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The Decision
 by The Honorable Elijah
Muhammad
THE DAY OF DECISION. We are now living in the time in which we must
decide on what we should do. It is very important that we arrive at a
solution; come to a definitive agreement. You, Black Man of America,
are holding back your decision. You are waiting because of the people
who have brought this DAY OF DECISION to us by their way of rule.
Their rule is the way of injustice. Now the God of Justice is before
us and we must decide upon whether or not we accept a change of rulers
or remain under the present rule that is passing from the scene. We
must decide rightly, in order to relieve the people of the pressure of
injustice. Let our decision be for the benefit of our present and our
future generations. We have no objection to that person who makes up
his mind to remain in what he is already in. However, this
Announcement of Great Importance is laid before you and me so that we
may come to some kind of decision: agreement on what we shall do about
the truth of this Announcement. The Announcement is the truth. It is
asking us to decide on whether or not we are going to accept the truth
or remain in falsehood. It is called THE DAY OF DECISION. Decide this
day which God you shall serve -- The God of Freedom, Justice and
Equality or the same old wicked god whose rule Allah (God) is here to
bring an end to. The wicked rulers veil the eyes of the people with
falsehood so that the people may take falsehood for truth and truth
for falsehood. This is what the Bible and Holy Qur'an teaches us. All
of the Important Announcements made by the prophets from Moses to the
present day -- the enemy of truth has deceived the people and make the
people think that they are listening to falsehood. They made the
people think that the prophet and His God were too weak to prevail
over falsehood with truth. What is said here in this writing is
directed to the Black Man in America. He is the real one who must
decide on whether or not to remain in what he is in, or accept a
better world that is ruled by the God of Freedom, Justice and
Equality. My Black Brother, I want you to know that you are in a
pitiful condition here in this day in which the Announcement is being
made to you to make up your mind about what you are going to do. In
plain words, I wish to write here and tell you that you do not have a
long time in which to decide on what you want to do. Thinking that
you have a long time to decide is the mistake that people made in the
past. Noah's people and Lot's people were the losers for ignoring the
Announcement from these worthy prophets. They waited for they thought
that what they had was going to continue to be. We here in America
do not have to wait and see, for America is folding up under Divine
Chastisement and destruction is taking place before your and my eyes.
Also, the Bible and Holy Qur'an prophesied of these Days and what is
going on. These days are the Days of Judgment of Allah (God) against
the wicked. TO SEE "more" may mean the end of your life as
it was with the people of Noah and Lot who waited to see
"more". They could not come to a decisive point of
agreement. They waited and maybe you too will wait. To wait
for the truth to be fulfilled means that we will suffer the
consequences of the truth -- for not accepting the truth. THE DAY OF
DECISION. As there were opponents of the prophets in the past, we
have opponents of the prophets in this modern time. With all of the
warning that was given before these days, we could make our decision so
easily. Remember, the people of Noah had no prophets or scripture
before Noah. Again, remember that even as late as the time of Moses, the
Israelites had no previous scripture before Moses. You, Black
Brother are better off. You have all of the scriptures that were given
to prophets throughout the whole six thousand (6,000) years of the white
man on Planet Earth. And then you will be so foolish as to delay in
making a good decision until you see something happen or until, as the
Holy Qur'an and Bible teaches us, that you wait until you see the angels
coming in the clouds of heaven before you make up your mind. But still
probably you would reject that. Surely it will come to past that the
angels will come in the clouds of heaven. But as the Holy Qur'an
teaches you, it will not be a good day for you who have waited for such
time. When the angels come in the clouds of heaven they will not be
coming to do anything like preaching or giving you further knowledge. It
is prophesied that on the Day of Judgment the angels will come to
execute judgment on you for not believing and to save those who do
believe. THE PREACHER, the messenger, is the first to be
judged. Then the angels come to execute judgment on those who did not
believe the message. The angels in the time of Lot are a good warning to
you today. Those people were lost, for the angels came to execute
Judgment on the opponents and disbelievers of Lot and the cities of the
plain where he was living. The day of decision only means the
Resurrection and Judgment of the present world. As the Jesus prophesied,
as it was in the Day of Noah, Abraham and Lot, so it will be today. They
were eating and drinking and having a "good time", as they
called it; it is a wicked time. The history teaches us that by
waiting, they were the losers; yet, it will be the same today. It is the
same, for it is going on now. You are rejecting this truth and you are
accepting falsehood. Naturally, the enemy of truth is angry with the
Bearer of the Truth because the enemy was not made of truth. He was made
of falsehood. But again the Book (Bible) teaches that "Whosever
believeth, the same shall be saved." This is truth, whether he is
white or Black. If a white man, woman, boy or girl believes, even though
by nature they are not the real righteous, their faith will get them out
of the hell that Allah (God) threatens this world with. And their time
will be prolonged; I am sure that you know this. They also know this. A
remnant of them will escape if they have faith in Allah (God) and his
Religion, Islam, as Jesus prophesied in the Bible,... that even though
an enemy give one of his least ones (believers) a drink of water, and
that being an act of goodness, The God Will Not deprive that act of
goodness of its reward. MAKE UP YOUR MIND. Come to a right decision, I
WARN YOU.
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Reprinted from "Muhammad Speaks" October 24, 1969.) |
