سيجد الأخواني هو المناقشة لأبو العربي سأمتعكم و سأمتعكم لا matter who you are or no matter what affiliation you come from or what background you come from I will still be in a position to accept you and hold you so if this is Allah's attitude towards His creation that He wants to embrace them and subhan Allah when Allah speaks about the concept of embracing what does He tell us we all know Muslims of all walks of life brothers and sisters they insist on the belief system in regard to the oneness of Allah or what we call in a more professional way the unicity of Allah meaning the uniqueness and the oneness of Allah is that Allah is non-dimensional He has no borders Allah is not sitting on the throne Allah is not bound by the senses He is not bound by the directions that we are bound Allah is beyond time and space some people cannot even comprehend the question of God being beyond time and space so one of His creation is beyond time one of God's creation is beyond time which is the sun the sun does not know the night brothers and sisters to the sun night does not exist and that is one of the creation of Allah that is not bound by time can you imagine the creator himself الله سبحانه وتعالى so what does Allah سبحانه وتعالى say He says أعط my believing servant were able to encompass me الله أكبر but here there is another bold red line under the word that the heart of a believing person is able to encompass and contain Allah which heart is able to contain and encompass Allah the heart that is free from hatred the heart that is free from envy the heart that is free from malice the heart that is free from بسط the heart that is generous the heart that is giving the heart that is accepting the heart that is capable to show its humanity in the face of adversary like Imam Ali صلى الله عليه وسلم and the rest of the members of Ahlul Bayt when they interacted with their adversaries they interacted with them not on the basis of revenge not on the basis of you kill me I will kill you you humiliate me I humiliate you you swear at me I reciprocate you that is above the standard of behavior of Ahlul Bayt صلى الله عليه وسلم and I mentioned in many of my lectures this most amazing story that happened with Imam Zainal عابدين صلى الله عليه وسلم in which a man came knocking at his door and saying to the Imam the following words your mother is one, two, three and four and the Imam says anymore is there anything else he says yes and I remember and she is this and that and then what he says best بغض خلاص enough I've said what I want to say he said then listen to me look at the response of the Imam said listen to me if what you said about my mother is true then may Allah forgive her and if what you said about my mother is not true I'm gonna bury you alive no the Imam doesn't say that I may say that some only people may say that don't mess with my mom but the Imam said but if what you said about my mom is not true then may Allah the merciful forgive you this is humanity at its best where you can grow to a level of forgiveness and acceptance even when you are the subject of injustice سبحان الله even when you are the subject of injustice if religion is understood from that point of view and religion is a bless and religion is something that a person should feel deprived in having and in entertaining and in accepting therefore the importance of religion and spirituality lies primarily brothers and sisters in the moral and social moral aspect of man's existence and the Islamic concept therefore that religion maintains that religion is not only a spiritual and intellectual necessity but also a social and a universal need and we will see why we need that particular need to interact within the corpus of religion and here I'm speaking about religion in general I'm not specifically talking about a set of religion though I'm a Muslim and you are Muslims but I'm talking about religion and the importance of religion in the wider sense of what religion entails as Allah intended it for this world and surely the religion with Allah is what is Islam but what is the meaning of Islam because when we say to people that religion with Allah is Islam they say you are discriminant because Islam is something that we associate with Muhammad it is not something that we associate with Jesus, Moses, Buddha or any of these great personalities that history has told us about or Ibrahim or Adam or Noah or Idris or Jonah or whatever the prophets or these great personalities maybe but when we say Islam interprets to be in a sense that you should be a submitter to where truth lies then that complexity is broken that complexity in the mindset of those who do not affiliate with Islam is taken away completely why because now you are saying the common denominator between you and me is what is to submit to the will of God is to submit to the will of God and since I and you will submit to the will of God then there is no question of discrimination there is no question of discrimination the question of me being holier than you does not exist anymore the question that I am higher than you and you are lower than me does not exist anymore why because before Allah we are one and the same just like the prophet صلى الله عليه وسلم يضعها among the most eloquent of ways الناس are like the teeth of a comb we don't see the teeth of a comb one higher than the other because you start stretching your head and there is nothing worse than scratching the truth because truth is one you scratch it and you get rid of it and that's why the prophet uses the comb that the teeth are equal لأن إذا كان one above the other then we'll be scratching at each other's skin and that's what destroys the human race that superiority position of being or feeling the audacity to think that I can be higher than someone else لذا أردت أن موسى سلام الله عليه و أنه سمعت بأن الله سبحانه وتعالى اذه لأجدني أحد يسيحك منك لذا موسى قلت أنه سيسيحك لأنني مجددا ماذا يفعل؟ لأنني سأذه و سأجدني أحد أحد أخر than me لذا اذهت و قررت أحد يسيحك و قررت أنه سيكون أفضل منه و كان يتبعه معه و يأخذه لأحد و قررت أنه يتبعه أحد يوم كيف سأقول أنه سيكون أفضل منه؟  لا أعتقد أنك يمكنك أن تكون أكثر من أي شخص. موسى again ، سلام الله عليه وسلم. لأن موسى is a phenomenon ، سلام الله عليه وسلم. هو يذهب ومتعب مع أبليس ، هذا هو صحيح. هو يتعب مع أبليس ، هو يتعب مع أبليس ، أبليس يقول موسى look I'm tired. أريد أن أتعب مع أبليس ، but I feel too embarrassed to come before God and ask him for pardon. أنت كليم الله ، you are the one that spoke to Allah. ربما يمكنك أن تكون موسى ، you say in your language موسى ، you become someone that you can liaise between me and Allah. He said are you really for sure? Have you lost your mind? He says no no no, I'm switched on. I'm 100% switched on. He said what a day, this is really Eid. Because you know how many mu'min will come because of you. Okay, he goes. He says ya Allah you are a servant of Iblis which is true. Is he a servant whether we like it or not. Your servant Iblis wants to reconcile with you. And he wants to admit his faults and mistakes. الله says I will accept him, but there is one condition, very tiny condition. What is the condition? Say tell him to go to Adam's tomb and kiss the tomb. Just in admission of my command. Look to what extent Allah is accepting. So Moses come down and says he's euphoric.  He got a deed of release for Iblis. And he says to him fine, God accepted you. He said Moses don't mess with me man. What's the story? What's the underlying condition? Is there anything that you're not telling me? He said one simple, simple condition. He says what? He said go to Adam's tomb and kiss it. He says I knew it. This guy I didn't do it while he was alive. I'm gonna do it for him when he's dead. Arrogance. And that's what Allah says you should not entertain. That's why sometimes we say is it possible and feasible that Allah will commit people to torment? Yes, but it is not Allah that wants it. It's the human being. وما ظلمناهم. ولكن كانوا أنفسهم يضليمون. Allah says surely we have not caused any injustice against any of them. But they were the perpetrators of injustice against their own self. What have I got to do with it? Someone comes and says where is God? There's so much worse. Is God sending battalions of Malaika with the AK-47 and telling people to fight one another? What's God got to do with it? God says there is famine in Somalia. Why isn't God intervening? Why doesn't God bring man a salwa? You know that he gave to the children of Israel during the time of Moses too? Overcome the famine of Somalia and Africa. I say you know what the problem is in that? The problem is not lack of wealth. The problem is lack of distribution of wealth.  And he was bald. Someone came to him and said man you're out of shape. How come you have a bead that big and bald? He said look there is no problem with production but there is problem in distribution of production. There is no problem. The bead, the hair is there man. It's there but it's the distribution that is bothering me. And the same applies in the human race. God doesn't insist this. I'd really like to hear a bit of loud Salawat on Muhammad and Ali Muhammad. So the question at hand brothers and sisters is in how we will and are able to entertain and accept what religion is all about. And let me say from the outset so that this is all I tell you to my lecture. I haven't started my lecture yet brothers and sisters. Insha'Allah over the next nine days. Let me say from the outset that if religion in any sense of the word is to restrict and curb the movement and the development and progress of the human race then immediately you should cast it aside because it's not religion. Because religion and the question is to all of you is religion to serve man or man to serve religion? This is a question that we need to answer and we need to answer without prejudice and the honest and most sincere answer in regard to this question is that religion comes to serve man, not man to serve religion. الله سبحانه وتعالى says in the Quran God does not make religion hard on you. But some people who are quasi-Maragia of Taqlid and pseudo-Maragia of Taqlid they appoint themselves in a position and in a place where they become more stringent than the merger himself. I experienced this myself in front of a merger. I don't want to mention the merger but he was being asked what is your opinion in regard to 1, 2, 3, 4 he said this is my opinion someone who follows that merger later on after the meeting ended he said no, no, no you didn't understand what the merger was saying لا حولا ولا قوة إلا بالله علي الله we didn't understand what the merger was saying and you did when you go 180 degrees opposite your merger of Taqlid just because you want to become a quasi-Maragia and a quasi-authority and that's what brings us back and sets us away from progression and when I say progression I'm not saying liberalism no, I'm saying developing to the highest dream of what constitutes a humanity and what makes humanity something that you can relate to and accept and be proud of just like Allah was proud of a humanity it is Allah who said it and not me brothers and sisters he is the one who said إني جا علون في الارضي خليفة I want to create a vice-gerent on earth what is the nature of that vice-gerent when the Malaiqa themselves took what took objection to that but their objection was that of questioning or inquiring rather than that of throwing away the proposal so they said أتجعلوا فيها will you create in it in this world من يفسدوا فيها ويسفقوا الدماء you will put on this earth those who will create mischief and spill blood ونحن نسبحوا بحمدك ونقد ديسولك while we are the ones who are praising and celebrating your name what did Allah reply again look at the softness of the approach of Allah He didn't say what do you think you are why are you messing with me I am the lord of the lords when I say something it is there is no question about it no he said إني أعلم ومالا تعلمه he said simply I know things that you don't know but later you will come to appreciate the meaning of