should be holding their people for Allah. 
Allah frees his slaves and He says the garden that I have prepared for you is as wide as the heavens and the earth.26 In the Qur'an it says His throne used to be on the water. 27 "But now the garden that I have prepared for you its expanse is as the expanse of the earth and the skies", meaning all the space that exists. G_d has freed us to imagine. Don't you know with our imagination we don't want to stop anticipating reality wi thin the earth boundaries, or within the sun boundaries, or within the sky at night boundaries? Our mind still wants to go beyond, wants to know what is beyond that that I'm seeing now. So Allah created us for unlimited freedom of spirit and intellect. 
So they are holding their people for themselves, not for Allah. Shouldn't they have a punishment coming? If you are holding 'people back from the freedom Allah created them for you should have a punishment. So when we look at the condition of the Islamic ummah we should look at it just the way we look at the condition of the black community, now, that has betrayed its better tradition and a curse is on us. A curse is on the ummah and a curse is on the black man in America. Allahu Akbar. 
The spirit I am talking about right now that fulfilled itself or reached its destiny in Muhammed, the prophet's mortal life, brother, let that come alive in you and you won't feel anything physical until you are finished with the spiritual. In concluding this I just want us to do what Allah says. He says in the heavens and in the earth are signs as well as in your own self. That means in your own human creation. But most go along heedless paying no attention to those signs. They don't have the sense Allah created us for. The Qur'an says they question Allah and He says why don't you question your on creation.28 Most of the people, they don't have the knowledge. They don't have the sense Allah created us for. 
So let us think about some things here,small things. Allah says you question what Allah has revealed. You question G_d. Why not question your own creation? 29 This is Allah in the Qur'an, not me, not my words. Isn't that what the mysterious teacher in the Nation ofIslam, Mr. Fard, told us? "Your teacher wants to hear from you at once. Ask questions and learn all about what, black power? Your self, your own soul, your nafs. He did not leave us to wonder. It is my self, the self that the great philosopher in Greek history identified as my self. He gave you his own definition of "my self." He said my own self is a righteous Muslim." Was he speaking without any base, Qur'anic base, or base from the Prophet's sunnah? No, he was speaking with a base. The Prophet said everyone is born Muslim until circumstances make them otherwise. We salute our Prophet, the best of human creation. 
 
So the original nature is Muslim and wants to be reconciled with G_d's purpose for human life. That is the meaning of surrendering, peacefully. You want to be reconciled with G _d's purpose for human life and you want to do it not resisting or acting ugly. You want to do it willingly and if you do it willingly you do it peacefully. You are a true Muslim in conscience as well as the mortal nature. 
Breath and light rays travel straight and spread out. A flash light in the dark its light takes the fonn of a cone. You know how an ice cream cone is shaped? The smallest end is where breath starts but it goes out like a cone and spreads into a bigger circle. The little small circle spreads into a bigger circle. Light traveling is concentrated. Light traveling from the source is concentrated at the source and spreads by it being projected. The more it goes out the more it spreads. So, it starts with a little small circle at the source and as it is projected, it becomes bigger and bigger. 
Now that is true of the breath and light. If you take your hand while you are talking, speaking, take your palm and put it against your breath while you are speaking, you can feel that every time you pronounce something breath hits your palm. Its movement is straight. Light and breath are seratal mustaqeem. Its movement is straight spirit and light; study self, straight. G _ d wants us to look at and study our own creation, our own environment, in search of meaning that supports guidance for your life, to get to His purpose, intended for us on this planet earth. Someone may say, "All we need is the Qur'an". I agree. In fact, all we need is Muhammed. Allah says of Muhammed he's enough for aU mankind. 30 When we are speaking, especially in our khutbah, it should be a charity and it should come from the person to the many, to the bigger circle and that will be as charity. Your breath goes out straight and spreads for a wider circle as it is projected, a sign of true charity. 
Minbar Three steps is a sign of charity 
Jalsa is sign of charity come down from the pure regions 
The third plain upward upon man's Qiblah. I said man's Qiblah, the Qiblah we have is for all people. I'm speaking of man, meaning humanity, the people. The third plain that is given to us in the ascent of Muhammed; the Prophet, as he ascended upwards upon or at our Qiblah, man's Qibla, or man's Qiblah center. I would like to add the word center for a purpose and a minbar having a minimum of three steps for the speaker leading the salat; again, a sign of Muslim charity. 
A minimum of three persons are required for performing group salat, again a sign of true charity. True charity qualifies one to sit on the throne. Jalsa is a sign of true charity. In Allah's swt plan it is divine charity. It came down from heaven, to us from the pure regions where there is no air pollution, no bad breath. The closing of one's salatis by greeting all life, not just human life, but humans, first, certainly. 
If you read the traditions of our Prophet, his sunnah, how he respected animals and brought it to the attention of his followers in his immediate circle, environment, that we also have to give animal their rights; if you know that, then you know that we wish peace to the whole of life. And animals are in the life. They are not of the life. And some of the animals have such a sensitive nature for associating with people that the person who has brought this animal into their home, or into their bosom, they become so attached to that animal that, that animal becomes the first relative in the family. It gets the better treatment and everything. Now I want to check you now. We are not supposed to follow the West in their love for animals and let the animal replace the brother, sister, the son, or the daughter. No we don't accept that. 
 
Jalsa. Mind you, sajdah is two before you make salaam, do the greeting. In every rakat there are two sajdah. Why? You want to be reconciled with the material system in its Muslim fonn as G _ d created it. Don't you know the great teachers, philosophers, in the Islamic world history told us that creation, itself, is Muslim? The stars, the earth and the moon are Muslim. So G_d's Will and the nature to agree in G_d's Will is in everything He created as it originally existed from G _ d. So this is no orientation that G _ d is imposing upon humans and did not give it to the whole of His creation to be reconciled according to His Will for His creation. It is in all creation. That discipline or that nature is in everything created, or in all the material universe, the whole material system. Someone may say, "This is heavy." Ifit is too heavy for you don't try to carry it. I don't want to be responsible for giving you hernias and back problems. Do like we did in the Nation ofIslam. If it was too heavy, we left it and we kept going. We did not want to be overburdened and couldn't keep following the Honorable Elijah Mohammed. 
Our greeting of peace is not just peace but it is also mercy, because we have just concluded our salat with Allah's words. Allah says "Bismillah" before or beginning with each chapter except one, the 9th chapter. But in the context of that chapter it is given, though it is missing in the beginning of that chapter, what? With Allah's name the Merciful G d. 
 
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en you do your midday prayer you should combine them even if you are not from out of town. In a ation and a country like this where prayer is not established in the public scene, we have to pray in 'ate quarters or in our own facilities or on the ground outside. It is allowed that in situations like this, :n you are strained to do your prayers, when you find an opportunity to do them, if you could combine n it would be better. 
good to see you, 'and some of you that I have not seen you in a little while. It is good to see your s, praise be to Allah. It is just a blessing and a joy for real people to be together. 
have two small booklets. I am sure some of you have probably seen it. They are on sale in the 
for's area. One is from a speech or lecture that I gave, the radio broadcast. We titled it, "Poor People e First." The publication, Sister Amatullah Sharrief is responsible for the sales. Then we have another is just being introduced and it was taken from a lecture that I gave at the Wisdom University 
lsored interfaith meeting, dialogue. I gave a lot of our own personal history here. Sister Aisha chose It a picture on the front of it and it really goes there, too. It is real nice, the picture that my father had ake. I was a young minister who he had sent to Philadelphia and once a month we had to come in and ~ reports into headquarters in Chicago. 
; coming right off the road really and a very popular African-American photographer, Gordon Parks, ~ of you know him, the Honorable Elijah Mohammed had gotten him to do the photo. And he did not ~ from his seat. He was sitting just like he is in the picture and he saw me coming in the front door 
h is right in front in this picture. It is called the pine room and it had Mr. Fard, W. D. 40's picture. He .D. 40, not me. I am Warith Ud Mohammed. On the picture he is WD 40. Whether you know it or his is the teacher who made possible the progression from the first until now. This is the wise teacher made it possible. We did not come from no where, we came from Mr. Fard's work to where we are Many of you did not, because you came since I have been the leader. You did not come through 
But your leader did and your leader's circumstances that Mr. Fard created produced your leader. I 
at at all hesitant to say that he is my teacher. Mr. Fard, he is my father's teacher. He is also my 
er. Whether you know it or not Elijah Mohammed is still here in his son W. D. Mohammed, gene¬or flesh wise and also spirit wise. He had a spirit to help our people. I have the same spirit, not •ent. And G _ d intervened and that happened. 
ame G _ d has made the present happen, this that I represent. The same G _ d Who made our people tlerate to be slaves, their spirit couldn't tolerate it, the same spirit is in all of us. How can you 
ite yourself from the original 17 million? He said he had 17 million keys. That meant that he was sted in freeing every black man in America, because he said that was the number at that time. And of you don't even want me to talk to the African American people. You just want me to talk in 
. You are some strange Negroes. You are aliens. You will never separate me from my people. 
will say, "We are not supposed to do anything except teach the Qur'an and the sunnah." That is 
y what I'm doing. The Qur' an says save yourself and your family. And my bigger family is my 
m American family. Allahu Akbar. 3\ 
Lot want to start the session like that, but I just couldn't help it. I don't like artificial Negroes. I want ) them, but my heart loves them because they are my brothers in humanity; and they are G_d's 
m. But I do not love their personality and their mind set. I dislike it. I hate it because they are 
ial. That is why our people are in the condition they are in right now as a race, because we did not he spirit of community, the spirit that African Americans should progress as a community. They let 
 
p.59 of 125 themselves be taken out into the loose public and forget their traditional life and are paying a mean price for it. 
What I give you there is much room for me to develop and expand upon it. But I just want you to get the main picture, the main concepts. I want you to get the important concepts in the guidance that Allah gives us. Let us start with rivers. I mentioned four rivers. Now in al Islam or Islamic knowledge we have pictures, or concepts, brought to mind of rivers; four of them in number that address the Bible's four rivers. 32,33 In the Bible we find four rivers coming out from a source, a place, and watering the area and flowing out from the area. I believe the place is Mesopotamia. And the area of the geography for us now is right around the vicinity of the city of Baghdad where the war is going on right now. 
That place was made a garden on earth like a paradise according to scripture. Those four rivers went out from that source and watered the garden, Now this is not just talking about geography, it is talking about how efforts are made to educate and develop culture for society; and how the urges for that development are in the human person. So these are urges in human nature and in the Islamic knowledge there are four rivers above, or in heavens, or in the skies, and four in the earth, called rivers. They are urges. 
In scripture we recall that the mother of Moses put her son, her baby, Moses, peace be on the prophet, on the river in a basket and the river stream carried him to the house ofPharaoh.34,35 And his wife saw the baby on the river and took him from the river into the house of the Pharaoh. There, he became like a son to the Pharaoh until he started seeing and identifying with his people and becoming aware that his people were in bondage under pharaoh. 
G _ d eventually came to him, called him, gave him revelation, and guidance, and he became an opposer of pharaoh and Pharaoh was very severe in his punishments. He was a powerful man, so the Pharaoh eventually excommunicated, or exiled the people. But, actually, he did not want to let the people go, but he rejected Moses. And when Moses wanted to go out with the people, take his people away from Egyp, the Pharaoh opposed that. And he even opposed it, physically. When they started out he sent the army out to stop them and it pursued them as Allah gives it in the Qur'an, in the form of revelation to Muhammed. He was prevented by forces that he did not know how to deal with. And the followers of Moses were assisted by G _ d, divine help. Their guidance permitted them to cross through the river on dry land. The water, the wind, separated the waters and permitted them to cross on dry land. And when the Pharaoh or his army pursued them the waters converged again as they were in the normal situation and drowned; the Pharaoh and his army. This is the story that is in both Bible and Qur'an. That was not a river. That was 
the red sea, I believe. But we have a river, the Nile river, that Moses' mother put him upon and floated him down to Pharaoh's house. 
Heaven two rivers are hidden 
Earth two rivers are Nile and Euphrates; urges for nobility, justice 
So the learned teachers tell us that there are two rivers in the heavens and two rivers in the earth.36 So that is our focus for a few minutes here. Now we know that there is an urge in human being who are persecuted and denied freedom, justice or rights, that should be accorded to every natural citizen of any land. They have these urges and one is a sense of nobility, There is a river, an urge, that flows 
from its source and it is our sense of nobility, or excellence of character. Excellence of character, or oui principle of character will not permit us to just be treated any way; to have our human value ignored, disrespected, walked on, rejected. There is a dignity in the human character. Men of good and excellent character can't tolerate their worth being disregarded and treated unfairly. They can't tolerate that. And 
 
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s the character that accounted for our progress as a people, because that character also has an urge it; and it is the urge for justice. If you are a person of character then you also do not like to see 
:elf denied your rights or denied justice. So those two urges, the urge for dignity that says, "No you treat me like that," the excellence of character. That is dignity, nobility in the person that G _ d put ,38 He created us for nobility and honor. "He has certainly made noble all the sons of Adam." Not 
ill of them. Allah spoke the truth. Isn't that what we're supposed to say when you read from Qur'an? ans we did not speak that. G _ d spoke that and He is the mightiest. 
~ two urges of the natural form, or the mortal, that Allah created on the earth. The son Adam and the )f Adam, his descendants in his own concept, in the concept of Adam that G_d, Himself, created. So are the mortal urges on earth, nobility and justice; the urge to have your nobility or your inherent 
y free and not abused, rejected or stepped upon; but also the spirit for justice. 
:now Dr. Martin Luther King was for us the culmination or the termination of that spirit in us. The lal point for that spirit in us as a people, because after him we have not had anybody like that; 
Iy to rise and be recognized like that. Our people changed their ways and changed their thinking and :hanged their spirit, most importantly. The spirit in our people changed, no more the productive 
but the fun spirit. We lost the productive spirit to the fun spirit. As I say we forgot the best of our 'ship that supported us to freedom and acceptance in America as citizens equal with other citizens American, U.S. law. Not that the white people's hearts everywhere accepted that. No, that was a pill for them to swallow. But many of them were never opposed to that and many of them lost their ring to help us get that recognition in America. We should understand that, too, and acknowledge lat we got from the people who were really responsible for denying us our life and freedom that intended for us . 
. two urges in heaven. And, again, Dr. King said, "I been to the mountain top. I may not get there ou," meaning to full rights that are accorded a citizen of the United States. He died before we 
~d it. But the law, he saw that the government was changing and he knew that the government was ming itself to defend the rights of every citizen and that meant the rights of African American 
lS. He saw that it was going to be completed. The government was going to knock down all barriers ice for black people. 
le government can't come in your house and run your family life. It can't take you by the hand and m, morally, in America. The government can!t go into the hearts of white citizens and others who rejudices and have a degrading picture of our people as a people. The government can't go into earts and take that out. That is not the role of government. But that is the role of education and it be the responsibility of our religious leaders in America, aU of them; to not tolerate this injustice bring the best education, or the best influences from holy scripture, and the best guidance to our ~an public. And some of them are doing that. If you watch some of the programs on the nature 
on the education channel, you will find a lot of help coming to help this immoral public of ours lack to its senses. But it is a small effort when we look at the big population and the big job to be 
•••. nd how many of them are going to watch education television? They have come under the fun 
o they are not interested in watching the public television channels. Most of them won't watch 
on TV they turn on 24 hour junk and bounce to the funk. I'm choosing my words very carefully. 
s not indecency here, believe me. The indecency is the picture that I'm addressing. The youngster 
 
p.61 of 125 comes in and turns to that channel. They go to sleep and it is on. They get up the next morning, if it is not on they will wake up and turn it on; a bunch of foolishness, sick, disgraceful foolishness. 
Dr. King driven by spirit for justice 
Blacks participating indecency in the media 
Satan is just making a fool out of all of our people. He is doing the same thing that we protested under our leaders that were leading us to freedom; the same picture of our people that we protested and successfully protested it, because they stopped putting us on television and radio as silly monkeys, buffoons carrying on wasting our time in non-productive endeavors, non-productive interests, non-productive spirit; producing nothing positive except they give you seme money for you entertaining or attracting viewers to the television so that the number of viewers increase from the black community and make it financially beneficial, attractive, to the big commercial people to get time on that channel because there are a lot of viewers watching that 24 hours a day. So Dr. King was a man of excellent character and a man with a spirit for justice, who came from his human sense of value or nobility. We don't have those leaders popular anymore. 
So these rivers are missing for us on earth, aren't they? The two rivers are missing in us. The presence of that nature is very small now in the African American people. There are also two rivers in the heavens, we said earlier, and they are the rivers of knowledge and guidance on high, preserved by G _don high. The Qur'an has that. The heavenly rivers are preserved for us in the Qur'an. The knowledge to awaken the urge in us for knowledge and understanding is in the Qur'an and when we read it, it influences us, it sensitizes us inwardly to devote ourselves to the study of knowledge in the revelation, in the context of the Qur'an and it gives us light for our guidance. Correct knowledge is light. 
The stars in the sky, they appear as lights in the night and they are also knowledge. Allah has revealed in the Qur'an that He has caused everything that exists to serve the broadcasting of correct knowledge, the spread of knowledge.38 And we talked about how light travels in straight lines. If you have seen the light rays coming through the openings of the clouds, sometimes at noon time the clouds thicken up, darken the area up, and when they start opening up and the rays penetrate, go through the clouds and come down to us, they come down straight. 
The heavenly life is the life that comes after G _ d reveals to man. Then man's heaven, or sky of knowledge, appears and it becomes adorned with stars giving lights. The Prophet is pictured as a star and the star is called as a lamp giving or spreading light. You have man's heaven or sky of knowledge appear and it is adorned with light. The Prophet is pictured as a star, called a lamp spreading light.39 Now, this is to bring it home down to us on earth. We can understand what a lamp is but there are also stars .. 
The star is a little bit difficult for us to relate to, to understand how the heaven is what represents higher knowledge, higher, purer, and better education. All these signs we must relate them to the need for man on earth to become enlightened, educated and guided by correct knowledge into the light. And isn't that the purpose ofG_d's guidance, to bring us out of the darkness (the language of Allah in the Qur'an) into the light? Qur'an says the night assists the day and the day assists the night. And they move in turn, the night appearing, followed by the day; the day appearing and then the night. 
 
