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I'm like the only calm What's up everybody welcome back to the channel I'm evil rabbit here on Forza Horizon 3 and this time not joined by but I am joining into ZDC cruise server They are we're having a little bit of a birthday bash celebration for their leader trainwreck So it was really awesome for them to invite me in try and grab some doors with them You know had a lot of fun sliding with these guys You know we had a little bit of fun, you know getting into some other cars that wouldn't normally drift So like I said guys, I actually got a chance to join in so I'm gonna show you guys some of the clips from when we were Getting doors with the ZDC crew. So hope you guys enjoy this and let's get some drips going Now it's time. No, it's time to drive Let's do this I'm gonna do your track All right Is this the figure right one? No, it's a little different it just sweeps It's the track that I'm gonna be running in my like Yeah, it's like the first track that we're gonna run Like a short and sweet isn't it? Yeah, it's short and sweet, but it's really nice for taking tandem doors. Don't hit the parking block See oh Mimmy throw they Full 900 degree lock and I didn't spin out. Okay, and didn't spin out crazy I'll take that Good Bye-bye It's over And I was life Petouchie Wow All the left foot brakes Yeah, I just did that right now Actually like Better It's nicer to be able to slow down and stay behind our Rather than like you breaking it and clutch kicking it. You just yeah, that's it. Yeah Gotta late start on that one. I didn't hit anybody That's like the real drive Where's the logo drift car I'm still trying to get the tune dialed in for it, but it's a very touchy car.   It's raining. Oh, this thing is so hard. I Need to tune it See this car has like a thousand horsepower, but it it's slower All right, I want to see if I can actually stay behind one of these cars that are not a thousand horsepower Let's go doors Yep All the doors train Let's go. I got a capture clip of that. I was looking at but looking at my window at you Pretty sick kind of like this car now Hope so, man Expect for that It's the half the truck.   Or is it just because the front wheels are spinning I'll give it's not Oh Looks like I don't know why but ocean was Tweaking out on my screen Yeah, he just slid and then he bumped me.  It's just more crowd Training I right now Doors Literally like past me the great coupon from door to door there. Yep. Just like a Mustang always always always hitting things I don't want to hit you. Oh Wow, how did I not hit that? Oh? Man down man down. I don't know. I can't drift in the rain. I don't know why There's always the option To find it just just for the crack It's perfect In mutes Mike just make sure it's the right one.  Oh my god I'm kidding with this thing is it's too much power for this weight doesn't have enough power Yeah, the hell is that it's looking three-wheeler What They lost me Sorry, I don't have any Guys really I just kids here comes the van. Oh Jesus the pedo What is a lobby I drew I drew what did this turn into?  Oh job job I don't know if I consider getting doors Because you don't really have doors You're getting ledges is it doors or am I getting yeah ledges We're getting doors of ours because I've got loads of bars on the side of the car, but walk And I technically don't have doors. They don't open. Yeah Well, that's gonna do it here for this episode here on Forza Horizon 3 with a zombie drift crew or ZDC Big shout out and I want to make a big. Thank you to train rec panda private fluffy ultimate drop an example and also hissing ocean for allowing me to come into their lobby and Grabbed doors with them great group of guys if you don't know who they are I'll leave their new Instagram link down in the description box below as well as train recs Link in the description box below great group of guys It was so awesome to be able to come into their server get invited to come tandem with them and grab doors We had a lot of fun. There was a some really cool door action going on in this lobby We we had some other fun later on but that's for another later episode here on the channel But also I want you guys to check out six speed these guys do represent six speed If you don't know what six speed is check it out The link will be in the description box below six speed does have accessories for your car such as horns Toe hooks, you know lug nuts and stuff like that. So check it out if you're looking for actual, you know Accessories for your car. They got some pretty cool stuff on there So make sure you check out six speed alter high performance It's down in the description box below and as always guys You know, you can follow me on Facebook twitch Twitter and Instagram all of which are found in the description box below So until next time guys, I'd like to thank you guys for watching. I'm evil rabbit


Shia Islam encourages people to ask questions and to inquire into the truth if one has reservations. It places great emphasis on not just knowing but understand the beliefs and acknowledging the truth. So when I look into the event of Ghadir, many questions are raised. If Ghadir was that important for the religion of Islam, why have so many people rejected the succession of Imam Ali? You know, of course there must be some sort of justification. So I've set myself the task to find out the reason behind it. Why are the Shia Muslims so driven by the event of Ghadir? You know, why do they turn a sermon into one of the biggest eads of their calendar? As we know, Amir al-Mu'mineen, Ali ibn Abi Talib, salamu alayhi, is the primarily the cousin of the Prophet of Islam. So the son of his uncle Abu Talib. What we also understand is that he was like the younger brother of the Prophet of Islam because there was a age difference between the two. And he himself mentions that his older brother, the Prophet of Islam, he would follow him and gain from his teachings in the way that a young child of a camel would follow its mother. Wherever the child, wherever the mother will go for water and food and whatever, the child will follow. He says, I had the same relationship with the Prophet of Islam. So yes, he was related to him through family. Also, he was his very close friend and confidant. As we know, we hear reports of during the primary formative stages of Islam. The Prophet of Islam would, for example, be in the middle of the Hajjahs in Mecca, for example, praying, sat up. And the Arabs at the time, the Murshalaqeen would say that we would see two people next to him. And we don't know what they were doing. They would be bowing down and going into a type of prostration. We didn't know what this was. One of them was his cousin, brother and friend Ali bin Ali. And the other was his wife, Lady Khadija. And we'd see that they were always together. Also, we understand that there needs to be a differentiation between the companions and Amir and Mu'minin. What do I mean? There was a very famous, well-known Sunni-alim scholar who had many followers. And we don't need to mention his name. He asks his son one day, which of the companions of the Prophet of Islam were the best? So he replied and gave certain names. So the father said, you've done a big zolim and injustice. This is a Sunni-alim. The Sunni-alim. To his son. To his son. He says, why have I done zolim and injustice? He said, you mentioned all of these names, but you forgot Ali bin Ali. So the son, what does he reply? The son replies, no father, you have made a mistake. He says, what? You asked me who are the greatest companions of the Prophet of Islam. The son says, Ali bin Ali isn't a companion. He's part of Ahlul Bayt. And there's a difference between a companion and he who is part of the house. Because a companion is external to the house. There are certain things a companion isn't taught. But a person who's part of the house is aware of all of the affairs of that house. That's why when it comes to the Rewa'at, they say how Ali bin Abi Talib to the Prophet is like the head to the body. Why? What does this mean? Because without the head, you can't recognize the person. Without Amir al-Mu'mineen, you can't recognize the Prophet of Islam. Wow. So this is how we understand the relationship of Amir al-Mu'mineen with the Holy Prophet. So because the event of Ghadir has been a disputed topic. Very much a very disputed topic. How did the event of Ghadir take place? What actually happened on that day? As we know the Prophet of Islam on the 10th year after Hajjira. So after migrating to Madinatul Munawwara, he performs what we call Hajjatul Wida'a. Which is also called Hajjatul Balagh, Hajjatul Kamal. The final Hajj. The only Hajj that the Prophet of Islam performs in his life. In this Hajj he would say khud minni manasikakum. Take from me the rituals of Hajj. So he told the people you need to do Hajj. You need to perform Hajj at least once in your lifetime. This farewell Hajj come with me, accompany me and take from me the ahkam of Hajj, how to perform the Hajj. So we are told a large group of Muslims, number one, conglomerated and came in Madinatul Munawwara itself. Others, they met the Prophet of Islam on the path, on the way to Mecca. Why? To perform the farewell Hajj, the last Hajj with the Prophet of Islam. Here history tells us that five or six days before the Qaeda he leaves. And it was the Saturday that he left. As I said, the number of people with him, there are different reports, but in the hundreds of thousands. And the number of people that performed Hajj with him were even more. Why? Because there were some that were already in Mecca. When he gets, he performs the Hajj as we know. On his return from this farewell Hajj, on Thursday the 18th of the Hajj, which we today know as the Eid al-Khaliyya, he stops in that place. There was water in that area, as we said, he stops in that place.  