Thank you, Dan, and I won't belabor too many of the points that have been talked about today. I thought what I would do is sort of take a narrower focus, focusing in on only one of the institutions that make up the broader context of America's knowledge enterprise. The premise of the meeting is how to save America's knowledge enterprise. Those things are eye-catching or thought-provoking concepts in terms of what we're really trying to do. Obviously, with or without us, there's likely to be some form of America's knowledge enterprise. Even cavemen had knowledge enterprises. It just wasn't very sophisticated. Making flint tools and stone tools was the knowledge enterprise. It just was very slow. A little bit about what I've been doing, which would proffer some background to the comments that I'm about to make. I've spent the last 20 years or so designing university knowledge enterprises, both at the sort of scale of all university initiatives inside places like Columbia University and the last 10 years at Arizona State University, trying to build an actual differentiated public university, a differentiated public research university, on the premise that the last thing that we need is just another one of the generic public research universities that's out there operating. We actually need some differentiation, and you'll hear me talk a little bit about that. So today's assignment, so to speak, if the question is how to save America's knowledge enterprise, certainly a piece of the answer or part of the answer is to redesign the Cold War University, and therefore it's an architectural problem or a design problem. For those of you think that somehow universities are immutable to design changes or that they are operated by filiopiatistic priests that somehow are able to conceptually hold back all change. I would say that's mostly true unless the institution actually wants to change. And that is there's a low incentive to change, and a part of the design of the system that we've been talking about today is what prevents that change from occurring. Now to understand any architectural problem, you have to understand the design premises. You have to understand the design history and the logic because everything that we're living in, the physical designs that we live in, are a product of thousands of years of decision making. The knowledge enterprises that we have are also products of thousands of years of decision making. And in the case of the universities, you've got to start at what I call phase zero. Phase zero is this sort of notion for about 2,000 years or so, I roughly put the market 400 BC, run it up to 1650 AD, so for the sake of rounding just call that 2,000 years, 65 generations, 65 generations of academics who were basically the incubators of what we conceptually think of as science today. They incubated the approach to science, they incubated the culture of science, they incubated the mechanisms and the means by which we ultimately have derived our scientific underpinning. They outlined for us the philosophical models, the philosophical assumptions, the fundamental questions, the fundamental pursuits. All of that was done in the conceptual phase, a 2,000 year conceptual phase. And in the context of human history, that's a fantastically limited amount of time. It's amazing that in 65 generations that as much achievement could be achieved as was achieved, you look at Isaac Newton as sort of the product, the end product of that time. Newton and others that were with him being the result of that thinking and you think about the world before Newton and the world after Newton and it's inconceivably different. And so Newton was a product of what? Newton was a product of 65 generations of fantastic conceptualization about what science is. Call that phase zero. Phase one was a truncated phase, highly truncated. It only lasted about 300 years. It went from roughly 1650 until almost exactly 1940, highly truncated. In this phase I call it the start-up phase of science for good and science for enlightenment and science for making the world a better place. If you haven't read William Manchester's book, The World Lit Only by Fire, read it. You'll get some sense of the role of phase zero in helping us to crawl out of, at least in the West, of the Middle Ages and the Dark Ages. And ultimately what we were able to do and the kinds of ideas that were able to evolve driven by science, driven by the philosophical basis of scientists and others that led to the enlightenment that in only 10 generations, between 1650 and 1940, in only 10 generations we saw some of the most fantastic institutions ever conceived of in human history, including our own country, derivative of just 10 generations of this new kind of enlightenment driven phase one, the start-up phase of where science might have gone or could have gone along the way, but it was truncated, truncated. I don't know how much longer it could have gone on in the kind of open-ended, self-directed universities still responsible for themselves, universities still self-directed until 1940. In 1940 the world, that very simple world began to change just to sort of contextualize things. Johns Hopkins University today, today by itself as a single research university, think of it as the original American research university, has 10 times the total investment from the federal government for research alone by itself than the entire federal government investment of 1940 in research. One institution, 10 times the investment of the entire country, and most people say well yeah, yeah there's been a lot of investment, a lot of things are happening, the federal government's really stepped up and things have really moved in the right direction. What depends unless you go back and dissect what's happened not relative to our short-term trajectory but relative to our longer-term trajectory. So we have this calm before the storm, call the calm 1940. The war in Europe is underway, the Americans are not yet in it. The Americans look around driven by the same person that has been mentioned by several people today, Einstein and his comrades convincing President Roosevelt that we really had an opportunity to build a weapon of mass destruction that we could use against the forces of evil. And so we entered into what I call the storm which produced an illusion and the storm was between 1941 when Vannevar Bush first began organizing in the summer of 41 the office for scientific research and development and then ultimately out of that the Manhattan project and then ultimately out of that other things. And so we created this illusion and the illusion was could a group of scientists with unlimited resources produce something that was beyond human comprehension and allow one nation-state to defeat multiple other nation-states with one felled swoop so to speak. Well it turns out it didn't really happen that way and it didn't really advance that way and it really wasn't science by itself but really science with American industry with American know-how with American engineering with unlimited