Hey fellow reading warriors and welcome to today's video or welcome if you're new here So this video is going to be a little bit Different than what normal recommendations around this time would be I'm sure you're well aware whether you want to be or not That Valentine's Day is coming up soon Excited to do a little bit of a different recommendations video I feel like a lot of people around this time are doing like Romance recommendations to get into the spirit But I feel like not everybody wants to fully get into the spirit depending on their own personal situation and choices So I'm recommending you some books that have Romance in them, but are not specifically contemporary romances or just like romance genre Most of these books pretty much all these books I believe will be Fantasy with subplots of romance or romance is a major part or I personally love the romance in them without them being that straight like You know cheesy romance that everyone is recommending or that You know Now is the time to read them, but if you don't want to read them Here's some other recommendations to get you through the season So the first book that I would like to recommend is the first in a duology That would be spin the dawn by Elizabeth limb. I Love the romance in this book. It is about a girl named Maya and She wants to be a tailor and so she goes and she enters in the competition to be the emperor's new tailor but while she is there she meets the like head magic person the Enchanter for the emperor and that spoiler alert is love interest low-key though Like the romance in this gave me shadow and bone Vibes like the whole idon who's which is the name of the enchanter who ends up being the love interest I am going to spoil all the love interest, which is not a super big spoiler, but like I'm gonna talk about the love interest in these books. So just keep that in mind He gives me such big Darkling vibes from shadow and bone like he's this dark mysterious I know everything and you're interesting because you're different from everyone else and you're like a big deal and so Like if you like things like that or kind of like a darker bad boy without him actually being like a bad boy I Would recommend this book for you Moving on this next book is a little bit more on the younger side I I'm not sure if it's why are actually middle grade because I think it's meant to be YA, but the character acts So much younger in my opinion Then she is that it kind of brings it down to being a middle grade without it trying to be a middle grade but that is Tiger's Curse and this is by Colleen Hoke and in this one you have a girl named Kelsey who is 17 and she Volunteers to work for this zoo where she meets a tiger and she you know, it's a tiger tigers are cool You so she forms a connection with this tiger and then she finds out that the tiger is actually a human Who has been cursed and so she is invited to go to India with the tiger whose name is Ren And she gets to see him when he's human and tiger and she's she's to help him Break his curse So the kind of the love interest is definitely between Kelsey and Ren and you get that kind of right off the bat But it is like a younger type of romance neither character really knows how to have a relationship and so It's a fun. I thoroughly enjoyed this. I liked the beginning in the middle the ending with a little myth But again, it's the start of a series So I'm interested in picking up the next book in the series to see if it redeems itself so This next one is one of my personal Favorites on this list. I read this so long ago and it's still just one of my favorites And that is wither, which is the first in the chemical garden trilogy and this is by Lauren de Sifano Oh, okay. So this is in my opinion. This is a better version of the selection I mean, it's very different from the selection, but in terms of romance, it's quite similar So in this dystopian-esque society Men only live to 25 and women only live to 20 and that's a genetic thing. That's something that society has screwed up in their genetics Great job guys And so what they've started doing is many rich people have started taking many different wives in order to Have more kids in order to solve this problem whether it's have more kids train them in science so they can figure out the problem or just have more kids to keep Society going because if they're dying in 20 25 years like That's not a lot of time and most people out that age still aren't very mature. So I mean like oh boy So our main character here Ryan is 16 years old and she gets kidnapped to be a bride for a guy named Lyndon She however is upset because she was taken away from her brother so her main focus is to Escape this man and find her brother But as she is trying to figure out how to escape she runs into a servant named Gabrielle and he is there to help her now It's not like the selection in that There's someone from her past who she was previously in a relationship And then she has to choose not like that because that's what I admire about it I hate like with the selection and the Hunger Games where both it's like there's Who she was with and who she is with now and I hate that competition in terms of a triangle, but like here it's she She's a wife But she kind of falls for the servant But at the same time she learns a little bit more about her husband and is kind of develops more of an empathy for him And it's the first in a trilogy and so it's it has a very strong theme of romance Obviously, but the whole point of it is she is trying to find her brother So I thought that was a little cooler a little more unique. So I highly recommend this if you have not read it already Next continuing on I have the Night Circus by Erin Morgenstern. Yes, this copy is very beat up very well loved so the Night Circus by Erin Morgenstern and this has a more of a slow burn romance because it is These two kids a boy and a girl who are told that they're in a competition magically with an opponent and Not only one of them can survive, but They don't know who they're fighting against But you know, it's a boy and a girl It's on this list. What do you think it's gonna happen? I also just want to add in a little side note here saying that so Pretty much all of these books are straight romances and that's not because I am against the LGBTQIA plus community in any way It's just that I haven't read very many LGBTQIA plus fantasy romance like I've read Contemporary romance of these books and I plan on reading more in the future, but I just haven't found very many like fantasy books where the main character is By or gay or pan or trans or just I haven't yet read any Fantasy versions like those and that's why there aren't very there aren't any on this list So if you guys know of any Please let me know in the comments below Please recommend them to me because I really do want to find them and read them. I just I feel like LGBTQIA plus romance is huge in romance, but not in fantasy yet and that's Annoying so if I am wrong and there are actually like a plethora of books like this, please let me know in the comments below Anyway back to regularly programs next I'm gonna talk about a book that I love and I've talked about quite a bit So I won't say too much about it and it's pretty big right now anyway and so that is Serpent and Dove by Shelby Mahirran and If you don't already know this book is interesting because she is a witch He is a witch hunter and unknowingly of well She knows that he's a witch hunter He doesn't know that she's a witch and they end up getting married at the very beginning of the book Now again, you can imagine why the book is on this list. It's it's such a fun book It's entertaining and obviously the element of romance is very different than what it is in many of these other books But it's still there just in a much more fun way more enjoyable way to experience in my opinion So if you seriously if you somehow have not heard of this book or you've heard of it and haven't picked it up I I encourage you to do so I just finished the sequel for it, which is Blood and Honey and I love that one as well And I'm really looking forward to the third one So seriously if you have not please pick up this book Alrighty and then I would like to talk about Wicked Fox by Kat Cho This is a Korean mythology book where our main character Myung is a Gumiho Which is the nine-tailed fox in Korean mythology Basically what she does well other than be awesome and be like a pretty nine-tailed fox She eats the souls of men to survive and now then Jihoon comes along and he knows what she is So does that mean she can not eat his soul and live happily ever after or is it a lot more complicated than that? I'm gonna tell you it's a lot more complicated than that and it was a really great read and So I recommended the second book Vicious Beers is also out just so you know, it's it's also a series You should read that one too. I don't have too much to say about it. I liked it And I still have much more to say about it So then the last book on this little list here is going to be How to Stop Time by Matt Hague This book is different than the others because it's not like it's not fantasy. It's kind of sci-fi, but it's not very sci-fi so it So the main character is a man they call himself Tom and he He like a certain few people in the world are actually immortal and just live Very or at least they live very slowly they age extremely slowly And so he belongs to a society called the Aqua Trash Society Which is made up of people like this and they have certain rules to live by so that you don't get Caught basically and one of the rules is that you cannot love you cannot have a relationship with anyone Well, this story is interesting because it goes in Back into the history of when Tom was younger and in modern day both follow romance plot lines Back in the day before he really came to the Aqua Trash Society before he kind of knew too much about what was going on He has a relationship and it's like way back I think it's in like the 1800s like it's old and then like his mom was burned for being a witch and Then a modern day he moves back to London and he finds this French teacher and she's cute and He starts to fall for her and he's like okay. Is it worth living forever without love? But then the Aqua Trash Society is like yes Yes, it is and he's like is it really and so it's kind of his turmoil of Falling in love again after living so many years without love and Seeing if it's really the best decision for him anyways Thank you guys so much for watching this video if you'd like to give it a thumbs up comment down below again If you know of any books that are fantasy but have LGBTQIA plus main character or if what you plan on reading this Valentine's Day whether or not it is Contemporary romance or just what your plans are this Valentine's Day if you're comfortable sharing otherwise hit the subscribe button I post every Thursday and so if you don't want to miss anything the best way to do that is hitting subscribe and hitting the bell So you can get all the notifications when I upload and until they see you guys in the next video I wish you all a happy reading


March 21st, Raily scheduled slack word meeting to order. To my left is Justin Lawrence, Flo Smith. To my right is Jeremy Hansen and our town administrator Dana Hadley. Who is also Diane Isabella, our town treasurer. Additions of changes to the agenda, Dana. I do have a few changes, Brad. I would like to remove the appointment with the police chief from the agenda. We'll put that on in a later time. He won't be getting a report on the department this evening. And I have a few additions that I would like to add. I'd like to add approval of three special event permits. I'm expecting Jeff Besscott to come in to talk to you about that. I would like to add a resolution to support of application to sewer services on cross town roads. I would like to add a discussion on the heating system at the town garage. I would like to ask that the liquor commission convenes. Thank you, that's good. Okay, public comment. Hearing none, treasurer's report, Dana. Okay, I provide the select board to just sign this report, trial balance and delinquent tax reports. And then I did want to talk about a grant that received for the mirror lake culvert project. Yep, that was something that was finally completed at this point. The town between FY18 and FY19 invested $229,747.80 in this project, of which we have $175,000 grant, which I received last week. So that leaves a town of $54,747.80 at what we have to pay for ourselves. The next project that we have is the, we're just a road culvert. And to date, we spent $5,115.20 on that. Just want to make you aware of that. Let's take you still going. Yep. Carla. See, we're putting these off. Dana, I actually don't have the resolution. You have the resolution, all right? I do. So, if you recall, first of all, I should announce that the Brello Town Plan was announced town plan of the year by the Vermont Plan Association. They're just excited. They're also having a reception on, what was it? The 11th? The 11th at the State House. I think it's a capital problem. Oh, is it? Okay. Dude, someone should go accept the award. I don't know if that's going to be you or... Well, I'm planning to go, but I was going to send the invitation to the board as well. So, anyway, as far as in the town plan, if you recall, we had designated two village potential village-centered designations and the town-centered designations. And the two village-centered designations are actively being pursued at this point. They're fairly straightforward and simple processes. It's very different from the town-centered designations. Benefits are mainly that you're eligible for your priority funding, grant funding, priority... You have to use the priority and certain grant funding opportunities, et cetera, et cetera. So, Tom has been working with, what's his name? I'm from Northfield. Anyway, there's a champion there working on the one for the Riverton area. And they are hoping to put it forward. So there's a resolution, I believe, is it for both of them? This