The Mosque Cares 
Ramadan Session 2006 
Imam W.D. Mohammed
Homewood, Illinois. October 13-15, 2006

Salatul Jummu'ah - Day One: 1:00PM
From Transcript provided by Imam W. Deen Mohammed 


PART ONE

Praise be to Allah, the Lord of the Worlds. Highly Glorified is He, the Creator of everything. Whatever man creates is the creation also of G-d. That is, what is of lasting value came from G-d's Creation. G-d's Creation is the universe and everything contained in it, including man. The Great and Most High Creator created man as a thinker to engage creation.

The study of man's development as a thinker or as a philosopher and scientist on the one hand, and as a human community on the other hand, presents an interaction showing the two concerns working together as mates.

To address relevancy of a timeless nature in the history of community development for civil societies, Allah Most High says that He created for men mates of the same nature. In one Qur'an references, Allah Highly Glorified says also that man's female counterpart is man's tilth. A tilth is a cultivated area. In another Qur'an reference, Allah, The Creator, says the size of the garden created for man to engage with his heart and his intelligence is in size as the expanse of the skies and the earth.

The relevancy for man in time past, present, and future is understood by recalling how progress for the nations is recorded in history and is explained as a result of the resourceful earth and universe engaged by human hearts and the human brain.

In commenting on relevancy regarding the command, "Read," firstly, reflecting on the treasures of knowledge recorded in history as the accomplishments of civilizations, these treasures were found in some form already existing whether in the earth or in the study of the skies (stars).

Allah says to His servant Messenger Muhammad (s.a.w.s.) "Read in the Name of your Lord who created...." Obviously our Prophet Muhammad understood the connection for human hearts and intelligence when G-d introduced Himself as The Creator in G-d's first communication to Muhammad.

Human society whether as a small number of neighbors or landowners coming together upon common interest or town folks, or city dwellers, the most important of bonds holding individuals together is the common bond of shared space, the land. The land is the creation of G-d and the people are the creation of G-d. G-d made the land for people and made people for the land. The more the people engage the land to better their conditions, the more developed will be the land. Moreover, the land will be providing its fruits or its products serving man's needs, often for more that one generation. What a beautiful parable given in Scripture comparing the relationship of husband to the wife as the relationship of developer to the earth.

We Praise Allah and thank Him for His Most valuable gifts: the gift of the ideal human type for emulation, Muhammad (s.a.w.s.) and for the marvelous system of matter commonly referred to as the universe. We pray we will always follow the Word of G-d and the leadership example of His servant, Messenger and the last Prophet.

Our Lord, give us in this world good and in the destiny good and save us from the punishment of burning passions. Ameen


PART TWO

Praise be to Allah Highly Glorified Who took His servant and Messenger Muhammad (s.a.w.s.) on the night visit up in the sky to the farthest Masjid AJ-Aqsah.

Dear beloved congregation of believers, as recorded soon after this marvelous event in the life of our Prophet, our Prophet answered the invitation from the people of Medinah to come from the strain on his mission caused by disgruntled Meccans of his birth place to Medinah where there was a warm reception.

This event designated the beginning of a new calendar, a new series of events, a new history. Soon, a community fulfilling the needs of people belonging to a cohesive society took shape and form. Education, the life blood; salat (prayer), the life, were established as the core or nucleus for binding the other concerns necessary for the complete design or picture of an Islamic society.

The persecuted plan for Islamic community life on this planet was given a situation for its realization. Whatever is desired to be accomplished first needs the right situation.

If you want to drive your car to see a neighbor a distance away, first there must be the right situation. There must be a drivable car and a person qualified to drive. A man wanting to board up something needs the right situation. There has to be things on hand. He is not comfortable to go to work until the site is ready and the tools are with him and he is clear as to what to do. This is said to make what was given in the first part of the lecture more understandable.

The potent and pregnant term, "read," when connected with the Creator and hence, further connecting to creation situated our Prophet's heart and mind to understand the calling for the establishment of our most important concerns: family survival and progress, children's education and future, community survival and progress, and institutions and industries.

Firstly, G-d's Guidance is to be relied upon for us to have the right situation.

"Our Lord, You are surely gathering all humanity for a day in which there will be no doubt. Our Lord, do not have our hearts turn back after You have guided us aright, and give us from Your presence, Mercy. Surely You e the Greater. Amin.


DAY ONE: 2:OOPM

The Ramadan Session appears to be replacing Savior Day. The same spirit we had for seeing Elijah Muhammad is present today. This will grow as big as Savior Day. Next year we will have a bigger and better place, insha Allah. I hate to see some standing and others sitting. We say insha Allah because we have no guarantee we will be here, any of us, including me, but I feel better than ever. I feel like the greatest part of my life is ahead of me. At least that's my spirit (laughter).

We need reporters here today. They like to report when we have open seats. They don't report on events like the one we are having today, when we have standing room only.

The Imam defined the khutbah (sermon) subject as: "The Relationship Man Has With the Universe"

The man we are discussing is plural man; man who is the descendent of Adam.

We are also discussing the relevancy of this relationship to the past, but it is more important to understand the relevancy of this relationship with the present.

We must believe in the timeless nature of the Qur'an. It fits all times. The essence of nature created by G-d does not change its nature. Those who survive with their original nature can be revived by G-d's Word, even if one is slumbering, dead, or mentally dead, if the Word is given correctly.

Judgment day is continual. We are experiencing judgment day all the time.

We realize there is a final standing (resurrection), but resurrection is more important for community life. Community life lives and dies.

Muhammad became leader of an international community of one and a half billion strong. Life was given to the sleepers (mentally dead) all over world by the Qur'an.

First day of this session is dealing with:
1.   Revealed scripture
2.   Cultivation of the soul
3.   Education
4.   The right perception of human identity

The first identity given by Allah is not Darwinism. This is not the way we came into existence. The identity we are discussing was conceived in paradise and formed in the earth.

The Prophet was an excellent model for all believers to emulate. This includes more than Muslims. Allah says in the Qur'an that Muhammad is an excellent model for any who believe in Allah.

Adam, Ibrahim, Moses and Jesus are seen as singular and as a plural type. The plural and singular types are examples of what G-d wants us to become, the character we can become.

I am a student. We have to all be students, seek knowledge from the cradle to the grave. We should be guided by the principles of the Prophet. We should be excellent husbands and generals. The more we know about the Prophet in history, the better we can model the Prophet. When you look at Muhammad, you are looking at human excellence; you are looking at what you were created to be. You should see everyone's individual life as planned out by our Creator.

2:150. So from wheresoever you start forth, turn your face in the direction of the Sacred Mosque; and wheresoever you are, turn your face thither: that there be no ground of dispute against you among the people, except those of them that are bent on wickedness; so fear them not, but fear Me; and that I may complete My favors on you, and you may (consent to) be guided.

Bent on wickedness means there are those fixed and determined to keep up wicked ways.

2: 2. This is the Book; in it is guidance sure, without doubt, to those who fear Allah.

Mutaqeen: guidance for the pious.

2:151 A similar (favor have ye already received) in that We have sent among you an Messenger of your own, rehearsing to you Our Signs, and sanctifying you, and instructing you in Scripture and Wisdom, and in new knowledge.

The emphasis is on the plural "you" in the statement "turn your face in the direction of the scared mosque." If we do this turning together, we will be united. We will be brought together. The world says we have a lack of unity. The answer is in unity around the Qibla. We must have a common definition of Qibla. We must unite around prayer and the Qibla regardless to where we are in the world. We must agree on one Qibla in order to be brought together. Our Qibla is called Masjid al-Haram.

There is no roof over the Kabah. A roof was added to Masjid al-Haram to accommodate the Hajjis.

you can touch the black stone touch it; if not, wave at it. The Kabah is not the Sacred Mosque; the ground you walk on is the Sacred Mosque; that is, Masjid al-Haram and the ground around it.

Masjid comes from the word sajdah/sujud in origin; it's where you prostrate. Glossary of the Qur'an, page 67B Dictionary of the Qur'an, page 248. The place you make sajdah is your masjid. If you make sajdah regularly there it becomes a masjid. The place of sajdah does not require a wall.

Prophet Muhammad said the earth is our masjid. Anywhere you make sajdah is your masjid at that time. 

Side note: you don't have to like me; like what I like. Like Qur'an, Muhammad, etc.

I had the opportunity to visit Jerusalem when I went to see Palestinians under the bad Jewish regime. I visited the sacred mosque, Masjid Al-Aqsah. A notice in Masjid Al-Aqsah announces: This is the Masjid of the two Qiblas.

The Prophet was never told to turn towards Jerusalem by Allah. He was not taught or raised by Jews or Christians. But he turned towards Jerusalem. He turned in this direction until G-d told him to turn towards the Kabah, Masjid al- Haram in Mecca.

Becca was Mecca. Becca was the old city and Mecca became the new name after designated as the new Qibla, and idols were removed from Kabah.

Qur'an: "We sec the turning of your face for guidance; turn you to a place that will please you."

Muhammad had been turning to Jerusalem but wasn't pleased with it in his soul; he was uncomfortable. G-d gave him peace by turning him to a new Qibla. Christians and Jews knew this was a better Qibla. (Masjid al-Haram)

This is the house that was built by Ibrahim and Ishmael; built by Ishmael, not Isaac.

