أشرف الأنبياء والمرسلين حبيبي إله العالمين أب القاسم المصطفى محمد وعلى أهل بيته الطيبين الطاهرين الذين أذهب الله عنهم الرجسة وطهرهم تطهيرا قال الله تعالى في كتابه الكريم بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم ووصينا الإنسان بوالديه حملته أمه وهنا على وهن وفي صاله في عامين أنشكر لي ولوالديك إلي المصير وإن جاهدك على أن تشرك بما ليس لك به علم فلا تطعهما وصاحبهما في الدنيا معروفا واتبع سبيل من أناب إلي ثم إلي مرجعكم فأنبئكم بما كنتم تعملون ومعروف أمه وصاحبه ورحمة الله وبركاته إن شاء الله نتبع with chapter 31 في القرآن سورة لقمان وفي قبل سشننا نتحدث عن المساعدة لقمان المساعدة لقمانه وذلك لا تشرك بالله إن الشركة لظلم عظيم لا تشهد بالقرآن مع الله سبحانه وتعالى لأن هذا هو أفضل المساعدة لقمان now the verse moves on ووسينا الإنسان بوالدي moves on to talk about one of the most important messages of not only the religion of Islam but all religions and it is a very important message in the Quran a value that the religion of Islam insists upon and in fact Allah سبحانه وتعالى in numerous occasions in the Quran talks about this Allah talks about it immediately after talking about the importance of believing in the one and only God and not associating a partner with Allah سبحانه وتعالى so this shows that this is a very important topic a very important subject what is it? it is honoring and showing respect to parents so the following verse immediately after the verse of not associating a partner with Allah سبحانه وتعالى comes the verse of respecting parents Allah says in the Quran ووسينا الإنسان بوالدي حملته أمه وهنا على وهن and we have commanded we have enjoyed enjoyed upon man care for his parents his mother carried him increasing in her weakness upon weakness and his weaning is in two years be grateful to me and to your parents to me is the final destination so when we analyze the Quranic verses that talk about parents and the rights of the parents we see that in many occasions in several occasions where they are mentioned they come immediately after believing in the one and only Allah سبحانه وتعالى and not associating a partner with God this is one instance in Surat Luqman chapter 31 where Allah says in the Quran ووسينا الإنسان بوالدي immediately after إن الشركة لظلم عظيم so the first piece of advice was associating a partner is a great act of injustice now the next order the second most important order of Allah سبحانه وتعالى is to respect and love the parents and here one of the scholars of the Quran exegetes of the Quran العلامة طبع طبائي in his book تفسير الميزان he says that this portion ووسينا الإنسان بوالدي this was not the advice of Luqman to his son he said that this is actually God Allah سبحانه وتعالى interjecting and telling us the importance of respecting parents because immediately before that the concept of Tawheed and not associating a partner with God was mentioned so Allah سبحانه وتعالى is telling us God this is the advice of Luqman he is telling his son don't associate a partner with God and then before carrying on with the other advices pieces of advice of Luqman Allah سبحانه وتعالى says but wait when we partner with God we will command you ووسينا الإنسان and this is a command from God ووسينا الإنسان بوالدي so here it's because of the importance of the message Allah سبحانه وتعالى interject and adds this piece of advice in the middle of a series of advice that Luqman is giving his son so this is one in Surat Luqman after not associating a partner with God you have the order of respecting parents second in Surat Isra Chapter 17 in the Quran verse 23 of Chapter 17 Allah says and your Lord has decreed that you do not worship anyone other than Him you do not associate a partner with God and the next immediate order and this shows how important it is in terms of priorities the next order is واب الوالديني إحسانة and that you show إحسان you show kindness towards your parents in Surat An-Kabout the spider verse 8 Allah says in the Quran ووسينا الإنسان بوالدي حسنا وإنجاه داكة لتشرك بما ليس لك به علم فلا تطرحنا despite the fact that not associating a partner with God is so important and Tawheed is so important Allah says even though شرك is the greatest sin associating a partner with God is the greatest sin and the one who does that is the greatest oppressor it's ظلم عظيم but if your parents still have to respect them you still have to show them kindness and this is a recurring theme throughout the Quran you always see the prophets doing dua for their parents ووالديني always there's a command to show love and respect to the parents and show kindness to the parents now someone might ask why does the Quran constantly remind us this and although the Quran does order parents to raise children properly and care for children and it does give us those commands as well but there's nothing compared to the commands of the children having to respect their parents so you see that Allah سبحانه وتعالى focuses on this so much why? it's because oftentimes people forget oftentimes people get too caught up with their lives that they forget the closest people to them their own parents you forget the ones who cared for you the most the ones who made you who you are the ones who loved you the most and unconditional love those are your parents your parents who accepted you for who you are your parents who had sleepless nights because of you they love you the most but you find that many times the parents don't need a reminder to take care of their children it's a natural instinct to care for your children and worry about your children but sometimes you find that the children and even once they're older once they're busy once they're successful once they have a job at that time many times they tend to forget their parents forget about the closest people to them so this is why the Quran constantly reminds us this is why the Quran is constantly telling us وَوَصَّيْنَ الْإِنْسَانَ we have commanded you we have enjoyed you it's such an important order when it comes to the religion of Islam وَوَصَّيْنَ الْإِنْسَانَ بِوَالِدَيْهِ حَمَلَتْهُ أُمُّهُ وَهْنَا عَلَى وَهْنِ so Allah says in the Quran and we have enjoined the human being to take care of your parents now Allah SWT gives an example of the mother because the Quran acknowledges that your mother has exhausted herself much more than your father now you have to respect both and you have to love both and you have to show ihsan to both but the Quran takes us back to the mother it is your mother who had sleepless nights because of you it is your mother who her body was changed because of you it is your mother who fed you from her own body from her own soul she gave you her heart she gave you everything وَوَصَّيْنَ الْإِنْسَانَ بِوَالِدَيْهِ حَمَلَتْهُ أُمُّهُ وَهْنَا عَلَى وَهْنِ the mother, Allah describes the weakness and the pain that the mother has while she is carrying and while she is giving birth and while she is feeding and while she is raising and while she is growing and we forget the pain that our mothers went through to carry us for nine months and then to feed us and then the birth and the labor and delivery and then dealing with raising us and the problems that we give our parents a lot of times we forget that you find some people they once as soon as they get the car keys as soon as they become a little bit successful or they get a degree they have a job they forget their parents Allah says حَمَلَتْهُ أُمُّهُ وَهْنَا عَلَى وَهْنِ in weakness and that weakness creates more weakness your mother gave birth to you that exhausted her body that took a toll on her body and maybe later on you find her bones are weak maybe later on you find that she is weak this is because you sucked out that energy from her that pregnancy had a toll on her when she was feeding you it had a toll on her body so Allah سبحانه وتعالى wants us to remember that حَمَلَتْهُ أُمُّهُ وَهْنَا عَلَى وَهْنِ and then Allah says in the Quran وَفِصَالِهُ فِي عَامَيْنِ and two years two years that's the average amount that's the time that a mother is feeding you changing your diaper carrying for you breastfeeding you giving you all of that at least two years وَفِصَالِهُ فِي عَامَيْنِ and then Allah says in the Quran وَنِشْكُرْ لِي وَلِوَالِدَيْكَ إِلَيَّ المَصِيرِ you want to be a mu'min you want to be a believer in God you have to as the verses pointed out وَلَقَدْ آتَيْنَا لُقْمَانَ الْحِكْمَةَ and you want the wisdom you have to thank God but now Allah says in the Quran but wait it's not only thanking God you have to thank your own parents وَنِشْكُرْ لِي وَلِوَالِدَيْكَ you have to thank me and thank your parents إلي المصير you all come to me so here the Quran teaches us something very important a very important point and that is that my appreciation and my gratitude is not only to Allah yes we have to first and foremost appreciate and show thanks to Allah but if I want to maximize that appreciation if I want to show the best appreciation to God then I have to thank my parents I have to respect my parents I have to show احسان to my parents and this is what it means to be a Muslim وَنِشْكُرْ لِي وَلَقْمَةَيْكَ God says thank me and thank your own parents this is what makes you a believer if someone is praying and fasting and always thanking God but they neglect their own parents then there is a question mark on this person then this person will have serious issues if they have problems with their parents no matter how much good you've done you have to respect and appreciate your parents and give them the proper respect that they deserve and of course according to the religious teachings Islamic teachings is that we will never be able to fully appreciate our parents never a man he carries his mother on his back and he performs the Hajj at that time they had no wheel chairs and the Hajj is exhausting it's exhausting for a person to walk and do the Hajj on your own now imagine having to carry your mother on your back his mother was paralyzed so he carries his mother and the Tawaf and the Sa'ee and the Muzdalafa and Mina and Arafat for anyone who's been to Hajj they know it's very tiring he does all of that and his mother is on his back and she's also performing the Hajj then he comes to Rasool Allah he tells him ya Rasool Allah I carried my mother for this whole period on my back will God compensate me have I done enough for my mother have I fulfilled my duty and my task to my mother Rasool Allah you have not done enough no and you will never be able to fully compensate your mother and pay your mother back you'll never be able to do that you find some people their parents are at an older age and they take care of their parents for many years probably 5 years 6 years 10 years whatever the case may mean some of them they probably think to themselves my parents they raised me for 3-4 years and then I grew up and I started walking I started using the restroom on my own I started doing this and that but now I'm taking care of my parents for this whole time I've definitely paid them back the answer is no even despite that when we are caring for our parents at an older age we have never paid them back because when we were taking care of you when you were young when you were an infant when you were a newborn when you were so vulnerable they were seeing a bright future for you they were hoping for you to live long to attend your wedding they were hoping for you to be successful they were hoping