We are in the month of Muharram, this is a sacred month, this is a month in which we should remember the struggles of the family of the Prophet ﷺ because they were in his footsteps. The struggles of the Ahlul Baytul Rasulullah ﷺ is extremely important for us as Ahlul Sunnah wal Jama'ah. This is something that is foundational in our religion and I think it's a great unifying factor, a great unifying force of all Muslims. Imam Malik Ibn Anas, radiAllahu ala anhu, his judgment on jid'al bina al-awwam that polemical discourse or debate amongst lay Muslims, amongst the lay people, he said it's haram. And you go into certain masajid or MSAs, you see people, students who have no requisite knowledge, debating in a polemical style, type of way, making taqfir of each other about Ash-Ali, Mathuridi and Sunni and Shia and Salafi and Wahhabi according to Imam Malik, this is haram, this type of discourse. Now does that mean that we can't have dialogue and we should have dialogue, right? Something like this should take place in a masjid, right? This is tasawwuf. Tasawwuf is just a technical term for ihsan, right? Ihsan is in the Qur'an. Inna allaha yuhidbul muhsineen. Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala loves the muhsineen. The Prophet ﷺ was asked about ihsan in hadith, jibreel, sound hadith, sahib khari, what did he say? Anta'abud Allah haka anna ka taraa. To worship Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala as though you see him and if you don't see him then no, be cognizant that indeed he sees you. To worship Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala as if raptured in the beatific vision of Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala. This is the prophetic way of worship.  Imagine the scene on the yawm al qiyama when the jihannam is brought near and we're going to see it with aina liaqeen according to the Qur'an.  This is the prophetic worship. This is the worship, the ibadah of the Prophet ﷺ. To have this type of dhawq, Imam Qazali talks about it. He calls it dhawq, to taste of the faith. And he criticizes the formalists who are changing definitions. Even at his time, he says they're changing definitions. The word fiqh has a different definition at his time than it did with the salaf. The word fiqh at the time of Imam Qazali just meant how to make wudhu and how to make hajj and things like that. What does fiqh mean? Fiqh means the essence of the religion. It's the essence. In this sense, all of the sahaba were fuqaha in this sense. There's different types. Obviously there's a jurisprudential aspect of fiqh and that's very important. But fiqh literally means a deep understanding of the religion, to taste the essence of the religion, to have taqeeq actualize the religion. Like Hanzala, I came to Abu Bakr as-Sadiq and he said, I've become a Munafiq and Abu Bakr as-Sadiq, radiAllahu ta'ala anhu said, Why do you say this about yourself? And he said because when I sit in the Majlis of the Messenger of Allah ﷺ, I have taqeeq, I have dhuq, I taste my faith. The paraphrase is what he said. I have a strong spirituality. He talks about Jannah and Nahr and I have this really strong spirituality. Then I leave his presence and it starts to wane. And I go back to how I was. I've become a Munafiq. This is what he said. And Abu Bakr as-Sadiq said, That happens to me too. Let's go ask the Messenger ﷺ and the Prophet ﷺ said, No, you haven't become a Munafiq. If you were to remain in that state, as you are in my presence, then you'd be shaking hands with angels in the street. Right? But we should have a dialogue about these things. Abu Qasim al-Junayn, Qadza Sallahu Sirrah, he said that our knowledge, ʿal-muna muqayyidun bi-kitābi la wa sunnahu rasūlihi ﷺ, he is one of the great articulators of tasawwaf, of ihsan, of Islamic spiritualism, mysticism. He said our knowledge is nothing more than knowledge that is tied to the Book of Allah ﷺ and the sunnah of his Messenger ﷺ. It's not coming out of nowhere. It's not bida'a. It's not taken from Christianity. It's not taken from Hinduism. Right? There were things that were borrowed. There's no doubt about it as far as practices go. But the ʿakīdah, from a standpoint of creed, this is based firmly in the Qur'an and sunnah of the Messenger ﷺ. So to begin, Allah ﷺ says in the Qur'an, ʿul la ʿasalukum ʿalahi ʿajran illa al-muwadadah fi al-Qurba. Allah ﷺ says, ʿul fi al-amr. This is an imperative command. Say to them, no reward do I ask of you for this, except that you love the ʿQurba. Who is ʿQurba? According to the vast majority of exigents of the Qur'an, this is a reference to the ahl al-bayt of the Prophet Muhammad ﷺ. We are commanded in the Qur'an to love the family of the Prophet ﷺ. In a famous line of poetry by Abu Muhammad ʿIbn al-Dulīsa ʿShāfiʿī, a great scholar, ʿahlu sunnah wa l-jamaʿah, ʿizyāʿ alabayti ʿrasūlillāh ʿhubbukum ʿfaradun ʿminalahi fi al-kitāb. Oh, family of the Messenger of God, your love is obligatory and come upon us from Allah based in the Kitāb, based in the Qur'an. Man lam yusāli ʿalaykum la ʿsalātala. Whoever doesn't send benedictions upon you in the prayer, there is no prayer for him. Imam ʿShāfiʿī considered it a rukun, a pillar of the ʿsalāt that you send benedictions of peace upon the Prophet ﷺ and his family. Or else, your prayer doesn't count. Right? ʿmujtahid ʿahlu sunnah wa l-jamaʿah. ʿAllah ʿsubḥāna wa ʿta'ālās, ʿinna ʿLlāhā wa ʿmalā'ika ʿtuhū, ʿyusallūna ʿalā n'nabī. Allah ʿsubḥāna wa ʿtaʿālā, and this demonstrates the greatness of ʿas-salāʿālā ʿnabī, of benedictions upon the Prophet ﷺ. That this is something that Allah ʿsubḥāna wa ʿta'ālā, who is Allah ʿsubḥāna wa ʿta'ālā? ʿrabbu ʿsamāwāti wa ʿal-ʿarḍ. ʿkhaliku kulli shay'in. The one who created everything is engaged in this activity. Sending blessings of peace upon the Prophet ﷺ. ʿinna ʿLlāh wa ʿmalā'ika ʿtuhū. And the angels also are sending blessings of peace upon the Prophet ﷺ. Yet there are some Muslims who say don't over-praise the Prophet ﷺ. Is it possible to over-praise? We talked about this last night. Is it even possible? Right? As one of the scholars said, one of the poets said, ʿwallāhu qad ʿathna ʿalayhi. ʿfa ma yusāwil qawla minna ʿaw yukūnu ʿthanāna. If Allah praises him, what is our praise in comparison? In the Ulema used the analogy of putting a needle into the ocean and extracting the needle. And then comparing the water and the ocean with the water on the needle. Can you over-praise the Prophet ﷺ? ʿfa inna ʿfadla ʿrasūli ʿlāhi ʿlayi ʿsalahu ʿhad. Umam Buseyri says, and the famous ode to the cloak, the burda, that there is no end to the praiseworthy attributes of the Prophet ﷺ. There's hadith regarding this. ʿubayb ʿibnu ʿkaʿb ʿrādi'allāhu ʿanhu came to the Prophet ﷺ. How much of my daily benedictions should I spend on blessings upon you? ʿrubʿʿʿan, he said a quarter of it. The Prophet ﷺ said, good, that's good, but more is better. ʿnisfahu ʿhalf of it, that's good, but more is better. Three quarters of it, that's good, but more is better. ʿkullāhu ʿall of my ʿathqār ʿis ʿas-salāʿan an-nabī. That's good. This is what the Prophet ﷺ told him. He didn't say ʿastāl ʿfur ʿallāhi ʿash-shirk. ʿbidaʿʿʿ, no. ʿkufr, no. The Prophet ﷺ is teaching his ʿsahābah. If all of your ʿathqār, all of your ʿathqār is ʿas-salāʿan an-nabī, that's good. And there's no way you can overpraise the Prophet ﷺ. Except if you say something that is categorically, that is categorically rejected in the Qur'an or in the hadith. Right? It's hadith of Tirmidī. It's quoted by our brethren all the time. Don't flatter me like the Christians have flattered ʿisa ʿalayhi ʿsalām. The Prophet ﷺ uses the particle of comparison ʿkamaa. What does ʿkamaa mean? Like they have done. So what is rejected in the Qur'an? Categorically rejected. The Christians say, what about ʿisa ʿalayhi ʿsalām? They say, he's ʿibbun ʿAllah. We don't say that about the Prophet ﷺ. They say, he is ʿAllah. That's what they say. Nobody is saying this about the Prophet ﷺ. Right? So we have to understand when he says ʿsalā ʿalayhi ʿsalām don't do to me what the Christians did but their Prophet ﷺ. What did the Christians do to their Prophet ﷺ? You have to understand what they did. That's rejected in the Qur'an. And something that is ʿdilil ʿqaṭʿī. But sending blessings of peace upon the Prophet ﷺ, that's only a good thing. The brother ʿisa ʿalayhi ʿalayhi ʿalāhi ʿasharār. It's only for our benefit. Whoever sends blessings of peace upon me once, Allah ﷺ sends blessings of peace upon him ﷺ ten times. Ten times. There is sound ʿadīth. ʿajeeb ʿadīth. The Prophet ﷺ says ʿinna ʿa ʿrāsi ʿmalakun yuballighun ʿi ʿsalāta ʿalayya ʿmin ʿummati. There is an angel. He's talking about his time in the grave, in the barzakh. That there is an angel seated at my head who conveys ʿsalām to me from my nation.  An angel. This is what he says. Sound ʿadīth of al-Bazar. This sound ʿadīth. ʿaradu bil ʿi ʿsani ʿaw kama qāla ʿalayhi ʿsalātu ʿwas-salām. Except on Friday, I can hear it with my ear. Allah is powerful. He's omnipotent. If Allah ﷻ wants to make his Nabi ʿsalāli ʿalayhi ʿsalām hear something in the grave, very easy for Allah ﷻ. ʿinna ʿla ʿala ʿkulli ʿshayin ʿqadir ʿinna ʿla ʿayu ʿsmiru ʿma yashā ʿin the Qur'an. Allah causes to hear whomever he wills. ʿtu ʿaradu ʿalayhi ʿaʿma ʿalakum ʿadīth ʿibnu ʿibban. Sound ʿadīth, ʿtu ʿaradu ʿalayhi ʿaʿma ʿalakum. Your deeds are presented to me. Yom al-Khamis on Friday. Does that mean the Prophet ﷺ judges our deeds? No, don't put words into his mouth. ʿsalālu ʿalayhi ʿsalām. This is harām. Denying what he said is also harām. Whatever he offers you, you take it. You don't deny it. You take it. This is what he said. This is ʿsahih ʿadīth. Rigorously authenticated ʿadīth that your deeds are presented to me on Thursday. If I see good, I praise Allah. And if I see other than that, I ask Allah ﷻ for forgiveness for you. He is ʿraḥmatil ʿalameen. His life does not end at death. Death is not annihilation. This is not Hinduism. Death is not... He's not... It's not over at his passing from this dunya. He continues to be ʿraḥmatil ʿalameen. Continues to be ʿraḥmatil ʿalameen. So a few ʿadīth I want to mention here with regards to love of Ahl al-Bayt. The Prophet ﷺ said, ʿaddibu ʿawlādakum ʿalā thalāth.  He said ʿadīth ʿirmidī ʿahibbu ʿlāḥ lī mā yuqduḥ um bihi min nīʿmihi. Love Allah for His blessings upon you. If we just contemplate one of the blessings of Allah ﷻ, it will necessarily engender love for Allah ﷻ. You know, someone sees us on the street, a perfect stranger comes up to us and gives us a thousand dollars in cash. Imagine how appreciative you'd be. Here's a gift for you. I don't even know you. Here's a thousand dollars. Your heart might actually incline towards that person. You might have love for that person.  You might actually love that person.  Just contemplate that. It will engender necessarily love for Allah SWT. This is what the Prophet SAW is saying. Love Allah for His blessings upon you. Wa ahibbunili hubbillah. And love me for the sake of Allah SWT. Wa ahibbu ahli bayti li hubbih. And love my family for my sake. Awkama qala alayhi salatu wa salam. One of the companions asked the Prophet SAW after the latter part of that verse was revealed in which Allah SWT says, Ya ayyuha alladheena aminu sallu alayhi wa sallim utaslima. Right? Allahumma salli wa sallim ala Muhammad wa la alihi wa sahbihi wa sallam. They asked him, Kaifanu salli alayk Ya Rasulullah, how do we do that? How do we send benedictions upon you? How do we pray upon you? And he said, Saykul Allahumma salli ala Muhammad wa ala ali Muhammad. Right? So, blessings and peace upon the Prophet SAW and the family of the Prophet SAW. So, then the question arises, who are the Ahlul Bayt? Are the wives of the Prophet SAW and Mahatul Minin included in the Ahlul Bayt? There's difference of opinion. The dominant opinion, Ahlul Sunnah wal Jama'a is that yes, one of the wider meanings of Ahlul Bayt includes the mothers of the believers and there's a hadith of Zaid Ibn Arkam which makes that very, very clear because there are some people who say it only includes the wives of the Prophet SAW. Right? So, there's a hadith I want to show you or quote to you, very interesting hadith which shows the exalted status of Ahlul Bayt and identifies them very clearly. It's called Hadith al-Qisa. This is in Muslim and Tabarani. It is a sound hadith rigorously authenticated. So, we are told that it's related by Umm Salama radiya Allahatul anha which he says that the Prophet SAW was in her quarters and he was sleeping on a quisa khaybari like a sack or a cloth khaybari. And Fatima Az-Zahra alaihi salam, she walks into the room and she has some sweets or some desserts or something. Right?  