having a vice-gerent on this earth because he is going to be a perfect role model for creations to follow because I have granted him a free will something that Allah never gave to anyone else not even to the Malaika according to some tefsir and according to some exeges because Allah created the Malaika for a purpose and created them to worship him so much so that the Prophet when he draws a comparison between the angels and the perfect representation of the human being the Prophet raises the level of a human being to a state higher than the angels he said وإن منين and among the believers are those who are higher than the status of angels why يا رسول الله why because a human being has free will he has the ability to sin and to obey to be good and to be bad when the good and the potential not to sin outweighs his potentials to sin and be bad on the basis of his own choice and free will then surely he raises himself to a level higher than the angels because the angels only have one thing and that is to obey they don't have temptations they don't have anything that tempts them like in Australia for example we had a television program it's called Temptation Island Australia itself a temptation island we don't need another program for God's sake the land itself is full of temptation now you bring another program and you say temptation island for God's sake I have some mercy on us when you are challenging our weaknesses but even when we talk about challenge brothers and sisters as a human being that challenge comes to strengthen you not to take away your potentials because if you are not challenged you become stagnant and according to the rules of water when you look in the you know the first the first chapter is about the chapter of Tahara you know they say there is running water there is water that is what stagnant it doesn't move they say this water that doesn't move is not pure it's not pure why why look at the concept why is this water not pure they say because it is not challenged why because sea water is challenged it goes and you know it turns rain water it what it turns and a human being needs to turn by challenges to grow otherwise his mind will become stagnant he cannot go beyond the scope of his time and Ali Ibn Abi Talib peace be upon him when he speaks about when he speaks about interacting with our youth and our children what does he say he says be mindful oh people that they're being created to a time different to yours what worked for you may not work for them the dad used to come into the house one look everyone is under the bed right today the dad comes into the house one look he will get three looks it won't work it's not gonna work why because they have been created to a time different to our time here it does not mean that religiousness and the code of religion has to be scraped no but it has to move with the time and it has to be in conformity with the time that we find ourselves in without compromising on the original text this is what الله سبحانه وتعالى wants us to relate to Islam and religion to or let us say religion for the for argument's sake of the exercise that we are having at hand for today therefore we say from the outset as I was mentioning before that if religion comes to hinder you or restrict you then it is not the religion that Allah has intended for you as I said because Allah said in the Quran ما جعل الله عليكم في الديني من حرج surely الله سبحانه وتعالى has not made religion to curb your development then why do we have rules and regulation why do we have rules I say that the rules in the Quran or in the prophetic tradition or that religion comes with if there are sound rules as they were intended by Allah and the prophet they don't come to restrict they come to regulate and there is a huge difference between restriction and regulation because if I restrict your movement I will give you a one way road Faisal Road to Afghanistan that's restriction if I don't put what side roads or if I don't give you the opportunity to check a U-turn then that is restriction I don't want to go to Afghanistan if I am going to Zainab market I want to come back to Clifton you want me to go all the way that's restriction so when Allah سبحانه وتعالى says for example promiscuity is haram fornication is haram and stops continue but haram so there is no marriage yeah there is then that's regulation that's regulation that's not restriction because brothers and sisters God cannot put an instinct in you and then crush it God cannot give you an instinct and not then address it right it has to be addressed but when Allah addresses a certain instinct or a faculty within you He addresses it in the most purified of ways right so He does not hinder your growth no He says I know you from inside out I know what you need I know your desires I know your temptations I know everything that you and it is funny enough you know with some of us Muslims I don't want to go into the privacy of our own homes but I say sometimes that even in marriage replace restrictions so if I am in marriage I can't enjoy myself and outside marriage I can't enjoy myself then this is not a religion right this is not a religion then I need to exercise every fantasy I have within my home right because God said your women are yours and you are theirs right as long as it is done within the framework of what of a family of a family الله says go do what you want fulfill your fantasies so you don't have to look outside so you don't have to become like those who are on the streets with a تسبيح and a blonde comes and they say you know they're making تسبيح سبحان الله سبحان الله سبحان الله and then the blonde comes سبحان الله سبحان الله سبحان الله سبحان الله no we don't need to be in that position right سبحان الله Remains سبحان الله and a star for Allah Remains a star for Allah some people say you know the question of hijab they say you know hijab is compulsory yeah we know I'm not arguing against that but what I'm saying what I'm saying is if a woman does not want to observe it what stops you from observing your own intellectual hijab as a man and if you look at the development of the question of hijab in the Quran you would find that when God addressed the question of hijab he addressed the question of hijab firstly and primarily on the intellectual level when he said وكل المؤمنين أن يغدوا من أبصارهم ويحفظوا فروجهم وكل المؤمنات أن يغدونا من أبصارهم ويحفظنا فروجهم and interestingly enough brothers and sisters that when the ayah was revealed it started with the men not with the women where Allah says say to the believing men first to lower their gaze and protect their privacy and then tell the believing women to lower their gaze because it's reciprocal المؤمنون والمؤمنات بعضهم أولياء وبعض يأمرون بالمعروف وينهون على المنكر believing men and believing women are the protectors of one another الله أكبر they sit on the same pedestal they sit on the same platform المؤمنون والمؤمنات they both are the protectors of one another what do they do they enjoy what is right and they put a stop to what is wrong that's what makes them complete so they come from two different mindsets from two different experiences but when they are joined together they enrich each other's experience no one is higher than the other and no one is inferior than the other and the most interesting of these examples is what happens with the prophet because he is our role model صلى الله عليه وسلم وعلي وعلى آله الطاهرين وصحبه المنتجبي what is the example I'm about to quote and I think I'm out of my time for tonight the prophet صلى الله عليه وسلم says what he goes brothers and sisters and you are aware of Islamic history he decides to go and perform Hajj right meccans are not ready 3 years ago they exiled him and they plotted to kill him right so the prophet decides to go meccan says look we are not ready go back let's sign a treaty which is the treaty of Hodeibia it's no right so the prophet says okay what are the terms terms 10 years of peace wow phenomenal you know how much Islam can grow in 10 years you know no battles no wars no dramas no spilling of blood no attacks that is phenomenal the prophet agrees straight away some Muslims object it again we don't condemn them for objecting because they didn't know they didn't know what the prophet is planning ahead sign the treaty the prophet after signing the treaty all the Muslims are wearing a haram cloth why because they came to perform Hajj they are under the mindset that they will perform Hajj so the prophet goes out of his tent wearing his haram cloth all Muslims as of this year Hajj is not prescribed you can't perform Hajj take your haram cloth goes back into his tent 10 minutes later he goes out the Muslims are still in a haram cloth why because the prophet was still in a haram cloth in the back of their mind what are they saying maybe there is 5% chance that the prophet will negotiate somewhere here and there right goes back into his tent he says take your haram cloth 3rd time he comes out the Muslims are still in their haram cloth he says change it and I'm coming out he goes in and he says حالك المسلمون يا أم سلمة you know what the prophet says أم سلمة his wife the gracious أم سلمة رول والله تعالى was the woman who was travelling or أم المؤمنين that was travelling with the prophet at the time because the prophet used to take a wife at the time whenever he travelled because of his abundant equality and justice she says why are you saying the Muslims may perish because they are not responding to the call of Allah I'm telling them to take their haram cloth and they are refusing أم سلمة says may I suggest something يا رسول الله the prophet didn't say و من I'm the prophet and they're not listening to me و من as we say to our ladies sometimes unfortunately what do you know about life no the prophet say be my guest or أم سلمة go ahead tell me what do you think the problem is she said يا رسول الله may I suggest that you take your حرام clothes first and appear before them in civilian clothing he said نعم المشورة تلك يا أم سلمة أم سلمة مالذي جميل هو هذا أو أم سلمة لا يعني that the prophet didn't know what to do لا the prophet is teaching us that when you marry a wife later have a bit of respect for her intelligence have a bit of respect to her intelligence don't dismiss her intelligence don't say و من what what do you know about life you're good for the kitchens and the little bitones and the gold and what have you and the christian dios شاء الله when they will get the muslim dios as well as a fashion statement you know صلى الله عليه وسلم محمد وعالي محمد so the prophet changes his حرام clothes into civilian clothes the rewire says the statement says the prophet comes out he does not utter a word the muslims speaks themselves up goes into their tents and they change their clothes because they saw the role model he's in civilian clothes forget it there is no hajj I told you there is no hajj I told you there is no hajj leading by example leading and how much we lack leaders by example I'm not a politician I don't like to talk politics but I'm saying things in regard to what to our own setups at least look at Ali ibn Abi Talib peace be upon him when I said I was going to finish right will you have to get used to this statement by the way when I say I'm about to finish it means another 15 minutes or 20 minutes so please bear with me no I won't take much more of your time I promise except for the time that has been allocated for me inshallah so but just to I mean honestly sometimes when you come into a community and you feel the affinity and you feel these beautiful faces you just don't want to stop you want to penetrate deep into your hearts and minds and that's what I feel from the outset honestly and I'm not exaggerating we are in Ramadan and I will quote my learned you know scholar I don't know yesterday said the devils are in chains I'm not lying because even if I want to I can't because they are in chains they are not there to you know come and unscrew some screws in my you know head as far as their language is