so always you debate back and forth but you don't get mad take your marbles and go home but you go back and forth into you reach a consensus to move forward and by the minister i want to say this is a moment in history right before ramadan start everybody will remember before ramadan started minister farrakhan made a historical trip to this beautiful mosse to talk to the believe us and i guess and he's on a trip around the country promoting the anniversary of the million man march twenty years ago and i must say to him and his staff that he's been working very hard and by the minister if you don't mind me saying this for a man of eighty two years old it's like a miracle in africa they asked me how is minister farrakhan doing i said he's doing remarkable he's like a miracle in god has blessed him clarity of mind the strength and the energy that he pumps into our people so let's work welcome we thank him for all of his prophets and messengers and the scriptures which they brought to the members of the human family as muslims we make no distinction between the prophets of a law we accept them all and we believe in them all and we believe in the scriptures that they brought to all of the members of the human family as the course teaches us lawson prophets to every nation and there are some that we know in this that we know not but in every nation there has been a prophet or a messenger whenever a l messengers it's not always that things are right when he sends his prophets it is to correct the thing that is not right and to establish things that make the believer closer to a law and his favor so we thank our law for move moses and the the revelation of the quarter which is the final revelation to the whole human family of our planet that brings us up to the judgment of this present world to the this great mass jade and cultural center to the wonderful kuwaiti months or to the leaders of this cultural center and school to the teachers and any who are present and to all of the christian yes but it is written in the course that every human being is by nature except the rebellious devil so when we accept islam we're not converting to another religion we are accepting what belongs to us what is nature and then the next step is to be yourself some people think when you become a muslim you being made into an arab or pakistani or some other ethnic or cultural group but this belongs to every the final representative of this religious system that did not begin with him islam is as old religion being up right the nature made by a law in which he is created man so when we muslims we accepting our nature which is up right ness now as we come into the world we come in laying horizontal and after a while with no teacher we begin to crawl and back is almost and a thirty three degree forty five degree but we are looking for something strong to pull up on and then we pull up into uprightness physically and then we walk up right well that is what islam is it is up right n muslim now you know that english is a new language in the time of jesus there was no english language so when jesus met his disciples or left his disciples the gospel says he said peace be with you and when he left his disciples he said peace be with you well he spoke are saying to our brother sister peace and wow do you greet your brother and sister with peace there's a whole system of conduct behind for your wife or your daughter when i say peace to you i mean that i will live the principles that undergird peace to you and you repeat that back to me well the land so we become then brothers not from the same other but brothers from the same source of right so we all from that same essence and from these two the court says he spread many men and women he created us into tribes and families that we may know one another and he gave us our here says a lock created us and he gave us our coloring sick it is for us to glory in our view rather than live the righteous life that makes he respected so like an underclass if you will and he was talking to a learned man or someone highly placed and some of us think that when a highly placed person accepts faith that that's a great thing and it is but you should never walk by a little person that is considered lowly or ignorant and think that if they come to faith it doesn't mean anything so a blind man was tapping his way up to the prophet and he interrupted the prophet's conversation with this highly placed person and he frowned at being disturbed and when he frowned lives frown is to be feared because if a lot is displeased with our action or the lack there that is something to be feared because if he frowned then something will happen that is not positive to correct us it is positive but it could be very painful so he's telling the prophet you are wasting your time with this highly placed person who is not going to believe and a blind man is tapping his way to you who wants to believe and from him you turn away so to my beloved brothers and sisters who come from various countries in the world that i must lim and you have been muslim all your life but never take your islam for granted because as you get it if you don't use it you could lose it and then we become muslims symbolically but not realistically now to my immigrant muslim family america has been a great blessing to you because the doctors the lawyers the teachers the engineers the chemist the scientists they have found a haven in america and they've built communities and mass git's to continue their islamic life but the work of prophet muhammad peace be upon him is not wherever a muslim is who is practicing islam is our new or is the light and if the light is under a bushel basket hidden then the light is not benefiting those who walk in the so here we are i want to represent to you my christian family who did not come to america as christians we were brought to america not as immigrants seeking a better life we were brought to america in the holes of ships as kidnapped human beings brought to america to be made slaves long before you came we were here but many of you don't know what condition we live under after we came to the shores of america and the shores of the caribbean or south america and were dropped off but not dropped off as human beings dropped off as cogdill as chattel to be bought and sold did you know there was a man named alex haley whom i met brother malcolm he was a america were in fact muslims and alex haley said he never heard nothing like that but he was intrigued by brother malcolm's statement so it caused him to research his roots and there's a i guess a seven or eight pot movie call roots some of us have seen it and his book was call roots and what he did in his