Oh, Sylvie! A fiery horse with a speed of light, the cloud of dust, and a hearty hi-oh silver, the Lone Ranger. With his faithful Indian companion, Tonto, the daring and resourceful masked rider of the plains led the fight for law and order in the early western United States. Nowhere in the pages of history can one find a greater champion of justice. Return with us now to those thrilling days of yesteryear. From out of the past come the thundering hoof-beach of the great horse, Sylvie. The Lone Ranger rides again. Come on, Sylvie. Let's go, big fellow. Come on, Sylvie, follow me.  Free prairie schooners made up the train, and as Dan watched the billowing canvas tops, he wondered what sort of people were in the wagons, from what point in the east had they come, and at what point in the great west would they settle. To Dan, the west was home, and he was always fascinated by the fact that his great open country could attract people from the big eastern cities, regardless of the dangers and hardships they invariably had to overcome in the transition. Suddenly, Dan's thoughts were rudely interrupted. Oh, Victor, oh boy, easy boy. Steady. I'll have to take cover. Somebody tried to shoot me. Uh-oh, I'm too late. Better try to... Oh, better hold it. Say, was it you who just shot at me? Well, I sure.  You know what? I thought you an Indian. That's why I took a shot at you. You might have killed me. Ah, you're not hurt, kid. What's your name? A steady one. Dan Reed, what's yours? Me? I'm Bob Ferris. Well, you're not much older than I am. Oh, I'm almost sixteen if you want to know. You don't look that old. Listen, you'll start trouble if you go around shooting in Indians. The Indians around here are all friendly. Oh, don't try to tell me. Everybody shoots at Indians. I heard all about it in Kansas City. So that's where you're from? I thought you sounded like an easterner. Easterner? That isn't so off of Far East. Hey, you see that wagon train down there? Yeah, what about it? My old man's wagon's in it. He's leading it. You're with that wagon train? My old man pulled up stakes in Kansas City because of me. I was always getting in trouble. So he thought coming out this way would change me. He don't know it, but someday I'm going to be a second Billy the Kid, that's what. You mean you want to be an outlaw? Oh, sure. As soon as I practice up enough and riding and shooting, you have to be tough to get along in the world these days. Find that out in Kansas City. See, don't you carry a gun, Kid? No, I don't. Ah, then you don't know how to shoot. Is that it? Well, I can shoot well enough, I guess, but I have any need for a gun, so I don't carry one. You shouldn't carry one either. Well, this one isn't really mine. It's more man's. I sneaked it out of the wagon this afternoon without him knowing it. Your father won't like that, will he? Ah, he's one of those mild sort of men. I think he's a little afraid of me because I turned out to be so tough. You mean you'll really act, well, tough with your own father? I sure. He never could handle me. Neither could Ma. Always preaching to me about changing my ways, but I don't do no good. I see. I guess I better be going. My horse is getting restless. Look, Bob, you'd better not shoot at any Indian you might see. If you do this, there's no telling what will happen. Say, I'm not afraid of the Redskins. I always said I'd like to get a shot at one. You know, kid, you talk like my old man and my Ma. You should have been there, kid, instead of me, maybe. If I had a father and mother living, I'd do all I could to please them. You mean you haven't got any? No. They were killed by Indians years ago. Oh, then you're on your own, huh? Yeah, you're sure lucky. Look, I don't like that kind of talk. Guess I'll leave now. See you sometime. Come on, Victor. Hey, wait a minute, kid. He's scared of him, but he's a type that's easily scared anyhow. Well, might as well get back to the wagon train. Get up, brother. Dan attended to certain errands in a nearby town. Then at dusk, he joined the Lone Ranger and Tonto in their camp in the hills. He told them about his encounter with Bob Ferris. He acted awfully tough, and I didn't like the way he talked about his mother and father. A boy like that needs a firm hand, Dan. His parents probably have been too mild with him. And, too, he might have been in with the tough carter boys in Kansas City. Him need someone to make him do right, Kimosabe. It not good him steal father's gun, shoot at Dan. Well, he really didn't mean to shoot at me. He thought I was an Indian at first. His imagination is running away with him. If he shoots at an Indian, he might start trouble. That's what I told him, but he laughed at me. Of course, he acted awfully tough, but... But what, Dan? Well, if I had to, I bet I could lick him. Dan, you don't often talk like that. Maybe, Dan, him get tough now, eh? No, but I didn't like the way he talked. He needs to be shown that he isn't as tough as he thinks he is. Dan, I'm sure you know how to use your fists when necessary. But Bob Ferris could be shown that his boasts of being tough don't pay in other ways. Not right. Not him. He thinks he's tougher and smarter than anybody else. It's commendable, Dan, that you resent his attitude toward his parents. But a boy like that needs a certain type of guidance that his father evidently isn't capable of giving. Well, maybe so.  Oh? A boy like that needs to be taught that courage, a quick mind, and a quick trigger finger can be used more profitably on the side of the law. Billy the Kid would have been famous as a lawman had he been properly trained in his youth. Not right. Well, I bet nobody could teach that fellow Bob Ferris anything. They'd be foolish to try. You really are down on that Ferris boy, aren't you? Well, let's forget him and get something to eat. Come on, Tonto. We'll get supper. The following morning, Tonto and the Lone Ranger were riding west from their camp keeping to the shady trail at Skirt of the Hills. Suddenly the Lone Ranger motioned from a halt. Hey there, Tonto. Hold still. Hold still. Hold still there. Hold still there. Listen, Tonto. You hear war crying. Do you think he must happy? Sounds like an attack of some kind. Hold still. Get him up. Stop. Racing along the trail at breakneck speed, the masked rider of the planes and Tonto rounded the hill before them so that the plane was visible. It was then they realized the meaning of what they heard. Look, Tonto. Then you're detecting those three wagons out on the plane. That's not good.  You'll have to help them. Swearing from the trail, the Lone Ranger and Tonto urged their mounts and crossed the rolling prairie toward the scene of battle. Now, Tonto, let them have it. The sight of a masked figure on the huge white stallion seemed to be too much for the Indians for the final burst of gunfire and with ears flitting whoops, they fled over the prairie toward the shoulder of a wooded hill beyond. Within a few minutes, the Lone Ranger and Tonto arrived at the scene and rained up near the lead wagon, where a woman was leaning over a man who lay wounded on the ground. Oh, sir. Oh, sir. Oh, sir. Oh, sir.  Maybe we can help, Tonto. No, we try. Yeah, perhaps we can help it. My Indian friend is good at carrying for wounds. It was all so sudden. Those awful Indians. And then John was shot. Me look at Woon here. Oh, well, him. Him not hurt bad. Him be all right soon. Oh, do you really think so? Me fix him. Him shot in shoulder. Soon him get well. Thank heaven. We saw what you did. At first when we noticed that mask, we were sure you were going to help the Indians. I'm not a law. I'm Mrs. I'm Mrs. Ferris. This is my husband, John. We're all so thankful to you. That's right. We were glad to be of help. I'd like to find out what aroused the Indians to the point of attacking like that. They're usually quite peaceful around here. I know why they did it, stranger. I know. Easy. Easy. Easy. Me fix him. It isn't too painful for you to talk, Mr. Ferris. Perhaps you'll tell us what you know. I feel better now. It was my boy. My son Bob. He was the cause of it. I hate to admit it, but it was Bob's fault. Bob Ferris.  