In the name of Allah, the Beneficent, the Most Merciful, the Truthful and the Most Just: Who came to North America in the Person of Master Fard Muhammad and raised, or taught, and sent the Honorable Elijah Muhammad to find and raise and teach me:
I greet all of you who are hungry and thirsty for the Truth of religion and the Word of God, and for Truth in general, with the greeting words of peace:
May Allah’s-Salaam-Alaikum.
I want to begin with people that may have questions or disagreements or something they want to discuss with me, and then I will go into tonight’s lesson. Well, I assume we have nobody.
As we came into Muhammad’s Temple, when I first walked in, the first thing that I saw was this blackboard that you see up on the screen there. It had the question, “Which one will survive the war of Armageddon?”
Unlike many people, they just take things for granted; but I didn’t take for granted what was said. I looked up the word, the term “Armageddon”. They broke it down. Since the Word itself is God, and Megeddo is the place of God, [Armageddon means] the Word of God and the place of God.
That’s what it finally broke down to when I looked it up. As I look at the Scriptures, the Messenger (the Honorable Elijah Muhammad) said that he was here to put my mind back into the Scriptures so that I could find the Truth that he was teaching.
Now look at that blackboard again. They reduced the size of the cross. The cross used to be big on there. The one that was in the temple had a big cross over there, you see.
They don’t ever leave things like the Messenger of God gave them. They always think they can improve on something, and they should have left it like he gave it. It’s been so long that I kind of forgot the total [layout], but it seemed to me that the cross used to be up top, and bigger.
But anyway, it’s like something that W.D. Mohammed said when he was first visited by Allah. In 1975, Allah did visit him, and he spoke a lot of things that were true and that kept the promise that the Messenger had told one of his sons. He said that when Wallace was in his forties, that Allah would visit him. When Muhammad Ali got up to speak, he brought that up. I’m going to play it here.
[The Son of Man starts the video]
W.D Mohammed: The Honorable Elijah Muhammad recognized the hidden Divine Being manifested in one Wali Fard Muhammad; and when he recognized this, he began to preach to others of his brothers and sisters who were in the Christian religion in one degree or another.
See, what we must understand, brothers and sisters, is that 40 years ago, Black people were almost 100% Christian in America and in most of the world (that is, the western hemisphere).
[The Son of Man pauses the video]
Son of Man: Now I have to remind you, because I had that Truth within myself that he spoke there. That was true.
I had never heard [of Islam]. I didn’t even know there was another religion other than Christianity.
If somebody said they believed in God, I’d say, “Oh, you’re a Christian.”
Do you understand the significance of that? I was born in 1950, and the Honorable Elijah Muhammad had just learned of Islam in 1930; and as he was teaching, nobody was interested in hearing a religion called Islam.
I had never heard the word “Islam” until after I became a grown man. Listen to me good: I had never heard the word “Islam” until I got out of the Marine Corps.
I heard the word “Muslim” and that was while I was in the Marine Corps, and when Muhammad Ali had decided he was going to change his name to Muhammad Ali; but even then, I don’t recall following the news too much. I didn’t bother listening to the news. So I don’t even think I heard the word Muslim. Allah didn’t let me hear it.
The only thing I knew was that Ali had rejected to go into the military; and we were shooting pool in the recreation room on base at Camp Pendleton. (I think I was still at Camp Pendleton, or I might have been at Camp Lejeune then. It’s been so long.) But anyway, they were talking about how Ali should have gone into the military. Someone said, “Joe Louis went in.”
(These were White boys and some of them were Black.) And I said, “Well, I thought that’s what I was here for: so that he could have a choice.”
That stopped all of their mouths in there. I didn’t give it a second thought, but nobody said anything back to me when I said that. I didn’t even give it any more thought after that.
But as far as religion goes, I still didn’t know that there was any other religion than Christianity. My mother was a Christian, and I thought Christianity was that old-time religion: You know, the one that was good enough for my mama, good enough for my daddy, good enough for my grandma, and it’s good enough for me. They have a song that said that.
Anyway, if I ever was going to decide how I really wanted to practice righteousness, I figured I was going to be a Christian. But at that time, Christianity just didn’t attract me, and so I thought it was something wrong with me.
I didn’t think there was anything wrong with the religion. I just knew it was something in me that wasn’t right. At least, that’s what kept me from going to church, because I wasn’t going to be a hypocrite; because I was always afraid of God. You know you don’t play with God.
So when I walked into Muhammad’s Temple and saw that cross next to that crescent there, and “which one will survive the war of Armageddon” [on the blackboard], that stayed etched in my mind. Now listen to Wallace [W.D. Mohammed]. He’s going to tell you [something] about Black people, that they were just about a hundred percent Christian in their mind.
