With G-d’s name we begin, the praise and the thanks is for G-d, we thank Him for the gift and blessing of the model human person Prophet Muhammad (pbuh), the honorable and noble servant and Messenger of G-d and what follows of that salute or that traditional salutation to the last Prophet (pbuh), the seal of the Prophets mentioned in the Bible as it is given in the Quran.

Let me explain this occasion before we perform the rituals. This is Eid Al Adhaa, Eid means re-occurring happiness, something that comes over and over at the same time, it is appearing or coming in at the same time yearly.

It means in common language holiday, celebration and it is not pronounced “Id”, a lot of you say Id, that is wrong. Id is is what the scientist of colleges who are psychoanalyst gave us, the word that was the term given long after Allah swt revealed the Quran. The correct pronunciation is “Eid” you have to say it with and “E” sound not the letter “I” sound all of you should correct it and I have been working on that for a long time, trying to get you to correct it, if your Imams would stop maybe you will stop.

Eid Al Fitraa celebrates the victory of human nature Eid Al Adhaa celebrates the victory of the intellect

Abraham fulfilled the needs of the intellect

Eid is a recurring happiness and we have two Eids, the Eid Al Fitraa is the Eid celebrating the victory of human nature. This Eid Adhaa is celebrating the victory of the intellect that is associated with Prophet Abraham or it is also pronounced in Arabic Ibraheem, he led the world into the fulfillment of the needs or the appetites of the intellect, the human brain. He is the one who showed us the way to an ethical world, an ethical society, firstly of believers but eventually to an ethical world because the work of the believers will eventually triumph over the work of the unbelievers. We are not the only children of Abraham, the Jews are the children of Abraham, the Christians are the children of Abraham I believe Abraham has many more children who we do not know about and they want an ethical world like we do. They want an ethical order and en sha Allah (swt) we will be talking on the importance of that for our community models all over these United States wherever we can put them up so that we can have a complete Muslim life, business life as well as spiritual life.

Lamb without spot was Isinail, Jesus and Muhammad

Q. 37.102; Abraham’s vision was to sacrifice his son

“Then when (the son) reached (the age of) (serious) work with him he said: “O my son! I see in vision that I offer thee in sacrifice: now see what is thy view!” (The son) said: “O my father! do as thou art commanded: thou will find me if Allah so wills one practicing Patience and Constancy!”

It is the day of sacrifice, it is the 10th day of the Hajj, on this day we sacrifice whatever you can afford, poor people may sacrifice a chicken or something smaller that is halal meaning it is fit to eat. Those who have more money will sacrifice a cow and a sheep. The sheep is the symbol associated with Abraham because it was his son – - this is not the khutbah, this is preparing for the khutbah. Because of his son Ismail being the son that he thought he should sacrifice. He saw in a vision that he should sacrifice him, but G-d showed him when he was about to sacrifice his son, G-d showed him a sheep, or a lamb instead of Ismail.

Lamb is symbolic of Prophets and pious people in religion

Abraham, the father was shown in a vision by G-d a lamb not his son Ismail, he was to see the lamb. The lamb was to be slaughtered, not Ismail but his son is symbolic of the lamb without spot or blemish, a lamb pure, untainted, unspoiled by the world. That is symbolic also of Jesus Christ as you know he was called a lamb and before him we talk about Ismail as the lamb. And Muhammad the Prophet pbuh in his nature was also a lamb without spot or blemish before he was even called by G-d.

The 10th day of the Hajj we sacrifice whatever we can afford but is a sacrifice of life isn’t it? It is a living thing that you are sacrificing, and there was an ancient philosopher who said “In man can be found all the creatures of the earth,” he said this long before people brought us the teachings on these things in religion, this is in myth or in Greek philosophy.

We don’t sacrifice something inferior or something offensive to good human nature or good human taste, you cannot sacrifice a coon it won’t be accepted. What does sacrifice mean? It deceives us what is happening because it appears that you are getting rid of this thing, but you did not get rid of it, you made it more tasty and then you consumed it, you put it in yourself. So it is symbolic of what is in ourselves, but what is not quite ready for G-d, it is not quite good enough for G-d.

A sheep nature in a man is not quite good enough for G-d, but if you could take that social nature in man, that is spiritual also because it is like, the lamb goes up on the mountain and the lamb can stand on a little thin edge, it is sure footed, it has great balance. It is not the real lamb, it is symbolic of the social nature of the wise and pious people in religion, those who have the knowledge of not only spiritual sciences but they have the knowledge of those sciences that helps us free the social life for its destiny that G-d wants for it. These are great pious men of science and they are called the sheep in the scriptures. So these are great pious men of science and they are called sheep and Ismail was going to be that kind of leader and Abraham was a rational man he did not like to have secretes and mysteries.

Abraham wanted liberal education for people

Q. 2.124; Abraham leader of all nations

“And remember that Abraham was tried by his Lord with certain commands which he fulfilled; He said: “I will make thee an Imam to the nations.” He pleaded: “And also (Imams) from my offspring!” He answered: “But my promise is not within the reach of evil-doers.”

Genesis 17:5; Abraham father of all nations

“Neither shall thy name any more be called Abram, but thy name shall be Abraham; for a father of many nations have I made thee.”

Abraham wanted liberal education for the people he didn’t want the knowledge to be held by people who were mystics who kept it secret for their elects, he wanted to break that order So Abraham broke from that order and that is the meaning of slaying the lamb and feeding it to the multitudes. He broke from that order and gave the keys to their sciences to the multitudes. This is the one who G-d loves so much He said, “I will make you leader of all people” The Bible says I will make a father of all the nations, ” in the Bible it says you shall be a father of all the nations.

I told the staff, “You have to remind me of the schedule because I’m busy, you should keep your leader informed, your leader is more important to be kept informed than anybody else. If you know your leader has to do something you should be keeping him informed and I’m telling you so you will be better to the next leader, so you will do a better job for the next leader. We want progress, we want it better after I’m gone. Your leader is the person you should be looking for to supply him with all of his needs, all of the information he needs. Do everything you can to assist him and make his work less difficult, this is what should be your purpose and I’m not talking to all of you I’m talking to you in the circle of the helpers. If you’re going to be helpers then study so you can be better helpers.

Eid prayer starting time Q. 2.189; They ask of the new moons

“They ask thee concerning the new moons. Say: they are but signs to mark fixed periods of time in (the affairs of) men and for pilgrimage. It is no virtue if ye enter your houses from the back; it is virtue if ye fear Allah. Enter houses through the proper doors and fear Allah that ye may prosper.”

