Jesus and His Mother : Black America Through The Lens of Prophecy

Añadido: 2026-05-12

[00:00:00]Alam alalayikum.

[00:00:02]>> Sir, >> in the most holy name of Allah, the beneficent, the merciful, I bear witness that there is no God except that Allah is God. I bear witness that Muhammad is his messenger. We give to Allah praise and thanks for his grace, for his mercy, and for his unmatched, unequaled and unrivaled goodness to us. We thank almighty God Allah for his grace, for his mercy, and for if nothing else, I like to always say that if you can't list any of the blessings of God, just thank Allah that he woke us up this morning.

[00:00:38]>> Yes, sir.

[00:00:39]>> When I was growing up in the church, they used to have an expression. They say, "I'm thankful to God that my name was on the wakeup list." And I believe in that. And that is actually an idea that finds congruency within the Holy Quran because Allah says in the Holy Quran that it is by night that he takes possession of our souls. And he says if the decree of death has not passed, he returns the soul to the body and we awaken to behold a brand new day. So I'm thankful to Allah that for each of us, each of you that our names were on the wakeup list >> and we are here today.

[00:01:24]>> Yes, sir.

[00:01:24]>> As a student of my illustrious teacher, I could never thank Allah enough for his divine and merciful intervention into our affairs, having appeared in the divine person of Master Far Muhammad. We not only thank him for his coming, but we thank him for his very, very wise choice of the most honorable Elijah Muhammad to be his messenger, Messiah, and so much more. And we thank these two for our brother and our friend, a man that is a champion for us, a man that is publicly known for his courageous speaking of truth to power. Yes, sir.

[00:02:04]But as someone that has been blessed to get to know him privately, he is both a lion and a lamb.

[00:02:11]>> Yes, sir.

[00:02:12]>> A man who has a heart of God, a heart of love for his people. And sometimes we want to say the things that the minister has done to help so many people, but he does not like that kind of thing to be broadcast to the world.

[00:02:34]>> Because the Holy Quran teaches us, do no favor seeking gain and follow not of charity with reproach or injury.

[00:02:43]>> Yes, sir. So the minister is not one to go around bragging about what he did for this person or what he did for that person, but certain things are on the record. And we just thank Allah for our beloved teacher. I believe he is Allah's anointed servant and a man who is best identified through the lens of scripture. And I would be remiss if I did not, you know, just put it on your mind that tomorrow is May 11th.

[00:03:20]>> Yes, sir.

[00:03:21]>> Yes, sir.

[00:03:21]>> And May 11th, this year, 2026, will be the 93rd birth anniversary of the Honorable Minister Lewis Farakhan.

[00:03:33]All praise is due to Allah.

[00:03:36]And um I'm just excited because you know brother and sister rarely does a black leader of his magnitude get a chance to live to the beautiful age of 93.

[00:03:52]Many times our great ones are cut down in the prime of their life.

[00:03:57]So for the honorable minister Lewis Faracan to be blessed by Allah to live and to be of good health and of a sound mind and still working and guiding and leading and teaching. It's an extraordinary blessing and I hate you know sometimes ignorant people they say well none of the great black leaders lived into old age and Faracan has. So this must mean that Minister Faracan is compromised.

[00:04:30]>> Really? Yes, sir.

[00:04:31]>> I say, my God.

[00:04:35]So you don't believe that God could protect his servant through all of the toils and strife that attend to being a servant of the people.

[00:04:47]You just automatically believe that if he's an authentic leader, he must at some point be cut down by the enemy.

[00:04:56]Well, that's a heck of a state of mind to be in.

[00:04:59]>> Yes, sir.

[00:05:00]>> But I'm thankful to Allah for our beloved leader and teacher. And we hope to not only share with you wisdom from him.

[00:05:10]But I have learned that if you have the man's words, but you don't have the man's way is incomplete.

[00:05:20]There are a lot of great people that can be a spokesperson but I hope that Allah will bless me to be a representative.

[00:05:28]So we want to represent to you today the wisdom that we have learned from our illustrious leader in teacher and in as much as certainly we have some recognition you know doing historical research I'm not a um person that delights in that kind of designation as any kind of research I've ever done has been to just bear witness to what Allah revealed and all of us should be happy to first and foremost be a believer. That's right >> because believer is the greatest status according to scripture. Not doctor, not reverend, not imam, not potentate, not shake, but believer.

[00:06:19]>> Yes sir. And each of us who the light of faith has been turned on in our heart and our minds must do do all that we can to cherish and safeguard that light. So I come into research seeking to cherish and safeguard my faith because I understand that frequently it is the case that whenever Allah reveals a message, he does not always reveal the proof of that message at the same time.

[00:06:53]>> That's right. But sometimes as I acknowledge that we're in a time like this today, it appears that time and circumstances are conspiring to prove and vindicate what Allah revealed to the honorable Elijah Muhammad and the honorable minister Lewis Farakhan. So I want to go into this subject with you today. I'm excited to get into it because this is what they call in America Mother's Day.

[00:07:26]>> And we wish happy Mother's Day to all of those that are mothers or may be going to be mothers or just sisters in general.

[00:07:35]My teacher, the honorable minister Lewis Faracan said to me that really among the righteous, every day is a day to honor mother.

[00:07:43]>> Yes, sir.

[00:07:44]Prophet Muhammad peace be upon him when one of his companions came to him and said, "Oh messenger of God, after Allah and his messenger, who should we confer honor upon next?"

[00:08:01]He said, "Your mother."

[00:08:03]And then he said, "And who after that?"

[00:08:06]He said, "Your mother."

[00:08:07]>> Come on, brother.

[00:08:09]>> He said, "And who after that?"

[00:08:12]He said your mother.

[00:08:15]>> And then they went one more time saying who after that your father.

[00:08:19]>> Yes sir.

[00:08:21]>> So three times for mom, >> one time for dad.

[00:08:26]And I like that hadith because it harmonizes with the teachings of the most honorable Elijah Muhammad who said that it was three4 or 75% of the work of the messenger of God is the development and the cultivation of the female.

[00:08:45]So we want to talk to you today from a subject Jesus and his mother black America through the lens of prophecy.

[00:08:53]Y'all all right?

[00:08:54]>> Yes sir. Go ahead. Now, I don't I can't go too far without addressing the elephant in the room is in every room.

[00:09:01]If you're in the South and you're in the Bible belt, and that is this notion, it's a false notion, no doubt, that Muslims don't believe in Jesus.

[00:09:12]And I realized that at a certain point in the black community, uh there was a a fear and a concern that many churches would lose uh membership and lose adherence to Islam as Islam became popular in the black community.

[00:09:30]>> Come on.

[00:09:31]So instead of just being truthful and saying the Muslims do believe in Jesus, but they have a slightly different belief in Jesus than we do as Christians, many used to stand in their pullpit and say, "Don't you all go down there with the Muslims."

[00:09:47]>> Yes, sir.

[00:09:48]>> Cuz they don't believe in Jesus and they going to take you away from your salvation.

[00:09:52]>> Yes, sir.

[00:09:53]>> But Jesus in Islam is a very, very big deal.

[00:10:00]According to the Holy Quran, which is the book of scripture of Muslims, it says, "And we made the son of Mary and his mother a sign, and we gave them refuge on a lofty ground having meadows and springs."

[00:10:20]Again, our subject is Jesus and his mother, Black America in the lens of prophecy. Yes sir.

[00:10:30]>> Allah says in the Quran that he has given Jesus and his mother as a sign.

[00:10:38]That's very very significant. I wanted to dig a little bit deeper into see what is a sign according to the Holy Quran.

[00:10:47]Now you and I drive down the road and we see a sign. And fascinating it is to me whenever we see the sign if we're on the highway uh it may say if you're going to Chicago like we frequently have to go to Chicago that's our national headquarters brother Brian and it may say Chicago 200 miles you don't pull over at the sign >> that's right >> you keep on going another 200 miles but that's English according to Quranic Arabic this word in the 23rd surah or comes from an Arabic word ayatan which comes from an Arabic root ayat and it means it properly signifies any apparent thing that is inseparable from a thing not equally apparent boy. So that when one perceives the former he perceives the other which he cannot perceive by itself.

[00:11:51]So this Quranic meaning of the word sign Allah is saying I am giving you something to see but it will indicate something that you cannot see right now.

[00:12:05]>> Yes sir.

[00:12:07]>> Jesus and his mother a sign.

[00:12:10]You can look in history and see Jesus and his mother in the light of history.

[00:12:17]But what about Jesus and his mother in the light of prophecy?

[00:12:22]>> Yes sir.

[00:12:23]>> Again Jesus in Islam.

[00:12:27]Jeffrey Parinder in his excellent book Jesus in the Holy Quran says that the Quran gives a greater number of honorable titles to Jesus than to any other figure of the past. He is a sign, a mercy, a witness and an example. He is called by the proper name Jesus and by the titles Messiah parentheses Christ and son of Mary and the names messenger, prophet, servant, word and spirit of God.

[00:13:09]The Quran gives two accounts of the enunciation and birth of Jesus and refers to his teachings and healings and his death and exaltation.