research he found that he was in fact the descendant of muslims and he to me personally while i was the minister here in new york and he said right my ancestors were in fact muslims so this movie roots where they changed his name his name was called kin today they changed his name and called him told me he didn't like that name and they didn't like his  i'm coming to something so when he found out that he was a descendant of islam from senegal at the gambia the gambia right next door to senegal he went back to his roots and he wanted to build a mass mosque and he put some money down think was about five thousand dollars it was ten thousand thank you and they marked off the area that the mosque would have been built but somebody family the family and they took us to the place where the mosque would have been built and we pledged to build that doesn't know much about mohammed and what they learned about mohammed from the media makes them fear it and hate it and do not want anything to do with it and sometimes in our ignorance we feed the media and their wicke is an agent provocateur and when we come to pray and to worship a law and to read the koran and behavior that they can use to make disparaging remarks about islam and paint us in a negative light so the our help will do it to get what i can get the explosives and just as they're ready to do this evil act which is so against the teachings of  prophet the f b i comes up arrest them and then the news media say we are they terrorist activity that was about to be carried out on a jewish synagogue and what does this do to the people's perception of islam and muslims they said it up here is to muslims from arizona fed up with people disparaging the image of the prophet peace be upon him let me say this to muslims there is nothing that anyone can do to disparage the image of the most noble human being that a point where we'll pick up a gun and try to kill somebody who wants to write or make a dirty cop tune but a dirty cartoon does not this mirch all less those guarding them in anger they would take the koran and throw it in the toilet or you and now some of us would be in range of course we would but do you think urine on the court takes away one eye at all one degree of the power of the words of a law that has converted billion six hundred million people on our planet from ignorance into a right just com dot they can not hurt or harm the koran by their wicked mess we heard it all we heard our prophet we heard our islam by the king allowed me and my party to stay in the king's hotel i want you to listen i did not ask for this they gave me a police escort from muhammad and i said to shake the journey and tears were flowing from my eyes i said when i get to the prophet's mosque would you lead me to his tomb i want to make a door and he just listened carefully and i said i don't i'm not praying to the pro praying to a law concerning the prophet when we got to medina he led me to the tomb of the prophet and when i raise my hands to make  double portion of the spirit that you gave your prophet that we might continue his work to its completion in the western hemisphere you are not here as a muslim in america to just be a doctor to be a lawyer to be an engineer and to build beautiful mass jade's and whatnot with nobody in it but those of us who but the most important thing is the prophets work is not done until every human being has had a chance to hear the message of islam and then they have a chance to either accept it reject it you cannot call the people disbelieve us if you have not brought them the belief of islam that they may accept it or reject so coming to the mosque to make your prayers is good but coming to the mosque and not bringing anyone with you that can earn the prayer service and return islam is not good i want to encourage you work is the most important part of our belief system a muslim is not a muslim until we love brother what we love for us and i know that we want to fit in i know we want to be accepted it's natural but if you have to compromise your faith to be accepted by the broader community you are in the valley of decision you can make people respect you by not bowing when they say there's something in this that i don't like for the president to talk about those who are supposedly protesting in baltimore and other parts of the country treatment and then for them to say you know violence is really not the way to peace and drones are flying all over the world of islam dropping bombs directed by our president and he's the one that's saying violence is not the way to peace but everything that our government is doing is creating blowback now what is you know when you do something that is not correct you have to expect what you've given out even though they brought us here slaves they can't deport us so we are a line of defense for our brothers and sisters who are immigrant muslims who sometimes  afraid to stand up for our faith because we might be persecuted you remember the beautiful sister that was on television a few days ago she's a professor at northwestern university she had on her head jap what's her name to iraq and she asked the stewardess i would like to have a can of diet soda and the stewardess gave her a can but it had already been opened so she said no i would like one that is not open so she said no we don't do that we don't and then the man sitting next to us said i have a beer and she brought him a full ten unopen so she said to him well she said that i couldn't have mine because they don't give cans that open and he gave you one and then she opened yours in front of you so she confronted the stewardess intelligently and she reached across the aisle and said do you see this man was sitting there and he said yeah see why don't you sit down and shut the f hatred hate your it against a faith that they really know nothing about and for them as christians to say that muslims are savages when we brought civilization to do europeans when they were living in the dark ages in europe we  of mathematics and algebra and science and all of these things we gave as muslims to the world did you see the movie american sniper if you didn't see it and you didn't miss nothing but but if you go to see it it will hurt you to see that an american sniper was lauded and praised for murdering people in whose country he is and occup and then out of his mouth comes this term yeah these savages see when you can call a fellow human being a savage you have just dehumanized that human and you then can do anything you want to to that human because in your mind he's their brothers and sisters we attempting the pill road some of us and what will make us to know what the uphill road is nothing