Income tax 2022-2023. Create a tax formula worksheet using Excel part number three. Let's do some wealth preservation with some tax preparation. Here we are in our example form 1040. We're using LASERT tax software to- Objective. Nice software. Populate it. You don't need tax software to follow along. But if you have access to tax software it's a great tool to run scenarios with. You can also get access to the form 1040 related schedules, related forms at the IRS website irs.gov irs.gov. So we've been looking at our standard scenario here single-filer for Mr. Anderson. No dependence. And we've been mirroring what's on the form 1040 over here on our Excel worksheet. You don't need worksheets. Putting together the Excel worksheet so that we can use it to kind of double check the data input that we're putting into the tax system. Get a handle on how the tax forms are populated. Be able to help us visualize what is happening in a formula kind of basis. So now we're going to continue on with this process and note that support accounting instruction by clicking the link below, giving you a free month membership to all of the content on our website, broken out by category, further broken out by course. Each course then organized in a logical, reasonable fashion, making it much more easy to find what you need than can be done on a YouTube page. We also include added resources such as Excel practice problems, PDF files, and more like QuickBooks backup files when applicable. So once again, click the link below for a free month membership to our website and all the content on it. On the actual tax software, oftentimes they have a formula component over here to help us kind of visualize the short compact version of what is happening. But again, it's useful to do in Excel so that you can see how the other numbers, the other forms are feeding into a formula kind of scenario and so that you can kind of double check with any kind of data input stuff. So we're going to go back to the first page of the form 1040 and I'm going to now add a little bit more detail on some of these sub schedules. So we saw before, for example, that this income line up top, I'm not going to be populating directly into the income line because I'm going to have it feed in from other schedules that we're going to be setting up. So that would be similar to the first page of the 1040 being all this stuff up top, all these other kind of income places that we can get paid from that are feeding in from other schedules. Now some of these income line items are already on other schedules as well, such as like taxable income and dividend income might be on like a schedule B if it's below a certain threshold. So again, you've got some redundancies on the tax code, which isn't exactly efficient, you would think, but you can see from the past of how the tax code has been constructed, what has happened with it. They used to have it on all on one page and now it makes more sense to have these other schedules and so they're kind of modifying things as we go. So I'm not going to add like every different line item. I'm going to go to the income page that is on the tax return here. You could do that. You could go in here and just add everything that's on kind of page one, but I'll continue to build on this as we do the data input as we experiment or as we interact with other incomes in our practice problem, we'll construct our Excel sheet a little bit more detailed. So what I will do here is I'm going to make this my header column. I'm going to select these two rows, home tab, font group. Let's make this black and white and then everything else looks good. I'm going to pull this so that will be pulling in to here. Now then we've got the adjustments to income. So let's just add like a basic adjustment over here and then I'll make a sub ledger worksheet so I can pull from that worksheet. So the adjustments to income are going to be down here. So there's the adjustments to income. If I right click and jump to the adjustments using our jump feature here, it won't let me it won't let me do it, but the main one if I go back over here is going to be let's say that we have a ira situation. So I'm just going to add an ira and so now you've got that 6000. So that 6000 is being pulled from schedule one line 26. Okay, so now I can see that by going to the schedule one here and I could say okay line 26. Notice that the schedule one part one is the additional income. So these are other income line items and then down here we've got the adjustments to income and there's the adjustment for the ira. So let's go. Okay, I'm going to go back on over and call this then schedule one adjustments to income or something like that. So I'm going to say let's make another tab. I'm going to pull this to the right. I'm going to double click on the name. I'm going to call it adg to income schedule one and then I'm going to do my formatting of it. I'm going to hold control scroll up a bit so I can zoom in on it. I'm going to go up to the top of the sheet this time. Select the entire thing with a triangle or control a right click and format it format the cells. I'm going to make it first tab number currency bracketed numbers no dollar sign getting rid of the decimals and then okay and so then I'm going to call this adjustments to income. Let's just say that up here adjustments to well actually I don't really even need the header because I have it well let's call it that adjustments to income. So that'll be our header line. I'm going to make that bold let's do that and then we can list our adjustments. We're going to make this a little bit larger and the main adjustment here is going to be the one we see often is an ira deduction. Now you could make it more detailed you can actually put in the actual numbers and whatnot so it ties into the form depends how much detail you want to put on your Excel worksheet. I could add these one by one having each of them but I'm just going to kind of add them as I go and build them as I go instead of reconstructing the whole thing from here it depends on what you want to do. I'm going to call this an ira and this is going to be 6000 for the ira. Now again we have another choice here when we look at that 6000 we could have said do I want if that's the maximum could I reconstruct the maximum or calculate it or do I want to just do the data input of the 6000 so you've got these different choices you can go into here but I'm just going to put that here and I'm going to put the total down here total adjustments to income. I'm going to put that in the outer column equals the sum of the let's do it here let's do the sum of these items. All right and then I'll add more as we go so this is just going to be kind of my starting point and let's make this centered across here maybe I'm going to make it well let's just make it black and white home tab font group I'm going to make it black and white so there is that let's make the whole thing home tab font group I'm going to bold the whole thing and so that looks good I'm going to make this blue because this is going to be a data input format so I'm going to go to the home tab font group bucket drop down if you don't have that blue it's in the more colors standard there's the blue okay you don't need to use that blue you can use whatever you want but that's what I'm going to use and so there we have it and then this total is what's going to be pulled over so this is just the bare bones of it right now so we'll just do in the bare bones so that means that this zero shouldn't be populated directly as a zero it's going to be equal to what's being pulled in from this other schedule which is going to be that 6000 right here and enter so there we have it so like I say we'll get into more of these adjustments as we start to read through this and we'll we'll build up our excel worksheet more or you could add all these line items in there if you wanted to from the start but we'll take we'll just keep constructing it so I'm going to go back to the first tab so there's our adjustment so if I go back on over to the excel worksheet to page one we're now at the adjusted gross income of 94000 94000 94000 thousand then we've got the standard or itemized deductions now the itemized deductions are on schedule a so I could say okay if I had larger income higher income individuals I'd have a schedule a so I'm