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And at the center of this movement there's a new wave of plant-based products like the two that we mentioned before. It just reminds me of the story of the Catholic Church making Friday's fish day. Yeah, very similar. It's very much a social control thing. Yeah, and they did that because they wanted to keep the meats for the King's, Queen's, and the higher echelon. Because at that time... There's always a reason. Well, remember at that time it was the Dark Ages in Europe and they were going through a grand solar minimum which we might maybe start to go through too. That's why I knew you'd take us. And so, you know, when things get bad and the animals, you know, we notice animals from the wild starting to come in and wanting the food that we have. Because they're having a hard time finding the food. Because they're having a hard time in nature itself. So the whole thing changes. And this is interesting to me. There's a dozen restaurants in the Boston area that diners can now order a variety of dishes from meatballs to meat and rare burgers. And there's still vegetarian things you can go. These lab-grown meats also refer to as cultured meat or what they call clean meat. Isn't that a neat way of putting it? Oh, yeah. So I can think about it, though. If you truly, for ethical reasons, don't eat meat.  Then why would you want things that look like meat on your plate? Well, that's true too. And why would you want it to look like blood? Yeah, exactly. And why would you want it to taste like meat if you're really against it? There's a lot of things like that, too. Yeah, but diet and identity are really linked. We are what we eat. We've been told, and vegetarians or vegans are not eating meat or meat products can be a public declaration of one's identity, morals and lifestyle. You're identifying yourself.  It's a philosophy and ethics, right? I'm kind. I don't hurt other beings. It also seems like a more left-leaning type of agenda. I've noticed that. I heard John Legend said the other day that most people who are creative have to be liberal. Otherwise, you're not a creative person, which is ridiculous, of course. It's totally ridiculous. But there's a higher-than-thou feeling on the left. I'm so sorry. I see it on both sides. But what I'm saying, yeah, exactly. There's one side, so let's say on the other side, omnivores. Consuming meat can play a central role in social and family traditions. You know, I guess, holidays and summer barbecues. Thanksgiving without turkey would be kind of hard. In these settings, the meat alternatives are allowable, but they're not part of the main fare. Yeah. The other thing, I was listening to David Dabine over the weekend. That's a toe-ferky. Did you have your toe-ferky? Wouldn't that be horrible. So I was listening to David Dabine and they're talking about the grand solar minimum coming. And we don't know when it's coming. We don't know if it's this cycle or maybe the next cycle. Probably more like the next cycle. So we have 11 more years of bad weather, but it's going to get worse, they say. But what they're saying with this is that, and I just lost my train of thought, so... That's okay. Well, you're watching David Dabine. Oh, yeah. Watching David Dabine. And they were talking about the pork. And of course, they have this disease going through there, the swine flu, which is decimated probably about 60 or 70% of their meats. In China? In China. Right. They're growing up in the Scandinavian countries down in Germany also. Does that have a lot of the reasons why President Trump was able to sell rice in China? Yeah. I bet it is. Yeah.  They're stockpiling rice. They grow enough rice themselves, but with changing weather, who knows. But with David Dabine, he was talking about it's so traditional for pork.   So he says this is so essential that that's why they're buying pork from the United States. And that's why a couple of years ago, they bought the largest pork vendor in the United States who the Chinese now own. Wow. So, you know, this is something that is a very big tradition in many, many countries. If you look at South America, they have beef, pork. Everybody loves meat. So now we're trying to get rid of meat in the psyche of the people. That's what I see happening. And I don't know if it's good or bad. I just think that some of these foods are just not that great for you. And, you know, me going more and more towards a carnivore diet, it just makes it seem to me that they're really going the wrong way because my health is better than ever. Well, and regardless, I'm a true omnivore. I eat a lot of different things. But my point is whenever I see people that are in the know or in power trying to tell us what to do, I'm very suspicious about that word with my braces. I'm suspicious. Well, it says here, altering our diets can seem like changing who we are as people. So changing meat is going to affect the way we think about ourselves. It definitely makes us things more complicated. Are vegetarians still vegetarians if they eat in vitru meat?  It really does get silly if you start to think about it, you know? And I just, I always love the one thing you said if you were stuck in the woods, what would you eat? Yeah, well, it's a no-brainer because there's nothing out there to eat but meat and if you can find it now it's going to get tougher and tougher and tougher. But there are people who are very good at identifying plants and I think we need to get back to those things because if the meat is going away, we need to know what kind of vegetables to eat and that are good for us. That's for sure. It's interesting though, today's plant-based meats for the imagination and the dollars of celebrity, stress, and professionals. So we'll be right back. Watch who's telling you what to do. That's for sure. That's why we need primal-edge daily nutrition. 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So the first thing is versatile and delicious flavors. Every taste they plant-based burger, it can be argued that the reason people enjoy the taste of meat is due to the added seasoning, which surprise comes from plants, naturally, of course. And of course, vegan burgers are made completely entirely from plants, so that really makes sense that it would be the flavor. And it's true that some of the flavors do come from plants, but a lot of flavors also come from meat. Yeah, I'm not a big seasoner of my meat. I like salt and pepper. Yeah, salt and pepper is pretty much the thing. But the other seasonings we use a lot in roasts and soups and things like that. And I think our ancestors, when they first started cooking meat, maybe didn't throw it on the fire. Maybe they did throw it on the fire, I don't know. But I'm thinking somewhere along the line, somebody made a pot, put water in it, and that's a good way to extract nutrients from not only meat, but also from plants. So that makes a tincture for us, yeah. Number two, plant-based is better for you. Who says? Yeah. It says, lacks the hormones and carstigens of saturated and saturated fats and trans-fat of the burger. Oh, and here's the attitude. Ew, theory. Yeah, it does say that. Put that out there because that's kind of what they always do. And trans-fats that a burger made from animal protein doesn't, said they are full of fiber and nutrients. You know, we've talked about on the show who says even fiber is necessarily good for us. Well, first of all, hormones and carstigens is not in the meat that I eat, if I can help it. Right. For sure. So that is out right away. Saturated fat, yeah. And I want saturated fat. That's one of the reasons that we eat this stuff. Yeah. For the saturated fat. It's the greatest fat there is. That is the healthier fat, correct?  Well, remember the trans-fats come from vegetable oils. Yeah, they do. Yeah, okay. Yeah. That's a good point for sure. And then it says the plant base are full of fiber, which we don't think is that great for you. Well, not certainly the kind of fiber that comes from the cellulose in a plant. Right. If we can't break it down. Right. Yeah. That's exactly right. And most of it we can't. Some of it's soluble. Cook vegetables. And also it says nutrients.  Some of the burgers, maybe not. It depends where you get it. So, source is going to be huge in this. That's what Dr. Pompa said. It's not the food. It's what we do to the food. Yeah. Like raising the cows in an unclean environment. Right. That's what we've got to think about. Yeah. Yeah. Meat can stick to you in your colon. I disagree. I think the fiber is the more thing. But there's a reason gluten is called gluten, glue. Yeah. And I always ask the question, if it's gluten-free, what's holding it together? Some other kind of glue. Yeah. I mean, it's still the same stuff. I agree. Yeah. It's a small country. Save the earth. Again, the guilt that by being an animal or a carnivore, animal eater or carnivore means that you're less ethical and that you're not caring about the earth. Let's think about it. Let's think about, you know, gardening is completely different than we think than we say the modern farming. And modern farming basically is taking one product and making fields and fields and fields of it. So, the insects can come in there and say, there and say, boy, we got a lot to eat, we better make more babies. It also ruins the crops. All kinds of pests get in, rodents, and things like that. And there's not the rotation. Yeah, and now. And nutrients are extracted, and some of them are overabundant. And that's what they say when it attracts a plant.  