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POSTED 11-07-2001
Releasing
THE POWER OF GOD WITHIN
Mind, Body and Soul
by The
Honorable Minister
Louis Farrakhan
[Editor�s Note: The following
text is excerpted from a September 23, 2001 speech delivered
by Minister Louis
Farrakhan at Union Temple Baptist Church in Washington, D.C.]
In the Name of Allah, the
Beneficent, the Merciful.
 esus
said, "Let him that would be great among you, let him be your
servant." You cannot serve if you think you are greater than
that which you are called to serve. To be a servant means you must
see those whom you are called to serve as greater than yourself.
I have always loved you from a little boy, and I have always
wanted to serve you, but did not quite know how. I was a musician,
an entertainer, and thought that since Allah (God) had given me such
an abundance of talent, that maybe my job was to make you happy
through music. But I met the Honorable Elijah Muhammad and Malcolm X
and they showed me that the way to serve you was to study the word
of Allah (God) and deliver to us the truth. For it is said by Jesus,
"You shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free."
That service of your people is a noble pursuit. Becoming a
servant of truth and the God of truth is a noble pursuit, but, as we
mature in the word of Allah (God), we have to recognize that the
vessel that Allah (God) chooses to deliver truth must be purified of
the impediments that hinder the telling of truth. It takes time to
purify. It�s a process that oftimes is full of pain, but, it is also
full of introspection, where one must never be afraid to look at
self and to point out, as best you can, the things of self that need
improvement so that one may be an even better servant of Allah (God)
and the people and the truth.
Did you know that there is power within you that needs to be
released? The Honorable Elijah Muhammad taught us that Allah (God)
is the Self-Created; He was not begotten. To prove His
Self-Creation, He makes all living things bear witness to His
Self-Creation. When a woman says that she is pregnant, that means
that something happened between her last cycle and the one that she
missed. She was not conscious of what was going on; therefore, she
had nothing to do with it except to provide an egg. And the man had
nothing to do with it except that he provided a sperm. But in the
sperm was intelligence. It knew exactly what to do; it started
seeking what it was to do something with, and found what it was
looking for. The first cell of life began without mom or dad knowing
what was happening. The intelligence in the first cell of life was
Allah (God) Himself.
Look at that body of yours. You didn�t form the heart, the lungs,
the liver, the pancreas, the spinal cord, or the brain. You didn�t
give it structure of bones and sinews and flesh. You didn�t give it
eyes to see and ears to hear and a tongue to speak and hands to
fashion what was in the mind and feet to walk, but a God was in the
womb, a Creator was in the womb. Allah (God) says in the Qur�an,
"I created you in the womb." If He, God, is the Creator of life,
then all of our lives belong to Him Who created us. And honor and
respect is due to the mother who bore us and the father whose seed
generated life for us.
 ho
is the Creator? There isn�t but One and that is the Power Within.
But power within needs to have an environment in which to grow.
Mothers who smoke, mothers who drink, mothers who eat the wrong
kinds of food and mothers whose minds are upset with the wrong kinds
of thoughts are forming a life but creating a wrong kind of
environment for that life to grow in. After 9 months, that which was
initiated by Allah (God) comes into the world for a mother and,
hopefully, a father to create an environment for Allah (God) to
manifest Himself through that life that He created. That�s the power
within that cannot be manifested as it should if you don�t have a
loving environment.
The Holy Qur�an teaches us that when we are born into the world
we are born into the world knowing nothing. Then how can you release
the power of mind? Brain is not mind; brain is brain. Mind is the
sum total of your knowledge, wisdom and understanding; how God�s
Creation has affected you is what creates mind.
Allah (God) introduces Himself to us in the Qur�an saying, "I
Allah am the Best Knower." You can�t release the power within
without knowledge. The thing that separates us from the beasts of
the field is that there is a hunger and a thirst in the human being
for knowledge. And that�s why in the first year of life, the child,
so curious, learns to crawl. You didn�t tell it to crawl, so where
does that intelligence come from? Nine months, 10 months later, it
finds something strong and it pulls up; then it takes its first
step. You didn�t tell it to do that; something within told it.
You speak around the child and it learns language. Whatever you
do in that environment will affect the growth and development of
that child so that the power that is within can be released. But
what is the science that will allow us to release it? The power to
release what is within starts with knowledge�the knowledge of Allah
(God), number one; the knowledge of self, number two. These two
areas of knowledge are inseparable. Without the knowledge of Allah
(God) you can�t see your relationship or connection with Him, that
damages your ability to release the power within. Without trust in
Allah (God) or faith in Allah (God) you can�t release the power
within.
When you have a love for, a knowledge of, and a faith in Allah
(God), that�s the beginning of your release of power. When David
slew Goliath, he picked up five smooth stones out of a brook.
Goliath had the weapons of war. David had something else. David had
faith. David had trust. David believed in and David loved Allah
(God), so, although he picked up five stones, he only used one. And
what is that one. That one stone represents the pillar of all faith:
That there is but One God and your complete trust and belief in that
One God sets you apart to release the Power that Allah (God) has
already put within.
 llah
(God) doesn�t choose several men to do his work. He chooses one. And
that one, armed with faith and trust in Allah (God), becomes the
shepherd entrusted to release the power of those that will listen to
that one empowered by Allah (God). Each one of you does not need to
look to us who are in leadership as though we have what you don�t
have. Each of you has what you honor us for tonight. You just need
to know how to release your own power and glorify your Creator by
the release of the power within.
I�m going to give some characteristics that we have to have.
Jesus said that the first commandment is that you should love Allah
(God) with all your heart, soul and mind. Once you give yourself
totally to Allah (God), in absolute love for Him, that�s the
beginning of the release of your power.
However, Allah (God) will try you with that which you love the
most because He wants to know: Do you love what you love the most
more than I Who gave you what you love the most? You can�t love your
son or your daughter or your mother or your father more than you
love Him Who created your mother or your father, or your teacher, or
your pastor, or your friends. You must love Him Who gave it all to
you.
If He tries you with your son, or your daughter, or your friends,
or your career, or your health, your sight, your limbs, and you lose
something that you thought you needed, will you love Him then?
If you want to release the power within, then you must pray. When
you come to pray, you come to that which cultivates the God within.
Wherever you hear truth, no matter whose mouth it comes from, pay
attention. Even if you think it�s from somebody you think is your
enemy, if they speak the truth, then recognize it, humble yourself,
and Allah (God) will lift you. He who seeks to lift himself, Allah
(God) will abase; and he who humbles himself, Allah (God) will
exalt.
I close with these words: Let this mind be in you the same that
was in Christ Jesus. Commit his mind�which is really the way Allah
(God) looks at things�permit his mind to enter you. His mind in you
will release the power of you. "And be not conformed to this
world; but be ye transformed by the renewing of your mind, that ye
may prove what is that good, and acceptable, and perfect, will of
God."
Photo Credit: James G. Muhammad
-2012-
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