Yes. I've already heard about your boy, Mr. Ferris. You heard about Bob? But how? We just come out this way. That's what the Bob shot at a young friend of mine. Mistaking him for an Indian. He said he had sneaked your gun out of the wagon. Yes. Yes, he did. I told him not to do it again, but this morning he didn't. This was the result. The result was almost a calamity for all of you. Poor Bob. I don't know what we can do with it. He ought to be punished right now. Let's pull him out of the wagon. That's where he's hiding. We'll teach that young scamp a lesson. You'll think we will. No. No, wait. I'll bring Bob out. I'm sure he's sorry for what happened. Bob? Bob, dear. Come out here. Come out. I'll look in the wagon, Mrs. Ferris. Oh, I said that boy is almost more than we can handle. He isn't here, but he did leave a note. I asked the boy's gone. He left his printed note inside. No. What does it say? He wrote, uh, I know I'll be blamed for what happened, so I'm leaving, and I won't be back. Bob. Oh, no. My boy. Alone in this wild country. Let's trail the little scamp and bring him back. I say he ought to be punished good, that's why. He's a no good button, that's why. Oh, wait, all of you. Don't forget he's only a young boy. He's not entirely to blame for what he's turned out to be so far. What do you mean, stranger? I mean, Mr. Ferris, that your boy needs a strong hand. They got him into the right path. You haven't given it to him. Perhaps he respects strength and firmness, and you haven't shown that to him. But he's our only son, our baby. Oh, no, no, Mrs. Ferris. Bob is growing into young manhood. That's something that you both must realize. I guess we deserve what you're saying, stranger. But if Bob was back and we had another chance, we might do different. Maybe you'll have your chance, Mr. Ferris. We'll go after Bob. We'll find him. And when he's ready, but not until then, we'll bring him back to you. If you only would find him. I think we can, Mrs. Ferris. So telling what a boy like Bob will do before we catch up with him, but not knowing the country, he can't go far alone. A mystery with the Indians are ours like they are. I don't hold out much hope that you'll find our boy alive. But if you do and you bring him back to us, we'll do what we can to turn him into the kind of a young man you think he ought to be. I promise you that. The curtain falls on the first act of our Lone Ranger story. Before the next exciting scenes, please permit us to pause for just a few moments. Now to continue our story. After promising that they'd do what they could to find young Bob Ferris, the Lone Ranger and Tonto left the encamped wagon train and cutting sign on the youngster. They rode westward into the hills. Let's find him before dust sets in Tonto. Boy of his age is bound to be frightened alone in these hills after dark. Ah, if not safe. I know. Now wait, give us something to wait for, Scout. Oh fella, oh fella. Ready. Look like tracks, leave trail here. Go to Canyon over there. Yes, it does look that way. We should set him before long. Ah. Get a ride toward the Canyon. Get him up Scout. Oh, Silverhove. Oh, Scout, oh fella. Oh, oh fella. Look, Kimus Abbey. You see boy, from standing entrance to cave, him hold gun. Yes, I see him now. Don't you come any closer. Without that gun, Bob, we came to talk to you. Don't you come here, I said. Gun in hand, a scared young and not good Kimus Abbey. It's dangerous, you go closer. Don't worry, Tutto. I'm coming up there, Bob. Remember, I said put down that gun. Wait here a moment, Tutto. I told you not to come close, didn't I? Take it back, Mr.  I don't think you will.   I'll take that gun. Knock it that back. You let me alone. Take it easy, take it easy, son. Not going to hurt you. All right, Tutto. You have a lot to learn, Bob. I'm taking you along with us to our camp. You mean you let me join up with you? You teach me to be an outlaw? I intend to teach you to be a man, Bob. I'm not an outlaw, as you think. Then I won't go with you. Oh, yes you will. Get his horse, Tutto, just inside the cave entrance. Ah, we bring horse out.  I think you'll come. I won't get on the horse, or Snowy was bringing him out. Son, the only language you seem to understand is force. I'll put you in the saddle. Take on me, put me down.  Get him back to our horse's tunnel. It was dark when the Lone Ranger and Tutto with Bob Ferris arrived at their camp and stopped within the glow of the campfire which Dan had started. Just a big bully, that's what. As big as you are, I'll show you I'm just as tough as you are. I don't claim to be tough, Bob.  Hello, Bob. Remember me? You're the kid I met yesterday. What are you doing here? Well, these are my friends.  Now, wait, Bob. You can't get away with talk like that. I am getting away with it. Who's going to stop me? Listen to me a minute, son. Aren't you sorry for what you did today? You know your father's wounded because of you. Maybe my old man deserved it for always preaching and everything. I'm not you, Bob. Just because you're so big, you're going to get tough with me. Is that what you mean? Well, I'm not afraid of you. No, Bob. I'm not going to get tough as you put it. But I'm going to give Dan permission to teach you a lesson. Ed Runt, don't make me laugh. Show him what you know about boxing, Dan. Well, come on. I'll show you how to fight, Runt. Maybe we'll both learn something. Yeah. Oh, flat me out. Good. That's what. I expected that. I'll get you for that, you little. You have a lot to learn.  Oh, I'll show you. That one got you. You got me down.  I'll get you for that. No kid like you can do that to me. I won't let you get away with this. You just been lucky so far. I'll fix you good for that. You're not so tough. If you want more, get on your feet. I've had nothing. All right, Dan.  Yes, sir. Hello. Bob needs a little fixing up. Me fixing. As soon as you finish, we'll get supper.  After Tondo had helped Bob clean up and brought him water, the boys sat sullen and silent, watching the masked man and his companions as they moved about the camp. He secretly admitted to himself that Dan had whipped him fairly. And in spite of himself, he felt a certain amount of respect for the boy he had tried to belittle. Then too, Bob noticed that Dan, without question, was one of the various camp chores assigned to him by the Lone Ranger. Soon, Bob began to wonder at the fact that the boy who had whipped him recognized the quiet, firm authority of the masked man. When Dan and the Lone Ranger approached with food, Bob's expression had changed. Here's some food, Bob. You can eat it or leave it, just as you please. Here's some hot broth, Bob. It's good, too. Well, thanks. Well... You were about to say something, Bob? Yeah.  