I'm gonna record and I'm gonna go back to sharing so and we should all should be well so now I'm yeah for some reason I'm blind again okay and so so we're recording so good morning good morning everyone okay so this is I pledge your healthcare specialist group thanks for joining us we're having some fun earlier chatting and I lost track of time so there you go so as I was saying before to a couple of folks for some reason the last few iterations of zoom on my machine if I share my screen I just don't my participant list it shows me eight participants but it doesn't enumerate them and so so I'm blind otherwise so Erica is gonna help me out when we do introductions just so that I have a sense for who's who's on the call and we can make introductions and it's always nice to hear regulars on the call which is always great but anyway before we get started as always I do want to mention that we are recording this and as a result we do also want everyone be aware of our antitrust policy so on the screen which I'm sharing you should see the the notice please feel free to do a read-through on that there's a URL for details on the antitrust policy in short what it means is please don't share any kind of IP or any secrets this is a public place it's open source open community meeting and the URL gives you some additional details and of course in short it just means be a good person that said let's go through introductions and this is this is part of our well where I will ask Erica to give me a hand since normally I can see everybody on the call I see I just see 10 participants on the call so so what I'll ask is if there's anyone new on the call new to the organization that would like to interest themselves this would be a great opportunity to do so tell us a little bit about who you are where you're from and you're interested in using hyperlitra tech blockchain technologies in the health care space and so I'll hand over to Erica if you happen to see anybody that might be maybe new on the call yeah thanks I see a few regulars I we have a Camlash on the call oh yeah we know Camlash good morning Camlash good afternoon actually good evening I should say yeah and then we have Tariq okay Tariq I think was is new hello Tariq oh how are you good you want to give us a little bit of a introduction about yourself sure yeah I'm a finance student from McMaster University I'm really interested in blockchain technology and its integration in health care I'm really interested in kind kind of getting to know how I can contribute to this project and be basically make sure that everything is as efficient as possible when it comes to product management and as much as much as possible when it comes to blockchain and yeah this is just a learning opportunity for me and it's just another opportunity for me to kind of expand my my my skills in regards to blockchain technology and and yeah Oh excellent I think we may have met through the Hyperledger Chat channel yeah we have excellent yeah oh good great to have you on the call great to have you here for a first time what I'll what I'll do is just as a reminder and this is true for anyone and we'll get through the rest of the list in just a short order here I have a couple things for mostly for new folks but then again for folks that are that haven't maybe participated quite yet we do keep a membership directory here on the URL if you look at it here and it's membership directory this is part of our wiki and this is a great opportunity just to get to oh Tariqa's there already excellent good for you Tariqa so that's really what this is for is so folks can connect one on one and it's sort of meeting great opportunity so and then as well we have an FAQ for the special interest group here and so feel free to read through that and of course if you ever have questions and I think Tariqa's already learned this you can go to our chat channel and and contact either myself or anyone on the on that channel directly if you have any questions or thoughts and it's a great opportunity to get involved we'll be walking through shortly our subgroup updates we have three separate subgroups and that's really kind of boots on the ground where the work really gets done for the special interest group and so we'll talk more about that momentarily anyone else on the call that wants to introduce themselves that that's maybe new or newer to the to the special interest group okay so sorry okay can you just kind of maybe if you can and again I'm sort of blind on participants can you just sort of read through the list I'd like just to just to say hello to everybody absolutely and we have Mike McCoy hi Mike yeah we saw Mike earlier good morning to you we have our V's Kamalaj Tariq Jeff Stolman Dr. Holt Krumareval and that sounds like a new person could we maybe get an introduction for that person maybe yeah I joined a few meetings I believe let me introduce myself so I'm exploring for some time so just wanted to see like you know how in that section you know the blockchain is great so this would be a you know kind of oh great just get to know yeah more about how this is you know oh excellent well great great to have you and what's your name again please this is Krumareval okay well very good great to have you thanks for joining us on the call really appreciate it where are you calling from I'm from India oh okay well good evening to you then I think yeah oh very good great to have you on the call fantastic thank you thank you thank you and then we have John Hatchel and I think that is it oh okay well well good morning to everyone and again I feel terrible this is the second second time around where my my zoom version just makes me blind when I'm sharing my screen so I just can't see anybody okay so let's move along if anyone has any announcements that they'd like to make regarding some of the work that they're doing in in the healthcare space as it relates to blockchain technologies I'd be happy to use this time to sort of share that information nothing going on okay so let's move forward to our subgroups update then and again as I said really subgroups are kind of boots on the ground that's this is where a lot of our work gets done and I I believe I don't know is Dennis on the call yet do we know or anyone that's that will be representing the patient subgroup this morning okay so so I did get an email from Dennis this morning I he's planning to be on the call but I could talk a little bit about some of the work that they're doing and just as a backgrounder Dennis is a he's based at a Switzerland he's his background is in pharma he's been consulting with quite a number of large pharma organizations over the years great guy to work with he's been running the patient subgroup for about a year or so he's got a great team working with him they have developed a e-consent solution and they're using both fabric hyperledger fabric and hyperledger sawtooth as their solution it has gotten to a point prove a concept it's very successful they're actually looking to find a way to perhaps shop that around at a more commercial level and so if anyone has an interest in the patient subgroup we're really the focus is at the patient level and in this particular case the use case that they're following up on its e-consent in the pharmacological space this is really the place to be it's it's a great subgroup very very active and if we can get Dennis on the call I'm hoping he'll show up a little bit later this morning we'll have him provide an update just to supplement that they as as is the case for most subgroups subgroups tend to meet every two weeks so every other week and and they're typically an hour and the links that you could sort of see up on the screen here we'll take us to the individual subgroup and give you details about contact information and and when and where those meetings happen okay let's move ahead to the pair subgroup Ravish Thanks for the opportunity pair subgroup we are just to quickly you know give a overview of we are more focused on from pair industry standpoint it does include you know pair provider obviously you know pharmacy so on and so forth we are we have already started working on a POC around the modernization of pharmacy management or more focusing on how to reduce the fraud bringing the flexibility for the consumer and obviously leading to a much better secure we know there is there every other day there are new rules coming out of related to consent so you know all that is big into that POC we just started the lab got approved I think couple a couple week back and we are right now in detailing the use cases and and accordingly working through the POC I also feel that it's this is the right time for anyone who wants to jump in and start exploring we are going to be building kind of a full-fledged application to demonstrate the usage of the framework so a lot of opportunity to contribute in the pairs of group at this time. Excellent and and I'm just going to bring up we have we now maintain on the hyperledger site webinars and I just wanted to call out the fact that Ravish gave a presentation last I would just say last session I think it was on some of the work that he and his team are doing so if anyone wants to sort of to watch that this is this is a great opportunity to do so so thanks thanks Ravish appreciate it. Thank you and you want to give it a little bit of an update as to when you meet and how often yes yes so we meet every other Fridays it's not this Friday it's going to be next Friday the next meeting is next Friday 1 p.m. EST Eastern time we are exploring to reschedule because there are some folks who join outside US so just optimizing the time but currently no plans to change still 1 p.m EST every other Friday not not the Friday when we have this general meeting it's the the next Friday and on so opposite yeah so I put basically opposite the general meetings yes yeah excellent very good thank you perfect okay for the healthcare interoperately subgroup Steven Elliott leads that generally speaking and correct me if I'm wrong Erica but I don't think Stevens on the call this morning he has he has a conflict with this meeting time so I'll give you a little bit of an update on what's going on there they have their subgroup meetings on Monday mornings the the