In The Name of Allah, The Beneficent, The Merciful.
This
is why I chose the subject “The Gods At War: The Future Is All About
You; all about Youth.” You have to make decisions today for your life,
and you have to be informed to make the right decision. They say that
when war is fought, the first casualty is truth. If The Gods Are At
War, who are they? Where are they? Can we see them? Because all of us
are in The Valley of Decision, can we be taught enough about them that
we might choose which one of them we will follow?
I thank the Mighty F.O.I. and M.G.T., and the Junior F.O.I. and M.G.T.,
and all our youth whose work in the seminars and meetings over this
weekend dealing with the real problems of our young people and the
young people of the world, and for what you offered of the Teachings of
the Honorable Elijah Muhammad to our young Brothers and Sisters. Young
people: Regardless of your station in life today, know that you were
born to lead tomorrow. Today, I hope to put you in the mind and spirit
to accept the responsibility that Almighty God wants to place on the
shoulders of young people all over our planet. The last thank you, of
course is the greatest of all. I thank Almighty God Allah for His Grace
and Mercy, and to let you all know how honored I am that Allah (God)
has granted me another year after my horrific operation and near-death
experience. I thank Him; I thank Him.
A World in Peril
Wicked people are never pleased at hearing the truth, but we live at
a time when there must be present in the world those who are willing to
speak the truth regardless of whom or what, and suffer the necessary
consequences of telling the truth at the time of the demise of this
present world.
The context of this message is a world in peril. The context of the
phenomenal rise of Barack Obama is a world and a nation in peril. When
you and I think of the conditions in America and the conditions in the
world, where in the scriptures do we find a prophecy that fits the
condition of America and the condition of the world?
In the New Testament, in 2 Timothy 3:1-5, it reads: “But know this,
that in the last days perilous times will come; For men will be lovers
of themselves, lovers of money, boasters, proud, blasphemers,
disobedient to parents, unthankful, unholy. Unloving, unforgiving,
slanderers, without self-control, brutal, despisers of good. Traitors,
headstrong, haughty, lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God.
Having a form of godliness, but denying the power thereof.” So Paul
says to Timothy, “From such people, turn away.”
We are just not living in a time of universal integration. The hope
of every decent human being is to see all human beings loving each
other, at peace with each other, enjoying the spirit of brotherly love.
That is the hope and the desire of every good person on this earth. The
hope is not wrong, but there are those who don’t want that.
You cannot unite with wickedness if you love righteousness. You
can’t have fellowship with this world that is in its last days and have
the love of God at the same time. Now, either Jesus’ teaching is right,
or he’s just wrong. In the Book of James, Jesus said, “The love of this
world is enmity with God.” So if you like the way this world has
tailored you and fashioned you; fashioned your neighbor, fashioned your
school, fashioned your life—if you love that, something is wrong with
you. But if you are dissatisfied with this world, and hate what this
world has done and is doing to children, to women, to men, to nations,
to governments, then you must be a seeker of truth, because it is only
after knowing the truth that you will be able to see clearly. Not only
see the condition that you are in, but the condition that the world in
which we live is in.
The enemy’s ‘litmus test’ for Black leadership
No one can make an intelligent decision without being properly
informed. This is why this world wants to control the media. This is
why media hype can take you up and take you down, so you don’t know
anymore who is really good, because the media can make a wicked man
look good and make a good man look evil. That is why people in Jesus’
time said, “Crucify him.” If they were well informed they would never
have chosen a thief.
The enemy is working right now. He wants to find a way to get at
Farrakhan. What is wrong with Farrakhan that you have to make Farrakhan
a “litmus test” for any Black person who strives for betterment; for
elevation in the society? The enemy says, “Let’s give them ‘The
Farrakhan Test.” Now, I’ve taken tests, but I have never been in a
classroom where a test is only applied to one student in the class. If
you’re going to give somebody a litmus test, give the test to all of
them. Don’t single out one man, Sen. Barack Obama, and say, “Well,
let’s give him ‘The Farrakhan Test.’” Why not give it to Senator
Clinton?