Well, the soil's not balanced, and the plant's not gonna be healthy. And then the bugs come in. That's right. The wild has a way of doing it all without the bugs overtaking everything. There's a nice balance there. Since your plant-based burgers, such as the Impossible Burger, use 75% less water, 95% land, and create 87% greenhouse gas emissions. So let's break it down. They use less water? I don't know. I mean, a cow probably drinks a lot of water, but plants use a lot of water, too. I don't see how they can even say this. 95% less land. No, if you're growing these huge fields in Kansas City of corn and of maize, and of, well, maize is corn, but corn and soy, primarily, the two that are here, that's not very healthy for the soil. It's not healthy for the land. And where are the animals now? That those lands are there. All the animals that were in the woods, remember that Indiana was a woodland paradise, and in 20 years, they cut all the trees down. 20 years for farming.  It really is. And here you go again, the gill, gill, gill, number four. Let's go to that one. They create 87% less greenhouse gas emissions. That's just bull. Well, it is bull because if the cows are eating the corn and the soy, they're going to emit a lot of gas. But if they're eating the grass, not so. So let us bull. So if we get back to the way we're supposed to raise animals. Number four. Yeah it was, you can eat cruelty free. And again, as if we're cruel because we're eating the foods that really we were ideally suited to have. So where is the cruelty part? Is it in the slaughter? Or is it in the captivating an animal and keeping them in the cage while you're doing it? I think that's more cruel. Keeping these huge farms of cattle crammed together. And this is where all these diseases, these modern diseases, that's going through the pigs now and sometimes the cows and things because of cramped quarters. What bothers me is that young people read these articles and then you hear of all these young people who are starting to have families. And while we're on the break, I'll show you a picture. Some young girl posts a picture of her little three month old infant and saying this little vegan is really getting strong. So no breast milk. So no, she's saying this little vegan, right? I mean, who knows? The baby looks so sickly. Yeah, well, if she's not raised on milk in the beginning, the mother's milk, vegetarian, so she must be eating the soy. If I can find that picture, it's one of those things I screen shot it, we should show people this. Okay, the last thing in here says, without care in the world about how many animals have their lives cut short by your meal, many of the animals that we use have lived a full life. But also in the wild, they get eaten while they're alive. A lot of people don't really think about that too much. Well, when we slaughter, we slaughter very mainly, it's very painless. That's a good point, I never really thought about it like that, but you're right. It's a huge, huge thing, I think. You know, I told you, my nephew moved to Alabama and bought Leanne, built his own house. And that's for most of their food. Oh, nice. Yeah, and that part. Paradise for sure. Number five, what cancer? PBBs don't increase your chances of developing cancer growth. Processed meat is classed as a group one carcinogenin. That's really unbelievable. Processed meat. So they're actually saying that all the meat must be processed then.   It's such a propaganda tool. Yes, it is. When they say that processed meat is classified, some of it is, yeah, if you're gonna have the normal hot dog or maybe a burger with that slime in it or whatever they're creating out there as a sausage, it may be that. But also, there's many, many traditions that we've done that for years. Yeah, from college. Yeah, exactly, of course. So we'll go on with this one. We'll get back. Okay, let's take a round. 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What kind of deconstructing this article about why you may want to eat plant-based patties instead of real meat? And number six was save money. But you know, I don't agree with that, Niko, because I think that when you don't eat animal foods, you don't get that satiation. So you'll see people have, they eat more frequently. They have bags of little Snick Snags and things to eat. Do you notice that? The other thing, it brings me back the old days when we first moved to Canada and we were out in the country on this ranch. And the rancher saved one cow for himself. He was bartering the other cows or selling him stuff, but he kept for himself. He says, that's the cheapest thing I do. He's out in the pasture just getting my meal ready for the end of the year. And all the work that he did was for his plant-based work. He was slaving over the fields and everything like that. The old cow was doing its work by itself. So I think, and maybe economically today, it might be more expensive because of the way we structure things. But if we start going backwards a little bit, this can be much easier for a family to feed. Imagine if you had a couple acres of land, a couple of animals that are roaming around, or if we were more in the wild and you could hunt, it's a lot less expensive and a lot less intensive as far as labor is concerned. I really believe that. Absolutely. Food derived from plants are the most, inexpensive available. See, I don't see that and you're very vulnerable.  Eating vegan. The other thing is a lot of the vegetables that we have today are chemical cocktails. They've been sprayed and sprayed. We don't have the 160 some types of things in our diet anymore. We have the mustard seed pretty much. Yeah, and here's another one that's scary. The pink slime. The pink slime. Okay, well, we all agree. All of us, even those of us that eat meat would agree, we don't wanna eat pink slime.  Well, I don't know what they actually are. They're some coxswain of all kinds of weird stuff. Well, the thing is, don't go to McDonald's and the other places to get your burgers. If you wanna burger, you make it yourself and get some ground beef from your butcher and you know where that came from. That's the thing for that. Number eight is bye-bye e-cola. Oh, really? Most of the e-cola. Yeah, everything I've ever read. Most of the time, it's easier to inspect the meat. Believe me. Usually, it's the e-cola breakouts are on vegetables. Yes. You know, so. Well, tainted from meats and things like that. That's what they're saying. Yeah, okay. Well, tainted because they're watering the vegetables with cow runoff. There you go. From industrial cow stuff. That wouldn't happen if we raised our animals right. And number nine, rock that body. Due to plant-based burgers being free from saturated and trans-fat, they generally have a lower calorie content per gram when compared to a meat burger. People who choose a plant-based diet tend to have a lower body fat content, less cholesterol. I would disagree with that. If you look at the latest things on the Carnivore diet and Keto diet, people are slimming down.  You know, again, I feel like when we try and skew ourselves to one way of eating, we really, you know, invite a lot of problems, I think. I think that simply realizing that when you do real food and not be tied into these extremes. Yeah, so here number 10 is better quality protein in vegetables, which we know that protein and vegetables are the problem for digestion. Right, and they are not better quality. Now, I believe there are probably some people that have the bacteria who've, maybe their ancestry has been a long time. You're living more in a climate that is closer to the equator. So you have a much more abundance of plants, but a lot of those plants that are down there, like the coconut and things, have the good saturated fat that we want out of animals. And they're just about as good, not quite as good. A lot of those tropical people, islands and so forth in equatorial areas, animal-based food is part of their diet. Big part of their diet, maybe fish or maybe pork. And maybe even grubs and things that we think are kind of icky, but they traditionally do. When we were in Asia, you saw kinds of bugs for sale. Well, those markets in Asia, that's where it's at. When you go see a market in Asia, you haven't seen nothing in the United States like that ever. Because everything is hanging there, nothing is refrigerated, and everything works fine. It's amazing. And there's, I mean, the bugs, I mean... There's flies on it, so it doesn't really make any difference, because people have gotten used, their stomachs are used to it. We had a comment. Thank you for unpacking and dissecting some facts on Frankenfinger. Well, you're welcome. You know, we see this. The whole media is trying to tell everyone that we need to move away from our sacred animal foods, traditional foods, and accept a lot of these fake plant-based foods. Let's eat some real plant-based foods, but these things that they're making and profiting from, there's a reason they want to have the meats for themselves. Yeah, well, maybe. I don't know. I think so. Yeah, that could very well be. I do. There's a one that comes from vegannews.com. The vegan meat may soon become cheaper than the animal-based counterparts, according to the newer report. And the way it is now, it's much more expensive. It's about 20% to 30% more to eat these foods, and I think it's just kind of the tip of the iceberg, because they are going to make it cheaper. There's no doubt about that, because the cost of meat is gonna go up, especially with weather changing and the problems we had in the United States, and other countries are having this too, is that the growing zones are moving. This reminds me of, did you hear about that Democratic presidential candidate at Bloomberg, what he said? Well, I don't know, but I know that nobody's listening to him too much. What he said was, you know, we gotta tax the poor so they don't buy the things that are bad for them and that kill them. Well, he's too short to be a president, whereas I'm concerned, so. Yeah, well. I think the perfect president would be the gay guy.  