1976-April-9

Bilalian News

The Heavenly Fire

Imam W.D. Muhammad

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12. And to Solomon (We 
Made) the Wind (obedient): 
Its early morning (stride) 
Was a month's (journey), 
And its evening (stride) 
Was a month's (journey); 
And We made a Font 
Of molten brats to flow 

For him ; and there were 
Jinns that worked in front 
Of him, by the leave 
Of his Lord, and if any 
Of them turned aside 
From Our command, We 
Made him taste 
Of the Penalty 
Of the Blazing Fire.

Holy Quran, Yusuf Ali Translation, Sura XXXIV: Verse 12
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In the Name of Allah, the Beneficent, the Merciful; Peace and Blessings upon His Servant and His Messenger, Muhammad, forever. Amen.

There is no god but Allah: Muhammad is the Messenger of Allah.

My dear Brothers and Sisters,
The Holy Quran says that Solomon had Jinns working for him in his host (army). A Jinn is not a "man." Man means a person with a true mind in his head. A Jinn is a person who does not have a true mind in his head but he has the fiery nature (the knowledge of earthly fire) in his head. The Holy Quran says that God "created Jinns from fire free of smoke." They have the knowledge of the hidden power of earthly things. Fire brings out the hidden power in earthly things. No matter what you have on earth, whether it is glass, steel or other material, it can be burned with fire. In the process of burning, the material breaks up and it throws out its mysteries and its secrets.

The ancient wise people of scripture used fire to describe the nature and the secret powers of the physical world. Because the Jinn has that power, he knows how to build up what he calls "civilization," but he does not know how to raise a man and a woman up to human life. He knows all about the earthly fire, but he knows nothing about the heavenly fire. He is called "Jinn" because his eye is open to the mysteries and wonders of the physical world, but his eye is closed to the mysteries and wonders of the divine world. He is just a man made of fire. Knowledge is the limit of his nature and his power and that knowledge is limited to the physical world order. The man who is come to do away with the world of the Jinn has heavenly fire. He has the knowledge of the secrets, the mysteries and the wonders of divine things.


The Second Creation

The human being is not an earthly creature, but he becomes an earthly creature because he is not permitted to get in contact with his heavenly feeding source. Since he is not able to get in contact with his heavenly feeding source, he grows up with the first body and never comes into the second body, which is supreme. He grows up just as a physical material person with earthly limitations. So, he stays a physical, earthly being and he never comes into the higher birth.

The Holy Quran says that God formed the man as a clot, then He formed the clot into bones and clothed the bone with flesh. When God breathes into the man of His Breath, we have the second creation. Christianity, Judaism and other religions teach of the soul coming in the man, or of the second creation. Most of us think that this means that the physical person at birth, as formed in the mother's womb, receives a "soul" from Almighty God before it is given to us as a child. That is not the "soul" that the Holy Quran and the Bible is talking about. When the baby is formed in the mother, its gets its "soul" from the mother and the father. As it grows, the only soul that it gets is what comes into it of spirit, or knowledge and of sentiment. That is not the kind of soul that Almighty God wants - that is common worldly soul.


The Second Breath

The Book (Bible) says that there are two breaths of God. He breathed the first time and made Adam and He breathed the second time and made the Christ. The Christ is symbolic of the man that God wants. He did not want Adam, but He had to make Adam as a step towards the man that He wanted. He breathed into the Adam the first breath, which was all that the newly formed earth could take. It had to take the breath of the physical world, the knowledge of the physical world and the spirit of the human world. But, as the creature grows up into knowledge and turns to Almighty God for divine guidance and understanding, he comes into a new knowledge. That new knowledge is the second breath of Almighty God that makes the human being a living soul or "a quickening spirit," as the Christians say. Then he is not just alive, but he is also able to give life. This world of grafted unnatural mentality has been- a world that is just earthly born. Because it has not been able to give life, we have spiritual or religious death all over the world. But, all praise is due to Allah, we are now living in the end of religious death and the curtain is drawn back all the way for the finale. Almighty God is raising to life the body of His Christ, which is a new spirit and a new life - a life that can give life to others.


