READING MATERIAL
Holy Qur'an
Surah 64 "The Manifestation of Losses"
Surah 33 "The Allies" (Verses 45-47)
Surah 103 "The Time"

Will of God, Part II
Will of God Part III
Self-improvement Page 7
Self-improvement Page 8

FACTS (S)

"...Jesus wanted to take you a step further. In fact, he wanted to give you your degree, so that it would never be necessary for another Man of God (Prophet) to come to you. For you, in your own life, would be a Witness of Allah's (God's) Presence. And if Allah (God) is present in your life, in your being, manifested in your words and in your actions, then you have closed, the door on Prophethood ... by the fact of Allah's (God's) Presence in your life."

We live in that time. The man, Jesus, that came 2,000 years ago, did not come in the time of Redemption and Salvation and Healing ... But we are at the right time now. And a man has appeared in the world to Redeem Man; to Reconcile Man to God; to cause us to see and hear and know the Will of Allah (God) and then inspire us to willingly submit our Will to do the Will of Allah (God)." (Will of God Part 11 - page 8)
 

DISCUSSION
1) Please review the Glossary.

2) Continue to the next page for the meaning of the name Rabbi-L-'Alamin.

"READ IN THE NAME OF THY LORD WHO CREATES..." (96:1)

After the proper name, ALLAH, the Holy Qur'an has given the greatest prominence to the name RABB. The name RABB occurs approximately 960 times, no other attributive names being so frequently mentioned.

We are learning that the evolutionary process toward perfection cannot take place without RABB, the "Lord Who brings all that is in this Universe to a state of perfection through various stages of growth, (beginning with) nothingness..." Thus, RABB signifies the Author of a# existence.

This great attribute combines two (2) senses:

(1) Fostering, bringing up or nourishing; and
 

(2) Regulating, completing and accomplishing

Thus, the underlying idea is that of nourishing every part of His creation from the crudest state to that of highest perfection. Everything created by Allah (God) bears the impress of Divine creation. That is, there is no such thing as a life form that He is incapable of fostering in such a manner as to make it attain one condition after another until it reaches its goal of perfection.

"Glorify The Name of Thy Lord, The Most High!
Who Creates, Then Makes Complete,
And Who Measures, Then Guides..." (87:1-3)

The full meaning of RABB is explained in the above verses: He creates things and brings them to perfection; He makes things according to a measure and shows them the ways whereby they may attain to perfection. The true meaning of the evolutionary process is fully developed in the first two actions: Creation and Completion. Everything created by Allah (God) must attain to its destined completion. The last two actions show how the completion is brought about. He makes everything according to a measure, that is, with certain laws of development inherent in it; and it is also shown a way, that is, it knows the line along which it must proceed, so that it may reach its goal of completion.

REFERENCE
The Religion of Islam, Maulana Muhammad Ali Pages 113-114, 128, 132, 307-308).
 

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DISCUSSION

1) What is the purpose of prophets and messengers?

Supplement

2) Is there a pattern of evolutionary development in the lives and messages of the prophets? Explain.

Supplement

3) What makes Muhammad (PBUH), the Seal of the prophets? Why, in Christian theology, is Jesus the Seal? How, do you reconcile these two (2) views?

Supplement

4) If we fail to listen to the voice within, what are the results? What powers do we come under from within Self?

Supplement

5) If we fail to listen to the voice without that comes to quicken the voice within, what powers do we come under?

Supplement

6) If the whole of humanity, according to the Bible, is under the Power of a Beast, a Dragon, a Serpent, what do these characteristics represent in Self and in the powers of the world?

Supplement

7) If we remain under such powers, are we lost?

Supplement

8) How does this relate to the finding of 'lost sheep'?

Supplement

9) What does the Finder desire to do after finding that which was lost?

