Welcome back. It's time to dive into the national dailies looking at the headlines on the front pages of those new super I'm glad to say we have joining us live to do justice to the headlines this morning Chief lecturer of the Nigerian Institute of Journalism G.D. Johnson. Good morning to you and thanks for joining us. Hello. Are you there G.D. Johnson? Okay, all right. We'll get back to G.D. Johnson as soon as possible Let's get things going with a look at the stories from the front page of the leadership on Friday very interesting and colorful front page and with these headlines coming from the leadership on Friday APC plunges deeper into crisis as Factional groups reject new state excursions yesterday We're told there was a Heightened police presence around Buhari House. Buhari House is the headquarter's national Secretariat of the all-progressives Congress right there in Abuja and with this headline coming this morning on the front page of the National of the leadership on Friday apc Plunges deeper into crisis as factional groups reject new state excursions The heightened police or security presence was because the national ketsuka committee of the apc was swearing in the state chairman and ex-goes of the apc There has the following writers ex-goes inaugurated without oath of office. That's uh, quite surprising Arekbe Shola's campaign office attacked. It's an exercise in fertility Magnus Abe's group We won't recognize Kana Zuru leadership says Aliero supporters We're still consulting line Muhammad's loyalists and Benware Niger factions head for court because after the state congresses Of the apc earlier. That's last year And quite a number of people a number of states came out with parallel Ex-executives and this is a problem the party is having So the front page of the leadership newspaper this morning at the top Nigeria losing major investors to escalating oil theft Nigerian losing major investors to escalating oil theft and one of the things someone commented online when the video of that exploded floating vessel emanated online was like oh, we're having reduced oil A production in Nigeria can meet our big targets Who hope that tomorrow the price of petrol won't be 600 naira and people began to laugh. Anyway, another one Fresh Sukuk fund raises federal government's capital releases to 3.65 trillion naira You can read more to understand what that means Zulum reiterates call for mercenaries to fight terrorists So is it it does you want to see the wabna group from from russia and nigeria Three die 12 missing as all vessel explodes in delta So that's an update on that story from the leadership newspaper Really really unfortunate and really sad federal government nabs 45 of 96 Boko Haram and aswap iswap financiers says insurgents have links with 123 companies quite Interesting and it's an interesting picture at the bottom of the uh, the front page a picture of a transportation minister Uh, right audible rotimi amici In a turbine it seems that um something interesting is happening today. Let's move on to the next newspaper And this is a nation newspaper with the leading headline Buhari rebuff's lobby to shift apc Convention date yesterday the papers told us that they had fixed february 26 And they were told that they had communicated that date To inek or they were about to communicate to inek now the president. We told his rebuffing lobbying Willing to shift the apc or seeking to shift the apc convention date the writer to that story no venue in party's notification letter to inek state chairman inaugurated at the top Ladojah joins high chiefs to endorse Balogun as Olu Badon Hijab Rao resurfaces in Quara one feared killed in valence. This is totally uncalled for Really sad. Osho APC governorship primary holds february 19 and uh, nigeria rejects coup as means to change government Staying with the nation newspaper Salami technology key to speedy justice delivery and three policemen shot dead Details within the pages of that paper. Oh, uneasy Igbo not interested in leaving nigeria apex body raises panel on 2023 president and at the bottom of the front page gunmen kill katzina mohawk for others and uk nigeria unite on security those are stories coming on the front page of The nation newspaper. Let's go straight to the daily independent on friday with these headlines I swap fast gaining ground recurring a recruiting massively zulu. That's governor of bonus state The following writers warns Boko Haram would be a child's play if I swap grows As federal government to reconsider hiring mercenaries to fight insurgents federal government uncovers 96 financiers of Boko Haram and iswap and pdp tasks federal government to publish names of terrorism sponsors Details on page six of the daily independent At the top of the front page federal government revises birth control policy to slow population growth Decries high fertility rate among nigerians Casualties feared after oil vessel explosion near warri 2023 presidency as the kicker crisis as sinubu's swagger tsg clash over Harmonization these are groups that were set up to support his presidential campaign The tsg is headed by I think former representative abdumamuni jibrin. It's called the tinnable Support group swagger is another one. We also have um, I think the bat Bola amitynable group or support group several ones of them coming up. All right 2.4 billion narrow fraud charges Okura cha asks buhari to stop efcc from harassing him Bandits attack at sena community kill village head and five others quarrel government shuts down school over hijab crisis And gunman attack a regular show last campaign office in oshobo All right, let's move straight to the punch in the sweeper quite interesting stories coming on the front page of the punch the lead story pdp cso's lampoon federal government as nfi you Uncovers 96 terrorism financiers With the following riders to 123 firms 30 through beroader shunge operators leaned to terrorists federal government Alleges terror financiers supporters will be revealed in court says a gf office With transparencies verdict buhari can't boast of fighting graft pdp More headlines from the punch workers fate on known as explosion rocks delta oil platform Cano sakuto absent as apc inaugurates state chairman amidst heavy security Ohanesi inaugurates lobby panel restates ego presidencies benefits and in Same linkage security agencies get buhari's nod to access subscribers details How safe is that at the bottom of that front page Quarabapti school shut as fresh crisis erupts over hijab Tensioners hoodlums attack a regular faction Arep shall affections sector it suspected suspects arrested police smash legacy but on highway kidnap syndicates gang members flee And of course I mean spoo harry alleges harassment by e of cc Politically motivated those are stories coming on the front page of the punch By time to move over to our guest and of course to bring in g.d. Johnson as chief lecturer other Nigerian institute of journalism Mr. Johnson, can you hear me now? Good morning to you Good morning. Good morning. Good morning, Trump. You are so nobody wants. All right, fantastic. Fantastic I'm sure this one was of elicited a little laugh from you Or interest from you when you read it or heard about it and the federal government uncovering 96 terrorism financiers 123 firms associated with terrorism and 33 Forex be rules or be rude exchange operators link to terrorism. Um, are you impressed? Well, um, it came up with different types of policies to regulate cash flow and not through our country It came on with them the dvm It came on with the single treasury account. These were all policies that were put in place to ensure to ensure that all money coming into Niger and going out of Niger can be trapped So it's not immune or something shocking to me as far as I'm concerned is even commonly That we should have been able to dip this in the pot because um, if The central bank the banks Have all our details with the bvm And the rest of all the policies they put in place It shouldn't be difficult for us to fight this terrorism because it is this large fund that they used To to to sustain to sustain their campaign. So well, and let's see what comes out of it Let's see that if government should be thrown and these people should be Prosecuted and they should be identified and they not only be identified They should be semi-fied So that Nigerians don't would they are and then much like should be thrown into it and kind of energy that we're putting in In arresting them because in arresting In in apprehending Sunday In in in the public company We should put it in place for this for this category of people because these are people that has made Niger Uncoverable and I mean I did not peaceful over over the last over the last over the last few years And it talks about the need for us to look at how the blue change Um So sector of a financial And industries is it is it is being operated? I have said it over time It's only in Nigeria that you see people selling money on the street. I've never seen anywhere in the world aware by you have you haven't What do they call this market? You haven't you have a parallel market apart from central bank whereby there will be people selling selling selling foreign currency However, whereas it should be the bank you should be able to get it to the bank not