Push Back The Clouds Of Darkness

You may say that this is not the first time in history that a religious society has been blessed by God with the power to give life to other people that are dead or without human life. Jews converted people, Christians converted people, Muslims converted people and many other religious societies converted people to righteousness. But, they have not been able to convert a single person with divine light strong enough to give them the power to stand up to the world and show the world the way by clearing up the problems and pushing back the clouds of darkness. No one has been able to stand up with that power until today. Today, Almighty God is manifesting Himself in a magnificent way. If He would take those people that the world looks upon as great people and set them up as the Christ to correct the problems in the world, that would not show as much power or as much magnificence on His part as taking the people from whom the world did not expect anything of good to come. He is now raising the Bilalian community of the West up with a knowledge that confounds the wise leaders of religion. No matter how much you talked in the past, nobody listened to you. As history turned over and over and the years passed, you tried harder and harder to get somebody in the world to listen to you. You wondered why the world would not listen to you. They knew that your head was completely emptied of knowledge for a period of three centuries and they could not believe that anything of value was coming out of that empty vessel that they had emptied.


Knowledge Of The Invisible Power

Most of what this world's leaders say to you today is nothing but emptiness. They cannot speak from their mind, they have to speak from objects like little children speak. Don't you know, brothers and sisters, that real "men" can stand up and never direct your attention to a single physical object and teach you for days on the invisible power that sustains objects, that forms objects and that destroys objects. They can talk on things that you cannot see physically and they can talk on the nature and workings within and
behind the objects. They can talk on the properties of matter and the energies of matter and they can talk on abstracts that your physical eyes cannot see. As they teach you they can run with the rivers that their wisdom creates. They can create more worlds than you can ever see with your physical eyes because these men have been permitted to grow as "men." But, we as a people were not permitted to grow as men. The Bilalian people of America were only permitted to become vessels for someone else's use.

When the modern slave masters want to put something in your brain, they put it in you and after you serve their purpose they empty it out and you have to wait until they put something else in. We are people caught up in fads of all sorts: clothing fads, religious fads, educational fads and political fads. Our history has been a history of fads. The fad comes in and we accept it as a fad and it passes right out and we never master it. Somebody else has had control all the time and they just give it to us as a "gift." The Book says that there would come a famine all over the earth that would not be a famine of food, it would be a famine of hearing the word of God. Today, in the Lost-Found Nation of Islam, we have been blessed with the power of truth to end the famine.


The Superiority Of Islam

I would like for you to take a look at the society of Muslims in America called the Lost-Found Nation of Islam to see just how it was formed. We were a people who were brought here as civilized people and made into slaves. We were not all heathens or idol worshippers or Christians. In fact, many of us were Muslims. In the context of religion, the glory in our history as Bilalian (black) people before coming to America is Islam. If you look at the history of so-called Africa, you will see that our glory is in Islam because most of the great nations or kingdoms of "Africa" were Muslim nations. When the biggest part of the Caucasian world was still savage, our people had great Muslim civilizations on the continent of what is now called Africa. The history books of Western countries will tell you about nations in Africa but they try to keep as much of the knowledge of Islam out of the history as they possibly can. They will tell you the history of a great leader or a great ruler but they will not tell you that he was a Muslim.

Master Fard Muhammad, knowing that our past was a glorious, Islamic past, named us the Lost -Found Nation of Islam when he introduced Islam to the Bilalian community of America in 1930. After the Honorable Master Elijah Muhammad (peace be upon him) had preached the religion of Islam and our connection with it for almost 45 years, they still want to hide our connection with Islam from us. That should tell you that Islam is valuable, precious and powerful. If the rulers of this society do not want you to have Islam, that is enough in itself to open your eyes to the power and to the benefits of Islam. Some of you want a shelter to hide your inferiority, but you are not strong enough to embrace the superiority in Islam.


The "Holy" Bible

Our source of human life came from our introduction to Islam. The Holy Quran, in clear simple truth, showed us the hidden wisdom of the Bible. If you read the Bible, just on the surface, it is very confusing. The Bible said that the Jews could have slaves even if their own people were slaves. When the "jubilee" comes along, however, they are told to free their own people, but if their slaves are not Jews they can keep them in bondage forever.

The Bible teaches that prophets of God got drunk and committed incest.

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30  "And Lot went up out of Zoar, and dwelt   in   the   mountain   and   his  two daughters with him, for he feared to dwell in Zoar; and he dwelt in a cave, he and his two daughters."

