There are many enigmatic, giant ruins that can be found within Japan. Super megaliths, so old, a number of the largest have eroded away to a state of unrecognition. An archaeological site, which at the time of its life, would have undoubtedly dwarfed nearly all other civilizations upon Earth, a civilization which far outstretches the modern urban sprawl of the Japanese coastlines. A lost, super-civilization responsible for the construction of numerous pyramids found throughout the landscape, some of which are said to lay beneath several meters of Earth, which has slowly consumed them over the millennia. Amongst these curious ruins are extremely perplexing, apparently sliced megalithic stones, pyramidal capstones, and also, like many places dotted around the world, legends of giants. One of the many things Japanese culture has become renowned for over the centuries is their ability to create swords, steel weapons of a far superior quality than their rivals, giving them an edge over their foes for many centuries. One must wonder, where did this advanced knowledge of sword-making come from? Was it mere ingenuity, or descended knowledge left by a far more superior, entirely different, and far larger race of people? Many sword-making technologies, which even to this day impress and perplex the many specialists who delve into the nature of this advanced metallurgy. Amongst these enigmatic and amazing swords is one in particular, one that for obvious reasons stands out from the rest. Known as the Norimitsu Odachi at over 12 feet in length and weighing nearly 15 kilograms in weight, this sword was masterfully created over 2,000 years ago, with no other intention than to be used by a warrior of gigantic proportions. The Nodachi type of sword was one of the weapons of choice on the field of battle during the Nambokocho period. During this era and far before, these swords were rarely created for decoration purposes. The price of their construction, the time and care needed in creating just one single sword meant that most were indeed manufactured for the purpose of battle. Additionally, the cost of creating such an enormous sword would have been considerable. Was this enormous sword once used by an equally enormous warrior? Understandably, many have denied such explanations as a tangible possibility, yet regardless, a satisfactory explanation for the creation of such an amazing object remains to be seen. Most people are aware of the crystal skulls, the best of which hidden away within the Smithsonian. Perfectly carved from solid pieces of crystal, their origins, purpose, or indeed possible function remain a mystery. What many are not aware of, however, is the astonishing archaeological discoveries which have recently been made in Spain. A remarkable set of crystal weapons found within megalithic tombs at a site known as Valensina de la Concepci. Archaeologists investigating this site have uncovered a vast array of crystal arrowheads, an exquisite crystal dagger blade, along with a number of other artifacts. Found within an enormous megalithic structure, constructed out of large slabs of slate, the resting place of at least 25 once clearly very important individuals, along with their extraordinary smorgasbord of grave goods. Included within the finds was another mystifying number of shrouds, claws made of tens of thousands of perforated amber beads. Just how they managed to fashion these mysterious crystal weapons remains unclear. A number of investigators have remarked that great skill must have been required to produce these unique rock crystal weapons. The rock crystal dagger blade in particular was found in the upper level of the structure. Its morphology is not unheard of in the Iberian Peninsula, although, however, all the samples recorded anywhere else were made from flint and not crystal. Furthermore, and perhaps even more intriguing, is the fact that the crystal is of unknown origins. Detailed and thorough analysis being unable to successfully pinpoint the original whereabouts of this magnificent crystal. Given the technical skill and difficulties involved in creating the objects from such a material, rather than simple flint, their purpose, and indeed manufacture, has been a tough thing for academia to explain. However, it is unlikely that any funded academic would presume, like we can, that these highly advanced, perfectly manufactured weapons could in fact be far earlier artifacts, created by a civilization with far greater capabilities than those of known prehistory. Supporting this hypothesis is that despite these objects being found relatively frequently within the burials of the 4th and 3rd millennia BC, crystal implements disappear from later funiary monuments within the early Bronze Age, a quote, truly striking development, researchers say. As it would seem, the use of this raw material as grave goods was almost entirely abandoned, end quote. The reason for this remains a mystery. However, is it possible, as mentioned, that these were merely a discovered relic of a bygone era, thus making their availability limited? This would therefore make it appear as though there was a sudden halt in their mysterious and unexplained manufacture. Well, all the while, in reality, the manufacturing of these objects occurred at a different time in our history. In 1921, a Neanderthals skull was discovered, 60 feet below the ground within Rhodesia. Upon examination, it has since been realized that the skull has been pierced by a high-velocity projectile, such as a bullet, to the left temple. Analysis has since shown that this injury occurred at the time of death and could not have been a stray bullet years afterwards. If true, and the source of the hole was indeed a bullet-like projectile, the implications are clearly profound. For how could a skull dated at over 150,000 years old have suffered such an injury? Modern academia states that these remains must be impossible, yet according to author René Norbergen, a German forensic authority from Berlin, quote, the cranial damage to Rhodesian man's skull could not have been caused by anything but a bullet, end quote. The rounded entry point of the wound also testifies to the great speed at which the projectile would have been travelling at the time of impact. However, if the find remained unique, it would have been easy for certain fields of study to disregard its existence as a mere freak of nature, a result of pure coincidence. Yet thankfully and most intriguingly, Rhodesian man is not the only prehistoric skull which has been found to have suffered this peculiarity. A few thousand miles away, along the Lena River in Russia, a skull belonging to an awrock was later found, an extinct species of wild cattle that lived from 2 million to 4,000 years ago. And just like the Cabwe skull, aka Rhodesian man, the hole in the awrock's skull is missing radial cracks, evidence that would have been left by a spear, arrow, or any other low-speed projectiles. Just how did these two beings meet their fate? Were they really shot by a firearm? If so, what type of firearm? Who had this capability 150,000 years ago? A time traveler? Or perhaps a hidden history here upon our planet? What do you think? Thanks for watching and stay tuned for more. The Uffberts A group of medieval swords found within Europe dating between the 9th and 11th centuries, the blade faces are inlaid with the inscription Uffbert with a cross on either side. The word turns out to have been a Frankish personal name. It somehow has become the basis logo, a trademark of swords used by multiple bladesmiths for several centuries in their impressive attempts to make the hardest, most impressive swords of the era. About 100 to 170 Uffberts swords are known to exist, yet the origins of the name remain somewhat of an enigma. However, we dare to postulate that the name may have originated with this sword in particular. A sword which these bladesmiths may have been attempting to replicate and indeed figure out how it was made. A nova National Geographic documentary titled Secrets of the Viking Sword, which first aired in 2012, actually took a look at this enigmatic sword's metallurgical composition. The Uffberts sword has almost no slide content within its composition, and it has a carbon content three times that of other metals of the time. Carbon found to be a great addition in strengthening steel, creating a metal known as crucible steel, a critical discovery, something which made England famous some 800 years after this sword's creation. In the process of forging iron, the ore must be heated to 3000 degrees Fahrenheit. This will bring the metal to a liquid molten state, allowing blacksmiths to reduce impurities called slag. However, medieval technology did not allow iron to be heated to such a high temperature, thus the slag was removed by pounding it out, a far less effective method. Modern blacksmith Richard Ferrer of Wisconsin spoke to nova about the difficulties of making such a sword. Ferrer is described in the documentary as one of the few people on the planet who has the skills needed to try to reproduce the Uffberts by hand. To do it right, it is the most complicated thing I know how to make, he said. He commented on how the Uffberts maker would have been regarded as possessing magical powers. To be able to make a weapon from dirt is a pretty powerful thing, he said. But to make a weapon at this time within history that could bend such without breaking, stay so sharp, and weigh so little, would be regarded as supernatural. Ferrer spent days of continuous painstaking work forging a similar sword. He used medieval technology, although it required highly unconventional ways, never before suspected or documented. The tiniest flaw or mistake, turning the sword into a piece of scrap metal. He declared his success at the end as more relief than joy. Who was the maker of this sword? How did they know how to make it? The mystery surrounding this out-of-place artifact persists to this day.