[00:13:21]Three chapters or suras of the Quran are named after references to Jesus. Surah 3, surah 5 and surah 19. He is mentioned in 15 suras and 93 verses.

[00:13:39]>> Wow.

[00:13:39]>> Jesus is always spoken of in the Quran with reverence. There is no breath of criticism for he is the Christ of God.

[00:13:50]>> Lord have mercy.

[00:13:51]>> Yes sir.

[00:13:53]>> But I thought the Muslims didn't believe in Jesus.

[00:13:58]It's fascinating when you consider it because there's a lot in this highly charged political atmosphere that we see the rise again of Islamophobia.

[00:14:11]>> Yes, sir.

[00:14:12]>> And we have to stop the spread of Islam.

[00:14:17]>> Yet curious to scholars is the dismissiveness to Islam.

[00:14:25]But it seems like there is a wickedness to Israel.

[00:14:29]>> Yes, sir.

[00:14:30]>> When it is all throughout Jewish cannon and scripture, they don't believe in Jesus.

[00:14:36]>> Absolutely.

[00:14:37]>> They yet await the Messiah.

[00:14:41]But Christianity and Islam are united together and that Jesus is the Messiah.

[00:14:48]As the great Arsenio Hall used to say, things that make you go h there's also a surah that is named after the mother of Jesus.

[00:15:00]>> Wow.

[00:15:01]>> Mariam and so from the perspective of Islam, Jesus and his greatness is tied to and associated with his righteous mother.

[00:15:17]>> Come on.

[00:15:18]In Christianity, the emphasis is on Jesus's relationship with his father.

[00:15:26]But in Islam, the emphasis is on Jesus's relationship with his mother. And Allah saying that this is a sign as something in this relationship between Jesus and his mother and who Jesus became and Mary who she was even before she gave birth to Jesus >> that I want you to look at. Yes. From history but also this has future implications.

[00:15:58]>> Yes sir.

[00:16:00]Now again what I'm sharing with you is from the wisdom of my teacher the honorable minister Lewis Faracan and his teacher the honorable Elijah Muhammad and of course there is controversy surrounding uh classical Islam and Jesus and there's also controversy surrounding the Nation of Islam and Jesus and the development of women.

[00:16:32]So, I wanted to just take a minute to go down the history a little bit because part of the work of the rebuilding of the Nation of Islam by the honorable minister Lewis Faracan, he did certain moves to highlight the presence of God for the exaltation and the upliftment of our women.

[00:16:57]>> Yes, sir.

[00:16:58]Now the founder of the Nation of Islam in America, the great Mai, Master Far Muhammad, when he came among us, he began ministering in Detroit.

[00:17:13]And at that time it was the Great Depression in the 1930s.

[00:17:18]1930 to be exact. July 4th, 1930 to be exact. Exact. Come on. So in the Nation of Islam, we do celebrate a little bit on July the 4, but not for the reasons most people celebrate July the 4th.

[00:17:33]>> Yes, sir.

[00:17:36]>> Because the great MD appeared on that day.

[00:17:40]Similar to when you read in the Bible about Jesus said he would come as a thief in the night.

[00:17:46]>> Yes, sir.

[00:17:48]>> A thief comes to take your possessions when you least expect it. So the work of master Far Muhammad began during a time of America's celebration of her independence from the British Empire.

[00:18:02]And he went into the black community, specifically a community there in Detroit called Black Bottom in Paradise Valley. He was knocking on doors and at that time he met many of our sisters and he came uh selling silks and made to order garments and this was just a way for him to get next to our people to begin to teach them.

[00:18:29]He said you know I'm bringing you these silks and they are like the ones worn by your brothers and sisters in the east.

[00:18:37]>> Yes, sir.

[00:18:39]Happy to see my brother, brother Faca here today. And I know my brother in America from the east. He can bear me witness that we are people that in Africa had a glorious culture.

[00:18:56]All throughout Africa, we had a glorious culture.

[00:19:01]>> We didn't wear western garments like we wear in America. We didn't have a western diet that gives us bad health like we have in America.

[00:19:10]>> We were not involved in the destruction of ourselves like we are in America.

[00:19:17]>> So when Master Far Muhammad first began to teach our people, he interested them in who we were before we came to America.

[00:19:29]Because part and parcel to the process of making us slaves was the depriving of us of any knowledge of our glorious past in Africa, in Ethiopia, in Egypt, and really around the world.

[00:19:43]>> Yes, sir.

[00:19:45]And so in that period of time he began a class because he saw the condition of the black woman coming up from slavery being as it has been opine the most disrespected person in all of America the black woman. And out of his great love for us as a people, he established a class that you see these wonderful sisters in their white garments. They are part of that class. It continues from the early 1930s until today.

[00:20:20]>> And it's called the MGT and GCC class.

[00:20:25]That's just abbreviation uh or initials for Muslim girls training and general civilization class.

[00:20:33]That's a class where our sisters come in and begin to learn the rudiments and the process of how you go from being a woman of this world to becoming a woman of God. And they have training units. It's a fascinating and very beautiful class.

[00:20:51]You should bring your daughters to that class.

[00:20:55]>> And sometimes sisters say, "I, you know, I ain't no Muslim, but uh I like how y'all carry yel.

[00:21:03]I don't see y'all out here in the streets twerking and carrying on.

[00:21:06]>> That's right.

[00:21:07]>> Always. That's right.

[00:21:08]>> So, can my daughter come and learn from you all?

[00:21:13]>> Yes, sir.

[00:21:14]>> Of course, she can. Welcome, sister into the class.

[00:21:18]>> Come on.

[00:21:19]>> The Honorable Elijah Muhammad said to the early MGT class these words. He said, "The following are the words of Allah. The dead nation must rise for the time is at hand. Know that you are the mother of your nation and your nation is no morally higher than you. Wow.

[00:21:44]Think over that now. A nation rises no higher than its women.

[00:21:51]Now it kind of you know when you understand God's intention for women, God according to the scripture wants to produce a righteous nation. You can't have a righteous nation without a righteous woman.

[00:22:07]>> That's right.

[00:22:08]>> Well, the Holy Quran says that whenever Allah and his messenger desire a thing, Satan cast respecting that desire seeking to sabotage it.

[00:22:17]>> Come on. So while master Far Muhammad, the honorable Elijah Muhammad and the honorable minister Lewis Faracan are training up black women with a foundation in the word of God and righteousness.

[00:22:31]The enemy is busy creating out of the black woman a caricature carature kind of image.

[00:22:39]>> Yes, sir. as a tempress, as a harlot, >> or any of the other tropes that we frequently see in Hollywood, the angry black woman.

[00:22:52]There's so many different caricaturures that they represent in the public as what our sisters really are.

[00:23:00]>> Yes, sir. And this is all deliberate to frustrate the plan of Allah to resurrect the black woman from the conditionality that shadow slavery put all of us into.

[00:23:13]So he created this sanctuary, >> the MGT and the GCC.

[00:23:23]Do you know that in the history of the Nation of Islam at the height of the Nation of Islam in the 60s and 70s, you saw the culture of the nation. You saw the culture of modesty spill over into mainstream society.

[00:23:43]I can show you news articles from newspapers and magazines talking about co-eds now giving up the mini dress for the maxi dress.

[00:23:53]>> Yes, sir.

[00:23:54]>> I saw other articles where they talking about how because of the influence of Islam in the black community, black people were beginning to give up the old slave diet.

[00:24:05]You know, fat back, >> collard greens, pinto beans.

[00:24:14]>> See, we didn't know that they were giving us the same food that they fed their livestock cuz we were considered cattle. Well, if you take the H out of cattle, you got cattle, right? Yes, sir.

[00:24:25]>> As how they viewed us, beasts of burden.

[00:24:29]So it was no need to give your child slaves no diet that was healthy and nutritious.

[00:24:37]Especially in that time, they seem like they had an unlimited supply of slaves.

[00:24:43]So the influence of Islam has began to positively affect black America. And at the heart of this is this beautiful class, the Muslim girls training class.

[00:24:55]It says this was the name given to the training of women and girls in North America. How to keep house, how to rear their children, how to take care of their husbands, how to sew, how to cook, and in general, how to act at home and abroad.

[00:25:12]You say, "Well, I I don't see nothing in there about becoming a doctor or lawyer."

[00:25:17]That sounds like some old school patriarchy. Brother Muhammad, what is that?

[00:25:24]I tell you like my teacher, the honorable minister Lewis Faracan said.

[00:25:29]He said that the home is not your place, sister. He said, "But the home is your base."

[00:25:38]In other words, your career in medicine, your career in law, your career in education, your career in business has to be on a firm foundation of family life.

[00:25:55]>> Yes, sir.

[00:25:57]>> Do you know that Allah says in the Holy Quran, I created you into tribes and families.

[00:26:07]If you notice other ethnic groups, particularly many of our immigrant brothers and sisters, have you ever noticed that they have a very strong family life?

[00:26:20]>> Yes, sir.

[00:26:22]>> See, you might know them as your classmate in school, but if they say, "I want you to come home with me and have dinner with us." See, and you go there and you you think you going to get your plate and just go off into their room and play the game like many of us do in our house growing up.

