Let's go find came on boys. Let's go find come on boys Let's go find her way down yander in the pothole patch Picking the fall post put them in your pocket picking the fall post put them in pocket picking the fall post put him in Your pocket way down yandering the Palpo Hi there friends, a lot of kind people have come down here tonight to listen to the music of the quartet and to meet our guest, but they're going to have to pay a forfeit because I'm going to talk about myself. A friend came up to me the other day and said, Merle, they've got your picture splashed all over the country, so I sneaked down to the post office to see what reward they were offering for me. Well, it's not much, I guess, because my picture wasn't even posted, but I did find out that my handsome profile, that's my front profile, is to be seen in the Saturday evening post, Time, Life, and Colliers, and Liberty magazines right alongside one of the prettiest models in America. Men, I want to tell you about this model.  And she's one of the sweetest, voiced, nicest-mannered, best-dressed, automatic table radio phonographs of 1948. And her telephone number is Philco1256, so just call Philco1256. And if a man answers, have him wrap one up and send it out, your wife will be delighted. Now, when you're studying the picture of us in your favorite magazine, why don't forget I'm the one on the left holding the guitar. Friends, you remember the song, Billy Boy? Well, I want to sing you now the English version of the song. It goes like this.  Where have you been all the day, Willie? Won't you tell me now, Quentin of the Lady Gay? But she is too young to be taken from her mother. Can't she dance and can't she sing, my boy Willie? Can't she dance and can't she sing? Willie, won't you tell me now? She can dance, she can sing, she can do most anything. But she is too young to be taken from her mother. Can't she bake a cherry pie, my boy Willie? Can't she bake a cherry pie, Willie won't you tell me now? She can bake a cherry pie, quick as a cat can wink inside. But she is she fit to be a wife, my boy Willie? Is she fit to be a wife? Willie, won't you tell me now? She's as fit to as a fork fits to a knife. The other day, I got an envelope in the mail that was scented with old lavender and apple ginger. It said, dear Mr. Ives, I must see you at once. Signed Aunt Fanny.  Signed Nephew Burl. Well, she's here, Aunt Fanny of Don McNeil's Breakfast Club. And if you haven't heard of her before, all I can say is you birds haven't been getting your worms lately. Aunt Fanny. I'm keeping you from anything. Not a thing. No, and it's a pleasure to have you here. And I'm certainly anxious to find out that big important reason why you want to see me. I have been leading what you might call a double life. Not you. Oh, yes, I have. And this is what's happened. Like I told you, I love to listen to you on the radio. And I know practical ever song that you sing. Oh, yes, knew them for years. And sir, I like to kind of sing along with you. And as a matter of fact, what I have did is to hoop it up to the extent that the neighbors think I'm actual on your program. And I have let them believe that. I'm ashamed to admit it, but that's what I've did. And now here, they've talked to cleaning the windows and the blinds. And the windows is just as bare as that. Well, there's nothing up there at all. And so they can look in now and see that I'm at the home and not on your radio program. And I feel that the least I can do is to try to make good some way. So I would like to just jump in, if I could, maybe just to sing so much as just a little ways with you on any song. I would be delighted. Would you really? Well, sir, now you're not only a wonderful singer, you're a dear Busan.  And I would like to have did that myself, but sir, I am timid by nature. And I don't like to just bust in any place, you know? Yes. And so likely if I had tried years ago, I could have got myself accustomed to it, you know? I think it gets to be more or less a habit, those two. Yes, it does. Take it home there. I don't know now whether you'd just recognize these people right off the bat or not, but Newt Oghammer there lived out there, yes, and the Dossy Stummy. They was married just last week. Oh, yes. They went together 40 years, 40 years. And you know, actually, Mr. Ives, it was a beautiful thing to see. He was Cortner for 40 years. Oh, why?  Yes, sir. He went over there, regular, and carried her a little sack of gumdrops every time he went. Yes, a thoughtful, oh, real thought he was. That's very nice. I thought so. And so when they got married, people was surprised. And they just wondered why they got married, you know? At their age, I said why? I think that's a wonderful thing. And I said, it's hard to explain things like that. It could have just been that he just felt that he was getting too old and tired to carry the gumdrops anymore. Might as well come out. Well, now, how would you like to sing this song that you mentioned a while ago? Well, now, which one was you aiming to start out on? Oh, do you remember the old song, I'll Give to You a Paper of Pins? Oh, I know it backwards and forwards. Well, do you want to talk some more, or do you want to sing? No, I'll have at it right now if I'm all right with you. I'll Give to You a Paper of Pins. That's the way our love begins. If you will marry me, me, me. If you will marry me. I'll not accept your paper of pins. That's the way our love begins.  I'll not marry you. I'll Give to You a Silver Spoon. That you may feed your babes at noon. If you will marry me, me, me. If you will marry me. I'll not accept your Silver Spoon. That I may feed my babes at noon.  I'll not marry you. I'll give to you a dress of red stitched all around with golden thread if you will marry me, me, me if you will marry me.  I'll give to you the key to my chest and all the money that I possess if you will marry me, me, me if you will marry me. I'll accept the key to your chest and all the money that you possess. Yes, yes, I will marry you. Yes, I'll marry you. Oh, money is all. Woman's love ain't nothing at all.  I'll not marry you. And Fanny, what kind of a man do you want to marry? Well, what kind of a woman do you want to marry? Hey, lolly. Hey,Música. Hey, lolly. Hey, lolly. I want a girl who'd treat me right. Hey, lolly. I want a man who would come home at night. Well, a single man. Hey, lolly. But a married man will fill your filco-freezers. Hey, lollie-lollie-lollie, hey, lollie-lollie. But give me a woman with lots of money. Hey, lollie-lollie-lollie, that's me. Hey, lollie-lollie-lollie, I want a girl who can make a good salad. That's me. Hey, lollie-lollie-lollie, I want a man who is big and strong. I'm big. Hey, lollie-lollie. But I want a girl who don't talk too long. Goodbye. Hey, lollie-lollie-lollie, I want a girl who can bake a pie. That's me. Hey, lollie-lollie-lollie. I want a man with that glit in his eye. That's me. Hey, lollie-lollie-lollie, hey, lollie-lollie, hey, lollie-lollie-lollie, hey, lollie-lollie, La, la, la, la, la, la. Aunt Fanny, we have a, a Philco gentleman here who has a recipe that'll fill anyone's day with crispy, crunchy goodness. You better jot it down. Aunt Fanny, I just want to say thanks for all the pleasure that you've brought us and the millions of people who listen to the breakfast club. Friends, I'm going down the road again, but before I go, I want to leave you with this thought. For every saucer that's been seen in the sky, there's an empty cup reflected in someone's eye. If you can pour some kindness in, it'll make your own cup seem fuller. So long, I'll be seeing you. Listen next week at this time for Burl Eyes, Philco's friendly troubadour, whose weekly visit is produced and transcribed in Hollywood for your listening pleasure. And come into our store and let us demonstrate the new Philco radios and radiophonogram.


