I experienced a strange series of events only a few days ago. I have a habit of playing on old Minecraft versions, from old release versions all the way back to alpha. For a while now, I've been enjoying my time in a beta 1.7.2 version. The old piston duplication glitch, the incredibly green grass everywhere, and the old textures, that sort of stuff. It's all relaxing to me, and I like spending time in those old versions. I think it might be a while before I do that again. I was playing early in the morning, at about 4 am. Seems like a rather cliche time for something odd to happen, but bear with me. I was wandering around my world, venturing through the islands I had conquered, before I decided to craft a boat and go sailing out of the large bay I had resided in for the entire time I've had this world. I had barely sailed for a minute before I spotted odd terrain generation. It seemed old, like it had been generated in an alpha version or early beta version. The grass that had been everywhere around my house was nonexistent, and the ground was a dead color. Trees were rare, and random pockets of stone rose from the grassy floor. I thought this strange, but kept sailing, thinking it was a biome I had not knew was in data at that time. Even 30 seconds later, I saw, on the horizon, a small peninsula jutting out from the dead land. I couldn't make out what was on it until I got up a bit closer, and the thought was cleared. Torches. I knew I was generating new chunks, but there were torches sporadically placed on the land. I was curious, and sailed towards the peninsula. Once I arrived, I slowed down in order to preserve my boat, which ended up floating away anyway when I stepped off it. I put my feet on the grass, and saw something I had not expected. A hole in the hill. It was a house, patched up with cobblestone, lacking a door or extra amenities. It was a cramped space, with a two block high ceiling and a single torch on the wall. I was confused, yet intrigued at the sight of this home in the rocks. At the end of the home, there was a mine leading down into the earth. It almost seemed exactly like a player had created this, but the world was never multi-player, and these chunks were loaded fresh, as far as I know. After thinking for a while, I became slightly uncomfortable. Despite this, I decided to venture into the mine anyway. I couldn't see a main tag or a sign of a player, so I knew I'd be fine. The stairway down lead into a cave system, filled with cobblestone bridges across gaps and holes where ores had been mined. It was everything you'd expect from a normal mine. After looking around for a minute or two, I decided I wanted to head back to my home before I got lost. As I exited the mine, the day was waning and darkness approached over the horizon. I sailed back home, slept the night away, and logged off to do some homework I had been waiting on finishing. I wish that was the last time I would open that world. Approximately two hours later, at around 6.30 am, I logged back into the game. By this point, I was still thinking about my weird findings, but not much of it. For a half hour or so, I mine-duplicated iron blocks and built a tower that was supposed to be a mob grinder by its completion. I was watching some YouTube videos while absentmindedly digging up duplicated iron blocks when I noticed all my wheat at my farm in the distance had been broken, and some dirt and grass replaced a few spots where the land was tilled. Back in that version, simply stepping on tilled land could break it. I had sworn that I had planted wheat there a few hours prior, and that I hadn't touched it since. I went to check it out, and came to the conclusion that the animals around the area had stopped it away, and the wheat had despawned. It was the best I could come up with at the time. I went back to mining iron blocks. A few minutes later, when I went to the building to resume its construction, four blocks had been broken in one of the corners. I was getting weirded out, as there had been no creeper explosions there, and Enderman weren't even in the game yet. I just thought that I had mined those four blocks, and my sleep deprivation had fuzzed my memory slightly. That didn't stop my knees. I really should have just taken the hints and deleted my world right then, but I didn't. I continued playing for another hour without anything happening, when my brain suddenly clicked into gear, and I thought that the weird house I had seen earlier might have something to do with this. Some sort of world merge, maybe, or a hacker. I don't know. I traveled to the cobblestone house again, this time by land, and was greeted by the familiar sporadic torches and hole in the hill where the house was. But there was one thing that unsettled me. The house now had an iron door. And there was someone outside placing a button beside it. I stood, stunned, for a moment. I didn't think this could happen. I thought my sleep deprivation was playing tricks on me, making me hallucinate. I was going to believe it, until the player's head turned and looked at me. I managed to take this screenshot before all pluses pouring out of the game. Directly after closing the world, I opened Photoshop and examined this closely to see if I wasn't hallucinating. Whatever this is, it's not a player. No name tag, no movements, and its shape is ghastly. It's almost like a ghost. I'm not playing data again.


However, most scholars have interpreted this verse meaning that if one intends to read the Qur'an, you must first seek refuge with Allah and shake down the outcast and not let one compete in reading it. Does that make sense? So some of the scholars, their interpretation is that فإذا قرأت أي فإذا أردت القراءة ، if you intend to read the Qur'an ، فاستعد بالله سيقرأ في جن الله من الشيطان الرجيم. And some say, no, we take the ayah at its apparent. So what it means is that the A'ud billah is after the recitation. We have already mentioned one means of seeking refuge, and some among the pious predecessors used to say, I seek refuge with Allah that you will hear Him, that you will know Him from the outcast. So some of the scholars used to say that you should add a word وأعود بالله السميع العليم من الشيطان الرجيم. So they added this extra two wordings which is السميع العليم. The reason is because they got it from the ayah. So if you read the Qur'an, فاستعد بالله من الشيطان الرجيم. They got it from the ayah, what is it? What is the Hadith? This is the Hadith of the Prophet ﷺ. Do you think there was an ayah in the Qur'an that they took it from? What is it? So if you read the Qur'an, is it the last one? Huh? Do you think the Prophet ﷺ is the last one? No. Something, there was an ayah there. So it's not wajib to say it. He says. So it's not wajib to say it. He says. To seek refuge in Allah from the Shaytan is not obligatory, it's recommended. And it is recommended for every reciter. Whether he is in Salah or whether he is outside the Salah. It doesn't matter. وإنما يزغنك من الشيطان نزغن فاستعد بالله من الشيطان الرجيم. إنه سميع العليم. لا يسيس سميع العليم. That's where he got it. That's where they got it from. Does that make sense? She's saying to you, sharing is caring Ibrahim. Give me your crisp. Share. Stop eating it by yourself. She likes people to share. So how do you feel? Are you? So that every raka'a, some scholars actually said it's obligatory. It is what? It is obligatory to read the إستعادة because Allah says فاستعد بالله من الشيطان الرجيم. فاستعد. Come on. Obligation. Some scholars they said that. Some said no. It's recommended. Where did they get that from? That when the Prophet ﷺ was teaching المسيء وصلاةه the one who was whose salah was bad, the Prophet didn't say فاستعد بالله. So this is a صارف. That diverts it. The other opinion is that it is obligatory only in the first raka'a. And should one forget to seek refuge in the first raka'a he should do so in the second raka'a. Some scholars they said that he does it in every raka'a Ibrahim من الشيطان الرجيم. And other scholars they said no. It doesn't have to be in every single raka'a. All that is enough is that the person does it from the first time they pray. الله أكبر they said they make the dua they say Ibrahim من الشيطان الرجيم. And they read بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم. And then they read صورة الفاتحة. They don't have to do it again. The author says فصل في المحافظة على البسمانة وينبغي أن يحافظ على قراءة بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم. في أول كل صورة سوى براءة فإن أكثر العلماء قالوا إنها آية حيث كتبت إنها آية حيث كتبت إنها آية حيث كتبت إنها آية حيث كتبت إنها آية حيث كتبت في المصحف وقد كتبت في أوائل السور سوى براءة فإن قراءها كان متيقنا متيقنا قراءة الختمة أو الصورة وإذا أخلّ بالبسملة كانتارك لبعض القرآن عند الأكثرين فإن كانت القراءة في وظيفة عليها جعل كالأسباع والأكثر جعل كالأسباع والأجزاء التي عليها أوقاف وأزراق وأرزاق كالأسباع والأجزاء التي عليها أوقاف وأرزاق كان لعتناء بالبسملة أشد ليستحق ما يأخذه يقينا فإنه إذا أخلّ به لم يستحق شيئا من الوقف عند من يقول البسملة من أوائل السور وهذه دقيقة وهذه دقيقة النفيسة يتأكّد لعتناء بها وإشاعتها يجب أن يقول بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم في بقية صورة بقية صورة التوبة فإن الأكثر now goes into يجب أن تأكد that the person who says بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم and the person he says needs to make sure that they save God and they are always reading the Bismillah in the beginning of every surah other than صورة وبراءة نعم the majority of scholars have the opinion that it is a verse written at the beginning of each surah in the most half accepted beginning of surah the majority of scholars hold the opinion that Bismillah is an ayah it's a verse in the Quran it's a verse and it's written in what the beginning of every surah except surah to he called it and this is the norm that some scholars do that they name the surah based on the beginning of the surah صح they will name the surah the beginning of it instead of calling it by what instead of calling it instead of calling it by the name of what the surah is so صورة وبراءة does it have a Bismillah some scholars they said that it's it's basically joint with صورة وبراءة it's just one surah some scholars this خلافات there's discussions going on نعم if the reciter says بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم also known as the بسم الله he will have affirmed the correct recitation of the Qur'an for given a for a given chapter but if he leaves it out then he has left out a part of the Qur'an according to the majority of the scholars if a wage or endowment is being paid for a job that involves the recitation of the Qur'an such as those that request that one seventh or