31   "And the firstborn said unto the younger, our father is old and there is not a man in the earth to come in unto us after the manner of all the earth;

32  Come, let us make our father drink wine, and we will lie with him, that we may preserve seed of our father.

33  And they made their father drink wine that night; and the firstborn went in, and lay with her father; and he perceived not when she lay down nor when she arose.

34  And it came to pass on the morrow, that the firstborn said unto the younger, behold, I lay yesternight with my father let us make him drink wine this night also; and go thou in, and lie with him, that we may preserve seed of our father.

35  And they made their father drink wine that night also: and the younger arose, and lay with him; and he perceived not when she lay down, nor when she arose.

36 Thus were both the daughters of Lot
with child by their father. 

(-Genesis 19:30 -36)
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The Bible also says that prophets went out looking for prostitutes and that some of them killed their innocent friend in order to get his wife. This is the kind of confusing stories that the Bible puts on our mind. It shows God as playing "games" with human beings.

According to the Bible," Almighty God had a physical son by a virgin woman and only a very few of the people accepted his teachings. The son (Jesus) got twelve disciples, one of whom turned out to be a Judas, and the rest of them went to sleep when the enemies of Jesus came to kill him. Then he died "on the cross" crying to his father (God), "Why has thou forsaken me?" After Jesus died, the world became worse in sin and bad treatment to people than it ever was before his time. After Jesus had supposedly "paid the price" for sin and suffering in the world, our poor people suffered over 300 years of physical enslavement and almost 100 years of lynching, burning and torturing under the rule of so -called Christians.

I agree with the words of the Honorable Master Elijah Muhammad (peace be upon him) when he said that we should take the Bible teachings and everything else that the "Christians" have given to us and throw them into the garbage can.


The Movement Towards Islam

All of the teachers of God's word from Abraham until today were moving towards Islam. The people had to be brought by degrees into what we have today. Prophet Muhammad of Arabia (peace be upon him) brought the Holy Quran as it is today. He did not tell the world that it was a new book or that he had something all of his own. He did not want the world to reject the truth of the Holy Quran simply because it was not what they represented to be the best for the people. He wanted them to first look into it.

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81. Behold! God took
The Covenant of the Prophets,
Saying: " I give you
A Book and Wisdom;
Then come to you
An Apostle, confirming
What is with you ;
Do ye believe in him
And render him help."
God said : " Do ye agree,
And take this my Covenant
As binding on you ? "
They said : " We agree."
He said: " Then bear witness,
And I am with you
Among the witnesses."

82. If any turn back 
After this, they are 
Perverted transgressors.

83.  Do they seek
For other than the Religion 
Of God ?—while all creatures 
In the heavens and on earth 
Have, willing or unwilling, 
Bowed to His Will 
(Accepted Islam), 
And to Him shall they 
All be brought back.

84. Say: " We believe 
In God, and in what
Has been revealed to us 
And what was revealed 
To Abraham, Ismail. 
Isaac, Jacob, and the Tribes, 
And in (the Books) 
Given to Moses, Jesus, 
And the Prophets, 
From their Lord: 
We make no distinction 
Between one and another 
Among them, and to God do we 
Bow our will (in Islam) "

85. If anyone desires 
A religion other than 
Islam (submission to God), 
Never will it be accepted 
Of him; and in the Hereafter 
He will be in the ranks 
Of those who have lost 
(All spiritual good).

Holy Quran, Yusuf Ali Translation, Sura III: Verse 81 - 85
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When you read the Holy Quran, it tells you what Adam, Abraham, Noah, Moses and Jesus were taught. Then Prophet Muhammad says that God taught him the same thing that He taught all of the prophets who proceeded him. He told the Christians and the Jews that the knowledge that he had was the knowledge that their prophets taught. He also told them that they had nothing to base their arguments on but the scriptures that their prophets left with them. He was saying that he came with the best synagogue and the best church.

God does not want the movement and the growth of His truth to stay back in Jesus' day or in Muhammad's day. He has been constantly moving further out towards man and woman and now He wants you to call His truth by a greater name -a name that is more in accord with the plan that He has gradually been unfolding for the world. One who accepts Islam is one who resigns himself to a religion of submission and to the will of the Almighty Creator. Islam is a religion that brings one into peace because he has come in accord and in agreement with the Creator and with the nature of creation. What better name can you have than "Muslim."