The time for the ending of the Eid is when the sun is half way from the rising point to noon, when it is half way there that is the time for the Eid. When it starts to be less than half way it is getting too late, I just saw the sun, it is a little cloudy but it was showing and 1 only have about two minutes left, but it will be 5 or 10 minutes before we are finished here. Understand this that these things are signs, when Muhammad the Prophet pbuh was asked in the Quran, “And what is the crescent moon, the Hilal?” He said, “Signs marking the time,” so you will know what time to do the Eid, so you will know what time to do your prayers etc., time markers that is what he said. What was he doing? He was teaching like Abraham he was taking the mystery out of things. They wanted him to tell them the mysteries to see if he knew the particular science of their particular secret order, but he ignored their secret order and just gave them a rational answer.

That’s Abraham’s leadership. You stroke yourself in your own private places but out here we’re going to turn the light on:

Eid prayer said aloud at a time when you are supposed to keep quiet

Isn’t it wonder that the Eid prayer is said at a time when we say our prayer silently? But today it is not said silently, we are going to say is audibly so everybody hears it at a time when you are supposed to keep quiet, praise be to Allah swt He is the greatest.

Knowledge for rich, poor maybe the better leader will come from the poor

I just want you understand better this Eid, what it represents. We should be charitable that is the point and we should feed those less fortunate than us, not only feed ourselves.

The sacrificial meal or meat is for the leaders yes, but it is also for the poorest in knowledge, the poorest in his pocket, it is for the poorest of the people knowledge-wise and also materially, it is for the poor people as well, it is equally for them. We have to give it to them because maybe one of them if equipped correctly and well, maybe one of them will become a better leader than the top man in the society. So we do not want to miss the chance of having our best serve, lead us and take care of us as the leader takes care of his following with the blessing of G-d that G-d reveals.

Takbir 5 are said before 7

We thank Allah swt for this occasion and you know it begins with a Khutbah I have given a long Khutbah haven’t I? It begins with a khutbah and followed by two rakats of prayer and there are 5 takbirs in the first standing and 7 takbirs in second standing making a total 12 Takbirs. You can increase it to many numbers some do eighteen, but the way most of the leaders, Imams in the world do it is 12 Takbirs. Five goes before seven and my father said, “Our savior WD Fard said think five times before you speak and maybe you will be correct.”

So five goes before seven and we know seven is the spiritual realm and if you get in there you better go with your 5 senses. The Eid will have 5 Takbirs and then 7 Takbirs for a total of 12Takbirs One will be just the regular signal to start the pray and then we will signal the movements, the steps of the prayer with Takbir.

No eqamah called on the Eid days means the people are tired of mysteries

Prepare to stand and after we stand we will have a very short Eid Al Adhaa khutbah. There is no Eqamah called on Eid days, do you know that, why? Because that is the day when you are already standing, nobody has to signal you to stand, the people have gotten disgusted with all of this darkness and mystery and they are standing, that is the time for Eid and that is the day we’re living in. People want light they do not want mysteries.

Q. 2.152; Remember Allah He will remember you

“Then do ye remember Me; I will remember you.”

We praise G-d , we glorify Him with much praise, much glorification and we remember Him always. We remember Him in our bad times and our good times, we remember Him when we are poor and have nothing, we remember Him when we have richness and power. We never forget Him in any circumstances, we remember Him in the privacy of our lives at home with our wives and children. We remember Him when we are alone with ourselves with our souls, we remember Him always and G-d says to His servants, “Tell them to remember Me and I will remember them,” praise be to Allah swt.

How wonder He is, G-d has created man in the best of molds, Muhammad the Prophet pbuh the model man was a fit person to lead people before G-d called him, he was already fit. In the world of ignorance, darkness, indecency, bestiality in the world of violence and the sacrifice of innocent lives, the murder of babies before they could even be taught how to live, the killing of them especially the girls who they did not want. And in that time and in that kind of world a man was able to keep his best life that G-d created Adam wit his life intact.

Adam lost his best life to the subtle deceits of the shaytan, as we know he was deceived by the subtle words of the shaytan to come out of the nature that G-d had put him in and made him for. Muhammad the Prophet pbuh had survived in a world of corruption, ignorance, violent, and the loss respect for mankind, he survived in such a world and was not worshiping any idols and was not behaving in any way that G-d would not approve. So he was again like Ismail the son of Abraham a lamb without spot or blemish, like Christ Jesus and others who are called by or given such wonder descriptions.

Q. 93.1-2; The bright morning and the night

1. By the Glorious Morning Light.

2. And by the Night when it is still.

Ramadan is personal sacrifice Adhaa is group sacrifice

This is the Bid al Adhaa and Adhaa means the brightest time of the day. Duha is morning time when it is in its brightness. We have the saying in the Quran “Wa duha wal layle edhaa sajaa,” meaning “By the brightness of the day then the darkness of night when it spreads out.” We want to understand that the celebration of Al Adhaa is the brighter and therefore it is the bigger Eid. It is hard to understand when you are not making Hajj, but when you make Hajj you understand that the 1 Oth day of the Hajj is the bigger celebration, bigger than even the more personal sacrifice we make in fact the sacrifice during the month of fasting is a personal sacrifice, but the sacrifice of the Hajj is a group sacrifice, it is the sacrifice we make all together.

Bukhari 8.615; Man cannot read minds

Narrated Ibn Umar that The Prophet said to Ibn Saiyad, “I have kept for you a secret.” Ibn Saiyad said, “Ad-Dukh.” The Prophet said, “Keep quiet, for you cannot go beyond your limits (or you cannot exceed what has been foreordained for you).”

You don’t know if your brother is fasting with you or not you have to trust him and Prophet Muhammad pbuh said, “We were not given eyes to see inside of his stomach to see if he had taken something, don’t be suspicious we are not suspicious, trust our brothers and sisters. If they say they’re fasting then they are fasting until we learn without looking for it.

Hajj means meeting the social difficulty

The ones who are making Hajj they are going through the same difficulty together. Hajj means meeting the difficulty and going, succeeding despite of the difficulty. You are going against the difficulty the Hajj is a victory over the difficulty and so is fasting too but it is a personal and spiritual difficulty and the other one is social. Hence meeting on mount Arafat is the most important time for the Hajj that is what the Prophet pbuh said, he said if you miss the meeting on Arafat you have missed your Hajj. If you circle the kabah and do all those things, cut your hair, drink from zam zam, run the Sai, but if you miss being on Arafat for the prayers you have missed your whole hajj that is according to the words of our Prophet Muhammad pbuh.

Q. 16.125; Argue in ways that are best

“Invite (all) to the way of thy Lord with wisdom and beautiful preaching; and argue with them in ways that are best and most gracious: for thy Lord knoweth best who have strayed from His Path and who receive guidance.”

The talk for the Eid is supposed to be a khutbah, now what is the meaning of khutbah? Khutbah means lecture and it is not preaching, you may preach a little during your lecture but if you characterize your lecture by preaching it is not a khutbah, you did not give a khutbah it will spoil the nature and identity of the khutbah if you preached.