one is just for the Riverton. Okay. Because I think that one is the quickest, that is the one that's... Oh, I'm sorry, it's both. Oh, it is both. Oh, okay. And I think, Tom, are you speaking... Is the other one? They're speaking on the part of the other one. Yeah, the other one is for this district here, the sort of the Berlin corner district. And so, basically the work now really is drawing the boundaries, what gets included and what doesn't. The biggest incentives are tax credits for improvements in the districts. It doesn't have to be a commercial property. To get the improvements, but if you look at... I can leave this for you folks to be like. This shows like Hardwick, how, you know, a lot of the Hardwick... They have this. Okay. Which outlined a lot of that. Yeah, I mean, a lot of the work that's done in Hardwick has been through the tax credits. That's created a lot of incentives for people to refurbish the buildings. And I know what I think Riverton area is probably a little bit more likely to see sort of the next use, maybe commercial stuff. I think up here it's more the idea of getting sewer, you know, getting application for getting infrastructure to serve the residents is here. But we support the designations and we'd like you to, we need a resolution to select for it to go with the application. Supporting that, those designations. Okay. So that's why I'm here. So are there any historical buildings that you know of on either side that would be eligible for these like preservation grants or anything? I don't know. And again, they're drawing districts, or I think they've already worked out the boundaries of the one in Riverton. And they've met with the center not planning commission, because it has to have civic buildings in it in order to sort of qualify. And so they had to draw the boundaries in certain ways. But it looks like, I mean, the man that's in charge of the program came in that with us. This is his PowerPoint. And he essentially works with you so that when you put the application in it, as I understand it, he doesn't, it's sort of, it's ready to go. And there's really no, the approval process is pretty straightforward with this particular one. So he's been working with Tom on how to develop the Riverton one. This is just the designation. Yes. Is that right? Yes. So you would, I mean, this is the first step. If a property owner were interested and within that district. Yes, and maybe that directly with the state. The town doesn't have any involvement in that. It's all direct relationship for anybody that is actually interested in taking advantage of the tax credits. The town though is eligible for funding based on those designations. And it also allows you to do a neighborhood designation around it, which can have some benefits for housing development. There's like a half acre circle you can draw around these designations. And there's permitting benefits to having those designations. We had intended to do that on the town center. I'm not sure about the village center, but I think Tom has talked about it. Do you see a downside, any downside on that other than the town has to do bookkeeping? There's really, you know, for the branch of me. I mean, you know. Yeah, if you get money, you have to take the bookkeeping, but yeah. No, there really is no downside. And it may, nothing may happen because it's really up to the individual landowners to take advantage of the opportunities, except for with infrastructure where the town I think can take advantage of some of those grant funding opportunities or planning type grants and things like that. Do you know if the Berlin Corners map extends down Crosstown where we're talking about possibly extending sewer lines? We haven't drawn that yet, but I think that's part of the purpose is. I don't think so. I think that's the Berlin Corners project. But okay, did I say a Riverton? No, you said Berlin Corners. Sorry, I understand that. The Berlin Corners, yeah. So I mean, it encompasses this building presumably and the roads here. The ends will be yes then. Okay, so that's encouraging then. It looks like in the ANR drinking water state revolting loan fund, will we get extra points then going into those? Yeah. So I think I really think it's only a benefit and the work is minimal. So the cost, there's really no cost to it to us in terms of getting those done. So I think there's really no downside for us. So I'm gonna move that we approve the resolution as presented with my name correctly spelled at the bottom. I'll have to speak for this. Mr. Tom. Any further discussion? Here's nothing, those in favor? I've got one question. Oh, sure thing, Tom. If you can. Now the village, first of all, it gives us five points on our sewer. Application, application, yeah. Do I understand the right that you can have commercial in one of the structures as long as the resident lives upstairs, is that part of the criteria for village? I don't, I'm not sure the resident has to live there. I just know that you can only get the tax credits for some sort of a commercial purpose. It can't be just to a historic home renovation if the homeowners, it's just a resident. But you can't get the tax credits for that because the idea is to build vibrancy and the economic development within these designations. So, but I'm not, so I wouldn't think you'd have to live in it. I didn't get that impression from the app from when I got the email. Do you have this, Tom? This has a breakdown of all of the benefits of the village centers, yeah, that's it, just look. Oh, no, that is, that is different. I don't know if this is the same, but you can have that as well. Well, I think, I guess my question was it, I actually, it's too bad Tom's in here because I asked the question.  I really believe it will, it's just too close to everything else. And the residents are always, as you know, really concerned about that. And when I brought that up with Tom, he said that the village center designation does allow commercial, which I think is okay, but it had to be, it's limited to be, the person had to live in the building or live upstairs. I can't speak to that, but what I can speak to is it doesn't change the underlying zoning. So the district has still zoned what it's zoned in terms of the town. So I'm not sure if he was talking about. So maybe you're talking about the zoning. Is that as, that's a present zoning. We just ask that it allows commercial for chat to live upstairs. Well, it allows, it's more of a residential area. So it's not.  Yes, yes, yes, yes. So I think maybe that's what he was speaking to. Yeah, okay. But honestly that was my, one of my hesitations that I wasn't sure about this area, but I think the fact that it allows for some of that infrastructure, the grants, I think it's, it's. No, I'm comfortable with it. I have to talk to Tom. I just, I may have got his explanation. He's more, he's not with the, like I said, he's not with CVRPC and he's much more on exactly what's going on. So his answer to the, to the point is, He's probably more accurate than me. His answer to me when I asked about the Goldie Center, he's probably talking about the zoning. Yes, yes, because that still applies. Yeah. Any other questions? All those in favor? Aye. Those opposed, motion carries. Can I ask one more thing? Sure. So in regards to the town center designation, I just wanted to, to ask for the possibility of some funding. We, the mall, I'm not sure what's going on with the mall, but they are no longer have a consultant that's doing the application. And I don't know if Dana has had any conversations with the mall owners, but I'm a little concerned because the momentum was really there for getting the town center designation. Now we have the town plan, we have the zoning, which we worked very hard to put through so that we could prepare for the town center designation. And now I'm afraid the momentum might be lost. And we have Brandy, the consultant who did the zoning and the town plan who's willing to do the work for the town center application. And I think we've got some money, Tom's wrangled some money together. But what I was going to request was the possibility of allocating the $14,000, I think it was $14,675 application fee that the 99 unit building paid to allocate that to the town center sort of fund to pursue that designation. I know you probably can't decide now, but I just wanted to- I was going to report that in my report a little bit on the town, and but since we're talking about it, we gross budget, and it makes it very, I mean, in other words, even though it's coming in as a revenue, we can't necessarily spend that money because it hasn't been approved by the town. The town has approved us to spend X. Could we spend that money? Yes, but we would have to be sure we didn't spend somewhere else so that we wouldn't go over as the bottom line. And I told Tom that I would think about how maybe we could- Will you put me up for this? We could. Well, Tom has very high-heizureism as I tell him all the time that I don't mind saying it in public. You have to go by the laws, Tom. That's right. I know it's not on the agenda, but I just forget to throw it out here just because I really, really don't want to lose what- But I think we're on the same team. Yes, yes, yes. Absolutely. And the good news is that that application has happened and that they're pursuing some other opportunities over there, I think at this time. So I think I'm just hoping that if the mall pulled out, we would just be- Well, and I'm having, I had a very good conversation with Ken from the mall yesterday. Oh, good, okay. And he's very interested in it as well as other Indian parties, so we'll keep you, don't worry. We'll talk. That's great. All right, thank you, folks. Thank you, Tom. Fred, maybe you want to do the other one, the resolution to support the application of social services since Rob and Tom are here. And that was, it helped me with this because I've just found out about this. This is basically, you're looking for the board to support application for a grant for a sewer line extension and the public works board is on board with it. Yes. If a grant is obtained, the project would go forward. If not, maybe not. Maybe not. Is that right? Probably not. Tom has prepared a resolution for that. Sorry, you didn't get a chance to see it. And Jeremy, if you want, I can have a redo your name and we can re-sign another one. Just meeting session. Well, I'm sorry. Dana, you could pass that around if you want. Right, that's what Tom had given me back. Yes. I didn't know he needed more copies. Yeah, so did you need this back? Well, I got it from Tom. Do you need a back to home? No, I don't. Okay, so that's what this is asking for. Just the support of the board to apply for this grant and so if you're interested in having a motion. Is this what we're approving? I haven't seen it. No, you haven't seen it. I just got it, so I've got that. So I can give you a little quick background. Yeah. It'd be helpful. Tom found out that the Northern Border Regional Commission has something like $20 million or something to spend in this area. A lot of them are big projects, phyproptics, that kind of stuff. Infrastructures such as sewer lines, water lines are also eligible. It's a 50% match by the town. It's on a reimbursable, oh, I should tell you I went to the meeting yesterday, so this is all really current. They held a meeting over at the Chamber of Commerce and I went to and Tom had another commitment and didn't go, but the town has to give the Northern Border Commission a letter of intent by the 29th of this month, so that's not much time at all. So I know Tom has prepared this. He's also prepared a one-sheet description of the project, 3,000 feet of sewer and pump station, roughly in how much money we're asking for, which was about $167,000, I've kind of forgotten. Not a lot of money compared to some of the projects that the applications are, but it has got, I think it's got a doggone good chance. As you know, the municipal, all of the residents, there's like nine of them, nine of us, three more that we haven't talked to, they all would like starting with Wayne Lamberton and then the Pludes and then the Greer Synthons on down. They all have the same kind of onsite systems. Some of the systems are, you know, wetlands. They're all pretty marginal. If you look at Rob's old soil maps, you'll find it's pretty shallow and a hard pan. Of course, none of them are failing, right? But, oh no. Mine works, mine works. Mine works too. But we talked about and did a study, the sewer commission had burnished in that year or two a while ago, do a preliminary engineering how much it would cost. And it was well beyond what the residents could support.  