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WELCOME
GREETINGS TO YOU. I AM MINISTER
LOUIS FARRAKHAN, SPEAKING TO
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THE HONORABLE ELIJAH MUHAMMAD,
ON THE SOUTH SIDE OF CHICAGO. WE
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DON’T WANT YOU TO GET EXCITED OR
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MANSION AS A “PALACE.” FOR A
“PALACE,” OF COURSE, IS THE
“RESIDENCE OF A KING OR
EMPEROR.” BUT A “PALACE IS ALSO
THE RESIDENCE OF A
“DISTINGUISHED PERSON.”
THE HONORABLE ELIJAH MUHAMMAD IS
BIGGER THAN AN EMPEROR AND HE IS
BIGGER THAN A KING; AND
CERTAINLY HE WAS, AND IS, A
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FO US WHO ARE CONNECTED TO HIM
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THE WISDOM, KNOWLEDGE AND
UNDERSTANDING THAT HE IS
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ALMIGHTY GOD, ALLAH.
WE WELCOME YOU INTO THE HOME OF
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AND FROM THIS HOME, YOU MAY
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LEVEL AND INFUSE US WITH A NEW
MIND, A NEW SPIRIT, A NEW
DIRECTION.
IT WILL ALSO CAUSE THE
RESURRECTION OF THE TOTALITY OF
HUMANITY.
(OCTOBER 26,
1986)
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IN THE NAME
OF ALLAH, THE BENEFICENT, THE
MERCIFUL. I BEAR WITNESS THAT
THERE IS NO GOD BUT ALLAH AND I
BEAR WITNESS THAT MUHAMMAD IS
HIS MESSENGER.
Dear Brothers
and Sisters, our subject matter
for discussion today is titled:
THE WILL OF GOD.
Everything in
Creation is the manifestation of
the Will of God. All of Creation
expresses the Attributes or
Characteristics of this Mighty
Being, The Originator of the
Heavens and the Earth. But the
Will of God is the Power behind
the throne. The Will of God is
the Power behind the Universe:
its creation, its maintenance
and its sustenance.
The Holy
Qur'an constantly reminds us
that Allah's command is just
"Be!" And it is. But this is not
some spooky term such as
"Abracadabra!" or "Open,
Sesame!" When Allah (God) says
"Be!" He summons the Power of
His Own Being, His Creative Mind
and Will, to bring about that
which He Wills.
When Allah says,
"Be!," this is an expression of
His Will. But it is more than
just the expression of His Will,
for when He says, "Be!," He
arranges forces, resources,
angels, people --- according to
a Plan --- to bring about the
Fruition of His Will.
Allah's Will
never fails. There is no plan by
any scholar or scientist, no
power in the Heavens above or in
the Earth beneath, that can
circumvent the Plan of Almighty
God. In fact, the plans of the
present world leaders were all
taken into consideration. Before
they were even a thought in the
mind of their father, their
plans were know. Their scheme
was known. And Allah took their
plans into consideration. He
places His Hand over their plan;
He help to bring about the
Fruition of His Will. That is a
Mighty, Powerful Being we are
dealing with. When He says,
"Be!" it is.
What a wonderful
thing, that Almighty God, Allah
chooses to share this Power with
Humanity! Think of that,
Brothers and Sisters! Almighty
God, Allah, Who has created
everything by His Will, shares
His Power with you and me! We,
today, have the ability to Will.
We have the ability to plan, to
work, to organize and to bring
into fruition our plans. We,
too, can say "Be!," go to work,
and it is.
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The Honorable
Elijah Muhammad has taught us
that the brain of Main is
"infinite." I want you to think
on it --- THE BRAIN OF MAN IS
INFINITE. If the brain of Man is
infinite, then Man can bring
into existence whatever he
conceives in his mind; the
repository for Allah (God), the
place for the God to dwell. God
is infinite in the brain of Man.
In the New
Testament, Jesus says that he
knocks and if we will open up to
him, he will come in and sup
with us. This does not mean that
he is a visitor standing outside
your door (although it could
mean that too), but just as you
would open the door of your home
to allow into your home one who
is a friend, likewise we should
open the door of our ears, the
door of our heart, the door of
our mind, to let Almighty God,
Allah come in. For there He
wishes to dwell; in the Infinity
of the Brain of Man!