What are you trying to do to our Brother? Why do you hate him so,
that you want to make me a stumbling block for him? That is why you
have never heard me make any comment. I love that Brother, and I want
to see that Brother successful! I don’t want to say anything that would
hurt that Brother, and I don’t want them to use me or the Nation of
Islam. I didn’t tell anybody who to vote for; do what you want to do. I
have taught you enough sense that I know you will vote your self
interest, if you know what your self interest is.
America is spiraling downward
Right now, we can see extreme weather plaguing the United States,
from floods, drought and famine—these are no longer just biblical
prophecies. We see the drying up of lakes and rivers and water
diminishing in certain areas to such a degree that states are now
quarreling over who is going to get to use the water. Rare winter
tornadoes in the Midwest; powerful Pacific storms with hurricane-force
winds, fires, and mudslides; severe flooding in the Southwest; and over
1,000 cities in America experiencing record-high temperatures. Farmland
once used to grown corn and soy beans for human consumption is now
being used to make bio fuels for industrial consumption, which is
naturally raising the price of food. Oil prices reaching over $100 a
barrel.
How does that affect America? How much money do you have in your
pocket, and how long will it mean anything? The dollar is collapsing
against other currencies in the world. China has over one trillion U.S.
dollars in her reserves, and they, along with Japan, Indonesia and
Malaysia, may now own a substantial part of this nation. America is for
sale. General Motors just said they lost over $30 billion. When the
automobile industry in America is shutting down and steel mills are
closing, you are being put out of a job.
Where will Pres. Bush get the money for the $150 billion he’s going
to give back in a “stimulus package”? You know, when your heart is
messed up they give you stimulation to keep you from dying, so Pres.
Bush is offering a stimulus package to a dying economy. You’re in it;
you are partying—but you don’t know what’s going on. You’re living from
day to day, and your world can collapse in the twinkling of an eye.
The Gods Are At War
When we come close to home, there has never been as much
dissatisfaction with government as we see in America right now. Pres.
Bush has the lowest approval rating of any president in modern history.
The Congress of the United States is just a hair or two above the
president in approval from the American people. When the American
people are so dissatisfied with their government, dissatisfaction is
what brings about change. The greater the dissatisfaction, it means
universal change.
Shootings on college campuses; people coming into churches shooting
down pastors? Mothers putting their babies in the microwave? The
country is spiraling downward. There is a high level of stress that we
see manifested in children 10-years-old having strokes, diabetes,
lethal obesity and heart problems. There are new and incurable
diseases, viruses and plagues sweeping across the country. And guess
what? Every day they are reporting more and more of these sightings of
these so-called Unidentified Flying Objects (UFOs). It is hard for
America to admit that a greater intelligence, a greater technology, a
greater science is in the world than anything that they know or ever
conceived of.
Why is all this happening at this time? It is because The Gods Are
At War. And you don’t even know that The War has already started, and
you are being victimized right now by the arch deceiver, who sees his
world coming down, unraveling. And at the same time, we are witnessing
the phenomenal rise of a man of color in a country that has persecuted
us because of our color. Yet, this young man is capturing audiences of
Black, Brown,
White, Native American, and Asian.
Barack Obama: America’s best hope for change?
If you look at Barack Obama’s audiences, and look at the affect of
his words, those people are being transformed from what they were. His
language is raising them above their racial, ethnic, cultural,
religious differences, and he is welding people into a bond that has
never been seen before. You might say, “Gee. I don’t think Barack is
Black enough.” He wasn’t supposed to be. If you want a Black leader,
there is Reverend Jackson; there is Reverend Sharpton; and there is
Louis Farrakhan—we are Black people, and we don’t apologize. But it is
difficult for somebody that has an all-Black district to understand the
skill and wisdom of a man who is not the Black candidate, but the
American candidate, who wants to unite the American people. You may not
agree with him, then stand on the sideline and watch. It’s never been
done before.
A lot of impediments have been thrown in his path, but he seems to
get around them, and there’s more to come. If this man is doing
something that has never been done before by any politician, White or
Black, where is God in this, and why now? We have never seen Caucasian
people vote like this for a man of color.
