Good morning everybody. So welcome over here another episode with book map FOMC day so this morning we're gonna look at the spy. Yes queues and queue FOMC at 2 o'clock This morning. We didn't have a lot of volatility also mid-August We have to consider that majority of Europe is over here on holiday and I'm not really looking for any kind of able a plus setups Until when until traders the 10 o'clock, sorry the 2 p.m. So Few minutes to start let's prepare so over here we have yes and We are in a position longer than yes from this 44 and 55 with a target 44 and 65 We are at the same time on a position on spy At the same time over here for 43 and 20 Trade shared over here into the Boiler room and We have now this was in 44 444 plus 11 plus 12 Baba this morning we're looking for a short There was a first setup over here at 9 30s, but we missed it. We're gonna review that We took a short over here in this 89 30s for a break even Tesla Major bounce play and then you can see that a star trending over here using this 90 may so bounce from 227 and 233 The only one I would say had pretty good volatility And Vita's a stock that we're watching a lot these days Major bounce from the hourly jails over here meta We are below the previous trading range We had a major jail on rejection a second jail on rejection Amazon over here No play book at the gate. So still waiting Overall, I'm not really looking to take any a plus at upstrays also there. I'm not trading over here I have a trade at the academy from the States We're looking for FMC. So we're looking for trades at 2 p.m. 2 30 p.m. New York time Okay, so let's start doing our analysis First of all, we're going to go we're going to go on spy Mountain chart on spy When I have this monthly chart As I said before I'm tracing over here my levels of fibs fever tracements Now this is the way that I trace them generally you do that from the low to the high and then you look for the retracement Over here, the first thing I do is set the high set the low and then I see this retracement We had a bounce over here to the 78 percentage Fib over under 78 now if this is going to complete the trend is going to go to 430 The one that I'm following every single day is Tesla Tesla we can see that is forming an evening star So this is a reversal pattern We'll large this And that's the reason why this since yesterday we're looking over here for a major unwind We have a first big bullish Arami a second over here in this case We have a spinning top could be a spinning top could be a minor over here doji And then we have a here a bearish Arami. So bearish Arami The level of entry is exactly when we break this level Or when in today we have a possible entry here anticipating this breakdown And now we're looking for this major target. So I'm looking for ideally 200 210 also Second one was Netflix Netflix giving the same setup because we can see that we have a bullish Arami major doji over here and then over here starting the formation of bearish Arami What we can have is a trend line and therefore on the Long-term or actually short on the short-term swing. We're looking for ideally this dipping the 380 385 So this is the point to look for sure setups these days Amazon over here making an outside bar meta Why we are looking this morning was exactly for this fib rejection The reason is this we had a major uptrend move till this peak over here 1st September 2021 Then we know the market fell all the way down Starting over here in 2003 market simply bounced from 90 up over here to 320 We thought some major level of fib 78% is fib retracement and then look over here traders 320 Over under this is formation is a possible over here Bearish engulfing. So we're looking for a pullback over here back to the 270 So from here to here. There's gonna be a 14 15 percent retracement Now let's look at metal this morning and let's dive into a In today We say Time frame we can look over here directly into one minute chart We can see there was no high volatility Also, there was low liquidity We had the morning push over here before the open at 37 to 300 point 70 fade over here all the way down and This was the open two major levels This level here here and the second one this level over here And two things to look the first one is this understanding this level Understanding this level so we can see how the price broke over here to support and start reclaiming So we can think about a beer trap But this alone is not a confirmation for a possible long The confirmation comes on a higher low and then a subsequent over here move off I would say or say I Reestablish over here off Bookmap level at 298 so this 298 over here the stack over here liquidity And they're start bouncing up into the solder and pushing to the solder level of liquidity 300 point 50 The only setup we had this morning a good setup to trade This level for a short which came exactly over here You can see the pop into the 300 point 50 filled for 200 down over here 1.50. So not really a big range $300 stock that moves over here on three points is like I would say two points more or less is just simply Pretty narrow trading range So what we have this morning we're going to look right now into Tesla spy Meta if you have any small caps Please ask you want to do anything Together, so we are looking at Baba correct And let me put up book them up Okay, so let's go for the hard time frame. All right We have a Baba here since 2021 feeding all the way down the monthly chart and then in the last over here Year Actually in the last over here two years We're having a lower high formation and higher low. So definitely a pendant When we have pennant, it's always a or almost always a continuation pattern And that's the reason why this morning we posted this various pattern a chart because substantially this could have given us unwind and We can see that if we measure this zone over here So this range Then we can bring down this range over here. So let's put together clone so ideally This could be the level Then on the breakdown we can touch because we're gonna bring this over here down here So we're looking for the possible break in the next days could even happen over here that we have Another push and then unwind retest and then short but ideally I'm looking for that short set up even more if the mark will be bearish Going into the daily chart, I'm gonna look always the daily so looking at the levels of Main support resistance this we can cancel for now over here. This we can cancel this we can cancel So we can see the pendant over here. So high low or high higher low Over here. We're touching this level of resistance rejecting So the level that I'm expecting to see in the next days is gonna be this 84 85 So ideally we can see a level over here We can trace a second that over here trend line and we can see this morning. It's passing through that level On a lower time frame So let's move this to All our time frame Yesterday, we had the major breakdown fail all the way Breakdown over here in early pre-market and then break down simply after the open The level we were watching we didn't take a trade over here at the gate The level we were watching was a possible shorting this 90 area 89 50 90 It's simply open and dump at the gate so very weak We had a first pullback over here in 930 Which is this peak over here V-wap was running over here. So we can Put up over here the V-wap There we go. You can see the V-wap exactly that 933. So it broke this Small level of liquidity it got near the level of here book map at 89 50 11,000 their place Started to reject so we can see that the price Goes above the V-wap below the V-wap above the V-wap below the V-wap and Then over here starts fading all the way down Reclaim of the V-wap push over here into this resistance So here we started taking a short traders at this level Exactly the server here in 930s at 10 o'clock we took this first bar here There we go. We got in exactly this level here in 930 So you can see what? trendline break Level of entry is 89 30 area here Risking that in 950. We are risking this liquidity level and Then you can see it was essentially lateral over here. They're really not moving. So once the price came over here We decided to get out around this area so break even trade and Then we saw yes pushing this time. Yes was pushing and Q was pushing spy was pushing cues We're pushing they started to grind a nice cup pattern higher lows higher highs and then Red to green on the day passing right here. This level read the green. So right now not touching Baba We're still bears a sentiment. We're still bears on the bigger picture But not a trade that I want to take and I believe that Besides I for me see all this week will be a little bit Lower liquidity as we said Europe is closed or I would say a lot of participants Of the sector are not really on the market. There are holidays We are watching Microsoft so very range over here Bounce from the 320 whole round our number and we had an open with the red to green move We had also Apple Bounce play from this demand zone over here on the over 177 push the 178 So really one move one dollar move of range is nothing The one that we like this morning a spy or at least we took a our trade on spy Exactly this level here Using yes and in Q is a guide so what we had before the reason over here we had this Small Jlan curl after the verse of 50 the same time we had over here this given because once you have diversity you look for the The level that we longed if you look on book map is this level over here So we can zoom out a little bit We see a major cup pattern. So the price Breaks the V web and that's the reason why you can analyze V web on different time frames and so on but You will never by the way traders. We have a long play right now on NQ 1150 just right now with the risk over here 103.50s This is would be the third one today So probably over here stuffing seems a little bit like weak There we go already got the Stop level If you