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THE NATION OF ISLAM S T U D Y C O U R S E

WEDNESDAY CLASS WEEK 47

Unite Behind ElijahMuhammad's Program

and PositionBy

The Honorable Minister Louis Farrakhan(The Final Call Newspaper)


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This study course is designed to be done both in acourse room, mosque, study-group or self-pacedat home. Certain parts of this course (Key WordStudy) will be done with a partner. Other parts will be done independently (by yourself). Whenits time to partner, you and your partner (twin)are to follow the steps provided in this guide.The study course is laid out in the order you dothem. It is important not to skip any steps of theguide . THESE INSTRUCTIONS ARE TO BEFOLLOWED IN OUR CLASSES.

Purpose of this Study Course Guide:

The purpose of this study course guide is to guide you through this course of study.

Time to Complete:

Although the hour and a half that we have forstudy this evening will hopefully allow you toprogress through most of this study, however it isstrongly recommend that you continue to workon this study course at home at your own pace.

Important Note: During the study course

session, if you have any questions raiseyour hand for assistance. Each believer(student) should have a copy of this handout andits instructions to take home and continuestudying on their own. All steps may not becompleted in the class sessions in its entirety.

Study Course StepsStep 1: Key Word ClearingKey words are important words related tokey concepts found in the reading. Having agood understanding of the meanings of these

words will help each student betterunderstand the important concepts and ideasof the study, as well as eliminatemisunderstandings that come withmisunderstood words. Use the key word listand definitions found in this packet to do thedrill (exercise) a and b.

1.) Select a partner (closest to you) and study theKey Words together, through reviewingthe questions and answers to master. (Ifdone in course room or mosque/studygroup the time allotted is 30-45 minutes)

2.) First time through: The student has thequestions and answers in front of him orher. The partner asks the student thequestion, and the student answers it.He/She can look at the answer if needed.The answer does not have to be

word-for-word or memorized; just

the concept must be correct. 3.) Second time through: Once finished with

the drill the first time, you start againfrom the beginning, this time withoutthe answers in front of you . Yourpartner asks the question and youanswers. If the answer is incorrect, yourpartner shows you the answer. Look at theanswer again and repeat until you havegrasped the concept, then continue to thenext one.

Step 2: Independent Reading After completing step one, you may begin toread the selected reading materials.

Step 3: Check Your UnderstandingQuestions : Time Frame: 30 min Review the lists of questions. Each questionis formulated to check your understanding ofthe key concepts and ideas found in thereading. Answer each question on a sheet ofpaper and be prepared to discuss your

answers at the conclusion of this session.Sufficient time may not be given during classsession to answer all of the questions. If youdo not finish in class, please continue thisstep at home.

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What does fortuitous mean?Fortuitous means happening or produced bychance; lucky; unplanned.

What does atonement mean?Atonement is satisfaction or reparation for awrong or injury; amends. It is the doctrineconcerning the reconciliation of God andhumankind, especially as accomplishedthrough the life, suffering, and death of Christ.

What does reconciliation mean?Reconciliation is to make (oneself or another)no longer opposed; to make (two apparentlyconflicting things) compatible or consistentwith each other.

What does responsibility mean?Responsibility is the state or fact ofanswerable or accountable, as for somethingwithin ones power, control, or management.

What does it mean to be cracked ?Cracked means broken without separation ofparts; damaged; injured.

What does it mean to be hypocritical ?Hypocritical means of the nature of hypocrisy,or pretense of having virtues, beliefs,principles, etc., that one does not actuallypossess.

What is the meaning of program ?A program is a plan of action to accomplish aspecified end; a plan or schedule of activities,procedures, etc., to be followed.

What is the meaning of position ?A position is the place, situation, or location

of a person or thing; an area or point occupiedfor tactical reasons. It is a mental attitude;point of view; stand.

What is a functional illiterate ?A functional illiterate is a person with some

basic education who still falls short of aminimum standard of literacy or whosereading and writing skills are inadequate toeveryday needs.