[The Son of Man resumes the video]
W.D Mohammed: See, what we must understand, brothers and sisters, is that 40 years ago, Black people were almost 100% Christian in America and in most of the world (that is, the western hemisphere). You didn’t have to go to church to be born with a Christian mind.
[The Son of Man pauses the video]
Son of Man: He wasn’t lying, because some of us would be going down the street, cussing like a sailor; and [then we would] get [in front of] a church and somebody would say, “Hey man, hey man. We’re in front of the church. Don’t do that. Don’t talk like that.”
If a preacher or a priest or anybody that was associated with Christianity came around, we stopped our loud talk, we stopped our cussing: we stopped whatever we were doing that we thought that the church didn’t approve of, out of respect. Now, just listen.
[The Son of Man resumes the video]
W.D. Mohammed: Even those homes that had residents or people who felt that they weren’t clean enough to walk into a church, or that they weren’t religious-minded enough to participate in church life: even those families lived Christian lives, and defended Christianity if you attacked Christianity in their presence.
The Honorable Elijah Muhammad came into his mission at a time when America, Black America that is, was almost 100 percent Christian. So he began working with our people, telling them that now you must come into the understanding of your Bible.
He said that “God has missioned me and I am preaching to you that your graveyard is the Christian reading of the Bible.” He told his people that “I must resurrect you from that graveyard.”
[The Son of Man pauses the video]
Son of Man: What is a “Christian reading” of the Bible? It is a Christian understanding of the Bible. It is an understanding that didn’t come from God. It came from the White man and from those who have been taught by the White man.
Now, the White man is listening. If I’m saying something about him that is not true, he’s welcome to come in here and challenge me.
If you notice, this is how court works. You go into court, both sides, the defense and the prosecution: The prosecution is the one that actually generally brings the case. They are considered to be the prosecution, if it’s a criminal [case]. And if it’s a civil [case], then whoever filed the complaint, I think they call them the plaintiff; but the plaintiff has the burden of proof.
The defendant doesn’t even have to say anything if they don’t want to. But the plaintiff has to bring forth evidence to substantiate that they didn’t file a false complaint. At least, they have to bring enough evidence so that whoever is the judge will determine that their complaint is valid, unless the defendant can prove with a preponderance of evidence that the complaint against them is invalid.
Now let’s delve into this. We know that there were no Christians in Africa when the White man first met us. And if there were no Christians in Africa, well then—If there were no people preaching Christianity where he found us—let’s say it like that.
Let’s put it that way. Well if there were no people preaching Christianity in Africa when he got there, [then] he (the White man) brought it to us; and then he put us in chains and enslaved us.
For approximately four hundred and fifty (450) years, we’ve been struggling to get out of slavery—Just like that eclipse today lasted approximately four minutes and 30 seconds.
This eclipse of the Truth is what he’s been showing us he’s been doing ever since we saw Christianity, and we just didn’t know what we were looking at.
Now I’m going to let you see one of the images that he put out there of himself, and you can weigh [it] for yourself. Let me pull it up here.
Now you see him. They have him right there in front of the sun, in front of the Truth.
When he got in front of the Scriptures to teach you, he did what the moon did today to the sun. He eclipsed the sun and gave you darkness, calling it light. He made darkness, [and] he made you think that darkness was light (light of understanding).
You can’t even find the word “Christianity” in the Bible, but you didn’t have the wherewithal to say, “If this is something God gave us, how come it isn’t in the Book?”
He couldn’t say that Jesus gave it, because if he said that Jesus gave it, Jesus said, in John 5:46,
For had ye believed Moses, ye would have believed me: for he wrote of me.
Then he (the White man) has to go back in there and say, “Moses gave you Christianity.”
Then he has to go all the way back to Abraham and all of the Prophets and say, “All of them taught Christianity.”
He knew that line wasn’t going to fly.
Now I’m going to tell you something else: Where was the Islamic world when the Christians took over the world?
Where were they? Come on, tell me.
You who are over in Arabia and Iraq and Iran and Pakistan and Turkey and all of these places where you claim that you have the true religion of God: How did the Christians take over the world? And you didn’t open your mouth until you heard the Honorable Elijah Muhammad here teaching us; and then you jumped on him.
Once we got the whole world to acknowledge Islam, then you want to run out here in front, like you’re the one that people need to be listening to, to teach Islam.
Why should I listen to you when Christianity took over and you didn’t do anything?
You couldn’t stop him. You are so weak in your understanding of Islam that you have lost what little understanding you may have had from Prophet Mohammed.
Prophet Mohammed did not teach you to enslave the woman.
Now you tell me if Professor Baghdadi was lying. You know, there are always ways to prove the Truth. So I want you to listen to this.
