Hi guys, you are watching OxyBlocks. This is the first time here and you would like to know more information about life in Dubai, how to get a job in this city. Don't forget to hit subscribe button and the notification icon so you will not miss anything. The number of experts with Dubai experience and the experience in the Gulf region is growing. That's why it's getting harder and harder to get a job in Dubai from outside the V without having the experience in the region. So today let's talk about how to stand out from the crowd in a competitive market. When you're looking for a job, most of you follow the same job search process. You go online, you find the job posting you like, you fill out the application form, you submit your resume, but there are thousands of other job seekers applying for the same position. So do you imagine the competition you have? You should consider your job search process as if you are running a marketing campaign. If you want to beat the competition, you need to know how to market yourself and discover the positions before they are advertised. Marketing yourself as a job seeker means looking for people who can offer or lead you to new opportunities and tell them what you are capable of. Be proactive, look for those people, don't sit and wait when they find you. There are different ways of approaching those people. You can send them an email, you can contact them by phone or you can meet them in person. But tell them about your skills and what you can do again and again. You should remind them about yourself because no one will remember you if they approach them only once. There are different approaches you can use to look for a job. One of them is networking and referral building. It's one of the most effective ways because it allows you to get the maximum amount of contacts, referrals, leads. As I said, you should be proactive, go out, attend different events, speak to people because you never know who you can meet with. That's how I found one of my jobs. I just went out with my friends and I found out that one company is looking for a marketing specialist. I applied for the position, I sent my resume, they invited me for an interview and that's how I landed a job in one of the companies in Dubai. Today, many recruiters look for their ideal candidate online, on the social media, especially on LinkedIn. That's why you need to consider your LinkedIn profile as your resume and don't forget to highlight your achievements there. LinkedIn is also a great platform for seeking out people who work in your industry or who is related to your job. You should build a connection with them. Also, you should search out for the groups related to your job, to your industry, join them, participate in the groups, be active because there you can find some great connections and they post job openings as well. Another approach is to contact your employer directly. First of all, you need to inform your network that you are looking for a job and you want to contact the employers, ask for their suggestions. Then you visit different job search websites, find the job in your industry you like and contact those companies directly. But before you contact them, you need to do some research, find out who has the hiring authority in the company, what is the business of the company, their mission value, because all this information will give you a better idea if you are a good fit for the organization and it will make a good impression when you contact the employer. There are different ways of contacting them, as I said before, you can send them an email, you can call them or you can meet in person. Another approach is to apply for jobs that are in demand in the UAE. For that, you need to do some research. I have a video on my channel about the jobs in demand in Dubai in 2018, so you should check it out. And the last approach I would advise you today is to create a video resume. Probably you've noticed that video content has been taken over all social media accounts. So, in order to stand out, I advise you to create a video resume because it will help you to show your communication skills, presentation skills and I'm sure it will grab the recruiters' attention. Even sometimes when you don't have enough experience for the role, your great personality can help you to land the job. But you shouldn't consider video resume as a replacement for a paper resume because it's just a complementary tool that allows you to show the areas the paper resume cannot, such as creativity and, as I said, communication, presentation skills and other soft skills. So, guys, these were some recommendations how you can stand out from the crowd in a competitive market today in Dubai. I know that this is just a small part, there are many other things you have to do, but at least you need to start somewhere and I'm sure you will achieve success. Thank you for watching, I will see you very soon. Bye-bye!


Women are nerds. Very few. I may be less than 1% in the world. I think my mum would say I'm distractable and never can stick to one thing for too long. But it's not that. It's been one thing has evolved into another, into another. For me, actually, where electrocouture started was a point of frustration while I was working in a tech environment surrounded by boys and there was a uniform and the uniform was jeans and t-shirts. I never wear jeans and t-shirts, but I'm a nerd. I love technology. And that was the point where I got really, really frustrated. Like, why can't I look smart and pretty at the same time? When I was a kid, I saw satellites just crossing in the nice sky. And I thought, what are those things? And people told me, those are actually machines. When I grew up, I wanted to understand those things. I have this weird, creative technologist blend. But my idea is to be able to introduce people to a world of technology that they might not have experienced before. I mean, I would tell any woman of color, just put your hands on something that is in technology.   We're like in a world where you can communicate and exchange information really quickly. So for me, that means everybody has a chance. I don't have to be trained in that way. I don't have to go into this university. There are no boundaries, there are no frontiers. All those things are in our hands. That one thing that I really want to do is now I'm going at the age of 54. So I'm not regretting it one bit. Hi, everyone. My name is Marisa Briel and I'm the Regional Account Executive for ANZ and AZON at GitHub. And I'll be your host this morning as we go through our online event at Constellation. Today we're here to talk about what and how people are using GitHub at work. First, we're going to go through some housekeeping. The Internet is there for you all. And if you need to use the restroom, it's out those doors and to the right. Here is an overview of our agenda. We are going to be having some great product talks and customer stories. I have one of my wonderful co-workers here from GitHub to take you through some product direction, which is really exciting. We'll have some time for a coffee break and then lunch later where you can network and talk with your fellow attendees today. So really quickly, let's go over what GitHub looks like today in 2018. Just some stats to go through to understand the scope of the information that's accessible on GitHub. So we have 67 million repositories currently on GitHub. 53 million monthly visitors to the site. 1.5 million teams on github.com. Those are community groups, nonprofits, businesses, all using this platform. 1.3 million students. So think about the future workforce, all the individuals who are on there learning about coding currently. 100 million merged pull requests. And that's 3,300 first pull requests created every day. 1.5 billion commits this year. That's kind of looking at 2017, obviously, 2018 just started. But think about all that information that's being created there and changed on github.com. So why are we here today? We're really excited to be in Singapore and to start getting out into our broader community here in APAC because we know that GitHub is a place where asynchronous communication happens. I can work today and wake up tomorrow and I'll have information from my colleagues in the U.S. or in Europe. But it's also important to meet with individuals in your community. So we want to create these events. We're starting with these constellations this year to have people come together to meet. Managers, entrepreneurs, developers, CIOs, and exchange ideas and learn where you're working on a day-to-day basis. So this morning, during a line, we're going to focus on the stories of people who use GitHub at work. Just some information about Singapore specifically. We have over 50,000 daily active users in Singapore. I pulled these numbers yesterday with my team. And that represents a significant portion of the daily active users in Southeast Asia as a whole with 236,000 right now. So that's great. That's why we're here. We really want to learn more and talk with you all in this community. And we're really committed to continuing to come here to Singapore and learn about the work that you all are doing. So we have some really great speakers that will be joining us on stage. I'm really excited to bring them to you to learn more about what's happening in the industry as a whole and in your local community and then look towards the direction of where GitHub is going. So first up, we have Michelle Manoring. She's known as the Hackathon Queen. Michelle is at the forefront of Melbourne's startup scene. She's also working in science and tech and helping to drive the city's entrepreneurial culture. Not only has she founded a couple of companies, she is heavily involved in the startup ecosystem from running hackathons to MCing, speaking, eSports, and facilitating a range of events. She's currently started a new venture working with corporates on innovation strategy and running hack dates and designing workshops. And we're really excited to have her on stage with us.


