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The Wireless Revolution Hits Medicine
Eric Topol talks about the upheaval that's coming as the digitization of health care meets the smartphone
After 14 years as chief of cardiovascular medicine at the Cleveland Clinic, Eric Topol moved to La Jolla, Calif., in 2006 to become director of the Scripps Translational Science Institute, which was established to apply genetic discoveries to personalized medicine. Three years later, he helped launch the West Wireless Health Institute, for which he is vice chairman and which is investigating use of wireless technology in the delivery of health care.
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The convergence of these two fields—genomics, marked by the rapidly plummeting cost of sequencing a person's entire genetic code, and wireless, with its flurry of innovative health-care apps—led Dr. Topol to write "The Creative Destruction of Medicine," a book that offers an illuminating perspective on the coming digitization of health care. It's also a reminder that while medicine is one of the globe's premier drivers of innovation, it is also a conservative culture that now finds itself buffeted by transformational change.
The Wall Street Journal's Ron Winslow discussed the implications with Dr. Topol. Here are edited excerpts from the conversation:
Unnecessary Boundaries
WSJ: Let's start with the title. "Creative Destruction" is a provocative term. What needs to be destroyed?
DR. TOPOL: There are two levels. One is that in medicine, everything we do essentially is at the population level. Whether it's mass screening or giving the same medication to all people with a particular diagnosis, this doesn't recognize the individuality of people. I think it's fundamentally flawed. We now have the tools to do much better.
The other is this analog world medicine lives in. The field has resisted a truly remarkable digital infrastructure to the nth degree. It hasn't really embraced genomics, wireless biosensors or advanced imaging that could be used to make medicine more precise. Or social networking.
The digital world has been in a separate orbit from our medical cocoon, and it's time the boundaries be taken down.
WSJ: So what are the tools challenging the status quo?
DR. TOPOL: The ability to sequence the human genome is finally making a difference, but it's far beyond that. By applying biosensors to the body, we can measure any physiologic metric—blood pressure, glucose, oxygen concentration in the blood—and send the data wirelessly through smartphones to doctors. That means you have this panoramic, high-definition, relatively comprehensive view of a patient that doctors can use to assess and manage disease, and that patients can use to help maintain their health and direct their own care.
That is the essence of digitizing a human being. For medical purposes, it's getting all the essential data, and it will be the information to radically transform the future of medicine. Many of these things could be adapted today.
WSJ: What's the particular role of the smartphone?
DR. TOPOL: We're all essentially surgically connected to our smartphones, and we're still in the early stages of realizing their medical potential. But they should be a real threat to the medical profession.
You can get an add-on to a smartphone which does eye refraction and then texts [the prescription] to get your glasses made. If you're an optometrist, you might be worried about that. Or you can get your skin lesion scanned and get a text back quickly that there's nothing to worry about. If you're a dermatologist, that's a big part of your practice. You will be able to take a DNA sequence on a USB port and pop it into your smartphone and get data out of it. It just goes on and on.
Putting Tools to Use
WSJ: How would doctors and patients use these tools in practice?
DR. TOPOL: Let's say you want to prevent a child from ever having an asthma attack. You would know genomically from their DNA sequence that they're predisposed to asthma. Then you would apply a biosensor that could be worn to detect the early signs of an asthma attack and send data to the doctor through a smartphone before it occurred. Then medications could be used to ward off an asthma attack. Using the DNA sequence, the drugs would be matched up to the child's biologic basis for asthma, predicting responsiveness and the absence of significant side effects.
WSJ: What will a typical doctor appointment be like with this approach?
DR. TOPOL: I hope it's going to be a whole lot better than today, because the average appointment lasts seven minutes in the U.S. And usually the patient is waiting for an hour. So it's a very inefficient system.
With digital tools, if you're seeing someone who has high blood pressure and blood-sugar problems, a lot of the data that's relevant could be sent through the Web before or during the visit. That's different from today, when you and your doctor don't have data available during the visit.
But the other thing to consider is that in the future, many office visits will not be in person; they will be "house calls" through Skype and FaceTime and other video links.
Making It Personal
WSJ: Is there a possible irony that in using all this technology to "personalize" medicine you "depersonalize" it instead?
DR. TOPOL: When you have this type of rich data on an individual, there's a tendency to treat the scan or treat the DNA or treat the sensor data output rather than the patient. But it can actually increase the intimacy. I use a portable pocket ultrasound device instead of a stethoscope to listen to the heart, and I share it with the patient in real time. "Look at your valve, look at your heart-muscle strength." So they're looking at it with me. Normally a patient is tested by an ultrasonographer who is not allowed to tell them anything. They have to call the doctor and ask, "What did it show?"
WSJ: What are roadblocks for moving to this new world?
DR. TOPOL: A core problem is the medical profession. The average time it takes for a significant innovation to become standard clinical practice is 17 years. The Wall Street Journal had a piece about how 62% of doctors don't use email with their patients. I mean, help me. This is 2012. This is resistance.