most recent meeting I think was pushed I think until either next week or the week after they had to do a reschedule but basically the healthcare interoperate subgroup or his strangely enough is focused on semantic issues with interoperability and and Steven is developing a use case sort of a bottom-up use case which allows allows groups to make use of a hyperledger fabric solution for the sake of interoperability and the interoperability is less intact and more semantic so you can imagine some of the interesting use cases that come out of that I think if I remember correctly they were looking at oh gosh I think it's vaccinations I was was the use case that they were looking at for their first product POC so he's he's in the process of putting the putting together a subgroup I think the subgroup is maybe just about a half a dozen people maybe a couple folks fewer than that and so he's looking to spin that up and and start developing this sometime very soon so if you have an interest in interoperability and again this is more semantic interoperability and maybe less than tactic this would be a really interesting subgroup Steven's got a great background in in the healthcare space his focus is mostly technology and so if you have an interest in you know sort of a deeper understanding of using blockchain technologies to solve interoperability issues this is a great subgroup to be working in okay that said we'll move forward to our ad hoc teams we we have a couple ad hoc teams the way that the teams work is they generally focus on very specific issues maybe tend to be a little bit more sort of temporally sort of box time box that said we always have I always joke we we always have an interest in redesigning our wiki this if for those of you that probably are aware of this is we use a product called confluence and honestly I'm always looking for someone that has some level of really good design expertise using confluence because I can imagine there are always ways to find better ways to sort of develop around some of the work that we're doing here for not only this healthcare special lunges group for but for also for all SIGs and all work work groups that are part of hyper ledger and so I always just always want to keep that sort of door open that if anyone has an interest with with design experience I'd love to be find a way to work with them on that and we also have a use case development team that's led by Erica and Erica do you want to give us an update on that all right thank you Rich so the only use case that's really kind of going forward right now is the drug supply chain which is the one I wrote and the text part of that is is done and now we're gonna move on to working on the visual the visual aspects of it and Indira is helping me with it and Dennis also provides us a lot of guidance for our group our group is really just providing high level pretty high level use cases and the way I've approached it for me it's hard to rate high level so I've approached it more from an academic rating standpoint so I need to really tailor down on the verbiage and so yeah it's we're moving along slowly so yeah that's where we're at hopefully we'll have that use case to present at some point or to at least show people yeah and and it's and what's really great about this particular team is this really it's got a great history it came out of HIMS conference observation from a couple of years ago obviously not this past HIMS conference because that kind of went virtual but the one prior to that which we basically had a had a booth set up for hyper ledger and so we had a quite a number of people that were asking us about use cases and and really the the ask that they were making was a better understanding of sort of the context around where blockchain technology tools might be most effective particularly in the healthcare industry and so so we sort of brought that back to the team here and I think originally I think it was Wendy that sort of kicked off that that team and then Erica took over the driver behind that was developing a use case effectively use case template in in a way such that we can develop a use case and then have multiple use cases that follow very very similar sort of overall structure so it's very easy to get that information out not not just to SIG membership but to to the healthcare community to really effectively to educate them on what where the real strengths of blockchain technologies happen to be and that you know that really fits to things like where does the DLT fit in what are the sort of the strengths and weaknesses of a DLT again in the in the context of of healthcare specifically same to for you know well I'd say cryptocurrency but generally speaking we don't use currency but but similar crypto solutions in the healthcare space and then also for SSI self sovereign identity or identity digital identity management again in the healthcare space and on that sort of on that last point it's it's always interesting a digital identity is getting to be a really big deal right now particularly as we're sort of working our way through the COVID virus there's an awful lot of work right now with contract contact tracing and and managing digital identity assets as it relates to COVID virus testing so it's from my perspective if we sort of look at where blockchain technologies seem to be maturing very quickly digital identity seems to be a big big space that's that's coming together very quickly here okay thanks for that Erica yeah this use case team is a great team very very interesting stuff coming out of this and I think also very promising I think there's gonna be some really good value that that will put out to the community through this team okay any questions before we move forward all right so as probably most people know we spent several months on really a hundred percent focus on the COVID-19 virus the pandemic itself we had about I think a half dozen special topic meetings through March April May and and we've subsequently sort of starting in June we sort of came back to our general meetings sort of cycle but that clearly as as I think most of us most of us know particularly here in the US the virus continues to sort of propagate and it seems that we're sort of coming into maybe a second wave or maybe the tail end of the first wave no one's quite sure I guess but there's clearly continuing need for support in this area and so as a result I always want to just provide sort of an update on where we can get funding at both the global level and then here in the US specifically so that if there is any interest in anyone on the call that wants to develop solutions that address the COVID pandemic ideally using blockchain technologies these are some great funding opportunities that I have up here and I update these fairly regularly ideally what it what I do is I sort of walk each of these websites sort of take a look to see if there's there been any updates on the site itself and then I'll note it here and so you can sort of see for each of the call outs I show an update in general I would say at a global level it's a little bit sparse I think just ongoing grant stations probably the place to go and then here in the US and I think I've talked about this before but for particularly for small businesses and startups or small businesses they want to do work with academic institutions the government here in the US has something called SBIRs and STTRs I call them sitters and sitters and so you can see sort of that first bullet point for the National Accounts Institute great opportunities exist continue to exist as a as they relate to health care and specifically the COVID pandemic and looking they're really effectively looking for solutions there same also for the National Institute Health NIH and then I think I think Ravish you're connected with the COVID help for families is that correct yeah yeah rich this is just a site to you know submit a you know if someone is in need you know for what they're looking for even the not not for profits and someone who can help so it's just a ways to connect those you know those two you know organizations or people who are looking for for help or who can help you know obviously I mean some of us are privileged to be able to work from home but there are a lot of people who are not in a position to do that or their job does not allow that to happen so it's just a mechanism to bring means to folks who need help excellent so it's a great opportunity and again I posted up here for for folks to sort of take a look at and and see how they might be able to get involved in that and then finally I call out sort of separately UC Davis office research has a great resource which probably is is a great catch all here in the US and again they they do a very good job of sort of aggravating opportunities really within here here within the US and again these are all COVID related opportunities and so I'd ask if anyone has interest to sort of dig into that and see what they might go to turn up and if he if anyone does identify a good solution that maybe is on those maybe isn't on the list please let me know I'd be happy to post it up here you know we just as much as we're not sort of driving these special topic meetings clearly you know we just want to stay focused on the fact that there's ongoing need for solutions developments as it relates to the pandemic okay any questions as it relates to to sort of where we're at with the pandemic and and how sort of best to serve serve the needs in that space Jonathan I've heard a lot about this overlay capture network from Paul knows and I think there's the whole collaboration for COVID credentials and I've seen a little bit about it percolated through project areas actually a year like almost like a November that actually Paul was trying to get traction with a RFC is there any in the semantic interoperability working group or in this working group any sort of talk about implementing that for at least the COVID credentials so short answer is no but you know it may it may be something worth digging a little bit more into do you have any more information anything like a link that you might be able to share yeah I think covered credentials dot or G I think so it's it's a huge when I went first actually I got the