We are living in such a time that we hardly know where we're going to escape to. All we know is the place where God's at. If we are believers, then we will be where He is. Every man, as it is written, must go to his own. If you don't have no one, you'd better try and seek your own, even though it be somebody else's, you'd better try and find your way out of America. America is about to be destroyed. The America that we have known is about to be taken away from us. She's not going to tell you, so God taught me, until you see it on your heels, then you'll jump and say, "He said to me I'd believe that fire will burn."
The white man of America is not going to tell you how close his doom is. You will get proud and want to get even with him; that's right. We will believe that we are safe in trying to get even with him, if we knew the exact time; therefore, he's not going to tell you. He's very close to his doom at this present hour, but he's not telling you. He wants you to believe that he yet has a long future. He doesn't have one. The white man was not put on the Earth to live forever. It's a new people among us that were made, not created. I want you to understand this.
You and I are created people, but the white man is not the created people; he is a made people. You and I have a long, long old birth record; it's so long that we cannot tell you when we were born, but the white man, he is a man that our Scientists made here recently, 6,000 years ago. That's comparatively no more than six hours, in the face of the ancient Scientists. He's a very late man.
You use to think and was told that we all were created together and alike. No, we were not created together, nor are we alike. They are different from us and you are different from them. So, don't get that idea that God created us all from Adam. The ignorant are taught a misunderstanding that God made us all at the same time, all are alike, and that God loves us all. They are mistaken.
There are two Gods. One made an evil man and the other one allowed a good man to remain. The evil man began 6,000 years ago, and the good man, we the Black people, have no birth record. God didn't create us 6,000 years ago, no sir. As God has taught me, in the Person of Master Fard Muhammad, to Whom praise is due forever, that we were here millions of years before white folks came. There were no such things as us all coming together. Did you know that would have been a very tough job on the maker, to make a Black man and a white man at the same time?
Just think over that; it would have been a tough job, but He had the black man here for millions and millions and trillions of years before we had a white man, and the white man was made by the black man, so God taught me, which is easy to understand. He was made through grafting. Not as simple as, "Here stands a black man and here stand a white man," like we use to think from the dust of the Earth; you must understand that also has a meaning. It doesn't mean a man was made actually from dust, that's science. The science means this, that he's made of the weaker and the lower character of the black man. This God has given me the job of explaining to you that which you do not know and do not understand. You may say, "Oh, I know all of that." Well, I know you way back yonder, you and I use to pick cotton together too, and in those days, both of us were the same. I didn't know any more than you, but today, God has given me a little more than what I learned in those days, and I'm trying to teach you the new things that He has taught me and wish that you will understand.
You must remember, you show the signs of being discouraged, so we're trying to get a paper out to our people with news in it which they have never read before. The Muhammad Speaks newspaper, when you purchase that paper, it's like buying a book, but you are so disinterested in your own, that you glance at it and you go on. You don't care if anyone else looks at it or not, you are a disinterested people as a whole. Much news going on around you over this dark continent they call North America. It is a shame that you get so disinterested so quick. You don't want to sell the paper. Even if we pay you a dollar a paper to sell it, this is awful. We should take the paper and run with it. Some of the papers are unequal to other publications sometimes of the same; nevertheless, we don't carry it long before we have another one out there with everything of which you want to read.
We must have the best to be the best. We can't go along with the worst discarded things of education, because that's the only thing that builds us up over the world or with the world, it is a good education. It is a good teacher that has that good education to teach us. We must work hard to support them, so they can deliver to us what they have in their heads. Don't ever be stingy with supporting an educator. They must be supported, so that we can be supported. We thank the educator and the teacher of the educator. You must not get proud and want to be dignified over the teacher. Let the teacher grow you up to that, and she will teach you what she knows. If she teaches you what she knows, well, then you're her equal, but if she can't get to you, then you will never her equal.
When a man's feeling for something, he can't be too fast. I remember once, my brother and I were fishing, and he pulled up a fish out of the hollow of a tree in the water. I went to pulling and I pulled at the wrong thing; so, I said I'm never going to be so fast at running behind the other fisherman reaching for fish in hollows. When I saw a snake's head peep up on the water, I didn't want no fish.
The black man must either take his home back, which he was robbed of, or go elsewhere and find him a home. This is a time that everybody is trying to go for self, and if self doesn't have anything, self better get after something for self.
