December 18, 2024 • 43 mins
In this episode of The Family Ties, Frank Abdul Shaheed hosts solo and reflects on the importance of family as a foundation for societal trust and love. He discusses his co-host, Faridah Abdul-Tawwab Brown's journey in Africa with her family for Quranic studies, and highlights the crucial role of mothers as first teachers. Frank emphasizes the different but equal roles of men and women, the significance of truthful interactions, and building an 'ethical army' to address societal ills. He calls for introspection and ethical actions as we approach the new year, aiming for a more united and model community.
00:00 Welcome to The Family Ties
01:40 Seasonal Reflections and Gratitude
04:24 The Importance of Family Bonds
06:20 Roles and Responsibilities in Society
11:47 Cycles of Truth and Family
20:25 Building an Ethical Army
32:30 Concluding Thoughts and Gratitude
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Peace be upon the family, as wewelcome you to another
experience of The Family Ties, aprescription for society.
I am your co host, Frank AbdulShaheed.
Before we get started, don'tforget to subscribe so you can
stay up to date and get all ofthe latest episodes.
Well, today I am flying solotoday.
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My wonderful co host, FaridaAbdul Tawar Brown, is currently
traveling from the motherland ofAfrica to come on back home to
our fatherland of the UnitedStates of America, safely with
her and her family.
As you have known, In previousepisodes, she was there to
accompany her daughters and hernieces, along with her sister,
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because they were studying aQuranic recitation,
understanding how to read Arabicscript, specific for Quran and
understanding of the Quran.
So she spent a considerableamount of time there in Africa.
So she's currently travelingback and she just needs a little
time to make the adjustment tocome back to this.
Great country that we know asthe United States of America.
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So I want to thank her for herduties and her responsibilities
for wanting to be that integralpart of her daughter's lives and
her niece's lives and hersister's life to make sure that
we have a secure, strong futurefor all of us to come.
So as we are winding down thisyear of 2024 we are in the third
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week starting our third week ofDecember and you know, the
temperature is starting toreflect the seasons that we're
in and Saturday, the 21st willbe the first day of winter.
Officially the days are gettingshorter as far as sunlight is
concerned.
The darkness is become moreenveloping our.
Our being you know, it's gettingdarker a lot quicker and, you
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know, so the mood kind ofchanges a little bit when we
don't have the warmth and thesunlight and, and that type of
weather specifically here in themid Atlantic technically.
We are supposed to have fourseasons and we're supposed to
run those seasons relativelythree months each so that way we
can get a variety of seasons andit gradually goes from one stage
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to another.
So, but it's, it's been, youknow, quite.
No, similar here than it's beenthe last few years.
It's kind of jumps back andforth.
So, but anyway, we're thankful.
We're thankful.
We had a wonderful year.
Any missteps that we had duringthe course of the year, we're
thankful that we're here torecall them and be able to
adjust to them and, and be ableto You know, take note and take
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inventory on, on what ourprojection for the year has
been.
And we know we're moving intothe holiday season for those who
are Christian, those who areJew, Jewish of the Jewish faith.
You know, we're moving into the,the year that they have their
high Holy days and, you know,and, and it, and it really
reflects back on, you know,what's important in our life as
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people.
Oftentimes this particular yearoften brings out better
Attitudes towards each other,more friendlier attitudes you
know, more family orientedattitudes that often miss us in
the heat of the summer and inthe passions of our interest
that we just tends to be in thisrace of wanting to acquire
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material goods and establishourselves as people usually
around this time of year, wekind of, you know, we're winding
down and we're kind of, youknow, once again, taking
inventory.
So, you know, I look forward tothis time of year because I can
get.
This type of response frompeople, I can get these
attitudes.
People are more friendly orpeople are more considerate.
You know, I was just recentlytraveling myself in, in the
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airport.
I can see the difference of howpeople are responding to each
other.
Yeah.
Everybody's clamoring to try toget those front row seats that
you have open seating onflights.
But more.
But, but more importantly,people are more willing to help
each other and acquiesce certainthings to other people just to
make sure that everybody iscomfortable.
So so yes, I think this is, asthe old saying go, the most
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wonderful time of the year.
If we could have this attitudeall year long then we know we've
definitely made progress andthat's what we're working for.
So in this particular podcastthe family ties, this
prescription for society is howour families are constructed
upon love.
And how we develop these bondsof trust and relationships and
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ultimately my family with yourfamily.
With other families are allcoming together under that same
guys under the same pretensethat we're coming together and
these relationships are builtoff of love and with love, we
ultimately can trust one anotherin these interactions.
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So so, yes, so today I will domy best to try to fly this plane
by myself.
She's with me.
Just not on the mic.
So I think this should be aninteresting podcast episode.
So today, what I would like totalk about is our determination
for our establishment, what isour determination for our
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establishment?
You know, we'd like to paint apicture here of things that have
happened in the past to kind ofgive us an idea of what man's
successes and what man'sfailures have been in order to
help us in the media steps thatwe have currently in order for
us to project what we should belooking for in the future.
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And if there is an opportunityfor us to make the adjustment,
then we should be able to makethat adjustment.
As we're planning to go into thefuture now, we know, you know,
you can't, you dot all your I'sand cross all your T's as much
as you possibly can, but there'salways that unknown factor that
comes in and that's fine.
It's designed to build us up tobe able to make adjustments,
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build us up to be able to makeaccommodations and also to, to
develop a greater strength and agreater determination for what
it is that we really want forour life, what will be our
determination for our bestestablishment.
I referenced my cohost Faridaand what I wanted to say about
her specifically and the rolethat she has played
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specifically.
This is the role that's notunique.
This is a pre prescribed rolefor for women prescribed role
for mothers a prescribed rolerole for wives and a prescribed
Role for teachers.
We're taught that mothers arethe first teachers of society.
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They're the ones who teach thechildren first.
The child naturally has aninclination for mother and it is
from their mother teaches themlove.
They teach them forgiveness.
They teach them mercy and inthese Settings the academic part
of man develops, the thinkingpart of man develops, the
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analytical part of man develops.
And when I say man, I mean,mankind, not just men, but
mankind in general, but all ofthat comes from the seat of
love.
Mercy.
So mentioning Farida, I wantedto say that her role in her
children's development, and as Imentioned her in Africa and why
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they went to Africa and whatthat meant for us as a community
that.
Effort that sensitivity that shehas that she's trying to develop
in her own Children to have thatsame level of sensitivity all
comes from that same love andmercy appreciation.
So we're taught in the Quranthat knowledge is comes from God
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himself, but it comes in mercy.
We're also taught that God'sexecution of his determination
for man is also in mercy aswell.
So mercy is the seat of what?
We are built as a people, so Iwanted to say specifically about
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her is that when we look atmales and females and their
roles in society, we both havean equal responsibility for
building society, but I want tobe clear that equal does not
mean identical equal does notmean Mean identical.
So in 2024, as we're trying toestablish ourselves as, as
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individuals in the world and,and the fight for equal rights,
the fight for access, the fightfor, you know, wanting to
explore freedoms contrary to anyrepercussions, any type of
accountability or any reason whypeople want to have expression
of freedoms, it has to be madeclear that equal does not mean
identical.
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So there are certain conditionsthat.
We were created upon that givesmen a certain advantage and what
he does, but that's hisresponsibility.
There are certain advantages inwomen that they have that men
don't have, but that's equal intheir responsibility as well.
You know, I think of mygrandmother and going to see
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grandma and I can remembersitting on grandma's lap or
sitting between grandma's legsand realizing how soft grandma
was.
Like that's love that I feltsafe.
I felt loved I felt you know, II could get A good assurance of
who I was as a person because ofgrandma's love for me.