resources and an enemy unwilling to surrender I might add also providing an opportunity for the exercise of a scientific aberration almost something derivative of the moment what I call the storm followed by the lightning bolt. The lightning bolt was the personification of the scientist as God the scientist able to produce a weapon for which three discharges July 16th 1945 August 6th 1945 and August 9th 1945 produced literally figuratively figuratively in every possible way the lightning bolt. That changed the possibility that science would evolve with philosophy and philosophy with science and science with democracy and philosophy with democracy in a way that we could more calmly and orderly advance ourselves. Now make no mistake there's been fantastic and unbelievable scientific progress since the end of World War II but as we can see now 60 years past that only two generations now we can see serious flaws in the design we can see serious weakness in the way that the overall model that's derivative of the storm and the lightning bolt this unbelievable massive federalization of research has resulted in a number of changes that are not actually reflective of the core in which the way in which the the universities evolved over the last 2400 years. I refer to this this lightning bolt basically led to and empowered with that bolt of atomic power basically the federalization of the research universities in the United States. They are and have been objects of the government driven by the government driven by the government's objectives and I'm not suggesting that the government's objectives are not good but it used to be that they're actually driven by themselves. So what was Enrico Fermé's federal research grants or Albert Einstein's federal research grants or I could go on and on and on and list the great scientists that we know contributed to the lightning bolt and to the storm and turns out they didn't have any they put they picked their research agendas they drove themselves forward they were involved in institutions that had the capacity to operate with a small amounts of money from here and there. So what is the federal federalization of research universities do in my in my estimation it narrows the scope of the actual knowledge enterprise itself in spite of this so I call it the illusion this illusion that scientists can do anything it turns out the scientists can do anything with unlimited resources total national commitment total national assets being committed to it and a narrow narrow narrow problem. So what we have now through the federalization of the universities is in a sense the forward targeting of the university's energy as a part of the national enterprise national knowledge enterprise into narrow things like the cold war including space with a narrow set of approaches not that we don't want to win the war the cold war not that we don't want to defeat our enemies don't get me wrong I'm not making that case I'm making the case here we are at the end of the cold war victory for the cold war space technology program that Dan showed earlier with the spike in funding above the 10% flat level over the last several decades that was not about space as much as it was about technological prowess and technological dominance and making certain that October 4th 1957 the launch of a of an enemy satellite over the United States which scared the hell out of most Americans would never happen again in a way where we weren't in a dominant position if you read the journalistic reports and the political reports at the time that's what it was about if you read the heavens and the earth fantastic history of the space program that's what it was about so we basically are living in an area in it at the end of an era where we've run the course of the Faustian bargain that we set the university surrendered their architectural premises their ability to design their own futures to acquire the steady flow of resources through which they promised to solve all problems at least that was van of our bushes design now that's quite a bargain it leads to the present political situation it's unattainable people now begin to realize that the lightning bolt isn't true I can spend 30 billion dollars a year of public money on health related research and still tell you that we're not among anything but the bottom three or four countries among the industrialized nations in terms of health outcomes I can spend seven thousand dollars per person per year for health care and deliver a mediocre outcome across our entire population so we know that the lightning bolt that worked once doesn't always work particularly if that's the way that you think so what we have now is we have a knowledge enterprise in which the universities have relinquished to the government that modicum of individuality and that modicum of creativity and that modicum of separateness not that the government can't fund the universities but who sets the chart that began in the 1950s and so what do we get as a result of that lots of great science don't get me wrong but we get among in between the university's high levels of replication in a model where status is attained by the amount of research funding that you secure now what does that mean it means if the Defense Department or the Energy Department or the National Science Foundation for instance isn't interested in national manufacturing capacity that you will default and see your national manufacturing based industries leave and you'll somehow think that it's all about labor costs and Germany says it's not about labor costs and the German products that are made tell you it's definitively not about labor costs alone it's much more complicated than that German investment in manufacturing research has been significant German investment in training and education of manufacturing lead capable individuals also significant what you see also as a result of this relinquishment to the government of the design of the freedom of the universities is high levels of bureaucratization where we're unable because of the intensity of the bureaucratization around science to easily translate the science into effective outcomes particularly true in biomedical research we also see what I call an inflexible research model with a hierarchy of knowledge so if I rank ordered the social sciences from economics moving down the list of hierarchy to political science moving down from that to sociology how do you think that hierarchy is established that hierarchy is established through funding and funding models which is then actually altered the very nature by which we even conceive of disciplines or conceive of fields and their worth or their value we have members even of the Arizona congressional delegation on the floor of the House of Representatives in the last 10 days calling for the elimination of all science all political science funding at the National Science Foundation because it's apparently according to this particular member of the Arizona congressional delegation worthless he must not have read David Brooks's fantastic column on