I welcome members to the 34th meeting in 2017 of the Delegated Powers and Law Reform Committee. I've received an apology from Monica Lennon, but we're welcome again, Pauline McNeill, as a substitute. Agender item 1 is decision on taking business in private, and it's proposed that the committee takes item 6 in private. That item is consideration of the evidence heard from the Minister for Parliamentary Business, which we'll hear soon, on the work of the committee during the parliamentary year 2016-17. Does the committee agree to take this item in private? Agender item 2 is consideration of the work of the committee during 2016-17. I welcome to the meeting Joe Fitzpatrick, Minister for Parliamentary Business. Alan Ellis, Head of Legislation Team, Parliament and Legislation Team. Fiona Burnett, Solista and Deputy Head of Business Division, Scottish Government legal directorate. Our old friend Luke McBratney, Head of Legislative Consequences of EU Withdrawal Team, Scottish Government. That's quite a mouthful. Minister, do you want to make any opening remarks? Very briefly. Obviously, this is my first appearance before the committee since you took over as convener, and I look forward to working with you and the committee over the coming months. I want to start by thanking the committee and the committee for your letter of 30 November about our progress on amending instruments. It's always good to receive positive feedback. I'd also like to take the opportunity to put on record my thanks to the former convener. There is no question that his tenacity had a role in the progress that we've made in reducing our extending commitments. It's a priority for me that will reduce this further, and myself and officials are working with colleagues to do so. Clearly, in terms of challenges ahead, Brexit looms large, while the legislative implications remain unclear, and it's going to require even better planning, qualifications and explanation of the Government's SSI programme. That's a challenge that Mr Russell and I are jointly tackling. The committee's recent report on the EU withdrawal bill raises some interesting points that I am currently reflecting on with Mr Russell. I'm happy to take any questions. I'll pass on your thanks to John Scott when I see him. With regard to the letter that we sent you, we felt very strongly as a committee that it's easy to criticise, but we should also praise as well when that's worth doing. We'll move on to questions. I'm going to take the first section, which will be around quality of instruments. We've split the questions into sections, so I'll deal with the first few and then we'll move round. The first question is, the committee noted that quality of instruments, for the most part, have continued to improve over the course of the last parliamentary year. We welcome the Government's progress in this area, but what's the Government doing to maintain the quality of instruments being presented to Parliament? In general terms, we are pleased that the quality is at a historic high, and the number of times that you are having to report is historically low, but we recognise that on occasions there have been one or two areas where the quality hasn't met our high expectations, particularly around tribunals. We have put in place a number of measures to try to keep on top of that and to continue to improve the quality. Perhaps Fiona, do you want to just talk about some of the things that we've done to try to maintain the progress that we've made in improving quality? Yes, thank you, minister. SGLD takes the quality control very seriously. It's invidious to use terms like perfection, but honestly that is what we strive to provide when we're bringing forward subordinate legislation. We have a whole suite of tools that we use to try to ensure that that's the case, and checks happen at every level of the hierarchy as they go through divisions and through the unit and then to the Parliament. One of the most important measures that we've put in place in the last reporting year is the increase in size of a pool of stylists. Those are the solicitors who perform a double check, a second pair of eyes check on the instruments. I think that in previous years there haven't perhaps been enough, we perceived a slight gap in the numbers and so we've increased that. We've also increased the length of time that the stylists have to perform the checks and we feel that that's brought a benefit. The other important aspect of what we do is good communications. We're fortunate to enjoy good relationships with Parliament and legislation units and also with the clerks and with your own legal advisers. We look as a group of stylists at the quarterly reports and take points from that as training points with a group of stylists. That information is disseminated to the drafters. We feel that the processes are robust with the high levels of work that people are dealing with. Very occasionally small elements of human error will, unfortunately, creep in, but we do feel that these are really occasional. While we strive to reduce them to an absolute minimum, they will creep in to some extent. I don't know if you wanted me to speak specifically about tribunals or if that gives you enough just now. We'll come on to that. I just wonder if you can explain the checking process that you go through. The drafter works alongside the policy colleague to provide a draft. That draft is then checked by a senior lawyer and then a further senior lawyer, a C2 lawyer and then a divisional solicitor. Those checks are not optional, the checks are compulsory and that's part of the minister's commitment to you is that all of those checks will happen and they do. After the divisional solicitor check, the stylist check takes place. We have a team of solicitors who do this role above their drafting role. We take an instrument from one area and it's always checked by solicitor from a different area.  The instruments are also checked in a mechanical way through formatting validation with the typing pool. There are two strands to that. We've got drafter senior lawyer stylist. There's a senior lawyer, a divisional solicitor after the senior lawyer. Four stages. The processes involve a lot of pairs of eyes looking at the instruments and they should, in majority cases, pick up most errors. The process that we've put in place is part of the reason that we are at this historic low in terms of where you're having to report, but clearly 12 per cent is not 0 per cent so there's still progress that we can make. We're not complacent at all. Ten instruments were either withdrawn or revoked over the last parliamentary year. That suggests that instruments were laid that were not up to the required standard. What measures are in place to ensure that that doesn't happen? The number of instruments that have been withdrawn is down compared to previous years. The majority of the instruments that you're referring to were from one package in relation to tribunals. We recognise that the quality was not up to the standard that we'd be expecting. What is very important is that the instruments that are passed by the Parliament do what we expect them to do and they are understandable at the end of the day. We really appreciate the work that this committee does in helping that process but we understand that it's our responsibility to bring the instruments into this committee at a quality that they should be. The number that I've had to be withdrawn has reduced from previous years but, again, we're still aiming to improve that more. At least half of the number that you're talking about were in relation to one package. We'll come on to that now. We were quite exercised over the package of instruments under the tribunal Scotland Act 2014. That followed on from serious concerns about a package of instruments under that same act last year. What consideration has the Government given to the way in which it lays packages of instruments, in particular to the way in which it programmes the laying of such instruments and the quality control processes that are applied to them? It's our intention that the Government will do everything that we can to lay packages of instruments at the same time and where that's not being done to provide an explanation for why that's the case. We are taking an active interest in packages in particular. We know that it's something that exercises the committee and rightly so. Fion has laid out some of the things that we're doing to try to improve that. We understand the committee's concerns around that and it's a high priority for us. Despite the checks and balances that you've got, mistakes still come through and they filter through to us. 62 instruments over the reporting period contained minor mistakes and recently it looks as though that's been increasing. In the current reporting period, 38 per cent of instruments laid by the Government contained minor mistakes. Despite what you've said, there are really small things drafting errors that shouldn't really be getting through. Despite what you've said, what checks are you planning to put any extra checks in? Those things shouldn't really get into us. Fion talked about having extra resources, because people are doing substantial amounts of work. We've got the correct steps in place. We've improved