I’m continuing from the last issue, from articles which appeared in The Washington Post and The Atlanta Journal—both of which confirm the truth of the more-than-a-vision experience of the Honorable Minister Louis Farrakhan—17 months after he was contacted by the Honorable Elijah Muhammad in a most significant manner.

"The 17-day ordeal of hijacked TWA Flight 847 in June, 1985 precipitated a shift in U.S. policies toward both Libya and Iran. The hijacking dramatized U.S. vulnerability to terrorism in the Middle East and fed White House determination to take strong action.

"Iran’s influence in the freeing of the TWA passengers and crew from terrorists in Lebanon suggested that an opening to Teheran could help free remaining U.S. hostages held by pro-Iranian groups, the sources said. The thinking about Libya went in the other direction: Although there was no direct connection between Libya and the TWA hijacking, top officials at the NSC and CIA became determined to get tough with Libya, the most vulnerable of the terrorism-generating states to U.S. action."

So out of this came a so-called justification by the Reagan administration to plan to make war on Libya.

The Honorable Elijah Muhammad informed Min. Farrakhan that: "President Reagan has met with the Joint Chiefs of Staff to plan a war."

Seventeen months later The Atlanta Journal (February 20, 1987) whose news account to the world was based on a news report by The Washington Post verified what Min. Farrakhan was told.

There is no question about it. President Reagan and his aides planned the death of Colonel Gadhafi and the invasion of Libya, before September 17, 1985. The press unintentionally verified the truth of what Min. Farrakhan told us and the world which he was told by the Honorable Elijah Muhammad.

Is this sufficient proof that what Min. Farrakhan told us and the world of his experience on the 17th day of September, 1985 was true in every sense of the word?

This proof—which is far beyond evidence—ought to close the gap between those who took him at his word and those of us who needed this extra blessing from Allah, regardless to how it came, that our Brother, Min. Farrakhan, did not lie or say anything false about this immensely significant experience.

This should have also closed the gap between him and those who either doubted him or did not at all believe what he said on this matter—including the fact that the Honorable Elijah Muhammad is alive. Did it? If it didn’t is there any more proof available?

Most all of us will agree that Min. Farrakhan and the Nation of Islam had nothing to do with what America’s press revealed to America and to the world about what the government was planning in 1985 against Libya.

Did America’s press revealed what it did to help others accept as true what Min. Farrakhan was told by his teacher? In my view, no. Was Allah involved, in some way, in the resulting news reports about what the Reagan government was planning? In my view, yes. He is the Beneficent and the Most Merciful.

Now, within the limits of these short articles, we’ve briefly covered Min. Farrakhan’s growing awareness of where the war (his teacher told him about) was going to be waged by the Reagan government. Next, we looked at what he did about it in obedience to his teacher’s instructions.

Mother Tynnetta Muhammad’s book The Comer by Night provides the text of a press conference statement Min. Farrakhan made on February 5, 1986 and the statement he made a few months later, in Libya, before the representatives of 80 nations warning America not to make war on Libya.

How Min. Farrakhan grew into a deeper understanding of the words of his teacher and exactly which war it was and against whom, that this government was really planning, regardless to the administration, will take another article.

Meanwhile, we looked briefly at how the American press confirmed Min. Farrakhan’s experience. To me Allah’s hand was over all of this for the sake of millions, who were not in the position to know what Min. Farrakhan said, not to think over its significance.

Now, what was/is the deeper relevance of his experience to each of us and to this world’s destiny? Finally, what does all of this tell us about Min. Farrakhan?

Let’s go back to February 1981, when he first announced that the Honorable Elijah Muhammad was not dead but was alive and in power! Many thought his announcement would spell the death of the Nation of Islam. They later became very surprised to see the Nation grow with speed as a result of his statement.

Those who thought his 1981 announcement would destroy the Nation of Islam did not grasp that there is an unseen power behind, backing and guiding Min. Farrakhan, which is infinitely supreme over his opponents. This is relevant to his announcements respecting his experience with the Honorable Elijah Muhammad on September 17, 1985.

(His mission has been designed to take as long as it has, since he arose in 1977 for wise and benevolent purposes. One is mentioned in 2Peter 3:9 that "The Lord is not slack concerning his promise, as some men count slackness; but is long-suffering to us, ward, not willing that any should perish, but that all should come to repentance.")

Part of Min. Farrakhan’s statement of his own experience, in October 1989, was that he "heard the voice of the Honorable Elijah Muhammad speaking to me as clearly as you are hearing my voice this morning."

Min. Farrakhan continued, that his teacher, "spoke in short cryptic sentences and as he spoke a scroll full of cursive writing rolled down in front of my eyes, but it was a projection of what was being written in my mind. As I attempted to read the cursive writing, which was in English, the scroll disappeared and the Honorable Elijah Muhammad began to speak to me."

He continued that his teacher said, "President Reagan has met with the Joint Chiefs of Staff to plan a war ... " etc.

Now it was the words before the words about President Reagan, etc. on which I’m asking us to focus. What were the words that the Honorable Elijah Muhammad spoke to Min. Farrakhan as—or at the same time—the scroll was rolling down in front of his eyes? Next, what were the words on the scroll that Min. Farrakhan tried to read? What was written in his mind? What were/is the relation between the words that were written and that which was said to him by his teacher?

Over the past 14 years that I’ve heard Min. Farrakhan speak on his vision-plus experience he has always indicated that he did not know what those two set of words were. Were these the same words, or if not, how did each set of words relate to the other?

That does not mean that he won’t ever learn them. But there was obviously a wise purpose in their not being made known to him at that time.

But have we really watched him over these last 14 years? Could it be that, as he has said, all of the major events that he and the Nation has accomplished since his experience, has grown out of his experience? How do these "major events" relate to the words given to him by his teacher and in that scroll’s writings put into him? He knows neither of them, consciously; at least at the time I last heard him comment on it. Let’s critically think over this.

Do we get closer to the truth of those words by watching (and listening) to him, as the Honorable Elijah Muhammad told the Nation to do back in 1972, in one of his Theology of Time talks? How do we watch? To what do we listen and watch? With what motives do we watch and listen? If we watch with preconceptions, bias, and the like, what will we see? If we watch with the so-called wisdom of the "grave" what will we see?

The right approach gets us all into a depth of mathematics that this world’s exhausted wisdom cannot fathom. To what extent does that part of Min. Farrakhan’s experience, which America’s press has verified, prove that the other parts of his vision-plus experience were/are true? If it does, how does it do so? What exactly was/is the rest?

What is the best book that can help us with this study? The Honorable Elijah Muhammad said the best book his Teacher gave him to read was the Holy Qur’an. I am among those to whom he said: "The Qur’an is the root of Muhammad."

How does this entire subject relate to your own potential?