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Wednesday, June 18, 2025

Confusion reigns

 

“Confusion among the heads of the government of the wicked is destroying the foundation of their world. ‘AS THOU HAST DONE SO SHALL IT BE DONE UNTO THEE.’ This World of the wicked has confused the Black Man’s world for six thousand (6,000) years. Now, their world must be removed to make way for a better world and the All-Wise Omnipotent God Is Able and Capable of Confusing us so that we will do the things that we would not do if we were free to exercise sanity of mind and wisdom.

“IN ALL of America’s confusion, which some may refer to as her dilemma—but her condition is beyond that word—this is a grievous confusion of the head officials.

“THE BASIS of this confusion is due to the injustice that the American White people has done to her Black once-slave. Her confusion is also due to her effort to thwart the Aims and Purposes of Almighty God, to Bring About the resurrection of the blind, deaf and dumb Black Man. Allah (God) Who Came in the Person of Master Fard Muhammad, to Whom Praises are due forever, Will Do the reverse and Make you (White America), blind, deaf and dumb in what you are trying to do for your own security.”
The Honorable Elijah Muhammad,  Muhammad Speaks, July 13, 1973

It has been less than a month since Donald J. Trump returned to the White House and he has kept some promises: Freeing 1,500 Jan. 6 insurrectionists who fought police and tried to overthrow the 2020 election.

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Clearing out the leadership of the Justice Department and threatening FBI employees as part of his retribution. Halting spending and shutting down U.S. aid programs as well as offering federal employees a dubious buyout, which thousands have taken.

Moving to close federal agencies, like the Education Department, empowering billionaire Elon Musk to break government and conducting witch hunts to make sure federal Diversity, Equity and Inclusion programs are dead.

Pushing tariffs against Mexico and Canada that led to “concessions” in a policy that shook Wall Street. Going after immigrants, sometimes detaining U.S. citizens and Native Americans, and at times using military planes to remove people from the United States.

On the global stage, he made a major announcement Feb. 4, while hosting accused war criminal and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in the White House. “The U.S. will take over the Gaza Strip, and we will do a job with it too,” Mr. Trump declared at a news conference with Prime Minister Netanyahu.

“You look over the decades, it’s all death in Gaza,” the president also said. “This has been happening for years. It’s all death. If we can get a beautiful area to resettle people, permanently, in nice homes where they can be happy and not be shot and not be killed and not be knifed to death like what’s happening in Gaza.”

Mr. Trump said the U.S. will “own” Gaza, redevelop the area as the “Riviera of the Middle East,” and would use military force to accomplish his goals if necessary. It is estimated that just removing Gaza’s rubble, after decimating Israeli bombings, will take 15 years.

“I do see a long-term ownership position, and I see it bringing great stability to that part of the Middle East, and maybe the entire Middle East,” Mr. Trump said from the East Room of the White House. “This was not a decision made lightly.

Everybody I’ve spoken to loves the idea of the United States owning that piece of land, developing and creating thousands of jobs with something that will be magnificent,” he added.

With his clear words dominating global headlines and news coverage, White House officials and supporters were “Trump-splaining” the next day, backing away from military intervention, America owning Gaza, the permanent removal of 1.8 million people and much of what the president said.

Confusion and anger rose in the Muslim world and among other nations.

There was even confusion inside the president’s party. “I thought we voted for America first,” Republican Senator Rand Paul said on social media. “We have no business contemplating yet another occupation to doom our treasure and spill our soldiers blood,” he posted on X.

The Democrats are confused about how to respond to the president and leader of the free world. They don’t know which way to go, which Trump challenge to address and how to appeal to White voters. They are lost, bereft of  new ideas to solve serious problems the U.S. faces. Apparently not even Democratic strategists have found the magic political key.

Lawsuits were filed and federal courts held up some monarchical Trump dictates. Confusion grew. Were the president’s actions legal, would the Supreme Court get involved? What would that mean?

The American people are confused with politics dividing families, growing extremism and anger, economic uncertainty, personal insecurity and fear for the future.

Is any of this good for the United States? Does it bode well for her survival? Can she stop or check her fall? Can she end the confusion?

