وَأَقُولُ فِي القُرْآنِ مَا جَاءَتْ بِيهِ آيَاتُوهُ فَهُوَ الْكَارِيمُ الْمُنزَالُهُ وَأَقُولُ قَالَ اللَّهُ جَلَّ جَلَالُهُ وَالْمُصْطَافَ الْهَاديِ وَلَا أَتْ أَوْوَالُهُ الحمد لله رب العالمين له الحمد الحسن والثاناء الجميل واشدوا الله إلا الله وحده لا شريك له يقول الحق وهو يهدي سبيل واشدوا أن سيدنا ونبينا محمد صلى الله عليه وعليه وعلى آله وأصحابه والتابعين لهم بحسان إلى يوم الدين أما بعد إن شاء الله تعالى today we're going to be speaking about أحكام زكاة الفطر زكاة الفطر is around the corner we're going to be speaking about the rulings regarding زكاة الفطر the way that I plan to go through the topic of زكاة الفطر is in seven steps seven points the first one is الحكمة من زكاة الفطر what is the wisdom in why زكاة الفطر was legislated what's the wisdom the second point is حكم زكاة الفطر what's the ruling of زكاة الفطر is it obligatory, is it voluntary what's the ruling number three is وقت إخراج زكاة الفطر what is the time and when do we give out when do we give out this زكاة الفطر I'm also going to speak about مصارف زكاة الفطر زكاة الفطر who are the people that we give it to who are the people that the شريعة has commanded us to give it to that is the fourth the fifth is اصناف زكاة الفطر we'll speak about the types of زكاة الفطر there are we'll speak about that and number six is مقدار زكاة الفطر what's the amount of زكاة الفطر that's given how much does a person have to give and last but not least I'm going to conclude with a very important topic which is حكم إخراج زكاة الفطر قيمة what is the ruling in giving زكاة الفطر as money instead of food what is the ruling regarding that the person doesn't give من غير جنس الطعام does not give food so the person in place of that they give money what's the ruling regarding that so those are in شاء الله تعالى the seven points that we shall tackle regarding زكاة الفطر the first one is الحكمة من زكاة الفطر what's the wisdom behind زكاة الفطر there's many wisdoms behind واء الله سبحانه و تعالى legislated زكاة الفطر to be done but there are two in which the prophet stated and these are not the only two reasons there are more than that but the first one is the person who's been fasting who came with fasting الله سبحانه و تعالى is trying to purify him the sa'im the person who was fasting Allah is purifying him from any shortcomings any errors any mistakes that he might have accumulated in the month of Ramadan whether it be slip of the tongue whether it be speech that was wrong those little mistakes that came from him الله سبحانه و تعالى he wants to purify the sa'im the first reason is the second reason is وطعمة للمساكين the poor people Allah wants to make for them a time and an amount in which they can celebrate عيد with the Muslims the مساكين they don't have nothing الله is taking their money from them and he's giving it to the مساكين so that they can also enjoy عيد with the believers and that they could participate in the happiness and the joy and the excitement with the believers that day of fitr عيد الفتر so those two are stated in حديثة عبدالله عباس رضي الله و تعالى عنهما in which أبو داود narrated in hissunan و حسنه الالباني و رحمه الله رحمه الله he graded this حديث to be sound in his كتاب الواء الغليل and also ألمام النويو in the majmoor the sharah of al-muhadda بسحاق الشيرازي و ألمام النويو also graded to be حسن which is that عبدالله عباس said that the prophet ﷺ said that the messenger صلى الله عليه وسلم said فارض رسول الله زكاة الفتر the prophet made zakat al-fitr obligatory طوهرة للصائم من to purify the one who is fasting from shortcomings, errors, foul language, speech وطوهرة للمساكين and also what to purify وطوهرة وطعمة لللمساكين and also food for the one who is مسكين the prophet then said من أداها قبل صلاة anyone who gives it before the prayer of عيد فهي زكاة مقبولة it's a zakat which is accepted ومن أداها and anyone who gives it بعد الصلاة after the prayer فهي صدقة بن الصدقات then all it is is a charity from the charities that you give out in the year I will speak about a more details when we come to the timing which we do it and then what we took from this is الحكمة من زكاة الفتر is what brothers two stated by the messenger the first one is طوهرة للصائم من الرفة واللغوي and the second one was طعمة لللمساكين now we are going to go into حكمة زكاة الفطري what's the ruling pertaining to زكاة الفتر زكاة الفتر is فرضو عيد it's an individual obligation meaning every single person has to come with it فرضو عيد means everyone has to come with it فرضو كفائي means إذا قام به بعضهم سقط عن الباكين if a group of people do it the rest they don't have to do it لكن فرضو عيد means if the individual has to do it for what for himself no one else takes the obligation of you and this is based upon what based on حديثة عبدالله من عمر ربي الله تعالى عنهما in which he said فرضو رسول الله صلى الله عليه وسلم زكاة الفطري that the messenger made فطر obligatory حنفية they don't believe that the zakat is farad they believe it's wajib and the reason why they say it's not wajib it's not farad and it's wajib because the حنفية believed that the farad is used when the دليل is قطعي when the evidence is قطعي it has reached us through the multitude narration حد التواتر it's large in number how it reached us or that it's from the ضروريات things that we know out of necessity so if it's not دليل القطعي the حنف believed it's not called farad it's called wajib they believe but we disagree with them in this because عبد الله بن عمر said he said فارض رسول الله فارض رسول الله صلى الله عليه وسلم زكاة الفطري that عبد الله بن عمر he said that the prophet made it farad صاع من تمرين صاع is this is the mud this is the what this is the mud of the prophet the mud of the prophet صلى الله عليه وسلم صاع is four of this four times of this is what it's one mud صاع is what four mud this is the mud of the prophet in which he used in مدينة so صاع means approximately it's 2.6 but شيخ عبد عزيز من الباز عليه الرحمة الله he said he shouldn't make it 2.6 2.5 when I estimated it 2.5 something it's round off 2.6 kilograms لكن شيخ عبد عزيز من الباز he gave the fatwa that it should be made into three why because to be on the safe side because it's different some are saying 2.9 something some are saying 2.6 something some are saying 2.4 شيخ عبد عزيز he said the fatwa and the fatwa that came from him it's what it's three kilograms but it's four of this and it's a bit weird because if you look at the Hadith of Anas ibn Malik the messenger used to do wudu with this the wudu of the prophet ﷺ was this one mud are you with me brothers and he used to do gusul with two of this two of this was the prophet's gusul اغتسال the prophet only used to do gusul wash himself with two of this and he would ﷺ he would do wudu with one of this imagine those who just run the water inshallah let the water run so عبد الله يبنو عمر ربي الله و تعالى عنوما he said صاعا جلس three kilograms or صاعا من شعير على العبد على العبد والحرر it's obligatory on what the slave and it's obligatory on what on the free individual والذكري و الأنت it's also obligatory on the male and it's also obligatory on the female و الصغير والكبير it's obligatory on the young and it's also obligatory on what the elderly individual من المسلمين from the believers in an underlined part of the Hadith it's obligatory on what و أمر بها and the prophet commanded و أدى قبل خروج الناس إلى الصلاة and he commanded that it's given before the people go to the prayer البخاري المسلم both narrated this Hadith يبنو عمر ربي الله و تعالى عنوما now there's points I want to touch on this Hadith the first one is what does this Hadith tell us it tells us that the Zakat al-Fitr is obligatory on what anyone who's ghani and anyone who's faqeer the faqeer has to also give the Zakat al-Fitr the ghani has to give Zakat al-Fitr but the miskeen doesn't have to give Zakat al-Fitr the Zakat al-Fitr goes to him and then what's the difference between a faqeer and a miskeen صحيح the ghani and the faqeer both of them have to give