1/15/1989
IWDM Study Library
Evening Of Elegance Oakland CA

By Imam W. Deen Mohammed
Imam WD Mohammed:
Praise to Allah, the Lord of all the worlds. We bear witness there is but one G-d, Allah and Muhammad is His Messenger, servant and Messenger. We pray the peace and the blessings be on the Prophet, upon his descendants and his companions, the righteous all. We are happy and pleased very much to be here in Oakland today after the evening of elegance, which is very successful again, more rewarding peace time that I have attended and we're sorry for the difficulty that was caused by the persons who were responsible for the opening of the school, the public school and for whatever other inconvenience that has occurred. We're sorry for that, but we are happy with our situation here to have this meeting inside the Mosque, the Masjid facility. My talk today be on the condition of our spirit as a identifiable Muslim group. What I have observed over the recent years, mainly whatever I have observed over the recent years. And it would be in the form mostly I would say in the form of just comments.
Many times we feel in our heart what we should do, what we want to do and what we should do, but we kind of feeling in the dark. We go on and we are not aware ourselves of our situation. We are just so eager, so anxious to do what we feel is right and urgent, but if we are sincere in what we are doing, the burden of having to feel our way will at one time or another register on us, come into our conscious mind. And we realize that the situation is not what we would like and we want to change the situation so we can be more direct in going after what we want and so we will be clearer in going after what we want. I have experienced that in my lifetime as a spokesman, a speaker for the religion and for Muslim concerns and for our concerns. I've experienced that and I look back now eight, 10 years behind me and I can see myself feeling that urgency, that desperation to make headway, to accomplish something, to hit the mark.
But it was in a situation that would enabled me to see clearly or to go as directly as I wanted to go after the things that I wanted to go after. Feeling in the dark so to speak. Not to say that I was totally in the dark, no. There was much light for me. I knew the religion. I know it better now, but I knew it then too. I knew the religion and I knew the important matters in the religion, but there was a spirit in me to accomplish something and to be skillful at accomplishing that and for that particular task I was not in a good situation, I was not in a good situation. And the problem for me was the habit of what you call going in the same direction, the habit of past experience, the force of past experience, the momentum of the old. That was the problem, going with the force. Going with the force.
The force was to show people community, preach community, identify with community work for the strengthening of community, for the progress of community. There's nothing wrong with that if it's in the proper place, if it's in the proper place. But if you make that your first objective and your main focus, you'll stay in the situation I was in. And I'm sure there are many who are still in that situation that I was in, although for several years now I've been pointing to that as a mistake. That we made a mistake in lifting up community and focusing on community and working directly for community betterment.
The focus should have been the human person. That should have been the focus, the human person. And we should have made our investments directly into the human person and the result is success for the community. Now we know that people can get big visions of collective life that they want and they can come up with a idea for collective life and can work for it directly and experience great results, get great results. But I'm convinced can't cover this in this short time that we have. Just certain things, I just make statements and go onto something else. I'm convinced that in the long run all of those efforts fail. They don't survive, they die. But the effort to gain collective life upon the building of the individual, the structure of the individual.
It succeeds, it succeeds, it stays. Every nation that has had that idea is still around, they're still around and they'll only be around until they lose that idea. If they ever lose that something can happen maybe so dramatic for them that it might take them off that course and shatter their thoughts and their ideas and scatter their minds and maybe when they regroup it'll be too late. Maybe they won't find the place where they were and maybe they'll lose it. But as long as they have that they will have community life, they'll have national life. That's the answer.
Now I can draw many references in support of this. I believe if we just look to the collective effort of people in business and study those business organizations that give a whole lot of attention to equipping the individual in the organization over the priority of improving or working directly for the improvement of the organization. They concentrate whether directly on the individuals in the organization than directly on the organization itself. You study it and you'll find that those who are making the greatest success are those who are making their investments directly into the individuals that make up the company or the organization. And the result is the company and organization thrives, grows bigger, better all the time. This is nothing new, this is old, this is nothing new. This is what made the West great and more importantly for us, this is what made the early followers of our Prophet so great.
They were obligated to be a community, obligated to be a nation. But how much have we in our tools, resources, in our tools for building a nation. But we have great resources and great amount of tools for building the lives of individuals. The Qur'an is mostly for building a lives of individuals. The traditions of our Prophet, his teachings, his precious words that he left with us be beyond. Those are tools mostly for treating the life, working on the life of the individual. We can't pick up this book and say here is the blueprint for building a nation. It's not there. Here's the blue footprint for building a human being. Here is the blueprint for building a human being. But not a fragmented human being. This is a blueprint for building a total human being. And a total human being, if you build a total human being, you are going to address all of the essential, all of the important concerns of life, morality, work, establishment, business, government.