[00:26:45]But they say, "No, we're going to sit at the table."

[00:26:47]>> Yes, sir.

[00:26:49]>> And my father going to bless the food and the mother and the daughters are in the kitchen. They didn't order no McDonald's.

[00:26:57]>> No, sir.

[00:26:58]>> They didn't order no Grub Hub. That's right.

[00:27:01]>> Mama and them got in there and they were cooking and seasoning and sauté and they bring the food out and the table is beautiful and there's joy and happiness and family togetherness.

[00:27:15]See now on that firm foundation.

[00:27:19]A child can leave and go out into a crazy troublesome world with confidence with the ability to both survive and thrive because there's a foundation of family life where mother is there. Now mother may be a doctor, mother may be a lawyer, mother may be a scientist. Mother may be an engineer. Mother may be an entrepreneur.

[00:27:48]But when all of the 9 to5 is put to the side, when it's 501.

[00:27:56]>> Yes, sir.

[00:27:58]>> Mama is coming home to her family.

[00:28:01]>> That's right.

[00:28:02]>> See, but again, in the Nation of Islam, people a lot of times they don't like that we talk about what happened to us.

[00:28:12]They say, "Well, why don't you people just get over it?" Slavery was hundreds of years ago. None of the slave owners are still alive today.

[00:28:21]>> But you know what we have found, brother and sister? That unless we know what happened to us. That's right.

[00:28:28]>> It's very difficult to overcome the condition that our trauma imposed on us.

[00:28:36]>> And most of us don't know what happened to us.

[00:28:40]>> We think they just had us in train chains picking cotton. No.

[00:28:45]Slavery was an economic enterprise that was attended to by thoughtfulness, wickedness, but intelligent wickedness.

[00:28:59]>> We've seen that in the past few days, haven't we?

[00:29:01]>> Yes, sir.

[00:29:02]>> Yes, sir.

[00:29:03]>> Yes, sir. Yes, >> sir. I saw some people on the internet, they were Republicans, uh, but they don't like the MAGA movement in the Republican party. And they were two Caucasian men from Tennessee. They said, "Man, you know, we need some hospitals in our town." And our state legislators told us, you know, it's going to take a while.

[00:29:33]You know, things move slow through Congress.

[00:29:36]>> And you got to be patient. Change takes time.

[00:29:39]>> Yes, sir.

[00:29:40]>> He said, "But you know, they move to disenfranchise black people with lightning speed."

[00:29:46]>> Wow.

[00:29:47]>> I said, "Damn, I couldn't have said it no better than what they said. And I'm not a Republican."

[00:29:54]Yes, sir. See, today there's something to the idea that if modern day the modern day rulers of America want to demonstrate that they're better than their ancestors.

[00:30:11]Recent times proves that you have the same mind of your ancestors.

[00:30:17]>> Yes, sir. I saw where in Mississippi they're going to redraw the district lines in the old Confederate building.

[00:30:27]They want the nostalgia of the antibbellum architecture.

[00:30:32]>> Yes, sir.

[00:30:33]>> To feed into their modern sickness of trying to do to black people in the modern day and time what their forefathers did to black people hundreds of years ago.

[00:30:48]So don't tell me to get over it.

[00:30:52]Don't tell me that slavery should not be discussed today.

[00:30:57]>> Because the heart and the mind of the old slave masters lives in the person of many of those in the ruling class today.

[00:31:07]Y'all all right?

[00:31:08]>> Yes, sir.

[00:31:08]>> Absolutely. Go ahead, fellow.

[00:31:11]Now I want a little volume because again the work of the rebuilding of the woman has slavery destroyed.

[00:31:23]>> Yes sir.

[00:31:23]>> The work of rebuilding of people that slavery destroyed and not just child slavery but all of its component parts.

[00:31:34]Jim Crow, >> Mhm.

[00:31:35]>> the lynching years, redlinining, voting disenfranchisement, the so-called war on drugs.

[00:31:45]You know, it's funny to me that in all of the talk about Iran, people seem to forget something called the Iran Contra affair.

[00:31:56]>> Really? Because at that time, President Reagan was interested in prosecuting a war in a Central American nation called Nicaragua.

[00:32:05]>> Come on. That's right.

[00:32:07]>> He felt that Russia was establishing a communist beach in the Western Hemisphere and that America needed to fight against that.

[00:32:18]But Congress would not appropriate a budget.

[00:32:22]>> Come on. so that he might help the Contras who were fighting the Sandinistas.

[00:32:29]And the Contras needed weapons, but they ain't have no money.

[00:32:35]He said, "Well, what you got?"

[00:32:37]Well, we grow some of the world's best cocaine.

[00:32:46]>> Yes, sir.

[00:32:46]>> Cocoa Poppy. Can Can we You know how the boys say, "Can we work something out?"

[00:32:51]Yeah, I >> I ain't got no cash on me right now, man. But look, can I give you this whole >> take this? Let's trade, brother.

[00:33:01]>> Oh, the government say, "Yeah, we'll take the drugs and then we'll sell the drugs. We'll take the money and we'll buy you some weapons from Iran."

[00:33:12]>> Yes, sir.

[00:33:13]>> Boy, they say politic makes strange bed fellows.

[00:33:17]>> Wow.

[00:33:18]And that began a modernday destruction of the black family.

[00:33:26]>> We saw track stars.

[00:33:29]We saw prom queens.

[00:33:31]>> Yes, sir. That's right.

[00:33:33]>> We saw young men. That's right.

[00:33:36]>> Young women voted most likely to succeed.

[00:33:40]>> Yes, sir.

[00:33:43]and one hit of crack cocaine.

[00:33:48]And the next time we saw that little brother, the next time we saw that little sister, they were in the streets.

[00:33:59]A fraction of who they used to be.

[00:34:02]>> Yes, sir.

[00:34:04]>> So, if you want to talk about what was done to us in truth, you ain't got to go back to the 1880s.

[00:34:11]>> Come on.

[00:34:12]We can talk about the 1980s.

[00:34:14]>> Yes, sir.

[00:34:16]>> And in truth, the so-called war on drugs and the decision to use black street organizations to be the carriers and the purveyors and the spreaders of those drugs is what call black street organizations or so-called gangs to have what we would call in sociology an arrested development.

[00:34:41]See, because many time when we hear about gangs, you know, we only think of black gangs. We think of bloods and crips, vice lords, gangster disciples.

[00:34:51]But every immigrant group that came to America when they did not speak the language before they had assimilated into American society, the men folk banded together to form protection groups.

[00:35:07]This is a known phenomenon in sociology.

[00:35:12]You ever watch the film Gangs of New York?

[00:35:14]>> Yes, sir.

[00:35:15]>> Those were the Irish gang.

[00:35:18]>> Well, the Irish at a certain point, they can speak the language now. They can assimilate into American society. So many of the Irish went into law enforcement.

[00:35:28]>> I don't care if you a black Muslim >> and you're a police officer.

[00:35:34]when they have your funeral, the bag pipes are coming out.

[00:35:36]>> That's right.

[00:35:38]>> You say, "Well, why they got Irish culture at this brother's funeral?"

[00:35:42]Because that's to show you the imprint and the influence of the Irish on the law enforcement profession.

[00:35:52]You saw the movie The Godfather?

[00:35:54]>> Yes, sir.

[00:35:55]>> That's a favorite among some of us.

[00:35:58]Those were the Italian mobsters or the Italian gangs.

[00:36:04]Well, how did Michael die in the movie?

[00:36:07]I don't have to give a spoiler alert because that's a movie that's 40 years 50 years old.

[00:36:13]>> If you ain't seen it now, I'mma tell you the movie ends with Michael.

[00:36:21]He realized my father started this family and he was involved in selling alcohol during the days of prohibition and he had all other kinds of illicit businesses because they would not allow Italians to work in above board businesses we should say. So they had to operate in the so-called underworld. But Michael realized the time had come that the family had to go legit.

[00:36:54]And so Michael is killed trying to do what is the natural course of things among immigrant people. Come up out of a underworld, come up out of a so-called black market existence and go legit.

[00:37:13]where the black gangs would have gone legit were it not for the so-called war on drugs.

[00:37:18]There's a book you can get about the history of the vice lords starting in Chicago and there they had programs. One of them was called grass not glass where they were cleaning up neighborhood blight.

[00:37:32]They had their own clothing line. They had stores. They saw themselves as an institution established to protect the community. What changed that narrative?

[00:37:43]It was the introduction of narcotics.

[00:37:48]The great brother Freeway Ricky Ross tells the story that he didn't understand how he was I mean you know he had discovered brothers the plug of all plugs.

[00:38:00]See a man that was had a direct line to Central America. That's right. And once he was in prison, he realized that the government was behind him being given access to so much illegal cocaine.

[00:38:19]So we are a people that due to no fault of our own have been set at a great disadvantage in American society.

[00:38:32]And this is why they used to refer to us as negroes.

[00:38:37]That ain't who you really are.

[00:38:40]>> But the English word necro negro is a derivation of the Latin prefix necro.

