Louis Farrakhan: After Difficulty Comes Ease

is our ministers here let us hear from Minister Lewis [Applause] faran in the name of Allah the beneficent the merciful the one God to whom all praise is due the lord of the worlds and in the name of his true servant and last messenger our beloved leader teacher and guide the messenger of Allah the most honorable Elijah Muhammad I'm very happy and honored to greet you my beloved brothers and sisters with the greeting words of Peace in the Arabic language assalam alaykum I must say that again I'm very happy to be home here at the final call administration building and thankful to almighty God for the privilege of being able to address this audience here at the final call building and those of you who are listening over this radio station wbe and those who are listening via telephone hookup throughout the United States and also in the Caribbean I am very honored to have this privilege to talk with you in the Holy Quran there is a scripture that reads after difficulty comes ease God In His Infinite Wisdom allows his chosen people and his chosen vessels to undergo great difficulty difficulty is not meant to break them difficulty is meant to shape them to prepare them for his Divine Purpose after difficulty comes ease again in the Holy Quran Allah says to Prophet Muhammad peace be upon him did not I find you and often did not I find you groping and showed you the way Allah says to Muhammad your latter state will be better than your former State these words Were Meant to comfort the prophet of Islam as he was going through the trials of rejection of his own tribe persecution hatred slander vilification maligning of his character but he had to go through all of this and go through it with a certain character when God puts upon his people a trial or an Affliction it is not that you go through it but it is the manner that you go through it that determines the kind of character that you have if you go through it cursing god with every step he may be merciful to bring you through but when you get on the the other side after having cursed God and angered him with your pettiness and wondering why he would put you through this kind of Affliction after all I've been faithful I've said my prayers I've tithed I've done good why would you God allow me to suffer like this as though you know God is under some obligation because we pray and fast and observe our duty that he should make it so easy for us in this life but Allah says as he introduces these chapters of trial and suffering he introduces these chapters by saying I Allah am the best knower I created you in words you are my servant I want the best for you but I cannot bring the best out of you that I have deposited in you if I make it easy for you I brought you into a world a world in which there is positive and negative you were conceived in pleasure but you were birthed in pain I must give you the extreme you must know joy and you must know sorrow you must know pain and you must know pleasure in order to understand the beauty of heaven you must know the suffering of hell you must if you're going to reap the benefit of life you must feel the sorrow and the pain of death I brought you into the world and I give you these Extremes in your life not because I do not love you but it is because I love you and I love myself and I know what I have put in you from myself for my glory and since I created myself out of darkness and became light then I want you to come the way that I have come that you may evolve into me I wonder do you hear me that you may evolve into me God wants to make us into himself he cannot do that with a life of ease he must do it with trial and tribulation and suffering and as he brings you out of the suffering he gives you Joy then puts you back into suffering again he makes it hot then he makes it it cool but he's forging a people for his glory after difficulty comes ease difficult is a trial but so is ease because when God makes it easy for you will you then go to sleep on your duty and your responsibility to him will you go to sleep and say oh oh well I deserve this I've been through a lot you know and time to pray I'll pray another time I'm busy now I I'm going to take a little nap well you might nap out or as the boys who play dice say it you make crap out of you don't want to play games with your destiny God tries you with both extremes isn't it wonderful when we're happy we can say oh I am so happy and you feel great but whenever something comes into our lives that makes us sad maybe a death an untimely death maybe we lose a loved one so very close to us and then we entertain doubts about the greatness of God well I want to say at this juncture of our subject matter that I do receive the reviling of me and the slander of me and the evil spoken of me with great joy I am not the least bit disturbed not at all in fact I feel better today than I have felt in a long time because I know that after difficulty comes ease and if I can go through the trial no matter what it costs me as a servant of God I should be willing to pay whatever price is necessary to see the people redeemed and if I say that I love black people and I do say that should not I be forced to prove it anybody can say that you love your people but what is the Proof of Your Love the Proof of Your Love of your people is that you must be willing to die for their sake that they might have the joy of life I feel this morning so very grateful to almighty God for blessing me with that kind of spirit that I am only too happy to suffer no matter what it is even death itself self I believe that I would die a happy man knowing that undeserved suffering is Redemptive I have not done anything of evil to deserve what these enemies are putting upon me and worse what they plan against me I have not done anything not a thing so because I am innocent of that which they charge me with then I feel like that lamb that is to be offered as a sacrifice for the Redemption of a people I feel like a son of Abraham who even though Abraham was asked to sacrifice the son the son was willing to be sacrificed if it would please God I feel just like that myself I love black people and I want to see them free I want to see them independent I want to see black people not bowing to no power on the earth or in the heaven above but to the power of their God and their creator I want to see black men and women in love with themselves and in love with one another I want to see us up from the foot of a cruel slave master building factories for ourselves and producing the things that we consume I want to see black men and women flying their own planes that are built in our own factories navigating our own ships that are built in our own shipyards I want to see black men and women food and I will never be satisfied if Reverend Jackson became president tomorrow I would not stop pushing for what we feel black people must have because a black man sitting in a White House being manipulated by white people is not my idea of being free a black man is M over a city that he does not control is not my idea of being free if black people are to chart their own destiny we must not only have an office we must have the power that goes with that office to make the changes necessary that all who live under our rule may live under a just rule with Peace and Freedom and equality of opportunity we cannot do this under this governmental system therefore this system has to be removed and a new world order set up and that is what they fear from my mouth I don't represent this world I represent a world that is coming in [Applause] what is it about farakhan come on that he's censured by the Vice President saying that he gets that censure direct from the president now think over that a little brother that just two weeks ago or six weeks ago was just a little quiet fell moving in and out around and about now the president censures me the vice president censures me the