In the name of Allah, the beneficent,
the merciful, we give Him praise and thanks for His goodness and His
mercy to the human family. The greatest of His goodness and the most
magnificent of His mercy is His guidance that He sends to the human
family through the mouths and example of His prophets and His
messengers of God. We thank Him for Moses and The Torah. We thank him for Jesus
and The Gospel.
We thank Him for Muhammad and The Qur'an. Peace be upon these
worthy servants of God and all of those messengers and prophets that
God has sent to every nation and every people, bringing to them His
guidance....
I greet all of you my dear brothers and sisters
with the greeting words of peace: We say it in Hebrew,
Shalom aleichem.
We say it in Arabic assalaam
aleykum. We say it in English,
peace be unto you. To my dear brother, the Rev. Dr. Heisel B. Taylor, Jr.,
[long list of those present] Jews, Christians, Muslims, I am very
glad to be here to help to celebrate your 62 years on this blessed
earth and your 26 years as senior pastor of Second Baptist
Church....
I recently was invited to share the 75th
Anniversary of Time Magazine. Everyone that has been on the cover of
Time in the last
75 years who is yet alive was invited to attend. President Clinton was the main speaker that evening along with the former
President Gorbachev and so many dignitaries were there. I was invited
to attend and I decided maybe I'll come out and see what the world is
like and I was pleasantly surprised at how honoured I was among the
great men and women of all races and creeds. But I noticed that
everyone had to pass through a security check on coming in because
the President was present and because so many dignitaries were
present and because there's so much insanity in the world....
So Dr. Taylor I am happy to share this moment,
this day with you...thankful to Almighty God that we are sharing time
and space at the same time on this earth. That we and you, if we
rightly understand our purpose for life, can actually make a
difference. For we are nothing more than a link in the chain of life
and this is our time -- yours and mine. This is our space -- yours
and mine.
If we study the Wisdom of God then we in
our lives, you
and I, we in our
space in our
time can reverse the madness that was passed on to us by previous
generations. We do not have to continue the madness. We can change
reality because we are OF God; we are FROM God; and God moves in
EVERY link of the chain. He was in the beginning: He is Alpha. He is
Omega. And in every generation God moves with us if we move with God
and surrender our will to do His Will. Then this could be the
generation and the time that we turn the world around and prepare for
our children and our grandchildren and our great grandchildren, a
better future because we in our time, in this space, on this earth, decided that we
would take charge of our lives and of this
time.
As I honour our beloved Pastor, brother and
friend, on his 62nd birthday, I looked in the Qur'an, which is the Book of
Scripture of the Muslims, and the 62nd chapter of the Qur'an is called "Al Juma." It
comes from an Arabic root which means to
gather. It is a day when Muslims are to
gather for the worship of God. And you, Dr. Taylor...have always
wanted to gather human+beings together to challenge human+beings to
rise above their diversity, especially those who claim belief in the
oneness of God. So it seems to me...you are one of those souls that
God has in this time period to help gather God's people in God's
way.
And since this is your 26th year as Senior Pastor
of Second Baptist Church, I looked in the Qur'an again to Chapter 26, and
it's called "The Poet." I don't think this is an accident, that he is
such a profound poet, brilliant scholar, theologian, pastor, nurturer
of our people, and yet would have the courage to invite his brother
in this beautiful place on this tremendous campus of great
scholarship in the midst of those who may see me as other than what I
am; in the midst of those who see me as anti-white or anti-Semitic or
racist or a bigot. Yet you had the courage to invite me into this
holy place, that I might share your anniversary with you, but more
importantly, share my spirit with you. That you may know me beyond a
sound-bite on
television. That you may know me from the
heart.
I don't have a prepared text. God prepares my
texts for me*. I was told just to go and stand up and speak. I had
some thoughts, but I'm going to let God have His Way and I'm not
going to keep you long.
* Matthew 10:19 But when they deliver you
up, take no thought how or what ye shall speak: for it shall be given
you in that same hour what ye shall speak.
10:20 For it is not ye that speak, but the Spirit of your Father
which speaketh in you.
Muslims, Christians and Jews are present here
today. I hope that some of the members of the rabbinical
class are here, as well as members of the clergy, as
well as Muslim imams, as
well as Jews, Christians and Muslims. Because it is important that we
sit together as people of intelligence. Paul said: "Come let us
reason together." That is the power of the human+being. We have the
ability to reason. If our minds are clouded with emotion,
then emotion stops the process of reasoning. It can alter the power
of reasoning. But when the power of reasoning is exalted above our
emotion, our prejudices, then reasoning can make us see what we
couldn't see through the eye of emotion. Paul had a job because he
was talking to Jews and gentiles, and was trying to reconcile those
Jews and gentiles to the Word of Jesus Christ. The Rev. Doctor Taylor
brought me here for the purpose of reconciliation. He wanted you to
meet with me; me to meet with you. He invited rabbis, members of the
clergy of the Christian faith, he invited Muslims. For what purpose?
