For our good friend and debut author Susan Ritz, this is a special night when we get to celebrate with a friend. We've been all waiting for this for a long time, not as long as Susan does, but we're honored to host Susan to celebrate the publication of her fabulous and much-anticipated novel, A Dream to Die For, which was recently featured in a list of new releases on the Ladies of Horror fiction website. A Dream to Die For is mystery set in a fictional Riverton Falls, but I think it'll be pretty clear to everybody in this room where it really is. It's a deliciously atmospheric novel with a great sense of place, a great place, and a lot of very fun local details and some of you might even recognize yourselves. Susan will be reading for her book and take some questions and then we'll have cake and refreshments. Some of you can see those, but they're back there and we'll celebrate some more. So thank you and please help me welcome Susan Ritz. Okay, I'm gonna cry. Thank you all so much. I can't believe it. It's just like overwhelming. I wrote this book like a love letter to this town and so there's so many people that I want to thank. I'm gonna start with Bear Pond books, the amazing, wonderful Bear Pond books, and especially Claire because every time I came in for about the past seven years, when are you gonna finish that book? So I kind of got guilted into it and I finished it. I think you're all here because you've been hearing me talk about this book for ten years and I am so thrilled and I also want to thank my wonderful writing group. I'm not gonna name everybody because it'll take too long. My women's group, my wonderful neighbors and very talented neighbors who helped me write this and they're all acknowledged in my book. And I also want to thank Ruth Stock Publishing for publicizing and helping me get this show on the road. They've done an amazing job. And I want to thank She Writes Press, my great publisher and my She Writes sisters who are here. So yeah, I know you've all heard about this book forever. So finally you're gonna get to hear the book. And by the way, if you want to come back or you have friends that couldn't squeeze in here, I am gonna be reading again on September 15th out in Calis at Words Out Loud and the Kent, great Kent show that they have out there in September. I hope somebody will be there because you're all here. Okay, I want to start just by reading my epigraph which is, The World is Under No Obligation to Make Sense to Us and that's from my dear friend, Eric Sensi, who we all miss very much. Alright, so I'm gonna read three parts and I hope it's not too long. Okay, the first chapter. Morning in Riverton Falls. Or Montpeliers is better known. Celeste reached for the remnants of last night's dream.  A woman at a window, bushes blowing in a soft breeze, a shadow coming at her from behind.  Still she couldn't shake the feelings of panic and guilt. She tried again to find a thread that would lead her back in but it was too late. Battered old Mr. Coffee burped and spluttered the last drops of Java into her carafe. Celeste poured herself an oversized mug and stumbled back to bed to see what she could figure out. Proped against a pile of pillows she opened the black leather notebook and sipped her coffee. Nothing in the trio of lines she'd scratched out in black ink explained why the dream left her feeling both frightened and ashamed. At least nothing she could figure out on her own. She wondered what Larry would make of the dream, the last she would share with him after four years of therapy. All that time Celeste had tracked her dreams, learning to decipher the letters and words she'd jotted down, often with eyes still closed on the unlined pages of her journal. She poured out hundreds of dreams, some just scraps or a single startling image, others pages long like surreal short stories. But now if she could stick to her plan she was done. Today was the day she was going to tell him she was quitting and there was no way he was going to talk her out of it again. She'd had enough of Larry Blatsky, his dreamers and this thing he called the dreamscape, the thing Jake called a cult. Celeste tossed the journal onto the heap of library books, magazines and last Sunday's New York Times that littered the floor next to her side of the bed. Jake's side was as neat and uncluttered as it had been since he'd moved out six weeks earlier. She rolled over onto the smooth, cool sheets and there was no trace of Jake there, no scent on the pillow she hugged to herself. Larry will destroy you, she remembered Jake saying the night he left as he jammed his clothes into his duffel bag. This isn't a game Celeste, he'll turn you into someone you don't even know or recognize, that's what he does, believe me. I've seen it and I can't stay and watch it happen to you. She shook her head trying to dislodge the memory. If Jake were still there, lying where he'd been the whole six whirlwind months of their engagement, she knew she could go through with her plan. Get down there and tell them it's over, he'd say, the callous fingers of his guitar strummer's hands on her cheeks, pulling her face to his for a good luck kiss. Without Jake to back her up though, Celeste wondered if she had it in her. She tried to stand up to Larry before, but he'd always left the therapy session feeling defeated and hopelessly mired in what he called her demon mind. The labyrinth of self-loathing and doubt Larry had unearthed and then used to control her. Not this time, she thought, getting up to raise the shade to the one November light. Larry wasn't going to win while she still had a chance of happiness. She'd waited too long for the enlightenment he'd promised. Now all she wanted was love. She was going to get Jake back in her bed where he belonged. Alright, so that's the setup. So this next part is a flashback and you just heard her preparing for her final trip to Larry and this is her first trip to Larry. She remembered entering that waiting room for the first time. How she followed behind as Larry led the way into his utilitarian office.  This was the famous Larry Blatsky. He looked like a displace beach mom in his cut-offs, flip-flops, and Hawaiian shirt which barely hit his insipient punch. No one Celeste would watch grow into a bulging belly over the next four years. She wasn't sure what she expected but this unkempt appearance made her wonder why he didn't even try to look professional. She jumped, the sound of a command then turned to find in the corner pacing freely along a perch, a bobbing parrot.  