for you to have they were having dreams for you but when you are taking care of your ill mother or your ill father are you having the same dreams for you many times people they say this is a test from Allah it's going to finish quickly let me be patient they're going to leave this life soon we're not having the same dreams for our parents as they had for us and this is because this is why we could never pay them back and then Allah says in the Quran فلا تطئ هما وصاحب هما في الدنيا معروفا and if they have ordered you if they are struggling and they are telling you to worship another God to be a مشرك Allah says in the Quran وإن جاهدك على أن تشرك بما ليس لك به علم if they are telling you to worship something that you have no knowledge of what does scholars here they say ما ليس لك به علم it's just talking about idol worship it has no substance it's not based upon knowledge so therefore Allah says ما ليس لك به علم something that you have no knowledge of something that you don't even agree to فلا تطئ هما don't obey them when they are telling you to do something wrong and here the religion of Islam tells us that every person they have to make their own decision your religion it should not be the religion of your parents even if you are a Muslim you have to become a Muslim based on conviction based on faith based on certainty you have to be convinced that this is the right religion so if your parents are forcing you to obey and worship and associate a partner with God something that you have no knowledge of don't obey them kindness is one thing and blind obedience is something else yes we are ordered we are requested to show kindness to our parents to show احسان to take care of our parents however that does not mean that you are an independent thinker and if they are telling you to do something wrong then you do not obey لا طاعة المخلوق في معصية الخالق this is a general principle they are telling you to disobey Allah سبحانه وتعالى then in this case you do not obey them in this case you do not obey them however Allah says in the Quran وصاحبهما في الدنيا معروفة but you still have to take care of them you still have to show that compassion show that love show that attachment to them take care of them provide for them because this is if you want to show appreciation to God then you have to show appreciation to your parents no matter what religion they are on Amen by the name of Zahra Zahra Zahra Zahra Zahra Zahra Zahra Zahra Zahra Zahra Zahra Zahra Zahra ZAHRA Zahra Zahra Zahra يجب أن تفعل أكثر و أنت لن يجب أن تكون مسلم لا يعني أن أنت لن تكون أمانك لا يعني أنك لن يجب أن تبقى love and respect to her so this man زاكريا ابن أدم يذهب إلى his city and he starts taking care of his mother he starts showing her the love and the attachment he starts washing her feet he starts feeding her she was an old lady he starts taking care of her and she notices the difference she tells him oh my dear son زاكريا what has happened to you I see that you're acting very different now what has happened so he tells her oh my mother I joined the religion of Islam and I met a man who told me that now that you're a Muslim referring to Imam Sadaq now that you're a Muslim you want to show more love and care and attachment to your mother so she tells him is this man a prophet of God he tells her no he's not a prophet but he is from the progeny of a prophet he's from the descendants of a prophet so she says then I want to be on the same faith and same path as that man and she joins the religion of Islam and she dies having become a Muslim so زاكريا ابن عدم the next time he sees Imam Sadaq he tells him the story he tells him that my mother joined the religion of Islam as a result of the way you ordered me to deal with her just because you are a Muslim does not mean that you don't respect your parents if they're not Muslim or maybe they're not good people maybe they're not doing something that's moral something that's good you still have to show them that love you still have to show them that respect and that honor now what are our responsibilities what are our duties towards our parents how should they be treated الله says in the Quran in Surah Al-Isra' وقضى ربك اللى تعبدوا إلا إياه و بالوالدين إحسانا and your lord has decreed that you do not worship anyone other than him and you show إحسان to your parents what is إحسان إمام الصادق عليه السلام he says إحسان is that you serve them you take care of them before they ask you to take care of them some people they take care of their parents because their parents they're calling them they're telling them I need this and I need that that's not إحسان إحسان is when you go and you serve them before they ask you you see your mother your father they want to take medicine they need a cup of water before they get up and they take the water you go and you bring it to them you see that they're in need of anything they need medicine they need to go to the doctor they need something sometimes parents because they love their children so much they don't tell them they don't tell them when they need something sometimes they keep the pain when them they don't tell their parents so here اللى says و بالوالدين إحسانا when do you have to show that the most اللى tells us exactly when إما يبلغنا عندك الكبر أحدهما أو كلاهما usually your parents they don't need they don't like to burden their children when the parents are well they're good they're healthy they don't need anything but there comes a time when they become older that is the time that they are in need of their children إما يبلغنا عندك الكبر أحدهما أو كلاهما once they get older one of them or both of them so here that is the time that you have to show them إحسان that is the time that you have to treat them better than anyone else see with everyone else we are ordered to treat people with equality with عدالة justice if someone for example did something to me I have the right to do the same thing to that person but if my parents for example they were upset with me they yelled at me they did something do I have the right to do the same no it's حرام اللى says in the Quran فلا تقل لهم أفن ولا تنهرهما وقل لهم قولا كريما during their life when they're old or at any time don't even say of to them you know sometimes when some people when someone tells you to do something we make that sound of why do I have to do this the Quran says don't even say that to them the Imam says if there was anything less than of the Quran would have mentioned it that's something that's just a gesture that someone makes you're not saying anything you're just making that sound فلا تقل لهم أفن ولا تنهرهما don't yell at them don't rebuke them don't raise your voice at them وقل لهم قولا كريما and when you talk to them be very kind show love show attachment show respect to them this is during their life and then after their death after they leave this life وقل رب رحمهما كما رب يعني صغيرا oh Allah have mercy on my parents just as they raised me and they had mercy upon me when I was in need of mercy when I was young your parents are in need of your dua whether they're alive or they have passed on they are in need of your prayers and if you want your prayers for yourself to be accepted then you do dua for your parents أمان asks رسول الله صلى الله عليه و آله he tells him what are my obligations towards my father رسول الله tells him لا تمشي أمامه you don't walk in front of him meaning that you give him the respect he's the leader ولا تمشي أمامه ولا تستسب له do not be a reason that people will curse at your father you know in some cultures when they want to curse at someone they don't just curse at that person they curse at this person and their father and their grandfather and their whole family so رسول الله says ولا تستسب له don't do something so that people are going to curse your father ولا تستسب له ولا تجلس قبله don't go and sit in front of him before your father when you arrive somewhere you make sure your father has the chosen seat ولا تجلس قبله ولا تدعه بسمه and you do not call your father by his name and also all of these and you will fly to the mother as well and another hadith رسول الله صلى الله عليه وعاله says من سره because once you start doing that once you start caring for your parents you're going to see many blessings in your life and in your afterlife if you want الله سبحانه وتعالى to increase your wealth you want Allah to increase your life and prolong your life and give you more than you take care of your parents because in the الله سبحانه وتعالى has a system there are laws you do something here God will give you something else there's a cause and effect maybe we don't realize it but there is a system and this is something that Allah سبحانه وتعالى points out in the Quran and in the hadith of رسول الله صلى الله عليه وعاله رسول الله says من سره and you medd في عمره ويزداد في رسقه فاليمسي بارا لوالدي وصولا لرحمه if you want رسول الله is giving us a formula if you want to prolong your life and your risk your sustenance to be increased what do you have to do you have to be بار الوالدين you have to show love and respect and compassion to your parents وصولا لرحمه you have to be connected with your رحم anyone that you've shared a womb with meaning your relatives anyone that you share blood with this person you have to be connected with this person now someone always they come and they say what about this person they're disconnected with me they're disconnected with you you have to do your task you do your duty and they have their own responsibility you do what Allah سبحانه و تعالى is ordering you to do so Allah سبحانه و تعالى will prolong your life if you're good with your family and on the other hand anyone who's bad with the family then this person their life will be destroyed and their afterlife will also be destroyed عقوق الوالدين making your parents angry with you where they can't sleep the night because they're angry with you and they're really upset with you that's عق الوالدين that will destroy your life that's a formula for destroying your life and destroying your afterlife and this person is cursed in the Quran Allah سبحانه و تعالى curses this person in the Quran Allah says in the Quran this is the covenant between God because Allah says in the Quran و قضى ربك أن لا تعبدوا إلا إياه و بالوالدين ياحسانة و أصينا الإنسان بوالدين this is something that God has instructed you to do so this is a covenant that we have with God so those who break that covenant those who break that bond والذين ينقلون أهد الله من بعد مي ثاقه they disconnect the covenant with God what do they do و يقطعون ما أمر الله به أن يوصل و يفسدون في الأرض and they disconnect the relationship that God has told you to connect with with your parents with your family with your relatives و يفسدون في الأرض and they cause facade they cause oppression and tumult in the land و يفسدون في الأرض أولائك لهم اللعنة و لهم سوء الدار لعنة و لهم سوء الدار those are the people that are cursed by Allah meaning لعن means someone is barred from the mercy of Allah the mercy does not come to this person anymore و لهم سوء الدار and they have the worst ending they have the worst house in the afterlife so we have to be very careful for some people this is their test some people they pray they fast, they go to Hajj they do everything but their struggle is with their parents if that's your test then you have to know that this is a test that