The Honorable Minister Louis Farrakhan and his teacher, the Most Honorable Elijah Muhammad, warn she cannot as God Himself is bringing her to ruin for her evil done to her once slaves and their children and evil perpetrated on the Indigenous people of this land.

“I APPEAL to you Black Brothers and Sisters, you should unite with me and enjoy heaven while you live, now, or suffer the consequences through the lack of the necessities of life,” wrote the Most Honorable Elijah Muhammad in a July 1973 edition of the Muhammad Speaks newspaper, which was published by the Nation of Islam.

“THE WORLD OF CONFUSION is breaking up with all kinds of disagreement between factors and factors. Take for instance—never has America had so many strikes. Everyone is against the other. If this is not a CONFUSED WORLD, then point out to me one that is more confused,” he continued.

“IN the government of America, there is nothing that is at peace in it. There is no agreement. Everybody is dissatisfied. Everybody is showing their dissatisfaction by disregarding the way that they have been going. Worker is against worker. Politician is against politician. —A CONFUSED WORLD, AMERICA.”

Stand 2

 


Now, all of these wonderful men and women that are my helpers, they go through something to be a helper, you know?  And everybody can’t take it, especially in a military-line organization.

The Nation of Islam:  See, this is not any kind of “organization,” this is absolute military!  And let me tell you something:  You don’t need to be in any organization that’s not military.  Christian family (you know the song): “Onward Christian Soldiers.”  But how many Christians are really soldiers? 

The Honorable Minister Louis Farrakhan

Paul (in the Book of Ephesians, Chapter 6) was trying to get us to put on “the whole armor of God,” that we may be able to stand against the wiles of Satan.  Satan is a wily beast.  And if you don’t have on “the helmet of salvation.” …  well what is meant by “helmet?”

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The blood of Jesus will put a “helmet” on your head because he is so wise.  If you lived the life he taught you, studied the wisdom he gave you, (then you will be able to say): “Oh man, my helmet is on strong, man!”  But you can’t play this “game” (called “life” without The Armor of God); so, you have to also put on “the breastplate of” what?  “Righteousness.”

We love talking “God.” It’s nice.  And we’re in the church, spiritually masturbating: doing things that make us feel good, but not living the life of Christ.  If you don’t want to live the life that you preach, you’re no damn good.  … Do you know it is righteousness that keeps you (“sustains you”) in a world like this? 

Do you know why they hate The Nation of Islam?  It doesn’t mean that we are righteous, but we are striving to be righteous; and if you strive to be better today than you were yesterday, you are putting on your breastplate of righteousness.  Then you have “the sword of” what?  “The Spirit [which is The Word of God].”  (Ephesians 6:17) 

“The sword of  The Spirit”:  What is “spirit?”  It’s the energy of life itself!  You can’t go to war and not have any spirit!

See, when you know God, The Knowledge of God takes the fear out of you. … Dear brothers and sisters, fear is your worst enemy.  Fear chokes you; fear won’t release you to be the great man, the great woman, the great child, the great thinker.  You can think beyond where you are, you can do bigger than what you are doing if only fear were removed from your hearts.

Satan distorts past and present truth of Jesus

Did you know that the biggest trick that Satan has pulled on the human family is his deceitful way he represented Jesus Christ?  Please bear with me; we can go in a little deeper water, okay?  Family, look at this:  The enemy knew that Jesus was the man.

To all my Christian family, you’ve got the right man!  You just don’t know yet how to properly represent him, because the enemy made you think 2,000 years ago was The Jesus you fell in love with.  We, The Nation of Islam, know the true history of Jesus as taught by God Himself!

Jesus 2,000 years ago was not The Messiah, he was a prophet.  He was the last prophet to the Jews.  (“What Farrakhan?”  Yeah, I’m coming strong now.)  He was the last prophet to the “House of Israel”—the entire White race. 

They were made to raise hell; everywhere they have gone, they have destroyed the peace of the human family.  But they decided when they translated the Bible to make the work of The Messiah, which is so magnificent,  instead of putting it in the right time frame.

They made us look 2,000 years ago, and that man was not The Messiah!  In fact, he learned that he was 2,000 years too soon to end the civilization of the Jews.  In the civilization of the Jews, they are the boss: this is their world.