Some people had already gone ahead to juhfa. He scored them back. There were some people that were slightly slow in coming, he waited for them to come. He prays Salat al-Duhr. And the historical reports mention that Jibrail comes down with this verse of Quran, So spread the message of that which Allah SWT has revealed to you. And if you don't mention this message, you haven't given your message, you haven't spread the message of your prophethood. And Allah SWT, don't worry, you tell the people what the truth is, Allah will protect you from the people. From any backlash that they may be. I.e. tell them about the willy of Amir al-Mu'minin very clearly. Historical reports mention it was so hot that people would take their cloaks and and place it on their feet while praying the Asala because of the heat from the pebbles and the grats. When they come together, then the prophet of Islam mentions his khatbah, his salmon, which is a very well-known salmon. After praising Allah SWT, he mentions that Allah SWT is soon to take my life. And I can soon tell that I will be called and I'm going to say yes. I called by Allah SWT to return to him, I'm going to say yes. And so I fear for my ummah. He would mention, can you hear me? He said, I spoke to you about not leaving the Thaqalain or Thaqalain. One person says, what is the Thaqalain? In this Hadith of Ghadir, he mentions again the Qur'an. Okay, so twice? Yes, twice. He says, of course, the Qur'an and my Ahlul Bayt, after which he goes to speak about the succession of Ali ibn Abi Talib SAW, saying that if I have a willaya over you, do you accept it? Awla bikum min anfosikum? They said, yes, we accept it. He said, in the same way that same willaya Ali ibn Abi Talib has, over all. Exactly. So first he introduces himself. Do you accept me to be a wali over you, someone who has authority and leadership? They said, yes. In the same way, then you have to accept it. And then three times he says, man kuntu maulah, Some say that he mentions this on four occasions, after which this very large number of people have heard, they then start coming towards Amirul Mu'mineen to congratulate him. So this is very briefly what takes place on the day. A sermon is given and they say, this is the longest sermon of the life of the Prophet. He never gave a sermon that long. Why is the last sermon, whatever he needed to mention to the ummah. It's a great opportunity. He mentions many things in that sermon, of course the most important being this. At that time, then, Jibrail comes down again. Okay. With the verse. Today you have completed your religion. I have completed your religion. I have completed your religion. Today I have given you this religion complete. And so then when the Prophet of Islam hears of the completion of religion, of religion. He is happy and Salah Al Hamdulillah my Lord is happy with my Risala, my message ship and what I have given to the Ummah. Looking through many books from both the Shi'a and Sunni sect I have found that there are 256 narrations that speak about the event of Ghadir. One narration mentioned in a Sunni source that stated that Umar Ibn Al-Khattab the second Caliph pledged his allegiance to Amir al-Mu'mineen and said to him that you are my leader and the leader of every Muslim. I carried out further research and found many narrations from Sunni books alone. I went online to look at different websites to gain a better understanding of what really happened in Ghadir and to my surprise I found 256 narrations that they were pretty similar to one another. One of the narrations I came across was one that stated that Umar Ibn Al-Khattab was one of the companions that pledged allegiance to Imam Ali and told him that you are my leader and the leader of every Muslim. Speaking to Sheikh Shabbar raised more questions and increased my curiosity. Why have a successor and what is the importance of a successor? I reached out to Sheikh Muhammad Abbas Panju to help answer these questions. When we look into the history of successorship amongst the previous prophets you always find that within the monotheistic faith beginning from Adam all the way to Nabi Isa the prophets were always appointed by Allah and declared by the Holy Prophet. None of them were elected. So for all the Anbiya from Adam to Isa we have a trend that every one of these Anbiya have left behind have appointed a successor upon the command of Allah. Then why the exception for Rasulullah who is the Khatam of all Anbiya? Who is the greatest of all prophets. And then after Khilafil Quran because it goes against the Quran and we have verses within the Quran that speak about how the nomination and the appointment of the successor of the prophet is a directive from Allah through the Holy Prophet. For example if we were to refer to the Quran what is the opinion of the Quran if you could use the word opinion? What is the opinion of the Quran when it comes to successorship? Can it be nominated or is it an appointment? Let us have a look at one verse in the Quran in particular Surah verse number 142. Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala says he is narrating for us the incident of Nabi Musa. Why does Allah mention stories in the Quran from other prophets? For us to learn from. The idea of these stories of the past is for us to draw lessons from them. So keeping this in mind, Bismillah ar-Rahman ar-Rahim wa wa ad-dina Musa thalathina laylatan wa atmamnaha bi-ashurin fatamma miqaturabbihi arba'ina layla. When Allah Az-Zawajal promised Nabi Musa and called him up to the mountains for 30 days and he added upon these 30 days another 10 days making it a total of 40 days. This is a verse talking about the incident when Nabi Musa was called up to the heavens and the entire Torah was revealed upon him. Nabi Musa was going to be away physically away from his people for a period of 40 days. Hence in his absence, what did Nabi Musa do? Wa qala Musa li'a-khihi haroona akhlufni fi qawmi wa aslih wa la tattabi'a sabi'l al-mufsideen. When he was leaving for the mountains, while he was going to be absent from the people, Nabi Musa made his brother Haroon, his Khalifa and said to him, wa aslih fi qawmi wa aslih wa la tattabi'a sabi'l al-mufsideen. Ensure that there is virtuousness, rough translation within our nation, within my nation, and do not follow the path of those who have gone astray or for those who mislead other people. The word over here is Wa qala Musa li'a-khihi haroona akhlufni fi qawmi. Musa said to Haroon, I make you a Khalifa over my ummah. Musa is appointing the next Khalifa. The Nabi is appointing his brother as his Khalifa. Subhanallah. And we have a hadith in which there is again an agreement between the ummah and the khasa, wa Rasulullah said to Amir al-Mu'mineen, anta minni bi manzillati haroona min Musa. Accept that you are the same position to me as Haroon was to Musa, except that there is no Nabi after me. But yes, there is no Nabua, but in the issue of Khalifa. The lesson that we take from this verse in the Qur'an, if Nabi Musa, who is going to be physically absent from his community for a period of 40 days, leaves behind a Khalifa, appoints a Khalifa for the people, then what about Rasulullah, who is leaving physically the dunya? He doesn't leave behind a successor? And he's supposed to be the best in the seal of all prophets? For the notion that the Khalifa should be nominated from amongst the people, contradicts the Qur'an, contradicts the sunnah of all the other previous prophets before Rasulullah. But Sheikh, what would happen to a community, to the religion of Islam, if Rasulullah didn't leave a successor? Of course. The problem number one is that when you do not have a divinely appointed successor, the first issue is the issue of elections. You nominate a person, you elect a person amongst yourselves. What if this individual does not represent the majority? Can you impose the nomination of a minority upon a majority? Even according to secular, atheistic, democratic principles, it doesn't make sense. Number two, can you impose the election of a certain or the nomination of a certain individual 1400 years ago? Can you impose the nomination of that individual 1400 years ago on this generation, this day and age, on what basis? So there are major issues when it comes to justifying or warranting the issue of nomination. This is number one. Number two is that the problems that we see in Islam today is a direct consequence of the fact that people insisted on the belief that the Holy Prophet did not leave a successor. The first problem that comes out is the misinterpretation of the Qur'an. Because as we earlier said, one of the responsibilities of the successor of the Holy Prophet is to preserve the interpretation of the religion which is taken from the Qur'an. So the first consequence of not having a divinely appointed successor is that the Qur'an is open to misinterpretation