religious experience; either we went to church, the synagogue or the
mosque and we heard the preacher talk about God’s Judgement. Sometimes
the reverend would say it in a way that would make it so
frightening—and the Judgement of Allah (God) is a frightening thing.
The pastor would get us to act better by terrifying us. There is
something about fear that makes people do things in order to escape
what they are afraid of. When you pick up the Bible and the Holy
Qur’an, you read about the Judgement in a way that is so terrifying
that today many pastors don’t want to talk about it. We want to talk
about the Grace of God, the Mercy of God, the Forgiveness of God. But
very few want to talk about the Wrath of God.
Each of us, as human beings created in the image of
Allah (God), can on occasion become angry. When you are angry, you are
capable of doing that which, under normal emotional circumstances, you
would not do. Anger has degrees to it. I can be angry and have my anger
under control. You may see a fire in my eyes; you may hear something in
my words, but I’m keeping myself under control. But, there is another
kind of anger when we allow it to get to that point where we are unable
to control the reaction that comes from our anger. We reach a point,
then, of insanity. We have lost the balance. Then what comes from our
mouths and hands can be very destructive.
The Bible says, “A wise man will be slow to anger.” If
you visit the prisons, we see many inmates, male and female, who are
there, not because they are bad, but a circumstance came up in their
lives that ignited the passion of anger. They lost control and, in that
moment of loss of control, they reached for something to inflict pain
on the object of their anger. When it was over and the anger subsided,
someone lay wounded or dying, and a human being was sent to prison for
many years because we lacked control of the emotion called anger.
In the Book of Genesis in the Bible, Allah (God) gave
Adam instructions and Adam disobeyed. Allah (God) became displeased and
He was angry with Adam. God’s anger was controlled. He was going to
punish Adam, not kill Adam. When we, in our homes, make a judgement
against our children and wish to inflict pain on them to teach them a
lesson, sometimes we are so stressed out that we literally do terrific
harm to both the body and mind of our children because we could not
control our anger.
Adam and Eve had two children, Cain and Abel. The Bible
talks about Abel and Cain making an offering to Allah (God). He
accepted the offering of Abel, but rejected the offering of Cain. Some
words of the Bible say: “The Lord had respect unto Abel and to his
offering; But unto Cain and to his offering he had not respect.”
Most of us, when we think we have been disrespected, it
kindles anger. But the thing that has been wounded is your
self-concept, which is your ego, and because you may not have the
characteristic of humility, you see disrespect as a great insult. If
the disrespect is fueled by another passion called envy, then it leads
us to anger.
The Bible says, “And Cain was very wroth and his
countenance fell.” Whenever you are angry, there is a change in your
countenance. “And the Lord said unto Cain, why art thou wroth? And why
is thy countenance fallen?” That’s a good question. God knew why Cain
was angry, but He wanted Cain to examine the motive for his anger. “Is
it my bruised ego that makes me angry? Did somebody really wrong me?
Why am I angry? And why is my countenance fallen?” Then, Allah (God)
said to Cain, “If thou doest well, shalt thou not be accepted? And if
thou doest not well, sin lieth at the door.”
When you are angry, sin is right at the door of your
anger, because your passion is about to cause you to break the law.
Allah (God) talked to Cain and asked him to analyze why he felt anger.
There is nothing that hits the ego as hard as being rejected in
comparison to something and somebody that appears to be accepted. In
every family, some children grow up feeling accepted while others feel
rejected. And the more rejected you feel, the uglier your countenance
becomes.
Anger has to be controlled, lest in our anger we harm
what we love. Jesus became angry and greatly disturbed over the
moneychangers in the temple. They were defiling the House of God
because they loved money more than the principles that the House is
founded upon. So, Jesus drove them out of the temple with anger, but
his anger was controlled. He let them know he was angry, why he was
angry and he took appropriate action—controlled anger, controlled
disapproval and controlled chastisement. The result was that they
understood there was another side to Jesus. Though loving, kind,
merciful and sweet, there was another side to him. No matter how good
any of us think we are, we are all capable of doing horrendous things
when circumstances make us angry and we lose control in that moment of
passion.