Larry admonished his pet before turning the full force of his attention on Celeste. Okay, let's see here, Celeste Fortune. That's some kind of name all right. Were you born with that or did you acquire it? Well, I'm not married if that's what you mean. Nah, just thought it was kind of a name like, let's say a stripper I used to know. And you do look kind of familiar. Not sure why. Larry laughed. So what's your problem? He rushed on without waiting for her to respond. Why are you sitting here today? He crossed his hands over his belly, leaned back and put his feet up on the desk. Mostly curious I guess. Celeste tried to sound nonchalant and maybe to work on some minor issues that have come up recently. She hadn't meant that to come out as a question but he already had her flustered. This had always been his game to knock her off balance right from the get-go. Every time she sat down across from him then he'd peer over those half rimmed glasses, his chin resting on his hammy hands, never nodding or giving any indication that he'd heard her just like that first day. She finally figured out it was one of those therapist tricks to get you to say more than you intended to to fill up the silence. Right from the beginning she was a sucker for it. Actually, I guess I've been feeling a little depressed, sort of unsettled. I thought maybe you would give me some motivation to make some changes in my life. Larry smiled looking like he understood exactly what she meant. I'm willing to bet there's a lot more to it than that. Let me tell you what I see in front of me. Then you tell me if I'm wrong. Celeste nodded, wondering what he could possibly know about her if she'd hardly open her mouth. I see a woman too scared to go after what she really wants in her life, who doesn't believe she can get in anyway, and who covers it all up by pretending everything's hunky dory. All the indicators of what I call false independence. He paused for a breath scanning her astonished face. Besides, I'm willing to bet you have a lot of guy issues. So I'm completely, not completely convinced this will work out between us, but I'm willing to give it a try if you are. This man had extra vision. He's three and three were faster than anyone she'd ever met. No wonder he'd considered rejecting her right off the bat. He'd probably known from the start that she'd be trouble. Somehow though, she managed to hang on. So, Cel, tell me what do you know about the dreamscape? Cel, no one called her Cel, not since her father and she'd never liked it when he had. The dreamscape, she shoved her shoulders. Only what I've heard from your clients at the bar where I work. Oh yeah, so not a lot, figures. Larry furiously typed a few sentences into his computer. The dreamscape he began is something I've been developing for about 20 years now. The shortest way I can describe it is this. He stood up from the computer, walked over to the window and half sat on the sill, arms folded as he began to lecture.  They're the gateway to your vital self. You gotta go way down deep here, Cel, down below your thinking mind, below your subconscious, down to your heart and soul. So let's try to listen, but her mind kept wandering as the word sailed past her. The dreams are your healing guides, Larry said. They're going to help me rip off that mask of false independence and find that sad little girl you stuffed away long ago. Celeste had no idea what girl he was talking about. Maybe this was too far over her head. Maybe she shouldn't have come. Now close your eyes. Tired after working late the night before, she nodded sleepily in the chair. A loud slap startled her. Her eyes flew open. Larry was walking toward her. As he came closer, the room darkened as if a cloud had passed over the sun. Celeste watched, transfixed as the short, stocky man seems to transform in front of her, growing taller, the edges of his body shimmering with a glacial blue light. His eyes bore into her as he stepped closer. She cowered in her chair. Larry hovered above her, filling the room until the walls fell away and they were where? On an empty plane, wind whipping about her, she looked into the face of an ancient shaman or a bearded prophet filled with fire, calling her name. Let go now, the giant figure bellowed. Drop that mask. Drop the costume you wear to cover the nakedness of your heart. Show me the girl who is hiding in you. Bring her forth and let her dance on this altar we are building together. The voice crashed through her like an axe, splitting a log into kindling. This woman must crash and burn, stoke the fire, step into the flames. A hot wind blew across her face, circled her head, ruffling her hair. The dreamscape is demanding. The dreamscape is dangerous.  Step into the dream cell. Let your authentic life begin. Yes, yes, that's what I want, Celeste heard herself say. Desire surged through her white heat, pulling her to this alluring magician. The boundaries of her body dissolved with longing for whatever it was he was offering. The room filled with magnetic energy crackling with static electricity.  Tear down those walls and free that girl. Together we will take her from the darkness and bring her back to the light. Larry slapped the desk again and suddenly as it had begun the show was over. Sunshine streamed through the window. Larry was once again the squat man with bad hair and a three-day old beard. All the exciting energy ebbed as Celeste's familiar defenses reassembled around her as if Larry had flipped a film in reverse.  Okay. You kind of get the feeling it's a weird kind of book. So now I'm going to... Celeste went to her final meeting with Larry as she planned and she did get to tell him her dream, the three little pieces. And when she told it to him he freaked out and looked like he was having a heart attack and said get out and never come back. So she did. And now she remembers later, oh my gosh, I forgot something back in the office. I have to go get it. It's a very important item. When you read the book you'll find out what it is. So she goes back and this is what she finds. Celeste turned the handle on the door slowly pushing it open. The waiting room was empty. It looked the same as when she'd left just a couple of hours before, not a doily or a single pillow disturbed. The air though seemed charged with tension and hinted of something sweet and flowery. She tiptoed to the inner half open office door. Larry? At first she didn't understand what she was seeing. There on the floor his big belly spilling out between his jeans and his flowered shirt lay Larry his face ashen pale as his hair and stubbly beard. Had she really given him a heart attack or a stroke? Then she saw the blood. It pulled beneath his head soaking into the beige carpet. Celeste grabbed onto the door frame. She tried to keep herself upright but her legs felt like waterlock sponges. Just the mention of blood had always made her feel woozy. But now the actual sight of it and the raw metallic smell forced her gagging to her knees. Run, she told herself, get help! But as Larry had so often reminded her, she rarely followed her own best instincts. Instead of running away, she found herself crawling over the threshold. Inching closer to the first dead body she'd ever seen. At least he looked dead. He didn't seem to be moving. The crystal she'd been holding just two hours earlier lay in a sticky puddle of blood. Its sharp gray edges smeared with red. The gore sent another wave of nausea rushing into her throat. Celeste swallowed hard. Daring herself, she reached out, trying to steady her hand to push it just that much further across the small space, separating her from Larry's body. Suddenly Larry's head rolled to the side. Her hand snapped back straight to her mouth, muffling a scream. At the strangled sound, Larry's eyelids twitched open and she found herself looking straight into his unfocused blue eyes. Not you! He managed to hiss before his eyelids dropped again. Okay, so... That's the book. Um, yeah. So, questions? I know you're all just waiting for the wine and crackers and cheese. Anybody? Yes, Kim? A peeler or River Town City whatever it's called that made it appealing for this setting. Oh, small towns are the best place for crime stories. Everybody knows each other. Everybody knows the backgrounds of everybody. Everybody knows