some chapters of the Qur'an be recited it is more emphatically recommended that the بسم الله be uttered so that the reciter can rest assured that he is fully deserving of that which is being paid so if a if a people come and they ask a person to read Qur'an for them and they say this is a portion we want you to read and we're going to pay you for it okay they pay him for it are you with me brothers and sisters and he misses the بسم الله he has not done the job if he is of the opinion that the بسم الله is an ayah from the Qur'an those holding the view that the بسم الله is a verse and must be recited to hold the opinion that the reciter who leaves it out is not deserving of anything he was supposed to be paid for his recitation this is a value and rather intricate ruling that should be regarded as important and made known this is something he's trying to say that many people are heedless about so we should know that فصل في تدبر القرآن والخشو عند القراءة فإذا شرع في القراءة فليكن شانه الخشوع والتدبر عند القراءة والدلائل عليه أكثر من أن تحصر وأشهر وأظهر من أن تذكر فهو المقصود والمطلوب وبه تنشرح السدور وتستنير القلوب قال الله عز وجل أه أف لا يتدبرون القرآن وقال تعالى كتاب أنزلناه إليك مبارا كل يدبر آياته ولي تذكر أول الألباب والأحدث فيه كثيرة وقاول السلف فيه مشهورة وقد بات جماعة من السلف يتلون يتلون آية واحدة يتدبرونها ويرددونها إلى الصباح وقد صاعق جماعات من السلف عند القراءة وما تجماعة منهم حال القراءة وقد روئنا عن بهز بن حكيم أن زرارة بن أوف التابعي الجليل أن زرارة بن أوف التابعي الجليل رضي الله عنه أمهم في صلاة الفجر فقرأ حتى إذا بلغ فإذا نقر في الناقور فدالك يوم إذن يوم العسير خر ميت قال بهز فكونت فيه من حمله وكان أحمد ابن وكان أحمد ابن أبن حواري رضي الله عنه وهو ريحانة الشام كما قال أب القاسم الجنيد رحمه الله وتعالى إذا قر عند القراءة إذا قر عنده قاسم ابن عثمان الجوعي رحمه الله تعالى ينكر ذلك على ابن أبن حواري وكان الجوعي وكان الجوعي فاضلا من محدث أهل دمشق يقدم في الفضل على ابن أبن حواري باب عدم الإنكار إلا على من يترفى بأن هو يفعل تصنع والله تعالى أعلم وقال السيد الجليل ذو الموائب والمعار في برايم الخواص رضي الله عن دواء القلب خمسة أشياء سحاري ومجالسة الصالحين سبب خمسة مجالسة مجالسة أشياء غير من طفل وقال موائب ومعار رقم بسيار ومعار ومعار من رقم ومعار ومعار ومعار ومعار ومعار ومعار ومعار ومعار تلبر ultimately خبرة على الذي ت digo بردا'm وفليكن شأنه خوشوق be a person who comes with humility وتدربر عند القراءة وانت 330 Don't just let his 1964 Just don't recite it but think .. ask yourself what does this mean .What does Allah is saying here yeah Everything isèce. It's beautiful ... Maybe my interpretation is highly Crystal The author now goes on to say هذا which is to read the Qur'an with تدبر اخوشور. He said the evidence for this is اكثر من انتوحظر. It is too much for us to restrict it to an amount or for us to bring all the evidence is for it's too much number وأشهر وأضهر من انتوذكر and he's too famous and well-known for even us to try to mention it. Indeed contemplation is the main purpose behind reciting the Qur'an and that which is required by any reciter. فالقرآن و Why it was sent down was what? Why did Allah send the Quran down? He sent the Quran so it can be pondered on Not so it can be stuck to the walls Not so somebody can just listen to it But the Quran was sent down for pondering Think over it نعم هل ترون ايه ايه ايه ايه ايه والله بذويد القرآن بردين سيستيز وبيه تنشرح السدور الله اوضع الناس هل تحتقال قرآن البحر؟ نعم قرآن البحر يحتقال قرآن وقرآن البحر هو القرآن إذا لم يقوم بقرآن البحر سيوت حتى ليس لك قرآن البحر if you don't nurture it إذا لم تتتعب في أي محابد فلن تتقيب it أنت تتعب في أي قرآن البحر هل تتقال قرآن البحر؟ هل تتعب إذا لم تتعب؟ yes the heart dies the same way and the food the supplement that the heart needs is the Quran and that's why you find a lot of people who are suicidal they want to kill themselves they don't want to live anymore they're stressed, anxieties, depression, everything the reason is because they are distanced from the Quran والله the ayah is حقيقة ومن أعرض عن ذكري فإن له معيشة ضنكة the ones who turn away from my remembrance meaning the Quran you turn away from it فإن له معيشة ضنكة you're going to live a hard life why are you going to live a hard life because you haven't nurtured your heart you haven't given it its food how's it going to move, how's it going to work can a car work without oil, petrol, can it if you don't serve it in the car okay it will run for a while and then after that the car will break down the heart is the same and that's the moment you see yourself depressed it's a suicidal moment I don't want to live anymore that moment is what you should know that you haven't been feeding yourself does that make sense so do they not ponder on the Quran do they not ponder on the Quran this question is what this question is a rhetorical question so it's a question where الله سبحانه وتعالى is saying to you what ponder on the Quran you've been commanded to ponder on the Quran نعم الله is saying I sent a book down to you guys this book is مبارك مبارك means what full of blessings ليَدَّ بَرُوا أَيَاتِ so it's verses you can ponder on the reason why I sent it this is لامسببية سابب وإنزال القرآن the reason why I sent the Quran down was so you can ponder over its verses وليَتَ ذَكَّرَ أُلُوا الْأَلْبَابِ and it can be a reminder for those who are smart this is too much but let's look how some of the salaf started to ponder on the Quran and they took these verses seriously فلا يتدبرون القرآن قولواه تعالى ليَدَّبَّروا أَيَاتِ وليَتَ ذَكَّرَ أُلُوا الْأَلْبَابِ look how serious they took it الله واكبر all night they will be repeating and reading only one verse all night just one verse why they were pondering over it they were contemplating and repeating it over and over until dawn we're talking about reading it all night until فجر comes in قيام صلاة they're in the middle of the Salah now it is also reported that some were faint while reciting and others are even reported to have died while reciting and contemplating the glories some of them fainted they were reading that verse repeating it for Sa'aqa they fainted he woke up again heat sweat some of them they died from that visitation their heart stopped and they died stories now فضل بعض ابن حكيمي say زورار ابن أوفا who is a Tabe'ee a noble Tabe'ee أماهم في صلاة الفجر he led them in the Fajr prayer he led them in what in the Fajr prayer هاية and when he reached the verse and he when he as he was leading them in the prayer زورار led them and he reached قوله تعالى when the trumpet sounded that is a day that will be a severe day الله says فإذا نقر في النقور the day in which the trumpet will be blown into it الله says فذلك that day when the trumpet is blown ذلك يوم عسيغ will be a hard day that day would be extremely hard day when the trumpet is blown and every single body now heading towards accountability this is the day when it's hard الله says and something Allah referred to as being hard it's truly hard if Allah has said it's hard then it's gonna be hard الله so he read زورار إبن أوفا read this verse and then what happened he died and fell to the ground خر ميطن he fell to the ground dead can somebody kill himself I don't know he killed himself like that in the middle of the صلاة he can't kill himself how can he kill himself he can't but the verse hits him so much he died from it هل هي بأهزم الحكيم بأهزم الحكيم I took him to Salah I took him to the grave I carried him on my neck to the grave so yes he did die from it that's to emphasize to you this did happen now and why would that happen to them is because they knew what this was about they knew this was about أحمد ابن حواري may Allah be pleased with him according to the passing of Junaid may Allah be pleased with him was known as ريحانة الشم meaning the sweet basil of Damascus would the way woman thanked for fear of Allah if the Qur'an was recited in his presence أحمد ابن حواري رضيل عنه was known as ريحانة الشم as the Al-Imam Abu Qasim Al-Junaid said about him if Qur'an was read to him he would cry and weep excessively نعم regarding this ابن أبي داوود said that أحمد ابن حواري may Allah be pleased with him would repudiate أحمد أبن حواري for each reaction أبن حواري was a moment a prominent squadron of Hadith in Damascus and was regarded as a period to have been حواري in terms of piety and virtue أبو أبو and جلزة أيس إبن حبت and others were also known to have this group of such combat نعم so the doings of أحمد ابن أبي الحواري his crying was a bit too excessive so this is a rebuke in front stop doing that don't do this because of the noise that he would make and he's sweeping and his sound was excessive so they used to rebuke in front but look what Newe said after that when he brought all of those who told him would tell him أبو القاسب المعثمان الجوعي was more virtuous than أحمد ابن أبي الحواري and also أبو الجوزاء قيس ابن بحتر they were more virtuous and they would stop him from doing that but look what Newe said I believe that it shouldn't be disapproved of provided the individual is not feigning such actions and Allah knows best and Imam Newe said والصواب with the correct opinion to me regarding this عدم الإنكار we shouldn't reject this person's action we shouldn't tell them off إلا من يعترف أنه يفعله تصنوعan unless if the person is doing it willingly he's choosing to do this but if it's not in his control and he's not doing it it's not in his power and some people when they cry they cry is too loud so if it's known that he's not doing it تصنوعan he's not doing it willingly like that then there's no reason for him to be told off the Honorable and Noble إبراهيم الخواص نبقى سببه رنامفه وعلم وعلم وخفض أنه يوجد 5 أمور إبراهيم الخواص رضي الله يتعالى عنه يقول أن the cues of the heart are five the cues of the heart are what five things are the cues of the heart أرى؟ what's the first one the first one is to recite the Quran with contemplation the first one is to recite يساعد القرآن باتدب بوري يساعد القرآن بوندروني هذا هو الشخص الذي يدفع القرآن يتبع السمك أمتي يتبع السمك أمتي يعني here يساعد على أمتك the reason is because إذا إذا متلأت البط نامت الفكرة وكفت الأعضاء عن العبادة if the stomach gets filled the mind starts to slow down and once the mind slows down the body starts doing no not much work anymore so if you re-eat a lot at night and you can't pray at night صح when does an Imam القحتان he says in his Pannonia he says وخش he says وخش he says get rid of eating food don't fill your body with too much food and the bodies of the people of knowledge is not fat people of knowledge are not fat and chubby they're not big and fat the reason is because they can't tend to go together وذلك when he saw محمد من حسن الشيباني محمد من حسن الشيباني was naturally chubby it was extremely big الله مبارك are you there and it's shocking that it was said that محمد من حسن الشيباني it was just a fast he was very he is a fast الله and he was a صعب علم a man of knowledge علم انقري understanding of the Deen الله he was well known for his fasting it's just those type of people when they eat there's some people they eat but it just it goes to their body straight to it's shows if they eat something just that day alone ساعة اخرى مباشر. ومثل من يمجأون كل يوم، لا يحدث. يتشهد كل يوم ومع الآخرين اذا فقط يأتون ساعة اخرى، يبدأون يدعون في حلوةهم. ونعم هو كيف كان محمد الهاسن الشيباني. السبب هو أن شايفعي يوهده. ومن شايفعي يوهده؟ محمد الهاسن الشيباني. و when he saw him, he set him a chubby person will never be successful in attaining knowledge after Muhammad Hassan Shaybani meaning generally speaking he's talking about Shafiq he means that generally a person who loves food can't generally be a strong student of knowledge صح? because Mubba as I said you can't associate partners with knowledge you can't do shirk in علم علم only wants to aid it wants you to do it alone and not associate partners with it okay so one of the things that causes thickness to the heart is eating too much food the food that the people eat يا اخوة it can affect your heart and there are some people when they become depressed and when they become sad they eat food too much I'm stressed they sit in bed all day they just open chicken and chips crisps burger flip burger yeah all day munching what are you doing? just eat I'm just ordering something and just all day delivery coming to the house some people are like that they get depressed and they eat too much it's sickness of the heart eating too much what ولداريكة والله أخوة أخوة if a person stays a very healthy life it will it will as an individual if you cut off on food you feel very light and it will psychologically make you energised the day you eat nasty food that whole day you feel different you grumpy you just صح? it does affect your عبادة it affects everything and it affects your heart like that as well but if a person works out if a person eats healthy food for instance like for me example I don't eat healthy food but I don't eat much I cut down on eating I avoid eating it makes me feel good in that regard but if you feel like you're going to eat and you can't stop yourself from eating then cut down on what you're eating cut down on what you're eating and if you feel like even cutting down is a مشكلة my mind won't let me do that then get things that are good for you some of the علم I saw they used to eat nuts a lot of nuts just get a lot of nuts you know those raisins those little nuts put them in a bowl and just eat that a lot some people just like their mouth moving all the time just how Allah created them they're just like munching something you like it don't turn it into a burger but use it as nuts they're not the KP salty nuts no I'm talking about real dry nuts get dates eat dates one of the things that's good for a student is a lot of water to drink a lot anyways خلاء البطني things that are good for your body and the other thing is قیام الليل night prayer look how the sheikh mentioned your stomach being empty if you eat too much you wont be able to pray some people say to you I always try to eat أخيار مو الليل I can tell you you're not gonna pray look who you got in your hand look at your food that you got with you right now of course you're not gonna wake up أنت تأكل الكثير من الناس وكذلك أيضا من خلاء البطن أنه يجب أن تبقى أسطمك إذا كان مغرب لا تأكل كثيرا تأكل كثيرا لا تأكل كثيرا بعد مغرب بعض الناس يأكلون كثيرا بعد مغرب ويأكلون كثيرا يجب أن تأكل أسطمك في الثاني الآخر هو التضرع في السحر في الثاني يأكلونهم ويقومون بألوه ويقومون بألوه والله أكبر تأكل بألوه يأكلون هذا هو الناس كيف يجب أن تأكل كيف يجب أن تأكل هل أنت؟ تأكل يجب أن تأكل إنه يأكل يأكلونهم لا يأكلونه لا تأكلوا ويقومون يأكلونون إذا كانت one of these 3 يأكلوا بالنسبة أحد، يأكلون منهم يأكلون حتى أن يكونون حتى أن يأكلون أن يأكلون منهم يأكلون الآخر هو أنهم يأكلون منكم تجرأ with those people that are benefiting from you. And the last one is one you're both benefiting from each other as much as he's benefiting from you you're benefiting.  Anyone who doesn't fall under any of those three is a waste of time don't spend time with him. Are you going to benefit from me? No. Are you going to benefit me? No. Are we going to benefit each other? No. Why are you sitting with me?  You leave those type of people. That person is not a righteous person to sit with or is not a person of benefit for you.  One of those, one of those three. وروين عن بيدر رضي الله عنه قال قام النبي صلى الله عليه وسلم بآية يرددها حتى أصبح والآية تعدبهم فإنهم عبادك رواه النسائي وابن ماجه وعن تميم الداري رضي الله عنه كرر هذه الآية حتى أصبح أم حسيب الذين جترحوا السيئات أن جعلهم كالذين آمنوا وعملوا الصالحات سواءما حياهم الآية وعن عباد بن حمز قال دخلت على أسماء رضي الله عنها وهي تقرأ فمن الله علينا وقانا عذاب السموم فوقفت عندها فجعلت تعيدها وتدعو فطال علي ذلك فدهبت إلى السوق فقضيت حاجتي ثم رجعت وهي تعيدها وتدعو وروية هذه القصة عن عايشة رضي الله عنها وردد بن مسعود رضي الله تعالى عنه رب زدني علما وردد سعيد بن جبير رضي الله عنه واتقوا يوما ترجعون فيه إلى الله وردد أيضا فسوف يعلمون إذ الأغلال في عناقهم الآية وردد أيضا ما غرَّك بربك الكريم وكان الضحاك إذا تلع لهم من فوقهم ظلال من النار ومن تحتهم ظلال رددها إلى السحري هذا الآن هل تستطيع أن تذهب إلى أحد آية so many times هذا هو ما يتحدث عنه نعم so the author says in the previous chapter what did we speak about the importance of pondering over the Quran and understanding its position and the effect that it had in the pious predecessors eyes an impact on the pious predecessors it is also narrated that Allah said that the prophets of Allah once spent the whole night repeating a single verse into a dream and the verse was if you punish them then very they are in slaves and necessarily it will be my generation أبيضر رضي الله تعالى عنه he said that the prophet was stood up repeating one verse kept repeating and repeating until dawn and the ayah was in to adhib them if you punish them if you punish them they are your slaves the prophet recited this verse so many times from his قيام until dawn he was reading it it is narrated that this ayah also was an ayah which the noble companion he kept repeating which is ام حسي بالذين اجترحوا السيئات اجترحوا الميزة اختسبوا do they think the ones who have gained evil and we are going to make them equal to what كالذين آمنوا وعملوا صالحاتي like the ones who have done righteous deeds سواء ام حياهم ومماتوا do you really think that is what Allah is going to do that the criminals the wrongdoers the atheists the agnostics they are going to be the same as those who believe in Allah believe in the day of judgment the gooddoers they are not going to be the same so he kept repeating this verse this noble companion ام رقية And Sahih روحانو ولحمس ي Our Lord, may Allah please with her شيخ اصابعاめك وسيد wall club so Allah bestow His Grace upon us. and favours. she then pulls on that verse and repeated its Old ... are you doing are you doing عائشة كانت تكلمة من هذه الأسماع رضي الله يتعالى عنها فمن الله علينا ووقانا عذاب السموم والله أنت تحبنا وانت تساعدنا من المنطقة المنطقة المنطقة وهذا هو مدينة الانتجنة هذا هو دعادة التي ستفعل ثم أسماع وماذا أسماع ونبو أنها كانت تكلمة وتكلمة وتكلمة وفكرت وكانت تكلمة في هذه الأسماع عندما تكلمت الله ساعدنا من المنطقة المنطقة الله ساعدنا من المنطقة فإن القيام فهي سنة لتوقف ويقضع ونعود إلى المنطقة ويقضع لأن المنطقة when he came to verses that were talking about جنة he would ask for jannah and the verses that come that were talking about the hellfire he would seek refuge in Allah from the hellfire this is also and then this عباد إبن حمزة he said I went to the market I came back she was still in that position reading the ayah فمن الله علينا وقانا عذاب السموم she was still repeating it this is also narrated from عائشة رضي الله تعالى عنها that عروة تبنو مصر عروة عروة صوها and he left her in that position and he came back and she was still in the same position عائشة رضي الله عنها ونعلم إنه ليس إنتهيلية الأوليات وطلقاتها لصفية نعم نعم عبد الله بمسعود كت بيبتني آية وخل رب زدني علمة أو الله increase me in what in knowledge عبد الله بمسعود أنا عالم a scholar of Islam man with great knowledge even then he was saying our life increase me in knowledge he was repeating that in the Salah سعيد المجبول will repeat the verse and prepare the day when you shall be returned to Allah and also the verse and soon they will know when iron colors are placed around their necks he also repeated all mankind what has made you careless regarding your Lord the most generous and the heart will repeat the following verse until dawn where everything will come upon it they shall have layers of fire above them and layers of fire below them all these noble individuals سعيد المجبول he would recite and repeat these verses واتقوا يوم ترجعون فيه إلى الله he would read فسوفا يا علمون إذل أغلالوا في عقناقهم the day that they will know the day of judgment when the chains are placed on their necks ما غرك بربك الكريم what is it that's deceiving you from your Lord what makes you think you're safe you see he would recite the ayah لهم من فوقهم ظل above Allah سبحانه وتعالى is placed over them clouds they're like gonna pour fire over them ومتحتهم ظل and under them as well and he kept repeating this until the dawn all of them were reading it with pondering and thinking over it and remember the reason why they were crying and they were sad and they were repeating this is because they were not reading the Quran like many of us do many of us read the Quran on the grounds of what that it's what that it's talking to somebody else the reason we read and the reason they were reading was different they were reading it because the Quran was something that they felt was talking to them and the Quran was speaking to them like when they will read this ayah فسوف يعلموا they will come to know إذل أغلالوا في عقيم when the chains are on their necks سعيد ملجبيرو is thinking that this is him and when Allah's verse came down وَتَقُ يَوْمَنْ be conscious of Allah the day the day يَوْمَنْ تُرْجَعُونَ فيه إلى الله the day you will turn back to your Lord he wasn't saying oh the disbelievers need to think about no he's thinking this is him so when a person starts to read the Quran in belief that this is talking to him it's addressing him it is him that's being spoken to the perspective changes the way you look at the whole Quran becomes different and it will affect you more it will really affect you but if you read the Quran as a third person then now it's not going to affect you إن شاء الله يتعالى we're going to conclude it بإذن الله الكريم anything which I have said that was wrong or incorrect is from me الشيطان الله and his message is free from it سبحانك الله ما بحمدك أشد الله إلا إله إلا الله استغفروا قاتوله


