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In The Name of Allah, The Beneficent, The Merciful.

We have deceived for this. We have tricked for this. We have lied for this. We have killed for this. At the death of our loved ones, we have fought over this and what this could buy of material things. I want to talk about the dollar, but I want to start with something that the Honorable Elijah Muhammad said since he’s my teacher, and the base of what I’m going to say is in his book, “The Fall of America.”

On page 87, he talks about the “Decline of the dollar”. If it is the Will of Allah (God), I hope to be able to show you why we can no longer trust in this (dollar) as the God we trust.

We should learn, and quickly, who is the God that we should put our trust in. Putting trust in this, (dollar) in a few days you are going to see men with hundred dollar bills lighting their cigars because the value of this dollar will be worthless.

The Honorable Elijah Muhammad writes, “The stronghold of the American government is falling to pieces. She has lost her prestige among the nations of the earth. One of the greatest powers of America was”—past tense— “her dollar. The loss of such power will bring any nation to weakness, for this is the media of exchange between nations. The English pound and the American dollar have been the power and beckoning light of these two great powers.”—America and the United Kingdom—“But when the world went off the gold and silver standard, the financial doom of England and America was sealed.”

At the time of his writing, the British pound had already lost 50 percent of its value. The American dollar has lost everything now as backing for her currency, which once was backed by gold. For every $5 note and up, you could take this paper and go to a bank and get $5 in gold; and from the $1 note up, you could go to the bank and get silver.

Now, you can’t get gold, you can’t get silver. When this falls, you can’t get anything for the dollars that you fight over, that you hoard, that we amass. The Honorable Elijah Muhammad writes, “The note today is something that the Government declares they will give you the value in return, but does not name what that value is.” Then he writes, “This is the number one fall.” Therefore, the fall of the dollar is the number one fall, and when it falls, everything else will come down after it.

The Honorable Elijah Muhammad doesn’t go on to prophesy what will happen if there’s 100 percent inflation. He said, “Your guess is as good as mine.” What should we expect, he said, even in the next 12 months? Well, I think there’s enough information today that we might be able to safely predict what we’re going to face in the next 12 months, in the next 24 months, in the next three years, in the next five years. We don’t have a lot of time.

All of us that are Christians, and I say this to my Muslim family, this is a Christian country. No matter how much we love the Holy Qur’an and the beauty of the Holy Qur’an, you cannot converse with the people of America unless you develop a good understanding of that which they believe in. Prophet Muhammad (PBUH) is our example. He could talk to Christians, to Jews, to Zoroastrians, it didn’t make any difference what their religion was, he knew something about what they believed. He could teach them out of their books, then bring them to the book that Allah (God) was revealing to him.

Having said that, we shall open to the Book of Revelations. We shall start with the 17th Chapter because it’s very important that we understand what John, the Revelator was seeing of the time, because it’s clear that we are living in the end times. Every sign that you could think of that the Bible and the Prophets foretold, you can see it already manifesting. We are living at the end of this system of things.

John, the Revelator says, “An angel came and he carried me away in the spirit, into the wilderness.” This word “wilderness,” is an important word. What wilderness? A wilderness is a place that’s uncultivated, undeveloped and here John is carried into the wilderness. I’m going to make it a little plainer as time goes on by the guidance of Allah (God) and the Honorable Elijah Muhammad. “And I saw a woman sitting upon a scarlet colored beast, full of the names of blasphemy, having seven heads and ten horns; The woman was arrayed in purple and scarlet color, decked with gold and precious stones and she had a golden cup in her hand that was full of abominations and filthiness of her fornication.” Now, that’s a heck of a description. A man carried out in the wilderness. He sees a woman decked in all this finery, sitting on a beast. Well, what kind of a place is that for a dignified woman, sitting on a beast? And the woman had gold and precious stones and pearls. I mean she had money, and more than money she had material substance. But the woman was holding a cup in her hand that was gold, but in it was abomination and the filthiness of her fornication.

“And upon her head was a name written, Mystery Babylon the Great, the mother of harlots and abominations of the earth.” This woman was so unclean that she was called, “the mother of harlots.”

She was not only the mother of these kinds of women (harlots), she was the mother of the abominations that were practiced throughout the earth. John the Revelator continues, “And I saw that woman drunk with the blood of the saints and with the blood of the martyrs of Jesus.” She was wicked. Then the scripture said that she had seven heads and ten horns.

John, the Revelator said, “I’m going to tell you the mystery of the beast that carried her which had seven heads and ten horns.” John, the Revelator said it meant seven mountains and the ten horns, which thou sawest upon the beast, these shall hate the whore and make her desolate, naked, eat her flesh and burn her with fire.