concerned in any case Imam Ali صلاة الله عليه he says what in order for people to appreciate your humanity and trust me brothers والله if anyone in the world asked me what is a synonym term for Islam give me a synonym term يعني Islam equals what give me you know when you go to the source to find synonyms and antonyms what would you find the word for Islam to equal you will find one word human to be a true human that what makes you a Muslim to be a real human like the prophet صلى الله عليه وسلم was because you know what he said when he was asked to perform marital he says we will not believe in you unless you bring down a river from heaven or unless you bring us some ayah that sticks out in the horizons or you bring God himself you know what the prophet says he says سبحان الله هلكم to إلا بشارا رسولا he said سبحان الله was I not anything other than a human prophet he didn't say a prophet a human he said I was only a human prophet سبحان الله he introduced the concept of humanity first and foremost people he's telling them the prophet relate to me as a human I'm a human yes but I'm revealed to fine but let us relate to one another on the basis that we are humans and that's what the Imam سلام الله عليه he says if you really want to be a human then have this character in you what is the character he sums it up in a beautiful statement he says lead such a life that when you die people mourn you with sadness and when you are alive and absent they yearn in earnest for your company الله أكبر when you go away they cry for you in sadness because you were something you were something you were something that was so inspiring people look at you and you feel comfortable people look at us brothers and sisters these days and they were a bolt in the west if I walk in the street like this لا حاولة ولا what's this guy doing please man go back go back I remember once I was walking like this in the street in شابن يان مولانا's do go shopping by the way brothers and sisters so I was going down and an Australian a young Australian was one he looked at me and says go back to Iraq I said are you talking to me he says yeah go back to Iraq this is not your country and I didn't see him first I looked back and I saw him with a mohawk you know what's a mohawk multicolored mohawk I said what's so wrong about me they said the way you dress I said have you looked at yourself in the mirror this morning mate did you look at yourself in the mirror this morning if you compare my dress to your dress I think there's something wrong brother two of his friends you know what they said they said the man has a point honest to God he's more dressed he's neatly dressed than you look at your hair man then we shook hands I said no problem brother we are brothers at the end of the day let's understand one another let's just sit and talk instead of valifying one another let us sit and see what and how I can enrich your experience in life and how I can enrich my experience in life even if you don't affiliate with me on the same belief system because that's what the prophet told us brothers and sisters seek knowledge even if you have to travel too why China for God's sake nothing links us to China different belief system different culture different tradition different system why China two reasons or three reasons that means if you have to travel to the furthest point of the world for knowledge then it's worth it secondly knowledge is the lost property of every believer he must seek it from anywhere he finds it it doesn't have to come from the same people like me if it is knowledge then seek it the prophet says wisdom is the lost property of every believer he is more worthy of it than anyone else wherever he may finds it wherever he may finds it ربحا ملفق إلى من هو أفقه من the prophet صلى الله عليه وسلم there is someone who carries a piece of information to someone who is more learned than him but he doesn't have this particular piece of information so I can use it and benefit from it thirdly because the Chinese were known for their rich spiritual and mystic culture which is the refinement of what of the soul or the whole purpose of the corpus of religion is what the refinement of the human soul سبحان الله so go and seek it go and fetch for it wherever you go and the Imam صلى الله عليه وسلم emphasizes that point when he speaks to مالك الأشتر مالك الأشتر was the governor and Imam Ali in Egypt he sends him to Egypt مالك asks the Imam he says oh Imam I'm going to Egypt Egypt have Christians I don't know how to deal with them I don't know I've never interacted with these people they're not Muslims they're not like me and they have different religious affiliation the Imam looks at مالك and he says oh Malaik people are of two kinds they face or you're equal in humanity what's wrong man what's wrong they are you're equal in humanity why should you differentiate in the treatment with them treat them as human treat them as human when they come to you reach out to them even if they don't come out to you you reach out to them because Allah did not expect people to reach out to Him He reached out to them and sent them messengers سبحان الله but us humans have everything upside down these days we want everyone to reach out why don't the West appreciate us because you know what let's face it because we don't appreciate them let us first appreciate something so that we can get something which is reciprocal and I'm not saying let's reconcile all our differences there are differences that may be irreconcilable but sitting and dialoguing with someone is far better than creating that mistrust with that person at least now you know him you know his thought you know his ambitions you know his movements you know his plans you know what he is aspiring for if you sit and you dialog with him take all these barriers of communication and the biggest problem we have as a human race brothers and sisters is the question of communication barriers and in particular within our all families husband and wife wife and husband parents and children children and parents this is a huge problem in that department and if time allows me I will also venture into these issues Insha'Allah when that time allows I am past my that time Insha'Allah we'll see these beautiful faces tomorrow May Allah grant you happiness accept your fast and may Allah make us among those when they listen to anything they will follow only what is best وآخر دعوانا الحمد لله رب العالمين وصلى الله عليه وسلم و بارك على محمد وآله الطيبين الطاهرين وصحبه المنتجبين the first question I'll read so that I will be truthful to the question I may be out of context here and not offense to anyone but many of our ithnaashari brothers who are married feel that they have a legal right to do the temporary marriage or muta as it's written here even at the cost of losing their own family our divorced sisters feel that they can have fun with married and single men in the name of muta it destroys lives and just reflects bad on our part that other people of different school of thought think we are crazy please do share some light on this point in Islam we are taught not to hurt someone's feeling let alone destroying someone's life but first and foremost I think we need to look at any legislation in Islam from its wholesome perspective not from its narrow perspective diminishing something in lieu of the misuse of a particular legislation is not going to fix the situation يعني for example if a jurist is asked if someone fasts but sleeps from dawn to dusk is he fast accepted or not the jurist will say yes unfortunately his fast is accepted though the practice is wrong يعني you shouldn't يعني رسول الله صلى الله عليه وسلم says in خطبة of the last day of Shaaban that your sleep in Ramadan is an act of worship but it doesn't mean that when Ramadan comes I will say oh Allah I intend to sleep so accept my fasting from me for the rest of the 30 days no you say oh Allah I intend for you to fast not to sleep but let's say someone abuses the system as the situation in regard to this right what do we do what we need to do is then institutionalize that particular practice يعني it has to become registered number one number two education about the pros and cons and how to administer such a marriage number three number three understand the literature of our imams and the practices and please I beg every one of you not to tell me I cannot compare to the imam yes I understand but the imams are our role models they are there for a purpose they didn't come as they are super human being that we cannot relate to them no if we were able to relate to the prophet and the prophet said relate to me on the basis of my humanity then surely we can also relate to the imams on the basis of their humanity someone comes to the imam صادق سلام الله عليك and he asked him what do you think about temporary marriage he said it's in the Quran the imam says will you do it it's a challenge right will you do it the imam says some legislation that Allah puts forward not necessarily for us to administer it but it is there for people who are weaker to administer sometimes and I don't need I have a woman I have a wife right whatever I want I go to my wife I don't need to go to every Elizabeth Margaret and I don't know what and you know whatever the case is right so secondly and this is the most important of what I am about to say if Islam does not address every single issue in the setup of the human race then Islam is defective as a religion and as a legislation we have certain circumstances within the Islamic setup that finds a woman in a position that she may not exercise any other avenue or possibility to curb and address and we are all adults here sexual needs and urges except through certain faculties and avenues that Allah has made available I'll give you a scenario a woman comes to my office divorced 35 years old alright 3 kids does not want to marry permanently what does she do Islam must find a solution what does she do okay she doesn't run after a married man okay I'm not saying that I'm saying to the sisters find a solution for this woman okay I'm not saying I should be a license that we put in our wallets what's the سيغة wait wait I'll give you بسم الله or iPhone زوج تو قبل تو no you know that's not what we want like some people empower our give them the سيغة put it in their pocket as useful as the driver's license لا عبيبي we're talking about a setup of families here a setup of you know humans a setup of societies in place that we need to run smoothly in the vessel of life or in the ocean of life as we call it in a nutshell I say that the institute of temporary marriage has its merit it was legislated for a purpose but that purpose has been abused greatly abused by some people in that regard and I think we should not blame the system for allowing that but we should blame those who misuse the system to their advantage number one number two is that when this is an advice for our sisters if every woman this is a bombshell this is a bombshell men are gonna kill me and women are gonna kill me but men more are gonna kill me today if every woman refuse to be woman number two there will be no polygamy and no muta right? don't blame them in because when I find that in my position when I have no other solution a woman all of a sudden accepts to be wife number two right? because now that setup suits her but if she was woman number one no question about accepting woman number two right? no question let me conclude my statement by one study that was conducted in Germany Germany during World War I the government of Germany was petitioned petitioned by women in Germany and this is a study that appeared in the Sydney Morning Herald and if you want you can go and google Sydney Morning Herald and you will find that particular study in the archives of the Sydney Morning Herald which is one of the most prominent newspapers in Australia the study says the woman in Germany petitioned the German government to allow polygamy during the war the German government refused woman turned