And how the role reversal changes our democracy's name of our show today on Take Two, American Issues Take Two, but it goes beyond that, I'll explain in a minute. So we have our esteemed special guest, Jeff Portnoy, and welcome to the show, Jeff. Thank you. We have my co-host, Tim Apichella, hi, Tim, and Stephanie Stoll Dalton, our regular contributor here on American Issues Take Two. Thank you for joining us. So we started out with the notion that we're going to look at Roe v. Wade the reversal and how it affected this country, socially, economically, and legally, and how it will affect the country going forward. But since we looked at that, there have been more developments. And if you were wondering whether the Supreme Court and the Clarence Thomas was interested in doing more along his very conservative lines, the answer is being revealed. And now we find, even in the last couple of days, we find other cases that they've decided and are taking to decide that are very scary, maybe not as scary as Roe v. Wade, but in some ways more scary. So let's look at the scariness, OK? Tim, how scared are you about not only Roe v. Wade and the reversal, but what else that reveals to us about the intentions of this very special Supreme Court? I am worried. And as of today, I mean, another recent decision with the Supreme Court regarding the limitation of the EPA and other agencies, other federal agencies. And what I'm starting to get a hint at is almost this preordained political path that certain justices are starting to follow. And I don't know if it's they're relying on their conservative Catholic background and that's starting to win the day in their decisions.  You know, we didn't envision that our Supreme Court justices would start using religion as a basis of their decision making and it's starting to look that way. So to answer your question briefly, yes, I'm very worried. But, you know, Jeff, what has happened to embolden them this way? They really seem to be on an increasing care. Am I right? Well, I don't think it should come as any surprise. I mean, what they've done in the last couple of weeks was clearly predictable. A year ago, when these appointments were made, Amy Barrett was just the last guarantee that all of these things were going to happen and will continue to happen. I know some people won't be happy to me. I think the country is too preoccupied with Roe versus Wade. I think it's a very important issue, abortion. But in the scheme of our government and our future, it is not outweighed maybe, but equal to everything else that's going on in our country, whether it's the separation of church and state or the lack thereof, the taking away the powers of administrative agencies, putting elections in the hands of state legislatures, we can go on and on and on. And frankly, those of us who were younger in the Earl Warren days and through the 60s and 70s, just better get used to it because this country is in a 180-degree reversal on political, social, and moral issues. I knew, Stephanie, how concerned are you? Well, I am concerned, but I am also... I have some confidence that this can't hold, as all of our... Unless a bomb hits the court, what is your option? Well, hey, hey, we're down one Catholic, okay? Because that's just... Longy just came on, okay? So we've got more Southern Americans. But the thing is that we're up... This is haulingly offensive and against our principles that are written down and are embedded in all of our documentation that's the foundation for the way we govern. So I'm very concerned and disturbed. And obviously, other people are too, because the vast men by the tens of thousands are running for vasectomies. I mean, there are things that are happening on the ground stuff in response to this, to try and keep their life together in some normal way, as they've had it before. But yeah, hopefully, the hearings are also leaking out and that it looks like we're getting some changes in the numbers that show that people may be thinking about things again. And perhaps the vote will be the trick. Yeah, leaking out is a dispositive term, Tim. You know, there are rumors to the effect that Clarence himself leaked the Samuel Alito draft opinion in order to set up a sequence. And these guys, you know, arguably are playing with the public to try to achieve a certain sequence of issues and cases. And I wanted to ask you, doesn't it seem interesting that you have one case after the other all within a short period of time? It's like you can't tell which case you should be more outraged. Like Jeff said, the outrage is flooding us right now and in a very rapid sequence. Do you think the court thinks about the way they are affecting public opinion and the likes of the Democratic contingent? Well, I think Alito basically stated, you know, the public be damned. I don't care when it came to his Roe v. Wade comments. And I don't think they're in for life. And I don't think they care about polling. I think you refer reference to polling. And it was inconsequential to what the polling numbers were. Well, fine. But you still have a duty to your oath and the mission of the Supreme Court is not to follow your personal religious convictions, but to look at the Constitution as a whole. And I guess humans will be humans. And maybe that's what's taking place. But I do know one thing, bad things come in threes. And we're going to have three really bad decisions. And two more yet, well, one more yet to come. Because the ruling against the EPA's ability to limit greenhouse gases and the impact on federal agencies, that's number two. And so more to come. Well, aside from the general reaction of the country, of right-thinking people in the country, to the bizarre things the Supreme Court has been doing, including the recusal issue of Proclarence Thomas, let's break it down. Let's go around the table with us guys and girls and break it down. Let's talk about the Sullivan law in New York, which was the first of the current trilogy, if you will. What effect does that have on New York? New York has had the Sullivan law for 100 and some odd years. New York does have a problem with guns. Arguably, the Sullivan law has helped in dealing with that. What happens if you take away the Sullivan law? People will carry guns. It's pretty simple. I mean, it's not, you know, none of this is complicated. It's all very, very clear. If you think things are bad now, wait till November. Because the way things look, the Republicans will take over the house easily and very likely they'll take over the Senate. So enjoy the last four months of potential freedom. It's terrible, but it's true. I can't stand it. Cheer up, things can be worse. Yeah, they will be. It's not they can be, they will be. It'll just be, just like having those assassins riding around in the car, remember when we had, what did we call them, the two guys that were in the car just shooting at everybody? What did we call them? They were terrorists.  But, you know, not to get too technical, the decisions are really bad. But when you look at what they've done to precedent and started the sizes, that's what's really scale.  They made up rights that don't exist. It's time to turn the country back to where it should have been before these morons sat on the court. I mean, that's essentially it. So we don't care. We don't care what the court has ruled 40 years ago or 30 years ago, or even three years ago. This is the way we're gonna put things now and now we're gonna make it right. I mean, I know I'm being very crass about it, but that's it, read Alito's opinion.  