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"Remember,
at the beginning of his mission, when Moses had not gained a grip on
his task, and felt unsure of himself. So, he asked God for a helper.
His request came from his sense of inadequacy. God gave him his
brother, Aaron. However, God made clear to Moses that He was
sufficient for him. Nevertheless, He did give Aaron to Moses.
"This act, by God, in giving Aaron to Moses,
did not represent a change of His mind. He was not giving in to Moses�
vision, which was limited, at that time. He did not give Aaron to
Moses from any sort of weakness. He was looking at a time in the
future, which Moses at that time did not see. He fore knew that His
servant would have to return to Him for his next lesson. During that
period of time, the condition of the people would yet require this
special helper. Extra time was required, along with an unusual display
of God�s power, to raise these people from their uniquely wretched
state of condition.
"Part of what God would have to display, in
order to save His people, was maximum mercy, or grace. So out of Allah�s
mercy came Aaron. All of this, and more, was a major part of His
planning for infinity."
The above excerpt came from the second chapter of "Farrakhan:
God�s Man on the Straight Path," and is titled: A
Valuable Black Man.
What I here am simply calling "the best
knowledge" can be looked at in terms of three aspects of its
reality. Simply put, it�s supreme. It was, and is yet, presented or
taught to us supremely. It carries with it supreme proofs of its
truth.
In the course of amplifying these three aspects of
this "knowledge" I�ll comment on the three paragraphs,
mentioned three articles ago, which were:
"I�ve learned that there were fathers in at
least one of the audiences, around the country, who were teaching
their little sons to say, �I love Minister Farrakhan.� This
reminds me of a certain prophecy.
"Let�s look at this prophecy and these
words: �I love you Minister Farrakhan!�
"Can we love him or anyone else beyond the
extent and the quality of our knowledge? No! What then, is the best
knowledge that generates the most love for him and for each other?
What makes it the best?"
I want to show, that more often than we might
think, there is unusual value in such common everyday good, innocent
and common observations, such as the ones I�ve just quoted. At the
root of this is the fact that we are living in the time when the rays
of the most significant of the divine prophecies (contained in the
scriptures) are being fulfilled right in our faces.
Let�s start with two meetings. The first meeting
was between Master Fard Muhammad and the Honorable Elijah Muhammad.
That was in September 1931. The second meeting was between the
Honorable Elijah Muhammad and the Honorable Minister Louis Farrakhan.
That was February 1955.
There never has been any argument or doubt that
these two meetings took place. Certainly, many detractors reject the
Honorable Elijah Muhammad�s perception of Master Fard Muhammad and
the Honorable Minister Louis Farrakhan�s perception of the Honorable
Elijah Muhammad. However, there are certain fundamental facts that
resulted from these meetings about which there is no doubt. In other
words, everyone who has studied this subject agrees on certain
fundamental facts about these three men, despite fundamental
disagreements over the significance of these facts.
The stupendous jump in the extent and quality of
the knowledge of the Honorable Elijah Muhammad can only be attributed
to the fact that Master Fard Muhammad educated him, in person, for
three years and four or five months.
There is no denying that the stupendous jump in the
extent and quality of the knowledge of Minister Farrakhan�beginning
in 1955�can only be attributed to the teachings of the Honorable
Elijah Muhammad. This is so even though he was primarily under the
tutelage of Malcolm X for the first nine years he was in the Nation of
Islam. But, we must remember, he was taught the wisdom of the
Honorable Elijah Muhammad.
We must also remember that Minister Farrakhan read
articles and heard tapes by the Honorable Elijah Muhammad.
Furthermore, he, along with others, went to various meetings where the
Honorable Elijah Muhammad delivered speeches. And, of course, he was
among those who were blessed, from time to time, to visit the home of
the Honorable Elijah Muhammad and be taught by him at a dinner table.
Then there were times when he was alone with his teacher.
The Honorable Elijah Muhammad told us that his
Teacher continued to have guiding contact with him after His physical
departure. Minister Farrakhan has told us the same with respect to his
teacher. In my view, Minister Farrakhan�s more than a vision
experience, of September 17, 1985, is�to this point�the most
outstanding example of many such spiritual experiences he has had,
which illustrate this truth of him.
Now, at one point, in his September 10, 1972 Theology
of Time speech, the Honorable Elijah Muhammad said:
"Being suspicious is a bad, bad disease,
especially when you are suspicious of a man of God that raised him up
to lead you into a better life. I want to see you living in heaven
where you once lived in hell. I want to see you acting by each other
as though both was brought up in the same family and by the same
father and mother. That�s what I want for you. God has made me to
love you, as He loved you Himself."
The Holy Qur�an tells us that we must avoid most
of suspicion for most of suspicion is sin.
Do you think the God, and the man who spoke these
words, failed to provide us with a man with the same kind of heart
towards us after his departure in 1975?
Minister Farrakhan has a heart like His teacher,
who has a heart like God, Who is his Teacher. You may not agree with
this: That suspicion of him is sinful. This will get you in trouble
with Allah and His Christ. Such suspicion is a manifestation of gross
ingratitude and an act of deliberate spiritual stubbornness against
Allah�s truths. As it was with his teacher, before him, so it is
now. This rebelliousness, which appears in many guises, is manifested
in the face of overwhelming proofs of the truth he teaches.
When you think over the suspicion of some
respecting Minister Farrakhan�which is from shallow thinking,
hypocrisy and Satan�s wicked suggestions�consider this verse and
these notes about this suspicion, by two scholars of the Holy Qur�an.
The Muhammad Ali translation 17: 36 reads: "And follow not that
of which thou hast no knowledge. Surely the hearing and the sight and
the heart, of all of these it will be asked."
His footnote number 1428, to this verse reads:
"If this injunction were followed, all society gossip would
immediately cease, thereby relieving many an innocent man and woman of
the heart-burning which he or she suffers on account of evil and
unfounded reports. The verse also forbids entering into discussions
without accurate knowledge, or proffering uncertain opinion. In fact,
peace and contentment would reign in society, instead of mutual strife
and hatred, if the injunction were observed."
In the one volume translation of the Qur�an,
edited by Malik Ghulam Farid (1969 edition) footnote 1619, to this
same verse, we read:
"The verse cuts at the root of all sources of
suspicion which in natural order are "the ear," "the
eye" and "the heart." "The ear" is the first
avenue through which most suspicions enter one�s mind. Most
suspicions are caused by ill-founded reports which one hears about
another person. Next source is that of sight. A person sees another
doing a certain act and interprets it wrongly and is led to suspect
the latter�s motives and intentions. The last, and most degraded,
kind of suspicion is that which a person entertains about another
person, not as the result of a bad report which he might have heard
about him, nor in consequence of a bad act or deed which he might have
seen him committing, but which is purely the figment of his own
diseased mind. Thus it is not only human life and property (to which a
reference has already been made in the preceding verse) which are
sacred and inviolable, but human honour also is sacrosanct and an
attack upon it also will have to be accounted for."
Be careful of your suspicion of Minister Farrakhan.
It will get you in quick trouble with the Divine Supreme Being and the
man called the Christ.
The above is critical to our own immediate future,
and that of our families. Why? Look. Let�s be real. Either the
Supreme Being exists, or He does not. If He exists, He has manifested
Himself in the past or He has not. If He has made Himself known in the
past, He must have done so for a reason. If He has, His reason must
have some significant relationship to the origin, life span, presence
and the end of evil. If the root cause of wickedness, as well as
wickedness itself, is to have an end, then God must have the best
reason for allowing it to grow and become dominant on His planet.
More next issue, Allah willing. |