the gossip. So, um, everybody becomes a suspect in a book like this. And it's a small town, so... And, uh, you'll read it and find out. Diane, you know, I never really read Mysteries. Oh, I wrote a mystery. So, I'll tell you some of my favorite mystery writers, and they don't... I think they kind of inspired me. I don't know where... I have no idea where all this came from, but I really love Tana French and who writes the Dublin Mysteries, and she's got some kind of that weird edge. Kind of... If there's something weird in her books, especially her last book, The Witch Elm, I like Maisie Dobbs, and I like the Mary Russell series by Lori King, which is about Sherlock Holmes' wife. But I don't know if they inspired me. I think it was just sort of like my imagination going wild. Oh, I know one other person that inspired me was Jerome Lanier, and I don't know if you've ever heard of him, but he's the inventor of virtual reality. And I've read several interviews with him and a couple of his books, and his idea of what the world could be if we used computers not to isolate us, but to connect us and make us more intimate with each other and more able to share ourselves not necessarily through words, but through the thoughts in our minds. So that really set me off on a path of just knowing his thinking, and I really admire him. Oh, yeah. That's about the fifth draft. There were a whole lot of drafts here. I think the point that it... I had to do it over and over, because when I first wrote this, I didn't even know who did it. I had to write to the end to find out. I had really, I had no idea. I really thought it was somebody else. But as I said on my friend Shayla's podcast yesterday, which you'll be able to find on my website, I had to put together a whiteboard with all the people in it, and then I had to figure out why this person could be a suspect and where they were at the time of the murder and why they might not be a suspect. And eventually those things, I just started realizing there was a convergence, and I hadn't even seen it. And so when that happened, I was able to finish the book. Yeah, and have it kind of make sense. I hope. Susan, did I first think I was going to start writing a mystery? I wrote, I did, because I have a really good friend who's a writer, and he said, well, when you write a book, make sure there's a mystery in it. So I went, well, okay, I'll write a mystery. But the thing about writing a mystery is it's already done for you. I mean, there's a template to a mystery. And if you watch enough TV, murders, shows, or you read enough mystery books or listen to them on audio or whatever you do, we all listen to mysteries sometime or other. We've all seen mysteries in movies, and they all follow the same pattern. They have red herrings, they have clues, they have people you think did it, people who didn't do it, and they all have a pretty much the same arc of it building up. And then big information dumped in one chapter and then all of a sudden it all comes together and makes sense. And so since I had no idea how to write fiction, because I am an MFA in creative nonfiction, I decided it would be probably easier to write a mystery where the template was already there than to try to figure out how to plot something totally different. And thanks to my writing group who all are fiction writers, I learned to write fiction through doing this. Okay, so Ron asked me, which were the easiest characters to bring to life and which were the hardest? Well, Larry was really easy. Easy to bring to life or easy to kill? Both. So the hardest person to bring to life was me, who's Celeste. That's not really me, but a lot of her is me and her dreams are my dreams and the sessions that she has reflect some sessions I had in therapy once upon a time. So I, as I said, I have a creative nonfiction degree and I'm supposed to write memoir. I cannot write memoir because I can't talk about myself. So this was my chance and that was really hard to create the character of Celeste, who's the main character, even though she has a lot of my characteristics and insecurities and anxieties and all the other things, which I didn't really realize I'd written them until I read some reviews. I found out I was a flawed character. Anyway, that's how it goes. Yeah, the rest of them, everybody was pretty easy as I went along, as I got to know them, as they told me who they were, as Paul said, that did happen. They told me who they were and I just kept following their lead. Catherine? Do I think I'm going to write another mystery? I do think I'm going to write another mystery because it's a really good way to avoid writing my memoir. So, stay tuned. The prequel to this is set in Indonesia. So, yeah. I hope I don't take ten more years to write it because... But with Celeste. With Celeste and her friend Gloria, the two main characters in this. Joe. How many people in this room know Larry? Larry doesn't exist. You probably know somebody like Larry. But it's not really about any real person. It really... I really is not. And I'll just tell you that this book was not inspired by anything that really happened. Nobody killed him. But I wrote this book because I once upon a time was in a... I was stuck in the middle between a very charismatic therapist and the man I was in love with who is my wonderful husband Ethan. Over there. Yeah. And so, actually, I'll tell you, Jake was maybe the hardest person to write because Jake is Ethan, and only I made him tell Dark and Handsome. So... Not that I don't think he's Handsome, but I just thought, you know, for a 40-year-old woman, she needed, you know, a really great, really hot guy. Um... You're really hot, too, honey. Um... Yeah. So... So that's the only real truth in this story is that that happened to me and that sort of was the seed that started this was... was that... that time in my life when I felt ripped in two. And it was... it was difficult and I needed to deal with it and this was the book that helped me deal with it. Garrett, my editors, how much impact did my editors have? Well, I published what she writes for us and my editors basically are all sitting in this room. So... My writing group and also wonderful Mary Elder Jacobson, who was my copy editor, and she had a big impact. And, um, if when you find anything poetic or a metaphor that follows through like that line I read about the logs and the kindling and then crash and burn, Mary did that. So, um, she had a big influence on the language and making it just a more beautiful book, I think. And then, um, I had these wonderful, wonderful neighbors, Catherine Davis and Eliza Thomas and my writing group and, um, they read this book like a hundred times. So, they helped me a lot. They were my editors and I am forever grateful. Thank you. Well, I definitely believe that writing is a collaborative act and a communal act and especially for women. Nobody does it alone. At least I didn't do it alone and I thank everybody who has their fingerprints and their marks on this book because it's definitely, if I'd been left to myself this wouldn't happen. This wouldn't have come out and it wouldn't be the book that it is. Um, so many great ideas came from so many different places and so many different people. Again, I'm very grateful. Okay, guys. Um, I'll sign books now. I hope there's enough wine back there, but, um, if not, how many don't know how much it means to me to see this from so many people?


