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THE PRESIDENT: All right, fire away.
STEVE INSKEEP: Okay, we'll jump right into it here.
MR. President, what do you intend to do about the House Democrats who have said that they are not going to bring your plan to a vote in its current form?
THE PRESIDENT: Well, here's what I'm confident about: that nobody -- Democrat or Republican -- wants to see people's paychecks smaller on January 1st because Congress didn't act.
And I think that the framework that we've put forward, which says not only that people's taxes don't go up on January 1st, but also that we extend unemployment insurance for a year, that we make sure that key provisions like the college tax credit, the child tax credit, the earned-income tax credit are included -- that that framework is going to serve as the basis for compromise.
INSKEEP: But Democrats have said they're willing to let that go if they don't get some changes to this plan.
THE PRESIDENT: Well, what I suspect is that there are going to be some discussions both between the House and the Senate. My understanding is that the Senate's going to vote on the package over the next several days and that at the end of the day, people are going to conclude we don't want 2 million people suddenly without unemployment insurance and not able to pay their rent, not able to pay their mortgage, not able to pay their house note.
I think that people are also going to understand that the single most important thing we can do for all of our constituencies is to make sure that the recovery that is taking place right now gets stronger.
And over the last 48 hours, a range of independent economists -- both left and right -- have concluded that this package would, in fact, increase potential economic growth by as much as 1 percent and could end up meaning an additional million and a half jobs. And that, I think, has got to be the highest priority for everybody.
INSKEEP: When you negotiated with Republicans, or after you finished, you compared the situation to negotiating with hostage takers. Now that your fellow Democrats, some of them, seem to be the hostage-takers, are you going to be able to give some ground to them?
THE PRESIDENT: The bottom line is for everybody to act responsibly and to think not in terms of abstract political fights here in -- here on Capitol Hill, but to think about those families that in the middle of the holiday season, are trying to figure out -- are they still going to have unemployment benefits at the end of this month?
INSKEEP: But can you accept some changes to this plan or is it the kind of deal you cannot change --
THE PRESIDENT: I think --
INSKEEP: -- or will not change?
THE PRESIDENT: My sense is, is that there're going to be discussions between both House and Senate leadership about all the final elements of the package. Keep in mind, we didn't actually write a bill. We put forward a framework. I'm confident that the framework is going to look like the one that we put forward.
INSKEEP: Meaning maybe you could add something to it, but not subtract. That's what I'm hearing you say.
THE PRESIDENT: No. That's -- that's not what I said.
What I'm saying is, is that I'm confident that we're going to be able to get this resolved by the end of the month.
INSKEEP: Let me ask you about something that we heard from one of our listeners.
We told our listeners we were going to have this conversation today. We got many questions for you. One came from a man named Tom Pluck of Montclair, New Jersey -- a man who describes himself as a supporter.
The question that we got was: Please ask him how keeping the tax rate for the richest the same as it has been for a decade creates one single job.
THE PRESIDENT: It doesn't, which is why I was opposed to it -- and I'm still opposed to it. The issue here is not whether I think that the tax cuts for the wealthy are a good or smart thing to do. I've said repeatedly that I think they're not a smart thing to do, particularly because we've got to borrow money, essentially, to pay for them.
The problem is, is that this is the single issue that the Republicans are willing to scotch the entire deal for. And in that circumstances -- in that circumstance, we've got, basically, a very simple choice: either I allow 2 million people who are currently getting unemployment insurance not to get it; either I allow the recovery that we're on to be endangered or we make a compromise now, understanding that for the next two years this is going to be a central battle as part of a larger discussion about how do we reform our tax code so that it's fair and how do we make sure that we actually are dealing with the deficit and debt in an intelligent way?
INSKEEP: You mentioned having to borrow money to do this. Let me ask you about something that both Democrats and Republicans have raised. If you're going to allow these tax cuts to continue, if you're going to approve the other tax cuts, why not make corresponding spending cuts to finance it so they do not add so massively to the deficit?
THE PRESIDENT: Well, we're going to have a long discussion next year about spending. I put together a fiscal commission -- over the resistance, I should note, of a number of Republicans who originally had supported it.
I think that Bowles-Simpson did a good job of sparking a conversation about how we need to move forward to deal with our medium- and long-term deficits. There have been other commissions that have been put forward over the last several weeks. And I'm going to have to put a budget out that shows how I think we make some -- a serious dent in our debt and our deficit.
I think every economist -- and by the way, the commissions who looked at this as well -- realize that because we've got a recovery that is still not as strong as we'd like it to be.
The vast majority of economists, as well as both the chairman of the Bowles-Simpson commission, as well as other commissions, have suggested that because the recovery is just taking off and is still not producing as many jobs as it needs to, that it actually makes sense for us not do anything that contracts the economy right now because the single most important thing we can do for deficit reduction is actually expand economic growth. That 1 percent of additional economic growth brings in a whole lot of revenue even with no changes in the tax code.
INSKEEP: That's what they're saying the payroll tax will do is 1 percent?
THE PRESIDENT: And so the payroll tax provision that is included in this package is going to help spark economic growth that will help.
Now, it doesn't solve our medium- and long-term problems, so we're going to still have to make some very tough decisions -- and these too are going to be unpopular.
And I promise: I'm going to get criticism from Democrats and Republicans throughout the year in terms of the choices that I am going to be forcing Congress to take a square look at. Because look, the fact of the matter is that for a decade now, we have had the tendency to think that we can keep on having all the services we want and we keep them -- can keep cutting taxes as much as we want and that somehow things are going to magically balance out.