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'hen man is in darkness he strains for understanding, light and guidance. And every person is conceived 
the dark and delivered into the light, another sign. And when this world's light, Allah says He made the ly for activities, man's activities. 40 When the day comes man increases his activity and increases his esence and his domination over the natural environment. He eventually dominates the natural lvironment with his manufactured or created environment and especially in big cities. When you wake 
) in the morning and you go out from your house, you are in the environment of man, not the 
lvironment of the garden that Allah created; that pristine, natural envirolUnent that man had before he anged it with his creations. So your environment is made by man and his environment is made to serve It only society and life but made, too, to make money. And sometimes making money becomes more Lportant than protecting human life and serving G_d forthe good of humanity. When that happens, like ~ condition, "we have right now in America, you're in the dark as far what Allah wants as a life for man d society on this planet earth. You are in the dark. 
, it could be daytime by man's clock, but midnight by G _ d's clock. So when that happens, it could be at onday, but if the urge or the river of dignity, nobility and justice is in the person, that person see this lrldas darkness, midnight and that person wants to go to the heavens that G_d created. Then that person .rts to reflect on the natural world and the natural sky as G _ d made it. And he begins to seek revelation. 
~ trusts his Lord. He goes to the Qur'an and studies it and he finds out that really the natural heaven, the ies with stars and moon are noting but signs. And he comes to understand that Allah did not intend for s to remain a mystery forever; not aburden of mystery on man's intellect forever, or on his heali. 
ere is coming a time when Allah is going to roll up that sky as a scroll. Isn't that what he says? The rs shall disappear and He shall roll up the sky as a scroll. A scroll puts in my mind writing, reading, :rature, education, and He says also in this connection mountains, because we know the source of the ers are mountains. Rivers, their source is high mountains. The water that collects becomes ice in the 
'. When warmth comes the water melts and runs down from the mountain. The source of the Nile river t the Mother of Moses put her child on is in the mountains in Ethiopia. And it runs down from the untains all the way through Egypt. The Nile is the longest river. The river water comes from mountain s. And what does Allah say of the mountains? There is coming a time when the mountains are going to appear, as if they were nothing hut a mirage. This is not a new prediction, or a new prophecy, or [lething. It is in the Bible, too. And the Bible says He will level the mountains. Now we know it is not ~ing about the physical mountain. Jabul Nur is going to stay right there. But the knowledge mountain 
t man sits over and keeps the average person in the dark about, that is the mountain that has to come' 'In, one day. Allah is going to bring that mountain down. 
all of this mysterious teachings that we have in religion that depends on people just following" blindly oing to be exposed, one day, and the common people are going to be free. How can you be free you believing in spookism? Do you remember what I told you in the first session? I said I had a vision and w the Prophet Muhammed in this vision accepting the oath, the pledges under the tree, baith; and they 'e putting their hands one upon the other. The Prophet's hand was first and they were putting their 
d on his. And in the vision I saw myself place my hand on the hand as they were placing their hands. l't think I'm doing something foolishly. I'm not exposing anything except what should be exposed. 
s is the time to expose this superstition and ignorance and ideas of reality that keep the average person, masses, as fools. It has lost its ability to help the life of the masses, because the world has become one "ld order and it is too intelligent for that baby, picture language, religion. It is not doing any good. It is 
 
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not working. It does not hold the people in check anymore to believe this foolislmess. I know by correct translation or interpretation it is not foolishness. It is guidance, but that is not how they put it on us. They put the weight on our minds as mysteries, not guidance. For example, saying, "G _ d made man from the earth." And they have grown up in this modem advanced time in the church believing it. They can't deal 
with it. They don't reject it and they have in their mind dirt, earth, clay, being shaped and then G_d or Jesus Christ blowing into it and it is animated, it become a living creature. Human intelligence was not given to us to accept that. It disrespects our human intelligence. 
So a sign of the end of time, as I told you already in the first session, our Prophet says is that we will see the common person, the poor little person, competing with the rich in building skyscrapers, tall buildings. They will be competing with the rich and the powerful. That tells us that in time Allah is going to bring about progress for the common person, for our intelligence. He is going to bring about progress that is going to situate those who were kept under everybody else to rise and compete with their former masters.42 And believe, me it is not talking about physical structures, but yes it includes that, too. But before you can build physical structures in competition with your former masters you must build mountains of science, knowledge and guidance. 
Moses ascended the mountain of knowledge, science Mountain to ascend it you can't carry indecency 
Moses did not go up to the mountain to bring down dirt. He went up there to bring down light for guidance, laws to govern society, etc. That is the mountain he went up, a mountain of knowledge, science and he even wanted to have his spiritual life freed; and he was bothered. He couldn't understand the reality, the Nafs, or the Person ofG_d. And G_d had to reveal to him, "You can see the mountain. You can see this education. You can see how that this science starts at the base and goes up to a conclusion. You can see that but you can't see Me, except that you see that.43 That is your reference for seeing Me." Praise be to Allah. 
So these mountains that they give us a pictures in our minds and the stars in the sky, the heavens up there, are given to the minds of those who they want to keep us in check forever, and keep us out of the knowledge that lifts up civilization. They will keep us out of it forever if they can, because the more of us who are ignorant the less they have to share. The more you rise in intelligence, the more they have to share. 
But understand,. my brothers and my sisters, because we can't be free without you sisters, a sign with the mountain that you have to go up to higher regions is also a sign that you can't carry vulgarity and moral indecency with you if you want to ascend; because G_d did not make the mountain to go up to unclean air. He made the mountain to go up above unclean air. 
So we should rise with our moral nature to the concept of ethics and an ethical society. That is our destiny. Allah wants that for our destiny, ethical society, rising up upon pure, innocent moral nature until the rules of moral thinking are established, to check even our disciplines of science and our disciplines of government order and rule. And I do believe the term ethics in the West or English language is from the name they gave Ethiopia. It had men who ascended for the benefit of society to get knowledge and purity 
before even Christianity came to Ethiopia. It has a long and great history. In fact, that part of the land and Sudan, Egypt, was once under one rule. The people were called Kush and they were very advanced people in science. J. A. Rodgers, an African American historian who became bigger in his image in our 
 
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and knowledge, that is the African American people, he was a very devoted research scientist ching history. His nobility and his character were the two urges in him sending him into that field of and keeping him moving forward with his findings. I heard that they had something on TV 
ly, I'm sorry is missed it, where they were acknowledging him as a worthy historian. 
u think G _ d is going to destroy His physical creation that He made and it did not commit any sin? lah says the mountains are going to be removed as if they were nothing but a mirage. Then you expect for the physical mountain to be removed. It is the mountain in the knowledge that this world ven us; just a picture but no understanding, a picture and no translation or no interpretation. Now 'you Muslims in here, African American or non African American, if you are uncomfortable with Ly I handle this, you can forget it. 
is also the river of deceit, that is, satan's river. Now deceit it can be innocent, too, can't it? The r of Moses planned to deceive Pharaoh, didn't she? But her deceit is innocent. She did it in the 
:t of delivering or helping her people get in a situation so they could get help to their community of ed, those who were under dictatorship of the of the Egyptian pharaoh of that particular time. 
deceit was innocent. She floated him upon the river and knew that eventually the river urge would ~r child past the palace of pharaoh and she knew that somebody would see that beautiful child of 
t was no ordinary child. This was an illuminated child. He was just shining in the basket. So when fe of pharaoh saw that illuminated child in that basket she could not resist going in there and getting .sket and taking it into the house of pharaoh. That is a river of deceit. 
rd created a spirit, the Nation of Islam, a river of deceit, and the FBI studied it, saying, "There is no m here for us. This is going to counter the movement of the talented tenth, Dubois and these other 'ho are trying to establish a civil rights movement and want to interrupt our order, challenge our ,hment. These people don't want our establishment. They say they want us to let them go. They nation of their own. You know what we did for the Indians and all of their nations. We can handle 
r. Fard decorated the baby that he was floating down the river. He decorated the baby to appeal to :my and then he told the enemy through us, he gave us identification cards to identifY us as 
~rs of the Nation ofIslam and he put on the card, "If you find this person other than righteous 
the said person and take this card away from them." 
he FBI saw that they said, "This man is not trouble. He is telling these blacks that they better stay t and clean. If they don't, he's authorizing us to arrest them, punish them and take their ID away lem. We have to study this a little deeper. This baby looks real good." A black lotus child floated tIe river, nothing supporting him but water. But Mr. Fard said, "My river is a river of deceit and d". He said, "The son of Elijah Mohammed, I'm praying to G_d that he will get the hidden 
.e and that he will walk away from the river onto dry land". So the time is now. Praise be to Allah. you. 
 
"Ramadan is the (month) in which was sent down the Our'an as a guide to mankind also clear (Signs) for guidance and judgment (between right and wrong). So everyone of you who is present (at his home) during that month should spend it in fasting but if anyone is ill or on a journey the prescribed period (should be made up) by days later. Allah intends every facility for you He does not want to put you to difficulties. (He wants you) to complete the prescribed period and to glorify Him in that He has guided you; and perchance ye shall be grateful." 
"He hath only forbidden you dead meat and blood and the flesh of swine and that on which any other name hath been invoked besides that of Allah but if one is forced by necessity without wilful disobedience nor transgressing due limits then is he guiltless. For Allah is Oft-Forgiving Most Merciful." 
3. Qur'an 2.62; Whoever believes in the G d shall have no fear 
'Those who believe (in the Our'an) and those who follow the Jewish (Scriptures) and the Christians and the Sabians and who believe in Allah and the last day and work righteousness shall have their reward with their Lord; on them shall be no fear nor shall they grieve. 
4. Qur'an 3.6; Allah shapes you in the wombs as He pleases
"He it is Who shapes you in the wombs as He pleases. There is no god but He the Exalted in Might the Wise." 
They ask thee concerning the Spirit (of inspiration). Say: ''The Spirit (cometh) by command of my Lord: of knowledge it is only a little that is communicated to you (0 men!) 
8.	And made his progeny from a quintessence of the Nature of a fluid despised: . 
9.	But He fashioned him in due proportion and breathed into him something of His spirit. And He gave you (the faculties of) hearing and sight and feeling (and understanding): little thanks do ye give! 
6. Qur'an 3.96-97; Kabah built for mankind is full of signs Hajj a duty men owe to Allah 
 
The first House (of worship) appointed for men was That at Bakka full of blessing and of guidance for all 
kinds of beings: 
In itare 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. 
hose who follow the apostle the unlettered prophet whom they find mentioned in their own 
riptures); in the law and the Gospel; for he commands them what is just and forbids them what is evil: ~lIows them as lawful what is good (and pure) and prohibits them from what is bad (and impure); He ases them from their heavy burdens and from the yokes that are upon them. So it is those who 
9ve in him honor him help him and follow the light which is sent down with him it is they who will ;per." 
lose who listen to the Word and follow the best (meaning~ in it: those are the ones whom Allah has ed and those are the ones endued with understanding." 
Qur'an 2.61; food we have only one type only 
nd remember ye said: "0 Moses! we cannot endure one kind of food (always); so beseech thy Lord IS to produce for us of what the earth groweth its pot-herbs and cucumbers its garlic lentils and 
ns." He said: "will ye exchange the better for the worse? Go ye down to any town and ye shall find t ye want!" They were covered with humiliation and misery; they drew on themselves the wrath of 
1. This because they went on rejecting the signs of Allah and slaying His messengers without just ;e. This because They rebelled and went on transgressing." 
tevelations. 20.2, 7; satan bound thousand years Then freed 
I.nd he laid hold on the dragon, that old serpent, which is the Devil, and Satan, and bound him a 
	sand years, [7] 	And when the thousand years are expired, Satan shall be loosed out of his prison, 
Ie have indeed created man in the best of molds. len do We abase him (to be) the lowest of the low. 
Ihen Moses came to the place appointed by Us and his Lord addressed him He said: "0 my Lord! '(Thyself) to me that I may look upon thee." Allah said: "by no means canst thou see Me (direct); but Jpon the mount; if it abide in its place then shalt thou see Me." When his Lord manifested his glory 
 
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on the mount He made it as dust and Moses fell down in a swoon. When he recovered his senses he said: "Glory be to Thee! to thee I turn in repentance and I am the first to believe." (Allah) said: "0 Moses! I have chosen thee above (other) men by the mission I (have given thee) and the words I (have spoken to thee): take then the (revelation) which I give thee and be of those who give thanks." 
15. Qur'an 58.7; No secret meeting Allah is among the W!!I2 
Seest thou not that Allah doth know (all) that is in the heavens and on earth? There is not a secret consultation between three but He makes the fourth among them nor between five but He makes the sixth nor between fewer nor more but He is in their midst wheresoever they be: in the end will He tell them the truth of their conduct on the Day of Judgment for Allah has full knowledge of all things. 
16. Qur'an 1.186; Allah (swt) close and hears prayers 
"When my servants ask thee concerning Me I am indeed close (to them); I listen to the prayer of every suppliant when he calleth on Me; let them also with a will listen to My call and believe in Me; that they may walk in the right way. " 
"If anyone desires a reward in this life in Allah's (gift) is the reward (both) of this life and of the Hereafter: for Allah is He that heareth and seeth (all things)." 
"And remember that Abraham was tried by his Lord with certain commands which he fulfilled; He said: "I will make thee an Imam to the nations." He pleaded: "And also (Imams) from my offspring!" He answered: "But my promise is not within the reach of evil-doers." 
"Neither shall thy name any more be called Abram, but thy name shall be Abraham; for a father of many nations have I made thee." 
The Prophet said, "While I was at the House in a state midway between sleep and wakefulness, (an angel recognized me) as the man lying between two men. A golden tray full of wisdom and belief was brought 
to me and my body was cut open from the throat to the lower part of the abdomen and then my abdomen was washed with Zam-zam water and (my heart was) filled with wisdom and belief. AI-Buraq, a white animal, smaller than a mule and bigger than a donkey was brought to me and I set out with Gabriel. When I reached the nearest heaven. Gabriel said to the heaven gate-keeper, 'Open the gate.' The gatekeeper asked, 'Who is it?' He said, 'Gabriel.' The gate-keeper asked, 'Who is accompanying you?' Gabriel said, 'Muhammed.' The gate-keeper said, 'Has he been called?' Gabriel said, 'Yes.' Then it was said, 'He is welcomed. What a wonderful visit his is!' Then I met Adam and greeted him and he said, 'You 
 
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p.68 of 125 ~Icomed 0 son and a Prophet.' Then we ascended to the second heaven. It was asked, 'Who is it?' ~I said, 'Gabriel.' It was said, 'Who is with you?' He said, 'Muhammed' It was asked, 'Has he been Ir?' He said, 'Yes.' It was said, 'He is welcomed. What a wonderful visit his is'" Then I met Jesus ~hya (John) who said, 'You are welcomed, 0 brother and a Prophet.' Then we ascended to the third 1. It was asked, 'Who is it?' Gabriel said, 'Gabriel.' It was asked, 'Who is with you? Gabriel said, nmed.' It was asked, 'Has he been sent for?' 'Yes,' said Gabriel. 'He is welcomed. What a 
rful visit his is!' - (The Prophet added:). -There I met Joseph and greeted him, and he replied, 'You -leomed, 0 brother and a Prophet!' Then we ascended to the 4th heaven and again the same 
ms and answers were exchanged as in the previous heavens. There I met Idris and greeted him. 
j, 'You are welcomed 0 brother and Prophet.' Then we ascended to the 5th heaven and again the luestions and answers were exchanged as in previous heavens. There I met and greeted Aaron lid, 'You are welcomed 0 brother and a Prophet", Then we ascended to the 6th heaven and again ne questions and answers were exchanged as in the previous heavens. There I met and greeted who said, 'You are welcomed 0 brother and a Prophet.' When I proceeded on, he started weeping being asked why he was weeping, he said, '0 Lord! Followers of this youth who was sent after me 
er Paradise in greater number than my followers.' Then we ascended to the seventh heaven and he same questions and answers were exchanged as in the previous heavens. There I met and 
j Abraham who said, 'You are welcomed 0 son and a Prophet.' Then I was shown AI-Bait-al- 
. (i.e. Allah's House). I asked Gabriel about it and he said, This is AI Bait-ul-Ma'mur where 70,000 perform prayers daily and when they leave they never return to it (but always a fresh batch comes aily).' Then I was shown Sidrat-ul-Muntaha (i.e. a tree in the seventh heaven) and I saw its Nabk hich resembled the clay jugs of Hajr (i.e. a town in Arabia), and its leaves were like the ears of 
ltS, and four rivers originated at its root, two of them were apparent and two were hidden. I asked 
about those rivers and he said, 'The two hidden rivers are in Paradise, and the apparent ones are ! and the Euphrates.' Then fifty prayers were enjoined on me. I descended till I met Moses who ne, 'What have you done?' I said, 'Fifty prayers have been enjoined on me.' He said, 'I know the better than you, because I had the hardest experience to bring Bani Israel to obedience. Your 
's cannot put up with such obligation. So, return to your Lord and request Him (to reduce the 
. of prayers.' I returned and requested Allah (for reduction) and He made it forty. I returned and )ses) and had a similar discussion, and then returned again to Allah for reduction and He made it len twenty, then ten, and then I came to Moses who repeated the same advice. Ultimately Allah 
I it to five. When I came to Moses again, he said, 'What have you done?' I said, 'Allah has made it /.' He repeated the same advice but I said that I surrendered (to Allah's Final Order)' " Allah's 
was addressed by Allah, "I have decreed My obligation and have reduced the burden on My 
and I shall reward a single good deed as if it were ten good deeds." 
"I am but a man like yourselves (but) the inspiration has come to me that your Allah is one Allah: r expects to meet his Lord let him work righteousness and in the worship of his Lord admit no one er." 
3lievest thou not that I am in the Father, and the Father in me? the words that I speak unto you I Jt of myself: but the Father that dwelleth in me, he doeth the works. [20] At that day ye shall 3t I am in my Father, and ye in me, and I in you." 
lSUS came into the coasts of Caesarea Philippi, he asked his disciples, saying, Whom do men I the Son of man am?" 
 
If thou wert in doubt as to what We have revealed unto thee then ask those who have been reading the Book from before thee: the Truth hath indeed come to thee from thy Lord: so be in nowise of those in doubt." 
If thou wert in doubt as to what We have revealed unto thee then ask those who have been reading the Book from before thee: the Truth hath indeed conie to thee from thy Lord: so be in nowise of those in doubt." 
"And when they listen to the revelation received by the Apostle thou wilt see their eyes overflowing with tears for they recognize the truth: they pray: "Our Lord! we believe; write us down among the witnesses." 
"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. " 
. "He it is Who created the heavens and the earth in six Days and His Throne was over the Waters that He might try you which of you is best in conduct. But if thou wert to say to them "Ye shall indeed be raised up after death" the Unbelievers would be sure to say "This is nothing but obvious sorcery!" 
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. 
"And he makes comparisons for us and forgets his own (Origin and) Creation: He says "Who can give life to (dry) bones and decomposed ones (at that)?" 
"We have not sent thee but as a universal (Messenger) to men giving them glad tidings and warning them (against sin) but most men understand not." 
"0 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." 
 
~re is) a Parable of the Garden which the righteous are promised: in it are rivers of water 
"uptible: rivers of milk of which the taste never changes; rivers of wine a joy to those who drink; and 
; of honey pure and clear. In it there are for them all kinds of fruits and Grace from their Lord. (Can ~ in such Bliss) be compared to such as shall dwell for ever in the Fire and be given to drink boiling 
. so that it cuts up their bowels (to pieces)? 
We sent this inspiration to the mother of Moses: "Suckle (thy child) but when thou hast fears about ast him into the river but fear not nor grieve: for We shall restore him to thee and We shall make him f Our apostles." 
I when she could not longer hide him, she took for him an ark of bulrushes, and daubed it with slime lith pitch, and put the child therein; and she laid it in the flags by the river's brink. [4] And his sister 
afar off, to wit what would be done to him. 	[5] And the daughter of Pharaoh came down to wash 
If at the river; and her maidens walked along by the river's side; and when she saw the ark among IgS, she sent her maid to fetch it. [6] And when she had opened it, she saw the child: and, behold, ibe wept. And she had compassion on him, and said, This is one of the Hebrews' children. [7] Then lis sister to Pharaoh's daughter, Shall I go and call to thee a nurse of the Hebrew women, that she lurse the chi/ld for thee? 
c bin Sasaa reported the Prophet said I was shown Sidrat-ul-Muntaha (i.e. a tree in the seventh ~n) and I saw its Nabk fruits which resembled the clay jugs of Hajr (i.e. a town in Arabia), and its 
; were like the ears of elephants, and four rivers originated at its root, two of them were apparent lIowere hidden. I asked Gabriel about those rivers and he said, 'The two hidden rivers are in 
ise, and the apparent ones are the Nile and the Euphrates.' 

 
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have honored the sons of Adam; provided them with transport on land and sea; given them for lance things good and pure; and conferred on them special favors above a great part of Our on." 
 
