It's Commander Ron Sonier, S-A-U-N-I-E-R of Major Crimes, so I'll go ahead and get started. I wanted to just give you a kind of a brief update and wrap up into the investigation that occurred at the National Western Complex, the motorcycle swap meet that occurred January 30th, 2016 at approximately 1248 p.m. So like we've gone through a lot of the details, previous stuff, but upon arrival, officers located four gunshot victims that were transported to local hospitals. Three of them were in a critical condition, one in serious condition. One of those that was in critical condition was pronounced at Denver Health Hospital by Dr. Shepard 13 or 127 p.m. That was Mr. Mendoza. The scene was secured as best as we could there and then processed with witnesses being transported to headquarters. We have been involved in a very active ongoing investigation since that time to include hundreds and hundreds of hours by the detectives, crime lab, and everybody else involved in this case. Bottom line detectives learned that there is a confrontation. Normally I don't go into kind of the stuff, but I'm just going to go ahead and use the two groups being they're out there very well in the in the media and such. So confrontation between the iron order and the Mongols on a stair stairway in the complex one off or one shot. The original confrontation turned into a physical fight. And at one point, Mr. Duran wound up pulling out a gun. That gun had very little influence towards the deal. Several comments were made according to witnesses and according to Mr. Duran himself. He believed at that point by what he's telling us that he was in danger and fear for his life. He was in fear for the life of other individuals that were being assaulted. He fired one round with one party being struck at that point in time. Mr. Duran then went up towards the top of the stairs where they all kind of waited up there. Their group was separated. He believed he wanted, you know, they wanted to try to get their group together. We do have based on video evidence and stuff, you know, a lot of things cooperating what we had from the witnesses. So at the top of the stairs, Mr. Duran talks about being up there. Mr. Mendoza comes through the line of group has a gun in his hand. He fires one time. That round wound up grazing Mr. Duran's side and then entering another individual and that bullet remains in that individual. Mr. Duran then fired a shot back at Mr. Mendoza striking him. At that point, the groups kind of took off to various locations seeking first aid for their help. Like I said, we have a lot of evidence that was found at the scene that was processed. We have video surveillance from the complex that was taken. We have other video that was obtained throughout the event that we looked at. Bottom line. We had upwards of the mid forties and witnesses that we talked to in this case either at the scene, brought down here for video interviews or did phone on interviews if they weren't there. Of those 40 plus witnesses, at least 17 of them were with the iron order that were there that day. Each and every one of them came down here. Mr. Duran want to make it very clear that this has been a homicide investigation throughout. We have not considered this to be an officer involved incident at all. Early on in the investigation, we looked up the state statute that is required and Mr. Duran's color of authority is only applicable when he is at his facility that he is working. He is not a class one peace officer nor did Mr. Duran any time during this incident claim that he was taking action under his color of authority. So this has been a homicide investigation from the onset of that. Of the iron order because this question has come up. None of the ones that came down or that we knew that were identified to us were working in law enforcement capacity at the time of this event. I believe there may have been some of them or one or two of them that had previous law enforcement, but none other than Duran had any active law enforcement employment at the time of the event. Like I said, we had approximately 30 independent witnesses that we talked to above and beyond the initial iron order that came down and gave us statements throughout kind of afterwards. I believe that we have done a complete thorough investigation into this based on talking to all the witnesses based on looking at video evidence that we obtained from parties that were videotaping to surveillance and everything else. So everything kind of comes together and cooperates. What everybody has to say. One of the victims was with the Mongols that did suffer. It was in critical condition when we did talk to him to try to get more information from him. He chose not to talk to us or cooperate with the investigation as it went on. So like I said, we kind of worked through that. We had 20 plus 911 callers that called 911 during this event and we have tried to reach out and contact each and every one of those. Some were more willing than others. Others, you know, gave what they did. So I made the comment during the early stuff. We needed people to come forward and bottom line. I think we have a real good idea of what happened. We did present this to the district attorney yesterday. Uh, and it is presented as we do in all homicide cases. We're gonna present it looking at the most serious charge that's possibly out there, which in the state of Colorado is going to be first degree murder. And it's that to include everything lesser to go down the event or down the lines. So it was presented kind of in that manner. Looking at all of the facts, uh, what the district attorney and we don't make this determination. It's gonna be up to them. But in the state of homicide or to a lot of crimes, which is self defense. So it is up to the defendant to bring up this affirmative defense. It is then up to the district attorney's office to disprove that self defense to a jury of 12 beyond a reasonable doubt. And that based on what the district attorneys talked to us about, they do not believe that they are able to proceed forward. Any questions related to that? I would have to kind of refer to them on this. Uh, there's definitely throughout the investigation, self defense was brought up by multiple people. Uh, other witnesses that kind of corroborated what was going on. There was an allegation. I know that the attorney for the Mongols brought up about Mr. Durand's intoxication level. Uh, go ahead and address that right off the bat. Uh, we had detectives that were at the hospital very early on in this case within probably an hour or two that had contact with Mr. Durand. The officers had seen no one at any time. Nation I. E. You know, smelling a heavy odor of alcohol, bloodshot, watery eyes, his gait actual time later. We did not see any indication of intoxication. Uh, we would have to prove that beyond a reasonable doubt too. So that item was addressed to the best that we could through the investigation. So that being said, I guess I can open it up for any questions. Yes, sir. We'll hit. We do have evidence that shows possibly it's hard to say because we do have, uh, in one of the guns that was recovered evidence of a misfire, which matches what witnesses told us they saw. So there could have been another round fired the gun malfunctioned it functioned when tested here. Uh, but what bottom line what comes down in this trust me is very I guess frustrating in my job. A lot of times when we come on these scenes where someone has been murdered, a life's been taken and because of the way the state of Colorado and the self defense law, we have to overcome or the district attorneys have to overcome that affirmative defense. And there are some things in there about mutual combat and some of that I would, you know, recommend that you reach out to the jury instructions. We did meet with the wife yesterday and her two attorneys down here as more of a courtesy to let them know where we're going so that they're not, you know, reading it on in the paper, seeing it firsthand there. We did. I know the detective and they had the same conversations with him. Uh, just to let them know. And those are never fun meetings. Members over that because they're bringing the same questions up. Yes, said I have to, I guess, refer you more towards the the DA's office on, you know, their standards and stuff. I know I can't go in to answering the questions because I did not specifically talk to the officers that put the handcuffs on took them off. Uh, so it's hard to say he he did have a gunshot wound to him. It was a graze whether that played into the fact. I do not know. But bottom line from my investigation from the point it started, he was a subject of my inverse investigation at one point in time. Early on in the investigation, we were looking at placing him in custody for the first degree murder charge or investigation of first degree murder. Uh, based on information that he provided later in a statement wound up changing that and that was with consultation with the district attorney's office. We have a great partnership that works here in Denver where the DA's office sides were suspicious deaths. So we're in consultation with him from the beginning after he made his statement and brought up the information he had. A choice was made at that point to continue with the investigation to see if we had information to cooperate more of what he's saying or if we found it to the opposite. That was early in the investigation. But from the investigation get go from my side of the house. He was considered suspect in this time that we're out there. It was a very chaotic and hectic scene. I was fairly close that day. I was at a volunteer produced up on Holly. So I got there pretty quick, but my focus immediately went in towards the crime scene and such. I I don't believe that he got special treatment, uh, but that being took him off so I can't answer that to any degree of certain certainty. I can tell you from the investor once my team got involved. I think you had a question. We were able to identify something else. We did work through the attorney that said he was representing them. Mr Stubbs. I know came out here and held up.