Question. What happens when you have two equally adjacent but conflicting and illegal rights? How do you work out that conflict? I don't think it exists. Two people in the sea, I'm sorry there's a hypothesis I promised you, perhaps an example would exist. Two people on a boat in the sea that will only support one person. Neither on the boat and the boat that will just provide a life. Look, individual rights don't exist on a lifeboat. It is not such a thing. Morality is not about lifeboats. Morality is about day-to-day living. Morality about what really happens in real life. What happens on a lifeboat? On a lifeboat, all of the tectanic and emergency situations, whatever happens happens.  Both choices are horrible. They're really, really bad, but that's not what life is about. In an emergency, you know, do what it takes. But life is not an emergency. 99.99999999% of life is not emergencies. And ethics and intellectual pursuits and politics and philosophy is not about the point 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 1% of lifeboat situations. They're just not interested. They're boring. But that means that for every person who is so poor that they're in an emergency, any action is a discipline. No, because so many people who are poor are not in an emergency situation. People who are poor can go and work. People who are poor can go and beg. People who are poor can go to a charity and ask for charity. There are a thousand opportunities for people who are poor to gain the things that they need in order to survive. It's not an emergency. It's not a lifeboat situation, which is truly the only situation in life. Or in the point 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 1% of life, where it's a zero-sum game. But life is not about a zero-sum game. Life is about win-win situations all around us all the time. The essence of human interaction is win-win. It's not lose-lose, which is what a lifeboat is. A lifeboat is no winner. You're screwed. But that's not life. That's not life. Poor people have lots of jobs out there, particularly under capitalism. There are more jobs than you can fill under capitalism. There's negative unemployment in capitalism. There's always a deficiency of jobs under capitalism. If you just lower the minimum wage to zero, you'll see how many jobs are created just like that. I mean, an unemployed, a big chunk of unemployed in any society are those people who just can't produce up to the level of the minimum wage. It's just not worth ten bucks an hour. It's as ugly as it is to say it. They're just not worth it. They're worth five. But they live a better life when they're five than they do unemployed. But we deny them the job that will pay them five. And there was a surprise when jobs go to China, or someone else. We're denying them help. We're rejecting their ability to make a living here. We're hurting everyone.


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What's good? Y'all Chris from justice case breaks calm doing 2022 panini national treasures football four box case break PYT number four Two R&B groups to go for it, but we're all good to go. Let's switch screens. Let's look at our big beautiful boy right here Our full case of NT. Here's our sheet PYT for Jeffrey with the Cardinals All the way down to bin with the commanders of two R&B groups Philly Baltimore Tampa Bay and Denver Simon with spot zero Matt at spot nine and our second R&B group Headed lead it off with Detroit Kansas City Buffalo. It's got Jacksonville Miami and Don't check Tennessee So a few teams in each We're all set. Good luck y'all And of course NC football PYT number four along with both of the R&B's Involved with our all-spots sold promo Sells out by Monday twenty five hundred dollars in break credit We're gonna have to five different top five spots. Let's do it y'all Thanks again. Good luck First of four boxes PYT number five up on the side stuffing a dozen teams left before we throw those into an R&B most likely So grab them while you still can Again, PYT number five just like PYT number four On the all-spots sold promo as well. Let's get started y'all good luck first up Ray Lewis It's five out of ninety nine it's Baltimore. That's in the Philly Baltimore Tampa Bay Denver group spot five Right there going to Matthew Let's talk about Ray Lewis Makes up one out of ten on the green for Randy Moss's Vikings edition Randy Moss, Minnesota picked up here by Tim Nice one there. All right, let's get to our hits first up Three out of 49 Darren waller sent you material that'll be Raiders edition Raiders gonna go to Jeff now on the Giants People in New York sounded about that is tight end for the Raiders next up Nice dual patch Starting off with the Steelers 17 out of 49 George Pickens On the dual patch Pittsburgh picked up straight up by Sean Matic Stud wide receiver right there next up quad relic 62 out of 99 for the Packers Quay Walker for Sean Gary Jair Alexander and Darnell Savage, Jr Hard time focusing up there I don't know Of course come source if this is still being kind of weird by the end of a break also, but I'll post a separate Action to it. We'll recap for it And we're back to any Tyree kill 14 out of 49 franchise treasures That's in the Detroit, Kansas City Buffalo R&B group Miami spot for it's gonna go to Sean Mac One of the free spot giveaways there 14 Get to our auto starting off another one for the Steelers 14 out of 98 the Marvin layout Rookie defensive end for the Steelers. That's one more for Sean Matic Patch out of Dorsey Levitt's old school. That's one for the Packers 18 out of 25 two-color patch and the auto Green Bay Packers pick up straight up by Daniel G Supposed to recap Next up nice jumbo patch and Rookie Otto sky more 86 out of 99 little three-color patch a little bit of red peeking out from the bottom there sky more for the Kansas City Chiefs in the Detroit KC group Spot six gonna go to Sean Matic That's when Sean last card from this first box Nice John met you the third three-colored patch and Rookie Otto's 41 out of 99 Houston Texans picked up straight up straight up by Steve Locke Nice sir.  Oh Good little beef stroganoff Let's get to our autos First up another cowboy nice 21 out of 25 Tony Romo To color patch and auto one more for Ed P No Stradamus on the mic Nice first auto here patch auto Tony Roma Other patch shot another QB Jake Plummer 27 out of 99 on the lasting legacies Denver in the Philly R&B group spot seven go to James at the last spot mojo Another patch shot another nice name Bo Jackson 41 out of 99 Nice one for the Raiders picked up straight up by Jeff Bo notes Last hit of the box last auto It's all the last name Nice three colored jumbo patch and rookie auto sauce gardener 54 out of 99 on the RPA the New York Jets picked up straight up by Daniel Very nice. Nice. Hey, one of our QB's. Have we got the defensive rookie over here so I get some offensive guys here box three We know Davis Mills 13 out of 99 of the Davis Mills for Steve Oh One Michael Vic one out of ten on the green Atlanta, it's gonna go to JD. I said they're on a Michael Vic Falcons edition Mike Vic Next up Cooper Cup tremendous treasures on the patch.  Oh nice low number dual relic here map corral six out of nine Three color on both those patches for the Carolina Panthers gonna go to Matthew. It's pretty patch right there randomizer time Maybe Chris Alava and Garrett Wilson eight out of 25 Saints Matthew Jets Daniel Uh-oh one happy person one sad person will say this randomizer for the very very end Lave and brief and here it was First auto nice there we go 24 out of 25 the future on The auto what a great looking card Desmond Ritter rookie auto for the Falcons One more for JD As a handsome card right there But I appreciate it next up notable nicknames Darren Johnson who's on the notable nicknames There we go, there we go 32 out of 49 one more for the boys One more for Ed Pete second the last I SRP a ty Juan Thornton three color patch and rookie out of there 55 out of 99 crossover rookie patch all Patriots, but I'm at the last one Treasure impressions breeze. Oh, there we go. Oh, how do myself? 23 had a 25 on the two color patch and rookie out of one more for the Jets and one more for Daniel I said Daniel. I do like music. I've been I've been told that West Coast tour in the winter. I think actually might know this Last box of this case fourth and final box PYT 5 still up on the site four more boxes Full on this box maybe a book Saw that logo at the bottom next up one more ty Juan Thornton For you out of 99 one more for the Patriots one more for Matthew. Oh, nice Oh, how is that? Is there? Well, nice midnight very sharp with those black Unis Well, Marjaxon 15 out of 20. That's the bolts of Philly Baltimore R&B or Baltimore five And I got a Matthew 15 out of 20 first patch. Oh, wow look at that four out of ten framed fabric DeMario Davis Looks like a bit of the the aid and a little bit of the V from Davis That's a sweet patch new Orleans, Matthew. I had a sharp right there. Nice hit Devondre Campbell one more framed fabric 24 out of 49 for the Green Bay Packers gonna go to Daniel One more quad auto in the same four news out of 99 quay Walker, Rashawn Gary, Jair Alexander and Darnell Savage Jr. I Don't think there was any debate about it. I think yeah, I think that messy guy's pretty good It's like our first up. Oh nice one of one on The NFL players Association logo dual Alec Pierce Jelani would one of one for the Indianapolis Colts Matthew grabs one more our first one of one in the last box nice Whoo Very nice Let's get to our first auto than our book. What's it looking for last? It's gonna be Sam Williams 66 out of 99 rookie auto for the Cowboys one more Fred P. Cowboys nice break 66 out of 99 Sam Williams One more for the Vikings John Randall nine out of 99 National Treasures signatures Minnesota gonna go to Tim. Here's our booklet Rookie jumbo prom signatures Isaiah Spiller 94 out of 99 nice jumbo three-color patch there Rookie auto on top Out of 99 for the Chargers gonna go to Daniel out of 99 and the last one Saw the logo on the back flipping the box 15 the cards over NFL gear 65 out of 99 Kenny pick it True color patch on top the pig skin on the bottom gold ink auto for the Steelers Sean Maddock. Whoo Congrats, man We'll go 180 Kenny pick it out of 99 John Congrats Very nice, let's do a recap real quick then I got a randomizer to do at the very very end See if we can get some of these hits more focused up about getting into a rhythm. I think it's just the writing on the wall Here's here Some of these Breeze Hall type on Thornton the Desmond Ritter. There you go out of 25 Tronson Taylor I want to keep it on the focus as much as possible Cooper Cove Michael Vick Nice saws Gardner out of 99 Oh Jackson out of 99 Romo out of 25 on the patch auto Here stays with it John met you the third Second half of this case definitely carried, but we got one more thing to do Eight out of 25 for the Crystal Avi and Garrett Wilson that sinks on top jets on bottom Switch screens work quick and do our randomizer so fresh dice fresh list your ones up top and New Jersey your jets on the bottom, but for a nice of randomized between Sean and Daniel four and three nine times. Good luck y'all one two three four five six and seven Name on top. It's gonna be the Jets Daniel grabs one more hit. I just break for you man Eight out of 25 a lot of a Garrett Wilson on the dual relic going to The Jets Nice. All right. Thanks again y'all Grats everyone for hitting big Yeah, P. What's the number five on the site right now Jasses case breaks calm. Thanks again y'all. 