the role of the social sciences but why does that why do the social sciences have no status or why do they have hierarchical status or why is physics considered to be more valuable than biology or biology to be more valuable than psychology or molecular models are more valuable than behavioral models funding is one of the key explanations and then another outcome of all this or another result of having given this up is that we end up then with rigid university structures so I've been involved in university design projects of some significance in some scale for a very long period of time and all my body parts are artificial because they are all amputated as a part of those of those processes it's a very very dangerous process so here we have a post-World War two model the lightning bolt model for those guys they spent a whole I don't know 12 weeks working on it they really you know they're gonna spend a few trillion dollars guiding the entire social cultural and economic and military future of the United States and they spent 12 work 12 weeks working on the idea and from there 12 weeks of work we had a model that worked for 50 years from roughly 1945 1950 to 1995 2000 stopped working some time ago and so we've had 10 years of results from that model some of which have been fantastic but it has not prepared us for competitiveness it's not prepared us for enhanced health care outcomes it's not prepared us for better energy outcomes it's not prepared us with a strategy of what we might or might not do relative to space technology or any of a number of other things it hasn't prepared us for any that so it is a failed public policy platform that we are now more than 10 years into a period of what I would call confused chaos we have a limited design a limited utility declining national competitiveness flat life outcomes runaway costs decreasing public understanding in what we're doing well this is great I mean it's just everything's just gone the right way van of our bush and his and his crew right at the end of the war using every ounce of energy using the transition between president Roosevelt and president Truman producing a design which ran its course some time ago in the cold war is now over and has been for some time and so it's time for a new design what we need to do is basically recognize that we need a new design for universities that again permit self-determination that permit differentiation between universities and so somebody will say well what do you mean and I don't have time to walk through all the things that we've been trying to do back in Arizona and why are some of us in Arizona because when you're the 48th state of the 48 in the continental United States and you live in a place where they don't believe in the law and the power of the West you can do anything you can even redesign a research university so if you're gonna redesign and differentiate between universities so somebody tell me please tell me and most of you will argue with me even why do we have just generic chemistry departments one after another after another after another after another all funded by the chemistry people at NSF or the people interested in biochemistry at NIH why can't we have some chemistry departments that have just decided that our real emphasis is going to be on nothing but curiosity driven study of molecules period we couldn't care less about who does this or why we're not going to be limited by anyone we probably won't take any money from anyone we'll just take money from people that give us money and say have at it no proposals and those would be fantastic chemistry departments let me tell you and why can't we have some chemistry departments that are problem-driven they're looking at the issues of nuclear medicine or nuclear chemistry or some particular problem that they're working on and they're completely driven by that in some chemistry departments and the next two are going to be a little bit odd that are outcome driven so I know at Yale University they've got this Institute for green chemistry that's an outcome green chemistry designing molecules which actually have a compatibility with life on earth as opposed to many of the molecules that we have designed of the seventy thousand synthetic chemicals that are out there I don't know how many thousands of them are carcinogenic mutagenic compounds that are basically not good for anybody sitting in this room or for plants and animals living on the planet so why can't we have some chemistry departments that are outcome oriented and why couldn't we actually have chemistry embedded in a value driven science something like sustainability science so I've given four different categories of chemistry curiosity driven problem driven outcome driven and value driven value being sustainability that is you're actually working to a social economic political cultural outcome using science as your driver to get there that's what I mean by differentiation and so at the end of the day it is not time to throw rocks at Vannevar Bush or at the Bush model or to say that all is lost and it's all been for not obviously that's not the case it is time to throw away simple ideas and to replace them with more sophisticated ideas the simple model that has served us for part of the last 60 plus years last 65 years is just too simple it's run its course it's time for it to be replaced and it's time for universities to replace this simple model I wrote it down as U equals S plus D equals G that's the simple model university is science plus dollars equals good okay my 12 year old daughter she could probably derive that right now it's just insufficient of a model it's outmoded needs to be replaced and so my simple hope is and I think that we've probably done a lot of work on this today my simple hope is is that we find a way in which we can basically face the fact that how we design our knowledge enterprise actually determines our fate if we leave the design as it is I can tell you we already have early indicators that we're going to have problematic outcomes and they're going to be very expensive because we're not cutting back on the research we're just plowing ahead with insufficient returns and so how do we make things better we've got to look at the design of the very enterprises themselves and I think the single most important thing is how about some differentiation among the universities how about some self-determined universities thank you