Supplement

10) Jesus is called The Restorer, Reconciler, Redeemer, Saviour, Healer, Eternal Guide, etc. The Holy Qur'an is called "al-Shifa" (10:57), "The Healer"; "al-Hijr" (l5: 9) "The Reminder; "al-Huda" (72:13) "The Guide", or, "That which makes one attain the goal"; "al-Nur" (7:157), "The Light" "al-Ruh", "The Spirit" (or, "That which, gives Life"); etc.

How does Jesus relate to the Holy Qur'an?

Supplement

11) In the Gospels of Matthew, Mark, Luke and John, we have an account of what Jesus did and parables that he spoke. But very little is said about the message he brought.

What is the relationship between the work of Jesus and the work of the Holy Qur'an? Are they compatible? If so, how?

Supplement

12) Return to the letter from Minister Farrakhan which introduced this course (page2). "Let this mind be in you..." What mind is that? How was that mind produced?

Supplement

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13) Do we need a prophet or messenger at this point? What is it that makes a prophet unnecessary?

SUPPLEMENT

1) "Whenever a man loses the ability to read Allah's (God's) Will in that which is around him (or her), then it is incumbent upon Almighty God, Allah, out of the Abundance of His Love and Mercy for humanity, to raise a Prophet, a Messenger, an Apostle, to teach us the Will of Allah (God) and to give us the privilege and the opportunity to submit our Will to do the Will of Allah (God) and come into favor with Allah (God).

Prophets, Messengers and Apostles teach us Allah's (God's) Will; specifically, for a certain people and for a certain time period. Whenever Allah (God) sends a Prophet, he gives that man a temporary message; that temporary message is based upon an Eternal message. Both messages embody the Will of Allah (God)."

2) Yes. There is a pattern of evolutionary development both in the messages and in the people to whom the messages are brought.

"Prophets bring a temporary message for their contemporaries. And Prophets bring an Eternal Message. Whenever a new Prophet appears, he abrogates much of the temporary message of former Prophets. This, of course, is an abrogation of that temporal Will of Allah (God), for the curing of a particular disease at that time. We do not need the medicine after we have effected the cure...But no Prophet has ever come and abrogated the Eternal Will of Allah (God). All Prophets bear witness that God is One and His Eternal Will is One; all of the Prophets spoke to us out of that Eternal Will of God.'

"...in the" absence of God, prophets reflect the light of God to the people of the Earth. But, they do not see perfectly. They are not a witness of the fullness of God's Divine Presence; they are only a witness that God is interested in the affairs of men.

Prophets appeared in every nation, but their message was limited to that particular nation. Though their message was based upon an eternal message, their work was limited to the moral upliftment of the people from among whom they were raised. However, while national growth was of necessity the first step, the ultimate aim of Allah (God) is the spiritual regeneration of the whole of humanity and the making of humanity into one. Until then, we have not reached the fullness of Allah's (God's) Will.

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In our, study of the lives of the Prophets, we saw that when mentioning the earlier Prophets, the Holy Qur'an says that Noah was sent "to his people"; Hud, Salih and Shu'aib - every one of them was sent "to his people." (7:59, 65, 73, 85).

Moses was "nationalistic". The Holy Qur'an speaks of him as having been commanded to "bring forth thy people from darkness into light." (1 4:5). He formed Israel into a nation from tribes. But Israel did not carry out her function. She made a covenant with God.,, She recognized her function, yet did not carry it out. She corrupted herself in not carrying out her function.

"According to the teachings of the Bible and the Holy Qur'an, Allah (God) chose Israel for exaltation. But He wanted them to submit. He made Israel above the nations of the Earth. But when she got to a certain stage in her development, she lost her humility. She became proud, self-centered, selfish; she became greedy. She became all of those things that corrupt and redirect the Will. So her Will was no longer the Will of Allah (God); it became the Selfish Will of Israel, with God's name added to that Selfish Will. So Allah (God) punished Israel and made her an example for us today."