email I just signed up for the thread and just to build the listserv but it was amazing actually like they had you like ran out and made a press release that consensus health is now a partner and I was like no no I just signed up for the listserv and so I just took it took me back as far as like you know their objectives and it was really getting some press I'm just wondering actually if there is any standards there or my concern is actually there it's it's happening outside of my typical media for standards development like in IEEE or in hyper ledger or in my work in W3C so I'm kind of worried that actually it's there's some concern for a patent or and or other licensing that actually like it's a it's a it's just outside the realm of my comfort zone so I'm just wondering actually if anyone else has an experience with it because at some point they did have you know a hundred people working on joint documents so they have these Hubble pages and it seems like actually a huge amount of work and also overlapped with a lot of what I was doing in the in the IEEE identity and healthcare subgroup that Jack Callahan and I were working on for vaccination credentials which I think I presented to this group before. Yeah so I don't know anything through Aries necessarily and if anyone on the call happens to have any information or even maybe a link to some of that information please do do so through the chat. I can tell you I do know quite a number of organizations that are that are doing credentialing and in fact I do some work with Providence Health here in the in the Northwest and we have a we have a project that that's that's coming together from that perspective but generally speaking otherwise no I haven't found anything. Let's see I'm gonna bring up the URL that looks like Erica found and we'll see if we'll sort of we'll do this live and see where this takes us and maybe Jonathan you can tell us if this is the right spot that we're talking about. Yeah so that's it and I think and there's a whole bunch of huddle pages and whatnot for like four different streams and it seems like they're using verifiable credentials but it really is this overlay capture network that actually is I think it's actually it's it's brilliant in some senses in the in the sense that it really handles the semantics and then there's different layers of interoperability including actually languages actually I can transform it into different languages but it certainly it's much more complex than it will be actually we're working on in our public credentials we're still dealing with like just a simple claim name and API number maybe a vaccine and so I think it is it's interesting but I like I'm just curious like I use the evidence in there and so which is part of like you know sovereign network and so transmute news but so so I guess maybe the question is who's driving this right and it's not happening within any sort of standards organization yeah and and honestly just just offhand it may be just you know the timing for this sometimes these things have to come together very quickly and so yeah you sort of and run around some of the more formal sort of yeah and that's part of my reservation as well as that you know rushing this through you know standards organizations is that you basically get you know a bad standard because it's it's not vetted or you not get actually getting the result that actually like we had hoped it would and it certainly there's this precedent does this impetus actually to get something out there but and this also came I think you guys heard like Bill Gates actually on Reddit was saying oh in the future we're gonna have an immunity passport I think the dilemma I mentioned this before is that it's not it's like binary that oh you either you've been exposed to COVID and therefore you are immune or you've got the vaccine and therefore it's efficacious there's a whole world of governance models and just the plain healthcare we need to see if actually a vaccine works we need the reporting structure we need population health observations to see actually see how efficacious this is and so there's a lot we actually need to learn and this just seems like a quick fix but it might not fix the underlying problem that we're trying to solve so does this I'm curious to know is this in any way do they do they sort of correlate this with contact tracing or is it just really a credentialing tool yeah I think one of the use cases I saw at least in the listserv was actually documenting a use case for contact tracing but it's that again is also plagued with privacy and ethical challenges oh yeah and yeah especially here in the US yeah there's there's been an awful lot of pushback a lot of speculation a lot of conspiracy theory that flows around us obviously I think anything else on this call this I should present it as far as this that comedy of different people actually classes of people I should suddenly this immunity passport contact tracing is suddenly this stigma of really of disparities yeah yeah and that's that's that is absolutely the case and again I think I don't know if this is necessarily a global issue I think it's going to be really reflective or indicative of the culture and so I think you know it's it's a sensitivity that there's a big driver there and boy it's going to be a tough kind of a tough way to sort of move forward other other other countries are a little more open about that sort of thing here in the US I think it's certainly a sensitive issue well so I'll see if we can dig into this a little bit more Jonathan this this is I'm now now you got my sort of curious curious to be up on this one so I'll see if I can dig into it and see see what we can find about this and I think Dennis is on the call Erica did I did I catch that right and again I'm sort of blind on our list of participants so Erica's my eyes on keeping track of who's on the call today yeah I thought I heard Dennis Dennis good morning yes how do you think guys we're good good how are you doing glad to have you on the call I was just listening so can I can I ask you to give us a little bit of an update on the patient subgroup I probably I did it a little bit of update I'm sure I did a service to you but do you want to give us an update sure another big change since last meeting but besides of that I have also collaboration with the health agency in Switzerland and they have a very singular app developed and it is on the service now and so far 12% of the population has downloaded and the activation is very much not really very much promising so there are lots of concerns about privacy data privacy and there's a certain concern that people are afraid of get their data and misused and even hacked so this is a big challenge for not only for Switzerland for many of the similar applications the Swiss application is very much different from the Australian or Java which is already developed and on source now it is the data is not kept in a central device however they couldn't the central instances could not still convince the population that it is something not really happened to be misused by anyone so this is one of the biggest challenges for such kind of applications oh interesting well so so this is really in line with what we're just talking with Jonathan about and you know I was imagining that maybe maybe the sensitivity was here in the US but but maybe it tends to be more of a universal concern about data abuse and and effectively trust and so well good that's that's kind of that's good to know not necessarily comforting but maybe helpful for us to have a better sense for you know where where the sensitivities are when it when it comes to you know managing data and where the where the line gets drawn for you know how much is too much even in the context of you know something like this pandemic exactly and if I think of the clinical monitoring which is a part of the clinical trial and the patient monitoring this will be also in the future for IOT wearables a big issue we have to keep and try to build I mean appropriate systems and also appropriate communication with the population with the patients in order to convince them to implement and to get benefit of it it's a big challenge yeah interesting well good thanks thanks for the update Dennis and thanks also for your insight on that it's really good to have you sort of helping us get a sense you know for what's happening in Europe specifically and I think honestly it well it certainly helps me have a better sort of grasp of how we how we need to think about the solutions that we develop such that you know they tend to they tend to work for for everyone and not just for a single population or a single culture thank you Dennis so I think Erica also mentioned that Guillermo Diaz on the call Guillermo good morning hi how are you rich good morning good day to you Guillermo I don't want to put you on the spot but can you give us a little bit of update of how the how the virus is doing in Mexico I realized that you guys have been struggling for a while there yeah yeah you're right actually yesterday was one of the most deaths here in Mexico we have around two two thousand hundred cases a little bit more as I just read before and of course the problem here in Mexico is you know there are more deaths that the standard we are about 10% of deaths versus the COVID-19 cases that means that we have a very hard time in terms of the the deaths that we are having it's not surprising because you know there is a lot of diseases in Mexico around the heart diseases are diabetes so one of the things is that we're trying we still not doing testing that's one of the problems I don't know why but this is a policy from the government but at the same time the society is trying to take control of that and try not to go outside but the problem is that we are in the the I believe in the worst peak of pandemia so it's a very hard time and the prognostics are that maybe in November we are going to lower the COVID cases but this is not the good scenario right now and we believe that at least August September it will be a little bit worse and November maybe will be the peak that's that's the what I read and what I have from the you know the group that I participate here in the in the organization from