And they ruled from their personal agenda versus the constitution. So I think if this is a holdover or a hangover, it would be a better term, a hangover from their animosity about the Warren era of the court. Well, you know, the Roe v. Wade reversal was really a cold bath. I mean, both in the leaked opinion and in the final, but it seems to me that the voting issue is going to be far worse in terms of its effect on the country. Tim, you wanna talk about that? State the question in a little different way, so I'm trying to get my arms around it. If they put the right to control voting in the hands of the states, what's the effect on the country? Well, no, not the states, as I told you guys, they've taken a case in which they could rule and it's likely they will or they wouldn't have taken it that voting will be in the control of state legislatures, taking it away from the courts. That's the big deal. If they rule like that. In other words, Jeff, if there's the legislature that finalizes the state- Right, and courts cannot overrule what the legislature does. Yeah, I mean, that- If they rule the way it's predicted because they've taken this case. You know, that is the removal of the check and balance system of government. Well, there isn't any. Well, I thought there was supposed to be. It's time to repack. It's the Democrats. Well, that's the court. Okay, and that's come up. I've seen that brought up on the news and I got to respond to that. And how is that going to happen when you need 60 votes? Because he's going to take down that problem. Well, I'm having this problem with my English. What, the filibuster? How is he going to take down the filibuster? Well, it's going to have to make an exception. We do this carve out is what they're saying. Yeah, well, carve out for- Well, I think you've got to talk to Joe Manchin before the carve out is even suggested. We already know where Joe Manchin is going to go on this. So, of course we do. We're not going to be able to carve it out. We're not going to be able to stop the filibuster and we're not going to be able to change what, make a legislative change to the court. We're sitting, we're, go ahead. I'm sorry, Steph. I'm sorry, I was just going to finish that off with, we do have the two senators, the main and Alaska senators, who might help us with Joe Manchin. But Joe Manchin is coming on stronger too, especially about the filibuster given. Maybe some of the Democratic senators, or frankly, what I meant to say is maybe some of the Republican senators who have now begun to indicate that they were lied to during the judicial nomination hearings will open their eyes to what's been going on in this country since Trump got elected. And it's clear that these applicants, Kavanaugh, et cetera, just blatantly lied during their confirmation hearings. I mean, it comes out in Roe versus Wade, but maybe Lisa Mikowski's learned a lesson. Jeff, I got to jump on that comment because I really think it's like catching the kid with his hand in the cookie jar. Thanks, Susan Collins and Joe Manchin knew fully what was going to happen with their nominee. They weren't lied to, they were complicit. Sorry. Okay, but I want to get a handle on the shape of a country to come. We've had a lot of press, we've had a lot of press on Roe v. Wade in the reversal from the social, from the economic, from the political point of view, the country is profoundly changed and will continue to be profoundly changed in ways that reach every citizen, everybody in the country. We're going to have two countries, Jay. We have two countries, we're going to continue to have two countries, and it's going to depend on where you live. That's the bottom line. We live, two of us, three of us live in Hawaii, and very little of what's happening is going to have impact on us living in Hawaii. Are you suggesting that people are going to move from one place to another? Yes, absolutely. Depending upon their politics, they may move in both directions. I mean, you go west of the Alleghenies and east of the Rockies, you've got a different country than the two coasts. It's absolutely clear in state legislatures in Hawaii, places like that will preserve the right of abortion and will preserve separation of church and state and gun laws to the extent they can without the federal Supreme Court trying to take over. Well, wait, wait, but the Supreme Court may very well outlaw abortion in all states and override state initiatives. Well, we have a state, that'll be an interesting thing for Hawaii where we have a state constitutional privacy protection, which is not in the federal constitution. But anyway, you're right, could get worse. But what about if they win, Republicans win the vote, then that's the first thing that will happen is that filibuster's going away and McConnell and they're gonna get a nationwide ban on abortion. So what will Hawaii do with that law coming out of the Congress? Because the Congress can make something stronger than the Supreme Court. You know what, I'm one of the people, and I'm not an expert, but I think I have an opinion that has some validity. I don't think you can make a federal law banning abortion just like I can understand the argument that you couldn't make a federal law, that you couldn't find abortion as a right in the constitution. I mean, that's a legitimate argument. I don't agree with it. I don't agree with it. I'm with you completely, I agree, but you're not on the Supreme Court just yet. And the Supreme Court is gonna be the one. Well, it's coming, it's coming. It's coming, haven't you heard? Well, I mean, this is the revamping of the 14th Amendment. So all of these civil rights, okay. So it's gonna be how they go about dismantling that Will Thomas and Alito take the lead again and draw on the witch hunters of the 17th century in Britain to help boost their argument or whatever they can do. And I don't know how they can get away with that. At some point, that's got to be disputed. And also at some point, why can't these people, these Supreme Court justices who lied at their hearings, can't we move against them? Is that a Justice Department? Oh, no, let's take that for a moment, dude, it would have to be impeached, wouldn't it? Not at all, impeached, right? Okay, and we have to get that through Congress, don't we? Yes. Just like a presidential election. We haven't been good at impeachments, you know. If two senators could help us there, okay, that have, you know, they besmirched themselves. If the brothers Grimm were still alive, maybe they could write a story about a impeach.  And I wish it was as simple. I mean, if that's true, and I think Jeff's right, we're moving in that direction. I think we're already in a cold civil war. But if that's true, then I wish it would be as simplistic as blue states versus red states, but it's not, I think it's urban centers versus rural America. And that really complicates the division amongst Americans. You know, I don't want to overstate it, but we're very close to pre-civil war.  