So then it was far beyond what an individual home, a home just, they're just gonna sell their house with their septic system as is, you know, and the problem will ever get fixed. So this grant, I think we have a dog on good chance. The village designation really helps, gives us five extra points as they grade the project. So I'm pretty relatively confident that our application will be viewed favorable. The match can be volunteers time, I keep track of my time, what's the time I spent at the meeting, I don't know if it's eligible or not. I asked him if the Bernie Shannett study was eligible, it's already been paid for. And they thought, they didn't really know, but they thought it might be. I asked them if the borings we did for the water line could somehow be used for match, because you'd need borings for the sewer line. If the town uses stone or town equipment, that's all eligible for match. So it's a pretty liberal match requirement. So the letter intent has to be in by next Friday, and then the application, the town application that we haven't filled out yet, just spent a day since they briefed us on it, I think is due in, I wanna say July. It's July, yeah. July, so we have some time to fill out that application. And this was not previously eligible, this is not money that was available to us here, the last Farm Bill actually took this pot of money that was only available at the kingdom and sort of the border region, so the Northern Borders. And the Farm Bill changed the designation of what it meant to be the Northern Borders to be all of Vermont now. So now all of Vermont can go apply for this, this pool of, this rather large pool of $20 million. And I know like CV Fiber, we're looking at that too. And we're actually, I have a meeting with USDA Rural Development, because they're sort of working with us and some other folks doing the same thing. Kind of, yeah, we're gonna be asking for a rather larger piece of that. Yeah, it's interesting that the briefing yesterday, they were saying that a lot of the grants are large, large grants, and there was probably, I think Montpelier had like three projects in River Park, and there were a lot, I would guess maybe 20 or 25 people applying. And so a lot of them were big, and Tim Turney from the AEC Development Community Affairs was saying that they do like small infrastructure projects because there's a $5 million, $5 million project here, would take $130,000 and apply it to some of the smaller ones, even if they didn't, even if the smaller ones didn't rank high under criteria list. So I think it's a good bet, and I encourage the town to apply for the grant and send a notice and intent to fill out the application, if you agree. So I move that we sign the letter of intent for the Northern Borders grant for the sewer extension. I second it. Any further discussion? Hearing none, those in favor? Aye. Those opposed? Motion carries? Not yet, but. Okay, thank you. It's like change in our timeline, I don't think, but that's okay. The water's done, so I figured I had to start working on the sewer. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you very much. Thank you very much. Appreciate your time. Okay, approval of licenses, permits, vouchers, and applications. I am getting to the end of this. I am actually doing something here. I'm sorry. Feverously. Thank you very much. I move that we approve general fund that counts payable warrant number 19 of G19 with checks 18958 through 19012 in the amount of 87,586 dollars and 45 cents. Also, Northfield Savings Bank warrant number 17 in the amount of $5,970 and 53 cents. Also, payroll warrant number 19-19 for payroll from March 3rd, 2019 through March 16th, 2019 in the amount of $42539.97 and also the February General Journal and Tax Admin Entries. Here. Any further discussion? Everybody's reviewed the bills. Bill's in favor? Aye. Bill's opposed? Motion carries. Brad, maybe the next with the special event permit, Jeff Dress, got it. Okay, special event permits. We have received an application for three special event permits and these are events that have happened in the past several years probably. Yeah, I see some new faces so I could give a quick overview of our events. Central Vermont Runners is a non-profit volunteer organization. We promote health and fitness in Central Vermont through running and running related activities. We produce a number of races open to the public throughout the year. Three of them have impact on the town of Berlin. The Paul Millman 10-Miler, this will be the 45th year for this event. The Capitol City Stampede, it'll be the 42nd year for that event. And then Berlin Pond, the vet, we lost count, but it's 40 something. So the Paul Millman 10-Miler is a 10-mile race on April 27th, which is a Saturday morning. The start and finish and all the parking and registration activities are in the city of Montpelier. But the event does go out on the Junction Road area of West Berlin with a turnaround up on Jonesburg Road. The Capitol City Stampede is on Saturday, June 8th as a 10K event. It also starts and finishes in Montpelier. Also goes out the Junction Road in West Berlin. The turnaround is before three-mile bridge. And then Berlin Pond is entirely within the town of Berlin. The registration and parking are here at the town office. The start and finish are down by the pond, then it's just a single loop of the pond. I have brought this, since they've done this many times, and the police chief has no issues as long as they maintain the standard of safety that they have in previous years. They have also asked to have the permit be waived. The $50 permit. I said there's three events? There's three events. Move to approve all three of the running events. And authorize this one. And authorize it at a time? Yes. And I second that. Oh, and I'll also mention we did provide an insurance certificate with the town of Berlin as an insurance. Yes, I have that. Thank you. Thank you for the discussion. Hearing none, those in favor? Aye. Those opposed? Motion carries. Thank you very much. It's back to you, Jeff, okay. Thank you very much. Thank you for explaining everything. Thank you. Are you taking care of all the additions? The additions, yes. We haven't. We haven't. The heating system? The heating system is the next one that we've added. The town garage has two heating systems. One is in marginal condition and the other is in very poor condition. Very small. I will. It's kind of. And the bottom line at least in place. 30 years. We do have, Tim has talked with Gillespie fuels and they have suggested a propane a modene. Switching from oil to propane. Rather than use oil. That would be a cost of $4,490 to do that. To have a new 250,000 BTU propane fired modene unit heater. Remove the oil unit, run the gas lines at the tank. Gillespie fuels and propane owns the tank. Materials, $3,470, the labor is $1,020, $44,90. And you have money in your, you have $5,000 in your energy line that could cover that. If it were a 185,000 BTU oil fired unit heater and just replacing the current, the old unit, that would cost a total of $7,140,307. Have we looked at pellet furnaces? No, we've ever needed one of those. Okay, I mean, I know a lot of people about efficiency Vermont. There's, I don't know if the towns are eligible for that but there's a credit where they will actually pay part of the installation of a pellet furnace. I don't believe it ever needed to. It has to be huge. But the, would you like us to look at that? I would, so the building that my ex works in in Barry, Down Street, they're on the corner of Keith and Summer Street. And it's a big, both a office space and there's 40 apartment buildings. It's a three to four store building and they have the big pellet hopper. Yeah, and that heats the whole building with that pellet furnace. We can look into that. The only thing I'm thinking Jeremy with that is that, and I don't know how I'm not familiar with these things, how often they need to be fed. I mean, so like during the weekend or something would someone have to come in?  Part of that is getting the ashes out. Oh, okay. I can tell you that for my personal experience with propane gracing where they are, I have a pellet stove in my house. I actually like the idea of that and it was with Gillespie's fuel, the deal I get on propane, I actually get more BTUs, for my dollar, not propane and the deal with pellets. For the moment, I'm just... He's running that way for the last two years. He told me that Steven Corl, he kind of more handles the oil part of it, but he got the figures and stuff for the propane.  He said that the town's paying just a little over a dollar a gallon for propane. So, I mean, that's pretty cheap. Yeah. It was quite a discount when you used to have burning a lot of it. Yeah, and he was here and he looked at the situation over there and he thought about putting the tank over here next to the fence by the generator. And if he was to do that, then you could go propane here too. Just turn the burner. Get the furnace here to propane and do away with the oil. Because one of the other problems that we have is those are underground oil tanks. And they've been there for a long time. Are we gonna have to pull them out? Well, we gotta do our diesel fuel anyways because we've switched the above-ground tank over there because the state wouldn't let us put any more fuel in the ground over there.  We're gonna have to dig it up. Cut a hole in the top of the tank. They put people down in there and clean it. And then you can fill it with sand and leave it there so you don't have to take it out of the ground in the state.  But the tank here is a 500-gallon tank and our tank is a 1,000-gallon tank over there on the ground. What fuel do we use to have in the generator back here? Is that diesel also? That diesel has its own... Right, right. I was just thinking, if at some point we decide that we don't want to keep that up and we want to just switch that to propane, too. I'm thinking... I don't know if you'd be able to with that. That's pretty old. Well, I'm saying if we were to replace the generator, if we had a source of propane, then we could run that and we could feed the generator with that as well. Yeah. But they had to do some major work to let us keep using the finish that we got. So... Yeah, I mean, they had to put steel inside of that. The firebox is totally gone. I've been here for 30 years. That's how I'm going. What we do have... I mean, it's going to hang on for another... Yeah, he said we probably could get through the winter this year, but before, not himself. Yeah. I mean, before. But, I mean, we can always carry the $5,000 over in June into next year, because the one in the back part of the garage is not nearly as bad as the one in the front part. Because the back one, we got it turned way down. It's down on like 55 degrees, because we don't work out there that often, so we get the heat turned way down. The front one, I keep on about 65, so it runs more. The tank that feeds those first, is that separate from the diesel fuel? Yeah. It's on this side of the building now here. The diesel tank is on the front side out. Yeah. Because we've got to do that this spring. Yeah.  Because they gave us an above-ground tank for free, $1,000 above-ground tank. The retainer, too? Huh? They give you a retainer, too? A cement retainer to put it in? No, we don't have to, because it's a double wall tank. And they supply the pump, everything, as long as we stay by and fuel it. But we do have to complete getting the other tank closed out. Yeah. Yeah, we got to do that. Because the state will give us time to do this thing. Does that, I don't know if that's what the building is, but there is an old petroleum cleanup fund. I don't know if there's any ground contamination there. No, the problem is the tank has a detector system in it, and it's spated. So we drained the tank, pumped it dry. So there's nothing in the tank. But that's why the state shut us down. And it was going to cost us $5,000 to upgrade the detecting system. So it's been spending $5,000 to do that, and still have to go through the whole hassle of keeping track of how many gallons of fuel you take out of it and how many gallons of fuel you put into it every day. So PJ had to do that every single day. I'm sure he did. We keep track of our fuel, even though we're not doing that now, we still write down when we pump out our tank that we have now. We keep track of our fuel. But I mean, that was a lot of time every morning. He had to dip the tank right down along the figures, and he had to, everything had to match up when the guy came from the state so that there was, you know, if there was any leakage anywhere, sorry. So, you know, it's costly. Sure. So there's no sense of having it. I mean, the state of Vermont did away with all their fuel tanks. They get their fuel at Maplewood, South Village Grocery, Williamstown, Monterey Air. They don't have their tanks some more, but they didn't go to a well-ground tank. So this would be high enough that we should probably go out to bid, technically, for the furnace? 5,000 is the threshold. Oh, 5,000 is the threshold. OK. Yeah, we're technically supposed to have three estimates. You can waive that, I mean. This is a vendor that we use and draw that supply.  And we can. I mean, I have not had a chance to research anything on pellet furnace, but we can. Well, if you're going to do that, then you might as well get estimates for the pellet furnace and get estimates for a couple other estimates on the gas furnace. OK. And while you're at it, I don't know if it would be a good time now, but I mean, if the other furnace, how old is the other furnace? One's enough to use much. The back one. Both will put in the same time. So both 30 years? So you might want to take and see if there'd be a better price if they were to install two. OK. And if we're going to switch fuels, we'll switch fuels. Well, it's just that it's foolish to take and have them here to put in one furnace and make sure they haven't come back. Well, like I said, we can get through July. So if we carry over the 5,000 that I have now, we're going to have 5,000 next year, so we'll cover the other furnace. So they could do them all at the same time. Yeah. So the other thing, it might be cheaper to do it that way. We can get by for the rest of this year. He said it's bad, but they called it up pretty good. I mean, they were there for a long time, cutting steel. And I don't understand how the two are laid out back there, but would it be possible to get one larger one that could feed? No, let's go. We got a wall in between the shop. OK. And they hang from the ceiling. I see. The way they are right now, too. It just blows down then? Yeah. OK. Neals, too. Cross down. Nice. I was over there today, six couple spots, but they weren't really bad. They were more rough than they were in Muddy. But I don't think we've seen them. They started in Muddy even, to be honest with you. So I just want to know what we want to do here, how much we want to sling over there. I haven't told you anything. I came over tonight and said it was pretty good. Yeah, I was over it two or three times today. And I went over at least once a day. So what we've done in the past is we've given you the authority to say that this is the time that we're going to do it. We just would want to make sure we do 20. I'm not going to spend any money there in that hill, because it doesn't benefit anybody, but somebody for a shortcut. And I'm going to fix it down where Shirley and Chris live, if I have to. But I'll just put up road road signs.  