وَأَقُولُ فِي القُرْعَانِ مَا جَاءَت بِهِ آيَاتُهُ فَهُوَ الْكَارِيمُ الْمُنْزَالُوَ وَأَقُولُ قَالَ اللَّهُ جَلَّ جَلَالُهُ وَالْمُصْطَافَ الْهَاديِ وَلَا أَتَ أَوَّالُوَ لذلك ابن حجر رحمه الله was mentioned that he was dressed very well he was dressed very well and he was wearing very good garment and a Jew man saw him and he said to him ابن حجر العسقلاني you as an individual and Muslims are the ones who say that the Prophet SAW said الدنيا سجن المؤمن وجنة الكافر that this dunya is a prison of the believer and a paradise of the disbeliever but look at you you are the one who is dressed nice you are the one who is wearing good clothes you are the one who has a riding beast and I am a Jew I have nothing I am struggling in this world I am more in prison in this world than you ابن حجر being who he is and the man who explains صحيح البغاري وأصحح كتاب بعد كتاب الله he quickly responded and said to him I am the one who is in a prison because for me in this dunya this dunya is a prison in comparison to what awaits me on the other side and you are in a paradise compared to what awaits you on the other side if you don't return to Islam that day when the death your nafs reaches your collarbone right here الله says كلا إذا بلغت التراقي it reaches your collarbone كلا إذا بلغت التراقي وقيل مراق and then the people say where's the doctor where's the doctor call the doctor she's about to die وظن أنه الفراق and the person it becomes clear to him and her that the doctor can't do anything for them no one can help you today you're alone you start realizing that your legs start to lose its life the nafs has been moved from your legs it's been moved to your knees it's going up you're dying prepare for that day sisters الله brothers prepare recently the other day just last week one brother he lost his wife at the age of 25 his wife was 25 years of age death came and he knocked on his door death comes it doesn't look at your age it doesn't look at your background it doesn't look at who you know and who you're linked with and your friends it doesn't care it will come and it will take you from this world and the truth of the batteries is that the only person who's going to be saved is the one who didn't take his religion as a joke I went to British Library I had a while I was studying at my university I used to have a university card ID so I was permitted to go to the British Library and I got to know the workers there and they would let me take manuscripts and whatnot one day I was on the tilt and I was waiting for a copy of one of the books so the book I was looking for was one of the books written by Salajadil Bulqini so I went والله it's a true story Salajadil Bulqini's Kitab I wanted I asked the people can I copy can you copy this for me as I was asking for the book a white British English came over stood right next to me and he said I've seen you come here and but he said why do you say Salajadil Bulqini he said it to me I said that's how the scholars say it and that's how it's said in the books and that's how I read it he said the correct name is Salajadil Bulqini والله he was right I researched and I found that it was correct he's right and I called some of the مشaikhs and I told them and they said really they researched they came back to me they said yeah it's right are you with me brothers if you go to the libraries today in the western countries like for example the UK and others the majority of the people who are in the library are not Muslims the non-Muslims are more in the library they're the ones who are reading they're the ones who are studying they're the ones who are researching the Muslims don't read none of us here have been promised paradise alive has anyone been promised Jannah you don't know where you're going to be and you don't know where you're going to end you don't know where your final abode is going to be when I was coming on my way right now I called my mum and as I was speaking to my mum she said to me your face is glowing and my face has become old my mum said this to me I said to your mum in 4 months from now I'm going to turn 30 and then we started to talk about when I first started my teenage when I was first 13 then I finished and then I started in the 20s and then now 30 starting to hit 30 and then it's no matter of time that you see yourself very old you as an individual every single moment you live you're getting closer to your grave and you're getting closer to the day you're going to meet Allah SWT what is it that you have prepared and what is it that you have put forward the Salaf who had in Ummah the pious pre-assessors what they used to do is because they knew they were going to die and because they knew death will come to them they will dig a grave in their house they will what? they will dig a grave in their own house and they will lie inside it they will lie inside the grave you will mess with it he would actually rehearse and play out the inevitable event that's going to take place he will lie inside the grave he will try to get the feeling of what it's going to be inside here and then he will say قال ربرجعوني لعلي أعمل صالحا فيما تركت oh wallah take me back to the dunya again why so I can come with righteous actions this is what he will say and then because he has the opportunity to come out this time because he's the one who's rehearsing it he will clean the dust from himself and then he will walk on the earth and he will say a second chance has been given to you benefit from it he'll say that to himself this is one thing that we also need to take is that when we come to these places we need to remember they didn't come here and they didn't drive they came here to defend the religion of Allah and to put their chest forward so that arrows can go to directly to them so this religion can be high where he enjoying their efforts and their hard work don't play around with this religion a people sweat it for it blood shed for it efforts and hard work was put towards it when you come to this place you remember the noble companions that walked here with their messenger and they did not leave his corners they stood shoulder to shoulder with him and they fought until they dropped I think I mentioned it recently that some of the صالحين they used to pray قيموليل and their legs would become so weak their legs become tired they can't carry their legs they have a stick next to them they take the stick they beat their leg and they say to themselves قم stand do you want to compete with Muhammad and his companions in jannah and you're tired he's saying that to what he's saying that to his legs at his body you see when I looked at the lives of the companions you realize that the Prophet صلى الله عليه وسلم had to tell the companions to be easy on themselves that's what you find a lot of places one of the benefits I read was that because of that Allah told these companions he said don't forget your dunya they were told just don't forget your dunya our ones is don't forget the akhirah صحيح it's the opposite it was mentioned in some of the books جوزي mentioned it in the book بحر الدمور this book is a softening book in that book he mentioned that a man was requested for him to lead a prayer a group of people they said to him lead lead lead he said I don't want to lead they pushed him forward he said no no someone else lead and then they said to him please lead and then he said okay I'm going to lead today but I'm not going to lead tomorrow don't ask me to lead another day then they said to him go back don't lead us do you believe you're going to live for that long we pray our prayer this one like it's our last ابن تيم رحم الله as a young child he spent his time he worked hard and he put a lot of efforts in يا اخوة the people differ people want to be of that caliber but they don't want to put no efforts in people differ يا اخوة at times when people sleep and they go to sleep if you want to be different you have to be different by not sleeping you shouldn't be doing what other people are doing if you want to be different from the people you need to do things that people don't do when it comes to working hard and putting effort in my advice to you brothers is that every one of you are going to come to this world and you're going to leave ask yourself what have you served this deal or what have you done for your religion or what have you bought for it don't be a person who came to this world and your presence and your absence is the same the best of you صلى الله عليه وسلم and one of the battles and Imam Al-Bukhari and Muslim both narrated and Aaron was thrown at the Prophet عليه صلى الله عليه وسلم Abu Dahlح رضي الله و تعالى عبو he saw the arrow coming from far and when he saw the arrow coming Abu Dahlح رضي الله و تعالى عبو he put himself forward for it and the arrow hit him the best of you صلى الله عليه وسلم and he saw the arrow sticking up from Abu Dahlح Abu Dahlح لقد لقد مثل صلى الله عليه وسلم and he sat at the Prophet دولك يا رسول الله Everything for you is for you messenger of God لا يصيب اخساه ملف if the arrow will ever hit you Please brothers please ponder on this إن الله و انهي رجل and this is shocking عضمان منما دي يسأل لو قيلا لحماد بالسلامة if it was said to حماديبلو سلما، إنك تموت غداً، تمورو you're going to die ما قدره was not able أن يزيد في العمل الشيئة he could not increase in his righteous actions if he was told that tomorrow the angel of death is coming he's going to take your nuts you're going to die حماديبلو سلما had already exhausted himself there was nothing else you could do the believers they always live their life as though this can be the last minute الآخر لحوة your last moments in this world والله we don't know we don't know when we're going to die when we're going to meet Allah عز وجل we work hard every day this is what we do when you die and you depart from this world that's it the journey that has started for you is going to carry on you are now in a world other than the world you used to be in you're not with the loved ones your family are going to go home and they're going to divide the wealth that you left behind the wealth that you exerted all that effort in they are now thinking of how is it inherited even before you were placed in the grave you lost your name you were not referred to by your name when they were washing your body they were saying lift the dead body turn over the dead body you've lost even your name now you are in your grave this is a whole different place your family are going to leave you your wife is waiting for that period of time that عدة to finish and as soon as that عدة finishes she is now out looking to get married your children are going to look at another man as their stepfather life will move on the world will not stop for you you're the only one who thinks that you matter you straight after that when did he bring he brought the story of the man the prophet said there was a man there was a merchant he used to lend money to the people فإذا رأى معصيرا and whenever he saw his debtor the person who took the money and the wealth from him when he saw him he was strained and it was hard on him to pay back and his circumstances wasn't as good what he would say is let this man go his situation isn't bright he doesn't have the wealth to pay us back now let's leave him الله may let us go to the day of judgment فتجاوز الله عنه and the narration mentions so Allah forgave him الإمام ابن حجر رحم الله when he brought this he mentioned a benefit I liked about this man he used to borrow used to lend money to the people he mentions that some of the narrations show that this man never did any other good except this no other good he did it shows small righteous deeds