That we may sit and reason together so that we can reconcile
differences and in the process of reconciliation find the
common
denominator.
One of our accountants is here today. She is
always reconciling the check-book. When you reconcile a check-book,
you make sure that what is in
the bank and what is paid out by checks agree so that the
balance is right. In other words, you come to a point of
agreement, accord. Agreement and accord make you satisfied. Whenever there is
an imbalance, and you cannot reconcile what is in the bank and what went
out, then there
is not peace, not satisfaction, until reconciliation can take place.
When two human+beings say they love each other and then get into
difficulty, when an argument comes up between people in the same
family, people in the same fraternity, people in the same church,
people who claim to love each other, that level of argument produces
dissatisfaction. Dissatisfaction begins to drive people who have
common aims, common interests, common purpose, apart from each other.
It is only when there is reconciliation of conflict that the heart
can rest; the soul becomes satisfied because that which was in
discord has come into accord and there is harmony, there is peace,
there is unity.
I have to admit that there is discord among
Christians, among Christians discord. Why? Is Christ divided? No.
Christ is One. Well why aren't Christians One? Well, you see, MY denomination is...hush, hush, hush. Once you start talking denomination, you are coming
down from Christ. But if you are going to come up to Christ, you can't talk
denomination, you have to talk about the Oneness of God, the Oneness
of Jesus Christ and the Oneness of the body of Christ. So Christians
-- Catholics and
Protestants; Eastern Orthodox,
Roman
Catholics -- all the different
denominations of Christianity have to find reconciliation because
Christ is not pleased with the Church as it is. Farrakhan, how dare you speak for Jesus
Christ! I think I can very well speak for
Jesus Christ. I am telling you, as Christians, He is displeased. And
none of you want to be around when He comes, as you are, because He
already told you what He will accept and
what He will reject.
This confusion among the Muslims, many different
sects, many different parties -- each one arguing -- I'm better, I'm
this, I'm that. The Holy Qur'an says they didn't become
divided until after revelation came to them. Splitting their religion
up into sects and parties, each one rejoicing in its own, due to
envy. There's discord among the Jews. Yet we all claim One God.
If you are a mother or a father, do you
find joy when your children are fighting each other? Isn't that one of the most upsetting things about being a
parent -- to see your children tearing at each other with hatred in
their eyes and heart for one another? When a father and a mother have
to break that up, then you go into your room and close the door,
tears stream down your face because you wonder what (and who - Satan)
has put such hatred in the heart of your own children for one
another. Well, if you as a common parent feel this way, what do you
think God is thinking when He sees Jews, Christians and Muslims all
claiming One
God but can't sit down in a room
together and come to agreement and reconcile their
differences.
I believe by whatever name we call Him, that He is
grieved at the condition of His children. We claim Him in our various
faith traditions: The Jews in the beauty of their worship, the
Christians in the beauty of their worship, the Muslims in the beauty
of their worship and each sect of Judaism, Christianity and Islam,
having their own particular way of doing
this as opposed to that. They use this as opposed to
that to divide
this from
that!
When I was in the fifth grade, my teacher taught
me that fractions have to be reconciled to a whole number. And she
taught me that the only way you can bring fractions to a whole is you
must find the least common denominator. When you can find the least
common denominator you can take fractions and make them whole. They
taught me that there is an axiom in geometry, that the whole is equal
to the sum of its parts. You have to belong TO in order to be a part
OF. They tell me that an integer is a whole number. So the word
integrate comes from the word integer which means you are
trying to make that which is diverse different and apart, you're
trying to produce a whole.
I'm sorry America, the way you're going you will never produce a whole out of the cultural and
racial diversity in America. There is nothing taught at North-western
that will bring about that wholeness. It is not in the limited
scholarship of a Harvard or a Yale or an Oxford because with all that
you know with all of your doctorate degrees, the society is sick and
you have no power to heal it. So where is The Real Doctor? Will
The REAL
Doctor please stand up! You have a
doctorate in psychology and all the sick minds in society. You have a
doctorate in economics and you can't balance the budget -- our
country is over a trillion, several trillion dollars in debt. Go
ahead doctor of economics, balance the budget. You have your
doctorate in all of these disciplines but you heal nothing.
Christ was a
healer. Muhammad was a healer. This book
Qur'an is called
Al shiffa,
The Healing. The
Gospel is a
healing. It is a balm for sin-sick souls.