“Oh wait a minute, I know a few Jews; they’re not …  see now, he’s an anti-Semite.”  Stop it.  I am a truth-teller.

To my Mexican family:  Why aren’t the real dark indigenous Mexicans in power?  Look at South America. In practically every country the ruler is White, and he claims he is “Peruvian,” he is “Bolivian,” he is “Ecuadorian,” he is “Brazilian,” he is “Venezuelan,” he is “Columbian.” 

But look at the country, and look at the dark people that are there. They never reach where their power would allow them to reach, but they are so masterfully manipulated by a memetic White man.

When I say a “memetic White man” (and brothers and sisters, you pay close attention to this point):  A “memetic White man” is a White man that takes on, like a chameleon, the language, the culture, the history, the folk music of the place where he goes.

So, you have Mexicans, but they are Mexican Jews; they run the country.  You have German Jews; Polish Jews; Ukrainian Jews; Russian Jews; Lithuanian Jews; Estonian/Latvian/Denmark Jews; Sweden/Norway/Finland Jews; you have Italian Jews; you have French Jews. 

And everywhere they are, they take on the language, the culture, but they run the money; they run the business.  When there is a Jewish holiday, everything gets silent.  They are very wise people.  So, Jesus was their last prophet.

Prophets don’t come because things are right.  That’s like the sheriff visiting your house.  What is he doing there?  “Something is going on here,” that’s why the sherriff comes. 

Well, when God sends a prophet, it’s not because you’re doing right, it’s because you’re doing something wrong that has stirred the anger of God, and now the prophet wants to warn you and correct you, to put you back on a right course. 

So, Jesus,  he was no “Jew.”  See, we want them to challenge what we say—and you (scared-to-death Negro),  just shut up and sit down—and tell them, “Come on out and meet Farrakhan in the public!”  You can’t defeat Elijah Muhammad’s wisdom!  I know you can’t! 

I know all of you have Jewish friends.  I’ve got some, too!  But when you know them, and you are not afraid to say who they really are, they move to destroy you.  I have a daughter who lives in Mexico. She was educated there and has a Jewish friend. 

And I guess she was staying overnight, and so she decided to ask the girl, “Why is it that you don’t like Jesus?”  And the little girl told her: “Because he called us devils.” 

Now, a lot of you say: “Jesus did that?  He said that?”  Go back home and pick up your Bible; all right, scholars, theologians, come on, go get your Bible!  Jesus:  His mother Mary was an Egyptian woman, and Jesus was a member of the Black nation.  

He came to warn the Jews that the end of their time was coming!  He thought he was the one that was to end their civilization, and he found out he was 2,000 years too soon. 

So, what did White folk do?  They used Jesus’ name to shield a dirty religion under the holy and righteous name of a servant of God.  Jesus never taught anywhere in the Black world—not The Jesus of 2,000 years ago.

The FBI has been the worst enemy of Black advancement.  “Can you prove that, Farrakhan?”  Yes.  See, the Jews have control over those agencies of government.  …  This enemy: he is so angry with Farrakhan, that now if you like me you have to either hide it (or lie about it), especially if you want advancement in the White man’s world.  … 

Why do they hate me with so much passion?  Because Jesus, my brother, who was their last prophet, was 2,000 years too soon.  I am on time.

Seminal Fluid

 

Tuskegee University campus

 

Why Tuskegee?  Booker T. Washington had his young students in architecture lay out the plans for Tuskegee Institute; they took the clay land and made bricks and built the buildings.  They were not looking for somebody else to do it for them!  They were learning how to make themselves useful to self, as well as others.

The Honorable Elijah Muhammad loved Booker T. Washington!  The Honorable Elijah Muhammad was in love with Tuskegee University; and he said to us he wanted to see Tuskegee returned to those wonderful principles upon which that institute, and now university, was built. 

When I spoke to the students at Tuskegee University on March 22, 2013, I said: “You are more than who you think you are…  Because of ‘who’ you are, you are in danger. 

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So tonight I want to expose the danger, and by God’s Grace, give you the guidance to be exactly what I said you are: ‘The Seminal Fluid’ of The Kingdom of God.” 