And then another angel came and he cried mightily with a strong voice saying, “Babylon, the Great is Fallen and is become the habitation of devils; and the hold of every foul spirit and a cage for every unclean and hateful bird.” John says; “for all nations have drunk of the wine of the wrath of her fornication. And the kings of the earth have committed fornication with her and the merchants of the earth are waxed rich through the abundance of her delicacies.”

Let’s look at a few definitions here. This Babylon was called Mystery Babylon. “Mystery.” We know the history of ancient Babylon, that’s not a mystery. This one is a Mystery Babylon. According to the dictionary, mystery is “something not fully understood.” It’s “a religious truth, comprehensible only by divine revelation.” The Old Testament says that Babylon could have been healed. No matter how bad Babylon was, Babylon could have been healed, but she was not. Her rulers were so arrogant in ancient Babylon. They had the people of God in their midst. They had defiled the people of God and they did not want to release them so that God could use them. So that started a fight with God. Ancient Babylon was so blind by her own sense of power, that she refused to consult history that would have taught her that no enemy has ever won a fight against God.

Babylon rejected the warner that God had placed in her midst. So the neighboring nations rose up against Babylon and Babylon was destroyed and the neighboring nations that dealt with her felt the weight of her fall, because her fall contributed to their fall, because Babylon was a world power.

Now, we’re not talking about ancient Babylon. We’re referring today to the Mystery Babylon that is found in the book of Revelations that gives us a hint of the end times. This Mystery Babylon was holding a golden cup. It was gold on the outside. She represented this mother of harlots. The gold cup represented something so precious, so foundational to success as gold on the outside. Purified material that was formed into a cup that beckoned the world to such a beautiful exterior, but inside she was filled with abominations and filth of every kind. The standard that Babylon represented was freedom, justice, equity, the rule of the masses. She represented material strength, where one’s needs could be fulfilled and all within her society could be whatever they determined they wanted to be.

She was a golden chalice/cup on the outside, but unfortunately, the scripture teaches that she was filled with filth and abomination of every kind on the inside. When our behavior is abominable, it means our conduct is so bad that it incites the loathing and hatred of God for that conduct. So, the woman had incurred God’s wrath. Allah’s (God’s) first effort is to warn that we have incurred his displeasure which would soon bring about his wrath.

Mercy and grace takes precedence over punishment. He always raises a warner to warn us that we are in a dangerous condition or position; but in that warner is a healing for that society and a healing for the people if the people would heed the warning. So, ancient Babylon could have been healed but she was not. The scripture says, “Babylon, the Great, is fallen.” The scripture didn’t say, Babylon, the Great, will fall. Babylon, the Great, has fallen. It says, “Babylon, the Great, is fallen.” “Is” represents a state of being, but it’s present tense. It means that the process of the fall has already begun. It means that the very thing that any great nation is afraid of, has already happened and all we’re waiting for is the ultimate crash of what has started the fall, because gravity does not permit you to check your fall.

Why is Babylon falling? She has become the habitation of devils. Habitation means the act of inhabiting or the state of being inhabited, a natural environment, or locality, a place of abode or residence, a native habitat. The environment of Babylon is so loathsome, so putrid, so filthy, that it is a natural environment for devils. It says it’s the hole of every foul spirit. A hole is a deep, dark crevice that an animal burrows in and finds a hole.

This Babylon is a deep, dark hole and it contains every foul spirit and it is a cage, a home, for every unclean and hateful bird. In “The Fall of America,” by the Honorable Elijah Muhammad, he talks about certain birds. Now, the Bible and Holy Qur’an use birds, beasts and fish to describe the characteristics of human beings. You have an owl. You have a crow. You have a buzzard. You have a raven. These are the things that eat on the flesh of others. Now, this place is a place for every unclean and hateful bird. I don’t want to keep you in suspense, but this Mystery Babylon, the Honorable Elijah Muhammad teaches us is the United States of America. Her influence is all over the world and she has spread her filth and abomination in every nation of the earth and all the nations have drunk of the wine of committing fornication with America.

Yes, it is true and it’s unfortunate that it is true that America’s environment is so foul that it has become the natural place of anybody who wants to rebel against submission to the Will of God.

In order to be successful in establishing truth, we have to be imbued with the spirit of Allah (God). Otherwise, the persecution that follows revelation will prove to be too much and we will give up the truth to seek some comfort from those who would persecute us for the sake of truth. There is no such thing as revelation coming to a people and that revelation is not followed by persecution, insult, injury, torture and even prison or death, but, those who really believe in the Message and the Messenger are imbued with a kind of spirit that no matter what persecution they receive on account of the Word, they become stronger rather than weaker; they become bolder rather than more reticent; they have the spirit of a warrior; they want to fight for the truth and fight for the establishment of a truth that would set their people free. This is why the scripture says, “Many are called but only a few are chosen.” Many will know it is the truth and love it, but, they will not have the strength to stand up for it under persecution or even unto death.