candidates running for office censure me the Jewish leaders censure me the Democratic commun Comm censures me religious leaders fallwell has come out and condemned me now I should be beaten down by now with these heavy [Applause] weights but I asked the question how come I don't feel the sting of your rebuke but you Quake at the sting of mine I'm not trembling at all at you but you tremble at what comes out of my mouth I shut your mouths when I speak you can't shut my mouth no matter what you threaten me with well who am I then I'm raising the question and I have the answer who am I in your midst come on go ahead that you Quake at my rebuke but I don't shake at all no matter if the pope comes out against me I will stop his m well then what kind of man has God risen up among you come on Brother come on that he don't fear your censure but you fear his who's backing up his rebuke if my rebuke causes you to shake and your your rebuke don't cause me even to raise a hell then who is back in my rebuke of you and what kind of waning power is it that you have that black people no longer care nothing about what you say in the Holy Quran in a chapter called the food Jesus is talking to his disciples and when I revealed to this disciples saying believe in me this is Allah talking here Believe in Me and My Messenger they said we believe and bear witness that that we submit and when the disciples said oh Jesus Son of Mary is thy Lord able to send down food to us from Heaven Jesus said keep your duty to Allah if you are believers the disciples said to Jesus we desire to eat of it talking about a food coming down from heaven that our hearts should be at rest and that we may know that thou Hast indeed spoken the truth to us that we may be Witnesses thereof Jesus Son of Mary said oh Allah our Lord send down to to us food from Heaven which should be to us an Ever recurring happiness to the first of us and the last of us and ass sign from thee and give us sustenance and thou art the best of the sustainers Allah said surely I will send it down to you but who whoever disbelieves afterwards from among you I will chastise him with a chastisement with which I will not chastise anyone among the Nations now I want us to just slow down a moment and we're going to think our way through this Jesus disciples are asking him for food from heaven now we know that Jesus is not representing just the bread the daily bread that comes up from the Earth all the food that you eat right now the source of its life is clouds and water which comes down from heaven but the food comes up to you and not down to you is that correct all right but this kind of food is a food that is sent down and it is not a food for the body as such it is a food that would strengthen our hearts that our hearts that are Disturbed at this moment should be made at rest and a confirming kind of food that bears witness that what Jesus said to them was and is the truth that they who are Disturbed and somewhat confused might come alive again in that truth and become Witnesses thereof then Jesus said and he's praying Oh Our Lord send down to us food from Heaven which should be to us an Ever recurring happiness the word in Arabic is ID and after the fast of Ramadan and after the Hajj or pilgrimage you have two feasts called ID where food is prepared and the Muslims have a sort of a festive joyous occasion over food because they've come through a trial of 30 days of long hard fasting and they've come through 10 days of a trial in that they made the sacred pilgrimage to Mecca after both of these trials there is a feast called ID where food is prepared and a festival of Joy when you add the 30 days of Ramadan with the 10 days of Haj you get 40 days in the Quran we are told that Allah gave Moses 30 nights and strengthened him with 10 more meaning he had 40 40 nights all right bear with me now this is very significant to what I was talking about at the opening of our talk this afternoon now Jesus in the New Testament is telling his disciples there are many things that I could tell you meaning I know the truth but because I don't tell it to you it doesn't mean that I don't love you there are many things that I could tell you but you cannot bear it now what does that mean it means beloved that even though you hunger for the truth you have to have a foundation mentally so that you will be prepared to accept certain truths there are certain truths that you are ready to accept right now but there are other truths which if given to you before you are ready for them will break you down Jesus knew this so he said to his disciples there are many things that I could tell you you just can't bear it now but when he is come talking about somebody else the spirit of Truth he will guide you into all truth now Jesus is saying I'm going to send him unto you that means that he is less than Jesus cuz he couldn't be equal to Jesus Jesus if he's sent by Jesus he's a lesser man but nevertheless I'm going to send him unto you and he's going to testify of me he's going to tell you things or bear witness of me because I was in your midst but you didn't know me well but I'm going to send you one who's going to testify of Me Jesus talking Jesus speaks again he says I will pray the father listen to these words that he will send you another comforter now Jesus being in the world is certainly a comforter to the people who yearn for righteousness but he's about to leave the world and he's telling his disciples don't worry I'm not going to leave you like this I'm going to pray the father and he will send you another comforter I'm a comforter but this one when he comes he'll be a comforter too he'll be like a warm blanket in a chilly night it won't be me but it'll be from me so if you accept him you're accepting me look at these words now notice what he's supposed to do he is supposed to testify of Jesus but he's also supposed to rebuke Two Worlds he rebukes the world of sin and the world of judgment because they believe not in me all right now when that man comes into the world from the Jesus listen carefully testifying of that Jesus bearing witness of that Jesus bringing us into truths about the man that we were not able to Bear when the man was Among Us comforting us with the understanding then he rebukes the world of sin and of judgment when he rebukes both those worlds that rebuke is backed up by the father and by Jesus so the power of His rebuke is nothing to play with I wonder are you listening now this food that Jesus is praying for is a strengthening kind of food have you noticed that whenever God sends a major prophet he always deals with the people's diet Moses came to Israel and he had to stop Israel from eating the kind of food that Israel was eating because Pharaoh's diet was not a good diet for Israel is that right Jesus talked about food didn't he Muhammad talked about food didn't he you got three great men of God all of them changing the diet of the people now don't you realize beloved that if you and I are going to be made a great people we can't be made a great people eating the filthy of the earth and the filth of the sea we must be taught how to eat better than what we are eating for as food from the earth nourishes the cells of our body builds up the blood which pours over the brain and helps to bring up Vision then a people that eat dirty unclean Foods cannot have a clean body nor can they think clean thoughts so when God wants to make a people for his glory he must start with their diet he must start with their food is that right sir okay but it don't doesn't stop there he gives you a better way to eat and a better way to eat will actually start you thinking better food actually can make you think certain kinds of thoughts refraining from certain kinds of foods will actually make you have a different disposition even change the nature people that eat a lot of meat watch out now people that eat red meat go blood running out of it make mine rare come on