Tuskegee University has received high amounts of government funding for research and experimentation, the most recent being the HeLa, or “immortal cells” (the oldest, most commonly-used human cell line), which are cancer cells used in testing and creating vaccines! 

I said at Tuskegee: “Your former slave masters don’t give you money without another purpose beyond what they tell us!  … You have to remember history to guide you in the way you think!  It’s all right to think that people have ‘changed’—but you cannot go to sleep; you have to watch to see if the change is real.” 

For example, in the 1940s the U.S. government experimented by infecting the people of Guatemala with syphilis and gonorrhea and sexually transmitted diseases!  The government has now acknowledged this;

On October 1, 2010, the Secretary of Health and Human Services, Kathleen Sebelius, apologized in a statement with Secretary of State Hillary Clinton regarding this HeLa experimentation. 

And, brothers and sisters, this is what I’m afraid of; that with the research that is going on in Tuskegee with the HeLa cells, now The Enemy has created genetic weapons that are designed specifically for certain genetic groups—and they are designing different drugs for that same purpose! 

Dr. Jonas Salk used the HeLa cells in producing the polio vaccine; but yet, a contaminant was introduced into the vaccine!  Also, it was this HeLa cell that was the carrier of the cancer that was introduced into “SV40” (an abbreviation for “Simian vacuolating virus 40” or “Simian virus 40,”

A polyomavirus that is found in both monkeys and humans) into the polio vaccine; and that’s why the Honorable Elijah Muhammad, in the ’60s, forbad his followers from taking the polio vaccine. 

Now they say that 2,000 pounds of HeLa cells have been produced…  And they’ve gone all over the world!  So instead of these immortal cells being used to curb the rise of cancer, the opposite is true: 

Cancer is proliferating all over the world, especially in Third World countries—and especially among the Black man and woman in America.  Is this an “accident”? 

Why, in the scheme of things, was the syphilis experiment “so important”?  Why is the HeLa experiment and research “so important”?  Why, in the scheme of things, was this experiment to start at Tuskegee, in Alabama, where Booker T. Washington established the principles 1.) self-reliance, 2.) self-help, 3.) commerce, 4.) industry; and 5.) agriculture—and where George Washington Carver was? 

And they even told George Washington Carver that he should not marry; that he should not have any children, because these oppressors did not want to see another “Carver” in a future generation that their children would have to contend with!  My question is:  What type of research is this, and how will this research benefit us as a people?

Scientists  took these cells without asking for permission, and have made millions of dollars off of these cells.  And the woman—the Black woman, Henrietta Lacks, from which this immune cell, this great cell was taken—has not received anything, though the world is benefiting from this HeLa cell.

Farm land Photo: MGN Online

Why Tuskegee?  Well, Tuskegee is like a “manger.”  A manger is like a trough; it’s a feeder that is made of carved stone, wood or metal construction, and is used to hold food for animals, as in a “stable.”  Jesus was born in a manger… 

It is not an accident that such greatness has come out of that little city!  Tuskegee is a “manger,” it’s a place of feeding ground—a “feeding place” for a people that have been made savage;

That from such an institute, which is now a university, can come that which will civilize not only the Black man and woman of America, but from it, the Honorable Elijah Muhammad saw “a world institution.”

Land of Our Own and Qualifications

When we dedicated Mosque Maryam, The National Center of The Nation of Islam, the Honorable Elijah Muhammad called it a “Center for the Re-Education and Re-Training of the Black Man and Woman of America.”  Did you know, brothers and sisters, that in 1965, Tuskegee Institute invited the Honorable Elijah Muhammad to speak?

He did not go at that time, so he sent our great brother, Dr. Lonnie Shabazz, now known as Dr. Abdulalim Shabazz, a great educator; and he was received with great love and respect, and honor. 

Read Message To The Blackman in America, Chapter “Land of Our Own and Qualifications,” under the section “The Unity of 22 Million” on pages 220-221.  At that time, the Honorable Elijah Muhammad wrote: 

“At present, we have hundreds of clubs and organizations; thousands of teachers; hundreds of educators, scholars, scientists, technicians, doctors, lawyers, judges, congressmen, ambassadors, professors, tradesmen of all kinds and engineers of most every kind.