So if we can do a 48-hour notice for a portrait or something just to make sure that when you decide you want to pull the trigger, then we're just going to cut off access that everybody knows. And then the buses and the fire department and everybody can make other plans. But right now, it's pretty good. The worst we've had is on the poem, front-end, that southern poem. I heard about that. That's the worst that we've had. And a little bit on Barrow and Hill. So we're saying on Crosstown that you're not going to put a lot of materials in your back. No, no, it's waste of money. It's waste of money. And if you want to spend money, I'll fix it. I know, I'm just trying to get myself straight. You know, if you want to keep flow from coming to a meeting, that's fine. Well, if I had a nice car, I won't put that one on that road. I'm going to get that. How's Dog River? Rough. That wasn't muddy at all. It was rough. No one down here twice this winter and fixed it because it got so polly because it rained and get cold and then rain and then warm up. But we just don't have the gravel now. We say it's usually everywhere else. I just have nothing on Dog River. But it's not muddy. Plus, I might as well be out there. Today's what? Thursday, I was out there Tuesday. Well, two of the greater. We went to go to Barrow and Hill and fix a place up there. And then we went to West Hill and that's where I live in. And then I went out through Dog River because I told those guys not to run, not to run Dog River, so they would just go up here and come back up over and want to go straight to get to Riverton. We dumped some material on the road. On the road, not in the pond. No. And I have money in my budget. And northeast started crushing. Today, I believe. So if it starts getting worse, I'm going to have to have some material also. And I'll talk with Jeff Newton. And northeast, of course, our contract with northeast and Jeff is from July 1st to June 2nd. So we're still under the same crisis that we paid last year. They're not going to charge us more. Well, okay. Thank you, Tim. Come in. So you want it, you're going to get estimates on your furnace? Well, if Dan's going to be looking around in my fault for the distance, at least then we'll, I mean, we'll have a view about it. We'll have the, we'll fulfill the obligations to the as far as getting to the three estimates. I'm ready. Okay, thank you, Tim. Have a great night. No, I'm not going to, not with what's coming. Well, they're saying they're saying 10 to 18 inches. Wow. Starting what? Early morning. Okay. West side of the hills or everywhere. Central Lamont area. So in that case, go right to bed. I'm going right over there. I'm going to bed over there. Tell the guys that we appreciate it. Definitely. They've been doing a really good job, especially with this is going to be a tough one, because the roads are soft.  I appreciate it. We commend their efforts. Thank you so much. It's going to be a long day tomorrow, I think. Well, that's what channel three said. Yeah. 10 to 18 inches. You want me to bring you some coffee in the morning? Yeah. Thank you. Thank you. Okay. What else is in the additions? Just the liquor commission. If you wanted to do the online training, Jeremy asked me to put that on the agenda. Okay. Jeremy? Yeah. I think we all got an email from the league about that they had just created, I think through the insurance program, that they had created a training on how to deal with data breaches and also some general computer security principles. That's been something they've been wanting to do for a while, and I've been sort of twisting their arm to do for a while. I don't recall the cost. Was that listed in that message? Did it say? I don't remember seeing the cost. But I would, if it was manageable and could fit under the training cost, I think that would be a valuable thing to ask. At least a handful of the municipal staff to go and attend. We do have a training budget and maybe they finance part of it with insurance. That's it. So we certainly could do that. I just want to bring that to everybody else and take your point back. I can put it to you if you'd like. There's a lot of paper. You're looking for minutes? Yeah. Okay. Help me out here, Dana. We're going to do approval. We have four sets to approve, although the ones from February 7th you cannot approve because you don't have a quorum to do that. Jeremy researched that a little bit and said that the board did not technically have to approve them. We don't actually technically need to ever approve the minutes. But it's nice to do it. I think it's a good idea. But for example, there's a meeting that Angelina wasn't at. We will never have a quorum and be able to approve those because Pete and Wayne aren't here. So we'll just have to say these look reasonable. You and I can look at them and say that happened and get out of their lives. So I'll just put them in the town record as unapproved if that makes sense. The trouble is that we spent some money on those things, too. Because we did the escalator in the trailer, I believe. You did. So make sure those bidsheets and everything are in there. I have attached them as an agenda for the minutes. Then you have the 21st might be the same situation. It's the same situation tonight because Angelina is not here tonight. Maybe we can get those done. You have March 4th and you can't approve those without Angelina. Thursday, March 7th. Wow. You can approve those. We'll approve the meeting minutes for the Thursday, March 7th, 2019 meeting as presented. In the second half. Any other comments on that? Hearing none, those in favor? Aye. Those in favor, motion carries. Where are we at now? We're at... I'm at the town administrator before... The town administrator is important. I think I had spoken a little bit with Carla about the town center designation. We are working... It's been a little while getting used to the mall no longer has Mike Rushman and he was the impetus that kept the project going. We have met with the state. We thought we were much closer to getting the town center designation than we are and we're not and we were disappointed by that but in thinking about it I think that it's a good idea that we have to do what we have to do because we'll have a real good basis when we go and do that. There is a lot of professional work that we only help with. The staff does not have that expertise that we need. We did get an estimate from Brandy Saxon who did our master plan. We haven't put out the bid so we do need to do that Brandy's fee wasn't so bad but I never believed that that's all the money that it's going to cost and I think this is going to be a project that is over a few years. I think when I'm really looking for the board for your continued support I have been working with the mall and they are supportive. I met this week with downtown community housing they are interested in doing a project and they know down street housing and community development. I think that the mall is willing to and we haven't come down to the dollar signs but is willing to help finance part of it and what I need to get together for you is really what the cost is going to be. Was down street willing to support that administratively or otherwise? I haven't talked to down street as far as I think they are willing to support it so that they can go ahead with their project and it also is important to them because they also apply for funding to for this property They might have some in-house talent that could also be able to help with this downtown designation. I will speak to them. Do you need a motion on this, Dana? I'm just trying to give you where we are on it. And as Carla mentioned Tom brought the idea to me about using the funds that are coming in to the zoning and of course it's a flush of cash coming into zoning because of this project but there's not a picture of many more projects like that coming through and it's not like we could spend the money and overdraw the expense account but we can't overdraw the bottom line and I think it's not proven to spend money the taxpayers haven't given permission to spend. I just want to give you a motion just to support your efforts I guess if you'd like to do a motion that would be great just wanting the board's feedback as far as should we continue trying to do this. Did the mall indicate an amount that they're interested in helping a percentage per say? They haven't. I would imagine that if they were looking at residential development that would be huge. When I talked to Ken he was talking about the cost by our consultant is no problem for the mall but there are some other costs involved that could get to be. The idea and what they had previously brought to the table when Michael Ruschman was on board was that they were going to spearhead and continue to do this. If you remember when they came in in 2015 and we were not going to have to do a thing and at that time I said right. That's kind of where I'm going here. Are we now left holding the bag while they want to go do this development and this town center designation will help them. No doubt about it. It's a big benefit to them but I'm trying to look to see if the board agrees with me. I think it's a good thing for the town to go forward with the plan for the future. I may never see it but are we going to be left holding the bag having paid for this stuff and then the community at large. There's a taxpayer money that we're talking about putting towards something. I think that in the short term that would be true but in the long term is how I see it. We have the capital improvements and as far as having more tax base we're going to have to accept the street, the road and do other things that are going to have expenses. So, yeah it's going to benefit them all definitely. We have talked with the hospital we've talked with other property owners around about being in the district and what their thoughts were and everyone's been very positive about the project. Is the hospital really a chicken room? We have asked them that and we have not gotten an answer. I think you have gotten an answer. I think I have too but I'm uncaled. It's annoying. So, I guess, you know, we've put quite a bit of time into this. We were not going to have to do a thing with this. It's just going to happen. Obviously. But it's for the community. I think the community will benefit. Berlin really needs a sense of community. I will be out there saying color me skeptical. I wish I disagree with you but I don't. Completely. Anything else on your administrative point? Yes, thank you. At the next meeting the 4th Velco is holding a public hearing here beginning at 6 o'clock regarding the upgrade project they have planned for the Berlin substation project over on Yeltsin they are also going to meet with you in your meeting at 7.15. We have two applications and I thought it would be good for them to come and explain what they were going to do. We have received two hazard mitigation proposals. We have put that out a bit and we received two. I am getting together with the emergency management director, Bruce Richardson. We are getting together next week to go over those to bring you a suggestion the one you should go with and we will send you those proposals so that you can review them as well. Also to for that grant you need to adopt a conflict of interest policy even though we have one in the charter but I will be updating that. The one that I had given to you a few weeks ago is over the top so I am going to start it down and we will try it again. Bob Wernick will be in next time to give you an update on what is going on over at Regional Planning. On Friday the 5th I am going to be going to White River Junction to a construction office to go over the work that is going to be in the town of Berlin Interstate 89 doing some work that is being formed with rocks being shaved back this is not the 63 project this is another project solid rock excavation, ditch work and other highway related items that is pretty detailed so I am going to go see and see what that is about. I have two copies of the league news and I thought I would give a copy one to Justin and one to Flo and I am very glad you are close to that. Thank you so much. Much appreciated. And maybe you might get one directly if you get one in a minute. You don't. And that is all I have to say. Thank you. To recess the select board you can be in the liquor control board. Here a second. All those in favor? Aye. Motion passes. We have an application for a catering permit from Cornstone Burger Company doing business at Cornstone Puffin Kitchen from Barry. They are catering a corporate party at Union Bank on Thursday to 25th, 49. They expect 50 people. Let's approve Cornstone's catering requests. Second. Any others? All those in favor? Aye. Motion carries. We will adjourn the liquor control board and reconvene the select board. All those in favor? Aye. Motion carries. Let's see here. We have an executive session today. I would like to ask for an executive session under two topics. I would like one to be a personnel discussion and another to be a contract discussion. Okay, so I'll actually do number one from the contract first and then I can do both of the motions to enter executive session separately. I move to find that premature general public knowledge of the what contract is this? I'll give it to you in detail. I'll give it to you in detail. I'll give it to you in detail. I'll give it to you in detail. I'll give it to you in detail. I am proud of the contract with the Berlin school board Berlin elementary school board placed the town of the substantial disadvantage. And so I'll do the discussion here this is just for us to stay on the up-and-up in terms of how we can go into sessions that are recorded in the don't go into the minutes. So we talk about a contract we have to give enough information so that people know what it is we're talking about but we have to say but it would be a bad idea for us to be discussing this in public. All in favor? All right.