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President Biden is confused about how inflation happened. I'm confused. He's like, hey, there's something fishy going on around here. I'm telling you. Fishy, fishy, fishy, fishy, fishy, fishy, fishy. There's fishy things afoot. Fishy, fishy, fishy, fishy, fishy. Which is super strange, because fish don't have feet. Patrick, you don't have feet. Whoo! So how's it we got so much fishy stuff afoot? Fishy! Like inflation, war, economic downturn. Uh, sir, one brave reporter responds, your feet are in the tide pool. That's your foot. Stepping on the fish. Nothing gets by you, does it? In other words, there's fishy things afoot. Strange things are afoot at the Circle K. Because the fish are just doing what fish do, and you're the foot.  Stepping on them.  That blew my mind. Brilliant deduction, Watson. Reporter responding, you're welcome, sir. Now, would you please get your dang feet out of the tide pool of the economy? Get your foot out of it. It's clearly causing a lot of suffering.


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The first item of business is a statement by Michael Russell on next steps on Scotland's future. The cabinet secretary will take questions at the end of his statement, so there should be no interventions or interruptions. I call Michael Russell for 10 minutes, please. There we are. Michael Russell. I will try again. Michael Russell. I will not be deflected as easily as that. Much has happened since the First Minister set out in late April the Scottish Government's view of continued Brexit chaos and of the measures that this Government must bring forward to protect the people of this country. Last Thursday Scotland said, loudly and clearly, that it is a European nation and that it intends to remain one. It also rejected all attempts to reflect that argument with spurious assertions about other matters and showed its contempt for equivocation. Elections can be brutal judgments on parties and politicians. That one certainly was. However, elections can also be fresh starts. If all the parties in this chamber are willing to hear the clear voice of Scotland, I believe that we can find a way to put behind us the divisions of Brexit and move forward together. That is what this statement is about. On 11 April, when the EU threw the UK a lifeline to avoid a no-deal Brexit, Donald Tusk, the president of the European Council, said to Westminster, please don't waste this time, but he's been ignored. Not only has nothing happened to resolve the Brexit impasse, but now the stalemate looks like lasting for several more months, whilst ever more extreme Tory MPs vie with each other to present the most hard-line positions to their party faithful. The Tories are heading for a no-deal Brexit, and some positively welcome that disastrous direction of travel. A Boris Johnson premiere shape is no longer a bad joke, it's a frightening possibility. Substitute rub or lidsum or gove or Hancock or McVeigh or any of the others for Johnson, and the situation is no better. Most are heading with pleasure to the cliff edge, but Scotland must not be forced against our will to go with them. Let me at the outset make one thing very clear to the Tories at Westminster and to the Tories in this chamber. The SNP manifesto, on which we won the Holy Road election in 2016 and on which this Government is founded, said that the Scottish Parliament should have the right to hold another referendum if there is a significant and material change in the circumstances that prevailed in 2014, such as Scotland being taken out of the EU against our will. Any deal that takes Scotland out of the EU against the wishes of the majority of people in Scotland has that effect. That is what people voted for when they voted the SNP into government. If a new Tory Prime Minister attempts a no-deal Brexit, while we will do everything possible to stop it and everything that we can to mitigate it, it will yet be further proof that the conditions that are set out in our manifesto in April 2016 have been met in full, and there will be an even greater urgency to give Scotland a choice of a different future. The Scottish Government and the SNP at Westminster will continue to do all that we can to stop Brexit for the whole of the UK. In particular, we will continue to support a second referendum on EU membership, a position that received widespread support on Thursday, but time is running out. The third anniversary of the Brexit referendum will be with us in less than a month's time. The accelerating shambles has caused and is causing real damage to Scotland's economy and to our social fabric. The assumption that a UK Government and a UK Parliament would or could in any way do better for Scotland than our independent institutions has been finally and completely destroyed. Presiding Officer, there must be, and there is, a better way forward. That is, in our view, for Scotland to become an independent European nation. As we seek that way forward, we must try to build as much consensus as we can. One thing that we have learned from Brexit is this. There is a need for reconciliation and the bringing together of different views. The current Prime Minister did none of that when in office and the baleful result is there for all to see. We must try to break the current logjam with the power of fresh ideas. To do that, we must approach our collective national future in a spirit of openness and acceptance that we all want the best for our country. We must be mindful not just of those who won but of those who lost, not just this week nor even in 2016 but in 2014 too. It will not be easy, but at least we start on that process with a high degree of consensus about the basic fact that the Westminster system is broken and there is no mending of it in sight. The First Minister said last month that we must reach out and be inclusive, and our approach to the three tasks that we are now taking forward has been and is just that. Firstly, as context, I can confirm that despite the chaos that we witness in Whitehall, my colleagues and I will continue to attend inter-governmental meetings with the UK and Wales and hopefully soon Northern Ireland counterparts. The destination that the Scottish Government wishes for this country is independence, but as we travel towards that, we have a role in helping to improve the structures under which we presently live and work. In the past two years, I have often quoted the terms of reference to the JMCEN. They have consistently and fundamentally been ignored by the UK Government, and that strategy was, I believe, at the express wish of the current Prime Minister, imposed upon her ministers at every level and at every turn. She had and continues to have no interest in seeing the devolved settlement observed. Now that she is going, that must change. There must be a new meaningful respect for our position and for the responsibilities that are ours as of right. There needs to be a clear and urgent timetable for the current inter-governmental review that must secure a legal underpinning to the relationship, and the UK Government must commit to respecting the legislative consent mechanism rather than ignoring it. Those matters will be discussed at the next JMCEN due before the end of June. We must see significant progress on them if those meetings are to have any future purpose. Presiding Officer, that is about the journey. Let us now turn to the destination and the three areas of activity that the First Minister set out in her April statement. Firstly, the Referendum Scotland Bill was introduced to the Parliament yesterday and has been published this morning. The bill will, if it is hoped, have completed its parliamentary progress by the end of this calendar year. As the First Minister said in April, it is the intention of the Government to offer the people of Scotland a choice on independence later in the term of this Parliament. Of course, should circumstances change, we would have the option of seeking Parliament's agreement to proceed on an accelerated timetable. The bill provides a legal framework for holding referendums on matters that are now or in future within the competence of the Scottish Parliament. The rules that it sets out are of the highest standards and will ensure that the results are widely and internationally accepted. It brings Scotland into line with the UK, where there is already standing legislation for referenda through the Political Party's Elections and Referendum Act, which Westminster passed in 2000. As the First Minister indicated in her statement, we intend at a future date to negotiate with the UK Government for a section 30 order to put beyond doubt our competence to hold a referendum on independence. When the framework is used in those or in any other circumstances, a separate vote at a future date will allow members to consider the specific topic and approve the question. The proposed franchise will be based on that, used for local government and Scottish Parliament elections, which includes EU citizens in 16 and 17-year-olds. It will be updated to incorporate future extensions to the franchise. I previously set out my intention to extend the franchise for Scottish Parliament and local government elections to all people legally resident in Scotland, whatever their nationality. Those proposals will be brought forward shortly. Given the disastrous and shameful experience of many EU citizens last Thursday, it is now obvious that this is the only way to secure the democratic rights of every citizen. I look forward to working with other parties at all stages of the parliamentary process. Secondly, on cross-party talks about the broken Westminster system and the future needs and direction of Scotland, I welcome the commitment from Labour and the Greens to explore what might be possible. I hope that the other parties who have not yet responded will now confirm that they wish to do so. I have suggested using an independent interlocutor who would talk to parties separately to gather views and create an agenda and format for the talks. That would take the pressure out of the process and allow better engagement without any hangover from past discussions. I intend to start a first round next month and