We have all kinds of religious believers, teachers, preachers by the thousands, agriculturists, herdsmen and cattlemen and fisherman and hundreds of hunters of wild game. …”  We have all these organizations, all these talented people.  The one thing we don’t have is the unity of the whole.

What actually is preventing this unity of now nearly 50 million of us?  The Honorable Elijah Muhammad said it is “the ignorance and foolish love and fear of our enemies” by the professional and leadership class of our people.  “These are disgraceful ‘Uncle Toms’ in a world of freedom, learning an advanced science in every branch of study. 

How long shall we seek the white men’s education to become their servants instead of becoming builders of a progressive nation of our own on some of this earth that we can call our own?”; so the Honorable Elijah Muhammad said, “…

By the help of Allah, I have and I will still prove to you that Allah (God) has given me the only solution to our problem here under this race of [enemies].  If you can prove to me”—us—“that you have a better solution for the future of our Nation”—“Black people,” he said, “I will bring my followers and myself and [I will] join you. 

[But] if the solution given to me from Almighty Allah is best”:  Why don’t you come; why don’t you bring your followers?  Why don’t you sit down and let’s agree on a program that will advance us beyond begging for the crumbs that fall from our enemy’s table?

The Great Honorable Marcus Garvey was inspired by Booker T. Washington’s autobiography Up from Slavery; he said, “I read ‘Up from Slavery,’ and then my dream, if I may call it, of being a race leader, dawned.” 

Marcus Garvey was fond of saying, “Up you mighty race, you can accomplish what you will!”; and the Honorable Elijah Muhammad picked up that motto, and said to us: “Up you mighty nation, you can accomplish what you will!” 

Monday, June 16, 2025

FATI


 What is the meaning of M.G.T. and G.C.C.? 
 Answer: Muslim Girls Training and General Civilization Class.  This was the name given to the training of women and girls in North America, how to keep house, how to rear their children, how to take care of their husband, sew, cook, and, in general, how to act at home and abroad.

The first training unit in the Class is titled “How To Keep House.”  

The wife who weighs other than herself  has rheumatism, headaches, pains in all joints and cannot walk up to the store. 

She is troubled frequently with high blood pressure and registers more than thirty-two; her pulse is nearly eighty times per minute and she dies at the age of 47.

I see that obesity is killing us.

Party Mixx

We are not only eating too much; we are eating the wrong foods either because we do not know what to eat or we know what to eat and are too lazy to prepare the proper and best foods.

“Keeping house” is not just referring to the place in which reside, it beings with Self.  The body is the house in which you and I live.

“He that hat an ear, let him hear.”  If you would open the door, by opening your ears and heart to the Word of Truth, He would come and sup with you, meaning, you and He would eat the same food and become part of one another.

“Let this mind be in you, the same that is in Christ Jesus.”  Christ has the Mind and Spirit of Allah (God).  Can Allah (God) dwell in a dirty place?  The “house” He comes to and the “door” He knocks on is the Consciousness of a people.  Would He enter into and stay in a filthy place?  No!  He is too Self-respecting.

If you are expecting God, Christ, The Messiah, The Mahdi, to visit you, the first thing you must do is clean your house.  Have you noticed how reverential we act when we are in the church, mosque, synagogue or temple?  Why? 

We are in what we believe to be a holy place.  What is holy about it?  “Holy” means it is consecrated, dedicated, to the Word and Service of God.  “Holy” also means “not mixed, tampered with or diluted in any form.”  All who come to these dedicated, consecrated places, come to feed on His Word and become inspired to act in accord with His Dictates.

No mosque, church, synagogue, or temple on Earth is made by the Hands of God; all are fashioned by the hands of men, some with the Guidance of God.  I have watched my Muslim brethren carry on with great religious fervor at the Ka’bah in Mecca;

I have seen, in Jerusalem, the Jews, tears streaming down their faces, in front of the Wailing Wall (remnant of the Temple of Solomon); I have seen Christians swoon at the magnificence of St. Peter’s Basilica in Rome.  Yet, all of this magnificent was built by the hands of men.