You have to address all of that because the nature, the nature, the natural requirements in the human being are demanding that you address all of that if you respect the total human being, the total person. That's what saved me from the dark. That's what saved me from feeling in the dark. Now I feel that I'm on solid ground. I feel that I see very clearly. I feel very sure of what I'm doing. I have no doubts whatsoever. No doubts whatsoever. I'm perfectly convinced that we are on solid ground and we can't help but achieve success.
But that's not something that you can just pass on to people. Hey, hey brother, I got this. Here you take it, you got it now. No, it can't happen like that. Something has to happen within you as it happened within me. You have to realize too that you feeling in the dark and then have the courage and strength to question your position. No matter how much you love it. Have the character strength to question your position. Question your attitudes. Question your stand. You have a stand, you have a stand that you've taken, but question your attachments. You attached to certain ideas, you attached to certain concerns. Question your attachments and question them as an individual not connected with them. Like they ain't yours. This is not my concern, this is not my position. Now I'm going to question it. See, everything that we question that we say is mine prejudice our position to deal with it you see. So I've always said I don't have anything, nothing that I hesitate to question, to pick apart. Because I don't have anything. Nothing is mine. I came into this world, I didn't have anything. This body came from my mother and my father. I didn't have anything. So everything I got came from somewhere else.
So I got an idea came to me too after I got in the world. I didn't invent it, it ain't my product so I questioned it. The only thing that's mine is the attitude I have toward it. So I'm just going to deal with attitudes and I can deal with the attitude, I can manage my attitude if I can just break this belief that this is mine. I've seen parents attending to a bad no good child. And they didn't know the reason why they couldn't deal with the situation fairly was because they were all caught up in possession.
My child, that's my boy, don't you hell, don't you say a thing to him, that's my boy. Then certain times you have to separate from that attachment. No, but right now that ain't my boy. That's just a boy. Now tell me what happened here? Then you'd be able to see better, right? Yeah, you'd be able to think better and be able to come to a better conclusion, better judgment. You have to detach yourself, that's all I'm saying. Not that you give up possession, but you detach yourself, you detach yourself where you are not affected by ownership. This is mine. Some of us you know we have an idea from 1940. This is mine.
Nobody can give you a better idea. Mine, I got it in 1940 and it hasn't produced anything for you. You look right today like you did in 1940. It is mine. I'll never give it up. I got this in 1940 and I knew then that this was it. Well for me, I'm always going to accept change. If the truth or the situation dictates change, I'm ready to accept change and that's what I've done over the years of my life. I've changed when I felt that it was right and best to change, I've changed. So I changed that attachment to the community idea because I realized that the best way to achieve community goals is by investing in the individual. You must invest in the individual.
So because of that change in me and my addressing the community through the interest of individual interests, I have observed over these recent years now three years, maybe four years or more, I have observed beautiful change in the people, change that we all are very happy with. When I say we all, I mean people in my immediate association, we are very happy with these changes. We see more peace in the people and that tells us that they're more comfortable with themselves. That tells us that they are having a better outlook on things. But you can't have a good outlook if you are not peaceful, if you are not at peace. If you are yourself not at peace, you can't have a good outlook If you're not at peace, you can't expect a good tomorrow. You have the first to come at peace with yourself. You have to feel good about your own self, about your own state. Then you can feel good about tomorrow. A lot of people go to bed with a frown on the face. They go sleep like this and they sleep ugly.
You scared to wake 'em up Because they feel bad about themselves. They're not at peace, they don't have peace within and I do believe that the change in the way I give this propagation through the propagation has brought about a condition for all of us coming into a better sense of self and a better state of self, a better state of self. And the result is it's a better atmosphere for everybody. And in such atmosphere there is profit, progress. Yes, you'll be surprised how much progress our association's making, great progress. By me being the leader, I perhaps get more information than anybody else on the success of individual Muslims in our association.
This growing and growing is constantly progressing. New businesses, new achievement in all kinds of fields. Job promotion, new jobs, new ventures in business, expansions of business. We have people in our association that are not only moving up in our circle but they're moving up in the outer community circle. They're being recognized and awarded in the eyes of the community by the eyes of the outer community and in the eyes of the outer community. Yes, and this is happening regularly. Great progress is coming. And it's not something that is general or something that you can say is happening all throughout the African-American community. No it's not. It's happening in our community. It's not happening that much outside of our community in the African-Americans, outside of, it's not happening that much.