Hi, everyone. I'm Joe for jazby'scasewrakes.com and that is jazby's five box spectra one select basketball mixer pick your team number two big Thanks to this group for making it happen. Appreciate it If you got a little rooftop next to your name, that means you won that team in the filler the team random Thanks, everyone who bought their spots straight up. It was Joshua ended up at last spot mojo with the Raptors 70% of the time last spot mojo hits a hundred percent of the time they say All right, so there it is three select a box of spectra and that panini one will do the Select boxes first A lot of big hit potential in all of these boxes. I got some NBA action going on tonight, too I've got the TNT game on in the background. We've got a final in Dallas Dallas beating the Clippers 103 to 101 Pelicans beat the Gris 113 to 102. I think that was without Zion And we've got two games in progress. We've got the Kings looking really good They're up 73 to 54 at halftime And in Portland trailblazers are leading the Spurs 62 to 56 Keep an eye on those games here on a Tuesday Tuesday the 15th of November Excuse me. I can't believe we're already halfway through the month It's gonna be World Cup slash Thanksgiving time before you know it and then it's a speedy March It's a Christmas in the new year and we still have a lot of we still a lot of product coming up, too So keep an eye on Jaspie's case breaks on com for all the new releases an all-cart ship in this break as well That's a little Evan Mobley set that aside Jayden Springer to 65. We just flashed by that Desmond Bain card I think he's out for a little bit Some sort of injury He was playing really well, too. There's Jayden Springer die cut to 65 That is gonna be for Steve and the Sixers The Evan Mobley will go to Chad at the cast hopefully we'll find some parallels of this guy And we got a Joshua Primo and a bit of trouble here, but We'll see how that Resolves it's gonna go to bolt and the Spurs some bones Some Scotty Barnes and some Dane Die-cut blue 188 out of 249 Portland that's gonna be for Ryan Heights Scotty Barnes rookie card We'll find some parallels of him and our autograph behind Patrick Williams is Chris Paul No, but it's a Chris Paul zebra. That's a short print Diego with the Phoenix Suns nice one Diego and we've got a Serge Ibaka Throwback Jersey for okc. That's gonna go to Adam Jericho Sims rookie silver for the Knicks that'll be for Chad and behind Joe is Davion Mitchell rookie Jersey and autograph Let's see how he's doing today That is for Chad and the Kings Kings are playing well tonight. They've got to say I feel like they've been playing pretty well last handful of games Davion Mitchell 11 minutes Six points in assist and a block plus minus of plus 15. All right box two And Terence Davis with 10 points Kevin Beuter got 14 points for the Kings Harrison Barnes is 13 points Sabonis is 12 points Terence Davis has 10 points and five rebounds as well as he's leading the Kings and rebounds 10 points in 11 minutes by the way, that's pretty nice Vince Carter, Vince Sanity Piece of his Jersey going to Dallas that'll be for Rob 79 out of 99 Moses Moody rookie silver John Morant To 149 that's for Memphis. That's gonna go to Joe Moses Moody going to Chad autograph here Lou Williams No, not an autograph, but a nice courtside gold four out of ten and that's for Atlanta I'm gonna cut sort of a lemon pepper color back here for sweet Lou Williams Bron James silver And a buddy healed another King Chad Sacramento 50 out of 99 LeBron James Silver going to David Working his way back from a groin issue 98 out of 99 bones Highland Denver it's gonna be for Chad. All right box three So far so good with these select box off spectra and one and one to go See, what are the what are the nets doing tonight? Not much Kevin Durant putting in work though. He's got 18 points at the half Already couple rebounds for assists. He needs some help though. I mean Royce O'Neill three points in 18 minutes plus minus of minus 28 no rebounds. No assists a couple turnovers Klaxon only four points Sumner only four points Watanabe five points. He's getting minutes Ben Simmons on the six points six rebounds though assistant of steel Seth Curry seven points. It's not gonna do it. All right. Good luck John Wall And out of 25 tie-dye in-flight autograph Steven Adams It's Grizzlies Steven Adams. That's gonna be for Joe in Memphis Six out of 25 Got a Quentin Grimes orange die cut 30 out of 65 for Chad in the Knicks Jalen Suggs rookie silver Orlando that's gonna be for Giovanni Jamal Murray Wow two-color patched tie-dye autograph Chad Cromwell Denver Nuggets Love the tie-dye parallel and select really pops real sharp Two out of 25 nice player Got a Herbert Jones 44 out of 75 for the pals That's Huang with that one No, I know the Pelicans played has Herbert Jones been getting any minutes Yeah, 23 minutes 10 points a few rebounds a couple assists Got a Zach Levine for doubles It's canard bolt with the bulls Garland and blood so back here. All right. We're about spectra. All right. We've got Jason Kidd Kuzma and Luka Donicic And back here is Thomas Bryant Catalysts autograph that's for the Wizards Thomas Bryant went back to the Lakers But I don't know if I've seen him Play he must be injured Now Thomas Ryan expected to play in Lakers next game. That was a day ago I think it looks like they're It's like him and Dennis Schroeder Kendrick Nunn. Yeah, they have a week-long break. I think they're gonna have him play a G-League game It's 45 out of 99. This is Wizards edition going to Chad. I think I'm gonna play a G-League game Just to kind of get up to speed a little bit a little extra practice Charles Basie to 99 We got Westbrook Jalen Johnson and the hit is is Full spectrum Jalen Rose Nuggets edition and Suns edition that's gonna be a randomizer between Denver It's Chad and the Suns Diego got a redemption on the bottom a nice Cade Cunningham rookie card Portage Detroit Adam with Detroit Clint Capella for the ATL 25 that's for Chad And we got full spectrum signatures, you know, it's just like this right card number eight that's CH a Charles Charles Barkley Charles Barkley now let Let's hit up the checklist really quick because those full spectrum cards Feature two teams on there. It's gonna have to be a randomizer But between who? card number eight Charles Barkley is Rockets and Sixers Houston that's gonna be Sean is involved in this and Rockets Sean Sixers See Steve H. We'll do that randomizer along with that other one One happy person one sad person Christian Wood Marcus smart Kevin Durant Sonic's edition that'll go to okc for Adam and That a John Collins Lana Hawks Chad. That's a nice one. Good luck everybody. All right. We got Lonzo ball 71 out of 99 Chicago that'll be for Canard and right here. It's Got some relics purple team Lakers Kings Whoo, it's a Davion Mitchell 84 out of 99 Two-color dual relic on card autograph to 49 nice RPA for the Kings and Chad and There you go ladies and gentlemen Nice break in the books now time to make some people happy and sad So and this is a world cup break. So I need three lists here new dice new list first one will be Denver versus Phoenix. That's the Jalen Rose Then the Houston Sixers Houston, Philadelphia, and then everyone's got a shot at the World Cup spot Map promo almost full One dice roll for all three lists. It's gonna be seven times one and a six one two three four five six and Seventh and final time Phoenix By the time I get to Phoenix, she'll be rising. That's for Diego and the Phoenix Suns She'll leave a note right on the door Apologies to Denver apologies to Chad That's gonna go to Phoenix next one One and a six seven times the Charles Barkley one two three four five six and Once more right? Yes. Seventh and final time the wheel is spinning. That's maximum suspense between a between Steve and the six. Oh, there it is Sorry Steve Steve with the Sixers after seven. No, no go that's gonna go to Sean tea and the Rockets All right, and Everyone has a shot at that World Cup spot one and a six seven times just one winner name on top gets it Good luck everybody one two three four five six and Seventh and final time after seven The worst spot is that that two spot right there? Unless Chad's name's on top Chad. Thanks for trying. Appreciate everybody trying Name on top is gonna be Steve Herrick lost the randomizer But wins the World Cup spot so your names on the promo list you automatically are a winner of a box of Mosaic soccer check out the details on jaskiescasewrages.com and if you get randomized the right team who knows I'm Joe I'll see you next time for the next one. Bye. Bye


Give the people what they want. Give the people what they want. Give the people what they want. Your weekly movement news roundup. Hi friends, it's the 23rd of September. It's the 95th show of Give the People What They Want brought to you by Prashant and Zoe, editors at People's Dispatch. People'sDispatch.org. I'm Vijay at Globetrotter. As we're coming to you, protests continue in the streets of Iran, Tehran and in other cities as well. Around the death of a 22 year old young woman, Masa Amini. Masa Amini, the story thus far, is that she was picked up by the guidance patrol and she was held in the police station. There's some disagreement over how she died there. Some say she had a heart attack and died. Others that she banged ahead against the police. In either case, a 22 year old young woman was killed because she was not covering her hair properly. Iran is in a serious crisis right now. The Iranian head of government in New York for the UN General Assembly meeting said that an investigation will be conducted. He has already spoken to her family. It's a very sad situation but on a personal note, I'd like to say that I personally have a lot of problems with morality police and I'm not really sure exactly what is happening there because Iran and coverage of Iran is so fraught as a consequence of the US hybrid war against Iran. Nonetheless, pay attention to it and we'll be trying our best to cover the story as accurately as possible. Speaking of the United Nations General Assembly meeting, it's September. It's when the heads of governments arrive in New York. It's when they come and give their speeches. Most speeches by heads of government in New York could be relegated to filing cabinets. They should not actually disturb the airwaves. They are boring. They are repetitive. They are filled with pabulum. Some of them basically seem like the same speech given the previous year and the previous year and the previous year. Every once in a while, a speech