our procedures, but we're looking to improve the resources that we have to do that work. I hope that that will trickle through and you'll see a continued improvement. Obviously, we have seen an improvement over the years to the quality coming out of Government, but we want to continue that improvement and that's what we're determined to do. I accept what you say, but last week, for example, we considered the Alcohol Minimum Pricing Act and the commencement order, not the actual act, but that was only two pages long, but it had four minor points in it, which isn't really good enough. Obviously, our aim is to strive for perfection, and we've put in additional steps to continue to improve that, but it's useful for the committee to always flag that up to us so that we can see if there is a pattern, if there is an area where we've got a particular problem, then Fion and the team will look at how we can address that so that, for as often as possible, you're getting instruments that do what they say they should do and don't have either major or minor errors. None of us want to be in this position. It's just a quick supplementary for me. In terms of the procedures that Fion and I spoke about, the four layers that you have, has that been a new situation that you have, or has that been something that's been there maybe for a number of months? When did that process happen? We've continued to try to improve the process and make it more robust, but Fion, do you want to talk about the changes that we've made? That system has been in place for a number of years, but it's just a case of tightening up, making sure that they now happen compulsorily every time, and increasing the length of time that stylists have to perform the checks has been quite an important improvement as well. It's honed a system that was pre-existing. I'll move on to the next section of questions. Alison Harris. The committee noted that there had been a reduction in the number of instruments laid this year, so would you like to comment on the way in which the secondary legislation programme is managed? Further, what are the reasons for the drop in number of instruments laid? The number of instruments will fluctuate depending on the legislation and requirements, so there's no aim to hold back instruments. We try to manage as much as possible so that instruments are over the year. I know that it's a particular concern to this committee. If there are peaks of instruments troughs as well, we try to manage the programme over the course of the year. That's not always possible and there will always still sometimes be peaks, but there's nothing untoward. The number of instruments required will vary from year to year depending on the legislation. I also don't want to go on to the next set of questions. If I'm correct, you said that the scrutiny comes in with the length of time. You're giving people more time to scrutinise to ensure that we get the correct legislation. Did I understand that correctly? That's one of the tools that we're using is just an increased time. I just wonder how that's going to affect going forward with the EU. If they give them more time and there's more bills, how are you going to factor that in? It's difficult. We're all operating slightly in an information vacuum just now. We would all like a little bit more information as to how this is all going to progress. We have plans in place for varying scenarios and we're ready to implement them once we know what the final picture looks like. One of the things in terms of time is increased resource. It's a way of managing time. If there's a set amount of work, if there's more people to do that work, then that's one way of managing that. That's one of the things we're looking at. Stuart, you've got some questions around this. Yes, partly dealt with. That's okay, Alison. As a minister, I'll be aware of it. I also sit on the European Committee here in the Parliament and you touched upon the issue of the EU withdrawal bill in your opening comments. As well as the additional resource implications that you are looking at, what other action will the Scottish Government be undertaking when it comes to the laying of instruments because of the increased number of bills and statutory instruments to come forward? The big challenge for us is that we still don't know exactly what that's going to look like. That's a challenge. I don't know if even the Government and Westminster knows what that's going to look like. That's our biggest challenge. Our proposal would be to work with the Parliament to look at how we can deal with an increased number of instruments. We certainly don't approve of the way that the Westminster Government plans to take things forward. We think that that needs to be a partnership with the Parliament and we're keen to work with the Parliament to find ways to allow us to do the scrutiny that is required in an appropriate way. One aspect that has been considered in the past has been the issue of that working relationship between ourselves and the Scottish Parliament and the issue of sharing of information. Do you have any indication as to what length of time you would actually want to introduce for that so that the Parliament can have that information at an earlier stage if possible so that they can work on it? Obviously the challenge for us is that we can't share information that we don't have but there's a bit of thinking going on to look across Government as to what is likely. Do you want to make some comments? Unfortunately Luke's got a sore throat. There's an ongoing project to identify the range and scale of deficiencies that might be caused in devolved Scottish legislation. That project obviously has to be neutral to a number of different things including the scenario on which the UK might exit the EU, which is currently uncertain. The state that the EU withdrawal will be in when it's passed, as members will be aware, is currently being considered by the House of Commons and the Scottish and Welsh Governments have proposed amendments to it. We hope to have the first results of that project in early in the new year and we've committed to sharing that at an official level first with the parliamentary authorities. One other aspect that has been discussed in the past has been the issue of this committee's potentially increased role in considering instruments from the EU withdrawal bill. Do you think that there is merit in increasing the number of members on this committee to deal with that going forward? That's something that we need to consider at the time when we see that and it's something that I would have to discuss with other business managers. When the committees were set up, one of the things that we agreed unanimously across the parties was that each committee should have a make-up that is roughly equivalent to the chamber. The Government should always be one member short of a majority. Clearly, if we wanted to expand the committee, we would have implications across the Parliament in terms of the resource that we have. It's certainly something that we should consider, but we need to see exactly what it's going to look like and how we jointly think that we can take that forward to deal with whatever the workload is. You spoke about looking for additional resources earlier, Minister. As well as the EU withdrawal bill, there will still be the everyday processes that will take place. Will you be looking to make sure that you will be able to deal with both the existing responsibilities of the EU and the EU? Yes, the people of Scotland voted in 2016 for the election. They did not vote for Brexit, so it's important that we manage to deliver on their aspirations in terms of domestic policy as well. David Cymru. David Cymru. Good morning, minister. The committee is pleased to note that relatively few commitments are outstanding for a period covered by a committee's report. However, there are remain a number of historic commitments outstanding from previous parliamentary years. What action is the Government proposing to take to meet each of the historic commitments? Are those commitments to correct legislation still necessary? The previous convener had an absolute priority. He helped us to get to the point where there are now 14 commitments that remain to be completed. It is a priority for us to continue to reduce that. We have asked officials across Government to look at the remaining commitments and to see where we think we can meet those commitments, but also to check whether there are some of them that we can say do not require any further action. We should accept that what is in place is working and that either there are not opportunities or the commitment is no longer required. We hope to come back to the committee early in the new year to expand on that as to how we manage to take that forward. It's a reasonable point that we've made a commitment and they've been quite historic. We should be able to say what we think we're going to do going forward. I think that we just need to clear it up and clear the decks. Alison, do you have another one? I would like to ask that, can you update the committee on the action that it proposes to take to consolidate the council tax reduction of Scotland regulations 2012 and the council tax reduction of state pension credit of Scotland