When I see granddad, you know,granddad was strong.
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He had these strong hands, bighands.
They were hard hands.
I felt protection.
I felt that granddad, when heput his hand on my shoulder, I
felt the sense of, of where Iwas supposed to stand.
I felt a sense of direction.
I felt the sense ofunderstanding that at some point
in my life that I would have tohave the same constitution in
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myself.
So it gave me direction as well,but both of these individuals
gave me an equal portion of myidentity, an equal portion of my
identity.
Grandma didn't give me more andgranddad didn't give me less or
granddaddy gave me more andgrandma gave me less.
No.
So equal does not meanidentical.
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So as we are starting ourfamilies and having our families
Engage this world is materialworld.
Specifically.
We have to be really clear onhow we set our future up to
understand that I don't need mydaughters to be men and I don't
need my men, my sons to bewomen.
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I need my, my sons to be men.
Holy.
And I need my daughters to bewomen.
Holy.
And when those two cometogether, as they are naturally
designed to come together, theycreate.
The new creation, which is thenext creation.
We're constantly over and over,like in a cycle.
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So the universality of, ofmankind universality, which
means that it's identical, nomatter where you see it, you can
be here, you can be in Russia.
You can be in the North pole.
You can be in South America.
It doesn't matter.
The universality of mankind issomething that you can see that
it's a trait that is unique toeveryone.
It's the same to everyone.
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So when we look at truth,specifically truth itself can
stand anywhere if it's true,doesn't matter where it can be
applied to anything that w thatis what makes it true.
So when we look at a circle.
A circle is complete, a circlestarts somewhere and it returns
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back to its origin and returningback to his origin.
It completes a particular cycle.
It doesn't go out to disproveitself.
It goes out to prove itself.
And when it comes back with whatit has brought back, it
reintroduces it to his originagain.
And then the origin now canproduce that same likeness.
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To go out again the next day.
So we see the pattern of themoon and the sun and the cycles
of the days, the cycles of themonth, we see the cycle of a
woman's menstruation cycle, sameprocess.
We see the cycle of a babybecoming an adult and becoming
an old person and going back tothe earth.
We constantly see these cyclesthat that is what truth is.
So when we are working fortruth, we have to follow that
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same logic.
So we're looking at families.
So let's just look at families.
We're looking at families in theneighborhood.
We're looking at families in thecommunity together working for
something.
We're working for something thatsomething should be truthful.
It should be something that myhousehold can live by and my
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next door neighbor's house canlive by.
That's truth.
If there is a, if there is aworking of something that is not
designed to be truthful, thenthat will undermine the whole
establishment in, in anyindustry where there are teams.
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The basis or foundation of ateam being successful is truth.
If there isn't truth in thebasis or the foundation of it,
then there's going to be a falsesense of building and it will
crumble eventually.
So truth just means honestyhonesty and candor, honesty and
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interaction, you know, truthfulinteractions, something that we
just naturally have that isnatural to us.
Truthful interactions.
It's based upon truth.
So families being theprescription for society, being
the place where there is no morein depth development of a group
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of people than there is in afamily.
When we look into the industryand look in corporate corporate
America throughout the world andthe society of man's building
and man establish himself as apeople, as a community, as a
society, we're just recreatingwhat we learned in the home.
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Because the home is where we'reworking for truth.
We're working for understandingtheir levels to our development
as a family that get us to apoint where we can be
established in the world.
And, and as I said, we're, we'recoming close to the end of 2024
here in America, and we knowwhat the beginning of 2025 looks
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like for us as Americans.
We just gone through a veryinteresting, I would use that
term and I'm using it verylightly, but I'm using it very,
with very swiftly and with verysharp edges.
We've come to a very interestingelection cycle here in America.
If you can look and take ahonest, Look at America over the
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last 30, maybe 40 years we'veseen a down tick of quality, a
down tick of wholesomeness, adown tick of interactions
between people that are honestfor the better development of
our society, for anunderstanding of what the future
looks like.
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We had we had In America'spromise, the more perfect union
in America's promise, it was forall of us to be able to see a
future for us, that we're allare together and in our best
picture, but that's, that'sman's determination.
That's before we becameAmericans before any of those
things that's already built uponthe nature of man.
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To have his best life in thismost completed stage in a future
time for himself and ultimatelyhaving the resources to reach
that picture.
So in America, that's what thepromise of America has always
been.
Contrary to a lot of thebehaviors and a lot of the
executions and decisions thathave been made in America to
negate that best picture ofourselves.
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In the own, in thedocumentation.
Of the of America promise andits foundation that is there,
but within the last 40 years,we've seen a shift where it has
become very increasinglydecisive and divisive.
I should use that term toseparate individuals for them to
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only have their best picture.
The future at the expense ofeveryone else.
And, and we're seeing that it,it's, it's been a great uptick
of that.
It's been, it's, it's, it'scoming, it's, it's, it's moving
very rapidly.
As fast as technology is coming,that type of sentiment is, is
right along with that level oftechnology.
And we see that every day.
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So we're looking.
What's next for us in this newcalendar year.
So when families are together,you know, the truthfulness have
to come out in, in theexpression of family life.
And ultimately what we're seeingis that we, that we see levels
of untruthfulness, we see levelsof a unsurety of, What
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uncertainty of what my lifelooks like next to this
particular individual and willthis individual now take
something away from me?
So that is a good indicator ofwhat the family looks like at
home, what we see in the public.
So we have to get back to thisfamily, these ties in these
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family, these truthful ties, theprescription.
This is the prescription forsociety, this family life, this
family ties.
So as we are working to.
Want to reevaluate and we're inthe season, as I said earlier,
we're in that season where we doa lot of inventory on what the
year looked like for us as we'restarting this new year, what is
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it that I should have mysensitivities open to what am I
not looking at?
What did I miss?
What could I have possibly beena little bit more sensitive to
in the landscape of what I'mseeing in society and the media
and the news and all thesethings, my even my own
interactions with my neighbors?
You know, once again, I'm, I am,I am Muslim.
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So I don't, I don't celebratethe Christmas holiday.
So there is no decorating on myhouse with lights.
You don't see that in my house,but being the neighbor that I am
striving to be as in mycommunity to be a person that
they can trust, it wouldn't beagainst my good intelligence for
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me to possibly just even hang asmall light.
On my mailbox and that lets theother people in my neighborhood
know, Hey, we understand thathe's not Muslim.
He's Muslim.
He's not Christian.
He doesn't celebrate Christmas,but he acknowledged something
about us so much so that he'swilling to even just maybe just
put one or two lights on his, onhis glove box, just to say, I
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see, and I recognize what you dojust so that I don't feel like
he's an outsider to our goodinterest.
I'm my intelligence doesn't,doesn't, doesn't conflict with
that at all.
So having, having said that ourinterest is not something that
should be just wholly ourinterest.
It should be the interest ofeverybody.
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It should be a universality ofinterest.
So if I'm going to project myfaith, then my faith has to call
to the people something thatthey can identify with.
That's acceptable to them aswell.
And that's what I've beenmeaning to say about the
Christmas lights.
It should be something thatshould be a mutual interaction
between the two.
So in this time of year ofreflection and reflecting back
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on a year we have to look backat our structure as a family.
And see what that see what thatlooks like.
See what this building blockslook like.
You know, we mentioned this,this ethical army.
We've used that language ethicalarmy, which means that there's a
consciousness amongst peoplethat want to be able to stand
and able to address and toultimately able to turn the
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interest, turn the resources andturn the energy towards that,
which is best for all.
That's what the ethical army is.
It's nothing that you run from.
It's nothing that you try tohide in the, in the bunkers, or
you try to hide in these, theseapocalyptic getaway hideout
spots, because you don't want tobe part of the zombie
apocalypse.