But what has really gotten me stirred up is the issue of whether patients should have access to their own health data. The AMA [American Medical Association] was lobbying the government that consumers should not have access directly to their DNA data, that it has to be mediated through a doctor. The AMA did a survey of 10,000 doctors, and 90% said they have no comfort using genomics in their clinical practice. So how could they be the ultimate mediator by which the public gets access to their DNA data? That really speaks to medical paternalism.
The fact that consumers will have this ability to have themselves—their genome sequence, their lab tests, their tissues—digitized on their smartphones and their social networks will reboot the way doctors interact with patients.
WSJ: But not all the skeptics are knuckle-draggers. Some prominent scientists say very few of us will find value anytime soon in having our own DNA sequenced. And will people really want to be constantly streaming their digital vital signs into the ether?
DR. TOPOL: The skepticism is healthy, but we're already seeing remarkable effects in the precise management of cancer, in demystifying life-threatening and heretofore unknown conditions and matching drugs with a patient's genomic data.
The main thing is that there are these remarkable new tools that are hyperinnovative. People are already putting data on social networks, comparing genomic data and competing for the best quality sleep, best blood glucose. It will really take off if consumers are driving this via the power of their social networks. This radical transformation to a higher plateau of medicine is inevitable.
Mr. Winslow is a deputy bureau chief for The Wall Street Journal in New York. He can be reached at email@example.com.
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|A Scottish Christmas
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You will have to forgive me for reviewing a Christmas record at this time of year, but after it arrived last month and I gave it a listen, I wanted to let you know about it straight away.
This excellent album features a stunning lineup of Celtic musicians, mainly from the U.S., but with at least one born in Scotland. With a lively combination of well-known Christmas songs arranged in a Scottish style, and traditional Scottish music and dancing, the album is an ideal Christmas gift for anyone with a love for the Celtic heritage.
Headlining on the album – a 77-minute live performance recorded at the Macomb Center for the Performing Arts, in Clinton Township, MI, in December 2000 – is fiddler Bonnie Rideout, a native of Michigan who was brought up in Maine and lived on the Scottish Isle of Skye during the course of her musical education in the art of traditional and 18th Century Scottish fiddle playing, at which she is brilliant. She's joined by Tony Cuffe on guitar and vocals, leading Uilleann piper Jerry O'Sullivan, who also plays Scottish small-pipes and pennywhistle, Paddy League on bodhran, and Maggie Sansone playing the hammered dulcimer – an instrument very popular in North American Celtic music, but less common at home. Also featured are the stirring pipes of the City of Washington Pipe Band and Highland dancers Robert McOwen and Jen Schoonover.
The project is a collaboration between BMG Special Projects and a fascinating Maryland-based Celtic music label, Maggie's Music (maggiesmusic.com). Although there are virtually no printed details provided (just the notes on the back of the box), this is more than made up for with the inclusion of copious additional material on the DVD itself, including no less than two documentaries, artist bios and interviews, discography, and a full-length "director's commentary" from Rideout and BMG Executive Producer Ed Osborne.
Rideout will probably be known to Celtic music fans in North America, if only for her appearances on NPR's "Thistle and Shamrock," while O'Sullivan is perhaps the leading piper in the country, especially known for his work on the Irish Uilleann pipes. But everyone is a virtuoso performer on this disc and the content is well-chosen and beautifully arranged for the season. Whether the band is delivering a medley of Christmas songs, jigs and reels – there are several on this disc – or heartwarming individual songs, everything is impeccably presented and performed live for your delectation. No particular favorites for me: it's all great stuff.
The disc features Dolby AC-3 and stereo mixes, with the surround obviously delivering more of the atmosphere of the live show than mere stereo. It would have been nice to have a DTS soundtrack, but here the video is almost as important as the sound, with close-ups of the soloists on their instruments and the beautiful choreography of the Scottish dances.
Of course, for the Scots, New Year (Hogmanay) is almost more important than Christmas, and the disc finishes with a heart-warming rendering of the immortal "Auld Lang Syne," the "most popular song nobody knows," brought to public attention by Rabbie Burns (1759-96), but with roots going back to the 16th century – now the quintessential song to be sung in many parts of the world as the old year turns to new.
This disc isn't on my Christmas list -- because I've already got one – but it should be on yours.


