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Welcome back to Road to Hajj, a simple overview of the Hajj rituals and a light reflection on the meanings behind them. This isn't meant to be a comprehensive fiqh guide — just an easy companion for those wanting to connect deeper with the journey.Today is the 11th of Dhul Hijjah. The hujjaj are now spending most of the night — if not all of it — back in Mina, the city of tents. It's sunnah to stay the whole night, but wajib to remain for at least half of it.Now Mina isn't a place of intense rituals. There's no specific dhikr or du‘a you're required to do. The main challenge here, honestly, is managing basic needs — especially toilets. You've got limited facilities and a massive number of people.BeQuranic is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber.But what should we be doing in Mina?Allah tells us in the Qur'an:فَإِذَا قَضَيْتُمْ مَنَاسِكَكُمْ فَاذْكُرُوا ٱللَّهَ كَذِكْرِكُمْ آبَاءَكُمْ أَوْ أَشَدَّ ذِكْرًا“When you have completed your rites, remember Allah as you used to remember your forefathers — or with even greater remembrance.” [Surah al-Baqarah, 2:200]The Arabs in Jahiliyyah used to sit around their tents in Mina talking about how great their ancestors were — telling tales of glory and lineage. Allah says: that's not the point. Don't just talk about the greatness of those who came before. Remember Allah instead.We see this same thing today in our Ummah. “Oh, we had amazing scholars in the past… Muslim scientists… Al-Khawarizmi, Ibn Sina, so on…” That's wonderful — but what are we doing now?So while in Mina, do dhikr. Be in remembrance. Don't just glorify the past — contribute to the present.From the 11th, 12th, and optionally the 13th of Dhul Hijjah, the hujjaj will be doing the stoning at the Jamarat. On the 10th, they only stoned the largest one — Jamrat al-‘Aqabah. But on the 11th and 12th, they now go to all three: the small, middle, and large pillars.BeQuranic is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber.What's the story behind this?It goes back to Prophet Ibrahim عليه السلام.On the 10th of Dhul Hijjah, when he was on his way to fulfil the dream and sacrifice his son Ismail, Shaytan tried to intervene. At three different points, Shaytan appeared to him, whispering doubts:“You've done enough. You've sacrificed so much. You built the Kaaba. You passed all your tests. Why are you doing this? Why would Allah ask this of you?”At each of those three points, Ibrahim picked up seven small stones, threw them in the direction of Shaytan and said:Allahu Akbar. Allahu Akbar.And he moved on.Three times — three locations. That's why we have three Jamarat.This wasn't just symbolic. There's a deeper lesson here:When Shaytan comes to you with doubt, with temptation — don't just pray. Move.Ibrahim didn't stay in place. He changed location. He physically moved away from the source of temptation.And we are taught the same thing in our tradition. If you find yourself in a place that leads you to sin, change your place. Remove yourself from toxic environments, from harmful friends, from dangerous routines.The Prophet ﷺ said:المرءُ على دِينِ خَليلِهِ، فليَنظُرْ أحدُكم مَن يُخالِلُ“A person is upon the religion of his close companion, so be mindful who you befriend.” [Tirmidhi]Even in spiritual matters — like nightmares — the Prophet ﷺ told us: if you wake up terrified, don't just make du‘a. Turn to your left, blow lightly three times, and change your sleeping position. Don't stay in the same spot.Again — you're taught to move.So this action of stoning the Jamarat teaches us two powerful lessons:* Shaytan won't stop after the first try.He'll come back, again and again, with new angles and new whispers.* If you persist in dhikr and take real action, he'll eventually stop.The whispering of that particular sin will fade — as long as you remain steadfast.Be aware of your surroundings. Be conscious of your mental state. If you know you fall into sin when you're alone, change that habit. Call a friend. Go to the masjid. Be around better people. You're not expected to win against Shaytan on sheer willpower alone. He's had millennia of practice.Ibrahim taught us that — when Shaytan whispers, you say Allahu Akbar, and then… you move.May Allah protect us from the whispers of Shaytan, and guide us to environments and companions that bring us closer to Him.Ameen.Thanks for reading BeQuranic! This post is public so feel free to share it. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit bequranic.substack.com/subscribe