Preach means to raise your voice and play on emotions

Preach means raising your voice and playing on emotions, and expressing emotions, responding to your emotional side, that is preaching. That’s good we’re supposed to do good preaching, excellent, beautiful preaching and it says in Quranic Arabic “Wa jaadilhum bil-latee heyaa ahsanu.” Translated it means, “And debate them and discuss with them in manners most beautiful and excellent,” this is the teachings. But we also to preach it is acceptable.

But for the Eid it shouldn’t be preaching it should be teaching, khutbah is a lecture it should be for teaching, informing people, giving them some understanding, helping them with their understanding of the Islamic life so they can live it with better understanding and performance it better. Better understanding is what puts us in a situation to live better that is what I mean by perform it better, to live better as Muslims and that is what we want, that is what the soul want. This is a very short khutah I’m going to give you because the time is about out for the Eid prayers and khutbah in the morning.

I don’t want to close without saying this, we are living in the last days of the plan that you find in scripture for people on this earth that we find in the Bible and that we find the Quran, we are living in the last days of that plan. Nothing will come after this, there is nothing else to come, we are at the end of it. The world leaders know it, the leaders of the religions know it and government leaders know it.

Government leaders have the knowledge of the religions

You should not think that the government does not have what religions have, they are separated but they did not separate until they knew they had all that the good religious leaders had. And they keep if for their leaders so tht when they run into problems with the church or with the Mosque or anything, they can go to what was left to them by their government leaders. They can go and look at it and find just what is Christianity, just what is Al Islam, just what is Judaism, they know it better than most of the religious leaders, the government people especially the president of the United States. To be president he has to be informed of this and he knows just who to ask for in his cabinet if he has a question, the same way it was for Pharaoh he had his high priest. So if Moses came he turned it over to his high priest and said, “Moses said he has something here, take a look at this boy.” They found out he wasn’t a boy he was a man child, praise be to Allah swt.

Praise Allah for creating man’s excellent heart and nature

Q. 37.105; Abraham’s sacrifice, he fulfilled the vision

“Thou hast already fulfilled the vision!” thus indeed do We reward those who do right.”

We glorify G-d, He is the greatest and for G-d is the praise all of it, so whatever we get or whatever we are due or we’re deserving of that but it is owing to G-d that we have the nature and the decent hearts and minds to achieve those things. So all the praise belongs to G-d and we have little specks of it, we thank Allah swt and we’re going to conclude the khutbah remembering that this is the celebration of the sacrifice of Abraham which is the willingness to sacrifice his only child, that is a great sacrifice especially when you’re pleased with that child. You love that child, you’re so happy you say “Oh this is a beautiful child, I see no flaws in him” and then G-d shows you in a vision saying, “You have to kill him.” Oh my G-d how Abraham must have suffered and he went to the altar suffering, gritting his teeth, but he took that knife and just when he was about to do it G-d showed him a lamb and said, “You have already fulfilled what was ordered,” isn’t that beautiful?

Kabah is a sign of how mankind is to be established

G-d does not want us to hurt yourselves or hurt our children, G-d He wants us to be wiling to give Him our all, and once you are willing to give Him your all, that is all He wants. So why kill your son? Let him live and you live and they lived as two Prophets together father and son, and they built a sign of the establishment of the world of mankind, that is what the kabah is. It is a sign of how the world of mankind is to be established under, G-d respecting the good human nature that He has given to all people, black, brown, yellow, red any color. The United States, Canada, China, Russia any country, we all come from all these countries for the Hajj and there we see each other not as colors, not as nationals but we see each other as Muslims under G-d building to a society of righteousness but rationally informed, scientifically based and rationally informed so we can be a model for all the worlds. Thank you very much we praise G-d.

• Imam W. Deen Mohammed – February 1, 2004      Ramada Inn – Homewood, Illinois

This is a Post from: A Three Day Journey, a blog dedicated to the Philosophy of Imam W. Deen Mohammed

Eid Al Adhaa

And listen to these words very carefully.  Please.  I’ve said them to you many times before.  G-d says, “Fight until no more persecution and religion is free for G-d.”  What is that saying to us?  When our enemy stops doing us wrong, we should stop fighting them.  That is what it says in the first instance.  But what it says in the  second instance is more important than even that.

It says:

When you don’t have religion correctly. Religion, it is not for G-d. It is for your oppressive rulers. It is for those oppressors. It is the tool in the grip of the oppressors and  they are using religion to keep you down. Keep you backwards. Keep you ignorant. Keep you confused where you  can’t come on the path of success in this world or even in the hereafter. That is what Allah(swt) is telling us.

This Quran is the mighty Book and you underestimate it.  The Imam getting up showing off his Arabic. Oh how you disrespect the value of the Quran.  Just want somebody hear you speak a few words in Arabic and you’re  satisfied. You have been stroked.  You had your apex.

I want to say something else.  I’m a rough man in nature. My nature is rough and refined.  I can’t lie.  I want to say something else to these stupid no good so-called leaders who just want to show off.  Cheapen their religion.

This religion is precious, too valuable for us to cheapen it the way we do.  And I’m going to  stay on your case.  I’m going to make it hot for you. Make it very difficult for you…

• Imam W. Deen Mohammed – 2003 Ramadan Session

This is a Post from: A Three Day Journey, a blog dedicated to the Philosophy of Imam W. Deen Mohammed

Religion Must Be Free For G’d

Scripture’s most critical message

Man in scripture represents an overriding moral strategy for safeguarding the social community and all of its necessary features.  Hence, ultimately, destiny, concerns moral life, and industrial life ingenuity, that give us all these material things that we see and enjoy and recognize as progress on earth for human condition on this planet earth.

The story of humans in a community setting, starting life on Earth in a paradise given the name Eden, serves to assist man, that is, industrial man, working man, for avoiding crisis, and, explaining crisis.

It all got started when object, (spelled) o-b-j-e-c-t hyphen reasoning(object-reasoning), won sway over moral urges, or moral urgings, in the human soul.

The serpent, or snake charmed “Adam”, into accepting to rationalize moral issues, that were in the way of man’s path to world leadership, and world dominance.

Did the snake do this with man’s interest in front of him? No. He did it with his own interest in front of him.

In other words, the serpent, or satan, would never help humanity rise to world power, or to world leadership.

Moral design supported by cosmology, (spelled) c-o-s-m-o-l-o-g-y, c-o-s from cosmos, cosmology, and universal logic were sacrificed to free “intelligence design”. That’s a new expression, relatively new, “intelligence design”.

This strategy was contrived by satan. Hence “humanism”, h-u-m-a-n-i-s-m, “humanism” and “secularism”, s-e-c-u-l-a-r-i-s-m, in quotations again like “humanism”, “Secularism” developed in time.

