EP30 - The Determination for Establishment

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

This podcast is about family life as a means to address current problems in American society. A scripture based African American perspective. 

Welcome to The Family Ties, a Prescription for Society.
Through this experience, we invite you to join us in an exploration of the concept of family ties as a prescription for society.
 
 YOUR HOSTS: Frank Abdul Shaheed &
 Faridah Abdul-Tawwab Brown
 
 This episode was edited by Darryl D Anderson of AMG - Ambassador Media Group visit https://www.ambassador-mediagroup.com/
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Transcript

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Peace be upon the family, as we welcome you to another experience of The Family Ties, a prescription for society. I am your co host, Frank Abdul Shaheed. Before we get started, don't forget to subscribe so you can stay up to date and get all of the latest episodes. Well, today I am flying solo today. My wonderful co host, Farida Abdul Tawar Brown, is currently traveling from the motherland of Africa to come on back home to our fatherland of the United States of America, safely with her and her family. As you have known, In previous episodes, she was there to accompany her daughters and her nieces, along with her sister, because they were studying a Quranic recitation, understanding how to read Arabic script, specific for Quran and understanding of the Quran. So she spent a considerable amount of time there in Africa. So she's currently traveling back and she just needs a little time to make the adjustment to come back to this. Great country that we know as the United States of America. So I want to thank her for her duties and her responsibilities for wanting to be that integral part of her daughter's lives and her niece's lives and her sister's life to make sure that we have a secure, strong future for all of us to come. So as we are winding down this year of 2024 we are in the third week starting our third week of December and you know, the temperature is starting to reflect the seasons that we're in and Saturday, the 21st will be the first day of winter. Officially the days are getting shorter as far as sunlight is concerned. The darkness is become more enveloping our. Our being you know, it's getting darker a lot quicker and, you know, so the mood kind of changes a little bit when we don't have the warmth and the sunlight and, and that type of weather specifically here in the mid Atlantic technically. We are supposed to have four seasons and we're supposed to run those seasons relatively three months each so that way we can get a variety of seasons and it gradually goes from one stage to another. So, but it's, it's been, you know, quite. No, similar here than it's been the last few years. It's kind of jumps back and forth. So, but anyway, we're thankful. We're thankful. We had a wonderful year. Any missteps that we had during the course of the year, we're thankful that we're here to recall them and be able to adjust to them and, and be able to You know, take note and take inventory on, on what our projection for the year has been. And we know we're moving into the holiday season for those who are Christian, those who are Jew, 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 people. Oftentimes this particular year often brings out better Attitudes towards each other, more friendlier attitudes you know, more family oriented attitudes that often miss us in the heat of the summer and in the passions of our interest that we just tends to be in this race of wanting to acquire material goods and establish ourselves as people usually around this time of year, we kind of, you know, we're winding down and we're kind of, you know, once again, taking inventory. So, you know, I look forward to this time of year because I can get. This type of response from people, I can get these attitudes. People are more friendly or people are more considerate. You know, I was just recently traveling myself in, in the airport. I can see the difference of how people are responding to each other. Yeah. Everybody's clamoring to try to get those front row seats that you have open seating on flights. But more. But, but more importantly, people are more willing to help each other and acquiesce certain things to other people just to make sure that everybody is comfortable. So so yes, I think this is, as the old saying go, the most wonderful time of the year. If we could have this attitude all year long then we know we've definitely made progress and that's what we're working for. So in this particular podcast the family ties, this prescription for society is how our families are constructed upon love. And how we develop these bonds of trust and relationships and ultimately my family with your family. With other families are all coming together under that same guys under the same pretense that we're coming together and these relationships are built off of love and with love, we ultimately can trust one another in these interactions. So so, yes, so today I will do my best to try to fly this plane by myself. She's with me. Just not on the mic. So I think this should be an interesting podcast episode. So today, what I would like to talk about is our determination for our establishment, what is our determination for our establishment? You know, we'd like to paint a picture here of things that have happened in the past to kind of give us an idea of what man's successes and what man's failures have been in order to help us in the media steps that we have currently in order for us to project what we should be looking for in the future. And if there is an opportunity for us to make the adjustment, then we should be able to make that adjustment. As we're planning to go into the future now, we know, you know, you can't, you dot all your I's and cross all your T's as much as you possibly can, but there's always that unknown factor that comes in and that's fine. It's designed to build us up to be able to make adjustments, build us up to be able to make accommodations and also to, to