The American people understand that's not the case, and so we're going to have to be responsible about thinking: What are the programs we don't need, that don't contribute to growth, don't contribute to competitiveness, don't make sure our kids are -- aren't contributing to making sure that our kids are learning and able to compete in this 21st century economy, and which things are vital investments that we have to make?
And that conversation is going to be one that can't just happen in Washington; it's going to happen all across the country. And I'm looking forward to leading that conversation.
INSKEEP: Won't Republicans argue -- and, in fact, won't reality argue -- that any cuts will have to be even deeper because this package that you're pushing for now will mean there's even less government revenue?
THE PRESIDENT: Actually, I think that if you talk to economists, both conservative and liberal, what they'll say is the problem is not next year. The problem is, how are we dealing with our medium-term debt and deficit, and how are we dealing with our long- term debt and deficit? And most of that has to do with entitlements -- particularly Social Security and Medicaid.
We've made some progress as a consequence of my health-care bill in identifying areas where we can start bending the cost curve on health care. But we're going to have some more work to do across the budget.
But there are very few people who think that we would be better off if we've got a contracting economy or economy that's growing very little over the next year -- that that somehow is going to be good for our deficit.
INSKEEP: Let me ask you about two or three years out. I'm thinking of the 1990s when President Clinton famously said, "The era of big government is over."
Because of the medium- and long-term need to restrain or cut spending, are you going to be in a position where the era of big government is going to be over again; there's going to have to be a fundamentally different approach to things?
THE PRESIDENT: I think there's going to have to be a fundamentally different approach to things. And I described earlier what I think that approach has to be.
It's not an issue of big government versus small government. It's an issue of smart government. You know, when -- when families sit around the kitchen table, they say to themselves, what are the things we have to have -- College education for our kids, paying our mortgage, getting the roof repaired, a new boiler. What are the things that would be nice to have -- a vacation, eating out, some new clothes. And if they can afford it, they'd buy things that they'd like to have, but the first thing they do is take care of the things that we have to have.
And under that category, I'd put things like research and development, education, making sure that we're sending our kids to college, rebuilding our infrastructure to compete on the 21st century, making sure that this country is safe. The other stuff then we have to debate and figure out, can we get by with a little bit less in some of these other spending categories? And that's going to be a tough discussion, but it's one I'm confident we can have.
You'll -- when -- when we look at the deficit and the debt, I -- I think it's important to understand this doesn't need to be Armageddon. This -- this is not a situation where we've got to slash and burn everything. It does mean we've got to make choices. And it means that discussions have to be serious and they've got to be based on fact.
We -- we're not going to be able to deal with our deficit just by eliminating foreign aid, for example, which some people suggest. Well, you know what? That only accounts for 1 percent of our budget. It's not going to happen just because we eliminate earmarks. I happen to think that that's a bad way of doing business, but earmarks account for 1 percent or less of the federal budget.
We've got to look at a whole range of things -- where the money goes. And that includes entitlements; that includes defense; that includes a whole host of discretionary spending where we can probably do more and do it smarter with less money, if we are actually making some tough choices.
INSKEEP: Mr. President, let me come back to taxes here: Because this plan projects extending the Bush tax cuts for two years, it's been widely presumed that in two years or less, you're going to have another big fight over whether to extend these tax cuts.
This week, my colleague Scott Horsley asked you if there was a different possibility here. He asked if you were going to use this two-year window to push for a broader overhaul of the tax code. You said yes. I want you to expand on that yes.
What do you plan to do to the tax code in the next couple of years?
THE PRESIDENT: Well, I think we're going to have to have a conversation over the next year. And if you think about the last time we reformed our tax system back in 1986 -- it didn't happen right away, by the way. It required a lot of conversations among a lot of different parties. But people of good will came together and realized that if we eliminate what happens to the tax code every decade or so -- loopholes get built in, special interest provisions get built in -- the nominal rates end up high, but the actual tax rates that well- connected folks or people who have good accountants pay end up being a lot lower; ordinary people end up getting squeezed.
So typically, the idea is simplifying the system, hopefully lowering rates, broadening the base -- that's something that I think most economists think would help us propel economic growth. But it's a very complicated conversation.
So what I believe is, is that we've got to start that conversation next year. I think we can get some broad bipartisan agreement that it needs to be done. But it's going to require a lot of hard work to actually make it happen.
INSKEEP: So that everybody understands what you're talking about: Your deficit commission talked about lowering everybody's tax rate and eliminating deductions, such as changing the home mortgage deduction and many other deductions as well. That's the kind of plan you're talking about.
THE PRESIDENT: Well, I have not specifically endorsed that plan. What I'm saying is, is that the general concept of simplifying -- eliminating loopholes, eliminating deductions, eliminating exemptions in certain categories -- might make sense if, in exchange, people's rates are lower. That may end up being a more efficient way of doing business.
INSKEEP: Does that completely change this debate over the Bush tax cuts? Everything goes away. The tax code is just completely different than it was before.
THE PRESIDENT: Here's one thing that I don't think will change. And that is that people like myself who have been incredibly blessed and who have a lot more income and wealth can afford to pay more than we currently are paying. I strongly believe that. I believed that during the campaign for president. I believed it when I was campaigning during these midterms. I still believe it.
And so the fight about what the top 1 percent or 2 percent of America should be contributing as part of our contribution to rebuilding America and putting it on a competitive footing -- that basic principle is one that I continue to believe in and I will be fighting for over the next two years.
