07/19/2003
IWDM Study Library
Mid-Atlantic Address

By Imam W. Deen Mohammed
We praise G-d and we pray the prayers and the peace be upon His messenger. Most generous messenger Muhammed, they greet him with the salutation, (Arabic), the prayers and the peace be upon him. And what follows of that traditional salute or salutation. (Arabic), Dear believers, Muslims, peace be upon you and the mercy and blessings of G-d.

Let me have a few words before giving the substance here, just to set the stage for this, I believe will be the last address that I'll be making to the Muslim community separating the genders, males and females. Unless sometime in the future, distant future maybe, I mean like two, three years from now, maybe there'll be a need to do it again, but this will be the last in a series of addresses I have been giving to you separately. It is definitely for the members of the A.S.M., the American Society of Muslims.

As you know, we changed the name from Muslim-American Society to American Society of Muslims and that was because that we didn't have that name registered and another group did and that group is in trouble now in the eyes of the public. They're not getting such a good picture, not getting such a good report or image. They getting a bad name. So Allah has blessed us to not have that name.

And at the time when we were discussing the problem with them, I was thinking that they, in fact they do have brother, very beautiful members, good brothers among them, but old folks used to say it only takes one bad apple to spoil the basket and I don't know, they must have more than one of that album. But anyway, I thank Alah that the press is not confusing us with them. What I've seen so far is keeping us clear. They're not making any mention in of us at all, and this is for Muslims who identify with our history in America.

Those who experienced or lived part of that history or all of that history, part of it with the honorable Elijah Muhammad or under his leadership and the rest of it, since I became the leader and that was in 1975, February, Convention Time, Nation of Islam Convention, February, 1975. It's for you. I'm not saying that others can't benefit, I believe even a non-Muslim, Christian or anybody, could sit here and benefit greatly from hearing what I'm going to say. They could benefit a lot, but it's not for them. It's not for you.

If you identify as a Muslim with the rest of the Muslims of the world, but you don't strongly identify with our history in America, it's not for you. You are welcome to be here If you are Muslim and you belong to this association of ours, the American society, Muslims, you're welcome to be here, but it's not for you. It's for those who strongly identify with our history in America, beginning with Mr. Fard, called our Savior back then, and by the way, the honorable Elijah Muhammad, when he put me out of the Nation of Islam for not accepting him as a G-d, Mr. Fard, that is, He said, son, how can you reject our savior when you know your father, the bad life that I was living, a drunk in the streets, ashamed during the depression, couldn't even come home to my family, ashamed to face my wife and my children and how he came and changed all that and now you are benefiting from that. That's what he told me and he was correct in everything he said.

My reply to him was this. I said, daddy, I know he's your savior and I respect that. He said, "he's your savior too!" I didn't say anything to that, but I just used a bit of child psychology. I said, well daddy, I said, I know he's your savior. I say, and I can more easily accept you as my savior because I know you, you know him and it worked because I'm still here. If it didn't work, I wouldn't be here. My father, when I said that he looked at me like he never looked at me before. Looked like he was seeing something he'd never seen before in me and he couldn't admit it, but I touched a sore spot and a tender spot when I said that to him. He later admitted to me, say, son, a lot of what our savior taught us, we were misunderstanding it. He said that Yakub's history is talking about now not something that happened in the past. That's what he told me. Yeah. I wasn't the only one that he shared that with. He shared that with some, he shared that with some of his ministers too. I heard him share it with them at another time. He told him say, brother, a lot of this we don't understand it. He said, that's talking about now.

So a history like that is very valuable. This is a very valuable and precious history. Wise people, very wise people and scripture wise in the study of human society, how societies evolve, how they grow into bigger and better communities or societies, they would be fascinated to hear this, what I'm giving you in this hint that I'm giving you, that's a hint of what happened to our life. They would be so fascinated to listen to it. I read a report recently. This is all necessary to get you to appreciate more of what I'm going give you here today. I read in the Wall Street Journal, now if Malcolm was here and they mentioned Wall Street Journal, New York Times, he'll tell you those papers, no New York Times, sorry, that's where this article is. Wall Street Journal, New York Times, it's America's most reliable papers. Well I don't know about reliable but most respected papers, I'll put it that way.

Most respected newspapers cause some of these small towns, I think their papers are more reliable. I've been in some small towns and they pretty straight when they report they pretty straight and people and they keep the paper pretty decent. Not to say that these great newspapers, New York Times and Wall Street Journal, not that I'm not implying that at all, but I have a lot of respect for the Wall Street Journal and the New York Times. But anyway, the article was really on the a documentary that showed recently on television, "Inheritors of Faith" and if I recall correctly, it came in five parts and most of it was not on us, but the last part was on us. Isn't that something? They closed it out on us and they didn't call me Wallace D. Muhammad, they called me Warith Deen Mohammed, Inheritor of the Faith. So here they presented our leader, our Imam, Warith Deen Mohammed. They presented him in the fifth part, the last part of the series and presented him with the title name, that's the title name, inheritance of the Faith, and to show that this person his name is that, inheritor of the faith.

The wise and the scripture and the wise in the nature of society, the growth and nature of society, they will know right away what that series or documentary was saying. That documentary was saying for the benefit of you who don't know and maybe you will never know. That documentary was saying Muslims were brought over to America and enslaved along with others who were not Muslim and now these people have trusted G-d and faith have brought them to be reconnected again with the religion that they lost because of the separation from their country and their people and their culture, et cetera. And it is this man that has inherited the faith. That's exactly what they're saying. That's exactly what that documentary is saying, that this man has inherited the faith.

Now let me tell you, speaking to my faithful supporters who don't distrust me, who are not suspicious of me at all, who have their ears open to hear me, not to get something to use against me, I'm speaking to you. This is for you. That documentary is also saying that this man is the one that G-d is with more than any other of the African-American leaders, more than any others in the whole history of this people in America, G-d is with this man. He has inherited the faith of his ancestors and is not just a leader for Muslims but a leader for people. That's what they're saying. The young lady worked hard. She, African-American young lady, looked like she was just made her second year college. Maybe she could have been older, she could have been older. You get older then everybody look like a baby to you after a while. You get so old. She could have been older, but she looked like she maybe second year of college or maybe just finishing college. She worked hard. She did hours and hours of interviewing me and not on one occasion, several occasions. She came back and back and she said, well, I have to come back again. I have to come back. Can you spare me some more? Yes I can.

I saw her interest and I know, I value our history and I know that as often as we get a chance to have it documented or to have it put in books or put in print so that it will outlive us and those who come behind us will have it to read and benefit from it, then I want to take advantage of that time, that chance, that opportunity. I don't want to miss such an opportunity. So I make myself available and to me that's a good way of spending my time. I'm not wasting my time, I'm spending my time. That's a real good way of spending my time. It's valuable to us now and in the future.

And it's a shame to say this because well, in a way it's not a shame. Do you know the honorable Elijah Muhammad did not attract the educated people. He attracted the uneducated but good people, sincere people, innocent people, people that had been confused and this world will confuse you and just couldn't believe in this world anymore. And the honorable Elijah Muhammad presented something from another world, a different world differing with that, that they had been told by the white authority, they grabbed it and they believed it was from G-d and that's why they stayed with it.
But getting back to the point, most of his following were not educated. I remember when we felt real proud to know that there was someone that had some college education (who) joined the Nation of Islam. That was after I had already graduated from high school, when I learned that, I can't recall exactly who the first one was, but I believe the first one that I know of to have a doctorate degree in the following of Elijah Muhammad was Dr. Lonnie Shabazz from Washington DC., and maybe Dr. Salaam who was a dentist. Maybe they came in around the same time. I don't know, but I think Lonnie Shabazz was before him, came in earlier. The head of the school, when I was a high school student, was Brother James Shabazz and brother James Shabazz was only a high school student. He never attended, he never had any college education. So the head of our school had no college education, just a high school graduate himself. But a very excellent teacher, very devoted, excellent teacher.

I used to think about that and I said, well Master, he showed you some masterful psychology on us calling us University of Islam and we didn't even have a college teacher with any college education form of education on a college level, teaching the high school. I used to think about that and I say, oh, he was some kind of man. He really could stretch it and get results until I did some reading on the history of the founding of African-American colleges and most of them had no college man over those institutions. They were not college graduates themselves, but they started colleges and did a great work. That seems to go for practically everything that Fard did that seemed like he was doing a first. He wasn't doing a first, he just found history. He studied. The man was very wise. He studied what had already occurred in our people and he just took it out and he used it in such a powerful way to empower us, make us feel strong and valuable and powerful. He did a masterful job. There's no doubt about it.

