If the Civilized Man Fail to Perform His Duty What Must Be Done?

Send us Fan Mail The 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