وَأَقُولُوا فِي القُرْآنِ مَا جَاءَتْ بِيهِ أَيَاتُوهُ فَهُوَ الْكَارِيمُ المُنزَالُونِ وَأَقُولُوا قَالَ اللَّهُ جَلَّ جَلَالُوهُ وَالْمُصْطَافَ الْهَاديِ وَلَا أَتْ أَوَّالُونِ الحمد لله رب العالمين له الحمد الحسن والثناء الجميل وَأَجَدُوا اللَّهِ اللَّهِ إِلَّا اللَّهُ إِحْدَهُ إِلَا جَريْكَ لَهِ يَقُولُوا الْحَقَّى وَهُ إِهْدِ السَّبِيلِ وَأَجَدُوا أنَّ مُحَمَّدًا عبدُهُ وَرَسُولُهِ صلى الله عليه وَعَلَى آلِهِ وَأَصْحابِهِ والتابعين لهم بحسان إلى يوم الدين أما بعد إن شاء الله تعالى my beloved brothers and sisters in the entire month of Ramadan بإذن الله الكريم I'm going to be sharing with you the Tafseer of selected portions of the Quran for the entire month with you 30 places from the Quran every single day for the 30 days of Ramadan إن شاء الله تعالى you be with me be receiving the Tafseer of either a verse or two or even more or a whole entire Surah بإذن الله الكريم today insha'Allah is the first episode or it's the first day of Ramadan and I'm going to share with you the Tafseer of the Surah in which Allah started the Quran with Surah Al-Fatiha and it's a Surah in which every single Muslim needs to know its meaning because it's the Surah that we recite in every single prayer of us and we recite it in every single raka'a in which we pray so إن شاء الله تعالى I'm going to start with Surah Al-Fatiha and then I'm going to select a verse or two a day إن شاء الله تعالى بإذن الله الكريم رب الشرح لي صدري ويسر لي أمري وحل العقدة من لساني يفقه قولي this Surah is called Surah Al-Fatiha and it's got many names from the names that it has is Surah Al-Fatiha and it's called أم القرآن it's called أم الكتاب it's called السبع المثاني and it is also called القرآن العظيم it's also called سورة الحمد those are names of it the first one which is فاتحة الكتاب الإمام إبن جليل الطبري إنه تفسير he says سميت فاتحة الكتاب it was called فاتحة الكتاب لأنها يفتتح بكتابتها المصاحب the reason why it's called فاتحة الكتاب is the Mus'haf that we have the writing starts with سورة الفاتحة and that's why it's called فاتحة الكتاب يعني يفتتح بكتابتها المصاحب the Mus'haf the first surah that was written in the Mus'haf is سورة الفاتحة the opening is what it will loosely translate in English ويقرأوا بها في الصلاوات and it is what you recite in the prayer you start the beginning of the prayer after you've done your دعاء and the adkar the first thing that you recite from the Qur'an is سورة الفاتحة so that's why it's called سورة الفاتحة بفاتحة الكتاب he said فهي فواتح it's the opening لما يتلوها من سورة القرآن في الكتابة والخراء and then he summarizes it for you and he says it is the opening it is the opening صورة the chapter of the Qur'an in terms of what in terms of writing so if you look at the مصحف and you open it the first sura that was written is صورة الفاتحة and also the first sura that you recite in the prayer is none other than صورة صورة الفاتحة so that's the first name that it's given it's called فاتحة الكتاب the second name that it's given is أم القرآن the mother of the Qur'an ابن جاليل الطبري also explains it in his تفسير he says سمية أم القرآن it was called أم القرآن لتقدمها على سائر صورة القرآن the reason why it's called أم القرآن is because it supersedes all the other remaining chapters of the Qur'an and then he says وتأخر ما سواها all of the other suras in the Qur'an they go behind it and صورة الفاتحة comes first يعني it supersedes all of them all of them they go behind it في القراءة والكتابة in terms of reading and recitation وذلك من معنىها شبيهم بمعنى فاتحة الكتاب هي it's similar to فاتحة الكتاب because remember the mother supersedes everybody else she's the forefront the mother is more important than the father right so this sura is more important than any other sura in the Qur'an he says it here إنما قيل لها لكونها كذلك أم القرآن and that's why it's called the mother of the Qur'an لتسمية العربي كل جامع the Arabs they call everything that's comprehensive كل جامع أمران everything anything that encompasses and has in it everything they call it أو مقدمة لأمر or if it supersedes and goes before other things they call it أم إذا كانت له توابع تتبع if it has things that follow it it's called السبع المثاني the seven verses that repeats itself and إليما بيبنو جنيط طبري explains why it's called it he says أما تأويل اسمها أنها سبع فإنها سبع آيات it's seven verses لا خلاف بين الجميع من القراء والعلماء في ذلك no scholar differed with any scholar that the sura that Surat al-Fatiha has seven verses in it yes they differ where the seven verses are but they didn't differ there are seven verses and this surat is seven verses okay وأما وصفوا النبي صلى الله عليه وسلم آياتها السبع بأن بأنهن مثاني فلأنها تثنك قراءة في كل صلاة تطوح ومكتوبة وكذلك كان الحسن البصري يتأولوا ذلك it's called سبع المثاني because it's repeated every single raga you're repeating the seven verses whether it's an obligatory prayer or whether it's a voluntary prayer you have to keep repeating it so that's its name it's called سبع المثاني also from the name it's that it's called and it has it's القرآن العظيم ومب القرطبي ويسأل سمية بذلك the reason why it was called قرآن العظيم لتضمونها جميع علوم القرآن because صورة الفاتحة it gathers in it all of the science is related to the Quran everything that you need is inside there أنها تشمل على الثنائية على الله praising Allah عز وجل is there also وعلى الأمر بالعبادات والإخلاص فيها the concept of commanding the people to come with acts of worship and sincerity is also in there والاعترافي بالعجزي عن القياب بشيء منها إلا بععانته تعالة also accepting that you as a person are weak and you're unable to do anything if Allah doesn't help you with it سبحانه وتعالى صورة الفاتحة consist of that وعلى الإبتهاري إليه في الهداية إلى الصراط المستقيم also humbling yourself for him سبحانه وتعالى begging him to guide you to the straight path وكفاية أحوال الناكثين وعلى بيان عاقبة الجاحدين يعني it mentions the final outcome and the final dealing of the criminals and the stubborn and the hard-headed ones يعني الصورة it mentions جميع علوم القرآن all of the things that are mentioned in the other place in the Qur'an it has it so that's why he says it's called قرآن العظيم okay from its names also that is called صورة الحمد وإبرا كثير رحم الله mentions in his تفسير he says it was called صورة الحمد لكونها مفتاحة بالحمد because it starts with رب العالم brothers and sisters this صورة its names are not just randomly chosen I explained the meanings of those names but they're not randomly chosen in other words those names are taken from the Prophet عليه الصلاة والسلام and from the Qur'an as well the Prophet said صلى الله عليه وسلم in the Hadith of عباد عبادة which is فاني بخاري المسلم the Prophet صلى الله عليه وسلم he said لا صلاة اللي من لم يقل بفاتحة الكتاب so the Prophet said he said there's no prayer a person who doesn't read فاتحة بفاتحة الكتاب so the Prophet he called it what he called it فاتحة الكتاب in the Hadith of عيشة رضي الله عنهم she said كان النبي صلى الله عليه وسلم يخفف الركعة لتيني قبل صلاة الصبح حتى إني لا أقول هل قرى بأم الكتاب عيشة رضي الله عنها she referred to it as what أم الكتاب she referred to it as so it's taken from these narrations أبو حريرا رضي الله تعالى عنه he mentioned that the Prophet he said أم القرآن هي السبع المثاني والقرآن العظيم he mentioned the Prophet صدس أبو حريرا رضي الله تعالى عنه so the Hadith عيشة يخفاني أبو حريري يخفاني أبو خارب and also the fourth one is the Hadith of أبي سعيد رضي الله تعالى عنه he said مربي النبي I was praying فدعاني and he called me فلم آتيه حتى صليته I never went to him until I prayed ثم آتيته then I finally came to him فقاله he then said to me مهما نعكا ان تأتي what stopped you from coming قلت I said كنت أصلي I was praying that's why I couldn't come to you فقال the Prophet then said ألم يقول الله Did Allah نقصين القرآن يا أيها الذين عاملوا استجابوا للله والإضرسولي إلا الله نقصين القرآن أو أيها الذين who believe أو بي الله تبارك وتعالى ان المسجد if they call you to that which will give you life then the Prophet صلى الله عليه وسلم said to this noble companion ألا أعلموك shall I not teach you أعظم صورة في القرآن the greatest صورة in the Quran قبل أن أخرج من المسجد before you leave the masjid فدهب النبي صلى الله عليه وسلم the Prophet صلى الله عليه وسلم left when the Prophet wanted to leave the masjid يخرج من المسجد then the companion فذكرت to who I told him of this I reminded him I said oh masjid you promise me something the Prophet is about to leave after he promised the Sahabi that he was going to tell him it the Prophet forgot and was about to leave the Sahabi grabbed the Prophet and said ya Rasool Allah you promise me that you're going to tell me the greatest صورة in the Quran and then the Prophet صلى الله عليه وسلم he said الحمد لله رب العالمين he is the seventh المثاني it's the seven verses that repeats itself and he also referred to it as و القرآن العظيم which I was given so the Prophet refer to it here as what the seven verses that repeats itself and he also refer to it as و القرآن العظيم صورة الفاتحة brother and sister has very يعني large number of فضائل virtues it has things that Allah has given it سبحانه وتعالى that you can find in the Sunnah of the Prophet صلى