Zakat al-Fitr based on what based on the Hadith of the prophet because the prophet generalized it what did he say so if he's a ghani and if he's faqeer faqeer means a person who has his qut yom he has his daily meal he has day and night food but he doesn't have anything beyond that this is a faqeer a miskeen is the one who doesn't even have a day and a night what to eat so anybody based on this anybody who has qut yom and the qut of that day of عيد al-Fitr if he has the food to eat that whole day for 24 hours he's a what he's a faqeer he's not a miskeen he has to give Zakat al-Fitr are we all together brothers so Zakat al-Fitr is obligatory on the ghani of faqeer because the Hadith mentions and the abdi is a slave he doesn't have anything but what does he have but we will talk about who is the obligatory on we will come to it later the obligation is on the person who is overlooking the slave so if a slave is over the master has to give on his behalf the individual who is free he has to pay if he's got it from his wealth و لذلك ألمام الشوكاني mentions in his Nailal he says لأن النصوص أطلاقت because the Nصوص spoke it said على العبدي و الحر on the slave and on the free one it made it unrestricted and it did not he said and it did not specify شوكاني is saying this he didn't specify the prophet the rich from the poor so every one of them have to give it another point that I want to take from the Hadith is the one who gives it is the one who is providing for them على العبدي والحر والصغير والكبير الصغير is the young child the young kid doesn't have money to give but he has his Qout he has his daily income but who does it become obligatory on it becomes obligatory on the person who is providing for him the father is obligatory on him he has to give it from them the scholars they differed does the husband have to pay for his wife but the Qoul which is راجح is that he has to pay the Qoul which is strong is that the husband has to pay for his wife unless she is rich and she has her own money but if the man is the one who has the money and he provides for his wife then he has to pay for her that's the Qoul which is راجح أما الجنين في البطني as for the child in the stomach who is not born yet then فلا يجب إخراج الزكات إبن المدر رحمه الله بروتن إجماعينا مسألة الإمام ابن المدر رحمه الله بروتن إجماعينا كتاب that it's not obligatory to give for the one who is in the womb of the mother to give the cat for him rather it's not even a sunnah it's not even a sunnah to give it let alone wajib and the hadith that the scholars used the hadith of رضي الله then go to إروائي الغلي the third mujallad you find شغناصر رحمه الله weakened it the fourth point that I want to mention regarding this issue is that the الزكات الفطري it's obligatory on the one who is fasting and the one who is not fasting so if the wife the woman was on her postnatal bleeding she just gave birth to a child and so it happened that she didn't fast for the whole month of Ramadan because the postnatal bleeding can go for how long for 40 days so for those 30 days of Ramadan she did not fast and she is in that state it is still upon her to pay the الزكات الفطري it's obligatory on her based on the hadith of the prophet عليه السلام where he said that it is obligatory upon على الصغير والكبير is the صغير obligatory on him to do fasting no the young kid doesn't have to fast the صغير doesn't have to fast so he's most likely not fasting in Ramadan but the Zakat is still obligatory for it to be paid on his respect so is the woman who is upon who is in her postnatal bleeding it has to be paid for her as well now we move on to the third point which is وقت الفطري when does the Zakat الفطر have to be given when does the when does the Zakat الفطر have to be given the time of the Zakat الفطر being given we divide it into three times three times three separate timings the first one is وقت الجواز a time when it's permissible for you to give it if you want to you're allowed to if you wish so it's up to you and this is based upon the حديث of نافع مولب نعمر نافع مولب نعمر he said وكانوا ديوا who's he referring to he's referring to the companions the صحابة كانوا يعطونة they used to give قبل الفطري they used to give the companions used to give the Zakat الفطري before only one or two days before it so the time that is permissible for you to give it is two days I'm a one day before it a day or two you're allowed to give it so you're allowed to give it on the 28th if the month is 30 okay and on the 29th if the month is 30 but if the month is 29 you can give it on the 27th and you can give it on the 28th 28 this is permissible for you to do based on the fact that the companions used to do it and the Prophet صلى الله عليه وسلم consented to it he consented he didn't stop them from that action that they were doing so if the person gives the Zakat الفطر a day or two before it there's no problem that's وقت الجواز you're allowed to no problem the second timing is the وقت الوجوب the time when it's obligatory to give the second time is وقت الوجوب you have to give it this starts يبدأو it begins بغروب الشمسي when the sun sets مغرب the day when the Ramadan is is announced and the tarawih is not prayed that night and tomorrow is عيد from مغرب when they notify tomorrow is عيد from that time until what the beginning of صلاة العيد which you have to give starting from the غروب الشمس the night the sun setting the day before the night before when ينتهي ببتداء صلاة العيد and it ends before the خدبة العيد starts I mean sorry the صلاة العيد starts before the Imam says then it's finished that timing is called وقت الوجوب the person has to give it the third time is أفضل الوقت the best time to give it the best time to give it is بعد صلاة الفجري after صلاة الفجري on the day after until صلاة العيد in between that time you give it that you go and you give it that is the best time because the Prophet صلى الله عليه وسلم specifically mentioned that timing what did the hadith say in صحيحين that the Prophet he commanded and to adda that it's given قبل خروج الناس إلى صلاة before the people go to the prayer and even though it says أمره he commanded this one means على وقت الافضلية ليس على وقت الالزام it's in a recommended manner not forceful manner that it's recommended that sorry it's the ofضلية this time it's the best time that the person can give it شافعية believe that you're allowed to give it at the beginning of Ramadan the first day of Ramadan when Ramadan is announced شافعية say you can give it or they say you can give it in the middle of Ramadan any time when in Ramadan they say you can give it that's what they say لكن هاد اجتهاد منه هاد اجتهاد منهم اجتهاد from the Aima to شافعية that's a personal independent reasoning which they came with but there is no evidence to strengthen and to strengthen that opinion rather the evidences are not in support of that all that we have the earliest is a day or two and this is عبادة عبادة توقيفية it's عبادة and عبادة is what توقيفية meaning it requires evidence for you to give it so the person is not allowed to give it اما إذا كان جاهلا as for if the person is ignorant and is unaware of it and he does give it and he takes the call of شافعية and he does happen to give it at that time then in sha Allah it will say the zakat is إن شاء الله تعالى you've taken the responsibility and the obligation of yourself but it was not upon you to do it like that it was not something you should do another point that I want to mention is anybody who gives the zakat الفطري بعد صلاة العدي he gives it after صلاة العدي متعمدا he chooses to deliberately do that then this person he becomes a sin for doing this and it will not be rewarded from him and in the zakat الفطري he is not going to be he is not going to be accepted from him he is not going to be accepted from him and based on the Hadith of the Prophet what did he say فهي صدقة من الصدقات he said anyone who gives it after this صلاة the Prophet said it