That's so valuable. Why don't people acknowledge Muhammad turning towards the new Qibla, turning away from Jerusalem?

The Jews favor this Qibla in Jerusalem because it is the ruins of Solomon, the wise. It reminds them of great civilization. All people were impressed by the advancement of this civilization.

The weeping wall is one of the foundation walls of Solomon's Temple, dug up in Jerusalem. Jews make pilgrimage there to remember the height of their civilization. Jews weep over the lost of this civilization.

Jews address Lord as Lord of Israel instead of "Rabil Al-Amin" (Lord of all the worlds). This didn't fit the Prophet's big picture. The Prophet was bothered by the "Jewish concept. It was not compatible with his ideas and his intelligence.

Allah allowed the turning to Jerusalem for a while. He could have stopped it immediately, but instead made it a test for the followers of Muhammad. This was a test to bring out the strong, a test to stand up against Israel and not shake before them. It was a test to see if they would go back to Jews or Christians. They could have said he doesn't even know what Qibla we have. They could have gone with the new wind.

2:143. Thus, have We made of you an Ummat justly balanced, that you might be witnesses over the nations, and the Messenger a witness over yourselves; and We appointed the Qibla to which you were accustomed, only to test those who followed the Messenger from those who would turn on their heels (from the Faith). Indeed it was (A change) momentous, except to those guided by Allah. And never would Allah make your faith of no effect. For Allah is to all people most surely full of kindness, Most Merciful.

Winds come to knock down dead, weak and rotten stuff. Winds are signs from G-d.

Elijah Muhammad made Ummrah, never Hajj. Hajj committee sanctioning body let devil caller Elijah Muhammad in. We have a picture of him kissing the Black Stone. He said kissing the stone was like kissing .himself.

Prophet Muhammad kissed the stone. Umar said he only kissed it because Muhammad did. He didn't understand. But who am I to say they were ignorant? They were in transition from jahiliyah (days of ignorance).

The early Sahabahs (companions of the Prophet) were ignorant of what Jews and Christians knew. They did not grow up in a religious environment.

Hanifah: Upright in human nature. Human beings should only follow the excellence that lifts up life not that which brings it down.

Churches and synagogues acknowledge this Qibla.

What is the best form of government close to this Islamic idea, this idea of (collective rule) We find it here in the thinking of the founding fathers.

What place brings together concepts like life with rights that you can't take away, inherent born rights from the Creator? The idea that holds together America is the inherent rights of entitlement by the Creator.

Those who support this thinking have come to the Qibla of the Muslims. This thinking applies to the collective body more than the individual person. The inherited community spirit urges our direction in our life stream.

Purpose: To form a social community; to humble us. Allah says: "See how they (other animals and creatures) have communities like yours."

6;38. There is not an animal (that lives) on the earth, nor a being that flies on its wings, but (forms part of) communities like you. Nothing have we omitted from the Book, and they (all) shall be gathered to their Lord in the end.

Description of life is not just human life, but community life, all life.

This does not mean you have to give up your identity. You see grass with grass, trees with trees, humans with humans. No mention of nation or race. First, best state is human life. Human life is valuable sacred property.

It is however better to keep culture and identity. But if your culture and identity group doesn't follow your Qibla, leave them, even if it means becoming white or brown.

This also tells us that the excellent model is not an Arab, but the pure human type. If the Prophet only connected to the Arabs, he would have been unknown.

60:6 There was indeed in them an excellent example for you to follow, - for those whose hope is in Allah and in the Last Day. But if any turn away, truly Allah is Free of all Wants, Worthy of all Praise.

(Siren sound comes over speakers) Imam laughs and says Fard said that you would hear sirens when the time comes. He laughed further and said the system couldn't take it anymore.

When managing life becomes too difficult, and you can't speak to your children, then one turns to the supernatural strength of religion. They say, "I have been reading Qur'an, Bible etc, but I can't find help." They will reach the point when they will turn to an unnamed god for help. They will go on their own, believing in the supernatural by their own definition.

When you turn to your own imagination, and understand that you can't continue following what you have been doing, the sincere will have G-d come to them.

The People of the Book say that "no one can ascend into heaven but one who was in heaven already." They were given the concept of Adam, not born of flesh or flesh created.

My students should understand the natural progression to establish our soul (self) spiritually while desiring to make the inside feel better.

Sometimes you have to turn to G-d on your own, not through a church or a masjid, not through an Imam or Minister but through a private affair to work out things with your Lord.

When Pharaoh threatened to cut Moses off, Moses said "I will be guided by my own human creation." 

The One who created me left enough inside of me so I can be guided. 

Stand up in your own soul. If you can't face your soul without falling down, you need help.

When the Prophet was called by Allah to be the last Prophet, he was seeking answers for his own soul. He was seeking the supernatural. The Prophet had already lived a lifetime among them, in his original nature for 40 years before prophet hood. He kept his Adam nature; he had not come out of it for 40 years.

The Prophet was noble, honorable. He was not a Jew or Christian. The nature of Muhammad was admired.

Tell me something no one else can tell me. Arrogant question like he was so special to deserve this. It was an attitude issue. They come up to Imam Mohammed the same way, wanting something others can't say. They say I could get that around the corner. The Prophet surprised him and said; "Believe and be upright."

Belief and uprightness are connected. This tells us that faith is established on uprightnes. Istaqim means standing up straight. People are connected to this term too. Progressive man is called homo erectus) Say, "I believed, and be upright."

The Prophet spoke to the smart-mouth man and to the civilized man. He spoke to the big picture, while speaking to the small minded. Be upright in your nature, like that of first type Adam. Be best in human nature.

Original type was given to People of the Book. When we read of Jesus asking: "Who do you say I the son of man am?" He put a limit on Peter right away as to what he could come back with. That is, original man vs. original son of man.

Peter gave Jesus too much, and this is what Christianity was founded on.

Jesus told Peter before the rooster crows you will betray me three times. He already did it with the answer he gave Jesus. The original design from G-d's human spirit is the original soul. You expect the person you came from to favor you. Who do you favor? Who do you look like? People will say you look like uncle Joe. Sometimes we don't look like anyone.

The Prophet told us this as well regarding his children. A man who cared for animals said he didn't look like any of his children. Prophet told him you see animals that don't look like the one they came from and walked away. He never said anything harsh against a person.

The Prophet was established in his original human nature, but not his soul. His soul was troubled, that's why he went to the mountain and the cave. "Turn you to a Qibla that will please you." G-d not only inspired Muhammad but he taught him. Muhammad was a student of Allah. Allah taught Adam and Muhammad. Adam and Muhammad unchanged. Jesus was the second Adam. Muhammad is Adam too. Jesus was born in nativity, among animals. Muhammad was born among idolaters.

There will come a time when you will see Muhammad and Jesus as one.

When reading during Ramadan, remember that through Muhammad the Qur'an reached us.

Muhammad earned this place because he kept his original nature in tact. G-d inspired Muhammad Himself. Then G-d says He inspires whom He pleases. Allah has given us Muhammad to purify us, teach us, and give us purity and the wisdom.

Prophet Muhammad and the Qur'an are alive. It (the Qur'an) is living and it awakens you and your intelligence. "I will go away, but will be with you always, giving you life." He was not talking about in flesh, but in the Word, through the continuum of original nature.

It is G-d Himself who cautions you. We don't come near to seeing what the Qur'an is for our life.

There is no Prophet after Muhammad. There is no need for one. You don't need an Imam. Be your own Imam. I don't mean don't go hack to the masjid. I mean get back into your own original nature. If you are in your original nature, you will follow the Imam.

We should go to the Masjid saying this. Do you realize what this is saying? Say does the Imam know better than me? Is he practicing better than me? Well, I'm going to pray behind him. Be cautious of whom you pray behind. Know his track record.

Some will have no one following behind them. Some will have to get winos off the streets.

Elijah said get them off the streets. Get them with the mud in there eyes. This is okay, but get them after the community is set up first. Go get intelligent people first. Then get them from the streets and build a treatment facility and drug program.

When Jesus invited his companions to become fishers of men, we should understand that they were not fishing for men to start with. Once you see the light, you can put it into your own language.

Fard said you have to learn language in your own terms. You have to put mathematics in its own language. Fard prepared some of us in a marvelous way so we can have the Qur'an in a common language we can understand "and share. This is all about the ummah, the community. Allah says you are the best of communities evolved for mankind.

One of my students came to me and asked: Why do you say are when the verb Kuntu means were? I submitted because the student was right. It can mean were. I understood how we can see this meaning today. The Prophet said his community would go into darkness and one day rise again on what it began with. Imam believes it will rise again through the poor. Kuntu would make us think were because it would appear we have lost our original qualities. Maybe you will not lose your human qualities, however, if you connect with Adam's original type, his community type.

Man was alone. G-d did not want man to be alone. He sent rain from heaven and then formed man from the ground. Where was the body? There was no body, or women. No woman would want a man that has no body. Earth was wet; previously it was dry earth, dust. G-d formed woman then from the rib. This is not our guidance this is the Bible. There is guidance in the Bible but we have to hold up Qur'an as our guidance.

