They call New York City the city that never sleeps. You will find in New York City at any time of night people out on the streets, especially the youngsters. 

Why?  It is because they can’t rest at night.  They stay up all night and sleep in the day. And they call them "night people."  They are out in the streets all night and when day comes, they go home to rest or to sleep. 

This is a reversal of their original nature.  Every living thing, except a few "weirdoes" among the jungle creatures, rests at night.  If you become that night creature and don’t know how to face that night scene, you become very weird.

But if you see the darkness and the jungle as the confusion of life, that permits no light of understanding, then you can become a night hunter through the confusion of the world – to make it through the night to see another day.

This world is too big for man. The best work that man has done is the work that he has done reading creation, reading natural phenomenon, then extracting from natural phenomenon the knowledge, the message, the science for building his world.

Never think that man has stepped ahead of matter. Matter is always ahead of man. And he will stop moving forward, if he turns himself off from matter.

Science continues to grow, because man continues to go to matter to get science. And everything else in our lives, we owe it to the earth and to the heavens that impart also picture instructions to the minds of human beings.

We are the product of our mother, and our mother is firstly Mother Earth. Then we are the product also of the heavens. And the heavens seen together with the earth represents all matter.

What is all matter? Big Momma.

Man has to expand his interests and vision to include all  matter in his interest. Then he can take help from the skies.

The Scriptures say – not one but both – your needs are supplied from heaven and from earth. It is speaking of all people.

I am speaking of Scripture in the total picture of Scripture.

After all, our Scripture, the Last Book called Qur’an, is a continuation of Scripture that was before the Qur’an.

Scripture is one continuous movement, one continuous progression.

• Imam W. Deen Mohammed – 1st Sun Address – 03/05/2006