God is testing you with so you have to be very careful with it not to talk back not to say anything bad not to say anything that might anger your parents إمام الصادق عليه السلام he says he says سبحان الله this is such a scary hadith where the Imam he says if someone is frowning at his parents or her parents and the parents they are the wrongdoers they are the ones who are the wrongdoers الله will not accept the prayer of the one who is frowning at the parents meaning that even if they are in the wrong you still have to respect them because we mentioned earlier that the biggest wrong the greatest oppression is associating a partner with Allah and Allah says even despite that you still have to respect your parents so if they are wronging you you still have to respect them you do not reciprocate the same action that's your duty that's your responsibility الله سبحانه وتعالى and this is the teaching of the religion of Islam now yes you're not required to obey them in everything that they tell you to do when am I here scholars they talk about this when is it obligatory upon you to obey your parents and when does it become not obligatory here scholars say that what's haram is to hurt your parents it's haram to oppress your parents it's haram to anger your parents but it's not always wajib to obey them in everything that they do because there are some things that they want for you they like for you but they're not going to get upset for example your father tells you I want you to become a doctor like every Middle Eastern parent I want you to become someone who's very successful someone who's very rich you come and if you didn't do that are they really going to get upset are they really going to hate you for that most likely no most of the time your parents they want for your they want what's for your own success they want you to be successful so that's why their point of view of success is someone who's a doctor someone who's making millions of dollars that's not always the case by the way being successful is success in the eyes of Allah and someone who makes enough money to be able to take care of their family and live a happy life you don't need to live an extravagant lifestyle to be happy but anyways so imagine if your parents are telling you this is the job I want you to do and you couldn't do that that's not your interest and it doesn't really hurt them it doesn't really anger them but it's something that they liked for you to do it's not haram but for example if your parents are going to get upset and angry and they're going to be you know they're not going to want to talk to you anymore because of this then here you have to try to please your parents in the best way possible you have to try to please them but sometimes if your parents are telling you something that you know is wrong for example there are some parents when it comes to marriage they want to force their children to marry someone who the children do not want to marry that's wrong and the parents they need to put their shoes you know put themselves in the shoes of their children at the end of the day it's your children who are getting married you can't come and force them to get married to someone from this culture from this community from this background yes as a parent you have a duty to care for the well-being of your children you have a duty to you know raise them to help them make good decisions but not to make decisions for them there are some parents they want to make every single decision for their children that's also wrong let them choose let them choose how to live their life but as a parent you have to guide them and you have to get away so it's haram to hurt them but always listening to them sometimes they're not going to get upset if they're not going to get upset then it's okay to not do what they're asking you to do now sometimes even if there's something good that you want to do during the time of Rasulallah the Muslims were going out for jihad to sacrifice in the way of Allah and to defend the Muslims he comes to the prophet and he tells him I want to come but I'm the only son of my parents and they want me to stay with them Rasulallah tells him you stay with your parents and then Rasulallah says والذي نفسي بيده لأنسهما بك يوما وليلا خير من جهادي سنة I swear by the one who my soul is in his hand meaning God your parents happiness with you one day and one night is better will give you greater reward with Allah than jihad in the way of Allah for one full year this is how Allah سبحانه وتعالى will reward you and the satisfaction of the parents is very important it's important for this life and for the afterlife and during the moments of death if someone their parents are angry with them that moment is going to be very difficult for them I'll conclude with this story during the time of Rasulallah صلى الله عليه و آله there was a man who was dying a young man who was dying so the Muslims they came and they told Rasulallah this man is in the process of dying but he's not dying he's suffering he's not able to speak he's not able to say anything he's just suffering so Rasulallah comes because Rasulallah has a mercy Rasulallah stands over this person and he tells him سي أشهد أن لا إله الا الله سي أشهد أن لا إله الا الله but this person is a whole it's in a different world this person he cannot speak his tongue is tied he can't speak so Rasulallah he looks around he says are his parents around they say his mother is around he calls his mother he tells her are you satisfied with your son she tells Rasulallah to be honest with you no I'm not satisfied with him he says why she tells him this son of mine I cared for him I raised him I helped him I was crying for him I did everything for him as soon as he became older he started abusing me he started harassing me he would lay his hands at me and this broke my heart he got married he started favoring his wife over me and he started yelling at me he's always oppressing me I'm not happy with him so Rasulallah he tells her because you're not happy with him that is the reason why this person is not able to speak so please be happy with him be pleased with him ask Allah to forgive him she says ya Rasulallah I can't I'm too hurt he really hurt me it's been many years where he's been oppressing me all he does is abuse me after all that I did to him I can't so then Rasulallah he sees that he has no choice but to teach her and to teach her that her anger towards her son will cause him to suffer and to teach other people that when your parents are angry with you that will cause you to suffer so Rasulallah he tells the Muslims bring some firewood gather some firewood they gather some firewood and the mother is watching and then he tells them light the fire they light a fire and then Rasulallah he tells the people he says carry this young man and throw him in the fire as soon as Rasulallah says that the mother says ya Rasulallah what are you doing you want to burn my own son this is my son this is my baby he tells her you're a mother when you are not satisfied with your son this is how your son is going to be burnt in a fire that is much more severe than this fire so she realizes she says then I'm happy with him then I'll be satisfied with him and this is the mercy of a mother then the young man he was able to speak so Rasulallah comes to him he tells him what do you see he says I see an image an ugly image of a person choking me holding my neck and choking me and I can't speak so then Rasulallah he tells him repeat after me this dua oh he who accepts the little and forgives the many sins that we have done accept the little that I have and forgive the many that I have the many wrongs that I have Rasulallah kept telling the young man to repeat that then Rasulallah tells him what do you see now he says I see that that image is going away and a beautiful image is coming to me and then the man was able to finally say the Shahada he was finally able to say the word Shahada and the man died this is this shows us the importance of the parents being happy with you now one final point sometimes the parent and we have a hadith regarding this it says that if you're a parent don't force your children to become عق with you meaning don't put your children in a circumstance in a situation where you're going to have to be angry with them some parents they do that they put their children they corner them they put them in a situation where their children would be forced to disobey the parents there's actually a hadith which says may the curse of Allah be upon a parent that does that to their children because you are going to be the reason that you're barring your children from the mercy of Allah you're putting them in a tough circumstance yes because when they anger you they're going to suffer not only in this life and in the afterlife and finally the last point we have a duty towards our parents in this life and in the afterlife and after they've died after they left this life some people they say oh my parents are not alive anymore that means I don't have responsibilities towards my parents anymore no that's not the case you still have responsibilities towards your parents in a hadith from رسول الله he says سيد الأبرار يوم القيامة رجل بر والدي بعد موتهما the person who's the most بار الوالدين most connected to parents is the one who showed respect and love and attachment to parents after their death meaning that you keep doing to offer them you keep giving charity on their behalf you keep doing good things that are good on their behalf والحمد لله رب العالمين وصلى الله على محمد وعلى آله الطاهرين we ask Allah سبحانه وتعالى to make us be from the ones who are بار الوالدين who are connected and respectful to our parents اللهم أدخل على أهل القبور السرور اللهم أغني كل فقير اللهم أشبع كل جائع اللهم أكسوا كل عريان اللهم أقضي دينا كل مدين اللهم أفرج عن كل مكروب اللهم أردا كل غريب اللهم أفكا كل أسير اللهم أصلح كل فاسد من أمور المسلمين اللهم أشفي كل مريض اللهم سد فقرنا بغناك اللهم غير سوء حالنا بحسني حالك اللهم أقضي عن الدين وأغننا من الفاقر إنك على كل شيء قدير وإلى أرواح المؤمنين والمؤمنات نهدي ثواب 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The Giant in the Meadow, starring Ralph Bellamy on the Cavalcade of America sponsored by the DuPont Company. Our play on Cavalcade tonight tells the story of the first of all microbe hunters. Like many pioneers, Theobald Smith is not so well remembered as the later Titans whose work he made possible. But men of science the world over do homage to his name, for he carried the rigid discipline of laboratory work out of doors and trapped his adversary in its breeding place, the fertile meadows of America. And there established a great new medical principle, a principle that was to make possible the eventual wiping out of yellow fever, malaria and a score more of mankind's most ancient and mysterious enemy. DuPont, maker of better things for better living through chemistry, presents Ralph Bellamy as Theobald Smith, The Giant in the Meadow on the Cavalcade of America. 