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What is the Tea Party ?The Tea Party is a conservative politicalmovement in the U.S. that opposes taxes andgovernment spending.

What is a Zionist ?A Zionist is a worldwide political movementfor the establishment and support of anational homeland for Jews in Palestine, nowconcerned chiefly with the development of themodern state of Israel.

What is the definition of integration ?Integration is the act of combining or addingparts to make a unified whole. It is thecombination of previously racially segregatedsocial facilities into a non-segregated system.

What is the definition of separation ?Separation is an act or instance of separatingor the state of being separated. It is the processof isolating or extracting from or of becomingisolated from a mixture.

What does it mean to reject ?Reject means to refuse to accept,acknowledge, use, believe, etc.

What is a corporation ?A corporation is an association of individuals,created by law or under authority of law,having a continuous existence independent ofthe existences of its members, and powers andliabilities distinct from those of its members.


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[Editor's note: The following article is part two of edited excerpts from the message delivered by the Honorable Minister Louis Farrakhan on the occasion of the 16th Anniversary of the Million Man March and

Holy Day of Atonement commemoration held at the Philadelphia Convention Center in Philadelphia,Pennsylvania, Sunday, October 9, 2011.]

In The Name of Allah, The Beneficent, The Merciful.

It is fortuitous that on the actual day of the 16th Anniversary of the Million Man March on the National Mallthere will be the dedication of the monument to Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. And I said, Wow! Look at howGod arranges things! In August, the unveiling of the statue of our brother Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. was totake place. However, a woman came blowing through the East Coast by the name of [Hurricane] Ireneand it was Good night Irene! The event's organizers said, We better cancel this! And just before Irene,the Earth shook in Washington, D.C., at the White House and at the Capitol Building, from a 5.8 magnitudeearthquake!

Some people were saying, We can't! We shouldn't do it on that day! That's the day Farrakhan had that Million Man March! The Message that the Million Man March revolved around included three words. Thefirst one, and the main one, was Atonement. And that name was given to our work by the late Reverend

James Luther Bevel, a great disciple of Martin Luther King, Jr. The next word was Reconciliation, and thelast word was Responsibility.

Well, who better than Dr. King to be honored on that day, October 16th? Thousands are to gather again tohonor a man who was in his person a symbol of Atonement, a symbol of Reconciliation; and a man wholoved America and his people so much that he accepted the Responsibility of Freedom and Justice to makeAmerica better, so that America would be a good place for us all.

So I'm honored that God so fixed it through Irene and an earthquake for this to occur.

The Symbols of America's Cracked Leadership

Now, that earthquake also shook the Washington Monument, damaging it. So here we are in Philadelphia,with a cracked Liberty Bell, and the top of the Washington Monument is now cracked. What is that tellingyou? It's representative of the leadership of America, and the leadership of the people. It's not the people,it's the rottenness of the leadership of the people that has cracked liberty for the people!

President Barack Obama is supposed to be there that day for the unveiling. But I'd like to ask him a question,always with respect, because he is our brother and I truly love him. And we're wrong to expect from himwhat he can't deliver! I want to ask him:

Unite Behind El i jah Muhammad'sProgram and Posi t ion

B yT h e H o n o r a b l e M i n i s t e r L o u i s F a r r a k h a n


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How, Mr. President, can you come to The Mall and honor that man and the unveiling of his statue withoutaddressing the pressing needs of The Poor for which he gave his life?

Good question, isn't it? If the government of the United States forgets about The Poorthe Black poor, theWhite poor, the Brown poor, the poor of this nationand concentrates only on benefits for The Rich, and istrying to make it better for the Middle Class who are fast becoming the new Poor, then the heart of theAmerican Congress is as cold as the granite that bears the image of a man whose heart was warm for theprinciples of Justice, Freedom, Equity and Peace.

