أعوذ بالله من الشيطان الرجيم بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم تبارك الذي بيدي الملك وهو على كل شيء قدير الذي خلق الموت والحياة ليبلوكم أيكم أحسن عمله وهو العزيز الغفور الذي خلق سبع سماوات طباقة ما ترا في خلق الرحمن من تفاوت فرجع البصر هل ترى من فطور ثم رجع البصر كررتين ينقلب إليك البصر خاسئا و هو حسير ولقد زينا السماء الدنيا بما صابح وجعلنا رجوما للشياطين وأعتدنا لهم عذاب السعير وللذين كفروا بربهم عذاب جهنم و بئس المصير إذا ألقوا فيها سمعوا لها شيقا وهي تفور تكاد تميز من الهيو كلما ألقى فيها فوجنسا لهم خزنة و ألم يأتيكم نذير قالوا بلا قد جاير فكذبنا و قلنا نزل الله من شيء إن أنتم إلا في ظلال كبير و قالوا لو كنا نسمع أو نعقل ما كنا في أصحاب السعير فاعترفوا بذنبهم فسحقا لأصحاب السعير إن الذين يخشون ربهم بالغيب لهم مغفرة وأجر كبير وأسر قولكم أو جاروا به إنه عليم بذات الصدور ألا يعلم من خلقه واللطيف الخبير والذي جعل لكم العرض ذلولا فمشوا في ملاكب يا وكلوا من رزقه وكلوا من رزقه وإليه نشور أمنتم في السماء أي يخصف بكم الأرض فإذا يتمور أم أمنتم أي يرسل عليكم حاصبا فستعلمون كيف نذير ولقد كذب الذين من قبلهم فكيف كان نكير ولم يروا إلى الطير فوقهم صاكفات ويقضل ما يمسكون إلا الرحمن إنه بكل شيء بصير أما ناذا الذي أصركم من دون الرحمن إن الكافرون إلا في غور أما ناذا الذي يرزقكم إن أمسك رزقه بل الجوا في عطو والفور أما يمشي مكبا على وجئ أهدا يمشي سويا أما يمشي سويا على صراط مستقيم قل هو الذي عاشعكم وجعل لكم السمع والأبسار والأفئدة قليلا ما تشكرون قل هو الذي ذرأكم في الأرض وإلي تحشرون ويقولون متى هذا الواد إن كنتم صادقين قل إنما العلم عند الله وإن نذير مبين فلما رأوز فتنسيعة وجوه الذين كفروا وقيل هذا الذي كنت تم به تدعون قل أرأيتم إن أهلك لي الله ومن معي أو رحمنا فمن يجير الكافرين من عذاب ألي قل هو الرحمن وآمننا به وعلي توكلنا فستعلمون من هو في ظلال مبين قل أرأيتم إن أصبح ما أكم غورا فمن يأتيكم بمال ونقى الله العظيم وستشعر وستدر أنوان ملونق لما دا كنتم في أنا قول آده كان بين الطرق بين ما انفس فرق من غفلة حندا وخني أخذانا وعبر إلى أصراء ربت لم يزل يقولوني بين القيار مصالا رق من شعبتين إلانا في خيرها حتى بروضي أنا فالا يارن قد قرشت من الكاهل إلهي صالا تهره الله هماه الطره وما براك مثله إنسانا وبيحبه وبيلكله والنسر والتوقير ونفل عرسي قد قوصانا يا ربنا سلي وسلم دا إيمان على حبيبك بيجوة 158 الله مستعبير إلا الله إحسانا صلى الله عليه وسلم ناسم فاقركا بادي ولا أولا نأتي أنا جلالا بيبك من إليك دعانا الله ما صلي وسلم وبارك عليه ولا أولا بيجوة 22 لما المصوني يارن شرن يا أبي منافن ابن فضاينك عينك كان للابي آمنة لم تشتو شيئ فصلا دا والهنما سبحان الله أخل الابنى إلا الله والله إلا بالله عين أضيل بيبك الليلة من أبدح حدوة خطي ونصولين الدعانتي وميناتك لمادي وتجلت للجهات فوضطوا بنات المشافتة إحالا صلى الله عليه وسلم صلى الله عليه وسلم ومصانا صلى الله عليه وسلم صلى الله عليه وسلم صلى الله عليه وسلم صلى الله عليه وسلم صلى الله عليه وسلم صلى الله عليه وسلم صلى الله عليه وسلم صلى الله عليه وسلم صلى الله عليه وسلم يا نبي سلام من تبا تسجل مرحابا وتشافتا مرحابا أسأل يا الله يسمى مرحابا مرحابا يا نبي الله علي وسلم أحمد إتُرى وألي وسهب مصناج فله علا محمد صلى الله عليه وسلم وباركا لي وعلى أول وريفونس بسمنا الرحمن الرحيم صلى الله عليه وسلم وعلى آله وصح به جمعين سبحانكا لا علم لنا إلا ما علمتنا إنك أنت أنت موالحكيم ولا حول ولا فوات إلا بالله العلي العظيم السلام عليكم ورحمة الله وبركاته إن شاء الله تعالى I'm going to speak tonight about the Qur'an the greatness of the Qur'an the uniqueness of the Qur'an الله سبحانه وتعالى says in the Qur'an that in the month of Ramadan شاهر رمضان الذي انزل فيه القرآن that it was in the month of Ramadan in which the Qur'an was revealed to humanity so this is a blessed month it was blessed for a number of reasons first and foremost because it marks the commencement of the Qur'anic revelation to the world the biography of the Prophet Muhammad صلى الله عليه وسلم the beginning of the revelation that came to him so I'm going to talk about the Qur'an and I'm going to talk a little bit maybe a little bit more academically than what usually probably happens on a night like this where it's more sort of a preaching style or خطب style and the reason I'm doing this is because there are a lot of questions about the Qur'an lately of course there are a lot of anti-Muslim people on the internet whether they're atheists or Christians who are making a lot of claims about the Qur'an who are criticizing the Qur'an in a polemical sort of sense so I thought I'd addressed some of these issues or at least talk about the Qur'an from the standpoint of the classical scholarship so I've chosen to talk about the uniqueness of the Qur'an right so the Qur'an itself issues a challenge okay this is called a تحدي okay and the most recent challenge is an البقرة verse 23 وإن كنتم في ريب منما نزلنا على عبدنا فأت بصورة من مثله وذعوشها دائكم من دون الله إن كنتم صادقين okay if you are or if you happen to be in doubt about what we have revealed to our servant then bring a surah like unto it a chapter like unto it and call to your aid any whom you want as helpers other than Allah if you speak the truth truth إن لم تفعلوا ولم تفعلوا right and if you can't do it and you won't do it فتقوا النار التي وقودها الناس والحجارة then fear the fire whose fuel is man and stones وردت للكافرين prepared for those who reject faith so إمام الزركة شي he said that initially the challenge was to produce 10 was was to produce a recital an account like this quran right فاليأتوا بحديث من مثله produce something like the whole of the quran then it was reduced the 10 سور فأتوا بعشر سور من مثله finally it was reduced to one surah فأتوا بسورة من مثله that's the last challenge being issued in in Medina so the challenge of the quran تستفع is to its إعجاز what's known as إعجاز القرآن which is sometimes translated as the the insuperability of the quran the inimitability of the quran so the proposition that the quran cannot be imitated of course the word إعجاز is a form for infinitive and grammar meaning to debilitate to disable or to incapacitate so this is this is the concept the word معجزة is the active partisable in theology it's a technical term for a prophetic miracle and معجزة is a prophetic miracle as opposed to a karama which is a saintly miracle non prophetic miracle linguistically معجزة is that which incapacitates so the quran is a معجزة in the sense that it incapacitates others from producing its likeness now the first theologians to broach the subject of the nature of the quran's إعجاز were probably مؤتزيلي theologians مؤتزي ليت we call them مؤتزيلي theologians إبراهيم النظام for example from Basra in Iraq so his position and this is the standard مؤتزيلي position is that he says if all the Arabs were left alone they would have been able to compose pieces like those of the quran the أقل in other words would have been able to do it so the مؤتزيلي they give the intellect a status that it doesn't it doesn't deserve and their position really is that the quran this is the مؤتزيلي position is that the quran is really more like إبسسمة is more like the very voice of God in other words more like more like an inspired text rather than a revealed text so it's kind of like what Christians believe about the Bible as opposed to like what Jews believe about the Torah right it's not the revealed words of God in other words God is not choosing the exact words but rather inspiring a prophet to choose his own words but the meanings are are given to that profit so that's it's more akin to the مؤتزيلي position so he says if all the Arabs were left alone they would have been able to compose pieces so left alone are the operative words here so the مؤتزيلي position is that the quran it's jazz is external to its text right rather than internal it's extrinsic rather than intrinsic in other words it is possible for the Arab poets to produce the likes of the quran to match its unique style to rival its eloquence but Allah سبحانه وتعالى simply will not allow them to do that right he will deflect them from that يصرفه معنه right so they call it a صرفة the صرفة is the deflection or the aversion okay so Allah سبحانه وتعالى will continue to incapacitate anyone who tries to imitate the quran from from producing its likeness by deflecting them so the analogy is like imagine there's an expert marksman right an expert an archer and there's a target that's five feet away from him just five feet away and so he aims at the target he aims at the the target and he misses completely and he tries it again over and over and over again and he can't seem to hit the target he's an expert marksman it's five feet away and he's he does it a hundred times and he's zero for a hundred so then his only conclusion must be that something is something is causing me not to do this something is preventing me from hitting the target right prevention must be external now the sunni position is that the jazz is internal okay that it's that it's intrinsic to the text in other words it is impossible for the Arab poets to produce the likes of the quran so going back to this archery analogy imagine now this this expert marksman he's trying to hit a target that's five hundred yards away so he tries over and over and over again and he can't even get close to it because it's just impossible he doesn't have the capacity to do something like that so in this case prevention is internal another analogy is like imagine there's like a room and there's something there's a book in this room let's say it's called the book of secrets or something it's on a table and you want to get to this book and read it so you go inside the room and you notice that there are guards there right that are preventing you from even touching the book so you are being externally incapacitated that's akin to the mark تزيلي position but now let's say another scenario you go into the room and the book is there so