to you know what unfortunately after World War I finished World War II finished the same woman who petitioned the German government to allow polygamy and failed in the quest to get a court order and they turned to prostitution sued the German government and won the court case that tells you what that tells you when Allah legislates he knows why he legislates it is not just a haphazard legislation it's not an ad hoc legislation that has no merits behind it but it is practiced at times of dire necessity and not switching between here and there today I feel a blonde tomorrow a brunette let your wife dye her hair then if you want this if that is the case you want short hair let her cut her hair you want long hair tell her to put extensions wherever the case may be you can do anything under the sun let us re-address our marital relationships in the world we are living in and let us address this relationship on the scope of Quran and the traditions of the prophet so our children can learn to grow learning what is the means and the ways to relate to one another from a Quranic perspective not a cultural or a custom perspective this is question number one God help you until Fajr time because the questions are Islam has given us to the permission not to fast during travel my argument is in those days it used to take a very long time to reach from point A to point B but nowadays travel has become so luxurious and easy that is not difficult to fast but when we skip and later have the headache of making them up when we can easily do it in Ramadan well the legislation of fasting and exemption for traveling is always looked within a narrow perspective يعني now I am thinking about travel being so modern but I am not thinking about someone in the middle of the Amazon traveling or in the middle of Africa who does not have the means of a first class seat or a business class upgrade with skywads to say or to use that argument that I don't have to break my fast because it is luxurious to travel in today's world let me ask you this question if I give you an option to choose between a straight line and a curved line what would you choose? straight line but if I tell you that this straight line is going to be your eyebrow it is going to be curved right definitely because you don't want a straight line on your head do you? what I am trying to say is when we look at religion and its instructions let us look in the wider perspective not in our own or my derogative or my own narrow interpretation of what constitute traveling because there are others who are not as privileged as we are not to have this exemption granted to them it's an exemption because over the course of time things change they may even return to a time where the luxury of travel is no longer available because no one knows in the economic situation in America now people used to frequently fly between states they can't afford it anymore they are traveling by cars now this is America we are talking about brothers and sisters America people are hit financially so badly that they can't travel by planes anymore some of them are hitchhiking even so to say that this luxury of travel is prevalent yes to an extent but it is not across the board secondly what you need to take into perspective that when Allah legislate He legislate at the lowest of people's abilities not at the highest I may be able to sustain travel for 15 hours without any trouble but another person may not have the ability to travel for 15 hours even if he is in a first class ticket or first class seat and sustain fasting for 14 hours or 12 hours be able during travel to sustain it due to certain fatigue psychological fatigue emotional fatigue physical fatigue that a person who is weaker than someone else may not be able to sustain so Allah legislate at that lowest point not at the highest point at the lowest point not at the highest point being Muslims brothers and sisters is it so that we are celebrating Eid on different days with different moon sighting back to the question of whether it's moon sighting or moon fighting right every year is it moon sighting or is it moon fighting okay the question in regard to this and insha Allah we can reach a conclusion it is not religion that is making that separation it is the understanding of certain parameters from an astronomical point of view and a religious point of view when put together we face a dilemma in regard to the question of moon sighting some jurists are of the opinion that the reason why we celebrate Eid on a different day is because there are certain prophetic tradition that specifically state you need to sight the moon with the naked eye which says meaning observe fasting to observe fasting for the sighting of the moon and open fasting for the sighting of the moon but if you couldn't see the moon then fulfill the period of 30 days of the month and then next day obviously is going to become either the first of Ramadan or the first of Shawwal in that regard those who adopt that legal point of view they are adopting this legal point of view on the basis of also strong scientific astronomical argument why because they say is the horizon for every country the same as for another country they say no why because when it is day for me it is night for someone else okay when it is spring for me it is autumn for someone else so it's not the same horizon it's a different horizon from one another those who argue that the horizon is one regardless they argue on the basis that we have one moon we don't have a trillion moons it's one moon for the planet earth and when we recite in Salat al-A'id the dua the Qumut in Salat al-A'id what do we say اللهم إني أسألك بحق هذا اليوم اليوم الذي جعلته للمسلمين عيدة oh Allah I ask you by the right of this day day of Eid that you made for what for the Muslims so this is one day not two days not three days not four days so the Muslims should all celebrate one day one horizon how can we resolve this dilemma how can we overcome this problem the only reason and the only way we can reconcile this problem is if we are able to reconcile the religious text with the aid of science and that's what we need to basically appeal to and with all respect I say that with all veneration to our Maraja of Taklit that we should appeal to them as their مقلد to consider the strong proposal of taking the religious text and the scientific astronomical perspective into consideration how has astronomy for the past 50 or 60 years failed in pinpointing the birth of the moon has it? in 50's what does شريعة say in regard to that let us go to the original original founders of the question of jurisprudence the life of a sheikh المفيد which is not a sheikh you know the sheikh of the entire madhab is not شيخ المفيد says اذا كان هناك انا if there is certitude and an aspect of tranquility and belief in the mind of a Muslim that the moon is already born and he has not seen the moon عيد becomes valid for this mu'min because the question of of certitude is one of the factors of determining the presence of the moon you know why he says that because he is highly intellectual because he says when you know for certain the moon is there you know why because it can't escape it has to be there it's not gonna run away right the moon is not gonna decide to take a holiday that day when it is supposed to born and say you know today I don't like like coming out in the horizon I have decided to take leave no it doesn't happen it's ludicrous to even suggest such a proposal اشيخ المفيد says so he says even if the question of sighting is not present but you have certitude that it is there why you have certitude because you've already followed the month you've seen it towards the end of رجب towards the end of شوال so you know when is the next moon is going to come and now with the aid of science and this astronomical advancing you know methodologies that attend by the second they tell you when the moon is gonna be born then when does شريعة step شريعة steps into it and says what how long does it take for the moon to come out of the محاق what is the محاق brothers and sisters the محاق is when the moon is between the sun and the earth that's when it is born right for us to see the moon it has to shift its position above the horizon so that the sun will not block its view okay how long does it take for this to happen how long 14 hours to 15 hours yes may Allah have mercy on your parents it takes between 14 to 15 hours so if science tells us the moon is going to be born on Saturday at 4.40 definitely by 7.20 I'm not gonna be able to see the moon right because it's only 3 hours old but by tomorrow morning which is Sunday it has already been what 15 hours I have said to you the moon is there but I can't see it then Ramadan has to be declared starting I don't have to wait until مغرب time then to see it that's how you reconcile between science and the jurisprudential perspective of determining the beginning of Ramadan and the beginning of for example the scientific opinion says that the sighting of the moon by the naked eye is not a necessity in determining the beginning of Ramadan it's not a necessity the opinion of the same the opinion of say his life is different to his teacher he says no you need to sight it by the naked eye that's where this discrepancy starts and happens between the مقلدين of let's say I'm a مقلد of say it's a study now and there is a living today that is of the opinion for example that says that you don't have to sight the moon with the naked eye but if there is certitude that the moon is born and you can't see it because it's still in that محاق stage but the following day it has already passed its phase where it is rising from the horizon but you can't see it due to daylight then Ramadan becomes viable and it begins and you can fast can I do what رجوع the question of going back to that مرجع I will quote the particular opinion of say it's system he says if my مقلد thinks that this مرجع who believes in that point of view is at the same level of my knowledge and you have certitude about it go do رجوع I have no problem you know what some people said that's what I was referring to at the beginning of my speech now you did not understand what the say it was saying these are the quasi I told us with all your no no no you must see it with the naked eye this is what say it says he said this is my personal opinion yes but if you believe that someone else among the مرجع believes that you can accept astronomical astronomical calculation and you use religion as well in order to determine the birth and you are satisfied go ahead that's how we can reconcile our differences but if we are going to be standing at each other's throat my مرجع is better than your مرجع and your مرجع doesn't understand the opinion of my مرجع and we will never agree on anything brothers and sisters and I think with all your respect and veneration to our مرجع there are not the problems well sometimes we are unfortunately the perpetrators of these differences because we are not understanding the wide perspective and horizon from which they are addressing a particular point of view and we need to administer that ability to understand in a wider horizon so that we can join together and celebrate aid in one day yes I don't know any more questions tomorrow how do you define the soul now you want yes الله سبحانه وتعالى when he speaks about the soul و يسألونك عن الروح you don't want about the soul right people came and asked the prophet صلى الله عليه وسلم و يسألونك and they ask you oh Muhammad about the soul say the soul is the command of Allah قول الروحه من أمر ربي وما أوتيتم من العلم إلا قليل the soul is a command of Allah you are yet to comprehend what the vast knowledge that is available to you you can't encompass everything scientifically however it's proven that is there a soul in the human body or not we need to understand we don't want the religious perspective of the soul Quran is telling us yeah I appreciate Quran it's telling me full stop don't put a question mark yes