i bear witness to the oneness of god the oneness of his creation and the oneness of his desire to make humanity one every nation has received a prophet or a messenger from god but the two most powerful in the universal sense is jesus the christ and mohammed peace be upon all these servants of god they're aimed of jesus the christ is to make humanity one th of mohammad is to make humanity one all of these divisions that keep us from the oneness of god's intention is the odd official work of sa tonight i am here so this will be the dawn and surely show there is no way in heaven or in him that i could on a brother don and not ana his life companion as a student of the honorable elijah muhamm all that i know and all that i'm sharing with the world is because i tried to be a good student of a master teacher it hurts me that the people  students and cover the great teacher o production i quit college after completing my third year because my wife known by many of you as  betsy she was my girlfriend at that time and my beautiful west did not want me to marry she wanted me to finish college but i could not stay in a classroom while my wife was carrying my child of course we and this year that becomes great in life has  the scripture says bible that when a law created adam he said it was not good for man to be alone this great scripture why is it not good for a man to be alone because no man is come by himself and he gave these two two natures that compliment each other that's why this is the dawn and surely show every man that is a man has been given an obligation by god to become a pro to sell every may not so god didn't see that adam could accomplish his assignment to multiply replenish the earth and subdue it he the obligation that i have put on you when i met my brother my companion in struggle my friend in a mission bigger than ourselves i didn't understand that that term the tremendous relationship that he had with the queen of his life sister surely i met her she was nineteen teenagers well i was a little older than both of them but not by much but i was a minister this coming year coming up it will be my sixtieth year as they  and i am not and neither is my brother this is not a retirement party and i didn't bring a goal watch to give my brother this is a step away from public life but never a step away from the mission is li i met him working havel's why yes he was married that was why i watched the progression of his life he was seventeen when i met him i was maybe yeah i think i was seven years maybe his senior because when i met him i was minister louis i think or i met him when i was a captain but we were soldiers that's the thing i want to get to you have to be a soldier for god in order to become great in his s and soldiers are disciplined in the study of the craft of the master teacher the commander in chief say wait a minute i feel i'm a good soldier so but you can tell when you've got a good soldier because a good soldier knows how to follow the orders of his command being a good christian doesn't mean you have a cross around your neck being a good muslim don't mean you say i said when lead a lead in the law are you following the most of us follow our oh man will until our own will causes us to stumble and fall and then we think about doing the will of god my teacher the honorable elijah muhammad says a man doesn't even learn how to live until he's seventy five because when you reach seventy five by that time you've tried all your stupid and you've just about broken at that time if you're still around and then you start regretting so you begin to break down and some of us don't even make it to seventy five so you retire jesus never retire even in death he the grave can never hold a righteous man first man hurting on me when i was a young fresh boy i wasn't blessed like brother not to have a father that on have a mother that inspired him and a father that inspired him and gave him an example of what a man i'm talking about don's father your great grandfather that man but the dawn told me he came to boston to find out what his son have accepted and he had just gotten married and he was god over surely who wouldn't be you don't play with shirley we had a private meeting in the living room of the home that we had acquired the believe is that a quiet thirty seven into various street she sat in a chair and i sat distant from her but i could tell she was a beautiful system and i believe i don't know i never asked her if she came to check me out to talk to you about a beautiful man and a beautiful woman that produced a beautiful family now when i saw my brother down always saw him with a lot of clothes going to the cleaners to put it in the machine he was always busy as well we never had much real conversation at that time but every time i saw him he was doing something nobody had to teach don mohammad how to be a man he was all ways working for his wife and his family but he was not by himself you see sister shirley was she was committed to the man that she married listen brothers when you're in a house and you've got to completing discipline husband is a doctor the wife is a lawyer so they don't have that kind of life together because she always taking care lawyer business he always take a kid back to business and they're like two trains that never rea they're on parallel lines not down and surely she was committed to what he was committed to he was in and i would look in the mirror and in the glass and there was surely pressing shirts all of us as muslims we always wore white get this chair oh this was really a family business these two grew up under two working parents but they  oh he's so handsome he's so cute yeah but you know you better listen to mother shirley because don was handsome dawn was cute but he was a i don't know what was on don's table but i know the eight and he did not spare nor did she anything for her wow look at that then he became a minister he was a lieutenant first and when i was in the f o i ran and my captain made me a lieutenant i  said i don't know how to be no ten so i was about to turn it down he said do you know how to obey i said yes sir well all right so when i met brother the dawn and saw him grow as we both were growing he became not only a brother a soldier a lieutenant he was really a soldier's soldier a lieutenant lieutenant a ministers minister he was special forensic psychology master in the beautiful words that you spoke about a man that took  that's what he was taught by the honorable elijah muhammad and he exemplified it so that great brother i heard him say to brother done as he was walking past he said you don't even know how many people you have affected he said because he has corrected and helped hundreds but he would not i'm surprised that you didn't have sisters up here saying something about the effect that brother dunn had on black women that came under his direction it's a male dominated affair and i i really sat there