INSKEEP: Final thing, Mr. President. By making this agreement with Republicans on taxes and on the economy, is it your understanding -- and do you have any understanding with the Republicans -- that if you're able to act quickly on that agreement, you will then get a vote on many other things you're hoping to get by the end of the year, particularly the START nuclear treaty -- the arms deal with Russia?
THE PRESIDENT: Well, the START treaty is something that I absolutely think has to get done before Congress leaves for Christmas vacation. It is good for our national security; it allows us to verify what's going on with respect to nuclear weapons in Russia.
Every secretary of Defense, national security adviser, secretary of State of previous administrations -- Democrat and Republican -- have said it's the right thing to do; George H.W. Bush put out a statement saying it's the right thing to do. We've got, you know, commentators from the left and the right saying it's the right thing to do. So it needs to get done.
The reason we need to get the tax issue resolved is to give some security and confidence to ordinary families who are listening to me right now who are wondering, what's going to happen to me on January 1st? And we need to make sure that the recovery that we're on right now continues and grows stronger.
INSKEEP: But what understanding, if any, did you get from Republicans in these talks that you've had regarding START and other issues? Is there any understanding whatsoever with them?
THE PRESIDENT: My understanding with them is that START is going to be called and I am urging them to vote for the bill. And my expectation is -- vote for the treaty, rather. And my understanding is, is that we have a number of Republicans, starting with Richard Lugar -- somebody who, by the way, on my first trip abroad, I accompanied to Russia to talk about nuclear proliferation issues. He's been a great champion of this treaty. We're going to keep on working the numbers. And hopefully, we're going to be able to get it done.
INSKEEP: Mr. President, thanks very much.
THE PRESIDENT: Appreciate it, Steve. Thank you.
Barack Obama, Interview With Steve Inskeep on National Public Radio's "Morning Edition" Online by Gerhard Peters and John T. Woolley, The American Presidency Project https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/node/297629


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'Abdullah ibn al-Mubarak (118/736 – 181/797), a renowned Khorasani scholar. He was the client of the Banu Tamim, then the Banu Hanifa. His kunya was Abu 'Abdu'r-Rahman.
He listened to Ibn Abi Layla, Hisham ibn 'Urwa, al-A'mash, Sulayman at-Tamimi, Humayd at-Tawil, Yahya ibn Sa'id, Ibn 'Awn, Musa ibn 'Uqba, the two Sufyans, al-Awza'i, Ibn Abi Dhib, Malik, Ma'mar, Shu'ba, and Haywa ibn Shurayh, and he studied with Abu 'Amr ibn al-'Ala', al-Layth and others.
Ibn Mahdi, 'Abdu'r-Razzaq, Yahya ibn al-Qattan, Ibn Wahb and others related from him. Ibn Wahb said,
"Ibn al-Mubarak listened to all our shaykhs except 'Amr ibn al-Harith." |
Ash-Shirazi said,
"He learned fiqh with Malik and ath-Thawri, and he was the first of Abu Hanifa's companions. Then he left him and abandoned his madhhab." |
Ibn Waddah said,
"In the end, he avoided mentioning Abu Hanifa in his books, and he did not read his work to people." |
Concerning his position in knowledge and praise of him
Abu Ishaq al-Fazzari said,
"Ibn al-Mubarak was the Imam of the Muslims. Al-Fazzari used to sit in front of him and ask him questions." |
Ibn Mahdi said,
"I met four fuqaha': Malik, Shu'ba, Sufyan and Ibn al-Mubarak. (One of them had 'Hammad' in place of Shu'ba.) I did not see anyone with better counsel for the community than Ibn al-Mubarak. If Ibn al-Mubarak did not acknowledge a hadith, we would not acknowlege it." |
Ibn Mahdi was asked about him and and ath-Thawri and which of them was better. He said,
"Ibn al-Mubarak." |
"And if the people disagree with you?" He replied, "The people have not made any tests. I have not see the like of Ibn al-Mubarak." |
"Ibn al-Mubarak related to us, and he was unique." |
When Sufyan ibn 'Uyayna was told that Ibn al-Mubarak had died, he said,
"May Allah have mercy on him. He was a man of fiqh, knowledge, worship, asceticism, and generosity. He was courageous and a poet." |
"No one has come to us like Ibn al-Mubarak and Ibn Abi Ziyada." |
Muhammad ibn al-Mu'tamir said,
"When ath-Thawri died, I asked my father, 'Who is the faqih of the Arabs?" He replied, "Ibn al-Mubarak." |
Al-Awza'i said to Abu 'Uthman al-Kalbi about him,
"If I had seen him, I would have been delighted." |
An-Nasa'i said,
"There was not known in the time of Ibn al-Mubarak anyone more glorious or excellent than him nor anyone who had more virtues than he possessed." |
Salam ibn Muti' said,
"No one like him came in the east afterwards. I prefer Ibn al-Mubarak to ath-Thawri." |
Ibn Waddah said,
"I listened to a group of the people of knowledge relate, 'Knowledge, taqwa, hadith, recognition of the men, poetry, generosity, worship and scrupulousness were comibined in Ibn al-Mubarak. |
The Beginning of his quest, the reason for his asceticism and the sum of his virtues and knowledge
Qadi Abu'l-Fadl said that as-Sadafi mentioned,
"When Ibn al-Mubarak came of age, his father sent him 50,000 to use for commerce. He sought after knowledge until he had spent the money. When it was gone, his father met him and said, 'What have you bought?' He brought out his books for him and said, 'This is my trade.' His father went into the house and gave him 30,000 dirhams more and said, 'Take this and follow your trade with them,' and he spent them." |
Ibn al-Mubarak said,
"I studied adab for thirty years and I studied knowledge for twenty years." |
Ibn Hanbal said,
