The Honorable Elijah Muhammad once told me that he was not an envious person. He said he was blessed to be that way from a child on up. He said that when he was little he rejoiced over what others received when gifts were given out at Christmas time.

The Honorable Minister Louis Farrakhan has that same kind of disposition.

Min. Farrakhan has a part of his teacher�s assignment, which essentially, is to uplift fallen humanity. It�s to resurrect the spiritual or mentally dead. It�s to help others to reach their fullest development or potential.

Every one of us who are with Min. Farrakhan are here at this time in history to become the very best human being we can be, by means of what Allah has revealed, as well as to help Min. Farrakhan by properly sharing in his assignment, or mission, or work. If we are to be effective helpers of Min. Farrakhan we must be free of jealousy and envy.

As did his teacher before him, Min. Farrakhan teaches that which will thoroughly uproot and destroy these heart-corroding emotions. In that which they�ve taught are those keys that can develop each human beings potential to the fullest.

Now, there is an important qualifier that could be inserted here, but I don�t want to go off from my primary point. However, I intend to take it up next article, Allah willing.

Min. Farrakhan, nor his teacher, could not have had the success they have had if they were jealous and envious.

Well, some ask, why didn�t the Honorable Elijah Muhammad�s efforts remove these evils? This question shows shallow thinking. In some other instances this kind of question, or point, reveals hypocrisy. In another article I�d like to give my views on this and back it up.

There is a connection between the emotion and mind-set that produces that kind of question and the roots of jealousy and envy. It�s false pride.

Meanwhile, the short answer is that the Honorable Elijah Muhammad is completing the first phase of his work through Min. Farrakhan. He is doing this while he is also into the second phase of his work, into which he is bringing Min. Farrakhan.

No one can build a decent government and world with people who are filled with jealousy and envy. These evils make people do the most evil things to self and to others. These evil emotions are murderous. All forms of chaos results from these evils.

The emotions of jealousy (of the negative type) and envy stunts the development of the good of what we are. Jealousy and envy produces blockage in the resurrection process. It hinders our natural development.

That which removes these blockages to our natural growth, is that which Min. Farrakhan teaches and practices from the storehouse of his teacher�s wisdom. Simply put that which will eradicate, or wipe out jealousy and envy, is the knowledge of self. This knowledge contains divine light, life and power. If accepted, with love, it automatically produces the next stage of love for self. The intensity of this next level (or plane) of love inevitably produces unity with self and the power of self to do for self and others. It even enables us to co-exist with enemies in a most intelligent manner.

Such simple words, as these seem to be, are actually the most profound mathematical formulas of the most valuable and sophisticated kind. Without them there is no self-development. Without them there is no ability to properly relate to God, self and others.

Look well into Min. Farrakhan�s study guides. To ignore them means we just don�t understand Min. Farrakhan as we think we do. We can better understand him and his assignment if we would study them and engage in discussions based on them.

Jealousy and envy are manifestations of the worst form of narrow-mindedness and self-centeredness. The emotions, or mental attitudes, and the resulting states of mind they produce, are opposite to the nature of God in us. They are opposite to the qualities essential to the growth of our divinity. The nature of the Creator is our nature too. He created us in His own nature. Jealousy and envy are not part of His nature.

Allah did not create us to be jealous nor envious. I am well aware that the Bible states that God is a jealous God. Yes and I�ve already indicated above that there is another kind of jealousy that is positive, within limits. One place in the Bible even refers to a "Godly jealousy." To get into this here is too much of a digression. So I�ll hope to also take this up next issue, Allah willing.

Besides, there is not much "Godly jealousy" in wicked America, and not much among the dead, even though we are rising from our graves of ignorance.

You cannot build any real and lasting peaceful, harmonious, divinely creative and constructive relationships, not to think of a righteous government and world, with false pride and its wicked products�jealousy; envy; covetousness; unjust and unreasonable resentment; vanity; blasphemy; slander; self-righteousness and self-delusion.

Essentially, jealously requires at least three people for it to occur. Envy requires only two. Both involve improper comparisons.

There are several questions we could and ought to ask and seek the answers too, if we are to understand jealousy and envy and work with Min. Farrakhan to get rid of them. Among them are, what are the roots of jealousy and envy? What are the forms of their manifestations? What are the consequences of acts that are motivated, in whole or in part, by jealousy and envy?

Earlier, I summed up what Min. Farrakhan, and his teacher before him, taught. It is the only formula or medicine that will cure us of our spiritual ills, including jealousy and envy. Here I�m also using the word "formula," to express what he teaches, as it is the comprehensive rule or combination of principles, as well as the comprehensive method, or procedure, that will cure us, and restore to us our original powers and original place in Allah�s creation.

So now, what is it in this formula, summed up above, which can (has the power) get up under jealousy and envy and uproot them forever? What is its power to rid these evils from the human heart permanently? Does this "formula" automatically remove such evils as jealousy and envy if we truly accept it? If so, how and why? If not, why not? Is there another "formula" that equals the one taught by Min. Farrakhan, as described above? What would that be? If there is not another equal to what he teaches�and there isn�t�then other than what he offers is inferior and, therefore, worthless.

Again, the study guides Allah ordered through Min. Farrakhan, will rid us of jealousy and envy if we will but use them as he instructed. If we refuse, are we saying�consciously or subconsciously�that we want Satan�s spirit to continue in us; to whatever degree that is the case? Are we also saying that we don�t believe that Allah ordered these study guides at all, nor through Min. Farrakhan? And any degree of that evil spirit within us is, as Min. Akbar would say, "That is totally out of order!"

In the beginning of the creation of life and the universe, reading was not required. It did not exist at that time. We�ve been taught that it took Him (God) about six trillion years to produce a writer from Himself. Now, we are in the time of the fulfillment of the prophecies about God�s recreation of the heavens and the earth. In these initial years of the recreation of all things, God has made reading a requirement.

Hence, Min. Farrakhan�s stress on study, in which reading is an essential.