to build on that if the other parties are willing. Those talks are without preconditions and I commit myself and the Scottish Government to constructive engagement in them. I know that wider civic Scotland is keen to be involved. I will work with the parties to consider how that might be possible. Finally, we have made considerable progress with the creation of a citizens assembly. Two weeks ago, I visited Ireland, where I met some of the key people responsible for the constitutional convention and the assembly. I am meeting with a range of experts from this country and overseas in order to further inform our own planning. There is already a lot of interest in and enthusiasm for the assembly. I hope that all parties will welcome and become involved in the initiative, as was the case in Ireland. In order to help members to engage more, I have arranged for the secretaries of the Irish initiatives to come to Scotland on 19 June to speak to MSPs and others. That will include a briefing session to party leaders or their nominees. At and after the meetings on 19 June, I would want all parties to offer their thoughts and suggestions. I hope to be able to announce an independent chair in the formation of an expert steering group in the coming weeks and to confirm the timetable and the process for formulating the precise issues for deliberation when we return in September. We intend to hold the first session of the assembly in the autumn and have all five or six sessions completed by next spring. Presiding Officer, in conclusion, as we take forward a range of activities based upon consensus and compromise, we will be endeavouring to get away from the negativity and nastiness of the current Brexit process. Scotland deserves, and this week has clearly demanded better. We must create a country in which we all feel that we have gained something worth having, where we all feel part of a shared national endeavour, regardless of the particular side of the argument that we have come from. That is a spirit that imbued the First Minister's statement in April, on which the Scottish Government is determined to carry forward. I hope that we can do so together. That is the fresh start that the people of Scotland have offered us. We should all grasp it with both hands. The cabinet secretary will now take questions on the issues that are raised in his statement, and I intend to allow around 20 minutes for questions. It would be helpful if members who wish to ask a question would press their request-to-speak buttons now. I call Adam Tomkins. I thank the minister for early sight of his statement. In a week when new figures show that more patients than ever are waiting more than 12 weeks for treatment in Scotland's NHS, we might have expected a ministerial statement on the SNP's mishandling of the health service. No, here we are again talking about Nicola Sturgeon's pet obsession with independence. Only a few days after she said that a vote for the SNP in last week's European election was not a vote for independence. She must think our heads, but not the back. There is a case for standing legislation on the conduct and campaign rules for referendums, but the bill that is published today goes so much further than that. Under this bill, SNP ministers will have the power to set any referendum question at any time on any matter of their choosing. Ministers, not Parliament, will set the question, pick the date and determine the campaign period. If they change their minds, ministers, not Parliament, can then change any of those rules. This bill is not about the democracy of letting the people decide in a lawful referendum. It is about the dictate of ministers. Even the powers of the Electoral Commission to scrutinise proposed referendum questions will be diminished in comparison with the position in UK law. Why should ministers and not Parliament determine those matters? Second, could the minister answer this? Do referendums under the bill published today have to be binary? Yes, no, leave, remain? Could multi-question referendums be established under this bill and could multi-choice referendums also be permitted? Finally, let me ask this very briefly. I agree with the minister that Scottish independence could be established only by referendum. Clearly we could not have independence without a lawful referendum, but what are the other matters that SNP ministers are proposing to put to referendum? They claim that the bill is a framework bill for referendums in general. I suspect that it is no such thing and that in reality it is a trojan horse for a wildcat Indiref 2. A minister could prove me wrong. What are the other issues besides independence that he plans to put to the people in a referendum? Michael Russell? There were a number of questions there. Let me do my best to answer them. First of all, in questions of priorities, I am, of course, my friend, the health secretary is working very hard in the health service. Some of the results of that are already clear, as Scotland's core A&E services are the best performing in the UK actually for almost four years. We have a record high in health funding. We have a record high in patient satisfaction. NHS staffing is up by over 13,600 or 10.7 per cent under the SNP. Patient safety is massively increased, and 5.1 million people are now registered with an NHS dentist. Of course, work continues, but the record of that is a good one. Let me move on to the question of a pan, the First Minister attempting to achieve the referendum by stealth. Not only did the First Minister announce her intention to take forward the bill on 24 April, but she was so stealthy about this that she sent a card to every single household in Scotland, every single one, which said that we will offer people a choice of a future for Scotland as an independent European nation. How stealthy is that? A stealth referendum? I have to say, absolutely. How stealthy was that? Can we calm down a bit, please, if we wish to listen to the cabinet secretary?  Excuse me, Mr Russell. It is very difficult for anyone to hear anything except front bench people shouting at each other. Let me now address the issues raised by Mr Tomkins. First of all, Mr Tomkins is a constitutional lawyer. He understands at Westminster that the Government proposes and Parliament scrutinises and decides. That is exactly what happens in the political parties, elections and referendum act passed by Westminster in the year 2000. It is exactly the same process. If the member wishes to have a system in which Parliament proposes the referendum, he can move to that system. It is not a system at Westminster, it is not a system here, but, of course, Parliament will be able to scrutinise and decide on every single detail. Finally, on the question of referendum, if there are developments to this bill that Mr Tomkins wishes to see, the bill itself is open to amendment. The bill will be going through a system in which that is a welcome matter, because I have always welcomed full debate on those matters. The problem with Mr Tomkins' position is that Mr Tomkins does not want this Parliament to decide. He wants Westminster to decide. No, no, no. He actually wants the Tory Prime Minister, whoever that is, to decide and simply say no. That is not democracy, that is not what we will be doing. Richard Leonard I thank the cabinet secretary for early sight of his statement. Labour delivered devolution. In the Scottish Parliament's 20th anniversary year, Labour continues to support and defend devolution. Up until Brexit, the devolution settlement, founded on the 1998 act, worked well. While it is evident that there is a breakdown of trust between the present UK Government and the devolved Administrations in Scotland and Wales, it is not because it is a UK Government, it is because it is a Tory Government. Cabinet secretary, you note in your statement that Theresa May, I quote, has had no interest in seeing the devolved settlement observed. However, it is clear that the SNP Government here does not observe the devolution settlement either and is once again seeking to advance the cause of the break-up of the United Kingdom. So does the cabinet secretary not understand that his party's obsession with the creation of a separate Scottish state is a distraction from the real issues that this Parliament was brought in existence to tackle? Michael Russell Let me start by just paying a brief tribute to my former shadow, Neil Findlay, who regrettably I do not think is in the chamber today. It is no secret that he and I were not soulmates, but I do regret that any individual has decided that they do not want to continue in the role, and I wish him absolutely well in the future.  I just also want to make the point that there are 14 members of the Labour group present. I just wonder where the others are. Are they still in office or still attending? However, let me come to the points about this referendum. I do not agree with that. I do not agree with Mr Leonard quite respectfully. I do not believe that this is in any sense a distraction, because the question that Mr Leonard has to address is this one. How does he achieve the things that he wants to see happen if there is a constant bloc upon them from a Tory Government at Westminster? We have not seen and I have lived through even more Tory Governments than Mr Leonard has lived through. The reality of the situation is that whatever happens, that is what is the bloc on progress in Scotland. There is an opportunity here to say how could we move forward to a more socially just, to a more fair, to a more equal Scotland? He and I have a genuine disagreement about how that will be done, but I have to say that the evidence of the last 50, 60, 70 years is on my side, because the evidence shows that it cannot be done through the United Kingdom, but it could be and should be done through this Scottish Parliament. Therefore, I would say to the Labour members to join us in that task, because actually in that task there would be a substantial majority in this chamber for the type of equal fair Scotland that we all want to see. The barrier to that happening is regrettably on those benches, but it lasts still on those benches too. It does not have to be like that. Patrick Harvie Thank you. I am also grateful for the advance copy of the statement and I welcome the publication of the bill today. I certainly commit to work with any other political party that has serious proposals for making the process more democratic and ensuring that powers are properly with Parliament, not ministers. We have done that before and we would be willing to do it again if there are serious proposals, even if some political parties have not recognised that the collapse in their vote last week does mean a necessity, a change in their position in relation to the political crisis that we are living through at the moment. One aspect of that crisis is the hacking of democracy. What we