We go from one extreme to the other extreme, kind of. Buttigieg. Okay. Mm-hmm. But politics is completely, has nothing to do with our lives if we do the right thing. No, but just make me think when I was talking about the foods. Here we are, there's an attempt to steer people to what's healthy. Yeah. You know, he probably has stock in Beyond Meat. Oh, sure they do. So, this is a whole article about that the companies are going to make this more available and cheaper as we go along. So, kind of an incentive to buy this stuff because if we buy it now in three or four years it's gonna be much less expensive and then we're gonna be used to do it and we won't be having that act factor anymore. Mm-hmm. And maybe they'll. Hey, here's someone who made a comment about buying the Beyond Meats and he says he broke down and paid 5.99 local grocery store for a Beyond Meat burger. He goes, yeah, I forgot, profit. And I may add they were the most God-awful things I ate in a very long time. They smelled terrible when cooking, tasted odd and the mouth feels like they were made from plastic. Terrible taste and very expensive. Yeah, I had somebody else say that when you bite into it, it's really hard to bite through it because it is kind of plastic-like.  I mean, it's just interesting to me. Yeah, it says while these limiting factors are still in play and the limiting factors are, of course, they're not growing much of this right now. It started out in the lab. They're using peas or they're using soy. They may be using other things in the future and as they get good at doing this, this is going to bring down the price. On the manufacturing side, vegan brand Rebellious Foods, formerly the Seattle Food Tech, aims to reduce the price of all plant-based meat products with a high capacity production methods, which it uses to make its own vegan chicken nuggets and plans to license other companies to use it too. So, this is our future, I guess. Well, and we'll get back to covering more about meat you may or may not be buying. You know what's cool? Taking something that's good for you. Something specifically formulated to help with weight loss, better sleep, stress reduction, and the need to detox. Neekar, Hunter, and Gatherer ancestors found all their nutritional requirements for health in their wild environment, but today our food sources no longer contain the vitamins, minerals, and nutrients our bodies need to stay healthy and strong. 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That's tfnn.com, then hit Watch Tiger TV for the latest market information. So here we go. Straight out of the propaganda piece, Huffington Post, 70% of supermarket ground beef contains pink slime. You get the feeling that they really don't want anyone eating meat. And sure, most of us know that there's a few following our show, we don't recommend you buy conventional supermarket meat. And one of the ways you can solve that is you can pick out a roast. I haven't grind it up right now. And then just ask the butcher there to grind it for you. That way you know what you're getting. Yeah, so they're really talking about the kind of ground beef that is in the supermarket. It's the kind of ground beef that you get at the fast food places. And all of them have this stuff in it. It is true, it says 70% of ground beef sold in supermarkets contains the ammonia treated sludge. Yep. And I'm not surprised, but we're not advocating eating that kind of meat. We've always said, choose your farmers. Choose your sources wisely. When you get these important foods that are for you and your family's health. And it says the majority of ground beef in America contains these substances. If you wanna have a hamburger, make it yourself with ground beef that you know where it came from. Yeah, and also the idea of calling it meat, there's a big backlash now that you can't name non-meat meat, you know? You can say you call it fake meat. You shouldn't even be kind of allowed to say meat in there if it's made out of vegetables. This is a vegetable burger. What's wrong with that?  Because they're trying to convince the non ones. Right. Well, this is still meat, it's okay. You know, so that's the way I see it. Yeah. So the meaning of meat has to be kind of discussed and I think it's starting to be discussed and probably some people are gonna put patents on things like that and maybe have a consensus that if it's not meat, let's not call it meat because we're not saying the hamburger that you're eating is part vegetable, so let's call it a vegetable burger. We're not doing that, are we? You're trying to get the vegans to eat that? I mean, that just doesn't make any sense to me. But there was another article that I wanted to get to to kind of show you the importance of what we're talking about and that's this article about breast milk. Well, I put this one in here, Niko, because I found it fascinating that really what's going on is, I've always come back to, it's what we eat somewhat, but it's really about a circadian rhythm and there's more to drinking breast milk than in the nutrients in it, the physical, the time stamp. Plus the physical contact with the mother, huge and important thing. You know, when you're skin to skin with somebody, that's as close as you can get. So for a baby, this is so important and I was lucky, I was breastfed for a couple of years and mainly due to the war, my dad had to go on a bike for 26 miles to get his quart of milk every morning so my mother could drink that straight from the cow and then I could have my meal. And I think two years is probably the minimum that our ancestors did. That's what we like to tell people that, between two and a half is ideal for children. So my question to the vegetarians are, will you not allow your baby to have the animal food, which is human milk? I mean, that's the question, I don't know. I think a lot of them would probably argue, oh yeah, but I believe a lot of them may have trouble breastfeeding because they're not getting the nutrition. Oh yeah, yeah, that's a good point. I know that I learned that from Dr. Marshall that when women were having trouble with breast milk, he would recommend nutritional yeast. What's it loaded with B vitamins? Where do you get B vitamins? Meat, you know. So sleeping, eating, and energy levels all show circadian rhythms, which means they follow a daily cycle. As any parent who has been sleep walking through a 3AM feeding nose, infants are not born with the rhythms fully set. Well, the whole point is this breast milk composition changes. I'm not sure they're not born with that. I don't know where they get this. Maybe they're not born. Well, I mean, maybe because modern living, it disrupts it so much, they're not born with it. If the mother is having a circadian clot, her breast milk is gonna contain different nutrients at different times of the day. But wouldn't the nine months inside the mother automatically sync them up? I mean, that's the way I'm thinking. Well, yeah, no, but we're not talking about syncing them up with circadian. We're talking about the nutrients that are delivered or manufactured at different times because of the time. Probably more nutrients that help with creating certain neurotransmitters. And researchers believe this chronic nutrition may help prevent program will help infants emerging circadian biology, the internet, the internal timekeeper that allows babies to distinguish between day and night. So breastfeeding babies probably get onto a good sleep schedule, maybe perhaps better than... Yeah, and I think in the old days, everybody slept in the same room or the slain hunt or whatever it was. And I think that connected everybody together too. They call that, you know, bottled milk might be mistimed milk on an infant's development, but the implications are potentially far-reaching. And I believe it's true. And it says, but scientists know very little about why circadian biology comes online on such different schedules for different infants. Breast milk may help program infant circadian rhythms helping to explain why some parents of newborns enjoy long nights of full sleep while others struggle with that. Right, yeah, and we really know very little about why circadian biology comes on on such different schedules, right? But it really could help infants get on a schedule. And overall, your child's gonna get nutrition that's based on when they need to get it. Yeah, so for most of our human history, breast milk could only be consumed directly from the breast, meaning that milk was always ingested right from where it was produced. At the right temperature. And now with the advent of the breast pumps and refrigeration that's no longer the case. Now according to a survey in 2005, 2007, over 85% of breastfeeding mothers in the US have pumped their milk. So that's a disconnect for sure. Well, I think it's better.  