[The Son of Man resumes the video]
Minister Yusuf Shah: So my beloved brothers and sisters, we have another great man in our midst. He’s an Arabic teacher in our school. I’m going to give way and bring him before you: Professor Baghdadi.
Professor Baghdadi: Honorable Wallace Muhammad, successor of the Honorable Elijah Muhammad, the new humble servant of Allah…
[The Son of Man pauses the video]
Son of Man: Now he (Professor Baghdadi) was the Arabic teacher that the Honorable Elijah Muhammad let come and teach Arabic in our school. He heard the Honorable Elijah Muhammad say that there would be no successor to him, [and] yet he got up there and called W.D. Mohammed the successor to the Honorable Elijah Muhammad.
There’s no such thing as a successor to a Messenger of God. When you talk about Presidents of the United States, the way a President gets into office, he does not have a successor unless his life gets cut short during his term of office. Then someone else has to come and finish his term, which is generally the Vice President. But after that Vice President finishes what would have been the full term—if the President got assassinated a year before his term expired, then the Vice President will finish out that year. If he got assassinated or died six months before his term expired, the Vice President is President for six months.
It doesn’t work like that with Messengers of God. I’ll show you what the Holy Quran says. I like to give you something to hang your hat on. I don’t like to just say something. Now, this is in the Holy Quran, hidden in there, just for this type of subject matter. This is the 5th chapter of the Holy Quran and the 67th verse. It says,
O Messenger, deliver that which has been revealed to thee from thy Lord; and if thou do (it) not, thou hast not delivered His message. And Allah will protect thee from men. Surely Allah guides not the disbelieving people.
You think Allah sent a man with a message and can’t protect him until he delivers what he was sent with?
Is the Gospel incomplete? What about the Torah? Was it incomplete? What about the Book of Jeremiah? Does it have a sequel? “We’re going to have to let so-and-so finish this because Jeremiah died before he finished.”
But you call [it] the Book of Jeremiah, the Book of Isaiah, the Gospel of Jesus. Well there’s no successor.
What did the Messenger fail to do that W.D. Mohammed had to come and finish?
He came saying that the Honorable Elijah Muhammad was not the Messenger of God; and the Messenger wrote about that. He said, “They cannot yet say that I’m not the Messenger of Allah. They cannot yet say that.”
But he knew they were going to be saying it.
So, understand something: Professor Baghdadi had been around the Messenger long enough to know better than to stand up there calling W.D. Mohammed the successor to the Messenger.
Is there anyone who disagrees with me on that? Now let’s go back and listen to Professor Baghdadi some more.
[The Son of Man resumes the video]
Professor Baghdadi: Honorable Wallace Muhammad, successor of the Honorable Elijah Muhammad, the new humble servant of Allah. Family of Muhammad, faithful ministers and followers of Muhammad, brothers and sisters: As-Salaam-Alaikum.
Peace, mercy of Allah and His blessings be with you. The ambassador of the Arab league, which represents 20 independent Arab governments and other Muslim representatives, have asked me to convey to you, to the family of the Honorable Elijah Muhammad, the deepest sympathies. I convey to you all the deepest sympathies of 130 million Arabs. I convey to you the deepest sympathies of more than 600 million Muslims in the east.
[The Son of Man pauses the video]
Son of Man: Remember that number. He said over 600 million Muslims in the east.
[The Son of Man resumes the video]
Professor Baghdadi: The loss of the Honorable Elijah Muhammad is not felt here by you alone, but is also felt by us there.
We have always loved the Honorable Elijah Muhammad. Our hearts have always been with the faithful followers of the Honorable Elijah Muhammad.
[The Son of Man pauses the video]
Son of Man: Okay, if that was true, why haven’t I gotten any help from any of you?
I have proven to be a faithful follower of the Honorable Elijah Muhammad. Everything you heard him teach: You have never heard anyone come in here and be able to justify accusing me of going against what the Honorable Elijah Muhammad taught.
Why am I struggling so hard over here with pennies to try to build up and get some practice in building?
You can’t say that you’re ready to build a nation if you don’t know how to put up a doghouse.
So I’m here struggling with my followers and family, learning how to build structures for ourselves, learning how to grow food for ourselves, learning how to make clothing for ourselves. We need to have manufacturing facilities to start manufacturing things for ourselves.
So far, I haven’t received any help from any of you all who claim to love the followers of the Honorable Elijah Muhammad.
How does love translate? Love is a verb.
Where are your actions that show me that you love me? Where were your actions to show that you loved the Honorable Elijah Muhammad?
I remember when the government of Libya under Muammar Gaddafi loaned the Honorable Elijah Muhammad, I think it was, three or four million dollars.