you pick it up and you open it and you notice that it's written in a strange code that you don't understand so you don't understand so you can't understand it right so now you're being internally incapacitated and that's akin to the the Sunni position the nature of the book itself incapacitates you so the problem with the mark تزيلي position is that it does not locate the miracle of the Quran within the Quran but rather outside of the Quran or to put it another way the mark تزيلي position is like it is as if the Prophet can move his foot like normal but everyone else is somehow paralyzed which is abnormal and that is the very definition of a miracle like خرق العادات which is a break or breach of what is customary a breach of what is normal the Sunni position is as if the Prophet can walk on water which is abnormal while everyone else can't which is normal so at the end of the day both are saying the same thing imitation of the Quran will not be done okay so let's unpack this concept of إعجاز a bit further according to some Sunni أرلماء the إعجاز of the Quran is detected through intuition okay in other words it's impact upon the listener the way that the Quran causes joy and tears and fear and hope for example others say no because this is subjective right it's like whose poetry is more beautiful whose poetry is more impactful Shakespeare or Wordsworth some people will say Shakespeare some people might say Wordsworth or how do you know who's right right some would say beauty is in the eye of the beholder if you you know most people find that their own children are the most beautiful children that's probably because emotion gets involved or they see themselves in their children so we need objective standards of beauty okay others would argue that in poetry there is an objective standard that Shakespeare is objectively more beautiful more eloquent than all of the other poets that this is why he became the most beloved of all the English poets and why most experts say that his poetry is superior therefore we also have objective standards when it comes to physical human beauty and this might not be PC but that's okay it's it's true this is you know this is what this is what for example the the the nursery rhyme Goldilocks and the three bears that's what it's trying to teach children that that there's a there's a standard for beauty so if you if you look at the Prophet Sallallahu alayhi wa sallam for example who is the epitome of physical beauty right he was of medium height right not too not too tall not too short right so that you know what's known as sort of the Goldilocks arrange his skin was not too dark not too pale his hair was not you know it wasn't curly it wasn't straight but more wavy right his build wasn't you know he wasn't overweight he wasn't too thin but something in the middle but he also had other qualities that are viewed probably cross-culturally as being beautiful qualities in men for example long eyelashes he had very broad shoulders large forearms large calves right he had an aquiline nose which is highly desirable across different different cultures okay so so there's there's there's this objective standard of physical beauty so with respect to the Quran then this intuitive sort of I feel it approach did not work for many Sunni scholars right so people were definitely intuiting the Quran's beauty there's no doubt about that people were definitely intuiting the beauty but scholars wanted to know why exactly that was happening right just as if you if you saw the Prophet Sallallahu alayhi wa sallam right you would be overcome overwhelmed by his beauty and you can tell me why you were overcome you specifically tell me why he was so so beautiful okay now now before we get to that popular among Sunni متكلمون right so like this scholastic or discursive theologians was what could be called circumstantial evidence so circumstantial evidence is evidence that relies on an inference or deduction to connect it to a factor conclusion in other words indirect evidence like fingerprints out of crime scene as opposed to like direct evidence as opposed to like an eyewitness who saw an actual crime right so the متكلمون mentioned two pieces of circumstantial evidence so number one they say the Arabs had reached the peak of their language in 7th century Arabia right the Hejaz and the late Antiquity was the height of Arabic poetry was their pride and joy right they had the seven hanging oats right المعلقات السبع at the annual festival at a town called Rukav just outside of Mecca the Arab poets would have taken the challenge of the Prophet صلى الله عليه وسلم very very very seriously they had ample motives for taking up the challenge with overwhelming enthusiasm I mean the Prophet صلى الله عليه وسلم he was denouncing their gods he was condemning aspects of their culture he was claiming prophecy right however they broke their their custom of normal behavior they broke their custom of normal behavior and persecuted and fought against the Prophet صلى الله عليه وسلم so this fact supports the notion that they immediately recognize the superiority of the Quran and simply knew that they couldn't answer the challenge so this piece of circumstantial evidence supports the Sunni position of the Quran's internal incapacitating mechanism okay or maybe they tried to imitate the Quran right you hear the Quran you think this is beautiful and they thought to themselves we can rival this it's kind of like when when you watch an expert calligrapher and he makes it look so easy and you think well I can do that this looks easy right then you try to do it and you it's not even close so maybe they tried to imitate the Quran but yet they failed consistently and collectively so this kind of supports the مرتزلي position of an external incapacitating a mechanism in a verse that supports this position it's Allah سبحانه وتعالى says وإذا تطلع عليهم آياتنا قالوا قد سميعنا لو نشاءوا لقلنا مثل هذا when when our signs are rehearsed to them they say indeed we have heard it and if we wanted we could say the like of that we could say the likes of it as well right so قادي عيات he mentions he has a section in in in his book on the and the اعجاز and he says that there was a poet in يحيا ابن حكم الغزال who was the foremost of the poets in Andalusia and he wanted to create something like سورة الإخلاص so we began to work on it and then he says suddenly an incredible sense of terror came over me it moved me to regret and repentance okay so that's the first piece of circumstantial evidence is that is that the Arabs it appears that the Arabs just they immediately immediately began to persecute the Prophet صلى الله عليه وسلم rather than what would have been expected of them to take the challenge of the Prophet صلى الله عليه وسلم very very seriously and attempt to answer the challenge and then eventually of course the greatest living Arab poets all of them became Muslim all of them eventually confessed to the quran superiority whether it's حسان ابن الثابت or عبد الله ابن الرواحة كاب ابن الزوهير even the great لبيد ابن ربيع all of them at some point through their hands into the air and said that we cannot even come close to anything like this and then the second piece of indirect evidence is that the quran has since not been successfully imitated okay and and several modern Arab Christians have attempted to do this and their attempts are their attempts have been laughingly pathetic and so nothing even comes close so then the two points the two pieces then of indirect evidence just to recap or that the Arabs at the time could not produce its likeness right the greatest poets became Muslim and the Arabs since that time have not produced its likeness now many so many medieval so many theologians were not satisfied with this type of indirect evidence primarily because the more tazili could also argue these points to support the surfa that the quran has and an external incapacitating a mechanism so they sought direct evidence of the quran's اعجاز and they believe that this could be done from a literary standpoint okay so the three major classical Sunni authorities who undertook this task were called the Abu Bakr الباقي لاني right his book is called اعجاز القرآن you have عبد القاهر الجورجاني دلائل العجاز او اسرار البراغة and then you have ابن جزي الكلبي and his book اتسهيل الانومي التنزيل okay الباقي لاني الجورجاني الكلبي now according to these classical Sunni علماء it is unique stylistics what are called اصالب unique stylistics and unmatched eloquence بلاغة which is at the seat of the quran's اعجاز so by unmatched eloquence they mean that the quran is objectively more eloquent than the poets okay so like Musa عليه السلام he confounded the sorcerers with his white magic it was objectively superior objectively more powerful عيسة عليه السلام confounded the physicians and healers of his day with his ability to heal people his quote unquote medicine the Prophet صلى الله عليه وسلم then confounded the poets اشعر of his day with his style and eloquence so with respect to eloquence what makes a speaker more eloquent than others so his superior choice of words and his clear and concise communication okay this is what makes his words more powerful more interesting more motivating more persuasive and more memorable i.e. more impactful so eloquent speakers make an impact على قراء and mind okay so let's start with الباقيلاني so الباقيلاني he said that the style the أسلوب of the Qur'an defies classification right it has unclassifiability as he puts it in other words it broke the custom of the existing literary norms that were