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It's not that it's being able toactively engage what is
incorrect in the society and beable to have such an influence
that you will now turn the tide.
That's what we are mentioningabout this ethical army.
And that's what we encourageeveryone who are listeners to
this, this podcast, we'reencouraging you to look
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inwardly, look into this, thebuilding blocks of your
relationships, the buildingblocks of, of, of your community
and try to determine what is itthat you can influence to be
able to turn this.
These, these, these situationsthat we're walking into, that we
find ourselves into in a timethat we never seen in America
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very tumultuous times that canbe remedied because, you know
physics tells us that no twothings can occupy the same space
at the same time.
Now, interestingly enough, thatis the.
The cliff note version of it,but the actual language is no
two identical things can occupythe same place at the same time.
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So good and bad are notidentical, but they cannot
occupy the same place at thesame time.
So just like there is a poisonin the society, there's also a
remedy at the same time in thatsociety.
At the same time, so this iswhere the ethical army comes in
to try to be a voice for theremedy for a lot of the poison
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that exists in our society.
Some of the stuff we don't knowwhere it's coming from and other
places we know exactly whereit's coming from, but this is
what we're trying to build thisethical army.
So in our homes and our familyand building these family trust
and building theserelationships, these bonds of
love and these bonds of mercyand these bonds of knowledge and
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trust, this is, this is theinterest that we should have to
build the ethical army.
You know, these are levels youknow, we have our own mortal.
Level just us being in the sameplace at the same time, I'm a,
I'm a human being, just like theperson who lives in the room
next to me, just like the personwho eats dinner with me at the
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dinner table.
We're all mortal.
So we know what sensitivitiesthat we have, things that hurt
me.
I know hurt you.
I have to understand that evenon that particular level, I have
to be very self aware of thethings that interfere with that
atmosphere and that community.
That I know can create problemsfor you.
There's a level ofaccountability, sensitivity,
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sensibility.
And awareness.
So when we're at family time,this is, these are the things
that we're looking towards.
And, you know, often when youthink about it, we don't really
give much attention to this.
It's almost a natural thingbecause love itself encompasses
the mortal sensitivities.
Just love itself.
Just me loving my wife or lovingmy children.
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They embrace the show of loveautomatically recognizes the
mortal.
Interactions that we have withbetween each other, the
sensitivities that we havebetween each other now from that
love, we build up a spiritualdevelopment, a spiritual
interaction with one another,something that no, we know that
is connecting on another level,not just the level of me just
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being aware that a smile towardsyou makes your day is more than
just that is me.
Understanding that there's adirection that our, our life is
going towards.
And that life is being guided bysomething.
I may not have been able tofigure it out at this point in
my development, but I understandthat my life isn't my own, that
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I didn't create this life.
This life came into being, I'vecome into awareness of this
life, but the life was herebefore I even came into
awareness of it.
So there's an accountabilitythat I must have in this level
of spirituality between familymembers and, and any of these,
And in these developments, thesedevelopments don't allow us to
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hide from engagement.
These levels of development arestrengthening us to be able to
engage.
So our sensitivity is mortals,the spirituality between us to
know that we have accountabilitytowards something.
In this level of love moves usinto further acts of
development.
So as I'm understanding that mylife was something before I even
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knew what it was, I have to nowsay, okay, so where is it going?
Where's my life going?
I don't know where I don't knowwhere it's going, but I know
it's going in a direction so Ifi'm following the logic of my
direction, then I have to thinkahead and say These bonds of
trust and these bonds of lovefor my own family You And these
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levels of accountability that Ihave for my family has to extend
outside of my own family.
It's the same because I see thatsame level of relationship with
the people next door to me ordown the street from me, or even
my cousins that live across townand their neighbors.
So I have to see that.
So now it opens up levels ofsensitivities in me that go
beyond what's in my naturalhouse.
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So now I become more intuitiveto what I need for my life.
I become more intuitive.
Now I'm starting to think I'mstarting to engage more.
I'm starting to look.
And things differently not yetto the point where I can
actually put one and onetogether to make two, but I'm
moving in that level ofdirection to say, okay, how do I
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need to be able to harness thesemovements that's in me that
that's tightly woven between myfamily?
What do I have to do in thisintuitiveness that comes into
us?
Logic begins to develop intoourselves.
Logic.
So now I can get to the one andone equals two, because I know
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that if I go out, if I work andI bring back these resources to
home, and then the home now canhave a strong sense of
possibilities and establishmentnow this makes sense now.
So now I know how to now protectthese sensitivities that I have
the moral sensitivities, thespiritual sensitivities, the end
to win, enter with two intuitivesensitivities.
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I'm sorry.
Okay.
Intuitive sensitivities that youcan't naturally touch.
It's just a presence that'shere.
So now I need to now cementthese things and bring them into
something that's very concrete.
So now the logic now comes in onhow to protect and now to
advance these things.
So now I become more academic inmy thoughts.
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Hmm.
I live at 123 main street.
What's my influence at 125 MainStreet, 124 Main Street, 124 2nd
Street, which is a street overfor me, what do I need to do?
What do I need to do?
Once again, I'm looking for theoutside life, but I'm, but I'm
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strongly developing the insidelife at the same time.
This is going on at the sametime, but I'm looking outwardly
to try to determine what's thebenefit for me inwardly.
So that way I can use what Idevelop inwardly to help
outwardly.
So it's a reciprocal type ofinteraction.
So now I become academic in myapproach.
So now I know how to planthings.
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I know how to, how to, how tofocus energies.
I know how to pull resources towhat I need to do to be able to
establish the life in home aswell as outside in my
neighborhood.
And then sometimes this comesinto You know, neighborhood
associations, sometimes it cancome into developing better
relationships with entitiesoutside of your own home
businesses.
In that sense these type ofacademic pursuits for being able
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to identify what's good for itand also to be able to
articulate it, preserve it, andmake sure it stays as a common
practice amongst the people.
And then once that.
Develops itself.
Then we go into a culturalsense.
Cultural sense.
These are all of the otherprevious steps together.
Now we're trying to footprintwhat we're trying to do and make
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this something that's ultimatelysatisfies every sense that we've
developed.
You know, business doesn'talways satisfy every sense.
It doesn't always satisfy everysense.
Education doesn't always satisfyevery sense, but in our cultural
expression that identifies whowe are as a people, it could be
us as a people from a particularrace, it could be us as a people
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from a typical and differenttype of neighborhood, it could
be us as a people who have acertain interest.
Like this ethical army.
If we culturally areestablishing ourselves to have
interactions with the lifethat's amongst us, then we will
have more of a footprint and wecan preserve this level of
footprint, but we can givesomething unique to it because
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these sensitivities havedeveloped in us.
They have matured in us and havegiven us something that's unique
to us.
You know, we talk about AfricanAmericans.
And how we are the descendantsof slaves from the peculiar
institutes of chattel slavery,how we've been put in a
crucible, how we've been put inoppression and darkness and
almost having a whole humanitycompletely wiped away from us
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and how that prepared us.
In today's time to be able tospeak to certain things that
other people can't speak to thatis our cultural, our cultural
expression.
Now, when we go forward toelevate our own cultural
expression through that level ofexperience, Now we have
something unique that can bebeneficial to all of society.
And these are the steps we're inthat cultural step.
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So once we get into thatcultural step and see what we
uniquely can add to the greatergood of mankind Now we now need
to to solidify that in forms ofgovernment You And what a
government, government is justpathways of getting from one
place to another that isprotected.
We call them laws, but it's aprotection.
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It gives you the freedom ofexpression.
It gives you the freedom to beable to go out and have the best
expression using all of theprevious sensitivities before we
got to the governmental level offreedom, a sensitivity and our
development to be able to hitand become that more perfect
union that we talked about.