"In the time of Ibn al-Mubarak, there was no one who sought after knowledge more than him. He went to the Yemen, Egypt, Syria, the Hijaz, Basra and Kufa, and whoever related knowledge and was worthy of it. He wrote from young men and old men. He omitted what was rare. He gave hadiths from books." |
Ibn Waddah said,
"Ibn al-Mubarak related about 25,000 hadiths. He was asked, 'Up until when did you study knowledge?' He said, 'I hope that you will find me doing that until I die." |
Yahya ibn Yahya al-Laythi said,
"A man with good deportment came one day to Malik. I used to see Malik say to him, 'Come here.' Then he made room for him in his assembly, and I did not see Malik make room for anyone else. He sat Ibn al-Mubarak near him. Sometimes Malik was asked about a question and he answered it. Then he would lean over to the man and say to him, 'What do your companions say about it?' The man would reply softly so we could not hear or understand. I saw him do that for some days, and I admired the adab of the man. I did not see him ask about anything until he departed. He was content with what he heard and Malik told us, 'This is Ibn al-Mubarak, the faqih of Khorasan.'" |
One day Ibn al-Mubarak prayed at the side of Abu Hanifa. Ibn al-Mubarak began to lift his hands in each takbir. Abu Hanifa said to him,
'Do you want to fly?' He replied, 'If I had wanted to, I would have flown in the first one.'" |
He said,
"The ascetic is the one who is not happy when he gets this world and is not sad if he lacks it." |
Ibn Shahin said,
"Ibn al-Mubarak was with Hammad ibn Zayd and greeted him. The people of hadith went to Hammad to ask Ibn al-Mubarak to give them hadith. Ibn al-Mubarak said, 'Glory be to Allah! Shall I give hadith while you are present?' He said, 'I beg you to do it,' or words to that effect. He said, 'Abu Isma'il Hammad ibn Zayd related to us,' and did not give any hadith except from him." |
Ibn al-Mubarak used to say,
"The beginning of knowledge is the intention, then listening, then understanding, then action, then preservation, and then spreading it." |
It was said,
"He went on hajj one year and raiding the next year. Whenever he came to Madina, he said to its shaykhs among the people of knowledge and decrease. Whoever wants to go on hajj, come out with me. Their provision is enough for them. He did the same when he went on raids." |
Al-Fasawi the worshipper said,
"I was with Ibn al-Mubarak raiding on a cold, rainy night. He wept and I said, 'Are you weeping for the like of this?' He said, 'I am weeping for the previous nights which did not have the like of this hardship so that we could be rewarded for them.'" |
Ibn al-Musayyab said,
"Ibn al-Mubarak sent 70,000 dirhams to Abu Bakr ibn 'Ayyash and said, 'Use it to stop the lack of censure of you.'" |
Nu'aym ibn Hammad said,
"Ibn al-Mubarak used to stay in his house a lot. He was asked, 'Are you isolating yourself?' He said, 'How can I isolate myself when I am with the Prophet, may Allah bless him and grant him peace, and his Companions?'" |
He related that Iblis came to Ibn al-Mubarak when he was doing wudu' and said,
"You did not wipe.'" |
"I did wipe." |
"You did not wipe." |
'You are a claimant, so present your proof.'" |
Ibn al-Mubarak said to one of his companions,
"Do not neglect a day which Allah has mentioned in 63 places in His Book." |
A man said to Ibn al-Mubarak,
"Yesterday I read the entire Qur'an in a single rak'at." Ibn al-Mubarak said, "But I know a man who did not cease to recite 'Rivalry' (102) yesterday until the Subh prayer. He could not get past it," |
i.e. himself.
He and another man mentioned that Ibn al-Mubarak was asked about the beginning of his quest for knowledge. He said,
"I was a young man who drank nabidh-wine, loved wealth and rejoiced in those foul things. I invited some brothers of mine to a garden when the apples and other fruits were ripe, and we ate and drank until we were overcome by drunkenness and sleep. I woke up at the end of the period before dawn. I took up the lute which I played and composed: |
Is it not time that you had mercy on us and defied the critics and censors? |
"Then I could not make it rhyme as I wished. When I repeated it to it, the lute spoke to me as a man speaks, 'Is it not time that the hearts of those who believe should be humbled to the remembrance of Allah?' (57:15) I said, 'Yes, Lord.' I broke the lute and spilled out the nabidh, and repentance came by Allah's favour with its realities, and I turned to knowledge and worship." |
He related that
'Abdullah ibn al-Mubarak entered Kufa when he was intending to go on the hajj. There was a woman sitting on a rubbish-heap plucking a duck. It occurred to him that it was carrion. He stopped on his mule and said to her, 'Women! Is this duck carrion or sacrificed?' She said, 'Carrion.' He said, 'Then why are you plucking it?' She said, 'So that my family and I can eat it.' He said, 'Woman! Allah Almighty has forbidden you carrion while you are in a land like this!' She said, 'Man, go away.' They continued to exchange words until he said to her, 'Where in Kufa do you live?' She said, 'In the quarter of the Banu so-and-so.' He said, 'By what is your house known?' She said, 'The Banu so-and-so.' He left her and went to the inn. Then he asked about the tribe and they directed him to it. He said to a man, 'You have a dirham if you come with me to the place.' |
"He went until he came to the tribe which the woman had mentioned. He said to the man, 'Go.' Then he went to the door and knocked on the door with a stick that he had. The old woman said, 'Who is it?' He said to her, 'Open the door.' She opened it part way. He said, 'Open it all the way.' Then he got off his mule and hit it with the stick and the mule went into the house. Then he said to the woman, 'This mule and the provision, money and clothes on it is yours, and you will have what is halal from it in this world and the Next.' |