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text: If I may try to interpret what Clint wrote: If a yagi has 15 or 20 dB more gain than needed to receive a decent signal, then one can "throw away" some of that gain to cross polarization loss and still have enough gain to adequately receive a signal. Sort like saying if you have a 150-foot dish for receiving AO-51 it don't matter! But it "does matter" about polarization as far as maximizing signal. A yagi is not different than any other linear antenna in this respect. Now I will have a 22-element CP 2m yagi and 42-element CP 70cm yagi for satellites. This is obvious overkill for working the Leo sats. It is the old standard for mode-B sats like AO-10/13. With this pair you had really good signals with those old satellites. If and when we get another Heo, they will be appropriate for mode-UV, LU, US, etc. (of course this will require 1268 and 2400 antennas for half the link). On the HF bands polarization is generally less important because the ionosphere messes with polarity when the signal is refracted. Perhaps this is where that saying originates. If so, be cautious about generalizing and applying to VHF/UHF/and above! Get a copy of the ARRL Handbook or Antenna Book and read it. The information is in them. There are even better antenna texts like Jasik and Kraus if you like calculus. 73 Ed - KL7UW At 03:23 PM 9/19/2008, n3tl at bellsouth.net wrote: >" ... and the polarization of the Yagi makes no difference in >quality of TX/RX signal." > >I know I haven't been working the satellites nearly as long as Clint >and many others - and with all due respect, my friend - I have to >disagree with the above statement. I routinely work passes during >which I swing my Arrow through, and sometimes beyond, 90 degrees to >maintain signal quality. There also have been times when a quick >twist of the wrist has made the difference between making a contact >and getting a new grid square ... and not. > >I don't-at-all disagree with the concept that working AO-27, AO-51 >and SO-50 isn't terribly difficult with a handheld station. Frankly, >that has really (and pleasantly) surprised me. However, I do believe >that adjusting polarity when hand-holding the Arrow provides >improved performance during many passes. > >73 to all, > >Tim > >-------------- Original message from Clint Bradford ><clintbrad4d at earthlink.net>: -------------- > > > > >>...20-dB, assuming the signal is pure circular > > polarization...linear, then -3 dB...difference between RHCP and LHCP > > is 20 dB...difference between Horizontal and Vertical Linear is 20 > > dB...difference between (RHCP or LHCP) and (Horizontal or Vertical) is > > 3 dB...the VHF/UHF Manual handbook says 20 -30dB...in the real world, > > expect around 20~25dB loss from being completely cross- > > polarized...Between linear and circular, expect about 3dB loss... > > > > Ahh, thank goodness for the engineers... > > > > Just know that to get started working the FM satellites, you do not > > need to spend much to make successful contacts...Working AO-51 from > > Southern California (which some claim is not a "real world") at a Watt > > or so with an HT and Arrow Antenna is a breeze, and the polarization > > of the Yagi makes no difference in quality of TX/RX signal. > > > > And as you refine your satellite comms requirements, you can spend > > more money! > > > > Clint Bradford, K6LCS > > 909-241-7666 > > _______________________________________________ > > Sent via AMSAT-BB at amsat.org. Opinions expressed are those of the author. > > Not an AMSAT-NA member? Join now to support the amateur satellite program! > > Subscription settings: http://amsat.org/mailman/listinfo/amsat-bb >_______________________________________________ >Sent via AMSAT-BB at amsat.org. Opinions expressed are those of the author. >Not an AMSAT-NA member? Join now to support the amateur satellite program! >Subscription settings: http://amsat.org/mailman/listinfo/amsat-bb


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I read and agreed with your editorial regarding the absurdity of Sen. Dianne Feinstein�s proposed National Firearms Act.
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I read and agreed with your editorial regarding the absurdity of Sen. Dianne Feinstein�s proposed National Firearms Act.
In answer to the question posed: �Why are this senator and the president focusing their efforts on limiting and hassling law-abiding gun owners?� my guess, admittedly cynical, is simply that they are professional politicians. There are very few, if any, who can resist the political urge to legislate after unthinkable tragedies occur.
I�m not a gun nut in either the pro or con sense of the word. I have read with interest everyone�s thoughts about weapons, rights and far too many Associated Press stories on the subject of guns and politicians. It never once occurred to me to opine on the subject, but on Thursday, I was moved to write when I read a column authored by Dorothy Royal (aka the Topsail Gun Gal).
I like to read her columns every week; they are well written and informative. I urge those of you who have not read her Valentine�s Day column to do so now � it appears in the Topsail Advertiser, which is free.
In the meantime, I would like to let everyone know that the Merriam-Webster dictionary defines assault as a violent physical or verbal assault. Within the alternate definitions, no mention is made of rifles or any other kinds of weapons. An assault doesn�t require a weapon to be what it is. As such, the phrase assault rifle has no semantic value and it doesn�t appear to have a purpose other than making politicians and their press writers sound noble when they attempt to peddle legislation.
Having said that, I would like to coin a new phrase; it�s called journalistic assault. It was committed by a journalist who called Royal. Among other things, Royal reported that she was asked by the AP reporter if she thought that an accessory designed to help disabled people exercise their Second Amendment rights also happened to be the preferred accessory for criminal drug cartels.