So, she goes and gets Imam Ali alaihi salam and Ahlul Sunnah, you can say alaihi salam for Ahlul Bayt. Imam Bukhari says in Sahih Bukhari, Fatima alaihi salam. Imam Bukhari says this, it's not bid'a not kufr, nothing like that. Okay? So, go get Imam Ali. So, he comes with Al-Hasanain, Al-Hasan Imam Hussain alaihi salam. They're sitting on this quisa khaybari. This is a sababun nuzul. This is the occasion of the revelation of the verse which Allah SWT says, إنما يريد الله اليوذهب عنكم الرجزة أهل البيت ويطهيركم تطهيرا.   Oh Allah, this is the Ahl al-Bayt. And then we're told in the hadith Umm As-Salama, right? She wants to duck her head underneath the quisa as well. And the Prophet says, أنت إلى خير, you're okay, right? So the wider meaning of Ahl al-Bayt according to the Ulama includes the wives and the sons of Abbas and Ja'far and so on and so forth. But these five are definitely from Ahl al-Bayt. Who are the five? The Prophet SAW, Imam Ali, Al-Hasanain, Fatima, Az-Zahra, Alayhim, As-Salam. This is important. Another hadith called hadith with thakalain. This is a very important hadith. This hadith is mutawatur. Mutawatur means it is the strongest type of hadith possible. Multiple attested hadith. The scholars of Al-Sunnah and Al-Jama'ah say that a hadith that is mutawatur is equal credibly and in its legislative capacity to a Qur'anic ayah, right? Denial in other words of a mutawatur hadith is tantamount to denial of an ayah of the Qur'an. Dali al-Qati'i. And this is kufr, this infidelity to deny a mutawatur hadith. They attested. Groups and groups of people report this hadith from multiple countries, which would have made it impossible to fabricate the hadith, a factual statement. You find it in Muslim Ahmad Tirmidhi. So the transmission here is from Sahih Muslim, this Rewaya, Zaid Ibn Arkham. He says it on the way back from Hajjat al-Wadaa, right, the final pilgrimage, the farewell pilgrimage of the Prophet Muhammad, sallallahu alaihi wa sallam. He said they stopped at a place called Ghadir-e-Khum, which is a pond, there are some trees there and the Prophet sallallahu alaihi wa sallam, he turns to the people and he says, I have left behind me two weighty things, two weighty things. What are they? Kitab Allahi. The book of Allah Subhanahu wa Ta'ala, which is like your lifeline or your cable extension extending from the heavens down to the earth.  Kitab Allah. Hablul Mamdoodun min as-Sama'il al-Ard. And number two, itirati ahlubayti. And number two, my family, the people of my house. Now there's another hadith that says Kitab Allah wa Sunnati. Is this a contradiction? There's no contradiction. There's no contradiction. We'll talk about how to reconcile these two. Let's finish the Rewaya though, in Sahih Muslim, of Zaid ibn Arkam, radiallahu ta'ala anhu. And then the Prophet sallallahu alaihi wa sallam said, وإنهما لن يتفرقى that these two things, these taqalain, they will never deviate from one another. They'll never be separated. They'll never contradict one another. The Ahlul Bayt will never go against the Qur'an or deviate the Qur'an. You will not understand the Qur'an without Ahlul Bayt. You will not understand Ahlul Bayt without the Qur'an. This is what it means according to the Muhaddithin of Ahlul Sunni wal Jama'a, Sunni ulama. And then he says, أَلَسْتُ أَوْلَابِ الْمُؤْمِنِينَ مِنَنْفُسِهِمْ Am I not over the believers? Don't you prefer me over yourselves? The Prophet sallallahu alaihi wa sallam is saying, there's a reference to the verse in the Qur'an. النبي أَوْلَابِ الْمُؤْمِنِينَ مِنَنْفُسِهِمْ سورة الأحزاب, ayat number six, that the believers prefer the life of the Prophet over their own life. You just read about Ghazwat Uhud, the men who surrounded the Prophet sallallahu alaihi sallam, totally putting themselves in harm's way to defend the Prophet sallallahu alaihi sallam, Sa'ad ibn Abi Waqas, shooting arrows, people firing arrows at the Prophet sallallahu alaihi wa sallam from short distance and sat standing in front of them, firing arrows back at them. The Prophet sallallahu alaihi wa sallam said, اِرْمِ يَا سَعْدْ فِي دَاكَ أَبِي وَأُمِيِ. Throw your arrows out Sa'ad, may my father and mother be ransom for you. This is what he said to Sa'ad ibn Abi Waqas, r.a. Imam Ali going around the Prophet sallallahu alaihi wa sallam, fighting off blades and arrows, like a moth going around a flame.  She came to the Ma'arika to give water to the Mujahideen. But then the Prophet sallallahu alaihi wa sallam is under siege.   So he starts hitting her with his sword on her shoulder to get out of the way. What are you doing here? Get out of the way. And she won't budge. She relates to the hadith. She said, I wanted to run, but I turned around and the Prophet sallallahu alaihi sallam is under siege. So I kept my ground. And then he brings the sword down hard on her shoulder and fractures her clavicle and she falls down. And then her son Zaid runs to her defense, says, ummi, ummi my mother, and what does she say to him? She says, go protect the Prophet. Don't worry about me. Protect the Prophet. He's angry with him. Why? The believers prefer the life of the Prophet over their own lives. You are not a complete believer unless you love the Prophet sallallahu alaihi sallam more than yourself, more than your father, your son, and all of humanity. All of humanity. So this is what he says, I lastu awla bil mu'minina min anfusihim, bala, bala, yes, yes. The Prophet sallallahu alaihi sallam, he takes the hand of Sayyidina Ali, he said, man kuntu maula, fa haadha ali'un maula, hadith mutawater. If I am your master, then this Ali is your master, right? And then he says, Allahumma wali man wala, wa adi man aada, wan surman nasara, wa khdulman khadala.  This is the exalted station of Ahl al-Bait of the Prophet sallallahu alaihi sallam, right? And this doesn't in any way take away from the greatness of Sayyidina Umar, Sayyidina Abu Bakr al-Sadiq, Khalifatul Rasulillah, Abu Bakr al-Sadiq, how much sacred knowledge was imparted to Abu Bakr al-Sadiq, the best friend of the Prophet sallallahu alaihi sallam. Before Islam, this shows you the character of Abu Bakr al-Sadiq, that this was his companion that he chose, the Prophet sallallahu alaihi sallam, before the Ba'atha, before the revelation came to the Prophet sallallahu alaihi sallam. Here we're talking about the exalted status of Ahl al-Bait. So is there a contradiction here, Kitabullah wa Sunnati, Kitabullah wa Itrati, there's no contradiction. Because according to scholars of Ahl al-Sunnah wa Jama'ah, the true and authentic Sunnah has always been invested in Ahl al-Bait. This is why we should seek them out, have a connection to Ahl al-Bait, have connection with Ahl al-Bait, because they are never going to be separated from the Qur'an. The Prophet sallallahu alaihi sallam says in a hadith called Hadith al-Safina, sound hadith al-Bazar al-Mustrak al-Hakim, al-Mustar al-Ahmad, Mathal al-Ahli Bait, you can Mathal al-Safina al-Tinuh. The similitude of Ahl al-Bait is like the ship of Noah, what is the ship of Noah? This is an interesting ta'weel of the Qur'an, an esoteric interpretation, right, that you have the exoteric meaning that this was a historical event that happened with Nuh alaihi sallam in his qawm and he built a ship and there was a flood. The Prophet sallallahu alaihi sallam is comparing this to something that's going to happen in the future, a typology, a foreshadowing, that my family is like the ship of Noah. Now there's no flood here, what there really is, there's no flood of waters, but there's a flood of confusion, of kufr, of nifaq, of bida'a, right, changing the sunnah, it's all over the world. What do we do in this situation? How do we understand the Qur'an? You understand the Qur'an by attaching yourself, clinging yourself to the ship of the Ahl al-Bait. This is what the Ulama say, Mathal al-Ahli Bait, you can Mathal al-Safina al-Tinuh, whoever rides upon it and barks upon it is saved. Whoever does not is destroyed. Nassallahu alaihi wa sallamah. The true authentic sunnah has always been invested in the Ahl al-Bait, in its outward and inward aspects, in the Zahir and Batin aspects. Umma Sallamah says in a hadith, Ali and the truth are inseparable, this hadith of Ahlu sunnah wa jama'ah, Ali alaihi as-salam, Karamallahu wajah is inseparable from the truth, inseparable in another way from the Qur'an, you're never going to deviate from the Qur'an because there's two thakalain, Qur'an and Eterati, and the Eterati is the preserver of the true sunnah of the Messenger ﷺ. You follow the sunnah, you have to follow Eterati, they're synonymous, they're the same thing, the family of the Prophet ﷺ. The Prophet ﷺ said to Imam Ali, he said, Am I not pleased that you are to me as Aaron was to Moses, as Harun was to Musa alaihi salam. What was the relationship of Harun to Moses? Was his brother, was his supporter, his friend, his beloved, the preserver of spiritual secrets, of sacred gnosis, of ma'rifah, right? This is the relationship. But who was the temporal successor of Musa alaihi salam? It was not Harun, it was Yousha' bin Noun, you see? Abu Bakr al-Saddik is the temporal successor of the Prophet ﷺ and also inherited many prophetic secrets. That's why many of the Turaq of Tassawwuf comes from who? Abu Bakr al-Saddik, radiallahu ta'ala anhu. You go back 200 years ago, we're just talking about this in the car, Dr. Ahmad. You go back 200 years ago, you'll be hard pressed to find a single scholar who did not follow a madhab of jurisprudence and a tariqa of Tassawwuf. You'll be hard pressed to find one. Salahadeen al-Ayubi was in a tariqa, he was murid, the liberator of Palestine, Abu Qasim al-Junaid was a qadi in Baghdad. He was a man of Tassawwuf but he was a qadi, he was a faqih. Jalaladeen al-Rumi was a qadi in Konya. We don't have this issue, we don't have this dichotomy of spirit and law. This is Christian baggage, we don't have this issue, it's not an absolute dichotomy. The shari'a is a means by which we attain spirituality to Allah Subh'anaHu Wa Ta'ala and this is very very important.   