The Messenger said, “When you hear about the Muslim country loaning us three or four million dollars, that’s like a man loaning you three dollars when you needed a hundred.”
Do you understand this? I’m not saying that you don’t do what you please with what’s yours. You do what you please with what belongs to you. But don’t stand up and tell me how much you love me, and you see me down [and] you have plenty to help me get up, but you won’t use it and help me get up. No.
Now you probably would like to kill me because I’m standing up here speaking the Truth. If Allah lets you, I can’t stop you. I don’t have anything to fight you with.
But I have my faith in Allah; and I don’t like people lying to me, looking me in my face, and lying to me because they think I’m stupid.
I know what love is, and you can’t know what love is if you never loved anybody. Love makes you want to do for people, and it makes you happy to do for people.
People come up to me, telling me, “Son of Man, you need to go get you some rest.”
They don’t realize I’m resting while I’m working. That’s my rest. In my mind, I’m resting. My body is just tired, but my mind is at peace because I’m doing something about a situation that will make the situation better.
That’s why I have to go [even] when I’m tired; but I also learned that, yes, the flesh is weak and you have to recognize that and let the flesh rest.
Many of you spend billions of dollars on weapons to kill each other, and yet I couldn’t get $100 million to help buy heavy equipment and necessary tractors and bulldozers, earth movers, and things like that to help me to prepare a place here for my people. You won’t help me do that.
I remember: It was the height of an insult when I heard Minister Farrakhan say that Muammar Gaddafi offered him the wealth of Libya if he would get us (Black people) over here in the United States to rise up against the United States government and fight against these people over here.
He (Gaddafi) had to know that that would have been suicide for us. What do we know about the science of warfare? We have never been independent. [We don’t] know anything about the science of warfare; but it was strange to hear somebody say they would offer us all of their wealth to go kill people, but they won’t offer us any wealth to build ourselves up and do something that’s peaceful.
From that point on, after I heard Minister Farrakhan say that, I recognized that Muammar Gaddafi was no friend of ours.
You don’t tell me that you’re my friend while trying to get me to go and do something that you know I don’t have a knowledge of, that’s going to get me killed.
I wouldn’t care if I never saw another dead body in my life. I do not want to see any dead bodies laying on the ground, I don’t care whose dead body it is.
There was nothing glorious about Vietnam: nothing! Seeing human being’s bodies laying out on the ground in a line to get a body count—It’s no wonder people come back here crazy.
I mean, you stand up there and say all of these things about sympathies. This is the same way these people, every time there’s a murder of babies in schools, or human beings in a theater, or human beings in a shopping mall in this country that calls itself civilized; and they won’t even pass a law that prohibits firearms in the city, because they want you to kill each other.
They want you to murder one another, because while you were sleeping, your enemies came in and got in the government. Everybody that’s in government that’s not trying to do anything about all of these guns: they are the enemy of your nation.
The last thing you need when you’re having an argument that may lead to a fist fight is people with a gun.
When people were just having fist fights, they could exhaust their anger—not that it would make it right, but at least both of them could walk away and they may come back later and become the best of friends.
They sure can’t come back after you have killed them; and now two lives [are ruined]: the life of the one who was murdered, and the life of the one who murdered him, simply because they didn’t have sense enough to realize that the Second Amendment had been misinterpreted.
Every dictatorship on Earth is rejoicing to watch the implosion of the United States of America.
If you get rid of the United States, the rest of the democratic republics will fall like dominoes.
What will you argue if you get rid of the United States?
“It didn’t work. They even called it a ‘great experiment’ and the experiment failed. What happened to them?”
What happened to them was that the people that had succeeded, instead of still calling it a ‘great experiment’, they should have recognized that their experiment was no longer an experiment. It actually works.
I mean, it’s been working for 200 years. If you had a vaccine that was working for two years or five years, you wouldn’t call it “experimental”; you’d say, “We have a vaccine here that works.”
You have to know when something isn’t an experiment any more. You have to know when it has succeeded.
It’s good that you acknowledge that it’s a kingdom or knowledge or understanding that you never had before. That’s acknowledging that you didn’t really author it.
Well why don’t you just tell the people that God inspired it? Why don’t you just tell them that?
It’s the first step to the kingdom that shall not decay: Giving the people the power to sweep aside any type of government that does not serve the best interests of its people, of all of its people.
But in order for a democratic republic to work, the members of that republic must love their neighbor as themselves. That way, a tyrant can’t move in because of your hatred of one another, and say, “I’m going to do [this] for you, but to hell with your neighbor over there. He ain’t nothing.”
Then you say, “Yeah, that’s fine with me.”
But then your house being divided against itself will be overthrown, and you will help overthrow it, and you won’t realize what you did until it’s too late.
May Allah’s-Salaam-Alaikum.
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