Something like 95% of the seed that's generated will germinate within about a hundred yards of where it originated and so you can just see that continuous walk either up the valley or up your hillsides and that's the one thing is it's starting to move out of our steep country and onto our even more productive grasslands. But north of here along the river the cedars aren't as bad as they are here. You go south along the river they're worse there than they are here. It is moving upriver. Some people don't understand that you know you see a little seedling out there about that tall and you think it's you know maybe a year or two old it's really not it's about three or four years old. That cedar tree is probably at the same height as your grass level at about three to four years so when you get to that about to that eight to ten years you know that cedar tree is probably at about five feet six feet after eight years the growth of those cedar trees just really starts exploding I mean it just it's an exponential growth and then you just have a thick cedar forest. This should have been burned 20, 40, 50 years ago when the trees were small.  That's more like Sean said if we can get a handle on these trees when they're two and three foot tall it's a lot more economical and beneficial to do it then than it is when they're 20, 30 foot tall. If they get after them now when they're a foot and a half two feet tall it's going to take less work, less equipment, there's a lot less danger with it, it has to be done and they need to get it started now.


وَأَقُولُ فِي القُرْآنِ مَا جَاءَتْ بِهِ أَيَاتُوهُ فَهُوَ الْكَارِيمُ المُنزَالُهُ وَأَقُولُ قَالَ اللَّهُ جَلَّ جَلَالُهُ وَالْمُصْطَافَ الْهَاديِ وَلَا أَتْ أَوَّالُهُ الحمد لله رب العالمين له الحمد الحسن والثناء الجميل وَشَدُؤَ اللَّا إِلَاهَ إِلَّا اللَّهُ إِحْدَهُ لَا شَرِيْكَلَهُ يَقُولُوا الْحَقَّى وَهُوَ يَهْدِ السَّبِيلِ وَشَدُؤَنَّ سَيْدِنَا وَنَبِيَنَا مُحَمَّدْ صلى الله عليه وعليه وعلى آله وأصحابه والتابعين لهم بإحسان إلى يوم الدين أما بعد وإن تفسير صورة الفجر ونحن نتحدث عنه في our last آية إن ربك لبل مرصاد نحن نأخذ الثالث آية ونحن نتحدث عن ماذا يعني إن ربك لبنك إنه في اشكار أن الله تبارك وتعالى إنه يجب أن تبحث عن كل ما يقوله وكل ما يفعله نذهب now to carry on from the fifteenth verse the fifteenth آية where الله سبحانه وتعاله يقول فأما الإنسان إذا مبتله ربه فأكرمه ونعامه فيقول ربي أكرما وأما إذا مبتله فقدر عليه رزقه فيقول ربي أهانا and as for man الله يسأل فأما الإنسان some of the translation they translated to me فأما الإنسان as for man that's the translation that they give but the word الإنسان in the صور المكية the Meccan Suras the word الإنسان refers to the non-Muslims وإبن عطي يمتلك he says ومن حيث كان هذا غالبا على الكفاري جاء التوبيخ في هذه الآية باسم الجنس إليقع بعض المؤمنين في شيء من هذا المنزع the ayah فأما الإنسان the reason why Allah chose to use the word الإنسان is so that first of all it's talking about the non-Muslims but the reason why Allah chose to use the word الإنسان is because so some of the wrongdoers of the Muslims can also enter into it as well so some of the wrongdoers of the Muslims can enter into it فأما الإنسان that's why it's being used and that Allah used this سبحانه وتعالى فأما الإنسان as for the non-Muslims and some of the wrongdoers of the Muslims إذا مبتله when they are Lord الله سبحانه وتعالى إبتله he test them he tries them by what فأكرمه and Allah تعالى he is gracious to him ونعمه and he places blessings over him فيقول the individual will say ربي أكرم my Lord He is gracious to him ربي أكرم my Lord الله سبحانه وتعالى has favored me الله has bestowed his blessings on to me وإذا مبتله but if his Lord tries him he tests him فقدر عليه رسقه and that Allah تبارك وتعالى he restricts his provision فقدر عليه رسقه means what Allah tightens and restricts his provision فيقول the person will say ربي أكرم my Lord الله سبحانه وتعالى he has humiliated me this ayah is talking about a fallacy a misbelief an unreasonable ideology that many people hold which is if Allah gives you this world if Allah blesses you with wealth if Allah gives you children it's a sign that he loves you and that if Allah who تبارك وتعالى reduces your wealth or if Allah takes a beloved person to you you think to yourself that is because Allah is humiliating me and he hates me and that is not the truth الله سبحانه وتعالى he gives this world to the one he loves and the one he doesn't love and it does not show if you are giving this world that Allah loves you or is pleased with you الله سبحانه وتعالى ولو لا أن يكون الناس أمة واحدة لجعلنا لما يكفر بالرحمن لبيوتهم سقفا من فضا وما عارج عليها يبهرون ولبيوتهم أبوابا وسررا عليها يتكيون وزخرفا وإن كل ذلك لما متاعوا الحياة الدنيا والآخيرة عند ربك للمتقين الله سبحانه وتعالى يكفر that this world Allah gives it to the disbelievers and he also gives it to the believers you might find a Muslim who can't have children and a non-Muslim is having a great large of number of children there might be a Muslim who is struggling who doesn't have finance and he's hungry and he's in need and a non-Muslim has money and he has wealth and he's living in a mansion and etc this does not indicate that Allah loves you but Allah says والآخيرة عند ربك للمتقين but the day of judgment if Allah gives you jannah that is an indication that Allah loves you and that Allah is pleased with you so the good that you're given on the day of judgment is a sign of Allah being pleased with you and it's a sign that Allah loves you but the giving of this dunya it doesn't and Allah تعالى He told us that He will test us in this dunya with good and evil but in America some people they think that it's only a test when Allah takes from them Subhanahu و تعالى that which they love or if Allah restricts their wealth they think that's when they're being tested but if you ponder on the ayah both of the times Allah refer to it as a test look what He said فأمل إنسان و إذا مبتله when His Lord tries Him by giving Him children فيقول ربي أكرمن He will say my Lord has honoured me my Lord has favoured me children is a test the wealth that you have been given is a test and when it's said is a test and when it's taken from you it's also another test و لذلك الله تعالى He says و نبلوكم بشري والخير فتنة we will test you with evil and we will test you with good as a trial and a tribulation in another ayah الله تعالى He says و بلوناهم بالحسنات والسيئات لعلهم يرجعون we tested them with good and we tested them with hardship and pain and suffering why لعلهم يرجعون so they can come back in another ayah الله تعالى He says الله says we put them through hardship we made them suffer we put them in a very hard and tough situation and Allah says they didn't humble themselves they didn't turn back to their Lord they didn't acknowledge that they are slaves and Allah is the master they did not submit to Him سبحانه وتعالى in another ayah الله تعالى He says if a servant harm touches him and he is afflicted with harm دعا ربه منيبا إلي he requests from his Lord he begs his Lord فإذا مسأل إنسانة ضرن دعا ربه he calls onto his Lord فإذا مسأل إنسانة ضرن دعانة when the slave it's tested and hardship he's been put through دعانة he calls onto us الله says but Allah says if we give him our blessings he says it was given to me because of my hard work he attributes it to himself it was given to me because of my own knowledge Allah says it was a trial and a tribulation both of the situations Allah was testing you but the overwhelming majority of people do not know the overwhelming majority of people don't know that the good is a test and the hardship is a test the question here is the important question that one needs to ask is how and which way can I pass the test in both of those situations there's a hadith he narrated the messenger told us how both of those situations a person can pass the test the prophet said fascination is in the affairs of the believer if he's afflicted with hardship صبارة his patient the test is what الله is going to afflict you with hardship الله is going to afflict you with pain and suffering if you want to pass and you want to come out successful then be patient you've passed and when you are afflicted with good and blessing and bliss that is good for you and this is only for the believer the only person the only individual who will know how to deal with the hardship the only person who will know how to deal with the hardship is a person who comes with gratitude is the believer sorry is the believer and the only person who will know how to deal with the good and the blessings is a believer وَلَيْهِ سَدَالِكَ إِلَّا لِيْنْ مُؤْمِنِ this is only for the believer he knows how to deal with his situation in life and if you ponder brothers and sisters your life is one of those two every day of your life you are either going through good and blessing or you're going through hardship and pain and suffering learn how to deal with both situations come with patience and gratitude وَلَيْهِ سَدَالِكَ إِبْنُ الْقَيْنِ he said that both of those are like the wing of a bed in order for it to reach Allah he would have to have those two wings and because of that ابن القيم he wrote a Kitab called عُدَّةُ صَابِرِينَ وَدَخِيرَةُ الشَّاكِرِينَ وَدَخِيرَةُ الشَّاكِرِينَ he wrote a book on patience and gratitude فَأَمَلْ إِنْسَانُواْ as for man meaning here we said it's the disbeliever and it is also what it is the disbeliever it is the disbeliever and also some of the wrong doers from the Muslims إذا مَبِتَ لَاهُ if he is tested from who ربُّهُ his Lord فَأَكْرَمَهُ by favoring him by giving him what he wants the person وَنَا عَمَهُ وَنَا عَلَاهُ gives him blessings فَيَقُونُوا the person who say ربِي اكْرَمَت my Lord has honoured me وَأَمَّا إِذَا مَبِتَ لَاهُ but if his Lord tests him his Lord tries him by doing what فَقَدَرَ عَلَيهِ رِسْقَهُ his provision is restricted from him فَيَقُونُوا he would respond by saying ربِي my Lord اهَانَن has humiliated me my Lord has humiliated me and that is incorrect that is what incorrect now we are going to learn how does Allah سبحانه وتعالى honour a person and how does الله who سبحانه وتعالى humiliate a person الله then says كلا no the way that I humiliate a people and the way that I honour a people is not based upon giving the dunya or taking the dunya away from them no but the way I honour a person is that I allow them to come with righteous actions پنده here الله is saying كلا no the word كلا is used للردع to say no that is not the case it's not how you understood it الله who عز و جل He does not honour a person or humiliate a person based on giving or taking away from them the dunya but Allah said كلا no the way that I honour and the way that I humiliated is based upon the person who I allow him to come with righteous actions I have honoured him and the one that I have not allowed him to come with righteous actions I have humiliated him because Allah said إن أكرمكم عند الله اتقاكم the most honourable one to Allah عز و جل is who اتقاكم the one who comes with what righteous actions و لذلك قتادة chose that meaning that I just mentioned the student of Ibn Abbas قتادة chose that meaning قتادة said ما أسرع ما كفر ابن