break this Jlan over here once over two So we're saying about this level over here V web doesn't really count in this moment and The price got over here to the J lines. You can see the bounce play We had the first dip over here second dip third dip now it's getting Week so we're breaking this level over here. We're rejecting this level So I'm going to look for a potential on one to 442 for 40 250 We're saying about the Book map level over here This was by area air of resistance So you can see if you're long We're long over here this area Once we got to this level over here, you can see how we reject it So we have a very good confirmation of where the supply is placed All right, so this is the reason why we use book map to see one of the reason to see where those sellers are located so we're here supply area at 444 and 20 444 and 30 this over here is the supply So as we said this morning We're looking for the long and then the long when you're looking for the level of pure size as main target The same thing over here. We have this web Watching the scanner right now if we have anything Playing for the day so we have a A small cap G X J T two dollar and fourteen That is pushing G J X J T Okay, all right down We had octoplay over here Stop this air and came down. We have up Small gap over here right now. We are 28 30 percent. So not really interesting training this small Gappers GSMG So some traders over here took this this morning Michael very good job over here shorting to the golden zone all the way down and Then we had Cyn Another one that trader over here in the room took this all the way down. So good work over here Michael Rome and also Tom Some trader off of the room We'll go back over here to spy Very narrow here this time of the day. So Not really looking to push perfect dip over here this Baba in this Support Dip a little bounce over here almost a hammer play almost like a hammer over here They've done here but Let's see also Tesla Tesla as we're seeing this morning Bullish engulfing pattern. So let's look at Tesla a lot of buying buyers this morning this dip So to the 227 here Well, what I'm looking traders on Tesla is still more in wine So ideally as we were saying this $200 area, maybe 210 we had over here the Majority of the support, right? That would be the perfect here. You can see bounce bounce Rejection that would be the perfect area where I'm looking ideally for a long This area here. So what I'm looking the next days is Tesla to unwind more even on this downtrend we have Bull bull days You can see over here traders like bull days, but the stock does lower highs or lows He's in a complete now short-term various trend So Ideally, this is what I'm looking at. Okay So this continuation over here the trend to the downside despite the bounce of today. This is a long play over here And Tesla you see when we were the dealings over here in this level support We had several levels over here. So when I don't want those levels I'm gonna filter these. Let's put for example a filter 2000 So I only see those bigger levels I felt a little bit out all the noise and The major point for me is to have the confluence of the key level Plus over here a level and you want to see over here how it reacts like especially This is an exhaustion downsize. There's a washout Reclaim and I don't know here washout reclaim how we know that is a washout We'll see those breakdowns and those wicks So those wicks means I use sell-off and run away reclaim And then over here holding the support Personally traders. I'm not in a trade this week and we didn't trade Tesla this morning We are simply waiting for a plus setup. We didn't have it. So One of the most important thing for me is to wait for the setup Avoid to trade B setups. Okay Anybody traded Tesla today? So let's see T board looking at coin Coin this morning. We had a play. I I shared in walsh list Let me bring it up So I'm reading from the front reading room News inside dispose uses etc. This talk in a very strength tends to fill on gaps Sell the new scenario plan short enough 50 boom We are the TP 78 so really Set it very clear Pushes Into that J lines we see often the fails What I mean by that whenever we have this push, okay? And like over here this morning get popular news or over here the spike this spike this Rejection of here the spike every single time the price gets into the jail and seems like a major rejection So this morning when we saw the news coming out We are writing and bus was a pointing out Trader this can be a good sell the new scenario Because the stock essentially is doing that every single day every single time that we have a gap okay, so This traders are not something that we say in 2020 you can come in there when we said this at 740 this morning We look to sell this short. We look to short this And to look this one why no plan even for long only for the short side again history of the stock tells us About how they react on news Going over to a one-minute chart I would say I would say it's pretty easy To see over here every single time that it popped to the jail and spot to the jail as it failed I See this 79 and then 78 by rules. We should get to the peer support. Okay, so I will say the corn play worked out very good now being that we put Over here the filter we have to change the for corn because totally different liquidity And let's look now Even we didn't trade this person. I didn't trade this. Okay we're looking at Those setups on 932. Oh, I need to open another one coin That's two hours Still on wine over here. Okay So this is the fit my favorite Setup, but often, you know, you'll miss rate because you're following maybe two or three for stocks futures And then you have a set up over here on what you have a set up on Like in this case on coin So at the open We have the confluence of what the stuff? Bowerly and then you have confluence of this major push near the big heat map So once we fail over here, we want to trade this short. So we're just short exactly this level over here Over under the Jlands VWAP poppin fail. We get to the pure slow support over here into the 81 taking partial profit And then secondary you can see breaks the VWAP. So trap again long traders And it makes them believe all we're breaking be what this is going to go higher not at all 951 Gets to the side again the heat map above. You can see how close we get to it Just like 10 15 cents major rejection and We have over here a solid over here supply area. So this great zone a solid over here Bear shingol thing and over here. We have a solid first part of the move which you can see it's all bullish over here We're a lot of buyers so don't try to Short when you see these big green dots because this means they're buying over here actually Start looking when they start selling. So we're starting these red dots over here and You take this to the downside and this the short is always on the back side. Okay I Know major long plays this morning. I didn't see anything that I liked Besides some trades on reversal on yes, and then we had a third over here rejection 10 21 and this again 10 20 exactly 10 20 exactly We had over here this level again Together with the heat map above and I need my word here giving your say ideal short Nice to remember a can read actually this was I would say easier Really easier this morning coin And all the way down Other questions Jonathan has asked can you show how you feel there again? Okay, of course do you use any filters on The heat map I would say with Okay, so having filters traders it really depends on The stock that you trade So you cannot simply put The same filters that you have on Tesla for Baba for spy for made up for coin When I'm getting Into a tray like let me bring up this one second when I'm getting into a stock Like Tesla where we play high volatility I'm gonna zoom out if I keep this When no filtering is like this And I okay, we can see right away That we have this as a major setup For rejection major setup major setup major setup so we can see that we have The levels of 233 the level of 232 and 60 the level of 232 the level of here 231 as Major levels of heat maps. Okay, we can see that The point is That I also see all the other levels. So let's say 232 and 90 over here 232 231 and 70 231 and 50. I mean It can get really too crowded So I like to go into my Studies configuration. I start looking over here At the exact size and I like to filter at least 1000 shares There will be days that Tesla trades a lot more volume. So I need to put this at 2000 shares But let's say that I put on coin Okay Let's put over here 1000 shares. I Still decent. Let's see on Baba put the heat map over here 1000 shares I would say that 1000 shares for this kind of market Both Baba Tesla coin it reduces the noise a lot. Okay, reduce a lot the noise. I think it's a good field So Morgan here said yes, it's called over on the doper on Tesla Yeah, I saying I know the basic about it flow So now how the reaction corrected the market any keywords to for learning about that. Okay, so audio flow The way that we use book map is multiple. It's not only a way that we use book map So remember that book map alone or chart alone won't give you all the information When I trade When I mentor traders I like to teach them a Problem that is based on multiple time frames. So the confirmation of time frame It could be a one minute together with the five minutes together with our chart together with a daily chart Let's say a level of that a level that you see on the one you want to see on the five from the hour in the daily And that's called confluence Together with for example the chart setup that you're looking for example There's a setup that we're playing a lot in this market in place three out of four of the time And I'm talking about in this market and over on there like let's say Bob on Tesla in the last days And then I'm looking at the confluence of also the order of flow together with This price action these setups and the