My apologies for keeping you waiting, just been one of those days and I've gone from meetings to meetings to meetings. I'm running a little bit behind schedule. We thought we'd be here on time but it wasn't possible so thank you for that. Can I introduce to you Assistant Commissioner Paul Stewart. Paul has in charge of our Information Communications Technology Division here in the Queensland Police Service based here of course at Police Headquarters. There are at least two things we wanted to talk about today. The first was an error in our computer system, a human error in terms of some data that was put in wrongly and had a certain result and we'll go through that with you and I see you've been given the media release and I just like to go through that with you and add a little bit more information to what is in the media release. And the second was a request for your support and assistance with the road toll which I'm really worried about but whilst August is not yet finished until midnight tonight it's the worst month this year and the number of young people who have been killed this month is terrible as well and I wanted to seek your assistance in promoting the seriousness of that situation and just how terrible it would be if it continues. What we thought we'd do though is this is deal with the IT issue first I'll say a few words about that. Paul will then we'll take questions and then if you're able to stay I'd like to comment on the road toll and then after we've done that if there was any other issue at all that you'd like to raise and that we can respond to more than prepared to. Well as you can see in the media release we've identified that there was an error in our computer system. There was a human error that was caused by a contractor who we've employed for six years who's done a fine job for us in that six years up until now entering some data incorrectly in terms of a program that was part of an ongoing program in terms of standardisation of our systems. We if I by way of background I could indicate to you that there are five entities that we provide information to in terms of the checking of their people and those five entities are the Commissioned for Children and Young Persons in respect of blue cards. The other four areas are the Department of Communities and these are called yellow cards and these are for people who work with people who have disabilities so similar to a blue card you have to have an authority to work with people with disabilities and that's called the yellow card. The other areas are the Education Department in terms of the employment of teachers Queensland Transport in terms of the employment of public passenger drivers people such as taxi drivers and bus drivers and the fifth and final area is the Office of Fair Trading who license security officers people who work in the security industry. Now in respect of all of those areas if you want to get a blue card or a yellow card or be a taxi or bus driver obviously you have to apply for that qualification and my understanding is that with all of those you there is a criminal history check a national criminal history check that's conducted up front as well with blue card holders and yellow card holders and teachers they are required by law to self report if they are prosecuted with a criminal offence. There's a legal obligation and requirement on them to self report. Another safeguard is that quite often the local police quite properly will notify if a blue card holder has been charged with an offence so the local system works in that regard as well. We have an additional overlay and that is this that every 24 hours we run a computer check on all of those people who are licensed in those five categories that I just described to you and as you'll see in the media release that's almost 700,000 people. Now what happened was that back in late May this glitch as a result of this unfortunate incorrect entry occurred and is indicated in the media release and Paul can explain this in more detail if you wish. We lost 10 hours each day of data capture. That initially it came to light that we probably had a problem with this. It's taken us a little while to determine the extent of it. It's only been as late as yesterday evening that we got the final numbers and that we were comfortable with and sure of so that we could notify the five agencies and we've done that today. We've also fixed the problem in the computer system and we're continuing to monitor that. What's really important is that there were no child related sexual offences involved at all. In other words no children for victims of sexual offences. The most serious matter which involved a blue card holder involved a matter where an offence occurred. It was reported and the offender who obviously is the alleged offender was arrested within a couple of days of the offence being recorded and that person has been in custody since and remains in custody. So even that even though that person was a blue card holder that person has not been out in the public space since being arrested for the alleged offence. As is indicated in the media release there are a total of 76 people here involved all told and if I could give you the breakdown of that for the respective five agencies involved. Blue card holders are the greatest number. There's 57 persons who are blue card holders. Two teachers. Two yellow card holders for people who work in disability services. Nine people from the security industry. Excuse me. And six from the public transport industry. Now the information regarding those 76 people has been provided today to those five agencies and they have been asked to expedite the assessment of what they will do because it's their responsibility to determine what happens to these people and to do at the very least an initial assessment of that within the next 24 hours. But the determination of what happens. So for example with the blue card holders if the Commission for Children and Young People decide to rescind that blue card that's their decision. It's not the police department's decision. We only provide them with the information that's come to hand. And they have procedures and processes in place to do that which they will of course undertake. But the request has been made of all five agencies and I believe they've agreed to expedite the initial assessment of that within the next 24 hours. I don't think there's probably much more I can add at this time but we'll take questions and Paul is there anything else you'd like to add to what I've said. Just to add to the Commissioner. The developer left out a small piece of code in relation to the development of the system. So that's what occurred. It's later being picked up. What happened was it was missed during our testing processes. And I just want to highlight that the small piece of code that there's a lot of code that's developed by these people in relation to these complex systems and interfaces. It was in the process of updating and enhancing 63 interfaces that we have and this is only one interface in which this trouble occurred. The issue is related really to the time frames and as the Commissioner has said the Greenwich Mean Time issue in which it picked up as Australian Eastern Standard Time rather than Greenwich Mean Time and so there was a 10 hour lag in relation to information going through that 24 hour basis. So 14 hours worth of records or notifications were still being made. There was a 10 hour gap in the data that was transferring across through that interface and that was why it was difficult to pick up through any testing process and indeed there were notifications that were still happening to the agencies. As soon as we became aware of that the system was immediately reviewed and the fix was put into place. It was corrected immediately through that process. Just in relation to our future testing processes as rigorous as our testing and change processes are we'll obviously review those and ensure that we look at the user acceptance in relation to any further enhancements that we make. We've looked at all our interfaces. We've examined them carefully because of the nature of the time frame and the 24 hour search. This was different to any other interface that we had so it was really a standalone issue in relation to QPS systems. The only thing I could probably add is it's possible but we don't know that the Commission for Children and Young People and even the other agencies may all already be aware of some of these 76 people because of what I mentioned earlier that reporting requirement on individuals to report that legislative requirement that in any event they're aware of the material now and they've undertaken to, as I said, provide an initial assessment of it in the next 24 hours. Okay, can we take questions on this issue now then? Yeah, look I suspect that nearly all of them would have already had, can we just talk about the blue card holders for a moment, that they would have already had blue cards. However, it can also include applicants. Okay, because once you apply and make the formal application, you go on to our system. So they might not have even got the blue card. They might have simply been an applicant. But that's a degree of detail that we just don't have at the moment. But we've just felt that the priorities were to fix the system and the mistake that had been made in number two to identify how many people we hadn't captured until the agencies. So we'll know that in the future, whether they were blue card holders or applicants for a blue card, I suspect that most of them are blue card holders, but I just don't have that now. Technically and theoretically, that's that's possible. So there's every chance that some of the 76 might not have been working with children over that period because the individual agencies might have identified them with the self reporting. Yeah, as I mentioned, there are a range of safe cards here. The first for blue card holders and yellow card holders and teachers is the legislative requirement to report if they are charged with an offense. So that is a legal requirement on them. If they don't report, they commit an offense by not reporting. The second is often, locally, the police will know the person's a blue card holder and report up through the system. And then the third one. And can I say that my understanding is that not every jurisdiction in Australia has this final and third overlay that we have, which is this 24 hour checking where we're not everyone does that. But we see it as a useful, you know, addition. So as I said, nearly every 24 hours, nearly every one of these almost 700,000 people are checked to see if they've been arrested in the previous 24 hours.  But were any of them violent offenders or violent offenses? Some of the charges do relate to what we call offenses against the person, which could include assault charges and could include offenses such as or alleged offenses, because in many cases these matters won't have been finalized in the courts, such as breaches of domestic violence. There will be a range of issues here, ranging from a driving offense to drug offenses to some assault matters. And each agency, and again, this is a matter for the agency, has their own particular set of criteria. So obviously for the children, so the Commission for Children and Young People, their criteria may well be different to the criteria for the security industry or the transport industry. The process for accounting for all these discrepancies now, is that for the individual agencies or is that your area? The responsibility for determining whether any of these 76 people lose the blue card, yellow card or licence they have is the responsibility of the individual agency and they have their own set of criteria that determines whether the situation is serious enough to warrant the rescinding or withdrawal of the authority. The misnotifications have all now gone out for those agencies, have they? Yes, yes. Can I say before that the most serious incident was the blue card holder when it was now in custody, what was it again? Yes, that was an indecent assault. The alleged offender is an adult, the victim is an adult and that was the most serious matter. I think we've actually referred to it in the media release that we've given to you. It's the fifth last paragraph and it's the words, the words are a QPS analysis has identified that one indecent assault of an adult relating to a blue card applicant. This person apparently is applied for a blue card, we're unreported during this period and within days of that offence being reported the alleged offender was arrested and has been in custody ever since, okay? I'm sorry, the occupation? No, but I can take that question I notice and if we're able to give you that information I'm prepared to provide that in the future. There's a range of things here today that you'll possibly obviously ask us that we simply aren't able to answer today but if we can give you that information in the future we'll undertake to do so. Okay, welcome to say whether or not the offence was in any way connected to the reason