I mentioned this story the other day, a few years ago I was in a masjid and I think it was alayda tul qadras, we just prayed tarawiyah, and my daughter ran up to me and she jumped on me and I hugged her, and another brother there said, you know, back in my country, you would have been slapped on the top of your head for doing this, for showing affection to your daughter, this is against our culture, right, so really, yeah, my father would have scolded you if he saw you do this. So do you know anything about the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam, that when the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam was sitting in a majlis and Fatima al-Zahra, who was a toddler would walk into the majlis, he would stand up, awkama Rasulullah, stand for Fatima al-Zahra, and what, kiss her on the hands and on the forehead, who's better than the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam, nobody, Khair al-Khalqillah, this is his love for children, this is how he manifested love for different people, so let's look at some of these blessed events in the life of Imam al-Hussain, he is the epitome of the prophetic hadith, Qul al-Haqqa wa nka namurran, speak the truth even if it's bitter, wa la atiqaf fillahi laumat ala'im, and never be afraid of those who find fault, don't be afraid of the opinions of men, those are just human beings, do what is right with Allah SWT, that doesn't mean have bad adab with people, have bad comportment with people, don't care about the feelings of people, no, that's against the sunnah, right, but don't be afraid to stand up for what is right, Imam al-Hussain did not fear human beings, imagine the unbelievable sacrifice, imagine it, did not fear human beings, he did what was right for the sake of Allah SWT, afdulu l-jihad, man qala kali mantah haqqin, and the sultan in ja'ir, the greatest jihad is a word of truth in the face of a tyrant, he epitomizes this hadith Imam al-Hussain alayhi s-salam, he was born in four hijri, he is the second son of Ali and Fatima, the ulamas say that from the neck up Imam Hassan look like the Prophet sallallahu alayhi sallam, and from the neck down Imam al-Hussain look like the Prophet sallallahu alayhi alayhi sallam, and that's in their khalq, the way they look physically. The Prophet sallallahu alayhi sallam, he makes this amazing, ajeeb statement which is in al-Bazaar and hakim in a Tabarani, it says, Hussainun min ni wa ana min hussain, we understand Hussain on min ni, Hussain is from me, right, because Hussain is the grandson of the Prophet sallallahu alayhi sallam, how do we understand, wa ana min hussain, this is unbelief subhanallah, wa ana min hussain, Allahumma ahabba man ahabba Hussainan, oh Allah love those who love Hussain, so the ulamas say that this means that they are aligned in their character, in their khalq, he looks like the Prophet sallallahu alayhi sallam in his khalq and he has similar character in his khalq, in his inward aspect, in his virtues, in his principle, he is similar or the same as the Prophet sallallahu alayhi sallam, they also mention it means that he is the preserver of the Prophet sallallahu alayhi sallam, of his legacy and the Prophet sallallahu alayhi sallam had intense love for his children and for his grandchildren, one time Imam Hussain, he waited, the Prophet sallallahu alayhi sallam was praying, Imam Hussain was a very young boy, the Prophet went down into Sajdah, Imam Hussain jumps on the back of the Prophet sallallahu alayhi sallam, the Prophet sallallahu alayhi sallam would not move until he was done, he kept in Sajdah, right, and then after the prayer, he jumps on the Prophet sallallahu alayhi sallam again and took him as a conveyance, you know, kids jump on the father's back, pretend like it's a game, you know, take me somewhere, so a man walked by and he said, ni'amal maraka bura kibdiya gulam, what a excellent conveyance you've taken, oh little boy, and the Prophet sallallahu alayhi sallam said, when ni'amal rakibuhu, how excellent is the rider, pointing to Imam Hussain alayhi sallam? One time the Prophet sallallahu alayhi sallam was standing on the minbar, delivering a khutbah on Friday, and Imam Hussain, very young, a toddler following the voice of his grandfather, comes into the masjid, right, the Prophet sallallahu alayhi sallam sees him and he descends the minbar, during the khutbah descends the minbar, and he picks up Imam Hussain, and he hugs him, and he hugs that body that would be eventually trampled upon by horses, by the army of Yazid, and he kisses the face, the face that's attached to the blessed severed head that is going to be smacked by Yazid sticks, kisses his face, he reassens the minbar and finishes the khutbah with Imam Hussain in his arms, this is the love that the Prophet sallallahu alayhi sallam had for Imam Hussain.  In Damascus it was instituted as part of the khutbah liturgy, you know how we say there's a certain arcane of the khutbah, right, there's certain things you have to say in Arabic during the khutbah, for the khutbah to be legitimate, one of the arcane of the khutbah of the Bani Umayyah in Damascus, and not all of the Bani Umayyah, many of them ulama, their awliya, we don't generalize, but this was the polity, this was state instituted, this is what you have to say in the khutbah or else you can't give khutbah, you can't be khateeb, what else you have to say, you have to send la'ana upon Imam Ali, this happened for 90 years in Damascus, 90 years as part of the khutbah liturgy, it's ajeeb and gharib, the nephew of the Prophet ﷺ, the one who preserves his lineage, this is what they're saying about him, this is the atmosphere in which Imam Hussein grew up, the Umayyad authorities also had these secret homeland security agents all around the empire, especially in Iraq, especially in Kufa, why in Kufa? Because Imam Ali, alaihi salam, when he became Khalifa in 656 of the common era, he moved the capital from Medina to Mauna Wa Ra, to Kufa, and it was a brilliant move, it gives him more of a central location to deal with growing problems in the north out of Syria with Umayyad, and there was this menacing group of puritanical Muslims called al-khawarij, who believed that anyone who didn't believe as they believed was a non- Muslim, and they could kill them and plunder them, puritanical fire and brimstone aqida, so eventually one of them accused Imam Ali of kufr, this unbelievable, and they made a pact in the Haram in Mecca, in the Haram in Mecca, three of them said I'm going to go kill Amr ibn al-Aas, I'm going to call Muawiya ibn Abi Sufyan, and you go kill Ali ibn Abi Talib, in Mecca they shook on it, in Mecca, they go the other two were not successful, but this one, Ibn Abdul Rahman al-Muradi, whatever his name is, he went into the Masjid and Kufa instructs Imam Ali and killed him. The Prophet ﷺ says in a hadith that Imam Suyuti relates in the tariq al-Khulafa, the Ajeeb hadith, he says to him that two individuals will have an extremely painful torment in the inferno in the hellfire.  Imam Ali is walking out of the Masjid according to Kitab al-Thikla al-Mut wa ma ba'da by Abu Hamid al-Ghazali, he's walking out of the Masjid after praying Salat al-Fajr, and this man, Abdul Rahman al-Muradi, pounces on him, strikes him on the top of the head, and immediately his skull splits and blood pours down his face and saturates his beard, and he falls down and he screams fuzdhu wa Rabb al-Kaaba, fuzdhu wa Rabb al-Kaaba. I have triumphed, I have won, I have gained victory by the Lord of the Kaaba. You've gained victory, you were killed by this man because he understands, he's attained what? Is tishhad, he's become a martyr, alayhi salam. So Imam Hussain is in this type of environment. Now there's also an interesting hadith that's mentioned Imam Suyuti as well, that the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam said, Ya Ali, la yuhibuka illa mu'min, wa la yubghiduka illa munafiq.  Abu Sayyid al-Khudri, radiAllah ta'ala anhu used to say, he said, Kunna na'lifan munafiqin fil madina bi bughdahim Ali. We used to be able to tell who is a munafiq in madina because they had hatred for Ali. Aversion to Ali, aversion to Ali is a sign of nifaq. Unfortunately in some places even today you mentioned the name Ali and Muslims have a visceral reaction. Muslims, we have to be very, very careful. Some of this vapor as Sheikh Muhammad al-Nilawi may Allah preserve him, this vapor of those days has trickled down into our contemporary society regarding Imam Ali alayhi salam, that you mentioned his name and people have a bad reaction to it. So at that time you can imagine naming your son Ali had political ramifications because he's been cursed on the minbar of Bani Umayyah. They didn't even name their sons Ali. Imam Hussain names four of his sons Ali, Ali Akbar, Ali Asghar, Ali Ibn Hussain, Zain al-Abideen. Four of his sons he names Ali. So any type of behavior that was even remotely perceived as subversive by the Umayyad polity was harshly dealt with. It was Umayyad foreign and domestic policy to hunt down and kill descendants of the Prophet Muhammad sallallahu alaihi wa sallam. How pitiful. This is their foreign policy. Hunt down the family, the descendants of the Prophet sallallahu alaihi wa sallam. Now interestingly according to the Ulama when Muawiyah, radiya allatul anhu died and we have respect for Zain al-Muawiyah. The Prophet sallallahu alaihi wa sallam met Muawiyah made dua for him. We have a good opinion of all of the Sahaba. When he died in 60 Hijri there was a difference of opinion between him and Ali. Ali was on the right ultimately that's what we believe as Ahlu Sunnah. But we don't curse anyone that's from the Ashabi Rasulullah sallallahu alaihi wa sallam. Difference of opinion based on Ijtihad. When he died in 60 Hijri his son Yazid succeeded him and Muawiyah stipulated. According to Sunni and Shi'i tradition Muawiyah stipulated in his final will speaking to Yazid that if Al-Hasan ibn al-Al-Husayn ibn Ali does not give you bay'a let it go. Don't worry about it. Don't force the issue. It'd be extremely imprudent of you to do that. Just let it go. But Yazid has ego issues like many despotic tyrants of today. They don't want to give up power like this man in Syria. He's not going to give up. He's lost. He's not going to give it up. He doesn't want to give it up. Right? Despotic tyranny. So he's like an archetype of the Pharaoh of the Firaun. Right? So listen to what Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala describes the Firaun and think of it in terms of Bani Umayyah and Yazid in Imam Hussain alaihi sallam. Allah says that the Pharaoh has exalted himself on the earth. He thinks very highly of himself, the Pharaoh. I am your lord most high. They say that the Pharaoh used to eat bananas all the time. Why? Because it makes you constipated. Because he didn't like to relieve himself because he thought he was God. He thought he was beneath himself to relieve himself. And he turned his people into factions and denominations. Right? This is what he does. The Firaunic methodology, the Firaunic archetype, people under his dominion. The immediate reference is to the Egyptians. He divides them up into different denominations and then sends these sheyaltine and human form into the populace to sow seeds of corruption amongst the people. This is what he does according to the tafsir. Right? Take attention away from him what he's doing. No, it's their fault. Fight amongst yourselves. It has nothing to do with me. Right? And then what does he do? Then he takes according to the tafsir, he takes one taifa, one group of the people under his dominion and he really oppresses them. Okay? So with respect to the Pharaoh, this is who? Bani Israel. Because Bani Israel is talking about what? There's going to be a savior, a deliverer. Musa A.S. is going to come. He's going to drive us out of here. He's going to defeat the Firaun. So the Pharaoh is afraid of losing his temporal power, his kingdom, his political authority. Right? So he takes the one group that he fears most rebellion from. With respect to Yazid, this is who? Ahlul Bayt, the Rasulullah. But then the Qur'an is very specific as to how he oppresses them. Yudhabi Hu'abana'ahum. He kills their males. He hunts the men and kills them. And he leaves the women alive. Now the women are dependent upon the very system that slaughtered their husbands and sons. He is of those who saw corruption in the earth. So it's just as Musa A.S. spoke truth to power. Imam Hussein A.S. is going to speak truth to power. And when I say power, I'm talking about temporal power, perceived power. We're told in the Qur'an that from the Aali Firaun, there was a believer. Now we're not talking about Asya A.S. that was his wife. The Qur'an says, Rajulun Mu'minun. Rajulun Mu'minun. Meen Aali Firaun. There was a man from amongst his family that believed in Musa A.S. And what does he say in the council? He says, Ya qawmi, lakumul mulq al-yawm, zahireen fil-arad. Today or this day, you