Even calling the white man a devil, we think, oh Master Fard, he told us the white man a devil. No, it was a slave that recognized, associated the white people with devils, named Julia, long before Master Fard ever came. She told, it's written in a book that she said, you all look like G-d in the face. Now what did she mean by that? They gave her the picture of Jesus Christ and said that was G-d. And she was saying, you all look like him in your face. Say, but you're the devil in your hearts. That's what she said about them. You're the devil in devils in your heart, but she's not the only one. When you listen to what Frederick Douglass said, listen what said, he said, you all claim Jesus. You claim to be Christians and claim Jesus Christ, but your behavior is such that with shame, a nation of savages. That's what Frederick Douglass said. Mr. Fard wasn't the first one to attack the credits of white folks, no others had attacked those credits and I can go on more.

A big preacher, Father Divine. When he said Father Divine, wasn't he saying he was G-d? Father divine. Divine is G-d. Anything divine is G-dly, isn't it? You can use it very loosely and it won't mean G-d, but if you use it seriously, it's supposed to mean G-d. And he was using it very seriously and he told his following that If you want to see Jesus look at me. That's what he told his followers and this was before Mr. Fard introduced his teaching. So when you study exactly, see when you, without even being trained, my own intelligence, the honorable Elijah Muhammad and Clara Muhammad, the leaders of the Nation of Islam that was associated with me and my family, who became so close to us, they were like uncles and aunts to us, very close to us. That environment that I was in, including my own family, my sisters, older sisters and brothers and other relatives in the family, they gave me a kind of circumstance or an environment that made me a very special guy.

You are the product of your environment. The product of your environment. I don't care who it is you're talking about. Imam here, to my left, imam Yusuf Saleem. Before he came to the Nation of Islam, if we want to know what produced him, we have to study his environment, his parents, house that he was raised up in, where he lived. But not only that, everything close to him, his close friends, the involvements that he had that was close to his life. When you study all that, then you'll understand what produced Yusuf Saleem, the man that was not Yusuf Saleem, but Joseph something. Don't have to tell me, that's okay, Joseph. You better find something to relieve your spirit. Occasionally you got to have some light stuff to relieve your spirit occasionally or you won't make it.

Anyway, I studied that time that Mr. Fard came in and I studied what he taught and I made the connection for what he taught and what was happening in his time and that caused me to really see him. I think nobody in this community then and now, know Mr. W.D. Fard or Mr. Fard Muhammad like I know him. Nobody. No sir. No sir. You don't know him. But G-d has revealed him to me. I know him. G-d has guided me to what will make me know Him and G-d have also made me understand things that he said and did that helped me to know him. I know him. I know him very, very well and he did a masterful job and we don't want to play down the importance of his work, but we want to preserve and respect the importance of his work and they accuse me of being the one that did away with everything.

But if you read what these learned people are saying, quoting me and talking about me and giving it to the public, the general public, like in the New York Times and other publications, there's a magazine coming out soon. There's a magazine produced, I'm told mainly for bookstores. It might be in borders, which is, you can get it from there easy. It's very, but it's not out yet. It's is called "I and the World". I just like I myself, I and the world and this writer is sharing with the readers, the public, the important things that have happened in my life to shape me and make me the person I am. If you do a worthy work and you remain sincere, you don't have to worry about it being preserved, G-d will preserve it. Allah, most high, will have it preserved. And I knew that as long as we just stayed within the walls of the temple, or the mosque or masjid and did our work just among ourselves, we wouldn't be protecting it for the future because the history of our people tells us that we keep things too privately and our children go out and they leave us with nobody to inherit it.

Leaders sometimes go back or go in the streets, just give it up. Nobody valuing it enough to preserve it for generations to come. So I felt that the best way to protect us from that being in a situation like that in the future was for me to take my ministry out of the Nation of Islam. And that's what I did. I established my own ministry out of the Nation of Islam. And right now I'm established outside of the ASM, though I'm a spiritual leader for ASM. My ministry is separate from A-S-M. WDM Ministry or the Mosques Cares office, which is a legal name now for it. The Mosque Cares office is separate. It's on its own. It's a separate legal entity. So G-d is saving our good works and preserving it for generations to come.

But at the same time I've been working with you all too, pressuring you all to take it serious and to not trust your history to writers that are not you, not one of you. You haven't done anything yet, but I think you'll do something before I'm gone, I hope, that I'll be able to read it. I may be so old and blind, I can't even read it. I might have say, read it to me brother. I don't expect to live that long though. I don't think I get that decrepit. I think I'll just stop eating and die. No, I like life. I don't like to just hang around.

It is wonderful to see your faces. You're beautiful, good people that will give your all for G-d's sake. I know you will. And that's why G-d has chosen you. I heard that, in fact, I heard it from my father, but I heard it from others too that Mr. Fard was once commenting on my father and he didn't call him he Elijah, he called him Kareem, although he gave him the name, pardon me, Elijah Muhammad later. But when he first gave him, the first name he gave my father was Elijah Kareem. And my father learned that he had given Kallot Muhammad, that's my father's brother. He's passed. Both of them have gone now. May G-d give them paradise, that he learned that his brother had been given a name Kareem, Kallot Kareem, I mean Kallot Muhammad, and he was given a name Elijah Kareem. So he came to Mr. Ferran and he told him that. So Mr. Fard, against his own desire accepted to give my father also, the name Muhammad. He loved the name Kareem for my father. Kareem means, Muhammad, you know is the greatest name for a human being. I don't know of any name greater because the best model for human life is Muhammad the prophet, his name. It's because it's his name. But he liked the name Kareem for my father because my father was a very generous man and I know that to be so. My father would give money to brothers and sisters working with him, but he also give money to those that he didn't even know if he knew that they needed to be helped. And he would also give to Christians, which I had some knowledge of it, but it wasn't until they started questioning me about the monies, the funds in the Nation of Islam, when my father passed. This is lawyers questioning and trying to settle the problem with the Internal Revenue Department. This attorney said your father didn't just give to Muslims. Say, he gave to Christians, and say, all the Christians he gave to were not his relatives. See these outsiders when they come in, they'll find things out that you don't even know. When they go and do their search, legal search, they find things out that we didn't even know. So when he said it, I don't know what he thought it was going to do to me. I don't know if he thought it was going to make me feel bad or something. It made me feel good. I was happy to know when my father did that because that's the kind of heart I have.

I'll give to anybody. I don't give the person because they my relative or because they believe like I believe. I give the person because I think they need help and I should give them help. That's the reason, main reason that I give help to somebody. So I was happy knowing that my father did that, cared about non-Muslim and cared about Christians who were not even his relatives too.

That made me like him even more. These things we need to be aware of and we need to value this history of ours and we need to appreciate the good fortune that has manifest in this history. Good fortune as is brought out by the inheritors of the faith, that documentary, the good fortune, that here's the people that were told that they once were Muslims and they were in their own land and then they were brought to this land. There's a lot of support for that.

Africa didn't just become a Muslim land when we were brought into slavery, Islam had already spread into Africa. It was very popular in Africa. Islam, very popular in Africa. Egypt's strong Islamic country. Sudan had become a strong Islamic country. In the Niger area, strongly Islamic and many other places. Africa had already become a very strong population of people who identified themselves as Muslims with Islam, with the religion of Islam.

It is not surprising that many of the slaves were the children of Muslim parents. Now the hope of these people to have their own religion has been answered. Now in America, the children of those parents are back with their religion. I know some of you perhaps didn't come from Islam, but I believe most of you did. I believe it's your own nature, your gene memory.

We forget, but the soul does not forget and you inherit your soul from your parents and those parents inherit the soul from the parents before. The soul does not forget. Your mind forgets, but the soul does not forget. When the soul finds what it wants, it's pleased. I've heard many of you say explaining why you've accepted Islam. You have said that you felt so good and made you feel so good for the first time.

You just felt so good inside. That's what I heard you say. So that's still witness, that's still witness. That's the soul in you being witness that I have come to harm again, I lost home, but now I'm at home again. You didn't understand everything who did and don't think those parents understood everything.