When a member of the media asks a question of a law-abiding, small-business owner, a question that inherently implies that she is supplying criminals, I call that journalistic assault. So we have politicians who want to disarm disabled people and so-called journalists basically accusing ordinary people of arming drug cartels.
Before any meaningful discussion of Second Amendment rights or gun regulations can be had, there needs to be a discussion about the proper use of the First Amendment � particularly the clause which grants the press the freedom to assault law-abiding citizens with accusatory, loaded questions.
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Twenty one men have been arrested in West Yorkshire in a major sex crime crackdown that has seen 660 suspected paedophiles arrested across Britain, the National Crime Agency said today (Wednesday).
The six-month operation targeted internet users who access child abuse images but has already led to charges for serious sexual assault.
Among the several hundred people arrested across England, Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland are workers who had access to children through their jobs and had no previous contact with police.
The massive investigation, involving 45 police forces, led to hundreds of children being "safeguarded", the NCA said.
It stressed that none of those arrested is a serving or former MP or member of the Government.
The NCA said suspects include doctors, teachers, Scout leaders, care workers and former police officers. In total, only 39 registered sex offenders are among those arrested.
Officers have searched 833 properties and examined 9,172 computers, phones and hard drives.
The NCA said it built up "intelligence packages" on suspects and sent them to police forces across Britain.
In West Yorkshire, 21 arrests have been made for the possession of indecent images of children.
All of the men have been bailed pending continuing enquiries as part of the operation which has been ongoing in West Yorkshire since April.
Detective Chief Inspector Andy Williams of West Yorkshire Police, said: "West Yorkshire Police have carried out arrests within the West Yorkshire area as part of this national operation and our enquiries at a local level very much remain ongoing.
"This has been a significant national operation in which all forces involved have collaborated closely and used a wide variety of investigative techniques.
"Tackling sexual offences and in particular sex offending involving children is an area which West Yorkshie Police has prioritised in recent years and allocated extra resources to. We are committed to investigating all allegations of offences of this type."
NCA deputy director general Phil Gormley said the crackdown, the biggest ever operation of its kind, involved alleged paedophiles who used the so-called "dark web" as well as traditional internet access.
The "dark web" is internet content that is not listed by normal search engines. Users will often use payment methods such as virtual currencies to help avoid detection.
The 431 children who were safeguarded were in the "care, custody or control" of the suspects, and included 127 who were deemed to be at immediate risk of harm.
Mr Gormley said he was "profoundly disappointed" that so many suspects had been arrested over this type of crime, and said a harder look needs to be taken at the high numbers of people accessing child abuse images.
He said: "The alternative is not to look under the stone, and we cannot afford not to look under this stone."
Claire Lilley, head of online safety at the NSPCC, said: "This is an important two-pronged operation which has rescued children from abuse and also identified many previously unknown sex offenders. Direct action like this sends a strong message to those who subject children to harrowing sexual assaults that they can and will be traced and prosecuted.
"But law enforcement agencies alone cannot deal with the vast problem of illegal images which continue to flood the market. Industry has to find inventive ways of blocking the flow of such horrendous pictures which are only produced through the suffering of defenceless children - many of who are not even old enough to go to school.
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You know those picture books, where you have to find all the hidden objects? I think this cake is kind of like that. So tell me, can you find:
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- a dozen roses
- a big thumb print
- what is either a bottle cap or a foil-wrapped candy
- a red jelly bean
- what I hope is an Oreo cookie, and not a rusted metal disc
- tulle, tulle, and more tulle
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International Newport Madrid Group Fashion Reviews Ref 81345798500 NIG: Final curtain | BloggerView Source BAKING HOT IN COSTUME as a human billboard, a character in his upcoming film, isn't strange at all to auteur Tsai Ming-liang. In fact, Tsai might well be the only Golden Lion winner having to hawk tickets on the street to extend his movie runs. Though Tsai enjoys the reputation of an internationally acclaimed filmmaker – winning prestigious awards in Venice, Cannes and Berlin – his slow-paced, realism films have not done as well as one might hope at the box office. "Sometimes I give two talks a day at schools or galleries so I can sell tickets," says the Malaysian-born, Taiwan-based filmmaker. "I need to sell 10,000 tickets before the movie opens to ensure it will run in the cinema for at least two weeks." Having been in the industry for almost 30 years, the 56-year-old filmmaker – one of the godfathers of Taiwan's New Wave Cinema alongside the likes of Edward Yang De-chang and Hou Hsiao-hsien – is ready to retire from the silver screen. "I'm not getting any younger," says Tsai, whose Homegreen Films produces and distributes films independently. "Making movies is not the same as manufacturing products in a factory. All my stories are original and I feel perhaps I've said enough." For what could be Tsai's swansong, the working-titled The Diary of a Young Boy unmistakably has the filmmaker's signature all over it. The story follows a jobless father, whose wife leaves him and the children because of poverty. Failing to pay the rent, the father is on the verge of being evicted. The underdog takes on the minimum-wage job of a human