becomes a صدقة from the صدقات so it's just a what a صدقة that you gave so the question is هل يسقط أداع with the zakat الفطري but does the obligation of the zakat الفطري be uplifted from your shoulder if the person does delay it after the صلاة then we say no this is a debt and this debt is the right of the مساكين it's like you took money from somebody and you delay the time of giving them back their debt it doesn't go off your shoulder are you with me this is a debt that the مساكين have on you so the person has to still give it it's debt that the مساكين have on you لا يسقط عنه إلا بأداع and it will not be uplifted from you unless you give it الامام ابن حزب رحمه الله he mentions this in his كتاب المحلة the sixth volume page 143 and he mentions in his كتاب الموني which is a شرح مختصر الخرق he mentions it in the second volume page 672 now we're going to move on to we spoke about what وقت إقراج زكاة الفطري we're now going to speak about مصارف زكاة الفطري we're now going to speak about مصارف زكاة الفطري زكاة الفطري who's it given it who's it given to زكاة الفطري is given to the مساكين this is a from the message صلى الله عليه وسلم clearly and categorically the prophet said it based on the Hadith of Ibn Abbas رضي الله تعالى عنهما ابن عباس الحديث فرض رسول الله صلى الله عليه وسلم زكاة الفطري the prophet made زكاة الفطري obligatory طعمة للمساكين and what did he say مسكين is ملا يجد القوة يومه he's a person who can't find the food of that day so anyone who doesn't have the food for that day is a muskin the food goes to him but the scholars they mention if a person is مسكين and it's given to him can he then give زكاة الفطري from it as well so gave somebody the food was given to him شخص سام تيمير mentions this in his مجموعة الفتاة that زكاة الفطري is given to him can he then choose if he wants to get reward he can give the زكاة الفطري will say to him نعم the reward is with him he will get rewarded for it and he's allowed to do that but he's not allowed to make it an agreement between him and a group of people he says شخص سام تيمير when he goes to a group of people and he says I'll give to you you give to him and we all give and bring it back to me like that when he gets the money back and he wants to get the reward for it he says this is not permissible and he mentions this in his كتاب بيانه الدليل في بطلانة تحليل أزوار رحمه الله تعالى so زكاة الفطري is different from زكاة البدن there's two types of Zakat brothers there's Zakat called Zakatul Mal and there's Zakat called Zakatul Bedan Zakatul Mal there's something that's required there's a Nisap that has to reach the Nisap and there are أصناف ثمانية three types of people that you have to give it to صح إنما الصدقات للفقراء والمساكين والعملين عليها والمؤلفة قلوبهم والغارمين والغارمين وفي سبيل الله وبن السبيل صح وفي الرقاب وفي الرقاب وبن السبيل those are the types the ثمانية أصناف that the person has to give it other than the مسكين the عاملين عليها والمؤلفة قلوبهم and وفي الرقاب والغارمين and وفي سبيل الله وبن السبيل all of those are for the Zakatul Mal the only one that is for the Zakatul Fitri is the مسكين that we all together the Zakatul Mal you give the other seven types but the مسكين here is specific for the Zakatul Fitri and it is not permissible for you to give it to the other types that are mentioned in that ayah because this is not what brothers it's not the Zakatul Mal what is it? this is the Zakatul Bedan this is what? it's the Zakatul Bedan you don't give it لكن الإمام الشوكاني رحمه الله he mentions and also if the person cannot find a مسكين to give it to then they can follow the أصناف الثمانية you can give it to any of those eight types if you can't find the مسكين to give it to and there's no مسكين in your land then you're allowed to give it to any of those أصناف الثمانية you can give it to if you can't find it now I want to speak about أصناف الزكات الفطري the Zakatul Fitr what is it that we give? what can a person give out? the Zakatul Fitr that the person gives it has to be طعام الأدميين food that the human beings can eat children of Adam the food that they can eat is what the Zakatul Fitr is done with يخرج المزكين the one who is doing the Zakat he gives صع من طعام he gives a صع 3 kg 4 مد of what بعام غالي بقوت بلده your country that you're in what is it that the people eat? what is the well-known food that the people of your بلد eat? whatever that they eat is the food that you give for the Zakatul Fitr so you give طعام غالي بقوت بلده the land that you're at the thing that the people eat is what you give it if the people of that land don't eat dates that's not what they eat then bringing them that food is no value for it and this is the call of the جمهور العلماء this is the call of the majority of the scholars and they use the استدلالة حديثة بسعيد الخدري the حديثة بسعيد الخدري is the evidence that they used in which he said كنا نخرج في عهد رسول الله يسل الله علي وسلمة يوم الفطر صع من طعام أو صع من شعير أو صع من تمر أو صع من أقط أو صع من زبيب وكان طعام الشعير والزبيب والأقيت والتمر ابسعيد الخدري يخبرنا حديثة حلو بخاري he says أدك عم of the messenger صلى الله عليه وسلمة we used to give out صع من طعام another ria mention صع من شعير صع we already mentioned how much is of this is it صع four of this I'm a three kilograms I'm a the palm twice of the hand of an ordinary person okay all of this or a quality of the علماء صع من شعير شعير is Bali أو صع من تمر or a صع of what dates أو صع من أقيت أقيت is a cottage cheese أو صع من زبيب زبيب is dried grapes meaning raisins right look what they said أبي صعيد الخدري وكان طعام الشعير والزبيب والأقيت والتمر طعامنا our food in Medina وزالشعير والزبيب والأقيت that's what we used to eat in other words he's trying to say that the food that we used to give out in زكات in Medina was the food that we used to eat are we all together brothers so the حديثة أبي صعيد الخدري shows that the food that the people eat is what the person should give out in terms of زكات that is what should be the مصارف أصناف زكات that the person chooses to give another thing another point is the مقدار زكات the amount I already mentioned that the amount the scholars they differed on it like in the call which we strengthened and we proved is that the زكات is done based upon four of the mood but in which mood specifically the mood that we applied it on is مد أهل المدينة and this is the mood of أهل المدينة this is the mood of the people of مدينة and it's important well what's the evidence for the ألمام النسائي narrated in صحاحة الألمانية رحمه الله that the Prophet ﷺ said المكيال ومكيال أهل المدينة that the Prophet ﷺ said the scaling is the scaling of the people of مدينة والوزن على وزن أهل مكة the measurement is the measurement of the people of مدينة and the scaling is the scaling of the people of مكة the measurement measurement is what the people of مدينة and the scaling is the people of مكة the food is two types that which is measured and that which is scaled right so those two types the Prophet ﷺ broke it for the people of مكة and the people of مكة and then when we say when we say that صاع عن whenever we hear it we refer to the صاع of أهل مدينة because صاع is a scale are we all together and we already spoke about the amount that it is now we are going to go into the last point which is حكم إخراج زكاة الفطر قيمة are you allowed to give the زكاة الفطر as money can somebody give money instead of food I don't want to give food it's too much time can I just give out money or anything other than that clothing and etc can a person do that the strongest opinion is إخراج زكاة الفطر قيمة you are not allowed to whether it be clothing or money it's not permissible and that's the strongest الراجع من أقوال أهل العلم the strongest opinion regarding the scholars what they've said and if a person does that لا تجزيو عنه it doesn't it's not accepted from you you have to still give the زكاة لأسباب الأاتية for the following reasons number one is الأصو في العبادات التوقيف عبادات التوقيفية