regulations 2012? The cabinet secretary has given a commitment that we accept that this is something that should be consolidated, but it is a significant amount of work to do. It's not a minor piece of work, so I don't think that at this stage I can commit as to when that would happen. We do recognise it as something that we would want to do, but it would be a major piece of work that we would be asking people to do and obviously there are other priorities as well. I think that the cabinet secretary has committed to come back to expand further on timescales and I think that I'll let him do that and he's looking at just exactly how much work it would entail. The reason for consolidation is generally a good thing, particularly something that is being used on a day-to-day basis. Have you any idea when the cabinet secretary might come back to us? I don't, but we can chase up on that. Good morning, minister. I wanted to ask you about framework bills, so obviously where there's a framework bill, the policy is developed later and so you won't see the detail of the regulation until much later. I often think that the role of this committee is a wee bit underestimated. When people think that when you pass legislation that stage 3 and it gets royal assent, then that's the law. What they don't appreciate is actually the detail of that still to come. In many ways, parliamentarians don't really have control over that. The Government has control over that, so I'm interested in the much closer scrutiny and understanding of that process. You'll be aware that we've just been in the process of looking at a framework bill, which is the Social Security Bill. The minister has said that that's necessary because of the nature of what we're doing here. My first question is, is there any intention to use framework bills more often, or are they going to be for specific purposes? No, I think that your example is very good. I think that there's no trend towards framework bills, but there are, as you say, circumstances where it is more appropriate in order to have the on-going flexibility, and the Social Security Bill is a good point where we have a framework bill for a good reason. I hope that the approach that we took in there with the minister coming to this committee and sharing that information prior to introduction is most helpful. That's something that I'll try to encourage, if there are reasons for us having framework bills going forward, that we have that early engagement with this committee, because we do understand that it's important to yourselves, because it does mean more work down the line in terms of scrutiny of the further instruments. In cases where we passed legislation and the Government can draw down that power, I'm just thinking of one because it's coming up this week. The rent pressure zone, for example, so we legislated, and then the Government's got to decide at what point it actually brings forward the detail of that. Do you think that the Parliament should have any more saying when that is? I suppose that the Government could just not draw that down a whole session of the Parliament, couldn't they? I think that there is always scrutiny. Any powers that we have to do something, there is always scrutiny of how we take that forward. There's always the opportunity for people to put pressure on Government if they think that we're not taking a power soon enough. Generally, the process is very much about consultation, so the consultation on the detail of the use of a particular power is something that we would do going forward. I think that that's the appropriate way, and I think that's the same with just any legislation. I suppose that's kind of a point that we can't consult on it until you decide you're going to take the power. Sorry, sorry, the Government would consult on how they use a power going forward, so there's that kind of engagement. So there is an opportunity for the Parliament to engage at that time. How would you, as a minister, consider that more information could be provided to the committee to allow it to perform its scrutiny functions on framework bills? I think that June Freeman has shown a model of good practice that I am trying to encourage other ministers to follow. I think that the way that she engaged at an early stage with this committee understanding that, while she might see the Social Security Committee as the main committee for that bill, she understood that there are other committees in this one in particular that have particular interests. I think that good practice is something that I am trying to encourage other colleagues to follow. I think that it's just worth considering in terms of the parliamentary process that, while you have a framework bill and you don't know what the policy is going to be so much further down the line, and you're trying to decide if the Government got the balance right, I think that it's quite important that the parliamentary timetable does not have to do that. I think that my view is that it would probably just make it, but the timetable is very tight. If you really believe in proper scrutiny, I just say that it's just an observation that, as Minister for Parliament, it's worth considering in a framework bill that you want to make sure the committee... The timetable is the same as it would be for any other bill, and you might want to consider, in those cases, just to have a wee bit of slack in the system to make sure that they... I think that that's a reasonable point, and we always spend about a time discussing with the clerk of committee and the convener about the timetables that we expect, and ultimately the bureau agrees the timetable. It's a balance between giving the time and wanting the legislation to be able to be used to hopefully improve the lives of people in Scotland. It's what we're aiming to do, but there's that balance, but I think that your point is well made. Thank you very much, convener. That's a reasonable point, and there's actually today another framework bill, which is the planning bill. Stuart, I think that you had the final question. Yes, thank you, convener. Minister, in the past, the committee and myself have raised the issue of the Scottish Law Commission bills, which we certainly have welcomed, but the point of potentially bringing more than one bill or one area together so that the bills may actually be larger and to actually get more through the process as compared to the length of time it does take to get a Scottish Law Commission bill through the Parliament, is that something that you have given some consideration to? One of the challenges that we have is in order to use the process of bringing a law commission bill through this committee, there are a number of criteria that would have to be met, and obviously the bigger the bill is, the more difficult it would be for us to meet the criteria. If we feel that we want to deal with more topics, it might be worth looking at the criteria, because that's the stumbling block in terms of being able to bring more law commission bills through this committee, is that the criteria that's currently in place, and it might be something that the committee wants to consider as to whether we want to look at relaxing that a little bit so that there can be some degree of controversy, because right now it has to be really effectively entirely uncontroversial for it to come to this committee, and you know, while that's on the basis that this committee has particular technical experience, I think that there's now been enough experience of law commission bills coming through here that you probably might feel in the ability to do something a little bit more controversial or complex, but I think that we would need to look at the criteria. I think that that's the key. That's helpful. I think that we've all probably appreciated that experience and certainly the processes that we have went through, but your point regarding the fact that the bills have been non-contentious has certainly been something that has aided the process, but I think that it's something that they could probably have a discussion about later. OK. Any members have any follow-up questions? No. OK. That exhausts our line of questioning. I'll just say on a personal level that I've welcomed the dialogue that I've had with you, Minister, and I hope that continues. So thank you for your time this morning, and I hope your voice gets better, Mr McBrowney. I'll suspend the meeting briefly. Right. We're moving on to agenda item 3. If committee members can stop chatting amongst themselves, we're on to agenda item 3, which is consideration of an instrument subject to affirmative procedure. No points have been raised by our legal advisers on the draft police investigations and review commissioner application and modification of the criminal justice Scotland Act 2016. Scotland Order 2017 is the committee content with this instrument. Agender item 4 is consideration of an instrument subject to negative procedure. No points have been raised by our advisers on SSI 2017-415. Agender item 5 is consideration of an instrument not subject to any parliamentary procedure, and no points have been raised by our legal advisers on SSI 2017-414. Agender item 4 is the committee content with this instrument. I'll move the meeting into private.