when Allah says this don't put a question mark put a full stop because it's a full statement but I need to understand and appreciate what Allah is telling me by the same token like for example the question of belief in Allah is it by virtue of faith or by virtue of knowledge this is the question brothers what is it what is it who says faith is it based on blind faith or is it on knowledge base knowledge why because Allah said what an amazing statement by Allah you must know and learn that there is no god but Allah he didn't say believe that there is no god but Allah you must know you must know or Muhammad and subsequently the Muslim nation I want to know the soul doctors made a study of a body that was given they were observing they don't know but they know that this person is dead immediately before his death they weighed him they weighed the body immediately after the death they found out that there is 100 to 200 grams missing in the body immediately now someone says it's part of the human body that when it dies it loses weight not instantly according to doctors not instantly this is instantly and the doctors were bewildered where did these 200 grams disappear or 150 grams disappear some of them said this is the soul some of said we don't believe in the soul but at least it's an argument it's what an argument the question of whether the soul or what is the soul what is the nature of the soul the Quran does not speak at length about the nature of the soul but in our own understanding and observation of the Quran and what happens to us as human beings and how we function we can arrive at a little bit of a conclusion or inference of what the soul is what is the worth of a human being after he dies I'll ask any wife to keep her husband for 5 minutes in her bed after he dies although he was her don Juan he was her I don't know what you know Saint Valentine right before man sorry before death after death every woman becomes Marja of Taklit why because she says باري him it's the best thing the prophet said باري a dead person the best thing to do to a moment is to do what باري him take him why because his worth was on the basis of that soul if it wasn't there he's a frame he's what a skeleton like I tell our youth sometimes I have keys in my pocket for a Ferrari take the keys and go and drive the Ferrari be my guest I don't have a Ferrari by the way just saying the kid goes that youth he's full of adrenaline opens the car sits in the driver's seat and he wants to basically floor the car floor the car put his foot on the accelerator the car does not move an inch he's shocked goes to the I used to make the mistake of saying that go to the front bonnet and open there's no front engine in the Ferrari it's in the back so I said go to the back and open the boot open it or the middle of the there's no engine what is the worth of that Ferrari zero zero and the worth of a human being in his soul everything about a human being worth is on the basis of that soul even the connection between a human is on the basis of that soul take that soul away you are a non entity not you please forgive me I'm saying in general the human being becomes a non entity if we understand then that the basis of creation is that soul that Allah interjects in their human being we will come to an understanding that nurturing the soul supersedes nurturing the body because the body will be annihilated and the soul will remain perpetually one of the creations of Allah that never dies by the way brothers and sisters is the soul but it's not a creator why because it had a beginning but it doesn't have an end I'm sorry with this I conclude peace be upon you Any more questions I think


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Welcome to NTN Nightly. I am General Norvel. This edition stops stories. New protocol measures announced in the national fight against COVID-19. Most strides are being made in Britain, the digital divide in the education sector, as the special needs sector receives laptop devices and government reaffirms its commitment to keeping gasoline capped at the pumps. New protocol measures have been announced as government and the Ministry of Health continue to lead the national fight against COVID-19. We have some new protocols based on the recent numbers that the CMO has given us. So first of all, I want to indicate that all registered farmers and fisher folk are to be included in the essential list of activities. That means that they automatically, once they are registered, they automatically will be able to operate outside of the curfew hours, meaning after 7 o'clock at night or before 4 o'clock in the morning, if their business requires, they would be allowed to be out. Pardon, PM, so let's just back up a bit that an amendment to the curfew. So because we had it at 7 p.m. to 5 a.m., and as you've just indicated, the curfew will now be 7 p.m. to 4 a.m. Correct. And that makes allowances for our registered farmers and fishers to go about their daily activities. It does, but also for those persons who like to exercise earlier in the morning can do so. But in addition to that, by making them an essential list of activities, also allows them to operate within the curfew times. So the same thing that would have applied to your manufacturing sector and your emergency services, they also, because farmers and fisherfolk are producing food for this country. And so we do not want to disrupt their normal pattern of work. And I think that we would all recognize the important role that they pay. Faith-based organizations may now hold daily or regular religious ceremonies within the established protocols with the numbers determined by the square footage of the building and keeping with the COVID-19 response plan approved by the Ministry of Equity. So again, we're going away from where churches were going to be limited to 25 people, but based on the square footage of the church, they can operate. Faith-based organizations may hold special religious rights, including weddings and funerals with a maximum of 25 persons in attendance. And that will also be the number that would be limited when they actually go to the graveyard site as well. There will be a suspension on the sale and disposal or the continued suspension on sale and disposal of intoxicating liquor be maintained until the 24th of February. Upon the lifting of the suspension, no consumption of intoxicating liquor shall be permitted or on licensed premises during the period the 25th of February to the 16th of March. So even when the current suspension comes to an end on the 24th, the intention is that liquor will be available at the grocery stores, both big and small, but it will be on a grab-and-go basis. So we know in the rural areas that there are grocery stores that are also bars. Persons will be able to purchase their liquor in those locations, but it will be on a grab-and-go basis. So we don't see persons congregating in those spots, but that will be between the 24th to the 16th of March. Restaurants and other food establishments shall operate only with a takeaway service. And that's within the curfew hours. So any restaurant or food establishment can be open and can provide grab-and-go or delivery services, but they have to be shut and follow the curfew hours. Commercial and business enterprises may be open for businesses and permitted to operate within the established protocols and minimal operation using blended approach. So it means many of the smaller shops and the vendors now will be allowed to go back and start their operations again and would have to operate within the hours of the curfew. So between 4 o'clock in the morning and 7 o'clock in the evening, but again, they're going to be required to follow the protocols of wearing your face mask all the time, ensuring that your customers are wearing their face mask at all times. Indoor and outdoor training and gym workouts be permitted within the established protocols and prohibition on contact and non-contact competitive sporting activities shall remain in place. So people are allowed to go out training, but we are still requiring any contact sports to be restricted. And these measures shall remain in effect from the 17th of February until the 16th of March. Meantime over in Barbados, Prime Minister Honourable Mia Mortley has announced an 11-day extension to the ongoing lockdown that maintains a strict 7 p.m. to 6 a.m. curfew. The difficult decisions are unfolding at a time when the country battles over 600 active COVID-19 cases. During an almost hour-long address, Honourable Mortley explained the decision to extend the restricting measures until the last day of February was consistent with the best advice of her public health team. The only adjustment after February 17 is the decision to allow minimats to reopen from Monday to Friday. The extended lockdown will have a devastating impact on the Barbados economy with a projected $150 million in losses over the four-week period. Prime Minister Mortley has pointed to her government's highly touted capital works projects as a ray of hope in helping cushioning the blow. A key component in the national response to the pandemic is the rollout of a strategic vaccination programme. On Wednesday, 17 February 2021, the Ministry of Health will begin that programme with frontline workers and the most vulnerable. 3,000 doses of AstraZeneca vaccine arrived on Island last week, a contribution from the governments of Barbados and Dominica. Recognising the urgent need to commence COVID-19 vaccination campaigns in the eastern Caribbean, leaders continue to stand in solidarity during the pandemic by sharing the first vaccine doses that arrive in the region. More in this report. While awaiting an order of vaccines from the Indian government, St. Lucia thankfully accepted 3,000 doses from neighbouring islands that received theirs first. The Commonwealth of Dominica donated 2,000 Oxford AstraZeneca doses and Barbados donated 1,000 in order for St. Lucia to move swiftly in vaccinating those at highest risk in its population. The two countries are the first in the region to have received 1,000 doses of AstraZeneca, and the second in the province of the vaccine from India under the Vaccine Matri Initiative. On Sunday, February 7th, the government of India dispatched 100,000 doses to Barbados and 70,000 to Dominica. Within the week, the two islands received their consignments allocated and shipped batches to their Caribbean neighbours, including St. Lucia. Dominica's Prime Minister, Hon. Roosevelt Scarrett, told why he paid it forward. It makes no sense if one country is fully vaccinated and the neighbours are not. And therefore, this spirit calls for multilateralism and it also calls for empathy and it calls for a spirit of sharing. Dominica also donated 5,000 doses each to St. Vincent and the Grenadines and Antigua and Barbuda from their India donation. Hon. Scarrett is thankful to the Asian nation for its swift and favourable response to his early request for vaccine support. He is also pleased to assist neighbouring islands in beginning urgent vaccination campaigns against the COVID-19 virus. I don't think I could go to bed knowing that I have 70,000 doses of vaccines and not share with the rest of the relations as small as what we gave them is or was. But still they can start the process. These vaccination donations to St. Lucia will be used in the rollout of the first phase of vaccinations for 1,500 frontline workers, including medical personnel, state security, including the police, fire service, correctional officers and paramedics. During the first parliamentary sitting for the year when only Barbados' donation was confirmed, Minister Hon. Alan Chastney announced Prime Minister Mia Motley's gesture to the Hon. House. She did that because she clearly understands the stress we're all under, particularly with our front miners. This is not to say like we're a huge metropolitan country and we have lots of other resources to make up for that. We know that when a