I guess I... I'm sorry for what I said about you, kid. You're all right, honest. Thanks, Bob. So are you. And you're not mad at me? No, of course not. I've been thinking that... Well, I... I guess there's more to getting along out here than just being tough. Well, there are many men, Bob, who have little bodily strength. Yet there are better men than many who are big and strong. Because they never take advantage of another's mildness or timidity. And they respect those who have authority over them. Well... I guess you mean I'm not much good then. The way I treat my woman, I mean my father. You did take advantage of his love and kindness, Bob. Because he wasn't firm with you, you decided you could be tough and get away with it. I think you've learned your lesson. I want to... go back to the way I can train her. I don't want them all to like me, but... they won't. They hate me now, but... for everything. I suppose we mount up and ride over there, son. I think they'll soon understand and want you to be back with them. Well, what do you say? Shall we go? Golly... you sure are all right. I'm ready to go. Right now. There's the wagon train. Big fire they have. It makes everything almost as bright as day. Golly, I don't know what to say. Don't worry about that, Bob. We'll stop here. Don't bother. I don't know why we stopped. You three wait here. I'm going to ride over there alone. I'll come back soon to get Bob. We wait with Bob. Good. He didn't bring the kid back. Then you didn't find my boy? Maybe just as well he did. He's dangerous to have around. He's good riddance. What do we need to do? Our poor boy alone in this wild country? I'll wait a minute, all of you. I have found the boy and he's all right. Bob wants to come back. He's sorry for the way he's acted in the past. He's willing to try to change. That kid will never change, Mr. You have to show me. Wait. Please let the masked man talk. Bob has learned a lesson. He learned it from another boy. A boy who believes in fair play and obedience to authority. Bob is willing to try to change. It will be difficult unless all of you help him and have patience. A boy of his age can't change overnight. But take my word for it. He wants to have another chance. Will you give it to him? Bring him back to us, Mr. Yes, bring him to us. I say give the kid another chance. Yeah, it's all right with me. Go get him, Mr. Thanks. That way. Now, I'd like a word with Mr. Ferris alone, please. What is it you want to say? Mr. Ferris, a lot depends upon you. Be patient but firm with your boy. I will, but I don't understand. Underneath his so-called toughness, Bob is all right. He realized that if a boy who could thrash him was willing to recognize authority, there must be something to it. I see. If you give Bob the proper guidance, I'm sure that someday he'll be proud of him.  Come on, soldier. A few days later, the little wagon train had arrived at a new campsite. As Bob Ferris helped his father unhitch the team, he suddenly cried out, Dad, look, here comes the masked man with Dan and Tano. Hi there. Hi, Tano. Golly, I'm so glad to see you again. We came by to see how things are going. Fine, stranger, just fine. All right, Dad. Leave the horses around the back of the wagons. Gee, Dad, I want to stay here and talk to Dan and Tano. You want to take the horse, Bob? Yes, sir. I'll be right back, Dad. All right. I see the boy is learning fast, Mr. Ferris. Now, him do all right. I sure it changed lad, Mr. Once in a while he forgets himself, but then he seems to think of something and grabs hold again. Oh, I'm so glad to see you again. You did wonders for our boy. Tell him, Mrs. Ferris. Well, come, Dan, Tano. We'll be right back to camp now. Golly, are you leaving so soon? Yes, Bob. Someday we'll see you again. Oh, until then. Bye, Bob. Come on, big girl, let's go. That masked stranger is so big and strong, yet there's something about him that, well, I just don't know how to explain it. I know, Mom. What is it, son? Well, he doesn't try to act tough. And you know what? I can tell you who he is, too. You can? Who is he, Bobby? He's called the Lone Ranger, Mom.  That's one. I don't know... 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So you're sitting in a truck, you're watching all this construction going on and you're thinking to yourself, how can I expand what I'm doing and grow into something that, you know, I would be proud of as well as my kids would be proud of. So I'm thinking and I'm watching and, you know, years are going by and finally I got to the point where I said, okay, you know, I'm either going to do something now or I'm not going to do anything at all. So I had a good friend who would try to encourage me, he would talk to me and say, hey Brian, you know, you can do more than just sitting in that truck. There's opportunities out there for you. There's more opportunities for you than there is for me. So he would just encourage me and I still didn't have a plan or a path to transition from being in construction, driving a dump truck to starting a construction company. So at the end of the day, I said, well, I'm going to start taking steps. So the first thing is to get my construction supervisors license in Massachusetts. You need a license to be able to pull permits and do projects that are inspected by the different agencies. So I got my construction supervisors license. So then I'm saying to myself, now what? So at the time me and my brother were building a house to sell. So I supervised the whole project and we built it and we sold it. So I went to the nonprofit and I started bidding contracts. So at the end of the day, they wanted contractors to be pre-qualified. So they said, show me your past projects. So I presented to them this house that I built. So they say, okay, that's along the lines that the type of projects we're doing. So that's how I got my first shot. And then it just evolved from there. We started building three, four, five houses at once. We started renovating two, three, four, five houses at once. But at the end of the day, that market dried up. Okay. Okay. Now you said the friend of yours that encouraged you to do more. What was he thinking about in terms of you? Did he see something in you? What do you think that was? Well, he was, I had a cousin that worked for him back in the 70s. So we created that friendship based on him knowing my cousin and he was a white contractor. And he's just, I guess he saw in me, Brian, who's going to be the next MBE in this area. You know, you have the potential to do it. You can do more than what you're doing. There's more opportunities out there. So he just took a liking to me and we started talking and he basically said, I don't have the answer as far as how are you going to do it?  I'm only going to pay you so much money, but I can help you that you can make your own money. So that was kind of inspirational, inspirational because, you know, most people really don't talk to you in that way, you know, they got you in a certain place and they want to keep you there. Absolutely. But that's really the conversation that we had and it just kept lingering in my mind.  Is that person still around? Is the guy still around? Yes he is. He's still around and he's still thriving and, you know, we've worked on different projects in the 8A arena. You know, I've subcontracted to him, we're still friends and, you know, I really appreciate everything he's done for me. What does he think about your success now? He says it's great. It's great. But Brian, as you know, we know this is going to come to an end so you always have to concentrate on what are you going to do when you get out of 8A. Right, right, right. The clock ticks fast. Nine years may seem like a long time, but the clock ticks fast. On that same topic, what do you say about people who want to just get in 8A and they've never done any projects at all? Well, the 8A program is a great program and it's not a startup program.  So it's a business development program. So it's designed to develop your business so that when you get out of the program, you can continue to thrive and be a successful business. So working with your business opportunity specialist is key. Boston, we have a great SBA office and, you know, they really try to help you and try to guide you so that you will be successful when you get out. I can't say enough about the 8A program and there's many opportunities that are afforded for whatever socioeconomic category you're in. And at the end of the day, I've seen people use a program greatly and I've seen people not use a program at all.