yes sir go ahead they I like the beasts God gives animals the teeth to cut meat and they cut it and they pull it you don't have teeth like that some of you may be trying to get something like that you don't have teeth like that your mouth is not made for that kind of eating is this true the more you eat meat you become of The Same Spirit of those animals that eat meat on you become more warike so the meat eating nations of the Earth are really the warlike Nations those vegetarian nations of the earth and those that eat uh uh life from the sea are more peaceful yes sir that's true there's something about food that shapes sometimes the way you think when God wants to make a people for his glory he must change the way they eat all right we're dealing with food now well once you start changing the way of people eat you start preparing The Vessel for something better to come into the brain now the real food is food sent down from heaven what food is that now you've never seen corn you know fall down or some nice vegetables fall out of the sky sir that's right what you look for from Heaven is knowledge for it is only knowledge and wisdom and understanding that eases the heart rests the heart when you're going through a trial when you're going through tribulation it's knowledge isn't it and knowledge confirms what you were taught by a great teacher or denies it on are you listening yes sir yes sir go ahead we have had in our midst a great teacher The Honorable Elijah Muhammad and it is my thinking that even though he worked Among Us 40 notice the words 40 years and they were considered Night 40 nights why because the sun of Truth had not dawned on the darkness of our hearts and Minds light shined in the darkness but the darkness comprehended it not 40 nights because we were ignorant in that night ignorant of the man that was in our midst ignorant of the truth that he taught ignorant of the god that raised him up for our Salvation all right 40 days and 40 nights then the honorable Elijah Muhammad is no longer among us now we undergo a trial the Caucasian people of this world were very happy when they heard that Elijah Muhammad was dead in fact they tell me at 10 minutes past 8 on that Saturday morning at Mercy Hospital the doctors walked out to the Muslims who were there and said with a smile on his lips The Man known as Elijah Muhammad is dead their Joy was he's gone now their next trepidation was will the new leader following the footsteps of his father they already knew that the new leader did not agree with his father so if the new leadership did not agree with the father then the new leadership would follow a new Direction and that new direction did not trouble the government and since it did not trouble the government let us help that new Direction but what about the guy farakhan should we kill him well let us try to make sure that he never rises again spread lies on him say that he robbed the people to live in luxury make the people who loved him turn to hate him on the basis of Lies this is always the way the enemy goes when he goes out after somebody that the people love you must turn love into hate because love will make men and women stand and face death for their loved ones this is why Paul speaks in Corinthians about the power of love love overcomes comes all love fearth nothing so when people love each other it is difficult for Satan to break in there and pull his game so Satan must turn love into Hate by lies mixed with truth or outright Lies made to look like truth then the people that loved you turned to hate you then the enemy can move on you as long as Jesus was surrounded by the people and loved by the people and believed in by the people the powers of government could not get to Jesus that's right go ahead they said we must turn the people against Jesus so they kept sending people to question Jesus maybe today you call them reporters but in that day they were a different kind of reporter right their object was to listen to your words weigh them carefully find anything in those words that they could say uh meant blasphemy or sedition or some crime that the government could use to get at you they took my words made here less than a month ago Twisted them about trying to make Mischief for me I threatened the reporter the FBI brought the tape to the US attorney's office saying to him go through it see if we can make a charge on the man I knew they had nothing from the beginning and I said so before 30 million American people that if I'm guilty of such as threatening the life of a of a reporter I have offended the law then arrest me charge me and bring me in a court of law and prove your charge I knew they could not do such and they knew they could not do such but they strung out a so-called investigation then they released it yesterday we have no uh uhh we cannot prove Criminal Intent beyond the shadow of a doubt they still would not say I never threatened the man they say they just couldn't go in a court of law and make it stick but I know all the time that they are now exonerating me in a sense from that they are already working on something else sir I am not blind I told the press in Washington DC and I say it again to those who are listening I know you better than you know yourself and I said to them in Washington do whatever you want to do to me and I will open up the Bible and the Holy Quran and show you your footsteps I'm fulfilling what is written of me and you are fulfilling what is written of [Applause] you send down this fool food from Heaven that should be in ever recurring happiness to the first of us and the last of us and ass sign from thee and give us sustenance and thou art the best of the sustainers but look at what Allah said I'm going to send it down to you but whoever disbelieves afterward from among you I will chastise him with a chastisement with which I will not chastise anyone among the Nations now this is serious sir sir because it is saying to us that when God makes the truth for you so plain that a fool would not find or would find it difficult to make a mistake and then after that truth is made known you turn your back on that truth after you pray and ask God to confirm or deny what you had been taught and he confirms it for you and you still won't stand by it then you are headed into the chastisement of almighty God now I know we're in the last five minutes of this radio broadcast but I'm not quite through with this subject so I'm going to go on a few minutes and those of you who are listening for the sake of a lie on the outside come on brother Maybe you have time to come over that's right so you can get the rest of it now beloved The Honorable Elijah Muhammad departed from us in 1975 and now in 1984 one of his disciples or students is now affecting the country they thought they had gotten rid of my father now a sun rises up but what they hear coming from the mouth of the sun is even more stinging than what they heard coming from the mouth of the father no I want you to listen because now my work is to reprove this world take it or let it alone I'm not to bow down to the president come on sorry you bow if you want to my job is to lash the the government lash the leaders because a man from God was in your midst and you did not listen to him my work is to lash the Middle East and the Islamic World take it or let it alone I'm not to bound to nobody on the earth my job is to rebuke Both Worlds because the man was a Muslim he came into a judeo Christian world and Jews and Christians with a Bible full of prophecies that you have in your hand you could have easily if your hearts were not so perverse and your ears so dull of hearing you could have heard Elijah looked in the book and said uh this must be the one on you could have made it easier on yourselves but no you opposed him you plotted against his life well okay then the Islamic world you heard the man say he's the messenger of Allah he never back down in 40 years even though the