عبادات is that you can't do something unless you have what unless you have evidence for it you're not allowed to do it who said you can do something which you don't have evidence for the messenger صلى الله عليه وسلم he said in the hadith من عميل عمل ليس عليه أمرونا فهو ورد anyone who does an action that's not from our affairs is rejected and then it won't be accepted it's not from the actions of the messenger عليه صلى الله عليه وسلم and the person can fall under فاليحذة للدين يخالفون عن أمره أن تصيبهم فتنة أو يصيبهم عداب وناليم also the giving of money is in a position to the Sunnah of the messenger صلى الله عليه وسلم and the way of the خلفاء الرشدين it's not something which they have done they rather gave food specifically that's what's found from them all of the time that they could have given money they specifically chose to give food so if you're giving money the money was there at that time and they chose not to give it number three is that the zakat that's given صلاة الفطري if the person gives it to the money what's he going to do with it that day when he needs to do something what is he going to do with it with it on the Eid day when he needs food what's paper going to do for him the scholars they said it defeats the purpose of what the zakat الفطر was made for it was something for him to eat it was made for something for him to eat also this is the قول of the جماهير العريضة من أهل العلم the overwhelming majority of scholars they said this that the zakat الفطري has to be given as food the only one who opposed the أئمة الأربعة إذا أبو حنيفة ألمان مالك رحمه الله if you go to the مدونات الكبرى ألمان مالك رحمه الله نص صريح that he mentions رحمه الله that it's what that the zakat الفطر has to be food ألمان الشرفعي if you go to the مجموعة بالنوي or if you go to the كتابة الأم رواية ربيع ربيع ابن سليمان المرادي of ألمان الشرفعي والشرفعي also categorically and clearly says ألمان أحمد رحمه الله in مغني by ابن قدامة he mentions that it has to be with food rather ألمان أحمد رحمه الله they said to him when he said it has to be with food but they said عمال ابن عبد العزيز he doesn't give it out with food he gives it out with money and then إمام مالي إمام أحمد said the following he said he said يدعون قول رسول الله صلى الله عليه وسلم they leave of the speech of the messenger صلى الله عليه وسلم ويقولون قالة فولان وفولان and they tell me someone said سعوبة الله إمام التابعين إمام أو فالتابعين أحمد سيد رحمه الله واتعالا I say to them the profus Salal consumption once said يدعون يدعون قول رسول الله they leave of the messenger صلى الله عليه وسلم and speech ويقولون قالة فولان وفولان and then he said قال ابن عمر فرض رسول الله يخبرنا حديث and he mentioned before and then he said وقال الله وخبر الله الرسولة إمام محمد سدر حمه الله أنه سد وقال قوم يردون السنان قال فلان وقال فلان وقال فلان وقال فلان وقال فلان وقال فلان وقال فلان وقال فلان نعم. فهي خسيد السلف رحمه الله وحاش when it came to a hadith وليذلك ابن أبي ذيب رحمه الله إهاد إمام مارك he doesn't accept the خيارة بيح. that the person has البيعاني بالخيارة ما لم يتفرقا. مارك doesn't believe this. ابن أبي ذيب وقال مارك يستتاب وإلا ضربع عنقه. إمام مارك is told to repent from that view. وإلا ضربع عنقه. his head has to be struck. that's the مارك رحمه الله. that's the مارك رحمه الله. and then أحمد was told this. أحمد was told رحمه الله. إبن أبي ذيب. he said about مارك. and then he said ابن أبي ذيب من أر or or or رع وأتقى وآعلم من مارك في ذلك. he said he's more pious and he's more knowledgeable and he's more accurate. and then if he's truly he's saying this about who? ابن أبي ذيب. he said if ابن أبي ذيب أحمد. if he's truly he wouldn't have said something like that about مارك. he says in what we take from these brothers is that كله يؤخذ من قوله ويرد إلا صاحب هذا القبر. everybody's speech is between الأخض ورد. acceptance and rejection. there's nobody who's speech is not who's not on that scale. only person who's speech we don't reject. we have to accept. we have to submit to. we have to follow is the نبي الله محمد صلى الله عليه وسلم. and the speech of الله سبحانه وتعالى. that's a summary. a very very very very summarized explanation of ذكات الفتر. I didn't want to lengthen it too much. and I finished seven points that I wanted to go through. the seven points were الحكمة من ذكات الفتر. حكم ذكات الفتر. وقت إخراج ذكات الفتر. مصارف ذكات الفتر. أصناف ذكات الفتر. مقدار ذكات الفتر. and last but not least حكم إخراج ذكات الفتر. قيمة. anything which I have said that was wrong or incorrect is from me and Shaytan and Allah his messenger are truly free from it. سبحانك اللهم بحمدك أشهد أن لا إله إلا الله أستغفروك واتولي.


So how was the day? How's your day been? It's been good ma'am. Good, good. How about you? It's good, it's good, it's here. Yeah, thank you. Okay, so as others join, can one of us lead us in prayer? Zelle, would you be able to lead us in prayer? Yes, Pastor. Thank you. Father, we come before your presence in the name of Jesus. Thank you so much for this beautiful morning that you have blessed us so that we can come together, come together and learn from your word. Thank you Lord for our ma'am as she teaches the word of God. I pray for your wisdom, your revelation, be upon her so that she will be a mouthpiece for you and she can teach according to your will. And also thank you for each one of our classmates. Give us a receptive heart, a digital heart and Holy Spirit empower us so that we can learn new things. This class Lord, we commit our life, our time, everything we can to Lordship in Jesus' mighty name. Amen. Amen. Amen. Thank you so much. Thank you. Amen. Okay, so let's turn to our notes to chapter 9. Meanwhile, I will also project the notes to us. The presentation. Okay. So today we will be covering on four chapters. One is on Angels, Godly Council. And in the next session, we will be covering on the renewed mind, times and seasons. So even before we could start on this chapter, Angels, this may be something new to some of us. Isn't it? So anyone in our class has this angelic visitation any time? Have any of us experienced any angelic visitation? It can be in any era. It can be ministered to us or it can be through protection. Or have you heard any stories? Are those shared as a testimony that they had angelic visitation? Ma'am, can I share? Yes, Elie. Like a few years ago, one of our church elder, you know, like I was leading the prayer intercession session in the church, you know, and after the service was over, she came to me and she said, Sister, you know, like as you were leading the prayer intercession, you know, the Lord just opened up my eyes.  And the moment I saw that I was just so overwhelmed and I was just, you know, thanking the Lord. And I believe that is, you know, the angels protecting you and empowering you to do the ministry, God has called you to do. And that was such a word of encouragement and I press God for that. Thank you so much for sharing that, Elie. Yes, that's so true. Angels are around us. They are sent to minister to us, protect us, you know, be with us. Yes. Anyone else in the class? It'll, this by sharing, you know, it encourages our faith. We will tend to believe in what God is doing in the spiritual realm. So I would request our class to be much interactive. Anyone else in the class had experienced any such thing with related to the angels? Okay, so we will start with the class. If anyone have any experience, please do let me know. You can always interrupt and, you know, you can share your experience of how Lord is ministered to you. Okay, so let's turn to Hebrews chapter one verse 14. Hebrews chapter one verse 14. Can one of us please read? Hebrews chapter one verse 14. Are they not all ministering spirits sent forth to minister for those who will inherit salvation? So we see both in the Old Testament and in the New that God uses angels to send messages to minister to people. And angels have been sent in the visions or dream to convey a