it was a blue card? No, well he was a blue card applicant and my understanding is clearly that it was and it was an offence that happened in a public place and was an opportunistic type of offence that's the advice that I'm given and as I said within days of the offence being reported the alleged offender because he's not convicted yet has been charged and has remained in custody ever since. Can I just get you to explain in Lane's terms the 10 hour window? Yeah, can I ask Paul to do that? He has a better knowledge of that than I do. The files are searched between 2am and 2am on a 24 hour period and what happens is there's a code in a system that checks the records against the 700,000 people so it goes in and checks what should have happened if the code was there it would have checked against the Greenwich Mean Time which is the all the records are actually recorded against Greenwich Mean Time so what happened was that because the code wasn't there the system automatically defaulted to what it was working in which is the Scram system which is Australian standard Eastern Time and so therefore the 10 hour difference between the two of those would have been picked up now what happened was that because of that 10 hour period between 2am and midday it would look at that and those records would actually appear in the day before so because it only searches against that 24 hour period that 10 hour period would have been missed because it would have appeared as if it was in the previous 24 hours. So this system is not only checking new applicants but it's also checking which people should be stripped of their car is that right or committed offences over that period? It's checking everyone who has a blue card yellow card or license to be a security person or a public transport driver and it's also checking new applicants the vast number though that almost 700,000 people are people who already have blue cards yellow cards or those authorities to you know drive public transport vehicles or are school teachers only a relatively small proportion would be new applicants but it does capture that from the moment people apply they go on to this checking system but if their application is unsuccessful it's an important point I guess to add or they no longer engage in the employment that they're in they come off the system because there's a privacy issue there about us checking people you know. So what does 76 people haven't self reported as they were supposed to be? They may have. They may have. There's a degree of urgency about this for us the urgency was firstly to fix the system which we've done the second thing was to find out how many people we hadn't notified the five agencies about five agencies about which is 76 which we've now done there's more information we would like to find out ourself of course and that is does for example you know the Commission for Children and Young People already know about some of the 57 people that we're telling them about today they may but I don't have that information now. The other urgency was to tell you tell the media and tell the public what had happened we've given a commitment that if we if we get something wrong we'll tell you and we wanted to do that as soon as possible we weren't able to do it until we knew the extent of it ourselves and we didn't know that till last night and as I mentioned I think as Paul mentioned regrettably and there's a touch of irony about it this mistake was occurred because of endeavors of our people to standardise systems and as a result the contractor entered in the wrong information and that was the mistake that was made so the irony is that by trying to actually standardise and improve the system we made the mistake. There was an inkling that something was wrong back in August and it took a little while to find out what was actually wrong so the priority then was to fix the system which we did but the next priority was to accurately find out how many people we hadn't reported to the five agencies and as I said it wasn't until last evening yesterday evening that we had that number and we passed that on from information on them this morning that's why we've gone public now. No no the inkling came about through a police officer who was aware of someone and saw one of the lists going into one of the agencies and and didn't see that person's name on the list and said look there could be a problem here and fortunately it was picked up but what I think is a relatively early stage I mean you know it's unfortunate regrettable but it actually could have been worse. When people apply for a blue card there is a national criminal history check okay that's done for everyone who applies and after that for all of those people who've got those blue cards and for everyone who applies as well we run this check every 24 hours and the concept of this checking the idea is is to catch and capture people who get arrested for something after they've got the blue card. Yeah I'm sorry could you just I just missed the photographer just clicking away beside you and I couldn't know I just couldn't quite hear your question. Yeah well we don't know of anyone we don't know and we know that there are no child sexual offences involved in this at all which is probably the number one concern I think the number one concern people would have but the detail of that we won't know until we have further dialogue with the agencies involved but we are not aware of any such occurrence and we are certainly hopeful that there hasn't been. We know who the six people are and we've notified the transport department of that and it'll now be up to them to determine whether the matters alleged against these people in terms of the charges that have been preferred under their criteria are sufficient to withdraw their public transport licenses and there's no guarantee that that will happen you know sorry. I think there's only one that's actually a driving offence I think the other matters either relate to assaults or offences of dishonesty of some degree but can I say that again that doesn't automatically follow that if you're a taxi driver and you've been convicted of shop lifting that you would lose your taxi driver's license it may not happen you know. Yes between the check is done on a 24-hour basis between 2am and 2am so at 2am this morning compared back to 2am what was happening was if it went back to 2am it would default to Greenwich Mean Time so that would actually appear like 4pm the day before so there's a 10 hour callback. No not in the system not in. You explain that. Sorry? How did you explain that? Yeah if sorry I'm just trying if so between that 24-hour window that we check against these in relation to it there was a 10-hour period where those records were not transferred across so it became a window that it was a window of invisibility that we couldn't see anything there it appeared as if it was the day before. That doesn't mean can I just sorry can we just continue with that before we take that question that doesn't mean that in any sense this is only the notification of the 5-8 and there's no suggestion whatsoever that our basic criminal history record section was in any way affected by this all of these 76 people are charged before the courts with these offences and there's been no glitch in that process. I'm sorry could I take your question here? My question is why wasn't it between midnight to 2am not getting picked up? 2am because it was 2am to 2am the 24-hour check was 2am to midday I guess. No he hasn't. He has worked for us on and off for six years. He's highly regarded. He's mortified by this mistake. He acknowledges that he made the mistake and our priority his circumstances and his employment with us are still under consideration but our priority was to fix the system and then find out the extent of the missed reporting and then to go public which we've done all those three things and we'll now turn our mind to our employment relationship with the contractor. Is that what's being assessed? Yes it does. What sort of reaction of the five agencies in terms of the task that is now before them in terms of catching up? Oh professionally understanding that mistakes can happen and that's what's happened in this case and might I say again at the risk of being repetitive that not everyone, not every jurisdiction in Australia has this additional overlay of 24 hour checking of nearly 700,000 people that we do. So you know they've been quite understanding at this point in time and as I indicated they've been good enough to give a commitment that within 24 hours they'll do at least an initial assessment of each of the people for their respective agencies. Can I ask a question? You always have a lot of faith in the blue card system. Is it disappointing for you or not at all? Oh and I think it's a wonderful system I really do here. Are you supported by the system? Oh of course we're always you know we've got 15,000 people, we make mistakes. What I've always said is if we make a mistake we'll tell you about it and we'll fix it and that's what's happened here. Anyone who wrote the public's faith? I certainly hope not. I certainly hope not. I mean what we're talking about here is 57 people and I can't give you the precise outcome of that again it's up to the agency to determine whether any of those 57 people without being presumptuous clearly the person who was the applicant who was charged with that serious matter I mean you would think there's no chance of that person you know getting or retaining a blue card but that's a decision not for me it's for the commission but we won't know for a little while yet as to whether any of those other the others of the 57 so in other words the 56 have their blue cards taken off them. It's not automatic and each agency has its own criteria. How many charges are there? There were 57 people some were charged with more than one offence and the total charges were 67 charges. I'm sorry in respect of the blue card holders my understanding is that there were 57 well sorry there were 57 of those by the blue card holders or applicants and the total charges for those 57 people were 67 charges and how that comes about of course is a person could be charged with two drug offences position of cannabis and position of a utensile use of smoke so one person can be charged with two offences. In respect of the others my understanding is that the number of people is the same as the number of charges so two teachers two charges two yellow card holders were working with people with a disability two charges nine security providers nine charges and six public passenger drivers and six charges that's my understanding if there's any correction to that at any time I'll come back to you on that. In all circumstances if there's so many six people could be freed up how would it be then would it be again up to the agencies to decide what is done with these people from there? Does that help me join what it says? Exactly yeah and as I said that's right and just because and I'm not down playing this in any sense but just because you maybe charged for conviction and offence doesn't mean depending on it depends on the nature of the offence and each agent has its own criteria so it doesn't mean that you should lose your right perhaps to be a taxi driver or for that matter necessarily to work with young people it would depend on the nature of what you've done and it may well be that you know the agency says well this is not worth taking this person's livelihood off them or it doesn't mean that they're not suitable to work with children but the criteria is and the responsibility quite rightly and properly is that of each agency. That's a question touched with the I'm told he was an applicant my understanding is he was an applicant. Part of the situation with the blue card is that my understanding of how it works is you should declare any serious criminal convictions that you have when you apply for the blue card so right at the front gate if you said look I've got convictions for indecent assault and rape you wouldn't go any further you know you would be automatically disqualified immediately. Next step is the national criminal history check okay after that and then the decision is made as to whether the person gets the blue card or not and then if they do it comes into play legislatively that if they're charged with an offence they're required legally to self report as I said there's an additional aspect where many of our people particularly outside of Brisbane would report up through the system if they charge someone who they know works with children as you know obviously you have to have a blue card to work with children and then the final measure is the one that we're talking about here today which is our 24 hour checking process of the nearly 700,000 people that are captured by these five areas. Look thank you I appreciate that there's some things we can't tell you today but certainly we'll undertake I guess together with the agencies involved to provide further information as that you know has established. Are we okay now if we talk about the road time?