whole Islamic World believes that Prophet Muhammad of Arabia is the last of the prophets Elijah Muhammad said I am the Messenger of Allah to you all sir he never backed down and the Islamic world did not believe him and worked against him now his son has arisen I'm not here to make peace with you except on the terms of God I must speak the truth or die I'm not here to Plate the Jews because the Jews have had the prophets and the scriptures you have had it in your possession and I speak directly out of that scripture and you do to me as you did to my father as the book says they won't hear you because they didn't hear me but when you turn me down I'm telling you you can call it a threat because that's exactly what it is death and destruction comes after I finish my message you may laugh and say the man has gone crazy he's overcome with himself you check America America out check out the tornadoes that are lashing America check out the weather you haven't seen nothing yet right I'm not here beloved I say this again and again you think it's just faran you dealing with no I'm backed by the two most powerful beings in the universe God and His Christ you can take it or let it alone [Applause] I'll stay here take whatever they throw they plan to bring me into court but they don't want to bring me on these flimsy charges cuz they know that won't stand up so they are working feverishly to find something with which they can charge me and try to make it stick to turn your your love of me into hate they have already tested the black community and they don't see weakness there right they see the Imam has come out against me but they don't pay that too much attention because he don't have the power of the people anymore but last night when they were probing Nancy Jefferson when they were probing Alderman uh Kelly when they were probing that wonderful Reverend from push Mr ganet I think hard hard thank you why that one wonderful brother he was so brilliant every time they fired on him he backed him up Miss Nancy Jefferson backed him up Alderman Kelly the Supreme consumate politician he yet lashed them and backed them up and when they went away they had to be reporting in the Jewish circles we tried God knows we tried goad yes sir what those [Applause] nigras those niglas go ahead they wouldn't budge we even tried to call far a black Clansman yes sir and they rejected it straight out sir don't talk about my brother like that what was the miracle that Jesus performed on that made the people to love him so Jesus went to the tomb of a man named Lazarus and said Lazarus come forth and when Lazarus came out of the Tomb his hands were bound his feet were bound the napkin was around his eyes and Jesus said lucier and let him go what is it that makes the people show love and respect for faran farakhan went to the Tomb of the Nation of Islam that was dead and said Lazarus come [Applause] forth and my brothers and sisters came forth with a napkin around their eyes their hands bound their feet bound and by the grace of almighty God I said loose him and let him go and now the nation is up again right that that was dead is alive now is that right that that was lost is now found is that right that that was blind can now see is that right that you don't have to look for Jesus he's right here in your midst [Applause] I'm walking in the Master's footsteps go ahead ahead and I'm willing to die to see the people free now they're so afraid of me they're plotting night and day I said plot on because I already know I have a rendevu with Destiny I already know what's coming down the road and I've been born to meet it and overcome it you will never kill me you will never kill [Applause] me [Applause] yeah though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death I fear no evil sorry about that it's something when the white man can't frighten you anymore it's something when a God has come into your life and made your heart at ease it is something when you feel you are in his bosom wrapped up in his power that no man can get to you from where you are I am like that in your midst they can't touch me they can't harm me unless it pleases almighty God and if it pleases God I am ready been ready come on yes sir I'm not on Reverend Jackson's platform I'm on my own so don't accuse me of saying something against the candidacy I'm on my platform and I can't stop speaking when I met Reverend Jackson I was already speaking on condemn me as a liar you can't do it I said Hitler was wickedly great he most certainly was Satan is great right otherwise he couldn't be a fit opponent for a Great and Mighty God that's right Satan is great but he's not good right Charlie Chaplain calls Hitler The Great Dictator none of you raised your voices right you called the depression the Great Depression many people suffered under it but you call it the Great Depression come on I said Hitler was a great man skilled and wickedly skilled I spoke absolutely truth in order to destroy what I said you might as well tear up your dictionary come on come on brother go ahead why then did you say he had a good name because he struck Terror into the hearts of his enemies and if I am striking Terror into the hearts of those who have terrorized black people for 400 years then my name is a good name if it fights you into doing what is [Applause] [Applause] right come on well Mr faran uh uh Civil Rights Commission has said that uh Jesse better leave you what do you got to say about that why the president himself Brother come on said that you a bad fell and uh one that looks like he's going to be the nominee of the party why he said your words were [Music] poison what are you going to do about that Mr faran nothing this is a little different kind of fell than you used to dealing with by the grace of almighty God I don't fear the censure of any censurer I represent a new generation I'm not a young man but I represent a new generation and you you know what so do you you are not the same old Negroes you are a new people I recognize God in you and that's why I bow to my brothers and sisters because I recognize God in you when I see N I see Elin Israel and all of my brothers and sisters in the Hebrew Israelites I bow why do you bow I see God when I see rabi bami why do you bow I see God when I see strong black men like Jesse Jackson standing up refusing to bend his knees I bow why do you bow I see God when I see these young men who are gang banging right now swaggering down the street with a mean look on their [Music] face I bow I see God working in those young people when I saw my little sister here 12 years old sing her rep song about Jesse I bow I knew I was looking at God in that little 12 year old girl because God is making us a new people this is a new reality a new day that's why Jesse says our time has come our time has indeed come I wonder do you recognize the spirit that is moving in you it's not a common spirit it's his Spirit moving in you you and me you a new woman and you a new man the Quran says Allah will raise up a new generation why a new generation Allah L I don't like the old one come on Moses had to wonder 40 days in the wilderness and when they got out of uh Egypt pardon me into the Wilderness it was an 11 day joury took him 40 years why Rebels people were just full of rebellion God looked at him and said it's all right it's all right just let them wander around in circles I'll let them wander till them old rebellious ones die out I'll take the their children and they will inhabit the promised land I don't care if your hair is grve today you a new woman I don't care if your hair's Bal today black brother you a new man you have made it to the hour of renewing and you and I are being renewed that's why white folks are pulling the hair out how can I deal with them come on brother I shoot the same juice that you to lay them out yes sir and they dance he turn up the juice and we go to break dancing he can't handle this brother this is