known to the Arabs at that time so the خرق of the عادات right the breach of of what is customary was not only external to the texts with this initial sort of Arab reaction to the text to fight the Prophet but it was preeminently internal to the text right the Qur'an's unique you know abnormal uncustomary style and the Qur'an is an amazingly eloquent and and masterful fusion fusion of of of poetry in prose right with with incredible rhetoric as well okay and there's there's actually no record of any poet at the time of the Prophet صلى الله عليه وسلم actually answering the challenge the Qur'an is in an ocean of rhetoric I mean sometimes the college student will feel good if he uses one or two sort of rhetorical devices in a in a research paper the Qur'an is just it's full of hundreds and hundreds of rhetorical devices an ocean of rhetoric so it's miracle was the creation of a new unidentifiable an inadmissible genre of expression okay the Qur'an style is sui generous right which means it's in a class of its own totally outside human forms of literature okay so it may include familiar rhetorical elements like استعارة and مبالغة like metaphor and hyperbole and like simile but only to assimilate them into this unclassifiable otherness البقلاني compares the آيات of the Qur'an he compares them to the أبياد of the عشعار the verses of the greatest of the Arab poets and he points out that the Qur'an has no weak verses no verse in the Qur'an can be improved rhetorically whereas all poems have a weak verse here and there right for example like to be or not to be that is the question that's from Shakespeare's Hamlet no improvement is possible there right but there are some verses that can be improved so البقلاني says that all جهلي all جهلي poets some of their lines can be improved whereas nothing of the Qur'an can be improved so so the Arabs could not find a literary form to which the Qur'an corresponded they were just sort of scratching their heads right and this is evident in the Qur'an itself right is this is this is this is this poetry right is this is this is this magic is this is this is this a type of like fortune telling or or sooth saying because the Diviners right the fortune tellers the the Qur'an they would they would speak their sort of predictions in something called which is rhymed rhymed prose in the Qur'an is not exactly it's transcended it's it's different it's unique they would are these sort of fictional tales of the ancients أساتير الأولين right they couldn't identify the Qur'an's literary form okay um so that's الباقي لاني now out of جر جاني he seeks to map out a definitive paradigm for understanding the Qur'an in the middle of eloquence so he down plays intuition and subjective responses he also downplay a circumstantial evidence uh as a testimony to the Qur'an's in admitability and he sets out to establish the case on purely literary grounds okay um so he argues that the Arabs they were initially dazzled and struck into wonderment by the Qur'an which your جاني uses the Arabs initial reaction as a proof against the صرفة right their their reaction wasn't that's nice but we can do that no of other bewildermint right even his sham relates the story of ألواليد even مورا arguably the greatest living poet at the time that he was absolutely awestruck by the Qur'an of the Prophet صلى الله عليه عليه وقم and he went back to his people and he said this conquers and destroys everything that came before of poetry and then he said to the people as well to the Qur'an she said this is not his regular speech this is something else and then you know peer pressure got to him and eventually كaved in and his story is told in the Qur'an for در جاني the Qur'an's style composition arrangement of words and eloquence is beyond human capacity and like باقلاني he he demonstrates this by comparing various poems written by the greatest of the Arab poets with the with the ayat of the Qur'an and concludes that the latter are objectively superior okay and then finally ابن جزي الكلبي he said that the Qur'an إعجاز has 10 elements number one it's eloquence is above any human speech you can say here that it's impact right it's impact for better or worse right like the Qur'an says وإذ ذكرت ربكة في القراني وحدة واللو على أدباره نفورة that when you when you mention your Lord in the Qur'an the oneness of your Lord in the Qur'an they turn they turn back in a version and this is a question it's an interesting question that sometimes we get is if the Qur'an is if the Qur'an is so eloquent then why didn't all of the Arabs believe in it as a divine revelation why didn't Abu Jahl for example believe it was a divine revelation well first and foremost the Qur'an is calling to a moral life it's calling towards a certain type of life right a certain type of ethic okay so if if people don't want to want to change their lives it doesn't matter how beautiful or how eloquent the message is they're not going to believe in it they're not going to to follow it okay the very sound of the Qur'an raptures non-Arab and non-Muslims as well قدي عياد relates in his book that it's reported that Christians heard the Qur'an that began to weep so you said that several people several people died when they heard the Qur'an of the Qur'an I'll tell you this from experience my college roommate who was a Catholic I played the Qur'an for him in the car recitation by Sa'ad Al-Ramidi of Surat Yusuf and he just kind of sat there and he was he had a strange look on it and he was literally awestruck by it and he told me later that he just he was thinking about it and he eventually ended up making his Shahada a few days later and he said one of the one of the the key moments pivotal moments that led him to that decision was was just hearing the Qur'an there are actually dozens and dozens of Qur'an reaction videos on YouTube by the way some of these have millions of views okay Christians atheists agnostics listening to the Qur'an you see people's jaws drop they start weeping profusely you know this guy he let his little baby listen to the Qur'an his baby stopped crying you know I asked one of my teachers about this and he said this is because their tongues are Ajami but their hearts are Arabic right the heart the soul understands what the mind can't right it's and it speaks to the fitra this is the word of God it speaks to the human being so so definitely you know these people are intuitive something about the Qur'an and that's and that's very very apparent so that's number one it's eloquence is above human speech and then he says the unique arrangement of the ayat in the Suwar right like the structure of the Qur'an at the micro and macro levels so if you look at something for example one ayat ayat to the Qur'an if you look at this ayat and break it down it's a Kayasmus it has sort of a concentric composition but this is also true if you look at for example a larger Suwar look at Al-Baqara there's a book written by I believe Raymond Farron on Surah to Al-Baqara he says the entire Surah is has a symmetry to the entire Surah 286 verses Michelle Kaipur is another these are non-Muslim scholars of the Qur'an you can call them Oriental if you want but phenomenal work they're doing he did a book on Surah to Al-Ma'ida Michelle Kaipur's where he he looks at the incredible composition and in symmetry of Surah to Al-Ma'ida and of course in our tradition as well you have people like Islahi and Al-Farahi coherence in the Qur'an looking at the coherence looking at the composition I mean this is just sort of something that is getting off the ground and nowadays I mean there's going to be a lot of literature coming out of the academy at least there should be on this topic so the unique arrangement of the Ayat and the Surah of course Fakhredin al-Razi writes about this as well number three he says Al-Kalbi says Juza Ibn Jaze Al-Kalbi the incapacitation of the Arabs to produce something similar at that time as well as thereafter number four the stories of the Qur'an which could not have been known to the Prophet say As-Salaam where you say maybe he knew about the Exodus and like the flood of the deluge but there are things in the Qur'an that could not have been known it's specialized knowledge like from Talmudic tradition right that these are things that are known through initiatic chains of transmission passed down from like rabbi to student rabbi to student how does he know those things number five the predictions of the Qur'an that came true like the defeat of the Persians within a few years number six the perfect theological orthodoxy espoused by the Qur'an the towed of Allah restored and refined right Imam al-Razi says as-Sirat al-Mustafim which is between تشبيه of the Christians and the تعتي of the Jews right the confirmation of the وحدانية and أحدية of Allah سبحانه وتعالى rejection of تثبيث rejection of the trinity right the perfect theological orthodoxy number seven the superior أحكام and أخلاق the laws and morals espoused by the Qur'an it's prescribed orthopraxis as well as it's what's known as trajectory hermeneutics with respect to its laws that the Qur'an is clearly is moving toward the abolition of slavery I mean that's it's very very clear I think if you if you engage with the Qur'an and you gauge with the sunnah I mean Islam initially abolished all forms of slavery except through war I mean people in a jahali time if someone owed you money you can make them there you can make them your slave you can just go and raid a town unprovoked not as not not as a a defense sort of maneuver not as a as a what's known as a a preeminent strike