going to hit the plus button over here pull this to the right and I'm going to double click on the name I'm going to call it a schedule a and then let's hold down control scroll in so I'm zoomed in a bit quite a lot and then I'm going to select the triangle up top right click the whole thing format like we always do and I'm going to say this is going to be currency bracketed dollar sign and get rid of the decimals and then uh let's say okay and then I can go look at my schedule a over here I can jump to it opening up the tabs schedule a now we could add everything on the schedule a we'll get into more detail with each of these categories maybe it'd be useful just to add the different categories and then the main ones right now which are usually the things that push people over are the interest paid and oftentimes the taxes that are paid those are like the big ones that might pull people over from a standard to using an itemized deduction so let's just add the names of all of them now I'm going to say I'm just going to say let's say let's make this like this and I can just say okay this is going to be let's say uh schedule let's call it uh schedule a schedule a and then down here I'm going to say this is the medic medical and dental expenses and then I won't actually add those right now I'll just leave some space and then say this is going to be the taxes uh you paid we'll get into that later and then we've got the in the interest paid this is usually the big one because it includes mortgage interest interest you paid and then we've got the gifts to charity and then we've got the casualty and theft losses and then we've got other itemized deductions and that gives us the total itemized deductions and so that gives us our total and then so that looks good so then if I go back on over I could say all right then making this large we can let's make this a little bit wider and let's take the whole thing I'm going to embold it home tab font group bolding it I'm going to make this header black and whites let's pull it across to here and make this whole thing black and white and then maybe these headers I make black and white as well black and white black and white and then black and white and then black and white and so on to these items and then so let's just put something in like interest right now so for the interest you paid so uh let's say that we have a mortgage interest so let's say say that it's going to be mortgage interest we'll get into more detail on this later I'm going to add a few lines the way to add rows is to put my cursor on column 14 I'm going to select a few a few rows and then right click and insert it'll always insert above so there we have it and then mortgage interest so we might have multiple mortgage I'm going to say uh mortgage number one let's say let's say that's the only one we have I'm going to say this is going to be indent and then let's say this is 15 000 which will be enough to pull me over uh the standard deduction already so 15 000 on the mortgage interest and so there we have that and then I might have multiple items here so I'm going to say this is the total down below let's say this is the total total interest interest you paid which is going to be the sum of these items so I might get a little bit more into detail on on this later but I'm just going to add one item here so I can have this information pull in to the first page and then once we start doing tax returns we'll continue constructing this so this is going to be let's make this blue so I'm going to go up top and say this is going to be let's say this whole thing right here could be bordered and blue because that's where my data input is going to go there's the 15 000 let's go back on over here and mirror that so in my interest here I've got the mortgage interest let's see if I can jump to it uh mortgage interest and so I'm on the interest for the schedule a let's say 15 000 and pull that back on over boom now if I had 15 000 there I would also typically have uh taxes that are going to be applicable and oftentimes I have state taxes here that are being pulled in as well so we'll get into the state taxes too but oftentimes you have to kind of check this and double check it if you're doing itemized deductions because it'll change every time everything else changes because the state chat taxes will be adjusted oftentimes as you as you do other things so I'm just going to say we'll properly have on your taxes property taxes property taxes and then we'll probably possibly have like state uh taxes and you might have multiple state taxes but I'll just put one line on up here and this is where I'm going to get that 9 63 9 63 and let's make this blue and bordered and then I'll put here total taxes you paid outside equals the sum of these items so now we've got these sub categories that are going to be adding up I'm going to put the total down below this is going to be the total itemized deductions which I'll put down here we could have an adjustment possibly happening to them depending on the circumstance but we'll talk about that later this will be the total itemized deduction which I already have a line item here for I don't think it should be a emboldened like that let's make that I'm going to un-embolden it put that in the outer column little column a little column b this is going to be in d 32 equals the sum of everything that's in this column the sub categories and so we've basically constructed it there's the 15 9 63 tying out to the 15 9 63 so we're basically reconstructing the schedule a and kind of that means we can kind of double check the categories in here which can get quite complex because obviously these categories could have phaseouts and whatnot which we'll talk about later and the putting it into excel can help us to double check to some degree some of those calculations so we can make sense of it for ourselves make sure the data input is right and also so we can communicate what is going on to a client so now I'm going to take this one this is going to be equal to notice it's not blue because I'm not going to do the data input here it's going to be pulled from the schedule a that line so boom so now this one is picking the greater of the two the maximum now or the greater of the two now being the itemized deductions if the itemized deductions were less it would be picking the standard deduction as we saw before so if this was like 10 000 it would be picking the standard the standard deduction okay so then that's that's that now this one we'll talk more about later that gets us to our taxable income so now if I pull this back on over and I say okay if that if that happens let's just check out what we've built here 6000 that goes to the 94 000 there's the there's the 94 000 okay and then we've got these the itemized are now 15 963 so that's 15 963 which gets to the taxable income 7 8 37 is that what we have here we've got the 7 8 37 and then on page 2 I'm going to depend on the tax software to calculate the tax 12 7 83 so I'm going to say all right this one is going to be now 12 7 83 that means the average tax if I divide this out is now 16 percent so the average tax not the not the tax being applied because it's a progressive tax system being applied but if I just look at the average it's 16.4 let's add a decimal to this so we can see that home tab number will add a decimal 16.4 so that's good and then and then down below we're going to have a couple other things that we can basically break out possibly for the other credits the non-refundable credits the other taxes like self-employment taxes and then total taxes and then we'll take a look at the payments which I'll make another schedule for and the refundable portion of the credits so let's take we'll take a look at that in a future presentation rounding them out making other schedules but just the bare bones of the schedules as we did up top so that then when we encounter different items within these sub schedules we will add to the sub schedules as we concentrate and looking on on each of these items basically trying to go through the income tax equation line by line income adjustments to income itemized deduction stint and so on although because these are interrelated items we can't do that perfectly but that's the that's the general strategy that we will try to take here


بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم رب الشرح لي صدري ويسر لي أمر وحل العقدة من لساني يفقه قولي بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم الحمد لله رب العالمين وصل الله على السيدنا وحبيب قلوبنا وشفيع نفوسنا أبل قاسم محمد على البيته الطيبين الطاهرين المعصومين لا سيما بقية الله روحي وأرواح العالمين لتراب مقدمه الفداق أما بعد رسبكتد سكولرز ألدز بردزا سيستز السلام عليكم ورحمة الله وبركاته إن شاء الله as we commemorate the tragic tragic incident of the desecration of the shrines of our beloved imams that are located in the sacred lands of the بقية tonight we want to send our heartfelt condolences first and foremost to our Imam Imam صاحب الأصل والسمان as such a tragic tragic event إن شاء الله tonight we want to look into particular aspects relating إن شاء الله to the desecration of these holy shrines what may have led people to do so and why is it important to look into and defend the aspects which are upholding and elevating the shrines of the أهل البيت and the pious people إن شاء الله tonight we want to look at this topic and try to give this topic its essence in five particular stages first and foremost we want to look at the importance of such events secondly we want to take the Islamic perspective on two particular aspects number one is the time, the importance of time and إن شاء الله the importance of a place so that's three four we want to look at the توحيد of الله سبحانه وتعالى and how is it we can relate توحيد with elevating and upholding such shrines such places of worship and on the reverse angle how is it that it's kufr to go against such شعر now that's number five and finally إن شاء الله number five we want to look at a particular verse in the Holy Quran in which الله سبحانه وتعالى says in houses that Allah has instructed that they be elevated and his name remembered and that's from chapter 24 of the Holy Quran sign or ayah number 36 في بيوت إن أذن الله إن ترفع ويذكر فيه اسمه in houses Allah سبحانه وتعالى روط and prescribe that they are elevated and in it his name is remembered إن شاء الله we want to look at these particular aspects إن شاء الله please help me in starting tonight's topic and sending the reward of the salawat to our Imam صاحب العصر والزمان with three of your loudest salawat على محمد وآلي محمد الله مصلي على as we see within every single religion that may come forth from the time of Adam عليه أضل صلاة والسلام up until the final messenger up until nowadays there is an importance and a significance that we can see that every single religion that has come has in either the time frame or the places of worship as an example when we look at Judaism or if we look at Christianity there is a particular aspect and a significance towards their structures such as the churches such as the synagogues as in their certain ways in which you may enter certain days in which you may enter these premises certain ways you should conduct yourself in particular premises because why because this is a place of worship this is a place where Allah is remembered this is a place where it is sacred and is a sanctuary from the outside world now that's first and foremost we know that there is a significance and we know that everyone strives for that perfection that level of perfection and that's why we pride ourselves in being the followers and the people that hold on to the rope of Allah better than anyone else because as the final messenger came to complete the religion of Allah because we know the religion of Allah isn't any particular religion all the religions come down to one particular aspect which is الإسلام submission to Allah سبحانه وتعالى now with that all done and finalized we want to look at all these aspects we know that each and every one of them has a significance in time frames and particular aspects of structures and their locations now let's look at Islam look at what إسلام says in two aspects before we go on to look at first and foremost is a time frame in the Quran there's a significance given to time as we can see in the Quran it's mentioned that it's number one that means it's a time frame ليل means night particular aspect why is it when Allah puts a significance He puts a significance on the date in which your دع is accepted He puts a significance this night this holy night that has just passed in the holy month of Ramadan is worth that of a thousand months one night worth a thousand months is yes significant or isn't it significant it's significant therefore that's one another aspect even in Salat we may overlook it why is it that Allah puts an emphasis on particular time frames صبوح there's a particular time frame it becomes مستحب and then becomes قضاء doesn't it after a particular time frame time frames Allah says in a daily perspective not only in significant aspects دع توسول is a particular date on Tuesdays when you look at دع a particular night on Thursday دع you can read it every single day not a problem but the reward is there when in a particular time frame صلاة الليل can you pray it in the morning why everything has its secrets everything has its rewards الله سبحانه وتعالى put it for us and it's not it's not like we can't explain it there's explanations for it if you want to look into depth of why Allah سبحانه وتعالى has put and installed such attribute and such circles that we have to learn these particular aspects so first and foremost we find that there is a significance in time how can we apply it to the place مام حسين عليه أفضل صلاة والسلام because we know our imams their knowledge is divine is from Allah سبحانه وتعالى now when imam حسين عليه أفضل صلاة والسلام on the ninth of محرم the ninth of محرم we know he was martyred on the tenth isn't it on the ninth of محرم the enemy tries to attack imam حسين imam حسين sends أبا فطل عباس and عليه أكبر towards the opposition army why he says give us سواد هذه الليلة why because imam حسين knew there's a significance on dying on the tenth of محرم not dying on the ninth even we move on to the to the place imam حسين knew people came towards imam حسين عليه أفضل صلاة والسلام and they said what they said after you want to move from Mecca go towards Yemen that was the first suggestion for imam حسين go towards Yemen don't go towards Kufa he says why he says in an instant that's imam علي إبنه علي إبنه بطالب عليه أفضل صلاة والسلام was a judge there once upon a time so he has followers in Yemen he says no I'm not going to Yemen he says how about you go towards Egypt مصر why don't you go towards Egypt as in معالك الأشتر was supposed to go and govern there محمد أبا بكر used to go and govern there he has followers of علي إبنه بطالب he says I'm not going towards Egypt other places were given to imam حسين he says no I have a mission I know where I have to go there's a significance of the place he gets towards كربلا when he's stopped he asks one of his companions what does he say he says what is this land to show you there's a significance of the place and we want to relate it towards أعمة البقية and the significance of their place he says what's this land called he says he says is there another name for this land he says is there another name الغاضريات is there another name he says yes oh imam it's called he says this is the land this is the land that's promised this is the land that's important give us a significance إمام حسين عليه أفضل الصلاة والسلام that's land till tonight till this very instance to this very second if you have or if you pray on the طراب from that particular land significance of that land if you pray on it this particular aspect of when you pray this particular levels that you have to reach in order for your prayer to be accepted if you prostrate on that particular طرب of إمام حسين you have your knee and your salad's accepted a blind man comes towards إمام حسين's shrine to show you the significance of this particular haven on earth he comes towards it and he takes a bit of the sand and he smells it he says this is where إمام حسين's buried the person looks at him he says how do you know you're blind how do you know this is where إمام حسين's buried he says I've been working with fragrance my whole life he says I know after 20 years of working with fragrances this fragrance is not from this earth this fragrance is from the heavens صلى الله عليه وسلم therefore we find just in the instance just in the ideology and the story of إمام حسين عليه أفضل صلاة وسلام that there is a significance in particular places