breaks through and you get sincerity as the coin of that speech. This year, that speech was given by Gustavo Petro, president of Colombia. It's his first speech at the United Nations. If you haven't watched that speech, I highly recommend going and watching it, reading the text of the speech. The text is at the People's Dispatch site. But please go and listen to the speech because Mr. Petro is not an enormously charismatic speaker. He speaks quite plainly. He's quite an ordinary speaker actually. But with great sincerity, he talks about how the Amazon is being destroyed, that climate change is a product of the capitalist system, and that the United States and the Colombian elites have led a war on drugs that has effectively been a war on the environment and a war on the peasantry in Colombia. It is an enormously important point that Mr. Petro is making in this speech. He says, rather than deal with the demand side problems of the drug crisis in the West, the demand side problems being, as Mr. Petro says, a question of alienation, of social collapse, of people simply not finding meaning in their life and turning therefore to drugs, countries with the largest consumption of cocaine, for instance, in North America, in Western Europe, not in South America, not in Africa, not in Asia. Doesn't mean there are no drug problems there, but principally the cocaine goes to North America, goes to Western Europe. Mr. Petro says, deal with the demand side problems. He said, you've made this war on drugs a supply side issue. And in that supply side issue, there are two principal victims. The first, the petty dealers in North America and Western Europe, mostly African American in the North American context, or Latino, similar racial composition in Western Europe. You've gone after the petty dealer, he says, but also you've gone after the peasant, the peasant who grows coca. A very minor part of the work of the peasant is to supply the cocaine mafias, but they are facing fumigation by a kind of chemical warfare. They are facing the brunt of over $12 billion of US money through Plan Colombia, which went to the Colombian military. Earlier, Mr. Petro in August had talked to the Colombian military where he said, don't prepare for war any longer, try to prepare for peace. He ends this speech at the UN with a plea for peace. He says that people should talk, the Ukrainians, the Russians should talk, there needs to be more peace and more peace building. It's a very powerful speech. And I think I haven't heard a speech like this with such sincerity in a very long time at the United Nations. Even some of my favorite speeches, let's say by Fidel Castro and by Chavez, didn't have this level of detail and sincerity that we got from Gustavo Petro. It's a pretty remarkable speech. He did talk about the kind of pressure campaign that comes from international institutions. Prashant, one of them being the International Monetary Fund, cracking down on Sri Lanka, cracking down on Zambia. Right Vijay. In fact, we've had, we've had two almost parallel experiences that we're going to talk about. We have a story by our colleague Tanupriya on the situation in Zambia, very excellent conversation with Dr. Chalwa of the Institute of Race Power in Political Economy. And I also talked to Vasantha Samarasange a trade union leader from Sri Lanka. And both of them talked about the conversations were actually kind of eerily similar because both of them talked about exactly what, you know, how the machinations of the IMF are basically entangling countries are basically strangling countries in various ways. And all of this happens under the guise of words like, you know, improving efficiency or say in the case of Zambia, it is apparently the words are reforming, regressive and wasteful subsidies, reducing excessively and poorly targeted public investments. The kind of these kind of words which, you know, behind them conceal or behind them act or actually are, you know, say a potence of mass disaster for tens of thousands of people in both these countries. For instance, the Zambia story talks about exactly what the conditions are for a very small amount of money considering the actual amount Zambia needs is just about 1.3 billion. In the case of Sri Lanka, it's I think about 2.9 billion. But what the IMF is asking from both these countries is a substantial cut in subsidies. That is one of the most important things, especially in the case of Zambia, it's asking for a substantial cut in subsidies, which means electricity prices will go up, which means that they will be in a country where there's already a huge amount of hunger. Many of the reforms are going to actually lead to the increase in hunger. In Sri Lanka, for instance, we're definitely looking at labor reform. We're looking at privatization of state entities, many of which are actually profit making. At which point, then the question of what the future of many of these employees in these companies is going to be very much in question. We also know, for instance, that in the case of Zambia, there is, you know, the mining sector, which actually could have been taxed for some of these revenues. It's not at all been touched. An expert says very deliberate. In Sri Lanka, also there's a lot of concern about what this privatization is going to bring. So very, very parallel trajectories and I think, you know, it's important in the case of Zambia as a story where it expertly explains to sort of talk about the fact that Zambia is in this position today also because of a debt crisis. And the debt is also, we often talk about, you know, there's a lot of talk about so-called Chinese debt trap, et cetera, et cetera. But we often forget the role of private lenders such as BlackRock, which have actually, you know, to which countries like Zambia also owe a huge amount of debt. And then, you know, in order to service many of these debts, there's no issue, there's no question of debt relief that many of these countries are offered. Although time and again, especially during the pandemic, this was a demand made by many forums that the debt of countries in Asia and Africa, you know, what do you call it, wiped out, but these debts have continued, which means it is this vicious cycle again and again of countries having to go back. Sri Lanka is facing, I think, 16 time of package.  And you can only conclude that these packages are designed. These packages are by design meant to sort of ensure a kind of modern, say, modern bondage, if you will, the fact that these countries, most of these countries are never going to escape the debt trap if the will of the IMF and their associate, the leaders of the IMF and their associates sort of continue. So it's actually, I think you talked about the UN, a body which needs a lot of reform. There's been a lot of discussion about it, but not enough discussion happening about how do you, you know, how do you overturn the IMF? How do you break this cycle for countries such as Sri Lanka or Pakistan or countries like Zambia? So that's a really big question that remains, I think, for many countries today. How to break the cycle of the IMF debt trap? Serious question. You know, another country which has severe economic problems, of course, is a part of the United States. I said country, that's a very fraught term. That's Puerto Rico, wracked by hurricanes. Zoe, I just went back and looked at the names of hurricanes this year. Somebody of Scottish ancestry seems to be naming them all now. They're called Hurricane Bonnie, Hurricane Alex, and now the deadly Hurricane Fiona. What's happening to Puerto Rico with Hurricane Fiona? Well, first to say that we do recognize Puerto Rico as a nation, and hopefully that its independence will come soon as technical note and political note. But, you know, Puerto Rico is one of the remaining bastions of formal, of being a formal U.S. colony. And it's interesting that we talk about kind of these IMF debt traps because Puerto Rico itself is trapped in a, is in a debt trap of the U.S. government. And similarly to these countries that, you know, have to adopt these horrific austerity policies, Puerto Rico has been forced to adopt U.S. imposed austerity policies under the fiscal control board. They essentially, like many countries in the Global South, have no control over their economy, but it is at an act, they literally do not have control of their economy. It is controlled by a board of CEOs and people appointed by the U.S. government. And in this context, it is also an island in the Caribbean and is very vulnerable to hurricanes, the tropical storms last weekend on Sunday, Hurricane Fiona blew through the Caribbean, it impacted Puerto Rico only as a category one hurricane, and only, of course, it's still a hurricane. It's extremely powerful, but it impacted Puerto Rico as a category one hurricane, and it blew out electricity. And so actually currently on the island, they're not so much, you know, of course the impacts of the hurricane are extremely great, but the biggest problems they're dealing with right now is that majority of residents in Puerto Rico do not have access to electricity. It has been since Sunday that the majority of the island was without power, and still today only 37 people have recovered power. And the government has said that he hopes that the power will come back, but, you know, really there's no telling. And it's interesting that this happens because actually two days before Hurricane Fiona passed through Puerto Rico, a music video slash documentary was released by the extremely popular reggaeton artist Bad Bunny, who is extremely, really has tapped into this moment of upheaval, of discontent of the people of Puerto Rico against US colonialism, against all of the impacts that it has on the economy, on people's lives, whether it be gentrification, which he shows in this music video, which is done with the incredible journalist Bianca Corralao, and it's for the song that's called El Apagón, and this means power outage. And so one of the major demands of the people of Puerto Rico from, for the last couple of years, is that the contract made with the private Canadian American company, Luma Energy, be canceled. So following Hurricane Maria, which impacted Puerto Rico in 2017 and was devastating, was truly horrible. Over 4,000 people were killed. The island really hasn't recovered since Maria. And the entire electrical grid was destroyed. And instead of building from the state company, Prepa, rebuilding the electrical grid, they hired private contractors, which did a shoddy job. And since then, electricity rates have