"Then Ibn al-Mubarak remained hidden until the people returned from the hajj. Some of the people of his land came to him to greet him and congratualate him on the hajj. He turned to say to them, 'I had an illness and did not go on hajj this year.' |
"One of them said, 'Glory be to Allah! Did I not leave you my goods with you while we were at Mina and we were going to 'Arafat?' Another said, 'Did you not buy for me in the same way?' He turned to say, 'I do not know what you are saying. As for myself, I did not go on hajj this year.' |
"He dreamt of someone saying in the night to him, "Abdullah, rejoice! Allah accepted your sadaqa and He sent an angel in your form who performed the hajj for you.'" |
Some of His Wisdoms, Poetry and Wit
He said:
Fight your tongue. The tongue is quick to kill a man. The tongue is the posting of the heart. It shows man his intellect. |
He said,
I see that some people are content with the least of the deen, but I do not see them pleased with meagerness in this life. Be rich with Allah, independent of the world of the kings as the kings are free of the deen with their worldly things. |
He said:
People's enjoyment of worship and taqwa is the sweetest bliss, not the pleasure of the wine. Their sources enjoy it for all their lives, and they, by Allah, have provision until they reach the graves. In a moment they obtain might and taqwa. Does not the enjoyment of life lie in piety and steadfastness? |
He said:
I see every life as unhappy and miserable except for planting the spear in the shade of the horse And standing in the dark nights, vigilant, guarding the people in the furthest outpost. |
A man came to Ibn al-Mubarak and said to him,
"May Allah be pleased with you! Describe for me those who are wild and distracted by love of Allah. |
He replied, "They are as I will tell you:
Alert, on mounts as if they were a caravan desiring to pass, that is how they are moved. Their limbs are restrained from every foul action. Truthfulness is their school, as well as zuhd and fear. Another person asked him to describe the fearful. |
He said:
When the night is darkest, they endure it, and it travels from them while they are still bowing. Fear dispelled their sleep, so they stood alert while the people of security in this world were sleeping peacefully. While they are prostrating under the cloak the darkness, their groan pierces their ribs. They are mute in the day by the length of their silence. They have tranquillity from their humility. |
He also composed:
Seize the two rak'ats of nearness if you are free and at rest. When you desire to speak about the false, put glorification in its place. Seizing silence is better than plunging, even if you are eloquent in speech. |
Ibn al-Mubarak has a lot of poetry in more than one subject. He had a short poem in rajaz-metre on the Companions and the Followers and long qasidas on constancy and jihad which are famous. He has the Kitab ar-Raqa'iq which is famous, and The Book of the Objectives of Jihad.
Ibn al-Mubarak was asked,
"Who are the people?", "The scholars," he replied. He was asked, "Who are the kings?" He said, "The men of detachment (zuhd)." He was asked, "Who are the rabble?" "Harthima and Khuzayma ibn Hazim," he answered. It was said, "Who are the fools?" He said, "The one who sells the Next World for the worldly portion of someone else." He used to say, "The trace of ink on the garment of the master of hadith is better than the perfume on the bride's garment." He was asked, "Which person has the best state?" He said, "The one who devotes himself to his Lord." |
Ibn al-Mubarak said,
"I passed by a weaver when I had broken the throng of my sandal and he gave me with a strap. I asked, 'Did you do it for pay?' He said, 'Yes.' When I passed by him, I leaned towards him and greeted him. Then I missed him and found that he had closed his shop. I asked one of the neighbours about him. I said, 'If he is sick, I will visit him. If he is busy, I will help him. If he is poor, I will share with him.' |
"They said, 'We have no knowledge of him.' I asked permission to enter his house and he came out to me. I asked him, 'What has kept you from your shop?' He said to me, 'You, Ibn al-Mubarak. People see you inclining to me, so they have put a shirt on me which I do not deserve.' |
"I took his sleeve and went with him to the graves. I said, 'This is the grave of so-and-so. His business was such-and-such. This is the grave of so-and-so. His business was such-and-such.' |
"He said to me, 'Ibn al-Mubarak, I do not know what you are saying. The man is not all the man whom the tongues describe and the man is not all the man whom the eyes see. The man is the one whom Allah veils in his life and makes him enter the grave veiled and then He brings him out on the Day of Rising when there is no abasement or rebellion on him. That is the man.'" |
Abu Bakr al-Khatib related that al-Hasan ibn 'Isa ibn Masrajis used to pass by Ibn al-Mubarak while he was a Christian. Al-Hasan had a very beautiful face. Ibn al-Mubarak asked about him and was told,
"He is a Christian." |
"O Allah, provide him with Islam." |
Allah answered his supplication and al-Hasan became an excellent Muslim. He was one of the scholars of the Community and one of those who travelled in quest of knowledge and the Sunna in all regions and people studied with him. He possessed scrupulousness, intellect and reliability.
One of the men who kept the company of Ibn al-Mubarak inclined to this world and kept the Sultan's company. He met him one day and greeted him. He said to him,
"My brother! |
All is from rice, wheat and barley bread, |
And it crushes. O person! Allah has guided you from the amir's abode, |
So do not visit it! Avoid it it! They are false sparks. |
It takes away the deen and brings you near to great wrong action." |
The man was ashamed and left the Sultan's company and returned to his company.