message to people. We see, you know, in the New Testament, we see how angel of God was sent to Mary to announce the birth of that she's been conceived by the power of the Holy Spirit. And, you know, and we also see again, angel appear to Joseph in a dream, instructing him to take Mary as a survivor. He actually thought that he'll put away Mary silently. But then again, we also see another instance where after the birth of Jesus, angel appearing to Joseph in a dream. And here is instructing him to take the child and Mary and go to Egypt for safety. So there's a protection. There's an angel actually appearing for Mary. It was the angel appeared real and she could hear the audible voice. And later part, we see the same angel appear to Joseph in a dream. And again, we see again, the angel appear to Joseph in a dream. So such activities were common those days. Do you think those activities are changed now? No, we do hear from people that angels have ministered to them. And in a lot of, you know, in the early church after the resurrection of Jesus, we see, you know, in the book of Acts, we see a lot of angelic encounters that our disciples had. An angel delivered Peter from prison and instructed him to go and preach in the temple. Later, we also see angel instructing Philip to go to Gaza and, you know, to catch up with the eunuch and share the gospel to him. And through that one act of obedience, we see the gospel was taken to Ethiopia. Again, later we see the angel appeared to Cornelius a Gentile and asked him to send for Peter so that they can hear the gospel. And through this very act of obedience, we see the Cornelius and his family was saved. Again, we see the angel released Peter from the chains and took him out of the prison. There was a high end gate, but, you know, there was a miraculous encounter and there was a supernatural encounter where the iron door broke at the presence of, you know, God sent Angel. And later we also see an angel struck Herod and he died and the book of Acts. There were many angelic encounters we see. So angel can appear even to us and they can speak to us audibly. And, you know, angels can be visible and also audible. And at the same time, they can also appear in the dream and they can talk to us or they can also be invisible and just the voice can be heard. So often during this time of worship, we sense, you know, in our Bible college, when we had in-person sessions every day in the noon, 12 to 1, we had supernatural session. Where every day, okay. So what happens here is now only on Fridays we have morning 8 to 9. But then before in-person session, we used to have every day 12 to 1. So all we did is all the students all put together first year, second year, third year.  We may sing few worship songs and start praying in tongues. When we did that many times, many times we have seen angelic encounters. Students would have said that, ma'am, I saw there was ascending and descending of angels. Or just like how Zellie shared the angel was next to some of the student. And when we asked them, did you experience anything, they would have said that, you know, in their own way, either the Lord touched them and they were ministered in different ways. But we see when we worship the Lord, the presence of angelic being is around us, is around us. Some of us would have experienced any such thing. For example, I have this in practice, okay, from my class 5 onwards, from school I got this habit of by hearting Psalm 91. Every time I step out of the house, you know, I start with Psalms 91. So one such instance, instant happened in 2009, yes. My dad got me a new bike, Activa, which was much heavier than what I am. Not now, then. I was actually very lean, so I couldn't balance that bike, but then I could ride because I have rode other bikes. And I was very new in riding and once, you know, as I was riding on a heavy traffic road on a highway, there were huge lorries used to pass by. So one day as I was riding, suddenly the noise of a huge truck passed through me, brought fear into me and I was so scared. I was so scared and you know, I just closed my eyes and said, Lord, I cannot do this. I cannot ride anymore. And I was so fearful. I just closed my eyes, but I continued to ride. And you know, I said, Lord, I need your help and need your protection. And for that fraction of a second when I closed my eyes, I saw God has set his angels in charge of me as we declare it through Psalms 91. You know, one of the angels was holding my bike on the right side and another angel on my left side. So both the sides, there were two angels holding my bike and coming. So this, the fear within me left instantly. And you know, I sense God's boldness in me. And that's when I saw myself improving in my riding. Till then I was, I used to ride alone, not take anyone along with me, but very fearful. But then something happened that day onward that I could take another person. Another person along with me. And there was boldness in my riding. There was no more fear within me. I also had another encounter sometime after many months. Okay. Again, maybe this was in 2010, 2009. Yeah, it was in 2009. Yes, I remember the month. It was July. I was coming along with my brother. He was sitting behind me and I was riding the same bike. All of a sudden there was a car in front of me. When the car passed by, I saw there was a huge ditch in front of me and I could not balance. I could not take right or left. And I know that I'm going to get into the ditch. And in the mirror, I'm seeing there's a car, a black Maruti Swift coming behind me. And I knew I'm gone. I just closed my eyes and I don't know. It just came out of me. I said, Jesus. And immediately I went into the ditch and we fell. We fell. You know, the bike fell on me and my brother, a laptop. We just fell on the road. And you know, people, yes, they came to assist and we caught up and I was sitting on the on the on the on the platform. You know, they just helped me to sit on the platform. And when I looked back, I wanted to see where's the car because that car was very close to me and between me and the car. There was nothing. Okay. But then I saw the car was stopped much before. And there was another person between us. And she was just standing. She was just standing and I looked at her because she was looking very different from others. Everyone was checking on me. Am I okay? Did I get any hurt? My knee was hurted and I was declaring over my knee saying that I'm not hurt. My bones are not broken because my senses are saying that my leg was fractured.  But then I'm declaring saying that my bones are not broken. My skin is not cut and my leg is not bleeding and I'm perfectly fine. I'm strong as I kept declaring everyone around me are checking. Am I fine? But there was one person just standing and looking at me. She was dressed in white and she was normal to look just like us. Okay. Just like the Indian attire she was wearing and within me I sensed she's the angel. Okay. She's the angel who saved you and I could not respond to anyone around me. But you know, all my attention was looking at her like, is she an angel? Is she an angel? And I looked at her and I asked her, what's your name? She looked at me and she said, I'm angel and this is the only message that she told me. She said, God saved you.  That's it. I don't, you know, I don't know how she came but she was just standing there. She didn't even inquire how are you because she knew that I was perfectly fine. And this is the only message she said. She said, my name is angel and God saved you. And she was no special. There was no halo on her head or she was looking something very differently dressed. No. In fact, she was wearing salwar, white salwar, just like Indian dress. And she said, until day I have this confirmation within me like she was the angel.  