Biden could end all this with one phone call. Notes from the edge of the narrative matrix. Top 10 most popular arguments used to defend Israel's actions in Gaza. 1.  2. You love terrorists. 3. But October 7th. 4.  5. It's kind of good to kill Muslims, actually. 6. They decapitated babies. 7. They cooked a baby. 8. Israel is killing babies in self-defense. 9. It's actually very complicated. Both sides are bad. Objective morality does not exist. All things are exactly the same as all other things. The universe is made of lukewarm gray mush. 10. Ha-ha-ha, nuke the Arab vermin. Saying from the river to the sea is genocide. But actually committing genocide is not genocide. Genocide is more of a feeling that you feel inside. Like everything else in the universe, it's about you and how your personal feelings feel. If ethnic cleansing and mass killing don't make your feelings feel uncomfortable, then it's not genocide. If someone's saying they want all Palestinians to be free in their homeland makes your feelings feel uncomfortable, it's genocide. That's how the world works. You want to know how morally bankrupt Democrats are? Democrats are so morally bankrupt that right now they are angrier at people who say they refuse to vote for Biden because of his support for the Gaza massacre than they are at Biden for supporting the Gaza massacre. Biden could end this with one phone call. With one phone call.  This mass slaughter is happening because Washington wants it to happen. When Israel completely cut off Gaza's communications last month, Washington called and ordered them to restore it, and connections were immediately restored. It's always been this way. In 1982 Israel's assault on Lebanon was halted with a phone call from President Reagan. They can end this assault just as easily. Don't let the White House frame itself as a passive witness to this butchery. There's a tweet by Muhammad El-Kard with a video, hundreds of writers read aloud the names of the New York Times editorial board screaming, New York Times you have blood on your hands. Tweet by Kaylin. So good to see demonstrators recognizing that the mass media are just as guilty in this atrocity as the state powers involved. Both Zionists and far right Jew haters want you to believe all this killing is about Jews and Judaism. And it's really about land. It's one group wanting all the land that an indigenous population was living on. We see this exact same script playing out many times with non-Jews as the perpetrators. It's the exact same script, and it's not even an entirely different cast. Like so many other problems, this one was started by the British. It's such an insult to everyone's intelligence to talk about the mass displacement in Gaza like it's a temporary arrangement. As though Israel has a history of allowing Palestinians to return to land they've driven them from. Atoning for the Holocaust by backing a genocide. Atoning for Nazism by supporting ethnic cleansing. Atoning for fascism by silencing the critics of state power.  Ignore their words and watch their actions. If you mentally mute the narratives and verbiage about how Washington wants peace in a two-state solution and looks solely at concrete actions, it just looks like the US helping Israel murder and oppress Palestinians for generations. Ignore their words and watch their actions is sound advice for any time you feel like someone's manipulating you, by the way. It applies as much to interpersonal relationships as it does to empires.


Poland stops weapons supplies to Ukraine. Poland will no longer provide arms to the Ukrainian military. Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki has said adding that Warsaw would instead shift focus to its own security. The decision follows a diplomatic row over Ukrainian grain imports, which were banned in Poland after flooding local markets. Morawiecki told that the government would halt the weapons shipments, highlighting a growing rift between the two neighbors after more than a year of heavy support from Warsaw. We are no longer transferring weapons to Ukraine because we are now arming Poland with more modern weapons. Morawiecki said he later warned that additional trade bands could be imposed on Kiev, given that the Ukrainian authorities do not understand the degree to which Poland's farming industry has been destabilized by foreign imports. The comments came after Ukrainian President Vladimir Zelensky appeared to make a thinly veiled jab at Poland during a speech before the UN General Assembly earlier this week, saying that some countries in Europe play out solidarity in a political theater and are making a thriller for the grain. The trade spat has steadily escalated in recent months. As major Black Sea shipping lanes were closed off due to the conflict with Russia, Ukrainian grain poured into central and European markets, tanking prices and reeking havoc for local producers. The grain blut prompted a formal import ban among five EU members to protect domestic farmers, Bulgaria, Hungary, Poland, Romania and Slovakia. Though the block-wide ban expired last week, Warsaw, Budapest and Bratislava have opted to keep the policy in place on an individual basis, each arguing it is needed to stabilize prices. Kiev has insisted that the bans are illegal. With Economy Minister Julia Sviridenko stating that it is crucially important for us to prove that individual member states cannot ban import of Ukrainian goods. The government has since filed lawsuits with the World Trade Organization seeking to halt the trade restrictions, though Warsaw dismissed the move saying that a complaint before the WTO doesn't impress us.


Ya man, welcome back nani ya why 254, it's a Friday night and this is how we kicking it up. Yes mibrejin? Yes brother. Karibusana? Santisawa. Yes sir. Rasula. Rasula mwenyo in another house. Yes sir. Ya man. So ni ambiye brejin. Whom kwa DJ? Ya kwa DJ. Ya man. Yes sir. Kwa mwenya long time ya man. Ya man. Kwa mwenya again kwa mwenya hustle and bustle na jo na pa sufi tu zengene kwa kwa kusachi ya man. Ya man. Ya man. So ni DJing as a career but bada mwen DJ tu. Ya man. Ya man. And a regular raster man. Ya man. Ya man trying to live the rations life of raster man. Ya man. True that. Actually the main reason is try maybe those who are watching at home to kwa hape vina the real raster man. Ni kusabu kusabu talking about paying tribute to the legendary von Benjamin wanyal kwa kwa midnight that man. So we have a raster in the building that Lisa tombia mob kuhusu ya you know. Ya man. Yo name bana jina la kuhivi. Rasula is my name. But ok empesa name ni mshila muadime. Ya man. But yo kintafutana utani kosa san. Ya man. Satu kusana na yo empesa name. Wai rasula. Asi kusabu nuru kutumam biana stefantum ni kumambe yo jina origini islamik like why that name. Ok. Kuna villi na ni hake but again. Ili amza kama ras. Kakuja raziz. Ika metamofisa iska kwa rasula. So. Ni jina twin stage name. Stage name. Step by step wa sel maku pa tia. Sasa kintafutana rasula tam pata. La yung kintafutana mshila. Ta kwango mki dog. Ya rasta. Yes sir. In yo kariya umepatana na artisti mordia tumemluz maze. Maze jo. Iwi kitu liwe kapkua. Very sad news. Ya. Kusabu wu. Ibe kwa ni bikimbiasana actually to the rasta family and roots reggae lovers. Ya. Kwa zutulim poteza. One of the iconic roots reggae artist. Sure. Von Benjamin. Founder member of Midnight Band. Ya man. Metamofisize into Akai Baker. Ya. Amba ni one of the most detailed, most prolific reggae band of all times. Ya man. Rasula. Ni kontakatapo. Bifo ulukomini ambia. Von Benjamin. It's like the saddest news after Kulosbogman. To the rasta people. It's really that bad. That is. Ibu tumbe kik dogu kumhusu. Ya ya is a person Von Benjamin. Von Benjamin. Ni one of the most articulate, most insightful, most detailed reggae artist. Kwa sababu kwa alia meshei jaribu kumuskiza. Amu alia kwa namjuwa. How is it compared Von? Von ni rasta man first of all kandona kwa. Lirisist, chanta, poet. Real rasta. It's a real rasta man. It's sad that we lost him. He went to rest with the angels. He has a special place in heaven. True that. We believe. Natikongili om zikiao. Kama the midnight band Wallychens Gina into Akaibeka. Maybe. Ki dogu kutumbia. I mean why that happened. Midnight in the band, Von Benjamin. Way back in 1989. Ikiwa na bradakia na itwa. Von Benjamin. Waka. Aokwa na pigiangu omahsaha na live. Batwali record albumia. Kwanza in 1997. So you can see, Rasta man search village out of Kiyua. Kina king ma lukwasha zaliwa. 