have seen is a growing body of evidence that the 2016 referendum was affected not only by empty promises on the side of a bus or racist rhetoric from Farage and Johnson but also by dodgy money and dodgy data. What opportunity is there to make sure that this bill prevents the future undermining of the democratic process in the same way as we saw in the 2016 EU referendum? Michael Russell I think that the member makes a very important point. We have seen in the referendum that it took place a great deal of shady activity and probably worse than shady activity. We see today, of course, a charge pending against one of the Tory leadership contenders for the misrepresentation. Of course, it is up to the courts to decide how that matter proceeds. In all those circumstances, I am very open to discussion with any party in this chamber that wants to strengthen legislation, not just this piece of legislation. Of course, there are two other bills due to come on electoral matters. One is on the franchise and the other is on the conduct of elections. It is certainly possible to look at how, after the members have seen those proposals, how they could be strengthened. I think that the whole chamber is showing that it supports democracy and the rules that underpin democracy would be a powerful message. I will work with anybody to send that message and to make sure that elections are run properly. Willie Rennie The cabinet secretary has learned nothing from the chaos of Brexit. Surely by now, even he must understand that the economic damage and national division that is caused by breaking up long-term economic partnerships, independence will mount chaos on top of the Brexit chaos. The minister has also got a lot to learn about building consensus. In one breath, he appeals to us all to work together reasonably and maturely before launching another attack on every single one of us. He has got an awful lot to learn about building consensus. He says that there are no preconditions for his cross-party talks. No preconditions apart from that is another independence referendum. Does he not understand that that is a major barrier to our participation in those talks? Michael Russell I regret that. I hope that Mr Rennie will think that matter through, because if there are no preconditions, there are new preconditions. The First Minister made it absolutely clear that cross-party talks are to look at alternatives that parties wish to bring forward. I have tried to create a structure for those who are non-confrontational, which allows people to take part without confrontation. I would hope that all the parties would take part in those, certainly through the first stage of talking to the interlocutor to see what the agendas are, because if there are alternatives, those alternatives should be put on the table. I cannot say fairer than that. It is important. The other question that needs to be addressed in here—I have put it in one form to Richard Leonard and Willie Rennie—is clearly what is the alternative to a no-deal Brexit when we get to that moment at Westminster. Do we just do what we are told? Do we just accept the economic chaos and disaster that will take place? He may not have sympathy with—and I do not have much sympathy with—the Secretary of State for Scotland, but the Secretary of State for Scotland described the potential of Brexit itself as an economic catastrophe. The reality is that that is where we are heading. That is where it is being driven by Tory leadership candidates. What will Mr Rennie do in those circumstances? That is a vital question, and he needs to answer it. Members will be aware of the inordinate time that party leaders' questions have taken. If I ask for brevity, please bear it in mind so that as many members as possible can get in. Tom Arthur is followed by Murdo Fraser. Does the cabinet secretary agree that it should be for the Scottish Parliament and not Westminster to decide on a question of whether people in Scotland are to be given a choice over their future, particularly given the chaos unfolding in the Westminster Parliament? Michael Russell. Yes, and if you substituted any other country for Scotland within that question, you would realise how obvious it is that, of course, the people of Scotland should decide on their own future. Murdo Fraser, followed by Jenny Gilruth. Thank you, Presiding Officer. The minister talked in his statement about consensus, about reconciliation and leaving behind negativity and nastiness, but he has never apologised for suggesting that our colleagues in Westminster are traitors to Scotland. In the spirit of reconciliation and a fresh start, will he now do so? Michael Russell. It is very difficult for me to apologise for something that I did not do, but let me try and reach out. If those colleagues and those people who support them on those benches were offended by that, I am sorry that that took place. Now, now, now, can we now perhaps accept that we should be looking forward to try and find a way in which we can work together? Will Murdo Fraser commit his party to sit down and have the conversations that we need to have? Jenny Gilruth, followed by Lady Smith. Thank you. Scotland overwhelmingly decided that it wanted to remain at the heart of Europe both in 2016 and in last week's EU elections. Can the cabinet secretary tell Parliament to what extent the UK Government has listened to the views of the people of Scotland during the Brexit process? Michael Russell. Well, not at all, because there has been, as I said in my statement, a deliberate attempt by the Prime Minister to ensure that those voices will not listen to. The Prime Minister is not the person who finds dialogue easier, I have to say. However, if there is to be a change, and we are all hoping for a positive change, I mean, I know that it has often proved not to be the case. It is always dangerous to say that things cannot get any worse, because clearly they sometimes can. However, in those circumstances, there is an opportunity for change at Westminster. The next meeting of the GMCEN will be held sometime in June. I would be delighted to discover that there was a changed attitude at it. Elaine Smith, followed by Annabelle Ewing. Thank you. In the thirteenth year of this Government, over a million people in Scotland are living in poverty with children going hungry, rough sleeping on the increase in pensioners unable to afford to heat their homes. So where does the SNP's priorities actually lie? The statement talks about consensus. When will the Scottish Government respond to the clear consensus of anti-poverty organisations calling for urgent action, make tackling poverty its priority, rather than focusing yet again on the constitution? Michael Russell. I mean, I would refer the member to the UN report last week. I think that it is quite important that we deal with facts. The UN report is absolutely clear where the responsibility alas lies. It lies with successive Westminster Governments, and I say to the members, as I have said to the leader of her party here, there is a way to move on from that, to do the incredibly hard work that we are required to recreate Scotland in a way in which we would like to see it recreated, where poverty is eliminated, but that requires us to have a national consensus about putting the resources of the country to the good of the country. We cannot do that unless we have control of those resources. This is a simple issue. I commend the member for her passion about this. It is a passion that she has felt strongly. It is a passion that she is right to feel strongly. Poverty shames Scotland, but the only way that we will move on fully and finally from that is to make sure that all the resources, all the effort of the country, is devoted to that, and that cannot be done within the current settlement. Annabelle Ewing, followed by Donald Cameron. In relation to the Scottish Government offer of cross-party talks, does the cabinet secretary believe that there could be some consensus around, for example, migration, given Scotland's particular circumstances, recognised most recently by, for example, the director general of the CBI? Michael Russell. I think that the member makes a very strong good point. I have been on panels with opposition members. We have all been able to agree, even the Conservatives have been able to agree, that the devolution of migration is something that should move forward. The problem is the timescale and the decision-making process. There is no timescale for that. The decision-making process in the Tory Government has been entirely negative. The current Prime Minister is a woman obsessed by migration. She is against any form of migration. She talks with pride about ending freedom of movement. That is a matter of grave shame and real damage to Scotland. What could happen is, if there was a willingness to change—for example, the Conservatives could bring that to the cross-party talks—we could agree that that point was put to Westminster with the complete agreement of this chamber, and we would hope that that would have some effect. I am very happy that that could happen. There is something that could be backed by every single one of us. I just hope that that might be something that, in those talks, could move forward. Sorry, there are some members of the Tory party that are not willing to back that. That is a pity, because the effect of ending freedom of movement will be profoundly felt in every single constituency and region of Scotland that they represent. Donald Cameron Thank you. Does the cabinet secretary believe that referendums under this bill should be advisory or binding? Can he point me to the provision in this bill that states that the Scottish Government will respect the result of referendums? Michael Russell I think that you have to be firm on one side or the other. For example, the UK Government and the EU referendum was meant to be advisory, but the pan in eye is the most binding thing that you could possibly decide on and cannot be changed in any way. If the member wants to seriously engage with the bill—and I am sure that he does want to seriously engage with the bill—let us have that debate as to what the right thing to happen is. It is a rather curious position that we have just heard from Mr Tomkins. Mr Tomkins has lambasted us for apparently not having any desire to have Parliament involved in this. I have just said let us have Parliament to debate about this, and Mr Tomkins shouts what is your view. The reality of the situation is that you carry wind with them, but I do hope that we can have that debate, and we will come down on one side or the other, and maybe it will be an amendment from one of the Tories that allows us to do so. That concludes questions in the cabinet secretary's statement. Apologies to Stuart McMillan, James Kelly and Fulton MacGregor for being unable to bring them in. We will move on to the next item of business.