[00:38:47]A necrology or necrology is the study of the dead.

[00:38:52]A necropolis, which ancient Memphis was, was a city of the dead.

[00:38:57]>> That's right.

[00:38:59]>> The prefix necro means of or relating to dead.

[00:39:05]Why did they call us Negroes?

[00:39:08]Because they had mentally murdered us, depriving us of the knowledge of ourselves, our connection to Africa and the world, robbing us of our original language, of our original religion.

[00:39:27]I was sharing with some brothers the other day in a class I was teaching. I said, "You all came to my class and you signed the the the attendance roster."

[00:39:35]Great.

[00:39:37]I said, "And if I dropped off all of y'all in Africa, you'd be fine.

[00:39:44]Cuz you look like you're from Africa."

[00:39:47]But now the problem would be with when you sign your name.

[00:39:50]>> That's true.

[00:39:52]>> That's right.

[00:39:54]>> Michael Jackson.

[00:39:58]>> Yes, sir. John Smith, >> Susie May Co Pepper.

[00:40:07]Your brothers may say, "Well, brother, >> you look like you're our brother, why are you wearing an English man's name?"

[00:40:20]>> Now, on Sunday in Memphis, the China buffet is popular.

[00:40:25]So go there and the Chinese buffet. A lot of our people are there on Sundays after church.

[00:40:33]>> Yes, sir.

[00:40:34]>> And uh if you ever go there and you meet some of our Asian family that are the proprietors, if you got to know them and they told you their name was John Jackson, how you looking at the man? You're looking at the sister obvious Asian features. You're not expecting him or her to say they have an English name.

[00:41:04]Now some of our immigrant brothers and sisters because of the uh urge to assimilate sometime they'll tell you you go to the brother said in the hood the Arab store the little neighborhood corner stores and you see a man obviously from uh the Muslim world and said brother what is your name? Oh my name is Eddie.

[00:41:27]Come on man stop it.

[00:41:31]I'm Carl man. Is your name really Kareem?

[00:41:35]>> You do know Islam has established itself to a certain degree in America now.

[00:41:41]>> You don't have to downplay your beautiful Muslim name.

[00:41:46]>> That's right. That's right.

[00:41:48]>> But you know, it's so common for us to sign our slave master's name on documents.

[00:41:55]>> We don't even think how strange that is.

[00:41:59]>> Yes, sir.

[00:42:01]And the question is, we don't even question it. How did you lose your name?

[00:42:07]>> Did you give it away?

[00:42:10]Or was it taken?

[00:42:12]And what was the circumstances surrounding our losing of our name? This is just a a simple exercise just for us to think about cuz you can Google uh that according to the Social Security Administration, they get all the records.

[00:42:35]They say the blackest name in America is the name Washington.

[00:42:42]>> When I saw that, I was blown away.

[00:42:45]But, you know, I had to think about it.

[00:42:48]I said, "In all my life, Brother Jason, I don't know if I've ever met a white person named Washington other than George on a $1 bill."

[00:43:03]But he must have had a whole lot of slaves >> in order for that name to be so lasting in the black community that have all surnames.

[00:43:17]They say it is the blackest name in America.

[00:43:22]Not Moubu, not Muhammad, not Kenya, not Ishmael, not Ibraim, not Faha Washington, a man that some of the historians say he needed dentures.

[00:43:44]And they say that he made himself a primitive form of dentures by extracting some of the slaves teeth.

[00:43:54]I say, you know, I knew something was to that because when I grew up, they would always say he had wooden teeth.

[00:44:02]>> Now, if you wet wood, it ain't too much good after you make wood soggy.

[00:44:11]So, but you know, you're not thinking when you're not thinking.

[00:44:17]>> So, we are people that have been destroyed.

[00:44:22]I want to play this clip. Brother Bilau, >> I want you to hear from my teacher.

[00:44:31]So, give us a little volume.

[00:44:48]Now, if you notice, I have around me tonight sisters.

[00:45:00]I want to send a message to the entire world that the world is in the condition that is in because the world disrespects women.

[00:45:17]The world is headed into hell because the world disrespects womanhood.

[00:45:29]Prophet Muhammad, peace be upon him, was the major contributor to the free of women.

[00:45:39]Unfortunately, traditions that are foreign to Islam have crept into Islam to push the woman out of that which Almighty God intends for her.

[00:45:57]The oppression of women in the world is a manifestation of the weakness of the societies of the earth. Listen, >> all praise is due to Allah. That's our minister, the honorable minister Lewis Farakhan.

[00:46:16]And just to show you that is not any kind of pomp and circumstance.

[00:46:23]This is our headquarters mosque that in the rebuilding of the nation, the minister repurchased from the Sunni Orthodox community.

[00:46:33]And you know there are brothers and sisters that are still around who are part of raising money. I mean millions of dollars had to be raised from little study groups like this and mos all over the country to repurchase Moss Mariam.

[00:46:50]And the minister went around touring and doing speaking engagements trying to raise money to purchase it. I just say all of that because you know he could have named it the Lewis Faracan mosque and nobody would have said that you you're not justified in doing so because it was the minister's blood, sweat and tears went into acquiring this. But when the minister began to name it, he said, "I want to name this mosque after the mother of Jesus, mosque Mariam, and one of the only mosques in the whole world of Islam named after a woman."

[00:47:30]And so our subject is Jesus and his mother. Allah says they are a sign.

[00:47:37]This is the honorable minister Lewis Faracan's national spokesman, Minister Ava Muhammad. May Allah be pleased. She passed away a couple of years ago, but I was blessed to know her and work closely with her. And uh all of us in the ministry class of the Nation of Islam uh looked up to her because there's no one that represented the minister as well as Minister Ava Muhammad.

[00:48:03]All praise is due to Allah.

[00:48:06]And again Jesus and his mother a sign.

[00:48:11]See see when the minister established Mos Mariam he said that I want this to be a center for the retraining and the re-education of our people in the western hemisphere.

[00:48:27]So he say the name Mariam is appropriate because Miam her womb gave birth to the Messiah.

[00:48:38]Now, I'mma get a little bit ahead of myself, but do you know that according to the scripture, specifically Nehemiah 9 and 27, there is the prophecy that God would not just send one savior, but save yours >> after his people.

[00:48:57]So the minister said that mosque Mariam is to be a place a birthing chamber for the production of saviors.

[00:49:11]S a v i o u r s plural. I ain't no English scholar but I do remember sister Tina if you put s at the end of a noun that mean more than one.

[00:49:25]>> Yes sir.

[00:49:26]>> That's right. See what was their job? To deliver a people that God loved, but that people were in the hand of the enemies.

[00:49:37]See?

[00:49:37]>> Yes, sir.

[00:49:39]>> So, every mosque and every study group seeks to replicate mosque mar.

[00:49:49]We're not just up here today just to tickle your ears. Yes, sir.

[00:49:54]But we hope to share with you that which will cause you to grow into a savior.

[00:50:02]>> You say, "Well, oh brother, I'm just trying to be a good brother. I'm just trying to be a good sister." That's all right, cuz you can't be a savior if you're not a good sister and you're not a good brother. That's right.

[00:50:14]>> But there's a call to action implied here.

[00:50:19]Most folk do religion inside of four walls.

[00:50:24]and the faith that they have, the spirit that they have, the energy that they have, the love that they have never gets outside the four walls.

[00:50:34]But I don't know how you could love Jesus. I don't know how you could love Muhammad in a world like this and be comfortable just being inside the four walls of your church, your mosque, your masid.

[00:50:49]This is a day and the time in which we live IN WHERE FAITH HAS to be carried into practice and converted into action to save our communities.

[00:51:01]Our theme for this year's Savior's Day.

[00:51:05]We must make our communities a safe and decent place to live.

[00:51:13]You know brother and sister I love our people and whatever is important to our people it's important to me.

[00:51:26]Now, there are those of you who know, excuse me, that the Nation of Islam has a reputation of not dealing a whole lot with politics necessarily, but most people misunderstand our relationship with politics.

[00:51:52]Most people don't know that in 1963, the most honorable Elijah Muhammad announced that Savior's Day at the Muslims was getting involved in politics.

[00:52:06]Most people don't know that he supported Adam Clayton Powell Jr.

[00:52:11]Some would be surprised to know that Julian Bond when he was running for state senate in the state of Georgia, which is where the most honorable Elijah Muhammad was born, he went to Mr. Muhammad and said, "Would you help me?" He said, "Yes, brother.

[00:52:29]I'll help you." He said, "But if I write you a check and you take it to the bank and it have Elijah Muhammad's name on it, that might hurt you as you seek to win over other communities of voters."

[00:52:45]He said, "I want you to come back Monday and I'm going to give you something to help you." So when he came back, he gave Julian Bonner about $6,000 in cash to help him in his campaign.

[00:53:00]In 1984, Reverend Jesse Lewis Jackson senior, may Allah be pleased with him, who recently passed away. He say, "Minister Faracan, would you help me? I want to be America's first black president."

[00:53:16]And man said, "Yes, brother. I'll help you." He said, ' But now, if this don't work, I got something in my pocket that will, and that is the program of the most honorable Elijah Muhammad. What is that? Brother Bridge was hitting around at it.