And believe me, they are noticing that. The outside African Americans, outer community of non Muslim African Americans, they are noticing our progress. They are registering our progress and they're very nervous, very nervous. Few of them are happy because they don't have no problem inside their own temples you see, they don't have no problem. They're happy with themselves. So it doesn't bother them to see Muslims or anybody else going up and making headway or progress. That doesn't bother them. But they are a very small percentage. That's a very, very small percentage. The great majority of the non-Muslims, African-Americans or black. The great majority of them, they are worried to death that the Muslims are going to go and take the lead and going to become the focus for what is going on in the way of progress for the African-American people. They're worried, they're terrified. They meet with us and I see 'em shaking and they pretend. They pretend that they're happy with us, but I see fear and they're trembling almost. "I hope you all ain't coming up with nothing new." And they want to hear you say you're having a bad time.
So when I know somebody got something like that on mind, I'm a little tricky myself sometimes you know. When I know what his state is, I know he's in that kind of fix and he got that kind of mind, so I don't give him nothing but bad news to keep him dissatisfied. I want to rest him. I want to him to rest. I want him to sit down so we can go that much farther. So I tell him something to make him sit down. Oh, oh yeah. Oh you all having that kind of trouble? Yeah, he sit down.
Don't you underestimate what's going on here. Don't underestimate what's going on here. This is the life. This is the life. If you love this book, the Qur'an, this is the life. The more you become acquainted with it, the closer you get to it, the more your life is going to improve. It ain't no other way but that. Now, if you are sincere and you love this Qur'an, the revealed book of Allah, the last one, if you love this and the closer you get to it, believe me, the better your life is going to get. Ain't no way but up or forward. You are not going to fail. You're going to be successful. And if you love the Prophet Muhammad, now you can love the Qur'an, but if you don't love Prophet Muhammad, you are going to be a failure. You're going to be a failure. I don't care how much you love the Qur'an. If you don't love Prophet Muhammad, the one that this book was revealed to, you are going to be a failure. No way Allah going to bless you with this book and you don't love the one He revealed it to. No way.
The first followers of the Prophet, they loved the Prophet so much and there are those on earth that still love him like that. But I'm going to them because they're the model for us. They loved him so much. Allah told them what? You have to love the Prophet more than you love your own family members. Now you know, somebody in the sentimental pool of American life. "Well, I ain't going to love nobody more than I love my own relatives." That's not the reality. That's not the truth that we have such attachment to our relatives that we can't stand to hear somebody say that you should love a certain beneficial or benefactor more than your luxury relative. No, you just reacting. Reacting.
That's not the reality because we shoot up our relatives, we don't give our relatives any of our money. You put 'em out of doors, cuss 'em out and talk about 'em like they dogs. Call the police on 'em and hope police shoot him or bust his head with a club. So that's not the reality. We just liars. So when it comes to somebody that's not, he doesn't look like you see. So you got the picture of Prophet Muhammad in your mind and you don't see African-American, and you so black, you just crazy black. So you don't see a African-American, "That's a foreigner."
But a black family can have, Albino can be born into a black family whiter than Prophet Muhammad, eyes lighter than Prophet Muhammad. And that ain't no foreigner. That ain't no foreigner. Why? Because he came from my family. That's us. That's us. Well man is but one family. Whatever comes into the family, that's us. That's us. And the closest one to you in true relationship is the one that's best for you as a human person. Yes. Now we have obligation to blood relatives. We know that. And Allah charge to recognize that our obligation to our blood relatives, that's a big thing in our religion,. But we are not supposed to have this racist recognition. When you start thinking about color and excluding certain ones because they're not in the color, that's racist recognition. Allah want us to recognize the closeness to our family members, not based on their color but based on the responsibility. Because they're born in the same household. They're from the same father and mother. They needed the support from the same father and mother, from the same parents and those who were in the household had to share the support that came to them from whoever the parents were or whoever provided for them. So they have a common life. This is what Allah wants us to recognize. That immediate common life that we share with each other, not the color. This ain't nothing but common sense, but that's what's missing most in this society. Common sense.
Yes. So we have to get out of these sensitivities that we are in. It has to be a balance. Can't become so sentimental that you lose your rational balance, that you judge wrongly, that you take false positions, that you become guilty of abusing the truth and mistreating worthy people. No, we can't do that. We have to work on that to get all that bad water out of us. Yes. So that we be better people. And the best way to do it is to address the human state, not the black state of man, not the white state of man, not the yellow state of man or the Asian state of man, but the human state of man. That's the answer. Let us keep focusing the human state of man, addressing the human state of man, constructing our life in accordance to the best that Allah made for the human state of man. And in doing that, oh it's so easy.
