What's going on everyone? Sam here with late in sports cards ripping 22-23 Panini Obsidian and basketball hobby 12 box full casebreak number four picker team style. We read off a list of our names in our teams. We've got Bernard H. Warriors, Bradley R. Thunder, Charles F. Nuggets, Ching Hua H. Timberwolves, Chris S. with the Celtics, Colby C. Hornets Clippers, WP with the Magic, Derek J. Bucks, Diego I. Kings, Edwin S. with the Knicks, Faye S. with the Rockets, that's going to be N-Q-K with the Heat, Jacob H. Spurs, James L. Bulls, Pelicans, Jeff M. with the Lakers, Grizzlies, Raptors, Mavs, Joseph S. Nets, Cavs, Kasuki K. with the Wizards, Michael V. with the Suns, Nicholas T. Jazz, Robert S. Pacers, Robert P. Blazers, Rory C. Hawks, Sixers, Shigunori U. with the Pistons. Good luck everybody. Here we go. What's that? Oh, is that the current break? You play them over there? I'm the five, bro. Clay Thompson, 30. Nice one there for the Warriors. James Hardin, Orbital, 2.99 for the Sixers. We've got A. Rodman, Jordan Clarkson, 40 of 1.49. Nice one there is Edmund Sumner for the Neps. Edmund Sumner. Nice one here, 28 of 35. Chet Holmgren, four-colored RPA. Going to the Thunder. Bradley Ark, congrats on that buddy. Nice little color match on that too. That's awesome. We'll get that into a mag for you, Bradley. Congrats, man. Gorgeous Chet coming your way. Really nice SIG on that one too. And Calvin Johnson, 2.50. Nice one here is Damian Miller to Equinox to 75 for the Blazers. Where's he going to go? Heat. I have to imagine it's going to be the heat. What was that? Damian. Kevloff, Kelly Ubrey and Laurie Markinon. That is 34.50. Usman Garuba, Galaxy Auto for the Rockets. And 64.75. Nicola Jovic going to the heat. Rookie at Jersey Auto. Vince Carter, Orange, 250. Purple Devon Vassal to 99. What happened? My dad's just taken the dog out. My dad's going to my mom's. Oh, okay. Jaylen Brown, Kevin Porter, Jr. Yannis as well. Case hit. Four for four on these 71 to 75 is Robin Lopez, magmatic signature for the Cavs. That's where there's Cavaliers. And nice one here, 5 of 25. Three color, three color Keegan Murray on the RPA. Back to back big hits. Nice one there, Sacramento going to Diego I. There you go, Diego. Nice one coming your way. You can mag that one as well. Stuff to buy the Cavs for a break. I know you're pretty much guaranteed a Robin Lopez Auto. Green, Jabari Smith, 24 of 25. Hit two. We've pulled two 25ths of this card now. Keegan Murray, orbital. 71 to 75. Let's go into the Kings again. Oh, okay. There's a red. There's a red. Keep it together. Robert Williams, Larry Bird, Deandre Aitin. The 7 of 149. That's going to be Kenyan Martin, Jr. Oh, man, dude. What a name. And going to the heat 30 of 149, Eudonis Haslam. He looks so old, dude. So funny. Good Lord. Congrats, Eudonis Haslam. Magic Johnson to 99. And orbital, Jaylen Green to 75. Farms, MB, Ryan Rollins Rookie for the Warriors. Got a Redemption, Mitch Richmond, Volcanic Signatures. Either Kings or Warriors, I have to imagine, right? Volcanic Signatures. Or number 36, that'll be going to the Kings. Nice one there, Kings. Yes, sir, Mitch Richmond. Sharpshooter. And then 21 of 25, Ochaic Baji, Rookie Otto going to the Jazz. Nice one, you call. Ochaic Baji. Oh, nice. First one of these we've seen. Equinox to 99, Joel Embiid. We've got the Vitreous, Jason Tatum. Nice. Nice for the Celtics on the super, super short print. These are really nice. You could probably mag this one, I would say. Nice one there, Vitreous, Jason Tatum. Super short print die cup. Johnny Davis, Ruth. Lamello and Patrick Baldwin, Jr. Max Truce, Magnetic Signatures, 101 of 149 for the Heat. Where did he go? Max Truce. I feel like Indiana for some reason. It probably was the face of the Cavs. Cavs, that's what happens. Some Midwest theme. And Redemption. Peyton Watson, rookie Jersey autographs going to the Nuggets. Nice one there, Denver. Peyton Watson for the Denver Nuggets. Very nice. James Harden, green to 25, 12 of 25 for the Sixers. And Equinox, Clay Thompson, 23 of 99 for the Warriors. Jaylen Williams, Rudy O'Bear. And Ochaic Baji, nice. 37 to 75, Dan Hizzle, Volcanic Auto for the Nuggets. Love that old school Nuggets logo too. So funny. Classic. And nice one here. It's going to be another Volcanics, 44, 50. Ochaic Baji again. Had one to 25 and one now to 50. Next fact. That is going to be a Chris Paul, purple to 99. And Shagill just Alexander. That is going to be one of 99 on the Orbital, for the Thunder. One off Jersey Nuggets. Rookie Jeremy Sohan, Big L, Horford, Boyan Bagdanovic, Bogi. 15 of 50, Alexi Pogoshevsky for the Thunder on the Galaxy Auto. Nice Pogu. And that is going to be five of 99, Blake Wesley, Rookie Jersey Auto for the Spurs. Ty Ty Washington, Jr. 88 of 99. Now a Hawk as well. Nice one there. We've got Bobby Portis, 30 of 30 for the Bucks. Boyan. There's DeMarce Rosen, Kauai Leonard and Anthony Davis. Oh yeah. Jaylen Noel, that is going to be Magnetic Signatures, 30 of 149 for the Timberwolves. And 29 of 149. That's going to be Sean Kemp, Galaxy Auto for the Sonics. So that'll go to the Thunder by way of the Sonics, by way of relocation. It's up, man. This guy is just copy-pasting lyrics. Get him out. Get him out. Out, out, out. There's going to be Yellow on Steve. Yellow on Steve. Man, we have issued like, there's got to be like 15 cards issued today. Unreal. Unreal. Yellow, Sieger McCollum, five of 10 for the Pelicans. And we got Orbital KD, 75 of 99. Nice one there for the Sons. Next up is going to be our base cards. We've got A, Nick Claxton, Shaq and Aaron Gordon. Got 52 of 99, Herbert Jones. That is going to be Magnetic Signatures for the Pelicans. 12 of 50. Kevin Herter, Red Velvet going to the Kings. God, I miss this guy as a Hawk. He was so good in that Eastern Conference finals run. Kevin Herter. Actually, I went to college. I knew a guy who was in a couple of my classes, like really good friends with him, because they played basketball together. He's from upstate New York. That's why I went to college. Yeah, it's cool, dude. I know. We really got to start tightening up here. There's Dirk Nowitzki, purple to 99, Mabs, and a blue, Drew Holiday. Blue, Drew, 11 of 30 for the Bucks. Larry Bird, Yandre Aitin, and kind of Lothan Jr. Nice one here for the Heat, 11 of 25. Harold Miner. Nice one there, that's awesome. Got Heat. Harold Miner. And one of five, Terry Eason on the Red. That's going to be a three-color, two-colored RPA. Congrats on that one there. Very nice. Terry Eason. I'm already number one. I already know that's fine with me. There's Taylor and Suggs, two at 50. Orange for the Magic. And for the Grizzlies, Giammarit, 40 of 75. Nice one there, Memphis. All right. We've got a Christian Brown, Evan Mobley, and Patrick Ewing. Got Kennedy Chandler, rookie jersey auto, 87 of 99 for the Grizzlies. Oh, we know that for sure. Definitely does. And then we've got 62 of 99, Musa Diavate, that's going to the Clippers. I do. All right, guys, do a quick recap here. Pretty solid break overall, I would say. Steve's earning a spot. All right, we've got Peyton Watson, Mitch Richmond, Dan Isle, Lexie Pogoszewski. Hey, what up, Edward? Thank you. Thank you. Ochaic Bhaji, Max Stroops, Ochaic Bhaji, Herbert Jones, Kevin Herter, Harold Minor, Sean Kemp, Kenny Martin Jr., Jaila Noel, Udonis Haslam, a Kennedy Chandler, Musa Diavate, Ades Robin Lopez, Uzman Garuba, Edmund Sumner, Nikolay Oach, Blake Wesson, Terry Eason, Red Define. One thing really quick to make sure. Our Mags guards, we had a vitreous of Jason Tatum, super short print for the Celtics. Keegan Murray, that is RPA, I believe number to 25. Three color, three color. And then really, really nice, Chet Holmgren, RPA numbered to 15, 25, somewhere around there. One or the other. That'll do it for the break, guys. Thanks again for the fill. Next up, got nothing.


