In The Name of Allah, The Beneficent, The Merciful.
A nation is no greater than its service to the weak and the poor and
the disadvantaged of that nation. If we believe in the scriptures,
particularly of the Bible and the New Testament, Jesus lays out a
yardstick that will be the determining criterion of the Judgment of God
of a nation in the last days. Certainly in a country that professes to
be a Christian country based on a Judeo-Christian ethic, this criterion
should be held high as the measuring stick to help us to see how far
off the country is and what danger the country is in by measuring its
distance from the criterion.
What is the criterion laid down by the Master, Himself, who will be
judging? One of the disciples asked the Master (Jesus), when he gave
them the criterion that they should minister unto the sick, the
imprisoned, and those out of doors: “When were you sick and imprisoned
and we ministered not unto you? When were you homeless or out of doors
and we gave you not shelter? Master, when were you without and we did
not for you?” And the Master said, “In as much as you have not done
this to the least of these, my brethren, you have not done it also unto
me.” The Master laid down the criterion.
In America, we have millions today who are homeless. We have many
more millions who are sick, imprisoned, impoverished and weak, and it
appears as though the conservative element of the country is moving
away from care for the poor, the weak, the helpless, and the children
and catering to the desires of those that have. But it is the poor and
the weak who built the country. It is the poor and the weak who have
fought, bled and died to maintain America as a great nation. Now
America is turning her back on the weak and blaming the condition of
the country on the poor, on the Black, on the Hispanic. In reality, the
mismanagement of the wealth and people of this country is the fault of
those who are at the top who have held power, who have manipulated the
masses of the people against the good of America and the good of the
world.
How will America answer to Christ, with human beings sleeping under
bridges and America is spending over half a trillion dollars to bail
out the savings and loan industry, but won’t spend money to bail out
those veterans who fought, bled and died, who are sleeping under
bridges, who have fallen on hard times, whose homes and cars have been
repossessed?
What is America coming to? The cities are filled with crime and
violence. People can’t walk the streets in safety. The elderly of the
nation are preyed upon by wicked, unscrupulous people who sometimes rob
them of their life savings and of their little social security checks.
The babies of the nation are abused, murdered, drowned in hot water,
even put in ovens by their parents. The stress of life in America is
such that some parents can’t handle the crying of children. So babies
are coming to hospitals dying of trauma, shock, their heads bashed,
thrown against the wall, thrown out of windows by parents who have had
enough. Young girls in a sex-mad society are having their sexual nature
titillated by sick television programs, sick movies, sick video tapes,
sick songs from a sick, decadent culture that is using the talent of
gifted people to spread degenerate life in the name of music and art.
Babies are having their sexual nature titillated. Mothers are not home
because they have to work. Daughters are left to be savaged by brutal
men, sometimes their own fathers and uncles, cousins and brothers. And
we ask, “What is the world coming to?”
America the beautiful is becoming America the ugly. They say love
her or leave her. We have no place to go. Some of us will say we will
run to Africa. But Africa is suffering, too. We say we will run to
Europe. Be careful. We say we will run to South America or to Mexico.
There is no hiding place today. The Judgment of God has touched every
nation in every corner of the globe.
This is a beautiful country, but the human beings within it are
being turned into something that God Himself is angry at and sick of.
To make God angry is to incur His wrath. John the Revelator said, “And
the nations were angry and Thy wrath is come. It is the time of the
dead that they should be judged and given justice.” Everywhere you look
people are angry. You get on the subway and look in their faces, you
don’t see peace. You drive your car, you can hardly find humanitarian
gestures. People will kill you over a parking space; kill you over a
place in line in the bank or in the supermarket. Arguments are breaking
out in the home and now the schools are battlegrounds. There is no
peace anywhere to be found.
Not only are the nations angry, but God is angry. He is angry at
what He is looking at—debauchery and filth paraded as morality—and if
you speak against it, you are considered something ugly. If a pastor
speaks against homosexuality, he is called homophobic. If he speaks
against lesbianism, he is not up to speed. He is living in old times.
If we take a moral stand against adultery and fornication, we are out
of touch with reality. If we criticize our government for its
corruption, we are called un-American. If we criticize the behavior of
White people in their injustice toward Blacks, and if we as Black
people want to come together and find some solace and peace among
ourselves, we are called racists in reverse.
So we better not even speak the truth because if you speak the
truth, somebody is going to get hurt. But truth is your best friend,
because truth will give us a mirror to allow us to see ourselves and
how far off we are from the standard of God. Somebody has to tell the
truth. Somebody has to be willing to pay the price of the truth. Truth
is more important than our little positions. Truth is more important
than being a mayor or a police chief or a senator or a cardinal or a
pope or an imam or the President of the United States. Truth is bigger
than us all.
The Holy Qur’an teaches us that Allah created the heavens and the
earth with truth. This universe is sustained with truth. There is no
position of power that can be sustained over any long period of time
based on falsehood and injustice. What did we see in Oklahoma? What was
it that had us mesmerized? It’s a wake up call. White folks have always
thought it was Black people they had to watch out for. White folks have
always feared Black unity as though our unity would mean that we would
do to them what they and their fathers have done and continue to do to
us. How much they misread Black people. They don’t mind us having guns,
as long as we shoot one another. But they only give you enough to get
you in trouble with yourself.