Jesus starts out "nationalistic", to those whose view is limited to that period of time. The Holy Qur'an speaks of him as "a messenger to the children of Israel." (3:48). He said of himself, according to the Bible, that he was "not sent but unto the lost -sheep of the house of Israel." (Matthew 15:24)

When Muhammad begins his mission, he is working among illiterate, disunited Arab tribes. The whole evolutionary process unfolds in his history.

From Abraham to Muhammad, we see the evolution of all of the principles of Islam. Prayer evolves. Charity evolves. Fasting evolves. Sacrifice evolves from the sacrifice-of animals in the time of Abraham, to the sacrifice of Allah's Servant, Jesus (Muhammad of the Resurrection), which represents the sacrifice of our own lives in the Cause of Truth.

There is even evolution in the way the message was revealed. The world did not know that a Messenger of Allah (God) had been raised among the Arabs. But at a certain point, Muhammad sent emissaries to Ethiopia. Persia and Rome. The Arabs, at the time, were not universal. They were concerned with tribal affairs and behaviors. They had not yet even evolved into a nation. The Holy Qur'an was revealed over a period of 23 years. The Arabs were then to be the witnesses of Allah (God) to the ends of the earth. This they did, until they confused conquering for Allah (God) with conquering to make themselves rulers over those whom they conquered.

When the aim and objective becomes the destruction of the culture of another people and the imposition of your own, that is not the teachings of the Holy
 

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Qur'an - the Holy Qur'an brings its own culture. When you impose your own culture, it ceases to be a Way of God and becomes your own traditions and practices; then the Way of God and the culture of the Holy Qur'an become obscure.

Nationalism is a necessary stage of evolutionary development. When carried to the extreme, however, nationalism is niggardliness, because there is no interest in others. Nations must overcome the forces which adversely affect the Will, just as the individual Self must do. The ways of ascent for the individual and the ways of ascent for a nation are one and the same.

The Eternal Will of Allah (God), (the Eternal Message that is the basis of all temporal messages), equals the Eternal Principles of Islam: Belief in the One God; Revelation; the Hereafter; Prayer; Charity; Fasting; Hajj (Pilgrimage); Jihad (using one's utmost efforts in contending with an object of disapprobation).

With this view of all of the Prophets (Peace Be Upon Them) and the evolutionary development of-the message they brought, we may look at the mission and Objective of the Honorable Elijah Muhammad with clarity, which gives us some comprehension of the difficulty of his task.

The Arabs were, not in slavery to another people. But Black people had been kidnapp6d from- their homeland and kept in a state of darkness by a powerful enemy.

When labeled. "Black Nationalist", the Honorable Elijah Muhammad never fought the term. He told me that "Black is not National, Black is Universal." So first, Black people must be made into a Nation, then a Witness of Allah (God) to the ends of the Earth. The Honorable Elijah Muhammad would simply say of his critics, "They don't have my mission."

Those who condemn the Honorable Elijah Muhammad as a teacher of Black Nationalism are not aware of the evolutionary development of the message. Though Muhammad brought a Universal Message, Black people could not get it until we evolved. We had to be brought through the stages of evolution. You cannot give the Black man and woman the Universal Knowledge before basic Self Knowledge, lest in giving him the Universal, he gets further lost to Self and the Identity of Self.

Yakub did not see the completion of the evolutionary development of that which he had initiated. We who follow the Honorable Elijah Muhammad may not live to see the completion of the evolutionary development of his teachings. But our duty, in every generation, is to keep the law and the teachings of the Honorable Elijah Muhammad until he abrogates them himself with something new.

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The Honorable Elijah Muhammad said to me, 'Do not change the teachings while I am gone. What I have given you is just a wake-up message. But if you are faithful, when I return, I will reveal the new teachings through you.'

Although I am accused by many of changing the teachings of the Honorable Elijah Muhammad, I must say they don't have my mission.