Concerning his position in riwaya and hadith
One of the Sufis who had heard him say that one of the transmitters of hadith was weak, said to him,
"Abu 'Abdu'r-Rahman, do you slander?" He said, "Be quiet. If we do not clarify, who will know the true from the false?" Ibn al-Mubarak died in Hit, returning from a naval expedition and was buried in Hit in Ramadan in 181. Al-Bukhari said that he was born in 118. When he was near death, he told Nasr, his client, "Put my head on the earth." Nasr wept. He said, "Why do you weep?" He said, "I remember what you had in it of blessing and now you are dying a stranger and a pauper." He told him, "Be quiet. I asked Allah to let me live the life of the rich and to make me die the death of the poor." |
Then he said,
"Put me down and do not address me again unless I speak again. Put me down so that it is my last words." |
Taken from Qadi 'Iyad'sTartib al-Madarik
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Symbol | Thunderbird |
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New York, March 22, 2011–The Committee to Protect Journalists welcomes news that Ukrainian prosecutors have opened an investigation into allegations that former President Leonid Kuchma had a role in the 2000 abduction and murder of independent journalist Georgy Gongadze, left. CPJ called on Ukrainian investigators today to clarify the focus of the investigation and conduct it in a thorough and transparent manner.
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Gongadze, 31, editor of the online news outlet Ukrainska Pravda, a critic of Kuchma's policies, vanished on September 16, 2000, after leaving the home of a colleague to meet his wife and two young children. His headless body was discovered in a forest outside the town of Tarashcha two months later.
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European Commissioner Ylva Johansson believes Europe has an obligation to help Afghan refugees.
"We have a lot of people that have been fighting for our values and done that in a real good way in Afghanistan. And it's our moral duty now to do everything we can to protect them and evacuate them to a safe home," Johansson told NPR's Rachel Martin.
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"I think there's an opportunity to show that not only is it the right thing to do, but it is scalable, and it has a business proposition," said Dravid.
It's a possible lab innovation that could help preserve life as we know it.


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text: Artist: DMX Album: The Great Depression Song: The Prayer IV Typed by: OHHLA Webmaster DJ Flash [DMX] Let us pray Father God I am just learning how to pray, so bear with me First I thank you for the life of everyone that's here with me Then I thank you for the love you give me, why? I don't know; I don't deserve it, and it hurts inside Many a nights I cried, and called your name out loud But didn't call you when I was doin good, I was too proud And STILL you gave me love, I wasn't used to that Most of the people that gave me love, they ended up takin it back That's somethin new to me, so I'm askin you for time to adjust Let me make it there, I will be one you can trust What I stand for, I put my life on, I DO! I guess what I'm askin is - show me how to stand for you And I will RAP for you, SING for you, PREACH for you, TEACH for you REACH for you - I will love you like you love me, unconditionally And I will ALWAYS be prepared, for whatever the mission'll be GIVE THE NUTRITION TO ME, and I'll properly digest it And when I give it back, I'll show you word well invested And whenever I go, BEFORE I GO, let me give Thanks to you Lord, my birth, for every day that I've lived You gave me a love most of my life I didn't know was there IN THE NAME OF JESUS! I give you my life, cause you care


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Damascus, March 18, 2014
"The Muslim rule must be applied, while all the Christian symbols displayed publicly must be destroyed," said the archbishop in his interview with the "Aid to Church in Need" aid organization, commenting on the islamists' agenda.
"In addition to this, the Christians who wish to stay will be forced to pay a tax in the future".
But in other places of Syria the situation with Christians is gradually improving. Thus, many Christians have returned to Homs, the third largest city of the country.
"The government troops have established nearly full control of this region and the insurgents are ruling over only four districts," the CWN agency cites the archbishop's words.


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Morgan Polotan, Principal, Comcast Ventures, Has Agreed to Speak on "Investor and Venture Capital Trends" at IQT-NYC Apr 2
(IQT-NYC) Morgan Polotan, Principal, Comcast Ventures has agreed to speak on "Investor and Venture Capital Trends" at the Inside Quantum Technology event in New York City at 11:35 AM April 2. See Poloton's bio here.
The Inside Quantum Technology event in New York City April 2-3, 2020 will offer *60+ speakers from firms critical to the commercial evolution of quantum technology. Attendees will have the opportunity to review the exhibit space in which leading hardware and software firms, along with service providers will show off their latest products and strategies.
What Makes Inside Quantum Technology-NYC Special?
1. A seven-panel end-user symposium: Inside Quantum Technology – New York is a follow-on to our highly successful events in Boston and Europe in 2019. It reflects our strong belief that quantum technology has now reached a stage of maturity that makes the sharing of end user experiences extremely valuable to product designers, strategic planners and investors alike.
We have therefore built into the program for the New York event a seven-panel end-user symposium, with panelists that include pioneer users of quantum technology from financial services, aerospace, pharma and specialty chemical, healthcare, automotive and transportation, defense, telecom carriers, government and R&D. Attendees to this event will have the opportunity to learn more about the thinking of first quantum technology users; their deployments, successes and failures.
2. Investor-oriented events: An important focus of Inside Quantum Technology-New York will be investment. We include a special panel with savvy venture capitalists that are already active in the quantum technology space. At the conference they will discuss where they are investing and why. We also anticipate much talk on this panel about the fabled "quantum winter."
Inside Quantum Technology will also host a Startup Competition for seed-stage Quantum Technology organizations or academic based groups. These groups will be able to pitch their respective startups to an audience of industry executives, quantum tech companies, VCs and other investors.
3. Unique market forecasts and analysis sessions: The Inside Quantum Technology organization consists of three groups. In addition, to our event group, we also incorporate an industry analysis group and a popular daily newsfeed.