God has come here to take you away from your enemies and sit you in a Heaven, not to carry you no place, but He wants to give you a Heaven right here. You don't have to go off and die. No, stay alive and get into Heaven here. These are really ignorant teachings: To teach a man to die in order to go to a place that he can go while he lives. We have heard in the past that Heaven is something you go to; no sir. Heaven is not something you go to; it is something that you make. It's like hell, you don't go no place in order to go to hell, you get that here. Both Heaven and Hell are in the same place. Everywhere is good until you make it evil or no good. There is no bad place to go. All places are good; you make them bad when you go to them. There's no such thing as a good place. Human beings make good and bad places. If you are no good here, and over there is a good place, why would you want to go to that good place and make it like you, bad? We shouldn't do that.
We have been under the feet of white folks so long that it seems almost hopeless of ever getting out from under their feet. Don't be like the dry bones; that's the example of what we looked like. The dry bones are a senseless person, who doesn't have any knowledge of self. All of his knowledge is gone and his hopes are gone. He believes he's a bonified, do-nothing and never will be anything. So, I say get up from that, you are not hopeless. They say our hope is lost and we are cut off from our part. You are not; this other part which the other fellow claims is your part. You are not cut off. Let's wake up and get out of the thought that there's nothing for us. There is plenty for us when our Fathers are the originators of Heaven and Earth. What do we look like talking about we don't have nothing? We have plenty.
A little skunk just came along here the other day, six days ago, smelling up the community and you ran away from your own thinking that he's the boss. He's not the boss in nothing, but what you smell of him. He can be that boss. I don't want to be the boss of a skunk smell. I certainly will get out of the way of him, until I can find something to get him out of the way. You should remember that black could not have been behind white, because it's just impossible to take black out of white, but you could take white out of black, but not black out of white. This makes you be the first regardless of what people say. You are the first, because you can't make our color from white. It has been experimented on many times by the enemy to see if he could claim being first too, or equal as the first, but he can't do it, it's impossible.
Now, he's going up. Allah opened up the Heavens, as the Holy Qur'an teaches you, to let him go up there and peep in, then He will bring him down to the bottom of hell, because he's not able to stay up there. He's not able to stay anywhere, only where Allah permits him to stay; then, Allah takes him away from that at Will. Anytime He Wills, He takes him away. The white man goes to the moon; yeah, but what is the moon? It's our moon; he didn't find anything there that he made. No, he didn't make anything up there on that moon. We made it; let him go and peep at it.
Now he's making instruments to look at the civilization on Mars. Well, when he see what's on Mars he won't see no mark of his. It's our Mars, our people, so God has taught me. He didn't know they were there until a few days ago. He use to look at Mars and just call it a star and that's all, but our fathers made it with intelligent beings like ourselves. They walk on two feet or hind. They are not animals. They are intelligent people. The marks that we see on Mars are not from ignorant, silly, uncivilized people. They show signs of civilization and they look something similar to us, not exactly, but they look similar. They walk on two feet, and they're not white folks.
That shows you and teaches you that we of this planet, the Blackman is the first, since we don't find no planet coming out with a super civilization over us. The Mars people, they have civilization, but it's not equal with ours, so God has taught me. They are not our equals. We are their superiors. They are superior in trying to live a long time over us, but this is because we got so much sense we're crazy; that's right. We know too much and are always experimenting to learn more. These people, their nature teaches them to be satisfied with what they have been given by God, called nature. So, they live, so God taught me, in the person of Master Fard Muhammad, 1200 of our Earth years, while we sit around thinking, we're living sometimes to get 50, that's right. We live to be 50 years old and we think we have lived a long time.
We exhaust the power of our thinking brains before we ever get in the world good. We're too fast, having so much knowledge, we just exhaust our knowledge of seeking and testing higher knowledge, before we ever learn the higher places of wisdom and understanding. We are exhausting ourselves, racing with each other.
What I'm trying to do for you is get knowledge in your heads. I don't pretend to represent myself to you as a great knower. No, I'm just as common and unlearned as you, in a way. Just as God, Himself, chose me after He found me here among you, He chose me to help bring to you His own wisdom and knowledge. I'm trying to do that. We cannot boast of each other that we have more than you and I'm better than you. Never get on that kind of subject. We all are alike, but where we differ is that one by nature is more quicker and eager to understand that which others are slow in understanding. So, this is what's meant by God finding the stone that He needed. It was well qualified, by being the stone that He wanted to use to build up our nation with. We are a nation. We use to call ourselves a race. Since the teachings and coming of God, the Best Knower, He has blessed us to understand that we are not a race of people, but a nation. A race is something having a beginning and an ending, but a nation is something that is standard. Something which time sets up posts to go between is not a nation. A nation cannot be measured by a mile post, but a race can, and this is why we call the white man a race, because they are racing with time to get to another post, and when he gets to the last post, the 6th post declares his time. The last post, number 6, is the end. There is no other post for him to reach for.