IT so so this is this is what what we have for for you Rich thank you and you work you work out of Mexico City is that correct that's correct that's correct yeah okay well thanks very much for the update Guillermo sir of course be safe and yeah and appreciate that yeah clearly and we talked about this a little bit before the virus continues and I think getting that report from Guillermo is helpful for us to sort of just be mindful that this is still still very much an active pandemic that we need to be sensitive to so thank you for that Guillermo appreciated yeah and absolutely please please stay safe please stay safe thank you Rich thank you yeah okay so so really the last thing I wanted to get over to talk through today is is the fact that I put out a request for a call for HCC chair nominees I've been I've been chairing this special interest group for just over I think two years now and I think it's about time that I step away and so what what we're doing is I put a request out for nominees and and ideally these would be folks that have been in some way regularly involved in the in in the organization at least for some period of time it the the really the plan would be that we try to get the hand over to happen probably in the next couple of weeks or so it really is it'll really honestly it'll really depend on you know who steps up and then if we get enough folks together we can put together an election Erica is my vice chair but my sense I think Erica and I talked about this is Erica's got right now an awful lot on her plate and so we're debating whether whether or has time to take on the chair role and to really give it due justice to that and so I want to make sure that we open this this nomination up to everyone in membership that has been actively involved if ideally the work effort if anyone has an interest is to be on us fairly low you get into sort of a routine and and so just just operationally clearly there's you know prep time to put together agendas and and sort of you know develop the wiki pages and so forth and and outside of that there's a little bit of report up that that goes to hyperlegia.org and Linux Foundation but outside of that the really honestly the upshot is the real benefit is the opportunity from from this perspective to to really interface with the much broader blockchain technologies community and I would say healthcare community in general at a global level I've and Erica and I have talked about this recently one of the great things with being in the position of helping to sort of drive direction on the special interest group is I've really I've been invited to be to participate in quite a number of different organizational events many of them academically based which is a great opportunity for myself personally and and so that's one of the one of the things that I think I'll probably miss most of all is is that opportunity to you know be involved in so many sort of peripheral sort of opportunities so anyway so something to think about normally typically the the plan and of course that this healthcare special interest group is really the first special interest group that came out of hyperletcher we developed this probably about oh gosh I want to say around 2017 maybe even sooner than that so about three three three years ago or so and and really at that time it was simply just a listserv we really didn't have anything else at that time and then we put together the rocket chat channel and then from there we sort of developed out from from that point and formalized things a bit the charter that this special interest group created is really the the baseline for all their groups within hyperletcher since we were the first ones through so we have I'll just say a bit of cache maybe in in having really helped develop an awful lot about what hyperletcher is about from the community side and obviously very proud of that we have a great great team of people that have been participating in helping to develop develop that sort of sort of feel and and there's a certain level of professionalism that I'm very thankful for and clearly we've matured that over the past couple of years and I'm real happy for that as well so and my point was going to be that ideally the tenure for for the chair position and also the vice chair position is supposed to be a one-year cycle that's that ideally is supposed to really sort of happen at the end of every every calendar year one of the one the unfortunate side effects is that I believe hyperledger leadership team takes the last couple of weeks off of the year and so we're trying to move move the move that sort of time frame around so it's a little less impactful on on their time frame and so we we're moving that to the summertime so that's where we are now so if anyone on the call has been actively involved in and most people on today's call particularly have been involved in clearly any interview that that are you know regulars on this call I'd be thrilled to have you get involved if you have an interest please let me know and ideally we're trying to get this sort of put together by the end of this month and so when we get started next month I'll be helping to facilitate sort of that transition into getting a new chair sort of spun up into the special underscrew any questions yeah great rich as you are contribution to the healthcare as I just I did for the community oh thank you yeah so did you get any nomination for the or not yet no not not yet I I anticipate it it may take a little while anything that we push through listserv generally we we get it there's there seems always seems to be a little bit of a delay and to be honest the way that I sort of treat some of the some of the sorts of things that I do on other organizations I usually wait I usually wait until the weekend when I have some free time to sort of catch up on my sort of fun email so I anticipate it may be another week or so or so until we get a good set of folks together but so short answer is no not really I have had people and inquire and honestly inquiries are fine and I but I personally haven't really got a sense for what I would consider to be a real a real nominee that I that I'd want to put forward hey rich so the application process is just sending an email to you in the listserv and then stating why you believe you or someone else is worthy of this or has or yeah yeah exactly and and what's gonna happen is hyperlegio leadership sort of manages it but but the mechanism effectively is to get the nominations on the list for for the eventual election would would be just yeah just generating a generating an email and ideally it would be preferred if it went to all listserv I mean feel feel free to contact me directly if you have questions but what I what I'd really like to do is generate some some open discussion with the whole community and remember that our our HC SIG community is about a thousand members globally and so we have an awful lot of folks that are part of the community that I want to make sure everyone has an opportunity to sort of get a sense for who may be involved in in the nomination process so that people may be able to generate some feedback or generate support against the nominees so yeah so so the so the process would be send an email up to the listserv either nominating yourself or nominating someone else and then you know a short couple of sentences that define why you think you would be a good nominee or or you know a proxy someone that you think would be a good nominee I will say I am going to it sounds selfish but I am going to put myself up for that I'll be sending you know to the group by the day thank you oh perfect thanks Mike appreciate it rich this is just wanted to you know thank you for all your leadership I mean the the structure that you put in place I mean trust me I'm still trying to follow what you you have been and you know you do an excellent job at that so I just wanted to personally thank you for all your efforts and and you know keeping these things keeping the momentum going and bringing in various speakers on an excellent job I just want to convey that to you oh thank you Ravisha yeah I thanks very much I appreciate that it has been really it has it's been a great opportunity for me to be involved I think I get a lot of questions about you know why do I get involved in in an organization like this and to be honest and I think Tariq I think we we met earlier today I was very much like Tariq early on and this is well two or three years ago I guess it was I want to get more involved in understanding about how blockchain technologies fit into the health care community my interest happens to be health care related as it relates specifically to technology implementation and my interest in blockchain really sort of led myself to looking at different frameworks and I had looked at a framework called block stack initially which at that time was tended to be more closed-source and then I came you know really effectively came across Hyperledger which was open-source part of Linux Foundation which meant to me open-source open community and my background as developer allowed me to to actually go look at the code and go play with the code and that's really how I got involved here and then you know you just you you get involved in I think I got involved initially in the patient subgroup and and just recognized an interest in an opportunity to help to help mature the at that time it was it was called a working group and again the we were very very new as far as Hyperledger proper the project proper got was a couple this is you know three years ago I guess and so it's just my nature to say okay well I'd love to sort of step into this and help help sort of drive some of the momentum and and set the cadence for some of the work that we do here so I really have enjoyed it it has been an absolute pleasure and again as I had mentioned earlier the the great opportunities to speak with other folks in and around the world in multiple contexts and and really to learn an awful lot and to make to make some very very very very good acquaintances at a global level it's really been a great opportunity yeah I also want to join to rubbish he jumped in and I could I just wanted to say also my deep appreciation of your leadership