These two developments develop in time as a result of the scheming, or planning and plotting by the satan, shaytan.

Now some of you all can’t follow me too well because you think satan is a mystery.

Our scripture says satan is your plain enemy, your open enemy. He’s no mystery, he is not hid.

But you don’t find him by looking for a person or race, or a particular color.

You find him by looking for evil that is oppressing the humanity of mankind. And when you find that evil, and find who supports it more than the other, most likely you identify the plurality of the devil.

And he’s not in one people. He’s helped by everybody that want to benefit from his strategy that they believe in, because they think this is the way, to become the rulers on earth.

Satan disguised as the serpent, charms world leadership, now you understand more what Adam represents, world leadership, charms world leadership into serving his plan, as opposed to the creation plan.

G-d made the universe to give us the plan for our advancement. How can I speak with such confidence, that I am representing the Scripture or the revelation that comes from G-d?

Our father Abraham, Ibrahim, in Arabic, Qur’anic Arabic, when he was threatened by the ruler, who was a dictator, and a ruler that wanted to dominate all other nations and people, on the planet Earth.  This was one of the oppressive pharaohs, of Egypt.

Abraham replied to his threats by saying, “The One who created me, Will guide me”.

Now scholars who search for G-d’s meaning, not for the meaning that may satisfy me, but the scholars that search for G-d’s meaning in what He says, they come to the conclusion that G-d is saying, “I made the world as a map, I made the world as a plan, to guide you to all the things you need, for your existence, and for your progress and prosperity.

Creation itself.

Now think about it, what can you show yourself or others, that is valuable in your life, or in the life of others, that hasn’t been produce, by man using his brain, his mind, women included sometimes, while studying or working with the material world.

What can you think of?  Nothing!

I have on clothes, where (did) they come from?  Out of the material world.

I’m wearing eyeglasses, where it comes from? Out of the material world.

I’m leaning on a podium here, because my back is sensitive, I have a little nerve problem in my back, what is giving me this support?

The earth.  This came out of the earth.  Came out of the material world made by G-d.

I see the electric light bulb shining, and I see an umbrella, that’s holding the light in the area that they want it to be in, for the benefit that they want from that.

Where was it made, where did it come from?

The earth!  It came from the earth……..

……Satan, not wanting to appear to be rude, and condescending, satan very gingerly tells man, your moral innocence is stupid.

A casual look into western psychologies’ evaluation of the human soul, and its intelligence bears out, what is here said.

Keeping our five senses in moral life, begins where a male and a female decide to make their home for themselves and for their children.

This is the message of Eden.  It’s a concept it’s a picture, not to be taken as something that existed before the world was or before human history started, but mainly as something that is given to us, as a picture to open our eyes, to what’s going to transpire, to prevent man from coming into,  the life that G-d created for man.

Satan wants to keep us in the dark as to what G-d wants for our life.

Imam W. Deen Mohammed – The Meaning of Success and Destiny – 1st Sun. 08/03/08

This is a Post from: A Three Day Journey, a blog dedicated to the Philosophy of Imam W. Deen Mohammed

Scripture’s Most Critical Message

Blessed Ramadan and a Blessed Eid, if I don’t see you before then.

We thank you for responding to the invitation and we wanted you to know that it wasn’t really a request. Because a request to me is stronger than an invitation. It wasn’t a request. It was just an invitation.

Really I wish everybody could be here that has an interest but I knew that some of you would have to do other things that are very important and some of you might not have the financial means at the time to come.

So that’s why we wanted to give it as a invitation. Almost an informal invitation, so that there would be no unreasonable burden on any of you, or any of us.

I’m very happy as you know, always very happy to see you all and very thankful to Allah for this occasion in the month of Ramadan, the Blessed Month of Ramadan.

So we’ll begin and as the Imam of the masjid here in Atlanta, Imam Plemon El-Amin, has already explained, what we want for this occasion in a very clear and satisfying way to me.

So I don’t have to talk about that anymore or make any talk about what I would expect to see happen here for us or what I would like to have in you as persons or Imams attending this Ramadan Imam’s session. But I will say I may not even take an hour, I don’t know. I may not take an hour to present what I’m going to present here. But after I present what I have to present here, depending on how you respond to it, I may take up more, that’s if we don’t use a whole hour, you see.

The desire to have more knowledge until the knowledge satisfies the souls of the seekers

The Qur’an is a book of guidance and Allah’s mercy to us or to all the worlds. As a book of guidance I am inclined to bring to you or at least remind you of it’s connection with previous books of guidance or previous scriptures. I’m referring mainly to the Torah and the Gospel that came before.

We find that there is something continuous for scripture, for the Word of G-d, and that is the interest or the desire to have more knowledge until the knowledge satisfies the souls of the seekers.

Taught people to trust inspiration

We have in the Old Testament the pleading of souls to know the face of G-d, to see his face, to know the face of G-d, to see His face. And in the New Testament we have the prophet Jesus, peace be on him, teaching the people in a very, I would say unusual way.

He taught by parables for example. Hints, according to the gospel, as it is written now, which you know is different from what Muslims believe, the original was called the Injeel. However I believe that what I’m about to say to you is original and in the gospel. That is I believe that it did come in the Injeel.

This particular or I should say peculiar method of teaching, where students are told to not use their own reasoning. Not to apply their own mind. Exert the faculties of their intellect. Strain or exert the faculties of their intellect to form what they would say. But to trust G-d upon faith. They were told that when they met the occasion they would be given the words that they should speak. So as I look at that I see it saying that he taught people to trust inspiration. That they would be inspired.

Birth happening in a very unusual way

The same gospel says of him ‘he shall come upon clouds and another he shall come in clouds or with clouds’. And another is ‘ the lightning shineth from the east even unto the west so shall the coming of the son of man be’.

And in the Qur’an we have his birth happening in a very unusual way to put it lightly. First his mother, peace be upon her, she didn’t have to be provided for. Her needs didn’t have to be provided for by Zacharias. Peace be upon Zacharias.

Secondly she was assisted by G-d when she was in a desperate situation to provide for her child, her new baby, peace be upon him. And Allah says in the Qur’an that He told her to take a little stick and make grooves in the earth and water would go through the grooves to the tree and the tree would drop to her its dates, its sweet dates.

And when she was asked about him, according to the gospel as it is now, the present Gospel, not the Qur’an, we don’t want to mix anything here, be very careful, she said consult the child or she pointed to the child, peace be upon the prophet.

And in the Qur’an Allah says to us that he spoke while he was yet in the cradle. He said, according to the gospel as it is now, I must go away, for if I go not away, the comforter will not come unto you” Or “be sent to you and he also said that I will send him” meaning the comforter, that he would send the comforter and that the comforter, the spirit of truth would lead the people into all truth.