from fallible people. And this is 100% what we see in this day and age. Look at the verses of the Qur'an that are justified by organizations such as Al Qaeda and Daesh. Every beheading that they have carried out, they have used the Qur'an to justify. Sexual abuse and slavery of women, be it from the Yazdi community or any other community, they use the Qur'an to justify this. Every video production that is made by a terrorist organization such as Al Qaeda, such as Daesh and outside of them, and this is something that is information that is available for the public to see, every video broadcast before any suicide bombing or any terrorist attack, they have began their video with the recitation of Qur'an and citing verses from the Qur'an. And we say this is our first problem over here. The first consequence of straying away from an appointed successor, appointed by Allah and His Prophet, the successor, the appointed yani, by Allah, the communication through the Prophet. The first issue is the misinterpretation of the Qur'an to justify war and bloodshed on earth. Number two, deviation. When interpretation of the Qur'an is taken from other than the successor of the Holy Prophet, in the absence of the Prophet, we are assuming misinterpretation, yani deviation. It is Muslim scholars who came forward and attributed bodily characteristics to the creator of the universe. Within the books of the Muslims, Allah has a leg. Within the book of the Muslims, Allah sits on a throne. Within the book of the Muslims, God is not just. All this ideological deviation is a direct consequence of the Ummah not referring back to that appointed successor of the Holy Prophet, because of the insistence on this notion that the Khalifa can be nominated. Tell you today you nominate a corrupt one.  So you see that this opens all doors of chaos. And on the other hand, you see the divine wisdom behind the appointment of the Holy successor through the Prophet on command of Allah Azawajal. It only makes sense. If the successor is the representative of Allah, then the representative of Allah is selected by Allah. How can I have a representative of Allah who is not even the choice of Allah? Impose my choice on Allah Azawajal? Cannot work. What's the Sunni perspective of what happened at Ghadir? The first thing we need to understand about the hadith of that we have of Ghadir is that, for example, Allama Amini mentions in his hadith that 110 companions of the Prophet of Islam have narrated it. And he said this isn't something that we should be surprised about when hundreds of thousands with it. 110 companions of the Prophet of Islam narrate this hadith. And this hadith is very unique in the sense that we have what we call in the sciences of hadith Tawatur. Tawatur means that it's very widely narrated. It's so widely narrated, any hadith, that we don't require to look at the chain of narrations and narrators. So, for example, if I have one hadith coming from 15 different separate chains, I don't need to look at each one because I know that 15 separate people from separate groups, from separate tribes wouldn't have made this hadith up, Tawatur. So Tawatur is the greatest type of hadith, the strongest type. Tawatur then also has different categories. Tawatur, Lefzi, Tawatur, Ma'nawi, Tawatur, Ijmali. The best of these is Tawatur, Lefzi, where all of those different narrations that we have those chains have mentioned the narrations with the same wording. Okay. So, of course, it strengthens it. Sometimes they didn't mention it in the same wording, they just like differences. For example, Tawatur, Lefzi, no. All of them from the different chains have the same wording. The example that they give is Al-A'malu bin Niyat, this hadith is said to be Tawatur, Lefzi. Different chains all mentioning the same wording. Al-A'malu bin Niyat. An example of Tawatur, Lefzi, and Hadith is Hadith of Khadir. Man kunti Ma'la, fa haza aliyun Ma'la. Okay. Allahumma wa aliman wa la wa aliman wa ta. Ahlus Sunnah number one, all of them accept that this event took place. Okay. They accept that it took place. For example, I have here Ibn Taymiyyah mentions wa thabata fi sahi Muslim and Zaydi bin Arqan, they narrate from Zaydi bin Arqan. Yeah, yeah, yeah. He says, and it's proven from Sahih Muslim and Zaydi bin Arqan Anhu qal khatabana rasulullah bi ghadir yud'akhum bina makkata wal madina. He gave a quote to us in a place called Khom, in between Makka and Madina. Zaydi bin Arqan mentions the Rewire about what takes place. Ibn Hajar says, anha hadith al-ghadir sahihun la muryata fi. There's no doubt about this hadith. It's sahih. Wow. Khoop. Wa la iltifata liman qadaha fi sahatih wa la liman raddah. And don't, there is no paying attention to that person who tries to say it's weak, who tries to negate it. So they accept the hadith awwalan that it took place because you can't deny it. When so many companions and tabaeen and Sahih Muslim, Anfaq razi, and Tafsir ibn Kathir, and all of these have mentioned. So they didn't deny that it took place. What did they deny? They denied what it signified. So they tried in different ways to explain that this was an actual fact, something different. It wasn't an appointment of succession, an imam an wilay. What did they say? For example, they said, number one, that what this whole issue was about was that before the farewell Hajj of Amir al-Mu'minin was in Yemen. It was sent to Yemen. Okay. By the Prophet, peace and blessings of Allah be upon him. They said there were certain people that spoke out against Amir al-Mu'minin in Yemen, and so he was upset. And so in response to them, the Prophet of Islam took Amir al-Mu'minin and said, look, whatever you have said, it's not true. He's all of our friends and he's my friend. So they said it wasn't to do with appointment. It was rather to do with, no, he is our friend. We accept him to be our friend. And those people that spoke out against Amir al-Mu'minin, you shouldn't have done that. That's how the first thing they tried to do. Here our Ulema, of course, give the very simple example that if it was to do with friendship, why then would he say, am I not awla, bi kum min anfusikum? Why would the Prophet of Islam say, do I not have a right over you? Here awla doesn't mean do I not have friendship over you. Yeah, of course. It means of course, do I not have a right over you in leadership? Why would he say, I'm about to pass away, let me mention this before I pass away? Just for friendship, I mean, Amir al-Mu'minin. That's the first thing they said. The second thing some tried to say, which was very funny, was that they tried to say, Amir al-Mu'minin wasn't even in Ghadeel in the first place. This was a very few number of people. Many of the Sunni Ulema, as we've just seen, said, how can you say that one? Ghadeel is mutawatir. So that was something which was very weak. A third group came and said that the hadith isn't Sahih. We've just read from Sahih Muslim and Ibn Hajir, that the hadith is Sahih, and I'm in 10 campaigns mentioned. So then what did they say? They said, it took place. Amir al-Mu'minin was there. It was just to show his great merit, but there is no mulazima, there is no necessity between him having great merit and him being the successor of the prophet. This is what they said. And then they also, which was the biggest criticism they had, which our Ulema replied to in depth, was the issue of maula and the meaning of the word maula. Speaker's Corner is a famous area in London where many people gather to preach and speak about their ideas. Many shia's and sunnis come here to discuss and debate the aspects of Islam that the two schools of thought disagree on the most. As I was unable to get a statement from the Sunni scholar, I thought I should go and see what the everyday Sunni knows about Ghadeel. This is meaning Nabi'a Ulam. Nabi'a Ulam means he has an authority over you? Okay, aula. Then? Me, I'm for you. That's the only part he used? Yes, yes. He didn't go on to the, because if you want to go on to the rest of the verse, then we're going to have to start to go on to the rest of the verse. The rest of the verse demolishes your beliefs. It says, on the wife of the Prophet, did he bring it in Ghadeel? Did he bring it in Ghadeel? Did he bring it in Ghadeel? No, you have to answer my question. Did he bring it in Ghadeel? Did he say, wa az-wajul Nabi'a Ulamahatum? Did he bring it? No, no, no. But the Prophet picked that section of the ayah. He said, alasun Nabi, aula biqum min anfuzikum. He just picked that. He stopped there You're trying to... Okay. So we are understanding this is abonement of a leader? Yes, definitely. Okay. Definitely. The Prophet, sallallahu alayhi wa sallam, has abointed a leader at the time for the Muslims. Okay. Yeah? Yeah. I understand you're right. No, no, no, no. After him. What's after him? He's saying, is it, do we give wa laia for Ali from that time or not from that time? Yeah, of course, Omar pledged the legions. Okay, so, Ali became a leader from that time? So, we have two leaders for the Muslims? No, you don't have to. Within the life of the Prophet, sallallahu alayhi wa sallam. The Prophet is one leader and Ibn al-Ali is the second leader. And we have two leaders. And this is not true. The Prophet, sallallahu alayhi wa sallam, he was in charge of the Muslims until he died. He was all in charge. Okay, okay. Let's, okay. So, you're