Here in America, the promise ofthis country and what it is
designed for us to have our lifein the future.
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This is what it, this is, theseare the levels and pathways that
we have to create in order toget to these steps.
And this is all done in thehome.
Our interactions in the homegovern us and govern our
behavior and, and have us moveinto these directions.
And then ultimately, after we'redone with the governmental side
of being able to protect thesepathways, now we become the
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ethical.
We're on the ethical level now,not only are they laws that we
have now, we're using theseprotections to now advance the
life of society.
This is how you invite thepeople.
This is the invitation to invitethe people to the best life on
the ethical level, because theintelligence would say that as
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I'm looking at these peoplehaving their best life and
promoting this best life andwanted to engage the society
with this best intentions andinterest at heart, it shows me a
universality.
That's the universal applicationright there.
Now I'm living at one 25 mainstreet and I see this.
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I've now have the best neighbornext to me because what they're
promoting is my best life, butit took them to promote that in
this particular way for me tosee it and to be able to come to
that best life.
And that's the call.
That is the call to come to thebest picture and the best life.
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So as we're concluding 2024, weshould be looking for that call.
What does that call look like?
What does it sound like?
How do I even know it?
If I see it or hear it, what aremy levels of sensitivity?
How do I come to that?
It's the home.
It's the life of the home.
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It's our relationships in thehome.
It's our relationships and thebonds of trust that we have with
one another.
It's the level of love and trustthat we have between one
another.
That's the prescription.
The family ties.
That is our prescription.
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Oh, as scripture has said, therewill come a dreadful and
grateful day.
I'm paraphrasing it.
There will be a dreadful andgrateful day.
And that's all in the same day.
He said, hi, it's going to bedreadful and great at the same
time.
It's dreadful for those who havemisused their position, misused
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their authority, misused thecreated order of what they were
created in for their ownpersonal gains and did not give
it the right.
To those who needed it asked forit or required it, but the
grateful day will be for thosepeople who stayed true and
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stayed firm to their createdorder, who stayed true to the
level of accountability tothose, their creator, and will
be blessed in that time, thegrateful day.
The dreadful and great day we'rein that, and as I said, no two
things that are identical canshare the same space, but those
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who are opposites are alwaysnext to each other.
They're there.
So the hope is that buildingthis ethical army and letting
our listeners understand andknow that there is an answer,
there is a solution.
That we're not in a dreadfultime is dreadful for those who
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have done wrong, but it's greatfor those who are strong in
sensitivities, strong inspirituality, strong in their
love and brother brotherlinessand sisterliness wanting for
their brothers, what they wantfor themselves, wanting for
their sisters, what they wantfor themselves, want to see
their life in this mostcompleted and best picture.
It's a grateful day and buildingthis ethical army is the remedy
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for a lot of illnesses that wehave in society.
So, yes, we should take, takefull account of our experiences,
take full account of ourinteractions, and none of this
stuff is by mistake.
And interestingly enough, Iremember one of my former
teachers.
When I was in college, you usedto always tell me it was, it was
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in a psychology class.
You used to always tell me thatnothing happens by mistake.
So this young student, you know,away from home thinking that
he's a man.
The first thing I should tell myinstructor was, well, who said
it was a mistake?
Like, why are you even usingthat language?
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Nothing is by mistake.
Well, who said it was a mistake?
And then she would just kind oflook at me and she said, well,
someday you'll learn.
I think I have.
I think I learned it immediatelyafter she said what she said,
but the point is that, you know,everything happens in the plan
in which it was designed tohappen that we don't always get
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to the goal together, butsomehow part of us reaches the
goal.
There's a sense of us that cansee the goal, although we're,
we're generations away from it.
There are signs that point usand let us know and remind us
that we are on the pathway andthat is the, that is the hope
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and that is the, the comfortthat we get in times that seem
to be very tumultuous that we'recurrently in.
But even as I said, even in atumultuous time, there's still
great opportunity.
There's still great voices.
That we can hear, there arestill great individuals that we
can see.
There's still great areas thatwe can congregate and have safe
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spaces and have conversationsthat are helping us develop.
And as I said, my wonderful cohosts, Farida, her and her
sister and their children goingto Africa to study.
That's a great opportunity forour better future.
In the midst of what it seems tobe very deplorable for our
future, you know, we don't haveany good reports on our Children
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as a whole seem, everythingseems to be like it's falling
down, but as we have addressedmany times before, and this is a
great Avenue for us, this, thiswonderful podcast, the family
ties and I want to thank thoseindividuals who Created this
platform for us for Fardy and Ito be able to even communicate
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with, with you want to thankthose brothers and those sisters
who put up their time andresources to make sure we had
this opportunity.
And we want to thank them as meas the co host and my other co
host to tell them we trulyappreciate.
What you have done.
It gave us an opportunity to seesome things about ourselves,
that we can kind of stretch andlearn things about us and even
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inspire ourselves.
Self inspiration is somethingthat happens all the time.
We, we, we, we go out in theworld.
We want to inspire the world.
I want to go out and change theworld, but you know, you got to
change yourself first.
You know, we want to go out andmake this world something
special and have great families.
Well, you have to start withyours That's where it begins.
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So I just want to thank thosebrothers and a special shout
out.
I want to give out to mr Darylanderson who is a part of the
amg the ambassador media groupwho does all of the wonderful
technological things for thispodcast, you know, he, he
engineers it all as the musicand do, you know, in, in some of
the stuttering that we do, hecleans that stuff up pretty
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well.
So just want to give a shout outto Daryl and thank him as well.
So once again, all of us workingfor this, all of the subscribers
to the podcast, all of those whoare having interest, we are all
part of that ethical army.
And we all are doing our part.
We are all doing our part.
None of us are standing still.
None of us have run into the, asI said, the bunkers to hide from
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the apocalypse.
No, we're standing firm andwe're making our mark in the
world to all of the greatlisteners, all of those who have
subscribed to the podcast, allof those who in the
developmental part of thepodcast the great cohost that I
have just want to thank you allfor such a wonderful opportunity
and don't, and I don't want thisto be, to be missed.
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In all of the things that arehappening on the planet today,
these small little incrementalthings would build society,
which builds society.
One of the great thinkers in mylifetime, one of the great
orators in my lifetime one ofthe great leaders in my
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lifetime, my father.
Yes.
Right.
My father, he said that.
The goal is where you want to goand where you want to be.
But he also said that every steptakes you there.
So every step is just asimportant as the final goal
itself.
So don't sleep on the steps thatyou're taking.
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You're moving one step closer.
As we say to destinationexcellence, do not sleep on the
steps that you're taking.
And although it seems likeyou're miles away from your
destination, You're on thepathway to the destination.
You're there, you're close.
And as long as you move into thedirection, ultimately, when we
get there collectively, And thegoal, you will be there
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standing, championing, and beproud upon everything that you
fought for, you worked for, andyou sacrificed for.
So, thank you, dad.
Wonderful, wonderful knowledgethat he passed on.
And I want to make sure that I'mable to pass on that.
As well in these podcastepisodes and not interactions.
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Once again, truthful, truthfulinteractions with one another,
that universality, which istruth, truthful interactions.
So once again, what is ourdetermination for our
establishment?
What is our determination forour establishment?
Why do we want to establishourselves as a people?
What is the determination?
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Ultimately, the determination isto be a model for the world.
Community, a model people, amodel society, because good
lives forever.
Bad doesn't live forever.
Only the good lives forever.
And God created the good, as hesaid, and he only accepts the
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good.
Our best life comes from ourgoodness.
Our purity comes from ourgoodness and love itself comes
from our goodness, our goodness.