No mosque, church, synagogue, temple or cathedral is more magnificent than the human body made, according to the Bible, in the image and likeness of Allah (God). 

According to the Holy Qur’an and the Bible, Allah (God) Himself created and fashioned man out of mud, or clay, or dust.  All three of these words are used in the Scriptures.  Which church or mosque is more worthy of reverence than the human body? 

Am I saying we should worship the body?  By no means!  We should worship Allah (God) and praise Him for creating this magnificent House which is called the human body.  How m any of us look at the act of pouring filth into our bodies as a sacrilegious act of disbelief?  We think nothing of our own bodies. 

We will not raise our voice or bring anything unclean to the church, mosque or synagogue, but we will pour filth and poison into the true House of Worship (our bodies) without the slightest thought.


The Meaning of Father

 

There is a scripture in the Bible that reads, “For unto us a child is born, unto us a son is given; and the government shall be upon his shoulder: and his name shall be called Wonderful, Counselor, The Mighty God, The Everlasting Father, The Prince of Peace, and of the increase of his government of peace there shall be no end.”

This is a great scripture to start a Father’s Day message because Isaiah the Prophet saw one coming that would be born of a woman, meaning he is like you and me, but, though he was born of a woman, a human being, yet the work that he did and the wisdom that he shared would be so magnificent that he would be called Wonderful, a Counselor, a Mighty God. Not Almighty, just Mighty God, the Everlasting Father.

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This one who was born of a woman would become a father, but he would be a father of an everlasting nation, and, of the increase of his government—but it is a special government, a government of peace—there shall be no end. That is powerful.

I want to take it from here to look at Jesus as a son who became a father, because every son ultimately becomes a father, and the quality of your sonship will determine the quality of your fatherhood.

Jesus submitted totally to The Father. Let us look at the words of Jesus and the actions of Prophet Muhammad (PBUH). Jesus said, “Whatsoever I hear, that shall I speak. Whatsoever the Father commandeth me, that shall I do.”

Whatever Prophet Muhammad (PBUH) heard from Allah (God), that he spoke, and whatever Allah (God) commanded him to do, that he did. He related to Allah (God) as an obedient son would relate to a father, and that is what qualified him to be the Father of a Nation of Peace.

If we follow the example of Jesus, the example of Muhammad (PBUH), we would be good sons. Then, we too, could become good fathers.

When the disciples said to Jesus, “Master, teach us how to pray,” Jesus replied, “Pray on this wise: Our Father.” If He is “our” Father, then what He did for Jesus, He is able to do for you and me.

If you want Allah (God) to father you, then, as Jesus was obedient to Him, we have to be obedient to Him. Jesus set such a perfect example, that all you have to do is put your foot down where he put his foot down. His Father will make you into what He made Jesus.

It is the same with Prophet Muhammad (PBUH). He was a soldier and a commander, but Muhammad obeyed Allah (God), and everyone that obeyed Muhammad was raised to eminence from a low state. Do you want to be raised? Then you have to practice being a soldier, being obedient to a son, who is obedient to a father, who is obedient to Allah (God).

“Our Father which art in heaven?” What does that say to men? If you are a father, you should exist in your house in an elevated state. Everybody should look up to father. “Hallowed be thy name.” That which is hallowed is that which is sacred. Some of us did not have a father like that. We never looked up to our fathers.

“Thy Kingdom Come.” How do you know that Farrakhan is a father? Because, when we started in 1977 to rebuild the Nation of Islam, there was nothing, but I had something in my head from the Honorable Elijah Muhammad, and, with faith, we said, “Thy Kingdom Come” and we brought it in.

“Thy will be done.” As a father, you have to have vision, something in your head. What do you see? What do you want? Whatever you see and whatever you want that is of good, by faith you can bring it into existence. With Allah (God), there is nothing that you cannot do.

“Give us this day our daily bread.” Fathers, you have got these hungry children out there and you may have given them some bread yesterday, you may have sent your little payment, maybe last year, and you figured that what you sent last year was sufficient, but the prayer says, “Give us this day our daily bread.” That means every day a father has to be producing for his children and for his family.

“And lead us not into temptation.” When there is hunger in the house, when you do not have anything, you are really leading your family to be tempted.