Let’s look at it for a second: What’s going on? Who is this young
man? When The Gods Are At War, you have to understand the kind of world
that God wants to bring in against the kind of world that we live in
that Satan has brought in. Right now, there are Caucasian people who
don’t see Barack Obama’s color. They see that man as the only one able
to save this country from itself.
The Valley of Decision
Now, I’m a dispassionate person; I am not political. I am not asking
anyone to vote for anybody, because I know in the end the outcome is
all in the Hand of God, and those are the hands that I want to be in.
But when I see politicians like Tom Daschle saying, “Look, this Obama
guy: He’s got something,” or when I saw Ted Kennedy introduce Barack
with a passion that I had not seen in Mr. Kennedy for a long time, I
said, “What is it that they see?” There is no racism in a foxhole! The
hardest racist is not going to tell a Black hand, “Keep your Black hand
off of me,” when they are dying in a foxhole! They will say to the
Black hand: “Can you help me? Can you help us?”
Some say Mr. Obama doesn’t have experience. Nobody, White or Black,
has experience to deal with the fall and decline of a world and the
greatest nation in that world. It is not experience that is needed. The
Bible teaches, “Where there is no vision, the people perish,” and that
is where Mr. Obama is ranking over all of them.
Look at Brother Barack Obama’s cultural ties: His White nurturing;
having visited Indonesia; being born in Hawaii—there is not any
politician that has that kind of root. He went to Africa, and how did
they receive him? Do you think they would trust him in Africa as a
President of the United States, that he might help to reshape America’s
foreign policy toward Africa? How would they see him in the Middle
East? How would they see him in Central and South America? How would
they see him in Asia? Whether you are broad enough to open your eyes,
this young man is the hope of the entire world that America will change
and be made better, because a better man may become her leader.
This is why I chose the subject “The Gods At War: The Future Is All
About You; all about Youth.” You have to make decisions today for your
life, and you have to be informed to make the right decision. They say
that when war is fought, the first casualty is truth. If The Gods Are
At War, who are they? Where are they? Can we see them? Because all of
us are in The Valley of Decision, can we be taught enough about them
that we might choose which one of them we will follow?
Master Fard Muhammad: The Saviour Has Come
If the future is all about you, individually; and you, plural; and
it’s all about youth, I would like to close my subject today concerning
The Man Whose Birth we came here to celebrate.
We have been taught by the Honorable Elijah Muhammad that Master
Fard Muhammad had a Black father and a White mother. The man that we
call our Saviour was born of the two people. I was on an airplane one
day with one of the Honorable Elijah Muhammad’s sons, Jabar Muhammad,
who asked me: “Why do you think Master Fard Muhammad had a Black father
and a White mother?” I answered, “So that He could give justice to both
people.”
God is real. Satan is real. Both God and Satan have been hidden
under a cloud. I am not going into it today, but before this series of
lectures are over, you are going to see Satan exactly how Satan looks.
That is why we will be hated of all men. You, my beloved Christian
family, you do not understand Jesus The Christ. You don’t understand
him. I know that seems rather arrogant for me to say something like
that, but I am not trying to be arrogant. Jesus is the instrument that
God will use to uncover, reveal and destroy Satan and his power to
deceive. The Christ figure of the New Testament is the same as The
Mahdi in Islamic theology. The Mahdi is a human being Who comes into
the world to sit down every tyrant and set justice in the earth. No
man; no human could do that unless He was operating under The Power of
The Eternal God, so The Mahdi becomes The Manifestation of God in
Person.
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For those of you who believe in Jesus Christ, Jesus is not a little
“rooty-poot” fellow. From the Christian perspective, Jesus is the
greatest human being in human history. Jesus The Christ redeems the
whole of humanity, breaks the power of Satan, crushes Satan’s world and
brings in a new and better world where human beings can live together
in peace and brotherhood. When the scriptures talk of Christ, and when
they talk about The Mahdi, they never talk in racial terms. With Christ
there is no Jew, no Greek, no male, no female, no bond and no free. All
are one in Christ.
When you look at the line from Prophet Muhammad to Muhammad The
Mahdi, you can’t bring color into it. In reality, you defile Islam
because The Mahdi, from the lineage of the Prophet, is not to set up
one color against another; one race against another; one ethnicity
against another—The Mahdi is to raise human beings where color sinks
into insignificance, and character and moral correctness is the yard
stick by which you measure True Greatness.