The Will is the
Real Power of Allah (God) in
Man. However, the Will must be
buttressed, or supported, by
Faith and by knowledge. Let us
look at Will and its meaning;
Faith and its meaning; and
Knowledge. Let us look at what
Allah (God) has given us of His
Will. And what do we have of
Faith? What do we have of
Knowledge, to buttress and
support the power of our own
being.
"Will,"
according to Webster's, it "the
faculty of conscious and
especially of deliberate
action." There is no action that
is not preceded by a conscious
thought, planning and then the
carrying of a plan into
action(s). "Will" is the power
of control that the mind has
over its own action's).
To be able to
Will is to have a creative force
within that actually can change
the conditions of our lives, the
condition of our homes, the
condition of our community, the
condition of the Nation and the
condition of the World.
But Will without
Faith; Will without Knowledge;
is Power without direction. It
is power that can be
manipulated. It is power that
can actually be used by a smart
crooked deceiver to make slaves
of the totality of the human
family. Therefore, all of us
must be possessors of Knowledge
of Faith.
Faith, of
course, is "confidence or trust
in a person or thing." Faith is
having confidence in your own
ability or in someone else's
ability. In the Divine Scheme of
things, Faith is having
confidence or trust in Allah
(God). Having Faith is having
confidence and trust in His
Word: Knowing that His Word
never fails; His Plan never
fails; His Will never fails.
When we put our trust completely
in Allah (God) and in His Word,
we have the ability to see
beyond our knowledge --- for
what we know is limited.
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Faith can be as big as a
mountain; Faith can be as big as
the Universe itself. Regardless
of what you know, you must have
greater Faith then your
Knowledge. For your Knowledge
is, of a surety, limited, no
matter how much you know. But if
your Faith and Allah (God) is
great; your Faith in his words
great; then that Faith will lead
you to greater and greater
knowledge.
We must be Faithful men and
women, but we must also be
possessors of Knowledge. There
are so many of our people who
have a lot of Faith but very
little Knowledge. We need both:
Faith and Knowledge; to buttress
and support the power of our
being, which is our Will.
Prophet Muhammad ( Peace be upon
him) said, nearly 1400 years
ago, " one goes out in search of
Knowledge is in the Path of God
until he returns. Why did
Prophet Muhammad make such an
utterance? It is because when we
go out in search of Knowledge,
we should never return. For
Knowledge is the path of God.
And Knowledge, like God, is
infinite. When you go out after
Knowledge, never say, " I found
it!, " " when you have saved you
have found it, you have stopped
searching. You have stopped
seeking. When you stop
searching, stops seeking, you
reached a plateau of learning.
That plateau leads to the death
of your society; the death of
your own power; your creative
energy. Unfortunately, this is
what happened to this world in
which we presently live. Men
have amassed a lot of knowledge,
but, unfortunately, he believed
that he has found it. And in
finding it to, he had lost it
and is no longer in the path of
Allah (God). So the Knowledge
that he possesses leads his
society to greater and more
complex problems which his own
Knowledge gives him neither the
light, nor the ability, to
solve. This is when Allah steps
in --- when our knowledge fails
us.
Knowledge without Faith is like
a ship without water. Can you
imagine a ship without water? No
wonder the people in the days of
Noah the death at him because he
built a ship and there was no
water. But no one knew what the
people did not know; he knew
that water was, indeed, coming.
What about you with this
tremendous skill in science,
mathematics, physics, and
chemistry? Don't you realize
that you are, yet, a baby? You
have a little bit of Knowledge
and very little Faith in Allah
(God). Consequently, your
Knowledge takes you nowhere but
to self-destruction. An so,
Beloved, each of us would want
to develop the power of our own
being; to use that power to
better ourselves, our families,
our community, our people, our
Nation, the World. We must seek
Knowledge and we must develop
Faith. For it is Knowledge and
Faith that buttress and support
the great Power of Allah (God)
in Man: Man's ability to Will.
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The Will is
protected and also sustained,
not only by Faith, but also by
our Attitude, which demonstrates
the degree of our Faith. We
cannot have a powerful Will and
a weak Attitude. The Attitude
that we have is for the
protection of our Will. Change
your Attitude and you might
redirect your Will.