The question is: Where are the doctors because it
is evident that the people are sick. Let's see if we can find out
what the cause of this sickness is and let's see if we can apply some
medicine, so that perhaps we can walk out of here as One, although we
came in as many -- it would be a blessing if we could walk out of
here tonight, feeling like we are a part of something bigger than our
denomination, bigger than our faith tradition, but that we are a part
of God. Now, all these great religions, Judaism, Christianity and
Islam call Abraham the father. If Abraham is the root, let's not deal
with branch knowledge. I think we ought to go to the root of this and
let's take a look at father Abraham. Abraham was called the friend of
God. I don't know about anybody else, but I would really like to be a
friend of God. I would like to have God as my friend, especially
in a world like
this.
These three great faith traditions have just come
through a great celebration of three great principles of their
religious faith. The Jews have just celebrated Passover,
the Christians have just celebrated Easter,
and the Muslims have just celebrated the Eid ul Adha. I want to take
those three celebrations, if you will, and let's look at what we're
talking about. As a Jew we're celebrating Passover. A great thing,
pass
over, Passover.
Here was Moses telling Pharaoh, "Look, let the children of Israel go.
God has something that He wants them to do in His service. He doesn't
want them serving you anymore, Pharaoh. Either you let them go or God
is going to plague you." Pharaoh didn't pay Moses too much attention,
so the tenth plague was the plague of death. But all of the children
of Israel who believed in Moses were told to do something so that the
death-angel, when it came, would pass over them. What did He tell
them to do? Go dip in the blood of a lamb and make an X mark on
your gatepost and when the death-angel rides tonight and sees the
right sign on your door, he will pass over you. Beloved, members of
the Jewish family, that is a glorious thing -- to celebrate what
happened four thousand years ago to prove that God, Jehovah, was with
you, that the death-angel struck the firstborn out of every house in
Egypt that did not have that sign
dipped in the blood of a lamb.
My Christian family can't celebrate at
Easter. The Cardinal O'Connor, I read today, is very upset
because the baseball team didn't honour Good Friday, especially
between the hours of ten in the morning and three in the afternoon --
the hours of His passion. And because they didn't honour Good Friday,
he says "I'm not going to a baseball game for the rest of the year."
He says he doesn't care who is playing. "Even Wall Street closes down
on Good Friday."
Who of you would see your son hanging on a cross
with nails in his hands, nails in his feet, and a crown of thorns on
his head on a Friday and then call it a Good Friday. The act of
crucifying Jesus was not good. But out of the most negative
circumstances, God brought good out of evil. So when you look back on
it, it was a Good Friday because out of the passion of Christ came the
Resurrection which leads to the Redemption of the whole human family.
So because of the cross, we celebrate the Resurrection, the Easter,
although I think we do a lot of foolishness with it that really needs
to be cut out. We have mixed a lot of paganism in with the true
celebration. We need to expunge or cleanse the worship both of
the birth of
Jesus Christ and the Resurrection of
Jesus; you must cleanse paganism out of
it, so that your worship will be accepted by God.
As a Christian we celebrate His rise out of a
terrible torment and passion and trial where He was falsely accused
and bitterly denounced. A trial when His friends and disciples turned
their backs on Him. A trial when He was betrayed into the hands of
His enemies by one of His disciples. Yet it became a good thing
because it led to what you sang about today -- He's alive. Then in Him there is
no death. But you have to be in
Him. You can't be about Him because
about is on the
periphery but to be IN Christ and to be OF Christ is not to see
death, if we understand it....
You say, "Farrakhan I didn't expect this kind of
talk from you." You don't know what to expect from me! Because you
really don't know me. If you knew me you'd know what to expect from
me. You know about. I'm going to invite you in.
The Muslims celebrate the Eid ul Adha which is a feast of
sacrifice coming with the pilgrimage that they make to Mecca where
the pilgrims take off their garments -- their national dress -- and
put on two pieces of a seamless garment that the rich and the poor
all wear the same. You can't wear any jewellery or anything that
would distinguish you from your brother to make you think that you're
better than your brother because you have this as opposed
to that. All of
that is removed. You are denied the right of access to your wife. You
are denied argument and you endure an arduous ten days and the
crowning of it is to be in the plain of Arafat where the sun could be
120 burning the sand under your feet and the mountains of rocks that
surround you so that it's like you're in an oven. It's only a sign of
something. Then at the end of this, they run between the hills,
imitating the run of Hagar -- you sang it -- I will look unto the hills. That was
Hagar's promise. She was looking unto the hills -- the way that's
written in the "Book of Psalms." I really believe it should go like
this: I will lift up mine eyes unto the hills. Period. Then a
question: From whence cometh my
help?