آدم how hasty and fast do the children of Adam disbelief يقولوا جل ثناء و الله says كلا no أنا لا أكرموا I do not honour من أكرم to the one I have honoured بكثرة الدنيا by giving him a large vast and providing for him and giving him the dunya no ولا أهينوا and I do not humiliate من أهينوا to the one I have humiliated بقلتها by giving him little dunya or restricting his provision no ولكن بأراضا إنما أكرم من أكرم to be ta'ati I have honoured the one that I have honoured by allowing him to come with my obedience و أهينوا and I have humiliated من أهينوا to the one that I have humiliated بمعصية by making أنا by allowing him to do my sins إبنو جرير القبري he said I choose this meaning he said و أول القوليني the strongest of the two views in this is the call of qatada رحمه الله why because what comes later is an indication that the call of qatada is correct because Allah humiliated them by them doing the following things that Allah is going to mention here what do they do لا تقرمون اليتيمة كلا بالا تقرمون اليتيمة Allah humiliated them because they do not they do not honour and they do not they do not honour the rights of the orphans they don't honour the orphans they don't come with righteous actions from the righteous actions that are mentioned here is what they don't honour the orphans and the orphans they don't honour the orphans and the orphan brothers is the one whose parents his father sorry his father passed away before he reached age of puberty the orphan a person is not an orphan after age of puberty based on based on the hadith عريبنا بطارب رضي الله و تعالى عنه mentioned which is that the prophet said لا يتم بعد الاحتلام لا يتم there is no one who is an orphan بعد احتلام after he has reached age of puberty once you have reached age of puberty you are not an orphan an orphan is what before age of puberty and the first among one of the greatest orphans that we know is نبي الله محمد صلى الله عليه وسلم الله said to him ألم أجدك يتيما فأوا the prophet is a what he is an orphan صلى الله عليه وسلم و لذلك the poet he said ذكرت بالقرآن اما ذكرت باليتم في القرآن تكرمة و قيمة لؤل و قيمة لؤل المكنون في اليتم ذكرت you have been mentioned محمد in the Quran as an orphan ذكرت بال يتم في القرآن تكرمة out of honoring you الله mentioned you as an orphan in the Quran when he said ألم يجدك يتيما فأوا الله mentioned him as an orphan to honor him و قيمة لؤل المكنون في اليتم because the pal it's honor and how great it is and its value is connected to when it's rare when it's by itself if I find a jewel from this earth and there's nothing like it the price is up there و قيمة لؤل و قيمة لؤل المكنون في اليتم the prophet صلى الله عليه وسلم was the first orphan صلى الله عليه وسلم and there's a poet who said that the true orphan the real orphan is the one who lacks knowledge and manners ليس ليتيم من ما توالده ليس ليتيم اللني قد ما توالده إن ليتيما ليتيما the orphan isn't the one that his parents passed away the true orphan is the one who has no knowledge and he has no manners no أخلاق no adab no etiquettes that person is an orphan that person is a what he's an orphan the orphan brothers in the Quran its affairs is very high and Allah mentioned the orphan in the context of عباد the worshipping Allah alone look what Allah said وعبد الله ولا تشركو به شيئا و بالوالدين إحسانة و بالقربة و اليتامة الله mentioned to worship him alone and not to associate partners with him and then Allah spoke about the parents and Allah spoke about the close family members of yours and then Allah spoke about the orphans و لذلك the Prophet صلى الله عليه وسلم أنا و كافل ليتيم I and the one who cares and looks after the orphan he and I في الجنة كهادة the Prophet said he and I I like this in Jannah and the Prophet صلى الله عليه وسلم what did he do he stuck out his سبابة و الوسطة this finger these two fingers صلى الله عليه وسلم the one who looks after the orphan we need to take care of the orphan the orphan is something that has a big place in our religion so الله تبارك و تعالى he said no بل تقرمون اليتيم you do not honor the orphans you don't take care of the orphans you don't take care of them the word اليتيم as I mentioned it's used for a person who lost their father before age of puberty but if you lose your mother it's called in the Arabic language العجيو العجيو is a what is the one who loses his mother before age of puberty and اللطيم in the Arabic language is a person who lost both of his parents both of his parents and then losing your father before age of puberty is called اليتيم not the mother it's the father الله says بل تقرمون اليتيم you do not you do not honor the orphans this is why الله humiliated you سبحانه وتعالى the humiliation came to you because you don't honor the orphans and you don't take care of them and Allah said روضا ولا تحلقونة الله تبارك وتعالى he says ولا تحلقونة sorry على طعام المسكين and you do not urge one another you do not encourage one another to feed the poor and the orphans you don't encourage one another you're quiet you wouldn't ask another person and say أخي give this poor person the food ولا تحلقونة على طعام المسكين you don't encourage one another to take care and to look after the needy and the ones that are poor you don't you're too high and you think you're I'm not going to ask for anybody ولي ذلك the messenger صلى الله عليه وسلم he said to a man the prophet said to a man وهل ترزقونة is Allah giving you provision the messenger said this are you giving provision and is Allah taking care of you إلا بالضعفائكم except that you're looking after your week the only reason why Allah is providing for you and Allah is taking care of you is because you're taking care of those who are in need are we all together brothers it was a brother looking after another brother and the prophet said this to him why do you think Allah is giving you the money that he's giving you and the wealth is because you're taking care of who you're taking care of those who are in need and the characteristics of the noble people is as Allah said ويطعمون الطعام على عبي مسكين ويتيم واسيرة إنما نطعمكم لوجه الله لا نريد منكم جزاء ولا شكورة إننا نخاف من ربنا يوما عبوسا قمطريرة فوقاهم الله شر ذلك اليوم ولقاهم نظرة وسرورة الله mentioned that they provide and they give to the ones who are in need the poor and do you know what they say إنما نطعمكم لوجه الله we're giving you this for Allah's sake no other reason for Allah alone we're giving you this إنما نطعمكم لوجه الله we're giving you this so we can get a place in Jannah we're giving you this so we can get closer to Allah we're giving you this so we can be distant from the Hellfire we're giving you this so Allah's wrath does not descend upon us إنما نطعمكم لوجه الله لا نريد منكم جزاء ولا شكورة in return we don't want you to thank us and show us gratitude I'm not giving you this so you can remember me and that one day you can help me لا إنما نطعمكم لوجه الله this is all for Allah's sake and that's what إنما نخافوا من ربنا we're scared of our Lord this is all when they're giving it إنما نخافوا من ربنا يوما عبوسا قم طريرا from a day that's destruction and the torment is severe brothers we're scared of this day so giving brothers what you have think about it brothers the wealth Allah has given you and what you have wasn't yours in the first place it's Allah who subhanahu wa ta'ala wealth he gave to you and guess what he's going to reward you subhanahu wa ta'ala Allah is going to reward you for something he gave you for you to give it he's rewarding you for it subhanahu wa ta'ala أرحم الراحمين so give it ولا تحضونا you do not encourage one another على طعم المسكينة to give food to the poor وتأكولون and Allah says and you consume you consume the word تأكولون it doesn't necessarily mean you just eat but you use it وتأكولون you consume التراثة the word التراثة it means inheritance التراثة it means inheritance two great scholars have said this حسن البصني وقتاة تبني دعمة السدوسي they said that تراثة means inheritance you eat inheritance meaning you will take the inheritance and you will divide it accordingly before Islam the men would take the inheritance and they would say to the women they don't fight why would they want to take it they don't need it and they would take the inheritance to themselves they wouldn't give the inheritance to the children they wouldn't give it the inheritance to the weak they would only take it for what for themselves كانوا لا يريثون النساء ولا يريثون السغارة they won't give anything to the women nor would they give it to the weak and they would need it they would say where the men where the fighters where the warriors and they would take it Islam came to bring justice and I want you to remember something Islam did not come to bring equality underline that and memorize that Islam doesn't come to establish equality Islam came to establish justice equality is not praiseworthy a new born child cannot eat when an adult can eat can a new born child eat from KFC can you eat from KFC can you have chicken burger a new born child a new born child no that's not what he wants he wants breast milk that for him is contentment that's all he wants equality means that you give them both the same justice is what brothers is you give everybody what befits them Islam came to bring about justice that's what Allah says إن الله يأمرو بالعدلي Allah command it سبحانه وتعالى عدل والإحسان سبحانه وتعالى so look how Islam liberated women and it gave women the rights that was taken and stripped from them anyone who tries to look for honor in other than what Allah mentioned فمن ابتغل عزة في غير الإسلام أدلله الله if you try to look for honor in other than the the religion of Allah in the Quran and the sunnah الله will humiliate you these isms will not bring you it won't bring you honor the honor lies in where the honor it lies in the rights Allah has given you take it because what Allah is giving you and what Allah is judging سبحانه وتعالى is in accordance to your essence it is in accordance to your creation the one who created you can only know what befits you what is good for your brain what is good for your body what is good for your mind what is spiritually good for you he can only prescribe are we all together brothers everybody else doesn't know that وتعقولول الله says you consume اتراثة the inheritance اكلن you consume it you take the inheritance اكلن لما you take it all together you take it what you take it all together you consume it you take it you take it together meaning you are taking the women's inheritance and the children's inheritance all of them you are taking them all together and you say it is only for us الله says you are doing that سبحانه وتعالى وتحبونا and you love المالة حب جما you love the dunya you love wealth so much that the money is stopping you from remembering Allah the money brothers and the wealth that you're treasureing so much was meant to serve you're that's what it was meant to serve that's what it was meant to fulfill you were not brought into this world to build skyscrapers but you were brought into this world to be a slave to Allah so when you make money you're making money so you can eat and become a good slave to