Attitude is "the
manner, disposition, feeling,
position" with which we regard a
thing. It is a "tendency or
orientation, especially of the
mind." Think of these words. It
is a "tendency" or an
"orientation" of the mind. In
fact, Attitude can give you ---
or damage --- your ability to
perceive reality. Mood can
colour your perception. So we
have all of these things that
affect the Will, and, in fact,
redirect the Will. Beloved, we
must be careful of our Attitude.
(We are going to talk about that
a little later on this program,
but I want to lay this base
before we discuss Attitude).
Will is Power,
but Power must be guided. Guided
by what? The Power of Will must
be guided by Knowledge. But
there is an emotional force that
gives direction to Will. And the
emotional force --- which is the
creative force upon which the
entire Universe is constructed
--- is Love. And it is out of
this awesome power of Love that
the Will springs up; it springs
up out of this emotion, and it
is directed and guided by that
emotion. When you couple Will
and Knowledge and Love, then you
have a balanced individual,
whose Will is being used in a
creative, constructive way; not
in the way of destruction.
Let us take a
look at the things that
adversely affect the Power of
Allah (God) within Man. From the
time that the baby comes into
the world, we see a
demonstration of Will. Mother is
not teaching the child from "day
one," yet the child accomplishes
mush in that first year of life.
From what? From the Will.
The Will moves
the child to grow and grow. The
first year of life is the
strongest year of educational
development. It learns more in
the first year; and without a
teacher! The teaching comes from
within. What does that tell us?
That there is a Power within
every human being that can teach
and direct. That Power is
connected to its Source. It can
be a Source of comfort,
guidance, protection and
deliverance for every human
being.
I. FEAR
Did you know that Fear is what
the enemy of Allah (God) at
hand, uses to restrict the Power
of your own Will? What are you
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afraid of? Once
someone can make you afraid,
they restrict the Power of your
own being to express itself.
Look at how many
people today live in fear. "I'm
on a job and I am afraid that I
am going to be fired" (by a
cantankerous boss or foreman).
Think of it. So the foreman is
threatening your security. You
are afraid, so it restricts your
Will. And, in a sense, it helps
to make the individual not just
a worker on the job, but a slave
to the job.
Anytime we are
afraid to think, to move, to
express ourselves, for fear of
being censured; for fear of
losing a job; then we need to
get away from that type of job,
for we have lost the most
precious thing that we could
have and that is a Free Will.
That is what Allah (God) has
given us. But if your choices
are made our of Fear, then you
have made yourselves a slave.
Fear is
distressing emotion; aroused by
impending pain and danger. Of
course, the Scriptures teach us
that the Fear of Allah (God) is
the beginning of Knowledge and
that, of course, is true.
The Fear of
Allah (God) is restricting, but
it does not restrict us in a way
that damages our development.
The Fear of Allah (God) frees us
to act in accordance with His
Will.
II.
VANITY
The next
thing that hurts the Will,
redirects the Will, redirects
the Power of our being in a
negative direction, is something
called Vanity.
Vanity
is excessive pride in one's
appearance, one's qualities,
one's abilities and/or one's
achievements. It is Conceit.
Vanity can lead to Arrogance.
And, of course, anything that is
done with the spirit of Conceit
lacks real value. In fact, it is
hollow and worthless. And those
of us who are self-conceited;
who are overly concerned with
ourselves and who see too much
importance in ourselves in our
relationships to others: our
acts are shallow. Our words are
hollow; they have no real value.
Consequently, we are considered,
in the Eyes of Allah (God)
worthless.
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III.
PRIDE
The
next terrible distortion, or
that which distorts the Will, is
Pride. Pride is a high or
inordinate opinion of one's own
dignity, importance, merit or
superiority. Whether this is
cherished in the mind or
expressed openly by our bearing
or conduct, makes no difference.
Once the mind is
beset with Pride and we swell up
with Pride, this directs the
Power of our being. So we do
things to enhance our merit, our
superiority, our sense of
importance. And we become
blinded, by Pride, to the Will
of Allah (God); to the Power of
Allah (God). Pride makes you
think of yourself as the Power
and not God as the Power. Pride
will make you pay lip service to
Allah (God) and even feign
humility, while in reality, the
heart is a boiling cauldron of
False Pride which ahs now
corrupted the Will and
redirected it toward an end that
makes Man a slave of his own
self-conceit, importance and,
really, Delusion.