This is the gospel as it is now. The present gospel, not the Qur’an. We don’t want to mix anything here. Be very careful.

Now we know that Muslims believe the comforter or the one to lead into all truth would be Mohammed the Prophet, peace and blessings be on him. But lets look at something here. The bible says, that is, G-d says in the bible, and G’d says in the Qur’an to Mohammed and the world, that Christ Jesus the Prophet is a sign, word, a spirit from his lord, from Allah.

The angel pressed Mohammed the Prophet, peace be on him, three times before he could speak, before he could recite Qur’an.

A Three Day Journey

And we find another figure in the bible who had lost his mission, Jonah.

And G-d’s book the Qur’an and the Bible as it is now, seems to be giving us the same report on him in his situation. The bible says that after he went through his ordeal and was cast upon the bank of the river by the whale, he said, “I have a three days journey”. This is the Bible. “I have a three days journey”.

And in Qur’an he’s shown as a figure that had been saved from one predicament but was in another.

He was on the bank with the sun punishing his head and Allah’s mercy caused a gourd plant, a vine plant, a gourd plant, like squash and other things, to grow up upon him, to climb upon him and put leaves above his head to protect his head from the sun. He said ‘I have a three days journey,’ meaning he was not yet where he should be. ‘I have a three day journey.’

Three steps to enter the city, The Promised Land

I’m going to address Qur’anic text now. And I feel pretty sure that the Qur’an, Allah’s word to us, in the Qur’an, Teen: fig, Zaytuun: olive, Turi Seeneen: Mt. Sinai, is giving us the steps of a journey.

Three steps to enter the city, Baladil Ameen. 1) Wa teeni : Fig. 2) Wa zaytuun: Olive. 3) Wa Turi Seeneen: Mt Sinai. 4) Wa Haadhal Baladil Ameen: City of Peace.

But before proceeding with this line of reasoning I want to point you to a situation that Jonah found himself with the sun punishing his head and Allah had to show him mercy.

Allah tells us in the Qur’an that there are some who want to get closer and closer, too close, to the light. And so they’re blinded by the light. I’ll come back to that Inshaa Allah, but now let us continue with the three steps to the city, three steps that bring us to enter the city.

It follows that the sequence or that progression is followed by laqad khalaqnaal insaana fee ahsani taqweem. Laqad , indeed. Its a strong, strong emphasis here. Stronger than enna. Laqad, indeed we created the human in the best of molds. That’s how its translated. In the best of molds. Fee ahsani taqweem. Taqweem is from qaum, from qama, stood up, to stand.

Fee ahsani taqweem in the best of molds, best postures. Couldn’t we say that? Because it comes from, qama, to stand, postures or in the best of molds.

And of the prophet and his mission Allah says to us in the Qur’an that the purpose is to take us out of the darkness into the light. Minadh dhulumaati ilan nuur. Out of the darkness into the light. And of the light that G-d gives, Divine Light, G-d says of it: ‘It Is Light Upon Light.’

Man in His Original Place is where the Journey Begins

Most importantly then, we should see the city, the Promised land, as a fulfillment of G-d’s promise to lead us into the light. Into the light that will remove all doubts in all the problems, or the need of searching for the light and bring satisfaction to the soul.

Incidentally well, maybe not incidentally, ‘the City of the Prophet is called the City of the Light. And some seem to be very hesitant in embracing my interpretation of that progression, Wa Teeni, Wa Zaytuun, Wa Turi Seeneen, Wa Hadhaal Baladil Ameen.

Because on many occasions I have said that that Baladil Ameen, is the City of the Prophet. It’s not Mecca.

The road to the promised land begins where we originally were. And man in his original place, is told symbolically by the Kaabah and the black stone in sacred venerable Mecca.

So then the journey should be from the Kaabah to the Light. To Medina-Tul Munawwarra. Light upon light.

Before continuing this I want to go Back to the caution that G-d gives not to want to get too close to the light with our eyes, because it may blind us.

Darkness upon darkness

The world’s light is the dhulumaat, darkness. And the same steps followed by the humble servants of G-d that takes them into the Nur, into the light, takes the world into the darkness. And their darkness is darkness upon darkness arising from the depths of the sea. Darkness upon darkness.

And they too, I repeat, follow the same procedure, 1) Teen , Fig. 2) Zaytuun, Olive. But their 3) Turi Seeneen is not the Turi Seeneen of Moses. It’s their faith in their own spirit and intuition. Human intuition. Not divinely sparked intuition.

And the end of their journey is what they call the pure sciences. And the pure sciences bring them to dismiss G-d. G-d causes a problem. So dismiss G-d. Be objective . Obey matter completely as you should obey G-d. Obey matter. Only speak what matter says. Only report what matter says. Only come to the conclusions that matter implies or directs you to. Empiricism, I think they call it that. And that’s what has given us the secular world that we have on us right now. That’s their Medina. Their Medina of darkness.

Turi See Something, not Turi Seeneen

They say that in education there is teen, Fig . You must use your imagination. You must trust creative thought. You must trust spontaneous bursts of energy in the intellect. They may even play some music for you while you’re straining your brain to help that happen. And they also say that they come up with one knowledge.

But out of the Zaytuun, or in the Zaytuun I should say, we read oneness. We read singleness. We read Tauheed. We Read Islamic monotheism for want of a better expression.

But the secular world, for the secular world, the Zaytuun is science. One science. All sciences agreeing in one science. Material science.

And their Turi Seeneen is the intuitive edge. Not the intuition that G-d gave the prophets. But the intuitive edge.

Now where’s the support for this kind of Reasoning? Allah say’s in our holy book, the Qur’an, He says, there were some who sought a hearing on high. And Allah says you cannot. And you will find that there will be shooting balls of fire. And you cannot get there, illa Bisultanin atheem, except as a big mighty sultan (authority). But He didn’t say you couldn’t get there.

The jinn, a company of them heard the recital of the Qur’an and they said we bear witness that this is a wonderful recital. None but G-d Has done this. They were not inspired or given inspiration. Their intuitive light in the intellect turned on, sparked by divine gift or divine intervention. It’s a property that they have. So just like we have in common with the Jinn community, the property of reasoning, we also have with them in common the property of intuitive insight.

So they have their Teen, their Zaytun, and their Turi see something. I can’t say it’s the Turi Seeneen. It’s not Mt. Sinai. It’s certainly not Mt. Sinai. But they have their Turi see something.

And they want the Baladil Ameen, the society established upon trust. The society secured upon trust. They want that. And not even America has it. Our society is a society under fear, not secured upon trust. And our society gives its citizens secular knowledge to support them and to guide them. Not Revelation. So even America’s promised land is a land of darkness.