This particular prophecy in Isaiah is a forecast of The One that would come at the end of the world of Satan. Isaiah says, “The spirit of the Lord God is upon me because the Lord hath anointed me to preach glad tidings unto the meek.” This scripture is talking about the Black man and woman of America who are meek in terms of how we face the onslaught of our enemies in terms of our inability to cast off the yoke of our oppressor. The glad tidings to the meek is that the end of your oppression has arrived and the end of your oppressor has arrived, and, the most beautiful part of this is that the God Who is prophesied to come has come and is present and chooses a foolish people. Well, that is us. I am not trying to put us down, but, we are definitely rather foolish. It is not your fault we were made foolish by our enemies, but, the Book says that He would choose a people who were once a great people but are no people at all now. He says, “Thou shalt no more be the tail. Thou shalt be the head.”

As a Black person, Negro, Colored or African American, whatever you want to call yourself, you have such a poor view of yourself though you pray more than others, you go to church more than others, you shout more than others, you believe more deeply than others. Yet, you do not believe that Allah (God) would come to you, that He would choose you to bring a revelation that He has kept from the wise and the prudent men and the rulers of this world. Since you think like that, it is very difficult for you to see your value in this time.

No people in history have ever undergone what we have undergone. We have shown a tremendous ability to bounce back from the worst form of slavery and oppression. This tells us, as the Bible teaches, that you were not chosen for your righteousness. We are of the righteous but we are not acting that way. The scripture says that you were chosen out of the furnace of affliction because the furnace was designed for you to purify you and me, and, to make us the standard by which value would be measured. This is why the Bible says, “God’s coming would be as a refiner’s fire and like Fullers’ soap.” You are considered to be like gold that you find in the depth of the earth, but, gold has to be purified of the dross that is on it so it can shine and become a standard of value.

When Allah (God) chose the Arabs, He chose a people that were nothing. They were ignorant, divided and steeped in filth, yet, they were the choice of Allah (God) to raise Prophet Muhammad [PBUH] from among them and give them the greatest revelation that had been in the world up to that time— the Qur’an. After this Book was revealed, Islam captured the known world, then, the west was discovered by the Europeans and Europeans have built a world now that has literally overtaken the world of Islam. Yet, Allah (God) says in the Qur’an that, “He sent His Messenger with the guidance and the true religion that He may make it overcome the religions—all of them.” Islam has been overcome by the powers of the western world. Why is that? It is because the Book (Qur’an) is here, the revelation is here, but, the real essence of the meaning of the Book is yet to come. The Book is designed to destroy Satan’s world. The Book is designed to prepare the believers in this Book for the Hereafter, which the Honorable Elijah Muhammad said means “Here on this earth after the destruction of the power of the wicked to rule.” A whole New World will come to the earth.

The most powerful country on earth is the United States of America. It would be foolish for us to think that the prophets could see into the future and not see America in their prophetic utterances. It is a nation in which is another nation, an entire people swallowed up by another people and are oppressed by that powerful people, and, that people refuse to let you go or give you justice.

You have had to fight, bleed and die just to go to the toilet with White people, to eat at a lunch counter with White people, to sleep in a hotel or motel with White people. You have had to die to have the right to enter a boardroom of Corporate America and you still do not have what you need to be free. You refuse to believe that the rulers of America are your open enemies. This is because you do not know what an enemy is.

Everything in nature has a natural enemy. An enemy is one who would deprive you of life, freedom, justice, equality, the pursuit of happiness, knowledge, wisdom, understanding, love, peace, brotherhood and unity. Who is the natural enemy of Allah (God) and the natural enemy of the Black man?

I have dogs at our farm and I have cats. At first they were natural enemies and would fight each other, but, since some of them grew together, the cat can lie down with the dog, but, I have other dogs that have never had that experience, and, if I let those dogs out of the kennel, they would kill every cat in sight; they would kill the sheep. So, enemies can grow together, and, when they get use to each other they forget that they are enemies, but, I watch when it is time to eat and the dog that appeared to be a friend of the cat will fight the cat. The dog gets confused sometimes, and, I see him going around the female cat.

He can’t do anything, but, the tomcat does not like that. It seems like they get a little upset, and, the nature comes out in them because they are natural enemies. It should be easy for you to understand that you have had an enemy in order for you to be deprived of what it takes to have happiness, freedom, justice, equality, knowledge, wisdom, understanding, love, peace, happiness and unity. The minute we try to unite, there is always somebody from the outside that feels threatened by our unity; they break it up.

Your enemy never wants to see you independent of him. He must always be the master and you must always be the servant. And when you try to escape being a servant he finds devious ways to get you back under his wings. He makes you an offer that you cannot refuse—an offer in money backed by guns and gangsters. You do not have an army and the lure of money gets you. So, Beatrice Foods is now back in the hands of Caucasians. Motown is owned by Caucasians. Ultra Sheen is owned by Caucasians. BET (Black Entertainment Television) has been taken over by Caucasians. Russell Simmons struggled with Def Jam records, Def Jam Comedy, and they gave him an offer. Now he works for them.

