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.