Hey good evening and welcome to Montpelier Civic Forum and we're on the road to town meeting 2020 and as always Orca is going to cover it with the candidates. We've got some really good shows coming up. We have District 3 which is tonight's show and it's one of the rare opportunities when one district has two races and we have a show with Connor and Donna who are incumbents who are running unopposed and Watson is going to tell us why she should be mayor again and then we're going to have a good show with the school board candidates and then we have Bill Fraser and we have Libby talking about cities and school budgets. So if you want to you can watch them all they're all worth watching in terms of learning our civics before you head in for town meeting day. But tonight it's my distinct honor to welcome Bruce Sargent who's running for the two-year term in District 3. Bruce. Thank you sir. Thank you for coming. Oh it was my pleasure. All right Bruce Sargent what part of District 3 do you live in? I live on Street 3 up behind the radio station I've been there for 12 years and I've really grown to love some of the land that's up there. How so? Are you speaking of District 3 or right behind you? What? Are you speaking of your area or District 3? The area behind the house, you know there's the deer run through, I saw a coyote just past spring and that may be a little nervous because I've got two cats but it's a very wild space and it's a short drive to here. It's a wonderful place to share Vermont. It's unique and it's a little niche up there I think. I'm pleased to be there. District 3 has a different character in a lot of ways than District 1 and 2. Can you talk about District 3? Well I'm very comfortable with District 3 because I grew up in District 3. I grew up in Northern Michigan which is down to earth people not necessarily the wealthiest people. We had one wealthy kid in my class and he didn't really fit in. He ended up going to a private school, God bless him, and he went on to the military and became very famous for his work in Vietnam. He was awarded medals for it. I'm proud of him but it was very unusual to have money in Northern Michigan. Where in Northern Michigan? It was Marquette. It was the grand city of the North. I felt myself a city flicker and my town population was 12,000, counting maybe 2,000 of the prison population that was there. It wasn't very big. It's very similar to Montpelier in terms of Essex and speed lines. There are some wealthy places in Montpelier and my district also has some of the wealthiest on Park Street. It's beautiful. It's an interesting combination. I did knock on the father's door at the church looking for signatures and the man said we don't vote. He said I'll give you a blessing. I was struggling with being so new to politics and I said yeah. All of a sudden things started to be magical. Things started to turn up. I couldn't really solicit people in the senior center. Even though they're many of my friends it's against the rule. A person that I especially wanted on my signature list turned up at the co-op. I've never seen her before. She was there. I happen to have my clipboard so she signed my signatures and her signature added to the list. She volunteered to take a blank sheet and get people to fill it in. Boy, that's a blessing. I called her. I said no, I have an agreement that I won't campaign in the center and that would be breaking the agreement. To be impeccable I'm going to ask you not to do that. That's another thing. I'm a former Boy Scout, Eagle Scout, Order of the Arrow visual member which is about the highest in that honorary group you can get. I value my integrity deeply and I have since high school and I still do. That's one of the things that I think could help City Hall because my experience with them has been that a lot of times decisions are made without due process and they're made for political convenience and I'm uncomfortable with that. I didn't like that experience. Can you give me an example or two of something that didn't have due process? We had an experience with the neighbor shifting the water course and damaging my friends. There were things like Mr. McCartle said. Now you're speaking of our former director of Public Works, Tom McCartle. He said there's no erosion being caused by this. I measured it three and a half feet. Then he said I visited and I saw no erosion. It was like Alice in Wonderland. It was things that I felt weren't true. We've been having a three-year conversation about this and we're still having it. I just wrote a letter today pointing up some of this and it's turned into a horrendous difficulty. The boundary was not really settled in my mind by the resurvey that was done there. The more we got into it and today, just recently, I began to really realize that a lot of it looks like a scamp of an elderly person to me. They got Maggie to agree to a shrinking of her rights to the easement from 396 to 340 feet. It happened to be because I found a map that said the street was accepted at 340 feet. Nobody knew that before it found the map. But I'm an honest man and even though it was against what my goals were, I made sure that was presented at City Hall because it was a fact. The resurvey went through at 340 and Maggie was in agreement with a compromise. She lost 56 feet of land along what her deed said was hers to use. And then a year later, the rest of it was deemed a park, a trail. She loses her easement in a park or a trail. She said I would have appealed the decision if I'd known that. What was the evidence of a park or a trail being there? It was the surveyors' plat. In the little square describing that little parcel, it was filled with writing and numbers and it said fourth class city highway in that little square. But it didn't have the two lines for easement. So this is a little bit like fine print. This is beyond fine print. It's expecting you to look at a map that doesn't have those lines on it. And recognize it and therefore say, oh, it's a trail. Would this be an issue that would go before environmental courts? Would it be an issue that wouldn't? That would be appealed before environmental court in Vermont? That's a good question. We did appeal to the natural resources and they said that it was so small, the water course, even though it's hugely damaged. It's caused my friend $100,000 in damage and plus the loss of that easement is roughly $50,000. $25,000 for the $340,000 and another $24,000. So the surprise, oh, this is not really a fourth class highway. The research said very clearly that this piece was a fourth class city highway. And then it's defined as a trail. And Mr. Gillies, who was an attorney, is written that a trail is no way a highway. It's a fifth class category. So there's games with where it's going on here. And frankly, it all benefits the neighbor. He gets what Maggie loses the neighbor game. In terms of console, did you speak with Ashley Hill or with Glenn? We did. She was very busy and she was very ill. And we've talked to Glenn and he agreed with us about this at the beginning. But he hasn't been able to change Bill Frazier's mind at all. Now, this isn't the most important thing of why I came here. I want to finish on this. This was a precipitating event in my life. How would you have dealt with this different than Glenn dealt with it? How would I have done it? Yeah, if you were on console and someone were to present this situation to you, as a representative of District 3, now Ashley was ill, so take Ashley out. But how would you have approached it differently than Glenn did? I would have liked more detail and more understanding to make a decision. And when I had that decision and I was very clear, I would have told Bill Frazier that I'm the boss. I'm the decision maker, not you. And that it is not a trail. It is a fourth class highway. And some of the things that are happening are really unlawful. I would have done that. And I've got the courage to stand up for that kind of position. The position that I'm the only one and everybody else will disagree and make the argument. Now, it doesn't mean I'm always right. I'm always willing to listen to lawful descriptions, but I've not really got that from City Hall. They've not presented, they just repeated the thesis. It's a trail without really giving me a lot about why it's a trail. Bruce, when did you come to Montpelier? What? When did you arrive in Montpelier? Twelve years ago. Twelve years ago. What was Montpelier? Nothing of it like this was happening. What was Montpelier like twelve years ago to you? It's different than the Montpelier of today. I was so happy to get to Vermont. I'd lived in Massachusetts Boston area all my life, and on holidays I'd go up to New Hampshire. I didn't really want to be living in an urban environment, but that's the place I was earning my living. I was a school teacher. And I ended up with my own school in Salem. I found it. The Phoenix School of Salem is still there. I left it about fifteen years ago. Both my wife and I and her friend started Barbara McCall, and when our marriage ended, I had to leave the school as well as the marriage. That was a precipitating event there. So I've been off on a life of adventure since then. Probably a peak experience in that was helping John Irving and John Irving begin their school in Manchester Center. I was one of the founding teachers. That's not the author, John Irving. Staffed dinners at his house. He is such a wonderful man. We're full of writing. Pardon me, but I always wanted to be a writer. I'm in the middle of beginning a novel for the last few years. But it was fun talking to John. He had the most incredible imagination. We had a shadow puppeteer come and he was delivered, and he delivered a child there. He looked at it and he waxed eloquently for about fifteen minutes on the insulation that was put on the back to hold the sticks of the shadow puppet about how it looked like cheese. I never heard a discourse like that, and I said that's the kind of mind you have to need to have to create fiction. It was just an unbelievable moment. The Mount Perry of twelve years ago. What did that strike you like when you first arrived as a resident of the town, not as a visitor? I loved the Langdon Street Cafe at the time. I loved the people there, I loved the music. That's where Sweet Ballistas is now. That's where Sweet Ballistas is now. You asked me twelve years ago. I put my mind back there. I think it was the musicians that were multi-generational. They touched me. This was the place where the generations weren't separate. It's so profound. The problem with education, the