Tom Facchine – The Truth About Development

Tom Facchine
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The speaker discusses the importance of development as a way to achieve personal growth and success. They emphasize that everything must be tied to a purpose and that individuals and cities must be aware of the benefits of development. The speaker uses the term development to mean more technology and larger skyscraper, rather than just focusing on the negative impact of development on the planet.

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			Development's an important
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			dimension
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			of growth. Right? They say if you're not
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			growing, then you're dying.
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			But we have to be able to define
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			what development is and isn't. Development doesn't just
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			mean getting bigger, doesn't just mean material success.
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			It needs to be, you know, defined in
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			an otherworldly sense. Okay? If something is moving
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			you closer to Jannah, that's development.
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			And if something is moving you further away
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			from it, then that's the opposite.
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			And that's it. Right? And if you even
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			look at your personal life, we have a
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			lot of stuff out there about self development
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			and developing your skills and stuff like that.
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			But for what? Right? Everything has to be
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			tied to a purpose. Everything has to have,
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			a law in mind. And so what are
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			your skills for? Are they to make Allah
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			Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala happy? Are they to serve
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			him and his deen in some sort of
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			way? Is it, you know, just to
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			raise your bottom line or make yourself more
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			lucrative? Okay. That's that might be permissible. No
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			problem. You have to make your livelihood. Or
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			is it for your ego and so that
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			you can feel better about yourself in front
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			of other people and show off and these
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			sorts of things? Right? So
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			what is development? The safest way and the
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			best way is to tie everything back to
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			Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala.
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			Right? And this goes for the individual and
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			also goes for
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			cities,
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			countries. Right? We hear development talk all the
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			time. It comes through this idea that
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			more technology, bigger skyscrapers,
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			bigger economy. This is development. Is that what
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			makes a lot happy?
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			Or is it treating everybody justly and making
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			sure that things are sustainable,
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			that we're not hurting the earth, that we're
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			taking care of our responsibilities?
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			If that's getting us closer to agenda, then
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			it's development.
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			And if it's not, then it's not.