Satan is always there to tempt you for something that you need or want, but, by an illicit way to get it. If you are a good father, you do not lead your son into temptation, but you deliver him from evil. A father delivers his family from evil.

“Forgive us our trespassers as we forgive those who trespass against us, for Thine is the Kingdom, the Power, and the Glory, forever.” Every father knows he has messed up somewhere along the line. All of us have done it.

So, we ask The God to forgive us for our shortcomings, but we must have a heart to forgive those who have been short with us, but, for how long? Forever! Evidently. That prayer is associated with that One that was born who would be an Everlasting Father.

The Holy Qur’an comes at it a little differently, but it is the same result. The oft-repeated prayer of the Muslims is called “Al-Fatihah,” meaning “The Opening.” If you say this prayer and live this prayer, it opens up everything of good for the servant. 

Bismillah Ar-Rahman Ar-Rahim,” meaning, “In the Name of Allah, The Beneficent, The Merciful.” The Commander is Beneficent; the Commander is Merciful. I am a soldier. Should not I be beneficent? Should not I be merciful?

“Al-hamdu li-llahi Rabbi-l-‘alamin,” meaning, “All praise belongs to Allah (God), the Lord, Nourisher, Sustainer of all the worlds.” So do not do your good deeds, dad, seeking praise or seeking honor. Do good because it is right to do good. One of my children called me and said,

“Happy Father’s Day, Daddy. I have a gift for you.” I said, “You are the gift. You don’t ever have to send me a card to enrich the already rich or buy me something that I don’t really need. Just be a good son and a good daughter. That is the gift to me as a father.”

“Maliki yaumi-d-din,” meaning, “Master of the Day of Judgment” or the “Law of Requital.” He is not a judge, He is a Master. I cannot necessarily be that, but I can be a judge. When the father comes into the house and there is an argument, put it on the table without favoritism. I cannot favor my wife. I cannot favor my elder son. I cannot favor the baby. I have to come straight with justice, because I represent God in my house.

“Iyya-ka na‘budu wa iyya-ka nasta’in,” meaning, “Thee alone do we worship. Thine aid we seek.” There is a singularity of focus of the Believer in God, and what you, as a husband want from your wife is singularity of focus on you and on me, but we are so deficient that we create adultery.

The woman is not adulterous by nature. She is adulterous by circumstance. She would be faithful to us if we could complete her desire for a man. We do not care whether she completes our desire as a woman. It seems like we are always looking someplace, but I am here to tell you that the Qur’an says, “One is better for you, if you but knew.”

“Ihdi-na-s-sirata-lmu-staqim. Sirata-lladhina an‘amta ‘alaihim,” meaning, “Guide us on the right path. The path of those upon whom thou hast bestowed favors.” Every father should be in a position to give favors to his children.

When they obey and do good, favor them, and the ones that rebel, do not favor them. Then, the one that did not get the favor will say to the other one, “Daddy sure gave you a nice bike. I want one, too.”

The favored one will say, “Yeah, but Daddy said you are always disobeying him. He has the money to get you a bike, but, you are acting a fool, boy. You need to get your act together.”

The next thing you know, the one who wants to win favor brings his report card grades up and begins to do things that please the father. Then, dad can say, “Now I can favor you, because you favored me by being obedient. Thank you, son. Here is your bike. Thank you, daughter. Here is your bike.”

To me, the Honorable Elijah Muhammad has been a Wonderful Counselor, a Wonderful Father. Once, he called me to Chicago and gave me guidance on a speech that he wanted me to make. In my stupidity, I thought I did not want to do it the way he wanted me to do it.

He saw that in me, and, very gently, he said, “Brother, I sit right here at my dining room table and I order things for you all around the globe, like a god. I bought thousands of acres of land for you, but I never left my table.

I asked them to describe the land, and when I got a description, I said, ‘That’s a good piece. Buy that.’” He said, “I do not leave my dining room. Surely, I can show you how to make a speech in Atlanta and win.” I said, “Yes, sir,” and I took my notes.

It was one of the best speeches I ever made at that time. He told me that with that speech, if I obeyed him, I would be in the history of 40 countries on this Earth.