When you live in a society or world like this that is
founded on racism, sexism and an unbridled materialism, we who have
been servitude slaves, never finding justice, have anger in us. We have
anger, not because we think we have been disrespected—we know we have
been disrespected. If Allah (God) ever asked us, like He asked Cain,
why is your countenance fallen and why are you angry, we could say,
“God, it is because of 400 years of injustice, 400 years of watching
our women raped and disrespected, our children slaughtered. Why
shouldn’t we be angry?” One day, the anger will not be able to be
controlled. Allah (God) is going to let the anger loose like a mighty
hurricane, tornado, earthquake or volcanic eruption. Then, America will
know that the price of injustice is the destruction of the country.
Whenever Allah (God) is angry, His anger is justified.
And when He lets loose His anger, the destructive fury of His power
destroys everything that it touches. The Bible says, “Behold, the day
cometh, that shall burn as an oven; and all the proud, yeah, and all
that do wickedly, shall be stubble; and the day that cometh shall burn
them up, saith the Lord of hosts, that it shall leave them neither root
nor branch.” When Allah (God) comes to pluck up the wicked, He is not
cutting off a branch; He is killing it at the root.
Pastors today speak of the goodness of Jesus Christ,
the mercy of Jesus Christ, the love of Jesus Christ, but they are a
little slow in preaching the Wrath of God through Jesus Christ. When
Moses met God in a burning bush, the bush was burning, but it was not
consumed. The Honorable Elijah Muhammad said the anger of Allah (God)
was so great, yet controlled. The bush never burned, but the fire was
there. Allah (God) withheld His Wrath and sent His servant to Pharaoh
to give him a chance because Allah (God) must not be untrue to His own
nature. He must show mercy and must be willing to forgive even the
worst enemy. He must give you a chance to receive His grace. So He
controls His anger and He sends you a Warner. Then, He sits back and
watches how you treat the warning.
We are in the Time of Judgement. When Allah (God)
renders His Judgement, He wants us to agree with Him. So He is patient.
He will send His Judgement down and then wait on you to become
convinced because, at first you may think God is wrong.
When Allah (God) told Abraham that He was going to
destroy all the people of Sodom and Gomorrah except Lot and his family,
Abraham asked Allah (God) would He destroy the righteous along with the
wicked. God did not say yes or no. He told Abraham that if he could
find 50 righteous people, He would save the city. He gave him a job:
Prove My Judgement wrong.
But Abraham could not find 50. He could not find 40. He
could not find 30. He could not find 20. He could not find 10. God
still tried him. He told Abraham to go back and find one. And when
Abraham came back and could not find one, it said that fire and
brimstone fell on Sodom and Gomorrah that same day. Why? Because Allah
(God) does not want us to disagree with His Judgement. When He sends
His Judgement, He gives you a period of grace that will allow the
wicked to repent and the righteous to understand.
I live in America. It is the greatest country on earth,
but it is the most wicked country. America boasts, “I sit a queen, and
am no widow, and shall see no sorrow.” She has bombed out cities of
other nations and brought other nations to total ruin, not losing a
plane or pilot. She is the only remaining superpower and Allah (God)
made her that for His purpose. Will you submit, America, or must you be
taken and destroyed?
When Allah (God) sends down His Judgement, He makes a
decision. He says, “Behold, I make all things new.” Not some things—all
things. Then He says, “There will be a new heaven and a new earth and
the former things shall pass away.” This world is not good because the
enemy of Allah (God) rules it. So when Allah (God) starts judging a
world in which America is the chief, she is the head of a world of
nations that have to pass away. Kingdoms have to pass away and systems
have to pass away. And people who operate systems that uphold the
kingdoms and are in the nations that fight against the Kingdom of Allah
(God) all have to go.
From the Honorable Minister Louis Farrakhan