the not private individuals Having been with the change left at the center and is one of the reasons why the value of if I'm if I'm involved in trading In trading on currency and I know it gives me more to have dollars so that I can get more myself I won't pray for the value of Naira to to appreciate I always pray for the value of Naira to appreciate So as far as I'm concerned that aspect we need to look into and For the five out of out of 96, I think we could do more and we should do much more better This people should be prosecuted. They should be identified and they should be shame if I Interesting use the word shame if I'd Shame if I the JD Johnson because this isn't the first time and we're hearing the federal government coming out to say That we know we have terror terror finance says and sponsors We know who they are and the last time it was the honorable The minister of justice and attorney general federation Book a Malami essay and Saying that we know who the terrorists or who the sponsors of terrors are terror are and he's still saying something on this one The punches has a writer saying terror financiers and supporters will be revealed in court So that shame if I you want to see Malamis telling you that wait till they go to court then they will name or reveal them Well, well, um, so it's important for them to cut out the evidence Um, very well and so that the process is not corrupted I agree with him until the case is filed and the court we don't have any right to know has been arrested So that we have a watertight prosecution so that there are no loopholes And these people should not be given opportunity of repentance. You know one of the things we have had in fighting terrorism in Nigeria Is that after they are apprehended after we apprehend and this criminal elements non-state actors That have I'll go to the power of violence to themselves Is that once we arrest them and they will take they will now see what they have confessed They are repentant and then we put white white rope on them and we keep them sleepers And we gathered them under the canopy and government We do program we take photo ops with them And we release them back in this into into the site So as far as I'm concerned anyone that is caught engaging in one act of terrorism or the other Should not be given an opportunity to repent the dead can't come back to live and assert Is the repentance of of a terrorist. So that's that's my dig. Let's wait for let them do a watertight investigation So that we have a thorough prosecution and this you can be actually prosecuted without any Providing them with legal opportunities to be exploited the loopholes to be exploited for them to To do not be condemned to for for commit for committing any crime against humanity and against the nation Nigeria yesterday governor Zulum of bonus state was reported as saying that Those repentant Boko Haram members had truly repented that they truly changed You know that he's experienced with them in the whole You know Reformation or repentance program if you want to call it that and that they he can confirm that they have truly changed So isn't this isn't this a positive, you know He leaves with them He leaves with them in In houses He stays in their heart I've asked my student to come up with with how we could measure What would be what what what in this is going measured to use to measure To measure repentance can it can it be measured what scientific talk Are you going to use whether we are going to use qualitative or quantitative Measure to measure what repentance is and I situates that With the statement if the same governor said with respect to iswab Growth and now iswab is massively recruiting and now we need to use machinery to fight iswab So Ippu Kourama repenting what is providing the leverage and the levers for the growth of iswab In in in in Nigeria So I don't know you see these people they are master of double speaking They think that we are intelligent of that you are not intelligent and we are stupid If you say these people truly repent they are truly repented outcome You are the same setup. You are the same person saying that iswab is gaining ground And there's a need for us to use machinery before it is one of the major headlines in the in the in the history part Yes, so you can go ahead and talk about it. Yes And the threat that iswab post in Nigeria So if you are iswab is posing threat to Nigeria then I'll come the repentable program has not been able to keep The military and the security agencies require the intelligence To need Boko Haram in the board because if these people have been part and parcel of Boko Haram And they have actually repented They should be able to provide us with the needed intelligence that is required to fight and win this guerrilla warfare Modern day warfare are not won using cannons using using Yeah, you know doing Nigeria celebrated to Kano and the rest of all those Fighter jets that we got the weak guerrilla warfare that we this modern day warfare intelligence to need Need the intelligence these are people that have no physical The they are their mobile their mobile their mobile their mobile forces So you need to understand the terrain you need to understand their thinking And how do you understand they are thinking if it's not infiltrate their camp and if some of them have repented as claimed Then we should be able to name them in the board.  Babak Dana Zulum is is is hands on governor. He's a professor in over and um Don't you think this this call by the governor of bonus state? Is something that is should be appreciated and is something that is timely And should be heated by the federal government and what's your not your own? Your own opinion of this idea of Zulum to engage mercenaries. Maybe he wants to see the likes of the Wagner Group or maybe black water from the United States of America I mean Nigeria. Do you think this idea to engage mercenaries? foreign private armies or or groups, you know, military groups should be Considered by the federal government I'm see you have not verified at the tree to see some some cliffs of of some foreign mercenaries that were used to fight the To fight insurgents in the in the in the north in the north west Nigeria wherever we engage mercenaries for modern issues and After this administration came on board to what is engaged to what is engaged allegedly I don't have all the facts, but allegedly to what is engaged. However, you must understand that in fighting war as well um nations which is of mercenaries makes of mercenaries these are these is a born trained guerrilla fighters you understand the What's the fight for the fight for? The fight the fight Not for for anything but for for their own interest and once you're able to meet their interest You need to you need to have them on on your side in order for you to win the war We have said that our conventional army have they make an in-road? Have we make have we make in-road? Have we achieved greater success using our conventional army? And I think that for us to fight this war, we need to use the multifaceted approach Use mercenaries use the pentagon go quaran use the locusts and so that we use the full prone multifaceted attack deal with this particular problem All right interesting interesting. So so um, you're saying you'd like to see something It's not a bad idea if we can bring in external help For Nigeria in these times. Yes. All right. Yes, of course. Okay. Let let let let's move on to quara state and Ugly, you know incident has read his head again. It's been there in the past, you know, even in neighboring Oshun state the issue of Students of the Islamic faith being allowed to Use the hijab in school. Now. This is a Baptist high school somewhere in Oshun state in quara state. Sorry Yes sending back some Muslim students and erupted into a violent clash and we hear one person was was killed You see don't don't don't worry this thing will be on the increase election is around the corner and you know religion is a key component part of Of building sentiments of of of building sentiment of assuaging the feelings of And so since the election is around the corner, you see more of this in quara state You see more of this in Oshun state the question on impact is Um, what would turn go on the rampage to protest? That a school should allow the achievement to wear hijab or not wear hijab You send the schools to every schools as soon Good of conduct as soon as it's like it's like If there's an Islamic school and someone is saying that you know What you want to wear? Want them to wear trouser to your school? I think we should have respect for one another Now if you go to a particular school, you should respect their values Not as much as you want to uphold your own value if you are not if that value does not conform to your own value You have to resort to violence Or violent protest to drive on your point. You can withdraw your kids and take your kids to other school That's not only school in that year but since everything has become politics and now we are in the era of politics so And then you know if there is if there is one Cost that studied human behavior that has to do with human interaction and property It's political science. So if you understand political science, you understand that these dynamics that is going on Is the science of politics for 2023. So as we begin the billions of people so I think that if the state officials are Are Fair and They are not biased and they are neutral in this matter. We don't have this type of problem Anyone that engages in violent protest and they are they are lost to deal with that They are better ways to drive on your point other than resorting to violence and destroy lives and property All right interesting interesting So you're basically saying that the government of our car estate should allow The baptist high school or any other school that feels it doesn't want Is students using the hijab to go ahead Some will argue that that that is an attack on religious freedom in Nigeria, which the constitution guarantees freedom of worship Let me tell you We if you say Nigeria is a secular state, Nigeria is not a religious state Would they allow traditional people to come with shakin?  