Allah و لذلك the messenger peace be upon him he told us من كانت الآخرة همه the person who the he rafter is his aspiration he desires the he rafter he's working for the he rafter he's exerting effort for the he rafter جعل الله غيناه الله will praise in his heart contentment he will be happy contentment Allah will praise in his heart و جامع عليه شملة جميعه for him Allah will give him make everything easy for him Allah will allow him to accomplish hard things سبحانه وتعالى و آتتوا الدنيا the dunya will come to him و هي راغمه the dunya will throw itself at him و من كانت الدنيا but the person whose goal his aspiration his desires is the dunya جعل الله الله will make فقره بين عيني الله will place poverty in front of your eyes you have skyscrapers you have so much wealth but guess what you still feel like you're gonna die from poverty you're gonna like how am I gonna live the banks are full you have buildings and properties and etc but you feel poor you're running around just in case this might happen I might lose this this may happen I have to have a contingency plan I need plan B plan C D الله places in front of him جعل الله فقره بين عيني poverty will be placed right in front of him he always thinks he's gonna die from poverty و فرق عليه شملة الله will divide his ability strength he can't accomplish anything و لم يأتيه and the dunya that he's running after it won't come to him إلا ما قدر له except that which was written for him brothers the dunya that you're giving everything the hunger that you're trying to work so much for you can repel it you can remove it with a dry bread the poverty said الجوع يطرد بالرغيف اليابسي فعلا ما تقتروا حصرتي و وساويسي the poverty, the hunger that you have you can remove it you can push it away with a dry bread take a bread and eat it you become full from it it would straighten your back and go to a restaurant and pay 2000-3000 دلهم both of them will fill your stomach فعلا ما تقتروا حصرتي و وساويسي why are you having so much waswas why are you thinking too much the hunger can be removed with a dry bread don't worry whatever is written for you will come I am not saying don't work work because in this world you're ultimate goal when you're family and brother a believer has high aspiration the believer's aspiration shouldn't be this dunya that doesn't mean anything the messenger said صلى الله عليه وسلم أليمام الطبراني was narrated in his MOJAM إن الله يحب معالية الأمور ويكره سافسها الله loves the high things الله loves the noble things the high rank things ويكره سفسها و الله تبارك وتعالى يحيط هذه الأشياء ولذلك why did the messenger say to us صلى الله عليه وسلما إذا سألتم الله إذا سأسك الله الجنة فأسألوه الفردوس what should you ask Allah for did you say oh Allah just take me to Jannah because you said in the Quran فمن زحزها عن النار ووتخيل الجنة تفقد فأس anyone who enters Jannah will find prosperity and success as long as one of my legs is in Jannah I'm happy no have high aspiration what should you say I don't just want Jannah I want Jannah تفردوس by you giving your heart and mind to this dunya it's why you don't have high aspiration one of the reasons why people lack aspiration is because their heart is connected to something that is what from the safsah as the prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam mentioned from the low rank things are we all together brothers so remember that don't give too much to wealth some people when they give they get their hands shakes they can't give it's like a part of their body was ripped off from them he doesn't even he has reached a level of stinginess that he would prefer somebody else to pay for his food because he doesn't want to pay because he doesn't it's right in front of his eyes be careful what you love you love المال you love wealth حبا a love which is what you love your حبا جمال the word جمال it means a lot the word جمال what does it mean it means a lot as the prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam he said in the hadith المام الترمذيو narrated in كتاب التفسير تفسير القرآن عن رسول الله in the chapter what the messenger said ان تغفر اللهم or when you forgive تغفر جمال you forgive a lot or when you forgive what do you forgive you forgive a lot وَأَيُّ عَبْدِ اللَّكَ لَا أَلَمَّا and which of your slaves or Allah عَزَّوَ جَلَّا that doesn't come with أَلَمَّا أَلَمَّا means what minor mistakes إِمْنَ عَبَاسِ used it for the تفسير of the ayah ان تجتلبو كبائر ما تنهون ونكفر عنكم سيئاتكم لا لا ان تجتلبو وسيئايا ها ان تجتلبو ها ان تجتلبو كبائر اثمي والفواحشة إلا اللمم إن ربك واسع المغفرة إِمْنَ عَبَاسِ used it for the تفسير of that ayah رحمه الله تعالى الله then says what you love you love المال you love wealth you love money حباً a love جمال and immense love it's taking your heart الله then says لا that isn't the situation that isn't the case إذا دكت الأرضو دكاً دكاً الله says when the earth has been leveled and it has been pounded and it has been crushed that day you will know that day you will know was this dunya valuable or what was important that day you are going to know what is important was righteous actions that day you are going to realize that the things that I valued the things that I gave a lot to the things that I honored that wasn't really important what was really important what was what what was important was righteous actions good deeds that I should have come with كلاً the time إذا دكت الأرضو when the earth has been it has been leveled it has been pounded it has been crushed واجاء ربك and your lord comes down some people they chose to distort this verse because they don't like the idea that Allah comes down and this is a belief of a deviated group the jamiya and the mu'tazila who said that they don't want to say that Allah came and so what did they say they said واجاء أمر ربك your lord's commandments come down and we all together because they don't want to accept that Allah descends and that Allah comes down and so we say to those people the messenger صلى الله عليه وسلم he brought this verse to us the messenger he brought this verse to us and he didn't say to us that Allah is not going to descend and that what is going to descend is the commandments of Allah he didn't say that to us the prophet didn't and what we know in the قاعدة أصولية is what لا يجوز تأخير البيان عن وقت الحاجة it is not permissible to delay clarification when it was needed if this ayah was واجاء أمر ربك and that the word أمر was concealed in the verse and it was hidden and that's what it meant it won't be permissible for the prophet to delay it from us it would be a binding upon the prophet to clarify it for us and to say to us this means that the commandment of your lord is what comes down not your lord لا يجوزه it is not permissible تأخير البيان to delay clarification when في الوقت الحاجة when the need is there the أصوليين are in unanimous agreement that the messenger never delays the clarification of something when it's needed الإمام أبو مضفر السمعاني لإنسكتاب قوات عولادلة هو بوت إجباع that the prophet never will do that أبو حامد الغزال يمنشز لإنسكتاب المستصة الرازي يمنشز لإنسكتاب المحسول الإجماع and also إبن القدام يمنشز لإنسكتاب روضة للناثر و جنة المناثر of this قاعدة that is consense is the طفاق it's unanimously agreed upon لا يجوز تأخيروا البياني عن وقت الحاجة so what we say is و جاء ربك ميد يولوك because those people they contradict themselves there's a story that was mentioned that أبو حنيفة it's either أبو حنيفة's son حماد ابن أبي حنيفة or the grandson أبو حنيفة حماد ابن سليمان ابن أبي حنيفة it's one of the two it's one of the two either way a man came up to him and he said to him و جاء أمر ربك and it doesn't mean و جاء ربك it doesn't mean that Allah is descending it means that Allah's commandment is descending so حماد said then that we should also say و جاء أمر الملائكة the commandment of the angels descends the same way that we've said و جاء ربك والملك the angels they don't descend as well what descends the commandment of the angels he said if I was to say that what would you say we would say that you're wrong the angels are what coming down so he said how have you chosen to say و جاء أمر ربك but you haven't chosen to say و جاء أمر الملائكة are we all together brothers so this is a contradiction so Allah descends but brothers we need to know that the way Allah descends is a way that we don't understand we don't know it it is Allah's knowledge we don't know that ليس كمسليه شيء nothing is like him و هو السميع البصير and Allah is what one who sees and one who he is سبحانه وتعالى we don't know how و جاء ربك your Lord will descend سبحانه وتعالى و الملائكة and the angels they will come and they will descend how will they descend the angels we know but not Allah but the angels they will descend in what way the angels are going to descend rank upon rank the angels are going to come rank upon rank و جي يوم إذن بجهنم and that day جهنمه will be brought جهنمه will be brought here there is a hadith narrated by مصري من الصحيح من حديث عبدالله بالمسعود that the messenger said يوم إذن بجهنم that day جهنمه will be brought بلها سبعون زمان it has 70 70 ropes are dangling from جهنم it will be brought that day لكل زمان each rope 70.000 ملك يجرونها 70.000 angels will be pinning it down this hadith اليمام مصري من الصحيح من حديث عبدالله بالمسعود اليمام الدار قطني you in his kitab التتبعات he said that this hadith in the chain there is a man by the name of حفص يبنو حفص يبنو غياث all the other narrators that narrated from العلا ابنو خاليدن all the narrators that narrated from العلا ابنو خاليدن they didn't narrate this حديث مرفوعان they narrated it to the statement of عبدالله بالمسعود they narrated from العلا ابنو خاليدن like حفص يبنو غياث he narrated it as the statement of the messenger from عبدالله بالمسعود so دار قطني you weakened it because of that اليمام النويو he said this is not correct دار قطني number one the other great scholars of hadith they haven't accepted that because حفص يبنو غياث is an Imam number one number two even if we accept that this is the statement of عبدالله بالمسعود and not the statement of the messenger then it is مرفوع الحكومان it is in terms of its wording but it takes the ruling of a مرفوع because it is ابنو مسعود could not have put this from his own opinion are we all together brothers anyways the point is we will say that this is the prophet statement صلى الله عليه وسلم that the hellfire will be brought that day brothers 70 ropes will be dangling from the hellfire each rope 70,000 angels will be holding it down جهنم that day الله تبارك وتعالى he said إذا رأتهم من مكان بعيد سمعوا لها تغيوذا وزفيرا that day when they see the hellfire from a far place their جهنم will be warring that day will be making noise big noise جهنم that day will be making a big noise brothers because it knows its people it knows its people it will be making a big noise سبحانه الله that day it's a very serious day واجئ يومئذي مجهنم جهنم will be brought that day يومئذي that day this is called تنوين العيوب is one of the ten types of تنوين are we all together brothers تنوين التنكير تنوين المقابلة تنوين العيوب it takes the place of حرفن أو كلمة أو جملة grammatically يومئذي that