understanding about having two leaders. You're understanding is wrong. Hold on, hold on, hold on. Hold on, that's in your books. That's not in our books. But, when he said, when he said that I am his Maula and he appointed him as the, when he after him, and I showed you from two different sources, from Sunan Ibn Maja and from Jama'at-Tirmidhi. Wa la yawwi kibwa laatu ali you're giving me wa la yafur ali and this is our list of leaders. And Sunan Ibn Maja say, Sunan Ibn Maja, Sunan Ibn Maja and Jama'at-Tirmidhi say, that Ali is a part of me and I am a part of him and no one shall represent me. This is, in the occasion, he sent them as leader for this militant group. Yes, it is Harith. Harith, Harith, I pray to Allah. She's now, now you're making a stop. Now you're making a stop. Ali has been appointed as a leader for a war. After me, he says after me. He went for a fight. Habibi, he says after me. He doesn't say in this war. With these people, he appointed a war. No. He doesn't say in this war. If the Prophet SAW appointed Ali or anyone, to be the leader for these people, they are traveling for a purpose. So after the Prophet, after he leaves the Prophet, who is the leader for them? This is the context of the Harith. Okay. How are you? Look at this, look at this. Ibn Abbas said, they are attacking a man to whom the messenger of Allah, peace be upon him, said, you are the Wali of every male and female believer after me. Al-Haqim says, the hadith has a Sahih chain. Al-Dahabi corroborates him. Sahih. Sanny Sholz mustadrak ala Sahihain, volume 2, page 144. And if you want me to bring you the hadith where Omar pledged allegiance to him on the day of Ghadir, I will have to do that. The barth about Omar is not authentic. Why isn't it authentic? It's not very fair to be authentic. Who unauthenticates it? Yeah, the scholar is a hadith for Muslims. This barth is not authentic. And even if it is authentic, for the argument, it does not mean leadership. What? He pledged allegiance to him. Ali has chosen, if you want to understand your broken understanding. But Ali, Omar ibn al-Khattab went for Ali ibn Abi Talib and told him, I accept you as my leader. Well, the prophet is there. Well, the prophet is still alive. If your understanding is correct, well, the prophet was alive, Omar ibn al-Khattab gave and accepted Ali to be his leader while the prophet is alive. How it can be that he can have the prophet as the leader of the believers I know how it can be as the same time leader of the believers. Yeah? I'll show you, I'll show you. You'll go and mix it again. Sadly, I didn't get what I was looking for. Every time I tried to speak about this topic of Ghadir, the conversation was directed towards the topic of the mothers of the believers. We have different schools of thought based upon the event of Ghadir. The Shi'a School of Thought believed that the event of Ghadir was to appoint Imam Ali, alaihi salam, as the successor. Other schools of thought think otherwise. How was the event of Ghadir throughout history? How was it hidden from the people? And why was it hidden? It's a very good question. A very sensitive question. But in the pursuit of truth, truth must be told. There are multiple reasons for this. One of this was in this day and age and throughout history. The reality of Ghadir was hidden because one of these reasons be, upon the martyrdom of the Holy Prophet, sallallahu alaihi wa alaihi wasallam, there was a systematic approach implemented to prohibit and prevent the recording and the transmission of narrations. Conveying hadith was a crime. In the first days of the Muslim Ummah upon the martyrdom of Rasulullah, during the rule of Abu Bakr, Umar ibn Khattab and Uthman ibn Affan, it is a known fact that steps, governmental steps were taken to systematically remove and get rid of and destroy the hadith literature that existed in regards to the Holy Prophet. We have a text which is a very famous text and a very well-referenced text. References from both schools of thought, the Amma and the Khasa, a book known as Man'u'tadween el-hadith or the prohibition to record hadith authored by his Eminence Ali Shaharistani. It is a very well-referenced book and I advise for yourself, for myself and for all our viewers to refer back to this book in order to be able to see what the reality was in terms of crimes committed against our Islamic heritage, literature, the hadith of Rasulullah. So the first answer is that the leaders of Saqifah upon taking power had implemented this strict rule that no hadith was to be conveyed and all hadith that were previously recorded during the time of Rasulullah were actually to be burned and you find that through this eradication of hadith, the many merits and the many virtues of Amir al-Mu'minin including those virtues and the event of Idul Ghadir, this was the first step in obliterating the zikr or the remembrance of the event of Ghadir and the divine or the divinely granted position to Amir al-Mu'minin and his family. And then you see that throughout history this continued during the time of Mu'awiya, during the time of Mu'awiya ibn Abi Sufyan, you see that people were persecuted just on the basis of not only being the Shi'a of Amir al-Mu'minin and Ali ibn Abi Talib but recording or transmitting hadith of Ali ibn Abi Talib. These were people who got killed for this. Let's say the event of Ghadir happened and everyone acknowledged Imam Ali al-Hassan to be the Khalifa and we didn't have events such as Saqifah take place. Do you think Imam al-Hassan al-Hassan would be killed? Do you think the Shi'a who are the minority in the world today do you think they would be in fear? Do you think they'd be slaughtered? Sayyid al-Shuhada, Aba Abdullah al-Hussain alaihi salam was martyred in Karbala as this martyrdom, this open persecution and the killing of Imam al-Hussain and his companions was a direct consequence of what happened in Saqifah and the command of Ghadir being disobeyed. Prior to the martyrdom of Rasulullah the household, the holy household was one that was held with esteem and great reverence from amongst the ummah because there are hundreds of verses revealed in the Quran that speak about the sanctity of the family of Rasulullah the ayah of Tathir for example being one of them, Ahlul Kisa but when the event of Saqifah occurred and the commandment of Allah through Rasulullah on Eid al-Ghadir was disobeyed the people of Saqifah eradicated this level of sanctity associated with Ahlul Bayt this esteem that was associated with Ahlul Bayt they violated that number one by having the audacity to burn the house of Sayyid al-Zahra and assault her the fact that they had the audacity to physically assault the daughter of the prophet this now opened the doors for anyone and anybody who wanted to make a claim to Islamic leadership if this Ahlul Bayt stood up as an opposition they now found an excuse and they had a they found this excuse to physically attack them and kill them in the worst way possible because there was a precedent already set during Saqifah Allah Azza wa Jalla created us such that we may fulfill the purpose of our existence be prosperous in this world as well as the hereafter and in order for this to happen he selected for us these divinely appointed guides but when mankind decided to follow shaitan and wage war on Allah we see the destruction and the chaos in the name of ideology in front of us today and this is a direct consequence of disobeying the command of Allah and his prophet for Eid al-Qadir which is why we are of the opinion not only the opinion but we have this firm belief backed by fact from Hadith and Quran that in order for peace and tranquility and justice to prevail on earth in order for prosperity to prevail on earth we have to go back to the Ahlul Bayt it is their leadership it is their teachings that ensure that prosperity will prevail on earth from my research it's evident that the event of Qadir plays a major role in the division between Muslims although we spoke to the Shi'a scholars such as Sheikh Mohammed Abbas Panju and Sheikh Shabbar Mehdi and they gave us a clear perspective of the Shi'a view of the event of Qadir many scholars that we contacted were not happy to speak to us on camera and we encountered a similar situation in speaker's corner where Sunni brothers were not willing to speak to us on camera and when we did get a person to speak it turned into a massive debate Allah SWT has never left this earth without a divine authority