"Those who sustain the Throne (of Allah) and those around it sing Glory and Praise to their Lord; believe in Him; and implore forgiveness for those who believe: "Our Lord! Thy reach is over all things in Mercy and Knowledge. Forgive then those who turn in repentance and follow Thy Path: and preserve them from the Penalty of the Blazing Fire!" 
Allah is the Light of the heavens and the earth. The parable of His Light is as if there were a Niche and within it a lamp: the Lamp enclosed in Glass: the glass as it were a brilliant star: lit from a blessed Tree an Olive neither of the East nor of the West whose Oil is well-nigh luminous though fire scarce touched it: 
Light upon Light! Allah doth guide whom He will to His Light. Allah doth set forth Parables for men: and Allah doth know all things. 
"And among His Signs is the sleep that ye take by night and by day and the quest that ye (make for livelihood) out of His Bounty: verily in that are Signs for those who hearken." 
"One Day We shall remove the mountains and thou wilt see the earth as a level stretch and We shall gather them all together nor shall We leave out anyone of them." 
One day while the Prophet was sitting in the company of some people, (The angel) Gabriel came and asked, "What is faith?" Allah's Apostle replied, 'Faith is to believe in Allah, His angels, (the) meeting with Him, His Apostles, and to believe in Resurrection." Then he further asked, "What is Islam?" Allah's Apostle replied, "To worship Allah Alone and none else, to offer prayers perfectly to pay the compulsory charity (Zakat) and to observe fasts during the month of Ramadan." Then he further asked, "What is Ihsan (perfection)?" Allah's Apostle replied, "To worship Allah as if you see Him, and if you cannot achieve this state of devotion then you must consider that He is looking at you." Then he further asked, "When will the Hour be established?" Allah's Apostle replied, "The answerer has no better knowledge than the questioner. But I will inform you about its portents. 
1.	When a slave (lady) gives birth to her master. 
2.	When the shepherds of black camels start boasting and competing with others in the construction of higher buildings. And the Hour is one of five things which nobody knows except Allah. 
"When Moses came to the place appointed by Us and his Lord addressed him He said: "0 my Lord! show (Thyself) to me that I may look upon thee." Allah said: "by no means canst thou see Me (direct); but look upon the mount; if it abide in its place then shalt thou see Me." When his Lord manifes.ted his glory on the mount He made it as dust and Moses fell down in a swoon. When he recovered his senses he said: "Glory be to Thee! to thee I turn in repentance and I am the first to believe." (Allah) said: "0 Moses! 
I have chosen thee above (other) men by the mission I (have given thee) and the words I (have spoken to thee): take then the (revelation) which I give thee and be of those who give thanks." 
 
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father Imam for all nations 6; 
II children of Adam are honorable 7; 
swt) close and hears prayers 6; ret meeting 2 or 3 He is present 6; 
l Founding fathers had the Bible and Qur'an 2; ~re not always divided 3; 
:!! 
- you ascend the steps like the Prophet ascended 2; 
dvised leadership to use pagan language but :nce it with Christian principles 7; 
fhoever believes in the G d shall have no fear 1; 
the best there of 4; 
rrguage is feeding and bating the pagans 7; 
Are cursed because they betrayed their better tradition 8; 'ating indecency in the media 9; 
lan after slavery to bring the world down 3; 
LVe! in straight line seratal mustaqeem 4; -e signs of charity as they go out they get bigger 9; 
har, Cairo says to Hold in check 3; Prophet is on the exalted character 4; 
ight going out 4, 9; 
;n of charity come down from pure regions 5; 
 
Christianity
c- St Basil advised leadership to use pagan language but influence it with Christian principles 7; - 
d-l 
Deceit can be innocent 9; 
Devil satan bound thousand years then freed 5; Dust Moses mountain crumbed to dust 3; 
e-l 
Earth Two rivers are Niles and Euphnites 
.EgYQ! 
e- go to any city 4; 
e- Pharaohs some of them were excellent rulers 3; e- Qahhar, Cairo says to Hold in check 3; 
Ethics is from Ethiopia 9; Ethiopia Ethics is from Ethiopia 9; 
f-l 
Family Save yourself and your families 7; 
Fear G _ d will take the fear off of us as a burden 1; 
Four
f- rivers honey, milk, water, wine 13, 14; 
f- Four rivers are urges in human nature 13, 14; 
g-l Garden 
g- width heaven-earth means the mind, soul has no limit 4; h-l 
- Heaven
h - begins in this life and hereafter 6; h- Two rivers are hidden 7,8; 
h- two rivers are knowledge and guidance 8; 
h- width garden means the mind, soul has no limit 4; 
Hell begins in this life and hereafter 6; 
Honey Four rivers honey, milk, water, wine 7; 
 
1- exists in two forms mortal and enlightened 5,6; 1- Human spirit seeks perfection 3; 
1- prophet I am a mortal like you 6; 
-1 
mam Khutbah breath a sign of charity 4; 
-1 
alsa sign of charity come down from the pure regions 5; 
Jesus
- Asked Peter Jesus said who do you say I am 4; 
-said I in you 6, 7; 
- who do you say I am 7; 
:-1 K.abah
- full of blessings 2,3; 
- Qiblah 2, 3; 
:.hutbah sign of charity 4; 
)r. King driven by spirit for justice and the termination of spirit of justice for blacks 14; 
•1 Light
•	Breath light travel in straight line seratal mustaqeem 4; 
•	Charity sign is light as it goes out it gets bigger 9; Follow the light sent down with him 2; 
l-1 ~an
l - destiny created while he was in his mother's womb 1; l- The spirit man little knowledge thereof 2; 
• - We created man in the best mold 4; 
[edinah Munawarah, the city of enlightenment 3; [eet Allah No secret meeting 2 or 3 He is present 6; [ilk Four rivers honey, milk, water, wine 13, 13; 
1inbar
- you ascend the steps like the Prophet ascended 3; 
- three steps sign of Muslim charity 9; 
~oses
- Moses ascended the mountain of knowledge, science 16; 
- mountain crumbed to dust 5; 
 
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m - Moses in a basket put into river 13; m - told people go to any city 4; 
m - prayed untie my tongue 6; 
Mountain
m - will disappear one day knowledge oppressing masses 9; m - Moses asked to see G_d mountain crumbed to dust 5; m - rivers come from 8; 
m - to ascend you can't carry indecency 16; 
Mustageem
m - Breath light travel in straight line seratal mustaqeem 4; 
n-l 
Nature Four rivers are urges in human nature 7; 
p-l 
Peter Jesus said who do you say I am 6, 7; Pharaohs some of them were excellent rulers 3; 1; Pork eat only out of necessity 1; 
Prayer
p- Jalsa sign of charity come down from the pure regions 5; p - Sajdah two means reconcile with the material system 5; 
Prophet
p- ascended 7 heavens 6; p- I am a mortal like you 6; 
p- is on the exalted character 4; 
p- Follow the light sent down with him 2; p- Muhammed is enough 4; 
q-l 
Qahhar, Cairo says to Hold in check 3; Qiblah 2,3; 
Qur'an
q- Christians hear Qur'an tears flow 4; 
q- Follow the light sent down with him 2; 
q- Founding fathers had the Bible and Qur'an 2; q- Take the best there of 4; 
 
River
r- Four are urges in human nature to educate and 
develop culture 13; 
r- Heaven Two rivers hidden are knowledge, guidance 13, 14; r- Earth Two rivers are Niles and Euphrates 13. 14; 
r- Moses in a basket put into river 13; 
Ruh
r- Allah gave to everything some of His 2; r- The spirit man little knowledge thereof2; 
s-l 
Sajdah two means reconcile with the material system 5; satan bound thousand years then freed 5; 
Scripture Take the best there of 4; 
Spirit
s- Allah gave to everything some of His 2; 
s- Human spirit seeks perfection 3; s- man little knowledge thereof 2; 
t-l 
Tongue Moses prayed untie my tongue 6; 
u-l 
Urges Four rivers are urges in human nature 13, 14; 
w-l Water
w- Cast your bread on the water 6; 
w- Four rivers honey, milk, water, wine 13; 
w- Heaven 2 rivers hidden knowledge and guidance 13, 14; w- Earth Two rivers are Niles and Euphrates 13; 
w- Moses in a basket put into river 13, 14; 
 
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10-7-2007 Ramadan Sunday Session Homewood, Ill. 
With Allah's name, the praise and the thanks is for G_d. We thank Him for the gift and blessing of the model human person Muhammed (pbuh), the honorable and noble servant and Messenger of G _ d and what follows of that 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 Qur'an. 
Morning Session 
We start this morning, the last day of the session, he third session, the last day of the sessions. We are going to begin this session with dhikr and I want you to follow me in dhikr: Subhanallah, the shortened version, is said ten times. Al haamdu lillaah is said ten times. Allahu Akbar is said ten times. We have completed the three dhikrs and we did each one ten times beginning with glorifying G _ d, praising G _ d, and lastly acknow ledging that G _ d is the bigger the greater. 
Where do we get that from? Who told us, Allahu Akbar? The one who was doing dhikr when Abraham was contemplating the order ofG_d's material system, earth, sky, every thing, he was contemplating or reflecting on it, or thinking on it, dhirk, to take off the burden on of heart and soul; the burden of not knowing to Whom he owed obedience. He was looking for the highest authority, the One to Whom he said he owes obedience. But he didn't know who that was. So you know how the story goes, for the benefit of some of you who might not have heard it I know most of you have. He began searching in the night and he was studying the heavens, the skies, and understand that the word for, "Heavens" in the Qur'an is skies. So we say skies, talking about what we see visibly up there then we say heaven, a mystery. But in Qur'anic Arabic the same word for sky is the word for heaven. 
So he was impressed by the beautiful canopy of the night, bedecked with stars, or adorned with beautiful lights and one attracted him more than the other.1 The star they believe he saw is the star called Sirius. It's a big star in the heavens. He contemplated on it and it got his attention for a while and he was thinking it could be G_d. Then, a star fell. As you know they do fall, but not the real big star; what we see in our eyes that we call stars, not the scientific definition of the star. He said, "No, they cannot be my G_d because they fall. Like Hollywood stars, they rise and fall. 
But he stayed all night. This is scientific thinking. The story is to teach us what scientific thinking is. Scientific thinking is not to jump to a conclusion. Like that is the impulse, the ordinary, common way of responding, or the impulse in us and ordinary humans. It is to be impressed and we go with that. We don't stop and question what impressed us. But Abraham was a scientific thinker and he didn't jump to conclusions even if something impressed him. So he was impressed with the heavens and the stars and the sky but he did not just say, "This is a beautiful sky, that must be G_d up there". He stayed with it and he wanted to see what was going to happen. Will it remain this way after one hour? So he stayed long enough for a star to fall and observed a star falling and that changed his mind. 
 
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Now he stayed until the day came. When it came the dawn was so beautiful and impressive and the rays of the sun were so beautiful and impressive and when it got to its most beautiful stage, some of you if you have been out in the morning in a wide open plain, the sunrise can be beautiful just like sun set; especially if you're sitting on a water front like a big lake or ocean and you see the sun rising up out of that water. It looks just like it is real. It looks like it is actually rising up out of the water. 
See how Allah made His creation? Think about that. Actually, I have done it. I watched it more than once and if you are in the right situation where the water is a big lake or ocean the sun rises up and it looks like you see water dripping off of it, like it is a dish or something, not fire. It looks like you see liquid dripping off of it as it is coming up out of the water. Allah made it appear like that to us so that we would use our sense of beauty and adore the Lord Who made that happen. But man is deceived. He thinks without bringing his thought or his thinking to a logical conclusion. Abraham was such a man. He did not just think. He wanted his thinking to bring him to a logical conclusion. He was a scientific teacher. He said it is so beautiful, splendid, radiant this must be my G _ d. But he is a scientific thinker. He had to watch it for a while. So he sat and watched it as it came up to noon time and went down. When it set and went out and he did not see it anymore he said, "This cannot be my G_d. My G_d is One Who does not set. Praise be to Allah." This has reference to a lot of things in the history of man's struggle to find the absolute truth or the true reality of things. 
Now let us go back in the story and life of Abraham. How did he begin? He as a boy and his father was the ruler. And his father and his father's people worshiped idols. So Abraham, as a boy, didn't like that, so he destroyed the idols and his father questioned him saying, "Abraham, did you do this?" Abraham said, "Ask the big one." And his father exiled him, put him out from their kingdom. And Abraham began traveling from one land to another. And you know how he became a scientific thinker, searching the universe for G _ d. I just went over that in little small details. Abraham also is the one looking for a spot to place, to build the house for the worship of G _d. I hope you have your papers out because everything I'm telling you is relevant to everything that I'm going to be saying for the first day, second day, and now, even to the khutbah on Friday and the selection of the chapter that I recited. Everything is connected. Nothing is disconnected. I planned the presentation and it begins with a khutbah and Salatul Jumah. 
Abraham found the Black Stone, and the way the story went is like he saw the black stone fall. Now understand that this is the story of a scientific thinker who is looking for scientific support for what he wants to introduce to people to order society. He was a community thinking man. He thought. community.2 How do we know that? Because Prophet Muhammed said the ummah of Abraham and the millah of Abraham. 3 This is the millah of Abraham. It means the hope of Abraham and it is a community after the order of Abraham haneefah, the upright in nature. So we know that Abraham is a community. 
I was in Saudi Arabia as a member of the Supreme Council of Masajid, masjids, and I still am. I still have that position. As I was leaving the president ofRabita al Islami, the Islamic world league, he said, "You know Imam Abraham is a community." He said that because he wanted to leave that on my mind: He was one of those learned people that if he likes you, he like to share something with you. I said, "Yes" and he said, "And Muhammed is a community." I had to think on that. I did not say, "Yes". I didn't say 
anything. I remained quiet and just went out. I greeted him and left. I was getting ready to leave, coming back home. 
 
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But that is true. I don't know a prophet who is not a single figure and a plural figure at the same time, especially Jesus Christ., Adam, Abraham, and Muhammed, peace be on them. Those for sure are single and plural figures at the same time. That means when we think of that person, or that picture, or that figure, we should understand that it is a man, a single person, but also he is a picture of the whole people that he leads or is sent to lead. So he is a community picture as well as a personal or individual picture. It is very clear and in the Christian world the church uses the expression the, "Body Christ," and they are not talking about Jesus, personally. They are talking about the church, the whole congregation, the following. I know where I'm going. I don't need a single note today, praise be to Allah. 
Abraham thought where the black stone fell the message to him was, "Build My house, here". So that is where he built the house, he and his son. And they put the Black Stone inthe corner of that house. Too many of you have a tendency to just take these things and don't try to ask what is this all about? [fyou would follow the guidance of Qur'an and follow the guidance of Muhammed, the Prophet, that he gave us, too, with his teachings and comments on things you wouldn't be lost like that. 
Prophet Muhammed comes in the progression of the revelation. He comes in the sequence of prophets who came one after another, succeeding each other, who came one after another and the Qur' an is a Book that is composed of Books that came before. That simply means there is no big deal. Don't be telling me, "Your head is hurting and this is deep" if that is true of you, you should not come here. [n fact, you 
should just watch TV and listen to the radio and music and forget about serious matters. You are not conditioned for it. Your mind is not conditioned for it. Something is wrong. 
Do you know sometimes you open your mouth and you say, "I'm a hypocrite. I'm a disbeliever" and you are not saying anything but, "Man he was heavy I couldn't get it. Did he give you a headache, brother?" But when believers hears you they hear the voice of a hypocrite, a disbeliever. I'm talking about the true believers among us. They know you, brother. You can't hide form them. They know each other. And if you are not one of the believers they know you right away. And we knew that under the Honorable Elijah Mohammed. We could tell a phony when we looked at him or when he appeared. 
Abraham and his son built the house and Allah says of the house that he built that it is the, "Awwal bait," the most ancient of houses, the first of the houses. 4 It is called, "AI bait ateeq." 5 That means the most ancient house and it is called the first of the houses constructed for the worship of G _ d. Now really, if we are talking about a physical occurrence we know that is not the fIrst of the house built. But if we are talking about the true house with the construction that says this house is for the worship of the true and only G _ d, the Kabah built by Abraham and his son is the first one. Many houses were built but they did not receive guidance. They didn't call on the true G_d. Abraham identified the true G_d, so when he was building that house, he was doing it with a knowledge of the true G_d. And the true.G_d is the G_d of everything. The true G_d is the G_d of the universe and also the Lord of the universe, the Lord of all the worlds. 
Create means G_d brought matter into existence. 
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So he is the One Who evolved creation, itself. The word evolve is different from the word created. Created means He brought it into existence. Evolved means that he progressed it from a beginning that was simple to its big, huge, complex form that we see now. And we are told that the heavenly space, or the universal, ethereal space, some of you have these other terms but I want everybody to understand clearly what I'm saying. That space is said to have been smoke, or not real smoke, but appearing as smoke or as dust in confusion.6 Not dust rested, dust in confusion, shaken all about, stirred up; or as smoke in confusion, the same thing as stirred up, going everywhere. And you have seen smoke like that. 
Some smoke rises straight up. Some goes out and looks like it is just all confused and that is because the way the fire is going on. So it can give a violent motion and some. of them translate it, "In violent motion, or commotion." It is a picture of the beginning of the creation in space. No star had formed, nothing orderly had happened. It was in disarrangement. It was in disorder and G _ d brought it to order and He evolved life on earth from nothing to something. So this is whatwe mean when we say Allah is the Lord of the worlds. We are talking about that process. 
And when we say Allah is the Lord of mankind we are talking about a process beginning with man as empty headed, nonscientific, uneducated and Allah revealed to one of them who presented himself in form, in the natural body. This is not a revealed person, not a person who received revelation like Muhammed, we discussed already, before revelation. He took a person like that and He communicated to that person and made him a leader for the beginning of civilization, to start civilization on this planet earth. 
Abraham built the house with a knowledge of the oneness ofG_d. We started this session today on Sunday which will be concluded with Thuhr prayer. We are going to have after prayer a time space before the live radio broadcast. So in that space if you don't have a schedule to get out of here quickly, we can at least have 40 minutes for questions. 
But your questions have to be taken at random. You will make questions and we will take a question from a brother, a question from a sister and we will start up here and take one in the first three rows and then we will go three more rows back and we'll take one question from that row and will continue until we get to the back, going three rows back. So I can't handle a lot of questions. We don't have time so they will bring the questions to me and we will take only two questions from each stop, one from a brother and one from a sister. I will go through them and look at them and see which one I should respond to for the better benefit of all of us. I will do the selection. So I might not select any more than about 3 or 5 and I will answer those questions, en sha Allah. 
We don't have time in this session to bring out or to identify in Qur'an and the teaching of Muhammed, the Prophet, and relate it to scriptures that were before, to show you the science that is in the house we call Kabah. You look at a little simple house. It is simple, but very deep. It is simple but complex at the same time. It represents humanity. It represents the beginning of human society in it best construction. Allah says of the house that in it are many blessings. It is a blessed house. What you should understand is that the very house itself exudes or extends, imparts messages to the true thinker, the one who is thinking for G _ d's way. It imparts messages. It is full of blessings, a house built for all people; not for one people, for all people; not for one nation, for all nations. 
 