day where all of this will be happening that day where Allah descends that day where the angels come down ranks upon ranks that day where the hellfire will be brought that day يتذكروا الإنسان the person will come to reality the person reality will hit him that day الله has descended for what to account the creation رب الأرض والسماء the Lord of the heavens and the earth has come down the one who knows يعلى مخائنة الأعيون وما تخف السدور the one that knows the creation's heart the one that knows what you're thinking that day is going to descend that he's going to interrogate you he's going to ask you questions and you can't run away from him and if you try to try your best to even do it اليوم نختموا على أفواههم وتكلمون أيدهم وتشهدوا أرجلهم بما كانوا يكسبون when you try to lie الله doesn't say you're lying all he does is subhanah what does he do he just conceals your mouth your mouth will be made like your forehead and guess what your body parts start to talk just to show you that your body is going to witness against you forget anybody else that's the type of day it's going to be وجي أيوم أيوم بجهنم some people are going to try to lie that day and they're going to say قالوا والله ربنا ما كنا مشركين we were not pagans we were not politists we were actually believers of yours and what would it be say to them قال أخسأوا فيها ولا تكلمون silence don't talk and they can't talk that day are we all together brothers وجي أيوم أيوم بجهنم يوم أيوم that day يتذكروا الإنسان man kind reality will hit him that day he will remember what he had left behind he will remember the days when he went against the commandments he will remember the days he fell into the prohibitions he will remember the day that he wasn't a true slave to Allah يوم أيوم that day يتذكروا الإنسان man kind will come to realize الإنسان وأنه له ذكراء what benefit will it hold for him that day what he remembers as they say in the phrase you are crying over spilt milk what can you do some people will result by saying to Allah قال رب يرجعوني oh Allah take me back I want to go back I promise you oh Allah بل بدأ لهم ما كانوا يخفون من قبلوا it becomes clear to them وبدأ لهم من الله ما لم يكون يحت سيبون things become clear to them and they say oh Allah take us back I promise you I reassure you oh Allah that I will do better I will follow your commandments I will stay away from your prohibitions that's what they start saying and Allah says بل بدأ لهم ما كانوا يخفون من قبلوا ولو ردوا لعادوا لمن who are what إنهم لكاد يبون Allah says even if their statement was taken on board and Allah took them back to the dunya they would have fallen in two they would have carried on from where they left off they would do exactly what they are saying that they won't do وإنهم لكاد يبون they are liars and a lot of times if you look at mankind they say I promise I promise I won't do this again I promise you give me this one chance just this one chance and I promise you I won't do it and he gets given that one chance what does the young little kid do and he falls into it again and his parent tells him I know you are going to do it tomorrow صح صح فرس yeah هاده he does it that's what the person is going to be that day may Allah protect us from the Hellfire may Allah make us from the righteous slave of His يقولوا the person who say يالي تني the word يالي تني brothers what does it mean it's called تمني تمني and in the Arabic language تمني it's for something which is مستحيل or شبه مستحيل it is something which is either impossible or improbable something that's most likely not going to happen are we all together brothers the person by him saying يالي تني he won't help him he won't benefit him يقولوا the person will say يالي تني he will cry that day he will wish he will say oh I wish I had sent ahead some good deeds for my life قدمت لي حياتي brothers pay attention here what is it that he will say I wish I put forward what is it that he wishes that he sent forward for that day عمل صالح righteous action he won't say I wish I had money he won't say I wish I had reputation he won't say anything else that today people are making so high things that our people are treasuring and admiring and thinking is what it really is that day that's not what the person can stand about the only thing he wishes righteous actions I wish that I put forward righteous actions I wish I did good فيومئذن that day لا يؤذب عذابه أحد ان انا ذا قراءة لا يؤذب عذابه أحد بفتح ذالي يؤذب يؤذب two different recitations ولا يؤثق وثاقه أحد that day لا يؤذب أحد how God punishes سبحانه وتعالى the severity of Allah's punishment brothers and sisters that day that day no one is able to show punishment and no one is ever able to punish like that the punishment of Allah is severe and no one is able that day to severely bind the creation tie them up the way Allah changed them up to do that Allah's عذاب that day brothers is very severe no one is able to overcome it no one can endure it it's too severe يا أياتها النفس المطمئنة there's a muqaddar hidden here there's a muqaddar hidden here there is something hidden within the ayah يا أياتها النفسي you qalu lah the soul that day it will be said to him that's the nafs that is tranquil the righteous soul it will be said to him إرجعي turn back to return it will be said to the righteous soul and then the nafs that is mentioned in the Quran how many types Allah mentioned three types of nafs in the Quran the first type is what here this one النفس المطمئنة the righteous soul the reassured soul that's the first type the second one is لا أقصب بيوم القيامة ولا أقصب بالنفس اللوامة نفس اللوامة نفس اللوامة is what is the one that blames himself all the time and the third one is وما أبرئ نفسي إن النفس لأمارة بالسوء الأمارة بالسوء those are the three nafs that I mentioned in the Quran this is the best one this is the one that the person used to work to I mentioned three النفس المطمئنة لا أقصب بيوم القيامة ولا أقصب بالنفس اللوامة and the third one is the surah to Yusuf وما أبرئ نفسي إن النفس لأمارة بالسوء the one that commands evil that's the tranquil one the second one is the one that's always always complaining why did you do this you shouldn't have done this نفس اللوامة blaming the person and the third one is الأمارة بالسوء it commands the person evil may Allah make us from what النفس المطمئنة the reassured soul the tranquil soul the soul of the righteous people it will be said to them إرجعي return to return to إرجعي إلى ربكي return back to your Lord go back to your Lord return back to your Lord what does it mean return back to your Lord it means the same way that you came from your Lord go back to Him everybody's going to come back to Allah Allah says كما بدأنا أول خلق نعيدوا وعدا علينا إلا كنا فعلنا the same way that we made you we created you you will return back to us and everybody brothers and sisters you will return to Allah and you will come back to Him حفاة أوراة you will come naked no circumcision you are not circumcised anymore and you will not be wearing no shoes no clothes nothing the way that you came out of the womb of your mother the way that you were brought into this world you had nothing you will come back like that عائشة said يا رسول الله oh messenger of Allah أوراة the people are naked will the men not look at the women and the women look at the men and the messenger said to عائشة يا عائشة الأمر أكبر مدارك the matters is big for somebody to be looking at another person's aura the issue is bigger than that for people to be focusing on each other's private parts that dates it's going to be overwhelming for the people it's تغاشية إرجعي تأم back to and return إلى ربكي to your lord راضية مرضية brothers pay attention here the person will not only enter jannah but what will they do you will return back to Allah and he is pleased with them سبحانه وتعالى نفس المطمئنة they will enter jannah and Allah is pleased with them سبحانه وتعالى turn back to your lord راضية you will turn back to your lord he is pleased with you and you are pleased with your lord سبحانه وتعالى ولي ذلك the scholars used to say ليس الشأن أنت عبة it isn't enough that you love Allah ولكن الشأن كل الشأن أنت حب but what really matters is that Allah loves you in return it isn't just about you loving Allah but what really matters is does Allah love you in return isn't that you are pleased with Allah what really matters is Allah pleased with you سبحانه وتعالى that is the question that you need to ask yourself فدخولي في عبادة it will be said to them and enter amongst my righteous slaves there are two تفسير of what it means فدخولي في عبادة there's two views according to the scholars the first view is every individual return back to your body فدخولي في عبادة return back to my slave meaning return back to the body that I own return back to your نفس go and return back to your what to the body that you were brought out of and we all together we all know the famous حديث that Imam Ahmad narrated in his Muslim بالحديث إبراهب العزم ألمام ابن كثير he mentioned in surah إبراهب يثبت الله الذين أاملوا بالقول سابتي في الحياة الدنيا وفي الآخرة ويضلوا الله ظالبين ويفعلوا الله ما يشاء لأن أأنه يتعالع وراء المساعدة أظننا فلأت عبادة ويدعك ويتم من مشاركة أنه وقت يضف على أين بفردن منلق ومتأكد منشف رأس وإبراهب لأي صحيح إبراهب إبراهب وإبراهب لأي صحيح إبراهب وإبراهب وإبراهب خلال مبن كذلك إبراهب في الدنيا وكتبوا معهم الأخيلا ويومائي لبعضهم لبعض العدو إلا المتقيم أنت تستطيع أن تكون with the righteous people carry on and be with the righteous people are we all together brothers? that's the second view that is the what? the second view go and be with the righteous slaves of الله سبحانه وتعالى I want to stop over a point and I want to conclude with it إن شاء الله وتعالى brothers the word عبت it has two plurals and I want those of you who are writing to write this is very beneficial the word عبت the word عبت has two plurals one plural is عباد and another plural is عبيت everybody is عبيت everybody is a what? عبيت that's one plural عبيت is the مملك the owned one he's owned everybody is owned by Allah سبحانه وتعالى and the second one is عباد not everybody wants to be the slave of Allah عز و جل to surrender to him to follow the commandments of Allah so the word عبت has two plurals عباد and عبيت the عبيت is the owned one whether he likes it or not we all together brothers everybody is like that Allah says in the ayah إن كل من في السماوات والأرض إلا آت الرحمن عبدا everybody will come to Allah the day of judgment as a what? as a عبيت owned by his master he has no way out of it none Muslim, Muslim doesn't matter the second one is عباد عباد عباد is for the one who surrenders to his Lord follows the commandments of his Lord stays away from that which his Lord told him to stay away from who is submissive this is عبيت عباد that plural is generally used for that and my beloved brothers and sisters if the people want to know what is in being from the عباد of Allah عز و جل everybody would work hard to be from it and everybody would exert every effort that they had and I'm going to mention إن شاء الله و تعالى I'm going to mention eight things that Allah chose to give to his عباد those who have submitted to him