Right, yeah, I can see that. But I did it, you know, because it was important. Yeah, but I think, again, if you hold your baby close, then you get that. And let's think about what disrupts this whole system. School, work, you know, the mother now has to work. So six months, yeah, six months goes by, she goes back to work. In some cases, even three months. And now all of a sudden, who's feeding the baby, says stranger, or if you're lucky, maybe another family member. Or maybe she can take it to work. That's happening today too. So that would be a big boom. But I think that the first couple of years, I mean, yeah, the work, I mean, our ancient ancestors used to slave in the fields if you're talking about agriculture. And the women, you did a lot of that work with the baby right on, you know, in the front or the back or whatever. So, I mean, the work isn't really the problem. It's the problem that we're not paying attention to the child. If you're not feeding the child properly. And I would say if it's not on the breast, or at least pumping, then it's not being fed properly because this is nature's system. There's no better system that we've ever found. I mean, this brings you back to stasis, right? How huge is it, I think? But what this article really drives into though is it talks about the difference in the milk at different times of the day. You know, for example, nighttime milk has higher levels of certain DNA building blocks. And day milk, by contrast, has more activity promoting amino acids. So it depends when you're pumping it. If you're pumping it, then you need to label it. Well, that's what I was gonna get to. So, what we're saying is that whereas earlier, people would pump their milk and just throw it in the container and freeze it, perhaps you would use a timestamp that not for dating or spoilage, but for getting the right nutrients at the right time. And that's something that I think that's new. I really, you know, but now that we know how important circadian rhythm is, really it's our biological plot. Yeah, we'll be right back, folks. In the nation for the S&P 500 for the last 12, six, and three months. Timer digest also ranks me as the number one market timer for gold as well. The fact is, markets can be timed. And I'll teach you the exact set of tools that I use that has transformed me into one of the best at what I do. Sign up for Mastering Probability today by clicking on the newsletter tab on the homepage of TFNN.com and get immediate access to workshops where I take you step by step how to use an extraordinary set of tools as well as provide great market calls to. Sign up today. Hi, folks, Tom O'Brien here. If you'd like to get my daily newsletter of Market Insights, then now is a great time to sign up for a 30-day free trial. 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Tune in to TFNN's Tiger TV on your computer or mobile device and you can always find us streaming on YouTube, TFNN.com, Educating Investors. So we know that a mother's important healthy food for her children and also cows make milk, but this is something else. This is a funny article. Russian dairy farmer gives their cows virtual reality goggles with hopes that they would be happier and make better milk. No kidding folks. Check out that happy cow. You can see him. Look at him there. There's a video and the guy comes out and he also plays music and I've seen different things where the cows are out in the field. Somebody comes with a trumpet or an organ or something like that and starts playing and they come and they really enjoy that. Well, leave it to those health-oriented Russians, quite frankly, they're very healthy people. They don't allow GMOs in their country. They produce their own food and this farm just outside of Moscow is testing the glasses. It says it's in an effort to increase the quality and quantity of the milk produced and they don't know the results of the study but the cow's wearing them and they're checking out to see if a happy cow produces a different quality of milk. Yeah, so they strap these goggles on the cow and the cow thinks it's out in the field. So I don't know if he can smell the grass or all these other senses that are involved in it. It says they're gonna have to do further study but at first test did reveal a decrease in anxiety and an increase in the emotional mood of the herd, the release said. And to be fair, if we were transported to a vast field in the summertime, our anxiety and mood would improve too. My mood would always improve anytime I'm outdoors. Yeah, no doubt about it. Maybe not as much with the goggles on though. Yeah, and it says it's not just the Russian dairy farmers that are going the extra mile to keep their cows happy. Some Wagyu farmers that mood lighting, among other tricks to keep their cows calm and producing the best beef possible. Other times they play music. When the Zuri farmer says he leads to better milk, the cows enjoy it. Also, of course in Japan they're known for massaging the cows. Give me a nice massage once a day and things like that who doesn't feel good. Exactly, and look at that. They even have Live Oak Florida talking about something maybe has cows and maybe not. Just continuing. It's a crazy world, folks. You gotta choose your battles and you gotta figure out what to eat and you know what we're doing. So you gotta find your own way. Hopefully this helps a little bit. Thanks for sticking around. We'll see you next time. Bye-bye.


قال الله العظيم في محكم كتابه الكريم والقولك الحق والاستقل قائلين عوض بالله من الشيطان الرجيم بسم الله الرحمن الرهيم قال نوهن ربي إنهم أسوني والتبعوني من لم يزذه معله وولده إلا خسارة ومكروا مكرا كبارة وقالوا لا تضرنا آلحتكم ولا تضرنا ودا ولا سواءا ولا يغوثا ويوقا ونصرا وقد عضلوا كثيرا ولا تزد الظالمين إلا ظلالا عاملنا بالله صدق الله العليه العظيم صلى عرا محمد وعلا الله سبحانه وتعالى يرسل 124.000 بفتاة إلى الهواتف فقط فقط وذلك هو فتاة قاعدة فهو فتاة قاعدة الله سبحانه وتعالى هو أنه يساعدون المجتمعين أنه يساعدون الهواتف لتأكيد إلى الله سبحانه وتعالى قاعدة نفسها يأتي بمثالات مختلفة ومثالات آنا نظر أن اليوم ومحالك قاعدة للنظام فتاة الله سبحانه وتعالى لدينا في رأسنا لناه جماعة فتاة الله لدينا أحسن نقراء قرآن لدينا إطلاق بيت عريهم سرام لدينا أوروان المعروشة والمداعين of the imams of the holy prophet Muhammad صلى الله عليه وعالى لدينا أعلمين وإمارات من هذه الأمر نأم لنا as we see that في حال توقعّ متّعمة when these prophets of Allah يجب أن يساعدونهم على مجموعة مختلفة ديمانشن. أول ديمانشن أو أول ديمانشن يجب أن يساعدونهم على مجموعة مختلفة ديمانشن was by allowing them to be a reminder for those individuals. إنه القرآن الله سبحانه وتعالى makes reference to the prophets of Allah makes reference to the Awliya of Allah سبحانه وتعالى being known as اهل البيخ the people of remembrance their responsibility is to remind the people in the community about the bounties of god for instance as we mentioned yesterday Allah سبحانه وتعالى sends down the prophets the prophets they tell the people look at the sun and look at the moon and look at the stars these are all the signs of god remember god remember that there's a creator who has demonstrated his authority over all of this by means of these creation أول ديمانشن is when the prophets come forth and they say okay now that you've understood and now that we've reminded you to reflect on the creation of Allah سبحانه وتعالى now you need to go and apply that knowledge that you have now that you know that Allah سبحانه وتعالى is the creator of the heavens and the earth and the sun and the stars and the moons and the ocean now submit toward that god submit toward that lord because that is the difference between إيمان and إسلام the first step the religion of islam means the religion of submission anyone could submit by stating لا إله إلا الله محمد رسول الله but true testimony in terms of belief of Allah سبحانه وتعالى is that which is with the heart and that is what is known as إيمان on one level so ever anyone who stays to shahad the tain is a Muslim but to get to the higher level they need to practice that belief they need to have that knowledge with the heart the narration from أمير المؤمنين النهج البلاغ it states the first step is to have faith in your heart then you need to perform the testimony with the tongue and you need to act upon it you need to pray you need to fast you need to follow suit of the legislation that Allah سبحانه وتعالى has declared for us so on one level is islam another level is إيمان the prophets they come toward their communities and the first step is if they remind them and then the second step is for them to advise them in terms of how to actually practice their faith but that's not sufficient we need to always be pushing the envelope we need to always be doing our best to internalize those acts of worship and allow our hearts and our souls to ascend to an even higher level which is why we come forth and we see that the prophets of Allah سبحانه وتعالى one of their responsibilities is to in the words of أمير المؤمنين to awaken the dead intellects of their communities Allah سبحانه وتعالى as we mentioned last night gives every single member of humanity what is known as the فترة the فترة is the innate nature which allows us to believe in God which allows us to be receptive to Allah سبحانه وتعالى but what happens over time is that community society our family it penetrates that light and it begins to dim that light it begins to darken that light where we're unable to be receptive toward the divine commandments the responsibility of the prophets of Allah سبحانه وتعالى is to wake them up and the way that they do that is they begin to present a world view toward their community how do they do that they begin to force that mind they begin to force that intellect to think a little bit how many of us for instance have been walking up in the middle of the night asking ourselves these questions why did God create me where did I come from where am I going asking these type of questions or the fact that these questions we pose ourselves these same queries it's part of the divine light that Allah سبحانه وتعالى has created us with the important thing is that when these questions are posed toward us we act upon them and then we begin to seek answers but the majority of people when these questions are posed toward them they ignore them and they move on with their lives the prophets of Allah سبحانه وتعالى they plant these questions toward their community and it's the responsibility of the community to go back