The country was divided in half on slavery, a single issue. Now the country is divided on multiple issues equal to the division during slavery, but you're right, it's urban versus rural. Well, doesn't that suggest that moving to another state may not solve the problem? That, you know, if it's happening in your city, there are no geographical, no significant geographical divisions, and therefore what happens, violence, don't you think? Yeah, well, I'm looking at Austin and Texas. I mean, they're a bastionum to themselves. They're surrounded. Yeah. They're going to build a moat. That's what they need to do. A moat on his back. Yeah. Well, where is it that they're going to get tired of these prescriptions on their lives? Okay, so the Massachusetts Bay colony was not a real one place to live, okay? So all of this, all of this abortion problem is coming back on them as much as it is on everybody else and the predominance of the church precepts to come down upon all of us. Will that not? So do all of those people on the Republican side really want to live under that? I mean, are they looking for a win or... I've said this before on multiple of these shows, folks, but you got to blame the voters. We're focused on the Supreme Court. It's the voters who have put in the legislators in these 26, 27 states that have passed these anti-abortion bills. It's not the Supreme Court. It's the voters. Well, let me add a point, though, Jeff. But my point is that's why there's two countries. There are voters in more than two-thirds of the country who put people in power that have voted for the lack of separation of church and state, who have voted for no abortion, who have voted to overturn the election, et cetera, et cetera. It's you and me.  Well, Tim is probably going to tell you that a lot of that has to do with Mr. Trump. Well, yes, of course, he was the band leader, but yes, the music continues and it's all off key. Meredith Wilson, Meredith Wilson could rewrite the music, man. I mean, you know, that's what happened. Yeah. I saw that last week in New York, but let me... Hang on, I want to catch a point here. And that is, you know, Joe Biden got kind of clobbered with criticism about his kind of tepid response to the reversal of Roe v. Wade. Well, today he's going exactly to Jeff's point. You better get out there and vote because that's the only real solution to this issue. He goes, I'm just the executive power here. I can't do anything on executive orders. You've got to change it at the ballot this March, I mean, this November. And I don't know if that message is going to translate. He's not the best communicator in the world. And he's certainly not the most inspirational, but that is the solution. Well, that's the solution. Is that going to work, Stephanie? Is he going to get people to vote? Is he going to get people to reverse Roe v. Wade? Well, this goes back to your very first question about how we're feeling about what's coming on. And I, yes, I'm concerned, but I'm also hopeful because he's fading. He's fading fast. I think it's an important question we should discuss. You know, where is this going? If you asked me, you know, a few weeks ago, after that leaked opinion, where the Supreme Court was going, I said, okay, it's very likely that it's going to reverse Roe v. Wade. Okay, what I didn't anticipate is the sequence of the Sullivan law and the EPA case now coming on the voting case. I mean, what we have is a pattern, man. And the pattern, she seems to be getting worse the pattern. So, I mean, is there a possibility that the country will recognize the errors of its ways? Is there a possibility that Clarence Thomas will wake up one morning and say, gee, I've been wrong. And the rest of them, I've been wrong. They'll change their minds or go further into a hole on this. Jeff, do you think there's hope for Mudville? No.  The court is what it is. And they're young. You and I will be buried in long gone before there's a chance that all these things will change. It'll be 20 years from now. Maybe when the Democrats, I don't know if it'll ever happen, can reposition the court and take back a majority so that they can fill the court with new justices. This is the Federalist Society. They've been working on it for 25 years. And let's face it, they have totally succeeded. We have all been beaten, frankly, the Democratic Party, the liberals, all these liberal packs, everybody else, they have been destroyed and they are gonna have to figure out, and I don't know how, in the near future, to change what is now a very conservative court that has been licking itself, hoping that it can overturn everything that's occurred in the last 30 years. That's my view. I know it's pessimistic. Somebody tell me where I'm wrong. No, you're not wrong, but I think we should examine, we should examine the three areas of effect, okay? The first one is socially, Tim. How is the country gonna change if what Jeff expects will happen, social? It might be through demographics. And to his point about certain people will be long buried, that's a demographic issue. You may have Gen X, you may have the millennials and Gen Z bring their social agenda to the voting booth. I don't know, but that's 20 years. Jeff's right, that's a long way down the road. What you've had though as a president, Trump specifically was able to use social wedge issues, specifically white fear and white replacement as a catalyst to get these things in motion. And people aren't voting on platforms and issues and where the party is, they're voting on their fear. And Donald Trump instilled fear like no politician has done since Huey Long and quite good at it. Can't we do something about it? I suppose you can make the argument that socially we're gonna wind up in violence because nobody will agree and it'll affect everyone and we'll all be on different sides. Well, there's 400 million guns out there, it's gonna happen one way or another. Yes, that's probably it. Before that, why can't this president take some strong steps? I'm frankly disappointed in Obama never figured out a way to Trump McConnell on the last Supreme Court justice that they had to take in. So can Biden show us a first step that'll knock down those dominoes that are all lined up? What can he possibly do? Well, okay. To change the rules. Wait, wait, I hear you. What can he possibly do to change the rules of the Senate? Let's start with that. All right, fill it faster. What would LBJ do?  He called him up and he did his duty. He brought them on. LBJ was a caterpillar tractor. Biden is a trowel, a garden trowel. Well, he's gotta change. He's gotta get in there and make, quote, some deals. Well, maybe it goes back to the judge or the candidate you mentioned, Merrick Garland. So Jeff, let me ask you, can't Merrick Garland do something about some of this? I mean, we haven't heard much from him, I think you'll agree. But query, if he were, if you were running the Department of Justice, could you do anything about this? About what? What? What's this though? I hear you, Jay, but what's this? Can't change the court. What's this? You mean, and died Trump? I don't know. I mean, that's the only issue that's out there now and voting and voting. Those are the two Justice Department issues, right? Voting rights and indicting Trump. Right. Okay, but the filibuster is out there for the president to do something about. And I'm sure there's some other things he could do. Let me go back. I gotta talk to you about one thing you mentioned about Merrick Garland. And it's obvious to me what's happened. You know, in corporate America, CEOs tend to pick people, and this is true for a lot of organizations, you tend to choose personalities that are like your own. And in the case of Biden picking Merrick Garland, Milktoast selects Milktoast. And I'm just saying he picks someone who is weak and ineffective. And