Mr. Bob Johnson, the former owner of BET, now works for Viacom. He received more than a billion dollars, but, what is the dollar? It is a piece of paper with a White man’s face on it and the value of that paper is going down every day that we live so what you have is nothing. They call it a partnership, but, all the while they are trying to find a way to take it from you. Why? Because independence is too much for you. You will begin to think that you are equal to them and you must never think that. In their mind, you, your children, your grandchildren and your great grandchildren must always be servants to your former slave masters and their children.

You may say, “Well, we are the enemies of ourselves.” Allah (God) did not make you that way. White people made you that way. Allah (God) made a man in His own image and after His own likeness, and, unless you are what Allah (God) made you, you are exactly what the White man made you, and, he made you a BLEEP, a coon, a shine, a ham bone, a colored boy, a worthless nothing. The sad thing is, that is the way we think about ourselves. That is why it is so easy for you as a brother to shoot down your own brother, because you do not see him as your brother. If he doesn’t wear the same color, if he doesn’t have the same sign, if he doesn’t live in the same neighborhood, then, he is something different from you. That is ignorance, and, that ignorance allows the enemy to feed you guns, feed you drugs, and make you the number one killer of yourself and your people.

You have got an enemy, brother, but, I want to acquaint you with your friend.

Thank you.

By The Honorable Minister Louis Farrakhan

n The Name of Allah, The Beneficent, The Merciful.

Unfortunately, the truth of the real condition of America is kept hidden from the people until conditions become so intolerable that the most uninformed of the people readily sees that something is wrong. Then, scapegoating becomes a necessary tool used by wickedly wise policy-makers and business leadership to re-direct and focus attention away from their own misdeeds and onto someone who is defenseless in the society.

A scapegoat is a person, group or thing upon whom the blame for the mistakes or crimes of others is thrust. According to the Bible, in the Book of Leviticus, the word scapegoat comes from the use of a goat, over whose head the high priest of the ancient Jews confessed the sins of the people on the Day of Atonement, after which the goat was allowed to escape. (Leviticus 16:8, 10, 26, 30)

The Honorable Elijah Muhammad taught us that when the door to the raw materials of Asia, Africa and Latin America closes to imperialistic design, the standard of living in America will decline. Those doors are now closing, and the American people are beginning to suffer as a result.

Asia, Africa and Latin America have been the playground for America’s economic and leisure purposes. Now that America’s ability to extract raw materials from these countries and compete against their products in the global economy has declined, America’s standard of living is on the decline. No relief is in sight for America’s annual trade deficit of over $100 billion. Labor and other operational costs here make

As a result, America buys more from foreign countries, particularly Japan and eastern Europe, than she sells to foreign countries. The door to the world is closing and America is not competing well in the global economy. Thus the American standard of living is going down.

Black people are being positioned by the wickedly wise as the cause of the country’s ruin. The scapegoating of the poor sets the climate in America against the American labor class, against the underprivileged, and against Black people. There is now a pervasive anti-Black attitude. The media feeds this plan of scapegoating Black people by portraying us a useless and criminal.

Instead of looking honestly at the problem and coming up with solutions that would give America a future, the leadership lies to the American people and scapegoats the poor and the defenseless for the misdeeds of the American government.

If the American people truly knew their condition and trusted their leadership, they would be willing to take the proper medicine—no matter how bad it would taste—if that medicine would correct the condition. The political leadership has lied about the condition of the country. Some have said that the economy is on the upswing, while we are living in a decline.

If a doctor said you were fine while you were severely ill, and that doctor would not prescribe the proper medicine for your illness, that doctor could be charged and maybe found guilty of malpractice. Well, what about politicians and their unwillingness to prescribe real solutions to the country’s problems?

How did America in the past 12 years go from a leading creditor nation to the leading debtor nation? Where was the money borrowed from and to whom is the money owed?

The American taxpayer is now a slave to servicing a skyrocketing debt; a debt that is so large that it sentences future generations to the same servitude to this debt because the politicians are not courageous enough to deal honestly with this problem and present the American people with a real solution.

It’s dangerous to enslave a people and be the perpetual source of opposition to truth, which is the means for freeing the people from ignorance, yet say you believe in God. God has always come to the aid of the oppressed and the enslaved fighting against the rich and the powerful when they deprive others of the basic essentials of life, which are freedom, justice and equality that which is said to constitute the base of this country.

When the slaves were enamored with the riches of Pharaoh, Moses was not able to get his people to listen until he prayed for God’s hand to be set against the wealth of Egypt. (Holy Qur’an, Surah 10, Section 9) The more Egypt declined, the more the slaves were inclined to listen to Moses and get up and go for self.