I think one of the outcomes of this meeting has been really to look at the different reports that have been produced and to try and draw synergies and identify what's in common in those. So we've made progress in that direction. I think some exciting commonalities, but what we do about them requires a little more thought. I was hoping to draw those commonalities that I've just mentioned. For example, there is widespread agreement that one of the key issues in the use of ICTs and technology is the need for governments to operate holistically. So you've got to have the finance minister talking to the health minister talking to the infrastructure minister, etc. It's good that we've identified that as something, but we now need to decide, okay, what are we going to do? To jump the gun a little bit, I'd love to see us working with regional organisations. So if there's a meeting of the African Union or regional groupings, that we could perhaps have a day session there beforehand or afterwards when we've got their leading government officials and actually tell them why this is important and have models of what to do about it. I think a second area that there was pretty much agreement on is actually there's not that much really good monitoring evaluation. So if we can encourage anybody embarking on this to actually be open and honest about what the successes are, what hasn't worked well, but also what has worked well. And we can actually say, okay, these things are essential if you're going to deliver on quality education, not just roll everybody out with a tablet. Lots of people are doing that, but we've got very little really good concrete evidence of what you have to do to make sure that the quality of learning improves because ultimately it's the development impacts that matter, not the technology. The CTO has 53 of the world's countries, a third of the world's people. So we can actually be, and we can be a vehicle through which some of these ideas can be disseminated very much more rapidly. And we held a meeting of the Commonwealth ICT Ministers, the first ever in March this year, and were able to apply some of the emerging ideas on mobile learning into the communicate report that came out of that. Ministers, ICT Ministers, had identified education and ICTs as being one of their top priorities. And amazingly, in a two-day summit, we actually got them to agree a document on what should be in ICT education policies, strategies. So that's the way we work closely and it's always good to meet people from a multi-stakeholder environment. That can make decision making sort of slightly tricky, but it is an important initiative and the ITU are very much leading on many aspects of the WISIS process, development is important there. And as I think we've said before in discussions, if we don't focus on the impact of ICTs for the poorest and the most marginalised, then the world is going to get more unequal. And that is not only morally wrong, but it's politically dangerous. Identifying the commonalities, that was definitely an output, I think there's strong commitment of people here to do something. And I can actually, I mean, Rahim Asanu has emphasised this is our initiative. So I think one of the things that may well happen is three or four of us may get together to do one thing, another five will do something else and we will carry these things forward. I think all of us pretty much know each other over many years anyway. And it's up to us to actually make it happen. So I'm hungry. We have to do more because we've written the reports, they're good, but I don't want them just to lie on the shelves or in some digital archive somewhere. We need to share them through our own avenues and I'm sure we're doing so, but I look forward to something I've spoken with the staff here about is how we might actually have examples of good practice on the Empyrean Development site. So we draw people there, if you're interested in mobiles for health, mobiles for learning, these are the top five case studies that you could look at. I mean, that's certainly something the CTO does with our site in our priority areas. It's very easy to do, but people don't know enough of what the good examples are and it's good to draw on those. So, yeah, there are lots of positive things, but we still need to turn that rhetoric into reality.


as gifts by the gift-giver al-wahab Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala other fadail must be earned they're acquired Imam al-Ghazali says at the end of the day everything is Wahby everything is from Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala anyway but there are some virtues that require discipline and we said last week that Imam Ghazali's theory of virtue is very similar to Aristotle in the method of habitus right, habituating the lower self to acquire these virtues but the raya, the talas, the end is very different for Aristotle in the nikamaki and ethics the talas is eudaimonia a fulfilled life or happiness or a life of contemplation to become a philosopher whereas for Ghazali it's wilaya proximity to the divine, sainthood, friendship with Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala now in the preface he says if someone has been blessed with even one or two of these qualities of perfection and nobility whether of lineage, beauty, power, knowledge forbearance, courage or generosity he is considered noteworthy and people use him as an example as a moral exemplar Imam Ghazali's heartfelt esteem of these qualities makes people who have them honored long after their bones have turned to dust so Imam Ghazali in his ihya he mentions or he affirms what are known as the four cardinal virtues the four principal virtues he calls them umahatul fada'il and these are courage and wisdom and temperance and justice so they are in arabic they are shaja'a which is epitomized by Abu Bakr Siddiq so each of the four caliphs epitomized is one of these virtues shaja'a, courage, and then umar, adhala, justice erthman is iffa, temperance and khikmah say na'ali these are the umahatul fada'il the cardinal virtues the principal virtues but these also must be refined according to Imam Ghazali that true virtue is in the middle it's the mean, the golden mean so true courage in other words courage it has two extremes so the virtue is in the middle to one extreme is excessive courage right, this is ifrat ifrat and tafreet, too much courage excessive courage this is not considered a fada'il it's not considered a virtue, it's a vice so someone for example who has tahawar or foolhardiness someone who's a reckless that's not courage so for example um you see somebody mugging someone with a gun on the street it's probably not a good idea to confront that person directly because you're going to put yourself in danger so it's probably a better decision to just call the police with your cell phone actually approaching that person and trying to stop the mugger is actually not considered courage but rather recklessness and that's a vice and then you have the other extreme where there's deficiency in courage tafreet and that's cowardice jubun even with wisdom so the point here is that a true virtue is to know when and how to act that's a true virtue when and how to act and then to follow a moral exemplar so as we said each of the four caliphs epitomize one of these virtues and the prophet sallallahu alaihi sallam epitomizes all of them but even with wisdom there are excesses excess wisdom is called makar or deceit tricksterism and in many cultures around the world tricksterism is actually lauded it's praised if you can if you can fool someone and get away with it and somehow get their money then you're a clever person this type of thing unfortunately this is something that's found in cultures all around the world and in literature all around the world the trickster archetype it's found in the bible it's found in in greek mythology prometheus and other places as well and then obviously a deficiency of wisdom is called bala or stupidity right so these are the cardinal virtues ghazali also talks about the mystical virtues so these are cardinal virtues and then there are mystical virtues and these mystical virtues he considers them to be these stations that are bestowed by Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala these maqamat and the first one is repentance is toba that's the first station station of the spiritual path and the last one is so then along the path there's sabr and shukr and khawf and zuhud these 19 mystical virtues so qadi ayyadi continues so what can be said of the inestimable worth of someone who possesses all these qualities is the microphone working? so he's saying here it would be impossible for him to have granted them either by graft or guile such a person is only such a thing is only possible by the gift of Allah the Almighty so now he's going to list the various qualities praiseworthy qualities and virtues of the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam so prophethood bearing the message close friendship with Allah his love being chosen the night journey vision of him, nearness, proximity, revelation, intercession all the virtues, high degree the praiseworthy station the buraq, the ascension being sent to all mankind leading the prophets in prayer the witnessing