the first one is الله يحفظهم Allah will protect them سبحانه و تعالى from what? from Shaytan Allah said to Shaytan ليس لك ليس لك عليهم سلطان الله says ليس لك عليهم سلطان إلا من اتبعك من الغاويل إن عبادي ليس لك عليهم سلطان you have no strength over them you can't do anything to my عباد الله is protecting them Shaytan can't do anything to them he can't possess them he can't enter them because what are they? they submit to their Lord they follow the commandments they did what they were told to do and they stayed away from what they were told to stay away from إن عبادي ليس لك عليهم سلطان the second thing is الله يلطف بهم الله is gentle towards them الله is what? he is gentle to his slaves سبحانه و تعالى and Allah said in the ayah الله لطيف بعباده الله is gentle to what? عباده عباد are we all together brothers? the third one is الله يكون قريبا من عباده الله تعالى he is close to his slaves he is close to them و إذا سألك عبادي عني فإنني قريب أجيب دعوة الدعين دعون و إذا سألك if my و إذا سألك عبادي when my slaves ask me where am I? I am close the fourth one is الله يغفروا الدنوبة الله تعالى he forgives their sins قل يا عبادي الذي لأسرفوا على أنفسهم لا تقنطوا من رحمة الله إن الله يغفروا الدنوبة جميعا إنه هو الغفور الرحيم قل يا عبادي الذي لأسرفوا those who have transgressed who have exceeded their limits went against Allah's commandments they didn't do what they were told to do they didn't stay away from that which they were told to stay away from don't give up on Allah's mercy لا تقنطوا من رحمة الله إن الله يغفروا الدنوبة جميعا الله forgives all of the sins سبحانه وتعالى الله also he accepts their repentance الله he's a servant الله يقبلوا توبةهم الله accepts their towba سبحانه وتعالى وهو الذي يقبلوا توبة عن عبادي ويعفوا عن السيئات وهو الذي يقبلوا توبة عن عبادي عبادي all of these words in all of these ayats I'm mentioning what the word عباد this is the things that are for them الله تبارك وتعالى الله يرحمهم الله has mercy upon them سبحانه وتعالى نبعبادي أنني أنا الغفور الرحيم أما نبعبادي أنني أنا الغفور الرحيم in both ways you can read it inform my slaves that I'm forgiving what did Allah use نبعبادي أنني أنا الغفور الرحيم number 7 الله يأملهم يوم الفزع الأكبر الله تبارك وتعالى will give them reassurance الله will give them safety that day when people's hearts and mind and the people are stressed الله says يا عبادي لا خوف عليكم اليوم ولا أنتم تحسنون يا عبادي my slaves upon you is not fear upon you today is not to be concerned and worried that's 8 الله الله تبارك وتعالى يدخلهم الجنة he will place them into jannah and will he only put them into jannah he will take them to a jannah that no one has ever seen or heard or even knows what it looks like الله تبارك وتعالى he said جنة عدنين التي وعد الرحمن عباده بالغيب جنة الله has prepared it for his slaves and also Bukhari and Muslim both narrated روش شاي خالي من حديثي أبي هريرا that the messenger said قال رسول الله صلى الله عليه وسلم قال الله تعالى الله سد أعددت لعبادي الصالحين ما لعين الرأت ولا أودن سمعت ولا خطر على قلب بشر I have prepared for who أعددت لعبادي الصالحين I have prepared for who لكن my righteous slaves what have I prepared for them that which his eyes have never seen his have never heard of and has never come to the heart of any individual ولي ذلك because of those points القاضي عياذ يحسبي رحمه الله he said وَمِمَّا زَادَلِ فَخْرَنْ وَتِيهَنْ وَكِتُ بِأَخْمَصِيْ أَطَأُ الثُرَيَّة دُخولية تحتقولك يا عبادي وأنسيرت أحمد لي نبيا what makes me so happy and what makes me so happy and what makes me so joyful and so happy it is what and makes me feel like I am walking on the stars I am walking on the mood is what it is because وَمِمَّا زَادَلِ فَخْرَنْ وَتِيهَنْ وَكِتُ بِأَخْمَصِيْ أَطَأُ الثُرَيَّة دُخولية تحتقولك يا عبادي because I am under the title of يا عبادي this makes me so excited وأنسيرت أحمد لي نبيا and that نبي الله محمد you made him my prophet that has made me so happy and that has made me so joyful and Imam Qadriyyad said that he Allah said فدخولي في عبادي brothers be from the slaves of Allah ولي ذلك the time that نبي الله محمد was at the best positions for him in any other title except the word عباد سبحاد الذي أسرى بعبده the prophet was physically taken up to إسراء المعراج he has reached a level even جيبليل couldn't reach Muhammad I can't pass this level only you can go he reached that Allah referred him as a what slave when the Quran was coming down on him الحمد لله الذي الحمد لله الذي أنزل على عبده الكتابة ولم يجعله عوجا the one who sent down the book he is slave that's the best time the Quran is coming down on him Allah referred him as a slave when the prophet Muhammad stood up to give دعوة this is the best time what did Allah say ولم قام عبد الله يدعوه كاد يكونون علي لبدا when my slave stood up to give دعوة all those times Allah referred him as a what that's the best title that you can be given and that is it is that title brothers that the atheists the ملاحظة they want to take away from you they don't want you to be a slave but you know what they want you to be a slave to yourself a slave because everybody is a slave whether he likes it or not that's why ibn al qayyim said هربوا من الرق الذي خلقوا له فبلوا برق النفسي وشيطاني they ran away from being slaves to Allah and so they became slaves to their wins and desires and they became slaves to shaitan so now you pick you pick do you want to be a slave to Allah and your heart is going to find contentment and joy and happiness or do you want to be a slave to your own نفس and shaitan and all you are going to find is destruction and torment and hardship and stress and suicidal thoughts depression and anxieties and you name the mental illnesses out there will be afflicted onto you الله سبحانه وتعالى فدخلي في عبادة ودخلي جنة and it will be said to the نفس المطمئنة it will be said to them and enter to my jannah and enter my paradise we finished insha'Allah وتعالى the surah insha'Allah we will be carried on from surah to the ballad anything that I have said that was wrong and incorrect is from me a shaitan and Allah his message are free from it سبحانك اللهم بحمدك أشهد ولا إله إلا الله أستغفروا وأتوب إليه


So a few years ago. I was staying in a monastery in the Sichuan province near Chengdu now while I was in this monastery Meditating I had once had a little chance conversation with a Taoist monk and the monk told me to do three things every day from a Taoist and traditional Chinese medicine point of view that I thought I would share here in this video today Hey guys, Dr. Alex Hain a doctor of acupuncture and traditional Chinese medicine and author of the health book master the day So before we jump into this video, I put together two very important links that can help you The first is for a free guide I've put together which is for daily rituals that can potentially help you ideas to your life with traditional Chinese medicine and the second is if you'd like to become a patient of mine locally in Los Angeles or Virtually via telemedicine. There's a link right below to reach out to my private practice Now the first piece of advice that he gave me was to harmonize or balance your life based on yin and yang Now this goes way back to the yellow emperors inner classic of medicine one of our most important books in traditional Chinese medicine But the example he gave was the stark contrast Between how peaceful life is in the country and of course he's a monk. It is a simple boring life Versus the way people live in cities. This is just him observing from the outside the pace of life You wake up to an alarm which jars your nervous system like that Which is way different from waking up in the country where you wake up to birds or sunlight So think about the effect that has on the nervous system and then you get in this car Right where you're speeding trying to get to work on time and there's noise and honking and just the general city smells and pollution Then you get to this work where you have deadlines and you have missions things you have to get done And then you have a boss breathing down your neck who has you know They say you've got to get this done in this period of time Whereas if you're working in the farm you just work until the work is done some days shorter some days longer It's probably relatively peaceful steady-state kind of work And then when it comes to your lunch break something that should be theoretically enjoyable and peaceful and Really no rush, you know a lot of workers in the US literally sit at their desk and they work in front of their desk There's no hour long two hour long lunch break like in Europe where people taking time to break bread with people And have a nice conversation and relax and talk It's literally something where you are no you're just continuing to be the machine There's no peace and stillness now from a Taoist or Yin Yang point of view This is utilizing all the yang pushing energy, right? It's a lot of forward momentum and stress and Pressure tension on the nervous system that this creates Which is really one of the main issues that people have in the modern world Which is that it's all forward momentum all tension all pressure all doing and not enough yin time and not enough rest The second piece of advice he told me was that Qi and blood flow is the key to longevity So for thousands of years not only in Taoism, but in traditional Chinese medicine It was observed that proper flow was key to proper functioning of the organs in the body Now we say that the solid organs like the kidneys and the liver they store essence, right? But the hollow organs the way you strengthen the function of them is by movement now The hollow organs being organs like the stomach and the intestines a lot of our issues today a lot of our health issues and diseases our diseases of Affluence diseases of accumulation of excess eating gallbladder issues gallbladder removals Acid reflux indigestion people with bowel issues because we're eating too much and too much of the wrong thing So we say that you strengthen you allow proper Qi flow of a hollow organ like the intestines by letting it empty So by eating smaller meals it benefits the stomach the gallbladder the spleen from a TCM point of view as well as the Intestines so he was saying that Qi and blood flow is key to longevity and key to life When you look at why modern people die the main diseases really are cardiovascular, right? Strokes heart attacks even dementia some people call it a kind of type 3 diabetes and all of the long-term Consequences of diabetes there due to lack of flow primarily blood flow So what he was saying a lot of people the issue in modern life is stagnation stagnation not only on a literal physical level sitting instead of physical movement not CrossFit, but lots of low-level consistent physical movement and On top of that is a kind of spiritual and mental emotional stagnation of doing repetitive work and not doing things that light you up and excite you and not taking time off to travel and explore and Have hobbies that really lighten the spirit so to speak So movement both from a literal point of view and a metaphorical mental point of view are key The