that you do إذا كان خالص and if you do with sincerity you may be forgiven for a lot of wrongdoings that you've come with small good big intention and a lot of your sins and your shortcomings might be forgiven for you a lot of you spend a lot of time in your cars when you're driving what do you really listen to when you're in your car what can you listen to when you're in your car how many beneficial things can you do in that car sit down do this for me go home if you don't have it buy a stopwatch every time you come into your car when you get out stop the stopwatch note down how long you were in the car for that moment when the day finishes look how long you spent in the car you'll see that you spent in the car a lot are we all together brothers and you realize that if you just got a lecture and you designated a lecture for every time you go into the car you'd probably finish a series like that one year you'll see that you've achieved something we have this mindset which is that we have to have a lot of hours or nothing are you there brothers if I don't have 2 hours free I don't have no time and that's a misunderstanding of what you're even if you have 10 minutes somewhere that's something are you with me brothers you value those 10 minutes you do something in it I just believe not knowing how to benefit from your time is what made us the way we are really and truly brothers and sisters your children really love what you love they look at you and they can tell when you love something and that energy that you come with when you're doing it because you love it when you love something you do with passion and you do it with style because you love it that is going to go to the heart of your children and it's going to affect them so sometimes you see parents drive their children to the Quran class and they say go go memorize the Quran and you say to your child it's important that you memorize the Quran and it's important that you finish the Quran but if it's important why don't you do it you guys all know the famous story قصة الأعشاء الأعشاء was the great Arab poet and his statement was given great weight الأعشاء if he spoke his words would go around Arabs would read that line of poetry he was a poet from the great poets of the Arabs الأعشاء أعشاء at a very old age he decided to take Islam he said I can't live this life of kufr this belief of Allah so he made his mind up he got out of his bed he got his riding vest ready he mounted on it and he made his way to Medina أعشاء أعشاء حليت مدينة to take Islam and if he does the man has influence in Makkah so they grabbed him and they said to him الأعشاء we heard you're going to Makkah to meet Muhammad I want to take Islam they said have you not heard that Muhammad prevents zina did you not know that he says you can't do zina he does not let you do zina أعشاء said I'm an old man the desires and the shahwah of women they died out on me I have no need for it they thought they said الأعشاء do you not know Muhammad prevents you prohibit alcohol the consumption of alcohol he said really they said yes he doesn't allow a person to drink alcohol so الأعشاء said okay that's the case he doesn't allow that that's something my nafs is inclined to I will go back to Makkah this year I will spend drinking alcohol until I am finished with alcohol this year my desires goes I will make my way to Medina and I will testify that there is none worthy of worship except Allah that Muhammad is a slave and messenger and الأعشاء died that year drinking alcohol never delay a good of today a good that you can achieve today never delay for tomorrow لعل غدا يأتي because tomorrow can come وإن تفقيدوا on your upset you are not alive Allah has taken you from this world جمال الدين القاسمي the great scholar رحمه الله came by one day a group of people playing and he saw them and he is a great man his time is so tight he hasn't got any free time to do anything he is actually he is short on time he needs more time and so he saw a group of people that were playing and he looked at them and he said if only time was something that could be bought or sold I would buy time from these people and they don't understand what they have so I would say to them I will give you money for it and give me your time sometimes people think lying is a necessity I had to do it I had no other choice I had to lie and so they lie because I didn't want to but what else can I have said there was a great Sahabi his name was called زِرِبْنَفْرَيش his name was what زِرِبْنَفْرَيش they said زِرِبْنَفْرَيش never lied it was never caught lying it was a very hard characteristic he never lied but زِرِبْنَفْرَيش the people wanted to test him they wanted to put him okay let's see if زِرِبْنَفْرَيش will lie today زِرِبْنَفْرَيش had two sons who rebelled against حجادي بن يوسف they rebelled against him his two sons one day visited زِرِبْنَفْرَيش's house they came to him their father and زِرِبْنَفْرَيش was not like that he was not he never rebelled against زِرِبْنَفْرَيش because the companions never saw the permissibility of rebelling against a Muslim leader however tyrannical he is you're not allowed to rebel against him so زِرِبْنَفْرَيش in the people said okay today we're going to see if زِرِبْنَفْرَيش is a truthful man today we're going to test him so they went to حجادي and they said حجادي the two sons of زِرِبْنَفْرَيش are in زِرِبْنَفْرَيش house they're in his house bring زِرِبْنَفْرَيش and ask him where his two sons are so they brought زِرِبْنَفْرَيش to حجادي حجادي said زِرِبْنَفْرَيش I have a question he said hey what's the question so where do you know your two sons to be where are your two sons زِرِبْنَفْرَيش said I just left them at home right now I don't know whilst I'm with you right now or I was coming to you if they left but I left them at home they were in my house حجادي زِرِبْنَفْرَيش and he said to him he said to him because of your truthfulness I will not touch your two sons and حجادي killed 120,000 people he killed عبدالله مزبير he hanged him in the Ka'ba he never left no one what we take from this is sometimes you may think lying might solve a problem for you but you have to lie because of that lie that you lied and then another lie has to be backed up with it truthfulness will reach you will reach you into better places even if you think that situation is tight and hard a rich man saw a poor man eating bread he saw him eating food that wasn't expensive very cheap rich man who could buy who can weigh this poor man on a weighing scale however much weight he is he can give him more gold how rich he is he saw a poor man eating and he became jealous of this poor man because of the health Allah gave him that he is able to eat this food which he is due to his health he can't eat this rich man can never buy the health that this poor man has a rich man who envies and is jealous of a poor man and it's from the blessings of Allah that you don't yet understand that you have right now with you as an individual healthy and Allah gave it to you a man his name was called kiflu his name was called what kiflu he was from the people of Ben Israel لا يتورع he never had warah he never failed Allah in sins every sin that came to his mind he will do it never cared if a sin came to this man kiflu he wouldn't hesitate he will throw himself into it and he will do it فأتته إمراءة a woman came to him one day فأعضاها 60 دينارن he said to the woman here 60 دينارن let me commit haram with you فلما قعد منها ما قعد الرجل when he sat in the position to fulfill the haram the woman started to cry and she started to shake tears came to her eyes watered her she cried heavily and then he said to her now you're keeky what is making you cry why are you crying like this have I coerced you in this in this action am I forcing you am I making you doing do it are you forcefully or are you doing it out of your will she said no it's not because you force me but it's an action I've never done and this is something I've truly never committed it's a crime I've never done and what is making me do this is the money I need I only need the money that's all I'm doing it for فقر on poverty has made me reach this فقر and the man stood up and he left her and he walked away from her and then he said keep the money والله بي الله لا أعصي الله بعدها I will never disobey Allah after this day onwards فماتا من ليلته died that same night فماتا من ليلته died that night same night فأصبح مكتوبا on the front door of his house what was written on it was إن الله قد غافر a little deeply الله has forgiven كفل some people alhamdulillah they came to Islam when they saw that the Muslims when they go to the call of nature and they do their call of nature how they clean themselves and how they purify themselves some people were like wow I remember a story it's something that happened to me in college I was studying business I was studying business in college and so they took us to the Coca-Cola that was situated in Edmonton that's a place in London North London so what I did was we came and when we came to the Coca-Cola they were teaching us how Coca-Cola came about in the history of Coca-Cola and etc so what happened was I had to go to do my call of nature so I wanted to go to the toilet so when I went to the toilet the guy who was doing the presentation for us who was the branch manager had to go to the toilet as well we both had to go to the toilet قدر الله we went into the toilet at the same time but two different toilets okay and then we both came out قدر الله ما شاء الله at the same time I went and I washed my hands and soap and clean he just walked out are we all together no no he was the head of the he was the head of the department of cleanliness of Coca-Cola he overlooks if they are following that was his job it wasn't the branch manager the branch manager wasn't the one that was talking to us حجيب they're talking about cleanliness you haven't even washed your hands this كتاب المصاحف the first person who brought it out was an Orientalist he read it and he manipulated the book altered it changed it used it in his own advantage and this shows us how important it is that we Muslims read and study and we go through our our knowledge and read it and if we sleep then others will benefit from it isn't it not sad that we're behind in the world and then even our deem others are coming into it don't you find that sad? historically when you look at Islam the non-Muslims used to love to learn the Arabic language the non-Muslims used to like it times have changed the Muslims have forsaken the Arabic language and where have they run to? the English language historically the glory was learning the Arabic language listen to the story أن يهوديا a Jewish man سأل about رثمن المازيني a Jewish man he came to about رثمن المازيني a Jewish man he came to this great scholar of the Arabic language what did he ask him? he asked him أن يقرئه he said please read on me كتاب سيبوهي can you read on me what? the book of سيبوهي ودفع إليه and he gave to him مئة دينار and he gave him how much? 100 what? do you know what the dinar is brothers? ya dinar is what? dinar is gold brothers he gave him 100 gold today that is thousands of thousands of dollars is it to Islam right? the honor of Islam the a Jewish man would give money this much money to learn what? what would he do? to learn this language and what happened? in عكسة المازين the scale went upside down now we are paying that much money to learn what? the English language there is a little risala I have at home it is a little risala it makes you really sad when you look at it the battle against the Arabic language how the west funds money money money is spent just so that people