Alicia, can you just please let's begin with, how did you hear about hungry generation and what was your life like before you gave your life to Christ? I was invited to come last year and I came a couple of times but it wasn't until earlier at the beginning of this year that I was dedicated to this church. Prior to hungry generation, I grew up in a Catholic background. We went to church regularly. God was in our life but I don't believe I started following him until I came here. My life was consumed with fear. It was something that I didn't realize but until recently that it was passed down to me and then I had passed down to my girls and it basically everything we did revolved around it and it became a normal. I didn't know that we were covered with the spirit of fear and it was a generational curse. And so a lot of times we have those normal fears of we're like okay don't go here because obviously the aftermath if you were to jump off a cliff there's some of those natural fears but tell us a little bit about the fear that was operating in your life that almost just took away your peace and just took away your everyday living. As a little girl, I couldn't go play outside because someone was going to kidnap me. It ended up being to where I tell people until I got married and left my parents home. I was my mother's charm bracelet because if we went to a restaurant I couldn't walk to the bathroom by myself. I had to have my mother come with me. I was a teenager in high school who couldn't go to the bathroom by herself. My children, my oldest, she is so well behaved because I used the same tactics my parents did raising me which were the scare tactics you know you got to stay in line and be good and do as I tell you otherwise God's going to punish you and that was basically what it was. The bad things that happened in our life was because we did something wrong and God was punishing us and we accepted it and we were going to live the punishment and my youngest potty training her was hard because even the flushing of the toilets terrified her. She would tremble. She would hold her ears. She would scream because little things like that going to the ocean to vacation the waves just terrified her the sounds everything. So I realized after reading the break free series that it was the spirit of fear that was consuming us and it wasn't just me but it came down from my mom and it came down from her mom and her dad and that we as a child of God had the authority to not live it that we can take ownership of this and say no you are not welcome here. So as soon as I started learning more of the word of God and when I started coming here when I started coming here earlier this year I decided to give my life to Jesus. That day I met Kelly and she invited me to her home group two days later I was at her house and after home group she helped me aside and said God talk to me today and she said and he sorry Kelly said God talk to me today and he said that he wanted me to give you a few Bible verses the first one was Psalms 91 and the sex the second one was Exodus 12 and with that she also gave me a tiny vial of oil that she bought in Bethlehem and she said I know this was meant for you and God wants me to tell you that you don't need to be afraid anymore so when you go home you pray around your house and you put oil over your doors and your windows and you pray and it's gonna be okay immediately I started crying because for the first time I knew God was hearing my prayers from years of years of living in fear he was hearing my prayers immediately after I noticed my girls were no longer afraid to be at home they didn't know they didn't know why they were so afraid but they knew something was had them terrified and I talked to them and I said we're gonna pray and they didn't need to be afraid anymore and I could see the difference and it wasn't until recently that I knew it was just overwhelming us the fear in our home and it wasn't necessarily us but just the pass down of this of the spirit and so earlier in the month of November Kelly prayed over Aliana after one of our churches this is Aliana right here Kelly prayed over Aliana and two days later when we went to home group I took the girls with me and we all prayed as a group together and later on that week Aliana decided to give her heart to Jesus it was on November 16th the next day we saw my mother and she was just all over the place and my mom says what's going on with her why is she so happy and jumping off the walls and I said that's the spirit of God mom the day after my Viviana right here this is Viviana she decided to give her life to Jesus and we went to visit my father afterwards and my father's wife says why are all you girls so happy there's a change in you and I said because we gave our lives to Christ all of us since then I've noticed Aliana who is mostly tormented the worst of all of us she talks herself out of being afraid she sees things that terrify her and I can hear her saying no it's not this it's not that and like takes that away on her own come on come on and I know that it wasn't just because I've been you know dedicated to church and whatnot it's because I've learned that this isn't something we have to live with and we can't take authority of it and remove it from our lives so I've learned that this is something we can take care of ourselves and it's not something we have to deal with so I've decided that I was gonna purchase a book for each one of my mom's family members her sisters and her brothers and give it to them for Christmas the break free series because as Catholics these are things that we are sheltered from we are protected from those scary things but they use those to keep us in line and I really want my family to know that we don't have to live like this at all we don't have to amen thank you so much Alisa give them another just great applause thank you so much


السلام عليكم ورحمة الله وبركاته. بكم في إحقام SOS. The show that discusses Islamic duties and practices by the grand ayatollah and says Sadik Shirazi. May Allah prolong his life. I'm your host, Mosse, and joining me on my host is Sheikh Ali Mahaaash. السلام عليكم. السلام عليكم ورحمة الله. إن شاء الله will be discussing Taqleed and Ejdehaad in Sha Allah. شخنا, what for those people who don't understand? What is Ejdehaad? What is Taqleed? سم الله الرحمن الرحيم مصر الله على محمد وعاله الطيبين الطاهرين والله مصر الله على محمد وعاله الطيبين الطاهرين تقليد وعاله بالتقليد now when as I've mentioned the previous episode that somebody who lacks knowledge or he's ignorant in a specific field he needs to go back to the expert so تقليد basically means to follow to imitate to follow those who know those who have knowledge those who are experts in a specific field in their subject and for the religious rulings because there are extensive and sophisticated rules and missiles in religion that requires those who have spent years in studying in the seminary of Hausa and deducting and extracting the Achaam from its main sources i.e. the Qur'an and the Hadith and the consists of the علماء and the Aqa those four sources that be able to offer those who don't know the Achaam and the rulings and of course for مقلد the one who has the duty of following those experts those scholars is to go back to them, ask them and that's actually an obligatory act that is wajib because at the end of the day we as humans we need experts in all aspects of life and specifically in faith in religion we need to go back to those who know very well the inside out of religion be it in the Holy Qur'an or in regard to the holy narrations by the Holy Prophet and his family peace be upon them all and to do with other issues the ethics, even politics, society, education and so forth we need to go back to those who know and when he created mankind he did not leave that mankind to hang around in this world and to just roam around this world without purpose, without a reason so he sent the prophets he sent the holy books the sayings of the prophets the Ahadith and so forth and thus the duty of the علماء they come forward they study well in depth to reach the stage of اشتهاد and to reach the stage in which they can extract deeply and deduct the احكام and the rulings from its sources and then offer it to those who follow them so that's تقليد and that's اشتهاد in brief and of course with regard to the علماء and scholars I mentioned initially two narrations the first one by Imam Al-Hussain peace be upon him where he said verily the paths to Muslims and the religious laws are in the hands of the godly scholars the godly scholars who are the trustees of Allah in his lawful and unlawful things so the Imam SAW a foundation that the pious and the just علم and the scholar in the school of أهلبيت is the one that we have to follow they actually guide us to the right path they actually show us the lawful act from the unlawful act the right act from the wrong act they actually interpret and represent the narrations of أهلبيت because in the time of disappearance of Imam Al-Mahdi عجل الله رجوه الشريف we have to refer back to scholars who are experts in this field the field of شريع and religion because we don't have any other access to the Imam SAW the Imam has the duty now to be away in occultation and disappearance from the public there is wisdom behind this aspect as the