Your help is not coming from the hills.
My help cometh from the
Lord. Now listen, people are always
looking for help. And they're looking for help from the big chief or
the big cheese or the big brother -- the one that you think has got
money and influence -- these are like hills and you always get
disappointed because the hills don't have an answer. But your real
help comes from the Lord. In Mecca when you make the pilgrimage, at a
certain point you have to kill an animal, usually a lamb, a ram, a
camel, and the meat is given away to the poor. But the idea of a day
of slaughter, sacrifice, is like a ritual that says in order for us
to come to God we have to make a sacrifice. In the old days it was a
burnt offering -- a sacrifice of a sheep or a ram or an animal but
today the example of Christ and the example of the Prophet is that
you must sacrifice the
animal existence in order to ascend to where Christ is. You can't be a dog
and go with God.
My beloved family, we are all going to have to
sacrifice animal passion, animal instinct, animal flesh-life to
ascend into the spiritual-life that makes us one with God. As an
animal, you know, you see the sheep with the sheep, you see the cows
with the cows, you see the fox with the foxes, the hound with the
hounds, but in that day the lamb will lie down with the lion.
What kind of stuff is this? If a lamb will lie down with a lion and not get eaten,
somebody has interfered with the nature of those things. Your natural
inclination is to be with your own kind -- that's your
natural
inclination -- to see those who are Asian as your family, those who
are African as your family, those who are European as your family,
those who are Native American as your family. That's the
natural
inclination. The natural inclination is Jew with Jew, Christian with
Christian, Muslim with Muslim. But when God asks you to sacrifice
your animalistic passions, the lower-self to come up into The
Spiritual-Mind of God on that level where there is Joy, there is
Peace, there is Accord because man has reconciled his differences
with God. Then when man has reconciled his differences with God it
becomes easy to reconcile our differences with each other.
Passover. Look at your country beloved Americans. It doesn't seem
like the death-angel passed over Alabama, Georgia, Tennessee --
tornadoes lining-up like soldiers marching in, destroying property,
taking lives. You want God to pass over but the storms in your life
are caused by
you and me in deviation from the Will of God. We can end the storms,
the clouds, the tornadoes, we can end the hurricanes. We can end the
earthquakes. You say, oh Farrakhan, I think you're going off. When
Jesus and the disciples were in the boat and Jesus went to the back
of the boat and fell asleep and the winds came, disturbing the waters
and the water was disturbing the boat and the disciples got so afraid
they went back and woke up the Master and said "Master, please,
wake-up, trouble's in the house!" When He woke-up He came to the
front of the boat, stretched forth His hand and said "Peace, be
still." And when He said that, the winds calmed down.
Now some of you that are scientists,
you're not deep enough into science to understand that science and
religion are not opposed to each other. [True*] Science and true religion
compliment each other because all [true*]
science comes from true religion. You wouldn't be a chemist if there
were no chemistry for you to study and since you didn't create the
chemistry of the earth or the heavens. You call yourself a chemist
because you're studying from the religion of Him Who created the
heavens and the earth. When you study physics, you study law as it
relates to physical matter but you are studying something that is
already in existence that you didn't bring into existence. So how
dare you think that because you're a scientist you are better than a
person who is related to God from which all science and all
mathematics comes.
* inserted by JAH
I don't want to get off my point. But I guess my
point was that God is the author and your science is not deep enough
because the human+being has powers yet untapped because we are so
deviant in our
behaviour that our deviate behaviour has
crippled the power of our minds, our ability to regulate the affairs
of nature. God did not create you in His image and likeness for you
to be subject to the forces of nature. He created you to be the
master of the forces of nature and this is why Jesus Christ was told
that God had given Him power over all things. Then when Jesus calmed
the storm, he turned to his disciples and said, "Oh ye of little
faith." Why did He say that? Because what
you woke me up to do, YOU need to wake up because you can do the same
thing yourself.
I want to take us to the blood of the lamb. Jesus
on the cross bled. At the last supper He gave His disciples some
wine. Then telling people, "This is my blood that I shed for the
remission of sins." Jesus was called the Lamb of God whose life was sacrificed according to Scripture. For if
you dip your hand into the blood of the lamb and make a sign on your
door -- what does that mean to you, as a Christian, and to you as a
Jew? See, the Jews are still looking for the Messiah. They know that
the Messiah is still coming. They are not convinced that the Jesus of
two thousand years ago was, in fact, the Messiah. So they are still
expecting the Messiah. But the Messiah's life, not his blood, because
we can't drink blood. The Old
Testament stops us from drinking the blood
of any life. Because the blood carries the health and disease of that
life. So you don't drink blood. But the life of Jesus Christ, that He
lived, like your 26 years, Heisel, serving Second Baptist, you live
the life of sacrificing yourself, sacrificing your family so that you
could teach people and make them realise what God has put within
them. It is that LIFE of Jesus Christ. It is the BLOOD of the Lamb,
that when you put your hands in His blood, meaning hold on to His life. Don't
talk about His
life but live
His life. Talking about the life of Jesus won't save anybody. But
living His life will save both Christians and Jews and Muslims
too.