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Hello and welcome to Under the Dome from Town Meeting TV. My name's Bobby Lucia and I'll be your program host for today's show. Under the Dome is Town Meeting TV's coverage of the Vermont Legislature. In this series, we speak with legislators and advocates about the bills moving through the legislature this year and what they might mean for you and your neighbors. On this program, we're joined by three legislators from Essex. We're joined by Ray Garafano, Representative Leonora Dodge, and Senator Tanya Vihovsky. Thank you all so much for joining us today. Great, so we'll start with you Tanya. So this is your first term as a Senator after moving over from the House. So can you just speak a little bit about how your experience is compared, as a Senator, compared to what you experienced in the House? Yeah, absolutely. I mean the Senate is obviously a much smaller body, so a lot of the work I have found is very relational and there's a lot of capacity to sort of shift conversations in a way that I didn't experience as much in the House, because I recognized my time in the House was really colored by COVID and the fact that I started out online and the vast majority of my time was on Zoom, so I think that that was an impact as well. So I don't know if I actually have a fair perspective of what it's like to be in the House when it's fully in person as it is now, but I certainly have found, you know, serving on two committees is a big difference between the House and the Senate and so I certainly have found, like, I go home and my brain is tired in a way that it wasn't in the House. Yeah, definitely. And Leonora, this is your first term as a House rep. Can you share a little bit about what you've learned about the legislative process and what your work actually looks like? I would say that it is very relational. Maybe that is a result of there no longer being, you know, the COVID restrictions and we are in the space. I have loved my committee experience and, you know, I feel very fortunate that we kind of have a whole crew of folks from Essex and, you know, we all have really great working relationships and can pull from each other's specific perspectives of committee experience to, you know, to deal with constituent work and, you know, and to approach, you know, complex issues. Yeah. And so, Ray, you're working on the Human Services Committee, which I know is a lot of attention on it right now. So can you share a bit about what you've been up to in that committee and what you've been up to this session? Sure. Thanks so much for inviting us today, Bobby. Yes, I returned to the Human Services Committee, and I'm so grateful for it because I love that group of people. And we've done some larger bills this year. So the first half of the session, we primarily worked on a bill that had to do with protections for vulnerable adults. It was legislation that had not been updated in 50 years. So we took a lot of deliberate testimony from and heard from various stakeholders. So that took a big part of the first half before crossover. And then we also passed out an opioid overdose reduction bill. That was an omnibus bill that we're really excited about. This was something that we've been working on in committee since last year. A bill that we had last year was vetoed, and we weren't successful in overriding that veto. So we're really hopeful that we have a stronger bill this time, and that's working its way in the Senate right now. And the last four weeks have been all about childcare, so I know we'll get to that later. But that's another big piece of legislation that's before us, and that legislation started in the Senate. It came over to us about four weeks ago, and we have been very, again, deliberate in hearing from various stakeholders and thinking about how to stabilize the system and also how to increase access for families. Yeah, I want to jump into that childcare, Bill. I want to just go back and ask a quick question about, you said a bill to protect vulnerable adults. What do you mean by that? So folks who have disabilities or are older remonters that may not have agency to fully take care of themselves. So this bill, there's the Department of Aging and Independent Living kind of oversees nursing homes, home providers that help assist and support those vulnerable adults, and there's laws to make sure that they're protected and not being abused or take advantage of financially. Okay, that makes sense. So yeah, let's jump into some of those big investments that are on the table. Childcare is one of them, paid family and medical leaves and other affordable housing is a big one. Can you each speak a little bit to the impact, these big bills, these big investments that might move through the legislature this year? What impact might they have on your constituents and both in terms of the services and resources that they will provide to the folks that you represent as well as the tax impact that they'll see? Maybe we'll start with you, Tanya. Yeah, absolutely. So the way I look at it, childcare and affordable housing are sort of the two critical economic issues that are facing our state. We can't have or develop a workforce if people don't have a place to live and send their kids to high quality and affordable childcare. And so while the sticker price on a lot of those is pretty high and the long run, that is an investment in the growth of our economy and in the growth of Vermont. So I think it's really critically important. You know, I think about, I mean, I'm a renter because I can't afford to buy here, so the affordable housing pieces is really personal to me and it's been pretty sad over the last few years as I sort of watched the dream of owning a home in the state I grew up in just fade away. And so I really recognize that so many young Vermonters and older Vermonters are really struggling with this. You know, my grandparents, my mom pays their property tax or they wouldn't be able to afford to live in the home that they have raised their family in. And so I know that it's just, it's facing all of us and it's really critically impacting so many things. And so the, you know, the housing bill is really meant to prioritize building affordable homes in already existing town centers to really maximize population density so that it isn't, it isn't encouraging sprawl. So we are able to maintain the Vermont that we all know and love while also making investments in building that people can afford because we've underbuilt for 50 years and we have an aging housing stock. And so I think it's one step, but I think there's a lot more that we really have to do before people are going to start feeling relief. You know, building takes a long time. We know we have a high rate of second homes in Airbnb and so I think there's a lot more that we're going to need to do before people are going to immediately feel the relief, but I think it's a really good first step. And the child care bill as well, I mean, it's a huge investment in the future of Vermont. You know, I worked as a school social worker for quite a while and I knew within the first 30 minutes that kindergarteners were in the building who had access to high quality early education and who didn't. And those, that lack of foundational support and education carries with that student throughout their educational career incurring additional cost through special ed services and through behavior support. So it's really, again, it's a big sticker price, but it's an investment in less cost over time. The one thing that I was actually really kind of disappointed about in that bill is how we decided to fund it by removing the child tax credit that we just set up last year, because I really feel like the families that are going to lose access to that child tax credit while they'll gain access to child care really need both of those things because these are some of our most vulnerable families. Thank you, Tanya. Leonora, some of those big investments. What do you think the impact will be on your constituents for some of those bigger bills? I think that with, you know, Tanya touched on housing and on child care, I can speak a little bit to the paid family and medical leave, which, you know, in our discussions and, you know, I think that we also have this kind of, you know, like the tax credit or not, you know, we're always balancing like what can we afford. And I think that with paid family medical leave there has been this very, very careful and I feel very astute approach of investing state funds and then having a universal system where everybody pays a little bit so that if and when any kind of employee needs to take time off that it doesn't affect them. It doesn't affect the time off if needed, regardless. But let's not make it sink them into financial ruin on top of ill health or tragedy in their families. And so I think that it will also, as a woman who chose to stay home for a while because I didn't have access to any kind of leave or affordable child care, I am really, really in strong support of both of those policies and I have lived in societies where they are both available and they help rather than hinder economic progress, gender equity, and family welfare. Yeah. And you mentioned that there's always that balancing act of how do you raise the revenue in an equitable way. You mentioned the sort of universal approach to making sure everybody chips in a little bit. How do you make sure that that is not sort of a regressive, doesn't have a sort of regressive effect on taxpayers and make sure that people are paying their fair share? So my sense is that it is going to be somewhat in line with salary, I believe, with certain caps. And if everybody is doing a little bit of their share, then by that very nature, folks who can afford to will be, you know, and employers won't be saddled with the entire cost of having to, if they really want to retain or they really, truly value this specific employee that they won't feel, you know, that it's all on the employer's pocketbook. And for people who are self-employed, they can also, you know, they'll also be eligible for this benefit. So let's maybe move on to the child care bill and talk a little bit about what that bill actually might do for families in Vermont. Sure. So as Tanya said, we got the bill from the Senate and we are hoping to pass it out this week, actually, on Wednesday, which is why I have committed later this afternoon, which is very unusual. So the structure of the bill is two-fold and it has to focus our two-fold. To increase subsidies for families. So more families in Vermont can get, receive federal help to pay for high-quality child care and to increase wages and benefits for the workforce. As Tanya mentioned, you know, there are certain areas of state government that have severely been underfunded for years and years, decades. Housing is one. Child care is another. Supports for older remonters is another, which is a topic you didn't ask about, but that was included in the budget and the big bill and it's something that is really important to me and it's a priority. But related to the child care bill, I think if we make it more affordable for families and then pay the workforce more, it'll stabilize the system. What we're hearing is that many of the child care centers that are operating have the space, but can't get the staffing. Thus, they have these really long wait lists, especially around infant and toddler care, so they can't open up classrooms that they have.  