ABOUT THIS EPISODE
The Truth of the Teaching | Wednesday Evening Ministry Class | Message to the Blackman in America, Chapter 28
"It is an act of intelligence and love for us to accept our own." With that one sentence the Most Honorable Elijah Muhammad opens a chapter that God Himself gave him as His first and foremost teaching for us: Accept your Own and be Yourself.
In this class, Brother Minister Jason Fareed reads Chapter 28 word for word and opens it from the Supreme Wisdom. What is our own? The Messenger answers in order: our own people, our own earth, God and His Religion, Islam, and our own place in the sun. Why do we refuse it? Because we were made blind, deaf and dumb to the knowledge of self and kind when we were babies under slavery. And what is the cure? Intelligence. The act of accepting what belongs to us by nature and by right.
Along the way: the Original Rules of Instruction and Allah's dearest desire "to give everyone his or her own"; Isaiah's ox that knows his owner; the frog pleading with the snake that already has him in its mouth; the modern Pharaoh and why we are fascinated with his riches and his crumbs; Moses' prayer that the riches be broken; and the one part of our deliverance that is on us, loving the enemy more than God. War is inevitable, the Messenger says, but he is not calling us to make war. God must come. Our part is to follow His rules, laws and regulations and do something for self.
Everything of life accepts its kind as its own. This class is the call to come back and do the same.
Take the next step:
Study deeper. Every book and every recorded lecture of the Most Honorable Elijah Muhammad, including Message to the Blackman in America and The Theology of Time, is held for you at no cost at www.templeofislam.com. Read Chapter 28 again there before next Wednesday.
Join the class. The Wednesday Evening Ministry Class is open to every brother and sister who wants a thorough knowledge of self. Register at www.templeofislam.com and bring your questions.
Share it. Send this episode to one brother or sister who needs to hear that they have their own. The teaching belongs to all of us.
Do for self. If you are ready to do something for yourself and your people, reach out to Brother Minister Jason Fareed through www.templeofislam.com.
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As-Salaam-Alaikum