would stop him what is  people are enslaved there in slave to ignorance that's why they behave the way they do my people the black man and woman of america so when you see us on the street drunk disrespectful of our women our pants hanging down the road when you see us like that and only says we are ignorant well if we are ignorant who will teach us who should teach us the way of a law the way of his pro the way of civilized human beings so if you look at us in our condition and won't buy in our community we have wonderful palestinians that have staus on practically all the corners in the black community they don't respect us they sell us poor but they save them muslims us today as you were yes the day then you've been blinded by them all rot of what america is and you don't understand what happened to at by our own islamic family as an islamic brother or that we are less than less than for what reason because you don't know why we have not accomplished on a mass level poor president obama he he opened up a twitter account the other day and he was so shocked when they tweeted back to him and called him nigger nigger nigger nigger nigger you're a nigger your wife is a nigger you children and nigger and i'm sure the president was hurt i'm sure he sat down with his wife and said read this he's trying to shield maybe his children so that they wouldn't think evil of what america is in the underbelly for people to gather around the mass chit in arizona somebody is sponsoring a cartoon contest see how ugly you can make the pro and the one who makes him look the worse the prize is ten thousand dollars my god and freedom of speech we  and some of you won't speak because you know you're going to pay a price see and when a muslim is hot is seized with fear so that we can but to do nothing so they showed up at the mass jade with loaded gun was brilliant in his defense but they were ready to kill muslims but we ready to defend our humanity our dignity as human beings us the prophet gave us a wonderful example and i'm going to say this and and then i will retire not really from doing my job but i don't want to overstay my time but my dear brothers and sisters we are in the same position as our prophet was in the early days of islam america does not know islam because america was discovered and they had an encounter with muslims in the old world of europe when we had jerusalem and they came they wanted to take the city and you know they had the crusades so there's always been that y ang with muslims and muslims one so they didn't want any in the western hemisphere but george washington was a shrine that you know what a shrine it is a shrine a is a person who has received thirty two to thirty three degrees of wisdom and they called themselves the shriners and they were beautiful fairs like my brother they would you stand up my brother the white shriners where affairs like that right on the front some of them say mecca some of them say maybe now some of them say syria some of them say aleppo all the muslim countries and then they have a sawed under country their call moslem shriner's a moslem son and for us as christians now i preach in christian churches they allow me to preach at their eleven o'clock service on sundays i don't go in so when i go in there talking about jesus we know jesus we love jesus we believe in jesus christians don't know that we believe in yes we know him he was one of us yes we know him read the scriptures he said not my will but that i will be done that's it's lo he asked them to follow him in the worship of the one god yes he did in the book of john doesn't it say that god is  spirit and those who worship him should worship him in spirit and in truth for such the father see him when in telling the people worship me he said pray to the father but pray in my name you can say pray to me pray to him that i prayed to when he was on the cross according to the scripture did he pray to himself o and a lot of us when we get into deep trouble boy do we know how to pray when we are in trouble and sometimes god has to keep us in trouble in order to get a sincere i'm saying all of that to say this there's only one god he's the author of the life of jesus of the scripture of jesus i want to leave you beloved muslims with this the black man of america is in a savage state we didn't make ourselves savages imagine somebody making you a slave and selling you as property for three hundred and ten years what does that do to you we were not allowed to pray and the early slaves they would pray in arabic you would hear them saying on no we can't hand that because if they prayed like that the children will soon learn how to pray so they separated their parents from their children regional language we spoke arabic we didn't call ourselves arabs because our language was arabic we are the original people of our planet so my dear brothers and sisters right across the street there's a project there beautiful people living under terrible conditions wonder what they're teaching in the i see them going they pray a lot those people can you imagine five times a day can you imagine  don't you think they would like to know the real life of jesus don't you think they would like to know the real life of  wouldn't be pleased with us being in the mosque all day and tyranny and ignorance is all around us and we as muslims don't move out with skill and wisdom to teach them what allah has given us it's sad duty i was in australia and my brother in ma'am i went to the mosque and they turned out by the hundreds and thousands to hear me and i asked my brother i said but they ma'am have you ever been to visit the aborigines he said no would you like to go i had never been there before but i know my people i know suffering humanity i am not afraid of the condition of my people how could i affect their condition if i am afraid of them some of these young men that are with me they were convicts some of them with thieves and robbers some of them committed murder but some highly learned we have accepted islam we were raised on pull we were raised on to say that the way we say is we called it soul food we ate the worst kind of food when we became muslims oh man we threw it down so fast we would work in restaurants and as a dishwasher well we when we wouldn't touch the pool that's the kind of muslims that we were we came to the lie had to give them and i had for building them to come to prayer intoxicated see is was given by degrees and so when you met follower they don't make so law look we were lucky to get up at five o'clock in the morning  we used to sleep all day so to get us up at five in the morning to make five shipwreck even though it was a go up some would say you