So don't forget, my dear Brother President that you were there at the Million Man March 16 years ago onThe Mall with nearly two million of your brothers. And now you go to The Mall to unveil the statue of a manwho paid a price with his life to lay down a foundation for you to step up on! But Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.laid his foundation fighting for The Poor, and fighting against war and the shedding of innocent blood forthe material progress of this nation.

So my dear Brother President, when you stand on that Mall, you cannot be hypocritical in the unveiling ofthe statue of a man whose name you invoke. So invoke his name; dedicate that statue, and go back to theWhite House and fight like hell!

Even if you're only a one-term president: Fight like hell for the people that put you in that office! And mayGod bless you to find the voice to do it!

Unite Behind Elijah Muhammad's Program and Position

In Message To The Blackman In America , in the chapter Program and Position, the Honorable ElijahMuhammad said, We do not believe that America will ever be able to furnish enough jobs for her ownmillions of unemployed in addition to jobs for the 20,000,000 Black people. We're going to have to thinkabout this man again! Look at him again! Because everything he taught us would happen is happening.

America has 14-20 million people out of work. We have one out of six in poverty; and 50 million or morethat have tasted poverty, and lack sufficient food and nourishment. There's another 46 million that arewithout health insurance. And 49 million who are considered functional illiterates, people that can read,but at a 5th Grade Level.

I want to talk to you now about our future: America is in this so-called global economy, with a service-oriented economy where people, now, have to be re-educated to be technically savvy to fit in to even find a

job in today's world. You send your children to college and you expect that their college education is goingto get them a job. But since you didn't have the money, they're in debt! Coming out of four years ofcollege in debt and they're constantly being reminded of what they owe. So not only is America in debt,the American people are in debt! And debt is another form of slavery.

Some of the people who are working are engineers, nurses and doctors; however, the people that are beinglaid off are teachers , policemen and firemen . At a time like this, you lay off teachers, policemen andfiremen? In a talk that we had with Brother Tavis Smiley, Dr. Cornel West and a host of Black leaders inChicago, I asked the question, When the first March on Washington was planned in the '40s, what werethey after? Jobs and Justice.' When we marched again in '63, what were we after? Jobs and Justice.' Andwhen we had the 20th Anniversary of the March on Washington, what was the cry? JOBS ANDJUSTICE!'

So if Elijah Muhammad said how can you expect the White people to prepare jobs for their millions ofunemployed, and ours too, then don't you think you're being silly? America was in better shape in those days,


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and you still didn't get Jobs and Justice? And you're still stupid enough in 2011 to keep asking somebodyelse for Jobs and Justice?

What in the hell is wrong with your hands, your head, your bank accounts, your pocketbook, your labor, thatyou're going to beg another man to do for you what you could get up off your backside and do for yourself?

Our young people don't even want to go to school and are dropping out at alarming rates, right? What kind of job is America preparing for functional illiterates? Talk to me! So the president put out a jobs billthatmay not even pass! But if it does pass, how many of those jobs do you think you're going to get? Ourmembers of Congress are having jobs fairs in their cities, where they bring big corporations in, and Blackpeople are lined up for as far as you can see! They filled out applications, but how many of them got a job?See, you're playing with the people! You knew damn well before you called the jobs fairs that there were notenough jobs for your people! So we are going to have to create these jobs ourselves.

See, I'm clear that they're not preparing a future for us, but I'm also clear that we're going to have to providea future for ourselves! That is not their responsibility. In the Book of Matthew, Chapter 8, the scriptureteaches: Foxes have holes, birds have nests, but the Son of Man has no place to lay his head. Something is wrong with that Son of Man! Hell, if a bird can build a nest, and a fox can scratch out ahole, what has happened to the Sons of Men, that we're sitting around here poor, ragged, hungry; housesforeclosed on, naked, out-of-doors? What's wrong with us?