thank you very much rich oh thank you Dennis yeah well well so so Dennis leadership it was also a great human touch thank you well great collaboration organization and everything thank you very much oh thank you Dennis yeah and well so so Dennis is a great example you know also a ravish Erica you know you you get you get to know people as people and it really doesn't matter you know where people live anymore these days actually Dennis and I did have a great opportunity to meet at the Hymns conference two years ago and so it's it you know one again one of the great things is the opportunity that a position like this affords someone and so yeah again it's it's been a really a great experience and so thank you Dennis I appreciate it okay again so if anyone has any questions feel free to contact me directly and then if you do have an interest in in and in getting more involved and taking over the chair role yeah please post up to listserv and we'll get that sort of routed I and again ideally the the thinking here is that we'll keep nominations open to the end of the month and then that last week of this month will be we'll get an election together it'll basically be a survey and and a voting process that will open up to membership and we'll work it that way and then come next month we should have ourselves a new chair and I'll obviously be helping to transition that person over into the role and then I'll sort of slowly sort of step out of the loop okay so are any any other questions or thoughts before we sort of close out just me rich I believe that I'm you know one of the the the new is here and I really appreciate all the the support that you have been providing to us especially with me I mean the speed up and the understanding of the way how it works the special groups and and and all the things around these community it's thanks to you even we having meet each other a few months I believe that you are a great leader and and you have a great way to explain in very detail the way how it works so thank you very much I didn't want to pass this opportunity to to to say thanks and as you said in Spanish muchas gracias mi amigo gracias well thank you thank you give me I appreciate it yeah thank you and and again you would you would be another excellent example of someone that that you know that that I was able to meet by way of this organization we had a great conversation earlier this year for those of those of you on the call that maybe don't remember Guillermo was able to to present a bit about what was going on in Mexico and that to me is invaluable for us to have sort of a global understanding of what's going on specifically as it relates to the COVID pandemic this this really is invaluable and I think you know having these opportunities is really critical to understand what the real issues are and then when we have a better sense what those issues are what the real solution ought to be with with really sort of that sort of real faceted understanding of what the problem space is well thanks again Guillermo I don't know okay we just got a couple minutes left we have another meeting coming up in two weeks I believe it's just it'll it'll be another general meeting and so at that time I think we'll have a better sense for what our platform will look like for who our next chair will be and so well we've got fingers crossed as we get to the end of the month and so thanks thanks everyone have a great weekend obviously be very very safe and we will see see everyone here in a couple of weeks thank you thank you thank you thank you and rich you're never leaving us so we'll see you in the future thanks Mike take care


Good morning friends. Happy Saturday. It's about five minutes to 7 a.m. I am at the grocery store. So I'm gonna run in, grab my groceries for the week. So I'm gonna be shopping this week at both Fred Meyer, which is a Kroger store and also at Trader Joe's. So you're gonna see quite a fun haul. You're gonna see quite a bit of fun stuff from Trader Joe's. I'm actually going to spend a little bit of time in the store kind of walking around scanning things, seeing if I can find some new and exciting things to share with all of you guys. So I will be home in just a little bit to share this week's grocery haul. I'll also be sharing this week's meal plan with you as well. So if you wanna see what I picked up for the upcoming week from both Fred Meyer and Trader Joe's, plus what's on my meal plan, all you have to do is stay tuned. So here is this week's grocery haul. Again, this is from Fred Meyer and Trader Joe's. It is quite a large haul. I needed a lot of produce and I needed to stock up on my hamburger and a few other things at Trader Joe's. So let's get into this week's grocery haul. So first, as usual, I grabbed a nice fresh bunch of flowers from Trader Joe's. I love their flowers and they're only 3.99 and these will last two to three weeks. So I love that. So I picked up a fresh bunch of flowers, some cool whip light. This is for angel food cake and strawberries that we're gonna be having tonight for dinner for dessert and I'm just gonna throw this into the fridge. I generally get the Fred Meyer brand but this one was actually on sale. So this is the cool whip light, whatever's left over we can use for desserts. My very favorite eggs, the happy eggs, they were not on sale unfortunately so they were 4.99 a dozen but in my opinion it is worth it because they are the best eggs ever. I love them. Also at Trader Joe's I grabbed some frozen veggies. So first I picked up soy catash. I love this so much. It's soybeans and corn or edamame and corn and little red peppers. I absolutely love this. It is so good. Also you know I love the frozen Brussels sprouts from Trader Joe's so I grabbed two bags of frozen Brussels sprouts. And then this was a new find for me. This is the quinoa duo with vegetable melange and I scammed this and it is only four smart points for a cup. So I thought that that was not bad. It has quinoa and veggies. So I thought this would be a nice side for dinner. So that was my frozen veggies from Trader Joe's. I also grabbed two packages of this Gromates Brazilian Steakhouse Marinade Mix and this is for tonight. I'm gonna marinate up some steak and chicken for kebabs. That's what we're gonna have for dinner. So I grabbed two packages. I wasn't sure how many I would need and then this is the steak that I'm using for the kebabs. It is already pre-cut into little squares which makes it so easy to throw on a skewer. So that is for tonight's dinner. They had a fantastic deal on the Hillshire farm sausages. So they were $1.88 each which is a steal. So I grabbed a turkey polka kebasa and also a turkey smoked sausage. I'm just gonna throw these in the fridge. This is great to make for breakfast, lunch. It's an easy thing to throw on the grill for dinner. So I'll just throw those into the freezer. Couldn't pass up that deal. Of course at Trader Joe's I stocked up on my extra lean 96-4 ground beef. Best price in my area at $5.49 each. So I picked up three pounds and again I'll just throw that into the freezer. Lemon extract. This is for actually a collab video that I have coming out at the beginning of July and I'm really excited for the recipe that I'm making and it called for pure lemon extract. Also a new find at Trader Joe's was this Trader Joe's barbecue rubbin' seasoning with coffee and garlic. Yum, this sounds so good. I mean you can put it on just about anything. It says any meat or poultry just before cooking so I was really excited to find that. I wanna say it was $2.29 and of course it's zero points because it's zero calories. So really excited about this new rub. Also fat-free sour cream to have on hand and for some recipes and then low-fat cottage cheese. I've been on a cottage cheese kick again so I picked up both the cottage cheese and the sour cream. Also from Trader Joe's I stocked up on my very favorite vanilla. If you love vanilla extract, this pure bourbon vanilla is the best from Trader Joe's. This is four ounces and it's $9.99. I paid $5 for less than one ounce at the grocery store so this is a fantastic deal and this literally is the best vanilla extract on the market. I love it. Also las palmas enchiladas sauce. This is for an upcoming dinner recipe. At the end I'll be showing you my meal plan so this will be able to tie into that. You'll see how it all kind of ties together. Also baked beans. This is for dinner tonight when my in-laws come over. Five smart points for half a cup so not bad. I scanned all of them and this is one of the 5.1s. By the way, there are none that are less than five. So it's definitely kind of an indulgent thing but a half a cup is a good amount for a side. Bolt house ranch just to have on hand for salads and veggies. I actually had a coupon for 80 cents off so I wanna say this was just about $3 with that coupon and this ranch you can have three tablespoons for two smart points so not bad. Also for today and then whatever's left over for snacking I grabbed the white cheddar poppables. I love these. You can have 28 of these for five smart points or you can knock down the amount for four smart points and of course I'll have that here on the screen but these poppables are so good. They also had a sale at Fred Meyer on the International Delight Creamer so I decided to go ahead and get the sugar-free caramel macchiato. I've actually never had this one. I normally buy the sweet cream from CoffeeMate but these were $2 I think on sales so I grabbed the sugar-free caramel macchiato and of course the points are here on the screen. It may differ a little bit, I'm not sure on that one. I also had to pick up some red wine vinegar. This is for the marinade and I realized that my red wine vinegar that I had expired in 2017 so it's time. It's time to buy a new bottle. So I went ahead and grabbed that. Also at Trader Joe's I always pick up these grain-free dog trees with peanut butter and banana. My dogs are grain-free and they are also chicken-free so they can't have either of those things and these are really good. They're the perfect size for a quick treat and they're cheap, $2.99 I think for the box. Also, light mayo. This was also on sale for $1.49 which is such a great deal so I picked this up just to have on hand as a backup. I