الله عليه وسلم this picture و لم يؤتها نبي قبل محمد صلى الله عليه وسلم it's actually light Allah has never given it to a Prophet before the Prophet صلى الله عليه وسلم صلى الله عليه وسلم صلى الله عليه وسلم he mentioned قال he said بينما جيبريل قاعد عند النبي صلى الله عليه وسلم جيبريل was قاعد next to the Prophet صلى الله عليه وسلم سمع نقيظا من فوقه they had a noise from high above فرفع رأسه he raised his head up فقال he said هذا باب من السماء that's a door جيبريل is telling the Prophet this he said هذا باب من السماء فتح that's a door from the sky that has been opened لم يفتح قطه he has never been opened إلا اليوم except this day today فنزل منه ملكون an angel came down فقاله هذا ملكون نزل إلى مرض then jibril told the Prophet he said this is an angel that came down to the earth لم ينزل قطه إلا اليوم he's never come down except this day فسلم وقال and then the angel gave greetings gave salams and he said أبشر بنوريني glad tidings for two lights أوتيتها أوتيتهما which you've been given لم يؤتها لم يؤتهاما they have both not been given نبي قبلك a prophet before you was never given this light فاتحة الكتاب صورة الفاتحة وقواتي مسورة البقرة and the ending of صورة البقرة لن تقرأ بحرف منها إلا أعطيته there's not a letter in صورة البقرة the last verses of صورة البقرة and صورة الفاتحة that you recite them except you'll be given what you ask for so that's from the virtue of this صورة from the virtue of this صورة also صورة الفاتحة is a مناجات في الصلاة بين العبدي وربه it's a conversation a dialogue that's taking place between Allah and His creation حديت أبي هوريرا narrated رضي الله تعالى عنه that the messenger صلى الله عليه وسلم he said من صلى صلاة anyone who prays are salah لم يقرأ فيها بأم القرآن and he doesn't recite أم القرآن فهي خداج and he said this three times and what خداج means غيره تأمام it's not complete then they said أبو هوريرا إنا نكون وراء الإمام we pray behind the إمام فقال we pray behind the إمام where he's reciting so then أبو هوريرا رضي الله عنه he said إقرأ بها في نفسك you read it yourself فأيني سمعتوا I had a رسول الله صلى الله عليه وسلم قسمت صلاة بيني وبين عبدين الصلاة I divided the prayer between me and my slave into two الله تبارغ تعالى this is a حديث قدسي قسمت I divided الصلاة the prayer بيني وبين عبدين الصلاة it's divided into two okay ولي عبدين ما سأل where he asks for فإذا قال العبد if the slave says الحمد لله رب العالمين الله says حمدني عبدين my slave has praised me وإذا قال when the slave says الرحمان الرحمنا الله تبارغ تعالى says أثن علي عبدين my slave my slave has continued in praising me وإذا قال when the slave says مالك يوم الدينة الله تبارغ تعالى he says مجدني عبدين and another another he says إلي عبدين my slave has passed on his affairs to me فإذا قال when the slave says إياك نعبد وإياك نستعين الله تبارغ تعالى responds and he says هذا بيني وبين عبدين this is between me and my slave ولي عبدين ما يسأل my slave will be given where he asks for فإذا قال if the slave says إهدين صراطة المستقيم صراطة للدينة أن أمت عليهم غير المغضوب عليهم والضال if he says that الله تبارغ تعالى responds and he says هذا لي عبدين ما يسأل that is from my slave and in my slave will be given what he asks for so this صورة صورة الفاتحة is a munajat it's a dialogue and it's a call from the creation to the creator where the creator الله عز و جل is responding to the creation أليمام البخارين ومسلم both narrated that أليمام المسلم sorry specifically that narration أليمام المسلم narrated sorry بخارين then we go into the virtue of it which is that the prophet صلى الله عليه وسلم he told us حديث بخاري المسلم حديث عبادة المصامة لا صلاة لما لم يقرب فاتحة there's no prayer for you if you don't recite صورة الفاتحة so this is from the virtues of the صورة also this صورة is a cure it's a it's a it's a it's a it's a it's a it's a it's a it's a it's a it's a it's a it's a it's a it's a it's a it's a it's a it's a it's a it's a it's a it's a it's a it's a it's a it's a it's a it's a it's a it's a it's a it's a it's a it's a it's a it's a it's a it's a it's a والذين نزلوا ، هؤلاء الذين يساعدوننا لتخيلهم as guests ، لماذا لا نذهب لهم ونرى what they can do for us لعلوا أن يكون عند بعضهم شيء ، بعضهم might have something to offer فأتوهم they came to them ، فقالوا they responded and they said يا أيها الرحط ، أو يعني this group إن سيدنا ولودق our master has been bitten وسعينا له بكل شيء we tried everything to do for him لا ينفعه it doesn't benefit him فهل عند أحد منكم شيء has anyone of you have got anything to offer فقال بعضهم نعم some of them they said yes والله إني لا أرقي ، والله I can give I know how to do it I can help him I can help you guys ولكن with this is with the condition ولكن والله لقد استضافناكم فلم تضيفون we asked you guys to take us as guests you refused فما أنا براقل لكم حتى تجعلوا لنا جعلن and we're not going to do anything for you guys until you give us a portion it has to be an agreement a financial agreement فصالحوهم على قطير من الغنمي so they agreed on a portion of goats من طلقة صعابي وينت when the sahabas they went and they started to what يتفل they started to recite on them عليهم ومعليه on the master they started to read on him and all they recited on him was الحمد لله رب العالمين صورة الفاتحة when they recited on him فكأنما نشط من عقال it was as though he was he was freed from the rope that was like he was tied up on something that the knot were opening the man free from طلقة يمشي he started to walk وما به قلبة and there was nothing to him يعني قلبة الصاحب غريب الحديث النهاية في غريب الحديث إمنا أثيخ he mentions he says قلبة إمين ألم وعلا it was like no illness the man had nothing nothing happened to him no illness whatsoever قال after that they said okay you know أوفوهم جعلهم let's give them what we promised them اللذي صالحهم عليهم they gave them what they promised so then some of them said to the other let's divide it إقسموا let's divide what we got the one that did the روغيه which is Abu Sayyid al-Khudri he said لا تفعلوا don't do this حتى نأتي النبي صلى الله عليه وسلم let's go to the prophet and discuss with him يا رسول الله we did this let's ask him فنذكروا له الذي كان we tell the prophet what happened what took place فنظر ما يأمرنا we're going to see what the prophet does for us عليه الصلاة و سلام فقديمنا على رسول الله we came to the prophet صلى الله عليه وسلم فذكروا له they told him and then the prophet said to them وما يدريك أنها رقية who told you guys صورة الفاتحة إذا رقية how did you guys know ثم قال the prophet and said to them قد أصبتهم what you guys did was right إقسموا divided amongst yourselves وضريبوا لي إيمعكم سهمن and place for me something فضحك رسول الله صلى الله عليه وسلم and the prophet he laughed صلى الله عليه وسلم so those are the virtues and the benefit صورة الفاتحة امانق يعني الله gave him health just by صورة الفاتحة if we learn it which many of us already know it just read صورة الفاتحة ابن القيم رحم الله رحم الله كتابة دا ودواء he mentioned that while he was in Mecca he got ill رحم الله and he said that I couldn't find any doctors or anything so all I used to result to is to just read صورة الفاتحة and he said I saw so much يعني benefits in it that whenever someone would come to me and complain I would prescribe for them صورة الفاتحة I would prescribe for them and they would also feel the same thing as well صورة الفاتحة and brothers and sisters those are the virtues in it صورة الفاتحة and brothers and sisters is صورة مكية نزلت قبل الهجرة it's a صورة مكية and it came down قبل الهجرة beforeهجرة which is قوله جمهور أهل العلم it's the view of the majority of the scholars ابن جرد طابري mentioned it ابن كثير رحم الله mentioned it ابن عشر also mentioned it رحمه مهم الله may Allah be pleased with all of them and the evidence that it's a صورة مكية نزلت قبل الهجرة is the ayah in which it's mentioned it is an ayah in which it's mentioned and that ayah is in a صورة which is مكية so does that mean صورة الفاتحة must have come down before this which is صورة الحجر صورة الحجر is a صورة مكية okay and inna Allah mentioned صورة الفاتحة which is وَلَقَدْ آتَيْنَاكَ we gave you سبعا من المثاني والقرآن العظيم and we already mentioned سبعا المثاني والقرآن العظيم is what it's صورة الفاتحة إن حاليت أبي سعيد بن موعلها رضي الله تعالى عنه فاني صحيح البقاري لبرف سدت عليه الصلاة والسلام عليه الصلاة والسلام هيسل الحمد لله رب العالمين هي السبع المثاني والقرآن العظيم الذي قوتيته لبرف سدت عليه الصلاة والسلام إذن this آية صورة الحجري و لقد آتيناك سبعا من المثاني والقرآن العظيم it's صورة مكية بالإجمع با يونانمس اجريمة it's صورة مكية okay so فاتحة came down before it came before it of course in that case so that be based on that we're going to say that أنه صورة الفاتحة مكية صورة الفاتحة it's مكية and it came down before before the the the the هجرة before the prophet migrated to مدينة عليه الصلاة والسلام and also from the evidence which is the second evidence is that the صلاة of a person لا تصحر إلا بها there's no صلاة that be accepted from you we mentioned حديث صحيحين من حديث عبادة منصامت لا صلاة لمن لم يقل بفاتحة الكداب there's no prayer for the person who does not recite فاتحة okay your صلاة is not accepted and we know that the صلاة was prescribed 3 years before the before the the prophet صلاة migrated