Each of the students of the Honorable Elijah Muhammad must extract all that we can from this wake-up message. In 1973, when I did a broadcast on the teachings of Jesus, repeating the exact words of the Honorable Elijah Muhammad, he whipped me (verbally); he told me, "I do not want you to give the people the same history as I taught it 40 years ago. I want you to give the meaning."

The Prophets struggled in the absence of God with light from God that is considered, in symbolic language, "Moonlight". Since the Moon represents the Sun, in the absence of the Sun, it has no light of its own; it borrows light from the Sun and reflects it to the Earth ... If you have a limited light, you have a limited sight. Therefore, you can only be a limited example.

If Prophets are Moonlight, Moonlight is not Perfect Light. It does not allow you to see with perfect clarity. In Moonlight, we can only see partly, but in Sunlight, we can see fully.

The Perfect Will of God abrogates the imperfect knowledge and even the imperfect perception of the Prophets.

"For we know in part, and we prophesy in part ... But when that which is perfect is come, then that which is in part shall be done away." 11 Corinthians 13:9,101

Moonlight does not display color. You can only see the outline of things in the Moonlight. In the Sunlight, we can see not only the outline of a thing, we can see a thing as it is. Praise be to Allah.

"(We take) Allah's colour, and who is better than Allah at colouring, and we are His worshippers." 2:138

When we see from Allah's view, we are taking His colour, His perception. It is the ending of Prophets.

The Honorable Elijah Muhammad said, "What more is there for another Prophet to do if you get the Knowledge of Self and the Knowledge of God?"
 

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To see in the Sunlight is to see from God's Perfect Sight, with His Perfect Perception. We do not have the tendency to make mistakes in the full light of His Revelation, because we see from His View of things.

The Message that Allah (God) revealed is a message that has evolved. It has reached a perfect state in this book, Holy Qur'an:

" ... This day have I perfected for you your religion and completed My favour to you and chosen for you Islam as a religion.' 5:3

However, as with all things, we must grow into perfect understanding of this perfected Revelation. We must become perfect doers of the Perfect Will of Allah (God).

"Be ye therefore perfect, even as your Father, Who is in Heaven, is Perfect." Matthew 5:48

Allah (God) says in the Holy Qur'an, when He desires a thing, He only says, "Be!" and it is. Is it His Will that we be perfect? Yes. He has already arranged forces to bring this about. His Power is actively at work to perfect His Will that we be perfect human beings. And what does a perfect human being look like? A perfect human being looks like God.

The evolution to Sunlight is the ascension beyond the final aspect of Prophethood. This is described in the Holy Qur'an: "O Prophet, surely We have sent thee as a witness and a bearer of good news and a warner ... and as an inviter to Allah by His permission and as a light-giving sun..." 33:45-47

3) He is called the Universal Prophet because he brings a message that fits all people, all conditions, for all times, up to the Resurrection and the Judgment of the world. The Message that he brings makes it unnecessary for a Prophet ever to appear again. For that message will be internalized in the hearts and minds of the people.

The Prophets of the past were inspired and their inspiration was true, but since Muhammad (PBUH) is the Seal of the Prophets, he ends the Prophets.

Jesus represents Allah's (God's) full presence in Man. In the Book of Isaiah, it says that a child will be born; a virgin will conceive him and the child’s name will be called 'Emmanuel', meaning 'God is with us.' How will you know that God is with us? Because an ordinary human being, born of a woman, making the deaf hear, the dumb speak, the lame walk and raising the dead to life, is not ordinary. It is extraordinary. No Prophet ever did that."

The Seal of the Prophets is he who fulfills prophesy to a degree that he makes God real in your life.

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4) We come under the powers of the Lower Self. The Holy Qur'an asks the questions, 'Have you seen those who take their low desires for god besides Allah?

The Fall of Adam represents man succumbing to the power of his lower nature, the underworld. Prior to eating the forbidden fruit, Adam had no knowledge that his lower nature even existed, because he was clothed in the Nature of God. His lower self was so much in control that he did not know it existed. The Serpent in Genesis told Adam that if he ate of the fruit, 'Ye shall not surely die ... your eyes shall be opened, and ye shall be as God, knowing good and evil."