The Bible then says: G-d made Adam, made them, called them Adam. All of them were original human types. Here we should see a connection to an evolution of them evolving from Adam.

This brings me back to kuntu, or were. I understand how it can mean were, but I know Arabic better. I understand how this verb can mean were, but also, yesterday, today and tomorrow and always. This verb connects us to a timeless reality. So this tells us we are for all time the best community, evolving always getting Better and better. He can bring forth the best original type any time He pleases. We see this in the creation of "Adam, Jesus and Muhammad.

It is easy to see the creation of Adam, and Jesus is the similitude of Adam. You can see the creation also of Jesus. You may say the creation of Muhammad too, Imam. Yes, Muhammad was created too. In Sura Rahman:

(Allah) Most Gracious!

It is He Who has taught the Qur'an.                        
(Muhammad created into a Prophet by Word of Allah)

He has created man:                                             
(insan, always think inner man, original nature in man)

He has taught him speech (and intelligence).            
(Thus was born al bayan)

This is the creation of Muhammad. Muhammad is a mercy for the worlds. He was created by the Qur'an. This was true for all the created Prophets. When the human being was created, the angels didn't bow to him until the Word was blown into him. Then they bowed to man.

Whenever you are in a state of excellence, the angels continue to assist you. Not a day goes by that I don't witness the angels supporting my life.

We were the best community evolved for mankind even before we were sperm or before the presence of life, we ere coming into responsibility for our own life.

Put this in our own language: Inii: I am surely. I am surely making upon the earth Khalifah (Social Order), not individual. Individual is Khalif.

G-d trusted human intelligence and decency. This frightened the angels. G-d said: I know My creation better than you. My Word appeals to the best of My creation. The worse is not going to get this.

Satan understood this better than we did. Satan said I'm going to get your masses, all but Yours. 

Allah is the Lord of Satan. How can this be Imam? Allah created the Jinn. Jinn say Rabbii, my Lord.

Making a Khalifah = Rule, not a person. Khalif = Person. Allah was forming an order to rule in the earth, supported by human excellence. The order won't work without Allah's spirit in it. This is a divinely inspired republic. Republic goes way back. Republic goes out and comes back again. See how far republic goes? They are far from a republic. You are thinking about a party. I'm talking about the real deal, (laughter)

Some of us are holding on to a spider's web and think it is keeping you from falling... I stay quiet over certain things. Let the web go! You won't fall! It's not holding you up! Stand up! The spider's web is sticky, and there is a predator on the other end!

he Saudis know they have to give up what they have been holding on to, give up family rule. Flimsy web, they must let go of it!

Not pleased with the head of the Nation of Islam; not talking of Farrakhan, but the place in which they are situated. Farrakhan is scared to turn it around himself.

The ideal society is under one authority, no favoritism, no rich over the poor. We can't be happy wanting poor be over the rich either. But I can't wait for this chance. Ideal society is us in America. Divine intervention is in place among us. It has been present all along; it helped to get us where we are now. Now the way for us today is open and clear. Respect the turn the Imam has made.

Imam Abdul-Malik Mohammed was my former partner, helped me to meet the Pope. In front of the Pope's people and the Vatican and the Pope he gave the name of Elijah Muhammad.

I felt that if I could get in front of the Pope and his people we would get the message to the world. This could not be done through Protestant Christians.

Elijah Muhammad had features you know and features you don't know. He showed some of his features only to his personal friends. Don't underestimate your value in the world. Human value took pagans forward, even took Christians forward, but through faith, not logic. Follow Imam by faith. When Muhammad began his mission they followed him on character, they didn't understand his knowledge. In doing so it interrupted their own knowledge.

When I was young I liked to dance. I was human.   I used to ask Allah to forgive me for the things I did as a child. Then one day I said why am I asking for forgiveness when Allah has already forgiven me? I see this in our work, He has not only forgiven me he has given me mercy.

Fard said, and now Imam is saying: I can say the most beautiful nation is in the wilderness of North America. We need to see ourselves as a new people on this planet earth. We are not Africans anymore! We have been separated from that lifeline. We are a new people! If you are not comfortable with new self, then you are not formed correctly yet.

Brazilians were happy to see Ali. When I was with young Ali, who float like a butterfly and sting like a bee, the Africans would come up to us saying Ali Bambaye. What would make them do this? Is it our genes? No. It is our experiences and same spirit.

The world thinks we should have the same human spirit, but they see us as social rejects, us and the Africans. Most whites today accept us having rights, but want us to stay to ourselves. This is exactly what we should do.stay to ourselves and do for selves. Let there arise out of you a band of people.

The covenant has lost it bearers, and we will and have picked it up. A marvelous thing has been done by G-d. Our model will do more to convert people to Islam than any other way. Some of you won't accept this. You want to test me. You don't have enough insight or scholarly knowledge to test me.

Accept your Imam. Your Imam accepts you on faith. Others won't accept us or me because they don't want an American authority. I'm not talking about just the Arabs. I am talking about all of them.

And some of you are following them the same way! Wearing stage garments, wearing things and doing things that will twist your head! We have to be careful not to shame the high place to which we have been invited. We must focus on human life. Subject is man/mind in the universe. How G-d made the universe to engage the mind of the human being. It appears as though the universe is alive too. And it is communicating to *us as men. If we apply interaction with creation the interaction will grow neighborhoods. I want you to get to the point that when you hear Kabah you think human identity.


MORNING SESSION - DAY 2: 10:00AM
Second day - standing room only again.

Lets get started, if something goes wrong with system be patient, wait, we will start again.

All that man does is by the permission of G-d. We are G-d's instrument. A laborer will on occasion clean his instruments. G-d will do the same with His instruments, the human family.

G-d brings his plan forward. Come willingly or unwillingly. He can make the resistors come to his plan.

We cannot even die until G-d permits it. We never have death and life in our hands. Only the Creator decides this life and death. Scripture: Our Creator has heaven and earth in one hand. Human existence in the other hand. Hand represents control. Handle means managed control.

That there should be no image of G-d is slated clearly in the Bible. 

Qur'an: No sights can capture Allah, but His vision captures everything.

6:103 No vision can grasp Him, but His grasp is over all vision: He is above all comprehension, yet is acquainted with all things.

No pictures or images should be brought into the Kabah or Masjid. Why? Because man evolved culturally, fell in love with knowledge of self, self values. We became producers of fine works. This was the romance age. We made gods of some people. Many people were raised up.

The Prophet addressed this practice of ancients and medieval, the issue of images, and images of people and animals in places of worship. Pictures or images permitted in science but not in culture. Plants were always permitted. We should have a room for salat with no images.

Ramadan is a blessed month. I enjoy company of the believers. Their company is even better during this time of year, Ramadan, and also a day of great blessings. When around good Christians, you feel this same spirit around them. This connection is divine love, love like no other. You forget they are not Muslim.

In this state of innocence we have no identity but the identity of one faith. Faith person with faith person. I have experienced this spiritual bonding; it is not sexual, money based or about ego. It's about one spirit. G-d gave man of His Own spirit.

Man was not Adam yet, until he got the spirit, then he became the man G-d made. He was in progress to be man. Then they (angels) made sajdah, or bowed. Angels are in our service when we are in the right nature.

Believe in the angels. They develop support for us. This understanding is bigger than the articles of faith. We have to know the angels are real. They are working for Allah's plan, our life, and our private life.

Not a day passes that I don't have an angel intervening, making its presence known to me. You have to have a mind to see this. You have to be sensitized to this reality.

Jumah is a blessed day. Why? Adam was created on this day. No one dies or is resurrected but on this day.

The sixth day; I was spooked about Thursday. The Prophet was born on Monday. 

When I was under 14 I was attracted to a girl. If I saw her on Thursday I knew everything would be alright. 

I know I have been thirsting my whole life trying to find the right drink.

If you take G-d as your interest you are not in charge of your affairs anymore. If right, G-d will reward you. If not, you will be punished. There is accountability. Talking in G-d's name makes you accountable.

Original nature - original man - Adam.


TOPIC TODAY: THE SANCTUARY.

Our sanctuary is the Kabah. Look it up and see if it falls under this term. The whole area is called the Haram, put on ihram. Our sanctuary.

Qur'an: Let there be no confronting each other with bad spirit, arguing etc, in this area. No killing in this area. Sleep and trust in Allah in this area. A scorpion could bite you, you are exposed in your ihram, but you trust in Allah. No problem with something getting into ihram, never heard of someone being bit. No thought of harm coming to man.

Bible: The believers who devote themselves to service will be able to lie down with animals and not be harmed. 

ISAIAH 11:5-7 (KING JAMES VERSION)
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5.  And righteousness shall be the girdle of his loins, and faithfulness the girdle of his reins.

6.  The wolf also shall dwell with the lamb, and the leopard shall lie down with the kid; and the calf and the young lion and the fatling together; and a little child shall lead them.

7.  And the cow and the bear shall feed; their young ones shall lie down together: and the lion shall eat straw like the ox.

Don't go testing Allah; you may end up in the morgue, (laughter)

Bible: The people were told by religious leaders to make their homes sanctuaries.