a new people said now we could break black folks up before Jesse aren't you going to repudiate him no I'm not I going go back and try him again in the next city he goes to the next city Jesse repudiate that Faron yes said I answered that in the last City I say it again no I'm not they bite their teeth they go in a back room and say good God Almighty well let's offer Jesse something see will get rid of Fire coming Jesse stand up again no I'm not they don't come to me cuz I don't want nothing in the world you can't offer me nothing you could offer me the presidency I would turn it down go ahead cuz I know what seat that is that's the electric [Applause] chair the whoever the next president is watch the jokes that he gets you see him going to office looking young and after a few days you see the wrinkles pop out on them brother that's a hell of a seat man cuz the house is being torn apart as they have sown now it's their time to reap God didn't want Jesse in that seat he's too good a man to be president he deserved better than [Applause] [Applause] that brother won Louisiana last night I listen to white folks announcing it this morning on television look like they had locked jaw you know trying to make excuses of well the people didn't get out like they should have so Jesse won man look like he went crosseyed for a minute brother and can you imagine them white can you imagine what they thinking the G of this young man Jesse Jackson I love that brother so don't [Laughter] you he's unusual isn't he he's different isn't he he's a new Jesse isn't here they don't know what to do with that new Jesse do they God say I'm going to do a new thing in that day go ahead they can't figure this thing out too much for you better [Applause] believe [Applause] oh brother I need God to make me totally new I don't want nothing left of the old no that's what the scripture means when it says that I die in order that he might live in me see we got to put this old world to death in in us that a new world could come to birth in US is that that they don't have any power over and it's that that they are unable to handle now I'm going to conclude notice Moses in the wilderness wanted they wanted Mana to come down from heaven I want you to think about this talking about food again listen well now David says Thou spread as a table before me in the presence of mine enemies Jesus comes into the world and notice his words I am the bread of Heaven well that's a heavy words then he tells the people as he's about to leave them he says take my body eat it in remembrance of me this is my blood and likewise after supper it says he took the cup and he told them this is my blood that I shed for the remission of sins and I think in some writings it says for the New Testament drink this as of as you can in remembrance of me feed on Me In Your Heart boy this man is talking and people are looking and they don't understand what he's doing feed hey I ain't no cannibal what's wrong with this man want me to eat his flesh drink his blood Moses just told us that the blood of all things is unclean you don't drink the blood of any animal how didn't does this man want me to drink his blood what is this now Jesus don't have but a few pints of blood he don't have enough for everybody that believes to drink and he don't have enough flesh poor man if we all wanted to eat a little Jesus's flesh we would eat him up in a short time you know it doesn't mean that it's beautiful but it doesn't mean that look Jesus goes away Peter Rises up Peter's hungry and this table or sheep comes down out of the sky for Peter it's a vision he looks at it sees all kind of four-legged animals on the sheep and he was told to eat it and in the vision he said wait wait wait a minute I can't eat them kind of things that's unclean and he's rebuked in the vision that that what I have cleansed past perfect tense or present perfect tense what I have cleansed you can eat Peter is trying to figure out what it means some of my Christian brothers and sisters say it mean you can eat anything goad brother and then you lay into that pork chop lay into those brains chitlings stinking up the house for days they haven't even made an air refresher that can move the stench of chitling I mean he I glad you and you know excuse me I I didn't mean it that way just just came out that way forgive forgive me y'all but kind of smells here you are bless your hearts when I leave you today some of you going home [Music] home to get into that kind of nastiness and then you going to say Well it tastes good there's a lot of things that taste good but are not good for you and the hog is one of those fellas it's a nasty creature one day I'd like to talk on it and tell you not only what it's made from but why God permitted it to be made in the first place it is not good for you to eat I know you like the bacon I know you like the ham and let me tell you I used to eat it up so I'm not condemning you cuz I loved it too every New Year's my mother would cook a hog [Music] head I used to see that ugly fell sitting in my kitchen and my mother would make that hog head cheese you know we call it in the Caribbean sa meat yes man that thing used to taste so good and when I became a Muslim and went home and told my mother I didn't eat that stuff she climbed all over me boy I ra you on this te she didn't she didn't understand but let me tell you brothers and sisters when an animal is that filthy that it'll eat anything and everything and nothing makes it [Music] sick that hog is used to clean out swamps sometimes with snakes snake lay on that hog bite him good sink the Venom down and the hog do still walking that mean that the poison of that animal is greater than the Venom of a snake it is a slow death for its eater when you eat the hog this is the truth you think when you cook it at high temperature that you've killed the trick now worm that's in it so you said well we cooked it real good or in the South they hang it up in a smok house to cure it anything you got to cure means it's sick and if you couldn't cure it live it's sure enough you can't cure it dead and here you are cooking it up now and that thing got all them little trick n worms in it you eat that fell you digest him taste good going down after a while that little worm activates and it starts moving in your intestines Works its way into joints and muscles forming cysts you start talking about arthritis I wonder why I get this pain so that's right doctors sometime will tell you well just leave off the pork you go and tell him you got high blood pressure first thing he ask you what are you eating leave the pork alone till your pressure comes down he won't tell you cut out the pork all together cuz he wants you comeing back you get a few more dollars from you your food is killing you the food that you're eating is destroying your health and well-being okay when that worm reaches the spinal cord it travels right along that spinal cord into the brain once you get it up in the brain the messenger says you will never get it out of your system takes a long time for the trickn worm to get out of your system brothers and sisters food keeps you here food takes you away eat the best that your money can buy stay away from the poison animal the pig no me eat is good for you at all but if you must we yourself away stop first by not eating H don't do it if you want to make a little test get a little piece of H put it under a glass and leave it there for a few days and see what you come back and find you notice our eyes they're not white especially the men women's eyes are clearer because they have a natural system of cleansing their bodies once every 30 days but poor you brother right these eyes all yellow you know red just don't have a good color in the eye it's this bad food bad drink taking you slowly away when you eat hog it slows down the mental process it sounds the mental powers and it robs you of your beauty appearance you notice how Muslims