Muhammad Ali's Existence of God
A young boy smartly asked Muhammad Ali this question "Muhammad, I'd like to know what are you going to do when you retire from boxing." The boxing legend answered the question this way:
When I retire from boxing, I really don't know. I wanna say something right here this might make you all think. Life is real short. So you add up all your traveling, all your sleeping, your school, your entertainment, you probably been half your life doing nothing. So now I'm 35 years old, 30 more years I will be 65. We don't have no more influence, we can't have nothing much at 65, your wife will tell you that. So what I'm saying, when you're 65 ain't too much more to do so did you know I'll be 65 in 30 years, in those 30 years I have to sleep 9 years I don't have 30 years of daylight. I have to travel back to America takes 6/7 hours, all my traveling probably 4 years of traveling in the next 30 years, about 9 years of sleeping, television, movies, entertainment about 3 years of entertainment. Out of 30 years I might have about 16 years to be productive.
So this is how we can all break our individual lives down. What am I going to do in the next 16 years, what is the best thing I can do?
Get ready to meet GOD. Going into real estate, going into business, teaching boxers that won't get me to heaven. How many believ there is a supreme being, believe there's a God. How many believe there's some power that made the sun, the moon, the stars, how many believe that this stuff didn't just come out here, somebody wiser than us made it. How many believe there's a GOD? How many believe there is not a GOD? Alright... If I told you you who don't believe in GOD, if I told you that this glass (a glass of water) sprung into existence, this glass made itself, no man made this glass would you believe it? Would you believe if I just told you thing thing made itself? (No)
When I tell you, you wouldn't believe, right? (No, somebody is doubting) she wouldn't believe it. If I told her this television station popped into existence, no man made it, you'll say Muhammad Ali's crazy. Alright, well if this glass can't make it self. If I told you the clothes you have on wove themselves, no body created them. Those clothes made themselves. You wouldn't believe it. But if your clothes didn't make itself, if that glass couldn't make itself, if this building didn't make itself, then how did the moon get out there? How did the stars, and Jupiter, Neptune and Mars, and the sun, how did nature? How did all this come here if didn't no wise something planner make it?
So what I'm saying is I believe we're going to be judged. Should a man like Hitler kill all the Jews and get away with it? Somebody should punish him. Maybe he don't get it now he get it when he die. In hell for eternity. So what I'm gonna do when I get out of boxing? Is to get myself ready to meet GOD because my plane might blow up. Don't planes blow up in this country sometimes and crash? Don't people die everyday? Ok... It's a scary thing to think that I'm going to hell to burn eternally FOREVER. So what am I gonna do? Reason that I'm taking such a, I'm explaining what you asked in the question. You asked me a question I can't just answer like that when I get out of boxing or when I'm through. I'm gonna do all I can to help people. That's why I'm here with Johny Walker. Here's a poor man came all the way to America. There's a bunch of boys need some money and
somebody is calling me to help them. GOD is watching me. God don't praise me because I beat Joe Frazier, GOD don't give nothing about Joe Frazier. God don't care nothing about England
or America as far as we aware of. It's all His. He wants to know how we treat each other, how do we help each other. So I'm going to dedicate my life to using my name and popularity to
helping charities, helping people, uniting people, people bombing each other because of religious belief. We need somebody in the world to help us all make peace. So when I die I if there's
a heaven, I want to see it. We live how long? 80 years? The odds are everybody in this room, some of you gonna be dead 20 years from now, some of you gonna be dead 50 years from now.
Some of you gonna be dead 30 years, some of you be 60, 70 years from now. We all gonna die soon. And if you live to be say 125 years old which we do right? Let's say we live to be 250 and you can have sex for
145 of those years. You gonna come to an end after that, so we don't have but about 80 years on earth. This is a test to see where will we spend our life, heaven or hell. This is not the life now, your real self is inside you.
Your body gets old. Some of you go to look at the mirror, you don't have no teeth, your hair is leaving you, your bodies get tired but your soul and spirit never die. That' gonna live forever so your body is just housing your soul and spirit. So GOD is testing us on how we treat each other, how we live to see where our real home be, in heaven so this physical stuff don't last for so long. So my car, this building is gonna be here when the man who built it is dead. There have been many kings and queens of England, they're al dead. After this one is gone another one come.
So we don't stay here, we're just trustees, we don't own nothing, even your children are not your if you think I'm lying your wife is not yours. You don't own your children, yo don't own your family, so
so what am I saying? The most important thing is what's gonna happen when you die, are you going to go heaven or hell, and that's eternity. How long is eternity? Let's imagine, take the Sahara desert there's a lot of sand on the Sahara desert right? Then imagine that one grain of sand represents 1000 years and when you in hell burning, when you die and go to hell you gonna burn for ever and ever and ever, NO END. How long is that? Give you an idea how long eternity is. Take the Sahara desert and I told you to wait a 1000 years and every 1000 years and every 1000 years I want you to pick up a grain
of sand until the desert is empty, ok wait 1000 years pick up a grain, wait another 1000 years before you get the next grain, keep that up until there's no more sand in the desert. You know how long just... I mean America is not but 200 years old, we got 800 more years before 1000 so just scares me to think that I'm gonna die one day and go tto hell. I'm on airplane that might blow up. I'm always traveling and too go to hel and GOD is going to judge my soul. The police, I might kill people, I might rob people, the authorities might not catch me. The FBI, Scotland yard might not catch me but when I die somebody's watching me and keeping count AND I CAN'T GET AWAY and I'm gonna burn for ever and ever I'll go to hell. So what am I gonna do when I'm through fighting, I only have 16 years to be productive, get myself ready to meet GOD and go to the best place. Does that make sense?