Meaning: The world had become too difficult to live religious life. They had to practice in secrecy. The High priest couldn't serve them anymore, so they were told to make their homes sanctuaries.

The Masjid is our sanctuary. One should not come in with a spirit to attack brothers and sisters spirit. One should have the same spirit as on Hajj. Definitely don't attack or kill a Muslim. Masjid should be a sanctuary. Don't violate the sanctuary. This is a major sin. You have permission however to kill someone in the sanctuary
if he violates the sanctuary (with a weapon). This is a non-combative zone. You can kill them right there.

2:191 And slay them wherever ye catch them, and turn them out from where they have turned you out; for tumult and oppression are worse than slaughter; but fight them not at the Sacred Mosque, unless they (first) fight you there; but if they fight you, slay them. Such is the reward of those who suppress faith.

This subject is a continuance from yesterday. Yesterday we were discussing original life. Today we are discussing the place and the environment.

In Arab tradition or legend we have the ancestor of the Arabs called ADNAN. Eden is also ADNAN. 

The Bible gives you a picture of nations and beginnings of paradise on earth.

PACs think the Kabah was built by Abraham and Ishmael directly. We should understand though that the Kabah was built and placed however under the instructions of Allah. Abraham asked where to place it.

We know the story of the fallen star. Really this was a fragment that fell from sky. Object when it cooled was a  black stone. Originally in Arabic, Spanish and other languages you reverse the adjective. You get stone black.

The stone marked the spot. Just thinking this is a stone is baby talk. What connection gets us out of this primitive thinking? Nothing. We used to think the black stone was us. The view we should have had is the great builders, those who built nations rejected this black stone. Black stone is a sign of man in original nature.

G-d said to the angels, if you know, tell me your names. Angels admittedly said no knowledge have we. Adam, however, had knowledge to do it. Ail but Ibis (Satan) submitted. He had an ego problem.

Bring this to earth. This nature is in us too. Puffed up with pride, arrogant spirit, always defying the will of G-d. Doing what we want. This is "Iblisism" in the society.

Iblis was the first to reject faith, became bigoted. All this occurred before whispering to man in the garden. This picture is given to us in the past to show us the present. Satan has become an adversary of G-d. There is no Satan in Judaism.

Let me start by saying I have dear friends that are Jews. No Jesus in Judaism. Still don't believe in Jesus or Devil. A small number won't acknowledge Christ because they believe they are the only begotten sons of G-d. And they don't have the Devil because they have the right to punish themselves and others.

The Bible says Satan is a boss in hell, according to Christians. Let's leave this scene quickly! (laughter) 

In the Bible, Jesus said I saw their father fall from heaven. I saw Satan falling from heaven.

DEUTERONOMY 29:19-21 (CONTEMPORARY ENGLISH VERSION)
Contemporary English Version (CEV)

19. You may be an Israelite and know all about the Lord's agreement with us, but he won't bless you if you rebel against him. You may think you can get away with it, but you will cause the rest of Israel to be punished along with you.

20-21. The LORD will be furious, and instead of forgiving you, He will separate you from the other tribes. Then He will destroy you, by piling on you all the curses in The Book of G-d's Law, and you will be forgotten forever.

This is an accusation against a whole people. This language is a problem. It prevents people from coming together for common good.

One Priest said: If Christianity is to survive there has to be a major change. We have bad people among all people but the change was more about the language. Some bad people took language and insight and used it for the control of people. These people are cursed unless G-d saves them.

This did not start with Christians this began with Pagans. Greeks were Pagans but we have the wrong picture of pagans. One thinks pagans were savage, and uneducated. They had science, great civilization, beauty, etc. Language was different, and so was human creation then. They needed to have revelation to understand their purpose. They had to find original pattern of G-d to develop expression in society.

Al-Fitr. Religion patterned on Nature.

30:30 So set your face steadily and truly to the Faith: (establish) Allah's handiwork according to the pattern on which He has made mankind: no change (let there be) in the work (wrought) by Allah; that is the standard Religion, but most among mankind understand not.

Man can't create self. He has to work with what he has.

Back to subject, The Sanctuary. The house there is called Kabah. Qibla determined by location of Kabah.

House has a black stone, placed in a corner by the Prophet himself. After the flood, Prophet rebuilt the house, I don't know where this flood came from, but I do know where our flood came from. Our flood was the Age of Aquarius. Flood period from 60s to 90s. Then just fire in late 90's to the present. Hell fire is real.

House called Al-Bait and Kabah. Qibla means orientation for direction. Sight and vision captures a wide space. Light and vision travel in a straight way line. Eye goes straight to the mark. Siratal mustaqeem. This is also the inking Muslim concept. If you follow G-d's light you will go straight to the mark, meet success. Others want to make light crooked. Why make vision crooked?

The masses are heedless of the signs of G-d. Why do you follow logic only to a certain point and then stop when G-d speaks to you? When G-d enters then your logic is gone. What's wrong with this picture?

House/home is not enough of a term to fit the knowledge base being discussed. You need to use term Kabah. Kabah: This is a vital term with a vital connection, it begins with Adam having a mate; made male, having a female mate, and both made of the same essence. Don't think of flesh male and female. We want to have higher knowledge. Male and female come together to populate the earth. Think of community not flesh.

Science gives us theories. Religion gives us not flesh, it gives us community development. We need our Natural inheritance to support this community life. No bird is taught to make his home, collect straws etc, make it round. He is given this in his own life, not taught this, does it himself. It is placed in him by Allah.

The same applies to humans; babies are not taught to crawl, walk, or talk. They do this naturally. G-d puts this in them. Babies learn language naturally; it is clocked into our composition naturally.

If we African Americans depended on this original life we would be better. We would know how to be family, nice and loving to each other. Even secular knowledge teaches that the family is the first unit of society. We have lost this idea. All people today are dealing with this loss, including religious people. We are dealing with corruption of our families. 

Man comes naturally into creation with the ability to establish social and community life. We lose this connection with social and community life when we lose track of families. If we keep in touch with relatives, we will grow big, grow into tribes and then nations.

Male represents the brain. He has to learn to deal with risk, and then learn how to get things in society. The female gives the referral or the request. If the brother is in his right nature he will get what she needs. The sister say I need something to sleep on, and he will get a bed. The woman wants a man. Her original nature tells her she calls for a man. She does not want a child. This shared need leads to the establishment of family, community, and towns.

This town is the wile, "the women" represent community. The one who built this is the husband. Thus the husband is the builder. Adam is the builder and Eve is the community. We see this in the language of the Bible when it refers to the husbandman, and husbandry. The proof that this is the right picture I am presenting is right in the language of the world.

Don't think that we are the only ones who understand this language. Others know this too. I would only need to spend a few minutes saying this to them. They know this in the Vatican and other high places. They keep this a secret. They think this should be kept secret.

I am giving this to you. How come our leaders can't do this anymore? They can't because they have taken up the strategies of the Jews and Christians. The followers of Christ have strayed. They are dhaalin in the Qur'an, or those who go astray. Others are too but they are the ones mainly emphasized. The world, individuals, not the leadership per se. They strayed due to ignorance.

The Prophet was originally of the dhaalin. This was the culture he was raised in. The environment was of Jahiliyyah. They were of the dhaalin. Allah says I found you dhaalin, astray, and I guided you.

(Imam Paused to tell us he needs to take his time). Do not rush with the Qur'an. I am talking to you slowly to allow you to think. Rushing would not allow you to think. This should come to you like rain. What is the best rain according to Qur'an? It is rain that comes lightly, consistent, and with great quantity.

We should make our homes sanctuaries. When we are in the world people see you fitting into the world, adapting, but in the home you are living in a different world.

We have to be careful how we present ourselves in the public, especially today after 9/11. Some of us want to have our Eids in the park. This is dangerous today. We should sell some pies, make some Raggedy Ann cookies. This name would make you money, a name like that (laughter). Have a bake sale. You do this so you can rent a facility. Get yourself a place with walls, so you can protect yourself, families and children from this crazy world. Be careful. Bums go to the Park. It is a bad environment sometimes. It's a strange world we're in. The bums in the park, who don't have a home to go to, are run out the park by the Police. To go where?

I want to remind you again we are talking about Adam, as a single person and as a type. If we were truly Adam, all life would be working in its original pattern and working together with creation.

What is the best dress for Adam? It is the dress of Righteousness.

7:26. O ye Children of Adam! We have bestowed raiment upon you to cover your shame, as well as to be an adornment to you. But the raiment of righteousness, - that is the best. Such are among the Signs of Allah, that they may receive admonition!

Satan seduced us out of our original and natural dress.

7:27 O ye Children of Adam! Let not Satan seduce you, in the same manner as He got your parents out of the Garden, stripping them of their raiment, to expose their shame: for he and his tribe watch you from a position where ye cannot see them: We made the evil ones friends (only) to those without faith.

The world has gone way out of its correct dress. The Prophet was living in a time of jahiliyah, ignorance. People were openly urinating on the road. People were having sex in plain sight. Jesus had come as a sign pointing to Muhammad, pointing to our original life pattern - ( Kabah). Muhammad is the teacher and . guiding us to the signs. We should see Jesus and Muhammad the same and akin in purpose.