Snests drunk. Hey, welcome back to Snests Drunk Plays Robotrack and here we have another new enemy. It's a mole this thing is able to duck into the ground and dodge any attack from you, which is why you want to do the backstab power up We are in the forest of illusion We are in the forest of random battles. I just cleared out two there and and Remember that time way back when I said they're not there's not gonna be any random battles other than the gels. I was I Was obviously mistaken Jesus Christ This is really getting annoying, but at least I got paid for it Wow, thanks. I didn't even have a freaking chance to dodge that bird. It just jumped at me the second I came on the screen All right now. Let's try and trigger it and go around Damn it There was three of them there, so I decided to get out of there.  It's everything's cleared out there Nothing special Yeah, anyway, you want to go to the left at the beginning screen there Don't go to the right that will take you right back to the beginning It'll just kind of loop you want to go to the left and then we have this person who might you be? Well, she's grown up No Well, I might as well Take her with nothing I can do. I am what anyway. Yeah, that's meant the reporter She's weird and shady and I think the implication there is that she's trying to like get you to There any random battles here there better not be okay. There's not I think the implication is that she's trying to get you to to find this house up here or And then she just complains the whole time Like that you're terrible And she ditches you as soon as She gets what she wants this yet. She's one of those people But that clears the path for this this old house up here this old house and You have more spooky music and the door opens on its own. That's kind of goofy. Anyway, let's take a look around here Big is huge estate here. It's ain't just any house. This is a huge Gotta go all the way around nothing back here. What's this? Huh, I'm guessing it's locked Yeah Anything back here? No Gonna have to bear with me.  It's got to check everything in games like this What's with the cow skull up there? It looks like what am I entering a Stuart Anderson's cattle company restaurant? Whoa, what's with this guy? No, I was what's with the no. Yeah, there's lots of little weird things like that in the translation I don't quite understand but his name is Igor is a pronounced Igor or I gore Hey, look, it's shovel night two of them Yeah Hmm Something awfully unsettling about this place Okay, can I go over here first? Okay, can't go that way. Oh look at that thing Oh my okay, that's actually genuinely kind of creepy.  Oh my god. See and then there's things this game does right.  That's not creepy or anything. Yeah, I totally want to sleep in this house Anything over here? No Okay, I make this doll go away first, okay Good night. When I said good night my dog just gave me a funny look. What's going on here? It's a rask. It's that one dude you were dealing with earlier at the in the grave Oh, they noticed I'm there What the hell? Oh That's not fair. I Was just I just got there and they already kicked me out. Okay, so now what do I do? Huh? Okay? Let's go back out. I guess Gonna be honest with you. I'm not even sure what to do There's that guy he's going that way you kind of teleported his way Through the door. I guess it'd be easier than opening the door, right? If you could walk through doors Without having to open them. I do that all the time.  Okay Let's check out what's here. Hey level eight right on boots, too I won't be needing those but whatever it's cool to have Let's check this out over here My wonderful life spooky Okay, can you be a little more vague please Jesus And let's check out what is over in this direction shot to Might as well equip that I think it's bad. I don't think I've done any combining or anything like that with the other Shots, I don't even really use that thing very much, but it's nice to have In fact, the other one is probably better. So I'll just leave that one on I Want to equip a shield on on a Leonard though. He's not gonna use his His stuff at all his attack or anything like that Okay, so now what do I do? Let's go back and see if I can go Over here yet.  Oh, he's the guides back there. Okay? I think I'm supposed to follow him in there I got to stay close enough to him but not too close where he sees me if I had to guess So Keep your distance. I'm not exact.  I just don't have the patience for them I'm anytime I play like unreal tournaments or like Counter-Strike back in the day or Doom or anything like that. I I always go a Rambo and I do not Try and dodge anything. I just It's like that old That old saying If brute force isn't working that just means you're not using enough of it That's my philosophy All right, let's yeah, you got to stay close enough to him, but don't lose him So they notice me they're talking about me. They're talking smack Now we can go in see what's really going on Hmm there's nobody in here Hey, it's mint hmm, okay Yeah, no, I don't want to Are you kidding? It's an invisible wall. Come on game That's annoying. Oh, you don't say okay You're older than me, so I guess I have to Listen to you for some reason Okay, that didn't take long. What was that? Let's check it out She's gone At least I can get to these books now and read the Suspenseful next chapter of my wonderful life. Hmm. So rask built the clock tower. Why is that important? another flashback Oh Hello there Count is my name. What? Okay, thanks Yeah, could you speed it up a little Dracula? I like to get through this. Oh What you have a hobby of hanging out in wells kind of hobby is that Aha So that's gonna be important obviously Yeah, gotta find a key to that clock tower. I'm guessing Well, stop reading now the end All right, well, I'm gonna call that an episode. Oh Wait a minute. Let's go down here next time. Thanks for watching and have a great rest of your day


What's good? Josh Bob Ross back again with another video. So we're going to check out 10 WWE wrestlers who immediately told you they were losing man. This is one of those instances where you can tell a few just being set up and you just know. Well, they don't even have to say the words, you know, they're going to lose the match. You can kind of tell is set up for them to lose the match. But you know, they're going to try to make you believe that it could possibly happen. So we're going to check out some of them instances where you just knew. All right, well, this is pretty much over. You know what I'm saying? This is not happening. We appreciate all love and support you guys have shown on the channel. Road to a hundred, I said a hundred, a hundred fifty K. That's that's the goal. Let's get right into this one. Wrestling matches are the ones that keep you guessing and we can freak out as fans because we don't know what's going to happen. All the story dictates what direction we must go in. However, and then one guy basically just tells you that. Yep, they're screwed. Yeah. Okay, then. So I am signed from what culture? Please do smash that subscribe button. And this is 10 wrestlers who immediately told you they were losing. Number 10, James Storm. James Storm deserves a proper run at one of the big two companies. He's always smashed it no matter where he's been. But for one reason or another, aside from a brief run in NXT, it never happened. It should. What we're talking about today is when Storm was in TNA and Eric Bischoff was pulling the strings as can be the way in business. Those two didn't get on leaving Bischoff to come out and say he thought James was unprofessional whenever he was told he was going to lose. Is it a few interviews Eric went as far to say you knew with the cowboy was going to be defeated because go and watch his entrance and go look at his face. All the emotion was right there and it took away from the finish. Now, I admit I have gone back and I've never noticed this, but I suppose wrestling is all about opinions. So make sure you look today. Then you can make your own flip it by the number nine Tony Storm. Very interesting, interesting way to look at things.  No emotion come out to the ring. Kind of tell if you're really looking that hard, but hard enough to see it. So I don't know that I can just be here. He say she say type situation there. Full Gear 2022. Full Gear had to be good for AEW. All out had its issues that we know about. So what better way to move past it by getting back to what counts the wrestling. The promotion definitely achieved this and Jamie Hater versus Tony Storm was a banger. Sorry, Taz. When people started to say Storm looked like she was mad about this as soon as she walked down the rampway. Now, once again, I've looked at it and I don't see anything. Yeah. Anything Tony just looks ready to destroy, but this is the power of hindsight. Sometimes it's legit. Sometimes we're seeing what we want to. For my money, I would bet Tony had been told the plan and that she would be turning heel after this. So wanted to plant some seeds. Anything you saw in her eyes was the rage building. Either way, Storm has been great ever since arriving in AEW. Long may that continue number seven Thunder Rosa River. It's crazy that we're talking about this. There's been some definite issues with the women in AEW right now. So I don't really have the full details on it, but I've been seeing some some rumblings on social medias of the potential issues, the backstage issues. The women's division has been seen in AEW. So it's interesting that some of these women are showing up, especially Thunder Rosa and how that played out in the end to pollution 2022. A month prior to this, we have a copy and paste situation. So everybody was saying the same damn thing about Thunder Rosa. She was facing Brit Baker at Revolution 2022 for the women's title. And given this was coming off the crazy lights outmatch, people were pumped. The two had great chemistry. As soon as Thunder arrived, though, people say she looked pissed off, but once more, I didn't see it that way.  