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What is so special about this year's Irish elections? Is there a left wing resurgence in Ireland? The general elections held to the lower house of the Irish parliament on February 8th witnessed the path-breaking victory of the left-wing party Sinn Féin. This effectively ended the decades-long two-party rule in the country. Sinn Féin registered a thumping victory with 37 of their 42 running candidates elected with a vote share of almost 25%. This was much to the dismay of the centre-right establishment parties, the incumbent Finnegale, which got 35 seats with nearly 21% votes, and Fiona Hall, 38 seats with around 22% votes. Sinn Féin had cashed in on the disenchantment among the people with the traditional parties which have failed to address the problems of the deteriorating health sector, the soaring housing crisis, workers' demands, rising militarism and hate crimes among other critical issues facing the country. The corporate media targeted Sinn Féin for its historical links with the provisional Irish Republican army and its involvement in a Northern-Iran conflict. But none of this seems to have dented the party's meteoric rise. What is Sinn Féin and what role did it play in the Irish struggle against British colonialism? Sinn Féin is an all-Iran party active in both the Irish Republic and in Northern Ireland, which is part of the UK. It was formed in 1905 as a pan-Irish party that advocated for Irish freedom from British colonialism. In the 718 Sinn Féin won 73 of Ireland's 105 seats in the general elections in British-ruled Ireland. In January 1919, its MPs conveyed a dollar in an independent parliament of Ireland and subsequently proclaimed independence. Such a move by the Republicans was immediately outlawed by the British in 1919. Drawing inspiration from that proclamation of Irish independence, radical and militant Republicans within the Sinn Féin decided to organize as the Irish Republican army in order to defend Irish freedom. IRA, the Irish War of Independence and Factionalism The ensuing conflicts between the IRA and the British culminated in the Irish War of Independence which lasted between 1919 and 1921. In this war, the IRA fought the British security forces and its paramilitaries. The war ended with the Anglo-Irish Treaty of 1921 that led to the creation of the Irish Free State which was a British dominion. It also led to the cessation of six protestant dominated counties in the north that remain a part of the UK to this date. A section within the Irish Republican movement and the IRA had opposed this pact and vowed to continue their fight resulting in a civil war from 1922 to 1923. In 1926, a section within the anti-treaty Republican movement split away and formed Fianna Fáil due to disagreements over abstentionism, a policy of refusing to take oath in the name of the British Monarch in order to sit in the legislature of the Irish Free State. Such a split resulted in the significant weakening of the Sinn Féin and the anti-treaty movement in the Irish Free State. In 1933, the pro-treaty sections in the Irish Free State got consolidated as the Fenugale. The Irish Free State officially became the Republic of Ireland in 1949. During the 1960s, targeted attacks on the pro-Republican catholic majority neighborhoods in Northern Ireland by paramilitaries and state security forces became commonplace. The radicals within the anti-treaty sections including the Sinn Féin in the north organized as a provisional IRA to resist these assaults and to organize counterattacks. This culminated in a violent period of an informal civil war known as the Troubles, which lasted for three decades and formally ended with good Friday agreement on April 10, 1998. So is this a new era in Irish politics? The establishment parties in the Irish Republic, Fenugale and Fianna Fáil and pro-UK parties in the north were able to sideline Sinn Féin for a long time, branding them as a violent force for the radical stand on Irish reunification and their links with the provisional IRA. But as peace returned in the north following the good Friday agreement, Sinn Féin gradually emerged as the vanguard of Irish nationalism in the north and has come to be one of the two major political parties there, even while the party remains in the British parliament but abstains from taking part in the proceedings. In the most recent British general election in December 2019, the Irish Republican parties emerged to be the largest political bloc for the first time since the partition ending decades of Unionist political dominance. In the Irish Republic, the EU driven austerity policies pushed by different governments led by the traditional parties, Fenugale and Fianna Fáil have only made life worse for the people. In the run-up to the general elections, Sinn Féin, which has been a relatively smaller but growing third party, proposed a manifesto for change promising to resolve the long-standing grievances of the common people. The culmination of the campaign under the leadership of Mary Lou McDonald was the unprecedented change. In political alignments, the elections have brought up as 37 out of the 42 candidates feel it by the party won. In Irish, Sinn Féin means ourselves. Now here in the Irish Republic, Sinn Féin may or may not be able to form a government within their terms and conditions, yet acknowledging the people's mandate, Sinn Féin must take to its manifesto for change.


وانا يجب أن تجد المجلسات بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم الله أحمد صلى الله عليه وسلم سيدنا محمد والهالي وساخبي وسلم السيطن كل من المرسل بدي في سيطن الله هذه البحثة هي تكتملة أنبعوا له العالم السيطن ويمكن الله أن يبسنا سيطن محمد السيطن الله ومعنية حائته يا سيطن أنت سأسأل about the essence of what the seeker needs for drawing closer to Allah The following pages will give you an answer to your question And Allah alone is the one who provides success So basically Sheikh Abdul Arabi is saying here This is the story why he wrote this letter And a small booklet Very small And he said this is the answer for a quest That one of his students said What do I need to do to come close to Allah I want to walk to Allah Because there is a hadith said If you come to me walking I come to running Okay how I can come to Allah walking What do I need to seek To reach Allah And when we say As this letter Our sheikh said this one Every Muslim should have Knowledge of it Because very very important And this time we are living right now No oh seeker May Allah help us all to obey him And make him And may he use us for what satisfies him That closeness to Allah is known Only by his informing us of it And he all praise and thanks to him Has already done that By sending messengers and scriptures And by clarifying the paths Which lead to eternal happiness So once we believe and have faith There only remains putting this faith Which was established in the soul of believers Into proper practice By following Islamic law So this letter that sheikh Akbar Put He called it The essence Is the essence of what every seeker Where every person will go to Allah And reach the pleasure of Allah He needs this This is essential And there is no way except that he needs it And he started at the beginning Saying that Or the way to Allah We only knew this By the way Allah explained to us There is no way I am going to wait myself There is no way I am going to Know where is the qiblah How many raka'a of Maghreb And so on and so on So having this knowledge Is what Allah brought for us And Allah provided us All the prophets And they gave us the books And we know the details Everything is clear There is no doubt in all of this And all what we need now Is to implement