Master Fard Muhammad looked White, but he was not White. That made
it easier for Him to come in among us. White people didn’t suspect Him
because He looked like one of their own. The scripture says, “I come as
a thief in the night. I come without observation.” Somebody came; how
do you know? Because things have never been the same since He came for
Black people. We have been constantly on the move; moving on up. There
is no stopping us now! God is not raising us that we should be mockers
of other people or that we should talk about how great we are and how
little they are. God is raising us to do a great service for our people
and for the whole of humanity.
Master Fard Muhammad first talked to us on our Blackness. He was of
a Black father and a White mother, but He knew that the enemy had
robbed us of the knowledge of self, so He talked to us on our Blackness
to try to get us to see the value of who we are. Master Fard Muhammad
taught us the nature of the Caucasian people; how they came into
existence and their purpose. It wasn’t about hate. It was about
absolute science. Master Fard Muhammad wasn’t trying to make a nation
of haters; He was trying to raise a Nation of Scientists who are going
to have to deal with the whole human family and the problems of the
human family, starting first with the problems of self.
A Herald for The Messiah
Some people think Barack Obama should wait 10-12 years before he
running for president, thinking that he would be more “seasoned” and
“mature.” But America doesn’t have that long to wait, at the rate she’s
going.
Barack Obama said “My time is now.” Don’t worry about his shoulders;
God never lays on a soul a burden beyond its scope. Would God allow
Barack to be president of a country that has been so racist; so evil in
its mistreatment of Hispanics, Native Americans, Indians, Blacks? Would
God do something like that? Yes, of course He would. That is to show
you that the stone that the builders have rejected is becoming the
headstone of the corner. This is a sign to you. It is the time of our
rise. It is the time that we should take our place. The Future is All
About You.
I ask that we pray for our Brother, Barack Obama. I am not asking
for votes. I am asking a Nation—not just the Nation of Islam, but all
people of good will—to pray for this young man. Pray for his family.
Pray for his blessed wife and children, we don’t want to see another
Coretta Scott King.
This man says he not only is talking about changing who sits in the
White House; he is talking about changing the mindset of those that led
us into the war in Iraq. Did you hear Alan Greenspan, the former head
of the Federal Reserve, say that the war in Iraq is all about oil? You
mean our sons and our daughters are dying and being maimed over
America’s junkie spirit toward oil? Did you read that the amount of oil
that is under the ground in Iraq is $30 trillion? That is why
Republican Presidential candidate John McCain said, “We need to stay
there about a hundred years. We need to make sure that we get this
thing.”
Brothers and Sisters, Barack Obama, to me, is a herald of The
Messiah. Barack Obama is like the trumpet that alerts you that
something new; something better is on the way. Do you know the kind of
fear that he is evoking in those that have the mindset that sent
America to war? Do you think the international bankers that control all
the politicians of the world are going to allow this young man to
change the mindset of those that rule who are really Satanic? What is
in their hearts toward that young man?
Our Youth: God’s Instruments for Universal Change
One of the Brothers went to a shop the other day, and the Caucasian
owner of the shop said, “You all do everything in your power, please,
to help Barack Obama win because if he loses, all of us are lost.” Now,
just think about what it took for a man to come out of his mouth like
that. Barack Obama is not The Messiah for sure, but any time he gives
you a sign of uniting races, ethnic groups, ideologies, religions, and
makes people feel a sense of oneness, that is not necessarily Satan’s
work. That is, I believe, The Work of God.
I thank Master Fard Muhammad for His coming. I thank Master Fard
Muhammad for raising the Honorable Elijah Muhammad. I thank Allah (God)
for sparing my life as we go through these trying times. We must clean
up our lives, clean up our communities.
Young people: You are the instruments that God is going to use to
bring about universal change. That is why Barack Obama has captured the
youth, and he has involved young people in a political process that
they didn’t care anything about. That is a sign: When The Messiah
speaks, the youth will hear. And The Messiah is absolutely speaking.
Thank you. As-Salaam Alaikum.