'The Priceless Value of Mother'

By Ashahed M. Muhammad -Asst. Editor- | Last updated: May 14, 2013 - 11:49:49 AM

Minister Farrakhan delivers ‘divine life skills’ in special Mother’s Day message

The Honorable Minister Louis Farrakhan (R) Sisters of all ages and from all walks of life enjoyed the Minister’s heartfelt words of guidance during his message delivered May 12, 2013 at Mosque Maryam.

CHICAGO (FinalCall.com) - Wrapping up a huge weekend marking his 80th birthday, the Honorable Minister Louis Farrakhan delivered divine life skills, keys to self-mastery, covered the proper view of mothers and relations between the sexes, as he spoke from the Nation of Islam’s National Center, Mosque Maryam May 12.

“Next to God, the most magnificent creature is called mother. When you combine God and mother, you have a future. Without God you can’t possibly be the type of mother that you want to be, need to be and must be,” he said. “Mother and potential mother, when you leave here today you’ll leave having value for yourself. You are more valuable than you treat yourself, and it is not your fault. If you had a mother that instilled value in you, you would reflect it.”

First Lady of the Nation of Islam, Mother Khadijah Farrakhan enjoys the message with her daughter Betsy Jean Farrakhan (on her left).

Self-knowledge is the key, said the Minister.

“Knowing yourself is the key to life because the knowledge of self and the knowledge of God is the same knowledge,” said the Minister. “The human brain is powerful enough that whatever you can conceive you have the potential ability to bring into existence,” he said.

“The starting point is first to know your nature, and that nature is the nature of God,” he said. “Every human being is created in the nature of God.”

Each human being possesses the potential force and power to accomplish anything they are willing to work for, and by God’s grace it will be brought into existence.

“There’s nothing stopping us from being better than what we are and who we are but ourselves,” said the Minister.

Mosque Maryam was filled with those interested in hearing a message that dealt with topics such as self-esteem, birth control, clothing styles, proper preparation of food and dealing with sexual abuse.

Agents of God

Father and mother are agents of God’s creation. The Creator uses the natural attracting between them both in the process of creating a new life, however that does not mean they necessarily had the requisite knowledge and maturity to be good parents.

Speaking to the males in the audience, the Minister said, “Most of you who made women pregnant, you did not know how to make them a real mother and that was not your intention.”

He compared sex to an intoxicant that—like drugs and alcohol—clouds judgment and results in bad choices. Whether choosing sexual partners or choosing whom to marry, many come to later regret them once they begin to experience the effects. Additionally, eating improper foods, drinking too much alcohol and use of narcotics has a harmful effect on the quality of the male sperm and eggs of the female.

The scientists of death have also created many synthetic methods to prevent the formation of new life.

“Stop taking pills that you don’t know the science of what that pill is,” the Minister said to the sisters. “They are killing you and killing your ability to produce the future of your people with these pills,” he added.

Sacredness of the female

The Most Honorable Elijah Muhammad teaches that the woman is the first teacher and follows the examples of their mothers, said the Minister. Throughout the message, he continued to emphasize the sacredness of the female as a major point for the women—of all ages—who attended.

“You are sacred. You are the sacred vessel of God himself. He uses your womb to produce all the greatness that ever came on to this planet. That’s how sacred your womb is,” said the Minister. “My dear mothers, you are very, very special.”

The crowd enjoyed the Minister’s handling of topics that are sometimes difficult to discuss during his two-hour message that was also viewed live via Internet webcast.

He said the Hon. Elijah Muhammad’s teaching that three-fourths, or seventy five percent, of his work was with the female shows how important she is.

“You don’t measure civilization by the man, you measure civilization by the woman,” he noted.

The Bible also teaches that a virtuous woman is more valuable than silver and gold, which also points to her significance and value.

Many were moved by Min. Farrakhan’s Mother’s Day address.

“Next to God, there is nothing more sacred, more wonderful, more powerful than a mother,” he continued. “Anything that interferes with your ability to mother properly is an enemy of God,” said the Minister.

A woman filling her mind with the happenings in the latest daytime soap operas or scandalous and chaotic reality shows is not providing the optimal environment for a new life to be created and brought into existence. That sacred passageway should be used for the procreation of gods, scientists, doctors, teachers, inventers. Those types of individuals will build a world.

“If you can be entertained by filth, then what does that say about the state of your mind?” he asked.

Clothing styles are designed by men who want to dress women in clothes making them into a temptress or a seductress instead of attracting men on the highest levels of civilization and principle. Those who design the clothes and the women who wear them know eyes of men will always be attracted to a woman whose bosom is “highly exposed,” said the Minister.

“Your bosom will always attract a man,” said the Minister. “That’s the first thing he looked for when he came out the womb,” he added as the crowd laughed while agreeing.