This is a school This is the worship center. This is a school. There are schools I'm a Christian but there are some religious universities in Nigeria that I can never send my children I will never Because my value does not conform with their value I can't send my son to go to a school in the 21st century where they will not allow him to have access to his mobile devices I can't I can't send my son to a school That where they will not allow him to access the internet in the 21st century and there are Christian universities in Nigeria That do not allow sort And as a Christian, I can't even send my son there. I know that they have money. I know that's their standard That's the way they want to operate. I can't I can't send my son there. I can't even work there If I'm ready to work there if I'm ready to send my son there, that means that my son must come home To the rules and regulations that governs the operation of that of that of that now I don't have a freedom. Can I go? Can I Nigerian viewers? Can Nigerian viewers take their product to Kano? We do not be as trusted by the Isbaa police Using that the economic right. Okay. So we should respect each other. We should respect each other Let's move on. Jilly Johnson. Interesting. Interesting. Very very interesting thoughts. You have um Russia's a culture that some days ago, uh, you know informed Nigerians officially Of his intention to be the president of the federal republic of Nigeria And before it could even sit down to enjoy his dinner that day the EFCC had already filed charges bordering on some two missing 2.9 billion Naira against Russia's Accordia The latest we're hearing from the front page still of the punch in a surprise that uh, He has met president buhari And it's alleged alleging harassment by the EFCC And that this harassment is politically Motivated. So he's going to meet the president regarding the charges pressed against him or filed against him by the EFCC That's on the front page of the punch newspaper It was aroused in in in keeping his auntie to cook it up If you had no case to answer you should go to if you if you had no case to answer If you appeared before the court the court is there to clear his name. Why should he be afraid? Either goes to equity must go with if his aunt are clean Why doesn't he to go and see the president? He doesn't need to see the president If he thinks that the issue is politically motivated Let it take the case to the court once the case gets to the court It's no longer in the hands of yes It's not in the hands of the judge and the judge will rule over that matter And whatever the whatever judgment that is passed She will be fair enough to see whether it's politically motivated or not politically motivated Anytime to steal money. They don't remember that they are doing politics But when they are coming for them To account for For infractions for abuse of office and privileges they start screaming is politically is politically motivated If you don't want political politically motivated Arrestment from from prosecuting agencies of government Then don't be politically motivated to abuse your office and the privileges that you have been given So as far as I'm concerned is black adage And if the president should entertain him Well, the president is not sending the right signal to the to the security agents and the security bodies In doing their in doing their job as well as I'm concerned.  Let's stay within the political sphere. Um, who have had Cases that need to be looked into Petitions that have been sent to the EFCC Regarding them. I won't go into the names now and then nothing has been done about these people persons Nothing has been filed before the court And russia's case of this is so fresh one now Nothing was said until he said I want to be president and then he did his old razzmatas and did the ceremony Which has been live on national tv and then that same day that same day They went to to court, you know took him to console Let's let's put it in perspective. That's why some of us have argued that the office of the attorney general should be devoid of politics It should be devoid of politics. The attorney general should be separated from mr. Tuskis. Are you are you with me? um It is this mixed messaging And this double-sided approach that EFCC has adopted that gives people the opportunity To criticize them of strange favoritism and of of of of being politically motivated in in in persecuting their cases And if you have one two three four five examples, it becomes a pattern It is no longer a mistake because you have cases of people that have petitions against the barriers that are not against them We have those that the judiciary has thrown has thrown away out of technicalities My take on this is very simple after years. I always interested who becomes a president We should be interested in who are appointed into judicial positions Who become the chief justice of the federation who goes into the supreme court who goes into the appeal court We should be interested the media should prove spotlight We should know the antecedent and we should know what um, what what is their judicial philosophy Because there are three arms of government The executive the judiciary and the legislator Unfortunately, we throw too much attention to the executive for getting that there are two other Critical institutions that are critical to the sustenance of democracy of having democratic society That's the judiciary and the legislature. I hope moving forward would be interested in what happens in these two other arms Not just to leave voting for the governor, but who represent me the house of rep who represents me In the senate who represent me the house of in the house of assembly and who are those that are appointed into judicial Into judicial positions.  He makes his way to asa rock villa to see the president to complain to him I mean, what does this say? That that this has become the pattern of the politicians to go cry to the presidency the investigating me Um, and and you know, what would you say the president? You know makes easy experience to say afc hands off or what? Well, they are going for photo ops And so once they see that they have access to the seat of power They are trying to To use your communication strategy For example appear before the president and I get access to asa rock And then the next time we invite me to come and then you see that the first time he invited me Shortly after you released me. I was in asa rock to see the president and I have photo ops with president Now he says signal to whoever is at the lowest level that you know, this guy had access We didn't even know what this guy was because of the president So if this guy could have sent the president, then what are we going to do? We have seen situation whereby people that have cases With with people that have cases with afc you are rewarded with important appointment in national assembly even principal officers We have seen cases of people that have engaged in in In in power lens against the sanctity of democracy being being Being rewarded with with with with top positions in the national assembly So you recall that during I can't recall which senate whether is the fifth or the or the sixth state Where one senator from from Niger state stood up in the floor of the senate and said that majority of the people Is seen in the senate with himself. There were people that he has arrested He has he has the attest by as the police officer of thrones And when he was seen when he was seen the senate had to quickly Receive into an executive to an executive session Go to the federal executive council. How many members of the federal executive council have cases with AFS? How many members of the senate? Have cases with AFS. How many members? Of AFS So that's why people have lost interest in the fight against corruption thinking that where corruption is It's it's not been it's not been It's not been addressed the way should be addressed because a lot of politics has gotten into it I'm sure I'm not a few Nigerians who will be concerned about the caliber of persons who are Vying for the presidency that have Especially those that have corruption corruption cases hanging over over them Let's let's say with the southeast and the press for an Igbo president in Nigeria come 2023 because still on the front page of the punch in the stripper This headline is there. Orhanese inaugurates lobby panel