Let's get to Abraham, then we can close and I am
going to ask all of us to do something. Abraham is the father of many
nations. Many nations. But Jews and Arabs claim that, through Isaac
and Ishmael, they are the blood-families of Abraham.
I don't believe that Abraham's family is genetic
in origin. I don't believe that Abraham's family is physiological or
biological. So that Jews and Arabs can say I'm a direct descendant of
Abraham because I'm from Ishmael and the Jews will say I'm from Isaac
and we're cousins but we can't get along. And yet both Jews and Arabs
claim Abraham; and Jews, Arabs and Christians claim some affinity to
Jerusalem.
We're talking about reconciliation -- coming to an
accord, finding The Way or a common denominator that brings all into
Oneness so that we can begin to do the work of God in our time, in
our space on this earth.
My dear and beloved Christians, Muslims and Jews,
if you look at Abraham as a physiological or biological creature born
somewhere around Iraq -- in that area of the world. I am not an
Iraqi, so how can I be of Abraham? So you can shut me out. You say
well no, you're not Abraham's, you didn't come from that part of the
world -- you're an African, your hair is kinky -- you're not from
Abraham. It's got nothing to do with Abraham's hair or his nose or
his birth. It has something to do with that man's commitment to God.
Because of what the Qur'an said of Abraham -- this is talking to Jews and Christians
-- all people of The Book, why do you dispute about Abraham when The
Torah and The
Gospel were not
revealed until after him. Do you not understand? If from The Torah, you become Jew and from
The Gospel, you
become a Christian, then what was your father? Since The
Torah came after
Abraham and The Gospel came after Abraham, what was the religion of
Abraham?
The Qur'an raises a very good
question. Abraham was not a Jew, nor a Christian. That is true. He
was before Judaism and he was before Christianity. Wait a minute,
dear Jews and Christians, please don't fight me now. No bricks yet.
I'm only talking about Abraham. We are going to reason.
Look, it says Abraham was an upright man, then it says
a Muslim,
meaning one who surrendered to God (True in Faith). He never set up
any rival or partner with God. His whole mind, soul, body, spirit was
obedient to God and because he obeyed God when God gave him some terrible commands --
go and pick your son up and sacrifice
him. Now Heisel, this would be rough!
There's Heisel the third and Heisel Jr. is told by God, "I know you
love him, but, Heisel, take that boy up on the mountain and kill him
for Me." You say well "wait a minute God! I've been good to You, I've
been obeying. God, what's happening to You. Asking me to kill my
son?" Then Satan comes up in you and says "God is working a trick on
you there. Don't you kill that boy. You've been waiting (a hundred
years) for that boy to come along and continue your work. Don't kill
that boy -- that's not God talking, it's an impostor."
You get all kinds of stuff going through your mind
when God gives you a command that you don't like. And everybody in
here gets a command from God that you don't necessarily agree with,
but the question is: will you follow your will or will you surrender
to God, knowing that God's Will is the Will that should be carried
out, by those of us who love God.
So when Abraham took his son, saying "I have to do
what God says" and laid his son on the altar. The beauty of it was
the father but the beauty was also the son because he said "If this
is what God wants, I want what He wants." And he lay there
to die and just
as Abraham was to proceed, the dagger dropped, God stayed his hand
and said because you have shown Me that you love Me above the life
that I gave you in your son, above all that you have, you love Me.
I'm going to make you a leader of men and My Covenant will be with
you and your seed and if you can count the stars, Abraham, or the
sands of the sea, you can count your seed in the Blessing. And then
Jesus comes, a son of sacrifice, that a Father sacrificed and the boy was
willing to die. So God said "because of this obedience to Me and
surrender to My Will mean so much to you, you are My friend and I am
your friend. He was an upright man, upright meaning he obeyed the
righteous commands of God. He surrendered to God. The only
people who can claim Abraham as a father are those who will do as
Heisel B. Taylor asks you today. "Are you willing to surrender to
God?"
If you are willing to surrender to God, He will be
your friend and you will be His friend and there will never be a
death-angel over America. We can cast away the storms because we have
surrendered to God, Muslims, Christians and Jews.