So if we can increase the wages so that people in the field feel like they're being compensated for their education and, you know, our licensing regulations in this state require a certain level of credentials and education and it's only fair that we pay those professionals commiserate to those experiences. So I think the economic impact in Vermont and in the future of our children is just gonna pay in abundance in the future.  Is there any other big investments that we haven't touched on yet that you've been working on? I want to get into some of the smaller bills that I know don't get quite as much attention, but before we move on to those, is there anything big picture that you all have been working on that you want to highlight? I do think one of the investments that is being made, we're using the opioid settlement funds to make some really strong investments in harm reduction. I think when all is said and done, we're gonna spend about $8.2 million of that fund to try to save people's lives and that feels really important to me. It's not quite as big a ticket as some of these other programs, but I do think it is really a critical investment and it's been really great to get to behind the scenes. I'm not on the committee of jurisdiction. Be a part of making sure that that's really grounded in harm reduction and not simply prevention. A lot of the focus in the past has been prevention, prevention, prevention. And while prevention is important, we know that for the third year in a row, we saw a record number of Vermonters die of fatal overdoses, so we have to do more than simply prevention. We have to also invest in harm reduction and that money is really being moved in that way and I think that that's really important. And I'll also add, if I may, I mentioned the budget bill earlier, but I think we were very intentional in putting some significant investments in areas that have been underfunded for many years. Supportive services for homelessness has been one. Supportive services for folks with disabilities. Housing for folks with disabilities, so those are all areas that there were significant investments made in the budget bill that will have a huge impact in the next year. Thanks, Ryan. I'll just add that in transportation, there was like an $860 million bill, one massive one, that there was significant investment in reducing greenhouse gas emissions and so I'm really proud of the work that our committee did in taking testimony from everybody from car dealers to environmental groups and the administration and the agency for transportation and how to best focus the funds that we do have so that we are truly targeting the vast majority of our funds towards helping the most needy Vermonters access green technology, whether it's an electric vehicle or getting charging. And I think that Vermont is, we can be proud to say that we have the highest per capita charging stations, but yet that still probably feels like not enough and so I'm really glad to see that we're moving further in that direction, always taking into account the rural nature of our state, our dependence on vehicles. We also pushed for investments in public transit. The House, our House Transportation Committee wanted to put an extra million dollars into Green Mountain Transit so that they can extend the current zero fare policy beyond it was supposed to end this July and we extended it so that it would, or we proposed, they used this million dollars to extend it until January so that in that time they could truly work towards kind of a tiered fare system so that people who really need free transportation can still benefit from it and then those who can pay will pay. Thank you, Leonora. You've each mentioned a bit of your priorities and some of the things that are moving forward. Are there any priorities that each of you have that you haven't been able to move forward on or make progress on, any bills that didn't make it through crossover or that you would have liked to see move forward that maybe you have an eye on for next year or that you would have liked to see move a little bit more than it has this session. Tonya Mingle, we'll start with you. Yeah, absolutely. So in the Judiciary Committee, one of the conversations I'm really hoping to have a much deeper conversation around next year is looking at some of the decriminalization bills and really taking public health and public safety issues out of our criminal justice system and grounding them firmly in the healthcare system. So we have a bill on the wall that would decriminalize consensual adult sex work, really opening up an avenue of safety in that and are much more likely to not be able to seek help if they're being abused or trafficked by decriminalizing it opens up an avenue for people to be able to report that. And we're also looking at a bill that would decriminalize personal use amounts of drugs and again really recognizing that our criminal justice system is absolutely the worst place to be dealing with trauma, mental health and substance use and those are healthcare issues and by decriminalizing giving people access to the healthcare that they need to tackle those issues. So I'm hoping that in the next session we are able to pick up some of those conversations and really think about how we transform the way in which we respond to those. And then in my other committee government operations I'm hoping in the next session and the latter part of this session to dive into police oversight and really looking at police training, police qualifications and oversight so that we can really build a system of policing that's grounded in community and public safety and that has transparency and trust. We've certainly seen many, many issues whether it's with sheriffs or I feel like every day I'm reading a new article about a place where community and police trust has broken down and I really want to work to rebuild a system that actually centers the needs of every community. Thank you, Tonya. Leonora? Yeah, I'm thinking I feel like I'm still in the eye of the hurricane and that we are still working very actively on dealing with as many bills as we can. Our committee spent the first two months of session just dealing with the one massive transportation bill and then even though there are other bills submitted into the committee because that's such a massive priority. Certainly there were some of the really interesting ones for instance one of our committee members proposed has this great idea of all along the Connecticut River all of Route 15 having a bike trail kind of like the Lemuel Valley rail trail system that connects the north east to west having something that goes north south and I think some of those amazing exciting obviously would never happen overnight so I'm excited for some of those you know just the the very start of the spark of an idea that then you know who knows you might be able to enjoy something years down the road that you were having conversations about. Yeah, so I help run and lead the social equity caucus for the House and the Senate and we have last biennium the caucus develop the bill tracker that tracks all the bills that have an equity lens so my priority and I hope to spend some time over the summer working with the caucus leadership on that is really identifying a few of those bills some of them Tanya already mentioned but there's others that really bring an equity lens and think about systems that have been built that are very inequitable for certain populations and how do we identify a couple of those for the next session and then maybe have like a long-term plan of you know we all kind of experience this at the beginning of biennium or the beginning of the session you know a lot of bills get introduced and there's a lot of stuff that goes on the wall and you know I like to think about things systemically and it's like specifically related to the social equity caucus how can we identify some things that have you know maximum impact may be feasible in the amount of time that we have for the next session so I would really love to spend some time prioritizing several bills that we can maybe lobby the committees of