Restates presidency's Igbo presidency's benefits. I'm sure best benefits to Nigeria Orhanese inaugurates lobby panel restates Igbo presidency's benefits But before you respond to that they have yesterday said that The EFCC EFCC should stop attacking the southeast, you know, and stop working against An Igbo presidency. They're seeing some of these cases as an attack on the people of the southeast What do you say to that jelly Johnson? And if the organization look at the administration Of the southeast by the governors, if you know what for years for try to idea come and look at me This is how it begins at all. What have they been doing with respect to dealing with the issue of corruption charges that have been labeled It means governors of the southeast and governors across across across Nigeria. I think that Orhanese as as a body Is not doing what he's supposed to do in such life and ensuring that as the governor's the southeast And that people that are elected are providing Delivery boost of democracy for for for the people of the southeast The southeast usually cries of marginalization But the question you ask is what have you done with the resources and with The level of governors they have had at the local and at the state and at the state level taking that to the presidents to recall what has made the voice of Orhanese against the decision movement of Of what have they done with respect to that because in one of the in one of the writers Orhanese said The south is as no No, no, no no plans to exit out of Nigeria. That's coming to lead for me That's coming to lead for what used to be the whole of Biafra Tends to have part of the south south with the exception of delta and enduced it for the bulk of what used to be southeast What eastern region there south south and southeast now as the south The core south east and politician are they integrated their agenda with that of south south Would the south side go with the south east there are closest people Who used to be part and parcel of Biafra then and we used to be part and parcel of south Eastern Nigeria then the eastern region then would they go along with the south east now the south The agenda shouldn't be limited to the five states of Of of the south east or should be a standard to acquire form cross river Um river state delta state and those states so that you have an holistic integration Around that's it. What used to be start what used to be the eastern region in 1960 To 66 has been drastically eroded with the creation of states In Nigeria and they are not coming to terms with that And then you have this this different types of not speaking with one warrant Not speaking with current twice What's what's the direction of the south east? Uh south east politics. What's the direction? What's the agenda? But but do you do you feel that this this because you've asked the question What's the direction? What's the agenda and a lot of people have also asked that question and what structures are they building? You know, how they're reaching out You don't even have a political structure and all that but now we're seeing that they have inaugurated a lobby panel Um, and of course lobbying means you you have to you have to reach out to to other people So isn't this a a good start? Now let me put it across to you is obi obi um And javid umai Are they all on the same page? or jiu-zoku? now The south the southern part of Nigeria came together and said, you know what? We need to have our own local community police. So the southwest responded with amoteco As the south is been able to come up with his own You see And they've been able to you see you must understand the dynamics of far and I've told my friend The south is that is unfortunate that the south is by their nature. They are republican Well, we must understand they are republican in nature. So everybody is on his own. However in the corporate Larger interest of Nigeria, you must understand the dynamics and come together So to play the politics the way it should be played You see From my own understanding. This my own opinion. I might be wrong. It is pretty difficult Based on the dynamics of Nigerian politics as presently constituted For a southeast person to be the president of Nigeria. I might be wrong I might be wrong. It's just my autism But understand the dynamics and the question I've thrown to my friends and my colleagues that are from the southeast is that What type of policies did you play that? nine years Nine years after the end of the civil war the south is at the vice president In the second republic the south is at the speaker Of the house of rep in the second republic the south east What used to be the south is dead The senate president in joseph wyars Emile zealky as a speaker alexa quenme asked The vice president. What type of politics did the south is played nine years after Civil war that they were able to be integrated and to be rewarded With those positions that the only position the south was called was national chairman Of the great party. That was the most significant Now they need to go back to the drawing boards and understand the dynamics Of politics. Well, I since I'm being consulted for them in the water consultation. They should come to my office I'll give it to them. Let me stop it. All right I'll be writing the invoice for you so we can we can split the bill We have to go but interestingly do not carry it in the papers today Yesterday evening news coming out that after namdekandu had through his one of his lawyers ifi age of four transmitted information to his people that they should start talking peace and they released a statement ipo be through their Their publicity secretary Ema powerful that they're ready to talk peace to the federal government if the federal government is ready to sincerely and honestly also In a secure manner discuss peace with them in in one or two sentences Won't that also play well for the politics of the southeast ahead of 2023 exactly peace and unity Peace and unity this country is stronger our strength is in our number Our strength is in our diversity And what's that is peace and unity and there's equity there's fairness in what we do I like I told you use the 1979 case as a case After nine years of civil war the integration Into national life So once there is peace and federal government and shoot shoot shoot and when we talk about federal government federal government is not the presidency federal government is national assembly the judiciary and Also these governments to have a role to play in this scheme of things and I think we do that Without peace in the land Peace in the land their prosperity. All right. There can be peace if there's no unity And if there's unity of peace and if there's peace of prosperity These three cardinal factors are what we need in Nigeria for us to grow and achieve our dreams. Thank you Okay interesting Very interesting analysis, but please if you're consulted jillie johnson.  We give you today. Thank you very much jillie johnson is a chief lecturer with Thank you. Thank you, sir. Thank you very much for your time jillie johnson is a chief lecturer Other Nigerian instagram journalism like you had him say we still have some more discussions ahead right here on the breakfast And plus tv africa today's world cancer day We speak with a cancer survivor and advocates as well on the importance of such a day stay with us


All right, like any good story about Illinois, this one starts in Peoria, because that's where I lived. When I first got out of school, I worked for a company that was in Peoria. I'm not gonna tell you who it was, but there's only one reason to live in Peoria. And I was there doing system administration. And what I found was doing AIX and doing Red Hat Linux work was really great and I enjoyed it, but I actually enjoyed making system administrators better more than I enjoyed doing the system administration work itself. I went to Caterpillar Financial in Tennessee after that, Go Predators. And then I decided that I was gonna work more on the people side of things. I wanted to make system administrators better. But the thing was when I was doing that, I didn't wanna not do technology. I wanted to understand the work that everybody was doing. And so I was like, well, why do I keep getting asked this question of, Mike, what do you wanna do? Do you wanna go into management or do you wanna be technical?  