If they did, the religion wouldn't be in such a bad shape over in Africa right now. They weren't the wisest people on earth. They didn't know everything. They weren't understanding everything. So don't think you're supposed to understand everything but your heart and soul is right and your heart and soul is right, then G-d will give you that brings peace and rest and happiness to your heart and soul, and that's what G-d has done for us.

Allah, most high, has connected us back with the Qur'an and with His religion that He revealed to Muhammad, the last book to the world in the Qur'an, that's Al Islam or Islam. We have become connected with it again and our soul knows that it's back home. I know mine and I know it's true for most of you. Your soul knows that it is at home and you don't want to go anywhere else.

So I hope you'll be pleased with this arrangement that we've made where I'm addressing all of you together right now. Let me come to the meat of my presentation to you jointly, males and female. I have been pressing upon you to see yourselves in a more important picture and in a more important light.

I know I don't believe in guess. No, I'm not guessing. I'm not believing without knowledge or without. No. I know that no matter what persons or what events--------(break in recording)----- on these shores, on this continent, slaves, and to bring us from that condition to where we are today, not just Muslims but also Christians like the honorable, decent, sincere Christian leaders we have in the church for the Christians, African Americans.

Like Colin Powell and many others in government we have. Like Oprah Wnfrey we have in television and so many more in the public's eye, males and females. I know that no matter what events took place, no matter who were the leaders, Dr. Martin Luther King, Mr. Fard and the honorable Elijah Muhammad and many others, I don't care who were the leaders or what the events were, slavery, Jim Crow integration, you just name it, those things did not of themselves determine our life and how we were to turn out.

How the finished product would look, how we will be when all this bad time is over. None of those things determined that. The will of G-d determined that. Allah, the G-d, the creator of everything, determined that. This was not just some accidental thing that happened. It has a plan and we see the divine hand or control of G-d on it.

The control of G-d is on it. I know that. I know that as well as I know anything in my life. I know that. Alright? I know it so much so, that I told my brother recently, I said, brother, I didn't say brother. I called him by his name. I don't want you to know his name. I said, I have never been afraid of anything. Not human or unhuman, not anything more than I'm afraid of G-d. That's what I told him. I said, if I thought right now that Allah wanted me to go against the President, I'd be going against the President.

I'm not afraid. I didn't think he understood exactly what I was saying, so I told him, I added this. I said, if the government of the United States was clear in my mind, something that G-d Allah wanted me to go against, I said I'd be going against the government of the United States. That's the honest to goodness truth. I do what I know G-d wants me to do and I fear nothing behind that.

Not that I don't think I can, I know I can be killed. I can get worse than death sometimes. Sometimes living is worse than death. It can make you live so miserably until you wish you were dead. But I know myself and if I know that G-d wants something of me, that's what I'm going to do. I don't care what the consequences are. I don't care what the consequences are.

I don't care what the consequences are. I know I didn't make myself, I didn't make myself like this. G-d made me like this. Yes, Allah made me like this. And I'm not the only one that Allah has worked with to make them the persons they are. There are many more and a lot of them are not Muslim, they're African-American Christians. But Allah, the G-d, only one G-d, no G-d, but the one G-d. (Arabic- lailaha illallah), no G-d, but the one G-d.

When you read in the Bible the history of the children of Israel, the Jews, you read how their life starts in captivity. Really, well they say their life starts with Abraham, and Abraham was before Moses, before Moses, Abraham. But if you study Abraham himself, Abraham was a son of a ruler of his society or his people, his nation, and Abraham disagreed with his father. Even when he was a boy, he didn't believe in the idols.

And Abraham was what you might call banished. He was put out of his father's society or government, and he had to go find a place to start his life. That's Abraham. So if Abraham is the beginning of the Jew, then their start is what I said it was, their start is a start of a people in captivity or people rejected or people without a home, people without a land.

The story of the Jew is a story of a people who began as wanderers and as people who are not established but searching, seeking, trying to find a way to establish their life. Now when you look at our reality, because that's just history from people who wrote their own story, who told their own story. We can't support what the Jews have for their history with what is actually in history. It's not in history. It's not in history. It's only in their story of themselves. Now when you look at us, history says our people sold us into slavery.

History says slave traders went over there and bought us. History says slave traders went over there and raided helpless villages and stole people and brought 'em aboard to ships. History tells us how we came to America. History not written by us, written by others. And since we've been on this continent, history tells us of our sorrowful painful life in slavery and how the abuses continued after emancipation, lynching by the clan people, segregation, et cetera.

History brings us up to the present time where we have one acceptance with the help of non-African Americans from different faith, mostly good Christians beginning with the Quakers and a few others and the Jews and with other whites, or with whites that are not Jews, just Christians good Christians, with their support. Well, we have come to be included now in the society or in the citizenry of this country and accorded the protection of the law just like all other members of the society.

Now that's a recent achievement for us. But I said the good turn of events, the good things that have happened. When we look back at it and see the good things that have happened, we can't understand that, we can't explain that with our scholarly minds, with our history oriented minds. We can't explain that by looking at these events and the way that they formed and happened without also looking to see if maybe a higher reality has something to do with this.

G-d. Because the design takes us back to scripture, the design on our life, what happened to form our life in the pattern that is in and what happened to change that pattern, change that pattern to make it better for us over the years. When we study that and look at how it evolved or how it developed, we have to
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We have to go to scripture because scripture gives us the most light on the darkness or on the dark areas of our history or our life as a people in this country. Scripture give us the most light. And maybe when the Jews were writing, understand this, maybe when the Jews were writing their story, they thought they were writing their story. But who knows? G-d might've said with your hand, I will have you write the story of a people that's going to be brought to America and going to have to and going to demand my intervention. Because the Qur'an say, and they fabricate, meaning they do with their own hand. They just put false stuff in there. That's false, they write false stuff. So they fabricated with their own hands and say, this is from G-d.

That's what Allah says to us in Qur'an. So wouldn't that be something to really treasure? If we could really believe that when these people were writing their own plan for their own life and how their own life would be put down and how G-d would be with them and stay with them and bring them up again, they were actually writing the story of a future people. Allahu Akbar. Something fabricated and called sacred and from G-d was interfered with by G-d to produce a people when you apply it or address their life, it's not a fabrication at all. It's the truth. It's a true story. Well believe me, believe me, I would not use G-d's name in vain. Very serious. I'm very serious. So that's what I believe G-d did.

I believe G-d did, they think they're writing their story. They think they're writing something to get the world, to pity them and to make themselves special in the eyes of the world. But I know the future that they don't know, and there will be a people that will be put in these circumstances and I will be their friend and their deliverer. That's exactly what I believe happened. You'd be surprised how many Jews, I mean learned Jews will tell you it's not necessarily so, the things that you are liable to read in the Bible. It's not necessarily so.

In the Qur'an G-d missioned Muhammed to challenge it, but only after the gospel had challenged it. But Jesus in the Gospel, according to the Bible, peace be on him, he said, if Abraham was your father, then you would love me. He's supposed to be a Jew himself now and he challenging his own people and he's saying, if Abraham was your father, you would love me. So he's saying that Jesus Christ in the Gospel, New Testament, is telling the Jew that you have no legitimate claim to Abraham as your father. That's what it's saying. Plain as day.

And then here comes the Qur'an and Muhammed is inspired to say, Abraham was not a Jew. He was not an idol worshiper and he was not a Jew. Bring your proof if you've got it, that he's a Jew. If they could have answered it, they would've answered it a long time ago and they wasn't going to be foolish enough to tell Muhammed the prophet to read the Bible, say, well, it's in the Bible. Well, they know He knew too much. He would pull off too many covers behind that if they had brought up the Bible. It's just asking to be exposed even more so they didn't come at it and they left him alone. This world is stranger than fiction and that's what they say the truth is stranger than fiction. Believe me, this world is stranger than fiction. You'll go crazy trying to make sense of this world.

Don't even try. Don't try. Yes, don't try. In the Qur'an, Allah says, this world is but (Arabic) means what you're looking at is not the truth. That's not the real thing. (Arabic) means what you are looking at is not the real thing. It is deceiving you. The real thing is something else, not what you're looking at. So believe with me or don't, it's okay. I know some of you have been believing with me and you're not going to stop, you'll continue to believe with me.

