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'Or do you think that you will enter the Garden, while there has not yet befallen you the like of what befell those who have passed away before you. Distress and affliction befell them and they were shaken violently, so that the Messenger and those who believed with him said: When will the help of Allah come? Now surely the help of Allah is nigh!" �Holy Qur�an, Surah 2,124

The 99th Surah of the Holy Qur�an is titled, "The Shaking." When prefixed by the Number 19, we get the final chronological year of this 20th Century. As we prepare to enter into the New Millennium, the phenomenal signs of destruction, chaos and death are occurring with ever increasing frequency in this final year and truly answers to the condition of our times and The Shaking of a Great Magnitude.

"Ask of the Children of Israel how many a clear sign We gave them! And whoever changes the favour of Allah after it has come to him, then surely Allah is Severe in requiting (Evil)" Surah 2, verse 211. The unusual display of the heavens with her astronomical signs is also bearing witness to the severity of the times. Beginning on November 17th and ending on November 19th, one of the brightest displays of a meteor shower was observed in many parts of the Midwest and in other geographical areas around our Planet.

Dubbed as the Leonid meteor show or shooting stars display, it contained stones and ice particles from the Comet Temple-Tuttle which passes Earth once a year, and in every 33 years it is closest to the sun in a repeated cycle which coincides with the 33rd Surah. Is it a coincidence that the 33rd Surah of the Holy Qur�an titled "The Allies," speaks of a Battle staged by the opponents of the Prophet Muhammad which included a coalition of some of the disbelieving leaders of the various tribes joining in with a party from among the Jews, who consolidated their actions along with the Hypocrites to come against the Prophet and his young, new struggling Community.

In the 11th verse of this Surah, we again read the word, "shaking," revealed in the context of the confrontation of the Muslims with all the opposing forces. "There were the believers tried and they were shaken with a severe shaking. And when the hypocrites and those in whose hearts was a disease began to say: Allah and His Messenger did not promise us (victory) but only to deceive." Surah 33, verses 11 & 12

Today, we stand, in relationship to our contemporary world, to repeat this History inside of America overcoming adversities as it was in the time of the Prophet in the City of Medinah in Arabia. It was in the city of Chicago, where the headquarters of The Nation of Islam was established by Master W. Fard Muhammad and His Disciple, the Honorable Elijah Muhammad, while on the run from opposing forces to the spread of Islam in this country. So, today, as expressed in the Honorable Minister Louis Farrakhan�s last Saviours� Day Address of this year, titled, "An Apologia," the dissatisfaction, plot and plotters are well entrenched in the House being aided by those on the outside who wish to see our destruction and failure.

"The life of this world is made to seem fair to those who disbelieve, and they mock those who disbelieve. And those who keep their duty will be above them on the Day of Resurrection. And Allah gives to whom He pleases without measure." Surah 2, verse 212

The Hypocrites do not want to see the success of the Believers and will do everything possible to discredit their efforts in their strivings to please Allah. The unfortunate sign of the deep dive of EgyptAir Flight 990 contained not only the number 99 coinciding with this year but is also numbered in the Holy Qur�an in the 99 Surah, entitled "The Shaking." The aircraft began its fateful descent from an altitude of 33,000 feet, and then dipped to a 19,000 foot ceiling and ultimately disappeared into a watery grave out of which controversy has emerged surrounding suspicion of one of the Muslim pilots involved. Once again, thus placing Islam and the Muslims in the center of controversy.

"Mankind is a single nation. So Allah raised prophets as bearers of good news and as warners, and He revealed with them the Book with truth, that it might judge between people concerning that in which they differed. And none but the very people who were given it differed about it after clear arguments had come to them, envying one another. So Allah has guided by His will those who believe to the truth about which they differed. And Allah guides whom He pleases to the right path." Holy Qur�an, Surah 2, verse 213