God has always chosen from among the despised and rejected. Whenever there has been a master and a slave, God has always put the solution in the head of slaves. But if America has no respect for human life, or for those who are its former slaves, then America will miss the solution to its problems.

In the Book of Esther in the Bible, there is a prince, Haman, who had prepared a plot to destroy the Jewish people in what was known at that time as the land of Persia. Haman harbored animosity toward the Jews because they did not look upon him with reverence. As a result of his animosity, Haman began to spread rumors about the Jews and misrepresented them as lawless and disrespectful of the king. He proposed to the king that the Jews were worthy of death, “…all Jews, both young and old, little children and women, in one day…and to take the spoil of them for a prey,” because of their so-called disrespect for the king’s law. (Esther 3:13)

The King, Ahasuerus, who had exalted Haman above all other princes, was therefore receptive to Haman’s unjust plot to destroy the Jews. A decree was issued and all Jews were sentenced to death.

However, Queen Esther uncovered the plot. Risking her own life, she approached the king to petition on behalf of the Jews. In this instance, the king was not a sexist. Though the voice on behalf of the Jews was a woman, he listened to her petition, weighed the evidence and determined to spare the Jews. Because the king heeded Queen Esther’s warning, he ceased the plot that would have caused unjust death to be visited upon the Jewish people, thereby sparing himself and his country from the wrath of God. If he had been inclined toward sexism, he would have rejected her warning, and he would have sentenced himself and his people to the chastisement of God.

Sexism is sinking the country. Classism is sinking the country. Racism is sinking the country. White supremacy is sinking the country. Black inferiority and a slave mentality are sinking the country.

We must be open to truth, no matter from whom it is spoken, because the ultimate source of all truth is Allah (God). The Honorable Elijah Muhammad taught about those of us who are used to eating from a gold bowl, that if truth doesn’t come to you in a gold bowl, but rather in an old pot, and you refuse it because it’s not in your customary vessel, then your arrogance and foolishness will deprive you of the light that can free you of your condition, and you will ultimately be led to your destruction by your own arrogance.

God has chosen from among the former slaves, the Blacks. He has put in the head of the Honorable Elijah Muhammad and in the heads of us who follow him, a light; a torchlight that shows the way out of America’s worsening conditions, for Blacks and for all of America. But America’s treatment of us and America’s treatment of the Honorable Elijah Muhammad is like the treatment of Daniel by the proud kings of Babylon. It’s terrible that some of those with power and influence label me a “Hitler,” a racist or a hater, so that they can justify their own people, or agents among our people, in attempts to defame and otherwise harm me. This is hiding the light. This is scapegoating.

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The reason leaders desire to hide the truth is to keep the people blind and powerless so that the rich can engage unhindered in feeding their own greed. They don’t desire to live in a free society, a just society, and an equal society for all of the country’s people. They are rebels against God. As Jesus said, “Ye are of your father the devil, and the lusts of your father ye will do. He was a murderer in the beginning, and abode not in the truth…” (John 8:44)

Any man who will not speak or abide in the truth is a murderer of the human spirit and the law of liberty, for only truth gives us true liberty. This is why it is written that “it is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle, than for a rich man to enter into the kingdom of God.” (Matthew 19:24) The rich are unwilling to really sacrifice to lift the poor because of their basic greed and immorality. Therefore, the rich today are in trouble. Speaking of the rich, in the Book of James (5:1-6) it reads:

“Go to now, ye rich men, weep and howl for your miseries that shall come upon you. Your riches are corrupted, and your garments are moth-eaten. Your gold and silver is cankered; and the rust of them shall be a witness against you, and shall eat your flesh as it were fire. Ye have heaped treasure together for the last days. Behold, the hire of the labourers who have reaped down your fields , which is of you kept back by fraud, crieth: and the cries of them which have reaped are entered into the ears of the Lord of sabaoth. Ye have lived in pleasure on the earth, and been wanton; ye have nourished your hearts, as in a day of slaughter. Ye have condemned and killed the just; and he doth not resist you.”

As it was in the days of Jesus, so it is today. The rich have been found wanton and wanting, and God’s judgment is upon them in America.

By The Honorable Minister Louis Farrakhan.

A nation is no greater than its service to the weak and the poor and the disadvantaged of that nation. If we believe in the scriptures, particularly of the Bible and the New Testament, Jesus lays out a yardstick that will be the determining criterion of the Judgment of God of a nation in the last days. Certainly in a country that professes to be a Christian country based on a Judeo-Christian ethic, this criterion should be held high as the measuring stick to help us to see how far off the country is and what danger the country is in by measuring its distance from the criterion.

What is the criterion laid down by the Master, Himself, who will be judging? One of the disciples asked the Master (Jesus), when he gave them the criterion that they should minister unto the sick, the imprisoned, and those out of doors: “When were you sick and imprisoned and we ministered not unto you? When were you homeless or out of doors and we gave you not shelter? Master, when were you without and we did not for you?” And the Master said, “In as much as you have not done this to the least of these, my brethren, you have not done it also unto me.” The Master laid down the criterion.

