(The following Public Address was given by Imam W. Deen Mohammed on the First Sunday, March 5, 2006, at the Homewood Hotel, in Homewood, IL.) Part 2 Everything that exists has to be conditioned. If it is not conditioned, it will not last. And it takes effort to condition life for its success. I mentioned existence in itself being enough to move life forward. What is that existence? When you look at a rock and you dont see anything happening, it just seems to be permanently fixed where it is - it shows no life, no movement. You should feel blessed that you are not a stone. When you look at those living things that sometimes impart great knowledge to our minds - the lions, elephants and other beautiful and attractive creatures roaming the earth - when you think on the smallest and biggest and then think on yourself, you should feel blessed. You dont have to be deprived of freedom to enlarge upon your existence and to expand upon your existence and to project your existence into a bigger and better picture of life. Whereas, those things that are held in the mold of their behavior given to them by nature and freedom given to them by nature, they are held in that mold and you are not. You are able to rise up from that position on the totem pole of life and come into the freedom of your human form, come into the productivity of your human form, come into the vision of your human form and outstretch everything existing on the planet earth. This is a wonderful creation- the human creation. And that is what you need to turn life on for you. So no matter what you face or are confronted with from the natural world or mans world, it wont set you back. That is, not in your hopes, not in your dreams, not in your vision, not in your determination to achieve better. I am not giving you anything that wasnt already given, even before man was made. Life is hunger; hunger drives life. Feeding hungers makes life grow bigger. The bigger the life, the bigger the invitation to life. Life invites bigger appetites. Life grows and hunger grows. On the ground, life grows bigger and multiplies. Many varieties of life eventually are present to look at. The ground grows to be beautiful and rich. Life on the move is working like a time piece. To know if a time piece is working, look to see if the time piece is doing what it is known to do: The hands are going from the big to the little, from the little to the big. The time piece is working. To know if the human life is working, look to see if life is doing what life is known for doing over the long road of human history. The hands of life are going from big grown ups to little children, from those children growing up back to the old or the grown ups. The hands are reaching out from the present for the future. The time piece is working. The grown ups are stretching their hands out to the children. Their children, in return, stretch their hands out to the grown ups. Life is working
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