This is a wonderful incident. It happened Sam 250 or 300 years ago. There was a devotee in southern regions of Karnataka and his mother was aging.  She had never asked for anything in her life. This one thing she requested from her son, please take me to Kashi. I'm getting old.  So the man took this old mother and started walking. So walking through the jungles, some southern Karnataka to Kashi is a lot of distance. They were walking. Mother took ill being old so he carried her on his shoulder. So he was sapped of energy. The only way he could keep himself bowing was she went on Shiva Shiva. Please don't let me fail in this one endeavor. This is one thing that my mother asked, let me fulfill this. I want to take her to Kashi. They're only coming there for you. Please give me the strength. Then as he was walking, then he heard a bell. So he heard a bullock cart coming somewhere in the noise of the bell. Then he saw out of the mist a bullock cart drawn by a single bull, which is strange. In Karnataka you will see a single bull but only for local use. Long distance is always two bulls. But a single bull in the forest, strange. But when you're so tired you don't care about these nuances. Then it came and the man requested the driver. He couldn't see his face. It was misty and he was cloaked. Please my mother is not well. If we can ride on your cart, anyway it's empty. The man said, okay, so both of them got on and the cart was going. In the forest track, after some time, the man noticed it was too smooth a ride. It was not a rough ride as it should be. Then he looked, the cart wheels were not turning, they were still and the cart was moving. Then he looked at the bull, the bull was sitting and still the cart was going. Then he looked at the driver. Only the cloak was there, there was no man. He looked at his mother. The mother said, you fool, we're already there. There is no need to go anywhere, this is the place, let me go. Then the mother left her body there. The bull, the cart and the driver vanished and the man came back.  She did not take her to Kashi, he's come back too soon. They said, where did you dump your mother? He said, no, we didn't have to go, Shiva came for us. I said, Robes, he said, it doesn't matter what you think, he came for us and that's all. My life is lit, I know that within myself. If you don't know, it's up to you. Then they asked, okay, then show us something. Somehow show it to us that you actually saw Shiva, he came for you. He said, I don't know because I didn't see him. I only saw a cloak and there was no face, there was no nothing, it was empty. He was simply sitting like this, he said, he sat like this and suddenly everybody saw only his clothes. He was not there. He became a great sage in South India. Then he walked here and there, wherever he went people recognized him. As an empty face. Devotion essentially means you have found a way to dissolve yourself. Whether you have chosen a deity or a man or a woman or a child or a specific objective in your life. But one thing is clear, nobody ever has achieved anything significant in their lives without being devoted to something. Whether it is art, sport, music, politics, spirituality, whatever it is. Unless you're devoted to it, nothing significant happened. Because without a sense of devotion, you will not cross the barriers of who you are. The object of your devotion is irrelevant. Whatever the object of your devotion, it is a quality of your devotion which will transform you. Without devotion, there is no true transformation. Without devotion, a human being will not be fully empowered. Devotion is something that every human being needs to experience and they must understand it is not a religious process. Devotion is a love affair where you don't have a choice. Yes. A love affair means you don't have much of a choice. But at some point, you can become free from it. Devotion is a love affair with which you have no choice and you never become free from it. You get absorbed into it. You become nothing in it. Because you become nothing, you also become everything.


We're at the Kennedy Center for the Goldman Environmental Prize, honoring environmentalists from all over the world as they should be honored, but Nancy Pelosi was speaking and we felt that that was a huge hypocrisy to have someone who votes for a trillion dollars out the door to the Pentagon budget for this year, furthering escalation in Ukraine and continuing more escalation with China instead of using diplomacy, using cooperation to address the climate crisis, which is our common enemy. Tara, Diane, Alexandra, as well as Alexandra, now as we go forward, we know, except me, could you at least please take your place, please take your place, please take your place, please take your place.


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Also, the Lagos State Deputy Governor Dr. Khadri Hemsad has appealed to residents of the state to pardon their mistakes, assuring that they will surely make amends. Dr. Hemsad made this appeal on Thursday in Surileire when Honourable Moschoud Salvador led members of the Labour Party to declare support for the re-election of Governor Son Wulu. He also urged the youths to upgrade their skills to boost capacity to contribute their socioeconomic development of the country. While pleading with the youths, Dr. Hemsad said he would not argue well to vote people into office based on emotions. We are also a big team of our own success. Governor has changed in this election due to assist Honourable, especially the youth from now on. Before now, the youth decided to be unconcerned about the development of their skills. But in time, they decided to participate. They came with anger. Anga is the worst enemy of any man. To make you do everything, your decision is right and is justified. Honourable Moschoud, who did they have done for Lagos in the last four years? Hello, hope you enjoyed the news. Please do subscribe to our YouTube channel and don't forget to hit the notification button so you get notified about fresh news updates.


وَأَقُولُ فِي القُرْآنِ مَا جَاءَتْ بِهِ آيَاتُهُ فَهُوَ الْكَارِيمُ الْمُنْزَالُوْ وَأَقُولُ قَالَ اللَّهُ جَلَّ جَلَالُوْهُ وَالْمُصْطَافَ الْهَاديِ وَلَا أَتْ أَوَّالُوْ الحمد لله رب العالمين له الحمد الحسن والثناء الجميل وأشدوا الله إلا الله وحده لا شريك له يقول الحق وهو يهدي سبيل وأشدوا أن محمدان عبده ورسوله صلى الله عليه وعليه وعلى آره وأصحابه والتابعين لهم بإحسان إلى يوم الدين أما بعد إن شاء الله تعالى انت ليس تفسير I want to talk about the statement of Allah خذ العفوة وأمر بالعرفي وأعرض على الجاهلين الله سبحانه وتعالى he says خذ العفوة What does it mean خذ العفوة? It means إقبل Go towards Muhammad الله سبحانه وتعالى Take with you And come with العفوة forgiveness Don't be a person who doesn't forgive Forgive If you see from the people good manners Go forward with them Deal with them And if you don't Then forgive them The humans are like that Either what you see from them is that which is pleasing You come forward And you benefit And you be with them And if you see sometimes from the people that which is displeasing Then you take the quality of just forgiving them And that's what the ayah is saying خذ العفوة take forgiveness with you يعني أصفح عنه وتجاوز