[00:53:33]See, according to the scripture, now again, I don't want you to be upset with me because scripture, if we believe in the authority of scripture, whether we Jew, Christian, or Muslim, we should acknowledge that scripture should guide our steps.

[00:54:01]>> That's right. Yes sir.

[00:54:03]>> Now according to scripture in the case of Moses, Pharaoh and the children of Israel, God raised up Moses and Aaron to lead the children of Israel out of bondage.

[00:54:26]Now they had been in bondage for 400 years. They had got accustomed to life in Egypt.

[00:54:34]>> They were practitioners of the folkways, morayes and norms of Egypt. Even though they were suffering, they were catching hell. But you know how we are as a people. You know, we can even have a good time while we suffering.

[00:54:52]>> That's right.

[00:54:52]>> Look at the music we've created.

[00:54:56]>> Yes, sir. I was uh a child, Brother Ronald, and growing up in Mississippi, we were in the uh listening area of WDIA.

[00:55:10]>> And uh on Saturdays, Sister Tina, there was all blues.

[00:55:15]And uh my mother would have on blues and gospel as she made us get up on Saturday and clean up our house. You know, you could smell pine saw and be listening to WDIA on the radio.

[00:55:30]>> I hated the blues as a child, Brother Ronald.

[00:55:35]>> And I don't know, I think when I got to be about 40 years of age, >> it's like I developed an appreciation for the blues.

[00:55:44]>> Yes, sir.

[00:55:45]>> So, you hang out with me every now and again. I I had to play a little Johnny Taylor.

[00:55:51]>> I had to play a little Bobby Blue Bland.

[00:55:54]had to play a little BB every now and again.

[00:55:58]>> And as someone that loves our people's history, I'm floored. I'm blown away at the amazing lyrics.

[00:56:08]>> That's right. of our brothers and sisters who wrote songs about our painful experience but converted their pain into music.

[00:56:21]>> That has a healing therapeutic effect on all of us who listen and some of our lives uh mirror some of the stuff they sing about in the blues song and they help us to go through what we go through.

[00:56:37]>> Yes, sir.

[00:56:39]But now Moses and Aaron, he say God told us to tell Pharaoh, "Let my people go."

[00:56:49]But do you know most of the children of Israel didn't want to go?

[00:56:54]That's a heck of a thing.

[00:56:56]I'm not a psychologist, but I think they call that Stockholm syndrome.

[00:57:04]that when the person is held hostage falls in love with the hostage taker.

[00:57:10]See, I don't remember one of those famous kidnapping cases. Was it the Patty Hurst case?

[00:57:17]>> Mhm.

[00:57:18]>> Where she had been abducted and then when the police came in and stormed to rescue her, she was found fighting on the side of those that had kidnapped her.

[00:57:28]>> I don't remember if it was her of one of the other famous kidnapping cases.

[00:57:33]>> That's right. But, you know, we kind of like that.

[00:57:38]And I could not help but see current events and think about scripture because when the people did not want to follow Moses and Aaron, according to the scripture, the Bible says he hardened Pharaoh's heart.

[00:57:56]>> That's right.

[00:57:59]>> Good God almighty.

[00:58:03]Well, you know, Pharaoh was not the name of a particular individual person. That's why you'll never see it said Pharaoh Jackson.

[00:58:15]It's a position.

[00:58:18]Pharaoh is the position of the one that rules over the land of captivity.

[00:58:24]Okay, that's ancient history. What about modern history?

[00:58:28]Do we have a Pharaoh today? Yes, sir.

[00:58:31]>> Is he tenderhearted >> or is he hard-hearted?

[00:58:39]>> He brought a man in >> and I have not fact checked it, but he fired 300,000 black women >> from, you know how they used to say, "Go get you a good government job." That's right.

[00:59:00]sisters who were working in their profession, serving their country in various roles.

[00:59:07]But this hard-hearted Pharaoh say you're out.

[00:59:13]Oh, I'm sure they could manufacture some justification for a pink slip. That's easy thing to do.

[00:59:20]>> You come in with a red shirt on. Well, you know the dress code is blue. You're fired.

[00:59:29]So, we're in a time now where we really got to think, brother and sister.

[00:59:36]Where is the hand of God in these affairs?

[00:59:41]>> The Bible says we should order our steps in his word.

[00:59:52]Not in our own thinking, not in our own ideas, but in the word of God.

[01:00:01]We're dealing with an increasingly hostile government towards us.

[01:00:08]And so, the Honorable Elijah Muhammad and Minister Faracan have never told us not to vote.

[01:00:16]Fact about it, everybody in here should be registered to vote.

[01:00:23]But one of these days, I'mma come here and I won't have you all to show me your voter registration card.

[01:00:31]That's your homework assignment.

[01:00:32]>> Yes, sir. Yes, sir.

[01:00:34]>> Cuz some of us like to be extreme and things, but Allah says in the Quran, go not near extremes.

[01:00:43]The problem is not voting and being involved in the electoral process. The problem is is that if that's all you do, so the honorable Elijah Muhammad and Minister Faracan say, "Yes, we have to get behind candidates that mean well for the black community."

[01:01:00]>> Yes, sir. That's right.

[01:01:02]>> But at the same time, we have to build our own community.

[01:01:06]>> Yes, sir.

[01:01:08]>> That's right. When you get a chance, one day I'm going to come and teach it. But I want this a homework assignment for you. When you get a chance, read Judges 14 and 8 in the Bible.

[01:01:19]>> Yeah. I thought you was a Muslim, brother. How come you ain't coming out of the Quran?

[01:01:24]>> Well, the Quran tells me that even the Bible is a scripture revealed from Allah.

[01:01:31]The Torah, the Gospel, and the Quran.

[01:01:33]>> That's right.

[01:01:35]In Judges 14:8, there was something that happened in the life of Samson, he saw something that according to all science had to be a sign. Like Jesus and his mother, a sign, cuz there's no way you would have a carcass of a lion.

[01:01:54]And inside the carcass of a lion is a hive of bees producing honey.

[01:02:04]But that's what Samson saw.

[01:02:07]And one day my leader, the honorable minister Lewis Faracan said in a beautiful exes Jesus of that scripture.

[01:02:15]He said that's a sign of the work of us in the black community.

[01:02:21]>> Do you have you paused to reflect brother and sister?

[01:02:25]>> Wow. the fascinating paradox of the times.

[01:02:31]While America is losing favor globally, she's putting her foot on the neck of black people.

[01:02:43]>> That's a heck of a paradox, isn't it?

[01:02:45]>> Yes, sir.

[01:02:48]>> Being beat up in the world press, losing prestige globally.

[01:02:55]Well, you can't tell if all your news sources is ABC, CBS, NBC, but do yourself a favor and look at international news every now and again.

[01:03:09]The country economically and politically is on a decline.

[01:03:14]>> And students of the Honorable Elijah Muhammad know he said that America would fall.

[01:03:20]See, so don't get too upset, brother and sister.

[01:03:26]It's bad the things that they're doing to us politically, but she ain't going to be able to do much more to us as she falls and fights for survival on the world stage.

[01:03:39]But we have a duty and a responsibility to inside America is like a lion carcass.

[01:03:50]See, the bees organize themselves. There are divisions of labor among bees.

[01:03:56]And bees, if you'll notice how the bee goes, they don't just go to the amme church.

[01:04:04]They go to the Jehovah Witness. I mean, they don't go to the roses. They go to tulips. Also, the bees go to all of the different flowers and extract the best part of each flower.

[01:04:18]H black community is not monolithic.

[01:04:23]We have diverse opinions, diverse thoughts, diverse faith traditions.

[01:04:32]Well, what if instead of using our differences as a justification for disunityity? What if we used our differences as motivation to extract the best from every community? That's right.

[01:04:47]as we organize to make our communities a safe and safe and decent place to live.

[01:04:54]Why were the bees making honey?

[01:04:57]According to the Holy Quran, he Allah says he reveals to the bee where to make his hives. That's extraordinary for religious scholars because that means according to the Quran, this tiny insect is a recipient of divine revelation.

[01:05:14]That's a subject for another time.

[01:05:17]But he says that we bring forth for you from its bellies a beverage of many different hues.

[01:05:32]I see some different hues in here today.

[01:05:36]as they used to say in the days of Jim Crow. See, there's some high yellow and some teasing tan, some paper bag brown, some deep chocolate, is many hues in here today.

[01:05:55]>> But do you know that's just symbolic of when we come together in love and unity?

[01:06:02]Yes, >> sir. See, we can heal and solve all the problems of our people.

[01:06:10]I'm out and about going around and trying to be in as many different spaces as I can in Memphis.

[01:06:17]And one of the things I found is that there's many, many good brothers and sisters working for good in their own way, but we work in silos.

[01:06:29]Working for good to the best of their ability. and understanding, but they're doing something over there and they need something and I got it, but we ain't connected.

[01:06:43]But you never hear about them brothers and sisters on the 6:00 news. You only hear about when Ray Ray shot Pooky overnight in White Haven. More news at 11.