gone up, and the, of course, quality of services has gone extremely down because a category one hurricane hits, and this is a Caribbean island. You should be prepared for tropical storms. And this company was unable to do that, and they've been without electricity for over a week. And so people who are familiar with power outages know that there's a lot of third impact deaths and injuries that can happen when you are without electricity for that many days in a row. Hospitals without power. This means that people who are in life support aren't able to be in life support. Generators only last for so long. There can be a lot of dangerous accidents that can happen when you're without electricity for that long. Appliances need to be plugged in. And so there's many, many impacts of this, of this tropical storm, of the legacy of colonialism in Puerto Rico, of the austerity measures that are imposed on the island by this fiscal control board called PROMESA, which, of course, was passed during Obama's presidency, important to note, that are continuing to cost the lives of people in Puerto Rico, and that's why they continue to fight for independence and why it's so crucial that they're able to have autonomy and sovereignty over their economy and over their political decisions. It's a very important story, and I remember covering previous hurricanes where I wrote a piece for Frontline called A Tale of Two Nations about Puerto Rico and Cuba, how the two of them were able to handle a hurricane. It was extraordinary how the United States has basically impoverished that island. You're listening to give the people what they want, coming to you from people's dispatch. That's Prashant and Zoe. I'm Vijay from Globetrotter. We're going to move to a very disturbing place on the planet, which is Europe. Prashant, which European election have we been happy to cover? Because this looks like the ugliest. The young leader of Brothers of Italy.  And then I hope you're going to tell us about the flame that is on their flag, Prashant. I mean, where are we on the planet Earth these days? I know, I know it. It's just quite remarkable. The right-wing alliance, you're talking, of course, of Georgia Melody, the right-wing alliance of La Liga, her party, and Silvio Berlusconi. There was a time when we all thought that Silvio Berlusconi was as right as things get. And look where we are 10 or 15 years down the line. So, yeah, so elections, of course, happening, I believe tomorrow. That's Sunday, that's the 25th of September. And a very unfortunate situation where the right-wing looks all set to do pretty well. I think the alliance basically is a poise to get around 45% of the vote if I'm not mistaken. And a lot of attention, of course, has been paid to the fact that the Brothers of Italy is set to do extremely well because we have some, you know, I think 24, 25% of the vote, they're likely to get a lot, which is quite interesting because in the previous election, they had just 4%. And what it sort of, a lot of analysts across the political spectrum have pointed out that this is a sign of the fact that she and her party refused to join in any of the coalitions that performed post the last election.  And Giorgia Meloni, so I just stood out because she didn't do that. And apparently that is one reason for her popularity, but also a very dangerous agenda that she's bringing. Like you said, I mean, she had a very young age joint water waters and eminence of the fascists and even today believes that Mussolini needs to find his place in history or properly framed and stuff like that. But more than that, there's also behind it, there's also of course a very neoliberal and dangerous framework. She's talked about cutting benefits. She's talked about, you know, when it comes to markets and when it comes to economic policies, of course, she's not going to change track in any sense of the word. They'll be the same austerity policies that we're talking about accompanied by an additional dose of extremely toxic and dangerous social policies, definitely a crackdown on migrants, definitely a campaign against LGBTQ communities. You know, Italy is one of the areas where the refugee crisis, which has been caused by European countries, is really kind of heating up right now again once again. And we again see another right wing government likely to come to power, which is going to definitely take a very problematic stance on this. The one good thing, of course, to note is that the left has been, a lot of leftist parties have combined together to form the popular union, the union popular. They started off with a huge disadvantage considering that they had to even register in the first place. But they've actually presented, you know, a lot of people say that, oh, Georgia Maloney was special because she never took part in any of these coalition governments and compromises. But the important thing to note, of course, is that the left also did not do that. And it has actually presented a very important set of policy proposals, a minimum wage at a time when there is a huge issue of unemployment in Italy, especially among the youth. A very sustainable call for a transition into clean energy, a focus on public transport, for instance, on cutting private profits, you know, say reducing the defense expenditure. All these are questions which, you know, I think in elections don't often get raised enough. Also media coverage because there's so much focus on one individual and the kind of whirlwind-like, you know, approach sometimes that they bring to elections. But these perspectives in the left brings a question. Everyone likes to talk about climate change. But, you know, how many proposals or how many platforms are actually bringing the question of sustained expansion in public transport to climate change? How many are talking about taxing the rich? How many talk about a minimum wage? These are questions that never really sort of get addressed properly, are not focused on enough. So I think we do so many elections around here, but I think one of the lessons of some of these elections is also this, that it's so easy to get distracted by sometimes some of these stories and narratives, whereas real platforms often get missed out. But it's important that we cover them because politics makes itself manifest at a time of elections. Currently, Zoe, you're following another election, not as perhaps exciting in a negative way as the Italian election, much more positive. We hope the discourse has been positive. Has the discourse in Brazil around the election, presidential election been positive, or has it been as nasty as the Italians? That's a good question. I think probably a little bit of both. As you know, after the September 7th rally, I know I shared with all of you some of the expressions that were used on the streets, very anti-communist slogans, for example. But yesterday, Lula was on the show of a conservative media mogul, Cabratinho, who's very famous. He was also a state deputy, a federal deputy, sorry. He owns several large companies in Brazil, and he has a show very, very widely watched. He's, again, a conservative and a millionaire. And Lula goes on his show with a lot of positive attitude, I would say. And it was a very, very interesting conversation. There's some quite interesting quotes that came out of it. It adopted a sort of informal tone in this question-and-answer interview, and Lula told this conservative millionaire, even you were more happy in my government, as opposed to during Bolsonaro's government. And he said, you're right. I actually earned more money when you were president. And he said, Lula, you talk a lot about raising the minimum wage. How are you going to do that? And Lula said, by raising it. So, you know, very, I would say positive attitude, positive discourse in this elections. And on the other hand, a lot of the official data, the opinion polls are coming out from the different polling agencies. Lula is coming in with a strong 47% in these opinion polls. A lot of them say that he might win 51% of the valid votes in the upcoming elections. This would eliminate the necessity for a second round. Many people are still holding their breath because nothing is set in stone. Everything can change. There's still a lot of undecided voters. There's a lot of candidates which are not polling over 10%. Will people still consider voting for them? Will they just want to get it over within the first round? So, those are things that are up to debate. Lula has continued on his agenda of meeting with different sectors of society. I think it was yesterday that he met with disabled people and made a campaign promise to promote public policies, to help facilitate access to education and jobs, and provide for their rights. Bolsonaro has continued to do his campaigning, which has a lot of incendiary discourse. I was at the gym and watching a campaign out of his son, and he said that I will defend the right to bear arms. People who don't have the right to bear arms are an enslaved people. So, there's that discourse out there as well. So, right now, it's 10 days out. 10 days out from these elections. It's getting very, very close. There's a lot of activities planned this weekend, a lot of different rallies that are going to be happening. There are still legal challenges being poseable to Nader because of his actions on the 7th of September. He can't, for example, use any of the photos or videos for his campaign because it was an official presidential action. So, there's a lot of back-and-forth happening in the backdrop of this campaign. The opinion polls continue to come out. That often makes news, and so it's a really... We're getting down to the wire. Also, the races are becoming important in terms of Governor Fernando Haddad is running for Governor of São Paulo, the state with the largest population in Brazil. That's going to be a hotly contested race. He was, of course, the candidate of the Workers Party in 2018. We're going to be releasing a video today from People's Dispatch all about these elections, explaining exactly how it works. So, look out for it, and we'll definitely be coming at you with more reports over the next week. Very important elections. Plenty. Italy. Brazil. Hopefully the results are not all identical. One way or the other. This week is the week of the UN General Assembly in New York. Mr. Biden has been doing a lot of media, public events, and so on. On Sunday, he went on 60 minutes. He made a rather incendiary remark about Taiwan. I'll come back to that. Then on Thursday at a global fund event, Mr. Biden made some