Like, why can't I do both? There are people that are good at multiple things all the time, why can't I be one of them? Now the management model that some companies is that people are interchangeable. They're like caps on a pen, you can just take off one and put it on a different pen, put it on a different pen, put it on a different pen. I can manage ERP, I can manage database, I could go manage web servers or whatever and then assembly lines. And I was like, this is not what I wanna do. This doesn't work for me. So I left and went to Puppet. I moved to Portland. This is the third state we're in already if you haven't been paying attention. So I was, I went to Portland. Went from a company of 100,000 people to a company of 35 people. Got a few changes there. When I got there, I said, hey, I want to do a bunch of technical stuff. I wanna make commits, but I also wanna leave people. And they were like, great, we don't have managers, really? Let's try that. And I said, cool, I'm gonna be a manager. I can take down the system from the inside because I understand how people work and do this job. I wanted to make sure that we were not passing the buck, that we were not, you know, blame storming regularly, that the AV worked properly. Anyway, I'll just keep going. So I'm Mike Stonkey. I work at Puppet. I'm a director of engineering there. Let's see, I helped organize DevOps Days Madison, which is October 30th and 31st. You should all come. And then for software, what I really like are the parts of software that are around operational side. So I like pipelines, packaging, building, compilers, you can finally mess in with GCC while I watch hockey games. It's things I do. I also like growing teams. One of my favorite things to do is mentor teams or grow teams. My team was one when I got to Puppet. That team now is around 38 people-ish, so it's grown a little bit. And so I kept getting asked though, this management or technical, well, why don't we have both? And so I kind of have done both for about six years at Puppet. And I've learned a few things. I've made mistakes and I'm still not perfect at it. And some people will say you need to pick one and I usually tell them no. But one of the first things you should do is automate your management. And what is management? It's saying what you're gonna do and then doing what you said. That's all management is. Just expectation management. So I have a blog post that's called Working For Me and it tells you how I like to operate. It helps. If I have to make a choice between technical stuff and people stuff, people stuff has to come first 100% of the time. The computer will wait. It actually no-ops pretty well. People don't. So you have to think about that as you're working with humans. Priorities and context are really what my job is. As a manager, after I've set expectations, I have to make sure everybody understands why they're working on what they're working on. If they can't understand that, then I haven't done my job. They should stop at any time and ask me why they're working on what they're working on because if I don't know, I don't understand their job. So computers do exactly what you tell them. Humans, not so much. And so when I get frustrated with that, I go back to the command line because computers do exactly what I tell them. So kind of as a refresher or recharge for me, I might start slinging some code. I usually work on a chat bot, not anything that important anymore, but it's still pretty nice for me. When I'm doing technical work, I have to keep in mind that I should check my title at the door. I'm a director of engineering. I don't have better ideas than the engineers that work under me. I need to know that, and I do remember that and have to remind myself of that quite often. I also need to not put myself on critical path. If we're gonna shift next week, I should not say I'm gonna sign up and fix these three or four bugs because I don't know if I'm actually gonna have time to do that because I work with humans who, like I said, don't know off all that well and sometimes I need to take care of what they're doing. And then I also get asked the question of what is technical work? And this keeps coming up in my brain. If I'm planning when we're gonna ship something or what the work process looks like or what the flow looks like, like is that technical work? Is that management work? I don't even know. And frankly, most of the time I don't care. It just needs to get done and so I'm gonna take care of it. I wanna provide a career path for people because I understand technical work and I want career paths that are both, I wanna go into management and I don't wanna go into management.   This is one of the best parts of being in leadership is you can kind of say, here's the culture that we wanna reward, here's the things we like. And so I try and do that as I'm working with folks because I've actually done a lot of that technical work and hopefully can understand it and work with them. Thank you.


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Good day, fellow investors. I received, I think, about 30-50 questions about what do I think of the Newmont Gold Corp merger. And I have analyzed, I have made videos both about Newmont, both about Gold Corp. So let's discuss this merger so that I can give you my opinion as you requested it. The first thing is my intrinsic value of Gold Corp, Gold Corp's value of the mines of the future cash flows at current Gold prices was about half a billion. The market cap was what? 5 billion. So that is the first reason. And then I logically think, okay, the management knew that, okay, what we own is mostly shitty. So what can we do? How can we save ourselves? The stock price of Gold Corp has been in a free fall for the last years. So they don't get stock options, they don't get anything. But if we merge with a big company like Newmont, then we have, again, stock options with a better company, with a better price. And Newmont had, let's say, better assets. Gold Corp was a stock for higher Gold prices. And this movement from the management actually shows how investors get screwed with Gold miners, because the focus of managers is on their own benefit, not on investors. 99% of the Gold miners out there have their main focus on themselves, not on shareholders. Gold Corp was a levered play on Gold prices. If Gold prices would have increased significantly, the stock would have exploded. However, the investors that invested in Gold Corp, with that notion in mind that Gold Corp is going to grow 2020-2020, 20% production, 20% lower cost, 20% expansion in resources, plus if Gold prices would have gone up, as they did even a little bit over the last month, then they should have made really, really good. But the management failed to deliver. How to solve this situation? How to solve that the actual value of the company goes to half a million? How can we take the management's some advantage of what's going on shareholders could have always solved the stock? So how can we take, we can merge, we can make a merger or we can be acquired by Newmond. And I'm very, very interesting and curious to go perhaps one day if I have the time to read about the shareholder, the management options that were transferred from Gold Corp to Newmond and how much money will the management make in this transaction? So screwing shareholders first thing or not even thinking about shareholders is on top of Gold Corp's mind in this case because, okay, they let's say failed on their promises because that's why there were, that was the news over the last time. On Newmond's side, now we had Barrick that acquired rent Gold. So there was some excitement, okay, the CEO has a bigger company, more mines, more ounces, more production, I'm probably getting rewarded for what I do. So if I do things, I'll get higher rewards, I get a bigger plane, there is no synergies between mines. If I listen to a Bloomberg interview from the Gold Newmond CEO, he says they will have synergies with the head office, they will have synergies with the regional offices and blah, blah, blah like that. So there is no real synergies. It is mining, you can hire the special squads that technology that assess the mines, how to do it, etc. What Newmond wanted is growth, as Barrick has merged with rent Gold. So they wanted, oh, we have to grow too, we have to be at high at that ETF level, we have to do something to deserve a bigger plane, a bigger salary, a bigger parachute, more options, etc, etc.  So no value creation here, it's not an acquisition, it's not synergies, it's not anything, it's just two management trying to improve their situation. And as I look over and over, as I looked through all the gold miners traded out there, I think I did more than 50 of them for my stock market research platform, I did see that there is really, really mostly overvalued miners and bad management with own interests. And I think the most important factor with this merger are own management's interest. And that's something you have to be very, very, very careful in the gold mining environment, in the gold environment, silver environment, silver mining, and all other, let's say commodities where it's very important to get equity to grow, to have a good story, more important that the actual cash flows that you produce. Newmond's CEO said proudly that they delivered 1.5 billion that they gave back to shareholders over the last five years. Five years, that's 300 million per year for a risky miner in the gold industry, I would expect a 10% dividend, so return. So the value of Newmond for me should be 3 billion, that's it from a business perspective. But then there is always the gold, the crisis that all those stories from gold bulls that actually fuel enough money into the sector, into the ETFs. And the CEO also managed how important are ETFs when buying selling. So those stories fuel ETFs and keep the market afloat. So it's a very, very risky situation, very dangerous market to invest in. If you want exposure to gold in a portfolio, when after I looked at all the gold miners out there, 99% of the population that wants gold exposure should go simply with physical gold. So thank you for watching, looking forward to your comments and I'll see you in the next video.


