my goal is to give you a glimpse of the beginning of a very peculiar but transformational community here in the united states of america i'm talking about a community known as the nation of islam or the boss found nation of islam in the wilderness of north america of the many sacrifices that she made in the status of the religion here in america and in detroit which one stands out more in her mind and in her life she said the arresting of my four children because it paved the way for an in a credited school not only for my children but for the children of generations to come the us continues the islamic circle masted from which evolves the school from the school will cause many master therefore the circle will never be broken master schools schools master the muslim pioneers were put in jail for not putting their children in the public schools the muslim pioneers would have schools in their homes or in muslim schools for their education the muslim pioneers played a part or a catalyst for starting homeschooling in the united states in the one nine hundred thirty s i repeat that the muslim pioneers played a part in starting homeschooling as we know it today in the  me read you a poll and this is also from the book the right direction just a step in the right direction and the poem is entitled the honorable pioneers of the one nine hundred thirty s and hopefully this will give you a flavor or give you a sense of what they went through we have a story we would like to share with you now listen it is important because the story is true we have heard about the struggles of frederick douglass harriet tubman problem dubois and stuck together and they want to be even though it was during the great depression and jobs are few although they did not have much money they had a lot of unity and they were sincere dedicated their stablish a community their leader was called mr dudley de farrar he gave them a problem book and some lessons they did not realize it in but it turned out to be a blessing the late honorable elijah muhammad was their leader teacher and brother he taught them how to always love one another and care for each other they had to learn how to pray to a law fast and right pardon me they had to learn how to pray to a law fast read and write the sisters had to learn how to cook iron and care for the children a good wife now the brothers had to learn to do the same they had to support and protect their family and also right to receive the family name they all worked in the mission and as time went by the sisters were in m t t class and their brothers in i allow was preparing for them a mighty flight to bring them out of darkness into the light they stuck together they walked for miles and miles in all kinds of weather they walked from door to door of the muse muslim homes just to get a penny sometimes they would get sometimes they would not get any now over the years things begin to change their work to have a school and are noble name time went by some were shot beaten killed mutilated and some left lame in spite of all these hardships they never received anything when their leaders and teachers were jailed they demonstrated in peace they wanted the officials to know they wanted their leaders  they did not lose heart they did not let anything keep them apart the pioneers fought back their oppression and the notorious and bless them to become victorious there is no doubt about it they have paid a great price so people humble pious and unique that is not mistake these qualities and considered them as being weak now let us come together and pick up the better truth and add to the pioneers accomplishment for example for our youth above its women where there are no decent women there are no decent men she is the mother of civilization a school of our own unite with your own love self and kind and we all know we've heard this one do for self do not win no one that you would not have done unto yourself treat everybody right even treat the devil right be yourself our right as a muslim that these are some of the sayings of the now we know that the only large muhammad well maybe you don't know eliza muhammad grew up in georgia and he moved to detroit you see a picture there in that picture you see sitting down as the only perfect book so this is the leaders that that the nation of islam has started with and it is a understanding or higher level of understanding there is much we said much in the first show about the pioneers and we tried to give you a flavor of some of the pioneers of their struggle through the poem that we read now you get on t v a lot of times  new news shows and on radio shows you hear all the talking heads and they're always saying where is the moderate voice of islam and we have had we had in our mitts the moderate voice of islam but shakes amir's all over the world but we've had a muslim leader our myths are in america here in the african american community coming from that the q your community called the last foundation of islam understand that this referring to them selves and others as brothers and this was a time when black folks were getting lynch the ku klux klan was in gear and there were segregation all these things were going up but here was a bold man as the reader's digest described in the one nine hundred fifty s the boldest man the bogus black man in america this little mayor the honorable muhammad you of a person who tried to hide in the light and we know in the bible talks about lucifer trying to hide in the light so he wasn't really talking about the white skin and he was talking about a mentality and you might ask why are there black devils ye the black devils would be the one who was following not that thing so that use very sophisticated symbolic you could even describe the tiriel satirical language in describing the devil and describ because you could see both were in bondage for several years four hundred years etc etc so our people when we were attracted to this language because they understood the story of most of moses and the people who were persecuted that  our story here in the united states of america so this think you know appealed to the people and made him popular and the people followed him and like i said he taught elijah muhammad for about three and a half years he left the scene and allies of mohammed kept on these broaden our mind to really appreciate the koran prophet muhammad and their creator  you know it's like when you turn on the windshield wipers a new car in the defroster on in your car you can see better through the glass which you can look out through the world the world and this world you have a better vision likewise if you use insight you can law from satan rejected enemy let there arise out of you