There was an argument this was the time to make the switch. As John Cena once said, the time is now. Ultimately, they had another top scrap until all the craziness happened a few months later, but as always, please do remember that first and foremost, these are human beings. Treat them as nice as you can. Number seven, Kevin Owens at Fastlane 2017. Now I'm sure Kevin Owens was pretty pumped up to face Bill Goldberg. Say what you will, but imagine growing up on the Attitude Era and then facing one of the most popular guys from that period. Yeah. Must be Serene. Oh, brother. Fastlane 2017 was the Owens was the Raw World Champion. The barely got going. He was also ready for an excellent few with Chris Jericho over the title. Bill crushed him at the pay-per-view. Well, it felt a little short-sighted. The upcoming Goldberg and Brock Lesnar program also didn't need gold on the line. There was a slight inkling that maybe just maybe Kevin was a little bummed about it. You would be. However, especially because KO hasn't been a champion since we do need. Yeah. Once again. Counting to his point, their match didn't need a title. It did not. I would have preferred a Jericho Y2J feud for the title at Mania, then the match that we got. That's just my personal opinion.  He did change that as well, please, because it has been years. Literally, all I'm going to ask you today, WWE, is to make him the man again. Thank you very much. Number six, Jake Roberts at WrestleMania 8. A year prior to this, the undertaker destroyed Jimmy Snooker to start his undefeated streak. Mm-hmm. He knew this was an undefeated streak at the time because it wasn't part of the plan. But still, we got to WrestleMania 8. We did it again. This time, Jake Roberts was the victim, which made a lot of sense because he was very much a WWF veteran. And everybody liked this, apart from Jake. Bring it up backstage and looking frustrated as he came to the ring. Roberts even glared into the camera at one point and basically acknowledged that this wasn't going to go his way. Not sure he cared that much about breaking the fourth wall. Behind the scenes, Jake was also telling Vince McMahon he was so angry that he wasn't going to show up to future events. And because of that, he got released. Whoa. Vince McMahon was not pleased. And we wouldn't see him again for four years in a World Wrestling Federation ring. Whoops. Damn, bro. He didn't want to do the job for the Undertaker. Damn.  I ain't coming back. Vince was like, all right, we'll buy it again. Damn. 32. Well, we know this one is true.  Now John Moxley has said that he wasn't all that infused with his Brock Lesnar match. That the Beast didn't really put a lot of effort into their no-hold barred scrap. This should have been so much better.  Brock wouldn't even do that. You can see Ambrose. Yeah. No, and that's the crazy thing. Ambrose was all about, hey, bro, you can do whatever you want to me.  Let's just put on an entertaining show. Anything he tried to do. Brock was like, no, don't want to do it. No, don't care. Nah, don't want to do it. And what's crazy is I was actually interested in this feud. I was because Ambrose was just this guy that just didn't care how much punishment you inflicted on him. He was going to find a way to get back up. They built him like this ultimate underdog, this crazed underdog. I was, I was ready for this feud, this match and come to find out. Brock didn't want to do nothing. And it's crazy because when Brock wants to do something, as we've seen with SummerSlam, him going off script and shaking Cody's hand and acknowledging him as the next guy up or whatever, he'll do it. He will. He will give it up 200% if he's interested in doing it. This, he was not interested in doing anything Dean Ambrose had to come up with. Frustration's here even more so when you know the story. Yeah. Yeah. While on paper, this was highly anticipated. It was a bit of a letdown on the night because nothing happened. Nothing. We just beat him a little bit and we were done. It was worse as Brock was going to win even though he was headed back to the UFC leaving Dean to kind of tread water for a while. No wonder at the end of his WWE deal, he was so annoyed. I don't think they really knew what they had. Yeah. John Cena at WrestleMania 27. Now, I think this was John Cena just trying to sell the moment. After a huge over the top entrance out, he came rather than his usual energetic self, he was sort of a little bit somber. More serious, maybe it was interesting. He of course was taking on the Miz and a match he was going to lose. But I don't think that's the deal. I would guess that maybe it comes down to the rock because although we didn't know it here. Yeah. When Dwayne Johnson had real beef for a good while and the ending of the match called for the great one to screw over Cena, allowing Miz to retain the WWE title. It's a genuine shock. Yeah. The point was going to be that he's in the trenches every week. Whereas the great one picked and chose his moments. Maybe he was a little bit peeved at this, like getting murked by two people. They still did business and we know the deal there. But do go back and watch this when you can. I actually think this one could be argued. Three Kenny Omega wrestler. That's possible. But I don't only reason why I could count at that point is John's always been a company guy. John's always going to do, you know, what's best for the company and if Vince wants him to do something, John Cena is going to do it. That's that's just John. He's loyal to them. You always be loyal to them. So I once I'm sure he found out that was going to happen. Maybe add some some issues about it, but I'm sure he saw the bigger picture of what they were setting. So Kingdom 13. So I am going to argue with myself here because there is just no way. The only reason Mr. Omega gets in here is because it gets chatted about online. But I don't believe it. That man gets wrestling too much. It was an interesting time for sports entertainment, though, as just before this pay-per-view, a certain promotion called AEW had been announced, of course, Kenny had signed with essentially he was going to be taking some time away from New Japan. The twist was Omega being the IWGP. That outfit is wild out which surely meant he had to drop the belt to Tanahashi at the pay-per-view. Did he? We didn't know. The answer was yes, which led some people to say Omega look round during his entrance or because this was a last minute decision. Conversations were being had right up to the bell ring. Even if that was the case, though, I still think Kenny would do the best he could. Yeah. And any interesting facials were likely intentional. That way you get the world talking. He also did mouth one last time into the camera. So seriously, man, I think he knew what he was doing because he always does. Number two, Jonathan Gresham. Here's your support. Paul Dishonor 2022. So another one where everything would come to light soon afterwards. Jonathan Gresham was not overly pleased that he was dropping the Ring of Honor world title to Claudio Castagnoli soon after Tony Khan bought the promotion. This seemed like it was mostly down to the fact that Gresham had tried to put the company on his back through some difficult times and all of a sudden, poof, it was all gone. We also learned about a very heated conversation between the two where Jonathan could actually be heard yelling at Khan. But recently Gresham came out and explained this and admitted at the time he was in a bad position personally. So ultimately he did let this all get to his head and he acted unprofessionally. Oh, Gresham and Tony Khan are now the best of friends once more. We don't have to worry about it. Still, he walked out to face Claudio and didn't even have his usual ring entrance attire on. You kind of get the feeling he just wanted to get this done.  Yeah. One Rick Flair. Anytime. We just talked about this too. Charlotte Flair had on a whole red outfit and guess what? She didn't win. We literally just talked about this for Summer Slam. Oh, that's so that's funny. I've been planning on checking out this video. There's been on my list of videos to check out. So it's just a that's that's a random coincidence there. Prince secret and nobody has disproved it as of yet. If Rick Flair was going to lose an important match, he would don red wrestling gear in every damn time. This was true at WrestleMania 8 when he lost to the Metroman Randy Savage when he tasted defeat courtesy of Ricky Steamboat at the Chaitan Rumble in 1999 and when he got pinned at Mania 19 against the Undertaker. That's crazy.  Although there were exceptions when he retired for the first time as he battled Shawn Michaels at Mania 24 is actually wearing blue.   Nobody had the rest of me told you they were losing. Please do let us down. That is funny. Y'all literally talked about this on the Summer Slime Stream. Every time Rick wore red, he lost. Charlotte wore red. She lost. She didn't win the triple there. Oh, that's that's crazy. I don't know, man. I don't know. That's that's a very interesting one, man. But comment down below. Let me know some other instances where you knew you just knew the rest of those losing just just off of the entrance alone or how things were built. You just already knew. Yeah, this person is about to lose. They're not about to win. But appreciate all of the support wrote 250k and I'm still young to speed a YouTube wrestling champ of the world. Appreciate you're kicking me. See our next one. Peace.