Recently, I read a leadership book by Todd Bolsinger. He focused on Lewis and Clark. I've always found those pioneers to be of deep interest to me. Can you imagine what it's like to go to where no one they knew had ever been before? And how it is that a pioneer really blazes trails. Our history is really forged by pioneers who went before us. Likewise, I also think about those early Methodist circuit riders who went where no one else would go just to preach the good news of Jesus the Christ. As you may remember from annual conference this past year, we began to think about the theme, the idea, the strategy, the focus on new faces and new spaces. You have been invited to a vision day in each of our districts, and I hope you'll take time to attend. Because frankly, we live in a time now that we're moving into uncharted waters. Like where are people finding meaning in their lives? Is there a way in which we can connect with people whom we do not know in order to share the good news of Jesus the Christ with them? So I hope you'll attend a vision day in one of the districts and know that pioneers, those persons who go or so that others may follow them, will create a path into something new and vital for the church. I pray that is so.


Aloha, and welcome to Business in Hawaii with Reg Baker. We broadcast live every Thursday from 2 to 2.30 in the ThinkTech studios and beautiful downtown Halalulu in the Pioneer Plaza. We are a show that focuses on success stories of businesses in Hawaii. If you live here in Hawaii, you know that it's a challenging environment, and if you don't live here, you've probably heard that it's one of the worst states in the country for business. But we do have success. There are people who make it work here. There are businesses that are successful. So this show highlights those individuals and explains how they made it work. You know, there's challenges and how do they get around those challenges. And the road to entrepreneurship or owning your own business is always not a direct line. So we're going to talk a little bit about how a couple of ladies had been in a corporate environment, was relatively happy there, but decided to pull the plug and go out on their own, which is a scary thing to do. And so we're going to have Nam Collins, who is a CFO of the company, and Sabrina Bass, who's the Chief Operating Officer of the company. The company is named Contour Spa Hawaii. So it's relatively new. It's a young company, but they've been doing well. So I wanted to say thank you for joining the show today, both Nam and Sabrina. Thank you for having us. All right, now you had to travel quite a ways. You're located on the other side of the island, right? Not that far. Okay, all right. For all the people in Hawaii, it's not that far. It's not. It's right off the freeway. We're located in IEA. In IEA. And I've been out there. It's easy to get in and out. The freeway has an exit right there. And so it's relatively easy to get in and out. And you're like one of the first shopping centers, in one of the shopping areas, right there as soon as you come off the freeway. So it's not that difficult. But you've been in Hawaii for a while. What's the background? How did you guys? I want to talk a little bit about how you got into the business. And so, Nam, you were born here? Or you were born somewhere else? Or how long you've been in Hawaii? No, I was actually born in Korea. And my parents immigrated to Hawaii when I was five. So they forced me to learn my Korean so I can still read and write. But the vocabulary, that's not me to practice that far. It's a working process. It sure is. And that was when you were five. So that was just not that long ago. That's right. Yesterday. No, but we raised in Hawaii pretty much my whole life. Went to Radford High School. Very good. And then from there, went to University of Hawaii in Manoa. And have you been in Hawaii the whole time? Or was there any? Pretty much. I moved to California for about two and a half, three years. I was working at the Radisson in Long Beach and Seal Beach. And then when you came back, you got a job and then you were working there for a while? I wasn't planning on working when I got back. I was planning on becoming a professional student. Living off the parents. No, I'm just kidding. But you know, that was the plan just to kind of go back to school and whatnot. But I can't sit still for very long. So then I started working actually with Paloma Meat Company back then. I was the head of human resources. I was there for about six years and then kind of outgrew it because there wasn't really much more to do. You know, we were kind of downsizing and whatnot. Well, that makes it tough for HR, too. Oh, yeah. But we're usually the last man standing, you know? We have to process everything. So from there, then I moved to a different company, a national company. And that's kind of where I met her. Her being Sabrina, my partner. Also known as the witch.  Sabrina, have you been in Hawaii for a while? I have. I actually was born in Trippler. Trippler, all right. Air Force brat. So we moved around constantly. My parents are from here. They're from Kailua. So when they retired, they wanted to move back here. I didn't really want to stay here. I went to HPU for a little bit and I thought I would try my hand at nursing and it wasn't really my thing. So I went to Washington State, U-Dub. And I did business marketing over there. So you were a business major and what major were you? So I started out, my grandfather wanted me to take over the family business, a CPA, but that wasn't really... What's wrong with that? That wasn't really my calling. I mean, I understood it, but it really wasn't my calling. So I went more the liberal arts route. Okay, liberal arts. Well, Hawaii is definitely a good place for you then, the liberal part. Miss Sabrina, getting back to your business major, did you work in Washington for a while before you came back to Hawaii? I did. I worked at Russell Mellon Analytics as a financial analyst, so it wasn't really the route that I wanted to take either. There's a common theme here. Sadly, there are many. I met my husband there in Washington State and found out that my parents retired back in Hawaii and he decided, oh, well, I want to move to Hawaii too. I don't like it in the cold. I hated it in the cold and the rain and it was really depressing over there. So we made the move to Hawaii. And how long ago was that? You're going to ask me when my anniversary was and I don't know. About 15 years. 15 years. Okay, you've been here quite a while then.  Well, I started... So procurement is my forte background. I started with as an in-house contractor with general services administration. We were doing contracts with the... It's federal stuff. Yeah, very good. So I dabbled in that a little bit and then I went to where the company that we met at. Are we allowed to say what company that is? Sure, we left on really good terms. Okay, so what company was that? CNS Wholesale Grocers. Sorry, say again. CNS Wholesale Grocers. Oh, okay. CNS Wholesale. So you both worked over there? They were the largest grocery wholesalers in the country. Oh, wow. So she was head of procurement and I was head of the human resources. And she started about one or two years before me. She's there before I got there. So both of you were there for quite a while? About eight years and ten. Yeah, a pretty secure environment. Very secure. Regular paychecks, good benefits. And we loved what we did. So you loved it and so you gave that all up to go out on your own. Yeah. What was what was the thought process? Now there's a lot of people that's gonna be watching the show and they're gonna be going, wow, good jobs, good benefits, might even have a retirement plan, you know, 401K and then all that health care and all this stuff. And you walked away from all that to go out and do one of the riskiest things that you can do is start your own business. And so Sabrina, why don't you walk me through the thought process that you went through to come to that conclusion? Let's do that. I want to hear it from the witch first. Thank you. You first. I think the bottom line is we just wanted more. We wanted to see what we were capable of. We were at a company that, yes, the benefits and the cushiness and everything was great. The leadership was great. And we had great mentorship over there. And I think that's what prompted us to say, Hey, why can't we do it ourselves? I mean. Yeah, well, I mean, if they can do it, you can do it. Yeah. And a lot of times you were doing it for them. Yeah. Yeah. That's right.  And I guess what was that similar thought process for you? Very much, you know, the funny story about us meeting. So when when I started, I didn't know anyone, no one. And I quickly got to, you know, her and I, from the start, did not see I do. And I think in a sense we're very, very much so alike. We're very competitive. And you know, she was the person that was always kind of in charge in the sense, you know, and then I got there and I said, Oh, no, that's not how I work. It was a new witch in town. There was. It was me. So, you know, we it took, she says over a year, but I was over it after like, eight months, maybe. That was good. You know, she took a little longer. I took a little longer to meet with her halfway. But once once the connection was made, and you guys started working together, a lot of projects together. You know, we as a national company, there's like a lot of national projects that are just pretty much initiative sent down all across the nation. So everybody has to sort of meet certain guidelines and whatnot. And we would always go out over and above. We do everything. And I mean, I noticed, you know, it doesn't matter. It's off our time. You know, it's not necessarily like nine to five time. We would do it even on our own time, come in early, do whatever it took to get it to be the best, you know. And so that's why we wanted to. That's how people become successful, going a little above and beyond. You know, and that's the and you certainly have to have that trait if you're going to have your own business.  