[I am sorry to
depart from this lecture an make
this kind of statement; but such
a statement --- that which I am
about to make ---- can be proved
true. This (Pride) was the
condition of Pharaoh's mind and
it caused Pharaoh to make
terrible blunders which led to
the destruction of his power,
his people and his nation. This
has been, and is, the state of
mind of most leaders in the
world. And, unfortunately, it is
the state of mind of the
President of the United States.
It is also the state of mind of
the powerful men and women that
are gathered around him. They
have for so long thought of
their own importance above
obedience to the Will of Allah
(God) that their own Pride, now,
is speeding them toward a hasty
destruction.]
IV. ENVY
This is another emotion that can
absolutely corrupt and redirect
the Will. Envy is a feeling of
discontent, usually with
ill-will, at seeing someone
else's superiority, advantages
or success. How many of you ---
how many of us --- are plagued
with this disease of the heart,
right now? You are angry with
someone whom you fell has an
advantage or a success that you
believe should be yours. This is
a terrible corruption of the
Will of Allah (God); of the Will
of Man.
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[So these
enemies of the Will: Fear,
Vanity, Pride, Envy, must be
gotten rid of . But how can we
get rid of the enemies that keep
us from full development?]
V. LUST
Lust
is a voracious appetite; a
sexual appetite that is
inordinate. It is out of the
Divine Law. It is out of the way
of the Order of Allah (God). It
is something that we feel we
have to do. It is a compulsion.
And we allow that drive, that
sexual drive, that ends that are
nonproductive of good.
VI. ANGER
To
those of us who are angered
much, Anger can direct the Will.
Anger directs the Power of our
being toward the object of our
Anger. And ofttimes, in our
Anger, we can do - very
destructive things to Self and
others. Anger is something that
must be controlled.
VII.
GREED
And
of course, lastly, there is
Greed. Greed is the accepted
inordinate or rapacious desire
for wealth, power, food or
drink. Allah (God) wants us to
be satisfied. But when we are
overcome by Greed, this lust for
wealth or power or food or
drink, it manifests itself in
our conspicuous consumption. It
manifests itself in our
directing our Will to destroy
those who stand in the way of
our assumption of Power. It
leads to obesity, where one
destroys one's health because of
one's Greed; or destroys one's
health because of our
uncontrolled urges.
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When Allah (God)
asks us to become His servants,
He asks us to give Him the best
part of ourselves. What does
Allah (God) ask us for? He asks
us for our Will. What does He
ask us for? He asks us for the
Power of our being.
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Since He gave it
(Power of our being) to you and
you say, "The Lord giveth and
the Lord taketh away," then
if Allah (God) has given you a
bit of His Own Power (which is
His Will) then He asks you will
you give it back in surrender,
what should our word to Almighty
God be? Of course we should say:
Yes. I submit my Will to do Your
Will." Not by force, but
willingly.
And this is the
meaning of the Arabic word
"Muslim." To be a Muslim is not
some strange thing. To be a
Muslim doesn't mean being
radical or being an extremist or
being a parrot. To be a Muslim
means that you recognize that
your Will that has been given to
you by God, as His Gift to you.
And He is requiring of us,
obedience to His Will;
submitting our Will to His. And
when we do that we are called
Muslim.
And the religion
of obedience to the Will of
Allah (God) is called, in
Arabic, Islam. And so we say to
you, Beloved that every prophet
of Almighty God, was, by the
action of that prophet, a
Muslim, thought he may not have
called himself Muslim as such.
But his act of submitting his
Will and time to do the Will of
Allah (God) is an act of
surrender, that, in Arabic we
say he is Muslim, his religion
is Islam.
So when we are
asked to submit to our Will to
do the Will of God, He takes
that Will and He fashions it. He
makes that individual unto
Himself. So when The Honorable
Elijah Muhammad asked us, "Who
is the Original Man?" He is
gently directing you back to
your original state, since your
original state is to submit.
You came into
this world not knowing anything.
You came into the world pliant,
ready to be taught, to be
shaped, to be guided, to be
developed, to be evolved, to be
nurtured. And so, you submitted
when you came in. Your original
state is one of submission to
Almighty God, Allah. And if you
return to that state, you can
become the Original Man of a New
Dispensation. You can become the
cream of the Planet. For those
who submit to the Will of Allah
(God) rise above all of those
who reject obedience to His
Will. By submitting to the Will
of Allah (God), we can become
the Fathers of a brand new
civilization; a civilization
superior to those who have
rebelled against His Will.