I hate the term anti-Semitic because I would be
less than a moral-being of intelligence to hate another human+being
because of their faith tradition. It's abhorrent to me that I would
be charged anti-white, when you can't find one thing in my record
that I have done against a white person, or a Jewish person, except
to point out evil. How can you reconcile the ledger if you don't
point out that it's not adding-up. What we don't like is for somebody
to point out our own injustices. Who likes that? A father doesn't
want his child telling him, Daddy, you're wrong. A mother doesn't
like her daughter saying, Mama, you treated me wrong. None of us want
to be wrong. Neither Jews, nor Christians, nor Muslims. We want to be
right. So when God sends a Prophet into the world to point out where
we went wrong, we don't ordinarily say, "You're right, thank you so
much." You say you aren't wrong and you try to defend yourself. Then
you want to knock down the man that's pointing out your wrongs.
That's why Prophets have been killed and beaten and sent to prison. I
am not the enemy of Jewish people. I'm not the enemy of white people,
I'm not the enemy of black people. I am the enemy of sin. Whether that sin is in
myself or in others, I have to stand against it because it is the sin
that keeps me estranged from reconciliation with God.
Now I conclude, to the members of the Jewish
community who are here, what is The Criterion of the measurement of
our conduct? Is it what is popular? Or is it the standard laid down
by God through the mouth of His Prophets? What did God tell you as a
Jew? If you will obey My statutes, My Laws,
My Commandments that I give you this day -- in
the Book of "Deuteronomy" He lists all the Blessings
that you will receive and then He lists all the Cursings
that you would receive if you rebel.
Government has a power. You have a right over your
bodies, sisters. God gives you these bodies and He gives you power
over your bodies but He also gives you guidance. You say, "I have the
right of choice." You do. Choose the man you will sleep with. That's
your right of choice. But to choose death for the unborn, He doesn't
give you that right. Once you have made that commitment, He forgives
you.
I'm not here to make you feel guilty -- there's
enough sin everywhere for all of us. So preachers ought not to preach
like that, like we're so holy. In all of our righteousness, the
Bible says
let us not get holier than
thou. I'm not preaching for anybody to
feel bad about some sin that you've done. I am asking us to
understand what is pleasing to God. And if we're going to surrender
to God, even though it's what pleases us, we have to say what is the
pleasure of God and maybe I ought to stop doing this or that. Do you
follow? It involves a sacrifice. If you said Jesus gave up His life,
are you willing to give up that life that Jesus is displeased with?
See now, that kind of church is the right kind of church. That kind
of Gospel is the
kind of gospel that you've got to hear every day. It can't be
something that tickles your ears. It has to be something that calls
you to rectitude; to uprightness.
As a Jew, measure yourself against The Laws,
Statutes and Commandments of God and don't say, "That's old-time,
things have changed, moved on, that's from the Old Testament days." Fine. Show
me where God changes in the morality that He demands of His
creatures. There are some Scriptures... that are more relevant to the
needs of the time but there are certain immutable Laws and Principles
that keep on coming through that continuum of time and life. And they
never change.
You don't know how to live life. You just got here. I don't care how
many doctorates the enemy has conferred on you. You don't have a
doctorate of Living. Your
doctorate is in death. Talking about I'm a
doctor and smoking? I'm a doctor and I'm drinking? I'm a doctor and
sticking needles in my arm or snorting cocaine in my nose. I'm a
doctor and I'm eating myself to death. You don't know how to live.
You have to let the wise God Who is the Creator and Architect of life
show you how to live and you've got to stop rebelling against God. As
a Jew, if you don't want to accept The Gospel, if you don't want to
accept The Qur'an, then go back to The
Torah, and measure your life against what
God has Commanded and God's Commandment is The Criterion*. As you see
how far off you are from The Criterion, you've got to make up your
mind, as a Jew, I'm going to reconcile myself with God by coming back
to the standard that God laid down for me as a Jew, that I might
continue to be God's chosen instrument. Don't you ever think that God
will continue His choice of you when you have chosen to live a
Satanic life rather than a life in obedience to the Will of God.
* Sura 2:53.
And remember We gave Moses the Scripture and the
Criterion (Between right and wrong [The Torah]): there was a chance
for you to be guided aright.
Sura 21:48. In the past We granted to Moses and Aaron the
Criterion (Torah)(for Judgment), and a Light and a Message for those
who would do right...
Now, let me go to the Christians. I have to say
this to my Christian family -- now, you may not ever want me to come
back here again. But you shouldn't invite me if you don't want to
hear what I have to say. And if what I have to say is not what you
thought I would say, that is because you don't know me. Dear
Christians, you talk to Jesus; you talk Him up. You praise His name.
