Confidence Gained Through Prayers

Send us Fan MailWhat does it cost to be ashamed of your own God?In this Wednesday Evening Ministry Class, Brother Minister Jason Fareed teaches Chapter 35 of Our Saviour Has Arrived, “Being Ashamed of Your Own God,” by the Most Honorable Elijah Muhammad.The Messenger opens with Allah coming to us in the Person of Master Fard Muhammad, to Whom Praises Are Due Forever, “teaching us that glorious, much prophesied Truth that will put us, the Black once-slaves of white America, into heaven while we live.” Then he asks: will we confess that Truth before our open enemies, or deny it for the sake of a false friendship?In this class:The much prophesied Truth: Abraham and the 400 years (Genesis 15), a prophet raised up from among us (Deuteronomy 18), Elijah before the great and dreadful day (Malachi 4), the Son of man out of the East (Matthew 24), and God searching for His lost sheep (Ezekiel 34)Hell defined by the Messenger: “this condition of hell (subjected to white Americans)”Why the enemy is never ashamed of his hatred, while some of us deny our salvationThe educator, the scholar and the scientist who “dare not accept the Name of God which shall live”Why being ashamed of your own God and your own self “is like eating fire”“To be ashamed to confess the God of our salvation makes us unworthy of that God’s help and salvation which He has brought to us.” (The Most Honorable Elijah Muhammad, Our Saviour Has Arrived, Chapter 35)Hold strong. Do not turn back on your heels. Be the light that shines in the darkness.Study deeper between classes at www.templeofislam.com, where you will find every book and recorded lecture of the Most Honorable Elijah Muhammad.If this teaching gave you strength, please share it with someone who needs it, and subscribe so you never miss a class. We meet every Wednesday.As-Salaam-Alaikum.Support the show

Send us Fan MailStudy the teachings every day at www.templeofislam.comThey told us we were nothing. They kept our history out of their schools. They taught us we did not belong in the room. They broke the confidence of the Black man and woman, and many of us are still carrying it. Tonight the Messenger of Allah, the Most Honorable Elijah Muhammad, shows us how to gain it back.In this Wednesday Evening Ministry Class, Brother Minister Jason Fareed teaches Chapter 75 of Message to the Blackman in America, Confidence Gained Through Prayers. It is a prayer that shows “the complete confidence the Apostle and his followers have in Allah,” and a promise every believer needs to hear: “there is none who can withhold what Thou grantest.”In this episode:What confidence really means: full faith, filled to the topWhy confidence is gained, and why it is gained through prayersThe Messenger’s warning against doubting your own prayer, from The Theology of TimePresident Barack Obama on the rooms of power: “they ain’t all that”Why we cannot be proud over greatness: “For if Allah makes you great you are great indeed!”Salvation has come: God visited us and accepted us as His ownThe burdens Allah does not lay on us, and the ones we lay on ourselvesThe prayer the Messenger told us to “recite it very often”: Holy Qur’an 2:286The story of Job, and what happened “when he prayed for his friends”We open the class by honoring the born day of Sister Clara Muhammad, wife of the Most Honorable Elijah Muhammad, and the dignity of the woman in Islam.If you have ever doubted yourself, or doubted that your prayer would be answered, this class is for you.Go deeper at www.templeofislam.com, the online Temple. Read every book of the Most Honorable Elijah Muhammad there, hear The Theology of Time in his own voice, and visit the Women in Islam page.Share this episode with someone who needs their confidence back. Join us every Wednesday evening.www.templeofislam.comAs-Salaam-Alaikum.Support the show

Send us Fan Mail“Allah is the only one that can remove this fear from us, but he will not remove it from us until we submit to His will, not our will, and fear Him and Him alone.” The Most Honorable Elijah MuhammadBrother Minister Jason Fareed teaches Chapter 17 of Message to the Blackman in America in the exact words of the Most Honorable Elijah Muhammad.To submit is to put yourself under another, and the Messenger teaches us to put ourselves under Allah. This class covers:Entire submission, holding nothing backThe two conditions and two promises of Holy Qur’an 2:112How fear was put in our fathers when they were babiesThe difference between the fear of man and the fear of Allah, which is reverence: not wanting to fall short before the One who loves usIslam is the nature in which we were created. When we submit, we live in our nature, and fear and grief leave us.Study deeper between classes at www.templeofislam.com: the Messenger’s books, lectures, Muhammad Speaks, and the study courses.Join the Wednesday Evening Ministry Class live, every Wednesday at 8 p.m. Eastern. Register at www.templeofislam.com.If this episode benefited you, follow the show, leave a rating, and share it with a brother or sister who needs it.As-Salaam-Alaikum.Support the show