1884, on the deck of a bright new transatlantic steamship, a solemn young man in students' blazer and white bicycle cuffed trousers stands beside a slender, wasp-waisted young lady and the glass of Victorian fashion. They have come off to see off a group of friends on the long, hazardous ocean voyage to Europe. All aboard! It's going to short! Ralph Bellamy, I guess this is goodbye for the last time. And don't forget, boys, the first dinner engagement when you get back is with us in our new home. Right. I reckon I wouldn't mind too much staying at home, Ted, with a girl like Lillian engaged to be married. Maybe she'll find out before it's too late. She picked the wrong fellow. Oh, Ted. Anyway, I'm glad you fellas got your chance. Maybe when you come back, you'll teach me some of the things I've missed. Sure. Why don't medical students go to Europe to study anyway? Only so we can say we studied in Europe under the masters. That's not true, Coburn. You know it's not. Think of a great man you'll study under. Clark, Pasteur, the giants of the age. They'll come back great doctors, every one of you. Well, I think we better go now if we don't want to be stowaway. Goodbye, and good luck to all of you. Goodbye. Bye, John. Arthur. Thanks. Goodbye, fellas. There they go. And here I am. Here we are, Ted. And I'm glad. Funny tricks, a man's luck plays on him. I get the chance I've dreamed of all my life, a scholarship to study under the great men of medicine in Europe, and a few hundred dollars for steamship fare stands between me and what I might have been. Oh, but think, Ted, what you can do right here. While your classmates are over there appearing through microscope way, you will be getting experience where it counts the most, and saving human lives at the same time. I'm not going to be a doctor. Oh, Ted, you don't mean that. Yes, I do. I learned one lesson in medical school right here at home. Treating individual cases of illnesses all very well, but learning what causes diseases, preventing epidemics before they happen. That's the big thing in medicine. But you need special training for that. But we have to make a living, Ted. Look, Lily, I'm not asking you to go through with the marriage unless you really want to. I know of a government job where a man can have the use of a laboratory. It doesn't pay much, but it's enough to live on. You're sure that's what you want to do? Don't you see, I have to. Oh, then you must of course, Ted. I don't mind. I don't mind so long as we can be together. There may never be a fashionable doctor's wife or any of the rest of it. But I don't want to be a fashionable doctor's wife, Ted. I only want to be your wife. Oh, Lily, and my darling, you don't know what it means to me to hear you say that. But I've got to tell you the truth. There's only one chance in a million I'll ever find what I'm looking for. You'll find it, Ted. I know you will. Anyway, I'll take that chance in a million with you. Commissioner, Mr. Salmon is here, and Dr. Smith. Oh, Mr. Salmon, come in, come in. Thank you. I don't believe I have met you, Dr. Smith. Dr. Smith is my new assistant in the Bureau of Animal Industry, Mr. Commissioner. Oh, a laboratory worker and a student of theoretical medicine. Well, I don't know precisely what theoretical medicine has to do with the problem at hand. But I'm glad to have you with us, Dr. Smith. Thank you, sir. Mr. Salmon, in a moment we shall go out here through that door and face a committee of very angry gentlemen. These gentlemen represent the meatpacking industry and the cattlemen of the nation. They want to know what we of the government are doing to solve the problem of Texas cattle fever. Well, I've been doing some research in that field, Mr. Commissioner. Yes, well, that's fine, fine. But I'm afraid research won't impress these gentlemen. They want action. You'll have to promise them something concrete. But what can we promise them, Mr. Commissioner? That we will find the cause of Texas fever and the method for curing it. I have asked three medical consultants to sit in at the meeting. I believe they will present a constructive plan. But, Mr. Commissioner, how can they even pretend to have a plan? Nobody knows the cause of Texas fever. But, Dr. Smith, these men say they do. Shall we go in? I'll follow me if you will, please. Well, Mr. Chairman, I believe we're all here. Shall we proceed? Just a moment, Mr. Chairman. Before we begin, I'd like to ask the commissioner a straight question. I will answer it to the best of my ability, sir. The question is this, Mr. Commissioner. Is the government going on the assumption that someone is going to discover a cure for Texas fever? Or is it making practical plans for what we'll have to do if no cure is found? Do you realize America's cattle industry may be wiped out in the next few years? That we may have to import all our beef? But that is unthinkable, sir. Well, this is the greatest cattle country in the world. I assure you, this crisis is temporary. Great strides have been made. But Dr. Billings has conclusive evidence of the cause of Texas fever. Dr. Billings, will you give us a resume of your work? Yes, of course. Well, gentlemen, I will state my findings as briefly as possible. I have examined a number of cattle that have died of Texas fever. And I am convinced the disease is caused by a bacillus present in the feet. Owing to unsanitary conditions. Dr. Billings, may I ask you a question? I don't believe we've met, sir. I'm Dr. Theobald Smith. As a student of laboratory procedures, I'm interested in knowing what system of control those you set up. I believe I know the bacillus you refer to, and I believe it's present in all animal excretions. In fact, I've fed cultures of it to animals with no harmful results whatsoever. Just a moment, please. I don't believe the purpose of this meeting is to have an academic discussion. Mr. Chairman, speaking for the cattlemen, I am mighty glad, Dr. Smith spoke up just now. All the medical men are just wasting their time. We think we know the cause of Texas fever. We believe it is cause for ticks. My dear sir, the very idea that any insect could possibly carry the bacillus of a specific disease. Well, it's just too ridiculous to work. Why do you say it's ridiculous, doctor? Have you proved it untrue? Dr. Smith, I'm at a loss to account for your unprofessional remarks. Why, the nearest freshman in medical school knows that insects don't carry diseases. Well, if they did, half the population of the world would be down with some fatal disease. Every mosquito would be a deadly enemy. Dr. Billings, in the first place, half the population of the world is suffering from some virulent disease. Yellow fever, malaria, bubonic plague. Perhaps it's no accident that these diseases are peculiar to climates which breed the most insects. I say perhaps. I say the matter is worth investigating. Yes, of course. Dr. Smith, you are at liberty to continue your investigation. But in the meantime, gentlemen, you have our assurance that work is progressing. We hope to be able to offer you concrete evidence of it very soon. How soon, sir? Well, as soon as it is humanly possible to do so. You offer no alternative plan? I cannot offer a plan based on the premise that America has not within it the strength to conquer this problem. I shall keep you informed of our progress, gentlemen. Have a good day. We're wasting our time. Oh, sir. Sir. Oh, uh, yes. Yes, Dr. Smith. Could I speak to you a moment? Well, sure. Sure. I wanted to ask you about your idea that ticks carry Texas fever. Well, it's a little more than an idea, doctor. I've watched herds drop off from Texas fever some 30 years now, and it always happens the same way. Always the same way? To begin with, all us cattlemen believe it's the ticks. They come before the trouble.  Cows, they get light cases, and like us, not get well again. You sure of that? Absolutely. But where a cattleman makes his mistake, you see, he'll bring in northern cattle to fill out his herd, and in no time the whole herd will get it again. Huh. How do you explain that? Search me, doctor. That's one for you to figure out. Yes. Yes, you're right. That is one for me to figure out. Kid, you're late. What get to? Getting my reports in order. I'm resigning my job, Lillian. But what happened? All those fools, those idiots. Oh, now, wait a minute. Wait a minute. Well, I know. Well, sit down in this chair and relax, doctor, please. Now, start at the beginning. Well, they're holding up our appropriations. The story got around that I was breeding ticks in the laboratory and the halls of Congress are ringing with the shame of it. Oh, well, that's the whole basis of your work. Certainly it is. I'll breed some more. If I can prove the Texas fever is carried by an insect, it'll open up a whole new field of medical research. No scientist has ever even considered such a possibility. Yet, insects bite people and animals, come into direct contact with the bloodstream, they'd be ideal carriers for certain kinds of microbes. Uh, can't you possibly prove your theory without more money? To my own satisfaction possibly, but I must prove it a dozen times over under strict control. It costs money. And until it's proven that way, it won't be a scientific fact. Then go ahead and prove it to your own satisfaction.  But Pasteur is a genius. What exactly is your definition of genius, doctor? Well, it's intuition, prophecy, the ability to think in terms of the future. Well, my dear? I'm not much of a prophet, but I predict that before this evening is over, you'll talk me into going back to that miserable, poor excuse of a laboratory and tearing up my letter of resignation. And what else do you predict? The crystal is clouded. I see nothing but the truth. It's clouded. I see nothing beyond that, but hard, hard work. You are listening to Ralph Bellamy as Dr. Theobald Smith in The Giant in the Meadow, an original radio play on the cavalcade of America sponsored by the DuPont Company. Commissioner of Agriculture, Washington, D.C. Situation this county beyond belief. 5,000 head best prime stock cattle dead on range. 