there is number one the significance in time I'm trying to cut it's really short inshallah within the timeframe that I have tonight but it's a very very elaborate topic if we want to go into depth but I'm trying to go over particular aspects in it to join it up and wanting to relate it towards إمام حسين and the importance of upholding such structures so there is a significance in time number one number two there is a significance in a place now someone may come forth and say well and we have been attacked saying well because you uphold such places because you uphold such shrines you are كفار I've been told tonight isn't it why it was desecrated because they say why because you go towards Allah through them you go and post straight to Allah through them you go and hold on to them and ask for Allah therefore you are doing كفر and therefore we will desecrate it I've been told tonight people still believe that ideology now I want to take this and I want to analyze it and I want to defend it and I want to look into the aspect of توهيد and I need everyone's وضع and it's very finest tonight look at this aspect الله سبحانه وتعالى has given us praying fasting reading Quran Haj عمر المعروف نهي عن المنكر إلى آخر yes we have all these aspects that Allah سبحانه وتعالى says you have to do now I want to ask you when you pray is the prayer الله سبحانه وتعالى or is the prayer a means towards Allah وسيلة إلى الله is that a question is praying الله or is praying a means to Allah when you pray you want to gain closeness towards Allah when you recite Quran you want to gain closeness towards Allah because he said you have to do this Allah says you have to pray therefore we pray Allah says you read Quran therefore we read Quran Allah says therefore we fast a month of Ramadan now the question here is what if all these are means towards Allah واصطة to Allah سبحانه وتعالى where is it that we can say when Allah in the Quran says hold on to my rope what's the rope of Allah I ask you is it the Salah is it the Siam is it the worship or when you look at the حادث Allah in the Quran says hold on to my rope that's rope that Allah says hold on to is محمد وآل محمد now if in one hand all these are means towards Allah how can you say that the rope of Allah which is the most important which without this rope no other worship is accepted isn't that an important means towards Allah when Allah says hold on to them remember them learn from them follow in their footsteps because they follow my message the best some people come forth and say well it's شرق I want you to go tell those people if you want to hold on to someone to go towards Allah I want to ask those people if they don't believe in such a thing as means towards Allah and there's a massive problem with this these people go and ask them when you're sick don't go towards the doctor and they say why tell them if you believe that Allah SWT is the cure don't go towards the doctor just pray to Allah and he will cure you don't go towards the doctor why is he going towards the doctor if you believe that Allah SWT hasn't given you a means that you should only go towards Allah by seeking Allah by making dua'at to Allah Allah has given us a brain and He has given us His means on earth if you want to get a cure for your disease Allah has given you a doctor to go towards to get cured who nowadays that's sitting here just says well I'm sick I'm not going towards the doctors his critical sickness he doesn't go towards the doctors everyone will go towards the doctors why because Allah SWT has made it that way that there are people that have this particular expertise these people that have this particular expertise the people of the house have all the expertise that's why we hold on to them that's why we remember them but the main aspect is not towards what towards the madhab it's in order to desecrate their shrines so we may not remember them so we may not go towards them and remember them instilling what the remembrance of Allah SWT it's all a chain it's all a chain it's a domino effect and they think if you destroy one you won't get towards Allah SWT they'll think if you desecrate their shrines their names will not be remembered but 1400 years ago that's what they thought and in 1221 when they first desecrated the baqiah after the AD they thought that was the case and again in 1925 when they desecrated it once again and they think what they will remove the remembrance of Allah's messages on earth of Allah SWT mirror images of his attribute personification of his message on earth they think they will desecrate it with them but how many people do we know from the start of time from Imam Hussein when they've tried to attack us and they've tried to kill us and bomb us and not allow us to go towards the iziara unless they cut off a limb back then did it stop look at this nowadays in the Guinness world records the biggest gathering in such a small space not one, two, three years running that's the message and the power of Allah SWT is above their hands the hand of God is above theirs they plan and Allah is the greatest of planners that's the aspect of Tawheed now we have people that think that they don't need Ahl al-Bayt when we talked about in Ramadhan a few weeks ago when we looked at the perfection of the acts of the Prophet of Islam what did we say we say even in his movements this perfection how he says when he talks about he says doesn't he and he points with two of his fingers that are not the same size one has extra one's missing something they're not the same size therefore we know that the Prophet when he says me and the person that sponsors and often are like these two in heaven there's obviously ranks the Prophet's not in the same position as that person because of not the same size of those fingers or the positions of those fingers but when the Prophet عليه وسلم وما ينطق عن الهوة he does not talk of his own accord he takes the two exact same fingers in the same positions in his hands and he says hold on to two and if you hold on to these two you will never go astray and he points with these two fingers the exact same and installing what that the two things that he's about to mention are mirror reflections of each other one is not greater than the other nor is one less than the other they're in equivalence and he says كتاب الله وعطرتي أهلبيتي صلى الله عليه وسلم he says the same too because if you don't hold on to them and their teachings and following their footsteps you'll have people like nowadays less than 10 years ago he passed away and he says every single person that doesn't believe that the earth is flat is a kafar we have nowadays till now people that say that if you don't believe that the earth's flat you're a kafar that's what happens when you don't believe in these two when you don't hold them side by side that's what happens when the Quran states about the earth and it uses the word the ha-ha what does it mean two movements number one if it's of all and it rotates within itself and it rotates in a movement or in an orbit one word one word of the Holy Quran the ha-ha one word it explains the entire circulation of the earth around the sun one word and that person thinks that he can do without the knowledge of Ahlulbayt and says the earth's flat that's the perfection of Ahlulbayt the perfection of their word the perfection of the word of Allah سبحانه وتعالى but less do they know that the people that can translate the Quran and the depth of the Quran the best and the only people that can are Muhammad and Ahlul Muhammad only people and that's why the people had knowledge of this that's why they desecrated their shrines that's why they tried to remove that which is Allah سبحانه وتعالى place of worship on earth when Allah سبحانه وتعالى says to Iblis because people nowadays they say no do not worship in such places do not worship Allah do not remember God in such places where people are buried do not remember it people nowadays they say that's why they desecrated their shrines I want to ask a question Allah سبحانه وتعالى there's a certain aspect between Tawheed and Kufr very fine line he says to the angels now think it with me he says to the angels in the Quran bow down to who who did he say bow down to Adam now nowadays if someone bows down in submission to someone is that Kufr or isn't it it's Kufr if you bow down to someone except for Allah سبحانه