Send us Fan MailWhen God suggests a thing, it is not a light matter. It is a heavy one.In this Wednesday Evening Ministry Class, Brother Minister Jason Fareed teaches Food God Suggests, Chapter 3 of How to Eat to Live, Book One, by the Most Honorable Elijah Muhammad. The Messenger opens the chapter with a question and answers it himself:“What food does Allah (God) suggest? He suggests the food that is good for us and does not make us ill. Food that is for human consumption and not for animals.”In this class we study:The two foods: the physical food that nourishes the body and the spiritual food that nourishes the soulOne meal a day, “no matter what anyone says,” and the doctor’s length of lifeWhy nature never teaches us to die, or teaches of life somewhere elseDaniel, the king’s meat, and the pulse: the small navy bean the Messenger prescribed for the Nation of IslamWhy we must prepare and grow our own food in a highly commercialized worldWhat we can actually do: treat ourselves better, love ourselves more, desire what God wants for us, and follow God’s suggestionsThe body is our temple. Allah suggests the best for it because He loves us, and He leaves the choosing to you and me.Study deeper between classes at the online Temple: www.templeofislam.comIf this teaching benefited you, share it with someone you love, and invite them to class next Wednesday.As-Salaam-Alaikum.Support the show

Send us Fan MailThe Safest Way to Eat | How to Eat to Live, Book One, Chapter 33“The safest way of all to eat is to stop eating so often (three meals a day and meals between those three meals).” The Most Honorable Elijah MuhammadIn this Wednesday Evening Ministry Class, Brother Minister Jason Fareed teaches Chapter 33 of How to Eat to Live, Book One: The Safest Way to Eat. Food keeps us here and food takes us away. The Messenger shows us that the safest way to eat begins with who is in charge at the table. Our appetite is not our God.In this class:Why the Messenger compares our old eating habits to the appetite of the swine, and why “the swine’s life is very short”How eating too often clouds the mind, wears out the stomach and steals our clarityWhy our bodies are made of the best, and why we should put only the best into themHow America was blessed with the best food and water, and turned good things into badWhat it means that America “kept them here in order to prey upon them,” and why we still eat the food of slaveryWhy the plagues are falling on America, and how those who follow the divine path will be savedThe Messenger also draws on the Supreme Wisdom, the Holy Qur’an, the Bible, The Fall of America and the Theology of Time. The class is a call to regulate what we put into our bodies and our minds, so that we can see clearly and live long.Study deeper at www.templeofislam.com, the online Temple. Every book and recorded lecture of the Most Honorable Elijah Muhammad is there for you to read and hear. Learn all about yourself.Join us every Wednesday for the Ministry Class. If this teaching blessed you, please share this episode with your family and friends, and send them to www.templeofislam.com.As-Salaam-Alaikum.Support the show

Send us Fan MailFoods to Avoid | How to Eat to Live, Book One, Chapter 32On October 7th, the birth anniversary of the Most Honorable Elijah Muhammad, the Wednesday Evening Ministry Class opened Foods to Avoid from How to Eat to Live, Book One.The Messenger opens the chapter by setting the order straight: “We should not be asking questions about what kind of foods to eat as much as we should be trying to eat one meal a day. This is where good health and the prolongation of life come from.”In this class, Brother Minister Jason Fareed breaks down:Why one meal a day comes before the menu, and what “Of this I can assure you from self-experience” teaches us about a Messenger who lived what he taughtHow long we could live if we trained our stomachs, and the meaning of Methuselah’s 969 yearsThe scavengers of the sea, and why the Messenger calls the catfish “the pig of the water”How to identify stale fish, beginning with the Messenger’s own test: “When food smells like it is spoiled, we should not eat it.”The divinely prohibited flesh of the swine, which we are not to eat, touch, or even smellDoing for self: our own farms, our own food, and refusing to take our enemies for our guidesWe also honor Sister Clara Muhammad, the Messenger’s strong supporter and a perfect example of the M.G.T.Foods to avoid are physical and spiritual. Avoid the scavengers, the swine, and the poison in our food, and just as importantly, avoid wrong mental food and guidance from those who do not love you.Study deeper between classes at www.templeofislam.com. The teachings of the Most Honorable Elijah Muhammad are there for you, free.Join us live every Wednesday evening, and bring someone with you. If this teaching benefited you, please share this episode with your family and friends, so they too can learn how to eat to live.As-Salaam-Alaikum.Support the show

Send us Fan MailThe 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.Subscribe and follow so you never miss a class.As-Salaam-AlaikumSupport the show