I made the speech exactly like he told me, and I have found friends all over the Earth. In all the countries that I have been to, I have friends that he made for me by his work.

When you look at your children, thank Allah (God) for the women or the woman that bore your sons or your daughters. Be kind to them and help them in rearing your children.

Think about the son or the daughter that you brought into this world that you have not even communicated with in years. Write your children if they are away from you, and do not be too proud to say, “Son, I have been wrong.”

There is nothing wrong with that. Do you know your children will love you more if you could muster the courage to say, “Daddy was wrong, but I intend to make it right and I hope you will forgive me for not being to you as I should.”

You have got to start making amends. You have got to start reconciling. You have got to start opening up to your children.

Saturday, June 14, 2025

Amid Strikes

 

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A wide view of the Security Council meeting on the rapidly esclating crisis in the Middle East.


The Council cleared its original schedule to address the rapidly evolving crisis, also hearing from the head of the UN-backed international nuclear watchdog, who warned of the grave risks to regional stability and nuclear safety.

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Overnight from Thursday into Friday, Israeli military strikes targeted nuclear facilities across Iran, including the Natanz enrichment site. Media reports indicate that Hossein Salami, the head of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC), as well as several prominent nuclear scientists, were among those killed.

The strikes also caused significant damage, including reportedly dozens of civilian casualties. Airspace in the region has been largely closed and security forces are on high alert.

Additional Israeli strikes were reported late Friday local time as well as ballistic missile launches by Iran which have reportedly struck parts of Israel, including Tel Aviv.

Avoid conflagration at all costs: DiCarlo

Rosemary DiCarlo, UN Under-Secretary-General for political affairs told ambassadors that the repercussions of the attacks were already reverberating.

“I reaffirm the Secretary-General’s condemnation of any military escalation in the Middle East,” she said, urging both Israel and Iran to exercise maximum restraint and “avoid at all costs a descent into deeper and wider regional conflict”.

She also noted that the military escalation came just as “some significant diplomatic developments” were unfolding, including the planned resumption of United States-Iranian talks in Oman at the weekend. Latest reports indicate that Iran will no longer attend.

Ms. DiCarlo urged parties to stay the diplomatic course.

A peaceful resolution through negotiations remains the best means to ensure the peaceful nature of Iran’s nuclear programme,” she said.

“We must at all costs avoid a growing conflagration which would have enormous global consequences.”

Friday, June 13, 2025

Security

 

Bahrain, Colombia, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Latvia, and Liberia were elected on June 3 to serve as non-permanent members of the UN Security Council, with two-year terms beginning in January 2026.

They will serve through the end of 2027 on the UN body responsible for maintaining international peace and security. They will join the five non-permanent members elected last year—Denmark, Greece, Pakistan, Panama, and Somalia—who will serve through 2026.

The incoming members will succeed Algeria, Guyana, the Republic of Korea, Sierra Leone, and Slovenia, whose terms end in December 2025.

The Security Council has 15 members: five permanent members—China, France, Russia, the United Kingdom, and the United States—who hold veto power, and ten non-permanent members elected by the General Assembly for staggered two-year terms.

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Elections are held annually by secret ballot, with seats allocated by regional group. Candidates must secure a two-thirds majority in the 193-member General Assembly to be elected.

Vote tally

A total of 188 Member States participated in the election, which required only one round of balloting. In the African and Asia-Pacific group, Bahrain received 186 votes, the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) garnered 183 votes, and Liberia received 181 votes, with one country abstaining.

In the Eastern European group, Latvia received 178 votes while 10 countries abstained.

In the Latin America and the Caribbean group, Colombia received 180 votes, with eight countries abstaining.

Debut for Latvia

Latvia will take a seat on the Council for the first time in its history.

With the exception of Latvia, all the elected countries have previously served: Colombia seven times, the DRC twice, and Bahrain and Liberia once each.

Regional groups

The non-permanent seats on the Security Council are distributed according to four regional groupings: Africa and Asia; Eastern Europe; Latin America and the Caribbean; and the Western European and other States group.

This year’s election filled five seats: two allocated to Africa, one to Asia-Pacific, one to Eastern Europe, and one to Latin America and the Caribbean. 

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