1,000 infected Texas fever in pens at shipping centers or after loading, militia keeping order after rioting against buyers, refusing apparently healthy stock in view of epidemic. Unless you take immediate steps to remedy that. The USA, in year 1890, and up and down the length and breadth of the land on every tongue were two dread words, Texas fever. In laboratories, big whiskered and pompous gentlemen were gravely cutting up the carcasses of dead cows, gravely writing thousands of learned and useless fetuses on the alleged cause of Texas fever. And in a dingy attic room in Washington, D.C., Dr. Theobald Smith and his colleagues were working far into the night on the most preposterous theory of all. Gentlemen, this thick-legged insect and the bottle I hold in my hand has provided us with the most interesting finding to date. He was brought here alive with the fresh blood still in her of a cow's suffering from Texas fever. In this blood, we have found definite evidence of a pear-shaped microbe. If we find this same condition in the blood of this liver taken from a cow which died a thousand miles away from the victim which furnished our other sample, we shall have reason to believe we're on the right track. You have the specimen there, Alexander? Yes, sir, Dr. Smith and Steele on die. Good. Just set it down there and get me a knife, clean microscope slide. There you is, sir. Kilburn, I want you to watch me carefully. Now then, we shall see what we shall see. What is it, doctor? I don't know. It's very strange. You'd better have a look, Kilburn. What? Why, it's swarming with... Looks like gangrene. Dr. Smith, excuse me, sir, but I meant to mention it to you. That liver didn't smell any too good when I opened the box. Oh, of course. Why didn't we think of that? It's just spoiled. Specimens absolutely useless. Mr. Sam. Yes, Dr. Smith. Do you think you could talk loud enough and fast enough to the commissioner to get him to finance another laboratory? You just re-equipped this place for us from top to bottom, Dr. Smith. Yes, I know, but I'm thinking of a different kind of laboratory, a meadow. Two herds of healthy cows and ticks. Plenty of ticks. A meadow, Dr. Smith? Yes. And I need Alexander and Kilburn here as assistants and we'd need a few farm hands. It might run into quite a lot of money. Well, I'll tell you the truth, doctor. They're so desperate over at the department for an answer to this problem. I think they'd try anything. Even your open-air laboratory in the meadow. South and west south of Washington, a train moves at the leisurely pace of its century. House the windows of its wooden coaches moves the landscape telling a vast and tragic narrative. Tall fields of timothy, unharvested. Stock barns standing empty in disrepair. And as the land flattens into prairie, the bleached bones of cattle dot the landscape. The warm lifeblood of rural America is ebbing away. Where once evening was a gentle lowing of cattle and sweet clover breath, now is a silent. And the lonely whistle of a freight rattling past empty stockpens with empty cars. There are a few places not yet utterly desolated. And it's in one of these that the motley staff of scientists led by Theobald Smith is established. The place looks like any dairy farm, but there are little differences. Enough to bring a laboring farmer across the meadow and leaning over the fence to question the outlander. Meads, my name's stranger. What's your name? Smith. Ain't no chore to recollect.  Well, I'm not exactly a farmer. You see the way I fenced off this meadow in different sections? I was fix to ask you about that. No, I've got southern cows in one half of the meadow invited into age groups. And northern cows in the other half. Well, you have Texas fever for sure. Lose your whole head. That, Mr. Mead, is precisely what I hope will happen. Here's another one of them ticks on it, Dr. Smith. Good. Now, take this bottle of insects over and plant them on the little spotted heiferin and close your seven. The one we decontaminated yesterday. Would that seem to be kind of mean to the poor little cowdozer, Dr. Smith? Yes, I know. But try to make her understand we're doing this so our children and grandchildren will never have to suffer from these culprits, Alexander. Yes, sir. I've been telling that to all of them, Dr. Smith. They look like they understand. Well, darling, you looked at it this time. We really have found the answer. Oh, I do hope so. It seems almost too good to be true. We've found the same result under every control I could think of. A pear-shaped microbe in the blood of a deceased cow, pear-shaped microbes in the tick after biting the cow. Pear-shaped microbes appear in the blood of a healthy cow after being bitten by an infected tick. And Texas fever follows. There's only one point in the whole picture that worries me a little, but it's not important, really. Oh, really, Smith. I brought over the records of those blood counts. Not necessarily now, Kilburn. I think we've solved the problem. Well, I don't want to throw cold water on anything, but you'd better look at these. Those cows were all anemic, don't they? Anemic? Kilburn, anemia. What we thought were microbes, there may be only signs of anemia. Oh, what fools we've been. Well, at least you thought of taking the blood count. I thought of something else, too, but I put it out of my mind because it spoiled my pat little theory. You remember, Kilburn, that the cows we infected by carrying the insects from one to another all fell ill in a few days while the others took as long as 30 days? Well, the insects take a little longer to crawl there under their own paws. Not that long. All the ones we observed lived and died on one cow. Oh, and our whole experiment, all these months of work, exactly, Kilburn. Well, we've got to start all over again. Smith, Dr. Smith. Yes, Alexander, what is it?  She's took sick. Her back's all arched up and her eyes is drooling. Oh, it's a pity. To see, Dr. Smith. But she couldn't have Texas fever. She couldn't have. Those ticks I put on her were absolutely clean. Brad right here in the laboratory. I only put them on to study the anemia. It's that old Texas fever, Dr., for sure. Wait. Kilburn. Yes, Dr. Smith? Kilburn, we've got it. We were right after all. The insects do carry Texas fever. But I thought we... Yes, we proved conclusively that the ticks don't travel from one animal to another.  Then the baby ticks inherit the microbes. Oh. That proves it. Exactly. Which accounts for the time lag. It takes 30 days for the ticks to hatch out to find their way to a healthy cow. It's fantastic, but it all picks. And now all I have to do is to make it fit again and again and again until nobody can possibly question our findings. Tired, darling? No. How about you? Supposedly you would dictate in your notes. I'll write it down. All right. Got pen? Paper? Mm-hmm. Ready? Well, here we go. Title first. Investigation into the nature, causation, and prevention of Texas or Southern cattle fever. Isn't that rather a conservative title? Well, that's what it's about. Well, sir, this is so important. Now that you've proved that insects do carry disease, why, a whole new field of medical research has been opened up. And therefore, because I want medical researchers to read my paper, I will make the title describe the contents as accurately as possible. You ready, dear? Mm-hmm. And so began Pierre Ball Smith's treatise on the lowly cow. But the modest paper titled Investigation into the Nature, Causation, and Prevention of Texas or Southern Cattle Fever opened a broad highway of human knowledge. Down that road would walk an army of great scientists. Bruce, finding the deadly secret of sleeping sickness in the seat-by-fly. Finlay, pioneering research that spelled the doom of the mineral mosquito. Walter Reed, abolishing yellow fever forever from the Western Hemisphere. Gorgas, making possible the building of the Panama Canal. The giants of a great, new, scientific age would pay homage to the man whom, on a day in New York, the man whom, on a day in 1893, sat down and modestly dictated to his wife, investigation into the nature, causation, and prevention of Texas or Southern Cattle Fever. Thank you, Ralph Bellamy. Ladies and gentlemen, in a few moments we will hear again from our star. But first, our story of chemistry. The millions of gallons of paint that have been supplied by DuPont for military purposes since the beginning of this year would be enough to cover, in peacetime, half a million American homes. Wartime paints are used on everything from planes and tanks to barracks and battleships. Since the finishes used by our armed forces must have special properties, they have been especially formulated. Practically all, army, navy, and air force finishes, for example, whether they're for a jeep or the interior of a navy flying boat would be dull rather than glossy. And the finish that's best for a dive bomber is nothing at all like the paint that is best for the pontoons used for building bridges. If it were a simple matter of taking the bright finishes that make our automobile so attractive in peacetime and making them dull rather than glossy, the manufacture of war paints would be comparatively easy. But wartime paints are drab for particular reasons of their own. They are made drab, the colors you have seen on army trucks and jeeps, and blend in with the earth colors of the terrain. In other words, they're a first step in camouflage. And camouflage presents problems of its own in this day of airplanes. Camouflage paints must conceal tanks and guns, landing fields, and barracks from observers in the sky. Not only that, but they must conceal them from aerial observers who use telescopic cameras and color filters as well as their eyes. The same Dupont experts who develop quick-drying duco and two-lux finishes are supplying the British and American armed services with new types of quick-drying finishes. Even finishes that will resist the action of de-icing fluids used six miles up in the air. Wartime finishes made by Dupont include primer paints for steel runways for aircraft, short-baked finishes for mobile equipment, primers for wooden motor truck bodies, waterproof finishes for military maps, stencil finishes, and dozens of others. Dupont not only furnishes paints for these military needs, but Dupont service engineers are aiding manufacturers of wartime equipment to speed up production schedules. Technically trained Dupont fieldmen are at the service of American industry to help solve the painting problems which arise from wartime production. The know-how of these experts has been enlisted for war service. Supplying the paints that protect America's fighting equipment and furnishing the knowledge for fast, speedy production are the wartime jobs of Dupont paint scientists who bring you in peacetime better things for better living through chemistry.  Theobald Smith saved America's food supply in time of great crisis. Today, we must feed our boys in the training camps, ship food abroad to our armed forces, and help our fighting allies. This time you, the American people, can do something about it.  Victory foods are fresh fruits, vegetables, perishable foods which are overabundant, and yet cannot be shipped out of the country to our allies. Our government wants us to tell you. Your grocer is now displaying these foods in baskets or counters marked with a V for victory. Look for them. You're helping victory when you buy victory food. Next week on Cavalcade of America, Dupont will present Charles Lawton in an original radio play called Cross It Without Honor. 