Send us Fan MailThe Most Honorable Elijah Muhammad took this chapter's title straight from our Lessons. Master Fard Muhammad, to Whom Praises Are Due Forever, asked in Question 19 of Lost-Found Muslim Lesson No. 2, "If a civilized person does not perform his Duty, what must be done?" In this week's Wednesday Evening Ministry Class, Brother Minister Jason Fareed opens Chapter 25 of Message to the Blackman in America word by word, beginning with the first word of the title. If. A condition, not a verdict. The civilized man can perform his duty, or he can fail it.From there the Messenger tells us what civilization is: "One having knowledge, wisdom, understanding, culture, refinement and is not savage." He tells us there are two civilizations on this earth, "a wicked one and a righteous one," and that "we have all been well trained into the wicked civilization." He measures an advanced civilization not by its technology but by its righteousness. And he tells us where we stand today: "My people in America are under the searchlight of the righteous, who are offering to them the right guidance to a supreme civilization of righteousness never witnessed before on earth."In this lecture: the three types of people, the 85%, the 10%, and the 5%; the Messenger held responsible for the delivery of the message and his forty million helpers; why a beautiful society must be spiritual; the searchlight that has already found us; the slave-master who failed his duty; fear and ignorance, and the civilized man whose duty is to awaken his people; and the true friend we have today in Allah, Who came in the Person of Master Fard Muhammad, and the Nation of Islam.The duty of the civilized man is to teach civilization to the uncivilized. That duty now rests on everyone who hears this class.Do not wait until next Wednesday to study. Every book and  recorded lectures of the Most Honorable Elijah Muhammad is at www.templeofislam.com. Read Chapter 25 for yourself. Hear the Messenger in his own voice. Learn all about yourself, and then teach someone else. Visit www.templeofislam.com today.Subscribe, share this episode with one person who needs to hear it, and join us every Wednesday evening for the Wednesday Evening Ministry Class.As-Salaam-Alaikum.Support the show

Send us Fan MailIn this week’s Temple of Islam class, we study Chapter 18 of Our Saviour Has Arrived, “Be Yourself.” The Most Honorable Elijah Muhammad teaches that our own self is a righteous Muslim, and from that foundation we examine knowledge of self, the Tribe of Shabazz, submission to Allah, righteousness, resurrection, proper education, self-development, freedom, justice, equality, and the responsibility to build a better life for ourselves, our families, and our community.This class explores how a people who have been robbed of the knowledge of themselves can begin the process of returning to their true nature through study, discipline, righteous conduct, better thinking, better choices, and the life-giving Teaching of the Most Honorable Elijah Muhammad.Do not allow this lesson to end when the podcast ends. Continue the study for yourself. Open the books, take notes, revisit the lessons, and begin applying the Teaching to your daily life. Share this episode with your family, friends, and anyone who may benefit from a deeper knowledge of self.Visit our Temple of Islam website www.templofislam.com to continue learning, access the books and study materials, and go deeper into these great Teachings of the Most Honorable Elijah Muhammad.Study. Learn. Apply. Share. Be Yourself.Join us every Wednesday as we continue studying the Message and working toward greater knowledge, righteousness, unity, and self-development.As-Salaam-Alaikum.Support the show

Send us Fan MailWednesday Evening Ministry Class, ministered by Brother Minister Jason Fareed."You, who have been here in America for four hundred years, have never been taught a true knowledge of self, God, and His religion, Islam. As long as you are without such essential knowledge, which is the key of salvation, freedom, justice, and equality, you are not free." The Most Honorable Elijah Muhammad opens Chapter 8 with that charge, and this class takes it paragraph by paragraph.We open on the most important question a person can ask, "Who is God?", and on the Supreme Wisdom Lesson that answers it: there is not a mystery God. We take the Messenger's words as he wrote them and follow where they go. Why we were never taught who we are. Who kept the knowledge from our ears, and why. What the Messenger means by essential knowledge, and by a thorough knowledge of our own history. When the truth arrived, and Who came to make it manifest. Why the hardest problem is not getting the truth to our people but getting them to believe it after it is in their ears. What "Islam, the Religion of Peace" has to do with what Jesus actually taught. And the Messenger's closing word on the religion that was put on us with Jesus' name attached, and what it will take to come out of it.The class reads the whole chapter aloud in the Messenger's exact words, opens the key words, and sets the Bible and the Holy Qur'an beside the teaching so you can see the agreement for yourself.Study deeper between classes. Every book and every recorded lecture of the Most Honorable Elijah Muhammad is at www.templeofislam.com. Read the chapter again there, hear the Messenger in his own voice, and bring your questions back to class. Send every guest and every seeker to the online Temple. The teaching belongs to all of us and it costs nothing.As-Salaam-Alaikum.Support the show