jurisdiction to take up for next year that have already been introduced that's so interesting thank you is that available publicly? it is yeah we meet every Thursday at 4.30 and there's a website I'm happy to forward it to you yeah welcome welcome to join and listen in thanks so much I want to shift for a second to a more local focus you're all coming from Essex and in 2021 Essex Junction voters opted to become a separate municipality from the town of Essex and that separation took effect last summer so have you found that this split on a municipal level has any impact on your work in the state house and the priorities of your constituents and the way that you bring them into your work and maybe if either you want to join maybe I'll start with you Lenora sure so we actually our district now includes about a fifth of our or a quarter of our constituents are from the city of Essex Junction which has been really interesting to try to stay on top of what's going on in the two municipalities I would say that having to rewrite the Essex Town Charter has been kind of one of the things just when you get an email from a constituent and the address is Essex Junction we always have to look up and really be careful of what's going on which has allowed this team effort of working to respond and to help out with issues like unemployment insurance and stuff like that I would say that there's a great sense of relief to some degree that now we can just get on with the whether it's housing committees or energy committee or economic development committees that it just took all the oxygen in the room the merger separation issue for so many years and so I think that we're regardless of how I feel about whether we're together or not together I feel like I get that issue less and less people are less concerned about that and I'll share that because the district lines don't really follow municipal lines we have various sections of the different town cities different municipalities as a group we made an intentional decision early on to kind of keep the school district delegation together that was kind of our formula because there is a lot of crossover and overlap so the six of us really strong amazing women from Westford, Essex and the city of Essex Junction working very closely together and that kind of mirrors the school district so we can partner in things that are related to the school district which is very large and we all have different committee assignments except for one of our delegation is on health care so it really lends itself to really great partnership and working together and then I'll just say I'll echo what Rep Dodd said that I'm really grateful that we can now move forward each municipality has this opportunity to kind of make their town and city what they want with their residents so it's the sense of let's you know put the past behind us and move forward with our new municipalities so I think we'll move on to our last question here which is so you know we're sort of a month away from the end of the schedule the end of the legislative session how can your constituents get involved in the legislative process at this point if at all and how can they reach you and how do you kind of approach the process of bringing their priorities to your work at this point and maybe Tanya can start with you? Yeah absolutely I mean I'm always happy to engage with constituents it's really some of my favorite part of this work is really hearing the various different things that are happening in communities and generally the easiest way to reach me is by my email or calling the Surgeon at Arms office and they can relay messages to me and you know at this point in the session kind of what's moving is moving and so I think that the well I always want to hear from people about priorities whether it's moving or not in the back of my mind but in this moment I think the best way to get involved is to sort of look at what is made crossover and what's moving and weigh in on how it might be made stronger how it might impact that individual person as we sort of finalize and craft what's going to ultimately become law this session and I know that there's also almost every day there's well no every day there's some sort of advocacy happening within the state house whether that's a group in rallies or a group in the card room having an advocacy day and so connecting to groups that are fighting for the issues that are important to you is another really great way to get to the state house and talk to your legislators I mean that's I think one of the beautiful things about our Vermont legislators how accessible it is like I remember the first time I went in as a much younger person and I was like oh these people like they're right here like I can just walk and talk to the governor who's sitting in his office like having a coffee hour and so I think that that's really important and I as a social worker really value the creating space for people to tell their own stories and really share with us how whatever is happening or not happening is impacting them and so I really advocate and actually just last Friday had a constituent come and testify on a bill in judiciary that would have prevented just incredible harm that had happened within the judicial system to her family and that's because she had reached out to me in the summer and told me her story and kept it in the back of my mind so when this bill came up I was able to be like do you want to come testify on this and tell us the real human impact that this had and so I'm always advocating that we don't just hear from the same commissioners and secretaries of agencies but that we're actually hearing from the real people on the ground that are being impacted by the work that we're doing. Thanks Tanya Leonora how can your constituents get in touch with you and how do you move their priorities forward? Yeah so aside from the usual emails or phone calls we've been holding monthly community conversations and weekly legislative updates on front porch forum and through Facebook Instagram so I feel like I've had a lot of constituents communicate with me and at our last community conversation I kind of brought up the fact that I think in terms of effectiveness the best thing is to really give as Tanya said when you give a personal story and how something will impact you or is impacting you it goes further than just saying vote now on this or I want you to vote yes on this and so when we get we want to hear from the constituent not from the lobbyist that's behind the constituent that's the whole point we don't just want to hear the lobbyist and so those are the and I've had our long conversations and I've printed out bills and driven them over to constituents who think that some bill is going to do one thing when in fact it's not at all it's going to do something else entirely and then once we read the language it kind of helps to make sense of what's really going on I think there's a lot of information and I've really enjoyed the chance to speak directly with people and be able to walk through a bill or walk through a policy together and I've really learned a lot from my constituents about what it is that they're afraid of or hoping for yeah I'll say same and also add their issue caucuses for many different issues and those are open to the public so if you're passionate about climate or social equity or rural Vermont and different women's caucus those are great opportunities because there's many legislators that go to those so you kind of have an audience with legislators and similarly I think reach out to us but reach out to us and let us know how does this impact you specifically I love meeting with constituents I'll also say get involved in your local town and municipal government because that kind of bubbles up and I know a lot of those structures have a lot of vacancies right now across the state because people don't have a lot of time so that's another great way of just getting involved and learning more about how government works and how to have impact in your local municipal government or state government I do want to quickly add that we also do some monthly-ish constituent meetings and our next one with the three Chittenden Central Senators is actually this Saturday at the Fletcher Free Library at 10.30 so if people want to come talk to us they can meet us there. Great thank you so much Senator Vihovsky Representative Daj, Representative Grafano thank you so much for joining us today and thank you for tuning in under the dome we'll continue through the end of this legislative session connecting you with the legislators that are making decisions in Montpelier so you can find this program and others on our website at ch17.tv or on our Town Meeting TV YouTube channel thank you so much for watching and sharing under the dome from Town Meeting TV have a great day


Eco-sufficiency. Eco-sufficiency requires a reduction in the consumption of energy and natural resources and in the generation of waste among which GHG emissions in absolute terms. This goes beyond the goal of increasing eco-efficiency, which focuses on increasing output per unit of input to foster decoupling. Given a very loose relation in rich countries between GDP and human well-being, pursuing eco-sufficiency may be possible without reducing the latter by, for example, increasing leisure and communal activities.