1997 that's when they dropped their first album. And it was unpolished. It's a 10 track album. Vitu ngunu, vitu nzito. Vitu deep. Iko level moji apuna. Bob Tosh, Bernie, hezo. Batwali change Gina into. And then waka since 97 again, 2099 waka to albumia pili na itwa rast make peace. Waka to albumia tatu daya 2000 in itwa. Jubilis of Zion. From then waka li puka. Since 2000 to the year 2015, they released over 60 albums. Na albumsote ni norma. Album 2 incomparable. I wish naza 2 skiza tungo moji apuna. Na hota white era skiza. Hota you never go back. What's your favorite song yake? To say a favorite song, not really a favorite song because it's hard to choose. It's really hard to choose my favorite. Vaun ni lyricist. Na wakila ngo meake, ni deep sana. As a rasta man, una feel to every song. Alafuna jwa vaun ni versatile. An a chant, an a sing, an a moan. Vaun to ni deep. Labda wu jaribu kusiku vaun, jwa vaun na. That's why most of them are underground. Vaun artistum kubosana a me perform William Zima, Asia, Europe, America. Africa. 2017. That was May. Many people didn't know, but Master Blaster wu jar kaili sana. He's in zileza wa rasi. An waluwa deep ni wana jwa. Can I stay front on par there? Connections? Waluwa deep, true? Ile rege tia kawida iti wa tu ala batisha. Jwa skwezi rege, kuna bile ko diluted kidogo. So, bado kuna waluwa na jaribu kumaintain the real purpose of reggae music because there is too much corruption and too much... But corruption will come through when you differentiate the reggae music and the rasta in reggae. True, because there is reggae music, just reggae, played in church, played in discourse, played anywhere. And there is rasta music as in rasta roots reggae. Rasha's RASTA, rashas a postal standing tall alone. Rasha's a postal standing tall alone. We don't even the crowd. I tell kumuko peki ako, kura ju me stand ya rashasnes as in the oil. One outstanding on that one. That's why maybe I'm underground. Many people think he's underground, but he's not. He's not underground. If I could say what many people think, he's not actually underground. He's a legend. He's a true legend. Situ na jutu the vague. Kingman, kuna suglia yote? Me li ko easy manze, wana jua, like me li ko na sample na ziki manze, wana jua. Island vibes manze, kusatu na appreciate art wana jua. Being in music is one magical thing. True man. It touches the soul. It's a very light question. Wana jua. The phrase rasta man never dies. What does it mean? Wana jua, say wana wichu kulia lightly. It's not lightly. It's not light as many people may think, but equally. Mali passed on when? It's now 38 years ago, but he still lives and reigns in the heart of men every day. Every single minute. Every single minute. Every single minute. So in every corner of the world. So you think he's dead, but it's hajai kufa. Kusubabu, kitumzuriwe kufi, wana wana. So the phrase rasta man never dies, it's true, they never die, kus good works never die. It inspires forever. Rasula, chuku yongela kusurastad kuna suma wene the different kinabubu shanti, 12 tribes of Israel, nani? Okay, in my father's house there's many mansions and in that mansion wana bobo, jingi, 12 tribes.  We don't bother much about this and that, living clean, choosing the positive vibes and leaving the trash aside. So I'm a rasta man, first I'm a dreadlock trying to live a righteous life of a rasta man.   I'm a mother of a rasta man, akibeka. Akibeka, mimi wana ijina imetuka kwa buka enok? Yes rasta. One of the books that one is delete kwa kwa di eibil, but rasta man anasiku knowledge, wisdom, and overstanding in a much wider scale. So these are precepts and facets ...of the ancient Senyazi, while he's deleted, while he's omit, ...bado kia rastaman uta go deeper, ...but to overstand the scrolls of the Red Sea, ...and now, what I understand, ...it become an Egyptian Book of the Dead, ...where they really copied what now they call the Bible. ...so much deeper thing, ...so the Book of Enoch, it predicts, ...komba in such a this time, ...when there is so much corruption, ...so much deceit and malice, ...out of this and that, ...the establishment. ...kukia na good vibe, kama vilim, ...to kama, kumutulia na fight, ...ele that of the society, of the system, ...wana kuchuja. ...that's why we know a lot of people, ...kina dube, kina bob, kina tosh, ...o tu ali on dolewa. ...beka li kuja, akibeka, ...kwa deep sand, akibeka kwa... ...hambald, ...beka was very humbled, ...kwa ali wa na mjuwa, ...beka was very, very humbled, ...kimi mi tidi, ...hata hangi kuwaiti na mutuwa na wangi, ...al kuwaiti mututuwa meki tulia tu, ...but al kuwana speak, ...al lot's kwa muziki ake na poetry ake na chanting ake. ...so, ...akibeka ilkuwa in revelation, ...al kuwa predicted, ...3,500 years ago, ...kutakuwa na prophet kamawe. ...but that's actually we believe, ...Vone Benjamin, it's an apostle of the most time. ...chulat rasta. ...sasa tuingi kwa the man, the music, ...diu kiangali ya... ...kuna ili muziki ake ili mutuwa ya, ...to the world out there, ...watuwale siwa rasta, ...wala wana pena 2 just rega music, ...ili kuwanigani, ...which was the first song, ...ili boss yaani. ...so yeki ili boss, ...pafkiri na zase maili, ...bomigia kuwanza, ...kuna suongi na ito mama Africa, ...Africa I belong. ...yundu imi chizo sana, ...kwa atakwa radio stations, ...kwa clubs kidogo, ...and then kuwa albami ake chaatu, ...kuna angoma kama, ...initua Great Zimbabwe Walls, ...ofkin watu yo me iskia skia sana. ...me iskia kiasi. ...lakidi, ...Vone basically, ...hana iti favorite song, ...Vone, ...ni fasa tayo, ...ana bossa, ...pana bossa palia, ...kini vibe na come through. ...sana sana sana, ...initua kuna shozake, ...majuwa na mtambuwa sana, ...fun enough, ...prophet is not appreciated at home. ...skrimtai me sema, ...prophet ii me come through, ...majuwa. ...pia ni me ona ata David Hides, ...wad of condorances to the family ...na me muheil sana, ...dendi. ...juwa na sema e, ...ajawa ii ona hani, ...kwa this time, ...this time ni endua li kuwa, ...ana boss fire relics. ...kuna juwa, ...koshias. ...ya, in depth. ...asa pia kuna msanimu gini, ...a li kuwa na itua, ...ni mesao jini ake, ...bomali. ...lakini, ...ukitiki benji, ...vaibiyake ni kama, ...i me, ...i me suipe aniki lakitu. ...i me suipe over the soul of everybody. ...kuputas to listen. ...i think ata now, ...siaza benji apaki dog, ...watu owili watatupalini bani, ...walewa na ona, ...wata sikna, ...wata prota inspiration. ...wata kwa inspired, ...walewa tu hawa jaijuwa, ...who is midnight, ...who is akibeka. ...akibeka aligua very hardworking. ...since they turned into akibeka in 2015, ...they have released 11 albums. ...so you can imagine, ...we had one album, ...wakuna album moja na itu standing ground, ...i kuna 24 tracks. ...henge toshi ata kwa CD. ...guna bili na guja double CD. ...is that hardworking person. ...as we speak, ...aligua memaliza album, ...kagi jareliziu kuna album mili toka jula, ...make a mention. ...kuna album mili toka Ali, ...di siya march, ...ilikwene itua, ...teaches from Africa. ...so, ...pado ata kama mehenda, ...ata kama mehenda kurestu, ...in the angels sing, ...gopa za ke zikona, ...zini ku tokezea. ...alikwem gonjo, ...ama what's like the cost of the death? ...niti alikwem gonjo, ...mei bili kuna chronic disease? ...no, bengios never sick, ...is lived a very astute life, ...very... ...ilikwene itua kutusiawa, ...but the way he died, ...is still a mystery. ...still sayi ato kiyangali, ...familiiawa mehumba, ...prayers tuna, ...achiwe privacy omon, ...sadem. ...so oni mutwali shinda vizuri, ...iku vizuri the previous day, ...then all of a sudden something happened, ...and then it's gone. ...so sad. ...so sad, very sad week anyway. ...wona mehfanya, ...tubu gona pawikimbaya, ...as faster people, ...and the morning regular hours to... ...your king man, ...mziki ni gani umetwanda liya, ...bid night. ...mziki komandze, ...daitunze na mziki ni itua eye grade, ...ya, lafbaduktu kwa na mziki na sample, ...ya mid night ni itua same boat, ...lafbadu ni kamna ingine, ...ini itua mongest eye, ...ma part, ...yes sir.