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He made Abraham the leader for all the nations and the Bible says he made him a father. And we call him father, also. In the Bible G_d actually says that. "I changed your name from Abram to Abraham and you will be a father to the many". 8 This means he is a leader to all the nations. It is in the Bible. It is the same message in the Bible and in the Qur'an of him being the leader for all the nations and all people. Now that is saying something, too, to us. 
He never said that of Adam, why? Because Adam had not ascended enough to have enough knowledge of G _d's creation. He is the beginning of the rise of the mind, intellect, and heart that G _ d wants for the people, or wants in the leader for the people. He is the beginning. He is the first. In fact, he was so new and his thinking was so new and fresh and young that the satan was able to deceive him out of his mind that G d created him in. But as we said in the session before that he met a word from his Lord and he repented his wrong and G _ d, Allah, accepted him. 9 
I'm not rushing with this. Relax, you are fasting. You should be relaxed. A fasting man does have enough energy to be all nervous and jittery. It is supposed to settle you down. 
Qawaaid refers to grammatical construction The house is a metaphor of the word of G _ d 
The expression, "Qawaaid bait", gives us knowledge, not just imagination and when Abraham was building the house the term for how he was constructing it is, "Qawaaid." How many advanced students in Qur'anic Arabic are in the first three rows? Do you know anything about grammar? Yes, Imam Agin, who has studied for a long time, Qur'anic Arabic and this history of ours. The word that is used is the word for grammatical construction. So the house is a physical picture, but the real meaning is not physical. The house represents language that Allah communicated to Abraham. 
So the house is a metaphor of the word of G _ d. In the beginning there was the word. 10 So the house is a metaphor, a physical picture, that you should not take as a physical house, but you should think on it, dhikr. You should meditate on it. You should reflect on it. You should think deep into it. Now what does it looks like? It looks like a little small cubicle and if it is the first house why is it so small? Because it is the first house. It is saying, "This is your beginning. You have a big house now. You have mansionsbut your beginning was from a little small simple house, a small simple structure; no furniture in it. How do I know? The rulers of Saudi Arabia took me and a few who were with me inside the Kabah and asked us did we want to pray in there. Do you know what I told them? I don't feel right praying inside the Kabah. Prayers are to be done outside. 
It is not a real house. It is a sign that is imparting messages to the real thinker who G _ d has blessed to be a thinker. So it is speaking of our beginning as a social body. The real student if he doesn't understand what I mean when I say social body, he will to go to the English dictionary, not to the Arabic dictionary. You speak and you know English. You don't know Arabic. Very few of you know Arabic. Even those who think they know Arabic don't know it, most of them. I'm looking at them and listening to them. We have some here who know Qur'anic Arabic, good students. I'm very proud of them, too. I'm not going to name anybody but we have several among us right not. There might be more, many more who are in this audience right now, females, too. 
So you should go to the dictionary and look up social and don't just look up the first definition. If it has twenty definitions, go through all of them. I it has twenty entries explaining what social is or giving the definition of it, you should not stop at just looking at entry I. Go all the way down until you finish the meanings given in that dictionary and use a good dictionary not a little pocket dictionary. You need a 
 
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good collegiate dictionary, or American Heritage dictionary. You need a good dictionary that has a lot of definitions in it and you go through it thinking on my expression I gave you and find the one that you think gives you the most help and understanding about what I was communicating when I said social body. 
Allah made people to be a social order. "How can you prove that?" He says we all came from one father and a mother, that is enough. That says it, that the original, the beginning of human beings on this earth is a social order, socially related to one another; and you interact with each other upon respect for the relationship that you have with each other. Father, parent, mother, parents and children, brothers and sisters, those are relationships and what Allah calls the family ties. And He says reverence, have taqwa for G_d, but also have taqwa for the family ties. So what does it mean? IfG_d says have taqwa for G_d, for Me and then He says, "Wal arham," meaning also the close ties of family. If He says that the word literally goes back to the womb. of the female, it means the fruits of her womb and the fruits of her are the children that is produced by the father. So the common sense conclusion is that Allah is talking about family. But the way He communicates is most powerful and rich in broadcasting meanings, light and understanding. 
Some of you went out of here shouting yesterday. Sometimes you get more out of a quiet talk and cool slow communication than you get out of hot, loud talk. That was beautiful yesterday. I had to get up out of my seat. I got a little piece of the Holy Ghost and I could not sit down anymore. Allah compares His sending down of communication from the heavens for our benefit on the earth as rain. And He describes the Qur'an as a light rain that is coming steadily down. II It is light, fine drops of water, but coming steadily, not like heavy rain comes with a lot of noise, big flashes of lightning and sometimes within a minute or so the clouds are gone and the light is out shining again. Right? That is the way joyfl.Jl messages affects us and sometimes will actually make tears start coming down our eyes. 
But that is good and Allah is the best Knower, because you know without the lightning flashes, the rain that comes down may be only water. But you know I mentioned that rain comes down that is not only water but has material substance in it, nitrates, natural fertilizer, to help the growth we need.12 
Everything G _ d has created when man discovers it, it was created to communicate G _ d's Will and plan and His way of helping His creation. So no matter how much science draws out whatever it brings out, it also is a communicator. Everything is a communicator. It communicates G_d's Will, plan and way for mankind. So there are signs in everything. Don't think because the science has gone in there and got it out now we are talking about neutrons, atoms, electrons, but are we talking about something that Allah did not do? No. Allah did this. Man did not create this. So even the neutrons, electrons, molecules, are signs, chemicals, numbers I through 9 and then and then repeating it by the same logic until you get to a hundred or infinite forever, you can just count forever. Did you know counting is eternal? Can you imagine there is an end to counting? There is no end to counting. It is everlasting. It is ever extending. It is eternal. But the word for this common language understanding we have is infinity. It gOt<S on without end. 
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Now listen to what I'm going to tell you right now. Muhammed, the Prophet, said in one of the inspired hadiths, it was not an ordinary hadith. He also had inspiration and under divine inspiration he spoke. It was not the Qur'an. It was him speaking as a person, as one of the people in his circumstances, or in his immediate environment. It was not as Prophet Muhammed. When Allah spoke to him as the Prophet or as His messenger and it was Qur'an that he shared with us that was coming to him from G_d. But this inspired hadith means that the spirit of G _ d was strong on him when lie spoke that and here is one of the things he said; and it, too, came down like that soft fine rain. "The servant devoted to his Lord, he strives with his own soul, with his self, to get closer and closer in obedience to what his Lord wants. There comes a time in his devotion and striving that he becomes so close in obedience to Allah's swt plan and will that when He strikes you itis as though G _ d hit you".lJ, 14 
And when he speaks to you it is as though G_d spoke. Some of you wrestled with what r said yesterday all day and you tried to share your opinion, your views with others and you were not pleased with what I did and said. I didn't hear you G_d heard you. IS I'm telling you, you should not be among us. You are not a believer. I'm speaking of yesterday of a vision of my hand with the followers of Muhammed, in a pledge under the tree. 
Getting back to Abraham and building the house, raise your hand if you have better understanding of the house, now. Wonderful, thank you, praise be to Allah. Let us now go from the building of the house to Abraham's son who helped him build the house. Abraham had a partner building the house and his partner was his son. Isn't that a beautiful picture? Such a great thing he was doing building a house that would be a sign communicating wisdom, faith and blessing to all mankind, built for al people and his son was working with him. Let us see how this son earned the right to help our father build such a marvelous and wonderful sign. 
You know they call us Hagar's children. A lot of you young folks, you are far from that language. But when I was a boy I heard the expression, "Black people are Hagar's children. Well we are making them pay for it, all the derogatory slurs and whatever. Now is the time with your leader Imam W. Deen Mohammed. We can make all them pay for it; yes, those who are still in that ugly mind set thinking we are inferior to white folks. We are going to bum them all. You know the truth can bum? It is a strong fire. 
So we go to his son now and we want to review his son coming up from birth. The first thing we have to see to understand this son, Ismail, is that his mother was a woman who had been put out, an outcast. High society rejected her and the high society that rejected her was the society of the accepted religious order in its highest recognition, or in the highest view we have of that community. Themost respected of them rejected her and that is given in the name, Sarah. For Sarah was the wife of Abraham and he was the father of the order. After asking him to, "Take my maid servant. I am too old to bear a child." And he 
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And as she began to show pregnancy Sarah began to get jealous. And Abraham, naturally, his heart is the most excellent of human hearts, "Qalben salim." 16 It means beautiful, safe from harming anybody; beautiful heart of peace that has no ill will in it, or interest in it to harm anybody. So he is going to show kindness to Hagar and he is going to show mbre kindness and care as she becomes more burdened with child. And this made Sarah jealous. You ask, "How can this man talk like this as he was there when it happened." G_d was there and He is always there at all times and all places. So whatever G_d wants His servant to know He just says be and it is, "Kun fa yakun." Actually for me I know I don't get any credit. My disposition is I know nothing. I have access to nothing. This is not my credit, this is Your credit, Allah 
Hagar, Sarah denied her a place like Mary and Jesus were denied 
So she said take this woman out of here. She cannot stay here. So Abraham with a heavy heart because he loved his wife Sarah with perfect love, he took Hagar out in a desert place. What does that tell us? Much, but, I'm talking on the level that practically any common sense person can understand. That is where I am talking now. When Mary, the mother of Jesus Christ, was carrying him, peace be on the two of them there was not a place for her to deliver her baby. Every place rejected her. They wouldn't accept her, so she ended up having to bear her child in a manger, a place where they kept animals, like a bam. The picture is that of a barn where the animals were kept. That is where she had to go and have her deli very. 
Now don't think there is not relationship, or no connection that is very important for Mary's dilemma and desperate situation and that of Hagar and her baby's. There is a direct and strong connection. And actuality, the issue is repeated in the New Testament; the same issue that is in the Old Testament it is repeated in the New Testament; the issue of discrimination and judging people by their physical or material status and by their situation under empowering forces that deny them free expression, free exercise of the native talents that G..:...d created them with. The same issue comes up in the New Testament and it is given in the concept, or in the picture of Mary and her child that she was carrying. 
You see the rain is coming slowly, in fine drops. So when you see me slowing down like this I have to wait, too. I have a cup, too. And it is coming down so slow I have to wait until I get enough in there. So that barren place, that desert showed no cultural development, dead land. That barTen place, arid land, dry land, that is not producing anything, that land is where Abraham saw the marking, the black stone and the place for building the house for all people, all mankind. 
Hagar running back and forth is symbolic of the mind trying to find a solution, desperately 
Now his son, he is in that barren place and this is before the house was built. He is in his mother and she delivers in him in that barren place, that nonproductive place, a garden with no fruits. She delivers him and she can't find water for her baby and he is thirsting for water. So she panicked, became very desperate. Panic means you lose you rational control. You lose your mental control. Thoughts are not helping you. So you just panic and you just go upon spirit or upon the force of spirit in you. And she went upon that, panicking as she went between the two hills. She would run up one hill, Safa and then she would run to the other hill, Marwa. And the hills raise you up from lower levels, right? And isn't that our natural spirit to go up to G _ d? When you really desperately need G _ d you raise your hands and you go up, you life, your head up, "Oh G_d! Oh G_d." And if there is a raised plain you want to get up higher. 
So she saw these two hills. She ran up to one screaming and pleading for help and she ran to the other and as soon as she would get there she would run back going backwards and forward. But isn't that the way the mind operates when you are trying to find a solution? It goes from one extreme to another. It goes to 
 
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one extreme and it doesn't find an answer. Then it leaves that and goes to the opposite extreme. That is what we should understand; that this picture of what was happening to her is what happens in our mind when we are desperate to find the answer or solution because we need it immediately. We need to find it in our mind, immediately. The situation is grave, so we start searching and we run to one direction in our mind and we don't find the help; so then we go to the opposite direction, can't find the help. So you keep running back and forth, back and forth. And while she was doing that the Merciful G _ d was working, too, and He caused a water well to spring up in dry land in the desert. Isn't this beautiful? 
Ismail water springing up at his heels meant spiritual balance Abraham was motivated more by reason than by soul or spirituality 
Water sprang up at his heels. What does the heel mean? What do you rest on when you stand up? Your heels, don't you? So the water springing up at his heels meant spiritual balance. Here is a son that G _ d is giving Abraham who is going to be spiritually balanced. Abraham needed help from somebody like that Why? Because he was motivated by reason more than by soul or spirituality. That is why he asked certain questions of G _ d like, "G _ d, tell me how the dead are going to be raised." 18 When Ismail grew up nobody had to explain to Ismail how the dead would be raised, because he had already been dead and G _ d raised him up from the dead spiritually; gave him spiritual balance. 
And isn't that what Allah said? And from the dead He brings forth the living. And He brings the living out of the dead. And that is what He has done for us. He brought the living out of the dead and now He's bringing the dead out of the living. We died twice, didn't we? We died as mortals and then we died as thinkers and we had to reject the dead matter that was in our thinking, before. That is taking the dead out of the living, isn't it? 19 Praise be to Allah. 
So Ismail is a great sign, especially water coming up in a dead desert place at his heeL Now you know most of the leaders or thinkers in the religion, traditionally, they see that occurrence as the beginning of people's awareness and travel to that spot for water, but not for just ordinary water, for water seen as part of ~he ritual, or part of the rites of hajj, the Zam Zam welL That brings me to another important focus for us during these sessions at the end of the session, really. And that is the saying of G _ d, Allah, in the Qur'an that the righteous who remain faithful, steadfast, and dutiful, there is prepared for them gardens underneath under which rivers flow.20 And we mentioned in the session before four rivers, didn't we? Two on the earth and two in the,sky or the heavens. Now from the sky rain descends and the river is underneath. What is that saying to us? That this is activity in the psyche. The psyche is thought to be here (mind) but where is its source? Psychic power, where is its source? It is in the feet, not in the head. The feet have more psychic awareness than any other part of the body. The feet see in the dark better than our eyes. 
So the two rivers in the heavens, the river oflight and purity. G_d says of purity we have been given already, it is not that He wants to burden you but He wants that you be purified.22 So that is what Allah tellsus to position us to enjoy obeying Him even when it is difficult. And the real true believer, when we're doing something for Allah, we know He wants us to do it. It could be so heavy on the muscle or painful for the body or whatever, we are not thinking about pain. Allah just takes the pain away from us and makes us unconscious of the difficulty in pain. He takes it away from us and all we are doing is enjoying doing what Allah wants. 
 
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It was not easy for those brothers to carry three hundred papers around. That is a lot of papers to be carrying around. But for the love of Allah, believing with their hearts, soul and mind that what they were doing is what Allah wanted and that the results would be big and good for the following of the Honorable Elijah Mohammed or the Nation of Islam, we did not pay any attention to drudgery or difficulties. We were not even aware of it. I have seen brothers standing on post in the snow in February outside the armory and standing there and they had the expression on their faces like they were standing in a warm plush palace or something. 
St. Basil influenced the expression' of Christianity through pagan concepts. 
You know we began with dhikrs, but I have a knot here and I had to yesterday when I got horne, it carne to my mind that I left some important matters hanging. My thought was taken off of those things. I went to something else and I brought that information back yesterday. So I did catch those things that were hanging and filled in yesterday. And today, again I mentioned St Basil and I didn't complete it. My thoughts went to something else. However, I did give this though in the previous session exactly, I didn't come out in fullness. 
What he said was, "Let us take what the pagans have in practice and put in it our principles". So here is the leader of the Christians at that time or at least a strong influential leader of the Christians at that time inviting the church or the leadership to express Christianity through pagan physical concepts. I emphasize that physical concept because don't think the pagans were fools. They were learned people. They just didn't have the right idea of G _ d; but they were very learned people. They had high cultures and civilizations but without the purity that Allah wants us to have it in. And it is mentioned in the Qur'an that some of these nations that have passed away had achieved more than you. 23 It was bigger and more powerful than you. This is in the Qur' an. 
So St. Basil was the one who sanctioned or gave the freedom to Christianity to use paganism and its outer expression, but animate old paganism with Christian spirit and principles; give life to dead pictures; put Christian spirit and messages in those images. So you know you don't have an image that is called Baccus. That was one of the gods they put in physical picture, or Apollo. You will not go in a church and see those by name. You will see saints and rulers and even Jesus Christ and I don't even like to do or mention this. But you will see them pretending to picture or represent him and he's in the form of a material body. They have given him a material body and put a crown on his head of thorns that looks like some of the crowns that the Roman Caesar rulers wore. But it is not a crown for decoration, it is punishment. It has little spikes and it is crushed into his head and he is bleeding, showing that they are penetrating his flesh and blood is dripping down from them. Then they have a bloody scene, too, where he is pierced through the heart, they say, with a spear. They have all that and then some pictures show blood dripping from the nails. They have his feet nailed, one upon the other, a foot upon foot and you can see little bits of red blood dripping from that puncture wound, also. 
So this is a sad and bloody scene, a savage scene. I call it savagery and I guess it is intended to say that these people were not really human or humanly cultured or refined they were savages who did this to Christ. So all those statues in the church that is from the culture of the pagans. It was approved by their leaders for them to bring that into the church. That is saying that Jesus Christ did not do that. He did not give them images like that. 
 
When Jesus Christ wanted them to show, the common people, it is too much for the common people to grasp or find by themselves. When he wanted to show his disciples, his companions, like those companions of the Prophet, meaning those who represented the leadership close to the Prophet and getting the best of instructions and knowledge, etc. from them, when Jesus Christ, according to the Gospel, the Bible, wanted to show them himself what does the Bible say he did? 24 He took them up in a mountain and when he got up there the picture, like Ismail, vanished and G _ d imposed over that the picture ofa lamb to give instructions to Abraham that you don't have to sacrifice your son.2S But understand the meanings to sacrifice a sheep as a ritual that holds the light and understanding for the sacrificing of your son or the killing of your son as a sacred act or sacrifice. 
Christ Jesus, according to the Gospel, took them up in the mountain and by some divine stroke or action he, as they saw him in body, disappeared, vanished, and they saw light instead of him and in the Bible it says it was the light of Moses and Elijah. Am I right? Those who are more familiar with the Bible you can correct me if I go wrong. So it was not their bodies. They did not see the bodies of Moses and Elijah, but they saw only light, he light of Moses and Elijah. 
So the light of Jesus Christ according to the Bible is the light of Moses and Elijah. That is the way he wanted his students, his disciples, to see him, not in physical form but in the form of the light of revelation; that his light or his body is a body of light and that body can best be seen and understood if you see it as the light that G _ d put into Moses and the light that G _ d put into Elijah. And somewhere in the Bible they asked the Prophet John, "Are you Elijah?" 26 It is the same kind of logic, perception and reasoning. They asked the Prophet John, are you that prophet? And the explanation is in the Bible, meaning Elijah (Elias). 
So the people who were really knowledgeable among the following in the disciples they did not see physical bodies they saw John and asked who is this? Is he coming in fulfillment of the word of G _ d, the revelation? Who is he? So the way he was conducting his mission they thought that maybe this is Elijah. So they asked "Are you that prophet?" 
Muhammed existed in scripture before he was ever existing as a physical person on earth, so did Jesus Christ; so did all the major Prophets or servants of G _ d. 27,28,29,30 Allah says he is the one mentioned in the Torah and in the Gospel. 31,32 And then gives words describing him and I found the very words that are referred to in the Bible. I told you I studied the Bible I read it once from Genesis to Revelation without studying it; and then I read itthe second time and carried out really what I wanted to do the first time. The language gives us the picture of a liberator coming to take the bonds of burden and yoke of slavery off of the people. This is in the Qur'an and the same language is in the Bible. So that clearly supports what I am saying, that Muhammed, the Prophet, was in the Bible, in scripture that came before G _ d materialized him on the planet earth. And by materializing I mean gave him rebirth, enlightened him and raised his stature high in the heavens. 
 