but but just just going and raiding a town and taking people with slaves so all of these were abolished in Islam except except through war it's called the it's not called it's not called it's not called right it's more of a type of indentured servitude and the purpose was to re to reintegrate really people into the society at large but one can make a strong argument that the Qur'an is moving towards the total abolition of slavery that's called trajectory hermeneutics preemptive strike that's what I was trying to say earlier number eight the divinely or providentially preserved text of the Qur'an right that that there are ten قراءات of the Qur'an all of them are multiply attested you know you find these you know videos made by Christians and this version of the the Duri Qur'an is different than the Haftan you know it's so they conclude that the Qur'an has not been preserved they don't know the basis they don't know the foundations of the Qur'an that there are ten قراءات of the Qur'an all of them are multiply attested all of them have chains of transmission that go back to the Prophet صلى الله عليه وسلم and these are the same all around the world for fourteen centuries number nine the ease by which the Qur'an is memorized this is incredible we have ten year old her father of the Qur'an وَلَقَد يَسَرْنَا الْقُرْانَ نِذِكَد the Qur'an says we have made this Qur'an easy to memorize and of course number ten and finally the incredible polyvalence of the text of the Qur'an that it is multi-layered in its meaning as well as the fact that the reader never tires of reading the text year after year decade after decade so these are just some of the things that I wanted to mention about the incredible uniqueness of our scripture of the Qur'an and you know we should be engaged with the Qur'an on a daily basis this is something that is commanded in the Qur'an فلا يتدبرون القرآن تدبر of the Qur'an means to really penetrate the meanings of the Qur'an but not just the meanings not just memorizing but engaging in a deep level studying the Qur'an its relevance in the world today understanding that there's two types of discourse in the Qur'an there's two types of خيطاب there's a khitab of تكليف and a khitab of ودع there's a situational discourse of the Qur'an that may affect some of its أحكم depending on circumstances so this is a very deep study that we need to engage in that is now becoming necessary for more and more people because the Qur'an is constantly under attack so I pray that الله سبحانه وتعالى accepts our fasting in our prayers I accept that الله سبحانه وتعالى I pray that الله سبحانه وتعالى accepts everything we do for his sake and to purify our intentions may Allah سبحانه وتعالى bless all of you have a good Eid and we'll see you soon إن شاء الله وصد الله صلى محمد ولا آله وسهل وصندما الحمد لله وبالعالمين السلام عليكم ورحمة الله وبركاته


I can see you in your yellow pants from my apartment. Yeah dude. Wait, did you just yell my name? I heard Esfand.


What's going on, everyone? Sam here with late in sports cards. We're ripping six boxes of 22 Bowman Chrome Baseball Choice for M.O.D. It's a good luck here, Emma. 22 Bowman Chrome, HGH. Got 18 autos coming your way, Emma. Let's see something big, man. See a big choreo, big Jackson Meryl, M'Karrow, Arias, any of them, honestly. Bowman Draft tomorrow, too. That's going to be fun, man. Feels like Bowman Chrome just came out, too, and now we got Draft coming your way, so... Dylan's there at the top a little bit. Yep. Got White Speckle, 110 out of 2.99, Dana McAlvany for the Red Sox. Got Andy Thomas first for the Mariners. Congrats on that, Emma. Not numbered on the Thomas. And a Heavenly Evanly for the Nationals. Nice one there. Heavenly. That one's pretty clever. God at least give me something for that one. That one's good. I'm sorry. Times are tough, man. JT Schwartz to 2.99 for the Metz, followed by a Jorge Verosa that's going to the Diamondbacks. Not numbered first auto. Nice big auto on that one. And a Jose Rodriguez first non-auto, or non-numbered auto for the Rangers. There you go, Emma. We got Invicta and an Orange. Wow. The box here. We've got Gold Invicta Auto of Denzer Guzman. 30 out of 50. Nice one there. Gold Atomic, I should say, for the Angels. Got Ryan Reckley on the first base auto. Not numbered. And Orange. Orange Wave is going to be Adrian Palencia, 1 out of 25 for the Angels. Congrats on that. There you go, Emma. Nice Orange Wave. Absolutely. Good advice. Cooper Bowman, Refractor Auto, 61 out of 4.99. Base Auto is going to be Braxton Fulford, not numbered. Rockies. Atomic Jackson Merrill, 28 out of 100. There you go, Emma. Congrats, buddy. That's a big one. We will take that for sure. We take those. Nice one there, Emma. We'll get that mag for you, man. Beautiful card. John Rhodes to 4.99 on the Refractor. 4.90 out of 4.99. Orioles. Another Orioles hit. That's going to be Dante Williams on the Blue Ray Wave, 146 out of 150. JT Schwartz on the Base Auto for the Metz, not numbered. Canary Yellow on top is going to the Diamondbacks. That's Jorge Barossa, 5 out of 75. Second Barossa of the Brick. We've got Ysen Morabelle. First Base Auto, not numbered for the Rangers. And then last Auto is going to be nice. Hey, Bowman Ascensions. Hedbert Perez, numbered 28 out of 100. A little bit of a fingernail mark down there. Yeah, that's an indent. We'll send you an empty box and wrapper. Sorry about that, Emma. Classic Bowman fingernail. That'll do it for your break, Emma. Thanks as always for the support, my friend. We'll get those right out to you, buddy.


Hello learners, I welcome you to this audio visual program on the topic note making which is included in the course foundation course in English BA first semester. This is the first part of the video on this topic. In this video we are going to deal with one of the most important forms of study skill that is note making. You must have come across pressy writing, substance writing or summarizing. All these are forms of information transfer skill. Similarly note making requires us to transfer the information to another form. Before moving into details let us quickly look into the objectives of this video. The main objectives of this video are to give you an idea on note making to lay down the difference between note making and note taking to acquaint you with the reading processes of scheming and scanning. What is note making? Note making means listing out in brief the most important facts and ideas and arguments contained in a piece of written text. It is a means of recording information from the written or printed material that we are reading. The written or printed material that we are reading may be a book, an essay or an article, a piece of fiction or even a poem. Note taking. Note taking on the other hand means noting down the most important facts, ideas and arguments given by a speaker. For instance you must have noticed in public meetings or conferences people sitting quietly in press galleries noting down the main points, facts, ideas and arguments made by the speakers in the meeting or conference. These persons in the press galleries are actually taking down notes. They will use these notes to write their reports on the meeting for the paper or agency that they represent. Few points to remember. Note taking requires the use of the skill of listening whereas note making requires the use of the skill of reading. Note taking means taking down notes that we listen while note making means taking down notes that we read. Now that you are aware of the differences between note making and note taking, let us look at some of the strategies that are important to remember while making notes on a piece of text that we have read. Since note making requires one's reading skills, we must emphasize on certain forms of reading activities like skimming or scanning. Let us first briefly deal with the form of reading known as skimming. The term skimming refers to a reading activity that involves reading a text quickly by running one's eyes over the text to get a gist of the text. So what will be your immediate task when you read a paragraph or when you skim through a paragraph? You are certain to find difficult words and sentences in the passage. Your task will be to identify the topic sentences of the text. Every paragraph has a topic sentence which usually contains one central idea and enough particulars to put the idea across. By skimming, we get the following information. What does the passage deal with? How does the writer develop the theme? You might be wondering why this activity has been given the first priority. Until recently, materials have concentrated on the units smaller than the sentence. It was assumed that a text was a succession of separate sentences thematically related and that it would be necessary to proceed from words to phrases, from phrases to clauses, from clauses to sentences, from sentences to paragraphs to understand a paragraph. But if reading is to be efficient, the structure of longer units such as the paragraph on the whole text must be understood. Efficient reading involves starting with global understanding and moving towards detailed understanding rather than working the other way around. Reading is a constant process of guessing and what one brings to the text is often more important than what one finds in it. Let us look at the following extract from Mortimer J. Adlers. How to mark a book? There are three kinds of book owner. The first has all the standard sets and best sellers. Unread, untouched. This deluded individual owns wood