[01:06:56]But you don't hear about a young man like brother Brian here that have one of the top barber shops in the country.

[01:07:03]A young black man that ain't robbing and killing and stealing.

[01:07:11]You don't hear about brothers like brother Eric that has a story history in public service.

[01:07:20]Mhm. You don't read about the wonderful sisters like Sister Zale and Sister Safia and what they have done. Sister Safia was telling me when she was a HVAC technician. I said, "What?"

[01:07:33]I don't think I ever seen a sister that know how to turn the AC back on. Now, you know, that's an important job, brother and sister, cuz it get hot in Memphis.

[01:07:43]>> I say, "Sister Fia, you you still working? I might need to put you on speed dial. See, cuz it's about to get hot and at least once or some of my AC go out.

[01:07:55]See, but you don't hear about all the great men and women in this city that are working to do something good. But we need more love and unity. Guess what, y'all?

[01:08:09]I'mma tell y'all a secret.

[01:08:13]on the other side.

[01:08:16]They united.

[01:08:22]>> They're together.

[01:08:24]Somebody sent me a video and the man said, "Well, you know, we just waiting now because we think we're going to get the Supreme Court to reveal the 14th Amendment."

[01:08:35]And he said it publicly, as they say, with his whole chest. We want to get 14 repealed.

[01:08:45]>> See, that's the one that deal with you're a citizen because you born here.

[01:08:52]you. So, I I I really think now uh we all need to come together and really re-evaluate what the honorable Elijah Muhammad and Minister Faracan have been saying to us because seem like Pharaoh's heart is hardening.

[01:09:13]>> That's right.

[01:09:15]And do you know the scripture also says that he sent fiery serpents to attack them >> and cockatrices.

[01:09:26]What does that mean? The honorable Elijah Muhammad said that mean angry white folk.

[01:09:34]I read a story the other day. A family was in Virginia just riding through a neighborhood and they was attacked by some Virginiaians who felt like you all are black, y'all don't belong here.

[01:09:48]>> So a climate of hostility and hatred is being generated from the highest office in the land.

[01:09:56]>> So that's why when you came, if you came for your first time, you you're not a suspicious person and reason why you you would check. We check each other. But we've been doing that for 90 plus years >> because we understand that anytime you endeavor to educate and enlighten black people, you better have a security apparatus in place.

[01:10:18]>> Y'all all right?

[01:10:19]>> Yes, sir.

[01:10:19]>> Our subject is Jesus and his mother, black America in the lens of scripture.

[01:10:25]>> So the minister has said the woman is the key to the kingdom of God. The minister has taught us the woman is God's second self.

[01:10:38]>> He says she's the co-creator with God.

[01:10:42]Minister told a story about he went to a church one time, Brother Harris, and he asked the pastor, "If Mary, the mother of Jesus, were here, could she stand in the pull pit and offer a word to the congregation?"

[01:11:00]>> And the pastor said, "No.

[01:11:03]And the minister was shocked.

[01:11:06]See, you mean Jesus is Lord? Jesus is savior.

[01:11:15]But he came into the world nursing from the breast of Mary.

[01:11:20]He came into the world and Mary was his first teacher.

[01:11:26]and she couldn't if she were here offer a word to you.

[01:11:33]He said that's a problem because every great one male and female mother brings them forth.

[01:11:44]In fact, in the classical Islamic tradition, it is believed that God never brings a child to birth without first choosing who his mother will be.

[01:11:54]>> That's right.

[01:11:57]So the mother part of our subject, you see, deals with the restoration of the female back to becoming the woman of God.

[01:12:11]Religion has done a number trying to oppress women. That's right.

[01:12:17]>> Do you know that according to the Bible, it says that God created man in his image and likeness? Right? Everybody's heard that.

[01:12:25]But most people stop right there.

[01:12:28]He says, "Male and female created he them in his own image and likeness." So there's no such thing as you and I brother having a capacity and a potential to reflect God. And she don't.

[01:12:46]In any of us, whether we religious or not, we lose our favor with God when we disrespect a woman.

[01:12:57]>> We lose our favor with God when we abuse the female.

[01:13:03]>> We lose our favor with God when we treat her as a secondass citizen.

[01:13:12]See, in order for us to also be restored and be renewed from what our horrific experience did to us, brother, we have to have a thorough knowledge of oursel and a thorough knowledge of the female.

[01:13:27]Because some of us think we could preach in the pull pit on Sunday and go home and abuse our wife on Sunday evening.

[01:13:36]Well, I'm here to tell you Allah is coming after anybody that has that as their way of life.

[01:13:44]>> That's right.

[01:13:45]>> Where's the volume? I want to show you this clip from my teacher, the honorable minister Lewis Faracan.

[01:13:52]God is so wonderful.

[01:14:00]He brings us from a woman. Yes.

[01:14:05]>> We have no life without a woman.

[01:14:08]>> We have no being without a woman.

[01:14:12]>> We have no nurturing without a woman.

[01:14:15]>> He makes man to nurse from a woman into strength.

[01:14:22]>> He makes the woman the man's first nurse, his first teacher.

[01:14:30]So that all men HAVE TO COME BY WOMAN in order to come to God.

[01:14:44]Yes.

[01:14:48]No matter how great Jesus was, he had to come by Mary >> in order to approach the father.

[01:14:56]>> She had to teach him first.

[01:14:58]Yes, >> she had to prepare him first.

[01:15:02]>> No man is anything without a woman.

[01:15:06]>> Can't be nothing without a woman. Come on.

[01:15:10]>> Oh yes.

[01:15:13]>> God wants to see how grateful you are.

[01:15:21]>> I bring you from a woman.

[01:15:24]>> She bears you with fainting and pain.

[01:15:29]She dies to give you life.

[01:15:33]>> You nurse yourself to strength from her strength.

[01:15:41]>> She cleans you.

[01:15:45]>> She suckles you.

[01:15:48]>> She swaddles you.

[01:15:51]>> She's an example of God's divine love >> and care.

[01:15:58]But when you get bold enough to walk on out in the world, God wants to know what you're going to do for the woman, that brought you where you are, made you what you are.

[01:16:16]>> Any man that curses the woman is a man that curses his own existence.

[01:16:23]Listen beloved, this is why this world is limited.

[01:16:40]It couldn't last too long because it didn't honor mother so it couldn't honor father.

[01:16:48]It's a world that is on its way out because when man came to strength, he didn't provide >> an opening for the woman >> TO SHOW FORTH THE GIFTS of God >> that he had deposited in a woman.

[01:17:07]>> She not just to cook and sew and iron and clean.

[01:17:19]She's not just to make babies and be an instrument of pleasure.

[01:17:27]She's a serious creature.

[01:17:30]In the Quran, the book of scripture of the Muslims, >> it talks about the believing men, the believing women, >> the charitable men, the charitable women, the sacrificing men, the sacrificing women. God doesn't just reveal to men. He reveals to women. And women have something to offer the world.

[01:17:54]And when the world tells a woman, you have nothing to say, Keep your mouth shut.

[01:18:03]>> Then that world is imbalanced >> because God gives us two eyes to see with, two ears to hear with, two legs to walk on. And when a man is walking WITH ONE LEG, YOU SAY he's handicapped.

[01:18:20]When a man is seeing out of one eye, you say he's handicapped. When his hearing is impaired and impaired in one ear, you say he's handicapped. And when a man is walking without a woman, he's handicapped.

[01:18:43]>> The incomparable one.

[01:18:44]>> Yes, sir.

[01:18:45]>> The honorable minister Lewis Parker. I want to close our message today, brothers and sisters, just with a couple points on Messiah, the expectation of a Messiah.

[01:19:02]Now, the Honorable Elijah Muhammad famously noted that if our people could be taught the true knowledge of the true history of Jesus, they would awaken at once.

[01:19:21]Now, this refers to the great misunderstanding and deception that we have been given over Jesus.

[01:19:33]>> Yes, sir.

[01:19:36]I mean, when brother Bridge and I used to be down in the Mississippi Delta in the hot summer sun, knocking on the doors of people, selling them the Final Call newspaper. Sister Zel, we would go into their homes and there was something of a trinity of sorts.

[01:19:56]>> Yes.

[01:19:56]>> On most manpieces.

[01:19:59]>> Now, I ain't talking about Father, Son, and Holy Spirit.

[01:20:02]>> That's right.

[01:20:04]I'm talking about White Jesus, >> of course.

[01:20:08]>> Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.

[01:20:10]>> Yes, sir.

[01:20:10]>> And John F. Kennedy.

[01:20:11]>> Yes, sir.

[01:20:14]>> Yes.

[01:20:15]>> I don't know if that still is today.

[01:20:18]>> Probably is.

[01:20:20]Because a lot of us have come to the realization is no way a man that white >> was living in the ancient near east, the Middle East and remained with that pale complexion for 30 some odd years.

[01:20:37]>> That's right.

[01:20:37]>> Walking everywhere he went.

[01:20:40]So even if he had have been European, he had a great tan by the time he got done ministering in ancient Palestine.