This belief that we have in our heart And it came us without any doubt Oh seeker The first essential thing Is to realize the unicity Of your Creator And his transcendence Of what does not befit him Exalted is he As for realizing his thoughheed Know that were there another God Besides Allah To be impossible For any action to occur From those two gods Because of differences in their acts of will Namely Existence and actual determination Thus the order will be destroyed As he the Almighty said Had there been within the heavens and earth Gods besides Allah The heavens and earth Would have both been ruined So the first thing that sheikh Is saying that you have to witness لا إله إلا الله Allah said in the Quran It's not only saying on your tongue Allah said you have to have the knowledge of it فعلم أنه لا إله إلا الله And Allah said in the verse also شاعد الله Allah witnesses أنه لا إله إلا هو It's only him And who else witness with Allah و الملائكة And the angels the witness And the scholars the witness And this is شاعدة They have it with the knowledge That there is no God except Allah And Allah told us That the last verse came on him When he was not the first verse The last Hajj The year before he left this studio That Allah told us I completed your Dean And I'm pleased for you with this Dean I'm pleased for you with Islam Because that we have That we need to To increase in our heart And Have it with our life always Said now Bakr is to mix his His word Talking to anybody with لا إله إلا الله Say take this Bring this Not only have knowledge also Mention it most of the time Bismillah Do not worry my brother And anyone who associates another God With Allah You do not need to provide evidence Of دوهيد and oneness As the polytheist مشرك Already affirms the existence of Allah The exalted But he added and associate Therefore he must provide evidence Of what he has added Because time is precious And since your belief in Allah is sound This is enough for you Concerning the realization of دوهيد On the other hand Has no valid proof to support his claim And all praise belongs to Allah And he said Every time of Every period of time There is a disease of the عقيد At that time of the sheikh The main thing was That they say beside God There is another God At that time There is no God No There is God And there is somebody He is saying that Our time is precious We do not have time To waste You have the knowledge He agrees with you that there is God Don't waste your time By convincing him Tell him Give me the proof So it is on him to get that proof Otherwise We call it The philosophy Argument This will be waste of time For people When you go to Allah Don't get into that And you will be wasting most of your time Keep this in your heart I know that he is bringing something That he need to prove it Now every time There is different diseases That we need to work on it And get it And it is important to you Given the existence of the literalists In our time So my brother Just rely on his saying There is nothing like unto him And that is sufficient for you Every description that contradicts this Every description that contradicts this verse Should be rejected You should not add or go beyond this meaning Therefore it is explained in the sunnah That Allah was With him Allah the sublime Transcends what the oppressors say For each verse or hadith Which makes the imagination like in Allah To his creation Whether from the language of the Arabs Or those who received revelation You must believe in what Allah Exalted is he intended by it And not in what you imagine Then simply ascribe The true intended meanings of those verses And hadiths to Allah There is no better Tanzih Than there is nothing like unto him And no one can better Affirm his Tanzih Since he himself Has already affirmed his own Tanzih Which is the most fitting expression Of his Tanzih So Next step after saying that Is the other disease that happened At that time Which is we still haven't entered Now There is something called That They say something is Like Allah Or there is something Or They say He has a hand He has a head So on Allah told us very clear in the Quran Nothing like him And my advice for all of you At MCC website There is two recording that we did Last time There are some more details in this But it's good to know that By knowing there is Then you understand When Allah said There is nothing like Allah There is nothing You can It's shared between Allah And the human being Or the creation Just imagine A creation from Allah Which is a paradise Allah told us There is nothing came to you You have seen or heard about Or come to your mind You cannot even think What's inside paradise If I cannot think about inside How about Allah And he made it very clear Nothing from the whole creation You can compare it to Allah Like it's like Allah So Scholars they say Yet that mean power Or that mean support That mean this and that And that and that So this is the first thing That you have to go through it And Anything that you don't know There is Things that The meaning is Is hard to understand Or they have several meanings You go back the thing That is clear There is no discussion So when Allah said Allah On the throne Was There Okay That word is You don't translate it He said He did No, you go back There is nothing like that No, you go back There is nothing like him There is There is a lot of meanings The scholar they say What's the meaning of it No Then O Seeker You should have faith In the messengers May Allah bless them And in the message They brought And what they taught us About him He the sublime Transcends your knowledge In ignorance Next You should love All of the companions May Allah be pleased With them They should never be charged With any offense They should be criticized None of them Should be raised In excellence Over another Except What his Lord Has established In his noble book Or through the words Of his prophets Allah So now Once we believe That they are Allah And we know that For sure Allah sent this messenger Now We have to believe On all messengers Okay And what they brought From Allah And then Whether I have a knowledge Of the tarot Allah Praise us In the first Verses of the Qur'an In the first page الذين يؤمنوا We believe the unseen And the unseen Everything that we Don't understand We haven't seen it And so on I believe in it Like said No booker What did he say No booker When they told him Tonight is the Isra'an They told him Your friend He went to Jerusalem And came back In the same night He said That I believe in him There's no doubt That's why he's so thick For most of the people They say Give me the proof Okay Give me and so on And so on Okay We are people Of We believe in the unseen Okay Definitely Have knowledge Have proof That's what they talk about But the first step Going to Allah You have no doubt With anything That you know for sure Came from so on Okay Okay In the Quran Scala talk about it خلاص You should pray Especially in secret For fellow believers And you should serve the people Of the path Recognizing their generosity And letting