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Hey everyone and welcome. Welcome to one of the stock's worst show plays of the day here. This is ACRX. Nice move here in this today. Didn't get to the dream target, which was $5. I mean, I really thought this could get to $5 today. But this stock doesn't move a million miles on the day. It had a 50 cents extension from the high to the low. And 75 cents would have been a big move for this. I really thought it could do it though. It was looking great in the morning. So let's look at this. So stock open. Rally, rally? Did it in here? Beautiful. Could have done it out in here. Did not. But you could have actually done it out in here. Dropped, rallied up. Then I did it out in here. And I love the way that this held here. This is actually beautiful in here. It did really, really well today. Performed and it's not going to close above this number today. Actually, this is the resistance. And the market's rallying heavily right now at this time at 3.15. And this could definitely possibly continue on Monday because this didn't get to $5. I don't think it gets to $5 before the close here, which is in 45 minutes. It looked like it was going to a one point when it started to try to break down here around 12 o'clock-ish. But then, and then this bar was nice too into two. But then that was the end of it. This should have followed through here when it didn't. And this bar flipped up here. It was done. And again, the market's rallying. This will probably sideline and close under. I think it'll close under 50 today. It's not going to get over 60 something today. That is the resistance. But it's not going to make it down to five, which was the target I was thinking it was going to get to in the morning. Still had a nice move in here. This was not a gap on earnings. This was a gap on some kind of news related thing, a good gap, still a nice gap. You can get gaps for many reasons. Downgrades, earnings, news, the CEO quits or something. There's so many different reasons to do gaps. I have a system where I just look at 26 points in the daily chart of the stock and I rate the gap. And that's how I know. That's how I know whether that's good or not. So I rate this gap this morning, it rated well, and it worked. And it's a nice short. So nice short here today in ACRX had the rally to take it didn't get to $5. Could this continue on Monday? Yes, I'll be watching this for thought for a Monday. And I don't know where this really closed this afternoon. I just think it's a stretch to say this will get down in the next 45 minutes to five. I think the time of the day for it to try to make the attempt was here into two. But it did have a nice move down basically to 525, 527. These are areas. And it was a nice short in here in the morning. Typically, you like to trade in the morning be done quickly. And although there are some days where things fall through in the afternoon, could this have done it into the afternoon? Yes, it just isn't going to do it here. And again, the market's rallying and it's Friday and it's 315 and it's right before weekend. And we're getting into the end of the month. It was kind of a slow week. The last few days are this week in for September to close out the month earning season starts in the next week. But the first three weeks of September really busy and good. So you never know what you're going to get you get up every day and look for the gaps. I will say an earning season though, all of October and November are going to be heavily traded busy times and days, because there will be multiple gaps to do every day. And actually everything I call today worked. So it was one of these things where you just never know, you get up every morning and look for stuff and you follow it through and you rate the gap and you take the setup when it sets up. Got to know how to take it where it's a longer short and you have to know what stocks to watch. This is Melissa with The Stock Swish Show. This is ACRX, one of the Stock Swish Show plays of the day. Email me and Melissa at thestockswish.com if you'd like to sign up for the Golden Gap class. Have a fantastic weekend everyone.


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Hello again viewers and welcome to the program, Agriculture on the Move. I am Philip Sidney, your host. Today our topic is the discussion with our Honorable Minister, with the response of our agriculture, the Honorable First Prospect. And we are looking at various activities that are happening in the ministry, the successes and ongoing activities as it relates to the minister of agriculture, fisheries, rural development. Welcome to the program sir. Thank you very much as usual, it's always a pleasure. Thank you. Okay, Mr. Minister of Storm Breaks gave us a beating, gave the farmers a licking a few months ago. And the banana industry took some blows, the plantain, livestock, fisheries. We were supposed to give some relief to the farmers and the fishers, where we are with this? Yes, it's suddenly we had a hurricane, tropical storm break that impacted the entire agricultural sector. And unfortunately 75% of our banana and plantain subsectors were devastated. And obviously you would understand the impact negatively it would have on our farmers. Our farmers have been exporting to the region, our farmers have been selling locally bananas and plantain and the impact of the storm would have been a major setback to them. And our government realizing that was able to get $2.4 million to assist the farmers. Now I want to stick up in there to see to the farmers, we are not compensating them for loss or damage. What we are providing is an assistance, some level of assistance, what you just mentioned relief, to just help them get back into production. Because we know when you have a plantation of bananas or plantain and you see all your stems on the ground, especially those that you would have been harvesting a few weeks from the storm, that would definitely impact you. And obviously in order for you to get back and to, you know, convince your production, you would have to go in there and you would have to replant, you would have to uproot and do what is necessary. And we know at the time when that happened the farmers would be struggling to get the financial resources to do so. So what the government did was to provide some relief, some assistance to enable our farmers to get back to where they were. And I'm very happy that they've been taking advantage of the opportunity. We have paid up to 90% of the farmers in terms of compensation for bananas and plantain. And we have also done the same for vegetable farmers. We have also compensated almost 100% of farmers who were affected by the infrastructure damage, greenhouse damage, livestock damage. The only sector that we are yet to begin compensating are the CMOS farmers who we know lost a lot of the CMOS material, but we are still awaiting some NIC numbers that we need to put in the system for us to begin compensating the CMOS farmers. I'm very happy to see some of the plantations have been showing signs of rapid recovery. And in some cases we have seen a lot of bunches coming out from planting and banana and plantations. This augurs well for us because in recent weeks there has been a cry about a situation with lack of food. When you go to the supermarket shelves you don't see plantain, you don't see bananas. But what I want to say is that we still have lots of dashing available. So when I say we are in a food crisis, I'm not certain that we are suffering a food crisis in St. Lucia. Although we had a lot of our mangoes and golden apples, in some cases breadfruits and avocados, but we still have a lot around. And so I just want to remind our citizens that this is not the first time we have been in a situation like that. During a weekend, else in 2021, we had the same situation because once you do not have bananas and plantain, there will definitely be a gap. But I'm certainly sure by the end of October, early November, we should be back to normal with plantain and bananas and other crops that we would have not had as a result of the storm. And I'm just hoping that our people can be a little more patient because it was caused by a natural disaster. And a natural disaster, we have no control over. But what I want to do is to go back to the subsidy. So I'm happy that the farmers are receiving the subsidy. And in the same vein, we've provided a 30% subsidy in the sum of $400,000. That is in addition to the $2.4 million to allow farmers to get fertilizer at a much lower cost. And I remember saying recently that we are not producing or giving you the fertilizer free, but we are reducing the cost for you to be able to give you the buying power to be able to get as many as possible.  The small 25 kg bags that was going for about 70, they are going for 48. And that is in addition to two liters of nematocytes that we are giving to farmers, both plantain and banana farmers, to be able to take care of the disease and to ensure that the root system remains healthy. So the absorption of the fertilizers can have effect and can result in high yield and production. So we are going further. We've received 3,975 bags of fertilizer from the government of Morocco. And let me take time on behalf of the government and people of St. Lucia to thank the people of the government and people of Morocco for this annual donation of fertilizer. These fertilizer bags will be given free of charge to our banana farmers. So I'm happy that our government have been able to reach out. And I really wish we could have done a lot more. But we have been able to provide that level of assistance to farmers. And I just want the farmers to take advantage of it. Because it is critical that our farmers remain in the sector. It is important for us to continue to increase our food production, grow what we eat and eat what we grow. And if we do not give the farmers the support, it means that we will have a food crisis that will be on our hands and we will not be able to live well as a country, as a populace, who must eat on a day-to-day basis. But in addition, I want to mention the importance of agricultural insurance. You know, there is always this heavy dependency on the government to compensate. But of the view that if you have an agricultural insurance in place and government can assist with the premium, then whenever there is a natural disaster that impacts the sector, then the government responsibility will be... We've done what we've done in terms of the premium, let the insurance compensate the farmers. And you recall we had wind crop during the other days. And wind crop was responsible for compensating the farmers. And the wind crop has collapsed or collapsed many years ago. And we do not have anything in terms of compensation for our farmers, fishers and other persons in the agricultural sector, especially when they are in a crisis situation, like what they experience in June through tropical storm breath. So it's a serious situation, but I'm just happy to see that a lot of the farmers have taken advantage of the assistance that has been afforded to them. And we hope to see the results of that in the next few weeks, months. And this is important, because this is very important information. Storm breath affected figs, bananas and other fruits. Do we have to continue this? What assistance do we have by this framework? Well, I want to say that we all know that the storm that happened in Genland was affected by a lot of farmers, especially those who had figs and bananas. And we also know that a lot of people were affected, people who had greenhouses, people who had cows, people who had animals, people who had animals, and people who had animals, because we know that the weather was bad, bad, and it affected a lot of people. The government is here to support the situation of these farmers. We have to immediately buy the farmers 2.4 million, I'm not going to lie to you, assistance to buy the farmers this poor. And we want to help the government buy the money to pay for the damage. Because the government is giving money to pay for each fig plant that has been planted, but we don't know if it's going to help us to buy the plants, to buy the fig plants, to pay for the damage. And it's not going to be important for the entire system, because let it be done, I'm a farmer myself, and I don't know if it's going to help us with that. We have to buy figs, bananas and other fruits, because it's important to buy the plants, to grow them because of the wind, the