have the mulq, apparently. Apparently you have the dominion, right? To the Firaun. But that's not bil haqiqa, bil haqiqati walillahi mulq al-samawati wal-arad. In reality, Allah SWT has the mulq. And the power is with Imam Hussein. And the power is with Musa A.S. They're not the same. Foul things and pure things. Even if the sheer numbers of the foul things should surprise you, oh there's so much of it, right? Think about Imam Hussein A.S. 70 or so people surrounded by 30,000, 30,000 armed soldiers of Yazid. Truth is truth and falsehood is falsehood. So at this time a letter arrives in Medina from Damascus addressed to the governor of Medina, whose name is Al-Walid bin Uqba. And he tells his deputy Marwan Al-Hakam, who is a notorious person that says you have to force ba'a from four men in Medina. Force them to make ba'a. And he said from two of them you're going to have a little bit of issue, Abdullah ibn Abbas, Abdullah ibn Umar. And from the other two you're going to have a lot of issues, Abdullah ibn Zubair al-Hussein ibn Ali. And he says with this last one, if he doesn't give you ba'a then bring his head back to me. Imam Hussein A.S. So Imam Hussein A.S. He asked for a delay and they say you have until Fajr time. So in the night he prepares to leave Medina, gathers his things with his family and his companions and they leave. They leave Mecca, they leave Medina to go to Mecca, a reverse hijrah, which is what the future Mehdi will do according to the Ulama of Ahlul Sunnah wal-Jama'a, that he will be a refugee from Medina into Mecca, mimicking the future Mehdi. So he stays in Mecca for four months, seeking refuge in the house of Allah SWT. And during this time a flood of letters come into Mecca from all over the Muslim world, especially from Iraq, especially from Kufa, encouraging him to be our leader. You stand against injustice and tyranny and oppression be our leader because they knew, they knew that Imam Hussein would never ever pledge allegiance to open fasiq. It's impossible, he can't do that, he doesn't go against the Qur'an. There's an interesting hadith that is graded as Sahih, that is quoted a lot by contemporary Ulama, Sheikh Muhammad An-Nidaway quotes it a lot. Interesting hadith in which it says, awwalu man yubaddilu sunnatih, rajulun bin bani umayyah. The first one to change my sunnah is a man from bani umayyah. And remember the essence or the reality of the sunnah has always been preserved in Ahlul Bayt, the itra, right. So when we talk about the sunnah we're talking about Ahlul Bayt, they're inseparable. That's how we reconcile our two hadiths. The Prophet SAW said, man tamasaka bi sunnatih, and the fa'sadi ummati, falahu ajaru, falahu ajaru, mi'ati shahid, awkuma qala alayhi salatu wa salam. Whoever holds fast to my sunnah during the time of the corruption of my umma will have the reward of 100 martyrs, 100 martyr witnesses. Holds fast to my sunnah which is never detached from itratih from the family of the Prophet SAW. They preserve the sunnah. And Bukhari al-Muslim, man raghi ba'an sunnatih, falaisa minni. Whoever turns away from my sunnah is not from me. Again when we think about sunnah we have to think about Ahlul Bayt. Whoever turns away from the Ahlul Bayt, who is Ahlul Bayt? Imam Hussain. Falaisa minni. He's not from me. Falaisa minni. Hussainun minni. Wa anna min hussain. SubhanAllah. What an unbelievable statement from the Prophet SAW. Hussain is from me and I am from Hussain. So hajj season begins and many agents of Yazid they come into Mecca as Hajjaj. They're wearing ihram and they have weapons under the ihram. Think about this. Coming into Mecca with ihram during hajj season to do what? To kill the grandson of the Prophet SAW. It's really ahajjib. And the Imam, alayhi salam, he cuts short his hajj and decides to leave Mecca. And the question why leave Mecca? Because according to the ulama the second thakal cannot violate the first thakal. The second weight, the itra, cannot violate the Quran. Inna huma lan yatafarraqa. They're never going to deviate from one another. And Allah SWT says whoever enters the sacred precincts is safe. So Imam Hussain alayhi salam in order to preserve the sanctity of Mecca, he sets off into the desert knowing his fate, knowing what's going to happen to him. And he took women and children with him. And the question is why take women and children? If you know you're going to be massacred, why do that? And the ulama say the ummah was sleeping. They needed to be shaken out of their what? Ghaffala, heedlessness, complacency. The sunnah is being changed. The family, the family of the Prophet SAW is being hunted down and killed. So imagine as our ulama say that he had only taken the men. He only took the men. Then the Yazidi propaganda, right, would have said what? Yeah, he came out and we had a flag of peace, but he attacked us because they would have killed all the men and buried them and then make up a story about it. Very easy. He attacked us and unfortunately he was killed in a skirmish. It was friendly fire. It's too bad, right? So Imam Hussain takes women and children because ultimately it was the women and children who would tell the truth about Ghaffala. It was them who would tell the truth about what happened on that day. People like Asaid Zaynab in the court of Yazid, speaking truth to power, this type of shuja'a, this type of courage. There's a poem here by Mu'ino Dina Chisdi, it's a quatrain and farsi. He says Shah has Tursayn, father Shah has Tursayn, Dean has Tursayn, Dean Panah has Tursayn. Sardad nada dasta dasta Yazid. Hussain is king, Hussain is emperor, Hussain is religion. He's the hope of religion. He gave his head, not his hand, into the hand of Yazid. Ajeem. So approximately 70 kilometers from Kufa, they come to a desert called Karbala, and the Imam and his followers find themselves surrounded by the army of Yazid. Now this is very interesting. There's hadith that mentioned this event. And these are hadith again. All of the hadith I'm quoting to you is hadith of Ahlu Sunnah wal Jama'a. And sometimes when I quote these hadith, I have to make a faith confession. I can say, oh, maybe this guy's a Shi'i or something, right? No, I'm Hanafi, I'm Maturidi, I'm Ba'alawi in my tariqa, Sunni. These are hadith in our books. This hadith in the Mustadrak of Al-Haqim, sound hadith, rigorously authenticated hadith, related by Ummul Salama, radiya Allah ta'ala anha, the Prophet ﷺ was in her quarters and he was sleeping, daj'ah, he's lying down. Istiqadah, faj'atan. And then he suddenly woke up and he was very bothered by something. And then he went back to sleep. And then istiqadah again, he woke up again, went back to sleep. And this happened three times. And she says on the third time, she says thumma istiqadah wa fi yadihi sharifa turbatun hamra. He woke up a third time and in his hand was some red soil, yuqabiluhah and he's kissing it. And she said, what is this? And he said, Jibril alayhi salam told me some devastating news that this son of mine, Imam Hussain alayhi salam, will be slaughtered in a place called Karbala and this is the dust from the place. This is Sahih hadith. Another hadith of the Musnad of Abu Ya'la, related by Abdullah Ibn Nujay, he says that he heard from his father that he was walking with Imam Ali. They were going to Sifin on the banks of the Euphrates River and Imam Ali was walking by the river and he started to shout, sabran Ya'aba Abdullah, sabran Ya'aba Abdullah, who's Abu Abdullah? This is the patron name of who Imam Hussain. So Nujay says, what are you talking about? And Imam Ali says that I walked into the room of the Prophet, salallahu alayhi salam, one day and tears were strumming, streaming down his face. And I said, what's wrong? Ya Rasulullah. And he said that Jibril alayhi salam gave me the news that this son of mine, Hussain alayhi salam, will be slaughtered on the banks of the Euphrates River. This hadith according to the books of Ahlu Sunnah wa Jama'ah, our books. So for several days, I know I'm running out of time. I think I'm already out of time. Am I out of time? So we'll conclude inshaAllah ta'ala. For several days, the army of Yazid tried to force allegiance from Hussain by cutting off their water supply, which is a tactic of the military industrial complex of Yazid. If you don't agree with us, you're not going to eat, you're not going to drink, we're going to cripple your economy. They did this to the Prophet, salallahu alayhi salam, in Mecca, right? The muqata abani Hashim. Don't trade with them. Don't give them food. Go live in the desert. This torture and cruelty, but today we call sanctions. You don't agree with us, you're not going to eat. That's torture. No, it's a much better sanctions. It's not massacre, it's collateral damage, shock and awe campaign, this type of thing. So we don't go into specifics as to what actually happened on Yomi Ashura. We know what happened to Ali Akbar and Ali Azhar Zayn al-Abideen, al-Abbas and al-Hur and Muslim bin Aqeel before, and Zaynab and Sukena and Fatima. We know about Ibn Ziyad, Ibn Sa'ad and Shimr and all these things. The main point is that the ta'aziyah, the passion narrative of Imam Hussain is metamorphic. It's metatrends historical. It's meta-historical. In other words, the army of Yazid, according to one of the liberation theologians, is a floating signifier. Imam Hussain represents anyone who says no to tyranny and injustice, while Shimr and Yazid represent any militant thug who rapes and murders and tortures and colonizes. So we see a lot of Hussaini archetypes, Malcolm X, for example. Think about this in the 1960s, how racist people were in the 1960s. People are still racist, never gone away. Going on a television show surrounded by nothing but white Americans, grilling him on things. That's a mujahid, fisabilillah. Standing up to the racism and oppression, that's a Hussaini archetype. Martin Luther King, Hussaini archetype. Rachel Corey, this woman who stands in front of an Israeli bulldozer to protect a Palestinian home. And she was callously and barbarically killed by this bulldozer. Hussaini archetypes. Anyone who says no. Imam Hussain sacrificed his life to set a trans-historical example. Not to vicariously atone for the sins of humanity as in Christianity. No. But rather to give us an example of virtue by which to live in this life and to have success in the next life. Insha'Allah Ta'ala.