So the praise is for God alwayswe have moved one step closer to
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destination excellence.
So until next time, let usremain constant and conscious Of
our creator of the sacredrelationship of parent and child
and the family ties that bind usthe love and trust between one
another.
So subscribe to the podcast andcome back next time for a new
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episode of the family ties fromFrank Abdul Shahid and my
wonderful co host Farah AbdulTawar Brown.
Peace be upon the family.
Peace be upon the family, as wewelcome you to another
experience of The Family Ties, aprescription for society.
I am your co host, Frank AbdulShaheed.
Before we get started, don'tforget to subscribe so you can
stay up to date and get all ofthe latest episodes.
Well, today I am flying solotoday.
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My wonderful co host, FaridaAbdul Tawar Brown, is currently
traveling from the motherland ofAfrica to come on back home to
our fatherland of the UnitedStates of America, safely with
her and her family.
As you have known, In previousepisodes, she was there to
accompany her daughters and hernieces, along with her sister,
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because they were studying aQuranic recitation,
understanding how to read Arabicscript, specific for Quran and
understanding of the Quran.
So she spent a considerableamount of time there in Africa.
So she's currently travelingback and she just needs a little
time to make the adjustment tocome back to this.
Great country that we know asthe United States of America.
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So I want to thank her for herduties and her responsibilities
for wanting to be that integralpart of her daughter's lives and
her niece's lives and hersister's life to make sure that
we have a secure, strong futurefor all of us to come.
So as we are winding down thisyear of 2024 we are in the third
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week starting our third week ofDecember and you know, the
temperature is starting toreflect the seasons that we're
in and Saturday, the 21st willbe the first day of winter.
Officially the days are gettingshorter as far as sunlight is
concerned.
The darkness is become moreenveloping our.
Our being you know, it's gettingdarker a lot quicker and, you
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know, so the mood kind ofchanges a little bit when we
don't have the warmth and thesunlight and, and that type of
weather specifically here in themid Atlantic technically.
We are supposed to have fourseasons and we're supposed to
run those seasons relativelythree months each so that way we
can get a variety of seasons andit gradually goes from one stage
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to another.
So, but it's, it's been, youknow, quite.
No, similar here than it's beenthe last few years.
It's kind of jumps back andforth.
So, but anyway, we're thankful.
We're thankful.
We had a wonderful year.
Any missteps that we had duringthe course of the year, we're
thankful that we're here torecall them and be able to
adjust to them and, and be ableto You know, take note and take
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inventory on, on what ourprojection for the year has
been.
And we know we're moving intothe holiday season for those who
are Christian, those who areJew, Jewish of the Jewish faith.
You know, we're moving into the,the year that they have their
high Holy days and, you know,and, and it, and it really
reflects back on, you know,what's important in our life as
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people.
Oftentimes this particular yearoften brings out better
Attitudes towards each other,more friendlier attitudes you
know, more family orientedattitudes that often miss us in
the heat of the summer and inthe passions of our interest
that we just tends to be in thisrace of wanting to acquire
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material goods and establishourselves as people usually
around this time of year, wekind of, you know, we're winding
down and we're kind of, youknow, once again, taking
inventory.
So, you know, I look forward tothis time of year because I can
get.
This type of response frompeople, I can get these
attitudes.
People are more friendly orpeople are more considerate.
You know, I was just recentlytraveling myself in, in the
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airport.
I can see the difference of howpeople are responding to each
other.
Yeah.
Everybody's clamoring to try toget those front row seats that
you have open seating onflights.
But more.
But, but more importantly,people are more willing to help
each other and acquiesce certainthings to other people just to
make sure that everybody iscomfortable.
So so yes, I think this is, asthe old saying go, the most
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wonderful time of the year.
If we could have this attitudeall year long then we know we've
definitely made progress andthat's what we're working for.
So in this particular podcastthe family ties, this
prescription for society is howour families are constructed
upon love.
And how we develop these bondsof trust and relationships and
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ultimately my family with yourfamily.
With other families are allcoming together under that same
guys under the same pretensethat we're coming together and
these relationships are builtoff of love and with love, we
ultimately can trust one anotherin these interactions.
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So so, yes, so today I will domy best to try to fly this plane
by myself.
She's with me.
Just not on the mic.
So I think this should be aninteresting podcast episode.
So today, what I would like totalk about is our determination
for our establishment, what isour determination for our
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establishment?
You know, we'd like to paint apicture here of things that have
happened in the past to kind ofgive us an idea of what man's
successes and what man'sfailures have been in order to
help us in the media steps thatwe have currently in order for
us to project what we should belooking for in the future.
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And if there is an opportunityfor us to make the adjustment,
then we should be able to makethat adjustment.
As we're planning to go into thefuture now, we know, you know,
you can't, you dot all your I'sand cross all your T's as much
as you possibly can, but there'salways that unknown factor that
comes in and that's fine.
It's designed to build us up tobe able to make adjustments,
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build us up to be able to makeaccommodations and also to, to
develop a greater strength and agreater determination for what
it is that we really want forour life, what will be our
determination for our bestestablishment.
I referenced my cohost Faridaand what I wanted to say about
her specifically and the rolethat she has played
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specifically.
This is the role that's notunique.
This is a pre prescribed rolefor for women prescribed role
for mothers a prescribed rolerole for wives and a prescribed
Role for teachers.
We're taught that mothers arethe first teachers of society.
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They're the ones who teach thechildren first.
The child naturally has aninclination for mother and it is
from their mother teaches themlove.
They teach them forgiveness.
They teach them mercy and inthese Settings the academic part
of man develops, the thinkingpart of man develops, the
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analytical part of man develops.
And when I say man, I mean,mankind, not just men, but
mankind in general, but all ofthat comes from the seat of
love.
Mercy.
So mentioning Farida, I wantedto say that her role in her
children's development, and as Imentioned her in Africa and why
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they went to Africa and whatthat meant for us as a community
that.
Effort that sensitivity that shehas that she's trying to develop
in her own Children to have thatsame level of sensitivity all
comes from that same love andmercy appreciation.
So we're taught in the Quranthat knowledge is comes from God
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himself, but it comes in mercy.
We're also taught that God'sexecution of his determination
for man is also in mercy aswell.
So mercy is the seat of what?
We are built as a people, so Iwanted to say specifically about
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her is that when we look atmales and females and their
roles in society, we both havean equal responsibility for
building society, but I want tobe clear that equal does not
mean identical equal does notmean Mean identical.
So in 2024, as we're trying toestablish ourselves as, as
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individuals in the world and,and the fight for equal rights,
the fight for access, the fightfor, you know, wanting to
explore freedoms contrary to anyrepercussions, any type of
accountability or any reason whypeople want to have expression
of freedoms, it has to be madeclear that equal does not mean
identical.
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So there are certain conditionsthat.
We were created upon that givesmen a certain advantage and what
he does, but that's hisresponsibility.
There are certain advantages inwomen that they have that men
don't have, but that's equal intheir responsibility as well.
You know, I think of mygrandmother and going to see
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grandma and I can remembersitting on grandma's lap or
sitting between grandma's legsand realizing how soft grandma
was.
Like that's love that I feltsafe.
I felt loved I felt you know, II could get A good assurance of
who I was as a person because ofgrandma's love for me.
When I see granddad, you know,granddad was strong.
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He had these strong hands, bighands.
They were hard hands.
I felt protection.
I felt that granddad, when heput his hand on my shoulder, I
felt the sense of, of where Iwas supposed to stand.
I felt a sense of direction.
I felt the sense ofunderstanding that at some point
in my life that I would have tohave the same constitution in
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myself.
So it gave me direction as well,but both of these individuals
gave me an equal portion of myidentity, an equal portion of my
identity.