In fact, we can
become that which the Holy
Qur'an calls "Caliphat,"
or, "one who takes the place of
God," God's Vicegerent. We can
become the Supreme Ruler of the
Universe Itself. It starts with
obedience to the Will of Allah
(God). Because of the awesome
power that Man can come into by
obeying Allah (God), he must
learn valuable lessons.
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Brothers and
Sisters, whenever Allah (God)
has chosen a People, He chooses
them for Eminence. He chooses
them for Greatness. He chooses
them for Exaltation, but he
requires of them obedience to
His Will.
If we submit,
Allah (God) starts exalting us.
There is a requirement --- a
prerequisite, if you will ---
for Exaltation. And Allah (God)
gives us that prerequisite in
the very first verse of the Holy
Qur'an: Al-hamdu
"Lilla-Hi" (The praise belongs
to God). If you submit your
Will to the Will of Allah (God),
The Most High, and He begins to
exalt you, to nurture you into
greater power and creativity and
greater influence, then there
should be in us obedience.
Humility is the
state of mind that each one of
us must be in, in order for
Allah (God) to continue His Plan
of Exaltation for any of us.
And, unfortunately, History
tells us that every time
Almighty God chose a people for
exaltation --- when He gave them
Power, when He gave them Wealth,
when He gave them Influence,
they began to forget Him. They
lost their Humility. Their Will
became corrupt. They became
hypocritical. They began to
speak what was no longer in the
heart. And so, Allah (God)
chastised those people and He
brought other people in their
place.
Dear Listeners,
this was the fate of Israel.
According to the teachings of
the Bible and the Holy
Qur'an, Allah chose Israel
for exaltation. But He wanted
them to submit. He made Israel
above the nations of the Earth.
Allah 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 vile; she
became envious; 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 Will. So Allah (God)
punished Israel and made her an
example for us today.
The Prophets and
their magnificent
accomplishments that make them
of regard in this world and
worthy of regard in the
Hereafter, are all due to the
quality and the degree of their
submission of their Will to do
the Will of Almighty God, Allah.
The only reason
that we call the names of Moses,
Abraham, David, Solomon and the
great worthies of Allah (God) is
because they distinguished
themselves by doing a mighty
work. They submitted their Will
to do the Will of God. They are
on the pages of history as an
example for you and me.
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BREAKING THE
WILL
But what about
the breaking of the Will?
Whenever another individual
wants to make you a slave, he
wants to break your Will. He
wants to absolutely interfere
with the faculty of conscious,
deliberate action on your part.
He wants to take control of our
minds over our actions.
This is
terrible, Brothers and Sisters,
but all over the world today,
humanity is enslaved by people
who come in the name of Allah
(God). People who come in the
name of politics, medicine,
religion or science. But their
aim is to make you and me submit
to them as thought they are God
besides Allah. And the knowledge
of no leader, no teacher, no
prophet is absolute. The prophet
only gives you a knowledge of
how to reach the Absolute. The
prophet's knowledge may be
absolute for that time, but it
is not absolute for all time. He
brings you a knowledge that you
can rely upon, but it is a
knowledge that must lead you to
Higher Knowledge, or leads you
to the Absolute. And the
Absolute is Allah (God) Himself.
Why, then, must
you be enslaved to a textbook by
one whose perception of reality
may or may not be proper? One
whose mind may be damaged by one
or more of these damaging
things: Envy, Fear, Greed, Lust,
Anger, the swelling of
Self-Importance? This kind of
thing, that comes out of the
textbooks of learned men, can
corrupt our Knowledge if we take
our doctors of law and our monks
for lords besides Allah (God).
No, no, no! Their knowledge is
not perfect.
We must not take
imperfect men or textbooks as
the Absolute and build our
complete world on that which is
an assumption or theory that has
yet to be proved true. Only
Allah (God) knows how to direct
the Light which He has given,
for He alone is the Light-Giver.
When we submit ourselves to
these 'Johnny-come-lately(s)'
and become slaves to preachers
or teachers who come in the name
of Allah (God), or in the name
of science or education, then we
put ourselves under the control
of a mind that is lesser. We
become, in the words of a movie,
"The Children of a Lesser God."