[01:20:49]>> Yes, sir. But the scripture says that when it was found out that Mary was with child, Joseph took her into Egypt to hide because in those days under the strict law of the Pharisees, if a woman was found to be pregnant and wasn't married, she would be stoned to death.

[01:21:14]>> That's right.

[01:21:15]>> So Mary had to go hide out in Egypt.

[01:21:18]Now, Egypt is northeast Africa.

[01:21:23]>> So, I don't think a young teenage white girl would have been able to hide out in northeast Africa >> 2,000 years ago.

[01:21:34]>> Cuz Mary was a teenager >> according to historians. And I imagine if Herod's folk had a went down into Egypt said, "Have y'all saw a young Caucasian girl? we trying to return her to go before the religious courts of the Pharisees.

[01:21:52]I think the Egyptians were like, "Yeah, we saw her. Where was that girl?" Cuz she didn't look like she belonged around here.

[01:22:00]>> So, the fact that they went to hide in Africa is revealing as to who Mary was and who Jesus was. Now again the Bible and the holy Quran are in agreement that Jesus is the name of the Messiah.

[01:22:20]Surah 3 ayat 45 reads when the angel said oh Mary surely Allah gives thee good news with a word from him of one whose name is Messiah >> Jesus son of Mary.

[01:22:36]So if you don't get nothing else from my message today, you'll be able to push back against all notions that the Muslims don't believe in Jesus. Right?

[01:22:42]Yes, sir.

[01:22:43]>> Worthy of regard here and of those who are drawn nigh, meaning near or close to Allah. The Bible says in Acts 5:42, "Day after day in the temple courts and from house to house, they never stopped teaching and proclaiming the good news that Jesus is the Messiah." Well, what is Messiah?

[01:23:07]Honorable Elijah Muhammad says from the Arabic Messi, it means either one who travels much or one who was wiped over or anointed with some things such as an oil.

[01:23:20]The same word as the Arica Aramaic Messiah, which is said to mean the anointed.

[01:23:28]Now, our subtitle is Black America in the lens of prophecy.

[01:23:37]I've already mentioned to you that in Jewish culture and religion, they don't believe that Jesus was the Messiah.

[01:23:47]>> That's right.

[01:23:49]They still expect him, but their understanding of Messiah is worth us studying in the black community cuz both Christianity and Islam believe in the return of Messiah. But I have found many of us think that this will be supernatural.

[01:24:11]He is going to float in from the cloud and manifest. Yes.

[01:24:18]>> But do you know >> what they believe in Jewish culture and religion?

[01:24:22]>> Yes, sir.

[01:24:24]>> Says in the Jewish culture, it was every Orthodox Jewish handmaidaten's desire to be the mother of the Messiah.

[01:24:33]This goes back to Genesis 3 and:15 where it is clearly stated that the promised Messiah would come from the seed of the woman.

[01:24:44]It is for this reason there is a belief that the Jewishness of a person depends on his or her mother being Jewish.

[01:24:53]Wow. Another rabbi on this same point says it was the hope of every Jewish mother that her child might be the key to Israel's future. With the pain of labor came the comforting thought, maybe my child will fulfill God's promises to the nation. Maybe my boy will be the Messiah.

[01:25:21]>> Isn't that fascinating?

[01:25:22]>> Yes, sir. Very. I read an article where in Israel where they have the fertility clinics and the sperm banks, they say that the most soughtafter donors are the warriors and those in the IDF because they understand that the Messiah is a warrior.

[01:25:48]According to the Bible, the first mention of Messiah goes back to the Old Testament. Genesis 3 and15.

[01:26:00]That's what is referenced here.

[01:26:04]This goes back to Genesis 3:15. Now, what does Genesis 3:15 say?

[01:26:10]says, "I will put enmity between you and the woman, and between your seed and her seed. He shall bruise you on the head, and you shall bruise him on the heel."

[01:26:24]>> Totally different picture than Isaiah's suffering servant.

[01:26:30]Totally different picture than he died for our sins.

[01:26:36]This indicates that the Messiah is not going to die for your sin.

[01:26:41]>> Really, >> he's going to kill for your sin. Go ahead.

[01:26:47]>> That's what this is indicative of. Sir, >> according to scholarship in the book, the Messiah in the Old Testament, it says Genesis 3 and 15 has commonly been called the protoeangelium or the first gospel because it was the original proclamation of the promise of God's plan for the world. It gave our first parents a glimpse of the person and mission of the one who was going to be the central figure in the unfolding drama of the redemption of the world.

[01:27:18]The seed offspring mentioned in the verse became the root from which the tree of the Old Testament promise of a Messiah grew. Wow.

[01:27:30]>> When I first read that, it radically altered my idea of Messiah.

[01:27:34]>> Yes, sir.

[01:27:35]>> See, and it helped me to understand and appreciate that's not where I want to go.

[01:27:47]He helped me understand and appreciate why Jed Ghouva said in his coint tailpro memo.

[01:27:58]>> Come on, >> I want to prevent the rise of a messiah rising from among the black community.

[01:28:08]>> Now, why did Mr. Hoover use religious language in his law enforcement memorandum?

[01:28:15]That's strange language. words matter.

[01:28:18]He could have said, "I want to prevent a revolutionary leader. I want to prevent a activist. I want to prevent whatever."

[01:28:26]But he says, "Messiah."

[01:28:29]See, now this expectation of a Messiah to do battle against the enemies of his people is extraordinary.

[01:28:44]This expectation of a Messiah being born into the world to crush Satan is extraordinary because in the black community, the Messiah's view, our view of them is that well, that was Jesus of 2,000 years ago.

[01:29:07]But if the Messiah is to be born from a woman to do battle against the enemies of his people, then you should want to know who is his people. Don't you want to know who is his people?

[01:29:21]>> Yes, sir.

[01:29:22]>> You do? I'm glad you asked.

[01:29:26]I want to jump to here.

[01:29:32]I want to jump to here.

[01:29:35]I want to close on black America's messianic destiny because at the heart of the message of the Nation of Islam is that our experience in this country fulfills what the scriptures talk about when it talks about a people in bondage who were God's people. He would come after them.

[01:29:57]He would deliver them. He would restore them.

[01:30:01]According to the Bible, the people of God were in bondage for 400 years.

[01:30:10]Well, have we been in bondage for more than 400 years? Yes, we have. according to slave records that are now coming into more agreement with the honorable Elijah Muhammad because the popular narrative is that we came over here in 1619. But the honorable Elijah Muhammad teaches that we first came over here in 1555.

[01:30:28]In his book slaves and Englishmen, it says an expedition under the command of John Lock reportedly returned to England with certain black slaves in 1555.

[01:30:40]from 1555 to 1955 is 400 years.

[01:30:45]>> Yes, sir.

[01:30:45]>> Scripture says the people of God would be in bondage for 400 years. It also says that the people of God's names were changed. When they went into bondage, according to the Bible, Daniel and the Hebrews were Haniah, Azariah, and Mishael. But their names were changed to Shadrach, Mach, and Abednego.

[01:31:06]>> Yes, sir. And we already discussed all of us in America our names were changed.

[01:31:11]>> Absolutely.

[01:31:12]>> Famously in roots they beat countente to accept the name Toby.

[01:31:19]>> Where did that come from?

[01:31:22]Alex Haiti. Al Alex Haley was a writer for Reader's Digest.

[01:31:26]>> Come on.

[01:31:27]>> He heard about Malcolm X and the Honorable Elijah Muhammad teaching that black people were Muslims in Africa before we were made slaves in America.

[01:31:35]and he had never heard that before. He didn't believe it.

[01:31:39]>> He got his employers to help him fund the research into his own family's history.

[01:31:48]>> And that's why go back and watch Roots.

[01:31:51]>> Yes, sir.

[01:31:52]>> You see, Countter was a Muslim.

[01:31:55]>> Yes, sir. That's right.

[01:31:56]>> You remember he wouldn't eat no pork.

[01:32:00]>> He kept trying to be free.

[01:32:02]>> Yep.

[01:32:03]>> That's right. In the original version, he takes Kizzy out and devotes her to Allah.

[01:32:09]>> That's right.

[01:32:10]>> Yes, sir.

[01:32:10]>> In the night sky.

[01:32:11]>> That's right.

[01:32:13]>> So, in the early 1970s, Alex Haley wrote Minister Faracan a letter and he said, "Brother, tell brother Malcolm and the Honorable Elijah Muhammad, they were right. I have done the research into my roots and I have found that my family was Muslim."

[01:32:30]And just as a side note, he was trying to build a mosque in uh the Gambia in the village of Dufrey where he found his family, >> Alex Haley.

[01:32:42]>> That's right.

[01:32:43]>> He had given some money to some people.

[01:32:45]You know, I see a lot of our brothers and sisters online talk about doing business abroad, but you got to be careful >> that you deal with reputable people.

[01:32:54]You're in a land that you don't know nothing about. you know trust is uh difficult to come by. So he had given some money for the building of a mosque in the Gambia and the people had absconded with his money >> and when the honorable minister Lewis Farhan found out about it he went to the site that the brother had he said well I will fund the rest of the construction project and so now there is the Alex Haley mosque and center in the Gambia that was completed by the honorable minister Lewis Far.