think we're over halfway through our mayo as it is. So for some canned goods, I also grabbed my green beans for my dogs. Of course you know they get these with dinner as their little treat. Also I needed some sliced olives and this is for an upcoming dinner recipe. Same with these mushrooms. I decided to get the button mushrooms instead of the stems and pieces because I think it's weird. I'd rather actually have full mushrooms and pay a little bit more. So I grabbed the button mushrooms and then a can of fat-free refried beans and this is for a dinner recipe this upcoming week. Turkey pepperoni. I am making a casserole that I cannot wait to share with you guys that uses pepperoni. So I grabbed Hormel turkey pepperoni. I really like these no-sugar added fruit cups. Both myself and my husband really like these so I grabbed the no-sugar added mandarin oranges. They're in water so they are zero points and they are so good. I really, really enjoy the mandarin oranges. And then for today for dinner I grabbed the angel food cake. I wasn't sure the points. Today is my day that I use a lot of my points. I'm on the Wendy plan currently so this is my high point day. So I know this is six servings. I may have to adjust my serving size but angel food cake for the strawberry and whipped cream desserts. Also as weird as this is I picked up a package of the chicken top ramen. This is for my lunches this next week. I cannot wait to make this recipe and it actually calls for one package of chicken top ramen. So there you have it. Another new find at Trader Joe's. I've heard of these. I've just never purchased them. I was really excited. These are the mini hold the cone. So I heard that not only are they chocolate dipped but the entire cone is lined with chocolate and ice cream goes all the way down. So yes please. These are only four smart points. So I thought that was not bad. They had both vanilla and chocolate ice cream and I wanted the vanilla. So cannot wait to have those. Also this is a new find for me at Fred Meyer. This is the Foster Farms fajita raw chicken breast strips saute ready. So basically these are chicken strips that are already seasoned with the fajita mix. There is nothing in these that counts as points. So I'm going to count these as zero points when I cook them. I am going to scan them just to see what they come up with. They may actually be points. You'll know here on the screen. If there's any type of oil or anything of course I'll count them but I thought how easy just to throw this in with some veggies, roll them in a Oolay wrap and you have a chicken fajita. So grabbed that. The rest of what I have is produce. So three peppers. This is for upcoming recipes for this next week.  It is seriously so easy just to throw one of these pre-wrapped packages of carrots into my lunch each day. Coleslaw is for the recipe with the top ramen. So again, can't wait to share that with you guys. So coleslaw mix. Also some baby spinach. This is just for some upcoming recipes this next week. Along with my carrots I thought that sugar snap peas sounded really good to have as a veggie. So I'll have a mix of those and these little baby carrots and that'll be a nice snack throughout the week. Picked up a big pack of green onions from Trader Joe's. They literally have the best green onions. They're huge and they are such great quality and it's $1.30 I think for this whole package. So I got those. Broccoli from Trader Joe's which is also for an upcoming recipe. Blueberries from Trader Joe's. This is for eating as well as for that breakfast recipe with that lemon extract. Can't wait to share that. You'll see that. That collab will be uploaded on July 2nd and there's a ton of us participating. So definitely stay tuned for that. I've never purchased these but I've heard all about these at Trader Joe's. These are the butternut squash zigzigs. So what I'm going to do is throw these into my air fryer and I hear that they literally taste like french fries. So I'm super excited to have those zero points because all it is is butternut squash. I also grabbed a red onion for the kebabs and then some upcoming recipes. Mushrooms, I grabbed sliced for a recipe this next week and then I grabbed the little whole baby bellas for the kebabs. These are really easy just to slide on to the skewer. Also at Trader Joe's, such a great deal. Two bucks I think and this is five zucchini squash. So this is for the kebabs and also an upcoming dinner recipe. Lots and lots of strawberries. Strawberries were four pounds for $5. So four of these containers for $5 at Fred Meyer. So I grabbed three of course for the angel food cake and then the rest we will have just for snacks and things throughout the week. A watermelon, which I'm so excited about. I'm going to chop that up and we'll have that tonight with my in-laws and then we can munch on it through the week. Also at Fred Meyer, grapes were 99 cents a pound. Fantastic deal.  This cheese is a full thickness of a cheese slice. I mean an actual thick slice of cheese and it is only one smart point. I don't know if you can find these other places. You leave that in the comments below for those of you that don't have a Trader Joe's but every time I go to Trader Joe's, I grab another pack. So that is the Yarosberg light cheese. So that is all of my groceries for this upcoming week. So let's get into the meal plan. So let's talk about this week's meal plan. This is my Keriel meal planner. I've shown this but a lot of you ask me to show it in these videos because you're new. So this is the Keriel meal planner. I have the large eight and a half by 11 one. I love it. It is extremely high quality. It is absolutely gorgeous on the inside. I love it. There are several resources for you. There's the resource tab and that is the one that you can list your favorite websites, recipe sites, blogs. Just keep a record of what your favorites are. Also in the inventory tab, you can do a freezer and a pantry inventory. So that's really nice just to kind of know what you have on hand when you're planning your grocery list. The tab I use the most of course is the meal planning tab. So we'll come back to that one. There's the gatherings tab. This is really cool too. You can actually plan all of your gatherings, the event, what you're planning on serving. And then there is also a detachable grocery list so that you can shop for your gatherings. So I love that. That is awesome. And then of course there is the notes tab and they're just blank lined pages where you can basically take notes on anything that you want to jot down. So maybe again, your favorites or things that you want to try. And then in the back, there is this cute little pocket folder and it's on both sides of the last page of it. It's really, really cute. I love it. I do have a 10% off discount. I will link it down in the description box below. Go ahead and go to the Cariel website and enter my code GENZWWJOURNEY and you will save 10%. So let's get into this week's meal plan. So I love the planner because you can plan your meals by the month, which I always like to do. It's everything right at a glance. I can see what my plan is for the next day so that I can pull any meat out of the freezer or just make sure I have all the ingredients for that recipe. And then there is also a weekly menu plan. So you plan out each day, what you're going to be having and then there's a detachable grocery list as well, which I use every week for my groceries. So let's go to this week's meal plan. So you can see that the grocery list is gone and my meal plan goes from Saturday through Friday. So this week I'm doing the Wendy plan, as you know. So my week looks just a little bit different. There isn't a big cheat day, although Saturday is my high point day. So this is Saturday. So this is my high point day on the Wendy plan. We're having dinner with my in-laws. We're doing kebabs, baked beans, watermelon, green salad, and then we're gonna have angel food cake for dessert. So that will be kind of my splurge for today. And then Sunday I'm making the Felicia Fitness Health chicken stroganoff. I'm gonna make mine just a little bit different, but I'm copying her general recipe and I'm gonna pair that with some veggies. Monday I'm going to be making ground beef lo mein. Oh, sounds so good. So a copycat Chinese food recipe and I'll probably pair that as well with some vegetables. Tuesday I'll be making pepperoni pizza casserole. Yes, ma'am. That sounds so good. I cannot wait. Again, some veggies on the side. Wednesday will be beef enchiladas, which sounds amazing as well. And that is also paired with a veggie. And then Thursday and Friday are the days that I use leftovers. So that's my meal plan for the week. Now let's get into meal prep. So for meal prep this week for breakfast, I'm going to be making some hash brown egg cups. Wait till you guys see this recipe. So good. I'm gonna pair that with some turkey bacon and some fruit. For lunches this week, I'm gonna be making a ramen noodle salad and then I'm gonna go ahead and cook up some chicken on the side for zero points. So good and probably have a fruit as well. And then the star of this week's show is my dessert, which are one smart point carrot cake cupcakes. One smart point including frosting. So stay tuned for meal prep to see the dessert, the breakfast and the lunch. So that is what's on my meal plan for this week. And again, this is my Cari L Meal Planner. You can find this down in the description box. Use my code JENSWWJourney for 10% off. Thank you for joining me for this week's WW Weekly Grocery Hall and Meal Plan. I hope you're excited about some of my new finds at both Fred Meyer, which is a Kroger store and Trader Joe's. Again, make sure you grab yourself that baby right there, that Cari L Meal Planner. It is so awesome. We have several other planners and digital formats as well. So definitely check out their website. Also, I hope you are also as equally excited for meal prep. So I'll see you guys in the next video. If you're new, make sure you subscribe, hit the notification bell so you're notified each and every single time I upload. Give this one a thumbs up, comment down below. Let me know what you think of this week's Grocery Hall and Meal Plan. And I'll see you guys later. Bye.