of the prophets and their communities mastery over the descendants of Adam his being the bearer of the banner of praise bringing good news and warning his place with the one with the throne obedience, bearing the trust guidance, being a mercy for the worlds Allah is being pleased with him kawthar, being listened to or being obeyed the perfection of blessing on him pardon for past and future wrong actions the expanding of the breast the removing of his burden the elevation of his renown his being helped by a mighty victory the sending down of the sakina support by the angels his bringing the book in wisdom and the seven methani and the immense Quran his community being purified his calling to Allah the angels on him his judging between people and by what Allah showed him his removing the chains and burden from them Allah swearing by his name his supplication being answered inanimate objects and animals speaking to him the dead being brought to life for his sake the deaf hearing water gushing from between his fingers his turning a little into a lot the splitting of the moon, the sun going back his changing of the essence of things and here's a footnote for instance at the battle of Badr there was a companion named Ukasha whose sword had broken and the prophet sallallahu alayhi sallam picked up a piece of wood and said take this and fight with it and then Ukasha looked and it turned into a blade and they called it ala'un so changing the essence of things his being helped by terror this is a bad translation terror is a very loaded term nowadays this does not mean terrorism as we know it this means that this is from the khasais of the prophet sallallahu alayhi sallam that Allah would strike an intense fear and dread into the hearts of his enemies during the military expeditions sannu l-qiyi fi qulubilladina kafaru ru'abaa bima ashrakubillaa maa lam yunazil bihi sultana that Allah swt struck the hearts of the unbelievers or the shalikin with ru'abaa which is sometimes translated as terror I wouldn't use that translation anymore I mean that's what it means but terror again is a very very loaded term this verse is actually from surah number 3 verse 151 which does have a sababun nuzul according to the ulama it was revealed for a specific purpose imam at-tabri imam qurtubi mentioned that after the battle of Badr when the sahaba had suffered many casualties and they went back to medina the mushrikin felt emboldened initially and they planned on going into medina itself and then massacring everyone in medina but then Allah swt put this intense ru'aba this intense dread fear into their hearts and he said that's good enough let's just go back to Mecca so that's the context of the ayah and many times the prophet sallallahu wa sallam would dress and sought for an expedition and military engagement and the enemy would come near him and they would flee because Allah swt would put this intense fear and dread in their hearts he continues listing the prophet sallallahu wa sallam's qualities and praiseworthy station his knowing the unseen, the cloud shading him the glorification of the pebbles his removing pain his protection for people and so on and this is just some of what Allah gave him much more he says knowledge of his qualities can only be contained by someone who has given it and only Allah can bestow it there's no god but him add to this all the stations of honour degrees of purity, ranks of happiness, excellence an increase which Allah has prepared for him in the domain of al-akhira which cannot be numbered which intellects are unable to grasp and which confound the imagination so that's his preface and now we begin section 2 with his physical attributes so this is part of the aqidah of ahl al sunnah wal jama'a to believe that the prophet sallallahu wa sallam had the best khuluq and the best khalq in other words internal and external beauty so here we're talking about ethics and physical appearance and from the prophetic invocations of course the prophet sallallahu wa sallam says oh Allah just as you have made my external reality beautiful beautify my internal reality it's a beautiful du'a so he begins here he says there's absolutely no way to conceal the fact that the prophet is the worthiest of all mankind the greatest of them in position and most perfect of them in good qualities setting out to detail his qualities of perfection in the best way I can which has filled me with longing to call attention to some of his attributes sallallahu alayhi sallam may Allah grant him peace no may Allah illuminate my heart and yours and increase my love and your love for this noble prophet I mean that if you were to look into all those qualities of perfection which cannot be acquired and which are part of one's constitution you will find that the prophet has every one of them all of the various good qualities without there being any dispute about it among the transmitters of the traditions the beauty of his form and the perfect proportion of his limbs are related in numerous sound and famous traditions and then he names a bunch of transmitters Ali and Anas Ibn Malik and Abu Huraira and Al-Bara Ibn-u-A'aza bin Aisha Ibn-u-Abihala etc we'll go into many of these inshallah ta'ala inshallah ta'ala some of these are very well known some of them are not very well known he had the most radiant coloring deep black eyes which were wide set and had a sort of red tint to them long eyelashes a bright complexion and an aquiline nose aquiline means it was a slightly hooked nose aquila in latin means eagle it's like eagles beak it's also called a Roman nose in early Christianity the eagle was a symbol of strength and nobility the symbol of the Gospel of John was an eagle the Roman empires symbol was the eagle in ancient Greek mythology Zeus was symbolized by the eagle so the aquiline nose aquiline noses are cross-culturally viewed as beautiful and noble it's an immediate sign of nobility a physical sign it continued he had a gap between his front teeth it was a small gap his face was round with a wide brow and he had a thick beard which reached his chest his chest his chest and abdomen were of equal size so his stomach did not protrude sallaladhi sallam he did not have what we call a pot belly and this is something that's important because the prophet sallaladhi sallam is like I said physically he's the most beautiful therefore he's going to be the most healthy nowadays you have this thing going around where we're supposed to accept people as they are even if they're unhealthy unfortunately they're people who complain they have to buy two seats on an airplane because they're overweight well some people have sort of predispositions to weight gain and things like that so I'm not talking about that but a lot of this has to do with a lack of self-control and then they turn it into a civil rights issue just as black people had to sit in the back of the bus now I have to pay for two seats on an airplane it's not the same thing at all so obesity is unattractive because it's unhealthy and that person is literally dying so it's not attractive just as anorexia is not attractive because that person is literally dying so the prophet sallaladhi sallam his physical constitution avoided both of these extremes so you can draw a line from his chest down it was straight he was broad chested with broad shoulders large bones, large arms thick palms and soles, long fingers fair skin and fine hair from the chest to the navel so he had some mass so I tell the brothers he should lift some weights increase your muscle mass there are brothers I know that are pushing 30 that can't find wives they're good brothers but I don't know if I could have the heart to tell they look like they're 110 pounds and it's not really attractive to women it's just not beautiful so the prophet sallaladhi sallam is our example and he had large arms and a broad chest he had broad shoulders because that's the picture of beauty he was neither tall nor short but between the two in spite of that no tall person who walked with the prophet seemed taller than him his hair was neither straight nor curly when he laughed when he laughed and his teeth showed it was like a flash of lightning where they seemed as white as hailstones when he spoke it was like light issuing from between his teeth he had a well formed neck neither broad nor fat he had a compact body which was not fleshy al-Bara said I did not see anyone with a more beautiful lock of hair resting on a red robe the messenger of Allah Abu Huraira said I have not seen anything more beautiful than the messenger of Allah it was as if the sun was shining in his face when he laughed it reflected from the wall there's another hadith that he doesn't mention here from Sahih Muslim also related by Barab that the prophet sallalladhi sallam he said the prophet was middle height broad shoulder his hair hung down to his earlobes then he said and he was wearing a red mantle and then he said I did not see anything more beautiful than him he doesn't say I didn't see any human being or any man or I didn't see anything nothing in creation was more beautiful than him Jabir ibn Samur was asked was his face like a sword he replied no it was like the sun and the moon it was round that hadith is in Bukhari in muslim in her description um ma'bad is a aateeka bintu