تبطه آدك الأيام فتا الأسل الثاني أمر الله بالاجتماعي في الدين ونهى عن انتفرق فيه اليوم إن شاء الله يتعالى سنذهب إلى الثلاثة أصل الثلاثة أصل في جميعنا شرحوا أصول الستة لشيخ الإسلام محمد من عبد الوهاب الثلاثة أصل المهم المهم الشيخ الذي يحتاجه هو أن المجتمع يحتاجه to know that it's obligatory وجوب it is obligatory الاجتماعي على الحق فايتنشن وجوب الاجتماعي على الحق that it's obligatory to unite upon the حق ونهى that is prohibited عن التفرق فيه والذي يجب أن تفرقه في الحق هذا هو أصدر مهم الشخص قال أمار الله أعوده ما هذا؟ الله سبحانه وتعالى أعوده ماذا؟ بلجتماعه إلى إجتماعه في الدين في رلجن ونهى عن التفرقي فيه والله تبارك وتعالى يجب أن تفرقنا لتفعه في رلجن الله سبحانه وتعالى now what I'm going to do إن شاء الله إتعالى is I'm going to mention to you أسباب الإختلاق في والتفرق what are the things that cause differing and to become groups and sects what causes it before I go into the speech of شيخ محمد بن صالح العثيمين I'm going to mention that and then I'm also going to mention another point إن شاء الله إتعالى after this what are the things that cause people to differ to be of groups and sects and every single person to have his own banner his own flag and to say where called this and you guys are called that and you're called that and you're called that and that's our names what causes it the first one is إتباع الهواء following your whims and desires if every single person follows his own whims and desires whims and desires does not unite the people because every single person his desires is different to the other person he desires something different to the other person ولذلك الله تبارغت عليه سلم القرآن هو الذي أنزل عليك الكتاب منه آيات محكمات هن أم الكتاب وأخر متشابهات فأما الذين في قلوبهم زيغ فيتبعون ما تشابها منه بتغاء الفتنة وبتغاءة أويلة الله سبحانه وتعالى فأما الذين في قلوبهم زيغ those who have in their hearts deviation whims and desires overcame them what do they follow they follow the verses which are ambiguous because they have desires in themselves they won't go to the verses which are محكم the clear verses they will bring you آيات which are ambiguous are unclear what does Allah تعالى means by this verse it has to be explained with another آية because he has whims and desires filled in his heart so he will force you to go to these verses and that is what makes people become groups and sects the people become what فرقن sects by following their whims and desires وبمورأ وبمورأ فرقتي ديني and differing with the religion until they become what and they become different نحل and sects the second one brothers is the second one is الجهل ignorance ignorance what does it cause brothers ignorance is the things that causes الاختلاف والتفرق these people to differ and to be different ignorance causes it من أسباب الجهلي the causes of التفرق والاختلاف الجهل بدين الله تبارق التعالى when the people are ignorant of the religion of Allah والكلام في دين الله بلا علم and the person starts speaking about the religion of Allah without knowledge he has no understanding ولي ذلك أول مسئنجة صلى الله عليه وسلم he said in the hadith of عبد الله ابن عمر ابن العاص رضي الله تعالى عنه may Allah be pleased with عبد الله and may Allah be pleased with his father عمر ابن العاص this hadith is narrated by ملبخاريا مسلم and they are both both of them in the authentic book في صحيحهما that the prophet صلى الله عليه وسلم he said إن الله لا يقبض العلم Allah does not take knowledge انتزاعاً ينتزيعه من الناس الله does not take knowledge which he takes away from the people الله does not take and lift knowledge from the people and take it away from their hearts he doesn't do that how does Allah take knowledge ولكن يقبض العلم بقبض العلماء الله takes knowledge by taking the people of knowledge أهل العلم الله تعالى يقبض العلم he takes the knowledge by taking its people who are carrying it حتى إذا نبقى علم حتى there is no scholar left إتخذ الناس رؤوساً جهالاً and based on that the people they take the ignorant ones as their leaders that's what they do they start pointing towards an ignorant individual and they say شيخنا our teacher so and so فسؤلو and then the ignorant one is question فأفتو بغير علم فاضلو واضلو they give fatwa the jahil one and what happens without knowledge فاضلو he misguides the people واضلو and they misguide themselves he misguides himself and he misguides others ولي ذلك I think is ربيع ابن عبد الرحمن ربيعة الرأي إمام ماليك's teacher إمام ماليك's teacher and I believe it was him ربيع ابن عبد الرحمن ربيعة الرأي he cried one day and they said to him ما يبكيك what's making you cry pay attention to this speech they said to him why are you crying for they saw him crying and then he looked and he said استفتي اليوم ملع المعنده the reason why I'm crying is fatwa was asked to a person who has no knowledge and he's giving fatwa that is why I'm crying that today on the earth there has come people who are giving fatwa this is ربيع إمام ماليك's teacher at that time there were people giving fatwa passing rules of Allah's religion without knowledge without knowledge and without understanding of the book of Allah سبحانه وتعالى جهل and then you see سبحانه وتعالى people who are giving da'wa who are saying we're calling to the religion of Allah they don't even know the مبادئ of the religion the beginning the fundamental matters of the religion they don't know it and they are out there giving what they are calling to the deen of Allah they are called what دعات call us to the religion of الله سبحانه وتعالى and what does that cause brothers it causes الاختلاف و التفرق و لذلك the salaf some of them used to say لو سكت ملا يعلم if he was to be silent the one who doesn't know if he was silent and he closes his mouth the one who doesn't know what would have happened لقلت الخلاف the dispute أن الخلاف would have been little if the Jahil was quiet and he didn't talk and he let the scholars talk and he left it to the scholars then the خلاف would be little but because everybody is contributing his thoughts what do you think what do you think what do you think it has caused what it has caused hundreds of views views of who like him views of علمه لا جهال ignorant people and so basically the people then they say the scholars differ in this issue what scholars differ in this issue there's no scholars نعم so الجهل ignorant of the religion of Allah إخواني is من أسباب الاختلاف و التفرق in the religion of Allah one of the things also be brothers and sisters is that causes الاختلاف في الدين و التفرق فيه is what الاعتماد عل المعقولي if a person relies on their intellects in taking the عقيدة في أخذ العقيدة when taking عقيدة the person relies on his intellects و تركي الاستدلالي بالمنقولي and the person leaves off what and the person leaves off looking for the textual evidences he doesn't rely on the textual evidences he relies on logic intellects of people these are the things that cause what why why would it cause it because there are the views of people and the way that people's brains work are they different or not they're different there has to be something that governs them all what is it I'm going to speak about it later بإذن الله الكريم the things that govern us اخواني is الكتاب و سنة we're going to speak about that in the other point that I want to speak about also brothers من أسباب الاختلاف و التفرق في الدين one of the things brothers one of the things brothers that causes الاختلاف و التفرق في الدين is what طعنوا في علماء السنة criticizing slandering the scholars of the sunnah و مدحو آهل الآهواء والبداعي and praising