multiple time frames Aligning all things together you increase the order of success So it's not only using the setup you will have high success Using only the order of flow you have high success is combine the things together. You create the perfect strategy Now The main keys that we can look when we're trading at Stocks or even futures because we trade even futures Using the order of flow is that that level that you want to trade or that setup that you want to trade You will have a confirmation through tape in order to flow So for example I'm going to put over here Tesla So we can make an example on Tesla, but on all the others webinars. You can see this trade is very very good So we can see that once the price for example rises over here and I'm talking about This this this this So all of these Uptrend so these are all waves to the upside. Okay. Our lows our lows our lows our lows We have always the demanding control so the buyers. Okay, and the buyers you can visualize them with these green dots So visually as soon as you look at this chart over here What you can see you can see that you have the major of these dots green So, you know that there's a strong chart is bullish The second thing that we're looking for is looking at the chart So looking where on the chart we have for example levels of supply And then looking if those levels supply are I would say Also present In our book map. So we can see over here the level of 234 Together over here this level 234 So I know that that was a level that to say I make an example from the previous day over here You can see this consolidation So we go through it as a 234 234. I also see over here Book map that means that level will be pretty important for us today On tesla, we are still like better sentiment So what we're looking for today Is still ideally I fade but again, we're waiting for that for emcee Now personally this evening I won't be over here for that for emcee I have a guest over here to the To the Trader Academy these days So I won't be over here for two o'clock But I mean if you have time follow FMC We made some videos with book map and also in the room explain the health of your FMC Especially one day was Last April if I remember correctly We had an amazing FMC day. We took four stocks at the same time May at the amazon taz I still remember and then we also took the spy It was 2 to 30 p.m. And we had the major unwinding day Following yes in queue Yes, and in queue in queues, okay So that's A good video that I suggest you and invited to go watch it Other questions, so still bears over here in the tesla Not looking too long What would be the set of that right now watching? There'd be a fade all the way down Then a retest of this level J lines above And looking to short this year over here So there's a still long way that we want to look an example of this. So when we have this shift Essentially, it's just like over here. You see that The jail has refilled the five And then this level over here is the level that we want to trade. So once we have that projection Okay Or let's say Here was very top of these days Yes, always shorting below the j-lines longs above the j-lines Exactly unless you have, you know extreme reversals levels That combining let's say these levels of demand for example, we have this demand at 227 So let's say we have this morning or this afternoon during the FMC Addict this 227 and then a bounce like that in that case We'll be trading a bounce play and a major over here beer trap So we can trade those setups over there Okay, it would be a counter trend counter trend trade So the most important thing is that we have an alignment of different timeframes For example could be a chart pattern of daily Or a chart pattern on the Hourly and then maybe a five minutes just like now giving a Hammer and then looking for this order of flow like over here. So we can see that this morning. We have only mainly buyers Of course, we have sellers because now it's retracing but essentially these were like very strong buyers Good morning behind. Okay, let's look at Nvidia. This was a favorite of bus bus is a professional trader full-time trader He is I would say pretty well known in many many trading rooms His favorite or one of his favorites in video So we're gonna go on a video this morning And we're gonna look at This bar over here So in video one two three four five six seven monthly bullish candle Over here the price A quadruple like 110 to 480 That's a big move and we're talking about the movie in one year essentially, okay And now over here what happened? We had a major bearer on it or bearer ceramic All the way down to this the many over here 400 and then it bounced over here to this 444 Looking at the daily This is what I'm looking at. We have a major uptrend line We can over here set A secondary trend line here We have one major dump trend line. We can set over here a second trend line this we can Cancel And these are all our levels of major demand and supply So the first over here that I really want to put is this 440 area for me. That's one of the most important here on the chart The second level that I would put Is This area over here 445 The reason why is that We bounce over here multiple times on this 445. You can see one time second time over here Okay, so multiple times And then we have another trend line over here. So let's make a little bit better Okay After this i'm passing To the hourly chart and right now we are really In the middle of the range This looks more to me like Still a major bullish over here move because this bounce over here in the funger era was pretty strong We are forming a possible bull flag So we could see over here a potential bull flag bounce play from this level and then push to this 451 secondary 460 And if we break this we can go to this i473 So if this level over here will hold the support for 40 438 and we're going to have a break of this Bull flag then we're going to push to the 450 460 and then the 470 Looking at today price action You see over here. We have multiple levels and multiple like Small levels behind for me is too much at least how I like to look at the market I don't like to see dots like this. I don't like to see dots like this. I like to see them very small And then when I go to the heat map I will change over here the size and Let's put 1,000 Much better over here. So it's cleaner and what I'm looking at I'm looking at those major levels that we can see the darker they are So if I see red they are more important than the orange ones And over here I can spot right away this morning This level over here This level over here Another major level down here and this level over here So those on the chart are my main levels until the price is over here. I'm not really interested in trading. Why should I? Why should I treat us right? So I'm looking only for those spots not every day We need to trade this morning that the trade the set that we had in in the room were essentially besides over here A good word for this morning from from tom and a few others Besides over here one small kept setup and some nice future setups. We had both long and short. He has something q and spy so etf Big caps we're going to really have any set that we actually traded So it was a day that we simply waited the gate One break even on tesla one break even really breaking means like no win no loss on on baba and There was one may baba opportunity. We missed it and one may made opportunity. We missed it But that's the point of a trader. You don't have to trade every single day if you miss it. You don't trade So i'm perfectly comfortable in doing that Now looking at the price section this morning on nvidia think You can right away understand that we are in a range Okay The plan this morning was very simple Looking or for a break over here for 50 for 45 and then buying dips So really looking to buy dips this year over here, right? But we never had it Or looking for a breakdown and ideally buying dips down here, but we essentially missed it now Why this level is important? So look over here and this for the future try to understand what i'm telling you Yesterday we had this major low one of the criteria that i always say to members that Look for the previous day low in the previous day high like we did on yes Then look for market high market low and this morning what do we have over here? We have the confluence of this level over here 438 together with the seat map over here. So you can see the seat map at this point at 438 So it's not that only 438 is going to be my purchase level because if you can see over here The level that we had before didn't really work But if we align now the previous demand zone if we align for example the candlestick pattern What was the can of this better here? Look what a beautiful Uh reversal inside bar that we had over here And fake breakdown and right away push it upside and we align over here also The level of book map remember that red line that we saw were saying before Then all together this becomes an a plus setup for a long Again book map Previous Low so this was the demand area the Reverse day same which is formed by this inside bar fake wash of them push All together becomes your level of buy but of course traders This is more advanced trading. It's not trend falling. We're stuck in a range So before taking these trades wait lower more easier setup. Okay. This is a little bit more advanced Are you looking for anything? The tape will really sped up on tesla. We can just see this on this breakdown Let's look So what I like about tesla here is that is going in the direction that we want so that is fading And until we don't have that pullback over here. Let's just wait But if for example, we can have This and this today or even better Let's say a pullback over here this and this this morning That could be a good setup 230 whole round dollar number We'll be looking over here of tesla Watching for example fail in 230 if we have liquidity over