industrial setting for it, where all the kids are at the same age, there's a whole lot of kids are taught they're not leaders because they're not leaders in this little small group. If they're mixed ages, they become leaders because they're helping the younger kids. We deny people their experience with their leadership ability by the way we structure. Only ten-year-olds are going to be going to this class right now and if you're nine-year-old or twelve-year-old, you're not going to be in it. It's very unconscious, but it builds from there. That's what touched me. I think I had the good fortune when I started teaching. I taught at the Fairwood East Street School in Cambridge, which was a very new school at the time. It still was, I think. It was on the British model of mixed ages, family grouping. That came out of World War II when they moved out of London. They had a hundred kids in a class. What were they going to do? They went to their brothers and older sisters and they'll teach them. That worked. They could have a class of a hundred with one teacher and organize it so education was going forward. That was something that happened in the 70s. I happened to have the good luck of having Abby Hoffman's kids in my class. Abby Hoffman of the Terry Group. Was Abby Hoffman on the run at that point or was this before? Abby Hoffman was never really there. Sheila was there. Abby came and said, he promised that he would pay the tuition that he missed the previous year and get the next one. Well, he had problems and he didn't do either one. But Sheila and those two kids, and Abby as kind of a catalyst, there was some of the most wonderful kids I taught in my life. Very sensitive, very kindly and lovely. So I was happy to know the kids. And I was happy to see the charisma that Abby had. I was totally convinced we were going to get paid. Now, what year would this have been? Oh, gosh. It had to be in the 70s. At 77, I can't nail it down for you. This is something that's very unique. We have a unique candidacy here. Bruce wants to read several of his poems to define himself. I think I want to read them because I think it reveals myself. When I first came to Montpellier, I was pretty isolated from politics. National politics or local politics? Everything. I wanted nothing to do with it since the Kennedy assassination, which did a good job of breaking my heart. And as that unfolded, there's some very strange things that happen around the truth of that. And we're still working on that as a nation. We need a resolution to that that we haven't had. So what I've got here, there was a reference. There was a William Pepper, an active state, the execution of Martin Luther King, which is in the collection at the Kellogg Harbor. I read that, and I was so moved that I wanted to write this poem, which hung on the city hall last year during the poetry month. On December 8, 1999, in a civil trial in Memphis, Tennessee, four weeks after hearing testimony from more than 70 witnesses, 12 jurors in less than an hour reached a unanimous verdict finding the U.S. government guilty of the murder of Dr. Martin Luther King. The U.S. government was required to pay damages to King family for Martin's wrongful death, which the government did without pursuing an appeal. Ask yourself why. You never knew this fact of American history until now, when I wrote it, more than 16 years later. I read this from Ruben Jackson, who was a noted African-American poet in the area. He said the black community knew this, the white community. That's Ruben Jackson who used to have the show on VPR. It's a sadness that this has been buried. It's a sadness that what actually kills JFK has been buried. It takes very skillful propaganda to hide it, and my government is more than capable of doing that. But that lack of integrity is very destructive to ordinary life into getting things done.  We have elected a Bernie Sanders over and over and over. To the vice presidential run, when he clearly won it statistically, 77 billion to one, that's a false statement. He won that election in 2016 and was stolen from him. Now, I thought about bringing this up as a representative. I thought about bringing it up as a Vermont convention. I had a proposal that would change some of this and vacate elections that were false. And I knew that it would just rip the place apart. So I withdrew it. And I brought it to the platform committee. Which platform committee? Democratic Party Platform Committee. It was accepted there. People weren't ready to think about what had happened of Bernie being denied the nomination. So there was too much for people to think. Do you believe that that corruption of spirit has happened on the state level in Vermont? Or on the local level? Statistically it did. The only state that was 100% okay with the results was Oklahoma. And I have to say in Vermont, Vermont wasn't as bad as 90% certain. Vermont was only 50-50% different. And I did bring that information to John Connors. And I don't know what he did with it. I think they told me he did do study because the next year there were anti-hacking things. Because that election can be hacked from a car outside of the polling area by radio. Which election? What? Which election can be hacked? Any election can be manipulated with this account by a car and a radio. And that was done. We have 9,000 voting districts in the U.S. and there's a lot of work that has to be done to make sure that there are all as honest as Vermont and as honest as Oregon. So you believe that when we go into City Hall and we mark our ballots and we put them in the machine? Those are paper ballots and they can be checked. When there was a one-vote difference? That was Ashley. Yeah, I regretted not working harder for her. I was ashamed of myself. I think she deserved one more vote and I should have got it for her. But I'm losing my thread. Forgive me. Bruce, what's your other poem that you brought? Okay. I think it all wound up in politics. And I get upset with it. But you're making the positive step to actually put your integrity onto City Council. Well, that's the most valuable thing I have. I tell people I don't have a lot of money, but I have integrity. And I won't keep it up for any price. So if somebody tells me something and they don't charge me fully, I said you didn't charge me fully for the price on the counter. And I'll do it the opposite, too. I'm honest about it. I don't try to benefit. The world divides roughly into people behaving to overcome trauma. And I had a very serious trauma when I was young and it took me a lifetime to overcome it. And that's the experience of most people. And then there's a miracle that's happening with my partner's infant. He has been so lovingly and care-for, burst in water, a father that loves him spectacularly, that he operates from joy and pleasure. Now you can see this in people's eyes.  And when they're working from trauma, the pupils are bigger. This little fellow is operating entirely from the parasympathetic nervous system. And he's delighted with life and he has no reason not to be. Now that's a tremendous job of work. We could revolutionize a lot of what's wrong with the world if we could raise children like that. So that's happening in my family. And not because of me, but because of Ezra and my partner Maggie's son and his beautiful way of living that came from her. So, to the next moment, I'm talking about love. It isn't about anger or frustration. On an autumn walk today, I chance to see a sway of purple flowers along the way. And promised myself upon return, with errand done, I'd pick each bloom for my darling one. When I came back, I saw every purple flower held a B and bound to some higher law than romantic love. Let go my need and let them be. And I write these words down nonetheless to you, my darling, will know and bless. This is as splendid as purple flowers at the bottom, my love, words of an abunch, poem, parable, a bower of rhyme that you might cherish to the ends of time to your final day. And you might recall and say, I was loved anyway without bouquet. That's lovely. Bruce, I have a question. I have a couple of them that I ask every year. For people who are watching this and have watched this before, they're waiting for this question. Is Mount Pilier a city or a town? Is Mount Pilier a city or a town? Which do you consider it? Well, it's legally a city. But I confuse the word I call a town. I'm not sure what the legal distinction is. Sociologically, do you consider it a small city or a town? I think of it as a town. I know so many people here in Plainfield. They come and fire on ice with families and kids and adults, the inner general. It's more of a town feeling than a city. A city is anonymous. You could do bad things and nobody knows. And if you do bad things, your neighbor knows.  There's a saying that comes from the Mayans. It reminds me of Vermont. The Mayans say that they know the color of the pea before you pee it. They have an opinion about it. So, Vermonters are that way. They know the bad things about you before you do them. And they have an opinion about it. What are the town's strengths? What are Mount Pilier's strengths? I think it's in its inner generational families. And I think that one of the strengths is its council and its mayor. I think they have their heart in the right place. I wish they were stronger. Stronger in what sense? What's that? Stronger in what sense? I wish they were not so committed to making it easy. Because things aren't easy, from what I can see. It's a difficult issue to bring up, but I've heard of Bryce being solicited. On the local level? In this town, on the local level. I've heard of it. That's hearsay. It's not evidence. And when I mentioned that I'm very aggressively interested in putting in another ethic statement that would make it more difficult and risky for people to solicit the bribes, I've actually had a man come to me and admit to a bribe. I won't nail it down, but well over $100,000. I must have been shocking to you. Please don't tell me that. I don't want to know. I have to weigh it. Was it a believable source? Well, it's believable enough for me to want to act on defeating that kind of thing. And what I think about your needs is a stronger ethic statement. One was chief in it. One that requires people to respond to an ethics officer if they become aware of this sort of thing. And there's a series of things that can be done that I want to bring. So that's one. I'm here to make a change if I were elected. That's one of the things I'd like to do. This is quite a small town corruption. Now, if it exists, and I think it probably does, it's on a very, very small, you know, 2%. But it's enormous increase on taxes for getting... Well, I think the subtitle is more interesting in its own way. A calm, obtaining accountability, transparency, and oversight. You're right. You should be my teacher. No, no, please. But you're right. I should have gone into that, and that's what that does. It would develop at Columbia University. And I think people in the council... So that would be your mission is to work on accountability, oversight, and transparency? Exactly. And yet people were all up to sleep.  