I'm not raised around here just to keep you company, but I'm raised up by Almighty God to do just what you find in the Bible, the parable concerning God raising up someone to teach you; I'm that fellow. I am the Bible's Elijah that must come. That man, according to the Bible, he must preceded God himself, to make a way for God. What is this way? It is to convert people of God that believe in the God Whom we are expecting to present Himself to us. This man must have a knowledge of that God and must know that God, so he can teach you what you may expect to be arriving soon; he knows that. God acquaints him with that God first.
I was with the God Who has the knowledge and power of the universe, for three years and four months, night and day. He and I were riding around the streets of Chicago and Detroit for three and a half years, before you could ever recognize that He was here with me. When He left, I had been trying to acquaint you with Him, His visit, and the necessity of His visit.
Today we can gladly say that God has visited us in Person, not in a spirit person, but in flesh and blood. He has taught me what He taught me. You are to believe it or let it alone. He's not a God to beg us. He's not to beg for Him a people. He's independent of us. He tells us the truth and tells us to take it or leave it. It's to our benefit if we accept it. It's to our destruction if we disbelieve it.
We have always been like our enemy. We believe in our enemy and not our friend. I know hypocrites of mine; they started out following me very nicely, and now they are not following me - only in words. So, you are putting yourselves in a position to be not liked nor wanted. Go away from me and you'll have no friends with God nor man. This is what I'm telling you. Leave me and you'll have no friends with God nor man, I will repeat. I am the Door. I am the Gate. I could easily say to you, if you want to walk away from me, go right ahead buddy, go right ahead sister, but you can't get to where you want to go, hell or heaven unless you find yourself tangling with me.
One thing about it, and why I speak like this is because you have been given to me. You don't belong to nobody now, but me. The Bible and the Holy Qur'an teaches you that. Some symbolizes the man as a Door or a Gate; nevertheless, I can gladly tell you that you have been given to me as my people, to take to God for Him to make a new people out of you. God said to me, out of His own mouth, out of His own mouth, He said, "The ones that you put out, I'm not going after them." You can't believe that. If you were wise enough, the very dissatisfied thought of me you have, would hurt you. I don't want to hurt you; I want to save you. Well, you may say, "Where have you got any power to save me?" It's given to me from God.
Nobody wanted us, think over that. Every nation rejected us, because we are too silly for them to try and civilize and they say, "Ah, to hell with them, they're not but a few no way." That's what they say. Just think about President Nasser, when I was in Egypt while he was alive, he criticized me for wanting to teach you, "Millions of African are ready to listen to you overnight. You have a million and a half people in French West Africa." He said, "You're not going to do nothing with those people," referring to you. Nobody wanted the job, because you are proud like the devil and you are devil lovers. The devil is the enemy of these people. They want to get them out of their country and take it over for themselves. You would drag them in and try telling them that the devil is better than they are. Think over that, that's terrible.
You know a snake will bite, and there is a type that is more poisonous than the others. You're trying to represent the most poisonous snake of all of them, telling them that they should love and respect it. You actually teach love of the devil, because you love him and you think that he's just as good as anybody else. You have been poisoned, so poisoned by the bite of the enemy, that you don't think he's poisonous, because you have become absolutely senseless to his bite.
So my beloved brothers and sisters, the time now is ripe for you to rise up and accept your own, from the South to the North and from the North to the South. Don't fear my poor Southern brother and sister, God has risen me up to teach you and show you the way to Him, and all that I can get to turn their faces to him is as safe as I am. I teach you that he, the white man, is the blue-eyed devil, behind his back and in front of his face. This is what God said he was. God asked me was I with it to put you on top of civilization and I said, "Yes sir, just back me up." He said, "I'm with you." And He backed me up going out and coming in. I'm not afraid. I'm afraid of nothing, but Allah. If you follow me, you won't fear. God doesn't want a coward, because He's not a coward Himself and He doesn't want to enlist cowards on His book. No, you must be fearless like myself. Just do like me, I'm alright.
Don't be the aggressor; don't be the first to try causing trouble, because Muslims are not trouble raisers, they are peaceful people. You don't have to show us your ability to be the first one to go out and knock a blue-eyed down. No. Don't attack, this is against the nature of the righteous. The righteous does not attack people who are not attacking them. Sometimes, God lets you become a failure to teach you a lesson.