here stacking then we can take a short So vham is asking what is the time frame that I usually look on book map. Okay. I look over here, buddy So you have sorry You have the time over here. You can set the five three There's no major difference for me because what happens even if I have this on the one Okay, and I see very closely over here like this I then zoom out often or zoom in often So what I suggest you just have like a one and then you can zoom out over here Because like that you can see more I would say Zoom out the levels like over here. You can see this major level is 228 Another on 229 230 Okay, so try to use a level and then change it Remember on tesla we are with this pattern, right? It's always more clear that we have the evening star The target we set 210 200 so now We're gonna probably go retest the 228 over here So we're having a little bit more sellers on these On these washes over here. You can see Break support wash wash a lot of sweeps over here When I say sweeps straighter means that we break the support and straighter stop out. Okay Long stop out So you can see over here our levels of demand. We're breaking 230 Demand over here 227 supply over here 234 You turn this down It's incredible how this morning steady s is totally on its way So we had a long set up here Jalen curl jalen curl jalen curl. This was a stop jalen curl jalen curl again And thank you Gave you in the same set over here jalen curl jalen curl same jalen curl all the way up But if we have to say is this a beautiful day really uptrend is so strong not yet Market is waiting for FOMC and I hope we're gonna have some very good. I would say Uh move on the day These are some of the trade we took this morning. We longed over here. The lord was called Even 10 seconds before taking the trade We sold over here sold over here sold over here the rest we longed over here sold over here and the rest break even Then we took the long way here for 455 The last long over here. We took it Was this over here and we got a little stop any other question traders You're welcome buddy So next week, I know we'll be together with book month, uh bruce pringle Again, if you like, uh, please put a like And also subscribe subscribe also to the j twitter co youtube channel I'm sharing more today content about stocks how to trade in the lessons And really this is the oh say the easiest way To learn the market simply following then look to retrade Look to make experience start with a demo account Play around Find your strategy test it make more experience on it. You can reach out And uh, then only when you're comfortable and you're consistent You can look to trade Live And if you're good at welcome in the room to trade with us You did for the futures Okay, all right traders. So 1115. Thank you again everybody for following. See you next week and take care. Thank you very much


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And for a long time, those who followed the Prophet's law of Islam carried forward his message imbibe and inculcated the Quran in its true, galactic way, open way, and built the civilization. Then things began to happen. Something happened. Some things began to happen. Last week in our introduction, I gave you some idea of the inventions that the Muslims made in the classical times and in the recent times. All the way from rocket science in the 18th century and its connection to the star-spangled matter, the American National Anthem, to robotics and coffee. The one invention that our discovery that we all love. Now, what I'm going to do today by way of a summary of what we were talking about. We left last week with the revolution of the Mu'tazilites, the philosophers. And I'll try to bring down the discussion so that in the recording and those young people who listen to it are able to understand it and ask themselves and perhaps make contributions to the evolution of thought in Islam and understand why it was that science and civilization shrank. So what we'll do is to start with the Mu'tazilite revolution and then go on to the next intellectual step and then we'll take a look at the social and political landscape because as I submitted last week, if you wish to understand history, it is all there in the Quran. Bismillah ar-Rahman ar-Rahim. Wa ala asf, innalli insana la fi khusf. illa alladhi na'a manu wa ala saliha wa tawasaw bil haqq, wa tawasaw bil saqq. So as you listen to the presentation, the submission today, I ask you to just focus on two of those words, wa tawasaw bil haqq. Tawasaw meaning working together. Haqq, very big word, very comprehensive word. Insha'Allah on Friday the whole Bible will be about the word haqq, which means truth, justice, rights and responsibilities. All of them are in the word of haqq and meant much more. So let's ask ourselves, how did the Muslims work together to discover the truth? One of the definitions of science is that it is the discovery of the truth. How did the Muslims work together to establish justice? Or did they not even work together? Why did they come apart? It is important to know that because unless you have peace, unless people work together, it is not possible to have science. How can a man who is worried about, or how can a lady who is worried about the safety of the family think about science? If you are worried about where the next meal is going to come from, if you are worried about a roof on your head, obviously it's not possible for you to think about science, about the higher things of life. How did the Muslims work together, or did they not work together at all? That's what we should be looking for. The first anti-Mutazzala movement. See, Mutazzala is for philosophers. And for the young people, I'll tell you what philosophy is and what the limits of philosophy are. Because this is not a high level discussion. This is a discussion for everyone. Philosophy is a method of discovering the truth. It is in a sense the basis of science and civilization. However, it's also predicated upon certain assumptions. Depends upon whose philosophy we are talking about. The thing to do with the study in a science, any philosophy, is to ask ourselves, what are the assumptions upon which this science is based? If you don't know the assumptions, you'll make mistakes. You'll make errors. For instance, last week we talked very briefly about the theory of evolution. A very powerful theory. So powerful that it has caught the imagination of the world. But the question is, what are the assumptions that underlie the theory of evolution? If you know the assumptions, you'll know its limits. Secondly, let me use the word science. Please don't always associate that with natural science. The study of Qur'an is also a science, the Qur'anic sciences. Science is an approach, a methodology, a process leading to a certain conclusion. There is a certain methodology to study the Qur'an. There is a certain methodology to study the hadith. There are methodologies for each one of the disciplines. And when we engage in a discussion with other civilizations or amongst ourselves, we must prepare ourselves by understanding the assumptions, the limits of what it is that we are talking about. So when we say science somehow did not flourish in the Islamic world, we must always be cognizant of the meaning of what was said. Meaning, they are saying that natural sciences somehow did not flourish in the Islamic world. The Mutanzalites were Muslims. They were good Muslims. They were bell-meaning Muslims. As the works of the Greeks and the Indians and the Chinese and the Persians, they were translated in Baghdad. The Muslims, as did the Christians in the previous centuries, were faced with the challenge of explaining their beliefs rationally. There are people even to this day who think that reason can understand anything. Not asking themselves what are the limits of reason. Just about 15 years ago, one of the Popes made this statement that Islam did not value reason. I responded to it and it was published in some of the magazines. We need to understand what reason is and what are the limits of reason. Just to sort of illustrate my observation, what is the reason to love? Is there a reason to love? Has anyone come up with a rational explanation for love? What is the reason to believe? What do you mean? What is the reason to climb the Himalaya mountains? It is there, poor mountains, making its own business. Why do the human beings climb the Himalaya mountains? Reason has its limits. It is a very noble faculty. Because the mind next to the heart is the most noble creation of Allah SWT. It is so noble that it reach and encompasses all of the creative world. It is a very noble faculty. But it also has limits. It is limited by understanding of time. And I pointed that out the last time. One of the tripping points in philosophy relates to what time is. Does anyone know time? No. Not a philosopher, not a scientist, not even the prophets understood what time is. When the people of Makkah used to ask for Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam, when is the day of judgment, the Prophet always said, the knowledge of that is only with Allah SWT. I do not have that knowledge. Time is a mystery within a riddle, within an enigma. It is a gift from Allah SWT. It is a gift so that through it, with it, the will of Allah SWT finds its fulfillment. It is given to us as His Khalifa on earth, so that the sharia of Allah SWT finds its fulfillment. So that we can discharge our destiny. That is a philosophical statement. So these Mu'tazilites were good Muslims. And they were asked to explain their beliefs in rational terms. And they were very enthusiastic about it. Because they had, for the first time, come into contact with rational thought. The philosophy of the Hindus and the Zoroastrians and the Chinese, they were easier. But the challenge of the rational thought was much more profound. So the disbelievers who did not believe in Islam used to taunt the Muslims. They said, how do you