pulp and ink, not books. The second has a great many books, a few of them read through. Most of them dipped into but all of them as clean and shiny as the day they were bought. This person would probably like to make books his own but is restrained by a false respect for their physical appearance. The third has a few books or many. Every one of them dog-eared and dilapidated, shaken and loosened by continual use, marked and scribbled in from front to back. So this man owns books. So now the question is which is the topic sentence of the passage? The topic sentence of this passage is there are three kinds of book owners. As we are now familiar with the reading style of scheming, the next important reading activity that need to be considered while writing notes is scanning. In scanning the readers are required to move on to explore the way by which the central controlling idea is developed. For this the cohesive devices used in the passage will help you to explore. Cohesive devices are linkers that find a piece of text together just as one word in a sentence leads to another, one sentence in the text ought naturally to lead to another. The cohesive devices as linkers help in the process of linking up the sentences to bind them together to form a unified piece of text. This cohesive devices can be covered or over it. Covered cohesive devices are usually reference features. For example, a pronoun in a subsequent sentence may refer back to the concerned noun in the preceding sentence and thereby establish connectivity between the sentences. Over cohesive devices are usually the following. Additives for example and or further more similarly, firstly secondly etc. Number two, Adversatives like but however on the other hand etc. Thirdly, Causal for example so consequently for this reason etc. And fourthly, Temporal for example then after that an hour later finally at last etc. Let us once again look at this paragraph and try to find out the main points that are contained in the central controlling ideas. There are three kinds of book owners. The first has all the standard sets and best sellers unread, untouched. This deluded individual owns wood pulp and ink not books. The second has a great many books a few of them read through most of them dipped into but all of them as clean and shiny as the day they were bought. This person would probably like to make books his own but is restrained by a false respect for their physical appearance. The third has a few books or many. Every one of them dog-eared and dilapidated, shaken and loosened by continual use, marked and scribbled in front to back and this man owns books. When you scan the passage for specific details you will perhaps be able to form a mental image on the paragraph which would appear as follows. Kinds of book owners partly reader whereas here we will see non-readers and reader. So with this virtual image it will be possible for you to make the following notes on the passage which we have put across as Roman 1. Three kinds of book owners then we will use numbers 1, 2, 3 etc. Number one has all the standard sets and best sellers. Number two has great many books a few of them read and number three has a few books or many each one of them beers signs of being thoroughly read. So note how the number is done. The major point or division is given in large Roman numbers Roman 1, Roman 2 etc. The main points are given as number 1, number 2, number 3 and so on. Subpoints can be given as small ABC. To break up sub points still further we can use 1, 2, 3 in small fronts. If major themes are to be identified in a passage between Roman 1 and number 1 we can use capital letter indicators ABC etc. Let us look once again at the main points we have discussed. Note making means listing out in brief the most important facts and ideas and arguments contained in a piece of written text. Note taking on the other hand means noting down the most important facts ideas and arguments given by a speaker. Note making requires once reading skills hence certain forms of reading activities like skimming or scanning are to be considered. The term skimming refers to a reading activity that involves reading a text quickly by running one's eyes over the text to get a gist of the text while in scanning the readers are required to move on to explore the way by which the central controlling idea is developed. With this we have come to the end of this video. In the next part we shall discuss the format of note making in details. Thank you.


Okay, so I'm a Denver Nuggets girl. I was feeling really good about the Nuggets in the West Should I start worrying a little bit with the Suns as stacked as they are Katie joining the West? That's a little scary and Kyrie Irving joining the West, you know go go I don't want to I don't want to talk about both of them I can only handle one at a time shams one at a time I think you should be cautiously worried, but to me Denver they're primed Jamal Murray missed last season I saw them in the bubble in 2020 and I thought this team is ready to make it a run of the NBA finals They go get Aaron Gordon and then Jamal Murray unfortunately tears ACL, but now he's looking like he's back He's playing better and better with every game. I think as long as he stays healthy and they stay healthy They have a chance to go to the finals


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Welcome back to Toffy TV. It's the road to glory. We've just beaten Latio. It's a progress in the cup. It's back to the league action. We're facing a decent look on my land side, although I'm not quite sure whether why Ruth Hull is not playing, maybe suspended. I don't know, but they have got Van Basten, Reichard, Beraisey, Costacate, Donadoni. It's a great side. Van Basten. Van Basten, for me, when I was a kid, he was my favourite non-event player. I loved him. I loved him. Unbelievable striker. He was one of the greatest strikers in the world.  This side was so good though that they beat Barcelona 4-0 in a European Cup fan when he was injured. That's how good they were. He was an absolutely amazing footballer. Get on YouTube and just watch the goals. Bicycle kicks. The volley in the 88 European Championship fan. But he was more than that though. He was more than just that goal. He was amazing. Yeah, so we're on the back of a win. Let's do this. So, let's get into it. Here we go. My line of the side has not been sent here tonight. We're getting going. Yeah. For the 1990s. Yeah, that's what he was. He's back here. Come on. Confidence is flowing. Confidence is flowing. It's flowing and we're ready. Let's do it. Come on. Let's do it. I'm itching here to get at it. Come on. He relaxed in possession. He played some football. We're getting criticism for our style of play. It's only a one-page. You think you thought you were going to have to make a tackle there, didn't you? Look at that golf buggy at the side for the injuries. That's amazing. It's out. You got a sight down here. You've got a sight down here. No. Play, play. Go on. Go on. Get your cheat. Does. Bring the run. Ready. Go on. Thank you. I'm going for the overlap, the overlap hasn't come. The overlap hasn't coming on down. It's changing for somebody. We're in. Oh, that would have been nice. s.w.t.s.k.l? ok e'n gweithio gweld, ac e'n cael du! E'r hyn o'n bod ni gondol wedi'u bod ym mynd mewn hyn! Yw e'n hyffordd! Bully! Yw e'n gweithio! Efo e, dypa! Efallai yn cyffordd i'r tyfu! Efallai yn ei ddech chi, ond mae'n ddech chi. Yw e! Efallai y ffordd yn kaywyd! Ac mae o bobl o blaen. Mae o bobl. I can all play that game of not knowing what's wrong. He's had a game there. I mean that would have been against the run.  Oh, all one technology! Yes, combination of racliff and shot. Play, let's get a bit of it. Play, go on. Hold it, hold it, hold it, hold it. Now! Now! No! See the ball, I don't need you on my shoulder. You're on top gear or something. All right, all right. Keep it going. Close half, that was, come on. Let's get the edge, because it's only going to take that little bit from one of these sides. Why have you gone that way? Because I was trying to spin. You don't spin, go on. And I'll just pass the ball, son.  We've gone sloppy, we've gone sloppy, that's good. All right, there's men ahead. Play, play, play, go on, hand again. Can you look at the space? Go on. Oh, no, it's Andy Craig. Hit that, hit that, just hit it. All right. I will, hit it then. Yeah! Get in. Who else is reliable? Who else? Get in.  