The operation is painless. So when we are talking about our colors and "Yeah, what we going to do about the black, how is that going to help the blacks?" Isn't he a white man? Isn't that a white man? Did he come from over there in Arabia? Isn't that a white man? Same black man say in the church, "Wash me white as snow." He think when he get to heaven he's going to be white as snow and won't accept a white man down here on earth. Ridiculous. That's what I'm saying, just foolishness. He trying to figure out what I'm saying. I'm telling you I'll answer for you right now. Nothing but foolishness.
The Qur'an, as I said, this is material to build up people as individuals, build up individual people, build up great men, great women, great boys, great girls with this. And then as one Imam said, he said, a good manufacturer of a product, he won't only give you the product but he gives you also a manual. So we may say Prophet Muhammad is a product, Allah's product. That's His choice product that He want us to follow. That should be our role model, the number one role model for all Muslims Prophet Muhammad. But he didn't leave us just with a product. He gave us a manual. He want all of us to be that product as much as we can, as best we can. Be the Muslim that Prophet Muhammad was or is., Allah said, do not speak of my Messengers as dead, but they are alive and you know not. So we know he's passed from this earth but at the same time he is. And we have the Qur'an, the manual to enable us to operate our life in the same way he operated his, for being as successful with our life as he was with his.
And then we have the product that we can look right at back too. What was the proof of that book? That book actually has a real product. The Muhammad himself, we have his living history, his tradition, his life. He preached these words, he preached these words, he taught these words to advance these principles, he lived and died advancing these principles. Gave his whole life for the advancement of these principles, of the teaching and these principles. And when we look at him, we see the product of the word of Allah. We see the product of the Qur'an living and expressing itself and operating in very marvelous ways as a human being on the most excellent plane.
So if we can just come to some very simple conclusions, and that is that we have no need to look further for guidance. The guidance is here. The guidance is sufficient as it has been given by Allah for all times in the form of this Qur'an. So we need to come to some clear conclusions that we don't have to be looking for any guidance, Some of us are still foolish enough to be still looking for a religion and call ourselves Muslim. Wake up in the middle of night, "Wake up honey. Allah told me something last night. Honey, did you know that that Qur'an, it ain't the last, there's another book. I'm going to write it next year I think."
"Prophet Muhammad, he ain't the last. I'm the last Prophet baby. I'm the mothership. Prophet Universe." All of us don't go to that extreme, but a lot of us are touched with a bit of that. Yeah, I could feel a little bit more comfortable with Imam Mohammed if he just wouldn't say that Prophet Muhammad is the last. I can't accept that. Allah can continue to make Prophet's forever, He's not through making Prophets. I don't see him making more moons and suns for us. Now He might be making some out there in the space where ain't nobody got any. But He made one for us. I don't think Him making another one.
So I see He did something out here in the universe and said that's enough. So how come He can't do something in our world of ideas and say that's enough. See we don't know our reasoning is faulty. Our reasoning is faulty. We think we are saying something great of Allah when we say He can keep doing it. But we're saying something greater of Allah than we say He can do it and doesn't have to do it again. Because us with our limitations, we have to keep doing it. Some of you brothers 90-years-old, he's still trying to have a son. Or you believe you can have a better one then all those boys you got. You still want another son. "I ain't satisfied yet. I ain't get the boy I want yet." That's because of your limitations. Allah can stop and say, well this is the one I want, I'm finished. This one here is good enough for all times. Yes, a book good enough for all times, a Prophet good enough for all times. Now when you said if he's not your color, you have the problem not G-d, not the Qur'an, not Muhammad. You got the problem. "He ain't my color. How come he can't be my my color? Well your color won't solve your problems.
Speaker 3:
I didn't mean it that way, but your color ain't going to solve your problem. Why? Because that problem that you got is going to be in another people that's not your color. And they going to say of your Prophet, "He ain't my color." That disease you got is a common one for people that can't think straight. So when you get the Prophet of your choice, other people going to say no, I ain't going to accept him. Like you, other people like you in the other race, in another race, they're going to say the same thing you would say. So we never come to no agreement at all. But if we all stop looking at color and start looking at content as Dr. King said, we are observing his day tomorrow. As Dr. King said that he hope the day willl come when man be judged by his content and not by the color of his skin. Now Dr. King is my witness on the platform today that we should accept Prophet Muhammad on the basis of his content and not the color of his face.
Why? Because in our real worth we're not people of skin color. We're people of soul color, spirit color, mind color. The real color is the internal color, not the external color. How is your mind color? That's your real color. And Prophet Muhammad's mind was colored perfect human. That's my man. That's my relative, that's my closest relative. I don't have a closer relative than that. The perfect human is my closest relative. I want to be the perfect human. I want to think of myself as a perfect human, not as a perfect snake, not as a perfect dog, a perfect human. So the human being in the family of man, I don't care what color he is that come closest to being the perfect human and satisfy my needs to meet and greet and embrace the perfect humans, that's my closest relative. And that's why Allah say you must love him more than you love your own children, your own brothers and sisters in your family. You must love him better because he comes closer to being the perfect human. He is a perfect human and your people are not in your household.