Can hybrid grapes revolutionize the wine world? Adam Huss — Host of the Beyond Organic podcast and Co-owner of Centralas Cellars breaks down what a hybrid truly is, explaining how traditional breeding — and nature itself — has long crossed grape species. With over 70 grape species worldwide, today's modern hybrids are the result of generations of crossing, backcrossing, and innovation. We explore the impact of WWII on agriculture, France's ban on hybrids in appellation wines, and why developing new hybrids is critical for disease resistance, flavor discovery, and more sustainable farming. Plus, Adam shares insights into trialing the “married vine” system — a potential game-changer for soil health, pest management, and flavor expression. Resources:         135: Cold Hardiness of Grapevines 217: Combating Climate Chaos with Adaptive Winegrape Varieties 227: Andy Walkers' Pierces Disease-Resistant Grapes are a Success at Ojai Vineyard Adam Huss – LinkedIn Centralas Organic Wine Podcast South Central Los Angeles Couple Opens New Winery Dedicated to Organic Values, Transparency, Inclusion Wine's F- Word Vineyard Team Programs: Juan Nevarez Memorial Scholarship - Donate SIP Certified – Show your care for the people and planet   Sustainable Ag Expo – The premiere winegrowing event of the year Vineyard Team – Become a Member Get More Subscribe wherever you listen so you never miss an episode on the latest science and research with the Sustainable Winegrowing Podcast. Since 1994, Vineyard Team has been your resource for workshops and field demonstrations, research, and events dedicated to the stewardship of our natural resources. Learn more at www.vineyardteam.org.   Transcript [00:00:03] Beth Vukmanic: Welcome to Sustainable Wine Growing with Vineyard Team, where we bring you the latest in science and research for the wine industry. I'm Beth Vukmanic, Executive Director [00:00:13] In today's podcast, Craig Macmillan, critical resource manager at Niner Wine Estates with longtime SIP Certified Vineyard in the first ever. SIP Certified Winery speaks with Adam Huss, host of the Beyond Organic Podcast and co-owner of Centralis Cellars. [00:00:32] Adam breaks down what a hybrid truly is, explaining how traditional breeding and nature itself has long crossed grape species with over 70 grape species worldwide. Today's modern hybrids are the result of generations of crossing, backcrossing, and innovation. [00:00:50] We explore the impact of World War II on agriculture, France's ban on hybrids and Appalachian wines, and why developing new hybrids is critical for disease resistance, flavor discovery, and more sustainable farming. [00:01:03] Plus, Adam shares insights into trialing the married vine system, a potential game changer for soil health, pest management, and flavor expression. [00:01:12] When Lizbeth didn't get into nursing school on her first try, she could have given up. Instead, she partnered with her mentor Alex, to make a new plan, attend classes part-time, build up her resume and get hands-on hospital work experience. Now Lizbeth has been accepted into Cuesta College's nursing program and her dream of becoming a nurse is back on track. [00:01:36] Lizbeth is a Vineyard Team, Juan Nevarez Memorial Scholar. You can help more students like her who are the children of Vineyard and winery workers reach their dreams of earning a degree by donating to the Juan Nevarez Memorial Scholarship. Just go to vineyardteam.org/donate. [00:01:53] Now let's listen in. [00:01:58] Craig Macmillan: Our guest today is Adam Huss. He is the host of the Beyond Organic Podcast and also co-owner of Centralis Winery in Los Angeles, California. And today we're gonna talk about hybrid grape varieties. Welcome to the podcast, Adam. [00:02:11] Adam Huss: Thanks, Craig. I really appreciate it. Thanks for having me. [00:02:17] Craig Macmillan: So let's just start with the basics. What are hybrid grape varieties? [00:02:22] Adam Huss: I should also say I'm a fan of your podcast as well, so it's really fun to be here. [00:02:26] Craig Macmillan: Thank you. Thank you. [00:02:28] Adam Huss: Been listening for a while. So hybrids, I mean, it's really simple. It's funny, I see stuff on Instagram sometimes where people just are so misinformed and they think that, you know, hybrid means like GMO or something like that. [00:02:41] A hybrid simply is just, you take pollen from grape X, you put it on flowers from grape y, and if those two grapes are from different species, you have a hybrid. If they're from the same species, you just have a cross, and this is something that has been part of traditional breeding since forever. It's also what happens naturally in the wild. [00:03:00] Or I hate, I actually just use two words I try not to use at all, which is like natural and wild, but in forests and streams forests and backyards without human intervention, these pollen get exchanged by wind and everything else and have led to, you know, some of the more. Old popular varieties of grapes that are, considered hybrids that we know of now, like Norton and Isabella and Kaaba. [00:03:23] Nobody actually crossed them. They just happened. So yeah, that's, that's a hybrid. It's very simple. [00:03:29] Craig Macmillan: That's what they are, what aren't they and what are some of the myths surrounding them? [00:03:33] Adam Huss: yeah, great question. You can't generalize about hybrids. Generally speaking. So that's really important thing for people to wrap their heads around, which is because. You know, we'll get into this, but so much, so many hybrids are, and just hybrids in general, are wrapped up in prejudice because we live in this sort of viniferous centric wine world. [00:03:56] You know, , those of us who are in wine, but there, you just can't generalize. The qualities of hybrids are just like humans. Like it depends on what your parents are. You know, you, you get different things every time you mix 'em up and you're not like your brother or sister. If you have a sibling, you know you're gonna be different from them even though you have the same parents. [00:04:13] So that's the same thing happens with grapes. There's genetic diversity and mutation happens and. For hybrids, , the possibilities, the potentials are literally infinite. It's pretty incredible to know that possibility exists. There are over 70 species of grapes on earth besides vitus vara, and if you cross any of those two varieties, yeah, you'll get a genetic cross that's 50 50 of, of two different species. [00:04:40] But that. Within that you could do that cross again and get a different variety of grape, even with the same cross. So it's just amazing. [00:04:51] The modern hybrids that are now out there are. Often multi-species crosses and have been crossed. Generationally again and again and back crossed and recrossed. And so, you know, I was just looking at a hybrid grape that had five species of grapes in its family tree. I mean, there are family trees that would make the royals blush, honestly, in some of these hybrids. [00:05:11] So it's not, it's not something that is just, can be just said. You can say one thing about it or that. And, and the idea of hybridizing doesn't imply anything at all, really, like it is just this process that happens that we've been doing for a long time. This might be a good thing to dispel some of the prejudices. [00:05:34] You know, something like the word foxy often gets thrown around when we start talking about hybrids. I did a whole podcast about this what's really interesting, I just brought this word up to a, a young couple here in LA who are growing grapes and they, they had no idea what I was talking about. [00:05:49] So that's kind of encouraging. Like in, in the younger generations, these prejudices and some of these words that we inherited from the last century , are dying out truly. Which is great, but it still persists and you still hear it a lot and. If anybody goes online and researches some of these grapes, so much of the information available online is actually still misinformation and prejudiced because it comes from this vinifirous centric culture. [00:06:15] And so it's really important for people to understand that like foxy is not what it sounds like. It sounds like it would be this animalistic, musky, maybe scent gland tinged aroma, flavor thing, but. If you taste the grapes that are known as foxy and you go, you know, start researching this by tasting, you'll find that it's actually kind of delicious. [00:06:37] It's usually fruity and you know, candy like strawberry raspberry flavors. And for those of us in the US. It's often something we associate with Grapiness because of Welchs. And the flavors of Welchs, which come from the Concord grape, which is a Foxy grape, are these grapey flavors that we grew up with. [00:06:57] This sense of like grape candy and stuff like that. And that's a lot of times what you find in these, but again, it depends a lot on. The level of the compounds that are in that specific hybrid. Again, you can't, you can't generalize. And just like with anything, if you mix different compounds together, you'll get these nuances and you might have some of that flavor or aroma, but it'll be blended with other things. [00:07:17] And so it takes on new characteristics. So it's way more complex than just thinking like a. All grapes that are hybridized are foxy. That's absolutely not true. Or that foxy is this monolithic thing or that foxy is bad. None of those are true. And then really the other thing to realize is in. Grapes in the native North American varieties of species of grapes. [00:07:41] There's really only one that has been used traditionally in grape breeding and hybridization that has these flavors. And that's Vitus labrusca. It just happened to be used quite a bit because it's endemic to the East coast where a lot of the Europeans who started all this breeding were living and, and it was, you know, very readily apparent in the forest of the East coast. [00:07:59] So that. Got used a lot and it's also got a lot of great qualities of fungal resistance and stuff like that. Muscadine is the other grape that has it, but it's got a different genetic structure so it doesn't get crossed a lot or hybridized a lot. [00:08:11] Craig Macmillan: So like, what are the advantages of hybrids where you take vinifira and you cross it with a Native American indigenous grape? What are the benefits? [00:08:21] Adam Huss: Yeah. Another great question. Just , the historical perspective on this is really important. I think. So, you know, Europeans came here a couple hundred years ago, and eventually they brought some of their favorite plants over, one of which were their grapes. And what they noticed right away is that their grapes, I. [00:08:38] Suffered and died without exception, just across the board. Anything they brought over grape wise just kept dying, kept dying. You know, many people tried for a century at least, you know, including people like Thomas Jefferson, people with enormous amounts of resources, and they just failed. They failed to grow these grapes. [00:08:56] Meanwhile, you know, these things like. Norton, this, these hybridized grapes started developing and people noticed like, oh, this grape, it's crossing with some of , the local varieties and it's doing really well. So they began to realize, like they didn't know then that part of, one of the benefits that you get is phylloxera resistance, for example. [00:09:16] But that was a big one and came to save, you know, Europe's wine industry at the end of the 19th century. But also you have these grapes that . Evolved with the fungal pathogens of this, of these climates of North America and other places around the planet. So they've developed resistance and tolerance for all these things. [00:09:38] And so when you cross them with vinifira, you get some of the desirable characteristics that you might like from Vera, and hopefully you'll get some of that, you know, hardiness and fungal resistance and some of the other, just. General benefits of having hybridized interesting new flavors and characteristics [00:09:56] Craig Macmillan: have you seen some examples of this in your, in your travels? [00:10:01] Adam Huss: the fungal resistance and things like [00:10:03] Craig Macmillan: resistance or Pierces disease resistance or anything like that. [00:10:07] Adam Huss: Oh yeah. I mean, I. Whew, so many. I mean, the fact that people can grow grapes organically in Vermont for example, relies almost entirely on hybrids. You know, first of all, they have extremely cold winters there. They have extremely wet, hot, humid summers there. And if you try to grow vinifera there the only way to do it is with chemicals and, and a lot of heartache and, and high risk agriculture. [00:10:35] But here we have somebody like Matt Niess, who's working entirely with hybrids, with his winery, north American Press, and basically he's not using any sprays in any of his vineyards in here in California because these. These grapes have genetics that developed for resistance to the fungal pathogens of the East Coast. [00:10:55] And so you bring them to this nice dry, you know, Mediterranean climate, they're just like, they're crazy. They're like you know, they're, you can basically spray free now. I mean, some people have a problem with zero sprays because they don't want things to develop, but he has a 70-year-old baco noir vineyard, for example, that's in like a wet region in Sonoma that. [00:11:18] He has never sprayed and it's pumping out grapes and looking beautiful every year. And the really interesting thing about it's, there are some inter plantations of vinfiera in that like somebody. Planted something. Maybe it was Pinot Noir in with the Baco. It's like one every, you know, like there's only a few, a handful of these scattered throughout the acre of the Baco noir, and you can tell which ones those are every year because they're just decimated by mildew by the end of the year, whereas the Baco is just spotless and beautiful. [00:11:46] So that's a really like obvious, [00:11:49] Craig Macmillan: What are the wines like? The bako noir? I've never had a bako noir. [00:11:53] Adam Huss: Oh, his wines. Well, so Baco is nice. It's, I mean, it's higher acid. It's almost like a high acid. Gosh, I don't know what, it's hard. I, I, I hate to go down the rabbit hole of like trying to compare it to a vinifira, but it is unique. But it's a deep red almost interior, like with deep purple, higher acid flavors, but pretty balanced, really luscious. Dark fruited flavors maybe a little. Like Syrah, like meatiness, there may be a touch. You might find that it depends on the year. He's had a couple different vintages, so it's been really interesting to see. I'm, I'm kinda like loving following that year by year, seeing the vintage variation and what. [00:12:35] Different things come out because nobody's really doing this. Nobody's, nobody's experimenting with these. So we don't really know how they'll do in, in California other than what he's doing. And just a couple other growers. But he also this year introduced awba for the first time back into California. [00:12:50] The last catawba Vines were ripped out of California in like the sixties, and he, planted some and finally was able to harvest a crop this year and released what was once. California, I mean, the America's most popular wine from the Ohio River Valley is sparkling catawba, and it's like pink and just delicious, beautiful, beautiful stuff. [00:13:10] If I can step back, I think a lot of the discussion of hybrids, again, comes from this perspective of vinifira culture and how do we. Help vinifera become better. How do we use these hybrids as a tool to help, you know, this sort of vinifira centric culture? But I, I would, I'd like to reframe it. [00:13:31] I think a better way to look at this is hybridization is kind of just what we always do with agriculture. It's how you evolve and adapt your agriculture. Ecologically in the absence of modern chemistry that we have. So like before World War ii, and part of, and this is part of the history, France's history too, is like, you know, we had RA decimating their, their vineyards as well as. , we didn't just bring phylloxera back from North America, we brought BlackRock, Downey mildew, powdery mildew. So , their vines were just like dying. Like they were just dying. And so there was this urgent need and a lot of the hybridization, a lot of, some of our, you know, hybrids like Save El Blanc and things like that. [00:14:15] Came from French breeders who were just trying to save the French wine industry. Like they just wanted to have wine, let alone vinifira. You know, it was that. It was pretty bad at the end of that set, you know? And so they developed these new things and then we, you know, things like Isabella and catawba and things like that were coming over from North America, some of our hybrids that came from here, and pretty soon they had these really productive, really hardy vines with new, interesting flavors that. [00:14:41] People kinda liked 'cause they are like fruity and delicious and interesting and new and, and if you're a farmer and you have less inputs and you get a more productive, like higher yields on your vine, like, it's just kind of a no-brainer. And so people were just planting these things. They really were taking off. [00:14:59] And in 1934, the French were like, whoa, whoa, whoa. Like our, our, first of all, our. Ancient vinifera cultures are going to be completely diluted, but second of all, we're gonna devalue the market 'cause we're gonna have all this like, it's too abundant, you know? So they made, in 1934, they made hybrids illegal in the French Appalachians. [00:15:17] And so that legacy is something that still sticks with us. Of course then World War II happened and we. Didn't really pay much attention to wine at all 'cause we were just trying to survive. But once World War II was over and the the war machine transferred into the pesticide and industrial agricultural machine, the French realized they could keep Vera alive on root stocks of American hybrids or American native varieties by spraying them with these new novel chemistry chemicals. [00:15:49] And so then they started enforcing the ban on hybrids because they could, and they knew they could have the, this alternative. And so that's when you saw like they had their own sort of version of reefer madness where you, you saw a lot of misinformation and hyperbole and outright propaganda and lies about these, these grapes because they were trying to get them out of French vineyards. [00:16:10] It's important to realize that Ban the EU just lifted the ban on hybrids in Appalachian wine in 2021. So it's kind of not surprising that some of these prejudices and misinformation still persist today. We're not too far away from that. I. [00:16:26] Craig Macmillan: And, and why was the band lifted? Do you know? [00:16:30] Adam Huss: That's a great question. It's, it was lifted for ecological reasons because they're realizing these are really important to dealing with climate change. This is like, if you want a sustainable industry, you need to be able to adapt. When you're inside this, this world of vinifira, what I call the vinifira culture, which is, you know, very centered on Vera. [00:16:50] You don't realize how strange it is. You know, it's kind of like growing up with a, a weird family, you know? It's all you know, so you don't know how strange they are until you start seeing the rest of the world. But to think that, you know, 50 years ago we just decided that maybe like. 10 grapes were the pinnacle of viticultural achievement for all time, and we've basically invested all of our energies into, you know, propagating those around the planet and preserving them at all costs is kind of strange when you think about the whole history of agriculture. [00:17:20] And it's really only possible because of cheep fossil fuels and the novel chemistry that we. Have put into our systems. And so if you take those out, if you start thinking ecologically about how do you develop a wine system, I mean the question is like, does it make sense when farming in a world where the only constant is change and we just live in a dynamic world, does it make sense to try to do everything you can to prevent change? [00:17:45] Like is prevention of change like a good strategy? And so I think, you know, diversity and adaptation are. What have always worked, you know, historically through agriculture, and that's kind of the future. I mean, in a real sense, vinifera culture is the past and hybrids are the future. If we want to have a future, there's my enthusiastic, [00:18:09] Craig Macmillan: Well, I'd like you to expand a little bit more on that. 'cause we we have a group of hybrids that are well known or are commonly used. I've, I've been hearing about Marquette a lot more, um, As having a lot of potential WW. What does that future potentially look like and what are some things that would have to happen for that potential to be realized? [00:18:31] Adam Huss: So we have invested, you know, millions of dollars in time and energy and even policy into developing, , the chemicals that we now use to support our, viticulture. And to make it possible in places like Virginia, where, you know, they're developing a whole wine industry there around vinifira in a climate that is, you know, like I said, that was the climate that like Thomas Jefferson failed for and everyone else for hundreds of years failed to grow it there. [00:18:59] If we invested that same amount of time and energy and money into breeding programs and into. Research for the kinds of things that we're now discovering, like DNA markers so that we can have DNA marker assisted breeding. So you're, you're speeding up the breeding process by sometimes two, three years. [00:19:19] Which is, which is significant in a process that can take, you know, 10 to 20 years that any, any little bit helps. So that kinda stuff and just more of it, more private breeders, making it more valuable for private breeders. I always think it's really interesting that like billionaires would rather just do another sort of like cult. [00:19:39] Ego, Napa cab investment, you know, rather than like breed their own personal variety of grape that nobody else could have. I mean, I'm not recommending that, but like, to me that seems really interesting as an idea. You could just have your own proprietary grape variety if you wanted to, you know, but nobody's thinking that way. [00:19:58] But I would say breeding, putting our, our time and energy into breeding not new varieties is, . Really important and, and working with the ones that are already there, I mean. The only reason California's so such strangers to them is because it's so easy to grow here. You know, we're relatively speaking and I get that. [00:20:15] I mean, you know, people like what they like and, and change is hard and market conditions are what they are. But I think we're at a point where. Marking conditions are changed. Like I said, you know, this young couple I was just talking to don't, don't have never even heard the word foxy. And so I think there's a lot more openness to just what's in the glass. Now. [00:20:35] Craig Macmillan: So some. Of it's messaging. If we can have wines that people can taste and do it in a context that's new to them. So there may be an opportunity here with newer wine drinkers or younger wine drinkers potentially, is what it sounds like to me. [00:20:48] Adam Huss: Yeah, and I. I mean, some of this is also realizing all the different ways that hybrids are already being used and could be used. Like, you know, we know you mentioned Pierce's disease. Pierce's disease is this disease that's endemic to California and is heading north. I mean, it's really on the threshold of all of the major wine regions of, of California. [00:21:11] And the only ways . To stop it without hybrids, without resistant hybrids are, are pretty intense. You know, it's like eliminating habitat through, , basically creating a sterile medium of your vineyard and then spraying with insecticides, you know some, sometimes pretty intense insecticides. [00:21:29] The alternative though is there are now multiple varieties of grapes that are. Resistant to them that are tolerant to it so they, they can carry the bacteria, but it won't affect the health of the vine. Those were bred, some of them here, right here in California at uc Davis. And yet if you go to the University of California Agricultural Network Resources page that, you know, kind of handles all the IPM for California, sort of like the resource. [00:21:56] And if you read about Pierce's disease, it makes zero mention of using tolerant. Varieties as a management strategy. And it makes no mention that there are even are tolerant varieties to Pierce's disease as a management strategy. So just that kind of stuff is the shift that has to happen. 'cause it just shows how vinifera centric our entire industry is, like from the top down, even when there are these great strategies that you can use and start implementing to combat these things, ecologically versus chemically. [00:22:25] They're not there, you know, they're not being mentioned. So just little things like that would go a long way. Also, you know, I mean, one of my fun little facts is like. There are already hybrids being used significantly, like probably everybody on who's listening to this has, if you've bought a bottle of wine at a grocery store that was under 20 bucks, you've probably drunk hybrids because 10,000 acres of ruby red is grown in California to make mega purple and mega purples. Pretty much in every, like, you know, mass produced under $20 bottle of wine and it's got esra, Vitus, esra in it. So you've probably been drinking hybrids and not even known about it. [00:23:04] In terms of these Andy Walker hybrids, I do have a little that which were bred for Pierce's disease resistance. I also have kind of a fun story in that I, as you know, like we've, we've both talked to Adam Tolmach, who replanted a whole block that he lost to Pierce's disease with these hybrid varieties, and these are designed specifically to retain a lot of vinifira characteristics. They're like 97% back crossed to be. vinifira and 3% with Vitus, Arizona to have that Pierce's disease resistant specifically. So they don't have a lot of the other benefits that like a higher percentage of North American native varieties would have. Like they, they're still susceptible to powdery mildew and other mildew pretty, pretty intensely, [00:23:44] but just in terms of flavor for anybody who's out there. So I've, I've barrel tasted with Adam. Tasted each of those varieties individually out a barrel. And then we went to his tasting room and tried all of his wines and, and got to, and then he, instead of keeping, he has two red hybrid varieties, two white hybrid varieties, and he blends them and makes a, you know, a, a red blend and a white blend that he calls a state red and state white. [00:24:09] And we went to his tasting room and he makes beautiful wine. All of his wines are great, but no joke. Everybody in my party. Preferred the hybrids to like all of his pinots or raw chardonnay, I mean, I have no idea why. I mean, but, and that's just anecdotal, obviously nothing scientific, but the very least I can say the, the flavors are exciting and delicious. [00:24:29] Right. [00:24:30] Craig Macmillan: If you can get them in front of the consumer, [00:24:33] Adam Huss: Yeah. [00:24:33] Craig Macmillan: the key. That's really the key. [00:24:35] Adam Huss: Right, right, [00:24:36] Craig Macmillan: And for, your own wine making. Are you making wine from hybrids for yourself? [00:24:40] Adam Huss: Not yet just 'cause there are, there just aren't any in California very much, you know, I mean, it's like little patches here and little patches there. And the people that have them are using them for themself, you know, for their own growing. They've grown them specifically you know, Camus has planted some of these Andy Walker hybrids along their riparian corridors to prevent Pierce's disease. [00:24:58] Those varieties specifically are being used. I don't know if they're blending those in. With like their cab or whatever. I honestly think they could, but I don't know if they are. They're probably, I dunno what they're doing with them, but I do grow them here in Los Angeles and I'm, but they're, you know, it's like I'm trying out a bunch of different things, partly just to see how they do, because, you know, they haven't been grown here. [00:25:21] They were developed for colder, wetter climates and so, you know what, how will they grow here in Los Angeles? There's a lot of unanswered questions for some of these. [00:25:30] Craig Macmillan: You and I were chatting before the interview and you have a, a new project that you're very. Excited about tell us a little bit about that, because I thought that was pretty cool. [00:25:39] Adam Huss: Yeah. Thanks. So this past summer, my wife and I finalized the acquisition of this farm in upstate New York that I'm going to develop into a. Married Vine Vida Forestry Demonstration and Research Project. And, and married vines, essentially vines growing with living trees. [00:26:02] But the best way to think about it is if you know the three Sisters of Agriculture, the corn, beans and squash idea, where you plant these. This guild of, of a Polyculture guild, and they have these symbiotic stacking benefits and productivity. This is what a married vine polyculture is for perennial agriculture. And so I don't just see it as vine and tree, but also vine and tree, and then a ground cover and or small shrubs or things like that that are also perennials planted in a guild together to create these stacking benefits and productivity. [00:26:35] Multiple productivity layers as well as making it a grable system because the vines will be up in trees and and we're gonna call it the Beyond Organic Wine Forest Farm. [00:26:47] Craig Macmillan: So gimme some more detail on this. So like, what are the other plants that are in the forest and how are the vines, what's the spacing like? How, how many trees per vine or vine per tree? [00:27:01] How is the vine trellis? Um, I just, I'm really curious about this idea because this goes back to very, very ancient times. [00:27:09] Adam Huss: Yes. Yeah, yeah, [00:27:09] Craig Macmillan: Uh, that I've read about. I've never seen evidence of it, but I have been told that going back to like Roman times, they would plant grapevines, interplant with things like olives, [00:27:18] Adam Huss: yeah, yeah. Yeah. And [00:27:20] Craig Macmillan: use the olive as a trails. [00:27:22] I mean, is this the, is this the same kind of concept? [00:27:24] Adam Huss: You can see some of this still in Italy. So even pre roam the Etruscan times is what the oldest versions of this that are still visible in Campania, just north of Napoli, I think is the largest married vine system that is still in production. And I think it's about, it might be about 34 hectares of this variety where they have elm trees. That are really tall, full sized elm trees. [00:27:51] And then between them they sort of have wires or ropes between the trees and the vines grow up like up 15 meters. Like it's crazy. Like the guys that harvest this, they have like specially designed ladders that are built for their stance so that they can like lock into these 18 meter ladders and be up there like with a little pulley and a bucket, and they're lowering grapes down from way up in the end. [00:28:14] And you get. So many cool things about that, you know, the, the ripeness and the PHS of the grapes change, the higher you go up in that system. , the thinking is they might have even been used to like. Just inhibit invading armies because , it's like a wall of vines and trees that create like almost a perimeter thing. [00:28:33] That that's also how they're being used in Portugal, they are sort of like if you have a little parcel of land, you use trees and vines to create like a living fence keep your domestic animals inside. And animals that might eat them outside and protect, you know, from theft and things like that. [00:28:51] Keep all your crops in a little clo, like a little controlled area. There are old systems where. They're more like feto systems where they were using maple trees and just pollarding them at, at about head height. And every year, every year or two, they would come in and clip off all the new growth and feed it to the livestock. [00:29:10] And meanwhile, the vines were festooned between the, the maple trees is like, you know, just like a garland of, of grapevine. So there's a lot of different things. And what I wanna do is trial several of them. One of the most. Interesting ones that I just saw in whales uses living willows, where you literally just stick a willow slip in the ground, bend it over to the next one that's about a meter and a half away and attach it. [00:29:35] And so you have these arched willow branches that grow once you stick 'em in the ground. They start growing roots and they create like a head high trellis, like a elevated trellis system, and you plant vines in them. And, and it literally looks just like. Like a row of grapevines that you would find here, except the, the trellis is alive and there's no wires and, and you prune the tree when you prune the vine in the winter, you know? [00:29:58] And Willow, I, I don't know if you know, but the, the other interesting thing about that is like willow has been used historically that the salicylic acid is known. Obviously that's aspirin and stuff like that. That's where we get, you know, one of our oldest like pain relievers and things like that. [00:30:12] But. It's used in biodynamic preps as well as an antifungal. And so there's some thought that like this system could be really beneficial to the vines growing with those. Specifically for that, like for antifungal properties or just creating a, you know, showering the vines with this, this salicylic acid thing that will help them grow and have health throughout the season without, with, again, reduced need for sprays of anything. [00:30:37] Craig Macmillan: Yeah, and that was why I brought it up is because there's the idea of working with the natural ecology of what's in the germ plasm of native plants. I. Mixing with an import plant. [00:30:51] And then there's the other way of looking at it and saying, well, what, what about recreating the conditions under which this plant that has evolved in the first place? And I, I just think that there's really fascinating concept. It's really intriguing to me. [00:31:05] yeah. And there's so many different ways you could do it, and that's why it's interested in what you're planning on doing, because there's obviously a lot of ways you could do it. [00:31:11] Adam Huss: Yeah, I wanna experiment with several. Like you said, the, the soil benefits are incredible potentials. And then when you're also thinking about what do I do besides just vines and trees, and I mean, the other thing is like. How does it make the wine taste? Like if you plant a vine with an apple tree or a, a black locust tree, or a honey locust tree, or a, or a mulberry tree, like, does, is the vine happier with one of those trees? [00:31:35] You know what I mean? Does it, does it, you know, and if it is, does that make the wine taste better at the end of the day? All these are really fun questions for me. That's why I'm really excited to do it. But also like what are the benefits in terms of, you know, the health of the vine, the health of the tree? [00:31:50] Do they are, is there symbiotic elements? It seems like they would, I, I think a lot about what kind of mycorrhizal connections and associations the trees have, because we vines have our Arbuscular connections. And so if you plant them with a tree that has similar connections, they might actually have a symbiotic benefit. [00:32:07] They might increase that soil network even further. And then if you're planting shrubs like blueberries or flowers, you know, perennial flowers or Forbes and things like that, that could either be grazed or could be gathered or could be another crop even for you, or it could be a protective thing. [00:32:22] There are things like indigo that you might plant because. Deer don't like it. So you might want that growing around the base of your vine tree thing while it's young, because it will prevent the deer from grazing down your baby vines and trees, you know? And so there's just a, a myriad ways of thinking about these guilds that you can do. [00:32:39] Obviously these are, I. Yeah, they're, they're different. If I was doing it in California, if I was in California, I would be thinking more about olives and pomegranates and figs and things like that, you know, like there's a lot less water for growing trees here, so depending on where you are, unless you're on the coast. [00:32:55] Craig Macmillan: Are you planning on using hybrids in your project? [00:32:59] Adam Huss: Yeah. I don't know how I would do it any other way. Yeah, it's, definitely a climate that. If you try to grow ra, like you're just asking for trouble. And, and just, you know, because of my approach is so ecological, like I will attempt to be as minimal inputs as possible is the other way I look at it. [00:33:20] You know, try to just imitate what's happening around to, to see what that landscape wants to do and then how it. Maintains its health and resilience and maybe, and, and I mean, my, my ideal is to spray not at all. But you know, with not a dogma about that. If I see an issue or if I think like I'm building up these pathogen loads in the vineyard, maybe I'll spray once a year, even if they seem like they're doing okay. [00:33:47] You know, I'm not like dogmatic about nose spray, but I, it's a, it's a fun ideal to reach for. And I, you know, I think potentially with. Some of the symbiotic benefits of these systems that could be achievable with with the right hybrids. You know, I mean, again, I don't wanna generalize about hybrids because you have the Andy Walker hybrids on the one end, which you have to treat just like vinifira in terms of the spray program. [00:34:10] And then on the other hand, you have something like Petite Pearl or Norton, which is like in many cases is almost like a bulletproof. Grape, you know, and in California specifically, it would be like insanely. And then you have things right down the middle. Things like tranet that you know, is basically like, I could blind taste you on Tranet and you wouldn't be able to tell the difference between it and gewurztraminer . [00:34:31] But it's more cold, hearty, it has a little more disease resistance. Gives you a just a little bit, a little bit more of a benefit while still getting flavors that are familiar to you. If you like those flavors. [00:34:43] Craig Macmillan: Is there one thing that you would tell growers on this topic? One takeaway. [00:34:48] Adam Huss: Great question. I think give hybrids the same allowance that you give Vinifera. I. We all know there's a huge diversity of Vin Nira from Petite Ough to Riesling. And not everyone is right for every wine drinker and not all of them per perform the same in the vineyard. And, and you know, and we tolerate a lot of. [00:35:12] Frailty and a lot of feebleness in our veneer vines. We, we do a lot of care. We do a lot of like, you know, handholding for our veneer vines when necessary. If we extended the same courtesy to hybrids in terms of understanding and willingness to work with them. I think like that would just go a really long way too. [00:35:33] And I think we'd be surprised to find , they're a lot less handholding than, than Venire generally speaking. I. But also just try some. I think a lot of the prejudice comes from just not being exposed to them right now. You know, if you, if you think, if you're thinking negative thoughts about hybrids, get out there and drink some, you probably just haven't had enough yet. [00:35:51] And if you don't like the first one, you know, how many bad Cabernets have you had? I mean, if, if I had stopped drinking vinifira, I [00:35:59] Craig Macmillan: Yeah, that's, that's a really good point. If I judged every wine by the first wine that I tasted, that's probably not a very, [00:36:06] Adam Huss: right. [00:36:07] Craig Macmillan: good education there, [00:36:08] Adam Huss: Prevented me from exploring further, I would've missed out on some of the more profound taste experiences of my life if I'd let that, you know, guide my, you know, my thinking about it. So yeah, I think it's like anything with prejudice, once you get beyond it, it kind of, you see how silly it is, man. [00:36:25] It's, it's like so freeing and, and there's a whole world to explore out there. And like I said, I really think they're the future. Like if we wanna have a future, . We can only cling to the past for so long until it just becomes untenable. [00:36:38] Craig Macmillan: Right. Where can people find out more about you? [00:36:42] Adam Huss: So beyondorganicwine.com is the, the website for me. The email associate with that is connect@organicwinepodcast.com. [00:36:53] Craig Macmillan: Our guest today has been Adam Huss. He is the host of the Beyond Organic Podcast and is the co-owner of Centralas Wines in Los Angeles. [00:37:01] Thank you so much. This has been a really fascinating conversation and I'd love to connect with you at some point, talk more about. Out this, thanks for being on the podcast [00:37:08] Adam Huss: Thank you so much, Craig. Appreciate it. [00:37:13] Beth Vukmanic: Thank you for listening. Today's podcast was brought to you by VineQuest. A Viticultural consulting firm based in Paso Robles, California, offering expert services in sustainable farming, vineyard development, and pest management. With over 30 years of experience, they provide tailored solutions to enhance vineyard productivity and sustainability for wineries and agribusinesses across California. [00:37:38] Make sure you check out the show notes for links to Adam. His wine, brand, Centralis plus sustainable wine growing podcast episodes on this topic, 135 Cold hardiness of grapes 217. Combating climate chaos with adaptive wine, grape varieties, and 227. Andy Walker's Pierce's Disease resistant grapes are a success at Ojai Vineyard. [00:38:04] If you liked the show, do us a big favor by sharing it with a friend, subscribing and leaving us a review. You can find all of the podcasts at vineyardteam.org/podcast and you can reach us at podcast@vineyardteam.org. [00:38:19] Until next time, this is Sustainable Wine Growing with Vineyard Team.   Nearly perfect transcription by Descript