In America, we have millions today who are homeless. We have many more millions who are sick, imprisoned, impoverished and weak, and it appears as though the conservative element of the country is moving away from care for the poor, the weak, the helpless, and the children and catering to the desires of those that have. But it is the poor and the weak who built the country. It is the poor and the weak who have fought, bled and died to maintain America as a great nation. Now America is turning her back on the weak and blaming the condition of the country on the poor, on the Black, on the Hispanic. In reality, the mismanagement of the wealth and people of this country is the fault of those who are at the top who have held power, who have manipulated the masses of the people against the good of America and the good of the world.

How will America answer to Christ, with human beings sleeping under bridges and America is spending over half a trillion dollars to bail out the savings and loan industry, but won’t spend money to bail out those veterans who fought, bled and died, who are sleeping under bridges, who have fallen on hard times, whose homes and cars have been repossessed?

What is America coming to? The cities are filled with crime and violence. People can’t walk the streets in safety. The elderly of the nation are preyed upon by wicked, unscrupulous people who sometimes rob them of their life savings and of their little social security checks. The babies of the nation are abused, murdered, drowned in hot water, even put in ovens by their parents. The stress of life in America is such that some parents can’t handle the crying of children. So babies are coming to hospitals dying of trauma, shock, their heads bashed, thrown against the wall, thrown out of windows by parents who have had enough. Young girls in a sex-mad society are having their sexual nature titillated by sick television programs, sick movies, sick video tapes, sick songs from a sick, decadent culture that is using the talent of gifted people to spread degenerate life in the name of music and art. Babies are having their sexual nature titillated. Mothers are not home because they have to work. Daughters are left to be savaged by brutal men, sometimes their own fathers and uncles, cousins and brothers. And we ask, “What is the world coming to?”

America the beautiful is becoming America the ugly. They say love her or leave her. We have no place to go. Some of us will say we will run to Africa. But Africa is suffering, too. We say we will run to Europe. Be careful. We say we will run to South America or to Mexico. There is no hiding place today. The Judgment of God has touched every nation in every corner of the globe.

This is a beautiful country, but the human beings within it are being turned into something that God Himself is angry at and sick of. To make God angry is to incur His wrath. John the Revelator said, “And the nations were angry and Thy wrath is come. It is the time of the dead that they should be judged and given justice.” Everywhere you look people are angry. You get on the subway and look in their faces, you don’t see peace. You drive your car, you can hardly find humanitarian gestures. People will kill you over a parking space; kill you over a place in line in the bank or in the supermarket. Arguments are breaking out in the home and now the schools are battlegrounds. There is no peace anywhere to be found.

Not only are the nations angry, but God is angry. He is angry at what He is looking at—debauchery and filth paraded as morality—and if you speak against it, you are considered something ugly. If a pastor speaks against homosexuality, he is called homophobic. If he speaks against lesbianism, he is not up to speed. He is living in old times. If we take a moral stand against adultery and fornication, we are out of touch with reality. If we criticize our government for its corruption, we are called un-American. If we criticize the behavior of White people in their injustice toward Blacks, and if we as Black people want to come together and find some solace and peace among ourselves, we are called racists in reverse.

So we better not even speak the truth because if you speak the truth, somebody is going to get hurt. But truth is your best friend, because truth will give us a mirror to allow us to see ourselves and how far off we are from the standard of God. Somebody has to tell the truth. Somebody has to be willing to pay the price of the truth. Truth is more important than our little positions. Truth is more important than being a mayor or a police chief or a senator or a cardinal or a pope or an imam or the President of the United States. Truth is bigger than us all.

The Holy Qur’an teaches us that Allah created the heavens and the earth with truth. This universe is sustained with truth. There is no position of power that can be sustained over any long period of time based on falsehood and injustice. What did we see in Oklahoma? What was it that had us mesmerized? It’s a wake up call. White folks have always thought it was Black people they had to watch out for. White folks have always feared Black unity as though our unity would mean that we would do to them what they and their fathers have done and continue to do to us. How much they misread Black people. They don’t mind us having guns, as long as we shoot one another. But they only give you enough to get you in trouble with yourself.

I have warned, by the Grace of God, in the past that trouble would not come from us, but America’s trouble would come from her own dissatisfied White people of this nation who are fed up with the government and the government’s misrepresentation of the Constitution and of what the founding fathers of this nation set in motion.

