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Man, in his technological advancement, is advancing, but not according to the active Will of God, but, instead, by the permissive Will of God. Man’s technology needs to be perfected, but it’s going to take a righteous scientist to perfect the work of unrighteous scientists. It’s going to take a righteous Nation to correct the wickedness of this present world.

There’s a verse in the Bible that says: “Behold, I make all things new.” It says, ‘There will be a new heaven and a new Earth, and the former things shall pass away.” The Honorable Elijah Muhammad taught us that it meant that there was corruption in the political system and corruption in the religious system.

And because corruption has been in the political and the religious spheres, the people suffer because of corrupt leadership. Muslim political leaders have adopted ideologies and philosophies that may not necessarily be in harmony with the Teachings of the Prophet or the Teachings of the Holy Qur’an.

Religious leaders—imams and sheikhs—have come up under these political leaders and they have preached a watered-down Islam for fear of persecution by the political leaders who have gone astray from the Teachings of the Holy Prophet. Let’s agree with truth.

My brother that spoke before me mentioned that he was a Sunni Muslim. His brother is an Ishmaeli Muslim, and I’m sure we’re among Sufi scholars who have tried to dig very deeply into the esoteric meanings of the Qur’an. But I have never seen that name “Sunni” or “Sufi” or “Hanbali” or “Hanafi” or “Shia” in the Holy Qur’an.

Prophet Abraham didn’t say, “Make me a Sunni.” He didn’t say to Allah (God), “Make me a Sufi.” He said, “Make us submissive to Thee and from our offspring, raise up a nation submissive to Thee.” The Qur’an says, “They did not become divided until after revelation came to them, splitting up their religion into sects and parties, each one rejoicing in what they had due to envy.”

We must deal with this because the Umma (community) of the Prophet is one Umma. It’s not saying that you can’t be Sufi and a Muslim, or Sunni and a Muslim, but you must not exalt your specific difference over the Umma. You must subordinate your specific idea to the oneness of the community.

If you fail to do this, then you and I are guilty of working for Shaitan (Satan) to divide the Muslim Umma, brother against brother, due to our faulty interpretation or understanding of the Qur’an and the Prophet and His Way, Peace Be Upon Him.

We have to admit that Allah (God) Chose the Arabs, and their condition was deplorable. And do you remember in Surah Abasa (80th Chapter of the Qur’an titled “He Frowned”), the Prophet was speaking to some highly placed people and a blind man was tapping his way up to the Prophet and disturbed his conversation.

The Prophet frowned because he evidently was getting his point over and this man interrupted him. And then Allah revealed this Surah titled “Abasa” or “He Frowned” and He says: “He frowned and turned away because the blind man came to him. And what would make thee know that he might purify himself or be mindful so the reminder should profit him.

As for him who considers himself free from need, to him thou dost attend. And no blame is on thee if he purify himself not, and as to him who comes to thee striving hard and he fears, to him thou payest no regard. Nay, surely it is a reminder so let him who will mind it.”

Prophet Muhammad (PBUH) united the Arabs and the Arabs brought the message of Islam to the whole world. Yet, the Holy Prophet in his Hadith said, “The sun that rises from the East, you will see it rising from the West.” Did he mean that the (physical) sun, 853,000 miles in diameter, was going to rise from the West?

Or did he mean that the light of Wisdom that has always come out of the East and shone westward, that in the last days of the world a light would come out of the West that would shine back eastward.

Then Prophet Muhammad [PBUH] said he heard the footsteps of Bilal going into paradise ahead of his own. What did he mean? Do you think that Bilal (a Black man who was the caller to prayer) could enter Paradise ahead of the Prophet Himself?

I don’t think so. Nobody goes ahead of the Prophet. He makes the way for us. I believe he was saying that his community, entrusted with the responsibility of spreading the message, fell victim to Shaitan (Satan) and started attending to those who felt free of need.