Imam and the Hadith explains that as the sun goes behind the clouds but you still get the benefit of the sun the sunlight, the heat and so forth so the Imam SAW is away in occultation for some purposes that Allah knows so the scholars are there to offer guidance to offer the answers to many questions many difficult and complex questions that not everyone can be able to go and find the Hadith and then bring the answer out so it's their expertise who would go forward study well and bring to us the answers to these questions the second Hadith I would mention as well from Imam أمير المؤمن عليه السلام he says the reward of a religious scholar is greater than the reward of a person who is fasting on days imagine there's a worshiper who fasts days and establishes prayers during the night so fast in the daytime and prays and he does the Ibadah and worship in nighttime and fights in the holy war imagine three main acts of a mu'min to fast, to pray and worship in the middle of the night and to go to the holy war imagine the enemy is attacking you know you have to defend yourself your family, your community, your country your religion so the Imam سلام عليه السلام the scholars are greater and better than these individuals and fights in the holy war for the sake of Allah and when a religious scholar dies there will appear a gap in Islam which cannot be compensated except by your placement of the kind scholar so imagine even when a scholar dies there's a huge gap will remain open until we have another scholar who would actually come in the place of that scholar and continue the journey of conveying the message of Allah and his messenger to the general public and to the rest of humanity till Allah سمع تعالى reappears the Imam as-zaman عجل الله فارج شريف and we'll be with him Insha'Allah Insha'Allah so Shaykhana you were discussing about each day hard and you know the different skills and you know the different lessons and techniques required now you're a man of Hausa can you discuss a little bit about what sort of knowledge what sort of subjects maybe how long would it take to get to a stage of each day hard so for example do you need to be an expert in Quran or do you need to know a lot about history do you need to know a lot about what subjects would you learn and roughly how long is the duration until you get to a level of each day hard basically each day hard requires a lot of study as I've mentioned to be able to reach that stage where you can actually deduct and extract the Haqam from its sources from the Hadith that of course initially requires the دعاءة from Allah سمع تعالى seeking Allah's support and the Prophet and his family's support as well and that also requires that the person who goes in Hausa to study different subjects so it's not only just فق and أصول he needs to study for example Arabic language syntax Arabic منطق for example logic and the Quran itself the تفسير of the Quran to understand the meanings of the verses and its interpretations by هلبيت عليم السلام for example what they've said about a specific ayah also the Hadith to know علم الحديث the knowledge of the Hadith so when the scholar is faced with numerous Hadith about specific topic he would be able to differentiate between the strong Hadith and the weak Hadith and so forth also علم الرجال the the science of the chain of narrators that's very important as well to know who is a trustee narrator who is not and that actually gives us the results of the authentication of that specific Hadith in which the scholar and the فق who would base his فتوا according to that narration for example so it's very important that the فق who would study many many different subjects that to be able to reach this stage and be able to issue فتوا a religious ruling in which people are reliant on this فتوا and on the scholar be it to do with blood be it to do with marriage نكاح be it with money and treasure and so forth very important aspects of life so for the فق and the scholar needs to really work hard I don't want to say how many years it depends on the capability of that person who studies حوزة and فقها نصول some may reach in 10 years some less some more it depends on the ability of that person who actually is studying these subjects Is there a difference between اجتهاد and مرجعية or is it the same thing meaning someone who has reached the level of اجتهاد as in he's done all the lessons and he studied very well and now he's qualified he's a مجتهد can you do the clean of that person or is مرجعية a step higher and further up from اجتهاد basically اجتهاد is the way and the pathway towards the مرجعية اجتهاد is where you gain that level of being able to extract the احكام from its sources that ملك as they say the ability of issuing the your opinions according to the Holy Qur'an's verses and according to the نرجوص فحل بيت and the Holy Prophet صلى الله عليه وسلم but however some would remain to be مجتهد but not to actually issue their رسالة عمالية the book of duties and rules Islamic rules and they would remain teaching what is called بحت الخارج and some would go further and announce their مرجعية and they publish رسالة عمالية the Islamic rules and duties and become مرجع so مرجعية basically it's to do with managing people's affairs with regard to religion what is allowed what is not allowed what is obligation and what is forbidden so it's it's more wider prospect it's to do with leadership some people would just avoid leading people for example and continue studying and teaching and nurturing students but مرجعية is more to do with leadership of the Ummah of Muslims who follow أهلبيت السلام عليهم okay I sent them now we have discussed this before but just a quick reminder for those people who think مرجعية and تقليد is not واجب what are the proofs to say that تقليد is واجب yes basically تقليد is واجب of the Gay Tree due to the fact that according to the evidence I brought last episode for example the rational evidence that you have to go back to the experts you have to refer back to those who know and ask them for your queries and likewise the textural evidence as I mentioned also last episode that you also have to go back to those who know the knowledge of religion as the Holy Qur'an has stated ask those who know we go back to those who have taught us and instructed us to ask those who are proficient in the علم الدين the knowledge of religion and because we haven't got that time and capability of becoming مشتهد and مرجع or jurisprudence then we have no choice except to do the تقليد which means to follow to imitate that scholar who spent his years and years of his time in studying and educating and nurturing students so تقليد is the best option for those who don't want to be in the position of finding difficulties in studying and understanding the science of Qur'an or the science of Hadith or the science of the narrators and narrations and so forth so it's the best option is to do تقليد and that just makes it easier but however that's the first option تقليد is the first option the other two option which is mentioned is احتياط احتياط is one of those capabilities also for those who are not be able to do it I mean احتياط but you have to be able to study and read the opinions of the past Maraja and the present Maraja and to be able to follow the the rule in which is more towards the احتياط side the precaution side and that is really difficult if you want to go back to every rule and try to find the opinions of various Maraja that's going to be really difficult what if there's two or three Maraja say this answer and two or three Maraja say that answer then what happens there again this is what الحمد لله we have in the school of Ahlbaita عليوم السلام that احتياط means be able to study and extract and deduct from the source of the Islam and be able to give your own opinions your own interpretation and understanding of religion so that's a normal fact that we have the اشتهاد that different opinions of Adama why not but the the individual he's decided to do احتياط now he's got loads of the Amaliyas and let's just say each one gives a different answer which one he's going to follow he follows the one which has more احتياط and precaution act for example I'll bring the extra strong extras keep away extra precaution the most precaution query he would follow it so if let's say the مرجع says one of the مرجع says it's wajib to say three times سبحان الله الحمد لله in the third on the fourth ركع of the daily prayer and the one says you have to say once then he has he has to follow the one who says three times for the احتياط he can't follow the one who says you can say once so it's really difficult as they say in the books it's really او حديم which means only the lonely people who can actually do it it's really difficult but as I've said the best option is تقليد to follow to find the مرجع and with I'm going to mention شاء الله later on the conditions of a مرجع of a scholar and basically احتياط and to be مرجع so with احتياط I mean for the one needs to put a lot of efforts to be able to understand this science of قرآن and حديث and that actually requires a lot of work which means you have to leave everything you have I mean work pleasures interests in the علامة spent 40-50 years in a little room studying reading and so forth it's it's a really difficult job it requires a lot of emphasis a lot of pray and ask Allah to give