Welcome back to the breakfast on plus TV Africa and just before we continue with off the press let's talk about what happened today in history. We're going to be going to Iraq where on this day in 2005 Saddam Hussein did go on trial in Baghdad for crimes against humanity. The first trial began before the Iraqi Special Tribunal on the 19th of October in 2005 and you remember this was also after the Iraqi invasion by the United States and Allied forces. This trial Saddam and seven other defendants were tried for crimes against humanity with regards to events that took place after the failed assassination attempt in Dujail. He was captured by US forces December 13th in 2003 and of course remaining custody in the United States or by the United States forces in Baghdad along with seven other of his officials and associates eventually of course was found guilty and was hanged in December I believe of 2005 still. But of course there were a lot of critics for this trial a lot of people said that it wasn't free and fair and that he did not of course the trial didn't meet international standards and the right to a fair hearing. If for everyone who followed you know that period in 2005 was pretty interesting seeing how things played out.  From a president of the United States George Bush has also been you know thrown there's some anger that's been thrown his way you know because of how things played out with regards to Saddam Hussein and the fall of Iraq after his death and after his capture and of course how Iraq and Afghanistan's war eventually led to the rise of other terror groups in those regions ISIS to be precise and the likes and so it's a conversation that has many many angles and has including Libya too it has many angles and many directions but of course for people who are interested in learning about these wars and what led to them if you remember also this is coming you know just off the 2001 September 11 attack on the World Trade Centers. I saw a couple of reactions to Colin Powell's death yesterday that weren't necessarily in good faith a lot of people said that he was one of those people who along with Dick Cheney and George Bush led to the loss of you know thousands hundreds of thousands of lives in Iraq and Afghanistan. So it's an interesting time talking about Saddam Hussein now right when Colin Powell also has passed on at the age of 84. Stay with us right after this very short break we're going to be talking of Nigeria's exchange rate with two economists to share their thoughts on how far we've gone with regards trying to balance out the exchange rates in Nigeria and of course are the moves by the current Nigerian government. We'll be back.


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We continue today with Chapter 18, The Little Willingness. The Holy Instant is the result of your determination to be holy. It is the answer. The desire and the willingness to let it come proceed as coming. You prepare your mind for it only to the extent of recognizing that you want it above all else. It is not necessary that you do more. Indeed, it is necessary that you realize that you cannot do more. Do not attempt to give the Holy Spirit what he does not ask, or you will add the ego to him and confuse the two. He asks but little. It is he who adds the greatness and the might. He joins with you to make the Holy Instant far greater than you can understand. It is your realization that you need do so little that enables him to give so much. Trust not your good intentions. They are not enough. But trust implicitly your willingness. Whatever else may enter. Concentrate only on this and be not disturbed that shadows surround it. That is why you came. If you could come without them, you would not need the Holy Instant. Come to it not in arrogance, assuming that you must achieve the state its coming brings with it. The miracle of the Holy Instant lies in your willingness to let it be what it is.  Humility will never ask that you remain content with littleness. But it does require that you be not content with less than greatness that comes not of you. Your difficulty with the Holy Instant arises from your fixed conviction that you are not worthy of it. And what is this but the determination to be as you would make yourself? God did not create his dwelling place unworthy of him. And if you believe he cannot enter where he wills to be, you must be interfering with his will. You do not need the strength of willingness to come from you, but only from his will. The Holy Instant does not come from your little willingness alone. It is always the result of your small willingness combined with the unlimited power of God's will. You have been wrong in thinking that it is needful to prepare yourself for him. It is impossible to make arrogant preparations for holiness and not believe that it is up to you to establish the conditions for peace. God has established them.  Your willingness is needed only to make it possible to teach you what they are. If you maintain you are unworthy of learning this, you are interfering with the lesson by believing that you must make the learner different. You did not make the learner, nor can you make him different. Would you first make a miracle yourself and then expect one to be made for you? You merely ask the question. The answer is given. Seek not to answer, but merely to receive the answer as it is given. In preparing for the Holy Instant, do not attempt to make yourself holy to be ready to receive it. That is but to confuse your role with God's. Atonement cannot come to those who think that they must first atone, but only to those who offer it nothing more than simple willingness to make way for it. Purification is of God alone and therefore for you. Rather than seek to prepare yourself for Him, try to think thus. I who am host to God and worthy of Him, He who established His dwelling place in me created it as He would have it be. It is not needful that I make it ready for Him, but only that I do not interfere with His plan to restore to me my own awareness of my readiness, which I need add nothing to His plan. But to receive it, I must be willing not to substitute my own in place of it. And that is all. Add more and you will merely take away the little that is asked. Remember, you made guilt and that your plan for the escape from guilt has been to bring Atonement to it and make salvation fearful. And it is only fear that you will add if you prepare yourself for love. The preparation for the Holy Instant belongs to Him who gives it. Release yourself to Him whose function is release. Do not assume His function for Him. Give Him but what He asks that you may learn how little is your part and how great is His. It is this that makes the Holy Instant so easy and so natural. You make it difficult because you insist there must be more that you need do and it is very hard for you to realize it is not personally insulting that your contribution and the Holy Spirits are so extremely disproportionate.  Yet we have emphasized that you need understand nothing. Salvation is easy just because it asks nothing you cannot give right now. Forget not that it has been your decision to make everything that is natural and easy for you impossible. If you believe the Holy Instant is difficult for you it is because you have become the arbiter of what is possible and remain unwilling to give place to one who knows. The whole belief in orders of difficulty and miracles is centered on this. Everything God wills is not only possible but has already been accomplished. It has already happened and that is why the past has gone. It never happened in reality. Only in your mind, which thought it did, is its undoing, needful. And from the workbook, lesson 144 in the review, my mind holds only what I think with God. There is no love but God's. The world I see holds nothing that I want.