So we kind of always knew that we wanted to be entrepreneurs and do our own thing. We just didn't really know what you just needed to find that vehicle or what that was going to do that was going to cause you to unplug and do it on your own. And then you went through the process of selecting this. And the this just was this like your first choice? Or did you look at other things? No, we had a lot of other ideas out of the box ideas and ones that, you know, people were saying, what do you want to do? All right, very good. Well, let me we're going to go on break here for just a minute. And I want to get back into what your, you know, I mean, you did a lot of research on this and you dug into it, you vetted it pretty well. And then you made the decision. And I want to get talk a little bit about that when we come back from break. This is business in Hawaii. We're here today talking to two very dynamic ladies that have went out of the corporate environment where they were very safe and secure into the entrepreneurial world, which is risky at times. And we're going to hear more about their story as soon as we come back in about one minute. Welcome to Sister Power. I'm your host Sharon Thomas and we are a bro where we motivate, educate and power and inspire all women. We are live here every other Thursday at four p.m. And we welcome you to join us here at Sister Power. Aloha and thank you. I just walked by and I said, what's happening guys? They told me they were making music. Welcome back to business in Hawaii with Reg Baker. We're here today talking to the two very dynamic young ladies that have been very successful in moving from the corporate world into the entrepreneurial world. And we're going to talk a little bit about their selection process and how they picked the company that they wanted to. And they had some options. They looked at a variety of them, but they settled on one. So we're going to talk a little bit more with Nam and Sabrina to go through that process. So Nam, how did you settle on the one that you're doing now, the contours spot of Hawaii? Well, we were looking for, you know, I've done other businesses in the past, several of them.  A lot of them did not work out. But from each one, you kind of learn and a lot of you learn from the past. So one of them was never do business with family ever. It just doesn't work out. So those are one of your golden rules. That is definitely my go to You also want to find a really good partner that you can be honest with and that, you know, they're going to be there through the hard times, not just the good times. So eight years. We were able to realize almost like a marriage. We were told that. Yes, we were told this is going to be yours. Yes. So get used to it.  And the and the last thing is, you know, for whatever item you're looking to do, or whatever project or business, everything kind of has to come in line. So for us, although we were in a real great, we had a great job, you know, awesome. But at the same time, this opportunity came along. Nobody had it in Hawaii yet. Nobody wasn't here. Nobody else can bring it into Hawaii. We know that. So you got an exclusive. So it's like an exclusive, right? And we just saw the before and afters of how amazing this technology is the only one that has been FDA cleared that is at risk level one, which means there's no side effects. And it can do almost surgical like results. I mean, look at this, you know, you went from this to that. Right. And we're going to we're going to probably spend a little bit more time on that here in just a minute. But you know, the results, I guess, are amazing. Yes. But you you found something and you made a point that I just want to emphasize. Is it most successful business people most successful entrepreneurs usually have a few failures before they actually hit something that works. And so it's not unusual to go through that. But it's it's a great learning experience. And it's it's something that I think a lot of people have to go through before they actually become successful. Sabrina, how did you go through, you know, and pick this company as the one you had different options. But there was something that made this one different from all the others. What was that? It was actually her selling point. So she sold it. I think it was five o'clock in the morning. And I couldn't wait to call me at three in the morning when she found it. But she waited until a little bit later. And she was just so excited. And I was still sleeping. And so you agreed to it. I did. I've been in business for a long time. And we used to it doesn't happen too much today. But we used to take people out for drinks and then get them to sign a contract. So you just wake them up in the middle of the morning. And I think I just found myself saying, Okay, we talk about it later. But you made the decision. And part of it was because it was so unique and was so different than what you're looking at. And nothing else was really like that. Yeah, and I guess that's a good message for people to know is that, you know, there's a lot of options out there. A lot of people can choose different things that they can go into and put their effort into. But it's going to make it better, maybe even to some degree easier. If it's a unique type of product that there's not a lot of competition for. So I would say, I mean, if you look at all the other competition, there's there's a lot of competition out there even so different technologies and whatnot. But as we restarted all of our research, we found that, you know, nothing is at risk level one, you know, and that we don't want risk in that sense where we could hurt somebody or do something to, you know, harm them in any way or, you know, any type of negative things. So we we found it was like, Oh, my God, we need to just jump on this. And you know, the timing was perfect for it. So I think just like six months ago, another very well known organization in here in Hawaii contacted the manufacturer trying to, you know, and they said, sorry, they're very happy. That's good. So you've got this unique product now. And, and I guess in a general sense, without going to the pictures yet, but in just a general sense, what is it that contours bottles of Hawaii does? Really, you just got the nod. I got to go ahead. We deal with red light technology. So like she said, it is unique. There are red light technologies out there and the general properties of red light are amazing. So NASA has been using it since the 50s for healing properties. Healing. So NASA actually uses this to heal. And heal what? Wounds? Wounds, pain management, aches, pains. Really? Yep. All right. And so now you're using it here in this context in a different sort of way? We are. So this, this actual device has been cleared by FDA to remove fat. Which is the food and drug administration, right? So you you kind of got the blessing. Yeah.  I mean, they don't do that for everybody. All right. And, and I'm sorry, you said remove fat. So we actually removed that cell content. You know, I want to I want to make sure my technicians hear that. I've been asking him to remove some weight and they won't do it. So if I want to look a little slimmer and better on screen. Okay. So I know where to go now. That's right. Very good. And in how, you know, and you can nod back if you want. But how does this work?  It's not going to work. I don't think so. But there's something special about your process. How does how does that process work? Actually, our process stimulates lipolysis in your in your bodies, which is a natural bodily function.  So it's completely not invasive. Basically, it flushes it out. Wow. So you have become a nurse. So the red light will actually go through and break this stuff down. That's in the body that's creating some of this fat. And then it actually gets flushed out of the body. Absolutely. That's a natural. All right. And how often, you know, does this happen in one treatment? Or is there a series of treatments? Or how does this work? It really depends. I just got the nod. It really depends on the individual. So, you know, some people skin, they react so quickly to it. Others, it takes a few more. But, you know, again, it's it's a proven technology. And we've almost pretty much everyone that we have treated, you're going to see a result, definitely results. Yeah. And so, you know, I'm going to ask you to walk me through the process on this. But before we jump into that, we've got a picture here of a before and after. And can you can someone explain what I'm looking at? Well, this woman came in and she's very self conscious. She has a lot of really saggy skin. It had some major operations in the past. And you notice she's wearing her robe and her pants. And she didn't she was very, very self conscious. Towards the as we continue to treat her, this is in seven sessions, actually. At the end of her sessions, this is pretty much what it looked like. And she says she could, you know, not wear underwear like this, because the skin would go over it. Well, significant difference. And I don't know if the audience can pick this up. But it's yeah, you can see it on the screen there.  So that's the skin tightening aspect of it. So not only are you going to lose the contents of the fat, so you lose volume, but you'll also have a tightening of the skin because of the elastin and collagen. Your cells basically get rejuvenated and they start to produce collagen and elastin again. And that's what causes the tightening of the skin. Now you mentioned that this is the results after seven sessions. How long is the session? For skin tightening, you're looking about hour and 20 minutes about there. Okay. And how does this work? And this is where you walk me through.   