Our knowledge is Light upon Light

Now going back to the Zaytuun as a symbol, I said the Zaytuun is to be understood as a symbol or signal to signal us to the idea of Tauheed, oneness. But in knowledge. In science. Oneness. That One G-d did it all. Not an accident. Not the big bang, but purpose, divine purpose explains why this earth and this creation, this universe is here bearing one design, the universal system of law or laws.

Before us the Jews claimed the olive didn’t they? They still do. They are a people of the olive, the blessed olive. And we know that we are closer to Christians in our spirit, but definitely close to the Jews in the reading of the concept of G-d (oneness). A blessed tree, an olive or an olive. A blessed tree, an olive.

For us science is not separated just like life is not separated. For the western world, for America, western democracy, there’s a separation of religion and government or church and state as they put it. And you know for us there is no such separation. For Muslims there is no such separation.

Also for the west there’s a separation of knowledge, pure truth, exactness in the perception of knowledge, or pure knowledge of truth. But for us there is no separation. For them there is the world or physical science, the world of secularism, and the world of religious science or spiritual science.

Now we know in Islam we have the branch called spiritual sciences from the “ruh” meaning spirit, but those sciences in our religion are not completely foreign to all the other sciences and that’s what Tauheed means. That there is a oneness. There’s a oneness of knowledge and all knowledge belongs to that wholeness of knowledge. So there’s seventy hundred or seventy thousand or whatever we might say, branches of spiritual science that have to be seen in connection with social science and all other sciences.

And again we look at the bible. Won’t go to the Old Testament, but it’s there too. What you’re more familiar with, that is, the gospel, as it is presently.

The word of G-d personified as Christ Jesus, peace be upon him, comes into the world not of water only but of water and blood. So the water of science or the science formed of water is in the heavens. And the heavens and the earth were separated, and the heavens were confused as churning smoke, and Allah directed Himself to the heavens and He said to the heavens and to the earth “Come ye together willingly or unwillingly”. And Allah highly glorified is He, also said, can’t you see that this creation was once one continuous whole and it wasn’t always just smoky heaven and an earth needing to be reconciled with a heaven that was in a bad shape?

Our knowledge then is one. Creation is one. Knowledge is one. It is expressed in so many different forms but it is one.

It is light upon light, light of a blessed tree, an olive. Its oil appears to be lit before there is fire. It gives off a light before there is fire. And the fire does not touch it.

Doesn’t this sound like empiricism, objectivity, where you’re not forming anything until the essence tells you to form it and you’re not forming it in any way that the essence is not saying form it ? You see our discipline is the same isn’t it? Our Discipline and our knowledge is the same as the Jinn’s discipline and his knowledge.

But our result is different.

His result is different.

His obedience is to matter.

Our obedience is to the Creator of the matter.

Thank you very much.

We ask Allah to forgive and guide us always.

Ameen. Allahu Akbar!

• Imam Warith Deen Mohammed – Athens, Georgia – 02/25/1995 – Imams’ Ramadan Session(excerpt)

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The Qur’an is a book of guidance and Allah’s mercy to us or to all the worlds

Bible – Genesis 4:1-2; The Birth of Cain and Abel

“And Adam knew Eve his wife; and she conceived, and bare Cain, and said, I have gotten a man from the Lord. And she again bares his brother Abel. And Abel was a keeper of sheep, but Cain was a tiller of the ground.”

When you read the Bible, the creation of Adam in Genesis, you see that Adam had his first son, Cain, not Abel. And Cain was an industrial man.

That is saying that the first nature of man, is the nature of industry, to want to work with the world, material world, because He made his father from the dust. Right?

So then his first child from his wife, his mate, gives them this man of the ground. And his offering to G_d, the Bible says, was an offering from the ground.

And the second brother, his offering was an offering from the wombs of the animals. He offered his new born sheep, his new animal.

So this is saying man is firstly materially oriented and engaged, (with) his curiosity, but later he becomes a shepherd.

Cain killed Abel meaning the industrial man killed the family man

Qur’an – The Table Spread 5:30; Cain killed Abel

“The (selfish) soul of the other led him to the murder of his brother: he murdered him and became (himself) one of the lost ones.”

Bible - Genesis 4:8; Cain killed Abel

And Cain talked with Abel his brother: and it came to pass, when they were in the field, that Cain rose up against Abel his brother, and slew him. And the Lord said unto him, Therefore whosoever slayeth Cain, vengeance shall be taken on him sevenfold. And the Lord set a mark upon Cain, lest any finding him should kill him.

And the Bible says and the Quran up to this point the Quran and Bible are saying exactly the same thing just about. That the elder brother was jealous of his brother’s offering and he hit his brother in the head. He slew him. He killed him. He spilled his blood upon the ground.

So blood in the Bible is called life, it says “The life of the body is its blood.”

What is that saying under interpretation?

It is saying that the industrialist slew the family man, the leader of the human family. He slew him and put his life into the material development. Meaning he robbed his brother of his life and incorporated it in his material development.

Don’t you see that happening in the world? Where the precious interest for human life is exploited for material development, for business, for money.

Family most productive resource for business

The most productive resource for business and industry is family. You can respect family and get very rich appealing to family needs. Appealing to the household, the men, whatever, for labor or for work. The women too.

But also respecting that a family is your best motivator, your best customer for any business you want to go into.

But if you’re greedy and don’t have any respect for anything, G_d, family, or nothing, you will destroy the family for your own business interest and that’s what happens many times.

The family is destroyed for business interest.

So this is Cain. I’m showing you how to see this. These things are talking to realities then and now. They haven’t changed. These realities stay.

So Cain is this industrial man.

He went wrong.

Abel was wrong being in the field, and negligent of his own duties

Abel, he was a victim right? That tells us he went wrong too.

Scripture doesn’t say what Abel’s sin was but he went wrong too. If he hadn’t gone wrong too, what is he doing standing out there in the field with Cain?

He’s a shepherd. He wasn’t supposed to be in the field with Cain where Cain works. If he was he should have been telling Cain what’s going wrong here, or (telling Cain to) remember the family interest. But it just says, he was there.

Meaning he was there too. (And) negligent of his own duties. Of his own responsibilities. He was there. Negligent.

And his brother took advantage of his ignorance and his negligence and put his life blood into industry, into material development.

Imam W. Deen Mohammed – Excerpt: Sisters meeting Chicago, Ill March 8, 2003

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Cain and Abel: In Adam

Believe me, the best of all expressions.  I’m using the term expressions now in the full context of culture.  Art.  Everything. Language, art, work, whatever.  The best of all expressions in the long run, are the expressions that stay true the original nature.  Those are the best expressions.  Expressions that stay true to the original nature.

This talk that I’m giving you is to introduce you to the study of the Qur’anic Arabic, to go into the Qur’an, to learn the Qur’an in Arabic.

Thinking that this Qur’an was just given in Arabic is not enough.

Says, why?  What was the reason.  What was the main reason for the Qur’an being in Arabic?