the innovators and the people of the winds of desires a person who is مبتدع who is an innovator who calls to innovation you praising him and you're calling you're giving him a position and you slander who you slander the علماء the حراس of the شريعة the people are standing to protect the شريعة they are criticized and they're slandered and أهل البداعوات they are praised these are from the things that are what من أسباب الاختلاف و التفرق في ديني الله it is from the things brothers that cause what it causes the ummah to disunite and to differ people who are deviating the ummah from the straight path brothers and sisters الله تبارك والتعالى based on the hadith ابن ماجه narrated ابن ماجه narrated on the authority of عوف ابن مالك he's عوف ابن مالك الأشجع رضي الله تعالى عنه he said I heard the messenger صلى الله عليه وسلم السيد I heard the messenger صلى الله عليه وسلم السيد the messenger صلى الله عليه وسلم he said افترقت اليهود على احدة و سبعين فرقه the Jews they broke into 71 sects فواحدة في الجنة 70 of them are in the hellfire and one of them are in the paradise وفترقت النصار the Christians they broke into harmony على ثنتين و سبعين فرقه 72 فاحدة و سبعين في النار harmony 71 of them are in the hellfire وواحدة في الجنة and one is entering جنة والذي نفس محمد بيدي the prophet said I swear by the lord in which محمد me myself the prophet of Allah who is hand I swear by the one who is hand my soul is in I swear by him do we believe the prophet without him having to say that yes we already believe him imagine if he said this he said this we would have taken it from him even if he didn't say this statement that I swear by the one who my soul is in his hand we would have taken it from him صلى الله عليه وسلم because he is but imagine if he said it it will become even what it will be most serious to us he said that I swear by the lord my soul is in his hand لتفتريقانا they will break into this is known as توكيد they will break him and they will break and they will break and they will sect my umma will do على ثلاثة وسبعين فيرقا 73 they will turn into 73 sects my umma وواحدة في الجنة only one is in jannah وثمتاني وسبعين and 72 are in the house fire قيلة يا رسول الله or messenger of Allah who are the same sect who are the one group that can enter jannah the messenger said الجماعة الجماعة is what الجماعة is the group there is another narration tell me they narrated it that the messenger صلى الله عليه وسلم explained who the jama'a is there is another narration tell me they narrated it that the messenger صلى الله عليه وسلم explained who the jama'a is who is this jama'a the prophet in the other narration what did he say ما أنا عليه اليوم واصحابي anyone who is upon that which I and my companions are upon today anyone who is upon that which I and my companions are what upon brothers and sisters I want to ask you that question some of the scholars some scholars weakened it or it was weakened the narration ما أنا عليه اليوم واصحابي that narration is strengthened by the narration of الجماعة it says شاهد for the other narration it strengthens it why because الجماعة at that time at that time the prophet companions was there any other jama'a لا ما أنا عليه اليوم واصحابي and the jama'a both mean the same is a تفسير and a bayan of the other narration and it could be a شاهد for it brothers I want to ask you this question did the prophet said more than one group is going to go to jannah or one it's only one it's only one sect and they are the save sect الطائفة المصورة so anyone who tells you أخي this group and that group and us we all have different names but don't worry Insha'Allah we all get into jannah there can only be one who is going to jannah from the 73 we know only one is entering in jannah and Imam al-Safareena رحم الله in his lawama'u al-anwar he did a mistake here and he goes clearly against the hadith of the prophet he himself رحم الله then he contradicted himself on the issue of saying that the saved sectahoo he said it is a شاعرة and the maturidia and the ahlu al-hadith how could it be when the prophet saying it is what if you ask a شاعرة today are you and the maturidia they'll say both of us but the prophet said what it can only be what one group now it brings me to the next point insha'Allah our brothers and sisters we today find جماعات أحزاب we have sect groups names this is called إخوان المسلمين this is called and the list goes on all of them are saying we are walking to the establishing of Islam on this earth and that we are all what we are working to what we are all working to the same it's just that everyone is taking a different approach everyone is taking a different means first of all based on this حديث we only know one is going to enter جنة only one group is the طائفة المصورة the saved sect now we have to ask ourselves all of these groups that we find today and those are not the only groups there are more like in these this is just an example of those who are out there right now with these points you will realize the answer of this question because it needs to be explained in details the first thing that we all have to ask ourselves is when we dispute one another and we differ on a matter where do we go back to if we differ on a matter and we have different views on a matter what is the مرجعية where is the source that we were ordered to go back to if we discuss on the Aya Allah say فإن تنازعت willen في شيء فردوه إلى الله والرسول إن كنتم تؤمنون بالله وليوم الأخير if you guys dispute one another in a matter bring it back to who bring it back to Allah and his messenger if you are those who believe in Allah and the day of judgment سورة النساء 59 so the Aya Allah tells us في عالك تلاقوة عليه سنة سورة النساء آيائت ثري الله صد وإذا جاءهم أمر من الأمن أو الخوف يأذاع به ولو ردوه إلى الرسول وإلأولي الأمر منهم العليمه الذين استمبطونه منهم الله صديقه إذا امام من جيد أو امام من فيلة كانوا يفعلونه يفعلون إذاعة ويدعمونها لكن الله صد وولا ردوه اذا فقط كانوا يفعلونه من جيدة اذا فعلوا بكله الى الرسولي و الى المسنجاء و الى أولي الأمر منهم و إذا كانوا يأخذونهم إلى الناس الذين يأخذونهم الله سبحانه وتعالى المسن صلى الله عليه وسلم و قصصا لنا حديث الإمام المنذر ناريت و الترغيب و الترهيب و قلباني و أثانتكيت الأداء المسن صلى الله عليه وسلم قال إني قد تركت فيكم I have left you guys with what I have left with you something something if you guys hold on to فلنتظلوا أبداً you will never be misguided I have left with you something that if you guys hold on to it after my death you will never be misguided I have left something like that for you the prophet tells us what it is كتاب الله و سوى سنة نبيه and the prophetic tradition of the messenger we looked at what Allah has said right now and what the prophet صلى الله عليه وسلم what was it that they told us they told us كل خصومة every argument and every dispute and every differing that we have we bring it to bring it back to him إلى الله و رسوله his messenger to bring it back to Allah and his messenger if we do that what will happen brothers and sisters و حين قد تزول الخصومة our dispute and our argument it will uplift from us and we will find our solution there and the ayat that tell us to do that are immense and that's غيضون من فيضن that's just a dip from the ocean it's not all of it now the second point that we need to really we need to understand this now that we've understood the Kitab and the Sunnah is our source the second question is that the Kitab and the Sunnah whose understanding are we going to base it on this Kitab and the Sunnah that