فشرف بل اشتغالي بالعلم ولا تبغي به ما عشت يا دا دا دا لا وياله من شراف عظيمي وياغفر بل الله فجيب ما دون دالكة فجيب أي شيء other than that لمن يشاء whoever he wills وما يشرك بالله anybody who associate partners with Allah فقد افترائت من عظيمة number five the fifth reason why the sheikh started with this is that the mushrik who associates partners with Allah in an Islamic country in an Islamic country he would be fought he would be fought because Allah said in the ayah فاقطول المشريكينة fight with the pagans حيث وجدتموهم wherever you find them وخلوهم take them وحصوهم siege them وقعدوا لهم كل مرسل sit with them in every place and the prophet said in the ayah اميرتو I was commanded اقاتل الناس I was commanded to fight with the people حتى until they say لا إله إلا الله فمن قال لا إله إلا الله anyone who says لا إله إلا الله his wealth is sacred for me it's protected for me ومالوه his wealth is protected for me his blood is protected for me وحسابه وعلى الله يتعالى and Allah is going to account him the day of judgment بقاري المسلم both narrated in the hadith in the masri so this shows us a Muslim can't be killed of course if Allah says he does what those exceptional things that if he comes with you will be killed such as if he commits a murder if he commits some major sins such as if he commits zina after marriage or unless he killed another person then the Muslim will be killed but generally the Muslim is not killed number six ان المشرك لا تقبل له شفاعة يوم القيامة an intercession will not be accepted from him the day of judgment the pagans those who associate partners with Allah they what do you call it شرك will prevent them from having the right to intercession or for them to even receive intercession done for them الله says in the ayah فما تنفعهم شفاعة وشافعين it will not benefit them the intercession of those who intercede الله says in another ayah in Surah غافر الله says مالي الظالمينة that transgresses and the wrongdoers they do not have من حمين ولا شفيع يطاع they don't have any intercesses and they have no one to care for them the eighth reason why the sheikh started with it is ان المشرك that the mushrik the one who associate partners with Allah سمع الله دعوة يوم القيامة he is calling will not be heard it will fall on dead deaf ears no one will listen to him ولا يقبلوا منه اعتدار and any excuses that he brings forward will not be accepted الله says ونادوا يا ماليك they will call on to the angel ماليك ليقب علينا ربك للا والله ججل بيننا and then he says to them قال انكوا الماكتون no one is going to listen to what you guys have to say الله says وقال الذين في النار لخزنة جهنما ودعوا ربكم يخفف عنا يوم من العذاب that the disbelievers those who associate partners with Allah are going to say to the the gods of the hellfire the angels are going to say to them ودعوا ربكم ask your lord for us ان يخفف عنا يوم من العذاب that Allah reduces that Allah reduces the punishment from us one day one day at least one day at least then we said to them قالوا اولمتك وتأتيكم رسولكم did it not come to you guys messengers and prophets did it not come to you guys بالبيلات with clear evidences قالوا بلاد is it of course قالوا فدعوا then it will be said to them okay ask your lord then وما دعوا الكافرين إلا في البلد but then it says that the calling of the disbelievers will only be misguided they are not going to attain anything from it the eighth reason why the author chose to start with this one is because أن المشرك that the mushrik has come with something that will prevent him from ever entering in jannah he will never enter jannah he will not even smell the fragrance of jannah and he will remain in the whole fire forever and ever and ever he will never come out الله says in the ayah anyone who associates partners with Allah فقد حرم الله وعليه الله has made jannah حرام from that person وَمَأْوَا هُنَّارْ وَمَعْلِتْ ضَالِمِنَ مِنْ أَلْصَارْ and the disbelievers they have no one given a picture so those are the reasons why the author chose to start with it and that's why he chose رحمه الله to mention that now we're going to move on to the second point the second point what does shirk mean linguistically and technically what does shirk mean linguistically and technically linguistically the word shirk means for what's moon it's a noun it's a term used لشيء الذي يكون بين اثنيني فصاعدا it is it's a term used for something that is between two things for example you would say قد اشتراك الرجلان the two individuals are in partnership you would say وشارك احدوما الاخر they've shared this it's one you're sharing something something between you two that's why what did he say to Allah when he was told to become a prophet and the responsibility of prophecy was given to him what did he say he told unto Allah رب شرح لي صدري ويسر لي أمر وحل العقدة من لساني يفقه قولي وجعل لي وزيرا من أهلي هارون أخي وشتود به أزري وأشرقه في أمر وأشرقه في أمر bring my brother Haroon on with me in partnership with this work and Haroon became a prophet from that and that was the biggest gift a brother can give to another brother the greatest gift right so when did he do he brought Haroon in partnership with him and what was it that they were sharing the Dawah and the calling unto Allah they were both sharing good that's what it means what does it technically mean when the word شرخ is used it's the same meaning you mentioned before but it's between what تسوية غير الله بالله it is to equal Allah to other than it's to equal Allah to His creation فيما هو من خصائص الله in things that are uniquely for Allah are we all together about صح so we now have to realize that shirk means تسوية it is to equal غير الله بالله equaling Allah to other than Allah or equaling Allah to His creation and making them same equal this تسوية this equally equalizing it falls into three things you can make Allah equal to His creation in His ربوبية in His in His ربوبية or His ألوهية or His أسماء والسفات His ربوبية you make Allah equal to His creation well in Al-Aliqah and the Brailleuys on the Sufiya and the Brave worshippers they only believe that equaling making Allah equal to His creation in ربوبية is where the problem lies that's what they think does it make sense that's where they went wrong they only think that you are a disbeliever and you fell into shirk if you equal Allah to His creation in ربوبية for example if you say this person creates and Allah creates does that make sense but we believe that that's one part of shirk are you with me shirk also fall into where ألوهية which is to equal Allah in the actions that you come with they don't believe that that's where they go deficient because they only believe that if you do shirk with Allah it means that you're equally Allah's actions Allah's actions that He does you're equally to the action of the creation that's the only one they think are we all together does that make sense but we believe if you equal Allah in your actions that you do and you do shirk in that with another creation then you've also fallen into shirk and we say that that type of shirk that falls into ألوهية is the one that the prophets came for because the kufar of Quraysh did not do they did not equal Allah with His creation in ربوبية they did it they came with شرق in ألوهية does that make sense and the third type which is شرق in what الأسمائي ولي ذلك الشيخ عبد الرحمن إبن حسن إبن محمد عبد الوهام إن أشرح عبد الكتاب فتح المجيد which is أشرح كتاب التوحيد he says when he speaks about shirk he says it means تسوية المخلوق بالخالق it is equalizing the creation to the Creator good have we learned it now and we know the process of استحديت which is what وَلِلَّهِ لِدَّنْ وَهُوَ خَلَقَكَ that the prophet said the greatest form of sin is what to equal Allah to His creation when He is the one who created you are we all together very good now we move on to we move on to the third point which is what's the reality of shirk when it touched on it when I was defining it I told you guys and brothers and sisters because many people don't understand the reality of shirk they run away from shirk but they fall into shirk how they're running away from the term but they're not running away from the meaning does that make sense to you guys in other words they hate the term shirk but what they're doing the reality of what they're doing and the meaning that's in shirk is present in you and the reason why that the person is falling into that is because he doesn't understand the reality of shirk what really is shirk and I did tell you guys that shirk is what it is when you make the creation equal to the creator are we all together and we said that it falls into the three types that we mentioned which is in Allah's which is Allah's actions everything Allah does we can't associate anybody with Allah in it Allah is the only creator Allah is the only sustainer Allah is the only provider we only believe that are we all together are we all together we also single him in the actions that