to what مدينة before he migrated from مكة to مدينة the prophet عليه الصلاة والسلام he the فالصلاة كانت فعلة أبليجاته علىه فهذا يعني فاتحة يجب أن يكون تساعدة أو تساعدة قبل ذلك صورة الفاتحة لأخوة أخوة أخوة يتحدث عن ثلاثة مقاومة ثلاثة مقاومة كل صورة يتحدث عن ثلاثة مقاومة الأول هو التعريف بالمعبودي تباركة وتعالى يجب أن تتعلم عن مقاومة ويجب أن تتعرف عن خلالك عنه سبحانه وتعالى هذا هو أول أول هو بيان الطريق العبودي يتعلم عن طريقه ويجب أن تتعلم عن طريق وفي المعبودي يخبرك ويكتب لك بيان أحوان الناس مع هذا الطريق يخبرك أن الطريق يتعلم عن طريق ويخبرك الناس مع ثلاثة المقاومة والإيبادة والأفودي هذا هو ما صورة الفاتحة تتحدث عنه هذه الثلاثة المقاومة هذا ما يتحدث about تباركة المقاومة ويجب أن تتعلم عن طريقه والمالي ويجب أن تتعلم عن طريقه سبحانه وتعالى ويجب أن تتعلم عن طريقه و that it's done with what with إخلاص إياك نعبود as we're going to see شاء الله تعالى only you Allah we worship and then it talks about the people احوالي ناسي مع هذا الطريق the people when it comes to that path of worshiping Allah that they are what مغضوب عليهم والوالضالين those who Allah is angry with which is the Jews والضالين the misguided ones which are the Christians and then and I'm to عليهم those who Allah is pleased with which are the مؤمنين جعلني الله وإياكم may Allah make us all from them so that's the overall objectives among the overall meaning that صورة الفاتحة revolves around also in there you're going to learn brothers and sisters you're going to take from the صورة in there as well those are the main three points it goes back to but in this you learn about الله تعالى's characteristics you learn about the day of judgment you also learn about singling الله تعالى in worship okay it talks about the صراط المستقيم طريق المهتدين the path of the guided ones it talks about staying away from the two paths that many people fall into which is المغضوب عليهم والضالين the Christians and the Jews and not to imitate them okay so صورة الفاتحة إن شاء الله تعالى I'm going to go through now in I'm going to go through it all of that was an introduction to the صورة now I'm going to go into the تفسير of the صورة in two ways إن شاء الله تعالى I'm going to try to summarize it quickly I'm going to give you the overall meaning and then I'm going to give you the detail ان شاء الله تعالى صراط الذين أن عمت عليهم غير المغضوب عليهم والضالين الله تعالى he informs of سبحانه وتعالى that complete praise is for him that he deserves it alone no one deserves praise except him سبحانه وتعالى it's clearly an utterly is for him okay and الله تعالى تعالى guides his creation to that to praise him سبحانه وتعالى to glorify him to honor him to speak highly of him سبحانه وتعالى he also informs them that جميع المحمد all of praise he's the one who deserves it سبحانه وتعالى also الله تعالى تعالى informs us that he's very merciful and that Allah is the king of all kings the king of what all kings سبحانه وتعالى so first he's very merciful to his creation he's the king of all kings everyone else's kingdom comes to an end but he's what doesn't when there's no king who can even choose to speak he can't utter a word الله سبحانه وتعالى is the only one who's able to speak today also الله تعالى تعالى guides us right after that that he's the only one who we should worship and that we won't be able to worship him alone unless he helps us and aids us with it then الله تعالى تعالى he guides us سبحانه وتعالى to request from him guidance okay and that guidance is only in his hand سبحانه وتعالى and that the guidance of الله تعالى تعالى is الله تعالى تعالى is a straight path it's a straight path it's an upright path it's a straight path and that there are paths that are deviated from that and that they are the path of who the path of المهضوب عليهم and the dali which are the masara there's a word in there that's mentioned which is رب the word رب in the Arabic language it means a سيد المالك المصلح الصالح الصاحب that's what it means المربي الخالق المعبود all of those it means and us the original use of it is إصلاح الشيء والقيام عليه as صاحب معجم قايس اللوه also المفردات للراقب الأصوحاني الكوليات by Al-Kafawi they mention which is that the word رب it means إصلاح الشيء it's the one that perfect things and stands up for it and the word أصلاح which is also mentioned and there is a path the word أصلاح just means الضريق now let's look at the word إيياكة عبد وإيياكة and we need to know this because it's very important for us especially it's a matter of عقيدة it enters the word إيياكة it's a ضمير and you study this in one of the basic books of Arabic grammar and that is none other than the كتاب الأجرومية the word إيياكة is a ضمير it's a pronoun and the ضمائر are types but this type is known as ضمير it's a disconnected pronoun meaning it stands by itself some ضمائر are متصل they are connected so this ضمير is a what this ضمير is مون فصل it's disconnected and also you study in أجرومية that the إيياكة is a ضمير نصب it's known as ضمير نصب okay and you study the عالمات العراب you study it that they are three types four types four from the signs from the generally speaking not just عالمات نصب because this is a pronoun and a pronoun doesn't fall under العراب it's a مبني the nouns are three types right we've studied this before in أجرومية which is إسم مضحر إسم مضمر إسم مبهم the Arabic language the pronouns are divided into three there's a pronoun there's an apparent noun okay and there's also a إسم مضحر so إسم مضحر which is an apparent noun okay a proper noun there's a pronoun falls under the noun in the Arabic language in English it doesn't the third one is known as إسم مبهم and إسم مبهم it's a vague ambiguous noun and that is like على كل حال the other two types of إسم which is مضمر and the مبهم are both مبني the only one which is معرب is the إسم which is مضحر إياكة is الضمير الضمير is what brothers and sisters it's already مبني so we're gonna come to that إن شاء الله عليك لكن إيا إيا إيا I'm talking about here it's a ضمير نصب منفصل مبنيون على السكون في محلي نصب مفعول به مقدم so this is the point you need to focus on in the Arabic language the structure of a sentence is normally a verb and then you have the the subject and then you have the object so it's فعل فعل and مفعول here what happened is that إيا went before it went before okay it's an object now it's the مفعول بي and مفعول بي is مقدم it went before نعبود so you say إيا ك نعبود normally normal sentence will be نعبود نعبود ك اما نعبود إيا ك that's no more here إيا ك نعبود إيا ك نعبود because we just said إيا is a ضمير منفصل it's a ضمير نصب منفصل ببنيون على السكون because it's إيا because it's صالح الكاف الخطاب so it's إيا the سكون مبنيون على السكون like in the position it's sitting in is في محلي نصب مفعول بي the مفعول بي is مقدم it came before what لنعبود it came before نعبود why did it not go after it there's something that comes from it by saying إيا ك نعبود what you're basically trying to say is it's a معنى which is known as حصر Oh Allah there's no one else we worship except you so those people calling on to other and our reciting سورة الفاتحة they're contradicting themselves they are contradicting themselves they are what they're contradicting themselves are we all together brothers the calf in there is also it's the calf is a ضمير connected to إيا ك الحمد لله الحمد لله الحمد لله رب العالمين means Oh Allah تبارك وتعالى you are the one who all of the praises is for سبحانه وتعالى رب العالمين the Lord of the the Lord of the universes the word الحمد it means ووصف المحمود سبحانه بالكامال you are describing Allah تبارك وتعالى be complete مع محبتي وصف you love him وتعظيمه جل وعالى and you are honoring him Allah is the اسمه it's لفض الجلالة and in there is what in there is صفة الأولوهية الله عز وجل you are making for him سبحانه وتعالى that he is a إله أنا إله is a مألوهن المعبود it's the one that's worshiped رب العالمين دود رب it means السيد المالك المدبر لجميع العالمين the entire universe وكل ما سوى الله تعالى عالم everything besides Allah تبارك وتعالى is a universe right من جميع صناف المخلوقات في كل زمان وما كان أولوه as Allah mentioned in the Quran he says قال فرعون وما رب العالمين قال رب السماوات والأرض وما بينهما إن كنتم موقنين قال لمن حوله ألا تستمعون قال ربكم ورب آبائكم الأولين قال إن رسولكم الذي أرسل إليكم لمجنون قال رب المشرق والمغرب وما بينهما إن كنتم تعاقلون so the word رب العالمين it means كل ما سوى الله everything besides Allah تبارك وتعالى الرحمن الرحيم وراضي الرحمن الرحمن الرحيم the most merciful the most gracious سبحانه وتعالى الله سبحانه وتعالى is the most merciful and the most gracious سبحانه وتعالى both of these names الرحمن الرحيم are مشتقاني من الرحمن they both taken from the word الرحمن but there is slight difference between them okay the word الرحمن and the word الرحيم okay الرحمن from the wazen the structure in Arabic language known as رحمن فعلان according to the Arabs anything that comes in that wazen وزن فعلان تفيد الكثرة والسعة it benefits vastness and that something is a lot okay ولي ذلك if you say غضبان غضبان فرحان فعلان غضبان means I am excessively angry عطشان I am excessively thirsty so anything that comes in that form of فعلان is what تفيد الكثرة it benefits something being a lot and سعة something being