This is all about the human soul and how great thinkers and visionaries perceived or understood the human soul and it's universal. That means every nation has come up with pretty much the same picture or idea for the human soul, whether it's Asia, where they have Buddhism, Hinduism and other religions, or Africa where they have ancestor worship and animism and all these other things along with the Christianity and Islam that came later, or whether it's any other part of the world, they all have come up with a similar idea about the human soul. Why? Because the human soul is something non-tangible, meaning I can't touch it like I touch this wire.

I can't relate to it like I relate to physical things that I can see with my eyes and hear with my ears and touch with my hands, et cetera. Its something invisible abstract inside of me, but it's knowable upon the experience that I have. My experience have awakened in me something deep inside and have made me aware of something in myself that I value even more than I value my physical body. That's my inner life, my soul. Soul for the different people have different meanings, but soul for the learned in the spiritual world have all the same meaning.

Human soul is the same for all of them because like a scientist will write down what he saw or observed when he did a certain thing with a certain thing, whether it's a living thing or dead thing, that when he tested it like this and he put it to this test, he put it with something here and he put it with that same thing again and gave it the same treatment that he gave it before he gave it to it again, and he wrote down and he wrote down, he wrote down, he kept coming up with the same description of what occurred. When the description is consistent, that every time it is tested in this particular environment, these are the results.

So then he can write that down as a scientific statement of that particular thing. I experienced something in my soul. I'm in America an African American. Here's a man, he comes from China and we sit down and we have a conversation. And he shared with me a deep spiritual experience he had and I say that's the exact experience I had. Well over the thousands and thousands of years that we've been living on this earth as learned, enlightened people and meeting other learned, enlightened people from different parts of the world, we have exchanged knowledge of experiences.

And just like you have spice come out of China and reach Arabia, reach England. Well this knowledge of the human soul have gone all around the world. All around the world. So it became universal, but nobody had published it. It was existing but nobody had published it. Some courageous guys decided that they going to write the story, give the information, put it in a book and publish it and take credit for it. That this is the soul that G-d created and it was our father that first told us this. G-d told our father this. Yeah, He did. Yes G-d, the Lord of our house told us this. And then Allah inspired Muhammed. They say, no, not the Lord of your house. The Lord of the world. This is universal. That's what it's saying. That what you are claiming for yourself is not yours. What you're claiming for yourself belongs to the whole of mankind. Its universal.

And these figures that you will put on these truths are not your figures, these figures belong to all mankind. What do(es) Allah say about the soul? The soul has two main properties. One is (Arabic - taqwa). Taqwa means deep, very important, sacred, high serious respect. Very serious respect. That's what taqwa means. Now they say fear, taqwa means fear. No taqwa is fear. It includes fear. But taqwa is not fear. There is no word in Arabic for fear that is taqwa, no word. Only the translator of the Qur'an has called taqwa fear. Fear. Taqwa is much more than fear.

Fear is (Arabic) And there are other words for fear other than (Arabic), but not taqwa. Taqwa. G-d says (Arabic) have this taqwa for G-d. And He says (Arabic) and have this taqwa for close family relations, your mother close family relations have this taqwa for her. But G-d also says (Arabic), have this same taqwa for fire. For fire. Now you know people have a natural fear of fire. That's true. And we fear the wrath of G-d. That's true. And we fear to bring the wrath of our parents upon us. That's true. But it's much more than fear. It means a sacred respect, a sacred regard; to regard it with a very serious or sacred respect, and regard G-d with a very serious or sacred respect. Regard your parents or close ties, family ties, the same with a very serious or sacred respect and regard fire with a very serious or sacred respect.

Children fear fire. As you get older, you're not afraid of fire. You're afraid to get burned up, but you're not afraid of fire, you manage fire. You are less afraid of fire than you are of walking out in the street, aren't you? You're much more conscious of dangers in the street than you are of the fire that you can put under your pot on the stove or the match that you can strike and light up a cigarette with. Some of you all do that too, don't you. Stop mistreating yourself, stop killing yourself.

So the better meaning for this taqwa is a sacred respect, a sacred regard. When a little babies, the newborn baby, like my newborn grand baby to my daughter who's here working, to hear the work, Bakeerah. Adam, (his) name is Adam. Isn't that something? Yeah. Adam. My assistant, special assistant in my religious office, Imam Earl Abdul Malik Muhammad, he insisted upon that name. I say he insisted. His wife wanted to name, give the baby his name, but he insisted that the baby take that name- Adam Wallace Muhammad. Adam Wallace Muhammad. That'll require some meditation on my part. It's special. I like it. Adam Wallace Muhammad, he knows why he did this. He's not a fool now. The father is no fool. He knows why he chose the name Adam Wallace. 
Muhammad Adam, the first man. First man and Wallace the first man. You ain't no first man. Yes, I am. First man from the Nation of Islam. The beginning of the real Nation of Islam is with Warith Deen Mohammed, first man. Man. In scriptural language does not mean a male who's 21 or older. It means, although that has a connection with it.

See 21 is three times seven, and the two digits, when you add them, you get three. All of this is science. When Mr. Fard said mathematics is Islam and Islam is mathematics. He was talking science of numbers in religious secret knowledge. That's what he was talking. Not mathematics like we understand it. So, three times seven is 21.

The two digits for 21 is two and one. When you combine them, you get three, you get three and you add the three and the seven (and) you get 10. And that's a special consciousness that makes you a man. When your spirit has gone the length for its development, it's developed in three stages and when you have returned to your spiritual dimension, which is seven, the soul - seven, when you return to that, you are a man.

You are a man. When you're enlightened as to your soul, the seventh dimension, and you're enlightened as to your destiny, the journey of three miles or three days or whatever you want to put there, just three. You are brought through three veils of darkness. That's the Qur'an, through three veils of darkness. So if you pass by, if you go through the three veils of darkness, those three veils become light, then you are truly enlightened as to what your purpose or destiny should be on this earth, in this world,.

G-d's plan for your soul. If you return to the innocent soul that G-d created, which is seven, he created man on the sixth day, right? And then says, as He established them, seven firm heavens or seven firmaments, seven firmaments, seven firm heavens, seven firm heavens. This is the soul. All this is addressing the soul. These numbers that we take for granted, the man says male is grown at 21. Is that scientific?

Well, if it's not scientific, how did they come up with 21? That should be a question on the mind of the scholars, the thinkers. If it is not scientific, then how (did) they come up with that figure 21.? They came up with it from knowledge, secret, knowledge about the soul. That's where they come up with it. Secret knowledge about soul.

How come a woman has grown at 18. Is that scientific when she's having a baby at 12 sometimes, sometimes nine years old. So what do you mean by 18 then? She's a woman. It's symbolic. They're coming from religious secret knowledge that she's 18. 18 is three times six. Three times six is 18. Now they're talking about the sisters and even when they talking about 21, (are) they talking about me singly myself or are they talking about the male principal in the rule of society? And when they're talking about the woman, she's 18, that she's a woman? Are they talking really about the person in each individual ones of you, Individual ones? No, they're talking about the female principle operating in the rule of society.

And the female principle is like the womb of the individual woman. The individual woman, she has, in her body, accommodation for new life. Not always to say the womb, but in her body is accommodation for new life. She becomes impregnated with the germ of life and her body is made by G-d to protect that life and see that that life comes to its full development, before it is a person, before it is delivered into the world or into an environment of people. This takes nine months. Normally it is nine months, isn't it?

But why is it six? The six is because this is a life that's higher than the five senses, the body, the physical body has five senses. This is a life inside of the body that has a higher purpose than the body itself. The five sense is going to become the servant of this sixth one and the sixth one is the human being. But a human being is not to be seen just as a living thing. The human being is to be seen as a social thing, a social life or a social creature. This is a social creature. Six. Six, the social creature.

So the physical creature - five, the social creature, the sixth principle. This child has to be brought out from the mother, from the body that's five and connected with a social environment. That's the sixth. That's the sixth. This is all made clear in scripture, Qur'an and made Bible even before Qur'an and may clear in Qur'an. This is all made clear, but (it'll) take me too much time to go over all that. So in making as short as possible. So this is the sixth principle.

So the woman, a woman is grown when she has become social in her bodily behavior, social in her mental behavior and social in her spiritual life. Then she is a woman. She's 18. And if you add the two digits, six and one, you get seven. So when she gets to that social development, she is reconnected with her soul, her real soul. Think about that.