Adam did die, all in Adam die, in that his fall under the powers of the lower self resulted in ruin, disgrace and ultimately death. Spiritual death is followed by untimely physical death. This has passed on to all men and women who live in rebellion to the Will of God.

5) "I must respectfully say that 90% to 95% of the human family of this Earth have already nullified their existence. Allah (God) did not create Man to live on the plane of lower animals. If the aim and purpose of Allah (God) for Man is that Man be His Vicegerent; His Khalifa, His Successor in this realm; Man is to rule in this realm --- we are not doing that. We are living a life lower than the animals. And, therefore, in the bible, in the Book of Revelations, the Revelator is sayin6 that the Rulers of the Earth are titled, or given, the names "Beast', 'Dragon". These are not good characteristics. Great Beasts ruling humanity? A dragon ruling humanity? A Serpent ruling humanity? This is a nullification of who and what we are --- Human beings.'

6) We become like that which we submit to. We have no concern for moral law. One of the characteristics of a Dragon is that it "drags" you down. When we submit to the power and rule of a Beast, a Dragon, then we become a beast, we begin to "drag' others down. When someone else mounts up on Truth, we seek to pull them down to our level.

If a beast is our ruler, we take on the characteristics of the ruler. To take on the characteristics of a beast is to deny our own capacity to move from a lower state to a higher state.

7) If we remain under such powers, we are lost. By denying Allah, we nullify our own existence and we are practicing Self-Negation.

'And if that man who was working the Will of Allah (God) through the law of Moses was not willing to go one step further with Jesus, he was denying himself entrance into the Kingdom of Heaven. At that point, even though he was practicing the law of Moses, he nullified his right to exist. He was practicing, then, Self-Negation, because he would not practice Self-Denial."

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If Allah is Rabb, the Nourisher of all of us to perfection, then at any point we deny the Truth and halt our evolution, not only are we unable to complete the journey, but we cannot maintain our position. We go back to nothingness.

It is like a baby coming out of the womb and refusing to breathe in the breath of life. It does not just cease to grow, it degenerates all the way back to dust.

To follow the rule of a beast and deny Jesus is to return to dust. The Jews held ton to the law of Moses and refused to accept the principles brought by Jesus. This means they had never been in touch with the life force of the law of Moses.

The Christians accept Jesus, yet deny Muhammad. This denial means that they never were truly in touch with the life force of the teachings of Jesus.

The Muslims who accept Muhammad (PBUH), but deny the Honorable Elijah Muhammad, were never in touch with the life force of the Holy Qur'an. In accepting the Honorable Elijah Muhammad, but denying Brother Farrakhan, those who profess to follow the Honorable Elijah Muhammad manifest that they never were in touch with the life force in His Teachings.

The denial of Truth at any point in time negates the progress made up to that point. This is why the world is acting as though a prophet has never been here. It is because of the denial of the Eternal and Evolutionary Life Force that is in each stage of development. It is holding on to a name, but the substance is buried.

This is why in the lessons the question is asked, why did we take Jerusalem from the Devils? It is because one of our righteous brothers is buried there.

Delilah was a "drag" who pulled Samson down.

Under these powers, any one who is in a position of leadership and power may become overwhelmed by the forces coming into play: growth into fame and fortune. All of these are forces which have the capacity to pull us down.

Here is a man in a position of power. A young woman is in his church, if he is a minister; in his workplace, if he is an employer. She is striving to be upright. But he is like that he submits to. He finally catches her and pulls her down from the mountain of Truth, out of the light into the darkness that he is under. And through it al he uses righteousness as a cover for his evil. He is deceitful like the Serpent.