vast okay so then here الرحمن it means ذرحمة الواسعة لجميع خلقي Allah's mercy is so vast and it's so much for everybody from the creation Christians Muslims it doesn't matter that's what الرحمن means الرحيم on the other hand brothers and sisters it means ذو الرحمة خاصة the رحمة it's not for everybody it's a رحمة which is restricted and it's only restricted to عباده المؤمنين it's restricted only for his المؤمنين ولي ذلك he mentions in the Quran when he speaks about his mercy look what he says he says وكان بالمؤمنين رحمة Allah is الرحيم to the believers so he reused that that counter to this رحيم he said وكان بالمؤمنين رحيمة also الله تباركه تعالى he says يعدب من يشاء ويرحموا من يشاء وإليه تقلابون he shows he punishes whoever he wishes and he shows mercy to whoever he wishes سبحانه وتعالى so that one is الرحمن ويرحموا من يشاء وإليه تقلابون هي it's a الرحمن meaning it doesn't matter whoever he wants but for the believers it is الرحيم that's if we take the opinion that الرحمن and الرحيم are both سفة فعالية and one is يعني if we say both of them are سفة فعالية then that means this one is general and this one is specific that's one view by the way it's one view if you say الرحمن is سفة فعالية and الرحيم is سفة فعالية then what's the difference the difference is that الرحمن is because it comes from the structure of فعالان it means that it's كثرة وسع okay and then الرحيم is what الرحيم is خاصa specific to the believers وكان يميل مؤمنين الرحيم some scholars they said that's not strong argument الرحمن it's a سفة ذاتية سفة ذاتية means it's a سفة which is a characteristic which is لا يزالو ما زالو ولا يزالو متصفا بها الله is always this characteristic like العلم القدرة والبصر والسمع all of these characteristics they call سفات ذاتية يعني they always connect it والله متعلقة بمشيئته it's connected to his مشيئة like and مزول he does it when he wishes and then they said يعدي مميشاء ويرحم مميشاء وإلهي تغلبون and that same second view seems more stronger when you look at the Quranic discourse والعلم عند الله تبارقة وتعالى مالي كيوم الدين مالي كيوم الدين is what brothers and sisters it means that الله تبارك وتعالى is the what he's the king of the day of judgment by the way brothers and sisters there's two recitations in this there's the first one which is ماليكي بالألي في مدن so you say ماليكي and if you say ماليكي it means المتصرف بالفعل في الأشياء المملكة له but if you say ماليكي which is قصرا قصرا and استقراء in which عاصم ولكسائي وليعقوب يعقوب which is what they recite ماليكي okay ماليكي ماليكي which is الألي في مدن المتصرف بالفعل في الأشياء المملكة له this recitation is a recitation of who it's a recitation of عاصم it's a recitation of قصائي يعقوب خلف and you can look more into this issue if you want in the Kitab اللبن الجزر يلاحمه الله the Baquna they recited as what ماليكي you can find that also in the Kitab النشر by الإمام إبن الجزر يلاحمه الله so ماليكي يوم الدين it depends on how you recite it if you recite as ماليكي يوم الدين it means المتصرف the one who deals with بالفعل with action في الأشياء in things which المملكة له which he owns يعني الله تبارك he wishes سبحانه وتعالى okay and he does things he controls things سبحانه وتعالى if you say ماليكي and if you say ماليكي it means المتصرف بالقولي بالفعل بالقولي أمرا ونهيا commands them to do things he tells them stay away from things سبحانه وتعالى يعني ماليكن عليهم that's what I mean ماليكي يوم الدين تُكرأس كمليمان ونهيا because they're from الله تبارك وتعالى الله منشز إن القرآن صورة الإنفطار he says وما أدراك ما يوم الدين ثم ما أدراك ما يوم الدين يوم لا تملك نفس لنفسي شيئا والعمر يوم إذل لله وصلى الله تبارك وتعالى he says إنا نحن نريث الأرض ومن عليها وإلينا يرجعون وصلى الله تبارك وتعالى he says لمن الملك اليوم لله الواحد القحار يعني that day يوم القيامة no one has the kingdom no one does and so Allah's kingdom now is more clearer it was always clear but now it becomes clear for the creation as well there were people trying to say I'm a king I'm a king of all kings and now it becomes clear it becomes clear to them لمن الملك اليوم hey who's the king of today يومهم بارزون لا اخفع على الله منهم شيء لمن الملك اليوم who's the king today hey no one can answer لله الواحد القحار يوم الدين يوم الدين يوم الدين it means أيوم الجزائي والحساب it means a day of accountability يبرجر الطبري من شزاء نبرك كثير رحمه الله وطاله إياك نعبدوا oh wallah you alone we worship وإياك رستعيلة and you oh wallah alone we seek help and free meaning إياك نعبدوا it means لا نعبدوا إلا أنت we don't worship anyone except you متذلين لك we humble ourselves for you وحدك alone لا شريك لك you have no partners in worship ولا نستعين إلا بك oh wallah there's no one else that we seek help from except you وحدك alone لا شريك لك you have no partners in that إهدين الصراط المستقيم it means oh wallah guide us to the straight path إهدين الصراط المستقيم it means oh wallah دلنا على الطريق الواضح show us the straight path the path مستقيمة اللذي لعوة جاجة فيه there's no deviation يعني crookiness in it oh wallah show us that path not only just that وفقنا لسلوكي allow us give us the ability and strength to be able to tread on that path with a bitنا علي and make us steadfast those three things show us the path give us the ability to tread on that path and keep us firm upon that path which path صراط اللذين نعمت عليهم the path of those who you've become pleased with the path of those in which you're pleased with the path that we want الله تباركو يتعالى to place us on is the path of those people who Allah is what he's pleased with like in brothers and sisters the people who Allah is pleased with have combined between two qualities and characteristics they are a people who had knowledge and acted upon what they knew they had knowledge and they acted upon what they knew their knowledge was based with sincerity and المتابع the knowledge that they had stood on two pillars it was a knowledge based based on sincerity and a knowledge that was based on المتابع following the Prophet عليه الصلاة والسلام that's the people we ask الله تباركو يتعالى allow us to be from them ومن يطع الله والرسولة فأولئك مع الذين أنا عم الله عليهم من النبيين والصديقين والشهداء والصالحين وحسن أولئك رفيقا وعمت عليهم are these people okay غير المرضوب عليهم والضالين after we've asked الله to allow us to be on the path of those who he's pleased with we're asking Allah to protect us from what from the path of two groups of people the first ones are غير المرضوب عليهم the ones who you've become angry with and those are the which people they are the Jews who had what they knew they had knowledge they had understanding but they chose not to act upon what they knew and Allah when he speaks about the Jews in the Quran one of the characteristics that he mentions of them is الله is angry with them سبحانه وتعالى this is the characteristics of اليهود which is as Allah said in the Quran ملعنه الله وغضب عليه الله was talking about the Jews also فباءوا بغضبنا على غضب ولي ذلك ولي ذلك when the prophet صلى الله عليه وسلم commented on this aya in the hadith عدي بن حاتم the prophet صلى الله عليه وسلم he said المغضوب عليهم اليهود المغضوب عليهم the prophet صلى الله عليه وسلم أحمد narrated that hadith ابن حبان narrated it اليمام الطبراني narrated it الهيثمي narrated in this كتاب مجمع الزوائد ومن بعض فوائد and he mentions he said رجاله يوجد رجاله ومن معاه يوجد رجاله عباد ابن حبيش حسنا وانه ذا ثقا إن شاء الله إن شاء الله ان اليمام ابن حجر العسقلاني حسنا إسناده شخل الباني رحمة الله ورحمة هو اثنتيكيت حديث وصاحه بمجموع الطرق كل جانب شخل الباني اثنتيكيت إن يأتي هالحديث الصحيح شخ ناصر اثنين ثقا س tough بجانب ومن المستحق جانب اثنين جانب أخير هالي اoco شخن و سوى عباد ايضا عباد فاقل اتكلم تكلم وكان اخبار وكان اخبار اخبر ايضا اتكلم وكان يعرف ايضا في هذه القرآن. الله يقول ، قد ظلوا من قبله وأضلوا كثيرا ، وضلوا عن سواء السبيل. وهذا was when الله تبارك وتعالى was talking about the deviation and misguidance of the Christians. And also the Hadith of Adib and Hatim which I just mentioned. In that the Prophet ﷺ he said after he said المغضوب عليهم is the Yahud. And he said والضالينا is the Nassara. The Prophet ﷺ said. I'm going to stop there, insha'Allah. Anything which I have said that was wrong and incorrect is from me. And shaytan and Allah his Messenger are both free from it. سبحانك الله وبحمده أشد الله إلهي لله. أستغفر أكأ وأتوب إلي.


So, when I was a kid, I was impassioned by science. I also loved history, I admit, history of exploration especially, but, you know, history of the world, really. But I guess I never dared to dream big enough that I would ever really achieve my dream. I can remember in first and second grade wanting to be a scientist, but there wasn't that much science taught in schools way back then, dates me. And so it was kind of limiting, and I figured, you know, my parents were regular old middle class folks doing a regular piece of work, didn't know any science, didn't have education in it. I figured, you know, I'll be like them, and that'd be great. I can still enjoy it. But I pursued my dream. I was lucky that people helped facilitate that. I was lucky to get a good education in public school, and then universities that were incredibly inspiring.