Forgive him And all those bad manners And those سؤال أخلاق And those vulgar things that you see from them الله says in the Qur'an ولا تستوي الحسنة ورسيئة إدفع بلتي هي أحسن فإذا الذي بينك و بينه عداوة كأنه ولي حميم وما يلقاها إلا الذي لصبر وما يلقاها إلا ذو حظ عظيم الله سبحانه وتعالى He tells us سبحانه وتعالى The good and the evil are not the same ولا تستوي الحسنة ورسيئة The good and the evil are not the same إدفع ربل The evil with what بلتي هي أحسن ذلك which is good If something evil is done to Repel it with good Respond to it with good فإذا الذي بينك و بينه عداوة كأنه ولي حميم And if you do that What will happen is The person that you had animosity And an evil with When you deal with them like that They will return good يدفع ربل He done you bad And what you responded to him with The way you dealt with him in response The way you responded to his evil doings Is by being the better one And if you do that فإذا الذي بينك و بينه عداوة The person that you had animosity Or you had a problem with And what will happen is كأنه ولي حميم He become like a very close honorable friend وما يلقاها إلا الذين صبروا وما يلقاها إلا ذو حظ عظيم Patience brothers and sisters عبد الله أبنو زبيل رضي الله تعالى عنهما May Allah be pleased with him And his father is Zubayrim Awam He said أمر النبيه أمر الله نبيه Allah commanded his prophet الله is the one Who commanded the prophet أن يأخد العفوة من أخلاق الناسي That he takes forgiveness from the etiquettes of the people The way that the people deal with him That he's Allah عليه السلام He takes from it what He takes from it يعني An honorable quality And that is He's Allah عليه السلام Forgive them From the people's أخلاق they sometimes In that things which are despicable Which is not nice So what do you do You respond to them in good And that's why ابن عطيه He said وصية من الله عز وجل للنبيه It's an advice from الله تبارك وتعالفه His prophet صلى الله عليه وسلم تعوم جميع أمتي The encompasses the entire أمة Okay وأخضم بجميع مكان من أخلاق Which is to take all good معنى هو إمينز إقبل من الناسي في أخلاقهم وأنقوالهم ومعاشرتهم ما أت عفوا دونتك اللفيد This is what الله تبارك وتعالى He told the prophet عليه الصلاة والسلام And Allah تبارك وتعالى Instructed the prophet عليه الصلاة والسلام Which is that from the people's manners And from the people's dealings If there is things that are not nice That the prophet صلى الله عليه وسلم Was commanded to what To respond and to deal with Them in that which is يعني good Which is forgiveness صلى الله عليه وسلم وأمر بالعرفة وأمر بالعرفة What does it mean أي وأمر الناس Come on the people محمد بالعرفة أي بالمعروفة Come on them That which the sharia Accept That which the sharia likes الذي يقره الشرع Come on them That the speech The actions Which the sharia Consider good من قول أو فعل Whether it be speech Or whether it be actions Which the sharia Consider good Consider Come on those The people that It's like what Allah تعالى said وَالتَكُمْ مِنْكُمْ أُمَّهَ يَدُعُونَ إِلَا الْخَيْرِيِ وَيَأْمُرُونَ بِالْمَعْرُوفِي وَيَنْهُونَ عَنِي المُنْكَرِ وَوْلَائِكَ هُمُ المُفْلِحُونَ Let there be from amongst the ummah Those who call to the good And that prohibit the evil And those are the people who are successful Those are the people who are يعني مفلِحُونَ They are the ones who command the good And they are the ones who prohibit the evil So the prophet here is commanded وَأَمُرُ بِالْعُرْفِي Command the people what That which is good Then Allah says وَأَعْرِضَ عَلِلْ جَاهِلِينَ And turn away from those who are ignorant Turn away from them وَأَعْرِضَ Turn away from who عَمَّنْ جَاهِلَ عَرِيكَ The one who is ignorant with you If he is acting in a dim-witted way Towards you Just turn away from him The way he is dealing with you The way he talks to you The way he speaks about you Everything is just بذي It's filthy Don't step to his level Don't Have يعني The يعني Dignity That Allah gives to the believers Hold yourself accountable It's mentioned that فخرودين الرازيو He said المقصود منه أمر الرسول صلى الله عليه وسلم بأن يصبر على سوء أخلاقهم أن مقصود here is that الله تباركه تعالى كماني دمسته صلى الله عليه وسلم to be patient upon the evil characteristics of the people وأن لا يقابل أقوالهم الركيكة and that the prophet does not respond to their speech which is filthy ولا أفعالهم الخسيسة بأمثالها They don't respond to their bad words and their bad actions He doesn't respond to it in the same way No وليس فيه دلالة عالم تناعه من القتال And this of course doesn't show that the prophet should not fight such a people لأنه لا يمتلع يؤمر عليه صلى الله عليه وسلم على الجاهلين مع الأمر بقتال المشركين This ayah does not show he's saying that the prophet should not fight with the disbelievers يعني the jihad فحين إلي الله حاجة إلى التزام النسخ He said this ayah to be used as an abrogation It doesn't show this case إلا أن الظاهرية من المفسرين مشغوفون بتكثير النسخ والمنسوخ من غير ضرورة ولا حاجة So the point I went from the ayah is that the ayah it shows and it indicates that the messenger صلى الله عليه وسلم was commanded to be patient with these people These people who have سوء وخلاق And that you don't respond to their filthy speech and their actions with something like it You have to يعني turn away from them As Allah said about them عباد الرحمن وإذا خاطبهم When they ignorant people talk to them what did they say? السلامة وصلى الله عليه وسلم بعد المصورة القصص وإذا سمعوا اللغوة أعرضوا عنه وقالوا لنا أعمالونا ولكم أعمالوكم السلام عليكم لنبتغي الجاهلين When they hear وإذا سمعوا اللغوة when they hear idle speech أعرضوا عنه they turn away from it وقالوا لنا and they say this is for us أعمالونا our actions ولكم أعمالوكم for you is your actions سلام عليكم أعمالوكم لنبتغي الجاهلين That's the response they give So now every Safi who talks every dimwitted person who talks you don't go out there and you don't respond to them وليذلك the poet he said إذا نطق السفيها فلا تجيبه فخيروا من إجابة يسخوطوا If the dimwitted one talks don't respond to him don't respond to him What is better is that you don't respond to him in your silent okay another poet he said وَلَوْ كُلْكِلْ بِنَعَوَ أَلْقَمْتُمْ حَجَلًا لَأَصْبَحَ سَخْرُ مِتْقَالِمْ بِدِيْنَارِيْ If every dog that barked you threw a rock at it the value of the rock will go up the value of the rock will go up So if this one shouts and then another one shouts and then another one shouts and then another one shouts and every single person you respond to them that's not how it is you have to turn away from the evil ones وإذا خاطوهم الجاهلون قالوا سلامة سلامة ها وإذا سمعوا اللغوة أعرضوا عنه وقالوا لنا أعمانونا ولكم عمالوكم سلام عليكم لنبتغي الجاهلين That's the response And these are righteous people The عباد الرحمن This is their responses And this is what they say And that's what Allah is saying to us here خذي العفوة وأمر بالعرفي وعرض عن الجاهلين خذي العفوة Take with you Awful forgiveness And anyone who says anything says to you just forgive them خذي العفوة وأمر بالعرفي And command the people we could Command the people was in the Deen of Allah Don't sugarcoat What's in the Deen of Allah Say it This is the Deen of Allah Like the one who loves it Love it And the one who hates it Hate it And then what did Allah say وأعرض عن الجاهلين Turn away from the ignorant ones The one who is Safi Who doesn't know Who is