and recognize that this prophet this God given representative he is the one who has those answers and now I need to come forth and seek from him I need to go and seek through him when these questions are posed why did God create me where do we go who do we ask do I ask my mom do I ask my dad who do I ask these questions do I ask sheikh do I ask my teachers no you need to go toward the creator and ask him oh creator why did you create me oh Allah why did you create me and then become me find the answer within the whole of Quran الله سبحانه وتعالى has created us so that we're obedient to him الله سبحانه وتعالى created us so we can worship him الله سبحانه وتعالى created us to test us to determine who is going to be the most submissive toward him and then الله سبحانه وتعالى sends down 124,000 prophets he sends divine representatives by means of successors to these prophets he sends down the 12 Imam of the أحر البيت عليه الصلاة he sends down his holy book and he's trying to determine who is going to be most submissive toward these creations the creations who God has ordered us to follow but as we know it is the nature of man the nature of humanity to reject these individuals unfortunately except for the few الله سبحانه وتعالى states in the earlier generations nothing changed in the earlier generations only a few people believed and in the latter days the end of times only a few people will believe but those who believe they have allowed their hearts to be receptive to that light where they're able to ascend the heavens and attain closeness to الله سبحانه وتعالى but the first step is to submit the first step is to realize the first step is to recognize that الله سبحانه وتعالى has not sent all of this in vain but there's a purpose behind all of that when we return back to chapter 71 of the whole of quran صورة نوح we see that prophet نوح عليه الصلاة is يقوم بكتبه الله سبحانه وتعالى عن what he has been preaching toward his community and we go and we see that he's at the end of these complaints he's at the end of his patience and he realizes that only الله سبحانه وتعالى is the one to listen to his plea is the one to listen to his dua we continue with our commentary with verse number 21 after prophet نوح عليه الصلاة explains toward his community he's telling الله سبحانه وتعالى I told them about the sun and I told them about the moon and I told them about the trees and the earth and the oceans and all of these blessings and all of these bounties that you have given them but they did not listen to anything that I said in verse number 21 prophet نوح عليه الصلاة he states الله سبحانه وتعالى الله سبحانه وتعالى الله سبحانه وتعالى قال نوح نوه صد ربي إنهم عصوني واتبأوا من لم يزده ماله وولده إلا خساره نوح يقوم بكتبه الله سبحانه وتعالى قال لك he said oh my lord surely they have disobeyed me إنهم قال نوح نوه ربي إنهم عصوني they have disobeyed me الله سبحانه وتعالى as we mentioned sends down these divine representatives who their obedience is a wajjum for us الله سبحانه وتعالى sends prophet محمد صلى الله عليه و عليه وسلم he sends the imams of the Ahlulbayt عليه مصراته وسلام we have to obey them in every single phase in every single phase but most people though they know that these individuals are unique they present doubts in their mind and veils over their hearts so that they end up rejecting these holy personalities they did it during the time of the prophet صلى الله عليه وسلم they did it during the time of نوح they did it during the time of Ibrahim and Musa and Isa they did it during the time of all of the prophets of God most of them they disobeyed the prophets of الله سبحانه وتعالى we see that الله سبحانه وتعالى in the sense dozens of prophets of Bani Israel dozens of prophets to the children of Israel what happens dozens of these prophets they were killed by their communities they were killed by their communities the only things they were doing was preaching the message of God telling them to believe in one God telling them to act morally and ethically with those around what happened they were killed their blood was shed based on their ادفاعات and based on their ادفاعات in terms of trying to bring them closer from darkness out of darkness into light قال نوحنا ربي إنهم عصوني oh my lord surely they have disobeyed me we see that when we want to take an example from this particular line we see that الله سبحانه وتعالى has sent us the imams of the أحد البيت and if the imams of أحد البيت they come forth and they present us a particular concept it is our responsibility to submit toward them entirely holy for instance we come and we see that many people on the day of Ashura the majority of people are on the opposing side of Imam al-Hussain upwards of 30,000 people ready to shed the blood of Imam al-Hussain they knew that he was the grandson of the Prophet ﷺ they know that they know he's said شباب أهل الجنة they know he's the leader of the youth of paradise but why do they want to shed his blood because they don't want responsibility as you mentioned yesterday Imam al-Hussain told them that when you listen to me you have to do this and you have to do that and you have to do this they don't want to listen to that they don't want to have anything to do with the responsibility أمر ابن صعب the commander of the army on the day of Ashura the commander of the army on the day of Ashura is standing in front of Imam al-Hussain and he knows Imam al-Hussain when Imam al-Hussain was a child he knows that حسين is حسين you know that this is the son of Ali in Fatima in fact on the second of Muharram when the caravan of Imam al-Hussain عريصرام it reaches Kairbara and أمر ابن صعب he himself and his contingency of the army also reaches he received that letter from Obaidullah ibn Ziyad he received the letter from Obaidullah ibn Ziyad in Kufa telling him that you must present Imam al-Hussain عريصرام toward me in order that he presents the you know in order that he gives the allegiance to myself and then to Yazid or you bring me his head at this moment if you go ahead and read the books of history you will see that أمر ابن صعب he begins to recite poetry to himself saying i know that if i submit to حسين he will take me to the gardens of paradise but if i kill حسين then i will be able to take the government post of ري present day تهرام this was his gift if he had shed the blood of Imam al-Hussain عريصرام he knows that to get to paradise he has to submit to Imam al-Hussain عريصرام but he doesn't care about tomorrow as he mentioned yesterday he's in it for the now he says i will be able to attain this blessing and that blessing that's more apparent for me than attaining reward tomorrow so i'll go for this i've told them everything i've told them that in this life that i will allow for the heavens to open up and rain will fall down from the sky and wealth will be in their pockets in ways that they couldn't have imagined as he mentioned a couple of nights ago they will be able to have children they will be able to have you know their communities and their civilization grow we'll be able to prosper but they don't want to know what's going to happen tomorrow after they submit the only thing that they're in it is for the now and but they don't want responsibility we have to know when we have to recognize that we potentially are going to have that same opportunity whether to submit toward the Imam of the Ahl al-Bayt or to not we have to go ahead and take a look and have true knowledge of who that personality is the narration from the Holy Prophet صلى الله عليه وعاله والهستيت من ماتا وهو ألم يعرف إمام زمانه ما تميتة جاهلية the one who does not have معرفة the one who does not have this deep knowledge of the Imam of his time he dies the death of those in جاهلية these people they didn't know the Imam of their time they didn't know Nul those on the day of Ashura they didn't know who was Hussain do we know who is the Mahdi do we know who is the Imam of our time do we read about him do we learn about him do we make da'a for him do we pray for him what do we do for him in order that we build that link with the Imam of our time it is said during this time in the dark period of Islamic history after the passing of the Holy Prophet صلى الله عليه وعاله after the day of Ashura people had no idea what to believe in they didn't know where to go they didn't know what was their outlet they didn't know who was the one who was going to take them toward Paris because they certainly don't want to go to the Imam of Ahad El-Bait because siding with the Imam of Ahad El-Bait that he mentioned means responsibility so it is said that one day a man at the end of his life he is of old age he begins and he is reading the books of Hadith maybe and he remembers that narration perhaps he was there one that صلى الله عليه وعاله instead stated that the one who does not know the Imam of his time he dies the death of those in جاهليه so he didn't know where to go but the leader of that time the leader of that particular region was a man مدنيم حجاج بن يوسف التقفي حجاج بن يوسف التقفي is one of the governors of بن أميه who was known to eat the blood of the shea of Ahad El-Bait in every single meal he would kill a shea take the blood mix it in his food and eat it he was this type of cruel disgusting despicable leader حجاج بن يوسف التقفي is responsible for killing tens of thousands of followers of Ahad El-Bait عليه مسلم tens of thousands can you imagine there are so many anecdotes that speak about the crimes of حجاج بن يوسف التقفي it's unbelievable it is said that this man he goes to حجاج بن يوسف التقفي and he says Oh حجاج I know that the prophet you know he appointed Ali ابن أبطالب as a successor but I didn't do the bait at him I didn't give him my allegiance I don't want to deal with that and then I sure I came I left Hussein because I