you into their inner circle To provide service Alleviate their load Share hardships And maintain patience So there's two things now What he's talking about Two things One is the Sahab And this is the poison If anybody Have a bad opinion Of any of the Sahab Poison the heart Because Because My Sahaba is like stars Whoever you take as A source of guidance He will guide you Now Why he's saying this Because We know that there is a Fitna Tribulation Problems happen with the Sahaba And that fitna It's not our problem Allah wanted this So people will be tested later on Okay So this is the Sahaba And as I said Go back to the videos We get a lot of details in that And then the second one is When you talk about The friends of Allah The Awliya Some people nowadays They deny The Wilaya And the Karama And the miracle things that happen Allah for us In order for us To not to have a bad opinion Of people of this friends of Allah Allah didn't bring it through the Hadith In the Quran The story of Sayyidina Musa And Sayyidina Al-Khidr That Sayyidina Musa He couldn't believe what he's doing Why you're broken this ship And you kill the boy And you build this wall and so on And he said You told him You cannot be patient with me Because you don't have my knowledge That's called And Knowledge from Allah directly Hucked line between The friends of Allah And Allah That's the knowledge So for us Even though And not understanding But we know for sure That the prophets have miracles رسول الله Used to have They're eating The stones in his hand Will make the speech In front of the Sahaba He put it in the hand Of Sayyidina Abu Bakr Will make the speech The Sahaba What is a lot of things Water comes from the hand Of رسول الله And he said Whatever is miracle For رسول الله It can be A Karama For the friends of Allah Now Why this is important Because Allah made it In the Hadith من عادني وني أدنته بالحرب Whoever take my friend My oney As enemy I declare war on him Definitely nobody want I have a declare war With Allah Okay Bismillah It is necessary for you Oh Seeker To keep silent Except for the remembrance Of Allah Reciting the Holy Quran Guiding someone Who has gone astray And joining what is right And forbidding what is evil Reconciling those Who have departed from one another And encouraging charity Sadaka Indeed Encouraging every form of good I think we stop Last time at this We finish this one So just Being silent You protect yourself From a lot of diseases You know Once you You just talk The thing that's Important for you By default There is no vibe There is no meme And there is no lying There is no All of this The thing that رسول الله سلام Told us كفا بالمر اي كذب And you hadith بكل ما سيبق It's enough to be a liar If you tell people Everything you heard it You know what happened This year All that Now on the media Everything like You get something You send it to people How about If it is a lie So it's putting lies This is important For us really To watch what we are doing What we are saying Not only saying Okay Now we'll come to We start now ومما لا بد منه طلب شخص طلب شخص موافق يوعينك على ما أنت بصدد وسبيلي فإن المؤمنة كثير بأخيه وإياك وصحبة ضد Sorry It is necessary for you او سيكر To search for someone Who is in harmony With their essential nature To assist you With what you aim for As the believer is stronger By his brother And beware And beware of the company Of the person Who fundamentally opposes Your goals So basically You have to have the companion The صاحب They say You have to have You are walking to Allah You have to have a good friend That you know He will help you Now It used to be before Like 200 years ago Before the electricity People memorize the Quran And then at night They reviewed and memorized Now it is very hard You have to have a friend That first will help you To memorize To review the Quran And then if you have some knowledge You get knowledge from him If you have an adab You watch him And then you get learned from him And If somebody Shaytan will control him And you know And he will do something If you have a good friend By having Your friend Your صاحب Then what happened He will say No no Leave this one How about reducing these things And so on and so on By default Having a good friend You will find yourself That There's a lot of protection from that Nowadays It's hard for us To have somebody To be a really good friend And my time is with him All the time And he advised me And so on If you have Somebody might have In an hour or two An hour or a week And everybody is busy So what do you do You have several options Make your friend The Quran And in the Quran Everything Make friend Your friend Your friend By doing And loving Allah سبحانه وتعالى Will protect you How?  وإياك نستعين and you seek your hope.  God will tell me you did this, you did this. But he said all of us with the message we did. Because of the way that Allah loves, your forgiven you get what you want. انه سلوائيك وصحبته ضد. تأخذوا أن يأخذ بعض الناس. وذلك سيكون بشكل كبير. الله الله الله. حسنا. ومنما لا بد منه شيخ مرشد وصدق شعار المريد. لأنه إذا صبق مع الله تعالى جعل كل شيطان في حقه ملكا. يرشده إلى الخير ويلهمه الخير فإن صدق هو الإكسير الأعظم. موضع على شيء إلا طلب عينه. لأنه إذا كان صبق مع الله تعالى جدًا. فإنه إزالت هو. سوف يرشد كل شيطان في حقه ملكا. سوف يرشده وإنصباره إلى كل شيطان في حقه. صبق مع الله is the greatest elixir, the perfect cure. وذلك إذا يستطيع أن يقوم بأي شيطان. الله will flip its essence. سبحان الله. لذلك يبدأ الموضوع before he said you have to have a Sahib. You have a friend, which is good. And then he moved to have what? شيخ. A teacher. So from the first one.  I don't want to affect my heart and so on. But the Messenger of Allah ﷺ said in the hadith. وفي كل الخير. And he said the believer who is strong is better than the weak one. And all believers are good. This is the Sahih Muslim. And he said the believer who mix with people and he is patient on the harm he received from them is much better from the one who doesn't mix with people and he is worried about that, not being patient. So mixing with people and being with believers because you are strong with other brothers. So if you have like 20 people you have more strength. That's why we have Salat al Juma. Well that's the Friday prayer. You have every prayer mentioned that you get all the brothers together. That's you get more strength. Now he said you need to have a teacher and he is not talking about the teacher because you have to know that you are walking to Allah ﷺ. I am walking to Allah. There is a lot of issues of the nafs because Allah will give you opening. He will give you things that you feel yourself much better than other people. You feel yourself good. And here all the disease will come. And the Messenger of Allah ﷺ said There isn't any disease except Allah Provide cure for it. For the body and for the soul. And the disease of the soul of the heart is the worst diseases. So you need a sheikh to give you what? To give you the medicine. The right medicine for you. Right disease. Like somebody have anger. It's a disease. There is a cure for it. There is a