ignorant Just turn away from him The one who has bad Akhlaq turn away from him Don't steep to his level Don't what Steep to his level عبد الاباس رضي الله تعالى عنهم He mentions He says قديم عريينة ابن حسن ابن حديفة He came To his what His ابن أخيه His name was الحربن قيسن He came to him He stayed with him وكان من النفر الذين يدينهم عمر وكان القراء وأصحاب مجالس عمر ومشاورتي عمر There was a group of people Who used to be in his يعني Inesaku And they were the The scholars The scholars It doesn't matter Whether they were young or old It doesn't matter كهولا كانوا أو شبانا Whether they were young أو whether they were old It didn't matter عمر رضي الله عنه The person who had knowledge Was in his Inesaku He used to consult those people So عريينة Who came يعني عريينة ابن حسن ابن حديفة Who came to his يعني ابن أخيه His nephew الحربن قيسن He said حربن الحربن قيسن I need a favor from you ها هلك وجهن عند هذا الأمن Do you have يعني The ability To take me to عمر من خباب فاستأذل لي عليه Ask permission So I can go into him And I want to talk to him سأل حربن قيسن He want any sort of permission for him فعريينة ابن حسن ابن حديفة He want any Ask permission for him فأذن له عمر عمر سلوك Bring him in يعني If he wants to talk to me He can come in فلما دخل عليه When عريينة ابن حسن Entered on to عمر رضي الله عنه He said to him شتيت ويبن خطاب He said to him عمر يبن خطاب فوالله ما تعطين الجزل ولا تحكم بيننا بالعدلي He says You don't give us the الجزل يعني الجزل يعني means العطايا الكثيرة You don't give us a lot You stingy ولا تحكم بيننا بالعدلي And you don't judge us With justice You don't عمر That's what he said فا غاضي با عمر عمر became angry حتى هم أن يُقع به عمر was so angry that he wanted to take a grab him and do something to him فقال له الحرب نُقيس and said to him يا أمير المؤمنين Oh the leader of the believers إن الله تعالى قال لنبيه صلى الله عليه وسلم الله سبحانه وتعالى he set to his prophet خذ العفوة Take forgiveness وأمر بالعرفي Come on the good وارض عن الجاهلين and turn away from the ignorant ones وإن هذا من الجاهلين and this one is from the ignorant ones والله ما جاوزها عمر وحين تلاها عليه وكان وقافا عندك كتاب الله عنزل الله عمر رضي الله عنو as soon as he had the I recited he didn't go forward he didn't move forward and do anything and look at the narration mentions وكان وقافا عندك كتاب الله عمر was one who used to يعني stand at the boundaries of الله تعالى like that the Quran could stop him عمر رضي الله تعالى what did that occur brothers and sisters there are three things that you can take from the ayah and these are three powerful points that summarizes the way that a Muslim carries himself the number first one is خد العفوة be a person who forgives free your heart from grudges and things towards people forgive them الله تعالى commanded us that يعني don't let a person live in your heart heart rent free يعني when you you're letting someone live in your heart without paying rent يعني you're the one who's preoccupied all day about this person and they just out there doing having fun enjoying themselves and you are here just always take it out of your heart خد العفوة forgive forget that's number one and it's a great quality to have because remember brothers and sisters forgiven others is a sign that you want Allah to forgive you all of us we do some sins right don't we do mistakes and shortcomings we do so we want Allah to forgive us so we forgive others number two but by the way brothers before I go into the second one it doesn't mean that person you forgive you have to have relationship with them No No you don't have to you can forgive someone but say I don't want to have a relationship I don't want to forgive you for what's happened in the past I forgive you but relationship No I'm preoccupied I'm busy I've got other things I need to preoccupy myself with but I do forgive you I have nothing against you your ملقيمة nothing about me will come to you Insha'Allah I forgive you Okay Forgiveness is important but having a relationship with some people maybe it's not the healthiest thing because it will come to another problem especially maybe you go your separate ways you do your thing they do their thing that's why in Islam the concept of divorce is allowed when two people can't get along divorce separate but people forgive one another خذ العفوة وَأَمُرْ بِالْعُرْفِ وَأَنْ كَمَانْدْ وَانَنَذَا جُدْ let come so forgiveness is the first quality the second is command in the people the good especially when you're in a da'wah brother and sisters leave off personal grudges that you have all day with people just let that go don't have any grudge with anybody but be yourself don't make anything personal this is about personal and the second one is which is command the people the good call to the deen of Allah العرف here is that which the shari'a consented to that which the shari'a is for that's what you call the people to the عرف is what the shari'a set what the shari'a allowed as Allah mentioned in the ayah وَالتَكُمْ مِنْكُمْ أُمَّتُنْ يَدعُونَ إِلَ الْخَيْرِ وَيَأْمُرُونَ بِالْمَعْرُوفِ وَيَنْهُونَ عَنِ الْمُنْكرِ أما كنتم تأمرون بالمعروف وَتَنْهُونَ عَنِ الْمُنْكَرِ وَتُؤْمِنُونَ بِالْلَّهِ that you call to the good and you prohibit the evil so if الأمر بالمعروف الأمر بالمعروف and here it says what عرف عرف is the same thing the third quality brothers and sisters that we take from this verse is what you come with the quality of staying away from conflicts and indulging with ignorant people okay وَأَعْرُضَ عَنِ الْجَهِلِينَ turn away from the ignorant people some people brothers and sisters the truth of the matter is is they're like the pig and the pig and why am I resembling them to the pig I'm doing a tashbi from this perspective Insha'Allah pay attention to it which is that the pig he loves to scuffle in the mud so if someone goes to the pig and he scuffles in the mud even if you beat the pig in a wrestling match you go on top of them and you win the pig enjoyed that whole entire ride he loved it he liked what was happening what was taking place you on the other side you on the other hand you've scuffled in mud you're clothed dirty you feel sick but he loved the whole entire from the beginning to the end he loved it brothers and sisters let's say you have white though might be a better example to give you're wearing a white though and you're the best wrestler there is out there let's say you're the best wrestler there is out there and you have somebody important to go to and a little kid comes up to you and says I want to wrestle with you whose hands are dirty he's just he's got mud on him and he said I want to wrestle with you does it mean that you can't wrestle when you say look I don't want to wrestle I don't want to wrestle with you the reasons because I'm going to lose more than you are than you I've got more to lose here so the person should learn this quality of turning away from the ignorant people you can't you can't jump on every single person you can't so that's what Allah told us a quality which is turn away from the ignorant ones and don't entertain them all the time or else what happens is your level goes down down down I'm going to stop there insha'Allah anything which I've said that was wrong incorrect this from me and Shaytan and Allah and his messenger are both free from it سبحانك الله وبحمده شهدوا الله إله إلا الله أستغفركوا أولي رمضان with AMAU make this the best رمضان you've ever had by joining our exclusive online community with regular private classes digital resources weekly accountability sessions and daily Quran gatherings this is one opportunity you definitely do not want to miss so sign up now at amau.org forward slash رمضان and we look forward to welcoming you on the other side