وتعالى but when Allah says bow down to that person it becomes Tawheed or not it becomes Tawheed Allah says to the angels bow to Adam and then everyone bows except Iblis Iblis what does he say I want to bow down to him I want to bow down to you oh Allah nowadays we have people don't worship Allah in these circles don't worship Allah where someone is buried worship Allah straight away don't hold on to the means towards Allah Iblis said that after 6000 years of worship Iblis said that was the first to say that it was taken down he says I want to worship Allah straight away the khawar says don't hold on to Ali Iblis just hold on to Allah you'll be fine Allah is telling you hold on like that person that was about to drown he fell off a boat as the analogy goes one ship comes past he says no Allah will save me another ship comes past says Allah will save me third ship come past Allah will save me they go out drowns he comes on the day of judgment says Allah I told you to save me I believed in you Allah says I've sent you three boats what else do you want that's what we have nowadays rather than systems Allah's given us so many signs so many signs to hold on to people don't understand the aspect which is the wasila to Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala as in you have to know who Allah is you have to know how Allah operates you have to know the attribute of Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala and when you know that you'll begin to understand when Allah says hold on to my rope the importance of that rope being the Ahlul Bayt being the people of the book وسألوا أهلا ذكر who is the ذكر ذكر is in the Quran is mentioned as who as the prophet of Islam the family of the prophet is Ahlul ذكر then who do we have to go and ask who do we have to go and learn from when Abadar is asked he's asking the prophet he says oh prophet of Islam he says how can we attain a greater rank amongst the companions I want to elevate ourselves don't we all want to elevate ourselves I want to become higher in the eyes of Allah the prophet says go outside and you'll see how you can elevate yourself he goes he says walking he sees سلمان الفارسي or سلمان المحمد walking after him he looks at سلمان السلام عليكم what's happening he says you're walking awkwardly علي ابنى ابطالب just passed he says yes he says what are you doing walking like that he says look on the floor look at the footprints of علي ابنى ابطالب he says I want to live my life in such a manner that wherever علي ابنى ابطالب puts his right foot I put my right foot wherever he puts his left foot I put my left foot that is the aspect in which the prophet says to Abadar to elevate yourself you have to do as سلمان that's what we have to take into our lives إن شاء الله I end by stating the verse in question verse from chapter 24 آي نمبه 36 in which Allah says in houses that Allah has instructed to be elevated and his name be remembered in there we look at particular narrations not from our books not from our books there's so many in our books let's look at the other schools of thought what did they say about this particular verse and who it is in reference to who is it in reference to one of the people is known as in his book he narrates in chapter 7 page 107 and it's being recorded you can go and look it up and look at that particular aspect in which this verse is looked into and translated that's one person of the many that you can look into his book and he says when the prophet is instructing this verse and he says the verse one man stands up that man says what he says who are these houses oh prophet of Islam بيوتن أذن الله and to be elevated to be erected so his name may be remembered he says who are these houses for the prophet replies by saying what he says these are the houses of the people of الله سبحانه وتعالى in which he says the prophets and the Awliya now look at this reference not from our books he says then Abu Bakr stands up the first Khalifa he looks at the prophet and then he points at a house which was the house of Ali and Fatima and he says oh prophet of Allah is that house one of them first aspect why didn't he say is my house one of them why didn't he say any other companions house one of them why did he point at the house of Ali and Fatima and say is that house one of them that's one aspect in which it's food for thought I'll let you think about it that one now the aspect is what the reply of the prophet he says yes not only is it one of those houses he says بالأفضلها صلى الله عليه وسلم شاء الله my time has come to a close but I want to in sha Allah just wrap up everything for tonight and I want to leave you for the wise words in sha Allah of the sheikh the aspect that we want to learn from tonight the main aspect is why was this Baqiyah and why were the shrines of the Baqiyah desecrated and we know now that they believe that this was cover they believe that in order to desecrate these shrines they think that they will lose the remembrance of the people buried in there little do they know that one of the people that were buried is the person that was the teacher of all four of their schools of thought little do they know that's one of the people that are buried in there is the person that the prophet of Islam says he is one of the youth of the guardians of the youth of paradise and and and we don't have time to go and mention each and everyone but each and everyone has a prominent position and a pulpit in which we we can learn if we only hold on to one of them it's suffice if we follow in there for steps only one of them and that's what they think that's why it's our job and it's our duty from tonight to remember them it's our duty to learn more about these people's lives because they have a مضلومية because they have a مضلومية why because they are not visited I undone one note شيخ جعفر كاشف الغطاء one of the greats and I end on this particular story and I apologize for taking too much of your time once he says to himself that's why is it that فاطمة الزهراء have three particular aspects in which he has buried three particular times that we remember فاطمة الزهراء he says I want to study to relate one particular time one particular date in which we can commemorate فاطمة الزهراء as martyrdom so he goes and he research and research and researches until he finds a particular time in which فاطمة الزهراء was martyrdom the date of فاطمة الزهراء is martyrdom and he's about to write the fatwa he's about to write this particular aspect his wife comes to him look at the beauty of this narration his wife comes to him he says she says to him oh my husband what's with you and فاطمة الزهراء he's looking at his wife he's seeing how does she know what I'm doing how does she know what I'm looking into he says he says why what did فاطمة الزهراء tell you she replies by saying فاطمة الزهراء told me to tell you do you think that it's too much that I'm remembered on three different occasions she says because I don't even have a grave where someone can come and visit me look at that narration brothers and sisters after that شيخ جحفر left that particular aspect in honor of فاطمة الزهراء he says yes let us remember فاطمة الزهراء in that aspect let us remember these imams that have brought us everything that we have today we want to remember them that's the aspect we have to take from tonight insha'Allah when we pray to Allah on that aspect and that note that Allah سبحانه وتعالى writes that the imam صاحب العصر والزمان can come so we can elevate these shrines again rebuild such shrines so we may go and visit our beloved imams that we crave to go and smell the dust that is laying there we pray to Allah with a fatih but before the three of your loudest salawat علام محمد وقال محمد