Why should we be the children of
a lesser god, when we can be the
children of the One True God?
Every day that
we live there is someone trying
to break our Will. In fact Black
brothers and sisters, that is
what made us slaves. Our Will
was broken; our ability to
control our own minds was
broken. Somebody wanted mastery
over our thought processes and
over all of our actions.
Somebody wanted to make us a
slave. And I respectfully say to
you, that in making us a slave,
white people, who are the
descendents of the
slave-masters, have made
themselves slaves.
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Now they are
slaves to their own material
world. Slaves to the Lust for
Power. Slaves to Greed. Slaves
to their own Self-Importance.
Look at all of these slaves that
are in the world. So many of us
who come today in the name of
Jesus, in the name of Muhammad,
we come to redeem and to free a
world of slaves. Some know that
they are slaves and some know
not. Many Black people under the
sound of our voice think that
they are free. How foolish could
we be? You are not physically
enslaved to Caucasian people,
but you are enslaved to false
ideas and concepts espoused by
those who know how to trick and
deceive the mind and fill you
with false delusion; breaking
your Will.
Today, there are
people who are fat --- just
plain fat. Fat for what? You eat
too much. What do you want to do
about it? "Oh, God, I'm so
fat...I'll go to my doctor,
maybe he will give me a pill." A
pill?! A pill to do what? A
chemical? To slow down your Lust
for food? Or, "Maybe I will go
into surgery and he will put a
balloon in my stomach or clip my
stomach." Clip your stomach?!
Oh, Brothers and Sisters, what
fools we have become. We are
relying on surgery, when the
very thing we have to clip our
stomach --- the very thing that
we should be developing that
will give us Power over our
actions, is our Will.
But your Will
has been broken. Your Will is
destroyed, so the Power of Allah
(God) in you is almost
non-existent. You are, in fact,
slaves. Oh, Brothers and
Sisters, your knowledge is
undermined and your Faith in God
and Faith in Self is broken. How
many preachers I hear on Sunday
morning talking about Faith in
God.
This is the only
way it is with politics. These
politicians are the weakest of
leaders. One should never put a
vote of confidence in a
politician, because he is like a
leaf which blows whichever way
the wind is blowing. How can we
put our hand in such leaders'
hands? Politicians, it is
corruption of your
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Will, the
breaking of your Will and the
making of yourselves a slave.
Again, the Government of the
United States is guilty of
misdirecting the people's Will.
You can be angry, justifiably,
but suppose someone lies to you.
They make you angry and then the
Anger directs your Will and your
Will becomes destructive of the
object or the person for whom
you have this Anger.
Can you imagine
that just a few weeks ago, it
came out in the newspapers that
the President and his staff sat
down and agreed to a Lying
Campaign. Oh, they give it a
nice-sounding name:
"Disinformation." What is
"disinformation," but a big,
bold, Lie? What is the plan
behind the Lie? The plan is to
create Anger by lying on
Qaddafi.
You create Anger
against Qaddafi. When you lie on
Qaddafi, you make the people
angry when you direct their Will
against him. So now, the
government, which is to do the
Will of the People, says "We
must destroy Qaddafi." Then you
bomb the home of a Head of
State. "We are not doing wrong,
we are doing the Will of the
People." But who manipulated
that Will? You manipulated it by
lying. And you have the audacity
to quote Winston Churchill to
justify that, by saying that in
war, the truth must be protected
and surrounded by a big platter
of lies. What are you saying,
Mr. Schulz? That you are a Liar?
And that you wish to make slaves
of the people, misdirecting
their Will? And those who will
not go along with you, you will
put out a propaganda campaign
against them in hopes of
breaking their Will.
But you have
noticed, that no matter what you
say about Farrakhan, you have
not broken my Will, nor can you.
As long as I submit my Will to
do the Will of Allah (God), then
the Power of Allah (God)
sustains my Will.
That is what
made Jesus so dangerous. That is
what makes Muhammad of the
Holy Qur'an (Peace be upon
him) so dangerous. These two men
attract the Will, give a
buttress and support for the
Will, show Man how to increase
the Power of his Will and
strengthen his Will. This means
the breaking of the back of all
pharaohs, all slavemasters, all
slavemakers. This is why the
true message of Jesus is a
message that the totality of the
human family needs. The true
message of Muhammad is a message
that all of us need.