They're not in your household. The people in your household aren't perfect humans. They haven't achieved the model of human excellence that Prophet Muhammad achieved. They weren't successful in holding together intact their excellent humanity. Even without revelation from G-d, Prophet Muhammad was before revelation came to him. In the face of all kind of human confusion, community confusion, cultural confusion, ignorance, savagery, blindness in the mind, immoral conduct, heathenism. In the face of all that he kept his humanity intact. And Allah says that he had lived the whole life among you, meaning before he got revelation. He lived a whole life among you. And they were the witness. They were the witnesses that his life was spotless. They called him the trustworthy one. The trustworthy one. They trusted him with their possessions. He was like a bank for them. They would leave and go on a trip out of town, out of the precincts.
They would trust him with that possessions just like because he was a bank. He was so trustworthy he was like a bank, they would leave their possessions with him. When they were trying to decide an argument who would place the stone into it's place when they were reconstructing, putting the building back up the Ka’ba after a flood, they were trying to decide whom shall be given the honor of placing the actual stone into it's place in the corner of the Ka’ba. They observed Prophet Muhammad was coming in the distance. They said, here comes Al Amin, let him settle this for us.
And Prophet Muhammad came and he told them, well each chief take a corner of the cloth and then he took the stone and put it in the cloth and each of the chiefs, four of them, they carried the stone in the cloth. So he solved the problem. He gave all of them equal dignity, equal dignity, equal honor in carrying the stone. But who actually got the highest honor? It was the Prophet himself because he had to solve the problem and then take the stone with his own hands and put it in there. They were holding the cloth. He picked up the stone and put the stone in the cloth and they took it to the place and then he took it out of the cloth and put it into it's proper place in the house.
Yes. So you see, our foolishness holds us back. Our foolishness holds us back. Racism is foolishness. If I as a doctor of the mind, a psychiatrist or psychologist would diagnose the Western ills in his psyche, I would diagnose that ill as racism. So what is responsible for the decline of the western man's psyche? There are a lot of reasons I can give, but the one that would come home to the point would be racism. Racism. He believed that he was special as a race. He believed that this color was more approved by G-d than any other color. He thought of himself as the divinely chosen people. He thought of himself as being into G-d's family. Time and progress made that a lie and convinced most of them that it's a lie.
And their psyche, having fed for generations on that lie was too weak under the nourishment of racism was too weak to survive and thrive in the new world of reality. So they lost spirit. They lost spirit to lead the world anymore. They lost spirit to lead the world anymore. They lost spirit to be aggressive and to go out in the front. No more Superman, can't be Superman anymore. Why? Because I'm disappointed to my heart. I'm just like every other man. That's too much of a disappointment for me. I have no spirit to go forward anymore. Oh let the Asians come here and take over. We don't care.
We got a new thing. We're James Brown, Jimi Hendrix, we got a new thing. We in the old nigger groove now. We want to have a party. Let the Asian and the newcomers have industry and we going to have a party. Blow out time. Yes, blow out in the souls, right? Blow out in the soul, just finished. No more spirit to go forward anymore. Don't you know that's the state of what you call white America. They ain't got a spirit to go forward anymore. They're so disappointed and they don't realize what the great disappointment is that has deflated their ego. That great disappointment is you ain't no special person.
You ain't nothing but a human being like everybody else. Now psychiatrists can understand very well what I'm saying. They know very well what I'm saying. They see the scientific support for what I'm saying. But I'm going to show it to you very quickly. Imagine not a race but this being an individual child and this child is in your family or in somebody's family. And they pumped this child's head from birth. They pumped into that child's mind from birth that it is superior to all the other children in the family. And it lives and enjoys that kind of a reality. The other children accept he's a superman. We are not. And all other children now are retarded because they believe too what were told to that special child in the family. And one day the children learn that that's a lie and all the children change. They don't believe it anymore. And some of the children start to excel and some of the children start to beat him at achievements. That drives him crazy. AAARRGG!!
Imam WD Mohammed:
I don't want this house, I don't want to stay here. You see it now, don't you? Yeah. Well I used to be angry with the white man, but the more I saw his state the more I wanted to tell him, Come on, come on, come on. Somebody loves you. Somebody loves you. I know what you been through. You've been through hell. You were conditioned for a
fatal end. I understand it and you have a right to feel bad and be mad at everybody. You got a right. Come on, come on. Let me hug you. As much as you hate me let me hug just a little while. He ain't going be nothing but just an electricity shock. Now go on, now go on. Know that somebody wanted to love you.