Grandma didn't give me more andgranddad didn't give me less or
granddaddy gave me more andgrandma gave me less.
No.
So equal does not meanidentical.
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So as we are starting ourfamilies and having our families
Engage this world is materialworld.
Specifically.
We have to be really clear onhow we set our future up to
understand that I don't need mydaughters to be men and I don't
need my men, my sons to bewomen.
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I need my, my sons to be men.
Holy.
And I need my daughters to bewomen.
Holy.
And when those two cometogether, as they are naturally
designed to come together, theycreate.
The new creation, which is thenext creation.
We're constantly over and over,like in a cycle.
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So the universality of, ofmankind universality, which
means that it's identical, nomatter where you see it, you can
be here, you can be in Russia.
You can be in the North pole.
You can be in South America.
It doesn't matter.
The universality of mankind issomething that you can see that
it's a trait that is unique toeveryone.
It's the same to everyone.
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So when we look at truth,specifically truth itself can
stand anywhere if it's true,doesn't matter where it can be
applied to anything that w thatis what makes it true.
So when we look at a circle.
A circle is complete, a circlestarts somewhere and it returns
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back to its origin and returningback to his origin.
It completes a particular cycle.
It doesn't go out to disproveitself.
It goes out to prove itself.
And when it comes back with whatit has brought back, it
reintroduces it to his originagain.
And then the origin now canproduce that same likeness.
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To go out again the next day.
So we see the pattern of themoon and the sun and the cycles
of the days, the cycles of themonth, we see the cycle of a
woman's menstruation cycle, sameprocess.
We see the cycle of a babybecoming an adult and becoming
an old person and going back tothe earth.
We constantly see these cyclesthat that is what truth is.
So when we are working fortruth, we have to follow that
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same logic.
So we're looking at families.
So let's just look at families.
We're looking at families in theneighborhood.
We're looking at families in thecommunity together working for
something.
We're working for something thatsomething should be truthful.
It should be something that myhousehold can live by and my
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next door neighbor's house canlive by.
That's truth.
If there is a, if there is aworking of something that is not
designed to be truthful, thenthat will undermine the whole
establishment in, in anyindustry where there are teams.
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The basis or foundation of ateam being successful is truth.
If there isn't truth in thebasis or the foundation of it,
then there's going to be a falsesense of building and it will
crumble eventually.
So truth just means honestyhonesty and candor, honesty and
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interaction, you know, truthfulinteractions, something that we
just naturally have that isnatural to us.
Truthful interactions.
It's based upon truth.
So families being theprescription for society, being
the place where there is no morein depth development of a group
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of people than there is in afamily.
When we look into the industryand look in corporate corporate
America throughout the world andthe society of man's building
and man establish himself as apeople, as a community, as a
society, we're just recreatingwhat we learned in the home.
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Because the home is where we'reworking for truth.
We're working for understandingtheir levels to our development
as a family that get us to apoint where we can be
established in the world.
And, and as I said, we're, we'recoming close to the end of 2024
here in America, and we knowwhat the beginning of 2025 looks
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like for us as Americans.
We just gone through a veryinteresting, I would use that
term and I'm using it verylightly, but I'm using it very,
with very swiftly and with verysharp edges.
We've come to a very interestingelection cycle here in America.
If you can look and take ahonest, Look at America over the
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last 30, maybe 40 years we'veseen a down tick of quality, a
down tick of wholesomeness, adown tick of interactions
between people that are honestfor the better development of
our society, for anunderstanding of what the future
looks like.
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We had we had In America'spromise, the more perfect union
in America's promise, it was forall of us to be able to see a
future for us, that we're allare together and in our best
picture, but that's, that'sman's determination.
That's before we becameAmericans before any of those
things that's already built uponthe nature of man.
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To have his best life in thismost completed stage in a future
time for himself and ultimatelyhaving the resources to reach
that picture.
So in America, that's what thepromise of America has always
been.
Contrary to a lot of thebehaviors and a lot of the
executions and decisions thathave been made in America to
negate that best picture ofourselves.
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In the own, in thedocumentation.
Of the of America promise andits foundation that is there,
but within the last 40 years,we've seen a shift where it has
become very increasinglydecisive and divisive.
I should use that term toseparate individuals for them to
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only have their best picture.
The future at the expense ofeveryone else.
And, and we're seeing that it,it's, it's been a great uptick
of that.
It's been, it's, it's, it'scoming, it's, it's, it's moving
very rapidly.
As fast as technology is coming,that type of sentiment is, is
right along with that level oftechnology.
And we see that every day.
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So we're looking.
What's next for us in this newcalendar year.
So when families are together,you know, the truthfulness have
to come out in, in theexpression of family life.
And ultimately what we're seeingis that we, that we see levels
of untruthfulness, we see levelsof a unsurety of, What
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uncertainty of what my lifelooks like next to this
particular individual and willthis individual now take
something away from me?
So that is a good indicator ofwhat the family looks like at
home, what we see in the public.
So we have to get back to thisfamily, these ties in these
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family, these truthful ties, theprescription.
This is the prescription forsociety, this family life, this
family ties.
So as we are working to.
Want to reevaluate and we're inthe season, as I said earlier,
we're in that season where we doa lot of inventory on what the
year looked like for us as we'restarting this new year, what is
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it that I should have mysensitivities open to what am I
not looking at?
What did I miss?
What could I have possibly beena little bit more sensitive to
in the landscape of what I'mseeing in society and the media
and the news and all thesethings, my even my own
interactions with my neighbors?
You know, once again, I'm, I am,I am Muslim.
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So I don't, I don't celebratethe Christmas holiday.
So there is no decorating on myhouse with lights.
You don't see that in my house,but being the neighbor that I am
striving to be as in mycommunity to be a person that
they can trust, it wouldn't beagainst my good intelligence for
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me to possibly just even hang asmall light.
On my mailbox and that lets theother people in my neighborhood
know, Hey, we understand thathe's not Muslim.
He's Muslim.
He's not Christian.
He doesn't celebrate Christmas,but he acknowledged something
about us so much so that he'swilling to even just maybe just
put one or two lights on his, onhis glove box, just to say, I
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see, and I recognize what you dojust so that I don't feel like
he's an outsider to our goodinterest.
I'm my intelligence doesn't,doesn't, doesn't conflict with
that at all.
So having, having said that ourinterest is not something that
should be just wholly ourinterest.
It should be the interest ofeverybody.
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It should be a universality ofinterest.
So if I'm going to project myfaith, then my faith has to call
to the people something thatthey can identify with.
That's acceptable to them aswell.
And that's what I've beenmeaning to say about the
Christmas lights.
It should be something thatshould be a mutual interaction
between the two.
So in this time of year ofreflection and reflecting back
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on a year we have to look backat our structure as a family.
And see what that see what thatlooks like.
See what this building blockslook like.
You know, we mentioned this,this ethical army.
We've used that language ethicalarmy, which means that there's a
consciousness amongst peoplethat want to be able to stand
and able to address and toultimately able to turn the
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interest, turn the resources andturn the energy towards that,
which is best for all.
That's what the ethical army is.
It's nothing that you run from.
It's nothing that you try tohide in the, in the bunkers, or
you try to hide in these, theseapocalyptic getaway hideout
spots, because you don't want tobe part of the zombie
apocalypse.
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It's not that it's being able toactively engage what is
incorrect in the society and beable to have such an influence
that you will now turn the tide.
That's what we are mentioningabout this ethical army.
And that's what we encourageeveryone who are listeners to
this, this podcast, we'reencouraging you to look
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inwardly, look into this, thebuilding blocks of your
relationships, the buildingblocks of, of, of your community
and try to determine what is itthat you can influence to be
able to turn this.