The government doesn't have enough money to even take care of us in the Armed Forces because they've gotpush-button war now, where it's send a drone, or, get on the computer and map it out. Well, where doyou fit? Where do we fit? They say No Child Left Behindbut a huge part of the country is being leftbehind. And if America does not want White people, and the Black, Brown and common poor to be leftbehind, what plan does America have to create the jobs that you are seeking? She doesn't have a plan! Thequestion is: Do we have one?

That's why I want you to revisit Elijah Muhammad. He gave us a Plan way back in the 1960s!

Take back your country' from Zionist control

There are some who feel, Well, the Tea Party hates Black people. I listen to you all and I laugh to myself,and I say, Thank God for the Tea Party! because every foot that's in your behind is helping you tounderstand that: There is no hope in this!

Let's look at what The Tea Party people are saying: We've got to take the country back! I'm with youTea Party! Well Tea Party, who are you going to take it back from? You're not going to take it back fromus because we don't have a job, we don't own a bank, we don't own where we live. Yet, you're going to takeit back from us because a Black man is in the White House?

But the one thing I like about the Tea Party: They're not controlled by the Zionists. See, these new ones thatcame into Congress from the Tea Party are upsetting other members of Congress because those other folk getcontrolled! In August 2011, a Congressman from Maryland by the name of Steny Hoyer took a delegation toIsrael. And guess what Congressman Steny Hoyer told the people in Israel? While America is suffering, Mr.Hoyer said: We're going to give you all that we have given you in the past. No matter what the condition

financially of America is, you can depend on us to give you $3 billion out of the taxpayers' money. And thenhe even said, And then some

Now, Tea Party: You want to take the country back? Well, let me tell you who you've gotta take it backfrom! You have to break the control of the corporate media . You have to break the control of the big multi-


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national corporations and the international robber baron bankers ! You have to break the control of the Zionists who use America; and the sweat and blood of American children, sending $3 billion every year toIsrael.

So my dear brother president: I know you spoke recently to the Black Caucus, and you were very fiery. I digit! But how did you talk to Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu? Did you scold him? Did you tellhim take off his bedroom slippers? Hmm How did you address the Gay [rights] group? Did you scoldthem? Oh, it's just us?

You've got strength, brotherI know you do! And that's what the people are pushing for, to find it in you!

The Integration That Produces Separation

Farrakhan, do you think we should integrate, or do you think we should separate? Or do you think weshould have some of both? How is that possible? You know, The Enemy is so smart, because he uses a trickcalled integration. This integration that we now have: This is not what Dr. King and the Civil RightsMovement was about! They didn't want nice relationships with White folk as opposed to equal justiceunder the law and fair treatment, which was what Dr. King was about.

Within the word integration you'll find the prefix integer . What is an integer? In Mathematics, themeaning of an integer states: The whole is equal to the sum of its parts, meaning you have to belong toin order to be a part of. So if I've got eight slices of bean pie, then I've got a whole pie! But if I've got sixslices of bean , and two slices of apple , I don't have a whole pie, because the two parts that are apple don'tbelong with the six parts that are bean . So if the whole is equal to the sum of its parts, you've got to belongto in order to be a part of .

Question: Do you really belong? Well, what kind of integration do you have? Is it that you now can sleepwith White women and men, and they don't kill you as quick as they used to? Now we have a lot of mixedmarriages, or mixed sleep-ins, and mixed babies, right? But that's not the integration that Dr. King wastalking about.

Now let me tell you what real integration is: Here's a man and woman, two different beings; maybe of thesame race even, same ethnicity. When that sperm is emitted, and it finds the egg; and the first cell of life iscreated, the body wants to reject it, because it's a foreign entity in your body. But the sperm that has now metthe egg, and has become the first cell of life, the Qur'an said it has to find a firm resting place.

So now, the cell of life clings to the walls of the uterus, and holds on against rejection . After a while,rejection stops, acceptance comes, and the new life is growing within the womb of a life that's already beenhere, drawing from that life to build up its own life.