police station goes down, everybody in the police station goes down with it. That we have any of our nurses affected significantly where it would cause us to have to close down one of our main hospitals. So I'm very grateful to her and the people of Barbados that have agreed to share these vaccines with us. Prime Minister Chastney also announced that 74,400 doses of the vaccine will arrive on Island before the end of February procured through the COVAX facility. Hon. Chastney indicates that his government intends to purchase additional Oxford AstraZeneca doses from India and like other OECS Member States awaits a direct donation from that country as well. Discussions are also ongoing for vaccines from the African Union. For the Government Information Service, I am Jesse Leons reporting. And the Carrickham Secretariat has also received a donation of 100 vaccines from the Government of Barbados to vaccinate 50 employees. Secretary-General Ambassador Irwin La Rock says it is not the first time that the islands have banded to address the difficulties of COVID-19. When we were in a spot of trouble in March of last year, those countries who were able to get PPEs and those countries who were able to get reagents and test kits were also able to share with others who were not. And I know that Barbados is sharing with many other countries and similarly Dominica. Dominica also received 70,000 doses and Dominica is sharing with some of the OECS countries. So I think this demonstrates the solidarity. Prime Minister Motley has said to me that our staff in Barbados, we do have an office in Barbados, will also be looked after along with some of our very critical and important regional institutions that are located in Barbados. These are the frontline agencies. I'm talking about SIDEMA. I'm talking about the RSS. I'm talking about impacts. I'm talking about, of course, us here as secretariat. I think people don't understand the amount of coordination that's being done among these frontline institutions. CAFA, of course, is headquartered in Trinidad and Tobago but I'm sure some arrangements will be made because CAFA is doing human service in conducting tests on behalf of member states and I should mention University of the West Indies as well. They are doing tests along with CAFA to try to detect what types of strain is in our region. So it's a whole effort by the community and its organizations to fight and respond to the COVID. Ambassador La Rock is encouraging Caribbean nationals to participate in the vaccination programs in the respective territories in order to restore normalcy to the region. I've taken the vaccine, I feel fine. I encourage persons to make themselves available. This is the ultimate fight to get us to herd immunity what is referred to as herd immunity so that we can get on with our normal lives. At the same time we have to continue to be cautious and be safe and wear a mask and follow all the advice that the health personnel are giving in the intervening period. I will continue to wear my mask and to keep my social distance and to wash my hands and to do all the necessary hygiene actions that we are supposed to do until we know that we are out of the woods and I do encourage everybody to do the same. Secretary-General of Curricum Ambassador Irwin La Rock More strides are being made in bridging the digital divide in the education sector as COVID-19 changes the manner of instruction. The Education Quality Improvement Project Equip St. Lucia has provided some 30 laptop devices to visually impaired students and special education teachers on the island. Project coordinator Marie Grace Oges says the devices were financed by grant funding from the Caribbean Development Bank. Sixteen will go to students, special education needs students and fourteen will go to teachers. Now you probably be wondering why there was this delay because of the COVID-19 pandemic. We have to recognize that even in the supply chain of our laptops it was a little glitch because the suppliers, the overseas suppliers could not get the parts that they required to put into the laptops. But at least they're here, they're fully delivered. Chief Education Officer Dr. Fiona Phillip-Mayer says the devices are designed not just to assist in the learning process but open new and dynamic opportunities to the students. The software is going to help turn text into voice so much so that we know that it's not only about Braille which is a very important skill to learn but with the advent of the internet students are able to actually look at the text with the software that they have and get the voice for it. So that is really, really a powerful thing to be able to access so much more. So let me congratulate the team let me thank them on behalf of all of us educators for empowering our students, investing in our students, improvement and ensuring that their skills are even further. Education Officer for Special Education Dale Sergis lauded Central Government's commitment to revolutionizing education for the special needs sub-sector. Many of our special schools have already set up their online platforms for the learning of their students. One area of deficit for many of them is the availability of devices for the teachers. We have done a very careful examination of the situation and assessment of the needs and these devices are going to persons who have needs and we know that the laptops will be used in the service of the education of our students. So we are very grateful for this opportunity. I also want to say that this handover although it is coming within the COVID period it is not strictly COVID assistance. I think I can correctly say that Equip has always had it in mind to provide high quality educational resources to support the special needs community. That has always been part of the thinking behind Equip and that includes making available assistive devices for persons with special needs, providing training for teachers, providing support for the parents of children with special needs and this is one of the components of that improvement in education for the special needs sector. The handing over ceremony was held on Monday, February 15, 2021 at the Equip conference room at Goodlands. Hester Sinclair, teacher at the Donato School received on behalf of special needs teachers and Mia Randolph, a special needs student at the Mastery's Comprehensive Secondary School received on behalf of benefiting students. Minister for Commerce, Industry, Investment, Enterprise Development and Consumer Affairs Honourable Bradley Felix noting the most recent adjustment in the prices of petroleum products on Ireland is providing clarity to the public as it relates to government's pricing mechanism. The modified market pass through petroleum pricing mechanism on February 2015 was changed to a three-week period with a view of allowing government to respond to the fuel price adjustments as they played out on the world market. I want to give a comparison at our last pass through mechanism compared to this pass through mechanism going forward. At our last pass through mechanism that was in place, the landed price and I want to speak specifically to gasoline which is where the increase is currently. Gasoline was landed at $6.20 and in this period it's landed at $6.69, a difference of $0.49. Government has in place excise tax of $4 which is added on to this figure. Out of that $4 we are very familiar that $150 is committed to our road rehabilitation road improvement project. There is a service charge of 6% which is calculated on the landed cost and at our last period that service charge of 6% amounted to $0.37 and this period the service charge is $0.40. So $0.49, the difference in the landed price and the service charge we now at a total of $0.52. The company margin starts at $8.01 and that accounts for individuals bringing in fuel and the retail margin starts at $1.10 which accounts for individuals selling fuel. None of the aforementioned margins change. The minister explained that the increase in costs such as the increase in CIF and the service charge account for the $0.53 increase. Minister Honourable Felix indicated however that in many instances the government continues to absorb some of the costs to consumers. Regarding the LPG, the 20.22 cylinders we see another adjustment. Had government passed on the increase customers would have been paying an increase of $0.96. Government decided to further subsidize this by $0.48 and $0.53 respectively and therefore it brings a total of the subsidy now towards the 20.22 and the 22.00 at $7.86 and $8.65 respectively. This means we estimate that government will be giving up revenue of about $400,000 in subsidies towards the LPG 20 and 22.00 cylinders. Government is expected over the next three-week period to make about $3.6 million in excise tax revenue. We make a comparison to last year February. Government had estimated that we would have made about $4.25 million. So you could recognize the difference between last year and this year in terms of the estimates and in terms of the revenue that government is making. Comparing the price of fuel in member states of the Eastern Caribbean currency union, the minister reaffirmed the government's commitment to make about $1.95 per gallon. 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The government has continued to take steps to help support the economic situation of the country, especially citizens who are more vulnerable. For example, the Prime Minister, Alain Chassner, has established his motion in May last week to seek a way for the Parliament to approve a legislation that governs the Prime Minister. For example, a magic trick, I play hard with a lot of necessities that deserve to be served by the Prime Minister. The Prime Minister has also found a good way to support the country. The initiative has been started since the 1st of February this year and the 31st of March this year as well. Prime Minister Chassner explained that the government has had a direction to support the economic situation and as a situation that has come to be more difficult, you have to do everything you can to help support the people who are more vulnerable in the country. Prime Minister Chassner also said that a situation that can improve the American economy, the majority of the people who are out are the people who have received more support from the family who are living in America. The public sector has found a notification that the season to fish in Huma will be the first in March and the first in May 2021. In the meantime, it is important for the people to fish and not to oppose this because it is for the people. However, in this sector, the government has made it difficult for the people to fish and not to oppose this because it is for the people to buy in Huma during the season to fish in Huma. The season to fish in Huma has been closed all year to help the people in Huma to benefit and to make contributions to entertain the people who live and not to destroy the people in Huma. 