I mean, is there a table or something? Or what's the process? For the treatment, we actually put them on a nice relaxing massage table. We put the red light on, we dimmed the lights, we put nice music on. If you give us suggestions on music, we almost definitely put it on for you. We want you to be comfortable. And then you just get to relax while the light does its work. And you can go to sleep if you want to. We've had a couple of people scoring. We can hear them through the door. And so you just lay there for a while. And I guess there's not only a physical aspect to this, but I guess with the soothing music and knowing you're doing something good for your body and for your health, you can actually get a little bit of an emotional kick out of this too, right? And how fast, I know it depends on the person, I guess, but you said some people can see results pretty fair quickly. We had a woman, we had a very sort of wrinkle, oh sorry, decollete area. And even after just two sessions, it was just a dramatic difference, dramatic difference. We had another woman, she had the beginning stages where her eyes were getting a little saggy, the bags. And after two sessions, it just completely, and we have these pictures, they should be on our website. But you could see the difference, huge difference. And so again, it really depends on the person, but yeah, as early as two sessions, you might be able to see something. You mentioned the website. What's the address for the website? www.contourspahuaee.com. Contours? Contours? Contourspahuaee. Hawaii spelled out. Yeah, h-a-w-a-i-i dot com. All right, so I'm going to test you on this. I might ask that again. So, but if they went to the website, they're going to be able to get more information. They're going to get your address, phone number, and kind of some of the before and after pictures and stuff. So there's a lot of information up there, full disclosure. There, I mean, they'll be able to see what's going on.  They're free consultations just so that we can go over the treatment, the process, the technology, any questions that they have. We know it's intimidating. Well, and, you know, some people are saying they're going to shine this big spotlight on me and all this.  I've actually been out there. I've seen some of this and there's not a lot of heat generated from from the lights. I mean, it's a, it's an amazing light, the magic light. It is a magic light.  But our technology, it is very specific. So every single bulb that is in the panel, it's modulating at a very specific frequency to be able to do what it does. Yeah. And it's, it's, it doesn't compare. Pretty high tech. Very high tech, yeah. And it's the only one in the state, you know, and you mentioned someone else, some of the big, one of the big boys tried to get it. They did. And they said, oh, so sorry. So that must make your spawn very valuable. As we, one of the main reasons we also wanted to leave is, you know, our family, you know, we have young children and we want to spend time with them. You know, we don't want to miss out, right? On their, their little things like school parties or whatever it may be. We want to be there for them. So she was always like, I want to be the mom that makes breakfast for my kid before he goes to school. You know, now we can. And that's one of the benefits of having your own business is that you can make those kind of decisions if you want to. And that's, that's got value. It may not mean dollars, but it has value. And that's part of that thought process. So that's, that's very good. Congratulations on your choice and your business. Thank you. And I'm sorry, what is that website again? www.contourspahue.com. All right. And you go there, you find out more information. There's a phone number they can call. And, and you're very patient. You'll walk people through and you'll show them the whole thing. So very good. Well, appreciate having you on the show today. Thank you for having us. You know, in one of these days, I know I'm going to make that trip out there. We're waiting for you. So the next time you're on the show, you know, they won't recognize me. Can you do anything about hair? Well, this is Business in Hawaii with Reg Baker. We broadcast live every Thursday from two to two thirty. We have guests that can be quite humorous at times. But please join us next week. We'll be back again for another success story in Hawaii. Thank you and aloha.


of the awaited saviour, the grandson of the Prophet Muhammad sallallahu alaihi wa sallam, the inheritor of this earth, Imam al-Mehdi a.j. It is actually a spiritual occasion, a happy occasion, an occasion of hope and of happiness as well. Of hope more than anything is one of the best feelings that we can feel from a night like this, where so many difficulties and trials and tribulations in this earth, we pray to Allah SWT to hasten the reappearance of the awaited saviour, Imam al-Mehdi a.j. If we have a jam-packed show before I get into anything, I'd also like to welcome my co-host and my dear friend, Ahmad A.A. How are you? I would like to congratulate you on this very momentous, I like how you used that word and very auspicious occasion of the birth of Imam Mehdi a.j. Tonight, as you mentioned, it's jammed with surprises. I won't spoil anything, we'll leave it for the day of yours. But tonight, Mulla, if you don't mind, I want to talk about how we as the followers of Ahl al-Bayt, and as a matter of fact, everyone that is waiting for their Messiah, because technically every religion has their own Messiah. How we Shia, we Muslim, we as human race need the Messiah, and are we desperate for his arrival or are we not? For example, the millions, I don't know if the dear viewers are getting a chance, I would like from the producer to show what is going on outside right now, because it's literally jammed. It's like 40 happy occasions, 40 happy occasions. Just in the afternoon, Karbala was near empty. I wasn't expecting this much, and Ali Fahd took a shortcut to come to the channel. I had to go through the long way, which took me like 15 minutes. How long did it take you? About five or six minutes to shortcut through the supermarkets. Yes, through the alleyways. So Mulla. Just to follow on from what you say, if you log every single year and how much trials and tribulations, how much pressure there is on the Muslims year in, year out, you can say that at this moment in time, with the help of the media, Islam is under such a spotlight that we are under pressure. Our sisters are under pressure. Our brothers are under pressure, both in the West and the East. What kind of pressure? Well, I mean, it's just discrimination, downright bigotry.  So what happens here is there's a WhatsApp message that goes around. I think it's from the police. It says, look, for Muslim women, please do not go out by yourselves, or especially if you're wearing a scarf or a hijab. Don't go out by yourselves. It's better to go out with someone and try and be back before dark. So that kind of message is like, what kind of world am I living in? It's a world of fear. And I'm living here in the West as well. So there's a lot of insecurities. So the more pressure is heaped on the Muslims, the more we're crying out for something to relieve this pressure. And what's funny to mention, if you want to compare, Araqi is here complaining about having, you know, after 12 in some areas of Karbala, it's cut. So you're like, they have to search the car, they have to check who's in the car and stuff to see, you know, checkpoints is to secure the areas. And they complain at 12 a.m. at night, where you're telling me before dark. Yeah. I mean, so it's crazy. But Mulla, comment on what you see right now. Oh wow, this is footage from the shrine of Abul-Fadal-Abbas, alaihi salam. And as you can see, just from the amount of hands they're trying to touch the Dariah, the tombstone of Abul-Fadal-Abbas, alaihi salam, every single one of them with the trial and the tribulation and something on their mind. A hajj, a request coming to Allah SWT but through the might of Abul-Fadal-Abbas during these nights, they asked for their hajj. And similarly, anyone out there, if you have requests, if you have a supplication, please do send it in. Our mouths are your mouthpieces. The channel is your mouthpiece as well. We are at your service to deliver any messages towards Abul-Fadal-Abbas and Abul-Fadal-Abbas on this momentous occasion of tonight. Now, Mullah, to get things going, we actually need one cell phone, if I can get just a cell phone, the seven. No, no, no, I can't put the jack in. Oh, yeah, there you go. Oh, you have it? Yes. Oh, wow. Good. Now, this game is called trying to guess... So, this is reading the lip game, right? Reading the lip game. Yeah, just so that the viewers, we are transitioning from spiritual to a bit of fun and games. And then we'll go back. And then we'll go... What I have promised for you is what I have prepared for you is a full list of all the rituals associated with Misha'aban. We will get onto the certain supplications and you can sit back and relax and you can recite after me. And I'll have a list of all the recitations as well so that you can benefit from this night. It is a night of prayer. It is a night of seeking closeness to Allah. But before that, let's slightly enjoy ourselves and see what Ahmed has in store for me on this journey of games and winning. Now, this game basically, you have to put the headphones on. Yeah. Okay. And I have to try and... And you have to try and guess what I'm