explain the nature of God, for instance? How do you explain the Quran? How does God somehow arrange for the affairs of men? And then, at the same time, you believe in predestination and the free will of man. How does free will make sense if you believe in predestination? These were the kinds of questions that the disbelievers used to pose before them. So these are legitimate questions. So the Mu'tazilites, they took up the challenge. They said, we have a technique now. We know Aristotle, we know Plato, we know the Greeks. We are going to apply a reason to religious thought. To make the long story short, they overextended themselves. Since they did not understand the limitations of reason, since they didn't understand the meaning of before and after, the linearity of time, they said, if we were to apply this technique, the rational technique, to everything, then perhaps we can understand the Quran, perhaps we can understand the work of Allah, but in the process, they fell flat on the face because of the very questions they were asking. Very often, the answer to a question is in the question itself. You ask the right question, the answer is inherent in it. The ability to ask the right question is not easy. Anybody can ask a question. But a wise man will ask a wise question. Any grown man will ask a question. Anybody can ask a question. Now, the Mutazilites, they were pious Muslims. They believed that Allah's essence cannot be compromised. Khulhu Allah, Wahd Allah. Allah's essence cannot be compromised. And then they said, if that is so, see the trap. I'll walk you through the trap. Step by step. If that is so, then, where do we place the Quran? See the question? To preserve the wahdaniyat of the essence of Allah, there is none like unto him. They said, well, we cannot put the Quran in the same space as Allah swt because if we did, we'll be compromising on wahdaniyat. So they said the Quran was created in time. See the trap is inherent in the question. The so-called createdness of the Quran. We don't know time. They didn't know that. We know today through our studies of science a little more about time than we did 1500 years ago. That's the reason we have to study science. One of the reasons. They felt flat on the face. And obviously there was an uproar in the Islamic community. People said, this is unacceptable to say that the Quran was created in time. It's unacceptable. And the ulama, these are called the Kalam school. Kalam is theology. Although theology really did not catch up in Islam, unlike in Christianity. Because we have always held the Quran as transcendent. We'll go back to it. So the Kalam school led the charge against the matazalites. And Imam Humbili was the leader of it. This is happening now in the time period 760 to 846. Approximately 125 to 180 years after the Prophet ﷺ. So you must remember this. And I'll also give you, Jack Stappos for you. Some of the other intellectual things that were happening in the world of Islam at that time. So that you can better comprehend the beauty of it. The difficulties that these great scholars were facing. So Imam Humbili, Imam Ahmed led the charge against the matazalites. And ultimately, the matazalites were discredited. In the process, they made a lot of mess. The matazalites applied the whip to the people who did not agree with them. Imam Humbili was imprisoned many times and was whipped many times. In public and in private. And so were the other olama. And then in 846, when the matazalites were removed from favor from the courts of Baghdad. The anti-matazalites, they put the whip on the matazalites. They whipped them, they got rid of the books. Unfortunately, this is the intellectual history of Islam. We must be honest about it. This has happened more than once in Islamic history. So the anti-matazalites carried the blame. They fortunate or unfortunate. Or the thing that happened in history was that the charge against the philosophers should have come from the scientists. But it came from the olama. The olama on the day. The questions raised by the philosophers were always there. How do you reconcile predestination with the freedom of man? These are legitimate questions. So that there was that undercurrent of philosophy. And a current of science that existed side by side in the Kalam school. In the classical period of Islam. Which is from the time of Hazrat Abu Bakr Siddiq till 1258, the father of Baghdad to the Mongols. That is called the classical period, the golden age of Islam. In this period you find the Kalam school, the matazalites were discredited. Then the anti-matazalites and the scientists working side by side. The scientists are the empiricists. There is a difference between philosophy and science. Science starts with observation. We go out, for instance. And we look at a leaf. Find out something about its structure. Find out something about its biology. Find out something about the tree. Document it. After we document it we look for patterns. As Allah SWT teaches in the Quran. Allah creates and He repeats the creation. Meaning the structures are repeated. Not the individual atoms. Because no two atoms are the same ever in universe. The structures are repeated. So we look for the structures. And we build theories. And we extrapolate from the theories. And we form certain observations and certain deductions from it. That is science. Empirical science. Bottoms up. Science is bottoms up. Philosophy is top down. Which always starts with the premise. If this is so, then something else will happen. It falls into traps there. Science is bottoms up. Science flourished in Islam. We had great scientists who discovered the nature of light. Who made contributions to biology, medicine, philosophy, physics, history, geography. Great for these people. However, the issues raised by the philosophers continue to nab at the Islamic rule. You cannot get away from them. And the response, the further development in intellectual terms, the response came from Al-Ashari. People don't know this. But most Muslims today, more so than the four schools of Fiqhaha. Now we all know about the schools of Fiqhaha. For instance, I follow the Hanafi school of Fiqh. Because my family followed the Hanafi school in India, Pakistan, Afghanistan, and the eastern part of the Islamic world. The Hanafi school is prevalent. People know about the schools of Fiqh. But not many people know about Al-Ashari. Al-Ashari's ideas were like the rainfall in the desert. They came down and they got submerged into the Islamic landscape. They got absorbed. So that every one of us are willing to say is to a certain extent an Al-Ashari. Those ideas. Imam Al-Wazali was an Al-Ashari. Al-Lama'i Al-Bab was an Al-Ashari. So these ideas got submerged in the Islamic intellectual landscape. What did Al-Ashari say? Al-Ashari, great scholar he was. So those days the training of the Islamic scholars always started with the memorization of the Qur'an. These were not ordinary people. Most of them were Khufas, Hafiz al-Khoran. Then they studied the Seerah of the Prophet, Sunnah of the Prophet, and the Hadith of the Prophet, Sunnah of the Prophet. They were great scholars of all of this. Then they were introduced to mathematics and astronomy and physics and grammar and al-Fusion and medicine and the other subjects which make up what we call science. These were great scholars. Al-Ashari divided time into atoms. See he said, what happens with time is that at every moment, which is like an atom of time, at every moment the will of Allah swt intervenes and decides the outcome of events. That is called the atomistic theory or occasionalism. What he was trying to do was to overcome the objections of the before and after cause and effect. So people could somehow understand the particularity and the generality of God's will. In other words, as long as God's will intervenes at every single atomistic moment, we preserve the omniscience of Allah swt. Because Allah makes the decision. That's what he was trying to preserve. And people said, that's a good idea. They adopted it. The atomistic theory of time was adopted. Philosophers incorporated that the Muslim philosophers into the way of thinking. That was a landscape. Then we come to the time of Al-Razali, a giant. Very important for us to know Al-Razali. And before I talk about the philosophy of Al-Razali, what I want to do is to take a detour of the political landscape, the social landscape of the Islamic world. Because without understanding the social and the political landscape in which Imam Al-Razali lived, it is not possible for us to understand the contributions and the difficulties that he raised. In the 9th century, the Turks started to come into the fold of Islam around the year 850. They started much earlier than that. The Turks were nomadic people. Just so you know, there are three terms that people use interchangeably which is not correct. The Turks, the Tartars and the Mongols. These are different terms. The Turks were Central Asians in the area between Samar Khan Bahara and the Mongolian area. There were no men. The Mongols were the people of Mongolia, out of Mongolia. The Tartars were cousins of the Mongols, from whom came the Mughal dynasty of India, Pakistan, Afghanistan, South Asia. These are different terms. The Turks started to come into the fold of Islam. The Turks were very resilient people, full of energy. And as the Arabs settled down into the cities, they, as happens in human history, lost some of the virility, some of the virtues that characterized the desert people. The people of the desert, the villagers are honest. They are forthright. They absorb things in an organic manner. That is the foundation for, what we said earlier, Tawasa Bilha, working together. They support each other. The word is good. The city dwellers, on the other hand, they have been exposed to all the voices of city, and you know what happens in a city. One is two, two is one, one plus one is eleven, or sometimes it can be one over