develop a greater strength and a greater determination for what it is that we really want for our life, what will be our determination for our best establishment. I referenced my cohost Farida and what I wanted to say about her specifically and the role that she has played specifically. This is the role that's not unique. This is a pre prescribed role for for women prescribed role for mothers a prescribed role role for wives and a prescribed Role for teachers. We're taught that mothers are the first teachers of society. They're the ones who teach the children first. The child naturally has an inclination for mother and it is from their mother teaches them love. They teach them forgiveness. They teach them mercy and in these Settings the academic part of man develops, the thinking part of man develops, the analytical part of man develops. And when I say man, I mean, mankind, not just men, but mankind in general, but all of that comes from the seat of love. Mercy. So mentioning Farida, I wanted to say that her role in her children's development, and as I mentioned her in Africa and why they went to Africa and what that meant for us as a community that. Effort that sensitivity that she has that she's trying to develop in her own Children to have that same level of sensitivity all comes from that same love and mercy appreciation. So we're taught in the Quran that knowledge is comes from God himself, but it comes in mercy. We're also taught that God's execution of his determination for man is also in mercy as well. So mercy is the seat of what? We are built as a people, so I wanted to say specifically about her is that when we look at males and females and their roles in society, we both have an equal responsibility for building society, but I want to be clear that equal does not mean identical equal does not mean Mean identical. So in 2024, as we're trying to establish ourselves as, as individuals in the world and, and the fight for equal rights, the fight for access, the fight for, you know, wanting to explore freedoms contrary to any repercussions, any type of accountability or any reason why people want to have expression of freedoms, it has to be made clear that equal does not mean identical. So there are certain conditions that. We were created upon that gives men a certain advantage and what he does, but that's his responsibility. There are certain advantages in women that they have that men don't have, but that's equal in their responsibility as well. You know, I think of my grandmother and going to see grandma and I can remember sitting on grandma's lap or sitting between grandma's legs and realizing how soft grandma was. Like that's love that I felt safe. I felt loved I felt you know, I I could get A good assurance of who I was as a person because of grandma's love for me. When I see granddad, you know, granddad was strong. He had these strong hands, big hands. They were hard hands. I felt protection. I felt that granddad, when he put his hand on my shoulder, I felt the sense of, of where I was supposed to stand. I felt a sense of direction. I felt the sense of understanding that at some point in my life that I would have to have the same constitution in myself. So it gave me direction as well, but both of these individuals gave me an equal portion of my identity, an equal portion of my identity. Grandma didn't give me more and granddad didn't give me less or granddaddy gave me more and grandma gave me less. No. So equal does not mean identical. So as we are starting our families and having our families Engage this world is material world. Specifically. We have to be really clear on how we set our future up to understand that I don't need my daughters to be men and I don't need my men, my sons to be women. I need my, my sons to be men. Holy. And I need my daughters to be women. Holy. And when those two come together, as they are naturally designed to come together, they create. The new creation, which is the next creation. We're constantly over and over, like in a cycle. So the universality of, of mankind universality, which means that it's identical, no matter 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 is something that you can see that it's a trait that is unique to everyone. It's the same to everyone. 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 that is what makes it true. So when we look at a circle. A circle is complete, a circle starts somewhere and it returns back to its origin and returning back to his origin. It completes a particular cycle. It doesn't go out to disprove itself. It goes out to prove itself. And when it comes back with what it has brought back, it reintroduces it to his origin again. And then the origin now can produce that same likeness. To go out again the next day. So we see the pattern of the moon and the sun and the cycles of the days, the cycles of the month, we see the cycle of a woman's menstruation cycle, same process. We see the cycle of a baby becoming an adult and becoming an old person and going back to the earth. We constantly see these cycles that that is what truth is. So when we are working for truth, we have to follow that same logic. So we're looking at families. So let's just look at families. We're looking at families in the neighborhood. We're looking at families in the community together working for something. We're working for something that something should be truthful. It should be something that my household can live by and my next door neighbor's house can live by. That's truth. If there is a, if there is a working of something that is not designed to be truthful, then that will undermine the whole establishment in, in any industry where there are teams. The basis or foundation of a team being successful is truth. If there isn't truth in the basis or the foundation of it, then there's going to be a false sense of building and it will crumble eventually. So truth just means honesty honesty and candor, honesty and interaction, you know, truthful interactions, something that we just naturally have that is natural to us. Truthful interactions. It's based upon truth. So families being the