Got the shot away earlier than me. Oh, ball on top. Beautiful. It's football, it's football. Lenich, a pass. You know, don't you? Lenich, a great low shot at the finish. What a finish. Yes. Gary Lenich, another goal, another goal. Come on. Something to hold. Everton, take the lead. It's so often the case with goalscores. Little influence and all of a sudden... All right. I'm a bit of a playtask of the world, haven't I? All the runners, all the runners, all the runners. All the runners, all the runners. And that's it. Gwne, gwne, gwne. Now here's the fourth one. Lovell! No, Barres! Double tap it, double tap it! Double tap it. Triple tap it. Triple tap it when free. It's all for me. I don't know. Winning this is a team. I know, but that was poor. Winning this is a team. Losing the team. You can see. No, we won clear. Killing free, yes. He's gone like what you should have. That was a dangerous area. Wyn o, gwynt o, gwynt o, gwynt o, gwynt o, gwynt o, gwynt o, gwynt o, gwynt o, gwynt o, gwynt o, gwynt o, gwynt o, gwynt o, gwynt o, gwynt o, gwynt o, gwynt o, gwynt o, gwynt o, gwynt o, gwynt o, gwynt o. I say what to go on team. I'm a cop of the players. Right. So we've made a change. I don't know, right? Brace is going off, Watson's coming into the defence. Um a little bit of a tinker with the midfield positions, not too dramatic. Felly dyna'r lleig. Dwi'n lleig. Wtfro. Fodd ddim. Nriw sy'n ddim yn tai, dwi'n lleig. Mae'r reidio gweithio gwir. Aberon. heraus ychwanegau. Ia'r newydd. Fyddbaeth'u gwir. Cymaid a gyfnod. Cwm yn dweud hwn o'n bydd hyn, mae'n sgwrdd. Dych yn eu twlwyd yn y gwrdd. Cyfrifio rhaid gyda ni. Cwm y gallu panfapt. Rwy'n meddwl. Oni'n gwybod. Mae'r cem säg dod. Nid y penderfyn o'r hyn. Yn o'n wneud o'i cyfrifio. Helio? Ydw'i tu. Rydw i dda'i gael. Mae'n ddechrau. Yn ni'n ei bod nhw'n dweud eu colli. Wcom ond, this is David, we can win it, we can hang on it, this is massive. This cup of the 10 importance in the season. Oh, see he's wet in there. He's limpy. He's done it. Wreth fel sent off there. Right. There's a barach yn awr i ar y gloedd wnaeth. Tre'w onzeill yn wyth ddweud. Gwtryw i maen nhw, ydw'n mag. Wynn that! Wynn that! Oh, eyefer, ey! Wel, a'i mae gwneud hynny ddim yn gweithio am y cyfodol. Oherwydd yn y ffrond yw'r gwis yw eu gwoes? Cyngorolwch rhai! Mae'n ganddo i wneud yn ynfael. Mae'r gwisio'r Promethwch. Mae'n ganddo i ddechrau'r ganddo. Yendog! Rai! Cwrs! Felly mae'n ymgyrch! Rhaid i cael bwysig! Rhaid i yw'r ganddo i'r Fath. Mae'n iddal sy'n ganddian. Felly mae'n naddwyd i'r ganddo i'r ganddo i'r ganddo i'r ganddo i'r ganddo i'r ganddo! Thank you. Is it going to work on this? It's got to find substitution. Terrific move by the boss. Let's be clever and our possession not correct. It's not thinking the ball makes you much. C 토i hew aned i ddiwrnod. Felly ganwch ddod! Felly ganwch a'ch aned! Felly aned i ddiwrnod! Mae'n effi I o'w. Ma hefyd! Ma hefyd! A hefyd i! Felly wedi clywed i Cyngor cwmwysig e folk! Felly e'n wneud y ffordd! Ma hefyd! Ma hefyd i! Mae hefyd! Mae'n ffordd o gweithio! efo'n nesrwch y fawr i gael i ddych chi i gael efo'r fawr, pan a hynny'n cymryd. Lug oeddiadau a'r 16th, efo'r fawr i gael i gael i gael i gael. Ie, efo'r fawr i gael i gael i gael. Efo'r mwyaf i gael i gael i gael i gael i gael i gael i gael i gael. Mae Cool. A gallwch i D Widenga am ne defionwn fel Ysgrifennor? Mae'r band ddaid odd, gallwch i ni i n restinger, ac yn ni gell o yma o ffordd a ddw i ein gwefnodau Kopwr, gallwch i ni cael ffordd rydym yn murdererfynedd. Foclio dadod yn eich lwyddon taskedad pobl, rydyn ni'n rhan fe gymwyswyd ei isgrifetod ar ôlodydd ar boel. Felly sefyll iawn am ysgrifennor hynny neu bod ein y boel wedi'n lefel Jaeell � quote hynny, fel gwyaithau hyn i fraff fatherau. Sfledd, mae eich ffasid clywbeth yw eu hynny. Wel, mae'n drafodaeth yw'n aditho coreTT, yw'n cyutiw'r ar y cyntaf. Felly mae'n ddiwrl iawn. Ie, iddod. Ie, iddod! Edrych ddim yn dod! Gwynraeth yn eu cantanc. Iddynt gydape. O, ychyddi. A, mae'n cael ei fod! A, mae'n cael ei fod! Yna wedi fynd i fod y maen nhw. Mae'n cael ei fod i'n cael ei fod, mae'n cael ei fod yn cynnig yn canvedd. Ar hyfryng y mae o'r plwysau dyna i bach o ffellotau'r Llyfridol. Llyfridol i'r plwysau i'n mewn y tordy. Mae peth yn ieist naen nhw. Velau wrth yw yn ddifos i. Nid yw y fflag? Mae'r lles. O'r ddweud? O'r ddweud? O'r ddweud? O'r ddweud? O'r ddweud? O'r ddweud? Get it in! A ddweud? A ddweud? C'mon! C'mon! Lynych i'r gyfnwyr y surprise. It's just opened up in front of him. Get it in!  But, go on up.  Go players, a nice flick there, and then he makes the wrong points. Yeah, good movement. And it's just on. It's it then. Go on then. A rose it into the far corner of the net. C'mon. OK. All right. This is gonna take all our concentration, this. Clocked it. All right, OK. C'mon on. Un ffigur o'w siar. Di siar. It's a weird thing. C'mon. Jump. Oh, you've got it. I've gone ill. Siari, siari. Keep the momentum going. No! Siari! No! No! It's a decent ball. It's a beautiful form. Hang on right back in! Peter, it's a lovely piece of deception in shaping to whack you. And then he'll pick for a lovely little lob. OK. Start again. OK. That has certainly made things interesting. Yeah, it's always a dangerous time when you've just scored. You can easily lose focus and then bang. You take back. We're getting caught. We can't be going to stop that. It's one in. And the flag has stayed down towards the front then. Great set, eh? It's all right. Why are these got an end of everything? It's a back. What? Definitely done. It's a waste of chance. OK. OK. OK. We've got to work out there. It's a genuinely interesting game. In the game? We are in the game, but... It's hard. It's hard not to be disappointed. It's a tough game because these are hard. And you've got to watch all the time. Quality. This is a good side. The wealth pixelated. Yeah. I think it's the best side we play, to be honest in terms of not being able to get by it. The movement's ridiculous. I've gone! I've gone! I've gone! It's all right. I'm just encians to show him to go for it. I don't wealth it all the way up. I'd say I'm going. It's OK. It's right. It's a little flick. That's a great win. It's fun season. Get in the box. Get in the box. Come on.  Keep going! Y mae'r bach a'r lle! Rydyn ni'n effeithio'r cymloedd! Fy hefyd wedi'u chynghwz i'r ddweud! Mae'r ddam gyd i'r ddweud y gallai ddweud eich gylwgr! A! A, yw'r tro! Ddi'n cael eu clywed y gylwgr yn ym lifts! Rwyf i ddechrau'r gilydd gynwys! Nid ydych chi'n ei ffordd o fideo! Mae hefyd eich wahanol. Waltydd i hyn oeth ei wahanol o'r gael! Roedon nhw'n cael eu ddweud yn ychydig, Ychwanegwch i dda, greu ffeis dda i'n bloch, yn hynny'n eich hef. That is wonderful. C'mon. Wunderbae. Right. Drop, drop, drop. I'n cae af yn awr. C'mon. Just out the rock. Yes. Yn ni, yn ni. OK. Go on. You've got that. I am. Sorry, sorry. Flex, sorry. I mean it's beautiful. I still need it. Yeah. You haven't done them after the day. I know. I didn't mean to do it. You did. Let's see. Did you mean to do it? You meant to do it. What I was doing, I was reacting to the next one. It's not considered of this otherwise. It's a flat ball. It's exciting. C'mon. Just hold it, just hold it, just hold it. That's it! Yes. Well done, Andy. Well done. Is it that? Yes, referee, yes. I'd like to see it. I'm going to meet. Get in. You know what? C'mon. Look at that. He didn't see the movement. Oh, power. What a delivery that is. You wouldn't have made it down on the wall, would you? You wouldn't have made it down on the wall. Angled the head. That's hot, man. I thought you were going to get right footed and bender in across the keeper, but no. Produced. With that left foot. There, bro. Right. OK. 20. Put it away. Go on! Go on! Go on! Oh, it's... It's OK, mate. That's really well done. Outside! More... Don't meet. The flag's gone up! The end of the flag, go on! Fuck! Play the whistle. Down the cardio trick. Oh, my word. Play the whistle. That's OK. That's OK. And the... No! What a save. What a save. No, no, no! Yes, great. No, man! 25 minute. Two games in a row. Oh. He's a bit more lucky in that instance. He's a switched off there. I don't think he did. I don't think he couldn't get the ball away. I can't give it on the half-failer. Sixth raise on, so the catcher. And they still have to keep the ball. I don't think it's going to get back in. He's gone. He's gone. Nothing. What? It was either a foul or it was a throw. Don't throw this away. Ddwch, ddwch! Ddwch! Ddwch! Clear. A free!   It's trying to... You're not your dummy in everything. I must tell him he's a ddwch out of here.   No! Yes! Yes! Maradona, ddwch! Yes! Battle your life! Woohoo! Get him, battle that big thing! Three wins on the run. Post a beat of three seasons. What a relaxed. It's like a watched everything. Absolutely amazing. I'm sweating. I am sweating. I'm sweating. Only what a victory that was. Cos they were good. They were a very good side, them. Look at this, gollob. Picks it up. Runs it. It's the space and then just picks his corner. Oh, it's wonderful. It's wonderful. Touching. Good forward play there. Receives it off you go. If there's any young players watching, hit the space, like, Llynyche. Did you finish that on me? The lead didn't last long. No. Nair should just come out here and do. He hesitated in here, then. It's a great finish. I mean, Nair took over, but he didn't finish. It's a great finish, mate. I can't get away from the fact that it was a great finish. You know, a second half. You know, we go again. Great. Bounces out with it. Touch and then bends it. Staisy. Staisy. Staisy, mate. Staisy. Oh, look at that. One of our players off the pitch. They've got a bit of a controversy. They've wotten there with the lead tackle. It's fine. And then another lead tackle by Freire. And this is the ball. Whip, then. And Paul.  Look at that. Powers here in three. One goes and goes. Wild. Did you save? And then look at this. Keep it to keep it alive. And it's a good win. And then Diego.  What a finish by Diego Maradoni. Oh, Benzy. Superb. Up to 14. 14. Dizzy height. Look at that. 7 points. 7 points off the top place. 6 off the Champions League places. Come on. We're starting to... 3 wins. 2 draws and 4 defeats. 2 wins in a row in the league. 1 in the cup. We're pushing. We're getting better. We're getting better. It's happening. It's all happening here. On the road to glory. I'm knackered. I'll be honest. I'm knackered. We face Manchester United. 95. 99. In the next show. Make sure you catch us. Make sure you leave your comments. If you're loving this, let us know if you're loving it. Thanks for watching it. We'll see you later.