third thing he said was more about the spirit where he said keeping a quiet heart is the key to peace He said one of the main things he sees besides people in cities being fat and stressed is that The main thing that strikes him about city dwellers is the lack of peace You talk to them and you can feel the subtle buzzing tension of the nervous system of someone who has deadlines and is rushed and Is stressed and doesn't get enough rest and peace and enough quiet So the lack of peace he said is very very interesting because he said a lot of it from city dwellers There's a quote in the Dowda Jing something paraphrased about how the old are rigid and brittle and dried out stiff While the young are supple and there's not that tension in the body, right? And that what leads to the old and the premature aging is people are old and stiff like a tree branch that cracks in the hurricane Versus a supple one that just bends but does not break for lots of us The mind is the thing that is the most rigid because he says the mind is what's driving us to try to be successful with desires Right and desires can be a kind of poison because it can be the exact same drive To be successful that is the same exact drive that pushes the mind and body beyond their limits so the constant pursuing of desires and success and fame and notoriety that drives so many people to cities is One part adaptive trying to improve your life as a poor person But is one part maladaptive trying so hard to push yourself beyond your limits And that is the thing that very often pushes us into a state of disease So the drive for achievement is antithetical to the drive for tranquility and peace And that was where he left me in terms of these three Taoist lessons for modern people in the city So that's what I have for you here today guys before you go check out those links for the free guide and to reach out To my practice if you want to speak more and I will see you soon


The five aggrieved governors of the People's Democratic Party, the PDP, in alliance with some parties torwards have announced the formation of the Integrity Group within the party. This was announced by Governor Marking Day while addressing journalists before the group went into a closed-door meeting. The G5 governors led by Governor Nisam Wike of River State and other aggrieved members of the party have been clamoring for the resignation of the PDP National Chairman, Dr. Iochia Aiu, shortly after a Nathanae al-Hachi Attiku Obuboka won the party's presidential ticket. Governor Marking Day said the Integrity Group remained the face behind the struggle within the PDP. Former governors Ayo Fireshi, Donald Duke, Jona Jang and Ulushago Mimiko, among other PDP leaders were also at the meeting. The G5 is all about the Integrity Group. You can see us as serving governors as the face of this struggle, but the leaders and elders of the party that you see here, they are the people. Behind those faces. At this meeting, I have decided to stand on the decisions we took at our last photo-court meeting and we hereby again reiterate that the window for reconciliation in our great party, the PDP, remains open. Hello, hope you enjoyed the news. Please do subscribe to our YouTube channel and don't forget to hit the notification button so you get notified about fresh news updates.


Welcome back to Human-Humane Architecture here from Honolulu, Hawaii. And we're back to every other week's version about learning from the past for the future for our tropical exotic paradise here in Hawaii with the Soto Brown and Martin de Spain. How do you do, sir? I'm okay, except we have to make it through 39 pages. Yeah, we got lots to talk about. So to start confusing to begin with, this show is about architecture.  This is about, doesn't make it much better. It's about licking, sticking, lanais. All right. So what the hell is that? All right. Well, let's find out what that means. And let's go to our first picture. And that's our traditional Hawaiian grass, Hale, Hale Pili. And when we're talking about in the ancient days of Hawaii, pretty much people lived either indoors or outdoors. And as you see in the holly here, it is a framework of sticks which has grass or peely grass on the exterior of it. And there really was not any other structure. There was no other lanai. There was no other way to live. As I said, either you are inside or outside. That's not the way we live today, because we're going to be talking about balconies on high-rise buildings that serve as part of the place that people live when they're in an apartment or hotel room. And next picture. Let's look when it started to change. Right. So in our next photograph, here we've got a picture of the Royal Hawaiian Hotel. This was the first hotel in the Hawaiian Islands to have balconies. The previous hotels did not have them. The Royal Hawaiian, however, as you can see by the picture on the left, which is taken about 1935, only had balconies that could accommodate maybe two people just standing up. The only ones that had larger ones were the suites. So most people didn't have a balcony. They just had a window. And this was true of the other two hotels which preceded it, which was the Moana Hotel and the Alexander Young Hotel downtown Honolulu. And if we go to the third picture, we've got the Edgewater Hotel. This is historically important because it was the first big post-war hotel built in Waikiki in the late 1940s. And for the first time, those hotel rooms have got balconies. As we see here in the detail picture, the balconies are edged with concrete blocks or cement blocks that have holes in them. I mean, there's a grid work there so that there's air movement. That's something we're going to be talking about. But it's an architectural feature which is different from most of the balconies we see today. And it's a cement block weave. And so it's a local material as well because there's production or at least was cement blocks here, right? Correct. Let's move on to the evolution of the next project. And this is the Hawai'iana Hotel, which is still in business today and it is on beach walk. And it's got these really interesting die-cut plywood, I assume, plywood panels serving as the railings for the balconies on the second floor. Now, I think that, first of all, these are really 50s patterns, these abstract patterns. And I think because this is a small building of just two stories, they were able to do something a little more unusual, spend a little more time, effort, and money to make these unusual railings, which today we wouldn't have time or expense to be able to cover, but back then they did because it was a small building. And I like your point of saying these are not chevron or some of them obscured, a skirt, a Hawaiian pattern, these are high-modern American, but yet somehow, you know, from its feel. Absolutely. It has a primitive look. It has a primitive look, and they're exotic, sort of erotic in that way. Right. And they're abstract, as you say. They're abstract. And they're very cool. They were cool. Exactly. As is the next building in a little different way. Right. And the next building is the Waikiki Surf Hotel, which was on Kuhio Avenue and Seaside Avenue, opened in about the middle 50s. And it had a Japanese theme, the hotel as a whole did. So if you look at the dividers between the lanais here, you see that they look like Japanese sliding shouji doors, except these are made with plastic rather than paper panels. And also the railings of each one of these lanais is wood, and it is based again on Japanese traditional architecture. It is. And as you pointed out, it's got a solid panel at the bottom, but it's got other panels up above which have open spaces. So that's always desirable for air movement, and you can see out. And you can, and you can't, because when you see on a low chair or on the floor, people can't see you, but you can see people. So there's a real good occupational advantage to that. Absolutely. And the next picture sort of concludes our little looking into the past, how creative architects were in finding different themes and iterations, getting crazy about it. Yeah. And this is the ocean tower of the Hawaiian Village Hotel in the late 1950s. And if you look on the left, you see that the depths of those projecting floors of the balconies are all different. So you've got this kind of staggered look of shorter, longer, shorter, longer. And then on the right, there's this very interesting pattern of the exterior fire escape stairway, which you probably isn't legal now to do anymore. Well, it's again, thanks to our colleague host, Howard Wick. He changed the code, so we can do this again. Oh, we can. We're back. Thanks, Howard. And again, that makes a very interesting pattern. And it's like a continuation of the structures of the balconies that the building already has. And how do we actually get excited about this topic here? Was a couple of shows ago. Right. Next picture. We're just next door. This one isn't existing anymore, but we took these pictures here. So this is Edwin Bauer's Lagoon Tower. We're also going to make a show about Edwin Bauer with our Doko Momo colleague, John Williams. So get prepared, John. And so we got excited because these are so sexy, swooping curves. And if you want to know more, go back to the picture. And then we started to go out and about next picture and walking through our urban fabric and seeing this interesting potential analogy between the floral realm and the architectural realm and certain similarities. Right? Right. And what Martin pointed out, and let's go to our next picture because Martin had a statement that these extruding exterior balconies are not unlike something that grows on a flower. What's that word? Oh, you taught me that, sir. It's called pedaled. Pedaled because he didn't know the word in English for that. No, I did not. Now I do.  