medicine for it. And so on. All the things that things that you don't even notice. A man came to the Messenger of Allah ﷺ and he said Give me advice. I need your advice. I want to get better. He said don't get angry. He came. I think the narration said that he came from far distance from different tribe. And he wanted to get something to go back to his tribe. He said don't get angry. Okay. So I'll know that. Give me advice. He said don't get angry. Okay. I got that. Give me advice. Don't get angry. Because look at the heart and he knew what's happening. And he said if he control his anger everything for him is only fixed. They say the question is how we can find a spiritual master. That's an amazing question. Imam Ghazali. Okay. In his book. He said finding a spiritual teacher is very hard. It's like the red sulfur. It's the red sulfur. It's the red sulfur. But he said if you cannot find the spiritual teacher make most of your time doing Salat and Rasulullah SAW. Then Rasulullah SAW will be your teacher. And he will assign from the seen world or unseen world somebody to guide you. Special teachers they are available everywhere but nowadays they are hidden. So if you do Salawat it will guide you to that place. It will take you there. But we have to have.  Tell me who is your teacher. Now all of you can you imagine can you talk about the Sahaba who are they? Can you talk about them? Who are they? Tell me who are they? Who is the teacher? Their teacher. Their teacher Rasulullah SAW. يا حبيبي رسول الله And who is the teacher of Rasulullah SAW? At certain point said Najibri and then Allah SWT At the beginning said Najibri will come and then he reach a point that Allah SWT opens everything for Rasulullah SAW. He said I have the knowledge of everything before and everything after. So Why with Rasulullah SAW plays the first three generations. He said The best ever time on earth is my time and the generation after me and the generation after me. So the first generation who is the teacher? Rasulullah SAW. Okay تابعين who is their teacher The Sahaba who are they around them. The Tabe'een of Tabe'een is the Tabe'een and from that generation we get the big names of Imam Bukhari Imam Muslim Imam Hanifa Imam Shafi'im Imam Malik So for you really you want to be some Okay I'm old I'm not talking about me I'm talking about my son or my grandchildren If I choose for them a good teacher that he knows The Shari'a and Haqiqa The Shari'a details of the deen of the four Arkan and Haqiqa is the reality of that they came move you from Islam to Inan to Ahsan and the Ahsan is with the girl where you know that you are pleased with Allah and Allah pleased with you that you are sure of Allah as you see him and this is can happen with teacher Now I tell you very clear I'm from Sham and when I was there there is Alhamdulillah there is a lot of really good special teacher but tell me to to find something in the US or in the west that's very hard still I mean it's always there but if you are sincere if you are seeking with your really special teacher Allah will give you you do Salat Allah will provide for you now so they say من جالسة جانس whoever sit with somebody he acquire from him so if you if you sit with the صارحين you get from them now رسول الله صاحب جيب as an example of this he said the Hamili Misk the one who has a perfume if you walk by him either will give you something or you smell it you will buy from him the one who is نافخ الكي the one who is igniting the fire and the shark either you get bad smell or small fire will come and burn your clothes now and all the scholars they talk about this and they put description of a a perfect Shaykh that he is a Salih by him actually he is doing all the good deeds and he wanted to guide you he is a Murshid not only Salih he is also a Murshid he wanted to have an ability that wanted to give you to benefit you there is some Awliya they are hidden they don't want to meet anybody but the one he is giving for other people he have the reward of the 50 of the Sahaba and he have a knowledge of Sharia okay and he is already walked that walk that he want to walk so he knew all the diseases on that road you are Murshid you read you want to go to Allah he already passed through this and he knew all the diseases and he tasted the Haqiqa the Haqiqa is the inner knowledge he already have this taste and he really have a good intellect and he know the politics not politics but the politics of the of the dunya the thing between the shaitan and the nafs and the people and the people love of dunya and so on and so on and he knew people and their characters by looking at the person yeah I know masha'Allah he is generous but he is he doesn't read Quran he doesn't do this so they have this knowledge when we say Awli okay it being said that in the effort came Allah didn't take anybody if he is ignorant and Allah if take a Wali his friend as he is ignorant Allah will give him the knowledge to be a scholar like I said that we know the story in the in the Qaf now Allah the Sahaba when they used to sit in front of Allah they say they describe it that as the birds on their head imagine there is a bird on my head if I do this or this it will fly the Sahaba said as there is birds on our head full attention to رساله it's like magnetic it's like you know they have nothing they get everything from حبيب العظم صلى الله عليه وسلم now he said here it's very important that what he said here he said same truth وصدق شعار مريض is your banner is same truth and he said if you say truth always this is amazing what he said Allah will provide for you an angel to guide you to good and Allah will make every devil for you like an angel you will find this is he will be surprised with this and he said truth saying truth being صدق will flip everything like flip the bad thing to be a good thing did this happen before? yes it happened نبي الله يحيا عليه الصلاة والسلام you know Shaytan gave up and Shaytan told the Shaytan he said what is the worst or what's the easiest trick that you do to get people to follow you he said yeah I'll tell you having a full stomach شبع eating until they're full and then say I swear by Allah I will never from now on eat food and Shaytan said I will never give advice to anybody the author is saying if you are saying صدق if you are truthful yourself whatever you say you only say صدق then angels will help you now we know from the hadith which said that if a person say one lie then his angels there is an angel protecting us and like that Shaytan is whispering for bad things angels will give us a good talk or good inspiration to do something good but if somebody lie then his angel as it said in the in the author he will be away from him like one mind one mind not our mind it's like around 1.5 mile of our minds that's it so if somebody is always lying his angel will be in different place you know if somebody always is lying his angel will be on the moon not even on earth so he will lose full protection but if you are have a صدق then if you don't have a Shaykh okay the whole universe Allah will make it to help