To Brother, Leader Muammar Gadhafi, heads of state and government, leaders of parties and organizations, brothers and sisters, it is a great honor for me to, not introduce you to a man you already know, but to say a few words about the man that we already know, and to say something from the Qur’an. Allah (God) gives us a parable of a person in a ship and the ship gets tossed about by the wind and the waves of the sea, and the person in that condition cries out to Allah (God) making his prayer sincere. The Qur’an says, "But when we get him safely to shore, lo, he sets up other gods besides Allah, surely man is ungrateful."

All of us benefit from the creation of Almighty God, Allah, and because each of us benefit from His creation, then all of us owe The Creator a debt of  gratitude. Allah (God) hates ingratitude. From the womb of the universe through the womb of women come men and women who benefit other men and women in the name of The Creator, whether they know they are in His name or not.

We are here today to say thank you; first to Almighty God, Allah, for the precious womb of the woman who is the mother that bore the Leader of the Revolution, Brother Muammar Gadhafi. There are none of us in this room who have not benefited from his birth into this world; and there are tens of hundreds of thousands, yea even tens of millions who have benefited because Allah (God) brought Muammar Gadhafi this way.

Thirty-one years ago, in a tent, Brother Muammar Gadhafi and his associates planned a revolution to benefit the suffering people of Libya. Because of that Al-Fatah Revolution, all of us are here today. So, we thank Allah (God) for Muammar Gadhafi. We thank Allah (God) for the Al-Fatah Revolution. We thank Allah (God) for the creation of the Mathaba.

What is the role of the Mathaba in this changing world? When you look at a rocket that boosts a satellite into space, there are three stages and then the satellite gets away from the pull of gravity. The first thing we had to struggle against was our former colonial slavemasters. We have, for the most part, gotten free, in some sense, of that colonial master. Then, we had to struggle against corrupt leadership still carrying the ideas of the former colonial masters. So, we romanticized about the power of the gun. The great leader Mao Tse Tung said that political power grows out from the barrel of a gun, and from the gun we changed bad regimes. We have to be careful, when we change a bad regime with a gun, that we don’t become the same thing that we just changed. So, as a result of that struggle, now the real revolution must take place.

There’s a surah in the Qur’an called "Al Nur" (The Light). It is the light of the sun as it strikes the Earth that causes the Earth to make its revolution, giving us a change of seasons. There is no real revolution until the light of knowledge strikes our minds and there comes a transformation of the mind. The gun can never transform the mind; only greater knowledge can transform the mind. So the real revolution must now begin, and this real revolution is that each of us who are revolutionaries must work to overthrow the government of Satan, or the government of the rulers who have dominated our lives and our minds.

They brought us to their colleges to educate us to fit into their world, and into their system. No matter how many degrees we have, until we have a sufficient degree in the knowledge of God, in the knowledge of self, in the knowledge of our own purpose for existence, then we will only re-fashion their knowledge and keep the true revolution at bay. The real overthrow of the mind of our enemy must take place because there are many of us, knowingly or unknowingly, that are still pawns in the hands of the forces of imperialism—agents of those forces, while at the same time saying they are revolutionaries.

We can’t play games with the people today. We can’t play games with the lives and the destiny of the people of Africa and the world. We in the Diaspora applaud Brother Muammar Gadhafi for reviving the idea of Kwame Nkrumah and Gamel Abdel Nasser of an African Union. All of the problems that were mentioned today can be solved through the union of the African people and the African states.

I heard a wise man say one day that it’s better to be the tail of something than the head of nothing. We are poor because we are divided. We are suffering because we are divided. The oil in Libya does not belong to Libya. The riches of Africa belong to the people that live on this continent. When we have a United States of Africa, no African state will ever be poor, because the wealth of Africa will then be shared by all the people of Africa. No African child will be uneducated, because we will have the resources to educate every African child and make every African a tangible factor of power in world affairs. So, the African Union must became a reality.

I’m here to pledge to Brother Gadhafi and to all of you, that we in the Diaspora will give all we have and all within our power to see the day when the African Union and a Pan Africanist Parliament becomes a reality. When this becomes a reality on this continent, all the sons and daughters of Africa will be free wherever we are on the earth. We appeal to Brother Prime Minister Roosevelt Douglas to go back to the Caribbean with the idea of a Caribbean Union, a Federation of all the nations of the Caribbean.

I believe in what President Wade (of Senegal) said: If we could speak with one voice, we would be heard. When in Ouagadougou (Burkina Faso), the African leaders decided they were not going to obey the sanctions (against Libya), then the United Nations decided to suspend the sanctions. This should tell us that what they are afraid of is a united Africa speaking with one voice. We ought to terrorize the wicked of the planet by uniting and speaking with one voice.

Lastly, no matter what is done in Africa, the real trouble in Africa oftimes begins in America and Europe. If there is no force inside America for change, then whatever we do on the African continent could be endangered by the reactionary forces that exist in America and Europe, particularly Great Britain. In the Diaspora, we, too, believe we should form a united front of all our organizations and leadership in a strategic alliance with the Native American people, that we can leverage against the wicked policies of the U.S. Government that destabilized Africa, weakened the Caribbean and all the forces of liberation on our planet.

As we bring before you our great leader, I appeal to all of our African brothers and sisters, that we cannot afford Arab-African disunity. The enemy would like to put sub-Saharan Africa against North Africa that happens to be Arab. Prophet Muhammad (Peace be upon him), who is regarded as the greatest revolutionary, had by his side Bilal, an Ethiopian. The two, an Arab and an African, together, made a new world reality. They ruled from the 7th century to the 11th century. Unfortunately, we have allowed the forces of division to divide the Muslim Ummah (community) and now, they are working feverishly to divide Black Africa from Arab Africa. We cannot afford to let them do that. Arab Africa and Black Africa must be One Africa. As it was with Gamel Abdel Nasser and Kwame Nkrumah in the vision of a United Africa, so it is that an Arab brother who is African, Brother Muammar Gadhafi, is the greatest voice for change on the African continent today. We must not let that be a point of division.

On Oct. 16 in Washington, D.C., we will call back to the steps of the Capitol the 1.7 million men we called five years ago, and we are asking them to bring their wives and their children to reconstruct family life among us, but more importantly to mobilize them into a force for change within the United States of America. America will never be changed from the outside; she must be changed from the power of our unity from the inside.

Remember this: nothing can be done without the Help and Presence of Allah (God). What we are attempting to do is an affair of great resolution, and if Allah, or God, by whatever name you call Him, is not involved in this, we cannot succeed. However, if Allah (God) is in front of what we do and we are united in what we do, then there is nothing we desire that cannot be achieved.

Thank you.