saying. Okay. Okay. All right. So, let's just hope this works. So, he's going to put something in my ear so that I can't hear anything. Okay. Let me know in the place. Okay, I can... Guess what this is. It's a little bit higher. It's not higher. It's impatient. Okay, I can't... I can't hear what you're saying. Okay. All right. All right. So, let's begin. Let's begin. What have you put on? He's put on one of my tracks. Okay, thanks. Yeah, listen to this. What have I got to put? All right. Anything else on this wall? Okay. All right. Okay. Okay. What? Tell me when you've started. Okay. One, two, three. Okay. Ask me slower than that. Okay. Okay. Okay. Okay. You're saying a full-blown sentence. It has to be three words. Three words? Yeah, perfect. Something, something, something. And try to make it slow so I can at least read it. Okay. How old are you? Say that again. How old are you? How old are you? Old? Did I get that right? Yeah, you got that right. I think that was easy. Okay. That was easy. All right. We'll change it up a little bit. Okay. We're in the land of Karbala. Would I ever live in Karbala? No. Where do I live in Karbala? No. It's called Karbala in it, right? It has Karbala, yeah. This sound full. Trust me. I can't hear you. Okay. You repeat it. I actually forgot. You forgot what you said this was? You forgot your sentence. I was... I'm in Karbala. Okay. One more, one more. Okay. One more. Wow. Because it was here. Anyways, I can't log out. When did you arrive? What do I do in my life? No. When did you arrive? I can't. Do it again. When did you arrive? What did I have? No. Repeat one more time. When did you arrive? I can't. I can't. You can't? I can't. No. It's my turn. When did you arrive? Oh, when did I arrive? Okay. Oh, Masha'Allah. We have a surprise. Okay. Pause it, pause it. Count down. Okay. Sorry, sorry, sorry, sorry. For the life of me, I can't think of anything. Count down. Pause it, pause it, pause it. Pause it, pause it. Sorry, for the life of me, I can't think of anything sometimes. You know, I'm just going to go with this. What do you mean? I know, I know. It's really bad. Hosh. Okay. All right. Is it playing? Are you sure? Okay. Three, two, one. Done. Sunrise. Oh, no, no. Salam. Time. Stop. Time. Some. Time. Some. Time. T-t-t-t-t-t. Please. Yeah, time. Time. Time. Time. Time. Time. Yeah. Okay, time. Time. Time. Sunrise. There we go. Time on sunrise. You helped me. Okay. That's the whole point. I'm supposed to help you. Okay, good. Hosh. Okay. Ready? Three, two, one. Bring. Flowers. Okay. Bring me. Bring. Bring. Bring me flowers. Bring me flowers. There you go. Good, good, good. Should we go one more? Huh? One more? One more. Elephants. You got it. Elephants are grey. The last word? Elephants are grey. Are grey? Elephants are what? No, no, no. Are what? Okay, okay, okay. Okay, okay, okay. I can do it. I can do it. It was supposed to be grey, okay? I hope you didn't say what I think you said. Okay, okay. Tigers. Silence. Tigers. Tigers. Haqani. Haqani. Okay. Tigers. Child. No. Time. Tigers. Tigers. Childish. Tigers. Tigers. American accent. Yeah. Tigers. Trousers. No. Tigers. Pants. Tiger. Yeah, okay, okay. Tigers. Tigers. Are. Yellow. Yellow. Tigers are low. Yellow. Tigers are low. Yellow. Yellow. Yellow. Yellow. Yes. Tigers are yellow. There you go. Wow. For the elephants for it. I thought you said something else. I know. It was the elephants around me. Great. Great. I didn't think of this room, but yeah. Cool. All right. This was, it was fun. I had it fully prepared, but the fact that I had to open. No, no, no. Like a song of your songs. I need that. Otherwise. Need that? Yeah. Why do you need it? Because my headphones. I can't play anything. Okay. Okay. Okay. Now. There's one more part which is actually related to my very special guest. Mulla Ali Favil who has generously. What are you doing? Actually, one of the more, in Iraqi we say sport. What are you doing? You know, the funnest guest we had that is so into everything. He wants to do everything, try everything out. So, he's very flexible with how he acts. Hosh. What are you doing? Can we get a picture on the screen? Hosh. Oh my lord.  Impatient by Ali Favil. What about it? It was just the track I put on when we played the guessing game. Hosh. Mulla. Can we have... Okay. What's wrong with the picture? Do you want to tell the story or do you want me to tell the story? I don't know what you're talking about. Nice. Hosh. Subhan Allah, your beard now looks different. Is that Photoshop or is that just makeup? No, no, no. It's because I just shaved. So it looks more fresher? Yeah. One more time. One more time. Ah. Yeah, it looks new. It looks new. Hosh. Now, what's wrong with that picture? It's not what's wrong. I'm trying to do the exact same face. He looks very impatient. No. You need to get into your zone. Yeah, I need to hold on in the moment. I'm trying to get the same angle. Is this the same one? Anyways. So, alright. Okay, alright. Two Arbaanes ago Ali Fadl was in Karbala and we hosted each other. You were the co-host. I was the co-host for a program in Arbaan live and we always played this tune because it was nice the year that it just came out. And you told me something regarding. I told you. I told you. Uh huh. Okay, alright. Hosh. Does anyone know this? Actually no. You heard it first on IHDv3. Fine, fine, fine. I'll reveal all. The night before, I was supposed to be recording this. Yes. Like two days ago. You have the same haircut. I had bought a new trimming machine. So I didn't know how to use the gradients. One, two, three. My accident, I think I put it on one or two. I don't know what it was. And then I just wanted to trim just a bit to make it a bit neater. And then half of it all went. And it was almost zero. I was like, oh, I can't do this. I can't record a Muharram video or whatever. Not having a beard. I was like, OK, I've done it. I've done it. So let me just shave the whole thing off.  And it was totally off. So I spoke to the producer. I was like, this is the situation. What do I do? He goes, oh look, just get some makeup. I was like, OK. What am I going to use? He goes, just that black, whatever they used. I don't know what it was exactly. So I managed to put on. Because I had a bit of hair as well on there and mixed with the black. It didn't look that bad. But does it look really, really obvious? Go back to the picture again. Can we get the picture? Can we get the picture back on? No? Anyway, what in the picture? It doesn't really look that bad. It doesn't really look that bad. And I thought, look, the top part looks kind of, because you don't have that kind of beard. I don't have. Yeah. So it's nice. It's nice. OK. OK. Wow. Can we please leave that out? This is the part that I've been waiting for. Brothers and sisters, let me please introduce this. Go ahead. So remember how yesterday we had the challenge of the cards and the numbers. So we'll take it one step further today, about two hours ago in the other studio.  I said, OK, no problem. So the game of the choice was basketball and throwing the ball into the basket. All right? And he chose this out of revenge, because I won the day before. So I'm not going to reveal too much more. This entails is two baskets, about six balls, two different colors, and a bucket, literally a bucket of ice cold water. Here it is. Today by cheating, by jumping the cards again. I won, I won, man. And you got wet. So today is another day. Another day, we're going to play a bit of soccer and basketball.  So you can make up. Yeah. Basically make up plays. My personal gut feeling is I'm going to lose. I'm not confident at all. We had a couple of practice shots and he was swishing them in, like, this is so normal for him. Well, I just jinxed me. Mine was all over the place. So I put my maximum high on you right now. So a very, very good basketball player. Very good basketball player. I wish I could be like you.  I wish I could be like you. So the way this works, if we're going to throw one ball each of the two blue and white ones, we're going to count the points and then hopefully we'll do the gold balls as well.  Freezing cold water. Freezing cold water. When I felt the water right here, I started screaming. Screaming. Okay. Let's go. Go. No, no, no. Face it. Yeah. What if you guys just stand down there if you can? Yeah, I guess you can. You only throw your... Use two hands. You do something there, one ball each. No, there's no points now involved. Together. Draw together. Draw together? No, I can't. We got it. Mako, you went first. I went last. You went last. You didn't, I didn't. You didn't, I didn't. My head went... Come on, come on. Stand in the middle. Stand in the middle. What did you do? What did you do? Nothing, nothing. Ready? Three. Two. Three. One last. One last. Stop there. Three. Two. One. Three. Two. Welcome back. I don't know how... To tell you how cold the water is. The water was or is... Was. Yeah? Watching it is... I'm sweating. But it was legit cold water. Yeah? I didn't know what to do. I think it was unfair. Why? What's unfair about it? Yesterday we reshuffled. At least I should have known. Are you still annoyed about yesterday? I still got way yesterday. I'm kidding, I'm kidding. And today... You went first, I went second. You took your two shots, I'll take my two shots. I'm kidding. No, I can't wait for tomorrow's game. It was fun. Tomorrow's game is actually going to be a bit dangerous. And so... A bit danger. And fun at the same time. What? No. Okay. Be patient. I'm impatient. Wow. God bless you. God bless you. God bless you. Good. Mullah. Back to... Small break? No. A small break? Yeah. We decided a small break. Small break? Small break. So because we will be joined with... Our reporter. Our reporter. Yeah. Who has... Not now? Not now. Okay. Huh, okay. Fine. We're going to go to a small break anyway. We'll go to a short break. Yeah. Insert some stuff and inshallah we'll be back. To continue and to take you into the... Spiritual mode. Sure. If you will. To get you ready for Ali Baba. Welcome back, dear viewers of Mahossan TV 3. To light our nights with myself and Ahmed Ali. You, before the break, did see a short video. And I think, actually during the break I was thinking, I actually want to see that again. I think the viewers want to see that again as well. So we'll show it for you. Hopefully towards the end of the show, if we have two or three minutes spare, we'll show it at the end of the show. But basically it was a quick game. We took myself and Ahmed.   