don't want to fight I don't want to go I don't want to die حجاج you are the leader of the time and I want to make sure that I fulfill the responsibility that the prophet stated in this narration the one who does not know the Imam of his time died the death of those in جاهدية it's Oh حجاج you are my Imam you know what حجاج تلزم he says you know what you're not worth it for me I'm not going to give you my hand so that you shake it and give you know give my hand the allegiance so he took out his foot and he says kiss my foot and that's how you're going to give the allegiance to me what do this man do he kisses is the feet of حجاج what I'm trying to say is what that if you don't fall into the line of truthhood you will fall into falsehood if you're inside with مصم بن أقيل on that day when he comes toward كوفا you'll file you'll you'll fall on the side of obeyد الله بالزيادة be careful because truth and falsehood it looks very very similar we have to make sure that every single step that we take is the step of caution precaution make sure that we're directing our hearts toward that which is virtuous that which is morality whenever someone tells you for instance that this is the easy route to paradise there's no easy way to paradise doesn't work like that right you have to go you have to make an effort you have to go through the trials and tribulations of life and that's how you attain success at the end because it's very easy to be of the majority it's very easy to be of the 800,000 people who rejected نوح عليه سلاته و سلاته but only those dozens who followed him they are the ones who are remembered for eternity we go back toward the verse الله سبحانه وتعالى سديس قالنوه هن ربي إنهم أسوني نوه يسكفون لله أسوني يقومون بأنهم لقد تسوبيتني واتبأوا مللم يزيده ماله وولده إلا خصاره and they began to believe those or they began to follow those who are not going to increase in their wealth or in their children their only thing that's going to increase that they follow those individuals is lost in this life and in the next what happened? the community they began to slowly neglect prophet نوه عليه الصلاة والسلام the more the more that he preached the more that they began to leave him the more that he preached the more that they began to throw insults at him as you mentioned a couple of nights ago what happens is this that prophet نوه عليه الصلاة والسلام he preaches this and he preaches that toward the community leaders the heads of the community they begin to gather the tribes the heads of the tribe they begin to gather in the middle of the night in several different days over several months over several years they begin to wonder what exactly are we going to do in order to boycott نوه عليه الصلاة والسلام what happens oftentimes the leaders in the community number one are the wealthy they are the ones who have power and so on and so forth similarly in this particular story of نوه عليه الصلاة والسلام الله سبحانه وتعالى mentions that the people of that community the people in that society who neglected prophet نوه عليه الصلاة والسلام's message they were the wealthy and they were the powerful because they are the ones with influence naturally in community but why did people fail to submit toward نوه عليه الصلاة والسلام and people naturally they incline toward those who are wealthy and those who are powerful humanity we have something perhaps very wrong with us in the way that we are leading our lives and that is that that our definition of success is far different from the success that is presented within the whole of the Quran within the teachings of the prophet صلى الله عليه وسلم what do we mean that if today we went and we took all of us on a bus trip and we began to drive through New York City for instance we're driving through New York City on this night Sunday evening for instance and we're driving through Fifth Avenue you see these beautiful apartments beautiful homes wealthy people going out walking around in big shopping bags naturally if we were to pose a question are these people successful no one would have any problem stating that they're not successful and many of them they may be successful because our success is determined on what on the way that they live on the cars that they drive on the houses that they're living in on mansions and on what type of restaurants that they're eating at and so on and so forth but if we were driving continuously across New York City on this bus and night began to set and it became dark outside and then we saw a couple of homeless people living on the street and we would pose the same question are these people successful again most people they would not hesitate to state no they're not successful they didn't study hard when they were in school they didn't work hard which is why they're living on the street we jumped to conclusions and assuming why those individuals are not successful and why those individuals who are wealthy are very successful when we go toward the Quran or before we get before we go to the Quran let's say we continue this drive we begin to drive toward Long Island and we see an individual living in a massive match he has porches in his driveway he has a massive swimming pool Olympic-sized swimming pool in his backyard he's coming out with his family they're getting into this car they're getting into that car whatever the situation quickly we jump to the conclusion and state this man he's the definition of success we want to be like him when we go toward the Quran we see there was one man who lived in a really really big match this man he was a leader of a large portion of the world probably during that day he had authority people used to call him God they used to worship him is that successful فرعون فرعون لعنة الله عليه فرعون is the biggest villain within the whole of Quran physically materialistically he was very successful he lived it up he lived a good life on the flip side موسى عليه الصلاة in the same story of فرعون he was an adopted child of فرعون neglected forgotten about he was poor later on in his life he had to go to work for a tribe his father in law all of these things people wouldn't say that this guy is very successful furthermore we go ahead and we take a look and we see for instance امام الحسين عليه الصلاة امام الحسين 70 people against 330,000 but if you just remove the names out of it all of a sudden we begin to state that you know those guys who are on the side of 30,000 they're probably a lot more successful than the guy in 70 right because our definition of success is far different from reality success in the islamic context the success in the religious context is closeness toward God when we're going through difficulties in our life we can't say oh this is because of all my sins and so on and so forth no because difficulties in life are part of the nature of the way that الله سبحانه وتعالى has created this world and created this universe that's just the way that things are the more difficulties that one goes through that doesn't mean that you're less successful what matters is how close you are between your heart and Allah سبحانه وتعالى but naturally we see that people are always inclined toward following those who are more wealthy those who are more powerful we love to read gossip we love to read the tabloids we want to know about the lives of all of the celebrities and about all of the athletes because that's what we want to be we mirror ourselves to be like those individuals maybe we're like no we don't really like those people we just want to be entertained no but it's probably something deep down in our heart because of the culture that we live in is inclined toward learning about those people as opposed to individuals who are truly successful we go back toward the verse الله سبحانه وتعالى is complaining to know about the same exact problem oh my lord they have disobeyed me they began to follow those individuals who have the wealth and who have the children but in reality they're not going to benefit from that the only thing that they're going to benefit is in terms of more loss in terms of falling further away from you oh my lord خصار verse number 21 verse number 22 الله سبحانه وتعالى states and they began to plan this great plot what was that plot the people during the time of Noah as we mentioned the leaders of the tribe they began to gather together what exactly was the plot that they began to think about in terms of conspiring against Noah the مفصرين of the Qur'an they don't really speak about that because we don't necessarily have details in the narrations of Ahl al-Bayt but we can perhaps speculate and we see that during the time of Prophet the community of Louth they wanted to repel the Prophet of Allah and they stated that we want to purify our community they wanted to purify their community from the messenger of Allah سبحانه وتعالى during the time of Prophet Salih the community they began to plot and try to kill Salih in the middle of the night while he was sleeping in his bed with his family so that he was unable to defend himself there were plenty of plots to kill the Holy Prophet if you go ahead and read what the prominent individuals in the Arabian Peninsula during the time of the Prophet you would realize that people they tried to kill the Prophet صلى الله عليه وسلم they tried to do so to the imams of Ahl al-Bayt they began to plot they began to plan they began to make their very best efforts to neglect the Prophet even further than he was already neglected they began to push him and marginalize him even further than he was already marginalized rejecting the Prophet of Allah سبحانه وتعالى begins with one heart bailing themselves from that divine light and when in one individual who is popular who is respected in the community calls everyone else to gather