"This know, also, that in the last days perilous time shall come...For men shall be lovers of their own selves, covetous, boasters, proud, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, unthankful, unholy, without natural affection,

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trucebreakers, false accusers, incontinent, fierce, despisers of those that are good...'Traitors, heady, high-minded, lovers of pleasures more than lovers of God. Having a form of godliness, but denying the power of it; from such turn away ... For of this sort are they who crept into houses and lead captive silly women laden with sins, led away with various lusts ... Ever learning, and never able to come to the knowledge of the truth." [2 Timothy 3:1-7]

The symbolic "fire-breathing" dragon refers to the passion of the lower self manifesting through language and conduct which pulls us down from the elevated plane of truth.

8) The "lost sheep" are a people. A good shepherd would make the sheep shepherds. But in this world, the rulers have the characteristics of beasts and reptiles. 85% of the population is being kept from guidance and evolution by 10% who know the truth and use it for evil and oppression. It is therefore on the shoulders of the 5% righteous to save the 85%.

"Thus saith the Lord God unto the shepherds: Woe be to the shepherds of Israel that feed -themselves! Should not the shepherds feed the flocks ... and they were scattered, because there is no shepherd...My sheep wandered through all the mountains ... yea, My flock was scattered upon all the face of the Earth and none did search or seek after them ... Behold, I am against the shepherds and I will require my flock at their hand and cause them to cease from feeding the flock, neither shall the shepherds feed themselves anymore; FOR I WILL DELIVER MY FLOCK FROM THEIR MOUTH, THAT THEY MANY NOT BE FOOD FOR THEM...BEHOLD, 1, EVEN 1, WILL BOTH SEARCH MY SHEEP AND SEEK THEM OUT ... I WILL SEEK THAT WHICH WAS LOST AND BRING AGAIN THAT WHICH WAS DRIVEN AWAY AND WILL BIND UP THAT WHICH WAS BROKEN AND WILL STRENGTHEN THAT WHICH WAS SICK AND I WILL DESTROY THE FAT AND THE STRONG: I WILL FEED THEM WITH JUSTICE." Ezekiel 34:1 1-10

9) If a man is under a Beast or reptile, he needs a Reconciler. He needs a Redeemer. The One who comes to reconcile and redeem pays a price. He performs an awesome task. He reconciles Man to God and reconciles Man to Self.

The Finder comes to reconcile the lost sheep to the Shepherd.

"For the Son of Man is come to seek and to save that which was lost." Luke 19:10

"For what the law could not do, in that it was weak through the flesh, God sending His own Son, in the likeness of sinful flesh and for sin, condemned sin in the flesh ... that the righteous of the law might be fulfilled in us, who walk not after the flesh but after the Spirit." Romans 8:3,4

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The Finder comes to return the Original Man to his original state.

10) The Holy Qur'an contains the message which Jesus brought. It contains the principles, which applied, take man on a journey to perfection, which is the Plan of Allah (God).

Jesus was born of a woman and went through the vicissitudes of life and became a perfect reflection of God.

11) The Holy Qur'an and the work of Jesus are compatible, in that the man came with a message and the message is form Allah. That message is contained in the Holy Qur'an. The Bible does not contain the total message of Jesus, it focuses on his life and times. The Holy Qur'an is the Word of Allah (God) that Jesus spoke, direct from the Source it came from.

The life of Jesus was one of suffering and the Holy Qur'an tells us that we must suffer pain, we must overcome difficulty, to become one with Allah (God) as Jesus is the example of.

Study the effects of the work of Jesus: a man who made the blind see, the deaf hear, the dumb speak. This is a Healer. The Holy Qur'an is a book which calls itself the "Healer". Then what message could the Jesus bring but that which is contained in the Holy Qur'an. The Holy Qur'an was revealed 1400 years ago. Therefore, the Jesus of 2,000 years ago was a sign of the one who would come with this revealed word and its power to heal, guide, remind and make one attain the goal of meeting with Allah (God).

Even his detractors acknowledged the fact that the Honorable Elijah Muhammad worked the "impossible". He cured the drug addict of his addiction; he made men and women productive when the whole world said they could not produce.