Allah has blessed me to see things clearly. What conies in my hand conies in yours. I'm a product of your women (community), we have the same mother. My hand and your hand are from the same mother.

The Quran tells us of two angels Harut and Marut. They were angels that taught magic. Don't get spooky. Lets put this in a language we can identify with. We should understand magic as mysterious science.

2:102. They followed what the evil ones gave out (falsely) against the power of Solomon: the blasphemers were, not Solomon, but the evil ones, teaching men magic, and such things as came down at Babylon to the angels Harut and Marut. But neither of these taught anyone (such things) without saying: "We are only for trial; so do not blaspheme." They learned from them the means to sow discord between man and wife. But they could not thus harm anyone except by Allah's permission. And they learned what harmed them, not what profited them. And they knew that the buyers of (magic) would have no share in the happiness of the Hereafter. And vile was the price for which they did sell their souls, if they but knew!

This mysterious science showed how to affect the husband and wife. Remember the new meaning of husband and wife.

This occurred before Christ, during the glory days of Solomon, the wise. Before the angels showed this science, they told them this was a trial, and this was dangerous in the hands of fools. The Kabah gravitates us when we see it as the vision of family (house/home). This house establishes for us proper relationships. We should stand only with certain respected relationships. Relationships should not be based on sexual pleasure. Even animals don't do this. Mating should be to extend life, to teach us to care for life, to continue life in its best form.

Sex should be a devotion to community life's future. We should see husband and wife as the future. When we take sex for sex we are less than an animal. Sex for me is as a flower with pollen. It smells, looks and taste nice. When it mixes with more pollen it produces fruit. This is the fruit of Islam.

FRUIT OF ISLAM, is your fruit tasty? Does it have energy to give life and have energy for work? I'm not saying this to hurt anyone, I love them. If I didn't I wouldn't say anything. I could write a song about hem: "Bean Pies and Bow Ties, when does the sun rise." (laughter).

Let's get back to the Angels, Harut and Marut. People have gotten science from the revelation of G-d. And some have used it as a tool to corrupt our family. If you can corrupt the family you can corrupt the whole world.

What was the tool used? Change of perception (magic/illusion). Change the way you see human life. Changing the way you see life leads to undoing the life. Changing this vision causes the loss of vital family life connections. We see this in the Bible in many places but I will give you two:

Let us go down and speak no more. Babble language sent down. 

Genesis 11:6-8 (King James Version)

6.  And the LORD said, Behold, the people is one, and they have all one language; and this they begin to do: and now nothing will be restrained from them, which they have imagined to do.

7.  Go to, let us go down, and there confound their language, that they may not understand one another's speech.

8.  So the LORD scattered them abroad from there upon the face of all the earth: and they left off to build the city.


Let us cast there band asunder so they can't come together any more. 

Psalm 2:2-4 (King James Version)

2.  The kings of the earth set themselves, and the rulers take counsel together, against the LORD, and against his anointed, saying,

3.  Let us break their bands asunder, and cast away their cords from us.

4.  He that sits in the heavens shall laugh: the LORD shall have them in derision.


We don't focus on family life anymore. Yet it was in our nature. Family would call on G-d. Regardless of your language, He would hear you. You did not have to say Allah. You could have said Marawaja. I make it up as I go along (laughter), and He would hear you.

Some of you think you have to Say Allah Subhanna Wata'ala. Everything is Subhanna Wata'ala (emphasizing the extreme in this). Those who do that have joined the theatre of life. I say it but, I don't repeat it like that. My life speaks and says SWA all the time. Some of us have confused human life and have therefore departed from it. This is because the wicked have put forth their plan. Their plan has a wicked end to gain power and money.

Let's go back to the Kabah. The Kabah has a connection to ankle. The ankle connects the foot and the leg.

This establishes a concentration, a melding. This gives us the ability to understand the Kabah as a spiritual concentration. We have to have a spiritual concentration based in balance. The whole balancing. Balance to stand. A child has to practice standing. Once he practices, he no longer has to think consciously of this, he just stands. The ankle is a ball, a swivel.

Today we see officers riding motorized two wheelers. They ride just as comfortable once they practice. They don't have a problem because it is natural to ride on two parallel balls. They go on two balls like two ankles, e need to be spiritually awakened. We need spiritual science not just feelings.

The Qur'an was the last big boost for the world of science. Science that is based in religion.

It established psychoanalysis. Fraud was a fraud. The world says sic um Fraud, (laughter). The world never thought a donkey people would have figured this out. Yes, the world thinks of us as donkey people. But we have peeped their hold card. All Knowledge comes from Allah.

Man has always known this. The Greeks knew this. Prometheus stole fire from heaven. This means he took it as a tool (knowledge) to take over the life of human beings. They were not ignorant, they believed in G-d. They began a great republic. But they went to sleep. The Qur'an however returned later to awaken their ancient knowledge.

We read in the Bible where G-d says rejoice not, whole Palestine, for out of the serpent's root shall come forth a flying cockatrice.


Isaiah 14:29 (King James Version)

29. Rejoice not thou, whole Palestine, because the rod of him that smote you is broken: for out of the serpent's root shall come forth a cockatrice, and his fruit shall be a fiery flying serpent.

It also says that (he devil will rise up on the air. He will become a prince of the air. You need to know that air represents the spirit of humans. He will ride on the spirit of humans. He will ride on our spirits and control us from a space station in our soul. He will control us from a distance.


Ephesians 2:1-3 (King James Version)
Ephesians 2

1. And you has He quickened, who were dead in trespasses and sins;

2.  Wherein in times past you walked according to the course of this world, according to the prince of the power of the air, the spirit that now works in the children of disobedience:

3. Among whom also we all had our conversation in times past in the lusts of our flesh, fulfilling the desires of the flesh and of the mind; and were by nature the children of wrath, even as others.


He wants to go high enough to sit in the seat of G-d. He has taken over abstract life, the psyche, soul, and intelligence of many. He has us thinking we are in control but we are acting out of control of our original nature. We, however, have the light that will defeat him in life.

You have to believe your Imam when he tells you this. I believe in you, so you should believe in me. You think I would be working day and night for you if I did not believe in you. I believe in you so you should believe in me. We will become great workers in the cause of Allah. We will become great in the United States. We have to fight the schemes of Satan. He depends on human weakness.

Most of the people are weak. The Qur'an tells us that most of the Christians are unbelievers. You know this to be true, you knew this before you were Muslim. You know you would only trust a few in the congregation. "Some of you are saying I wasn't right in the church either (laughter). I hope you are right now (more laughter).

This is the time when all predictions come together and reach their fulfillment. AH signs in scripture have been revealed. The world has entered into babble.

This is the last day. We are living in it and we are living in the day of the fulfillment of Prophecy. We are "surviving in it during the end of time. This is the great finality of Satan and we are still in the test.

This is the great and dreadful day. It is a great day for the righteous and a dreadful day for the wicked.

A new world is rising. Soon we will be worry free. Don't worry over things like bills, this is a little thing. A great day is being established. Good news is coming.

As Salaam Alaikum

Conclusion of Session (break for Zuhr, combined Asr Prayer)


DAY 2 - 1:30PM

The Qur'an tells us that the Throne was established upon the water.

11:7 He it is Who created the heavens and the earth in six Days - and His throne was over the waters - that He might try you, which of you is best in conduct. But if thou were to say to them, "Ye shall indeed be raised up after death", the Unbelievers would be sure to say, "This is nothing but obvious sorcery! "


When a situation turns bad Allah replaces it with something better. What was good or advanced in the past, may not be useful in the present. Some continue with these old things that appear great even though it cheats human life. They do this due to habit, greed, or ignorance. They exploit life for selfish gain.

The church, I need to say this, is had for African Americans. It keeps our people in the water. The Throne was in the water, but later Allah says it extends over the heavens and the earth.

2:255. Allah. There is no G-d but He,-the Living, the Self-subsisting, Eternal. No slumber can seize Him, nor sleep. His are all things in the heavens and on earth. Who is there can intercede in His presence except as He permits? He knows what (appears to His creatures as) before or after or behind them. Nor shall they compass anything of His knowledge, except as He wills. His Throne does extend over the heavens and the earth, and He feels no fatigue in guarding and preserving them, for He is the Most High, the Supreme (in glory).

This is progression in human fife.

In the Bible we are shown that Christ's mission began calling fishermen. He said to them "I will teach you to be a fisher of men." You should see Christ and Muhammad paralleled here.


MATTHEW 4:18-20 (KING JAMES VERSION)

18.  And Jesus, walking by the sea of Galilee, saw two brethren, Simon called Peter, and Andrew his brother, casting a net into the sea: for they were fishers.

19.  And he said to them, Follow me, and I will make you fishers of men.

20.  And they straightway left their nets, and followed him.


Jesus was taking the fishermen from the water to the land. Water represents sensitivities. The converts in the water were not men but fish. Fish have the character of quick responses. They act on reflex. When you approach them they snap to another direction. Here they represent emotional people, people who have reflex intelligence. They go in one direction and another based on emotional contacts. They change according to reflex and response.