don't learn the Arabic language and they learn what? the western languages you see an Arab who can't even speak Arabic language that's what they want to see so they can put all their ideologies into you are you with me brothers? because then you can watch their movies you can watch their news you can watch everything from there and that's it they can tell you what you want and you listen to them and you'll ignore it about what? your own book the most important book Allah سبحانه وتعالى said you don't even know it if you want to benefit from your time and you want to bring the best out of it you have to eliminate and get rid of gadgets that steal your time a lot of people and I say eliminate it if it's going to take away from your time eliminate it if you have the discipline to use your gadgets accordingly then insha'Allah وتعالى use it in that which will benefit you in and don't waste your time if it's not going to help you these things brothers and sisters will work against you they will distract you and they will take away from anything we're going to say today are we all together one of the statements that my sheikh said and sticks with me greatly is if these gadgets were of so much value Allah would have given it to the prophet to aid him to spread Islam true when he was on his last moments of his life he gave the advice to him he called him he said I want to tell you something my final words take this from me he said fear Allah and be conscious of him ومثل الآخرة في قلبك and place the آخرة in your heart place the آخرة deep into your heart وجعل الموت نصب عينيك place death right in front of your eyes ولا تنس موقفك and don't ever forget your position بين يدي الله عز وجل when you will stand in front of Allah وكون من الله تعالى على وجل and be a person who is scared of Allah عز وجل وأدي فرائضه and do the obligatory things Allah has obliged upon you وكن مع الحق حيث وكان be with the truth wherever the truth is ولا تصغيرني عبالله عريك don't belittle the blessings of Allah upon you وإن قلت even if you see the blessing to be something little don't belittle it وقابلها بشكري and respond to that blessing with gratitude and he passed he died when he said that to him كثيرا ما كان يقول حسن البصري used to say a lot يا معشر الشباب youngsters youth عليكم بالآخرة upon you is the day of judgment and the hereafter فطربوها try to attain it try to look for the hereafter فكثيرا رأينا من طلب الآخرة فقدركها ع الدنيا we have seen a lot who tried to attain the hereafter but Allah gave them a good portion of this dunya with it وما رأينا but we have never seen أحد أنطلب الدنيا we have never seen a person who ran after this dunya who ran after attaining this dunya فقدرك الآخرة but he reached the hereafter with the dunya that he was trying to attain this too is a man by the name of Muhammad Abdul Baqir Muhammad Abdul Baqir he traveled from his land to go and collect hadith so one day Muhammad Abdul Baqir he came to a city when he came to the city in which he wanted to take hadith from he came for a particular chef he found some pearls an amount of what there were rubles and pearls and gems that were in there so what he did is as soon as he got it somebody was outside saying to the people I lost my property and they were describing it so he went and he said describe it for me what is in there the man said I promised whoever gives it to me that I will give them this amount he said I don't want your money are you with me brothers I don't want your money he went for his journey for hadith he went to the sea to mount the boat that he wanted to take to travel for hadith when he took his boat there was too much tide and the boat broke he held onto a part of the boat and it brought him to the shore the rest of the people that were on the boat with him part they died from it are you with me brothers this is his رحلة he came to a land the people of the land they saw him lying down on the shore they saw him lying down on the shore so they took him they clothed him they gave him food and they asked him his story and he said my story is I was heading to that particular land to compile the hadith of the prophet and they said are you seeking knowledge they said yes they saw his notes they said you know how to write they said can you teach our children how to read and write then they heard him read Quran this is Allah Akbar you can lead you know how to lead us in the salah so he became the sheikh of the mantaka then they said to him listen he said now I have to leave as my journey was to go and seek knowledge of hadith I appreciate what you've done for me but I have to keep moving this is one condition and that's what they used to do whenever a righteous person would come they would make him marry so he'd come to that land again so what they did to him was they told him you have to marry and then you can go because they knew he was going to come back he said that's not my intention he said we're not going to let you go unless you get married he said okay they brought him a young girl the first night when the young girl entered onto him he saw on her neck something he looked at it he gazed and he woke up in the morning and the people of the city were knocking on his door he came and he said what is the problem they said the young girl complained about you what is the reason they said that last night was look at her neck he said no he said I saw on her neck necklace and on the necklace was some pearls that I remember from somewhere I gathered these pearls for a man once upon a time who lost it and I saw on her neck the people of the city started screaming shouting he said what is the reason they said the young girl her father was the one who lost the necklace and he used to make that Allah marries his daughter off to the man who found the pearls for him I remember one day I was in a car with a group of brothers we were driving and the brother he skidded the car skid and it was about to go into another car so brothers everybody in that car said something think here I never said I didn't say that I screamed I screamed that's all I did I screamed but other people some made foul language because that's what they do when they get angry some said something else some said why couldn't we say that because on a normal day we didn't teach our mouth to become consistent on this it really worried me that day because imagine we died imagine we hit that car all of us died my last meeting of Allah will be screaming somebody else foul language and the apostle said لا إله إلا الله دخل الجنة so what we learned from this is to train yourself now before the calamity comes to you before the trouble hits you now connect yourself with Allah build a strong bond with Allah I promise you when the problem happens you'll see yourself easily going through it today I want to speak about a day which has no night just a day because every single one of us is going to see the day of judgment it's a cool day because there's no night for it it's a day that when you look at the Quran the way Allah spoke about it and the way Allah described it it's not easy Allah said in the Quran what do you know about the day of judgment Allah repeated it again what do you really know about the day of judgment and then Allah in one sentence summarized the reality of the day of judgment it's a day where no one can help anyone your money that you have today cannot help you the eloquency your ability to articulate things cannot help you that day your children can't help you your mother can't help you your lawyers they can't help you no one can the affairs is in Allah's hands it's all dependent on how were you before you came to Allah how was your attitude were you working hard when you were in the dunya or were you not all dependent on that how have you pleased your Lord did you choose what Allah loves of what you love did you give preference to His commandments over your own wishes and wills brothers and sisters did you know that your risk it's working towards you and it's coming to you as the Prophet sallallahu alaihi wasallam told us قال رسول الله sallallahu alaihi wasallam the messenger said in the risk the risk looks for a person يطلوبه جل the way that death is looking for you so if you are working and you're trying to make an income know that the effort that you're exerting in trying to get this risk is not as great as the risk itself trying to look for you and one of the greatest statements ابن القيّر رحمه الله who said was if الله عز و جل provided for you in the womb of your mother without you exerting any effort you never work for it in the womb of your mother الله عز و جل is providing for you and he's giving to you with he then forsake you when you come out and you're working for it don't consider your risk something that's going to delay it's going to come your way و ما يرسقكم و ما توعدون your risk is written for you the way that the day you're going to die it was written for you the same is that your risk was written for you الله سبحانه وتعالى he writes your risk in another country in the morning you have breakfast in this country and in the evening you are in another country that's where your risk was written for you everything that is written for you is going to come your way so perfect what you're looking for look for it in a حلال way this risk some of this they said it's going to come to you either in a حلال or a حرام way you choose which way you're going to get it the prophet said to us any flesh that is nurtured upon حرام فالنار بي أولى the health try has right over that body the day of judgment the flesh that you're feeding with حرام income interest money bank this take this don't you think that the health I will say okay give me my rights and it will the day of judgment anyone today who studies علم الحديث the science of hadith if they apply this in their day to day life no one would oppress anyone صحيح twitter and instagram is an allegation of somebody صح فولان did this to me فولان said this somebody will just come and say something just a little tweet صح what do you say you retweet it some people they will spread it and they will say this happened who is the person who said it you don't know as much who is unknown to you are you with me brothers where is the source of this information ولداليكة this science if people applied it in their day to day lives many divorces will not have happened صح and marriages would have remained families ties would not have cut this science was applied brothers who were once upon a time together and united they will not have become disunited all based on شاعة allegations and news that were spread right the scholars what they did everything that was told to them who told you who did you take it from and they looked where the source was and when they realized the source was right then they based a ruling on it if it wasn't for the chain everybody's speech would be the same and that's true the one who is lying and the one who is telling the truth what makes them different the chain when we go and research we realize who is telling the truth but we have to verify many of the people who are telling the truth ولي داليكة I don't know if it's like that back home in India like in my country where I'm from if the person is bright he's sent to academic sciences engineer medicine doctor if he fails in life become an Imam صح is it like that ولي داليكة when Imam is a failed person in life he couldn't do anything so he said I might as well just memorize the Quran صح ولي داليكة one time I was in a lecture of one of the Mashayikh and one of the students said I find it hard to revise in the morning the sheikh said something I was shocked when he said seeking knowledge is not