So I'm I'm Laura Thomas, and I'm the interim state director in California and Before I get to start talking about Mark Kinsley I just want to hear another round of applause for all of the California folks in the room who work so hard on these bills So we're we're two for two on our bills this year And we've got two that are coming up in January, and we're gonna get those through too So it's been a good year in California But I am so honored to get to present this award to Mark Kinsley and the world of harm reduction You know you've really made it when the People's Harm Reduction Alliance makes a t-shirt with your face on it and Sure enough Mark Kinsley is one of the few people with a t-shirt and it says the godfather of harm reduction so I am So honored to get to present this award because Mark Kinsley is one of the people As an educator he educates us and he educates everyone else law enforcement officers people in recovery But one of the greatest gifts that he's given to this movement is the mentorship and the compassion and the Generosity and the support that so many of us have gotten from him I would been asking people at this conference like What would you say about Mark Kinsley if you only had two minutes to say it because that's kind of an impossible task So I was looking for help and over and over people said he's so he's generous with his time He always picks up the phone when I call he's the one who mentored me He was so supportive and generous when I was just starting out when I was just learning this and I had all these questions People have said he was a he was a model of how to be a mentor and made me Remember how generous he had been to me. So Mark Kinsley has worked all over the country He's an original part of the New England Mafia with that godfather of harm reduction And right now he's in Texas a state that probably needs him more than any other state Where he created the Texas overdose naloxone initiative and has been bringing naloxone and syringe access Deep into the heart of Texas when Houston was hit by a hurricane this year and everyone who uses drugs in Houston was worried about how they'd get access to Syringes to supplies that they needed who was there, but Mark Kinsley Bringing the syringes bringing hope bringing harm reduction to folks who was surviving the hurricane there So from from Connecticut and New England to Texas He's not only the godfather of harm reduction. He's one of the biggest hearts that we have in the harm reduction world So congratulations Mark I'm still more comfortable in shooting galleries and crack houses and I am up here That might not be a good thing. I um, I Want to thank DPA for this honor and And I'm humbled by the fact that there's Many people in this room that deserve this as much. It's not more than myself and You know, I had the opportunity to be mentored myself by some people that Really taught me the the principle is a harm reduction with miss Edith Springer and and Dave Purchase and George Kenny in Imani Woods You know, I I've been fortunate enough to do You know, my signature on my email says that our Calling is that place where our inner joy and our inner terror connect and And I believe that this work has allowed me to achieve my calling this has been a hard thing to watch and even to Think about accepting an award when daily I get calls from others Who have lost another child? You know to to an overdose so it's always Ironic that um, you know, we we celebrate in the midst of You know a crisis that Is just now really starting to be looked at in an appropriate manner You know having heroes like Eliza Wheeler and dr. Stan Cliff and The many people that are doing You know old people like Gary Lange's that are still doing this work So I I'm really honored to accept this award and in in the half of everybody that gets up every morning with With an opportunity to make a difference in somebody's life. So thank you very much


Warning, this video contains many clips of pimples popping, exploding, cysts bursting at the scene, pus, blood, and other bodily fluids. If you do not want to see the popping of pimples, do not watch this video. I have been debating whether or not I want to record this video for quite some time, because the subject matter of this video, there's no in-between. You either love it or you hate it. Alright? Which one are you? You let me know. Today we are going to be reacting to some of the internet's best pimple pops. I am not going to lie to you. I love watching pimple popping videos. I love them.   Don't watch this video, but this video is for my fellow freaks who love to watch pimple popping and they think that it's satisfying, alright? Pimple popping gang. Rise up. Is it going to be cat? That's kind of nice. I do love that this is the top one of the pimple popping subreddit. That's great. Oh, baby. The ingrown hair ones. It's going to go, it's going to go. Wait for it. Wait for it. This is going to take a billion years, but it's going to be good. It's going to be good.  There is so much hair.  How does that fit? That's like, that is so much hair. Oh my god, Jeepus. Oh my god. He had a piece of metal shrapnel in his forehead. Magnets? I was kind of sick actually. Whoa. That is probably not a good thing to do, but that was kind of cool. This guy's going to be huge. This guy's going to be gigantic. Do you think it will be better than the last though? I think it has potential. Get closer. Let me really see that guy.  I've never had an ingrown hair like that.  How do you get that much hair ingrown? Oh, oh. Big ol' extraction.  Oil, oil, oil. Oh my god. What is that? Is that your thigh?  That was like milking a cow.   Oh, and now you got that sack that's just really good. Jesus Christ. Oh, I like this. Stop apologizing for your body. We came for the pops. We didn't come to judge. That's great. I love that. As a person who used to have like cystic acne, I used to apologize to people when I would enter the room, which is very sad. I used to be like, oh, I'm sorry for my acne. It was very sad. What are you going in? Ow. Oh, that's like, oh my god. Make sure if you're doing this with tweezers and stuff that you sanitize it beforehand.  That's just a hole in your...  That is just a hole in your face. Oh, I love. This is sort of the same boat. Well, yeah, yeah, yeah. I'm assuming. Ear extractions in the same boat of gross stuff that I do like to watch. This looks painful though.  Oh man, that's crazy. I kind of, I've been wanting to do that for a video going, getting like a professional ear extraction done. I don't know how much wax I have in my ears. I don't think it's anything crazy like that, but it would be, I think it would be kind of cool to get them all gooped out. It's a big blackhead. Whoa. Oh. Dude, sometimes it looks like, like the pus is like teleporting. It's just suddenly there. Oh, that looks like a mushroom. Oh my God, this is a goopy guy. Oh my God, it's like cauliflower. Oh no. God, that would hurt so bad. What? See, it's just teleports. That was a pecan. Look at all that. Oh, and look at the little holes that leaves behind. I don't have tryptophobia, so this is fine for me.   Oh man.  What kind of sound is it going to be? Is it going to be like a... Oh, God. Oh my God. That is so inflamed. That looks so painful. I mean, you can tell by his face.  This video is going to get claimed. Oh, it's going to go all over the myrore. All over the mirror. This one's girthy. I thought it was going to go all over the mirror. That one was a girthy guy. Oh, and you already had some over here. Oh, it looks like noodles. It just straight up looks like noodles. It never ends. That's going to goop all over you. Oh my God, this is amazing. Oh my God. Oh, this is amazing. Oh my God. There's like a frog jumping out of his arm.  Oh no, that hurts so bad. What? Oh, I do love these, though. The poor removal thing. It never works like that, though. I never, I never get them like that. Never do I ever. That's nice. All right, friends, I'm going to end that there. What a journey. I didn't see as many crazy ones as I thought, but maybe we'll leave that for another video if people want this. Again, this video is probably going to get age restricted. But I know that there's a niche out there. And I know that some of you will appreciate this. I love watching pimple popping. I know it's gross. But I enjoy, it's satisfying. Anyway, thank you guys so much. Let me know what you thought of the pops. What was your favorite? What was your least favorite? Which pimple was so overhyped? You know? Anyway, thank you for watching.


The Lagos Chamber of Commerce and Industry, LCCI, has asked the federal government to replace Nigeria's existing borrowings with asset-linked debt to ease the nation's huge service in the burden. The federal government spent 97% of its revenue for the five months of January to May 2021 on debt service, and this implied that for every 100 Naira revenue generated, 97 Naira was expended on debt service. In a statement on Sunday, Chiniri Almona, the director general of LCCI, said the country's debt situation has become worrisome with debt servicing consuming a significant share of revenue.


You know if you will think more in terms of how can I add value to people rather than how can I get a job, you will send yourself off on a road less traveled and down that road you will come to an intersection between what lights you up and humanity's need for what lights you up.