that person support to be able to reach that stage and then don't forget the managing of the people's effort that's another issue to become a مرجع means you're like a leader a Muslim leader who millions follow you so I think it requires a lot of initially توكل and relying on Allah سبحانه وتعالى and support from Allah and his messenger and the prophet's progeny as well as efforts in studying and understanding was important to understand the narrations and to understand the Holy Qur'an very well the one who understands very well and be able to extract and deduct the أحكام then of course he is capable of leading the people and being able to issue fatwa as well so شيخنا there's a nice white book you've got there which is رصالة عملية what can one person assume and expect to find in such a book basically in every scholar's book of rules and duties and practices of the Islam there are two main things in each book number one is عبادات which means the worship so starting from the the rules of praying of salah the rules of fasting of Hajj and then we have the second part of the book which talks about the معاملات the transactions the contracts such as of financial transactions contracts marriage divorce all these issues are in this رصالة عملية book by every scholar and of course each scholar gives his own opinions in some of them the majority of the مسائل they are similar to each other so the differences are in some of the some of the rules not in all of them so there are some kind of commonality between the مسائل of ألماء it's just some of them in which they each give his own opinion for example if what is najis what is not najis for example some have some opinions about specific نجاصات and so forth and of course such books are available for the مسائل actually they can buy it from the bookstores in their own countries and in their own language and they can also download it from the related website of their scholar internet in pdf for example and they can try to read it every day you know one or two مسائل a day it's important for the individual to face many issues in the daily life so if I don't know what is forbidden and what is obligatory I'm going to end at the end of the day committing a sin without knowing without knowledge but it's my fault because I didn't read and ask so the whole idea of these books is to the followers to go back to read them well and be able to practice these أحكام accordingly and the purpose and the aim is to please Allah سبحانه وتعالى أحسنتو أحسنت شيخ thank you very much for joining us on this episode of أحكام SOS I hope it's very beneficial for you and if you have any queries or any questions in regards to أحكام please send them to the contact details provided I will see you in the next episode السلام عليكم ورحمة الله وبركاته


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Hi, good morning. I'm Peter Bates here. I'm the director of properties here at Maine Audubon and I'm coming to you during peony week Those of you who are Maine Audubon members Likely realize we typically have a peony day Celebration kind of an ice cream social for our members where we gather around the peonies have ice cream have a band Well, this is not a typical year. So I thought this year give you a little bit of a Virtual tour of the garden and give you a little bit of background that you may not be aware of as to how the gardens got here and a few things about how we care for the peonies First I should say that those of you who are Maine Audubon members and are aware of our mission One of our big focuses nowadays is to work on native plants which form the basis of the food web that supports You know insects right up to birds and small mammals Peonies don't fall into that category. Peonies are not a native plant But they have a special place here at Gilslin farm because they're they're a legacy plant The peonies here are at least 69 years old and I tell you that because this farm was once owned by David Moulton And David Moulton back in the first half of the 19th of the 20th century Grew hundreds of varieties of peonies and sold them all over the country and he died in 1951 even 69 years later if you go into some of the fields out here, you can see some of his old production beds Now these peonies here This was not one of his production beds This area was created by volunteers at Maine Audubon some Volunteers very dedicated volunteers who really worked hard to do this I can tell you it's hard work because I've dug some of these from the field and when you dig us You know a 70 year old plant. It's got a big root ball on it But they moved all these up here made seven rows of peonies And made this more of the formal garden so although you'll find some off in the field They won't flower like this because these get great sun and we also put down a light dusting of compost each year But peonies are very popular garden plant because they're perfectly hardy for Maine You know, they're reliable flower They can take some abuse It's not many plants that you could put out in a meadow here and leave them for 70 years and still have evidence of them So they're they're really a legacy from David Moulton He died in 1951 as I mentioned his daughter and her husband Maurice Freeman and Ruth Ruth was his daughter Donated the property to Maine Audubon in the mid 70s and we preserved these gardens as a Legacy to them. I mean they're beautiful that was his passion his life's work and we are of course very grateful to him and his family for providing us with this headquarters and sanctuary location and of course they're beautiful if you grow these at home typically you would put like a round metal hoop kind of like half of a tomato hoop to keep the heavy blooms from falling over if you can see here We have wires because we have long rows so the wires help hold them up It's not a perfect system, but it works pretty well If you're going to grow these at home, you probably want some way of keeping them up You can also do it with a string and a rope around it But when they get a little bit of rain on them, they're going to tend to fall down with the weight One of the other things I thought I'd mentioned about them because I think it's a common and enduring sort of myth about peonies is that they need ants to open the flower buds and You know, sometimes you'll find a flower bud like this It's getting ready and and they'll be ants crawling on it But really what it is it's an example of mutualism the ants come up because On the sepul of the plants There's little ducts that produce nectar and the and the ants feed on that So you see ants scurrying all over the buds But they're not required for it the good part and the thing that makes them a mutualistic relationship is That their presence keeps away other insects that might feed on the flower head so it's a kind of a win-win type situation and But they're not strictly necessary for the peonies to flower as I mentioned earlier peonies are kind of a Carefree plant in a lot of ways. They're very tough and durable But we still like to perform some maintenance so they can look their best To a large part if you've planted them in good soil that drains they don't like wet feet So it has to be a draining soil and a reasonably good soil. We try and keep the weeds and other competition out That just strengthens the plant We also in the It varies depending on our schedule, but when we can put a light dusting of compost on it's just a natural method of Letting the organic material work itself down as it would in nature from the Decay of leaves and other things like that the one of the things that I should note about when the Volunteers move these and I think that was back in a talk to a gardener and I believe that was in the mid-1980s One of the things that they had to look out for and then you do have to be careful about with peonies And there's not a lot to be careful about but if you give them good sun and reasonable Water and soil they'll do fine, but the one thing you have to be careful of is not to plant them too deep Typically if you buy it from a nursery It's going to be in a pot and you can plant it at that level and feel comfortable that you're going to be okay But when you transplant them And the soil is falling off here and there it is very important that you get the level right Otherwise you can get a whole lot of leaves and very few flowers and kind of that sweet spot is to have the eyes the little red Shoots that you find at the base there have them one to two inches below grade Most of these are whites and pinks. There are some reds. I noticed a few years ago that we were short on reds So I dug I tagged some that I saw in the wild field down there so that I could dig them in the fall I would know which ones to dig and brought up so now we have a few more reds here, but this is the primary Assortment if you do visit I would ask that you know We're trying to run it like a supermarket aisle that you kind of go in the aisle one way and out the other end And that way we don't have to worry about people crossing and such like that Kind of to wrap up a little bit Peonies are a lovely plant but we like to maintain them as a memorial and A legacy of David Edward Moulton and his family So I'm often reminded of him and that's why I give you that brief background of him and Show you some of his work, which we still enjoy today