مرحباً في مرحباً لكن ماذا يعني عندما نحن مرحباً من أهل البيت؟ أقوم بعمل معي as I explore خلال مرحباً من أهل البيت خلال مرحباً من أهل البيت وخلال مرحباً من أهل البيت لذلك لما نحن مرحباً لذلك يوم 11 في مرحباً today we are going inshallah to meet up with a couple of youth in the city of Rotterdam in the Netherlands so we are on our way to them now they are expecting us inshallah through this meeting with the service of Muhammad Hussein we can have more questions answered and to see why this community here service of Muhammad Hussein and spends this time and effort to revive the rituals of the أهل البيت بسم الله بخمان الرحيم my name is Yasser العلاقي I'm a 20 years old process engineer student at The Hague University of Applied Sciences I started giving lectures in Dutch at the age of 15 my first lecture was about Imam Hassan العسكري عليه السلام I felt like it was a duty for every shee'i around the whole world to spread the message of أهل البيت عليهم السلام to spread the words of أهل البيت عليهم السلام to spread their biographies at the age of 16 I started studying the hause in the Netherlands in The Hague with books as العقائد الإمامية of شيخ المظفر رحمة الله عليه أصول الفقه شيخ المظفر different fiqh books such as الشراع الإسلام وف العلام الحلية رحمة الله عليه and now we are working on spreading the word of أهل البيت عليهم السلام in the Netherlands focusing on subjects as jurisprudence فقه عقيدة biography history and misconceptions misconceptions of atheism of Christianity and even from other sects also we will focus on معرفة and on تفسير القرآن which we use تفسير البرحان so it feels like a duty for every follower of أهل البيت عليهم السلام to spread the message of أهل البيت عليهم السلام in their language by using their own qualities like Imam الباقر عليه السلام he says everything has a principle and the principle of life is love for أهل المحمد عليهم السلام and in the whole of القرآن we read that الله سبحانه و تعالى says I don't want anything from you except love love for who for أهل البيت عليهم السلام so it feels like a revolution a media revolution to spread the message of شيع of شيع عزم in the Netherlands in Belgium in Germany in the UK in the whole world and this is just something little for Imam الزمان عجل الله تعالى فرجة الشري it is very important to translate the شيع books to different languages for example we have many important narrations in the book تفسير البرحان which explains a lot of تفسير a lot of explanations of the Holy Quran these explanations we have to translate to reply on some common misconceptions at the youth the youth they have a lot of misunderstandings about the Holy Quran or about the معرفة of أهل البيت عليهم السلام so it is important to spread the message in different languages because sometimes you will find that the Arabic language is a little bit too difficult even if they learn the Arabic language but every day they go to university or to school or they go to fitness or to sports and they speak the English language or the Dutch language or the Swedish language or the Germany language so 40 hours a week they speak the language of their nationality for example they speak English and maybe 5 or 10 hours a week they speak Arabic so there have to be a lecture or at least an organization which will focus on the language of the country this will save our youth and this will train our youth to reply on misconceptions from everywhere because they will feel very strong they are very strong in their faith and their عقيد they will be experts in Shi'a'zim because they will understand the history of أهل البيت عليهم السلام which they can spread in the university at the college at the sports wherever they are you will never know you might get any questions for example if you are at school you live from you are with a lot of people from other religions or from other ideologies so you have to represent the flag of إمام الحسين عليه السلام you have to represent the revolution of فاعتمة الزهراء we have to know how you present your إمام إمام المهدي the biggest remembrance of الله سبحانه وتعالى the best remembrance is remembering فاعتمة الزهراء عليه السلام is to understand the message of فاعتمة عليه السلام how do you understand the message of فاعتمة عليه السلام by reading the ceremony of Fadak understanding what توحيد is through فاعتمة عليه السلام there are a lot of topics there are a lot of topics which are in the community which especially the west they still don't understand for example here in the Netherlands we have a lot of misconceptions about what is شري عليو by using the words of we can explain what شري عليو is we can explain where it stands for and in which situation what we use or why we for example we pray on a طربة on مهر on earth these are all topics which have to be explained the west will ask you with media so we have to know the role of the media how to use the media on the west the media is very important we as Shi'a Muslims today we have to know how to deal with the media war we live in now the jihad which we have to do is a media jihad we have to be able to defend Shi'a-Zim to spread Shi'a-Zim and to save our youth and to help the Shi'a converted the brothers and sisters they want to talk about how they converted to Shi'a Islam they want to spread the message of but unfortunately because of some people in the community we cannot spread the message of أهل البيت عليهم السلام always and that's why the function of the media is to spread the words of أهل البيت عليهم السلام in every house in every house in the Netherlands, in Belgium, in Germany in the UK they should hear I witnessed that my advice to all brothers and sisters who are trying to spread the words of أهل البيت عليهم السلام every language keep going on and keep reading the books of أهل البيت عليهم السلام read books like for example to understand your عقيدة and in this book you will have a lot of narrations which you can use, which you can translate so I really recommend to read this book to translate the book and I recommend to get as much knowledge as you can like I said before your principle is love for أهل البيت عليهم السلام this principle is to use everywhere in the community for your school focus on your school get your diploma if you have trouble go back to أهل البيت عليهم السلام الله سبحانه وتعالى and أهل البيت عليهم السلام they will help you when you are alone, when you have problems أهل البيت عليهم السلام will help you read زيارة الجامعة الكبيرة for example to be stronger to face difficulties in life and don't be scared or disappointed of some people who are trying to tell you don't speak about don't read don't speak about the door of don't speak about speak about because in the world today فاطمة عليه السلام is left unfortunately إمام المهدي عليه السلام is left why why we don't remember فاطمة الزهراء السلام الله عليه the