Some would say, “because Arabic is the best language”.

No.  Its because Muhammed was the best choice for the prophet.  Muhammed was the best choice and last prophet and he spoke Arabic.

So the Qur’an says, never did G_d send a messenger to a people speaking another language.”

What is the main reason for the Qur’an being in Arabic?

Excerpt from “Systems of Knowledge” – 1994 Islamic Convention(classroom session) – Washington, DC

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Qur’an in Arabic-Why?

G_d created us as one human type called Adam.  That father type, that original pattern upon which all of us have been formed, the first human life that G_d made.

And we know that as we begin to grown and multiply and produce, there is going to be demanded of us a uniting of effort.  A working together as one.  G_d made us one, and as we grow and demands increase upon us, we are going to have to live and work as one.

We have lived to see on this earth our world become one living room for all of us on the many continents.  Asia, Europe, Africa, America on all the continents.  We have seen all the men and women around the world and our children put into one living room now. That the African called the village, the global village that we are calling it now, one village.  It seems that we have been put into one village or one living room.  We can’t escape each other.  We have to see each other.  TV will make sure that that happens. We’re going to see each other.

If we make a mess in one part of the world that’s going to effect another part of the world, the media will let us know it.  TV will show us that mess. So we can’t hide anymore from one another.  We can’t create problems for one another that won’t be discovered for 50 yrs.  That won’t be discovered for 100 yrs.  That use to be the world.  The world of today is not that any more.   If we make a mess for each other that’s going to affect the other, we’re going to see it right away.

So we have to live together.  And this is G_d’s Plan. G_d says man’s community was once one community.  Community of our first ancestor.  And G_d is telling us that to tell us,  that you have to prepare yourself to live again as one community.

It doesn’t mean we’re going to become one political body or one national body or one nation.  No.  There are going to be many nations.  Doesn’t mean we’re going to become one cultural body.  No.

It means we’re going to become one in our respect for humanity, for the excellence of man created by G_d.   And if we don’t do that, we won’t have a place in the future except the place in hell. Suffering miserably in this life and in the next.

G_d is greater. Allahu Akbar.

Imam W. Deen Mohammed – National Convention – 09/06/1999 – Philadelphia, Pa

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Know Our Destiny

“Time is out for asking for more change in them.  On us!”

Celebrate in America’s Change

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Celebrate the Better in America

“That’s what Muslim is.  To be human in human excellence.  That’s the Muslim.”

Just Follow Islam

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Just Follow Islam

You ask, “Where is that in the Bible?” They hung him naked. That is enough to tell you they robbed him. Wasn’t he a great ruler of honor and respect in the eyes of the people? Does he look like that on the Cross? No.

What is this trying to say of Jesus Christ? That they robbed him of his culture. He was sent into the world with a religious culture to give to the people to dress them up.

The Hon. Elijah Muhammad spoke about dressing you up in a new clothes, in a new and beautiful life. They robbed Jesus Christ of all of that.

How was that achieved? They fabricated a story and presented a lie as the truth and said it came from G_d about Jesus Christ. And they directed your attention from the real thing to the plans of Satan.

That is how they robbed him from what he brought to address the people in a new culture and new life.

Let us look at how G_d helps the people, not just us but people before us, all the way back to the first creation, Adam, himself. How did he help Adam? He helped Adam by calling his attention to the world of many valuable things and of great resources, trees aplenty.

The man in the jungle is running around about the trees, but all he knows about trees is what the birds know. Sometimes, he doesn’t know what the birds know and will only do what a dog will do. He will never think of the tree as having any value.

But Adam was not that kind of man. G_d did not make that kind of man; that kind of man had lost his Adamic life. Adam was created with an intelligence and a free intellect, and he had the nature and the desire to benefit his intellect by engaging everything within his sight.

So G_d helps people by connecting them back with what He connected their father, Adam to.  The natural creation, nature. Then He helps them by revealing to them Messages that are written by Him in the created things or in everything that He has made.

G_d says, “There are Signs in that that is above you and also in that in the earth, as well as in yourselves, too.” What word is used? It is the same word that is used for sentences or passages in the Qur’an,” Ayat”.

G_d speaks away from the Qur’an and says to us, “In the sky you observe and in the earth you observe, as well as in your own selves, are Signs,” and He uses the very same words that describe what is on the pages of Qur’an or that designates passages or words or messages from G_d in the Qur’an.

G_d is saying, “Before I revealed to a human being who needed to give you My Word from a human mind, heart, spirit and mouth, I had already spoken to you with everything I did on earth, in the sky and between and in you bears My Words, My Message to the human soul and intellect.”

G_d says, “There are many Signs to back up all that is being revealed. But how many pass by the Signs never giving them any attention?” As the Bible says, “Heedless, paying no attention.”

G_d helps us by feeding our intelligence, by feeding our brains and minds and by broadening our vision. He sharpens and broadens our vision, so that we perceive more and come to know more.

Can we overlook true education? No. True education is the main instrument that G_d created. You ask, “How did He create education.” You think on it. The main tool, main instrument, main means for helping us is “correct education.”

Look how soon the Muslims who followed Muhammed, the new Messenger and new Prophet on this earth, came into knowledge and sciences and the ability to build higher institutions of learning and became the leaders in the world for doing that. It happened very soon.

Historians who write about Muhammed the Prophet say that he is alone in that kind of achievement. That no human being on this earth in the history of man had ever achieved so much in such a short period of time. That is what they say. Isn’t that the promise in the Bible, when Jesus was born? “Behold, I come quick.” It does not take long.

You can read Scripture and lose something. But if you read it from cover to cover, from the beginning to the end, you will see that nothing remains the theme as long and as constantly as vision, perception, seeing. In the beginning of the Bible, in Genesis, with Adam, the question of him seeing correctly comes up: “Oh, don’t fear G_d. Listen to me and your eyes will come open.”

The strongest urge in human life is to see the Light. If I see the Light, I will see how to move, how to get around. I can feel more secure. So it begins with seeing. And the New Testament at the end of the Bible also begins with seeing: “And the blind man rejoiced that he had been blessed by Christ, peace be on Jesus Christ, to have his blinded eyes open.”

It is seeing. Seeing is perception. Seeing is having the ability to grow into understanding and to envision a better existence for ourselves. That is what G_d created us for.

G_d told Adam to dress the Garden. The Garden was beautiful; it was a Paradise. But it was missing the human contribution to it. So the human comes and produces and puts every other creature to shame.

The beaver can cut logs and build him a home in the water. The bee can make a beautiful air conditioned home to live in; this is science. The bee’s home remains cool, keeping a constant temperature. He builds it with wax produced with his own body, and what he digests produces the wax.

There are other creatures I can name to show you what they can do. But when you go out and look at the natural world untouched by man, nothing is done so big that it readily gets your attention.