khaled so this is the context of this hadith and this hadith is in bay haqi that the prophet sallalladhi sallam when he was making hijra with Abu Bakr sadiq they stopped and rested in a town on their way to medina and this woman um ma'bad was a very very old woman saw him from a distance and then met him up close and she said uh from afar he was the most beautiful of people and up close he was the most handsome and then she said to her husband after the prophet had left you never get tired of looking at him right she was a very very old woman so the prophet sallalladhi sallam was very striking or you would say stunningly handsome right so many people are like that you just see them and it stops you and you forget what you're saying ibn abihala said his face shown like the full moon at the end of his description ali said anyone who saw him suddenly was filled with all of him so there was a heiba there was like this wadiness or gravitas or dignity people when they immediately saw the prophet sallalladhi sallam they were all struck by him and they just overcome it's like when you first lay eyes on the kaaba when you actually see the kaaba that first initial moment you're all struck by the spectacle sayna ali says this hadith is in the shama'illah tirmidi and then he says those who kept his company loved him but when you actually mixed with him got to know him then you the heiba is still there but then you started to love him almost immediately and some people are like this also you meet a perfect stranger there's something about their attitude after two minutes you think i love this guy he's such a nice guy masha'Allah he's a beautiful guy all who describe him say that they have not seen anyone like him either before or since i did not see before or after the likes of him i did not see before or after the likes of him i did not see before or after the likes of him there are many famous hadith he concludes the section here there are many famous hadith which describe him we do not take time here to give all of them we restrict ourselves to some aspects of his description and given a summary of them which is enough to serve our purpose section three is on his cleanliness his cleanliness so he begins here by saying the complete cleanliness of his body the sweetness of his smell and perspiration and his freedom from cleanliness and bodily defects by Allah which no one else enjoys and these were made yet more complete by the cleanliness dictated by the sharia and the ten practices of natural behavior so these are called the asharatun min al fitra there is a hadith in sahi muslim that names these basically ten practices of good hygiene right elsewhere another hadith are called the sunnah the ten practices of the prophet sallallahu alayhi sallam there are different versions of the hadith but in muslim from aisha clipping the mustache obviously this refers only to the men not allowing the mustache to go into the mouth it is considered very bad hygiene letting the beard grow the beard is a sign of rujuliya virility manliness prestige virility power it's proper for a man to have even a few hairs on his chin it shouldn't be out of control and untidy using a tooth pick or a toothbrush a very good hygienic practice of the prophet sallallahu alayhi sallam snuffing up water to the nose or rinsing the nose out very good practice for health reasons cutting the nails obviously good hygiene washing the knuckles by the hands or the joints right which is what we're told to do a lot nowadays do fist bumps now we're not allowed to shake hands anymore because of corona stuff plucking or trimming the hair of the armpit shaving or plucking or trimming the pubic hair cleansing oneself with water in the laboratory a lot of people don't do that by the way which is very strange to think about that but a lot of people don't do that using water after you use the bathroom very good hygienic practice axiomatic for us a lot of people don't do that the narrator forgot the 10th but he said it could be rinsing out the mouth it's a good practice it's like a form of a quick floss when you eat just rinse the mouth out any food particles will come out they suck and they cause infection and then one version has circumcision rather than letting the beard grow so different versions of the hadith but these are the 10 practices of the fitra or the 10 practices of the sunnah the 10 practices of good hygiene and healthy healthy living the messenger of Allah said the deen is based on cleanliness so he quotes this hadith the commentator says it's from ibn al-Hibban and it's da'if but there's a hadith in muslim it's this is in sahi muslim cleanliness is half a faith in this culture they say cleanliness is next to godliness and i said that i have not smelled amber, musk or anything more fragrant than the smell of a messenger of god sallallahu alayhi sallam it's hadith is in muslim intermidi jabr ibn samura said that the messenger of Allah touched his cheek so the prophet sallam the children playing and often times he just kind of pat them on the head sometimes he pat them like on the cheek like this so this happened to jabr he said the prophet touched my cheek and he said i felt a cool sensation and his hand was scented and he said it was like he drew his hand out of a bag of perfume that's what it smelled like when he touched my cheek this incredible coolness to it this incredible smell to it someone said no matter whether he had put scent on his hand or not if he shook a man's hand the fragrance would remain for the whole day one of my teachers said that after the isra wal-miaraj the scent increased it was a natural scent he had since birth but it got more intense after the lady of the isra wal-miaraj if the prophet placed his hand on the head of a child that child be recognized among other children by the fragrance he smelled his head right at the time of the tabi'een some of the sahaba were still alive were very old the tabi'een would actually line up at their doors just to like see like the man's head because they said the prophet's hand once touched it when he was a boy now he's an old man he's gray or he's bald they go and they smell his head they say i can still smell the fragrance hahaha the messenger of Allah slept in a rug in a house of anas and perspired anas's mother umsulaym brought a long-necked bottle in which to put his araq, his sweat when the messenger asked her about this she said we put it in her perfume hua min atiyab yatib she said it is the most fragrant of scents the best of perfumes bukhari and muslim in this great history al-bukhari mentioned that jabir said when the prophet went down a road anyone who followed him anyone who followed him knew he had passed that way because of his scent so the prophet went through like a path in the streets you can just follow his fragrance and know exactly where he went if he had a good sense of smell and then he says here ishaq ibn-u rahaway mentioned that the prophet's fragrance occurred without the use of perfume i don't know ishaq ibn-u rahaway ishaq ibn-u rahaway that's something that he mentions here from one of the scholars even without the use of perfume it's a natural scent muhammad ibn-u sad al-waqid described related that ayesha said to the prophet sallallahu alayhi salam when you come from relieving yourself we do not see anything noxious from you he said ayesha don't you know that the earth swallows up what comes out of the prophets that none of it is seen so he quotes this hadith this hadith is very much disputed though it's very much disputed lady does mention it here connected to this we have a hadith of say na'ali i washed the prophet's body so this is after the prophet had passed sallallahu alayhi salam and i began to look for what is normally found in a corpse but i did not find anything and then i said he's speaking to the prophet bi'abi he said may my father be ransomed al-tayyibu tibta hayyan wa tibta mayitan say na'ali is saying this to the prophet sallallahu alayhi salam as he's washing him that you were pure in life and pure in death he added a sweet smell came from him who's like i've never experienced this is in multiple hadith but some of the alama say there may be some weakness in this ibn-u madjah related abu davu al-haqim and others in buhari abu bukker kissed the prophet sallallahu alayhi salam after the latter's death and he said something to the same effect there was also the time when malik ibn-u sinan drank some of the blood of the prophet sallallahu alayhi salam at ghaswad ur-had he says he licked it up the prophet allowed him to do that and then said the fire will not touch you this hadith is in a tabarani this hadith is often attacked by like christian polemicists so something to remember about this hadith is this was not a command the prophet did not command malik to do this this was a spur of the moment thing that malik did in it it was out of love for the prophet sallallahu alayhi salam the prophet did not command him but he allowed him and he excused him for doing that it's interesting that christians would attack this christian apologist attacked this hadith there's a statement from issa alayhi salam in their source there's a very strange statement that they attribute to him in the gospel of john chapter 6 where he says unless you eat my flesh and drink