trees, the wind, we have to buy the fruits to live, and that's what the government is doing. And we also need to buy an assistance for the farmers, and we have to make an FTO. The FTO is $400,000 in the government, and it's going to pay for the waste, and it's going to pay for the waste, it's not going to help us, it's not going to help the figs. And we have to buy the plants, but also the government is going to buy a donation, a donation for this government, for farmers, $3925, $425, it's going to buy the farmers free of charge. We have to pay for that. We have to buy the industry, we have to buy the agricultural sector, because we don't want to let the farmers buy the fruits, and if the farmers don't buy the fruits, it's going to be difficult for them to grow the fruits, and even if they don't grow the fruits, because they suffer, so we have to buy the fruits, because we have to buy the fruits, and we have to get the advantage of that. We have to go to the drivers, we have to buy the figs, we have to buy the fruits, we have to sell them, and we have to continue production, and we have to continue for the advantage of the market. We have to buy the figs, and we have to buy the figs, and for us, it's going to be difficult. So we have to go to the market, we have to buy the figs, but even if the situation is not good, because we have to buy the fruits, for the first time, we have to buy the fruits, because we suffer for the next three months, but we hope that by the end of October, we will be able to buy all the fruits and sell them to the market shelves. There's a point that is very important, and that's pretty a lesson now. And I heard something that's very frightening, Mr. Minister. Some of the farmers are very upset with what's happening, and of course, the bananas is green gold now, but fellas are still in the bananas, and I heard they're putting pins in the bananas. That is dangerous, you know.  It's a sad situation, and the British National Unit is very critical to this agricultural sector, but with 14 offices only, it is never or it will never be sufficient to secure the agricultural sector in terms of the farmers and produce. I believe what is important for us to do is, whilst we are focusing on pre-year last year as a team of persons in the ministry, we need to establish what we call watch farm or watch groups. So you have, on a weekend, let's say, MAC, you have a watch group, if it comprises maybe 20 farmers in the area, those farmers would organize a system of monitoring and observing, and they may have a system where they do it, maybe three farmers or four farmers on a weekend in the morning by a certain time in the evening, and they can work closer with the pre-year last year unit. But let's imagine if the pre-year last year there's 14 people, one in Denmark, one in Mexico, one in Puali, one in... And then the rest of the country will never... Just like the police force... It's difficult, it's difficult. You must work together with the communities, the farmers groups, to bring that joint effort together so we can strategize more in terms of this. Yes, very important. It's a major problem. Major problem, yes. Anyway, we'll do it for a break. You're watching Agriculture in the Move. Stay tuned, we'll be back soon. The Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries, Food Security and Rural Development is placing heavy emphasis on the concept of food security. It's our prosperity, our future. The Farmer Incentives Program of the Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries, Food Security and Rural Development is aimed at reducing the cost of production and promoting food security and accessibility. All farmers, fishers and agro processors who've registered and own a farmer's registration card qualify. These incentives include the percentage reduction of excise tax and import duties for agricultural and fisheries production inputs which are imported. These include approved agricultural products for an approved agricultural project, for example vehicles, fishing vessels, animals, animal feed, planting materials and other farm inputs. Farmers can apply by completing the application form and submitting with all relevant documents attached. For further information, contact the Deputy Director of Agricultural Services at 468-4125. Welcome back to the program, Agriculture on the Move. Of course, if you're tuning in now with me, my guest, the honorable Alfred Prospe, the Minister with Responsibility for Agriculture. Mr. Minister, I know you traveled recently and there was an OECS meeting that was held and looked at agriculture strategy. Tell us about this. This meeting is called the OECS Council of Ministers of Agriculture in the OECS. Well, it's OECS Council of Ministers of Agriculture. So, it's really all the Ministers of Agriculture in the OECS coming together to discuss the whole issue of agriculture in the OECS, food production, food security, etc., etc. And this OECS Council of Ministers is being guided by what we call a strategy called the Food and Agricultural Systems Transformation Strategy. This strategy was developed by the OECS and the OECS countries to look at what we call seven pillars. I can't remember all the pillars, but I remember clearly that we have agricultural insurance, private sector engagement, climate smart agriculture, and some other areas that we are focusing on to address the whole issue of food production in the OECS. And we believe that it is time that the region, the OECS must come together on the one umbrella as against operating in silo. So, in recent, in the last few months, we have had three meetings, one in Green Bay, and two in St. Vincent. And it was really to discuss the whole issue of the fast strategy and how we can implement it to address those problems. We are off the view that by 2050, I'm not sure if I'll still be alive, there may be a global food crisis. And we think that this is an opportunity and time for the region to come together and work towards implementation of that strategy. One of the highlights of the meeting that I attended in St. Vincent is the whole regional cooperation that is needed among all players to be able to deal with all the issues confronting the sector. An example, when we had bananas, we had a marketing entity that was responsible for marketing all our bananas. The responsibility of the farmers was to ensure that you establish your plantations, get your right quality, and that entity was responsible for export to the U.K. But now we do not have any entity that is doing that for bananas, nor for any of the other crops that have been produced. And we think it is important that we engage the private sector to see how we can get an entity. For example, I will say that entity is responsible for CMOS exports. So our farmers now went to CMOS production and will know that my role is to get the CMOS, get it at the quality and standard, etc. And that entity will do everything that is necessary to take it to the market and get me my money. So we were discussing all of that and looking at how this can work in the region. And not just for bananas, not just for CMOS, but for livestock, for other crops like cassava, for other crops like pineapple, soursop, breadfruit, cuckoo. That was a discussion that we were having, and we thought it was necessary for us to establish an entity around marketing our produce in the OECS and in the region. So this strategy, first strategy, what we have done to ensure that we increase our implementation rate, we have established an entity in St. Vincent called the Food and Nutrition Security Center. And what that center will do is to look at this strategy and quoting it, the implementation of the activities in the strategy. So St. Lucia had to identify a point person just like Grenada, Dominique, St. Kitt's and Levi's and Tigger where that point person will be responsible for implementation at the local level and feeding that information to the Food and Nutrition Security Center in St. Vincent. So we've been meeting regularly, we have another meeting coming up I think in in Bahamas in the next two weeks to really continue that discussion. And it's the first time since I became a minister we've seen the OECS Minister of Agriculture coming together on a regular basis and discussing the issues of food production, food insecurity in the region. Is that timeline to that? Well, this strategy surprisingly has been in existence for almost 10 years but very little has been achieved and we as ministers we believe we have the onus isn't us to be able to report to our farmers to our ministries to our people in terms of our role when we go out and represent our people and we were very concerned that very little was happening and we were feeling guilty that we were going to those meetings but very little very little achievement very slow implementation and I want to take time to say thank you to the OECS Director General for their support in helping push and implement this strategy. We are hoping that in the next few weeks we can engage our cabinet colleagues and to educate and sensitize them on this strategy and its rules and importance and so that in the future CARICOM will have this strategy as one of the agenda items on the table to be able to push and to be able to get the funding to ensure that we do what we need to do but our region needs to come together on the one umbrella to be able to achieve what we as a region needs to do in terms of food security. One final thing on the strategy is that what we've seen is that each country has its strengths and weaknesses for example, St. Lucia is the only country that is still into banana production and CMOS Dominica is well known for its root crops St. Vincent livestock and the cannabis so we are saying it is important for us to be able to work each other and each other support each other so that we can really move the agricultural sector in those in the region to a better place and to be able to address all our food import bill and everything to do with the whole management and efficiency of the sector to be able to meet our food As opposed to Expo St. Lucia is in the sense of that Expo St. Lucia is critical and Ms. Sunita Daniel in our last meeting in St. Vincent, she made a presentation that really sensitize all the ministerial agriculture there in terms of the availability of markets for exports of our produce in the region outside of the region sorry and a lot of the countries where they were excited because they were not even aware that a lot of those markets were available so what we have to do is to create a platform and for those persons who may not know that we are Renault has been doing very well in St. Vincent where he purchased all the produce from the farmers and within a few minutes after you sell your produce to him you get the money you get your money right away but in St. Lucia a lot of our farmers are suffering because they have to wait weeks and months to get the money I wish we'd be able to have something that happened in St. Lucia but I know there will be implications because you have the market in board and other entities who are already buying from the farmers I'm not sure but this is going on well in St. Vincent other countries are looking at that Dominica is currently engaging the authorities in Haiti to see how they can