[01:33:26]>> Yes sir.

[01:33:29]Those of you who see what's going on with the government and the Supreme Court reference the 94th Psalms.

[01:33:43]It says God's the psalmist asked God, God, do you have any relationship or connection to a government that frames mischief by means of law? Well, we've experienced that. It's an excellent book here, The American Slave Code by William Goodell. Surely, never before has mis been framed by law with more diabolical ingenuity than in this infernal code.

[01:34:12]Judge William J to author William Goodell of the American Slave Code.

[01:34:17]>> Brother and sister, our life's experience mirrors the scripture.

[01:34:22]>> Yes, sir.

[01:34:24]So if you want to talk about the children of Israel, the real people of God, look no further than your own community.

[01:34:30]>> Yes, sir.

[01:34:35]>> Praise be to Allah.

[01:34:36]>> Do you know that even in the plantation days, they used to give us cocaine?

[01:34:43]>> It's a trope now. The black dope fiend.

[01:34:46]>> Yeah, >> that's a trope. It's a stereotype.

[01:34:51]But were we just looking to get high?

[01:34:54]According to this scholar Richard Harvey Brown in his article cocoa and cocaine in the United States, he said employers in the south had made a practice of supplying their black workers with cocaine. Thus, they kept a steady supply on hand to increase productivity and keep workers content.

[01:35:15]Cocaine was also a cheap incentive to maintain control of workers.

[01:35:24]Our subject is Jesus and his mother.

[01:35:27]Black America through the lens of scripture.

[01:35:32]Here's Mr. Hoover.

[01:35:36]Prevent the rise of a messiah who could unify and electrify the militant black nationalist movement.

[01:35:44]Malcolm X might have been such a messiah. Martin Luther King, Stokeley Carmichael, and Nation of Islam leader Elijah Muhammad all aspire to this position. King could be a very real contender for this position should he abandon his supposed obedience to white liberal doctrines, parenthesis, nonviolence.

[01:36:03]>> Fascinating, because in the early part of 1966, Dr. King started meeting with the Honorable Elijah Muhammad.

[01:36:12]>> Yes, sir.

[01:36:13]and they were agreeing with one another behind closed doors. And it even leaked out in the press that Dr. King and SELC and the Honorable Elijah Muhammed were going to work together on the problem of poverty in Chicago.

[01:36:32]And I guess that was the signal to Mr. Hoover. King is abandoning his obedience to white liberal doctrine.

[01:36:42]And if you read Dr. King after 1963, I I I I like to always encourage those that love Dr. King, don't just stop at I have a dream.

[01:36:52]>> Really?

[01:36:52]>> Right.

[01:36:54]>> Look at what he was saying when he was in Memphis the night before he was killed.

[01:36:59]>> Yes, sir.

[01:37:00]>> That was not the I have a dream king.

[01:37:04]That was a brother that had awakened to the harsh reality as he famously opined.

[01:37:12]I'm afraid America may go to hell.

[01:37:16]>> Yes, sir.

[01:37:17]>> That's Dr. King.

[01:37:18]>> Yes, sir.

[01:37:19]>> That ain't just black nationalist.

[01:37:22]That's tenderhearted.

[01:37:23]>> Yes, sir.

[01:37:24]>> Nonviolent.

[01:37:26]>> Beautiful man, Dr. King. See, go ahead, brother. But see, there's one thing about Satan.

[01:37:34]Satan won't let you love him.

[01:37:35]>> No, sir.

[01:37:37]>> He going to show you >> every time.

[01:37:41]That's true.

[01:37:42]>> I close by just saying when you get a chance, study my teacher, the honorable minister Lewis Faran.

[01:37:51]He'll be 93 tomorrow.

[01:37:53]>> Yes, sir. And I'm so excited >> in light of what Hoover said about the Messiah, famous civil rights attorney William Kler said of Minister Faracan.

[01:38:07]He said during his tenure and prior to the murder of Malcolm X, Director Hoover often spoke of the need for preventing the rise in this country of what he called the black messiah.

[01:38:19]Today, Minister Faracan in my opinion would be so considered placing him in great jeopardy. That's why they censor the minister.

[01:38:29]>> Have you ever noticed? Go on Facebook or Instagram. See if you can find an official account for Minister Faracan.

[01:38:35]You can't find one.

[01:38:36]>> No sir.

[01:38:37]>> Cuz a man that produces upstanding, clean, living, righteous folk like Minister Faracan does, they don't want him proliferating that message over the airwave.

[01:38:47]>> That's right. cuz they see him as that messianic leader that will give birth to a nation of little messiahs, little saviors, and they don't want that. See, this Jesus and his mother thing is big, brother, sister. Do you know that there is a crisis right now in black maternal health?

[01:39:12]>> Yes, sir.

[01:39:14]I've been recently reading statistics and I'm blown away at how many of our sisters died in childbirth.

[01:39:27]>> True. There was a viral video online just the other day where there was a sister in the delivery room and she had a doula and someone else as a patient advocate there to assist her in the process and the hospital staff said you all got to get out.

[01:39:46]>> Yes, sir. Mhm.

[01:39:49]>> Now, why would you want to have a mother in there going through the pains, birth pains, and all that attends to the suffering to give birth?

[01:40:01]>> But you want to be alone with her for what?

[01:40:04]>> That's right.

[01:40:06]>> What kind of thought do you have in your mind?

[01:40:09]Did you see the nurse over in I think it was Virginia or one of the Mid-Atlantic states?

[01:40:16]They convicted her of killing infants, black infants, sir.

[01:40:21]>> Yes, sir.

[01:40:22]>> In the hospital nursery.

[01:40:26]>> See, you and I may not see ourselves in the light of Mary and Jesus.

[01:40:35]But I don't want you to leave here not understanding that black women and their children is the fulfillment of the sign of Mary and Jesus.

[01:40:46]>> Yes, sir.

[01:40:48]>> God always brings forth a deliverer from the womb of a woman among oppressed people.

[01:40:57]And those in power understand this messianic destiny of our people. See, go in the black community, the subject of family planning revolves around contraception and access to abortion.

[01:41:12]>> That's right.

[01:41:13]>> But if you go out to the suburbs, the subject of family planning revolves around opportunities to adopt and fertility treatments. Why?

[01:41:24]See, no.

[01:41:27]Jesus and his mother are a sign of the black woman giving birth not just to a male but to also female.

[01:41:38]>> That's right.

[01:41:40]>> Who are born with a destiny to raise our people from the condition that our enslavement put us in. And we still in that condition, brother and sister.

[01:41:53]Even with money, we still in that condition, brother and sister. Even with access to material possessions, we still in that condition.

[01:42:02]>> Yes, sir.

[01:42:04]>> How was a brother like Floyd Mayweather >> that made hundreds of millions of dollars and now he's all but broke according to reports?

[01:42:17]See, because our condition is such that we've been so beat down in who we are, we always seeking something outside of self to make ourselves feel whole.

[01:42:32]>> It's true.

[01:42:33]>> So, we get money, we got the biggest car in the neighborhood, we got the best clothes in the neighborhood, we got all the latest gadgets.

[01:42:42]It's like we can't be happy just being ourselves.

[01:42:48]>> They've made a cottage industry over dramatizing and portraying all of our great athletes and entertainers.

[01:42:58]>> Who now are no longer they call it unsung.

[01:43:01]>> Yes, sir.

[01:43:02]>> Then what's the other one? 30 under 30 or something like that. I forget the name of it.

[01:43:07]>> 30.

[01:43:07]>> 30 for 30.

[01:43:09]>> Mhm.

[01:43:11]Yes.

[01:43:12]>> Because you can give us money, you can give us status, you can give us all of the external things, but if you don't heal the brokenness, >> that's right.

[01:43:23]>> That because I'm black, I'm cursed.

[01:43:26]Cuz I'm black, I ain't beautiful. I ain't intelligent. Nobody loves me. See, that was bred into the psyche of our people for centuries. And then all of America's institutions reinforced it.

[01:43:47]We are people that need healing.

[01:43:50]>> And that's why I get excited about these kind of messages because I recognize that the healing is available for us.

[01:43:57]>> Yes, sir. See, I hope you will continue to come and study with us because in the message of the honorable Elijah Muhammad and the honorable minister Luis Fara, there is healing for the brokenness of our heart, the brokenness of our soul. See, he starts you out with the knowledge of self. Why do you need to know who you are?

[01:44:25]Because the most carefully guarded secret in American society has been the true identity of black people.

[01:44:34]They afraid that once you know yourself, you start to be yourself. Then you no longer comfortable living on the bottom of American society.

[01:44:47]You say, "Oh, we are the fathers and mothers of civilization.

[01:44:52]We are the original people of the planet.

[01:44:56]>> See, once you know yourself, the negative circumstances of life, you become active involved in removing all obstacles that are in the pathway of you and I being who we really are.

[01:45:10]And that's the core of the heart of the message of the honorable Elijah Muhammad. invite you to come back and learn more as I leave you as I came before you in the greeting words of peace of assalam alalaykum.