The book Master Fard Muhammad gave the Honorable Elijah Muhammad was the Holy Qur'an. This book is the means by which the Honorable Elijah Muhammad made the blind see, the deaf hear, the dumb speak. It is the means by which he raises the dead to life. Though He gave him 104 books to read, He told the Honorable Elijah Muhammad that the Holy Qur'an is the 'only book you need to carry."

12) The scriptures say that in the beginning was the Word and the Word was with God, and the Word 'was God. [Gospel of ST. John] Therefore, the Mind of God is expressed in His Word.
 

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Therefore, the Holy Qur'an, which is directly out of the mouth of Allah (God), is of His Mind. One who reads this book, who studies this book constantly, assimilates and absorbs it, becomes one with the Mind of Christ, which comes from the Mind of God.

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GLOSSARY

WITNESS To see or know by personal presence and perception; to be present at an occurrence as a witness, spectator, bystander, etc. To testify, give or afford evidence of.

WARN To give notice, advice or intimation to a person, group, etc., of danger, impending evil, harm or anything else unfavorable; to admonish or exhort, as to action or conduct; to give authoritative or formal notice to; to speak plainly and in strong terms about danger and penalties.

BEARER A person or thing that carries, upholds or brings. A tree or plant that yields fruit or flowers. The holder of rank or
office: incumbent.

BEAR To bring forth; to produce by natural growth; to hold up, support or remain firm under; to be capable of; to suffer, endure, undergo; to carry in the mind or heart; to transmit or spread (gospel).

INVITE To ask or request the presence or participation of in a kindly, courteous or complimentary way, especially to ask or request to come or to go to some place, or to do something; to attract, allure, bid, solicit.

SUN The star that is the central body of the solar system, around which the planets revolve and from which they receive light and heat; a self-luminous heavenly body.

RECONCILE To render no longer opposed; bring to acquiescence or acceptance; to win over to friendliness; to compose or settle a quarrel or dispute; to bring into agreement or harmony; make compatible or consistent.

REDEEM To buy or pay off; to clear by payment; to recover by payment or other satisfaction; to discharge or fulfill a pledge or promise; to obtain the release or restoration of, as from captivity; to regain possession, or improve the condition of anything, as by endeavor, devotions sacrifice or the like. REDEEMER: One who redeems.

REFORM The improvement or amendment of what is wrong, corrupt, unsatisfactory, etc. To change to a better state, form, etc; improve by alteration, substitution, abolition, etc. To cause

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a person to abandon wrong or evil ways of life or conduct; to put an end to abuses, disorders and error.

FIND To learn, obtain or attain, by search or effort; to recover something lost; to regain the use of; to discover or confirm the truth of something; to discover the true nature of someone or something.

EVOLVE To develop gradually; to develop by a process of evolution to a more highly organized state or condition; to come forth gradually into being. To make motion incomplete in itself, but combining with coordinated motions to produce a single action.

BEAST Any animal other than man, especially a large, four-footed mammal. The crude animal nature common to humans and nonhumans; a cruel, coarse, filthy or otherwise beastlike person.

DRAGON A monster represented generally as a huge, winged reptile, with crested head and terrible claws and teeth, often spouting fire. A fierce, violent person.

SERPENT A snake. A wily, treacherous, or malicious person. An insidious enemy. One who makes one's course or way in a crooked or winding manner.

SEAL Anything that tightly or completely closes or secures a thing.

ABROGATE To cancel, repeal or annul by authority. To abolish.

TEMPORAL Lasting only for a time; transitory; temporary, not eternal.

MEANING What is meant; what is intended to be expressed or understood by something; the total implication of something said or done, including the subtle connotations.

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Now, if you look at the prophets, all of them are examples of this struggle. Every prophet that God sent into the world is an example of this struggle to meet with God.