Many females in this society, especially today, they're only social in their physical body. They don't think socially and they certainly don't have a spirit to live for the social establishment. No, they don't have it. Not only females and males too. They've lost more females or losses than the males. They've lost that. So when we think of women, we should think of social life, the social life. When we think of man, we should think of the spiritual life, the spiritual life. Seven, the spiritual life, the soul.

How come a man is identified with seven and a woman identified with six? Because having to go out, that ..... cries out to G-d. Woman cries out to G-d all the time. Man cries out to G-d seldom. But when he cries, his cry is so loud, it reaches the heavens. He got some pain on him. Fear -he faces more fear than the woman.

Over the history of his evolution, he's had had to face more fears, more dangers, more everything than the woman. More mysteries, more darkness that he couldn't penetrate, et cetera. So this has, the results of this have formed him differently from the woman in terms of his soul. So he is more soul than the woman. You ain't never heard the expression soul sister, hardly. I think you've heard (it) a few times, but soul brother is very popular.

Is that right soul brother? Yes. That's all these brothers got is soul. They're like invisible creatures. And we need you sisters to put some flesh on them, give them some flesh, give their soul some material!. Getting back to the properties of the soul. (Arabic) and taqwa. Taqwa is respect or regardfulness, very serious or sacred respect or regardfulness - taqwa. And (Arabic) is defected perception, defected perception. The defected perception that G-d creates us with has the natural urge or hunger in it to perfect perception. G-d left us with a defected perception to create a hunger in the soul for perfect perception. And the promise is that every eye shall see. It's the promise, you don't see now, but G-d promises that every eye shall see. That's the Bible, and the Qur'an says that you shall see too. (Arabic) you shall see with certain sight or certain perception, (Arabic) it'll be certain, it'll be perfect. You won't have no doubts that you are seeing correctly. You will know for sure that you'll seeing correctly. That's what Allah promises in Qur'an - (Arabic)

So these are the two natures in the soul. Now look, then Qur'an says that He created you(Arabic) in pairs. He created you in pairs, and it is clear in the Qur'an that man is formed a duality, of a duality. Now if we perceive the identity of the human life, we say man, now we mean man and woman. We perceive the identity of a human life to be a mysterious core, inner life, a mysterious core, or soul, a mysterious core needing, having in its natural appetite, the need to respect things that are due respect and to grow in knowledge, and to grow in knowledge. These are the two essential needs in the soul - to grow in respect for the things that meet and whoever does not spend on his soul or causes his soul to grow, he's lost. So these are the two needs in the soul. The need to grow in respect for that, that is established worthy of my respect, G-d first and my parents, close relatives, and also fire, that needs a whole discussion by itself, not just talking about literal fire.

And the need to grow in knowledge. (Arabic) is from the same root that Fajr is from, the Fajr prayer. The Fajr prayer. Fajr prayer is the prayer that's said at the first sign of the appearance of sunlight after darkness. So you know, the writers of literature, whether they be poets or philosophers, they talk about the dawning of this and the dawning of that in the history of the development of human society. So this is no new explanation I'm giving you, this explanation is well established that there's a fajr for the soul of man, and this fajr begins with light and darkness mixed as a defected condition where the light and darkness is mixed and you can't distinguish light from darkness, with truth from error or from falsehood sometimes. But the appetite in the soul is to perfect this property where the individual will know for sure that it's seeing truth and the seeing falsehood, be able to distinguish clearly one from the other.

