Aquire knowledge. It enables it’s possessor to distinguish right from wrong; it lights the way to heaven; it is our friend in the desert, our society in solitude, our companion when friendless; it guides us to happiness; it sustains us in misery; it is an ornament among our friends and an armor against enemies.
There are three signs of a hypocrite: when he speaks he speaks lies, when he makes a promise he breaks it, and when he is trusted he betrays his trust.
Love of self comes first. The one who loves everybody is the one who does not love anyone.
Accept your place in the sun as it was originally before the creation of this world. The black man is the first and last, maker and owner of the universe.
Knowledge of one’s identity, one’s self, community, nation, religion, and God, is the true meaning of resurrection, while ignorance of it signifies hell.
Whoever knows himself knows God.
Four things support the world: the learning of the wise, the justice of the great, the prayers of the good, and the valor of the brave.
One hour’s meditation on the work of the Creator is better than seventy years of prayer.
Accept your own and be yourself.
No man is a true believer unless he desireth for his brother that which he desireth for himself.
No Nation respects a beggar.
If anyone removes(one of the) anxieties of this world from a believer, God will remove(one of the) anxieties from him on the day of resurrection; if one smoothes the way for one who is destitute, God will smooth the way for him in this world and the next; and if anyone conceals the faults of a Muslim, God will conceal his faults in this world and the next. God helps a man as long as he helps his brother. If anyone pursues a path in search of knowledge God will there by make easy for him a path to paradise.
The search of knowledge is an obligation laid on every Muslim.
Who are the learned? Those who practice what they know.
Whoever is humble to men for God’s sake, may God exalt his eminence.
Not one of us will have to raise a sword. Not one gun would we need to fire. The great canon that will be fired is our unity.
We cannot be equal with the master until we own what the master owns. We cannot be equal with the master until we have the education the master has. Then, we can say, Master recognize us as your equal.
First my people must be taught the knowledge of self. Then and only then will they be able to understand others and that which surrounds them.
Anyone who does not have a knowledge of self is considered a victim of either amnesia or unconsciousness and is not very competent. The lack of knowledge of self is a prevailing condition among my people here in America. Gaining the knowledge of self makes us unite into a great unity. Knowledge of self makes you take on the great virtue of learning.
The Negro wants to be everything but himself. He wants to integrate with the white man, but he cannot integrate with himself or his own kind. The Negro wants to lose his identity because he does not know his own identity.
Discard your former slave-master’s names and be willing and ready to accept one of Allah’s Pure and Righteous Names that He alone will give our people from His Own mouth! A good name is, indeed, better than gold.