Inside Quantum Technology is the only full-service market research and forecasting group providing regular reports on key quantum technology markets. Attendees will hear about the future potential of quantum technology through several sessions presented by Inside Quantum Technology analysts. These will include up-to-date forecasts of penetration and revenue generation. No other quantum technology event offers this feature.
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Inside Quantum Technology – New York will be jointly organized with 3DR Holdings and QuTech which have also organized our other highly successful quantum technology events. It will be a major learning experience on how quantum technology is evolving, which marketing and deployment strategies are being pursued and which near-term steps will be taken by everyone from researchers to end users. Inside Quantum Technology – New York will provide comprehensive insights into the commercial future of all areas of quantum technology, presenting both opportunities available today and future applications for businesses and government.


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Alcohol has been implicated as a factor that may hurt your efforts to lose body fat. Whether alcohol is "fattening" has been a very controversial subject because technically speaking, alcohol is NOT stored as fat; it is oxidized ahead of other fuels.
Whether moderate drinking is healthy has also been a subject of controversy. Many studies show that cardiovascular health benefits are associated with moderate beer or wine drinking (which has been of particular interest lately with reservatrol in the news so much), while other studies show improved insulin sensitivity. Some experts however, say that alcohol has no place in a fitness lifestyle.
A recent study published in the journal Obesity adds new findings to our knowledge about alcohol, insulin resistance and abdominal obesity. Analysis of the results as compared to other studies also gives us some insights into why some people seem to drink and get fat while others seem to drink and get thin!
The truth about the beer belly phenomenon
This new study, by Ulf Riserus and Erik Inglesson, was based on the Swedish Uppsala Longitudinal cohort. The researchers found that alcohol intake in older men did not improve insulin sensitivity, which contradicted their own hypothesis and numerous previous studies.
They also said there was a very "robust" association between alcohol intake, waist circumference and waist to hip ratio. They pointed out that a high alcohol intake, especially hard liquor, was closely associated with abdominal body fat, not just overall body mass.
Abdominal fat accumulation is not just a cosmetic problem, it can be a serious health risk. Abdominal fat, also known as "android" or "central" obesity, increases the risk for cardiovascular disease, high blood pressure, high blood lipids, glucose intolerance and elevated insulin levels.
Many other studies have also found a link between alcohol intake and abdominal fat, but this too has been controversial. A study that was widely publicized by the BBC in 2003 dismissed the concept of the "beer belly."
Nevertheless, it looks like there's some scientific support to it after all (or at least a "liquor belly" according to this newer study).
Hormones may be strongly involved because high alcohol intake has been shown to decrease blood testosterone in men, and also increase cortisol levels, which can lead to visceral fat accumulation.
Why is there so much controversy? Why the discrepancy in research findings about alcohol's influence on obesity, abdominal fat, and insulin sensitivity?
Well, here's the real story of why some people don't get fat when they drink:
A lot of the confusion is because epidemiological research cannot show cause and effect relationships and mistakes can easily be made when drawing associations based on limited data.
With the nature of these longitudinal studies, you have to look at the lifestyle and nature of drinkers in general (or in this study, hard liquor drinkers). Also, the Swedish study focused on older men, so age may have been a factor. You may be more likely to deposit alcohol right on your belly as you get older.
When you hear that alcohol increases belly fat, you also have to look at what else is going on in the life of the drinker, particularly what the rest of a person's diet looks like, and how alcohol intake affects appetite and eating habits.
Research says that alcohol can mess up your body's perception of hunger, satiety and fullness. If drinking stimulates additional eating, or adds additional calories that aren't compensated for and which lead to positive energy balance, then you get fat. You may also get fat in the belly, no thanks to what booze does to hormones.
Another thing that confounds the reports on whether alcohol contributes to weight gain is the fact that the game changes in heavy drinkers. We know that alcohol contains 7.1 calories per gram and these calories always count as part of the energy balance equation… or do they? With chronic excessive alcohol consumption, it's possible that not all of these calories are available for energy. Due to changes in liver function and something called the microsomal ethanol oxidizing system (MEOS), alcoholism may be a real case of where some calories don't count. Many alcoholics also skip meals and eat less with increasing alcohol consumption.
Alcohol metabolizing pathways notwithstanding, even if binge drinkers, daily drinkers or heavy drinkers consume most of their calories from alcohol, if they eat very little, and remain in a calorie deficit, they will not get fat. Compound this with the hormonal effects and you witness the skinny, but under-nourished, unhealthy and atrophied alcoholic (the person you'd think would be most likely to have a beer belly).
It's the calories that count
The bottom line is, the idea that alcohol just automatically turns into fat or gives you a beer belly is mistaken. It's true that alcohol suppresses fat oxidation, but mainly, alcohol adds calories into your diet, messes with your hormones and can stimulate appetite, leading to even more calories consumed. That's where the fat gain comes from.
If you drink in moderation, if you're aware of the calories in the alcohol, if you're aware of the calories from additional food intake consumed during or after drinking, and if you compensate for all of the above accordingly, you won't get fat.
Now, with that said, you might be wondering: "You mean I can drink and still lose fat? I just need to keep in a calorie deficit?"
Yes, that's exactly what I mean. But before you rush off to the pub for a cold one, hold that thought for a minute while you consider this first: The empty alcohol calories displace the nutrient dense calories!
When you're on a fat loss program you have a fairly small "calorie budget", so you need to give some careful thought to how those calories should be "spent." For example, if a female is on a 1500 calorie per day diet, does she really want to "spend" 500 of those calories – one third of her intake - for a few alcoholic drinks, and leave only 1000 for health-promoting food, fiber and lean muscle building protein?