two. This is what happens. So some of the Arabs had succumbed to the lack of fortune of city life, because Islamic civilization was primarily city-based. So if you study the history of the cities, whether it be the East or the West, you know much of the history of Islam. So the Turks started to assert themselves. They became soldiers in the Abbasid Khilafat, and after a while they rose up in the ranks. From the soldiers they became generals, and from generals they became viziers, and after that they became sultans. So the Khilafa, and I will say a few words about the development of the Khilafa also, in a few minutes, the Khilafa was changed from its original character into a sultanate. There was a sultan and there was the Khilafa. The Turks became the king-makers, which takes his gradually to the 10th and 11th century. The Turks themselves produced many dynasties. One of the most powerful ones was that of the Seljuks. The Seljuk. Seljuks. Powerful. And I have seen the remnants of some of the works in Anatolia, but I was there. The Seljuks established themselves around the year 1050. They were the ones, for instance, who displaced the Ghaznavids. The Ghaznavids were based in Afghanistan. Mahmud of Ghazna, around the year 1000, was based in Ghazna. The Turks displaced the Ghaznavids and established themselves in the Seljuk Empire, which extended, one time, all the way from Amudaria, which is in Samarhan, Bahara, in Central Asia, to the Al-Skirts of Daghdad and beyond. So the Khilafa made them, gave them titles, and called them the defenders of the faith. Why? I'll come to that also, because these things are not happening in vacuums. It's important to know this, because the intellectual upheavals in the Islamic world did not happen in vacuums. It's just all of a sudden things happen. No, things don't happen like that. There are movements, broad movements, broad currents, that bring to the fore giants and at the same time great ideas, and at the same time kill great ideas too. The Seljuk Empire became the dominant force in Central Asia and the Middle East. As they expanded westwards, they were opposed by the Byzantines, based in Constantinople, today's Istanbul. And in 1072, there was a major battle, the Battle of Manzikert, you must know this. One of the decisive battles of history, Battle of Manzikert, in which the Seljuks defeated the Byzantines and then opened the door to the further advancement of the Turks into Anatolia. So the Turks advanced into Anatolia, and this brought them in conflict with some of the Christians. What used to happen was, the Christian pilgrims, when they came from Europe, would go from what is today Istanbul through Anatolia to what people call Holy Land, Palestine.  So there was some friction, and this friction led to the onset of the Crusades. And I'll talk about that a little bit later too, because for that, I need to also talk about the Molybdenum. In the meantime, in North Africa and in Spain, here is what was happening. So we have covered a little bit about the development in the eastern part of the Islamic world, the rise of the Turks. Now let's take a look at Spain and the Molybdenum. Very important. Because if you're studying science and civilization in Islam, you'll find that many of the contributions, if not most of the contributions, were made by the people of what we call the Farsi-speaking parts of the Islamic world, east of the Euphrates River, all the way to Borda, and Spain. And yes, Damascus and Cairo are also important centers, but most of the city-states were in the eastern part, or in North Africa and Spain. Let's take a brief look at the developments in the Molybdenum. Very important. In the year 751, when the Abbasid Revolution took place, the Abbasis eliminated the Umayyads. Eliminated them. All of the princes, Umayyad princes, were summarily executed, except one, Abdul Rahman I. He managed the escape, swam across the Euphrates River, and somehow incognito found his way to Spain, where there were some followers, there were some well-wishers of the Umayyads, and he founded the Umayyad dynasty in Spain. The Umayyad dynasty was for a long time, this is an oversimplification, but I'm trying to lead you step by step into the parallel developments so that we can come back to the intellectual history of Islam. The Umayyad dynasty was semi-independent, except in the 10th century, when Abdul Rahman III declared himself to be a Khalifa. And why was that so? It was so, because in North Africa, in the 9th century, the early part of the 10th century, the Fatimids rose up. The Fatimids are a branch of Shia Islam. The belief in 6 Imams, rather than the 12 Imams, is believed by the Ismashari. These are important ideas. If we wish to understand the world of Islam, we must know the various streams that have gone in there so that we can pull them all together. In the early part of the 10th century, the Fatimids gradually all ran most of North Africa, and in the year 957 occupied Cairo, Al-Mu'izm, and made it the capital of the Fatimid Empire. At one time, in the 10th century, the early part of the 11th century, the Fatimids controlled more than half of the Islamic world, all the way from Morocco to Egypt, and then into Syria. They also controlled the Ajaz, Akka and Medina, and even in parts of Pakistan, Multan, and in parts of Khorasan, north of Samarkhand and Dukhara, there were these Fatimid rulers. They controlled more than half of the Islamic world. Just a passing comment. People want to know why it was that Mahmouda Ghazna invaded India, raided so many of the temples. It had nothing to do with the temples. It had nothing to do with the religious conflict between the Hindus and the Muslims. Around the year 1000, most of the Islamic world was controlled by the Fatimids, and the Abbasids in Baghdad were isolated. Having lost Egypt, all of the trade from Europe to the Far East was controlled by the Fatimids, so that the Fatimids grew rich, and the Abbasids in Baghdad were isolated. So much so, for a while, the Bayouds, who were also Shia dynasty, controlled Baghdad also. Around the year 850, 68, 60, that's why it brought the Turks into the loop, and the Turks expelled the Bayouds, and that's why the Turks got into the good favors of the Khalifa of Baghdad. In any case, it's important for us to know the establishment of the Fatimids in Egypt because they were the ones who founded the Al-Azhar University in the year 959. The Fatimids tried to convert the world of Islam to their madhab. They were not successful. Nonetheless, in the beginning, Al-Azhar was a center of propaganda. They used this to train the Da'ish, to send them into the Sunni world and to try to convert the Muslims to their way of thinking. What happens is that as the Turks now managed to contain the Fatimids, the Abbasids in Baghdad also want to establish universities. And hence the Seljuks established the Nizamiya College in Baghdad. The Nizamiya College was established in the year 1087, approximately 120 years after the establishment of Al-Azhar University. That's a very important date. Established by Nizamo Mok, who was the vizier of the Seljuk king, Seljuk Sultan, who was the controlling power in the Islamic brawl. And it was in this college that Al-Azhar was teaching. He became a professor in the Nizamiya College. Why is the Nizamiya College so important? Because to a large extent, the syllabus of the Madrasas of the world today are still dictated with the Nizamiya syllabus. That's a different subject. I'll talk about it some other time. Except that the Nizamiya syllabus was all encompassing. It embraced the Quran, the Sunnah of the Prophet, astronomy, physics, mathematics, science. All of these disciplines were included. Whereas the syllabus of the Madrasas today includes only two subjects, the Quran and the Hadiths. So the syllabus that used to be this broad became this broad. Nizamiya College, this is to Al-Ghazali. Al-Ghazali, one of the jibes of Islam, one of the major influencers of the flow of Islamic history. If you wish to understand Islamic history, you must think of it as a screen, a river, as I submitted to you last time. Think of it as a river that's flowing around and then it takes a bend. There are major bends. You capture the major bends, whether it be a war or an idea or an occupation or destruction. You have a fairly good idea of what is happening to history. Al-Ghazali, Imam Al-Ghazali, no doubt was one of the major influencers so that he bent the flow of Islamic history in a certain direction. He was, very briefly, a great scholar, studied the Qur'an, half is the Qur'an, studied the Sunnah of the Prophet, studied Hadith, studied the Shafa-i-Fiqh, if I remember correctly. He was a scholar of Shafa-i-Fiqh so that the Nizam, the minister, chief minister, professor at Nizamiya College. And he lectured there until the year 1097. And then he went through an internal examination. He asked himself, why is it that I pray so much and I follow all of the Dighats of the Sharia and still I feel so unsatisfied? Why is it that these philosophers continue to ask these questions and so many people still follow them? Why is it that the world of Islam has lost the ethical high plateau that you used to occupy at one time? Because you can see the beginnings of the dissolution of assimilization. Well, I say, Ibn al-Insan al-Afiqh, Ibn al-Ladhi al-Ahmad, if you don't have the Amir al-Salehah, a civilization falls down. You must have faith, Amir al-Salehah. Faith and you must have good deeds. You must have both. Otherwise, a civilization comes unraveled. It was beginning to get unraveled and Ibn al-Salehah said, why is it this happening? And he said, I'm unsatisfied. So he went through an internal examination and he gave up his professorship and he said he was going to go for Hajj. So he traveled to Iraq and Arabia and Syria, all to Makkah and Madinah, spent many years there and held discourses with the leading scholars of Iraq and they came back and he wrote the