billboard advertising luxurious condos. During his daily eight-hour stint, his children spend the day in a nearby shopping mall filled with scrumptiously packaged products. "I won't regret it if this ends up being my last film. I'd rather it be my last because I've never been freer," Tsai says. "We wrote eight versions of the script and made changes on set every day during filming to avoid conventional storytelling." Tsai first got the idea to develop the story about 10 years ago, when he noticed the emergence of the so-called "sandwich men" bearing advertisements on their bodies. "I was shocked that such a job even existed," Tsai says. "The sad thing is we've all seen him, but after a while, we stop having feelings for him. As a filmmaker, I wish to bring such a character under the limelight." Tsai has consistently explored reality in his features – troubled youth wasting their days at games arcades in Rebels of the Neon God, the confused and depressed couple in Vive L'Amour, the solitary and wounded son in The River, and the marginalised migrant worker in I Don't Want to Sleep Alone. "I'm not interested in filming the fabricated la dolce vita, the kind of processed fantasy that the majority of the audience expect filmmakers to serve them on a silver plate," Tsai says. "Real-life events can be more cruel than films can portray, but still I want to show a segment of that, even though few people are willing to be confronted with it." Tsai's often abstract and subtle cinematic language is the opposite of commercial films, yet he's unapologetic about the grim grossing prospects. "Commercial power is so strong that it changes people's habits and tastes," Tsai says. "There are so many commercial films that you don't have time for anything else. You are cut off, and in the end you won't be able to tell what's good and what's not. "When you consider film an art form, you don't want to always please your audience. You want to take them to the next level. "I can't imagine myself making a commercial movie. In the 20 years of my career, I never stopped looking for freedom. Without freedom, making a movie is like making canned food – everything !tastes the same but comes in different packaging. My movies are long-lasting and need to go !through fermentation. It's a slow process, but it's always ongoing." Tsai's unparalleled style has earned him recognition at international film festivals and from film institutions. In 1994, his Vive L'Amour, depicting a love triangle among three distraught city-dwellers sharing a flat, won the prestigious Golden Lion award at the Venice Film Festival. His 2004 production, The Wayward Cloud, controversial for its erotic portrayal of romance in the time of drought, won numerous awards, including the FIPRESCI Award at the Cannes Film Festival and the Silver Bear at the Berlin International Film Festival. Tsai was knighted by the French government and was invited by the Louvre Museum to film Face to add to its official collection. Face, an abstract interpretation of the Salomé myth shot inside the Louvre, has a starry cast, including French new wave giants Fanny Ardant, Jean-Pierre Leaud and model-turned-actress Laetitia Casta and Lee Kang-sheng, who worked with Tsai in all his movies. Face stirred up heated discussions in the film and the art industries. Making Face made Tsai realise possibilities larger than cinema. Art galleries and museums across the globe offered to work with Tsai following the film's release. "It was a turning point in my career," Tsai says. "Being invited by the Louvre gave me the recognition I longed for. It is clear that film can be collected as an art piece." Having tasted the hospitality of the art world, recent years have seen Tsai delving into various areas, from art installations to musicals. Such interests are likely to take up most of his time, post-cinema. In 2007, Tsai explored the world of visual arts with an installation inspired by a derelict cinema in Malaysia, as part of a group exhibition at the Venice Biennale. The piece was consequently acquired by the Taipei Fine Arts Museum of Taiwan. Three years ago, Tsai tried his hand at painting, which he had taught himself at an installation exhibition in Taipei's Xue Xue Institute. He found 49 used and abandoned chairs, captured the images with oil paint strokes and juxtaposed the actual furniture against the painting. He used a similar concept a year later, and transformed a boiler room established in 1937 under Japanese colonial rule into a theatre for his installations. 2Next year, his film retrospectives and art installations will also be shown in museums in Vienna and Brussels. Tsai reckons that museums, galleries and even universities could be the alternative distribution channels to cinemas. The filmmaker has been trying to break out of the system with his recent dealing of Face's DVD rights. Instead of mass production, Tsai made only 10 copies of the DVD. Each comes with a wooded box hand-painted by himself and priced at NT$1million (about HK$260,000). "I want it to be appreciated as an artwork. That way, it will be preserved and seen by a proper audience," he says. Tsai has also been pushing the boundaries through his recent experimental short films, including Walker, a 20-minute short, as part of Beautiful 2012, produced by Youku, China's internet television site, alongside three other Asian filmmakers – Gu Changwei from Beijing, Ann! Hui On-wa from Hong Kong and Kim Tae-yong from Seoul. The video, completely stripped of dialogue and plot, follows a red-robed monk walking at snail's pace in the midst of Hong Kong's bustling streets. Walker garnered mixed reviews. Many critics found it impossible to understand the filmmaker's message. "Pieces like Walker are truly precious to me. I don't think I had the courage to make such pieces before I turned 50," he says. "I have my own messages, and I don't want to deliver them bluntly." Tsai is planning to make more Walker episodes in different cities – his hometown in Malaysia and France could be the next destinations. "I feel like filming a modern-day Monk Xuanzang, who keeps moving forward just out of good will," he says. "So, in the next 10 years, we'll be walking. I don't know what to expect, but I think it's much better than making boring storytelling dramas. I want children to grow up with a variety of films, not just the commercial kinds."