So believe me, all we have to do is be true to what we profess. We profess to be. converts to this religion, we profess to be believing in this holy book. Then be true to that. We profess to follow the Prophet, the last of G-d's Prophet's Muhammad, Peace be upon him. Be true to that. Be sincere and be true. You will be successful, no way out but to be successful. It's just going to happen automatically. If this is what you accept as authority in your life and you love and honor and respect the Prophet of this book it's automatic, success is automatic.
When I look at myself and what I want to achieve, I don't see myself as any failure. I'm a success and no small success. I consider myself a big success. Maybe some of you all don't consider it that way, but I can see myself better than you. You haven't seen the situations that I've been in all of them. You just see me when I come here. I see myself 24 hours, most of the great hours of the day and every day I see myself. I see myself in all of my encounters with people, young and old, wise and foolish, uneducated and dumb. I see myself all over the world, Kings and common folks, government leaders and ordinary folks. I see myself in all those situations all over the country. And I see myself as being successful, very successful. I didn't dream that I'd be meeting people of such high statue, such high caliber, such high achievement in the world, such high offices in the world. I didn't dream years ago that I would meet such people and they would humble themselves. And not that I desire that, but I had Kings themselves, they make a gesture, humble gesture in me.
What are they making that humble gesture to? Something that they have great respect for. Sincerity. Muslim sincerity. Muslim conduct, Muslim courage. Say this man is a man of truth, a man of constancy and a man of great courage. And they say even though sometimes you see grammatical errors in his writing, and in his talks he's a man of great intelligence. G-d has blessed me with that. To be respected as a man of great intelligence. A man told me, now here is a head of a university. I spoke on his campus. When I finished talking, in my talk, I told them I didn't have those qualifications. I didn't have a degree. He came to me after I made my talk and he shook my hand. He said, "Yes, you do have a degree. He said, you are a doctor." Now that's a doctor that's the head of the college saying that to me. And he wasn't putting on like some of you all do.
"Brother Mujeddid, Asalaam Alaikum Mujeddid." He was full of knowledge and he recognized, he said, "And your work is scholarly, scholarly." That's what he told me. He said, your work is scholarly. He said, believe me, Imam Mohammed, he said, believe me, I know. He said, you are a scholar. He was so impressed with my presentation. Now, some of you all, you want the guy in the pool room to verify that Iman Mohammed is qualified. And he ain't never been nowhere but to the pool room and the tavern and jail. And you want him to verify that Imam WD Mohammed has qualifications. I'm not saying this to support anything in me. I'm saying this to tell you something. That this works. The love of G-d's word, the love of His Prophet works. This works. All you need is to be sincere. Be truthful. Don't lie to yourself about what you believe and don't lie to others about what you believe. Be truthful. If this is your book that you recognize as being the holy revelation of G-d and the last revelation, revelation for people to be following on this earth today, you be truthful to that. Don't lie. Don't lie to yourself, don't lie to others and your life will become better. Now why would I be talking to a liar like that?
Yeah, that's a good question. Now that means that I recognize that some of you are a liars. Now why would I be talking to a liar like that? You say forget about a liar. Because I recognize that in America people will lie and will not be responsible. People will be hypocritical but not responsible, responsible to a certain extent. But the conditions in America are so powerful, so prevalent, so powerful for creating phony life. Phony minded people, phony pretenders, people that attach themselves to fads as one Imam said. Say yes brother Imam. This is the fad generation. All they looking for fads, they don't care what it is. It's a garment or a religion. They're looking for fads and they'll hold on to that as long as it excite them as a fad. Somebody come along with something else that's a fad they'll buy another religion. They ready to get another religion like they stepped into another garment. Step out of the parachute garment into the cardboard suit. They don't care. See, I saw you wearing a parachute yesterday, but now you wearing a cardboard box. Yeah, this is the thing man, you ain't into it man? Same thing for religion. Today is the day he's a Christian and tomorrow he's a Buddhist. Next day, Jesus Christ himself.
I'm going to conclude this by pointing to point to some very essentials for us. Faith, faith. Faith is not just something for religious people, something for spiritual people. Let me put it that way. Faith is not just something for spiritual people. Faith is a key in all things. In the infinite and the soul. Not for the success of spiritual people, but for the success of any people. You'll be more successful as a business person as your faith becomes more solid. And that goes for any other interest or any other occupation that you may think of. You'll be more successful as your faith becomes more solid.