remarks and then looked completely disoriented on stage. It is always a question of Mr. Biden's health at this time. It's not clear whether what he said on Sunday to 60 minutes was something that his administration has as policy or whether he just got disoriented during the interview. One hopes this is not actually the policy of the Biden administration, but then the facts in the waters around China seem to indicate it might very well be the policy. What did he say? Mr. Biden told the host at 60 minutes that if the Chinese government attacks Taiwan, which is an interesting way of framing it because the United States actually believes as official policy that Taiwan is part of China, but nonetheless, he said that if China attacks Taiwan, then the United States, he said, would defend Taiwan. And when he was asked by the host of the show, Scott Pelley, so Pelley says to Biden, so unlike Ukraine to be clear, sir, U.S. forces, U.S. men and women would defend Taiwan in the event of a Chinese invasion and Biden replied, yes, this is extremely chilling. It is a statement from the president of the United States saying that the U.S. government is willing to put troops into Taiwan, a Taiwan which the United States government accepts is a part of a United China. In other words, the U.S. government is willing to invade China to take on the Chinese military. It's very chilling words. Little wonder that the Chinese government, of course, came out there condemning it and sending a dimash of various kinds. Now the question is whether Mr. Biden was speaking out of turn just as he was confused on the stage at the Global Fund event in New York or whether he was articulating direct policy. Here's what has been happening this week to try to answer that question. On Tuesday, two warships went within 100 miles of the Chinese mainland. One is a U.S. warship, the Higgins, the guided missile destroyer carries guided missiles, nuclear missiles. The second is a Canadian warship, the Vancouver. Both of them carried out freedom of navigation exercises. It's important to remember, I've mentioned this before, United States is not a signatory of the international treaty that governs the laws of the seas. And quote unquote, freedom of navigation exercises are conducted based on that treaty. United States has been conducting these exercises in the waters around Russia and China without being a signatory of the treaty that allows it. In other words, these are illegal freedom of navigation exercises. Three weeks before that, the United States conducted another freedom of navigation exercise with two guided missiles cruisers, the Antonin and the Chancellor will, which sailed through the Taiwan Straits on the 28th of August. In the middle of all this, of course, two sets of U.S. congressional leaders, one led by Nancy Pelosi arrived in Taiwan. It's extraordinary chilling how the United States is beginning to focus on Taiwan as a flashpoint to put pressure on China. The very fact that Biden made the statement on 60 Minutes should give people pause. I don't think this is a sign of disorientation. This very much seems like it is the direct policy of the U.S. government. I want to remind you that from 1978, when the United States accepted Beijing as the capital of United China, the U.S. government has maintained what they call strategic ambiguity. This might be part of strategic ambiguity, except this time with guided missile cruisers. Very chilling. You've been listening to Give the People What They Want, brought to you from People's Dispatch. That's Prashant and Zoe. I'm Vijay from Globetrotter. See you next week. It'll be our 96th show.


These are the Minifuse One and Minifuse Two audio interfaces from Arturia. This one is 99 US dollars and this one is 149 US dollars. What makes them so special? Let's find out. Hi folks, I'm Mike and I hope you're well. So can these be any good at this price? Well, you're about to find out. Before we get stuck into the specs and all that kind of malarkey, I'm going to let you listen to a one minute demo I've made including vocals, acoustic guitar and bass guitar using only these units. As well as that, you're going to hear some virtual instruments which also came with these units and any effects you hear like reverb, some EQ and the preamps I've used also come with these units. Now I should say upfront that these were sent to me by Arturia to try out, but I wasn't even required to make a video. Let alone say anything specific. All the thoughts in this video are my own. They're not affected by Arturia whatsoever. So let's get started by listening to that demo. Okay, so what about the specs? There's a couple of things about these audio interfaces which makes them a little bit different from others in this price range. Let's take a look. Let's start off with the differences between the two. The Minifuse One has a single XLR quarter inch combo input, allowing you to plug in either a microphone or an instrument. The Minifuse Two has two of these inputs allowing you to record two sources at once. Both models have direct monitoring allowing latency free monitoring, but the Minifuse Two has a mix control to blend your source with your door. On the back, both models have a USB hub allowing you to plug in any other USB device which would be super handy for say a USB MIDI keyboard. In addition, the Minifuse Two has in and out MIDI ports. As we'd expect, both units have headphone outputs as well as monitor outputs and both can provide 48 volts of phantom power for microphones. Both units are also powered via a USB-C connector which connects to your computer. For the tech heads out there, the Minifuse boasts 110 decibels of dynamic range and has an input noise of minus 129 decibels. As you may expect from Arturia, all knobs and inputs feel strong and sturdy, and I like the simple styling of the metal case which comes in either black or white. So I mentioned at the beginning that my demo included some virtual instruments and effects which come with these models, and I think they form an important part of your purchase here. So let's take a look and see what's included. So as you can see, there are six main components to the wonderful software bundle that you get with these interfaces. You get Ableton Live Lite, which is a great intro to home recording and multi-tracking. Then you get Analog Lab Intro, which is a great collection of keyboards. We'll be delving into that in a moment. Then you get four wonderful effects from Arturia themselves. From Native Instruments, you get Guitar Rig 6LE, and then you get three months subscription to Autotune Unlimited, and also three months subscription to Splice Creator Plan. Now I'm going to be delving into some of these a little bit deeper here because I use some of them in the demo. Let's start off with Analog Lab Intro. This is a cut-down version of Analog Lab from Arturia, a wonderful collection of vintage keys, synthesizers, and also some acoustic pianos. Now as I say, this is the cut-down version, but there's still 28 instruments included here with five different, 500 different presets as well. So I use that for the organ and also for the piano in the demo. Moving on from there, we get to the first of the effects. I use this plate reverb in the demo, and this is something I regularly use within my own recordings, this Rev Plate 140, a wonderful sounding plate reverb. And look how much it normally costs. It normally costs 99 US dollars all by itself. Moving on from there, we get this awesome tape delay. I didn't have to use it in the demo, but it really is very deep, this one. It's a tape saturated delay with some reverb there as well. So many different options with this for different types of delay. And as I say, very analog sounding as well. And again, cost 99 dollars normally. Moving on from there, I did use this in the demo and I often use it on my own recordings. This is a preamp, okay? This adds a little bit of sort of analog warmth to the signal going in. This is the pre 1973 by the way. And also I used it for some EQ as well. This is three or four band EQ, which is useful enough in many, many cases. So I did make use of that in the demo again, 99 dollars under normal circumstances. Moving on from there, this, the chorus tune six. You may not believe me when I say this, but this is actually my favorite chorus plugin from anybody. I hope it's wonderful because you can just drop it in on a track. It's lovely on, you know, keys, but also on guitar as well. Sounds wonderful. And it's quite straightforward to use. Just sounds great out of the box. I absolutely love that. And finally in the demo, I also used Guitar Rig 6 LE for the bass guitar for the sort of amp sim on the bass guitar. So all in all, a fantastic collection of virtual instruments and effects, which are going to do you very, very well, especially if you're just getting started. So I know for many of you, the price is definitely going to be right on these. And if you want to check the links in the description down below, there's a couple of places where you can buy these at that great price. Now, if you're just going to be recording, say, one vocal, something simple like that, then I definitely think the Mini Fuse 1 is the one for you at this price point. And I love the fact that it's got that USB port on the back as well. It's a great feature, which I don't think I've seen on any other audio interfaces. Now, if you're going to be recording something in stereo or perhaps recording two sources at the same time, then you definitely for the extra 49 dollars want to be going for the Mini Fuse 2. And I also love the fact that it's got those MIDI ports on the back as well. And I know a number of you are going to be happy about that. Now, if you're recording mobile or just plugging these into a laptop and you may be moving around, then these are also great choices. They've got a nice small footprint, they're nice and light, and they get powered from the laptop itself. So you don't need an extra power brick or anything like that. Now, I think one of the things that really sets these apart from other audio interfaces in this price range is the software that comes with it. Great virtual instruments, great effects, and a number of other things with these as well. You heard those in the demo. That's the kind of thing you can be making with these audio interfaces. I'd love to hear what you think in the comments down below. Are these the kind of audio interfaces you may consider buying? I would love to hear your thoughts on that. Thank you so much for joining me today and I'll see you in the next video.