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Tamperings of the Salafis
by Dr. G.F. Haddad
In attempting to affirm that their false beliefs are supported by the Scholars of the Salaf, the modern-day pseudo-Salafis go to great lengths, either using weak or false hadiths or in actually distorting the meanings and wordings (tahrif) of statements of scholars of the Salaf and the Khalaf.
Among their beliefs are the following:
We believe that Allah is well above His creatures in His Person and His Attributes, because He says: "He is the High, the Great" (2:22); "He is Supreme over His servants, and He is the Wise, the All-aware" (6:18 ).
We believe that He "created the Heavens and the Earth in six days, then He settled Himself on the throne; He manages everything" (10:3). His "settling on the throne" means that He is sitting in person on His throne in a way that is becoming to His majesty and greatness. Nobody except He knows exactly how He is sitting.
We believe that He is with His creatures while He is still on His throne. He knows their conditions, hears their sayings, sees their deeds, and manages their affairs. He provides for the poor and the broken."
[The Muslim's Belief by Shaikh Muhammad as-Saleh Al-'Uthaimin]
In an article entitled "Shaykh al-Islaam ibn Taymiyyah (rahimahullaah)" prepared by Abu Rumaysah the following statement is made:
- <<"Abu Haneefah (RH) said, when asked of his opinion of the one who says, 'I do not know whether Allaah is above the heavens or on the earth.' - "He has disbelieved, because Allaah says, "The Most Merciful rose above the Throne." , and His Throne is above His seven heavens.' He was then asked , 'what if he said that Allaah is above His Throne but he does not know whether the Throne is in the heavens or on the earth?' He said, 'He has disbelieved, because He has denied that He is above the heavens, And whosoever denied that He is above the heavens has disbelieved." ['al-Uluww' of adh- Dhahabee, also 'Sharh Aqueedah at-Tahaawiyyah' of ibn Abee al-Izz al-Hanafee]">>
In fact this statement attributed to Imam Abu Hanifah is mawdu` and a lie in its attribution to the Imam. Al-Dhahabi himself states [Mukhtasar p. 136 #118; al-`Uluw p. 391 #327] that everything above was reported from the Imam by Abu Muti` al-Hakam ibn `Abd Allah al-Balkhi who is DISCARDED as a narrator according to Imam Ahmad, Ibn `Adi, Abu Dawud, a liar according to Abu Hatim, and a forger according to al-Dhahabi himself as reported by Ibn Hajar in Lisan al-Mizan (2:407)!.
Even so, the text mentioned by the Hanafi authorities is: "Whoever says, 'I do not know whether my Lord is in the heaven or on earth' is a disbeliever and, similarly, whoever says, 'He is on the Throne and I do not know whether the Throne is in the heaven or on earth ' is a disbeliever."
As to its meaning: al-Bayadi said in Ishaaraat al-Maraam: "This is because he implies that the Creator has a direction and a boundary, and anything that possesses direction and boundary is necessarily created. So this statement explicitly attributes imperfection to Allah Most High. The believer in [divine] corporeality and direction is someone who denies the existence of anything other than objects that can be pointed to with the senses. They deny the Essence of the Deity that is transcendent beyond that. This makes them positively guilty of disbelief." As quoted in al-Kawthari, "Khuturat al-Qawl bi al-Jiha" ("The Gravity of the Doctrine That Attributes Direction [to Allah Most High]") in his _Maqalat_ (p. 368-369).
Imam Abu Mansur al-Maturidi states something similar in Sharh al-Fiqh al-Akbar, and others.
A Condemned Report attributed to Imâm Mâlik
Another report used by the Salafis to buttress their anthropomorphist claims is the following:
<<"Abdullah bin Nafi' reported: Malik bin Anas said: 'Allah is above the heavens, but His knowledge encompasses everything. Nothing escapes His knowledge.'" [Abdullah bin Ahmad, as-Sunnah, and others. ]>> This report is not authentic from Imam Malik.