Well that was before the break. And now, ladies and gentlemen, my dear viewers, we are going to focus more on the spiritual aspects of the 15th of Shaaban, the night of. And like we were saying before, coincidentally it falls on a Thursday. Yes. So not only is it one of the most... the second most spiritual and great nights in the Islamic calendar, but it also falls on a Thursday. So I think maybe that's why the Zawar is probably double what it usually should be because it's Thursday night. People usually come here, right? I don't think that it's double. I think it's quite triple. No way. You know, the amount of people...  So on a Thursday, is there something like this? Thousands. Like this? No, this is not thousands. This is millions. No way. It's safe to say that this is millions. You came two years in a bind. Yeah, I did. Wasn't it like this? Actually very similar to this, yeah. Very similar to this. Yeah, very, very similar. And earlier today, when I was looking out, I called one of my siblings who is on the street of Bab Al-Qabla, Allah, which is not far from here. And he says, up to Tarbiyah, people were coming in. They were flocking in thousands. Yeah. Yeah, I mean. So the fact that so many people are coming here, you know, to compare... Is it like this? Like last year? Last year, I didn't get the chance to go to the streets and check it out. But it was live. It was a lot of people. Yeah, it was lit up. I mean, to be honest with you, there's a lot of emphasis put on visiting Karbala on the Knights of Arafa and the Knights of Ramadhan, and the Knights of Arafa, not a lot of emphasis put on the Sha'bania Knights. People think it's just because it's like a happy occasion. They may be undervalued the spiritual aspects of, especially this night. So I think now people are more aware that this night is the second greatest night of the Islamic calendar, and so many rituals associated with this night. I mean, there's so many Amal, prayers, applications. So I think everyone's trying to cram themselves into the two shrines to be as close to the two kings, Abu-Fadr Al-Abbas and Imam Hussain As-Salam, so that their du'as and supplications would be much stronger than they would be outside. Now, the first night when we began our show, Light Hour Night, you mentioned that this is your first time in Karbala during the middle of Sha'ban. Now, when you arrived at this, as you said, the second greatest night in the Islamic calendar, what's your feeling up to today? It's been five days in your Karbala? Yeah, it's been about five days, yeah. I think the first feeling I get when I'm entering into Karbala, especially close to the two shrines, is the feeling of happiness. That's the first thing. I really love the fact, because I've never experienced Karbala on a happy occasion. I've experienced it in a non-season occasion, normal, like, normal day, and I've experienced it in Muharram and Arba'ayn. I've experienced it during the Arafa nights as well, but I've never actually experienced it when it's lit up with lights and, like I'm saying, candy and sweets and people giving out free food, the same they would do in Arba'ayn. Not only that, but there's fireworks and there's like candle, like candle vigils as well, in honor of our Mahdi A'ajilat, Arafa Raju Sharif. So there's so much things going on. The first immediate feeling is happiness. You're really, really happy to be around. You're always smiling. People are always smiling. So it's a feeling of elation, whereas in Arba'ayn, there's a constant, constant, like, grief in the back of your mind. There's a constant mellow. It's always sorrowful. There's always electric. People are really passionate and charged up. But when it comes to Sha'aban, as you can see, there's the lights, the feeling of, look, right now, we're speaking and there's clapping. Yeah. So people are really enjoying themselves. I guess, look, to be honest with you, it just gives the people of Arak we have gone under so much scrutiny and pressure, as I was saying, and prosecution and trials and killings and bombings and so much. It gives them a lifeline to say, you know what? I just want to be happy for what I have, for what I don't have. I don't care. I just want to be happy for being close to Imam Hussain As-Salam, being close to the Ahlul Bayt, and just living my life the same way everyone else wants to live their life. So it gives them that lifeline of happiness and of hope. That's the main thing. That's why people are here because they're pleading with Allah, in honor of Abbas, in honor of Hussain As-Salam, to hasten the new appearance of Imam Mehdi, A.S. So that's, you know, the main feeling that I have as well when I'm here. Yes. And just to touch upon when you said recording, being happy, just the atmosphere makes you happy. Although it's crowded and you get jammed, but you know that you're here for a purpose. And the majority of these people, insha'Allah, everybody that has come to Karbala, know they're here for a purpose.  Now these people don't own a lot of things. They're in rent. They're in debt. Dad is crippled. So basically they have no income coming into the house. Every Eid, every Sha'ban and the father refused to take donations. His integrity doesn't want people to pity him and stuff. So he refuses donations, he refuses anything. But SubhanAllah, I don't know how, but every Eid, every occasion comes his children are wearing brand new clothes, brand new shoes. Alhamdulillah, I mean it's beautiful. The fact that it is the birth of Maman Mehdi and the birth in Sha'ban, Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala rewards the lovers of Ahl al Bayt, Alayhi As-Salaam, on these occasions that they're just happy.  They just want to get here and celebrate. So it's a blessing to be in such an area. Definitely. Definitely. No, I totally understand. And you can appreciate that by just walking on the streets as well. You can see that people of all different shapes and sizes have come towards Karbala. And I guess the reports that we'll show you hopefully in the next couple of minutes will give you an insight into the, an interview into the people and how they feel about coming to Karbala. But especially the reports that we'll have for you is regarding the candle vigil, they call it, or the candle festival. I don't know if this is a ritual that you guys do here, but back in London, we have this, it's like a family ceremony that we do. We, I think they call it, when you write a letter to your ma Mahdi and then you throw it into the river or a lake or something like that. They send it with the candles. They send it with the candles? Yeah. Something similar. I think this candle light vigil is in honour of my Mahdi, each and every single one who has a piece of hope or happiness in their hearts. They put it onto the candle and then the lights are up. So the reports will show that. I think we can show that now. Or are we still carrying on the talking? Just one thing before we go, I think we have a couple of minutes left, four minutes before we go. I don't know if you've noticed, but have you been inside where the actual film is? No, today. Earlier? Yeah. Tonight, it's different from the other nights. The really jammed nights, what I mean, like Thursday night, Arba'een, it's different. As you mentioned, Arba'een and all the other occasions, they're kind of filled with grief. Everybody is in a sort of filled mood. But right now, everybody wants to go and touch the Dariha of Mahdi Hussain, why if we can get this on camera, they all have small papers with them. Do they? Yeah. So they throw it inside. So they have to get to the tool. So the Dariha. Regularly, they just circulate. They just go in, if a Zahir touches, they touch the Zahir. So technically, they have touched the Dariha. But right now, it's jammed because people have to technically actually get to the Dariha. People have to go inside and touch the Dariha. Like they've made it incumbent upon themselves to go in there and touch the Dariha and put the paper inside for the Hajjah. That's amazing. Yeah. One of the most, the secret, Shaaban for me has so many secrets and so many blessings that everybody can actually benefit from. A lot of people are deprived of these blessings. Not everyone is blessed enough like Ali Fahad al-Tibih and Karbala for the first time. Yeah, truly I am blessed. Truly I am blessed. That's amazing. So in terms of the vigil, the report is for Hamid Ali. Yes. And he'll give you an insight into the candlelight vigil, the candlelight festival in association with Imam Mehdi Ajra, Ta'ala Firdu Sharif and the last word is Goodbye. Ahmed, we literally got... What? Just one comment is Ahmed do goodbye, Ahmed say goodbye. Yeah, Ahmed, bye-bye. Bye-bye, that's it. And then after the break, we'll have the rituals associated with the Shaaban season and some recitations as well. And hopefully, hopefully, if there's chance, if there's time, we'll have the video of Ahmed Luzi. The video is the basketball game as well. See you after the break. The holy shrines of Karbala are preparing to launch the candles festival where about 