Now, what we've just seen there is a very awesome Nasheed reminding us that we have more beneficial things to do other than WhatsApp. I'm not saying that we should stop WhatsApping because you'll also find me on WhatsApp. But we've got to remember that this is a month where we're supposed to always perform the Taraweeh and always make sure that we go closer to Allah because one of the definitions of the word Islam is Islam is staying closer to Allah and going closer to Him by submitting to Him alone and also going closer to Him through obedience and staying away from polytheism and polytheists.  Now, this is not a Hadith like any other Hadiths we always hear about. It's Hadith Qudsi, which means that it's the words of the Almighty Allah through the Prophet, peace be upon him. Now, I want us to get back to this very interesting discussion with the Sheikh. Back there when we were on the break, we just mentioned these people who stopped performing the Taraweeh prayers during the last 10 days of the month of Ramadan and also people leaving what they've been doing. We'll get back to that a little later, but I want us to finish first of all on actually, we've not even mentioned the Itkuminanar. Can we just at least mention something about the Itkuminanar? Yes. You see, the first division was Rahmat, Sikor and Maghfirah, meaning Masih, then forgiveness. After Allah has given you His Masih or endowed you His Masih, then accepted your forgiveness. The third thing Allah swt does is to assure you that you'll enter Paradise and if you assure you'll enter Paradise, then unfortunately and automatically you'll not enter Hellfire. And you know people fear fire. Very much. Here on this earth and hereafter. And that's why with the Prophet Muhammad swt, maybe he was supposed to say the third division is the one which now people enter Jannah. But people could not take it that way. Seriously. But when they hear now the third division or part of Ramadan is to keep you far from Hellfire. Now people are ready to get that guard from Hellfire. Sorry to cut you short, but just to give the magnitude of the Hellfire. I once heard a sheikh on radio. He said that the fire that women always use to cook food is so hot. Let's ask them how hot it is. And he says imagine that multiplied by 70 times. That's the magnitude of the... Not even 70 times because some scholars explain that the Hellfire when you are almost 70 miles, 70 miles before you reach there, you're already burnt the entire body 70 times. And Allah swt explains that fire. And he says that The fuel of Hellfire is human beings and stones. So it's very bad fire. Allah put us very far from that fire. And that's why it's upon me and you and all the viewers and even those who are watching have to have a responsibility to go and talk to others who have not watched. Tell them, my friend, we have now the last 10 days of Ramadan which Allah swt has guaranteed us that if we stand by his teachings in these 10 days and do what is supposed to be done, we'll never enter Hellfire. Then let them go and tell others. And me and you start doing the best from now till the end of Ramadan and even after Ramadan so that we'll never enter Hellfire, inshallah. A very intriguing question comes up when we talk about Itqum-e-Nanar or being taken far away from the Hellfire. What is someone supposed to do? Because we know that in the second 10 days of Maghfir or Tawba or asking for forgiveness from Allah, we increase our Ibada in the form of Irtikaf. And before that, there is so much dhikr that people do on the first 10 days of the month of Ramadan. Now what obligation are people supposed to do in these last 10 days of Itqum-e-Nanar? You know, the Prophet Muhammad peace be upon him from the hadith of Anas bin Malik, r.a. he said that this month has a lot of benefits Ramadan and many people who will not get the benefits of Ramadan are the people who are far from the mercy of Allah. Subhanallah. He explained it that way. So it means that if you are far from the mercy of Allah then you are among those who will not get the benefits of the 10 days. Let's look at them. And if that is the interpretation of the hadith, then it means that even your first 10 days are not void. That's what it means. So it means that we need to do the best.  He taught us, say, Allahumma inna ka'afuhun to haibu la'afua fa'afu anna. So my friend from now up to the end of Ramadan let your dhikr among the best dhikr be Allahumma inna ka'afuhun to haibu la'afua fa'afu anna. Allahumma inna ka'afuhun kareemun to haibu la'afua fa'afu anna. I'm saying it this way because this is the version people know in most eko from Lamuq, Garisa, Malindi, Mombasa. That's the version. When I say it like once, they don't get it. But when you say Allahumma inna ka'afuhun kareemun to haibu la'afua fa'afu anna. Meaning Allah inna ka'afuhun. You like forgiving and wiping away sins. To haibu la'afua, you like wiping away sins. Fa'afu anna. Then forgive and wipe away our sins. And we explain the difference between Isteqfar and Tawba also and Afu last time and we are repeating today. When Allah makes Afu for you, it means that things you have done. He finishes them. He forgives them. He will never even mention them to you. They are forgiven and forgotten. But Isteqfar, when you say Allah forgive him something, there is a possibility of Allah remaining in the day of judgement.  But Afu, when it's done, you'll never even hear about it. And that's the best thing we're asking from Allah this time. And every time Allahumma inna ka'afuhun to haibu la'afua fa'afu anna. People add kareem. The word kareem didn't come from the Prophet Muhammad SAW. But they add kareem because it's also part of the names of Allah. Kareem means generous. Meaning you like wiping sins and you're also generous. Fa'afu anna. Then forgive us. Now, we've been mentioning this so many times. Within this show, I think if we count it, it might even be 20 times that we've mentioned laylat al qadr. Only me 20, maybe you 20 as well. And the viewers, especially non-Muslim viewers, would wonder what exactly is laylat al qadr. Now, to clarify it a little bit, I'll start by saying that it's the night of power. The night of decree. The night where the Noble Qur'an was revealed to the Noble Prophet, peace be upon him. I'd like you to also add more flesh into this information perhaps, even give more information to the viewer. The first thing is that laylat al qadr is the best night ever in this world. With the lifetime blessings. With the lifetime blessing. Because Allah SWT explains in the Holy Qur'an that if you do anything good in that night, and you know it's not the entire night, it is part of night. It is as if you have done that thing which you are doing for 83.3 years. Many people don't even live that long. Of course, many of us will never get there. But we pray to Allah SWT to reach there with our teeth and everything intact.  It's a big burden also to the community. So we are praying to Allah SWT to reach that age but healthy. So it's important for everyone of us to do what pertains to be done. And I always give people five things, my brother. One, make sure you pray asha, Jama'a, and mix it with tarawih with the imam at mosque. Make sure you pray the hadjud and wittri. Make sure you give swadaka. Make sure that you pray fajr on its time. Make sure you recite Qur'an at night and that du'a. If you do those five things, my brother. Wallahi, you will get lailatullah qadr. But now here is a warning.   I'm not talking with your wife. If you do it with your wife, you get thawab.   But if you do it with the wrong person, subhanallah, you get sins for 83 years. It's very nasty. Wallahi, very nasty. Or you know there are these youths, sometimes they say during Ramadan, they want to chew some mira a little bit. Aami, sheikh, let me go get something because you are Aniwangu. My friend, in the day of judgment, you will come and when you see the pile of gut you have eaten, it's as if you have eaten the almost 30 acres of mira of Ameru. It becomes a tragedy.  Even those who maybe say, let me go to disco, I've missed disco ban. Then you go, in the day of judgment, you are told, you have been going to disco for 83 years. Wallahi, it's a big tragedy. So it's upon me, you and everyone watching, and even those who are not watching, to do the best during the 10 days of Ramadan from today. Let's talk of today, not 10 days. From today, insha'Allah, let us be the best Muslims, insha'Allah. And we continue with this video till we meet Allah swt. Now you've mentioned this very intriguing aspect of the Lailat ul Qadr. Yes. That you, anything that you do is multiplied by 83.3 years. Now whether it's good, whether it's bad. So if someone commits phonication, commits zina in this night of Lailat ul Qadr, and it's multiplied to a thousand nights, an equivalent of 83 years, does that mean that by the time you go towards Allah on the day of judgment, does that mean that someone of that nature will be a mufless? You know that person will be a mufless. One thing is that Muslims try to play with Allah swt. Because you know there is that good intention of Allah swt. That if you do intention, if you have intention to do something bad, and you don't do it, you don't get anything. But if you do, you make intention of doing something good, and you don't get it, you get one thawab. If you do it, you get 10 thawabs. So for Lailat ul Qadr, some scholars also argue that if you do sin, it is counted to be only one day sin. But many scholars, those who fear Allah swt, have asked yourself, if Allah swt have given you a blank check of 83 years, What do you want to write on it? What do you want to write on it? Whatever you write is what you get. So that is my explanation, and that is the logic I use, and the philosophy I use also. I join the scholars who say that whatever you do that day is what you get. Subhanallah. Now for the purpose of those who are watching and they do not understand, what the meaning of the word Muflis is, I would like you to clarify it, even also you can include the adith where Prophet Muhammad Peace be upon him mentioned and described exactly who a Muflis is. Muflis is bankrupt. You know in this world, there are people who become bankrupt. Some of them do it actually purposefully, technically, maybe they have divorced their wives or they have problem with the government, then they declare themselves bankrupt, so that of course when you become bankrupt, everyone runs away from you. But the day of judgment there are people who will be Muflis, bankrupt, because you come before Allah Subhanahu wa ta'ala and you have abuse so and so.  