These, these, these situationsthat we're walking into, that we
find ourselves into in a timethat we never seen in America
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very tumultuous times that canbe remedied because, you know
physics tells us that no twothings can occupy the same space
at the same time.
Now, interestingly enough, thatis the.
The cliff note version of it,but the actual language is no
two identical things can occupythe same place at the same time.
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So good and bad are notidentical, but they cannot
occupy the same place at thesame time.
So just like there is a poisonin the society, there's also a
remedy at the same time in thatsociety.
At the same time, so this iswhere the ethical army comes in
to try to be a voice for theremedy for a lot of the poison
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that exists in our society.
Some of the stuff we don't knowwhere it's coming from and other
places we know exactly whereit's coming from, but this is
what we're trying to build thisethical army.
So in our homes and our familyand building these family trust
and building theserelationships, these bonds of
love and these bonds of mercyand these bonds of knowledge and
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trust, this is, this is theinterest that we should have to
build the ethical army.
You know, these are levels youknow, we have our own mortal.
Level just us being in the sameplace at the same time, I'm a,
I'm a human being, just like theperson who lives in the room
next to me, just like the personwho eats dinner with me at the
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dinner table.
We're all mortal.
So we know what sensitivitiesthat we have, things that hurt
me.
I know hurt you.
I have to understand that evenon that particular level, I have
to be very self aware of thethings that interfere with that
atmosphere and that community.
That I know can create problemsfor you.
There's a level ofaccountability, sensitivity,
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sensibility.
And awareness.
So when we're at family time,this is, these are the things
that we're looking towards.
And, you know, often when youthink about it, we don't really
give much attention to this.
It's almost a natural thingbecause love itself encompasses
the mortal sensitivities.
Just love itself.
Just me loving my wife or lovingmy children.
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They embrace the show of loveautomatically recognizes the
mortal.
Interactions that we have withbetween each other, the
sensitivities that we havebetween each other now from that
love, we build up a spiritualdevelopment, a spiritual
interaction with one another,something that no, we know that
is connecting on another level,not just the level of me just
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being aware that a smile towardsyou makes your day is more than
just that is me.
Understanding that there's adirection that our, our life is
going towards.
And that life is being guided bysomething.
I may not have been able tofigure it out at this point in
my development, but I understandthat my life isn't my own, that
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I didn't create this life.
This life came into being, I'vecome into awareness of this
life, but the life was herebefore I even came into
awareness of it.
So there's an accountabilitythat I must have in this level
of spirituality between familymembers and, and any of these,
And in these developments, thesedevelopments don't allow us to
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hide from engagement.
These levels of development arestrengthening us to be able to
engage.
So our sensitivity is mortals,the spirituality between us to
know that we have accountabilitytowards something.
In this level of love moves usinto further acts of
development.
So as I'm understanding that mylife was something before I even
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knew what it was, I have to nowsay, okay, so where is it going?
Where's my life going?
I don't know where I don't knowwhere it's going, but I know
it's going in a direction so Ifi'm following the logic of my
direction, then I have to thinkahead and say These bonds of
trust and these bonds of lovefor my own family You And these
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levels of accountability that Ihave for my family has to extend
outside of my own family.
It's the same because I see thatsame level of relationship with
the people next door to me ordown the street from me, or even
my cousins that live across townand their neighbors.
So I have to see that.
So now it opens up levels ofsensitivities in me that go
beyond what's in my naturalhouse.
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So now I become more intuitiveto what I need for my life.
I become more intuitive.
Now I'm starting to think I'mstarting to engage more.
I'm starting to look.
And things differently not yetto the point where I can
actually put one and onetogether to make two, but I'm
moving in that level ofdirection to say, okay, how do I
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need to be able to harness thesemovements that's in me that
that's tightly woven between myfamily?
What do I have to do in thisintuitiveness that comes into
us?
Logic begins to develop intoourselves.
Logic.
So now I can get to the one andone equals two, because I know
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that if I go out, if I work andI bring back these resources to
home, and then the home now canhave a strong sense of
possibilities and establishmentnow this makes sense now.
So now I know how to now protectthese sensitivities that I have
the moral sensitivities, thespiritual sensitivities, the end
to win, enter with two intuitivesensitivities.
(26:50):
I'm sorry.
Okay.
Intuitive sensitivities that youcan't naturally touch.
It's just a presence that'shere.
So now I need to now cementthese things and bring them into
something that's very concrete.
So now the logic now comes in onhow to protect and now to
advance these things.
So now I become more academic inmy thoughts.
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Hmm.
I live at 123 main street.
What's my influence at 125 MainStreet, 124 Main Street, 124 2nd
Street, which is a street overfor me, what do I need to do?
What do I need to do?
Once again, I'm looking for theoutside life, but I'm, but I'm
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strongly developing the insidelife at the same time.
This is going on at the sametime, but I'm looking outwardly
to try to determine what's thebenefit for me inwardly.
So that way I can use what Idevelop inwardly to help
outwardly.
So it's a reciprocal type ofinteraction.
So now I become academic in myapproach.
So now I know how to planthings.
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I know how to, how to, how tofocus energies.
I know how to pull resources towhat I need to do to be able to
establish the life in home aswell as outside in my
neighborhood.
And then sometimes this comesinto You know, neighborhood
associations, sometimes it cancome into developing better
relationships with entitiesoutside of your own home
businesses.
In that sense these type ofacademic pursuits for being able
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to identify what's good for itand also to be able to
articulate it, preserve it, andmake sure it stays as a common
practice amongst the people.
And then once that.
Develops itself.
Then we go into a culturalsense.
Cultural sense.
These are all of the otherprevious steps together.
Now we're trying to footprintwhat we're trying to do and make
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this something that's ultimatelysatisfies every sense that we've
developed.
You know, business doesn'talways satisfy every sense.
It doesn't always satisfy everysense.
Education doesn't always satisfyevery sense, but in our cultural
expression that identifies whowe are as a people, it could be
us as a people from a particularrace, it could be us as a people
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from a typical and differenttype of neighborhood, it could
be us as a people who have acertain interest.
Like this ethical army.
If we culturally areestablishing ourselves to have
interactions with the lifethat's amongst us, then we will
have more of a footprint and wecan preserve this level of
footprint, but we can givesomething unique to it because
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these sensitivities havedeveloped in us.
They have matured in us and havegiven us something that's unique
to us.
You know, we talk about AfricanAmericans.
And how we are the descendantsof slaves from the peculiar
institutes of chattel slavery,how we've been put in a
crucible, how we've been put inoppression and darkness and
almost having a whole humanitycompletely wiped away from us
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and how that prepared us.
In today's time to be able tospeak to certain things that
other people can't speak to thatis our cultural, our cultural
expression.
Now, when we go forward toelevate our own cultural
expression through that level ofexperience, Now we have
something unique that can bebeneficial to all of society.
And these are the steps we're inthat cultural step.
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So once we get into thatcultural step and see what we
uniquely can add to the greatergood of mankind Now we now need
to to solidify that in forms ofgovernment You And what a
government, government is justpathways of getting from one
place to another that isprotected.
We call them laws, but it's aprotection.
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It gives you the freedom ofexpression.
It gives you the freedom to beable to go out and have the best
expression using all of theprevious sensitivities before we
got to the governmental level offreedom, a sensitivity and our
development to be able to hitand become that more perfect
union that we talked about.
Here in America, the promise ofthis country and what it is
designed for us to have our lifein the future.
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This is what it, this is, theseare the levels and pathways that
we have to create in order toget to these steps.
And this is all done in thehome.
Our interactions in the homegovern us and govern our
behavior and, and have us moveinto these directions.
And then ultimately, after we'redone with the governmental side
of being able to protect thesepathways, now we become the
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ethical.