Aqal, ghussa, mohabbat – har taqat mein aik balance zaroori hai. Is bayan mein Mufti Tariq Masood samjhate hain ke mentally mature insaan kaise sochta hai, Hinduon ko kya paighaam diya gaya, aur ghar ki doodh malai ka kya raaz hai. Gaza ke zulm se le kar Shohar-Beewi ke disputes tak, har pehlu ko ilm aur hikmat ke saath samjhaaya gaya hai.(0:00) Intro(0:23) Aayaat Surah Ma'arij(1:04) Namaz: Sabirin ki Alamat(2:18) Insan Aetadal Se Kaisy Hat'ta Hai? (Diet Example)(3:54) Vegetarian Dull Faces(4:48) Mtm's Favourite – Ghar ka Doodh aur Garam Malai(6:33) Mtm's Message for Hindus(7:25) Mentally Mature(8:20) Mentally Immature(9:35) Aetadal Peda Karne ka Tariqa(10:28) 5 Powers mein Balance(11:22) Bhook ki Taqat mein Aetadal(13:04) Aqal ki Taqat mein Aetadal(13:36) Ghusse ki Taqat mein Aetadal(14:10) Mohabbat ki Taqat mein Aetadal(15:23) Sexual Power mein Aetadal(17:16) “Tairi Mairi Biryani” Ribbon Cutting by Mufti sb(17:53) Nafrat ki Taqat mein Aetadal(18:14) Gaza ke Zulm par Fatwa(18:52) Zalim se Nafrat aur Boycott(19:30) Fazail of Nafrat(19:50) Nafrat ka Hadis se Saboot(20:07) Nafrat ka Qur'an se Saboot(20:32) Zalim par Tars Khana?(20:58) New Karachi – Dakuon ka Hashar(23:24) Ghusse ki Taqat mein Aetadal(23:42) Aqal ki Taqat ka Istemal(25:54) Mtm's Reply to Those Who Deny Glory of Sahaba(27:12) Batil ko Jawab Dene ka Tariqa(28:25) Mtm's Learnings in Mediation Course(29:44) Fatwa ke Zariye Zojain/Virasat ke Masail ka Hal(31:24) Judge Ban'kar Do Parties ke Beech Paisay ka Hal(36:54) Shohar ki Burai Karne Wali Aurat ka Case(39:10) Mufti sb ki Announcement for Dispute Resolvers(39:39) Mufti sb's 30 Years of Experience on Spouse Disputes(41:50) Aqal ka Bilkul Istemal Na Karna – Atheists ki Soch(45:39) Butt Paraston ki Aqal (Thailand Experience)(47:37) Fazool Aqal – Bhook ka Najaiz Faida(48:00) Mtm's Childhood Thinking About Hunger(48:26) Sar Dard mein Panadol(49:53) Mtm's Dua for Rishtay During Hotel Opening in KSA(56:46) Shadi ke Baad Sar Dard mein Panadol – Fazool Aqal(55:20) Allah ke Wujood ka Saboot(56:20) Nabi ﷺ ke Wujood ka Saboot(57:11) Ehkaam jin mein Aqal nahi chalani(59:49) Talaq par Gusse mein – Naye Sunni Namune(1:02:37) Darhi aur Ramazan Rozay par Aetraz(1:03:16) Mufti sb par Comments – Mazdooron ke Rozay(1:03:32) Jihad Farz Fatwa – Mufti Taqi Usmani sb par Comments(1:04:28) Mazdooron ke Rozay – Yusuf Ludhianvi ra ka Fatwa(1:08:04) Tayammum – Taqwa Haaiz Shakhs ka Sawal(1:09:08) Guinness Record Holder ka Tanz(1:10:57) Aqal ka Sahih Istemal – Waqia(1:12:25) Islami Ehkaam(1:12:49) Ghamdi Fitna – Family Planning(1:13:15) Mtm's Reply to Irshad Bhatti – Adalti Khula(1:14:26) Sach aur Jhoot – Kaab ibn Malik ka Waqia(1:17:34) Bachay Jhoot Bolna Kahan Seekhtay Hain?(1:20:10) Mufti sb ki Sach Bolnay ki Aadat(1:21:19) Khulasa aur Dua(1:21:31) Aadam as ko Sajda – Farishtay, Jinnat aur Iblees ka Maqam(1:31:51) Duniya Asbab ke Sath Hai – Ghareeb Shadi Kaise Kare?(1:44:14) Mufti sb Buzurg Kyun Nahi Lagte?(1:45:31) Hamara Ilm vs Aima e Arba ka Ilm(1:50:18) Google Witr Confusion – Mufti sb ka Jawab(1:51:44) Negative Comments on Witr Clip(1:53:09) Witr ka Authentic Tariqa – Hazrat Ayesha ra(1:53:44) Imam e Kaaba ke Witr par Aetraz(1:55:19) Germany/Oxford Universities mein Qudoori aur Hidayah(1:56:04) Hindu ka Bayan Sunna aur Masjid Jana?(1:56:23) Nabaligh Bachon ke Maal par Zakaat ke Ehkaam? Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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Send us a textSohbet  April 13, 2025:Rumi Poem: Moses and the ShepherdLiving In Troubled TimesMoses and the ShepherdMoses heard a shepherd on the road praying, “God, Where are You? I want to help You, to fix Your shoes and comb Your hair. I want to wash Your clothes and pick the lice off. I want to bring You milk, to kiss Your little hands and feet when it's time for You to go to bed. I want to sweep Your room and keep it neat. God, my sheep and goats are Yours. All I can say, remembering You, is ayyyy and ahhhhhhhhh.”Moses could stand it no longer. “Who are you talking to? The One who made us, and made the earth and made the sky. Don't talk about shoes and socks with God! And what's this with ‘Your little hands and feet?' Such blasphemous familiarity sounds like you're chatting with your uncles. Only something that grows needs milk. Only someone with feet needs shoes. Not God! Even if you meant God's human representatives as when God said, I was sick, and you did not visit me, even then this tone would be foolish and irreverent.“Use appropriate terms. Fatima is a fine name for a woman, but if you call a man Fatima, it's an insult. Body-and-birth language are right for us on this side of the river, but not for addressing the Origin, not for Allah.”The shepherd repented and tore his clothes and sighed and wandered out into the desert. A sudden revelation came then to Moses. God's voice:“You have separated Me from one of my own. Did you come as a Prophet to unite, or to sever? I have given each being a separate and unique way of seeing and knowing and saying that knowledge. What seems wrong to you is right for him. What is poison to one is honey to someone else. Purity and impurity, sloth and diligence in worship, these mean nothing to Me. I am apart from all that. Ways of worshiping are not to be ranked as better or worse than one another.It's all praise, and it's all right. It's not Me that's glorified in acts of worship. It's the worshipers! I don't hear the words they say. I look at the humility. That broken-open lowliness is the Reality, not the language! Forget phraseology. I want burning, burning. Be friends with your burning. Burn up your thinking and your forms of expression! Moses, those who pay attention to ways of behaving and speaking are one sort. Lovers who burn are another.Don't impose a property tax on a burned out village. Don't scold the Lover. The wrong way he talks is better than a hundred right ways of others.Inside the Kaaba it doesn't matter which direction you point your prayer rug! The ocean diver doesn't need snowshoes! The Love-Religion has no code or doctrine. Only God. So the ruby has nothing engraved on it! It doesn't need markings.”God began speaking deeper mysteries to Moses. Vision and words, which cannot be recorded hereSalaam Alaykum, murids, seekers, curious and interested listeners,We appreciate you, and are happy to share our Sufi Message. Your donation will help support our Sufi Centre in Sydney where we offer Zikr, Sohbet, spiritual counselling and healing services. We believe the message should be free, but it costs equipment, rental, services, software and hardware to get this to you. Thank you for choosing our podcast amongst all the millions available. If Support the showPlease send your questions to: shaykhibrahim@ansarisufiorder.org