It was not only that day, something invisible, but there's always God's protection over us because we claim for God's protection. So as been said with all this, one thing we need to know is we do not worship angels. But we worship only the Lord most high. We do not seek for any angelic visitation. Our focus should remain only on Jesus, not on any ministering angels. We must discern every angelic visitation. We should know what is the message that carried because we all because the scripture says that Satan and his demons can also imitate angel of light. We ask God for the assistant of his angels because that's what his word says. And we speak God's promise declaring what does angel do for us and they respond to the voice of his word. We can definitely ask God, send your angels to protect us in a way in the path that we are going. Or if somebody is traveling, we can always say, Lord send your angels with them, God them, guide them, protect them. So we can, but we should be very careful from worshipping any angelic pain except the Lord Jesus. So with this, we will move on to the next lesson. Yeah, we do not worship any angels. We ask God for the assistance of his angels. We speak God's promise declaring what does angels do for us. With this, we will move on to the next lesson. Godly Council. I'm just sharing the notes. Okay, so we went through the angel next, we will go through the Godly Council. Can one of us turn to Psalms? Chapter 73 verse 24. Psalms 73 verses 24. You will guide me with your council and afterward receive me to glory. Yes. So one important way that God communicates to us is through his guidance. We all know the three ways how God guides us through his word, through his inner witness and through his Holy Spirit. And God also uses people to speak into our lives so that, you know, they can help and guide us into the right path in our life. So Psalms 73 verse 24 says that you will guide me with your council and afterward receive me to his glory. And Proverbs 11 verse 14 says there are many plans in a man's heart. Sorry, there are, where there is no council, the people fall but in the multitude of counsellors, there is safety. It is very important for us to take council from everyone or from, from, you know, not from one person but from many so that we are safe. We are safe. So this is what we do is, you know, as a team at APC, if there's any major discussion or decision to be made, we always, you know, take council from each other, we come for a meeting, we discuss our take ideas from many and choose the right one. And in that council, we see there's, you know, great plan of God been fulfilled. So we are safe when there is no council, the people fall but in multitude of counsellors, there is safety. Proverbs 15-22 says without council, plans go awry but in multitude of counsellors, there are established. Very important to take council from many so that our plans can be established. Proverbs 19-20, listen to council and receive instruction that you may be wise in your latter days. Very important so that we develop this ability within us to listen and to receive because most of us, you know, it takes humility for us to listen to another person to take their guidance or to listen to their instruction. It does not come very easy. It is a natural sense of a human not to listen to others and think that we know and we should lead ourselves. And we also have this preconceived notion that we know and let, you know, I can lead my life. And we get into many trouble. So to avoid those pitfalls, it would be good for us to take council, a godly council from the other people, from other counsellors who has lived their life with the fear of God so that when we take their council, we can see ourselves been, you know, guided in the right path so that we can avoid much pitfalls in our life. The mistakes that they have made, the lessons that they have learned that, you know, they can share those guidance, those warnings to us so that we may not fall into the same mistake what they have committed long ago. Proverbs 20, 18 says, Plans are established by council. My wise council wage war. Sometimes the council that we receive wages war. But then when we have received this council, even during a difficult situation, even when we face challenges in our life. The council that was given to us, the idea, the plan that they had shared from the council would have shared from their life will come to our mind. The Lord will remind us in our difficult situation so that we may not give up. Holy Spirit is our counsellor. During a difficult situation, when we go through the word of God, when the word speaks to us, when the word shares the people of God in the Bible, when they went through the difficult time, how they seek God, how they prayed, how they never gave up. When those words speak to us, it encourages us in our difficult situation. One way is through the word which we already saw. And when we go through a godly council, the man of God, a woman of God who shares their experience or speak into our situation and give us the word, the encouraging word. Those things around us, the circumstance, the situation may not be in favour of us. But then when we trust them, when we trust them, we are sick. The word encourages us to hold on to that promise, hold on to that council and go through the situation, hoping that God will help us to cross through the path. And when we press on, we will see the victory. Many of us in our class, I'm sure each of us will have a testimony to share on this. When you were going through a difficult time, you were encouraged by the word of God to hold on to his promise. Some of us would have already crossed that circumstance or situation and have won the victory over that. Or some of us may be in the middle of the circumstances. A trust God, trust on his promise which says that I will never leave you nor forsake you. And every godly council that has been given to us timely will help us to overcome our situation. Receiving right counsel is very important. Receiving right counsel. We must receive this counsel from people, you know, who are deep in the word. And they have walked with the Lord for a very long time and they have faced many circumstances in their life. And they share the counsel based on the word and they submit to the Holy Spirit. We must take counsel from such people so that we can receive the right counsel from them at the right season. And when we receive counsel from them, we need to be humble enough to receive it and, you know, apply it in our life, take action on what they have guided us. Sometimes it may not be very pleasant from what we expected. It may be totally opposite to what we expect. This is what in Psalms chapter 1 verse 1 says, Blessed is the man who walks not in the counsel of the ungodly, nor stands in the path of sinners, nor sits in the seat of scornful. When we go to this expert, when we go to this council and they give us, when we listen to their advice, we see God's blessing over our life. And also there are different counselors according to our need. If in case you want to take up a medical advice, we have a medical counselor. Something to do with finance, education, professional matters. So based on each criteria, we have a counselor, but it would be good for us to seek a godly counsel. A man and woman who walk in the counsel of God so that we can get the right counsel at the right time. But what more important is, are we willing to be corrected? Sometimes we would like to receive the plan of a counselor when that is aligned to our plan. We will say, this counselor is very good and I would like to go to that person. And you see that person, even though it is wrong, that person repeatedly gives exactly what you want. I don't think that's the right thing. A counselor who advises you, who corrects you when you're wrong. Even you may be hurt or you may have to undo your plans. It is good to take their advice. Initially, you may feel