prescription for society, being the place where there is no more in depth development of a group of people than there is in a family. When we look into the industry and look in corporate corporate America throughout the world and the society of man's building and man establish himself as a people, as a community, as a society, we're just recreating what we learned in the home. Because the home is where we're working for truth. We're working for understanding their levels to our development as a family that get us to a point where we can be established in the world. And, and as I said, we're, we're coming close to the end of 2024 here in America, and we know what the beginning of 2025 looks like for us as Americans. We just gone through a very interesting, I would use that term and I'm using it very lightly, but I'm using it very, with very swiftly and with very sharp edges. We've come to a very interesting election cycle here in America. If you can look and take a honest, Look at America over the last 30, maybe 40 years we've seen a down tick of quality, a down tick of wholesomeness, a down tick of interactions between people that are honest for the better development of our society, for an understanding of what the future looks like. We had we had In America's promise, the more perfect union in America's promise, it was for all of us to be able to see a future for us, that we're all are together and in our best picture, but that's, that's man's determination. That's before we became Americans before any of those things that's already built upon the nature of man. To have his best life in this most completed stage in a future time for himself and ultimately having the resources to reach that picture. So in America, that's what the promise of America has always been. Contrary to a lot of the behaviors and a lot of the executions and decisions that have been made in America to negate that best picture of ourselves. In the own, in the documentation. Of the of America promise and its foundation that is there, but within the last 40 years, we've seen a shift where it has become very increasingly decisive and divisive. I should use that term to separate individuals for them to only have their best picture. The future at the expense of everyone 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's coming, 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 of technology. And we see that every day. So we're looking. What's next for us in this new calendar year. So when families are together, you know, the truthfulness have to come out in, in the expression of family life. And ultimately what we're seeing is that we, that we see levels of untruthfulness, we see levels of a unsurety of, What uncertainty of what my life looks like next to this particular individual and will this individual now take something away from me? So that is a good indicator of what the family looks like at home, what we see in the public. So we have to get back to this family, these ties in these family, these truthful ties, the prescription. This is the prescription for society, this family life, this family ties. So as we are working to. Want to reevaluate and we're in the season, as I said earlier, we're in that season where we do a lot of inventory on what the year looked like for us as we're starting this new year, what is it that I should have my sensitivities open to what am I not looking at? What did I miss? What could I have possibly been a little bit more sensitive to in the landscape of what I'm seeing in society and the media and the news and all these things, my even my own interactions with my neighbors? You know, once again, I'm, I am, I am Muslim. So I don't, I don't celebrate the Christmas holiday. So there is no decorating on my house with lights. You don't see that in my house, but being the neighbor that I am striving to be as in my community to be a person that they can trust, it wouldn't be against my good intelligence for me to possibly just even hang a small light. On my mailbox and that lets the other people in my neighborhood know, Hey, we understand that he'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's willing to even just maybe just put one or two lights on his, on his glove box, just to say, I see, and I recognize what you do just so that I don't feel like he's an outsider to our good interest. I'm my intelligence doesn't, doesn't, doesn't conflict with that at all. So having, having said that our interest is not something that should be just wholly our interest. It should be the interest of everybody. It should be a universality of interest. So if I'm going to project my faith, then my faith has to call to the people something that they can identify with. That's acceptable to them as well. And that's what I've been meaning to say about the Christmas lights. It should be something that should be a mutual interaction between the two. So in this time of year of reflection and reflecting back on a year we have to look back at our structure as a family. And see what that see what that looks like. See what this building blocks look like. You know, we mentioned this, this ethical army. We've used that language ethical army, which means that there's a consciousness amongst people that want to be able to stand and able to address and to ultimately able to turn the interest, turn the resources and turn 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 to hide in the, in the bunkers, or you try to hide in these, these apocalyptic getaway hideout spots, because you don't want to be part of the zombie apocalypse. It's not that it's being able to actively engage what is incorrect in the society and be able to have such an influence that you will now turn the tide. That's what we are mentioning about this ethical army. And that's what we encourage everyone who are listeners to this, this podcast, we're encouraging you to look inwardly, look into this, the building blocks of your relationships, the building blocks of, of, of your community and try to determine what is it that you can influence to be able to turn this. These, these, these situations that we're walking