that's what Merrick Garland is. That's why Merrick Garland was chosen by Obama to be acceptable to the GOP because he wasn't aggressive. Because he was, I hate to say it, Milktoast. Well, who has the power now? Who do we have in place in a position, that executive position, who has the most power? It's Biden. Wait. Come on, is it the president? Let me go to sort of a final round here and ask you, if these decurrence things are happening, and if they come to a conclusion the way, you know, that the conservatives want them to go, what kind of a country are we going to have? So let me ask Jeff first, legally speaking, seems to me that our civil rights are in great jeopardy. We're going to have a country, we're going to have a country, and we do have a country, and we're going to have more of this controlled by white, male, Protestant slash Catholics, who live outside of cities. That's America for the foreseeable future. Hey, wait, wait, what about the law? What about it? The law of civil rights, the law of preventing corruption, the law of, you know, equal fair treatment, all that. That was nice when it existed. I enjoyed it. I say go to the depression in 1929 to 32 in Chicago, that kind of justice. Yeah, well, that's a fair chance.  One more effect now, and I'm zooming back a little. Take all this that's happening, what about our economy? And we have issues about inflation. We have issues about, you know, prices that have increased because of the Putin war in Ukraine. But what about our economy in general? I suppose there's other questions too, but that seems to be right at the front end. So Stephanie, what about our economy if these things happen? Well, the president doesn't control the economy and neither does the Congress. So that's got to be, that's going to play, that's a global issue. There are many, many variables in that. So we're going to come out of it, of course. I mean, the treasury, the 30 year treasury is the best thing the world's got yet. So haven't seen anybody come up with something better. So we'll get out of this. I just think that it's a soft time because we're making inroads on that Trump control. We got the drip out, the leaking out from the January 6th. We got some stuff to do. We need to change these states and the numbers of senators they have too. And that's another part of the Senate that's a problem, is that that's a minority ruling Senate. I mean, 30% of the people of the country are being represented by the people that can make decisions. I know we're running out of time, but before we got on, you guys were talking about Liz Cheney. Yes. Come the middle of November, Liz Cheney will be doing podcasts.  So I mean, what else do you need to know? What the Republican Party is? I mean, so there's- She's got a ton of money. She's got a ton of money in her. She's got- She's way behind already. She's done. She's done. We admire her, but she's turned out. She's done. I could be her if I ran in that state. Well, what about if she ran for president, guys? Well, and what about that? Okay, she's got the name. Which party? The new third party? Which party? She's not a Democrat, or is she- No, she can't be a Democrat. She could go for- The party of Ross Ferro. In a Democrat's vote for her. Okay, okay. Democrats would vote. We're going to go around for less comments now with summarizations. And Stephanie, you go first, and you see if you can deal with the questions that Jeff has raised about your optimism. Well, I'm just asking people to go to work on this, and do it. Take what they can manage to- The power they can wield and make it happen. There are too many people in the history of our country in these executive positions that have had lots of things they did. Let's do it, Biden, and all the rest of you with that kind of power. Most of them have a powerful thing in the world. Thank you so much for us. All right, Jeff, now can you tell us how you really feel? You know, the only possibility is at the ballot box, and the voters and the public have got to make sure that they have the right to vote, and they vote the way that we've been talking about. But I'm telling you the truth, because I think the truth is in the reality. Voters in two thirds of the states are not voting, Jay, the way the four of us would vote in their jurisdictions. But that's the only way. So people are going to have to go to the ballot box, take over state legislatures, keep taking mayor's races, win the governorships, which they're unable to do. The Republicans are dominating all of government at the moment, and maybe Roe versus Wade, which I think really is not the most important issue in the world, but it may be the most galvanizing issue to help things achieve that we want at the ballot box. Reminds me of that website called runforsomething.org and organized by a woman named Litman. But let me ask you, suppose it doesn't work yet, what kind of a country have we got? We got borders with Canada and Mexico, pretty easy to move. I mean, we have... We have... You know, I mean, I'm sorry I being glib about it. I mean, we have a country that we don't want at the moment. Mexico won't let us in. Yeah, we have a big reverse immigration problem. They'll be fighting to keep us out. That's what it goes. You're unthinkable. Okay, closing for you, Tim. Oh my gosh, how do I even begin? You know, I'll go back to your comment about the economy and its effect. I'm worried that the economy and particularly inflation and the shrinking power of the dollar for a lot of Americans would be the spark for a desert dry forest of social grievances. And I worry about those social grievances that are right under the surface. And Donald Trump has really exploited so well. And if he gets back on the podium and to the public microphone, he'll be right back at it again. And I'm worried this time, we'll see some serious eruptions. And to your point, Jay, we'll see some violence in the street. Okay, well, thank you all. Tim Appeteller, my co-host, and my partner, our special guest, Stephanie Stolt-Dolton, our special contributor. And now our show is over and I am going to go and stoke my head. Aloha, you guys.


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he do عليه بكلية he faced knowledge with all of his heart and so what did he do then واخذى يتلمّذ he went and what did he do he started to become the student and to read on the great scholars of his time of حديث from them from those people and these are we're talking about these are the in a very short time not long very short time very short time he went around Egypt and other places and he met now this is after he found the love in his heart my brothers and sisters you have to realize once you find in your heart that you have love and a passion for something a good dream is half the bottle you've already got half of the bottle sorted you just now need to go out of your way and to accomplish it and to go out and find it if you just stay at that point where you just dream and you just think about it and you dwell over it you're not going to get nowhere the حجر didn't do that he realized that this is what he loves he saw the passion and the love for علم الحديث so what did he do you with me he gave it all to it and a very short period of time he went out to the nobu elit scholars of his time and from those scholars وعلى رأسه him the head of them is الحافظ زينو دين أبو الفضل عبد الرحيم ابن الحسين العراقي the author of الفية الفية العراقي زينو دين العراقي who died a year 806 how long