west has to understand has to know what happened with the door of because they can make a difference between the Islam of أهل البيت عليهم السلام and the fake Islam of it is not Islam it is like for example you want to buy a new phone you want to buy the original one you don't want to buy something made in China for example you want the real Islam you go back to أهل البيت عليهم السلام any misconception you have go back to أهل البيت they have the answer they will have the answer everything you want to explain use the words of أهل البيت عليهم السلام like the Prophet ﷺ told us I'm leaving for you behind you two important things the Quran and أهل البيت عليهم السلام I remember the أهل البيت عليهم السلام the تقلين are like two wings if a bird doesn't have two wings it will fell down for us we are Muslims we have to keep on the two wings the Quran and أهل البيت عليهم السلام and I wish all my brothers and sisters good luck with spreading the words of أهل البيت عليهم السلام and all the languages even in Chinese we need brothers and sisters who spread the words of أهل البيت عليهم السلام in Chinese why? because we have more than one billion Chinese people they have to know what is Shi'a Islam at least we need a book in Chinese which we give to these people and they will insha'Allah تعالى convert to Shi'a Islam like thousands of Moroccans now they are converting because of what because of knowledge because of the light of فاطمة الزهراء عليهم السلام الله سبحانه وتعالى gives you light in your heart to get more knowledge it's not only reading and understanding it is a light which you get from Allah سبحانه وتعالى we ask Allah سبحانه وتعالى to hasten the reappearance of Imam al-Zaman عليهم السلام to know where the grave of Fatima عليهم السلام is and to hold majalis at the grave of Fatima الزهراء السلام الله عليها وأخروا دعوانا أن الحمد لله رب العالمين وصلوا لهم على سيدنا محمد وإحلبيتها الطيبين الطاهرين بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم اللهم صلي على محمد والمحمد الطيبين الطاهرين وعجل فرجهم اللهم على عدارهم اليوم الدين السلام عليكم ورحمة الله وبركاته يا مهدي مدد my name is Youssef Jauda اقوان النادي لانسس نيخ تنفير النيخ my study was digital filmmaking at the university middle-sex university my work for Ahl al-Bait السلام عليهم to make videos to spread the message of Ahl al-Bait عليهم السلام عليهم via media via the video we looked at the quality of the video and the message that spreads through video that reaches many people with little means in a space of 3 to 4 meters with light set comes the video about at home with people on social media YouTube people watch videos via smartphones iPad tablets in the living room in the kitchen but in the background I was born as a sony born and raised as a sony after that I went to Shizma and I wanted to help people spread the word of Ahl al-Bait عليهم السلام to the truth of Ahl al-Bait so I worked with various organizations filmed various events and worked with I was looking for someone who spread the word of Ahl al-Bait عليهم السلام then I came to brother Sheikh Yasser Ali we made videos together we make videos on 2 different levels one is to spread the word of concept people to strengthen their word of Ahl al-Bait and the other point is to spread the word of Ahl al-Bait and spread the word of Ahl al-Bait and spread the word of Ahl al-Bait and spread the word of Ahl al-Bait and spread the word of Ahl al-Bait and we focus on these 2 points imagine you are at school or at work here in the West then Mughalif all kinds of misconceptions tell you why do you do the rituals why do you believe in imam many shiites can't answer here because of our videos we explain that how they can explain misconceptions what can they tell and on which sources they can use for the 2nd point is they have to strengthen their Aqeeda by going back to the words of Ahl al-Bait we started from nothing through the camera the microphone and within 3 to 4 meters we made videos here my background is to make a movie but because we don't have a team we don't have a shiite we don't have a cameraman an air technician so I chose this direction with my brother Yaser to make studies with a good quality and with a higher quality we also focus on ritual ritual is a means to spread the word of Ahl al-Bait and the the shiites see the rituals as first cultural something for the clerks when they are approached then they ask why do they do the rituals why do they have such events and then they get the message from Imam Ash-Salam the west see the Islam of Saqifah they see the Islam of Isis they see the Islam terrorists but they don't know about the true Islam that is the Islam of Ahl al-Bait they need to know what happened in Saqifah what they did to Saqifah when they attacked Islam that they murdered her and that Saqifah is the origin of the terrorism of Isis this information is important when westerners know they get a whole other idea about Islam in the positive side of Islam when they focus on the media I ask young people and the people who live in Europe in their own language explain what happened in Saqifah and what happened in Karbala why I became a shiite the people told me about the murder of Fatima Dizahra from that moment was the start of my search why I became a shiite when no one told me I didn't know what happened now you can ask yourself when the people don't say anything when the people don't speak they don't know the truth it is a sort of duty to young people especially the media that they to spread the murder on Fatima Alayhi Salam to spread the murder that is what people are talking about in the poem the pen and paper you can read that the flame is the reason for the murder of Zahra Salam that the people went to Saqifah and the origin of Jesus is started the shiites here in the Netherlands try to bring the message the message to the people through our videos we here as young people make videos and spread the message no one can hold us back one of the videos that I made went over the rituals about the rituals I showed it to my colleagues who are not muslims but are from the Netherlands one of them when he saw that video he said to me if you go that way I want to go with you he drew it the ritual the other thing he asked me what it was in the Layalil Fatimiyah I took the freedom to go there I didn't explain the murder of Fatimiyah I didn't tell anything else just the murder of Fatimah he said he went there himself to explain I didn't say anything I didn't explain he went there himself this is human إمام أمير مؤمنين سلام الله عليه وسلم he said he is your brother in the faith or your brother in humanity they are not our brothers in faith but in humanity out of humanity he said that he said that إمام أمير مؤمنين سلام الله عليه وسلم أمير مؤمنين سلام الله عليه وسلم إمام أمير سلام عليه وسلم he said if you have no faith be free in your life do you see that ritual do you see that effect that have unfortunately we often see inside the jizma people who are against the ritual you think that it gives a bad image to Islam while it gives a good image to Islam and at the end I say may Allah protect the coming of Imam Mehdi Ajalla because praise be to Allah the Lord of the worlds may Allah bless Muhammad and Muhammad may Allah protect the coming of Muhammad