kind of have a good look about them you notice that you know we look different and I know you know whether you are man or woman when you look at Muslims you see that clean look in our faces our eyes kind of bright it's not that we're any different from you it's just the food that we eat makes us cleaner on the inside you are beautiful people if you stop eating food s that damage your powers of thinking and you think bad thoughts and eat bad foods and you become a very ugly people you don't want to be ugly do you these people telling you try this skin cream and that skin you will have pretty skin try stop eating that bad food try fasting a little bit your skin will get so pretty your eyes will be so bright people will ask you what kind of beauty treatment you're taking and Truth is the best beauty treatment that any people could receive now I think I can go home let you go home the food the food that Peter saw was not actual animals it was was human beings who were unclean but God wanted Peter to stop hanging out so to speak with the Jews and to stop going among the Gentiles who were called unclean sir because God was getting the Gentiles ready to receive the message of Jesus Christ so Peter started consuming the Gentiles consuming meaning making them a part of the body of Christ that's what it means Paul comes along and takes it up and he becomes the great preacher or Apostle to the Gentiles is that right okay how does that translate into today 1984 Muslims bear with me now now I am sure that most of you who are learning of Elijah Muhammad you now must think who was this man really we didn't like him so much when he was Among Us those of us that heard him and we didn't understand him was kind of frightening the way he talked about white people you know and prophesied the Doom of America now beloved this coming Friday it's not for the public but God willing I hope to do 10 to 14 hours straight of taping videotaping Scholars are coming in from around the country to question me on the teachings of The Honorable Elijah Muhammad from the making of the devil to the concept of God to food to the role of women to the tragedy of the Malcolm era what happened with Imam War de Muhammad all the way to the modern times and the critics and what they have to say the program of Elijah Muhammad his position and where we see our s going in the future there'll be Scholars great imminent Scholars coming of religion people that have watched the nation for years and we're going to put this on tape because we know the Press will never tell our story the television will never show Our Truth this is something we have to do ourselves and if we have to pay for we will show it to the world hour after hour after we rais the money to put it before the world now I say that to say that what Elijah Muhammad taught I mean it is the truth this coming Friday God willing I want to go into the making of a devil and right after that I'm going to teach it on the radio I hope that we will have sufficient time to show you why Elijah Muhammad used the language to white people that they are devils we don't want you to just go out calling names that's ugly and it's childlike but if God used that language why did he use it what message was he trying to say can white people escape that which he called them we got to put it out there there's a lot that The Honorable Elijah Muhammad taught that most of the people of the world have never heard nor reasoned with if you did hear it now beloved putting it in a modern context this man stood in our midst for 40 years and there was much that he could have told us we just were not ready what about his domestic life what about the things that Malcolm charged him with is there truth to it if so how should we look at it the world has to know these things you know why we have got to put to rest the fighting among ourselves we have to put it to [Applause] rest there are people in this audience who adore Malcolm yes sir and think well of Elijah Muhammad and there are people in this audience who adore Elijah Muhammad think well of Malcolm and there are some who adore Malcolm and don't think anything of Elijah Muhammad there are some who adore Elijah Muhammad don't think anything of Malcolm X how long should this controversy rage on must another generation of children come up wearing the scars of something that happened before they were born why not analyze it critically appraise it and let it be in the past that the children may go on I was in uh Washington DC DC few weeks [Music] ago and a tall stately child look like a woman to me came up to me as I was standing there and said assalam alayum I said wum Salam she said ATA Shabah is here and turned and walked away I didn't recognize it was Malcolm's daughter I said ATA cuz when she was a baby she was at my knee and when my oldest daughter was a baby she was at Malcolm's kneee and Malcolm taught my oldest daughter her ABC and taught her her student enrollment and I did a similar thing not quite as much as Malcolm with Atela and there was the daughter of Malcolm come within my reach I wanted to grab her and embra like grab her you don't like me I wanted I wanted to embrace her when I called she put her finger up as if to say I've gone far enough in words there's still something between us I said in my heart you know my children should be with Malcolm's children Malcolm's children and Martin's children and my children and Jess's children and Imam wife Dean's children and Herbert's children and all of the children should be together [Applause] the children represent something new and they should not be settled down with old hatreds therefore if understanding and light is shed on the whole situation and it is opened and aired and analyzed then maybe we can put it behind us and get on with the business of building a people we must break down these barriers don't you think we should yes sir I [Applause] do beloved Elijah Muhammad was a greatly misunderstood man he is gone from us and I feel it's my duty and my obligation to help others to understand him someone wrote Faron is can a lot of baggage meaning can the the baggage of what the people have said about Elijah Muhammad that's very easy for me to carry for he carried us go ahead and we were heavy weights on him but he didn't mind that so I don't mind carrying his teaching and his message and whatever the critics say about him I will carry that but I do think now we need to understand and get it behind us so we can go on with the work of building of great people so I say in conclusion that the food that God has sent down is a food that will rest our hearts from the pain of division isn't it beautiful that Christians and Muslims and Hebrew Israelites can stand together laugh together eat together work together fight together for the glory of God isn't it wonderful [Laughter] that that Hebrew Israelites and Muslims and Christians can sit down together at a common table we have differences of view but we have hand Le it with such love and respect the love is so overpowering it makes our differences sink almost into nothingness now look brothers and sisters if those white Christians and Jews and Muslims can get along we have to show them how it's done we must not allow the all Jews all Christians all Muslims to put their hatreds on us we are trying to bring in a new world so we cannot carry the baggage of that old order so when you sit down together the Muslim sister the Hebrew Israelite your dress is a little different but yet long and respectful you look at each other you admire each other's Styles pretty soon you'll say I like that you know how women are I like that pretty soon you make a dress like that she may look at something that the Muslim sister has on say I like that before you know it you won't be able to tell one Community from another brother and [Applause] S [Applause] look at our Christian sisters and our Christian Brothers here we are together nobody looking down at