Good health to you all from Rexall. This is your Rexall family druggist, taking a little time from behind the prescription counter this Sunday evening to speak for all 10,000 of us. The 10,000 independent druggist who have added the word Rexall to our own store names. You can always tell us by the orange and blue Rexall sign on our windows. The sign means that we carry the 2,000 or more drug products made by the Rexall drug company. They range all the way from aspirin to penicillin. And they're as fine and pure and dependable as science can make them. We independent druggist recommend them to our customers because we know you can depend on any drug product that bears the name Rexall. Atley, Robert North, Jeanine Roos and Whitfield, Walter Sharp and his music, yours truly Bill Foreman and starring Alice May and... So they're up bright and early this morning, getting ready to go to NBC for an 8 o'clock rehearsal. Well Alice, today's the last program of the season. You know it's been a swell year and it's really been a pleasure working for Rexall. Yes it has. Phil, do you think Rexall has been happy with us? Well why shouldn't they be? Our program has helped their business. How do you know? The sponsor told me. Mr. Scott said my singing alone has increased their sale of aspirin tenfold. And he thinks you're great on the show too, honey. He does? Yeah, and he should. After all, you're much more important to the show than I am. Oh no Phil, you're more important. No, no, no, you are. You have more talent, you're a better performer and you have more personality. I know, but you try. Thank you, Horace Hyde. A little vacation is going to be nice to go back on the air for Rexall again in the fall. Phil, are you sure we're going back? You know, Mr. Scott and you didn't get along too well. Personalities have nothing to do with it. I got a contract for next year. But as he tries to break it. Don't be silly. How can he break my contract? That's what Mr. Scott asked his lawyer yesterday. I was wondering how long it would take this little pip to squeak. Mr. Scott doesn't think you add anything to the program, Philip. Well, how can he say that? The public loves me on the air, especially the women. Why, I'm the greatest thing that has happened to the American housewife since Steel Wall. Yes, and Mr. Scott says you're just about as entertaining too. He doesn't particularly like your band either, and I don't blame him. Now wait a minute, wait a minute, what's wrong with my band?  Hold it! Them guys ain't uncool. I'd sophisticated gentlemen. And suppose you think they're suave? I do, and I ain't the only one. Everybody says they're the biggest bunch of swaves in the business. Yeah, they hear some good music when Guy Lombardo replaces you on the air for the summer. My band is just as good as Lombardo's. Oh, how can you say that? It isn't his fault if they sound like they're coming from the opposite direction. People don't appreciate a good band when you hear it. My boys can play just... Daddy, we're awfully sorry to hear the bad news. What bad news? Oh, no, no, that's just for the summer, I'm not being fired. I didn't think so, Daddy. I like your band much better than Mr. Lombardo's. There's a juvenile that has an air for music. Why do you like my band better, Alice? Come in here every morning with a mouthful of mashed potatoes. We have a rehearsal at eight. We'd better get started for the studio. All right. They'll be here. Don't worry about them. When I ask those guys to do something, they do it. They're a lot more loyal to me than my own family, who can't seem to wait until Lombardo takes over. See? See what I told you?  Good morning, gentlemen. Good morning, Mr. Lombardo. They don't even know you. I'd better introduce you to them. I'm still a leader here. I tell you, when I order you guys to be early, I don't want to hear any mo- Hey, Sammy. Sammy, wake up. What time is it? It's time you were up. It's eight o'clock. Eight o'clock? I haven't been up this early since I was in the Army. Oh, no. Don't tell me I've been drafted again. What about the Army and forget Lombardo? I just want to rehearse the music for today's show. Now, if you're ready, let's start with our opening theme. A one, a two theme. Alice and me are going to do a double today, so let's run over that. I want you to play it just as if you knew what you were doing. Alice, give them the music. That ain't going to help. Well, let's try. Can't stop the head up there. The Shaden is thinking about how cold it was just replacing me for the summer. It's temporary. I guess I've got a good van so far we're even. Now, let's go to point two. Lombardo ain't a comedian.  It puts him ahead. That evens us up again. A position, shall we? I've got Newman on piano, Pagan on drums, and you on guitar, and... Contract with Rex all for next year? That's right. And by the way, Scott, he's coming down this morning to pick up the option.  Just this once, Frankie. Just be nice to him. Play up to him and make him think you're crazy about him. All right, I'll play up to him. I'll make him think he's a... Oh, good morning, everyone. Oh, good morning, Mr. Scott. My, but you look handsome today. Simply devastating. Thank you. Hello, Renly. The way from you has been an eternity. Are you driving her? Scotty. Darling, would you like to go steady? Renly. That'd be nice. You don't have to get engaged to him. Scotty, I'll thank you to return my fraternity pin. Have you ever taken Renly to a doctor? Something should be done to help him. Oh, something is being done.  What did they find wrong with his head? We don't know. They haven't sent it back yet. Chief, would you like to hear what we're going to do on today's show? No, no, I don't have the time. I'm catching a train for New York in a couple of hours. I dropped in with the commercials. I just finished writing them. Mr. Scott.  Did you hear that, Frankie? Mr. Scott is the man who writes the commercials. He looks like the kind of a guy who would. Don't you like the Rexall commercials, Remly? I can take them or leave them. Hey, Scott, what's this I hear about you replacing Curly with Lombardo?  I have to take the option renewing you for next year to New York. Just sign here. I'll be glad to sign. Not so fast. I'd like to look this paper over before I let Curly sign. Frankie, now keep out of this. Curly, aren't you going to read it first? I think this guy's pulling a fast one. He's got an awful, shifty look. He doesn't have to read it. Now, I'm in a hurry. I just signed here. Yes, sir. Well, there's my signature, Mr. Scott. Oh, what beautifully formed X's. Oh, that's not my signature. My name is spelled out up there. Then what are these X's? Kisses. I love my sponsor. I want you to be sure and tell him too when you get back to New York, Scotty. Oh, I'm sure that will thrill the 10,000 independent drugists. No end. Now, if you'll excuse me, I have to make a phone call. I'll be back to say goodbye. Well, Alice, we're all set. We signed our option for next year. How do you know it was an option? Did you read it? Well, no, but what else could it be? It could be a release form. He wouldn't let you read it, and he was awful anxious for you to sign it. Oh, stop it, Frankie. Mr. Scott is happy with Phil on the show. Why, he calls him after every program. Yeah, and you should hear what he says about my band and my singing and my comedy and, oh, what a sneaky way to get rid of me. Hey, Alice, Frankie may be right. Maybe it was a release form. If it was, I got to get it back. But how? Pick his pocket. Frankie. Look, Phillip, you're in doubt. All you have to do is ask Mr. Scott, and he'll show it to you. I'm sure that he will. Well, I'm all set to leave, and I'll say goodbye to you all. Hey, before you go, Mr. Scott, may I, uh, may I see that option I signed? What option? Oh, oh, that. No, but Mr. Scott, I insist on singing. I have a train to catch, and I have to... Remily, stop jostling me. I have to hurry. Goodbye, everyone. Come back here, Scotty. I want to... He's gone. Let him go, Curly. I got the envelope. Well, first you jostle him when they're off balance. Remily, that's a horrible thing you've done, but as long as you've done it, open the envelope and see what I signed. Okay. I'll see what it says. Super Chief, car 42 compartment. You just signed up as porter for the Santa Fe. Those are his railroad tickets. You picked the wrong pocket. If that is a release form, and Scott gets to New York with it, I won't be working for Rexall. So what? Santa Fe is a bigger company. How are you making up birds? Good. Remily, this ain't funny. We've got to keep Scott from getting on that train. Yeah, but how are we going to keep him from getting on that train? Well, we've got to think of something. This'll take brains. Let's put our heads together. That ain't going to do it. Never occur to you that Mr. Scott can't go to New York as long as you have his railroad tickets. Yeah, Remily, that's it. He could. He can't leave town. I won't give him his tickets until he...  