What is the origin of Islam's holiest rock? Join us, as we cover various religious stories on the Kaaba and the black stone of Mecca. WELCOME TO RELIGION CAMP!

Al Fadi, Dr Jay, and Brother Mel are starting a new series called Exposing the Myth. In this episode they are talking about how Islam borrowed from the Persian religion of Zoroastrianism. 1.The name of the ZamZam well is zoroastrian in origin. The name Zam is a pagan god which refers to mother nature. 2. The Black stone in al Kaaba is connected to another demon called Afraditi(Venus/ Lucifer). 3. The Jamarat represent Satan. 4. The Sunna/ hadith was written in persian lands. 5. The times of prayer, the washing before prayer, the kibla, and the word Jin were borrowed from Zoroastrianism.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

The Seerah of Prophet Muhammad (PBUH): Understanding His Noble Lineage and Early LifeIntroductionIn the name of Allah, the Most Gracious, the Most Merciful. Studying the Seerah (biography) of Prophet Muhammad (PBUH) is an essential part of understanding Islam. His life serves as a timeless example of virtue, patience, and unwavering faith. This blog highlights key aspects of the Prophet's lineage, early life, and significant events, with references from the Quran and authentic Hadith.1. The Noble Lineage of Prophet Muhammad (PBUH)Prophet Muhammad (PBUH) belonged to the prestigious Quraysh tribe, tracing his lineage back to Prophet Ibrahim (AS) through Ismail (AS). His noble ancestry is affirmed in the Quran:"Indeed, Allah chose Adam, Noah, the family of Abraham, and the family of 'Imrân above all people of their time." (Quran 3:33)His ancestors were known for their moral integrity, and no instance of illegitimacy tainted his lineage.2. His Blessed Birth and the Year of the ElephantProphet Muhammad (PBUH) was born in the year of the Elephant, marked by Allah's divine intervention when Abraha's army attempted to destroy the Kaaba."Have you not seen how your Lord dealt with the Army of the Elephant?" (Quran 105:1)While the exact date remains disputed, many scholars agree he was born on the 12th of Rabi' al-Awwal.3. Orphanhood and Allah's CareHis father, Abdullah, passed away before his birth, and his mother, Amina, died when he was six. Despite these losses, Allah provided care through his grandfather Abdul Muttalib and later his uncle Abu Talib."Did He not find you as an orphan and then sheltered you?" (Quran 93:6)4. The Story of the Wet NursesIn accordance with the Arab tradition of sending infants to the desert for better upbringing, Prophet Muhammad (PBUH) was nursed by Haleemah Sa'diyah. This practice is supported by Quranic guidance on breastfeeding:"Mothers shall breastfeed their children for two whole years, for those who wish to complete the nursing period." (Quran 2:233)While reports about his miraculous birth exist, scholars classify some of these narrations as weak (da'eef).https://islamqa.info/en/answers/247681/is-it-proven-that-when-the-prophet-blessings-and-peace-of-allah-be-upon-him-was-born-he-rested-on-his-arms-raising-his-head-to-heaven5. The Incident of the Chest OpeningWhen Prophet Muhammad (PBUH) was around four years old, Angel Jibril (Gabriel) appeared, opened his chest, and purified his heart.Anas b. Malik reported: "Gabriel came to the Messenger of Allah (PBUH) while he was playing with his playmates. He took hold of him, opened his breast, removed a blood-clot, and said: 'That was the part of Satan in you.' Then he washed it with Zamzam water and restored it." (Sahih Muslim 162c)6. Significance of Avoiding InnovationsNeither the Prophet (PBUH) nor his companions celebrated his birthday. Introducing acts of worship not practiced by him is considered innovation (Bid'ah)."This day I have perfected for you your religion and completed My favor upon you and have approved Islam as your religion." (Quran 5:3)ConclusionReflecting on the Seerah deepens our understanding of the Prophet's (PBUH) journey and enhances our appreciation for his exemplary character. May we strive to embody his teachings in our daily lives."Indeed, in the Messenger of Allah you have an excellent example for whoever has hope in Allah and the Last Day, and remembers Allah often." (Quran 33:21)May Allah guide us to follow the footsteps of His beloved Messenger. Ameen.ReferencesQuran 3:33, 5:3, 33:21, 93:6, 105:1Sahih Muslim 162cAuthentic Seerah sourcesIslamQA Fatwa InsightsWritten by Zayd Haji, Postgraduate Student at Zad Academy.

La rénovation de la Kaaba

Als der Prophet Muhammad (s.a.w) vor der Kaaba angegriffen wurde, sprach er eine Dua aus, vor der sich die Quraysh fürchteten. Man versuchte ihn nämlich zu demütigen und zu beleidigen, sodass man ihm kein Glauben schenkten sollte oder man ihn wenigstens als "schwach" darstellen könnte. Die Reaktionen des Propheten Muhammad (s.a.w.) auf Beleidigungen und auch auf Gewalt zeigen uns, wie man sich zu solchen Situationen am besten verhalten soll.Unterstützt meine Arbeit: https://www.patreon.com/Issam_BayanMein Online-Shop: bayanshop.de

Evil always dresses in a garment of light. It hides in plain sight. It smiles. It's friendly. It's comforting. It's dishonest. It appears as something it's not.Take, for example, that seemingly innocuous campfire song all your children have been taught to sing at your silly church camps: “This Little Light of Mine.” Like a mother who possesses children; like a tribe that possesses land; like those who refuse to let go of what God destroys—or worse, those who wickedly imagine they can compensate for God's will by loving their neighbor—like a spoiled child clamoring for a toy.Yes, this little hymn of the Antichrist twists the teaching of the Gospel of Luke into a fascist anthem that leads, at worst, to genocide—and at best, to a mind-numbing theology of the cult of self: the worship of money, human reason, community, and ultimately, state power.“This little light of mine?”Are you kidding me? Do you really think the place men dared not tread is now yours to share? Do you know what you're talking about? Do you really believe the light upon which Moses dared not gaze is yours to adorn with coverings, like a pet?Think. No—do not think. Hear.To what did Luke refer in chapter 8 when he said lampstand? Container? Cover? What do any of these things have to do with you and your church camps?He who has ears to hear, let him hear.This week, I discuss Luke 8:16.Show Notesἅπτω / נ-ג-ע (nun-gimel-ʿayin) / ن-ج-ع (nūn-jīm-ʿayn)Greek: to set on fire. Hebrew: to touch, strike violently, reach, or afflict. The Arabic cognate نَجَعٌ (najaʿ) refers to 1. the effect of the action, 2. being effective, or 3. having an impact or benefit—for example, a statement or teaching; in modern usage, a medicine. In a nomadic context, it signifies the departure or migration of people or animals in search of pasture or sustenance.λύχνος / נ-ר (nun-resh) / ن-و-ر (nūn-wāw-rāʾ)Light, lamp. The Arabic cognate نُور (nūr) functions as “light” or “illumination.”καλύπτω / כ-ס-ה (kaf-samek-he) / ك-س-ى (kāf-sīn-yāʾ)Cover, conceal, clothe, drape, forgive. The Arabic verb كَسَا (kasā) means “to clothe” or “to cover.” Its triliteral root is ك-س-و (kāf-sīn-wāw). كسوة الكعبة (kiswat al-ka'bah) denotes the cloth that covers the Kaaba in Mecca.σκεῦος / כ-ל-י (kaf-lamed-yod) / ك-ي-ل (kāf-yāʾ-lām)Vessel, implement, tool. The Arabic word كيل (kayl) refers to a measure of grain. It denotes measuring, weighing, or apportioning something in quantities. The root is also related to the Hebrew function כול (kul), which can function as comprehending, containing, or measuring. In Arabic كُلّ (kulu) indicates all.κλίνη / מ-ט-ה (mem-ṭet-he) / م-ط-ط (mīm-ṭāʾ-ṭāʾ)Couch, bed, to incline, stretch downward, extend. The Arabic مَطَّ (maṭṭa) "to stretch" or "extend" shares a common Proto-Semitic root (m-ṭ-) with Hebrew:Hebrew מ-ט-ה (m-ṭ-h);Arabic م-ط-ط (m-ṭ-ṭ); Aramaic מטא (mṭʾ); Akkadian (maṭû)λυχνία / מ-נ-ר (mem-nun-resh) / ن-و-ر (nūn-wāw-rāʾ)Lampstand, light, menorah. The Arabic cognate of מְנוֹרָה (menorah) is منارة (manārah), which means candlestick, lighthouse, or minaret (the tower of a mosque), the lighthouse from which the call to hear scripture is announced to all. The triliteral root in Arabic pertains to light, illumination, or shining.اللَّهُ نُورُ السَّمَاوَاتِ وَالْأَرْضِ(allāhu nūru as-samāwāti wa-al-arḍi)”"God is the light of the heavens and the earth.”(Surah An-Nur 24:35) ★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★

In today's episode of the Atheist Experience, Secular Rarity and Armin Navabi, add sprinkles to our Sunday(sundaes), swim through the world of proof that atheism is in fact imaginary and not created by a non-god. Kenneth in VA, wonders if proving god should be done in the mystical sense when the scientific method fails. What is the point of talking about it if you are unable to describe this method? Are you feeling something that is god, or are you describing the feelings themselves? If SR has a pet that he is unable to describe at all, what is the likelihood that the pet is real? When something is happening that you are not in control of, is that what you would describe as god? How does being in a highly emotional state affect your perception of whether or not there is a god involved? How would you value these experiences, if it turns out their origin is not from a larger source, but are coming from you?Muslim Intellect in the UK asks: Would the world exist if god did not exist? How did you arrive at the position that the existence of the world proves god? Please describe how this is obvious to you, when it may not be obvious to us or anyone else. Why would we take the Koran seriously when we have not even established there is a god, and that particular god brought us the Koran? The message from Allah is worthless without this happening first. Why should we believe a book that says god is real and how do we know if the claims in the book are true?Mike with no pronouns in SC says that the song, “Imagine” is an atheist anthem and that atheism is imaginary. Why is it a problem for atheists to take a lack of position? How do you decide what question is the biggest question to ask? Somebody that does not have a claim does not need to prove anything. The burden of proof applies to specific claims, not general things. There is no need to mix up concepts and muddy the water. What changed your mind to make you go from a non-believer to a believer? Before your scientific discoveries, was anyone else in your eyes justified in believing in the god that you believe in?John in Canada believes in a non-god creator and uses the laws of energy and math to explain his position. You are making an equivocation on the word, “create”. Did you really think that explaining that things cause other things would prove your point?Jackie in MS wants to build a case that idealism as a metaphysical system makes the most sense out of any system. It is not necessarily true that without our perception, things won't exist. Language having a limit does not give us a reason to reduce the definitions of words to mean another word. Do the qualities of a rock change when there is nothing to look at that rock? Why is it impossible for the universe to exist before there was any consciousness to describe the perception? Do you think we have done enough to understand this topic? Does omnipotence seem weird or does it just break the rules?Thanks for tuning in this week! Question of the week is: What is really buried under the Kaaba at Mecca?Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/the-atheist-experience--3254896/support.