In building the
Will, Jesus asked his disciples
to fast. Many of the followers
of The Honorable Elijah
Muhammad, here in Chicago, have
been on a three day fast. This
fast is to develop the Will. It
is to develop the Power of your
and my being. Why? Because it is
only when our Will is developed
and properly directed, properly
supported and properly encased,
that we have the awesome Power
to change the reality under
which we live.
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The support for
your will has to be Prayer.
Prayer gives you the humbleness
of mind that allows you to
develop properly --- to submit
your Will to the Will of Allah
(God).
Fasting gives
you the Power to reject food
when you want it; reject drink
when you want it; reject sex
when you do not want or need it
or when you are not in the
presence of those whom you are
married to. Think about this! It
is the destruction of your Will
that has made you less than a
man, less than a woman --- even
less than the animals and the
beasts of the field.
Jesus, in his
Sermon on the Mount, gave his
disciples the "Be (attitudes)."
He wanted his disciples, who
were with him in a work of
redemption, to develop a "Be
(attitude)." What is he saying?
Develop a mental posture that
will support and encase His Will
so that your Will is not subject
to the things of the world that
come to break you Will.
Jesus said,
"Blessed are the poor in spirit,
for theirs is the Kingdom of
Heaven." Now no man that is
poor is blessed. I want you to
get out of it, of that thought,
that you poverty is a blessing.
But those of you who are poor of
the energy of life; poor in the
control of yourself; poor in the
Will or development of the Will
and poor in submission to the
Will of God --- for you, Jesus
said, is the Kingdom of Heaven.
For Allah (God) is going to give
you someone that will give you
all that you have been deprived
of that has made you poor so
that you will once again be rich
indeed.
Solomon said,
"The House of Knowledge is the
House of Mourning." Because
the more you know, the sadder
you are about the reality under
which we as Black people and all
of humanity lives. We who mourn
over human beings living like
animals, to us the Scripture
says: "Blessed are you who
mourn, for you shall be
comforted." We know that
Allah's (God's) Will is to
redeem us; to save us of this
condition; to heal us of this
broken Will, this broken Spirit,
this broken Faith that has
corrupted us. When you know
that, you don't look at the
conditions and fall into despair
and let the mood of despair
cause an Attitude that will
redirect your Will in a negative
direction.
Jesus said,
"Blessed are you when men shall
revile you and say all manner of
evil against you falsely for my
sake. Rejoice, and be
exceedingly glad, for great is
your reward in heaven."
Jesus is saying, again, take the
Attitude that you are blessed
when people speak evil of you,
persecute you, say all manner of
evil against you falsely for his
sake. Don't think that this is a
curse. Think, "This is a
blessing." Keep that Attitude
and you Will will grow stronger
to resist the persecution and
the evil speaking of those who
speak evil of you.
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"Blessed are the
meek, they shall inherit the
Earth." "Blessed are they which
hunger and thirst for
righteousness, for they shall be
filled." "Blessed are the pure
in heart, for they shall see
God." "Blessed are the
peacemakers, for they shall be
called the children of God."
I say to you.
Brothers and Sisters, that you
are the Salt of the Earth. But
if the Salt has lost its flavor,
wherewith shall it be salty? You
that have been guided by the
Message of The Honorable Elijah
Muhammad, by the Light of the
Truth, you are the Salt. Yu can
give flavor to the Light of
Black people. You have a
knowledge of God and a strong
Will that can give flavor to the
lives of Humanity. But if your
Will and your Faith is broken,
and you Knowledge is undermined,
then what good are you? Your
salt is good for nothing but to
be cast out and trodden under
the foot of men.
And so, Beloved,
in my conclusion of this
broadcast, I hope you will do
everything in your Power to
strengthen your Will.
Strengthen your
Will. Do not be a slave to any
man. Bow down only to Allah
(God). Fast and learn to
strengthen the discipline of
your Will, that you may be able
to eat, drink and live the good
life, without the obstruction of
all of the forces that come
against the Mighty Power of your
Will.
May Almighty
God, Allah, bless and keep you,
as I greet you in peace, in the
Arabic language, thanking you
for these few moments of your
time: AS-SALAAM ALAIKUM!
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