When a religious message is in the water, based on sensitivities and emotions, people will become reflex people. People who don't think, just respond, and respond according to the tide or wave. Their brain muscles stop working. They stop even being there. You can talk to them all day and they will not respond to reason. They are in the state like that of thunder and lightning. They have intelligence only for a slight time. (This is Qur'an)

African Americans have been worked on so long they don't think, they just relax.

Most preachers know they are holding people back, but they won't give up their good thing. It's working for them. We have ministers who also work hard to avoid the Imam because he wants the church to think. I'm not speaking badly of them; I want them to change. Would I want them to change if I didn't love them?

The end is here. The Bible says that when the end comes the beast will be in his lake and the lake will be of fire. It could be understood to be a fire that is destroying people caught up in the passions of the world. But it could also be a fire that is consuming the beast. It could be that Allah ignited that fire to consume the beast in his own passions.


REVELATION 20:10

And the devil that deceived them was cast into the lake of fire and brimstone, where the beast and the false prophets are, and shall be tormented day and night for ever and ever.

It could mean that life is going to survive the deceiver's own works. His own works will turn on him. Deceit will destroy the deceiver.

We are a very passionate people, the most passionate people I know. What would happen if we would use this passion to turn against the deceiver? Boy what a fire if we turn it against the deceiver.

The example of this today is our children. The church can't get them. They turn to themselves, gangs, etc. They are ready to hurt something. Some however in that crowd are positive. They are great leaders. They come from abuse and hurt. When these young people turn against Satan, oh what a fire they will be going against Satan. They will be too much for Satan. Satan, afraid of them, will do whatever he can to keep them in that condition. Satan will he burning in his own fire. He will be in a lake of fire.

What is a lake? Lake literally means water turned red. A deep dye substance that is red. The beast is in this lake.

Let's remember the topic: The Throne was upon the water. We're going from subjective to universal.

When the Egyptians had plagues put upon them, the big plague was turning the sea into blood, red. Blood is red. And red often represents sociality. The Nile was worshipped by Egypt, in a sense as holy water.

This is what I am trying to do today. 1 am trying to turn holy water red. Water is used by the religious leaders to mean spiritual teaching. I want to change it from spiritual to social teaching.

We need to remember that not all the pharaohs were bad. But this one was bad. Many or most were good for their people. This one sought to oppress his people. This one during the period of Moses was bad. He was dependent on symbolic religion to hold the masses of the people. He had and used a priesthood to control the people. The Government and the Church worked together to control the people, the masses in general.

He had a pact with the church to keep the masses in ignorance and babyish behavior and thinking.

We see this happening still today, the church and the Government working together to keep the people ignorant of the real concerns and happenings of the world.

We need to inform and educate the people. Education is the key. Education is not always in the school system. It is often lost in the schools. It is lost because the world is determining the framework of education.

There are big fish investing in education. The industrial complex has a big say in education. They help to fund it and mold it. They work with Government and education.
You can see this if you have bright intelligence.

"Sometimes a bright person in a group comes forward to check this behavior. They always come in a group, very rarely alone. They like the group. They come forward with the group and point to the problem. They expose it. Then improvement comes in academia, and politics.

There is a need for someone to be attentive to what's good and bad for the public. 

There will come a day when the old will give way to the new.

Some of you are guardians for them, for the bad in the public. You don't realize it. You think you know more than your leader when he says this to you.

You cannot continue treating men and women like babies. Allah will interrupt this treatment and what they do. We have to create a change. We have to change appeal from the emotional side to the physical (land) side. Let us remember again that Jesus took the fishermen out of the water to the land.
How many did he take? He took twelve. How many people are in the Cabinet in America? There are twelve. So Jesus is really speaking to leadership of that time. Not so much the individual.

Some are feeling a need to be left in the water. If you stay in the water to long you will lose the ability to function on the land. Some of you will be left playing or drowning in the water.

The life design and pattern for one person is the same for every person.

The doctor doesn't start working with a person asking them what race they are. He doesn't ask you if you are an Egyptian or Black. He knows your race has no impact on what you need to heal you. He knows that science is universal. You don't need to get a manual to work on the Negro. All of us are the same. Some of us have this same problem. We want a Black religion, when we doctor on ourselves. This has to be true in all faiths, they want to take out whites' deities, then they want to take one race over another as lord. No race is lord.

The Qur'an says "come to common terms." They addressed Lord in their image to make their psyche strong; then they gave it to someone else, even if it oppresses them.

3:64 Say: "O People of the Book! Come to common terms as between us and you: That we worship none but Allah; that we associate no partners with Him; that we erect not, from among ourselves, lords and patrons other than Allah." If then they turn back, say you: "Bear witness that we (at least) are Muslims (bowing to Allah's Will).

We need to get this old stuff out of us too. We have to stand up in our own soul, like Christ stood up in the water. We have individuals however who get drowned in the water.
We have to fight our own self. This is the Jihad Akbar, the greater jihad, the fight against the evils in our own selves. When a boxer gets a fight, he has to prepare, train. We must train the waters to support truth. Coming together to answer G-d's call requires training sessions.

Once we are together, confident, self composed, and organized, we will be ready to join those similarly constituted to get the job done.
Don't think we need a lot of support, we need just a few. Margaret Mead said, "The world has been changed by a few, and it is the only way it has always happened."
Most of us won't do this1 work, don't have the right spirit. They will, leave after listening to Imam Mohammed Ramadan Session and go home and eat fried chicken. They will do the same thing they were doing before.

When sperms are in the womb there are millions of swimmers there, not really swimming but they are in a water-like substance, they all have the same potential, the same life germ, but only a few actually hit the mark. The rest just go to the wayside. They all have an urge and drive inside of them by nature to know what to do, and where to go. But most still don't hit the mark. They're in the water but lack the spirit. They lack the right spirit for success.

We have to apply this to our work. We have billions of energized Muslims in the world. Influenced by Qur'an and the Imam even, but how many are hitting the mark. We have young people who go away and study the language and Islamic studies. They become Hafiz of Qur'an but some still miss the mark. They have the wrong spirit. Don't worry though, stay in the water with me a little longer and you will get a resurrection.

(Imam laughs very hard.) Satan is so much in the language he even makes me laugh. Our job is to develop a few who can do this work. Allah says: Work in your places. I am your worker.

You don't have to come under an organization to do this work. Some organizations won't let us join. They're afraid of us, jealous, or just won't work with us. You don't have to even be part of a masjid to do this work. I'm not telling you to abandon the Masjid. You should be contributing to their work. But the masjid is not just a place for bucket passing. If the masjid is a place that is unattractive for you to give your zakat, give it somewhere else. Give your zakat like I do, to a poor person on the street. You don't have to limit zakat to a masjid. You can give it in secret or open. The greatest charity is to give it unrecognized.

Fard taught three years in Chicago, Milwaukee, and Detroit. Some of you don't know that, but some people who were there are still here and could tell you. They heard him speak themselves. Fard would say we are going to every one of those 17 million keys. (Imam lost thought; the audience helped him get thought back. He said this is how it should be, the audience should help the speaker if he needs help. He emphasized if he needs help).

Fard was not concerned with just a few; he was concerned for every African American person. Fard was not African American but he didn't leave this just for Elijah Muhammad. He emphasized this himself. We must realize that if we separate ourselves from good people, our people, we will be committing a major sin. We will make ourselves into major sinners. We should feel a burden on our hearts for our people, leaving them in that condition. We feel burdened because our genes have a memory of being persecuted, lynched.

This Gene is a black thing. We have this one life connection to our people, Black people.

We have a prominent psyche for our self because of shared experiences developed over the generations. Our identity is made up of group life. Life has rebelled and conformed. It has done both, two extremes.
You know today I don't see the life that was dancing and welding, I see the one working for the establishment of a people. Today we must realize that we are more collective life than individual life, or private life.
Allah has created life upon a plan. His design. We can stay with his design and plan or the world. Stick to our true nature or the design of the world. We need to understand that in this design the righteous will over come regardless of one being stronger or weaker. The unrighteous will be against the design of G-d. The true spirit and original nature of the people will overcome.

People say of a dead person we saw him return to Allah. Really they saw his earth return to the earth. His soul is with us. That is returning to G-d. Collectively that soul is returning to G-d.

Only when we have collective community life working together can we return to G-d.

We have been created to go there.

Surely we were created to serve G-d, The Most High.

Loud takbirs. Imam very excited and moved.


MORNING SESSION                                            
DAY 3 11:00AM

No Standing Allowed. Many have gone home but still people outside trying to hear the conclusion of this. 

Topic: Focus: The Balanced Community, ummatan wasatan

2:143 Thus, have We made of you an Ummat justly balanced, that you might be witnesses over the nations, and the Messenger a witness over yourselves; and We appointed the Qibla to which you were accustomed only to test those who followed the Messenger from those who would turn on their heels (from the Faith). Indeed it was (a change) momentous, except to those guided by Allah. And never would Allah make your faith of no effect. For Allah is to all people most surely full of kindness, Most Merciful.