Terrorism is an act of desperation of men and women who refuse to believe that any avenue for the redress of their grievance will be listened to. Consequently, they feel they must take the matter of justice into their own hands. When a people are deprived of justice, their minds become imbalanced. That’s why justice is represented by a female holding a scale with a blindfold over her eyes, that she is not to see who you are, your station in life, what your color, culture, or national origin is, how much money you have or don’t have, how much education you have or don’t have. Justice should be blind to adjust the scale; the weight of facts in one hand and the weight of action in accord with facts on the other, giving balance. And when you live in a world whose very root is unjust, it is only a matter of time before the injustice carried on by those in high places reaches down to infants, and the scale becomes so imbalanced that the people lose the ability to see correctly, hear correctly, perceive correctly. That imbalance is referred to as insanity. Sanity and sanitary deals with cleanliness, and that which is unclean is unsanitary. Unsanitary leads to disease, and disease, unsanitary, unclean is the same as insane.

Brother Farrakhan, are you saying that every insane person is unclean? Every person that is insane is possessed of an unclean spirit. And when your mind is imbalanced, you do things that are unclean. You will defecate on yourself. You will urinate on yourself. You will do unsocial things, unclean things. You don’t think you are doing anything wrong because in your own mind you are all right, because you have lost the standard by which decency and sanity and cleanliness is measured. A Muslim could not be a terrorist because no Muslim is so hopeless that he denies Allah’s sufficiency that he has to kill and maim and brutalize innocent people to make a sad, silly point.

In the Bible, God says, “I will give you your own blood to drink and you will be drunk with your own blood as with sweet wine.” America is becoming a boiling cauldron of gross dissatisfaction. The Honorable Elijah Muhammad said 30 percent dissatisfaction could lead to a change that affects 75 percent of the world. But when you get 100 percent dissatisfaction, it leads to a total change. What you have all over the earth is total dissatisfaction and this is why Jesus said there would be wars and rumors of wars and kingdom would rise against kingdom, and nation against nation. And this is just the beginning of sorrow. There would be famine, pestilence and earthquakes in diverse places. Is not that what you are seeing?

The Honorable Elijah Muhammad said to me that Justice is a Law that distinguishes between right and wrong. It goes to sleep with you. It wakes up with you. Whether you are knowledgeable of that Law or not, it is alive and working either with you, for you or against you, regardless to what the courts do. The Law of Justice, the balance that God set up in the universe, you can’t escape it. The fool thinks in his heart, “I have gotten away with my evil.” What a fool you are indeed. God says in the Bible: “Whatsoever is done in the dark, I am going to bring it forth into the light.” The Holy Qur’an says: “Though it be the weight of an atom, hidden in a rock and the rock buried in the earth,” He said, “Yet will I bring it forth.”

The Bible teaches, “Prepare slaughter for the children for the iniquities of their fathers.” You think you are getting away? My silly little brother, you reefer smoking, coke using, crack sniffing, liquor drinking, freakish acting brother, you think you are getting away because there are no police around? The police are there. Not the city police, but the police of the Law of God. You use crack and the crack affects your brain, but not just your brain. It affects the head of the sperm, and it affects the egg. You are passing on your sin to your unborn generation. You are passing on your filth and your degeneracy to your babies, and they will be made to die for your craziness. Nobody gets away.

In the Bible, there is a creature, a monster, at the depth of the sea. The Bible calls him Leviathan. You can go in the depths of the sea all you want, you are not going to see a monster that look’s like Leviathan. The Honorable Elijah Muhammad said Leviathan represents the destructive force of submarines that are at the depth of the sea, and they bring destruction, but there is a way to bring those (submarines) up. He said all God has to do is bring a wind, and let the wind start coming in a circular motion, turning, whipping the waves, and as it whips and turns, the waves disturb the submarine on the bottom. The nose (of the submarine) starts coming up because the water is disturbing it. As the water further disturbs the submarine it starts getting straight. It’s coming now. Then the waters part and come back together, and when you see the waves part and then come back together, the ship is gone.

That is the same way it is with secrets. You have this thought laying on your mind, and you have suppressed it to the depth. “I know it’s there, but”—and all on the top is a false laugh, false this and a false that because you are conscious that the secret is laying there. Then all of a sudden God sends winds, turbulent things in your life that begin to swirl around you. The winds of confusion are bringing it to the surface, and all of a sudden you may see a little something, just a word spoken, but the word is telling you about something else that is laying deep under. All of us have something that we don’t want somebody else to know. The Bible teaches, “Blessed is the man whose sin the Lord doth hide.”

By the Honorable Minister Louis Farrakhan

In the Holy Qur’an, the 7th Surah, or chapter, in the 34th verse, it reads: “And every nation has a term; so when its term comes, they cannot remain behind the least while, nor can they precede it.” If every nation has a term, does America have a term? If so, what is the term? A term is a time or period to which something lasts. It is a period of time to which limits have been set; conditions or stipulations limiting what is proposed to be granted or done. If every nation has a time to which some limits have been set, what time is it for America and what limits have been set for her?