We're on the ethical level now,not only are they laws that we
have now, we're using theseprotections to now advance the
life of society.
This is how you invite thepeople.
This is the invitation to invitethe people to the best life on
the ethical level, because theintelligence would say that as
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I'm looking at these peoplehaving their best life and
promoting this best life andwanted to engage the society
with this best intentions andinterest at heart, it shows me a
universality.
That's the universal applicationright there.
Now I'm living at one 25 mainstreet and I see this.
(32:08):
I've now have the best neighbornext to me because what they're
promoting is my best life, butit took them to promote that in
this particular way for me tosee it and to be able to come to
that best life.
And that's the call.
That is the call to come to thebest picture and the best life.
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So as we're concluding 2024, weshould be looking for that call.
What does that call look like?
What does it sound like?
How do I even know it?
If I see it or hear it, what aremy levels of sensitivity?
How do I come to that?
It's the home.
It's the life of the home.
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It's our relationships in thehome.
It's our relationships and thebonds of trust that we have with
one another.
It's the level of love and trustthat we have between one
another.
That's the prescription.
The family ties.
That is our prescription.
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Oh, as scripture has said, therewill come a dreadful and
grateful day.
I'm paraphrasing it.
There will be a dreadful andgrateful day.
And that's all in the same day.
He said, hi, it's going to bedreadful and great at the same
time.
It's dreadful for those who havemisused their position, misused
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their authority, misused thecreated order of what they were
created in for their ownpersonal gains and did not give
it the right.
To those who needed it asked forit or required it, but the
grateful day will be for thosepeople who stayed true and
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stayed firm to their createdorder, who stayed true to the
level of accountability tothose, their creator, and will
be blessed in that time, thegrateful day.
The dreadful and great day we'rein that, and as I said, no two
things that are identical canshare the same space, but those
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who are opposites are alwaysnext to each other.
They're there.
So the hope is that buildingthis ethical army and letting
our listeners understand andknow that there is an answer,
there is a solution.
That we're not in a dreadfultime is dreadful for those who
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have done wrong, but it's greatfor those who are strong in
sensitivities, strong inspirituality, strong in their
love and brother brotherlinessand sisterliness wanting for
their brothers, what they wantfor themselves, wanting for
their sisters, what they wantfor themselves, want to see
their life in this mostcompleted and best picture.
It's a grateful day and buildingthis ethical army is the remedy
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for a lot of illnesses that wehave in society.
So, yes, we should take, takefull account of our experiences,
take full account of ourinteractions, and none of this
stuff is by mistake.
And interestingly enough, Iremember one of my former
teachers.
When I was in college, you usedto always tell me it was, it was
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in a psychology class.
You used to always tell me thatnothing happens by mistake.
So this young student, you know,away from home thinking that
he's a man.
The first thing I should tell myinstructor was, well, who said
it was a mistake?
Like, why are you even usingthat language?
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Nothing is by mistake.
Well, who said it was a mistake?
And then she would just kind oflook at me and she said, well,
someday you'll learn.
I think I have.
I think I learned it immediatelyafter she said what she said,
but the point is that, you know,everything happens in the plan
in which it was designed tohappen that we don't always get
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to the goal together, butsomehow part of us reaches the
goal.
There's a sense of us that cansee the goal, although we're,
we're generations away from it.
There are signs that point usand let us know and remind us
that we are on the pathway andthat is the, that is the hope
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and that is the, the comfortthat we get in times that seem
to be very tumultuous that we'recurrently in.
But even as I said, even in atumultuous time, there's still
great opportunity.
There's still great voices.
That we can hear, there arestill great individuals that we
can see.
There's still great areas thatwe can congregate and have safe
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spaces and have conversationsthat are helping us develop.
And as I said, my wonderful cohosts, Farida, her and her
sister and their children goingto Africa to study.
That's a great opportunity forour better future.
In the midst of what it seems tobe very deplorable for our
future, you know, we don't haveany good reports on our Children
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as a whole seem, everythingseems to be like it's falling
down, but as we have addressedmany times before, and this is a
great Avenue for us, this, thiswonderful podcast, the family
ties and I want to thank thoseindividuals who Created this
platform for us for Fardy and Ito be able to even communicate
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with, with you want to thankthose brothers and those sisters
who put up their time andresources to make sure we had
this opportunity.
And we want to thank them as meas the co host and my other co
host to tell them we trulyappreciate.
What you have done.
It gave us an opportunity to seesome things about ourselves,
that we can kind of stretch andlearn things about us and even
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inspire ourselves.
Self inspiration is somethingthat happens all the time.
We, we, we, we go out in theworld.
We want to inspire the world.
I want to go out and change theworld, but you know, you got to
change yourself first.
You know, we want to go out andmake this world something
special and have great families.
Well, you have to start withyours That's where it begins.
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So I just want to thank thosebrothers and a special shout
out.
I want to give out to mr Darylanderson who is a part of the
amg the ambassador media groupwho does all of the wonderful
technological things for thispodcast, you know, he, he
engineers it all as the musicand do, you know, in, in some of
the stuttering that we do, hecleans that stuff up pretty
(38:46):
well.
So just want to give a shout outto Daryl and thank him as well.
So once again, all of us workingfor this, all of the subscribers
to the podcast, all of those whoare having interest, we are all
part of that ethical army.
And we all are doing our part.
We are all doing our part.
None of us are standing still.
None of us have run into the, asI said, the bunkers to hide from
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the apocalypse.
No, we're standing firm andwe're making our mark in the
world to all of the greatlisteners, all of those who have
subscribed to the podcast, allof those who in the
developmental part of thepodcast the great cohost that I
have just want to thank you allfor such a wonderful opportunity
and don't, and I don't want thisto be, to be missed.
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In all of the things that arehappening on the planet today,
these small little incrementalthings would build society,
which builds society.
One of the great thinkers in mylifetime, one of the great
orators in my lifetime one ofthe great leaders in my
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lifetime, my father.
Yes.
Right.
My father, he said that.
The goal is where you want to goand where you want to be.
But he also said that every steptakes you there.
So every step is just asimportant as the final goal
itself.
So don't sleep on the steps thatyou're taking.
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You're moving one step closer.
As we say to destinationexcellence, do not sleep on the
steps that you're taking.
And although it seems likeyou're miles away from your
destination, You're on thepathway to the destination.
You're there, you're close.
And as long as you move into thedirection, ultimately, when we
get there collectively, And thegoal, you will be there
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standing, championing, and beproud upon everything that you
fought for, you worked for, andyou sacrificed for.
So, thank you, dad.
Wonderful, wonderful knowledgethat he passed on.
And I want to make sure that I'mable to pass on that.
As well in these podcastepisodes and not interactions.
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Once again, truthful, truthfulinteractions with one another,
that universality, which istruth, truthful interactions.
So once again, what is ourdetermination for our
establishment?
What is our determination forour establishment?
Why do we want to establishourselves as a people?
What is the determination?
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Ultimately, the determination isto be a model for the world.
Community, a model people, amodel society, because good
lives forever.
Bad doesn't live forever.
Only the good lives forever.
And God created the good, as hesaid, and he only accepts the
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good.
Our best life comes from ourgoodness.
Our purity comes from ourgoodness and love itself comes
from our goodness, our goodness.
So the praise is for God alwayswe have moved one step closer to
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destination excellence.
So until next time, let usremain constant and conscious Of
our creator of the sacredrelationship of parent and child
and the family ties that bind usthe love and trust between one
another.
So subscribe to the podcast andcome back next time for a new
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episode of the family ties fromFrank Abdul Shahid and my
wonderful co host Farah AbdulTawar Brown.
Peace be upon the family.
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