Then G-d says, and He give everything, His living creature, His provisions in four measures or in four stages. So there's a need coming from or in these two properties. One, intelligence that wants to grow and no more, no better, no more. The other is the moral nature that wants to be respectful and give due respect to those things that are established for respect and these express themselves, rational mind, moral mine, a decent mind. I like decent more than I like moral. Decent, its easily understood. They argue as to what is moral, morally correct and morally incorrect.
You go to San Francisco, you get a whole different logic for what is moral. Well, I should say, go to certain areas like San Francisco. That wasn't fair, just saying the whole city. (If) you go to certain quarters of San Francisco, you'll get a whole new logic for what is moral. And then we have education, a need for education, not just to think rationally and behave rationally, to have a good reason for this, good reason for that, a sensible answer for thinking that way, rational. 
But we also need to progress the intelligence so that the intelligence has better in the circumstances or an environment that is put in. So this requires you to study your environment, learn your environment, that's education and yourself, then becomes nothing but another item or object in the environment. So if you study yourself its a part of the a objective world. You study your own body. That's what I mean, education. And then after education, education brings us to understand that there are certain demands on behavior in all aspects, on all categories. So what kind of behavior are we talking about? Behavior as a government person, behavior as a doctor in the field of medicine, behavior as a lawyer in the field of law, there's a certain behavior (that) should be demanded of all professions and all persons in these professions. So this goes a little beyond what is morally correct or incorrect. 
It requires insight, study and insight. (It) inquires, perception of logic, supporting these things, rules, et cetera. and how they affect one another, how these rules affect one another. We need a logic for this field of study or logic for this particular area that we studying. We need to establish what is the logic for it, in terms of what is proper and improper for behavior. There’s ethics in it. Ethics. So it brings us to ethics. And ethics, man didn't have words like this long ago. He have taken words that he had long ago and he had replaced those words with other words that make it understandable now. 
It is predicted in the scriptures, both Qur'an and Bible, that the whole world will be eventually filled up with light. And it'll be not only a light to guide our steps that we make, but it'll be a light also to purify us. It'll be a purifying agent as well as an enlightening agent, a purifying agent, all combined in one. Now how come? Because man finally saw that the sun could be a symbol only for him to take and use in his own communication to say what he wants to say. The sun does not only reveal what is in the dark to us when the sunlight comes up, but the sunlight has been studied and has been established as a purifying agent. It kills bacteria, it kills harmful germs. It will even kill the germs that carry bad smells to your nose. The ladies know to hang the bedding sometimes outside in the sunlight and the sunlight would eventually kill all the germs and bring the smell nice. Take away the bad smell - sun, the light- the sun. 
This is a light that purifies and reveals at the same time. The same agent that's revealing what's hidden or what's in the dark is also purifying, making it more healthy, making it more healthy. This is used now, instead of saying light, they say ethics. They say ethics. Same idea. This man, this man now formed another word so he could say it in the world without a preacher questioning him. Most men that's trying to establish the world, they ain't got time to talk to a preacher. A Preacher requires too much time. In fact, he'll get you into a conversation that it will never have an end to it. There'll never be any end to it. So to keep from being bothered with a lot of preachers saying, you got that from the Bible, what do mean when you say light, say ethics, Do you think the Irish people, if they were having a meeting like this, talking about Irish life and Irish purpose and Irish future, future and G-d's hand on the Irish or G-d's control on that, do you think if they were having a serious conversation? 
You all forgot what I was talking about, didn't you? Some of you didn't. If they were having a serious conversation, an in-house, serious conversation like this and they came upon a word that has strong meaning in the history of the Irish people, do you think they would pass over that and not bring it to attention to the audience? Ethics come from Ethiopia. The word ethics is derived from the word Ethiopia, which tells us that there must have been wise men who had this science on the continent of Africa in Ethiopia and impressed you Western thinkers so much that you chose to form your word ethics from that word, Ethiopia, to identify, to connect it back with that great learned group of people that had established a high ethical society at one time on the continent of Africa. They wouldn't fail to connect that. So we can't fail to connect it. We have made the connection for ethics.
This is how the soul is evolving. The soul is first rational. Spiritual, that's its constitution, that's its contents, its original contents. Spiritual. Spiritual needs a lot of understanding. Average one, say spiritual, you don't understand much. In time, (Arabic - G-d willing) we're going to learn more about what we mean when we say spiritual. Spiritual in certain fields of knowledge, the meaning has different meaning. 
Spiritual in the entertainment field has a different meaning from spiritual in the religious field, has a different meaning. Although they connect at certain points, they connect, but one is talking about a spirit just for pleasure where the other one is not a spirit just for pleasure. It's a spirit for truth. Spirit for truth. A spirit to be with truth and to know truth and to be with truth, not against truth. That's the spirit of truth called the spirit of truth in scripture. When the spirit of truth has come, it will leads you into all truth. Isn't that written? It's written in scripture, in the Bible? 
The needs that we have that are four is the need for our rational mind. we need food for our rational mind. We need food for our desire to distinguish what is proper from improper, what is right from wrong, what is decent, what is indecent, et cetera. We need that. Then we need education in order for us to grow and manage our life better and more productively in the environment where we live, beginning with the earth, the natural environment, but in man the world also. And then the fourth is the need to establish for the fields of discipline. Allah says (Arabic) created, (Arabic) and then gave establishment just balance. Just balance. (Arabic) Then He empowered. He empowered. (Arabic) empowered. So this is the urge and the soul for education. The urge and the soul for education is your potential and your intelligence. And it's so potent. It's so powerful . (Arabic) means power. (Arabic) And then He empowered. (Arabic) and then He gave guidance. Guidance. The guidance is education. 
The guidance is education. Now we get the education with the education, when we have to study the dangers for knowledge, for the misuse of knowledge and the cleverness of igniting our educated men, their cleverness. And we have to have protection against the cleverness of the deceitful person who may cause big trouble in the society. And every now and then they will do something too to say, we have to have checks on this, checks on this. So then you have to establish a higher form of decency that you just can't call moral rules. It requires a bigger word that involves intelligent, enlightened thinking along with moral sensitivity. And that's ethics to ethical life. So then the ethical life, that's the fourth one there. Men just didn't just require ethical rules. 
As I said, it went back to Ethiopia, a long time in Africa under certain great rulers, they had already evolved their society to ethical conduct, and they're not the only ones in ancient times. Now we come to the Taqwa, the soul again and looking at the soul again, and we see that G-d has ordered this soul in this way and G-d, by ordering the soul in this way, has decided for us that we must evolve into a mind to accept responsibility for our own life and for the life of society, at least for our share of that responsibility, for the life of society. We must understand that when we inherit responsibility and responsibility is inherited. When G-d created man, He charged him with certain duties, certain responsibility. So responsibility is inherited and with responsibility comes authority. 
I don't know, we wouldn't be separating responsibility from authority if we were not influenced or manipulated to do that. Those who want to take advantage of us will teach us responsibility, but will not tell us that you can't be responsible without authority. You have a responsibility to stop at a red light, don't you. You don't have an authority to change the red light, do you? And make it come on when you want and go off where you want. So regarding the stop light, you just have responsibility, no authority, but regarding your own behavior, you have responsibility and authority. You have responsibility to obey those stoplights, and you have authority to make yourself do it. They give you responsibility. Now you have to establish your own self as authority to protect that responsibility. So you go there and something say, oh, ain't no car, ain't nothing coming, go on through that red light. You need to establish in yourself, Wallace an authority. 
As soon as that come up in Wallace's mind, Wallace said, Uhuh, you can't do that. You wait until hat light changes. That's the authority. That's the authority in the body. The authority in the body is saying you have responsibility to stop and no, you cannot escape this responsibility. The light is still red. Stop, stay stopped until the light turns green. That's authority. So have responsibility, the man has responsibility to take care of his family, to go out and provide for his family. You're going to give me responsibility and take away authority? G-d gave me responsibility, but with responsibility (He) also gave me authority. So you see, I'm responsible to go out and work and take care of my family. Well I want also authority. So that means if you can't supply me with a job, I have a right and go and find a way to make, earn my living some other way. Authority, right? I have this responsibility. I have to find a way to do it. If you won't show me a way to do it or you won't provide an opening for me somewhere where I can be in employed to take care of my family, I have this responsibility and I am the authority for this responsibility. You can't separate the two. Responsibility and authority goes together. 
Understand that man has not been created just for responsibility. Man has been created for authority, and not one man, every man. And yes sister, every woman, every human being has been created for responsibility and authority. Where we fail as a people is that we do not accept authority. We always want to pass the buck and make somebody else responsible for our shortcomings when it comes to accepting our responsibilities. Well I know I'm supposed, "supposed to be" responsible for this, but what can I do man? And usually we let him get away with just that. What can I do man? Don't let him get away with that. He ain't got nothing to come back on. That's his last thing. He just pulled his last card when he said, well, what can I do man? He figuring you ain't got nothing to tell him that, you can't tell him anything. So don't let him get by with it. No. What can you do? You can accept authority, get you a pail and squeegee and some vinegar or something and go out and look for dirty windows in your neighborhood and wash some windows and bring that money back home to that sister, to your wife. Don't say you ain't got no job. You go out there and you go out there and find some work. Plenty of work out there. Ain't never a time when ain't no work out there. Now, if we were driven by authority, if we would accept that we are the authority, you can't pass the buck, when you accept you an authority, then you can't be passing the buck. If we accept, we're the authority, we will not neglect our responsibility like we do. With responsibility, has to come authority. So when Allah says I'm about to, I'm making, pardon me, I'm making a khalifah in the earth, Allah is not just saying he's making a responsible creature in the earth. Allah is saying that I am giving responsibility to a creature and I'm giving authority to that creature. I am authorizing that creature. All of us are authorized to be responsible for human life, beginning with our own, In society. In society. This is your natural inheritance.