a band of people inviting to all that is good and joining what is right in forbidding what is wrong they are the ones to attain facility facility means great happiness bliss in a pleasing  talked about where they started by was good character there is nothing which weighs more heavily in the balance on the day of judgement than good character what in martin luther king say judge by the content of character not by the color of your skin but this and we talked about this earlier this would be for christians christ like for muslims it would be muslim nature both the same christ like muslim nature the same who is a muslim a muslim is anyone who submits to the will of god everyone is born a muslim and their environment makes that otherwise how does one become a conscious muslim to become a comp conscious muslim is to make a public declaration there is no god but a law or the one god and mohammad is his muslim prayer god hears whoever praises him and it did not say the juice the christians and the most and whoever praises god hears whoever praises him there's another position in the muslim prayer raku which means a lot brought me up from my knees and in that position we say glorious four mile for my lord the mightiest so when you put your hand on your knees what you use when you were a little baby before you became a toddler walking you put your head on the kneecap and you saw the glory is move for my lord the mightiest i am not might we talk about the koran fifty verse five to six but they deny the truth when it comes to their so they are in a confused state do they not look at the sky above them have we made a door in it and there are no it is not the skies of the weatherman chick's it is the sky that the prophets check and the ones that have been blessed with the understanding of god's word they have been blessed by god with understanding of his word is talking about th eye seven the left eye and if anybody is in heaven is because the angel of god was watching over these doors because there was a special human in that body that god he gave that person his mercy and a son an angel to stand it every door praise be to allah stars fall because they got out of the system something happened to make them lose their place in the system and they failed as a s speaking of the sky jesus christ told the twelve twelve represents the world the universe as in a zodiac the universe a wheel twelve leaders fishermen of men fish live in a water growing and we didn't have the material and didn't have it everything yet know it is not about the material seen it is about the rational the leader came to free us mentally not materially w d farrar his words the mentally dead i'm talking about making a community i'm talking about our community how we came about here in america the wilderness of north america some might want to and he gives you all that you asked for but if you count the favors of the law never will you be able to to number them verily man is given up to in justice and in gratitude adam was told to dress the garden and we talked about the garden in part one and the lord god took the man and put him into the garden of eden to dress it and to keep the word garden also means islamic schools and this whole school and like i say they were pioneers and in that effort of help establish homeschooling in in their homes so that is something we should remember we owed them we definitely all of them we have pioneers here in the seattle area and i want to acknowledge the brothers like brother hershel mad mood who established the first temple here in seattle washington african american people who were working there boy and one day the supervisors called him in and they just knew that they were going to get in trouble because the f b i came to say what would you do and what is the strange religion you teach in and so forth and so on and they just stood up so they believed in one guy for us to know that we have leaders here in this area in the pacific northwest and there would here we have pioneers across the country in detroit chicago milwaukee leaders inspire us in the moment and they are truly good leaders when they're defining moment in our history in our community we were either build something or just die away or the making of the community the making of our community so we must remember these people who were pioneers and well a lot of times when we think of pioneers we think of someone going into the forest or the or the jungle and kundan away trees and so forth and so on and that is a form of a pioneer that is one of the reasons why they called it the last foundation in the wilderness of north america because  asus and so forth and now today we are free to our own businesses where today to free to be our own leader our own in our own email this is the day every religion this is the day of light this is a day when people see be able to stand up for themselves not looking to have a leader all over him but to respect leadership but know that in the fight of this analysis analysis you are in charge of yourself that is the greatest leadership your independent leadership to for us to stand up stand up as a human being to stand up in our soul so i hope this program has shed some light you know they always talk about black history month very seldom do you hear about the muslim pioneers the muslims what contribution they made to the african american community and to the united states of america because through all through just like the symbol of the socor that worm starts doesn't look too attractive not too pretty but the final product that  comes out is very beautiful but it went through transformation it changes and that's what we have here in the united states of america and what that teaching or understanding of what a mammal home has left is his leg which we can see the brighter light of the  he and others with this great language study memo how many is left if we open our eyes and get the word we will not only benefit the african american community then lonely the united states of america but really the entire world because of the african american community african american muslim community can rise up and make their contribution to met so the whole world that humanity which has fallen can rise up again so it is a beautiful thing it is a beautiful thing so i will leave you this something that j f k john fitzgerald kennedy said history will never accept difficulties as an excuse so let us remember that history will never accept difficulties as an excuse and let us rise up make our contributor to humanity we have a great history trials and tribulations and this is a time where we can stand up the department to stand up in our soul and to make our community our contribution to humanity