 My respected brothers and sisters, we wanted to talk a little bit today about the prophet Musa, alayhi salatu wa salam, because of all of the people, the prophet Musa, alayhi salatu wa salam, resembled the prophet Muhammad in messengership, the office of messengership, more than any other prophet. So we know that Isa alayhi salatu wa salam, he resembled the prophet Muhammad, alayhi salatu wa salam, Sala Allah alayhi wa salam, in character, more than any other prophet. There was no other prophet that was closer to Muhammad alayhi salatu wa salam, in character and behavior than Jesus Christ. And by the same token, there's no other prophet closer to the prophet in his office of messengership. How he led his people, the rules and the regulations of Judaism are the closest to the sharia of the prophet, alayhi salatu wa salam. You know, you're gonna see people, they're gonna be looking at the ingredients at the supermarket, they're either gonna be practicing Muslims or practicing Jews or vegetarians. Usually the vegetarians don't get caught up cause they just like, I'm just eating vegetables. The Muslims gonna be reading the bag. Sometimes I see a brother, I see him reading the bag or something, I'll be like, Salaam alaykum, my, Salaam alaykum. Because why are you reading the bag of them cheez-its? You Muslim, huh? And because of that, we can learn a lot of lessons from the life of the prophet Musa alayhi salatu wa salam. Because the prophet Musa alayhi salatu wa salam is mentioned in the Quran more than any other prophet or any other anybody other than Allah by name, the name Musa appears like 130 something times. The prophet Musa alayhi salatu wa salam, he lived amongst his people in Egypt before he became a messenger for like 40 years. And the prophet Muhammad alayhi salatu wa salam, he lived amongst the Quraysh for like 40 years. And the prophet Musa, he says, Allah in the Holy Quran it says, the prophet Musa alayhi salatu wa salam, he said, The prophet Musa, he said to his people, oh my people, why is it that you troubled me? When you already know that I'm a messenger of God, sent unto you, but when they swerved away from the truth, Allah calls their hearts to swerve. And Allah does not guide a rebellious people. And so as Muslims, we know that if we don't have reverence and love and respect for the messenger of Allah, then Allah will cause our hearts to swerve away from the truth. And the main affair of this religion is love for the messenger of Allah. This is what was the difference between the companions of Moses, alayhi salatu wa salam, and the companions of the prophet, alayhi salatu wa salam. The prophet's companions, they loved and revered the messenger of Allah. Where Moses' companions, they used to be troublesome to him, worrisome to him. They would slander him. They said he had leprosy. They said, man, you know why he covers up? You know, the messengers, they were all very shy. So sometimes you'll see somebody, you'll see them dressed in a certain way and you think he must be dressed like that because he or she, they don't wanna reveal, they must have something that they're hiding because they don't look right. So Moses' people said, oh, he got leprosy. That's why he got always covered like that. And one time he was bathing and Allah made his clothes get up and run. And he had to get out of the lake where he was bathing and chased his clothes down his throat. And then they was like, man, this dude ain't got leprosy. This dude is actually fit. He's like a fit shake. Now sometimes the shake come through and you'd be like, this shake is buff. The messenger of Allah, Moses and all of the messengers, they had a goodly appearance. They didn't look like, you know, like they had leprosy, something like that. That wasn't their state. And so to prove this Allah made a miracle. He made Moses' clothes walk on their own so that the people could see what we've been saying about Moses is obvious lies. And the one thing is American Muslims, we should identify with Moses because Egypt was the America of the day of Moses. What Egypt meant in the world is what America means in the world now. And this is why Allah talks about it so much so that we can know it doesn't matter what kind of government you live under, Allah is still God. And the Pharaoh, he knew a change was coming. He said, man, I gotta stop this change. I gotta kill all of these boy children. And the one that he was gonna bring that change about grew up in his own house. And if you look around the world, sometimes the United States, not all America, but sometimes they could destabilize a lot of our countries. But it ain't gonna be a country from another latitude, latitudinal or time zone that's gonna change America. America's gonna change from the people here. So either we're gonna change it for the better as Muslims or we're gonna let other people change it for the worse. So it's our job as Muslims to make sure we bring about a positive change, a Kulu Koli Hada, what's dark for a Lali, what lakum. Alhamdulillahir rabbil alamin, what salat, what salam, ala Ashraf al-anbiya'i wal-mursalim, nabin al-Muhammad wa-ala alihi wa-ashabihi ajma'im, yakulu lahu ta'alaf al-karan al-karim, in al-Laha wa-malaikatu yusaluna al-Nabi, yaya ayyuhal ad-dina amanu sallu alayhi wa-salimun teslimah, Allahumma salli ala al-Muhammad wa-ala al-Muhammad. So one of the reasons why I chose Moses, Musa alayhi salatu wa-salimun, to talk about in this brief goodbye, is because Musa is the African prophet and it's Black History Month. And so I said, well, what can we talk about? Everybody has to love Moses. We have to love Moses, and we know from the Messenger of Allah that Moses alayhi salatu wa-salim was a Black man. This is an authentic hadith that the Messenger of Allah said, Moses, Luqman, and Bilal were the chiefs. He says that they were from Sudan. And Sudan in the time of the Prophet Muhammad alayhi salatu wa-salim was what meant Africa. Whenever we see, whenever we see Souda, Aswad, in the descriptions, this is not a distinction of color. This is an ethnic distinction in the time of the Messenger of Allah. When they would describe somebody as Black, they would call them Adam, Shedid al-Udmah. That man of person's skin was Black. If they was from a certain part of the world, they were called Sudanee, and we see that even today. There's a country in East Africa, and it's known as Sudan. But before all of Africa was called Bilal to Sudan. And so it's important for us to remember that the reason why Islam is the truth is because Allah has a book that doesn't describe colors of people. Even though we know how important that is in a human being's life, his race, the fact that it's not in the Holy Quran is a proof that the Quran is from God. Because if it would have been from a human being, he would have had, I mean, we see this in other religions. They make all of the people look like them. You go to, you know, one part of the world. I mean, now everybody look white, but I'm saying at one point people would make, if they had a picture of Jesus, he would look like they uncle. And so the proof that Islam is the truth is because we don't have these pictures. We don't need these physical descriptions. It's more about who the person was and what the person stood for. That's what's important to us. But the only reason why I bring up Moses' color is because America has a problem with black folks. So it's important for us as Muslims to remember one of the mightiest message of Allah was no doubt a black man from Africa. Allahumma ihdina fee man hadid. Wa afina fee man afaid. Wa to walena fee men to alayt. Inna katakti walayyukta alayk. Allahumma inshallah al-Islami wa izzul musli meen. Wa sabbid aqdam al-mujahideen fi kula makan. Wa salat wa salam ala Sayyidun al-Mursaleen. Nabi'in al-Muhammad wa ala alayhi wa sallam.