We pledge our allegiance to our beloved Imam Hussain here from the holy city of Kalbala where the processions are becoming stronger and stronger. More and more people are filling the city to participate in the morning sessions and lamentations of Imam Hussain, and it's something really beautiful to see when people are inside the actual courtyard of his shrine beating their chests and reciting beautiful poetry and on top of the Imam, whenever the Imam's name is mentioned, whenever they have a dua instead of like we do in our areas all over the world turning towards wherever we turn to, these people turn directly to the grave of Imam Hussain, they finish their morning and they walk into the shrine of Imam Hussain and ask him to help him with their wishes and ask him to help him with their desires and as you can hear behind me there was a beautiful Turkish procession walking past where they hold six reminiscing swords as if they are going to war, pledging their allegiance to Imam Hussain and these people are walking all over Kalbala, all over the locality of the shrines back and forth just reciting beautiful, beautiful tunes of poetry truly bringing tears to our eyes and if you can hear it, then the mics and apologies if we have to speak quite loudly but they are walking right behind us to you now of course today while our hearts are in Kalbala our souls are also partly in proof as we know for many today is the day where Muslim Ibn Aqeel, the messenger of Imam Hussain Islam was born as you know well the story the people of Kufa wrote to Imam Hussain pledging allegiance to him saying that they would rise up against the Tyrant Yazid and Imam Hussain simultaneously sent Muslim Ibn Aqeel to Kufa to collect pledges of allegiance and to gather an army to support Imam Hussain Islam but once he reached Kufa he found out that these people that were pledging their allegiance when their pledges were nothing more than mere words they were nothing more they didn't extend to their actions which is something that we have to ask ourselves today when we stand up we cry that they are saying are we saying it in the same manner that his companions did there in Kalbala knowing they would die tomorrow are we saying it in the manner that the people of Kufa did knowing that as soon as times get a little bit tough as soon as there's a little bit of fear in them they left Imam Hussain and Muslim Ibn Aqeel himself to die as we know the messages of Allah were all treated horribly by the people and there is a beautiful but sad metaphor in that seeing Muslim Ibn Aqeel the message of Imam Hussain also taken by these people and it's there after Muslim Ibn Aqeel is meeting his his being sentenced to his death it's like Imam Hussain himself hears inshallah I'm gonna read a very short poem before we move on to that segment and I hope that the procession behind me can really accent this poem because it brings out a lot of the emotion that's in this poem and general poetry for Imam Hussain Ibn Aqeel in Hussain's ayat here as he says farewell my messenger from Mecca to Kufa it ends in Karbala Hussain cries out oh my cousin what game has Kufa played oh writers of Kufa upon my household's blood you wait in my eyes if he has prayed upon then upon me you have prayed and if he swayed from his horse it's as if the whole world has swayed his lord his only companion and after he had prayed he turns his head and sees behind him no helper and no aid he calls out for Hussain Hussain's tears of blood rain written is the future where it ends in Karbala alone in the city and if he finishes his prayer the only support left for him sleeps in his eye his tears even if he turns his head and all the helpers disappear Kufa's mosque and sky and desert cry out oh muslim we are here yet his hope flickers when only silence reaches his ear no friends and no family only enemies appear he reads falak and he reads nas his sword cries out oh abbas and he begins the war he rises refusing to be a part of his own tragedy and within him ignites the blood of khaybar's family his allegiance and his zeal it's a thing of beauty he draws his sword and he begins the battle with Ya Ali an army of angels behind him tell me who is lonely one man fled better from his cradle against an army written upon his palm Ali is my first imam and i am his defender muslim battles alone yet the hundreds he endangers if ever he tires then hussain standing alone he pictures oh benio mea he says i'm of beni harshen soldiers the son of abu talib to no tyrant surrenders is this all you have brought me bring me greater numbers and the heads of disbelief the sword of belief dismembers muslim written upon his sword shia written upon the blood poured in kufr lives better it ends in karbala they take muslim to abin ziyad and he's wrapped up in chains oh muslim where are your supporters they say not a soul remains know that our tyranny it shall hold iraq's neck by its reins and once we have taken your life we will come back for hussain's if from giving allegiance to us your cousin refrains will add his children's lives his woman captive to his planes to hussain say goodbye in the tears of blood you cry his cries the skies will hear it ends in karbala his cries the skies will hear it ends in karbala as we know muslim the story of muslim aqeel was the beginning of the story of karbala so much as if muslim is the bismillah ar-rahman ar-rahim in the surah that is the story of ma'am sain a'islam and as we know from the story of ma'am sain a'islam death almost does not act in a normal way usually when people die they are long forgotten they are buried and they are gone but in the case of people like imam sain and his companions though they have died it's as if we can feel him alive with us you can hear the procession behind me you can see these glorious domes the millions the millions coming to visit imam sain a'islam almost as if he is still alive and he is not buried in that shrine rather he is sitting there awaiting his visitors so therefore we ask ourselves is death the beginning or is it the end and how can we look at this in the context of the story of ma'am sain's journey from medina to karbala i'm honored to be joined once again by sain aliyan Nawab asalam alaikum sain thank you so much for joining us once again so if you can tell us when it comes to the lovers of ma'am sain a'islam the people that we see here the millions that we see here in karbala that we've been seeing every day how do they see death in the context of ma'am sain and the love for imam sain a'islam Bismillah ar-Rahman ar-Raheem i would like to first of all welcome our dear guests and viewers to karbala and inshallah during these nights we will be able to take a glimpse of the the blessings of abey abdallah al hussain sallamullahi alayhi which is very apparent in the city of karbala i would like to take one phrase from the speech of imam hussain a'islam when he was in the city of makkah soon to leave towards karbala the imam spoke advising and admonishing people then one of the phrases in that speech in that sermon was that imam says and that means that the imam is saying that death has been destined on the descendants of the of adham a'islam like the necklace on a female's neck and that has many meanings but the fact that imam a'islam has drawn a comparison between death and the necklace on a female's neck means that imam is saying that death to me is as a female enjoys or is happy to have a necklace on her neck khutta al moot as we said death has been destined upon the descendants of adham and another saying is that death has been written upon the children of adham the board that Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala writes the life of human beings on this earth jid al fataat if we go back to surah al-mesad ayah number five the word jid has been used in this surah where Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala says when he describes Abu lahab and his wife when they came and they shown showed this animosity and hatred against the holy prophet and the muslims the outnumbered muslims at that time Allah says at the end of this surah that the wife of Abu lahab she had worn or she had around her neck jid now jid as we said is the neck and necklace goes around the neck leaving a mark at times if a female or a lady or a little child was a necklace for a couple of hours when she takes it off you will see there is a a line across the neck now that comparison that the imam makes imam is saying the same way that the female was a necklace on the neck and the neck is skin stuck to the neck to the bone the same way death is stuck with the human beings in a narration is that bani adham the descendants of adham the children of adham when they are born the day they are born or maybe even before they are born Allah has destined for them what day what time and at what location they are going to pass away now every single one coming to this world has or they will be given a birth certificate on that birth certificate is written that so-and-so was born on this day on this time and this year in this location and they will use that birth certificate in their daily lives the same way they are born they will depart this world and the authorities or the hospital will issue a death certificate now here between two brackets i would like to mention one of the closest of servants to abi abdillahi hussain as our dear viewers noticed and heard and saw and watched imam hussain tv these days these days marks the passing away of one of the servants of abi abdillahi hussain by the name of muhsin jabbar zara this individual was a a presenter since day one when imam hussain tv started if i'm not mistaken the age of imam hussain tv is more than 10 years brother muhsin i accompanied him from close proximity i lived with him for a small period of time the brothers here in the channel they lived with him for many years for 10 years and they know his character he was truly a a sincere servant of abi abdillahi hussain who dedicated and when i say dedicated i mean that his background his family he comes from a a very well of family back in iran in isfahan and he was a young man not in need of anything but he decided to leave his home to leave his mother and his brothers and his family and his livelihood and come all the way to karbala when he came to karbala he dedicated his time fully to propagating the message of abi abdillahi hussain through imam hussain tv this brother muhsin was not married and when he was asked a couple of days ago or a week ago one of the elders here in karbala asked him when shall we go to ask for your wife we want to get you married and this is his statement look and just ponder i want our brothers and sisters to ponder that brother muhsin jabbar zara how far he looked some of us we look at our lives for the next couple of days the next week the next month but the way he looked was he looked for the next 10 20 years 30 years he this is what he said to them he said if i go and get married my wife my family my later on children they will occupy the majority of my time and that time i will lose from using to propagate the message of abi abdillahi hussain so i will stay as i am because i have a path that i have chosen for myself and he passed away tragically and unfortunately his passing away was since truly a loss not only to the brothers in imam hussain tv but it was a loss for all the mu'minina mu'minat because these days when people all over the world the viewers of imam hussain tv three one two and three when they heard about the passing away of brother muhsin jabbar zara they continued in ringing from day one from the morning until the night calls kept coming in people crying and being shocked to hear the news of his passing away and recently he said that these billions of people who are coming to karbala in the name of imam hussain on the day of arba'een are they not worthy for us to open a satellite channel in the name of arba'een for the zawa rabbi abdillahi hussain he went that far to open a satellite channel in the name of arba'een for the zawa rabbi abdillahi and he had been working he had live shows recording programs for arba'een and he had plans he has spoken to the management of imam hussain tv to help him and guide him to how to open the arabic version of the arba'een channel but unfortunately when death comes it comes he didn't have the chance to continue his dream and brother muhsin jabbar zara is a very beautiful example that's no matter what you plan for yourself when death comes it comes