I'm going to have to say something about honey just a little bit. Honey is the product or fruit of the labor of the bees. And Allah mentions it in the Qur'an as the river honey.33 I already gave you that one, but more importantly, He says that it is beneficial or medicinal as a medicine for healing.34 Now what you will find in the world, I mean the Islamic world, is only that. They say, ~'Eat honey. It is in the Qur'an and G _ d says it has healing power or properties." True, but when you study the bee and the work that produced that product that is when you get the higher understanding. Bees, especially the queen, those big bees you see them flying, they look like an over loaded helicopter and it makes you wonder how that heavy body can get about so easily on the air with those little short wings that look like very thin, see through paper. And they are just carrying that heavy body. It looks like the wings are terribly weighted down. A beautiful, beautiful sign ofG_d's word. You know what all the words in the Qur'an are called? Aayaats, all the expressions are called Ayaats. An expression is called Ayat, sentences, Ayaats. And Allah says in the heavens and in the earth as well as in your selves are ayaats. 35 He uses the same term, the same expression. So if we have ayaat in the Qur'an then what are these ayaats? It is revelation from G_d. It is His communication, directly from Him through the medium of the angel, libril, to a man, a human, Muhammed, and then to us from the human who received it. 
So these are ayaats or ayat and he says they are in us, too. Everything in us, everywhere are ayaats and it is translated so that you don't confuse this picture of communication with the Qur'an, it is changed by the translators where they say signs. But the word used in the Qur'an is the same word used for the expression in the Qur'an from G_d, ayaat. It is the same word, exactly. When Allah says there are signs in us He does not say signs. That is a different word in Arabic. He said the same thing He said for the Qur'an, ayaats. 
And what was the first thing He told Muhammed? He said read. 36 "Read what, Lord? You did not give me any thing to read, yet? Creation. Now you got it from Elijah's son. He told Muhammed read and He had not given him anything to read yet. But He said read not in the name of Allah, read in the name of your Lord Who created. So what was Allah telling Muhammed to do? "Read My signs in creation, in the heavens, the earth and also in you. And when Muhammed finally understood that G _ d was saying read deep, beneath the surface, read into the matter and its nature and construction etc. When he understood that then he was ready to get Allah's voice. 
So Allah continued after He said read. The time between read first verse and the next ver$e in the history of mankind on this earth that could have been maybe a thousand or two thousand years. G _ d is not only communicating to Muhammed, He is giving him the understanding of His will in the history of civilization or human society. That it started Muhammed with them reading My creation. That is how they were able to get their civilization started or their life as a civilized order on this planet earth. 
It began with them reading into My creation or getting insights into My creation for their benefit and plan on earth. And then you must understand Muhammed, that when they started doing that it gave them the help they needed to establish themselves as a social order. This is the making of My man. 
He says man is from blood adhering. Now this is a physical picture of the mortal body, how it is brought from sperm to blood and fmally a fetus lump to [mally a complete person. So Allah gives us those steps and pictures but this is not talking about a single individual and it is not talking about mortal flesh it is talking about the process that brought about the establishment of an intelligent social order. That you first 
 
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had to form bonds and it was in a fluid state, you had not yet been able to establish a structural state or a material picture, this was all in your mind and in your heart. So this is the plan that is conceived in the heart and mind of those who read into or got insights from G _ d creation, blood adhering. 
And then it is your social interest in one another as a social unit, as a family. Family is not just for the private home it is also the family of mankind or the family of people who bond together for a particular important plan that they want to develop. Companies they call those who are at the top of the company working together a family. Right? That is 
what they call each other. So this is what you have to understand. 
Muhammed the Prophet finally understood what G _ d was communicating to him. Now if this communication if you are understanding what I am saying this message is not only a communication for him to recall and recite but this is also an education, this is a teaching process. Allah is teaching or educating His servant at the same time. But for us it is just a recording. For us who want the understanding and want to find logic and want to know how to use this in our practical life and we are faithful Allah blesses us with our efforts to know more and He brings out to us what He brought out to Muhammed. And that is why Allah says in the Qur'an that it is Allah, G_d Who teaches you all.37 Kum is the Arabic word for you plural not just the Prophet. 
Allah revealed it to the Pr()phet and educated him as He was revealing it to him, prepared him to be our teacher. But the same process will be repeated. If any of us qualify for G _ d's mercy it is repeated in our life. 
So the pure and noble followers of the Prophet both male and female Aisha and others not even named in the tradition, may G _ d be pleased with them, they qualified eventually they became pure at heart and undamaged as believers or people of faith and Allah blessed their minds and hearts to open up and receive the insights, that which is within, deep in the language. To bring it out so they too would have the pure sciences, praise be to Allah. That happened and it is happening now not just for us if there are true believers and there are in any place eventually it happens for those people. 
I mentioned dhikr, we want to go back to it. Allah says He give without counting. 38 We must have been counting when the Qur'an was coming to Muhammed if we were not counting Allah would not have said He gives without counting. And from the knowledge I have of the early following of Muhammed the Prophet dhikr started with him even in his time they did dhikrs. But they did not use beads, rosaries, that is a later thing that came into the Muslim rituals, that is from Catholicism, Buddhism and some other religions. It was not something innate or born with Al Islam as the Prophet gave it to us. 
Let us talk about dhikr on the fingers, there is more than one way to do dhikrs. You can do it by reciting the 99 attributes of Allah and completing it with Allahu Akbar but the most common way of doing dhikr is not to recite all the names of Allah but just to say Subhanallaah, glorify G _ d and you glorify Him 33 times. And then you praise Him 33 times Al hamdu lillaah. And then you say G_d is bigger or greater 33 times Allahu Akbar. And when you finish 33 times then you go to another finger, you don't stop on the little finger like you do for the first two reading or reciting. The first two you stop on the little finger and start back on the little finger again on it, but when you say Allahu Akbar 33 times you go from the little finger for the I ooth time to the next fmger and you stop right in the base or the first joint in the base of that finger and you say Allahu Akbar and you have finished the dhikr. 
 
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But you have to go through these fingers twice, 33 takes you through these fingers twice and what pali of the hand is canying you through these fingers? The thumb. What do they say with the expression in English? By the rule of thumb and what did they do in the arena of the Caesar where the gladiators were fighting if one was real good and they thought his value was too much to have the victor kill him they had to refer it to the Caesar and he would refer it to the audience. He would want a response from them. Should we let this man be killed or not? And if the audience approved the gladiator being killed Caesar would take his thumb and turn it down, that meant we have ruled that he be killed. By the rule of thumb. 
Thumb Represents the logic mind working to find a conclusion 
So when you are thinking dhikr means a thinking process. The process of trying to arrive at understanding by thinking. So if the thumb is doing that then what is that? That is the conscious mind. It is working to fmd the conclusion for whatever the matter is. You want to reach the logical conclusion. So you are working to arrive at the logical conclusion. This is a ritual practice, dhikr as I am explaining it now. So you say subhanallaah and you always start at the base. Right? And there are three steps up. Right? 
Now look at you hand if you have never done it, even if you have done it look at it again. Hold your finger and look at the base. Can you see lines going straight up and down? Go to the next joint do you see lines going straight up and down? Come to the third joint, the tips of your finger the last joint when you look at it quickly what form do you see the lines taking? Circular, okay. So you go from the base one step. Then you go two steps to the next joint" then the third step shows you a circular pattern. So if you have two standings the Prophet said have faith and there after be upright. It means stand straight up, be upright. 39 If you can have two standings the third standing will free you. The circle means you are free. 
So you start with the baby nature and you go up for one standing, then you go up for another standing. After the second standing if you are going following the plan of G _ d for your search and understanding you should be spiritually free. This is spiritual life. But you are spiritually free but not complete. 
Touch: 
I.Jesus said touch me not I have not ascended 2. Mary not man touched me 
3. Qur'an none can touch it but the purified ones 
And Christ is said to have spoken in the cradle as a baby. 40 Right? But he was not yet freed as G_d wanted him, in fact he had to life one life and leave and go up to heaven. And he had to return. Why does he have to return? Because in the Bible he says to his disciples after he had been killed and came from the physical earth and they saw him as a gardener. 41 They came to approach him and he said "Touch me not I have not ascended." 42 It means I'm not ready for you to bring me into your own life, think about it. I'm not approved for that yet. So touch me not. 
The same language is used for Mary, "And no man touched me.,,43 And the same is used for the Qur'an, "None can touch it but the purified ones." 44 So touch means more than what the language appears to be on the surface. When you touch something it registers on your feelings and usually the desire to touch is coming from the heart you say, "Come here, don't greet me way back there. I have not seen you in a long time and you are getting ready to leave again. Come here boy and let me hug you." You have to touch. 
So touch is a powerful communication and especially when G _ d is involved. It concerns what G _ d wants for us or what kind of relationship that He wants Himself with His devoted servants. He said touch me no 
 
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I have not ascended. So the Gospel as it is from Jesus Christ by this reasoning is not supposed to be taken into your feelings and into your heart it is for you to study, not to take it into your feelings, into your heart because ifit does it will make a crazy communication of believers. Now I know it and the evidence is all around. Look how long it took the efforts of free thinkers to bring the church down from the sky so that it could deal with the practical matters of human life down here on earth. They denied the women their freedom and their and their rights. Treated them as though they had no souls, in fact that is what they said. 
They said, "The female has no soul," that is why Allah said in the Qur'an that He created the male and the female from the same sou1.45 Because the religious Christian order had taken the position that the female was not a soul, just flesh. So if you were not special you did not receive education and if you were female you did not receive education. That was under the Christian rule for a long time. It was only broken by Martin Luther. I guess it was being broken all the time but his leadership is what ended it and freed the free thinkers to think on their own or brought about freedom of religion and the Protestant movement. 
And a different way of looking at church authority and finally to what we have today. 
So if is very important for us to tie things together. Kabah means tying things together. The velY word means making or bringing about the right connections. If you are going to understand a piece of knowledge that is put in a book form, writing or whatever you can't just andread that. You have to read it recognizing important connections. The idea has a logical progression. The thought, the focus or the central theme has a logical unfolding doesn't it? So if you are not aware of these connection you will read something but you do not know anything. You read the book but you did not get anything. In fact if somebody asked you what you read you can hardly give them one complete sentence from that book. The same iffor the Qur'an for G_d's word. 
Steps To freedom in Islam are Three Steps To freedom in Christianity are Five 
Is this in the Bible what we are doing here? Is there any reference in the Bible that I can bring to this? Step one, step two, step three, free? Yes. But it is not one, two, three. It is one, two, three, four, five. So here is the Islamic way distinguishing itself from the way that was before it with the Christians. For them the fifth frees you, one, two, three, four, five. And they are the most judgmental people you will find on the earth. Am I right or wrong for you who know and study? You know I'm right. The ruling order of Christians is the most judgmental order on planet earth. 
They don't want to listen to a thing you have to say, they are getting much berter. Reality is forcing them to get better but they have been a very stubborn and judgmental people. Judge everybody else as heathens even Muslims as heathens. Do you know for most of the history of the Christian and Muslim relations• they were calling Muslims heathens? And now they are on the Muslims for calling them kafirs. The Muslims should say you called us worst than that you called us heathen, savages, people with a savage mind. Very judgmental, talk to preachers they don't want to listen to anything you have to say, they are afraid to listen. And that tells me you fear that what you have is not strong enough to stand up to what we have. 
 
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On the first day G_d did this, 2nd, 3rd, 4th, 5th day the birds are flying in the open skies, that is the freedom. That says freedom day. You know the expression, "Free as a bird?" You don't get free until you fly. And the open sky, the canopy, it appears to be round doesn't it? A dome and the birds flying around in it. So doesn't it give you a circular picture? Birds flying around in it, the spiritual freedom. So spiritual freedom' is on the fifth step not the third step. 
So what is that saying? It is saying they used their own minds and studied and debated the truth of Jesus Christ's Gospel, especially concerning essential concepts as man as a mortal, G _ d. Whether Jesus Chris is both a mortal, G_d and divine or whether he is mortal only, or whether we should see him just as a divine. That is exactly what the Gnostic order did. They debated this for how many centuries? I know for more than one century, about 2 or 3 centuries. That is a long time debating. So that means they had real trouble getting the leaders to agree on that. It took them centuries. Look how many died so the original rebuffers or protesters died one after another, generation after generation, before, finally, they established it as a rule the way it is in the Bible, New Testament now, about Jesus, peace be on him. The Nicene Council, is that what they called it The highest level of them engaged themselves for 20r 3 centuries, debating and arguing, before they fmally got enough material might to make a king or ruler so small until he said, "You clergy, this is the way it is going to be whether you like it or not. Here is King James' version. You want to go to jail, just teach something different" 
I am not joking. That is the way it was. So why is three for us so important? You cannot be free by five senses. Human tools cannot work freedom for us. That freedom will be temporary, that freedom will be destroyed eventually. Now the American people we have freedom, don't we? Freedom of religion, right? Look at the culture, society and life of the people right now in America hasn't it failed? At one time we were enjoying a sense of freedom but now the sense of freedom does not exist. You can only think free. You are free to think but you're not free to live life that you want in this world. I do not say that life that Allah revealed. You are not even free to live the life you want. 
So the life that seems to be open to the population is the life of immorality, indecency, corruption. That is what appears to be open to the population and that is what the more numbers are in or are giving themselves to, a life of indecency, a life of corruption. So it has not produced for Christian civilization. The good life has not materialized for Christian civilization. In looks like it is getting worse and worse now. It is the worst of any time in the history of this culture. And it is so bad at the population cannot even produce a son to impress us as a president. 
The most impressive figure we have right now is one from Africa. Not a native from this country, that is Obama. Now they may have some more but I look at how the media is trying to make them look like they are something, like they are worthy of consideration for presidency of the United States. But when I see them I see somebody who is dead. A leader is not supposed to be dead. A leader is not supposed to be just regular like an ordinary person, like a high school teacher or a college professor coming across as a businessman who has a clothing store or something. His mind should be much more broader than that. And his spirit should communicate that to us that I do not have a quarter of the American life as my interest, I have 360 degrees full circle as my interest. Four quarters as my interest. That's what I want to see. 
I want to see you registering to us that you register the interest of the whole of the people of America, all the citizens, i.e., the poor, those who have different religions. You have to make it clear to us that you 
 
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+Roosevelt was a man like that who was burdened by war. There were many others but 1 am just naming a few that 1 am more acquainted with, like Abraham and Ismail. Roosevelt and his wife were that kind of combination, but 1 do not see that in them. Some of us do not like the Republicans but General Eisenhower was that kind of a person. He reached everybody. In fact, their slogan was, "I love lke," because he was such a likable person. He registered the full interests of the American people. And he was a military man. But he registered the full interests of the American people. 
Step 1 first level Mortal body Step 2 second level Rational body 
Step 3 third level spiritual enlightenment. 
So this five is not really freed. The five has proven to be insufficient. It cannot deliver us. It cannot bring us freedom. So know that when they say the fifth and birds flying into heaven they are not talking about material freedom or material science. They are talking about spiritual science. And the same five senses that bring us into this world to live a practical life here, the same five senses should be able to liberate us and bring us to a higher world, to the real world. 
These five senses can do that but they cannot work unless you do them step-by-step from the essence, spirit, spirit of your pure and original essence. It has to be pressing upon your mind that, "1 need to deliver myselffrom this limited perception of truth and reality." And you start in the base of the original nature and you go 1,2, 3. And you are using your five senses but they are, because this is the rule in your five senses, the thumb. You are using your five senses but this is the 5th one. 1,2, 3,4, 5. You are using the 5th one but you are going through a spiritual pattern. You are following a spiritual pattern that begins in your original nature and remains up right from the first level of your nature up to the second, which is the mortal body, the second level, the rational body. 
And if you go from the mortal body to the rational body with your intelligence, this is the fifth. It will bring you to a third and the third with be spiritual enlightenment or freedom, but that is not enough. You were working with the mortal body. You started with the mortalbody, that is the baby, he baby finger, and that is the baby life, the mortal life. 
So you come to the next one which is the rational body, the rational thoughts and you start in the base of your rational thoughts but you came from your mortal body. So you now have been freed. You have the knowledge of your mortalbody and how it should live with your rational miqd, your reasoning. So now you have freed yourself from the mortal. Now you have to take that knowledge and apply it to the base of your rational life as you have it and correct it by what you receive from this exercise. So now 1 am correcting my thoughts and 1 correct it in my mortal senses. I correct it in my rational senses, and then I. correct it in my spiritual senses, because this was a baby who is freed. Now I want to go higher than the. baby, so now you come to a third. Right? And this third is very difficult because now I want to understand how is man inspired by G_d. I want to know something about the Holy Spirit. I need to know something rational and practical about the Holy Spirit. It is a burden on my mind I have not been educated enough. 
So now you apply the knowledge that you got from this process and from this process, from this exercise and from that exercise now you apply it to the spiritual and you start in the base, again, and you go from the spiritual in the mortal to the spiritual in the logic or the rational thought and then you go to the spiritual, again. Right? So spiritual one time, from the base, from mortal to spiritual, one time. From 
 
p.94of125 mortal to spiritual two times, from mortal to spiritual, three times. Then what you have gained from here of insight and understanding you apply it to your judgment or your decision making or to your logic. You arrived at a logic, so you want to apply it to that, too. But a decision, your decision based upon logic, that is what this process is. It is a process to find logic. 
So you have found the logic and you started in the base of it and you questioned your logic and you went from the form of your logic to the reasoning to arrive at a conclusion that satisfies you in your logic and then you come to what you believe to be freedom again. You think you are comfortable, you are free, again. But you now take what you have gotten. You have had a mind that is questioning and making judgments so you bring now the insight from this process, that last process where you examine your logic and you came to a freedom. You felt, "This logic looks good and acceptable." Now you apply it to your mind that makes judgments and you go through it, too. 
So now you have a rebirth for your mind that was one time. The new mind now is going to question everything it did before and question it with the new mind. It has circles, too, up here that freed itself with the exercises of mind and you go through it one more time with the new mind. Once you go through it with the new mind and then with the logic, you apply the logic to the new mind and obviously, the logic took the test because it goes to the baby finger again; and it goes through it once and comes to the rational mind and it stops at the base. 
That tells us that the mortal now has the mind that it needs to be free in the world. You don't need to go further. The mortal mind has the mind now to be free. And you apply this to the mortal mind. You do not apply it to your reasoning. No, keep your reasoning out of it It is the new mind that Allah gave you. You apply it to your mortal life and you put it in the foundation of your thinking and rational mind, your thinking for rational understanding. You put it in the base of it; give it to the mortal body. Do not trust it with the mind that is trying to free itself. You are already free. When you are reborn Allah has given you the second life, you are already free. So you stop right there. And this finger on this hand, that is the fmger you put a ring on, isn't it? Praised be to Allah. 
So this is insight into dhikr. Remember what I said first because that is to caution you and disposition you to be successful. Ritual is not enough for Muslims, even the ritual of dhikr. So I cautioned you before. I told you Allah is the One Who gives without counting. So this dhikr is not enough for us. We first meet the Qur'an, then we need Muhammed, the Prophet; and then we need to think on our own. And that is what you are doing when you are doing this. You are thinking on your own and Allah will bless you if you are sincere and pure in heart. 
Bani simply means a structure that has been logically raised up. They speak of raising up a building, don't they? And you can use the same word to mean tear it down. Right? Raise it to the ground. The same word is raise it up, raise it to the ground, a reversal. 
Ismail is spiritual balance Abraham was rationally inclined 
We are called the children of Hagar and Abraham's son, Isma' iI, is a picture of a spiritual balance. And I was saying that Abraham needed his son to help him structure the house, because Abraham tended to be inclined toward the rational more than the spiritual. He was so much inclined towards the rational because he saw the great future production for people who devote themselves to reason and to the rational for the material construction of the world. He knew how important that was. 
 
So it really bothered him that, "Now, I have a son and this son is devoted to the spiritual nature and I know G_d wants me to do what I'm doing. G_d wants me to build a society under Him, a world under Him and I am rational. We have to deal with the rational and material reality. And this son of mine he may cause a problem. If he gets too many people into his spiritual mode we will have difficulty building a material society, an industrial world. "G_d, this is my son and my thinking is telling me You want me to sacrifice him. I love him. This is my child. Lord, this is my child. Please, what am I going to do?" Allah would not speak to him. 
So he went and got the situation and got the knife. I believe it was a shining sword, illuminated sword. And he got this illuminated sword and he was getting ready to kill his child and G _ d said, "Do it not. You have already completed your commitment to Me. Your willingness to sacrifice him for My pleasure is enough. Instead of sacrificing him get that little innocent lamb, that sheep and slaughter him with that knife, sword blade you have. And when you kill it take all the stinky stuff out of him. Wash it up real good and then put it on the fire. And cook it and let a sweet savor as steam and smoke go up to the heavens. Then serve it to the poor and you to eat from it, Abraham." 
So we have that ritual every lOth day of the Hajj, don't we, where we make our slaughter, our halal ,our sacrificial animal? And the best animal to have for the occasion is a lamb. You can have a cow, camel. They eat a lot of different kind of meats and they sacrifice them, too, over there. But the best is the lamb because it is the most peaceful of all of them. 
What a beautiful story, I'm telling you, the scene where he is tormented in anguish, in agony and G_d relieves him by showing him what to do. Do you know the sheep and goat, too, these are the most sure footed of all animals. They can go up on ridges and stand on a little small stone and hold themselves right• there; climb up on mountains and stand on real small ridges. So G _ d removes from Abraham's vision his son and by some kind of activity in his mind there is an illusion and the son is replaced by the sight of a lamb. And by him seeing that in a day vision, he reasoned that G_d is saying, "No, don't kill your son, 
kill a lamb". 
So don't kill him, kill a lamb. "Kill this tendency in your house, or in your following, to tolerate abuses and be eaten by other animals and hunted by other animals, slaughtered by other animals. Get that out of your people. It's an innocence this passive way of theirs. It is innocent, but Abraham you are right. It is a problem for the work of establishing the new world under G _d. So tell them that this nature in them is to be digested by their minds and protected by their intelligence and their faith. Don't let your life become the life of sheep. But benefit from the life of the sheep by digesting the knowledge and wisdom. The sheep is peaceful and you are to be peaceful in accord with your best nature, your Muslim nature. The sheep likes to be with each other and you should be close to each other like the sheep. And the sheep does not like to engage in arguments and fighting. I want you to be like that, too." 
"But if I command you to kill I want you to stop being a sheep and be a man on the battlefront. So Abraham, teach them My signs that I put in the sheep. And from the sheep you get wool and you can take the wool and protect yourselffrom the cold of night or winter. So you be like that. You produce that which will help the people, keep them warm on cold nights or in the winter. You see all the beautiful signs? And the sheep is well balanced, like Isma'il. So tell them not only your son, but they should all be well balanced, spiritually. Don't be too heavy on the left. Don't be too heavy on the right. Don't be too heavy forward. Don't be too heavy backward. But find the just mean for balance. Be hanifa, upright, erect, not inclined to go off from the balance, spiritually balanced." 
 