(0:00) Intro(0:11) Blood donation announcement by Indus Hospital(1:26) Bv ko aisi qasam k aldaaz se talaq? Tasdeeqi gawahon ka hukam?(1:58) Family physician ki doosri shadi ka masla? Ulama ka daira e kaar shadiyan krana nhi.(6:27) Mufti sb nikah parrhaty huay(12:27) Mufti Saeed Khan Islamabad walon ko sunna?(15:05) Family vlogging krna?(15:34) Khana e Kaaba mn mard aurton ki mixing?(17:25) Jamaat mn zukam, korrh, juzam k mareezon ka hukam?(20:01) Bv aur maa k jhagrron mn aisy alfaaz se talaq?(22:10) Molana hazraat ki dawat mn aqeedat mandon ki muft khori ki aadat?(24:00) Jahaz k SOPs ka khayal rakhty huay wazu aur namaz ka tariqa?(29:11) Mufti sb ny Canada se aaty huay jahaz mn wazu kaisy kiya?(31:34) Tablighi ijtama walon k wazu se jahaz ka hashar?(31:58) Doosron ko takleef daina?(33:16) Jahaz mn 2 namazon ko ikatha kr k parrhna?(34:00) Hadis Sahih Bukhari(34:55) Nabi ﷺ se 2 namazon ko ikatha krny ka saboot(35:44) Hadis Sahih Muslim(37:35) Engineer ka istadlal(39:19) Deobandi, Hanfi k ta'anay ka jawab(40:04) Masla teen talaq(41:18) Nabi ﷺ ny 2 namazain ikathi kaisy parrhain?(41:46) Sooraj k saya se namaz k waqt maloom krna mushkil?(42:39) Hajj mn namazon ko milany ki wja?(43:28) Khulasa: Jahaz mn namaz ki timing ka masla(44:21) Aik Sahabia ra ko Nabi ﷺ ki ijaazat 2 namazon ko ikatha krny pr(44:46) Plane take off ki surat mn?(45:35) USA jaty huay Mufti sb ki namaz(46:42) Ikhtalaf e Ummat rehmat(47:29) Call center mn naam badal kr job krna?(48:34) Wazu mn naak se khoon?(48:48) Namaz ka waqt dakhil hony pr pehly apni namaz parrhain ya qaza e umri?(49:02) Ma'azur, bemar, boorrhay ki namaz k ehkam?(50:04) 4 namazon ko 2 krny ki wja?(55:38) Installments ki zakaat?(56:46) Char fiqah mn se aik ko follow krna, amli zindagi mn masail ka hal?(59:36) UK London mn ikhtalaf ka masla?(1:00:15) 2 namazain ikathi krny pr engineer ka bayan(1:01:45) Aisy alfaaz se qasam ka kaffara?(1:02:46) Logon ko takleef daina?(1:03:36) Ghar mn cable, internet lagana? Dauran-e-namaz mobile jaib mn? Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Marriage and Family Responsibilities(0:00) Intro(0:26) Talib ilmi ke dauran nikah karna?(5:24) Aulad walon ka ghaibi rizq?(11:13) Education ke sath walidain ko aulad ke nikah ki fikar karna zaruri?(15:47) Mufti sb ke student ka waqia?(17:31) Flexibility in human nature?(19:39) Zimmedar aulad ki jald shadi: Walidain ka farz?Prayer and Personal Questions(25:51) Imam e Kaaba ke aage namaz mein muqtadi?(26:02) Muqtadi ki namaz?Earnings and Ethical Questions(26:08) Kisike kaam se jane ki kamai?(26:42) Sar/darhhi mein tel lagana?(27:29) Traffic laws ko todna gunaah hai?Leadership and Social Questions(27:57) Factory mein baghair darhhi wale ki imamat?(28:15) Apne siyasi leader ki tareef mein aetadal?(33:14) Mufti sb par tohmat ka jawab (Mufti sb ne Imran Khan ki tareef establishment ke kehne par ki?) Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Q&A Session (0:00) Intro(0:11) Surah Mominoon mein Ehl-e-Iman aur Ehl-e-Jannat ki sifaat?(3:46) Qabristan mein dakhil hotay waqt salam kyun kaha jata hai?Deobandis, Karamat, and Related Discussions(4:24) Ehl-e-Hadith ke mutabiq Deobandiyon ki kitab Fazail-e-Aamaal shirk se bhari hui hai? + Ye log karamat par yaqeen rakhte hain.(9:35) Hazrat Sulaiman (AS) aur Esa (AS) ke mojizat ki hikmat(11:16) Mufti sb ke clip par tanz ka jawab(13:52) Sulaiman (AS) ke takhat ka waqia: Karamat hona mumkin(14:42) Shaheed ke khoon ki khushbu(17:00) Shaikh-ul-Hadith Maulana Zakariyya (RA) ki bayan kardah karamat ka saboot(19:30) Deobandiyon se chirrhnay wale(21:24) Deobandi aur Barelvi naam kaise paray?(21:56) Maulana Ashraf Ali Thanvi (RA) par ilzam ka jawab(26:05) Karamat aur tauheed(27:04) Ehl-e-Hadith ka aitraz?(27:52) Karamat ke waqiaat mein fraud(30:48) Fazail-e-Aamaal ki jagah Riyaz-us-Saliheen kitab ka mashwaraUlama-e-Deoband and Religious Questions(34:18) Ulama-e-Deoband ke basic aqaaid?(35:27) Makkah se zyada Madina mutabarik hai?(38:26) Q: Roza-e-Rasool ﷺ agar Baitullah se afzal hai, to wahan tawaf kyun nahi?(39:05) Allah ne Khanah-e-Kaaba kyun banaya?(43:53) Makkah mein 1 namaz = 1 lakh, Madina mein 1 namaz = 50 hazarAqeedah and Personal Questions(44:22) Kya sare Qadiyani kafir hain?(44:49) Jin logon tak deen ki dawat nahi pohanchi, kya woh jahannum mein jayenge?(45:33) Ek shakhs ne apni biwi se doosri shadi na karne ka wada kiya, to poora karna zaruri hai?(50:19) Aur bhi gham hain zamane mein mohabbat ke siwa;Rahatain aur bhi hain wasl ki rahat ke siwaMarriage and Family Matters(50:57) Pasand ki ladki umar mein 2 ½ saal bari, khandan wale shadi mein rukawat?(53:05) Mufti sb ki pasandeeda bhindi recipe(Mufti sb ko tamatar ke beej aur chilkon se allergy hai)(54:38) Hazrat Ayesha (RA) ke alfaaz, Hazrat Khadija (RA) ke bare mein(55:24) Tension: A viral disorder(56:28) Society standard: Biwi Aishwarya Rai jaisi(58:23) Nabi ﷺ ka farman(58:47) Liking is naturalLife, Faith, and Tawakkul(1:00:42) Walidain ko Hajj karana?(1:00:50) Kaam kiye baghair ghaib se rozi milne ka tawakkul?(1:01:10) Ghar wale mazaaq urate hon to hijrat karna?(1:01:34) Nan-nafqa, nikah farz hone ki shart mein shamil hai?(1:02:36) Dil ke armaan aansuon mein beh gayeCredit for the timestamps goes to @mrs.masroor8476 Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

(0:00) Intro(0:58) Bani Israel ki nalaiki(3:37) Bani Israel ke ta'anay Hazrat Musa (AS) ki haya par(6:53) Haya ke darajatHistorical Contexts and Reflections(9:17) Khawarij ki ibtida kaisi hui?(10:15) Bani Israel ke liye Allah ka faisla(10:50) 1996/97 ka mufti sb ka talaffuz aur Punjab walon ki ginti ka talaffuzLeadership and Character Building(12:37) Leader ke liye 2 khasoosiyat ka hona lazim (Bakriyan charana aur Qadiyaniyon ka tazkira)(15:53) Bani Israel ki gaaye ka waqiaEvents from the Life of Hazrat Musa (AS)(19:04) Hazrat Musa (AS) ki wafat ka waqia(20:17) Hazrat Musa (AS) kahan dafan hain?(22:27) Allah ki Hazrat Musa (AS) se mahabbat(22:56) Naam lena mahabbat ki alamat haiLessons and Incidents about Hazrat Musa (AS)(23:32) Aik Musalman ne Yahudi ko Hazrat Musa (AS) ki fazilat bayan karne par mukka maara(25:20) Hazrat Musa (AS) ki fazilat jo Nabi ﷺ ne bayan ki(27:56) Hazrat Musa (AS) vs Hazrat Aadam (AS)(29:08) Hazrat Musa (AS) ka ittiba karne walayQ&A Section(29:28) Ehl-e-Hadith, Imam-e-Kaaba ke pichhay namaz parhtay hain ya nahi?(29:46) Hazrat Umar (RA) ke Talaq-e-Salaas ke qoul ki Ghair Muqallidin kya taveel karte hain?(30:51) Mufti Shafee Usmani sb ka ilm Talaq-e-Salaas ke bary mein(34:18) Ehl-e-Hadith se fatwa le kar 3 talaq ke baad biwi ke saath rehna?(35:20) Taqleed ki ahmiyat(37:10) Allah ke nazdeek Nabi ﷺ ki shifa'at afzal hai ya Qur'an ki?(38:01) Ghusse mein 3 talaq se khud ko kaise bachain?(40:46) Mazar par jaana haram hai to Mufti sb kyun gaye?(41:28) Ghusal-e-Jinabat ka masnoon tareeqa(51:10) Khawateen ke liye gundhe huay balon mein sir dhone ki sahulat(52:56) Hazrat Umm-e-Salma (RA) ka Nabi ﷺ se sawal(55:08) Har baal ke neeche paani pohchana(57:58) Ghusal ke baad wazu ki hasiyat Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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In this engaging conversation, Mario, the owner of Symbolic Studies, shares his journey into the world of symbolism, exploring topics such as tarot, astrology, and the polar tradition. The discussion delves into the philosophical implications of heliocentric versus polar perspectives, the significance of spiritual centers like the Kaaba, and the fall of man into materialism. Mario emphasizes the importance of cycles of awareness, the nature of stars as spiritual realms, and the collective consciousness that connects us all. The conversation concludes with reflections on the evolution of deities and the need for a return to traditional wisdom in a rapidly changing world. Mario's Website www.symbolicstudies.com Youtube, Twitter, and Tiktok @symbolicstudies Insta @symbolic.studies Patreon.com/symbolicstudies Petes Socials @bluecollarspiritualist @spiritualgraffitipod www.bluecollarspiritualist.com

Sermon by Dr. Robert Lewis 1/27/2002 Islam Beliefs and Practices: Shahada (Declaration of faith): Reciting the statement of faith: "There is no god but Allah, and Muhammad is his prophet." Salat (Prayer): Performing five daily prayers facing the Kaaba in Mecca. Zakat (Charity): Giving alms (one-fourth of one's income). Sawm (Fasting): Abstaining from food and drink from sunrise to sunset during Ramadan. Hajj (Pilgrimage): Making a pilgrimage to Mecca once in a lifetime. Jihad (Struggle): Engaging in personal and/or community struggle to defend or spread Islam. Comparison of Islam and Christianity: Prophethood: Muslims believe Muhammad is God's final prophet (fulfilling Deuteronomy 18, according to their interpretation), while Christians believe Jesus is the final prophet. Holy Books: Muslims consider the Quran to be God's final and infallible word, while Christians believe the Bible is God's word, though they acknowledge different interpretations. Nature of God: Muslims believe in one God, Allah, while Christians believe in the Trinity (one God in three persons). Human Nature: Muslims believe humans are born with a good nature, while Christians believe humans are born with a sinful nature. Salvation: Muslims believe salvation is achieved through complete surrender to Allah and good deeds, while Christians believe salvation is a gift from God through faith in Jesus Christ. Jesus Christ: Muslims view Jesus as a prophet, but not as God incarnate or the Son of God, a belief considered the greatest sin (shirk) in Islam. The Cross: Muslims deny that Jesus was crucified, believing he was taken up to heaven. The Bible: Muslims believe the existing Bible has been corrupted, while Christians believe it is God's inspired word.       Selected