imam hussain alayhi salam says death has been destined whatever you do imam hussain has another beautiful statement he says there is no way you will be able to run away from death because that day has been destined for you for mankind and tonight we are going to remember and we will speak about a very noble character a very noble person who also from day one dedicated his existence to propagate the message of the holy prophet of islam he was from bani hasham he was from the family of abbi abdillahi hussain he was the cousin of abbi abdillahi hussain muslim son of aqeel ibn abii talib muslim ibn aqeel he was very close to abbi abdillahi hussain and he used to highly respect his master abbi abdillahi hussain but the way that these noble individuals they dedicate their dedication for islam and their dedication for the message of rasulullah the message of islam is amazing we should take these individuals as our role models we should take individuals like muslim ibn aqeel who was a messenger sent from madina by abbi abdillahi hussain towards kufa to inform the people of kufa that abbi abdillahi hussain has sent me to give you his answer you asked abbi abdillahi if he can join you and come to kufa because you are ready you will support him you will stand by him in this noble cause and now iman wants to know if you are serious because the end conclusion is going to be serious where do you die? in surat al nisa verse 78 Allah says where do you die? you know death even if you are in a bad situation the death that you are trying to run away oh mankind this mode this death which once you just bring the name of death once you mention death you see most people they want to change the subject they don't hear about it because scares them it terrifies them because they why does one become terrified of something because they don't know much about it they are ignorant about that subject and one of the subjects is death and what is the reality of death what is death death is just that it's like a a transit we are here in this life we are in transit death is moving from one location to another the reality of this life is that we are like passes by we're not staying here amirul mu'minin alayhi saram when he comes to describe the reality of this life he says this life this dunya this dunya is like a bridge do you see anyone living on a bridge you don't people use the bridge to cross from point A to B amirul mu'minin alayhi saram says this life is like a bridge the eternal life the everlasting life is the life after this life the hereafter and this life hayatid dunya is just merely 50 60 years for some and for some 30 or 40 years like brother brother mohsin jabbar zahra he spent 30 or 40 years and he had to go some people spent 10 years children pass away and some people know Allah gives them chance and opportunity to see what they can give to life it reminds me of a dream i know had it's really kind of hard to fathom how this life can can flick in an instant and and and go so fast but the dream my friend was telling me that he basically reached his shihad in the dream so he was killed and then as soon as he was killed he found himself in the barzakh when he was there he looked towards his his wife and he saw his wife lamenting and mourning him and he said i was laughing because of how silly i realized the world is once i was in barzakh and i saw her crying i saw her i saw her grow old into an old woman but it went by by by like 30 seconds and within 30 seconds suddenly i saw her in front of me and she was so confused by who i was because she she almost didn't recognize me the person says because i was 30 years old or whatever and she had had a whole lifetime go by her so i think that that's a beautiful example that really maybe kind of understand just how this life can can can can can flick by an incident and it's something that the companions of mom saying that muslim al aqid himself almost so understood because they knew that this life was nothing therefore however much pain and death they go through in this life they know that the minute they pass through into the next life it'll all be worth it this is the the reality of the school of abya abdallah al hussain and before that the school of amiral mu'mineen aliyyab ibn al-ib and the message of the holy prophet of islam from day one rasulullah sallallahu alaihi wa ali wasallam when he used to sit down with the muslims in the in the mosque he used to continuously advise them and admonish them about the reality of this life and the reality of the of the hereafter and he used to tell the mu'mineen the muslims always remember death always remember death because some people dedicate their lives and they strive so hard they run behind their lusts and their desires and they don't know that this life is only two three days and you're going to leave this world and this life Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala in a hadith qutsi says bani adam mankind the descendants of adam they run after something in this life that i have not created people they they they long to find happiness they long to find something that will make their lives stable in this world and Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala says i have not created happiness for this world this world this this aalam this dunya that you're living in is a it's a period of testing Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala says in the holy quran the reason that we have created mankind and we've brought them to this life is a test when will we get the reward inshallah is when we in the last moments of our lives we will see the reward we will see a glimpse of that reward and then receive the full reward afterwards and that is when we notice amir al-mu'mineen fatimah al-zahra hasan hussain and the holy prophet sitting by our sides in the last moments of death these noble individuals come to the aid of one and there is a beautiful story just to aid what you said about the dream of your friend one day took his companions and went to the cemetery when they arrived at the cemetery amir al-mu'mineen as it is mustahab when you pass by a cemetery or enter a cemetery you say salam to the inhabitants of that area of that location so amir al-mu'mineen alaihi salam sa'id as-salamu alaikum as-salamu ala ahl al-diyar min al-mu'mineen wal-mu'minat and then the imam started walking around some of the graves until he arrived at one of the graves he spoke to his companions and said oh my companions you see this grave here they said yes he said i am going to pray make dua and i am going to ask Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala to give life back to this inhabitants of this grave so i can ask him and you can learn amir al-mu'mineen started reciting a special dua and then he he had a walking stick he struck that walking stick onto the ground of that grave he said he struck the ground and he said qombe idhnillah yabda allah and the companions suddenly noticed that the person buried in that grave sat up took away wiped himself from the dust he looked at amir al-mu'mineen and he said as-salamu alaika ya wasiya rasulillah peace be upon you oh commander of amir of the faithful successor of rasulullah amir al-mu'mineen replied back and the imam asked him a question he said oh young man how long have you have you been dead he said ya wasiya rasulillah it's been a day or part of a day and the imam asked him name me the name of the emperor or the king that used to live when you before you died and that young man said he brought the name of a of a king or emperor which had lived 400 years back and then imam told him explain to us the whole process of your death the young man said i was ill my family my my children my daughters they were busy in the courtyard and i was sitting in the in the room and the door was closed suddenly i saw the door open and a very handsome very beautiful young man come inside i had never seen such beauty very nice white clean clothes very beautiful scent and smell of perfume and he was smiling he came inside he spoke to me he said to me what are you suffering from he said i am suffering from illness which has deprived me from walking now this is for you the mu'minina mu'minat ponder about this hadith he said this young man came started swiping wiping from my toes coming up he said how do you feel now he said well my leg is fine but the pain is going up and then he continued wiping until he arrived at my chest he said how do you feel now he said i told him everything's fine but the pain has reached my chest and my head he said he continued wiping over my body until i felt that there was no pain in my body moments later i noticed my family my wife my children they came inside they started shaking me and they started hitting themselves and crying gradually he was prepared for burial they washed him he says when they poured that cold water on my body it was so nice it was so pleasing the fact that they were washing me with that cold water the shroud that they put on me that kefen it was the best clothing i had worn and the moment that they put me in that grave now i just remembered i was in the burial of brother mu'sid jabbar zahra yesterday and it was an honor for me to take part of that burial i went inside the grave and every now and then we we need to remind ourselves of these kind of situations ahlul bayt alaykum as-salam they say it is mustahab for someone to dig a grave for himself in his lifetime and every now and then go inside the grave and sleep in that grave and speak to yourself and read this ayah oh god give me another chance let me go back and so i can do some of the things that i failed to accomplish in my life so i went yesterday i went down inside the grave i helped the brothers and the moment that i received the body the body of brother mu'sid jabbar zahra it was a different experience out of this world a couple of days ago he was alive and now i'm carrying his his lifeless body we brought it down we positioned his body into that grave and we started reading that talqeen and that talqeen reminds us by the imams alaykum as-salam that death is haq monkar an nakir ar haq as-salat haq quran is haq il islam is haq a immat ahlul bayt they remind you everything and that itself reminds you that oh mankind oh human being don't forget yourself today you are fit and strong today you have energy today you have power today you have desires you go left and right you look at that you look at that but don't forget yourself that's the same way you came into this world you will leave this world so make sure when you leave this world you're carrying with you your full book of hasanat of blessings of being a noble servant to abii abdillah al-Husayn and abal fadl al-abbas so here Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala in the holy quran says in surat al-jum'a verse number eight this death that you are running away from is going to meet you is going to come to you who bigger than the prophets of Allah the messengers of Allah is there anyone more important in the life cycle of of human being than the prophets and the messengers no prophet sulaiman ibn davud prophet sulaiman he was given what's no other messenger and prophet was given Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala gave power and wealth and leadership to prophet sulaiman to an extent that prophet sulaiman said there's nothing else that i can i need that i can ask Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala he had control of everything one day he told his companions his servants i am going to go up in my castle to overlook my land and my servants i don't want anyone to disturb me no one i'm going to enter this room and i am going to close the door and i am just going to stand on the balcony and notice everyone my land a messenger of Allah so he went up he closed the door he stood by the balcony with his walking stick pondering and looking at everything suddenly he noticed someone come in for mu'mineen when he comes he comes in the figure of a handsome smiling happy young man but god forbid if a young man fails to practice or to behave let's say to behave like a human being will come in a different shape and form prophet sulaiman looked at the young man he said who are you and how did you enter this room i had ordered my guards not to allow anyone to come in he said this young man malik ul moot he said the lord of this house gave me permission to enter it he said prophet sulaiman acknowledged that he is malik al moot he said okay what do you need how can i help