my blood there is no life in you and catholics actually take that quite literally this is a command one of their seven sacraments is called the eucharist where they come together on sunday for the mass and they have bread and they have wine and something occurs during the process called transubstantiation which they actually believe that the holy spirit will change the essence of the bread into the literal body of god and then they eat it and then the wine into the literal blood of god and then they drink that right so this is something that they're commanded to do right so it's very ironic that they attack hadith like this because a companion on the day of orhood you know in that intense situation where the prophet is bleeding right that this companion basically jumped on the prophet and took some of the blood into his mouth out of love but nowadays because of the corona thing so when you go into a catholic church the priest is supposed to take it's a wafer he's supposed to put it right on the tongue but now the Vatican is saying that's not optimal because of the corona virus that's how germs get passed so he's supposed to put the wafer in the person's hand but then there are crumbs that come off and those crumbs they're saying wafer then that's literally literally it's not figurative the Protestants say figurative the Catholics are over a billion and a half and they say it's literal that's literally the body of god so then you have people wiping you know their hands on their pants and things like that so it's causing a lot of problems with Catholics right now this one's also something that's always attacked here something similar is related to that when a woman drank some of his urine and he told her you will never complain of a stomach ache so the hadith is in al-haqim then qadi iyad says he did not order any of them to wash their mouths out nor did he forbid them from doing it again then he says the hadith of the woman drinking the urine is sound ad-daraqutni follows muslim and bukhari i relate it in the sahih i couldn't locate this hadith in bukhari in muslim then i called one of my colleagues who is a hadith scholar and he said it's not in bukhari in muslim so i don't know what's happening here maybe this is a bad translation or qadi iyad it just seems to be mistaken here the hadith is found in at tabarani but nonetheless qadi iyad he goes on to say one was barakah and they disagree about her lineage some say that it was um-aiman who used to serve the prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam she said that the messenger had a wooden cup which he placed under his bed in which he would urinate during the night one night he urinated in it and when he examined it in the morning there was nothing left in it he asked barakah about that and she said i got up and i was thirsty so i drank it without knowing it was unintentional it was related by ibn jurayj and others so this like i said this hadith is in tabarani and most muhadithin consider it very very weak now many of us urlema do maintain however that the entire body of the prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam is tahr his entire body is pure so the question is about this hadith so his physical body is special that's from his khasais even on this issue there is no ijma that many other urlema maintain that all human excrement is negis and this is true of all the prophets because they are still human beings so allahu alayhi wa sallam qa'a the iyad also mentions the prophet was born circumcised with his umbilical cord cut is related that his mother he was born clean and there was no impurity on him what time is it i don't have much else to say so we'll finish that's the end of section 3 and then we'll do section 4 so section 4 his intellect eloquence and the acuteness of his faculties any questions or comments section 4 chapter 2 as for his ample intellect intelligence and acuteness of his senses his eloquence the grace of his movements and excellence of his faculties no doubt that he was the most intelligent and astute of people anyone who reflects on how he managed the inward and outward affairs of people and the politics of the common people and the elite and his amazing qualities and wonderful life not to mention the knowledge which flowed from him in the way he confirmed the sharia without any previous instruction experience or reading any books will have no doubts about the superiority of his intellect and the firmness of his understanding none of this requires confirmation because it has already been amply verified so you think about all of the different hats as it were that the prophet sallallahi sallam wore during his life as being a father as being the head of state as being a prophet all of these different things that he was doing as being a military commander as being a spiritual leader is really incredible remarkable which has led many as we know western scholars to conclude that really he is in a class by himself no one quite like him in all of history what is the famous book by Michael Hart 1978 the 100 most influential people ranking the prophet sallallahi sallam number one because nobody had the holistic impact that he had in all of history really when you think about it not even close I think I mean second place is very very distant mujahed said when the messenger of Allah sallallahu alayhi sallam got up for prayer he could see all those behind him as if they were in front of him and this is established in strong hadith in Bukhari Aqeem al-Sufuf wa inni arakum khalifadahri so he said establish the lines for prayer stand straight for indeed I can see behind my back this affords one commentary on the words wa taqallubaka fa sajdeen so here qadi iyadi quotes this verse he quoted it earlier and we quoted it earlier as well ibn Abbas's opinion about this and you're turning about in those who make sajda ibn Abbas's opinion is that this is a reference to the prophetical light that is being passed through salli haen from Adam alayhi sallam to Nuh alayhi sallam to Ibrahim alayhi sallam all the way to the prophet sallallahu alayhi sallam that the prophetic light was being passed this is one of the proofs that are used to indicate that there's no shirk in the immediate ancestry in the direct ancestry of the prophet sallallahu alayhi sallam but here he's quoting it for a different reason he's saying here taqallub wa taqallubaka fa sajdeen this is eyesight right and your ability to see those who are making sajda from behind his back and this is supported by another aya in the Quran surah al-Baqarah verse 144 taqalluba wajhika fissamaa that indeed we see you turning your face towards the sky or directing your eyes taqalluba wajhika taqalluba wajhika means to turn your eyes towards the heavens right so similar to the earlier masayih that this aya and asshu'ara verse 219 indicates the eyesight of the prophet sallallahu alayhi sallam and his ability to see behind him during the prayer the muwatha contains the words of the prophet and there's other hadithi quotes here I can see you behind me there's something similar from Anas Ayesha said the same thing adding from herself it is something extra which Allah gave him as an additional proof one of the variants has I can see whoever is behind me as I see whoever is in front of me another has I see the one behind my neck as I see the one before me the prophet sallallahu alayhi sallam could see as well in the dark as he saw in the light this hadith is in Bukhari sorry, it be haqi mentions this hadith and there may be some weakness in the isnaad there are many other sound traditions about the prophet sallallahu alayhi sallam seeing the angels he saw jibil alayhi sallam 600 wings on a throne between the heavens and the earth across the horizon he saw the shayateen in the sound traditions he was able to see the najashi in al-habasha the Christian king who had become Muslim by the way but he's not considered a sahabi because he did not see with his eyes the prophet sallallahu alayhi sallam but he's a tabiri he's a tabiri who lived at the time with the prophet sallallahu alayhi sallam so he could pray for him on the day that the najashi died the prophet sallallahu alayhi sallam he said so he said today a righteous man has died he was informed of this by jibil alayhi sallam so stand and pray for your brother in the same way he says he saw Jerusalem after his night journey so he was given some sort of ru'yaa vision an awakened state of the time because some of the koreish had gone there on caravans and they knew the description so they said well why don't you describe it so we can confirm that you were there so even though he was there Allah swt manifested like it was right in front of him like the Kaaba was right in front of him he was able to pinpoint describe these minute details and there's some other traditions that say that that they still didn't believe him and then he said okay the caravan will arrive there's one camel missing I saw it bolt away from them and then the caravan arrived Allah swt he also saw the Kaaba when he was building the mosque in Medina so this extraordinary ability to see things to hear things right Ahmad ibn Muhammad and others related to the prophet could see 11 stars in the Pleiades this according to Ahmad ibn Muhammad and others refers to the total