So they are not only attractants, but they have a physical purpose as well. And we thought that the balconies that stick out of some of these buildings are like pedals. Exactly. So what the show wants to do is encourage you guys to go out and find your own. Look at the ones we show you and look at more. And maybe you look at them in three different matrixes, categories. And these are the next three pictures. The next picture is, which usually ends up to being last, which is how it looks like. We want to upfront that because if a balcony, which we will show Earl and I, isn't beautiful, forget about it. Exactly. Right? And we want to encourage you guys to see how sort of unlimited sort of the ways of variations, iterations are. If architects are created, you can create, you know, produce numerous of these just like flowers. They're basically of the same kind, but then each flower is unique, right? Right. And the other thing too that we're going to get to is this field of tulips, as you just said, they're all the same form, but they've all got different colors and shapes. But the symmetry is still there. Exactly. And symmetry is important on buildings for aesthetic purposes. And we'll talk about that as we continue. The next picture shows is another way you want, you see, this is also a permanent background picture because I think it's so cool to see this analogy between the organic palm tree and then the sort of organic form of the sticking out lanais. And you see this red dot, which is a person. And on the top is a picture you provided once again from Kauai, which basically shows, demonstrates the occupational because there shouldn't be decorated from the outside. They should actually be performative from the inside out and make you feel good in different ways. And the third one, the third category is called biochlametics. This is the next picture. And I use this building here, which is the tallest in Waikiki. This is the Island Colony building. And so I want to show you guys something which I have to put on my head here, my cap. Yeah. So let's get back to us in the studio so we can demonstrate that. So if I use my flashlight here and I have my head on and I turn it on. Here's the light. I use this light and I'm looking south and the sun is high up. This is going to shape my face. If I'm going to wait half day, the sun is basically going down west and shoots straight into my face. That means we would need horizontal, and if we're going to get back the picture number 12, we need horizontal louvers, which basically the slabs of Lanais can be. And we need vertical ones to east and west. I put a north arrow here, which I always tell my emerging colleagues is without a north arrow, you can't even judge a building here. Dillingham made it almost right with a grid in Waikiki, but not quite. And basically, so the north facades are also facing slightly west and the south facades are facing slightly east. In this building, the biochlametic check is that the Lanais are deep enough to the south to shade, and on the north, the vertical dividers, the slabs are long enough. So it is a biochlametic tower, also because it's orientation, or mainly based upon that it's orientation, it's running Malka Makai with its long side, so it allows the airflow. But also because of the solar exposure, is it a beautiful building? I'm not sure most people would say no. So going back to category one with the tulips, it got to be all of that. So let's jump and let's take a look at other great examples. And we're already within the linear realm, right? Correct, absolutely, the horizontal. So this is, what? This is the Ilikai. The Ilikai was the really big, the first really big apartment hotel building built in Waikiki, opened in 1964. And the diagram on the right is fascinating to me because it shows that the division of the three prongs of the Ilikai hotel kind of serve as a prow of a boatwood going through the water in that the airflow, the usual airflow of the trade winds blows up against that and goes to the side. And this is courtesy of Liam Tran, one of our emerging colleagues who did this analysis way back. John Graham is the architect. We already pointed out with a previous show, which is about the Alamoana building that, although he was America's most commercial architect, he had a bio-climatic interest, so no doubt here. He was dealing with these sort of very American, extruded, efficient, effective linear lanais, giving them a spandrel in this sort of iconic turquoise color. So it provides you with an option. You can either sit behind, have a little less airflow, but be private, or you can sit in front of the vertical grading and be more open and be more easy breezy. So let's go to the next picture. Another project we will do a show about with my emerging architect, David, who has his grandma living in this building, which is the senior housing on Kalakaua next to King Street. And the architect basically made the bellows straights these wind scoops. They're a wintry effect. They shove in the wind, and it works. She's easy breezy and loves it, just like your mother. And that's the way to go, because we're in Hawaii. They don't like air conditioning. Exactly. Let's go to the next picture. This is back on Seaside and Kohio, a nice little tower where you can see these are sticking out. And you like this term that I said in Germany. It's called Auf dem Präsentierter. What is that? Well, you said that that means it's on a presentation plate, as if a waiter is presenting something to you. And what I like about these is they look like they are displays. They look like they are out there, partly for the enjoyment of people to look at when they're outside, but also the fact that each one of those has the same rounded chair on it, and it's in the same position, really adds to the aesthetic attraction of the similarity and the intentional display. And it's a nice mid-century chair that goes with sort of the aesthetics of the building. So we want to compliment the hotel management. And now we're pouring some pretty nasty water into this wine we're making here. And also want to discourage future generations with the next picture, because he would see the same theme. But what has happened here? Yeah, right. Well, these are not livable balconies. These are roofs that are shading and protecting individual AC units for each one of these apartments. These days, single wall unit ACs? No way. We want easy-greasy back, right? Right. And it also doesn't serve any purpose for the people inside, because you can't go out on it. Oh my god. Let's go to the next picture. Does it get better at a soda? Well, no, it does not get better in our next picture. Oh, next picture. And the discussion that we've also been having is the type of railing. And one of the problems with the type of railing that we see here is glass. Glass has some detriments for it to be used as a railing for a balcony. One, it is solid. It does not allow air movement. Two, it is potentially dangerous, because it can break. Three, it gets dirty, and you have to clean it. And particularly the exterior, you really cannot clean that. So with that, I think you classified it as an evasive material versus an exotic. So it would say, ban it. Don't do it. This is the collection, by the way, in Utah, brand new. This is facing pretty much south. You get baked. And it's just like, why even doing these, right? Next picture, it gets better now, right? You promise? No, it does not get better yet, because now we've got the Wikey Key, Grand Wikey Key and Time Share, which is part of the Hawaiian Village Complex. And we were saying that aesthetics are important in the terms of symmetry and repetitive images and repetitive designs, which are pleasing. This breaks all that up. We've got three totally different types of things sticking out in this building. Not only that, but we've got something that you point out, these exterior decor panels, which really don't have any intrinsic significance for the building that you see on the right that are sort of like a, I don't know what that pattern is. And plus, we've got the Chevron, which is kind of the current thing that you slap onto a building to make it look Hawaiian in the railing that we see at the top. So this is a disruptive thing. This is not aesthetically pleasing to look at for somebody on the outside of the building. And Kurt Sandburn made this the flagship image for his great article, Ugly Honolulu. It certainly deserves to be the number one. And they just couldn't decide. The middle piece is not even a utilizable. That's just the decorative. It's just like a roof. It seems like Greek or something. Yeah, it's just this.  What is the Caesar's Palace? Or what is it? Or Hawaiian, Hawaiian, Kamehameha version of it, meeting Caesar or something? I don't know. And the guardrails, can't they decide? And the most opulent one has no use. And then they certainly think, because the glass one occurs rather rarely, but the other one. So they think the glass one is the coolest, but literally speaking, it's actually the middle grading one. OK, I need a break from that. We need to go back and look at a picture of some good old ones. Right, right, right. So next one, this is sort of starting where the linear one started morph, right? Right. And so what we're going to be seeing as we continue is the ways you can make changes in these things, they don't all have to be the same. They don't all have to be rectangular. They can be curved. They can be angular. They can do all kinds of cool stuff. And as you pointed out, you can go out to that front part where it sticks out the most. You can be sticking out a little bit. It can be kind of exhilarating unless you're scared of heights, in which case you don't want to do that. But if you do, that's a cool place to be.  And it starts to like, yeah, be fun. And it's nice to look at. And it gives it the more exotic tropical feel just through the sort of playfulness of them, which is also performative. So it's just like very appropriate what nature does here on the island, being very performative and looking very good. Right. So next picture. And this is sort of an interesting one, because I find this very voyeurist. Because you've got these slabs that could sort of give you privacy, but then there is this cutout, this goofy cutout, sort of like Googie architecture. And it allows you to either sort of look down on someone's bald head on the one diagonally down, or maybe even more exciting looking at someone's pants or skirts. So this is sort of interesting. There's a buggy, right. And interesting. So the next one is sort of along the same lines of that sort of scheme here, where basically the linear gets sort of pretty much like Googie and curvy, right? Right, and wavy. This looks like this is kind of a wavy. But wavy in an abstract way. We're not talking the literal waviness where you like stick wavy pattern on buildings, or you make it a whole glass front and it comes later. And you say this has to do with water, which is the opposite. We'll see that later.  So our next picture is that's kind of what it looks like if you're on the inside of it. You can see you are projecting out. And as I said earlier, exhilarating if you like it, because you have only this kind of frail appearing framework to hold you back from tumbling down. But it does look really exhilarating and exciting. And something else that I mentioned earlier, too, to you was here in the Hawaiian Islands, this is actually part of your living space. A balcony here is something you can lose a lot more than you can in, say, Chicago, where only for a limited time of the year can you even go out on it. Which we will go to in a couple pictures. But before that, we move on. And we're referring to one of our last shows, Tropical Brutalism. This is the Halecoa Military Hotel in the Fodorisi Park. And you can see this is all cast and placed in place, a board-form concrete, and it got soft edged. So it gives it the sort of touch of curvy, of wavy, and an abstract wavy. And not as brutal as. Exactly. And another one, next picture, is in my hood again. It's sort of the same kind of pattern. This is, as you can see in the little picture at the top, how it looks from the elevation looking up. So it's also the same sort of soft edge curved corner. And it gives you a different feel, but it also helps you, as you said, give you these options. You can get out at the very tip of it and feel like you're flying and want to jump off, hopefully you don't. No, no, no.  