did he stay with him two days three days four days five days how long do you think he stayed with him a month or two and come back لا الذي لازمه وعشر سنوات he was with him for 10 years he was in a company of زينو دين العراقي for 10 years إلا أن توفى رحمة الله and he stayed with him until زينو دين العراقي died are you with me فانتفع بملازمه كثيرا and he truly benefited from the companionship and been very close with زينو دين العراقي he really benefited from a lot from the scholars that he took from from the scholars he took from is that's the correct way of saying his name and it is not as many people say فتح القاف place a Sarajuddin Al-Bulkaini who is the teacher of and he's from the people من من أخذ عنهم أيضا it's from the people in which he took from and rather إبلا حجر when he says قال الشيخ و الإسلام he refers he means سراج الدين بالقيني that's who he means when إبلا حجر in فتح الباري says قال الشيخ و الإسلام he's referring to and he means who his teacher صراج الدين البلقيني from the scholars that he took from is who إبن ملقن إبن ملقن which when we studied عمدة الحكام we were bringing his statements because he has a book called إلي علام بفوائد عمدة الحكام صح إبن ملقن صعد صح إلي علام بفوائد عمدة الحكام we were bringing his statements and things that he said so this is from the شيخ of إبن حجر راذق إبن ملقن هذا شرح صح البقاري التوضيح والإضاح في شرح صح البقاري he explains صح البقاري إبن ملقن from his teacher is برهان الدين الأنباسي from his teacher is برهان الدين الأنباسي in which he took knowledge from and he learned from he also took from نور الدين الهيثمي إبن حجر he did not stop he carried on ويأخذوا عنهم and taken from them مسموعاتهم taking from them the narrations and that ها إجازات في عدد من البلدان different cities and towns he went to حرامين مكان مدينة he went to اسكندرية he went to بيت المقدس he went to خليل he went to نابلس he went to بلاد اليمن other than that he traveled إبن حجر to the extent his scholars they passed حتى كثر شيوخ his scholars they became far and رائع كثرة لا توصف a number that cannot be described and no one is able to restrict and narrow down who he had from no one can give you a particular amount of number due to it's a successive number until إبن حجر became what my brothers he became فريد زمانه he became the only man who stood out from the rest of all the people وحامل يوليواء السنة في أوانه and he became the one that was carrying the banner of the سنة of this time and he became the دهبي of his time in the إمام الدهبي of his time he became عدة المحققين he became the backbone of the scholars of تحقيق and he became وخاتمة الحفاظ المبرزيلة فرحمة الله هي رحمة الواسعة وهي was one of the last حفاظ of this أمه some scholars they said there was no one after he was a حافظ may Allah have mercy upon إبن حجر so now we've spoken about the third point we spoke about what we spoke about his the first point which was his name his lineage his nickname and his kunية we also spoke about his birth and where he was born we also spoke we also spoke about his upbringing and he is seeking of knowledge we're now going to speak about his status of knowledge and the way that the scholars praised him اتفقد كلمة العلماء من شيوخ الحافظ بن حجر ومعصريه the scholars all of them it became a tifaq unanimous agreement consents from the teachers of بن حجر and his contemporaries his peers and even those who came after him from the great noble scholars من أيمة الكبار they all agreed على الثنائي على الحافظ to praise him not only that they all agreed to describe him to be a person whose memory is a hundred percent and that his knowledge the same that his knowledge is the same now i want you guys to take this on board and to understand this and the caliber of this and the severity of it how serious it is when you get praised by your students or you get praised by your colleagues and your peers and when you get praised by your teacher are they all the same no no when your students praise you is their ignorance of the knowledge that's out there may make them think that you're there so that doesn't have much weight when your peers praise you they have a it's a bit it's now up now because they're leveled with you they were acknowledged that you're just in front of them that's good but it's even greater is the teachers and the people who taught you if they stick a thing at you and say wow if they hit a hand on another hand and say عجيب this person's an amazing person this is great بن حجر got three groups of people who said this about him all parties have agreed on him his students his peers and his teachers so because the praise that are out there regarding him my brothers i can't i can't because i'll give you how large it is in quantity if you go to the book that i mentioned before which is الجواهر والدرار في ترجمة الشيخ of حافة من حجر if you look at there's a whole chapter he made a whole chapter سقاوي to bring all the scholars that praised him all of the scholars he made a whole chapter there's how many pages it is it starts from page 263 to page 230 300 sorry from 263 to page 335 all of that is what what the scholar said about him so i can't go through all those pages i've watched each scholar said about him so how will i well i'm going to do is i'm going to bring one of his teachers i'm also going to bring one of his peers and i'm also going to be one of his students and i'll leave it there that's that's the three levels of people and all of those three levels of people that i bring are going to be all حفاظ themselves they're حفاظ and this is what has is the reality even سقاوي after bringing from page 263 to page 335 all of that praise he says the following about him he says as for the praises of the scholars on him to restrict an amount to the scholars who praised him is impossible it's undoable and سقاوي then says وهو في مجموعه كلمة اجمع راذا in summary it is a consense amongst them and they all agree this is not something there's any proof and evidence needs to be brought so اجمع but then he went on to say اثبتوا محظرني مذالك الان على حسب الامكان and i'm only going to bring and mention from what page page 263 to page 335 i'm only going to bring that which comes to my mind اجيب so as i said i'm only going to bring those three levels his own شيخ he's and also he's student who's his شيخ that praised him his name is زين الدين العراقي زين الدين العراقي زين الدين العراقي is صحبه الفية he's the author of الفية the thousand lines of حديث he wrote it that students memorize you see إمام العراقي this is what he said about his old students now when this comes from a teacher who he himself when he says this about his student then you know the value and the status or the statement when it really holds this is what he said about him he didn't say oh he's good he's been with us for a little bit and we know him and he knows us and الحمد لله is upon خير that's not the type of praise that he put towards him look what he said about him he said الشيخ العالم he said he's a sheikh and he's a squalah والكامل الفاضل they're complete and the virtuous الإمام المحدث he's an imam and he's a محدث المفيد المجيد بانفشو one الحافظ المتقن again he wrote it he said a حافظ حافظ means what a person who's reached a high caliber of حديث he memorized the number of حديث he knows and the ones he doesn't know the one he knows is more حافظ متقن means what متقن means when a person solidify something like it's become solid in his اضابد الثقة المأمون we're liable person his integrity is up there so this statement of الإمام العراق when it goes on to saying