are you here to visit or are you here to take my soul malik ul moot said no i came to take your soul it is narrated in some narrations books of history that prophet sulaiman asked malik ul moot the day the angel of death to allow him to sit down or lie down on his bed and then he should take his life malik ul moot said no Allah has said whilst you are standing i should take your ruh prophet sulaiman who some call king sulaiman stood there with his walking stick malik ul moot took his soul he stood there for days the servants never knew that he had passed away how did they find out when a small insect started eating away his walking stick until he fell over that's when they found out a prophet of Allah i'm not saying alina wab or some other person a prophet a messenger of Allah who had been sent for the guidance of mankind this is the way he passes away now how is me and my friends and my family how are they going to leave this world imam hussein says oh muslims i am going to karbala but let me tell you something in me i hussein son of amir al mu'mineen ali ibn abii talib in me la aral moot illa saad death for me hussein is happiness why how could death be a source of happiness for you oh aba abdillah because the conclusion of my movement is going to be shahada and is there anything more sweeter than shahada it is narrated that the first drop of blood from the body of a shahid of a martyr on the ground it will be a reason for wiping away all of his sins and mistakes the first drop and the moment that he falls on the planes of the battlefield his head will fall into the lap of his maid and whore in the paradise she will look at him and she will tell him welcome i am your whore i am your maid and i have been created just for you is that only for martyrs no this is the same situation for the zwar of abii abdillah al hussein the zwar those who come to visit karbala carrying the love of abii abdillah al hussein they lament they cry their beat their chests they strike their heads and shed blood for the martyrdom of abii abdillah al hussein allah subhanahu wa ta'ala will reward them the same but more people will stand in the sahat al mahshar on the dessert of mahshar yawm al qiyamah and the zwar and the khuddam and the servants of abii abdillah al hussein will enter the paradise a thousand years before the rest of the people will enter the paradise and say if you mentioned the zwar of mahsain asalam and i don't know if there are any hadith about this perhaps you can teach us educate us inshallah well i've heard many beautiful verses of poetry about people who visit the shrine of mahsain asalam and imam saying you know what these people visited me in my grave so there was no doubt that i will come to visit them in their grave so when you talk about being buried and being loaded into the grave or even after dying straight away and seeing the angel of death one of my personal wishes i'm sure your wish as well is that when we die we don't just see the angel of death we see imam saying i saw in front of us saying you know what you gave your life to me thank you you gave everything your money everything you had to come and visit my grave and i'm coming here to thank you and you know what i said if that if if everything i give everything whatever little we give to imam saying in our life you talk about jannah you talk about hori you talk about all these things you know all i all that was suffice for me and i speak from my heart when i say it's all that was suffice for me is seeing imam saying in front of me after i die and just telling me you know what thank you thank you for for what you've given me and and say it in the in the in the 12 or so minutes that we have left perhaps you can you can take us take our souls into the the the beautiful story of kalbala and imam saying aya asalam before i go into the the way muslim and i tragically passed away i just remembered a very beautiful story in the city of tehran very quickly there was a butcher by the name of qasem qasem this qasem he was he wasn't very practicing let's just say that his behavior wasn't all the best he was you know engaged in doing many wrong things what's in the month of muharram he puts everything away comes back to his senses wears black and tries to join the servants of abey abdillah in mourning the first day of muharram he went to his local mosque he wanted to serve he was very strong and very powerful individual so he went to the mosque the local mosque they noticed qasem's coming they said not this guy again because his reputation in the society in the community is not very well if he comes people will never come to our majlis so one of us should go and nicely tell him please don't come to the mosques during these ten nights stay away for the sake of imam per se they came qasem came they told him listen qasem your behavior over the past hasn't been good and people told us if qasem comes we will never come to the majlis al-abdillah so qasem stay at home qasem's heart broke during these nights he used to send his family to the majlis al-abdillah al- hussain in his house there was a basement he used to go in that basement cover the walls with black he used to take a chain a zingir similar to what the mawakeb the processions do every day in the morning in karmala they come out and they strike their back with zingir and chains qasem the butcher used to go every night when the family go and he's all alone at home go in the basement in his small hussain and starts striking his back saying hussain a couple of days passed away and he sees imam hussain in his dream imam hussain comes and says to him qasem please accept my apologies i am sorry that these people have stopped you from going to my majlis but qasem i am going to ask you something you love me and you want to help for my cause for the rest of your life i imam hussain ask you to put everything away and start a clean page a clean life qasem wakes up in the morning very amazed that he has seen imam hussain's dream imam hussain goes in the dream of the management of that mosque and says to them the same thing he says all of your amal i do not accept if you do not go and apologize to qasem they come to qasem's house they narrate to them to him the same story and they ask him to forgive them and invite him back to the masjid qasem goes and says okay i accept your apology inshallah i will come to your majlis the next day the people in the community they hear the sound of cries coming from the house of qasem they come and they see that qasem has passed away clean state this is the masjid of abbi abdillahi hussain when he wants to help and support his servants in whatever condition they are he will come muslim ibn aqeel again someone who dedicated his life for abbi abdillahi hussain and he did not fear death in whatever circumstances after he came to kufa he was all alone the people of kufa those companions who are close to amir al mu'minin they came they supported him but unfortunately abdillahi ibn ziaad he paid people to leave muslim ibn aqeel muslim ibn aqeel the night that he wanted to take over power and assume power he said our appointment is that we meet at the mosque we pray salat al jama'ah and we make a move muslim came started praying and there were thousands of people praying behind him until during the the salat the prayer people started leaving him one by one until there was only a handful of people with muslim muslim looked around he said he knew that this is a trick played by bani umayyah against abbi abdillahi hussain of course the people of kufa they called abbi abdillahi to come to to kufa but unfortunately they sold this life and they sold the other life for the sake of this life what a conclusion death for for them was the end of everything but for muslim was the beginning of everything muslim starts in the middle of the night all alone starts walking around the the streets of kufa he was gharib he didn't have anyone then he came and sat in front of a house very thirsty very tired that house belonged to a lady a noble lady called tau'a tau'a was one of the lovers of amir al-mumineen ali abdillahi but unfortunately she had a son who had been brainwashed by bani umayyah she came out looking for her son because the atmosphere at that time was very bad she noticed a figure sitting by her door cutting the long story short she knew she found out that this is muslim and what the people of kufa had done to him he asked her for water she brought him water and she invited him inside her son found out that muslim was inside the house he goes to qasr al-amara to inform the authorities that muslim is in my house and they come with their hundreds muslim fights very bravely like amir al-mumineen on the battlefield killing the majority they sent for more backup until they dig a hole and gradually muslim falls into that trench and that hole and they capture muslim they take him to qasr al-amara qasr al-amara abdillahi bin ziaad speaks to muslim and he says why have you come to kufa muslim explains that he has been sent as a messenger to the people of kufa by abdillahi al-hussain abdillahi bin ziaad orders for his death they take him on top of qasr al-amara the castle of imara and muslim says now that you are going to kill me just give me one more request and let me pray towards Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala muslim prays he asked for a bowl of water he was very thirsty but because he had been beaten and they had broken his teeth as he came to drink water some blood dropped into that bowl of water and he was not able to drink it he faced towards uh iraq and he raised his hand and said assalamu alaika ya aba abdillahi sayyidi yabna rasul Allah peace be upon you oh hussain ya aba abdillahi i wish i was able to inform you about the hypocrisy of the people of kufa ya aba abdillahi do not come to kufa because the people of kufa have turned their backs on us they decided to be had muslim women aqeel abdam Allah wa jura la wa ujurakum yaa mu'mineen oh lovers of ahlul bet this very noble companion surrendered to death surrendered to shahada ending his life in the cause of ebi abdillahi hussain they beheaded muslim they threw the body of muslim to the ground they tied his body with ropes and they started dragging the body of muslim between the roads and the streets of kufa someone was traveling from kufa towards iraq he met ebi abdillahi hussain during the way during the path imab hussain asks him where are you coming from that man says i am from kufa imam says tell me inform me what is the news of kufa these days he says i did not leave but i noticed that they were dragging the body of muslim and honey between the streets and the markets of kufa it was then that ebi abdillahi hussain started crying out loudly and saying sister zaynab bring me hamidah the little daughter of muslim muslim had a three-year-old four-year-old daughter who had accompanied her uncle hussain who was in the camp of hussain towards karmala aunt zaynab brought hamidah imam hussain received hamidah sat her on his lap he started looking down at hamidah hamidah's amazed why has imam called me over the little daughters of hussain sitting in front of the imam wanting to see what is the imam going to do with hamid imam started doing something that all the children noticed they know that this movement is only practiced with orphans imam hussain started wiping his hands on the head of hamidah this is the most tragic thing one can do to bring an orphan and start striking their head hamidah looked at her uncle said uncle hussain why are you doing this to me has anything happened to my father hussain says hamidah my my sister zaynab is your auntie and i am your uncle hamidah i have received news that your father muslim has been slain in kufa it was then that muslim's daughter hamidah started striking her head and crying loudly and shouting wa abata wa hussain oh sayidi ya abba abdillah you brought hamidah muslim's orphan you sat her in your lap you started swiping on her head but on the day of ashura after you was killed how did they treat your orphans ya abba abdillah Allahumma salli ala muhammadin wa ala muhammad you send us salutations and our blessings upon and ask Allah upon us and blessings upon the master of martyrs abab abdillah hussain and his cousin muslim in aqeel inshallah i'll be joined back off after the break by said aya hakeem who will be reciting for us inshallah inshallah inshallah see you then assalamu alaikum warahmatullahi wabarak


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