for you go for maths and science and when he finished I said why did he say that to him he said if we take people like him on board they're going to be given faster to the people because those are the type of people they used to be when it came to seeking Islamic knowledge that's what the Prophet's life was like look at what he said to Abilal when he ever found hardship or stress what would he say he would say give us relaxation and comfort with the prayer so we can pray we just think to ourselves I need to take this burden off myself because Ibad is not a love for us we don't love it we don't enjoy it and when a person enjoys something he just when he does it the scholars they say if a person has high aspirations and he has love for something he's so passionate about it the scholars they used to say may Allah have mercy on his body because he's going to destroy his body when you love Allah and it truly settles in your heart you're unstoppable and Ibad that's motivated and it results and it reverberates and it comes from it springs from love there's no way of it stopping و لذلك عبدالله من المبارك as Ibn Abid Dunya he mentioned in his Kitab حصنو ظني بالله to think good of Allah as we jalaam Ibn Abid Dunya mentioned a story عبدالله من المبارك he came to Sufyan and the Sufyan we're referring to here is Sufyan Al-Thauri رحمه الله عبدالله من بارك came to Sufyan Al-Thauri عشية يوم عرفة on the day of Arafa and Sufyan Al-Thauri و هو جاثن على ركبتي he was on his knees and his hands were raised in the air و عيناه and the eyes of Sufyan Al-Thauri were watering and he was crying عبدالله من بارك looked at him and he cried as well seeing Sufyan Al-Thauri cry and then Abdullahi Al-Mabarak said to him to Sufyan Al-Thauri ما شاء النكو what is the reality here what is happening here what is the situation what is it that's making you cry Sufyan Al-Thauri he said من أسوأ who is more worse أهل هذا الجمع حالا who is the worst person in this place I mean the worst person in this gathering here right now in Arafa is referring to they are in Arafa all of them the worst person in this place in Arafa is the one who thinks الذي يظنوا أن الله لا يغفروا لهم the one who thinks Allah will not forgive him today you are a component of three things you have a body you have a mind and you have a soul are you with me brothers a lot of people when they just think about their jobs and the money that they need to make they are only worrying about their body really the money that you are making what do you want to do just want to be big strong food that's what it does for you right break down the reason why you work why do you work for you want to provide you want to eat that's it صح صح the only thing that you focused on is the body what about the mind and the soul so the Sahab is realized that is vital for you to take care of your body to eat to make money for your family and for yourself but they also realized that the revelation is the only thing that can nurture the mind and the soul I'll tell you a story there was a young boy his teacher he said to his teacher teacher I want to come to the masjid a young boy he said sheikh I want to come to the masjid and I want to be at the front row and I want to make it for the first row in the Salah and the sheikh said to him you have to come early and so the young boy at night he told his mother wake me early up before the Salah and so his mother woke him up early he woke up early he left the house without his mother's knowledge he went to the masjid and he found that the door of the masjid was locked being a young kid he was able to go through a small hole that he stole from within the masjid and when he went in he fell inside the masjid and there was a sharp object facing upwards and he went into his leg and he bled and then he sat at the front row bleeding and so the sheikh came into the masjid saw the young boy but the young boy did not say anything he prayed the Salah and when he prayed the Salah the sheikh turned around and there was a puddle of blood and so he said what happened to you and he said sheikh this is the story I tried to come to the masjid I wanted to make it for the front row and the sheikh sat to him أقتب يا بني my son write down what I'm going to say to you he said لا تحسب ان المجد تمر ان تأكله لن تبلغ المجد حتى تلقق الصبر when he sat to him he said you wanted to add a goal you wanted to achieve something you wanted to pray at the front row and it wasn't something easy you had a cost and a price to it don't ever think to yourself oh my son he said لا تحسب ان المجد تمر ان تأكله don't ever think to yourself that the honor and status and the position is like a flute that you take from a tree like this no you have to go and sacrifice time and effort لن تبلغ المجد حتى تلقق الصبر you're never going to gain what you're looking for unless you exert a lot of hard work and you show patience he said another very powerful statement he said if Allah loves you he said look at the love of the Quran in your heart if you want to know somebody might come to you and say how do I know Allah loves me will say how much do you love his word the mentioning of Allah is it high to you yeah brothers his mentioning of Allah his Quran his words they mean a lot to you then the mentioning of your name to Allah it means a lot to him سبحانه وتعالى that's what he says are we all together brothers it is not then right that you say as a person I love the Quran and you don't even try to memorize anything from it the love cannot just be a mere statement it can't be the love has to manifest on your limbs it has to then become actions it has to be a movement forward it has to be something you try to come with and I've seen brothers when these kind of quotes they came across والله they took it serious and they made the Quran their closest friend the salaf they used to say dwelling over the past is trying to bring the dead out of their graves dwelling over the past thinking too much over the past is اخراج من الموت من قبورهم is trying to bring the ones who are dead out of their graves and you're going against سونة الله الكونية الله سبحانه وتعالى everything goes forward nothing goes backwards and you are the only one that's going backwards by thinking of what already happened so don't busy yourself in that busy yourself with what's in front of you and that which will benefit you إبرايب أبو أدل and he said he said a very powerful statement I love this statement he said طيب طيب بفكت مضعامك بفكت your income and your money وما عليك بعد ذلك أن لا تصوم النهار ولا تقوم الليل and after that يقيام الليل and you're fasting leave it to Allah الله will make it all happen for you my beloved brothers and sisters we have all claimed we're Muslims we said we are believers didn't we say that that has to be tested حسيب الناس وأن يترك وأن يقولوا أامنة وهم لا يفتنون did you really think that you can just say I'm a believer and you're not going to be tested no that statement you said I'm a believer needs to be put to the test let's see if it's true ولذلك some of the self whenever they would go through a period of time where they're not tested they used to look at the sky what did they do they would look at the sky and they would be scared scared of what because they were scared that Allah is giving them all the good now and the punishment awaits them the day of judgment سوجنا أحمد بن حنبل الإمام أحمد بن حنبل was in prison ودوليدة he was whipped but that whipping went towards something what did he go towards فصار إمام أهلي السنة he became the Imam of أهلي السنة والجماعة ووضع السرخسي the great Maliki scholar he was placed in بئري he was placed in a well he was in prison he said in a well big well and all he had with him was pens and papers what did he do فأخرج عشرين مجلد he bought out 20 volumes in فق إبن أثير was also house in prison فصنفه he authored two great books جامع الأصول أن الكتاب النهاية في غريب الحريث شيخ الإسلام ابن تيمير was in prison and he finished the Quran 83 times and he died on the statement of Allah إن المتقينة في جنات ونهر في مقعادي سطق عند مريك مقتدر ابن أجوز he was kicked out of Baghdad his own hometown and he came back and he studied and he memorized the 10 قراءات of the Quran every calamity that comes الله سبحانه وتعالى always brings a good out of it you might not see it today no tomorrow no the day after but it might be one day come have good faith in Allah سبحانه وتعالى the way that the body becomes dehydrated if you don't drink a lot of water the soul becomes dehydrated if it doesn't get the amount of liquor that he needs are you with me brothers that's why you find a person who's fit who's got six packs everywhere even on his ears he's got six packs everywhere yeah it's a cup in the gym but at that time he wants to commit what he wants to commit suicide he's rich he's got everything because the soul has become dehydrated he doesn't want to live anymore he's depressed anxiety the reason is because ألم يأتني للذين آمنوا أن تخشع قلوبهم للذكر الله وما نزل من الحق ولا يكونوا كالذين أوتوا الكتاب من قبل فطال عليهم الأمد فقست قلوبهم وكثيروا من المفاسقون he distanced himself from the remembrance of Allah the Quran and the heart needs the Quran it needs it craves for it are you there brothers it craves you see a person coming to Islam and he's just crying as soon as he comes into Islam when he says the shahada why are you crying for صح the person hears the Quran and he just can't the serenity the beauty of the Quran you start crying you feel it why it's because of the soul عطا بن أبي رباح he said ما تكلمتوا I never spoke I never uttered something unless I asked myself 70 times is this for me or against me because he said angels are writing what I say so I asked myself 70 times is this for me or against me no how is it for me unless I knew for me I wouldn't say it are you with me brothers so when you read these people's lives like that and how they were then you realize this is what you want to be يا إخوة don't put your guards down أحمد محمد on his last moments before he died his son was next to his father عبد الله he saw his father and he heard أحمد محمد and he said بعدو what did that mean yet not yet not yet so he said to his father after that I heard you say this word what did you mean he said شرطان came to me and he said to me شرطان came to أحمد محمد and he said to me أحمد you've escaped from me I couldn't catch you and Ahmed said no you still haven't I mean I still haven't sorry as long as I'm alive you can still catch me يا أحمد the way we have perceived it and the way we see it today is مخالف للواكة it's opposite to the reality why because Allah who created this world who owns this world said لو كانت الدنيا تعديل عند الله يجناح بعضا ما سقى منها كافر و شربة ما this dunya does not equal to the wing of it doesn't equal to Allah أيها اخوة يمكنهم to help a person to be aesthetic and not see no importance for this dunia is to actually digest this particular point which is to know that. What you have today is not necessarily, you might not have it tomorrow. How many leaders have we seen, who were leaders? They were the leaders and they were what? They were killed the way they were killed. They were one time drinking gold cups. And now what they were dragged on the ground. هل ترى ذلك؟ هذا هو الدنيا، هذا هو حقيقة هذا هو حقيقة، لذلك لا أعطي أنه لا يهم هل أنه صحيح أن الهواتف اللعنة يتلعب في أجلك؟ والدنيا هو كثيرا؟ هل أنه صحيح أنك تعرف كيف يجعل المنزل؟ ولكن أنك لا تعرف كيف يجعل المنزل أكثر؟ هل أنه صحيح أنك تدخل هذا الدنيا؟ المنزل الذي تقوم بها؟ وكتبه بشكل جميل؟ لكنك ترى أنك ستتدخلها لن تقوم بها مع منزل المنزل؟ هل هذا صحيح؟ هل هذا صحيح؟ إذا لم تفكره لقد تجدت الله عنزل جلًا وكتبه في أجله الأشياء التي سيساعدتك ومعرفة ومنزل المنزل ومنزل المنزل وكتبه بشكل جميل لن تكفيها الشيخ الإسلامي بلتايمي قلت لك أنني أمام أحد المسكولات عندما تأتي إلى المنزل كانت تكفي في المنزل في المنزل وماذا؟  ماذا عن هذه المسكولة؟ لا تفكي لن تفكي أحد سنة أريد أن ألعق مع هذه المسكولة أو أريد أن أفعل هذا وكتايمي ترى أن ترى 10 سنة لأنك ترى أن تنسى كل يوم وكتايمي وبدأ من ما؟ أحد سنة فالسكولة ستفكي يجب أن تخبرك يجب أن تخبر هذه السكولة ويستخدمها أو أن تخرج من المكان هذه المسكولة لا تفكي بشكل جيد ويجب أن تفكي لا تفكي يجب أن تكون من مجرد ما تحبك ما يجب أن تفكي ليست مجردك أو مجردك أو مجردك يجب أن تفكي مكة كانت once upon a time مكان where the companions were told to migrate from لن يجب أن تفكي وكانت مجردك ويجب أن تتفكي لذا مجردك يجب أن تفكي إلا أن تصدر شيئاً لكي تفكي حياتك ما تفكي بشكل جيد؟ كيف تفكي بشكل جيد؟ الله يقول لنا القرآن أولم نعمركم ما يتذكر فيه من تذكر وجاءكم النذير أولم نعمركم الله يقول لقد لم نعطيكم جيدة جدية لعبارة حياة لن نعطيكم حياة لعبارة وجاءكم النذير ويأتي لك عبدالله من عباس يقول وجاءكم النذير يعني نضع مجردك في مجردك لتذكرك أنت تأتي لنا وإذا كنت تظهر على الله وإذا كنت تكتبه وإذا كنت تكتبه يجعل كل شخص مختلف سبحانه وتعالى الناس يحبون مختلفة كما كنت هذا القرآن right now that I was unreading from and there's a man who made the cover for the book and that's his passion he loved that and he went forward in the تجليد الكتب and his company there's a history behind those of you who are scholars these Arabic books they're the تجليد okay this book it's yellow pages they call it أوراق تبه medical papers it's good for the eyes in case you read it on the sun there's a company that does that they enjoy that that's their job they enjoy that the sheikh who wrote the book he enjoys the knowledge but if all of them like doing the cover who's going to write the book do you see my point everyone plays a role in this religion صلاحة هده everyone plays a role but you need to find your place where you find you enjoy you find relevance in it's very important الله سبحانه وتعالى my beloved brothers and sisters commanded us to be steadfast and he told us to come with استقامة الله said in the القرآن إن الذين قالوا ربنا الله those who said Allah is my Lord ثم استقاموا and then they became steadfast تتنزلوا عليهم الملايكة the angels will come down on them الله تخافوا ولا تحزنوا sometimes you ask yourself can you tell these topics to the people a person who's steadfast himself can say to other people be steadfast I'm not steadfast I can say it to you guys والله يا بلاد the topic itself requires somebody who possesses this personality so I will conclude that إن شاء الله تعالى anything which I have said that was wrong or incorrect is from me and Shaytan and Allah and His Messenger are free from it سبحانك الله و مبحمدك شدوا الله إله إلا الله استقفلوا قتول بلي I want to share something with you I was thinking about it contemplate it shall I share shall I not share I think I will share it with you guys because a lot of you guys kept coming every day I had a dream the other day after looking at the hadiths والله والمراء I'm preparing it that night I slept whilst on my sofa whilst reading I slept on the side and it was a long sleep normally I end up getting up quicker than others other other times but I slept and in my dream what I saw was me telling my children to get ready I was telling them get up prepare yourselves we're going we're going and so my children said dad where are we going I said we're going to meet the Messenger صلى الله عليه وسلم get up everybody prepare yourself and my children got ready my son my daughters all of us and we came out it was like it was what I can describe it to be it was like it was everyone's coming out of their house when I came out everyone else was coming out of their houses we all go into a place an open place so we walked for a while until we came to an open place and like a park an open land but it wasn't grass it was sand everyone is there as we walked as we walked there's a line for every party there's one line on this side which is on the right and a line on the other side the people on the left side are going faster than the ones on the right so before we came into the park or the land there was a security told us you go you're not allowed to come into this place and another group of people they were told to come in so I came I said and I was told to come in and all my children they came in with me so we went in a lot of people were like why can't we come in I didn't hear what was said to them but we went into the open land we walked and as we were walking we were on the right side I have my children right around me and I see an old man not very old but senior in age but not old as in the sense he can't walk or anything but he has a walking stick and there's another man holding him from the arm like this and I asked someone I said who is that because they just looked unique from everybody else and I was told the one who has the walking stick is Jabir Ibn Abdullah and we all know Jabir became blind in his old age and I said okay who's the one holding him in his hand so he's holding him by the hand and he has a pen and a little notebook on his hand and he's asking a question and so they're talking talking I can see they're mumbling something but when they come by me the question that I hear that they say to each other is or the question that he says to Jabir this man says to Jabir is who were the people who narrated Hadith from you but they remember they're on the fast track we're on this line where we're moving slow they're just going out fast before us so I asked who is the other man asking the question I was told it's شخل الباني رحمة الله in my head I'm saying to myself I know why he's asking in that question because there's a discussion in علم الحديث whether Abu Zubayr Al-Maki Abu Zubayr heard from Jabir if he narrated from Jabir if he's from the students who heard from Jabir there's that discussion going on in the science of Hadith so he calls him whenever he gives the answer he writes something down and they grabs him from the arm and they keep moving and so at that moment I always think it's بحان الله he still wants to know Hadith he still wants to know the rulings of the science of Hadith and they walk until they get to the front row before everybody else and the messenger is standing صلى الله عليه وسلم the messenger didn't stand for anyone else no one was privileged for the prophet to stand for them everybody else the prophet ﷺ they were kissing his head and they were shaking his hand and they would go keep pay attention here the prophet صلى الله عليه وسلم when Jabir and Albani came he stood up and then the messenger grabbed Albani on the left side of his hand and the right hand side he grabbed Jabir and he brought them close to each other and in the middle of their heads in the middle the messenger whispered something and he looked at both of them and they smiled and the prophet smiled and then both of them went towards where the prophet ﷺ is facing in front of him there's a lot of people sitting there a lot of people so we get to the prophet ﷺ I shake his hand I kiss him I say يا رسول الله عبد الرحمن these are my children and the prophet ﷺ reads and then I go I don't go the direction of Jabir and Albani I get told listen go to the back so the people were divided into two a group that were told to go and they were going to the place where the messenger ﷺ is they can see the prophet they can vision in front of them and another group of people were put behind and so the ones who were going behind there was security telling them go this way go this way and the ones that were going right in front of the prophet ﷺ they were told to go so I asked why can't I sit there I want to see the prophet why do I want to go behind the prophet ﷺ is back and the thing that was said to me is what did you do for the prophet's ﷺ religion what have you how have you served the dean of the prophet ﷺ these people that you see are the great scholars of Hadith الإمام البخاري مسلم المرن الحجاج الإماء أبو داود أحمد إبن حمبل and these are the people there and أبو بكر and أعمار and أتمان the people who gave their life their everything to this religion they work hard on it and you Mashallah good Muslim at least you got to see the prophet go behind now and so my son when we went into the behind the prophet ﷺ and we sat down my son said dad I I want to go and see the prophet I want to I want to I want to vision him I want to see why can't we go why can't we go where everyone else but went and I said to him dad it's it's based on actions today it's not about anything else we didn't get it but he said dad you used to teach a lot you used to do this why and I said I never served the religion like شيخة البانية الإمام البخارية no way that's really what I can remember I don't remember the the rest vividly the point I want to take from this story والله is we have to take a role in this deed والله we have to we have to serve this ديم give our lives to it if we want to be with the prophet والله علي و سلم we have to be people who lived by his life served his religion work hard every day of our life to just teach educate and learn and study and really these people that's what they did that's why they were on it and they were as the poet said the people of Hadith are the prophet's people they're his companions even if they didn't accompany him in this world they accompanied him by reading his Hadiths reading his narrations this is where they accompanied him I really that dream really affected me I thought about it a lot and a lot and a lot and I said سبحان الله we can really we haven't really done anything for this religion haven't these Ahadiths have to study deeply to learn them properly that's why the messenger said I left two things for you the Quran and the Sunnah hold on to them stick to them and if you hold on to them لن تضلوا بعدي you will never be misguided after me the book of Allah and the Sunnah of the messenger صلى الله عليه وسلم oh Allah make us those who hold on to hold on to the Quran and the Sunnah with them all at it we never let go of it