وَأَقُولُ فِي القُرْعَانِ مَا جَاءَتْ بِيهِ اَيَاتُوهُ فَهُوَ الْكَارِيمُ الْمُنْزَالُوَ وَأَقُولُ قَالَ اللَّهُ جَلَّ جَلَالُهُ وَالْمُصْطَافَ الْهَاديِ وَلَا أَتْ أَوَّالُوَ الأسلبيان السلامي our now in the second segment of our lecture inshallah now in this second segment of our lecture inshallah insha'a Allah we're going to takeصور من سلبيان السلاماء we're going to take four examples of four points to indicate and show to indicate and show for the listeners inshallah for the listeners inshallah for the listeners inshallah وضوء النبي صلى الله عليه وسلمه فبرفسه عسلمز وضوء حمران مولى عثمان ابن عفان حمران was a slave boy of عثمان ابن عفان he said رأى عثمان ابن عفان دع بإنائن he saw عثمان ابن عفان رضي الله تعالى عنه call for a utensil فأفرغ على كفه ثلاثة مرار فغسلهما he called for a utensil and عثمان رضي الله عنه then washed the water with his hands three times so he washed his hands first عثمان رضي الله and cleaned his hands as you can see from here cleaning your hands before you even do وضوء and cleaning your hands after you wake up and cleaning your hands before you sleep all of them is from the sun of the Prophet ﷺ يعني the Prophet ﷺ he said if one of you wakes up from his sleep he should not place his hands inside the utensils don't put your hands inside places because you don't know where your hand was last night what places it grabbed and it touched you were sleeping you wouldn't know so Islam gives so much importance to hygiene and cleaning your hands it's not something that we're taking from the west and this virus is not what's teaching us how to wash our hands and the importance of washing hands it's something we really believed and our religion has already stated and our Prophet ﷺ emphasized on that على كل حال الله عنه وضوء وضوء فأفرغ على كفيه ثم ثم أدخل وضوء وضوء وضوء وضوء وضوء وضوء وضوء وضوء وضوء وضوء وضوء وضوء وضوء وضوء وضوء وضوء وضوء وضوء وضوء وضوء وضوء العلو من نحو وضوء هذا وفعل هذا وثمار رضي الله عنه وقال رسول الله ومن توضأ النحو وضوء هدى فالفضل قلت أحد يفعله مثل هذا الموضوع الذي أفعله لك فالفضل يفعله مثل هذا الموضوع الذي أفعله مثل هذا الموضوع ثم صلى ركع تيني and then he prays to raka'a لا يحدث فيهما نفسه and he doesn't talk to himself he doesn't whisper to himself غفر لهما تقدم من دنبي he sins that he's done in the past I forgive it for him This is the wudu of the Prophet This is the first ibadah that we have to understand Look how our messenger صلى الله عليه وسلم cleaned himself and how he did his wudu عليه الصلاة والسلام and then he legislated right after it صلى الله عليه وسلم وعليه what did he legislate he's legislated what is known as سنة الوضوء سنة الوضوء is what it's the sunnah that you pray after you've done your wudu again that's something we're going to work hard on to make sure that we're implemented so if you do that you do the wudu, the way that's what's been shown to the companions okay if you do it like that and then you stand up and you pray تركع and you don't talk to yourself you don't whisper to yourself you don't have a whisper or anything like that okay you do khushoor you ponder over what you're reciting وفر له ما تقدم من دمبي your sins that you've done before will be forgiven for you متفقون عليه the hadith is narrated in مقاري المسلم and it's one of the hadiths that عبدالغني عبدالواحد المقدسي you wrote in his كتاب عمضة الحكام the second example I want to show regarding the prophet صلى الله عليه وسلم عبادة is his salah the messenger صلى الله عليه وسلم صلى الله عليه وسلم the prophet صلى الله عليه وسلم he implemented the ayah و الله تباركه صاتهم ومن الليل فتهجت بي نافلة لك عسى أن يبعثك ربك مقاما محمودة this ayah الله تباركه عزا جرس in the prophet فتهجت به pray the night prayer عسى أن يبعثك ربك مقاما محمودة and Allah will give you مقاما المحمودة the praise worthy station and our prophet صلى الله عليه وسلم implemented that verse made sure he prayed that prayer our mother عيشة tells us how he implemented that verse our mother عيشة she said أن النبي الله محمد our prophet محمد صلى الله عليه وسلم كان يقوم من الليل the prophet صلى الله عليه وسلم he used to stand up at night عليه سلم حتى تتفطر قدمه حتى تتفطر قدمه he would pray until his two feet would swollen that's نبي الله محمد the prophet's عبادة was so much swollen that he would pray and he would pray until his legs they would be swollen فقالت عائشة عائشة she said لما تصنعوا هذا يا رسول الله why are you doing this to yourself why are you doing this to yourself وقد غفر الله لك ما تقدم من ذبك وما تأخر and Allah has forgiven you for your past and your upcoming sins for any shortcomings you've been forgiven for it that to come and that which is past you're forgiven then the messenger responded and he said أفعلا أحبه أن أكون عبدن شكورا will I not love to be will I not love to be a slave who shows gratitude to his Lord يعني when عائشة said to him الله has forgiven you for your past sins and your upcoming sins he said then why should I not show gratitude to that Lord look at how he's thinking عليه الصلاة والسلام look at how much he loves the concept of the concept of worshiping الله تعالى تعالى because he said أفعلا أحبه do I not love for me to be what أن أكون عبدن for me to be a slave شكورا a slave who shows gratitude to his Lord so maybe you like Muhammad صلى الله عليه وسلم he used to pray a lot and his prayer was long it was lengthy عبد الله من المسؤول tells us about the Prophet صلى الله عليه وسلم بخاري المسلم both narrated that the that عبد الله من المسؤول he said صلي to ليلة مع رسول الله one night I prayed with the Prophet فلم يزال قائما حتى همم to be امر سوء حتى همم to be امر سوء عبد الله من المسؤول then he said one night I prayed with the Prophet صلى الله عليه وسلم فلم يزال قائما the Prophet was standing up and he was praying and he was praying and he was praying عليه الصلاة والسلام and a thought came to my mind يعني the Salah was so long the duration was too long that I thought to myself let me do something very bad همم to be امر سوء I thought of doing something very evil and that was what قيل الله with these people they said to him what was it that you were going to do وما همم تبه what was it that came to your mind that you wanted to do what was the evil thing that you wanted to do he said همم to اقعدة وعدة النبيه the evil thing that came to my mind was I wanted to sit down and leave the Prophet صلى الله عليه وسلم يعني I wanted to leave the prayer two things we take from this hadith number one the message صلى الله عليه وسلم عبادة was that long and it was that much that a noble companion like عبد الله عليه وسلم couldn't keep up with the Prophet عليه الصلاة والسلام and عبد الله عليه وسلم was much younger than the Prophet عليه الصلاة والسلام the second thing that we take from the hadith is عبد الله عليه وسلم it's considered something evil to walk away from praying with the Prophet عليه الصلاة والسلام حذيفة تبنو اليمان رضي الله تعالى who's going to explain to us in details how that قيام الليل of the Prophet used to be so we have an understanding of a Prophet of Allah who's been forgiven all of his sins how he's praying at night حذيفة تبنو اليمان رضي الله تعالى عنه he explains to us and tells us the Prophet عليه الصلاة والسلام يعني عبد الله عليه وسلم what made him feel like he wanted to do something evil and leave the prayer لعبد حذيفة تبنو اليمان tell us how it was like حذيفة تبنو اليمان mentioned as الإمام المسلم narrated in his Sahih he said صليتو مع النبي I also prayed with the Prophet عليه الصلاة والسلام and when حذيفة رضي الله تعالى عنه he prayed with the Messenger صلى الله عليه وسلم he said صليتو مع النبي صلى الله عليه وسلم ده تليلة ففتتحة صورة البقرة he said I prayed with the Prophet صلى الله عليه وسلم one night and he started صورة البقرة فقل to I said to myself يركع عند المئة when he reaches a hundred he's going to stop and