The Empire State Building readily gets your attention. The lion will look at that and say, “Whoa, it’s time for me to retreat.” And the ants can actually make roads under the ground with his industry. But he cannot make something to get the attention of all eyes, like man has done.

We know man’s creation of pollution and all the bad news. But I am just talking about his ability, whether he has caused problems or not.

Man is given superior, super ability over all of the other creatures created by G_d. When you look at the Bible and in other Scripture, it tells you of man’s ability and capacity to produce. And G_d influencing him and instructing him is for him to be productive and produce in an abundance of goods.

G_d inspired him to do that. At the same time, G_d is promising that “the blinded eye shall see.” After the Hon. Elijah Muhammad, you should be able to interpret that for yourself.

It means the uneducated shall be educated. And their future does not depend on their masters. But G_d will reveal to one of the uneducated and make that uneducated the new leader and the new light for the world.

That is exactly what happened in the time of Muhammed the Prophet. G_d took a man not educated in Scriptures and not knowing the world of the Christians and Jews, not even interested in it. He was a man raised up among idol worshippers, but he, himself, was never influenced to follow their life. He kept the excellence of human nature.

G_d called Muhammed, and the first word He said to him was “Read. Read in The Name of Your Lord Who Created. He created the human person from a clot or mount of blood adhering or holding itself.” Then He repeated it the second time.

He said, “Read.” Twice G_d says to Muhammed, “Read.” “And your Lord is Most Generous.” He was going to give him a lot more than he could even count.

“The One Who Taught the human being with the pen.” What pen? It was the pen of His Creation. He taught him with the pen of His Creation and with the ink of Created Processes.

Then He says, G_d Himself, “If all the trees on earth could be converted into writing pens, and the seven seas multiplied over into ink, all the trees would be used up and all the seas would be used up, before you use up the Words of
G_d.”

That use to just be fascinating and attractive. But now it is science in my head and in my heart. It is science. Muhammed the Prophet said to his followers, “Do you know what that is?” His followers were always patient and had the respect to wait on him to say what it was.

Perception is the theme from Genesis to Revelation. Perception is the theme from Surah Al-Fatihah to Surah An-Nas. Allah was first introduced to Muhammed as the Creator, not as Allah.

If there were not a plan to work against man’s intelligence, so that the majority are eliminated, excluded, taken out of the race, out of the competition and out of the reward, then G_d would not have designed Scripture the way He designed it. He designed it in that way, because there is an enemy of mankind, of human kind, stepping out ahead of you all the time.

This enemy will create a picture of the world for you to benefit him, the enemy. So G_d has to counter the messages of the enemy by giving you Messengers and Prophets from Himself, to expand your vision, so you can see clearly in this world of darkness. So he said “Read” twice.

G_d is addressing the bad conditions that were prophesied in Scriptures that came before to the People of the Book, Jews and Christians. It said darkness was spread all over the world and nowhere to find the light.

It says a man came upon a little book and picked it up and couldn’t read it. So he went to someone who could read letters or print.

He asked them, “Read this for me, please.” The person said, “I’m sorry, I can’t read.” He was illiterate like he was, if not to the same degree. He comes to another and asks, “Read this for me.” That person said, “I can read the letters, but this is sealed.” What does seal mean?

Seal means locked up. You can’t get out of the lock up, unless the authority who has the key comes and opens up the gate to let you out.

Seal means it is locked up, by the way the language is composed, by the way the knowledge and its meanings and expressions are composed. It is locked up against all but those who have the key for unlocking the knowledge. There is one who can unlock the literary piece to bring out the knowledge.

Industrial man, the son of Adam, calls a creature in the water “seal.” Why? It is because normally, it is a creature that is black like midnight. And it is a creature that is slick and smooth and just slides through the waters. So it is a “Seal.” The one who sealed it is too smooth and too slick for you.

God helps us by freeing and expanding our vision and our eyesight and our perception of reality.  Blindness in Scripture refers to ignorance, that we are just not properly informed, not properly educated or not educated at all. It is talking about those who are blind to the life of Truth that G_d revealed for all people.

It also says in the Bible that there will come a famine that will spread all over the world. It says it will not be a famine of food, but a famine of hearing the Words of The Lord, a famine of hearing the Words of G_d.

Jonah was on the boat sleeping, and G_d had given him a mission to go to Nineveh. This is addressing every human being, men and women. The servants of G_d everyone have been created with a nature to serve G_d on this earth.

Do you think Muhammed wasn’t serving G_d’s Purpose, before G_d called him? He didn’t know Islam and he didn’t know how to read Scripture, but he was already living the human excellence that G_d gave him. He didn’t have to fast for 40 days, because he kept the good life intact.

G_d said he had lived among us 40 years, and that is a lifetime. Life of the common man is 40 years, not 40 calendar years. It is until his nature and what he needs to survive in G_d’s Creation comes into his conscious.

Universal is 4. There are 4 mountains and 4 portions of birds put on 4 mountains. And there are 4 winds blowing on dry bones, bringing them to have flesh and live again. G_d has given every creature its provisions in 4 measures.

You didn’t have to wait on a Prophet to get that; He created you with that. The Constitution guidelines that set the pattern for the growing Constitution of these United States says everyone has inalienable rights.

Don’t say, “Our Messenger.” He is Allah’s Messenger. We didn’t send him, and we didn’t give him what to preach or what he delivered. We are not the Sender. So he is not “your Messenger.” He is your Prophet.

What is the difference? A Prophet is a warner, warning against things to come and opening the eyes to things to come, a seer into the future. That is a Prophet. That ability also is in you, as it is in every Prophet. It is a common property of human creation. That ability is a property of my own nature.

So if he manifested that also in himself, then he is “our Prophet.” He was a human person just like we are. The ability is in all of us, but it came out in our leader, Prophet Muhammed.

Muhammed looked at his people suffering and didn’t know the religious way to search Scripture to find answers. But he was moved in spirit to go away from his people, his countrymen, and go up in a mountain by himself and find a secluded opening in the mountain. He went into the mountain and sat there away from all the people.

He poured out his pain and suffering, and G_d saw him in that state. Muhammed didn’t know who to call on. He didn’t say, “Allah” or “Moses.” He didn’t say “Jesus.” But he knew in his nature to go away from his people, and not to go down but to go up, so he would have a better view of what was around him.

He ascended up the Mountain of the Light, as it is called. This began to feed his mind, and his mind became broader and broader. His soul was humble by nature; it wasn’t an arrogant soul. The more he saw, the more he humbled himself.

G_d saw him in that state and spoke to him, saying, “Read.”

[Imam W. Deen Mohammed - excerpt - First Sunday - October 2nd, 2005]

This is a Post from: A Three Day Journey, a blog dedicated to the Philosophy of Imam W. Deen Mohammed

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