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Hey guys, it's Nate, aka The Foot Accountant. Welcome back to the channel. We have a big day today on EAFC 24, especially because of the market movements that I'm expecting to see. Guys, I want to talk about the first set of rewards that we're getting today across the entire ultimate scene this year. Squad that are rewards and how it's going to move the market a lot, how we can make coins and also watch our players that maybe we've invested in or maybe even still make investments today that we can hold for the next couple of days with the market rising probably a considerable amount in the next couple of days. We're going to talk about all of that and look forward to today's content on Sunday as well. If you're excited for it, drop a thumbs up and of course subscribe if you have not. Now yesterday, I want to go back really quickly and talk about some content that dropped yesterday as there were two good SBCs that were released. The first one at James Madison Center Attack in mid player of the month, our first POTM SBC of the year. And this is an August player of the month card. Obviously we're still in the month of September. September player of the month has not been decided yet. Love this from EA, right? We haven't got August player of the month for the past couple of years. Love this SBC. First of all, Spurs fan had to do it right away to get it into the team, but I love the price. It just seems so much more affordable to do this James Madison than the KDB SBC. Now, I understand James Madison's card is nowhere near the level of the KDB, but 38,000 coins, 39,000 coins for an 84 and 85 rated squad, I believe it is. Very easy to do. I did it straight from my club and I only bought one player off the market. And a lot of people are doing this SBC and I think it has, it resonates with a lot of people because it is pretty cheap. And if you want to get it done, I think that's fine. I would just say, again, this is where we're going to start talking about this throughout the beginning of the year. Just be careful doing a ton of SBCs and draining your coins throughout the year. This is a card that will last maybe a month or two on the game. But if you don't have any special connection or if you're low on coins, it may be a skip for you. And it may be an SBC that you say maybe in 29 days because he's out for a long time. He's out for literally 29 days. Maybe that's one that you get done if you really want to, but it's not the most pressing of SBCs, right? Fodder is up. You can see 86s are rising. They're almost 7,000 coins. 88s are 15K. People are doing KDB and people are doing the James Madison SBC. And I have to think that part of that has to be because we're getting some really good packs and objectives that is feeding fodder into our clubs. And then we're going and doing kind of the only SBCs that are available right now, right? James Madison and the KDB SBC. So that was a nice SBC that was dropped yesterday. Now, the fact that we just got a player of the month for an August player of the month, guys, I want to just kind of throw something out there. If we're going to get more August player of the month SBCs, maybe in the next day or two, let me just show you who won player of the month in the La Liga. It is Jude. Yes, La Liga's player of the month this last month for August was Jude Bellingham. If we're getting more POTM SBCs, that would be insane. Remember the Val Verde? Federico Val Verde player of the month came out, I believe, on this day last year, like the first weekend of the game last year during early access. If we were to get a player of the month, Jude Bellingham, that would be insane. I'm not saying it's common. I'm just saying there's potential for that now that we had an August POTM James Madison. Boniface from, I'm saying that name completely wrong, from Leverkusen. He won player of the month for Bundesliga last month as well. I don't know who won it for Serie A, but there's potential for other player of the month to be released, specifically that Jude would be a crazy, crazy SBC if we were to get it. So I'm just saying the potential is there to get more of them, and that's exciting because player of the month this early on, especially for the Madison as we saw, are actually pretty decent value. Now also yesterday we had a brand new pack SBC, which was expected. The red and blues, and just like the reds SBC, it required a different club. We had PSG was a requirement for this SBC, and if you're doing it on the web app, it's glitched. It's going to say, oh, the PSG player does not work on console. It does. So I don't know what's going on with EA and these SBCs. Hopefully they get it fixed up, but this seems to be a trend that's starting to form. Are we going to continue to get more of these types of SBCs? Because every single time that we get one, like Liverpool players went up in price, right? Today PSG players on the men's and the women's side went up in price because they both count for that SBC. Now they're back down, but I'm pretty sure that PSG players were all around 2,000 coins right away. Guys, this might be a potential investment opportunity. I can imagine that EA is going to drop, they drop Premier League Day 1, League 1, Day 2. Is there going to be a Serie A, maybe UVA, maybe Milan, maybe Inter could be featured in an SBC like that today? I just think there's potential for them to go through all the top five leagues, pick a massive club from any of those leagues. And maybe there's an investment opportunity here. I think if you look at Barcelona, you look at Real Madrid, a lot of these cards, if you were to stock them in your club, try to get them on bid, especially during a time of supply, like today at Squad Battle Rewards. If you want to make a purely speculative investment that EA was going to drop another pack SBC like this throughout the coming days into this next week and feature one of those top clubs from one of the other leagues, I think you could do that. So a bit of a risky play because there's no league, so there's no real for sure things confirmed with that. But it's a potential investment that you could make if you wanted to just try not to pay too much more than like 6,700 per card, especially if it's rare or non-rare golds because rare golds, that's almost this card, but non-rares can go down to 300 coins. So that way you're not having too much risk if there's no SBC that comes out. That's a potential investment you could do maybe stock your club a little bit as those cards could rise. Who knows? Now also yesterday, we had some more packs refreshed in this store. I got a quick 80 plus pick here. Whoa, 87 rated fodder. We move. Guys, some of these objective picks and packs are insane, right? I think I've got another pack in here to open with you guys today. Silver pack. What do I have here? I've got an 80 times too. These packs are really good. Like, watch, this one's going to be bad. French goalkeeper. Wait a second. Who is this? Who am I packing right now? Okay, okay, 83 rated.  But I've seen so many people pack really insane cards. Oh, Darwin Nunez. I just started my founder's evolution with Julian Alvarez. Dang it, man. I would have used Darwin Nunez in that if I would have waited. But that's like a 27,000 point card on the market. Guys, those objective packs are actually really good. But what I was trying to show you in this store was that EA did refresh the promo packs from yesterday, but only the tradable ones. They didn't refresh the 50K pack that was untradable. But the countdown timer is once again ending today. So I would assume that those tradable packs in the store are going to refresh. And maybe EA adds in another pack today. So that could bring some more supply to the market. Like we've seen the past two days now at 6 p.m. content time, prices drop on the market because of supply. And that is again what happened yesterday. Speaking of Darwin Nunez, let's look him up really quick because Darwin was 31,000 coins yesterday around the content drop time. Right now he is down to about 27K as a lot of cards dipped down in value because of the supply that once again came in, right? We had the SBC that gave us a tradable pack from the Red and Blues SBC. That brought some supply in. James Madison has two segments, tradable SBCs inside of those, or tradable packs back inside of those two SBCs. And that made prices drop yesterday. You can see Dan Juma was 16K. Content comes out. All the supply drags him back down to 13 where he is now. Now speaking of supply guys, we're talking about the market. We're talking about prices. Prices are starting to rise on the top tier meta and they're starting to take off. Today might be one of the last opportunities to invest. Today is a massive market day as we said in the intro of the video because we have our first set of rewards today and it is squad battles. And guys, if you take a look at some of these rewards, right now I'm in like silver one, right? I'm probably not going to get anything higher than am I close to gold? I'm not that far off of gold. Maybe I'll try to play one more and get in there. But you look at some of these rewards. I know a lot of people that have been playing all their squad battles games since they know it's been the first set of rewards to get. Guys, there are like elite three, a mega pack, tradable premium gold players, a premium gold pack and 12,000 coins. Even if you're just getting an okay rank and getting like gold two, you're getting a small rare gold players pack, jumbo premium and 7,000 coins. There are a lot of coins and also tradable packs that are going to be opened up today. And I really think it's going to be a catalyst for a lot of people to go back out to the market to buy players for their teams and we're going to see prices rise. Now that's the biggest thing that's happening today. A lot of coins and a lot of packs are coming out of the market which means we're going to have some supply but then we're going to have just like we always see with rewards and like kind of we saw even yesterday on the game, we're going to have more coins in the game and that means people are going to go and buy up cards. That top tier meta of cards is just going to keep going up. Take a look at Neymar. Neymar I think was like 280,000 coins yesterday or maybe even like 250K. He's 350,000 coins right now in this game. We have a lot of prices that are just continuing to rise. Raphael Liao was like 120K I believe and now he's 150,000 coins. There are prices that are moving upwards. Basically every spot on the market in this game that is a top tier more meta type of card. Guys prices are rising. Today is going to be an opportunity to probably buy some stuff and see it go even higher but it's also going to be a time where cards maybe drop down and really drop in price because they're going to get packed a lot and they may not bounce back up as much. Today if you're going to try to buy some cards guys I would focus on more expensive or at least middle to high tier because those are the cards people are going to be upgrading to that are on the game. I'd be very careful with the card like Anzufati, Alex Balde which yes there might be some evolution hype for some of those same thing with like Darwin Nunez but a lot of people are going to be upgrading past the guy like Alex Balde and maybe upgrading to somebody else to a higher rated version because they're getting rewards they're getting packs to open. Cancelo is a card that is up a lot right now in value. We'll talk about that in a second but maybe that's somebody who people upgrade to from Balde to Cancelo as they get coins and as the Barcelona links are very in demand in this game right now. So I really do think today this is how it's going to go with squad battle rewards. We're going to get a moment or two maybe even three probably like 20 to 30 minutes guys honestly of when the rewards actually hit we're going to get some supply on the market and card prices are going to drop for just a short amount of time but after that I think it's going to be chalked and I think prices are just going to be rising there's going to be a lot of people investing because they know that cards are being packed and they know that coins are coming onto the market so when those prices dip for that short amount of time I do believe prices are going to continue to rise guys prices have already started to rise on a lot of those meta cards again you just had a Madison SBC yesterday so I'm looking at some Prem cards as well Bukayo Saka right now he's one of the cards that's actually kind of dropping on the market he's about 35,000 coins which is a bit lower than what he was but then you take a look at the rest of the market and you see some of the players we just looked at like Rafael Varan, Leao a lot of these guys yesterday are just kind of on the way up I think today might be maybe at most you have a bit of a dip not even as drastic as we had here yesterday with supply it's probably