he's going to do his Ruku'a ثم مضح he carried on فقل to I then said to myself okay he's going to you'll pray with it بحافة رقعة maybe بقرة would be one رقعة keep in mind بقرة is how long بقرة is two juice and something يعني he's saying that after I realized that he's going far I then said to myself maybe he's going to finish صورة البقرة الله أكبر he finished baqarah ثم فتتح النساء and then he opened صورة النساء this the scholars they took from it that the Prophet didn't go to Ali Imran you want to what صورة النساء and that you can change the order the Prophet صلى الله عليه وسلم finished baqarah and then he started صورة النساء فقرأه he recited it ثم فتتح النساء حليف السلامين أبريان he finished صورة النساء all of it and then he started what he started فقرأه he recited it that's five juice and something في رقعة واحدة ورقعة the Prophet صلى الله عليه وسلم now question five juice was it fast no عديف رضي الله و تعالى عنه he said يقرأوها مترثلا he was reciting it the way that the Prophet was reciting was مترثل he was reciting مترثل مترثل هي ايضا إذا مر بآية فيها تسبيح سبح if he came across a verse that Allah was exalted he exalted him سبحانه وتعالى وإذا مر و إذا he went by a verse وإذا مر بسؤال and if he came by a verse where he wanted to supplicate to Allah he will supplicate to Allah سألم وإذا مر بتعود انتعودة and if he came across if he passed by a verse where he was talking about عذاب و نار and this he will seek refuge in Allah from it this is what this noble companion saw ثم and after that ثم ركع فجعل يقول سبحانه ربي العظيم and then he went into ركوع and he would say سبحانه ربي العظيم فكان ركوعه نحو من قيامي and his ركوع was close to but like he's standing يعني his ركوع was as long as fine Chris imagine that close to that ثم قال and then he said سلمي الله لمن حميده the prophet said ثم قام طويلا قريبا he stood up صلى الله عليه وسلم عليه الصلاة والسلام he stood up in that position for long close to what قريبا من ماركع close to his ركوع when he went into sujood he said سبحانه ربي العالم فكان سجوده قريبا من قيامي and his sujood was close to his standing from the ركوع when he got up from the ركوع the standing that he stood the sujood was close to that يعني the prophet صلى الله عليه وسلم was a recitation of those five Jews for حديثة من اليمان and Abdulaym al-Mas'ud was very very long و لذلك the prophet صلى الله عليه وسلم had condemned people recite the Quran fast like that's how he hate he hate the عليه الصلاة والسلام and he mentioned سيخرج أقوام من أمتي a group of people are going to come from my umma يشربون القرآن كشربه ملَّبانا and they're going to drink the Quran like they drink milk يعني they're going to go fast طبراني narrated in his معجم من حديث عقبة من عامي there's going to come a people the prophet صلى الله عليه وسلم is saying what are they going to do يشربون القرآن they're going to drink the Quran يعني they're going to go fast in the recitation of the Quran كشربه ملَّبانا the way that they drink milk و لذلك عمار رضي الله عنه he said و شرر القراءة الحذرامة the worst type of recitation is الحذرامة الحذرامة means what it's the recitation when you're fast in your reading نبي اللهي محمد صلاة and his عبادة he never had that type of recitation he didn't و لذلك the scholars of the scholars and the imams like an Imam العراقي and others they spoke about it that the recitation like that it's not only condemned for the Quran it's also condemned for the حديث like when you're reading the حديث و لذلك عراقي he says in his نظم شرر القراءة إذا ما هذرامة the worst of قراءة is إذا ما هذرامة this is when he was talking about how do you write the حديث و يكره القرط الدقيق إلا لضيق رق or لراحل فلا و شره التعليق والمشق كما شر القراءة إذا ما هذرامة يسأل the worst of قراء is what إذا ما هذرامة if a person recites it too fast و لذلك عبد الله من المسعدين he used to say و لا تهدو هد الشعري do not recite the Quran the way you recite the poetry the poetry the way that they used to recite it was very fast they would eat the words do not recite the Quran like that so what should we do قفوا عند عجائب stand over the fascination amazing things in the Quran stand over those things و حركوا به القلوب move your hearts with it when you are reciting it و لا يكون he said لا تهدو و لا يكون هم أحدكم آخر الصورة do not let one of you make the his aspiration all he is looking for is the ending of the Sura و لا مجنة فينشت صورة و لا مجنة فينشت القرآن و لا مجنة فينشت القرآن do not do that so the professor asked him his recitation of his قيام الليل وزكان يقطع قراءته آية الآية يعني he would cut it آية آية he would stand يقفوا على رؤوس الآية he would stand in each ayah he would not say he would not say الحمد لله يا رب العالمين الرحمن الرحيم he would not do that he would not say الحمد لله يا رب العالمين الرحمن الرحيم مالك يوم الدين like he would cut each one and قتادة من دعمة السدوس he said سألت أنس من المالك I went to anas from the Malik and I asked him عن قراءتي النبي صلى الله عليه وسلم I asked the professor about his recitation how was it like he said كان يا مدو صوته مده that the professor he would lengthen صلى الله عليه وسلم عليه he would lengthen and he would prolong the places that required يفعلون actually صلى الله عليه وسلم and then what we take from this my beloved brother the sisters is عبدالله المسعود did not just الحذيفة تبنو اليمن they did not just pray with the prophet صلى الله عليه وسلم a Salah where he prayed only five اجزاء it wasn't just like that rather the five Jews that the prophet صلى الله عليه وسلم prayed it's five Jews that the prophet صلى الله عليه وسلم كان يا مدو صوته مده he's doing a med that's needed كان يقطع قراءته آية he's cut each verse from the other verse and he's breathing after he finishes each آية he's also مترسلا he's reciting إذا مر بآية تصبيحه سبح if he came across a verse that there was a تصبيح if he wants to supplicate to Allah سأله he supplicates to him وإذا مر بالتعود in تعودة and if he wants to seek refuge in Allah from something he seeks refuge in Allah from it that was his recitation صلى الله عليه وسلم the ponder that's why the prophet صلى الله عليه وسلم legs they swallowed حتى تتفطر قدمه his legs they swollen from the prayer from his prayer صلى الله عليه وسلم because of how he used to recite so we need to understand that we're not forgiven for our sins and we are nowhere close to the prophet صلى الله عليه وسلم and we take it very lightly when it comes to our Ibadat but Allah make us from those who strengthen their Ibadat and follow the prophet صلى الله عليه وسلم in that regard now insha'Allah I'm going to speak about the prophet صلى الله عليه وسلم the fasting and how was he fasting عليه صلى الله عليه وسلم we've now understood how his wudu was and how his salah was we've got two more to go insha'Allah how the prophet صلى الله عليه وسلم fasting was and how his ذكر was the remembrance of Allah سبحانه و تعالى عبد الله بن عباسي narrated he said ما صام النبي صلى الله عليه وسلم الشحر كامل قطو غير رمضان that the messenger صلى الله عليه وسلم never fasted a complete month except رمضان و يصوم حتى يقول القائل and he would fast that month other رمضان of course he would fast that month until a person would say to himself لا و الله لا يفتر حتى يقول القائل لا و الله لا يصوم he صلى الله عليه وسلم he would fast until a person would say لا و الله لا يفتر that the prophet صلى الله عليه وسلم will not break his fast and he would do that صلى الله عليه وسلم لا و الله لا يفتر حتى يقول القائل لا و الله لا يصوم and he would break his fast until a person says the prophet صلى الله عليه وسلم will never fast يعني what it shows you here is that his صلى الله عليه وسلم was the person the fast a lot when he did that we took before that Abu Huraira he said أوصاني خليلي my close friend نبي الله محمد advised me three things and from the three things that I advised