Though the prophets' examples are not what I would call a perfect example; (because) the prophets struggled in the absence of God with Light from God that is considered, in symbolic language, 'moonlight'. Since the moon represents the Sun, in the absence of the Sun it has no light of its own; it borrows light from the Sun and reflects it to the Earth. Likewise, in the absence of God, prophets reflect the Light of God to the people of the Earth. But, they do not see. They are not a witness of God's Divine Presence; they are only a witness that God is interested in the affairs of men. Do you follow what I am saying? If you have a limited light, you can only be a limited example. The prophets of God had limited light; therefore, their example is limited. It is not the apex example of human beings.

This is why in the Christian context, Jesus Christ is the Supreme Example. Why is Jesus the Supreme Example? Jesus is the Supreme Example because he is not a 'prophet', in the classical sense of that name; he is the Master of prophets. He comes, not as 'a' star of God, but 'The Star' of God---for in Jesus is a witness, not that God is Coming, but that God is Present. Listen, listen, listen now.

Jesus becomes the Supreme Example because he is not moonlight, but he is actually sunlight, or, 'The Light of the World'. So, Jesus gives man a glimpse of his potential. Jesus is not here for you to worship him; he is here for you to follow his example, that where he is, you may be. Meaning that what he has become you also can become if you follow that path. Do you follow what I am saying?

Listen, Reverend. You know, Reverend, we waste a lot of time getting the people to worship Jesus, when in reality, we should be getting the people to follow his example. If the group had followed the example of Jesus, you wouldn't just have Jesus, Peter and Paul, but everywhere you look, you would see another Jesus. Because if you follow that example, Jesus is only manifesting what is really in yourself.

Are you following what I am saying? 'This is a different message from Farrakhan. I thought Farrakhan was telling us we should hate people.' You don't know where Farrakhan is coming from. You really don't listen. You'll understand me better if you stop trying to pre-judge and do some post-judging. Listen to what I am saying about this man, Jesus.

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He is the perfect example of human potential. Therefore, he should be shown to men, not as some being that is out there in space, that we can never attain. That is the wrong way to preach Jesus. If you make Jesus acceptable, he becomes reachable. But If you put him out there on Cloud 9, saying, 'Jesus is Lord, Jesus is Master, Jesus has control of the forces of nature', and you don't show every human being that he was a born of a woman and came through the vicissitudes of life, just like you. He struggled and overcame and the last test that he had to overcome was death. Not this death that you are thinking about. I'll get to that later on. Not too long from now, don't worry.

But, he overcame death to give us an example of how death is to be overcome. But, once you get past a certain point, you are out there. It is like an astronaut going out in space. I mean, Brother, those first few minutes---they are rough. When they reach the ceiling of gravity, where there is pure fire; they are going through fire; they have the heat shield around them. It's rough Brother. But when they get out in Space they have gotten out of the pull of gravity of this sphere; then there is smooth sailing. But, getting out there--that is the test.

You know, when I was in church we used to sing a song at Easter time--in the Episcopal Church---I don't know how they do it in the Baptist Church. But, it went like this: 'The strife is o'er, the battle done, the victory of life is won. All glory to that risen Son, Allelujah!' Now, I sang that as a Christian, but today I understand it as a Muslim.

Tonight, there are Christians and Muslims praying together, singing together, seated together. Why? Because Farrakhan does not come into the Valley to divide people who believe in God, but to show those who believe in God that, if you truly believe in God and seek to understand what you believe, you find a way to connect things that appear to be diverse and different. Because, if we can connect Indians and Mexicans and Blacks, who appear to be different (and whites), then what can you do to connect Hebrews, Muslims, Christians. It should be easier to connect those who believe in God than those who are culturally and racially different. Tonight, we are going to overcome all of that.

I am sure you will agree with me that there is a great problem with man. I am not talking about color, now. The white man has a problem and is a problem to himself and others. Listen. Wait a minute. 'Now here comes that racism.' No, no, no, you just be quiet.

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