Welcome everyone, welcome to the live stream show of the Facebook group, the International Brotherhood of Polyvans. I am your host, James P. Madonna, and the founder of the group in 2012. I am also the creator of Megalife 21 and Progressive Discussions. I am here with my one and only and this time he is on audio note typing the one and only the one and only the Commodore Jeff Zambello from the Maritime Provinces of Canada originally Boston, Massachusetts. Jeff glad to have you back. Thank you sir. Can I please have a full swing whistle for the Commodore? You will get that and I will blow the trumpet of truth, the shofar, and now for the trumpet of truth. I have one request for this show after the trumpet of truth. Oh okay. Okay. What was that request? It was a request that the Golden Cape Horn Award awarded to any of the people that look at our show that are not supporting Kashi as not coming over to the United States to have them at their gym and to spread the good news about you know polyvon training with the meal the meal, the Persian meal, and the shadow boy. Okay so what you're saying is gym owner, gymnasium owners and enthusiasts involved alternative training and circulatory training that are that are not proactively that are not proactive and proactively involved and and do not see the value in booking people like Kashi Azad who has to fly God knows how many hours from Sydney Australia and people that are not proactive that don't they're like they're like a dead fly they don't participate at all yes they belong in the castrated a capon awards section now seven. The Golden Horses coming off the 32nd and giving someone a pretty report let's all stand up for Kashi and let's all benefit everybody from Savannah Georgia all the way up to the tip of Maine so anywhere on the east coast of the United States people should be begging begging on hands and knees to have this man this legend go to their gym. Well honestly there it's all pros and really no very little or no cons to to to book Kashi Azad and their alternative gymnasiums up and down the east coast even like Pittsburgh, Philadelphia, Chicago, St. Louis I mean Bookham, Texas I don't understand why people are not jumping on this and taking advantage of his visit to the to the United States I really I don't I can't see the logic in them not not booking him knowing he's coming to to to cunt neck to cunt connect to cunt in this April of 2019 I don't see anyone proactively putting out banners that they are booking the great Kashi Azad after the poor soul has got to fly almost 30 hours probably from Sydney Australia to a JFK airport in New York give me a break where are all these people I don't see them hey I just wanted to say Jeff I am so glad that that I have you an audio because from my end the audio sounds outstanding and crystal clear now I hope that that Hawk knows bastard Zuckerberg doesn't sabotage the show and mute I just because there's no I don't think there's any way you could be muted because what happened is last time I had you on Facebook video chat and your your voice was muted so let's cross our fingers to make sure that that it doesn't happen I can't logically see it happen because you're you're talking to me from Google YouTube yeah totally totally different website the crooked guy who doesn't put on the the conservative republican stuff but we're not going to have that fall right there well anyway anyway I got to say something don't a Donald booze has joined the show Donald could you do me a flavor could you tell me if you hear Jeff Zambello's voice Jeff say something I enjoy all those the shows on the ship with the the the the resort the resorts and he is going to Las Vegas very shortly he after a long period of absence I believe he's returning to Sin City and he joined he joined a forced middle-aged woman yeah yeah well he joined and he hasn't said anything and I asked him please let me 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think she's she's she was a cougar before the word cougar was coined before the word cougar became popular okay oh you're gonna love you're gonna love my new thick heavy wine glass I that I am displaying right now that I purchased today along with my tulip shape scotch whiskey glass and I am very happy to say oh I'm a bully if it's not apple juice apple juice or apple cider if it's not apple cider I'm a bully that's right if Paul a terrorist looking up on on google terrorist Moko whiskey said I was a bully for telling the truth but anyway I purchased these two glasses at the dollar tree they are they are heavy thick and and very aesthetically appealing to the eye so and I have a great bargain there's nothing like a great bargain for a buck and uh exactly are there any bargains this week at all these not to take away from the show but just one or two items they're all well I I picked up some uh a big box of uh chicken and cheddar cheese a quesadilla is that I will snack on later on uh how can a person how can a person let's let's just say it's a tall skinny mustachioed man a long stream of urine analysis let's say this man brags that he lives at a country club with in-ground pool and everything and palm trees and and and roman columns in around the pool and this individual practically every night has to go through a drive-thru and purchase a burrito for his dinner now something is wrong with that picture jeff sandbell yeah yeah country club but yet has to eat a burrito with white rice filler and maybe uh oh wait a minute he he he speaks mexican style Spanish and his young ladies working at the place maybe he is there to uh flirt and impress the young spanish women that maybe that's why he has a hankering for burritos every night yeah anyway let's get this first story out of the way real quick um as if you people have been following what i've been doing every saturday i have been video recording the performing artist the king of creativity can yes can create i've been i've been video recording him and putting it on the internet now the manager who has been staring at me that has been trying to stare me down he is a general manager of club cubanel but he is a mere in his past he has no business background he is only a a dj in the past he has no no degree you know he has no real solid business background uh no no credentials to make him with a dawn warm yeah it's somebody who kisses up to the ladies in the club in the bar yes they they they take they take a song requests no matter how lame they are and they play don't want don't want yet they spin they spin music they spin songs don't want and then he's gone well his name is still there and he hasn't answered my question anyway oh joe sows is uh oh i hope joe sows uh no wait a minute no i gotta i gotta massage i mean i got a message from uh joe sows but he hasn't his name hasn't appeared yet hey joe come aboard uh the pirate ship man come right again no no my cousin is john john pantalon that's that's my yeah i know joe sows is another friend of mine now he's a pizons i i don't know if he's portuguese italian i'm not sure he might be i don't know i never i never asked him but let me get to tell the story all right so this guy's been staring me down the the dj that is a kind of a pseudo general manager uh that really has complained to ken that he wishes he was a dj again because he has too much responsibility as a general manager meanwhile jimmy leguari says uh with extra pay uh uh does he he probably took the job because they're paying him a lot more now right right so he's complaining but he's getting extra pay anyway he's there he's he's been staring me down he comes up to me yeah tough guy comes up to me and he scolds me like a child and tells me no more videos i says what about all all the millennial girls the girls the millennial young young women or young ladies and i i i use that term very loosely how come they're taking videos they're taking videos with their smartphones of their girlfriends all night long as well as as well as selfies selfies and videos all night long i says isn't that called the double standard he ignored what i had to say and he and then he scolds me again if you do it if you if i catch you one more time i'm going to have you removed from the club so you know what i did i went on google reviews because i have a big following on google reviews and the and the owners always see my reviews and often get back to me i went on google reviews i tore my new asshole i told the whole story about the dirty the dirty double standard against men in in the in the bar scene and how they how they suck up to women in bars and nightclubs and dance clubs and i'm going to go officially to club cubanel total of facebook page and i'm going to do the same thing on the facebook page so morgan his name is morgan you're not you're no captain morgan like the spice rum commercial you're you're a fucking punk okay double standard dirty double standard the girls could take videos of their friends as well as selfies as well as hugging each other and jumping up and down screaming and acting like lesbians which i don't care it's up you know they just do that in front of men to show off that they like they don't that they don't need men that's like that's a feminist thing yeah a crevice that to me a feminist thing is anti-male it's definitely anti-alpha male and it's like it's like a woman sportscaster that just barges into an nfl locker room and and and all of a sudden the guys are supposed to come out of the shower and cover up oh a woman reporter who we we must cover our our crotchets let me tell you she comes she walks into an nfl locker what she sees is what she sees yeah otherwise don't walk into a men's locker room right you know you know a guy men have to have a man cave they have to have some privacy in their lives they can't you know they can't like say oh oh i just took a shower i better cover up now yeah one must remember who built all those bridges that these you know these people are cropping every day you know going to the manhatch and everything else yeah it was brave men many who who fell into the uh the Hudson River and the ocean and everything else risking their lives what about the golden gate bridge there were lives lost building that too you know people falling into cement and oh my goodness but uh skyscrapers the building of skyscrapers and uh you know i mean a high high union pay or not those guys are risking they're risking their lives and but the thing is in your estimation does that sound like a dirty double standard of what that guy morgan did exactly yeah yeah i thought i thought so you know and he just totally ignored what i had to say about the girl about the young females taking videos of each other all night long and you know what the war is never going to end not with me he doesn't realize you know when we when we give when we do vendetta that yeah we do vendetta and we don't stop until the person yeah could there be a ballpoint pen in someone's upper ear yeah what if a ballpoint pen like when joe peshy us in that movie what was it casino or or stab the guy right through the hand or or or another gentleman another gentleman passed a ballpoint pen through another man's ear i think i wouldn't that be lovely i said i said to a certain person um but what about the police isn't it a crime he says it's not a crime if no one sees it you know what that's what they that's what they are not weak not weak weak that's what the that's what the heels used to say in professional wrestling it's not cheating and if the referee didn't see it it never happens yeah it's only cheating if the referee sees it and catches you it's like when jesse ventura used to say when if you can lose if you must but always cheat we don't want to get we don't want to get that out because then then we're going to sound like the mr mace man you know the guy who with the thin mustache you know we yeah never ever it's like don't settle in the movie the uh the 12 there uh oh what the hell is that we would jim brown for the army there uh oh oh yeah yeah i remember that now i i had a big debate with somebody about i had a big debate on twitter and called this feminist a fake phony feminist because she of course she was all for equal pay for equal work which is fine but but she wants special she wants special treatment when she goes out on a date the man's got to pay for everything and do everything i said wait a minute that's a double standard that's like more it's like morgan at club cubanel that's a double standard she says uh wow you know when they can't debate you they they start calling you names and uh what's that massageness is there a double standard when somebody keeps flying back and forth across the united states on their unmentioned husband's inheritance loop yes there is a there is an older there's a not not wink wink there's a there is a uh a woman from denmark a scandinavian northern european older woman she wears tights band ex like like kelly like kelly does and she travels on her husband's dime everywhere she she she gets pampered at at health clubs and spas she probably gets a massage several times a week uh she goes to resorts she she attends every single fitness seminar in the country so far next is probably the world and her husband pay her husband pays for it and she never talks about her husband and never shows photographs of her husband on facebook and the poor the poor sap pays for everything and and she's going to be in connecticut