you to guide you to the right path and this is there is a lot of hadith it said that it mentioned how the Sahaba dealt with the devil that will come to them they steal the date and each time the Sahaba will catch him and every time will give him advice he will say okay we will leave him and he told him towards the last time 3 times he said صدقك وهو كذوب this time he said the truth for you he gave you good advice but he is a liar صدقك وهو كذوب this famous hadith this Sahih hadith now Allah Allah Allah Allah and then you know like when when the Shaykh talk will come to you if you always say صدقك you will differentiate between the whispering of shaitan and the inspiration of the angel or from Allah you can feel it I heard from scholars and from the awliya and you can sometimes happen to people that you sit right رساك القرآن and then oh why are you not doing salawat صلى الله عليه وسلم oh yes I have to okay good salawat why are you not doing just a break you know this amazing connection that you are establishing once you know this you know this from shaitan somebody is making wudu did I miss this place this misplace he keeps repeating this wudu like he have like half an hour one hour just doing this it's from shaitan the moment you know this okay then you can differentiate you will not affect you at all will not affect you at all just this knowledge so the sheikh is saying you have to know with the practicing to differentiate between the whispering of shaitan and the good inspiration now once you know this what happened even if sometime you fall down with the shaitan trick then immediately wake up oh استغفر الله رضي يا الله امين توبة then that sin will be a big ni'la for you why because when you do توبة Allah will take the sin away and Allah love people of توبة so basically the shaitan as the sheikh said the shaitan will be the way for you to to upgrade yourself that's why in his wisdom رب معصية اورثت خير than one quesaran maybe a sin will give you humanity and break yourself down خير من طاعة اورثت عزان وستكبار and better than a worship will make you feel good look at them they don't have a night prayer I do my prayer by himself talk to himself he said that sin that make you استغفر الله I'm the one who's fasting praying five prayers I do this يا الله توبة علي and he see myself he hate himself that's much better than somebody is proud of himself because of the worship he's doing they didn't say this is Allah provided for me Allah allow me to worship him if you see it's not from you that's the way it should be done the scholar they say there is four status in your life four things Allah will put you in four different status and everyone they respond for it the first one if you have a nima a blessing all of us you can see in our life oh it's a nima it's a nima after saying say الحمد لله thanking Allah doing hamad of any blessing that you have your wife your children your husband your paycheck whatever it is your teacher your recitation your night prayer all nima that's every nima come to you if you thank Allah Allah loves people of hamad people doing hamad that's why his name Mohammed he's the owner of the banner of hamd Allah loves people of hamd the second one is the restoration it's a hardship car accident somebody died then you do sabr be patient there's sabr and ridah ridah is higher but the minimum is sabr and Allah people love patient Allah love patient Allah love patient Allah love people this ummah in ramadan because the sabr is half of sian fasting is half of sabr and sabr is half of iman so that's the second one the third one is you have a worship I'm worshiping Allah you have to have what they call it شهود المنة that you know this is not from me Allah his father his gift that he allow me to recite on jazwuf qura'an Allah allow me to sit and mention the name of this حبيب صلى الله عليه وسلم and so on the last one is if I have a sin then I have to counter this with tawba and Allah love people of tawba saying all four cases you give the love of Allah and that's why you say walking to Allah giving more and more صلى الله عليه وسلم الله الله الله بسم الله أسرق ومن ما لا بُبَّ منه البحث عن هذه اللقما فأساس هذه الطريق اللقم الحلال عليها قام هذا الطريق ولا تفق على أحد ولا تقبل من أحد واحترف وتورع في كسبك ونتقك ونظرك وسمعك وفي جميع حركاتك فكاتك ولا تتوسع في ثوب ولا مسكن ولا مأكل فإن الحلال قليل لا يحتمل السرف في ماذا تأكد؟ ماذا تقول؟ ماذا تشاهد؟ ماذا تسمعون؟ وماذا تفعل؟ لا تكون أخرى في تحدياتك، تحدياتك أو تحدياتك، لأن هذا ما هو الحلال ليس أسي to come by المساعدة الأخيرة is an amazing sentence يقول أنه ليس الله من حلال ليس أسي to acquire الله من حلال إذا كنت تريد أن تكون لدي كل شيء من هذا الجنة كل تشاهدات ومعاقب ومعاقب ومعاقب ومعاقب ومعاقب ومعاقب ونشاهد بسيطة يتحدي في الشيء الذي يتدفل فيه ومن ثم من الأمر أصدقائي حرام لأنه صلاح صلصم يقول أنه حلال بيّن ويقول بيّن بيّن بيّن بيّن بيّن بيّن ومن ثم يقول أنه يتدفل فيه أفضل من الأمر أو رصصم يقول أنه يقوم بأسيطة لما يرى بك ترك كل شيء ما يرى بك يرى بك لك أنه يرى بك الله إنه صحيح حديث يقول رصصم إن الله تعالى طيب لا يقبل إيطيب وإن الله أمر الممينة ومعاقبه مستلين إنه طيب يستفيد أنه مشابه مشابه طبيع الله يصبر بك في القرآن بل يزالون كل من الطيبات وعملوا صالحة يأت من أشياء جيد يأت من أشياء جيد وعملوا صالحة يأت من أشياء جيد جيد everything you have to have it حلال و preparation لتفعل محاولة جيدة. وعمل صالح. أخر one is the problem. كلصصا صام said what do you think of a man? يطلل السفر أشعر أخبر. He traveled all the time and he was like people go to Hajj. You know all this here with dust and so on. Like he humble. You look at him like he is very humble. And he ask Allah for things. But he said ومأكله حرام ومشربه وحرام وغذية بالحرام. فأمي سجب الله. His source of income is haram. His food is haram. His drink is haram. Do you think Allah will answer his dua? No way. No way. That's his Sahih Muslim. So we have to have and the one who really figured out this is a Sahab. He said one day he came and he have a servant. And he came hungry. And that boy he had some food in his hand. And he made his source of income from him. I'm hungry. Give me a piece. Then that boy he said. Before being Muslim I did tenjeem. What do you call it? They used to tell about the future. This will happen to you. And I did something. It happened. And he gave me money. And it's haram for us to tell about this. And he said. This money that I get from him. He gave it to me and I did his food. Sayyed Abu Bakr immediately. He put his finger in his hand. He put the food out. Everything. And he said. Forgive me with all the things that went into my blood.  Immediately. He said. Allah forgive me. What my veins got from my stomach from that food. I know. Insha'Allah. Shall we stop here? Insha'Allah. Insha'Allah. If you have any questions. You can get questions now. So coming Monday. Insha'Allah. We will carry on this one. We did the review. 30 حالي الحبيب العظم. Insha'Allah. If you want to get ready for the prayer. Go ahead. Insha'Allah. And if you have any questions or comments. You can ask now. You have like 2-3 minutes. Insha'Allah. No. If not. Insha'Allah.


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