The soul then is a very valuable precious, the most valuable and most precious property we have is our soul. And it is the energy source. It might be the greatest energy source man has, the human soul. The wise inheriting knowledge of the soul are very, very wise in the knowledge of the soul. They have inherited this knowledge over thousands and thousands of years. They have inherited the knowledge and they're very wise, as I said. Those with wisdom know that the soul is explorable. You can explore it. 
We said that the world is (Arabic), the world is deception meaning, what you see is not the real thing, its not the real meaning. When you look at the world and you see the sun, don't look at it with your eyes. It hurts the eyes, but you know it's there. The sun, for this knowledge that I'm sharing with you now, don't ever think of the sun anymore as the sun up there that makes the day come tomorrow and we hope will shine and not be too hot. Don't think of that sun. From now on, think of the urge in your soul to light not only your life, but to light, give light to the world. The urge in your own soul, to not just shine light on your own little private life, but also to give light to the whole world. Sun gives light to the whole earth, to all of us. The whole world, our whole world, the world of mankind. Think of that sun then as a symbol representing in religious language, the need in your soul to light up your life and to light the life of the world up. To put life on the whole world, on the life of the whole world and to understand that it is explorable. 
Explorable means that I can study it and I can make progress in the study of it, and I can learn the unknown in it. I can discover the unknown in it. Just like man with his intelligence has used the sunlight, shining on the world, objective world we see, the earth and he abused it to travel the rivers and the oceans and explore it and find all these great treasures and bring them back home for the enrichment of human life in society. Understand that the real important exploration is the exploration of your own soul. Have patience. Be patient. Be patient. The main course is not yet served. Exploitable, but is also explorable because just where there are resources, where there are valuable things. And when they're exposed to the mind of deceitful people, of untrustworthy people, they will too explore. But they will be exploring to rob, to steal, to take unlawfully and to use selfishly, those things discovered of value. Well, the worst exploitation in the history of man is not the exploitation of the physical fields of things or these material fields, but is the exploitation of the human soul. And at this point I want to tell you those who accept it, accept it. Those who don't want to forget it. 
If Jesus Christ, the life of the Jesus Christ as a mistreated person, if his life is a message of anything, it is a message of the exploitation of the human soul, the exploitation of the human soul, how G-d creates the human soul, so rich, so valuable and the wise, or the wicked, study it, explore it for exploits to steal what is valuable and use it. And I don't believe there's a soul of anybody that has been robbed as much and exploited as much as the soul of the African American people. Our soul have been explored and exploited more than the soul of any other people. Do you think when they put us in slavery and limited our travel to working for the master and going back home and go to sleep, do you think they'd had you locked up just to study your body or to use your body? No. While they had you locked up, they were studying also how they could explore and exploit your soul. No, just keep listening. I said the main course is coming.
When we look at business field, field of education and sciences, when we look at government, when we look at culture, we see life in its expression. Life has, human life has to express itself in business, interacting with the material world in education, the curious mind, interacting with the material environment, with the nature of things, and et cetera. Then we have to look at the need in the soul for government and culture, culture. We express ourselves in culture, dance, song dress, the choice of foods, et cetera. All this is our culture. Don't just think of these things like that, like that and don't make connections with scripture. In the Qur'an and in the Bible, the orphan is mentioned and the rites of the orphan to inherit. If my mother and father are dead, I'm an orphan. 
G-d created me and He gave rights to my mother and my father, rights of inheritance to them. Because I don't have any. It doesn't mean I don't have the rights of inheritance. You never lose the rights of inheritance, to inherit what G-d made available to all human beings. You have a right to inherit in that, right of inheritance in that. The soul also has a destination or a destiny, and G-d says unto Me is your return. G-d speaking. And to Allah, you must return, G-d, you must return. Don't think of dying. When G-d says just return, that means I got to die one day. No! More importantly, it means that G-d designed your life to progress in a certain way and the world takes you out of that original life and you lose the nature and ability to progress in that way that G-d chose for you to progress. 
To G-d, you must return, to that original way that G-d established for you, you must return. You must return. When the soul realizes a return, it realizes the fulfillment of his life and purpose. It realizes the height, that very height, the peak of his joys. Don't think it's spooky stuff, that after I die, this is that. No, understand that this is talking about living things and G-d says, I'm not the G-d of the dead, but the living. Don't anymore be associating this with death. Oh to Allah I have to return, no. To your excellence that G-d, the excellent pattern designed for your life and your progress and your future, you have to return to that. The world steals it from you. It confuses the environment so much until it takes you off course. It makes you unaware of what your real life is and what the real progress in your life should be. What that line of progress in your life should be. They take that away from you. To G-d you must return, return to the order of G-d, the order of G-d for you. That's what G-d means when he say to you, must return, return to the order of G-d for you and that's like a return home, isn't it? That's like a return home. And you've heard the people saying, I want to go home. Soul was making them say the right thing but I don't know if the mind was understanding the right way. Home ain't the graveyard. I'm telling you home ain't a coffin and home ain't a hole in the ground. Ain't my home! Home. ain't no unlimited time with no activity. I don't want that much rest. That ain't my home. Let me continue here. We are going to get to the meat of this in just a few minutes.
We have heard the expression from the Bible and the government shall be upon his shoulders, and the government shall be upon his shoulders. Here the Bible is describing, not one man or one nation or one people. It is describing the right of every human being to share in responsibility for government. These vast ideas that we have in the language of our modern sciences, political science. These are great ideas about the individual having the right to influence his government, the right to participate, the right to have authority, et cetera. These rights were already established long time ago and the secret language of scripture. Says that the government shall be upon his shoulders. 
So what we have is really a language talking to the future, but a language that already had the establishment in concept before it was actualized in the world. So here are people that G-d had revealed the right order of society and the right order of willing to how it should evolve so that it becomes a just society, a just order for all people long before it is actually produced or actualized. So don't give the Founding Fathers too much credit. These Founding Fathers were just blessed by G-d to interpret this language and see the beautiful vision or picture of society that G-d had revealed to His servants and the prophets and messengers of G-d. This beautiful picture. 
So they're pursuing it and they call it what? The divine destiny or the new destiny. We know where the destiny started, don't we? With Abraham? With Abraham. This word destiny started with Abraham. If they talk about a new world and a new destiny, a divine destiny, they're talking about a continuation of the search for the destiny or the vision of Abraham. That's what they're talking about. Don't give the world too much credit. That's what I'm telling you. Don't give the world too much credit. Now that G-d has connected us with the light, have put us in the light and have connected us with the light, we shouldn't look to outside us to guide our steps in the road to our destiny or to our good future. 
No. We should listen to those that G-d has inspired, enlightened among us. We should listen to them and we should let our whole mind become orientated all over again. Let our feel for what's important and not important and what's more important, what's less important? Let it become new in light of what you're hearing now, and you'll become a new people with a new mind, new confidence, new vision and I believe you're going to outstrip them all, in time. you're going outstrip them all. Isn't that the justice? If they deceived us, took us from our land and not from our people and from our life history and put us in slavery and started us off from point 0, point 0! Took everything away from us. Left us with no moral than to leave a dog with, not as much. Then the justice is to put you ahead of those that did that to you. Oh, but that's not these, that's the children (that) did that to us. Too bad. Too bad. 
Their children, their children did the thing that's going to put them behind us. We had nothing to do with it. Let me tell you something, this G-d is real. You can't help it. They can't help it. You ain't going to change nothing. What I'm telling you going to happen whether you like me or reject me or follow me, it's going to happen. Allah is already regressing their nature, just like they put us in circumstances to regress our nature. That means send it back to make it weaker and weaker and dumber and dumber. Allah is causing their nature to become weaker and dumber, weaker and dumber. They hardly have a fit person to offer for the presidency when these four years are up. I understand why you're clapping. I'm happy with you, but I want you at the same time to feel sorry for them because we love all human beings. And if I could, I'd bring them up with us instantly, instantly, instantly. 
But the hand of justice is already on 'em. It ain't nothing we can do about it. Ain't nothing we can do about it. It's regressing them and advancing us. Isn't that G-d's justice? If you take innocent babies and you regress those babies, then the justice will be that you and your innocence babies be taken and regress you all and send them ahead of you. It ain't our duty to administer medicine to them if we do it. It's charity. Some of them will learn that their wives should be .............., they should be studying this thing that has happened, and they should be administering medicine to their own children, to save their own children from the terrible things that their own hands have wrought, as the scripture says. Won't be long, won't be long. Allahu Akbar. 
The government shall be upon his shoulder. What is upon your shoulder? Your head! Well, I say the neck first. Well, you know say a chair is standing on the floor. Right? Stand this chair on the floor, put this chair on the floor. You don't say, well you've got a chair is on the floor. But really its the legs of the chair that's on the floor, you don't separate the legs from the seat and the back. The head is on the shoulder and this is a leg, the post that the head is anchored upon. You can say the neck, say the neck is on the shoulder, but actually the neck ain't on the shoulders. The neck is inside the body. The head is on the shoulder. The head is on the shoulder. See the head? The head is on the shoulders, the neck is stable, it's stabilized in the body. (It) goes all the way down the back of the spine, down the spinal column back down there. The head is on the body. 
That's the way they saw it too. They didn't look at the little point here. They looked at the ball there and they said the head is on the shoulder and the government shall be upon his shoulders. The head shall be upon his shoulders. What is the shoulder symbolic of? The old scale that they used to have, the balance where you have something here, something here and a pivot here and swivel and when you put so much here, it brings this up so much. When you put it balanced, then it's just. That’s the just balance. 