This is stock number 21T56A. We are here at Summit Automotive in Fond du Lac, Wisconsin. You're new and used RAM and light duty truck headquarters. Today we are checking out this super clean 2016 RAM Crew Cab Short Box 1500. This truck has the 5.7 liter V8 Hemi motor. It has been fully safety and inspected by our service shop. It has a fresh oil and filter change. All the fluids have been checked and topped off. And this truck is 100% ready to go. Bright silver metallic is the color. We shoot all of our videos in 1080p 60 frames per second. So if you have HD capabilities on your computer, tablet, or smartphone device, turn them on right now because it is definitely your best way to check out the quality and condition of the truck before seeing it in person. And if you'd like to check out all the photos on this truck in the upper right hand party screen is a link to our website. Click that and check us out there. It comes with the factory alloy rims with the chrome covers. 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Good morning everyone and welcome to our next press conference of EGU 23, the annual meeting of the European Geosciences Union. I'm Gillian D'Souza, I'm EGU's media and communications officer and I will be hosting the press conference today as well as any media interactions and interviews you would like to do following this press briefing. Today I would like to introduce our speakers in a few minutes, but just before we get into the press briefing I have to announce that unfortunately our third speaker due to unforeseen circumstances was unable to join us today. So we will only be hearing from two of our speakers today. So I apologize in advance for that. Each press conference will have time for the speakers to make their presentation and then we will follow this with a short question and answer round towards the end. And if you're joining us virtually I ask that you mute your microphones up until the end of the press conference and if you have questions at the end then we will come to you and take them in the chat or through the hand raising function on zoom. Alright, so now I'm going to go ahead and introduce our speakers so that we can have faster transitions between them. This press conference is titled from Vikings to Vienna to the Venice of the Pacific. Geo archeology elucidates history. And we are joined by two speakers in the room so on my from the left, we will be meeting Diana Hudson Bueller from the University of Vienna department of geology Vienna Austria. And we have Chuancho revision from high precision mass spectrometry and environment change laboratory. National Taiwan University Taiwan. So welcome. Thank you once again for joining us and for being here to share your findings with us. We are ready to begin and we will first hear from Chuancho. Thank you for your introduction. Here I'm going to present our study. The title of our studies dating a reward unique Pacific ruins. Look at the background background is the over 100 artificial outlets in the Pacific. So it basically is like a floating city. So it's a nickname is a bonus of the Pacific. My name is a friend, Joe, Shane, you can tell the second character to one times times like a river right so few people call me river channels difficult. Yes. So you can tell, he said, our, our side, and this is being so quite similar right, but, but when this protein city constructed actually the exact duration to nobody knows over the past 200 years. So here, we went to the field collecting symbols coral symbols. And they determine the ages and we find the history and the onset and downfall of the souther dynasty, the kingdom called souther dynasty. And this one, again, in the past over 200 years study, people believe this one based on the oral history, not in writing system develop so just the history has a generation to generations, and you couldn't tell which one is true he's wrong. He's fake. So, but basically, now we know the kingdom for solder began around the 1100 to 1300 AD, and then the downfall or a solder and then the seeds of the this brought floating city, around 1500 to sitting 100 AD. After our work, we find, actually, the ages could be the, the rise of the kingdom could be earlier than middle 11th century, and downfall collapse of the solder kingdom and the construction she is in the early 15th century. And this is our results. And you can tell this side this side is our constructed model of the Lamando. About 1000 years ago. Yeah. And here, where is the Lamando. This is located in a, on a, a, a, a, a, I don't call upon a pay in the Micronesia in Pacific Ocean. B, B, you can see the Lamando located in the southeast side of this plan pay. And the left upper side is a very view of this floating city. Yes. And the D, D is the complete constructions to consist of consists over 100. I less E is that this, this compound, this entire site is constructed with colonel, but souls and in field a color rubber fields inside. Yes. And this side has been selected as a war heritage in 2016, but the history not really know yet. And here I'm going to show you a movie about this site. And the dog is among the largest prehistoric stone complex in the Pacific. And since there are over 100 artificial islands, and there is a panel of the ancient fire and I see now the job is that they've got southeast of the country. These are not Malaysia. Yeah, this one is a I and I'll collaborate later. So, the earliest Western context in the was in the 1820s, and then people are curious about how this constructed this site.  And this site was collected from the layers of the artifacts. So this indicates the human activity on the left side. And this one here is a coral, no coral charcoal sea floating ages distribution. So summarize is the one this site could constructed from 500 to 600 AD. And then this this side became the capital of the kingdom sold around 1100 to 1300 AD, and the collapse of the kingdom. And then, and, and the, the construction seized around the 1500 to 1600 AD. Yes, and this is about the best estimates estimates in the past 200 after the 200 years study, but there's a local belief suggests that actually age or Lamano will always written remain hidden. Never, never to be revealed and we believe this one, because this is very difficult topic is a good topic for us. So we went there. And two times one is a to 2016 and another one in 2018. We, we got a permit and they collected over 152 corals from the different outlets, including the one from them. King's palace and the sun from the distance to complex and other, like a typical less and also the seawall here. And then we let them determine the ages with irradiant thorium with a metric dating technique. The best age we can guess is a is a plus mass two years to signal. And, and here's the result.  So we find local oral history said, the people went to the coast, the beach, collected living coral to build, build the structure compounds by actually the data here only 112 ages. The main 40 ages is fuzzles is that other than 018 dc here. Some, some ages around the like 1000 2000 3000 4000 5000 even 7000 years old, this is fuzzle so are the local history said only in different coral use is not pretty correct. Okay, and then the, the corals distribution here after the, the homo sapien right is that that and you can kill from the, from the, there's a peak around 1055 to 1075 AD, there's a peak. This is an important indication because of the peak total we dated the nine corals nine corals or nine corals eight corals. So, from the, this two complex, the one from the king's palace. So, this is that this kingdom put put right right about before this one and we estimate it could be around the 10 to 11th century around 10, 10 to 11th century. And then, and then based on this distribution, you can tell the here 1411 no any corals here abruptly gone disappear. So this is a collapse of the kingdom by people. So, here's a conclusion again in the past people in the past people be this one. This venus of the Pacific construct it, the intense constructed from the 11 to 1300 AD actually none, not quite true could before middle 11th century, or 10th century. And downfall of the kingdom Soudar and the Mando construction seized around 1500 or city 180s, probably not correct, could be right after 1411. Yes, so our findings. And earlier about a couple century earlier than previous source. This is our study, because this one's still under review yet. So, so I did not discuss about the collapse the onset and the downfall of the kingdom and the construction history to relate it to the technique. And also climate change. This part I did that. They're missing here. Yeah, I'm a US I will briefly introduce this part. Thank you. Thank you so much. And next, we will hear from Diana Hudson Bühler. So, my name is Diana Hudson Bühler and I'm a PhD student from the University of Vienna. And in our working group, which is also together with Michael Weissel, who's here. We are working on the time from Romans the Anthropocene, especially putting a certain focus on Vienna and the area downstream of it.  