What will protect us from the tendency to be taken off course by emotionalism or sentimental influences? When we identify in this religion and the Qur'an in this religion, when we identify what is proper behavior for a Muslim and we insist that all Muslims – I don't care if he is a person who...
I was in the audience like you and with you and we heard the Honorable Elijah Mohammed say, "We're going to get everyone of them." Now, that's my belief, that if we have something good it is for all our people. But should we wait for them to become Muslims? We're supposed to be helping...
What is Muslim education? Muslim education is Qur'anic based knowledge; now if we've got a Muslim school and we're talking about we're teaching Muslims then we should be forming our whole curriculum to agree with Qur'anic basic knowledge. Then that's Muslim education; we shouldn't come with foreign ideas, foreign plans, foreign philosophy, foreign psychological strategies...
I BELIEVE it's important for us to see the personalities that have contributed to the history of the African-American people and to understand their important role in shaping the movement of the African-American consciousness in the United States. I would say we have to go back to the very early ones — perhaps Frederick Douglass...
"Rabta", in Arabic is a ball tie and the language of scripture has ties. I'm speaking of ties for meaning and understanding for the language itself. So if you don't study the language well---what did the first master liberator say? "You will not be successful", alright? So now we are obligated, especially you all who...