import laborers into Dominica because farm labor is becoming a major problem not just in St. Lucia but in the region and some of those countries are already looking at the possibility of bringing workers into the countries to work on the farms great okay let's let's change it a bit uh our fishers we had an establishment of the Blue Ocean Lucian Blue Ocean that were assisting buying farmers fish that is had some issues where are we to deal with this yes and it's um a situation that worries me quite a bit but we've made some progress the cabinet uh a memo memo was presented to the cabinet in terms of where do we go with Lucian Blue Ocean and um under the lease agreement we had the denry facility that is the denry fishing facility the fish and facility and the San Susie facility so yeah there were three facilities in that lease agreement we've taken the decision to remove denry remove you fought from the agreement and so Lucian Blue only stands with the San Susie facility we saw the we also understood the challenges financial challenges that the facility was going through and the government made a request to the national economic fund for 1.5 million dollar loan for the facility to continue operational operating and as a result I know we've done work to the tune of about 400,000 dollars to upgrade the electricals at the facility there was an outstanding amount owed to fishers close to 100,000 dollars that has been paid and there was also some outstanding legislative bills that which some payments have been made I am hoping that the rest of the funds will be able to assist in being able to buy open the facility get the ice motion and the other equipment they're running and working and for the facility to be open to the fishers it hurts to see every day the fishers have to go out there on the roads to sell fish simply because they don't have a facility to sell and we'll never forget the facility was established for the fishers so sometimes when you go around you hearing people saying that why should government be giving money to reopen the facility but we must remember the bigger picture our fishers our fishers go out there and sometimes they get back to the port very late and it is not a good thing to see that in the early morning next day or the same night they have to be on the road selling the fish so if the facilities recommission re-open our fishers will be more comfortable going out then coming back anytime because they know the fish marketing corporation will buy great fish quickly you have two more minutes left Coco we are well Coco and every time I mention Coco it brings the whole question of diversification into my head because we have been heavily dependent on bananas and we seem to think bananas on its own address all the problems in the sector and in the country I believe there is a need for us to diversify and just recently with the experience with tropical storm bread the bananas went down to a low 75 percent but if we had the Coco we would still continue to benefit our farmers we would still be able to harvest what is significant about this Coco project is that we have a market available to us in the UK and we cannot meet the demand Coco fish is a high price but we do not have the demand and I believe our soils we have enough land space to increase our Coco production and to ensure our farmers continue to earn a livelihood from Coco so I was very happy that the government which I am part of up over 1.4 million EC dollars to expand the Coco sub sector I am hoping that more farmers will go into Coco we are hoping that the farmers who already have Coco plantations will be able to go in there and prune and do the necessary practices to boost yield and production and we are making available about 1 million Coco seedlings to make available to farmers including other assistance like provisional rat baits and assistance to be able to fertilize I am hoping that we can see a massive change in the Coco sector that will at the end of the day benefit us I know on a whole food day we are going to have a Coco festival and I am hoping to see quite a bit being made from our Coco there is tremendous opportunity possibilities for enhancing and upgrading and expanding our agro processing sub sector through Coco and other products and commodities we have in San Misha so I am very happy and I am hoping that we can see a massive revamp of the whole Coco sector in San Misha Mr Minister I want to thank you for being here because we have come to the end of the program and I wish you will continue to do what you are doing to ensure that the farmers get what is due to them especially in the relief and of course the Coco program is coming on stream and so I would thank you for being here you have been watching Agriculture on the Move I want to thank you again for viewing the program and of course just to tell you our Coco festival it will be on the 15th of October in Sofray you will hear more about it in the coming weeks so that be prepared it is going to be a massive expo for St. Lucia Coco is a very good product I mean there are a lot of people that are making a livelihood in Coco thank you again for viewing I am Philip Sidney saying goodbye and I will see you again thank you sir


Sometimes, because it's described in here as different rungs, you and your partner, two minds with one intent become so strong at what they will, becomes the will of God, it goes on and on, and when we shift it into the context of one mind, one solution, the Atonement, one instant when that can be received, now, it just, everything has to collapse into that. The great salvation is about, cause and effect, ideas leave not their source, for the things is all different, ways of saying the same thing, which the dreamer is unconscious of what brought on the attack against himself, he sees himself attacked unjustly and by something not himself. He is the victim of this, quote, something else, a thing outside himself for which he has no reason to be held responsible. He must be innocent because he knows not what he does, but what is done to him, yet is his own attack upon himself or parents still, for it is he who bears the suffering, and he cannot escape because its source is seen outside himself. So, what I do, or that whole thought reversal of the world is to cause, you could say that that would be one major version of it, and then the other one would be people who, the mind when it gets into this, saying about the ego made me do it, it's pulling it away now from the world, and now it's saying that there's this thought system in my mind, the ego, and it's too strong, it's too powerful, it's dictating, it's dictating all my decisions, all my actions, as if it's, you know, that ego is an entity that as well is outside my mind. I may have made it, of course it says that I made this thing up, but I seem to be ruled by it. It seems to be the dictator of what I think it's saying to, and that has to be questioned as well, because where is the escape, and the devil made me do it, because at one point, you know, do not project this to time, don't project the ego to anything or anybody else and don't project it to time, don't even say that I'm in chains and at some point in the future, I will be released from these chains, and even that, which could seem to be like a very helpful stepping stone, I think there is hope of future release at least, you know, has to be questioned as well, because you're still projecting responsibility for the ego to time, you're still projecting the responsibility for the ego to the future. Time heals all wounds. In time, I will reach enlightenment. So you're saying it's actually a denial of the decision in the present moment? Yes. So to speak, we'll be looking at everything as always a present decision, and the only place that the ego could ever be found would be as being a present decision. If you project it to time, it's like trying to hide it away in linear time, and still concealing the belief that time, linear time is the construction of the ego. It's being held on to, and it has to be let go of. Another way to say it too would be that, you know, that's a metaphor to say that the decision to the ego is now in the sense that the deceived mind doesn't know what now is, which is just another way of saying the mind doesn't know what the present is. That's where the I do not know comes in. That's where the every day being open to be shown, shown the present, above all else. You know, that's the focus, that's the intention. You can see there's a lot of metaphors involved in there. Even when we say an instrument for peace and war or a peace and upset are both present decisions, that's still, we're still operating from the same metaphor that there's a right mind and there's a wrong mind, and that the mind can desolate and choose one or the other every instant. You've got to come to the point where you see that that's a metaphor. You cannot hang with that. Articles show a perception as well. Again, once again, where it's coming to the point to say it, to even start to begin to grasp it and everything is not to grasp it, because as long as there's any level confusion, then the mind has not grasped it. How could the mind have level confusion? It's still not clear of right mind, wrong mind. If in discussions there are shreds and bits of backward thinking or level confusion, you know, they may not laugh at that point when you start to say, okay, well, you know, I too am starting to understand that the right mind and the wrong mind, you know, that is a metaphor of construction. My teacher has been going with me over and over and from all different angles, coming to really raise up all level confusion to awareness, because good does it do to say the phrase the truth is all that there is. It's those still aspects of level confusion that haven't been exposed. What do you have? We have a narrative that we are very thorough, that we, you know, look at everything. You certainly don't have the experience. Truth is all there is. There's still level confusion. If you're hanging on to aspects of personhood or aspects that you still feel like you need to do, you have to do, that are obligations, that are duties, that are requirements in this world, you're still seeing causation on the screen. That's level confusion. The screen is causative. The screen is not. There is no aspect screen and there is no causation. We've gone into discussions with people. As we travel around, we've gone into dimes. People have talked about yogic postures, the sit in the silence, the body, how often it's to be bathed, community settings, ideal environments, energy spots, vortixes, backwards, backwards, backwards. all of it backwards.  Truth is true and only truth is true. That's a common kind of a cashword phrase. Sounds great. Then when you get into what seems to be daily life and living and so on and so forth, there are inconsistencies or there's teachings being taught about how often you have to bathe or not bathe to be enlightened or the kind of foods that you're to eat or not eat or the amounts of exercise or the types of movements of the body or the positions or the times of meditation and all that. Wait a minute. Which isn't? That denies that the truth is true and only the truth is true.


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