And I said, I don't know them. They may be better off than I am in getting this done. You know, I'm going to make a decision about who I'm going to vote for myself or the other two people. And it's not necessarily me. So I don't necessarily think that I'm the most likely person to get some of this done. If I am... Those are your aspirations. But if I am, I'm going to go after it. And at the age of 77, you will get the best I can out of me. And I'll do the very best I can to protect people from this kind of behavior. You have to make it high-risk. And I don't think it's high-risk enough. Bruce, you've been in town for 12 years. There's been a lot of consulers on our city council. We've had a number of mayors over 12 years. Is there somebody who stands out in your mind? Not so much, perhaps in the present council, perhaps on past councils, as a role model for you? Well, I think there's two role models for me. One I met in gathering signatures. And he's known as Mr. Montpelier. And that's Mr. Sheridan. In the long-time District 3. And we had a long discussion. And I could see he was still interested in government. And I said, if I were elected, I would really like your help. And he agreed to help me on that. The other person that stands out for me is Glenn Hutchison. A present District 3 who's leading the council. I think it's one of the reasons I ran, because he stepped down. So I think his background with the friends and counseling is incredible. An incredible value. And I've asked Glenn if I should happen to be elected. And that's not certain in my mind. Help me take on that responsibility that he has done so well. He met with people at Bikidu on a regular basis once a week. Exactly. As Anne Watson, our mayor, has hours now where you can meet the mayor. Yeah. And I love the Irish music that happens. But Glenn is also from the Boston area. He's a wonderful artist. He's very sensitive. We had talks about Boston, well-belonged, beyond what we were talking about in Montpelier. And I admire him for his ability to do what he's done. If I could do half the job he could do, I'd be proud of it. Because he's very special. Now, I would be remiss, and I don't know whether our producer can shoot in. Can you move your scarf? You're wearing a badge. And I would be remiss if I didn't ask what is that badge that you're wearing. Could you tell us what it is? It's just supporting workers at the co-op. I come from a working-class family. I told you about my father taking nine years to get his degree. My grandfather mined coal in Great Britain at the age of 13.   So he and his brothers came to this country. One came to Vermont to mine marble. And the other one took... Did he live in Barrie? What? Did the one who was mining live in Barrie? He may have, but I haven't tracked it down yet. But I think he might have been down in Dambi with the marble as well. And the other one moved through Colorado to mine copper. And my grandfather went to northern Michigan to mine iron ore for making cars. They shipped down through the Great Lakes. He went to work in the dark. He worked a 12-hour shift in the dark. And he walked home in the dark. He saw a sun on Sunday. Any time I want to complain about my workload I just have to think of my grandpa that got me. So you're supporting the workers at the co-op? I support workers. And I'm disappointed that they were more aggressive in the Democratic election in 2016 and supporting workers. Absolutely. The minimum wage at 15? Absolutely. That's just the beginning. And there's so many things that we could do if we stopped having wars. We've had this incredible 15-year war, which is great for people that make tanks and weapons. And that keeps the economy going on that level. But it's not great for the kids that have to join the military because it's an economic draft. They have no else to go. And God bless them. I have friends in Northern Michigan that the whole family has gone into the armed services. It's a hard way to be able to get your college degree. Bruce, you're running for office. I merely have this television show. But I thank you for spreading your integrity, trying to establish your integrity in our town, to cure the ills that you see. Thank you. And I thank you for coming. And I'd like to speak with you. And that deals with Town Meeting Day that's coming in early March. I hope that you'll watch all of these shows, including the show on the city budget and the school budget. And all of the candidate shows as well as the one that Ann will present her case to remain our mayor. And I certainly hope that you'll come out and vote and encourage your family and friends to come out and vote. That's the bedrock of our democracy is participation by those of us who are watching this show and those of us who are producing this show. Thank you very much for watching.


Comic book creators are working to increase readership. One way is to bring comic book characters and their stories to different parts of the United States. Recently, comic book fans filled the 8th dimension comic book store in Houston, Texas. They wanted to meet the creator of the new Marvel comic series, Scarlet Spider. The series takes place in Houston. On behalf of the city of Houston, thank you all for incorporating us. 18-year-old Stephanie Burgess recognizes some areas pictured in Scarlet Spider. Looking through this was pretty cool because I can see some of the buildings. They look pretty familiar. Store owner Jeremy Bullock is happy about having a comic book story set in his hometown. I own a comic shop, but first and foremost I'm a comic book fan, so as a fan, I'm super excited that this is going on. Christopher Yoast wrote the new Scarlet Spider series. Houston felt like a good place because, A, it's a place that the Marvel universe really hasn't seen before, and B, it's, you know, with its proximity to Mexico, with its proximity to the Gulf, it's just like a lot of new opportunities. Should adults be concerned about children reading comic books? The answer is no. If you ask teacher and comic book fan Debbie Cook. Readings reading, whatever you can do to get them to be better at reading, understanding. I encourage them to read anything they can. I'm June Sims.


Yacowska's Multicultural Committee hosted women's history ceremony to honor and recognize women's contributions and sacrifices in helping to shape a modern America. Committee members talk about notable women, both civilian and military, and how their achievements inspire women currently serving. Guest Speaker, Commander Rachel Dempsey, describes her own experience. As I was coming up in the Navy, and even prior to my time in the Navy, I didn't really ever characterize it as a struggle. It just seemed to be the way it was. And so, having, acknowledging it as a struggle is a little bit foreign to me. It's just, hey, I have something to prove. I have this to offer, and I want you to see it. Bringing awareness and remembering the past as a way to move forward is one of the main goals of the ceremony, but it's not the only reason why this event is important. The biggest piece for me, at least, is recognition that we're all sailors. Petty Officer Brian M. Brooks, Yacowska Naval Base, Japan.


Dear students, the topic which we are going to discuss is Hazards Assessment Prevention and Control. Here we have to see there must be some sort of checklist with the help we can check all the SOPs have been followed or not. Number one are Portable Fire Extinguisher Properly Mounted Radially Accessible and Adequate Number and Type. This is the first checklist. This means that in case of any fire, fire ko bhajane wale jo aalat hain organizations main installed hain. Number two are fire extinguisher inspected monthly for both portability and general condition. Number third are fire extinguisher recharge it regularly. Number four are interior standpipes and valves inspected regularly. In case of fire, fire ko bhajane wale aalat hain, unki inspection, maintenance or monitoring bakadgi se honi chahiye. Is the fire alarm system test regularly? Are employees trained in the proper use of fire extinguisher? Are employees trained concerning under what conditions they should help fight fire this time? In three points ka ye matlab hain, ke fire alarm system ko check kiya jaye, uske aalawa aak bhajane wale jo aalat hain unko test karne ke sath sath imply ko uske training dee jaye. And third, wot maam condition jis me fire fighting aap ke implies ko karna par sakti hain unkoon to maam situations ko tackle karne ke betweenek honi chahiye. Are the nearest fire hydrants flushed annually? Are the nearest fire hydrants maintained regularly? Are avenue and ingles and igles clearly marked? Is ka ye matlab hain? Ke jo bhi aap aak bhajane wale aalat ko use karne hain unkoon upar ju nishan hain hona chahiye. Agar wo tested hain, checked hain to wohan pe take ka nishan ho. Agar check tested bak aadri se nahi hain to cross ka sign ho. Ta ke hain maalum ho sakhe ki organizations ke andar jo equipment jo bitool use kiye jar hain un inspection bak aadri se ho rahi hain. Are avenues of ingles and igles kept free of clutter? Are fire doors and shutters in good working conditions? Are fusible link in place and readily accessible? An important point at these students wo ye hain ki organizations ke andar jo door hain. Agar wo aap in case of any fire wo door close ho jaate hain to aap ke paas alternative arrangements hoon. Plan B ho ta ke aap apre employees ko asani se wohan pe evacuate kar asake. Is the local fire department familiar with the facility and any specific hazards and last point jo ke isme hain. Hamaad liye bohot important wo ye hain is the automatic sprinkler system in good working order maintained on a regular basis. In do points ka ala jala ja matlab hain. Paahla point ka ye matlab hain ki jo bhi local fire fighting ke saath organizations attach hain jo ke local aapki rescue ki team me hain. Oni se aapka connect ho na chahiye aur iski ala waha aap logon ki jo paani ko bujane wale sprinkler hain. Kya wo bakaadgi se chek hote hain? In case of any fire, you can manage with the help of your equipment which you have installed in your organization.