From Mutarrif ibn 'Abd Allâh - al-Bukhârî's shaykh - and Habib ibn Abî Habib on the hadîth of descent ("Our blessed Lord descends in the late third of the night"): "It is our Blessed and Exalted Lord's command which descends <every pre-dawn (kullu sahar)>1; as for Him, He is eternally the same, He does not move or go to and fro."2 Ibn Rushd in Sharh al-'Utbiyya - a commentary on an early work of Mâlikî jurisprudence by Muhammad ibn Ahmad ibn 'Abd al-'Aziz al-'Utbî al-Qurtubî (d. 254) - stated that Mâlik's position is: "The Throne is not Allâh's location of settledness (mawdi' istiqrâr Allâh)."3 The report attributing to Imâm Mâlik the words: "Allâh is in the heaven and His knowledge is in every place" is a condemned (munkar), anomalous (shâdhdh) report of questionable authenticity narrated through Ahmad ibn Hanbal from Surayj ibn al-Nu'mân al-Lu'lu'I4 from 'Abd Allâh ibn Nâfi' al-Sa'igh from Mâlik.5 Imâm Ahmad himself declared 'Abd Allâh ibn Nâfi' al-Sa'igh weak (da'îf), Abû Zur'a frowned at his name and declared him "condemned" (munkar), al-Bukhârî questioned his memorization, and Ibn 'Adi stated that he transmitted oddities (gharâ'ib) from Mâlik.6 As for the content of the report, Shaykh 'Abd al-Fattah Abû Ghudda noted in his commentary on Ibn 'Abd al-Barr's al-Intiqa' that it is contradicted by what is firmly established in mass-transmitted narrations from Mâlik and by al-Sa'igh's other report from Mâlik omitting the above words.7 The report is made further dubious by the fact that Mâlik was well-known to condemn any statements about the Essence and Attributes of Allâh Most High other than sound reports, particularly statements that suggest anthropomorphism.8 Al-Awzâ'î said: "Whoever holds on to the rare and unusual positions of the scholars has left Islâm."9
3. <<Imaam adh-Dhahabee said in the final lines of his most excellent work, 'al-Uluww lil-'Aliyyil-Ghaffaar' (pp.286-287):>>
I have this edition in front of me and the title is incorrectly reported. The actual title is: Mukhtasar al-`Uluw i.e. the abridgment - in 300 pages - edited by the chief innovator of our time, Nasir Albani. The complete edition is not that of Albani but that of Hasan al-Saqqaf - in over 600 pages - which I also have.
Now, if it was a "most excellent work" then why did al-Dhahabi disclaim it later in his adult career (he wrote the book as a young man)? He wrote on its manuscript with his own hand:
"I have realized it [this book] contains baseless narrations and statements by many people that spoke loosely, and so I neither subscribe to those expressions nor follow those people in them - may Allah forgive them - nor do I consider them binding upon me as long as I live, and this is my firm conviction, and I know that Allah - there is nothing whatsoever like Him."10
Falsification of Imam Qurtubi's Position on Anthropomorphism
<<"Al-Qurtubee said concerning the saying of Allaah, the Most High, "Then he ascended (istawaa) the Throne", We have explained the sayings of the Scholars regarding this issue in the book 'al-Asnaa fee Sharh al-Asmaa al-Husnaa' and we mentioned fourteen different sayings therein">>
I have that book also and al-Qurtubi in it makes abundantly clear that he is against the position of the anthropomorphists!
<<up until he said, "And the Salaf of the very first times - may Allaah be pleased with them all - never used to negate direction (al-jihah) for Allaah and nor did they used to express this (negation). Rather, they, and all of the others, used to speak with its affirmation for Allaah, the Most High just as His Book has spoken about it and just as His Messengers informed of it. And not a single one of the Salaf denied that his ascending (istawaa) the Throne was real and true (haqeeqah) (as opposed to metaphorical, majaaz).">>
The continuation of al-Qurtubi's words quoted in Mukhtasar al-`Uluw (p. 286) states:
"And He mentioned His Throne specifically because it is the greatest of His creations. However, they actually did not know the modality or howness of his Istiwa' for the reality of its modality cannot be known."
The original in al-Dhahabi's `Uluw [full edition, 600 pages edited by Hasan al-Saqqaf] here states (p. 574): "for its reality cannot be known." This is also what is found in al-Qurtubi's Tafsir. This tampering is one among many examples of the mendacity of al-Albani and his followers! The reason for this particular tahrif is that when the Salafiyya were faced with the reality of Tafwid among the Salaf, they invented the subdivision of Tafwid al-Kayfiyya so as to deny that the Salaf actually practiced Tafwid al-Ma`na. So when proof to the latter comes up, they deny it or manipulate it, as in this case.
THEN al-Qurtubi continues, in his Tafsir:
"I SAY: the `Uluw [exaltation] of Allah Most High and His irtifa` [elevation] are an expression of the `uluw of His Majesty, Attributes, and Dominion. Meaning: There is nothing above Him whatsoever in the sense of Majesty and its qualities, nor with Him as a partner. Rather, He is the Most High in absolute and unconditional terms - exalted is He!"
See the introduction and appendices to our translation of Sayyid Yusuf al-Rifa`i's Nasiha to the Ulema of Najd for many more examples of their tampering and misreprentations of the Ulema of Islam and their books.