هو موز that obligated narrations from that which is not obligated he has combined between you know and he knows the difference between the reliable narrators and from the weak narrators you see he in a very short time in his life he has reached a position where he treaded on the part of the scholars of حديث this is تسكيع من العالم this is a praise for my scholar and I am حقاً to a student of his that's very powerful and then you have his Pia تقيدي المحمد ابن محمد who's known very well known as المعروف ابن فهد الهاشمي المكي and ابن فهد الهاشمي المكي he placed a veil on the تتكيرة الحفاظ by إمامه الذهبي إمام ذهبي has a تتكيرة الحفاظ he added additional narrators on there in which الإمامه ابن حجر did not say and he said about ابن حجر because ابن حجر is after who and ابن ذهبي right so then this kitab requires the people the حفاظ that came after they need to be added to the تتكيرة الحفاظ right the حفاظ صح so he did it and he added his Pia تويت انسل الإمام العلم الحافظ فريد الوقتي مفخر الزمان بقية الحفاظ عالم الأئمة العالم عمدة المحققين خاتمة الحفاظ المبريزين والقضاق المشهورين he's an Imam he's an علام he's a حافظ he's unique at his time he was unique he was the owner of his time he's the remaining of the حفاظ he's the backbone of the محققين and he was a qazi he was a very well-known qazi he was a judge also he got the same praise from his student which is the third which is برهان الدين البقاعي he's student برهان الدين البقاعي رحمه الله البقاعي رحمه الله he's a sheikh of islam وطراز الانام عالم الأئمة العالم حافظ العسل والاستاذي الدهر سلطان العلماء وملك الفقهة الذي إذا سرك بحر التفسير كان الترجمان he's a sheikh of islam he's a tyraz of pain علام الأئمة العالم he's an علام he's a star of the oswalis he's the half of his time he's the king of the فقهة إذا سلك مسلك إذا سلك بحر التفسير if he trends on the path of تفسير he was a ترجمان he was an interpreter او ركب المتن الحديث يعني فى when on the boat of speaking about علم الى الحديث and it's matter and it's wordings he was the imam Ahmad of his time كان أحمد الزمان he brought out hidden matters very deep detailed matters that even أبو حاتب الابن الحبان did not proceed him in it if he speaks وإن تكلم في الفقه فى speaks about فقه أنه أصول الفقه علم أنه شافعي you know you think this is an imam shafa speaking أو تيما مكلام العرب and if he brings forward the arabic the arabes and they're saying and their poetry and you know the definition of word then you would and the differences of it then you think this is سيبوه المبرد وإن عرض العروضة أو الأدب if he goes to علم العروضة قوافي which is the studies of poetry or arabic literature then you think to yourself this is خليل بحمد الفراهيدي you think this person you're talking about is الخليل بحمد الفراهيدي and whenever the scholars of different fields he speaks about their field you think to yourself he's the one who's هذه هي إخوانية حقاً هل تأتي معي this is not praises which are little that he got عليها بحمد الله ونذلك really what summarizes is the line of poetry that was said about him the poet he said it is impossible for time to bring the likes of him again for verily the time is stingy to give us the likes of him again and also another poet he said عقاً نساء the women are unable to give birth the word عكيم in what does it mean in english the woman who can't give children she's called barrett marred marred نعم عقاً نساء the women have become barrett فيما يردن شبيهه أن يجب أن يفعل أطفال أطفال إبن حجر إن النساء يصبح مثل اطفال عكيمو الفقر أطفال عكيمو يطلقون هذا في ديفارتهم عكيم هل تفعيل؟ هذا يقوم بإرحاء الوضعين التي كانت تتعظيمه من أخيين فالأطفال يكتبون حقيقة من الذي كان هذا هو حقيقة الإبن حجر رحمه الله تعالى و now I've mentioned my brothers, I don't want you to think to yourselves that that is just what we said about him for that is only what? هذا شيء قليل that's very literal I said من ما قيل فيه من الثناء that which has been said about him and that which I have not mentioned وما لم أذكره that which I haven't mentioned كثير جدا is excessive and the reason why we didn't mention it is what? تركته خشية ليطالة you're only running away to go long and but I think the whole the message has reached home and of course if you want to see more into it then of course you can go to the كتاب الجواهر والدورر في ترجمة الشيء الإسلام إبراحجر باية سخاوي we're now going to move on to the last point of إبراحجر his biography the last point which is مصنفته his books the books that he wrote we all spoke about and I didn't mention in the beginning and just now we were speaking about نشاط الحفظ المحجر إمام المحجر's efforts he's knowledge-based نشاطه العلمية he's knowledge-based efforts رحمه الله تعالى especially the year we were speaking about is the year 796 was the year in which الله تعالى placed in his heart the love of Hadith right حيث حبب الله تبارك بالتعالى له علم الحديث and as I said before فتجه إليه بكليته اتجاه قوية he went towards that direction of Hadith with his whole heart ودخلوا في السلم كافة he entered into Islam whole heartedly right he entered into the science of Hadith whole heartedly not one foot in or one foot out he gave everything وقبال عليه إقبالاً كلياً and he faced it with his whole face and his whole body رحمه الله تعالى and my brothers you know what's amazing وعمل هو آل ذاكة and his age at that time was what 23 years of age 23 years of age رحمه الله تعالى from that time from that time إلا قبيل وفاتين just before he's dying he served وهاب النفسه he basically took his life and he gifted it to the sunnah and the working of the sunnah that's what he did he actually gifted his nafs to working for this religion you see how تدريثه by teaching he had classes where he would teach وتصنيفاً and writing and guess what Allah did for him سبحانه وتعالى فبارك الله and he was blessed for his time حتى ألف المؤلفات الكثيرة until he wrote books that were beneficial رحمه الله from those books there are those which are ضخم big books that he wrote which are في مجلدات volumes after volumes and there are those which are ومنها ما يقع في مجلد أو قل من ذلك and it becomes hard with all honesty حصروا جميعها for us to come and to restrict and to give an amount of the books that he has is very hard so schoolers that spoke about his books and that which he wrote like سخاوين's كتاب الضوء الأميئ he says that his book it goes above 150 it's got more than 150 books إنها تزيدو على مئة وخمسين مصنفن it goes above 150 books and one of the things that سخاوين ترميت فيه يتكلم عنه that is that he used to say أحضر يستخدم about himself and this is والله my brothers سخاوين يقول this that he saw it and he would hear it he saw he said he said some of his works his books that he wrote and he authored on his hand he said some of them I stood over them and at the cover of them the cover of them he wrote on it والله this is his humility and his خمبنس واتفروا ذلك and the majority of things that are in this book of mine مما لا يساوي نسخة لغيره it is not even equal to a version of the works that they خيل that's out there and at other times he would say he would say I heard this from him that he would say I am not pleased عن شيء من تصاني فيه I am not pleased with any works of that which I read I'm not pleased with it are you with me? why? he says the reason is because I wrote this in the beginning of my affairs I did this in the beginning of my affairs ثم لم يتهيأ لي من يحررها معي and he said I never got anyone who would sit and who would clarify sit with me and we can get things and change things when you write a book or you write something what you would need sometimes