together and reject this individual naturally people are going to jump on to the bandwagon and say look if everyone else is doing it then let me do it too on the day of Ashura we go and we see that everyone put off their responsibility after killing Imam al-Hussain عليه صلى الله عليه وسلم and when they returned back toward Khufa people they went toward for instance Omar al-Binsad Omar al-Binsad is the leader of the army yes he's the leader of the army they went toward Omar al-Binsad and they said oh Omar al-Binsad why did you kill Imam al-Hussain because I didn't kill him شمر didn't they went toward شمر they said شمر why did you kill Imam al-Hussain he said Omar al-Binsad I told me too they went back toward Omar al-Binsad they said شمر said then you said told them to do it he said well I was just acting on the instruction about may Allah بن زياد in Khufa right they went toward may Allah بن زياد they saw Ibn زياد why did you kill Imam al-Hussain he said I was just following the instruction of Yazid we want to put off the responsibility everyone wants to jump on the bandwagon when it comes to doing something bad but in reality they're all partners in this crime it said that one day during the سلو علام محمد وعليه بحمد during the خلاطة of أمير المؤمنين عليه الصلاة والسلام there was a incident which took place a crime that took place where an individual had been killed or an individual had been robbed it said that there were 3-4 criminals brought to the court of أمير المؤمنين عليه الصلاة والسلام أمير المؤمنين says which one of you committed the crime? which one of you committed the crime? none of them spoke he said look you were all there were witnesses eye witnesses to state that you guys are the ones who carried out this crime which one of you guys did it? they all said we didn't do it we didn't do anything أمير المؤمنين he got them one by one he said what did you do? he said well I'm just the one who brought the rope another one said I'm the one who brought the knife another one said I'm the one who tied it another one says I'm the one who pulled it out of his pocket well you're all responsible for committing the crime right? but none of them wanted to admit toward it because they said no we just did something small ومكروا مكرا كبارا they began to conspire one by one and in reality it was the entire community who naturally is responsible for committing such a crime by neglecting and marginalizing the prophet of Allah سبحانه و تعالى ومكروا مكرا كبارا وقالوا لا تبرن آلحتكم ولا تبرن ودن ولا سواء ولا يغوفا ويأقا ونصرا they began to plot against the prophet of Allah سبحانه و تعالى and they began to say amongst themselves oh people don't leave behind your gods don't leave behind your gods keep on worshiping these guys keep on worshiping these idols نوح عريسلام is trying to preach tawheed and we're trying to preach polytheism this will be the way to get to the heart of Noah and then these individuals the leaders of the tribe they go and they begin to quote the names of their gods ولا تبرن وودا سواء ولا يغوفا ويأقا ونصرا these are all five names of gods that this community used to worship the question how did a community that was only ten generations between prophet Adam and نوح عريسلام begin to begin such idol worship we come and we see what happened was that these five names that are presented by the leader of the tribe during the time of نوح عريسلام were individuals in the community were highly respected they were the wealthy maybe not they were the wealthy but they were the respected they were the honored they were you know the heads of tribes they were grandfathers of maybe the biggest families in the community and so on so forth everyone used to go to them with their problems and so on and slowly slowly these individuals they began to draw pictures after they passed away and they began to put them in their homes eventually that pictures became idols eventually that reverence that they had that respect that they had to these family members as the time went on and decades and centuries passed by no longer were they just respecting their family by praying for them and so on and so forth but they began to worship their embodiments and their illustrations and their idols right so prophet نوح عريسلام is coming toward these people trying to preach their heed quickly they begin to plot and say that the thing that hurts the prophet's most the thing that hurts the divine representative is most is when you start doing the wrong things in basic acts of worship what lesson can we take from this that yes we are not polytheists we don't worship idols that's true but we need to make sure that we're not worshipping the idols of the heart we need to make sure that we are making our very best effort to cleanse our hearts from any sort of shirk that we have in worship when we're praying how many of us are concentrating on our Salat how many of us are focusing on Allah سبحانه وتعالى in the midst of our prayers very few of us including myself I'm thinking about everything else except for prayers right I'm thinking about everything else except for the time for the actual moment when I'm building this link with Allah سبحانه وتعالى I'm thinking about Ifba thinking about who's calling me who just texted me you know who's praying next to me who is behind me right you're thinking about everything else in fact some people they state that whenever we lose something whenever we lose something in the house you know and we don't know where it is might as well pray توركات prayers not because Allah سبحانه وتعالى going to send you a revelation after but because you're going to remember in the midst of your prayers you remember everything that's not important in the midst of praying Salat right we need to make sure that we make our strongest effort to build that sincerity in terms of worship Allah سبحانه وتعالى in our acts of worship otherwise in reality yes we're not worshiping another Lord we're not worshiping another God but at the same time we have this tendency where we're thinking about everything other than God and that is the same thing at the very least as some variation of Sheikh some variation of the politics so they come and they gather amongst themselves and they begin to make this plot in order perhaps to kill Prophet Nooh or to marginalize Prophet Nooh عليه الصلاة وصلام or so on and so forth but Prophet Nooh he remains committed toward preaching the message صلى الله عليه وسلم الله وسلم verse number 24 chapter 71 of the whole of Quran الله سبحانه وتعالى is calling Nooh عليه الصلاة وعجن وقد أبلو كثيرا ولا تزد الظالمين إلا ظل الله شوالي that this community Prophet Nooh عليه الصلاة وصلام states is only going more entering more into darkness what happens in the middle of this desert right we said that Prophet Nooh عليه الصلاة وصلام is preaching the message in contemporary Khufa Prophet Nooh عليه الصلاة وصلام in the middle of the desert begins to start building this ark he's building an ark in the middle of the desert if you saw a man building an ark in the middle of a desert what would you think this man is crazy yeah it only supported their argument more when Nooh عليه الصلاة وصلام begins to build this ark but for those people who knew the commitment who knew the devotion who knew the sincerity of Nooh عليه الصلاة وصلام they're ready to submit toward those very few that handful of people Prophet Nooh عليه الصلاة وصلام begins to build this ark he's preparing he's advising people come and join me الله سبحانه وتعالى is going to bring down a flood from the sky he's going to bring down a rain from the sky he's going to flood our our region and all of you are going to drown they're saying Oh Nooh we are not even close to the water what are you talking about right so they begin to increase in their animosity toward Nooh and they begin to increase in their mocking and their joking and their marginalization of the messenger of الله سبحانه وتعالى but at the same time Prophet Nooh عليه الصلاة وصلام remains in his commitment and at this time this is the moment now when Allah سبحانه وتعالى probably he begins to tell Nooh or Nooh don't worry about them anymore you have done your responsibility you have preached your message let it go you see my brothers and sisters there comes a time and let me go go back and read this verse of the whole Qur'an وقد أبل كثيرا ولا تزد الظالمين إلا بلالا when someone is constantly transgressing the boundaries of Allah سبحانه وتعالى it is God himself who says you know what there's no more room for this individual let us allow him to enter into complete and utter darkness it comes to that stage sometimes we see for instance فرعون as we mentioned before فرعون this great villain mentioned in the whole of the Qur'an is an individual who tells the people أنا ربكم والآعلى this I am your Lord worship me this is the level that that that فرعون had reached right but Prophet Musa A.S. would pray to Allah says Oh Allah remove فرعون but what happens Allah says I will remove him in my own way what does he do he begins to keep on blessing فرعون he begins to give for own more wealth he begins to give for own more children he begins to give for own more authority more followers he feels so good about himself for own that he forgets completely about Allah's Panahood what happens in our life we go through difficulty our life we go through stints of poverty we go through sickness we go through illness we go through depths in our family every single time that we go through such difficulty such problems we turn back toward Allah أما يجيب المفضر إذا دعه و يكشف الصواو Allah help me remove me from this problem remove me from poverty from sickness and so on and so forth yes but when someone is not receiving any sort of trial in tribulations this is another way that Allah tries