Since the beginning of time man has been connected with G-d. This has continued in time in particularly with the connection through Prophet Muhammad.
At the beginning of time we recall man being created and placed in the garden. When he was placed in the Garden he was approached by the deceiver. Shayton approached him in the form of a hissssser. A hisser is one who does not talk but hisses. The snake is very different. He is silent, he doesn't talk like other animals. Yet he is talking to Adam. What does he say and do. He works on Adam seeking to change his perception of the reality he is in. He wants to change the perception that G-d has prescribed and designed for Adam.
Adam already had a design in his nature. That nature and perception inside of man attracted Satan, he was jealous of it. Adam was obedient in his nature. His nature had him in check, He could not be easily changed from his original nature and original behavior.
In order to make this change he had to be subtle. Subtle means to be difficult to detect, He had to be wise and careful in his movements and words.

We should find the connection of this action with Qur'an. Allah invited Jibril to witness his plan for creation, the whole of creation, the entire universe. Allah told Jibril to behold my Creation. Jibril said oh what a wonderful creation. How can anyone go wrong? Within an instant, G-d changed the scene and showed him the same creation after Satan would present it decorated. (Perception of how man would see it). Jibril said, how can anyone go right?. Satan's decoration, his perceptual picture of creation made it difficult for us to keep our nature, our intelligence.

The Prophet has come to address the major issues that have gone off track. And to correct the pictures that have gone off mark.

From the books of Genesis to Revelations, and from Al-Fatiha to Nas this has been the work of the Prophets. The work has been to correct the perception of the masses and to bring the people back to their perfect origin.
I understand The Bible is not perfect. But the perception some of you have of the Qur'an is not perfect either. So through right perception we can find it in both books.
Muhammad asked Ali, who had a Bible, what's wrong with the Qur'an I've brought you? He wasn't saying this to tell him to get rid of the Bible. He was telling him to approach the book with caution. He knew he would not be converted to Christianity.

We have to be careful with the Bible though because it is strong in deception.

Satan knew he had to change the perception man saw of himself to gain complete authority. 

Perception is the major theme that plays through scripture from Genesis to An-Nas.

Where do we find perception in the Bible? We find where Allah says "Every eye shall see him." We see light go to darkness and darkness goes to light. At the end of revelations we find Light everywhere.
We need to understand that light is for the eyes. We need light to see.
Light is needed for perception, especially for leaders.
The reason people go to school is to acquire better perception of things.
Through better perception, comes better life.
We should imagine the Garden being fully lit, great brilliant light, the best of lights.
G-d says, every eye shall see. It's not enough for leaders to see alone. G-d wants everyone to see for themselves.


REVELATION 1:7

KJV: Behold, he comes with clouds; and every eye shall see him, and they also which
pierced him: and all kindreds of the earth shall wail because of him. Even so, Amen.

People are under a great burden when they hear the preacher and he appears to understand and the people leave with no understanding.
We must lighten the burden of people by giving them understanding. 

The topic is again the Balanced Community.

Allah says that He plans and Satan plans and He is the Best of Planners. We have to be aware that the great deceiver has already started planning. He is a strong planner but not the best.
When he began to plan against Allah he immediately fell, all of them. Allah says to hell with you and all with you Satan will fool many and cause many to fall. Fard the great thinker would ask: "Can Satan fool a Muslim?" The audience responded: "Not these days."

Most of what we see today is influenced by Satan. This also includes the way we perceive and read Scripture. He is even influencing the way you hear and understand, the way you hear G-d. Through Adam you did hear that right, raise up among G-d. He wanted Adam to think that he could aspire to become G-d.

We have been taught to think that G-d means Power and Force. This is not all that G-d means but this is what you were taught. You were told this in the Nation, that the Black man was G-d. He checked the Black man by giving him a new definition of G-d. Not the definition of the Most High. He didn't give you this meaning, he gave you that G-d was power and force. He gave this to the Black man, that G-d was Power and Force.

The strategy to save man and destroy man is pushed. The more G-d's plan is pushed the more the world grows. This is a major issue pushed in the Qur'an and the Bible. The design to save mankind is instilled in the books and in yourselves at all levels. You don't need education, it's not required. But the more intelligence you have the more it helps.

The Bible is a book of knowledge for educating the brightest minds and ambitious souls on how to achieve dominance in the world. Who wants this dominance? Satan. The number one criminal, Satan, wants this dominance.
Don't think of Satan as a person. Think of Satan as a mindset. He can communicate to any person and that person can become Satan.
You can't look only in the garden for Satan; you have to look at the world. You have to also look at high places in religion. This should be obvious because this is where he started.

We have to believe that these beings, who perceived themselves as angels, worked to keep their identity as jinns hid, portrayed themselves as angels. They kept themselves hid so they could benefit from this themselves;
they could through their existence gain rule. These individuals were not Satan, but they too sought benefit. Who was leading them before they were exposed? Iblis, leader of the jinn, was leading them.

Iblis and the Jinns had created a disruption in the heavens. The disruption caused man to be rejected from the heavens and sent to earth. Don't think of heaven as being in the sky. Think of heaven as being high levels of excellence, purity, purity of the soul. Then think of the earth as a material interest. Man lost his high place of excellence and was reduced to material interests.

Man was cast down, as well as Satan and all those with them. This was the strength of changed perception. It caused them to fall.
The Qur'an said get you down, all together. The word for all together is gubab. Gubab brings to mind the idea of a fist. Five fingers coming together. Five senses coming together. This also brings to mind fingers that come together to write.

20:123. He said: "get ye down, both of you,- all together, from the Garden, with enmity one to another: but if, as is sure, there comes to you Guidance from Me, whosoever follows My Guidance, will not lose his way, nor fall into misery.

The hand that writes first is the hand that establishes the world. This is not the hand of a welder. The trick was to write and say   this was from G-d. Satan was told Get down from here if  you want dominance.

Satan invites man (Adam) to look at the material world. He says imagine what you could do if I give you the perception of G-d. Imagine if you could live forever. Imagine if you were everlasting (Allah's attributes).
He wants you to change the rule (order) inside of you that you have been given by Allah to survive all seasons. He seeks to go after the balanced community. He seeks to educate the ambitious and tell them how to establish dominance.

Certain elements of the Jews are good people, but have become loyal to the elements of Satan himself. 

The world Jews don't accept Zionism or Israel.

If you are my student you should go on the world wide web and see the position of the world Jews.
Briefly they do not support the establishment of Israel. They find no evidence of it in the Torah. Nor do they find support for Zionism in the Torah. You should look this up if you are following my Mathab.

We need to be careful. The Qur'an does not condemn all Jews or all Christians. The Qur'an says: There was a party that believed and a party that disbelieved.
We see this party also in Qur'an as it relates to Muslims. Let there arise out of you a party of people inviting to all that is good. The same party. Some obviously are not working or doing something.

The Qur'an urges us to be a people that believes, and supports fair dealings.
In the crooked plan the bad elements want to advance. Bible is not just for Jews but for anyone who wants it.

The Jews said to the other Jews to inform each other of there heritage: "Your mother was a Hittite, and your father an Amorite. Hitittes were powerful people in the material sciences, but they were still about defeating other nations. Amorites were compassionate and loving; they sought to bring together family and loving relationships. We see this in their name: Amorites. Spanish, Amour for Love. The leaders of the people wanted the leaders to be Hittite like and the followers and people to be Amorite like.

Don't you see this today? Don't forget we are addressing the balanced Community.
Asr Prayer. It is not at noon. It occurs when the sun has reached its highest point and begins to decline. It reminds us of climbing a steep mountain. Like dealing with the trials of the world, a steep incline. Sometimes the trip up is not as dangerous as the trip down. Coming down you have to be cautious. Sometimes the speed down can cause you to stumble or trip. If you try to make maneuvers too quickly you will also slip. Some in leadership may put you out front, so they can see where you will slip and then go around you.

Anyone who seeks to corrupt or have dominance will be denied it. This doesn't mean you won't get it, it does mean however that you will be dealt with for doing it or getting it. Hittites sign is like a swastika., like a Z, like a twisted cross.

When you hear people referring to terrorism, you hear them use the term "axis of evil." An axis is another form of a cross. What is the cross? The cross is a symbol of Universality.

Hittites position: Earth #1, identify with all you can perceive, and conquer it.

We learn from this that just because someone is advanced in science doesn't mean they are right. We have seen many civilizations of great science and civilization fall.

We see many who have suffered from this element of Satan. We can't go after them directly. Satan is not a person; he is an ideology, a mindset. Anyone who listens to his whisper and follows the mindset is a Devil.
Sura An-Nas says we seek refuge in the Lord of mankind.
Lord of mankind means: The One responsible for our best advancement and our best development.

The word "Lord" is Rabb. It comes from the same word that means to raise children from the womb. It is in the nature of the women to raise and give birth to a child. No one has to show her what to do. She doesn't have to go to a hospital, she just knows. She can give birth without a man or a hospital. Allah creates and continues to create us in the Wombs of our mothers.
Everyone has a need to be cared for. The parent cares for the child but when the child fails or something goes wrong, they say I did my best. If something good happen they take the credit. All good credit goes to Allah.

The same care the mother has for her child after 9 months, Allah has that care for all of creation. Allah says: I am responsible for you advancing on this earth.
The word, alamin, comes from the verb to know, the process for right perception. This is science. Common knowledge is where we start, but we want to come to a bright light for all humanity.