Islam: The Religion Of The Prophets

No other religious book carries the name of the religion in that book but the Holy Quran. So, how can you say that God's religion is Christianity . or Judaism? Nowhere in the scripture of the Jews (Torah) did God tell them to preach "Judaism." Nowhere in the New Testament did Jesus say to preach "Christianity." The Holy Quran is the only book that names what the prophets taught. We can prove to this world's scientists of mathematics or of chemistry or to its doctors of law or its doctors of education that by their books and by our books that name "Islam" is a proper name for what their prophets taught them and not the name "Judaism" or "Christianity." Jesus was questioned many times in the New Testament and he refused to say that he was the Messiah that was expected to come in the lineage of David. In fact, Jesus refused to be called the "son of David" because be wanted the Jews to see that he was not a king to establish a physical government for the people.


The Rejection Of Jesus

Jesus told the Jews that he was not the messiah that they had been looking for. At that time in history they had lost the power to rule themselves and they were under the power of Rome. They were expecting a Messiah to come and return to them a kingdom like David had established. Messiah means "one who has been wiped clean." The spiritual meaning is that the person has been raised up pure in the religion and that he is anointed to be the ruler, but not a ruler in any physical sense. Jesus was trying to get the people to see that here are two kinds of rulers. One kind leads you to physical land and to physical government. The other kind leads you to correct your moral life and to form a righteous order. You do not need a government or political people to receive the second kind of ruler. All you need is to receive him in your heart.

Jesus said that "the kingdom is within you." If you accept righteousness in your heart and in your own mind, then you will have the kingdom of God. The Jews did not like this kind of ruler because they wanted a ruler to break the power that Rome had over them. Since Jesus did not help the Jews by preaching a message to build a physical kingdom, they rejected him. So, in the Bible sense, Jesus did not accept to be called "messiah." He accepted to be called "son of man," a prophet and a Christ in the sense that he came with a pure heart, a pure mind and that he came to establish a pure order for Almighty God.


The Names Of God

The people who called themselves "Christians" are taking a name that even Jesus would not take. They are naming themselves after the person who brought the word of God. They say that the first father was Adam and that the people of Adam were called Adamites. So, they say that the people who follow Jesus Christ, being "the last father," should be called "Christians." The Bible does not teach this. It says that God's people will be called by His name: "Blessed are the peacemakers for they shall be called the children of God." (St. Matthew: 5:9)

Any preacher will tell you, if he has any knowledge of religion, that "children" in this expression means "followers." The peacemakers will be called the followers of God. So, according to the Bible, if you have a religion and you are following God, your name should be "peacemaker."

Muslim means peacemaker. Muslim means one who is at peace with his God and with his fellow man. Even the Bible tells us that we are not to call ourselves after the names or the titles of the prophets, but we are to have a name that identifies each of us equally before God.


Islam Is Here To Stay

Abraham, Moses, Jesus and all of the great prophets were believers in Islam. As Jesus said (referring to God), "Not my will but Thy will be done," so Islam means resignation of your will to the will of God.

"Muslim" means one who has come into peace by resigning his will to the will of God. So, Jesus was saying that he was a Muslim. If you are ignorant enough to say that you do not want Islam because you heard that in the past some of the Arabs enslaved our people too, you should give up Christianity. We do not know that much about Arab enslavement, but we know all about the many Caucasian Christians who brutally enslaved our people. We know that there is nothing in the history of any people's enslavement equal to the cruel insanity that we saw in the treatment of our people under Christian slave masters. If you do not want Islam because you heard that some of the Arabs had a part in your enslavement, why are you still content to remain in slavery with a Christian mind. Brother and sister, Islam is here to stay.


Faith Has Replaced Law

The church preaches that you can become a Christian simply by saying that you believe in Christ. You do not have to stop drinking or lying or cheating or fornicating or committing adultery-just say that you believe in Christ and you are accepted as a Christian. If that is not what they believe in, then let us look at their world and see what they believe in. In Christian Europe and Christian America, we find more lying, more theft, more adultery, more fornication, more sex perversion and more human brutality than we find in any other part of the world. This tells us that these people are preaching and believing that law is not necessary in life and that you do not have to follow any discipline. They believe that all you have to do is "have faith" and accept Christ. You can be the biggest devil on earth and they will still call you a Christian. Some of the biggest devils on earth call themselves the best Christians. They pass out Christian literature, they use the Bible, they use the cross and they pretend to be holy, faithful servants of Jesus. But look at the evils that they advocate against so-called Negroes and other people of color. What we have in Christianity is "sweet water" with no more "salt" in it. There is no more law left in Christian morality. Thieves, murderers and savage beasts are let loose on the world under the name of Christianity.