into, that we find ourselves into in a time that we never seen in America very tumultuous times that can be remedied because, you know physics tells us that no two things can occupy the same space at the same time. Now, interestingly enough, that is the. The cliff note version of it, but the actual language is no two identical things can occupy the same place at the same time. So good and bad are not identical, but they cannot occupy the same place at the same time. So just like there is a poison in the society, there's also a remedy at the same time in that society. At the same time, so this is where the ethical army comes in to try to be a voice for the remedy for a lot of the poison that exists in our society. Some of the stuff we don't know where it's coming from and other places we know exactly where it's coming from, but this is what we're trying to build this ethical army. So in our homes and our family and building these family trust and building these relationships, these bonds of love and these bonds of mercy and these bonds of knowledge and trust, this is, this is the interest that we should have to build the ethical army. You know, these are levels you know, we have our own mortal. Level just us being in the same place at the same time, I'm a, I'm a human being, just like the person who lives in the room next to me, just like the person who eats dinner with me at the dinner table. We're all mortal. So we know what sensitivities that we have, things that hurt me. I know hurt you. I have to understand that even on that particular level, I have to be very self aware of the things that interfere with that atmosphere and that community. That I know can create problems for you. There's a level of accountability, sensitivity, 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 you think about it, we don't really give much attention to this. It's almost a natural thing because love itself encompasses the mortal sensitivities. Just love itself. Just me loving my wife or loving my children. They embrace the show of love automatically recognizes the mortal. Interactions that we have with between each other, the sensitivities that we have between each other now from that love, we build up a spiritual development, a spiritual interaction with one another, something that no, we know that is connecting on another level, not just the level of me just being aware that a smile towards you makes your day is more than just that is me. Understanding that there's a direction that our, our life is going towards. And that life is being guided by something. I may not have been able to figure it out at this point in my development, but I understand that my life isn't my own, that I didn't create this life. This life came into being, I've come into awareness of this life, but the life was here before I even came into awareness of it. So there's an accountability that I must have in this level of spirituality between family members and, and any of these, And in these developments, these developments don't allow us to hide from engagement. These levels of development are strengthening us to be able to engage. So our sensitivity is mortals, the spirituality between us to know that we have accountability towards something. In this level of love moves us into further acts of development. So as I'm understanding that my life was something before I even knew what it was, I have to now say, okay, so where is it going? Where's my life going? I don't know where I don't know where it's going, but I know it's going in a direction so If i'm following the logic of my direction, then I have to think ahead and say These bonds of trust and these bonds of love for my own family You And these levels of accountability that I have for my family has to extend outside of my own family. It's the same because I see that same level of relationship with the people next door to me or down the street from me, or even my cousins that live across town and their neighbors. So I have to see that. So now it opens up levels of sensitivities in me that go beyond what's in my natural house. So now I become more intuitive to what I need for my life. I become more intuitive. Now I'm starting to think I'm starting to engage more. I'm starting to look. And things differently not yet to the point where I can actually put one and one together to make two, but I'm moving in that level of direction to say, okay, how do I need to be able to harness these movements that's in me that that's tightly woven between my family? What do I have to do in this intuitiveness that comes into us? Logic begins to develop into ourselves. Logic. So now I can get to the one and one equals two, because I know that if I go out, if I work and I bring back these resources to home, and then the home now can have a strong sense of possibilities and establishment now this makes sense now. So now I know how to now protect these sensitivities that I have the moral sensitivities, the spiritual sensitivities, the end to win, enter with two intuitive sensitivities. I'm sorry. Okay. Intuitive sensitivities that you can't naturally touch. It's just a presence that's here. So now I need to now cement these things and bring them into something that's very concrete. So now the logic now comes in on how to protect and now to advance these things. So now I become more academic in my thoughts. Hmm. I live at 123 main street. What's my influence at 125 Main Street, 124 Main Street, 124 2nd Street, which is a street over for me, what do I need to do? What do I need to do? Once again, I'm looking for the outside life, but I'm, but I'm strongly developing the inside life at the same time. This is going on at the same time, but I'm looking outwardly to try to determine what's the benefit for me inwardly. So that way I can use what I develop inwardly to help outwardly. So it's a reciprocal type of interaction. So now I become academic in my approach. So now I know how to plan things. I know how to, how to, how to focus energies. I know how to pull resources to what I need to do to be able to establish the life in home as well as outside in my neighborhood. And then