You shout all over the place about Jesus. But what kind of life are
you living? I have to talk like this because if I don't talk like
this, I'm not true to God, and I'm not true to Jesus and I'm not true
to Muhammad, and I'm not true to Moses or the Prophets and I'm not
true to myself. I don't care anything about popularity. You've been
beating the hell out of me for thirteen years for something that I'm
not guilty of. But I'm not going to bow down. Dear Christians, how in
the world can you claim Jesus and won't live The Gospel? All you've got to do is
read The Gospel
and measure yourself against The Criterion* and see if you're on it
or off it. If you're off it, that's how much you've got to surrender
to get on it. Did you hear what I said?
* Sura 3:3. It
is He Who sent down to thee (step by step), in truth, the Book,
confirming what went before it and He sent down The Law (of Moses)
and the Gospel (of Jesus) before this [The Koran], as a guide to
mankind, and He sent down the Criterion (of Judgment
between right and wrong).
You have a free ride as a Christian, and even as a
Jew, because some of the rabbis and
some of the pastors
will not preach The Criteria and ask the people to live up to what
God has laid down. The Bible tells you, that yes, He's
going to kill the witness (The Two Witnesses - Apoc./Rev. 11:3, 7) but He's going to put their blood on
your and my hands, if we don't call them to the righteous standards
of The Gospel.
When I say you've had a free ride, many of you
join churches that tolerate your foolishness. Let me see if I can be a wild, crazy thing and join the
church -- you know what I
mean? I'm happy that I found a home!
But you'll find another home in Hell. And
the Pastor who's been leading will be right there in Hell with you!
And you will cuss him out and say, "Why didn't you kick me
Rev.?"
Now I'm going to get to the Muslims. All right,
Muslims. You're worse than the rest because you claim to surrender.
I'm going to surrender. To what? To our passions. If we surrender to God we're
magnetic, we draw people -- people are not afraid to be around you,
they come to
you. Because, as a Christian, when you surrender to
The Gospel, you
become as magnetic as Christ. When you surrender to The
Torah, you
become like the Prophets; they're alive in you: Abraham is alive,
Moses is alive; Solomon is alive. David is alive. Jesus is alive.
He's alive! The
question is: Is He living
in you? As a Muslim, I have to look at
myself and examine myself against the standard of God laid down in
this book of revelation called The Qur'an. But I also believe in
The Gospel. And
I also believe in The Torah. So I'm bound by what I read. In truth, it takes a heck of
a person to live by The Gospel
-- you know Jesus is really calling you to
be supernatural. The natural thing is that if I cuss you, you cuss
me. That's natural. You hit me -- Pow, I'll hit you back and I'll try
to hit you harder and make sure you don't come back again with
another one. That's natural. But Jesus is not calling you to do the
natural thing because what Jesus brought was the redemption of
human+beings and reconciling human+beings to God. In order to do that
you've got to do an unnatural thing. I mean when
they smack you on one cheek, the natural thing is bust them in the
mouth. Now, I'm not going to let anybody come up and smack me and I'm
going to stand still. That's the slave doctrine -- to keep the slaves
all bound up in Jesus so they would never quit. When you take an
insult, do you insult back? When you were reviled and all men of evil
that said against you falsely, for the sake of The Gospel -- how do
you respond to
that? I have yet to find somebody who's happy when they pick up the
Sun Times and
read "Farrakhan, the anti-Semite..." -- I don't read that and say,
"Ha, ha, isn't that wonderful! That's great!" I can't rejoice in
that, but in my soul, I'm contented because I know I am not that. My
greatest desire is for you to know that I'm not that. I wish that the rabbis would
hear. I wish that we could sit and discuss and dialogue. Because we
do have more in common than we have at variance. But if we don't
dialogue, how can you point-out to me where my error is and how can I
point-out to you where I think your error is? So that we both can be
corrected before God. If you tell me there's nothing to dialogue with
-- I will not speak to this man -- to me that is unworthy of us as
human+beings. Heisel, I believe is a grandfather -- are you a
grandfather? I am a father, a grandfather and a great-grandfather and
I don't know how many years I have in front of me, but I don't
believe there are as many as I have behind me. I am concerned about
what life will be after I am gone. What about you?
I close with these words. I love black people. I'm
born from among them. I feel our pain, our suffering, our hurt, at
the hands of evil and injustice. Please don't fault me for loving my
own people because I cannot fault you for loving your own people. I
am happy to see white people loving each other; or Asians loving each
other; Native Americans loving each other. That's natural! But I'm
overjoyed when I see Black People loving each other because that's
very rare in a society where we have been trained to hate ourselves
and to hate one another. Now, here's a challenge to Black People. I
make no apologies for standing up for Black People. I believe I will
do that until God takes me away. But I am maturing every day in the
Word of God. God is not after a black family and He's not after a
white family. He is after a family that is not born of flesh but a
family that's born of
spirit.