It has become a part of , but it is growing into something independent; that one day after development, it isgoing to breathe on its own, it's going to demand to come forth out of the womb, and the umbilical cord hasto be cut!

And then the baby has to be washed and swaddled and salted; and then grows into a newcreature independent from , separated from , the mother out of which it came! That's integration that producesseparation!


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Land' and Farming': Two Industries necessary for our Genesis

I asked Mr. Bob Johnson, the founder and former CEO of Black Entertainment Television ( BET ) to cometoday, and unfortunately something came up and he wasn't able to make it. There's not too many in Americawho have been as successful as Mr. Johnson, would you agree? Mr. Johnson had a vision for BET , where heand others put it together and it was the Voice of Black America. And without Mr. Johnson and BET wewould not have been as successful with the Million Man March.

Now suppose if Mr. Johnson were here, I would say to Mr. Johnson: Mr. Johnson, why shouldn't we have ameeting with Black billionaires and multi-millionaires to talk about what to do to create jobs for ourpeople? One billion dollars over here, another billion over there, is nothing! Pooling resources is whatJews do, this is what Irish do, this is what Italians do, and this is what Mexicans are doing! Come on, Mr.Johnson: Let's get our Black millionaires and billionaires together in a room. We would like to show youhow by being a billionaire you can be a double-billionaire, triple-billionaire, if you invest your money inindustry that puts your people to work!

Watch how this works: Isn't America a corporation? Well, if all the billionaires and multi-millionaires gottogether and set up a corporate entity that they own major stock in, and offer it to us, then to hell with theAmerican banks! Set up your own National Black Bank, and we put our money in our own bank and startbuilding!

You have to start with land The Honorable Elijah Muhammad said we need 100 million acres of land as astart! The government owes it to us, but maybe they're not going to give it. So we have to have another plan,because you're not militarily strong enough to take anything.

So come on billionaires, come on millionaires: Set up the corporate entity, and let's start buying land! See,it's all for sale!

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Study the Book of Genesis of your Bible: God is telling us how to go about this thing! In the Genesis youhave Adam, and he has two children, Cain and Abel. The Bible teaches that there was no man to till theground, so God made Adam and Eve produce a son, Cain, who was a tiller of the ground , and Abel who wasengaged in animal husbandry with sheep. Now look at these Two Industries coming off the land. Brotherand Sister: You have to understand what we have to do! It's our Genesis, now, and it's going to startwith land and farming . Land and Farming!

You are hungry in Philadelphia But after the people bring non-perishable goods into the FirstCongressional District to give out, then what? Look how many vacant lots are in that district, where nothingis going on. Suppose we asked the mayor and the city council: Let us have the land. We know how to setup hoop houses, and grow food on the land that is better than what you're getting in the supermarket!

Freedom means you have to go to work! Sitting around begging somebody else is not the answer.


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STEP 3: Check Your UnderstandingThe following questions are for discussion at the conclusion of the study session. The remainingquestions can be completed at your own pace as you continue your study at home. You can use your book if you need help answering the questions. Write your answers on a sheet of paper.

Questions For Discussion:

1. What were the three words that were the basis of the Million Man March?

2. What was The Minister's question and advice to President Obama?

3. What is the program and position of The Honorable Elijah Muhammad? Why

MUST we unite behind his program?

4. What was the quote of The Honorable Elijah Muhammad and what does it mean

in this current time?

5. What was the common theme of all the marches called by Black leadership?

6. What is The Minister's comments on the tea party and their political position of

"take back the country ?"

7. How has integration been used by the enemy as a trick?

8. Does Allah (God) advocate integration or separation? Explain and giveexamples.

9. How does integration produce separation? Explain and give an example.

10. What is necessary for our genesis ?

11. What advice did the Honorable Minister Louis Farrakhan give to the

millionaires and the entertainers of our community? Why is this important?

12. Why is farming and land owning crucial for freedom?

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