I'll go to the Rexall office and ask them what you signed. I'll be back soon. Now you're wasting your time, Alice.  Anybody can see this is just a smart move to get rid of Curly. Well, it ain't going to work. Frankie, we've got to find some way to get that release back from Scott. In an honest way, of course. Of course. All we've got to do is break into his house tonight, sneak into his room and... Wait a minute. We can't do that. We'll get arrested and thrown in jail. Yeah. Well, we'll just have to find a fall guy. Who's going to risk a jail sentence just so... Yes, Mr. Harris! Well, if it ain't little Juliette Julius! Alcatraz Abruzio! Julius, little chum, you've arrived at an opportune moment. We're going to give you a chance to do us a favor.  It's a very simple mission. Yeah, it's called operation penitentiary.  And if you do it, I'll pay you well. Kid, talk and piss! Nobody rubbed out. All I want you to do is to break into Mr. Scott's house and steal something. This is important. Mr. Scott has a paper I signed. And if I don't get it back, I'll be fired. And next year, I won't be on the air. There's a lovely child. Yeah. He has all the charm of an old sweatshirt that you can get that paper back. Just take it easy, will you, Curly? We got time. Scott can't leave town while we got his tickets. We'll manage to think of some... Harris! Harris! Usually, my railroad tickets around here, I seem to have lost them.  Now you can't go to New York today, Scotty. Yes, I can. I'll fly there. Fly? Uh, excuse me a minute, Scotty. We're not prepared for this emergency. I'm prepared. Scotty, I happen to know that the regular airlines are all booked up. But if you insist on flying, I can get you on a plane that costs a lot less than the regular airlines. How can you do that? I know a guy. That's wonderful. Wonderful? He's a fine sponsor. He don't even listen to his own program. Come on inside. We'll call him. Uh, this guy runs a private airline. Remly, I thought you're on my side. What are you getting him a plane for? Don't worry, Curly. You'll never ride on this one. Here we are. I'll just call and let you make the reservation, Scotty. Well, now, Remly, are you sure this is a dependable airline? Would I give you a bum steer? I hope this is the right number I'm calling. Hello? This is the O. Are you going to be sorry you didn't take a train airline? This is the right number. Scotty, you talk, though. Oh, thank you. Hello? I have to go to New York and I want to fly in one of your planes.  You don't sound as if you have much confidence in your plane. Oh, but I do. We have the largest and heaviest planes in the country. In fact, they're so heavy, we had to have an extra long runway built because it takes a little time to get them off the ground. That's nice, but I want you to... Oh, you'll love flying in one of our planes. You'll take off in Los Angeles and before you know it, you're passing through Chicago. You mean over Chicago? No, through it. I told you. It takes a little time to get them off the ground. And why not?  Oh, well, how long does it take one of your planes to fly to New York? Well, that's hard to say. None of them ever made it yet. I must have a bad connection. I can't be hearing this. I wouldn't fly in one of your broken-down crates. Please!  All right, all right. All I want to do now is to get a plane leaving for New York. Do you have one leaving today? We will if we have our stratosphere special repaired by that. We're having a little trouble with the motor and the propeller, Walt. What's wrong? The rubber band broke.  Remly, where do you get your friend? He rubs two bartenders together and up they jump. Now I'll have to take a bus to New York. But you can't go until I get that... I'm gonna make a deal with you. Will you give me back that paper I signed if I find your train tickets in Remly's pocket? Remly's pocket? Give me those tickets! You... You dip! No, not till you give us that paper. All right, all right, here it is. Thanks. Okay, Curly, we got it back. I'll take care of this right now. But Frankie, maybe we should have read it before you tore it out, Liz. I know what I'm doing every minute. Officer, as usual, Frankie's wrong. They're picking us up for another year, and that was an option you signed. Of course. I don't know why Remly tore it up. Oh, no. Look, Mr. Scott, there's been a terrible mistake. Please give Phil another chance. All right, I'll do it for your sake, Miss Faye. Harris, I'll mail you another copy. Goodbye, knucklehead. Oh, thank you, most exalted one. Well, Curly, thanks to me, you'll be working again next year. Yeah, Remly, the things you do to me, I don't know why I don't fire you off the show. You need me. I need you. Remember, Remly, you can be replaced. Are you kidding? Who can you get to replace me? I know a guy. We'll be back in just a moment, but now here's your Rexall family drugist. I'd like to depart from my usual role this evening in order to deliver a personal message to the stars of our show. Phil Harris and Alice Faye. Phil, Alice, I'm speaking now for the 10,000 independent Rexall drugists of America when I say thank you for a season of grand entertainment. It's been a pleasure, Griff. We, in turn, would like to thank the 10,000 independent Rexall drugists for giving us the opportunity to come into the homes of so many swell people. We're grateful to all of you listeners, and if I ever get my own money, I'll buy you soda sometime. And I'd like to add our thanks to our wonderful cast and production staff. Good night, everybody, and have a nice summer. And don't forget, our whole gang will be back with you in the fall, so keep your radios warm. I want you to miss our opening show on September the 18th, and good luck on the summer show to Guy Lombardo and all of these boys. Have a swell season, Guy. Thank you, Phil. And now, friends, please accept my invitation to be with us next week at the same time when the makers of Rexall drug products and 10,000 independent Rexall family drugists bring you Guy Lombardo and his music. We hope to add to your summer enjoyment with this grand half-hour of tuneful listening. In the meantime, whenever you have need of reliable drug products, remember the store with the orange and blue Rexall sign on the window. There's a family drugist inside that store, able and anxious to serve you, and he'll be glad to tell you you can depend on any drug product that bears the name Rexall. Good health to all from Rexall. This program was produced and directed by Paul Phillips, included in today's cast were Gail Gordon, Frank Nelson, Jerry Hausner, and Ali O'Toole. The part of Frankie Remley was played by Elliot Lewis, and Julius was played by Walter Tethlee. Alice Faye appeared through the courtesy of 20th Century Fox. And now this is Bill Forman wishing good health to all from Rexall. This is NBC, the national broadcasting company.


I used to aim low to increase the chance I would reach goals. I'm what I'm trying to expand in my life right now is to dream much bigger and because I've put so many self-limiting beliefs on what I'm capable of because I used to look at the world through that paradigm we've discussed earlier that falling short of a goal means you're a failure and I don't want to fail or I don't want to be viewed as a failure failure you know so if I aim lower then I have a higher percentage chance that I'll hit but you also live a much more tepid mediocre life so now I'm trying to stretch and expand and aim much higher and just realize that I'm not going to hit all of those goals in fact most of them I don't but I still make progress and I still learn something and then I can chase that goal again if I want