A person who is spiritually balanced will stay rational. It is only the person who goes to spiritual extremes in one direction not respecting the whole situation, not circumspect, not respecting the whole situation all¬around. So they are going off on a tangent from the mean or from the balance or from the plummet line. You preachers out there you're leaving the plummet line and going to extremes. And wasn't it G_d, according to the Bible, Who ordered the plummet and the plummet line? Yes. 
Somebody may say, "When he starts saying that the Bible has a continuous stream of purity in it from Genesis to Revelation, he lost me. That is the poison book." With all this that G _ d has shown me in the Bible I cannot disrespect that book. r would be a sinner to disrespect it. And an ignorant person to disrespect it. 
If there comes a storm and it blows trash and dirt and the water rises so high that dirty, muddy water comes into the masjid under the masjid door are you going to throw the masjid away? You should clean the masjid up and make your salat. That is what Muhammed was guided to do by G_d; not go and destroy churches and condemn the Christian people and prevent them from practicing their religion under his order or in the land of the Muslims. He did not prevent them. He saw the corruption. He saw the filth and there is filth in the Bible that is very embarrassing. But that was produced for the pagans who were a people who were vulgar educated but at the same time their fun was vulgarity, sexual indecency and vulgar display of their sexual interest. And they were a people who prided themselves in being powerful as an army. So that instinct and that spirit in them to fight and kill was so strong and they took such pride in it that their sport was to put fighters against each other and actually fight to the death. 
The psyche. Gardens underneath where rivers flow, the psyche urges. Now these rivers flow underneath at our feet because underneath is that that we stand upon, the ground. Our feet touch the ground. Right? So it is saying underneath your feet. And where is the most sensitive part of your feet? You are standing on it the most sensitive part of the feet and underneath the soul, sale of your feet, from underneath is where rivers flow. 
So the spiritual sensitivity, in the church when they get real worked up what starts moving, first? The feet. And they say, "Oh Lordy." So the feet received it before the head did and it made the feet have to express that something is happening in my soul. And after a while the whole body gets it. They have to stand up and start jumping around but it started way down there. That water starts rising way down there. Gardens underneath which Rivers flow, praise be to Allah. 
The psyche is not the rational mind. You're not thinking how to work this out, that the preacher is saying you are responding with your spirit. You are responding with your human sensitivities. You are responding to what he is saying and through that particular medium you're taken over, you are overcome with joy. So that nature is in all of us. Even in the coldest of us the nature is there. You just have to bring it out. Sometimes it is not a communication of joy that brings it out. It is a communication of pain. You put enough pain on that hard guy that never responds emotionally he will break down emotionally, saying, "That is enough. My G _ d, leave me alone, leave me alone. Stop if you have any sense. You have no mercy. Stop please. I told to stop." He panics, too. He gets hysterical, too. You just have to find a way to reach him. 
 
So when they spoke down to Bilal in the presence of the Prophet, thinking he is a black and inferior, he said, "We all our Bilal". That nature that you are criticizing in him, yes, he is spiritual. He is not as rational as we are. He's not devoted to the rational like we are. He loves the spiritual but we all are Bilal. That is a property of human creation or of human nature and it is not just in blacks. It is in all of us. 
Poor express their soul not the rational mind. The world burdens and tortures their soul 
And the proof of it is you can go to some white religious orders or establishment especially the poor people, they have so much pain on them there's not too much they can express from the rational mind. Their soul is what is bothered. The world burdens and tortures their soul. So when the message comes to them of joy from G _ d, that He is a G _ d of justice and He loves me and He wants me to have His mercy and His communication, His revelation and wants me to have a good life and has promised me paradise. And down here I cannot even move into certain areas and not be stoned or killed. I am talking about the early times. Right now maybe it will happen. 
A person like that they are more expressive outwardly because their soul is so burdened and when relief comes to them for their soul they are so happy and there is at least G _ d Who is not seeing me like this ugly world is seeing me. So that brings them great joy. The Prophet knew all of that and he said we all are Bilal. There is much to say about that but we won't spend more time there. 
Gardens underneath which rivers flow, speaking of the spiritual urges that appear below in the construction of the human form, before it comes up here to the rational mind. And these rivers are two and we already discussed the two rivers. 
Also, in the Qur'an Allah tells us about the rivers, that one is a river ofhoney.33 Now didn't the Christian world tell us that in the heaven or paradise we're going to have milk and honey? Yes. Allah mentions the river of honey. Boney is sweet, isn't it? But if! had enough time which I may do it, I may have enough time for me to discuss with you or to share with you the words, the beautiful meanings in that particular focus or on that particular substance we call honey, rivers of honey. You know there is a chapter in the Qur' an for the bee. Some of these animals are so important Allah devoted long passages to it and it became a whole chapter. 
I mentioned St. Basil in the session before, how he told the Christian establishment--he was talking to the leaders not the common people--the ones who would implement, carry out whatever he was telling them and the people will get the effect of it from the leaders. He said to them, this is recorded in their history, I found it during my research and this was before I became your leader. 
I did a lot of research. My wife at the time, my son, Wallace, he knows. One day she went to bed and she said, "Are you going to stay up?" I said, "Yes, I cannot go to bed right now". I had the dining table covered with books and papers, big table too, big enough for at least six people to eat. She got up to use the washroom, or I think she got up just to check, because something would not let her sleep. She came in there and she saw me at the table still and I imagine that it was about 2 o'clock am and she said, "Don't you think you should just go to bed and get some rest?" I said, "No, I am all right. I will rest later". And she went back to bed. He got up in the morning and she came there and she said, "Wallace are you still up? You have been up all night." 
So you should know the son of the Honorable Elijah Mohammed, Nobody was paying me to do that. And I did not have any plans to raise myself up or to be your boss or your leader. G_d knows that was not in 
 
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my mind. But I was influenced from the earliest years. I can recall having a very different picture of myself than what the average brother or sister in my family or the average child would have. When you are told as a child that the man that your father calls G _din the person put your name on the wall, the back of the door before you were born, while you were in your mother. And then it turns out to be they did not have that method now that they use to determine whether it is a girl or boy, ultrasound. That came late in my life: They did not know whether it was a boy or a girl. They couldn't tell, but they had already written the name of a boy on the backside of the door, "Wallace". 
I read the postcard that he sent to my mother and he said, "The delivery has arrived take good care of him." That is all the postcard said. But my parents told me that he told them, Mr. Fard, W.D. Forty, 
	"Remember your promise, keep your promise." 	. 
And my parents told to me that the promise was that they would raise me to be a helper. Mr. Fard said the exact words my parent gave me, "And promise me that you will let him help us do this work." So that means Mr. Fard was saying that this boy that you finally have that I named while he was yet in his mother and gave him my name. Many of you do not know that his name was also Wallace D. Fard. And that is the name he used most commonly when he would write. Sometimes he would just put Wallace D, Sometimes he would just put Wallace on the postcard. Some of these cards still exist. 
At first, I think it was just for a split-second or so, I registered the heavy doubts that were in some so¬called students out there while I was speaking and words of the Qur' an came to me. Allah revealed to Muhammed that if they could see a huge book descending from the sky before their very eyes they won't believe. They will say that is enchantment. So that takes the burden off of me right away, the discomfort from me, instantly. It left. I am not the Prophet. Should I expect from people more than the Prophet was told to expect? No. And I feel you right now, you doubter out there. 
I feel sorry for you. A great feast has been prepared. Poor Negro. He can eat higher on the hog whatever then he ever could imagine. Nobody in any quarters in this world is eating any higher on the animal than we are right now. Yes, I know that and I love you, too, very, very much. And look how you love me. There are three pair of glasses up here on this table. Allah says in the Qur'an of the first believers of Prophet Muhammed to them and to us too, do not think that what was said back then is not also perfectly proper and suited to our situations in the world now; "He found you on the brink of the pit of hellfire." 50 You were right on the brink, the edge, and you were about to fall over into the hellfire, into the bottomless pit and He saved you from it. And He brought love between your hearts. He brought your hearts to embrace each other, emerge. It means not only embrace, but emerge. Now you know when people really love each other the heart does not just touch but your heart comes into my heart and my heart goes into your heart. It is like a transference, or a transfusion. My heart sentiments or the blood of my heart going into yours and the blood of yours going into mine and the power that is bringing that about is our love for one another. 
Under the Honorable Elijah Mohammed during the first phase of his leadership understand that his leadership went through transitions. The original spiritual life of the followers of the Honorable Elijah Mohammed or the Nation ofIslam was beautiful. We loved one another and our love was genuine. We were ready to sacrifice for each other and felt no pain or discomfort. There was joy in doing it. We would see a brother and if we were driving we would say, "Brother so and so are you riding? Do you need a lift?" We care about each other but you who are here your love is stronger than their love ever was or ever could be. I know it. Your love now and it just happened in the last few years of my leadership, is stronger now the Nation ofIslam'slove for one another ever was or ever could be, because the light was not pure. The light is pure now and love can go to its maximum place iri our hearts for one another. Praise be to Allah. Allahu Akbar. 
 
Look at the moral condition of America's public and you know the public life is nothing but evidence of what is going on in the private life. That is all it is. So not all of us, but many of us must have some terrible, perverted behavior going on in our homes for it to spill over into the public life like it is and show such moral decadence; just a spirit and a love for ignorance. It looks like there is an effort to portray them selves in the most ignorant, unintelligent picture. So it is not just moral, it is also intelligence that is lost, because the two go together. Morality and intelligence go together. 
There can be no man of noble character unless that man also is a man of human decency. If he is vulgar he cannot have noble character. He cannot appear before us as a honorable noble character. He cannot do that unless he also has a strong moral foundation. And Allah says of Muhammed, the Prophet, "And we have certainly seen you established upon a mighty foundation of moral excellence, of human character. 51 It was because of his moral excellence. They go together, moral life, intelligent life and character. If one of those two are missing, intelligence or moral decency, there can be no noble character. 
Mother is really the sacred temple of the house Father is the leader or the spirit of that house 
And this brings to my mind, when I said decency, that the Honorable Elijah Mohammed said where there are no decent women there can be no decent men. So the mother is really the sacred temple of the house, yes, she is. And the father should be the leader or the spirit of that house. He should be. 
Angels Are males because their word is representative Of male nature and action 
You know house in Arabic, Bait, is feminine, not masculine in grammar. We know angels and the world, this is where Islamic knowledge parts, separates from the world. The world were given angels, feminine pictures or images and children images, baby images as well as men like Jibril. But with the revelation of Qur'an and Muhammed's pbuh teachings to us based upon the Qur'an he gave us the teachings that is given in the Qur'an that the angels should not be called by female names. Their work is the work that is more representative of male nature and action than female nature and action. 
The story and• picture of Abraham and his son constructing the house should also be seen by us brothers and sisters, especially brothers, as what we need in us in order to be successful in structuring society and serving human society in the best way. We need people who are spiritually pure, spiritually balanced to work with us; who are doing the rational or material work. We need their input and their authority as well as that of the people who are more inclined or more orientated as industrialists or builders. The building has to include them both. 
Kabah Only for Muslims because every people have their own Qiblah 
 
Look at the moral condition of America's public and you know the public life is nothing but evidence of what is going on in the private life. That is all it is. So not all of us, but many of us must have some terrible, perverted behavior going on in our homes for it to spill over into the public life like it is and show such moral decadence; just a spirit and a love for ignorance. It looks like there is an effort to portray them selves in the most ignorant, unintelligent picture. So it is not just moral, it is also intelligence that is lost, because the two go together. Morality and intelligence go together. 
There can be no man of noble character unless that man also is a man of human decency. If he is vulgar he cannot have noble character. He cannot appear before us as a honorable noble character. He cannot do that unless he also has a strong moral foundation. And Allah says of Muhammed, the Prophet, "And we have certainly seen you established upon a mighty foundation of moral excellence, of human character.51 It was because of his moral excellence. They go together, moral life, intelligent life and character. If one of those two are missing, intelligence or moral decency, there can be no noble character. 
Mother is really the sacred temple of the house Father is the leader or the spirit of that house 
And this brings to my mind, when I said decency, that the Honorable Elijah Mohammed said where there are no decent women there can be no decent men. So the mother is really the sacred temple of the house, yes, she is. And the father should be the leader or the spirit of that house. He should be. 
Angels Are males because their word is representative Of male nature and action 
You know house in Arabic, Bait, is feminine, not masculine in grammar. We know angels and the world, this is where Islamic knowledge parts, separates from the world. The world were given angels, feminine pictures or images and children images, baby images as well as men like Jibril. But with the revelation of Qur'an and Muhammed's pbuh teachings to us based upon the Qur'an he gave us the teachings that is given in the Qur'an that the angels should not be called by female names. Their work is the work that is more representative of male nature and action than female nature and action. 
The story and• picture of Abraham and his son constructing the house should also be seen by us brothers and sisters, especially brothers, as what we need in us in order to be successful in structuring society and serving human society in the best way. We need people who are spiritually pure, spiritually balanced to work with us; who are doing the rational or material work. We need their input and their authority as well as that of the people who are more inclined or more orientated as industrialists or builders. The building has to include them both. 
Kabah Only for Muslims because every people have their own Qiblah 
 
p.lOO of 125 Because every people have their own Qiblah. That is in the Qur' an. All of the question are good but some of them give me more of an opportunity to bring out the light G _ d blessed us to understand. 
Question: 
Why or how did finding or seeing the black stone influence Abraham to build the Kabah there at that place and time? 
Kabah black stone Umar kissed it Hunafaa believed in the best of humanity 
It is said that one of the great khalifahs kissed the black stone, this is after the passing of the Prophet. He said, "If! hadn't seen the Messenger of G _ d pbuh doing this I would not do this." Understand that the persons in the immediate association of Muhammed the Prophet were men who were called the Hunafaa. They did not believe in superstitions. They only believed in what they could understand with their normal, rational minds. But they also believed that the human being's creation--they did not call it creation but the human's form among living things--was the most excellent of forms. Any thinking person can come to that conclusion. You know we can do more with our minds than any other living thing. So we are the best and the highest of all living things on the earth. So that was their belief and the logic for their discipline is just that. Since I am the best then I should respect my form over all other living forms. I shouldn't behave like a dog. I am a higher creation than a dog or a higher form than a dog. So these were the Hunafaa. 
They are very intelligent people. So the companion of the Prophet saw himself above kissing the stone and he said I wouldn't do it if the Prophet himself had not done it. But now if he was not from the Arab people and he had been from a Christian or another part of the world where Christians had been established he would not have had any trouble kissing the black stone if he accepted the Prophet, the Qur'an and his leadership. These were Arabs who had not been Christians. The Christians were converted too. They were there, too, making pilgrimage. No, Christians were having a problem like that 
. because the Bible says, "And the rejected stone became the corner in the house. 
Now if you understand building construction, masonry, which means building, what we call now the developer, the one who puts the house up; if you understand what the corner is especially for back then you form a right angle. That is the key. You form one right angle on the ground or dig a trench right angle and once you do that you make a straight line from one side of that right angle to where you want it to go or as far as you want it to go. You make it as long or as big as you want it and you stop. You take the other side of the angle and you stop. Now you have half of the square. So once you get the corner you can get the whole square building and the Kabah is square. So once you get one corner right all you have to do is line the other ones up with it. The other three sides are lined up with it and you have a perfect square for building the house. 
Black Represents the human heart that turns black out of the body 
 
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So the one comer is very important, the comer that you start with is very important. And the stone that fell represents the original nature of mankind that fell from heaven, not physically speaking, but ideally speaking. It is an idea that you are developing, not a physical structure. 
Once you get the comer lined up you've got it. The stone is black but it was not always black. It was shining white in the sky. It burned out and when it cooled it was black. What is this blackness? This blackness must be understood when we study the human heart. If you kill a person and take the heart out and let it cool off in time it will turn black. The blood turns black. 
So really the Kabah, that comer, represents the human heart and it is good. The heart made a mistake thinking it can go up above mortal life or flesh carnal nature, go above it and become saintly, angelic, or divine. It made a mistake. So that passion for divinity has to bum out and that mind that thinks you are something special, not human like other humans, has to die. All that message is in a star, a lit body 
	falling from the sky down here and cooling off. 	. 
So when we look at it now it represents the heart and it did not have a silver ring around it but the custodians of the Kabah put a silver ring around it. You who made the Hajj and kissed black stone, or just passed by, maybe you didn't have a chance to kiss it, because sometimes they rush you and you can't get to it. If you saw it you saw a comer with a stone in there with a silver ring around it. Why did they add the silver ring to it? They added the silver ring to say, "This is not just any heart. This is not a symbol or a sign of just any human heart. This is a sign of a human heart that was blessed with purity. The white metal represents purity. And the ring is around it to say this was a pure heart of Adam before he was deceived by satan. 
Al Islam Is ordered upon the social nature Adam Represents the social nature 
Heart Represents the social nature 
Flag Red streaks that is the social nature 
White streaks that is the conscience of the people 
So it represents our first father and he is the human concept that represents shared identity. All of us have this identity that is social; the social nature. The heart is symbolic, too, of the social nature. We love each other. Our heart registers each other. It tells us that our society of Muslims is ordered, really, for humanity, the same thing. It is ordered upon the social nature. When you look at the American flag and you see the red streaks, that is the social nature. And the white streaks that is the conscience of the people. The conscience should be clear, pure. And your passions should be social passion. Your love for people and your spirit for people, it should be coming from your heart. So there are red lines, white lines. Then you go up to the sky and then there is the dark blue of night and stars are in that dark blue area, right? 
The same way you read this you have to read these signs in the Qur'an, too. You have to read the Kabah the same way. You know their red doesn't represent just red. What value would a flag have to us if the red streak is just a red streak saying, "Oh it is pretty." And some of us are so ignorant, that is the only way we see it saying, "We got a pretty flag, red, white and blue, with some pretty stars in it." 
The Bible says the rejected stone became the comer. What was rejected? The common nature that Adam represents; the common human identity and nature. We all are identifying commonly, altogether, and there isa name for our nature among living things. Tell me what is the name for our nature? Human nature; not dog nature; not reptile nature; not elephant nature; human nature. That is what we all have in 
 
p.I02 of 125 common and nothing else has that but we humans. And I'm going to have to recess right now. I will be back with you, en sha Allah, for a few minutes before we make Thuhr Prayer. Okay? Thank you. 
75. So also did We show Abraham the power and the Laws of the heavens and the earth that he might understanding) have certitude. 
76. When the night covered him over he saw a star: he said: "this is my Lord." But when it set he said: "I love not those that set." 
77.	When he saw the moon rising in splendor He said: 
"This is my Lord." but when the moon set he said: 
"Unless my Lord guide me I shall surely be among those who go astray." 
78.	When he saw the sun rising in splendor he said: 
"This is my Lord; this is the greatest (of all)." But When the sun from your (guilt) of giving partners to Allah. 
79. "For me I have set my face firmly and truly toward Him Who created the heavens and the earth, and Never shall I give partners to Allah." 
"Abraham was indeed a model (community) devoutly obedient to Allah (and) true in faith and he joined not gods with Allah:" 
Say: "Verily my Lord hath guided me to a way that is straight a religion of right the path (trod) by Abraham the true in faith and he (certainly) joined not gods with Allah." 
4. Qur'an 3.967; Kabah built for mankind is full of slgns
The first House (of worship) appointed for men was That at Bakka full of blessing and of guidance for all kinds of beings: 
"Then let them complete the rites prescribed for them perform their vows and (again) circumambulate the Ancient House." 
 