we have amongst ourselves right now whose understanding are we going to base it on whose understanding are we going to base it on whose understanding are we going to base it on we're going to base the Kitab and the Sunnah based on that which Allah tells us to base the understanding on Allah has told us already who we need to base the understanding of that the Quran and the Sunnah الله تباركه تعالى يسان سورة نساءة 115 الله said anyone who goes against the messenger صلى الله عليه وسلم من بعد ما تبين له الهدا after clear evidences come to him ويتبع غير سبيل المؤمنين other than the path of the believers he follows the path different to the path of the believers الله says wherever path you have treaded on and that you've taken الله will let you be on that path of destruction ونصليه جهنم and the hellfire will be your abode what an evil place for you to stay what a bad place for you to be so when this ayah came down who are the people who were the believers at that time ويتبع غير السبيل المؤمنين who had that statement who had that name مؤمنين us the believers of that time were the sahabas so anybody who follows a path other than the path of the believers and it doesn't mean it's only the sahabas but it means from them first they are what أولوية الدخول they're the first ones who enter the verse because it came down when they were there also الله تبارك ويتبع عليه he said to us in the ayah فإن آمن if they believe بمثلي ما آمنتم به الله سلم in this ayah if they believe the way you guys have believed فقده تدوه they are guided وإن تولوه if they turn away from you محمد صلى الله عليه وسلم your companions what they are upon it if they turn away from it فإنما هم في شقاق they are upon a deviated path so the شقاق here means البعضو that you are distant from what من هجو رسول الله صلى الله عليه وسلم وأصحابه you are far from the path of the messengers صلى الله عليه وسلم and his companions رضوان الله عليه وسلم in the deen in this religion the third point that we need to realize brothers is that we need to ask ourselves is are we allowed to to believe something and then look for the evidence or do we look for the evidence first and then we believe it based on the evidence that comes to us الله تبارك وتعالى answers that for us سبحانه وتعالى in صورة محمد آيان 19 الله تبارك وتعالى he says to us فعلم no first of all الله says to us no that there is none worthy of worship except Allah and then once you have the knowledge ask Allah for forgiveness for your shortcomings so what has Allah put first Allah has put knowledge first and Imam al-Bukhari رحمه الله in his authentic book he chapted a Bab and he called it Bab the chapter which is العلم قبل القول والعمن knowledge precedes speech and action and Imam al-Bukhari's chapter brothers بارك الله فيكم it's not an ordinary chapter the chapter of Bukhari the علم that they say Imam al-Bukhari's thick his rulings that he's extracting are based on his chapterings when he chapters it so now Imam al-Bukhari in that chaptering he's trying to say to us that this is how it should be that knowledge should precede any action or speech that you do don't call the people to the religion of Allah don't preach if you don't have knowledge don't act if you don't have knowledge don't believe if you don't have knowledge have knowledge of it so you have a belief of a system and you believe battle and then you're looking for evidences are you going to accept it you're not going to accept it and that is mean signs of the people of innovation they believe something first and then they go out of their way to look for what to look for the evidences so you look for the evidences from the the understanding of this Ummah before you start believing in it before you what you start to believe in it but in that case the scholars they say what do they do يعتقدون ثم يستدلون فيضلون they believe then they look for the evidences and they become misguided ثم يعتقدون فيهتدون they look for that they look for the guidance first then they believe on the evidences that came to them from the Kitab and the Sunnah and on the understanding of the Salaf of this Ummah based on that they start to believe now based on that they start to believe good did the shari'a place for us a way to call to the path of Allah did our shari'a did it place for us a methodology to call to the path of Allah of course it did سورة النحل call to الى سبيل ربك بالحكمة والموعظة الحسنة call to the path of your Lord ودعو الى سبيل ربك call to the path of your Lord الله تبارك وتعالى with wisdom والموعظة الحسنة and with good reminders وصول الله تبارك وتعالى he said before I bring the ayah ابن جرير الطبري he said ودعو الى سبيل ربك بالحكمة والموعظة الحسنة what does it mean هو ما أنزله عليه من الكتابه والسنة call to the path of Allah based on what ابن جرير said it is that which Allah has said from the book and the sunnah the Quran and the sunnah when you are calling you have the Quran and the sunnah with you you say قال رسوله صلى الله عليه وسلم and this is the understanding of the Salaf of this ummah this is how they understood it very good so the Dawah our Sharia has placed for us based on the ayah what we need to call to the people what we call to the people on what understanding the 21st century understanding everyone open the mushaf and try to see what you get out of it and based on that we make our Dawah or everyone let's revise or let's do a new manual guide for Dawah what are we going to do لا this is a manual guide you have to follow I will message you صلى الله عليه وسلم وَاَنَّ هَذَا سِرَاطِ مُسْتَقِيمًا فَتَّبِعُوا وَلاَ تَتَّبِعُوا السُّبُلَ فَتَفَرَّقَ بِكُمْ عَنْ سَبِيلِهِ ذَالِكُمْ وَصَّاكُمْ بِهِلَ عَلَّكُمْ تَتَّقُونَ that is my path وَانَّ هَذَا سِرَاطِ this is my path my path in terms of speech my path in terms of action my path in terms of belief my path in terms of how I call the people to وَانَّ هَذَا سِرَاطِ مُسْتَقِيمًا my path is straight it's مُسْتَقِيمًا فَتَّبِعُوا follow that path وَلاَ تَتَّبِعُوا السُّبُلَ don't follow a group don't follow a group what will happen to you وَلاَ تَتَّبِعُوا السُّبُلَ فَتَفَرَّقَ بِكُمْ عَنْ سَبِيلِهِ it will deviate you from the straight path it will deviate you from what the path and the messenger when the prophet recited the ayah he not only did he say it to the sahabahs but the messenger took a twig عليه الصلاة والسلام based on the hadith of Abdullah the prophet took a twig خط لنا رسول الله عليه الصلاة والسلام خطا مُستقيمًا على الأرض the prophet took a twig he made a straight line on the path and on the sides of it he made lines that came out of it and then the messenger recited the ayah هذا السراط مُستقيمًا فَتَّبِعُوا وَلاَ تَتَّبِعُوا السُّبُلَ سُبُلَ فَتَفَرَّقَ بِكُمْ عَنْ سَبِيلِهِ don't follow these path I deviate it from my straight path don't follow it what will it do it will deviate you it will corrupt your mind and now we find people who made the da'wah if Islam is going to lift his head أخي be part of be part of those who do or participate in parliamentary elections that's how Islam is going to lift its head did the messenger do that عليه الصلاة والسلام was his da'wah in Makkah be part of أهل الشولة of Quraish or to be part of or sit down with Quraish and to be part of their committee in order for Islam to gain a government is that what the messenger عليه الصلاة والسلام did ever done he never done it عليه الصلاة والسلام so brothers the way it is is that that the sharia had placed the da'wah she did be which is الكتاب والسولة بفهم سالة في الأمة