QSI: The Atlanta Book Tour: Ta'leem at The Atlanta Masjid Sunday September 23rd

"We're not going to appreciate the great possibilities for ourselves without some understanding some teaching we have to be taught. Education, learning, teaching is a priority in our religion and it's a priority for any liberated people.

We cannot have all these fine institutions working on building a master race or working  building a master society and leaving the knowledge that Allah intended for all of us in the hands of academia or leaving the knowledge in the hands of a few intellectuals.

A secret society in our religion is not only forbidden it's criminal. Education is a must.  G'd created us with the nature, with the character, with the behavior he wants and that will remain good as long as the environment is good and suitable and conducive to that life and development. But it will require knowledge, revelation, education, if that environment becomes, itself, the factor oppressing the intellect of man. So, dear beloved believers, we have to appreciate knowledge, appreciate education and try our best to translate the complicated ideas and theories into the language of the common person so they can get the benefit."

Public Address Oakland, California, 1988