Throughout the history, we find men being unrighteous, in the way of attacking civilizations without causes, they become the looser sometimes. Let us build up a nation that has no equal. No nation before us has and knows how to do the things we will, when God is in our midst; no people in the history ever had such. We say Moses had them, but not like this kind of God. Moses had a God alright enough, but that God was not the equal of this one. We have the Best. We have an eternal God, meaning, His wisdom is eternal. It will live forever. Let's make good of this.
It would have been [useless] for us to have gotten a teacher that was inferior to the enemy, who teachings were equal. The enemy could strive hard to become the superior over it as well as we, but he can never be our superior, because we had the superior quality in us at the beginning, while his knowledge came out of our superior knowledge; therefore, he can never overtake it. I'm going to say, you have an offer that no people had before you. To become the superior of people, no people ever had this offered to them.
I want you to remember, be proud of the coming and the presence of our God; our merciful God, Who chose us out of the mud and junk of this civilization, that tramples upon us, and causes us to become disliked, and overlooked by the civilizations of the Earth. Now you can stand up and tell the world that, "I am myself again and I love to be myself."
We not only were made ignorant by our enemies, but our enemies also robbed us of our beauty appearance. Allah is now helping us to get restored again to our beauty appearance which the enemy robbed us of. I'm like the book says, that Jesus went out in the morning and he went out in the evening, looking for someone to come out in the barn yard to help him. I'm like that saying goes, I'm looking for help, morning and evening.
I've been all over this country. I have been over other countries. I have been in Africa where we came from and in other parts of this earth where we didn't come from to be made slaves. When God raised me to teach you, He raised me not to criticize you, but to make you my brother. That's what He raised me for, and I'm trying to do that. I'm not trying to criticize you. You don't have what I have, and I am not particular about that which you have. If we want to act foolish while trying to act wise, we can't mix these together and they stand. They won't stand. I've been here in America all my life, and I have seen you and my people all my life. I know what you know, but I don't want that now. I want us to lay hold to something better than what the slave masters taught our fathers. We want something better; we want to be a better people, we don't want to show off to the world that we have something and then fight over it and criticize and make it look like nothing.
We can stand over here and talk to the people and make something look like nothing, because we're disgracing something for nothing. I'm not with you to talk with you in no such way. I come here to make brothers out of our people and not to go back dignifying that old stuff that the slave masters gave our fathers. Our work is to unite the Blackman in North America and all over the Earth. As you will see pictures of the Blackman greeting each other from America, all around this Earth on the head of our paper, to teach you we're uniting. Just because I can't preach like Paul, should I curse out the angels? No. I'm not trying to do that; I'm trying to unite with both Paul and angels.
As long as we seek to study how to be a greater arguer of each other, we'll never get no place in this world. I'm not here to do that. If you want to argue, then okay. I don't want to hear it, you can sit down. Be sane, represent yourself as a sane person. If you say that you love your brother over there in New York, okay, prove it to me by showing that you love your brother in Chicago. We don't come for that. We don't come to argue. If you don't like what I'm saying, you don't have to take it.
In the Holy Qur'an it teaches Muhammad that Allah makes for him an enemy in every town he goes in. That's to keep him always aware that you cannot get by without having enemies dissatisfied. There are those type of people who always want to make themselves heard and seen, seen and heard. Well it's alright, so long as you're helping the people, but when you're not helping the people, we don't care to see you nor hear you.
As the judgment nears, people’s hearts harden, but this is to be endured, because the scripture cannot be fulfilled unless these things go on. You can't go down there trying to pull fish out of the lake, handling them with your hands, without getting finned every once in a while. So, I am not in any way dissatisfied. I've been catching many fish out of the lake of hell for many years. I'm not in any way discouraged. I know I'm going to be the winner. Allah has given to me the victory before ever you saw me, so when I hear you talk, I know who you are and I'm not in any way surprised. The only thing that I'd be surprised with, is when you don't say nothing, or showing respect, then I get happy, knowing then that I have a people before me who will unite with me. My job is not to argue with you. No, because I know I have the key. You argue, yet, you can't get out unless I let you out.
I have a job here to do and these people here are in the crossfire. I must get them out of the crossfire as God raised me up to do. By raising these up, they will help me get to you there, because quickly they're going to fly to their own homeland to tell what they have heard in the new country. We are making very great success in doing this with the help of Allah; He is helping us.
We don't want to break our principles of civilization acting a fool. Whenever people act wrongly and ignorantly by you, try and get out of their midst; leave them to Allah and don't stay in their midst. That's the best thing we can do. These people are playing their last game and will soon be out of our sight. We are tried with temptation, but we don't want to accept them at the present time when we know what is going to become of this world. If we can just hold our peace for a few days, everything will be over with; we will be happy.