is to bring a second copy and then a third copy طبعة الأولى طبعة الثانية طبعة الثالثة طبعة الرابعة why? as Ibn Qutayba said is that the person and he writes he writes something today and tomorrow he sees that why did he write that and he wants to take it off and sometimes he thinks oh why did I write it in this order and why and why and why does that make sense except he said like it the only books that he was pleased with is his شرح of بخاري ومقدمةه and the introduction that he wrote he's not that he was pleased with it necessarily and that's not what he said but what was said was that he tried his heart and he put his effort in making sure that he he didn't حرير and his كتاب تهديب تهديب تهديب and his كتاب لسان الميزان even his كتاب نخبط الفكرة he praised his كتاب التغليق that he wrote he was happy with it because he didn't حرير of it you see as for the other works of his he said very weak to take as as to take with you take as a provision is very weak he said ضعيفة القوة the strength of it is weak إمام السخابة رحمه الله he kind of mentions that in his other book that his books are more than that his books are more than 270 and his كتاب تهديب تذكرة الحفاظ which we spoke about before which is the day of تذكرة الحفاظ بايمام الحافظ الحجر when he was speaking about the مؤلفات of حافظ الحجر he said the following about it he said he authored the books which are beneficial great and noble that are a proof for his virtue and that shows how distinct and unique he was in his benefits and I'm going to finally conclude by saying to your brothers before I mention his وفات he's dying إذا حافظه من حجر رحمه الله from his works that are out there except the book except the book except that book which is one of the greatest books of his and the most famous of those that would be enough for him that would be enough for him to prove his knowledge that books brothers it has in it you look at benefits you find in that book of his is full of knowledge knowledge that was done with تحقيق he said knowledge that was solidified with sources referenced they back to you go to it you get from it what application are you looking for literature and Arabic here it is rather لم يؤل في الإسلام ولم يؤل في الإسلام it was not authored in Islam شرحون an explanation على مصنفن on a book على مصنفن on a book in the science of hadith like it there isn't see how many restrictions we put there said no book written in Islam explaining a book of hadith في علم الحديث like it rather than when he was requested to explain Sahih Al-Bukhari they came up to him they said to him they came up to him and they said why don't you write why don't you write an explanation of Sahih Al-Bukhari why don't you have your own version and he looked and he said there is no Hijra there is no Hijra after Fatah Al-Bari that is a hadith of the prophet by the way which the prophet said there is no Hijra after the conquest of Mecca so the Fatah that the prophet used was referring to what the conquest of Mecca but he used it as what there is no Hijra after Fatah Al-Bari no we are not going to do Hijra from it there is no reason for us to migrate from half of this explanation so we don't need it so wallahi brothers if this book alone was the only book he wrote then we will say لكافاه فخرا وشرفا this is enough for him to boast and this is enough for him to honor last but not least my brothers توفي الحافظ من حجر أمام الحافظ من حجر he died on the 18th from the great month of at the year 852 800 and and the reason why he died was because of an illness عقب مرضن ألم به في شهر دلقعدة قبله the month before was what the month of a illness that fell on to him that he suffered from or a month that was continuous on him for a month he died from that and his age was 80 years of age he reached 80 years of age he spent those 80 years of his life my brothers and those years of his life on what he spent his a life رحمه الله in judging in authoring and his جنازة his funeral the rulers participated the judges they came the general mass came وقد دفنا بالقاهرة and he was buried in Cairo and he was prayed on وصل لي عليه صلاة الغائب صلاة الغائب was prayed on him اذا مسلم they were praying صلاة الغائب on him رحمه الله رحمه الله ويصطق سبحانك اللهم بحمدك اشهد ان لا اله الا الله استغفرك واتوب اليه


Russian opposition politician Alexei Navalny has been removed from the penal colony where he had been imprisoned since the middle of last year and his current whereabouts are not known, his allies said on December 11.Navalnyaids have been preparing for his expected transfer to its special regime colony, the harshest grade in Russia's prison system. After he was sentenced in August to an additional 19 years in prison, on top of 11.5 years he was already serving Dot Navalny's spokeswoman Kara. Yarmish said staff at the IK-6 facility in Melakobo, 235 km, 145 miles east of Moscow, had told his lawyer waiting outside that the opposition leader was no longer among its inmates. Where they have taken him, they refused to say, she said on social media platform X that his disappearance comes at the start of the campaign period for a presidential election in which Vladimir Putin confirmed on Friday that he would stand for another six-year term. Navalnyade Leonid Volkov posted on X that the timing was 0% coincidence and 100% direct manual political control from the Kremlin. He added, it is no secret to Putin who his main opponent is in these elections. And he wants to make sure that Navalny's voice is not heard. There was no immediate comment from the Kremlin. Putin and his spokesman make a point of never referring to Navalny by name in an attempt to portray him as politically irrelevant. They say he is treated like any other prisoner. The process of transferring prisoners by rail across Russia's vast territory can take weeks, with relatives and family unable to obtain information about their whereabouts and well-being until they reach their destination. In order to prolong his personal power, Putin is crushing the neighboring country, killing people there and now throwing a huge number of prisoners in this war.


I've been feeling really tired lately and now I'm worried I know why. Me and Charlie haven't been using contraception but we've always been really careful. A couple of weeks ago I was going to take the morning after pill and I forgot. I've told Charlie and he's really angry with me. He's been saying for ages that he doesn't want another baby yet. I honestly don't even want another kid. I feel like it would break us to be honest, having another kid. I've asked my little sister Keisha round because I know she'll be happy for me. Alright I have a present for you. You have a present? Yeah.  You're not going to do anything to me.   Why does it sound like that? You can open your eyes now. Yeah, I've just found out today. I'm a bit shocked. I don't know if I should... Are we like, ah! Or are we like, ah! Was it planned? No it wasn't planned. Basically when we went to Brighton which was like last month, Charlie didn't even see like having another baby in like his like five year plan. China. Yeah, yeah. I think you think I'd be telling you first about our time at Charlie. Charlie's shot but I'm hoping like he'll kind of come round to it. I do like feel a bit bad but then again like it takes two people to make a baby do you know what I mean? But you guys they argue so I don't know if this this lead more arguments. I hope it doesn't. Ah mommy. Are you happy? Yeah. I'm just hoping me and Charlie will stay alright.