p.I030f 125 "Moreover He Comprehended in His design the sky and it had been (as) smoke: He said to it and to the earth: "Come ye together willingly or unwillingly." They said: "We do come (together) in willing 
obedience. " 
"And remember that Abraham was tried by his Lord with certain commands which he fulfilled; He said: "I will make thee an Imam to the nations." He pleaded: "And also (Imams) from my offspring!" He answered: "But my promise is not within the reach of evil-doers." 
" Neither shall thy name any more be called Abram, but thy name shall be Abraham; for a father of many nations have I made thee." 
"Then learnt Adam from his Lord words of inspiration and his Lord turned toward him; for He is Oft¬Returning Most Merciful." 
And the likeness of those who spend their substance 
seeking to please Allah and to strengthen their souls is as a garden high and fertile: heavy rain falls on it but makes it yield a double increase of harvest and if it receives not heavy rain light moisture sufficeth it. Allah seeth well whatever ye do. 
"And We send down from the sky Rain charged with blessing and We produce therewith Gardens and Grain for harvests." 
13. Forty Hadith Qudsi p.l04 #258; 
Believer close Allah He is his seeing is his seeing, hearing 
Abu Huraira reported the Prophet (pbuh) said "Whoever shows enmity to a friend of Mine I shall be at war with him. My servant does not draw near to Me with anything more loved by Me than the religious duties I have enjoined upon him and My servant continues to draw near to Mewith supererogatory works so that I shall love him. When I love him I am his hearing with which he hears, his seeing with which he see, his hand with which he strikes and his foot with which he walks. Were he to ask something of Me I would surely give ti to him and were he to ask Me for refuge I would surely grant him it". - related by al¬Bukhari 
 
p.104 of l25 "It is not ye who slew them; it was Allah: when thou threwest (a handful of dust) it was not thy act but Allah's: in order that He might test the believers by a gracious trial from Himself: for Allah is He who heareth and knoweth (all things)." 
15 Qur'an 48.10; Allah's hand over their hand at the oath
Verily those who plight their fealty to thee do no less than plight their fealty to Allah: the Hand of Allah is over their hands: Then anyone who violates His oath does so to the harm of his own soul and anyone who fulfills what he has covenanted with Allah Allah will soon grant him a great Reward. 
16. Qur'an 37.84; Abraham brought a sound heart 
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18. Qur'an 2.260; Abraham the dead are raise, train4 birds
Behold! Abraham said: "My Lord! show me how thou givest life to the dead. He said: "Dost thou not then believe?" He said: "Yea! but to satisfy my own understanding." He said: "Take four birds; tame them to turn to thee; put a portion of them on every hill and call to them; they will come to thee (flying) with speed. Then know that Allah is Exalted in Power Wise." 
"Thou causest the Night to gain on the Day and Thou causest the Day to gain on the Night; Thou bringest the Living out of the Dead and thou bringest the Dead out of the Living; and Thou givest sustenance to whom Thou pleasest without measure." 
For those who believe and do righteous deeds will be Gardens Beneath which Rivers flow: that is the great Salvation (the fulfillment of all desires)." 
22. Qur'an 2.185; Qur'an revealed in Ramadan Allah wants ease for you 
"Ramadan is the (month) in which was sent down the Our'an as a guide to mankind also clear (Signs) for guidance and judgment (between right and wrong). So everyone of you who is present (at his home) during that month should spend it in fasting but if anyone is ill or on a journey the prescribed period (should be made up) by days later. Allah intends every facility for you He does not want to put you to difficulties. (He wants you) to complete the prescribed period and to glorify Him in that He has guided you; and perchance ye shall be grateful." 
 
Do they not travel through the earth and see what was the end of those before them? They were more numerous than these and superior in strength and in the traces (they have left) in the land: yet all that they accomplished was of no profit to them. 
And after six days Jesus taketh Peter, James, and John his brother, and bringeth them up into an high mountain apart, [2] And was transfigured before them: and his face did shine as the sun, and his raiment was white as the light. [3] And, behold, there appeared unto.them Moses and Elias talking with him. 
25. Qur'an 37.102-104; Ishmail said you will find me . willing
102.Then when (the son) reached (the age of) (serious) work with him he said: "0 my son! I see in vision that I offer thee in sacrifice: now see what is thy view!" (The son) said: "0 my father! do as thou art commanded: thou will find me if Allah so wills ne practicing Patience and Constancy!" 
103.	So when they had both submitted their wills (to Allah) and He had laid Him prostrate on his forehead (for sacrifice) 
104.	We called out to him "0 Abraham! 
1 05. "Thou hast already fulfilled the vision!" thus indeed do We reward those who do right." 
1 06. For this was obviously a trial 
107.	And We ransomed him with a momentous sacrifice: 
108.	And We left (this blessing) for him among generations (to come) in later times: 
26. John 1.25; Are you Elias? 
"And they asked him, and said unto him, Why baptizest thou then, if thou be not that Christ, nor Elias, neither that prophet?" 
28. John 17.24; I was before the foundation of the world
"Father, I will that they also, whom thou hast given me, be with me where I am; that they may behold my glory, which thou hast given me: for thou lovedst me before the foundation of the world." 
 
"And remember Abraham and Isma'i1 raised the foundations of t.he House (with this prayer): "Our Lord! accept (this service) from us for thou art the All-Hearing the All-Knowing." 
''Those who follow the apostle the unlettered prophet whom they find mentioned in their own (Scriptures); in the law and the Gospel; for he commands them what is just and forbids them what is evil: he allows them as lawful what is good (and pure) and prohibits them from what is bad (and impure); He releases them from their heavy burdens and from the yokes that are upon them. So it is those who believe in him honor him help him and follow the light which is sent down with him it is they who will prosper." 
"The Lord thy God will raise up unto thee a Prophet from the midst of thee, of thy brethren, like unto me; unto him ye shall hearken;" 
(Here is) a Parable of the Garden which the righteous are promised: in it are rivers of water incorruptible: rivers of milk of which the taste never changes; rivers of wine a joy to those who drink; and rivers of honey pure and clear. In it there are for them all kinds of fruits and Grace from their Lord. (Can those in such Bliss) be compared to such as shall dwell for ever in the Fire and be given to drink boiling water so that it cuts up their bowels (to pieces)? 
34. Qur'an 16.69; Honey drink of varying colors is a healing
"Then to eat of all the produce (of the earth) and find with skill the spacious paths of its Lord: there issues from within their bodies a drink of varying colors wherein is healing for men: verily in this is a Sign for those who give thought." 
35 .. Qur'an 45.3-4; There are signs in the 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. 
36. Qur'an 96.1-5; Read in the name o[your Lord Who created 
 
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2.	Created man out of a (mere) clot of congealed blood: 
3. Proclaim! And thy Lord is Most Bountiful 
38. Qur'an 3.27; Allah brings living from dead He gives without measure 
"Thou causest the Night to gain on the Day and Thou causest the Day to gain on the Night; Thou bringest the Living out of the Dead and thou bringest the Dead out of the Living; and Thou givest sustenance to whom Thou pleasest without measure." 
39. AI hadith Ip.432#147; Believe then be upright 
Sufyan ibn Abdullan al Saqafi reported I enquired oh Messenger of Allah (swt) tell me a word about AI Islam which I shall not ask anybody after you. the Prophet (pbuh) said: "say I believe in Allah (swt) and thereafter be upright." 
"But she pointed to the babe. They said: "How can we talk to one who is a child in the cradle?" He said: "I am indeed a servant of Allah (swt): He hath given me revelation and made me a prophet;" 
"Jesus saith unto her, Woman, why weepest thou? whom seekest thou? She, supposing him to be the gardener, saith unto him, Sir, if thou have borne him hence, tell me where thou hast laid him, and I will take him away." 
"Jesus saith unto her, Touch me not; for I am not yet ascended to my Father: but go to my brethren, and say unto them, I ascend unto my Father, and your Father; and to my G_d, and your G_d." 
44. Qur'an 56.79; Qur'an none touches it but purified ones
 
"0 mankind! reverence your Guardian-Lord Who created you from a single soul created of like nature his mate and from them twain scattered (like seeds) countless men and women; reverence Allah through Whom yedemand your mutual (rights) and (reverence) the wombs (that bore you): for Allah ever watches over you." 
46. Qur'an 41.10; G d gave man all his needs in four periods
"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)." 
For those who believe and do righteous deeds will be Gardens Beneath which Rivers flow: that is the great Salvation (the fulfillment of all desires)." 
And the angels will be on its sides and eight will that Day bear the Throne of thy Lord above them. 
Those who sustain the Throne {of Allah) and those around it sing Glory and Praise to their Lord; believe in Him; and implore forgiveness for those who believe:" 
"Or thou have a house adorned with gold or thou mount a ladder right into the skies. No we shall not even believe in thy mounting until thou send down to us a book that we could read." Say: "Glory to my Lord! am I aught but a man an apostle?" 
"And hold fast all together by the rope which Allah (stretches out for you) and be not divided among yourselves; and remember with gratitude Allah's favor on you; for ye were enemies and He joined your hearts in love so that by His grace ye became brethren; and ye were on the brink of the pit of fire and He saved you from it. Thus doth Allah make his signs clear to you: that ye may be guided. 
a-I Abraham
a- and Ismail sign need people spiritually, and materially 
balanced and pure 22; 
a- made leader of the nations 2; 
a- Hagar denied like Mary Jesus denied 7; 
a- Ismail water springing up at his heels meant spiritual 
balance 9; 
a- Ismail a lamb was shown so he WaS not sacrificed 10; a- Jesus, I was before Abraham 11; 
a- Milla of Abraham 1; 
 
a- name Abram to Abraham 2; a- Ismail is spiritual balance 18; a- sacrifice 18; 
a- was rationally inclined 18; a- was a community 1; 
Adam
a- met word from his Lord 4; 
a- not leader for all nation he's the beginning he didn't have enough knowledge 4; 
Allah
a- Believer so close Allah is his seeing, hearing 3; a- brings living from dead 9; 
a- over their hand at fealty pledge to Him 3; 
a- taught Qur'an and created man 11; a- teaches you 12; 
America
a- lost its public morals 15; 
a- President must register the full interests of the 
	American 	people 15; 
a- Public morals and intelligence is lost 21; 
Angels are males because their word is representative of male nature and action 22; 
Arab
a- Arabic if you speak it you're an Arab 8; 
a- Qur'an helped the Arabs develop culture language etc 8; 
Arabic if you speak it you're an Arab 3; 
Ascend Jesus said touch me not I have not yet ascended 13; Ayaat
a- Read Muhammed My signs in creation 11; a-revelation signs in the heaven, earth and yourselves 7; a- verses are in skies, earth and yourselves 11; 
b-l 
Bani means structure, logically raised as well as children October 10, 200818; 
St. Basil influenced the expression of Christianity through pagan concepts 9, 20; 
Believe then be upright 13; 
Believer so close Allah is his seeing, hearing 3; Bible Prophet mention in Torah and Injeel 7; 
 
Bilal We all are Bilal Means we're sensitive 19,20; 
Birds flying around symbolizes spiritual freedom is on the fifth 14; 
Black people are Hagar's children 6; 
Book If a book descended they would not believe 6; 
c-1 
Character Prophet is on the exalted character 21, 22 Children of Hagar means Slaves were taken from 
Muslim lands 8; 
Christian
c- St. Basil influenced the expression of Christianity 
through pagan concepts 9; c- called Muslims heathen. 14; 
c- Judge everybody else as heathens 14; 
c- Birds flying around symbolizes spiritual freedom is on the fifth 14; 
Community Abraham was a community 1; Cradle Jesus spoke in the cradle 13; 
d-I 
Dead Allah Dead out of living means to take dead matter out of the thinking 9; 
Dhikrd- 33 
d- fingers 12, 13; 
d- means a thinking process 13; d- rule of thumb 13; 
d- Thumb represent the logic mind working to find a conclusion 13; 
Discrimination, racism Hagar, Mary and Jesus 3; Dust Universe began as a vapor 2; 
e-l Education
e- Read Muhammed My signs in creation II; e- Allah teaches you 12; 
e- Public morals and intelligence is lost 21; 
Elijah Jesus transfiguration light of Elijah, Moses 10; Equality Male and female from the same soul 14; Evolver Rabb, Evolver progresses creation 2; 
f-l Family
 
f- Fathers Should be the leader or spirit of the house 22; f- Mothers Are the sacred temple of the house 22; 
Fathers Should be the leader or spirit of the house 22; Female Male from the same soul 14; 
Five
f- Birds flying around symbolizes spiritual freedom is on the fifth 14; 
f- Christian spiritual freedom 14; 
Foundation 
f- Jesus, I was before Abraham 11; 
Free
f- Birds flying around symbolizes spiritual freedom 14; f- Christian ison the fifth 14; 
f- Islam is on the third 14; 
g-1 Garden
g- a heavy or light rain suffices it 4; g- Jesus as a gardener 13; 
g- underneath where rivers flow, the psyche urges 19; 
h-l Hagar
h- Abraham Hagar denied like Mary Jesus denied 6, 7; h- Children of Hagar means Slaves were taken from 
Muslim lands 8; 
h- Hagar running back and forth is symbolic of the mind trying to find a solution desperately 7; 
Hajj
h- Abraham's sacrifice 18; 
h- Ismail a lamb was shown so he was not sacrificed 10; 
Hand
h- Allah over their hand at fealty pledge to Him 3; 
Heaven Sky, heaven have the same word in Arabic 1; Heel Ismail water at heels means spiritual balance 4; 
Honey
h - Honey The product of the labor of the bees. 11; h- River of honey 5; 
 
Imam Leader must be resurrected 17; Islam freedom is on the third 14; 
Ismail
I - and Abraham sign need people spiritually, and 
materially balanced and pure 22; 
I - a lamb was shown so he was not sacrificed 10; I - Ismail is spiritual balance 18; 
i- water at heels means spiritual balance 9; 
j-l 
Jesus
j- Abraham Hagar denied like Mary Jesus denied 3; j- as a spirit and the word ofG_d. 6; 
j- existed in scripture before physical person 11; j - as a gardener 13; 
j - I was before Abraham 11; 
j - Ismail a lamb was shown so he was not sacrificed 10; j- light was the light of Moses and Elijah 10; 
j- spoke in the cradle 13; 
j- Showed himself as the transfiguration of light 10; j- Touch me not I have not yet ascended 13; 
j- transfiguration light of Elijah, Moses 10; 
k-l Kabah
k - Ancient house 2; 
k - first house of worship true G _ d there were other houses 
not worshiping true G _ d 2; 
k- In the beginning was the word 4, 11; k - means tying things together andl4; 
k- Qawaaid refers to grammatical construction 4; k - sign how to structure and serve society 22; 
Knowledge
k - Allah teaches you 12; 
k - Public morals and intelligence is lost 21; k- Read Muhammed My signs in creation 11; 
I-I 
lamb Ismail a.lamb was shown so he was not sacrificed 10; 
Language
1- In the beginning was the word 11; 
Light
1- Jesus's light was the light of Moses and Elijah 10; 
1- Jesus showed himself as the transfiguration of light 10; 
 
m-1 
Male and female from the same soul 14; 
Man
m - Allah taught Qur' an and created man 11; m - Male and female from the same soul 14; 
Mary
m - Abraham Hagar denied like Mary Jesus denied 3; m - Mary said no man has touched me 7; 
Milia of Abraham 1; 
Moral Public morals and intelligence is lost 21 ; Moses Jesus transfiguration light of Elijah, Moses 10; Mothers Are the sacred temple of the house 22; 
Muslim
m - Children of Hagar means Slaves were taken from Muslim lands 8; 
m - Christians called Muslims heathen. 14; 
n-1 
Nitrogen Rain sent down charged 2,3; 
0-1 
Obama 15; 
p-l 
Poor express their soul not the rational mind. The world burdens and tortures their soul 20; 
President must register the full interests of the American people 15; 
Prophet
p- Allah over their hand at fealty pledge to 
Him 3; 
p- existed in scripture before physical person 11; p- is on the exalted character 21 ; 
p- mentioned in Torah and Injeel 7; 
p- Read Muhammed My signs in creation 11; p-.you slew, threw dust not but it was Allah 3; 
Psyche
p- Rivers underneath: refers to psyche activity 19; 
 
Public life is evidence of what is going on in the private life 21; 
q-l 
Qawaaid with Kabah refers to grammatical construction 4; 
Qur'an
q- Allah taught Qur'an and created man 11; 
q- helped the Arabs develop culture language etc 8; q- q- none can touch it but the purified ones 7; 
q- revelation as light rain from G _ d 2; 
r-l 
Racism Hagar, Mary and Jesus 3; 
Rain
r- Garden light rain suffices it 4, 5;; r- revelation from G_d 4; 
r- Rain sent down charged with nitrogen 6, 7; 
Read
r- Allah teaches you 12; 
r~ Muhammed My signs in creation II; 
Rivers
r- Gardens underneath where rivers flow, the psyche 
urges 9, 19; r- of honey 5; 
r- underneath: refers to psyche activity 9, 19; 
r- Rivers flowing Refers to psychic urges 9, 19; 
s-I Sign
s- Ayaat, verses are in skies, earth and yourselves II; s- Read Muhammed My signs in creation II; 
Skin as often as a layer of skin is burned we replace it 2; Sky, heaven have the same word in Arabic I; 
Slave
s- Children of Hagar means Slaves were taken from Muslim lands 8; 
Spirit
s- Birds flying around symbolizes spiritual freedom 14; s- Ismail water at heels means spiritual balance 4; 
 
Steps
s- Christian freedom is five steps 14; 
s- Islamic freedom is three steps 14; t-l 
Teac,h Allah teaches you 12; 
Thumb 
t- Dhikr rule of thumb 13; 
t- dhikr Thumb represent the logic mind working to find a conclusion 13; 
Touch
t- Jesus said touch me not I have not yet ascended 13; t- Mary said no man has touched me 13; 
t- Qur'an none touch but purified ones 13; 
Transfiguration
t- Jesus transfiguration light of Elijah, Moses 10; 
u-l 
Universe began as a vapor 2; Upright Believe then be upright 13; 
v-I 
Vapor Universe began as a vapor 2; 
w-l WDMohammed
w- vision of my hand with the followers of Muhammed in a pledge under the tree 3; 
Water Ismail water at heels means spiritual balance 4; Women, Mothers Are the sacred temple of the house 6; Word In the beginning was the word 4, 11; 
 
87.	
10- 7 -2007 Radio Broadcast 1st Sunday Ramadan Session Homewood, Ill. 
With Allah's name, the praise and the thanks are for G _d. We thank Him for the gift and blessing of the model human person, Muhammed (Pbuh), the honorable and noble servant and Messenger of G _ d and what follows of that 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 Qur'an. 
We are happy to be here again with you in the radio listening audience. You who are Muslims and I'm sure there are many listening to us in the various cities where we are heard on the radio. They are listening to us right now and they are Muslims. 
I want to first say to youm As Salaam Alaikum and Ramadan Mubarak,a blessed Ramadan. And if I do not communicate with you before the Eid, the Night of Power and the celebration of this month, which is coming soon, I say blessed Eid to all of you. And keep the faith as Christians and Muslims say anq keep it strong. 
For a brief period of time I want to talk about how we should see the Garden of Eden, the Garden of Paradise and how we should live it, now, in this morally troubled world that we are living in. The Garden of Eden is a message. It is not just a story. It is a message to the believer arl'd the message is this: G_d did not create us for corruption, evil and violence. He created our soul so that it would never be at rest until there was no violence, no hatred, no deceit, no wrongdoings. Ifwe would listen to our souls we would know at all times that our souls are communicating to us. 
When we are doing the wrong thing with our mind our soul lets us JillOW that. It will not let us be comfortable. We fight that and resist it. Now if we fight and resist it enough our soul has been designed to be intelligent by its Creator. So it will let us go on our way and we will have hardly no conscience bothering us. But the nature of the soul is to warn us by saying that, "This is bad for you. This is good for you." When you are getting involved in something that is safe morally and is going to be good for your life now and in the future the soul is made happy. The soul is cheered up. It is enlivened by that. 
It is very important to understand that the Garden of paradise is also a message to our space that we occupy, or the space that we are responsible for. So G _ d put our parents in the garden, our first father and his wife and He gave them responsibility for keeping the garden pure and beautiful, like it was when He put them in the garden. And He made them responsible for taking care of the things that grow in the garden so that they would be benefiting from those things that grew in the garden. 
 