him was number one أن يصوم أن يصوم ثلاثة أيام من كل شعر that he fasts three days from every month أنا سمو ماليكن he said that the prophet صلى الله عليه وسلم يفتر من الشار حتى نظن أن لا يصوم منه ويصوم حتى نظن أن لا يفتر منه شيئا وكان لا نشاء تراه من الليل مصليا إلا رأيته ولا نائما إلا رأيته أخرجه البخاري أنا سمو ماليكن he said that the messengers صلى الله عليه وسلم you used to fast in the month until we will say to ourselves أن لا يصوم منه that he's not going to fast ويصوم أن he will fast حتى نظن أن لا يفتر أن he will fast until we will say to ourselves نبي الله محمد أغرب أن يفتر يعني he used to balance his fasting صلى الله عليه وسلم عليه ولذلك the famous حديث of عائشة رضي الله تعالى عنها في الصحيحين بخاري المسلم كان إذا دخل عشر الأواخر that the messengers صلى الله عليه وسلم was one that if the last man entered he would do the following he would صلى الله عليه وسلم شد ميزرع he would tight his waist وحيا ليلته and he would revive his night وأي قضاء له and he would wake his family up to indulge with him in the good that he wants to do عليه صلى الله عليه وسلم he wants them to help him and to work with him in the good that he's doing لأن the believers they help one another when they do it they encourage one another so the prophet صلى الله عليه وسلم he used to fast in some of the months until we would think to ourselves he would never break his fast يعني this shows how excessive his fasting was عليه صلى الله عليه وسلم and now we're going to move on to the second form of عبادة that the prophet صلى الله عليه وسلم used to do that we can take a benefit from إن شاء الله ذكر الله ذكروا ممس الله الله تباركوا على إن شاء الله عليه وسلم to remember Allah in every situation الله تباركوا عليه he said to him the prophet صلى الله عليه وسلم وذكر نفسك وذكر ربك في نفسك تضر عن وخيفة وذكر رمانب محمد ربك يولود في نفسك تضر عن وخيفة ودون الجهر من القول بالغدول ولااصال ولا تكن من الغافيلي remember your lord privately publicly remember him and do not be from the heedless ones remember your lord and the messenger صلى الله عليه وسلم because he was instructed by Allah to remember him every situation privately or publicly the messenger did that وذلك عايشا وعندما يكتبون إذا كان الإمام ومسلم لريت دين صحيح كان النبي صلى الله عليه وسلم يذكر الله على كل أحيانه لأن المسجد صلى الله عليه وسلم يتذكر الله في كل هذه السيطوشين لأن الله كماند من إيقايا صلى الله عليه وسلم عليه الأغر المزني رضي الله تعالى عنه هو أنه هو أنه يتكلم على سلم الساد إنه لا يغانه على قلبه أنه يتكلم على سلم الساد أنه يتكلم على سلم الساد يتكلم على سيانه إنه لا يغانه على قلبي my heart a veil will be placed on it the prophet say in his al-salaam على قلبه وإني لأستغفر الله في اليوم 100 مره And I ask Allah for forgiveness every day 100 times يعني the prophet is saying to you a veil is placed on my heart ثم ما أفعله هو أنني أسأل الله لفغفنة كل يوم 100 مرة. الله أكبر. نبي الله محمد. أسأل الله لفغفنة 100 مرة. أستغفر الله. أستغفر الله يقول. عليه الصلاة والسلام. هذا أخبرنا أنه هو أحد الذي يتذكر الله كثيرا. لماذا لم يكن هناك؟ هو أنه هو أحد الذي أدخلت هذه المساعدات لتذكر الله كثيرا. يقول. يا رسول الله إن شرائع الإسلام قد قتلت. الإسلام وردت بكثيرا. أخبرني شيء أتشبث به. أعطني شيء في السلطة ويأخذها. شيء أخذها. الأدنان بكثيرا. لقد أخذت الله كثيرا. أتذكر الله. أتذكر الله. أتذكر الله على your time. لأن أتذكر الله لا يوجد أي وقت. وكن ذاكرة لله في كل حالة فليس لديك لله وقت المقيد. أكون شخص يتذكر الله كثيرا. لأن شخص يتذكر الله. لأنه لم يكن لديه حالة. أتذكر الله في كل حالة. وذلك وصى معادا يستعين إله بأن كثيرا الذكري في السبق مفرده. معاذبني جبل. وضي الله تعالى عنه. يجب أن يتذكره. صلى الله عليه وسلم وعليه. ويجب أن يتذكره. يجب أن يتذكره. يجب أن يقول after every Salah اللهم أعيني على ذكريك وشكريك وحسنة عبادتك. يقول والله إني لا أحبك معادة I love you. يقول after every single Salah اللهم أعيني على ذكريك وشكريك وحسنة عبادتك. يقول والله أعيدني and support me in what? أعيني على ذكريك in your remembrance. أعيني على ذكريك وشكريك and showing you gratitude. يقول والله help me. Give me the ability to show you gratitude. وحسنة عبادتك. And for me to perfect my abada. معاد من جبل is being taught to remember Allah after every Salah. ولذلك عبد الرحمن من الناصر السعديو he mentioned some benefit of that vehicle. I'm going to read on you. سعديو رحمه الله سلنز كتاب منهج الحق إسال وكن ذاكرا لله في كل حالة فليس لذكر الله وقت مغيد فذكروا إله العرش سر ومعلنه يزيل الشقا والهم عنك ويطردوه ويجلب للخيرات دنيا واجلا وإي يأتيك الوسواس يوما يشردوه he said be a person who remembers Allah all the time وكن ذاكرا لله في كل حالة remember Allah in all situations for verily the remembrance of Allah doesn't have a restricting time remember the remembrance of Allah what does it do? remember him privately and publicly what does it do? يزيل الشقا والهم عنك ويطردوه it gets rid of distress by remembering Allah you repel distress and anxiety sadness and depression ويجلب للخيرات دنيا واجلا and it brings you good in this world though good will come your way وإي يأتيك الوسواس يوما يشردوه and if whispers of shaitan comes to you now it gets rid of it and it destroys it فقد أخبر المختارص يوما لصحبه the prophet sallallahu alaihi wa sallam one day said to his companions بأن كثيرا دكري في سبق مفردوه the prophet told them سبق المفردون the mufarridun have passed everybody and so the sahaba as they said هو آدموا فردونا ومسجد الله and so the sahaba as they said أنا يسأل أذاكرون الله كثيرا والذاكرات it is the man and the female who remembers Allah Allah they pass everybody else فقد أخبر المختار ويوما لصحبه بأن كثيرا دكري في السبق مفردوه ووصى معادا يستعينوا إلهو على ذكري والشكري بالحسن يعبدوه and the prophet advised معادهم لجبن to say the following اللهم أعيني على ذكريك وشكريك وحسن إبادتك وأوصى للشخص قد أتا لنصيحه and he advised a man who came to him صلى الله عليه وسلم who asked for an advice وقد كان في حمل الشراعية and this man was struggling with the legislation of the sharia the prophet advised him what did he advise him بألا يزرط باللسانك هاريب do not let this tongue of yours dry do not let it dry هذه تعينه على أموري وتسعيده and will bring you happiness it will aid you and support you in everything وأخبر أن نذكر غرس للأهله the prophet also told us that in the remembrance of Allah it's like planting a seed for its people بجنة عدن والمساكين يعني the remembrance of Allah is a plant and seeds that you are planting in your place in Jannah وأخبر أن الله يذكروا عبده that Allah remembers you في الملأ إلى على if you remember Allah in this earth Allah will remember you in a place better than where you are remembering Him سبحانه وتعالى ومعه وعلا ومعه وعلا كل الأمور يسدده and in all of your affairs الله تبارك وتعالى will make it easy, smooth and good وأخبر أن نذكر يبقى بجنة وينقطع التكليف حين يخلد your other righteous deeds they come to an end but the remembrance of Allah is an ongoing righteous thing but after you're gone this is some of the benefits that he mentioned العلمة عبد الرحمن ناصل السعديون so the Prophet ﷺ in all of these situations he's encouraging his companions to be ones that remember Allah a lot this insha'Allah وتعالى brings me to the end of the second part of my lecture I finished the introduction and I've spoken about three principles and foundations in the introduction and then I spoke about the Prophet ﷺ and how his Ibadah was and I spoke about it from four perspectives his وضوء and his Salah and his fasting and the last one which was his ذكر of Allah a.s. in my next insha'Allah وتعالى segment I'm going to be speaking about the the Ibadah of the Salaf Al-Saleh the Ibadah of the early generation and I'm going to be speaking about that in 21 different ways of how the Ibadah was insha'Allah وتعالى and how they enjoyed the Ibadah and the letter that they got from it insha'Allah وتعالى سيدة بإبن الله القليم


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