bad. You may get upset or mad at that counselor for giving you a counsel that is not aligned with your plan. He's not giving you any affirmation of what you have planned and you put it across to him. But in fact, he's trying to correct you. He's asking you to wait. He's asking you to wait on the Lord or this plan is not aligned with your studies, with your career or what God has promised you. So he is actually, maybe he's asking you to undo certain things or bring a correction in you. But what is much required is we need to humble ourselves and receive that guidance. Some years back, I remember I went to a counselor to make some life decision. I went to this counselor checking if this is right. He examined. He asked me many questions. And then at the end of, you know, at the end of that session, he said, this is not right. This is not from God. This is just the timely desire that you have got to overcome your situation. But this is not what God wanted you to do at this time. It was very difficult for me to accept that counsel from the man of God. I felt that he's against my decision. He is not in favor of me. But I never thought that he is in favor of what God has in store for me. He simply bluntly declared, this is what God wants you to do and what you have planned or what you wanted to do. What you have decided to make a decision is not from God. He was very blunt. He never thought to please me, but it was very, very hard for me to accept that counsel. It took at least a week or two for me to accept it. I was very sad when the man of God told that I came. Yes, I was sad, but asking God to strengthen me to accept that counsel. Today, when I look back, I'm very thankful to God and to the counselor. In fact, some years back I called him. I said, thank you for correcting me at that season. I needed that word. If not, my life would have been deviated from what God wanted me to do in my life. When we trust God, God leads us to the right counsel. Even if that counselor gives us an advice that is not aligned with what we think or what we want to do. But then if it is aligned by the word of God, I think we need to be humble enough to receive it. Because we may not have the complete understanding then, but then later trust God that God will give us the understanding. Yes, we all have wisdom. We all have the understanding. Our brain is just this much. But God has much bigger plan for us. Our mind cannot understand, cannot grasp the God's wisdom, his understanding, his plan, his will. But one thing we need to rely on Jeremiah 29, 11 saying that God has a plan for me, plan to prosper me. What you and I can think for ourselves is much little than what God has in store. So these incidents in my life has made me today to trust God much more than what I could think on us. What I believed would be the best when people spoke into my life with the right counsel saying this is not God as much more bigger, brighter, better. Though it was hard for me to receive that counsel, but then I simply waited on God, letting go of what was in my hand. Yes, those days it was very hard to do that, but then God has trained me in my life today when I let go of many, many opportunities in my life that was not aligned with God. Today for me to let go of certain things is much easier because I trust God and I've seen his hand over my life carrying me through days and weeks and months and years. And I trust God today that God has much better plan than what I can think of for myself. And God has brought me to a place where I can just receive God's guidance, the correction from people of God and trust God to develop me to the better person what I could be. And these days I seek for those corrections and feedback because I know it is in them that I can build myself. It is in those correction and in those feedback that make me a better person. So these days for me to receive the feedback or correction, it's become a blessing for me than receiving a good feedback. Good feedback is good. Yes, it encourages us, it appreciates us, you know, makes us go, yes. But at the same time, you know, correction is much more better because it prunes us. It makes us grow to the next level. Here we need to have a attitude of humility to receive that correction, to apply it in our life and willingness to change ourselves to the way of God and trust God completely. Because these plans are much better than what you and I can have.  So we need to, you know, we need to receive probably instruction with all our heart and apply it in our life. It is for our good. Proverbs 13, 18 says poverty and shame will come to him this day in correction, but he who disregards a rebuke will be honored. Proverbs 29, one says he who is often rebuked and hardens his neck will suddenly be destroyed and that without remedy. We don't have to go through this because when we go to the council, they will all they will advise us with the right path. But we should be willing to listen to them so that we can avoid such pitfalls in our life. Next one is very important. The Council of Godly Parents. Always remember it is very difficult. You know, for a child to receive an instruction from parents, I will not say everyone, some of us. If the same instruction is been given by their own friend, you know, it's very easy to receive it than receiving it from our parents. But one thing I must say is parents have always thought good for us. They love us. They desire good things to happen for us. Proverbs 13, one says a wise son heeds his father's instruction, but a software, a mock does not listen to the rebuke. A wise son heeds his father. We need to be that wise son who can listen to the father's instruction. Proverbs 1, 8 to 9 says my son.  For they will be graceful, ornament on your head and chains about your neck. So one of the, you know, one of the honorable thing that we could do is to receive the Council from our parents. They have brought us up.  So when we hear they counsel their instruction, it is just that we're obeying God. Again, Godly Council, they counsel will help us to walk in honor, in honor among the other children. Again, there are parents who there are sometimes, you know, we get wrong counsel from parents, but we need to be wise enough. Also take the council from others. So there was an example here of Jesus himself, how Jesus waited 30 years to get into the ministry. In the same way, if you and I have got a call, there is a preparation process that we need to go through. At the same time, we all need to be educated as well. We need to go through our studies and then get into the ministry. So when we hear the Council of our parents and obey them, we are honoring God by obeying our parents, by honoring them, by keeping up their counsel.  