I have warned, by the Grace of God, in the past that trouble would
not come from us, but America’s trouble would come from her own
dissatisfied White people of this nation who are fed up with the
government and the government’s misrepresentation of the Constitution
and of what the founding fathers of this nation set in motion.
Terrorism is an act of desperation of men and women who refuse to
believe that any avenue for the redress of their grievance will be
listened to. Consequently, they feel they must take the matter of
justice into their own hands. When a people are deprived of justice,
their minds become imbalanced. That’s why justice is represented by a
female holding a scale with a blindfold over her eyes, that she is not
to see who you are, your station in life, what your color, culture, or
national origin is, how much money you have or don’t have, how much
education you have or don’t have. Justice should be blind to adjust the
scale; the weight of facts in one hand and the weight of action in
accord with facts on the other, giving balance. And when you live in a
world whose very root is unjust, it is only a matter of time before the
injustice carried on by those in high places reaches down to infants,
and the scale becomes so imbalanced that the people lose the ability to
see correctly, hear correctly, perceive correctly. That imbalance is
referred to as insanity. Sanity and sanitary deals with cleanliness,
and that which is unclean is unsanitary. Unsanitary leads to disease,
and disease, unsanitary, unclean is the same as insane.
Brother Farrakhan, are you saying that every insane person is
unclean? Every person that is insane is possessed of an unclean spirit.
And when your mind is imbalanced, you do things that are unclean. You
will defecate on yourself. You will urinate on yourself. You will do
unsocial things, unclean things. You don’t think you are doing anything
wrong because in your own mind you are all right, because you have lost
the standard by which decency and sanity and cleanliness is measured. A
Muslim could not be a terrorist because no Muslim is so hopeless that
he denies Allah’s sufficiency that he has to kill and maim and
brutalize innocent people to make a sad, silly point.
In the Bible, God says, “I will give you your own blood to drink and
you will be drunk with your own blood as with sweet wine.” America is
becoming a boiling cauldron of gross dissatisfaction. The Honorable
Elijah Muhammad said 30 percent dissatisfaction could lead to a change
that affects 75 percent of the world. But when you get 100 percent
dissatisfaction, it leads to a total change. What you have all over the
earth is total dissatisfaction and this is why Jesus said there would
be wars and rumors of wars and kingdom would rise against kingdom, and
nation against nation. And this is just the beginning of sorrow. There
would be famine, pestilence and earthquakes in diverse places. Is not
that what you are seeing?
The Honorable Elijah Muhammad said to me that Justice is a Law that
distinguishes between right and wrong. It goes to sleep with you. It
wakes up with you. Whether you are knowledgeable of that Law or not, it
is alive and working either with you, for you or against you,
regardless to what the courts do. The Law of Justice, the balance that
God set up in the universe, you can’t escape it. The fool thinks in his
heart, “I have gotten away with my evil.” What a fool you are indeed.
God says in the Bible: “Whatsoever is done in the dark, I am going to
bring it forth into the light.” The Holy Qur’an says: “Though it be the
weight of an atom, hidden in a rock and the rock buried in the earth,”
He said, “Yet will I bring it forth.”
The Bible teaches, “Prepare slaughter for the children for the
iniquities of their fathers.” You think you are getting away? My silly
little brother, you reefer smoking, coke using, crack sniffing, liquor
drinking, freakish acting brother, you think you are getting away
because there are no police around? The police are there. Not the city
police, but the police of the Law of God. You use crack and the crack
affects your brain, but not just your brain. It affects the head of the
sperm, and it affects the egg. You are passing on your sin to your
unborn generation. You are passing on your filth and your degeneracy to
your babies, and they will be made to die for your craziness. Nobody
gets away.
In the Bible, there is a creature, a monster, at the depth of the
sea. The Bible calls him Leviathan. You can go in the depths of the sea
all you want, you are not going to see a monster that look’s like
Leviathan. The Honorable Elijah Muhammad said Leviathan represents the
destructive force of submarines that are at the depth of the sea, and
they bring destruction, but there is a way to bring those (submarines)
up. He said all God has to do is bring a wind, and let the wind start
coming in a circular motion, turning, whipping the waves, and as it
whips and turns, the waves disturb the submarine on the bottom. The
nose (of the submarine) starts coming up because the water is
disturbing it. As the water further disturbs the submarine it starts
getting straight. It’s coming now. Then the waters part and come back
together, and when you see the waves part and then come back together,
the ship is gone.
That is the same way it is with secrets. You have this thought
laying on your mind, and you have suppressed it to the depth. “I know
it’s there, but”—and all on the top is a false laugh, false this and a
false that because you are conscious that the secret is laying there.
Then all of a sudden God sends winds, turbulent things in your life
that begin to swirl around you. The winds of confusion are bringing it
to the surface, and all of a sudden you may see a little something,
just a word spoken, but the word is telling you about something else
that is laying deep under. All of us have something that we don’t want
somebody else to know. The Bible teaches, “Blessed is the man whose sin
the Lord doth hide ”