going to be like a small dip and then probably just more of a rise today I think that's the expectation for a lot of the top tier meta cards so maybe you snipe during that supply of rewards now that rewards time is 9am UK it's very confusing actually I wish EA showed it better in game it's kind of difficult to see I think if you go in squad battles it's like really small if you like back out like I see it doesn't really say in here right like it says I have my opponents updating a certain amount of time and then it says boom next competition so like 4 hours right from right now is when, or 5 hours I think is when the rewards are going to come out from right now when I'm recording this video but watch this space watch the market today because there's going to be a lot of movements there now that's not the only thing you're going to be able to do it's not just Nate I'm trying to snipe cards when the supply hits then watch them rise what I would also tell you to do today is get on the bids guys this is one of my examples for an 88 rated card that if you are like Nate I don't have a ton of coins what can I do today get on bids on SBC fodder alright there is going to be demand for people to do the SBCs like James Madison to do the SBCs like Kevin De Bruyne cause they're going to be getting rewards today they're going to be getting coins and what it's going to bring with the supply is it's going to bring people wanting to do SBC so if you go and take a look at some of the cheapest players by rating on foot bin once again I would say get on bids for 85s 86 is all the way up to 88s I can't believe that 88s are approaching 15, 16, 17k like that that is crazy when these cards were like 8k 3 days ago it's absolutely wow that fodder is already moving and the full game isn't even out yet so watch for bids on those types of cards today you'll be able to make a lot of coins there in my opinion if you're on the bids and you're grinding those and then also I would say the low tier meta I know we just said be careful with that these would be the cards that I'd be the most careful with today but these cards are still in demand somewhat so you see a guy like Balday who went from 2.8k all the way to 3.5k from a Friday night into Saturday yes he dropped down but if he has a big drop off today let's say he goes to like 1500 coins could he go back up to 2500? absolutely so maybe you find another example of a card who's a bit on the lower tier who is somebody that people may be upgrading from in their team because they're going to have more coins and they can buy a better player like DePai went from 5k to 6k and now he's down to 4.5 if he's like 3k during rewards you might be able to buy some of him or actually you know what the guy we've been talking about just about every single day on this channel Bruno Gameresh is 6000 coins look at the drop off that he had yesterday from 8.5k where I sold him in the morning on Saturday all the way down to 6000 coins is where he is right now if this guy's like 4.5k on bid during the squad that are rewards like yeah you could probably still buy that and he still might have a bit of a rise maybe he goes back up to like 7k from 4000 coins and that's a really good profit so that's the sort of thing I would watch out for if you're in a lower budget get on the bids get on the snipes, get out there and get trading because there's going to be a lot of movement today a lot of movement up and also some movement down because of the supply that we are going to have now also if you're like Nate I'm like really low on coins I would bid on SBC solution players I'm talking non-rare golds and rare golds that move because of the SBC solutions Hector Herrera is somebody who in the past like day or two if you see his footpegraft he gets into the solutions a lot Hector Herrera's card goes from 450 coins where he is right now as you can just see a couple times in the past day he went to 2.5k he went to 3.7k and 2.3k just like an hour ago right and now he's 450 again so maybe there's an opportunity for you to stock somebody like this in your club because you know at some point they're going to get in those SBC solutions again and go back up today would be a great opportunity to do something like that as well so really guys the way that I see the market happening and moving today is I see prices dropping for a slight amount of time and then I see them going up a decent amount and right now I know I'm not going to be awake for awards so I'm kind of just taking peaks around the market and saying like where can I invest and one of the spots in the market coming up right now guys are the women's players and let me just show you some of the graphs of cards like Sophia Smith yesterday 147k she's now 213k guys there is a lot of hype right now in this game for the women's players specifically because it is starting to be I guess known and starting to be realized that with the build that these women's players have in game they are just straight up meta okay their dribbling is insane they're tough to tackle but it's really just the dribbling that's so insane for a lot of these cards and their prices were so low during the early access period they're now just taking off Deanna was like 99k the female Mbappe is what people call this card the women's Mbappe because she's very fast in game with good dribbling 132k coins after being 90k yesterday I was watching Sam Kerr yesterday on stream and her card is out of packs she was like 210k coins what is Sam Kerr's gold card now 27280 guys prices on these women's cards are moving up a lot and I think it's going to continue because if this truly is a part of the meta people are going to be buying these cards because they're going to want to try them out maybe if they wrote them off before as not very usable or they didn't want to use these types of players in game I think that's going to be pushed aside if they see that they are actually truly more meta in game so definitely watch out for the women's cards today there's going to be a lot of movements there like the inform Karchawi left back is a card that has gone up a ton recently I don't know if you guys have been keeping track of team of the weak prices Karchawi is 170k these are some of the first prices to rise by the way Salah's extinct his max price is 500k he's up like 80k on the day and he's now extinct Lampty is up 20k a card Dibala is up 20k a card Doku is rising McIterian the entire team of the week is rising coins are getting on this market guys and more are coming today that's why I'm very very expectant of prices to continue to rise today even though we're getting rewards which some people think would mean old prices dropping now other things on the market that are moving that I want to make you guys aware of investing for upcoming team of the weeks we looked at that Cancelo card just a bit ago on footman right I actually have one Cancelo still in my club Cancelo is rising a lot alright he's 39k coins he was 28k 29k coins yesterday the reason he's going up so much and the same thing that Harry Kane's gold card is going up so much as well is both of these guys had performances that are team of the week worthy they could be getting into team of the week too which would mean their gold card is going out of packs guys we have confirmed it gold cards are when they get a special card they are out of packs it's just like old FIFA so you can invest in the gold cards when they go out of packs and that is what people are doing with Cancelo and with Harry Kane their prices are up now this could be an opportunity Cancelo by the way is up a lot I would not buy him unless he was like 33 or 34k coins 35k max after seeing him rise this much and it's unknown right if he actually gets a team of the week card that's what the investment is for though right a lot of people are investing and saying hey Nate I think Cancelo is going to get an inform because he scored was it a goal and assist or two goals and Barca came back from being down to win Harry Kane had like five goal contributions goals and assist combined so he's like a very obvious answer for team of the week that's why those cards are up in value I have one more Cancelo that I bought at 29k I sold one I still have one I'll probably hold on to this until Monday Tuesday as team of the week prediction starts to come out his price may rise even more he's a meta card that links to a lot of Barcelona players anyway so another reason to hold the item and that's probably when I will look to sell the card just because I want to get out and sell in the hype that is one thing we talk about very often and I'll remind you guys of is selling into the hype right there's hype of Kane or of Cancelo getting an inform you want to sell before everybody else does even if they do get informed they could potentially go higher there's so many people that have invested in these cards if they're really not worth that much because they're inflated then it's usually good to sell in the hype on those so that's one thing on watch out for today to we got more games happening today of course we've got the north London derby today we've got other primarily games that are happening Chelsea Aston Villa Liverpool West Ham if somebody has a really good game at let it go Madrid and Real Madrid right there was a part of marquee matchups if somebody has a really good performance their card could go up on the market as a gold that could be a really good investing slash trading opportunity today if you're watching a game you see somebody having a really insane performance go check their price on the market right they could be going up if you time it just right you have potential to make some coins so again today in the store as well I'm expecting the packs to refresh so I would probably say if you're buying cards like I am specifically just to have rises on today like again I'm looking at Bukayo Saka is one of the cards that is down a lot right now and maybe it is because a lot of people are switching over to trying out some of the women's cards but this is still I mean a card that so many people want to go for in ultimate team you know 33k for Saka right now is really really mad I sold him at 40,000 coins earlier in the day yesterday so that's really crazy for me to see him at 33k right now if I can get a snipe at like 31 or 32 I might have to just go for that because that is a crazy low price and I might just have to go for it so that's kind of what I'm doing right now but I would say quick flip the cards if you're going to be trading and very active on the market quick flip the cards before 6pm today hopefully the market is going to rise throughout the rest of this next week at least until the middle of the week but if you don't want to hold on to them and if you're just in it for like Nate what can I buy today to sell today you know you would probably want to sell in the hour or two after squad battle rewards because then as we get towards content once again like we've been seeing every single day another tradeable SPC another round of store packs that people can open you might see some prices drop after content again today so maybe your best time to sell would be a couple hours after squad battle rewards but keep a close eye on the market depending on what you're wanting to do today on this game it's going to be a wild one it's going to be a crazy one get ready for those squad battle rewards they're coming soon and honestly just keep an eye on the market as prices in the top tier should continue to rise unless we have some sort of crazy content SPC that none of us are expecting that could happen you never know it's EA but for right now it's looking like a market rise day today and that means a lot of coins are potentially going to be made if you enjoyed the video today drop a thumbs up on it comment down below if you have any questions and of course subscribe if you're new I'll see you in a video on the channel tomorrow it's been Nate from the account and catch you guys there peace out