It is important to seek knowledge, know what something is. But it is more important to understand the logic of what holds it all together.
A monotheistic belief in G-d has made all of science possible. People with monotheistic ideas are the ones prospering today in the world. We understand monotheistic ideas to be tawheed, or oneness of G-d.
Tawheed for us is one cause, one factor and one Creator. -> 1 creation-> 1 logic holding all things together -> 1 man/humanity -> 1 life -> 1 family -> 1 community.

Allah says that we believed the same until knowledge came to us.
As African Americans we didn't have knowledge we were just affected by knowledge. And then we began changing in reaction to it.
People don't appreciate knowledge brought by Imam. Some say Imam brought us to the Qur'an, now I'm good enough to go on my on. They begin changing into all kinds of things. They say I am going my way. The Imam does not have time to argue with these people. He has decided not to take up a lot of time with these brothers. Sometimes we don't have time to say As-Salaam Alaikum we just say Salaam and keep moving. Salaam is reserved for some evil folks. We don't have time for them.

Cross: The cross represent those who want universality for correct perception, for those who want to know, think. build philosophers, and improve on society. Satan has however offered us a double cross.

The true cross is in the nature of being balanced and staying in the right balance. It is understood in the statement: "...Say, I believe and be upright." The cross evolved in meaning from being upright. When a person stands up straight (upright) and extends his hands he makes a cross. This cross causes him to be balanced.

Man however has lost balance when double crossed by Satan.
What do we know of Satan? Allah causes Satan to bite the dust. He caused him to crawl on his stomach. He has no legs, and he moves in a spooky way across the ground. He uses his outer skin for transport; he is silent and moves in a spooky way.
A tough man at night can pretend to not be afraid, but a tough man will be scared and frozen if caught off guard by the snake. Women admit they are afraid of snakes but men disguise it.

The cross is a symbol of great advancement when we connect it with balance
Another symbol of balance is the scales. Scale is a symbol of balance for human beings.
The traditional scale we see has two hanging containers, with a bar attached. It works by putting a known weight on one side and then adding to the other container until the line or bar becomes straight. Lady Justice holds a scale.

Jesus was the second Adam. Genealogy connects Jesus' past to Adam, who was created by G-d. Jesus' father was Adam, and Adam was not born with a male and female. Adam was not male or female, he was a soul.
When we understand he was a soul, what happened in between the genealogy doesn't matter.

Jesus was a universal message. They say he was put on a cross. This took away his mobility. Then the Word was no longer universal.
The cross Allah puts us on is mobile, we can come out of our balance position and remain stable, stay in perfect balance, because we are respecting the conscious on the inside.
Our actions are good when our balance and source is good.
Be Patient.

Jesus is a sign for achieving dominance. This is why we don't accept the crucifixion.
Christ's upright nature is a sign of how man can have a perfect government. It is said in Bible that government will be on his shoulders and he will be able to counsel governments.
Government on his shoulders, balanced on his shoulders.

In the Hadith it says that Jesus is going to return waving a giant sword, so big it will hit everyone on earth, it will slay the wicked, and he will break the cross too.
Muslims are told that Muhammad told us not to destroy any sacred items of the Christians including the cross. So how is the cross broken? You break the codes and bring out the secrets.

When I was a minister in Philadelphia I wanted to pass out some flyers. I drew one with a Black carrying it like the legend when Christ was to be crucified. I had it broken, leaning over, stuck together slightly with frayed wood. Seventy years later G-d has guided me to understand the real meaning of the cross.

The kingdom is on his shoulders. The ideal government is on his shoulders. This is man's desire, a government compatible with natural urges in life.
This leads us to understand Deen AI-Fitr, religion of origin for all human life (Adam). Adam, the one on which G-d patterned all human society.

We find this made clear in "we hold these truths to be self evident." We are all born equally equipped at birth. We are endowed with certain inalienable rights, by our Creator was added later. But the inherent rights are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. Life is the right to live, liberty is the right to have a free mind and to use free mind for progress, and pursuit relates to ownership of property.

The religion of the original nature is saying the same thing. Man has evolved on the best of his human nature. We have respected the best of this life and have built worlds.
There are signs and wisdom in the cross. The clear language of the crucifixion is spelled out in the Qur'an. To have this beautiful world we thirst for, we must be connected to the best of our creation. We must come back to innocent pure life. We cannot have bad motives and intentions.

The Bible teaches: The father must be connected with his children, establish reconciliation or be cursed. The preacher may interpret this father to be the father G-d or Jesus. To understand this we must go back to the beginning. The world went wrong when Adam went wrong. Adam was caretaker when there were no streets, or buildings. He was caretaker of the natural environment.

We are further told that the sky and the earth offer its benefits for mankind. Whatever is in the sky or the earth yields benefits for mankind. Adam must be reconciled with the earth and sky or be cursed. We must come together in this posture as custodian, khalifah, caretaker, responsible wife, community and children.

This reconciliation is what made Adam knowledgeable to teach even the angels their names. The preacher was no Adam (builder). They did not even talk about building society until Elijah Muhammad. We must reconcile with our father. We see this reconciliation with the father during the night travel. We see during the ascension he went to each level greeting the Prophets. At the level where he met Adam and Abraham he addressed them as my father. All the other Prophets he addressed as my brother. In the ascension we see reconciliation between Abraham. Jesus, and Muhammad.

We should realize that the ascension went up from the Kabah. The Mutaqeen was a vertical movement from the Kabah to heaven. Then we see a horizontal movement traveling as well to Jerusalem.
Muhammad was taken to Jerusalem to the former kingdom of Solomon where the Jews weep over the fall of this great civilization. They weep over this conquered place. This area was conquered before the Muslims, by Romans, etc. Muslims never conquered anyone, they just wanted their rights.

After he was taken to the peak of this civilization he then right away answered the invitation of Medina. The invitation was not to establish a city, town or community, but to establish a new world: A new world of Islam. In order to do this he had to be in his original excellence. Jesus' excellence did not come from the environment re was born in. His excellence came directly from what was kept in him from G-d in his original nature. Jesus' excellence did not come from his parents. Like Prophet Muhammad, he did not have any parents. Muhammad's father and mother died before and right after he was born. His parents had little to do with his coming up.

Muhammad, like Adam, had no mother or father raising him. Christ had no father. Man has to evolve to understand, to understand what is not for children. Allah says in Qur'an: It is He who revolves the kingdom, rule, throne, and whomever He pleases.

Neither the government nor any certain rule will stay with one people always. It revolves, not to a different people per se, but back eventually to its original nature. The original man goes from original nature to nation builder, to philosopher, to commercial order. The commercial order has it now.

The word, revolve, comes from a word that means encounter. Satan takes us from our original personality. He takes us from the first path with Creator, science, etc. We may lose our center point but we have to come back to original nature, original fullness, original pattern, then light the whole world with universality.

The sun was absent in the world. Sun is a symbol of compassion. The sun is compassionate. The sun goes away so people can rest. The word actually should be repair instead of rest. So we can get ready for a new sunrise.
Like fajr, the sun says you must be up before I make my presence. When we think of Son it should be Sun. Both are correct: son of man, but mostly it is sun of man, or light of man. We should be an illuminated body; we should be rising out of gross matter to get the world busy with activity.

Jesus said we have to be about our Father's work. Don't underestimate creation, human creation. Understand your excellence. Allah created the universe for Muhammad, but Muhammad is a model for all of us to follow. The model that is inherent in him is inherent in me and you. We have to apply the light from the ascension to the earth. There are seven tracts in the sky and seven in you, a total of fourteen. Complete 7 in earth and 7 in light.

We must be firm and strong like these firmaments. In this term we see the word firm. We must see this revolving at each level of the heavens and the firmaments, worlds revolving. While it revolves you have to have a center. You have to hold onto your core. Just as we make our tawaf going to the left we keep the mind and conscious and the center, the Kabah. Just as we follow the Imam on the left. Imam equals our purpose for Jumu'ah. We have to have three adults for Jumu'ah, and then we extend from that center. Just like Jumu'ah we should be educating and enlightening.

All good byes are not gone.

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This is a very inspiring message for the Students of Imam W. Deen Mohammed! From the Ramadan Session of 2005

I had an experience, and there is a saying, "What is not meant for you, you won't get it." I'm going to share something with you. I hesitate to do it in the month of Ramadan. I think it might have been the 12* of October. I made a dua' to Allah and it went like this, "Oh Allah, please permit that my sincere students and I be in Paradise, together." And a communication came to me and it said, "You will be in Paradise with Muhammad, My servant, the Prophet (pbuh)."

I wanted to share that with you. I was praying for you and me and I believe it. We will be in Paradise with Muhammad, our Prophet (pbuh). He said the scholars will be in ranks next to the Prophets. That is not for all of us. Some of us, we can't buy it. Some of us don't want to be next to the Prophet (pbuh). There is no creature that Allah made that I want to be close to more than I want to be close to Muhammad, the Prophet. He is the joy of my life. If I could have been in that time that he was in, if I could have just been a distance from him like some of you sitting way in the back, what a joy that would be just to see him with my eyes and to hear his voice with my ears; and to feel him with my soul up close like that."

Imam W. Deen Mohammed
Ramadan Session 
October 21. 2005