Salat es el nombre árabe para la oración, que constituye uno de los cinco pilares fundamentales del Islam, el segundo para ser precisos, por detrás de la profesión de fe y precediendo a los otros tres: la limosna, el ayuno durante el Ramadán y la peregrinación a la ciudad santa de La Meca. El creyente ha de proceder a rezar limpio de cuerpo y vestido, por lo que realizará abluciones antes de proceder a orar, acto que llevará a cabo sobre una alfombra y orientado hacia la Kaaba de La Meca. La primera oración del día, al amanecer, se llama Fajr. Duhr es el rezo del mediodía; Asr, el de media tarde; Maghreb coincide con el crepúsculo e Icha con la llegada de la noche. Estos cinco momentos obligatorios de oración determinan el ritmo de la jornada de todo musulmán, que los podrá realizar tanto de forma individual, allá donde se encuentre al llegar la hora de cada uno, como de forma congregacional, modalidad preferible y que tiene lugar en una mezquita bajo la dirección de un imam, quien no es un sacerdote ni nada por el estilo, sino tan sólo una persona docta elegida por la congregación. Para un musulmán la oración es el camino a través del cual se acerca a Allah. Es tarea del almuecín, desde el minarete de la mezquita, convocar a la oración, de viva voz, las cinco veces preceptivas diarias que se ha de rezar. Cada oración no dura más que unos pocos minutos y consiste en una serie de recitaciones rituales y postraciones. En el Islam el vínculo entre los fieles y Dios es directo.

fWotD Episode 2636: Empire of the Sultans Welcome to Featured Wiki of the Day, your daily dose of knowledge from Wikipedia’s finest articles.The featured article for Tuesday, 23 July 2024 is Empire of the Sultans.Empire of the Sultans: Ottoman Art of the Khalili Collection was a 1995–2004 touring exhibition displaying objects from the Khalili Collection of Islamic Art. Around two hundred exhibits, including calligraphy, textiles, pottery, weapons, and metalwork, illustrated the art and daily life of six centuries of the Ottoman Empire. Many of the objects had been created for the leaders of the empire, the sultans. Two of the calligraphic pieces were the work of sultans themselves.In the 1990s, the exhibition was hosted by institutions in Switzerland, the United Kingdom, and Israel. It visited thirteen cities in the United States from 2000 to 2004, a period when Islam became especially controversial due to the September 11 attacks and the subsequent wars in the Middle East. Critics described the exhibition as wide-ranging and informative. They praised it for showing beautiful art works – naming the calligraphy in particular – and for presenting a fresh view of Islam. Catalogues were published in English and French.The Ottoman Empire lasted from the 13th century until 1922 and, at its peak, had territory in three continents: Asia, Europe, and Africa. In 1516 and 1517, it took over Mecca, Medina, and Jerusalem, the holiest cities of Islam. Although officially an Islamic state, the empire was culturally diverse and multilingual, including Christians and Jews as well as Muslims. Through the history of the Ottoman Empire, its rulers, the sultans, were patrons of the arts. At the capital Constantinople, they created institutes to train and organise architects and artists, establishing distinctive Ottoman styles of architecture, manuscript illustration, and design. The Ottomans developed distinctive styles of Islamic calligraphy, improving its practice for nearly 500 years. In the 19th century it was routine for the sultans themselves to be trained in calligraphy. During the 16th-century reign of Suleiman the Magnificent, the empire reached its greatest extent. Suleiman and his successors used their wealth to build the Topkapı Palace and other buildings in Constantinople, including large mosque complexes decorated inside with architectural inscriptions.For much of its history, Islamic sacred art has been characterised by aniconism: a prohibition against depictions of living beings. Islamic cultures and time periods differed in how they interpreted this, either as applying narrowly to religious art or to art as a whole. Islamic artists compensated for the restrictions on figurative art by using decorative calligraphy, geometric patterns, and stylised foliage known as arabesque.Sir Nasser David Khalili is a British-Iranian scholar, collector, and philanthropist who has assembled the world's largest private collection of Islamic art. The Khalili Collection of Islamic Art spans the time period from 700 to 2000 and includes religious art works and decorative objects as well as those with secular purposes. Empire of the Sultans was the first exhibition drawn entirely from this collection and the first major exhibition at the School of Oriental and African Studies' Brunei Gallery. Some of its objects had never before been put on public display.The exhibition's curators were J. M. Rogers, the collection's honorary curator; and Nahla Nassar, its acting curator and registrar. More than 200 objects were on display, covering six centuries of the Ottoman Empire. These exhibits fell into four sections. "In the service of God" displayed texts including the Quran as well as furniture and ornaments for decorating mosques. "Sultans, soldiers and scribes" included armour, banners, and documents relating to the administration of the empire. "Arts and crafts" included metalwork, textiles, glass, and ceramics. Finally, "books, paintings and scripts" included manuscript paintings, calligraphic works, tools associated with calligraphy, and book bindings. Most objects in the exhibition bore some form of calligraphy.Some venues had listening stations that let visitors listen to music from Ottoman Turkey and hear stories in Arabic and English. At Brigham Young University, carpenters recreated facades of Turkish mosques.The religious manuscripts included thirty-two calligraphed Qurans or Quran sections. These included the work of notable calligraphers including Ahmed Karahisari, Sheikh Hamdullah, Hâfiz Osman, and Mustafa Izzet Efendi. Other literary works included the Masnavi of Rumi and the Dala'il al-Khayrat, a collection of prayers. Wooden roundels, painted with Quranic quotes or the names of the Islamic prophet Muhammad and of the first caliphs, had been used to decorate mosques. Similar decorative calligraphy was embroidered on silk or satin textiles, including a black satin panel from a covering for the door of the Kaaba. Mosque furnishings on display included candlesticks and decorative door fittings in brass or copper. There were qibla compasses used to find the direction of Mecca for prayer and astrolabe quadrants for telling the time for prayer from the rising of stars.The armour on display included helmets, chain mail shirts, and a 15th century war mask. These were mainly forged from iron or steel. Some of this armour was for horses: chamfrons which protected their faces and also served an ornamental purpose. A cotton talismanic shirt was decorated with Quranic quotations, prayers, and the 99 names of God. Weapons on display included daggers, swords, and flintlock guns, many with inscriptions and fine decorative patterns created by damascening (inlaying gold and silver wires into a metal surface). The daggers and swords included the earliest surviving example of a curved Islamic sword upon which was engraved the name of Baybars, a 13th-century Mamluk sultan. The Ottomans took this from Egypt and added gold damascening. Military banners bore the names of God and Muhammad along with prayers and invocations. An image distinctive to Ottoman banners was Zulfiqar, the two-bladed sword that Muhammad is said to have taken at the Battle of Badr. A section of one such banner was included in the exhibition.The documents included grants of land and income. As official proclamations of the sultan, these used highly ornate, stylised calligraphy and incorporated the sultan's tughra, an elaborate monogram that was their official seal. The display included tughras of Suleiman the Magnificent, Selim II, Murad III, Ahmed I, Mehmed IV, Abdul Hamid I, and Abdulmecid I. Two manuscripts told histories of the sultans, illustrated with portrait paintings.The third section included metalwork, pottery, jade, and textiles. The domestic metalwork objects were made of silver, brass, or gilt copper. The textiles, from the 16th and 17th centuries, included rugs and woven silk lampas panels from locations around the Ottoman Empire.In the late 16th century, the Ottomans used Iznik pottery, with its bold colours on white, to decorate imperial palaces and mosques. Several examples from Iznik were included in the exhibition, including tiles, dishes, and vases. Other pottery on display included fritware dishes from Syria and a set of twelve fritware bowls made in 1860, each inscribed in Arabic with "Imperial Chamber" and "a gift for his excellency Abraham Lincoln". The curators were not able to establish why or where this gift was made for Lincoln, beyond that the inscription suggests they were made in Turkey. A 16th or 17th century tile panel, 207 by 112.5 centimetres (6.79 ft × 3.69 ft), bore two calligraphed statements of faith, suggesting it was made to decorate a mosque.The final section of the exhibition included calligraphic works, manuscript paintings, decorative book bindings, and tools used by calligraphers. The calligraphic works included single panels, albums, and inscriptions on leaves. Among their scribes were notable calligraphers such as Sheikh Hamdullah, Mahmud Celaleddin Efendi, and Mehmed Şevkî Efendi. The exhibition had calligraphy panels by two sultans, Abdulmejid I and Mahmud II. One type of calligraphic work special to Islam is the hilye, a description in words of the qualities of Muhammad or other prophets of Islam. On display were several examples of hilyes. Some of these followed a standard pattern with main text inside a central medallion and additional names and quotations in surrounding panels; others had unconventional layouts or textual inclusions.Among the paintings and drawings were portraits from poetry manuscripts, painted within elaborate decorative borders, and two examples of the saz style which combines fantastical foliage and creatures. The exhibition travelled to a total of sixteen venues in four countries. Some venues put on special events, including performances of Turkish music, film viewings, lectures, and demonstrations of calligraphy.Musée Rath, Geneva, Switzerland, July – September 1995Brunei Gallery, School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London, UK, July – October 1996Israel Museum, Jerusalem, Israel, December 1996 – June 1997Thirteen venues were in the United States, the first time an exhibition from the Khalili Collections had been held in North America.Society of the Four Arts, Palm Beach, Florida, February – April 2000Detroit Institute of Arts, Detroit, Michigan, July – October 2000Albuquerque Museum of Art and History, Albuquerque, New Mexico, October 2000 – January 2001Portland Art Museum, Portland, Oregon, January – April 2001Asian Art Museum of San Francisco, San Francisco, California, August – October 2001Bruce Museum of Arts and Science, Greenwich, Connecticut, October 2001 – January 2002Milwaukee Art Museum, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, February – April 2002North Carolina Museum of Art, Raleigh, North Carolina, May – July 2002Museum of Art, Brigham Young University, Provo, Utah, August 2002 – January 2003Oklahoma City Museum of Art, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, February – April 2003Frist Center for the Visual Arts, Nashville, Tennessee, May – August 2003Museum of Arts and Sciences, Macon, Georgia, August – November 2003Frick Art and Historical Center, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, November 2003 – February 2004Critics described Empire of the Sultans as broad and informative. Reviewing the Geneva exhibition for the Financial Times, Susan Moore observed that "no other single collection outside Istanbul has the range of material" to put on such a wide-ranging overview of Ottoman culture. She identified its main achievement as showing how the Ottoman world was affected by its conquest of other territories. The Middle East magazine said the Brunei Gallery offered a "beautifully curated" show that "cleverly illustrates how art was an integral part of Ottoman daily life". The Columbian concluded from the Portland exhibition that "Nasser D. Khalili's collection of Islamic art treasures is so extensive it nearly brings the Ottoman Empire to life." The New York Times described "[t]his treasure trove of a show" at the Bruce Museum as having "an impressive sweep".Critics praised the beauty of the exhibited art works. The Albuquerque Tribune described Empire of the Sultans as a "stunning exhibit of treasures of the Ottoman Empire" whose 225 objects "are simply breathtaking". Reviewing for the San Francisco Chronicle, David Bonetti found all the objects "at least interesting" and the best "gorgeous", naming the carpets and ceramics as highlights. For The Capital Times, Kevin Lynch described the Milwaukee exhibition as a "serenely gorgeous show" and "a must-see for those who want clarity in these troubling times." In his review of the year for 2002, Lynch named Empire of the Sultans as the fourth best visual arts event. Reviewing the London exhibition for The Times, John Russell Taylor found it a pity that some of the most interesting objects shown in Geneva had been excluded from the Brunei Gallery (usually for lack of space), but said that the somewhat reduced display still included "many real gems of significant art".The calligraphy, in particular, attracted praise. The Associated Press wrote that its beauty could be appreciated even by visitors who do not understand Arabic writing. Alan Riding in The New York Times described the calligraphy from the later years of the Ottoman Empire as "works of extraordinary delicacy". In The Oklahoman, John Brandenburg named the calligraphy section as the strongest part of the exhibition, saying that the "magnificent blend of art and science as well as military and cultural history" may require more than one visit to take in. The Atlanta Journal-Constitution highlighted the "superb" calligraphy as well as "wonderful" miniature paintings.Empire of the Sultans was described as showing Islam in a way that contrasted with existing prejudices and with current media coverage. Describing the Brigham Young University exhibition as a "[p]art decorative art extravaganza, part cultural history lesson", The Salt Lake Tribune praised it for sharing the artistic culture of the Islamic world at a time when news mentions of Islam were dominated by war in the Middle East. The US senator John Edwards said of the North Carolina exhibition in 2002, "Since Sept. 11, Americans have been asking more questions [...] about Islam and Islamic cultures in general. The Museum of Art's exhibition offers opportunities to enhance our understanding of Islam's rich and varied cultural history, as well as the events happening today." The New Statesman recommended "an unmissable exhibition" that showed Ottoman culture on its own terms rather than following Western preconceptions. The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette saw the exhibition as an alternative both to the way Islam was being portrayed in news reports and to a romanticised view of the Arabic world as mysterious and distant. A catalogue by J. M. Rogers was first published in both English and French in 1995 to coincide with the exhibition at the Musée Rath in Geneva. This included colour photographs of 203 exhibited objects. Updated English editions accompanied the Brunei Gallery exhibition in 1996. Fourth and fifth editions of the catalogue were produced for the United States tour, including 226 objects.Rogers, J. M. (1995). Empire of the Sultans: Ottoman Art from the Collection of Nasser D. Khalili. Geneva: Musée d'Art et d'Histoire. ISBN 1-898592-04-7. OCLC 34380041.Rogers, J. M. (1995). L'empire des sultans: l'art ottoman dans la collection de Nasser D. Khalili (in French). Geneva: Musée d'Art et d'Histoire. ISBN 9782830601190. OCLC 716306659.Rogers, J. M. (1996). Empire of the Sultans: Ottoman art from the collection of Nasser D. Khalili. London: Azimuth Ed. ISBN 9781898592075. OCLC 475490537.Rogers, J. M. (2000). Empire of the Sultans: Ottoman art of the Khalili Collection (4 ed.). London: Nour Foundation. ISBN 9780883971321. OCLC 471619620.Rogers, J. M. (2000). Empire of the Sultans: Ottoman art of the Khalili Collection (4 ed.). London: Nour Foundation. ISBN 9780883971321. OCLC 471619620.Official page on Khalili Collections siteOfficial video from the Israel exhibitionThis recording reflects the Wikipedia text as of 01:00 UTC on Tuesday, 23 July 2024.For the full current version of the article, see Empire of the Sultans on Wikipedia.This podcast uses content from Wikipedia under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License.Visit our archives at wikioftheday.com and subscribe to stay updated on new episodes.Follow us on Mastodon at @wikioftheday@masto.ai.Also check out Curmudgeon's Corner, a current events podcast.Until next time, I'm standard Nicole.