which is physically possible to see with the naked eye one of them believed that this referred to as knowing about it however the clear meaning contradicts this and there's no impossibility of this having been done clear sidedness is one of the special traits of the prophet sallallahu alayhi sallam and one of their qualities Abu Huraira said that the prophet said when Allah the mighty manifested himself to Musa he was able to see an ant on a stone in the darkness of the night at a distance of 10 leagues this is in Tabarani therefore it is in no way impossible for a prophet to have been able to do what he had we have mentioned in this chapter after the night journey and the favor he received on seeing one of the greatest signs of his lord traditions have come down to the effect that he threw down Rukhana the strongest of the people of his time and called him to Islam and he was this Meccan wrestler he was the best wrestler he was a big huge guy and the prophet sallallahu alayhi sallam basically just kind of body slammed him a couple of times he did the first time Rukhana said how did you do that no one's ever done it so let me show you he did it again and then he became Muslim physical strength and then Abu Huraira said I did not see anyone who walked more swiftly than the messenger of Allah sallallahu alayhi sallam it was as if the earth rolled up for him we would exhaust ourselves and yet he was not tired at all and this hadith also mentioned something similar in the shema'il abima matim adi another of his qualities was that his laugh was only a smile when he turned to face someone he turned to face them directly or totally he would turn his entire body towards that person so he wouldn't turn like this he would speak to someone he was considered he would consider that sort of bad adab he would turn completely and when he walked he walked as if when he was done he would turn completely away and when he walked he walked as if he was coming down a slope so he would walk in other words he would walk with intention he'd walk as if he had somewhere to go he wasn't just walking around meandering around looked like he had nothing to do so the sahaba would have a hard time keeping up with him and it's also due to his perfect physical constitution perfect physical health he had just this vigor and strength about him so his walk was naturally fast so that's the end of section 4 so that's all I had planned on doing for today insha'Allah so we'll leave a little bit early unless we have some questions comments so next time I'm planning on insha'Allah getting to section 7 or 8


How do you all try to move on from a game like this? You got to move on.  But definitely not the outcome that we wanted. And as a competitor, you don't like to build another side of games like that, you know what I'm saying? So we got to be better and get better, quick, fast, and hurry. Yeah, Dr. Ron said that they thought that we knew they were going to be fired up, and they came out after having to lose to Denver. What happened for you guys and trying to match that? To me, it ain't about matching nobody else. Whatever they got going on, it's about what you're putting in day in, day out. You got to be whether the thing is going good for you or going good for somebody else going back.  You know what I'm saying? Any team can get beat any week in the league.  And it ain't never been about the other man for me. So I don't know. I don't care what they had going on. But they came out of Wolters today. And that ain't no excuse that they love. That ain't got nothing to do with us. We got Wolter today. Did you feel like y'all were ready to play today? I think the, you know, I think the score was kind of indicative of, you know, that question. Obviously, things weren't going our way. So yeah, I think that score is indicative of that question. Why do you feel like that ended up being the case? I got to go back and review the field a little bit, you know, and just process this one. You know, just coming out of the field right now, I don't got the best answer for you. What about the New Dallas offense that kind of makes it as productive as what it was today? You know, they definitely got threats on every level, starting with the quarterback, you know, winning the best in the league, receivers, great receivers, great running back, and solid high competitive offensive line.  And, you know, they built this team to go compete at a high level.  But, you know, kudos to them.  Does a game like today show you maybe how much of a gap there is between this team and some of the top teams in this conference? No. Why do you say no? Because I said no. Did you see any warning signs coming into this game? You said you'd score in the case. Maybe you weren't ready. I wouldn't say warning signs, but, you know, it was one of the things where once that snowball got rolling, you know what I'm saying? Mistake here, mistake there. It just keep piling up, piling up. You know, I don't really don't have the answer for you. If I feel like maybe you're action about or appropriate. I feel like these guys work hard, man. We work hard day in and day out. You know, everybody work hard over in the league. You know what I'm saying?  You know, and that's what it's about. So there's no excuse, you know, whether it's in the preparation or whatever it may be, what they was dealing with, what we were dealing with. The Cowboys came out here and whooped the Falcons today. You know, we got to get better because we played the Patriots on Thursday and we got to flush this one and we got to get better. Grady, it's always a challenge to play on a Thursday, but is this a really good time for a short week or an extra difficult time coming off this? I mean, it could shoot. For me, I feel like it's a good, good time. We get, be able to get back on the field fast, you know, and try to get back to 500, you know what I'm saying? And position ourselves for some postseason play, but we got to focus on the right now and flush this one, can't let this one beat us twice. And really, really got to let, you know, let our best football come out. You know, it's time for it. But for a team like ours, it's going to take all phases, man, it's going to take all phases. Did you feel like there was a hangover at all from last week and the way you guys won and the emotional kind of heft of that in some ways? No, kind of like the same thing I've been saying the whole press conference, each moment is a new moment. You got to be a red play on a day of your game. You know what I'm saying? You know, yesterday wins, don't win for the next day. You know what I'm saying? Just because a team lost, you got to be ready to play in every moment, in the present moment and be able to perform. When do you feel like it started to unravel today? Probably around the same time you did. I got a seat of tape. Like I don't remember. I'm just kind of focused on the game. Thank you.


Coach Tom Larky's Perry Central Commodores are looking to bounce back after a 2-8 season last year. Tonight, we take you to hazard in the huddle with the Commodores. It's hard to jump on a bandwagon with a team when you're not winning. The Perry Central Commodores have hit a rut in their football program, not recording a winning season since 2011, going 15 and 39 in the past five years. I've been on both sides of the ball, I've been bad teams where we were playing the state championship games, going undefeated regular season a lot, and when you do that, everybody is at the ball games. Those kids on those teams are no different than kids on this football team. We just really take pride in heart. It's not always about winning, when everyone loves to win, even when you lose. If I can go out there and give 100%, then really the score on the scoreboard doesn't matter to me. It's been a rough couple of years, but this team is different this year. We're really looking to pick up a program, and it all starts now. The upperclassmen and coach Tom Larky, who is entering his third year with the Commodores and is just four wins away from 300 wins, is hopeful that this season's mentality is all about getting better and improving that winning attitude. We got to win some football games to develop at, and we just got to keep on believing that we're going through hard work that's going to happen. A big part of the past two years that I've experienced is attitude, because some people within these past couple of years, they've loafed around. They didn't want to be here. If you don't want to be here, we don't want you. Lots of times it's not really about what you say. Leading by example is a big part of this team. Just showing them what to do to do it right, and if they need help, help them. Always putting in extra work to help somebody come up that needs it. I just want to make a difference and know that we're improving every year and not worrying more or less about the wins, but more about getting in and doing work every day. I'm telling you guys, we have been busting our humps this year. Come to our games. You will love it. I'm telling you, once you see what we've done this summer in practice, you're going to want to come to every game. I promise. We're coming for people. Reporting in Hazard for EKB Sports, I'm McKayla Colley.


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