with kelly man's own and for the kashi azad for the kashi azad all these people on facebook no you know what's happening people are sending people that i know that was salvatore mercurio people are sending no they're sending they're sending me messages but they're not coming aboard the live stream show if you know what i mean uh let me tell you a story and it's not a story about a man named jay i was supposed to i was i was supposed to i was supposed to get picked up this morning by uh salvatore mercurio and mario petrus to go to go to that organic raw dairy farm in new jersey guess what what i got stiff no no call no email no no text no nothing i got i set the alarm to get up earlier for nothing for nothing i'm like they're going to leave my body we're going to get a man and that's our power to be on the 11th but anyway uh i won't mention this this nice gentleman's name but he's supposed to go lunch without the world about your buffet we're 46 well well he said let me he said let me know when jeff let me know when jeff's in bellows in the area and i always let him know i i mean the thing is this is the third time uh the second or third time i got stiff no no no no no he lives in wane wane is about maybe maybe 15 15 to now i would say 20 minutes i say more like 15 15 minutes west off of interstate root 80 15 minutes west of hasbro of hasbro kites yeah it's about especially like walk away the walk away mall there i know rock away i know lake of paccon bud lake i know all that the fairfield caldwell where uh jfk the late jfk junior used to take off his plane used to take off at the airport over there that's that's how he that's before he crashed uh you know but anyway i digress but the point is i said no more i don't want to hear about raw dairy farms i don't want to hear about for all hey for all i know it might have been deliberate just to bust my balls no i might have been deliberately because yeah business i can't game up would you master that fast yeah master that fast yeah but how many how many times does a person need to be stood up before you start to wonder get and get suspicious oh i i said the word wonder how does that song go oh i wonder wonder who wrote the book of love oh now uh uh well well well so far donald hasn't let me know if he hears jeff sambell's voice and he's still here i see his name yeah do you hear that hey the bell matches my red background because the bell is red now listen i there are so many people that belong in the castrated capon award jeff sambell i swear there are so many and and you know what you live and learn you you realize that i hate to say it but what do you think 95 percent of you think oh don't be oh you're a bud don't be a bully don't make waves do you think that not at least 95 percent of of all people are full of shit they're maniacs over there i mean we'll be going against steward assholes cheaters but that's okay um anyways so i'm squatting today if you know work out with three plays so just three 15 you know 54 years old here right so uh where's guys comes in hey how you doing how you doing um i'm doing squats doing squats what would you do oh there's several sets of about three hundred fifteen pounds times five up per set well that's okay it's a full it's a full squat work out the sets of five for three fifteen even ten seasons will have my back on this it'll be conceivable support me yes okay if i was 35 okay that's a warm-up set right now it works that right because in the meat my clear words i'll be squatting 407 not 45 because it counts colors so don't get assholes by no things oh who's gonna count you know what asshole that's 185 kilograms look it up 407 pounds okay power thing is in metric there's no 405 pounds now now now now do they in drug free now do they uh when you enroll in um when you're enrolling these competitions and i want to help these tough guys why are there no messages here right okay new tough guys okay okay no no not in the live show i can't see that we stick to the people no you know what you have you have people that i'm in the last two divisions okay you have people you have people that you all somebody just uh came and left because we were not we were not uh well yeah there's tons of alternative gymnasium owners that should have should be booking kashi aside come on watch the show for 30 seconds but they don't contribute poor kashi poor kashi flying 30 hours just to just to do one seminar in kinetic it and then he has to fly all the way back to sydney australia because of all the numb skulls uh knuckle heads and imbeciles that cannot book the the man taken advantage of a true polyvone and and a head and a head polyvone coach of the south pacific and australia they can't do it as a national coach of his country yes his country and south pacific and they can't book him oh hey what about how many in the northeast alone how many alternative uh gyms you think there is there's the there's the one who sucked up to mr mace man right uh daniel brought uh daniel ramsey there's jeff butterworth in boston there's uh there's eric we're going to visit it by summary on the way to ireland but we won't mention names look at that right mind that's a mentally ill person they'll go from london international airport all the way to stumblebills massachusetts but which is outside of boston it's north of boston take a tag to gab right right wait for this person the owner to come on the side well i'm trying to keep it's anonymous okay and they say uh oh we're doing here nice to see you oh i'm going to ireland and they just snub this guy snub snub so i don't really care so anyways uh i do care well well the people that are i'm not kidding i'm not kidding i'm having a nice oh oh you're talking about the spring water that you were deprived in low dive in low dive new jersey had new breed fitness right right right after the mr mace man seminar where everyone was was was demanded or commanded to clear out the gym again after after doing a hundred after doing 100 swings with a light mace sweating bullets and over 90 degrees plus humidity and i was hearing tolly wubbin soliloquy the soliloquies yes uh uh hearing the where do you go antique dole stories jokes limericks uh hardy har har har yeah for i have no mitochondria these these are people that are caught up in the fad and i i i cannot overemphasize those three letters fad of of steel mace circular training trying to pass it off like they did were kettlebells as the panacea physical fitness that does it all it does it all you name it it doesn't for your body oh really well guess what they're fully shi it's not a strength contest no no no you do the basic if you do somebody wants to debate me please debate me james and i want to debate i'm saying that wrong do it on the live show i don't need to hear what the criticism on the normal hey from avid supposedly that the normal dummies who wait uh to the next day on the recorded version the 64 do you think it's 64 viewers from last week's show games there was 64 64 views so everybody in the live show but they don't want to they don't want to come on when we're alive are they afraid we might sink our our our werewolf teeth into their jugular veins we're not going to bite we're we're not going to bite your head well it depends on it depends on what the question it depends on what they say we'll bite them with you i was i was in lord i know jerry and actually we were in dark field with jerry usually and that's when the red darks won that night yeah and blackjack mulligans fighters we have fighters at blackjack mulligan and partaking in some you and me you and me uh ale anyway but when i saw people at bat the both teams have been locked in those dodgers or the blocks of my thoughts they have the hands together the people who make ten million dollars a year yeah so if a guy makes him ten million dollars a year swinging a baseball bat keeps his hands together or tiger woods swinging a golf club keeps his hands together a tiger woods have made hundreds of millions of dollars right i might see something probably eight hundred dollars please i'm sorry hey christine okay i'll just come and stick on the box anyway well a roo i was told and i was very angry that about it that a uh root canal and crown has officially uh gone up to seventeen hundred dollars per tooth so so this kind of reminds me of people with one for you yes this kind of reminds this this kind of reminds me of uh uh people with no uh academic uh uh uh a credit academic uh sports or physical fitness background uh doing doing seminars and wanting a thousand dollars a person it reminds me of that it's like it's called being a crook and getting away with it living in america yeah oh yeah that's uh james brown yes living in america the rock uh the rocky movie but uh i've been dropped off i shall say that because you can because you're a woman you have you you have except the one who has a Singapore a beautiful beautiful pretty Singapore wife but why can't that why is that individual crucified because he teaches classes in Dubai and in western europe and perhaps even in east of europe um but he's not supposed to because he always took one seminar and received a and and received a and and received a diploma with no academic value you hear that folks listen listen a you spend a thousand dollars on a diploma or fake certificate that has no academic value at all none it's it's an expensive a wallpaper it's like the placemat you get it a diner when you order coffee and uh corned beef hash and eggs and home fried potatoes a certain individual flying back and forth three thousand miles that's what gets these little pieces of paper for the condominium on the upper river oh but by heaven forbid we should tell people the real hard-hitting truth because then we will be bullies oh boy oh we were bullies oh i think i think it's time to repost the bellow legosi smiling photo of paul staring at a certain sweaty spandex uh posterior a gluteus maximus with the with the with the fishy pickled herring juice oozing out i think it's time that that uh that photo is shown often because the double standard the double standard is when we tell the truth and other people make it sound like you know that we're um we're we're guilty of of fake information or fake news and and and they they have their own alternative truth like almost like a parallel universe now getting back to weights getting back to uh some serious fitness talk uh one-dimensional traditional basic barbell exercises or it could be a block of granite you know it doesn't or it could be a log or it could be anything for the younger block yeah or right or a book cannot remain a one book book shop with pledge furniture bullish like mr like like mr mace man shenna board that sits up on oh remember the king scepter whatever happened to the king scepter look at me on any cherry dance fever remember those two black girls they were they were making sounds like a like a seal the breasts were their breasts were bouncing up and down and fever you they got oh a paw would say rick james rick james sang the song she's a very kinky girl the kind you don't bring home to mother the girls are super freak that girls are super freak that girls are super freak this little man and i can't get enough of that girl now they're telling me now why why is it why is it that if the circular training fad of the steel mace and there are lots of facebook groups now more than there are cockroaches there are tons of steel mace web pages in groups how come yeah no yeah how come these people never enter strongest man competition or powerlifting events or bodybuilding bodybuilding competition or or anything like that they don't they you know they are those of those guys on the wizard of us you know the scotch scotchmen they the the wicked witches soldiers oh now how come how come these people they only get so physically fit they only they only gain so much muscle mass and strength