In the book of Revelations, the 13th chapter, the 18th verse, it reads: “Here is wisdom. Let him that hath understanding count [or calculate] the number of the beast: for it is a number of a man; and his number is six hundred threescore and six.” Some translations say it is the number of a man, 666. The word calculate is trying to teach us that we must ascertain the beast and the man by mathematical methods.

The Honorable Elijah Muhammad is a principal helper in this calculation. Most of us, as Black people in America, have not understood the Hon. Elijah Muhammad, nor have we understood his value to us to get through what’s about to come down on America. Either Elijah Muhammad is a man from God or he is not. If he is not, then you can dismiss me and what I have to say. But I don’t think you can dismiss me; and if you cannot dismiss the student, then you certainly cannot dismiss the teacher.

If White folk created or made a world that is unjust—lies, murder and stealing are at the root of this world—then this world can have no permanence in God’s universe of truth. So there would come a time when this world would be judged and destroyed. The Bible and Holy Qur’an say this world was doomed for destruction from its inception.

Both the Bible and the Holy Qur’an speak of judgment and the hour and the day—the Day of Judgment and the Hour of Doom. In the hour you have 60 minutes. In the minute you have 60 seconds. So the man whose hour has come is the man of six. The scriptures say no man knoweth the hour but the Father. That means the hour of total destruction. This book (Bible) takes you right up through the judgment. This book (Qur’an) takes you right up through the judgment, but the guidance of the Hereafter, where there is no term limit set, there must be an everlasting gospel that will preached on the other side of the destruction of this world. So a new book is coming.

Allah says in the Holy Qur’an that He is the Master of the Day of Judgment. Why should there even be a judgment? When you get a judgment it means a judge has rendered a decision. Judgment (according to the dictionary) is the ability to judge; to make a decision or form an opinion objectively, authoritatively and wisely, especially in matters affecting action, good sense, discretion; misfortune regarded as afflicted by divine sentence is also a judgment; also the last judgment, the final trial of all mankind, both the living and the dead, at the end of the world.

When we’re talking about judgment, in this case we’re talking about God forming a decision that comes down against America and against this world. God has sent down His decision. His intention is the total destruction of America. The question is, is America good and by what standard? If America has exceeded the limits, then somebody has to make God’s decision known. Publish the decision. There is no appeal, but there is a way to get out from it. It’s very narrow, it’s very limited, but you can avoid it.

What is your position, Black man, in this judgment? Whether you know it or not, you are the reason why God is judging America. Even as it was in ancient Egypt, it was Pharaoh’s mistreatment of the Children of Israel that caused God’s appearance and His judgment. It was the Hebrews in Babylon, their presence and their mistreatment that caused God’s judgment of Babylon. It is your mistreatment at the hands of White people that has caused God to send down His judgment on America.

The Book of Revelation talks about a mystery Babylon. There was an ancient Babylon that we know about, but John the Revelator was talking about a mystery Babylon. According to the English interpretation, the word mystery means unknown, uncertain, obscure, concealed, a secret, something locked up, something that has not been or cannot be explained. In theology, it is a supposed truth or fact of great religious importance which is beyond human comprehension. In order to understand the mysterious one, we have to know something about the known in Babylon.

In ancient times Babylon, under the kings Nebuchadnezzar and Belshazzar, was a great city of idol worship and evil. She was the queen of evil, rich and well fortified. Mystery Babylon refers to a future city or a future people. No city or people answers the description of a mystery Babylon better than the cities and the people of America.

How is God going to destroy America? What instrument is He going to use? Whenever God gets ready to destroy any people He sends that people a warner, and the warner is always raised from among the oppressed. That’s God’s pattern. If America is going down, and she is, who are the oppressed? It’s either the Native American or you (Blacks). You have suffered worse than the Native American because the Native American can still speak some of his language, he knows something of his history. But you have been totally destroyed. And that’s why God is angry with America. You may forgive her but I don’t know that God ever will. She is going to have to do something real big to get out from under what’s coming. I intend to make this known very clearly to America.

Look at the warner that comes to Babylon. He tells his people to come out of her (Babylon) that they be not partakers of her sins and of her plagues, for her sins have reached unto heaven. He’s saying don’t integrate with her. Come out of her way of thinking. Come out of her name. Come out of her false worship and come into a righteous code of conduct that will allow you and me to escape what God has purposed for her. Now the question is have you heard the warner?

The Honorable Elijah Muhammad said America is a preserved area. No foreign nation will destroy America lest they get the credit. God will do it Himself. He said America is number one on God’s list to be destroyed. He talked about the four beasts: America, England, Germany and Italy. These are four White nations that have acted with great wickedness against the darker people of the world. He says the more you fight against Elijah, the more God makes perfect through me. Elijah Muhammad said, we will make the truth so plain that a fool will find it hard to err.

He said that he wants every no good disbeliever off the face of the earth. He said after this, America will never rise to be an independent nation again. She won’t have the power that she had last ye