1,183 candles will be lighted in celebration of the age of the awaited Imam May Allah hasten his reappearance. Stay tuned, dear brothers and sisters for more details from this festival. Insha'Allah, we will get you about the candles and about the time, about how they will light it and about the more information about this festival. Stay tuned, dear brothers and sisters. Basically, this festival was held for the first time 15 years before the fall of the tyranny in Iraq in 2003. It was held by a person named Muqdad Kareem Hadi. Later on, it was it was held for the first time Bail al-Haramain al-Sharifain in the area between the holy shrines of Imam Hussain and his brother, Abu al-Fadal al-Abbas. The festival became an annual ritual that is held every year on the birth anniversary of Imam al-Mahdi May Allah hasten his reappearance. Each year, they write a different phrase, the first phrase that was written. You know, they write the phrase and they put the candles on that phrase. So they basically write the phrase with the candles. The first phrase was written was 1167 candles were lighted. The first festival costed 16,000 dinars, which is today's measures, it's about 14 to 13 dollars. Ever since that festival as I said, the festival became an annual ritual. This year 1183 candles are to be lighted insha'Allah. The festival is being held with the efforts of the holy shrines of Imam Hussain and his brother, Abu al-Fadal al-Abbas. Peace be upon them and a number of donations from the lovers of the Ahlul Bayt alayhim al-salam. The festival basically started with the speech of the secretariat of the holy shrines of Imam Hussain and his brother, Abu al-Fadal al-Abbas in addition to Quranic recitation and poetry. Respected viewers, stay tuned for more shows from the holy land of Karbala. Peace be upon you. My dear respected viewers of Imam Hussain TV3, welcome back to Light Our Nights. In this part of the show, we will talk about the spiritual rituals associated with the mid-Sha'ban season, the birth of the awaited saviour Imam Al-Mahdi alayhim al-salam. We are celebrating the Sha'ban season. The Sha'ban season started with the births of Abu al-Fadal al-Abbas, Imam Hussain al-salam and Imam al-Sajjad alayhim al-salam. And now it moves into the mid-Sha'ban season. The second most greatest Islamic calendar. The first is the second is mid-Sha'ban season. The millions of followers of the Ahlul Bayt have flocked towards Karbala in honor of Imam Mehdi with their hajjat, with their requests, with their supplications, with everything in their hearts. They're pouring it out to Imam Hussain al-salam in the hope that Allah will help, will hear their prayers and their supplications. Today, I will go through each and every single ritual associated with this night so that you at home can benefit. We are about nine o'clock, ten o'clock London time and probably about five o'clock in Washington DC. So for you the day is just beginning, the night is just beginning. Do not let a night like this pass in idle chit chat or idle gatherings. Make sure that you are striving towards the last pound. Before I get into any of the rituals and the recitations, I do have a special guest with me. The person that I keep referring to as Muhammad Ali the reporter Muhammad Ali the reporter is now live with me in the studios. Peace be upon you. How are you today? I'm fine. Thank you very much. The first thing I should say, I noticed as soon as I met Muhammad Ali, it was actually in an office and I was with the producer and we were talking about certain things and then he walked in says salam and gave something to the producer and then he spoke in English. So I was taken aback. I'll tell you why but I was taken aback immediately and then as he was walking I was like where are you going? I mean do you live here? I don't understand. Your English is almost royal. The English is royal English. Where in the world did you learn this English? And he's like, well I know it from here. Even your dress sense, everything from here, he's like yeah I'm technically a laqi. I was taken aback by that. I'll probably get into your background as to where you learn your English and everything like that in a bit but before what I want to get into first is it's in the middle of the afternoon. It's boiling hot. How do you go about preparing for the reports and the interviews for days like this? Well, it was pretty much difficult since I was using the iPad for more information, basically the work of the Middah Shabbam and the extra information that you can't remember at that particular time so I was using it and then suddenly it shut down. Temperature warning. No way. Really? Oh my God. Then I was surprised so I looked it off and I started to talk of my own, of the information I have and then I started to have that vision. Oh my God. How is it possible for people to walk all the way from the very beginning of the checkpoint that is about four to six kilometers away from the Holy Shrine? Wow. They walk it all in from the checkpoint to the Holy Shrine to Imam Sain and his brother. So it was pretty much difficult and the voices were too loud. There was a lot of noise because pilgrims and the speakers from the processions and the services units so I had to turn up my voice. Yeah. So you were always shouting basically? I was basically shouting, yes. But basically, Alhamdulillah it was fine but the atmosphere at that particular time is indescribable because I will summarize it in four days. The four days that I was going out to do the reports basically the first day was the preparations when the services units start to provide the services for the pilgrims of Imam Sain. And at that time not only the preparations that took my attention but also there was another thing which is I saw a group of young men sitting down at that tent and there was there was an old man teaching them about how to await the Imam peace be upon him. How to you know, honor the martyrdom of Imam Hussain. How to honor the sacrifices of the Ahlul Bayt al-Alim Salaam. So you know these ground gatherings it gives you know the us spiritual a lot of spiritual power to everyone including me I'm the person who lives in Karbala. I live in Karbala basically but I was totally surprised to see such young men such an old man teaching them about everything and the rest of the atmosphere was basically people providing services for the pilgrims generously they're all you know as you mentioned that you lived in Karbala I mean have there been any differences between this Sha'bania season and last Sha'bania season in context I mean every single year there's a lot more scrutiny on the Shi'a's a lot more scrutiny on the Muslims in general. So year on year in people are hoping and hoping almost expecting the Duhur to happen people there's a sense of imminent reappearance for some reason people feel it in their bones is there a difference between the feeling the atmosphere here now between last year two years ago three years ago? The pilgrimage of the mid of Sha'ban it has an annual progress you know each year it develops into you know for example the candles festival and in addition to the candles festival people who light candles and put them in the river or they do it there as well they do it there as well to honour their waiting for the Sahaba Zaman may Allah hasten his reappearance so each year people go over the difficulties and particularly in this year do you know that the final exams are taking place in few days yes for the high schools and for the universities in a few weeks more so despite the difficulties and whenever it's more difficult people persist to come to Imam Hussein to pay allegiance for him and for the master of our time brilliant, sounds good now again to your personal background how long have you lived in Karbala I mean if you lived your whole life what did you study and get that immaculate accent basically I was born in the south of Iraq at a village area it was called Al-Kahlaa it's basically almost on the borders between Iraq and Iran so after that we moved to Masra city and the bottom of Iraq and then we moved to Karbala at 2008 almost 10 years yes almost 10 years in the whole city but basically it's a lovely place did you study English I basically took the regular education just like most people did but I had my father is a seida and my grandfather is a seida too so basically my grandfather used to speak about 10 to 12 languages including English so I took the very beginnings from there but the the influence that I had was from a teacher at the second year in high school she said that you can do it you can be good at it so I took it from there and I started to keep pushing myself learn one thing after another and Alhamdulillah so far I'm a third year student at English language department okay so you're continuously studying the English language then well basically now I study literature and linguistics what certain topics do you go through when it comes to literature just give us a rough day literature we came from the ancient literature of the Greeks Romans and the middle ages writings and so far to the Elizabethan age and after that to the Romantic age and the Victorian age and right now we're studying I think the modernism yes modernism we study different topics from poetry drama and you know the nobles beautiful that is absolutely great well look if you didn't think that Iraq could be that substantial in their education well here is the pure example of that so literature, English literature it's very much prevalent here thank you so much for your time and we'll definitely see you very very soon thank you what we're going to do now is go to a small break and then after that we will have some insights into the rituals of the Midshe'abaan season we'll leave you with some cutaways with some I guess the