them he says you know what I'm not going to give them any problems because somebody will never even forget to return back toward me حديث it says that if you see yourself without any sort of illness or without poverty in your life in a long stretch of your life then beware another حديث it states that if you do not go through 40 days without a trial or without a tribulation if you do not go 40 days without a trial or tribulation then know that something is wrong in your Eman something is wrong in your faith you're not doing something right if everything is going well in your life a حديث from mama الباقر عليه الصلاة و الصلاة الله سبحانه و تعالى he states that Allah سبحانه و تعالى he gives trials and tribulations toward his choiceiest his most beloved believers and his most beloved in the same way that a father chooses to give gifts to his daughter and the words of the Imam عليه الصلاة و الصلاة are very unique how come he doesn't say the same way that a father likes to give gifts to his son because perhaps there's a different type of relationship right between the father and the daughter in the same way that Allah سبحانه و تعالى he loves to give trials and tribulations toward those those whom he loves he knows their limits in the same way that we might know our limits of our children we can't give them too much because then they're going to become disobedient in the same way that Allah سبحانه و تعالى will keep on drowning them with difficulties and problems but you'll know when is their cracking points instead of complaining about our problems and our difficulties we need to ask Allah سبحانه و تعالى to give us patience in the midst of those problems that is the difference between someone who is able to hold back and remain patient and build that link with God by means of those difficulties and those who Allah سبحانه و تعالى doesn't give them any problems the smallest problem in their life they break their nail on that يوم و القيام you never hear the end of it right there's this type of there's this type of group of people on one side of the spectrum and then there is the other side going back toward the verse Allah سبحانه و تعالى he states و قد أضلوا كثيرة they were constantly transgressing the boundaries of God they did not have they did not want to have anything to do with the messenger of God they hated نوح عليه السلام they had this type of animosity 950 years of abusing him generation after generation training their kids to hate the messenger of God right and for that الله سبحانه و تعالى will allow for them to completely live a life in absolute darkness و لا تزدوا بالمينة إلا ظلالى for their oppression toward the prophet of Allah سبحانه و تعالى Allah سبحانه و تعالى increased their darkness increased their misguidance so there's no way to impact we pray to الله سبحانه و تعالى that he constantly allows us to be a recipient of his mercy so that we do not fall into the stage where الله سبحانه و تعالى removes all of his bounties and blessings from us due to our transgression we pray to الله سبحانه و تعالى to forgive our sins we pray to الله سبحانه و تعالى to give us توفق to continue in our commentary in our reflections from the ayat from the verses of the Qur'an والحمد لله رب العالمين وصل الله حما على سيدنا و نبينا محمد و آله الطيبين الطاهرين و رحم الله من قرأ السورة المضاركة


Hi, my name is Nikki Lund and I'm the captain of the Yildon Fire Brigade. So I was voted in as captain of the Yildon Fire Brigade approximately nine years ago. I joined the Yildon Fire Brigade 17 and a half years ago and after being Lieutenant for four years I was voted in as captain. Being captain of the Yildon Fire Brigade is something that I'm very passionate about. I like to show strong leadership and guidance to all of the members throughout the brigade and together with the brigade management team we like to ensure that everyone is well trained and equipped for every emergency. So when my husband and I moved to Yildon approximately 17 years ago we wanted to give back to our community and so we joined the Yildon Fire Brigade. The Yildon Fire Brigade is unique, we're the only brigade that has a CFA fireboat. The Yildon Fire Brigade turns out to all types of emergencies. With the fireboat we have structural fires with houseboats and ski boats. With search and rescues we're the first responders prior to Vic Pol being able to respond. We also assist forest fire management Victoria and especially their repel crew and of course ambulance Victoria. So we help with their transport out to injured and sick people on the lake and on houseboats. So one of the most memorable moments was actually recently when a boat had capsized and eight people were in the water. The brigade responded quickly and our concern was about their welfare and hypothermia. So we were able to get to the people quickly due to Vic Pol placing a flare in the water so that we could locate them. We were then able to take them to shore where ambulance Victoria were able to take care of them and transport them to hospital. So being able to make sure that those people were safe and on the land they were very happy to see us and that remains in my memory and glad that we were able to be there to help them. There are many things that I enjoy about my role. One obviously is the camaraderie within the Yildon Fire Brigade but obviously broader CFA. I also enjoy being able to help the community, being able to educate them, make them more resilient and of course help save lives and property. So my goal has always been and continues to be to ensure that people are growing within the brigade to inspire people to join the brigade and to grow their skills and knowledge so that they can protect the community and for the community to grow within themselves and to become more resilient. So I believe it's important for women to get involved in CFA because they have a lot of life skills that they can bring to CFA. You will learn a lot of skills within CFA that they can also take back to their roles that they play. So I hope to inspire women from what I have accomplished within CFA. So I was the first female lieutenant and captain within the Yildon Fire Brigade and the first female deputy group officer within the Alexandra Group. So I hope that women can see what I have accomplished and that they can also accomplish those things. The advice that I would like to give other women is whatever you would like to put your mind to you can achieve.


So here's another thing that's necessary for success in calculus and later mathematics, which is successfully applying the quadratic formula. And this often shows up in problems like the following. We want to solve the equation 12 minus x squared is equal to 4x. And the first thing to notice here is that this equation has an x squared in it. And so we can apply the quadratic formula in general if I have any equation of the form ax squared plus bx plus c equal to zero. I can write down the quadratic formula and by substituting in the correct values of a, b, and c, I can get the solution. And the thing to remember about formulas and theorems and mathematics is, in many ways, they are like legal contracts. As long as you meet certain obligations, then the result will follow. And in this particular case, the obligation is your equation has to be in the form ax squared plus bx equals c. And this is not. This is in a different form. So our very first step, we have to get our equation into the necessary form. And that means that we have to do a little bit of algebra. So here, all of our terms are on one side of the equation. We have zero on the other, so let's move that 4x over. And we're not quite in the right form. Our quadratic formula requires us to have the equation in the form ax squared plus bx plus c. So I'll move the x squared term towards the beginning. It also requires that all of our terms be added. And well, that just means we have to change our coefficients slightly. Instead of negative x squared, we'll have minus 1x squared. Instead of minus 4, we'll use the rule of integer arithmetic that says that the same as plus a negative. And plus 12, we're good on that. So we've met our part of the obligation, which is we have to have the equation in this form. And the mathematics says it is guaranteed that our solution is going to be given by this formula. We just need to identify what a, b, and c are. So let's identify a. a is the coefficient of x squared, which is negative 1. So we have that. b, that's our coefficient of x. We have that, that's negative 4. And then c is the thing that we're adding that is not an x term, not an x squared term, that's our positive 12. So we have a equal to negative 1, b equal to negative 4, and c equal to 12. And I can substitute those into the quadratic formula to get my solutions. So I have my quadratic formula negative b plus or minus b squared minus 4ac all over 2a. So I'll substitute those in. Here's b is negative 4, twice. a is negative 1, twice. And c just appears in this one location. And at this point, it's a matter of doing the arithmetic. Negative negative 4 is positive 4, negative 4 square to 16, 4 times negative 1 times 12. The whole thing subtracted gives us plus 48. 2 times negative 1 is negative 2. And I'll do the addition there. 64 is something I can take a square root of. So I'll go ahead and do that. And one useful thing to keep in mind here is that this plus or minus part of the quadratic formula says to do both. So our solution, we are going to take 4 plus 8 over negative 2. And we're also going to take 4 minus 8 over negative 2. And so again, we'll do the arithmetic there. 4 plus 8 is 12. 4 minus 8, negative 4. And dividing both by negative 2, we get our solutions x equals negative 6 or x equals 2. And those are our two solutions.