So whatever was in this side, if it was a pound, half pound weight. If you wanted half a pound of a hamburger, then I put the half pound weight on this side and I put the half pound hamburger on the other side. And when they level, you've got your justice, you've got your justice. A head shall be upon his shoulders meaning that he shall be a ruler of justice. He shall be a just ruler, a just leader, a just ruler upon his shoulders. His shoulder is a natural part of him. That's his body. G-d designed this. So this is a sign of the justice that G-d wants, is that you be a just person. A head is upon his shoulders here. But look what connects the shoulders. The arms, the arms. The shoulders are what holds the arms. If my head is upon my shoulders, then my head is also authority over my arms. It is ruling my arms, ...................... this come off from the shoulders, The shoulders, arms, power, hands, deeds, work skills, all that. The authority or the government shall be over the deeds of the people, shall be over their professions, over their occupations, over their works that they do with their hands. 
You see how rich it is in meaning, how rich it is in meaning, how far reaching it is. And the government shall be upon his shoulders and he shall be called the just ruler, just council. This is the prediction. But what is it saying when it uses the human figure to say this, to speak this language, communicate the language. What is it saying? That G-d has made it so that every human being in his sane and healthy mind must be respected as representative of government. 
Now you know the people have their representatives. We have our representatives, but we choose them, don't we? You can't have all of us in government. It is impossible. But we choose who we want to represent us in government. And isn't that representative representing each one of us? In a real sense, aren't each one of us, if we are conscious of our responsibility as voters, et cetera, aren't each one of us there when our representative speak? When our representative speak, each one of us are there. That's the prediction. The American people have already evolved where that is to be taken. We just want to see that it stays that way and work like it's supposed to work. They say don't try to invent the wheel all over again. Why go through the labor? It's already here. I'm telling you, you should stop looking back in time so much and learn how to take this knowledge and apply it today, to the real things that we are experiencing today, to the real world of today and to what we experiencing today. 
These predictions in the Bible, they've all been fulfilled practically. Practically every one of them have been fulfilled. Don't be wasting your time where, oh, when is the light coming? The light came already. Say, when is Christ Jesus coming? He already came. He came back already and the government is upon his shoulder. It is a just government. So don't be looking for the fulfillment of those things. They're already fulfilled, but except in your mind that you have been informed correctly by Warith Deen Mohammed, by Imam W. Deen Mohammed. You have been informed correctly so that your head will be clear like theirs, like the top one among them. Do you think the average one in that government know what I'm telling you? No! They don't know this. They'll be sitting there looking amazed. They were looking at me with amazement. I was speaking once in a group of them and representatives, they called me there and it was several doctors. When I say doctor, I mean PhD's, not medical doctors. When they invited me to come to the podium to speak, he said, Dr. Mohammed, welcome. I said, I'm not a doctor. He whispered in my ear, he leaned over here and whispered in my ear, he said, you think all of us doctors here are not able to identify a doctor? That's what he told me. He was a PhD and there were several of those PhDs they invited me there to come to be. 
So that's what he told me. Now I'm a humble fella. I'm not proud. I want no credits. I don't want to be seen. If I could talk and hide myself, I would do it. G-d knows I'd do it. Well, I didn't want that kind of credit, but I'm telling you what their big minds think. Their big minds know that this man has knowledge that many of them don't have. Many of them don't have. Don't fool yourself thinking that they, no, they do not know. Only a very few of them. In fact, people like, with my knowledge, they live as invisible people. They'll never let you know who they are. They live as invisible people and they'll be the ones to protect, like angels, protecting the order. They're the ones to protect the order. They live like invisible people. They never publishing who they are. Not even the president of the United States know them. Only he gets is a benefit of that knowledge. That's all. They make sure knowledge reaches him that he needs in times of need. When there's a real serious need. They say, well, how come you? 
I don't know, ask G-d Now I've been trying to hold my tongue and G-d says, no, I'm going to make your life miserable for you until you speak. And I just made my life miserable holding my tongue. G-d let me know that I shouldn't hold my tongue so I'm not holding my tongue. Is it justice that they hide these things and keep us in the dark? No, it's not justice. There was a time they tried different things on me. 
They tried to bring me into their secret schools for studying the language. They sent me invitation to join an international secret order. I never answered. They've tried other things, never answered. Do you think they'll come here and make trouble for me? No. Make no trouble for me. They'll protect me just like the soldiers of G-d. That's right. I'm telling you, they will respond as the soldiers of G-d and protect me if they knew I was in some kind of danger. None of them are going to hurt me. They have no desire to hurt me. Not the angels. The devils would if they could. What it says when Muhammed was born, this is a story, a myth among the Arabs. 
It says, when Muhammad was born, say, they noticed that everything was strange. Say when they looked at the wicked, the devils say they saw all the devils with their head hung and they said, what has happened today? Said, and they later discovered that Muhammed was born on that day. So no hope. No hope. The devil said it's too late, too late. Once Muhammed was born, it's too late, we can't do our thing? And I told my brother I fear nothing but G-d. Not that I'm not afraid of other things hurting me, certainly, but the fear of G-d is so much greater than the fear of those things. I'm about to wrap this up. Lastly, now here comes the meat. Look, we have talked all of this deep knowledge. We've had all of this deep insight into the nature of things. Are we just going to have knowledge for knowledge sake? That's a sin. Once you enlightened, then you have to act according to the light.
Now recently we were in Harlem. We spoke at the Apollo Theater. After speaking there, I was told almost before I left, yeah, almost before I left the area, I was told you say going to reproduce the tape. You can't reproduce it if you put Apollo on it, you can't have Apollo, can't put Apollo on it I said, what? I said what is this? I said you tell me we speak at a place and we can't even say where we spoke? He said, no. They say you can't use Apollo. So I said, oh, that can't be true. I said, so they finally went back and forth. Finally came to me a couple of weeks later, said, well, the ones that got the lease, they failed to read everything carefully. They can't use the name Apollo. I said, okay, we use the name Harlem. They say, I spoke in Harlem.
Then they get word that the owner, this ain't me talking, I'm just telling you what they told me. The owner is a Jew and the owner says, you can use the word Apollo for $15,000. I didn't say nothing, but I wanted to say tell him we will buy the Apollo for 15,000. Now just think about this. This is the main part of my message. This is why I wanted you together. This message is for the community. All of us, for sisters and brothers, equally. You all think about this and don't forget, re-read what I've given you today up to the point where we are now, the closing of this. 
We had no opportunity to be included in this country's productive life until we showed that we were going to build our own productive life. Then they decided with pressure coming from whites and others and us, that they were going to include us in their productive life. We had a African-American or black baseball authority, authority, not just responsibility, authority. It was an established authority over black players in baseball, and they were making plenty money off of blacks who were just so excited about seeing them play. They accepted us into the leagues, the National League, the American League accepted us into the great leagues and we gave up that. Now where's the money that we were making off of baseball that was coming to us? They got it. 
Now i'll name, one or two other things, but let's look right there. What happened? Now, look in music. Just think of all the great musicians that we've had and think of the vocalists. All the great vocalists we've had, the great dancers. Bill Robinson Bojangles going all the way back to him who got so popular right there in Harlem. Got so popular, he revolutionized tap dancing for America, and he danced at the Apollo theater, I think. I'm pretty sure, at the Apollo Theater. He danced there and now the Apollo Theater, which is a landmark for African-American entertainment, it's gone. A Jew owns it. Do you think any other people would allow other people to harvest their resources and command their life?. That's what they're doing. They're harvesting our resources and commanding our life for their advantages. 
Would that happen to any other people but us? No. Not another people on this planet earth that will permit that. Not even the American Indian. No, You come and steal something from American Indian. He going to say you'll give it back or we take scalp. You have to lock him up on a reservation or something. You had to put him in prison to keep from him doing what he want to do. But we can be free. Freer than birds. I started saying, free as a bird, we freer than birds. They take everything we got and we don't complain. Now, if that ain't a sacrificial lamb, tell me what it is. Sacrificial lamb. Cutting my throat. I won't make a sound. Won't even say baaaa. Take my skin, make coats out of my wool. Do what you want. Eat my flesh. I won't even say baaaa. So don't think of Jesus anymore as a sacrificial lamb. That's a story. 
The reality is you, African-American people, made the sacrificial lamb of the world. Sold, exploited, explored and exploited to enrich the treasures of this world. Here we are. Don't have anything as an establishment. If I become a great singer, I got to go to the Jews for a stage. That's a shame.
We can't have this anymore. Look. We're thinking that this religion is just fasting and praying and waiting on the next Eid. This religion is responsibility for Muslim community life. That's what this religion is, plain as day. The religion is responsibility for Muslim community life. Now we know that the average one of you all can't do much more than just show your moral support, your spiritual support, and to bring your physical presence here to let us know you are with us. When those men in the language of the Bible, when those men told David, when he was facing the great challenges and the great armies, they said to him, you are flesh of our flesh and bone of our bones. When they said that to him, It was only a very few that he could really count on for some actual work being done, but in spirit they all were with him. And that's all we need from you all. We need all of you all to be in spirit, supportive of what we want to do. Be in spirit, supportive and to bring your presence, to help strengthen the spirit of our community. Your presence, your physical presence helps strengthen the spirit of our community and learn as much as you can. As the people were told in the Bible and the G-d rained down manna and quail for them, so they were told to go out and get the manna before the sun come up, because when the sun comes up, it would disappear. They said, go out and each person gather as much as he can take into his own private home. Well, that's a sign. What it means is, I'll give it to you in a practical way now, in plain language. What you hear from Imam Warith Deen Mohammed, take as much of it as you can manage, take it into your own private mind. Take it back to your own home and share it with your family, as much as you can manage. But do it before the sun comes up. That means before you start thinking something else, before, while you've got this on your mind, do it. Don't wait until you go to bed, in the morning, you've got some other things on your mind. That's the light of those things then will just do away, will melt away or dissolve away what we are talking about right now. So before you take chances on losing it, in the interest, the influence that will come on you tomorrow when you wake up, do it tonight. Go home and with whatever you've digested safely and comparably, safely and comparably, take that home and share it with your loved ones that you can talk to and be as considerate of their capacity to understand as I am of your capacity to understand, give them no more than what you think they can handle.


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