There are many Muslims who might take exception to
what I say because we're into the black-thing and the black-thing is
good because it's a medicine to heal the suffering produced by
white-supremacy. But after you've brought balance to the organism
that was sick, you can't continue to give it the same kind of
medicine. Now, I want you to hear me. White-supremacy is a sickness
and racism comes out of the feeling that I am better, not because I'm
intelligent and righteous but I'm better because my skin is white and
my hair is straight and so and so and so; that's immature. I've seen
white-folk play with dogs and love their dogs and some of them are
short, some of them tall, some of them wide, some of them real
ugly-looking but you love your dogs and you say this is my dog and
you dress him up and put him in shows and hope you win a prize for
the way you shaved your dog or trained your dog. But if you can
admire the diversity of God in the dog family, or the diversity of
God in the fish family, or the diversity of God in the rock family,
if you can admire the diversity of God in the Earth family and in the
planets and the stars, what makes you so stupid, so moronic, that you
can't admire the diversity of God in the Human family?!
Why am I less because I'm black. Why are you more
because you're white. That's sick. That is very sick. So brothers, in
the Black family, when you learn to love yourself, then you can love
others. For Jesus' sake, love your neighbour as yourself. So neighbour-love
is predicated on self-love. When you love yourself and love being
with yourself, that's your family. That's your black, genetic,
biological, physiological family. Good. That's very good. Here's my
Korean family. I went to Korea and saw all Koreans. I didn't see a
whole lot of other people there. I was the other people. I went to Japan, I
see Japanese. I was the other people. When you come to America, this
land has everybody of the Earth in one place but they just haven't learned how
to relate above their ethnicity, their racial identity, their
cultural heritage. Why? Because you haven't come up yet into
spiritual-life in Christ. There is no Jew, Greek, no male, no female
all are one. Outside of Him? No.
In Him. When you get in Christ. Come on the
inside of His
mind. Then you rise above your race, your colour, your heritage and
you become one with a kindred spirit that has surrendered to God. If
Jews, and Christians and Muslims can find and understand in
The Torah, The Gospel and The Qur'an, that common thread
that goes in all the revelations and all The Prophets and through
that understanding, we can see unity in that diversity. Then, and
only then, can we grow to be a part of the Family of God. In Bishop
Kim and the Unification Church's language, when the children are all
out of order, they really need a true parent. That's a fact -- a
parent that will not tolerate the ignorance of the children. What we
need are true leaders, true teachers, who become true spiritual
parents of the Human Family that has gone crazy. And I submit to you
as I leave you, that the only way we can become a family, a real
spiritual family, is to rise-up into the worship of God and surrender
ourselves to do His Will. When you do that, you will never see my
colour, my hair or my lips or my eyes that are slanted, or my
baldness of head -- you won't see physical impediment: you will begin
to look past that to see if this is a kindred spirit in obedience to
the Will of God and when you find that person, then you have found
your true brother, your true sister.
Listen, "Jesus, your mother and your brother are
outside and they wish to see you." He said, "My mother and My brother
are in the Temple with Me." They said, "Master, your mother and your
brother -- " He said, "My brother is he who doeth the Will of My
Father."
When you come into the Will of God and you
surrender and do His Will, we don't talk colour anymore, we don't
talk national identity anymore. You don't say I'm Italian; I'm Greek;
I'm Jewish; I'm Russian; I'm Polish; I'm Egyptian; I'm Arab; I'm
Black; I'm bip. You say "No, I am of God." I don't say I'm
a child of God.
I've grown past child. I'm an active participant in bringing about
the Will of God. I, too, am a god but I'm a little god. As David
said, "Ye are all gods [spirit-beings*], children of the most high God." So we've got to start
getting up out of this child-like stage. Come into the man and woman
stage in the spirit of God. Then we can say to wind, "Hold up,
there's some good people here."
* insert by JAH
You don't have to create storms, you can stop
them. We can keep the death-angel away from America but the
death-angel is in America. God doesn't want any other nation to have
this. This is where He is going to make Himself known. Go ahead
Bill
Clinton, arrest the tornado! That's a
weapon of mass-destruction. Go ahead and arrest it. Arrest the wind,
arrest the rain, arrest the floods. God is plaguing you, America. If
you don't wake up, you'll die in your ignorance. God is judging America and I don't care how much money
you think you have, your money won't save you -- nothing will save
you unless you say "I surrender God!"
Happy Birthday, my brother, and may God bless
you!
Louis Farrakhan.
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