we come with we don't fast except for him we don't slow to accept for him we don't supplicate and we don't call on to accept him we also single him in our actions we only pray to him are we all we only take an oath on him we single him in our actions that we come with and we also single him we also single him in his names and attributes we know Allah He is hearing he befit his majesty Allah seeing befit his majesty we know Allah's hand befit his majesty he is not like his creation we do not make the creation and the creator the same in this regard are we all together so if you don't understand the reality of shirk what will happen you fall into something you are running away from and I just said to you a couple of minutes ago that the people who believe that shirk is exclusive to rububiyah they fall into shirk when they are hating the term they hate the term they hate shirk they don't want to be from the mushrikid but they are falling into it because of the fact that they think it's what that you only have to single Allah in his actions that Allah does are we all together no you need to single Allah in your actions that you do you are a slave does that make sense very good and ibn al qayyim expands on that and he talks about that in great detail in his kitab and also ibn al qayyim talks about it in great detail in his kitab and now I'm going to go into a fourth point I'm going to go into I'm going to a fourth point which is andwa'u shirk the types of shirk there are and I'm going to mention a babid for all of the types I mean how to distinguish one from the other when you look at the means when you look at the Quran when you look at the sunnah and when you look at the أقوال of the علم the statement of the scholars the shirk is categorized into two the first one is major shirk and the second one is minor shirk the Quran has shown that and the sunnah has shown that where is the evidence for this categorization the evidence is the statement of Allah Allah said anyone who associates partners with Allah فقد حرم الله وعليه الجنة الله has made جنة حرام from them وما أقواه النار and the hellfire is the final abode وما للضاليمين من أصار and the wrongdoers they don't have no one giving them victory this ayah is now talking about the major one by by agreement between the scholars this is what he's talking about it's talking about the major one also Allah says الله has sent a revelation on you محمد and he has sent a revelation to the prophets that came before you that anybody who associates partners with Allah in action will nullify their righteous deed and they will be from those who are lost so those two ayah that I mentioned are for the major one where did the minor come from the minor comes from the authentic that Imam Ahmad narrated in his muslim عن محمود ابن الربيع رضي الله تعالى عنه محمود ابن الربيع محمود ابن البيت محمود ابن البيت رضي الله تعالى عنه he said that the prophet صلى الله عليه وسلم has said إن أخوا فما أخافوا عليكم الشرك الأصر the thing that I fear the most for you all is the minor shirk companions then said وما الشرك الأصغر what is the minor shirk the prophet said شو enough شو enough البارل رحم الله he authenticated this حديث صحيحة حديث 951 if you want to see more about this categorization of the shirk go to the kitab first volume 339 to 340 47 go to the مجموعة الفتاة بالشيخ الإسلامي the first volume page 90 داوة الدواء بايمون القيم page 196 to 208 go to the kitab في مصايد الشيطان first volume page 71 to 76 and also شيخ صالح الفوزان he has a دروس القرآن العظيم lessons on the Quran is published page 172 to 173 we've now understood the evidences for major and minor shirk we want to now know what is the babid how do you know one from the other how can I say this is major and this is minor how do we know شيخ من العثيمين when he was asked كل شرك every shirk that the shariq restrictly says و هو يتضمن و يتضمن و يتضمن and it consists in it in other words the shari'a has to refer to this as shirk number 2 this thing has to be something that will take you out of the religion what's the babid for shirk asghar then we understood now akbar what is the babid for shirk asghar is as legend and daima said and this is the best babid that was placed for it but our legend and daima they mentioned it from now on 70 they said كل ما نهى عنه الشرع it is anything that the shari'a prohibited مما هو دريعة إلى الشرك الأكبر and it is a means to the major shirk و وسيلة للوقوع فيه I will lead you to the major شرك وجاء في النصوص تسمية and the shari'a refers to this as shirk so it's anything that the shari'a prohibited it refers to it as shirk and it is a means to the major shirk it's a means to it now I'm going to mention the differences of the two point number 5 what's the difference between the two types the scholars they mentioned many differences for the two types the first one is شرك أكبر it will take you out of the fold of الإسلام whereas the major shirk will not take you out of the fold of الإسلام number 1 number 2 major shirk all your righteous deeds will be nullified minor shirk all your righteous deeds will not be nullified number 3 شرك أكبر it permits a person's blood and wealth شرك أكبر does not permit that how many points did I mention 3 4 شرك أكبر if the person dies upon it he will stay in the hellfire forever شرك أصبر he will not stay in the hellfire forever and 5 الله does not forgive a person who comes with major shirk if he dies upon it of course and the one who comes with minor shirk he falls under Allah's Mashi'a according to one of the opinions of the Ulama the sixth point that we take the sixth point that we take is شرك أكبر it falls in أولوهية الربوبية and ألسماع وصفات and examples for each one so I did mention it before but I didn't give you examples I'm going to give you guys I'm going to give you guys examples examples of شرك الربوبية is that the person believes that there's a person who is other than Allah who can actually benefit you and harm you they have the ultimate stress to benefit you and harm you independently or they are with Allah in benefiting you they can benefit you as much as Allah can benefit you they can harm you as much as Allah can harm you they believe Allah they run your affairs as much as Allah runs your affairs they believe that they created you as much as Allah created you this person has fallen into a شرك الربوبية but the disbelievers they didn't believe that Allah is the only creator Allah is the only provider Allah is the only one who can zabate Allah is the only one who can harm they knew Allah raised if Allah wanted to raise some they knew Allah raised the only one if somebody is humiliated they knew Allah'sвал they knew all of that will-i-scha believed إذا كنت تساعد مع الله سبحانه وتعالى سببري أو تساعد مع الله أو تساعد مع الناس أتمنى أنهم سوف تساعد معك أو تساعد معك منكم كل هذه الشركة أكبر سأعود إلى تيسير العزيز الحميد الشرح عن سليمان 40 الثالث one is شرك في الأسماء والصفات شرك in what? Allah's names and Allah's names and Allah's names and attributes and this happens in two ways in Allah's names and attributes it happens in two ways number one is شرك التعطيل شرك التعطيل means the shirk of distortion where the person he distorts Allah's essence سبحانه وتعالى he distorts Allah's essence in other words the person denies Allah سبحانه وتعالى like what فرعون said I'm your supreme lord he has distorted he has dismantled Allah's existence سبحانه وتعالى فرعون وهيد this is called the second type is شرك التمتيل شرك التمتيل is two types شرك التمتيل means the shirk of comparing and it's two types is when you compare the creation to the creator comparing تمتيل المخلوق بالخالق the first one is comparing the creation to the creator like the nasara did they compared عيسبن مريم with Allah مع الله يأخذ عيسة ويجبه أشبت الله رباً تمثيل الخالق بالمخلوق هو أكثر من الأول هو خلق إلى خلق فأعطي الله كارتوريسيكي ويضعه سبحانه وتعالى ويأخذه أبناء مثل بعض الناس يأخذون الشيخ الإسلامي المبنوطيني في مجموعة الفتاة يتكلم أنه مجموعة من الناس who used to say يأخذ كل شيء except a bead and a private part كل شيء أخرى يأخذون يحب the creation and everything else يأخذ the private part and a bead لا نعطي ذلك كل شيء أخرى الله سبحانه وتعالى يأخذ it with the creation ويأخذ it like the creation for him This is called شركة التمثيل الخالق بالمخلوق سوف نتوقع there إن شاء الله وتعالى فتلي إذا كنت تريد أن ترى أكثر عن هذا تمثيل الخالق بالمخلوق وتمثيل المخلوق بالخالق سأذهب إلى المقابل سأذهب إلى مجموعة الفتاة by Ibn Taymi first volume page 90 1 to 92 الدعوة الدواء by Ibn Qaym page 190 8 to 206 الكتاب التنبيهات السرية على الواسطية 1126 العلام السنة المشورا by Hafد الحكامي page 50 to page 84 مدارج الساليكين first volume page 339 to 347 تيسير العزيز الحميد page 43 to 46 كل هذه المكانات you can find those references إن شاء الله وتعالى anything which I have said that was wrong incorrect is from me and shaitan and Allah and his messenger are free from it سبحانك اللهم بحمدك أشدوا الله إلهي لله أستغفروك وأتوب إليك