Haqqus al-Fasifah and he wrote Ihiya al-Alumum, one of the greatest companions of philosophical thought. The importance of his writing to us from a point of view of science and civilization is the following. Imam al-Saleh had two challenges as he pursued it. One was the challenge of the philosophers. The other was the challenge of the Fatimids. And he took them on both. If you read his writings, the polemics that he is engaged in is both against the Shia Sixers as well as the philosophers. We are not going to go into the internal dialectic with respect to the Fatimids, but we will say a few words about his thoughts about philosophy. Imam al-Azani was a product of his times. He knew the words of the scientists up until that time as also he was familiar with the words of the Greeks and the atomistic philosophy of al-Azani. He, in refuting the philosophers, came up with the premise that there was no such thing as cause and effect. Cause and effect follows. For instance, see, when I'm driving a car and getting into an accident, usually the question that is asked what caused it? Was I sleeping? Was somebody else somehow cut me off? Was the pole in the wrong place? The people look for causes. It's a natural question. Cause and effect are natural questions in the philosophy. It's very positive to the position that there was no such thing as cause and effect. That everything happens because Allah swt arranges things in a certain way. He was looking for structures. He was not looking for the movement of structures.  For example, one of the examples that He offers is the burning of cotton. He says if you take cotton, you light the cotton, it burns. It forms ashes. Allah swt said the fire did not cause the cotton to burn. He says it's in the nature of cotton that at a certain temperature it is what it is and then when you ignite it when you raise its temperature it changes its state and it becomes ashes. It's a clear example that you gave. Now He was looking at it from the point of view of philosophy. To be fair to Imam Allah swt He did not hold His views against mathematics or logic. Indeed, He saw the usefulness of mathematics and logic. But if it came to natural science the impact of His thinking was a major blow. I won't call it a disaster because Islamic science continued to flourish even after the time of Imam Allah swt had a lesser intensity. But His position that there was no such thing as cause and effect that philosophy does not lead us to the truth because the ultimate objective of science is to find the truth. Allah swt Allah swt He saw the truth. He said philosophy does not lead us to the truth. And instead He posited the intuitive approach to Islam. Up until that point next week, inshallah, I'll cover the development of Tasawwuf in Islam because it's very important for all the young people to know how these streams of thoughts developed in parallel that came together sometimes like so and sometimes in unison. Imam Allah swt placed Tasawwuf squarely within the paradigm the framework of Sunni Islam. Up until that time the philosophers even though they were practitioners of Tasawwuf they did not have a coherent way of integrating Tasawwuf with philosophy. So Imam Allah swt left two legacies. One He brought the Tasawwuf within the fold of Sunni Islam. Two He repudiated philosophy and this repudiation was the thing that hurt Islamic sciences to a large degree in the years to come. Very important benchmark. In my opinion he was misunderstood because you see it's not something that you talk to ordinary people they don't know philosophy. For instance one of the questions that was asked the last time by a young person was how do you prove the existence of God? You come across questions like this now to answer a question like that you have to go through about seven years of training how do you who is you what is proof what are the principles of proof existence what does it mean to exist et cetera all of these things have to be understood philosophy is not something that you want to talk to ordinary people because Hazrat Imam Ali said when you speak to people speak at their own level if not it increases takes people away from Imam. So Imam Al-Azali was somewhat misunderstood because he was taking on the philosophers and he was also taking on the Ismailis the Sixers he was not taking on the future civilizations it was applied in that fashion because of reasons that are very briefly outlined and then we'll stop and go through a discussion so here is Imam Al-Azali and about the same time about a generation later the philosophers especially Ibn Rush of Spain he took on the thinking of Al-Azali Imam Al-Azali wrote the Ahfuz al-Filosopher Repudiation of philosophy where philosophy is not correct Ibn Rush said Repudiation of the Repudiated the Ahfuz of the Ahfuz in other words they're confused basically saying that Ibn Rush was perhaps the greatest philosopher produced by the world after Aristotle some people call him the disciple of Aristotle but in some ways he discovered philosophical thought that had not even been conceived of by Aristotle and Ibn Rush took on the thinking of Al-Azali and he tried to put philosophy and belief on a collinear plane namely he tried to reconcile philosophy with belief however the world of Islam did not adopt the thinking of Ibn Rush the Latin West adopted the thinking of Ibn Rush I was going back to the battle of Manzikar after the battle of Manzikar the Pope the second call for a crusade and very briefly I will go over it because it will bring us back to what happened by the same time the crusade there are many complex reasons for the crusades but with the tension between the Seljuks and the Christian Pudrims that were passing through Anatolia at the time to make the long story short the crusades although their focus was Palestine and Jerusalem most of the battles took place in Spain and North Africa this is something that people do not understand in year 1086 the crusades captured the city of Toledo in central Spain Toledo was a major learning center Muslim center and when it fell into the hand of the conquistators the reconquest people they did not destroy the libraries of Toledo but instead they established a school of translation Alfonso VI they embarked on translating the works of Arabic into Latin and these works gradually found a way into the rest of Europe and now we see the re-awakening of Europe until that point Europe was in darkness it was asleep the passage of Arabic learning Islamic learning from Spain to Europe through the re-conquest starting with Toledo and later of the other cities that Europe awakened from Islam for instance it was in the year 12 1150 1150 that the University of Paris was established took this in just a position it was in 1167 that the University of Oxford was established it was in year 1200 that Cambridge University was established so Europe is now awakening very briefly touch upon what happened in the West the same questions that the Muslims had to face 500 years earlier that were faced by the Christians namely how do you justify your belief in rational terms the Christian belief is in the Trinity so the rational thought challenged that belief and one of the greats Saint Thomas Aquinas he took on the challenge just as Alawazali had done it approximately 100 years earlier but they reached at a different conclusion whereas the Muslims tried to somehow reconcile faith with rationalism, faith and philosophy the Christians came to an impasse and they said what belongs to Caesar belongs to Caesar what belongs to the church belongs to the church the two are not compatible therefore the left they created a world as secular and the belief untouched by philosophy they were unable to explain their beliefs in rational terms therefore it was a divorce between philosophy and science that's the origin of secular science these days people say science is secular where does it come from not from the Islamic world it came from the divorce that took place in the 12th century between philosophy and religion Saint Thomas Aquinas and later you find other greats too like Roger Bacon teaching at Oxford University Europe went on his way so in 1096 Pope Pius he announced the crusades against the Muslims and in 1099 Jerusalem fell so did most of the cities of Palestine and much of what is today northern Syria and parts of Iraq were also occupied by the crusaders some are so within a span of about 20 years or so much of western Mediterranean was occupied by the crusaders that was not as disastrous because ultimately as we will see in Salahuddin was able to expel the crusaders and recapture Jerusalem but in the west the Muslims now recovered in 1086 the city of Toledo fell in 1212 at the battle of last now was the Tavosis the Muslims the Al-Mawad Empire lost in a big way in 1236 the city of the Khilafat which is Khaldurah fell 1248 Seville fell except for Granada all of Spain was occupied within a span of 30 to 40 years so now the crusaders have occupied Spain they occupied western Mediterranean Palestine Syria and parts of Anatolia now comes the big blow and this is the last portion of our presentation today the big blow from the east which is Genghis Khan Genghis Khan was successful in consolidating among wolves under his banner starting in the year 1206 and led his campaigns first eastwards captured northern China and from China he learned the use of gunpowder and silk why silk? silk was used as armor it protects the body when you shoot an arrow against a silk armor it gives and does not penetrate as it does when you have other materials and gunpowder which the Mongols used mostly for their communications learned the use of gunpowder and the Shah of Khwarazan at the time, Muhammad Shah he somehow got into trouble with Genghis Khan what happened was Genghis Khan there are different stories about it some chronicles say that the Khalifa himself was plotting against Shah Muhammad some chronicles say now it was a couple of merchants who