depending on who you ask and when you ask them, I'm either the head of security in tendermen or I'm the director of security in tendermen. I refer to myself as a security hat, so there's a problem, nowhere to email. So today I'm going to be talking about two of the things that we've been doing on the open space platform. There's really interesting problems we get from the decentralized network, and they must get them under the strangers on the internet really quickly to fix the security issue. We've had a couple of extra sizes in this now, and what I really want to make sure I do is share some of the things that I have been thinking about and some of the places I have looked for opportunities to make some of these problems less difficult and ways that we can use blockchains to set us up to be more successful on the security hat. So here's a little bit of what we'll cover today. Just for warning, this is not going to be a super technical talk. I couldn't hold out to get how the issues were working on this and talk about it. It's actually not really just citing or groundbreaking code. There's really a process that goes along with the technical implementation and super supreme work. So the first thing I always have to talk about generally is what is security? How does it work? Why is it there? How long has it been there? We'll talk a little bit about our first mainnet security incident. I will refer to this as story time. And members of my team who are here are probably tired of hearing the stories but it was my one time, it was my go time. So I will use that as an excuse for how we started thinking about these things. Talk a little bit about some of the things that come up when you're trying to manage to centralize yet coordinated incident response, especially when you have lots and lots of stakeholders that I don't just mean people who in our case, you know, have Adam or people who might be holding a theorem. And then I also will talk a little bit about how governments is very uniquely positioned to be able to help us when we're trying to be more proactive and prepared when responding to security incidents. So just to talk a little bit about what security is, I will skip over about 10,000 years of examples of human being horrible at managing keys.  We'll skip that today. But security at its very base is made of seven principles that are extremely important to layer and implement correctly in the right places to make sure that you are protecting and defending what's important to you, your community, and the code that you run. For one, there's a question of comprehensiveity. There's opportunity, rigor, minimization. Compartmentation is extremely important, making sure that you're not putting all of your most valuable things in one place, but that you're distributing them right in the big deal for us in the blockchain space. For us with COSOS, we think a lot about fault tolerance and making sure that our network is a productive amount of malicious input and there's proportionality. I won't give you a full lecture on this, but these principles, especially if you think to them, can really help inform your thinking about practice in the security space. There's some other aspects of security that are incredibly difficult. There's the technical piece, which lots and lots of us get very excited about, but there's also a human bit because humans are very, very difficult to forfeit and organize and manage when we have very strong and intense emotions, like fear, which is kind of a big deal when you're in the middle of a security emergency and you think this thing you might have done is a zero day. There's also the question of being proactive about security, meaning that you try to stop bad things from happening and you identify risk early and you step in and you take time to mitigate problems before they really become emergencies and then there's reactive security. Incident responses in area where you can be proactive in building run books and planning for emergencies that will naturally come up in the course of running the blockchain, but it's reactive because you basically have to detect that this badness has happened or this incident is occurring and then spring into action. There's also a very, very deep line between offensive security and defensive security. In the security space, I am hardcore blue team, meaning I want to build defenses, I want to protect people, I want to protect things, I want to care for and maintain things a lot, but offensive security can be very important to you as an organization. Are in a space where you're the marketer and attacking things and going after them and deeply understanding how they break can inform how you run your defense. Some of the ways that you see security happen in some of organizations tend to be through security programs. Depending on what your organization does, you can have product security, you can have application security or infrastructure security. They can all be in one realm, they can be separate programs. It really depends on how critical each of those things is to the operation of your business and their operation of your network. But then there are also things that we don't really cover as much that are just as important as the technical ones. Operational security is one of the things in the blockchain space that is very significantly behind where it needs to be for the risks that they are working with. Assessments are difficult. I think I've run like a dozen security audits in the last two years. While it's really important to make sure that you have someone independently evaluating your code, all of the business negotiation that goes on and scoping out an audit and defining the testing you need to do, these are things that are hard. They are immensely difficult to do if you've never had to do them before, but you have to think about them in a comprehensive and programmatic way to make sure that that audit you're releasing to the public actually does attest to the things that you're claiming it does and you've chosen the correct remediation steps to close bugs or issues that were surfaced within the audit. And then there's education. That's also extremely difficult if you're in a smaller company and put on a dedicated human who's working on security education programs and planning all of the time. An incident response, which is the one for me that has been the most interesting in blockchain space because I get tools that other people in conventional technology don't get, but I also get challenges that they maybe wouldn't know how to solve even if we told them, which is kind of exciting. And I personally am very competitive with security. Like I want us as a space to win.  So this incident response area is a place where I think we have a huge opportunity to shine. And then there's just a couple of other things about security that I really learned and taken to heart as a practitioner. Security is very much a shared responsibility. There's only so much I can do as a core maintainer or a core developer to make my community secure. There's lots of stuff that I need them to do and to be set up to do to help so that we're able to quickly resolve issues and build immunity. And security is definitely much, much more than finding all of the bugs and code. The next time that it tells me it's time to find all of the bugs, I'm going to get a level of sassy that is relatively unmatched for me and give them a lecture about stopping the bugs from getting in code. More than anything else though, security is really about enabling and enabling people to be able to act quickly and reduce harm. One thing that's really important, we all know security is never going to be a 100% guarantee. But it's more successful when we make it more expensive for an attacker to launch a successful attack.  And maybe if not make them go away, make them leave us alone for a while. There are things that we can do in order to plan and prepare for incident management that other organizations and other technologies can, but more than anything else, it's really important to recognize that decentralization might make parts of security more complex. It doesn't require us to reinvent the wheel. If we're more busy reinventing the wheel than anything else, we're gonna miss a lot of opportunities to get very small, very nuanced, very important things right. So, this is the story of time. Once upon a time, I made the fatal error of accepting a keynote in Australia. And so I was like 17, 18 time zones away from my core development team. Now, I made it a point to make sure I still showed up for my meetings and did all the stuff I'm supposed to do, but in the middle of this week that I'm in Australia and I'm getting chewed up by the ocean and spit right back out of the beach, I have a high severity security incident planned in my security app in walks. So I have been planning for this for like a year and a half at this point. I'm like, all right, let's go, time. All the stuff that I did here, it works. Somebody gave me a bug. Oh my God, I'm so excited. And a few of my colleagues were like, hmm, this is not exciting, what is wrong with you? But we had an issue come in and looked at it and I realized, uh-oh, this is a problem. Basically the issue broke our security model in that it would allow for someone to be able to bond bond their stake and not have to wait three weeks, which is something that is built into our crypto economic layer. And it undermined practically anything that you would want to do on the network on that layer. So what we realized was to fix this, we were going to have to do an emergency vulnerability coordination exercise, meaning you were going to have to patch the code. We were going to have to develop some tooling to investigate exploitation because if exploitation happened, I better be ready to show people where it happened, why it happened, how it happened. And additionally, we had to think through notification. So my office wall at home has all of these sticky notes on it. It looks like, kind of looks like a conspiracy theory map, but basically what my office wall does for me is this. It's got the process mapped out, just documented in three or four different places. And I, because I had already planned on having to do this, knew what was next. Have my, I have my moment, but what we knew we wanted in the case of any security emergency was that we wanted to be able to be the best dependency that we could be to people who rely on our code. We wanted to make sure that we reduced harm. We wanted to make sure that we provided visibility and transparency. And the way that we specifically do that in this case is these very comprehensive incident report posts that I put up within a week or so of something bad happening that requires emergency exercises. Couple of things we knew we were going to come up against. We knew that we, time was really, really important here. We were monitoring for exploitation. We were able to see where the person who reported the vulnerability had been exploiting the bug just to check and see if it works. They did this in a way that didn't cause harm, but we also knew that if one person knew about this bug, it was likely other people could have code discovered it and just didn't say anything. Because we knew time was at the essence here, it was especially important for us to make sure that our communication and coordination was fast and it was good and it was clear. And when we were asking people or recommending that our validators do specific things, we're not telling them what to do. But we specifically are making sure everything we say is actionable and clear. One thing that we committed to very early on was making sure that we pre-notify people who rely on our code, meaning instead of just dropping a security bug on a Tuesday, Monday, I send out a message through our forum, through a mailing list or through any other channel that we need to send it through, to say, hey, heads up, you're probably gonna need to patch. We've got a bug here and it's either high or critical severity, but the patch will land around this time. Part of the reason we do that is because we have an extremely global community and if we have everything decided on specific standard time, somebody is always waking up at two in the morning and somebody's always having to jump away from the dinner table and go deal with some security patch that's incredibly important for them to apply. So in addition to this, we knew we were going to need a little bit of discretion. We were gonna have to handle this privately. We can't release an exploit to the entire world and say, look what we found because badness happens when you do that. So we realized we had to quickly stand up, save space where we can talk to our network operators. In this specific case, we already know the topology of our network pretty well. So we created a telegram room, which was the moment that maybe we wanted to hide under a table, but we have a few opportunities to do things much better than getting 100 people in a telegram room and talking about exploitation scenarios and security blocks. One thing that was particularly rough in this specific spot though, when we were trying to pre-notify people, we had a critical emergency in the hopper. We were trying to go and make sure that we reached out to all of these different projects and all of these different companies four or five on our coast. More than anything else, the most frustrating thing was that there were no operation, practically no operational security act email inboxes with a human behind them. There was no way for companies to get a straight security message from us. In a lot of cases, when we were trying to proactively reach out to exchanges, they told us to file customer support tickets, which is not scalable. And it put me in a position where I had to hope that when we have emergency hard-forking happening in 24 hours, some exchange is going to pay enough attention and have a process for an advisory. Some support all the way to engineering or security in enough time for them to act quickly and not be harmed. Because realistically the moment a patch lands in your code base and your GitHub repo, it's not really trivial if you're good at reverse engineering to figure out what changed and to find an exploit and then turn them around and automate attacks against anyone who hasn't patched yet. It's basically relatively simple reconnaissance and the combination at that point.  