Alright, here's today's question. My clients take forever to sign up for my program. I go back and forth with them on text or email or I follow up with them over the phone and they're not responding. They either take multiple weeks to sign up or they end up ghosting me. That is today's question for our show and let's get into it here in a second. Welcome to the Build My Sports Biz Show where we talk about how to create, build, and scale your own local sports training business. Let's go. It's time to get started with your host, Ben Neighbors. The show starts right now. Alright, there's multiple pieces to this question that I want to try to pull out here. This trainer is talking about how when he's in a sales conversation with a potential client, they take forever. They aren't signing up immediately and oftentimes they will ghost him or they just won't get back to him at all. This is a tough thing for trainers because when you think you're talking to someone over the phone, in your mind, you're already thinking, well, I hope they sign up. When you go to bed every night with the uncertainty about what they're going to do, then that feeling just remains. It stays the same night after night after night. There's a couple of reasons why that happens. I've been in this situation before early on in my business. I would talk to parents sometimes multiple weeks before they would end up joining my program. Oftentimes I felt like I was chasing clients. What we have to do is make a couple of tweaks here. Here are the tweaks that I would recommend. Whether you're watching this on YouTube or if you are in my paid mastermind group, this is something I would recommend doing. First is you need to have better structure with your sales call. Towards the end of that call, you need to give leadership on what you want them to do next. This is why when I talk to parents, I always say towards the end of the call, here's what we're doing next. I'm leading them towards what the next logical step is. If we get off that phone and I hear the words, well, let me get back to you. Then I'll say, great, I'm going to be free on this day at this time. Can I give you a call on this day at this time? This way, if they do have to get back to me, I am taking charge saying, I will great, I will call you on this scheduled time on this day. This way, I'm not waiting for people to get back to me. I am going after them, meaning I am being proactive with this lead. I am not going to just let people come back to me whenever they want.  I talk about that often on this YouTube channel. You need to be proactive with clients and you need to be the one who's leading, which means if you have a call with them, you are calling them. You're not waiting for them to call you. If you're trying to figure out when to set a time with them, you are scheduling that. But at the end of the call, we need to lead them towards what the next step is. That's the first thing is the structure of your call and what happens even before you talk about your price, before you talk about your commitment. The next is how you actually have your call. I have been encouraging and recommending a lot of coaches to use Zoom to do all sales calls. And the reason, and I've talked about this in other videos, the reason is because when you talk to someone face to face, they take you more serious, they pay way more attention. And when you talk to someone on the phone, you could be dialed in, you could be so focused, but they could be like, uh-huh, yeah, mm-hmm. And they're off in the corner, they're watching ESPN or their kids are fighting each other in the other room. And they're not even listening to you. They're just thinking about something else and their mind is on Pluto, right? So on a Zoom call, it's much more likely that you have more control of the environment, right? And if you have more control of the environment, then now two people are more focused, right? You, the salesperson, and the parent, which is the prospect, ultimately the client, right? So this is why doing it on Zoom, in my opinion, is going to be really good. Plus, if you record that call, you can go back and watch it and study, how am I actually talking to these human beings, right? And you can start to critique yourself and say, man, I need to stop saying that. Or I need to stop clearing my voice when I talk about price. Or I need to stop looking off the screen, I need to look at them, right? So these are little things that you'll be able to pick up when you do a Zoom call. Also, the parent in my mind will build more trust with you when they can see you, right? They can see you before they pay you. I think that's a very powerful thing, which is different than them just talking to you and then paying you. I think them having that eye-to-eye contact with you is a different level of trust that you can't get over the phone, right? So again, got to change the structure of the call. Got to change the delivery of the call. And the last thing that I would say is at the end of the call, it's good to give your prospects a timeline on when they need to decide to enroll, right? And this is not putting a lot of pressure on them. This is just showing them, hey, Ms. Jones, if you guys can sign up by this Friday, this way I know what my schedule looks like next week. It's showing them that you're busy, right? If you give people unlimited time to sign up, then there's no urgency, right? And in this industry, most people are going to sign up. They want to sign up, right? But life gets in the way, so they get distracted. And if they get distracted, well, guess what? Now you don't get paid, and now you can't help that client. So it's good to give urgency and to let them know, hey, we have a timeline. So if you can sign up by this day, great. Or if you can sign up by this date, you get a discount, right? And that is something that absolutely works in sales, but you have to be cool about it. You can't just be like, hey, you have 24 hours to sign up, or I'll never talk to you again, right? And a lot of coaches take this to the extreme, which means they give people too much urgency, right? And I'm going to create another video about that later on. But those are the three things, right? If people are ghosting you, in my opinion, it's because you have not given them steps to take. It's because you are not leading them on the phone. And it's probably because you're not talking them on Zoom either, right? So that's it for today's video. I hope this helps. And a couple things here that I want to talk about before I go. 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Send me a text there. What I do, and I'm committing to do this for the lifetime of this YouTube channel, and I haven't really talked about this, but here's what it is. Every single week I have certain time slots open to take on free calls with coaches. These are 10 to 15 minute calls. They're on Zoom. I practice what I preach. These are not sales calls, though. These are calls that are designed to help you gain more clarity, and they're called clarity calls. So if you send me a text there, I'll send you to a page where you can go through my calendar, pick a time, and chat with me. Again, those are 15 minute calls. I'm not doing like three hour consultations, but that is something that I'm doing. I'll be talking about that a lot more coming up on my videos, but shoot me a text there. That's how you can get in touch with me. I don't use social media. So if you try to message me on Instagram or Facebook or Twitter, I don't do any of that. The only way to really reach me is by joining my newsletter or sending me a text here. That's it for today's video. Hopefully all this helps, and hopefully this video helps you close more leads here in the future. I'll catch you later.