Today is Thursday the 12th of Muharram, 1446 Hijrah. Yesterday I read a very disturbing news coming from Oman that a masjid in Oman was being bombed and took the lives of nine people. Apparently according to the news report, Daesh or IS claimed responsibility for the bombing and the masjid is said to belong to a Shia community in Oman and they were observing the mourning of the day of Ashura when the bombing happened. Now this is very sad because this is against the teaching of Islam.We need to look beyond sectarian divisions within the Islamic Ummah. Rasul salallahu alayhi wa sallam said,من صلى صلاتنا واستقبل قبلتنا وأكل ذبيحتنا فذلك المسلم“Those who pray our prayers and face our Qibla and eat from our slaughter, that is a Muslim that is under the protection of Allah and under the protection of Rasul salallahu alayhi wa sallam.”So this barbaric act of killing innocent lives, taking innocent lives just because of sectarian differences is haram. This is a great sin.Now are Shia Muslims? The answer according to this hadith is absolutely clear. Yes they are Muslims. We differ in certain things with them. I'm a Sunni, I'm a Shafi'i Sunni in terms of my theology. I grew up and learning Sunni creed from the Ash'ari school of Aqeedah, Shafi'i school of law and Ghazali school of Tasawwuf.Yet it doesn't mean that I would call our Shi'i brothers and sisters Kafir. We disagree. I disagree strongly with many of their teachings, with the way they view the Sahaba but that doesn't make them Kafir. That doesn't exclude them from the fold of Islam. Rasul salallahu alayhi wa sallam gave us this clear criteria. They pray like we pray. Look at the way our Shia brothers and sisters pray. Yes there may be some minor differences and those minor differences fall within Fiqh differences but by and large it's the same prayers and they face the same Qibla. It's not like they face some other places. It's not like they face Karbala in prayers. They face Masjid al-Haram. They face the Kaaba like you and I, like the rest of the Ummah and they eat from our slaughter. That makes them a Muslim. That makes them fall under the protection of Allah and the protection of Rasulullah salallahu alayhi wa sallam.IS  you did this. You're going to answer before Allah and Rasul salallahu alayhi wa sallam in Yawm al-Qiyamah. So we have to rise beyond these petty differences. We can disagree but there are matters bigger concern, matters of bigger concerns to the Ummah that we will need to unite. For instance the matter of Palestine. The matter of Palestine we are one Ummah and we see realistically in the world today politically the only countries that are taking real actions beyond words, beyond rhetoric are the Shi'i countries. We see what the Houthi in Yemen are doing and the impact they have on the economy of Israel.Now just because they do that doesn't mean that we condone, we acknowledge their teachings as the correct teaching. We can defer yet they are still Muslims. We can strongly disagree yet they are still Muslims. We believe that they are Muslims but their teachings in some matters within Islam is wrong. We can sit down and discuss academically with regards to this matter but it should never lead to bloodshed. It should never lead to death.May Allah have mercy upon those who were killed at this Masjid in Oman. My condolences to the people of Oman. Oman is a peaceful country. People of Oman are beautiful souls, very peaceful, peace loving people. May Allah protect all of you and Allah bless Oman and her people. May Allah shower mercy upon those souls that have departed and may Allah destroy IS, may Allah destroy Daesh. Get full access to Be Quranic at bequranic.substack.com/subscribe

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Fatima Al Mahmoud gives a round-up of today's trends. On today's episode, more than 1.83 million Hajj pilgrims have begun their last rites, including the Farewell Tawaf – the final circling of the Kaaba in Makkah – as their pilgrimage draws to a close.   Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has criticised plans by the military to introduce daily “tactical pauses” in fighting on one of the main roads into Gaza, to enable the delivery of aid into the enclave.   The latest list of the most expensive cities for expatriate workers has been published, with Hong Kong topping the rankings, followed by Singapore and the Swiss cities of Zurich, Geneva and Basel.

Trump Rants About Sharks, and Everyone Just Pretends It's Normal https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2024/06/trump-shark-rant/678666/ The Empress of the Apocalypse https://pca.st/u7ioqmzg (via ChatGPT) Ottoman Empire and Pirates https://chatgpt.com/share/0258eb30-a900-4149-98f5-1e3ab243c98f Einstein Telescope could launch a new era in astronomy http://phys.org/news/2024-06-einstein-telescope-era-astronomy.html What is the Kaaba? https://youtu.be/Z8XaGhDic3o?si=2dooNHoZu2-dUIMu Two Million Years Ago, an Encounter between the Sun and Something Outside the Solar System Altered ... Read more

C'est le cinquième et dernier pilier de l'islam : le pèlerinage à la Mecque que tout musulman doit réaliser une fois dans sa vie, à condition d'être en capacité physique, et d'en avoir les moyens. Le hadj débute ce vendredi 14 juin en Arabie saoudite. Si l'organisation du pèlerinage est un défi logistique et sécuritaire pour les autorités, c'est aussi une manne financière pour le royaume. Les images de l'esplanade de la Kaaba de la Grande Mosquée de la Mecque vidée de ses pèlerins au temps du Covid-19 ne sont plus qu'un lointain souvenir. Le hadj devrait retrouver ses niveaux d'affluence d'avant-pandémie. En 2019, 2,5 millions de pèlerins venaient accomplir le grand pèlerinage. Les autorités en attendent cette année presque autant. C'est avant tout, une bonne nouvelle pour les fidèles, mais ça l'est aussi pour les recettes du royaume.Avant le Covid-19, le hadj rapportait chaque année entre 10 à 15 milliards de dollars aux caisses de l'État saoudien. Si l'on y ajoute les revenus de l'autre pèlerinage, la oumra, non obligatoire, que les musulmans peuvent accomplir tout le reste de l'année, la manne financière représente au total près de 20 milliards de dollars, soit la deuxième source de recettes du royaume, loin toutefois derrière les milliards des hydrocarbures.Le tourisme religieux au cœur de Vision 2030Ce n'est pas nouveau, l'Arabie saoudite a toujours investi pour les villes saintes. À La Mecque, des hôtels, des restaurants, des dizaines de milliers de tentes climatisées ont été développés accueillir les pèlerins. Depuis 2016 pourtant, le prince héritier Mohammed Ben Salmane a placé le tourisme religieux au cœur du plan Vision 2030 qui prépare le royaume à sortir de sa dépendance aux hydrocarbures.Pour cela, l'Arabie saoudite lance de nouveaux projets. En 2018, Riyad inaugurait une ligne de train à grande vitesse pour relier Médine et La Mecque en moins de deux heures. Coût du projet : 16 milliards de dollars. D'ici 2030, les ambitions de « MBS » sont claires : attirer chaque année plus de cinq millions de pèlerins pour le hadj, soit près deux fois plus qu'actuellement.Jusqu'à 6 500 euros pour un pèlerin sénégalaisMais pour les fidèles, l'accomplissement hadj peut être un fardeau. Si certains États subventionnent une partie du voyage de leurs ressortissants, difficile d'accomplir le grand pèlerinage sans dépenser au moins 5 000 euros. Pour cette édition 2024 : les quelque 13 000 pèlerins sénégalais ont, par exemple, dû débourser chacun près de 4,3 millions de francs CFA (soit plus de 6 500 euros), c'est deux fois plus qu'avant le Covid-19. La hausse des billets d'avion et des hôtels, la dévaluation de certaines monnaies expliquent l'augmentation des tarifs et pèse inévitablement sur le budget des pèlerins. De quoi rendre de plus en plus compliqué pour certains l'accomplissement du hadj, le « voyage d'une vie ».

Seriah is joined by Chris Ernst and Saxon/Super_Inframan to discuss questions sent in by patreons. Topics include the role of geographical place in paranormal phenomena, a subtle/energetic world as a counterpoint to the physical world, the Myrtle Plantation and Chloe- a ghost of a non-existent person, ley lines and hot spots, ritual as an activator of the paranormal, the Islamic hajj to the Kaaba in Mecca, portals, Seriah's and a listener's experiences with deceased loved ones, existence after death, dream encounters, a video game analogy, reincarnation, Meher Baba, Filis Fredrick, immediate experiences after death, the bardo in the Tibetan Book of the Dead, the Seth material, blue light experiences, the Yogic blue pearl, chakras and kundalini, modern-day new age scammers, Chris's crystal healing experiences, Jeff Ritzmann's crystal experiences, the ancient origins of Shamanism, full Indian Yoga tradition vs Americanized commercial yoga, all-time best episodes, Patrick Harper, Jeff Ritzmann, Brothers of the Serpent, Aaron Gulyas, Mike Clelland, Timothy Renner, Josh Cutchin, James Elvidge, “The Universe Solved”, Robert Shoch, Steve Mera, Steph Young, the difficulties of travel, world-wide fascinating sites, the Ellora Caves, the alleged Bosnian pyramid, the “Trap Street” podcast, cave paintings in France, the “dragon man” skull found in China, Andrew Collins, Denisovans and autism, ancient types of humans and interbreeding, Gunung Padang, the band “Fields of the Nephilim”, Jeremy Vaeni, a weird perception of light in a dark room, future experiences, Seriah's UFO encounters, difficulties of recording the paranormal, purposes of mystical experiences, thirty years of “Last Exit for the Lost”, forgotten life experiences, Seriah's autobiography, and much more! This is a truly enjoyable wide-ranging conversation!

*) Israel kills 25 Palestinians, including 10+ minors, in Gaza https://www.trtworld.com/middle-east/live-blog-israel-kills-25-palestinians-including-10-minors-in-gaza-18165361 Israeli strikes have killed 17 Palestinians, including over 10 children, and injured dozens in Gaza City and Rafah. In Gaza City's Al-Daraj neighbourhood, 16 Palestinians died in an Israeli air strike on a house. One Palestinian was killed in Rafah when Israeli forces targeted a house belonging to the Al-Sha'er family. Earlier, Israeli forces hit a house in Al-Nuseirat camp, killing eight Palestinians. *) ‘New war crime': Israel bars scores in Gaza from Hajj amid Rafah invasion https://www.trtworld.com/middle-east/new-war-crime-israel-bars-scores-in-gaza-from-hajj-amid-rafah-invasion-18165328 Thousands of Palestinians have been barred from performing the Hajj pilgrimage due to Israel's occupation of the Rafah crossing, the Ministry of Awqaf and Religious Affairs said. In a statement, the ministry said that “preventing thousands in Gaza from performing the Hajj is a clear violation of freedom of worship and international humanitarian law.” Hajj, the pilgrimage to Islam's holiest site Kaaba in Mecca, is one of the five pillars of Islam. Muslims are required to perform it at least once in life if they have the means to do so. *) UN set to vote on commemorating the 1995 Srebrenica genocide annually https://www.trtworld.com/europe/un-set-to-vote-on-commemorating-the-1995-srebrenica-genocide-annually-18165406 The UN will vote on creating an annual day to commemorate the 1995 genocide of over 8,000 Bosniaks by Bosnian Serbs. This proposal has faced strong opposition from Serbs, who fear it will label them all as supporters of the genocide. The resolution, sponsored by Germany and Rwanda, doesn't blame Serbia directly. Despite this, Bosnian Serb President Milorad Dodik and Serbia's President Aleksandar Vucic have campaigned against it. The 193-member General Assembly is set to vote on designating July 11 as the “International Day of Reflection and Commemoration of the 1995 Genocide in Srebrenica,” to be observed annually starting in two months. *) Türkiye applauds Spain, Ireland, Norway's recognition of Palestinian state https://www.trtworld.com/turkiye/turkiye-applauds-spain-ireland-norways-recognition-of-palestinian-state-18165045 The Turkish foreign ministry said Türkiye is pleased by announcements from Spain, Ireland, and Norway that they will recognise the state of Palestine. The Ministry said in a statement that the “recognition of Palestine is a requirement of international law, justice, and conscience.” *) Macron faces crucial showdown as he lands in restive New Caledonia https://www.trtworld.com/australia/macron-faces-crucial-showdown-as-he-lands-in-restive-new-caledonia-18165370 French President Emmanuel Macron has landed in the Pacific island of New Caledonia for a series of talks during which he will aim to turn the page on riots triggered by a contested electoral reform. Any attempt to convince the rioters to get off the streets will be a challenge, as will trying to persuade the French-ruled territory's pro-independence parties who blame Macron and his government for the riots.

Seriah is joined by Chris Ernst and Saxon/Super_Inframan to discuss questions sent in by patreons. Topics include the role of geographical place in paranormal phenomena, a subtle/energetic world as a counterpoint to the physical world, the Myrtle Plantation and Chloe- a ghost of a non-existent person, ley lines and hot spots, ritual as an activator of the paranormal, the Islamic hajj to the Kaaba in Mecca, portals, Seriah's and a listener's experiences with deceased loved ones, existence after death, dream encounters, a video game analogy, reincarnation, Meher Baba, Filis Fredrick, immediate experiences after death, the bardo in the Tibetan Book of the Dead, the Seth material, blue light experiences, the Yogic blue pearl, chakras and kundalini, modern-day new age scammers, Chris's crystal healing experiences, Jeff Ritzmann's crystal experiences, the ancient origins of Shamanism, full Indian Yoga tradition vs Americanized commercial yoga, all-time best episodes, Patrick Harper, Jeff Ritzmann, Brothers of the Serpent, Aaron Gulyas, Mike Clelland, Timothy Renner, Josh Cutchin, James Elvidge, “The Universe Solved”, Robert Shoch, Steve Mera, Steph Young, the difficulties of travel, world-wide fascinating sites, the Ellora Caves, the alleged Bosnian pyramid, the “Trap Street” podcast, cave paintings in France, the “dragon man” skull found in China, Andrew Collins, Denisovans and autism, ancient types of humans and interbreeding, Gunung Padang, the band “Fields of the Nephilim”, Jeremy Vaeni, a weird perception of light in a dark room, future experiences, Seriah's UFO encounters, difficulties of recording the paranormal, purposes of mystical experiences, thirty years of “Last Exit for the Lost”, forgotten life experiences, Seriah's autobiography, and much more! This is a truly enjoyable wide-ranging conversation! - Recap by Vincent Treewell of The Weird Part Podcast Outro Music is Sick Fantasy by Vrangvendt Download

We often talk about leading library services from within libraries. But what do you do if you want to provide library services and don't have the luxury of four walls? On this show Vashalice Kaaba, PhD Candidate of Information Studies at Florida State University, talks about spreading literacy, no walls needed. She was inspired by work she did in the Peace Corps in Uganda spreading literacy and saw similar needs in the U.S., so developed a project called “Library in a Box” that addresses the pressing issue of literacy access in underserved communities. Support for the Uganda Wanyange Primary School Community Library Project can be provided at https://givebutter.com/KfV8XA.