the other we looking at each other to learn from one another you have much to teach us we have much to share with you and together look how we learn and before you know it the Muslim like I watched the Muslims when we were at TL Barrett church I peeped y'all I know y'all peep me too did you see me sitting there patting my feet you see we don't have music in the temple you know and I'm I love music so when I go to church I mean I just can't help myself when they start to laying in there with that Heavy Music I go to Pat my foot you know and I have been very you know atin but now you know a brother just break loose you know go ahead and I feel at home in the church I'm getting something there that I don't get here sir go ahead and when they come here they get something here that they don't get [Applause] there sisters start wrapping their heads other sister said what is that you got on why you do that I like the way that look before you know it she wrap her head where did you get your ha done it looks so pretty oh I got it done over here oh that what give me her name before you know it you all meeting in the same places when you see each other you rush into each other's arms you Embrace each other you don't seem like you're strangers you are a family and and this is what's driving the white man crazy he don't want to see us recognizing each other as a family it's over it's a new [Applause] day as Muslims like the early Jews we were kind of stuck on ourselves come on now yes we we have the truth we are the Righteous you know look at that sister with that mini dress isn't she disgusting forgot how we used to put on the mini dress I mean not [Applause] me we acted kind of childlike we had something very good but we didn't s to share you know we had a nice School the discipline was wonderful the curriculum was wonderful but we didn't let others share this is not a criticism we had to get our own thing together but now we can't do that anymore I saw a table come down from heaven and it had all kind of meat on it and I was told to eat not that I personally was told I'm giving you a picture of the scripture coming to life why we why why why why we can't eat this why these people they eat pork why that man was just snorting cocaine I I saw him yes I that I saw that that sister with a beer bottle in her hand I can't hang out with her I mean after all but when the Nation broke up Allah helped us to see that we were no better than the people we condemned so we went back and got the cocaine didn't some of us we went back and got the wine bottle and something else so we don't have that old self-righteous posture anymore I saw the table come down from heaven and what God is saying what I have cleansed you have no right to turn it down this is your family go out in embrace one another so now the Muslims and brother faran I don't stay here I come here every once in a while the Muslims see me I know you little disappointed if brother don't stay home but see my home is wherever black people are you understand and that's my home so don't look for me to be all up here with you and you all here with me me that's our Minister uh-uh God didn't send me just to you see I belong to our people therefore wherever our people are if the mountain won't come to Muhammad what must Muhammad do go to the mountain [Applause] brother okay now two Parables and we go it's all right it's all right I ain't been home in so long I can't help myself come on two Parables Moses in the Quran in the 18th chapter was traveling in search of knowledge you remember the parable Moses was kind of trifling according to the parable the wise man told him look Moses you can't in words hang out with me Moses said oh yeah I can hang tough this is a modern translation of course and the M said okay man walk with me I I I'm almost willing to wager that you can't walk with me so when they were walking they came to a a river and a man had a boat and the man was kind enough to take them across the river in his boat when they got to the other side the wise man put a hole in the boat sunk the man's boat after the man let him use the boat to get across Moses jumped in the man's face and said this is a terrible thing that you have done the man says I told you you wouldn't have patience with me oh he said yeah yeah yeah but but that isn't too cool what you did so they walked on a little further this is really modern [Music] translation but I want you to get the principles okay here's a woman and a husband a man and a woman they had a baby and he meets the man he meets the woman he sees the baby he causes the baby to die the poor man and woman is grieving over the loss of the Baby Moses and the wise man keep walking Moses jumped B off in the wise man says now this is terrible this is a grievous thing you killed a woman's baby he says I told you that you could not have patience with me now if you do this one more time we'll have to part company they went and they were very very hungry and uh they went to a place and they asked the person I guess did you have any food and the man wouldn't feed him wouldn't feed him they went outside and there was a wall torn down and in the wall there was a treasure the wise man built the wall back up hiding the treasure in the wall Bo of them hungry now so Moses said [Music] look I you know look we hungry the man got a broke down wall why didn't you tell the man lay some food on us and we'll fix the wall and then you see the treasure and you didn't even take the treasure know what I mean you build the wall back up it sound like us do well The Honorable Elijah Muhammad said said that's not a parable of Moses following the wise man but that's a picture of a people who are given a messenger and they don't have patience to wait for understanding of the things that the messenger is guided to do and when God does a thing he does it out of the comprehensiveness of his own knowledge he has a consumate knowledge of the past the present and the future and he makes a move today for tomorrow you don't know tomorrow hardly see today not acquainted with yesterday so you make a quick judgment and say God you wrong because you don't understand do you follow my point all right now tie that in with this verse of scripture and we go oh you who believe should any one of you turn back from his religion then Allah will bring a people who whom he loves and who love him humble towards Believers Mighty against the disbelievers striving hard in Allah's way and not fearing the censure of any censurer this is Allah's Grace he gives it to whom he pleases and Allah is ample giving and knowing now we end don't you see beloved in your life and in mine there are things that happen that you don't understand and those things that happen in your personal life or in our national life that we don't understand we do have a tendency to make a judgment and sometimes we make such a harsh judgment we turn away from a friend we turn away from our mothers we turn away from our fathers or our husbands or our wives because of something that came up that we don't understand while if we could have just held on a little longer and had a little more patience understanding might have come to show us the wisdom of God in what was done now you see the picture yes sir the wise men said to Moses we must part company and now I will explain to you why I did what I did when the man took me across and you across in the boat he was such a good man and I knew that a wicked King was coming behind confiscating the boats of the people so I put a hole in the man's boat that the wicked king would not see it because it would be sunk and when the wicked king would have passed over that man could retrieve his boat plug up the hole and sail on would that you had patience with me when I met this righteous couple who had a child I saw that if the child were allowed to live that child would grieve his righteous parents so I took the life of that child in its youth yes the parents