and power and then it stops like they never get uh uh uh they never get the physique that you you see used to seeing the back of the magazines where the guys you know the the guy is on the beach and the girls are there they're huddled around his big thighs his pulsating thighs you know and and they're and they're feeling his arms and all the girls are you and i've already been through this many times this is one of the things that works for you because the same yuppie arrogant jerks that want a bamboo handle need to need to have the best 300 dollars still basis that's your best yeah you can't threaten them because you have to make them feel important the same people yeah who have approval addiction and that that need to do a you see that's why you can't see you can't we're not putting down we're not putting we're not putting down any circular training tool what we're putting down is the exploitation of circular torque training which is suckering people into thinking that circular training does it all number one and number two that you need to give some crook eight six hundred eight hundred or a thousand dollars a person to take their seminar now you see what i'm holding well you don't see it but the folks you see what i'm holding power bands with neoprene rubber handles power bands industrial industrial uh i mean warehouse pallet bands attached to heavy duty tubing what i'm trying to say is the muscles don't give a shit right where where or how the resistance is is is coming the workload the muscles don't care how the workload is being put on them all they all they know is the amount of stress the the amount of resistance that's being placed upon the muscle group so it doesn't matter if it's it's a log from an oak tree or if it's a granite boulder or if it's if they're power bands or dumbbells or r-bells right thirty dollars which is only 23 us dollars yet the mall the mall hammer exactly you know the muscles don't give a shit where or how the resistance is being put on them and these these these kids are so naive these young millennial guys are so naive when they hear this bullshit it's all sales hype who cares so much for a good friend who cares it's all sales hype they they they they're suckered into spending the thousand dollars ahead the thousand dollars ahead now what i want to do now is discuss the the the backbone of this show which is jeff zambelo's muscle and ministry with a message part two take it away jeff zambelo fill people in on how your workshops are going they they have advanced and you have good news there are a couple of people that go through the first problem with the meat put down an island on the 8th of 20th and one of the guys is going to pull 700 pounds and he's doing very well he's very enthusiastic he's overcome a lot of challenges in his life and it's all two problems and that that's what sports are supposed to do for you like i got people like mentors back in the 80s and uh you know i was in my early 20s and they made me where i am today and they're the ones who made me go to graduate school anyways if you just took somebody's your time uh and i i know i always tell the james niggas they're going to be telling us but one thing is one thing james p madonna will do is give you his time time is the greatest gift you can give to a person if you never get it back so if somebody asks him to leave a gym i'm not going to elaborate on this you know because they have to just stop excuse me it's payment for um this is um but yet we heard a different story that meant that they don't want to give you the time um they can only five anyways i digress yeah that was and that was anthony law there's nothing to do with new york city new york city is boring you twiddled your bones well we have but we don't we don't have breasts and a vagina uh anthony law was sending me so i've been teaching every saturday at nine o'clock um to a men's group uh in ministry and i've been teaching them the basics of that for example um i'm using a lot of teaching from steve maxwell and there's also a funny story of somewhere related to the people that's just uh i like steve we're going to keep it but james those aren't there or anyway so um so i mean this is someone's basic principle and and how i'm not to hurt yourself especially your shoulders but when you do push-ups i'll teach the men in your way put your shoulders but um over your fingers um especially keep your elbows in and not scared out just the basics and if you get to ring a push-ups you do um some modified push-ups we're having in these on the ground and these people will progress and everything with uh pull-ups they do uh something called an australian pull-up where you put our thighbells inside of a squat rack and you put your feet on the ground and um it's a modified pull-up a lot of women do them but men can start out doing that and um and then we'll be doing a lot of url and leg exercises we'll be doing uh something called dand da and df and we can find us on kashi azad facebook page called persian yoga and it's a wonderful page and um so it's um body weight squats on your toes not on your heels on your toes and um it's very good so we're going to start to 20 to begin with a pull-up to set to 50 okay and we have squats all body weight exercises i'm also going to bring some um mallet and they have a three pound mallet four pound mallet and i will teach them how to start off with um centrifugal torque training cpd um please sue me whoever are you talking about the dead blow hammers but the ones up here are very light um uh i don't want to use that i use um ones with steel head and the double face i mean like yeah oh the double face like a mouth yeah yeah they're they're before inward mills outward mills um those type of things and also um grabbing the top of the handle having the head of the hammer just facing the ground and then doing shoulder exercises like that it's so that your forearms and all the connective tissues so we get the progress into other sports and other movements um a lot of um functional movements uh modified yoga um we can put your feet through one of your legs on one hand and then again to a push-up position i don't know what those are called but everybody knows what they are we'll be doing all kinds of push-ups we'll be doing push-ups where every rep you take one of your knees and you touch the elbow then you put that foot back and then with the other with the next push-up you get the other leg and with the kneecap you touch the elbow and go there go back incredible and then we're doing planks we're doing planches all kinds of stuff but that's it in a nutshell yeah you're you're a four-pound a four-pound mallet is for for swinging uh in terms of mobility and a warm-up that's nothing to sneeze at a four-pound dead blow hammer it's great yeah and um it's great to your elbows your shoulders everything now do you see how comprehensive that's also not what i like is the um i think it's sort of because she has a cruising yoga page which i love that page is those um um indian dumbbell oh the ones they swing to the left and to the right i love it i love that exercise those things burn they keep it the best burn so you should do at least 30 reps you know times two uh when they do your left and your right that's one of my petitions they burn you tell them a bayon's pop it out hey you know something i was thinking i bet you can do that movement with the four pound dead blow hammers mallets i do that you know you you know what i mean that this what they do in the akara in india in india when they swing you know like right hand swings towards the left shoulder left hand swings towards the right shoulder yeah that's it you have a laser beam an invisible laser beam supposedly on the floor to the ceiling which is keeping that same line so you're moving your torso now yeah anyways now um you see you see how i will be filming those classes so it's going to be all the fourth saturdays in march and i will be uh recording those on the video that'll be fantastic we'll be compiling um them and editing them and and assembling them together into a yeah beginner's program and and my visit james in united states or whichever visit we're gonna go to different um churches just put the men's ministry and um um i just teach the men well you you have a basic uh basic tools you have at the house and everybody has a chair everybody knows i do body movement yeah bodyweight movement and and then you can progress and don't mix and then use our anti-training is a flat chamber and the mace different weights of the flat chambers with it with an eight pound flat chamber a 12 pound flat chamber a 16 pound flat chamber okay without hurting our bones and you don't want to make surgeons rich and buy the next swimming pool of expectations best yeah and instead of spending a lot of money on uh uh an overpriced yeah no i mean i i meant though i meant the the i meant the 16 pound wall hammer is an outstanding value to uh as a mace you know uh a replacement let's say a mace from any one of these companies that charge a lot more but your program is so comprehensive it's like a wonderful coach down in florida he teaches a wonderful exercise it's a push-up and then he uses a few club but i use um you know hammers and mallets and you actually grab the mallet and you bring it out to the side so you run three points but you're one arm one hand yeah two two legs and then you get the the hammer out there i gotta demonstrate that i don't want to take too much time trying to scratch things on this show because you would afford and they won't listen but they'll see it on james madonna's uh video compilation well if you if you download on dropbox you're you're hopefully you'll be able to attach i don't know if i could i don't know if i could download all face i won't i won't be able to download these idea i won't be able to download all facebook uh anyway no i i i facebook you gotta you gotta you you gotta download on on dropbox on dropbox you gotta download you gotta upload i can't i can't compile them unless i have them and um okay let's do dropbox we'll figure it out anyway yeah but anyway uh your program is well you're also you're also helping people you're you're helping people that uh may may may have hit rock bottom you're helping them you're changing their lives you're turning their lives around through a fatherly advice you know kind of like customado did with uh mike tyson uh you know and your uh you've turned people's lives around and uh your your work your workshop blows away blows away all these expensive seminars that are out there costing a lot of money you're absolutely blowing them away and i'm not first and foremost i am not looking to be zero worship that's true that's true there will be no diplomas there's only real life experience five gold medals from actual world championships that are sanctions sanctions everybody sanctions like real real financial i want to get real men russians europeans everybody from azubai shah kazakhstan everybody okay now now the foundation that found uh look look pretty strong in Finland let me tell you right now look who's look who look who sent her love to our live show uh door from thailand a professional singer from thailand yes she's a beautiful woman and she has a beautiful voice and she's from thailand and she she's a big fan of our live shows so welcome door welcome dear welcome and thank you for giving uh placing a heart uh uh oh yeah you hear jeff's voice jeff sam bellow the other guy you hear his voice anyway um his name is there but he's not saying the damn thing nothing nothing and and and all the and anthony law is sending me messages on facebook uh uh salvatore mercurial sent me a message but they they know i'm they know i'm going live you know this there's so many weizenheimers out there i swear they're real wise asses they know i i'm going live now now you know these some of these some of these