were coming from the Mongols which unfortunately the local governor he killed them and back and forth and hence Genghis Khan invaded the Islamic world in the year 1219 from 1219 to 1258 the Mongols destroyed most of the eastern Islamic world Turkistan Uzbekistan Afghanistan most of Pakistan up to the river Indus Iraq eastern Anatolia and in 1258 Baghdad itself fell you may say what is the significance of it the Mongols decimated the population 90% of the people were killed now why I always wonder as a student of history how is it possible for anything later to kill 90% of the people until I went to New Mexico see in a desert situation most people live in a city and then when there is a threat what happens is that the Hamlets the people from the Hamlets converge onto the city into a citadel so that everyone is in the citadel and the citadel as the city falls everybody is butchered so Samarhan Bahara Rasnah Kabul Esfahan ultimately Baghdad itself and they were stopped only in the outskirts of Jerusalem at the battle of Angelo in the year 1262 so put these two events in juxtaposition the devastation of the Mongols and the occupation of the crusades at the same time more than 65% of the Islamic world was occupied and destroyed in a minute only the Mamluks of Delhi the Mamluks of Egypt and the African kingdoms that is in Mali these were the only three that escaped the devastation India was just beginning to establish itself because Delhi had been conquered only in the year 1192 the Mali Empire was still in the process of consolidation only the Mamluks of Egypt and the Sultan Babers that managed to escape except for that the entire Islamic world was destroyed dams were obliterated libraries were burned scholars completely eliminated so you can imagine the end of a civilization somehow think that the writings of Olazali were responsible for the arrest of Islamic sciences there is some truth to that however a greater reason was the total destruction of the Islamic world within a span of 20 generations between the years 1212 and 1258 65% of the Islamic world was eliminated not destroyed eliminated people today facing the difficulties that we face in this day and age say, gosh we are in such difficult times but this was nothing the 13th century went through under the simultaneous blows of the Crusaders from the west and the Mongols from the east so that was the curtain of the classical Islamic civilization the classical Islamic civilization died in the middle of the 13th century physically intelligently it was coming to pressure but physically it died and what came later was an Islam that was driven by the Samuf an Islam that was driven by the spiritual energy of the great sheikhs there were the ones who were successful in converting the Mongols to Islam there were the ones who were successful in taking the light of Islam to India, sub-Saharan Africa Indonesia, Malaysia why not we do it out not that I'm putting the soul in just a position with philosophy but that we need to understand how it is that the river the great stream of Islamic civilization took its turns the way it did the point is that when you go to the eastern part of the Islamic world you speak mostly in spiritual terms I'm speaking in historical terms whereas much of the Arab world that escaped the destruction of the Mongols except for Iraq did not go through the devastations of the Mongols and for the Arab world the Sharia or the observation of Allah's commands remained to be more important so even to this day when you bring the Muslims together from different parts of the world you'll find this internal tension because of our historical legacy we have invited we have products of our history that's in what happened 12th, 13th century I'll stop in here for today this is a good time for discussion because a great deal has been said I have touched briefly upon Imam Al-Razadi I pointed out how the atomistic theory was tried to explain the in philosophical terms the injection of the will of Allah into all of the creative world I have briefly touched on the emergence of the Fatimids and the tussles between the Fatimids and the Turks I have briefly touched upon the introduction of Islam into the western part of the Islamic world the importance of Spain and Harassan ending with Crusades and the Mongol devastations all at the same time this is not I emphasize most Muslims do not grasp this they do not know the extent to which the Islamic world almost came to non-existence were it not for the time of the battle of Angelut in the year 1262 Islam might well have disappeared from history will of Allah most people do not understand the extent of devastations in a very short time when I say extent which countries if you take the Islamic world not the ones that came into hold of Islam later at that time more than two thirds of it will of Allah and let's have some discussion and I'll learn from you now


Hey all, welcome back and Merry Christmas. If there's one thing that's been very clear over the last couple decades It's that the Democrat Party is becoming increasingly far left and increasingly supportive of far-left ideologies like communism and socialism. All you have to do is check some recent polls to see that Democrats are more and more supportive of socialism or communism, especially the younger they are. I still remember being in college in my mind being blown at the fact that so many students openly supported socialism. Now look where we are with things like equality, for example, no longer being talked about now What do you hear? It's all about equity, which is government enforced outcomes. That brings us to Senator Blumenthal Most known for his stolen valor lies about finding in Vietnam Which he never did who was invited to speak at an event that's been openly communist for years Oh, this is a beautiful tribute from all of our labor leaders Honoring how important the Communist Party is in our movement Not just in Connecticut, but across the whole world. Senator Richard Blumenthal is here To be part of the awards today and to share some appreciations and recognition of the awardees Thank you so much. I am really excited and honored to be with you Today and to share this remarkable occasion Now turning our attention to economic equity this agenda requires us all to work together to making sure that in 2022 we reelect Democrats in the Congress and elect more of them because that's gonna be key to making sure that we have an equitable fair just America Alright folks, we're gonna get right into this but first just give me 30 seconds for this quick capitalism break So I can tell you about this free coin offer now something's not adding up Is it stocks are at record highs, but the government just borrowed five trillion dollars inflation is transitory, but it just went up to 6.8 percent. 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I am really excited and honored to be with you Today and to share this remarkable occasion Now turning our attention to economic equity this agenda requires us all to work together Imagine being an elected Democrat and feeling completely comfortable in speaking at a communist event These are the very same people that say it's a right-wing conspiracy theory to say that the democrat party has turned socialist They couldn't possibly call this a right-wing conspiracy theory, right? I mean, we have video of him speaking at the event Oh, yes, of course, of course A known liar insists he didn't know it was a communist event according to this local paper It's all just a bunch of right-wing conservative republican bluster after receiving increasing criticism by Republicans in conservative national media outlets u.s senator Richard Blumenthal said friday that he would not have attended a recent award ceremony if he had known it had been tied to the communist party Oh Right, right. I'm sure that everybody would be accepting of that if a republican Accidentally spoke at a nazi rally, but you see what they did there in the very first sense of the story They poisoned the world by suggesting that it's just a bunch of crazy right-wingers My understanding was that this ceremony was strictly a labor event if I had known the details I wouldn't have gone. Let me just say very emphatically I am a democrat and a strong believer in the american capitalism Is that right? You had no idea that it was a communist event even though this event has been openly communist for a long time Even though the award itself is presented as an award for advancing the communist agenda in america You know, it's not a coincidence that every time ccp spies target american politicians It's always a democrat democrats like eric swalwell that got caught banging ccp spies like fang fang If you're such a staunch capitalist Then why did you say this at the event? There's a lot to be working for an economic justice and racial equity in establishing a 15 dollar minimum wage Blumenthal went on to praise the communist and their quote great tradition of activism So you're a staunch capitalist, but you want communists to continue their activism to what end? Obviously, they're continuing their activism because someday they want to replace capitalism in america with communism I mean folks, they really think they're pulling one over on us here We know democrats want a socialist america all of their policies are pushing us in that direction And then when it comes to their media mouthpieces, they're constantly out there trying to rationalize it Or that democrats should be deceitful about it so that americans don't know that they're pushing socialism trying to say Well, these women are socialists. That's what people should be upset about that's what the president should be talking about They're socialists.  That republicans are winning in that kind of branding exercise. All right folks. That's all I have for this one Thanks for watching as always if you enjoyed it, please hit that like button and then let me know what you think in the comments