You come before Allah Subhanahu wa ta'ala and you have stolen things from so and so. Yes, you have your own thawabs because you know there are people who still they pray, they phonicate, they pray. They try to equalize. The problem is that you don't know when you are trying to equalize, you don't know how the magnitude and the balance, you know you cannot balance these things. So the best choice to become the best person because if you do that then in the day of judgment, Allah Subhanahu wa ta'ala will be seeing that so and so is going to hellfire. But you wronged him. So what Allah Subhanahu wa ta'ala will be doing will be taking some thawabs from you giving it to this person. Another one is also going to hellfire and if you have done something wrong also your rewards are taken given to this person.  That is what we call Muflis. So what I am trying to say is that Islam is a humanity religion. Be good to people. Muslims and Muslims, animals and everything and you will be the best person.   So that's it. The bad deeds are higher than the good deeds so you are a Muflis. That's why I am happy to be with you because you understand your audience better than the youth and that's the easiest way they can understand. Even when you do the hands like this now they understand. My way of explanation was a little bit high in level but thank you so much for that. That's very true. Thank you very much for that clarification. I am sure that the viewer has also benefitted from that. Now, I mentioned where it started the first ayah that was revealed in the Qur'an that was from Surah Tula'anaq where the Almighty Allah says, read in the name of your Lord, who created you. Now, when I mentioned to my non-Muslim friends that the Qur'an was brought down to the Prophet Muhammad, peace be upon him they would ask me, was it brought down the same way that the Torah or the Torah was brought down? No. Or was it, and then I explained to them that it was brought down over a period of 23 years but it becomes really difficult to explain it to someone who is totally oblivious about this matter because the Qur'an, we say it was brought down on a particular night and then we say it was brought down on a period of 23 years. Let me clarify. You know, the Qur'an was being revealed in a portion we call it gradation at the University, we teach students gradation when you see gradation in a course of outline it means the portions the way it was revealed You know, every time any incident occurs then a verse will be revealed so that occurrence, every time and that's why people who have done Islamic sciences, they have something we call Asbabun Nuzul, reasons for revelation but now, during the end years of the Prophet Muhammad, peace be upon him the Qur'an was recited to him by Jibril peace be upon him once the entire, in entirety now from Fatiha to Nas in that one night and scholars say that during the year he died he was done twice now, to explain to someone who don't understand better is that you see by the time Prophet Muhammad was done he had already covered the 23 years in his Prophethood because he got Prophethood when he was 40 and he died when he was 63 so he had already finished his lifetime and that's why the last verse which was revealed by Allah swt is I have completed to you your religion you Muslims, your religion is complete and I have also perfected the bounties on you and you see the best bounty of Allah swt is Prophet Muhammad and Islam itself and that I'm only pleased to see religion which you should follow is Islam when Prophet Muhammad read that verse people knew that this is the end of Prophet Muhammad of course some scholars also attribute the verse which says that that Muhammad peace be upon him is like other prophets who passed before him so people say that even that one was among the last ones but what I'm trying to say is that you see now these are the last versions of Quran so when that verse came there was no any other there was no revelation you get me so what happened is that Jibril now had to recite to the Prophet Muhammad swt the entire Quran from Surat al-Fatiha to now these verses at the end you get me but now on Laylatul Qadr Laylatul Qadr now the compiles now the entire compilation now that is when it was read upon Prophet Muhammad and that's why we say that that is when it was revealed in totality as a complete book now I read yes from back in the madrasa that the Quran on this night it was it was revealed it was lowered from Baitul Ma'amur to is it Baitul Hayza so how was that is it that it happened all of it at the same time from Baitul Ma'amur to Baitul Hayza all at the same night when it was read to the noble prophet or is there a time frame separating these two instances there was no time frame it was the same night that same night because Muslim scholars especially the scholars of Quran believe that it was being protected in Baitul Ma'amur Baitul Ma'amur according to what scholars explain is that that building it is totally adjacent to Ka'bah is it so from there that's when it was revealed to Prophet Muhammad in totality now the entire Quran so it was recited to him the entire of it and that's why people who said that Quran has some human element they are wrong because Allah SWT made sure that Quran does not have the human element inside because he recited it in totality to Prophet Muhammad and that's why Allah SWT says that that we have revealed this book and we protect it and that's why Quran will remain protected to the day of judgement you cannot bring anything in the whole Quran people are trying but you'll never bring anything in the whole Quran but you'll detect even before you finish it to what you've said before we move forward to the next section that I want to ask you I would say that for the purpose of benefitting the viewer that the also means the protected manuscript literally from Arabic okay now the next thing that would like us to talk about very briefly is about the the Quran and perhaps you can also demonstrate if you can inshallah the difference is because you've said there is no human element and for us Muslims we understand that there is no human element but now for the purpose of other people who are watching this show there is this surah to fill where some poets in the times of Prophet Muhammad they tried to write their own poetry to try and rival the language of the Quran and perhaps you can also clarify this to us you know one of the more interesting of Quran or miracles of Quran is things which will come things which even appeared before Prophet Muhammad and one of them was that surah Prophet Muhammad when it was revealed to him he said to people or or don't you see what Allah swt did to those people who came with their elephant when that incident happened the Prophet Muhammad was not born and people could not be giving those stories to people I didn't make them feed them those people it was a king from Habash Ethiopia who heard of Mecca and he said why do we have another center of religion and economy in this world I'll go finish it he decided to go with his army to Mecca when he reached Allah swt those people from Mecca tried to protect Kaaba but they couldn't so they said we'll run away let the king do what he can do but Allah swt sent to them birds which were carrying pebbles but if that pebble touches your head I'm told you could the entire body could burn only a pebble and each bird was only assigned to one person and that's how Allah swt protected Kaaba Kaaba was built by Ibrahim al-salam and even some scholars say that it is Adam al-salam who showed where Kaaba should be that's why we also told us that Adam al-salam descended in Mount Arfa in Mecca I'm one of the historians when you go to Mecca that's part of my work to tell people to take people along those places but you see now that is one of the moreges that Prophet Muhammad did because people could not understand what he's saying but how did he get this story then one of the poets of Mecca was telling him let me now compete with you and then he came and said I feel elephant elephant has a very long tail those are things which could not even awake Quran al-karim I think they're trying to imitate some parts of the Quran where he asks you he mentions something and then he asks you what is that thing and then he goes and explains it it's very true it's very true it's very true so you see Allah swt but you see when you look at the what of Allah swt and the language of Allah swt you see where is to Allah swt now we're going to continue with that much later on the next Friday it's a very exciting thing we want to know all of you that we will continue with this same topic and finish it next Friday but also we're not going to continue with the same thing that you've had about but we will also talk about the Eid because insha Allah next week but one that's going to be within the month of June we're going to celebrate the Eid we will also talk about Zakat al-Fitri which I don't want to translate it into English because non-Muslims who are watching this show will think that we're talking about the Tithe but that's what it might mean to you so to make you understand we're going to talk about the Tithe or Zakat al-Fitri who's supposed to be given the Zakat al-Fitri and also we're going to talk about who and what amount is supposed to be given and everything that surrounds the day of Eid the Sunnah or the voluntary acts of the day of Eid and also the Sharia governing the day of Eid insha Allah my name is Abdul Razzaq in Gouthia and I have been with sheikh Dr. Hasan Kenyumari from the University of Nairobi thank you very much for coming and I hope to see you next Friday insha Allah Wa haathasalam wa rahmatullahi wabarakatuh


We must not turn up the holiday music so loud that it drowns out the cries of the poor, the marginalized, and the oppressed. Like the disciples in the garden, we have no words to explain or justify our slumber. Now our eyes are opened again. We are once more awake and alert. We must keep watch. If you want to keep Christ in Christmas, stay woke. But everything exposed by the light becomes visible, and everything that is illuminated becomes a light. This is why it is said, wake up sleeper, rise from the dead, and Christ will shine on you. Stay woke.


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