Think of your private quarters as your space for Your paradise 
It was the Garden of paradise, a garden of beauty, safety, security and abundance of the things that we need to support life. We know every garden that we have is not like that. But we all should think of the private quarters that we are responsible for, our apartments, our rooms that we rent and live in, our homes that we buy or build, we should think of the private quarters that are ours in our possession as our space for our paradise. We should follow G_d's instructions in the message that is given in the scene of the Garden of paradise where the man and the woman were there by themselves, like a couple just starting life together, only a male and female together. So we should think of our privacy that we are responsible for in the same way and do not let it become filthy. Don't let it become offensive to good human taste. Keep it nice. 
Some of us, we don't value the price we pay for things that support us being comfortable and living a pleasant life. For instance, some of us buy a car and then neglect to keep it clean and in about one week it does not look attractive like it did when we bought it off of the showroom floor, or from the dealer. And we have spent money on it. I asked one young man, "Look, that new car, do you remember how it looked when you went and got it? If it looked like it looks now would you have bought it?" And I said, "Take care, man." I went on about my way. 
Likewise for the home environment. The wife gets you to get her a nice beautiful apartment or condominium, or a house and she says, "You can buy this for me?" She is just seeing it now. You took her there so she can see it. So they opened it up for you and you showed it to her and after she looked at every thing in there, the kitchen, the washroom, the toilet, she checked the ceiling and everything she said, "Look honey you can get this for me?" 
This is the typical woman of today. In about two weeks she is all depressed watching her television program and she wants to curse you out and you did not do anything except buy her that beautiful place. Junk is everywhere. A Kentucky Fried Chicken bone is on the floor. You step on it and you are so embarrassed you won't even let her know you stepped on it. You will not tell her. You will just pick it up and put it in the garbage. You can't walk around in your bedroom because things are thrown everywhere. You get in the bed and you have to sleep on one side of the mountain of stuff that she piled up on it and she sleeps on the other side. Now here is negligence, not laziness. Most of them are not lazy, they love to work. They work at messing the house up every day. 
The answer for this is for us to realize that G _ d planned the universe and it operates on the laws that He gave it and we do not know when it happeJ; ~d, eons of light years in the past. It is still operating on those laws as G _ d made it to operate. The sun still rises as it did eons of light years ago. The moon, the clouds come and bring rain and the earth grows things just like it did eons of light years ago. That One Who ordered that also is giving us a picture of our beginning in the garden with two, a couple of a male and a female, man and wife. 
That story never happened the way most of us kindergarten readers, or. thinkers, see it. It is more a picture of the future than a picture of what happened in the past. G_d is projecting to us what He would like to see happen in our life in every season of development for society, every generation or every new trend for qur generation. He would like to see us respect our environment and make our environment safe for health, safe for life, clean not corrupted, decent and also productive. 
 
p.118 of 125 For it is the abundance of life that He entrusts us with, even though we are poor and have nothing. What is the reality as for our relationship with the One Who made everything, Who created the earth and gave us the natural world? There is plenty of food, apples, oranges, grapes, plenty of vegetables, cabbage and everything. I love cabbage and corn. He gave us cabbage, com, collard greens, everything, and even black-eyed peas. 
But now man has put his stake in the ground and he has claimed these territories. He has claimed these farms and there is law to protect his rights. Don't say we still do not have the garden that G _ d gave us and it is having abundance of fruit. It till that exists and we can go to virgin lands right now where man's law is not established and you will find trees, fruits, etc. And in some places you will find the natives recognizing that no human being should claim those properties. All the natives in that area have a right to go and get the fruits off of the tree. They have rights to use the boat, even the boat that the people made. The boat did not grow out of the ground like a tree, but they took the tree that G _ d made and they got the wood, carved it and they made a boat. And those primitive societies give Mother Nature the credit for that; or that god or whatever gods they had. 
So they see it as community property, that no individual should claim by himself and they all share it. If the boat is there and you want to go fishing, you have a right to take that boat. The boat is community property. There are societies just like that now. Isn't that proof of what man has in his nature and his beginning before industry and modern law takes over everything? Isn't hat is evidence that G _ d's picture of the paradise is true? That is what He gave us. He gave us the paradise and we should be conscious of all space whether we are in charge of it or not. And especially the space we call the public domain. 
We need a complete change in the way we think as possessors, owners of things. Some of us we have a house and the women, now I hate to say this, sisters. I better call you ladies. I have to go home. As a very young man I didn't like--now my mother was like this, too, but I sure didn't let her know I didn't like it. She was from Georgia and she took a lesson from the slave master. She observed how the slave master kept black people in check. I'm telling you, you would rather go out there and fight Joe Frazier than to have my mother deal with you. My mother would say, "You get off of my couch with those dirty clothes." Yes mama, we should get up off of this couch with our dirty clothes. But you are not helping to communicate to us in a way that is going to get us to respond for long, because you say, "Your couch." And we know we are your children. And we know that you say, "This is our house." So why is it that you say, "This is your couch?" 
When it comes to the public domain, taking care of it we are out of it and even whites do it; especially in our neighborhood. A lot of whites when they come to our neighborhood they think they came to the garbage dump and you will see them throw trash out of their window. I began to think of the bad treatment we received before the law was made right in the South and in the North and I wanted to get in a fast vehicle and catch up with him and put some pain on him, because I think he is coming from that high mind that makes him think he is a better creation than we are; that he is the superior human and we are the inferior, animal-based, or animal level human. 
 
I feel him coming from that when he opens his window in our neighborhood and throws trash out. Some of them will do it just to contribute to your downhill, degrading behavior. Some of them, it is not many of them, they are very few in number and that is what makes them so hateful and so ugly in their nature and behavior because they see themselves as losers thinking, "Oh we have lost. We cannot keep these Negroes as our inferiors anymore." I said Nigger, I think. I am not supposed to say that on the air. Forgive me. I will pay the fine. Send my fifty cent fme to me I will pay it. 
I said these people are just defeated and defeat is so bitter for them. The law has been made right for all of us. They cannot discriminate in housing. So all these ugly laws are gone, they cannot tell us to go to the black man's restroom, to the black man's fountain, or to the black man's section in the movies. All of that is gone and for some of them it is such a hard pill to swallow. I believe some of them do not even know that their defeat is dictating or causing them to think and behave in the ugly way they do. It is just something that has just gone into their system and affected their soul, spirit, and mind and they are just living the ugly person's life, the cruel person's life. 
I have seen some ugly things done by whites in our neighborhood so that when it is found people will say, "Look how these blacks treat their own property. Look how they treat their neighborhood. Look how they treat this beautiful show that white folks used to come to when the neighborhood was white. Look how they mess up the washroom and, etc." They come in there and mess it up so that it will be a bad reflection on us. I pity them, really. I feel sorry for them. They have a terrible, damaged psyche. They have not been able to adjust to fairness and justice. 
I ask G_d to pardon them, have mercy on them and send them something, let something happen in their life to bring them comfort and whether they know it or not I am something that is happening that can bring them comfort, because I understand how people can be driven. It is not always their fault. Those who wanted to benefit materially, fmancially, from ignorant members of American society or the American citizenry, they intentionally aggravated the relationship of blacks and white. They aggravated that relationship. They did things that never should have been done. It wasn't right. It was for their advantage in the future. They made the relationship of blacks and whites much worse. And I'm sure many whites, if they heard what I'm saying right now they would agree and appreciate what I'm saying. I know many of you African Americans, especially good Christians and good Muslims, you understand, too, 
what I am coming from and you agree with my analysis. I am sure you do. 
The public domain. I know it is very difficult sometimes. You are trying to make a living. You're working full time. The wife is working full time and sometimes you have children working, too. You are. just working but it looks like you can never get into a comfortable situation where you do not have to worry about the bills. Everybody is working and you still have to worry about the bills. You are not getting enough money to satisfy just your needs. It is difficult. 
They are raising the minimum wage. It has been raiSed but the complaint is coming from our politicians that it is still not enough. We are still living below the poverty line, those who are poor. Our income is not such that it can take us out of poverty. So this is the reality but we should work on it together. Do not get angry with anybody and if you buy the logic that G _ d gives to us by the way of seeing reality and things in our own charge the way G_d wants us to receive it. And believe me when He's speaking of the garden He is not'just speaking to common people. He is speaking more importantly to our government people. 
 
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To the people who are in charge of our life, our community life, our government. He is speaking to them more so than He is speaking to the common people. 
But He is also speaking to the common people and He is speaking in such language that we preachers need to bring the message that G _ d has given us in these concepts and in these stories regarding these concepts, to the common people in the following or the common citizens that we are also a member of too. The preacher is a common citizen, too. If he was not he would not take up a collection. He has to have a collection to pay his rent, pay his bills, too. He has bills coming at him, too, every month. 
So we all are common, poor folks. Even our leaders are poor. Now we know some of them have a whole lot of money but they are still poor because you have favored them having an appetite way above their means saying, "We have to see our preacher in a new Cadillac. Get him a new Cadillac. He has been driving that one for two years. Honey, let us ask the congregation to get reverend so and so a new Cadillac. " 
So you have him living that way. And they call it enjoying achievement that is in another person that you love and lift up that you really want to enjoy yourself. So you really want that Cadillac yourself. You want a brand new Cadillac but since you can't get it and it takes the whole congregation to get one person that Cadillac and he is your favorite son. The preacher is the favorite son, and should be. So you give him the Cadillac. Now all the poor ones who do not have anything except a dune buggy to ride in put him in that and when he is riding in it you are spiritually riding in there with him. In fact, you are under the wheel thinking, "That is the car we bought reverend so and so." 
Let us get G_d's message that He wants for us and He wants us to all feel that we are equally His creation. We are His dependents, equally. I am speaking from the language of the department of revenue now. We are all equally G_d's dependents and He wants all of us to progress to the extent that we feel good in our souls as achievers. 
Do you know achieving better conditions, a better level of life in society or a higher status, that is a demand in the soul? A lot of us don't know that our bad condition internally is not because we were given some poison or some organ was damaged inside physically. It is because we are not measuring up to the demands of our soul; the soul that G _ d created to register what is happening to you and to carry the burden for you; and to then let you know that by letting you feel the burden. So you become distressed, you become confused. Sometimes it is so bad you become hysterical, you just lose your senses and you scream, holler and throw things and nobody is guilty of causing that but you. 
It is your soul putting that burden into your conscience so you can hurt, too, up here, in the mind and in your heart. So let us unburden ourselves by having the courage to face the moral issues. Do you know as a race we have lost the courage to face moral issues? When Frederick Douglass charged the United States with a great moral issue he placed upon the whole United States a heavy moral issue. At the time when we were discriminated against, there were still some slaves around; too. He spoke out publicly and these are his words. "You claim democracy and you claim Christ Jesus and your behavior is such that would shame a nation of savages." Those are a few words. He didn't have to talk for a hour. They are just a few words. It took him just a couple of minutes to say it but how far reaching and how impacting were those words, compact in that they are powerful in a small expression. And it had the power to impact the leaders of the United States and the world. They did not change suddenly but believe me they were dealt a 
 
p.121 of 125 blow that was going to eventually change the whole way that they were dealing with and treating black people in this country. 
Now after we have had such leaders to address moral issues in the behavior of whites of this country towards blacks and others to follow them all the way to Dr. King who challenged this country to prove worthy of having the respect that it wants and claims by making improvements upon its character. 
He said that he had a dream that one day they would not judge a man by the color of his skin but by the content of his character. Isn't that what he said? Now let's give this a few moments of thought. Do not judge me by my skin color. This is the great leader that gained respect for all of us. Even the Honorable Elijah Mohammed appreciated him so much until he invited him to his home. Many of you don't know this. Dr. King sat at the Honorable Elijah Mohammed's dining table and they had coffee and pleasant communication, pleasant talk. 
Mr. Mohammed shared his thinking and his idea of what we should have as a future and how we should help one another with Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. And Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. also gave him further knowledge of what He wanted as a leader of the civil rights movement of our people in this country for social justice. When they left they parted as friends. They greeted each other as friends. And the Honorable Elijah Mohammed continued his work as he was doing it and Dr. King continued his work. They did not attempt to change each other and make each other stop and say, "You accept my way or nothing." 
Two intelligent men met. Two spiritual believers in G _ d met and that was a wonderful meeting. But could it be shared with the public? No. If it had been shared with the public Dr. King would not have been the leader for long because his stupid, narrow minded people in his following, not all of them, but it would have been too many narrow minded Christians in his following who would not accept that he continue to be their leader. So it was not made public. 
The public domain is every citizen's property. If! am a citizen of the United States there is no public street that you can block to me because my home is in New York. You cannot say I can't drive my car down this street in Chicago because my home is in New York. I'm not a citizen of Chicago. You can't do that. The public domain belongs to all the citizens of the United States. We have some turf bosses who do not want to respect that, saying, "You come into my town you better get a letter saying that you have been authorized to come here". Do you know we have dismantled that thing for a long time, for thirty or more years or so and the attitude is still in some of the local leaders, "What are you doing in my town?" They will speak to you just like that, "Where did you come from? What are you doing here?" It is none of your business what I am doing. Do you want me to call the police on you, black man?" Deal with them. Don't be afraid of them. 
You are a citizen of the United States. You can go to any town you want. In fact, if your cousin lives next door to his place you can sleep next door to him and tell him, "If you disturb me I'm going to call 911." Living with their little small concept of reality. It is so small until it violates reality everywhere except in about twenty-five square feet. 
So it is in every person. It might be sleeping in our soul but if we bring the right words from G _ dor the right words from good common sense to you it will awaken that reality in your soul and you will gain back your human nobility, your human honor, your human dignity in the best sense. We are all entitled to 
 
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have as the Honorable Elijah Mohammed would say, "Some of this good earth," that we are responsible for. And if you have nothing but your apartment or your room, please respect the authority that G _ d gave you to make it a paradise. You are poor and you can't put a color television and all this technology in there, but you know you do not need all of that. If you have the right spirit, the right feelings inside of you for each other, whether it is a family or a few members, or just a man and a wife sharing one room, a condominium or whatever. If you have that you can go out of your small room or apartment and go walking through the park in your city. Stop and sit on the bench. Take a little break and look up at the sky. Walk a little further and when you see a bunch of beautiful flowers stop and say, "Honey aren't those beautiful flowers?" And if she is so irritated and says, "I don't want to see any flowers," just keep walking. If she is happy to keep walking with you it is therapy. This is better than $50 an hour that you would pay a shrink. And if her irritation increases say, "Baby do you want me to carry you on my back. I think you're a little tired and weak." Now if you are me, you can't do that. Right? So you just tell her, "I want to carry you on my back, sweetie." And she will say, "You know I can't let you carry me on your back." And you just keep walking and walk on out of the park because irritation has set in and say , "You like Kentucky Fried Chicken or you like Herald's Chicken. Do you have a taste for it now, Honey?" She may ask, "Can I get a soda with it?" Sure you can get a soda and whatever else you like. The way I feel now I'm ready to sell my watch and get you a steak". Create a paradise. Create a Garden of Eden. Create a paradise. No matter what situation you are in, try to create a paradise. 
I'm going to sum this up by going back to the public domain and our responsibility as citizens. Each of us as citizens own the public domain. Who are the owners of the public domain? The citizens of the United States of America, we are the owners of the public domain. It is not private property. It is collective property. It is the property of the collective many, the citizens of the United States. 
It is the shay tan, the devil who wants to see as many of the people as possible become irresponsible, negligent of guarding their responsibility, caring less for values. Satan benefits because when you're like that most of your money and earnings go to him. But if we love and care for each other, most of our earnings will go to making our life a paradise, to making the family life a paradise. 
But we are so selfish. Everybody wants a Mercedes Benz and we have to tell the child, "Boy, you are not even out of high school yet and just because I'm making $70,000 a year and struggling, working hard, you want a Mercedes Benz because I have one? You can't even get a bicycle, boy, until you show me you have some industry and respect for your own self. Get out there and wash some windows and make some money. Sell some Chicago Defender Newspapers. If you can't do more than that, do anything but get out of my face until you show me you are willing to be productive. And if you ask me for a Mercedes Benz again I'm going to cut your allowance down from fifty a month to five dollars. Now how do you like those marbles?" I'm telling you how to get this thing straight. 
Do not start hitting on him he will take you to court and you won't be able to go to work Monday. They will have you locked up. So don't get physical, be intelligent. The evolution of civilization, the evolution of the human spirit and mind has brought us to a time now where you must address problems not from our feelings and emotions. We can't be beating on the physical body to get results. We have to use the best of our tools and instruments, our intelligence, our education. We have to come from here, the mind and from a good human heart arid address the problem we have in our children. Do not be beating on them physically. You are just making them see you as a cruel person. 
They already have the world oftrus dead, corrupt, indecent, culture whipping them everyday_ Now are you going to beat them, physically? You are not going to correct their behavior. You are just going to 
 
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make them dislike you more and become more defiant, because they already know they have more burden on them now than justice allows. Accept the created responsibility from G _ d to make your environment that you are responsible for, or that you at least have authority in, make it as much as you can a paradise. And we love you. Peace, As Salaamu Alaikum. 
Qur'an 2.35; Adam and wife dwell in the garden 1,2; Gen. 2.15; Adam told to dress the garden 1,2; 
a-I Adam
a- Adam and wife dwell in the garden 1, 2; a- told to dress the garden 1; 
b-I 
Black
b- everyone equally are G_d's dependents 4; b- Blacks lost courage to face moral issues 5; 
b- Some whites behave ugly because they see themselves as losers 3; 
b- Vicarious living someone else's success to feel good 4; b- Whites throw trash in the black neighborhood 
because of a false identity of superiority 3; 
c-l 
Child Do not punish children physically but use intelligence 6; 
d-l Domain
d- Public domain 3; 
d- Public domain is every citizen's property 5; 
Dr. King sat at the Elijah Muhammed's dining table 5; Dress Adam told to dress the garden 1; 
e-l 
Earth no human being should claim those properties 3; 
Eden
e- Adam told to dress the garden 1; 
e- picture of the future than what happened in the past 2; e- Think of your private quarters as your space for 
your paradise 1; 
Equality everyone equally are G_d's dependents 4; 
f-l Family
f- Do not punish children physically but use 
 
intelligence 6; 
f- Home disorderly created depression 2; 
f- Think of your private quarters as your space for your paradise I; 
Frederick Douglass charge the US with a moral issue 5; Freedom everyone equally are G_d's dependents 4; 
g-l 
Garden of Eden 
g- picture of the future than what happened in the past 2; g- Think of your private quarters as your space for 
your paradise I; 1; 
h-l 
Home disorderly created depression 2; 
j-l 
Job almost every member in the family is working and it is not enough 4; 
I-I Land, 
Earth no human being should claim those properties 3; 
m-l 
Man everyone equally are G_d's dependents 4; Moral Blacks lost courage to face moral issues 5; 
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p-l 
Poor Vicarious living someone else's success to feel good 4; 
Public domain p- 3; 
p- Public domain is every citizen's property 5; 
Punish Do not punish children physically but use intelligence 6; 
 
r-l Racism
r- everyone equally are G_d's dependents 4; 
r- Some whites behave ugly because they see themselves as losers 3; 
r- Whites throw trash in the black neighborhood because of a false identity of superiority 3; 
s-l Soul
s- The Soul demands achieving better conditions 4; s- nature is to warn us 1; 
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v-I 
Vicarious living someone else's success to feel good 4; 
w-l 
Work almost every member in the family is working and it is not enough 4; 
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