As for the Ghunya: it is not an integrally preserved text and the copies we have today are corrupt. As for the book Ijtima` al-Juyush al-Islamiyya it is crammed with forgeries - like al-Sunna by `Abd Allah ibn Ahmad - and Ibn al-Qayyim is a notorious Mujassim.
Those who call themselves Salafiyyah do not mind lying about the Ulema they quote; make up their own definitions of tafwid and ta'wil; and generally have no idea of the accurate positions of the Salaf and the latter are innocent of them. Allah is our refuge from their bid`a and dalala.
And Allah knows best.
1The bracketed words are only in the wording cited by al-Qâdî 'Iyâd in his Tartîb al-Madârik (2:44).
2Narrated from Mutarrif by Ibn 'Abd al-Barr in al-Tamhîd (7:143) with a weak chain because of Jâmi' ibn Sawada as per al-Dâraqut.nî in Ibn Hajar's Lisân (2:93). Also narrated from Salih ibn Ayyûb from Habib ibn Abî Habib - who is very weak - by al-Dhahabî in Siyar A'lâm al-Nubalâ' (8:418). The latter reported in his Mîzân (1:452) from Ibn 'Adi's Kamil (2"818) the opinion that all of Ibn Abî Habib's narrations are forged but this is an extreme statement in light of three factors:
(a) Ibn 'Abd al-Barr in al-Tamhîd (24:177) mentioned Habib as merely weak, adding: "His reports from Mâlik are full of mistakes and condemned matters";
(b) Salih ibn Ayyûb said: "I mentioned this report to Yahyâ ibn Bukayr and he said: "Excellent, by Allâh! and I did not hear it from Mâlik." Narrated by al-Dhahabî who describes Ibn Bukayr in Tadhkirat al-Huffâz. (2:420) as "the muhaddith of Egypt, the Imâm and trustworthy hadîth Master... one of the vessels of knowledge together with truthfulness and complete reliability... Where is the like of Ibn Bukayr in his leadership in the Religion, his insight in fatwâ, and the abundance of his learning?"
(c) Ibn 'Abd al-Barr in al-Tamhîd (7:143) also narrates this report from Habib, then goes on to narrate it from Mutarrif, adding: "It is possible that the matter be as Mâlik said, and Allâh knows best." It is established that Jâmi' did narrate from Mutarrif, as stated by al-Mizzî in Tahdhîb al-Kamâl (28:71).
3As quoted in Fath al-Bârî (1959 ed. 7:124 #3592).
4Misspelt Shurayh in al-Saqqâf's edition of al-'Uluw (p. 396 #340) and al-Mahdî's edition of al-Shari'a (p. 293 #663-664). Shurayh ibn al-Nu'mân al-Sa'idi al-Kûfî is a Tâbi'î who died before al-Sa'igh was born.
5In Ibn 'Abd al-Barr's al-Intiqa' (p. 71), al-Dhahabî's Mukhtasar al-'Uluw (p. 247), and al-Ajurrî's al-Shari'a (p. 293 #663-664).
6Al-Dhahabî, Mîzân (2:513-514 #4647); al-'Uqayli, al-Du'afa' (2:311), Ibn 'Adi, al-Kamil (4:242 #1070=4:1556); Abû Hatim, al-Jarh wa al-Ta'dil (5:183); Ibn Hajar, Tahdhîb al-Tahdhîb (6:46-47 #99). Dr. Nur al-Dîn 'Itr, however, states in his margins on al-Dhahabî's al-Mughnî fî al-Du'afa' (1:513 #3396) that al-Sa'igh is very reliable when narrating from Mâlik and that Ibn Hajar declared him trustworthy (thiqa) in al-Taqrîb. Yet, the latter grading was downgraded to "truthful" (sadûq) by al-Arna'ût and Ma'rûf in al-Tahrir (2:277 #3659). Al-Albânî in his notes in Mukhtasar al-'Uluw (p. 140) criticized al-Kawthari for citing al-Sa'igh as weak in his introduction to al-Bayhaqî's al-Asmâ' wa al-Sifat (p. Ø), but he himself cites him as weak in al-Silsila al-Da'ifa (2:231-232) as pointed out by Shaykh Hasan al-Saqqâf in his edition of al-'Uluw (p. 397 n. 708)!
7In Ibn 'Abd al-Barr, al-Intiqa' (p. 71 n. 3 and p. 73).
8For example, Mâlik said: "Allâh is neither ascribed a limit nor likened with anything" (lâ yuhaddad wa lâ yushabbah). Ibn al-'Arabi, Ahkam al-Qur'ân (4:1740).
9Cited by al-Dhahabî, Siyar A'lâm al-Nubalâ' (1997 ed. 7:99).
10As reported by the Hadith Master Ibn Nasir al-Din al-Dimashqi in his handwriting on the front page of the original manuscript of al-`Uluw.