inserts from the shrines of Ababa Abdullah Hussein and Abul Fawad Abbas we'll see you in a couple of minutes we'll see you in a couple of minutes we'll see you soon welcome back dear viewers of Imam Hussein TV3 for the last part of this show as promised we will be going through all of the rituals associated with Midshe'abaan so that you are well covered when it comes to the supplications so you don't miss out on a night like this this night is the second most greatest night and Imam Al-Sadaq was asked why this night is such a great night and he says that on a night like this Allah SWT will wipe clean his slate of his servants and will make sure that their repentance is accepted so strive towards being close to Allah SWT so it is a night that Allah SWT will make it incumbent on himself to make sure that anyone who is asking anyone who is pleading anyone who is crying towards Allah SWT that those questions those supplications those requests are answered on a night like this regardless of their history regardless of their CV regardless of their deeds on a night like this you can wipe your slate clean in striving towards Allah SWT so from and coincidentally on a night like this we are also as it says from the from the words that it is the milad of Imam Al-Zaman it is the birth of the awaited saviour Imam Al-Mahdi the first thing that you are supposed to be doing on a night like this of the rituals is the so purifying yourself having a shower to purify yourself physically and emotionally and spiritually so that when you are taking part in the rituals when you are taking part in the rituals you are clean from the ghusl the second thing is the salah and the dua and the istighfar of the rituals is the salah the dua and the istighfar the same way that Imam Zain Al-Abideen which he says who purifies this night who ever makes sure that this night is remembered that their hearts will not die the day the hearts will die on the day of judgment so that's the second thing that Imam Zain Al-Abideen at which he says so that's the second thing the third thing is the ziyara of Imam Hussain Al-Alias Salam now what's interesting here is that if you cannot arrive to the city of kalbalaata it says here that if you can go to the highest place within your area within your city, within your village wherever you may be at the highest point you look once towards the right and you look once towards the left and then raise your hands and you recite only this simple piece of supplication or this salutation As-Salamu Alaikum As-Salamu Alaikum If you can repeat that 100 times 500 times no matter how many times you can the more the merrier but just to repeat go to the highest point of the building of the village of the city and then look once towards the right and then raise your hands and your head towards the sky and say As-Salamu Alaikum As-Salamu Alaikum Wabarakatuh after that it's the the thawab of this ziyara is the ajar or the thawab of Hajj and Umrah and of course there is a certain the fourth thing of the rituals to do is a small dua the Ziyara of Imam Al-Ghaib so it is a dua in honor of the Imam Al-Asri and Imam Al-Mahdi it's a pretty long dua but it starts with Allahumma and the fifth thing to do is As-Salamu Alaikum and there is the fifth dua as well this is quite a long dua the next thing to do is another small dua from the Prophet Muhammad As-Salamu Alaikum that is one of the rituals of today there is a seventh and there is an eighth and there is so many different rituals to do okay and of course one of the benefits of tonight is to recite dua Qumail so the dua of Qumail is also to be recited today as well and of course there is a small a small supplication as well you can do that I believe it says a thousand times as you can there is many more rituals as well it goes on and on but essentially you can find this the keys to the heavens and that way you will be able to understand the full recitations inshallah so those are the rituals we will get into a bit of small recitations inshallah after the small break so we will see you in a couple of minutes thank you good night warm three it's light shines upon us it's very dark chirping iconic master he's come to save humanity from disaster who is ready to answer your call to answer your I know my master I know your son will run this earth will be blessed with no fear the promise of Allah the promise of Allah the promise of Allah cannot be and of course like I said on a night like this I will keep the recitations subdued and focus more on the words as we say O brother O brother return back to us O master O protector O Peter in my darkest times you are patience you are the saints holy night never will go between your heart and between mine than all great signs. Ya Mahdi, Ya Mahdi, we need you with us. Ya Mahdi, Ya Mahdi, return back to us. Were it not for your existence, I would sway not knowing my path. Who would guide me first and not last? Who would take my hand to Jannah? Like a father takes a child. We are Mahdi, and blessings are will cast. Ya Mahdi, Ya Mahdi, you are with us. Ya Mahdi, Ya Mahdi, return back to us. We have enjoyed four months and years. Patient, we await your return. But our hope is never died. We'll always burn the secrets of space and of time. From you, Mahdi, we long to learn. Like the thirsty, we are here for you. Ya Mahdi, he's don't forget us. Ya Mahdi, Ya Mahdi, return back to us. Allahumma, ajil. And with that, we conclude today's program. Tomorrow, we have more support from Allah. May Allah bless you. May Allah bless you. May Allah bless you. May Allah bless you. May Allah bless you. With that, we conclude today's program. Tomorrow, we have more surprises, more fun, more games, more applications, more recitations, and more live reports from the land of Karbala. Like I said earlier, please do not let a night like this miss you.  Perform the ghusl, perform the ritual, and then do your amal, do your ziyarat, as well as don't forget us in your prayers, not forgetting the people who are in trials and tribulations in your prayers. And we'll see you insha'Allah tomorrow. Please pray for me, please pray for everyone else. Wassalamu alaikum warahmatullahi wabarakatuh. Fatiha.


brief COVID update. Currently in Sheboygan County there are 123 active cases. This past week sadly there were two additional deaths for individuals over the age of 80. Currently there are only three people in the hospital and our activity level in the county has seen a 55% decrease in our from our burden rate. However this is still a high number and we keep encouraging folks folks to wear masks and socially distance. The city has been doing a wonderful job with their Monday morning meetings with other stakeholders in the health health care field and experts and we're working with a lot of different entities to ensure that vaccines are getting rolled out and my encouragement to all citizens that are eligible please look on the public health website the schedule and appointment. I have my second COVID shot tomorrow so I'm looking forward to getting that over with.


Hello, welcome to this week's CMC Markets Commodity Snapshot. This week we're looking at silver. Now the price has come down pretty strongly since breaking $26 an ounce and it's just hit some important price levels on the chart so we want to look and see if there's any respite for silver coming our way. Now popular explanation for silver's decline is much the same as the other commodities where a strong US dollar has really hammered all the commodities that are denominated in US dollars. Another part of it for silver is it has its own supply demand dynamics whereby a lot of the demand in recent times has come from ETFs, exchange traded funds, who are trying to replicate the price of silver through the commodity and through silver related shares. There is demand for those ETFs. There's not been an outflow of funds from these ETFs like has been sitting gold. So that's been generally supportive but that demand has slightly waned towards the end of this year and so the increased production of silver means there's an oversupply of silver. The oversupply is adding further weight to prices. Now the reason many long term investors are holding onto silver is the monetization of the metal and the reason this is happening is that debt based currencies, fiat currencies are gradually being debased and so people are turning to metals as an alternative source of currency. Now that's a longer term fundamental view on the metal but at some point there has to be a floor in prices where this fundamental picture has come back into the fore. So let's have a look at prices and see, let's have a look at the price chart and see where that could be. So what we're looking at here is a much longer term perspective on silver, not necessarily for trading in the longer term but when prices are trading down at below their 52 week lows you have to look back in the past to see where this decline might end. We are at such a level at the moment which comes in right on that round number about $15 per ounce. As you can see prices did bounce off there a fair few times in the past and it was that level before prices accelerated up towards $50 an ounce in 2008. But we are back down here again. Should this level fail we may be looking at $9 per ounce but should we get a bounce from here we may even get back up to those lows that we recently broke through around that kind of 1850 mark. Okay that's the end of this week's CMT Markets Commodity snapshot. We were of course talking about silver. Keep an eye on these ETF outflows for silver. Obviously keep an eye on the central bank particularly in the US for any further debasement of currencies which would help the metals. But aside from that let's watch this key price level that's been mentioned and good luck trading.