sometimes this comes into You know, neighborhood associations, sometimes it can come into developing better relationships with entities outside of your own home businesses. In that sense these type of academic pursuits for being able to identify what's good for it and also to be able to articulate it, preserve it, and make sure it stays as a common practice amongst the people. And then once that. Develops itself. Then we go into a cultural sense. Cultural sense. These are all of the other previous steps together. Now we're trying to footprint what we're trying to do and make this something that's ultimately satisfies every sense that we've developed. You know, business doesn't always satisfy every sense. It doesn't always satisfy every sense. Education doesn't always satisfy every sense, but in our cultural expression that identifies who we are as a people, it could be us as a people from a particular race, it could be us as a people from a typical and different type of neighborhood, it could be us as a people who have a certain interest. Like this ethical army. If we culturally are establishing ourselves to have interactions with the life that's amongst us, then we will have more of a footprint and we can preserve this level of footprint, but we can give something unique to it because these sensitivities have developed in us. They have matured in us and have given us something that's unique to us. You know, we talk about African Americans. And how we are the descendants of slaves from the peculiar institutes of chattel slavery, how we've been put in a crucible, how we've been put in oppression and darkness and almost having a whole humanity completely wiped away from us and how that prepared us. In today's time to be able to speak to certain things that other people can't speak to that is our cultural, our cultural expression. Now, when we go forward to elevate our own cultural expression through that level of experience, Now we have something unique that can be beneficial to all of society. And these are the steps we're in that cultural step. So once we get into that cultural step and see what we uniquely can add to the greater good of mankind Now we now need to to solidify that in forms of government You And what a government, government is just pathways of getting from one place to another that is protected. We call them laws, but it's a protection. It gives you the freedom of expression. It gives you the freedom to be able to go out and have the best expression using all of the previous sensitivities before we got to the governmental level of freedom, a sensitivity and our development to be able to hit and become that more perfect union that we talked about. Here in America, the promise of this country and what it is designed for us to have our life in the future. This is what it, this is, these are the levels and pathways that we have to create in order to get to these steps. And this is all done in the home. Our interactions in the home govern us and govern our behavior and, and have us move into these directions. And then ultimately, after we're done with the governmental side of being able to protect these pathways, now we become the ethical. We're on the ethical level now, not only are they laws that we have now, we're using these protections to now advance the life of society. This is how you invite the people. This is the invitation to invite the people to the best life on the ethical level, because the intelligence would say that as I'm looking at these people having their best life and promoting this best life and wanted to engage the society with this best intentions and interest at heart, it shows me a universality. That's the universal application right there. Now I'm living at one 25 main street and I see this. I've now have the best neighbor next to me because what they're promoting is my best life, but it took them to promote that in this particular way for me to see it and to be able to come to that best life. And that's the call. That is the call to come to the best picture and the best life. So as we're concluding 2024, we should 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 are my levels of sensitivity? How do I come to that? It's the home. It's the life of the home. It's our relationships in the home. It's our relationships and the bonds of trust that we have with one another. It's the level of love and trust that we have between one another. That's the prescription. The family ties. That is our prescription. Oh, as scripture has said, there will come a dreadful and grateful day. I'm paraphrasing it. There will be a dreadful and grateful day. And that's all in the same day. He said, hi, it's going to be dreadful and great at the same time. It's dreadful for those who have misused their position, misused their authority, misused the created order of what they were created in for their own personal gains and did not give it the right. To those who needed it asked for it or required it, but the grateful day will be for those people who stayed true and stayed firm to their created order, who stayed true to the level of accountability to those, their creator, and will be blessed in that time, the grateful day. The dreadful and great day we're in that, and as I said, no two things that are identical can share the same space, but those who are opposites are always next to each other. They're there. So the hope is that building this ethical army and letting our listeners understand and know that there is an answer, there is a solution. That we're not in a dreadful time is dreadful for those who have done wrong, but it's great for those who are strong in sensitivities, strong in spirituality, strong in their love and brother brotherliness and sisterliness wanting for their brothers, what they want for themselves, wanting for their sisters, what they want for themselves, want to see their life in this most completed and best picture. It's a grateful day and building this ethical army is the remedy for a lot of illnesses that we have in society. So, yes, we should take, take full account of our experiences, take full account of our interactions, and