weizenheimers you know what i notice they do that that really is arrogant they they belong to groups that are good groups like let's say everything is food right but one of them james you and i discussed this we have to give one of these one of these very nice young men a pass because there's quarry tell and that's all we're gonna say well i'm talking about people that post i'm talking about people that only post on their profile on facebook and they don't post on any group in other words they're not they're not proactively involved at all they're just it's just dead weight they're they're members of of groups but they don't participate and these this is like uh a pretentious arrogant yeah well yeah what what is so special do they think they're gonna get discovered they honestly think they have the if they put a conversation but we're opening up the invitation for everybody to join us no i know i know several individuals i know i know several people on social media that put everything on their profile like they're gonna get discovered let me tell you something that a couple of them are are smart cookies a lot of them they're legends in their own minds you're not getting discovered if anybody's gonna get discovered it has pizzazz and charisma is yours truly james p mcdonough and jeff sam fell let me and you can and you and kashi is not well i i never heard kashi speak i i don't know if he has pizzazz and charisma maybe he does so so in other words he doesn't put people to sleep like the like like like like like the way like the man they call terrace he doesn't put people to sleep like the terrace you know uh uh um he has charisma hey maybe that's why the guy with the skinny mustache is able to uh cast his spell on so many people because he has that soothing voice with the big the big chest


Hey what's going on YouTube welcome to our trending reviews. So I'm pretty excited. Today I've got the Hypervolt massage gun by Hyperice. If you don't know what this is, this is essentially a massage drill that you use to iron out some of the pains, strains and aches that you have in your muscles. I previously reviewed a similar device called a TheraGun. If you want to have a look at the TheraGun review then please click on the information bar at the top corner here. Otherwise let's go ahead and give this a quick unboxing and I'll give you a review and a little bit of a comparison with the audio noise with the TheraGun to the Hypervolt. So let's get straight into it. Right so let's go ahead and open the box. Right we've got some user guys and information here. So this is the UK plug that comes with it. I presume it comes with a European plug as well. So in the box let's take a quick look. We've got the power bank here for the charging. We have the European plug as I was mentioning. Battery pack and the handle. I'll just show you that. There you go. Then you have the Hypervolt device here. So I'll be showing you that in a second. And then we've got four interchangeable heads that come with this as well. So various different types of techniques to iron out and massage your muscles. I'll probably go ahead and use the most common one which is the spherical soft padded massage ball there. But you've got a pretty targeted one. You've got this one that looks like a bullet. Get really deep into those muscles. You've got a U-shaped one probably for those tight back muscles. Various different areas. And then you've got a flat one as well just to iron out some of the some of the tender areas on your body. So that's everything in this box. It doesn't come with a carry case much like the TheraGun did. So you can check out that review of the case as well in my previous video. But let's go ahead and set some of these things up and let's see how it sounds. Right so the first thing I'm going to do is connect this battery pack into there. Next I'm going to be connecting the head straight into there. I presume it goes in any way. So you just push it in. Make sure it's tight. And then you do have a power button at the bottom of the device there. You just go ahead and switch that on and it should light up. You can see that there's a green light that just came on here and there's some lights that come on over here. So this gives you an indication of how much battery life is left. So the one that's on the red that's the lowest. And then if it goes all the way up to the end then that shows you that it's full battery. It says they give you around about three hours of usage time which I think is really good. Now the device itself is actually not that heavy. In the box it says it's about 1.1 kilograms which I think is pretty light. I think it's lighter than the TheraGun as well. The main purpose of me buying this is that it's more of a quiet version because the TheraGun was really loud and it just hurts my ears when I was like massaging towards my shoulders a little bit closer to the ears as well. So I couldn't cope with it that often. So maybe two minutes, three minutes and I just had enough of it. It was quite powerful as well. So your hand started to hurt after long periods of use. Whereas I tried to get this because I've heard so many good things about it. It comes with something called quiet glide technology. So I'm hoping it's a lot quieter. I know you can't be completely silent. It's just not possible at this stage. But let's go ahead and see how it sounds. The one other thing I like about this is that it comes with three different speed modes. So you have the power button here. You press it once. It's on slow. Press it second time. There'll be two blue lights which is medium and then the third one is obviously fast. Just before I start I just want to give you a quick clip of my previous video of the TheraGun. Just to show you how loud that was. So let's take a quick look at that now. Just a quick note. Just realize it's very loud. It's like a real electric drill. If you're going to do some housework you're going to put some nails in the walls then it's exactly the same noise as that. So I'd probably put some headphones in if I wanted to do this as well at the same time because it's just way too loud and if it's quiet around the office then it's just going to be a bit too hard to bear the noise. Now that was pretty loud to be honest and I'm going to give you a quick sound review of how loud this is as well. So I've got it on. So I'm going to put it on the first setting which is slow. The microphone is here. I know the TheraGun video I was a little bit further away from the camera. But I'll just go and play it from this distance here which is roughly on the same. That is really quiet. I can't really stress to you how much difference that is compared to the TheraGun. Now if I move a little bit closer you'll be able to hear it but a little bit further away it's not that loud. Just so I can give you a bit of an idea I would say if you take the TheraGun audio levels as 100% I would say that the hypervolt is probably 10% of that noise level which for me is a massive difference. The TheraGun I can only use it outside in the public. It's just way too loud. It's disturbance prone and I would just say this one just will just change everything. I can take this everywhere. I can take it to the gym when I'm on my travels abroad, holiday when I'm at the beach or something. Anytime I need to just iron out some of my aches and muscles then I can just take this more comfortably. Now lastly I want to see how it performs. So let's go ahead and do that. Now this is on the medium speed a little bit louder but it's still very quiet and this is on fast speed. Now I presume this is probably around the same level as the TheraGun where you get about 3,200 percussions per minute but I reckon this seems a little bit faster than the TheraGun default settings. It's actually doing a very good job massaging my muscles is quite intense on the level number three. I can see it doing a better job though and ironing out all of the aches and pains a lot quicker. I definitely recommend this for me. It's just better than any other massage tools out there at the moment. I would say it was a 9 out of 10 whereas a TheraGun is probably more now at this stage a 6 out of 10 even though it did do a good job as well. Just a quick comparison between the TheraGun and the Hypervolt.  So I'm going to play the clip again of the Hypervolt being played and I'm going to play the clip of the TheraGun and just give you an idea from level one setting on this the quietest it can be to the default setting on the TheraGun the differences. So let's take a look at that now. There you have it guys. I hope that made the comparison a little bit clearer. I can definitely and guarantee that this is so much more quieter in person if you try the TheraGun. I definitely recommend the Hypervolt. The design is really good. You hold it quite naturally. It doesn't really get in any awkward positions. You can target any type of areas on your body even in your back. To remove is just pull it out and put the next head in and then you can just continue using it as you wish. It's definitely worth the price. I would recommend it to any athletes or sportsmen that is always picking up injuries always getting strains, aches and so on. So I hope you like that review guys. Let me know what you guys think for the Hypervolt. It does cost about $349 depending on which country you're purchasing it from and take a look. I'll leave some links in the description below where you can buy this from and if you have any questions let me know. Otherwise thanks for watching guys and I will see you next time.


My Lady Love, My Dove, read by Richard Griffiths It's been my habit for many years to take a nap after lunch. I settle myself in a chair in a living-room with a cushion behind my head, and my feet up on a small square leather stool, and I read until I drop off. On this Friday afternoon I was in my chair, and feeling as comfortable as ever with a book in my hands, an old favourite, double day in Westwoods, the genera of diurnal lepidoptera, when my wife, who's never been a silent lady, began to talk to me from the sofa opposite. "'These two people,' she said. "'What time are they coming?' I made no answer. So she repeated the question, louder this time. I told her politely that I didn't know. I don't think I like them very much,' she said, especially him. No, dear, all right. Arthur, I said I don't think I like them very much.' I lowered my book and looked across at her lying with her feet up on the sofa, flipping over the pages of some fashion magazine. We've only met them once, I said. A dreadful man, really. Never stopped telling jokes or stories or something. I'm sure you'll manage him very well, dear. And she's pretty frightful, too. When do you think they'll arrive?' Somewhere around six o'clock, I guess. "'But don't you think they're awful?' she asked, pointing at me with her finger. "'Well, they're too awful. They really are. We can hardly put them off now, Pamela. They're absolutely the end,' she said. "'Then why did you ask them?' The question slipped out before I could stop myself and I regretted it at once. For it's a rule with me never to provoke my wife if I can help it. There was a pause and I watched her face waiting for the answer. The big, white face that to me was something so strange and fascinating, there were occasions when I could hardly bring myself to look away from it. In the evenings, sometimes, working on her embroidery or painting those small intricate flower pictures, the face would tighten and glimmer with a subtle inward strength that was beautiful beyond words. And I would sit and stare at it minute after minute while pretending to read. Even now, at this moment, with that compressed, acid look, the frowning forehead, the petulant curl of the nose, I had to admit there was a majestic quality about this woman, something splendid, almost—' All complete. Ready to continue?