>> AI Generated: The speaker discusses the importance of purifying oneself with the intention of praying in the holy month of Jesus. They also mention a previous message from the prophet about the reward of performing the physical act of praying at the Kaaba. The speaker also discusses a previous statement from the prophet about forgiveness and a visit to a beautiful city.

In this episode we chat with Alex from Alberta, Canada. We discuss a range of topics from 9/11, numerology, Saturn/Black Cube worship, and the occult meaning behind these events. If you would like to reach out to Alex, his email is: a-christiansen@hotmail.comWebsite: thefacthunter.com Email: thefacthunter@mail.com Phone: 302-990-4277 (Voice Only) Snail Mail: George Hobbs PO Box 109 Goldsboro, MD 21636Show Notes:Gematrinator https://gematrinator.com 7 WTC https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/7_World_Trade_Center_(1987–2001) 33 https://www.analuiphotography.com/blog/33-is-the-magic-number Aerial view of Capitol Building reveals an Owl https://www.pinterest.com/pin/aerial-view-of-capitol-building-reveals-an-owl--252834966550142501/ Humans may be fueling global warming by breathing: new study https://nypost.com/2023/12/19/news/humans-may-be-fueling-global-warming-by-breathing-new-study/ U.S. sex reassignment surgery Report https://www.grandviewresearch.com/industry-analysis/us-sex-reassignment-surgery-market#:~:text=b.-,The%20U.S.%20sex%20reassignment%20surgery%20market%20size%20was%20estimated%20at,sex%20reassignment%20surgery%20market%20growth%3F 18th Birthday Google https://www.wired.co.uk/article/google-18th-birthday-doodle-confusion#:~:text=Clicking%20on%20the%20Doodle%20reveals,when%20its%20birthday%20actually%20is. Adreno 660 https://www.qualcomm.com/products/features/adreno Sol Invictus https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sol_Invictus Saturn https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saturn_(mythology)#:~:text=Saturn%20(Latin%3A%20Sāturnus%20%5Bsa%CB%90ˈt%CA%8Arn%CA%8As,agriculture%2C%20periodic%20renewal%20and%20liberation. Carbon https://www.quora.com/Could-666-in-the-Bible-be-referring-to-carbon-6-electrons-6-protons-6-neutrons Kaaba https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kaaba

It's another DadChat in which we discuss Francis's catholic upbringing, making Indianapolis a site of religious pilgrimage (place the reliquary in Monument Circle), British actors doing extremely good American accents, and much more. We also field an ‘Ask A Dad' question: how do you avoid making the same mistakes your parents did? Like Hell of a Way? Check out our Patreon and get hundreds of hours of bonus content dating all the way back to 2017: www.patreon.com/hellofawaytodie  *SPECIAL ANNOUNCEMENT* We now have a storefront to sell the patches, buttons, and magnets that we also give out as flair for our $10 tier. Buy some sweet gear here:  https://www.hellofawaytodie.com/shop We have a YouTube channel now -- subscribe here and get sweet videos from us in which we yell in our cars like true veterans: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCwlHZpNTz-h6aTeQiJrEDKw You can follow the show on Twitter here: @HellOfAWay Follow Nate here: @inthesedeserts Follow Francis here: @ArmyStrang

Recent viral posts are once again targeting Antarctica, but this time not for an ancient pyramid, and instead it's a massive cube making the rounds. One doesn't have to travel so far, however, to find the same cube since it graces the downtown area of major cities around the world. It can also be found in the Muslim city of Mecca known as Kaaba (al-ka'aba means ‘cubic house'), a term related to both the Jewish Kabbalah (and Tefillin) and ancient Central American Caabaha, i.e., the House of Sacrifice - Holy of Holies. It is not as well known that the cult of Cybele, a goddess worshiped in Greece and Rome, also venerated as an icon a similar black rock which can further be found in Egypt. Take a look at the investment firm Black Rock, which pushes DEI, and you have the same idea.The black rock or cube is significant for many reasons, even relating to AI, since it calls on the power of certain gods like Saturn or Remphan, those idols the Jews were accused of worshiping by God Himself. Larry Fink, the CEO of Black Rock, is also famously Jewish. Just as there are perverts in every Church and Mosque, the House of Israel is also overrun with such perversion. The Jewish establishment, in surveys and the Times of Israel, is the largest supporter of gay marriage and not just homosexuality, but the entire LGBTQIA+ community, especially considering Tel Aviv is the ‘Gay Capital of the Middle East' and the ‘ultimate LGBTQ travel destination'. In recent viral posts recirculating this year, we are further reminded of Solomon Friedman, an ordained rabbi, and his company ECP, who recently helped acquire MindGeek, the parent company of Pornhub - the largest adult streaming site. Ethical Capital Partners also owns RedTube, YouPorn, and a list of other porn websites and production companies. Considering US Jews contribute half of ALL donations to the Democrat Party, according to the Jerusalem Post, and a quarter to the Republican Party, but comprise less than 2% of the population, there are many questions to be asked: Should we be surprised that the political left has become increasingly obsessed with gender, sex, sexuality, and the pushing of pornography on children? Or that much of the political right sanctions the same or ignores it entirely? In fact, the left-leaning big-tech companies and social media platforms like Instagram we now known are designed to connected ‘pedophile networks', according to Stanford and the University of Michigan. We also known Microsoft Bing was designed to recommend child sexual abuse content. The most recent reporting from the Network Contagion Research Institute shows that TikTok, Instagram, and Youtube are overrun with extortion schemes involving adults tricking teens and kids into sending sexually explicit material over the internet. The recent tunnels found in New York, used by local Jews, leaves us with even more questions when one looks at the materials found within.It is important to understand that we are NOT blaming the ‘Jew', but making a comparison between what is happening now and what occurred in Weimar Germany circa 1920s, a time filled with prostitution, drag queens, transvestites, homosexuality, and easy access to smut for children, not to mention the constant degrading of the German family. These were huge issues for the ultimate historical villain Adolf Hitler, who saw the same trends of Jewish ideology and rebelled against them, writing: “The fact that nine-tenths of all the smutty literature, artistic tripe and theatrical banalities, had to be charged to the account of people who formed scarcely one per cent of the nation--that fact could not be gainsaid.”Although such facts themself are considered offensive, a rabbi writing for the Rolling Stone in 2022 explained why there is such a heavily Jewish influence in all of these areas of society. He documents how Jews took on trade jobs and lent money, something that was forbidden, especially usury, in both Christianity and Islam. As a result, Jewish influence in the arts exploded, and along with it the ideological views of those people with massive support for such above mentioned perversities. When one considers the mythos of the Jewish Lilith, and her necklace of rainbow, the overall theme and picture here should become even more clear. She rejects god, is promiscuous with demons, aborts children, and reels in filth, and sexual perversion.We should never forget that when Baptists and Catholics touch little kids, or when Muslims do the same, it is not the fault of faith, but instead a moral pestilence. The same is true of Judaism. Furthermore, when one considers the cultural resistance in the US to media lies, Hollywood perversion, Black Rock DEI, schools promoting drag queens, smut for children, etc., and the conservative push back against communism, there is a striking resemblance to 1920s Germany.-FREE ARCHIVE & RSS: https://www.spreaker.com/show/the-secret-teachingsTwitter: https://twitter.com/TST___RadioWEBSITE, BOOKS, RESUBSCRIBE YEARLY: http://thesecretteachings.infoPaypal: rdgable@yahoo.comCashApp: $rdgableBuy Me a Coffee: https://www.buymeacoffee.com/tstradioSUBSCRIBE TO NETWORK: http://aftermath.mediaEMAIL: rdgable@yahoo.com / TSTRadio@protonmail.com

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Ya Ali - Don't miss this mind-blowing episode featuring esteemed guest, Sayed Mohammed Hassan Al-Sheraa, co-founder of Instaahlulbayt, joining us all the way from Dearborn, USA. Together, we delve into the understanding of Allah (swt) through the precious teachings of the Ahlulbayt (as), with a particular focus on the one born in the Kaaba. The discussion elegantly highlights Imam Ali's teachings, merits and the God-given legacy. Join us as we celebrate the birth of the Commander of the Faithful, promising you profound insights, lessons, and guidance for all.

In this captivating episode of the School of Divine Mysteries, host Aba Al-Sadiq (fhip) engages with special guest Mohammed Hussam to unravel one of the most crucial issues confronting the Muslim world today. Surprisingly, the most formidable adversaries to Muslims are identified as the non-working scholars, whose obedience and fear of tyrants contribute to the chaos prevailing in the Muslim world. This chaos encompasses issues such as poverty, corruption, and a lack of education. During this episode, the hosts also delve into two mysterious Hadiths. The first discusses the prophecy that the Mahdi will destroy the Kaaba, questioning why the leader of the Muslims would destroy their own most sacred site. The second Hadith predicts that, in the end times, Muslims would fast in months other than Ramadan and break their fast during Ramadan. The episode aims to unravel the significance and implications of these prophecies, shedding light on the challenges and mysteries facing the Muslim community. Join us for an enlightening and thought-provoking discussion.

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A Reason For Hope with Pastor Scott Richards! Sharing the Word one question of the heart at a time. Tags: Cohabitation, Pluralism, and the Kaaba

Prophet Muhammad destroys all the idols in the Kaaba with Imam Ali's help and washes the images that had been drawn inside.He then introduced Islam to the Meccans, discarding their ideas of nationalism and tribalism, and offered a general amnesty regardless of if they convert to Islam.Prophet Muhammad told Bilal to climb on top of the Kaaba to give the Azaan. Ikrima bin Abu Jahl saw that and made disparraging remarks about it, with a couple other pagans agreeing. They were soon shokced when Prophet Muhammad came over and said "I know what you said about Bilal" and repeated their words verbatim, revealing his miraculous knowledge.The Prophet stayed in Mecca for 19 more days and during that time many prominent Meccans who had initially resisted conversion would end up converting instead of fleeing, including Ikrimah bin Abu Jahl, Suhayl ibn Amr, and Safwan ibn Umayyah.Lecture notes available at http://www.why-quran.org/?p=691.Subscribe at http://www.why-quran.org/subscribe to watch the lectures live and participate in the Q&A at the end of each class.Video recording of this lecture + Q&A available on YouTube at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A_2pklaBlHA&list=PLpkB0iwLgfTat-Pgh4W3WFmupPamiC9UT.

On this episode of Delving into Islam Q&A: Who was the man who tried to destroy the Kaaba and why? What is the relationship between the elephant and the attempt to destroy the Kaaba? Lessons to learn from the story of the elephant and more.. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/delving-into-islam/support

Al Fadi, Dr Jay, and Brother Mel are starting a new series called Exposing the Myth.  In this episode they are talking about how Islam borrowed from the Persian religion of Zoroastrianism.  1.The name of the ZamZam well is zoroastrian in origin.  The name Zam is a pagan god which refers to mother nature.  2. The Black stone in al Kaaba is connected to another demon called Afraditi(Venus/ Lucifer).  3. The Jamarat represent Satan.  4. The Sunna/ hadith was written in persian lands.  5. The times of prayer, the washing before prayer, the kibla, and the word Jin were borrowed from Zoroastrianism.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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Black Rock, the powerful investment management company overseeing trillions, was founded in 1988 by 8 people. Today they control an immense amount of real estate, businesses, entertainment, etc., with their tentacles thrust into countless other things. A quick glance into theology and mythology will cultivate an altogether different view on this financial Lovecraftian Old One, however, and provide the background perhaps on why the firm chose such a name from the start.This show is part of the Spreaker Prime Network, if you are interested in advertising on this podcast, contact us at https://www.spreaker.com/show/5328407/advertisement

Hajj falls during Dhu Al Hijja, the 12th month in the Islamic calendar. The annual pilgrimage itself is fard, meaning mandatory, for every able-bodied and financially capable Muslim, at least once in their lifetime. It is no wonder then, that this event is so important. This week on Beyond The Headlines, host Nada AlTaher talks to a woman about her experiences at Hajj, her first time seeing the Kaaba and what lessons she took from her pilgrimage.

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In this episode, we explore the exciting world of real estate investing in the breathtaking paradise of Kaaba Luum. We discuss the unique features of Tulum, Mexico; including the perfect blend of natural beauty and modern amenities that are making this area one of the most sought-after investment opportunities in the world.   Join Ammar, Andrew and Carlos as they guide you through the benefits of investing in Kaaba Lum, from the potential of high returns and equity. Whether you're a seasoned investor or just getting started, this podcast is a must-listen for anyone interested in real estate investment in Kaaba Luum.

Join Tom and Dominic for their World Cup episode on Saudi Arabia, where they discuss 'the most famous structure in global Islam' - the Kaaba in Mecca.Tune in to hear about the Prophet Mohammed, Abdul Malik, and the origins of the most sacred site in Islam.Join The Rest Is History Club (www.restishistorypod.com) for ad-free listening to the full archive, weekly bonus episodes, live streamed shows and access to an exclusive chatroom community.Twitter: @TheRestHistory @holland_tom @dcsandbrook Email: restishistorypod@gmail.com Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.