none of this stuff is by mistake. And interestingly enough, I remember one of my former teachers. When I was in college, you used to always tell me it was, it was in a psychology class. You used to always tell me that nothing happens by mistake. So this young student, you know, away from home thinking that he's a man. The first thing I should tell my instructor was, well, who said it was a mistake? Like, why are you even using that language? Nothing is by mistake. Well, who said it was a mistake? And then she would just kind of look at me and she said, well, someday you'll learn. I think I have. I think I learned it immediately after she said what she said, but the point is that, you know, everything happens in the plan in which it was designed to happen that we don't always get to the goal together, but somehow part of us reaches the goal. There's a sense of us that can see the goal, although we're, we're generations away from it. There are signs that point us and let us know and remind us that we are on the pathway and that is the, that is the hope and that is the, the comfort that we get in times that seem to be very tumultuous that we're currently in. But even as I said, even in a tumultuous time, there's still great opportunity. There's still great voices. That we can hear, there are still great individuals that we can see. There's still great areas that we can congregate and have safe spaces and have conversations that are helping us develop. And as I said, my wonderful co hosts, Farida, her and her sister and their children going to Africa to study. That's a great opportunity for our better future. In the midst of what it seems to be very deplorable for our future, you know, we don't have any good reports on our Children as a whole seem, everything seems to be like it's falling down, but as we have addressed many times before, and this is a great Avenue for us, this, this wonderful podcast, the family ties and I want to thank those individuals who Created this platform for us for Fardy and I to be able to even communicate with, with you want to thank those brothers and those sisters who put up their time and resources to make sure we had this opportunity. And we want to thank them as me as the co host and my other co host to tell them we truly appreciate. What you have done. It gave us an opportunity to see some things about ourselves, that we can kind of stretch and learn things about us and even inspire ourselves. Self inspiration is something that happens all the time. We, we, we, we go out in the world. We want to inspire the world. I want to go out and change the world, but you know, you got to change yourself first. You know, we want to go out and make this world something special and have great families. Well, you have to start with yours That's where it begins. So I just want to thank those brothers and a special shout out. I want to give out to mr Daryl anderson who is a part of the amg the ambassador media group who does all of the wonderful technological things for this podcast, you know, he, he engineers it all as the music and do, you know, in, in some of the stuttering that we do, he cleans that stuff up pretty well. So just want to give a shout out to Daryl and thank him as well. So once again, all of us working for this, all of the subscribers to the podcast, all of those who are 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, as I said, the bunkers to hide from the apocalypse. No, we're standing firm and we're making our mark in the world to all of the great listeners, all of those who have subscribed to the podcast, all of those who in the developmental part of the podcast the great cohost that I have just want to thank you all for such a wonderful opportunity and don't, and I don't want this to be, to be missed. In all of the things that are happening on the planet today, these small little incremental things would build society, which builds society. One of the great thinkers in my lifetime, one of the great orators in my lifetime one of the great leaders in my lifetime, my father. Yes. Right. My father, he said that. The goal is where you want to go and where you want to be. But he also said that every step takes you there. So every step is just as important as the final goal itself. So don't sleep on the steps that you're taking. You're moving one step closer. As we say to destination excellence, do not sleep on the steps that you're taking. And although it seems like you're miles away from your destination, You're on the pathway to the destination. You're there, you're close. And as long as you move into the direction, ultimately, when we get there collectively, And the goal, you will be there standing, championing, and be proud upon everything that you fought for, you worked for, and you sacrificed for. So, thank you, dad. Wonderful, wonderful knowledge that he passed on. And I want to make sure that I'm able to pass on that. As well in these podcast episodes and not interactions. Once again, truthful, truthful interactions with one another, that universality, which is truth, truthful interactions. So once again, what is our determination for our establishment? What is our determination for our establishment? Why do we want to establish ourselves as a people? What is the determination? Ultimately, the determination is to be a model for the world. Community, a model people, a model society, because good lives forever. Bad doesn't live forever. Only the good lives forever. And God created the good, as he said, and he only accepts the good. Our best life comes from our goodness. Our purity comes from our goodness and love itself comes from our goodness, our goodness. So the praise is for God always we have moved one step closer to destination excellence. So until next time, let us remain constant and conscious Of our creator of the sacred relationship of parent and child and the family ties that bind us the love and trust between one another. So subscribe to the podcast and come back next time for a new episode of the family ties from Frank Abdul Shahid and my wonderful co host Farah Abdul Tawar Brown. Peace be upon the family.