We will stay here in Vienna, but we go back to its origin in the Roman time, and I will show you how it could develop to the city to the cultural city we now know as Vienna. And for this we will go to the central Vienna Basin, what you can see here in the upper right corner we have a map of Austria we are currently in the northeast and Vienna. On the left hand side you can maybe also spot the EU symbol, which shows you where we who is currently here where we are currently sitting. And this map. This map is a topographic map it shows you the elevation of the underground above sea level. The more reddish the colors the higher elevated. For example in the eastern side we have some mountainous area and the more blueish the lower elevated. In the middle you can see a unique colored area which is bluish greenish and this is the central Vienna Basin where our story now takes place. What you can also see that to the bottom of it to the south we have a slightly elevated area. And along this margin the Danube river flows who's our main actor here. The river flows from the west to the east. And let me tell you it is very dynamic and wild river. Even though it looks like here it's just a straight line going from the left to the right it's very Mandarin River who's changing this course quite often frequently. And this was exactly the case also in Roman times. And this was also the reason why the Romans, who had their empire in the south. They founded these two cities or these two former settlements Canuntum and Vindobona Vindobona will later become Vienna. And the reason for doing this war and you can see it here in this picture on the picture you see soldiers and horses which are crossing the Danube river on ship bridges and this was. This is from a column around the second century C just to let you know C is, let's say the more modern way to say it to refer to our calendaric time point. But not just the Romans they saw the value of these two locations, but also for example Napoleon as you can see in this painting here, he used the positions to cross the Danube river, maybe an even more elaborate way. But let's come back to our settlements. I will now show you a model how these two settlements might have looked like back then. Here we have Vindobona and Canuntum and they were founded around the same time they are not too far away from each other. They have similar starting conditions with Canuntum being slightly more important. However, their development over time was completely different. Vienna became the vibrant metropolis we now know Vindobona became now Vienna, where Canuntum has ceased to exist and can be only seen in remnants in archaeological sites, even though they're quite pretty. And what we will go now through is why how could it come come to this. And for this we have to go back again to the Vienna Basin and look at the geopolitical setting. So Canuntum was the province capital of this area here you can see it by the little helmet. However, this had also certain consequences for the location. For example, it was more prone to riots being a rather large settlement. It was also more in the focus for military invasions and attacks. So the situation here was a bit tricky. Also, it was more exposed. For example, to the east there were no more or there weren't any close Roman settlements who could come to help in case of some intruders. The situation in Vindobona was slightly different. We had less potential for invasions for riots was less exposed so they could just continue living their happy Roman life. And another point which is likely to be an important factor here is the water. I mean, maybe you can already see it here. Water is quite an important thing here in Vienna with the Danube River. And we had also more access to water here. For example, from the hinterland and for the Romans, water supply was essential. Just think of the Roman baths, for example, but also the industry and for the city to prosper it was essential. And this was not the case in Canuntum. It was more difficult and this can be also one of the many reasons which had as a consequence that the province capital position and other privileges were switched to Vindobona. And Canuntum has ceased to exist over time because it couldn't recover from all the attacks it experienced. And by the 15th century, Canuntum was no more. Vindobona survived and it continued to be a little settlement. Also until the 10th century when we had a new ruler here. And this new ruler he invested into fortification. And in case you're in Vienna, you can still see some remnants of the city walls and they have become a crucial factor again to help the city to survive. Because later, for example, in the 15th century, we had attacks from the Ottoman Empire later on also by the Hungarian, but Vindobona could still survive. However, what has been a survivor factor has shown to be the rather limiting factor for the city. So in the 19th century, there were some more construction sites going on. Exposure was not more important, but the fortification, they were just restricting the city and preventing it to further flourish. And had also some other consequences. So a natural, more or less natural result was the removal of the fortification and certain other constructions, for example, also the river regulations to get control over this dynamic river and to also control its course. This was also later followed by dam regulation, which further influenced this river in some way or another. Now we arrive at the second half of the 20th century. Vindobona has now become the metropolis Vienna or is at least on the way to it. And this is exactly the time when we had the great acceleration. Everything is becoming faster and faster. We have more, we have more living room being constructed more industrial sites, but also more impact in the environment and the city is just growing and growing. And this is also the, this coincides with the proposed starting point of the Anthropocene, which is a discussed time unit, which basically says that the human fingerprint has arrived in geology. So we basically look at rocks and sand. And so far human fingerprint was not too important here. But this is not the case anymore. And I can show you, and this can be already seen in this area here. For example, this picture is from is an outcrop close, not too far away from what used to be Canuntum. And what you can see here, a sudden change in the upper one meter where we can see clear human impact in form of a pot and form of plastic. But this is also seen on a larger scale. For example, again, here in the area of Heimburg, which is close to where Canuntum used to be, was entire mountains, they are just shoveled away. And again, coming back to the great acceleration for geologists, this would take many thousands, millions of years to just get close to removing an entire mountain. But we humans, we are way faster this and this is also what we want to do. We want to understand how fast are we, how far do we go, and can we also use it to see how the future of Vienna might look like. Thank you very much. We are ready to move on to the next part of our press conference today, which is the question and answer round. So if we have any questions now I open the floor to journalists, both present in the room and those joining us online. Please raise your hand if you have some questions for our speakers and I will come to you with the microphone. And if you do have questions and introduce yourself and feel free to ask your question. I will just give it another minute, maybe if anyone would like to ask something. All right, so it doesn't look like we have questions today. Clearly our speakers explained all of their findings rather too well. Thank you so much again for joining us today. We really appreciate it. And we are now ready to conclude this press conference, the recording of the entire press briefing will be uploaded to ease us official YouTube channel later today or first thing tomorrow. So stay tuned for that. I would also like to remind you that we have our last press conference of easy 23 scheduled for later today at 2pm, the title of which is was impact oceans sands and people. So I look forward to seeing some of you there and have a rest. Have a good rest of the easy 23 week. Thank you all.