However, we know that in our religion, faith alone is a dead letter. Faith must be followed up with good works. Faith must be proven by action. If you say you believe then let us see in your life the proof of that. You believe that, now how do you live? So Allah said, "Except those who have faith and they also have good works, righteous works." So those two go together. If you say you have the faith that Allah want you to have, then you're supposed to have the righteous works that Allah want you to have. Not that you are going to be spotless, sinless. You are never going to do no wrong. You're never going tell a lie. You're never going to commit sin. You're human. You're going to tell a lie one day. You're going to commit sin one day. We know you're human.
You're going make mistakes. That's why G-d has given you that human nature to feel sorry, to repent, to draw yourself closer to Him. And He loves you for coming back to Him. He loves you for not liking your wrong. He loves you for not liking your sin. He loves you even more for that. When He brings you closer, He strengthen you and you find yourself sinning less because you repented, because you don't like wrong in yourself. You find yourself sinning less. This is human. That's human. So not that we expect that you're going to be perfect. No, we're not going to be perfect. But Allah wants you to love righteousness. Allah wants you to live for Him. Live for righteousness, that's living for him, live for righteousness, then you're living for Allah. Live for truth. You're living for Allah. Live for the right judgment in your life for the right decision.
You're living for Allah. Live for progress. Live for helping others, live for charity for others as well as for yourself. Live with no neglect in your life and live for progress and to get the neglect out of other people's life. Allah loves that. The more you get like that, the more Allah loves you, the more you'll find the help of Allah with you. Pretty soon you're so sure of the help of Allah, you just go along comfortable no matter how bad the situation get. Everybody's excited thinking the world is coming to end you just as peaceful as you can be. You know that whatever happens ain't going to be bad for you because Allah is right there by you, right there with you. He's there by you all the time. He's your protector. He's your company all the time. You satisfied.
Yes, that can come to you, you big liar down there on the floor. That can come to you, big hypocrite sitting on the floor. That can come to you. All you have to do is change your attitude. And the thing that will enable you to change your attitude what I mentioned in the very beginning, you have to look at the life that you are holding onto and say, "Well hell, this ain't mine. I didn't create this. This came to me after I came into the world. Came from down the road there. I picked up part of it over there."
Say I ain't got nothing on my own. Now let me get something with my own. What is that? My good attitude. It'll come automatic. That good attitude will come automatic. Faith and works. Prophet Muhammad said, everyone behaves according to his disposition. And this is what Allah says to us in Qur'an. Prophet Muhammad told us this. And Allah says in Qur'an, that everyone behaves according to his disposition. So if somebody is behaving in a faulty way, in a defective way, their behavior is an embarrassment, their behavior is causing problems for them and others most likely then it's because of their disposition if we go by this rule. Applying that rule, we must come to the conclusion that their trouble is to be found beside their disposition. Everyone behaves or acts according to his disposition, the word of G-d. Alright, so with belief comes disposition. Belief is associated with this. What is going to change my disposition from one of a problem making disposition to one of a problem solving disposition? What's going to change it? The proper belief. The proper belief. Who was this the candidate for the Democratic party. Dukakis That's some name too. Dukakis. He came in and for a while people thought that he was going to be successful. We said this is all about ideas. People believe in people and people believe in ideas.
Seeing that Dukakis had a whole lot of people believing in him, but hardly anybody believing in his idea. There were fewer people believing in him, but many more people believing in his idea and Bush knew it. That's why he said that this thing is all about ideas. Now, Allah gives us an idea. He gives us a book of ideas. This is the Muslim supreme ideology? Not in a manifesto from some political theories. No. This is our supreme ideology, the Qur'an, its wisdom, its principle, its strategies, et cetera, et cetera. It represents our supreme ideology. Now you need to believe in it. And once you believe in it, then your disposition changes.
What do Christians say? Just say you believe in Jesus and be saved. Be saved means have your life that you want. Have your life that G-d wants you to have. Believe in him and be saved. Well that has proven to be itself a failure. They say Jesus never failed. Well, that statement itself has failed because if Jesus never failed, America would be in much better shape then it is now. And not only America, the Christians that hold on tight to Jesus will be in better shape if Jesus never failed. Lord Jesus, Jesus as such as a person failed. But Jesus as the word of G-d never failed, never failed. Now we don't need a sign for the word of G-d, especially for just I would say a part of the spectrum. Just one little segment of the spectrum. Jesus Christ is not the whole life. He's one little segment of the spectrum, not the whole life.