So any of us have an example or a testimony to share based on today's class. Godly Council has helped you, or was there any angelic visitation or angelic encounter that you had in your ministry in your life that you would like to share for the benefit of the class. Please feel free to share with all of us. Anyone, John, you would like to share your experience with regard to Godly Council or any angelic visitation. Godly Council, yes. Angelic visitation, no, I have not experienced any angelic visitation physically. But quite a lot of times while worshipping, we have felt the presence of God. Some of us, sometimes people have testified they saw something they saw angel, but I haven't seen. I didn't have that experience. Godly Council, yes, while taking serious decisions in life. Like one example, what I want to share is when, when I finished my bachelor's degree and then wanted to do masters. I was part of a church which is just very active in Kerala. And we also, I was also part of youth ministry back then. I wanted to study for master's degree and I want to study in Manipal, which is an overnight journey from Kerala, the place where I was staying. So I discussed with the pastor there and he said he could have helped me back. But he said it is good for your future you need to go. And if he would have asked me to stay back, I wouldn't have gone, that's for sure. But he guided me in that direction so that I could study more and God used there also. So I think that's one of the Godly Council which I received. Thanks God. Anyone else would like to share? Divya, Niki, it can be anyone, it can be anyone. Brother Abu Bakr, Brother Subashish, anyone from a class. Any Godly Council that has helped you to grow in the ministry, to grow in your life. Ma'am, can I share? Yes, Zellie. Regarding Godly Council, you know, like I really used to have a heart for missions and to God for missionary team. So at the time I was working with one of the pastor in Dimapur. And, you know, like I've been, I was working as a full-time staff for three years back then. And, you know, I just feel that it's time for me to step out in faith and venture in the missions. So I was just praying and I talked with my senior pastor there and I just shared my heart's desire to pastor. And, you know, he understood my heart and I really don't, I want to go for a mission, but I really don't know where or to wish nation. And through his Godly Council and through his encouragement, you know, like he connected me to one missionary couple in Cambodia. And he's the one arranging everything for me. And he talked with them and through my senior pastor's connection, I was able to serve there in the nation of Cambodia for two years.  But if that's what you have in your heart, I freely release you. And with his prayers and with the blessing of our church there, they release me to go to the mission field. So, Prescott for that. Yes. That's nice. That's nice. Sid, you would like to share something? Yes, ma'am. Ma'am, it was something happened about Godly Counciling. After completing my 12th standard, I was looking for which course to choose and which college to go. So, what happened? I was looking from college to college from course to course. But suddenly my grandmother came in between and she said, what do you want to do? I said, I want to serve Lord and I want to do something for the people who are underprivileged. So, she prayed over me and she said, you don't worry, God will come, God will open away for you. Suddenly, I was just scrolling my Google, then there was a post by the name called, Battle of Social Work. So, I went inside, I scrolled it out and it was exactly the same which I was looking for. Then after that, my father told me that, are you interested in ministry? I said yes. Then he said, there's a Bible school by the name of my past opponent, he was having a Bible school. So, I just went through and I scrolled the APC website and I saw it's kind of for me only and all the courses that were your lifestyle, the evangelism and all the courses and prayer and intercession, I went through and I saw this is for me. Then I prayed, then by the time I was applying, by the grace of God, I got a tuition waiver also. So, like that, I was just applying and I thought that this is from the God and I thank God and now all the things are incorrect by the grace of God. Now I'm doing bachelors of social work also and I'm a student of BTH also. Praise God. I thank God for the counseling. Praise God. That's wonderful, Sid. Thank you for sharing. That's nice, yes. Godly counsel and at the right time when we receive it with all humility and when we apply it in our life, we see God's plan been unfolded in our life and God's blessing also there and he supports us and he guards us and guides us, nurture us to grow in that area. So, let's take a quick break of 10 minutes and be back by 10 o'clock, okay? Thank you. After 10 minutes, we shall be back because we are in different time zone. Just take a 10 minutes break and we can be back after that. Thank you. Good bless.


I think the last time we made an announcement of this importance to our community was probably in 2006 when we made the decision to have a community to call MCC. So Alhamdulillah, we are very, very pleased to announce that we have signed a purchase agreement to acquire 400 acres of land, 400 acres of land. Not very far from here. It is literally 20 minutes from here, 22 minutes from SRVIC, and about 17 minutes from ICL. If you go to Costco, and you pass Costco, you make your first left, and you go about 10 minutes drive, you will see beautiful in the hills rural area, 400 acres of land, 100 acres of which is flat as three parcels, right? The agreement is signed, but we have 30 days to cuff up the money. Okay. It's $9 million. The good news is the seller is giving us a loan of interest-free loan of $5 million. So we have $4 million to raise between now and August 13th. The other good news is that we have already raised the first million. So now we have $3 million to raise in between now and August 13th. So why is this so important to us? Well, first of all, this is really a transformative acquisition, right? Think about this. This is not for us, by the way. This is for the smaller children here and their children. If 20 years from now, my grandchild, inshallah, were to ask me, you know, this property was available, it was $9 million, and you didn't buy it, what is wrong with you guys? That's the way I'm thinking about this. This is really for our kids and their kids. Now what can you do with this property? I can give you a long list. We can have a senior center, we can have a small hospital, we can have a place where we pray Eid, we can have a K through 12 school, right? We can have an event center, we can build houses, and still we would not use up the 100 acres much less the 400 acres is there. We can do all of those things, inshallah, inshallah, I mean. So there are some restrictions for the first seven or eight, nine years, nine years actually. There's little we can do because this is under a certain act that we have to figure out how to change, okay? But today all we want to do is let you know about this one, two, tonight we're going to have a town hall, there's dinner, no charge for everybody here, at 6.30, followed by a town hall at 7.15, I believe it is. We will go through the details. What are we doing? Why are we doing it? When are we doing it? How much is it going to be, how do you raise the money, okay? By now I think the cards and things outside, you can just hit land opportunity, something, let's say land, since you land, you can donate. So effective beginning today, we're asking for donations. Our assumption is the three million dollars, we're going to try to get about a third of it in cash, and two thirds are going to be part of the Hassanah. Okay, we're looking for cars that has the 25K and above, and we're not doing a, we're not doing a, we're not doing a fundraise right now, let's start thinking about it, and please, if you have money to give, this is one of those opportunities where, seriously, this is one of those opportunities, you go home, you talk to your spouse, your wife or your husband, and you say, you know that car we were going to buy next year, let's keep the current car another two or three years. Right, and let's give some money, more than we would normally, that's what this is. And the last time we did this, I'm going to make this the last point I'm making, the last time we did this, we raised $1.8 million in one night for MCC, when we were purchasing MCC, and there were people making calls during that fundraiser to their friends. Hey, we did another 5K, we did another 1K, can you do this, can you do this? So when we ask you for money, we're not just asking you for money, right? We're asking you to go to your friends, to your network, and bring that in, because we only have till August 13th to make this happen, and insha'Allah we'll un-mig-du-wah. I'm going to turn it back to Hafizay, I really apologize for the interruption there.