My name is Chris Sminey, just in case you're getting to join us. This is why we get to do great conversations, give you good music and you know tell you what's happening and now today we have strength of a woman, a conversation that happens every other Wednesday where we get to edify and strengthen the woman. In this week's episode I have Joyce Sminey, who is a teacher who teaches autism kids and you know how we do it. She's here to tell us more about it. Thank you so much. So I think you may be able to do an intro, a carafe intro about yourself. You can probably tell us who is Joyce. All right. Good morning to our viewers. My name is Joyce, what I do is I teach learners with autism and that's what I've been doing since 2020. Yes, I am a graduate from Kenyatta University. I pursued Bachelor of Education special needs and I specialized with emotional and behavior disorders. Yes, basically yes, I'm a teacher and I love what I do. I'm also a Sunday school teacher where I come from in my church. So yes, women can do everything. So I am glad that you have invited me to this show. It's a pleasure. Thank you. So probably someone is seated somewhere thinking, what is autism? Okay. Autism, it's developmental disorder, mostly in children. There are characteristics of children with autism. One of them is delayed speech. You can see that a child has taken more than the required duration for them to start speaking. Some are very hyper, so they have attention deficit and they are very hyper. They have hyperactivity. Also, you can see that they don't like to engage with the regular environments. They want to control individuals playing. They just want to play on their own. They don't want to engage with other kids. Yes, I know with that description, you can see there are some kids you have seen somewhere who have such characteristics. But yes, I help them and I teach them. And I have great feedback from the kids I have taught so far. Just out of curiosity, you see the way we say that anemia, sickle cell, or we... I'm looking for another one that is usually caused by racist factors. Because parents of different blood groups... That story, my biologist is not that important. But I think you understand what I'm saying. So what causes autism? Can we relate it to probably the way we can say sickle cell or something? Not really because there's no proper way to say that autism is caused by something. Because they are just suggestions that maybe your mother was a drunkard when they were pregnant. But actually, now in reality, it is not necessarily the cause. So I cannot say, maybe the result is still ongoing to see what's the real cause. But for now, we don't have a real cause. But one thing I know is that autistic children can be helped and they are able to live a normal life just like other children. Yes, it's just a developmental problem. When you are able to see it early and you start engaging and intervening in that child's life as early as possible, the child becomes better. Better, they become independent. They even go to regular schools because they are very high-functioning intelligence. They are very smart. So if you see it early and you deal with those symptoms early enough, as early as three years, you are able to help the child to become like a regular child. So in short, you can't control autism. You can't control and say, I won't get married to someone who has a blood group so that to see what kind of disease or condition. There are so many research outside there. Some say that it can also be genetic. It can be, what do I call it? The way a person used to behave when they were pregnant. But not necessarily, not necessarily, yes. Actually, there are some people, even when they are grown-ups, you may see a grown-up, but now it was not diagnosed early. But because now they have lived with regular people, no one ever noticed that they were autistic. I have an example. There's this person, he's a media personality. He's from the U.S. So he gave birth to a child who is autistic. So the mother was like, we need to know what's the root cause of all this. So they went, they did research, they did research. Later they realized that the dad was autistic and the dad did know. So yes, it can be genetic, yes, but it's not that really genetic, yes. So how do you present? In the area where it is very, how do I put it? In the areas that it is very advanced, what are the characteristics? One of the, one of the, like you can just see is they are very hyper. Hyper, like they cannot sit at such a setting. This is very uncomfortable. Yes, this quiet place, it's very uncomfortable. They want to, if it is the cameras they want to touch and then jump on the chairs, they just want to be hyper. Move, move, move, move, move. Yes, and some can, not because they have emotional breakdown, they are called meltdowns. When they have such they can even hit themselves on the floor or they want to hurt themselves, they want to bite themselves or they want to hurt someone. Those are the extremes, yeah. How many cases of extreme hybridism? Oh my God, there are several, there are several, yes. There's this aspect of stigmatization, especially when autism and other disorders are concerned, you know. Yeah. How do you handle that? I think the issue of stigmatization is, not necessarily to the children, but also to the parents. When you see a child, you feel that they are not well taught, their parents are not, they are negligent, because how can a child just be all over and you're wondering where is the mother, where are the parents? So that's mostly the parents go through that because they feel that no one understands them, mostly with the parents that I've dealt with, because people just assume because they are child, you can tell them, stop and they stop, but these ones you have to just know how to tell them. You cannot just be firm and say, stop, stop, stop and they will stop. They might even throw a tantrum just because you said stop. So you have to like just understand the parents and just allow them to handle the child the way they know best because that's the highest form of stigma and I want to tell people that our parents who have kids with autism, they are doing their best, that one I can assure you 100% that they go out of their way. They even pay money, a lot of money by the way so that their kids can get help.  So you cannot speed or you cannot make a child be who they are not, you get. So you have to be patient with them. So what happens is just, if it is about learning, you can learn on how to handle people with autism and one other thing is just understand them. If they feel they are not comfortable in this room, just take them maybe outside. It's okay, don't force them because when you force them, their brain cannot comprehend that. So the issue of stigmatization, as we need to, of course we are pushing it so hard that people will understand and people will know that these kids, their parents are doing their best and also their kids, they go through a lot. Yes, so we just understand them, be patient with them and help where we can. So how many children do you have in one class? In one class setting, it depends on the school. Currently I'm not working in a school but in a very good setting, maybe six children, six, and then they are teacher and assistant and a caregiver. Yes, they are like three or four people needed to assist their children at one given time. Okay, thank you for staying tuned to Why In The Morning, where we're giving you great conversation, good vibes and great music. Before we went on that short, tiny little break, we were talking about autism with teacher Joyce and you know she's giving us a lot of wisdom concerning this thing. I think we left it at how many kids are in a class. Probably we can retake that. In a class setting, like you should ensure that they are adults, like if there are probably six children, there must be a teacher, a teaching assistant and a caregiver, someone who is assisting with the needs of the children at that particular moment. So three people for six children. So that means like every person is handling two people. Yes. Okay, why? Because they have different needs and just like regular children, they also have personalities. There are some who are quiet, there are some who have stories and they want to share their stories. There are some maybe they are still learning on how to talk, there are others who have developed speech. So you have to cater for all those needs. Yes. Like according to their specific abilities, they need their own attention. Yes. So let me just ask. You see the way we have, in a normal school we have kids in grade one, grade two, grade three, grade four, blah, blah, blah, blah. So is it the same in autism where you have different classes for these kids or they are all put in one class together? One thing is that these kids are really good. They are really good in studies. Yes. So we start from, maybe it's a special needs unit, we start from the PPs to the grades and then to the vocational and to the course they want to take. Yes. So do they study? Just a regular thing. Okay. So do they study the normal curriculum or do they have their own curriculum? They do their own, the regular curriculum, maybe the CBC one. Yes. They are able to. How equipped are they to do CBC? I've seen no CBC things and they are quite something. Actually for them it works because they love being engaged. They love being engaged. So that one really works. They want to know how to cook. They want to identify the environment. So by the time they are getting there they will have basics and they will be able to do what others are supposed to be doing at that particular level. Yes. Okay, okay. They are actually very smart. Very smart. I had a child, I think he was three or four and every time he would pass a place he would cram what he had seen like they have like a photographic memory. They would, if it is that written there, Y254, imagine, they would go and now start saying Y254, I-M-A-G-I-N-E, like everything. Like they have that and he would spell word by word. No matter how long it is or how complex they would still spell it and they were just four. That's not regular for a four year old. They are really good. Yes. There's this, okay, I don't know what to call it. I don't know if I should call it stigma. I don't know. I don't have good word for it. Yeah. But there's this aspect of people saying where, I don't know if I'm supposed to say that but excuse my ignorance for lack of a better word when I was young. What is, because I think people don't understand what this is and what madness is. Do you mind probably elaborating? Okay. Yeah. Yeah, people may term them as that but they are not mad. It's just, it depends because I have seen kids with the right, I think in the back days people need to know that there are ways you can intervene and change their lives. You get, but nowadays there are ways you can intervene as early as three and you can identify what works for them and then that's what you offer to them. What works for them is what you offer to them and they will be really regular. That when there was, if it is not really when there was, they are really normal, normal. It's just their temperaments are not like ours. You are able to control how you feel but for them sometimes the brain just can't. This one is too much. They don't even know how to bring it out.  Now they are a baby, now they are trying to get, to adjust into their new environment. Sometimes they just throw a tantrum and it's okay. This will just get to a point that they cannot identify with what is happening and to them it's a lot of pressure. To them they feel it is like their world is crashing. So for you is just see that they are suffering and they need help. So if you are able to assist, they are better because it is not like they need you to do something out of this world. If they feel that a place is nice, they just take them to a place that is quiet. If they feel that place is too crowded, they just take them to a place where they can be able to deal with it. It's just knowing how to deal with it. They are just okay. So for how long will this dealing with it take? Lifetime? Not really. A few years.  Yes, as from church, we know that the Bible says that when you teach a child a place of God, they will never depart from it.  As they develop whatever you present to them, that's what they take. If you present to them that this is how I deal with this kind of emotion breakdown, that's how they are going to adjust.   