and i said wow you mean to tell me you couldn't find a system that this great teacher had affect his wife was a teacher of women and a soldier and the lieutenant wow so that's a relationship made on a higher level can never touch her the physical fresh will wear away because that's the nature of the flesh but as they saying in the church it's what you do for christ that live and i'm not talking just about singing in the choir i'm talking about transforming human life by the power of the word of god but honestly she was ill and we thought that she would regain the strength so my daughters are staying there with her to help her regain her strength so her sons came with their father to pay respect to brother dawn and shirley and this family no i'm with you now i haven't gotten any degree i'm not bragging i thank god for all of  achieved a degree but i have students all over the world that have doctorate degrees though i am learned but i don't have a let us know b s degree no more of the same degree and no ph d degree that says i'm a doctor but cannot heal the corruption in my discipline you don't need a degree in the educational system rooted in white supremacy took qualify you to be a good servant of your people because most of us get a degree we want to make it in the wound of our former slave masters and their children and sometime we run away from the work of transforming the lives of our people who are less fortunate then we are gone and surely never forgot the little man the little woman i think god for all his children in the impact that they have had in their various fields of human endeavor but i hope don jr and brian will find  woman in your life that will be to you like your mother was to him and it is to h i hope that my children will be fortunate like their father and their grandfather to have a woman whose only desire was to help her husband be the man that the honorable elijah muhammad desired me to be and to take care of me in the best man but that done has done things in this life that has saved the lives of hundreds and thousands of men and women but the don made a friend out of chief bratton the former police commissioner superintendent in boston and when mr breton was elevated to become the chief of police they had a negative view of muslims that don't really care we are enemy of the police but we're not the lay down the road we're not the group that you can walk on and spit on and mistry and then think that you're going to take us out as brother don his shoes on god and these two young men trying to continue his work but i urge them to be humble that's right because his shoes keep growing he may be sitting down but his shoes are still growing man how you go fit in a shoe that keeps growing unless your foot is growing  when i stood up to rebuild the work of the honorable elijah muhammad i came to boston and i came sit in my brother we met at a little coffee shop on columbus avenue just before you go over the bridge to cambridge and we talked in the morning down could you help me he said oh yes brother i'd like you to stop by the house make no mistake about it when i got to the house that evening oh man she had laid out a dinner with the help of a beautiful children and she came to me in a very nice respectful way but she was stern and she was firm and she said br i said yes ma'am i am serious and there are many that didn't think i was soon but this is my  end that night sister shirley committed herself her family and affirmed the commitment of her husband to help me in this and make you think you are more than what you are but i told them i cannot use his teaching and not give him the credit for teaching i'll carry your bank whatever it is a lot of people fell out with me because i was not going to violate his teaching and it proved to be the right thing to do listen to me now because he never wanted us i'm really want you to hear what i'm saying when you follow a deviate you are a deviate yourself and that's why you do not go out to  john and shirley are a marvelous example and the only thing that disturbed me is who will write their history who will recognize the value of their contribution to the development of black people not only in boston but in the state and in the country chief after we fought the police and my cousin is here he's a great policeman to retire but he's a great policeman i have loved the police because when i came to boston to start the work of the honorable elijah muhammad with my brother and his wife and family believes celeste we need police chiefs like billy celeste chiefs that will not tolerate misconduct of the man or woman that's supposed to serve and protect and come back killing our people black and brown and all white and getting away with it now i have children that are trying to become lawyers and i tell them i say you know my mother say you know what a lawyer does when he dies i said no ma he i said when you got to take the case of a person whom you know is guilty of a crime but it's your duty now to de criminal will get all of the money that he spends on the lawyer is well fraternal order of police is like that they don't care whether you killed a man shot him seventeen eighteen times twenty times they create an illusion even after you see the video those kind of organizations is what has given the police a very bad name our president was speaking after the white police had been shot by a black person's poor fella he had to find is really pitiful when you have to make right shaded a little and cover wrong and try to keep peace between lies and truth and justice and injustice and he didn't do it too well so he said you know grief is great their family and friends grieve so grief is grief and i said oh i wish i was near a person and i would suggest a moment s our grief is never the same because when we grieve over one of our loved ones put to death by police misconduct and there is no because we are not receiving justice so s sister mohammed surely mohamed has to leave at this time and tell her my brothers my sister for listening to your brother thank you for inviting me and i i was i'm happy that i didn't break down talking about my brother and the greatness of my brother and i pray that god will grant him long life and his dear wife surely as her health is diminishing and if we don't uphold our brother with the strength of our love as the ravages of time take us all away then god will not forgive us for not being faithful to a soldier who was faithful to all of us thank  thank you for choosing time as the venue because it's a beautiful venue that's worthy of the honor that we had showering upon our brother his wife and his family thank all of those in the labor in number eleven and all of those who came every one of you that came to make this evening a memorable one fall down in my humble shirley my home and the family me i love bless since we were teenagers as well thank you very much they all love bless you come on up