The Minister told the women their bodies are sacred territory, and they should treat it as such.

“You should always wear garments that cover you, and if they don’t cover you then why buy them?” he asked. “You are sacred and if you don’t see yourself as sacred then you will display yourself and put yourself in positions and get yourself in conditions that destroy the sacredness of who you are,” he added.

(L-R) Mother Tynnetta Muhammad, wife of the Most Honorable Elijah Muhammad. | Dr. Wesley Muhammad | Nuri Muhammad, Indianapolis, Ind. | Ishmael R. Muhammad, Mosque Maryam

The Minister skillfully touched on many uncomfortable topics, one important topic was sexual abuse of the female. He noted that in the Islamic world, sexual abuse such as rape or molestation of a female “demands death as a penalty.”

He said often, when addressing audiences and touching on that topic, he sees many crying because a large number of them have been victimized in that way by family members or friends of the family. It is one of the reasons he explored Dianetics and the technique of auditing developed by L. Ron Hubbard, founder of the Church of Scientology.

Brother bears witness to the truth.

“I found a technique that would open women and girls up to go back on their timeline and bring up things that they had buried that were impediments to their human development and their full development,” said the Minister.

When those who received auditing dealt with those issues of the past, they were free to be themselves and were no longer hindered by those painful experiences.

He blasted the baseless criticism of some who have accused him of betraying the teachings of the Most Honorable Elijah Muhammad, guiding members of the Nation of Islam to participate in the processes offered by the church.

“Let me be even more clear! I’m not trying to lead you to another religion! You’ve got the best religion but evidently you don’t know your religion!” the Minister told his critics. “The Honorable Elijah Muhammad in our lessons said ‘Islam is everything, the sun moon and stars!’ How in the hell can you tell me that knowledge is not Islam? Science is not Islam? Mathematics is not Islam? Allah says in the Qur’an ‘I am the truth!’ so anywhere you find truth, it belongs to you. You are the natural owner and possessor of truth!”

The impact of right guidance

Nuri Muhammad, Indianapolis representative of the Nation of Islam, joining at age 17 and is now 38 said it made him think of the three sciences never taught to the slave, the art of business or finance, the art of warfare and the art of mating.

“When you look at mating, you have two sides of it, parenting and then you have male and female relationship,” said Nuri Muhammad. “It was like an audio book on divine life skills, how to live at the highest level.”

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The Nation of Islam’s international headquarters was packed with many first time guests, glad to hear from him. The Minister had not spoken at a public meeting from the rostrum at Mosque Maryam in over six months.

Present in the audience were the parents and little brother of Hadiya Pendleton, the 15-year old honor roll student at King College Prep High School on Chicago’s South Side who was tragically gunned down on an unusually warm January day. A majorette in the school’s marching band that, who just one week prior had performed at President Barack Obama’s inauguration parade. Her death made national news, as a symbol of the violence that has gripped Chicago.

Brettania Pierce, 29, and visiting the mosque for her very first time said she felt “totally different” after hearing the Minister’s message May 12.

“You’re always told when you are young to value yourself but not how to value yourself and that’s what the Minister did,” she said. “Today was an amazing day. My life will never be the same. I just want to tell the world,” she added.

“We’re very blessed and fortunate to have our beloved minister still among us leading, teaching and guiding us as he did so eloquently today,” said historian and archivist Carlos Muhammad, Baltimore’s Nation of Islam representative presiding over Muhammad Mosque No. 6. “In today’s times, we’re fortunate to have a man of God to point out to us the importance and the value of a woman is to prepare us for the security as he said today of our future. I’m very blessed and fortunate as well as those that were gathered here today at the national mosque and viewed it throughout the country and world to bear witness that we surely have a beautiful man of God that loves, respects and is teaching us to protect our most valuable asset, the woman.”

Willie Muhammad who leads Muhammad Mosque No. 46 in New Orleans told The Final Call he has two daughters and the advice the Minister gave was very valuable to him. He shared that his father left his mother when he was 12-years old, making him the man of the family. He said he didn’t know what a real man was until he heard the Minister’s words while speaking at Southern University in Baton Rouge, in the early 90s specifically addressing the movie ‘Indecent Proposal.’ The plot deals with a man offering another man a million dollars to sleep with his wife. The married couple consents, however, mixed feelings and controversy ensues.

“The Minister was talking about that movie and he said ‘I wish some man would ask me could he sleep with my wife for a million dollars or any amount of money,’ he said ‘he would be picking his teeth up off of the floor.’ I remember seeing that and saying ‘That is a man!’ and from that point on I wanted to learn more and more about him,” said Willie Muhammad, who joined the Nation at age 19, and is now 38. “I don’t know of another man, not even my father, that I can point to that I can say helped me to clean up and continue the process of cleaning up my view of women and of the mother. The Minister is consistent,” he added.

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