The last two months have been like the most tumultuous political transition in Egypt. Starting in May there were 13 presidential candidates vying for the top seat. Then it was down to two, neither of whom were very popular. This was about two weeks ago and the final results of the election were very delayed. So no one was sure if the old regime guy Shafiq or the Muslim Brotherhood candidate Morsi would be taking the helm of the country. And it was really a divisive vote because no one was a huge fan of either, but it was sort of a, well I like this guy more than the other guy, so this is who I'm going to vote for. Now it's my understanding the U.S. actually put some pressure on the ruling military council who was going to support Shafiq, the old guard candidate. But in the end Morsi received 52%. He now has a very limited mandate, but he does have a mandate to sort of hopefully be a uniting force in this new Egypt. But amid all of this presidential transition the military has really asserted control. So they've disbanded the parliament, which was democratically elected last November. They have issued new constitutional decrees, they've ended martial law, they restarted martial law, a court today said no to martial law. It's kind of a big mix up and it's hard to keep straight even for people living in Cairo. There are fears in Washington and other quarters of governance and amid the military council in Egypt about a Muslim Brotherhood presidency. But I think these are totally overblown. This is not an ideological organization, this is a flexible, pragmatic group and everyone knows that once a party is elected they have to sort of adapt and deal with their constituencies.  And I mean this is just preposterous kind of fear mongering. I think we can expect the peace treaty with Israel to remain basically to the T. It's never been violated in the past three decades. It's not going to be. It's basically going to be a status quo foreign policy. This isn't Saudi Arabia. There's not going to be Sharia law imposed. Sure, there's going to be changes. And I'm not trying to say the Muslim Brotherhood is a, you know, cute as a kitten, perfect organization. But they're savvy political actors. They have an incredible political machine at work that got Morsi elected. And I think they want to prove to the people that they can govern. Now the issue, though, is will the military let them govern? The Islamist, the Muslim Brotherhood-dominated parliament has been dissolved. So there's going to be new elections. There's going to be new power-broking. And it's going to just get more interesting. This transition will never end. The mood in Egypt and in Cairo in particular where I'm based has been pretty tense. It's exciting, though. Everyone's talking about politics. You walk down the street. Everyone's, you know, arguing why Shafiq or Morsi should have been president. What's the deal with the constitution? What's happening with the parliament? I mean, this is New Egypt. When I was there five years ago, people weren't having these kind of open political debates in the street. But that said, things are quite polarized. I think among my cohort, a lot of the friends I've made are the revolutionary youth that were really in the square that started the revolution, that tweeted and covered the revolution for all the major global outlets. And they're disappointed. And sort of the feeling was, do we have to cheer for Morsi now? Do we have to support him? I mean, it was a reluctant thing. But most people wanted to be out with the remnants of the Mubarak regime. And so they're happy to, you know, muted happiness in this regard. But there's a real sense that these revolutionary youth, that the secular, liberal, progressive folks need to be engaged in the political process. Because I don't know if they'll be able to wait four years or that there is word from the military that this presidential term will be shortened. And no one's exactly clear how that will work. But there's going to have to be US engagement with the people who started the revolution and sort of ongoing civil society engagement. Or else there are real fears of more upheaval, more uprising. Whether the Muslim Brotherhood can mobilize this huge grassroots movement that they have into good governance, into rule of law, into a new chapter of Egyptian politics is really yet to be seen because of this sort of strong iron fist of the military that's really perhaps overplaying its hand and getting involved in the legislative process, in the constitutional process, in the courts. Basically every aspect of politics, the economy, et cetera, is being sort of pushed around by the military. So it's unclear how much room for maneuver the Brotherhood will have in the next period.


Meanwhile, Governor Hope Uzadeh Maira of EMO and the Chairman Crude Oil Theft and Management Committee says his committee is working to end crude oil theft in the country within the shortest possible time. Uzadeh Maira showed that a committee which is a sub-committee of the INEC world at it. Next, economic council meeting give an interim report of what the outcome of their assignment was. I'm sure in the next national economic council, we should be able to give an interim report of what the outcome of our assignment is. And I've got an interim report. If our recommendations are approved, we'll continue with more activities in terms of implementing the recommendations presented in the interim report. But so far, what we have seen is very encouraging. And we're almost certain that at the end of the assignment, crude oil theft will become a thing of the past. And there will be more discipline in the industry. And operators in the industry will also play according to rules by the grace of God. Hello. Hope you enjoyed the news. Please do subscribe to our YouTube channel. And don't forget to hit the notification button so you get notified about fresh news updates.