So instead of just having that be a reactive place, we can at least quickly get to you and tell you what's up. So we had this giant retrospective and basically what happened as part of the retrospective was this. I had to figure out a bunch of ways to make the process that we had to go through this first time much, much, much better. And I will make sure that I post these slides online and take the links to all of the things that I've screened so much here. But basically what we realized was this. We built a public blockchain in hand. It's probably time to figure out how and where we fire fighters and our emergency services. So the thing that was interesting about me being an Australian was this. I happened to be speaking at a conference that was their national conference for their computer emergency response team. Which I wanted to go there because I wanted to learn a lot about this public private and academic partnership of a bunch of organizations who in an emergency can pop up and they immediately help organizations of any size of any kind solve these problems that come up when big security problems happen. This particular serve, even though hardly even a long time ago had some fantastic stories about how they helped their members and how they were able to help civic governments and universities basically patch and quickly identify what to do in the case of really, really high risk. And I thought, hey, maybe we do that. We are public stuff, it's important, we should do it. So what we realized is we should probably stand this up. We can make it somewhat decentralized. We probably need some folks from our foundation. Probably need core developers. We definitely have to give our network operators a seat at the table. But there's a lot of opportunity here. We don't just have to have everyone around for an emergency. We can also use this group as a way to make everyone smarter about security. Instead of being in a position where we're the ones doling out advisories and maturity models and all kinds of tips for how to better run your AWS stuff for your GCP, this group could also put out proactive educational information to help mature the entire network. So here's what we came up with as potential core requirements. It's probably best when you are responding to an incident to not have to deal with like 110 people at once. It gets busy. It's usually better to have your N as less than 10. I was thinking about fun outfits to plan for when we have to respond to emergencies. Space suits make it really hard to type, so I killed that idea. But that being said, we basically decided we are going to kick this group together. We need to make sure that we've got people who are from different parts of the world that aren't just North America and we probably need to make sure that it's distributed across multiple kinds of stakeholders. We have validators with tons of stake and we have small validators who maybe aren't as mature of the security fund and who need a little bit more support from us to be doing the best that they can in those particular states. We also realize we probably should outline expectations for service. So initially, we were thinking maybe run a year that we would have people as part of our cert, which we are working on coding now. But we wanted to make sure that we're keeping them accountable, especially in the area of confidentiality and response. If you're a part of the cert team and you have access to vulnerability information, I don't have to be worried that you realize you can use a vulnerability that you have access to to exploit a validator in a single known environment or against a competitor that you can't stand because you guys ship post too much in telegram channels. So there's a couple things we still have to do to make this successful. We have to encourage everybody to set up a security at email address so we can send out our signal flare when bad things happen. We are working on adding a security parameter to the Cosmos SDK. Basically, a place to stick your security at email address where I can query the network daily from our archive note and have a security response list instead of going through like 110 websites at any given time and hoping I find a way to get to a human. And also realize we should probably go ahead and start working on a module that allows us to elect individuals to be represented in this group. Instead of just picking out a bunch of people I know, that's probably not the best way to make this particular group work, especially because of the need for trust. What's really interesting about this is we internally have been playing with something of the call liquid democracy. We've been thinking about how blockchain governance can be a tool to help us accomplish things in a wider context. But I'm pretty proud that I got to work with a couple of our core developers and this is really the first application of that liquid democracy principle that we have been talking about over the past year. One of the things we're doing with the module is we're making sure that we are writing the code that will govern the ability to turn off transfers if there's an emergency. We have 10 people, maybe we need an N of nine to turn off the network. And there were initially some concerns about, oh my God, what if they all get malicious and turn off the network, that would be terrible. But really what is key here is remembering that we are trying to be inclusive and give people a seat at the table and give people agency in our network to be able to represent their point of view and their concerns when an emergency happens. I don't wanna guess what validators are thinking. I wouldn't tell me what they're thinking. And if we need to go have at it for 20 minutes until we come to consensus on something, that's fine. But I'd rather have them there than have them over there. Another thing that I have been looking at here, if you're familiar with how the DNS group key for the internet is managed, it's really interesting. But there's one particular thing where basically they have a complex ceremony, it's completely audible, they have split the group key among seven people. That's the example that I'm looking at here. So finally, I will wrap up really quick. Blockchains, they're coordination tools more than anything else. Not intensive security is making sure that you're using the right tool to get the job done. And I happened to think that on the incident response front, we could build a security incident response that we wanna see in the world. That being said, I wanna make sure that I have a shout out to my core developers who have been helping make this idea come to life, especially Rigel, who is one of the first people to get excited about my democracy and whose natural state it's just wild. So thank you very much. If I have any questions, I ran over a little bit, but I'm happy to take them in the hallway in the room.


Welcome to yet another interesting video in the Crash Course series of Unit 6 English in India History, Evolution and Future. So in this particular video I am going to talk about two great British leaders and their contribution in spreading English across India. And these two leaders are William Bentech and Thomas Bebington Macaulay or who is famously known as Lord Macaulay. But before we talk about this I would like you to note that I have already uploaded two video lectures in the same Crash Course series wherein I have discussed in detail Charter Act of 1813, Role of Missionaries and how all these things helped in spreading English as a language across the Indian subcontinent. So if you have not yet watched the video then it's time to do it right now. The links are there in the I button given above. Apart from that if you have not yet subscribed to the channel I think you should do it because we are going to upload some really really amazing lectures on other important units of new syllabus of UGC net English very soon on our channel. Apart from that if you have not visited our website arputakarwa.com it's time to do that because we have uploaded a detailed syllabus of UGC net English listing all the important topics in each of these units and the syllabus is updated as per the new syllabus which came a few months back. So if you are willing to give and prepare for UGC net exam in a very very revolutionary manner then it's time to go to the website and have a look at the new updated detailed syllabus of UGC net English. So without any further delay let's jump right into the topic and let's see the role of William Bentic and Lord Mikaule in spreading English across India. I am sure that you must be wondering that who is this guy William Bentic you've never heard of him. I would like to tell you that William Bentic was a friend of Charles Grant. Charles Grant if you remember from the first lecture of this Crash Course series I told you that Charles Grant was the director of the East India Company and he favored English language to become the medium of instruction in India. Now if you look at William Bentic this man also followed the ideas of his friend and he wrote a letter to the commission of public instruction saying that English language should become the language of all government work and also it should become the language of education. Now what happened was because of this letter in September 1830 the courts of UK said that English is going to become the language of all public offices work in all the departments and that is how because of a letter by William Bentic English language status was raised from being a language in school to being a language of all government work. The role of Lord Mikaule is really really important when it comes to English language in India and if you remember from my previous video I mentioned that there was a huge debate going between the Anglicist and the Orientalist. Anglicist believed that English language should become the medium of instruction whereas Orientalist believed that any Indian vernacular language like Hindi should become the medium of instruction and both these groups were debating constantly. So finally to end this debate Mr. William Bentic asked Lord Mikaule to write minutes in which he is going to state some facts on why English should become the medium of instruction. And this minutes was popularly known as manifesto on English education in India. Now in this minutes he stated a very very important line where he says that I want to form a class of people who are Indian in blood and colour but English in taste and opinion and this is only possible by introducing English as the medium of instruction. And this minutes by Mikaule became so popular that finally a bill was passed in which it was mentioned that English is going to become the language of instruction. So it was because of Mikaule's minute that English became the language of instruction in most of the schools and colleges of India. Another important achievement of Mikaule's minute was that William Bentic who was the governor at that time stated in a bill after reading Mikaule's minute that all funds would be utilized only on English education. So all the funds that is coming from the government of Britain they are going to get utilized only in spreading English education. So we are not going to fund Indian schools anymore. We are only going to fund schools which are teaching in English medium. So that was another important highlight. There are a lot of other things which needs to be taken care of when preparing for English in India. We deal with all these things in detail in our online course. So you can go to our website ArpitaKarwa.com to get details about our online course. Apart from that you can also follow on the social media platforms so that you are updated about the new audio lectures and PDS that we are uploading for our students. We would also like you to note that the next lecture in this series of Crash Course is very important because I am going to talk about two really really amazing acts and commission that held English as a language to develop in India. So that is a surprise for you. So stay tuned to this channel. Subscribe, like and share if you have not done it right now. We will meet soon in the next video lecture. Till the time we meet next, happy learning, keep loving literature and stay tuned to ArpitaKarwa.com.


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