So yes, like when you teach them, and they love routine. So if you keep on doing something for a while, they take it. And they will actually naturally, that's what they take. It's not for a long time. Yes. Nice. So how, if you are to describe, how has your experience been dealing with families of autism children? When I'm dealing with families with children with autism, my first, my heart goes to the parents first of all before the kids because I feel the parents go through a lot, a lot. They have to raise money. Most of these kids may have a diet because that if a child is hyper, they are supposed to eat things that are not sugary, things that are, that do not trigger their hyperactivity. So I go to, my heart goes to the parents. They spend a lot of money. They also need a lot of emotional guidance on how to handle themselves in dealing with these children. So parents really need a lot of support, a lot of support. To the children, if the parents are okay, I feel the children are in good hands. Yeah. Nice. What? Nice. Hey, grace to you. There is this aspect, a while back, especially during the autism awareness period, there was a while back that there was great outcry and campaign actually against parents who hide their children. How is the situation now? I can't say that it is completely dealt with. Some parents still hide, lack of a better word that they don't want their kids to be out there because they are fearing how people will take it. So still we have a long way to go, but I feel we have moved a step higher. So we are doing well. But just to encourage any parents, any parent who is watching today and they have a child who is autistic, that's not the end of their life. Yes, their life still continues and they have a great future. A child, the Bible says that the children are blessing. Yes, in Psalms it says that they are gift from God. It doesn't say that some children, it says all children. So that's a gift we have from God. You just know how to handle that gift and make that gift the best they can be. Don't hide them. They are channels. The government is really doing well. They are institutions that are helping kids with autism. Just bring your child. They will be helped. Just tell someone. There are even groups in their social medias. You cannot lack somewhere you can get help. Nowadays, information is out here. Just engage with the information and you get the help you need. Nowadays, it's not as bad as Kitambo how you used to go back door to door to take kids. Nowadays, not really. Mostly in Nairobi because I am now based in Nairobi. I feel people have really brought their kids out. Yes.  I think the most challenging one is just the child wanting to explore. They just want to jump out and run away. That's really. And they will run first. Oh! So before you catch up with them, you'll be very tired. And you don't know where they are going. And now when they see that you are chasing them, they can't just do anything. They are not in their right state of mind. They can just hurt themselves. When you are running without knowing where you are going, anything can happen. So that really scares someone because you are like, where are they going? Yes.  Where are they going? They are cars, they are roads. So you have to be really careful and have the right measures to ensure that they are, no matter, like any, you are able to see any extreme and be able to come it before something happens. Yes. So are they able to get into careers, like professional careers in the future? Oh yes. Yes they are. And they are able to perform? Yes. Oh. And they get married? Oh yes. I am asking, I am asking because probably we don't do this show for ourselves alone. Yeah. Someone is seated at home thinking I have known of autism but I have never known if these people can have careers. I have never known if these people can get married. I have never known. So at times it goes beyond just us having a conversation. Yeah. Yes. It's quite something. It's quite something. These kids can, if they love something because now you will see if they are into computers you will see it as early as possible and they pursue it with all of it. Like everything that they have they pursue what they love. If they love football they will pursue it. If they love tech they will pursue it. So what happens is when you guide them in that way they are the best, very best. They are geniuses most of them like whatever they choose to do they are extremely productive in that area. So yes, they will perform because now by the time they are getting to that age they have gone through different developmental stages they are able to handle their emotions or there is someone maybe who is assisting them in case of anything. So it's not about big deal when they are grown ups and now if they get married there is someone who of course by the time you are agreeing to get married to someone who has that background you know what you are getting into. So you assist them in the best way possible and any support, yes. So actually they are so good they are really awesome people. So what will do encourage if if a parent or guardian sees a talent they should push it. Just pursue it. That's their breakthrough. That's their breakthrough. Just pursue it. Don't just do anything that it takes because nowadays when you just pursue something God just opens those. Just somehow. God just opened us opened us and your child will be will be assisted. One thing I think I should mention is anytime you find any child whether they are regular or they are with special needs just show them that you love them. Don't even if you feel that their behavior is not the best don't give them that face of what are you doing. Just try to get their level and understand them. Any child sees someone who loves them and they take that. If you show a child that you don't love them they are going to repel you they are going to actually they can even misbehave because they see this one they can never understand me. So even children with autism they love being loved and they they just get to love you. If you show them that you love them they love you unconditionally like it is like a lifetime attachment so the best thing is just show them love that's the least you can give to them that will help them in their life very greatly. Yes. Does it take them long to learn speech therapy and etc etc? It doesn't take long it doesn't take long but what I advise most of the parents is the earlier the better. Yes the earlier the better because at two, three, four the brain is still developing so how you condition that brain to function is how that kid will be. So if you teach the brain that it is okay they can learn how to talk as early as possible just do intervention early so you are able to learn very quickly. Nice, nice. So moving away from autism what else do you do as a person? I think my life mostly revolves around teaching children with autism I also do business yes I'm a business person I sell beddings yes so you if you need bed sheets pillowcases I do and I also teach children in church Amazing, so how does your normal day look like? Wow my normal day looks like waking up early yes doing my devotions if I have a client nowadays I'm working with a client who needs me to assist them I go I help those children like it's a full-time job and then my business is I do them during the weekends yes So you are able to balance a bit Yes I'm able to you have to because in every area you are needed yes and we are the people to give solutions so anywhere you are needed your input yes amazing I think we are almost bringing this conversation to an end and I wanted to I don't know I'm turning between asking you cheek questions we usually have to cheek questions or asking you to give us a patting shot then we do the cheek question I'm not sure not sure what I want to do but I'll probably ask you to give us a patting shot first using that camera okay it's been great it's been amazing it's like a call out to everyone who is watching us just to ensure that our children have the right environment for them to grow whether they are regular whether they have disability let's help them because we are the society we are the community that helps those who are coming after us to be the best that they can and when we make them we make this world a better place for them they are going to have the best life in their future and they are also going to model that to those who come after them so yes it is just making life better for whoever is around you and whoever comes after you it's been great being in this show I feel that I have been able to they need to help our children because as we already are adults the people who are after us, they are their children and we have to ensure that they have the best life and we have to ensure that they get the best resources help, if they need help just offer something to them because you have it thank you so much and God bless you so what can you live the house without as a girl I think I live I think I live bound to on the road are you a cheetah or a tortoise I think I am a cheetah, I really walk fast he also flashes yes, any day makeup, no makeup I don't know makeup but not extreme not ass not to you, I love makeup but on a regular day or just do a touch up I am done thank you scuttle trousers wow, I think I really love dresses okay thank you thank you so much for making time thank you so much for sharing you're welcome for sharing your knowledge on what is it we've learnt a theme or two we do want to tell us your social media handle yeah yes on instagram I am at Joy Joyas the same as facebook yes, if anyone wants to reach me I can also give out my phone number yes, it's okay alright, so my phone number is 0707<PHONE_NUMBER> 621844 yes, thank you I want to say a few words please for anyone who needs help mostly with their children I don't know what to say I don't know I am single I like not to thank you so much thank you for coming you're welcome and that was Joyas Maena who is a teacher dealing with autism learners and she's been giving us a whole lot of insights towards what is autism, who are autism learners can they live a normal life can they do normal things and you know one thing I have loved about what she has said is that these people are very normal like they just have different abilities from your ability and that doesn't make them any lesser over person so when you see someone out there with autism or struggling with any other disability please show them love and care they need it but do not touch that tile Val is coming back with more that was the strength of a woman


Hey everyone, welcome to today's day trading recap for Monday, November 1st, starting out the first day of November with a green day, plus 412 on the day, had two mighty 90s, one in Roku, basically a scratch for 20, NVIDIA plus 200, and then on the runners had one winner in DK&G for 234, and then a small loser in Boeing for minus 42. So let's go over these, show you what we did, starting with Roku. So Roku started pushing higher, had a nice little volume pop, so I got short right here. I was trying to add up here, never quite got up to my add, and then reverse, so I ended up getting out after these two red bars here, and so basically scratched it, took a little $20 winner out of it. NVIDIA worked a little nicer, so as we pushed up, had some volume here, got short right around here, and caught this down move there for plus 200, and then on the runners, first in Boeing, this was my only loser of the day, and BA had this nice volume pop. I got long about right here for continuation, it pushed up, I got out of half my position for a nice little profit on that piece, and then when it started to break down here, I ended up just cutting out of the last piece and took a small loss, minus 42, and then lastly DKNG took an upside runner, pulled back to Friday's high, and this pivot with a little bit higher volume, so got long right here, and caught this bounce up, held on to one last piece to see if we could get another extension, and it just kind of started chopping around as I cut out of that last piece, so plus 234 on that one. So that is my day, my friends. We'll be streaming every day the rest of this week, got some new exciting stuff coming out with our new navigation trend trading for day trading that we'll be talking about in the live stream tomorrow, so look forward to seeing you then.