In a recent letter Brother Dwayne X Faust (who sent me the insightful writing, Things Aren�t Always What They Seem) informed me that he would try to learn the name of the author, as he was given that writing without the author�s name. I still thank him for it, as it has helped a few.

Why mention the importance of getting to the name of the author? It helps me make a point. It�s to give credit where credit is due. What�s the importance and benefit of this? Does it bear on the oft-repeated statement, made by Muslims�or its rough equivalent by others�of "All praises are due to Allah?"

All of us�including most all of us who are thieves�know that stealing is wrong. The exceptions to this are the fully insane.

None of us like being robbed.

Robbery takes many forms. One form is when we take an idea, or any artistic work, etc., from another and present it as if we authored it, or publicly use it without permission and/or against the purpose of the author. Why do we do this? What is the root of such? Look in the Study Guides of the Honorable Minister Louis Farrakhan, about the Satan of self.

We do not know how to generate, to create, to produce for the first time an idea, or anything, that is absolutely brand new; that has never been conceived or thought of before.

However, there are a very tiny number of persons, who know how to produce what is brand new, so taught the Honorable Elijah Muhammad.

As for myself, I have never produced even so much as a part of an idea that someone else has not already conceived. I�ve never had an original thought in my life. For one thing, the Writers of the original scriptures knew everything that we would think and do before we were ever born.

On page 128 of This Is The One, Third Edition, are words the Honorable Elijah Muhammad gave me for that book, that bear on the above. He stated that his Teacher would give "to man the nature and the creative wisdom to produce creative ideas as the father of civilization. This is what was prophesied: that God would make man like Himself. He aims to make The Nation of Righteousness, who will rule in the Hereafter, with the potential knowledge of producing and bringing into action, or existence, that which He has been able to produce. We call this �ideas.� He aims to make each one into a God."

Such knowledge and power is to be divinely shared.

For years many persons have attempted to rip off aspects of the teachings and work of the Honorable Elijah Muhammad and Minister Farrakhan to make themselves important in the eyes of others. This is maximum vanity.

Some of them remind me of Daniel 11:14, part of which reads: "the robbers of thy people shall exalt themselves to establish the vision; but they shall fall."

These two men were absolutely born to teach and do as they have. They absolutely could not do otherwise even if they tried. In the main, their lives are manifestations of Allah�s unconditional will.

Their missions�which is really one mission�are divinely designed to enable us to learn what we were born to do and to empower us to do it. To claim the acclaim or credit Allah designed and willed for them�for our benefit�manifests the kind of ignorance, which Surah 98 of the Holy Qur�an states renders one as the worst of creatures. It also manifests extraordinary ingratitude�which Allah hates, according to Surah 39, as well as the direct word of the Honorable Elijah Muhammad.

Such madness is like a man out in the street, on a cloudless day, at high noon, claiming to be generating some or all of the light of the sun.

There is more to be said on this subject, which I�ll leave for now, except for these two points. Jesus said that many would come in his name and deceive many. We�ve really been living through the fulfillment of prophecies about this.

Next, even the wicked of this world have various kinds of laws against such high level stealing, such as copyright laws. Of course, they violate the principles which undergird such laws every day, especially when it comes to God�s words. This is to be expected in a world rooted in the slander of the character of God.

When we rob others, as mentioned above, we erode our hearts, even when we say, "All praises are due to Allah." We�ll return to this in an upcoming article, Allah willing.

Meanwhile, it�s possible that you may be reading this article a little over a week from today, which is May 15th. In Washington, D.C. on May 9th there was a press conference, which has been reported worldwide.

It revolved around what seems to be an all out attempt by certain Caucasians to force congressional hearings to be held concerning what is often called the "UFO" phenomena.

At the end of April I saw announcements of this press conference via the Internet. I have attempted to follow the course of their publicized efforts ever since.

The New York Daily News Online, on May 6th reported that "Dr. Steven Greer, leader of the Disclosure Project, has been gathering taped testimony over the last eight years from high level military officials and scientists who are expected to announce that � UFOs are real."

The News continues, "These witnesses are military intelligence people and others who have worked on classified projects � " said Greer.

At one point he was quoted: "Usually, this topic is ridiculed as the little green men thing, but these are not people in trailer parks in West Virginia. These are colonels, generals, atomic energy commissioners."

"But what about proof? The scientists ask, �If UFOs were real, wouldn�t we be tracking them on radar?� Well, we have an FAA radar tape, we have a senior official who investigated it, we have radar controllers who tracked this thing. This puts to rest the questions: Is this real? We want to move on to the next question, which is: What are we going to do as a civilization to address this?"

The truth of Minister Farrakhan�s person, character, teachings and work stands independent of the verification of anyone other than Allah. But Allah is merciful.. Events, like this press conference, are for our benefit; not the Minister�s. Brother Cedric Muhammad, who sometimes writes for The Final Call, and whose insightful website address is www.blackelectorate.com, was one of four Blacks in attendance at this significant press conference and the only Black person in the VIP "private" meeting.

Now, back to the second chapter of Farrakhan: God�s Man On The Straight Path, titled A Valuable Black Man. Within a week or so, be it the will of Allah, I intend to announce the publication of an e-book, which will include the whole of this chapter. Please watch for this announcement.

More next issue, Allah willing.