were troubled but they would have been more troubled had that child grown up to bring grief on the parent but I also gave that parent those parents a righteous child that will make the parents happy so the happiness and the joy of a righteous child will make them forget the loss of the child that they had and now when I got to that house and I saw the wall there with the treasure in the wall you were thinking about your stomach but I saw in the future too often boys that that uh uh uh money was meant for and I knew that if these in that house who were so nedly had seen that treasure they would have usurped it so I built a wall around the treasure knowing that at the proper time and under the right circumstances those two often boys would find that wall and find that treasure this is why you cannot have patience with me because you see only today you see only your need you do not see what God sees and so you must trust in God in order for God to guide you when you don't understand what he is doing now the meaning of that look at the Nation of Islam how we love the nation look at what Elijah Muhammad built up for black people it was like a ship an Old Ship of Zion that we were in the ship never did get lost a hole was put in it and when a king would come that would not be righteous confiscating the boats I allowed this one to sink because when the wicked king would have done his job all we would have to do is bring it up from the bottom put a hole or plug the hole back up clean it up and there would be your Nation of Islam never having gone any place but you couldn't have patience with me and there was a righteous parent two of them and they had a child and that child was called The Old Nation of Islam that child had become corrupt and I knew that if the child had lived it would have grieved righteous parents Master farad Muhammad and The Honorable Elijah Muhammad so I allow that child to die knowing that I'm going to bring up a new child a new nation that would give joy to those parents and lastly but not least I know in order for that Nation to survive is going to need money and so I buried the treasure for that nation in a wall and there were two little Oran boys deprived of both their mother and their father knowing they have a nation on their shoulders but I have prepared a treasure for them in advance but I hit it and at the proper time under the right circumstances they'll go to the right wall and there will be the money needed to go on and build the nation you you see you couldn't have patience with me and because you did not have patience we must part company and many of us parted company with the honorable Elijah Muhammad and his teachings so the Quran says oh you who believe should any one of you turn back from his religion then Allah will bring a people whom he loves when I hear Jesse Jackson I hear a man who loves God when I hear Pastor TL Barrett or Reverend Hardy or Reverend Franklin I hear a man who loves God so when you are consumed with the love of God God loves you now look at what is to happen with that then you become humble toward believers I have never seen in N Ben Israel the power of his ability to wage war he has never seen that power in me because when we meet each other we're too busy kissing hugging I don't mean it in [Music] [Applause] no no I don't mean it in that children when we Embrace each other with love we are humble toward each other because it is not necessary for us to show forth power with one another that's right when I meet you I feel honest and Truth just like a little worm I feel so small I don't feel like no big shot because I'm in the presence of believing people when you saw me on night line you saw a different kind of man that's a different kind of man you saw a man ready to go to war then well I don't have to show you that because you're a believer in God I'm facing the enemies of God now then you see coming out of a lamb a lion why because I'm humble to the believer that's right but I will be Mighty God and God loves me and so the scripture says of us we strive hard in God's way and look now and we don't fear the censure of any censurer and it's true I listen and I look at the things that they say about me me and I laugh I I I I I tell you the truth the best laughs that I have had in the last seven years is reading the cartoons that white folk have put in the paper with respect to Reverend Jackson and myself they had a cartoon of me like a I was like a bulldog in this cartoon and I had my mouth open and it was red and livid and and and and saliva was coming down from my teeth you know and I had a little bow tie on you know and Jesse had the Bulldog boy and he was trying to hold the dog but the dog the dog was about to eat up the press the Press was sitting in the chair shaking [Applause] when I read that I just laughed they had another cartoon of Reverend Jackson and myself we were hugging each other up you know he had his arm around me and I had my arm around him and he was holding up a trophy you know was around the time of the Oscars he was the number one actor you know what I mean performer and I was holding mine up for the best supporting actor then they had another one yeah they had a little sign on top of my trophy saying vote for Jesse or else and they had another one faran looks bigger than life I mean a Hu a man with huge shoulders big bow tie stretch and a white man is coming out of the Poland Boo and my hand is is behind my back you know but I look huge and I say to him oh and and by the way who did you vote [Music] for man says ah uh did you happen to vote for Jesse nah nah I voted for mandale and the next thing you see me with a scimitar and I had just loed off this man's head you see his head tumbling off firon killed him cuz he didn't vot for Jess then they had another one brother Faron he looking huge again you know what I mean well this is the way they see a man of Truth they see me looking huge all the men around me looking huge you know and they have a sign on here saying ayat TOA far vote for Jesse or else now what they're saying see they don't realize what they're saying the wise do Ayah faran the word ayat means ayat means a sign Ayah means a sign of Allah this man here is standing behind the roster and they're saying is a sign of God be careful you lose your head over him see the wise see it different but the funniest one of all they have me in this P paper I have a big sign on here saying hi I'm LS far [Music] and then they have my mouth opened up look like a cannon you know long out here like this this is my mouth and smoke is coming out of my mouth mean I had just blew somebody away you know and Jesse with his hand behind one hand behind his back and his other hand in the pocket like this and said and uh we'll go on now to the next [Applause] question now beloved I I've really laughed heartily but I want to say as I leave you that God has fixed it so for us that we are not afraid afraid of their disapproval of us as long as we know that we are right and because we're not afraid of their disapproval anymore they become afraid of ours you are a new generation you represent a new day a new world order so lift up your heads and gird up your loins for a food is coming down from heaven that will ease our hearts and make us to know that what we learn from The Honorable Elijah Muhammad it is the truth right remember after difficulty comes ease and when you go through your trials and you go through your tribulations don't curse God no matter how difficult it is say I from you you are my Patron and whatever Misfortune happens to be my lot in life I will take the bitter with the sweet I will take the joy with the sorrow I will take the pain with the pleasure knowing that it is you who are fashioning me and I must come to you by the same way that you came to yourself God bless you and keep you thank you for listening asalam [Applause] alaykum for e

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