Abominations In The Sanctuary

The Book says that there would come a time when a certain so - called righteous society would be deceiving the people of earth. One would come to show the people what is in the wicked society. This chosen one would bring you up to the gates of the wicked city, lead you on up to the "holy" places and let you see the wickedness that the people are doing. Then, that one would lead you into the secret chambers and into the sanctuaries (the secret chambers for the holiest of holies) and let you see what these devils are doing. The worst of all abominations were prophesied to be found in the sanctuaries.

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"When ye therefore shall see the abomination of desolation, spoken of by Daniel the prophet, stand in the holy place, (whoso readeth, let him understand)"

(-Matthew 24:15 -)
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This prophecy is telling you what is going to happen to this so-called Judaic and so-called Christian society. In the end of time the worst of all filth will be found right in the very sanctuary of the church and the synagogue. The Book says that the old beast would be in the lake of fire. The description of the society that would come up upon the earth at the end of time was so corrupt that it is called the abomination of desolation. It is not only to be abominable, but its abomination is to be so great that if it survives it is going to make desolate the whole world order.

Brothers and sisters, we have lived to see that prophecy come true. The abomination of the false religion called Christianity has grown and grown until it has corrupted the society. The government order has begun to shake with an earthquake. The houses of world government are seen as dens for thieves, liars and murders. The abomination has grown so much until it has shaken the foundation of the institutions of learning in Europe and America.

A beast can establish himself in that kind of lake of "sweet water" that has no salt of moral law. There is no law to contain him and to keep from growing into a mighty beast. He has grown and grown into a great monster in the church, which is the lake that the Book says would be turned into a lake of fire in the end of time. Today, brothers and sisters, we are burning that lake up with the beast in it because we have the heavenly fire of Almighty God's truth.
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"And the beast was taken, and with him the false prophet that wrought miracles before him, with which he deceived them that had received the mark of the beast, and them that worshipped his image. These both were cast alive into a lake of fire burning with brimstone."

( -Revelation -19:20)
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Your brother,
W.D. Muhammad

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Wisdom of W.D. Muhammad

The real strength of a people is in their knowledge. As long as a people can hold on to their knowledge, they have a saving force or a saving power. Once they are separated from their knowledge, they have nothing to save them at all. People are made and destroyed by knowledge.

The Divine Wisdom that we bring to you today from Almighty Allah will remake you with God - Knowledge from a being that has almost been totally destroyed by Satan - Knowledge. We take you into the depths of the Scripture to unlock and to reveal the symbolic wisdom of time that has been locked up for thousands and thousands of years by Divine Dictate.

The Bible and the Holy Quran are religious books that contain great knowledge that is of vital importance to the survival of people as people. This knowledge is preserved in Scripture for critical times in the history of people.

Whenever the community or the world is faced with dangers that may mean the destruction of that people, they are wise to go back and search the old knowledge of Scripture for the answers to their problems. In that knowledge they can find where their civilization has gone wrong. Even in their end (destruction is also the answers or the solution to bring them back on the right track again.

There is no company, no corporation, or no country that has a bigger promise to offer you than the Nation of Islam. Maybe you can't see that promise now. It is only seen by the fortunate ones, the observing ones, the wise ones: those who think and search out wisdom and truth.

We don't expect all of you to look at the Nation of Islam and see that this is the grandest opportunity on earth for any people.

We hope that Allah will bless us to appeal to a second side of you, to correct your ignorant mind, and to get you to see what the wise see suddenly when they look at us.

We know what we have. It is going to get bigger and bigger, stronger and stronger, and brighter and brighter. It is going to triumph over all opposition.

We have something to give you that can save you if you will accept it — something that has Divine miracle power in it. It can do more to aid you physically and materially than all the so - called faith healers in the country. It can do more to help you mentally than all the psychiatrists in the world. It can do more to help you morally than all the baptizing that goes on all over the globe.