And then you're also more protected from your neighbor's view. So you have these options, right? Correct, right. The next picture is basically the other show we did recently is the reef, right? No, this isn't yet it. Yeah, yeah, yeah. We're not there yet. There are too many. And that's a good thing. There are so many. There are so many. It's like the flowers. Which one is the flower you just spotted? We talked about, they all look the same, but they're all looking different. And I like this because it's got the contrast of the really strong vertical elements, the vertical lines, contrasted with those round, sticking out, curvy, pedal-like balconies. And the next one is what I thought this one here is, this is the Art Rigor Reef, which we talked about last one. And this is introducing another theme so you can curve these lanai slabs and you can also then start to stagger the glass, which obviously has been done for a better view because they all want to look at the ocean. And sort of this is a different twist and it obviously does different things. If you walk through every categories, you can assess this and come up with your own mind. And I kind of like that. I think that's interesting. I like that contrast. Yeah, definitely. And the next one is actually the same one so we don't want to talk about it, but we just want to point out that there's the same theme sometimes occurring only slightly differently at different places, like just you find the same flower next to it pretty soon and it's a little different because it's an own plan. Each plan is an own species. That's right, that's right. And let's move on and almost come full circle because you want to introduce a classical vintage example where it all started. Right, so our next picture is a historically important one because this is the, what's now called the diamond head wing of the Moana Hotel, but originally it was called the surf rider. And when it opened in 1951, this was the first building here in Hawaii to look like this to establish this concrete box pattern with the lani or the balcony that we now see and see all over the place. And in the upper corner, we see the Princess Ka'iulani Hotel opened in 1955 carrying on that tradition. And those are very old buildings for Waikiki as it is constituted today. This is where it all came from right here. And also tracing back to our most activist reporter, Kurt Sandburne, he's so activist because the one next to the Moana surf rider, they wanted to build a huge tar recently. He was part of the team that defended that. Because this is a pretty iconic building and it certainly has its place in history of the islands which is not sentimental, it's not nostalgic, but it's pretty modern. And you see, we just wanna encourage the audience of emerging designers to really think bi-climatically, think occupationally, think aesthetically in these three categories. And here at least you see under the curved slab is this sort of bristle lay grill thing, which because I'm running there this morning, I'm running by, I'm thinking like, well, this is facing west in that case. So they're probably not gonna do much, but they do something. And they do here now whatever time of the day that is because you can see this shadow being cast. So it does a job and you guys have more tools these days and eco software and ecotech and stuff like that. You can basically sort of design this way more sort of scientifically and way more strategically. So we wanna encourage that. So getting to the last third of the show, wrapping up is what are our suggestions and recommendations and let's go to the next picture. And you already said Chicago from left to right, this is Chicago, this is Bertrand Goldberg's from Marina City and he was a Mies van der Rohe disciple, but he was the rebel and the black sheep. And whereas his master was doing the boxes that we know from the Dark Knight movie, the IBM building, he was saying, I'm not gonna do this master, show you the middle finger. And this is literally it and he went organic. A big cylinder. And then, you know, for decades almost Chicago has not been doing anything of that significance until Ginny Gann came, one of the few female architects we have in the profession and she stepped in with a sort of tough job to basically decorate a already developed tower that was developed by a developer. And she did it in this way to the third image to the right, which looks a little bit like my hair when I'm not shaving myself easily. And so this was aimed to be cool, but the picture in the second to left is actually me with my friend Dan Kubrick and a building that he was construction supervising. We looked at the Aqua Tower and it doesn't look at all like he didn't even know it's the same building. No, I didn't, because if you look at it straight on, you don't see that pattern. Exactly. You have to see it from the side. So maybe here only category one is achieved, which it looks cool, which is already great. And that has to do with a building on the right, which is here in Honolulu. And that is called the Symphony. And that's on Capoliani Boulevard in Ward. It's already sort of under supervision because it's like baking people in the neighborhood. Also, its orientation is wrong because it's blocking the winds. It's facing west.  And next picture, whereas, and this is what I was taking here to the right when the Aqua Tower was the middle slide, little step back, but then here's my detail. I wished when I was there flying in and out still my western days that they had used something that we see on the next slide, which is a system that we had in Germany for decades. And it made it to Canada and hopefully America gets it, which is basically you start to cast the slab of the floor, then you cast that thing in and the rebar stick out. So it basically structurally connects it, but then there is a strip of rigid foam that thermally disconnects it. And we should use that. And while it's maybe more dangerous not to do that in the cold because you end up basically making a radiator and that's what the Aqua Tower is doing with being stewards of the environment and our earth, we shouldn't have leaks in the building and all these leak.  So the next picture, we have to some more dirty water here, this is, whereas Kurt probably didn't think that the Waikiki and couldn't be the worst one because it got worse, right? Yeah. I mean, this is. So this is again, part of the Hawaiian Village complex. And as we were discussing before this, first of all, it's got glass railings, which have very few, not a lot of good positive things to say about them. And then we've got some happy tourists in the upper right corner who presumably the ones who are gonna wanna live in this place and tell us what else is not very good about it. And there's one sitting there already. There's one person in there already. And this is the most generic American, looks like a hotel, could be anywhere, right? This is precast concrete, punched holes in. There's no easy breezy lanai sliding door. It's reduced to one hole and then one sliding door.  That's right.  That's right. Next picture. And also, if you guys renovate buildings, this is on Kohio, a recently renovated thing. They had the original vertical guard rails, but they had to add this metal mesh and you see a guy sitting behind. It's not really camouflaging him, which was the intention, but it's blocking the wind. So again, think about this twice. And the next two pictures you were walking around and see it's even de-evolving even more, right? That's right. So in our next picture, we've got what things are happening right now in Honolulu. This is, well, yeah, there we go. Yeah, so on the left we see the de-evolution and almost the vestigial remnants of a lanai or a balcony that just forms kind of a decorative exterior element, but really doesn't have any projecting part that's of any great use. And on the right, again, one of our new buildings in Honolulu, there aren't any balconies at all. And the exterior of the building has a wavy texture, which kind of looks like balconies are sticking out, but in fact, it is one big glass box that heats up because it's got to be air conditioned entirely and the sun streams in and the air conditioning is fighting against the sun. And the next picture we already got a pre-glimpse, there's also a very practical survival, existentially surviving reason potentially for lanai, right? And this is the Marco Polo Hotel and Marco Polo apartment building as it looked after the day after the fire, the disastrous fire, which occurred in July of this year.  They still were exposed to a great deal of smoke and heat, but they survived whereas others did not. Okay, let's live up to the tradition of our show is to end on a positive note, optimistic. And you always cheer me up with your goodies from the good old times. This is the Kauai Surf and this is the epitome of Easy Breezy. This is the guardrail limited to the most minimal bars that you can get and it's capitalizing on what Hawaii is, the view and the breeze and everything. And it's a complete extension of the room to be completely livable outdoors. So why couldn't you do this again? We say yes. Next picture is our Primitiva project that we already showed you a couple of times. This is it and we're using, and this is at the top row I inserted where Primitiva could all be. And as the guardrail material, if the camera could please go to this material here that I have in my hands here, this is basically a stainless steel fissure net that you can use and it's even more minimal. It's even more minimal than any of the other stuff. Correct. And it lets the breeze through entirely and you almost don't see it and you can use it with vegetation and stuff like that. And so you can do that and go... And this is a steel mesh and so if we pull on it, you can see that that has got a lot of strength. And you almost don't see it. You just see the connecting dots, right? Wouldn't that be the ultimate and the epitome of a guardrail, of a tropical exotic erotic guardrail? Correct. Can you do it? Last picture and then we're at the end of the show. We get even more polemically provocative whereas this you need to ship in and even though you roll it, you have way less material but you still need to ship it in but we have no surprise and even more provocative proposal.  We don't want to do anymore and we repurpose, we take, we're so nice to take their vinyl fisher net and we make the guardrails out of that. Exactly. So if we haven't shocked you enough and tune in again in about two weeks which is another version of the soda and martin talking about learning from the past for the future, and until then stay easy breezy and stay on your licking, sticking, stacked lanais if you have one. See you next time. Alrighty, bye-bye.