I realize some people may answer "yes" to that question, but then again, if some people spent their money as frivolously as they spent their calories, they would be in deep trouble!
My 7 tips for alcohol consumption in the fitness lifestyle:
- Don't drink on a fat loss program. Although you could certainly drink and "get away with it" if you diligently maintained your calorie deficit as noted above, it certainly does not help your fat loss cause or your nutritional status.
- Drink in moderation during maintenance. For lifelong weight maintenance and a healthy lifestyle, if you drink, do so in moderation and only occasionally, such as on weekends or when you go out to dine in restaurants. Binge drinking and getting drunk has no place in a fitness lifestyle (not to mention hangovers aren't very conducive to good workout routines).
- Don't drink daily. Moderate drinking, including daily drinking, has been associated with cardiovascular health benefits. However, I don't recommend daily drinking because behaviors repeated daily become habits. Behaviors repeated multiple times daily become strong habits. Habitual drinking may lead to heavier drinking or full-blown addictions and can be hard to stop if you ever need to cut back.
- Count the calories. If you decide to have a bottle of beer or a glass of wine or two (or whatever moderation is for you), be sure to account for the alcohol in your daily calorie budget.
- Watch your appetite. Don't let the "munchies" get control of you during or after you drink (Note to chicken wing and nacho-eating men: The correlation to alcohol and body fat is higher in men in almost all the studies. One possible explanation is that men tend to drink and eat, while women may tend to drink instead of eating).
- Watch the fatty foods. When drinking, watch the fatty foods in particular. A study by Angelo Tremblay back in 1995 suggested that alcohol and a high fat diet are a combination that favors overfeeding.
- Enjoy without guilt. If you choose to drink (moderately and sensibly), then don't feel guilty about it or beat yourself up afterwards, just enjoy the darn stuff, will you!
To learn more about fat loss check out my book Burn The Fat, Feed The Muscle.


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nerdnite wellington 4: of sheep, art, sci-fi and music (or, all the good things)
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28 February at (new venue!) Bodega in Wellington
We're back for another evening of geekery!
Nerdnite Wellington #4 – Of sheep, art, sci-fi, and music (or, all the good things)
When: Monday 28 February 2011, from 6pm 'til we're thrown out
Where: New awesome venue! Bodega at 101 Ghuznee St.wendy
Sign up: Facebook page or @ us on Twitter if you can make it.
As if you needed any further incentive to refuse all other invitations to be doing something on Feb 28th, we're extremely proud and happy to be announcing our speaker line-up for the night. And wow, but it's a stunning one.
In a very particular order, then, may we introduce our speakers:
The hardest job in the world and how it got easier
Wendy Allison
Whether we like to admit it or not, New Zealand's culture was founded on the back of the sheep. These days, even though they still outnumber us ten to one, you'd be hard pressed to find more than one in ten Kiwis that has actually touched a sheep, despite what the Aussies might tell you. Yet there are still people out there who make their living manhandling woolly critters to divest them of their supposedly obsolete fibre. And the burning question in everyone's mind is "WHY?" In an attempt to answer that question, Wendy Allison will take you through historical and modern developments in sheep shearing technology and explain what manual labourers have to do with high-tech geekery.
Wendy could be described in a lot of ways and has done a lot of things due to a tendency towards being a hedonistic experience junkie. She has been known to shear the occasional sheep.
The secret life of graff
Jan Thomas
Graffiti is highly present in our modern cities and lives, design, fashion etc, but there are many aspects of graffiti that the average citizen doesn't know about – which is what Jan shed some light on. His talk will cover subjects such as the type of people that do graffiti, what their lives are like, how the graff community works, the legal side of things and the de facto omerta (code of honour) that exists among graff peoples.
Jan's day job involves being a Project Manager/Business Analyst for web companies, while his night job involves, well, all sortsa interesting things. Also, he's German: a fact about which he's got used to being consistently teased.
The Tea Hypothesis
Geoff Palmer
Geoff will consider the hypothesis that "If programmers are devices for converting coffee into code, then writers are devices for converting tea into text". Using his latest book as an example – Too Many Zeros, published by Penguin, January 31 – he will present detailed data on the process and include a number of escritorial insights for the algorithmically inclined.
Geoff Palmer is a freelance computer consultant and Qantas Media Award winning technology writer based in Wellington. You'll find him in the pages of NZ PC World, blogging as Tux Love on their website, and in Wikipedia masquerading as a former Prime Minister of New Zealand.
A Succession of Repetitive Beats: The history and culture of electronic music
Will Marshall
Electronic music has been around since the early 1900s, and has become in a variety of forms the dominant type of music produced today. Will will (heh) discuss some of the technology important to the development of modern electronic music, the basics of rave/festival culture, the relationship between DJs and Producers, and the history and musicology of modern electronic music.
Will is a psybreaks and tech-funk DJ, a producer, a festival organiser and stealth raver. He's a member of Enspiral.com and has been known to write software for money.
Remember, all, we have a BRAND NEW venue! With space not only for your friends, families, enemies, favourite ETs and other animals, but for your kitchen sink, too! (Although that last is not an absolute requirement, of course).
And, because there is such a thing as goodness in the world, the event's still free. Come drink with us!
Or, in the words of the unofficial nerdnite tagline, "It's like the Discovery Channel…with beer!"
Have questions? Get in touch with us on Twitter or fill out the Contact form and our nerd monkeys will pound on a keyboard and get back to you.


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