Families First Volume 1
Issue 16
In the Name Of Allah the Most Gracious the Most Merciful Recap of the last issue: Defining our goals and developing a pragmatic system of solving problems.
Stick to the Pillars of Society The pillars of society: family, housing, food, transportation, and energy. Do not allow anyone to fool you on these issues. If you do not own and control these, you will never be able to permanently change the conditions of your community. You desire to stop police brutality in your community? Create a community and don’t allow them to enter. You desire to establish lasting businesses and family legacies? Focus on these pillars first. $30
How much
$6,000
$8,000
$75,000
Solar generator
House
Cost of ownership
Garden
Car
What Now, just by looking at the chart, which category should we work on first? That’s right: Family. Everything in the chart is what will be owned by the family/families. Begin with your family, start a garden (in most cities you can rent a garden space for $30 a year), own your vehicle (that means pay it off), buy a house, convert to solar power or some other energy source you can own. This is the preferred order but it is not written in stone. Stop listening to people who haven’t achieved any of this. We can pay off a house. We can pay off a solar generator. We can pay off a car. Yet, we can never pay off food because it is constantly being consumed. However, we can create a “living plan” to greatly reduce the cost of our food over time. All of this must be taught to our family. How can we establish a legacy and pass it on if we don’t own it and we don’t even know what it should be?
Four Sets of Questions 1.
Do you belong to a Jamaat? Who is your Amir?
2.
Do you work at a job or do you own a business?
3.
Does your community live together on property they own? Or, do they live in separate areas and are renting?
4.
Does your community have a long term plan (minimum 7 years) that the whole community is working towards? May I see this plan and compare notes?
Which version? Which picture?
Simple
Quality
Vision
Individual
Change
Elaborate
Quantity
Execution
Comparison
As-is
Who/What? (portrait) How much? (chart) Where? (map) When? (timeline) How? (flowchart) Why? (plot)
Beware, Beware, BEWARE! Beware of any individual or institution that has a national agenda and has not mastered control of their local community. This is a trick by the enemy to encourage you to use your time, energy, and resources inefficiently.
Next issue: Qualifying vs Quantifying our problems
Freedom Gardens 40 week countdown: 32 weeks left Objective #1: Learn to grow and care for 10 types of fruit vegetables in your area. At least one must be a perennial. Objective #2: Establish a network of people in your area who are also working towards freedom. You are only limited by your own ambition.