Although they would like to say he's the whole life. If he was the whole life, why would he say I have to go away. The Bible says when the whole life has come, there's nothing else. Huh? When the whole life comes, you saved forever. How does it give it? It gives it in this way. When the spirit of truth has come, when the spirit of truth come, nothing else has to come behind it, it's going to be the whole answer. Well, he has to go away so the spirit of truth will come right? Expedient that I go away. So if I go not away, the Comforter will not come un you. The Comforter with the spirit of truth. Yeah. So that tells me that Jesus, at least in his first coming, now I know they say that was his first coming, but he coming back again. That's the second coming. Well, he has to come twice. In his first coming, he was not the whole answer. He's just part of the answer. And then he comes back again. And perhaps that's the whole answer when he comes back again. I'm convinced that the second coming of Jesus is Prophet Muhammad.
Prophet Muhammad. Jesus is a sign of Prophet Muhammad. Prophet Muhammad's coming. What is expected of Jesus in the second coming is what Prophet Muhammad did. That's his life. When he comes back, he's not a lamb for sacrifice. When he comes back, he's an authority demanding respect, whipping sinners into the shape. Establishing a kingdom that will last. Prophet Muhammad did all that. He did all that. Now Christians can argue themselves to death. Work themselves into a frenzy. Still ain't going to change the fact that he's pointing to a mystery and we pointing to reality. Now I know the Bible is not, Bible is mystified and highly enigmatic, confusing with it's symbolism. But if you can see through the haze, I would say of all that to see just what is the substance there you'll agree with me that Prophet Muhammad is the answer to that. Not no Holy Ghost. They say the Holy Ghost is the second coming of Jesus. What did Paul say about that Holy Ghost?
He didn't care much for no Holy Ghost. They got such a communication and can't talk to nobody but themselves. No, I differ with Paul on a lot of things, but I have to agree with him there. What good is a Holy Ghost if you can't talk to nobody but yourself. Yeah. And I've seen them with the Holy Ghost. Talking to nobody but themselves. And they get the Holy Ghost and they start talking and trigger another one off. They sent him off and he starts talking. And neither one understand the others. Now you've been in the church, I'm sure some of you been in the church when they get the Holy Ghost, A young lady, she had the Holy Ghost in the church. Now this is not for the sake of criticism, this is for the sake of understanding and enlightenment. This young lady kept getting the Holy Ghost and I wasn't sitting down. The church was pretty filled up and I didn't want to get too far up in the church because I wanted to leave when I got ready.
So I'm standing near the door and it was one of those doors that just swing back and forward like this. And she gets the Holy Ghost and I'm standing there and she just come running like a wild bull and she hit that door, boom, pop, and she go out. She go out in the vestibule and she cool off a little bit. "Woo, woo, woo." And then she go back through and go back where she was sitting and then she come again. So the second time I wasn't ready for her. I was concentrating on the preacher. And she came through again. Boom. And the door almost hit me, I said, Hey with your crazy self. You better not do that again. And that Holy Ghost went off of her just like that.
Now I know some of 'em are really into it. They really under a trance. They're in the trance. I know some of 'em. But believe me, a lot of it ain't nothing but self-imposed., self-imposed hypnosis. Self-imposed hypnosis. Thank you. That's the word I was looking for. Self-imposed hypnosis. They just have become hypnotized, hypnotic and following something just like they're in a trance, but they're not. They've been working that up. They work on it. And this church, it had great apparatus for getting them. Yes. The preacher would work up to a certain point, then he'd turn it over to some hollering people and they would start to holler and then he would signal the band and certain instruments would come in first, bang, bang, bang, bang, bang, and then a cymbal.
And then he follow it up with the horns. And then they all come together in unison with all those instruments and they started falling out. And jumping up out of their seats. And a couple of them, they were competing for the marathon and that girl was one of 'em, running down that aisle. So I don't have much respect for that Holy Ghost either, if that's what we call the Holy Ghost. That ain't no Holy Ghost. That's witch doctor madness, witch doctor madness. Now the real spirit of truth was living in the world, carried out his work in the world, in the person of our Prophet, peace and blessings be on him.
The answer to the major, that major drama that we call the coming of the comforter or the Holy Spirit that G-d will send again into the world after Jesus. It's the Prophet Muhammad. Now we can become inspired. We can be blessed with the Holy Ghost if we are true good people. Allah will bless all of us with the Holy Ghost. Huh? Yes. In fact, He says He has given to everyone something of the Holy Spirit. Everyone, every human being has something of the Holy Spirit inside. Some of us don't realize it because we haven't accepted to be the decent people G-d want us to be. But if we let our decency rise and grow in us, all of us will experience some inspiration. Something of the Holy Spirit. All of us will experience that. But the major drama that scripture tells us about I repeat, it has been answered by our Prophet Muhammad. Peace and the blessings be on him. Yes. Belief and disposition. Now, faith and good works, sincere belief, intelligent respect for it will bring us into the proper disposition. And once that proper disposition happens for you, you are in a good state. You are in a productive state. You are going to be productive.
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